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ngs should have been instituted against them.—( Hear, hear.) He said that he regretted this, because, if he had not wished that these individuals should be treated with all due clemency, if be bad not in fact already advised the Crown to extend its mercy to them, it might be supposed, had he given that re commendation after, and not before, the motion of the Hon. Member, that these persons were not guilty at all—that they were the victims of an unjust proceeding—that all those who took up the defence of the case of these persons, as a general and political question, would be considered to have attained a great triumph over those whom they looked on in the light of opponents.—(Loud cheers.) It would, no doubt, be readily believed, too, that the tardy pardon awarded the Dor chester labourers would justify those who might be desirous to follow their example in executing that which these men had done without being liable to be checked by any just inter ference on the part of the law.—( Continued cheering.) He could only say on the law of the question, that it was not for him to give any interpretation of the Act under which these men bad been sentenced. The opinion of the legal tribunals of the country was the only guide which he could have for his decision. He knew that the Attorney-General of the time had confirmed the legality of the application of the Act—that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, the Member for Dublin, in the discussion which took place last year, admitted the legality of the sentence—that the Learned Judge who presided at the trial carefully considered the case, and read the particular sec tion of the Act under which these persons were charged, to the jury—that they were declared guilty by that jury, and that no one of the numerous bodies by which their cause was espoused thought it expedient to bring the question at the time under the cognizance of the twelve judges.—( Cheers.) He did not see, then, how, such being the state of the authorities on this subject, any man could dispute the law as it was then laid down.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, he next came to the question how far these men had infringed what ought to be the general policy of the law of this country ; and on this point the Hon. Member for Finsbury, so far from denying, appeared fully to admit, that the state of the law ought not to allow of the existence of secret societies, bound together by secret oaths. --(Hear, hear.) He might be permitted to state, in addition to what the House had already heard on this subject, that one of the regulations of these societies was, that the members on entrance bound themselves by oath that they would not give evidence with regard to their associates, and that they would maintain inviolate all the rules and regulations by which their society was bound together.—( Hear, hear.) The purpose for which such a society was instituted was no doubt an innocent one in the minds of those by whom it had been originally formed ; but that it was harmless in its effects he entirely and unequivocally denied.—(Cheers.) He thought he should be able to establish the justness of the view which he took of such combinations, by informing the House of the substance of one or two of the rules which they laid down for the conduct of their proceedings. By rule 20, if any master should at tempt to reduce the wages of his workmen, the fact was to be communicated to the Grand Lodge, in order that they should receive support from that body whilst they remained away from employment. By another ( No. 22), if a member of the order should divulge any of the secrets, or violate any of the obliga tions of the same, it was directed that the name and a descrip tion of the person, and the crime of which he had been guilty, shcild be communicated to all the lodges throughout the couli , .y in which the society was established, in order that wherever such persons got work, all the labourers in that em ployment should instantly refuse to co-operate with them.— (Hear, hear.) Was such a system, under which the persons who composed such societies were denounced as criminals, if they divulged the secrets of them, to be tolerated in a country pretending to anything like freedom ?—( Hear, bear.) How ever innocent these two persons of the name of Lovelace might have considered such proceedings, they must be re garded by every person of proper judgment as most dangerous to the community; and if those societies had spread through the county of Dorset, and through the other counties of Eng land, their suppression would have required not the transpor tation of six men for seven years, but would have called for the strong interposition of the Legislature, and demanded a far greater extension of severity than the punishment which had been visited on the Dorchester labourers.—(Hear, hear. ) With regard to zle tero persons named Leecl.::• , , he coeld not help thinking that they deserved some greater degree of punishment than that inflicted on those who were associated with them. He considered the very tact on which the Honourable Member for Finsbury relied—namely, their in telligence—as an aggravation of their offence, inasmuch as it rendered more probable the extension of their prieciples (Hear, hear.) He now came to a different and a more grati fying part of the question, that upon which he had already touched. lie admitted that the law had in a great degree been satisfied.—( Hear, hear.) Ise had not advised that it should be carried into strict and literal opervion ; on the contrary, he had, w4ll the authority of the Crown, sent orders to the Government at Van Diemen's Laod ;hit these men should receive their pardon in that colony.—( How , hear. ) Although they received that pa don be l; few ho might still be told that they were separated from their homes and families ; but it should be borne in mind that they were allowed their freedom in a country which, so far from being a desolate and wretched land, was a place to which numbers were voluntarily hastening from this country, as being more likely to receive there, than if they remained at home, the proper reward of their industry. _( Hear, hear.) But still it would be objected that they were separated from their wives and children. In answer to that assertion, he could only say that at the time when he sent those orders, commanded by his Majesty, he had made inquiries as to the usual course of practice pursued with respect to the wives and families of convicts who had received their pardon at the colony ; and, without stating precisely the steps which he wished to be taken, he did not hesitate to declare that what ever lie found to be the most lenient course (either to permit their wives and families to go out free of expense, or to send them out at the charge of Government), that course, lie re peated, which was most favourable to the convict, and which had ever been adopted, he should follow—(Hear, hear). He had moreover ordered that at the end of a very short time— namely, as soon as the men had been two years abroad—four of them should be at full liberty to return to England— (Cheers). If, in addition to what he had already done in the case of these men, he should advise the Crown to grant a full and entire remission of the whole sentence, the effect would be that the original punishment would be considered illegal --(Cries of " No, no," and " Hear, hear.") For his own part, it had always been a source of the greatest gratification to him to have it in his power to prevent a severe sentence of the law from being carried fully into effect ; but he must he allowed to say, that he had looked into this case most carefully, and that the conclusion at which his mind had arrived on a review of all the facts and circumstances of it, (though there might be some with which he was not yet acquainted, and a knowledge of which might induce him to alter his opinion) was, that it was not safe to grant further favours to those persons.—(Cheers.) He entertained, there fore, the sanguine and earnest expectation, that the House would not, by agreeing to the proposed address, act in a manner which was at once most inconsistent and inexpedient, and thus establish a precedent which must be considered as conveying the reproach of severity to a judge who adminis tered the law, and the Government which sanctioned the sen. tence.—( Continued cheering.) After a few words from Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. AGL lONB Y was of opinion that a middle course might with advantage be adopted, and that the case of these men should be left open for the decision of the Noble Lord. This would be far preferable to any address from that House to the Throne, when such an application could only proceed with proper grace from the Government.—( Cheers.) Lord HO WICK said it had been argued that these men had only done that which they held it to be for the good of so ciety to do. But was it possible to suppose that they were ignorant that they were committing a crime in the eye of the law ? Such cases were not unfrequent. When persons were convicted of high treason, of an attempt to destroy one form of government, and to establish another, they, no doubt, be lieved they were acting for the good of society ; but they were aware that they were committing an offence against the law. The unfortunate men who were executed on the occasion of the two last great rebellions in 1715 and 1745, were no doubt actuated by the most high and honourable feelings, by devoted loyalty to the person who they believed was entitled to the Crown ; but at the same time they were quite aware that their conduct was a violation of the law, and for that violation they were prepared to pay the penalty. Every body knew that mis taken notions of this kind had been frequently entertained. From the voluminous correspondence which had come under his notice, he had reason to believe that those mistaken no tions very generally prevailed among the working classes. The periodical publications circulated among them had greatly increased the evil. That the Society to which the persons in question belonged were aware that they were violating the law, and rendering themselves liable to punishment, was proved by the fact, that they not only held their meetings in a remote and secluded place, but carefully posted sentinels to prevent their being interrupted by persons who were charged with the admi nistration of the law. It was quite evident, therefore, they were aware they were acting contrary to law, although they might not know what specific Act of Parliament they were violating. He perfectly agreed with the Hon. Member for Middlesex that a combination of working men to raise their wages without any violation of the law was quite justifiable. But here there bad been a combination to raise wages by means which violated the law. Last year a very extensive correspondence con nected with this subject had come under his official notice. There was one case of the grossest tyranny and hardship which he had ever heard of, and which, with the leave of the House, he would state. Two individuals connected with one of the trades' unions, and members of the committee, quarrelled with the other members of the committee, and were expelled from the union. They were immediately placed under ban through out the whole part of Yorkshire to which they belonged, and no master dare employ them. These unfortunate men, for a mere private quarrel, were reduced to a state of perfect star vation. The Hon. Member for Middlesex said that this had nothing to do with the question. He (Lord Howick) said that it had a great deal to do with it. The Hon. Member for Middlesex had observed, that the administration of oaths of secrecy had been allowed with impunity in London. That was true ; but the practice had remained unpunished only because the system was so perfect, that it was im possible to obtain evidence of the fact. If that bad not been the case,. Government would not have shrunk from the duty of inflicting punishment on persons by whom it was so richly merited. To show the tyranny exercised by these so cieties, he would read the article in the constitution of one of the lodges of those unions, which had already been read to the House by his Noble Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department.—(The Noble Lord here read the article quoted by Lord John Russell in an early period of the discus sion.) To a working manufacturer such a proscription amounted to an absolute denial of the means of getting his daily bread. It was the duty of Government, it was the duty of Parliament, by every means to discourage the taking of these unlawful oaths. Now he asked the House if the course propooK) by the Hon. Member for Finsbury was not calculated to deprive the country of all the advantages which had been derived from the punishment of the men in question? If the decision of Government on the subject were overruled by a vote of the House of Commons, he asked what must of necessity be the effect ? Would it not go forth to the country that these societies were so powerful—that they could get up so many petitions in their favour, that they could apply such an influence over the House of Commons, that if Government did not give way they would be compelled to do so ? If, therefore, the ad dress proposed by the Hon. Member for Finsbury were agreed to by the House, not only would the benefit of the punishment already been inflicted be lost to the country, but a blow would be given to the authority of the law, and a source of public danger would be opened, which he shuddered to contemplate. Still he was prepared to concur with his Noble Friend in say ing that there was much in this case which entitled it to con sideration.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. BROTHERTON rose amidst loud cries of " Ques- tion, question I" " Divide, divide !" Having presented a pe tition signed by 22,000 individuals, imploring the House to use its influence with his Majesty's Government that mercy might be extended to these unfortunate persons, he begged to be permitted to say a few words. He could assure the House and the Government that such an extension of mercy would he received with gratitude and thankfulness by thousands, ay, by millions of the people of this country. Mr. M. PHILIPS had thought it his duty to examine into the allegations advanced against the legality of the sen tence ; and he had satisfied himself that the sentence was (we believe the Hon. Gentleman said) legal. He had formerly ventured to ask the Noble Lord to temper justice with mercy in his treatment of these unfortunate persons; and the only object with which he had now risen was to repeat the request. Mr. BL ACKBURNE, for one, would not vote for the proposition to take the matter out of the hands of Government. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL trusted that the House would not, upon this occasion, interfere with the exercise of the functions of the executive. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said that the truth of the statement made by the Hon. Member for Finsbury, that the labouring population had very few direct representatives in that House, unlike the landed and manufacturing interests, whose repre sentatives almost divided the House between them, should have induced at least an appearance of impartiality, even although the debate had been adjourned to the second day, in discus sing the prayer of half a million of the people in favour of the labourers in question. To-morrow night an appeal would be made to them on behalf of a number of gentlemen who had violated some of the most sacred safeguards of the Consti tution. The greater part of these gentlemen were lawyers, and could not plead ignorance of the statutes against which unfortunate labourers had offended. To-morrow, however, a touching appeal would be made to their feelings of sympathy on account of the respectability of those gentlemen, and the hardship to their families of having been in Newgate for nearly a fortnight. Yet, when a number of poor labourers, who had consulted how they might raise their starving wages of 6s. per week, were in question, after having suffered exile and degrading punishment for nearly two years, the House could only be got to consider this case, when the opinion of the nation was expressed in a general shout of discontent. By an authentic report of the trial, which he held in his hand, it appeared—both from the statement of Counsel for the prosecution, and on the authority of the indictment—that the whole proceeding turned upon the Act of the 37th of George lll.—(Hear, hear.) It was a gratifying circum stance that, generally speaking, the humbler classes ac quiesced in the sentence of the law in the most exemplary manner, when they felt it to be justified ; but in no former case had such a number of petitions been presented upon any subject. To justify the charge the oath ought not only to have been illegal, but it should have been administered for illegal purposes. Now were the purposes of the labourers illegal ? For his own part, he theueht the resolutions distin guished by great good feeling and moral sense. The gentle men of Essex had met together for the purpose of protecting the agricultural interests, and attending to their own peculiar profits. What criminality was there, then, in the labourers meeting to protect their only property—their labour ? That was their object: and what were the means by which they smight to promote it? He found it laid down in one of tte I rules, that there should be no drinking, no 0 ths, no crimi nal conduct, no conversation upon political matters at any of their meetings. Let the Solicitor or Attorney-General show that these were unlawful objects. It is true that the admi nistration of a secret oath is in itself illegal ; but the offence is not one subjecting the party to transportation. Neverthe less, under a statute passed in 1797, to prevent. soldiers and sailors being seduced from their allegiance, these men were punished. The Hon. and Learned Member proceeded to urge other reasons for thinking the conviction improper, and expressed a hope that the admirable letter read by the Hon. Member for Finsbury would be laid before his Majesty. He was sorry that the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Home Department. in hearing that letter read, had not at once begged for time to inquire into the subject, and thus for the present have closed the debate. Mr. ROLFE said it was agreed on all hands that it was impossible to enter into discussions of law on these complicated questions in the House ; hut if the Hon. Gentleman opposite would like to hear in two selit.enees the grounds on which the Judges proceeded, he might do so. The Ilon. and Learned Gentleman then quoted the 37th and 39th of Geo. 111., as containing the grounds of the Judges' opinions. Mr. TULK came to the House desirous to implore the mercy of the Crown for these unfortunate men, not to dispute the justice of the sentence under which they suffered. Mr. O'CONNELL feared that there was no chance of ob taining a majority for the motion, so that the result would seem as if the House had pronounced, by a side-wind, that enough had been done in the matter. Having formerly declared his opinion that he considered the conviction legal, he felt bound to say that he now doubted its legality. When he expressed himself satisfied with the sentence, a Ministry was in power whom he did not feel bound in any way to support ; so now that he doubted the legality of the sentence, his change of opinion might be entitled to some weight, from the circum stance of a set of Ministers being in office whom he felt bound to support as far as he possibly could.—(lronical cheers from the Opposition benches.) What could the Hon. Gentleman expect to attain by pressing his motion to a division ? It was true that the Hon. Gentleman had made an impression that evening that he (Mr. O'Connell) had never seen exceeded in that House—true that he had produced documents which did the highest honour to the head and heart of the writer, but what advantage could he expect to gain by forcing the House to a division, and thereby to place, probably, a large majority of its Members in apparent opposition to the labouring classes throughout the country ? Under these circumstances he trusted the Hon. Gentleman would see the propriety of with drawing his motion, though if he should persist in pressing it to a division, he (Mr. O'Connell), in consistency with previ ously expressed opinions, should feel bound to vote with him. Sir ROBERT PEEL thought that the matter ought to be left in the hands of the executive government—in the hands of the responsible advisers of the Crown.—( Hear, hear.) He did not deny the right of the House—he admitted the duty of the House—if there were a suspicion that justice had been per verted for corrupt purposes, to interfere as the protector of the purity of justice, and to see that justice was done. But he saw no allegation—he saw no suspicion that the King's Govern ment had been actuated by any improper motives in the consi deration of this case, and he, for one, was content, upon the ground stated by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite, namely, that the responsible advisers of the Crown were the only proper or constitutional parties to whom the matter could be referred, to leave the case entirely in their hands.—( Hear, hear.) It was upon that principle that he should give his vote ; but at the same time he did not hesitate to say, that if Govern ment should find themselves in a majority, he did not think that that circumstance ought to influence them in the conside ration of the case, if any new facts should be submitted to them. ......(Hear, hear.) He did not vote on the principle of defend ing unnecessary severity—he did not vote in reference to the merits of the case—as he had before stated, he was content to leave the matter in the hands of the Government. Mr. Sergeant WILDE rose amidst loud cries of " Ques. tion." He happened to be at Dorchester at the time these men were tried, and the conduct of Government cases usually falling to him, he thought it his duty immediately to look into the state of the law upon the subject. Having so examined the letter of the law, he entertained not the shadow of a doubt that these persons, supposing the evidence to prove the fact, had been guilty of a breach of the statute of George the Third. After having entered at some length into the proceedings at the trial, the whole of which, together with the sentence, he maintained accorded strictly with the letter of the law, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman declared that he had risen not for the purpose of offering any opposition to the extension of mercy to the individuals who were undergoing the sentence of the Court, but simply to vindicate the justice and legality of the proceedings adopted against them. Mr. WAKLE Y replied—He was sorry he could not com ply with the request of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Dublin; but he felt he should not discharge his duty to the humbler classes of the communnity if he did not press his motion to a division. The House then divided, when the numbers appeared to be— For the motion Against it Majority against the motion —226 _ _ On our return to the gallery we found Lord JOHN RUSSELL addressing some observations to the House, the purport of which we understood to be that on account of the lateness of the hour he would not proceed with the Municipal Corporation Bill that night. SCOTCH GAME LAWS. Mr. FOX MAULE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the relief of the tenants and occupiers of land in Scotland from the damages done to their crops by hares, pheasants, and rabbits. The House divided after a desultory conversation, when there appeared— For the motion 5O Against it Majority —26 The Bill is consequently lost. Mr. G. F. YOUNG moved for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal certain clauses in the Act .55 Geo. 111., c. 57., impos ing duties on tonnage and goods in the' trade with countries within the limits of the exclusive privileges of the South Sea Company. Mr. C. P. THOMSON hoped the Honourable Gentleman would not persist in his motion, as it was his intention to bring forward some general measure relative to the South Sea Company. This had only been delayed in consequence of the complicated nature of the subject. After a few words from Lord Sandon, Mr. G. F. YOUNG withdrew his motion, on the under• standing that a measure was to be introduced on the subjec next session. CLERK OF THE CROWN. On the motion of Mr. BARING, a Select Committee was appointed to consider so much of the Acts 3 and 4 Will. IV., THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26. 1835. c. 84, as relates to the salary of the office of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, consisting of the following members : Baring, F. T. Hume, Joseph Pollock, Sir F. Aglionby, H. A. Inglis, Sir R. H. Rice, T. S. Campbell, Sir John Lynch, A. H. Rolfe, R. M. Carter, J. B. Nicholl, J. Sandon,_Lord Esteourt, T. G. B. O'Connell, D. Shaw, F. Follett, Sir W. W. Parker, J. Tooke, W. Fremantle, Sir T. Peel, Sir R. Warburton, IL Grey, Sir G. Pepys, Sir C. Wason, R. Harvey, D. W. Perrin, L. Wynn, itt. Hon. C. CONSULAR ESTABLISHMENT. On the motion of Mr. HESKETH FLEETWOOD, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into Consular Es tablishments, consisting of the following members : Fleetwood, H. Herries, J. C. Robinson, G. R. Bowring, Dr. Hutt, W. Sandon, Lord Bulwer, H. L. Lowther, Viscount Scarlett R. C. Callaghan, D. - Mackenzie, J. A. S. Scrope, G. P. Canning, Sir S. Mahon Lord Stewart, Sir M. S. Colborne, N. W. R. M'Leod, R. Thompson, P. Crawford, W. Palmerston, Viscount Thomson, C. P. Fergusson, R. C. Peel, Sir R Vyvyan, Sir R. Gordon, R. Ponsonby, J. G. B. Warburton, H. Graham, Sir J. Ward, H. G. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter to one. LIST OF THE MINORITY Of 84 (Tellers included) who voted in favour of Mr. Wakley's mo tion for an Address to the King, praying that his Majesty would be pleased to grant a pardon to, and direct the recall of, the six Dorsetshire Labourers who were convicted at the Assizes held at Dorchester, in the Spring of 1834. Aglionhy, H. A. Ewart, W. Ainsworth, Peter Fergus, John Attwood, 'l'. Fielden, J. Baines, E. Finn, W. F. Baldwin, Dr. Forster, C. Barnard, E. G. Gully, J. Beauclerk, Major Harvey, D. W. Bish, T. Hawes, B. Blake, M. J. Hector, C. Bodkin, John James Hindley, Charles Bowring, lir. Hodges, T. L. Brady, Denis C. Hutt, W. Bridgman, H. Kemp, T. R. Brocklehurst, J. Lawson, A. Broth erton, J. Lister, E. C. Buckingham, J. S. Lowther, J. H. Buller, C. M'Calice, John Bulwer, H. L. Macnamata, W. Butler, Hon. P. S. Marsland, H. Carley, E. S. Maxwell, J. Collier, J. Molesworth, Sir W. Crawford, W. S. Musgrave, Sir R. Dennis , oun, A. 0 Brien, C. Dobbin, L. O'Brien, W. S. buncombe, T. S. O'Connell, D. Duncombe, W. O'Connell, Maurice Dundds, J. C. Philips, M. Elphinstone, H. Phillips, C. M. Euston, Earl of Power, P. Richards, J. Rippon, C. Roebuck, J. A. Rundell, John Ruthven, E. Ruthven, E. S. Scholefield, J. Sinclair, G. Spiers, A. G. Strickland, Sir C. "L'hompson, P. Thomely, Thomas Tooke, W. Trelawney, Sir W Trevor, A. Tulk, C. A. Wall, B. Wallace, R Walter, J. Warburton, H. Wason, R. Whalley, Sir S. Walks, J. Williams, W, TELLERS. Hume, Joseph Wakley, Thomas ROUSE OF LORDS, Jvms 25. The Earl of DEVON took the oaths and his scat. Lord DENMAN took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. A 'Message from the Commons, by Sir M. S. Stewart, brought up the Gourock Harbour Bill, and other private bills, which were severally read a first time. The Bishop of LICE-WIELD and COVENTRY pre sented petitions from Matlock and other places against any other appropriation of Church property than to eccle siastical purposes, such as the building of churches, schools, or parsonages. He trusted the Ministry would reconsider their opinions upon the subject, for their present avowed ones would tend to subvert the Protestant religion. A Peeress (name unknown) was sworn at the table by Lord Denman. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition most respectably signed to his own knowledge ; signed also without any of the usual means of canvassing, by 2000 persons in two days. l'hey stated they were of all opinions, both in politics and religion, but they united in considering all taxes upon newspapers as a tax upon useful knowledge, and the great cause of much of the crime now so prevalent in the kingdom. The Earl of HA RE WOOD presented a petition against the Islington Market Bill, from Croydon, and Dunstable. The Duke of B UCCLE UG H presented several petitions from Dunkeld, Edinburgh, Dunglass, and other places, for a further endowment of the Church of Scotland. Similar petitions were then presented by the Duke of Mem- MOND. The N 0131.3 Duxt then presented a petition from Clare, praying for the introduction of Poor Laws into Ire land, founded upon the forty-third of Queen Elizabeth. He was most anxious to see such a measure proposed, because he thought it would tend much to increase the comforts of the poor, and to the diminution of crime in that country. The Earl of LIMERICK was very sorry that he was obliged to differ from his Noble Friend. He could not see that it was at all possible to assimilate the laws of England and Ireland. He wished that the events in the latter country would allow of such an assimilation ; but no one who was at all acquainted with Ireland and its • inha bitants but must allow that it was perfectly impossible.— ( Hear, hear.) He could not think that the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland, which had crippled the ener gies of rich England, and bowed them almost to the earth, could by any possibility benefit Ireland. He would venture to say that there was less real call for poor laws in that country, for there were no cases of poverty that were not instantly re lieved by the neighbours and gentry ; and there was no country in which the feelings of parent and child, and child and parent, were so strong. The Duke of RICHMOND then presented another peti tion to the same effect from Tullamore and its vicinity. He would merely say in answer to his Noble Friend, that he was quite aw,.re that the introduction of Poor Laws would take away, to a certain degree, the superfluity of the rich—(Cheers)—but that was the very thing he wanted—(Cheers) —it was the end he proposed. In every country there ought to be a principle esta blished that no one should he allowed to starve. It was well known that on a late occasion, a large sum of money was sub scribed from this country for the relief of the poor of Ireland. Then if the rich in England were pressed to the earth with their own poor laws, surely it was too much to ask them for money to relieve those whom the landlords of Ireland ought to support. He was glad, however, to hear, that the objection to poor laws was now given up, because of the impossibility of working out the details of the Bill, and that it was now merely put on the ground of the charity in the country being enough for the purpose. That might be the case on the Noble Earl's estates, and those of some more Noble Lords, but he was sure that there vast tracts of country where there were no resident proprietors where the people were in the ut most misers-, and actually without the means of subsistence. He would have moved a resolution on the subject last year, had the Government not taken up the measure, and issued a Commission, which he was sorry had not yet reported. He trusted they would do so soon ; and he hoped they would next year have the attention of Parliament called to the subject by the Royal command. The Earl of LIMERICK said the difficulty of carrying into practice, the operation of the poor laws was as great as ever. If the poor laws were extended. to Ireland—he now spoke of the south and south-west parts of that country—the power of the Roman Catholic priesthood would be immense, and that priest hood would have revenues higher than their Lordships. With regard to the Report of the Commissioners alluded to by his Noble Friend, he hoped it would be deferred to the Greek Kalends—( Hear). The Duke of RICHMOND trusted that the Report would speedily appear, and he believed it would make out his propo sition. The Bishop of LONDON presented several petitions from parishes in Bristol and other places, against the Beer Act and dram drinking. COMPLAINT AGAINST A CATHOLIC PRIEST. The Bishop of EXETER said before he presented the petition of which he had given previous notice, he would take the present opportunity of presenting another petition, of great importance, which he should move to have read at length. The petition was from the Rev. Edward Mangles, a clergyman of the Established Church, of the Isle of Ackhill, who was most highly spoken of by his diocesan, the Archbishop of Tuam, as a man of excellent character. The petition was then read. It set forth that the peti tioner having obtained a living in the island of Ackhill, where there was no glebe house; he expended 1,5001. in erecting one, with a school, spending as much as 7 01 . a week in his undertaking, by which many poor families were benefited ; that a Roman Catholic priest in the island had. Sunday after Sunday, dealt out to his congregation many charges against the petitioner and the Protestant religion; that he condemned, in severe terms, the parents of those children who were sent to the school ; that the Catholics were instructed by him to sharpen their pitchforks ; that persons who had worked on the property were induced by the priest to relinquish their labous, at which they expressed regret; and that the persons who lodged with the Protestant schoolmaster were publicly cursed by the priest. The petition also stated that the number of Protestants in that place returned by the Com missioners of public instruction, was double the number re turned in 1831. Mention was made in the petition of a Com missioner named Newport, whose name, it will be seen below, furnished some remarks. Viscount DUNCANNON was not going to defend the conduct of the priest, nor should he have made a single ob servation on this petition, had it not been for the notice taken of the Commissioner, Mr. Newport, who was likewise the subject of the petition of the Rev. Mr. Stoney, which the Right Rev. Prelate had yet to present. He (Lord Duncannon) thought the two cases ought to have been kept distinct; they had nothing whatever to do with each other ; and the only complaint against Mr. Newport in the present petition was, as well as he had been able to collect, from its having been now read, that Mr. Newport had made no mention whatever of the schools. If their Lordships would take the trouble to look at the report, however, they would find that it was a report confined to the question of the Church, and not to education, that subject being one for an after report. The Bishop of EXETER said, instead of Mr. Mangles having any complaint to urge against Mr. Newport, he was grateful to him for his exertions. With respect to the Rev. Mr. Mangles, he had been assured by the Archbishop of Tuam, that a more zealous, inoffensive, quiet man could not be found Lord FARNHAM had known the Rev. Mr. Mangles for many years, and he assured their Lordships a more mild, in offensive man could not be found in Ireland. Viscount DUNCANNON said (on referring to the peti tion) that Mr. Newport was described as visiting the establish ment, and he (Lord Duncannon) had imagined that he meant by " establishment" to allude to the "schools." CO Tte m p l e s tit s io l n o w N as Eß th s en loaiF u d upponßthLeltcable. INSTRUCTION IN IRELAND. _ The Bishop of EXETER rose to present a p e ti t i on o f th e Rev. W. B. Stoney, of the parish of Bor r i s h one , i n th e county of Mayo, complaining of the conduct of certain Com missioners of public instruction. The Commission was under the Great Seal of his Ma esty, and it was obvious, therefore, that its object could not be to weaken the Established Church, nor to interfere with the cause of true religion, nor to impair any of the provisions of the law relating to that Church. But in saying that he would not disguise from their Lordships that there was one part of the Commission, namely, a recom- dation to make inquiries as to the number of persons professing different religious opinions in Ireland, would have been better omitted, as he thought it tended to introduce ascerbated feel ing —feeling calculated to injure the Protestants of that country.—( Hear, hear. It had been said in the other House of Parliament, and much uneasiness had arisen- from it, by a member of the former Government who was also a member of the present, that it was - intended to apply the surplus funds of the Church to other than ecclesiastical purposes. Now it had been stated in their Lordships' House by a member of that former Government, and which had afforded great consolation when the subject of the Commission was under consideration—that there was no thought, no intention, no wish whatever on the part of government to appropriate the revenues of the Irish Church to any other than ecclesiastical purposes. The most that was then said was, that if after the revenues were applied, any sur plus should remain, that surplus would be employed for edu cation upon the principles of the Protestant religion.—( Hear, hear.) This declaration had afforded much gratification. He shuddered at the notion of any man who should desire a plan for a measure to appropriate the surplus of the Church to pur poses other than ecclesiastical—( Hear)—and until such a mea sure was introduced, he would not believe it possible that such a design was intended to be carried into execution. There was a most important point, however, in the Commission, which, if it had been faithfully executed, would have conferred a greater blessing on the people of Ireland than anything what ever that could have been suggested. He alluded particularly to one of the most important passages in the Commission, "to inquire generally whether adequate provision is now made for the religious instruction, and for the general education of the people of Ireland, and to report such other circumstances with the moral and political relations of the Church Establish ment, and the religious institutions of other denominations dissenting from the Established Church, as may bring clearly into view their bearings on the general condition of the people of that part of our said United Kingdom called Ireland." Now nothing could be more beneficial than to have a thorough in vestigation into the effects of religious opinions, with a view of showing " their bearings on the general condition of the people." It was with great regret he saw that the Commissioners had not in their report followed up that recom mendation. He knew not what the Commissioners meant by the inquiry being " essentially of a statistical nature." —( Hear, hear.) What was meant by looking at the matter in a statistical manner? In order that he might compre hend what was conveyed by those words he had re course, as undoubtedly their Lordships would in a like case. to Johnson's Dictionary ; but on referring to that great work be found that the word " statistick" was not there, but it had crept into use since the death of that eminent lexicographer. Ile then had recourse to Todd's edition of the work, who gave this definition :—" Statisticks—that part of municipal philosophy which states and defines the situation, strength, and resources of a nation." Now, according to this definition, the phrase would be of a political nature. Was it intended to convey a sense of the strength and resources of Ireland? He was very anxious to see what the Commission had said rela tive to an inquiry into the " situation, strength, and resources of Ireland," but he found nothing. The Commissioners were complained of by Mr. Stoney, because when the priest objected to the number of Protestants said to be in the parish, and he, Mr. Stoney, the petitioner, offered to give evidence of the cause of the diminution of the number of Protestants, the Commissioners refused to give him the opportunity of offering such evidence, though it was part of their instructions to receive such information. The petitioner, too, had, in answer to the circular addressed to him, apprised the Com missioners of such persecution, and that he was ready to prove it. The petitioner declared he was desirous to prove the per secution carried on for the last five years, and the manner in which that persecution had been carried on—that stones had been thrown at the children attending his school—that they had been horsewhipped by the priests, and hunted upon the roads —that the names of the parents were called out in the chapel, and some of the children driven into the river or marked with the cruel whip of the priest. The Commissioners, for a reason with which he was not at all disposed to find fault, had brought forward a statement to justify their conduct. It would be in the recollection of their Lordships that the Noble Vis e...alit had presented a petition, to which full jit , tice was done by the zeal and talent of that Noble Lord. That Noble Vis count had produced great effect upon their Lordships, and certainly upon himself, by the statement to which he now called their attention. It was to this effect—" When the Commis sioners first arrived in Dublin they sent round printed queries to the different clergymen ; and, though some of their answers were not satisfactory, they were all written with the exception of the case of Mr. Stoney. That Gentleman had not chosen to send a written answer ;" but, as we understood, " a printed answer." The Noble Viscount stated what appeared to him to be perfectly fair upon this circumstance ; and the consequence was that he wrote to that gentleman, stating what was his opinion as to the impeding of his Majesty's Commission, and condemning the intemperate and, in several instances, the improper language used in his answers. To his utter astonishment, he received an answer from this gentleman to which he should not fail to call the attention of their Lordships. He had first requested of the Noble Viscount to produce his original an-. swer. In consequence of that gentleman's answer, he had felt it his duty to move for the original letter of the Commis sioners and the answer. The Noble Viscount had placed a written copy of his answer in his hands ; but he had remarked to the Noble Viscount that it was not the original but the copy that he requested, and this paper was put into his hands. The paper he then held purported to be date;! t'ie 2dth November, 1834, 'out it bore no cover. If there was a cover to this letter, he hoped the Noble Viscount would product! it. Mr. Stcney declared that his answers to the Commissioners were not printed. In the reply sent to him Mr. Stoney said " I did not do so (that is, send printed answers.) They sent a list of printed questions, to which I sent manuscript answers, and sent them back by post. I sent no printed answers_ My me mory is refreshed on this subject by the man who helped me as clerk, John Doyle, and I afterwards got them printed to expose the violent attempts of the priest Hughes." The writer then proceeded to say that he had no intention of offer ing disrespect to the Government or the Commissioners, but, in common with most clergymen, he felt hurt at being called upon to recognize the Romish mass as Divine worship, and through him an humble apology was offered for whatever might appear improper in his replies. Very few copies of those re plies had been circulated, and while he stased that he would withdraw, any offensive language, yet every part of them were true and capable of proof as to the priest preaching cad using certain expressions as to the Bilk, and the priest ordering the people to " wallop with sticks—(such iris the priest's expression, and not Mr. Stoney's)—any such as would dare to collect Mr.. Stoney's tithes ;" and in consequence of a seditious harangue of the priest, the officer was obliged to order the soldiers out of the chapel. As to soldiers being brought out of chapel by their officers, in consequence of the language delivered in their presence by the priests, it was no rare occurrence in Ireland, as they knew by the reports of their Committees. Soldiers were very pro perly sent with an officer to the chapels in Ireland, and fre quently the officer had to come out with the men when sedi tious harangues were made. This occurred in the case of Lieutenant March, he forgot the name of the regiment, with the celebrated priest, Burke, and was stated in the Report of the Committee of Inquiry in 1832. Another case in which this occurred was in that of no less a personage than Dr. Mac-. Hale, now called an Archbishop. Dr. Mac Hale, then called a Bishop, made a most violent harangue in the town of Bal lina—so violent that he felt it to be his duty to withdraw the troops from the chapel.—( Hear.) He considered it wrong to charge the Government with the intentions the writer did charge them, and for the manner in which he reprobated the Commissioners. He could not censure Mr. Stoney for saying he would not consent to recognize the adoration of relics, crosses, and wafers, as religious worship. The Commission ers, he thought, acted improperly when they called the mass " Divine Service." The petitioner complained that when he handed to the Commissioners a list of 500 Protestants, and that this was handed by them over to the priest, who excited ridicule by the mode in which he read them out to have them totted.—( Hear, hear.) He next complained of the Com missioners, because they refused to enter into an inquiry into the cause of the diminution of the Protestants. The ground alleged by the Commissioners was, that they would not enter into the inquiry because it would lead to altercation. He considered that he had mentioned enough for inquiry. In connection with this subject, he could not but allude to a dis closure made within the last few days—it was the principles of the Roman Catholic Church, as set forth by the Roman Ca tholic Bishops. The work to which he alluded was ." Den's Theology," and he would say, that more tremendous and guilty principles than those set set forth never were maintained in the worst days of Papery.—( Hear.) Most probably all their Lordships had seen what he referred to—they, the members of the Protestant Church, were pointed out as worse than Pagans —they were also held to be subject to the Roman Catholic Church, and thereby liable to punishment, not merely of an ecclesiastical nature, not merely to excommunication, but also to the gravest corp oral infliction —that they were ipso facto ex communicated, and their bodies declared liable to banishment, incarceration, and death itself—and that death was the pun ishment for them as heretics.—( Hear.) This was laid down in the plainest and clearest manner—it was laid down by no l ess a person than Dr. Murray, called the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin—by Dr. Murray, one of his Majesty's Commissioners for Education in Ireland.----( Hear.) He moved that the petition should be laid on the table. Lord DUNCANNON remarked that, as to the queries sent to all the Clergy in Ireland, the question as to the cause why the diminution in numbers should take place, long before the Commissioners left Dublin, it was distinctly laid down by the two resident Commissioners, that the question which had been observed upon should not be put. He really thought this was a wise decision,. and if there was nothing else to convince him its wisdom, it would be the answer sent by Mr. Stoney. He could not state whether the answers of Mr. Stoney came by post, as he had not the cover; he had sent for several of the answers, and he found them all recorded by the proper officer in the same manner. The Commissioners had informed Mr. Stoney it was not their intention to proceed with that portion of the inquiry , which he afterwards sought to press upon them. He should be, he declared, the last person in that House who would defend the violent conduct of the priest—he believed it had been violent as that of the Protestant clergyman ; and he believed that, between the two gentlemen, they kept the dis trict in a state which every friend t o p eace mus t regret. The children were not ke p t entirely in school, they were only edu cated in the school ; they formed a part of the population ; and if the population went out to meet Dr. Nl' Hale, as being a nopular character, he did not see how such a thing could be prevented. The return of Mr. St one y as t o the number of the Protestant population was controverted, and amongst others by Mr. Stewart, who, though called " a nominal Pro testant," a term he did not understand, was a most respectable gentleman. That gentleman and others declared that nothing could be conducted with more impartiality than the whole of the inquiry.—( Hear.) Ho considered that the Commission -itself was calculated to effect good. He was anxious to pre serve the Protestant Establishment in Ireland ; but then he did not think that keeping up a large Establishment, where no duty was to be done, was exactly that which most tended to foster and support the Protestant relighsn. As to the Com mission being the means of increasing dissension in Ireland, he was assured by some of the Commissioners that where those divisions had existed, they had been the means of terminating them. And then, when they remembered that the state of the Established Church was now the subject of constant discussion, and that in both Houses of Parliament the most contradictory statements had been put forth, as to the numbers of them belonging to different religions, he could not but consider an advantage had been gained when a census was taken, and their numbers ascertained. The Commissioners ought not to be censured for giving their opinions upon the subject ; they should on the contrary, be liable to blame had they attempted to influence their Lordships by their opinions, rather than submit to them, what he would call, notwithstand ing the definition of .the Right Rev. Prelate, " statistics" of facts.—(Hear.) Lord BROUGHAM said that it was unusual and unheard of in presenting a petition from a private individual complain ing of a private grievance, upon an occasion on which their Lordships were not summoned to attend, to enter into such a discussion as that which had occupied their Lordships' atten tion. An opportunity was taken to urge a grave and serious complaint against the Commissioners and against the Govern ment. The Commissioners were charged with partiality for not having entered into a minute and polemical examination upon a subject which, on reference to the Commission itself, he found was not directed to be entered upon. But not only was this specii ,- s of inquiry not required by the COD, mission, but the very nature of it fully justified the Commis sioners in rejecting it, as it could only tend to give rise to the very worst, the bitterest, and most unprofitable feelings. If any party had a right to complain of partiality, it was not Mr. Stoney, but Mr. Hughes. Mr. Stoney had been heard alone, and Mr. Hughes, though he had been attacked, was not heard. Lord WICK LOW, in reply to what had fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord, said that the Commissioners had altered the nature of the instructions which were given to them. He admitted that the answers given by the Rev. Mr. Stoney were not such as became a gentleman in his station. Lord HATHERTON said that when the written answers of the Rev. Mr. Stoney had been received they were found to be of such a nature as was thought to fully justify the Corn missioners in the exercise of a sound discretion in not entering into a personal inquiry into the matters to which they referred. He should take leave to observe, that during the 20 months he had had the honour of filling the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland, no petition was ever presented of which previous inti mation Lad not been given to him. It might be felt conve nient if a similar course were adopted with regard to his Noble Friend Lord Duncannon.—( Hear). . . . The Earl of R A DNO Et s. deprecated the introduction of such diicussions as the one before the House, as calculated to produce mischief in Ireland. Religious dissensions were the curse of that country, and he regretted to see a Christian Prelate pursuing a course calculated to foment those dissensions. The Bishop of EXETER said he had only done his duty, and he did not regret a single word that he had uttered. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table ; and The House adjourned at Half-past Eight o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. In consequence of most of the subscribers being absent yesterday at Hampton Races, there was no betting. HAMPTON RACES-YESTERDAY. The King's Plate of 100 gs. ; three yrs old, 7st. 51b ; four, 9st. llb ; five, 9st. 1 Ilb ; six and aged, lOst. 21b. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. W. Edwards's Lurcher, 3 yrs ...Wakefield 0 2 1 1 Mr. Greville's Griselda, 3 yrs 2 I 2 2 Captain Ricardo's Nimble, 4 yrs. Mr. Dockcray's Leander, 3 yrs 0 0 dr Mr. Wickham's Nashenden, 3 yrs 0 odr Captain Gardnor's Comet, 4 yrs 3 dr lair. Coleman's Turfcutter, 5 yrs 0 dr Mr. 11. Turner's Glenlee, 5 yrs... First Heat-2 to 1 agst Nimble, 3to 1 agst Griselda, and sto 1 agst Lnrcher. Glenlee and Nashenden decided the running be tween them for the first half mile, after which Griselda laid in front, Comet lying behind her; on making the turn for the straight run in, Nimble went about. half a mile in advance of Griselda, kept so to the end, and won rather cleverly. Lurcher and Leander did not run for the heat. The pace very bad. Second Heat.--8 to son Nimble, and 7to 2 agst Griselda, who made all the play, and won cleverly by half a length. Third Heat---3 to lon Griselda, and high odds agst Lurcher. Griselda again made the running, was challenged by Lurcher at the distance, and beaten by a neck, after a fine race. Fourth Heat-6 to 5 on Griselda, who led to the last turn, where Lurcher passed her, and won easy by two lengths. The County Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added ; three yrs, 7st ; four, Bst. 51b • five, Bst. 12Ib ; six, 9st. 21b ; and aged, 9st. 51b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. a inners this year 31b extra. The winner to be sold for 60, &c. Second horse to save the .take. Captain Gardnor's Myrrha, 5 yrs...C. Edwards 0 1 1 Mr. W. Edwards's Burden, 3 yrs Mr. Harrison's Repentance, 5 yrs 0 2 2 Mr. J. Mess.er's Florance, 4 yrs 3 0 0 Mr. Bishop's Jenny Wren, 5 yrs 0 0 0 Mr. Balchin's Duchess, aged... _ . _ _ Mr. Bacon's Malibran (h. b.), aged... ......... 0 odr Mr. Forth's Pagan, 5 yrs Mr.• C. Hornsby's Guildford, aged First Heat-2 to 1 agst. Burden (taken), 3to I agst Pagan, and 6to 1 agst Florence. Pagan made play to the distance, where Burden went by him, and won easy. Second Heat-5 to 4on Burden (taken), 3to 1 agst Myrrha (taken ). Myrrha took the lead, kept it throughout, and won cleverly. Third heat-2 to lon Myrrha. Repentance cut out the work to the distance, where Myrrha took it up, shook her off after a short struggle, and won easy. She was claimed. The weather was very unfavourable till about two o'clock, when it cleared up, and continued fine during the remainder of the day. The company was numerous, and included a large list of fashion ables. The meeting terminates this day with a promising list. BIBURY RACES.—STOCKBRIDGE COURSE. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h. ft. A mile. 6 subs. Mr. Rawlinson's Reliance, Bst. 41b J Day 1 Col. Peel's Paulus, Bst. 41b 2 5t02 on Paulus. Won by half a length. The Bibury Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft., and only 5, &c., with 50 added. 24 subs. Two miles. Mr. Etwall's Goldfringe, 4 yrs, lOst. 12Ib ...J. Bayly 1 Mr. Houldsworth's Blank, 5 yrs, lOst. 101 b 2 Mr. Knatehbull na. Peregrine Pickle, 6 yrs, lOst. lllb 3 The winner the favourite. Won easy. The Flare-up Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added. A mile. 4 subs. Mr. Etwall's The Rustic, 3 yrs, 9st. 71b J. Bayly 1 Mr. S. Stanley's Flame, 3 yrs, 9st. 71b Even betting. Won cleverly. Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, h. ft., for horses not thorough-bred. Two miles. 6 subs. Mr. D. Radcliffe's Lady Emily, 5 yrs, llst. 61b... Owner 1 Mr. Etwall na. Wallington. 4 yrs, 10st. 51b 2 Mr. Chamberlayne's Prima Donna, 5 yrs, list . 61b 3 5t02 on Wallington. on by a neck. A Handicap Plate of 501. Cup Course. Mr. Etwall's The Rustic, 3 yrs, 9st. 131 b J Bayly 1 Mr. Biggs' De Beriot, 3 yrs, 9st. 71b. ... Colonel Gilbert's Lely, aged, list. 31b... Even on Rustic, 3to 1 agst Lely, and 4 to 1 agst De Beroit.— Won by nearly half a length. The weather was unfavourable, but the sport was excellent ; and the skill displayed by the gentlemen riders very superior. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, SCOTLAND. MURDER AT PIERSHILL BARRACKS. Yesterday having been appointed for the trial of James Bell, late a private in the sth Dragoon Guards, for the murder of Troop Sergeant Major Moorhead, of the same corps, the Court was crowded at an early hour. From the great anxiety thus manifested on the part of the public to gain admittance, the Court ordered the gallery, which had been kept closed for a considerable time back, to be opened, upon which a tremen dous rush took place, and it was immediately filled. Many of the officers of the regiment, and several of their ladies, took their places in Court so soon as admission could be obtained. The case of Bell having been called, and the indictment read, the prisoner, in a firm tone of voice, pleaded not guilty. Mr. MONCRIEFP, as Counsel for the prisoner, gave in de fences, in which he denied generally the charge contained in the libel, and pleaded specially that he was insane at the time the offence was committed. Witnesses being examined, The Jury, after retiring for about one minute, returned, una nimously finding the prisoner guilty, as libelled. The LORD JUSTICE CLERK then proceeded to pass sen tence on the prisoner. The sentence of the Court was, that the prisoner be executed on Monday, the 13th of July next, between the hours of eight and ten, at the usual place of execution, and his body afterwards be buried within the pre cincts of the gaol. The Court was extremely crowded during the trial, which did not terminate until half-past seven in the evening. The prisoner, who is apparently about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, has rather a mild countenance than otherwise, and was quite unmoved throughout the trial and during the time he was receiving sentence. Immediately before the Jury had delivered their verdict, and when the result must be quite evident to all, including the prisoner, one of the officers of the Court presented some refreshment to the prisoner, which he declined, but at the same time politely, and with the greatest coolness, offered the same to the police officers who were sitting beside him. THE STUDENT, BY THE AUTHOR OF " ENG LAND AND THE ENGLISH," " EUGENE ARAM," Sze.—" Mr. Bulwer," observes a contemporary, " has already attained a high rank in our literature, and he will be raised still higher by the present work. A more pleasant book than " The Student "—a book more abounding in strong and vigorous thinking beautifully expressed—it has not of late been our lot to meet with. Mr. Bulwer has assumed in it a new character. We knew him before as an exquisite writer of fiction, and a sound political thinker. We now know him as a delightful teacher of philosophy. He calls the Essays, Tales, and Criticisms which are contained in " The Student," " poetical philosophy," " the metaphysics of the heart and passions." Mr. Bulwer's work is, indeed, eminently beauti ful. It abounds with novel and striking remarks, and con sists of profound criticism on the greatest authors, and moral instruction conveyed in allegories and tales of the most terse and delightful kind. • - DRUNKARDS.—Two men have become victims to this dreadful propensity, one in Dooley-street, named Brown, and the other a man in Combermere-street, named Arnold, who was picked up is Mill-street, on Tuesday evening, in a state of insensibility, having been drinking all day.—Liverpool Chronicle. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. 1 Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. 1 Beans. Peaae. Per-Quarter. - 1 s. to s. s. - s. s. to 3. 1 s. to s. Wandlord 36 40 29 26 j 46 Grigg s. 40 52 30 36 15 22 30 35 C 38 28 21 :37 Chard - 4 , 1 44 14 . 2 50 24 28 24 27 3:3 37 Long Sutton.-- 34 44 *2'2 24 ,35 37 Louth 32 41 I 28 32 18 23 !3.2 36 ynn 34 49 2.6 3.1 23 24 ' :32 '3l Newark 34 32 26 35 18 24 32 35 Nfutinghain ---- 40 45 :l7 19 28 35 42 reterborongh .* 33 40 27 30 18 24 135 40 Plymouth 40 50 30 34 20 28 67 43 27 Slealor ---- 65 70 311 38 22 28 4! 43 Uppingham -- 34 39 25 21 120 30 :36 46 Wisheeli -- 45 20 19 s. tO a. - - 37 - 40 44 32 34 DEVIZES t.ORN II A KET.—Jitne 25. Per Sack. s. d. s. i. Per (Juane'', s. d. s. d. !lest Wheat......... 21 0 to 22 61 Barley. Second ......... 18 6 'A 0 I .!ats ... fp hints .. 16 It r 1 6 1 Beans ~per 20 0 1247 Sacks of 'lout (pp-r ) :14 0 :It the Nvrrag,e I;read . 0 11 --- 0 29 0 42,. to 51s. Via. to 505.1 ti to 32e. ..... 7.7 a. to 31s. 225. to 235. I LI 3t to 36f.. 7-7 ISs. to 225. j Eng. 9ti per stone 22 , . to 24a. per load. rea&gn,, —l. t —l. ivr !ast. Li ,EDS COHN NIA KE 1% June 13 Wheat, ti , rolk anc, Sutt: , lk ; - York. and I.tueoln. NorilAk avid ...... „ York hire - Grinding 3e,hs Oats, Potater. It - ,t. t01.2•t. Shull It.odc,ced, '25 1 tc• ;.!7, LlVEff.l'ool, COll N EXCII A N C.; E. —Tune ?:3 Englisb, Whltc, iwt 7010. Rcel Se,,teh, with, acld Irish, White Red Voreign We , Eb, and SeUtt,; ; 1 451b. 1 3 9 3 . . Irish -- Foreign 33 3 4 U U .0 0 IIARLEN, Engl.!), per quarter ...„ 0 34 0 Scotett and Irish, per Piing. Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial yrrirrer 42 it 46 0 -- Irish, &c. 1 - 14eteri 37 0 43 it • . PEASE, English, ver Imperial quarter 42 0 46 0 Foreign FLOllit, EligliSll, per 2501 . 0. i risit OATMEAL, Vuglis'i and I i lA, iier 9,1111bs 27 0 31 0 IN. lAN CORN, pi. r 44110,. — lli 0 :33 0 RYE, per I ruper al quarter MALT, per Imperial :piarter IMPORT OF GRA IN li, the Week ending June 22 Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatmeal. o ore rs. . ore. i. °reign, ,nls. lrishdlre. ticks Loads 9 514 , 7,433 , 370 1 70 9,556 2,391 CHEUVENHA l'er Bushel. s i. to tI Wheat Barley . Oats 2 6 3 3 Beans. Pease Hay 3/. Iss M MARKETS. Pet lb. Q. LO .• Beet 6 7 Mutton -1 7 Veal , 7 8 Pork Lamb t. , 4/. I Os. lid. pt r 0.0 LEWES MAR KET.—June 23. Per Quar er. s. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. to a d. Wheat, White ... 4u 0 43 0 Oats 2O 0 23 0 lied 'l6 0 29 0 Pease 0 4S 6 Barley HULL MARKET.—June 22 Wheat, Old 36s 375. -- Foreign Oats, Poland 22.. 245. -- Small or Feed --s. lBs. F.reign Barley, Norf. & Suf 28s 30s. -- Foreign Beane 345. 4 a New 344 38s. 41s. s ln bond... —a —a. —a. 25s Old 21s. 22a 255. 20a —a. —a. 20s. —s. 325. Linc. & Wold —a. 31s 32a. --s. - 40, For, reign Pease. White 35, 58s 40s. Grey — —s. 305.348. "J'arcs Ra! , eseed. in bond none SOUTHALL CATTLE NI 11X LI —June :14 The supply of Beasts, Sneep, Calves, and Porkers, to this day's mar ket was moderately good. There was a very good attendance of WWI aid cm ntry buyers, and the trade was dull, at the following pric , a per stone of SP). to s uk the ofle.ls : Keel 1 glutton 3 0 4 0 Pork 3 0 4 0 Lamb ss. Od. to ss. Od . Beasts, 210; Sheep, 4 otiB ; Calves, 1)4; Pigs, 00 . A great portion or the supply lot the market unsold ____.....-- RUMFORD M A RKET.—June 24. ,(1,. ,i, : (1 4 to 4 , .14 Reef 3: 0 4 0 Veal Mutton 3 0 4 0 i Pork Lamb ls h . d. to :is 10d. Suckling Calves, 10s. to 3 4 4.; Quarter old Store Pigs. R, to 14s. Mulch Cews, with their small Calf, 10/. Os to . .51. Os. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull HAILSHAJNI MARKET—June !,4 Beef 3.. Bd. to Is. Od. Veal 3s. 3d. to 4 5 . Od. I Mutton 3 2 4 0 Por Lambs ...... ... ss. Od to ss. 4d per stone Supply good, and ttade very dull ____.—.... CHICHESTER MARKET—June 24. Beef Mutton 3 4 4 0 Pork... ......... 3 4 3/3 1 amb . Supply of fat stock m• derwely good, and trade rather dull MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STR F, ET. TO-MORROW. (From tin I, , ndon Gazette ti v• P. and W. Squire, linen drapers, S , utliroolton, Devon LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 24. The sales to. day are considerable, and, with a steady and firm market, may be quoted at 3.500 bags, consisting of 30 Surats. at 7d. to Bd. ; 40 Bahias, at 14 . 4 d. ; 20 Perna.ms, 16d. ; 50 Maranhams. I.sid. to 16d. ; and 3,360 American, 9id. to 13d. 200 bags have been taken for exportation. Last week a committee of the conservators of the Thames, under the Lord Mayor, consisting of the chairman and sub-committee of the Thames Navigation and Port of London Improvement Committee, attended by the Water Bailiff, the Clerk of the Works, the Senior Harbour Mu ter, and the Surveyor of the Port of London, held a confe rence with the proprietor of an extensive freehold wharf in the centre of the main street, and several of the principal inhabitants of Greenhithe, licensed victuallers and boatmen , when it appearing that all the objections that had been made to the project last year were removed, and no public objection being made, leave was given to erect a pier or jetty from the said wharf to low-water mark. The work will be com menced as soon as the Report of the Sub-committee is ra tified by the Grand Committee next week, under the dire; tion and from the designs of the Surveyor of the Port London. By this measure the only objection to landing s' Greenhithe, which is one of the roughest reaches of the river, will be completely obviated. THE LOST SHIP, THE LILLOISE.—The Minister of the French Marine, by a report addressed to the King' after stating that all the means hitherto employed to diseov er the fate of the Lilloise have proved ineffectual, and that n° accounts of that vessel have been received since August,: 1833, proposes that a sum of 100,000 f. be granted to su ch mariners, whether French or foreigners, as shall bring bac. t 7 to their country all or any of the officers or crew of the ill' loise, and also that a pecuniary reward proportioned to the importance of the service rendered, shall be granted to those who shall be the first to give any certain intelligence respect' ing the Lilloise, or shall restore to France any of the paper s or other effects which belonged to the vessel. The object of this report has received the Royal sanction. GRATIFYING FACT.—At a recent annual meeting of the New Cemetery Company, the Chairman " had grea t pleasure in announcing to the meeting the gratifying fact, thst the burials in the Cemetery for the last year were double in number those of the year preceding." At Marshatn, in Norforlk, last Wednesday, an in fant left alone got its head between the bars of a chair, and was strangled. DREADFUL MURDER.--Intelligence was received yesterday morning at Carlow of a most atrocious murder having been committed the preceding night about three mile s , from that town. It appears that the unfortunate victim °' this savage outrage, a man named Byrne, was in bed, vibe° some persons rapped at his cabin door and asked him to get up . ; and conduct them some way on the road, as they had miss" their way. Byrne, not suspecting that their representation s were false, dressed himself and went out. When he had pro ceeded a short distance with the three men who rapped at h' door, they seized their wretched victim, threw him down, an° getting large stones, battered his head and chest with then , . until they smashed in his head, and reduced every feature in his face to one undistinguished and frightful mass. The .Iril kenny Moderator states that they have not heard all the par' ticulars, but will not be surprised to hear that the murder was consequent on Byrne's having voted for the Conservative can didates. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst., at Netherton Hall, the lady of Major Sir Ed mund Prideaux, Bart., of a son. On the 2-sth inst., the lady of John Bethell, Esq., Mecklenburg' square, of a son. On the 25th inst., at Woodberry-down, Stoke Newington, Mrs. Thomas Bridges, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., in York-street, Portman-square, Mrs. F. illa.equeen, of a daughter. M.IB RIED. On the 24th inst., at. St. George' , , Hanover-square, Cecil Fane , Esq., youngest son of the late Henry Fane, of Falbeck, Lincoln: shire ,t °lsabella Mary, youngest daughter of the late Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, of Rolls Park, Essex. On the 24th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Walworth, Mr. Samuel Smith, of Water-lane, Brixton, to Jemima, fifth daughter of the late James Carlow, Esq., of Sittingbourne, Kent. On the 24th inst., at All Souls, Marylebone, Lewis James Leslie, of Charles-street, to Ann Holiday, of Winkfield, Berks. D II; D. At Dalhousie Mains, on the 19th inst , Katherine Elliot, second daughter of the late Dr. Walter Graham, physician, Dalkeith. On the 22d inst., of convulsions, aged 10 weeks, Alexander Willoby Hill, son of Mrs. H. Cramer, of the Theatres Royal Covent-garden and Drury-lane. On the 14th inst., in Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, J. M. Mugliston, Esq., surgeon, aged 48. On the 21st inst., Alexander M`Kenzie, infant son of G. ii' Von Dadelszen, Esq., of Park-terrace, Brixton. On the '2oth inst., Eleanor Mira Louisa, second daughter of Joseph Thorp, Esq., of Waltha.mstow, aged 8 years ; on the 2 2 d inst., Mary Jane, his third (laughter, aged 6 years; and on the 24th inst., Sophia, his fourth (laughter, aged 4 years. On the 25th inst, aged 11 months, Frederick William, only 5 1) n of Mr. John Wilson, of Barclay-house, Hackney. On the 24th inst., Mr. James Hall, of Aldermanbury Poston ), in his 73d year. On the 22d inst., Mr. Isaac Hitchin, of Camberwell, formerly of Gerrard-street, Soho, in his 74th year. On the 24th inst., in Nelson-square, John Lloyd, Esq., aged 72• On the 23d inst., Mrs. Mary Selmes, widow of the late Mr. John Selmes, of Croydon, Surrey, aged 57. On the Ist inst., at Malta, Assistant Commissary-General BO' bertson. 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