The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-19 00:00:00

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., MR. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, THE KELLYS AND THE O'KELLYS ; Or, LANDLORDS AND TENANTS. A Tale of Irish Life. "A capital work—one of the best novels of the seasen."—Meg ?Anger. " A very amusing and well-written tale. We heartily congratu late Mr. Trollope on the very able manner in which he has portrayed the scenes and characters of Irish Life."—Britannia. "We like this novel better than Mr. Trollope's former one. The true emerald' humour pervades its scenes. Lord and Lady Cashel are a pair of characters whom Miss A u sten would not have dis owned. '—Athenmum. Henry Colbarft, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in post Svo., price 103. 6d., A THREE YEARS' • CRUISE in t he MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL, for the Suppressicn of the By Lieut. BARNARD, R.N. " In this volume there is a good deal of incident, pursuits of slavers, hair-breadth escapes, attacks by savages, interviews with barbarian potentates, and finally the destruction of his own ship."— spectator. " The whole narrative is as interesting as a romance."—Literary Gazette. Slave Trade. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) --------- HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Male. JENNY LIND. The Nobility, Patrons to the Opera, and the Public are respectfully' Informed, that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place MORROW EVENING, when Mdlle. JENNY LIND will appear as AMINA, in Bellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Araina, Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Mdlle. Vera ; Count Rodolphe, Sig. F. Lablache ; Elvin, Sig. Gardeni. To conclude with the grand Ballet re-arranged by M. Perrot, en titled LE ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. C. Grisi ; Phcebas de Chateaupere, M. Louis Dor ; Claude Frolic', M. Gosselin ; Pierre Griegoire, M. Perrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. Doors open at half-past Seven. and commence at Eight o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. radar the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN NUSIIES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool, gar After which the Burlesque of NORMA. Norma, Mr. P. Bedford. To cenclade with DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Matnews. By Special Desire. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Farce, entitled POOR PILLICODDY. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison Pe a hum, Mr. F. Matthews ; Polly, Miss Kath leen Fltzwilliam ; Lucy, Madame Vestris ; Jenny Diver, Miss Jane Coleman. To conclude with BLUE BEARD. Dress bs. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No half-price poxes, &n part of the house. The raw Rox-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess - street , Portland-place. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, Tonio, Mr. Allen ; Salpice, Kr. Weiss ; Corporal M r. Wynn ; Marie, Madame Anna Thillon. After which, PAY ME OR IF YOU DON'T- To con Dresclude with the comic Ballet of UN JOUR DE NOCE. s Circle, ss. : Boxes, Is.; Pit, 2s. ; GallerY, is. /RANCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33, Old Bond-street. THIS EVENING, The Performances will comm ence at Eight o'clock, when Will bo performed LE DOCTEUR ROBIN. After which, HENRIETTE ET CUARLOT. To be followed by LE LAIT D'ANESSE. To conclude with EGAREMENTS D'UNB CANNE ET DIM PARAPLUIE. bs. ; Pit, 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 30. ; Gallery, 2 s loxes, and Sitalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library 63, Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT HOUDIN continues to attract crowded and fashionable audiences at the St. James's Theatre, to witness which his he will extraordinarrepeat y an d original SOIREE:3 FANTASTIQUES, TO-MORROW E VENING and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, commencing at Half-past Eight. In consequence of the great demand for places, he will repeat his MATINEES FANTASTIQUES on FRIDAY MORNLXG, July 21 Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction oiMr. Kerschner. Re-engagement of Mr. T. P. COOKE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, in Eight Tableaux, pourtraying by living characters George Cruikshank's celebrated De signs, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDRENT Hicks and. Edward and Emma Roy (the Drunkard's Children) by Mr. N. . Mrs. R. llonner, supported by this talented company. After which THE PILOT. Long Tom Coffin, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with the new Ballet, entitled LES lONS DE DE BASIL, in Mr. Fle smore, M. Deulin, Wiles. Theodore, and Louise, and a numerous Corps de Ballet from her Majesty's Theatre will appear. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Falrbrother. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Sixth Week of Fitzball's new and co le Fe Unparalleled Equestrian y ats.successful Spectac i s . THIS EVENING, Will be performed, the new brilliant Spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poetical Romance, and entitled MAR )(ION ; or, The Battle of Flodden Field. To be followed by the inimitable EQUESTRIAN and GYMNAS TIC EXERCISES in the ARENA. To conclude with a favourite FARCE. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. XOYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Attraction unprecedented. JULLIEN and his UNRIVALLED BAND. Now Quadrille, composed expressly for the Gardens. Engagement of Miss HUDDART. Continuation of the Engagement of Mdlle. LOYARNY. The DAYLIGHT VIEW of ROME, by Denson. Superb arid Unique MENAGERIE. Grand Dbplay of FIREWORKS, by the Messrs. Southby. No Extra charge. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRI. 'View ef Rome —Promenade Concerts, `focal and Instrumental, conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Solo Per formers includes Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti Collins, Cloftl, Collinet, Kcenig, Lazarus, Richardson, sing two Sonnenber fa g, kc.—Two Solos each Evening. —Mdlle. Lovarny will vourite Songs, Miss Huddart will admired a favourite Song, and with Madlle. Lovarny will execute an Duet.—Also to be seen, during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—The Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display •f Fireworks, ley the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola during the Holy Week at Rome. Gates open at Ten A.m., Feeding Time Fivo—Jullien's Concert at a Quarter past Six—Fireworks at Half-past Nine. Admission, as usual, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless autheati. cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.--Sux OFFICE, JULY 19. TELERMOMETED., Lowest, 56; Highest. 73 ; Noon, 72, 3AnOSI33TER, N.E., cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning... 62 min. after 3 I Evening 11after 4 - • ~ 6 11 ge 1 7 - , • , t o/4 1.y t, 5Z.rt.. 4 4.4. - • Offik,y,ljakk , qr;r7 r 0 , • 444'• - LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1848. ....._ _.... proved that the supposed victim died a natural death, and that it was not occasioned by any act of violence whatever. Innumerable instances of similar careless august demise on the rock of Saint Helena—who among the petty rulers of to-day shall attempt to stem the current of public liberty ? If the giant was ness might be adduced. Some time since, one of the judges called for a grand jury to explain on what grounds they could possibly have found a true bill, but, in consequence of their having been previously discharged, tbey escaped the admonition and censure which their negligence had richly merited. There is, therefore, no adequate protection afforded by the so-called inquiry. A true bill is, per haps, found, and the party, who may not have imagined the possibility of any charge, may be arrested, taken away from the most important business, incarcerated until the trial, or, perhaps, compelled to enter into heavy bail, his residence may be invaded under colour of law, his private papers ransacked and pryed into, a heavy expenditure ren dered necessary, and himself exposed to the stigma of having been placed in the dock to answer a criminal charge—a stigma which can, perhaps, never be wholly removed or eradicated, however clearly his innocence may be established, and although judge and jury may declare that he left the court without the slightest stain upon his character. The fact that he has been placed in the dock, that he has been compelled to answer to an indictment, will not be forgotten, although the circumstances of the case and his com plete and thorough vindication may escape the me mory. We daily read of parties brought before police magistrates, and it being urged by the attendant officers that some time previously they had been tried for felony, a statement which is invariably received as evidence of the bad character of the accused, and sufficient, if accompanied by any suspicious circum stances, to justify a prolonged remand, and that, al though it was at the same time stated that "they had been acquitted," which, of course, is supposed by the keen officials to have been occasioned by some defects in the evidence, and not at all on account of the innocence of the accused. It is absurd to say that no injury is inflicted upon a party by being placed upon his trial. It is be neath the dignity of the Crown to pay costs, and the party by whom the law is put in motion may be a man of straw, unable to satisfy any damages subse quently recovered against him in an action for mali cious prosecution. In fact, such a remedy is seldom resorted to, and cannot be regarded as of any practi cal efficacy in restraining those persons who would prefer unfounded charges for any sinister objects, whether it might be to gratify malice, to extort money, or to obtain some particular advantages, as, for instance, to drive a party out of the way, whose presence might prove inconvenient on a particular occasion. We have it on the authority of the able Under-Sheriff, Mr. DAVID WILLIAMS WIRE, " that the present system is ainzost daily made the medium of private malignity and revenge, or of vexation, and that there are hundreds of persons , who make a livelihood by preferring indictments on false charges, getting the bills found by the grand jury, and afterwards extorting money from the per sons falsely accused upon the terms of abandoning the prosecution." We have ourselves known an in stance where a bill for a misdemeanour was sent for ward, and found against the managing clerk of an eminent solicitor, for the mare purpose of compelling him to be absent from a reference in which his know ledge of the case might frustrate the hopes of the party preferring the indictment, who found that he would obtain undue advantages if his opponent could be kept out of the way; and the deep-laid scheme was only defeated by the solicitor to whom we have alluded discovering, by mere accident, that a warrant was out for the apprehension of his clerk, and imme diately serving notice of bail, so as to have it com pleted before the time when those services were required. It is unnecessary to multiply instances of similar conduct. A talented correspondent, whose letter appeared in The Sun of Friday last, has mentioned two cases of extraordinary hardship. Two persons were convicted at the last session of the " Central Criminal Court," and sentenced to two years' impri sonment for having unlawfully and maliciously con spired together to make a false charge of forgery against three highly respectable gentlemen. And it may be well to add that the sapient and careful grand jury found the bills against those gentle men without even requiring the production of the document alleged to have been forged !! ! Lord BROUGHAM has mentioned the case of a gentleman of large fortune who was tried for murder, because his servant had incautiously left a rope across a road under repair, over which an old woman, returning from market, had fallen and had broken her neck. The want of a public prosecutor, by whom proceed ings should be sanctioned before a trial could take place, might have proved equally inconvenient to Lord Joust RUSSELL as the finding of the bill by the grand jury did to Mr. BLUNDELL, as it is well known that a coroner's jury, in the county of Mayo, who sat upon one of the unfortunate victims of the late Irish famine, returned a verdict of "Wilful mur der" against his Lordship—a verdict on which he might have been arrested even in his place in Parlia ment, carried over to Connaught, and detained in Castlebar Gaol until duly delivered at the assizes in due course of law, if any English magistrate could be found to back the warrant of the Connaught coroner, and on which he might be seized without any further authority, if he had visited Ireland in attendance on his SOVEREIGN, or for any other cause. We take it for granted that this inquisition has been quashed, or if not, a journey to the other side of St. George's Channel may still be productive of conse quences which the Premier could scarcely imagine, and would certainly by no means relish, but which would very speedily lead to the introduction of a better system, in the management of public prosecu tors. It has been said that the " Smithfield-market nuisance" will never be abated until an Alderman is tossed by an infuriated ox. SYDNEY SMITH de clared " that protection would never be afforded to the public on railways until a bishop was burned to death." We trust that we shall not be kept without a public prosecutor until a member of the Cabinet is placed in the dock to answer some trumpery and ridi culous charge, such as that to which we have just alluded. submerged, shall the pigmy hope to cleave asunder the waters of civilization, as MOSES separated the waves of the Red Sea, or as JOSHUA severed those of the River Jordan? In a similar truthfulness it was once written by the Prince DE METTERNICH to the Baron VON BERSTETT—" Le Temps avance au milieu des orages, vouloir arreter son impetuosite, ce serait un vain effort." "The age . advances in the midst of storms, to endeavour to arrest its impetuosity would be a futile effort." Since that truth was first articulated by METTERNICH DE WINNEBOURG, that statesman, in defiance of his own reason, has attempted to stay the impetuosity of the age, and lo ! the power consolidated by his wisdom during half a century has been blown to the winds of Heaven like a handful of corn-husks, and he himself in his old age rendered a fugitive and an exile. Every sentence in the introduction of Mr. MAC GREGOR'S pamphlet enforces this acknowledged omni potence (in a worldly sense, of course), of liberal ideas and of public opinion : and every successive occur rence on the European continent corroborates and verifies that assertio n. Having premised this much, the Honourable Representative of the city of Glasgow considers, first, the " Progress of Civiliza tion," and secondly, the " Epochs of Civilization? , Insisting at the outset, upon the accuracy of that saying of HELYETIUS, " that if the hands of man were formed like the hoofs of the horse, he would have never attained more intelligence than that animal," he traces the progress of civilization from the peculiar construction of the human hand as well as from the powers of reason and speech, from the fabrication of what was absolutely necessary to what was convenient, and ultimately to what was merely luxurious, from living on wild herbs, roots, and fruits, to subsisting on the produce of hunting or fishing, to the attainment of the pastoral and agricultural state, and in the end to " the discovery of the more simple arts, manufactures, and sciences— to the pursuits of navigation, of trade—to learning, intelligence, and to the higher arts and sciences." Nor is the value of the argument restricted to this merely ingenious sequence of facts—the chief merit of it lies in the declaration of the truth, that "there is no greater fallacy than to confound civilization under all governments with civil liberty." In testimony of this fallacy, the writer observes that the ages of the MEDICI, the BORGIAS, and of Louis XIV. were " brilliant epochs of civilization," and yet were times of unmitigated despotism ; that the swineherds and hunters of Germany have been simultaneously free and uncivilized ; that the Hurons, the Iroquois, and the other barbarous tribes of the red Indians have been in like manner possessed, at one and the same time, of civil liberty and profound ignorance ; while the luxurious and more civilized Mexicans have bowed in ignominious obedience under the yoke of an absolute government. So far the argument of the pamphlet is visibly correct, but Mr. MACGREGOR goes futher. He maintains with RAYNAL that "Lespeuples qui ont poli tousles autres ont ete conamercans : the nations who have civilized all the others have been commercial." And having demonstrated the truth of RAYNAL'S remark by the records of universal history, he deduces from the facts already accumulated to gether the opinion, that the commercial character of England and its liberal institutions are circumstances which, combined, are the best calculated to consoli• date the Constitution, to confirm the nationality, and to develop still further the civilization of the United Kingdom. As a basis upon which to erect his arguments in favour of radical and comprehensive reform, therefore, nothing could be more secure and hopeful than this : at present, how ever, we are compelled to defer our remarks upon the urgency of the reforms insisted upon by Mr. MACGREGOR. At another opportunity we shall take occasion to epitomize still further the arguments of his remarkable and intelligent pamphlet. On Thursday last we pointed out the injurious results of the present system, by which every person aggrieved or injured by the criminal acts of another, is not only permitted, but absolutely required, to carry on the proceedings against the accused, and that, if be should neglect, or decline, to discharge the duty so imposed upon him, there is, at least, a great probability that the offender may escape the punish ment due to his crime. At present we trust to chance for the vind ication of the law ; and, as Lord BROUGHAM truly remarked in his great speech on the introduction of his Bill " to consolidate and digest into one statute all the laws of England, as far as I relates to indictable offences, and the p un i s h ment thereof," " no provision whatever is made in our system for any one criminal being brought to trial, any one offence prosecuted, or that may not just as well prove " nugatory a , effectual." Practically we leave our criminal law to execute itself." We, however, then merely alluded to the chances of a failure of justice, and of the impropriety of compelling an innocent party, who perhaps had already sustained losses which he might be ill able to encounter, to undergo considerable expense, annoyance, and inconvenience in carrying on a prosecution which, in accordance with every principle of justice and expediency, should be conducted by a public functionary, appointed and remunerated by the nation. Wealthy criminals are thus enabled to evade punishment. Impunity is too frequently afforded to crimes which strike at the very root of society. Public offences are every day privately compromised, and the most atrocious acts are atoned for by pecuniary compensation to the aggrieved parties. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday They contain letters from M. DROUYN DE LBUYS, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and also from M. MAUGUIN, and from M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, complaining of the statements contained in the published speech of M. LAMARTINE, which they declared misrepresent what Tell from them in the discussion before the Committee, and stating that they are precluded from answering them publicly by the resolution of the Committee that their proceedings should be secret, a resolution of the existence of which they say M. DB LAMARTINE was probably ignorant, as he did not attend the earlier sittings of the Com- mittee. The Moniteur announces the nomination of M. MARIE, President of the National Assembly, to the Ministry of Justice, in the room of M. BETHMONT ; of M. JULES BASTIDE as Minister for Foreign Affairs, vice General BEDEAU, whose recovery from his wound will yet be tedious ; and of M. DE VER NINAC, to the Ministry of Marine, in the room of M. BASTIDE. The candidates for the Presidentship of the Na tional Assembly, vacant by the appointment of M. MARIE to the Ministry of Justice, are either M. ARMAND;,;MARRAST Or M. GARNIER PAGES, on the Republidan interest, and M. DuratraE or M. LA CROSSE, put forward by the Thiers party. In the discussion in the Committee of Finance on PROUDIION'S proposition for confiscating one third of the property of proprietors, a most important admission was made by the chief of the Commu nists, on which it would be well that many in our own country who set up as humanitarians par excellence _should attentively meditate. M. PROUDIION having de\ eloped his celebrated proposi tion that property is theft and ought to be abolished, was replied to by M. TRIERS, and in reply to a ques tion from that gentleman M. PROUDRON admitted that the right to employment guaranteed by the Constitution must cause the destruction of property. " Grant me the right to employment," said M. PROUDHON, " and I will leave you property." We are rejoiced at finding PROUDHON thus bearing his unconscious testimony to the eternal truth of the doctrines of political economy ; once depart from those doctrines—once interfere by law between the employer and the em ployed—once put the State in the position of em ployer-general of labour, and you will be driven on inevitably to communism. It is said that M. DORNES, editor of the National, and one of the Members of the National Assembly, who was wounded while heading an attack upon the barricade on the 23d June, died on Monday from his On a former occasion we announced the appearance of a remarkable pamphlet, called " Sketches of the Progress of Civilization and Public Liberty," and written by the Honourable Representative of Glas gow. We then transcribed into our columns the whole of the introductory portion of this political brochure as well as the closing chapter, treating of the financial condition of Great Britain, and we did so not only because those fragments of the pamphlet were characterised by a peculiar intelligence, but because the reader might thereby obtain a rapid sp. preciation of the tendency of the entire argument. It is with very peculiar pleasure that we resume our comments upon these seventy-two pages by the author of the "Progress of America," since we are solicitous to extend as much as possible a knowledge of the beautiful theory which is there advanced by Mr. MACGREGOR in regard to the progress of public liberty and civilization. wounds. The examination of the insurgents confined in the fort of Ivry, and who are nearly 1,100 in number, has been concluded, and the Military Commission will decide on their fate. It is said that General CAVAIGNAC has given per mission to the proprietors of the Presse and of the other suspended papers to resume the publication of them in a few days. Prince DEMIDOFF has addressed a letter to the editor of La Presse, which has been published in the Reforme, in which he indignantly repels the charge made against him in La Presse, of having come to London, and from thence remitted gold to Paris to instigate the anarchists to the late insurrection. The Prince says he has never, during the last eight months, been absent from San Donato, his estate near Florence, and that he has not been in London at all. lie designates the attack upon his character as a foul calumny and unqualified falsehood. M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has addressed the follow ing letter to the editor of the Constitutionnel : " You state this morning, 'We have seen eleven journals suppressed by an act of authority, and nobody has thought of making it a matter of interpellation ut the tribune.' The object of this letter is not to complain i a l e tnpocre Press e remarkacnh dt h ht it ah s tt, been tenaomrti hat parity maintained journals br e no d aalst establishedw th h e ie t h r i b h u ab n ye e e: but solely t e h n e L s been suppressed, inasmuch as La Pi esse alone had com plied with the provisions of the laws referred to in the Moniteur of the 25th of June. It was sufficient, in order to prevent the other journals from appearing, to apply to them the law respecting security money, and as to La Press e, even admittia g that i ts articles were impru dent, the E xecutive Government wa s armed against them. The Government might have seized the paper ; it was not necessary to suppress it. A seizure would have been legal, the suppression was not. The law per mitted the seizure, but it did not permit the suppression of a journal whichhadcomplierdeqwuiitrheda.ll Thisthe conditions a d ig tainndctgioinvewio i n h all h tltiebehoves guaranteesthe entire press to demonstrate in the full force of its tr" th u. EMILE DE GIRARDIN." Already we have been reminded by the lips of our distinguished pamphleteer of those three celebrated exclamations of the Emperor NAPOLEON—" Ce n'est pas la Coalition qui m'a detrone, ce sont les idees libe rales " I have net been dethroned by the coalition, but by,liberal opinions." " Je ne puis pas me retablir jai ehoque les p eu p les ! " " I can never re-establish myself, for I have abused the rights of the people." " J'ai peche contre les ideas liberales, et je mums r I have sinned against liberal ideas, and I perish." The mightiest conqueror the world ever saw,, either in ancient or modern times, made this acknowledgment as to the irresistible supremacy of liberal ideas. HE spoke thus, of whom the historian ALISON has written emphatically in these words—" Equal to ALEXANDER in military achievement, superior to JUSTINIAN in legal refor mation, sometimes second only to BACON in political saga c ity, he possessed at the same time the inexhaus tible resources of HANNIBAL, and the administrative powers of Cir.sar !" And yet it was this extraordi nary mortal who confessed that he had been dethroned by liberal ideas, that his puissance was beyond the possibility of restoration, because he had abused the rights of the nations, and that, in fine, he perished, because he had sinned against the thoughts of demo cracy. If NAPOLEON could not withstand the tre mendous influence of those liberal ideas—those ideas which have aggregated their strength and increased their velocity almost inappreciably since his There is, however, a still more fatal objection to the system. Incalculable injury may be inflicted upon innocent persons ; their future prospects in life may be blasted ; they may be red uce d f rom comfort and affluence to want and penury, and in volved in, absolute ruin by the vindictive proceedings of some malignant scoundrel. Any person who pleases may prefer a bill of indictment against any other, without the slightest notice or intimation of such an intention. The charge is investigated by the grand jury—if investigation it can be called—behind the back of the accused, without any opportunity whatsoever being afforded to him of repelling the un just accusation, or of explaining circumstances which could easily be cleared up. The hasty and slovenly manner in which grand juries too frequently dispose of their important duties has now, unhappily, become notorious. We have, during the past year, seen par ties placed upon their trial for murder, when the first witness called, a medical practitioner, distinctly THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1848 Another of the persons implicated in the murder of General BREA, and of his Aid-de-Camp Captain MANGIN, has been arrested at Ivry. A notice appears in the Moniteur explaining that Treasury bons, not already converted into Five per Cent. stock may be converted at any time, at the option of the parties, but that as to such as were con verted under the decree of the 7th of July, the holders must apply within one month of the promulgation of the decree to obtain the compensation, being the dif ference in price between 80 and 100 francs. M. Ducoux is said to have been named Prefect of Police, vice M. MOTIVE CIIAUVEL. The committee of the interior has adopted a pro position, made by M. BAUTIER, for the formation in all the towns of France of committees for providing for the poor. This proposition has been drawn up in the shape of a decree, which we give textually : There shall be organized in all the towns of France committees for providing for the poorer classes. These committees shall pgrchase by wholesale such provisions as can be preserved, such as wine, cider, beer, and ve getables, and shall deal them out again by retail at the cost prices, augmented only by enough to cover the charges of warehousing, and the salaries of the persons necessarily employed. The sales shall be made for ready money. The first funds required for laying the stocks for a month shall be advanced by the receiver of taxes for the canton, and shall be. reimbursed by the committee at the end of two months at latest. The Ali • nisters of the interior and Finances are each charged with prescribing such measures within their respective departments as they may find necessary for attaining the end proposed. The theatres of Paris were opened last night for the first time since the insurrection. The following telegraphic dispatch has been re ceived by the Minister of War from the General in command at Lyons :—" The number of arms distri buted or pillaged was 35,404 muskets and 1,160 musketoons. Of these there have been received back 32,854 muskets and 654 musketoons. I hope that we shall accomplish a complete disarmament, or nearly so." It is said that the Duchess of BERRY is in Paris. The Minister of Finances has presented a decree ;o-day, giving the head of the executive . power 15,000 'rants a month as frais de bureau. The Minister of Foreign Affdirs has received from the French Plenipotentiary at Frankfort a note, an nouncing that the Diet of Frankfort has the inten tion of withdrawing Venice from the Italian League and attaching it to the German Confederation. Several Members of the National Assembly intend to address strong interpellations to M. BASTIDE on this point. The Constitutionnel says :—" The story related by the Ere. Nouvelle of pistol-shots having been fired in the Champs-Elysées at the carriage of M. L. AIURAT, penetrating it in two places, is entirely unfounded. It is true that, two or three days after the events of June, the horses of M. L. Mu RAT were frightened by a shot ; but there has not been anything dis covered to warrant a belief that it was fired with an evil intent." General CIIANGARNIER, Commander-in-Chief of the National Guards of the Seine, has addressed the following letter to such of the colonels as had refused, in the name of their legion, the decorations which the Executive power intends according to them : " My dear Colonel,—General Cavaignac, President of the Council, to whom I submitted the observations which, in the name of his colleagues, the Colonel of the 4th Legion addressed to me ou the 6th instant, persists in thinking that it is proper to give the National Guard the decoration which it so well merited in the days of June. If in depriving of all recompense the National Guards who fought for order and society we could tear out this sad and blood•stained page from our history, their patriotic hearts would rejoice ; but this deplorable remembrance being unfortunately indelible, we ought not to separate in the distribution of distinctions of honour to the National Guard, the Guard Mobile, and the army, so united during the combat. The President of the Council having come to a decision which several legions have already accepted, I have no doubt that you will place yourselves in a position to execute his orders, not only with the obedience which we all owe to them, but with the readiness which I have a right to expect from your patriotism and your conciliatory and enlight tened-spirit." PARIS BOURSE, TUESDAY. THREE O'CLOCY.—The funds and shares were exceed ingly heavy to-day, and the business limited. There was no news of any kind to create the fall, but there is a general uneasiness in consequence of the continued stagnation of affairs. Some important capitalists are among the sellers. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Jura' 18. Dutch Rhenish, I,o—ltalian and Austrian, %—Namur and Liege, 3 1 4 —Northern of France, s—Orleans and Bour deaux, 2. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 13th have arrived. The Gazeta publishes a decree suspending the sales of the estates of religious corporations of the military orders. The Herald() complains that the Portuguese au thorities suffer Carlist bands to organize themselves on the frontier for the invasion of Spain. One band has entered Spain by Campo Mayor, and proceeded to La Mancha, and another had entered the Spainish territory, near Albuquerque. The following is the official dispatch from UIBISTONDO, giving an account of the recent affair with the Carlists : " VITTORIA, JULY 10. " THE CAPTAIN-GENERAL OP THE BASQUE PROVINCES TO THE DEPUTY•GENERAL OF ALAVA. " At this moment, ten o'clock, P.M ' I receive a report from Brigadier Isidro Ruiz de Equelaz, who announces that he has reached with a company of the Queen's Re giment, and fifty minones of Alava, the faction com manded by Iturbide, composed of 160 or 200 men. The factiosos have been completely beaten on the hills; eight or ten men have been killed, several have been wounded, and five rebels, of whom three are officers, have been made prisoners. Besides this 15 or 20 muskets, and two horses, were taken.—l hasten, &c., " P.S. The five prisoners are, a captain, an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel, named Sela, two ,Lieutenants, Ber roga and Zabaza, a sergeant, and a soldier." A letter from Aldudes of the 14th says— " One hundred and fifty Montemolinists, who were obliged to take refuge on our territory, have just been disarmed 1)7 our troops. Among the number are two generals, namely, Ilza,rbe and Zubiri; three colonels, name ly, Sabirino, Enneterio, and Soto; seven comman• dants, twelve captains, twenty-three lieutenants, seven sub-lieutenants, and the rest subalterns and soldiers. They aro to be sent to Bayonne. Fifty of their mus kets, when taken, were charged." The above is confirmed by the following extract of a letter from the frontier : "The Mayor of Aldudes has sent a message to St. Jean Pied-de-Porte, demanding a reinforcement of troops. A company of Grenadiers is to be sent to him to-morrow. A captain of infantry, detached at Aldudes, announces to his commander at St. Jean Pied-de-Port, that he has sent him one hundred and fifty Carlists, who after having been beaten and pursued by the Uhristinos, were obliged to take refuge in the French territory. It is presumed that these 150 men are part of the troop of Colonel Ilzarbe, who must have joined Zubiri. To morrow I shall give you the details of this affair." There were rumours in Madrid that an outbreak had taken place at La Granja, but they did not obtain general credence. MADRID Boma; JULY 13.—The Three per Cents. were done at 20-1- cash, and were 1-3 to 3-16 buyers, sellers after the close; Five per Cents., 11i- cash ; Passive Debt, buyers, sellers ; Coupons were done at 8 cash. Discount on Bank notes has fallen considerably, and is reported at 4- to 5 per cent. The shares are not quoted. PORTUGAL. By the Stromboli, which arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, we have received Lisbon papers to the 13th inst. They are without news. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—We have much satis faction in announcing the performances at the above favourite theatre for this evening are by "Royal Com mand," the selected pieces being Blue Beard, and The - 13 %lar's Opera, upon which occasion Mr. NV. Harrison will appear for the last time this season. Royal, SURREY GARDENS. —The fourth miscel laneous flower show of the South London Florticultural Society took place yesterday afternoon at the Surrey Gardene. Tee exhibition was in every resi,ect a very brilliant one, and the day being extremely favourable for meetings of this character, a large and gay assem blage of visitors was present. Military bands were in attendance. The specimens for which prizes were awarded consisted of heaths,juchsias, roses, picotees, carnations, hollyhocks, cut flowers, and ripe fruits, and nothing of the kind could be finer, or present more varied and striking claims upon the admiration of con noisseurs. THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Since the open ing of this line to Waterloo -bridge there has been an enormous increase of the short-passenger traffic on this line. On Sunday, indeed, so great was the rush, that although every available carriage was brought into use, numbers were lett behind; the increase has been steadily maintained, and there can be no doubt that when the Hampton-court and Windsor branches are complet e d, which will be in about a fortnight, the pleasure traffic on this line will be the greatest in the country. The receipts at Waterloo-bridge, the high road to the sta tion, have kept pace with the increase on the railway, and have rendered it necessary to appoint additional Moll-takers at the horse-gates. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. FRANKFORT. JULY 15.—The Vicar of the Empire has addressed the following" proclamation to the German nation : " Germans,—Your representatives assembled at Frankfort have elected me Vicar of the Empire. " In the midst of the confidential acclamations and of the cordial salutations with which I was every where received, and which profoundly touched me, I have taken the direction of the central power of our empire. " Germans,—After years of oppression, you are now about to enjoy full and entire liberty ; and you richly deserve it, for you have aspired to it with courage and perseverance. It can never be taken from you, for you know how to defend it. " Your representatives will complete the work of the German constitution. Wait for it with confidence. It is an edifice the construction of which demands much circumspection and true patriotism. It will be firm and immovable. " Germans 1 our country has severe trials to over come, and she knows how to overcome them. Your highways and your rivers will again teem with life. Your love of work will find a sphere of activity, your welfare will increase, if you only have confidence in your representatives, if you have confidence in me, whom you have chosen to make Germany, conjointly with you, united, free, and powerful. " Never forget that liberty, in order to strike her roots deep, must be protected by order and legality. Unite your efforts with mine in re-establishing them wherever they may have been transgressed. I shall oppose all the weight of the law to every criminal attempt and to anarchy. The German citizens must be protected against every act of aggression. " Germans ! I confidently hope that Germany will enjoy an uninterrupted peace—to preserve it is my sacred duty. " But if the honour of Germany, and the rights of Germany should incur any danger, our brave Ger man army will know how to combat and conquer for its country. " Frankfort-on-the-Maine, July 15, 1848. " The Vicar of the Empire, " ARCHDUKE JOHN. " The Ministers of the Empire— " SCHMERLING. " PENCKER. " HECKSCHER." The Gazette des Pastes contains the following offi cial appointments : " I appoint the Deputy of the German National Parliament, M. ANTHONY VAN SCHMERLING, Of Vi• enna, Minister of the Empire for the Home Depart. ment and Foreign Affairs. " July 15, 1848. " The Vicar of the Empire, "ARCHDUKE JOHN. (Countersigned) " PENCKER." " I appoint the Deputy of the German National Parliament JOHN GUSTAVUS HECKSCHER, of Ham burgh, Minister of the Empire for the Department of Justice. " Frankfort-on-the-Maine, July 15, 1848. " The Vicar of the Empire, " ARCHDUKE JOHN. (Countersigned) " SCHMERLING." "I appoint the Prussian Major-G-eneral M. ED. WARD VON GENCKER, of Schmerdeburgh, Minister of the Empire, for the Department of War. " Frankfort-on-the-Maine, July 15, 1848. " The Vicar of the Empire, " ARCHDUKE JOHN. (Countersigned) " SCHMERLIN G." The Vicar of the Empire honoured the theatre with his presence last night, when the opera of Oberon was performed. His Serene Highness listened with satis faction to a prologue composed in his honour, and which was encored. Before quitting, his Imperial Highness addressed the assembly as follows :—" I now take leave of you for a few days. The promise which I gave, and which I must loyally fulfil, recalls me to Vienna. I shall soon return, and shall bring with me that which I hold most dear—my wife and my child." The Vicar of the Empire quitted Frank fort to-day, at half-past eleven, for Vienna. In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 14th the following motion was carried : " The decree of the Austrian Government prohibit- ing the export of precious metals, under date of April 2, 1848, the validity of which was subsequently deter mined to be continued up to the end of July, is seri ously prejudicial to Austria, as well as to the rest of the German states ; and a measure like this, the equity of which, in regard to the other German states, cannot be vindicated, is incompatible with the unity of Ger many. The National Assembly resolves to communi cate this, its declaration, in a suitable manner, to the Austrian Government." In the sitting of the 15th, the debate on the report of the committee on armed forces was re-commenced. Prince Lichnowsky supported the motion of the com mittee in a long and brilliant speech. He spoke largely in praise of Cavaignac; but he besought them not yet to dream of alliance with the French Republic. They must see whether the young and spirited general would establish the dictatorship of a Sylla, or retire meekly as a Cincinnatus. As to Russia, he thought its Em peror did not want a war. Various other Members spoke ; but the Assembly called clamourously for the close of the debate. The President and 19 Members still had to speak. He put the question as to closing the debate. It was carried. The modified motion on which the Assembly divided to-day was as follows• " The National Assembly resolves to refer the report of the Committee of Armed Forces of July 1, and the supplementary clauses of July 7, to the Provisional Central Power, and to empower the Central Govern ment to carry out the proposals contained in that report and the supplementary clauses, so that the amount of the armed forces shall be increased up to a levy of two per cent. on the present population." Ayes . . 303 Noes 149 Estimating the population at 45,000,000, the armed force will comprise 900,000, as was originally suggested. P.S. Rieser's motion also, for making the new enrol ment universal, without any exceptional privileges and exemptions, was carried. AUSTRIA. The following has been circulated as the list of the new Cabinet :—DonLnorr, President of the Council ; PILLERSDORFF, Minister of Finances ; BACII, of Justice ; WESSENDERG, Foreign Affairs ; Professor FUSTER, Worship; Lieutenant Field-Marshal GOR DON, War ; and STAMETZ4VIAYER, Commerce. At present, however, nothing is decided. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 13th July says— It appears from a bond, dated the 4th of July, that JELLACHICK, the Bann of Croatia, received from the Vienna Ministry of War the sum of 100,000 guilders, consequently at a moment when he was officially de posed by the King (Emperor), and was in open re bellion against the Hungarian Ministry. Nothing positive was yet known respecting the return of the EMPEROR, or of the heir presumptive. Numerous reports are in circulation on this head ; but it seems important that some decisive step should be speedily taken in this matter. There can be no doubt the deep-laid plans of a certain per sonage are more and more gaining ground, and that the boasted love and loyalty of the Viennese to another personage is gradually on the decline.— Allgemeine Zeitung, July 13. PRUSSIA. It is said that the question of the armistice with Denmark is referred to the Vicar-General of the Empire, but that should he refuse to ratify it, Prussia will act for herself; and ratify it at her own risk. D EN 31 A RK. (From the Borsenhalle, July 18.) HULL, JULY 15.—Yesterday afternoon General WRANGEL, Count PORTALIS, and all his staff, pro ceeded from Hadersleben to Folding, for the pur pose of attending an appointment within half a mile of that place, with the Danish Commander- in -Chief, on the subject of the conclusion of the armistice, but in Iladersleben it was not thought probable that the arrangement would be final although the Prussian troops lying there were or dered to be in marching order at five o'clock r.m. HammittGu.—The exchange was partially higher) and a trifling business doing. ELSINORE.—The ship Ann, Captain Sanley, pro bably Stanley, of Farrington, from Liverpool, stranded off Anholt, on the 2d instant, and will, it is expected, become a total wreck; crew saved. ALTONA, JULY 15.—1 t is authentically stated that the evacuation of the Duchies by the Germans, and of Alsen by the Dimes, and the establishment of the Provisional Government, as the conditions of the armistice, are settled. BAVARIA. Letters from Ratisbon, in Bavaria, announce that a military riot took place in that city on the 10th instant, which was attended with a lamentable loss of life. Tranquillity was restored on the following day. ITALY. PIEDMONT, LOMBARDY, AND VENICE. Letters from Turin state that the probable Minis try will be—M. Casati, President of the Council ; Marquis de Brignolles Salis, Foreign Affairs ; M. Franzini, War ; M. Gisia, Public Works ; M. Manuo, Justice ; M. Cavour, Finance ; M. Vesme, Public Instruction. The Ministry of Marine will probably be annexed to that of War. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 14th states ; that on the 7th General PEPE ordered General FER^ RARI to reconnoitre the Austrian positions at Cava nella on the Adige, and their fortifications. General FERRARI did not limit his operations to a mere recon noissance, but attacked the enemy, eight hundred strong, who defended the fortifications. After a sharp engagement, which lasted four hours, General FERRARI thought proper to retreat to Chioggia, to the surprise of his men, who considered themselves sure of victory. It appears that General FERRARI has been escorted back to Venice, to give explana tions as to his conduct. His party consisted of 2,400 men. ROME. Advices from Rome of the 6th inform us that the workmen, who had hitherto received assistance from the State, on a plan not unlike that of the late ateliers nationaux, had refused to do their work that morning. The Municipality have issued a manifesto refusing to grant any further pay to the unmarried workmen, who have an opportunity of enrolling themselves in the army. TURKEY. A dreadful fire broke out at Pera on the Ist inst., by which six houses were destroyed and the entire suburb menaced. Fires broke out the same morning at two or three other points, as well in Pera as in Constantinople, but were soon subdued without much damage. The cholera continued to prevail through out all the Turkish provinces. At Constantinople it continued without abatement, but it was considered mild. Better sanitary precautions were adopted than hitherto. At Galatz, from the Ist of June to the Bth, 205 were attacked and 63 died. At Ibralla, from the 3d to the 7th of June, 274 cases, of whom 70 died. This is a large proportion in reference to the population of this town, which is only about 20,000; at Viachka, from the 2d to the 7th of June, 90 cases and 21 deaths, in a population of 4,000. It has spread in all Wallachia, and advances rapidly to the frontiers of Transylvania. Sir STRATFORD CANNING was received in great state by the Sultan on the 29th Ult. KIAMIL PASHA, Minister of Commerce, had been appointed ambas sador to England, and succeeded in his Ministry by SULEIMAN PASHA, the present Ottoman Minister in Paris. DALMATIA FROM TIER. JULY 6.—The Turks continue their warlike pre parations against Montenegri, and act as if they were sure of success. The conscriptions and provi sioning are carried on with great a etivity. The gene ral army of the Turks has been coi nmanded partly to quell any attempt at a rise by th,a Christians of the interior, and partly to meet any aggression from without. They apprehend a simultaneous attack by the Montenegros in Herzogovina; and the Servians in Bosnia likewise expect that the Turks of Albania will at the same time enter Montenegri. According to some statements the Turkish army will consist of 60,000 men, while ethers affirm that it will amount to 100,000 men. All the Pashas and the various leaders have received the most stringent commands to be perpetually on their guard. The trade of Bosnia is quite at a stand still. In consequence of all this excitement and con fusion, many of the merchants do not even open their stores, and keep quite in the back ground. In Turkish Albania matters are' quiet ; and it is true that on the 13th of last nnonth there wat a collision between the inhabitants of the district of Antivari and the Montenegros, ut it was only one of the ordinary conflicts between the contending parties.— Wiener Zeitung, July 13:.. GREECE. Accounts from Athens of the 7th instant state that the Greek Cabinet has b(?em modified. M. Benizalos Roufos, son• in• law of the President of the Council had been appointed. Minister of the Interior; M. Tatzis Manghinas, senator, 'Minister of Finance; M. Colocotroni, D e - puty of Foreign Affairs; M. Rhallis, of Justice ; and General Anastasius Maromichali, of Pubdic Worship and Instruction ; 111. Conduriotti, President of the Council and Minister of Marini and General Rodius, Minister of War, retained their respective offices. IRELAND i. (B Y ELECTRIaTELE C RAPII.) DUBLIN, Tula! iDAY EVENING, At the meeting of the Privy Coy. ncil to-day, seven proclamations were issued. The districts are the city and county of Dublin, the city of Waterford, and part of the county of Waterfov J. The city and part of the county of Cork. Tla e county of the town of Drogheda. The Lord-Lie atenant, president of the Council. The Rev. Patriel Byrne, arrested for sedition, was rescued by a mob, from the Bride well of Carrick-on-Suir. All the ko risoners liberated. There are alarming accounts fro Waterford, and some other places. We have received the followin, z letter from a correspondent at Waterford. We he lieve the contents to be exaggerated, and publish it without gua ranteeing the authenticity of all the facts it con tains : GREAT MEETING OF THE PI ASANTRY AT SLIEVNAMON ON SUNDA. f-ENTRY OF MR. THOMAS F. MEAGHER . INTO WATER FORD ON MONDAY MORN] NG-ARRESTS AT CARRICK-ON-SUIR, TER .IBLE EXCITE MENT THERE, THE PRISONS RS RELEASED! NOM ♦ CORRESPONDM WATERFORD, MoN DAY, JULY 17. Mr. Meagher's entry into Water ford, which was expected to take place on yesterday evening at four o'clock, did not occur until half-pa:; t two o'clock this morning, as he was forcibly carri.; , d by the Cashel Clubs to the meeting at SlievnaJ non, where, with Mr. Doheny, he addressed at least 50,000 persons. At eleven o'clock, r.x., he left Ca.' rick-on-Suir for Waterford ; the Carrick Clubs wts out in march ing order, and numbered 1,200 um en. The multi tude which thronged the road fo r eighteen prevented the procession, which ;accompanied Mr. Meagher, from moving along at a quicke , r . pace than three miles per hou r ; lid at 'Mown he was compelled to address the as se •mbled thousands at midnight. He remains here for th ree or four days, and should any attempt be made to seize him on any new charge blood will flow freely. At Carrick-on-Suir this morning three of the club leaders were arrested, and the chi(!,l of police inti mated to the Rev. Mr. Byrne, R.C..i 3., that he might consider himself under arrest; but the Rev. Mr. Byrne is reported to have told him to seize him if he thought proper, which, it is :is id, the chief de clined. The news of the arrest of th e club presidents spread through the town like wil I fire —every horse in Carrick was dragged out, and s..!nt off for rein- forcements of the peasantry to t ie slate quarries and neighbouring towns, and the 'driver of the car which brought the account here says that pikes and guns were to be seen in all di L.( ctions hastening to the town. It is also stated that. two gentlemen, Messrs. O'Donnell and Mandeville, went armed be fore the magistrate, and told him tt at the country was rising, and that if he wished it' ) avoid a rebel lion he had better liberate the priso a ers, who would come forward at any time to sten d their trial for any charge that might be made again 35 t them; as in 20 minutes a force would arrive in Carrick which would annihilate the garrison, it was d, eemed prudent to comply with the request, and the' / prisoners were restored to their homes, and thus Mono was Carrick, and perhaps Ireland, saved from bloodshed for the present. Nothing can equal the wild enthusiasm of the people here; the starving ones (a too numerous class), who feed on a wild berry called " hurts," and on anything they can find, rejoice at the idea of skinnaging (skirmishing), whilst the middle classes, in the towns at least, whose shops have now been long idle, are indifferent to what turns up. A shopkeeper here, who employed twelve clerks, on Easter Monday last (a great market-day in other years) had, at the close of the day, two fourpenny pieces in his cash-box, the produce of his sales for that day ! Should anything further of note turn up, I will write to-morrow.— Chronicle. RIOT AT CARRICK-ON-SUIR. (From the Swelling Packet, July 18.) The Rev. Mr. Byrne, Roman Catholic Priest, was yesterday arrested, on a charge of sedition, and placed in the Bridewell. The people assembled in large muses, and made an attack on the gaol. They succeeded in rescuing Mr. Byrne, and set free all the prisoners. The military, being without orders, did not act. The departure of the Lord-Lieutenant for England has been delayed for a few days. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER). IMPEY V. KNIGHT. This was an action on a contract. The plaintiff is a gentleman residing at Twickenham. and in April last let a furnished cottage, called Lawn Cottage, to defen dant, at the yearly rent of 170/., and there were several covenants to keep the grounds in good condition, &c., and to make good all damages or dilapidations. The defendant left, however, at the end of the term, leaving one quarter's rent unpaid. Mr. flames, a surveyor, es.. timated the dilapidation at 13/. 11s. 7d., but that amount was reduced by consent to 12/. 12s. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted, bat did not appear to support the plea. The jury gave a verdict fur 53/. 1 ls. 7d.—This was the only case tried. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) Mary Anne Parker, a young woman of very genteel appearance, was indicted for stealing a child's chaise, of the value of 305., the property of Charles Scott. - The charges rested entirely on the evidence of the prosecutor's wife, who lets out children's chaises, and other vehicles, for hire, and stated, that on the 14th of June the prisoners obtained the chaise from her for hire. The chaise not being returned, Mrs. Scott went to the address given -by the person who hired, and who she swore positively was the prisoner; but neither the chaise nor the nurse-maid who borrowed it were known there. Some days afterwards she saw the prisoner, and gave her into custody. The defence was that the prosecutrix was mistaken as to the identity, and the lady in whose service the pri soner was employed on the day when she was alleged to have taken the chaise, swore that on that day she had not left the house, nor had she any child in her charge. There were other respectable witnesses to confirm that statement. The JUDGE stopped the case, and the jury acquitted the prisoner, who left the court accompanied by respect able friends. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) --- DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT OF A WOMAN TO MURDER HER THREE CHILDREN.—Hannah Leith, a wretched looking woman, 35 years of age, residing at No. 27, Carburton-street, Marylebone, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having attempted to destroy her three children, aged respectively ten years, two years, and ten months, by administering to them a quantity of sugar of lead. She was also charged with attempting to destroy herself by taking the same deadly poison. The prisoner, who appeared to be in great distress, was so weak from the effects of the poison she had taken that she was accommodated with a seat in the dock. The first witness examined was police-constable New man, who, on being sworn, said—About half-past num last night I received information that a woman had poisoned herself and three children, and in consequence I went to No. 27, Carburton-street, in company with Mr. Lawson, the surgeon. I found the prisoner lying on a bed with her three children. Mr. Lawson said he wished to put a question to her, and he hoped she would answer truly. He then asked her if she had taken any poison herself. She said she had taken sugar of lead, and had administered some to her three children in some tea, and as soon as she had done it she sent her eldest boy to acquaint his aunt. The prisoner and her three children were in great agony at the time, and Mr. Lawson used the stomach pump, in order to remove the poison from their stomachs. I produce a certificate signed by Mr. Lawson to that effect, and stating that he believed them now out of danger. George Leith, the prisoner's son, was then examined, and said—l am ten years old. Last night 1 was taken very ill after tea. Soon after my two youngest brothers were takun ill, and my mother was taken very bad also. My father was out, Ido not know what made me ill. My mother told me to go to my aunt's and tell her that she had murdered the children and poisoned herself. I was taken so bad that I could not walk. The prisoner in a sullen manner said she had nothing to say. Mr. BINGHAM remanded her for a week. SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Darby, the celebrated firework-maker was sum' moned to this Court, for having more powder on his premises than authorised by the Act of Parliament. Mr. ELLIOTT, the sitting magistrate, postponed his decision. Fowler, a young man employed by Mr. Missle white, a milkman, was charged with embeazlling vari ous sums of money. Two witnesses were called, who proved to certain sums paid him. The prisoner acknowledged the robbery, and called Mr. Cole, a dairyman, wilt) proved he had known the prisoner two or three years, and always considered him honest. After some little recrimination between this witneso and the prosecutor, the prisoner was committed. TO THE SECRETARY OF THB BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—Monday the 17th was the day of announcing the different measures intended to be abandoned on account of the lateness of the period of the session. Something must be done on this matter by us or our immediate posterity ; considering that we have not yet completed the sixth thousand of the world acknowledged years, and it is as probable as the con trary, that there are six thousand more to come. it is clear that a process of compression of some kind must be invented; by the token that time and space are finite, and not even the omnipotence of Parlia ment can put more than sixty minutes into an hour. The phenomenon presented is, that talk does not produce legislation as it used to do. Time was, that when the brains were out, and all reasonable points affecting the question had been thrown before the pub' lie, the law was made. One cause contributory to the contrary appearance now, is that there has been 6 change in the seat of legislative power. When corn' law esquires and protectionist merchants ruled the roast, they might well be content with less expencli" tune of speech. But place them in a minority, an d what limit shall be put to their expatiating on a high' way bill or a sugar duty, and laying in every wounu the knife that made it, in bitt erness o f regre t f or w hot has passed away. At present the practice of the House seems to be this ; to talk all night on every single subject , and then adjourn because it is getting late. N ° better receipt could be invented for having nothing done. And then this is met, by having early sit' tings and late. It will be found out at some time , that business is not better done for being long about it. In all the ordinary concernments of life, buss' ness is got through because men know it must be completed by a certain time; and the experience of the House at the Wednesday's sittings, w hich are ruled to cease at six o'clock, i s en' tirely in favour of the same principle. L et men know that a thing is to be over by certain time, and they will do it ; and withou t more of complaint from those who say they could not be heard, than at present. The fact is, tha t the time is consumed by licensed bores. Bore after bore rises, and claims his presciptive right to be heard by virtue of hi s pa t ent. I remem b er that i n t h e old House of Commons there were men of this kind' who always caught the Speaker's eye in preference,' because he consid e r e d them as inevitable ev il s , 11 6 ' wished to get them out of the way. There can be little doubt, that if there were tvi ° Speakers and the House sat every hour of evert day and night in the week, there would be just the same difficulty in getting through with business 6 , at present. It would therefore be worth while to tr. l the effect of the opposite policy, or shortening tiine; And the experience of the Wednesdays' sittiq t shows that the way to produce an effective lio 3l would be to determine that no formation of t he ~ House for any one day, should be 'effective for 611) ,, other day ; the result of which would be to brefslc. tl ,l the House at midnight, and oblige the fabricators speeches to curtail accordingly. Except by the action of some general rule of tb j4 , nature, it is very difficult to interfere with the i n , firniity of long speech-making. Public meet ja i; sometimes attempt an agreement that none shall s!iie l ' ot above half-an-hour ; but the circumstances are B u t identical with those of the House of Commons. r a decision that speaking is to stop at a certain 13 0 , t1 1 ,: is an indirect mode of operating in the same direW ° , On Tuesday the House met at twelve on a qii, e a tion connected with Highway. rates, and the laii °e d interest was in an agony. It met again at five, 6n . wa s counted out in five mi n ut es , th e su bj e cts b „e the Audit of Public Accounts, Ballot, and Hume's motion for making a borough of Chelsea an neighbourhood instead of Sudbury. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, .„ T. PERRONET THOMPSO• L ''' Blackheath, London, July 19, 1848. rat At Sb um th 4 of th 4 las