The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leicester, July 31. The business of this circuit, instead of improving as it draws towards a close, gets worie, there - being but dne camas and very few prisoners; the county calendar con tainingl I; names of altout twenty persons, and the borough lendar two. 'The offences charged were mostly or a trivial character." The assizes will probably be finished in one day. CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Lord DEknAw.) William Sharp, aged thirty, was charged with stealing 911. 155., the property of one David White, of Croft, in this county. Mr. Simpson prosecuted. The prosecutor, who is a frame-work knitter, had saved up some money, which he kept in a box in his bedroom, there being sixty pounds ten in sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and thirty-one pounds five in silver. On the 16th of July he saw the money in the box safe, but on the 19th, when he looked into the box, the money had been abstracted. The prisoner by his own acts proved himself guilty, for having taken the money and spent a portion in dress for himself and a female named Thacker, whom he had associated with himself in the robbery, and who pleaded guilty, he sent back 611. 10s. The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and Thacker to sit months. John Gardiner, aged 18, was charged with robbing his employer of 11. ss. William Riley, the prosecutor, stated himself to be a worm doctor, at Loughborough; the prisoner was in his employ as an assistant, et 2s. per day on business days, but wet days were not allowed to come under that de scription; then he had nothing, and was obliged to find himself. The prosecutor had given him notice to quit his employment. On the morning of the Bth of June, his master had taken a sovereign and some silver out of a waistcoat pocket, giving the prisoner 6d. to fetch some articles, for which he was to pay twopence, and return ing the other money into the pocket of a waistcoat that lay on the bed. This was in the presence of the pri soner, who shortly after went up stairs, came down, went out, and never returned. He was taken up at Bir mingham with a lot of medicine bottles full to their stoppers, being able, as he said, " To gammon the flats." The jury Acquitted him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Henry Smith, Robert Salmon, and Thomas Harris, were all brought up in custody of Edward Funnell and George Russell, two active officers of the City police force, on the charge of obtaining goods to a large amount from the various receiving-houses in London, and Richard Elsworthy, a carman, was also placed at the bar as the receiver. Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, attended to conduct the case on behalf of Messrs. Chaplin and Home, carriers; and Mr. Ogle. of Great Winchester-street, City, defended the prisoner Elsworthy. The evidence taken was of great length, and would be better understood if given in the form of a narrative. It ap . vered that Salmon and Smith were formerly in the employment of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the former as carman, and the latter as cart-boy, but they were both discharged, from a year and a-half to two years back. Since then they had been jobbing about, but latterly Salmon, in conjunction with the prisoner Harris, had gone on another tack. On the 29th they , employed Smith, ostensibly for the purpose of re moving some furniture from one of the railways, but in reality to go round with them to the various re ceivine'—houses in London, and ask if there were any goods for the Brighton lu g gage train, and in a number of instances they succeeded in obtaining a largo quantity of property. On the day in question they obtained from toe Gulden-cross, Charing-cross, some packages of China, glass, &c., to the amount of 151., and at the Whitt, Horse, Fetter-lane, a paper parcel containing crimson moreen and printed furniture of the value of 91. The evidence then went to show that the three first pri soners were the parties who had called for these parcels, and that they were conveyed to the prisonerElsworthy's house, and there opened, after which it was shown that a portion of one package,containing plate-glass, was dis posed of in Holborn, by the prisoners Salmon and Harris. It was also proved that the carts of Elsworthy were used for the above purposes. The principal testimony against the three last prisoners was that of Smith, who made a confession as to the above circumstances, and whose statement was to a great extent corroborated by the va rious witnesses from all the different offices where they had called, and also by the purchasers of a portion of the property. Mr. Humphreys said that it would hardly be believed to what extent this system bad been carried. Mr. Ogle contended that the evidence against his client was so slight that he hoped Mr. Alderman Johnson would accept bail for him. Mr. llumphreys reviewed the whole of the evidence as against Elsworthy, and objected to his being admitted to bail. Alderman JOHNSON committed them all for trial, and refused bail. MARYLEBONE. Mr. Thomas Havard, a chemist and druggist, High. Street, St. John's-wood, was brought before Mr. Brough ton, charged with having committed a cowardly " assault upon his wife, Rebecca Havarti. The complainant, whose head and face were covered with wounds, stated that on Sunday herself and the prisoner, accompanied by their five children, went to dine with the prisoner's mother at Wool wich. In consequence of being somewhat late when they arrived at the latter place, the mother-in-law spoke in an angry tone to the prisoner. The latter took offence at this and left the house, and proceeded home, leaving herself and family behind. On her return home at half-past ten o'clock the same night, she was told by a neighbour that the prisoner had gone to bed. Complainant then knocked at the door, and tried to make him hear. Not succeeding, she went to a person residing close by, and procured a ladder, by means of which a man got into the house by the window, and found the prisoner lying in bed. The noise of the chil dren who were with her awoke the prisoner, who came down stairs in a great passion, and abused her by ad dressing her in language of the filthiest nature. He then tore her bonnet and clothes, and having thrown her down on a chair, put ono hand round her neck, while with the other he beat her severely about the head and face. He then attempted to strangle her. She called out for help, and after a sharp struggle she managed to get away, and ran to the house of a neighbour, who sent for a surgeon to dress her wounds. Complainant added, that her clothes were completely saturated with blood, which flowed in torrents from the wounds inflicted by the prisoner. Further evidence having been received, he admitted the assault, and was very sorry for his conduct towards his wife. He hardly knew what he was doing. Mr. BROUGHTON said, in all his experience he never heard or saw a more disgraceful and cowardly assault. It did not appear that any provocation at all had been offered on the part of the prosecutrix, whom, instead of protecting, as he had sworn at ;the altar to do, he had treated worse than a savage treated his victim. It was his (Mr. Broughton's) business now to send him for trial, but as that would be inflicting an additional injury on the prosecutrix, he would take upon himself to dispose of the case. He, therefore, fined him M. for the brutal assault on his (prisoner's) wife, and in default would commit him for two months to the House of Correction. In addition to that, he should require him to enter into his own recognizances in 501., and to find two sureties in 401. each, with 24 huurs' notice of bail. The prisoner was then conveyed to prison in the van. SOUTHW:4RK. F. J. Moss, an attorney, was charged before Mr. Combo with obtaining 11. 145., costs in a cause decided in the Southwark County Court, under false pretences. Mr. Roberts, a solicitor in the above court, said that some time since a cause, Hill against Robinson, was tried f$ n d determined at the Southwark County Court, and that the prisoner was subpcenaed on the part of the plain tiff to give evidence. But subsequently to the issue of the case, the prisoner called at the court and represented himself to have been the attorney engaged in the busi ness, and that upon this false representation the costs, amounting to 1/. 145., were paid over to him. Mr. Roberts added, that he was prepared to prove that the prisoner was not engaged in the way he described, and that if he did so to the magistrate's satisfaction, he trusted that he would treat the chargo as that of obtain ing money under false pretences, and send it before a jury. He then:called Mr. Farmer, a clerk in the Southwark County Court, who produced a book containing the entry of the case Hill against Robinson, and stated that the prisoner called at the court subsequently to the decision of the case, and represented, in answer to the questions put to him, that he was the attorney engaged in the matter. That upon this representation he (witness) paid him over the costs, amounting to 11. 145. The prisoner contended that he was engaged as soli citor in the case referred to. and that ho was only anxious to court inquiry, and would be enabled to prove satisfactorily that he had not acted in the business con trary to the Act regulating County Courts. Mr. CosinE said, that in his opinion, if a fraud had been committed, it was against the County Court; that as the matter at present stood he would give the com plaining party an opportunity of indicting the prisoner, and for that purpose he should adjudge him to enter into his own recognisances to appear at that Court on Wednesday ; andin the mean time pro c eedings might be adopted against him at the sessions, which were then holding for the county of Surrey. The accused having entered into his recognisances, was liberated, and Mr. Roberts proceeded to the Ses sions -house to commence proceedings against him. LAMBETH. Amelia Gloves-, a o f l ' ii n r. w E e i r r ul young at the bar before woman, was placed Elliott, on a charge of throwing Thomas Norris out of a first floor window. The complainant, a carpenter, residing at No. 1, York terrace, St. George's-roadSaturdaywho whose face was awfully dis figured, deposed that o nnight last h o accom panied the prisoner t o her lodgings, Now-street, O attempted to extort some money d Kent-road, when she from him, and threatened that unless he compli e d w i t h her demand she would throw him out demanded, uponof the wind ow . He refused to give her the money she which she placed a table against the door,by the opened the windo w, a n d f lung him out of deliberatelyi it into th e street. He fell on his face , and was so stunned fall that it was some time b ef ore he recovered his senses, and was still suffering severely from the eff ects of the injuries he received. Lewis Bray, 105 P, said that between the hours of twelve and one o'clock on Su nda y mornin g his attention was directed towards the last witness, who wa s l y i ng in New-street in a state of perfect insensibility, an d it was fully three quarters of an hour Ware ho thoroughly recovered his senses. In the interim he (Bray) secured the prisoner. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said the com plainant had grossly imposed film her. and to avoid paying her, as well as a good sound thrashing which she should have given him, he jumped out of the window. - THE SUN, LONDON, TITESDAY EVENING, AUG UST l, 1848. This the complainant solemnly denied, and Bray, the constable, said there were two or three witnesses who saw the prisoner commit the act, but so desperate was the character of herself and her associates, that they were afraid to attend to give evidence in the case. Mr. ELLIOTT observed that he certainly should send the prisoner for trial, and directed the constable to take out summonses for the attendance of the witnesses, to which time he should remand the prisoner. hotel, declared that they meant to pay for everything they asked for. It was reported in Paris on Sunday that CIIA.RLES ALBERT had attacked the Austrians at Somma Campagna, and completely defeated them, having taken several pieces of cannon and 6,000 prisoners. SIR ROBERT KANE on IRELAND. The population of Ireland ha! been determined by the census of 1841 to be 8,175,124 ouls, of whom four mil lions are males, and of these two millions and a quarter may be considered as of the labturing age. Now, as we have in Ireland thirteen million ,nd a half acres of arable land, there is precisely the alocation, to every 100 acres, of 17 labouring men; bui as of the Irish popula tion but two-thirds are actually 3ngaged in agriculture, it may be considered that to very 100 statute acres of land there are 11 labourers depndent for employment; and on those again aro dependent for support, females, old men, and children, to the number of 29 ; and these persons must be supported by tin land out of its produce before profits can be reckoned, (r the value and propor tion of rent can be struck—in al 40 persons, of whom 20 are females, 9 are feeble old men and children, and 11 are working men. Thus for thn whole country: Agricultural females ... 2,709,286 Old men and boys Agricultural labourers... 1,490,107 Total Now, if we refer.to the circumstances under which the working of land upon the large firm system is conducted, we shall find, as well from pracice as from the estimates put forward by the best inforned writers, such as Pro fessoi Low, that on a farm d 500 acres there will be permanently engaged the farrier, his steward, or fore man, and 20 workmen. Therewill be at certain seasons extra field work done by men, vomen, and children, who, if not of the families of the workmen, must be drawn from some source external to tie farm, and must, except at those short periods, live upoi means not derived from farm labour. The staff of the farm employed upon and living by means of it is reckoned as above. Now, let us suppose our thirteen and E half millions of acres of arable land in Ireland arranged and cultivated on this plan, there will be employed twenty-two persons to each 500 acres; but we have seen, that upon 500 acres there are dependent fifty-five working males. Employment cannot therefore be afforded to ouf-half, indeed but to two fifths, and there will remain— Females 1,725,671 Old men and male children 731,518 Labourers 3,351,242 for whom the land can afford no employment; who can not by their labour earn in any way their share of the produce of the land; and the question, truly important for the landlord who has to seek for rent, as well as for the farmer, who has to pay rent, is the manner in which these three and one•third millions of useless and surplus people aro to be removed or in some way provided for. —Agricultural and Industrial Journal. JOHN BULL'S ATELIERS NATIONAUX. "I say, in England, Mrs. Bull, we have no Ateliers Nationaux." " And I say you have," replied the dame, " only other• wise christianed." * * " Well then," said Mrs. Bull, "suppose, John, every week I was to set down in the house expenses, say ten pounds a week, for seed and sugar and toast for parrots; when at the same time there wasn't a single bird in the house." " Well, then, what do you say to that precious Duke of St. Alban's?—that precious Duke that takes in the Nashuno 1,200/. for feeding hawks, when he hasn't a single feather on his hands? What's that?" * " - And what are you to say to that Earl of Ellen borough, that, a s th e mon k e y ate th e c h eese i ns t ea d o f weighing it, takes 9,000/. arid more every year out of the scales of Justice? 'And what do you say, then, to the German Princes that are paid for doing nothing in our Nashuno? And what do you say to the Six Clerks' pensions, and the Duke of Marlborough's pension; and Lord Campbell's pension, for wearing the Seals of Ire land at his watch-chain for a week; and, moreover, what do you say to the Earl of Besborough, that takes of the dear Queen (poor lady, how she is robbed among 'em!) 1,7001. a year for feeding the buckhounds, as if the Crown was to be supported by dogs; and—but here— Mr. Bull, look at the list, look, and then say, if you can, that you have, in England here—where we're obliged to darn stockings, when we should buy new ones—say then that you have no Telyurs Nashuno." " Mrs. Bull," he said, "I'm sorry to own it, but you're quite right. We, too, in England, have our Ateliers .Nationaux for pensioned idlers. But we must sweep them away; we must, and no mistake about it. We, too, must throw up our barricades—but tremble not, my love—they shall be barricades in the House of Com mons."—Punch. AUSTRALIAN MINING COMPANY. The third annual general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices in Adelaide-place, London bridge; Mr. Home in the chair. The busines of the meeting was to receive the report of the directors re specting the state of the property, to fill up the ordinary vacancies occasioned by the rotational resignation of a portion of the directory, as well as those arising from the resignations of Mr. Alderman Copeland and Mr. Edward Hogan, and to fix the remuneration of the directors. The substance of the report was, that since the last general meeting the managing committee had made an addition to the property of the company by the pur chase of 675 acres of mining ground, to the north of and adjoining Wheal Rothschild Mine, at the rate of a pound an acre. Into these sections it was found that the veins of Wheal Rothschild dipped, and the Colonial Committee having formerly re commended the purchase of this land at a much higher price, the acquisition was deemed a very valuable one. The company's land at Allen's Creek now comprises one solid block of 1,400 acres, which are said to be inlaid with some of the richest mi neral lodes. From Tungkill they write that they have thirty tons of prepared ore on the surface, which is worth 20/ a toe. At Wheal Rothschild four new lodes have been opened. The other mines are re presented as promising, and a bill of lading for seventy tons of copper by the Derwent, is daily expected. The ore purchased in Adelaide to load the ships has all been advantageously sold. Brevet-Major Camp bell, late military secretary to Sir Lionel Smith, has been appointed superintendent in Australia, and has been engaged for three years at an adequate salary, including an arrangement for his passage out and home. Mr. B. E. Lindo, Mr. H. J. Enthoven, and Mr. H. Decastro, were the three directors who went out by rotation, and the gentlemen who stood candidates for the vacancies occasioned by the resignation were Mr. C. Downes, Mr. J. P. Penny, and Mr. H. R. %Totten. The balance-sheet showed that the amount received on account of calls is 47,4701.; bills payable, 17,3311.75. 2d. and proceeds of the copper ore received 4/. 15s. Bd., making a total of 64,806/. 2s. 10d. The contra account showed an outlay for ore purchase. freights, and insurance of 17,100/. 14s. 5d., leaving a ba lance of 16,503/. 16s. 7d., which is accounted for in the way of interest, 894/. Bs. 3d.; preliminary ex penses, 854/, 17s. 11d. ; office expenses in London, 2,888/. 2s. 9d.; chartered ships. 378/. 9s. ld.; miners' wages, 6,191/. 17s. 6d,; insurance, 100/. 2s. sd. ; com mittee of management, 5,144/. I ls. Bd.; and cartage, 16,503/. 16s. 7d. The report was unanimously adopted. The three re tiring directors were re-elected, and the ballot was taken for the several candidates, when Mr. Downes and Mr. Wottoa were declared successful. A vote of thanks was passed by acclamation to the chairman and directors, and also one to Mr. Joseph, the secretary, for his exertions and a very beautiful map of the property, which he had voluntarily supplied. The meeting then broke up. ELECTION COMMITTEES. ,(YESTERDAY.) DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds's ma jority was resumed, but the petitioners did not succeed in striking off any additional votes to-day. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 31. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool. sack at Five o'clock. TRUSTEES RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. The Trustees Relief (Ireland) Bill was read a third ;ime and passed. - HIGHLANDS ROAD BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. DECLARATORY SUITS BILL. This Bill was passed through Committee. CORN-MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis' of CLANRICARDE moved the second reading of the Corn-Markets (Ireland) Bill. COPYHOLDB BILL. The Bishop of LONDON suggested the propriety of posponing this Bill until next session. He thought that measures of this nature ought to be submitted to their Lordships at an earlier period of the session. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Bill had been altered in order to meet the wishes of the House, and he was not, therefore, inclined to postpone it to another session. The Bishop of LONDON hoped that at this late period of the session the Noble and Learned Lord would consent to postpone the Bill. Lord STANLEY hoped, considering the amount of business pressing upon the House, that this measure would not be pressed forward by the Government during the present session. He deprecated the course which the Government had pursued of delaying the considera tion of important measures in that House until the month of August. He trusted that the measure would be postponed to an early period of next session. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE said that the fault of the delay of this Bill did not rest upon the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, who had introduced it at an early period of the session, but upon those who had originally opposed the Bill, at whose request the consi deration of it had been postponed, in order to give time for the introduction of certain alterations calculated to meet their objections. After a few words from the Marquis of SALISBURY, The LORD CHANCELLOR said he should press the measure. Lord STANLEY reiterated his objections to the Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Noble Lord ob jected to the whole Bill. Ho knew not whether or no the Noble Lord was acquainted with the provisions of the Bill, but he very much suspected that he was not. There were many matters in the Bill on which all par ties were agreed, and those portions of the Bill he should certainly press. Lord STANLEY explained. After a few words from Lord REDESDALE, the sub ject dropped. he felt the necessity for some measure on this subject, he could not be a consenting party to alterations which so seriously affected the character of the Bill their Lord ships had unanimously carried. He had over and over again complained of Bills being altered in the 'louse of Commons when sent from the House of Lords, but he never recollected a case where alterations had taken place so extensive as in the present instance. The proper course would have been, had such alteratio9s been deemed necessary, to have withdrawn the Bill in the House of Commons, and allowed a new one to be brought in that House. That was what was due to the House of Lords, and it was the course which should have been adopted, but he considered it unfair to discuss these amendments in the absence of so many Irish Peers, who were so much interested in their enactment. In respect to the proposal of the Noble Lord opposite (Stanley), which no doubt was made in good faith, all he proposed was that they should refer these amendments of the Com mons to a Select Committee. If he thought that course would defeat the Bill, he would oppose it; but he thought that proper inquiry was their first duty, in order to ascertain properly what was wanted, and then they could legislate on the facts and circumstances which such inquiry divulged. The Earl of DEVON said, as the principle of the mea sure was to facilitate the sale of incumbered estates in Ireland, he thought that was a principle which it was most necessary should be carried out. In regard to the amendments of the Commons, these had been well consi• dered, and they had found that the object of the Bill could be efficiently carried out by other means than through the machinery of the Court of Chancery. The number of amendments was complained of, but those were required from the view the House of Cornieons had taken on the subject, as when it was determined not to go to the Court of Chancery in certain cases, a great many clauses were required to regulate the giving of notices to the various parties interested. Wishing, therefore, to see the Bill pass this session, he could not consent to a Select Committee, as it was of the greatest importance it should become law as early as possible. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said, while the principle of the measure introduced by the Lord Chan cellor was to give all reasonable facilities to the sale of incumbered estates, the principle of the present Bill was to give all unreasonable powers for that purpose. Th e course of their present legislation was to get rid of a certain class of Irish landlords; but, he would put it to English landlords, whether the system adopted for that purpose was a right or a just one? - e At all events, he conceived that before certain powers had been taken from the Court of Chancery and given to another body, inquiry was necessary, in order that it might have been ascertained to what other body such pothers shou:d have been confided. Under the operation of the Act, as now amended, property would be disposed cf at so low a rate that the mortgages upon it could not be liquidated, and therefore the parties could reap no benefit from it. A person having a mortgage of 2001. upon an estate could put this Act in motion; one having 1,0001, on five estates could force a sale of all those, and thus, by bringing all those estates simultaneously into the market, a proper value could not be expected for the properties, and the real owners would, therefore, be unfairly dealt with. Should they agree that such estates should not be sold at less than twenty years' purchase, then that might be some security to the owners; but, unless they gave some security to the incumbrancers against fraud, they would commit the greatest wrong on the owners of pro perty by passing the present measure. The Earl of GLENGALL agreed with the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) that it was most necessary the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee, as there were so many technicalities connected with the case, that inquiry was much wanted. He had a great many amend ments himself to propose, which he would persist in doing, although he might be called factious in so doing. Considering as he did that this Bill was a Bill of rob bery, faction was good against robbery any day in the week.—(Hear, hear.) If they adopted the Bill they would run a great risk of losing the support of those who were at present standing by the Government and tho Crown, as there would be no security to parties getting proper value for their properties. It was well known that there were companies formed for the purpose of lending money on Irish estates, and he happened to know the secret history of one forming by six English Quakers, who had concocted a scheme for the purpose of purchasing Irish estates, when, by their plan, they had driven a great quantity of land into the market at a price far below its real value. It was not to be supposed that these Quakers intended to go to Ireland and reside there; no, they would again resell the land at a profit, in small parcels, to other parties. This was the game they were at. The facts were well known in the offices at the east end of London, and it was from parties such as these that this plan emanated, and who support the Bill with that view. He asked their Lordships whe ther they would pass this Bill under these circum stances? It was not that the great body of Quakers are engaged in this plan, but these half dozen had taken advantage of the benevolence of their sect, and pro poied it under pretence of doing good. This Bill was neither more nor less than a confiscation of pro perty. He asked their Lordships to mark his words. If this Bill came into operation (said the Noble Lord) you will do more than Mr. O'Connell was able to do, you will repeal the union, because you will confiscate the landed property of the Protestant proprietors, and when once their property is taken from them, the English Church in Ireland will not be long in following the alienation of that property.—(Hear, hear.) Under the poor-law there were four unions that were now paying from 12s. to 17s. 9d. in the pound for poor-rates, and if the land of these unions was thrown into the market he asked who on earth would give a single shilling for it. It was the opinion of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland that this Bill was one that ought not to pass in its pre sent shape, and there was no man in either country to whose opinion more respect was due, because of late years he had paid great attention to the subject, and had experienced great difficulty in placing property under receivers. For the reasons he had given, he hoped their Lordships would allow the Bill to go into a Select Com mittee, where all these details would be argued impar tially and at leisure, and that it would not go back to Ireland that their Lordships had passed a Bill for the confiscation of Irish estates. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE felt called upon to offer a few observations, in reply to the Noble Earl who had just sat down, because that Noble Lord had argued as if the Government which introduced this Bill, and the Parliament which had passed it, had been actuated by a desire to confiscate the property of the landlords of Ireland. He said, on the contrary, that they were most anxious to promote the prosperity of the landed pro prietors, and that the Bill had been introduced with that object as one mode by which they could be relieved from their difficulties. But when they talked of the landlords of Ireland as being affected by this Bill. Who were they? and in what capacity would they be affected by it? It was admitted, when ho brought forward this subject two years ago, not in that, but in the other House of Lords, that there was a great proportion of the landed property of Ireland in which all the duties of property were neglected, and all the evils of poverty endured; their Lordships said at that time that such a state of things should be altered.— (Hear.) They:said that estates instead of remaining , in the hands of those wbo had not the means of employ ing labour and improving cultivation, but on the um trary. who, by the difficulties in which they were in volved, retarded both these desirable objects, should b e dealt with in some way for the public benefit.—(Hear.) Hence the Bill. The Noble Earl (Ellenhorough) in the c ourse of his speech, had attacked the Bill severely, a n d had thrown out two amendments, which so far fr om im proving the condition of the proprietors, would in hi s opinion injure them. One of these amen d ments was, that the proprietor should not be allowed to sell, in order to pay off a part of his debts, unless he sold off enough to pay for the whole of his incumbran ces . Wh y , did not that impose a limit which would be extremely injurious to the proprietors ?—(Hear, hear.) The plan of the Government would enable him to bring a part of the es tate to sale, to give more labour, and to improve in many ways the remainder, thus increasing its productiveness and its value. Then again, the Noble Earl suggested that no sale should be allowed which did not realise twenty years' purchase. What would be the effect of that suggestion if it was adopted ? Why, that if a proprietor was compelled by any circumstances to make a sale, he would be compelled to sell at twenty years' purchase the best parts of hi s es t a t e f or t h at price instead of the worst. Th ere cou ld not b e a more injurious restriction than that. He might, therefore, dis miss these two suggestions at once from consideration. He was not able any more than other Noble Lords to pass an opinion as to what would be the technical bear ing of certain clauses, but at all events he was entitled to say that there never was a Bill which came into their Lordships' House with a greater weight and authority. It had been carefully considered, not by Noble and Learned Lords who held office with different Govern ments, but also by Noble and Learned Lords whose impartiality was vouched for by their judicial habits, and he might, therefore, say that this part of the subject had been duly considered by parties much more competent to decide upon it than the Noble Earl. As to the statement that the Bill had been too short a time before their Lordships in its present shape, he would remind them that it had been tient up last Tuesday, and had thus been six days in their LoLordship:;"House. But even before the Bill came up, their Lord ships were not to be supposed to be so completely bound by forms as to be ignorant of what was passing in the other House, more especially when they had the votes of that House sent up to them daily.—(Hear, hear.) Tli Bill had been under discussion in the other House since the 11th of June, and it could not be supposed that their Lordships had shut their eyes. and.. ears, and were quite ignorant of what had been doing in this matter. On these grounds he contended that Noble Lords were not entitled to ask for more time or to cause greater delay in passing a measure of such importance as this.—(Hear.) Again, with regaad to the stress that had been laid on the necessity for obtaining the opinions of Noble and Learned Lords. All the Noble and Learned Lords in that House were in favour of the Bill, and those who were absent must be supposed either to be in favour of it, or to consider that any defects in the measure were of so trifling a character as not to be worth their attendance.—(hear, hear.) He would not object to any amendments which were proposed by parties friendly to the Bill, but he must object to delay for the mere purpose of retarding the passing of the measure. As the Noble Earl (Earl Devon) had shown, the amendments were not new additions to the Bill ; on the contrary, they were intended and calculated to carry out its objects more effectually, an d to remove a ll un necessary obstructions to its ben e fi c i a l o p erat i on . O ne of the objections urged to this Bill was, that a person bolding a mortgage of 2001. mi g ht compe l a sa l e ; b ut a person with only that amo un t must g i ve at l east s i x months' notice of foreclosure ; and surely in that time, if any general attempt like that supposed was made, the landlords would have time to prepare for it. It was said that these estates should not be brought to sale under the present circumstances of the country ; but he WANDS WORTH. E. Davis, a slim-made young man, was charged with burglariously breaking into the Nag's Head, Lower Wandsworth-road, Battersea, and stealing property to the value of 10/. _ _ It appeared that on Friday night, about eleven o'clock, Mary Mtmday, the servant, was retirin to bed, when she observed one of the windows open in the tea-room, which is on the first floor. This window adjoins the roof of an outhouse, from which a -person could get in and out. She had closed the window at half-past nine o'clock, but not fastened it ; observing a shirt belonging to her master lying near the window, which should have been in his room, she made an alarm. Mr. G. Pinnock, the landlord of the Nag's Head, said that in consequence of information he received from his servant, he examined his bed-room, and found that the drawers had been ransacked of a pair of breeches, a coat, a shawl, a cloak, cape, waistcoat, and other articles of wearing apparel, his property. He then sent for the police, and in the interval discovered that his brother had been robbed of a frock•coat and jacket, which ho kept in the pot-shed. Suspecting the prisoner, from having seen him loitering about the premises on several occasions, and more particularly from having seen him pass the front door about ten o'clock that night with a large bundle in his possession, he caused the police to go to his lodgings in the neighbourhood, where he was found, with the whole of the property in his possession, and, after a desperate resistance, was taken. The prisoner declined making any defence, and was fully committed to the ensuing assizes at Guildford. TIIAMES. Three active stout young fellows, who gave the names of Thomas Robert?, alias Barnes, John. Willis, alias Mackenzie, and James Whittall, alias Walker, were brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with stealing a silver watch from the sailing barge Beim, and attempt ing to commit other robberies on the river. On Sunday morning, shortly before five o'clock, Mr. John Knight, the master of a large Essex sailing barge, Called the Bettis, then lying off the West India Dock en trance at Limehouse, was awoke by the noise of footsteps in his sleeping cabin, and upon opening his eyes he saw Whittall in the act of taking his watch out of an old shoe which was hanging over his head. Mr. Knight seized the prisoner by the jacket, and raised himself from his bed, the prisoner at the same time dragged himself away, leaving part of his jacket in the hands of Mr. Knight, who tumbled out of his bed bead foremost. The prisoner immediately ran up the ladder, and Mr. Knight seized him by the foot when he reached the top of it, and held him fast until the fellow pulled out a knife and threatened to murder the prosecutor, who let him go, but rushed on deck after him, and saw him and Roberts in the act of desceding the ship's side into a boat containing Willis and another man. The whole four rowed away and were pursued by Mr. Knight and one of his apprentices, who sung out for the police. A Thames police galley, containing three constables, hearing the cry, joined in the chase, and the thieves, being bard pressed, landed at Fletcher's ship-building dock. The police. and others were soon upon them, and a fight took place. The robbers, who were armed with knives and iron bars, attacked the people who attempted to capture them, and Inspector Luton and his men were compelled to use their truncheons, and dealt some hard blows before they overpowered the fellows. One of them made his escape over the wall into the street. The prisoners were secured. They went on board the Arcadian, lying off Deptford, about an hour before they were captured, and were in the act of unscrew ing the ship's bell, suspended to a beam forward, in front of the windlass, when Mr. Justice, a tide•waiter, who was in the cuddy, hearing footsteps, came upon deck. The prisoners made a precipitate retreat. Mr. Justice attempted to secure Willis and Whitten as they were getting over the ship's side, but they knocked him down and threatened to send a knife into his body if he attempted to follow them. They rowed away, and Mr. Justice called out "Police." Another boat, containing two men, no doubt confederates, imme diately came alongside the ship, and said, " It's all right, master; this is a police boat, we'll row after them;" and they did so, but made no attempt to overtake them. The boat the prisoners were in had been stolen from George's stairs, Deptford, where it was made fast alongside the City of Glasgow steamer, and the sculls used by the pri soners were the property of Mr. Mitcheson, shipowner, and had been stolen from another part of the river. Inspector Falconer, of the river police, said that three of the gang, who used to work with the prisoners on the Thames and Medway, were convicted at the Maid stone Assizes on Saturday, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. Other officers of the land and river police proved numerous convictions against the prisoners, who, they said, were the terror of everybody when at liberty. Mr. BA.LLANTINE—I shall commit all the priSoaera for trial; and I hope they will be sent out of the country. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the return of the state of the Bank of France and its branches to the 27th July, 1848: A NETS. Cash in coin and ingots . . ... f. 90,878,058 48 Ditto in branch banks ... ... 76,554,648 00 Bills past due ... ... ... ... 1,384,778 91 Billb becoming due in Paris ... ... 98,753,161 52 Bills in the branch banks ... ... 139,595,100 67 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 16,186,300 00 Ditto on French public securities ... 37,982,596 65 Ditto by branch banks... ... ... 1,365,925 00 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00 Advance to the State on the loan of 150,000,000 f. 25,000,000 60 Reserve Renter 10,000,000 00 Rentes, disposable funds ... 11,248,460 71 Investments of the new branch banksin the public funds ... ... 12,806,741 39 Hotel and furniture of the bank ... 4,000,000 00 Real property and branch banks ... 2,523,241 00 Interest in the branch bank at Algiers... 1,000,000 00 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00 Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 00 Bills Protested at Paris ... ... 23,065,307 37 Ditto in the branches ... ... 11,012,655 00 Expenses of administration of the bank Ditto at branches ... ... ... 500 00 46,970 00 Miscellaneous ... ... ... .-.. 1,605,592 00 £617,434,037 97 LIABILITIES. Capital ... . • ... ... ... 67,900,000 00 Ditto of the new Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 00 Reserve fund ... ... ... ... 10,000,000 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,980,650 14 Reserve-immobilii.Te 4,000,000 00 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 307,050,500 00 Ditto of the branch banks ... 69,023,075 00 Ditto to order (post-bills) 655,055 00 Account-current with Treasury ... 12,197,246 00 Various accounts current 51,049,212 53 Ditto at branches ... 23,268,865 00 Bills payable at sight ... 2,357,000 00 Ditto in branches ... 1,432,464 00 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... 4,821,355 72 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches . 1,945,717 00 Dividends payable . . 1,204,990 75 Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not yet employed in Treasury Bonds ... 1,109,638 19 Discounts, diverse interests, &c. 739,1K35 30 Ditto branch bank ... 771,205 00 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27 Ditto branch banks ... ... 642,105 00 Miscellaneous ... 482,081 97 617,434,037 97 Certificate confirmed, The Governor of the Bank, D'ARGOUT. ITALY. Letters from the :Piedmontese army of the 24th state that on the previous day General Asrae, with 25,000 men, came out from Verona, forced the position of Sona and Somma Campagna, and drove the Piedmontese from all the country be• tween the Upper Adige and the Lake of Garda, and the plain of Verona and the Mincio. At the same time an Austrian force of 8,000 descended the Montebeldo, and, after taking the heights of La Corona, ejected the Piedmontese from the Plateau of Rivoli. The beaten Sardinians, whose force was not one-fourth that of the enemy, retired opportunely, some to Peschiera, others across the Mincio, and a few to Villafranca. On the 24th General ASPRE attempted to force the Mincio at Monzanvano ' and to establi s h a bridge at Salionza, but at the hour the courier left, he had not succeeded at either point. He proposed, it was said, descending to Vallegio, and trying to force the river at Borghetto, as the heights at his, the left side of the river, command the right. The Pied montese had, therefore, broken up the bridge, and troops were ordered from Goito to defend that impor tant point. Letters of the 25th state that the Austrians had been successful in all their operations. The Mincio had been forced at Monzambano and at Salionga,— and Ponti on the right bank at Pozzolongo, six miles at this side of it are occupied. The King, with 25,000 men, was at Villafranca. It was said he was marching towards Goito by one account, while another alleged that he was moving on Somme Campagna. The King's hesitation arose from the uncertainty which prevailed of the enemy's ulterior object, as it was still uncertain whether he meant to follow up his successes on the right of the Mincio, attack the posi tion of Goito, destroy the field-works and entrench ments made there by the Piedmontese, and then enter Mantua by La Grazzie, or retire by the road now open to him to the Upper Adige, cross the river at Pon tone or Bussolargo, and march into Verona by the high road of the Tyrol, liberated by his late operations. The fortresses of Peschiera were closed even to the Piedmontese troops, and all those who defended the passage of the hlincio have retired in some disorder on Sonata, where they are to rally and be reformed. A perfect panic prevailed in the country on the right of an° zz the Minci o , so muc h so t h at a ll t h e v i s i tors at De er i on on the theL akeof Garda,to Milan, O fled milie in dismay from Monday n i g h t to Pes chiera,high road Brescia. The Austrians had com mitted no e xcesses, and the cavalry that appeared at Pozzolongo on Tuesday morning, on ali g hti ng a t the NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Fire Queen steam yacht, Master-Commander Allen, embarked their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge at Cowes, yesterday morning, having termi nated their visit to her Majesty, and brought them to this harbour. Her Highness landed at the Victoria Pier, Portsmouth, under the usual honours, and proceeded under the escort of the Governor (Lord Frederick Fitz clarence, G.C.H.) and staff to the Government House, where the Royal Duchess was received by Lady Fitzcla rence, and partook of refreshment. The Duke of Cam= bridge, attended by Sir Charles Ogle, Commander-in Chief, was landed from ono of the royal barges at the Clarence-yard, and proceeded to London by the 12 30 (express) train from Gosport, the carriage being brought into the yard by Mr. Superintendent Stevens, of the railway company. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester crossed the harbour by the floating bridge, and left for town by the 2.30 train. The Myrtle steam-vessel, Master Commander Balls ton, arrived on Friday night from Woolwich, to be at tached to this port. The Llewellyn steam-vessel, Master Commander Grey (acting), put in here yesterday morning .on her way to Liverpool, with a quantity of rockets on board. She replenished fuel and proceeded in the evening. The missiles are for service in Ireland. •••••...,•••...... vs. • • The Virago steam-sloop, acting Commander Harris, arrived here yesterday on her way to Ireland. She put in here to make good defects, and obtain some necessary stores, having been sent from Sheerness on Friday with 200 marines in great haste. She is now complete and will sail this evening, The Fairy and Fire Queen steam-yachts are both dis abled. The Fairy failed on Friday afternoon, and the Fire Queen struck last evening, and was towed into har bour by one of the island packets. A great number of coast-guard men have been brought to this port from the coasts of Kent and Sussex by the Vulcan and other revenue vessels to serve in Ireland. They are to be put on board the Dragon, which will leave with them to-morrow or Tuesday morning.. Wind, south; moderate breezes, and cloudy weather. PLYMOUTH, JULY 29.—The steam-frigates Cyclops and Driver arrived this forenoon from Portsmouth and proceeded to the Royal William Vietualling-yard, where, between one and two o'clock P.m., they embarked the 35th Royal Sussex Regiment (900 strong), and at two o'clock precisely started with them for Dublin, where they expect to arrive to-morrow afternoon. The Rifleman steamer arrived last night from Ports mouth, and remains in Hamoaze. The Adventure, naval transport, sailed this afternoon with 1,600 bags of bread and other provisions for Admiral Sir C. Napier's squadron at Cork. The Birkenhead, steam transport, arrived at seven o'clock this evening from Portsmouth, and after running in abreast of Drake's Island, and signalizing some time with the Port-Admiral, she proceeded to thcouter an chorage of the Sound and brought up. In the Sound—Caledonia, 120; Pantaloon, 10; Nauti lus, 10, and Birkenhead, steamer. DR. TURNBULL'S CURE FOR DEAFNESS. [The following paragraphs, extracted from two of our provincial contemporaries of Saturday last, will bring to the recollection of our readers the notices which have repeatedly appeared in this journal respecting the treatment of the deaf and dumb by Dr. Turnbull, of 48, Russell's-square. At present we content ourselves with simply transcribing the subjoined announcements.—En. of The Sun.] Dr. Turnbull, of London, who has for many years devoted great attention to diseases of the ear, appears to have discovered a method of conferring the faculty of hearing on deaf and dumb persons who have not decided malformation of the ear, produced by disease or other wise. As far back as 1842 there was a very favourable notice of his cures in Chambers's Journal, and they were attested by medical men of eminence. Having now, by the experience of years, proved that the cure is per manent, Dr. Turnbull has visited Manchester, and is now in Leeds, for the purpose of bringing his cure be fore the medical profession and the public. At Man chester he operated on eighty or ninety persons, who had been born deaf and dumb, and of those about forty were cured. Wo see details in the Manchester papers, and we have also seen letters from Mr. Samuel Lucas (brother-in-law of Mr. Bright, M.P.), stating that his own son, who was born deaf, has been restored to hear ing by Dr. Turnbull. The doctor makes his experiments on deaf and dumb persons gratuitously, and always in the presence of medical men, who examine and attest the state of the patient both before and after. We under stand that he is ready to do this at his lodgings, No. 1, King-street, Leeds. Should the efficacy of the cure be established, it will be a great blessing . to mankind. The process is painless. Dr. Turnbull intends to make it fully known after he has decisively established it in the opinion of me medical men by by the results of his public expe riments.—LeedsThe Manchester papers of this month give some very interesting details of experiments tried in that town re cently, for testing the success of Dr. Turnbull's treat ment of deafness. These reports attract our attention at this moment the more particularly, because Dr. Turn bull is on a visit to Leeds for the purpose of affording demonstration of the efficacy of his treatment. Our Manchester contemporaries speak in eulogistic terms of the doctor's success, which has been exemplified in the cases of persons who were either born deaf or who lost the faculty of hearing at so early an age as never to have acquired the use of language. Some remarkable attestations are also given in favour of Dr. Turnbull's treatment from other quarters; we may mention Cham bers's Edinburgh Journal, as well as Mr. Lucas, whose son (a nephew of Mr. Bright) was a remarkable instance of successful treatment.—Leeds Intelligencer . MONETARY INTELLIGENCE, =VIEW OF THE MONEY MARKET FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 1848. The symptoms of revival, which had begun to show themselves during the past month, have become more palpable and apparent during the progress of the pre sent. As far as the mere market for capital is concerned, there have been few periods when the wants of borrowers on reasonable security have been more readily met or met on lower terms. This facility of the rates of interest has in reality become a subject of remark, and there is again the old complaints that money cannot find a secure and adequate outlet. If the monthly drafts, kept up by the railways, should be put an end to, we must suppose that these complaints would assail us with increased vehemence, and from a greater variety of quarters. The average amount of the railway calls for the last three or four months has been within a trifle as large as it was last year. The country, in fact, is sustaining an expenditure of more than thirty millions a year. The existence of so immense a source of demand, and the prevalence of a rate of interest, not much beyond 2 per cent., may reasonably suggest a doubt of the solidity of the outcry raised against tho railway expenditure of 1847. We have al ways admitted, in these pages, that, carried beyond a certain point, the railway calls would be simply impos sible. The entire difficulty turns upon this certain point, and we suspect that by this time most practical people are agreed that neither during the last year nor the pre sent, looking at the question tree from extraneous com plications, has this extreme limit been ever attained. A history of the Consol market during the month would be an exceedingly chequered narrative. Starting at 83 to 84, the price was run up to 89 by the aid of fine weather, improved trade, and the payment of the dividends. At the time we write the quotations are down to 85, and the alleged reasons are the prospect of an Irish rebellion, the continuance of wet weather, and, we dare say, the example of a few leading men who have suddenly become " bears." The railway share maket has sympathised very closely—bat in a manner less diversified by excitement and extremes — with the condition of the public funds. Immediately subsequent to the events of February, we inserted a short comparative table of the prices of the leading foreign funds before and subsequent to that cycle of extraordinary occurrences. The following figures will enable us to form an opinion as to how far the violent depreciation of property then incurred has been removed by restoration of confidence. 18P February, 114th March, 21st July, 1348. 1848. 1843. Dutch 2i per Cents Dutch 4 per Cent. Certificates 85* ... 61 ... 72 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cents lll 87 ... 100 Belgian Bonds, 4i per Cents 9O ... 58 ... 71 French Rentes, 5 per Cents. French Rentes, 3 per Cents. Bank of Franco Shares ..... 3,190 ... 1,600 1,600 The securities of the French Government stand in by far the worst position in this list, nor is it likely that this position will be improved by the present financial dilemma of the Republican Government. The original loan of 50,000,000 of francs by the Bank of France in March last, was recently extended to 150,000,000 of francs. Even this respectable sum is now ex hausted, and the Minister of Finance has, during the last few days, obtained the consent of the Assembly to a project for a new loan, by the crea tion of five per cent. rentes equal to an annual charge of 13,131,000 francs. These rentes are to be sold to the public at the rate of 75f. 25c. for every five francs of rente. Supposing the whole of the rentes to be disposed of at this rate, the result would be that a gross loan of about 200,000,000 f. (say 8,000,0001.), would be raised at a rate of very nearly 6,t per cent. per annum. The for feited deposits upon the last loan are to bo available in the subscription, and with the help of this resource it is just possible that the French people may be able to en trust their new Government with the money. Nobody seems to expect that foreign capitalists will extensively interfere. The escape of the railways from confiscation is somewhat too fresh in the memory of the creditors of France to permit such an expectation.--Bankers' Mag. THE STATE OF TRADE. (From the Bankers' Magazine.) There can be no longer any question whatever that the trade of the country during the last four or five weeks has undergone a most decided change for the better. There is both more business in hand and for a greater number of places. We refer with the g rea t est pleasure to the following returns of the Manchester mills : Mills. Work People. June 26, 1848. July 18. June 20, 1848. July IF,. Working full time . 135 ... 167 ... 29,745 ... 34,891 Working short time 43 ... 27 ... 6,274 ... 3,345 Stopped work 203 211 44,422 44,733 NORTH CHESHIRE. The Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock to-day, and after hearing Mr. James in reply to the case for the sitting Member, they ordered the room to be cleared. The Committee deliberated till four o'clock, when strangers were re-admitted, and The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come to the following resolutionss—" That it appears that at the last North Cheshire election, meat, drink, and refreshments were provided to a considerable ex tent, for the purpose of refreshing the voters, but no sufficient evidence has been produced to connect the sitting Member or his agents with the providing of such meat, drink, and refreshments. "That George Cornwall Legh, Esq., was duly elected a knight of the shire to serve in the present Parliament for the northern division of the county of Chester." This closed the labours of the Committee. tt DEATH OF THE WELL-ANOWN JERAY."—No one who has for the last ten or a dozen years visited any of our principal race•courses but must have a more or less perfect acquaintance with the " original," whose death took place on Friday evening last, at the hospital in Chichester, whither he had been conveyed in conse quence of serious injuries accidentally indicted on the previous Wednesday. According to custom, Jerry had repaired to Goodwood, by means of " Adam's own car riage, the ten-toed machine the haymaker* use in Ire /and," for the purpose of vending the cards, containing " a full, thrue, and particular account of the horses, their names, weights, and colours of the riders," when in the act of soliciting a bevy of " noble sportsmen"—all men were noble and sporting—on the step of whose car riage he stood, the horses swerved violently, overturned the vehicle, and crushed poor Jerry beneath. his in juries, a fractured thigh, and a concussion of the brain, terminated in his death on Friday night. Jerry was a " character," a diverting vagabond in the truest sense, and if Johnson's dictum be true, that " he possesses it who strikes out novelty without effort, and distinguishes himself above his fellow-men , be h is vocation humble or exalted," then Jerry was a genius. .I)Fparting from the common-place and tiresome importunities of your vulgar laezaroni, his very impertinencies were amusing, and his intrusion welcome. We must not omit, as limited space forbids further notice of his eccentricities, to state, as a proof of sporting generosity and kindly feeling, that Mr. Justice, before the fatal result, collected 704 in his behalf, which will be handed over to his widow. We are happy to learn that the potato crop in meat parts of Banffshire, and along the Morayshire coast, generally wears a healthy and promising aspect. —Edinburgh Post. LINCOLNSUIRE. —The seed and hay harvest is sus pended in consequence of the almost daily rains. We fear that they will prove very injurious to the crops. W e regret to find that the disease is again showing itself to a very fearful extent amongst the potato crops in this neighbourhood ; and the extremely wet weather, it is feared, will tend to quicken its spread.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. _~ mmi IRELAND. Lord BROUGHAM said that before the prorogation, he was desirous of calling the attention of the Ilouse to the state of Ireland, and for that purpose he would, on Thursday next, move that there be laid on the table the proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant for the apprehen sion of political offenders, when he would take the op portunity of stating his views with regard to Ireland ge nerally. He expressed the hope, however, that Govern ment would consider whether, in the present state of the country, it was expedient to have any prorogation at all. He might add, that in the course of a few days—perhaps before Thursday evening—they might see the civil war which was now threatened, completely checked, and in that case his motion would be unnecessary, and in that case he should not bring it on. — The Earl of GLENGALL wished to ask a question of her Majesty's Government, relative to a subject of much importance. On the 19th instant a meeting of delegates was held in Dublin, when a resolution was carried that an t.ttempt should be made to subvert Bri tish dominion in Ireland. At that meeting three or four magistrates of the borough of Kilkenny attended as a deputation from the town of Kilkenny. He begged leave to ask whether those persons were still in the commission of the peace? The words of the resolution were similar to a declaration of war, and were of a highly treasonable nature. The magistrates, in many parts of Ireland, were swearing in special constables, and if those magistrates, to whom he alluded, should be equally active, there was great danger of clubbists being sworn in as special constables. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he was unable to state whether those gentlemen had been removed from the commission of the peace, but he gave the Noble Lord at the head of the Government in Ireland, and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, credit for being alive to the proceedings of persons entrusted with such an important trust. EVICTED DESTITUTE POOR (IRELAND) BILL. Thu Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved that their Lordships should not adhere to the amendments they had made in this Bill. He did not expect there would be any opposition to the motion, as the other House of Par liament had unanimously adopted the original provisions of the Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE objected that such important matters should be disposed of without discussion. The question'at issue was whether the guardians should have notice forty-eight ;hours before the eviction took place, or twelve hours after, and whether the names of the jus tices should be specified, or merely the lands. He thought the specification of the lands only would not be the best course in order to discover who the parties were to be relieved. Their Lordships' amendments required that the names of the parties should be given, and he thought they should adhere to that. He should say non content. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that they were obliged to give notice that the writ was to be executed, — and that would display the names of the parties as well as the lands. It would be useless to give notice twelve hours after the eviction, at a place twenty miles distant, as would be frequently the case after these persons were destitute and house less. It was the habit in Ireland to collect rents under the threats of notices to quit, which was a state of rural economy which should be put a stop to. It would be more becoming their dignity to agree to the amend ments unanimously agreed to by the House of Commons. He should move that they should not rest upon their amendments to the Bill. Lord BEAUMONT thought it would be better for the poor that the notice should be given twelve hours after eviction, and that the Commons had made a mistake in adopting the other principle. The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE said he could not agree with the Noble Lord that the Commons were wrong. The names were nothing without they could ascertain the particulars of the case, which they could not do unless previous notice had been given, in order to find who were the parties entitled to relief. Without this notice the parties might starve in the interval. The motion was then put and agreed to. INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the adoption of the Commons' amendments to this Bill. The object of the amendments was to provide for the sale of incum bereil estates without the intervention of the Court of Chancery. He felt assured that it would only be neces sary to convince their Lordships that this could be done with safety, to induce them to adopt them. The provi sions would effect that, as the parties selling under this Bill would be bound to give notice to all parties inte rested, and when all parties concurred the sale could take place, but if any objected they could take excep tion, and bring forward their objections in the Court of Chancery, where, if they were found satisfactory, the sale would be prevented; but when the sale took place, with the concurrence of all parties interested, there would be a valuation previously made of the estate by a surveyor appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant. The sale when effected would constitute a good legal title against all claimants. The Noble and Learned Lord was under stood to conclude by recommending that their Lordships should agree to the Commons' amendments. Lord STANLEY minutely reviewed the circumstances connected with the Bill from the period of its .introduc tion to the House of Lords down to the present time, and gave it as his opinion that the measure now assumed . a totally different aspect from that which presented when their Lordships unanimously adopted it. I n po in t of fact, the Bill was not amended, but materially altered. It was a new Bill, many of the original provisions hav• ing been completely suspended , and alterations effected by the Solicitor-General, who declared that the measure, in the shape prepared by the Lord Ohane!llor on the part of the Government, was incapable of being worked. This he considered as a most inconvenient course of legislation between the two houses of Parliament. It was highly inconvenient that at the end of a pro tracted session they should receive a Bill so altered in its character, and have those alterations recommended for their assent by the Noble and Learned Author of the Bill. Upon the ground too that many Irish Peers were necessarily absent from Parliament, attending to high and important duties in Ireland, he objected to the considera tion of the amendments at the present time, involving as they did twenty-three new clauses, and the alteration of several of its old clauses. If the Bill inits new form had to pass through the various stages of first, second, i and third readings, report, and committee, then indeed, his objection might be regarded as trivial; but when they were by one vote to come to a conclusion as t o t h e a d o ption or non-adoptiori of the measure, he th oug h t h e was quite right in designating the prese n t an incon venient mode of legislation; and in protesting against the further progress of the Bill, until the return of the Irish Peers, who had given their assent to the measure in a totally different form. He desired their Lordships also to bear well in mind, that there was not a sin g le Peer or Member of the other House of Parliament pre pared to pass the Bill, who was willing that it should be applied to England or Scotland; yet the English and Scotch Peers, in the absence of the Irish Peers, were called upon to pass the Bill, and to legislate in . a manner and on a prin c ipl e respect i ng t h e sale of incumbered estates in Ireland, which they 'were not prepared either to advert or to advocate for them • selves. The measure was so altered from the original, and so completely changed in detail, that ho thought it would not be an unreasonable proposition if he were to move that the Commons' amendments be referred to the consideration of a Sele c t C omm i t t ee , t o re p ort on th e ir technical as well as practical effect. If he saw any dis position exhibited to adopt their suggestions, he should make a specific motion on the subject. The Earl of WICKLOW said that, after the speech of the Noble Lord, he was quite prepared to have heard him moving the rejection of the amendments, instead of their reference to a Select Committee. He thought they should agree to the amendments of the Commons, and he was confirmed in this view by the statement of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, who recom• mended their adoption, inasmuch as the changes effected were not of that material character to affect the principle of the measure. Under the circumstances, ho did not think there was any necessity for the attendance of Irish Peers to consider these amendments, because, in addition to other reasons, it would be tantamount to a postponement of all legislation on the subject until next session of Parliament. Lord MONTEAGLE thought that the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Stanley) had rather under than over stated the objections to the amendments, and although asked their Lordships to recollect, on the other he al& that the state of the country was in a great meta ure caused by the bad management of such property (Hear, hear.) Ile hoped that their Lordships vet seeing:the importance of the measure itself, the :et aP I , e' consideration it had received, and the authority by hick it was supported, with as little delay as possible, Wept the amendments and pass it into a law. Lord STANLEY briefly replied. He denied the thA oppose,l the Bill for the mere purposes of delay. A Ito the high authority of the Noble and Learned Lord the Woolsackt,no one had a higher respect for that No hie and Learned Lord than he had ; but he must rem iad their Lordships that the Noble and Learned Lord h ad not always entertained the same opinions on this B Ile would at once abandon his opposition to this I till if either of the Noble and Learned Lords in the House' would rise in his place, and say that :it was . either safe or expedient to apply the pr covisions of this Blil to England and Scotland. W ith re spect to the shortness of time, he protested agai est th 4 doctrine, that their Lordships should be held to time anything of measures until they came formally befori them, or that their Lordships were bound, day • after day, to read all the amendments that might be pie >posed on Bills either by the Government or by other pr >nonce Ho claimed for their Lordships the right of fully lelibe-' rating on every question after it came constituti ovally before them.—(Hear, hear.) He now asked for ti me, in order to get the necessary explanations from Nob le and Learned Lords as to the real operation of thi new clauses. He knew the fate of his motion; but he : fleould not be discharging his duty if he did not take the Si num of their Lordships on the question. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained. 13e had formerly objected to the creation of a ney juri. tditt tion in Ireland, on the ground that the Court of Chan sur y in that country was already supported at the exp, ma a of the country, and ought to be sufficient. The a mead ments did not create a new jurisdiction, but gave facili ties for sales, without the intervention of the Ci sort in certain cases, and under certain restrictions. Th ere was no inconsistency in supporting that alteration. Lord LANGDALE said the principle of the I lir' was not to facilitate the sale of iucumberedj estates under contract for that purpose, but to facilitate sales an st with standing there were nu contracts of that kind. The principle was to facilitate the sale of estates, the pro prietors of which were unable to discharge the ditties pertaining to them. The principle of the Bill bsei 1 been already agreed to, and this, therefore, could not b called a new Bill. The Noble Lord (Stanley) asked al lather such a Bill would have been proposed for Eng land ? If the condition of England was the same as tl sat of Ireland, he might not perhaps propose precisely t hi el Bill, because he feared those clauses might render it op era . tive ; but he should certainly support a Bill with even more stringent. provisions. The House then divided when there appeared,— For the motion—Contents Non-Contents Majority against Lord Stanley's amendment .-17 The Commons' amendments were then agreed. .to, find the House adjourned. ' HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 31. - FARMERS' ESTATE SOCIETY (IRELA. TD)• . BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yester day.) Clauses 14 to 18 were then agreed to, after a. desul tory conversation, as were also clauses up to 26. The Rouse then resumed, the Chairman reports 3 pro gress, and obtained leave to sit again to-morroi ; (this day) at twelve o'clock. REPRODUCTIVE LOAN FUND INSTITLV TION (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. JUVENILE OFFENDERS (IRELAND) BI LL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. LAND-TAX COMMISSIONERS' NAMES B ILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. REGENTS QUADRANT COLONNADE BI LL. This Bill was read a third time and passed, POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES BILL. This Bill went through Committee pro forma, in,. order that it might be reprinted, after a few observations from Mr. C. BULLER. The Committee was then fixed for Friday. STANDING ORDERS. On the motion of Sir W. HEATHCOTE, the report of the Select Committee on the Standing Orders revision was considered and agreed to. The House then adjourned to Five o'clock. The House resumed at Five o'clock. Dr. BO WRING presented a petition in favour of the Poor-law Union Charges Bill. Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition in favour of Parliamentary reform. NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION. • Lord COVE. I'ENAY brought up the report of the North Cheshire Election Committee, declaring Mr. Logh to have been duly elected. The Noble Lord then gave notice, that at the request of the Committee he should move to-morrow that the evidence taken befiore them be printed. On the motion of the NOBLE LORD, the evidence was ordered to be laid before the House. JURIES (IRELAND). Mr. F. FRENCH wished to ask - the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home Department the ques tion of which he had given him notice. In the report of the speech made by the Right Hon. Baronet respect ing the striking of juries in Dublin, he was reported to have said that he did not mean to say anything don* by the sheriff was not illegal ? The SPEAKER called the Hon. Member to order, he could not refer to a previous debate. Sir G. GREY said that what he had stated was that he was not prepared to say that anything done bTthe • sheriff was illegal. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. Colonel SIBTHORP wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Hem Department. He understood that it had been arranged that the Farmers' Estate Society (Ireland) Bill should stand for to-morrow at twelve o'clock. Now such being the case, he wished to know whether the Corrupt Practices Bill was to come on to-morrow at twelve o'clock, as he must confess that was the only Bill before the House that he cared a farthing for. Sir G. GREY was not aware that it had been arranged that the Farmers' Society (Ireland) Bill was to go onto morrow at twelve o'clock; if it did, it would probably occupy the whole day. DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND. Lord CASTLEREAGH wished to know whether her Majesty's Government had received any informa tion as to whether any collision had taken place in Ire land between the people and the police, or the military forces? Sir G. GREY said he had not received any letters in reference to such a collision; but he had received by the electric telegraph to-day a message from the Mayor of Liverpool, which had been transmitted to him by the Lord-Lieutenant, and stated that a collision had taken place yesterday in the county of Tipperary be tween the insurgents and the constabulary, but not with her Majesty's forces ; and else that General Macdonald, with a large body of troops, was in close pursuit of Mr. Smith O'Brien. It stated, further, that " some few people had been killed," but no names were mentioned. CHURCHYARDS. In reply to a question from Mr. HARCOURT, Lord MORPETH stated that ho hoped to introduCe Bill next session to prevent burials in metropolitan churchyards. SUGAR DUTIES. Lord G. BENTINCK wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, before the House resolved: itself into a Committee of the whole House to consider the sugar duties, whether he would make some state ment with respect to those changes which he understood her Majesty's Government had resolved upon making? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was usual to make a statement with respect to revenue and trade after the Speaker left the chair. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Sugar Duties; Mr. BERNAL in the chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then proceeded to state the alterations which the Government intended to make in the sugar duties. The altera tion which the Government intended to make with respect to double and refined sugar were fully set forth ,in the paper. The Government had hoped to have made some arrangement by which the poorer classes at home aright obtain sugar at reduced rate, but the result of interviews which he and his Honourable Friend the Member for Westbury had had with sugar refiners had led them to the opinion that they could not at present clearly see their way to the introduction of such a provision. The House would believe him when he said that no time nor pains were spared to come to a satisfactory conclusion. The main difficulty with which they had to contend was the necessity that the whole of the sugars which came from the refiners must be subject to some duty. If Government complied with the wishes of Hon. Gentlemen opposite, and imposed restrictions upon the re fining of sugars for the protection of the honest manu facturer, it would only serve to revive the evils of excise iuterference, and he must therefore decline to comply with the demand of the Noble Lord and his followers. Mr. CARDWELL protested on behalf of the Liver pool sugar refineres against the vacillation which cha racterised the proceedings of the Government with _re gard to th e sugar d u ti es genera ll y , an d part i cu l ar l y wi th respect to their withdrawal of the measure at the eleventh hour, which had been promised to his constituents at en early period. gr..LABOUCHERE denied that any such expecta tion had been held out, though he admitted that such an arrangement would be highly desirable; but so great were the difficulties in the way of carrying it into effect. that the Government were obliged to abandon the At' . tempt for the present. Sir W. CLAY said that the sugar-refiners of London were not disappointed, inasmuch as they did not thin k that this measure, if carried, would remedy their grin''' . ances. Mr. BARCLAY proposed an amendment with regard to including cane juice for consumption, but withdrew It after some discussion. Lord G. BENTINCK said he would now come to the 61.4 port of his amendment, which was the exclusion.of the words, and on all sugar and molasses not otherwise charF,ed with duty," in the heading of schedule 3, re garding the duties on foreign sugar. Whilst be cook' not approve of tho proceedings of her Majesty's Govern ment on this matter, he could not help admiring the debonnaire with which the Chancellor of the Exch e q uer came down to the House and announced that he w as going to disappoint the planters of the West Indies 119 d the Mauritius by withholding the great boon which he had promised. In fact, the whole course of the Hon. Gentleman was a plea of guilty to the three-and -twenty: counts which he (Lord George Dentinck) preferred --~-= " . - knot, with di Mr. Mr. Lord Itollan for cote ton of special goods Demo! this e( for sta that se that m was o❑ to whit Weld 1 ceedini it was the eon Hon. ( show tI the col( be expo of the 3 advent: Indian sugar oughts Mr. • Dutch have th other . c , Mr. Gentlei there Friend there tv and th( propose arliatt was the tla e Ri g !sugar 1( vaestioi West I. znent, It in till o c) wed I bond. bearin g !Wand r, Sect apr that the tion wit order tc be pure After EXCH: admit ti the horn when ti Govern better p Only to )3ititish !girded t Lord Gentlen for Han 'Would h not groi thought because distinc try and Hon. G, tice that Hon. G, confined ral tract he, in ot • opportu manufa4 sdvanta the Uni derive I ,deny th in the great cli bounty refiner ant wb that th with th, lie w as eated I)] %lir fi who fol touch. at Mr. I one:of Poeted tc After son, ane The : The The posed t and tha Thursd The: