The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-09 00:00:00

ca ct ich 'ROM THE DAILY PAPERS YESTERDAY. ied ;li t an . uld ird igo In; ea' oto RV ENING EDITION SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS .. (From the Gl o b e .) kiv e the at Li verpoo l o f t h e W est Chesty., from uesuoitietsa rk, we have received inteligence from the r States up t o t h e 18th ult i mo. T he pro b a bl e sthrebr of eserythe arrest and trial of Mr. M'Leod upon so ation of peace w i th England was the all-ab ag topi c w i th the American public. Considerable excitement had been occasioned by the publication of the Report presented to the House of th Representatives 13 th of F e b ruary by the Chairman of the Com mittee on For e i gn R elatives. This document, wh i ch 7:publish entire, is, we think, anything but creditable „ th e Commit tee , in the rarn ' e of which it was drawn e and presented to the House. The incautious and ,Itimsonederiegactitiset:eexpressions in which it indulges toward Eng 4"e—the yaoneifestly h i ghly. colaured, partial, and obviously in merits of the affair of the Caroline, and the untenable grounds on which the State of New K 1 8 justified in the course it Las pursued towards e _ r • -McLeod for his alleged part in that transaction—all y e roee th at % A n • passion actuated the " bare neijolity" of the co:1(1413We from which it emanated ; who, instead of „, n o ting the investigation with the coolness of states 1-"taeLl, proceeded in the true spirit of partisanship, and - I , "'Pad every paragraph of the Report with the Pr e etrai heg character of their deeply-seat :d prejudices. s e oe c utu P e anl t fol effect which this intemperate " party e h eri et must otherwise produce on the strongly -4,14 8 ,.",ed hopes of the people of this country of an the adjustment of the dispute, will be much relieved et c" to. e of the principal speakers in the debate which seel on the quest i on of pr i nt i ng the Report. I t '1 7_Prflear,s that th e R eport was sanctioned by " a ba-e ma ,la .. tY ) of th e C ommittee from which it emanatei ; and was iu°Lieeed both in it s sp i r it an d ten d ency b y th e res t. freue ehservations of Mr. Granger, one of the dissentients t i z n the Rep ort, and of Mr. A•'ams, who justly stigma lthe document as of a strictly party character, and eclared that " it fell on the house like a clap of s u g eader Ma summer's day," will find a strong response in _4..re4t proportion of the thinking part of the population both countries. The Report was ordered to he printed LtheYet,arj.yority of 103 to 68. By the time it was in the "fire(l3 of the members we have little doubt but the beries" of the house were materially cooled by bilit el V or tunity afforded for reflection. The possi °l as interruption of the pacific relations between ! k an d and Fr ance b e i ng remove d , the war party to n 'erica will find themselves much more disposed bistea to th e suggestions of reason than they would e were •of the chanc e o f em b arrass i ng t h e G ov ernment Alt Chiai en unteY, by anobstinate rfusal to liberate tPie. A ‘'eod, and to make o sati a sfation e for the outrage to etreted anon his person, still in existence to ex its j e the "Fes of a successful refusal to comply . with ofe;;st,requisitions. We see nothing in this manifesto they P L Y and unreasonable denunciations, qualified as h e ti at e he the strong expressions of dissent and repro that th ea with which it was received, to shake our belie te at Peace will be preserved. The violence of the docu 'it will go far to neutralize its intended effect. (From the Standard.) yeTil!,- W estchester, American packet-ship, arrived . Ne w er "Y in 18 days from New York. She brings k weor papers to the 17th ult. In these papers Aff a n i tid the Report of the Committee on Foreign deuces'r to which had been referred the correspon reetis u p o n Mr. M'Leod's case—a document which make tha t i t e every Englishman blush .to remember •eo t „, ) 31.0 ceeds from men of the English race. We tei t ieeto not of its angry and envious tone as regards tot : 4111 ' 4 Y—for anger and envy (at least :Jealousy) are cati on b ase ; b ut w h at moves s h a me and indig teho'n is the trickery and falsehood to which men boat W a e suPPose are not the very meanest and hsrg e sPised of all the citizens of the States, te eh - h_int scrupled so put their names. If the Commit of th e '' ; said at th e b eg i nn i ng, as th ey h ave sa id at the end, ua Report, " England is too powerful—she outruns mat arts, in arms, and in commerce—she will not sub ese,edt° our de man d s on t h e b oun d ar y question, de lily . 8 ,Which we are afraid to enforce by direct hosti 'et us therefore, by murdering an innocent r"181 '" Iswi an , s u bject, whom a foolish reliance upon our mer ee ee -4 our hospitality has thrown upon our e e ,' — if the Committee had, we say, at first 'Whi c h ca ndidly this explanation of their motives, 'salt. et last they cannot conceal, the insult to sense still t lati ee would have been violent enough, but my Inen who offered it would have escaped the . tet e ': the mis era bl e p e ttif og ging by which theya The — se t° justify an act of foul, premeditated murder. of all port is exceedingly long, according to the usage t Bong Who off er apo l og i es for acts o f scoun d re li s m ; bu 1 %4 • ? it is, it must be read fully to appreciate the end the h onour o f its authors. (From the Courier.) not dra w Shall pretend more to-day than merely do e the attention of our readers to the extraordinary Stat en and and imp or t an t i n telligence from the United eort t es. transmitted to us this morning by our active lid i eli P °4 dent at Li verpoo l. The document in question ‘ 4 ; the shape o f a R epor t f r om the Committee on le wt e ', l gn Aff a i rs to t h e H ouse o f R epresenta ti ves , pre the e ' h 37 Mr. Pickens, the Chairman, drawn up in f a wildest war sense, a confused and heterogenous °aseote4,4o, °f professing facts and false inferences, and altogether in the most inflated and born ootee t language. The leading matter of this ldtee stre- e rci era to the capture, conflagration, and - th; c "° l l of the piratical steamer, Caroline,with ki s •: rr esf, imprisonment, and proceedings against d , isseel'LLeod growing out of it. Without intending to °tit n by consecutive process the attempted reasonin .t g re vague declamation running all through ilo ni 'Y be allowed to cull some few of . the else: A ra , 3 f fact and speech it abounds with, in f e (11 the rank exuberance of the mental soil . rom tor -;" p r oduced and of the excited senses of the auditory 41 / .. l ;se gratification evidently destined. For example ld tall l ekens starts ab origine with what logicians wou Th e 4 luPPressio veri, or rather a discolouration of truth.bets e el actio n o f C ana di an re b e l s an d U n it e d St a tes rob. treo r 4 ti t i Navy Island is described as an " unusual and ex auraenarycollection o f a d ven turous men." And he as eiet 4s a that th e C aroline was occup i es ' i n peace f u lly run to I . ' , flny boat from Schlosser, on the American kay to Navy I s l an d, b ecause " th er e is no proof that er ee " t elt or munitions of war were carried in the boat, leer" Perhaps, one small sixpounder fieldpiece, be couldg, to I a passenger." What a simple passenger odd i'aye to do with six-pounders sen:ns extrerne S tele s, " it is not known to be usual in the United Itrtibe anywhere else, for ferry-boats to carry heavy w ater r Y, or for passengers to shoot or hunt by land o eta s ;, with field pie:es. Here follows, however, a taL'eation of the freebooters of Navy Island `AMC ° Reporter, which would have startled any other th, --n ee by the flagrancy of its falsehood ; but which traeeePted and acquiesced in as the most incontestable ti -ti n th • " AU," says this Mr. Pickens, or Pickwick, .nri l t' sl ez wed in the outbreak or excitement within the . resistinrisdiction claimed to be British subjects, 44 it*1 of the authorities of Canada, a province of the we s Bl ' etreeti re. E ven admitt i ng, t h en, t h at th e Caroline itite en g e g esi in contraband trade, yet it was with wite 0 , 8 ,W 0 elaimed to be subjects of the same emire of th ""se who were styled the legitimate officers . Rands p r °eine e.„" This is the first time certainly the bri lhetalsswer,e ev is- said to claim a; British subjects. Ge leer at4 eelan el the tailor, and General Van Rensse we : s r "? elide T-in-chief of the gang, assuredly did not „t Beleish subjects, nor, when sham process thee onort them by the New York authoriti cs, t elase to plead to American jurisdiction. let 415 (1 11Y0ieP II NG OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 7 -4.,,, eur- .1 • • the House of COMMO-S of toe , i . , ie l i Is 4 .uetttirt into 4 rda ,iu t i 1 1 spv IrT is effected to the country house up i - s 14; i; 7 1,00 0/..pe • annum. The body of the (•, t4 sas gutc ti for 6; :lye shillings a I - 4 . 1A, and the library, Nia' k E : e oturnittet t '-room, &c , are lighted fur 1301. 1e: T i 41' LATE WILLIAM JONES.—In our obi -3.0. r Y of 1 name of William .I',,' , es ~ l a st week will be found thfi :." th;l,,_Sowerby, near Thirsts . ; and i; so bri .f a not.ce TN., s nail be said of roar Billy ? No, we will endei "el- Den a short record. to rcicue from oblivious for kti kti 9" l the memory cf a man so celebrated. Jones was k Luairtyalled artist in his profession, elevating to a seicac . e, teNtallas which in other hand; is a mere vulgar and dis 11 :1111d e n c in a ,, ili ng• But during half a century of . existence: pad c cr, with all his aptness (and many bittz.r lessons 141 " 3 'l -e made to understand that berey, partridgc, al ont slie4 small deer, were made by God for the rich !, 13t 1;i,„!, " : many a scrape hi; obtuseness in that respect a , •,ei tor: -.., int ). Billy Jor.C3 was, in short (not t l'ep a : 3l.l s, but) a f amous poac h er . Dd. it not 4 4 111 1 4 t . ,° o much on your limits, we could tell many stories Iga tk 4 u'ven 'au\ , ,s, his bold, unique, and successful . stra- Is e4ti s, aid , 'pis superhuman endurance of fatigue in prnc -1144°,9 (4 the. predatory sports to which he was so e 7 kak,s"cally alttached. Poor Billy I His death will f tSe N:4llteeure of the places of half - the gamekeepers o I lla to , „ r t° Ridin g of Yorkshire, whom Billy has sent on Pur i ,. " wild goo !e chase, on ma .y a wrong scent, fir ihe '34or°'''.l of cate.hin • him, while he has securely carried I:r erred Wit% in the abundance of the heart of their pro -1711%.11' Ye? for sn-Ln years has the chance of catching 4 I L, ex cited the hopes cY and sharpened the wits of 1 %7 5 It, T and near, hut chiefly the of his Loraship t i i l isffij,rai l i.z - •ti to whose preserves (to the secret ‘, 4 . 11. 4 t Cr., of tie Duncombe tenantry, on whose :11 i inc h ee k i abundance of game made great ra ti7tl )' ""' les e- „nstarit visitant. By ti.e bye, Billy tt ""i t'a el tine w ( w as , - e n - , `'now on what grounds) to be a ,e:,rtitt:l4 lies ( LorLhi, al , -e claimi: g part , of d the Dun_'llher ' ft, estate, ' time "'re, as he . the to say, ki h „ ets ~..„,..., and,. ' , sperting on his own c r , 1? i -I , ..sie narm in a gentleron. his Lordship's in ee asin gl , .12,tit we rather suspect, had sue %a:°d i ' I xu.-nerous and much harrassC.4 keepers his kinship lAiuld , t tbeir eager desire of catching II the ma dot have h tood him in much need. Poor Poor Billy I 4 4 4 " '-''' "Y of him . as Prince Hall s aid ,, o \ f v F:alstaff, and 4 li i 'merit is felt by all who knew him, t, qtrvd a better m t. could have N, ' )1 1 5, , an."—Leeds Times. lIIi W l IIJ . e ssels are fi ti `ing to conveyh conv i cts to will take her Ari l4l tr: t r i ,.' ' I r lees, na me l y , the Asia, wine 1 14 t11) er s r`°4),; Portsmouth i ' C. Ireland ; e " th e R r3 r a. the River • th 's oi l • • , Vte ta 4r a Ja a, female transnor,'"' the Layton, , to embark her IV aver, ey . Rive,. All the from the G V) be landed at ' Hobb, irt Town. JUSTICE IN THE CAUCASUS. (From the Gazette des Tribunaux.) JUSTICE CF THE TARTARS OF THE CALICASUS.-FUNISH MENT OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER AND OF FIVE SOLDIERS BV BEING IMPALED ALIVE TIFLIS (GEORGIA), DEC. 4. Amongst the warlike tribes that inhabit tae mountains of Caucasus, one of the most numerous and firmidable, per haps, is that of the Avariane. The Avarials, like the Tchetchenets, the Lesghis, the Abases and other Circassian mountaineers, wage a continual war against the Russians, and consider the booty they may plunder, and the prisoners they make, a= their source of riches, and they usually sell the latter t) the Kurcie;, the Armenian-, or the Persians. A particular custom amongst the Av.irians, who, as well as other warlike tribes, share the prisoners betAeca them after every contest or fortum,te exp dition, is the following : The prisoners, beiag brought together on the same spot, re maine:i exposed f,r seven suns, in order that all the mern i era of ;11.1 tribe may examine and question them as they think proper. On the eigth day a tribunal, composed of six old men, srlecied from the most eclat-a:el and vme rated if the t ibe—t ) which is ad led the Khan, who pre sides—is convened, is crier to hear all the charges that may be made against any of the prisoners. The verdicts pronounced by this dreadful tribunal are immediwely put in force. One of those savage assize?, the details of which we gather from a Russian journal, i ecently took place in the forest Boujnaki, not far from Tiflis, a central point of the Gover.iment of Georgia. On the 10th June otl ast year a murderous engagement, almost a battle, took pLce between the Russian troops commanded by Generals Test, Grabbe, and S3zojef, and the Circassian tribes united under the command of Schaal mil, Khan of the Tchetehenets, who is now looked upon as the supreme chief of the federation cf all the trihea of the mountaineers. The batCe, which took place in the plain of Daghes tan, at the foot of the Soula hills, listed from daybreak until after sunset. The mountaineers then, after baying obtained a brilliant advantage over the Czar's disciplined troops, regained their icaccessible retreats, loaded with booty, and bringing with them many prisoners. The AVB- , rians returned to their tents with 138 prisoners, which they had male in the Russian ranks. In the centre of the forest of Boujnaki, in a glade, is a sort of hut covered with rends, which is called the Khan's Ca.tle. The outside is far from rt - sembling the sumptuous palaces of the Tartar Khans of the Crimea ; but in the inside there is to be found the same Oriental splendour, the same richness, and that abundance arising from sulasLies and tithes collected by the yntagan in hood. It was on this spot 'hit the Russia.; prisoners were ex posed, against whose flight the following precautions were taker. Each prisoner, having his hands strorgly bound behind his back, had beshies round his neck one of those ropes with a slip knot which the Tartars use to catch ,Aild horses, and which they call arcan. The end of the role was fixed to a wooden Make driven in the ground. About fifty Avarians, carrying muskets and yataywis, were continually set over the prisoners, wailst at eery minty e of the day the members of the trite used to walk about that species of green, eyeing pith intensi curiosity the wretches who wire thus exp7sed, and endeavourirgto recagni , ,e their physiognomy, but qu.stianing both in the Tamar (laleet and the Russian language. Id the Khan's residence. the six old men held their sittings, to w Linn :he former farmed part, for there west be seven judges, as well as the summits cr white crests of Cie Elbroouz, which the tribe of Avarians consi der as the teat of the dis inities that try men after their death. After seven days had been devoted to the preli minary formalities of the trial, at the moment when day light began to appear, an Avarian struck three times t' - .e silver cymbals, which are icvaria'olv hung before the Khan's residence. On that signal Mendis-Khan and the six old men came out. The Avariens are neither Mahomedans nor Christians; their religion, if such a name can be given to their singular doctrines of Paganism, consists in attributing an ephemeral but supernatural power to the first object of nature which strikes them on the commencement of each day. The divinity which they thus create, and which lasts but four. and-twenty hours, is replaced the following day with as little ceremony. On leavin g the tent, the Khan and the old men cast their eyes to heaven, and Mendly-Khan, perceiving a crow, exclaimed, " The crow is God I' when immediately all those around him uttered exclamations of joy and adors:- tine. A carpet was then laid on the ground in the !live of a horse-shoe : the judges took their places after the Turkish fashion, the Khan squatting down in the middle; the cymbals were then struck loudly, and when the noise ceased, on a signal from the chief, three accusers came forward. " I have identified five of the prisoners to be truly Cabardians (Ciresssiens of the Plain)," said Ali Raman, one of the most valorous Avarian cavaliers, advancing in the midst of the circle ; " these miserable deserters served in the Russian ranks ; they are still dressed in the uniform of the slavish soldiers. I accuse them of treason, for they have borne arms against their fathers ; I demand that they may be punished by a sentence of death." The second accuser, Mohammed Bey, afterwards appeared. " Amongst the prisoners," he said, "is a Rus sian officer, whose punishment I require. This officer, whose name is Font-Mayer, came last year in our moun tains dressed as a plain soldier, and presented himself to us as a deserter. We received him with compassion, be cause we thought he was unfortunate. He slept in our tents. He ate our rice and our hunzys, and subsequently he returned to his people to disclose what he had dis covered of our strength and projects. The officer, Font- Mayer, is a Russian spy. I demand his life as a repara tion of his cowardly and odious crime." Azral-Long, the third accuser, reprcached another officer, Nicolas Bachanof, for having cheated hint at the fair of Vladicaucase, by giving him geld containing alloy for the price of two horses which he had sold. " We have heard the accusations of Ali- Raztan, of Mo hammed Bey, and Azral-Leng, ims artially," told Mendly- Khan, rising from his seat. " Let ,he accused be brought hither, and, by the Holy Crow, the God of this day, ne swear never to sit down nor to take repose till justice his been done either on the prisoners or thc;r eceusers." The five Cabardians made prisoners from the Russian ranks first appeared. They adrisi•t,cl their Circasian origin, but they successively urged as an exeme that they had been forced against their will by ti.e Muse ,vite autho rities to enter and to remain in the Emperor's service. " The imprisoned bird, when emancipated from its cage, flies away and regains it; naeive woods," replied the Khan. Silence reigned in the assembly. The Judges appeared to be consulting, and the crowd di ew off, not to interrupt their deliberations. Three crashes of the cymbals recalled the people, and Khan Mendly pronounced the following decree:— " Praise be to the Holy-Crow, who has infused his light upon justice l Wolves do not fight with wolves. C reas sians ought riot, therefole, to make war upon Circassians. He is a traitor who, to sustain slavery, takes arms against his free brethren. Let our yategans fall on- the heads of the Muscovites like hailstone cf the storm on a field destined to desiractim. Let them disappear like the smoke of our hearths, but at the same time let our justice punish traitors like the thunder. Death f r the traitors. Let them be impaled, to punish their treason." The offie.:r Fent- Mayer was brought in, but he refused to answer any questions of theJudge'. The Khan then passed sentence upon hint as follows :—" To have his e) ea torn out, because it was by their means he had found Isis way to the tribe ; to have his 1- gs amputate i afterwards because they Were those which ca'iiei him into the country ; to have his eat-s stopped up with melte 1 lead, because those ears had listened to the secrets of the Avarians ; to have his tongue cut out, beeaute I e Lad used it to relate what he hal seen and heard; and, after these acts, to be finally put to death by being impaled." When this barbarous sentence was passed, the unfor tunate officer lost the self-possession he had hitherto mani fested, and his resolution abandoned hire. „He began to indulge in threats and impi ecasieus, and, in 'his frenzied desieur, menaesd, in the Cabardian language, a speedy vengeance for the insult to the Emperor corntreted in his person. " Our verdict is just," said the Khan ; then embracing affectionately Mohammed Bey, " Blessed be your dis covery," said he ; " that Russian was really a spy ; let him howl, his impaled tongue will soon be turned to ice." Bachanof, the other officer whom Azral-Leng accused of having given in payment altered nioee was tut last to apt e r before the. terrible Judges. " The gold which I gave for the horses is the sAne with which the paymaster of our corps d'arinec paid me some days before. If it be not good, as my accuser states, the fault dots not rest nil' me, and you may corevn CJ yourself that that is cineent 'hroughout all the States of my august master the Em- perar." "Arc you speakirg truth ?" said the Khan, casting q suspicious look on the cdll,:,er, who retained a noble and immovable countenance. " I am telling tle truth, I call the Holy Virgin and St. Nicholas to witnel:F," replied Buelialtf. " Wit( n a man :s worthy to beAr a sword, he teaks not to save h:s Lie by a lie." I u-pend the jadgmert to be aw,rded agi i st you," said the KhAt, " ut,ti the time. may it be near at hand l when your Ein; eror shall fall into our banes IF whit "ou state be true, you shall be fri e, and your Empe , or shall be punished ; if you aTe guilty of an untruth, you shall be punished, and we shall seAl- , affairs with your Em peror, not I,ke enemies, tut like judger." Four days after that horrible executicn, the Russian sen tinels at the advanced ports of the lire of Terecrt perceived with hot rot., on the firsi. break of day, ,ix trees stripped of the - bark and cov,lT‘d %sloth blood, vci.b the impaled bodes of tire; victims, disfigured by the convuli ions of that horri ble punishment, suspended thereto. JONATHAN JOURNALS. Do our readers know what is meant by a Jonathan ism ? We guess they de. It i, an inconceivable ex aggeration—a l iughable impossiblty—a step beyond the sublime. It is naountin4 a ladder to shave one's self —having a nose so long as ti require two steps for ward to take a pinch of snuff—m- being so tall as to be unable to stand in the open am! Jonathanisms usually appear in this country as tid-bits from the American new spapers; and,indepcndenily of their risible properties, are not without value as illustrating the peculiar idiosyn crasy of our Yankee brethren. No extract, however, from the American newspapers can convey the slightest notion of many of the newt papers themselves. EJeb, with a few exceptions, is in itself a Jonathanism, as marvellous at any expressed in its letter-press. It is something huge, hyperbolical, monstrous! It is a tall ;-cloth, a counterpane, a car pet ! Like the ladies of some eastern countries, these journals pride themselves of ly on the hugeness of their dimensions. The title of one is— " The Yankee Nation, The largest paper in all creation I" But " The Jonathan" beats " The Nation" to smash, while " The World" is still larger than " The Jonathan." 'lhen there is " The Boston Notion, the Mammoth Sheet of the World! !" There they are, stretchel out before us! They must be measured, not by a foot- rul, but by stridci. Any one of them would supply a lady with papillots for a twelvemonth. How valuable to a dressmaker for cutting shapes! What treasures to a schoolboy in the season of paper kites ! What ducks of drop-scenes for boarding-school theatricals! Nothing in this country is comparable to them unless it be the West Pennard Cheese, which measures three feet in diameter, and weighs ten and a half hundred weight ! It would seem as if the vast river?, the wide stretching forests, and interminable prairies of the " far west," magnified Yankee conceptions, and whetted the public appetite for the marvellous ! In this out-heroding of Herod, in the matter of public Journals, we confess we cannot well see any object. The breadth of Brcther Jonathan's leghoriz is a protection against the sun, the width of his nankeens is valuable for ventilation, and the hugeness of his jokes is a provocative to laughter, but it would be difficult to discover an argument for these mammoth prints. Toe arms of their readers do not lengthen along with them —neither have t'• ey necks like swans, or constructed on the eliding principle of the tel The object of newspapers, moreover, is to diffuse light, not to cast shadows, and one of these at a window would darken a whole room. While, too, respectable old gentlemen wcie engaged in their perusal, what flirtations might not be carried on behind! A good screen is, in many cases, a sore temptation. Such of the young as have crusty old guardians to watch over them, will, doubtless, en courage the system ; for what liberty to them can equal the liberty of the press ? Teen fancy them bound to gether—the newspapers we mean—into volumes! Why, they would dwarf the folios of old time into pocket-com panions ! The opeaing of them would be like the throwing wide of folding doors. To be read, they would require to be elevated on a stand, after the manner of the Herschel telescope, with a screw seat like a piano stool, the reader mounting it at its full stretch, and wheeling Jim Clow now and then, until by degrees he reached the bottom of a column ! Or fancy a single copy posted on a wall—why it would require a suspen sion scat, similar to that used by plasterers in fronts of houses, for the industrious reader to hoist himself up and down at will ? No doubt it will be a marvel to many how the enor mous broadsheets to which we refer are filled, with what description of matter, and by what amount of libour. The let'er-press, however, is fabricated e ery much like the paper on which it is printed—only, in stead of rags, we have pl iys, magazines, and novels, I.ctures, essays, and sandrics, tumbled in higgledepig gledy, and coming out broad, fresh, and smooth, as iron► a mangle ! In place of reviewing a book, their custam is to insert it entire. Accordingly in one cor- ner is to be seen a play in five mortal acts—in an other a couple of veritable sermons, followed, perhaps, by some dozen chapters of " Charles O'Malley," or " Humphrey's Clock," together with wood-cuts, patches of music, rhymes scattered here and there as from a pouncet-box—not mere poet-corner effusions, but cantos of six or seven hundred lines— tales, essays, and comic , lties innumerabi'. As for the purely editorial matter, it comprises generally a com pound of political and theatrical gossip, dissertations on loco-fucoism, and on the length of Fanny Elisler's petticoat ! Such scraps of news as they contain are set down in a st)le studiously ecceetric. The editor usually stands out in person, and labours to convince the public that he is a right comical Yankee. He courts familiarity with his readers—curries favour with the young la , lies—entreats subscribers just to look up to his office and examine his blank receipts—and says sharp things of his brethren of the broad sheet. It is not often he sum - dies a grave and earnest commentary on passing events, and any idea of forming an en lightened public opinion seems rarely to cross his brain. He reeks to astonish, not by the magnitude of his views or the el issic brilliancy of his composition, but by his clever use of Yankee slang—and, above Si, by the exaggerated dimensions of his particular organ. This is not a wholesome condition of the public press. It is pandering to national follies, and fostering a diseased nationality. How much better than a dozen such rapers, to establish a single Journal presenting, like same of those in London, a concentration of talent, and tending to instruct, to improve, to dignify the national character! THE SUN, LONDON, TITESDAY, MARCH 9, 1841 MURDER IN FRANCE. A trial for murder, attended with circumstances of extraordinary atrocity, has just taken ;lice before the Court of Assizes at Brest. The facts, as proved in evidence, are as follow :—A man named Castel, an tarmourer, resided at Brest with his wife, who appears to have behaved virtuously and properly up to the year 1826, at which time her husband embarked as master on board a ship of war. On his return after the battle of Navarino, at which he was present, he found that his wife had been leading a dissolute life, and she was no longer worthy of his affection ; but he forgave her, and hoped to find in her repentance some return of the happiness which he bad formerly enjoyed. The wife, however, far from replying to the kindness of her husband by good conduct, formed a con nexion with a married man, named Bescond, who resided in a village adjoining Brest, and by a long series of cruel treatment, in which she was aided by Bescond, drove her husband mad, and he was sent to a lunatic asylum. On his return home, cured of lilt; malady, the brutality of the wife and her paramour, who, as an excuse for his frequent visits, had placed his daughter as a boarder in the house of Castel, was in creased, and it was at length resolved, in the winter of 1839, to deprive•the unfortunate husband of his life. For this purpose the wife pretended that some money had been left to her husband at Havre, and a passpart was obtained for them to go to that place. They quitted home in the evening in company with Bescond and his daughter, a girl of 21 years of age, and of Augustine Castel, the daughter of the married couple, aged 16. It was arranged with Castel that he and his wife should take leave of these three persons at the house of Bescond, whose wife was absent. When Castel had arrived there some warm wine was given to Inn, into which Bescond, with the knowledge of the wife and Augustine Castel, had put a large dose of laudanum, and when the poison had produced 'its effect, Castel, probably still living, was carried at night into a field belonging to Bescond, where the murderers, aided by the daughter of Bescond, who does not, however, ap pear to have been present at the murder, dug a grave into which they threw the body, and Bescond having cast over it two sacks of quick lime, in the hope of re moving all trace of the deed, the grave was filled up. After the murder, Bescond and the gui!ty widow led a life of great dissipation, frequented the theatres and masked balls, and appeared insensible to remorse. To persons who inquired for Castel, they replied that he had embarked at Havre for the colonies. The murder came to light in the following way :—The wife of Bes cond, having remonstrated with her husband and his mistress on their adulterous intercourse, it was resolved by them to murder her also. 'rim plan laid by these wretches was overheard by the daughter of Bescond, who ran to her mother and told her to be on her guard, or she would be served as Castel had been, and then she related all the circumstances of the murder in the presence of a female friend of her mother. This fe male recommended that the crime should be de• nouneed to the Procureur du Roi ; but to this neither the mother nor the daughter would consent, as they wished to spare the life of the husband and fa ther. The female in question, however, took an oppor tunity to send an anonymous letter to the Procurcur du Roi, which led to the arrest of all the parties, in cluding the girl Bescond, and to the discovery of the body, which was found entire, although in an advanced stage of decompositien, having been buried more than six months. in the grave was found a copy of the Criminal Code, which had belonged to Bescond, and the leaves of which were turned down at the part relating to the proceedings in cases of murder. Sixty wit nesses were examined, and not the slightest doubt ex i.ted on the minds of the Jury as to the guilt of all the parties, except the daughter of Bescond, who was ac q Atcd. Bescond and the widow Castel were sen tenced to death, and the daughter, Augustine Castel, was condemned to imprisonment in a house of correc tion for ten years, at the expiration of which she is to ba placed for ten years order the surveillance of the police. TRADE 44TH THE BRAZILS. Yesterday week a meeting of the Cutlers' Company was held to consider the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons for an alteration in the existing Customs' Duties with the Brazils. The present com mercial treaty by which our manufactures were admitted at the lowest rate of duty, the same as to the most favoured nation, expires next year, rnd their Govern ment is understood to have intimated to ours, that un less we will admit on more favourable terms their pro duce, they, in retaliation, will raise their tariff, and put it on the same footing with our duties. The present duty on the Braz;lian sugar, 61d. per lb., and Coffee, is. 3d. per .lb., which is an entire prohi bition; while Sugar from our West India Colonies, is 2 , 14. per cwt., or little more than 21d. per lb., and Coffee 6d. per lb. A member of the Com pany observed that he would contract to supply the inhabitants w'th Raw Sugar, fully equal in quality to the average of what is now consumed, at s}d. per lb., out of which he would pay a duty of 50 per cent., and Coffee a little more than half its present price, if admit ted on the same terms as from our West India Colo nies. A communication was read from the Chamber of Commerce in Liverpool, showing the injustice of the present duties, and that to bolster up the interests of a few ‘Vest India planters, the couotry should be imposed upon by such an cxh?rhitant price. The pe ftion was, after a very long discussion, adopt rd, to al low sugar to be admitted, the produce of Brazils, at a duty of 265. per cwt., i. c. a little more than 3d. per lb., and Co ff ee V. per lb. ; thus giving the West India planters a bonus of 50 per cent. It was mentioned that the produce of the i Brazils was the produc tion of slave labour ; but n reply, it was very j ust l y observed, that we took their cotton, and also cotton from the United States, at a very trilling duty, w hi ch is the produce of slave labour ; so the opponents of the proposed alteration, to be consistent, must petition to exclude cotton, both from the United States and the Brazils. It should also be borne in mind that the Brazils (with the exception of the United States) takes the greatest amount of our manufactures of any coun try in the world, and a trade to that extent ought not to be put in jeopardy for the interest of a few planters. One gentleman stated that his house shipped a brie amount of goods to the Brazik, and took produce in return ; but they could not import lib. of sugar or coffee to this country, but had it shipped to Hamburgh and other foreign markets, in foreign ships, thereby losing to this country. a most valuable trade to our shipping interest. The discussion arose merely, whether the Company should petition for a ri:vision of the whole of our Customs, or that relafin,g to the Brazils. The latter was unanimously adopted, but several gent:el - nen, who supported this course, deel.tred they would, at a future opportunity, petition for a remodification of the whole- of tho Customs' Duties.—Sheffield Mercury. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Mencll 8. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the abseoca of the Lord Chancellor, t , )ok his scat upon the Woolsack, shortly after Five o'Clock. The Marquis of DO WNSHIRE presented petitions against Church Patronage in Scotland, from Omagh and Liffcrd, in the county of Donegal ; from Skarban, Portanferry, and some other place in the county of Down ; and from the Presbytery of Coleraine. He presented these petitions on account of the high respectability of the 'petitioners, but distinctly begged to be understood as guarding himself against the supposition that he was to be considered as bound to advocate the views of the petitioners when the subjectshOUldl;:b;:ughiregulaii; before the House. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from Twister in Northamptonshire, complaining that the expenses attending vaccination were paid out of the Poor-rates, and suggesting that as vaccina tion was a national object, the expenses attending it should be defrayed at the national cost. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. The Earl of ABERDEEN gave notice that to-mor row he should put a question to the Nobla Viscount re- specting the circumstances attendant upon the creation of a new Professorship in the University of Ediuburgl-. The Marquis ofNORMANBY—Ask now. The Earl of ABERDEEN would rather have an answer from the Noble Viscount ; he would, therefore, wait until to-morrow. AMERICA. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL wished to draw their Lordships' attention to the intelligence which had arrived from America that day, and which was of the utmost impoitance to this country ; it had created a great sensation in the City, and had produced an effect on the funds. He referred to the document which had appeared in the public papers purporting to be a Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs presented to the Congress of the United States on the 13th of last month. It war chiefly respecting the detention of Mr. M.Leod, but it also related to other matters in disr,ute between this country a::d the United States. lie did not intend to enter into the consideration of that document, it would be ill-judged in him to do so ; but he wished to know whither the document could be considered as genuine. Such a document might be got up for the purposes of stock-jobbing, and his reason for doubting its genuineness was, that he hal too high an opinion of the understanding and capacity of the inhabitants of the United States. He belie ‘el that they were not so blind to their own interests as to put forth a document of the kind ; more particularly did he doubt its authenticity, when it did not appear, from the reports, that all Member of Congress had ever rise❑ to move an amendment to it.—( Hear, hear.) Surely if that document were genuine, the people of the United States must have forgotten the deranged state of their finances—they must have forgotten that in their States there were three millions of negroes ready to take part with England in the event of a quarrel—they must have forg o tt en th e great b o d y of Indians whom they had driven into the interior, and who were ready to advance at once into their terri- tories to revenge the wrongs they had suffered. They must have forgotten the Canadians who were among the most loyal subjects of her Majesty. Suppose they were to wreak their vengeance on the unfortunate victim who was now in their hands, did they suppose that the Canadians would not be ready to avenge his death in a thousand different ways ? did they suppose that they would not seize some person living in the United States Government ? Did they forget the body of regular troops, he was happy to say a la-ge one, at present stationed in our North American colonies, and the large naval force which could at once be brought to bear against them. He thought that after calculating all these things they would find that they were more likely to incur a loss than a profit by entering into hostilities with this country, and therefore he could not believe the document to be genuine. For these reasons he hoped this document could net be a true one, but it had produced so strong an im pression on the public mind that he thought it right to inquire of the Noble Viscount (Lord Maiourne) whether her Majesty's Government had received any official information respecting this Repal t, and whether they considered it to be an official document or no'. If the Government did consider it to be an official docu ment, he (Lord Mounteash,l) did not consider the present to be the proper time for discussing it ; but he should certainly make some observations upon it at the proper time. He thought a document more violent had never been penned by one country respect ing another. He therefore asked the Noble Viscount whether any official information had been received on the subject ? Lord MELBOURNE said he was really unable to give any other auswcr to the question of the Noble Earl than that he was not aware that, her Majesty's Government had received any despatches from our Ambassador to the United States ; but he apprehended, from the form in which the Report alluded to by the Noble Earl had appeared, and from the manner in which it came, there could be no doubt of its authen ticity. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition against certain clauses in the Drainage of Buildings Bid. Th. Marquis of NOR MA NBY presented a peti• tion from the Mayor and Corporation of Northampton, in favour of the Drainage of Buildings Bill , also a pe tition from the Mayor and Corporation of Perth, in .favour of some measure for the support of the poor; also a petition from a gentleman, named Bassett, in the county of Devon, praying for the establishment of local Courts for _ --- the recovery of small debts. The Noble Marquis said he was directed, by the Select Committee on the Drainage of Buldings Bill, to ask leave of their Lordships to divide the Bill into. two. There was no intention to abandon any part of the Bid ; but it was thought that, by so doing, its object woul t be better attained. TITHE COMPOSITION (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Viscount DUNCANNON the --- Tithes Composition (Ireland) Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Thursday. The Noble Viscount said the object of the Bill was to save expense in the case of persons against whom proceedings were t tken for the recovery of tithes in Ireland. In the original Bill, each Particular case was obliged t) be proceeded against by the Attorney-General in a sepa rate Bill, but it was found so expensive that the pre sent Bill was brought in to authorise the Attorney- General to include any number of persons in the sarr.e Bill provided they resided in the same diocese. COURT OF EXCLEQUER(IRELAND)BILL. On the mution of Viscount DUNCAN NON the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill, was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. The Noble Viscount said the object of the 811 was to amend an error that was supposed to exist in the former Bill. POOR LAWS IN IRELAND. shortilave case Lordships, these whichv , period l The Earl of GLENGALL said he 'was sorry he had so soon to make another mot:on on the subject of the 1 e bad moved for a secord re- Poor-law Commissioners, and the Union of Olen rod. ln the month of Feb., 1840, he had moved for certain returns respecting this Union ; and in the m tu o r n n t , ll L o u material difference in the language of the two reports He was aware when he lead them both to their Lordships the diffe rence might appear to be but trifling and immaterial ; investigated, he felt it necessary t) f t t i‘ h i c a r y e was a very b u t having upon two or three different occasions men tioned the subject in their Lordships' House, and rbeeturns accurately brought before their h e had undertaken to prove. The ex being aware that this matter would in a very n order that he might be able stated that the writer ebbed been returned to their Lordships' with Mr. Butler for theelet to make out of acquainted February,h h li a o d us b e ee in n twenty-seven years, and that his character was without the slightest reproach lhe Noble Lord then procee2el to read part of t h e extract, and to show that there was a great difference as between the two returns. He would be able to show that there was a falsification in the re turns. He believed that in consequence of a debate having taken place in their Lordships' House, and cer tain papers being moved for, it was not quite convc.mieat t i i i n e t month3;natey to the parties concerned tnat some of the circumstances should appear. They had transposed th e letters also, as he should prove to their Lordships, in order to give a different colouring to them. The Commissioners wished to show they bad Liken the opinion of D. Phelan, Esq , who resided 0 7 years in the same town. It was stated by him that Mr. Butler, the returning officer, had re -1 sided as a private gent leman in Clonniel. H e ( t h e E ar l of Glengi.ll) supposed that if the new Bill paned, they would ! r ave a qualification for the private gentleman whose income was 57. The salary of the returning officer was only 10/. a-year. He should place upon their Lordships table the two Re ports—it was impossible that both could be correct. The Noble Lord concluded by moving for copies of all correspondence between the Poar-law Commissioners and Denis Phelan, Esq., and other correspondence on the subject of the appointment. The Marquis of NOIIMANBY said be had no ob -1 ‘jeetion to the return:. It was bib desire to have the matter sifted to the bottom ; not only in jus tice to the character of the individual concerned, but f,:r the vindication of their Lordships' privileges. Tt.ere certainly appeared to be some alteration:. He had written to the Poor-law Commissioner, Mr. Nicholls, stating what Lad oceurreo., and had every reason to bell ye that he would be shortly is Loudon. He would state to their Lordships in the first instance whateter expl ;- nation r. Nicholls might give, and if that were not con sidered satisfactory it would be for their Lordships to see what further steps might seem desirable. The motion for the return was then agreed to.—The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 8. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'C!ock. I3RIGHTON AND SHOREHAM ROAD BILL. The E id of SURREY moved the second reading of the 13righ ton and Sho re h am Read B 11. C.iptain PECIIELL, en behalf of his conFt;tnents, opposed tile Bill. He bel'eved the Conunissioneri had been misled by their lawyers as to their powers. A town meeting had Lein held at Brighton on Saturday for ene purpo:e of opposing the all. He thought he was fully entitled to ask for a dday of the second reading, and he should move as an amcmdment that the Bill he reads second time on Wedneßlay. -- Mr. GORING opposed the Bill, and wished it bad been competent for him to have moved that it be read a second time that day six months. Sir A. DALRYMPLE supported the second rcal ing of the Bill, alinitting at the &arta time that the road between Brighton and Shoreham was one of the worst in England. - He thought, however, the object desired by the Hon. ald Gallant, Member might be tained when the Bill was in Committee. Mr. DARBY thought that any question might be fairly discussed in Committee, and therefore lie should vote for the second reading of the Bill. Capt. PECHELL said if the Noble Earl would de lay the Committee, he would Waive his objection to the Bid. All that he was anxious for was that time should be given to his constituents to state their objections to the Bill. The Earl of SURREY said he would postpone the Committee t'll the 19th. Capt. PECHELL said that such being the easy, he would withdraw his opposition to the second reading of the Bill. Mr. GORING then moved that the 13,11 should be read a second time that day six months. After a few observations from Captain Peelle!! and Mr. Esteourt, the amendment was withdrawn, the _l3ll read a second tune, and ordered to be cornrnittel on he 19th. Sir R. JENKINS presented a petition from Shrews bury against the Severn Navigation Bill. Mr. 11. BERKELEY presented a petition from Gloucestershire to the same effixt. On the moticn of S:r T. COCHRANE the Ips wich D,;cks Bill was read a second time. Mr. lIEN RY HOPE moved that the pet' tion of t,te Mayor and C )rperation of Gloucester, of the Gloucester and Bei.keltiy Canal Company, and of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Company (prcs:inted 311 March), for relcrriog the Severn Nav:gation Bill t) a Select Committ e, be printed with the votes.— Ordered. On the motion for the second reading of the British Plate-glass Compiny's Bill. Mr. LABOUC HERE said he would not oppose the second reading of the Bid, but, as he objected to some of its clauses, he should reserve to himself the right of proposing in Committee whatever alteration might seem desirable. Mr. BERNAL hoped that a clause would be intro duced to prevent the Company from being exempt front any future. general L2gislation on the subject of Joint Stock Companies. Tie Bill was then read a second time. Mr. KEMBLE presented a petition fr3in the trus tees of a chapel in Christchurch, Surrey, against the Bill for making- a road from Blackfmrs-road to London Bridge.—Referred to the Committee. COUNTY COURTS. Mr. FOX MAU LE move] that the further pro ceedings on eli Bills for the recovery of smAil debts be stayed till after the 25th of April, in order to afford time for bringing in a general measure on the subject. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said the House bad had patience for several years in expectation of a general measure, which had not yet been brought in. As the Bill which he (Mr. Alderman Copeland) was conducting through the House had already made consi derable progress, he hoped the Right llon. Gentleman would make an exception in favour of the Stoke-upon- Trent Small Debts B 11. Mr. FOX MAULE said his object was to save the Farties further expense, and he could not make an ex ception in favour of any locality. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. HURST presented a pe:ition from Salop against the Poor-law Amendment 13:11. Mr. EASTHOPE presented a petition from 2,640 inhabitants of Leicester in favour of Lord Morpah's Irish Registration Bill vlio a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Leicester in favour of the Bill for the relief of persons professing the Je vish reli gion : also a petition from the same borough in favour of the Bill for extending the Jurisdiction of County Courts ; also a petition from the Roman Catholics of Barkhana against the Jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts, and for the liberating of Mr. Baines : also a pe tition from Lincoln, egainst the imprisonment of Mr. Baines, and praying for the extinction of the jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts. Mr. Allerman COPELAND presented a petition from Stoke-upon-Trent, aga'nst the Poor-law• Amend ment Bill. Sir C. STYLES presented a petition from 1,032 illlabitants of Donegal, against Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration 13;11. Mr. PARKER presented five petitions from places in Buckinghamshire in favour of Church Extension. Captain PECHELL presented several petitions from places in the county of Sussex against the eighth section of the Poor-law Amendment Bill, which would abolish the Gilbert unions. Mr. W. EVANS presented a petition from a p'ace in aayshire, praying that s.ome alterations be made in I n the Poor-law Amendment Biil. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Birmingham, with a similar prayer. Mr. 11. 'l'. HOPE presented two petitions from Gloucestershire in favour of Chinch Extension. Also a petition from the Birmingham and Gloucester Rall tay Company against certain clauses in the Railway Amendment Act. Also a petition, which was read at the table, against certain clause; in the Poor law Amend ment Bi 1. Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented petitions from N tut, in the county of Meath, and from other places in Leland, in favour of Lord Morrth's Registration of Voters Bill ( Irel ind) and against Lord Stanley's. Sir G. GREY presented a petition to limit the powers of the Poor-law Commissioners. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from the county of Devon, praying for an alteration in the Poor laws. Also a petition, praying for Church Extension. Mr. GREENE presented a petition from the Lan caster Railway Company, against certain clauses in the Railway Amendment Act. Mr. HINDLEY presented a similar petition from the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company. Mr. W. DUNCOMBE presented a similar peti ' fon front Cambridge in the North Riding of York shire. Also petitions from Halifax and another place in Yorkshire, signed by 5,000 persons against the Poor laws and Poor-law Amendment S;r CHARLES BROKE VERE presented a petition from an individual against the Southwark Im provement Bi!l, No. 2. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND brought in the North Midland Railway Bill, which was re ul a first and ordered to be re ul a second lime to-morrow. WEST INDIA MAILS. Mr. FRESHFIELD gave notice that he should to-morrow, ask the Chancellor of the Exchequl., whether, since the commencement of the Session, any Government abed bad been employed at Dartmouth for the purpose of ascertaining the propriety of making that place the port for the departure of the West India Mails. Mr. GROTE gave notice that on Tuesday, the 231, he would submit a motion to the House upon the sub ject of the land fund and finances of the colony of New South Wales. Mr. C. BULLER begged to ask the Honourable Member for Pcnryn and Falmouth whether it was his iLtatrion to bring forward any motion with respect to the removal of the Falmouth packets. Mr. FRES lIFIELD said it had been his intention unt,l that day to bring forward a motion upon the subject on Thursday next. Finding it quite impossible, however, that the papers would be delivered by that day, and thinking it would be unfair to bring forward his motion unless they were de livered, he had determined to _bring it forward as soon after that period as possible. RAILWAYS. Sir R. PEEL wished to ask the Right Hon. Gm tleman, the President of the Board of Trade, whether he had made uphis mind to apv inquire int a Select Com mittee to into the operation of the 11th clause of the Railway Act, conferring a general discretionary pone, on the Board of Trade over Railways. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that since he last ad dressed the House on the subject he had been in com munication with parties connected with railways, and as he found those gentkmen intended to confine the evirence within limits which gave him hopes that the inquiry would not be so protracted as to defeat his object, that some definite measure should he passcd this Session, he was quite willing to accede to the suggestion that had been made for the appointment of a Committee. He would therefore give no tice that i he would move t!'e appointment of a Comm ittee , 00c he intended to propose the same Committee as sat last Session upon this subject. PO 0 R-L A WS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL (who spoke in so low a tone of voice as to render it very difficult to hear what Le said) stated that berme moving. the House I should go into Cemmittee pro forma on the Poor law Amendment Bill, as ha intended to propose certain alterations, it might be convenient fer him ti sta'e some of the amendments that were of the ,greatest import agcy. With respect t r the duration of the Cam. mission, he propose' that, the blanit should be filled up by - inserting five years instead of ten.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to another part of the Bill, there had been a great deal of apprehe-ision expressed, which he thought was not occasioned by the terms of the Bill— it was with respect to the operation of local acts. Ile wished to amend the Bill, and to state (a; we under stood) that tee Poor-law Commissioners should have the same power with respect to local acts as they had by the original Poor law Amendment Bilh There teas another clause of the Bill which gas- power to jinn different unions together for the purpose of t'ii• management of insane and infant pane. T. c Poor-law Commissioners' proposition . was, that persons who were perfectly destitute from mental incapacity shoull t ken into the union. Now he proposed . to confine that almission to insane poor beloaring to the different unions,who were chiefly idiots, or who might be dangerous from the want of confinement. He further proposed that in any union where one-fifth of the board of guardians should refuse such an expense, it should not be acted upon ; it would, therefore, be in the power of one-fifth of any board to prevent the clause from being acted upon. With respect to another point adverted to by the Right Hon. Baronet, viz,, the propriety of having burial grounds for the special pur pose of the workhouses, he did not intend to propose that such burial grounds should be institute", but et tlie same time he found that complaints had been made both by clergymen and those persons in the management of burial grounds, not against the burying of their own poor, but against the burying in their crowded grounds of the casual poor who died in the workhouses. To re medy that he proposed that a power should be given to unions to contribute towards the enlargement of churchyards. He would therefore move that the Bill b‘ committed pro Anna, with the view of taking it into consideration on Friday se'nnight. Sir It. PEEL hal heard the Noble Lord with great satisfaction. He was glad that he intended to propose to limit the duration of the powers of the Commission to tine years. It gave him great satisfaction also that the proposal for attaching burying-grounds to %yolk houses had been abandoned. There was one point of the Noble Lord's explanation that might appear obscure — with respect to those institutions for the education of the infant poor. The Noble Lord said, that if one-fifth of the guardians objected to tie expense then it would not be incurred. Suppos e th ere were th ree millions proposed to establish such an institution, would the dissent of one-fifth of the board of geardians of any one of the unions prevent the clauses from being acted upon ? Lord J. RUSSELL—Ye: ; it would prevent the extension of the clauses to such union. \VAKLEY felt sure that the proposed amend ments would give much pleasure out of doors. He trustA thi.t. as the Bill was now to be so modi fied us to make it more agreeable to the people, the Noble Lord would not hesitate to make two Bills of it—one to continue the Commission for five years, and another to perfect a law to come into operation when the Commission should cease. He feared that at the expiration of the five years there would be a propositon to renew the power of the Com missioners for flue y, ars more. What he desired was that the law should be so constructed that it should woi k without any Poor-law Commissioners, because peal le out of doors generaLy felt that they were an excuse for eery kind of abuse. He would remind the Nobl Lord also that he had received several depu:ations from influential bolt: s of medical practitioners rt spectio,g ti e medical department of the Poor-law Bill. The Noble Lord had not intirnat••d that it sv,s his intention to in troduce any change with respect to that department. Several proposals had been submitted to the NoVe Lord for the introduefon of elluses of great im portaace, and as it was the Noble Lord'; intention to remodil the Bill, he did trust that the int2.rest, of the poor, as regarded medical relief; would not be forgotten. There was a very influential body in that House, who were disposed to support the proposition, which he hoped would have the sanction of the Nol:1 Lord's authority. In answer to Mr. W. Duneornho, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that it was his intention to include the Gilbert unions. In answer to Mr. ORMSBY GORE, Lord JOHN RUSSELL sail that as regarded local Acts he meant to reserve the power, which was never given by the Poor-law Amendment. Act. With respect to the observations of the Hon. Member for Finsbury, on the subject of medical attendance it appeared that a very great alteration had been made by the boards of guardians in that department, and he wor hi rather have further improvements on that head than make it the subject of special enactment. I n answer to Mr. GRIMSDITCH, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said there was no inten• tion to reduce the size of the unions. Sir DE LACY EVANS said there was another point to which ho wished to call the attention of the Noble Lord. He wished to know if it was the inten tion of the Noble Lord to restrict st'll more the power of proxy and plural voting? Mr. O'CONNELL wished to suggest to the Noble Lord the propriety of arrangements being made to enable paupers to attend their own place; of worship. Lan: J. RUSSELL made some observation in reply, which we could not catch. The Noble Lord scented to require the Hon. and Learned Member to explain his meaning more fully. Mr. O'CONNELL said that what he meant. was, the propriety of furnishing facilities to the paupers for attending their own places of worship. LORD KEANE'S ANNUITY. On the Order of the Day for the third reading of Lord Keane's Annuity Bill being road, Mr. HUME said that he would negative the third reading of the Bill. He could assure Hon. Members that when such a 13111 as the present—one that was so objectionable—was introduced, it ought to be marked in every way that was Possible by the disapprobation of the House. He felt that he had a dety to perform, and whether it was pleasing or displeasing to Hon. Members, he would perform it. He should say that the reward was disproportionate to the service. Cie icing a Peir, and rendering it necessary to support the rank of a Peer by a pecuniary grant, was a measure highly improper, Particularly i❑ the present stiAe of our finances. The amount voted i❑ the present instance would maintain one hundred poor families fbr fifty years to come.—(Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances, he ►oust say that the present Bill ought not to meet with the support of the Huusc. He hoped that the num ber of Members--seventy-seven—would teach Minis ters not to bring in a similar measure in future to that House. He would negative the third reading of the Bill. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divide ], when there appeared— For the third reading Against it Mrjority f)r the third reading —63 The B;11 was then read a third titre, and on the luei.tion that it do pass, Sir R. INGLIS wished to call the attention of the house to the claims of another galla,t officer, who in another part of the world had obtained victories equally as glorious and beneficial to the country as the splendid a chievements of Lord Keane, but to whom no reward or promotion had been given. Ile alluded to Sir F. B. llead, to whose valour and exertions Eugl Ind owed Canada. The Bill then passed. SUPPLY. GEORGE GREY brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply. The several resolut;ons was agreed to, and leave was given to being in a Bill founded thereon. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. On the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair, Mr. BRA MSTON begged to call the attention of the Right Honourable Gentleman to the present state of the Yeomanry Corps in the county of Essex. , In that county they had only one corps, which was supported by the contributions of the officers and men, while in other counties several corps were maintained. Now he wanted to know upon what principle, if there was any one, this was arranged. The population of Essex was 317,000 ; yet the Government refused to give anything towards the support of a yeomanry caps, yet they gave to Hertfordshire, a county with a much smaller population, six corps, all of which were maio tained by the Government.—(hear, hear.) The yeo manry of Essex had been inspected every year, and they had been h'ghly complimented by the officers who so inspected them. He had a right, then. tosay that they were as efficient as any other. Nether could they say that they would not support t e he b G m oVer e nment they were situated near London, and T hat could easily send down the household troops. county of Middlesex itscif; yet troops in the ar gumentneigh- county would apply to Hertfordshiere,th. edtneveetrnoptoolittabne they kept up and paid two bourhood of Uxbridge. Mr. I:oeXlilkoltnA. UGLeEsaid,hal ntiemn as aliu tle subject to sone which th e h d e i a b t v o o u g r e i d d e , r h t e h e t h c o o u n g t h r o t t o f rightt e d ti c a aptarc mtmenttoorewii,zinal to a nswer as shortly as he could the observations of the Hon. Gentleman. In the year 1838, the yeomanry cavalry in this coul,try presented a large force, w hi c h it seemed to the Governme it it would be expedient, w ith a view to econom y , to reduce. The lion. Gen tleman hail rather intiniat'2d that that reduction n • dto have been made more from p at t,;,i • ap peared ity r tain localities than upon any just principle. Now, that cause had been apparent to lion. Memb ers ' at the t i me the reduction was made, he thought that before e now some charge against the Government b. would have been made in that House upon the su pct. But this was the first time that argument had been used or such a charge had been brought forward. ard. The principle on which the Government h acted ad was t save as muc h as possible the pockets of the people. lie thought EVEN ING EDITION. that Was the best principle on which the Government could act, because their assistance would be imam ieadily afforded by the people when it was necessary to call upon them t, do so, Upon that principle it pas that his Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) rodeeM o establishments of the yeomanry corps; and wilsoo be found, on referring to the service. of the yeoinanry cavulry, that many regiments had never been called into active scrv:ce at all, not doubting, or disparaging for a moment, the good intentions or loyalty of tither the officers or men, he certainly thought he was justified in ranking such reduction. Such was the case id the county of Ersex. A remonstrance was made at the time, and very naturally, by these corps, whom his Noble Friend thought it right to reduce, and they were told, that if. they preferred serving, as many did, simply as volunteers, without p , pnent from the public Tres ury, .a if the Lord Lieutenaet of the com ty recommeaded such cAablistin.ent, no objection would be made to retain the se/vices of these corps. The yeomanry corps in Essex, among others, valour teerei their sciviccs without payment, and for a year that se/vice went on ; but they, at the end of th e ye a r , made a claim for gas treat, and were informed such payment would not be made. Under these civ e u rn .. stances, he hardly thought the Hon. Gentleman had a right to complain that the yeomanry cavalry in Essex had been unfairly dealt with. Mr. GOUI,I4IIiN sa'sl, as he took part in th 4 question of the reduction of the yeomanry, he would call the .recoLction of the lion. Member opposite (Mr. F. MautO to some of the facts that were on the occasion of that reduction brought before the attcnt on of the house. The Hon. Gentleman bad stated that at the period alluded no complaints were made of par. l'a'ity being shown in the selection of the corps .for reduction. He (Mr. G.) beg leave to call the Hon. Gentleman's reesllection to cases in which it wag distinctly stated, whether justly or unjustly he would not say, that partiality vas displayed in the selection-. P He (Mr. G.) remembered that a contrast was drawn between the yeomanry corps of Hungerfokl and that of Waltham Abbey, in the county of Essex, which were very d.fferently commanded. He also recollectei case that was stated of the reduction of a corps in H ertfordsh ire, which n as placed on the establisbmentafter having Leen reduced. He merely steed these facts to refresh the lion. Gentleman's memory. With respect , to the parfeular case of the Essex yeomanry, Ice stall thought it would have been a wise exercise of discretiery to have retained that corps on pay. It must be recol lected that that corps wns expressly referred to by Lord Melbourne and tl:e Secretary of State as neces sary to protect. rho Ordnance property at Waltham Abbey. The Noble Lard thought it would have beta useful to retain that corps on pry for that purpose. The Government, howev.rr, thought tic to reduce it. He (Mr. G.)stiq retained his opinion, that in the selec tion of the corps it woul , l kve been a wise cxercisc of discrition to retain on pay a corps so useful to the Go vernment. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was aware that com plaints had been made when this corps was reduced, ro l-pcct:ng the Le;.essity of defending tht Ordnance stores. lie lad cothu!ted the Ordnance-cfliee on the subject, and the reply was, that the set vices of the yeomanry were not needed tor that purpose. No doubt various compliints had been ma le of partiality when these corps had been reduced, and those complaints had not been confined to One side of the House, but ha l pro ceeoed quite as much from his friends as from his oppo nents. It. hail herr, thought expedient to continue the yeomanry in 182 I , during the agricultural riot. They had bean reduced in 1830, and a saving. of 2opo0i: a year had ea effected io consequence, but there were now a gre,ter number of corps of yeomanry than there hail been v, hen the Duke of Wellington quitted office, and he did not think it advisable to increase them. Sir H. VIVIAN hail not felt him-elf justified in. recommending the continuance of yeomanry as a guard fer the Ordnance store,. Mr. GOULBURN had not h,fore understood than had been the opinion of the Ordn:lnce authorities. After a few words from Sir H. HARDINGE the subject dropped. LORD CARDiGAN. Oa the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair,. Mr. O'CONNELL rose to express his regret that they had now arrived et that the list night for consider ing the Military Estimates, without the attention of the House having been directed to the conduct of Lord Cardigan in regard to his regiment. The public tid ing bad been excited to such a pitch on the subject, that Lad it not been for the letter of the officer who had been dismissed, which he (Mr. O'Connell) consi dered placed that officer out of ti.e pate of sympathy; the House would have been compelled to take the subject into their consideration. He felt himself calk& upon to direct the attention of the House to the sub ject, because, on the occasion of the court-martial on Major Wathen, he had animadverted on the conduct of that court-martial ; not, of course, for having acquitted Major Wathen, but for having censured Lord Cardi gan, without having given him an opportunity of being heard in his defence. He considered that was contrary to all rules of justice ; but the court-martial on Cap tain Reynolds appeared to him to have acted still more contrary to those rules, for, possessed of unlimited power, they had sedulously excluded the consideration of all those circumstances by Which his sentence might have been mit;gated.—(Hoar.) The nature of the sentence ought greatly to have de ? pended upon the provocation. If without provocation he Lai violated the commands of his superior officer, no eenter.ce could be too severe ; but on the other hand they might suppose circumstances under which there should be the lightest possible punishment. It was j. possible therefore, he thought, to defend the conduct of the court-martial. When they looked at the condoet of the Horse. Guards they would see it extending its.pro tection and patronage to title and wealth, so as it was never extended to mere merit. The ham imprison ment of . Captain Reynolds for three or four days had gone entirely unpunished. He did hope that some person more influential than himself would move for an' inquiry into the whole of the circumstances., The Hots. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the army and navy estimates, and to the opinions of tire Hoc. Member for Kilkenny with respect to the in ' crease as regards Canada. He (Mr. O'Colinell) was bound to express his firm conviction that in the origin of the civil war in Canada the Government were entirely in the wrong—that it was a provoked insurrection. In his opinion it was greatly to be attributed to as un constitutional vote of the House, which violated first principles, and was not rendered necessary by any pecu liar exigeueits. It was indeed no palliation of the in surrection.. The insurrection was worse than a crime. it was folly, and it had been deservedly crushed. They mad passed an Act of Union of the two colonies, but. that union was based upon injustice. But there seat '• another and more grievous crime committed against' Lower Canada. Lower Canada owed no debt, and yet by the Act of Tinian they had settled part of the debt of Upper Canada upon Lower Canada. Then, again, at what period , ho 'would ask, had this htaadkehnerpiPaacreli Why, et a time when Upper Ca ament, but Lower Canada had be e n nuandioandeprived of hers. He (Mr. O'Connell) thought they bad better be cautious how they acted, or they might repent what they had dote. 01 course, he did not know what was done in the other noun or Parliament, but he found on looking at the newspapers Vett the Bishop of Exeter—that that Right Rev. Pre -I,,te Lad been Made to suggest the grossest injury that could be inflicted, namely, taking away from St. Sal pice the property it had. In fact,,, in that debate. be saw that one of the greatest men in the country stated that such a spoli, ton would he according princi ples of the Reformation. Their conduct had been most exemplary. There was not the s li g htest _blot upon their character. But they were to he robbegoitrsnoo ego , to the They bad enjoyed this propertyBo i r e i a t r i s s i as 1763, by the suggestion of the fSt. Salpice made over Ambassador at Paris, the French seminary of seminary. In 177 k all their property to the Canadian was a doubtful phrase, boa in the Canadian Act, 6 0 : Cone - ate cili the Catholic pies s operty being in the pos. pulation, and calculated p roduce tne most favourable general or e admitted tl,ey were most ritesu w asl res ult w l i n s e l A n c s t , tao m g a i d h e iti t o pointed distinctly seminary. th The feudal rights they enjoy ed, They had enjoyed rt the excellent landlorxa.iotu, and their inconvenience • had were, however, eversessi session o c f e, Seminar), instead of ve The Se been long n their rights, offered to com promise them r igidly IWO so inogn should f 800 t yhe h eam e rs. c , lo n th e ed it was at once accepted by every pers o n • far, and utterlyth leg al deni denied the statement in terested in the property. An ordinance was subsequentlE _ assed , making them a corporation, so that as they bad and it w as but as these were theirs before incorporation the &di statement that they had not a legal title. They bad nb aP ea l nc i l n d t i i d t r i o e n s o t s h e tl s e i s y i and there cou ld be no better title. In default of deeds or an Act of Perna. , trent, one or the other was to be presumed. But he would not enter into that. Their equitable right was admitted, and now that they had made a transfer of these rights, they were to be turned round upoa, and were to he told by a Bishop of the establishment that because they were Catholics they. were to be robbed o f t h e i r property and that ano ther grievance was to be itnflicted upon the Cathel:es by t his in j ustice. If that we re d one let them' prepare themselves for higher. estimates. This act of injustice would deservedly bring, it upon them, but he (Mr. O'Connell) could not far the. present bring himself to bilieve such_a he would t a k e his an aet of injusti ce would be committed. From Vane d flight to the East Indies . soldiers of our arm y i n India were one-half Catholicsf and he had had many letters addressed to him from Olen complaining bitterly of the total want of religious &tloa and instruction. Everybody knew the importance'the Catholics attached to the o Xces, of their Church-4 Protestants and was total were properly provided f or -; but there was tatai ne glect of the Catholic soldiery in India. Almost every Commander had promised them redress, but it' had never arrived, and Sir H. Fate had even refused to forward a petition from the 13th Regiment to the G 0.,. vernment. (The Hon.and Learned Gentleman then read IN