The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

'ave in the young Hercules. A first article was, how ever, accepted, and a s econd, and a thi rd; and of fine M. Cauchois-Lemaire m ade a provisional offer 1,200 francs to his young assistant. After fifteen days, how ever,they placed the sala r y of Louis Blanc at 2,000 francs, then at 5,000; and, lastly, the chief editorship was con fided to him. The sensation which his articles produced was immense, and they exercised great influence upon the democratic party, and helped considerably to asso ciate them for a common purpose, by the union of the theories of the political and social school—the one as the means, the other as the end." According to the opinion of the contributor to Tait, " posterity will place the name of Louis Blanc by the side of such brilliant names as Lamartine and Arago, as among the founders of the new French Republic." We doubt it not, for we are sanguine that the hitherto impracticable scheme of the author of the " Organization of Industry" will ripen into measures calculated to pro mote the happiness of his fellow-citizens. Besides one or two intelligent papers on such subjects as "Life Assurance" and the "Scotch Entail Bill," the magazine contains its usual " Literary Re gister," and its resume of the political occurrences of the month just expired. DUBLIN UNI VERSITY. At the conclusion of an ably-written article on the much vexed question of tenant-right, the Dublin University Magazine thus sums up the subject:— "As to the tenant-right of Ulster, from which we have been led away by these considerations, so far as it rests in occupancy, we do not see how it would be pos sible, even if expedient, to legalise such a right, con sistently with the spirit or theory of our law. We believe the respect shown to old, respectable tenants — even though they should not have been on the land through three successive devolutions of the reversion— to be just and expedient. We would wish, so far as we can influence landed proprietors in Ireland, to recom mend to their imitation the practice, in this respect, not only of men like the Marquis of Londonderry, in Ulster, but of others, such as Sir William Somerville, in Meath, and of many other landlords elsewhere, with whom the claim of being an old tenant on the estate is virtually aa much respected as a claim of. copyhold. But even if it were possible to legalise those claims, and by law to turn them into titles, we would not desire to see the present kindly relations of the parties put on that footing; for it is in the kindness and mutual confidence, and in the wholesome power of control, guaranteed by the system, as it at present works, that its main social advantage consists. While we would, therefore, desire to see the occupancy tenant-right of Ulster, as it really exists, with its immemorial incidents of discretion and control, on the part of the landlord, practically recog nised, we can see no means of promoting its adoption otherwise than by the force of opinion, and by the gene ral inculcation by precept and example , of the landlord's golden rule—' Live aad let live. " But so far as the custom rests in improvements made by the tenant, it ought, if possible, to have the force and sanction of law. We need not enforce the justice of the tenants' claim to compensation for having increased the value of his land; he ought to have his share of the additional wealth called into existence by his capital applied to the land furnished to him by the owner. We need not dwell on a principle recognised by three successive Governments, and which must soon become law. We may observe, however, that any mea sure for this piirpose must necessarily be encumbered by machinery; that the measure now befor e Parliament will, probably, require revision; and that of the various pl an s hitherto put forward, that suggested by the Irish Council seems capable of being carried into effect with least collision of interests and least vexation. Let us add also our opinion, that any measure of that kind ought to be without prejudice to existing customs, and to such special farming contracts as landlords and tenants may think fit to devise for their own advantage. For our own part we believe that the man who would not im prove on a forty one year lease, at a moderate rent, would not improve on a perpetuity; and wherever the power to gra nt such lease exi s t s , w hi c h th e Le g i s l a t u re, we think, might safely extend to all cases, we strongly recommend both landlo r d an d tenant to ma k e their ag.ree ment for themselves. " Such are our views of tenant right as it really e xists, and as it may, in one of its aspeets, be legalised. Ma chinery for determining rent, we will not discuss, any more than machinery for determining how much the traveller ought to give to the highwayman. The owner alone has a right to say how much he will take for the use of his property. Poor rate and the ordinary laws of demand and supply are sufficient guarantees that he will not henceforth get more than is reasonable; and the fate of many hundreds of puisne creditors will probably, before another year shall have passed, render it as im practicable as inexpedient for an Irish landlord to ince pasitate himself for his duties by incurring debt." In another ar ti c l e , ent i t l ed " The Irish Crisis—the Poor-law," the Dublin University runs amuck against the Irish Poor-law with all the un reasoning ferocity of an insolvent landholder. The French Revolution of 1848 is attacked unmerci ully, but the writer, nevertheless, predicts that it will be attended with advantage to England, because there will, in consequence, once more spring up amongst us " that good honest English hatred of French politics, French morals, and French; prin ciples." We protest against any attempt at exciting feelings of " hatred" between nations after this fashion. It is the old trick of the aristocratical party who w ish to excite war between nations, because war gives to them patronage ; but the trick is seen through, and if there is to be a war it will not be a war of nations, but a war of opinions and principles. The war will be between the principles of oligarchy and those of demo cracy, and there will be men of every nation under hea ven found in the ranks of each of the opposing armies. We fully agree, however, with this writer in his con temptuous indignation at the manner in which Briti'h interests were everywhere sacrifice t to Orleans' in terests by the Earl of Aberdeen, who seems to have been solely ambitious of being considered as " head clerk to M. Guizot." " A Third Even ing with the Witch tinders" is a strange chap • ter in the history of human credulity, and " Fletcher's Studies of Shakspere," a delightful review of a delightful work. The " White Rose of Muskerry" is continued, and we have the first part of " An Account of the Latter Days of of the lion. Richard Marston, of Dunoran," which promises well. DOLMAN. Although we can say scarcely anything in com mendation of the epistolary communication respecting the late " French Revolution," with which communi cation for April D o lm an b eg i ns, we are re j o i ce d t o in the g ene r a l p cean o f j oy w hi c h has geeete dt nd the newly-i ns t a ll e d P rov i s i onal Government, the voice of the Roman Catholics of England is audible. " The interest* of Catholicism," says the writer, " far from , suffering, w ill i n reality gain by the late Revolution. " The contribution is marred by its being restrieed entirely to vague coininents, and ineffective generalities. As the continuation of a serial, " The Adventures of a Schoolboy" are capital. We are rejoiced to find the writer addin g his experiences to those of so many of his pre.lecessors towards the abolition of the brutaliz ing al systems of fagging and bullying. A not h er se is continued, namely, " The Golden Aof Merry England," an d the one entitled a " ir g ed e Marriage "is brought to a conclusion. The ar M ticle, however, most in uni son w i th the character of Doi man's Magazine, as the organ of the Catholics, is un questionably the little essay called "Modern Liagi ology ;" it is conceived in a beautiful spirit, a spirit (employing the word as an adjective) strictly e a . Molic. Beyond all this, there are literary criticisms and some fragments of ecclesiastical intelligence. MISCELLANEOUS. Among those publications which may be classified 1 as miscellaneous, the most prominent is the Eclectic Review, in the current number of which the criticism on Lamartine's " History of the Girondists" is co n _ eluded_ Having sketched in the preceding month the careers of the Constituent and Legislative As semblies, the reviewer here traces that still more extraordinary career, the career of the National Convention. One observation strikes us as being singularly felicitous, namely, where it is said that " Roland and his wife were a bourgeois duplicate of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette." In the rather scanty and superficial notice of Tennyson's " Prin cess, the Eclectic remarks disparagingly that the "Medley" resembles grotto-work, "where the spar aglitterst beside the common pebble-stone, and the tr f : r and jasper are embedded in sand." It cannot tn „ a r s tt!,t.l that Dr. Johnsln, in a precisely similar pre c i„, l3 7: of Shaksperelas a mine in which the debased w i ti e l i was " clouded by incrustations and g o a n z , i i rie ß p ro , pe : P‘V i ties." Lowe 's Edinburgh Illa- Farnine° " d th e ablest article for April is that era ir aga . e Indian Archipelago." In the by Cuthbert t z : e s ,, o 7il o i n b: C fo o und an admirable essay, Dressing." embellishments apoliet is sca nl re m , on Salt as a Spring as it is, " the wanstuop" precedienly so elegant in its Repertory of n" h as no ~f , ocasions. Even Patent bine n ti on.s e PPtitor. Newton's manneripnioaus rernarkable for it s PPears , as heretofore, information. From s accuracy permitted, extract' hers Magazine co we would, if apa ce . the Da, 37, and its cornme o r n . the monetary t- • Some Bible observations of F c1: 1 1 3 world of the Continent agitated the very a ,,,_ the Revolution has articles are published inruary. Several ment since Quarterly Educational the current numberntellig,nt the interest of the educational ; but, Unhappily, recces of a political characatseerquence of recent occur- BANQUET TO VISCOUNT $a GE AT CARLTON CLun.—Last evening, the nobl Tn': tlemen members of the Carlton Club gave an and an entertg'ti onn ment to Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardi ng°, on his return from India. The banquet t oo k plebe in the spacious now coff-e-room of the club-house, covers - being laid for above 200. Lord Saltoun presided, end was supported on the right by Viscount liardinge, th e , Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Hmtrose, and the Marquis of Salisbury ; and on his left sat the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Atholl, the Marquis of Aber, corn, and the Earl De Grey. The principal. table pre aented a superb display of ornamental plate, contributed iq the Earl of Eglinton and other noblemen belonging to the club; sod the whole was illuminated by massive .filt candelabra. THE SUN, LONDON, its penalty from death to transportation, and that that portion of the Bill which extends the whole Act to Ire land should be maintained permanent, as we propose it, we are ready to concede that those other parts of the Bill with respect to open and advised speaking, and, which is new, shall have only a temporary operation. —(Loud cheers.) For my own part I believe that the enactment will be a right one, but that of which I am most deeply convinced is that such an enactment is necessary, if we mean to keep away the danger by which we are threatened. The Hon. Member has referred to precautionary measures which are pro posed to be taken against aliens. In a few days I expect that Bill will be before the House, when I shall have an opportunity of stating its objects, and the reasons which have induced her Majesty's Government to bring it forward. Thus much, however, I will say, that any measures which are introduced now are intro duced under the deep conviction that the peace of this i c n o s u t n i t t u r t y i n i n s a w o o f r t t h h a p v country—its re s preserving—(L e h yand)—i t t a h n a n t n the t . tution—are not to be lightly given up, and the trust being in our hands we will endeavour to preserve them intact. Mr. HORSMAN said that there were many law authorities on this question. He had heard with great satisfaction the statement of the Noble Lord, that the operation of the Bill would be, in its general bearing, limited. The Noble Lord had quoted the authority of Judge Blackstone. He (Mr. Horsman) would also quote the authority of that eminent judge. The Honourable Member then went on to quote authorities. The Noble Lord had said that the words themselves were not to hold a party guilty, the words must be attended with an intention " to compass or design." He was perfectly confident that neither the Attorney- General nor the Solicitor-General would contend that these were sanctioned by precedent; he believed that they would concede that they were opposed to all precedent and to all law autho rity. In one of the most interesting books published of late years—he meant the "Lives of the Chancellors," by a Noble and Learned Lord, one of the present Cabinet—in the life of Lord Eldon, the Noble and Learned Author says that when that illustrious judge was Attorney- General, speaking of the Treasonable Attempts Bill,he opposed,it as extending the power of the Crown to an unwarrantable extent, and the Noble Lord himself did not hesitate to oppose the granting of those powers. There seemed within these few days to be engendered a state of alarm for which he saw no warranty. In the year 1796 7, when there was greater cause for alarm than now, and when Mr. Pitt wished to obtain similar powers to those asked for by the Noble Lord, Mr. Erskine raised his voisee against the concession of them. Mr. Fox, on the same occasion, said that they had beard of popular in surrections and popular revolutions, but were these owing to the freedom of popular opinion or the liberty of discussion? No—they were opposed to these; and he quoted the reign of Charles I. in proof, a period when freedom of discussion was fettered by the severest laws. He believed the effect of the recent violent speeches made in Ireland and elsewhere had been to call clown the indignation of the well-disposed upon their utterers. People knew in this country that they could obtain their rights, because they did not merely depend upon Government majorities, but upon public opinion. (Hear.) But if public opinion was to be disregarded if speeches made in public were to render the utterers liable to transportation—a great change in the con stitution of the country could not fail to be the result. Ho regretted that the Government had thought proper to introduce measures which even Pitt, in the zenith of his power, dared not pass, and Lord Castle reagh, in the height of his unpopularity, had not the courage to propose. It was indeed a matter for ex. treme regret that the Government had deemed such a mea sure necessary for the unhappy country of Ireland. There never was a time in the history of the country where they had less cause for alarm, because the great mass of the people were not desirous of any great or sweeping change. Mr. MARTIN rose to move as an amendment, that " open and advised speaking' be left out of the clause. He did so, because he believed the pre sent law stringent enough, and because he wished to see it maintained. A written libel had been always made a criminal proceeding, but spoken had note but they would be under this Bill. The 36th of George 111. made a written libel a criminal proceed ing, but spoken words only a misdemeanour, unless repeated more and more. All the great writers — Blackstone, Coke, Hale—were of opinion that this dis tinction should be made between written and spoken words. And were they, in 1843, to enact a more severe enactment ? A speech could only be delivered to a limited number of persons, for the human voice would not extend to many; but written words might extend to vast numbers. Montesquieu said words often admitted of more significations than one, and if they were to be made punishable as treason, he said there would be an end of not only liberty, but its shadow. He put little reliance upon repeated statements; and he did not think there was an Hon. Member in that House who would undertake to repeat the words delivered by another, nay more, the sentiments. (Hear.) But suppose they had to deal with a panic-stricken jury, sitting last Monday. (Hear, hear.) How could they depend upon the liberty of the speech ? How, then, were they to prosecute ? He gave the Government full credit for having short- hand notes taken of the speeches of persons who were rendering themselves liable to prosecution; but he had no faith in short-hand notes, and the most eminent judges on the bench were of the same opinion as the Learned Judge. He appealed to the Attorney-General if this were not so.—(Hear.) A Learned Judge had endeavoured to pat an end to legalised short-hand writing, because he had been so repeatedly misrepresented in his charges to juries flow, then, if this were the opinion of the Judges, could they depend upon such testimony ? He would suggest that the offence of speaking "open and designedly" should be rendered a misdemeanour, and that it should not be rendered a bailable offence, on the understanding that the person should be tried in a month. —(hear, hear.) He would follow the Noble Lord at the head of the Government to the " last gasp with truth and loyalty," but he entreated him to follow the example of Pitt in 1795.—(i1ear.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said if parole evidence could not be relied upon at all, why let the punishment be light indeed.—(Hear.) But he should have gone further, and in his zeal for the liberty of the people, proposed the abolition of all punish ment for sedition.— (Hear, hear.) If the sugges tion of his Learned Friend was adopted with re spect to the trial of such offenders special commissions would have to be appointed, as the courts did not sit once a month.—(hear, hear.) The punishments for felony and misdemeanour were nearly the same— imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. Mr. Justice Foster laid it down that the speaking of words against the Crown was an overt act, and might be punished accordingly.—(Hear.) He thought the words should be retained, though they might not be made permanently applicable—indeed such was not the intention of the Government. Mr. MARTIN explained that he did nut say that parole evidence could not be trusted. Mr. M. MILNES read the words of Mr. Justice Foster, and said the words read by the Attorney-General were those of Mr. Attorney-General Follett, which, however, he did not make out to the satisfaction of the House. Mr. AGLIONBY supported the amendment. Sir F. THESIGER wished, in the first instance, to correct his Honourable, but not Learned Friend, the Member for Pontefract ( Mr. M. Mines). The words stated by his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General. were the words of Mr. Justice Foster, and not those of the Attorney-General Sir W. Follett. Having said that he wished to correct the statement of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Pontefract (Mr. Martin). The indictment under this clause would be not for words spoken, but for compassing and imagin ing the different objects specified in the clause.—(Hear.) He regretted that the Government had given way as they had done, and consented to make those provi sions temporary, which he thought ought to have been made perpetual.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the Go vernment, by the course they had pursued bad destroyed all the vigour of the Bill merely for the sake of appeasing the opposition to this measure.--(Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. HUME, and the ArreaNer- GENERAL in explanation of the word "compassing," Mr. P. WOOD supported the view taken by the Attorney-General of the word used by Mr. Justice Foster. Ho should, however, be sorry to see the statute-book of this country stained with the making of speaking a felony equal with writing. —(hear, hear,) He thought they ought to be careful how far they altered the law, for by doing so they might create a sympathy in a wrong direction. For these reasons he should vote for the expunging of the words.—(Hear.) Ile was greatly rejoiced that her Majesty's Government had conceded that the provisions of the Act in the respect alluded to by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government should be only temporary. Mr. M. O'CONNELL had no faith in the statements of the Noble Lord or the Government, that the povisions of the Act with respect to speaking would be only tem porary. A fair trial could not be had in Dublin. Mr. GROGAN rose to address the House amid loud cries of" Divide, divide," and withdrew, amid which the TT H4wg, gave eir . rrrw.e. M iscc rat jeliyeiro:voeawogbdnaeGd with nAr Mr.dat a d dressed od w eGurn n der os w rsgcoer i asd t ine h e .so, the Hous e, of ‘u u t teringaddressivid et word.:hde vHidivide," eu ase nd was AN thought su n c The l d o e : y ie g tGentlemanhat it nwast observations e impossible rh to have a fair trial in Dublin.—(Hear, e ar. t ) rials lf sho th u e ld After some Member who had just spoken case, he had better move the clause in the Bill, providing that insertion h t e h take place in London.—(hear, hear.) • Lord JOHN from Mr. H. GRATTAN, should report RUSSELL moved that the Chairman Mr. REYNOLDSprogress,amid loud cries of " Divide." believed tha t • • • impartial as long juries in Dublin were as they we rethe not emp anne ll e d f or poli tical purpo ses , b ut that impartiality cease d . moment they were so th e i r The House then resumed, and progress. the CHAIRMAN reported Sir G. GREY said that ho ro should sit at twelve o'clock to m pposed th a t t h e House . the Committee on the Bill. orrow to p rocee d with Mr. HUME objected to the adoption of Mr. MUNTZ also objected to the House a course. twelve o'clock. Members had other duti es se Bitting at than attending the House.—(Hear, hear. ) Addedtopertorm this, he did not think this was a proper t• to time to discuss such a question as this. Mr. PEARSON suggested that the amendment should be printed, and further time given to consider it. Mr. BRIGHT thought that a longer period ought to be given to the consideration of the measure. The discussion that had already taken place had changed the opinion of many Members with respect to the Bill, and even those of Ministers themselves. On the question being put that the House resolve itself itself into Committee on the Bill at twelve o'clock to-morrow, - • - ]Mx, MOWATT moved, N su amendment, that Os THE MONSTER PETITION. This petition, like the great demonstration got up for Monday last, turns out to be a veritable hoax. The number of signatures attached to it amounted, according to Mr. Feargus O'Connor's statement, to between five and six millions, and he claimed atten tion to it mainly on that ground. We under stand from the very best authority that so far from the petitioners numbering jive millions, they fall short of two, whilst the credence attaching to the veracity of the signatures, may be judged from the fact that not only is the name of Queen Victoria appended to it, but the Duke of Wellington is attached nearly twenty times. Almost every slang name known to Englishmen, such as Snooks, Pugnose, and other nicknames, figure in thousands, and the very coarsest words, of the most vulgar and disgraceful meaning, are found in most unholy abundance. It is the duty of the officers of the House of Commons to report the numbers fixed to every public petition, and in the discharge of their duty the above facts have been disclosed. 'We learn that to such an extent has the fraudulent system of affixing false names been carried in this instance, as to render it matter of doubt whether inquiry will not be absolutely requi site to prevent the House of Commons being again imposed upon by hoaxes so heartless and yet so dan gerous as fraudulent petitions presented under cover of great public meetings. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Hum., 10 A.M.—All remains tranquil. Lumps, 9.59 A.M.—No signs of disturbance here. YORE., 10.10 A.M.—All perfectly quiet. LIVERPOOL, 10 A.M.—The town is perfectly quiet, and business, which recent events had suspended, is resumed with increased vigour. The great rise in funds gives additional confidence. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, April le. CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL. Mr. REYNOLDS (in continuation from our After noon Edition of yesterday) said—He believed that the opponents to this measure would be found to be the representatives of by far the largest constituencies of the country. He had not the least objection that the man who wrote treason should be transported, but he did not think that any Go vernment ought to be invested with the power of depriving any British subject of his right of speaking fully and openly his opinion upon all subjects. The sixth clause of this Bill also made a person liable to a punishment of two years' im prisonment for attending any meeting where such speeches were made. Sir G. GREY thought that it would be much better if the discussion upon the words objected to were to take place in Committee, instead of at the present time. Mr. HUME said that he thought the Noble Lord and his colleagues ought to inform the House whether they were determined henceforth to throw behind them all the principles contended for by the late Mr. Fox. The Noble Lord had frequently made it his boast that he was a disciple of that great man, and expressed a hope that he would ever continue to be so. The Hon. Member then proceeded to refer at some length to the case of the prosecution of Mr. Muir and others, and contended that similar results would follow from the passing of this Bill. Most sincerely, there fore, did he advise the Government not to harry the Bill through its stages 80 rapidly, and to allow the people of the country an opportunity of expressing their opinion upon the subject. At all events he trusted that the Government would allow the Bill to stand over till Monday next. Lord J. RUSSELL then rose, and said, I should cer tainly have been better satisfied if the Hon. Member who has just sat down, and the Hon. Member who had spoken on the subject, had been content to go into Cons• mittee for the purpose of hearing the reasons which might be urged by her Majesty's Government in sup port of the clause which they have so loudly condemned. The Hon. Member for Montrose asked me upon what principle we proposed to act. I say now, and shall ever say, that with respect to general principles of politics, with respect to the great mass of the constitu tion, I believe Mr. Fox to have laid down the true doctrines upon that subject.—(Hear, hear.) But, Sir, eve are now living under extraordinary circum stances—(Hear, hear)—in a time, Sir, when persons think it their duty to call together councils and confe derations, in which they declare that war ought to be made against the Sovereign—(Cheers)—that the forces of the Sovereign should be seduced or bribed, and, if seduction or bribery did not succeed, that they should be opposed by force of arms—(Cheers) —a time, Sir, when persons are advised to arm themselves, and told that if they procure those arms they will gain a signal victory, and that the soldiers and the police will not he able to withstand them—a time when persons think it advisable, even in this House, to show in what manner they mean to proceed, and how they shall advise their countrymen to devise the measures necessary for the -uccess of rebellion.—(Loud cheers.) I believe that, according to the spirit of this constitution, a great lati tude of discussion should be allowed--(Hear, hear) — and that inflammatory language should be per mitted—that language which may excite indignation against our monarchical institutions should be permitted to proceed to a great length, because I know that with out allowances of this kind the liberty of discussion cannot be maintained ; but, Sir, instead of being re proached with having interfered intemperately and nastily, I believe that the general opinion of this country is rather that we have waited too long.—(Cheers.) But, Sir, having come to the opinion that it is necessary to take measures of precaution—that these measures of pre caution may defeat the designs 'of traitors—(Cheers) — that these measures of precaution may prevent a part of the United Kingdom from being deluged with blond by those who have advised the commission of acts the most atrocious—(Loud cheers)—and who have sat down actually in their closets to show how, by various internal engines, by pouring cold vitriol, boiling oil, and other means, they may procure the deaths of their fellow subjects—l say that under these circumstances I should be ashamed of myself if, when I see the danger approaching, I am so fettered by Mr. Fox, so afraid of having Mr. Fox's words quoted against me, that I will desert my duty, and will not take those measures of precaution which I believe to be necessary. That, Sir, is my answer to the Hon. Gentle man who asks me upon what principles we pro pose to proceed.—(Cheers.) I think that the Hon. Gentleman has shown that he will not come to the discussion of the Bill, and I think that he has not fiiily understood the meaning of one portion of the Bal— -1 mean that which relates to Ireland. The Hon. Mem ber has taken the trouble to read to the House at some length the indictment framed against Mr. Muir. That indictment charged Mr. Muir and his asso ciates with having used words calculated to excite disaffection, and to alienate the people from the constitution of this realm, and which were also of an in flammatory character. I should have thought, Sir, that to transport a person for an offence of that kind, an offence which must no doubt be very mischievous, hut did not go beyond the offence of sedition, would be very oppressive and unjust at the present time. For my part I have always been of the opinion that the conviction of Mr. Muir and his associates under that indictment was very unjust. —(Hear) There is, however, a very great (-Welelee betw een us i ng l anguage o f th a t ki n d an d l anguage t ending to excite to the levying of war against the coun try or producing insurrection therein ; and it is the latter which must be the intent under the Bill which we now operation in the propose, that these be the design of the words so spoken, of the atrocity nr otherwise e words arc harmless, and cannot be in Hon.Meraber know that ofleastcondemning degree. The Hon. Member talks be brought spoken words Does not the words may ind in which the use of there are even now cases in which as an overt act to forward on a trial for high treason, prove these words may be condemned .. e treason? It is stated by one of the authorities that e e r x s o o i n t . , who encourage, oradvice p r o persuasion, or command s a h n a y l? cure others to make an attemptaot against the King's per plain overt son is guilty of a Beenaonthdedresinertevnes. made with spoken w t i b th eir respect to spoken words, the fear have being Res death." Yet all the objections which' tr o e f a son understood or misreported, or_ s lions—all these objections, I "Y, will apply of treason as it now stands. Perhaps the - to the law man objects to that law of treason, but do lion. Gentle blame us because we introduce the same measur e not let him blame a milder punishment. There is nomeasure with upon the statute-book by which, if any p ee w sn atl i Act this country, and publishes, any writing with n th ri e r-lt, in intent guilty to cause or levy any war, he may be found of high treason, and capitally punished. Th at is the l of this country by statute, and I would ask they' Honourable Member whether it is fit that one p erson, who sits down to write a newspaper, which he after wards publishes, and in which he commits this offence, should be punished capitalle, and that others, his con federates and his allies, should advisedly and with pre paration make, day after day , spe e ches s e eing that the reporters of the newspapers are before him,w horn he know s will report every word h e says, that these words should be equal to if not of greater malignity than those which are published by his other allies, and while the one shall be found guilty of high treason and capitally exe cuted, that the other can only be:found guilty of sedition, ge at large upon his bail, and probably be afterwards tried only for misdemeanour? Does the Honourable Member think that that is fair or equal justice? Let the Hon. Member not say that we are preparing such un constitutional changes in the law when reducing the Penalty of the one offence we raise the penalty with respec t to the other, cons id er i ng them to be in paint of offe ncesi spositieu equally fl agran t, and showing as great country aa to overthrow the Government and the i n t e e „ ne the e other. I readily admit that proof you hav e ' 3 , b ool i c s b n: ere difficult than in the other. If consent of the authr:re you, and the proof that by the been published, a • r the words therein contained have were the words t rY must at once admit that those publish. With at the Write r or author intended to respect there is not the same 1.. , however, to words spoken, I admit that the jury must of proof, and therefore . woulil require fuller prootirequire, and I have no doubt spoken, even if spoken's/4h with respect to words thus to words printed or preparation, than with respect which can be well eonsii(libliahed. These are matters think that all that part of e t red in Committee. While we charict9r of the offence _he Bill which mitigates the of high treason to felony, and THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, I 848• House do now adjourn to Monday next.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. W. FAGAN, at two minutes to six o'clock, rose to second the motion amid much laughter. The hour of six o'clock having arrived during the Hon. Member's speech, the House adjourned. The effect of the ruse will be to postpone the Com mittee on the Bill either to a late hour to-morrow night or till Friday, and the House will not meet to morrow till the usual hour. CHARTIST CONVENTION. AFTERNOON SITTING. At the re -assembling of the delegates yesterday after noon, Mr. McGrath in the chair, The CHAIRMAN stated that he had received a ♦ast number of letters giving accounts of public meetings held at Lynn, Liverpool, Clitheroe, Southampton, Ban bury, North Shields, Carlisle, and other places, at which unanimous resolutions were passed pledging themselves to support the Convention. Mr. HARNEY said he had to state a fact concerning the conduct of the working men at the Deptford dock yard, which had been overlooked entirely by the re porters who had given accounts of the uproarious loyalty of persons in the employ of Government. These men, he said, unanimously refused to act as special constables on Monday last.—(Hear.) The Times had suggested to day that the whole of the working men who gave their assistance on that day to preserve the peace in case of an outbreak should be treated to a " blow out " at the expense of the aristocracy.—(A laugh.) But instead of giving the working men a feast once in a hundred years, the Convention intended to put them in a position to have a guod feast every day. The motion of Mr. Adams, that it be an instruction to the committee, that the number of delegates to be elected for the different districts throughout the country should depend upon the extent of the population, irrespective of anything else, was then brought under discussion. A great number of delegates spoke upon the subject, some alleging that the suggestion of Mr. Adams would hare no good effect—that the present Convention was quite sufficient to represent the working classes—that it was all moonshine to have electoral districts, and increase the number of delegates; and that if the Government happened to pounce upon them it would only have the effect of bringing a greater number of Chartist delegates into trouble. Others, that if they wished to act upon the democratic principle, they should not attempt to narrow their sphere of action. but increase it, and that if they were desirous that the Con vention should be, in truth, a National Assembly, an appeal ought to be made to every man in the kingdom. One delegate said, unless they acted upon the electoral district principle, it would be absurd to call this a National Convention . It was observed by another that it would be advisable to have a partial selection, so that such places only might be fixed upon as would return men true to the Charter. Mr. GRAHAM proposed an amendment, that the towns mentioned in the schedule which had been drawn up, should send delegates to the National Assembly, aad, at the same time, every other district containing a suffi cient population should be at liberty to send a delegate if the people desired it. Mr. Josres suggested that, in the event of the Govern ment refusing to make them any concession, the Con vention should issue a manifesto to the people, calling upon them, by virtue of their will, to send delegates to a National Assembly. He wished every town in the kingdom to send a delegate that wished to support the Convention. Mr. Aiwa said he bad proposed the motion in order that they might ascertain the real opinions of the people of this country. They would only sacrifice themselves and the Charter if they placed themselves in a position which was not backed by the majority of the people; but if they had their support they might defy the strongest Government which ever existed in the country, should their rights be withheld. The amendment was then put but negatived, and the motion of Mr. Adams was declared to be carried. ALIEN DILL. Mr. K Y DD gave notice of a motion protesting most decidedly against the Bill proposed by Lord Lans downe in the House of Lords, to expel foreigners who were supposed to have political objects in view from the shores of this country, as being despotic in principle and directly opposed to a wise system of na tional intercourse.—(Cheers.) CRARTIBT CONSISTENCY. Mr. DIXON proposed a motion to the effect that the delegates should pursue one and the same kind of policy at meetings and other places, in accordance with resolu tions which might be come to by the Convention, and not act in opposition to each other. He believed that their procession would not have been interfered with on Monday if the rabid nonsense had not been circulated which some of the delegates had thought proper to utter during the last week.—(Hear.) The motion, at the suggestion of several delegates, was, however, withdrawn. THE MIDDLE CLASSES. Mr. LEACH suggested that the Convention should pass a resolution disapproving of any resolutions condemna tory of the middle classes as a body, and stating that they considered it the duty of the Convention to con ciliate, as far as possible, all classes, and to induce them to support the measures which the Convention had been called to forward.—(Cheers.) After some discussion, the further consideration of the motion was postponed until to-morrow. ADDRESS WITH RESPECT TO SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS. On the motion of Mr. CLARKE, a committee was ap pointed to draw up an address to the country. The Convention then adjourned. STATE OF TRADE. MANctiEsTErt, TUESDAY.—The apprehensions of in ternal disturbances, arising out of the threatened Chartist demonstration in London yesterday, a nd the unsettled state of Ireland, have seri• ously affected the demand for the home trade during the last few days; and, as there is no revival of demand from the continent, the busi ntss done here has been on an exceedingly small scale, with a general though slight decline in prices, particularly in yarn, which feels the effect of increased supplies of cotton to the American ports. We understand that the purchases of goods made last week for the Mexican market are likely to be affected by one of the clauses of the treaty of peace with the United States, which provides that all merchandise imported into Mexico within sixty days after the signature of the treaty, shall be entitled to entry at the low rates of duty imposed by the American Government. This period of sixty days, though quite long enough to enable the mer chants of the United States to send supplies of goods, will be somewhat too short for shipments from Europe, which,consequently, probably be subjected to much of duty. higher The rates s antile letters received by the Cambrian from the United States do not exhibit quite so much alarm on account of the recent revolu:ion in France as might have been expected, considering the extensive commerce be tween the two countries, and especially regarding the large imports of cotton which have been recently made from the American ports to France. Apparently the merchants at New York did not contemplate the utter prostration which has fallen upon the commercial and moneyed classes in France ; but the next arrivals, when the truth would have become more fully known, and when there would have been time to hear from the sou thern states, will probably be of a somewhat different complexion. We understand 'that shipments of cotton from New Orleans to France are not untrequently paid for, in the first instance, by drafts at sixty days, on New York, which, when approaching maturity, are provided for by drawiag on Paris, and selling the bills in the New York market. A credit of nearly four months is thus obtained, and the amount of paper in circulation at any one time is considerably increased. The consequences of this mode of negotiating will, we fear, be exceedingly serious to some of the agency houses at New Orleans and New York ; for, under existing circumstances, bills on Paris have but; little prospect of meeting acceptance or payment. R00m:341.E, MONDAY.—To day has been one of the dullest markets we have had this year. There has been a thin attendance of buyers, and but few pieces have been sold, and those at reduced prices. There has been little or no business in the wool market, and prices may be quoted a shade lower. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—Rather more business has been done to•day in fancy goods, but there is no general improvement, and no expectation of it until political affairs become more settled both at homo and abroad. For yarn, there is an almost entire suspension of demand ; and the short time the mills are now employed is adding to stock. No wool is changing hands, and prices are merely nominal. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY . —But very little doing to day, either in the Cloth -hall or warehouses. Manu ulfanaihanebtsyle, w es et p ue e n c er i n a e l sp l . y ur t t h t o h s e slightest improvement in our lo those lconnectedacturesarweithheavveystiniagst‘hsae,euidr com p laints, p t LEEDS, TUESDAY.-- fully as little doing to - day as there h time past, and our merchan ts continue to be exceedingly market;ash been e ethere forsome was me cautious in their purchases, taking care to buy only for immediate want, which certainly is very trifling.— Manchester Guardian. DISCOVERY OF TWO NEW-BORN CIIILIMEN IN THE STREETS.—An inquest was held yterday by r. Bed- ford, at the York Minster, Dean •s es treet, Soho M , on the body of a new-born female child, found on Saturday night last, in Carlisle-street, Soho-square. Mr. Jones, the parish surgeon, made a post Morton exantination by direction of the Coroner, and it was his opinion that the child was born alive, but be was unable to state the immediate cause of death, or how long it had There was no evidence to prove its identity. Verdict— " Found Dead." In the course of the morning informa tion was received by Mr. Bedford of the finding of the body of a newborn male child by the police, ill the neighbourhood of 13elgrave-square, on the previous evening. The body was conveyed to the workhouse, Mount-Street, Grosvenor-square, to await an inquest. VICTORIA THBATRE.—Very extensive alterations and improvements are being Made iii this theatre prior to its re-opening at Easter. An entirely now stage, with all the means and appliances that have been sug gested by modern science, has been laid down, and will give scope to the introduction of scenic effects of the most surprising and startling nature. A handsome portic o is also in course of construction in place of the so mewhat plain and unsightly edifice which so long formed the f ront o f t h e t h ea tr e . The painter, the de corator, the car ver an d g ild e r, and the upholsterer, are besides diligently employed in all parts of the interior, -and fro our inspection yesterday we doubt not that this fsvur ite theatre will, when re-opened, be-found one of th e most art in this metropolis. t r of the many temples of the dramatic fr,Tahaen Chancellor of the Exchequer has received ympus correspondent 301., " due for fromincome uatacox.raaari.stazing.,it profits since the commencement of the will be psid i nto the Exoheclaer. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. t SENTENCES. The following is a list of the sentences passed during ,he session:— _ _ Death—James Parker, for stabbing Eliza Burgess. Transportation. Fourteen Years Harris Bishop, John William Thompson, for the gold dust robbery ; Henry Brown, George Lower, Samuel Mainey, Thomas Snead, George Payne, Henry Baily, James Taylor, and Benjami❑ Prophet. The last eight formed a portion of the Kennington rioters. Ten Years—Thomas Brill, Henry Stare, Horace Brown, Thomas Schutt, Thomas Schenk alias Barnhard, Maria Hodges, James Dewey, William Brown, Henry Bryant, Edward Foy alias Chandler, Ann Hendley, Ann Dickenson, William Poore, William Boxed!, and William Barret, another of the Kennington mob. Seven Years—William Smith, George Anderson, George Parker, John Smith, William Dixon, Eliza Phcebe, William Harris, William Ashton, George Jack son, George Lane, Johanna Bradshaw, james Mason, Daniel Eagleton, James Mayhew, Henry Nicks, James Ryan, John Asbury, C. Rawlings, Wm. Johnson, Ellen Ryan, John W hivaker, James Hastings, Edward J. Keitch, David Conway, James Perry, Anthony Finlay, Thomas Howlett, David A. Duffey, Thomas Walker, John Williams, George Smith, Thomas Horsely, Wil- Hain Males, and Samuel Morgan, the last nice forming another portion of the Kennington gang. Imprisonment for Two Years—John Fletcher, Thomas Ingram, John Lloyd, William Chick, and Alfred Holmes. Eighteen Months—Charles Ernpey and Andrew Green. Twelve Months —Joseph Frimnier, James Rae, John Davis, H. Csyton, Itobrrt Hail, Robert Brockley, George William Rowley, William Cantrell, Thomas Bailey, Alexander Pickett, John Bartholomew Brookes, William Davis, James Day, William Smith, James Hewett, Thomas Wilson, John Roberts, John Rose, George Treadway, James Badman, Ellen Ormond, George Wil liam Rowley, Benedict James Kriezae, Henry Bates, William Barrett, John Denmore, Robert Archer, and Henry Davis; the last five prisoners being the remainder of the Kennington rioters. Nine Months—Benjamin Harris, James Davis, Thomas Marshall, Thomas Christmas, John Still, and John Hall. Six Months—Charles Watson, James Cripps, Richard Thomas, Edward Jones, Nicholas Purday, Richard Melhuish, John Saunders, Thomas Chislett, James ' Smith, Robert Harley, Eliza Green, Wm. Rogers, Ann Wiggins, Charles Wadham, Thomas Edwards, Sarah Allen, John Ware, John Brown, John Stevens, Henry Smith, George Barber, Wm. Hadaway, Julia Morgan, Josh. Rost, Fred. Jones, Eliza Walker, Elizabeth Brown, Eliza Brown, Wm. Day, John Miller, Charles Smith, Wm. Parsons, James May, Alfred Clarke, John Roe, Richard Williams, Matthew Hayley, Joseph Jen kins, Alexander Macdonald, George Evans, and Ed ward Walter. Two Months—James Meyers, Wm. Thomas Gent, James Smith, Mary Millner, and Elizabeth Tipson. Three Months—James Hager, James Corbett, W. Austin, G. Taylor, G. Button, Mary Welch, Eliza James, Frederick Anderson, Chas. Howard, H. Baker,' Frederick Baker, Richard Hall, Ellen Macarty, W. Lam bert, and Maria Nils. Two Months—Jas. Rock, Samuel Brewerton, W. Loder, John Gall, and Richard Stratton. One Month—Robert Brown, Rebecca Osborne, Lydia Ironmonger, Ann Murray, and Laurence Bennett. Fourteen Days—Wm. Ross, and whipped, and Philip Salmon. Ten Days—Sarah Ann Fake, and Wm. Smith, and to be whipped. One Week—John Harry, John Holden, Richard Stratton, Michael Miley, E. Purday, and C. J. Warder. Acquittals—W. Clare, D. Macarty, C. M‘Andrews, J. Killey, way, Ellen Field, J. Eddington, Fanny Attwood, J. Cauley, Ellen Kerneay, T. Larley, Bessy Spottis wood, John Spottiswood, David Thompson, Fanny Marks, Abraham Celt, J. Dobbins, T. Wilkinson, Ellen Farrell, W. Hollis, Thos. Potter, Eliza Reed, Eliza Johnson, Edward Etherington, Jas. May, John Bell, Thos. Harman, F. T. Chick, Daniel Beadle, Henry Deacon, Chas. Richard Oakley, William Thomas, J. Keitch, Thos. Cottam, Rebecca Hastings, Rich. Webster, Jos. Burden, Wm. Brigdoa, J. W. P. Newman, Thos. Mears, A. Gardener, Geo. Sharp, Maria Burton, Win. Sabine, Tim. Hurley, Jas. Ratcliff. Judgment Respited—Edw. Hancock, John Bull, Geo. Powell. The Court, at its rising, adjourned until May 22. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Mary Haddington, who gave her address, West bourne-grove, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having stolen a pair of gloves, a pair of stockings, and a collar, from the shop of Messrs. Phillips artd Co., mercers, Regent-street. An assistant to Messrs. Phillips, named Edwards, said the prisonereame into the shop that day, and made,a selec tion of some articles, which she wished to be packed in a parcel, and sent to a Mr. Roberts, of Carlton-terrace. Witness suspected the prisoner, and on watching her closely, he saw her take something from the counter, and place it beneath her shawl. As she was about to leave the shop, she was stopped and charged with the offence of stealing. When searched at the station-house the property now produced was found in her possession The prisoner, who aas very genteelly dressed, in a very rambling, incoherent way, begged the magistrate to send for her aunt, and she would tell him all about it. She said her husband had gone to the Bank to re ceive some money, at the end of a Chancery suit, and she had contrived to leave home without the knowledge of her family. Mr. ILeanwicx asked the witness Edwards, if the pri soner exhibited the same incoherence when making pur • chases?—The witness said, certainly not. The prisoner was as collected and sensible as the most rational of the customers. Police-constable Mould, C division, said the prisoner certainly did not exhibit the same eccentricity of man ner a hen he took her into custody. Mr. HARDWICK said it would be as well to make in quiry of the prisoner's friends, whether the present irra tional manner and speech were only assumed, or whether the prisoner really laboured under disordered intellects. He should direct the police to make the requisite in quiries before he finally committed the prisoner. The prisoner was then removed, and when iu the lockup cell she gave her address, No. 2, Mountford• road, Westbourne-road. MARYLERONE. A considerable degree of interest was excited at this court in consequence of its having bee❑ the day ap pointed for the re-examination of Mr. Thomas Buxton Baynes, surgeon, Thaxted, Essex, who on Friday last was brought up by Inspector Tedman, of the D division, upon a warrant charging him, the said defendant, on the oath of the Rev. Thomas Harvey, " with having, on the Ist of April instant, at the parish of Paddington, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully taken an unmarried girl, to wit, Marian Frances Jane Harvey, she being under the age of 16 years, out of the possession of and against the will of him, the said Thomas Harvey, her father." The particulars which previously transpired require no more than a brief statement by way of allusion to them, inasmuch as the subsequent inquiry (to -day) will put the public in possession of the whole history of the transaction. It may be observed that atter the young lady was missing from her parents' dwelling the Rev. Mr. Harvey repaired to Thaxted, accompanied by some friends and Inspector Tedman, and that after a deter mined struggle she (the young lady) was brought from the defendant's house and taken up to London, where she was safely lodged in her father's house. The pro secution was instituted under 9th Geo. IV., c. 31. To-day the defendant appeared pursuant to the recog nizance which he entered into on Friday, as security for his being forthcoming, and he took his seat by the side of his legal adviser, Mr. Wilkin, Furnival's Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, attended for the prose cution. Mrs. Harvey and her daughter, who arrived at the court soon after one o'clock, were accommodated with seats in the magistrate's private room, and it was gene rally imagined that the young lady would have been called upon to give evidence. This supposition was the cause of a number of ladies flocking to the Justice room, in the anxious expectation of obtaining a sight of her, but their wishes were not realised. The Rev. Thomas Harvey, examined by Mr. CLAA 80N—I was curate of Thaxted, and quitted on the 14th of last month. While there I became acquainted with defendant, who was first introduced to me by the vicar. He was upon terms of intimacy with us, received hospi tality at our table, and he was treated by us in every respect as a friend. My daughter was fifteen years old on the Bth of last month. Her age was known to the defendant. Some time before she was in a delicate state of health, and was under his care. The nature of her complaint was such that he recommended equestrian exercise. I have permitted him to accompany her in her rides. When I lett Thaxted I went to live at No. 30, Queen's-terrace, Bayswater, and my wife and daughter went there with me. Defendant knew where we had taken up our abode. On Saturday, the Ist of April, my daughter was missed from the house at about half past seven in the morning. On the previous day the defendant had dined with my family. When I missed my daughter I found a letter upon her dressing table. The letter was here handed to the Rev. Gentleman by his counsel, and he identified it as being the same to which be bad alluded. It ran thus : _ _ _ " Fyiday. " Dear Sir —I suppose I shall Merit your eternal con demnation. I need not refer to late events. I place all my happiness in the society of Fanny. An uncon trollable feeling of regard, which neither you nor Mrs. Harvey could hate bean insensible to, has led me to abuse your hospitality, find break the bonds of friendship and honour, and make me entirely at your mercy. I wish to take all the blame upon myself ; Fanny has received an earnest and urgent solicitation from me. I cannot tell ho* this affair has come shout, nor can she. I believe, though there is a fearful disparity in our agesi that there exists a mutual regard and affection of the strongest bind. It would hare been useless to have asked your consent—that question has been dis cussed over and over again. I love Fanny to distrac tion. I will *otk hatd tor her support, her happiness, and comfort. Do not blame the, I will consult all her wants; study her wishes, and treat her with that con sideraildn find deliCacy which is her due. It will be useless to pursue us—stlch would be an endless labour, and would tend to make publid tbosle circumstances which would not be worth the trouble you would have to encounter. Arrangements are made which will pre vent any possibility of detection. You shall hear from us to-night. If you wish to communicate with us, insert a short advertisement, in French, in the to-morrow morning. Bear in mind lam no adventurer. You have this to consider —you cannot undo what has been done. Fanny is happy; but I feel that I have abused your kindness, and am unworth y y our coasider ation. I hope for your forgiveness. T. S. 13." P.S. I risk fearful consequences, but it matters not what becomes of me; if you separate us, I can but make short work of it, and I would suffer death as soon as disgrace." Mr. Harvey, in continuation, said—l have since suc ceeded in regaining possession of my daughter, whom I found at defendant's house at Thaxted yesterday week, at about three in the morning. She was then in bed. I was resisted by the defendant upon my insisting upon entering into his dwelling, and in a struggle which took place at a back door of his house, a pistol fell from his person. I also found another pistol under my daughter's pillow; both of them turned out to be capped and loaded. (The pistols were here produced by Mr. Tedman; they were small, but of exquisite workmanship.) The Rev. Gentleman, in reply to a further question from Mr. Clarkson, said —Upon my oath, it was not in any way with my sanction or will, that my daughter went away with defendant, and I would rather see her in her grave than she should have done an. By Mr. Wilkin—On the Friday, he might have come to my house at the request of my wife, but I don't know that he did. (A letter written by Mrs. Harvey was brought forward and read ; the purport of it was an invitation to dine with the family on the Friday, the day preceding her daughter's abduction.) I have no knowledge of my daughter's portrait having been taken by an artist, at the request of defendant; and until yes- terday I never heard that she had accepted from him . _ eithe; a riding-hat or a ring. Another letter from Mrs. Harvey, and which was ad dressed to the defendant before the family left Thaxted, was read by Mr. Wilkin • The said epistle assured de fendant that she (Mrs. Harvey) and Fanny were much attached to him, acd that by the aid of steam he might, in the space of an hour, be with them. Cross. examination by Mr. Wilkin continued.—l have not seen defendant walk in the garden with my daughter, but if I had seen it I should not have objected to it. I never heard the defendant had been stopped by a high way man some time ago, and that ever since he had car ried pistols about him by way of protection. Mr. Wilkin here produced a number of letters alleged to be in the handwriting of the Rev. Gentleman's daugh ter, and was about to read some of them, when— Mr. BROUGHTON asked if the young lady was to be called as a witness for the prosecution? Mr. Clarkson.—Certainly not. Mr. BROUGHTON then decided that the letters could not be read. Mr. Clarkson—Now, Mr. Harvey, I ask you this question, upon your solemn oath, did you ever consent in any way whatever to your daughter leaving home with the defendant, or had you the slightest idea that he was courting her?—Mr. Harvey—Certainly not. Mr. Harvey, in answer to Mr. Wilkin, said I recollect Mr. Barnes having asked me to allow him to have Fanny's portrait taken, and I acceded to his wish. The likeness was taken by Mr. Gee. Mr. Clarkson, at this stage of the proceedings, ad dressed Mr. Broughton, to the effect, that after the evi dence which had been adduced, he thought that there would be no hesitation with respect to the defendant being called upon to find good bail for his appearance, to answer the charge at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Wilkin trusted that the Magistrate would not do so, unless he felt that there was a chance of a con viction. Numerous cases were brought forward by Mr. Wilkin, who conducted the defence in a very able manner, and he contended that no proof had been adduced as to any ' offence having been committed by his client. Letters which had passed between the parties clearly showed ' that there was a strong feeling of affection existing be tween his client and the Rev. Gentleman's daughter, and that there was not the slightest ground for imagining that she had quitted home otherwise than with her own free will and consent. Mr. Clarkson argued, pro contra, at some length, and asserted that the defendant had, by his own letter ad dressed to the complainant, fully established his guilt. The Learned Gentleman also produced the certificate of marriage between the parties at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, and it was already shown that the de fendant had sworn that the young lady whom he had married was above the age of 18, and that the alliance was with the full and entire consent of her parents; thus showing upon the face of the said document that he had committed the crime of perjury. Mr. BROUGHTON, who ab initio bad paid the greatest attention to the ease, and a great deal of whose time had been devoted to researches into authorities bearing upon the circumstances connected wish the case under inquiry, reviewed the whole of the evidence adduced, upon which he expatiated at some length. The conclu sion which he ultimately came to was, that it was his duty to send defendant for trial on the charge of eh ! duction. The defendant was then committed, but he was allowed to put in hail to the amount of 1,0001., viz., himself in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each, for his being forth coming to meet the charge at the sessions. LAMBETH. Roiert Murdie, the young man who has been in cus tody for some days past on a charge of violating the person of Miss Rebecca Sophia Yarwood, under circum stances of great brutality, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott for final examination., Mr. Humphreys attended on behalf of the accused, whose friends were said to be respectable. The prosecutrix, a genteel, but delicate looking young woman, who was so affected on seeing the pris oner as to be unable for some time to go on with her evidence, stated that she had been acquainted with the prisoner tor about a month previous to the present occurrence, and he paid her attentions with the view of marrying her. On the evening of Friday, the 31st of last month, he called at the house of her parents, Agnes-street, Waterloo-road, and requested her to accompany him for a walk, the evening being very fine. She, with the consent of her mother, went out with him, and they crossed the Westminster bridge, passed the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Millbank Penitentiary, and Vauxhall-bridge, and proceeded so fur in that direction that both lost their way. The prisoner, at her request, went into a public-house to inquire their way, and being desired to take the second turning to the lett, they proceeded in that direction. They walked for some time, and at length came to a narrow bridge, when the prisoner said he was then quite aware of the neigh bourhood and where be was. They crossed the bridge (Battersea, it is supposed), and on getting over the night became dark. The prisoner took her along some new buildings, and on to a piece of ground which ap peared to be laid out for building, and the place was so dark and lonely that she dropped his arm and refused to proceed any further in that direc tion. The prisoner asked her if she was afraid of him, or if she thought be was some villain going to deceive her? She replied that she did not think he had any intention to harm or deceive her, and he declared that, on the word of a man, ho would not. He then asked her if she saw some lights at a distance, and on her answering in the affirmative„he said it was there his men worked, and he had to go there daily. They proceeded a short distance further, when the prisoner, suddenly seizing her in a violent manner, threw her to the ground with great force. On falling she telt a severe blow on the back part of her head, which so stunned her that she became insensible; and on her recovering she struggled as well as she was able to get away from him, but was so weak and exhausted that she fainted, and on her recovering the prisoner was in the act of lifting her from the ground, and searching her pockets for a smelling-bottle. She proceeded with him a short dis tance, when her head became so affected that she was nearly tailing into a butcher's shop, and she did not recollect anything that occurred until she got near home, when she felt in a wretched and feeble state. The prisoner then said, " For God's sake walk, if you can ; my arms are so tired that I cannot get them to my head, for, in fact, I hare been carrying you for the last hour." He also asked her to have some brandy, and said that though having no money about him, he should make it all right by leaving some article for its amount. She declined having any spirits, and on getting to the top of the street where she lived, the prisoner remarked that her bonnet was much bruised, and requested her to take it off and put it into proper shape. He also entreated her to conceal what had hap pened from her mother, and conceal her clothes, so as to prevent suspicion, and, further, requested she would see him on the following evening, but she refused to do so, He then said he should pack up his clothes and start for the country on the following morning if she persisted it: her refusal, upon which she promised to see him, but this was solely for the purpose of preventing his going out of town in the morning, having determined in the interim to make her parents acquainted with the manner in which she had been treated. The prisoner parted with her near the doer, and on going into the house she imme diately fainted. From her replies to the question of Mr. Elliott, as to the condition in which she found herself on her being restored to consciousness, as well as to the state in which she found her clothes on returning home, there could be no doubt that the treatment which she had experienced at the hands of the prisoner was of the most brutal de scription. Mr, Humphreys, to the witness—Has the prisoner frequently promised to marry you? Witness—Yes, he has. Mr. Humphreys—Well, if he is willing to keep his promise which he always has been, are you w illin g to marry him ? Witness—lf he treated me with the cruelty which be has done, I should be afraid to marry him. The mother of the prosecutrix was the next witness called, and was about to give evidence of what her daughter bad told her on her return home, when she was *topped by Mr. Humphreys, and her testimony was con fined to the shocking state in which she found her daughter on her return home, and the dangerous state in which she remained for eon some days after. Mr. Wag the s taff, e sur who examined the prose- Mr. catrix on the morning of the occurrence and afterwards, deposed that when he first saw her she was labouring under a slight concussion of the brain, occasioned by some violent injury on the back of the head, and for two or three days she was in a highly dangerous state. In conclusion, Mr. Wagstaff said he had no doubt the viola tion of the prosecutrix had been effected, and with con siderable violence. Mr. Humphreys, in reply to the charge, said the pri soner had always intended, and was still willing, to marry the young woman. Mr. ELLIOTT said he feltit his duty to send the pri soner for trial, and the charge against him was of so serious a character that he did not feel justified in accept ing bail for him. The prisoner was fully committed. RESIONATIoN OF THE GOWN OF BEEAD•aTREET WARD.—At a Court of Alderman held on Tuesday the Lord Mayor read a letter from Alderman Hughes Hughes, resigning the gown of Bread-street Ward. The resignation was, after a high eulogium upon Mr. Hughes Hughes, in which all the members joined, accepted, and a copy of the resolution of the Court, expressive of their great respect for his character, was ordered to be forth with tronsmitted to him. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL 11.—We are all in a state of anxiety here respecting yesterday's proceedings in London. The alarm has, however, somewhat subsided in consequence of the electric telegraph announcing a rise in the funds. It is not unreasonably concluded that if London had been in the hands of the mob, the funds, in place of being in advance of Saturday': quotations, would have gone down a trifle or se. _ In Dublin everything is quiet, and public confidence is beginning to pervade the public mind. MEF.TING 07 THE CORPORATION.—An adjourned meet ing of the Corporation was held this day, at the Assembly House, William -street; the Lord Mayor in the Chair. On his Lordship taking the chair, Mr. Creagh inquired if he had made up his wind relative to the presentation of the address voted some time ago to the French people; to which his Lordship replied that he had submitted the case to counsel for advice, and until he received the opinion he could not give an answer. Mr. Creagh was proceeding to ask further disagreeable questions, when tie was called to order, and the matter dropped. SLIGO ELECTION.—The polling commenced yesterday morning, and at half past two Mr. Somers, the late Member, was in a minority of 12. Subsequent accounts state that Mr. Townley has been returned. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The Freeman's Journal complains bitterly of the seizure of the electric tele graph by Government. They say they had made arrangements by which we hoped to have been able to give in this impression, by electric telegraph, at least ft resumi of the state of affairs in London up to Monday evening. Last night, however, we got an intimation that the Government, having seized upon all the electric telegraphs, in order to prevent the transmission of any intelligence save such as it might choose to forward, the arrangement we had made could not be carried int° effect. We confess we cannot look upon this act as other than most foolish. It, however, indicates a feeling of alarm which exceeds even what we were previously pre" pared for. Should the Government open the bees in the course of the day, we hope in a second edition to be able to give the intelligence up to Monday evening. DiarAicemort IN THE KERRY SAVINGS BANIL.---A great sensation was caused in Tralee on Monday last by the arrest of Mr. John Lynch, solicitor, of that town, and for twenty-fire years Secretary to the Savings Bank. A hurried meeting of the trustees was held on Friday, at which the details of the defalcation were set forth bf the Rev. Mr. Rowan. Mr. Lynch has admitted the facts of the case, and its fraud, and offered to make over his property to make good the loss to the public. The fraud was carried on for years, and discovered in consequence of the late run on the resources of the Bank. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12. STOCK EXCHANGR.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 311. Shares, 6% dis.—Hudders field Canal and Railway, 7% dis.—Lancashire and York" shire, Fifths,l% dis.—Ditto (late West Riding Union). 354 dis.—London andNorth-Western, 125—Ditto, New Quartet", 1 3 4 c. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, 2 , 4 dis.—Midland, 9414—Ditto, Halves, 6% North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dove , No. 4, Thirds, 71s. 3d. c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber wick, Extensions,iNo. 1, S,i p.—Ditto, N. and 8., No. 2, dis.—Ditto, G. N. E. Purchase, 3 j dis.—York and North Midland, 124. MANCHESTER, APRIL 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6 13-16 dis.—Eastern Counti?er 13 1 —East Lancashire, 17 7-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 3%/,dis.—London and North-Western ( Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (C), 2% c. chaster, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincoln shire), 8% dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 13.16 dis.--South - Eastern and Dover, No 4, 3'll-16 dis. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshir e, 2 3 4 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 4% dis.—Ditto (B), 635. 9d. dis. LEEDS, APRIL 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's prices East Lancashire, New, 74 dis.—Great Northern, 9 Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union) 3 5 / cliff...." Leeds and Thirsk, 22% dis.—Ditto, New, 20% dis...-Londopf Brighton, and South Coast, 27, North British, Third* 395. dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—Y or k, Newcastle' and Berwick, No. 2 (New Berwicks), 15e. dis. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Arm. 11. STOCK EXCHANGL—The sales are—Huddersfield Manchester Railway and Canal, Thirds, 2', dis.—Lancast er and Carlisle, Thirds, Si. 11s. 3d.—Newcastle and Carlislei 102—North British, Thirds, 415. dis —York, Newcastle, 10 Berwick (N. and B. ), New, No. 2,15 s. dis. YORK, APRIL 11. STOCK ExcHawcfs.—The following were the quotation today—Great Northern, 21. 19 8 . 6d.— Lan cas hi re a nd Yorl‘ . s shire (West Riding Union), LA—North British, Thirdst 1• _ _ EDINBURGH, APRIL 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, 25/. I"' —Edinburgh and Northern, New, 82s. 6d. dis.—Ditto,N e , l /: port, 51. ls.—North British, 19/. 15s.—Ditto, Quarter 7 `' - 6d.—Ditto, New, 3a. 6d.—Ditto, Thirds, 21s. GLASGOW, APRIL 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and BathgAt6 70s.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters. 35s.—Glasgow, Dib la m ] nock, and Ayr. 69/.—Ditto, Halves No. 1,37 a. 6d.— t li ditto, No. 2, 71.—Manchester and Halves, „ British, Thirds, 21s. 6d.— Ditto, Quarters, 725. 6d. New Quarters (scrip), 4s.—Scottish Central,2s%. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETT. Last ecenin e i Mendelssohn's grand oratorio of Elijah was perform.. at Exeter Hall, for the third time this season. perform.. principal parts were given by Miss Birch, Mis s Williams, Miss Duval, Miss Stewart, Mr. Phillips, 1 "'" Locket', &c., and generally in a most satistactorl manner, with the exception of some of the pieces lotted to Miss Duval and Miss Stewart, whose qualia' cations are not equal to occasions of this kind. T b° chorus displayed their usual energy, and more than their usual precision; but their want of proper training still but too evident in respect to expression, the pin°? passages being on many occasions entirely unobsevett: by means of which many of the finest effects of ti; ) composer were destred. Previous to the orat ori o " God save the Queen' was struck up by the band on choir, the solos being given by Miss Birch and Messrf• Lockey and Phillips. The audience, which was crowded one, responded with enthusiasm to this 0 3611- festation of loyalty. Sir R. H. Inglis volunteered 01 leading the cheers. CORONER'S INQUEST 011 CAPTAIN SIR CHAO?" W. KENT, BART., OF IST LIFE GUARDS.--Yest erall i Mr. G. J. Mills held an inquest in the officers' roonl ° the Regent's-park Barracks, Albany-street, on the 1 1 of Captain Sir Charles William Kent,: Bart., 9 g,„ twenty-nine, of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, • I: e l was found dead under the following circumstance: --- "d Glednall deed that he was valet to the decea se baronet. Srir Charles had been ailing for some. till past, and complained of a pain in his left side. 1 , Saturday morning last, about half-past nine o'clock , uia went up to deceased's room, and on inquiring, of master how he was, he replied, much better. hort f i before eleven o'clock Colonel Hall, the colonel f : the regiment, called, and inouired how deceased eit a ' and on being informed that he was better, t" colonel went to the deceased's apartment. The cries ° t Colonel Hall caused him to run to his master's er r A '' went, and he there found his master deluged in blo s: 1' and apparently lifeless. Be ran for Dr. C am pbell, tul surgeon of the regiment, and on that gentleman s arrit he pronounced lite to hare been extinct some time. Campbell deposed that when he was called in the de l ceased Baronet was quite dead. He had made a P es l mortem examination of the body, and found the cause °, death was a rupture of the descending aorta into tP, msophagus. The jury returned a verdict in accordan° with the medical testimony. CHINESE MANUFACTURES.--.ADIODg the articl es recently imported from the Chinese empire, of a retnilr k . able description, have been that of a vessel with II cases containing Chinese fans, and one package of 111. brellas of Chinese manufacture. [ADYERTISEMENTI—The most effectual Cure 01 Gout and Rheumatism is Holloway's Ointment sil t Pills.—A frequent cause of these complaints is the is flammatory state of the blood, as they are generall3 attended with bad digestion, lassitude, and great debility showing the want of a proper circulation of the fluids, an t that impurity of the blood greatly aggravates these PO ful disorders. Holloway's Pills are of so purifying . ' nature that a few doses taken in time is an effectual Pr e ; ventative against the Gout and Rheumatism; but 50 1 one that has an attack of either should use Hollows,' I Ointment also, the powerful properties of which, comb ine( with the effect of the Pills, ensures a certain cure.--S °l( by all druggists and at Professor Holloway t ts 'stab' lishment, 244, Strand, London. se! BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Burton Rectory, near Lincoln, t ti ' wife of the Rev. E. It. Larken, M.A., of a daughter. On tke 31 st u lt., Mrs. H. L y on, of Bur y -s treet , St. Paii'd Axe, of a son. On the 3d inst., at Ty-maen, Glamorganshire, Mrs. Horso A. Ford, of a son. On the 3d inst., at Park-road, North Brixton, the wife(' William Hamilton, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Cavendish-road, Wandsworth-r oad Mrs. M. Pass, jun., of a son. On the 7th inst., at Bath, the lady of Captain J. Ran dy Ford, of a son. On the 7th inst., at Stanton, the lady of Archdeacor Ormerod, of a son. On the 7th inst., at Laurel Lodge, the lady of Wi ll Fawkes, of a son. On the Bth inst., at Richmond-green, Surrey, Mrs. . 113b1 G. Reynell, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Sussex-place, Regent's-park, the lsdL of Isaac Moses, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Jolla v Hatchett, Esq., of BullingtQn, Lincolnshire, to Mary P s ° phine, eldest daughter of Felix Whitmore, jun., Escki Fulham. DIED. On the 30th of January, at Callao, Samuel Robertson , t t° infant son of Samuel Went, Esq., of Lima. On the 31st ult., at Horselydown, Mr. John Gaunt. On the Ist inst., at Cheltenham, John Goodale, Esq. On the 2d inst., at Standish Rectory, Lancashire, Thou' Bourne, youngest child of the Her. W. H. Brandreth. On the 4th inst., Charlotte, the infant daughter of Re u Braithwaite, Esq., of Kendal. On the sth inst. at the Castle, Ryde, Sir Thomas C oa l Sheppard, Bart., of 'C ra keniart., of Crakernareh Hall, Staffs" shire, aged 63. On the 6th inst., at Horn House, Herefordshire, Emma , fir lict of the late Rev. William Money Kyrie, aged 62. te f On the 6th inst., Ann, widow of the late Mr. John Pejo' of Hounslow, aged 80. On the 6th inst., at Risley, Derbyshire, G. Rossell, Escl' d . On the 7th inst., at Hartland - ter race, Kentish-town, 14,100. tenant-Colonel William Moore , half - pay 14 t h Foot, a g e d, On the 7th inst., Helen, eldest daughter of Mr. T. J. of Vassall-road, North Brixton, aged 17. arl‘ On the Bth inst., in Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-11 90 Margaretta Gyllett, relict of the late Major Gyllett, ' ra London: Printed and Published by MURDO 170 17 10 11$ No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Di () * t y Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 00 htiddleesas, Thursday, April 13, 1848.