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;~~ r I tle, had been displaced from his situation, in order to make room for the appointment of a relation of Lord Edward Fitz gerald—a name ominous to Ireland ? Viscount MELBOURNE said that the Noble Marquis had made somewhat of an extended and varied speech on putting a single question.—( A laugh.) Respecting the letter cf the Lord Lieutenant he had made several observations, but not put any question at all ; so that it was not necessary for him to enter into much explanation. The Noble Marquis had, no doubt, received the letter in common with the Magistrates of the rest of the country. It was a document which explained itself. Noble Lords had told them that it was likely that pro cessions would this year be renewed with greater violence than ever. He was happy, however, to say, that from all he heard, there was great reason to expect that the anticipations of Noble Lords that the processions of this year would lead to breaches of the peace were not likely to be realized.--( Hear.) Considering all the circumstances of the case, it was not, however, extraordinary that the Noble Earl should write the letter, nor was the letter without many precedents. In July, 1829, there was a Proclamation, but it was accompanied with a circular. In 1830 there was a circular alone. In July, 1832, there was a circular. In October, 1832, there was a circular ; and in October, 1833, there was again a circular. This disposed of that question. He repeated, as on former occasions, that the Government of Ireland would be conducted with all the impartiality which the Noble Marquis said that he required.--( Hear.) With respect to the particular appoint ment referred to in the Lord Lieutenant's household, he could only say, that this was the first time he had heard of the arrangement. But it was for the Noble Earl himself to settle his own household—(Hear, hear)—and, what he did in that respect, was not a matter of which the House could take cogkiz [lnce. MAGISTRACY. The Marquis of WESTMEATH alluded to the occur rences which had taken place at the Carlow election. Perhaps the Noble Lord would favour the House with some explana tion this subject. Lord DUNCANNON replied. An investigation had been instituted, which had been intrusted to the Lord Lieutenant of the county. The Marquis of WESTMEATH thought it a very unfor tunate precedent, and he was very sorry for it.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Juzr 3. The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 3 o'clock. Mr. JAMES OSWALD presented a petition from Glas. gow, against the Glasgow Poor's-rate Bill. CARLOW ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that he had received a petition, complaining of the undue return of the new Mem bers for Carlow. Sir H. PARNELL brought up the Report of the Commit tee on the Holyhead and Shrewsbury Road Bill. VOTE BY BALLOT. Mr. R. POTTER presented a petition from some place in the Eastern Division of Devonshire, praying for the esta blishment of the vote by Ballot. He believed that the Ballot was the only effectual remedy against undue influence on the one hand, and physical force on the other. The Hon. Mem ber also presented a petition from Onagh, in Tyrone, in favour of the Municipal Reform Bill. NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES. Mr. H. MA RSL AND presented a petition from Stockport, with 3,000 signatures, praying relief from the Newspaper Stamp Duty. The petitioners considered this duty extremely injurious in preventing the spread of useful knowledge amongst the working classes. The same HON. MEMBER presented a petition from the same place praying that all beer-houses might be placed on the same footing with regard to the hours of business. CORPORATE REFORM. Mr. BO R.TH WIC K, when on Friday last he presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Evesham, had ventured to solicit the particular attention of the House to it— ( Hear, hear,)—he had navy to present one from the freemen and other inhabitants of the same Borough upon the same subject, to which he must also call the serious attention of the House. --( Hear, hear.) He was sure that the House would feel the responsibility attending the position of any man who had a voice in the legislature of this Country, and who sat in that House. and that they would consider it a crime of no common character if a person, placed in such a situation were to swerve, under any influence what soever, from the onward path of public duty. The petition which he on a former day presented from the Mayor and Cor poration of Evesliam, prayed a very reasonable favor on the part of that House; for it was nothing more nor less than this, that the British Parliament would be slow to take from them those chartered rights which they had never violated— that the House of Commoas would not impose upon the country a measure which should deprive the members of boroughs of those rights to which they were entitled, not only by pri vate charter and long prescription, but by the higher right of justice. When he stated from whence this petition came —that it came from a Mayor and Corporation—some Hon Members met this assertion with a sneer, as if a Mayor and Corporation had not a right to petition the Legislature in re gard to a measure affecting their very existence—their dearest rights—which deprived them of rights which former Kings had conferred upon them, and their title, which they had never forfeited by any act of injustice or opposition. That sneer was unworthy of Hon. Gentlemen.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member was here interrupted by A MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Mr. Pulman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the table, and requested the attendance of the Speaker and the House of Commons in the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills, for which see L ,rds' Report. The SPEAKER, attended by several Members, then left the House, and returned in about half an hour. Mr. BORTH WICK would not have resumed his observa tions had the petition not affected the very well being of English scwiety and the fame of Parliament. Neither the Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, or Capital Burgesses, of Evesham, had any interest in this matter, of a private na ture. They were not paid -he read a part of the Report of the Corporation Commissioners in proof of what he advanced. In one of the notes to the Report by the Commissioners, they stated that as far as they had the means of judging, it ap peared to them that the municipal authority was vcst-d in the best hands with reference both to the and character of the parties that could be fouivl in so small a borough. He would put it to the ['ruse, whether, because the House possessed power, it ought to use it for the destruction of the chartered rights of the free citizens of this borough, The Hon. Member was proceeding with his remarks, in the course of which he intro duced the name of General Mina, when Mr. BAINES rose to order. Mr. BORT lIW ICK appealed to the Chair. The SPEAKER did not know that the Honourable Member was out of order, but it was not usual to speak at such great length on presenting petitions, as. it would be very inconvenient for other Members who were also waiting to present petitions. The proper time for entering into a minute discussion upon the subject of the petition would be when the question was regularly before the House. Mr. O'CONNELL thought the Hon. Member was not quite in order; for what had General Mina to do with the borough of Evesham ?—( Hear and laughter.) B O R TH WICK, with all deference to the Learned Mem ber for Dublin, thought he had a right to choose, in illustration of his co .n argument, whatever he pleased. It was quite true General Mina had nothing to do with the borough of Evesham, yet he feared that the tyranny proposed to be exercised there, too much resembled that of the other pseudo-liberals.--( Hear, and laughter.) If he abstained from - further detail, it was not in consequence of what had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, but out of respect for the Chair, and be cause he should he sorry to impede public business. The Hon. Member, after apologizing to the House for the time be had trespassed upon their attention, concluded by bringing up his petition. Sir W. FOLLETT presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Totnes, against the 97th clause of the Municipal Reform Mr. WILK S had to present a petition in opposition to those petitions which had been presented by the Hon. Mem bers for Evesham and Exeter, from the inhabitants of Boston. The prayer of the petition, and he wished his Majesty's Mi nisters were present to hear it, was— " That your Petitioners express their high satisfaction that his Majesty's MiListers have submitted to the consideration of your Honourable House a Bill for the Reform of the Municipal Corpo rations of England and Wales, in which a remedy is provided for the numerous evils, and enactments to correct or remove the various abuses which the Commissioners of Inquiry, in their luminous Re port, have proved to exist in these bodies ; and your Petitioners having long and justly complained of the corrupt state of the Mu nicipal body who rule in this borough to its great injury (which has been partly detailed in a Petition, which on its presentation to your Honourable Nouse, was ordered to be printed in the Votes, and is fully confirmed by the evidence published by the Commis sioners in the Appendix to the Report above alluded to) hail with pleasure the principle and details of the proposed measure. " Your Petitioners therefore most respectfully and most earnestly pray that your Honourable house will pass this important Bill, also a similar one for Ireland, with as little delay as possible, and without allowing its important details to be impaired or frittered away ; so that a thorough Reform of our Municipal Institutions may be effected and preserved—the councils thereof be respected— the revenues applied for the public advantage instead of being pros tituted to private and party purposes—the burthen of local taxation reduced—the character and morals of the people improved ;—and finally, that the Municipal Magistracy may possess the esteem and regard of the several communities over whom they maybe appointed to preside." He wished to call the attention of the House to the fact that this petition contained the signatures of 89 freemen.—( Hear.) Sie W. FOLLETT presented a petition against certain clauses of the Bill From the freemen of Exeter. Mr. A. TREVOR thought if the prayer its the petition just presented by the lion. Member for Boston was acceded to, it would take away the right of the freemen in a way that would be positively disgraceful to a British House of Commons.—( Hear.) It was neither more nor less than a direct spoliation of men, against whom no insinuations had been made, and no charges proved. If this were done, justice would be but an empty name. He thought that many peti tions similar to that presented, and so ably commented upon by the Hon. Member for Evesham, would be shortly laid upon the table of the House, awl he hoped that the re- Nesantatives would be instructed from the several h horow rD , 8 thoughout the country to fight it to the very last clause— (hear) —and that they would exclude from it provisions which It.! no more to do with Municipal Reform, than with the Irish Clandestine Marriage Bill. Mr. SINCL A IR said if these discussions were persevered in •. the prese:ltaticiii of ever: p:tition, they would be obliged to till the ilrA of January.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") IS ORT ['WICK thought the j; - oiler time for tiiieussing petitions was on the occaion of presenting them. The Hon. Member was proceeding to address some further observations to the House, but was interrupted by loud cries of " Oh ! " and Spoke I" The SPEAKER begged to observe that no permis s i on h a d been given by th e H ouse to ma k e speeches on the presentation of petitions. The understanding was that Hon. Members should merely state the substance and prayer. Irregularities had oc casionally taken place, but unless when notice had been given of bringing a particular petition under the consideration of the House, long speeches should not be indulged in. If the prac tice could not be entirely suppressed, it should be confined within reasonable bounds—( Hear.) The proper course would be when a petition referred to any question under the consi deration of the House, to defer its presentation until the dis cussion on that subject came on. NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr. H. L. BUL WE R, after the observations of the Speaker, had some doubts whether he ought to offer any com ments upon the presentation of a petition which came from a very important-Colony. The petition was from New South Wales, and was signed by about 6,000 of the free inha bitants, who prayed that that House would be pleased to grant a Legislative Assembly for their Colony.--( Hear. ) He ( Mr. B.) would not take up the time of the House unne cessarily by observing upon the advantages of a representa tive body, but he should state a few circumstances connected with the Colony. Its population amounted to 60,000, and its revenue was 135,0001. per annum. Over this vast territory and numerous population was placed a Governor, ex ercising almost unlimited authority, which was only partially shared in by a small body, the great majority of whom were chosen by the Governor himself. This was evi dently a most undesirable state of things, and he believed the only objections to a Legislative Assembly were the alleged impossibility of obtaining a proper representative body, and the difficulty of obtaining a proper constituency. With re gard to the first objection, he (Mr. B.) should observe that there were 120 persons in that colony acting as Magistrates, who were of the very highest respectability, and capable of filling any offices to which they might be appointed ; and with respect to the constituent body, that might be a more difficult matter to arrange, as it might be a question whether free convicts should be admitted as a part of the constituency. Even if they placed these persons altogether out of the ques tion, still there were enough of free settlers in the colony to entitle it to have a House of Assembly. If that were granted now, the advantage would be that the inhabitants would receive it gratefully, and use it with discretion ; while, on the other hand, if it were delayed, it would be given to a people who would have lived under a sort of despotism, and of course would have all the wild notions of liberty incident to such a class. The petition was brought up. Sir G. GREY did not suppose that his Hon. Friend ex pected that he (Sir G. Grey) was then to state what were the intentions of the Government with respect to this Colony. The Act under which the Colony was at present governed would expire in the session after that of 1836, which would render it necessary to revise the whole question, and naturally it would then come before Parliament. The Government had a great desire to extend the institutions of this country to the Colony— and would do so, in so far as circumstances would permit. Mr. M. O'CONNELL had been requested to support the prayer of this petition, which he did with much pleasure. Mr. HUME was aware that the Act would terminate in a year or two, but he was sure that it would not be satisfactory to the inhabitants of the Colony to be told that they must wait for two or three years for any redress. They were heavier taxed than those of even England, and yet they had not the slightest control over the expenditure.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Taking the free population, and the money raised, it would be found that the tax upon each was 31. a year. They submitted to this country that it would greatly content the people if they had a House of Assembly of even fifty, in order to have some little control over the expenditure, which was enor mous. There were salaries and appointments of every kind, and shape, which could not give satisfaction to the people, unless they had some share in the management of their own money. Now when the House was giving every petty Corporation in the Kingdom a control over their own funds and expenditure, he trusted they would not deny the same boon to their fellow countrymen in another part of the world. There were 14 colonies in the West Indies, all of whom enjoyed a Legisla ture of their own, yet their population did not amount to that of the Colony in question. Emigration► would increase threefold, if the people only felt that they were going to a country where they would have the advantage of a Civil Go vernment. Sir H. HARDINGE requested the Hon. Member for Leeds (Mr. Baines) to call the Hon. Member to order.— ( Laughter. ) If there were an understanding that speeches should not be made on the presentation of petitions, it should be observed on the one side as well as on the other. Mr. HUME said the Gallant Officer had missed the line of distinction. The Hon. Member to whom he had alluded was making a three-quarters of an hour's speech upon a peti tion relative to a Bill then before the House, when the dis cussion was of course inconvenient.—(Hear, hear.) On that petition tiere had been many and short speeches, and that was, of course, a matter of convenience ; to the House as it would save a specific motion upon the subject. If something were not done all the Colonists would be in England next year (Laughter) to represent their grievances. In fact they would not allow themselves to be taxed continually, unless they were permitted to enjoy the right of control over taxation—( Hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL regretted that his Majesty's Ministers had given a distinct pledge to attend to the question so early, because the Colonists ought to have time to receive notice of the sympathy which prevailed in this House towards them.—( Hear.) The fact was, the subject must be fully discussed in the next Session, and a Bill must be passed next Session, so that thus the entire subject must come before the House. He was sure the entire feeling on the part of the House would be to give the free settlers all that they were entitled to claim, and when they left this country, they did not leave their rights behind them, but carried them with them, especially the right to a Representative Assembly. He hoped also that Government would pay attention to the distinction between free settlers and the emancipationists which ought no longer to be continued. An HoN. AIEbiBBR hoped that Government would also direct its attention to the claims of other Colonies. Sir H. HARDINGE agreed with the Hon. Member for Middlesex that there were none of his Britannic Majesty's subjects demanding more attention than their brethren of the Colonies, and for this simple reason, that because, in his opi nion, the Reform Bill had disfranchised the Colonists who, with the exception of the Hon. Member for Bath who repre sented Canada, had no representative in the House--( Hear, and laughter.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not think the last observation of the Hon. and Gallant Member quite accurate. The very speech he had made himself, as well as the remarks of the other Hon. Members, proved that there were many quite as sensible to the claims of the Co lonists as the Hon. Member whom the Right Hon. Baronet brought forward as the only colonial representative.—(Hear.) Mr. WILKS contended that there was no Member of Par liament who miglft not be said to represent the Colonies of the country. Mr. FIUME Cifnsidered that the Colonies wore better repre sented now than tbrmerly. Mr. H. BUL WE R bad not neglected to urge the point that the revenues of the Colony were disposed of without any con trol by those from whom they were raised. The petition was then laid upon the table. WESTMINSTER PAVING. The petition of the Householders of Regent-street, within the parishes of St. James Westminster and St. George Hano ver-square, that they may be placed on an equality with occu piers of houses situated in the parishes of St. Marylebone and St.. Martin, was referred to a Committee, consisting of the following Members : Por,:ttt, Sir 1 , . Grote, G. O'Connell, D. Bulwer, H L. Harvey, 1). W. Pattison,Vaines Ilyng, George Hothouse, Sir J. C. Ponsonby, Hon. W. clay, W. flume, Joseph Tulk, C. A. Crawford, W. Humphery, J. Watley, Thomas Dare, it. W. H. Lennard, T. B Whalley, Sir S. Duncombe, T S. Lushington, Dr. Wood, Alderman Evans, Colonel IPSWICH ELECTION. Lord J. RTTSSELL moved " That the Report of the Ipswich Election _Committee, as far as it related to Messrs. Sewell, Blake, and Keith, and other parties accused, be read." It was read by the Clerk accordingly. Lord J. RUSSELL then proposed " that the following Members form a Select Committee to inquire into the facts connected with the late election at Ipswich : Aglionby, H. A. Escourt, 1' G. 13 Hawes, 13. Denison, Evelyn Fergusson, R. C. Miles, W. Eastnor, Viscount Gladstone, W. E. Molesworth, Sir W. Ebrington, Lord Wynn, itt. lion. C. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN complained that Irish Members were so often excluded ; he admitted, however, that they had no local interest in this question. It was ordered that five be a quorum. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, it was ordered that the House, at its rising, should adjourn till Monday. Lord JOHN RUSSELL also proposed " That the House should sit from twelve o'clock until three o'clock, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for the dispatch of Bills and business now be. fore the House." He did not think it would be necessary, at present, to sit at the same hour on Friday. In answer to a question respecting two Irish Bills, the Linen Trade Bill, and the Infant Property Bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that it would not be possible to proceed with th em on M on d a y, as th e M u ni c ip a l Corpo ration Bill would not by that day have passed through the Committee. In answer to a question from Sir W. FOLLETT, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that it was his sanguine hope to be able to bring on the discussion of the Im prisonment for Debt Bill on Wednesday. Captain POLHILL presented a petition from the Corpora tion of Bedford against the 63d clause of the Municipal Cor poration Bill, and praying that the trustees of charities might be required to give in a qualification. The petition had parti cular reference to the Hertford Charity. IRISH CORPORATIONS. Lord MORPETH gave a notice regarding a Bill to reform :rish Corporations, but for what day we could not ascertain. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. Clause 56, respecting charities, - being proposed— Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that it was a provision for placing certain trustees, to be appointed by the Town Coun cils, in the situation of the present Corporations, and not for giving to them any greater power than those Corpoiations now stood possessed of Whether under th 9 present Corpora tions, or the Corporations to he created by this Bill, there was a sufficient control over the funds of these charities or not--laving aside the whole question of an intentional perver sion of the charities to private or party purposes—it was a fact that the trustees appointed by those who bad the tnannr merit of the funds did often, either from carelessness or ~once tau: cause, entertain such a nlistalqn sense of their duty, 1 1 11 E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1835. that the funds were not applied to the purposes for which the were originally given, or to purposes to which they might ba devoted with very beneficial effect. It was, therefore, the opi nion of himself and his colleagues that some controlling and superintending power should exist, for the purpose of causing the funds to be rightly and directly applied. It was not, how ever, expedient that any provision to that effect should be in troduced' into the present clause, which went simply to the extent of giving the new Corporations the power of appoint ing trustees for the management of the funds. Mr. GOULBURN thought that it would be better to postpone the clause. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL hoped that his Noble Friend would not agree to any such proposal. Mr. HARDY wished to know whether, under the term " charitable funds" was comprehended the patronage of livings ? If so, the disposition of livings in the Church of England might fall into the hands of those who were not connected with the Establishment. There was in the bands of the Cor poration of Leeds certain patronage of that kind, and he wished to know how it would be affected ? Mr. HUGHES HUGHES repeated the same question, and said that a considerable sum of money had been left to the Corporation of Oxford for the establishment of forty lecturers in that city, resident clergymen of Oxford. He did not know whether the clause was intended to apply to that property ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was understood to ob serve, that the clause did not embrace church patronage. Mr. H. HUGHES said, that much attention had been drawn to the clause in reference to its application to church patronage. It made the trustees individually responsible, in deed ; but the members or the town council, who appointed them trustees, were not required to have any qualification. He could not see what objection could be entertained to the ad dition of the mayor, recorder, and magistracy, to the body of fifteen trustees who were to be appointed by the council. There were twenty-two charities in the city of Oxford, some of whose funds were left for the specific purpose of being en joyed by members of the Church of England. The mayor and recorder were more likely to be of that Church than even the members of the town council, who would probably be many of other persuasions. Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not understand that the Church patronage came under the denomination of charitable funds. Mr. ESTCOURT asked what would then become of the Church patronage of Corporations? Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that the new Corporations would have the same power of dealing with them as the pre sent Corporations possessed. As to the objection of the pa tronage of the Established Church being thus placed in the hands of persons not connected with it, it must be well known to Hon. Gentlemen that at present, since the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, a Corporation in which there was no Church of England man, might dispose of Church property exactly as it was disposed of by a Corporation consisting wholly of Church of England men. Mr. HARVEY said, that however much Hon. Gentlemen might differ upon political matters, they were all agreed on this point, that the funds of charities ought to be strictly and properly applied. As the clause stood at present, it was liable to a serious objection. The number of trustees was to be 1 5 ; but in some small boroughs, possessing nevertheless very large charities, there might be only 15 Councillors, and those Coun cillors might elect themselves as trustees, unless some provi sion against such an arrangement were introduced. He thought that unless some separate power of control was exercised over the trustees themselves, the same abuses would arise as at pro-. sent existed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL repeated the statement which he made upon the clause when first proposed, that it was in his opinion desirable that some such power of control over the administration of all charities should exist. It was a ques tion to be decided, whether members of the Town Council should be disqualified from serving as trustees. He thought it might be found inconvenient so to exclude members of the Town Council, for among them might be found many very well able to perform the duties of the office. The general subject to which the provision in question referred, merely in part had been of late brought before the House to a consider able extent, both by the Hon. Member for Southwark him self, and a Noble and Learned Lord in another place. He had been informed by his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) that it was his intention immediately to intro duce a Bill for the purpose, so far as education was con cerned, of establishing a central board, which should have the control and supervision of all those charities established for purposes of education, and should be invested with such powers as would enable them to apply the funds of those cha rities in a manner conformable to the purposes for which they were originally granted. He did not think it expedient to in troduce any clause similar in its effect, as regarded charities connected with Corporations, to the provisions of the Bill of his Noble Friend with respect to those applicable. to educa tion ; but he was strongly of opinion that before long Parlia ment would be inclined to take up this subject. For his own part be was prepared to second and support any measure proposed by the Government, with a view of effecting the object to which he had alluded ; or, if no measure were proposed to Parliament on the subject, he should be himself ready to con sider what measure ought to be brought forward for the pur pose of effecting a general, efficient, and intelligent control over funds directed to be applied to charitable uses.—( Hear, hear.) The Bill introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir R. Peel), with regard to endowed schools in Ireland, and un der which a central Board of control had been established in Dublin, was, in his opinion, a model of legislation on this sub ject. In conclusion, he had only to say that he hoped, before long, to see a Bill introduced for the accomplishment of those objects to which he Lad briefly alluded.---( Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL apprehended that all were agreed as to the two objects to be effected with respect to these charities : first, that their funds should be applied, or, as nearly as possible, to the purposes for which they were orginally intended ; and next, that these funds should not be perverted to Parliamen tary or electioneering purposes.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") All parties, then, having the same object in view, the question was, how their joint intentions might be best carried into effect ? He fully admitted that station, pro perty, and respectability in the trustees were not necessarily guarantees for the observance of the responsibility which they incurred. Persons were always found willing to un dertake the performance of the duties imposed by these trusts; and the higher the station of those who were appointed to fill them the more numerous, in frequent. instances, were their avocations, and, consequently, the greater their inability to pay that full attention to all the details and complicated concerns of these. charitable bodies, which was absolutely ne ces.ary to the fulfilment of the trust.--(Hear, hear.) He might, he thought, go a step further and express his belief that a system of popular election or control would not ensure the due execution of the duties connected with these trusts.-- (Hear, hoar, from the Opposition). He did not wish to un dervalue the advantages resulting from popular control in effecting some desirable objects. He believed that popular control would induce the Town Council to administer the funds of the Corporation properly; that it would insure an economical expenditure in the disbursements for paving, light ing, and all such matters of a local nature. He was willing to concede to popular control, that it should secure the proper discharge of the duties imposed on the officers appointed under the intended corporate bodies : but with respect to cha rities, he did not think it essential to the just and legitimate distribution of their funds.—( H ear , h ear , f rom t h e Opposi tion.) Party feelings must find their way into the proceed ings and decisions of the new bodies ; and when patronage was to be distributed, and good places given away, they were warranted in supposing that partiality would have its sway, and that abuses would prevail under them. He very much doubted whether family partialities did not cause many more local divisions than any difference of opinion as to great political principles.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman the Member for Southwark proposed, and the Noble Lord appeared to assent to his proposition, that there should be instituted some central and general Commission, which might exercise a superintending . authority over all these charities. He did not deny that in some cases a su perintending Commission might do some good ; but he very much doubted whether the appointment of one to watch over the distribution of existing charities would be attended with the advantages which the Noble Lord seemed to anticipate. These charities were generally granted by individuals, to be applied to some specified purpose, for local and individual benefit. Now, the management of such funds must naturally rest with those who are resident at the place in which they were to be distributed.—( Hear, hear.) A superintending Board might very well direct the mode in which the accounts of charitable bodies should be kept, or originate the appoint ment of trustees ; but as these charities were strictly local, as different objects were contemplated by the establishment of each of them, as they were held in trust by different p ersons and different bodies of persons, the immediate directi o n sand superintendence of thcnimust be local. And no Board sit. ting in London could determine whether they were applied to the proper personal purposes which they were originally meant to answer.—( Hear.) All the knowledge whi c the details connected with such funds called for, required local and individual management, and imposed upon the Government the necessity of leaving them to the management of local authorities, to be constituted in some wa y o r other. Th e Noble Lord had alluded to a Bill he had brought in with respect to endowed schools in Ireland, and argued that because he had appointed, under that Bill, a central board in Dublin, he was favourable to the formation of a similar body to watch over the distribution of the funds of the various charities throughout the country. The cases, however, were very different. These endowed schools were, in Ireland, spread over the whole country, and it was very easy for a Board sitting in Dublin to exercise a superintendence over schools all established on the same royal foundation, to direct the amount of salary to be paid to the masters of them, and to watch over their general management ; but it did not follow that a Board appointed in Dublin to direct the distribution of the funds of the numerous charities in Ireland could attempt to answer the object of their establishment with any prospect of success.—( Hear, hear.) He was very much afraid that they were proceeding to legis late with respect to these charities without sufficient informa- tion.—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) He had hoped (and he would certainly suggest it to him) that the Noble Lord would, before they took any step in the settlement of this question, have appointed a Select Committee for the purpose of making a Report to the House on the nature of the charities connected Kith Corporations. lie thought that some scheme must be devised by which a provisional arrangement must be entered into, before the clause with regard to chari- tics supposed to be connected with the Corporations, could be carried into operation.—(Hear, hear.) The freemen were, by this Bill, about to be extinguished ; in what manner were these funds, left exclusively for their advantage, to he in fu ture applied ?—(llcar, from the Oppo,iition.) By the great revolution which was about to be effected in Corporations, the :ics trustees would find it exceedingly gillicult to administer them according to the original intentioo of the . don.4s. This iangerous question would also be raised by it, " What is cor porate, and what is charitable property ? Now he thought it would comparatively be a very easy matter for nine or eleven gentlemen first to give a general view of the different trusts, to distinguish between those which should be considered only corporate property and those which were detached from the Corporation, and determine by what scheme they might be applied, as strictly as possible, to their original purposes,— ( Hear, hear.) He would, at all events, recommend the Noble Lord to erase that clause by .which every person is prevented from being a charitable trustee, under the new Bill, who is not a burgess.—( Hear, hear.) There were many respectable clergymen and gentlemen who were perfectly well qualified to become trustees in charities, but who had no desire to mix in local politics or differences, and who would, therefore, be unwilling to become enrolled as burgesses.—( Hear, hear.) He would not hesitate in going the length of saying that the man who had no direct interest either in electioneering .or mu nicipal purposes, would be far the most likely man to use his exertions towards the fair and honest application of cha ritable funds.—( Hear, hear.) He begged, in conclusion, to impress on the mind of the Noble Lord opposite, that such a transfer of trust as this Bill effected, should not be made without due consideration and on the fullest information. There was in one city (we did not catch the name) so large a sum as 18,0001. a-year disbursed annually under charitable trusts. How did they, mean to deal with such property, which must prove a blessing or a curse, according as it was well or ill applied?—( Hear, hear.) It would, he thought, be most desirable, if the Noble Lord should not consent to the postponement of the question of charitable trusts until the House was in possession of the knowledge which would enable them to legislate properly on the subject, that he should agree to leave the farther consideration of this and three or four other clauses which referred to charities, until the other pro visions of the measure were disposed of.--( Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL quite agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman that those persons who were best qualified to be trustees of charities would not perhaps wish to become bur gesses. He would, therefore, consent to strike out that part which required the trustee of any charity to be a burgess.— ( Hear, hear.) With respect to the appointment of a Com mission to which the Right Hon. Gentleman alluded, if he thought that appointment could lead to any practical result, he should not hesitate to accede to the motion ; but he did not at present see that it would be attended with any such effect. If the Right Hon. Baronet wished to have the clause postponed to Monday, with a view to make any favourable alteration in it, he would not object to its being postponed. Sir R. PEEL cculd not hold out any such hope to the Noble Lord. Now, one word more with respect to a Com mission. He thought that much more good might be effected by the appointment of some person attached to one of the offices of state, who would give constant reports to Parliament of the mode in which the duties of those invested with charita ble trusts were fulfilled, than by the establishment of any cum brous Commission.—( Hear, hear.) Instead of dividing the Government of the country into a variety of commissions, it was his decided opinion that when any increase of its func tions was rendered necessary for such an object as that of watching over the management of charitable uses, that some person should be attached to one of the departments connected with some of the responsible Ministers of the Crown, by which course all the expense of a Commission would be saved, and the danger of having such practices carried on under the countenance of such a body as might escape the observation of Parliament, avoided.—( Hear, hear.) He would throw o ut, therefore, a suggestion, the ad o pti on of which would save a ten-fold degree of expense, that a clerk should be added to those of the Treasury or Home Office, who should have the direction of these charitable funds, and should have part of his time employed in some other business if it should happen not to be wholly en ;aged by the duties imposed on him.--( Hear, hear.) He diehope, therefore, that the Government would give up- the idea of appointing any Commission, but would see that the duties of such a body should be performed by some person in the office and under the control of some responsible Minister of the Crown.—( Hear.) Mr. HUME hoped that the clause would not be postponed. He was sure that a clerk would never be able to watch over the proceedings and control the management of the charitable trusts of the country. Therefore he hoped that instead of mul tiplying the number of persons engaged in the departments of the Government, they would, where it was found necessary, appoin ‘ t such a body as might be expected to watch with due care over the expenditure of thousands and millions of pro perty invested in charitable trusts.--( Hear, hear.) Sir M. RIDLEY moved the following amendment:— "Provided also, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to alter, abridge, or take away the right to any premises, hereditaments, land. or funds, which may now be the private property of any incorported company :in any borough, whose title to such property is independent of the existing Corporation of such borough, and which such company may hold under ancient charters, confirmed by Crown grants, long usage, testamentary bequest, or Parliamentary enactment, to and for the particular use and benefit of the members of such incorpo rated company." Sir R. PEEL wished to be understood as not having spoken of charities for the purposes of education, when ho adverted to the appointment of a Commission. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL hoped that the clause would be persisted in ; for though it was impossible to deny that much greater difficulty existed in legislating on this subject, than if these charitable trusts had been of late invested, still he trusted that under the proposed system, all the beneficent purposes for which they had been left would be fully answered.--(Hear. ) Mr. PEMBERTON was understood to argue that the pro posed transfer of charitable trusts would be a perversion of the intentions of the original donors. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought it would be much better to postpone the final consideration of the clause, until a period when they might come better pre pared for the discussion upon it. Mr. CRESSET PE L HAM was very desirous that the question should be investigated by an impartial and efficient tribunal ; and recollecting that some years ago a Commission had sat for that purpose, he thought the labours of that Com mission might be made the ground-work of a renewed Com mission ; and among other objects, to avert the danger of the hostile collision which might be apprehended in the transfer of authority from one body to another. Mr. HUME adverted to the manner in which, in Scotland, trustees for the administration of similar trusts were appointed. Of a body of twenty-one trustees, the council elected ten, and the burgesses eleven. This formed a very efficient board of control ; and perhaps the same principle might be applicable in this country. He wished to throw out another suggestion. It was frequently the case that the burgesses were not suf ficiently acquainted with the purpose for which charities had been instituted. The whole of the accounts ought to be open to general inspection, in order that it might be ascertained whether or not the legitimate object of the charity was carried into effect. Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY observed that it might be desirable to postpone the consideration of the clause, but that it was obvious that the clause itself could not be altogether dispensed with. The Right Hon. Member for Tamworth had misunderstood him in one point. He had never stated or contem plated that all the charitable funds in the country should be in the hands or under the control of a permanent board. All that he shg mted was, that there should be a permanent board of super-. vision, to which the trustees of the different charities might from time to time be amenable. But it never for a moment occurred to him that the actual administration of all these charitable trusts=thousands in number, and local in their cha racter—ought to be transferred from trustees on the spot, to a board in London. With respect to the councils, in his opi nion neither should the members of them be altogether exclu ded from the trusts in question, nor, on the other hand, should those trusts be exclusively composed of members of the council. If from the trust all members of the council were excluded, the consequence would be the creation of a formidable power in every town much greater than the corporation. But he thought that a provision might be made, that where there were fifteen trustees, not more than seven or eight of them should be mem bers of the council. Lord J. RUSSELL deprecated further discussion of the clause at the present moment ; and more especially with refe rence to the question of whether only a portion of the trustees should be composed of members of the council, Mr. CLAY could see no objection to making the members of the council, ex officio, trustees. He wished for no limita- tion in the choice of trustees. Mr. ESTCOURT and Mr. WYNN each said a few words, the purport of which we were unable to collect. Mr. HUGHES HUGHES adverted to a charitable trust of an ecclesiastical description at Oxford, and expressed his apprehension that by the operation of the clause the charity would revert to the donor, or would escheat to the Crown. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL observed (as we under stood the Hon. and Learned Gentleman) that the clause did not apply to ecclesiastical charities. Mr. SCARLETT, while he admitted that in small towns it might be difficult to find persons, not members of the coun cil, who Were competent to be trustees, thought that in large towns it would be highly expedient that the trustees should not be exclusively members of the council. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved to substitute the word " nine" for the word " fifteen." The amendment was put and agreed to. Various other verbal and explanatory amendments were agreed to ; and eventually the clause, as amended, was ordered to stand part of the Bill. The clauses down to 62, verbal amendments being made, and blanks being filled up, were also agreed to. On clause 62 (Council to become trustees of all acts, of which Corporations were, ex officio, sole trustees) being read, Colonel TRENCH asked whether it was the intention of the Government to make any provision to prevent Roman Catholics, who were councilmen, interfering with the patron age of the Established Church ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he was not disposed to revive the penal code of Charles 11. Colonel TRENCH said that a Corporation composed en tirely of Catholics might happen to arise, in which case some provision ought to exist for the protection of the p ro p er ty be longing to the Church Establish men t—( H ear, h ear.) The Lord might not wish to injure the Ch urc h ; b ut h e was i th no e gli t en ool of a powerful giant--(Laughter)—whose slave er v i c ti m he must be, and who, after using him for his own pur poses, would cast the Noble Lord and his colleagues (utterly incapable as they were of wielding the Goveriimmt of the country) under the feet of his party. Therefore, without re pealing past acts of liberality, he wished the property of the Established Church to be protected, by its administration being confided to Committees of the Councils (as we understood the Hon. and Gallant Member) composed of Protestants only. Lord JO IIN RUSSELL could only answer the question by . to lA,. , :1..)11.-. , !ied law; whi c l h e though/ went fa eno ugh ail this LAW said that-the effect of the presebt . Bill would be ro nullify the 15th iectioli of the Eluaricip4ieu Act, prohibit- ing Catholics at all interposing with any appointments con nected with the Established Church. He did not mean to say that he considered the danger to the Church greater from Roman Catholics dispensing its patronage than other Dis senters ; bui he disapproved of any Dissenters having any in fluence over the patronage of the Church. Mr. O'CONNELL said that the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman, when he talked of disappointing the will of the ori ginal donors, forgot how many souls were at this moment suf fering in purgatory for want of the masses they gave their pro perty to obtain.—(Laughter.) As the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had been pathetic upon the disappointments of the original donors, he would in his turn be pathetic, and appeal to him on behalf of the suffering souls who had not had the masses celebrated for them, which much of this property was given for.--(Renewed laughter.) At all events, he could assure the Hon. and Learned Gentleman that his fears were vain ; for by the Irish penal laws, passed by a gross breach of the faith of treaties, the Roman - Catholics of Ireland were de prived of all power, directly or indirectly, to present, either individually or as corporators, to any living, and these statutes had never been repealed. Mr. LAW—That is in Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL—Nor in England, and the Duke of Norfolk could not now present to any advowson, any more than before the passing of the Emancipation Act. The 15th section of that Act kept the penal statutes in full force ' and there was nothi ng i n this Bill to repeal them. He was, how ever, quite ready to agree to any clause preventing the inter ference of Roman Catholic councillors, under a penalty, with any appointment relative to the Established Church. He did not exercise power of this kind, that he might in his own reli gion, for he considered the subject too delicate for him to med dle with ; and d fortiori, he did not wish to meddle with the ecclesiastical appointments of a religion with which he was un connected. Mr. LAW observed, that what he complained of was— there being nothing in the Bill by which to ascertain the re ligion of a Town Councillor ; so that the law might be en forced.—( Hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL—Although he was willing to impose a penalty on a Roman Catholic who interfered with Protes tant ecclesiastical appointments, must protest against the im position of any test. They had bad enough of tests. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that if the principle of a test were good, they must go the length of maintaining that no person should present to a living, unless he subscribed the 39 articles. Mr. C. W YNN was understood to say, that although ab stractedly he agreed in the proposition of the Honourable and Learned Member for Dublin as to the original destination of this property, yet, after a practice of 300 years had violated the theory, he thought it would be a gross violation of the rights of private property, strictly to enforce the abstract pro position. He did not wish to dispense with any check that was provided by law on the Dissenters (including, of course, Roman Catholics) from interfering with the property of the Establishment. Lord J. RUSSELL said, that after what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman, he wished to state what he con sidered the present state of the law to be, and what would be the effect of this Bill. The Act repealing the Test and Cor poration Acts replaced the anci , nt securities by a declaration to be taken by every person assuming an office either under the Crown or in a Corporation. But that declaration was not to be a test applied to the conscience; and he was of opinion that after this Bill should be passed, the same declaration would be required from persons taking office as was now required ly the law. Lord SANDON thought that as the clause now stood. . . would be a practical invasion of the rights of the Church, in. asmuch as the power of presentation would be given to mem. bers of Corporations without any restriction, or any mode of ascertaining their religious principles. Mr. WILK S was delighted to hear the observations made by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Home Department. He begged to assure the Noble Lord the Member for Liver pool (Lord Sandon), that there was nothing in the law of England to prevent Protestant Dissenters from being proprie tors of every advowson in England —nay, nor Roman Catholics. Mr. O'CONNELL—Yes, Roman Catholics are prevented, but Jews are not. Mr. WILK S—What, then, would be the consequence of any such alteration as should preclude Dissenters, in any of these boroughs, from acting with the rest of the members of the Common Council in the dispensing of Church property? It would be to raise up that spirit which, for half a century, all parties had been endeavouring to destroy. If Parliament were to make any such distinction, it would tend very much indeed to defeat that general harmony which it was the object of the Legislature to effect by repealing the Test and Corpo ration Acts ; and would create anew the tyranny of the mem bers of the Church, and cherish afresh those irritations and that spiritual tyranny, arising from dissent, which it was the hope of all would be done away with by the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Mr. H. TWISS suggested to the Noble Lord that the simplest course would be to insert a few words in the clause to the effect that all persons should make a declaration similar to the declaration specified in the Act repealing the Test and Corporation Acts. If this Act should be passed, we should have a tyranny, not such as the Hon. Member who spoke last had alluded to, but one much less endurable, inasmuch, as it would be the tyranny of persons of the lowest classes (Hear, hear, with cries of " Oh, oh 1") He would approve of a proposition to take from Corporations Church patronage altogether. Lord JOHN RUSSELL appealed to the Committee, whether it was proper to protract the discussion, inasmuch as no amendment had been proposed.—(Hear, hear.) He had already said that a declaration must be taken by the mem bers of the Corporation—( Hear, hear)—it was not necessary, therefore, to introduce any clause to that effect. The ques tion which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had raised, as to whether the Corporation ought or not to exercise the power of appointing to Church livings at all, was one on which he would not give an opinion. If the question should be brought forward, he admitted it would be worthy of consideration • but this was not the time to discuss it. H e , therefore, hoped the Committee would at once pass the clause. Sir F. TRENCH said that it was his intention to propose an amendment, inasmuch as he thought that this was calcu lated indifectly to do that which no person would attempt to do openly and indirectly. He believed that the effect of the clause would be, whatever might be the intention of those who proposed it, to destroy the Established Church. The amend ment. which he intended to move would be to the effect, that the property of the Church should be at the disposal of those persons only of the Town Council who were members of the Established Church ; but as he understood that it would come in more properly in the 79th Clause, he should defer it till that clause was proposed.—( Oh, oh I and laughter.) The 62d clause was then agreed to, as was also the 63d clause. The 64th clause was then moved. Oa the clause being put, a desultory conversation ensued, in which it was suggested that as it would set in action very complicated machinery, which would cause an unnecessary multiplication of Boards in the different boroughs, it had better be postponed, and discussed on another occasion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not accede to the sugges tion, but promised that the objection should be taken into con sideration with a view to its.removal if practicable. Mr. LA W proposed the addition of a proviso, the object of which was to preserve the rights of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the utmost care should be taken to preserve the rights of the Universities inviolate. 111 r. LAW, on that assurance, consented to withdraw his amendment. Colonel SIBTH ORP supported th e p ostponement of the clause, on the understanding that another opportunity for dis cussion should be afforded. Others might be disposed to trust the Noble Lord, but he was not—(Enthusiastic cheers.) Sir J. ELLE Y hoped care would be taken to provide a sufficiently numerous watch to do duty at contested elections, and thus prevent the necessity of calling out the military. Nothing was more painful to the feelings of that high-minded body than being thus brought into collision with their fellow subjects. He hoped, at all events, they would never be called out until all other means had been tried. The clause was then agreed to, as were clauses 66 and 67. The 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 72d, 73d, 74th, 75th, 76th, 77th, and 78th clauses, were then agreed to. On clause 79 being read, Mr. W. PATTEN suggested that this clause should be postponed. Sir W. FOLLETT agreed in the suggestion, as it was the most important clause of all. He had no object to delay the progress of the Bill, as they could go on with the rest of the clauses. Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought, that as the House was generally full at this hour, it was best to go on. After a few words from Mr. ESTCOURT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that as it was the wish of the House, he had no objection that the clause should be postponed to a definite hour on Monday. Thy clause was then postponed, on the understanding that it was to be taken into consideration on going into Committee on Monday. Clauses 80 to 86 inclusive were severally put and agreed to. On clause 87 being put, Mr. D. W. HARVEY proposed an amendment that no per son shall hold the office of Recorder of a city or borough who practises at the Assizes or Sessions of the county in which such town or borough is situate. He did so, because he thought that a person exercising the functions of a Judge, should not be dependent on a number of attorneys. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that there would be no objection to adopt the amendment of the Hon. Gentle man, if they should give salaries sufficiently large to induce persons to abandon their profession. This, however, could not be done. Mr. WILKs and Mr. P. HOWARD supported the amend. ment. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD opposed the amendment, and disclaimed being influenced by interested motives in so doing. Mr. Sergeant G 0 UL BURN supported the amendment. Mr. GROTE concurred in the principle of the amend ment, but thought that its application in the smaller boroughs would be so inconvenient, that he recommended that the amendment be withdrawn. Mr. HARVEY then withdrew it, and the original clause was agreed to. Clauses 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 were agreed to. The House then resumed, the Cnmammy reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. LIGHTHOUSES. 71 I . I A S infidirecl of the Hon. \f,mber for '!;::iddlesex if legHtitive 111Cu6ul'e would r i brought in fou.ndtAl upon the r:'t) , )ll7 or tilt' Commit.te. Lightlu . wi;ei.. , . Mr. lIUME 6itid that a Bill was -i;dy, an w 0414 be brctught in on Monday or Tuesday, and that he hoped to las able to carry it through this session. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed or, A nd the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. IN THE MATTER OF ALEXANDER LEE. At the rising of the Court Mr. COOKE applied, on the part of Mr. Alexander Lee, the musical composer, who described himself as a " professor of music," for leave to file a petition preparatory to his appearance in Court to be relieved from his difficulties. The application was grounded on the affidavit of Mr. Lee, in which he stated that he was arrested on the 22d April last, and committed two days afterwards to the King's Bench prison, for the small sum of 101. 155., on which he had been charged i n execut i on . A t t h e time ofhis arrest he had 61. in his possession, had since received 201. for a musical composition, and had sold some songs for 15/. ; he had like wise received Si. from a gentleman named Davis. The moneys he had so received he had expended on his support, and in ob taing the rules of the prison, for which he paid 101. He fur ther staled that the reason he had not presented his petition in due time was that he had hoped his detaining and other credi tors would have granted him a letter of license on his offer to assign a moiety of his professional receipts for a limited period, which offer the creditors had rejected. The COURT granted the application absolute in the first in stance. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH- STREET. Yesterday the poor woman, Mary Every, who had on the day before applied to Mr. ITAanwwx for his assistance to procure the restoration of her child, who was detained from her by the Rev. G. C. Smith, as-he is called, at his asylum in Wellclose sqyare, again applied to Mr. WALKER. Mr. WALKER, after reading over her petition, said that the case was one in which the Magistrates had no jurisdiction, and could not interfere in. The applicant had made many applications to the Asylum to have her child restored to her, or, if tot, to be allowed to see it, but had been put off with different excuses until Wed nesday, which was called Committee-day. She called on that day, but instead of being allowed to see and converse with the child in the usual way, the child was taken to her to the office, and since then Smith made use of threats, and she was merely allowed a cursory view of her offspring ; but even in this she could perceive that the chill was in an emaciated and dan.. gerous state. She further stated that, even though in the state she described, Smith and his preachers took her out with them about the streets. Mr.. WALKER could riot interfere in,the matter; but, at the same time, said that Smith had no right to detain the child contrary to the wish of the mother, and the only way she could get her away was by applying to the Court of King's Bench. The poor woman expressed her thanks to his Worship for his kindness, and left the office saying, that unless some gen tleman at the Bar had the kindness and humanity to move tho Court for a writ of habeas for the restoration of her child, it was impossible for her, from her poverty, to get it done. COMMITTAL of a MAN for MURDER SEVEN YEARS AGO. MANCHESTER, JULY 1.-A few days ago our Deputy-Con stable, Mr. Thomas, was called upon by a fellow of the name of Buckley, who, after some little hesitation, told him he had some information to give that would perhaps astonish him. He then began to state, that perhaps he (Mr. Thomas) would recollect that some seven years since a woman was found dead in Fishpond -street, Garrett-road, Manchester, by one of the watchmen. Mr. Thomas, on referring to the journal of re ports, found the fact duly recorded. The woman's name was Eastwood. A mechanic, named Myers, had been in her com pany over night at the Union Tavern, Canal-street, almost immediately contiguous to Fishpond-street, which lies a little off the main street, or Garratt-road. On the inquest it was ascertained that Myers, and the woman Eastwood, had been at the tavern in question ; that both left it together about eleven o'clock the evening previous to the murder ; and that they were both beastly drunk. It was also ascer tained that the quarrel ran high between them at the inn. About one o'clock in the morning the cries of a person were heard as proceeding from the spot where the murder was committed. The cry was, " Oh, why do you hold my hands 2" Myers was taken into custody at the time, from the fact of his having been in her company the previous night, and from his well-known brutal disposition, rather than from any positive evidence against him, but be was onthe inquest discharged. The surgeon on the inquest stated that there was a wound at the back of the head, but no fracture or extrava sation ; and, in his opinion, the woman might have fallen down in a fit, and from a concussion of the brain, might have met with her death. The information now given by Buckley was to the following effect, and confirms in all important fea tures the evidence given on the inquest, besides additional evi dence to facts that are likely to place Myers in the most awful situation. Buckley deposed that he saw Myers and East wood leave the Union Tavern, and followed them till they turned up Fishpond-street,•and then heard Myers declare that he would take her life before they got home, when she cried out, " Oh, Elijah, don't murder me, and I will keep the child myself ;" alluding, it is supposed, to her pregnancy by Myers. They sat down on a step in Fishpond-street, the quarrel still running very high, and Myers still avowing his determination to murder her ; and he immediately after got up and struck her a blow on the back of the head, which instantly felled her to the ground. Buckley adds, that he was very much agi tated when he saw the blow inflicted, and ran away ; and that his reason for not telling these facts sooner arose from a con viction that Myers would be sure to do him some mischief—in fact, that he should be murdered too, if he disclosed what he bad seen. The thing, however, of late, had lain with so much weight on his conscience that he could not endure it any longer. Myers was brought up again yesterday, when Buckley was liberated and made evidence against him. A. man, named Powell, was examined, with a view to corrobo rate Buckley, but beinr , a little in liquor, the Bench consi dered his flippant mode of answering questions not in unison with so grave a charge as that before the Court. He will be examined again, before a final commitment. Myers was remanded. Other evidence was also recorded betides Buckley's. AIRS. NORTON'S NOVEL, " THE WIFE, AND WOMAN'S REWARD."—" Two tales under these titles have just appeared, from the pen of Mrs. Norton. A serious of literary productions, of various kinds, with which this Lady has pre sented the public, have established for her a reputation which some authors of much more lofty pretensions might well envy. All her writings are essentially feminine. Everything she has touched upon has been regarded by her in a female point of view, and although she gives a character and identity to what ever she has done, it in no degree diminishes the interest she seeks to excite, or abates the praise to which her labours are entitled. There is something extremely curious, if properly considered, in these female productions. They exhibit new views of obje c t s w hi c h, i n t h e i r general lineaments, are familiar enough, but which are seen by women under aspects presenting very different effects from these .to which masculine specula tions lead. Of this class of lady-writers Mrs. Norton is cer tainly among the most distinguished."— Tones. THE LATE EXPLOSION AT WALLSEND.—The interest attending this melancholy affair was considerably in creased on Saturday night, when, on removing the materials at the bottom of the G shaft, thrown down by the explosion, three men and a boy were brought up ali ve . Th e preservation of these individuals is miraculous. They had gone down the pit on the morning of Thursday, about five o'clock, and had thus been underground, at a depth of 145 fathoms, for 65 hours-- and as the explosion took place at two in the afternoon of Thursday, they had been literally entombed alive for 56 hours of the above period. Two of them when taken out were delirious, and gave incoherent and improbable accounts of what had transpired ; another had his leg so fractured as to render immediate amputation indispensable ; the fourth had his hands and face scorched, but was perfectly sensible. He is now con fined to bed from the injuries he received, but is in a fair way of recovery. —Newcastle Journal. BIRTH. On the 2d inst., at the Bury, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, the lady of William Lowndes, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist inst., at Bere Regis, Charles James Radelyffe, Esq., (late sth Dragoon Guards), of Hewish House, Dorset, second son of Robert Radclyffe, Esq. of Foxdenton Hall, Lancashire, to Anna Maria, only daughter of the late Robert Ekins Lillington, Esq., of Stockley, Dorset. On the 30th ult., at Tiverton, the Rev. William Henry Whit.. worth, M.A., Fellow and late Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Head Master of Kensington Proprietary School, to Henrietta Masterman, sixth daughter of the late Richard Welland, Esq., of Lympstone, Devonshire. On the Ist inst., at Nottingham, Thomas Leys Hadden, Esq., of Aberdeen, to Violet, second daughter of the late John Hadden, Esq., of Nottingham. On the Ist inst., at Pancras New Church, Frederick Lokes Slous, of Burton-crescent, to Julia, third daughter of the late - Mole, Esq. On the Ist inst., at Findon, Northamptonshire, William Har court Isham Mackworth, son of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., of Cavendish-hall, Suffolk, to Frances, the youngest daughter of the late William Somerset Dolben, of Findon-hall, Esq., and grand daughter of the present Sir English Dolben, Bart. On the 30th ult., at Mirfield, Yorkshire, Mr. Edwin Ellis, sur geon, of Tulse-hill, to Emma, youngest daughter of the late Chris topher Waltham, Esq., of Peckham, Surrey. DIED. On the Ist inst., at Shepi;;Cicliush, in his 35th year, Mr." . . Samuel Bagster, jun., o f B ar th o l omew - c l ose , th e e ld est son of illrll- Samuel Bagster, of Paternoster-row. On the lst inst., in his 74th year, Richard Godolphin Long, of Rood ,A slit on , Wilts. On the 25th ult., at Perth, Janet, relict of the late Mr. Thee. Whitson. On the 30th ult., aged 54, Jane, the wife of William Holt, Esq.l surgeon, Tottenham. On the Ist inst., Samuel Wakefield, Esq., of Hackney, only sur viving brother of the late Mr. Gilbert Wakefield. On the Ist inst., at Little Mooriields. "Themas Sinith, Esq., in hig 76th year, many years sword-bearer to the Corporation of the City of London. At Putney, Mary Hagen, in her 76th year. Oh ie 2d inst., at the house of her father, John Sheffield, Eig., of Brixton-hill, aged 23, Elizabeth Ann, wife of Nicholas Matighan i Esq., of Earl-street, Blaekfriars. On the 3d inst., Mr. Edward Morgan, of Marlborough-place Old Kent-road, and of Bermondsey, in his 63ft year. Prni..ed and i'ablished by 111 UR DO *lfi ,S 6 , lIL :-.:Ara:A, Tit, ,9t Office, I 2 ce, Nu. I, iu of :Aliallubez. {By 0 On Tu] 9th, the ( TI Mane blonde shawls, mother jeweller clocks, of coral tore, sp . sical bo: .spirits a segars, coffee, c articles ( hams, tc a vessel be Sea Als 3, fox To be street ; a and w e , o'clock ii Th e p of S a l e, July, i e4 to ni _h on, two o'clo Th e Go, before .1%1 E xPortat Purch ase benefit th e c orn Sale b e Please' delivered t hey are Receiver Catal el prlee {By Ord On pair, cis ( T] th e propel Alaonf a lace, ostr ! a * hors e pictures • tures, tol an( arid prese t dials ; ale old copper To be v Tue s d a Jay, from The put of sale, a July, 1 83 z Rouse, be o'clock in Goods sold fore Mond vrtation Purchase benefit of 1 the Comm Sale be str Please t, be delivere day they the Receiv Ist 1 3d pi 4th v i sth it se q annu dnatl HO, Prc torn '