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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1835. the facts connected with the suggestions and the concession by Lord Eliot, and he thought they fully supported his view of the fair and generous spirit in which this most humane and beneficial treaty was effected.—( Hear.) For himself, he had no wish to interfere in this matter, either to raise a question or to bring these papers before the public ; but he felt , if any discussion was to take place on the question of the new Order in Council, it ought, in justice to all parties, to be brought on as soon as possible, when, he had no doubt, it would be fully admitted that the convention was, in its ori gin, as honourable to England, and creditable to the individuals who accomplished it, as it was beneficial to all parties in Spain. Mr. C. PELHAM rose, but was for some time inaudible, in consequence of Members leaving their seats. When first heard he was understood to be arguing against the principle of interference in the civil wars of neighbouring States, and the danger of establishing a precedent for foreign interference in England. What, he would ask, would Oliver Cromwell have said if Louis XIV. had claimed a right to interfere to protect the Royalist prisoners taken during the wars of the Commonwealth, when England was struggling for liberty ? (Laughter.) As he had mentioned the name of Cromwell, be must do him the justice to say that he had humanely inter posed to protect the French Protestants who had been driven from their country. In conclusion, he must own that this convention appeared to be undertaken in a spirit of humanity that claimed the approbation of all enlightened men, and as such he must concede it the praise it deserved. Colonel EVANS could not see the necessity which existed for the present motion. The Members of the late Govern ment did not think it necessary to call for the production of any papers to vindicate their characters respecting the objects they had in view in the formation of the convention. Neither did the present Ministry attempt to arraign those motives, or to cast any blame on the conduct of the Commissioners who executed it. On the contrary, they had given their pre decessors unqualified praise for this portion of their foreign policy. There was, therefore, a perfect coincidence of opinion on this subject between the parties in England whose charac ters and interests might be chiefly affected by it. For my own part, said the Gallant Colonel, I at first felt somewhat uncertain what had been the effect of this measure in Spain, and made anxious and particular inquiries with respect to its operation on the parties whose conduct it was intended to in fluence. I have now, however, great pleasure in stating that, from all I can learn, the conduct of the Noble Duke through out the negociation has been marked by an entire fidelity to existing treaties—(Hear, hear)—to the honour of England, and the obligations she had entered into relative to the recog nition of constitutional liberty abroad.—(hear, hear.) I now feel convinced that he has pursued a sound and faithful as well as a benevolent policy in his late measures adopted towards Spain.—( Hear, hear.) If there has been anything that can fairly be complained of in connection with any part of the transaction, it is the subsequent indiscretion of a gallant acquaintance of mine, relative to a reported conversation with an illustrious individual abroad, as stated in the newspapers. I have little doubt that the opinions and sentiments attributed to these individuals are much distorted in the statement which appeared • but, however that may be, no blame attaches either to the Noble Duke for the spirit in which he originated the convention, or to the Commissioners for the manner in which they carried it into operation. On the contrary, the conduct of both is the just theme of approbation amongst those whose opportunities of observing its effects on the spot entitle them to every confidence. An Hon. MEMBER (whose name we could not learn) congratulated the House that the question had been brought forward, as it had elicited so much to be a pp roved of in the conduct of those who had the management of the humane ne gociation, as well as the honour of England in their hands. He was inclined to give credit to Lord John Russell, for his motives in withholding the papers referred to at this crisis. Tt was highly gratifying to find the successors of those who had filled the most important trusts coming forward to vouch for the integrity, honour, and regard to public faith which their predecessors had evinced in the discharge of their duties. In deed, it was a subject .f just congratulation to Engliahmen that whatever changes it might be found necessary for his Majesty to make in the administration of the affairs of this great coup try, one feeling was found paramount in all who enjoyed his confidence—to maintain public faith abroad as well as at home. In relation to the present struggle, he must express his sur prise that the atrocities of such a civil war had been suffered to continue so long. He felt that it was a duty incumbent or all civilized men to interfere for the repression of such cruelties as had lately been perpetrated, and he had, whilst resident the Court of Spain, lent his best tnsif,tance to the efforts wirc-l: the humane and influential ; - riends of Spain we:T making f.:r her amelioration. Ile trusted that tho s e who had now assunled the reins of Government would net leave that unforttinc.te State to suffer unheeded the miseries of civil war, but wool,' vtill further bring the beneficent inlaenee of this country to bear on its condition, and, if possible, restore it to peace and tranquillity. Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said—Sir, I submit to the Hen. Member for Finsbury the propriety of withdrawing his motion. The convention, it is admitted on all hands, hf:s proved exceedingly beneficial ; every one must regret the barbarities which have been practised in that unhappy contest. and must rejoice that any arrangement Las been made thu means of saving human life. As not only the Queen of Spain's Government, but those Spaniards who were opposed to it have declared their perfect sati..f.tction with the conven tion, I do not see how any one in this country can fairly claim the right of objecting to it. Mr. DUNCOMBE then withdrew his motion, expressing his intention to leave the matter in Lord John Russell's hands and trusting that, as the Noble Duke and his friends had m objection to the publication of the documents in question, hi: Lordship would favour the public with as many of them as possible. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who spoke in a very low tone, which was partly intercepted by the Chair from our end of the Gallery, was understood to express his assent with respect to the publication of whatever portions of the correspondence might, on examination, appear not to be likely to inconvenience the public service ; and, with respect to the subject of the late Order in Council, he would be happy to settle an early day with the Noble Lord opposite (Mahon) for its discussion. LABOURING POOR—DISTURBANCES. On going into the Committee of Supply, Mr. A. TREVOR rose to move " That there be laid before this House copies of any information his Majesty's Govern ment may have received relative to the recent disturbances among the labouring poor in the parish of Ampthill, in ties, county of Bedford, Cheshain (Bucks), and East Bourn (Sussex)." He stated that he was not surprised at the dis turbances which had taken place la these parishes, and that it was the opinion of the Magistrates of his county that more might be expected. It was evidently most important that an inquiry should be instituted into the causes that produced such disturbances, and had created such a serous alteration for the worse in the temper and disposition of the labouring poor. It would be most useful as a guide to the Magistrates in their proceedings for the restoration of tranquillity, and it should be remembered that the Magistrates were themselves most desir ous that a full and public investigation should be entered into, as one of the best means of effecting a good understanding amongst the poor of the parishes. Lord J. RUSSELL said that at present there would be a difficulty in granting the information required ; and suggested that, as the report of the Poor Law Commissioners would be laid on the table before the end of the month, it would be better to wait for its appearance, when the entire subject of the disturbances, and the proceedings thereupon, would be fully and regularly submitted to the House. As far as he could learn, the character of these disturbances was comparatively trifling—arising for the most part out of the excitement caused by poor women and children, who exclaimed against being obliged to receive food instead of the allowances in money they had previously obtained ; and in every instance the distur bances had been put down by the local police and special con stables, without the aid of any other force. Mr. A. TREVOR hoped the report of the Commissioners would prove satisfactory to the county Magistrates, and afford the information required. The Hon. Member then with drew his motion. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. F. BUXTON rose to move for a Bill to suspend the payment of the 20,000,0001. for one year; and for a Com mittee to inquire whether the provisions of the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery have been complied with ? He was aware that he might expect considerable opposition to his motion, and he would at once admit that the honour of the country was ..? pledged, and its best interests committed, to the payment of the 20,000,0001., if the planters had fulfilled the conditions imposed on them, and fulfilled the promises made on their side. Now, he was prepared to show, first—that the terms of the agreement had not been fulfilled by the planters : and, se condly—that no excuse or apology was to be found in the con duct of the negro for the planters' breach of faith. He would first request the attention of the House to the prediction of interested parties relative to the workings of a society of which he was a member, who were designated by them as fire brands, and whose proceedings for the abolition of slavery would only lead to confusion and rebellion. Mr. A. Baring had predicted that in two years the measure would inevitably cause a total depreciation of the wealth and greatness of this country, that we should find manufactures extinct, commerce withered, ships rotting in the docks, and sugar doubled or trebled in price. He should like to see the President of the Board of Trade in his place, to inquire if this prediction had turned out a true prophecy. Further, that a diminution in the consumption of tea would attend the increased value of sugar, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would lose 6,000,0001. a year of the national revenue ; and, in conclusion, that this country would lose only her American colonies, but the West Indies themselves, in which the planters were threatened with " speedy devastation, loss of life and property—a shock to public credit," &c. In reply to all this, he would state the facts, that on the Ist of August the boon of abolition had been gratefully received by the black population of the West In dies—that no blood had been shed—that no outrage had oc curred throughout all the colonies—that scarcely a drunken man was to be seen—and that the negroes, left to themselves, abolished their Sunday market as the first-fruits of their free dom. I had been asked rather tauntingly (said Mr. Buxton) when examined before a Committee of the House of Lords in 1832, " Suppose Emancipation were granted, what would happen then ? How soon would the negroes go to work ?" I replied, " Next week, perhaps." Lord Sligo was then sit ting beside me. He ha= since written home, " The day after the abolition ( Saturday) was a holyday. On Monday the ap prentices turned out to work with their usual alacrity, and with more good humour than ever." I was questioned as to the dangers of rebe llion, and I replied, " That the planters might possibly rebel, but the danger is not with the negroes." What does Lord Sligo say in confirmation ? " The negroes are everywhere quiet, unless where disturbances are occasioned by the intemperate conduct of planters and overseers." I have been asked how shall we get over our difficulties in the management of the black population, and I have answered— " Throw them upon their own resources—appeal to the mo tives that govern man in all situations—if you want him to 4.44 - work for you, pay him encouraging wages—if you wish him to live at peace with you, treat him kindly—if you wish him to improve his condition, educate him."—( Hear, hear, hear.) With regard to the tranquillity of the negroes, he defied any man to say that the result had been contrary to that antimi pated by the friends of negro emancipation. At Antigua, so quiet were the negroes during the month of August, 1834, that the Governor felt no hesitation in leaving the district for some time, and at last Christmas, a period at which for the previous one hundred years it was invariably found requisite to proclaim martial law—so peaceable and quiet were the emancipated negroes that no such precaution was requisite, and the Christmas passed off in the utmost harmony and good humour. Another fact in connection with the state of An tigua he ought not to pass over. He was informed by a Cler gyman who officiated for a considerable district of that colony that where, before the passing of the Emancipation Act, there were fifteen marriages celebrated within the year, there were now within the same period 146. Again, not a single crime of any atrocity had been committed by the emancipated ne groes, while, as it was quite unnecessary for him to inform the House, they were of constant occurrence before that event. During the discussions upon the Bill it was frequently said that the Legislature ought to give the negroes a taste for the luxuries and elegancies of life before they proceeded to their emanci pation. Now he was happy to say that the result of their not attending to this suggestion had been anything but unsatis factory, and he would illustrate his assertion by reading to the House an extract from a letter of a friend in Antigua. This gentleman applied to the negroes on his estate to know if they desired any clothes to be purchased for them? Their answer was that they preferred waiting a short time to see what were the latest Engiish fashions, in order that their dress might be made to correspond to them. The Hon. Member then proceeded to read a variety of documents, tending to show that, while the amount of the produce since the passing of the Emancipation Act had in some districts increased so much as forty per cent., the amount of labour required for the land decreased in the same proportion— deducing from this circumstance a contradiction to the as sumption that the labourer could not be made to work without force being employed. Again, nothing could be more satisfactory than the accounts respecting the general good con , duct of the negroes since emancipation. That body bad in fact refuted all the calumnies uttered against them, and rea lized the warmest expectations of their most sanguine friends. But the question was, had justice been done to them by the planters ? His opinion was that it had not. There was scarcely an instance in which the promises held out to the negro population had been redeemed, the West India Legis latures having set themselves to work to undo and thwart all the kind intentions of the British Parliament. One of the Acts of the Jamaica Legislature went so far as to prevent the man whom the English Parliament designated as free from walking on the King's highway without risking punishment, and in express terms forbade him even from visiting his wife. He complained much that the acts of the Colonial Legishi"- tures had not been laid before House, in order that, before the money was paid to the planters, it might be ascertained how far they had acted up to their agreement. Had the promises held out to the negro population respecting the stipendary Ma gistrates been fulfilled ? The Noble Lord who introduced the Emancipation Act promised that the Stipendiary Magistrates should not be connected with local interests, and yet he foiled that in one district out of the eight, five special Magistrates I were connected with planters. In another district an individual connected with the Church union, the character of which was well known to the House, was appointed a stipendiary Ma gistrate. In another, an individual who underwent a tiial for the death of one of his negro slaves, and who, although acquitted of the offence, the Government of the day found necessary to dismiss from the Council, was appointed a sti pendiary Magistrate. Thera was another paint to which the attention of the House ought to be directed—he alluded to the nature of the punishment inflicted on the female popu lation. In the island of Tobago since the passing of the Emancipation Act a female slave had been publicly whipped. In consequence of these circumstances a meeting of the Spe cial Magistrates was held, and the Antigua Advertiser ne,; 5- paper stated that a proportion of about five or six to two the Special Magistrates present stated that they knew the punishment to be illegal, but that they were resolved to inliiet it, some from motives of humanity, as they averred, and others because they said the Court of King's Bench south take no cognizance of their acts as Special Magistrates. Ali this, notseithatending• the remonstrances of the Solicitor-Ge neral. The Hon. Member then went on to state that the gag was used as a punishment; also the bilhoes ; either of whien any overseer might inflict for the space of an entire night, at his pleasure ; while insolence, on the part of the negro— which before a Committee of the House had been defined looking the overseer in the face—was punisha ble b y the Act before him with twenty-nine lashes. Yet the planter for cruelty, injustice, injury, or other wrongs done to the negro, was only amerced in a fine of 5/. curreney, about 3/. is. 11J. sterling. It was true the regro had a power of entering a process in the superior Courts, but it was very ques tionable whether the power conferred any substantial ad vantage. All he (Mr. Buxton) wished was, that th bargain which had been concluded between this country and the planters should be fulfilled, that there should be no taint of slavery remaining before the money was paid them. He had not the slightest wish to throw any impseii :rent in the way of the payment of the money, lie eely wished that House should take such precautions before it was laid I as would prevent the possibility of a repetition of such acts es he had recited, or the relapse of the West Indies into the same condition, as regarded punishment, which it was in be fore. Indeed, he was not quite sure that the negroes would bear it patiently if it were persevered in; and he was col:- firmed in that doubt by letters, which stated that the cruelty of the overseers, if continued, would be likely to drive the slaves into open rebellion. He had been induced to bring forward the motion before the House in. the hope that the attention of the Government would be called without delay to the subject, and that the session would not be permitted tc pass without, something being done to ameliorate the condition of the poor negroes. He was prepared not to sacrifice one iota of the li berty of the negro ; while, at the same time, he did not desire that the planter should be a single shilling out of pocket. He only wished justice to be done to all parties, and the intention of the Legislature in passing the Act of 1834 to be carried into full effect. Not that in many instances he did not believe that more compensation was made than the slaveowner was really entitled to, an:l ene case, which he had on the authority of a a Gentleman of the utmost veracity, he should relate to the House. It was that of a planter, who wanted two domestic servants, going to the market in Trinidad and purchasing them at forty dollars each. A few months subsequently the Act of Emancipation passed, and he became entitled to 1001. for them. The Act of Emancipation had been proved to be a wise as well as a humane and a just measure. In the island of St. Vincent (as we understood the Hon. Member) land had increased in value since August, and a greater quantity was now in cultiva tion than before. He believed it was the same in the other islands. He also thought the compensation clause a perfectly just and fair one ; but he deemed that lie should not discharge his duty if ho suffered the one party to have all the benefits while the other had none. It was therefore he brought forward his motion, not wishing to let the session pass without ascertain ing what could be done to prevent such a conclusion. The Hon. Member then moved, " That a Committee he appointed to inquire whether the conditions on which the sum of twenty millions had been granted by that House to the slaveowners in the West Indies had been fulfilled, and to report thereon." Sir G. GREY gave his Hon. Friend the fullest credit for the purity which dictated, and the humanity which framed, his motion (from the original notice of which he begged to remark that he had considerably departed), but stated his in tention, notwithstanding, of voting against it, on a principle of public duty. The proposition of his Hon. Friend, in point of fact, was, that the payment of _the twenty millions granted to the slave proprietors in the West Indies should be sus pended until the Committee which he had moved for should have made their report. No he ( Sir G. Grey) would ask the House, supposing that the Committee should be appointed, when was it probable they would be able to make their report? Was it at all likely to occur in the course of the present session of Parliament ? Could any reasonable hope be entertained that they would be able to make such a one as would be satisfactory to that House and the country in any time within the compass of fairness ? Should they be empowered to in quire into the local laws of the several colonies, as well as into the conduct of the planters and Special Magistrates ? To effect the purpose contemplated by his Hon. Friend, he appre hended they should. - In that case, would it be possible for them to come to any decision until they had first had commu nication with the West Indies, and had given the accused parties an opportunity of entering on their defence. Other wise it would wear the appearance of injustice. Under these circumstaaces, it would be utterly impossible for them to make any report this session of Parliament ; and a year would thus be suffered to elapse before the money voted last session would have been paid. But, setting this aside, he ( Sir G. Grey ) would ask, were the isolated acts of individuals—even of one entire colony—to be made the grounds of withholding pay ment from all the rest ? Were the facts to be taken all from one side, without any reference to those on the other ? Was the payment of 20 millions to be suspended because a few persons had acted badly?- He did not doubt the accuracy of the statements made by his Hon. Friend. Facts had occurred in the West Indies since the Ist of August, which wero a dis grace to human nature. But they were only the exception, and not the rule. They were not the acts of the whole slave-holding population, but of a few individuals. The Eman cipation Act could not change the nature of a people ; it could not make those who were still entrusted with a considerable degree of irresponsible power, less likely to abuse it than be fore. It could not change the whole face of civil society in the West Indies. But it effected what it had been mainly enacted to effect. How was the opinion of the Parliament which passed that measure, respecting a similar motion of his Hon. Friend ? That Parliament, in two divisions, negatived it. He ( Sir George Grey) hoped the present Parliament would never assent to it. It would be punishing all for the sins of a very small proportion ; it would be depriving all the colonies of the benefit of the compensation awarded by the Act for the crimes of one or two. For instance, he would take Antigua and Bermuda. These islands had discarded the ap prenticeship clause altogether, and given unqualified freedom to their slaves : did his Hon Friend mean to suspend the pay ment to these as well 03 all the rest? If he did, how could he prevent the injury which would accrue to them from the suspension? In fact, the proposition of his Hon. Friei'd was simply a motion to make the LegWature recede from a bar gain solemnly made, and a contract solemnly entered into.— (Hear, hear.) It was to induce them to turn round on the planters and say, " You have fulfilled the conditions imposed on you, we have not paid you as yet, and we will not pa-, you now, unless you comply with other conditions whieb we mean to impose on you in addition."—( Hear ) If the motion of his Hon. Friend were acceded to, the Legisla ture of Great Britain would be fairly chargeable with breach of contract—a charge which he hoped he should never live to see made, still less substantiated against it,—( Hear, hear.) While he joined with his Hon. Friend in express- ing his horror and detestation of the acts of cruelty and oppression which he had related to the House, he trusted that he should never attempt to vindicate either at the expense of the national faith—( Hear, hear)—that faith which he never had seen, and which he hoped he never should see, tarnished. —(Hear, hear.) While he said this, he did not mean to say that all checks on the planters should be removed ; but he trusted that he should be able to show his Hon. Friend that the Government of the country had the strictest eye upon the conduct of the society of these colonies, especially in respect to their slave population. He would undertake to pledge himself for the present Government that the strictest inves tigation should be made into all the circumstances of every case stated by his Hon. Friend, and every other case pro perly adduced, and the fullest justice should be done to all parties. When his Hon. Friend had come to the Colonial Office to him (Sir George Grey) and asked whether he had any objection to produce these papers, he had replied in the negative ; and finding there was no means of supplying them in London, he had sent to the West Indies for all requi site information. This he stated as a proof of the readi ness of the present Government to promote every inquiry, and to redress all grievances which should be satisfactorily proved to exist. As to the probability that, subsequent to the payment of the money, the same course of conduct would be pursued as before, he (Sir George Grey) saw no grounds to apprehend any thing of the kind. The Governors of most of the colonies were gentlemen not at all disposed to acquiesce in any acts of the local Legislatures which would have such an end for their object; and he needed, he was sure, only mention the names of the Marquis of Sligo in Jamaica, Sir Lionel Smith in Barbadoes, and Sir Carmi chael Smith in Demerara, to be borne out by the House in his supposition. Besides, though the Governor had no con trouling power over the local Legislature, no act of theirs was binding or of force until it had received the sanction and assent of his Majesty in his Privy Council. All the circum stances prevented effectually what his Hon.' Friend appeared to fear so much. He ( Sir G. Grey) could never sanction the principle of the motion made by his Hon. Friend, because it was not alone repugnant to justice, but to the- spirit in which the Negro Emancipation Act was framed. In the debate on that measure the present Earl Spencer, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had said—and the Noble Lord the Member for South Lancashire, then Colonial Secretary, had reiterated it—that the d i k,vners of slaves were entitled to receive compen sation from the moment the Act came into operation. The motion of his Honourable Friend went to negative that assertion by the most direct mode—suspending payment. At least he hoped that his Hon. Friend would exclude the six Crown colonies from his sweeping measure. He ( Sir George Grey) would at all events put in a claim in behalf of the Cape of Good Hope, a colony which, to its praise let it be spoken, had made no distinction between predial and non predial slavery, but had indiscriminately abridged the term of apprenticeship to all by a period of two years. Surely his Hon. Friend would feel that there was a necessity to ex empt the colony of the Cape of Good Hope from the views which he took of this subject in general. The island of acaica had conformed to all the conditions upon which the grant had been made to the slave proprietors, and the engagement to pay had consequently been made to them by his Majesty's Ministers. It was but due to those who hcd preceded the present Ministers in the Colonial Department to say that the course they had taken upon this subject had met with the approbation of the present Government. No subject had been more forcibly pressed upon the attention of the Colonial Legislatures than the necessity of carrying into full effect, all the previsions of the Act of the Impe rial Parliament, and they had in general given an assurance of their intention to carry the measure into full operation. In December, 1832, the Earl of Mulgrave had been the median of communication between the Government at home and the Legislature of the Colony of Jamaica The Noble E •rl, whose character was so highly appreciated by all who knew him, or who had any knowledge of public affairs—(hear, hear) —had been preseet in the island, and well knew what was then the spirit and temper of the colonists, and therefore Ministers at home were bound to attend to his communications, and to consider the advice he gave with reference to the Nets that had been passed by the local Legislature. The Noble Earl had written to the head of the Colonial Department to say that a Bill had passed through the House of Assembly in Jamaica, except the last stage, which gave effect to the Art of the Imperial Parliament, and that he entertained no doubt that the Bill would travel through its whole progress, and be finally passed into a law. He added that he had used every endeavour to bring forward such a measure as would enforce the British Act, and that would fully develope the duties which that Act had left to be performed by the Co lonial Assemblies. The majority of the HOuse of Assembly, the Noble Earl had added, had fully entered into his views, and the Government at home would not have the slightest reason to complain. Such had been the evidence of the Earl of Mulgrave, who had been teamed the friend of the negro race, by the people of Jamaica. His (Sir G. Grey's) prede cessor in office had replied to the earl of Mulgrave in praise of the liberal spirit that had actuated the House of Assembly, and after a lapse of six weeks, a despatch had been sent out, saying that his Majesty's Government had made the declaration that the compensation ought to be paid to the slave proprietors of that colony.—( Hear.) The subsequent con duct of the Legislature of Jamaica had occasioned that sug gestion of the Home Government that had been alluded to, upon all points but two, to which the Marquis of Sligo had thought it not practicable for the Colonial Legislature to accede, owing to the local circumstances of the island. The people of that colony, therefore, were to be dealt with as a people zealous in bearing out the provisions of the Emanci pation Bill. He would agree with his Hon. Friend that a certain recent Act did not show any zeal on the part of the Legislature of Jamaica ; but still he felt himself bound to distinguish between the Legislature of that island and a vast number of the most respectable inhabitants of the island. But this last Act to which he had referred had no reference to the payment of the money , and it was u p on other grounds that it had been objected to by Ministers. It was in fact the object of Ministers to do away with all distinctions of colour or complexion, and to consider all colonists as equally the sub jects of the Crown.—(Hear, hear.) He could not but add, that the Act that had been passed by the local Legislature to inflict a punishment for insolence, was perfectly consistent with the Act of the Imperial Parliament. But in Barbadoes, Nevis, St. Kitts, Dominica, and Montserrat, Acts had been passed, which had not been deemed sufficient to entitle those islands to a payment of the 20,000,0001., and, accordingly, the Acts were returned to the colonies, not with the Royal assent, but with the comments of Ministers upon them, and some of these colonies were at that moment considering the amendments, and no decision had, therefore, as yet been made with respect to any payment to those colonies. A de spatch had been sent to Barbadoes that the Act•which had been passed by that colony was not deemed satiefactory by the Colonial Department, and it had been added that until that Act should be rescinded no grant could be made ; and, therefore, he would contend that his Hon. Friend could upon this point have no foundation whatever for complaint against his Majesty's Ministers. He would contend that the Hon. Member for Weymouth had made out no case whatever against his Majesty's Ministers, and no case to induce the House to consent to a proposition that the island of Jamaica was not deserving of the decision that had been come to in ins favour. His Hon. Friend had failed in making out a ma which would warrant the House in taking out of the hands of Ministers the power they now possessed; he had made out no case upon which he could introduce any Bill on the subject ; and his moving for a Committee was therefore only an expe dient to catch a few stray votes, as many Hon. Members might be induced to vote for a Committee that could not be brought to vote for a Bill.—( Hear.) At the present moment many and important engagements had been made on the faith that Government would hold inviolate its pledge to pay the money in the ensuing autumn. The constituents of the Colo nial Assemblies were crying out for the money, and it was therefore to be supposed that they would press upon their re presentatives the necessity of passing the Bill, which would enable the money to be paid. With respect to the question of the Stipendiary Magistrates, he fully admitted that the powers of these Stipendiary Magistrates should be con fined to strictly impartial men ; but he must sa y that , a most grievous miscalculation had been made with re spect to the number that were requisite to carry into effect the objects for which they had been appointed. Only one hundred Magistrates had been provided for by the Act, and it had become necessary for the Governors to select men resident in the colonies to supply the deficiencies. The Governor of Jamaica bad taken care that no person should be placed in the Special Commission that was not disposed to carry the Act of the Imperial Parliament into operation. The Colonial Secretary had written to the 'Mar quis of Sligo, to direct him to select for the office men en tirely free from any local bias. With respect to the other colonies, it was true that representations had been made of the inefficiency of the Stipendiary Magistrates; but Lord Glenelg had felt th a t Parliament would not sanction the appointment of the Stipendiary Magistrates being in the hands of the planters, and a circular letter had been sent to the colonies, ordering that the Special Commissions should be withdrawn, where the Special Magistrates were of this description.— ( Hear, hear.) Orders had been given that, in filling up va cancies, men should be selected who were not planters or slave proprietors, but persons as free as possible from all local pre judices or bias whatever. With respect to the cases that had been brought forvvard . from the newspapers—the case, for in stance, of administerm . g punishment to females—it had been referred to the authorities at home, and in the meantime the Governor had remitted the punishment on his own responsibi lity. He hoped the House would refuse its sanction to the appointment of the Committee. No good could arise from it. It would only tend to unsettle the existing state of things, and disturb that calm that at p resent prevailed so beneficially for all interests. He hoped the Hour would pause before they took this dangerous step , which might produce con se quences, which he was sure his Hon. Friend would be the last to wish to see realized.—( Cheers.) Mr. BUCKING HA M said that he was glad to hear what had fallen from the Government upon this subject. He was happy to find that the colonial Magistracy was to be purified, and that the torture of women was no longer to be permitted. From the explanations that had been given on th e p ar t of the Government, he no longer considered that the appointment of a Committee was necessary ; but then he thought it good and useful to have the subject occa?ionally discussed. By recent accounts from the West Indies it appeared that all the condi tions on which the twenty millions were granted had not been fulfilled. Dr. Madden, who had been one of the Stipendiary Magistrates at Jamaica, came away from there in disgust from the persecutions he suffeeed, because he was Ltermined to do his duty in an English spirit. He had testified since his arrival home to two instances of flogging women, one of whom was labouring, at the time she was tortured, under an attack of paralysis, and the other was also afflicted with a terrible disease. • Mr. CLAY entirely concurred in the opinion that tl'e , ' House had a perfect right to know how the twenty millions they had voted were applied, and that all the arrangements that had been stipulated for were faithfully fulfilled. Bad faith on the part of the local legislatures in fulfilling the conditions on which the grant was made was the only ground for with holding the payment of that grant, and he was bound to say that the speech of his Hon. Friend (Sir G. Grey) had fully exculpated them from any disposition to deviate from good faith since the Emancipation Act had been brought into opera tion; and he thought from the spirit in which the present Go vernment had acted, they might fairly be entrusted with the woruing out of the details of the measure. He hoped, there fore, the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Buxton) wonld not press his motion to a division. Mr. 0' CONNE L L implored his Hon. Friend to with draw his motion. Every object which the motion was directed to had been amply answered.—( Hear, hear.) The Speech of the Hon Secretary for the Colonies was perfectly satisfac tory, whether he considered its general ability or the lucid order of its arrangement, or, above all, the emancipating spi rit which pervaded it.—( Hear.) Some abuses must exist everywhere. It had been complained that a woman was shot. A dreadful outrage certainly ; but was there not a man to be hanged to-morrow for stabbing a woman? He had been ori ginally opposed to the grant of twenty millions, but he was now bound to say that it had been amply repaid if the law were worked out in the spirit of the speech they had that night heard on the part of the Government.—( Hear.) Would his Hon. Friend (Mr. Buxton)—and there never was a greater friend than he was to the oppressed of every colour and every clime—(Cheers) —would he wish it to go abroad among the negro population that he, their best friend, considered them still as an oppressed race ? No man, he was sure, would re gret more than his Hon. Friend if any acts of outrage were the consequences of such an impression. He had no doubt that the present Government would carry out the details of the measure with a benevolent and determined spirit, and he could not therefore vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend, if he pressed it to a division. Mr. F. BUXTON said that facts had certainly been com municated that night to the House of which he was not before aware. The powerftd speech of the Hon. Gentleman oppo site (Sir G. Grey) and the emancipating spirit that belonged to it were highly satisfactory : but the part that gave him (Mr. Buxton) the greatest satisfaction was the determination ex pressed in it to purify the Magistracy. After the strong de sire that had been manifested by so many friends who were, he was sure, as warmly attached to the cause as he was himself, that he should not press his motion to a division, he would, with the permission of the House, withdraw it.—( Cheers.) He should do, so, however, on the understanding that the Go vernment had pledged themselves to see the whole of the condi tions on which the House voted the grant fully and faithfully performed. The motion was then withdrawn. WAYS AND MEANS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for going into a Committee of Ways and Means on the sugar duties. Mr. C. F ERG US SON said he would take that opportu nity of presenting a petition from the East India Company, praying for a reduction of the duties on East India sugar. This colony had peculiar claims to relief; for while it did not cost one shilling to this country—while it paid even the expense of the armies by which it had been conquered—it sent over an nually to this country no less a sum than 3,200,0001. To enable her to do this the fiscal duties, which were 501. per cent. heavier than on any other colony, must be altered. The duty on East India coffee was ninepence, and only sixpence on that of the West Indies. The duty on English cotton goods im ported was only two-and-a-half-per cent., while it was ten on the manufactures of India imported to this country. The duty on India silk goods imported was twenty per cent., while on those of England sent to India it was only two-and-a-half. The c_msequence was that the cotton manufacture was entirely ruined, and hundreds of thousands driven to want.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. CRAWFORD presented a similar petition from the merchants of London. He recommended that the growth of coffee should be encouraged in Ceylon and the Mysore. Mr. BUCKINGHAM supported the petition. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would reserve what he had to say in reference to these peti tions till the House was in Committee. The SPEAKER having left the Chair, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that on accepting office it became his duty to take into considera tion this very important question of the Sugar Duties. He was in the first place desirous to ascertain, from sources in which he could place the utmost reliance, in what state this question had been left by the late Government, and what were their views with respect to it. There Was a report that they intended to leave those duties in their present state for ano ther year ; and he endeavoured to ascertain whether or not such was the case, because the present was not a time when any expectations that might have been held out ought to be disappointed. Great and serious inconveniences might arise if one Government were to disappoint expectations that had been held out by the Government immediately preceding it. From inquiries made by him he collected that no positive engagement was entered into upon the question, and that the Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir R. Peel) considered himself per foctly free to deal with the subject. It was his duty also to state, upon this occasion, that the impression conveyed to the agents of the West India interest here was that the duties would not be disturbed this year. He saw these gentlemen, and they told him, that, so far back as March last, they had a !:retty certain assurance the duties were to be continued for this year. This they communicated to their correspondents abroad, so that the impression was now prevalent. He trusted, from the spirit which was manifested in the previous debate of that night, that no step would now be taken to prejudice the West India interest, so far as it was involved in these duties. Under all the circumstances he felt himself called upon to pro pose the continuance of them. He admitted fully the weight of the observations of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Fergusson), and the necessity of doing justice to India. An attempt, therefore, to maintain these sugar duties permanently was a task he would not undertake, and he trusted that even in the course of the present session he would be able to state what, in his opinion, ought to be done with respect to them. The House was perfectly free to deal with the coffee duty, and in the course of this session a proposition would be submitted to the House, for equalizing the duty on East and West India coffee. In proposing the sugar duties now, it was not to be understood as conveying any pledge of their continuance, for he did not despair that, even in the present session, some thing might be done upon the subject. The West Indians, however, should have time allowed them for considering what was to be the future state of the law in this respect. ;i not support these duties on principle, but merely with r: c• • once to present circumstances, and in consideration of V.e communications made by the West India agents here to their correspondents abroad. The question being put, that the present sugar duties be continued for one year, Mr. E WA RT said after the frequent discussion of this sub ject it was but reasonable to hope that it would now, at length, be finally disposed of. He understood • that the late Govern ment was pledged to the equalization of these duties, and he considered it derogatory to the present Government not to re deem that pledge. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained. He stated distinctly tbat the late Government gave no pledge upon the subject, and that a contrary impression was produced on the minds of the West India agents. Mr. E WART said that he was led to think as he did from knowing that the Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir R. Peel) was friendly to the equalization of these duties, and expressed himself to that effect last session. The reduction of the duties on East India produce was an old pledge. In fact it formed part of the last Bill by Which the affairs of the Company were settled, and it was the understanding at the time they voted 20,000,0001. for the abolition of West India slavery. The Member for the Tower Hamlets (Dr. Lushington) said it was only on that condition he voted the money. The consequence of these and the other duties on East India produce was to prevent the extension of capital and commerce. When more capital was engaged in the commerce of India he believed that the cultivation of cotton would next be attended to, and by all accounts it would be a successful speculation. This was not an Indian question alone but an English one also, both the English consumer and the English capitalist being consi derably interest. Reduce the duties, and you reduce to the English public some of the first articles of comfort and conve nience, while you also furnish an opening for the increased employment of capital. He derived great satisfaction from the announcement of the reduction of the coffee duties, and so much reliance did he place upon the pledge which the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer had given to act upon his (Mr. Ewart's) principles in regard to the sugar duties, that he should not press his motion, unless urged to it by those Hon. Gentlemen who were more extensively acquainted with commercial subjects than he was.--( Hear. ) ivir. HUME advised his Hon. Friend not to press his motion. Mr. BAG SHAW hoped that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would give a distinct pledge on the subject of the East India duties. Mr. A. CHAPMAN expressed his opinion that the inte rests of shipowners and shipbuilders would be promoted by the reduction of the sugar duties. Lord SANDON trusted that Government would make an early declaration of their views, that the West Indians might know what they had to expect. Mr. P. THOMSON thought that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had given an assurance sufficiently satisfactory w hen he statod his concurrence in the principles laid down by the Hon. Member for Liverpool. He regretted to learn from the Hon. Member for Kircudbright (Mr. C. Fergusson) the great decrease in the supply of cotton from the East Indies, but he hoped that the prevailing distress Would be relieved by the increased commerce and employment of capital which the opening of the East India markets and the improvements in the tenures of land were expected to produce. As to the hope of the Hon. Member for Middlesex, that the numerous duties on East India produce might meet with a speedy consideration, he could only answer that there were o;dy four such duties, v iz. those on sugar, coffee, spirits, and tobacco. The duties on tobacco could not possibly be relinquished, in! consequence of the deficiency which would be occasioned in the revenue ; the removal of the ditties on spirits would be of no material benefit; and, with regard to the remaining two, he appre hended that further discussion was not necessary. Mr. PEASE spoke in favour of a reduction of. the sugar duties, and regretted that it would not take place this year. Mr. OSWALD thought that, as so many Hon. Gentlemen were agreed that neither advantages nor disadvantages would arise from the measure, there was no immediate occasion for eqtr;lizitie- the duties. M r . NiA RB URT 0 N thought that the effect o: the measure would be advantageous to the East Indies, though it would not be to the West Indies. He thought the present time afforded the best opportunity to make the experiment, as the competi tion between free labour existed in both countries. He wished for a clearer explanation on the subject, and desired to know what steps the Government meant to take? Was it likely they would take any during the present Session ? Was the matter to be referred to a Committee, as he hoped it would ? Lord SANDON thought time should be given, and a gra dual reduction of duties be resorted to, in order to allow the West India colonists to know what would be the result of the experiments they were now making. Mr. G. F. TOUNG agreed with the Noble Lord near him (Lord Sandon) and considered that agradual approlima tion of tllc duties would be preferable. Mr. P. STEWART begged to ask the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether sugar and coffee coming from the East Indies meant bona fide that which came from British India, and which was raised by British ca pital ? Much sugar at present was imported from foreign ter ritories in India. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was ex tremely sorry if anything he said could raise the inference that it was intended that the present duties should remain unchanged until the expiration of the Session. In reply to his Hon. Friend, the Member for Lancaster, on the subject of coffee, it was his intention to apply the-reduction of duty to the pro duce of British India, and that territories not English were not to be included. After a few words from Mr. BAGSHAW, Mr. M. PHILLIPS, and Mr. BUCKINGHAM — Mr. GOULBURN entirely concurred in the course pro. posed to be adopted by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He did not wish to exclude East India produce from the advantages of the measure—all he wished was, that the subject should have a full and calm discussion. Mr. T. BARING (we believe) thought the reduction pro posed ought to be one of gradual decrease. There was one point on which he wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, viz., whether, and when, he intended that the duty upon coffee should be equalised ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that on an early day he should give notice respecting coffee, when he would answer the Hon. Gentleman's question. To prevent inconvenience to parties, some time ought to be allowed. The resolutions were then agreed to, and Mr. Ewart's motion withdrawn. The House resumed. The resolutions of the Committee of Supply were reported. Mr. LYNCH brought up the report of the Roman Catholic Marriages (Ireland) Bill. Mr. E W ART brought up the report of the Prisoners' Counsel Bill. Mr. HUME moved for certain naval returns connected with a motion which he made last session, and also for returns of the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the Brighton Guardian. He also brought in a Bill for the regulation of election expenses in England and Wales, which was read a first and second time. Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice that he should move several , Imendments in the Corporation Bill. The only one we could hear in the gallery was, that ale-house licenses should be granted by the mayor, justices, and other magittrates. Lord EBRINGTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill for repealing the Act of last Session respecting the weights and measures, and substituting others in lieu thereof. The Bill was read a first time, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. HULL ELECTION. The contest at Hull has begun prosperously for the cause of Reform ; the majority at 11 o'clock yesterday in favour of Colonel Thompson was 225. The contest will be severe, from the powerful interest of the Tories, backed by the Carlton Club, whose agents are indefatigable in pushing the cause of Nlildmay. But they will fail ; the men of Hull will never commit so shameful a deed as to allow a Tory to be returned for their enlightened borough, in preference to their towns• man; Colonel Thompson. GROSS POLL AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK. Thompson 517 Mildmay Majority -225 (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wednesday Evening, June 17. Orders have been received here for the depots of the 10th, 53d, and 75th Ret„iments, now in garrison at this place, to em bark, the former for Brecon, in Wales, and the latter for Cork. They will be re-placed by depots of the 32d, 36th, and 37th regiments, the former of which are now at Waterford, and the latter at Cork. On Sunday evening Major-General Sir James Cockburn arrived at this place, accompanied by Captain Wilson, A. A. General. The following day Sir James inspected the divi sion of the Royal Marines here, and yesterday reviewed them on the Hoe. He expressed himself in high terms of satisfac tion at the results. Orders have been received for a detachment, consisting of 10 officers, 11 serjeants, 10 corporals, 6 drummers, and 155 privates of the Royal Marines of this division to embark imme diately for Milford Dock-yard. The officers are Captains Minds, Mitchell, and Morgan ; First Lieutenants, Mallard, Hearle, and Lee ; Second Lieutenants, Holland, Walsh, Wright, and M‘Killop. ENGAGEMENT between H. M. SHIP SKIPJACK, and the MARTHA SLAVER. (From the Plymouth Journal of 18th June.) EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER' ON BOARD.- 00 Wednesday, Bth of April, 1835, at seven o'clock in the morn ing, a sail was espied about a point on the weather bow, stand ing to the westward with all studding sail set, coming towards us. On perceiving what we were, she lowered them, and hauled close to the wind. At ten o'clock we neared her, and signalised her, which was not answered until very nearly eleven o'clock, when she hoisted a very broad Spanish ensign, and fired two guns to leeward, keeping her ensign flying, for ten minutes, when she hauled it down. She fired out of defiance to us, imagining, no doubt, that she would intimidate us, from her being nearly three times our size, and of a superior force in every way, and had originally been a coast-guard ship in the Spanish Navy. At two P.M. we came up nearer to her, and saluted her with our long Tom —or, in other words, our 18-pounder—to which she returned an answer, by firing broadsides of round and grape. This was considered suffi cient signal for action (we were then about thirty miles from little Cayman), and consequently Lieutenant-Command er Usher immediately issued orders for the vessel to be put into battle array, which was executed with the greatest prompti tude by the crew of the Skipjack, who were anxiously and impatiently waiting for the awful summons. The engage ment commenced from the time we fired our first gun, and continued until half-past five, when perceiving we were gain ing on her, she immediately fired two stern chasers, with a view, if possible, of carrying away our foremast, and set all sail to elude us. The result was, that a running fire ensued , which was kept up on our part, and continued until half-past ten, when running under her stern we hailed her, and asked if she had surrendered, to which she answered in the affirma tive. It was a lucky thing she had, for we had but very little powder left, having expended 140 rounds of shot and 400 rounds of powder. On boarding her she was found to be the Martha, slaver, pierced for 18 guns, but carrying only 8, si r Congreve 18-pounders, and two long 12-pounders, with a crew of 56 men and three officers, Captain, Supercargo, and Doctor , front Loango, bound to the Isle of Pines. During the en gagement. and about an hour after its commencement, our gib-haulyards were shot away, but were immediately bent afresh ; this is all the injury we sustained, and we had but ot,e man slightly wounded. The Martha had one man killed , a Spaniard, who was shot while in the act of priming his gun' and eight wounded. Some of us went forward. and wer e almost suffocated with the smell of a disease which was vie lently raging among the blacks, called the Epidemica DI" senterica. When shown below they were lying about the decks like black rats, some from disease,_ and others why h s e ° c eath had been hastened from our shots entering t ship and killing them right and left, while the num ber of broken bones and lacerated wounds that tools place were incredible. It appears that as soo n as the blacks heard us fire they immediately stowed thems elves awe in the hold, among the firewood , thinking they would be out of danger; but it was a most untoward event for then' , for one of our shots entered, and made such devastation am ong the wood, that not only the above accidents occurred, btl. there was one woman who had half her face and h ead shot Old with her left thigh, which was but hanging toe the flesh, IT_ one man who had his head shot clean off. From the time tre n v Martha left Loango, until she fell with us , was 43 days. Sn. stopped two months there before she got her living cargo,arnou° dn istg to 790, out of which 12 3 died previously to embarke 207 of the dysenteric fever, leaving 460, of which 13 re killed during the engagement. The slaver was 116 feet long and 30 feet beam, and her original complement on quitti% Laongo was 63 men. She has been sent on to Havann a n y while the Skipjack proceeds to Jamaica to get a reinforcem e ._ of men, and will then sail for the same place. The Captaulp of the slaver has since told us that when - we were gaining (I, him, he called in all his men, and told them that if they Won fight he would give them 100 dollars (about 101.) each, it be' ing then his intention to come up alongside and give us broadside with his 8 guns. Had he succeeded he would tr, doubt have killed some of us , but in all p robabilit y he won't"' have been baulked in his attempt by our Commander getting the weather gage of him. T h e m en a g reed, however, to the Captain's proposal, and fought until we killed their best gun ner, a Spaniard, dead on the spot as he was priming his gu n ' of which he was Captain , by our lon g Tom, when they a" hands run below and left the Captain, his mate, and Boat swain's mate to secure the guns. But had they captured us, they would have mustered courage enough to cut all our throats and throw us overboard.—Spanish valour indeed 111 The Duke of Sutherland has given Stanfield, the eminent artist and Member of the Royal Academy, a commis sion to paint four large pictures, on the same scale as those painted for the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Duke of Slither land is building a room for the express purpose of being adorne d with landscapes by Stanfield. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—Last night the anniver' sary of the Battle of Waterloo was celebrated at these gar; dens by a fete of surpassing splen d o ur. All the walks Werh decorated by flags and banners, many of them covered ictt variegated lamps. One grand military t ro phy which fill ed 1 side of the great square, was said to co ntain 3,500 lamps. were consisted of a crown of immense dimensions , under which lOC, the words, " Victory, Wellington," the who le surrounds flags and banners resplendent with variegated li g hts. o f p e rformances, both is the orchestra and the rotunda, vie“ere, great excellence. and excited great admiration ; but the n aiu . works, and the Fete of Versailles, with which the ell tcrt f e te reents concluded, should be seen to be conceived. laying. reed of Versailles, a long line of fountains, while e e eher water, suddenly commenced shooting up streams of ur e than even Etna or • Vesuvius. The effect was in des eriba The company was numerous and highly respectable. full HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.—Last night .agar dress and fancy ball was given at these rooms by CaPt aal haste shall, the former Master of the Cere monies at Cheltell t ion and at present occupying that situation here at the e ubseriP tir „ balls given under his superintendence. The Ro y al and disifect guished patronage with which he was honoured had the b'Y'b eisee. of collecting a numerous and highly fashionable assellte The fancy dresses were, however, comparatively for. .1 of band, under the direction of Weippert , performed se,,eriitec the most novel and favourite quadrilles, waltzes, ea.) an " ing• ink; was continued with unabated spirit throughout the el'et i t Of The general arrangements for the comfort an d en j oyolell the company could not fail to afford complete satisfaction. the Mr St. John Mildmay (a Tory) has started for Hull representation. THE HON. MRS. NORTON'S NEW WORK, 44 1 : 1 : 0 • WIFE" AND " WOMAN'S REWARD."-The female CP cl ter never appears to greater a dvanta g e than when displai e In those acts of self-devotion which sacrifices all to principle' t he " Woman's Reward" we se e feminine excellence carried t°er. very limits of perfection , witho ut in a sin g le instance °„'ral stepping the modesty of nature ; and in " The Wife" a tfroes inculcated of the highest necessity as society is j ust no coo s tituted. We can recommend these produc tions not ° perusal only, but to the study of all classes. L it THE LATE STEAM-BOAT ACCIDEN-•"- evening Mr. Baker and a Jury met at the Black Horse plw ito e house, Poplar, to inquire how and by what means Till e ry Schlebacher, and Sarah his wife, and John Evans and o r his wife, came by their deaths. The above are the four oi l t i l e tunate persons who lost their lives on Wednesday nighthillthel Whitsun-week, in consequence of the boat in villie'beitig were proceeding up the river from Greenwich to Lona° ll reer upset by the swell of the steamers. The Jury met oa „loft e day morning last, and viewed the body of Thomas S eP f th cher, after which they adjourned, at the suggestion ° w°o4 Coroner, who said it was likely the whole of the bodies, not come under their notice, as the Coroner for Ke nt con' s io hold legal jurisdiction, the parties having lost their liv e te so Middlesex. After a long investigation the Jury, 3to,hter o'clock this morning, returned a verdict o f Mansla°o to against the captains of steamers, whose names are unltu°- the Jurors. „ SHIP LAUNCH AN]) DREADFUL ACClDr''', aa op On Thursday afternoon an immense concours e assenibtieueob the banks of the dry dock near this city, to witness the 'prere of a new schooner. Upwards of one hundred person s of on board the vessel, and about half-past four o'clock sbester, slipped off the stocks and glided majestically into the w Sh e amid the cheers of the large assembly of spectators. fel rolled but very little on entering the dock ; but after 4 . de to seconds those on boards commenced swaying her from e s e l le side, till she turned completely over, and threw the sc" - i the persons on board into the water or dashed them i,°:ea, upon the banks. The rigging and masts were e rcectt!i well as the deck, and when the first shock of terror ha sued sided, a scene of the most heart-rending description eA- so A great number of -omen' end children were on boar"' for the mothers and friends around were shrieking in ag °° loo! their safety. The s p e ctators exerted themselves to the ' to P to rescue the drowning persons, and in about five raieuniber/ many as fifty persons had been taken from the water ; ; ea were able to reach shore by their own exertion. A Y t ° h(' lj girl have been dragged out of the water quite dead,.;,,ea nine o'clock on Friday lio other bodies have been Lincolri Gazette. be ell The story in .circulPtion of a lady haviog attacked by a mad dog, in Regent's Park, who tore he r e 'eer, m m u a s d t be .., ( ‘ lp: i t o e g e i r t i l •e a ne ra c i i , t i s li sol, and endeavoured to bite her, until prevented by a P-oees,' being line, snapping at whatever comes•ie his way, but_ oe yer doe e to make a regular attack, or to fasten on its obj'ec't, el, a s e ta f t a t3 r as relates to the ,ig a• always runs in a st r ", t `ol ,ever pursue a devious muse. A mad dog. if not stoPP f e e killed, will keep ruilniee in a straight line, until be drops exhaustion.—Morning Paper. IPSWICH ELECTION. FRIDAY NIGHT.—At four o' 'clock the poll finally closed, and the numbers were— Morrison 542 \Vason 533 Broke Holmes 435 Of the freemen of the town, 149 voted for Morrison; 148 for Wason ; 163 for Broke; and 160 for Holmes. Mr. MORRISON and his colleague addressed the people from an open space of ground outside. Mr. MORRISON, who was received in the most enthusiastic manner, said that the Blues had no chance in that borough if they fought fairly. After his colleague and himself had ex posed the system of bribery in the House of Commons' Com mittee, they had the option of proceeding to a scrutiny or hav ing another election. They preferred the latter. Their op ponents had used every exertion to bring voters to the poll, and to prevent persons from voting on the Liberal side; but those exertions had been met by corresponding exertions by his friends, aided by the authorities of the town, and had esta blished the purity of election in the borough. He entered cordially into the prosecution of the petition before the Com mittee of the House of Commons. He hoped the House of Commons would award the punishment according to the crimes the persons had been guilty of; but he also hoped that those who had instigated the crimes would not be allowed to escape. They knew that the greatest criminals were those who found the money. The Members who were returned under those circumstances sat five months in the House of Commons, and lent the Tories their assistance at one of the worst periods mentioned in history, and at a time when a dif ference of only four votes would have turned the scale in fa vour of a Tory Government. Had Sir Robert Peel carried his measures only by a majority of two, he would at that mo ment have been in office. He expressed his surprise that the late Members for the town had made their public appearance there. The Hon. Gentleman then stated that his political principles were unchanged. He would support measures cal culated to remove the just complaints of the Dissenters, that would get rid of the abuses of the Irish Church, and be the means of obtaining Poor-laws for Ireland, which he hoped would restore security and peace in that distracted country. Ile concluded by thanking the electors for the support the y had given him. Mr. WASON also thanked the electors for having returned them by such a triumphant majority. His political principles unchanged, except on the ballot. He voted against the ballet, hut he had seen enough in his canvass to convince him that chat measure was essentially necessary to the purity election. A printed address was issued this evening by the successful candidates. On Wednesday the excitement which prevailed in this town was much increased by the arrival of Mr. Kelly. Whilst the nomination was going on, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Dundas were actively canvassing. A crowd lassembled and hooted Mr. Kelly through the streets. In another part of the town a partisan of Mr. Dundas, without any provocation, and in Mr. Dundas's presence, knocked down Cormould, the elector who took the money at the last election from Pilgrim, and pro duced it on the hustings. A party of the townsmen formed themselves in a body to parade the town all night to watch bribers should they appear. The proprietor of the gas works voluntarily lit up the town during the contest, in order to ex pose deeds of darkness. DUBLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. The Carlow Election, to which the eyes of the whole kingdom are now turned, has begun auspiciously for the cause of the people. The Reforming candidates are in a majority of seven on the first day's polling. The advantage is appa rently small ; but against the intimidation and bribery which prevails, it is surprising that the balance should not be on the other side. The Conservatives are sadly chopfallen. They know that to-morrow must give them the coup de grace. Three of Mr. Bruen's tenants, who came up to poll for him ; being required to take THE BRIBERY OATH, slunk away CON SCIENCE-STRICKEN, AND REFUSED TO VOTE. This circum stance has excited a great sensation. Troops of Orangemen marshalled by their officers, some of whom are magistrates, have come in from Wexford and the Queen's County, and en gaged in occasional contests with the populace. They are well armed, and used their arms on one occasion, which had liked to prove fatal. A ball from one of their pistols grazed the forehead of a countryman, and another person was wounded. The authors of these outrages have not been taken into custody; but the arrangements of the stipendiary magistrates, appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to protect the peace of the town, have no doubt prevented a great deal of bloodshed, and inspired all the inhabitants with an unwonted confidence in those authorities. I understand that Sir John Harvey, the Provincial Inspector of Police, has acquired the honourable title of a Radicul, by resolutely refusing to fire on the mob, though urgently solicited to do so. You may de pend on it that the cause is quite safe here, and that your worthy High Sheriff will write M.P. to his name by this day week. CLOSE OF THE POLL-FIRST DAY. For Vigors Raphael 214 Bruen Kavanagh 207 Majority over the Tories ... 7 WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. s in ,—We observe in your paper of 13th inst., that you quote the Stock of this Bank at 301. per share, selling price. As this is a mistake we think it right to acquaint you, that the present price is 33/. per share, and that a quautity uas trati,fered to-day at this latter rate.* - I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, Glasgow, June 10, 1535. JOHN BUCHANNAN, SEC. We copied the erroneous price . from " Wettenhall', Course of Exchange and List of the Prices of Companies." THE BRANDED OF IPSWICH AN INTENDED CANDIDATE FOR SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE.—Robert Adam Dundas convicted of bribery and corruption at Ipswich, is to be brought forward by the Tories, at the next general election, to oppose Henry Handley for South Lincolnshire. Such is the utter shamelessness of this wretched, reckless, but, thank God,. ruined faction, that while this man is yet reeking with Ihe infamy a Commiitee of the House of Commons has heaped upon his head, he is talked about as the fittest man to turn cu: Henry Handley, the William Tell (as he deserves to be called) of his native county I—Lincoln Gazette. kink ner Cent. Red a nrr Cent Cons 3 ,,S per Cent ited New 3 per Cei ppr Cent. 1‘ ) 1 flank I,ntwAnnt illan, %Pet. 10.;1850. Jan. r;, Jan. 5, IMO. April 5, Isso. Jan. 5. 1870. P itl CES OF F Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds. 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