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What, then, was the nature of our late struggle with Buonaparte ? Was it not a contest for the pre servation of the " domestic principle"—that is, for our commerce, whose very existence was threatened with annihilation by Napoleon's " Continental System ?" These are facts so generally known, that the Reviewer cannot have been ignorant of them ; we attribute his inaccuracies, therefore, to carelessness. Still, despite these drawbacks, the article is a superior one, and the s ame prai se may b e exten d e d to th e N um ber generally. There is more good;writing in it, than is to be found in a ny of the three monthly periodicals, with the sole ex ception of the Quarterly. V ICE -CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) MORGAN V. SEWARD. This case came before the Court upon motion on behalf of the def en d ants, Messrs. Seward, the em i nent eng i neers o f Limehou se , f or t h e d i ssolut i on o f an i n j unct i on restra i n i ng them from constructing paddle-wheels for steam-vessels upon a principle which the plaintiff contended was an infringement of a patent obtained by a Mr. Galloway, which was afterwards assigned to him. , The SOLI CITOR -G ENERAL ( w i t h w h om was Mr. D. Pol lock) appeared in support of the motion, contending that the I:addle-wheels manufactured by the defendants were no in fringement the plaintiff's patent, but that they had been manufactured in consequence of the observations made by the defendants on the construction of the paddles of a steam vessel, while sailing up the Seine from Havre to Rouen. The motion appears likely to occupy the whole day. BOOTH AND BIGNOLD. Yesterday afternoon the Select Committee appointed to in quire into the circumstances attending the Ipswich Election same to a Resolution, that they would not call upon Messrs. Booth and Bignold, the Magistrates of Norwich, for any de fence, as it did not appear to them that they had been guilty of any breach of the privileges of the House of Commons, in their conduct with respect to the confinement of Pilgrim. The Committee are to-day inquiring into the conduct of Pilgrim's prosecutors. SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JULY 9.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrived the Palmyra , Loader, from Ceylon ; and John Amy, Nicholson, from Terra Nova. Arrived from the River, and remain, the Juno, for Jamaica; Autumn, Lambert, for Cardiff; Maria, Collins, for Gibraltar ; Marquis of Camden, Gribble, for Canton ; and Butler, Gilbert, for Newfoundland. Sailed the outward bound. Arrived tile Ranger, James, from Sunderland ; Momu s Gray, fr om S ea h am t o Portsmouth ; York, Foster, from Guernsey ; Alcyone, Foster, from Newcastle to Ports mouth ; Leonidas, Cockburn, from Sunderland to Shields ; Three Sisters, Walker, from Shields to Portsmouth ; and Janet, Elliot, from Sunderland to Rochdale. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 9. —Wind S. W. PLymou'rn, JULY B.—W in d S. W.—Arrived the Angelina. Napp, from Rotterdam, towed in with loss of foremast, bound to Liverpool. SCiLLy, JULY B.—Arrived off, the Vreede, Luytears, from _ a ta7ja Eilligkeit, Smith, from Bahia ; Johannas, Riesdick, 1-rol_t_ lV iatanzas ; and D uncan, Gibb s , f rom Si er ra Leone. AleM LvoRD, JULY B.—A rr i ve d the Elliott, Cuthbert, from xand i ria. LIVERPOO Sa Ly JULY B.—Arrived the Neried, Cutting, from fromLwres ; Thetis ? ; Adelaid e , Hay, from Palermo ; Sabinia, Foss, es , Rough, , from Bo from Bordeaux ; and Emanuel, stock. CLYDE ' JULY 7 . —Arrived the Cherub, Dennisson, from FAI-MouTE, JULY _armehi ; and Star, Welsh. from Sicily. rived B.—Wind' W. N. W. to W. S. W.— Ar- Le Fame, Stebbing, from Licati. The R -ussell, Wi nter, f rom G uernse y t o London, was on shore Foreness Rock yesterday, but expected to be got off. Lisbon NOTICE.—A packet will be provided for t h e Lisbon mail of the 7th ult. detained.—Letters in time this evening, the loth. PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. .:,~,.0. In the House of LORDS last night, after a Petition in favour of Poor Laws for Ireland bad been presented, Lord LIMERICK called attention to " a gross personal attack " made on his Lordship by the Morning Herald. The Judges, through Sir A. Parke, delivered their opinion on certain ques tions put to them with reference to the Islington Market Bill. The opinion was to the affect, that the proposed market could not be made without infringing the City of London Charter. Notice of a motion on the subject was conditionally given by the Marquis of SALISBURY. The Duke of RICHMOND pre sented the Fourth Report of the Committee on Prison Disci pline. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of Lord DENMAN'S Certiorari Bill. The Duke of SUTHERLAND pre sented a petition in support of the Church Establishment of Scotland. In the COMMONS' (Morning Sitting), the Manure Toll Exemption Bill, after a division on an amendment, that draining-tiles should be exempted from toll, was read a third time and passed. The Prisoners' Counsel Bill, after some opposition from Colonel PERCIVAL, Sir H. WILMOT, and Mr. BULLER (the latter moved an amendment), was read a third time and passed, with an alteration, limiting the right to be heard by Counsel to cases over which Magistrates had a summary jurisdiction. At the Evening Sitting, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in the Committee on the Corporations Reform Bill, proposed the consideration of the schedules beginning with A. Sir J. SCARLETT proposed an exemption from the provisions of the Bill for those Faeces which possessed a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle it to elect 30 Councillors. The Hon. and Learned Member, however, soon after abandoned his in tention of pressing his proposition to a division. On the ques tion, that Bath stand part of the schedule, with not less than 46, nor more than 54 Councillors, Mr. ROEBUCK said the pre sent Corporation consisted of 33, who elected each other, and were responsible to nobody. An amendment, to make the number of Councilmen for Bath 30 instead of 48, was lost. The remainder of the schedule was agreed to. Various points were debated. Schedules B and C were agreed to. The House then resumed ; and after progress had been reported by the Chairman, the Bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention to bring up the Report on Tuesday. On the motion of Mr. WALLACE, for inquiry into the management of the Post Office, an interesting debate arose—for the report of which we refer to another part of our paper. POST-OFFICE APPOINTMENTS. APPOINTMENTS OF DEPUTY POST MASTERS. By a Return to an Order of the House of Commons, just printed, it appears that during the last five years, ending with the Ist January, 1835, there have been no fewer than three hundred and ninety-four appointments of Deputy Postmasters and Postmistresses in Great Britain and Ireland, viz. : GRAND -----------REvi----EW.-(T_HIS DAY.) A g r and Review took place this morning in Hyde Park, ac cord;ug to the following*official order issued on the B th inst. : MEvoßANnum. The following troops will be reviewed by the Kinc, att en d ed by her Majesty, i n H y d e -p ar k, on Friday next, the i oth instant, at eleven o'clock, A. m. Detachments of the Royal Horse and Foot Artillery, First Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, Second Life Guards, E ighth Hussars, First Battalion Grenadier Guards, Cold stream Guards, First Battalion Scotch Fusileer Guards. The Line to be commanded by Lieut.-General Lord Ed ward Somerset, G.C.H. The Royal Artillery to be commanded by Colonel Fyers. The Horse Artillery to be commanded by Lieutenant- Colo. el Whinyates; The Cavalry by Major-General Sir Charles Dalbiac ; The Field Batteries by Lieut.-Colonel Cleaveland ; and The Ft ot Guards by Colonel Sir John Woodford. The ground to be kept by detachments of the Household Brigade of Cavalry and the Riding Establishment : the Senior officer of the troops charged with this duty to attend the Quartermaster-General to-morrow, at one o'clock, to re ceive his orders. No carriages to be admitted into Hyde-park during the review, except those of the Royal Family ; and no person or: horseback, except those dressed in uniform. The Staff to appear in full dress upon this occasion ; but the riband is not to be worn over the coat. By command of the Right Honourable the General Com- Mauding in Chief. JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. Horse Guards, July 8, 1835. The fineness of the day drew immense crowds to the scene, which was altogether very splendid. EXEMPTION OF TOL S BILL. LIST OF THE — MINO. On Mr. Halfnrd's Amendment on the Exel ttirtxeby, John Egerton, W. T. Beatutlerk, Major f Elwes, J. P. Blackburn, John I. Foley, E. T. Bell, 111. Goring, H. D. EnUer, Sir J. Y. t;rimston, Hon. E. Bean'', It. Haltord, H. Chariton, E. L. Hodges, T. T. , Dillwytt, 1-. ..,, w. Hodges, T. L. Duffield v ~ T D. Kearsley, J. H. buncombe, W. Lawson, A. East, J. Boller Mangles, J. Egerton, Sir P. . _ IRITY mption of Tolls Bill. Mackinnon, W. A. Palmer, R. Perceval, Colon I Scott, Sir E. D. Sheldon, E. R. C. Somerset, Lord G. I Turner, W. _... Wilmot, Sir E. TELLERS. Compton, H. C. Trevor, A. PRISONERS' COUNSE LIST OF THE MAJO Of 43 (Tellers included) who voted in favor ing of the Prisoners Connie For the Third Reading ...... •. Against it Barnes, E. Hardy, J. Beauclerk, Major I Harland, W. Blamire, W. Heathcoat, J. Bridgman, H. Hindley, C. Buller, C. Leonard, T. B. Cave, Otway Maenamai , W. Curteis, Major , _Mangles, J. Dobbin, L. O'Loghlen, M. Buncombe. W. 1-:strott, J. Dykes, F. L. Pease,, Joseph Elphinstone, H. Pechell, z 4. 11- .F.twail, R. Pelham, C.. A. \V Finn, W. F. Potter, R. Fitzsimon, N. Power, J. Grote, G. Ituthvcn, E. S. MINORITY. Egerton, W. T. Elwes, J. Fleetwood, H. Forrester, Hen. G. Goring, H. D. Grimston, Hon. E. Hodges, T. T. Kearsley, J. 11. Lawson, A. Lincoln, Earl of Lowther, Viscount Lowther, H. C. IRITY it of the Third Read i Bill. . 43 33 Strickland, Sir G. Sullivan, H. Talbot, J. Thornely, Thomas TrelawneY, Sir W. Trevor, Hon. A. Wakley, Thomas Warburton, Williams, W. A. Wrightson, W. B. Wyse, T. TELLERS. Ewart, W. Talfourd, T. Noon Barneby, John Beihell, 11. Bramston, T. W. Buller, Sir J. B. Y. Buller E. Burrell, Sir r. M. Chisholm, A. Crippi, J. L. W. Duffield, T. D. est, James Buller rgeiton, Slr P. de M. Mathew. Capt. Patten, Wilson Pelham, John C. Perceval, Colonel Ross, Charles Ross Sheldon, E. Somerset, Lord G. Turner, W Williams, Sir J. TELLERS. Wilmot, Sir Eardley Mackinnon, W. A. LIST OF THE MAJORITY Of 3:9 (Tellers included) who voted in favour of giving Prisoners Oa their trial) the advantage of the last word in their defence. For the Motion . A gainst it Baines 1:. Dr. seaueler6, Major Elami te, W. trid gma _ n Hewitt Cave, • away . Dobbin, Leon ‘ ltd L. D9kes F, B. Elphin s t nn Etwalt R Howard Finn 'w • ritzs'un IleetAZ'd I. rote, G' 39 38 Power, James Ruthven, S. Strickland, Sir G. Sullivan,R. Talbot, J. H. Guest, J. J. Harland, NV. C. Heatheoat, J: Hindley, Charles Lennox, Lord G. M`Namara, W. Mangles, J. O'Loghlen, Sergeant Parrott, J. Pease, Joseph Pechell, Captain Pelham, C. A. I .l,tier, It. Talfourd, T. N. Thornely, Thomas Wakley, Thomas Williams, W. A. Warburton, H. TELLERS. Fcart, VV. Lennard, 1% errYISTRESSING ACCIDiNT IN HYDE PARK.— '.O got e.: 61 u 9 7 I :# i ) n A t : ) o n - e - of A bout 12 o'clock this day a most distressing evolution s of th e .-----‘ Occurred in Hyde-park to a fine youth about 15, who the trees for the purpose of witnessing the soldiers at the Review. He fell headfore rst upon the ground, and upon a surgeo n bein g sent for, it as ascertained that his collar bone was broken, and he was 43 tlierwri se .1 to the Ho s. sp an it g ai e , ro us l y injured. He was immediately removed t, but is not expected to recover. ... T ALES OF THE PEERAGE AND THE PEASANTRY, ..., lifelTE tlit) RY LAD Y DACRE.—" A more beautiful tale of peasant ,' bet an ' The Hampshire Cottage' in this Work , truthful, to alln Coarse, we have rarely read; and we recom mend it ti, who can relish a story unspiced by any strong exhibi to a (31 passion, and ungloriiled hy the esnce of titled ac tars and actre sses . It turns upon a simp pr e le incident in a cot ger's family : a young lovely girl, betrothed to a neighbour's ao -1 grows gradually blind before the wedding-day approaches .:7 -she insists upon breaking off her engagement, and her lover 1412.1irrIes another woman. We should hardly murmur at our : 3 4 : 1 0 : Ur in fqueing the pile of works of fiction lying before us, of ,he alway s ';,:ad us into such pleasant conlyany as the ' Tales "e Peerag e od the Peasantry.' "—Atheneurn. Sll . a • .‘ h • i ce the stoppage of the supplies, the Bradfor„ • u r ehwardens have stopped +. he ringing of the five, one, and l s g lit o'clock bells. ENGLAND. Appointed by the Duke of Manchester Appointed by the Duke of Richmond l5O Appointed by the Marquis Conyngham l 6 SCOTLAND. Appointed by the Duke of Manchester Appointed by the Duke of Richmo nd ' 35 Appointed by the Marquis Conyngham - 46 IRELAND. Appointed by Earls Rosse and O'Neill 8 Appointed by the Duke of Manchester 0 Appointed by the Duke of Richmond 133 Appointed by the Marquis Conyngham 6 147 ABSTRACT. Total number appointed by the Duke of Manchester 43 Total number appointed by the Duke of Richmond 318 Total number appointed by the Marquis Conyngham 25 Total number appointed by Earls Rosse and O'Neill 8- 394 DUBLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Mayor of Limerick, a Mr. Piercy, who keeps an office for some London Assurance Company, has disdainfully re jected the application of some of the most wealthy merchants and respectable gentlemen of that city for a public meeting, to address the Earl of Mulgrave. Like all Tory functionaries, when required to do what they do not like, he has a horror of " political meetings of any kind"—they " keep us divided"— an amiable Tory sentiment forsooth ; but if the old maxim of ilivide et impern were practicable, perhaps the objection on that score might not be so very insurmountable. The sting of the Mayor's answer, however, is in its tail ; for thus it concludes : " Besides, I am bound equally to respect the feelings of a large part of the public, which does not, I believe, concur in your sentiments regarding the personage you desire to ad dress ; and as no address from this city was voted to his im mediate predecessor, the Earl of Haddington, I can see no occasion for voting one to the present Lord Lieutenant." He can see no occasion, quotha 1 This, you must allow, savours of the shop. It shows plenty of assurance, and per haps some policy; for the Corporation of which this pen-and ink gentleman is the Mayor, must see further than the rest of the world, if it can see " occasion" to plume itself on the business which brought Lord Mulgrave to Ireland. His Ex cellency, before he quits our shores, will see the city of Lime rick taken out of the hands of the Jobocracy, who share its municipal dignities among themselves, and its chairs of office filled by men worthy of regard by their commercial rank, and just principles. Will it be believed that Limerick, a town next in commercial importance to Dublin, is governed by a Corporation which does not number a single mercantile per son in its Council ? The Mayor who preceded Mr. Piercy is a captain in a marching regiment, and the gentleman who has been just elected to come after him, is a surgeon and man midwife. There is a propriety, however, in this latter ap pointment ; for the Ccesarian operation about to be performed upon the body corporate, to make it give up its ill-gotten and illegitimate burden, may require " some of his functions," be fore it arrives at perfection. A Dublin Paper, not satisfied with Lord Stanley's own ac count of the matter, declares that he was driven from the Li beral (quasi, Lie-beral) side of the House, by his disgust at O'Connell's lies. He fled from I)an, and took refuge by the side of Shaw. How much is his position the better by the change ? Perhaps your friend Colonel Sibthorpe, by recurring to his whirlpool fancies and classical recollections, could illus trate this passage. Another Corporation—that of Waterford—has signalized itself by a witty evasion of the dire necessity of addressing the Reforming Lord Lieutenant. At a meeting of their Common Council last week, Dr. Poole, a Scotch g entleman, of high eminence in his profession, and much esteemed for his liberal yet moderate opinions, proposed an address to the Lord Lieutenant. It was seconded, and that was all 1 " The convocation gap'd, but could not speak." A bystander pleasantly describeth their wonderment to the Waterford Chronicle and its readers :—" Michael Evelyn looked at Simon Newport, and Richard Hassard looked up at Dr. Briscoe, and Dr. Briscoe looked down on Captain Roberts, and Captain Roberts looked up at Sandy Pope. At length some whispering was heard in a corner, into which a few of the real sort squeezed themselves, and Mr. Edward llobson came forth and mounted the rostrum. After a good deal of oratorical labour, he handed in a written amendment to Dr. Poole's resolution, and this amendment was— an That an Address be presented from this body to Daniel O'Con nell, as the Chief Governor of Ireland " The funny rogues l They are resolved, like their friends in the House of Commons, to die hard. Such a thing has been known, ere now, as a culprit cracking jokes at the foot of the gallows, and these municipal convicts are gilding over their bitterness of heart by forced merriment, and real but thoroughly contemptible insolence to the band which is uplifted to make tliem nothing. The citizens of Waterford will do what their half-dozen hole-and-corner self-elected magnates would not do, and do it more respectably than they could do it. In the meantime, O'Connell may congratulate himself on being the ect, however derisively, of Hobson's choice. The Earl and Countess of Mansfield will give a magnificent ddeune a la fourchetic, on the twenty-third day of this month, to the King and Queen, at their superb villa at Caen Wood, Hampstead. The Foreign Ministers and their Ladies will be invited to join the Royal party. THE KIRK OF SCOTLAND.—Our readers, one Lrlci all, will rejoice to learn that the question that has given ri,c to so many bickerings between Churchmen and Dissen ters has, in the meantime, been disposed of in so satisfactory a I.l3nner that even Sir Robert Peel, high Churchman as he is, fairly succumbed and withdrew his amendment. A Commis sion has been granted in place of a Committee ; and can any man doubt that the Report of such a body will be highly useful, even in a statistical point of view ? Between two hostile and contending bodies Government had a difficult part to play. A Leith speculator, who bought the first eight barrels of herring; caught this season, after steaming them to London, and from London to Hamburgh, realised, we under stand, upwards of 231. per barrel, which afforded him a clear profit of 19/. upon each barrel, or 1521. upon the transaction.— Edinburgh Advertiser. MELANCHOLY Loss OF A FISHING-BOAT WITH NINE MEN.—On the morning of Thursday last, the 25th June, seven fishing-boats, belonging to Fisherrow, in the parish of lnveresk, met with a very severe gale of wind when about forty miles to the east of the Isle of May. Six of the boats, with difficulty, reached Fisherrow late on the evening of that ( I ..ty , but unfortunately the seventh, named William the Fourth, Mr. Robert Millar, master, was lost, and all on board perished. By this melancholy event, the families of nine industrious and r,spectable men have been deprived of their only support. Six cf them were married, and have left widows and fifteen young children ; and three of them have left aged parents to lament their loss.—Edinburgh Advertiser. HYDROPHOBIA.--At Theltenham, Suffolk, last month, two girls, aged seven and five years, were in their I father's garden, when a large brown water spaniel, evidently labouring under the disease, suddenly came upon them, and I eating the youngest down, inflicted a severe wound by biting I,er through the bridge of the nose; it then made an attempt to seize the elder child; but she escaped. The wound was cf such a nature that the knife could not be used, but caustics were ai,,p4cd, and the child appeared in its usual health and spirits till Tuesday night, when, about eleven o'clock, the pa rents were alanied by'c. noise Fweeeeding from her, as if la. bowing under extreme difficulty of breatbinti. 0,,n reaching the bed they found her in strong eunvuliinns, w4h she coutiatte4 to be sei7o l Fich short intervals, during , the whole 1) . 'e , ore k roger i4fl 9f Saturday, an a_out nine (FT Priday anu ' I; • . o'clock on Saturday she wen. i ~,~►~,,` THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1835. COURT CIRCULAR. The King and Queen arrived in town at a quarter past fire o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. His Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of Albemarle and Lord Hill. In the evening the King had a dinner party at St. James's. Amongst the company to meet their Majesties were—Earl Brownlow, Viscount Ashbrook, Lords Saltoun, Frederick Fitz clarence, and Elphinstone ' • Ladies Frederick Fitzc l a r e nce and Mary Fox ; Sirs Hussey Vivian, W. Houston, and A. Bar nard ; the Treasurer of the Household, the Rev. Dr. Blom berg, Colonels Cavendish and Drummond. The band of the Royal Artillery were in attendance in an ante-room, and performed several pieces in the course of the evening. The Queen honoured the performance of " I Puritani" (for the benefit of Signor Rubini), at the King's Theatre, last even in.- with her presence. 'The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove in the Parks yesterday morning. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Miss Kerr, Rev. Mr. Wood , Sir James Re y nett, and Baron Knesebech, went yesterday to the Thames Tunnel, and afterwards to Blackwall. The Prince of Leinengen left Kensington Palace yesterday for Dover, on his Serene Highness's return to Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, honoured the Marq uis and Marchioness of Ailsa with their company at dinner last evening, in Whitehall gardens. A numerous Deputation had a conference yesterday with Viscount Melbourne and the Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, in Downing-street, on the subject of tea. The Cabinet Ministers dined with Sir John Hobhouse on Wednesday evening, in Berkeley-square. Mr. O'Connell and a very numerous deputation had an in terview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, respecting a Lottery for improvement of the Shannon. ROYAL COLOSSEUM FETE. -- - Last night a grand fete was given at this magnificent esta blishment to celebrate its opening for evening entertainments which have been got up under the direction of the new .pro prietors, Messrs. Braham and Yates. The visitor is admitted to the " Eleusinian Caverns," a dark and gloomy vaulted pas sage, upon the walls of which the light is dimly reflected from the lamps concealed from the view. Having passed through this cavern he proceeds to the Cave of Elora, a continuation of the same passage, in which the feeble moonlight is ad mitted through the crevices of the rocks, and is so admirably contrived, that the visitor, suddenly ushered into the cave, is most inclined to doubt whether it be nature, or only " mimic art." Escaping from these dark caverns, at the end of which a military band was stationed, and having passed through a small ante-room fitted up as a tent, he proceeds into the grand Reception or Banquet Room of Mirrors. This is a most ele gant apartment. The ceiling is supported on either side by four prismatic columns, the sides of which are of looking-glass; the walls of the apartment are adorned with splendid mirrors, reaching from the floor to the ceiling, which latter, as well as the spaces between the mirrors, is most exquisi sitely painted, after the fashion of some of the modern public exhibition rooms in Paris. The cornices are richly and beautifully adorned with gold mouldings, and the room is illuminated by three magnificent chandeliers. Ottomans are placed at the sides, and in the centre are three of a circular form, in the midst of which rise parterres, containing the most fragrant flowers and exotics. The room next in succes sion is called the " Salon de Danse." It leads by three ter races, each rising above the other, to the 'llligdis,of the Water Queen." Her abode is in a stalactitic submarine hall, and the murmuring without of the water, as it' tishes down the artificial precipice (which forms one of the many curiosities, and is seen from the Swiss cottage), heightens the illusion, and almost completely embodies the idea of the residence of the mythological naiads beneath the waters of the deep. A massive gilt lustre, supplied with gas. throws a brilliant light into the room, the walls of which, however, require some fur ther embellishment. Returning to the ante-room, the visitor proceeds to that which has hitherto been known as the sculp ture gallery, but in the modern phraseology of the Colosseum is called the Salon des Nations. The why or the wherefore of this change is not evident. In this saloon several panels of the wainscoting are removed, and in the corresponding re cesses a variety of tableaux are presented, giving views of se veral of the picturesque situations of London and the envi rons. Revisiting the ante-room, and crossing it, the next object of attraction is the " Indian Supper Room," built over the well-known Swiss cottage. This commands an excellent view of the mimic waterfal l, upon which a strong body of light, concealed from view, Is cast with fine effect. Having inspected the interior of the building we next advance to the outside. Here we meet with illuminated walks, sloping paths, dark passages, gloomy terraces, intersect ing one another, in addition to optical delusions, cosmo ramic views, and mysterious little corners, without number. An illuminated Chinese bridge and pagoda are striking fea tures, and at every point there is some object of attraction. Above all these, on the highest terrace, is the painted figure of the Colossus of Rhodes, with a shield in his hand sinister, round which revolves a large globe of gas ; this, in conse quence of its elevation, may be seen at some distance in the park. Having inspected the conservatories, and the jet d'eau, which a festoon of variegated lamps encircles, the stranger may be said to have completed his labyrinthine journey through the mazes and intricacies of this queen of enchantment, every part of which is opened, with the exception of the Panorama of London and the grottos. These are only reserved for the inspection of the morning visitors. The fete of last night, which was for the benefit of the Charing-cross, Westminster, and North London Hospital, was a very magnificent affair. It was calculated that there could not be less than fifteen hundred )ersons present. Many of the visitors appeared in splendid 'ancy dresses. INSTALLATION OF THE MARQUIS CAMDEN. (Abridged from a Morning Contemporary.) CAMBRIDGE, W EDNESDAY, JULY 8. The actual business of the Cambridge " Commencement" was over yesterday, and nothing now remains but College fcasting, conducted upon a most splendid and extensive scale. There is to be this day a grand banquet at St. John's. It will be given in the pavilion or marquee,' which I noticed in a former letter, and about 500 persons are to sit down to the dif- ferent tables. There was last night a second Concert in the Senate House, but the singers and instrumental performers sang and played almost entirely to their own ears, and the place was nearly deserted, in consequence of its being known that the Duke of Wellington was not to be present, while in the mean time the principal musical attraction had vanished, by the re- , reuturn of Mademoiselle Grisi and Lablache to London. The music consisted of selections from Beethoven, Rossini, Bellini, Chevalier Neukomm, Hummell, and Professor Whitfield. The concert went off very languidly, the principal singers having no incitement to exertion, as their notes were poured forth to empty walls and benches. In addition to the numerous circle of Noble and distinguished visitors already assembled here, there arrived in the course of yesterday and this morn ing, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Ramsay, the Earl of Jersey, and the Earl of Harrowby. At an early hour this morninc , up wards of 200 of the yeomanry, inhabitants of the surrounding di,triets, paid their respects to the Duke of Wellington at Trinity Lodge, where his Grace is staying. On their return they appeared to be highly gratified with the recep tion they had met with, and were heard to speak of it in warm terms. _ _ At 12 o'clock this morning, the Chancellor, 'accompanied by thci Duke of Cumberland, Prince George of Cambridge, the Vice-Chancellor, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Grafton, and many other distin guished visiters, with a long academic train of Masters, Doc tors, and Fellows, attended a Grand Concert at Great St. Mary's Church. The Chancellor, and the Royal and Noble personages accompanying him, took their seats on the throne; on his right sat the Duke of Cumberland, 'Prince George of Cambridge, and the Vice-Chanceller ; on his left were the Duke of Northumberland and the Duke of Wellington. Ihe space behind was occupied almost entirely by ladies ; and indeed by far the greater proportion of the audience (if such a term may be used in reference to a place so sacred) was composed of the fair sex. The performers were all the same parties who were engaged in the oratorio of the Messiah, on Saturday last, but on this occasion they were heard to in finitely more advantage. It may be readily supposed that the Duke of Wellington in herits from his Noble father, who was a most successful votary of St. Cecilia, if not a talent, at least a refined taste for mu sic ; and in this instance his Grace plainly showed, both in the expression of his countenance and his manner, that not a single point of excellence was lost upon him. He frequently expressed his approbation in accents which, though subdued, were still audible enough to be heard by all who were present, and while he did so every body could not help feeling that it was justly deserved. The Noble Duke seemed to experience a peculiar degree of pleasing emotion at the splendid bril liancy of varied effect •I‘hich Madame Caradori Allan pro- duce . d. The concert was not over till past two o'clock, and about three the Chancellor drove to the building called the Pitt Pi ess, where a collation was prepared for a numerous party, in cluding the Royal and distinguished personages already men tioned, as also the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Henniker, Lord Clive, and the Bishops of London, Lincoln, Bath, and Wells, Exeter and Carlisle, with a vast assemblage of the members of the University. Several ladies were also present. The Duke of Wellington app in his robes as a D.C. L. upon the occasion. After remaining about an hour in social conversation together, the wh ole p arty broke up, many of them to attend the dinner at St. John's, and others to feast at less crowded tables. S eared Six o'clock, p. I have just heard that the visit this morning to the Duke of Wellington by the Cambridgeshire yeomanry, though one of congratulation or compliment, still had for its object a matter of positive and important business. They presented to his Grace an address complaining r,f the distressed state of the agricultural interest, and requesting his aid and interpo sition. The Noble Doke, in answer, is said to have admitted that agriculture constituted the main strength and support of the country, and regretting his inability to do any thing which could, under existing circumstances, afford the parties practical relief, promised to take the subject into his consideration, and attend to whatever suggestions they might offer to him. The public breakfast, is to take place toTtnorrew 'at Trinity, T; Rioit4Ttiitivard to 'as' 'tlie grandest inciitental con tented, with the Installation, -and is to conciode whole round of Collegiate revels. AMEN T under the Reform Bill. He believed that if this Bill were carried into effect in the great towns, it would very much add to that faction, and consequently they would not be able to preserve, in a due degree, the balance of the Constitu tion.—( Hear, hear.) It seemed probable that the balance of power would be changed in those cities, or that great struggles would be made for that object. That power had hitherto run in a different course, and by that means they had at tained that height of liberty and happiness they had so long en joyed. That course consisted in a mixture of monarchy, aristo ,:racy, and popular feeling ; and he did contend that this Bill would destroy that happy constitution of things. The greater part of the population had grown rich in trade under the encourage ment of the aristocracy. It must be recollected that in those cities every householder had a vote for the town Councillors, for the limitation to having paid three years' rate being qua lified by a proviso, that it was not necessary to occupy the same House during that period. The constituency would be considerably larger than was imagined, and the effect of the Bill would be to set the population to gether in a way which would not at all be agreeable to general order, while it would introduce into power persons not of the same degree of loyalty and attachment to the constitution as those who now held that power. It could not be concealed that in the great towns the corpora tions in general consisted of persons who rallied round the principles of loyalty, and he believed that if an opposite course were taken, and the power was vested in a purely po pular body, a force would be created which was contrary to the Constitution, and might have the effect of destroying it. This Bill would add to the popular force a number of fierce democracies, which would disturb the peace of the country, and endanger the monarchy. ( Hear, bear, hear.) He would not contend for the corruptions of corporations, nor was he anxious to maintain the old corporations as they were ; but was it, he would beg to ask, likely that this Bill would produce a purer Government? He did not believe that a democratical Government would be purer—this form of Government had virtues, but purity was not one of them. They must not expect to correct the corruptions of corporations by making them more popular. On these consi derations he felt it his duty to take the sense of the House upon the motion which he meant to conclude with, viz. : " That all towns should be excepted, in which, according to the schedules, the number of Councillors amounted to thirty." Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Mr. H. Twiss, said that upon a representation from the new Corporations, the Privy Council would take into consideration the population and general state of the town, and appoint the number of councillors accordingly. They must not alto gether go by the population, as in some large towns the po pulation was so poor that they could not find a sufficient num ber of councillors. Mr. ROEBUCK opposed the motion of Mr. Scarlett. After a short discussion, Mr. SC ARLE TT rose and said that the proposition did not seem to be generally supported by his own side of the House.—( Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) Although, therefore, he persevered in his opinions, he would not give the House the trouble to divide.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. GROTE thought the number of Councillors for Batb, viz. 48, was considerably too large for that place. He thought all the business might be very well done by 30. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL begged to remind the House that these Councillors were to supply the place of all the Commissioners under Local Acts of Parliament. The Commissioners of Paving, Watching, Lighting, &c., were to be superseded by these Councillors, so that by the time they were subdivided into Committees on these various local Acts, the number would not be considered larger than was necessary. Sir. R. PEEL agreed with the Hon. Member opposite, that the number was too larva to meet and deliberate, and that it would lead to great inconvenience if they degenerated into a debating society. There was no precaution taken in the Bill against this inconvenience, and in all questions of public interest it was certain that the attendance would be very nu merous. The watching of the town might be transferred to them, but he questioned whether the Paving and Lighting Commissioners could be transferred without a special autho rity. The number of Councillors on the several Committees should not be large, for his (Sir Robert Peel's) experience enabled him to say, that the more the number of a Committee was increased, the more the responsibity was divided, and the worse the business was done.—( Hear, hear.) If these councillors were to be elected and enjoy popular con fidence, why not limit their numbers ? The whole Metropolitan Police was managed by two Commissioners, and if seven were appointed, there would be five more salaries to pay, and the business would be much worse done. He would much sooner see the business of large towns, like those of Bristol, Birmingham, and Manchester, committed to three intelligent men, then to seven, nine, or a greater number. He hoped that, instead of establishing 60 or 70 as the minimum for the number of Councillors for the town of Bristol, that the maximum should be only 13. He would not fix the minimum below twelve in the smaller towns—to that he would be opposed, but he did think that the larger the town the smaller the number of Councillors should be, and not as the Noble Lord seemed to think, that they would then be larger.—(Cheers.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the arguments of the Right Hon. Baronet would be perfectly right, supposing these officers were salaried officers ; but when the Council —when they were speaking of the Council—they were to re member that it would be composed of persons who would be very far from devoting their whole time to that duty. Many of them would be persons in business, whose business occupied them in a great measure ; and therefore it was only the time that they considered extra time that they would devote to the affairs of the town. It was upon that principle that he thought the Town Council should be numerous ; and it was upon the same principle that, in local acts for paving and lighting, there were generally from 70 to 80 Commissioners appointed. Now, as under this Bill the whole officers of the town would be under the control of the Council, he thought they should be numerous. Mr. BAINE S was of opinion, that the number of the town councils proposed by the Bill was not excessive, and he found ed that opinion on the following circumstance :—Every one acquainted with Manchester, knew that the governing body of that town consisted of 240 persons ; the governing body of Salford consisted of 120 persons. New, the number of mem bers prescribed by the Bill for the town-council of Liverpool, a place, the population of which was equal to Manchester and Salford together, was 90. From these facts, he inferred that the number was not excessive. Experience led him to the con clusion that the number of the council appointed by the Bill, would be adequate to the administration of the various places to which they belonged, but that a diminution of that number would be injurious. There was: another observation arising out of those which he had already made, with which he would likewise trouble the Committee. It should be remembered that in appointing these councils, they were appointed not for a stationary, but for an increasing population, and, therefore, that it would be better to err on the side of excess, than on that of deficiency. Mr. E WART agreed in opinion with the Hon. Member who had just preceded him. Mr. ROEBUCK begged to be allowed to move as an amendment to the proposition respecting the city of Bath— " That the number thirty, be substituted for the number forty eight." Mr. WILLIAMS did not think the number proposed by the Bill too large. Adverting to the number of the Com mon Council of the City of London, he maintained that if, instead of that number, the number was only sixty, the whole of their time would be occupied by the business of the city. Sir ROBERT PEEL was persuaded, that if the number of the members of the Common Council of the city of Lon don were doubled, the business of the city, instead of being done better, would be done much worse. Where the number of the members of any body was large, it was no distinction to belong to it; where comparatively small, to belong to it became a distinction worthy of the ambition of respectable men. He had had much experience of public bodies ; and he would venture to prophesy, that in any body of the kind in question composed of eighty or ninety members, four or five would seriously devote themselves to their public duties ; but that, whenever anything was to be given away, then all the members would attend ; and the four or five who had rendered themselves, by their attention, conversant with the business, would be overborne by the mass ; who, not having taken any share of the burden upon themselves, must necessarily be in a state of comparative incapacity ; and who would, neverthe less, desert the four or five who had been doing all the work. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Sir J. RAE REID was decidedly of the same opinion as his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Tamworth. Mr. WILLIAMS, in explanation, observed, that the due execution of the duties to be imposed upon the Town-Councils would occupy much time ; and that, unless there was a division of labour, those duties would be imperfectly discharged. Mr. HO R ACE TWISS adverted to the constitution of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. That body managed the affairs of one of the largest empires in the world, and had to subdivide itself for that purpose, into various committees ; and yet it consisted of only twenty-four members. Mr. GROTE said that with respect to the Common Coun cil of the city of London, he thought that the great number of the members of which it consisted was the greatest vice about it ; and therefore, in his opinion, the illustration of the Hon. Member for Coventry was an unfortunate one. In his opinion it would be much better to limit the number of the members of the Town-Councils, and by that means to increase their value. As to the allusion made by an Hon. and Learned Gentleman to the constitution of the Board of Directors of the East India Company, the merit of their proceedings was attributable rather to the conduct of the upper servants of the Company than to the constitution of the Board. After a few words from Sir G. Clerk, Lord Sandon, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Denison, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. Cresset Pel ham, the Committee divided, when the numbers were— For the original motion, that the Town-Council should consist of 48 members For the amendment, that the Town-Council should consist of 30 members... hoped that copies of it would be in the hands of Members on - it:londay morning, that they might have time to consider it be f,re the Report, which he should move be taken into consi deration on TueSday. He did not see the necessity for coin miffing the Bill again for the purpose of discussion, as he thought that all that was required might take place on the Report. Mr. C. W. WYNN asked whether the Irish Tithe Bill was to be read a second time on Monday ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that the second reading would be proposed early on the evening of Monday. Mr. LE NN ARD had been much pressed to propose a clause to the effect that there should be a day of nomination of the members of the Town Council previous to the day of elec tion. He trusted that the Noble Lord would take the su,g gcstion into his consideration. Lord JOHN RUSSELL observed, that the subject had also been pressed on the attention of the Government, and after the fullest consideration of it they came to the conclu sion, that having a day of nomination for members of the Town Councils would only lead to confusion.—( Hear, hear.) He felt it necessary to observe that he should have a clause to add to the Bill at a future stage, which he believed must be founded on a resolution of a Committee of the whole House. The object of the clause was to enable the Lords of the Trea sury to make compensation in certain cases. He would explain the nature of this resolution in the course of the evening. The CHAIRMAN was then ordered to report the Bill to the House.—( Loud cheers.) The House resumed. Ths Chairman appeared with the Report at the Bar. It was brought up and ordered to be re-committed. The House again resolved itself into Committee. The Bill, with amendments, was ordered to be reported to the House. The House then resumed. The Report was brought up and ordered to be taken into further consideration► on Tuesday next, and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. POST-OFFICE. Mr. WALLACE rose, in conformity with the notice which he had given, to bring forward a motion respecting the state of the Post-office. Before he proceeded to the sub ject matter of his motion, he should ver) briefly revert to what had been sail of him in another place by a Noble Duke, formerly Postmaster-General. He would not recriminate on that Nobleman, but he thought that he should have no diffi culty in showing that in the view he took of the matter ho was right, and the Noble Duke was in the wrong. A similar observation he also wished to make with regard to Sir Francis Freeling. A document had been laid on the table entitled " Papers relating to the Post-office," and he had no hesitation in saying that they were more delusive than any papers that he had ever seen, as coming from a public department to that House. He felt bound to make this observation in justice to the gentlemen who had conducted the Revenue Inquiry. He confessed that his views on this subject had not been changed by the letter written by the Duke of Richmond in answer to the Report of the C o mmissioners. In a document laid on the table in April, 1834, on the state of the revenue, there was a return of the revenue of the Post-office for a certain number of years. This return was for Great Britain, and did not include Ireland. Now, he contended that in this document there was not less than 10,97,0001. unaccounted for. He trusted that the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be directed to this subject. He objected to the constitution of the Post office, and thought that the office of Postmaster- General should be discontinued. There had not been less than five Post masters General within the last twelve months, and it was im possible that any man could make himself master of the de tails of an establishment like the Post-office, or even with its general business, in a short space of time. For seven or eight months in the year there had been no Postmaster-General, and all the duties of the office had been delegated to the Se cretary of the Department. The business transacted between the Postmaster-General and the Secretary was carried on in a most objectionable manner. The Secretary opened all docu ments, and wrote his opinion on the margin, and this opinion generally influenced the head of the office. This system bad beeh strongly censured by the Commissioners of Revenue In quiry. Again, the accounts between the Post-office and the Treasury were kept in such a complicated manner that it was utterly impossible that they could be correctly kept. In con sequence of this he was satisfied that the Treasury often sanctioned proceedings which they never would do if they were acquainted with their nature. The first thing he com plained of was, the delegation of duties in the Post-office— secondly, that it was a trading company—and thirdly, that it expended money received through it without first getting the sanction of the Treasury, as was the case with the two great departments of Excise and Customs. One of the great objections to the present system was, that it frequently happened that individuals were appointed Post masters-general who, besides being unacquainted with the duties of the office, were wholly without any habits of busi ness. When Lord Maryborough at the age of 72 became the apprentice of Sir F. Freeling, he should like to know what his Lordship was likely to learn ? He would say let there be a commission or some other arrangement, he did not care what it was, so that the business was likely to be better done. The Honourable Gentleman then referred to the immense patro nage at the disposal of the Postmaster-general, and complained of the manner in which it had been exercised. He said he found from a Return for which he had moved of the appoint ments of deputy Postmasters and Postmistresses, during the last five years, that there were on an average 386 original ap pointments in the year, and that they were worth 90,4001. a.. year. The number of promotions were remarkably small. He observed in this return that many females had been ap pointed to discharge the duties of the post-offices in the coun try. He had heard that in some cases females had received the appoiatment instead of their husbands, in order that the latter might not be disqualified from voting at elections. The merit of the arrangements at the Post-office were not Sir F. Freeling's, it belonged to Mr. Palmer, the inventor of mail coaches. Now was the time when a change had become ne cessary, in consequence of the great age of Sir F. Freeling, to alter the system and carry into effect the improvements that might be considered desirable advantage should be taken of this opportunity, for none more favourable was likely to offer itself. The income at present derived by the Secretary was 4,1651. a-year ; and the under-secretary received 8001. a year, making 4,9651. a-year to these two officers. To this was to be added, the value of the secretary's house, which he estimated at 1,0001. a year, taking into consideration that he had no taxes to pay, and that he was supplied with coals and and candles. In his opinion the duties might be performed most efficiently by two Commissioners with 1,000/. a year each, and by a Secretary with 8001. a year, and an Under Se cretary with 400/. a year. All the duties of the office might be most efficiently conducted at an expense yearly of 3,7651. For the Secretary's house there was no use. There was no night duty performed at the General Post-office ; it had been so contrived that all night duty was avoided at this office, which was an exception in that respect to all the others in the kingdom. With a view to the more efficient dispatch of busi ness, and to afford the public greater accommodation, he would have the clerks to take the night duty in turns.; and as they would be entitled to accommodation, he would divide the house amongst them. He observed that there was a charge of nearly 2,5001. a year for greasing, oiling, and cleaning the carriages; he thought he might venture to say that none of this money was spent out of St. Martin's-le-grand. He would move for a Return in detail from the Money-order office, of the whole amount of poundage charged by postmasters upon. post-office money orders, in each of the last three years. This office was established for the purpose of enabling the poor to transmit to their poor friends any sum to the amount of 5/. in a way that was not to cost them anything. Now what was the Return? Why, that the Post-office knew nothing about it, because it was not in their department. The Return said, " The Money-order office is a private establishment, and the business carried on by private capital, under the sanction of the Postmaster-general; but as no accounts con nected in any degree with it are kept at the Post-office, no Return can be made by the Postmaster-General to the above order of the House of Commons." Now he wished to know with whose capital the establishment was carried on ? Was it not the country's ?—Whose were the servants? The coun try's. Where were the accounts kept ? At the Post-office of the country. He hoped that the Heuse would not be content with such a Return as this, but that it would order another and more perfect one. The House should see who received the ernolument derived from this source of plunder. Eight-pence in the pound was the sum taken by this jobbing from the poor parent or child, instead of their being allowed to send their money free. This was not all; the Post-office made an order necessary, and thus the parties were put to an additional expense of a double letter. What became of this Bd.? There were two or three officers in the country who divided it amongst them ; in London they raised Bd. in the pound, and the Post. office people put it in their pockets. Who they ere who did so they refused to tell ; but if the House woul , !, grant him a committee he would undertake to discover de e m Li the country the Deputy Postmaster, who took in the :letter, put 3d. of the Bd. in the pound into his own pocke's with the sanction of the Postmaster-General; the sum of r ed. more went into the pocket of the Deputy-Postmaster to whom the order was sent ; the remainder found its way 'into St. Martin's le-Grand to the General Post-office. Yet they said they knew nothing about it. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the establishment of a Register-office for the safer transmission of money. A Register-office had saved as much as 12,0001. a year to the bankers in Ireland by the recovery of cut notes, and the Post-office saved 1,000/. a year in law expenses. Under this arrangement, every man who paid for his letter was sure that it would reach its destination. A person paying Is. had a right to have his letter registered, and that was the usual course adopted with money-letters. The consequence was, that letters were not, as in this eountry, thrown into the fire, and the money put into the pocket of the persoa who broke them open. He would recommend the re-instatement of such an office as this. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the mail-coach department, which he said he had last year characterized as a job. He complained of another de fective Return. He had moved for a Return in detail of the amount paid to the contractor or contractors for furnishing mail-coaches, distinguishing the number in use in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The Return furnished stated that the average" number of mail-coaches in use "in England and Scotland," may have been abo , li 250 per annum, in each of of the last ten years ; ; :a Ireland about 74. This was the ame Return as made last year. Why, when the House ordered eturn distinguishing the number ill use in England, IrP ) . - and, and Scotland, were they furnished with only an average Return of f the a n t r tbhee st-or inpo.LlSCffice did not choose" in England and. S c otland ?" The act was, 01. to tell them hy theythe coaches were lvpayingere worth 2e,O 0 0 if paid d 3 O f , e o r o a year more than v. by m ile. The re were three men in En g land who tould t ' v e e ,h, re quired information, and he would tell the House t h e y were—they were, Mr. Vidler, Sir F. Freeling, and Mr. Johnson. Scotland had nine of the coaches out ~f the 250. The coaches were of a miscrabledesesiption they were most incommodious and amblin g ; in short, they 'l ciß . tlrtlal IMPERI ROUSE OF LORDS, Jux.r 9. The Earl of SHAFTSSBURT took hia seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. POOR LAWS OF IRELAND. Lord DYNE VOR presented a petition from Carmarthen, iraying for a legislative enactment for the relief of the poor in [reland. The Earl of LIMERICK said he would take that oppor tunity of defending himself from a most gross attack that had been made upon him in the Morning Herald of the 7th inst. In the Morning Herald of that day, they called the atten ti3n of the magistracy and the public to an article which they had copied from the Star Irish newspaper. The publica tion in that paper was a reference to an article in the Morning Herald, relative to the state of the starving poor in Ireland, and especially in England. The paragraph, after adverting to the poor in Ireland, observed that it could bear testimony to the truth of the statements that had been made, and that the last person who had died of starvation in Limerick, was one of the tenants of the Noble Earl of that name. Now he (Lord L.) was not aware whether that statement was true or not, but this he would say, that he believed there was not a single county in Ireland in which more attention was paid to the wants of the poor than in the county of Limerick. The Noble Lord, after adverting at some length to the paragraph in question, which stated him to be an oppressive landlord, and one who, when called upon to do so, took no notice of the state of his tenants, stated that although he considered the paragraph as an attack upon the freedom of debate in that House, yet he should not conclude by moving that the printer should attend the Bar. He was as anxious as any man for the freedom of the Press, and he thought be was advocating that freedom when he endeavoured to put an end to such libels as the one he had adverted to. He should take the opinion of his professional advisers whether the article was a libel or not, and if it was, the parties might depend that neither trouble or expense would be spared by him to bring them to justice. ISLINGTON MARKET BILL. Mr. Justice PARK delivered the judgment of the Judges upon the points submitted to them, relative to the rights of the city of London under the charter by which a market in Smith field was granted. Their Lordships were of opinion that the words of that grant were not sufficient to warrant the grant of a new Market during the existence of the old one, beyond two and within seven miles of its scite. Lord BROUGHAM thought that the better course would be to refer back the opinion of the Judges and the Bill to the Committee. He agreed entirely in the opinion that the Judges had given. Lord SALISBURY moved that the opinion of their Lord ships be entered on the journals, which was agreed to. The Earl of FALMOUTH presented a petition from Fal mouth, complaining of the present state of the timber duties, and praying for their alteration. The Patent Bill went through a Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Monday. A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. The Prisoners' Counsel Bill was brought up from the Commons. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage. The Duke of RICHMOND presented the Fourth Report of the Gaol Discipline Committee, in which they reported that the gaols of Scotland were in a much worse state than those of England or Wales, and recommending the appointment of Inspectors of Gaols in Scotland. The NOBLE DUKE then movedthat the House go into Com mittee on the Prison Discipline Bill, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee, whose Report he bad just presented, he moved a clause for the appointment of two Gaol Inspectors for Scotland. ' No opposision was offered, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. SOAP DUTIES. - - The Soap Duties Drawback Continuation Bill went through Committee without any amendment. Lord BROUGHAM, in the absence of Lord Denman, moved the second reading of the Certiorari Bill. The Noble Lord shortly explained the nature of the Bill—the purport of which is to give the Court of King's Bench power to require higher bail than 201. when a case was moved into that Court by the defendants. The Duke of RICHMOND expressed his thanks to the Noble and Learned Lord who had so promptly attended to the suggestion he had thrown out. He trusted that the Noble and Learned Lord would not think it too much, if he asked him to insert in this Act a clause empowering a Magistrate to take bail in cases of minor importance, as the law now did not give him power to take bail, unless he entertained some doubt of the guilt of the parties ; as he thought no man should be kept in prison when he could be bailed to such an amount as ensured his appearance. He cited two cases to the House which oc curred at the last Quarter Sessions for Sussex, in which the prisoners (boys) had acknowledged their guilt before the Ma gistrate, in having stolen three mackerel, value 9d., and then the Magistrate had no other duty than to commit them for trial, though their master was willing to take them again into his employment. Lord BROUGHAM would take an opportunity to morrow of suggesting the matter to the Lord Chief Justice, who he had no doubt would give it his immediate consideration. The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted to morrow. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JuLr 9. The SPEAKER resumed the chair at 5 o'clock. PENRYN ELECTION. Mr. WILKS brought up the Report of the Penryn Election Committee, finding that W. Rolfe (the Solicitor-General) had been duly elected, but that neither the petition, nor the opposition to it, was frivolous or vexatious. STAMP DUTIES. Mr. HEATHCOTE (we believe) presented a petition from Blandford, praying for the Repeal of the Newspaper- stamp duties. BRIDGE ON THE SHANNON. Captain MATHEW presented a petition from Athlone, praying the House to take into consideration the present state of the bridge over the Shannon, at Athlone, which instead of being of use to the town was a dangerous grievance. They prayed the House to take this grievance into consideration, and to consider further that this bridge was the only point of approach to five counties from the eastern parts ; that the town a Athlone was itself important, and had a considerable inland trade ; and that the greatest fairs were held in its im mediate vicinity, at Ballinasloe for instance, to which the only passage was by this bridge. The O'CONNOR DON supported the prayer of the peti tion, and was happy to be able to inform the Hon. Member that it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to take the subject into consideration. The petition was laid on the table. CORPORATE REFORM. Mr. C. BULLER rose to present a petition from the in habitants of Canterbury, praying the House to pass the Muni cipal Reform Bill as soon as possible. The petitioners wished to press the importance of doing so on the House, in order that Corporations might not in the meantime make away with the corporate property.—( Hear.) Mr. PARROTT presented a petition from Totness, in fa vour of the Corporation Reform Bill. Mr. WASON presented a petition with a similar prayer from Ipswich. Mr. C. WOOD brought up a Report from the Fee Fund Committee of the House of Commons respecting the retire- ment of the Sergeant-at-Arms. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed that they should go into Committee on the Municipal Corporations Bill this even ing, and he trusted that those Hon. Members who had notices on the Orders of the Day would postpone them. Mr. WALL ACE was most desirous to do anything to ac commodate the Noble Lord, as he was aware, of the great importance of the subject. If other Hon. Members would postpone their motions he should cheerfully do it. He hoped he should be allowed to bring it on in his turn in the course of the evening, and if not, he should do so to-morrow. Sir E. CODRINGTON felt his motion (a Return of the naval officers dismissed the service without sufficient cause) to be of so great importance that he could not really consent to postpone it. This was the only opportunity he would per haps have in the course of the session. Lord JOHN RUSSELL made a few observations which were quite inaudible. Sir E. CODRINGTON would postpone his motion, and hoped the Noble Lord would afford him an early opportunity of bringing it forward. Mr. STEWART M'KENZIE, and other Hon. Members, then withdrew their motions. Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from Preston in favour of the Municipal Corporations Bill. The House then went into a Committee of the whole House on the Municipal Corporations Bill ; Mr. Bernal in the Chair. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had one or two amendments of an important nature to propose. He wished also to strike out of the schedule the Borough of Malmesbury, with respect to which there was a local Act, but of so compli cated a nature, that he found he could not deal with it, without making a special provision in the Bill. He also wished to make an alteration in the number of wards in each borough, according to the mass of population contained in each. Mr. SC ARLETT had a duty to perform which he did not flinch from. He proposed to except from the operation of this Bill all those boroughs the population of which was too great to be advantageously applied to the provisions of the Bill. He would take the Boroughs as the limits wherein the councillors, by the provisions of the Bill, were only thirty, and he would propose that all towns in which the council amounted to thirty should be excepted. He hoped the legislature would give a further opportunity to consider what places would come under that regulation. Although anxious to make some observations, be did not mean to detain the House with a speech from so unimportant a person as himself. He could not consent at once to a Bill which would dis franchise half the boroughs—all the boroughs—the greatest part of all the towns in the country, and, if he consented to such a Bill, it would be only in consideration of its operation lacing eel-14110d to the smaller populations, as in that case it might be much less o bjectionable. He was afraid that they had too long forgotten the maxim of Lord Bacon, that " Time is the greatest inhovator."-.4 Hear, bear.) They ooght to innovate, like Time itself, slowly and imper ceptibly.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He believed the application of this Bill to great towns would not have the effect of giving them more peaceable or more honourable Corporations, and ho also believed, that with respect to smaller towns, it was a ve ry great experiment.—( Hear, iteao It would '*'t have the ettict of pthdttchig purity of election, or of prorooting_ 'tti . p ends of justice, or establishing economy '' .,orpor*ion fnr4s. The country was strun—l• t 4 weight of 4 democracy, which 1, -' ' • Majority --3, On our return to the Gallery, we found Colonel WOOD addressing the Committee respecting the number of the Council assigned to Brecon; but it was impossible to collect the purport of his observations in the Reporters' gallery, Mr. BERNAL (the Chairman) then proceeded to read the schedules of the boroughs. Many were passed without ...- mark, on others some conversation took place; but ried on in so low a tprio of voice, and in ars ' that it would bo useloges to attemr+ whatever, The other soh- • - Lewd :pules were then agreed to. JOHN RUSSELL shouldmoo,eveßepthatortthbeeßreilelebiveeadt, once reported to the House, and that .„;iing under and again recommitted pro.fornredonanodrdecrortrheacttethdestßatilel.migHhet peen greatly extended at once be printed in its amen ~ was car- curried a manner, to give any report of it //'_, hard the urn. be n of ular [ on, con had 'enty terly Lion, tture rour- :fired t ac- ition itted rhich ). I. ~t~~ I ~. i