The Sun. — London, England, 1835-08-17 00:00:00

DUBLIN. (FROM OUR OWN cangspompletT.) The situation of Chief Clerk in the dice of the Secretary of State for Ireleza has not yet been filled. It is a place et great trust, CI the correspondence of the Irish Government Passing through the hands of this officer ; and much depends on the choice which may be made of a person to succeed the late Mr. Taylor. that The Orang e p ar ty are excee di ng l y anx i ous some or:e of the subordinate clerks now in the offite they obtain the p re f erence, well knowing that if the seleettin must be made from that number, the lot can scarcely fall upon a person adverse to their views. Two or S i eve° gentlemen have been already nominated, the preference, however, being gene rally awarded to a Mr. Handcoct, out of regard, I suppose, to his distinguished relative, tis . z. Lord Castlemaine, who is one of the roost virulent feet to the enlightened policy of the pre sent Government. The public looks with confidence to Lord Morpeth, and relies on his firmness and sagacity that he will not allow liim.„,elf to be cajoled by the blarney with which he Will b; if he has not already been, assailed on this subject. If a tool of the Orange party is placed in the situation of Chief Clerk, it will be impossible for the true friends of the country to communicate confidentially with the Government. During the Administration of Irish affairs by former Secre taries, few men committed themselves by unreserved corninu hideation with their office who have not seen reason subse biierely to s uspect, i f not to know, that secresy was the least ;URng of the obligations recognized in that bureau. In mak this statement, I do not impugn the honour either of the living or of the dead, but merely affirm a notorious fact. A belief has been very prevalent in the minds of those who hold . fre e opinio ns , t h at there existed no friendly feelings towards them in that o ffi ce, and that it was unsafe to make it the de pository of any communication s of a s t r ictly confidential n a t ure . de terred fro eusequently many assured friend s o f th e G overnment were wer e em corresp on di ng w i t h i t at all ; while those who identified in sentiment with those behind the desk, felt assured that no revelations inimical to their interests would be n.".{le ;lens, They made their and dealt their insinua with the same security as statements ever ; and thus the correspon ence of th e Government was, in a great measure, confined to a party whose object it has a l ways b een to mislead it. The discoveries recently m a d e o f t h e close and secret un derstanding which exists between the members of the Orange Institution, and of the extent to which that combination has abdiffused itself through all ranks of society, will point out the sol ute necessity of excluding any individual implicated in it toem a knowledge of the areana of a liberal Government. or thr ee years ago it was supposed that none but the very '?west class of Protestants Were affiliated to the Orange So y._ Bu it is now rpti'se clear that all the Tory gentry are th e rs of it ; and, therefore, to place the correspondence of e Chief Secretar 's office in the keeping of an Orangeman, wee k' la Y „, to place t he G overnment itself under the actual sur te'"a'ace of its implacable and avowed enemies. rhe following singular statement appears in a late number et the Wexford Independent : ` On Sunday the 26th ultimo, most of the male attendants 11te the Protestant houses of worship in the north of this county if in their respective churches for a considerable time Z.ter the females had departed. On this strange circumstance bwould not remark, were it not followed, on the succeeding Pearshath, by another, of fearful and alarming import. It ap ou. from our private letters, that on the latter day—which au ght to be devoted exclusively to the Omnipotent Author of Le dges were dispatched from the several Orange pit geS in the district before -mentioned to the different eha edes (Ilthe e tluin Cath o li c ) i n t hi s county, where they remained I; Part ..11nt celeb rat i on o f mass. These secret movements on of the sworn enemies of the people and their religion, sh e no t calculated to inspire much confidence in. the purity of 44ti Motives which could dictate such extraordinary proceedings, et.,,,t,hc Catholic population, naturally excitable, and still r ee r7eg under the scorpion lash of this confederated banditti, exits: Re utm ost alarm for their lives, liberties, and properties." h A aPa these Sabbath movements will not be deemed so Isse in c'r i uje ary, when it is recollected that the Rev. Dr. Martin, lee; e i - ' 4 w and chaplain of the Bishop of Down, and richly to th e ee d iu that diocese, lately addressed an Encyclical Letter sumo Prote stant Clergy o f I re l an d, ex h ort i ng them to devote Politic-. ! th e Twelfth of Jul,,, to the pu rposes o f preach i ng the Tit,se- _ ....i i nons, and coll ec ti ng s i gnatures to petitions against ' joyed 6' e „ 13 !ll, and against the elective franchise, as now en '' tc Roman Catlsolie csz,unymen. EAS T REWORD CORPORATION EVIDENCE. Sithis T, 71° TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. A series of accidents, attributable to my sojourn at atie - a t* „ 111 , ? t e Part of th e sea-coast, has prevented any of the ui e - a Have hithert o t a k en , to expose the attempt made by frorole r Poration of East Retford to discredit my evidence, tail a — "Og public the ground that a witness, as. fa os e "Y the hostility of a Corporation, for having declared offi e P:reitldieial to their longer possession of the magisterial tae e , is entitled, from the friends to Corporate Reform, to the eoluntninesf. v iadication, I beg to solicit a small space in your p a i )i . will be remembered, for the matter has been sufficiently si n 'shed, that I described, before the Corporation Commis- Sl a ,: s ' a personal struggle in my presence between Mr. pris oner a shoemaker, and magistrate of East Retford,. and a threenear before him ; to which was opposed the evidence of Wo Liefford Freemen, Benjamin Scott, a blacksmith, Robert sel:l:gh, and one Brown, shoemakers. atr 'Vs evidence, corroborated by the other two, was (as w or l et cd from the Morning Chronicle) in tho following Slaney or d ere d G r i mes to be taken to prison : that I s ; eni ae conduct e d hi mse lf the same as other Magistrates do : af f - w nothing indecent in his behaviour : all passed quietly til e al °rig as I was there. I remained with the prisoner all tta" n ie until he was sent to gaol : there was no struggle be ',eh him and Mr. Slaney during any part of that time." se three men are of the old leaven of Retford Burgesses arie:Lt the taken bribes —all love a system . which has ministered rested!le gluttony and drunkenness of their class, and are inte- Zeay ekosed to its reform. Slaney, also a Retford Bur inss, but a moral and pious man, is not examined ; and the Wla r a t a a _ n twer I shall give, will enable . the public to conclude tl i 'cr it be possible (as I hope it is) to extend . to these men then construction that, coarse of mind and low in circumstances atia tllse lves, they saw nothing remarkable in such .an affray, theirthat, after a lapse of three or four years, it escaped alike Ilotb.servation and memory. I ,, t in n it happens that a circumstance accompanies 7 the occur- Sla t , e a „ wh ich puts an end to controversy. Ni hen I saw st l bi`J nad the prison& struggling together, one of the eon ' de e " a lki a dinn', and two of the constables rolling on the floor, again st ie ", that he was unfit to entertain further any charge athopQerss;dteridoirptrihsiosner, and that it was necessary he . should be ric)iasrtt eyr s e a a t i or bailift; Williammagisterial Rfunctions.Rieke, E s q e wil l ew wasen went at instantly ntßly tdinnero Which Messrs. Fisher and Moylan, the Revising a r _ qf th e ' °were present I told him, Wore them and t . he rest g e ther -4 ,? ) ,ane, that ' Slane and the prisoner were fight i ng to- Samcyle:',3fr. ICirhe, in consequence of my representatten an qf 74 ' en t ; and t u o t o n , 9 8 ° disqualified himself, openly left the party, 'put markl ,911izance of the case. d Illacl e hi ue sequel. When Mr. Kirke arrived, Slaney 1 %4 hits c(klPlalut before him of the assault just c "rn Piain d bY the prisoner; and I believe it was the only Th e „ . gt tenssed, meminrsener was not sent to gaol, but, when sober the next .. nit Y of "' Set at liberty (as the best means of saving the di.g aes the Retford Borough Magistracy) without further la- . j ent 7ati era -out I will not enter into that branch of the sub se nse of dwell on the fact that I gave my evidence in the f Air ' S tanch who declined the opportunity of being t give .i n ed in c ontradiction, in order that I may have room little id ea of the candour of the parties who instructed r 1111110. a. th ' gave them notice of Mr. Kirhe's evidence, months ago, flan"giUtir. A'cwton, the Town . Clerk. Mr. Kirke is a gentle. Easte,,f fortune —a magistrate for the County—and resides at netford. What would persons prosecuting the truth would done? It is easier to describe what tho enemies of truth :yuld have done. Being acquainted with Mr. Kirke's testi ,eily on the subject, they would have prudently abstained "ern any reference to him ; they would have eontrived, al th o „ h e that gentleman was the magistrate actually prestling home the affair, to avoid the hazard of mention .. ing t ais very ; they would have shunned the testimony offing Slaney, • e inr* an honest man; and would leave tr ioai h a t,'archased their reekiP , by the testimony of interested and 'packed witnesses, ess that such a triumph would be short-lived and dia. ereditable---e pleas an t i n the mouth, i ,ut bitter in the belly." I am, Sir, your's 1,•- aa) ., obediently, I3ri • dlington Quay, August 13, 1835. TH05. BIG SBY. INVEST IVI T :atE OF KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER. The Cztrt„ ‘ Ir A, as Sovereign of the Most r Noble Oder of Sgt o 14 L ' --Id a Ch a pt er of the Order at Windsor Castle, the on aftern ooa . al es Knights Companions having been I robed in their man , - bia,n,u collars by Messrs. Hunter and Edo in the Queen s 404%a-room, 'here they were called over by Garter, and pro ted to the presence of the Sovereign in the Royal Clo .tt((ir White Drawing-room) the Senior Knight first, followed oil er he officers of the Order. Then having been again called firer, procession was made from the Royal Closet through the tl,e•NiTi procession (which was lined by the Prebends and a''al and Military Knights of Windsor in their respec tie uniforms, intz, the Red Drawing-room, or Chapter tTnr'' in the Nlowing ord er , b e i ng accor di ng to the Order of T in th e R oya l Chapel of St. George in Windsor. is 11:)e• Kaights, whose C ompan i ons were not present, walked aZ P ion alone. Ina Duk e o f Buccleugh and the Duke of Grafton, the p u 'e ef Norfolk, th e D uke of Richmond, the Marquis of Jareeter, the Duke o f L eeds, and the Duke of Dorset, the auis of Bath, and the Mar of ertord, the Duke . Northumberland the Marquis q of uis Angle H sey, f and the Duke gie, Wellington, the Marquis Wellesley and the Earl of Lons , the Duke of Rutland and the Marquis Camden, the Care 4, () . 1 ' Westmoreland, his Royal Highness the Duke of his Royal Highnesss the Duke of Cumberland, Augusttis Clifford, Black Rod ; the Dean of WindSor, Sir William Woods, Deputy Garter; the Bishop (i_4lf:.l:lll4`,%;irtnricdalrgiee;s'ter, Prelate ; the Lord Chamberlain, the Sword of .State, borne by the Marquis of Ailsa, as a Knight of the the The Sovereign, followed by the Groom of the Stole, ague, Master - of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Trea kiTt ef the Household, the - Comptroller of the Household, ,L,Sir Horace Seymour, Equerry in Waiting. Sovereign being seated in the chair of state, and the s Knights having b y his Majesty's c omman d t a k en t h e i r re - Places at the table, his Royal Highness Prince "rgn- Q l -C . amlari4ge tens iateechteed 13 , y 4 .51r William Woods,. of other r during morning Sc, with sh up oudays Wheat is it of the quoted. and sell Ise, from r. Oats ch main ter lower and ship •••• F. _S. • 3 IS SI'S. 3C5•2: 31 -• -F. •••• .e?Cf• .'A a. . ▪ 2 2tis.2tis• • 3 , *• 04, 25 '• - • Ef;i• , ur,sE. was some• 11.5• s ,f t0 , ; ( 4 ‘,2 o 5 4 4 4 0 ~ 6 ' 8 '3 0 0 1 0 t 4 3 1 1 0 • Pigs 405 about 80 0 _" P the we stc "o. and 9' o le remain" TS. B d to!', •2 2 , 2 •' 6 Y • 10 4 ood for tb used a verY Of Oi' ti heir valu e ! er quol te e r ACiill r' ) e rr the we r WEI - B. F to . 3t - -- 34 4 00 000 ' O O 0n 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0° 11 9 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 g 7 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 . (35 fine f i n e fine 41,, tine . s° : fine tinc --s• tine :T . tine . 1 : 0 tine fine --" fine --"E. fine fine fine t:.7 fine 20,• wr s w ot: , per 1 .° 3 1 ,er I 03 per 1.35. _ t° 40 I 3; 2. I -- < -- lv 3 5 41 8 49 i itro the sale. 110 3 0 5 , 3 7 0 :s4 0 t° g, 8 lit 0 11 0 8 I() 9 6 1) . AO C . an' the, it ) t , 4 . st 1 , t 3 "' C 1 te 190 0 01 v is a !CIO 18 0 A t) 18:1 tio 9311 7 6 9 i o 0 Si n , " "! 0 o 0 s beptity o,arter rolliciating tar Wile! , principal Kings of Ar m s) aili Sir A. Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. His Royal Highness was knighted by his Majesty with the sword of §Pg9: The Prelate then signifled to the Chapter the Sovereign's royal Will and pimtb-0.. The Stigragei tern thereupon col lected by the Prelate (lit-Online *lilt (.. 1 .:`.; jUrilor knight's companions and %veio by him presented to the King, who 'vas platnu to command him to declare, and he accordingly t t .clared, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cumberland had been duly elected a Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter. The Knights Olen Made if - second election, arid his Royal Highness Prince fleorge of Cambridge was in the samo mannet declared a Knight of the most noble Order. Then, by the Sovereign's comthibid, Prince Geor g e of Cambridge was received at the door of the Chapter-Room by the Dukes of Grafton and Buecleuch, the two junior Knights, preceded by Deputy Garter bearing the Ensign of the Order upon a crimson velvet cushion, and by Black Rod. --Prince George of Cambridge kneeling near the SOvereign, and Deputy Garter presenting on his knee the Garter, his Majesty, assisted by the Dukes of Cumberland and Cam bridge, buckled it on the Prince's left leg, the Prelate pro nouncing the following admonition : " To the honour of God omnipotent, and in memorial of the blessed martyr St. George, tye about thy leg, for thy renown, this Noble Garter ; wear it as the aymbol of the Most Illu s t r i o u s rder. never to be forgotten or laid aside; that thereby thou may'st be admonished to be courageous!. and having undertaken a just war, in which thou be engaged, thou may'st stand firm, valiantly tight, and suceesOntly conquer." Deputy Garter presented, in like manner, the Riband with the George ; and his Majesty, with the assistance of the two Royal Dukes, put the same over the Prince's left shoulder, the Prelate reading the following admonition : " Wear this riband about thy neck, adorned with the image of the blessed martvr and soldier of Christ, St. George, by whose imitation provoked, thou may'st so overpass both prosperous and adverse adventures, that having stoutly vanquished thy enemies, both of body and soul, thou may'st net only receive the praise of this transient combat, but be crowned with the palm of eternal victory." The Prince kissed the King's hand, and received the con gratulation of each of the Knights. The Chapter having concluded, at seven o'clock the Knights were again called over, and a procession was made back to the Royal Closet, in the same order as before. The King afterwards gave a state dinner to the Knights and Officers of the Order, and a large party in St. George's Hall. The Hall presented a very magnificent appearance; the long table on which the dinner was served was covered with splen did services of plate ; the plateau, comp o s e d c f a grea t num ber of candelabra and epergnes of silver gilt richly embel 11'.lied, had for-the centre piece the St. George Candelabrum. The King took his scat opposite to this Candelabrum. Be hind his Majesty, in a recess, were grouped the regimental colours and the silver kettle-drums of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards guarded by some of the regiment. The Queen sat on the other side of the table, between the Royal Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge. At the back of her Majesty were suspended the regimental colours of the Horse Guards, some of whom were on each side. The bands of both regiments were stationed in an elevated orchestra at the end of the Hall, and played " God save the King," as the illustrious party entered and took their seats. The Ladies were in Court dresses, and the Noblemen and Gentlemen wore their respective uniforms, and the ensigns of their several orders of knighthood. Prince George of Cam bridge appeared in the uniform of the Foot Guards, and with the collar and other ensigns of the Order of the Garter. After dinner several healths were given, and after each toast salutes were fired by the Royal Artillery on Cumberland terrace. The regimental bands played alternately during the evening. _ Amiingst the company were the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George of Cam bridge, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Prince Ernest of Philippsthal, the Saxon Minister, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires the Dukes of Wellington, Newcastle, Norfolk, Leeds, Rutland, Northumberland, Richmond,- Buccleuch, Dorset and Grafton; the Marquisses of Winchester,-Welles. ley, Ailsa, Conyngham, Anglesey, Camden, Hertford, Bath, and Exeter; Earl and Countess Jersey, Earl and Countes Denbigh, Earl and Countess Brownlow, Earls Howe, Cavan, Albemarle, Westmoreland, and Lonsdale ; Viscount Ash brook ; Bishop of Winchester ; Lord Hill, Lord and Lady' de Lisle, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Lord Elphin stone ; Sir Thomas Seymour and Lady Clinton ; the Vice- Chamberlain, Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebech, Sir Her bert and Lady Taylor, Sir Henry Wheatley, Lady Beding field, the Treasurer of the Household, Sir James Reynett, Sir Augustus Clifford, Sirs Charles Paget, George - Seymour, William Woods, C. Thornton, and B. Stephenson ; the Comptroller 'of the Household, the Deans of Windsor and Hereford, the Rev. J. Wood (preceptor to Prince George of Cumberland), Colonels Keate and Jones ; Captains Hay and Campbell ; Mademoiselle D'Este ; Misses Hope, Johnstone, Begot, &c. MUNICIPAL REVORM BILL. WINCHESTER. A public meeting, for the purpose of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Municipal Reform Bill unimpaired, was held at the Guildhall, Winchester, on Tuesday last, in conse quence of a requisition to the Mayor, very numerously and re spectably signed. ADAIi YOUNG, Esq., the Mayor, was in the Chair. He could not but look with great anxiety at the hostility mani fested by the House of Lords towards the Municipal Reform Bill, a measure which had received the approval of nine tenths of the people of England, had passed - the House of Commons almost unanimously, and had only been opposed by the most bigotted of the Tories. It was the duty of the people, at the present moment, _to be firm, and to show them selves worthy of those rights the. Bill would confer on them. —( Cheers. ) JAMES THEOHALD, Esq. proposed the first resolution. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. WILLIAM FLIGHT, was carried unanimously. . . ROBERT BIRD, Esq. proposed the next resolution, to the effect that the meeting had seen with great dismay, the dis position recently manifested by the House of Lords to throw out that great remedial measure. This resolution having been seconded, was passed without a dissentient voice. Mr. W. ARROWSMITII proposed, and Mr: VINCENT EARLE seconded the next resolution, to the effect that a petition should be presented to the Lords, begging them to pass the Bill without delay or mutilation. Mr. PARMITER, in proposing the next resolution, said, one great objection of the Tories to the proposed Bill, was the qualification clause. Now he (Mr. Parmiter) knew from his own observation, that a person had been placed in the situa tion of mayor of East Retford, who could not even write his own name ; and yet this was the Corporation that the imma culate Duke of Newcastle was so anxious to protect, and who was one of the protestors against the Corporation Reform Bill. Mr. H. MOODY proposed the next resolution. The Cor porations, originally so beneficial, had, in modern times, been perverted from their original purposes ; and in no city in England had their abuses been more glaring than in Win chester. They had witnessed the Corporation of Win chester spend in pampering their own appetites the revenues bequeathed for the maintenance of the widow and the orphan ; they had betrayed the liberties of their fellow citizens into the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, who had declared that he considered the people of Winchester as much his property as the deer in his park.--( Applause.) After some allusions to the conduct of the Corporation in 1831, when they had proposed a Refc'emer and elected a Tory, he called on the meeting, by the partiality which had been perp e t ra t e d on tint 'very bench on which the Mayor then sat, by the so?:: -elected system under which they had so long suffered 'in this city, by the robbery of the fund of the widow and the orphan, to call for the extinction of the present CorKration. Mr. 11 i' . J013Y then read the resolution, which was to the cErect:nat the meeting considered it a point of duty at the Pr :.sent crisis, to entreat the Ministers to be firm, and not to retreat from the posts to Which they have been called , by the voice of the country. The resolutions - and petition having been unanimously adopted, it was agreed that the petition should be signed by the Mayor, in behalf of the meeting. A vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor ; nine times nine cheers for his Majesty's Ministers, and the meeting separated. WARRINGTON. A petition to the House of Lords, signed by 2,300 persons, requesting them to pass the Municipal Corporations Bill, without material alteration or delay, was forwarded from Warrington to Lord Brougham, for presentation, on Saturday evening. ROCHDALE. On Monday last, a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, was presented to Wm. Chadwick, Esq., High Con stable of Rochdale, desiring him to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants as early as possible, to address the House of herds on the necessity of passing unmutilated the Corporation Reform Bill, now before their Lordships. In compliance with the desire of the requisitors, Mr. Chadwick appointcdthe meet ing to be held at the house of Mr. Thomas Schofield, the Weaver's Arms, at seven o'clock in the evening of the same day. The business of the meetinr , did not commence • until eight o'clock, when Richard Shuttleworth, Esq., by an una nimous vote of the meeting, was appointed to preside. The speakers were the Chairman, Mr. Wm. Barton, Mr. Joseph Taft, Mr. Samuel Taylor, Mr. Thomas Chadwick, and Mr. James Gibson. The petition respectfully but plainly expresses the desire of the petitioners, and it has been numerously signed. The meeting decided that it should be presented by Lord Melbourne, and that a letter should accompany it, con veying the thanks of the meeting to his Lordship for his firm, uncompromising conduct in Parliament. Every resolution passed unanimously, and the Reformers separatod soon after ten o'clock, highly gratified with the proceedings of the evening. HYDE ( CHESHIRE). The feeling in this populous neighbourhood is very great in favour of the Bill, and against any mutilation by the Lords. A Petition, signed by 2,629 householders, was prepared and sent up on Saturday last. It will be presented this evening. Throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts of Lanca shire and Cheshire an excitement preveils greater than on any former occasion ; and .wheii the vast population is considered, the wibhes of such a mass of people ought not to be despised. OTLEY. On Monday a public meeting of the inhabitants of Otley was held in the Court-house, to petition the House of Lords to pass the Corporation Reform Bill ; Mr. Charles 1/4lker, 'PLIE SUN, .14010.)0N, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1835. constable, in the Chair. the meeting wag numerously at tended, and the proceedings were conducted with much spirit. The first resolution was moved by Mr. Garnett, in an able and eloquent speech, and seconded by Mr. Ackroyd ; the second resolution was moved by Mr, Andrew M•Landsbro', and seconded by Mr. Benjamin Rind. Tim petition was moved by Mr. Robert ria ' Keii M tr "". which was carried unanimously, with tha eiception of three Tories, who held up their hands against it. difficulties, as called upon • all friends of the Constitution to come forward to encourage and support them. Bailie THOMSON rose to second the resolutions, which he said he did with the greatest pleasure. He regretted to see the Lords have so little sympathy with the people ; and that, instead of being the fathers and leaders of the country, they , seemed to wish to deprive the p eo pl e o f th e p r ivileges which •.,.. the Constitution tie Qod of nature had given them.— (Cheers.) They seemed to have Government was intended for the people, and not for any particular , vate class. They were now attacking the great stronghold— '-^ rotten boroughs of England. They were rotten that was ::11.—(Cheers.) It was a curious at the foundation and mu,: eircumsiSned, gliewed how zit.: changed, and men changed with them, that did itfy purpose up these burghs by the Kings of Europe, was to tit% g§ a eounterpv..._ against the influence of the nobility. The burghs of Scotland had now the choice of men to manage their own matters, and they had shown that both for their municipal affairs, and as their representatives in Parliament, they made choice of the very fittest men.—(Great laughter.) Gentlemen (said the worthy Bailie), if you had allowed me to finish my sentence, I was going to have added.-with one exception.—( Cheering and laughter.) It was of great monidtit this freedom even in the choosing of Town Councillors, aye, of rat. greater moment than some men thought ; and he enjoined them all, at she election in November, to send men into Council whom they knew to be honest and good men.—( Cheers.) It was plain, that if the people stuck together, and obeyed the laws, they could tell the Peers with effect, that they would not suffer them longer to domineer over them by means of corrupting the burgesses of England, to many of whom a bribe of five or six guineas was too great a temptation to resist ; that by these means they had formerly got men into Parliament to serve their own purposes, but that they should never do so again. If they told them that this was the general sense of the people, and that the people were determined to support the Government, then it would be the duty of the Legislature to hear the voice of the people, and there could be no doubt that the Bill would pass. Sir J. G. CRAIG observed that the petition would ba found lying for signature in various parts, but that it must be closed on Friday evening, and sent off on Saturday. He therefore urged upon all to lose no time in subscribing it. On the motion of Sir A. GUIsON, thanks were then unani mously voted to the Lord Provost for his readiness in calling the meeting, and for his conduct in the chair, and the proceed ings terminated. ^.• nri- MINGTOPI.—A public meeting of the inhabitant household ers of Lymington was held last week at the Town-Hall (by appointment of the Mayor) George Scott, Esq., in the Chair, when it was unanimously resolved to petition the House of Lords to pass the Municipal Reform Bill as sent them by the House of Commons without any practical alteration. The Corporation of Tewkesbury recently presented a pe tition to the House of Lords against the Municipal Reform Bill, and yet this corporate body, with an income only of 221. per annum, contrives to get 3,0001. in debt. There is no individual responsibility, notwithstanding which they argue that the continuance of a system which will permit such a piece of wantonness as would not pass current even in an insolvent court, requires no reform.—Hampshire Chronicle. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES of MOTIONS and ORDERS of the DAY, which :now stand in the Order Book for the Present Week. MONDAY, AUGUST 17.—ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Real Property Bill—Committee. 2. Tonnage Admeasurement Bill—Report. 3. Clandestine Marriages (Ireland) Bill—Report. 4. Instruments of Sasine (Scotland) Bill—Further consideration of Report. b. Landed Securities (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 0, Wood Duties Bill—Committee. 7. Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill—Third reading. 8. Charities Commissioners Bill—Committee. 9. Tithes on Turnips Bill—Committee. 10. Tithes Recovery Bill—Committee. 11. Marriage Act Amendment Bill—Further consideration of Report. 12. Fines and Recoveries Office Bill—Committee. 13. Qualification of Members Bill—Further consideration of Report. 14, Supply—Committee. 15. Lighthouses Bill—Second reading. 16. Steam Vessels Pilotage Bill—Further consideration of Report. 17. Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Bill—Report. 18. Hull Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill—Third reading. 19. Certiorari Bill—Second reading. 20. Customs Acts—Committee thereupon. 21. Special Constables Bill—Second reading. 22. Imprisonment for Debt ( Scotland) Bill—Report. 23. Arresiment of Wages (Scotland) Bill—Report. 24, Hereditary Revenues (Scotland) Bill—Third reading. 2.5. Insolvent Courts (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 26. Cessio Bottorum (Scotland) Bill—Report. 27. Forgery (Scotland) Bill—Report. 28. Court of Exchequer ( Scotland) Bill—Report. 29. Sheriffs (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 30. Constabulary Force (Ireland) —Salaries and Expenses-,-Com- . _ mittee thereupon. . 31. Clerk of the Crown Bill—Second reading. 32. Assizes Removal (Ireland) Bill—Lords Amendments to be oonsidered. CORZ ,„ rittsbaut tb rtquisitlutt A pttblie meeting of the inhabitants of this city was held at tile Diorama, on WineSday 1W ; for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures render ed necessary to be adopted to insure the speedy passing of the the Corporation Reform Bill, now that the House of Lords had so decidedly manifested their opposition to that measure. W. FAGAN, Eeq. , on being called to the choir, addressed the meeting in a short but energetic speech, pointing out the necessity of aiding, by petition and remonstrance, the inten tion of his Majesty's Ministry in carrying the vital question of Corporate Reform. Counsellor O'KEEFFE next addressed the meeting, and read to them four resolutions offered to their acceptance. The Learned Gentleman began by alluding to the circumstances of the late expression of feeling in the Upper House of Par. liament, and by calling on the tranquil but decisive co-opera tion of his fellow-citizens to assist their brethren of England in obtaining the blessings of good local government. They would tell the Peers of England that they were determined constitutionally to assert their rights. The Learned Gentle man concluded by proposing the resolutions._ Subsequently Messrs. Walsh, Fcargus O'Connor, James Hayes, James Daly, spoke in proposing and seconding reso lutions. Sir CHARLES SUGHRUE proposed the sixth resolution, ex pressive of the confidence of the Meeting in the present Ad ministration. He said that the recent display of anti-national feeling in the hereditary House of Parliament was calculated to bring that body into general odium, and to let the people see how well they could do without a House of Lords. The resolution having been seconded was carried unanimously. The resolutions were to the effect that the great measure of Parliamentary Reform was but an instrument for produ cing further ameliorations both in general and local govern ment—that its greatest and best result would be the reform of the Municipal Corporations of the country, and that the noble bearing of Lord Melbourne in opposing the selfish and narrow views of the aristocracy in their endeavours to defeat the Bill, merited the support and confidence of the people of Great Britain and Ireland. A petition to the Lords, beg ging them to pass the Bill for the Reform of the English Mu nicipal Corporations was unanimously agreed to, after which the Meeting separated. EDINBVRGH. ( Abridged from the Edinburgh Evening Courant of Thursday.) Yesterday, at three o'clock, in consequence of a requisition presented to the Lord Provost on Monday last, a public meet ing of the inhabitants, which was numerously attended, took place in the Waterloo Large Room, for the purpose of peti tioning the House of Lords to pass the English Corporation Bill without alteration, and for the purpose also of expressing confidence in his Majesty's Ministers, for the firmness which they have shown in the present crisis. On the platform were the Lord Provost and four Bailics, Sir James G. Craig, Sir Alex. M. Gibson, Mr. Forrest of Comieston, &c. &c. The LORD PROVOST having, on the motion of Sir James Gibson Craig, been called to the chair by acclamation, read the requisition, and shortly stated the objects for which the meeting had been 'called, in which he most cordially concurred. —( Cheers.) His Lordship observed that an erroneous opi nion was held by some individuals, that the effect of the Eng lish Corporation Bill would be to rob these Corporations of their property. Never was there entertained so gross a mis take as this, for not one iota of that property would be taken away by the measure which bad so triumphantly passed the House of Commons, and was now so violently opposed in the other House, by those who had opposed all reform. The only change that would be made by the Bill, would be to place the citizens of the English burghs in a situation to elect those whom they considered most fit to manage their own affairs.— ( Cheers.) And that this would be an important benefit con ferred upon them was abundantly proved by comparing the si tuation of our own city now, to what it was before the passing of the Scots Reform Bill. Fer the lamentable situation of this city's affairs, he did not blame his predecessors in office, but the system ; indeed the immediate predecessors of Ate present Town Council deserved high commendation for boldly laying the state of affairs before the public. But he would not detain the meeting, as they would be addressed by others more able to do so than himself. Mr. J. Slum STEWART then rose, and was received with loud applause. The Chairman, he said, had just ably and clearly expressed to the meeting the general nature of those objects which were the occasion of the present meeting. When the celebrated Bill, the Reform Bill, received the sanction of the Crown, and became the law of the land, no man, he believed, supposed, or if some did so delude them selves, no intelligent, discerning man supposed that that Bill had worked a positive or final benefit, but rather regarded it as an engine affording the means of ulterior essential objects —an engine in itself as useless as the steam-engine would be if fire were not applied to it.—(Cheers.) It was contemplated merely as an implement for cutting down the rank and pesti ferous weed of corruption which had overgrown our institu tions ; for pruning away their excrescences, and infusing new strength and vigour into the plant of Constitutional liberty. —( Loud cheers.) Among those rank and noisome weeds, thickly as we were surrounded by them, there were none more rank and corrupt than those which beset the Municipal Corporations of the country. In our own country, the Re form Act was speedily followed by a measure for the correc tion of this class of abuses, and by a singular fatality or over. sight, or it might be a gleam of liberality, it was allowed to pass by those who did not at that time foresee what a fatal precedent it afforded to the views of their opponents in setting up a demand for a similar measure for England.—( Cheers.) He needed not, he said, enter into any details to prove the abuses of the English and Irish Corporations. He should content himself with adducing only one witness—he meant one of our own beloved Members—who in that very room, when speaking of Corporation Reform, declared that the abuses under which the inhabitants of Scotland groaned, in comparison of the analogous abuses of England, were small indeed ; the Corporations in England were far richer than those of Scotland, and accordingly were proportionately more gross and corrupt.—( Hear, hoar.) But before he proceeded farther, be thought it right to advert to an objection which would certainly never have occurred to himself, and the mere statement of which he was sure would carry its own answer. He alluded to the reply of the first Magistrate of the first city in the empire (the Lord Mayor of London) to a requisition, calling on him to convene a meeting of the Common Council of London, for the same purpose as that which the present meeting had in view. The an swer of that person was, that the City and Corporation of London, not being individually affected by the Bill in question, the citizens could not therefore legitimately in terest themselves, nor constitutionally express their opi nion on that measnre... Upon that ground the Lord Mayor declined to call together the legally constituted organs of the citizens of London. Now, it was hecauge they (the citizens of Edinburgh) were not waiting for a reform of the burgh system, having already obtained that boon, that the Lord Provost of this city had not returned the same insulting answer—(Cheers)—and that the present meeting was now held.---( Cheers.) After alluding to the proceedings in the case of the Catholic Emancipation Act, and' the Slave Eman cipation Act, and he might add fifty others, as cases in which the people exercised their right of petitioning, though not personally affected by those measures, the learned gentleman proceeded—could it be said, however, that the people of this country were not individually interested in wishing to see the advancement of the great principle of freedom over the length and breadth of the land? He would say boldly, and he thought it was impossible to deny it, that the motive which had caused the majority of the House of Peers to adopt the extreme course they had taken with regard to this Bill was one which scarcely could be avowed, and which certainly could not stand the test of constitutional investigation.—(Cheers.) One great objection to this Bill was, the effect it would give to the freer scope and louder expression of liberal opinions in the country. It was not denied that it would give strength to the Liberal party, the defeat and subversion of which was one of their dearest objects.—(Cheers.) This ob ject, however, the House of Lords ought not and could not avow, because it was at variance with the first principles of the Constitution. They were now making the last struggle to inm ai i) n a t r an h t wrested u t e c d o r f r ro pflu e n from them i bcyet t he g h r e e a country f which ße was m, fit, a nd r first, which this last Bill, they were aware, would put a final end.— (Cheers.) They were now, therefore, met there to give ex 7 pression to the opinion embodied in the resolutions he was about to submit, that the Bill for reforming the Corporations of England was of vital importance to the stability of the throne, the preservation.of the Constitution, and to the peace and prosperity of the empire.—(Cheers.) He would say, that with regard to the House of Lords themselves, it was of the last and most vital importance that the Bill should pass. They had . placed themselves, by their opposition to it, in a false and perilous situation ; and it became the friends of the Constitution, and of the peace of the country, to interfere and to tell the House of Lords that they could not be permitted, in their blind infatuation of clinging to abuses, to endanger the existence of even their own branch of the Legislature, with the privileges of which the people of this country had no de sire to intermeddle.—( Cheers.) They must, therefore, be awakened from their dream—the treacherous, wild, and peri lous dream—in which they were now indulging—and the con tinuance of which might involve the ruin of their own order. — Before the Reform Bill all run smooth—there was no fear of collision ; and the reason of this was,. that the sympathy to which ho alluded then existed, but it did so because of the corrupt influence exercised by the Peers in the formation of the House of Commons, and the consequent readiness of the latter body always to give way to the former. This could not be the case, however, now. Then the House of Commons, was the creati on o f an Oli garc h y, now i t was the organ o f th e nation. The one House was now the organ of the nation ; the other only that of a few ; and it was reasonable and proper, that the smaller should give way to the larger body. The Learned Gentleman then commended that forbearance which now characterisedßeformers in sinking all Shades of political differences, for the purpose of upholding and strength ening a Miuistry in wl,3m they had' confideneethese Minis ters whosel'reeent uncereinthiious dis Missal from Office. bad aroused one universal cry cry of indignation throughout the country, and who had been so triumphantly . brought-back t 6. powerby the voice of the pc )ple. It was those Ministers who were now struggling against un -oppocition such 'as no other ever before had tcreontend-with.--.4010- were beset 'with .sut:b NOTICES OF ISIOTIONS. 1. Mr. Robinson—On reading - the Order of the Day, to call tl attention of the Homo to the commercial confederation of 4 -- Germany. 2. Mr. Warburton,—Petition of Silas rearm!, relail.' l s to a con tract for limestone for the Breakwater at Plymouth. 3. Mr. Warburton;—Petition of Licentiate Physicians, praying that the revised Bye-laws of the Royal College of Physicians of London may , not be confirmed. 4. Mr. Charles Buller,—To put a question as to the intention of his Majesty's Government with respect to the Office of Lord High Chancellor of England. 5. Mr. Walter,—Select Committee on the Thames Tunnel. 6. Mr. O'Connell,—Petition respecting the administration of jus tice in Newfoundland. 7. Mr. O'Connell,—Petition on the case of the Baron de Bode. 8. Mr. O'Connell,—Petition relating to the Gurtroc Massacre. 9. Lord Visdount Lowther, Copy of the Evidence taken before the Post Office Inquiry Commission. 10. Captain Peellell,—.Petition from Brighton, for protection to to the Fishery at that place. 11. Mr. Hawes,—To call the attention of the House to the Resolu tions respecting the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament. 12. Mr. Wallace,—Return of the expense of prosecuting a woman and female child at the late Staffordshire Assizes, at the suit of the I'ost Office. 3. Dr. Bowring, 7 -Payment of Witnesses who attended the Great Yarmouth gribery - Committee. [4. Mr. Chancellor cf the Exchequer,—Bill for the relief of the sufferers by the hurricane in the Island of Dominica. 15. rtfr. Wallace,—To put a question as to the communication with India by the Reg Sea. [6. Mr. to repeal Act 60 Geo. 111. c. 9 (Newspaper Stamps, Pamphlets, &c.) .7. Mr. Pease,— fo move for the production of Copies of the Mi nutes and Resolutions of the Select Committee on Great Yar mouth Bribery. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18.—ORDERS OF THE DAY. I. Public Institutions Bill—Further consideration of Report(atl2. ) 2. Public Walks Bill—Further consideration of Report (at 12.) 3. Mr. Buckingham's Claim—Adjourned Debate thereupon. 4. Letters Patent Bill—Committee. 5. Cruelty to Animals Bill—Further consideration of Report (atl2 ) 6. Public Carriages (Metropolis) Bill—Committee (at 12.) 7. Steam Vessels (Thames) Bill—Second reading (t 12.) 8. Election Expenses Bill—Further consideration of Report. 9. Prisons Regulation Bill—Third reading. [O. Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. [l. Spirit Licenses and Wine Permits Rill—Second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. I. Mr. Hume,—Resolutions relating to official appointments. t. Mr. Wyse,—Bill for the establishment of a General Board of Charities in Ireland. 3. Mr. Parker,—To move a Clause in Patents Bill. 4. Mr. Harvev,—To move the insertion of a Clause in the Ex penses at elections Bill. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12.—ORDERS OF THE DAY. I. Malpas's Divorce Bill—Committee ; Counsel and Witnesses. 2. Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 3. Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling 1-Louses Bill—Committee. 1. Sir Charles Broke Verc,—Petition of the East Suffolk Agri cultural Society, praying for some measure effectual relief. 2. Major Beauclerk,—ln Committee on Inns, Alehouses, and Vic tualling-houses Bill, to move that all such houses be allowed henceforward all kind of music for the entertainment of the public. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20. -ORDER OF THE DAY. Pirochial Workhouses Bill—Second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. Wilks,—For the consideration and redras of the practical Grievances of Protestant Dissenters. 2. Mr. Ewart,---Address to the Crown in favour of the appoint- ment of Peers for life. _ 3. Mr. Tooke,—To call the attention of the House to the Address for granting a Charter to the University of London. 4. Mr. Mullins,—To move for a Commission on the present state of the Irish Fisheries. FRIDAY AUGUST 21, 1 --NOTICES OF MOTION. 1. Mr. Ed war d Lytton Bulwer,—Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. 2. Mr. Wallace,—To move, as an Amendment on Mr. Bulwer's Mo tion for a repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers, That a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire, whether by placing the management of the Post Office in Commission, contract ing for conveying the mails by private steam-packets, amending and regulating Inland Post conveyances, and the rates of Postages, a saving might not be effected sufficient to admit of repealing the Duty on Newspapers. ..Sir Francis, Lady, and the Misses Burdett, are re siding at present at Harrogate, in consequence of the indisposi tion of part of the family. A considerable number of the Liberal Members of the House of Commons, who still remain at their posts, held a meeting on Friday for the purpose of deliberating on the mea sures which the conduct of the Peers may render necessary. It was agreed that the absent Members should be reca lled to town, and that precautionary steps should be taken with a view to curb the movements of the Court and Oligarchy during the recess. The Appropriation Act is not yet passed; and it is probable that the representatives of the people may deem it prudent to authorize the expenditure of a part only of the 6uPplies, and thus render an early re-assembling of Parliament necessary. MR. GISBORNV, ,M.P.—A charge as senseless as it is groundless has been trui:Ved up for some election pur- , poses against this gentleman. The Duke of Newcastle an:. others have made it matter of censure that Mr. Gisborne re cently sold some land upon which a chapel for R oman Catho lics i s to b e built. A correspodent of the Derby Reporter (Mr. Carp) states that he „. as ~ nplicd to in the way of busi ness to b uy some acres of f orest lane, and that he did buy them —but that us to the purpose for which the land was, designed", Mr. G• 'shortie knew -nothing about it until att,: the purchase was compl ete d . If any o f .t h e const i tuents of Mr. G. think Vial the charge, even - if it were true, is any impeachment .ever of that gent l eman ' s high character and patriotic services, they do not deserve such a representative, amid should seek, elsewhere for anid:.:ocato of kindred bigotry and-ignorance. COURT MARTIAL. ( From the Portsmouth Herald.) The court-martial on Mr. Cardew, late mate of the Alge rine, for mutiny in depriving Lieutenant Stovin of the com mand, and Mr. Heath, the master, for aiding him therein, commenced last Monday. Lieutenant Stovin was the first wit ness examined, and he stated, that when put under arrest Mr. Cardew placed his hand on his (Lieutenant Stovin's) shoulder, an , t :;:: 7ornoral laid hold of his arm, and that when he at tempted to address , ship's company, a hand was thrust over his mouth, but it was to dark to see whose it was. He further stated, that before Mr. Ca; flew took away his pistols, and w h en h e g a "e them to the corporal to load, he said he intend e d to try an d reOnver th 6 command of the ship, m d n „i;,:sd the marines would stand !.'v him. These were the most important points in the evidence for the t.-srosecution, which closed on Tuesday at noon, and the Court ap,:eed to allow the prisoners till Friday morning for the preparatien of their defence. On the opening of te Court on that day, the prisoners put in their defences, Mr. Cardew's being read by his counsel, Mr. R. Missing, and Mr. Heath's by his solicitor, Mr. George L. Greetham. Both defences were very able documents, pointing out the cases in which the evidence for the prosecution had been at variance with itself, as well as those cases where it would be contradicted, by the witnesses on the defence, and more particularly dwelling on the discrepancies in the evidence of Lieutenant Stovin himself. The hinging point of Mr. Cardew's defence was the uncertainty of Mr. Stovin's actions, it being impossible, on account of his repeated inebriety, to place any reliance on his conduct, espe cially as he had once chased a vessel which he believed to be a slaver without serving out any arms to the crew. [This fact was afterwards stated in evidence by Mr. Roberts.' Under these circumstances, Mr. Cardew declared that a de sire to promote the interests of the service had alone induced him to pursue the course he bad, which, as his wind was free from any mutinous intent, he hoped would be consitL'red by the Court a mere error in judgment. Mr. Heath's defellee ably urged his want of motive to concur in the arrest, as no end which he had in view could he promoted by it, and his pre vious high certificates removed the suspicion of his being ac tuated by a spirit of insubordination. The only evidence of importance adduced for the defence was that of Commander Booth, late of the Trineulo, and who, as the superior officer at the Cape, had inquired into the circumstances of Lieute nant Stovin's arrest, when the Algerine arrived there. Com mander Booth stated distinctly, that when he asked Lieu tenant Stavin if he had made any resistance to the arrest, he answered its the negative; nor did he say anything about his statement to the corporal, that he hoped the marines would stand by him. The case for the defence was then speedily closed, and the Court cleared ; and after two hours' delibe ration the Court re-opened, and the Judge-Advocate read the sentence :—That the charge had been proved ; but, in consideration of the prisoners' previous good character, they were only sentenced to be dismissed the service, and to be imprisoned for three calendar months in the Marshalsea. A vast deal of interest had been excited by this trial, it being doubted by naval men whether the Court would consider the mitigating circumstances, or award the full penalty attached to the crime. The general opinion is, that the sentence is extremely lenient. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTII, AUGUST 15.—The Alligator, 28, Captain Lambert, arrived at a late hour this evening from the East India station. She left the Cape on the 2d, St. Helena the 18th, and Ascension the 24th of June. We have not heard that she has brought any news. The Russell will proceed to-morrow for Lisbon, and even tually to Malta. The Magicienne, 26, will also go to Lisbon as soon as the Courts-martial are over on the Officers for the loss of the two schooners in the West Indies. By the arrival of the Lightning steam-vessel (Mr. Allen), accounts are received from Lisbon to the 3d instant, by which 'we learn that in consequence of despatches from England the Stag, 46, Tweed, 20, Clio, 16, and the Pike schooner, had sailed on the previous day with sealed orders—their ultimate destination being supposed to be the south coast of Spain, where it is rumoured this force would be strengthened in that quarter by some of the ships of the Mediterranean squadron. The only men-of-war left in the Tagus were the Hastings, 74 (flag-ship), Royalist, Waterwitch, Cameleon, and Viper. Tire Lightning arrived here from Plymouth on Sunday, with super numeraries for the Russell and Magicicnne, and then proceeded to the eastward. The Columbia, from Demerara, arrived at Trinidad on the 19th of January ; the Dispatch sailed from Barbadoes on the 23d of June, for Bermuda. The Magicienne, 28, Captain Mildmay, went out of harbour on Wednesday. The Pylades sloop, fitting at Plymouth, is intended for ser vice on the coast of Africa. The Wanderer, 16, fitting at Chatham, will go to the East Indies. It is said that the Stag frigate, Captain Lockyer, has been despatched to the Cape of Good Hope, to give her assistance, while the Admiral's at tention, commanding on that station, in the Thalia frigate, is occupied with the Caffre war. The Hope and Alpha transports sailed yesterday and to day, with eighty horses, for the Queen of Spain's service, to be landed at St. Sebastian. Two large ships will take on board 180 on Monday next, and sail immediately. These horses are of a very superior description. The Royal Tar steamer left London yesterday, with 250 recruits, and will call at Plymouth to-morrow for another 200, and the London Merchant steamer leaves London to-day, and calls at this port to-morrow, to embark cavalry officers and men, to the amount of 150, for the Queen's services The Sulphur, with the Starling cutter as her tender, is or dered to be fitted for the surveying service, to be commanded by Captain Beechoy. The Jupiter, armed en flute, is commissioned by the lion. Captain Frederick Grey, to convey the Governor-General, Lord Auckland, to Calcutta. The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant Morgan, is removed from the Portsmouth to the Sheerness station. At Spithcad—Russell, Magicienne. In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, and Excellent. P ROMOTI ONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. W. R. Mends, Mate of the Pique frigate, to the rank of Lieutenant ; Mr. W. Lord, late Mate of the Investigator, to be Lieutenant ; Hon. Captain G. Grey. and Lieutenant Francis Liardet, to the Cleopatra ; Hon. Captain F. Grey, to the Jupiter ; Com mander W. L. Castle, Lieutenants M. Thomas and J. M. Langtry, Mr. W. R. Mattacott, Master, Mr. P. Toms, Sur geon, Mr. R. Singer, Purser, and Mr. J. A. Miller, Assist ant-Surgeon to the Pylades ; Commander Thomas Dilke, Mr. Baird, Surgeon, and Mr. J. S. Pope, Purser, to the Wanderer ; Mr. E. Johnson, Surgeon, Messrs Ashley Cooper and Samuel Trevor Dickens, College Volunteers, to the Missal ; .Mr. Derryman, Assistant-Surgeon to the Magi cienne ,• Mr. Siddell, to be clerk in charge of stores to the Buzzard ; Mr. C. Byam, Mate, to the Excellent ; Mr. Lowe, College .4 tte, Zebra; Mr. W. Stanway, Clerk, and Mr. Tibbett, Schoolmaster, Nagicienne ; Mr. T. Mitchell (b), an Assistant-Surgeon, has thrown up his warrant, because the Admiralty would not give him leave to go to the Cape of Good Hope. The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the Royal Naval College on Tuesday. Wednesday, an..l Thurs day :—Messrs. Reginald Thomas J. Levinge, Edward ileo. Fanshawe, Francis Bedford Sleeman, John Sanderson, Ed ward Simpson, late Melville ; Robert James Rouse, bite Har rier ; Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, taste Imogene ; Richard Wilford, late Curaqoa ; Edmund Edwarc;. Turnour, late Barham; Edward Charles Smith, late Firefly; ischard Wilson Pelly, late Arachne ; Thomas H. Lysaght and Jori Seacomb, Edinburgh ; Edgar H. Blake, late Britannia . ; Edward P. Carter, Tartarus ; Charles H. Douglas, Russell ; Lord Henry Russell, Messrs. C. H. Wem3ss and Arthur Vyner. Twelve other gentlemen w:re remanded for fur ther examination, not being sufficiently proficient in the use of astronomical instruments. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 15.—His Majesty's ship Russell, 74, ar rived at Portsmouth on Sunday, from Sheerness. We regret to state that on the preceding day a serious accident happened on board the Russell, while weighing the anchor in the Downes, owing to the hook of the leading block of the fish tackle fall breaking, by which means two marines were killed on the spot, another died shortly afterwards, and a fourth is not expected to survive. In addition to these fatal cases seven men were severely hurt, and nine others more or less injured by the accident. It appears that a quantity of the chain cable remained under water, and was not perceived until the whole weight of it bore on the shank of the anchor in fishing, when, from the additional weight, the hook gave way before the shank painter could be passed. His Majesty's steamer Fort was at Halifax on the 16th, where she had arrived from the Havannah, and was perform ing quarantine, having suffered much from the yellow fever. Above eighty cases had occurred on board, and the carpenter, Mr. White, Ica two seamen, had died, but we are happy to state that all the otil.;.'s were convalescent. The Meteor steamer, Lii:::.qenant Smith, was paid advance of wages on Wednesday, and sf.lrted for the West Indies, having on board William Pitt Adams, Esq., Secretary of Le gation at Bogota, and about eighteen supernumerary boys for the President. Remaining in Hamoaze—San Josef, Pylades, Hope sport. Lieutenants T. M. Currie, President, lion. Jos. Denman, Curlew, and Matthew Dixon, Oceen, are promoted to the rank of Commanders. Commander W. H. H. Carew is ap pointed to the Harrier ; Mr. Joseph Steret, Surgeon, to the Baldaster convict shipi Mr. J. Vallack, Purser, to the Ordi nary at Sheerness; Mr. W. Marsden, Purser, to the Ordinary at Chatham ; Lieutenant W. Boyce, to the - Coast Guard at Feltham ; Lieutenant G. Spong, to be Stipendiary Magis trate at Trinidad. Sir Robert and Lady Peel and family have taken up their residence in the splendid new mansion which has been just 'Completed in Drayton Park. The demolition of the old edifice took place in the course of the present summer. On the Ist of September the Right lion. Gentleman will com mence the sporting season with pa ridge-shooting on his' fine preserves at Drayton, where the game is most abundant. The meeting at Mansfield, last Friday evening, for assisting the fund on behalf of the wives and children of the Dorchester " victims" was well attended, and liberal donations were then made, and are still making.•—Nottingham Review. DRAMATIC LITERATURE.—One branch of lite rature remains upon which we have not vet touched, and which is at the lowest ebb of any—the dramatic. Nothing . is more common than.&he complaint that the national drama is vulga rised and debased. by vulgar management. The management may be vulgar, but that vie believe is not the cause of the de 1-,sernent of the. stage. • The great deficiency is that of dra - . • ritings. , —From- the--First Nicntber 9/. the British and - • .. . . . . . SHIPPING.-(THIS PAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Aro. 15.—Wind N. E., fine. Aug. 16.--Wind S. fine.—Arrived and sailed for the river the Upton Castle, Day- Bard, from China ; Henry, Bunny, from the Cape of Good' Elope; Carshalton Park, Park, from Jamaica ; Eliza, Sayers,: from Barbadoes; Mariners, Patterson, from Mauritius ; Mar garet Oglevie, Oglevie, from Smyrna; Arbutus, Ponds, from, Lisbon; Zephyr, Spiers, from Exeter; Thames, Dawson, from Dublin ; and Trinidad, Beckett, from Trinidad. Arrived from the river and sailed the Royal Tar, for St. Sebastian's, with troops ; Eliza, Sewell, for Cadiz ; Barlow, Burns, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; Orissa, Rankine, for Hobart Town • Angelica, Mawling, for Barbadoes ; Limerick Lass, Oake;for Limerick ; and Triton, Carroll, for Belf4st. JERSEY, Aun. 15.—Arrived the Thamis, Le Blair, and Hebe, Grueley, from Rio Janairo. LIVERPOOL, Ave. 15.—Arrived the Grafton, Cowell, from New Orleans; and Eller, —, from Leghorn. Off port the, Sarah, —, from Bombay ; Louisa Baillic, --, from Ja aim •, Indian Lass, --, from Newfoundland ; and Czarin a, from Cephalonia. c f. , T p t , Auo. 15.—Arrived the Glenbervie, (Iverson, from Demerara ; .urope, Noble, from Quebec. Porurs,:ouTir, AuG. 15 and 16.—Wind W., fine.—Arrivcd his Majesty's ship Alligator, from the Cape of Good Hope. Off port, the 13,,syneo, Charlen, from Batavia—sailed April 22. PLYMOUTH, Aud. variable.—Arrived off port, from Co ion. the Symmetry, Stevens',, , ;Yind variable, light breezes, and fine ; 15, N. to W., light breezes, and fine.—OT port, the Ceres, Blamped, from Hor:Liras t Charlotte, Kachner, from Trinidad de Cuba; Louisa, —, .frvn St. Thomas's; Staffa, Bamber, from Demerara ; Prince Reksant, Taylor, from To bago ; Colonist, Smith, from Barbaules Francis Depau, Railing, from New York.—Sailed, the fltbion, Nixon, from Quebec ; his Majesty's brig Sloe, --, from Lisbon. SWANSEA, Ave. 13.—Wind N. W.—Sailt:4, I Ith, the Cobrero, Thompson, for St. Jago de Cuba; 131;r, Rosehill, Brown, and Star, Keith, for Barbadoes. DUBLIN, Ave. 14.—Arrived the Mandarin, Donald , from Cantos.; Liberty, Marshall, from Smyrna; and Emerald, Fletcher, from Bourdea ux. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SWANSEA AND NE/1 TII RACES, Tinntmar. The Swansea Stakes of 10 sous. each„ with 50 added. Once round. Mr. Harries's Barney Bodkin, 5 yrs Mr. Parr's Maridunum, 5 yrs Mr. Gough's Duldina, aged Mr. Whalley's Haldon dr Plate of 50 soya. Heats, once round. Mr. Fuller's Nell Gwynne, 5 yrs 1 1 Mr. Whalley's Haldon, 4 yrs Afr, Powell's b. f. by Polhio, 3 yrs Mr. Pa:r's Runt, aged dr Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 sous. added from the Fund. Once round. Mr. Gough's Dal:c.:2na, aged 1 Mr. Chambers's Para,. - on, 4 yrs Mr. Harries's Bessy, gyn . . 3 4 Mr. Thomas's Witney Lass, 7rs iith 15 added from the Fund. The Scurry Stakes of 3 sovs. each, v, Once round. Mr. Gough's Btownie, aged •••• ... 1 Mr. Thomas's Witney Lass ... Mr. Bradley's Rhagflaeniad, aged Mr. Powell's b. f. by Polhio ... -. Mr. Harries's Bessy 5 The Pony Race for a saddle and bridle was won by M. Price's pony, of the Lam and flag, beating four others. FRIDAY. A Plate of 501. Heats. once round. Mr. Harries's Barney Bodkin Mr. Fuller's Nell Gwynn ... Mr. Parr's Runt Mr. Reid's Creeper, 5 yrs Sweepstakes of 2 sm. each, with 15 added from 'the Fund, for galloways and ponies. Mr. E.Wilkios'i Ellen Brown, 5 yrs.. Mr. Lucas's Boy Bizae, 5 yrs Mr. 'Williams's Youth, 4 yrs Mr. Smith's Useful, 5 yrs . 3 2 4 dr Mr. Wilks's Crazy Jack, 4 yrs Mr. Jenkins's Slug, 5 yrs ... Mr. Dallimore's Swansea Lass ..... Sweepstakes of 5 soys each, with 25 a4, 4 .ed, for beaten horses. M. Whalley's Haldon Mr. Parr's Maridunum A saddle and bridle was won by a pony from Bridsend. DONCASTER RACES. The approaching races will present a scene of unequalled splendour. The bst horses of the south will be brought into the most determined competition with their competitors of the north ; and it will go hard with the former if they do not try to better their instructions. The Yorkshire blood has been successful in the south. Perhaps the tables may be turned, if not by " Ascot," or Epsom, or Newmarket, perhaps by the winner of the Oaks, the victorious Queen of Trumps. Should the Queen, in this instance,. continue to reign supreme, Chester will be delighod beyond measure, Liverpool will be crazy,.and Manchester stark mad. Preparations are making at Wentworth-house ,for the reception of the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, who intend to honour the races with their presence. AQUA TICS. SCULLERS' WAGER.—In consequence of the fouling match of Wednesday between Phelps and Kipph.'g, by which Coombe's and George Campbell were the two first boats, a match has been got up to discover who is the better ma:l. The match was made at Avis's, the Bells Tavern, at Putney, the defeat of the favourite in the last match causing considerable consterna tion in the aquatic circles. Phelps is a slashing sculier, and there is but little doubt that in hard rowing he could. have beaten any of the men of last Wednesday's match. Kipping's backers, however, think otherwise, and this great contest will take place within a fortnight. PORTSNIOUVI IZEGAT:A.—Arrangements have been made tee produce a regatta this year, on the same splendid and attrac tive scale as heretofore, to which no one in the neighbourhood can fail liberally !•0 ,subscribe, if they bring to mind the grati fication they derivoi from this animating scene on ail former occasions, and more oarticularly on the last. To the visitors this amusement has eve been a source of considerable plea sure ; and as such shoulu certainly be strongly supported by the lodging-house keepers, vs;:o are, in fact, the only persons comparatively benefitted by it. If they entertain a proper sense of their interest, therefore, tLiey will draw their purse strings freely on this occasion. The regatta is fined for the 9th and 10th September. At a meeting of the Royal Yacht Squadron held- last week at Cowes, the following were electe'. members :—The Hon. H,!nry Flower Walker, Ernmcfje scho:.mer, 103 tons ; Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., Harriet cutter, 96 tons. Honorary members :—Captain Lord Clarence Paget, R. N.; Captain Thomas Hastings, his Majesty's ship Excellent; Cap tain Richard Warren, R.N.; Rear-Admiral Sir F. L. Mait land, K. C. B.; Captain George Vincent King, R. N.; Rear- Admiral Sir \Vm. Parker, K.C. B.; Captain \V. B. Green, R. N.; Captain Christian Wyvill, R. N.; and the Rev. Dr. Samuel Cole. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGIIALLSTREET, TO-MORROW. (From the Landon Gazette) M. II I Ciondwin, innkeeper, Mtge, Sussex E. (1 F. Sievers, coal.merchant, Cu Nnter.stre , ~ t J. Cotes, 'nu., surgeon, Ma garetotreet, C.iveinlis!•.....iplare 2 I G. Steanb?rg, merch Ant, Colemm-stre.it B. White, printer, Heading, Berkshire 2 12 T. Minton, grocer, Benk-sti eet, B gent..street W. Rithardsdn, wine-merchant, liing-street, Covent-garden 2 11 J. Decon, upholsterer, Berners.strect f,t,AcE iitiNTlNo.—lt is stated that General La chasse n. Verigny had not expired when a certain General wrote to the War Minister to solicit his place. The Minister returned fur an..'wer, " Sir, your letter is a disgrace to the : rank me for not making it public." army. larint may , THE KEXBY u ItDER.—It has been said, that no one man could have bee.'' the perpetrator, and that the body when found gives so:s _eio . nt proof that three, if not four persons were engaged :n the murder, as the body was stretched on the ground, wiiYi the arms extended on either side, the hands at the same tion being perfectly free from blood. Morley, „.h o „pp, ars t o 1:,.! the 'principal in this sad affair, occupies a good-sized farm in ire-bY Straylane, and the prisoner Bell is a small freeholder, livin o' in a cottage about a quarter of - a mile from Morley's. —Lincan Gazette. TIIE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT 'XIIE WAT FORD TUNNEL—On visiting the scene of the I . ,:te accident, late on Thursday, we found that by the unceasing and indefa tigable exertions of about forty men for the last month an opening had been made about forty-six feet by thirty-nine wide, and the earth excavated to the depth of upwards of eighty feet. The whole is secured by deals on either Bide, which is supported by solid logs placed across in thirteen stories, and strongly bound together by iron rods. The value of the tim ber thus employed is said nearly to amount to 1,000/. The workmen reached the tunnel on Tuesday, and since that time they have been in the hourly expectation of finding the retrains of their deceased fellow-labourers ; but as the tunnel is twenty five feet from the base it is uncertain as to the prtcise depth at which the bodies will be found. Some of them are within i,';yee feet of the bottom, and, therefore, it will be nearly a week;:efore they can be extricated. Last Saturday pieces of a water cart,- which was standing at the mouth of the shaft at the time of the eecident, was discovered. Oa Monday the dog, belonging to the Men attending the "girt," was dug out ; and on Wednesday, a.basitZt containing some bread. About neon on Thursday, a blue coat, belonging either to Evans or Rubenst was extricated from amidst t::c broken timbers, and perhaps before this account will be pubiNred its owner's remains may have been reached by tire miners. On descending the shaft we found that the brick-work of the tunn!,- adjoining the arch which the unfortunate suffsrers were engagnd in turning at the time thov met their deaths, still remained seem!'-' ; the centres being firm, and in their proper places. Lookieg upwards, a stranger to the art of man, or one more informed, cannot be otherwise than struck with astonishment on observing :,,re great skill displayed in walling round such an immense opening (we believe), the largest and deepest at this time extant in England. The cool and deliberate conduct of the labourers tends to givsi an unusual degree of interest to the scene. In the wood near the top of the shaft nine coffins and a hearse are kept in readi ness to convey the bodies as soon as dug out, to Watford. The anxiety of the public, and particularly the immediate residents in the neighbourhood, continues to increase daily, and vast numbers visit the place. In addition to the horse "gin," four hand windlasses, or " jack rolls," are continually employ - cc' in drawing up the earth. We hope to be enabled - next Week to present our readers with a full account of the", Coroner's inquest, when, no doubt, some interestnr . lg facts . rela . pm to t his said affairV4 ill . be .elicited from the ,14.T.:rilt County Pres : l. • ~,; ~:- :~~• .8 - 121 50 S:6 155 _1 :s:"~= i 41. G -.-~