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is best attention to the details of the measure, and if he could afford any assistance in the further progress of the Bill, he would do so with the greatest possible pleasure.—(Cheers.) After a few words from General JoHNsoa and Mr. J. Yousic, Lord J. RUSSELL was very glad his proposition had been so fairly received. It was his intention to propose the second reading before the holidays, as he did not anticipate that on the second reading there would be any difference of opinion, and he hoped to be able to go into Committee rather early in February. With re spect to what had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman ( Sir E. Sugden), he would not enter upon the questions referred to ; he would merely say, that he considered that if there was no law of settlement, they must either have unions established simul taneously, or make some provision for the unions first established, until the others were established. This was a point well worthy of the consideration of the House, and, he must add, of the Govern ment and the Commissioners. Mr. F. SHAW inquired whether there had been any provisions made for establishing the unions simultaneously. Lord J. RUSSELL said no provision had been made. Mr. D. ROCHE hoped that the Hon. Member for Monaghan (Mr. Lucas) would persist in the motion of which he had given notice when the Bill came forward, as, if there was not a law of settlement, the Bill would have an injurious effect on the state of society in Ireland. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill, and Lord John Rus sell and Lord Morpeth were ordered to bring it in. POST-OFFICE RETURNS. Mr. WALLACE rose to call the attention of the House to the most extraordinary document that had ever been laid before them. From a return laid before the House, it appeared that in a period of eight years no less a sum than 640,0001. had been abstracted from letters in their progress through the Post-office. He saw by the newspapers of that day that it had been stated by the Post master-General in the House of Lords, that of this sum 400,000/. had been restored to the individuals from whom it was taken. He was very much astonished at the statement that this money had pot been abstracted, as he could not comprehend how it could have been restored unless it was first abstracted. He did not know how this money could have been abstracted without a violation of seals. It was a general practice in the country post-offices to break the seals of letters and read their contents ; but he believed the prac tice of opening letters was carried on to a greater extent in Glasgow than any where else. The Honourable Gentleman referred to two cases in which parties had put money-let ters into the Glasgow Post-office, which letters had never reached their destination. A good system existed in Ire land in 1821 ; but it had been put down when the Irish and Scotch offices were united with that of England. They had in Ireland at that time an excellent system of registry, which, while it saved 20,0001. a-year, cost only 1001. He hoped that her Majesty's Government would take up the subject in one way or other. It was not to be endured that the Post-office should have a monopoly of the carriage of the country, that there should be a penalty upon using any other mode of carriage, and yet that they should not be bound to make up losses. The Hon. Member complained that whilst Ireland and the north of England hid now the benefit of the Irish express by the railroad, Scotland was still deprived of that advantage. There was another matter of which he had to com plain. At his instigation the Post-office had consented to send two mails daily to Glasgow and Edinburgh. They had certainly done so, but they had sent a mail-bag by only one of them, not a single letter or paper being taken by the other mail to Scotland. He considered this a complete breach of faith. He hoped that it would be enough to draw the attention of the Government to these facts to insure immediate redress. If not, he would certainly move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate a system of registration of all leVers carrying money. The Hon. Member sat down. The SPEAKER—Do you move anything? Mr. WALLACE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the re gistration of letters. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the Hon. Member seemed to suppose that this sum, 600,0007., represented the amount abstracted from the Post-office. Now he would show that the return bore no such meaning. He would first ask of any mercantile gentleman present whether, as a matter of common sense, he believed it possible that 600,000/. could have been ab stracted from the correspondence of the country without raising such a clamour on the part of the trading interest of the country as to induce them to complain of the grievance, and not leave it entirely in the hands of the Hon. Member for Greenock. Would they not have heard of it before through the representatives of Manchester, of Bristol, of Liverpool, and of every other com mercial town in the country, which must have felt its inte rests deeply affected by such proceedings? It was, there fore, unlikely that the conclusion come to by the Honourable Member should be a correct conclusion. But not only was it not likely, but it was impossible. This 600,0007. was not a re turn of the amount of money lost ; it arose in this sample way. Suppose a person expected a letter containing money, and the let ter was delayed in consequence of some accident one or two days ; under these circumstances he makes an appeal to the Post-office, and the appeal is registered, showing the amount of money thus detained. But it did not by any means follow that the money should be lost, and the party receiving it did not always inform the Post-office of the fact. There was also another case which was not impossible, namely, parties sending their servants to put money-letters in the Post-office, which letters might never have been posted. The House must not, therefore, in looking at these returns, suppose that the sum of 600,000/. in any way represented the amount of money actually lost. He was not prepared to deny that a considerable sum of money was lost in its passage through the Post-office ; but that was a circumstance which could never be wholly prevented. Willi respect to the transmission of money in letters, he believed that in nine cases out of ten, unless an addi tional envelope was put upon the letter, the money was so care lessly put in that it would fall Olt. He did not wish to deny that an evil existed in the present system, to which he should be anxious at the first opportunity to apply a practical and efficient remedy. He thought, however, that nothing could be done with any approach to success in this matter until a system for the registration of letters had been adopted. By this means the safe delivery of every letter would be en sured, though of course the same responsibility could hardly be attached to any alleged or supposed contents of it. With respect to the proposal for establishing day mails, he had only one word to say. It must be evident that if this proposition were adopted, the mails would be arriving in London at different times of the day instead of at one general and fixed hour. Now, it was only within these few days that he had been complained to of the irregularity of the arrival of certain letters from Liverpool and elsewhere, and a desire expressed that the period of the arrival of letters should be well understood and permanent. His own opinion certainly was, that it was far preferable that the letters should arrive at one fixed hour from all parts of the country, and as at present, than that there should be one hour for the Liverpool letters, another for those from Glasgow, another for the foreign letters, another for the Edinburgh, and so forth.—( Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he had only to say, that he hoped, at no very remote period, to introduce a measure for the registration of letters at the Post-office upon the principle he had already stated.—( ear. ) Mr. HUME thought that as the Right Hon. Gentleman threw some doubts upon the accuracy of the supposed losses to the public, as manifested in this return, the Post-office should be at some pains to ascertain whether those returns were correct or not. He thought also that it was high time that the public, having only this one means !or the conveyance of their letters at their disposal, should enjoy something like security as respected their letters and the contents of them. There was the case of 71. 10s. sealed up in a letter before the Postmaster, and treble postage paid, and yet the letter was lost ; and when the Postmaster-General was applied to, he wrote a letter saving that " He was not aware of any law which rendered the Post-office liable for any losses by reason of a letter's not reaching its destination." Now he maintained that the Post master- General who could write such a letter as that should not be suffered to remain in his situation, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he sanctioned such conduct, ought not to remain in his. The public were prevented by penalties from sending letters by any other means of conveyance than that of the General Post office, and in return for this valuable monopoly he did maintain that the Post-office owed the public something like security in the con veyance of their letters. There ought to be responsibility some where. Before he sat down he begged to ask a question of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Two years ago the Chancellor of the Exchequer pointed out, in a most able manner, the abuses of the present system of Post-office management, and said that things aught not to remain as they were. The Right Hon. Gentleman at the same time brought in a Bill to reform these evils ; but when that Bill arrived in the House of Lords, the nobleman who had been Postmaster-General under all these abuses caused the Bill to be turned out, and then laughed at the Government and this house for the trouble they had been at for nothing. Now, he begged to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was his intention to bring in, and to pass into a law, the Bill which he had formerly introduced on this subject ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was quite true that, in conformity with the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the Post-office, he had introduced a Bill for the reform of that department, two sessions ago. At that time he certainly did state that he could not approve of the present system of Post-office management ; but at the same time he said so without at all impugning the conduct of the Duke of Richmond, or of his successor, the Earl of Lichfield. On the contrary, he bore testimony to the zealous efforts of those two no blemen to contend against the radical defects of the system under which they had to aet ; and the conclusion which he then drew was, that if after all that had been done by them there were still defects at the Post-office, there was the greater necessity for a com plete reform. He had succeeded in carrying that Bill through that House, but he could not be held responsible for its fate in the other House. He had only to add on this subject that nothing but the early termination of the last Session had prevented him from again introducin g a Bill on this subject, and that he certainly pro • posed to do so in the present Session.—( Hear. ) With respect to the letter which the Postmaster-General had written in reference to a letter containing money which had miscarried, and upon which the Hon. Member for Kilkenny had commented by declaring that the man who had written such a letter should not remain in his situation, he begged to submit that, however such a circumstance might be received as an additional argument for a reform in the present system, yet, as long as the present system remained unal tered, by Act of Parliament, the Postmaster-General had given a perfectly correct statement of the law of the case, and in his opi nion, therefore, it was the only letter which could have been written by the Postmaster-General on the subject. Mr. HUME explained. Sir G. STRICKLAND thanked the Honourable Gentleman who had brought forward this motion for his exertions in a matter of so much public interest. It was highly necessary that a system of increased security and vigilance should be introduced without delay into the Post-office department. He was glad to hear that the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to take a step towards this by introducing a Bill for the Registration of Letters. Mr. G. F. YOUNG believed with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer that the merchants and bankers of the metropolis would not be in favour of any alteration in the conveyance of letters which should subject them to deliveries at different periods of the day instead of at one fixed and uniform hour. Mr. LABOUCHERE,after declaring his belief that most of the charges agai nst t h e Post-o ffi ce which h ad been made this evening were extravagant and unfounded, admitted that with respect to the alleged insecurity of letters, the security at present enjoyed was not such as the publi c h a d a r i ght to look for from a public department, and he believed that the best remedy which could be applied to this evil was that of a registration of letters as proposed by his Rig ht Hon. Friend. Such a reg i s t rat i on, h e thought, could be very easily carried into operation as f ar as the security of the letter was concerned, but as to the contents of it, that he thought could hardly be attempted to be ensured, as it would be impossible to examine every letter in the midst of the hurry of business at a place like the Post-office. Registration was already to a certain extent carried on at the twopenny post-office when ever the letter contained money or otherwise, on the demand of the party, and the success of the practice was such, that out of 100,000 letters so registered, there had been only two lost. With respect to remittances, he was not prepared to advise that the Post office should generally undertake the banking business of the coun try ; but at the same time he had doubts whether it would not be a • eat convenience to the poorer classes to insure the conveyance •;'' a small sums. LLACE, after a few words in reply, withdrew his ,„ r; POOR-LAW (IRELAND) BILL. 111152.r 1 / 4 1se as brought up by Lord John Russell, read a first <O, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1837. ing.) God in heaven ! Are there not eight millions of people in Ireland who will willingly be sent to their graves, but who will not be the slaves of any man.—(Cheering.) You perceive this is a great crisis. The Tories are for midable, and nothing but the voice of the people can save Ire land. And therefore it is that I offer advice. Agitate—look to your counties, your towns, and your boroughs. Agitate, ex claim, cry out, insist. Back the Ministry by petitions, and support reform. If you slumber, you sleep in perpetual sub jection.—( Greet cheering.) Pardon me in thus addressing you—if I succeed in making you talk over this to morrow—if I succeed in making you support peaceful agitation, I shall re turn satisfied. My anxiety to address you is too vouch for my frame—l yesterday addressed two meetings for two hours — since that time, I have had no sleep, and scarcely any food—more than sixty winters have passed over my head, but believe me, nevertheless, your kindness has not sunk the less deep into my heart. This re ception from you, will stimulate me more strongly to place my name in every division in which your rights are involved, your liberty is attempted to be diminished, or on any question in which your interests are involved. If it be true as to this shameless bribery in your city, Oh how delighted I should be to see the delinquents punished ! You would then be free for a time at least from the control of those wretched beings who sell themselves to the highest bidder. It is expected and due to the country that you should bring the subject before the Parliament. Petitioned against myself, I cannot be on your Committee, but if the things which I have heard since I came into this room be true, you are bound, and the nation will call upon you to expose those delinquencies in such a manner that neither rank in the delinquent nor judicial partiality shall pro tect the offspring of the great and good from deserved punish ment. Be assured that I shall ever remember your kindness. I was born on the verge of the Atlantic, where the waves come rushing in with continuuous roll from that bound less waste of waters. I admire the gentle flow of river, but Oh how my heart delights in the rushing sounds of the moun tain torrent. Coming from these scenes, Ido the more ad mire in the moral world that species of love which, in moments unexpected, warrants and renders more solemn a welcome re ception—a reception which all the studiedness of the heart could never make half so grateful to my feelings.—(lmmense cheering followed the close of Mr. O'Connell's speech.) The PRESIDENT—I now have to propose to you the health of a personage whom the more we know the more we respect ---I give you " The health of the enlightened Bishop of Nor wich."—( Applause.) The Rev. Mr. SELBY said, that some gentlemen might think it singular that be, a rigid Dissenter, should be called upon to return thanks for the health of the Lord Bishop. However they might differ upon doctrinal points and on the ordinances of the Church, yet whoever believed in the great truths of Christianity, would willingly give praise to a good man, of whatever Church he might be. —( Hear, hear.) He came to that meeting intending to be a quiet auditor, but Mr. O'Connell bad transferred the principle of agi tation to him. He came to the dinnerto weloom esilently Daniel O'Connell, Esq., the independent advocate of his country—be cause he was an advocate of the Ballot—because he was for an extended, if not universal suffrage ; because he was for shorten ing the duration of Parliaments, and thus bringing Members to an account with their constituents in a shorter period. This was his object in coming to the meeting, and he begged Mr. O'Connell to accept this public homage to his extraordinary talents—(Cheers) —and he hoped that individual would yet live to see his views carried out. As citizens of Norwich, the meeting was highly favoured by having such an individual as the Bishop of Norwich on the Bench. Mr. O'CONNELL next proposed the health of the President in a brief and complimentary address. The PRESIDENT ' in rising to return thanks, referred at some length to the part be had pursued in politics through life and in the Corporation, and to the extension of the charities to the poor through his instrumentality ; and concluded by stating, that through evil and good report he had fought by the side of his friends for twenty years, and if he was spared for thirty years longer, he hoped to serve the cause with increased zeal. The CDAIRMAN proposed the health of a Nobleman who was the pride of Norfolk, who had always done his duty both in the Senate and the country, and who, though no longer a representative, would do honour to the station to which it had pleased his Sovereign to call him. He gave " The Earl of Leicester."—( Great cheering, and three times three.) Mr. PALMER proposed the health of Mr. Cozens, who had protected the rights of the subject and the purity of election. The Learned Gentleman then referred to the proceedings on the petition of Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett, and stated that Mr. Cozens had again come forward and petitioned against the present Members. Mr. Palmer spoke very strongly against the Spottistvoode conspiracy. He referred to the great benefits for which the country were indebted to Mr. O'Con nell, who had given up his enormous professional emolu ments for the benefit of his country, and asked if Lord Abi , ger would have resigned his for such an object. He hoped the next election would not exhibit the disgraceful scenes of the last. He alluded to a letters said to have been received from the Duke of Wellington by his son, saving " Norwich must not be lost—money must be found," and also charged Mr. Scarlett with having broken the peace at the election; and with having hired persons to aid. The Learned Gentleman concluded by proposing " the health of Mr. Cozens and thanks to him for his exertions."—(Cheers.) Mr. COZENS briefly returned thanks. " R. H. Gurney, Esq."—(Great cheering.) The CHAIRMAN then gave, "Justice to Ireland and Ex tended Suffrage to the Empire."—(Cheering.) Mr. O'CONNELL immediately rose and was loudly and vehemently cheered. He said, permit me to express my gra titude for your having drank justice to Ireland and an ex tended suffrage to the empire. Let us take the last put, and then I say if we had enlarged suffrage, England would soon do justice to Ireland—the votes would then be dependent on the people, instead of on the power and influence of the Aris tocracy.—( Hear.) The eloquent Protestant D:s,enter who had addressed them, had done him no more than justice in saying that he was a friend to universal freedom; and he did him also no more than justice when he said that he was for an extension of the suffrage. Not, however, to tenants-at will—and the old freemen—which would only open more widely the door to bribery ; that's net the ext,oision of suf frage I should require, and which you would not get. I have heard so many statements of depravity since I came into this room, as to make my very flesh creep ; and I am told that some of my brother-religionists have sold themselves to the enemies of those through whoie means they obtained their vote. For the Irish got them their vote; and if they have turned round and taken a bribe from the enemies of those to whom they were deeply indebted, human depravity can scarce go further. The Rev. Gent. had also done him justice in saying, that his principle of Christian charity extended towards all, of whatever creed. The Tories united against them on ac count of their difference of religion. But if he did assist to obtain emancipation, he did not force himself into the House on the superiority of his creed. But lie did stand upon the same principle as the Dissenters. It was on that ground that he sought it, and it was a melancholy reflection that for that which the people of Ireland suffered, and which they ob tained, it was a melancholy reflection for him to be told that in Norwich there were some Catholics who, not feeling the debt of gratitude which they owed to their brethren in Ire land, and to the honest Englishmen who had supported them, had sold their votes to those people who had united against their endeavours for freedom. If the franchise were ex tended, all the money of the people of England and Ireland could not bribe the electors. But there was a point not in cluded in the words, though it was in the spirit of the toast. Oh I if they had the Ballot—( Very great cheering)—bribery would be avoided. He knew it was the opinion of many that it would not prevent bribery. No man in his senses surely would bribe if he could not know how the man would vote ; and every rascal who would take a bribe, they would know would be rascal enough not to earn it. It is said that there were many in Norwich who took a bribe from each party, and thus making themselves a perfect neutrality, offered them selves again to the highest bidder. When the forty-shilling franchise existed, he knew a gentleman in Ireland, at least so he called himself, who first sold his forty-shilling men to Mr. James Daly, the next day he sold them to Mr. Martin, and the third day he turned them loose to sell themselves. —( Hear, and great laughter.) This gentleman's name was Blake Foster; and his excuse was, that now he was bribed on both sides, he felt bound in honour to vote for neither —(Laughter)—and being thus disengaged, why should he not let the poor men make the most of themselves. Now if neither parties knew for whom a man voted, none would bribe, and if a man attempted to bribe another, he perhaps would take it and then say to himself, that scoundrel has infringed upon my conscience, and therefore I am bound to vote against him.— ( Laughter and cheers.) It had been said that voters would be bribed in quantities, five hundred head at a time. Why Norwich had proved the impossibility of it. For with ex tended suffrage no one would ever advance cash oft a credit that was never likely to be realized, no not :even the revenues of the Marquis of Douro, drawn from his province of Douro, or of Mr. Scarlett, from his ,crowded chambers in the Old Baily, would be able to produce sufficient for such an expenditure.—(Hear, hear.) Whetever might be thought of bribery, he was quite sure the Ballot would be found proof against it ; that at any rate it would be a pre ventative against intimidation ; it would enable the 501. occupier to sow his crop in quiet, would prevent the land lords from driving their tenants to the poll, and put an end to their speculating one day on their oxen and the next on their 50/. voters.—( Hear.) The Ballot was a protection against the infringement of civil liberty. The Ballot was the first step to extended suffrage. Ail election by Ballot would be as peaceable as the tea table of old ladies. He was certainly an advocate for Universal Suffrage, but at the present mo ment, and under the present circumstances of the people, he should shrink from it unless they had the Ballot.—(Very great cheering.) Mr. BARWELL, after a few remarks on the honour of Mr. O'Connell's company, and the petition which had been sent that day against Lord Douro and Mr. Scarlett, proposed the health of " Mr. Smith and Mr. Nurse," which was received with great cheering. Mr. O'CONNELL then retired amid repeated cheers. The American house of Grant, Bell, and Co., are shout to resume business, to the great gratification of a large circle of friends, by whom they are esteemed for their urii. furmly honourable and prudent conduct. A dividend of 10s. in the pound will be paid almost immediately. The accounts received this morning from Quebec mention a veay heavy failure in that city—the house of Le Mesurier and Co. They were closely connected with the house of George Wildes and Co., of London, to which they are largely indebted. The heavy expense of getting timber last winter in consequence of the scarcity and very high prias of provisions and forage l and the stoppage of several parties to whom they were under large advances, are said to be the onuses of this failure. time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday, the 11th of December. Mr. HINDLEY asked the Noble Lord whether the present Bill retained the substance of Clauses fire to fifty-eight (as we under stood) of the former Bill ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied in the affirmative. Mr. HINDLEY then said he should give the Bill his most de termined opposition. The House adjourned at a Quarter to Nine o'Clock. DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL AT NORWICH. No sooner was it known on Tuesday that Mr. O'Connell was likely to visit this city on business, than a number of gen tlemen met on that evening at the Angel, and determined to ask the Hon. Member for Dublin to dine at the Angel Inn. The Sheriff was deputed to London the same evening, and a favourable answer was returned on Thursday morning. Time and space being limited, just so many tickets, at half a guinea each, were issued as the large room at the Angel Inn would contain. The demands for admission, however, were so large, that a very great number of gentlemen were necessarily re fused. At seven o'clock the room was full, and on Mr. O'Connell's entering he was received with a welcome that proved how very high he stood in the estimation of the highly respectable company assembled to do him honour. T. 0. Springfield, Esq., presided. " Our Sovereign Lady the Queen." God save the Queen. " The illustrious mother of our Queen, the Duchess of Kent." " Our fellow-citizen the Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the Royal Family residing in England."—(Great cheering, and cries of " Bravo !") The next toast is one which I am sure will reach the bo soms of all. From the benefits this kingdom has received during the time they were in power, I will with confidence propose the health of " Her Majesty's Ministers."—(Great cheering.) " In rising," said the CHAIRMAN, " to suggest to you the next toast, I shall content myself with giving you the health of our distinguished friend and visitor Daniel O'Connell, Esq.' " The whole room rose simultaneously, and with oft repeated hurras reiterated their welcome to this great patriot. After some minutes Mr. O'Coee ELL rose, and the company became completely hushed, and exhibited the most intense anxiety. " I do, gentlemen," said the Honourable Mem ber, " most unaffectedly assure you, that I never in my life—never experienced more pleasure from this spon taneous and unprecedented kindness, being a casual vi sitor among you. If I had come upon studied design I might perhaps have anticipated a favourable reception ; hut this expression of your regard, coming as it does from the heart, must ever meet with a reciprocal feeling in the heart of the object towards whom that kindness is directed. —( Cheers.) Perhaps lam not displeased to hear authenti cally, that you are not displeased with a humble but thorough Reformer like the individual who addresses you—that you do net despair of success from your recent defeat—and that al though your good ship, the Constitution, has been wrecked on the sands of Toryism, a good portion of the crew still sur vives to encounter another storm, and I hope win a victory.— (Great cheering.) The great value of such meetings as these to us the actors of all work—(Cheers)—upon this stage, and in the objects upon which we are engaged, is that it teaches us never to despair, and inspires us with renewed energy—gives us increased stimulus to struggle inveterately for the object until it be obtained.—( Cheers.) Is it not a miserable thing to see what a herd of Conservatives—l hate that long word— ( Great cheering)--if they had been birds of a better feather—Norfolk Tories or Norfolk geese—(Great laughter) .—but they arc not so harmless or so respectable a bird—their only object to feed on the vitals of the British people.— ( Great cheering.) I have often asked in London if they were aware what was meant by the word Tory? They did not know that it was an Irish word, and meant a robber—( Laughter)— and never was that word half so well applied. But there is something melancholy in the Tory representation of this city. I want to know, when I learn that to the Duke of Welling ton hundreds of thousands of the people's money has been given, whether it was so given by them for the purchase of the British people— whether it is to be endured that British money is to be used for the corruption of the British consti tuency. What care I for monuments of brass or statues of marble. Nothing can be so derogatory to the name and fame of such a man, than that his eldest son should pollute his name by its contact with bribery ; and I should like to ask how many souls he has been the means of bringing to the poll.—( Hear, leer, hear.) How many he has destroyed by perjury, for the tempory title of a Representa tive of this city.—( Cheering.) To be sure I cannot turn upon my Lord Abingcr and ray, that he paid towards corrup tion; but I would ask if it is becoming the dignity of the staid ermine that he should send his son to assist in this corruption? Some people would be for making me believe that this grave Judge climbed to the Bench by similar means.—(Laughter.) I cannot believe it, gentlemen--( Cheers.) Some people say that we Papists believe too much; bet even if we do, in this case, I cannot believe that he did. It would be said, if a man sought to make a town so overflowing with money and cor ruption and crime, that he ought to be found in the Dock and not on the Bench.—( Hear.) And this it is for which this young Scarlett—Sweet Apple they call him—(Laughter)— is sent into the House, a school-boy from school—with legis lative requirements about equal to a boy who has never been to school at all—(Laughter)—or if as an administrator of the law, he broke the law, ought he not to have received his con demnation? And this puts me in mind of the song in the Beggars' Opera : " Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in ethers as well as in me, I wonder we ha'nt better company On Tyburn tree."—(Laughter. ) But ought not that administrator of the law to scorn to come among people and purchase their votes by bribery for 401. or 501. Oh how wretched was it to think that those in high sta tions, enjoying high dignities, should suffer their characters to be tarnished by such vile practices, in cases which I am told shall be proved against the authors, managers, and providers of such corruption.—( Cheers.) That part of the song, confound your politics, frustrate your knavish tricks, puts me in mind of the Tories. What of them ? Did they not, let me ask you, support the Poor Law Amendment Bill—was it not supported by the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords and by Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons—was not every one of them loud in their exertions to carry that Bill ? Yet the mo ment a popular cry was raised against it—whether rightly or not 1 do not intend to discuss—did not• that very party who had supported the Ministry in carrying it through Parlia ment—and even the clergy, did they not call for reform, and in stead of calling for protection, assault their adversaries upon a point in which they had supported them ?—( Cheers.) Is it not shocking to think that we live in the society of people who are capable of thus acting only to obtain their own factious purposes.—( Cheers.) I have excited in my own mind another melancholy reflection. What do these Tories waist ? Do they not want to revive the scenes of blood, of war, of desola tion, which were for so many years enacted in England ? Yes, they want to find a pretext for shedding blood. They want to get hold of the pierse to pension on you their mothers, uncles, cousins, neices, aye and their mistresses.—Hear, hear.) Are not the words of holy religion used by those who pre tend to be the promoters of religion, to support such unhal lowed purposes ? Sacred God I It passes beyond the power of expression when we sec this conduct attempted to be upheld by texts from holy writ, and under the pretext of promoting piety and religion.__( Cheering.) They have however now brought things to extremity. On the one hand the ardent Reformers are taken aback by the declaration of Lord John Russell.—( Hear, hear, hear.) That makes me grieve, but I do not by any means complain of him.— ( Hear, hear.) Oh how much more should I indeed grieve, did I not see that the sword no longer passes over the face of my beloved country—that faction no longer rules, and justice takes the seat of violence.—(Cheering.) How much more would you lament if you saw as I have in our Courts, the ' violence of a party jury, a party Sheriff, and a factious Judge. Oh ! how would you pity us if you saw my countrymen who, as it were, were compelled to play with gamblers possessing loaded dice. But let me do justice to the impartiality which we have obtained through the Melbourne Administration.— ( Hear and cheers.) How often have I heard the Irish de- scribed as some incarnation of restlessness—as a people who looked out only for strife—who were anxious to find a com plaint in order that they might cease from being quiet. At present we have got no amelioration. We have still tithes to pay to clergymen, who have to be sure a flock, but only for the purpose of fleecing them.—( Hear.) We have no Municipal 'Reform, which England and Scotland'would not have obtained so readily had it not been for the Irish people. Though as yet we have obtained no permanent amelioration or reform, what has become of those who have been said to pos sess no quiet ? Why the instant Government showed a dispo sition to listen to Ireland's grievances or to redress them, the power of the demagogue was laid aside, and they became the foremost to agitate for the Queen's Government.—( Cheers. ) I have said we have come to a great crisis. Of the declaration of Lord John Russell Ido not complain—l do not blame him. Upon this point there ought to be no delusion—Englishmen are not of a metal to be frightened like a child by a figure, whose proportions are distorted and half hidden by a thin veil. There ought to be no delusion, and it should therefore be re collected that Ministers have only a small majority in the House of Commons, while they are in a small minority in the Lords. The people of this country therefore know their real situation, and knowing it they also know upon whom they must rely, and that is themselves.—(Hear, hear.) Never were they in a similar situation, that they did not rise above it from the first day of their history to the present moment. Upon themselves alone must they depend. Let them back the House of Commons powerfully, manfully, and they will terrify the House of Peers. How often have I re peated to my own countrymen, and I now do so to you, Hereditary bondsmen, know you not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ! The people must agitate—they must register; millions of pe titions, with millions upon millions of names, mist be presented to the Legislature. These, however small at first, when they increase by multitudinous repetitions, the thunder of heaven cannot exceed in power.—( Loud cheering.) It may perhaps be considered presumptuous in me, an alien, to offer you ad vice —( Cries of " No," and applause)—but although my ac cent and my language are foreign, I can assure you my heart and my judgment are en ti r ely y our own . Af ter 700 years of misrule, the p er i o d i s come w h en un i versa l I re l an d i s roused in the cause of the Queen !—( Hear.) Her Government has received the support of the people, and it only t equires both the people of England and Ireland to be united in the bond of equal laws, to render us irresistible to all nations upon the face of the earth. lam at this moment making the experi ment, and I will not be content with less; if I ask more despise me.—(Great cheering.) But do not despise me so far as to think for a moment that if the experiment fails, that I should submit to a Tory plundering faction.—( Cheer- PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Rank 2114% 31i 4% 3 per Cent. Red. 99 -% 3 4% 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent.......... . _ Ditto Red ti9%14 New 3% per Cent New 5 per Cent.. sink Long A n nuiti es to ex ri re Jan. 5, 1860 14% 13-16 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-16 Jan. 5, 18$0 April 5, Jan. 5, 1870 Ornmium — pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ...... 79%% Ditto Account . 78 3 4 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account hillian Bonds — Ditto Account . I:oluinbian Bonds Ditto Account .. C3lurobian 80nd5,:824......... — Ditto Account Dthish Bonds ... Ditto Account Greek 80nd5...... Ditto Bc;nds, 18/5 ...... Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2414 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. 29 73( Ditto Account 2714 b N eapol PRICES OF SHARES THL Blaenavon Iron and Coal United Mexican (issued at 2/. pin.) Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip (ireat Western Railway Company... Prighton Railway Company Brighton Railway (Rennie's) North Midland Railway Company London and Westminster Bank COURSE OF EXCH, Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 414 Antwerp... Hamburg. Altona . Paris, 3 clays' sight 25 60 Oitto. .... ........... ...3 Ms 25 90 Marseilles Bourdcaux Frankfort on Maine, .Ex. M. 152 Petersbui4h, ruble 3 Us. lb Berlin Vienna, effective 11 2 M. 10 10 Crieste ditto lO 11 liadrid 14 Cadi iboa Bircelona Seville..., HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 54 minutes after 5 I Evening 2.) minutes after f. FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION. At. the Hambro' Coffee-house, Water-lane, Tower-street, on THURSDAY. December 7, at Twelve o'clock precisely, ABOUT 300 LOTS of WINES and SPIRITS, a portion of which, by order of St. Katharine Dock Com pany, are to be sold to defray rates and charges under the authority of 117 sec. 6 Geo. 4, cap. 105, and with the sanction of the Hon. Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs. Catalogues and Particulars of Samuel Lancaster, Wine and Spirit Broker, 59, Mark-lane. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Philhibernia's" valuable suggestions have been adopted. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stock 268 Oitto Bonds South Sea Stock - Old .knnnities .. . ..... New Ditto - 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751_ - Exch. Bine, £1,001........ 44 46 pm. Ditto ..... „........500 46 44 pm. Ditto Small Ditto C0mmercia1......... Pre. Ditto Advertised ..... ...A2 41 43 pm Bank Stock for Account 205 In:la Stock for Account.. C‘ , nsols for Acconnt 94 31 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. IPeruvian Bonds ......- ........... Ditto Account ..—... ......... Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Vittca New Bonds • Ditto Account D•tto, 3 per cent l9 Prussian Bonds Rufidian Bonds, 182'2 lll I.ok, Ditto Account ' ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Ace-flint Ditto Bonds, 183 t 2 0 1,4 Ditto Account French, 5 per cent.......... —f. —c. 4 per cent —f —c ---- 3 per cent. —l. —c. -- Exchange Dutch; 2V, per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent.— ....... 102 1 a 3's Ditto Account DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share 35 40 214 5 3% 63 1 4 5 % 5 2 -MPi Ss. lid 23% 20N I ‘- , 5 20 NGE YESTERDAY. Gibraltar 46 Leghorn ll Genoa 26 10 Milan Venice ar, Naples Palermo per oz. 118;4 Lisbon 53 (I ono 53),i Rio Janeiro Bahia 2S Buenos Ayres -- Dublin, 21 days' sight l l/‘; Cork B4 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £3 14 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 4 ll The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. 4, 1 * - Zin ann. LONDON : SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1837. In 1835 Lord BROUGHAM brought forward in the House of Lords the important subject of National Education, and moved fourteen resolutions, which were laid on the table, and of which their Lordships took no further notice. Last year he introduced a Bill which, partly owing to accidental circumstances, met with no better fate ; but not discouraged by the apathy which unfortunately prevails on the subject in that House, or frightened at the difficulty with which it is surrounded, be has renewed the attempt this Session, by introducing a more comprehensive Bill for the better edu cation of the people of England and Wales. In his speech last night, which will be read with great interest, he pointed out the difficulties, arising chiefly from prejudices and anti pathies he had to contend with, and then proposed the remedy, which in his own words is properly described as " a measure for the purpose of doing all that is wanted for the education of the people, without doing more." One great feature in the plan is the total absence of compulsion. Children not only arc not to be compelled to attend schools, but even their parents are not to be rated for the erection and main tenance of schools unless the majority in the district are so inclined. No preference is to be given to Churchmen or Dissenters—the Holy Scriptures are to be used, but no peculiar doctrines or tenets enforced, so that if the rule is duly observed it matters not whether the master be a Churchmen or a Dissenter. The children of Catholics and Jews are not to be required to read the Scriptures or hear them read, and in order that no schism may be created by the majority dictating to the minority, as regards the re ligion of the master, the minority whether it con sists of Churchmen or Dissenters shall have the power to withhold their assent, the only evil consequence of which will be, that matters shall remain as they are, till the two parties can come to an understanding. To super intend the distribution of funds granted by Parliament, or of funds bequeathed for the purposes of education, and to communicate information and advice to the Town Councils in boroughs, and to Education Committees in country parishes, who, to a certain extent, shall have the regulation of the schools, a Board of Commissioners is to be appointed, consisting of three paid Commissioners, to be members for life, and two Ministers of the Crown. The expenses are to be defrayed by voluntary assessment, and in districts where the inhabitants are too poor to raise the necessary funds, the deficiency to be made up by grants from Parlia ment. These are the principal details of the measure ; and in drawing them up the Noble Lord has shown great judgment and discretion, by avoiding everything that could excite religious prejudices, or give the preponderance to one party or another, or dry up those sources by which many schools throughout the country are now main tained. The Bishops expressed no opinion on the subject ; but few of them, indeed, heard the speech to the end, and their opinions consequently will not be known till they have in a body subjected it to the strictest ordeal. It may for a time, however, be obstructed, but looking at the feeling which now pervades the country, we doubt not its ultimate success, and Lord BROUGHAM will have what to him is of far more importance than a seat in the Cabinet, the con solation of having been the means of emancipating millions of his fellow-creatures from the slavery of ignorance, and of establishing a name which will be venerated and blessed by all future generations. Our readers will find in another part of The Sun of this day, a report of a public dinner given to Mr. O'CONNELL by the Reformers of Norwich. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who was welcomed with enthusiasm by a nu merous and respectable assemblage, spoke with his usual energy and animation, especially on the subject of the Bal lot. This, indeed, is one of the great cardinal points to which the attention of all Reformers should be just now directed. We should not lose sight of it for an instant, and still less should we suffer ourselves to be deterred from its agitation by the direct hostility of Lord J. RUSSELL. On the contrary, his Lordship's opposition should stimulate our ener gies,and goad us on to renewed efforts. He is not our " Sir Oracle," even though he be Ministerial leader in the House of Commons. We are glad, therefore, to find Mr. O'CortriEu. insisting, with such earnestness and pertina city, on the expediency of our agitating the question of the Ballot at every suitable opportunity. H e says, very justly, that the majority of the arguments urged against it are mere shallow sophistries, not worth the trouble of refutation ; and that it can scarcely fail, under any circum stances, of producing the beneficial results we anticipate from it—namely, putting a stop for ever to that wholesale system of bribery and intimidation, which the To ries have had recourse to, with such unparelleled effrontery, throughout the last elections. But there is another good effect with which the Ballot will be attended, which, we believe, has not yet been referred to. It will tend to elevate the religious character of the provincial clergy in the estimation of their flocks, for they will no longer be seen stirring up strife among their neighbours ; filling them with political prejudices ; and inducing them, by dint of threats, and flatteries, and sophist r i es , t o g i ve vo tes in direct violation of their conscience. Let the Ballot be once granted, and the Tory Clergy—whose name is Legion—will have no longer any temptation to disgrace their sacred calling by unseemly interferences of this na ture. Again, therefore, we say with Mr. O'CONNELL, discuss the Ballot—petition for it—agitate for it—and do not relax in your exertions, until it be wrung from the Legislature. Mr. WALLACE last night again brought forward the subject of the Post Office in the House of Commons. The Hon. Member for Greenock is entitled to the thanks of the public for the indefatigable perseverance with which he labours to reform the abuses in the Post office, and to put that establishment on the footing on which it ought to be in a country depending as this does, in so great a mea sure for its prosperity , on the r a pidity, the punctuality, and the security of the intercourse between its various parts. It must be gratifying also in no ordinary degree to Mr. WALLACE himself to find that he is attain ing his meritorious object. His success has not been ra pid—that he could not expect—but if more gradual than he wished, or than the good of the country required, it is to be recollected that he has had difficulties to contend against which would have induced most men to give up the con test in despair. The Hon. Member last night called the attention of the House to a Post-office return of last session, from which it appeared that in the course of the last eight years, property to the amount of 600,0001. had been abstracted from let ters or lost in passing through the Post-office. He also alluded, in strong terms, to the violation of private confidence, which so frequently takes place in country Post Offices, and which made people prefer send ing a letter, wrapped up in brown paper, as a parcel, at five times the cost, to passing it through the Post Office. Where such practices prevail, he concluded there were faults in the system, which required correction. After chew ing that the inconvenience—of which he lately complained— attending the Post Office communication between London and Scotland, bad not been removed by the dispatch of an additional mail coach, as both coaches started from Lon don at the same time, Mr. WALLACE concluded by giving notice that he -would ask leave to bring in a Bill for the establishment of an Office for the Re gistration of Letters passing through the Post Office. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, and in ferred that, as no public complaint had been made—as he conceived there must have been, about the loss of so large a sum as 600,0001.—the return was incorrect. It is, however, not easy to reconcile this explanation with the fact that Lord LICHFIELD stated the other night in the House of Lords, that 400,0001. of the sum abstracted had been recovered. The Right Hon. Gentleman defended the country post-offices from the charge of opening letters. Letters, he said, were often found open, by reason of the accidental breaking of an imperfect seal. This, we are aware, takes place when wax, without a wafer underneath, is used, and whin the letter is sealed in a hurry. In such cases a very small portion, if any, of the wax gets between the foldir of the paper, and the seal cracks even by a slight bending of the letter. We think it is but fair to:give the Post Office theibenefit of this care lessness, on the part of those who commit their letters to its charge. However, the Right Hon. Gentleman con fessed that there was great room for amendment, and stated his intention to bring in a Bill for the Reform of the Post Office, in which provhion would be made for the re gistration of letters. Mr. WALLACE having gained the object he had in view, withdrew his motion. The unanimity with which all parties in the House of Commons last night supported the principle of a Poor-law for Ireland is most gratifying. For ourselves we trust that no time will be lost in carrying the Bill, so auspiciously introduced by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, through the remaining stages, in order to provide against the possibility of further delay in the settlement of this great question. It is one of those measures in which Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, are equally interested, and we shall be delighted to find all parties uniting for the common object of improving its provisions. We have a long article on the subject in type, which want of space compels us to make stand over till Monday. Matters are rapidly progressing from bad to worse in Lower Canada. On the 7th ult., a public meeting of the Liberals, presided over by M. PUPINEAU, was dispersed by the military, in the execution of which duty some blows were given and received by the assailants and the assailed. This is a ba.d beginning of a system of pacification, and our forebodings of the result are very gloomy. The Paris Journals of Thursday have all been received, but their contents are of very little importance. The question of the reduction of the Five per Cents. continues to divide public attention with the expulsion of the Arch bishop of Cologne. The latest advices from Madrid are of the 22d ult., but they are of no political interest. A change of Ministers was spoken of as an inevitable event. Nothing can be conceived more wretched than the present condition of the Peninsula. Hordes of rebels, or rather brigands, are overrunning Lower Arragon, Valencia, and Estemadura with all but perfect impunity. In the Basques the operations of the QUEEN'S army since the arrival of ESPARTERO are rather of a defensive than of an aggressive character. The old system of procrastination is once more the order of the day. In the mean time the Government wants money, and the troops, terrible only to their officers, want clothing and military stores. Annexed are extracts from the Journals : _ _ . A letter from Perpignan of the 23d, gives some detail of the con tinuation of the siege of Puycerda by the Carlists. In the night of the 22d, there was a heavy fire of artillery andmusketry between the besiegers and the besieged on the side towards the gate of Spain. The Carlists had just pushed a reconnoissance to the vici nity of the place, and bravely supported the fire for half an hour. They had brought several pieces of artillery on mules to the village of Alfa, where they have collected a large quantity of cannon-balls, &c. Meantime Brigadier-General Carbo is advancing towards Puycerda, in order to force the Carlists to raise the siege. The Prefect of Tolosa has just arrested an agent of Don Carlos. This is the same Cebat who was employed by M. Toreno at the Custom-house of Barcelona. This is a very important capture.— Le Commerce. _ _ . . The Polish refugees celebrated on Wednesday last, at Paris, the seventh anniversary of the Polish revolution of 1830. At half after eleven they assembled in great numbers in the Church of St. Ger main des Pres, to be present at the Divine Service performed near the tomb of John Casimir, King of Poland, who died in France, and was buried in that Church. The Polish Literary Society also held an extraordinary sitting, at which Prince Adam Czartoryski presided, and upon which occasion speeches analagous to the solemn anniversary were delivered. Letters from Constantinople mention the arrival of the French steam-packet from Alexandria, with the important intelligence that the Eyptian army in the Urdjaz, after having experienced an unin terrupted series of disasters, had been completely routed, and its Commandar-in-Chief killed. FRENCH FUNDS. —Emus, Nev. 30. Five per Cents., 10;f. 4.';c. Four per t cuts., Three per Cents., RE 45c. 35c. tsc. Rents de Naples, 100 f. sc. Wf. 95c. Roman Five per Cents., 100 X. Spanish Actives, 2031%. Spanish Passives, 431. Brussels Society, I,foof. Belgian Bank, 1,53'1f. 1,527 f. 5Cc. Portugue.se Three per Cents., 19%X. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One menth, paper, 25f. 42%c.; money, 25f. 40c. Three months, paper, 25f. 27%c.; money, 25f. 273%c. —fours Authentiaue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 10 - f. 40c. Three per Cents., li g. 55c. Romans, 100 X. Belgian Bank, 1,527 f. Pc. Brussels Society, 1,6A1: Portuguese Three per Cents., 1914. Spanish Actives, 20 5 4. Spanish Passives, 414. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY. This being the first Seal after Michaelmas Term, the Lord CHANCELLOR sat at Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day. THE LUDLOW CHARITIES. The Lord CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in this case, which stood in the paper for decision last Saturday, but owing to the request of Mr. Leshmere Charlton, his Lordship postponed judgment till to-day, in order to enable the parties to arrange matters if they could. The case came before the Court upon Pe tition, praying that the Master might be ordered to review the Reports he had made with respect to various Charities in Ludlow. His Lordship, after going shortly over the facts connected with the case ; which have already been before the public, ordered the Mas ter's Report to be confirmed, and the Petition to be dismissed with Costs. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) Motions relating chiefly to points of practice occupied his Honor the VICE-CHANCELLOR the whole day. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY). This was the first seal after Michaelmas term, and his Lordship, the MASTER of the Rom.s, took motions, but none of any public i n erest came before the Court during the morning. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN U. MURPHY. -------. - . This was an indictment fora conspiracy, preferred by the church Trustees of the parish of St. Pancras, under a local Act, against Mr. Thomas Murphy and Mr. William Douglas. The indictment charged the defendants with conspiracy to obstruct the collection of Church -rates—there was a count also for a libel connected with the conspiracy charged. Mr. THESSIGER, Sir W. FOLLETT, and Mr. CLARKSON, ap peared for the p r ose cu ti on , an d Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS and Mr. THOMAS for the defendants. The case is likely to occupy the Court the entire day, the wit nesses in the other case for trial being discharged from attendance till Monday. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY COLE V. SCOTT..—CRIM. CON. The pleadings having been opened by Mr. MANSZL, Mr. ERLE stated the case to the jury. lie appeared for the plaintiff, who sought some compensation in damages for one of the greatest injuries which one man could inflict upon another-- he charged the defendant with having had criminal convers a ti on with his wife. The plaintiff was in humble circumstances—he was a servant, an why a Special Jury- had been summonest to try the case, he (Mr. Erle) could not conceive, unless it were to heap up expenses on the case ; whatever was the reason, he felt obliged to the defendant for giving him a Jury of such knowledge and experience as the one he had the honour to address. The plaintiff was married at St. George's Church on the 14th of July, 1831 ; both were then servants in places, and were not so well off in the world as to enable them to set up an esta blishment, and it was arranged that they should each fur sometime at least, remain in their respective situations. After some months the wife of the plaintiff left her situatiion, and the plaintiff took lodgings for her in Chester-street, which was near his roaster's house, so that whenever his duty would allow him he might pass his time in her society. The plaintiff fou n d th a t h e cou ld n ot afford the expence of keeping his wife doing nothing in lodgings, and accordingly in the middle of 1832 she again went to a situation in Pall-mll, \vh:le the p!iinti" was in a place in Belgrave-square, so that they had many opportuniiies of seeing each other. In April, 1833, Mrs. Cole was obliged to leave her situation in consequence of pregnancy ; and then the plaintiff, being .........---------.-----"--" very anxious to set up in some sort of busine ss, looked out, end Wild a coffee-shop which he thought would suit him. A communication was here made to the Learned PLATT, who appeared for the defendant, after which to g° Mr. EALE said he was happy that he had not been a110w...0f the further into the Case, and that he had not entered into any ~ details, or even mentioned of what business the defendant 1 5 i v e ;„, , cause his Learned Friend had made an offer of consenting to a diet for 30/., which he had agreed to. mages• A verdict was accordingly taken for theplaintiff with 30/• llama „ lie n Counsel b 9 M r ' A witness said he had been subpoenaed by the plaintiff, en" " d. ... we ute he came down to Court he was told that he would not be he was taken oat of his business , and had come from Tower-street' and wanted to be paid something for his trouble. thoug ht Mr. EALE had a communication to make, which he ~, 3 would make Mr. Roe withdraw his application. There v:i , ,... 6 , woman, a relation of Mr. Roe's, who was a very material ivi-rip, in the case, and, on application to him, he refused to give a% be formation, but subsequently offered to produce the woman 11 was paid 5/. The Attorney immediately subpcened him for the purpose of getting out where she was. Lord AbINGER.—It is an application which I ca nnot enterttit; There were three other cases in the parer. One wasin pet,nad con sequence of the absence of Earl Glengall , who was lre'aavos in another, neither of the parties were ready, and the caus e ,i,_ made a remand till next term, and in the other the plaintiff iv.'" drew the record in consequence of the absence of his witnesses. The Court was therefore obliged to adjo urn at a quarter pot ' en o'clock. --- CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Lord DENstAN and Mr. Justice PAltirr.)._,..4o FORGERY.—James Levin pleaded gui lt y to an ind'Mp.. charging him with uttering a receipt for the sum of 20/., r"'" tent to d the oard of Ordnance. Lord DdefrauENMAN.— Board of Ordnance. of 0U Lord DENMAN.—We shall look at the depositions, and of 6) 0 1 1 the recommendation of the Board will be attended to as fir consistent with the interests of justice. FORGERY ON THE BANE OF ENGLAND. J o seph Smith was indicted for uttering a forg ed note for the sum of 5/., with intent to defraud the Bank of England. A verdict of Not Guilty was returned. . LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA DEAL, DEC. I.—Wind W. S.W. fine.—Arrived from the riv"i and proceeded the Quebec, Hebard , for Ne w York ; and CitY ° Londonderry steamer, for Lisbon. P OR TSMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind W. S. W., fine.—Arrived th° John, Ferrard, from Riga. PLYMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind W. and SWANSEA, Nov. 30.—Arrived the John Hardy, Lang' Charles Clark, from Cuba. FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind W. S.W. to W. frail SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. I.—Arrived the Lloyd's, Blandfordp Quebec. PENZANCE, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Strathmore, Hewsont f r°lll Fernando Po. tanebee . GLOUCESTER, DEC. I.—Arrived the Ward, Crossman, ce LIVERPOOL, DEC. I.—Arrived the Queen, Bolton, fro the Edward's Island, with loss of foremast, &c. Off port the O'Shanter, from Quebec. 0 er' WHITEHAVEW, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Plato, Carr , an d cules, Maxwell, from Quebec. DUBLIN, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Cherub, Logan, from Qtleb e t c ; Wlvxmlox, Nov. 30.—Arrived the William and Mary, S e° from Quebec. LONDONDERRY, Nov. 29.—Arrived the Carouge, Itoberts°ll' fco.n St. John's, Ne Brunswick. Hum, Nov. 30. w —Arrived the Brunswick, Smith, Ca" Dunkerly, Ellen, Bell, Foster, Bibbing, Neva Simpson, t Abram, Habbin, from St. Petersburgh. The Sikes, Braithwate't from Stockholm. and Foster, Bibbing, from St. Petersburgh, 40. in the mud near this port on Wednesday, but were g ot off tnls morning without damage. DOVER, DEC. I.—The Mercury, Miller, from Meme l to al port, which was on shore behind the pier, was got off last night all brought into the harbtur. The Salina, Hayes, bound to Oporto, put back to New" c i r, land the l 2th ult., haring struck on Pancake Rock, an d Must 15 charge. The Margaret, from Dundalk to Bristol, has sunk near Skerries' having been in contact with a fishing-boat. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLO CA• Consols closed from yesterday at 94, buyers for the Account, be 93/1 ft r money. There was also a better supply of mon e y in . t n' market, arising, we are informed, from the East India boxer,. .n the Stock Exchange having lent to various parties to the anion of 400,0001. on security of Stock. The principal Foreign Exchanges were more buoyant ye a afternoon than for several previous post days ; there is also improvement in monetary affairs. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices, 94 to 93 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 44 ; India Bonds, 26 ; 13 Stock, 204 2051; India Stock, 267 269 . . In the. Foreign Market, although there was some businer doing in the. course of the day, the various fluctuations were n°t ° any great extent ; Spanish Active closed at 20 with the Coup°°s' opened the same this morning ; Portuguese closed 2 9 , opened the same this morning; Three per Cents, 19 ; this Stock was vet/ heavy during the whole of the day ; Mexican, 28 ; Dutch T ll°- axd-a-half per Cents, 54i. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOggib e Consols may be quoted at present not quite so good as . 11 j o i early part of the morning, when they were 94; they have rece. to 931 for Account ; shut for Money. Exchequer Bills, 44 m at India Bonds, 26 27 26. Bank Stock was done in the mo rning 2031, at present may be quoted at 2041. India Stock, 268. „ I In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active, 2u o r with Coupons ; Portuguese heavy, and receded to 281 ; Three Pe Cents., 19 ; Mexican, 271 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent s "' 541. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 931. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen gave audience yesterday to the Earl of Mint°, V ir. count Melbourne, and Viscount Howick. Iler Majesty took a drive in the Parks for an hour yesterday afire!: noon, in an open carriage and four, attended by the Hon . 1 " - Cocks, and the Baroness Lehzen. • Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at the new Palaeei c Amongst the company were their Royal Highnesses the Duchess a Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Georg e r Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Duke of Cleveland, the -Par t and Countess of Mulgrave, Earl and Countess of Surrey, Visc cun Melbourne, Lord Glenelg, Mr. and' Lady A. Fox, Lady Barha°l" IL.dy Mary Stopford, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Dillon, Lady.C f a r° ,4 ling Bo; riugton, Baroness Lehzen,"Miss Davys, Miss Kerr, the s'?' ic Steward, Lord Byron, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Sir Frederi c Stovin, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Colonel Wemyss. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards atten4B(l, in an ante-room, and performed a number of favourite pieces durir4 the evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, dined with Duke of Sussex on Thursday, at Kensington Palace. We have heard that Mr. Chalniers, M.P., for M° ll ' trose, and Lord Alvanley, were the parties who broug ht the dispute between the Earl of Lichfield and Mr. Wallace, M. to an amicable termination. SILVER EDGED PLATED DISI-11'" T. COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his Sho w og Rooms, a most extensive variety of CORNER DISI I E S. Set of Four varies in price from Seven to Ten Guineas. T. u", SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watch niske 47, Cornhill, London. h ich N.B.—The Handles are made to remove from the Covers, sw „ 0 may be used as Dishes ; thus the Set will form Eight Dishes, o'" required. BIRTHS. On the 27th ult., at Rushbrook-park, Bury St. Edmunds, eth lady of Lieut.-Colonel Eyres, Grenadier Guards, of a.daughte r :, o f On the 29th ult.. at Netherseale Hall, Leicestershire, the lauJ the Rev. Sir W. N. Gresley, Bart., of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Norwich, the wife of the Rev. L. ‘-'"'"' of Empingharn, Rutland, of a daughter. caridlP On the 26th ult., in Montagu.square, the lady of Wrn• Esq O ,-of a daughter. On the 30th ult., Mrs. E. Oxenford, Mecklenburgh-square' daughter. On the 26th ult., the lady of C. J. Shoubridge, Esq, of Glow' tester-place, Kentish-town, of a son. On the 28th ult., the lady of S. Girdlestone, Esq. , of C hestef' terrace, Regent's-park, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 28th ult., at Hambledon, Bucks, Charles Edmun d 3 gent, Esq., youngest son of General Sir George 'Nugenta, 13u"er G. C. 8., of Westhorpe House, Bucks, to Louisa Douglas, dug of the late Sir R. Price, Bart., of Tregwainton, Cornwall. tan, On the 29th tilt., at St. Marylebone, by the Rev. J. D. 13°r.cfoo Rector of Blofield, Norfolk, John, his eldest son, to Caroline, of T. A. aiarn, Esq., of Tunbridge Wells. On the 27 b th of September last, at St. Mark's, Kenn' & An n Henry Horn, Esq., of Great Portland-street, to Miss MarY Browne, of apham-rise, Surrey. On the 23d Cl ult., at St. Nicholls', Brighton, Mr. Richard I",i. lam Webb , of Marine-parade, to Mary Ann, eldes t daughter 0' Norman, Esq., of the s ame pl ac e lat e 9; On the 18th ult. at Dover Mr. James Ross, son of . the n 01 , - 0. Ross, Esq., of the Cape of Good Hope, to Eliza Sans° , of J. Boys, Esq., of Rochester. , , DIED. lArtliato On the 24th ult., a t W raw b y , in Lincolnshire, age d 72, - ' actively Clarkson, Esq., f ormer l y o f B a klock, who some years since nr exerted himself i n ;p romo ti ng meas ures then in cont em p l ameliorating a tio I ° the poor laws and equalizing the poo r rates. Wilt- On the 25th ult., in Albany-place, Glasgow , Mr. JJam es son, of Manchest er , age d 59. On the 29th u lt., a t N ewman ' s -court, Cornhill , Mr. C. Sturcke aged 55. g On the 30th ult., in the Clapham-road, Susannah, relict of tl3° late T. Lett,aged 85. and 11 On the 29th s ult., at Warley Lodge, Essex , aged I Tea r gec months, Arthur Vaughan, second son of the Rev. J. Pearson, tor of On he t 28th ult .le Warley,at Ewell, Surre , Mr. Robert Hall, bro ther Essex. y n- sque of , Mr. Charles Hall, of that place. , Mal' On the 27th ult., in Seymour-place, Bryanstoar94., M a rten, wife of Captain Elliott, and daughter of the l a te T. ~ ' of of Winehelsea. don 13 K" On the 25th ult., Henry, eldest son of S. Rither , 1- Croom's-hill, Greenwich. / On the 27th ult., at the Rectory , ag ed 88, the Re• rr-viectfials bank, Rector of Dickleburgh, Norfol k, and Fellow end for of Trinity College,"Cambridge. J Egan, scl. ' On the 27th ult., ai . Brighton, Frances , wife of . if el l, of of Essex-street, Strand. On the 23d inst., at Douglas, Isle o f Man, Mr. W. Gait' s ...1 Rotherhithe. Pf 23°' of O a n ap tte am 29 -r tl i a so,age F d 2 On the 12th ult. , at Brussells, Mrs. Lousada, widely° rap. h EO, Lousada, Esq., aged 57. ult., Francis, y East Ind'e Se On the 29th of July last, at Barrackpore, Comp 9 Ensign Donald M'Lean, of the Hon. East India , years. oun vice, second son of D. 3l'Lean, Esq., Basinghall-stree,- gest son of Mr. Jere.nro:agv4 20: N o , NO , u ntf London: Printed and Published by UMW°Stranu A iin ate 112, Strand, at Me Sun Office , No. 11'2, of Middlesex.—Saturday, December, 2, 18.97.