The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

EVENING SUN SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. /11031 THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Whig Administration of 1306 was de risively taw med the Ministry of All the Talents. The present is the Government of All the Fallacies. Per haps it is cis well that we should see all that sophistry can oppa' ;e to practical and substantial measures of relief to a nation, unfolded at full length—propounded from sea is of authority—and backed up by official and Parliamentary power. The malady of monopoly has come to it head ; and a cure is more likely than when it lurked n tore insidiously in the system. The party of monopoly have appointed a Ministry to work their will, and are b encefbrth directly responsible for whatever that will lictatcs. They can no longer confine them selves to .obstruction, and special pleading ; they must propound their own measures, instead of stifling those of others - 1 - 1 the birth. If we could not have such a ma jority as should carry out Commercial Reform, the neat best thin : ; is that its enemies should have a majority to aork, ors top work with. They must speak that we tnayknow ; the y can na longer deter silently a Government from nee hung tJ me Corn-laws, as every Government has been detetee. d 11 lately ; nor send mute representatives of indoleent pm ejudices to vote down inquiry. The " Silent :system," a nd the system of inarticulate sounds, have been cartie the utmost ; and if a Government could be " stran ; led by mutes," mutes cannot govern England in their p. cc. Some sense of the decorum of his altered position s ?pears to have suggested itself to Lord Stanley, i f not to Sir Robert Peel. The Noble Lord is always di posed to be more frank and explicit than his leader; it is a good habit he retains from his Liberal dep. but inconvenient in his present conne.xion. The Noble Lc assumed, in his :ate speech at Lancaster, the only grou c 3 (and offensive ground it is) that can be as sumed for • the Corn-laws. His leader evnuld postpone assuming aey positive ground at all. He is actually - re duced to it stity what he calls his reserve, by adducing the deretie: 4' the candidate of his own party—a distin guished ins ,mber of his own Government—at Man chester, ea t proof that Jo:reserve had been less calculated ' obtain the suppert of the country. But all that w:a proved by Sic Co( gge Murray's rejection. at Macel e .tee s eotuithetanding- hie eetremely Imre served pie fi a ions in favour Free Trade, was that the Maneheen r • eople were too shrewd to believe the pro ft•ssions ci n eaudidate. It was the reserve or the leader the t rendered the unreserve of the follower fruit less. Th s escaped Sir Robert. Peel in his 'wanness o f retort on .31v. Gibson. It escaped him that the Man chester e AQtrl fen was a sentence on his own duplicity ! Would - Ilan Chester have rejected a candidate likely to b • able to :Jerre it interests so effectually as Sir George Murray, if Manchester had believed the sincerity of Sir Robert. Pee; 's intentions to act on his °Wu professed ge neeal principles ?—on the principles which Sir GeMarray was sent to placard all over Manchester ? sTAY)ARD.—We do not deny that England h a s e n advantage in being the first to-apply machinery to the :spinning id' cotton, but this advantage, like every other :arising from mere priority is no more than temporary. Had it not been for protection, the manufacture had long since passed to, and grown up in other hands. 'The materials of the cotton manufacture, as of every dither manufacture, are capital, mechanical power, :and human labour. Now, let the markets of Eng land, the great entrepot of the world, be once opened to :foreign cetton goods, and what must follow ? Why, that capital will wander to the Continent, where it will find enechanical power at least as cheap, and human labour much cheaper, than in England. We have coals, it will be said, for our steam engines ; yes, but not to se° further than the opposite shores of the straits, they Lave very good coals in Belgium, coals quite good 43noogh for manufacturing purposes in 'Picardy and Artois, excellent coals in Brittany, and the coast at leant is open to coals from Englaml ; but our foreign cempetitors would not be dependent upon coals—they have abundance of water power, which is cheaper than steam power in the proportion of five to twenty-four. As to labour, Mr. Senior has shown that the average of labour from the Scheidt to the' Seine is but 6s. a-week. What, then, would there be to prevent Mr. Cobden removing his capital to build mills upon the opposite coast, if the protection •which he enjoys were withdrawn, so as to avail him self of the increased profits afforded by cheaper labour, and the increased sale by a free - inlet to the Continent ? The transfer could not take place at once , but it would take place very rapidly—all the new rids would be built at the other side of the Channel, and the new mills almost annually amount to half the number of the old ones. Let the working manufac turers look to this. The day in which the cotton ma nufacture loses protection they may count upon their ser vices as no longer necessary. The mill-owners and their money will depart for countries where they can have labour at a less price ; but it must be idle to expect that manufacturers can be protected many days after agriculture shall have been stripped of all defence against competition. The working manufacturers who now lend themselves to the anti-Corn-law cry, are really la bouring to give to foreigners the powe r o f manufacturing, I not for themselves only, but for all the world, including Great Britain and the British colonies. COURIER—We have been somewhat amused of late with particular recapitulations on various occasions of all the great doings and measures of the late Ministry in very special detail, or, as the booksellers would say, in the shape of a catalogue raissonne. It will he sufficient to dispose of this catalogue at once by the assertion, which cannot be gainsaid, that the merit of all such measures as really are of an ac knowledged beneficial tendency belongs almost exclu sively to the Conservative party and the Conservative statesmen, of whose policy, the foundations of which were laid and the superstructure in sound and gradual pro gress long before the advent of the late Whig Govern ment, they are but the necessary continuation. Even of the class of measures of more questionable utility in the form originated by the Whigs, it may be truly said that in their present shape they are more peculiarly the work of Conservative hands, by which the mis chievous fangs of the first proposed enactments were drawn and substituted by more wholesome legislation, and of the Conservative votes in both Houses of Parliament, without which in the amended shape in which they now appear in the Statute book, they never could have passed. This has more exclusively been the case since 1835, when Con servatism may be said to have been the dominant characteristic of both Houses, but even from 1830 to 1835 the controlling voice of the - Upper House alone interposed an effectual barrier against the rash career of Whig legislation, excepting in the single in stance of - the Reform Bill. But when the surpass ing achievements of the Whig Government in its policy and legislation are so loudly trumpetted, and their undivided honour so exclusively appro priated, we would simply ask their fawning retainers to point out one, one only, original measure of acknow ledged importance and advantage nationally, which passed the Legislature in its primitive form, or which had not to be recast, licked into constitutional, intelligible, and. practical proportions, and divested of an encum bering mass of substantial and even of technical blunders, by Conservative skill, intelligence, and statesmanship? COAL MARKE'. Ships arrived since . d. s. cl. Adair's ...... ....... ....... .. ..... 15 u Walls End Killingworth ... 18 0 Carr's Hartley ... 18 0 W. E. liraddyll'slisttott ... C 033 East Wylam ............ ..„ ... 15 b Walls End Grange lb l . lolyweil Ma.n .................. 17 0 Wals!End Hetton 2l 0 Old Tantir Id ................... .. 15 0 Walls End Lambton Ord's Itedhugh Fontop Windsor Town:ey... ••... West Hartley ............. 15 6 Wall,.End Evenwood l6 9 ...... We , t Wylarn .. ......... 1g 6 W a ll s E n d Hi c h ar d son ' o T eesl 7 6 Wylam 1 6 0 Walls End S out h D ur h am IS 6 Walls End d os f o:rh 16 5 Cowp cn ....... 18 9 Walls End Devonshire l7 U ONIIMMIN NII.••••••••••........_ '.-(THIS DAY.) ast market day, 21. MENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The:LoRD CHANCELLO R took his seat on theffoolsack at Five o'Clock. The Duke of SOMERSET presented a petition from a district of the metropolis, praying that the tolls might be taken off the metropolitan b r id ges. L or d HAYWARDEN presented a petition to the same effect from the merchants, bankers, and traders of London. PRISONS. Lord BR ouGHAM rose to call the attention of their Lordships t o r motion which, a s h e understood it would be opposed, he should do in as f ew words as possible. slot subject was „ one of great imp or t ance, and one in The which the Mouse had always expressed t h e greatest inte.''es"t _h„ meant the management of the p r i sons of the realm. Their the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for T araworth was First Minister, an • Act was passed, th e o bj ect of which was to amend the hws relating to th e disci pline of prisons, and to make them, as far as was practicable uniform throughout the country. He w as ready to admit that very great improvements had bee n e nevertheless, some tim e law but effected by that , afterward s a C omm ittee was appointed to devi se further improvements of which the system was \ A evidently capable.—(lleac.) i Committee wa s witnesses, among a ccordingly appointed who examinedmade a very valuable t 'whom were many prisoners, and report to t h e i r Lordships. Out of that report pro teceded th e A ct of 1835, for the improvement of prison discipli ne, b y which very considerable alterations and improvements were eff e cted. Th e principal alteration . of State in that. Act w as g i v i ng t h e Secretary and re leech larger powers of revising, approving, the local re jecting the rules for prisons made by , of State . the Magiftrates ;' giving the Secretary Power also of making rules himself, and of inspecting prisons by hirnself, or others appointed by him, and, al:me :01 —and that appeared to him the most im , portant puint--giling him the power to appoint inspectors, alto were authorised to examine the state of the prisons, and to report to that House. In con , :egtezn e , of that t.ppointtlient, si.‘. Iteports, had been !rade aunt:ally I,y th e inspf ctors, :Ind the:,., Reports contained a body of meful information not ordy to the Government—the P ...orne Department, but those Re ports. poin!ing out from time to time breaches of the rules of thc prisons, and . , suggesting a variety of matter for the consideratien of the Home Department, and also making a y.ar'ietv of complaints against the different officers - din . engage the manage ment of the different. prisans. The result had been, that in a very great majority of instances, the subject-mat ter aint had been re moved -by the parties against whom the complaint had been made, an d those complaints no longer existed. He (Lord Brougham) was far 'from thinking no F ood had been done by the Sappoint of these inspectors ; on the contrary, he thought great good' had been accomplished. It appeared to him that those officers had most faithfully performed their duties. Thee had had a most delicate and difficult task imposed upon them; they had to hear the complaints of persons who were officers of the prisons, and in some instances were against Magistrates themselves, and also against those persons who were entrusted with the management of prisons ; nevertheless they had performed their duties in a very satisfactory manner ; and no person could read the latter reports (he alluded to the 4th, sth, and 6th) without being satisfied that the complaints made on the Ist and 2d reports had the effect of remedying the evil and correcting the abase. In a vast majority of cases the evils complained of had been corrected by the visits of the inspectors. In some cases the evils had not been corrected, and the inspectors had reported in vain, but in the generality of cases these reports had been productive of the greatest good. He was about to state a few instances to show the neces sity of further interference on the part of the Secretary of State, and in calling their Lordships' attention to that part of the subject he should avoid stating either the names of individuals or even the names of the prisons re ferred to, and his reason for so acting was that at that late period of the Session, those statements would be dissemi nated throughout the country, and a publicity would be riven to them which it would be impossible for any other persons to hope to :equal, and the conse quence would be that for the next three or four months, those persons against whom their complaints might be made would have no opportunity of being heard in their defence, or even of offering any explanation of their conduct with anything like the publicity' with which those charges would have been disseminated. No doubt it might be said that he was speaking of things which . had already appeared in print in the Inspector's report, but not one hundredth part of the persons had read or would read them in those reports, who would read what might be stated on the subject in Parliament, more especially, it' those statements contained charges against For those reasons h e s h ou ld a b sta i n from reentioningany names, and content himself with laying before their Lord ships certain facts which he considered to be well worthy their attention. lie had, in calling their Lordships at tention to the necessity that existed for repealing certain dormant statutes, stated that no blame attached to the magistrates for enforcing the provisions of such statutes. His attention had been drawn to those Reports in consequence of those cases to which he had alluded ; and he found that, in what he had said on that subject, he had rather under stated than overstated the case. He had stated, that if the persons convicted in the penalty of ls. and costs for having been absent from church for one Sunday without reasonable eveuse—one had been in prison for sixty-one, and another for sixty-three days ; but, on referring to these reports, he found one person had been in confinment ten weeks in consequence of being convicted in a penalty of Is. with 14s. costs for having t from Church for one Sunday with • le ex cuse. At the end of seventry days application was made to the Secretary of State, when he was pleased to recommend her Majesty to .pardon this man for having been absent from church for one Sunday, am: he was released, after having suffered seventy days' imprisonment. He could hardly trust himself to speak of such a case, but he would say, that if adything could tend to the descretation of the Sabbath, it was such conduct as that. He had been informed that the informations had been laid against these persons by a Magistrate, and he should expect that inquiry should be made into the subject at the Home Department. --(Hear, hear.) It was true that when an infor mation was proved before a Board of Justices, they could not avoid convicting but if a Magistrate had laid these inform a ti ons b e f ore o th er j us ti ces, for the purpose of awakening these dorment, he wished he could say obsolete statutes, then he could not consider that the Magistrate so laying the informations was without blame. Then he had been told, by way of excuse, that these people were persons of bad character, good-for-no thing people, who had been guilty of other excesses. and that it was the purpose of punishing them for their excesses that this dormant statute had been awakened. Now, that appeared to him to be rather an aggravation than an excuse—for every magistrate ought to know that there was nothing more calculated to bring the administration of justice into contempt, than to convict a person of one offence and sentence him for another. One great source of inconvenience was the variety that existed in the management of these prisons. In one prison a small portion of animal food was allowed to the prisoners, while in another no animal food what ever was allowed. The diet allowed to persons sentenced to hard labour was generally reported as too low, and in one particular prison it was so low that many of the prisoners were suffering from a disease, which he be lieved was now peculiar to prisons, although at one time it had been prevalent in this country—he meant the land scurvy. In the case alluded to it was clear that the diet was below what it ought to be, and the report of the medical men all went to show that low diet was oae of the principal causes of the disease. In that prison the proportion of persons in the hospital amounted, at the time the Report was made, to ten per sons out of fifty, the total number of those in the prison ;' thus, one-fifth of the inmates of the prison were in the hospital, and the medical officer of the prison had stated that such was the usual proportion. Now, it was clear that there must be something wrong in the management of the prison to give so large a propor tion as inmates of the hospital. He would not enter fur ther into particulars, as it was his intention to furnish the Home Department with reference to the pages of the Reports in which those particulars were stated, in order that those evils might be remedied.—(Hear.) There was another abuse, which it appeared to him re quired a remedy, and that was the gaoler having an in terest—a direct interest—in the supply of articles to the prison. It was quite clear that he should have no hand in these matters whatever. In the prison to which he had adverted, the gaoler provided a great many articles, and one of them he particularly recollected was beer. The gaoler charged the Magistrates ls. 4d. a gallon for the beer, but paid only ls. the gallon himself It was clearly a very great abuse that he should have any hand in the matter ' • and it was a still great er a b use , t h at h e should make that extra charge. The attendance of the officers, also, would very much, and more than he should have supposed. In most prisons the chaplain did his duty. He attended not merely on Sundays and other days of public worship, but he visited the prisoners in their cells, and gave them spiritual advice. In the vast majority of the cases, then, the duty was well performed ; but in the reports there, were many exceptions ; it was most remarkably that they occurred in the prisons, which were most numerously filled, and where the salaries of the chap lains were most ample. The next queetion to which h e s h ou ld refer was the punishment of prisoners ; and it was greatly to be regretted that personal pnnishment, flogging should be allowed. le e did not mean to say that in no ease should it be in bht he thought the more sparingly it was resorted to the better. Their Lordships would observe that the punishment was inflicted publicly, and in order to deter by example, but if their Lordships would look at the Deport to which he was now referring they would find that the example could not be said to be a wholsome one, in that respect. Their Lordships were aware that the keeper of a prison had the power of inflicting punish ments of a l esser d escr i pt i on, and for ordinary offences— he meant breaches of prison discipline. He had the power of confinement, and one or two smaller matters of that sort. But for any thing beyond that, he must go before the visiting Judges. In the case to which he (Lord B.) al luded, the punishment was twelve dozen of lashes, in flicted upon the complaint of the keeper, against a person who appeared to have been a very vi cious person indeed—who had been thirty times in prison, but for offences connected with the game laws such as poaching. The individual was evidently what must be called an incorrigible person. It did not appear what the offence was for which that punishment was given, but it seemed to be for generally refractory and mutinous conduct, without any special act being done to warrant the punishment. The person was not only mutinous himself, but also encouraged the other prisoners to violate the laws of the prison; notwithstanding twelve cloven lashes ought not to be given. Nothing could be more shocking in its effect on the rest of the community than a Magistrate suffering himself to be surprised into such conduct. A very great variety had been found to exist in the discipline of differen t prisons. He would state some instances of that variety, because the matter appeared to him of great conse quence with regard to ends of justice. He would take three couuties, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Hert fordshire, and he would show to their Lordships how great amount of inflictions varied in the prisons of those coun tries. He took these counties merely because they were contiguous. In Bucks the number of punishments for breaches in prison discipline amounted to only one pu nishment for three persons, that was, there being 135 per sons as the average number of prisoners, the number of punishments was 43. In the next county, Berks, let him take one of the gaols, and he found that the punishments were not on6e3toputhnrisehe me persons, but three to twoh persons, 4 greater as telthan i n t h e a n d t i s uin to ing 42 er rou p rit3 s , o . gaol in th e same county of B e rk s , t h e propnosr, I t n io - n eia g nng( o g t h u e : r to doubl e , t h e punishments ents being three to one person. Then i n the count rose still hi g h er , f or ther t y here it foundNt%S.;s- proportions for on e p erson, which was twelve timeswerse pu th u aistin i m u e thents county of Bucks. Next, in the then were, h e f oun d that in one county in whi c h t h ey of the prisons of the City the proportion was sons. In another prison, it was punish merits to two p ersons ; and, in the three third priso n , in this city it was n i ne punishments to one being six times greater th an i n t h e other prisonspo7 s tl o i n c same county, and t wenty - seven times greater than in the country. Now it was perfectly imp . sible from the nat ure an d the habits of the individuals that there should be such a (differ ence in the amount of punishment. Greater uni formity ought to be observed in the administration of the prison rules, particularly as there was uniformity esta blished in the rules since 1835. He wished also to call their Lordships' attention to the fact of untried prisoners being confined in the same places with con victs, when there did not appear to be any necessity for such from want of accommodation in the prison. Several untried prisoners were also subjected to the prison dress.—(Hear, :hear.) Now these were sub jects to which he wished to draw the notice of the authorities at the Home Department. There was one complaint to which he must allude of a very extraordinary nature. A prisoner stated to the Inspector that he had been illegally detained in custody, having been committed for trial at the Sessions, and having, after the lapse of some days, been called up by the keeper and told by him that he had been summarily convicted and adjudged to 12 months imprisonment. He (Lord Brougham) thought that a very odd state of circum stances, for it looked to him very like the case of a per son who had been tried and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in his absence.—(Hein- hear.) The 11-1 E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1841. Inspector reported the case to the Secretary of State, who ordered him immediate liberation, he (Lord B.) thought that inquiry ought to be made with respect to whom the fault lay in that case. He admitted that it was quite im possible that these volumes of reports of the Inspectors could be all throughly read and acted upon by the Home Department. He imputed no blame to that de partment for not having acted upon the earlier reports; on the contrary, he was of opinion that the fittest course to sake was to allow the reports to be made and laid before Parliament, in order to give an opportunity to the parties complained of to alter the course they had adopted, that course he was happy to say had been pro. ductive of great good, and it was not until the present moment that it became necessary to move for the cor respondence that had taken place relative to the last Report. After some further observations from the Noble Lord, The Duke of WELLINGTON said Parliament haing reposed very great power in the Secretary of State, it was desirable that they should have full information as to .all, proceedings that. took place under that authority. Not knowing much, personally, of the statements of his Noble and Learned Friend, he did not intend to trespass at any length upon their Lord ships ; and, without knowing exactly the details of each case, it was impossible to judge how far the interference of Parliament was necessary. If it were true that punishment such as his Noble and Learned Friend had referred to, had been inflicted, he had no doubt that the case would be fully investigated more particularly, as his Noble and Learned Friend had intimated his intention to .send a note to his Noble Friend the Secretary of State. He had no objection whatever to the motion ; on the contrary, he was anxious that all the requisite information should be supplied, but he suggested, for the consideration of his Noble Friend, whether his ad dress could be presented, calling upon the Crown to order information to be laid prospectively before the next Ses sion of Parliament. Lord BROUGHAM said it was merely a direction— the motion was in the ordinary shape. The LORI) CHANCELLOR suggested that the words "next Session of Parliament" might be omitted. Lord CAMPBELL agreed in the remark of the Noble Duke opposite that the motion for prospec tive information would be an interference with the pri leges of Parliament. While he was on his legs he begged to call the attention of their Lordships to the want of law assistance at the Home-office. No man was more sensible of the great zeal and ability of Mr. Maule ; but he thought the public service was likely to suffer, if. further legal assistance was not given in that department. The motion was then agreed to, and their Lordships Adjourned till to-morrow. from imputing to any indi v id ua l or to th e H on. and Gallant Knight any desire on his part to mark the toast of he: Majesty's health by disapprobation, nor did he wish to impute any such feeling to the divines, military officers, and agriculturists, who sat around on the occasion ; but it was his belief that there was such marked difference between the mode of drinking her Majesty's health, and that of the Queen Dowager on the occasion referred to, as practically to amount to an insult to the Queex. Mr. EWART said that he had received a letter that morning in which it was stated that there was such a feeling towards the Queen Dowager in consequence of her Christian virtues that the writer, the Hon. Member fur Suffolk (as we understood) was afraid of making a speech on the occasion. Were not, he would ask, the Christian virtues of her Ma jesty equal to those of the Queen Dowager ? —(Cries from the Ministerial benches of " They are, they are.") If so, then why give superiority of applause to one over the other, or he should rather say why ex hibit that political feeling ? Sir C. BROOK VERE said that the applause was given at the mention of the Queen Dowager's name from long acquaintance with her virtues. As to loyalty, he begged leave to say that that association was a true one, and the county which it represented equally so. He (Sir C. B. Vere) held that loyalty was nut to be measured by cheers. Sir C. BURRELL was confident that a grosser insult was never offered to the Queen of this country than that report. Ile believed that at public meetings persons were at liberty to express their good will towards any one without any imputation of disloyalty The charge in the present case was as unjust as it was indifferent to the party against whom it was made.—(Cheers.) In his opinion the evi dence was not sufficient to justify the charge. Sir E. KERRISON—I was present when the charge was made by the Hon. Member, and then I knew it to be unfounded. I have the honour to know Lord Stradbroke well, and feel quite certain that no man exceeds him in loyalty, and that the charge was false. How does the Hon. Member justify that other charge he made, that all agricultural associations were turned into political ones. I deny that charge emphatically I am President of an Agricultural Associaticn in the county of Suffolk, and in order to render it wholly free from having any . political bearing, I asked for and obtained the assistance of a Whig friend to act as Secretary. I went further and introduced into the rules and regulati ons one which was to the effect that any Member who thought proper to talk politics in the Association should b.- excluded the Society. I defy any one to contradict any statement I have made, and I am the Man to deny those of the Hon. Member. Mr. GIBSON—The Honourable and Gallant Mem ber was not present at the meeting. I was in formed by a gentleman who was present,, and he said he heard the proceedings with great pain, and that many other gentlemen had expressed the same feeling—be himself heard some few hisses.—(Loud cries of " Spoke.") Colonel RUSHBROOKE denied that Agricultural As sociations were in any way made political engines. He was to have presided over a meeting only last Friday ; and, as he could not attend, he had written to beg a Whig friend to take the chair. The House then went into a Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. GOULBURN said as the House had made all those supplies during the present Session which were necessary for the public service, he rose, in conformity with the usual practice, to state to the House the mode in which he considered it advisable the ways and means should be furnished to meet the supplies the House had already voted,. and in doing so he believed ft would not be necessary for him to trouble the House with lengthened de tails such as on octher occasions had formed so large a por tion of the addresses of the Chancellor of the Exchequer under similar circumstances. So short a time had elapsed since these details had been brought before the House, and the country by the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Baring), and so few changes had occurred in the state of the revenue or expenditure since that period that he should only be unnecessarily fatiguing the House if be were to follow the Right Honourable Gentleman through those details, Which he then explain e d t o th em , and which proceeding on his part would be only a repetition, which he was sure the House would be thankful to escape. He should content himself, therefore, by briefly adverting to the general result which the Right Hon. Gentleman then communicated to the House, and stating to the House what were the means by which they proposed to equa lize the revenue and expenditure, or in Parliamentry phrase, to furnish the Ways and Means for meeting the supplies. Th e su ppli es w hi c h t h e House had voted during the present Session of Parliament amounted to 1,727,000 L, and consisted first of thatportion of the miscel laneous estimates which was not voted in the last Parlia went, of the Commissariat, and of the Canadaestimates of which a part only was voted in the last Session ; and to those votes left unsatisfied in the course of last Ses sion he had to add the supernumerary estimate for the Ordnance, amounting to 67,000/, and a de ficiency in the Ways and Means last Session, to meet the supplies then voted, 24,896/., making a total of 1,727,432 L, which had been voted in Committee of Supply, in the course of the present session, in addi tion to what had been voted in Committee of Supply last year. The House was aware there was a charge for payment of the interest on Exchequer Bills, for which it was necessary ways and means should be provided, which was no longer voted by Parliament, but which was directed to be paid by an Act of the Legislature out of the supplies for the year, and must necessarily be taken into coesideration as Ways and Means to be provided. The amount of in terest on these Exchequer Bills for the present year was 740,00 C/, which, added to the sum he had previously stated as voted in supply of 1,700,0001., left a total of 2,467,432/. The House would recollect that in the course of last Session, when the Right Honourable Gentleman op posite took a review of the receipt and expenditure of the country, he assumed the receipt to be a sum of 48,310,000/, and the expenditure to be provided for was 50,731,0001. leaving a deficiency to nearly the amount of what he stated as necessary to equalise the amount of ways and means which had been voted in the present Session. Tho sums were nearly equal because, in the course of the preceding Session the Right Hon. Gentleman had voted the whole of the Ways and Means for the public service. The Ways and Means were nearly as equal as he calculated would be the probable deficiencies of the year. During the five months which had elapsed since the Right Hoe. Gentleman had stated the deficiency, he did not think anycircumstances had occurred during that period to a lt e r the views .h e too k of the probable revenue of the country, and certainly he made no addi tions to the vote of Parliament beyond those small ones. On account of the Ordnance Estimates there would be little or no alteration to be made in the estimate be formed of the total revenue and expenditure of the year, and we are, therefore, on the present occasion, to devise the means to provide for 2,400,0001 which appears to be the deficiency of the Revenue of the year. Without entering at length more into details which bad been so recently submitted to the House, he would pro ceed to state the mode which he meant to supply that deficiency fur which they were ,now called on to pro vide. The House was undoubtedly aware of the pro posal which but are* weeks since he made known through the ordinary channels, for funding a portion of the unfunded debt of the country, The object he had in view was apparent from what he said, namely, that of making a Mit:Lien of the unfunded debt to the amount of two millions and a half: He did that beeettee he was sensible that of all Masai' 68 *aid place the finaneeti ef the aountty on an improved footing, that of relieving themselves from some portion of the un funded debt was an indispensable preliminary. He knew he might be told the attic:diet of the unfunded debt had not been snch as would Justify a limita tion as to the extent that would be required. But he would still adhere tie the principle Which he had uniformly maintained in the,: House; that it was not safe for the country to continue a larger amount of un funded debt than under the eireiniestetitte of the country could lightly anti easily be borne, and he would beg the House to obserte, that the pressure of the un fended debt urn the eetintey did net depend upon the amount of millions of which it consisted, but that the same amount might at different times be, in that respect, very disproportionate ; and; that thefdfore; though now at 20 millione, Wing fohneily been at 30 millions, theft might be Circumstances now which called more loudly for a deduntivil than when the nominal antotilit Melt Jaeger. As long as Exchequer - Bills are the on ly sa f e smithy, which gave daily interest as long as the premium upon these bills was kept tolerably s t ea d y, as long, he admitted, there was reason to believe that the burden of the unfunded debt leas not greater than the country! Was able hi teeth but when a period had arrived in which, so far from being the only safe security giving daily interest, they saw other secu rities, esteemed much by the public, coming into compe tition wiih them ' • when they knew that th e f t Were certain Banks of acknowledged credit which gave a larger daily interest than that'given on Exchequer Bills; when they knew that a spirit of embarking, in which might be considered a comparatively safe speculation existed, in which larger profits might be made, and when above all they considered that by the change which had been effected in the Usury Laws, the money which before lay in the hands of individuals, or was employed at certain periods only in the purchase of Exchequer Bills, was now emplayed in the more profit able purchase of discounts ; it must, he thought, be evident to . every one who considered subject, that the reduced amount of Exchequer Bill at the present moment was in consequence of the altered position of monetary affairs, to avhich he had alluded. And for these reasons, considering that it was difficult, without material loss, to add to the num ber of Exchequer Bills already in the market, his first object was to effect a reduction of the unfunded debt to the amount of 9 ,500,000/. He was happy to say that as far as the object went he had at present been com pletely successful, that he would be enabled, by the sub scription which had been made, to afford that degree of relief to the country. He had indeed another object in view, namely, to explain to the public the amount which would be required to be borrowed for the public service. He did not wish that every man should subscribe his capital to the public without knowing the demand which should be made upon it, and he hoped to be enabled to raise at once the 2,500,00C1. in money, which was necessary to equalise the expenditure and revenues of the country. The total amount which he had raised was 3,540,000/. thns relievinr, the market of the sum of 2,500,0001. from which he intended to relieve it and leaving it to Parliament to make up the deficiency. He might be told that he had offered to the public terms which were either unfavourable to the Government, ' or which were unfair to the public.—(Hear.) He did not, however, expect that this would be dwelt upon by those who had attended at all to the transactions. When the sum taken by the public was considered, it would be seen at once that they had no reason what- :it• aver to be dissatisfied. On the other hand, he thought it would elearlyapPear that the terms were such as the Government were authorized to offer. Into the details of those sums he would not at the present ino ment enter. Unless any Hon. Gentleman opposite should wish to have the whole detail of the calculations he would irefely State; that, doripafing the terms of fered with those of antecedent pefiedg; they *Pete hot higher in proportion to the rate of interest than those offered in the year 1838, by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. Discussing them for any further details of the basis upon which the calculation had been made, which, however, he should be perfectly disposed to ex plain, if any Hon. Gentleman wished htm to do so. Mr. Y. BARING inquired the amount of bonus. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he calculated the bonus it about 18s. 10d. per cent. The bonus in the case of Lord Mont eagle was 16s. 4d. The funds at the time when Lord Monteagle made the bargain, was about 91, when he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) made it they were about 89.—(Hear.) The result of the arrangement then was this, having cleared the market of 2,000,00e1, he was called upon to show to the House the manner in which he thought it expedient to raise the remaining 511111. Part of the remaining sum would be paid by the money ohtained from those who contributed this fund, and therefore what the amount would be. it was impossible for him at the moment to state. —(Hear, hear.) He could not, until the transaction .were concluded, which would rot be until the payment of the last instalment, state distinctly to the House what would be the amount of money which had been available. This he would state that in no case, supposing all the parties who had sub scibed to pay on e - h a lf i n Exchequer bills, could it exceed 1,700,000/. on the whole amount. Mr. BARING—HaIf the amount. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER begged pardon, he meant half the amount. Of course under the circumstances of the country he need not say, after all that had lately passed in that House, that it would be impracticable to attempt upon the present occasion to pro vide for the deficiency Ivhich:existed by any arrangement which would leave taxation upon its present footing. and therefore he should recommend to the House to adopt that temporary provision which he believed every • man who had spoken upon the subject in the Eons() had thought necessary, and, which, however, it was in his opinion,, and in the Opinion of them all, to be deprecated as a permanent mode of meeting the deficiency in the revenue was one which, under the pre sent circumstances, he thought that no reasdnable man could see the least ground for objecting to.—(Hear.) He was sure that the House would see that the attempt under the present circumstances, so soon after the ac cession of the present Governthent to office, with the ge neral disposition that had been manifested, not to embark in any lengthened discussion upon topics of that nature.—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition benches.) He was sure it would be found impossible to bring lorward a Le - teral measure of taxation. It was impossible to obtain even those accurate details which might enable any one to say to what extent the necessity for additional taxation might be dis pensed with. He should certainly feel himself still more unworthy of the situation in which he Was placed, if he were presumptuous enough at the moment to lay before the House, a system of taxation to meet the existing deficiency in the revenue. He should there fore simply state that by the resolution he had then upon the table of the House, he proposed that they should give power to the Government of raising either by the sale of Exchequer Bills, or by the sale of a certain portion of stock, that sum which might be necessary to make the amount received in money from the subscribers for Exchequer Bills, equal to the 2,400,00 a, and add which required for the public service. He had left, in the resolution an option of applying either Exchequer Bills or the sale of stock to that purpose. He had done so, because, anxious ashe was to realise his original intention of re lieving the unfunded debt to the amount of two millions and a half, he could scarcely be assured of the effect if he were at once to attempt to raise the sum in the shape of Exchequer Bills. He had recourse to that plan also, because ho thought that under these circumstances hieh had been recently under their observation, show the difficult) , of disposing of Exchequer Bills with advantage to the Government or the public—and he spoke rather of .the interests of the public than of the interests of the Government, because the sudden introduction into the market of a large amount of Ex chequer Bills, which the public felt very severely. He thought that, under the circumstances, the plan he pro posed would prove to be the least inconvenient ; and he believed that it would he most advantageous to the general interests, and less liable to derange the monetary concerns of individuals to give the Government the discretion of adopting either the sale of Exchequer Bills, or the sale of stock in part. He did not pretend to introduce a new principle, because he was merely adopting a proposal which had already been developed by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mc F. Barin;. (LEFT SITTING.) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—The Ringdove, 16, Commander he Hon. Keith Stewart, arrived this afternoon from the West Indies. The Hazard, 20, Capt. the Hon. C. Elliot, arrived on Sunday from the Mediterranean, and was p a id o ff, a ll s t an di ng in this harbour, to-day. She will be re-commissioned. The Ardent steam-frigate, Commander John Russell, arrived yesterday from the river, she will proceed early in the week for the Brazils and Cape Station, taking despatches for Admiral Sir E. King and Admiral Thomas. The s'cylla sloop of war, and Braspble cutter, to act as a tender, have been commissioned at Plymouth, by Captain Francis Blackwood, for the purpose of surveying Torres Straits, a place of frequent passage, but very imperfectly known. Capt. Blackwood's attention is also to be directed to the whole south face of New Guinea, and the many islands hich lie between that Island and New South Wales, and which now give shelter to hordes of Malays, but which, with our increased commercial connections, must be cleared of these pirates, and rendered useful. They present many fine harbours, and are capable of yielding an infinite variety of valuable products. Captain Vidal, in the Styx, is intended to survey and lay down on the • charts the exact position of the rock which has been seen off Terceira, said to be thrown up by an earthquake very recently. The Viper, 6, Lieutenant Carter, fitting out in this harbour, will be ready to proceed to Rio de Janeiro about the 25th of October. The Lynx, 3, Lieutenant Burslem, is rapidly fitting at Chatham, and will s ho r tly ca ll a t Spi thead on her way to the coast of Africa. The Savage, 10, arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d inst. from Lisbon, and proceeded to Malta the same day. The Curlew arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from Mazam bique, on the 2d of July. The Andromache sailed from the Cape of Gope on the 7th of July, for the Mauritius. The Actaeon sailed from Lima for Valparaiso on the 16th of May. The Warspite, 50, Capt. Lord John Hay, has been ordered this week to bear 500 men as her complement. This ship will go to sea with the masts, spars, sails and rigging of a small class 74 gun ship. The Firebrand steam yacht left the River yesterday for Ostend, to bring over her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Pelorus, 16, which vessel was stranded in a gale of wind, in Port Essington, near Swan River, has been, by the exertions of Lee officers and crew, again made effective for sea, and arrived at Singapore, on the 23d April, in` command of Cept, Copan The nolnhin, Lieut. Littlehales, on the coast of Africa, a few weeks since, seeing a suspicions vessel, sent two boats and 15 men, under the charge of Mr. A. C. Murray, in chase of her. After some brisk firing, and when some miles from thB Dolphin, they captured her, when she proved to be a pirate, and tile Vessel a beautiful brigantine. Sir. M. and another man• being first on hef deck, were both wounded. The Abercrombie Robinson, transport, was towed through the Downs, and went down Channel, on Saturday last, with 800 of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, for Bermuda, The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Frede rick J. P. Henslow, R.N.,_to be a Naval Kni g ht o f Wi n d sor , vice Lieut. \V. Jones, R.N., deceased. Messrs. Lang, Fincham, and Atkins, are now examining minutely the state of the men-of-war in the Medway ; which service performed, they will come to this port in the Comet steattier, for a like examination of the ships here. In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Illustrious, IWar spite, Madagascar, 13elvidera, Royal George, Driver and Ar dent steam frigates, North Star, Rapid, Pantaloon, Viper, Apollo troop-ship, Diligence naval transport, Carron and Echo steartiere, At Spithead—Ringdove, A rroiNTMENTS.—Commander—Erasmus Ommanney, to the Vesuvius steam frigate. Lieutenants—A. P. Ryder, and R. Bullen, to the Belvi derfl H. Al. Flntid, to the Hazard.; P. Lowe, and C. G. Rigge, to the Devastation ; Parkhurst, to the Styx* James Johnstone and W. Butler, to the Ardent ; W. Wilson to North Star. Master—J. G. Mugford, to the Devastation ; Ashton to the Styx; James Doidge, to Ardent. Pursers—J. Grant, to the Devastation; J. Millingham, to the Stye; W. Stanway, to Ardent. Surgeons—J. C. Bowman, to the Tweed ; Henry Baker, to the Ardent ; J. Elliott, to Devastation. Assistant-Surgeons—T. Wells, to the Ceylon, for _se_r . vice Malta Hospital ; Dr. A. Battled, to the Viper ; A Satin ders, to the North Star ; George Butler , t o the Drive r 1 ; J H . Paterson, tf) thp D t .vastatioll ;J, Boland, to the V o l cano ; Dr. W. WOO ) to the ktiml , Secondiaster—t, .Po, to the hog& M„. Masters—R. W. Aleock, to the Excelle nt ; Henry Trollope and -- Davis, to the Ardent ; It: Hopkins, and R. L. Rey nolds, to the Warspite ; A. P. Arkwtight; to the Pantaloon ; F. I . A. Selwyn, and H. D. Blankley, to the DevaFt.itJP. Volunttets Ist Class—R. Dawkins, to the Harle(TlM ;G. D. Murray and .8, H. Hatchell, to the North Star. Clerks—George Munro, from the Victory, to the North Star ; Henry Pinhorn Clerk-in-Charge of the Heroine; H. R. Ccle Clerk-in-Charge of the Skylark ; E. Whitehead, Actin g Clerk to the North Star. YOUNG M ENS) ANTLMONOPOLY ASSOCIATION, MANCHESTER. This Association held its second monthly Malting bn Wednesday, the 15th instant, in the Concert Rooms, at theAthemeum; Mr. Edward Herford in the Chair. The room was well filled. The subject of discussion vvas— " Are the Corns-laws just ?" which was introduced by Mr. J. P. Cul verwe ll i n a \veil-reasoned essay, of which • our space allows us to give only a meagre outline. The object of these meetings is, that the members of the Association may prepare themselves to meet and successfully combat any of the numerous sophistries with which the supporters of monopoly attempt to shroud the subject. Mr. Culverwell very appropriately chose for the first discussion the simpl e question of the justice or injusti ce o f t h e food monopoly. After some prefatory remarks, Mr. C. stated that tho avowed object of the Corn-laws was to secure the corn grower an artificially enhanced price ; that 80s. per quarter was the price aimed at by the law of 1815, and 635. by that of 1828 ; this object to be attained by tax ing foreign corn so as to prohibit its admission, except at famine prices. It follow s , of cour se , th at t h e C orn . l aws compel us t o g i ve more labour for our food. Suppose that we now give Bd. for the loaf which would other wise cost 6d., we are just as effectually robbed of 2d. for each loaf that we buy as if it „ere taken from us by a sharper. L 1 the ona case it is the law that takes the 2cl. HOUSE o.b COMMONS. Lord G. Somerset for Monmouthshire, Lord Eliot for East Cornwall, Sir W. Rae for Buteshire, and Mr. Tuite for Westmeath, took the oaths and their seats. CORN-LAWS. Mr. SHEPPARD presented a petition from manu facturing labourers at Frome, praying fe r the repeal of the Corn-laws. The Hon. Member said, he had been requested to support the prayer of the petition, but being diametrically opposed to it, he was unable to do so. An HON. MEMBER, on the same side, presented a similar petition from Forfar. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from the in habitants of Kent-road, praying for the abolition of tolls on the metropolitan bridges. PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. GREENE moved that all Standing Orders regu lating the practice of this House and of the Private Bill-office, with reference to Estate and Name Bills, be, during the present Session, suspended ; that all such Bills during this Session be, after their second reading, referred to a Select Committee; that such Committee do consist of the following Mem bers :—Mr. Greene, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. A g li on b y , M r . Tatton Egerton, and Mr. Walker. That three be the quorum. That it be an instruction to such Committee, to inquire whether there be any Standing Orders apply ing to such Bills, and, if so, whether they have been complied with ; and that they do report the same spe cially to the House. That such Committee have power to report on the same day on which they sit. 'That such Bills be permitted to proceed de die in diem through all their other stages.—Agreed to. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. TUFNELL, a new writ was ordered for the city of Hereford, in the room of Henry Hobhouse, Esq., who, since his election, had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. ELECTION PETITIONS. The SPEAKER reported to the House that the sure ties in the petition complaining of an undue return for Dudley, and in one of the petitions complaining of an undue return for Barnstaple had been reported to be unobjectionable ; and that the other petition, com plaining of an undue return for Barnstaple,had not been perfected. Mr. EWAR'T gave notice that he would move next ses sion for a reduction of the duties on Timber and Sugar, and begged to state that in consequence of the motion of his Honourable Friend the Member for Greenock, he would not bring forward the motion of which he had given notice for to-morrow, for a renewal of the Import Duties Committee, but would do so in a different shape at another time. On the Report of the Committee of Supply being brought up, Captain PECHELL said he regretted the absence of the Hon. Member for Dorchester, but he could not omit the opportunity of expressing his sentiments, seeing the misapprehensions on the part of military men upon the subject, which was brought forward before the House by his Hon. and Gallant Friend the Member for Maryle bone. That Hon. Member stated the unfitness of cer tain stores for the use, either of the army or navy, and that a naval officer should be placed over the Board of Ordnance, to which the Member for Tamworth replied that there was no occasion for a naval officer being so placed over that Board. In that proposition he entirely concurred. He thought it competent for any officer in the army to be attached to the Board of Ordnance, but what he contended for was, that the Board of Ordnance was so connected with the. Admiralty that it was absolutely necessary that a naval officer should be placed over the Ordnance Board. It was surprising that his Hon. and Gallant Friend and Sir R. Stopford were able to elicit the thanks of the House owing to the inefficient state of the Naval Department as to stores and muskets. He should always find it imperative on him, when the Ordnance Estimates were brought forward, to give free expression to his sentiments on this subject. Captain PLUMRIDGE concurred in the Hon. Mem ber's remark, but would reserve what he had to say for a future occasion. The Report on theAdministration.ofJustice Bill (No. 2) was then brought up, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Order of the Day for going into a Committee of Supply was read, for the purpose of postponing it till Monday next. The Population Payments Bill went through a Com mittee, and the Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. On the motion for going into Committee on Ways and Means, Sir C. BROOK VERE said he knew it would be con sidered wrong on his part to allude to a former debate, so far as it respected himself per sonally ; but as the Honourable Member for Man chester had made some very severe remarks on Agricultural Associations, and had named one in parti ticular, the Saxemundham Association, he claimed the indulgence of the House for a few moments while he made a few observations in reference to that Association. He had that day received a letter from A Noble bard, the President of that Association, in which he com plained of the remarks of the Hon. Member. The Hon. Member had said that this Association exhibited all the marks of a Conservative Association, that they drank the health of her Majesty with faint cheers, whilst the health of the Queen Dowager was received with nine times nine. The Earl of Stredbroke was in the Chair when the health of her Majesty was pro posed. He introduced the toast as follows :—" He had the honour to propose a toast which would be always received with the greatest affection by her subjects--the health of her Majesty, and may her Majesty long live in the hearts of her subjects, and be respected by all the nations of the earth."— (Cries of "Hear, hear," on the Ministerial benches.) He (Sir C. B.) could say, from his own knowledge, that the toast was received with every mark of respect and affection. There were the usual cheers, with three times three. " God save the Queen" was sung, the company standing. The Honourable Member himself belonged to the Association, but was not present upon the occasion. and that Association was not one formed for political purposes. The Earl of Stradbroke states in a letter to him (Sir C. B. Vero) that the statement made by the Honourable Member for Manchester was entirely unfounded. He added, that during the ten years the Society had been in existence, he I- ad not allowed a word of a party nature to escape his lips. He had only to say in conclusion that the Society since its commencement had, in his belief, conferred great benefits on the agricultural interests, as well as the labouring classes. Mr. 'lll. GIBSON said that if the House would allow him to make a few remarks in reply to what had fallen from the Hon. and Gallant Member, he should first observe that there was a wide difference between propos ing a toast and drinking it. He could well conceive that the Noble Lord in the Chair had proposed the health of her Majesty in very becoming terms, but it did not therefore follow that the meeting responded to those terms in a manner they might have been ex pected on the occasion. The Hon. and Gallant Member had stated that he had been at the meeting, and that the health of the Queen was drank with the usual honours. But he (Mr. Gibson) could say that a friend of his had also been present, and that not only was there a prefer ence shown in receiving the health of the Queen Dowager but that he had heard some hisses. However that might be, it appeared from a statement in the Ipswich Express, that the health of the Queen was received in the usual manner, while the mention of the Queen Dowager's name created the loudest applause. The Ipswich Journal confirmed that account. He would also remind the House that at the Chelmsford dinner the other day, the Noble Lard in the chair actually eautiened the meet ing to drink the Queen's health with the usual acclama tion, to avoid, as he said, the censure of disloyalty.-- (" Hear, hear," on the Opposition benches.) In reply to the Hon. and Gallant Member's statement, that no political allusion was ever made at the meetings of the society, he begged to remind him, that he himselfstated at the very dinner in question, that he could not help ex pressing the satisfactioa he felt at the late change in the Administmt:on, and at finding that their pro perties and interests were now in safe keeping. These were not the exact words, but they were the sentiments ; and they conveyed clearly the meaning of Gallantfrom the peec Gentleman ro _H He (, M what Gibson) the had i o notn and made an extractbut. he was sure he wit S correct as to it s meaning. Ha was far [Some diseu3Aion ensued for which we cannot find room.—ED. Sun.] CITY of LONDON REGISTRATION. On Saturday a decision was made in this Court before F. Bayley, Esq.. which will have the effect of increasing the constituency of the City in the liveries to the amount of 700 or 800. The particulars of the case are as fol low :—By the 32d section of the Reform Act it is provided, that no person who shall have been elected, made, or admitted a burgess or freeman since the Ist of March, 1831, otherwise than by birth or servitude, shall be entitled to vote in any election, unless that right be derived from some person who was entitled to vote as a burgess or freeman previous to the Ist of March 1831 or through some person who shall become a burgess of freeman in respect of servitude. The 33d section of the Refbrm Act appears to have a reservation for those who may purchase into liveries, as it uses the words free men and liverymen," relative to those who may have the right of voting in cities or boroughs. A Mr. Baggally, of Camberwell and Lincoln's Inn, purchased into the livery of the Merchent Tailors' Company, and claimed to be placed on the registry last Tuesday, and urged his claim with much • cogency before Mr. Bayley. The authorities in that Court were all against him up to this registration, but the Learned Barrister,. in giv ing judgment yesterday, affirmed the right. The question he had to decide was, whether the first proviso of the 32d section applies to freemen and liverymen, or was it confined in its operation to persons entitled to vote as burgesses or freemen only. His de cision proceeded on the legal principle, that disfran chising clauses must be construed strictly, without re ference to the intentips 'ef ; the framers of a law. In " Fludyer and Lombe Rep." tempore ., Lord Hardwicke, 307, cited also by Mr. Elliott, p. 146, Lord Hardwicke, speaking of the statute 11 Geo. 1., c. 18, which was made to define who were entitled to vote as householders within the City of London, he observed, it had been rightly said that this being a law to take away people's franchises, should be construed strictly, and that men were not to be excluded from voting unless they w ere excluded by the plain words and pennings of the statute. A question then arose, was there sufficient doubt reason ably entertained of the intention of the Legislature in reference to the liverymen ? He thought there was ; and, further, that the proviso did not apply to freemen and liverymen, but may be fairly construed to apply to persons only who, but for the proviso, would have been entitled to vote. He considered the Legislature had words sufficiently expressive to convey their meaning, if they intended to disfranchise all those who purchased their livery since March, 1831. He therefore admitted the name of Mr. Baggally to the registry. This decision, in a political light, will cut both ways. It is difficult to say whether it will enfranchise a greater number of Tories or Reformers ; but it is the first deci sion since the Reform Bill which has registered pur chased liverymen. AYR JUSTICIARY COURT, SEPT. 21. The Autumn Circuit was opened here yesterday, by the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Mackenzie. John M'Culloch, ploughman, Wheatpark, parish of St. Evox, was charged with culpable homicide ; having, on the 14th of July last, recklessly thrown a dog into a coalpit, situated on the farm of Wheatpark, by which • a person of the name of David Steel, who was corning up the pit at the time in a bucke, was precipitated to the bottom, and killed upon the spot. The prisoner pled not guilty. Robert Harvey, bank man, deposed that on the 14th of July last, the prisoner came to the pit for coals, which were _ refused, because •he had neither money nor his master's line for the same. He had a dog along with him. Pannell, after talking awhile, said he would give any man a gill of whisky that would kill the dog. Wit ness answered, in jest, that the best way that he knew to kill the dog was to throw him down the pit. 111‘Culloch immediately caught the dog by the tail, and threw it into the pit. He heard a cry come up the pit before the tub, ! which contained one man and two boys, reached the top. David Boyd, the oversman was in the tub, and some words passed between him and the pannel, at the pit head, which witness did not hear. About twenty minutes afterwards the dead body of Steele was brought up. It was quite a common thing fur workmen in the pit to come up at all hours of the day. John 111. Cal hillsman, was next interrogated, and corro borated the testimony of the preceding witness regarding the prisoner's coming to the pit for coals, and the sug gestion that led him to commit the rash act, which, he averred, took place about mid-day. No remark was made when the dog was thrown down ; but he heard two squeels come up the pit a few moments thereafter. The dog did not strike any part of the railing, but went straight down. When the tub came up the pit the overs man who was in it, said a man was knocked down. At the moment the act was committed, pannel came to witness, and caught him by the shoulder, while tears were running down his cheeks ; but he said nothing whatever. Pannel never said that the dog had escaped out of his hands. Witness knew there were men coming up in the bucket at the time by the signal. The dog was about forty or fifty pounds weight. Witness did not think that the prisoner intended to throw the animal down the pit. David Boyd, the oversman, then deposed that he, the deceased, and two boys, were coining up the pit at the time alluded to—two holding on by one side of the chain and two by the other. He did not know what it was that struck Steel and knocked him out till he came to the top. The dog fell into the tub, and was brought up along with them. The tub was about 12 fathoms from the top, and about 36 from the bottom—the pit being about 453- fathoms deep. Steel's son was in the tub at the time. He gave two cries when his father went away from him. The tub was about four feet in length, and nearly twenty four inches in height. The thing fell straight on th e man's head ; and witness drew Steel's boy to him, nd said, " hold your tongue my wee man, your father's gone sure enough." M'Culloch, several times after wit ness got to the top, came to him, and wished him to go down and get the corpse •, but never mentioned that the dog escaped from his hands. John Stephenson and 1). Campbell, Esq., Mounthamil ton, were then examined in exculpation, who stated that the prisoner, during the time he was in their employment, was of a mild disposition, good to his horses, and a most inestimable servant. The Jury retired to consider their v er di ct, an d re turned, after the lapse of some . time, findin g t h e pr i soner guilty as libelled, but recommending him t o th e l en i ency of the Court. The LORD JUSTICE CLERK, after alluding to the rash ness and culpability of the act which he had committed, sentenced the pannel to three months' imprisonment. THE SLAVE TRADE.-EXTRA- ORDINARY EXPOSURES. The following is a copy the petition presented to the House of Lords on Monday night by Lord Brougham: — "TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS „7 -) !RITUAL AND TEMPORAL cmri ut\„:"Ell KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN --‘ ND' IN PARLIAMENT ASS EM • AND IRLLs c the Committee of the Bri " 'rite Peitlpn b. Society. tish and p ait i gti -ers sincerely " Shutteth-‘-.Thati whilst "tpir• rot , 'ls been rejoice ft* flit that th e Aftlean slave trade,_ declared piracy V Oki t/r Otis country, that the law of the land tiOtitmes - eury British subject directly or ind irectl y engaged therein as a fekm, and subject s him on conviction to the ignir. Inin;.ous punishment of a felon, they deeply l amen t n and y that not a few of their opulent countrymen,oocu- pying influential positions in ety in her M soci a maar nufactur ers and merchants, as officers aje s sty's navy, and as civil functionaries, are well known to have been guilty of this flagrant crime, either personally 'or by their agents , unawed b y the fear of God or of man, and that they still persist in the same, unaffected by cru el sufferings and degradation they inflict on humanity, the and uninfl ue nced by the requirements and denuneiat ions t m itio n n ( e )r rs di i ‘ Y i o n i e ild the attention of of ,l,alw:irawt•heytohnerr human your Right Hon. House to the fact, that there have been formed, at different periods during the last fifteen years, v arious Mining Companies in this country, with large capitals at their disposal, who carry on their oper a ti ons in the empire of Brazil, or in the Spanish island of Cuba; c t i i i r :a t sea theirby t Izi e n a e g s ei a i t t • s e o l f vothtsee d cpanics ; that the It veater principally by slav e s pur p4.4l, if not the whole, of these victims of oppression have ~; ~;. from us ; in the other, the sharper. Now, if one of the lawmakers had detected the sharper picking his pocket, he would have lifted up his eyes to heaven in pious abhorrence, wondering how be could be such a villain, and would have had him committed to bridewell. Yet how aptly might the sharper plead 1 He could say, " I wanted more money. lam too idle to work : to rob is easier. But, alas ! lam not a lawmaker ! had beets sa t I could have robbed respectably; I could have passed a Rhin* to enrich myself, and with the proceeds have built churches utid prisons for the benefit of those who rob by the ignoble industry of their hands instead of by the invisible and ingenious machinery of a Corn-law." That which on the small scale is called cheating, on the large scale is designated statesmanship. " One murder makes a villain ; millions a hero." These laws, being unjust, must be maintained by physical force. A just and equitable law requires no forest of bristling bayonets to enforce,it. As a commercial people, we have too strong an interest in the security of property to oppose any laws which guarantee the welfare of society. • It is even doubtful whether force alone would be effectual in maintaining such enactments were their whole iniquity apparent. If the bread of ivhich we are defrauded were openly taken from off our tables, the villainy would be so palpable and insufferable that no Government would dare to attempt it. But the assistance of fraud is called into effect that which brute force alone dare not attempt; and a portion of our bread is taken from us by fraudn lently raising its price, and thereby diminishing the quantity which we can buy for a given amount of labour. We have the best authority for saying that the Corn laws impose an amount of taxation more than equal to the whole expense of Government ; and this, not tor any general purpose, but for the exclusive benefit of the law making class. .But this enormous injustice is not the worst. By the unequal operation of indirect taxation, this burden is made to press heaviest where it can least easily he borne. Rich and poor alike are bread-eaters ; but the poor man who spends. ss. a week in bread out of a weekly income of 10s., pays 25., or 10 per cent. income tax ; while the aristocrat, with an income of 200,000/. per annum, or 40CI per week, pays only 25., or less than three farthings per cent. upon his income. Now, his fair proportion ought to be 40/. per week, or 20,0001. a-year, to the robbery chest ; indeed, as he can afford to pay in higher proportion, he should be charged more than this, especially as he probably will receive part back again in the form of increased rent, while the poor artisan receives nothing back ; on the contrary, by diminishing trade, his wage s are l owere d an d hi s i ncome diminished, as well as his expenditure increased.—Anli- Becad-tax Circular. .EVENING SU IST I been illicitly imported into these county "..5 fit plod wh en such importations were declar&4 'coestrabat!_. felonious, or piratical, and. as your petitiovel's are g . • formed and believe, still contrive to purchaso. nect l Y; ported Africans, to supply the wastes of mor4 e meet the other exigencies of their establisliwz.Ls. of " That your petitioners lament to say that offic er i n her Majesty's army and navy, as well as functi marine' c . c onne nd the civil service, have accepted engagements inr lee the pe d, tion with these Companies, and they are infois ned, ° e a believe that such persons have been the agents en 'PL e Y in the purchase of slaves on account of the same. " That your petitio ners ca ll th e a tt e ntion of Ye ur Right Honourable House to the fact, that banking filbeel; panies, with large fund s a t th e i r di sp 1 11 osal, have als° formed in this country, and th a t th e y either have alr ./ . formed, or are in process o f forming, branch establ , r merits in countries where the slave trade is carried onr where slafery in all its horrors still exists. " That your petitioners grieve to say that there ar e : . manufactured in this counrry, in enormous qu antities , ( r. tides which are known by the name of coast goo ds ' which are employed exclusively in the African slaves trade in barter for human beings, and that. these f° llll considerable branch of the export tr a d e of this count/ 16, Brazil and Cuba, and the western coast of .Africe. " That the consignees of British merchants and nnin ll l : facturers, or branch houses of their establishments 1., Brazil and Cube, dispose of such goods to persons we i . l known ns traffickers in human beings, and not unf r L e quently havc, if not a direct, yet an indirect intermit, vY ci conditional arrangements, in the guilty traffic itself that in all cases they vend such goods well knowing t b , disgraceful and inhuman object to which they are L° applied. lro& " ThPt your petitioners have grounds for knowing t ' ike vessels have been built in this country specially f°r . slave trade, and they have reason to fear that many ) 4 ..' been covertly prepared for that nefarious traffic in tish harbours. " That your petitioners deeply re gre t t o a dd, that Bt " tish subjects have become the p urc h asers o f ~estates Brazil and the Spanish colonies, w hi c h th e y Work I: In slaves, and which they have stocked, either wholly part, with newly-imported African s , th us givintr. L . k le hy . nefit of their wealth, skill, and enterpri s e to the its' ll. tenance of these enormous evils. "It will thus be seen by your right Honourable 11911 that British subjects, instigated by the sordid lo' t. ae 6 .. gain, to the great dishonour of their country, and in on its laws, are eith e r di rec tly or i n di rec tly On''' . the chief props and su pp or t s o f t h e Af r i can s l ave trane n ; ' that they supply c a pit a l or th e means o f carrying i, t h : ? ; to a fearful extent, re c kl ess o f t h e m i ser i es w hich inflict on the human race, the insult they offer Most High, and of the evil example they set to otl'e";,), that they obstruct the consummation of that greet o: e ' n to which the Legislature, the Government, and the ta . plc of this country have so nobly devoted themselves, 5 .1 to secure which they have spent millions of the nat ie „. ll. /1 treasure ; that they offer the chief impedimenL `;' si peaceful, legitimate, and luceative commerce with .A.Lri e that they prevent the civilisation and religious imPr ° ts; ment of its people, and rends : . the expensive arrrenn en n a which are kept up on th e coast of Africa, Cuba , g di. Brazil, the means of increasing the horrors without minishing the extent of the slave trade. "Your petitioners, therefore, earnestly implore r ut , Right Honourable House either to extend the provisll e of the Act 5 Geo. IV., ca p. 113, co ' nmon ly c alled t, Consolidated Slave T ra d e A c t o f 18 9 4, so as effect onby to prevent British subjects from h o ldi ng.an d purc ha tft g .. of slaves in fcreign countries, under any pretences w"" t bring soever, and to to speedy and condign punisin ° . /1 .; those of them who have hitherto violated with iinP uni u 6 r 4 the existing laws ; or t o appo i nt a C omm i t t ee of Y -n he ' Right Honourable House' to inquire forthwith int ° , t b e facts alleged by y our petitioners, whose duty it shall to report to you r Ri g ht H onoura bl e H ouse s uch Ine w . sures as may be d eeme d requ i s i te to suppress effeeLn a the guilty practices referred to. "And your petitioners will ever pray, &C. 0 " JNO. WOODW.ARK, Chairman., POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAN SION-110U SL. Thomas Horatia Sothers, wh o was a confidential clerk in the late firm of M essrs . F oster an d Whi s tl e r, who le ' sale grocers in Funchurch-street, was called upon pear to undergo e xam i nation upon t h e c h arge of J 10 10 11 4; embezzled a large sum o f money , t h e proper ty dins e a , ployers, but did not a n swer , an d a grea t d ea l of ind.'g , n he tion was e x pr esse d u p on t h e occas i on b y M r . F o ster,. 1 11 ,„ immediately applied th a t th e recogn i zances of the (lei' d dant should he estreated. The only charge which hs been gone into against the delendant upon his first ap- i , pearance at the bar was the charge of having embezlee,' the sum of 9CI, which had been paled to him on acco unt of his employers by a retail grocer who dealt with the n for goods. Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, appeared for the prosee ly tion, and stated that he was ready to go fully Into tb case, but the defendant, for whom respectable bail h ad been given, not having daring the day m a de his er r pearance, the prosecutor was informed, upon applying ' ° „f the estreat of the recognizances, that as a rastvo course the recognizances would be estreated in tht s ‘„ r chequer. Mr. Foster imm e di a t e ly drew up a a r e - s , offering a reward of 50/. for th e a pp re h ens ion of Sotk i e re Two men who are in the employm e nt of Mr. Abre -i ''' re John Favenc, of Lower Thames -street, merchant, vvf :- brought up. took the p r S i t s r o e n e e t , r s C i i n tr o p c o u l s i t c o e d m y a , n h , a N vi ( n ). g s ,. .ese,n them stated at aht e. ;! . past eight o'clock in possession of some bottles of ran' of which they could not give a satisfactory account. or 6 Mr. Favenc stated th a t th ere cou ld not b e two 11/the honest hard-working m en th an th e poor fellows et,A-1 bar. In consequ ence o f th e i r goo d conduct be Vhirg Favenc) had given bet ween th em an d anot h er man in ,"be - employment the lees of w i ne w hi c h h a d remained at'or bottom of casks, and w hi c h m i g h t h ave filled eigh t nine bottles, as a sort of perquisite, to which he c° o ' sidered them well entitled. Some judgment might 1 1 ; 10 . been- formed of his astoni s h men t th en u p on hearing t o f they were locked up in the Compter upon suspiele n y, having stolen the property. He immediately went t i , c) o gy Compter and represented that the p oor men were wv blameless, but he was informed that they coed n et ;o discharged until . they should a pp ear a t the gan s s . House. lie did not of'eourse attempt to interfere w_lde, the usual forms on occasions of accusation, but he n ye . a most particular request th a t th e men s hould no t dragged through the streets as c ri m i na l s b e f or e the pob.i e. n i Sir P. LAURIE—And of course no thi ng o f the was done ?—Mr. Favenc said, that notwithstanding i " e a . most earnest remonstrance, the men were actually obliged' to walk handcuffed in th e cus t o dy o f th e polieee l o s o through the streets. He begged to say that a heartless and unjust thing could not have been done. Sir P. LAURIE—NO doubt of it. It was cruel i n to extreme. Pray (to the policeman) who authorised yo gi put handenffs upon the men? P o li ceman No. 53 5 inspector ordered me. if Sir P. LAuntE--I have noticed that your irsPee" ° particularly font?.of charges, and that he abounds volous ca ses . Thi s is rea lly s h oc ki ng , an d can not be ''"7 strongly reprobated. Mr. Hobler said that no doubt by-and-bye the would do everything they fancied to do, however tyl7lo nical it might be. The power given to them was e inif mous, and enormously abused; and it would be co .° . re necessary for high authorities to interfere, to prever:" . spectable people from being completely over-riddcLs' Sir P. LAURIE in disclmrging the poor men, exPr n tbe i his sincre regret at the cruel ttemtment to which wit' had been subjected, and told theta that they left that_.. without the Slightest imputation upox - i their charade SILVER WATCHES, LONDON-MAD . Low B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, Na. o,Cornhill, . a led° don (opposite the Bank of England), subunit for se hole very large STOCK of SILVER WATCHES, th e . f eS" which are made and finished under the careful irs perienced workmen on their own premises, and ea eh wad for correct performance. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with d bl -b 4 0 ou e ac engine -turned cases, warranted... Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, hard enamelled - dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed cases, 5. 0 warranted .. Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in four holes, hard enamelled dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed engine -turned cases, 6 " warranted 4 0 0 ' Either of the above in silver hunting-cases, 10s. 6 , " h e mo t ' pecties anted A Large variety of Second-hand Silver Watehes, wh ic " it aeh" been carefully examined, and can be warranted, at 2/. .^ 35. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, bO s • tog SET, of FULL-SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. 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