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RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) GROUP No. I.—NORTHERN COUNTIES Evidence tal:en in favour of the promoters. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTEE, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE.—Case closed, but decision deferred till to-mor row. GROUP No. 3.— MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MAT -IOCK, AND MIDLANDS JUNCTION.—OppOSitiOtt of the Manchester, Shefficild, and Lincolnshire Company fur ther considered. GROUP 1 4 q . 0. S.—NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL.—The Committee passed this company's Bill for purchasing the Monmouthshire canals, and partly agreed to the clauses. GROUP No. 7.—RoYsToN AND lIITCIIIN EXITS sioN.-02position of t'.2e Eastern Counties further COW. sidered. GROUP No. S.—SOUTH-WESTERN (TAW VALE PURCHASE).—Opposition of the Bristol and Exeter Com pany further considered. GROUP N. 10. CALEDONIAN, LANCASTER AND CARLISLE, AND --LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.— Yarther evidence in- favour of promoters. GROUP No. 11.—MONKLIND AND KIRKINTILLOCH, 3ALLOCHNEY, AND SLAMANNAN...-- Preamble proved, Jlauses agreed to, and Bill ordered - to be reported. EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE. Preamble; 'proved, clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be reported. GROUP No. 12.—CALEDONIAN BRANCH ACROSS THE CLYDE AND GLASGOW STATION .—Clauses further con sidered. ELECTION COMMITTEE. DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' votes was resumed yesterday. Three votes were attached by the petitioners, but they were only successful in one case. In the other two the Committee decided that the votes were good. In the course of the inquiry Mr. Sergeant MURPHY applied for the committal of Mr. Crump, a late col lector of Dublin, on the ground that he had prevari cate&in his evidence. The Committee, after considering the point at some length, deferred their decision till to-morrow. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PREROGATIVE COURT, June 8. (Before Sir H. JENNER FUST.) JOSEPH BAILEY HAINES.—JUDGMENT. This cause has been before the Court for some time, and judgment was delivered to-day. The suit concerns the validity of the will of Mr. Joseph Bailey Haines, being promoted by his son. The property consists of a large portion of Clare-market and other freeholds, and is estimated at 3,0001. to 4,0001. per annum. In the year 1808 Mr. Haines had a flow of blood to the head, from which period he was liable to have attacks, at particular to periods, of aberration of mind, and gave himself up t _ Wan society of females of light character, cohabitingtl them h them; and at one period attempted to introduce tine kis wife's society, who, in consequence, was compelled elle t d o to separate herself from him. He took up his h residence he would at various places. At times, while at church, walk up and.down in his pew with . much excitement, t and hold up his stick, threatening his son,. &c.. Many other acts of aberration were recorded against him—one . was, that upon the death of his mother he hired carriage, said to be one of the state-carriages of the late Marquis of Wellesley, with four horses ; had them decorated, and engaged four livery servants, who were clothed in new liveries with broad silver lace, and thus followed her to the grave. He at last became infatuated with a female Bal. named B l. Higgins, who exercised great influence ove r him, and induced him to make a will in her favour, to the prejudice of the widow and only son. The QUirs - EN'S ADVOCATE said he appeared on the part of the son, to set aside the will, it having bee n ma d e while his father . was suffering from mental aberration. At the time of his death Mr. Haines was not lin a state of mind to manage his affairs, and in 1842, when the will was made, he was decidedly of unsound mind. The Learned JUDGE, wh en th e case came on f i rst, said it was a very lung will, and so great a number of documents were connected with it, that it would occupy the whole vaeation if proceeded with. He wished to kaow what proof there was of insanity. Tee QUEEN'S ADVOCATE said his own solicitor con sidered he was not in a sound state of mind when the will was executed. and many other persons would also prove this fact. The fortune at stake . , to which the son wished to establish his right, was considerable. In 1841 he separated from his wife, to whom at that time he allowed 3001. a year. The case was adjourned for a week, and came on for further hearing on the 6th of May. Dr. R. PIIILLIMORE reed the ♦arious exLibits. Dr. JENNEI, then addressed the Court at considerable length on the evidence produced, and argued against the insanity of the testator. The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE, on the part of the son, said that it appeared to him that this Eliza Higgins was a Lola Montei; for it was evident she had exercised a regal authority over the mind of the testator, to the prejudice of his only child, whom he disinherited. He could not help thinking the evidence of seine of the witnesses was not very conclusive relative to the sanity of Mr. Haines, such as Robinson, Lawrence, Golettley, and Barker, who deposed that he was a man of sound mind; but he (the Learned Advocate) would endeavour to prove that that gentleman was not of sound mind when he executed these testamentary docu ments, and bequeathing the bulk of his property to the female ElizA Higgins; that he had often suf fered under mental delusions, particularly towards his son, in 1842, when he executed his will. Ile had ex pressed a belief that his son was devising to take away his life, and many other acts of peculiarity, of which a sane man would never be guilty. The Learned Advocate dwelt at considerable length upon the various acts, and concluded by calling upon the Court to pronounce against the validity of the will, and the codicils which have been propounded. Dr. R. PHILLIMORE followed on the same side, and exhibited various facts intended to prove the insanity of the testator. He instanced not only the act of disin heriting his son, but also of charging his son's wife with infidelity; that the grandchildren were the offspring of an illicit connexion with a gentleman of the name of Heathcote, and who was on terms of intimacy with the husband, for which his son had brought an action, but it was abandoned on the testator retracting it. Dr. ADDANS said he was sorry to be called upon to make any 'reply, for the sake of Mrs. Haines. He con tended that the testator was not only a sane man, but a shrewd man, and an industrious man, realising from that industry a fortune of from 3,0001. to 4,000/ a year. The only question be thought the Court was left to decide was, is the will valid or not; not whether Mr. Haines was a moral man or not, from the habits he had been represented to have indulged in; or whether he had acted with due kindness or not towards his son. In Mary Jones, who gave a false address, was placed at the bar, on the charge of stealing 66 yards of silk, valued at 71. 16s. Mr. Silvanus White, an assistant in the service of Messrs. Hitchcock and Co., of St. Paul's Churchyard, said that on Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, the prisoner entered his employer's shop, for the purpose of purchasing a few trifling articles. He was serving her, and had occasion to go to the other end of the shop for some calico. When he re turned he saw her returning from where some silks were placed towards the spot he had left her at, and ap peared to be wrapping something under her cloak. He looked into her face, and immediately suspected that something was wrong, when he informed the shopwalker, and told him to keep a look out. She finished her pur chases, and was watched by witness and the shopman. Upon getting near the door he observed her let the silk fall from under her cloak. At that time she had gone nearly the length of the shop. A constable was called, when the prisoner denied all knowledge of the silk, and said that it was a friend of hers that did it, who hap pened to be with her. In defence the prisoner denied all knowledge of the silk. Alderman GIBBS committed her for trial. A number of pickpockets were brought up for fol lowing their usual avocations in St. Paul's Church yard yesterday afternoon, during the procession of the various parocial schools of London to the cathedral, when one was committed to Newgate, others for two and three months' each, and several remanded. MAR YLEBONE. Mr. Edward IVl•Dermot, a respectable looking man about 50 years of age, and who was stated to be a master cutler in an extensive way of business at Sheffield, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having presented a pistol, loaded with powder and ball, at a passenger in a railway car riage, in consequence of the latter having expressed an opinion a 4 to the justice of the sentence passed upon Mitchel, the late proprietor of the United Irishman. Mr. Barker, Superintendent of the London and North western Railway .Company's Police, was in attendance to watch the case, and during the inquiry the court was much crowded. Mr. Boyd, of Paisley, on being sworn, said, " Yester day afternoon, at a quarter to four, I got into a second class carriage at Leicester, at which time the prisoner was seated therein; he seemed to be excited, and on our progressing along he put many questions to me in such a way, that I did not feel disposed to answer them. Oa our arrival at Rugby he alighted, and having shortly afterwards resumed his seat, he asked me to take some thing from a bottle which he had in his hand, but not feeling disposed to do so, I, in order to pacify him, told him that if I must take anything with him I should prefer a cup of tea at the next sta tion. He began reading a newspaper, and asked me what I thought of Mitchel ? to which I replied some what sternly, " I think but very little of him ; and we are well quit of his company." Upon this he remarked, that he (Mitchel) would not be long abroad, for France and America would interfere and get him his liberty. He then pulled out his pistol and asked me if I was a gentleman, at the same time holding it up to my face ; I observed that it was half-cocked. An elderly gentle man, who like me was much terrified, laid hold of it, after some difficulty, and put it under the seat, but the prisoner speedily regained possession of it. Mr. LONG—Are you certain that after you expressed your opinion as to Mitchel, that the prisoner put the pistol towards your face ? Complainant—l am quite sure of it, the muzzle was not far from me. I saw that it had not a percussion cap on it, and I said to the pri soner, when he got hold of it a second time, "Is it loaded ?" To which he made answer, " Yes, with powder and ball, but that old fellow has taken the cap off." I asked him what he meant to do with the pistol, and he said he carried it for his own protection. Other evidence was gone into, stating that the com plainant and the rest of the passengers in the carriage, were very much alarmed, and that the prisoner was given into custody at the Blisworth station, from whence he was brought up to the terminus, Euston-square,when he was sent by Mr. Barker, the company's superin tendent, to the police-station of the S division. Mr. Barker produced the pistol, which was a single barrelled one. He was directed to ascertain whether it was loaded or not, and he left the Court to satisfy him self as to the fact; on his return he produced the charge, which he had extracted, viz., a quantity of pow der and a bullet. 1842 he made a will, bequeathing an annuity of 751. a year to Eliza Higgins, and a small legacy to another female. The female Eliza Higgins cohabited with him, and had been a kind and good nurse to him during the period of a long sickness, which had in a degree in jured her own health. She was also a good house keeper. With the legacy he also gave her a life in terest in Gordon Lodge, where the testator resided, with the furniture. Some time after this, in conse quence . of his son's conduct, which caused his father much pain, a codicil was made, wherein he be queathed the bulk of his property to Eliza Higgins, and another female—in fact, all but disinheriting the whole of his legal descendants. The son asserted his father had been insane ever since 1812, and incapable of con ductiag-his business e.ff.irs ; at the same time he admits that between the years 1828 and 1838 he had improved his estate from 3,0001. to 4,0001. a year. It was impos sible for the Court to believe this was the act of an in sane mind. Mr. Lawrence, the eminent surgeon, had been examined, who had decided upon the sanity of Mr. Haines. A good many other persons deposed to the same effect. It was true he had been confined in a lunatic asylum, but it was of a short duration, and caused by a flow of blood to the head. He felt on this occasion he had been very harshly treated. In March, 1844, to show that Mrs. Bailey Haines had not forfeited the respect of the testator, which he had once enter tained from her -,_supposed familiarity with M r. Heathcote, he made another codicil, and after giving a lie interest only to the two females above referred to, he bequeathed the bulk of his property to bis grand-children. I t had been urged the testator was suffering under a delu sion when he said his grand - children were not his son's, and that it was an act of insanity, but when it is remem bered that Mr. Heathcote was frequently at Mrs. Haines's, and that they had the use of Mr. Heatheote's g carriae., that he made her many valuable prese n t s, and settled upon her an annuity of 2351. ts year, it might be natural for the testator to have suspected that which had been whispered to him by others. He (Dr. Addams) would say, he did not think any imputation could be placed on the character of Mrs. J. B. Haines. It ap peared Mr. Heathcote had been separated from his wife_ by a divorce which the Court was fully aware of, and that his children were often left under the care of Mrs. J. B. Haines. It was, therefore. nothing extraordinary that some act of liberality might have been shown to wards Mrs. Haines by Mr. Heathcote, who was a man of considerable wealth. Ile (Dr. Addams) had read the whole of the correspondence, which was very voluminous, and it proved he was a man of sound mind, and shrewd withal. He would, therefore, call on the Court to con firm the validity of the will and codicils. Dr. JENNER was about to proceed in the cause, when The Learned JUDGE interposed, and said that un doubtedly the testator had once been of unsound mind, caused by a determination of blood to the head, but that was no confirmed insanity. The Court would admit that no small degree of ingenuity, with considerable industry, had been displayed by those who had endeavoured to prove the testator was of unsound mind, by creating evi dence. There was no doubt but the testator was a man of considerable wealth and great ostentation. The Court, from the first, was of opinion that the will could not be set aside. If it was the wish of the counsel that it should go through the evidence—(the counsel thought it was not necessary)—then the Court would at once decide the question. There was no doubt of the due ex ecution of the will, but the question was, whether the testator was insane at the time of its execution. The kind care and undeviating attention of Eliza Higgins: towards him at the period of his illness would have its effect on a mind like the testator's, and it was, there fore, natural to think she would have considerable influ ence over him. The Court felt it its duty to mention one thing. There was no ground for the imputation placed upon the conduct of Mrs. J. B. Haines, it thought; as it had been said, she was a model of virtue. Mr. • Heathcote is a singular man, and thinks prosier to make some presents to Mrs. J. B. Haines fot 4 the attention 'which had been shown by her towarderhis children, two of whom were under her care while he was in France., There could be no do u bt that the will was valid, and that the late Mr. J. B. Haines was a capable testator. The executors would receive probate, the costs, boweyer, being paid out of the estate. Mr. LONG (to the prisoner)—This is a very serious matter alleged against you; what have you to say? Prisoner— had no knowledge whatever of the pistol being loaded. A gentleman gave it to me to carry it to Deptford for him, and I should have done so had I not been locked up. Complainant here said that at Blisworth the prisoner, when given into castody of the authorities there, alleged that the laws of his country allowed of his carrying arms for his own defence. Mr. LoNo, after remarking upon the various facts adduced in evidence, said that the case was one of a most serious and aggravated nature ; the offence, however, was perpetrated in a part of the country which was out of his (the magistrate's) jurisdiction, and the prisoner would, therefore, be sent into Warwickshire, where the investigation would, of course, be fully gone into. The prisoner was then removed from the bar, and shortly afterwards he and the witnesses left London by railway, the complainant, who had so narrowly escaped, being resolved upon following up the case. WAVENEY VALLEY RAILWAY. An adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the above company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of hearing the result of the negotiations with the Norfolk Company; Mr. Emanuel Cooper in the chair. ff T" CHAIRMAN said he regretted to intimate that the directors had not been able to get any satisfactory o , r from the Norfolk Company, and then called upon Mr. Wilkinson, the solicitor, to state the position in which they stood. Mr. Wn.x.riasow said an agreement was made by the original Waveney Valley proprietors, on the 21st Octo ber, 1846, maki ng and provi p d p i l n i c a overti tha t theirt the e linepr proprietors i the e tor a shou l dNorfolk Com pany,eub rprese i li N i t t i d bc " )e scrihe to the a t t o h e hive Norfolk them eopmade to Parliament by applicatio n r n f g olk 4oa C ., om aa pa p n y aid agr u e p ein on g shares on which only 303. agreeing to give, on the Act being b een obtained, paid a u up, guaranteed o pe t u e etuity. A clause interest of 5/. per cent. in purpose dof was inserted in the Bill for secur ing that five per cent.; but as the Bilfildoignrgeztsethrough Parliament, the Norfolk Company pass it with that clause, in consequence of t difficult to re solutions passed by the Lords and Commons, fou nd it necessary to withdraw the clause, and the Bill was passed without it. It had also been agreed that the Norfolk Company should give the Waveney Valley proprietors a bonus of ss. per share as soon as the Act was passed, but up to the present time they had not received it. In consequence of those cir cumstances, the directors were not in a position to carry out the agreement, and they now claimed to have paid to the proprietors 21. per share, and also th bonus of ss. by the Northern Company. Since the last meeting negotiations had taken place with the 'view of coming to some settlement, but instead of the Norfolk Company offering to pay 2/. per share, or even the 30s. which they had paid up, they only offered to give ss. per share, and said they would net object to pay 10s. in addition to the ss. The directors, how ever, considered that perfectly inadequate to what the shareholders were entitled to receive. In consequence .of the unsatisfactory result of this negotiation two of .the largest proprietors had commenced actions against the Norfolk Company for the 21. per share, which were now pending, and would be tried at the next Surrey assises, which took place early in July. If those actions succeeded, as they were advised they would by an emi nent barrister, who had gone through the whole case, the proprietors would be all in a position to demand the payment of the 21., or at least the 30s. paid up. Mr. LEIGH wished to know whether the proprietors would be placed in a different position than they were before in consequence of the Norfolk Company having amalgamated with the Eastern Counties Company. The CHAIRMAN said the only difference would be that they would have to deal with two parties who no doubt would use their combined strength to defeat them if possible. _ _ _ A BEIABEBOLDZB thought it would be best to pass a MARYLEBONE COUNTY COURT, June 8. (Before Amos, Esq.) RANSOM V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Pelham appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Justins, from the firm of Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, for the company. The plaintiff's case was, that he was a farmer, occu pyin 100 acres of land by the side of the railway, near the Acton cutting, and that on the 12th of March one of his lambs had gone through the fence on to the line, and was killed by a train passing over it, and that the acci dent occurred through the negligence of the company in not maintaining the fence. The value of the lamb was 11. Bs. Mr. JuniNs, for the company, contended and proved, that the fence was in good condition; that no precaution on the part of the company could prevent young lambs from creeping through it, and that the company's ser vants having observed the plaintiff's lambs straying on the line, had given the plaintiff notice, and warned him to have his flock carefully tended; but that his answer to such advice was, he didn't care if the lambs were kilted, the company must pay for them. The Learned JUDGE asked if the plaintiff employed a shepherd. The plaintiff said a person was sometimes looking after his flock. Mir.,JuKpis said the plaintiff should have hurdled one `fence on his side, and not doing so, he bad not used due caution,. The plaintiff admitted he had not hurdled the fence. The JUDGX said he ought to have done so, and kept a shepherd, and as it appeared he had not done eith om er, he agreed in the doctrine laid down by the c pany's representative, that before the plaintiff could recover, he should have used every proper precaution, and should, therefore, give his verdict for the defendants. resolution strongly condemnatory of the conduct of the Norfolk Company, for he believed no man in his indivi dual capacity would have dared to act in so unprincipled a manner. They said the shares were only worth what they proposed to give to the holders, but the fact was they had been depreciated in the market in consequence of the Norfolk Company not fulfilling their agreement. Mr. BACK said the non-compliance with the agreement amounted to nothing less than an act of bankruptcy. After a short discussion, it was resolved to adjourn the meeting until the result of the actions was known, and the directors w ere authorised to oppose the further progress of the Bill introduced . by the Norfolk company Parliament fo r an extension of the time allowed for the completion of the line. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. - COURT OF ALDERMEN. On Tuesday a Court was held for the dispatch of business. THE DISTURBANCES IN THE METROPOLIS. Alderman WILSON wished to be informed by the Lord Mayor whether the special constables appointed previously to tho 10th of April to act in the event of a disturbance, were authorised to act if any contingency should arise at the present time, as it was understood by many that the power would in a few days be at an end. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Patrick Turner, a porter, in the employment of Messrs. Bennet and Brown, of Cannon-street, tea-dealers, was charged with having embezzled the sum of 201. 11s., the property of the firm. Mr. H. Burt, a clerk in the house, stated that the pri soner had been sent with:goods to the house of a customer, who paid upon delivery the amount above stated. The prisoner absconded with the money, and was followed to Bristol, where he was apprehended. The prisoner admitted that he had received the money, and never accounted for it, and that there was no doubt at all that he was a defaulter. Committed for trial. GUILDHALL. Sir PETER LAURIE begged to say a few words. He considered the Chartist proceedings to be a sort of guerilla warfare. They went entirely upon a system of annoyance. They were in this place to-day and in that place to-morrow, and their object was to: derive advantage from harassing society.—(Hear, hear.) He considered that the police were quite able to keep down the guerilla spirit which was in operation. It was very easy for a number of people to mention a day of meeting and call together multitudes, but the police were strong enough to prevent mischief. The LORD MAYOR said that he was watching with anxiety the course of events, and that his brother ma gistrates and his fellow-citizens most cordially joined with him in the feeling that union and co-operation were most necessary under the existing state of things for the protection of the tranquillity of the City.—(Hear, hear.) He had been waited upon by several of the leading men of the ward of Farringdon Without that morning, on the subject of 'the great annoyances to which the eitizans were subjected by the meetings and processions which had so frequently taken place. The deputation stated that the inhabitants were most desirous of rendering the most efficient aid either under the authority of the Police Commissioner, or in any other way which might appear eligible for the purpose of preserving the public peace.—(Hear.) ;It gave him great satisfaction to state that there existed a strong unanimous feeling amongst his fellow-citizens on the subject, and he had every reliance upon them. The Commissioner of the City Police ' who urged the necessity of employing special constables, had embodied his views upon the subject in a report which would probably give satisfaction to the court, and the regulations recom mended in which could be carried out without difficulty. —(Hear, hear.) He had the utmost reliance upon the conduct of his tellow•citizens.—(Cheers.) Alderman COPELAND said the Lord Mayor might de pend upon the zealous co-operation of his brother ma gistrates. Some conversation took place, we understand, upon the exclusion of strangers, on the subject of the ex penses incurred by the preparations for meeting the emergency of the 10th of April, and the Court was counted out before the most important business fur the day was entered upon. FASHIONS FOR JUNE. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) _ _ Materials of slight texture are now much in demand. Mousselines de suie of every colour, baregere, pulley riennes, and a new material partaking of the poil de chevre, with jaconots and organdys in Persian patterns; silk dresses of fancy stripes of the palest colours are made with three fininces en biais, the upper one rounded off, rises gradually, diminishing to the waist, and is continued on the cor sage, forming double revere.. For demi toilette, the form of the corsage varies but little, they are ge::erally open with revers or chile, the sleeve moderately wide, particularly at the bottom, drooping on the arm, or admitting the under sleeve of clear muslin ; the skirts with very deep flounces. It is only when required for carriage wear or dejeuners that the dresses are ornamented by coquilles, ruches, &c. ; if ribbon, all are made of a length to give freedom to the feet ; barege dresses are ornamented with deep biais 'lounges, edged with small gimp, or tucks of graduated size to the waist. Redingotes are still made A la Puritaine, ornamented by gimp trimmings ; dresses of thin materials have the corsages made full ; many redingotes are made with corsages a la Dubarry. The bonnets of this season are of moderate size, demievat6o., close at the ears, with ruund crowns ; very pretty ones are made of paille de riz, with the capote crown of taf fetas glace, and some are trimmed with ruches of taffetas, so delicately pinked as to imitate moss, in pink, white, or blue, encircling the edge bavolet ; it also forms trim mings on the crown. The ribbons used this season are very rich ; pretty open straws are with bands of taffetas or gauze, and straw alternately, lined with taffetas or gloat and noaud, with large pink rose at the side. Many of the capotes of tulle bouillonni, or rich blond, are simply trimmed with ribbon, and merely ornamented inside by bunches of delicate flowers ; sometimes a lace lappet forms the trimming. Capotes of crape, gauze, or linon, are, with voilettes of the same, pink, blue, or white, confined by a wreath of ribbon toques . The mantelets and pardessus are made of taffetas glace of every colour, of figured tulle, trimmed with lace or frills of the same, pinked or em broidered, they are also made of embroidered muslin ; black lace shawls, both single and double, continue in fashion ; and many mantelets are made matching the dress. THE SUN,_ LONDON, FRIDAY, EVENING-, J UNE 9, 1848. IMPERIAL PA RL MLNT. N HOUSE OF LORDS, June S . Their Lordships assembled at the usual hour. EDUCATION. A NonLE LORD presented a petition against the na tional sy-stom of education in Ireland. NA VIGATION-L A WS. The Earl of HARDWICKE presented petitions from South Shields and Leeds, against any alteration of these laws. ECCLESIASTICAL DISTRICTS (IRELAND). Earl FORTESCIJE laid a Bill on the table for alkur ing the ecclesiastical districts in Ireland. He said the Bill was introduced for the purpose of obviating the in convenience to which many districts were put in conse quence of the parish church being many miles distant. The Bill was read a first time. Lord DENMAN presented a petition from the Mauritius respecting the late measures of the Govern ment with regard to sugar. SALE OF BEER BILL. The Earl of lIARROWBY moved the second read ing of the Sale of Beer Bill. lord MONTEAGLE supported the Bill. He thought it would be most unjust to prohibit altogether the sale of beer or spirits on Sunday, but he thought it advisable to extend the law prohibiting the sale of beer and spirits on Sunday Wore one o'clock in the day, in London and Liverpool, to the kingdom generally. He would suggest that the Bill should repeal the penalties imposed on persons selling liquors during the time of divine service, and fixing one o ' c l oc k as th e h our throughout the kingdom, before which it should not be lawful to sell beer and spirits. Lord BROUGHAII supported the Bill. He consi dered the Sabbath was now much better observed than it had been thirty years ago ; but be besought their Lordships not to overdo legislation with 'regard to the observance of the Sabbath. Lord CAMPBELL supported the Bill. Lord KINNAIRD hoped that the provisions of the Bill would be extended to Scotland. After a few words from Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Bill was read a scond time. SOCIALISM.—ENGLISII CAPITAL INVESTED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Lord BROUGHAM, on presenting a petition from Robert Owen, on whom he passed a high eulogium, on the subject of socialism, asked if the Noble Marquis opposite could inform him of the amount of English capital invested in foreign securities? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he could give no information on the subject. The Government had no right to interfere with private investments of capital, nor had they any means of knowing the manner in which private capital was invested. LUNACY LAWS. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the members of the Alleged Lunatics' Friends Society, complaining that under the existing law any per son might be incarcerated as a lunatic on the certificate of two apothecaries merely, and that the inspec tion of the magistrates and the Commissioners of Lunacy was not sufficient—that the duties of chaplains in lunatic asylums were very inefficiently performed, and praying for a Committee to inquire into the law of lunacy. Also a similar petition from a public meeting held in London. GREAT • YARMOUTH DISFRANCHISEMENT. The Earl of DEVON rose to move the order of the day for the Rouse going into Committee on the Great Yarmouth Disfranchisement Bill. The Earl of REDESDALE remarked that there was no petition from Yarmouth against the Bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought that the Bill was expedient, and believed the general opinion to be that there was no hardship in it. The Bill then passed through Committee, and the report was brought up. PETTY BAG OFFICE BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that he should to-morrow move that the House at its rising adjourn until Thursday next. The House the❑ adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 8. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. Mr. MACKINNON moved, pursuant to notice, that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail. way (Abandonment of the: Railway and Dissolution of the Company) Bill, to entertain the petition of Richard Mosse, which was: presented on Tuesday last, against the Bill, although the same was not presented within the time allowed by the standing order. After some discussion, in which Mr. Greene, Mr. Bro therton, Mr. Wilson Patten, and other Members, took part, the motion was withdrawn. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, JUNE 6.—There is still a tolerably fair inquiry for cloth suitable for India and China; but the demand which previously existed for the home trade has declined; and the market has been on the whole quite as flat and depressed as at any period during the last month. The yarn trade is also much depressed, as, in ad dition to the absence of the usual German demand, the unfavourable rate of exchange with St. Petersburgh, and the prohibition of the export of Russian gold and silver coin, have tended to check purchases for Russian account. We regret to learn that the com mercial advices from Germany continue unfavourable; and it is to be feared that some time must neces sarily elapse before confidence is so fur restored as to cause an active resumption of business with that country. The prices of yarn are consequently still rather drooping ; though the decline, of late, has been to a very small extent. Meantime, the low price of yarn is not an unmixed evil, as it is giving work to the hand-loom weavers in all parts of the coun try, who are now, we believe, very generally in full employment, and consequently in a better condition than they have been in for some time previously. The accounts of the produce of the last crop of cotton in the United States continue favourable. There seems to be now very little doubt that the entire crop will not fall short of 2,300,000 bales ; and, though some small portion of it may be kept back, there is now no question of a supply quite equal to the demand. The growing crop is also very favourably spoken of. We understand that commercial letters recently received from Brasil, speak in terms of strong censure of the conduct of Lord Howden (who, as most of our readers are aware, was authorised to negotiate for a settlement of our disputes with that country) towards the Brazilian authorities. His deportment throughout the negotiations is com plained of as harsh and overbearing in the highest degree; and it is even stated, on what we believe to be good authority, that he declared that unless the Brazilian Government consented at once to sign a commercial treaty, and a treaty for suppressing the slave trade, he would go and make special treaties with the authorities in the different provinces. What amount of provocation and annoyance his Lordship may have been previously sub jected to by the procrastination and chicanery of the Brazilian authorities, we know nothing,—having heard but one side of the story; but, if the statement is true, that whilst accredited to the general Government, he threatened to supersede its functions by negotiations with provincial authorities, his Lordship is marvellously unfit to represent British interests in any quarter of the globe; and we need not wonder that he is not now re turning from Brazil without having experienced the slightest success in his mission. ROCHDALE, J U NE s.—We have to-day a rather better demand for flannels than on the preceding Monday, but no improvement in prices We have had again two or three London buyers in the market, but their attention has been principally directed to what may be termed " job lots," or purchases for cash from needy sellers. Wool is much the same as it was in the preceding week, both in demand and price. HUDDERSFIELD, JUNE have had few buyers, and the consequence has been a dull market. Iu the warehouses, and in the home trade, there is a general complaint that money is difficult to be obtained; and, although there is a disposition to buy, few are willing to increase their obligations, without a better prospect of being able to meet their payments. LEEDS, JUNE 6.—We have had a very indifferent market to-day, and altogether the business done since last Tuesday was very trifling. SPORTING EXPLOITS OF A HIGHLANDER. of The Cape Fran T Tim es , February 22 thus al ludes to the sporting exploits of M. Ruallyn Cum ming, second son of Sir William Baronet, of Altyre, wh o a few Gordon ,Cumming, reckoned the foremost sportsm an in the since r h si f ewas Scot land. . " We have been favoured with some north of intelligence relative to the late trip into th enter e interior, of that well known and intrepid sportsm an an d trav eller Mr. R. R. Cumming, formerly of the C.M.R, who is now on his way from Bloemfontein to Col b es erg, after an extremely hazardous and fatiguing expedition of eleven months. In this journey it is said he has penetrated many hundred miles beyond the highest point reached by any white man. He shot forty-three elephants, three of which only were females. Many of the males carried tusks of enormous size, measuring seven feet in length, and sometimes weighing 100 lbs. each. Sixty hippopotami—the finest troops to which they belonged having been singled out for slaughter. Such is the abundance of this game, that with his rifle he might have killed two hundred of them. The rhinoceros, buffalo, cameleopard, eland, gemsbok, roan, antelope, waterbuck, hartebeest, sasaby, black and blue wildebeest, koodoo, pall* zebra, riet bok, kilpspringer, &c., were found by him in such abundance, that he rarely expended his ammunition upon them, except when in want of the flesh, or to get their heads as specimens to grace his collection of sporting trophies, which is described as being now so extensive as almost to require a small ship to send them home. He is said to have discovered an entirely new sort of antelope, unknown not only to science but even to the native tribes living upon the tro pics. It is a very beautiful species ; and, with much time and difficulty, he procured 22 specimens, both male and female. His losses have unfortunately counterba lanced the excellence of his s p ort . H e has lost all his horses (15), all his oxen (30), and all his dogs (20), and his best waggon-driver. His horses were killed either by lions or horse si c k ness, and the fly called txetse. All his oxen were killed by this insect. His dogs were killed some by the, lions, some by the pan ther, crocodile, and by different ki n d s o f game. T he waggon-driver was carried off on a dark and cloudy evening by a monster lion, which Mr. Cumming shot next day.—lnverness Journal. The Courier du Nord announces th a t an i mpor t an t discovery has been made in th e ne i g hb our h oo d o f the Republic. O n the 3d instant the .j o a tagainstu b e u gwhich appears t o b e connected with a Custom-house officers of Maubeuge were informed that arms were being clandestinely manufac tured at the establishment of MM. Pecqueriaux and Co., of Louvroy. An unexpected visit was in con sequence paid to the establishment, which led to the seizure of a considerable number of poignards in an un finished state. Letters likewise were found, from which it is probable a second edition of the attack of the 15th o f M a y was meditated. Those poignards are smaller than the swords worn by the troops of the line, and they were so constructed as to be easily fitted to -a pole. Those weapons were manufactured by MM. Pecqueriaux, or some chosen workmen exclusively. This discovery had created an immense sensation at Maubeuge. HOUSE DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.—It is proposed by Ellerraan that tight cesspools be formed at certain intervals under the public roadways, suffi ciently large to receive the soil from the water closets of as many houses as it may be found expedient to drain to one point. The author recommends the centre of thee meetings of streets in particular, and that one cesspool would thus be sufficient for three or four streets. The soil pipe from the closet in each house is to be continued to, and connected with a larger or main pipe, o f g l aze d ware or glass, laid on, each side of the street, and this is to empty itself into the common cesspool: the joints of all the pipes are, of course, to be sound. The cesspool is to he furnished with an air-tight valve or man-hole, near the surface, for the emptying process, which as often as necessary (in the night or early morn) is to be accomplished by means of the air-tight night-soil cart recently invented and already in use for similar purposes, the suction hose of which being inserted through the aperture referred to, the contents of the cesspool may be abstracted without the slightest inconvenience or annoyance to the in habitants. One adjunct more than is described will, however, be indispensable namely, an exit air-pipe to the cesspool, in order that the foul air may not be forced into the houses by the displacement which must take place every time an addition is made to its more solid contents. The pecuniary value of the contents of the cesspools for agricultural purposes, upon the most moderate estimation, would produce sufficient to repay the original cost in a short time, and would be afterwards applicable to some local purpose— such, for instance : as improvements in the habitations of the poor, or in reduction of some one of the present rates.— The Builder. ; tRIOTOUS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—THE MILI. TARI AND POLICE.—The peace of this city has, to a con siderable extent, been disturbed for the last two evenings by the disorderly and riotous conduct of a number of soldiers bel aiging to the 27th Regiment, at present lying in the barracks here. As far as we can barn, about eight o'clock on Saturday night, two privates of the above corps, who were somewhat the worse of liquor, and ex ceedingly disorderly in King• street, were seized hold of by a couple of policemen, who attempted to convey them to the Police-office. From the interference of a portion of the crowd who had gathered round the policemen, the soldiers were enabled to make their escape, running off to the foot of Saltmarket-street, when they were joined by another party of the same regiment, who bade defiance to the civil authorities. By this time, however, a numerous body of con stables had arrived at the scene of disturbance, headed by Assistant Superintendents Mackay and Cameron, who soon succeeded in dispersing the crowd. Informa tion having been conveyed to the barracks, picquets were promptly sent out, and the stragglers from the regiment secured. Before nine o'clock everything had resumed its usual appearance. Last night a disturbance was also attempted to be created in the same locality, by a con siderable number of soldiers of the same regiment, who endeavoured to get up something in the shape of a row; but information having been given at the Central-office, a numerous detachment of the night force speeedily made their appearance, and easily dispersed the rabble, who had congregated in immense numbers, taking pri soners at the same time 9 or 10 of the soldiers who were most conspicuous. No casualty whatever occurred, ex cept in the case of a constable, who was hit by a stone, by which he has been disabled for duty in the mean time.—North British Daily Mail. The new Imperial insurance-office in the City is now roofed in (having been commenced in June last year), and occupies a piece of ground at the junc tion of Threadneedleree respectively. v e O l y l d. adjoining B Tt r hb o ee a Broad-streets, t oa r i el elevations le t e s fv , act near a v n a d t i o ,s n t i nce. h ; a : Th e eh e ninety dd o keystonesf e o e ft of atthnhede sixty Royal ro e t Exchange, frontage a c n ar d v r e e d p a m r e e re f e ae ; ed th w e ith tw r o or e t l l e a ground-floor windows gr h ot a hn v e e t. c T ar h y e ed ins m ig a n s i k a s of re t p h r e esen all.tocrroesliseevdos: represent, n h e t (I. I. water, imp e r i s a t l re e n o a panel !ength.. one-pair windows _ha . s ee a t, com panyti h ng reu fi g e r h e : an f p y with the upper windows, 8 feet 6 inches by f the shields of Great Britain and Ireland, with their sup porters, and two figures of Plenty bearing the imperial crown.— The Builder. • DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LEEDS. On Sun day mo rning last, the shop and warehouse occupied by Mr. Turpin, upholsterer and cabinet-maker, bout at the b o ttom of Briggate, was discovered, a twelve o'clock, to be on fire. Th e premises had ses had been closed for a considerable time to the tire being observed, M r . T urp i n having priou left sl L ee ds early on Saturday evening, with the in tention of attending the funeral of a deceased relative on the following day. The fire origi nated in the cellar , but in what manner we have not been able to ascertain. It rapidly spread throughout the whole building. A great quantity of valuable fur niture, and also a number of piano -fortes, were consumed or other wise damaged, and rendered useless. The build ing, which appears to be completely gutted, was insured in the Yorkshire Insurance-office; and the stock in trade, furniture, Sic. were, we understand, recently insured in the Leeds and Yorkshire office. FOREIGN SUPERINTENDENCE OF BRITISH ART.— According to our information, which comes from more source; than one, the present esteemed and accom plished Secretary to the Royal Commissioners of Fine Arts proposes to retire from that position ; its duties interfere with his work as a painter, to which, so it is said, Mr. Eastlake desires to devote more time. Glad are we to hear it; for well as he performs his duty as secretary, and useful as he has been, and would be to his country in that capacity, it is far easier to supply efficiently the place of the present secretary to the Commission than of the painter of " Christ Lamenting over Jerusalem." Not so, however, with the rest of the story, which runs thus, that Signor Bezzi, an Italian gentleman, is for a time to act as his deputy, and ultimately to be his sue • cessor!! We know that we are upon ticklish ground: we may by possibility be annoying unnecessarily an indivi dual for whom we have every respect,—at all events it may be said so, hereafter, if the intention be given up; but we feel the matter so strongly, view it so seriously, that we cannot, by waiting for further confirmation of the statement, run the risk of hearing that the ap pointment is settled, and that the objection should have been raised before. There are plenty of English artists or art lovers quite as well fitted for the duty (far better for anything we know); and this being the case we most earnestly and loudly protest against the appointment of a foreigner to this office. If we only remembered what Mr. Eastlake has written we should not believe that he could be any party to the arrange ment. —The Builder. THE WEATHER.—Since our last, we have had some thunder and lightning; both on Saturday and Sun day the elements were at war; and the weather continued gloomy, cool, and exceedingly unsettled, with much rain, till yesterday, when it became fairer, brighter, and warmer. The telegraph reports yesterday morning at seven o'clock were as follow :—Manchester, S.W. by W. very fine ; Liverpool, W. very fine ; Holyhead, W.S.W. gentle breeze ; Leeds, S. by W. fine ; Newcas tle on Tyne, S. cloudy; Berwick-on-Tweed, W. fine.— Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. SPECIE.—The following numerous arrivals of specie in coin and bullion have just taken place:—Tho vessel Horsburgh, arrived in the docks from Coquimbo and Guayaquil, has brought 20 packages of dollars and 10 bars of plata pine, consigned to an individual firm, from the latter place, and from the former 13,052 ingots of copper, consigned to an eminent firm in the metropolis ; the Lady Mary, from Valparaiso, has brought 384 bars of copper, 87 bags of copper grains, and 124 packages of silver ore; the Blue Bell, from Algoa Bay, C a p e of Good Hope, 2 kegs and 2 boxes of specie, consigned to order; the American line of packet-ship Prince . Albert, from New York, seven packages of specie, addreased to six separate firms in the metropolis; the vessel Hamlet, from Sydney, New South Wales, one case of silver, in dividually addressed ; the vessel Tudor, from Calcutta and the Cape of Good Hope, respvely, has brou g ht from the former place 200 boxes of specie, consigned to the East India Company; the vessel Marlborough, from Calcutta and St. Helena, two cases of specie, consigned to order, and also 200 boxes of rupees, for the East India Company ; and the vessel Panope, from Valpa raiso, 779 bars of copper, 45 tons weight of copper " Regulus," and 1,529 packages of silver ore, consigned to different parties. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. BISHOPSGATE STATIoN JUNE 6.—Return o f cattle, g rain, &c., for the Londonmarkets, over the Eastern C ounties Railwa y , for the week en di ng June 3:—Cattle Department: Beasts, 4,293; calves, 114; sheep, 12,482; pigs, 804. Granaries Department: Malt, 3,787 qrs.; wheat, 671 qrs.; barley, 94 qrs.; oats, 273 qrs.; beans, 57 qrs.; total, 4,884 qrs. or 9,768 sacks; flour, 5,384 sacks; seed, 229 sacks: total 15,381 s ac k s . General Merchandise : Meat (dead), 151 tons 1 qr.; poultry (dead), 9 tons 4 cwt.; fish (fresh), 90 tons 1.5 cwt.; fruit an d vegetables, 280 tons 13 cwt.; ale and porter, 212 tons 8 cwt.; wines and spirits, 23 tons 13 cwt.; wool, 23 tons 15 cwt.; general merchandize, 2,521 tons 14 cwt. 2 qrs.: total, 3,383 tons 2 cwt. 3 qrs. Milk, 17,518 quarts. Drcad, 72 cwt. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' Amendments to the Liverpool Docks (Erection of Warehouses and Construction of New Works) Bill were considered and agreed to. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Bristol and Exeter Railway (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glastonbury, and Street). Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castle Cary Branch). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Branch from Melmerby to Northallerton, and Junction with York and Newcastle - - Railway). Sir JAMES GRAHAM felt it his duty before the House proceeded to consider the next Bill, to call its attention to a fact that had taken place yes terday with respect to one of the railway Bills before the House. Printed papers had been distributed to the Members of the House, imputing to Mr. Milnes, the father of Mr. Monckton Milnes, and another gentleman, opposition to the Bill, for the purpose of obtaining compensation for land of theirs over which the railway was to go. He thought such a course was most improper and highly objectionable, and ought to meet with the reprehension of the House. Mr. M. MILNES denied that his father had given any opposition to the Bill, and stated that he had no land over which it was intended to carry the railway. After some discussion, in which Mr. CHRISTOPHER and Lord GALWAY took part, The SPEAKER suggested that the House should lay down a rule, that in future no statement should be cir culated unless signed by a Parliamentary agent. The subject then dropped. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were also read a third time and passed:— London and Blackwall Railway (Improvement and Branches to the St. Katharine's and London Docks). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Hum ber Ferries Improvement at Hull and New Holland, &c.) Midland Great Western 'Railway of Ireland (Deviation Line from Mullingar to Athlone). Plymouth Great Western Dock Act Amendment. REPOR rs. On the question being put for considering the report of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Roscobic, Keltyhead, and Ulencraig Branches, &c.) Bill, Mr. ELLICE proposed the insertion of a clause givine , the company power to indemnify the trustees of turnpike roads from any injury the railway might inflict upon them. Mr. GREENE opposed the insertion of the clause. Mr. ELLICE said the clause had been inserted in all other Scotch Railway Bills; and he was afraid if the House did not consent to its introduction the House of Lords, who always insisted upon the insertion of such a clause, would throw tho Bill out. After a short discussion, the proposed clause was withdrawn, and the report agreed to. The following reports were then considered, and agreed to:— _ Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway (Burnley and Colliery Branches) Bill. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (Re vision of Maximum Tolls and Charges on the Glas- gow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railways) Bill. Londonderry and Coleraine Railway (Deviation of Line and Amendment of Act) Bill. The reports on the following Bills were also consi dered, agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be engrossed : Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway ( Relinquish ment of Line between Omagh and Enniskillen, &c.) Newry and Enniskillen Railway (Amendment of Acts, and to authorise arrangements with other companies). North Staffordshire Railway (Deviation at Killington). North Staffordshire Railway (Ashbourne Branch and approach to Congleton Station). PAISLEY, BARRHEAD, AND lIURLBT RAIL- WAY. On the motion for the further consideration of the report of the Paisley, Barrhead, and Ilurlet Railway Bill, Mr. F. MACKENZIE opposed the further progress of the Bill, and moved that the report be further con sidered that day six months. Mr. R. SPOONER seconded the amendment. Mr. HUME supported the amendment. ---- Mr. BOUVERIE trusted that the House would not be led away by the statement of Hon. Members, but would allow the Bill to proceed. Mr. BANKES supported the amendment. Mr. ELLICE, jun., thought if the House adopted the amendment, and rejected the report of the Committee, it would be guilty of the grossest inconsistency. After some further discussion the House divided, when there appeared— For the'amendment 35 Against it Majority against it —3l The report was then agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed. OPERATION OF THE BANK ACT. The report of the Committee on Banks was brought up and laid upon the table. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the report would be printed. BOARD OF AUDIT. Dr. BU WRING moved for a return, in detail, of the amounts paid in the year endinc, the sth day of January, 1848, out of the Consolidated Fund, or from any other source, for the salaries and allowances of the Chairman and Commissioners of the Board of Audit, and of the sa laries and expenses of the said board, specifying the name and salary of each person, and the amount paid on each description of service (in continuation of Parliamentary Return, No. 438, of Session 1837). Return, showing the latest period to which the accounts of the various departments have been rendered to the Board of Audit, the date of the last accounts audited, the date to which the examinations have taken place; the reasons for delay, if any, in the audit or examination, with any elucidatory remarks explaining the inefficiency of the existing sys tem (in continuation of Parliamentary Return, No. 110, of Session 1843). Minutes of the Board of Audit of the 18th day of January, 1833, 01 the 9th day of April, of the 2d day of March, 1533, or of any ta:nu since J,:mtlary, 1830, by wh •ch public acconn- ants have bocci discharged, or public acc.iunttl pa•sed, without detailed examination and audit. Report of any changes which have been introduced for improving the system of audit, in consequence of the inquiries instituted by the Board in the year 1845 ; and, statement of the measures taken by the Audit Boarot to give cfftct to the 12th, 13th, Mil, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th resolutions of the Committee u:1 Coionial Accounts, dated the 17th day of July, 1845, and which of the Crown colonies have failed to comply with the same.—Agreed to. THE CONDUCT OF THE POLICE IN BISHOP BONNER'S-FIELDS. Mr. G. THOMPSON wished to put, a question to the Right Hon. Baronet, of which he had given him notice. He prayed the attention of the House for one or two moments, in order that he might be enabled distinctly to state the reasons which had induced him to ask the question which he should presently propound to the Right Hon. Baronet. The SPEAKER intimated to the Ilon. Member that he must confine himself entirely to the question which he intended to put. Mr. G. THOMPSON—The nature of the question was this : he had to ask the Right son. Baronet whe ther he was in possession, from any quarter, of information alleging that on Sunday last, the 4th instant, certain outrages had been inflicted by the police upon peaceable, loyal, and well conditioned individuals living in the neighbourhood of the Tower Hamlets.—(Hear, hear, and partial laughter.) He put the question because he held the testimony in his hand of 60 witnesses, all of whom he had reason to believe were respectable persons, folr.o wing decent occu pations —many of them were respectable inhabitants, and shopkeepers in the Tower Hamlets.. Their testimony was consistent and concurrent, and agreed in this, that the most brutal outrages were committed by the police, not only in Bishop Bonner's fields, but even more than a mile from the scene where the Chartist outrages took place; and they stated, that unless the Government instituted a searching inquiry intc. all the facts of the case, and adopt means to prey ent the recurrence of similar outrages for the future, that great dissatisfaction would continue to exist in that neighbourhood. In putting this question to the Right Hon. Baronet, he begged to assure him and the House that he had no sympathy with v'.olent language and disaffection. He simply asked the question, at the re quest of his constituents, who Ilan. placed an amount of evidence in his hands w'aieh deserved 'the serious consideration of the Government, and he was sure the Government would be of his opinion when they were in possession of the facts. He therefore begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether he had any information sustaining that com plaint against the police, or intend( and to adopt any steps to prevent a recurrence of it if proved? Sir G. GREY said the Hon. Gentleman had given him notice of his intention to ask whether any information had been received complaining of alleged attacks made by the police, on last Sunday evening, on individuals in the neighbourhood of the Tower Hamlets and Bethnal green. Now, he was able to bring down to the House some evidence on that subject whichi he could not have brought on a former occasion. He 'would proceed, how ever, to answer the question of the Eon. Member in the first instance. He should say he had received a com plaint of the conduct of the police. In a letter which had been sent to him,' date last Monday, the sth of June, written by an individual named W. Higgins, from the neighbourhood of Victoria park, the writer stated that, in his opinion but one feeling was entertained in the neighbourhood—namely, that the conduct of the police wa, most brutal, and as bar barous as ever beheld. —(Hear, heir.) He had received other communications tie the same effect. He had also received two other letters, one signed James Fox and the other Arthur .Katheer, which con tained a similar statement to that vellich he had already read to the House. That was the substance of the com plaint he had received in reference so the alleged brutal conduct of the police, but it would he an act of injustice to that body if he did not state that he had also received evidence of a. contrary nature. to that which he had just read, and which showed clearly what were the nature of the meetings held in in Vic toria park and other places in the neighbourhood.-- (Cheers.) Meetings of this nature had been held pre viously to last Sunday, which had given rise to great disturbances and to the stoppage of trade in various dis tricts; and information having come to their know. ledge that similar meetings were to be held last Sunday in the neighbourhood of the Tower Hamlets, the Commissioners of Police, under his directions, stationed an additional force in the vicinity of the places of meeting. The instructions given to the police were, that they must be prepared to act immediately, but that they were not to interfere with the meetings so long as they remained orderly, and so long as their pro ceedings were conducted in a peaceable manner. The Commissioners had previously issued a notice that these meetings were illegal if they were continued after dark, and the police had instructions to disperse them if that rule were violated. He now held in his hand the report of the inspector under whose immediate charge the police acted, and from this report it would appear that a meeting of the Irish Confederates took place at three o'clock on Sunday, and a meeting of the Chartists was held at five o'clock 'the same day. In spector Wailer was stationed with a body of men out or the public view, in the St. James's Church district. An inspector who made the report was iu attendance at the different points where the meetings were collected throughout the entire day. Tho inspector stated that at the latter meeting no less than 3,000 persons of all descriptions had assembled, who remained orderly until 25 minutes past seven o'clock, when the meeting broke up, and then between 400 and 500 pro ceeded to the church, and broke nearly all the windows, and when the inspector passed he was received with the shouts and execrations of the snob, many of them pelting him with stones. The people were called upon to disperse quietly, but the intimation was an swered by another shower of stones, and the police were therefore compelled to interfere. One sergeant and seven police-constables were severely injured, and several had been rendered unfit for duty. The inspector stated, in addition, that several per sons who witnessed the proceedings were ready to corroborate the statements in his report. He (Sir G. Grey) had received a letter from a Mr. Houghton, complaining, not of the interference of the police, but showing the great danger which might have resulted from their not interfering earlier, and therefore more effectually. That letter concluded by the writer complaining that the rate-payers of the parish should be subjected to the annoyance, insult, and injury to life and property which these meetings were calculated to bring about. He (Sir George Grey) held in his hand 81 letters from different inhabitants of the dis trict, concurring in the statement with respect to the inconvenience of those meetings, and as to the forbearance with which the police had acted; and he was assured that there was but one opinion on the subject throughout the whole district in which the meeting had been held, and that the police were entitled to the greati.st praise.—(Hear, and cheers.) Several persons had been committed to the Central Cri minal Court for having been parties to the disturbances. He had that very day received a deputation of gentle men from the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green to re quest him to present for them a loyal address to her Majesty, assuring her that they viewed with abhor rence the scenes that had lately taken place in the metropolis, and assuring her of their loyal determina tion to uphold the Crown, the Government, and the law. He had also read a memorial from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Victoria-park, stating the oceurenco that had taken place in the neighbourhood on Sunday last, and expressing their hope that the Government would immediately adopt seine course to suppress such meetings, and thereby remove the alarm and danger that existed. He would only say with respect to the statements which the Hon. Member had made against the police, that the parties making them had the same means of proving their truth as the police had of justifying their conduct.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") A tribunal had been sitting to hear any complaints on either side, but he was not aware that any had been made against the police.—(Hear, hear.) He could assure the Honourable Member that there was no disposition on the part of the Government to interfere with meetings of a legitimate character—(Hear, hear) —but he thought all would admit that the meetings that had lately taken place in the metropolis were anything but of such a description. Tho police had orders from the Government to afford every protection to persona and property, and to put down such illegal and improper meetings, and he was sure from the course they had hitherto adopted, they would not hesitate to do that which the safety to the property and life of her Majesty's subjects imperatively demanded.—(Hear, hear.) NAVIGATION-LAWS—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Sir JOHN WALSH . then resumed the adjourned debate on the navigation-laws. He said he was sur prised that no attempt had be e n m a d e on Friday night to answer the able and convincing speech of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Whiteheven (Mr. Hildyard). He observed that the advocates of free trade had not on this occasion resorted to their usual argu ment—that the interests that would be affect ed by the alteration of the navigation-laws were class interests, and, therefore, that it would be beneficial to the this occasion to abolish them. The argument they used commaon occasion was this, that the measure would not be detri mental to the mercantile marine of the this country. Under this view of the case, the statem ents o Hon. and the Prussian Learned Friend respecting the inereasetontl. rrhehey russ should com mercial marine became very important. of an alteration ofo rti not look merely to the positive effect the navigation-laws. a lt era tion of them were likely to give a relliavne increase to the marine of foreign countries, as compared with their o wn, that House ought not t o consent to m ake such alterations. The Hon. Member for Westbury alluded to the augmentation of , tbeir , commercial ma rine since the passing of Mr. Huskieson s measure, bu theforgot that there was a natural increase of that marine, which was not at all connected with the mea sures of that statesman. He would only refer to the increase which had taken place iu consequence of th e traffic to the east of the ',Cape, to China, Penang, and Singapore.—(hear, hear.) Hon. Gentlemen opposite seemed to him to fritter away the advantage of their commercial marine to the royal navy. Tile evidence of SirJ.Stirling alone was taken before the Committee with respect to this important eitestion. That one person only was examined he considered to be a proof that the subject had received too little consideration. But he had a plan of his own, namely, that they should, main tain a larger naval establishment in time of peace. Ile thought it was too much to be called on to decide on so important a point on the evidence of a single indivi dual, who, i was evideet, had peculiar vieseLrefe specting it. It seer eed to him that the fallacy of Sir d Stirling's evidence vvie clear On the face ot it, for he appeared never to have taken into his consideration the cir cumstance that an emergency might arise for a sudden augments lion ot the navy. Iv here could they find, on a sudd en emergency, some 70,000 or 80,000 persone to man sudden navy? Laud men weuld be merely an impediment. `-flitte mercantile marine meet he their wain reliance in time °_ war. They were a kind f national guards, which leer', free, too, from those objections which existed *Pi c !, such a body in other countries. He had listened 01e . % tively to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentletnaitii, Member for the University of Oxford, which was ee eo vered with more than his usual clearness, and it understood his Right lion. Friend's plan, it was fe rv e a permission to negotiate with foreign powers on terms of reciprocity. He preferred that plan to t_", measure of the Government, which went to the elan total abrogation of the navigation - laws. It seemed 1:0 him to be the height of absurdity to yiel d advantag Jo. Illrefe_e other states without receiving any benefits a uto It seemed to him that the Governmen t could notiati; chosen a worse time for introduci n g a 'sPecu teas measure like the present, whilst the continental s_ for were in such confusion. Was this a p ro p er tin° go them to try such rash and doubtful theories ? would advise them to wait at all events tills he,' 5 " he bad what would be the result of the storm. tl i of foreseen what had since occurred i n the state ee s Europe, ho did not believe the Government this have introduced such a measure. The pronaciterleafeweut measure were altogether mistaken in th eir sang-, i tee , Utopian views, that wars would no longer exisetioo.ea that they were to have a universal peace. He w hite the House to pause before they passed a measure al Pr' would weaken the foundation on which the nav ° macy of England rested.—(Hear.) whic h t he Mr. MACGREGOR considered the results „owe opponents of the resolutions predicted from an elope' in the navigation-laws to be a t variance with a_ see . rience. They believed that if the measure wagweeel tioned by Parliament the inevitable consequeneetai ex' be the ruin of their shipping interest, and the ° vi ola' tinction of their maritime power. He vva 500'3 sceptical with respect to any such consequence weal examined the question on its principles. i n teres t c 'e f gated the facts with regard to the shipping e ivbice other countries; and he could not find a single 0 41, 11 p5 , w ed would lead him to the conclusion with which the t b4 threatened by the opponents of the me asure w ith contrary, he believed the effect of the Bill, couPb7iight the measures of commercial freedom passed by t eee lte th ° Hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel), would belle""„reste;t ports and ducks of the United Kingdom eo b w orld' emporium that ever existed for the produce `lie° elope' —(Hear, hear.) It was said that their 'Derdk:. as rity and naval grandeur were concurrent e w f ir,; w het; caused by the navigation-laws, from the le de; they were passed by that stern ruler to whe a l!. adeo ftec u nied a niche in their palace at Westminster. 1 " a , fi fenit e Y' the concurrence, but he denied the cause. T.ll e t,he fi n so far as prosperity was in question, was .llr and tb nity which existed between the pYv arra ;, 0 c te fertility of the banks of the Nile. Those "'J e ett eig tt i er ' on the dependence of their naval power on .o . e eti tion-laws would discover that their nava l p ow of se that of any other country before the ofe%istelle Alfte°.: laws. Without going so far back as the time ioo e eve; he would mention that a victory bad been Faleel• the the French fleet in the time of Edward L c _ 1 416 i t", English fleet destroying 15 French vessels; fleet , d Duke of Bedford, who eommanded the Englisudestror,. fettled 500 ships in the Channel; in 1415, thelthe I)?tritle the Dutch fleet; again in 1512, they beat via 4 fleet; in 1545 they defeated the F reach flee& b , en it o l, 1653 the Duke of York beat the Dutch fleet , leio 16 , 5 impossible that the navigatien.laws, which pal no 0 041, could have had any effect. Other countries h"1 or e. f! tion- laws at all, and yet they had a great nav al it land bad the greatest difficulties to contend wi",, o ' adelea s . out the aid of navigation- laws she became a l e- fo teges , e f maritime power, whilst Spain, with vast c e ' t he toic e e g iol rived from her West Indian possessions an' oot eale r e o e Mexico, and with a code of maritime ss ber 0 4 0 1. laws of the most stringent character, ha d ' ° ,o6ti r strength. He believed that at the preeent than rid land was considerably stronger as a ne va ' rebe l ' did Spain and Portugal together. Ile should aPP . fie le danger whatever from the repeal of the se lapss j e 1 1 : 03 , not relieve British shipping had ever su ffe e r e t into e ate' quence of relaxation. When the House wee fo rwate f t ee mittee on these resolutions he should bring ol eo° ea tistics in proof of his position. As reeeesen. tee largest ship-building constituency but (311 : 0 0142: 1 4 pire, he should give this measure hie sca ` l eoat u fe ieg most perfect confidence that it m eat'e t etii acceptable to his constituents• ee - aeve eas e out these laws, however, he did P e e eiele a ,os t onis s iry measures would be required. l' he e d. ‘ , O l 0 1 ,1 monstrousstemtootfhinthkethcaoturnitoryvemssuett be 0 18 t i l ; H oe - enter or sail from any port of the e ti ve n niteidli j i l Tli ga s e°:l 7b e i e f r: cept under the superintendence of a custc m ' e sed h i es tifel flo . thought also that all duties on tineh cf , o t he °° -- 0 , the building must be repealed. With respec t ' oe ted flat be trade he thought no harm was to be cs P trad e ' do competition of any vessel in the coasting b do dee od to did fear that in consequence of our i b i g we eld,neei t wine and spirits the opening of that trate ° nt t 1 : 0 - e ftee s a great amount of smuggling. Ile was s tel e 1 6 " afraid of the effect of repeaCupon our na T A ee•ea Mr. WILLIAM MILES had listened eee P a da speaker with very great astonishments tero , ltl i- o e ct; pected very different arguments from the of n otiY the amount of study he had given t ee ct „ o oo l a e t e t`' but he had not heard one single alio o ce a weight in proof of his position that thes e 5 00°00' be repealed. What was the state of the ePr ete d n ort• fore the House? The House had aPPf o - t ie 00 t 0 e l flog mittee of Inquiry; that Committee had le o t he A Committee, however, was now sittiog. Was:Were Lords. It was receiving evidence w as ghat e ce stir e ; cessible to the House of Con:linen s ' fails h tat''" would go far to prove the inadvisability 0 ftl 0 , 0 0 00 5 It would show that Danish ships cost velli x t the u. e doce to build and to work than British ships' t to r . 00. oboe he let the world conceive that they were sot) , ta pe es the wages of British seamen to s c o fed tte r ; With regard to American vessels, h e co that q not so much afraid of comp etit i on .fele;little ale In the time of war, however, there couln.red t o IV3 ik eP t that the mercantile navy would b e reelo e ese ri o a°, its integrity. What would they d° l ev otti 0 l i , gency? The feeling throughout the oherigeeoe universal in favour of the contemplatettfereeer COI represented by the Hon. and Learned a e , it i e es 00 tfi l ton, for, while there were scarcely any P we re, ...jot' for it from the commercial classes, there _ ee o other hand, very many urgent remonstraue from our most important shipging ter ° depots.- o f th e ..nge. Mr. MOODY, after much consideratiesiltero cesbeeotiet ject, had satisfied his mind that sofne se we d tfoll' e .; were necessary in our navigation-la't'he t he • therefore support the original motion - 9 t he ;Oda It was perfectly clear, that whatever No w we 00 0 value of the free-trade principles, Mad e 0° 3 , 1 land under the superintendence of the col lu o telo' Member for Tamworth, these princielesoose Oboe fairly tested without the further chang e o the e 0 0 plated.—(Hear, hear.) As to the effe e , p res eot o o upon our shipping interest, we seeraeneateof gee bo fti at sea on that point, for while one l a eppeeye'eed b as professional men, and therefore, it w°''' -eetionae t ete" a claim to attention for their opns, jo g .o e: change as wholly destructive of the eligl ) old t oe another set of gentlemen, equally professilk ou t fore equally entitled to attention, lean • s 'that the change would do goo: e rather et i t o 6 0 0 0 as dst' for out shipping interest.—(llear, hear.) Tl ie l i 3 l . eels r :ye r subject were equally discrepant in th' rofe ss°l3 o 3o" • and, therefore, it seemed to him, a " n "Peter C ePl ed d t son, very desirable, at all events, to go w ore f ijil o' 4 that the details of the matter Might _ beiog eb cussed—(Hear, bear)—Hon. Gentleeesue„o th es e " 1 at full liberty to give their final decision .yeii sure as it should then be developed to Of te n' ole o yeti re' Sir G. CLERK said that it was c l ul laWs mind that some change in the navigation r , ise be pot; quisite, and he could not, therefor e, suPPone AS en t for. ri ment which was equivalent to a declaratl W oo lle ite o of the House that no change whatever em elt hole Hon. Gentlemen who supported the ateleredificea,reele our navigation-laws as of some venerawe es ;• was oipt. its ute derg ee' came perfect from the hand of arc h eeet , no in point of simple fact, this edifice had te eoe stala i lei' almost from the period of its construettoecor, eT eo • eV! rations and remodellings, which, hl iee re ° d eist', ample room and verge for further anuee;oethe.otee, changes. One thing was manifest, that 07_ r, haa iete le who had, from time to time, revised the e f .' o ; t ee; e tia t upon any distinct or comprehensive platorepaaf_eaott were disfigured by the most glaring oi „ e late° co' contradictions, ell of them more or less ea o , _e_ oote as_ 4l „/ of them eminently so—to impede our pr. 9 ,l, ro speVere s rying nation, and our general commercial! t he t i gether ee peuelf (Hear, hear.) He repudiated alto oe ~ which Hon. Gentlemen expressed o f „ e rttee r ,eoo under a change of the law, of foreign sll'Pes'titetareitte' as regarded their tonnage, with our own , ?",, 00 0 an , trade. Even as it was, with all the restrictived t pediments unaer which our present systole p ee -thl at iol! competed with the foreigner successfully . e v o s P . Ol l the entire tonnage that passed into the Baltt"t o e, W e i; —and our success would of course, to iii9 erere fel'! more complete when these restrictions - e eg i Competent evidence proved that even as toasters 0 , e 0 ling of our ships, the facilities afforded to 11 0 ,,er c e, 1 sell by the late changes in our tariff, and by al th e f ed to obtain provisions out of bond, had ren, e d 0 9 RP' of this item fully thirty per cent., and pia; . e btot oo ll nearly on an equality—practicaly ean e „, 00,1:00 equality—in this respect with the steps 01 ,'";:ith gree o country. The same proposition applied vire o Sled equal force to the construction of vessels ...f bud ship s respect he feared no real competition enve LLi a to t 'R o c ships; and as to American vessels, he den_lc t elee .. „%ef of equal excellence could be built there se e , o ftr b er rate than they could be built here. The tut the ;I, Acr e might, perhaps, be sornethingle ss tkeree ' rig hts " o il was not so good, and the wa g es of shiPw del'eete' far heavier, averaging at New York -10__ . a; pe ad o e - t ee elsewhere Be. 4d., a far higher sum that:l.w. er s eo The wages of the seamen were also hiP oio g 'safe wages of our own merchant seamentiesavre,rbtovedir'elth'oo,, York not less than 60s. a month.—( unless s e es o w w as as odnoentehintog, imhopwroevv,e,r,thcelesayr,steteihatdiere.Tovee_rreoeof, our commercial marine, we s houla r p,,,. 0 much in the back ground, whateve_oeuner.) other rerfe,spect.si---ktilvvoiethot/3iejelet R pe i c ;h iv t e li:n d . vi G -tn e t n ag tl e e s ma in n cations which Mr. h i l t u o r o r k ay oe h e a a d si of our Consuls, ant they w i fe one communications, in whatever light „ l ice girded, the late Government was in fie neee cease e o I n ite t o r e s a t a t t n e w t l : 11 1 ;c Mr. Murray had distinctly stated that,Ln r iviste of Lions he had received wvre the result of cotes' of to s evere , f t he et , addressed by himself personally, L i ge o d t[i his own acquaintance altogethervid irrespae verntuent. Mr. Murray's eence, lo wer ed'