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ORNING EDITION - - of a better spirit in the colonial department. He trusted the Noble Lord would extend the same wise and bene ficial policy to this colony which bad been displayed in his treatment of the other colonies of this empire. Lord MAHON said it could not be denied that most grievous distress prevailed at this moment in New South Wales; or that it Was owing to the acts of the Govern ment at home. Considering the short period of its exist ence, the prosperity of this colony was unparalleled in modern times; the colony in the last year exported six million pounds of wool. Its prosperity had, however, been greatly impeded by the acts of the Government at home. He concurred in the abolition of asslgnmeet, be lieving it to be a bad system though adopted for the pur pose of reforming and reclaiming the convicts. At the same time he must express his conviction that the rapid progress of the colony was to be attributed greatly to the existence of such a system ; it had supplied this colony with abundance of labour, vi hen otherwise there must have been a great scarcity. When the abolition of con signment was followed by the imposition of the whole ex pense of police, the two causes had led to great distress ; hut when those were followed by the hasty measure of the Noble Lord, the very worst consequence; had followed. He held in his band a despatch received in December last, stating that in every public deportment the greatest diffi culty existed; and that no undo taking, pubic or private. could be prosecuted, unless at an enormous expense. The distress arose from the deficiency in the supply of labour. In many instances lambs had perished where they had been dropped for want of hands to tend them. He ( Lord Mahon) contended that a very strong prima .facie case of grievance had been made out.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Gibbon Wakefield laid down the opinion that the dis tress of the colony had not rerched its worst point, and that " a very dane ' ernue state of things was coming on in New South Wales." Then, if he (Lord Mahon) was asked how these evils were to be met, how these pr'ev ances were to be remedied, it seemed to him that there were several modes in which the House might interpose for the welfare of the colony. He was not prepared to say that he would concur in any vote for the repayment of all the sums taken from the land fund, for he believed the labour of the convicts, from 1825, had cancelled the claim previous to that period. In the motion before the House as it stood originally, be was not disposed to concur, but within the two last days a considerable change bad been effected in it. The motion now, after reciting the Acts of the Legislative Council in New South Wales, pledged the House to this only, to resolve themselves into a Committee of the whole House, for the purpose of con sidering the manner in which the cost of gaols and police in New South Wales had been defrayed, and the manner in which the land fund of New South Wales has been expended since the year 1835. This he ( Lord Mahon) considered to imply no more than a disposition in the House to afford relief to the colony. but without binding itself as to the manner. He reserved the degree of assistance be would afford, and only pledged himself so far as to state that he thought there was a prima fec:e case of grievance, and that he would assist them. But he must also say that just as the claim of New South Wales in the present instance was, he thought it del ed additional force from the importance at the present moment of emigration to the British Empire. He rejoiced to see the enlightened eagerness of the labouring population to emigrate. Their sentiments on this subject were well ex pressed in the petition from Glasgow. He did not say the sentiments so feelingly expressed in that petition were a reason for concurring in the present motion, but they afforded a motive for it, as shoeing that the interests of New South Wales were identified with those of a large portion of our own population. It was impossible to ex aggerate the importance of emigration at the present mo ment. Look at the increase of labourers in proportion to the growth of labour, and then say whether emigration was not the safety valve for our population. Let country gentlemen depend upon this that emigration would be found ie the long run to be the best Poor-law.— ( Hear, hear.) But he did not confine the importance of emigration alone to the labouring classes. It was impos sible for any one to be acquainted with the literature of this country without seeing how persons in those walks of life were debarred, from the excess of population, from ob taining their daily I read. He did feel, therefore, that there was strong reasons for this motion in the state cf Eng. land at the present moment. In his opinion, this great and glorious destiny was reserved for England. It was by hying abroad the foundation of future empires she could hest secure her own empire at home. It was by laying the foundation of free and prosperous colonies we could best maintain freedom, honour, and prosperity at home. H o did not urge this as a reason for this motion, but as corrobo ration for it. He believed, in equity and justice, they were bound to comply with it; and he was the more disposed to do so, believing that some assistance, such as should not weigh heavily upon our resources, would promote the welfare, and confer considerable benefit both on the colo nies and the mother country.—( Hear, hear.) _ Lord J. RUSSELL said that no doubt it would be a very agreeable thing for a member of the Government when a motion was brought forward respecting alleged griev ances of the Colonies, and for assistanoe to be given from the public revenues of this country, it he could advise that such assistance should be given. He could assure the Noble Lord that there was no wait of applications, and no want of cases of other colonies making similar claims, that part of their expenses should be charged upon the funds of this country. Some of these were founded on strong rea sons. There was a State connected with this country re specting which a Noble Lord was about to make a motion that evening, be meant the lonian Islands, who paid 35,000/. a-year for military contribution, and application bad been made to relieve them from this burden, and from the additional taxation it imposed upon them. Ceylon also paid large sums for military expenses, and Jamaica was also subject to great expense on this account for her courts of justice. There were scarcely any of the colonies whose revenues were at all available that did not say what ad vantage it would be if part of these expenses were paid by the mother country. It was urged that the Governors joined in their applications, and he found that this never failed to be the case. The other day he was conversing with Sir Colin Campbell, who had hardly been appointed a week as Governor of Ceylon, what it would be best to do fur that colony, and be had said the best thing would be to pay part of their military expenses. If he (Lord John Russell) were to compare all the cases of these colonies, his opinion on the whole would Le, that the colony which was the most favoured, and had the least cause for assis tance, the colony that had derived the greatest advantange from the mother country, and had the least grievance to complain of, was the colony of New South Wales The Noble Lord said that there was a cause of great grievance and distress, and he stated that there was a great demand for labourers. No doubt there was, and no doubt the colony would be much benefited by a large increase of labourers, but that was not in itself a cause of distress is the colony. When he heard Hon. Gentlemen state that there was great distress in Ireland, that a man could not earn 6d. a day, and lived on potatoes, and that both him self and his family were suffering for want of food, and from low wages, that he admitted to be a case of distress. But when the Noble Lord said the demand for labour was so great, and such high wages were pail, and there au re such large rations of food, this was a reason why the colony did not make such a progress as it migt.t otherwise do ; but it was not on account of the distress of the colony, but the reverse. It was on account of their being so much capital in the colony that there was not employment for that which might be profitably employed. It was proved by papers on the table of the House. that 40,000 persons had been added to the colony at the expense of revenues granted by the act cf the Government; and yet it was with respect to this colony the Nehle Lord made a special c ,roplaint. Government had expended in adding to the mass of the population upwards of half a million ; yet it was said that nothing bad been done for it. He must say, with le gird to many colonies far which little had been deee, these might be some plausible complaint, but with regard to this colony the whole complaint was that the colony might make more rapid advances if they would give them 50,000/. a. ear more. No d ou bt th e ir rate of pre gress would be accelerated hut, as a general question, he said, with respect to this colony, more had been done than for almost any colony under the Queen's Government. With regard to the assignment system, which the Noble Lord thought was properly aboli.hed, he agreed with the Noble Lord that it had ten d ed much to the prosperity of the colony. If they set aside all views of moraliy, and of the religious and moral welfare of the colony, nothing tended so much to advance its prosperity as the command of slave labour. But if this increase of convicts had gone on it would have become so alarming that military pre cautions must have been taken for . the saf ety of the colony. But at the very time this population became dangerous, Lord Ripon establishied a system by which the lands of the colony, instead of being granted gr.tuitously, incon siderately and improperly, were sol I and employed i n im porting labourers to recruit the population of the colony from a more healthy source. When that system was adopted, the foundation was laid of good community_ in New South Wales, and it in a great degree destroyed the effect of convict thus having first laid the foundation of a g emigration, r a and material prosperity, we in the second instance laid the foundation of the moral and political prosperity of New South Wales. Therefore, without saying that it was done for the pecu liar advantage of that colony, he did say it had happened in respect to New South Wales that that colony had been peculiarly favoured, and that no one of the colonies of the British empire had been so fortunate. It was said their present position was one of distress. Now with regard to revenue it appeared from ollicial documents that the average revenue in 1833 and 1834 was 150,0001., in 1837 and 1838 2 08,0001., and it appeared that on the Bth Au gust, 1840, including the land fund and quit rent, the total receipt of the year was 4 2 7,368 1 . That was the state of a colony which the Noble Lord called upon the heavily burdened people of England to contribute 'some 50,000/, to, in order to help up their re venue.—( Hear, hear.) He believed there was no instance in which so rapid an increaso in the prosperity of a colony could be pointed out. It was alleged by the Hon. Mem ber for Liskcard that the people cf that colony were be a vily Lazed; but the comparison w hi c h the Hon. Member had made was extremely fallacious. Ile did not find that, like the people of that country, they p a id a heavy window duty, a stamp duty, a 1 gscv dale, an d h eavy duties on coffee, and sugar, and tea—[Mr. Hume—" And corn."l His Hon. Frieed behind had added even upon the imports tion of corn.—( Loud cries of " Hear , bear.") Now he must say that that was a proof that the people of Great = drain were much more heavily burdened, and it would be extremely unfair to ask them to contribute to the assist ance of a colony which was progressing so rapidly as that of New South Wales. Even the taxes that were paid out of the local and county rates in England were there paid out of the general revenue, and that was why the expendis tore of the ordinary revenue was so heavy. In 1838 the ordi nary revenue of the colony was 9 04,000/., and out of that the duty upon tobacco and spirits imported and distilled, and wines, amounted to 145,2781., so that, with regard to the ordinary sources of taxation their contributions were very light, for he knew of no articles which were more properly the subject of taxation, than those he had enu merated. It was impossible to avoid these comparisons, when that House was called upon to come to the relief of the colony. In his opinion, the inhabitants of New South Wales did not pay one tenth the amount of taxation that wa s paid by the people of this country. The House would . recollect that there was a sum of 300,000/., which they were called upon to pay, as connected with the penal sys tem of that country. He did not object to their paying that sum ; and there was, besides, the expenses of the military defence of the colony, which was borne by Great Britain. The Hon. Member for Liskeard had argued, that because they had troops they must be stationed some where, and therefore it entailed no additional expense upon the mother country; but it appeared to him, that if they had not these colonies, they would not require to keep up so large a military force.—( Hear.) The Noble Lord had referred to the great advantages that would result from promotingemigration to New South Wales, and he( Lord J. Russell) agreed with him. He fully concurred in the principles laid down by Mr. Wakefield and the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies, who had advocated the plan of applying the money obtained from the sale of colonial lands to the purposes of emigration. That ap peared to him a very wholesome and judicious system, and much preferable to giving a sum of 50 or 100,0001. from the Impe-isl treasury far such a purpose. From the de spatches of Sir George Gipps. it appeared that a sum of 156,000/. had been obtained by the sale of lands, and a sum of 162,0001. had been expended ftr the purpose of promoting emigration, so that a sum of 6,0001. more than had been collected from that source had been expended in emigration. The Hon. M •mber fur the City of London had argued as if the Government were anxious to put a stop to emigration to New South Wale. No such thing. On the contraty, he thought it was a great bent fit to the colony, a-d they were determined to promote it as far as lay in their power. The only way to lay the foundation of a great, a moral, and a prosperous community in that colony, was to introduce as many healthy and able bodied emigrants as they could from the mother country. —( Hear, hear.) • It appeared to him most unreasonable that 50,000/. should be taken from the taxes of the people of New South Wales, and imposed upon the heavily burdened people of Great Britain. Upon that very question a decision had been come to in 1834, and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer bad decidedly objected to such a proceeding. He was happy to say that from year to year the nature of the population of the colony was changing, and becoming more resembling the population of this country, or that of Scotland or Ireland ; and it would be incumbent upon the legislature of that country when such a change took place, to give to the colony those free representative institutions which properly belonged to all colonies derived from the race that inhabited these kingdoms—( Hear, hear.) His belief was, that whether that change took place a little earlier or a little later, all must concur with him in admitting that such must eventu ally be the state of the colony of New South Vale=. Sir W. MOLES WORTH concurred in most of the observations of the Noble Lord opposite, but be differed with him in his remarks upon the assignment system. It appeared to him that if the whole of the fund arising from the sale of lands had been applied to emigration, the diffi culties which the assignment system had given rise to would never have occurred. With regard to the argu ment of the Hon. Member for London that a portion of the local expenditure should be defrayed by the public purse of Great Britain, it appeared to him that there should be some circumstances in the case to take that colony out of the general rule, and he thought the colony of New South Wales presented that peculiarity. Since it had been founded, between 70,000 and 80,000 convicts had been transported to the colony, and the expense of the gaols and police there was nine times as great as it was at home. It was but just, therefore, that the mother country should defray some portion of the extra expense it had entailed upon them. Those colonies would, in a very short period, become the best market for our manufactured goods; but, in order that they should become so, it was necessary that they should be fully supplied with labour. He fully agreed with his Hon. Friend the Member for London, that the nett proceeds derived from the sales of waste land ought to be applied solely to emigration purposes. Sir R. PEEL could not deny that emigration might be a double advantage to this country; first increasing the population of distant colonies, and relieving this country from its superfluous population, but he did not think it would be either wise or honest to charge the finances of the mother country with a charge of 50,000/. or 60,000/. per annum. If they were to agree to the principle, as re lated to New South Wales, where was it to stop? Might it not be applied to Canada, pr, in fact, all our other colonies? New South Wales had made very rapid progress in wealth from the system of convict labour ; she bad derived the be nefit of that system; could she then complain of being called upon to provide for her internal Government? He did not think that New South Wales had any equitable claim upon the treasury of the mother country for such expenses. The latter already spent, as he understood, 330,0001. for the establishments of that colony; it provided for its defence, and in his opinion the colony had no right to ask for anything more. He re gretted that any stop should he put to emigration into the colony, but the colony might tax itself for the purpose; at all events he could not agree to saddle the already over burdened treasury of this country with an increased outlay of 52,0001. per annum. At present there was an unhappy disposition in every country in Europe to prodigality in expenditure—( Hear, hear)—there was a remarkable defi ciency in the income, and unless some steps were taken to reduce the expenditure in every country the most gloomy prospects would encompass them; it was not to be done by spending 20 or 30 millions in fortifications—(Cheers) —but by enlightening the people. He could not give his assent to the resolutions of the Hon. Member. Mr. WARD thought that the funds derived from the sale of lands ought to be applied to the purpose of sup plying the colony with labourers of a class superior to that which the assignment system offered. He was willing to admit that the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colo tonics had done more than any of his predecessors to im prove the management of our colonial possessions. But still he felt that the purchasers of land had a right to ex pect, upon every principle of good faith and public justice, that they should be supplied with the labour, which they had been led to expect, and without which the land was worth nothing. He would vote for a Committee of In quiry. Sir R. H. INGLIS was sorry to differ from his Right Hon. Friend (Sir Robert Peel), but he thought that Australia had a claim upon this country for the expense of taking care of the convicts who were sent thither, and he should support the motion. Sir C. GREY said it would be most alarming if this country should be called upon to support the police esta blishments in her distant colonies. He felt it his duty to oppose the motion of his Hon. Friend. Mr. HUME was sorry not to be able to vote with his Hon. Friend the Member for London. The whole debate arose from the colonial system being perfectly unintelligi ble. It would be highly dangeorous to admit the doc trines of his Hon. Friend. The difference with Ms Hon. Friend was, whether the whole or only part should be applied to the purposes of emigration. The Noble Lord had clearly shown that no part of the fund had been diverted from the expenditure of the colony. It had been shown, in the course of the debate, that there were still thirty-eight thousand convicts working for the colony. The colony, therefore, still con tinued to derive benefit from the assignment system, and it was quite reasonable, therefore, that they should bear a portion of the expense of maintaining these convicts. He really did not see what grounds there were f)r going into Committee. It would be highly unjust to apply 50,0001 to the promotion cf emigration in New South Wales. un less they were also prepared to extend the same benefit to ether colonies. The management of the gaols and the expense of the police was, in his opinion, a legitimate ex pense of the colony. Mr. G ROTE, in reply said, that had the promises of Lord Rioon and Lord Glenelg been fulfilled, 200,0001. would have been devoted to the colony. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw and the House divided-- For the motion Against it Majority acainet the motion —44 lONIAN ISLANDS. Lord C. FITZROY moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to take into consideration the papers relating to the lonian States, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed the 221 day of June, 1840. The Noble Lord said his object was to obtsin for the lonian States, which contained an honest and industrious popula tion, the fair and impartial administration of justice. He also wished to save them from the injustice of the Lord High Commissioner and his staff, whose representations respecting them were most erroneous. The Noble Lord prcceeded to read several extracts from the despatches of the Lord High Commissioner: of the lonian Islands. for the purpose of showing the management and great expense attending the government of these islands. The Noble Lord complained of the Lord 1 -ligh Commissionei's conduct in entering the houses and se i z i ng th e p a p ers o f man y o f th e inhabitants. he inhabitant s . All th ese thi ngs having come to hi s know ledgehe•gwot he would not have thought h e had performed his duty had b e not put the House in possession of the f acts. He thought had shown good grounds for rthrring the papers to a Select Committee.LMorr.dll.l.UßMLETSZE°LndLellitdth_ee lonian not rn thin there there was any ground b for a Committee upon subject.eeeriePe. 1 8 r 5 ly sit Allut a States didnot Noble fm a o r Lord ought to remember thethat w l a l ite h d, and colony of this country, f we re governed under the Treatiza au thoritiest in those island; were actin g harmoniously te to getlaCr, nor was there any disturbance among thepe le, who were general ! y em p lo y ed at high wages. Was it right then of the House of Commons to interfere and disturb such a state of peace ?—(H„,, , hear.) He was extremely sorry that his Noble Friend had brought this subject again before the House after the decision o f last year. He should give a decided negative to the motion, Sir H. HARDINGE defended the conduct of Sir Howard Douglas against the charges urged by his Noble Friend Lord C. Fitzroy. He begged to ask his Noble Fried whether he meant to say that Sir Howard Douglas opened letters which were passed through the Government office, and, having informed himself of the contents, sealed them up again in other envelopes. Lord C. FITZROY said that an individual named Courego had made distinctly that charge against the Go vernor. Sir P. H. INGLIS also dtfonded the character of Sir Howard Dully,las, and referred to the public testimony borne by the lonians themselves, to his judicious and ire parfal conduct as Lord Commissioner. Mr. FIUME supported the motion, and expressed his astonishment that the friends of Sir H. Douglas did not want inquiry. Was it a proper state of things, where the only crgan of public opinion was the Gazette, published under the authority of the Government? He ( Mr. Flame) would not sanc ti o n an y o ffi cer, no matter what his military farce, who suppressed the liberty of the press. He considered the House of Commons were bound to accede to the present motion, and he would support it most c or di a ll y, if only his Noble Friend could be found to divide on th e quest i on. Sir R. PEEL thought it apparent from the report of the Finance CommiAce of the House of Assembly of the lonian Islands, th at str i ct economy waa indispensally necessary ; this Was on the authority of the Government of that country. He thought Sir Howard Douglas acted under circumstances of peculiar difficulty. If assertions were made reflecting on the character of Sir Howard Douglas, that gentleman's friends bad a right to complain, d demand an explanation. He ( Sir R. Peel) was sure that the Noble Lord ( Ftzroy) had no intention of casting any imputations on the Gallant Officer. Sir C. GREY thought there were sufficient grounds for inquiry. Colonel RAWDON considered that as the conduct of a public officer was free to be canvassed, when an asser tion was made in a British House of Commons r( fl-sting on it, it was but right that an inquiry should be instituted. After a few words from Sir FL VIVIAN, Lord C. FITZ ROY explained. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were— Eor the motion Against it Mil why Is On our return to the gallery we found Mr. HUME, moving for returns, in detail, of the sum of 3,0271. granted as compensation in pub lic offices or departments in the year ending the 3lst day of December, 1840. Also, of 39,001/ 18 , . 54. gran!el as superannuation allowances, in the same time; stating ihe name of each person, his present age, the office he held, the total number of years, the period of entering, and the time he was in the service. and how long he held !he (Alice for which compensation or super annuation was granted ; the .mount cfsalary and allowance for such last office, and whether the office he held has been abolished. Also, a return of the manner in which 3,310/. 2s. 101, and 6 093/ Os. 51. was disbursed by the Me,ropolitan Police Cummi•sioners in the year 1840, as superannuation charges; staling the name of each person, his present age, the period of service, and in what capacity he en tered it, and in what capacity he last served, the pay and allowances of his list rank, and the amount of compensa tion now allowed.-.. Agreed to. The County Courts Bill, after a few words from Mr. FOX MAULE and Mr. HUME, was read a second time. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIM ES.—The expression which suggested itself to us on opening the recently published correspondence on Eas tern affairs, appears to have elicited a little animadversion from some of our Contemporaries, with whom we are riot accustomed to disagree. Admitting, however, if you will, that veracity is a conspicuous characteristic of the quarter from which these papers emanate, it is surely neither un charitable nor unjust to conjecture that a collection of do cuments containing the diplomatic intercourse of seven Ca binets or Councils, some of them declared enemies to each other, all of them actuated by various mo tives, and all of them putting the most specious appearance on their conduct, is likely to prove an enormous mass of mutual deception. We wi,h, for the sake of mankind and of truth, that it were otherwise ; and we hastened the other day to express our belief that the practice of laying d(cuments of this flatua before the world would tend to check the underhand deal ings which diplomatists hive at times being accused of. How is it possible that this volume should not be full of lies? The very object of its publication is, we presume, to expose them. We find the Sultan Malmoud protesting in the Spring of 1839 of his pacific intentions, and the Rus sian Cabinet complaining that it had been deceived by the Divan, which somehow or other managed to renew hosti lities against the Pacha, in spite of the remonstrances of all Europe—remonstrances which were sincere and energetic on the part of some, hollow and feeble on the part of others. We find the 'Pacha protesting with equal energy of his submission and moderation ; but these assurances, which were sufficiently strong to convince Colonel Campbell, were treated by Lord Ponaonby and Lord Palmerston as the artifices of insatiable ambition. We find France pro fessing to identify her policy and her instructions with those of England, yet swerving from the course whenev she was called upon to act upon the principles she af fected to adopt. We find Ruisis labouring with unremit ting address to establish a character of good faith and disinterestedness, which gains less easy access is the Cs binet of the Tuileries than in that of St. James's. Frost these various and conflicting sources Parliament and the public will doubtless be able to form a just con clusion, by making a due allowance for the purposes which these negotiations were intended to accomplish. As far as our own diplomacy is concerned, it is remarkable, not for duplicity or art in veiling its objects, but for the strenuous and daring avowal of its opinions, even at the risk of exaggerating c , ,nviction into prejudice, and firm ness into imperiousness. Throughout Loid Ponsonby'a share of the correspondence, these defects are strongly visible, even in the extracts from his despatehes, which have been selected far the public eye. L ird Palmerston's own productions are distinguished by that acute and peremptory spirit which has enabled him to remain the master of these negotiations from London to Alexandr:a, and to animate the whole combination by his own strength of will; but these eminent qualities are impaired by the absence of that unprejudiced and unruffled temper of which Lord Granville is so fortunate an example. To the influence of this distinguished Ambassador and to that of Lord Beauvale, acting in immediate concert with Prince Metternich, it is fair to attribute a considerable share in these important transactions, and great merit in allaying the dissensions to which they might have given rise. GLOBE.—The Post steps forth to shield the Tory party from the attacks which the Times, in its " fiery impatience," yesterday, directed against the leaders of the party, whom it designated a " set of scoundrels," to seat whom in office the great body of the Conservatives refuse to exert themselves. The cause of this " explosion" of fury is found in the impending election contest at Nottingham ; " with which," says the Post, " somehow or other, the Tunes is more pecu liarly interested than in any other " party conflict. The Times, under the influence of " intemperance," certainly repeated, somewhat coarsely, a few rather awkward truths respecting the disorganization and dis satisfaction which exist in the Tory party. There was nothing in these disclosures which was not notorious enough already, and which had not been exhibited in various ways and on divers occasions for several months by the recognized journals of Conservatism. The Herald and the Standard, each in its own peculiar phraseology, had, directly or indirectly, denounced Sir Robert Peel and the other " leaders" of the party, as utterly unworthy the confidence of " Protestants," whose " interests" they had abandoned and betrayed. The latter journal repeatedly called upon the " Con servative democracy" to mark their sense of the un principled time-serving policy of all moderate states men of its own party, by inviting men more consistent in principle and uncompromising in policy to assume the lead, and to go before them as their commanders and their guides. What, we ask, is there in the Times' ar ticle of yesterday, to which the Post objects, and la bours to explain away, respecting either the post-proxi mate Premier, or those who look for office under him, which has not been said again and again by other leading organs of the party, in all the various forms of accusation and reproach which language can be made to assume ?—not, perhaps, with the vulgar coarse ness which belongs peculiarly to the Times, but not less imbued with deep disaffection and disap pointment, because more refined. A public writer is compelled to adapt his style to the description of readers for whom he specially designs his lucubrations. The netts is at present engaged in the disrtputab'e voca tion of writing to incite the brickbat-and•bludgeon men of Nottingham to aid Mr. Walter's " individual inte rests" by their striking powers of advocacy, and in ca joling the Chartists and dragooning the Conservatives into act ye co-operation t, further his designs. STANDARD.—It seems to be conceded on all sides that tie Chartists have to a great extent in their hands the event of the Nottingham election, and it such is the truth that event, whatever it may be, must be productive of good. Should the professors of ex treme democratic principles accept their representative from the Treasury, and return a man nominated by the authors of the New Poor-law, apparently for no other reason than abject submission to his patrons, the country will be wiser for the choice. It will then be made clear that the Chartists are nothing but a mere unthink ing rabble, led by a few noisy inceadiaries, neither better nor wiser than the rest, though cunning enough to see that, by making themselses important through the violence of their deceived followers, they have a chance of indulging their vanity, or filling their pockets, without resorting to fair enterprise or honest labour ;—such a lesson will be more profitable to the country, and more particularly to the cause of the Conservatives, than beneficial or honour able to the Chartists. Should the Chartists, on the other side, succeed in returning the friend of the poor, it will be their first real victory, the first unequivocal manifestation of that moral force upon which all of them who are respectable pro fess to place their sole reliance. Hitherto they have found nothing but defeat, because, hitherto, with moral force upon their lips, they have too plainly shown by acts, as at Newport, that other means of success were in their hearts. Prudence and public duty, however, concur in suggesting the infinite importance to a party so often defeated of winning one victory, and winning it by unexceptionable means. The Whig Radicals despise the Chartists, because they know that the Chartists cannot displace them from office, or make any serious impression upon Parliament while they appear to contemplate revolutionary designs ; and these they must continue to appear to con template so long as they neglect to use the lawful and constitutional means of forwarding what they profess as their objects. They have now an oppor tunity of forwarding the object which they have ever n professed p to r ta e r t e , g aa inasdeed, nadseealt, o r i e l e m e o v l e tt; t n h e e a r g e r s e t a t a n p d r 0 the roost important, as, indeel, removing the great provo cation which has called their union into existence— they have now the opportunity of forwarding the de cisive modification, if not repeal, of the New Poor law, by means which the most bigoted votary of order, at all price. cannot reprove. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. tlt stag na tion FROM THE MORN ING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. POST.—The dulnes s which had prevailed on the Stock total ttahle Exchange from the beginn in g of th e week cont inue s . ETnhgerleishwhaosutshei! while, in th a e l ost a foreign, g transactions were confined chiefly,to the Peninsular securities, a nd these wer e of trifling ex te n t. By far the most im p or tant operations of the day w ere i n shares. The appro ach making by the m Company to the completion of the Brighton line causes much more activity in that speculation. The shares, whi c h were, at one time, as low as 15 or 16 dis., wet° done to.. day at a fraction less than 2 dis. ; but there was some fluc tuation in the market, and the highest value was not fully sustained at the close of business. THE SUN," LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1841. LORD CARDIGAN AND IVIR. MACALTLAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The answer of Mr. Macaulay to Mr. Hume's' question respecting Lord Cardigan has done liLtle service to that nobleman, while it will, we fear, prove injurious to the Right Hon. Gentleman himself. Mr. Macaulay's statement was either irrelevant or un true. As to the circumstance so minutely described of the 11th Regiment having been marched out of the Ridieg school, inspected for half an hour, and then marched tack to the Riding-school, when the punishment was infl , cted, we understand that the whole took place under what is caged a church parade." But the matter is unimp •rt ant. Mr. Macaulay, however, went out of his way to volunteer a tri'sute to the humanity of the Earl of Cardi enn. We have already observed that the charge against his Lordship was not for inhumanity, but for indecency. In noticing the case, we expressly avoided entering into the question of flogging. or whether private Rogers de served it or not, and confined ourke:v , s to the mete fact of tlir punishment having been infl!eted on a Sunday. But as Mr. Macaulay has become Lord Cardigan's trum peter, and injudiciously raised the question of his humanity, as a set-off for his disregard of decency, the will proceed to join issue with him on that point. As a proof of the hun,anily of Lord Cardigan, Mr. Macaulay has asserted that no man in, the 11th hussars has been punished with the lash since 1839 Thi; inference can scarcely be drawn from all the circumstances cone ec ted with his Lordship's command. The strength or the corps under his Lordship's com mand is about 335, rank and file. The number of Courts-martial from June, 1838, to June, 1839, tvrs about June, 1839, to May, 1840, about Tot,l .... 105 Of this number four were pardoned, The punishments by Lord Cardigan's own, authority cn the defaulter: list were— In the first year, abodt In dle s;:cond eleven months, about 3lB Total 748 During the time the regiment was in Canterbury there were about 90 men confined in the ga , l. In regard to the defaulters arnountiag to about 748, it is understood Lord Cardigan received instructions from head-quarters to diminish the severity of his punishments. And as to the c.)urts-martial, the Inspector-General of Cavalry, Sir C. Dalbiac, recorded his opinion, that " Lid Cardigan's command bad been characterised by unneces sary harshness." The inference therefore iv, that it is not to Lord Cardi gan's humanity, but to the orders of the Horse Guards c sequent on his Lordship's severity, that the diminution of punishments is to be attributed since the regiment left Canterbury. With respect to the quasi-justification, that " the case was not peculiar, as similar instances had occurred in the army, as well as in the other branches of the service," we were sure that Mr. Macaulay was here calumniating the officers of the army. We have made iaquirles is the proper quarter, and are positively assured that such a thing as flagging on a Sunday is utterly unknown in England— nay, that even in the colonies it is unheard of. We sub join a lAter on the subject from an officer who has com manded two regiments, in which Mr. Ma c aulay is chal lenged to produce a single case of such an outrage in the United Kingdom or the Colonies :-- " appears to me most essential that the public should be disahused with regard to punishment in the army being inflicted on a Sunday. I challenge Mr. Macaulay, or any other person, civil or military, to pro duce a case of such outrage in the United Kingdom, or in the Colonies, and I hope you, on behalf of the pub!ic, will not let the matter rest until the case is produced. It is possible that in the field or active service such an occur rence has taken place ; but that is a very different aff,,ir. Your obedient servant, " AN OLD OFFICER, Forty years in the army, having com manded two regiments." . _ We cannot quit the subject witimut observing that it give: us pain to see a man like Mr. Macaulay compromis i,,g his own title to public regard by his mode of &fend i-g Lord Ca-digan. When Lord Cardigan vias the sub ject of a discussion in the House before the recess, the Right Honourable Gentleman positively misrepresented the nature of the communication from the Commander-in- Chief. when he contradicted Mr. Warburton, whose ac count of it was strictly correct. Mr. Macaulay said "he believed that the communication of Lord till wan a general admonit'on t . the regiment, to the effect that tae dissensions between the commanding effic , r and some of the officers had a tendency to render the corps in efficient," 'whereas t-e c.mmanding officer distinet , y stare. • that thellth Hussars is not in the state in which a regiment ougl.t to be, in order to afftrd ground for con fidence that it would, in quarters or in the field, at home or abroad, render the efficient service which might be ex. petted '•' from such a bidy. It cannot surely be necessary for the Right Honourable Gentleman, in the discharge of his official duty, to play the advocate for Lord Cardigan, though, even as all advocate, Ire has indulged in a mare than allowable looseness of sta:ement. The whole style, too, of his answer to Mr. Hume on Tuesday night—his laboured tribute to Lord Cardigan's humanity, and his questionable endeavour to shelter his Lordship's inde cency under precedent, in order to weaken the feeling which his outrageous conduct was calculated to excite— was altogether unworthy of Mr. Macaulay. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) In the whole course of our newspaper experience—that experience extends to about e'ghteen years—we h.,ve never beard or known of such an atrocious outrage upon public feeling as that perpetrated by Lord Cardigan in flJgging a soldier upon tile Sabbath-day—a day of rest and forgiveness, and forgetfulness of injuries—of charity and prayer—of kindliness and good feeling. _ . . . Flogging, in any instance, is a brutal, loWrbarous, and de moralising act, and can only be committed, or put into practice, by a barbarian or a brute ; but for any one to have said, as in the course of divine service he must have said, "forgive us our debts, as we forgive the debts of others," and flogging a soldier immediately after wards, the barbarism of the flogging becomes infinitely more disgusting and atrocious. And what did Lord Cardigan do, according to the ac counts which have appeared in almost every paper? Why, after making his orisons to his Maker—alter hearing Divine service, in the course of which we doubt not the Rev. official inculca.ed the principles cf mercy and for giveness, and brotherly love—he leaves the house of God, and in thorough contradiction of the holy principles Iv tempted to be impre,sed upon his mind, he orders the ha'- berts to be prepared, the cat to be in readiness, and a nr serable poor brother in flesh to be stripped, and his bare back exposed to• the involuntary but savage lash cf the drummer. Was there ever such a scene exhibited in the whole annals of the army as that to which we now refer ? Will even the " Neagate Calendar," or the Ca.. lendar of any other gaol in any part of the United King dom, furnish us will such a signal instance of cruelty on the one hand, or desecration of the Sabb,ith on the other? Lord Cardigan, if we arc rightly informed, is supported by a Royal Lady, and has hitherto escaped from being cashiered, in consequence of his private influence in that quarter; but whatever that influence may be, we will tell Lord Melbourne, honestly and sincerely, that if he sub mit to the cUetation to which we allude, be will not only materially damage his own personal character, but also that of the administration of which he is the head. Ii Lord Hill be waning into dotage, and incapable of dis charging his duties as Commander of the Forces, which to all appearance seems to be the case, lie ought to be cal!ed upon to resign his cffiee, which he has held too long, and to transmit its rights and privileges to more firm and able hands At all event , , his cantina respectin:: Lord Cardigan. has given tho greatest disgust ti the pub ic generally ; and if Lord Hill do not have him dismis, ed fix the desecrating outrage of whi,,h the N isle Lord has been guilty, since the last lecture administered to him at Brighton, there is no One who will net concur in ;h. opinion teat be is i.tterly and totally unfit to fill the high situa , ion, and execute the important duties committed to his charge. ( From t Herald.) In adverting—in the Herald of - the 15th instant—to the case of a flogging inflicted on a private of the llth Hus sars on a Sunday, in the riding-school of Hounslow filar_ races, and 4' immediately after (as it was alleged) the celebration ol Divine Service,"- we availed ourselves of that opportunity to express a doubt Ls to some parts of the statement which was originally published of that transac t:on. The explanations which have since been offered in the House of Commons have amply justified the doubts which we then intimated; we wish we could add tha , they had altogether relieved us from the necessity of re deeming the pledge which we then gave, that, in the event of its thereaf er appearing that Lord Cardigan had ren dered himself justly obnoxious, by his conduct in the mat tar, to the imputations which.had been lavishly cast upon hire, we should not be slow to concur with the Chronicle in calling for the severest censure upon his Lordship at the hands of the highest military authorities. We must own that the discussion which took place on this affair, in the House, the night before last, has excited in us a strong feeling of disappointment and regret. The case, as very fairly put by Mr. Nlscaulay, the Secretary at War, certainly exhibits an important mitigation of those circumstances, on the assumption of which, alone, we pre sume, could our Contemporary, the Illormng Chronicle, have been betrayed into the coarse, not to say ferocious, expressions in which it passed judgment on Lord Cardi gan, unheard : With the punishment of the soldier in question asked by his Hon. Friend had nothing to do, and, whatever other charge might be brought against the Noble Lord ( Cardigan) in the command of that regiment, there could he none on the ground of humanity, as would be proved by the fact, that since the early part of 1839 there had not been an instance of corporal punishment in the regiment, except in the case just referred he charge which might be, and had been brorigla against Lord Cardigan on this occasion, was for Laving directed the punish. ment to bs inflicted on a Sunday—( ll ear, hear)., pre _ creding which he (Mr. Macaulay) would net defend, be lieving it to be utterly repugnant to the general feelings o f the country—( Hear, hear)—and though the case was not without a precedent in the service, yet all the officers of great experience whom he had consulted on the subject, stated that corporal punishment was never inflicted on a Sunday, except under circumstances cf great exige nc y_ circumstances which certainly did not exist in this case— (Hear.) However, he had to state to the House thet such notice bad Leen taken, and would be taken, of the case as would effectually prevent the recurrence of a ny similar one in future."—( Hear.) Now, taking for granted the perfect impartiality o f this account of the affair, it amounts to no exoneration of the Noble Lieutenant-Colonel, from the charge of having needlessly and offensively desecrated the Sabbath. His Lordship may—as the Secretary at war seems, in charity, to suggest for him—have been intent only on carrying cut that unremitting system o f discipline, for his su ccess in administering and mainta i n i ng which the Corn. mander-in-Chicf has, on more than one occasion, so hi g hl y eulogised him. But:whatever value Lord Cardigan may attach to keeping up the soldierlike deportment of hip men on and cff Re.ade—theic steadini a; on serviec—tbi: - precision of manoeuvre—and even their habits of moral propriety—he ought to know that his zeal to maintain these in others, cannot dispense with the demands of so ciety and order in a Christian country, upon himself, for the due observance of the decencies, the decorum, the self. restraint, which are demanded of all men, but especially of those in the public exercise of authority, on tie Sabbath. A more unnecessary desecration of the holy quiet of that day than the precipitate infliction of the 100 lashes on the soldier, who had been tried for drunkennes, can scarcely be imagined. It is too tvie.eut that the Earl of Cardigan has3el t..) master the practical difficulties of applyiug rule of conduct more searching ands vere than any code of rec;dations he has hitherto promul:atH to his regitnem —l,amely, the rule of SELF discipline. The testimony of the S crea , 37 at War to the laumality of the IsT3ble Earl i=, however, so distinct, that we are unwilling to push our animadversions at present any further. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. APRIL 22. TEe LORD CHANCELLOR did not :it to-day. ROLLS COURT, Am): 22. The COURT wati eogaged 0.1 t.ay iu retriog motions, no general int( rest. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Arnri, 22, THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY V COOPER Thi; was an application to dissolve an injunction granted by the Vice-Chancellor, on the 20th February, to restrain the phintitl.4 from constructing a railway for the convey ance of goods across the highway, from the railway termi nus at Shoreham, to a wharf which the Company had erected on the sea shore. His HONOUR, afier hearing Mr. Knight Bruce and Mr. Goldsmith for the plaintiff's, and Mr. Jacob for the Mem , - ants, d ssolved the injunction, leaving the trustees of the highway at liberty to bring an action if they should think proper. FULCHER V. FULCHER. This was an application to remove the receiver of an estate from his office of receiver, on the ground of his neg lecting his duties, for suffering the estate to be injured for want of repairs, for general nial-administration, and to ap. point another receive-. His HONOUR, after hearing Mr. Knight Bruce and Mr. Anderton for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stevens for the re ceiver, said that it was quite a mhtter of course to dis charge a receiver upon the application of all parties, and therefore in this case, in which all parries but one had joined in the application, it did n )t appear material whe ther the grounds alleged were suhst intia'ed, though it ap peared the receiver, in the course of a long administra t:on, had done some things he was not authorised to do. He thought there was no reason why he should not make the order. MORWOOD V. WOOD. This was an appl!cation to dissolve an injunction to re strain plaintiff from trespassing upon certain lands of the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff claimed a right to certain nines of coal under the lands of the defendant, and had entered upon them for the purpose of procuring and carrying it away. After hearing; Mr. Jacob and Mr. K. Bruce, the appli eatlon was postponed until Monday, to sec if the phrties could agree upon the order to be made. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Arial. 22. The Grand Juries were sworn in this morning before Mr, Justice Pa! teson who briefly addressed them on the nature the duties they had to veil urm. THE QUZEN V. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE NORTHAMPTON HERALD, Mr. HUMPHREYS said in this case a rule had been ob. tamed by his Learned Friend Sir Frederick Pollock, calling upon the defendants, the proprietors of the Northamptw, Herald newspaper, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them for an alleged libel upon the Midland Counties Railway Company. The article complained of %las on the subject of an accident attended with fatal eonse • quences, which occurred upon that railway, and the proprietors of the paper in question, which was one of great circulation and respectability, having paid considerable attention to the accidents which had occurred about that period, had noticed it in their pkier, and the grievance of the charge was that the defendants alleged that the accident arose from the neglect of the Railway Proprietors, and a desire on their part to save ex pense, and that if there had been a more liberal exponditure the accident would not have occurred. He believed that wa: - the part of the article complained of, and on the part of the ea fendants he hail no he.itatioa in stating as fully, fairly, an( plainly as language could express it, that as regarded that par' of the article beyond all doubt the information they had r?- ceived was not correct, and he desired on their part to ex press their regret that such a statement should have been made because unquestionably the: e was no evidence to show that either avarice or neglect was the cause of the accident. The accident was a very serious one, more thanone life having beau lost, and at the time several similar ones had taken place 0.. other ra.lways, and the proprietors regretted that they had been led into such a publication without due investigation. He hoped that apology would mitet the views of the Railway Corn• parry, and that the rule would be discharged, the defendants paving all the costs. Sir F. PoLLocK, on behalf of the Railway Company, was quite willing to accept his Learned Friend's apology, and it should be recollected that when these accidents occurred, per haps the parties who of all the Queen's subjects most deeply regretted them, were those most frequently mixed up with them. In the present case there was no pretence for saying that there had been any neglect on the part of the Railway Company, for in fact it occurred under circumstances in which the Railway Company had no control, because at the time the carriages were under the control of another Company, which. generally speaking, was most properly and efficiently con ducted—he meant the London and Birmingham Railway Com pany. Some of the observations were undoubtedly calculates to hold up the Company as destitute of every feeling of huma nity; but it was right that he should state, that the only ob ject they had in view was to show that neither Newspaper pro prietors nor any other persons, should indulge in assertion! ct that sort, unless they were satisfied that they were substanti ally true.—The rule was then ordered to be discharged. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 22. TINE BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY V. FAIRCROFT. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs to compel the defendant to pay up the calls upon 45 -hares which had been transferred to him by the original shareholder. The defence was that the memorial of transfer was defective. the name of the first holder not having been rightly entered. A verdict was taken for the plaintiffs in 2901. damages, subject to a nonsait. Mr. Sergeant POMPAS last term obtained a rule nisi on the point reserved--the irregularity of the instrument. Mr. KELLY and Mr. BRAMWELL this day showed cause against the rule, and Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS replied. The COURT took time to consider judgment. SOIREE V. WALKER, CLERK. Mr. Sergeant Tatsounn, on the pert of the defendant in this case, moved for a rule to rescind an order of Mr. Baron Alderson, granted under the following circum stanc .9 :—Mr. Walker is a clergyman, and proprietor of a boa-ding-school near Cheltenham ; and the plaintiff, who is a tradesman in that town, furnished him with goods to the amount of 1221. for which he took in payment two bills of exchange, one of 601., and the other of 621., being of six months and twelve months date. The first bill was duly paid, but the date of the second w ill not expire until May next. The plaintiff, however, having learned that Mr. Walker was about to go to the Continent during the list vacation, procured affidavits to that effect ; upon which the Judge granted a writ of summons, and eventually an order for the payment of the debt, and, the cost; of the pro ceedings, amounting to 6/. The defendant had no alternative but to vay the whole sum, and now applied Er the rescinding of the order, whereby he would recover the costs and the interest of the money up to the time of the bill becoming due.—Rule nisi granted. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, APRIL 22. POE DEM.-LEGII V. ROE. This was an action of ejectment, brought to recover some portion of the beach around Hurst Castle. Tee SOLICITOR-GENIERAL had obtained a rule for a stay of proceedings, cause against which was shown by Mr. Erie and Mr. Sere, who ci mended that the property was not in the Crown, but in the officers of the Board of Ordnance, against whom a writ of ejectment would lie. If they were stopped in their attempt to try their right it would be a denial of justice to the subject. They were anxious to try the right in the easiest manner possible—they did not want to he driven to the neces sity of bringing upon themselves the expense and delay oft writ of intru:ion. The ATTORNEY-GENEftAL appeared in defence of the Pre-. regatives of the Crown. The Crown was in possession of the property through its servants belonging to the Ordnanre—that was admitted by the service of the declaration in ejectment being served upon the Master Gunner, who was in possession. and that being so, the action could not Le. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL followed, hut was stopped by The COURT, who said the rule must be made absolute. was clear the property was in possession of the Crown ; how, then, could the Crown turn itself out of that possession Ejectment could not lie against the Crown; but there were other modes of proceeding which would as effectually try the right, and to them the plaintiff must have recourse.—The rule was made absolute. CLARK V. THE EARL OF HARRINGTON. Mr. PLATT showed cause against a rule for a new trial which bad teen obtained by Mr. Kelly in this case last term. The plaintiff was a house-agent, who, upon the death of the late Colonel Leicester Stanhope, wrote to the Noble Defendant, enclosir.•g his card and terms, in rela tion to Putney House, which was willed to him by his brother. In consequence of that latter Colonel Lei. caster Stanhope called at the shop of the plaintiff, and gale him the particulars respecting the house. Even tually it was bought by the College of Civil Engineers, the Secretary of which had once called upon the tiff. Mr. Piatt now contended th t the evidence justified the verdict for the plaintiff, inasmuch as he had been em ployed as agent by the brother of the defenda-t, whose visit was caused by the letter written to the defendant. Without h"aring Mr. Kelly, The COURT said the rule must be made absolute, as there was no evidence of the plaintiff having ever been employed by the defendant in the ►transaction.--.Ru!e ab solute. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, APRIL 21. IN THE MATTER OF PRTER HARRIS ABBOTT. This day the adjourned argument as to whether a fiat. could be opened against Mr. Abbqt, as a retired official assignee of this Court was resumed, the questiln in issue being, whether Mr. Abbott, although engapd ih a variety of speculations and bill transactions, was, or was not, a " trader" within the meaning of the Bankrupt Act. A discussiin which las - ed until half-past two o'clock en sued, but, according to the usual practice, it was private. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—AriaL 21. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM JOHN HAMMOND. In this case an application was made on the part of Mr. Hammond, the comedian, and late of Drury-lace and the Strand heatres, to reduce the amount of bail required to enable hint to obtain his discharge More the bearing in June next. It will be recollected that be was made a bankrupt, but the fiat was superseded by the Court of Review, with costs, on tha ground of the absence of the legal requisites, and hence the application to this Court by Mr. Hammond to be discharged from debts incurred in his theatrical speculations. His affidavit tot forth that he had filed his petition, and bad been informed that the Court would wart bail to nearly 4,0001, doub!e the amount of the ju,lgruent debts, and that he could not obtain two per sons who would give bail in that sum, It would b e , f rom that circumstance, utterly impossible for him to obtain bail unless the Court was pleased to reduce the amount, or to accept four housekeeper?. Mr. Hammond further stated iu hi= affidavit that he iiad a wife and seven children de pending for their support on hie professional exertions, and that they were now suffering from privations in con sequence of his incarceration. If the application was rc fused he should be deprived of an engagement for the present season. Mr. Coosa remarked that Mr. Fisher had taken the Strand Theatre in execution, and a theatre at Liverpool, which property together was worth 2,5001., and had been sold for 5001. The Learned Commissioner BOWEN, after examining Nlr. Hammond's schedule, said bail in the sum uf 2,0001. would be accepted. The que;tion rais , dby Mr. Fisher, an attorney at Don caster, was, that the fiat was invalid on several grounds, and, having succeeded in his application, his executi,na -gainst the property of Mr. Hammond prevailed, and the other debts still existed by virtue of the supersedes!, which debts were now ins , rtcd in the schedule filed in this Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HO USE. A lady of the name of Gully, was summoned before Alderman Rrie, to answer the complaint of the Reverend Lionel Buller, a senior fellow of King's College, Cam bridge, under the following raPht r curious circumstances : Mr. Buller, who was accompanied by Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, stated that he was introduced in February to Mrs. Gully, by a medical gentleman whom, he profession ,:liy consulted, and in the course of a conversation which he had held with her, she informed him that she had got a mine in Cornwall, produced some of the ore from a box, and proposed to him to become a shareholder in a Com pany. He, however, did not then know whether he should have funds to engage in the concern, and he did not consent. Subsequently he saw the lady at her house, and she said to him. " Mr. Buller, if you will accommod.ite me with your bill, I shall get it discounted by my wine merchant, and let you have 141. and sonic shares in the mine." He consented to give her his bi l f 501 but she informed him afterwards that she could not get cash for it, and he thought he should hear no more about the matte , . By accident, however, he discovered that the bill had been actually negotiated. He then called at her house to expos. tulate upon the subject, but she received and treated him with very little ceremony indeA, and he intimated to her through his attorney, that she should be put to some trouble on the subject. The fair thought proper, ait , r ho bad de manded to be informed of the meaning of such conduct, to make affidavit that he was going out of the country, and the consequence was that he was arrested before the bill be came due. Mr. Humphreys here stated that as the law at present stood no party could be arrested for a civil debt under such circumstances, unle. , s upon the oath of somebody that he was going to leave the country. Alderman PI/UR asked whether Mr. Buller had contem plated leaving the country ? Mr. Buller said that he had no notion of it at all. After his arrest he remained four days in confinement. Upon anplication to the Judge, how ever, the authority upon which he was detained wa can celled, and he recovered his liberty. He had to pay the amount to a Mr. Wrench, Into whose hands the bill had fallen. It was proper for him to state thnt he had the im i,rudence to sign his name in a book agreciag to take 4ares in the wining concern, but Mrs. Gully had assured him that the cash was not to be paid up till the steam en gines were in readiness to commence operations with. Alderman PIRIE—How did you find the mine? Mr. Buller—l found that it was altogether a nonentity, and that myself and two others constituted the entire body of the shareh tiers. I crag thus put t.) 401. law expenses, so that the loss I have sustained by the transaction amounts to 901. Alderman PIRIE—Were you supplied with any certifi cates for shares? Mr. Buller—None at all. There was nothing done. The thing had no foundation at all. Alderman PIRIE—Were no officers appointed ? Mr. Buller—N,re whatever. There were no Directors, nor S. cretary, nor Solicitor to the " Wheel Trevenon Mine," as the mine was called. Mrs. Gully's solicitor asked several questions, to which Mr. Buller replied that he supposed there was an action pending against him in this matter ; that the amount for which he had been arrested was, he beli Ned, 721. or 731., the balance of what he was to pay for the shares. Alderman PIRIE—And were there no shares delivered to you? Mr. Buller—Not one. Mrs. Gully's solicitor said that Mr. Buller had omitted some important facts in his statement. Mrs. Gully was the owner of the soil in Cornwall, in which the mine was to be worked, and had consented to dispose , of it for the mining speculation, and Mr. Buller and his friends were to raise the Company, by means of which it was to be brought into operation. New, Mr. Buller well knew that he had consented to sign the deed. Mrs. Gully had acted throughout irreproachably, and would, on a future day, produce the documents necessary to show that Mr, Boller was prominently intere in the speculation of " Witt el Trevenon," and that her conduct was legally and morally correct. Mr. Humphreys stated that there was no Company at all; that no shares had heea issued, and that of course there cluld be no justification of the course adopted to wards his client. Aid, ratan PIRIE—Ii there any deed at all? Mr. Buller—Not to my knowledge. Mrs. Gully said that there certaialy was a deed, but it was in Cornwall. She declared she had taken the mine of the solicitor of the lord of the soil of the manor in which it lay for so much does and she came to London to form a Company, having been informed that there was great probability that the working would turn out advan tsgeously. Mr. Boller ent .red into this speculation at once, aid had consented to take twenty-five shares, and she accordingly gave him the transfer fur that number, on which it was agr , ed that 4/. per share should be paid to work the mine See was herself to keep fifty shares, And Mr. Buller's 501. was in part payment of those which had been transferred to him. Alderman PIRIE—H ,w many shares were taken al together? Mrs Guily—One 3undred and twenty-live. Toe party of whom I took the mine is a man of great affluence and high respectability. Here the lady eK il;bited a book which contained resolutions said to be those of meetiogs of the Company, which aneeings were not attended by more than four or ive persons, according to her admission. Alderman PIRIE said that the deed must be produced as soon as possible, and other information must be supplied to him on the subject, before the impression upon his mind could be removed thlt the whole of the transaction was discreditable. The subject will be resumed uefure the Alderman on Thursday next. A boy, named Charles Theava, 14 years of age, who has been frequently charged with, and punished for, rob berie', was brought up fur a very bold attempt to rob an elderly lady. The complainant stated that the had been purchasing some toys for her grandchildrun, and carried them in a hand-basket into an omnibus, upon the scat of which she placed the basket. The prisoner, whom she mistook for the conductor, got upon the box behind, and putting his hand in at the window, over the door, whipped out the basket, and jumped down and ran away. The streets were crowded at the time, and the officers were about the place; and flys moment the complainant saw the act, she called out to stop the boy. A policeman and another per son immediately secured him, and took the basket in his possession. Alderman PlhlE. —Do you wish to say anything in this business, prisoner ? Prisoner—Why, no, I don't sea that it would be any use. Committed to Bridewell for three months. BOW-STREET. Isabella Morris, •and James and Margaret Morris, were put forw,rd charged, the former with stealing, and the two latter receiving, several towels, and two glasses, the property of Mr. Hewitt, of the Old Hummums. Mr. Hewitt stated that Isabella iVlorris had been servant in his house for the last twelve months, arid latterly having mis=ed a great quantity of articles from the house, he suspected her, ai.cl in consequence directed the police to watch her. On Wed nesday she went out as usual, and the witness, with the sergeant of police, followed her, and she met her mother at the corner of the street. They went up to them, and having good grounds for suspicion, they proceeded to the mother's resi dence, where the property was found. All the prisoners were then taken to the station, but were liberated at the request of Mr. Hewitt, he taking his property away with him, but from information he had since received, he gave the prisoners into custody again this morning. The two female prisoners were remanded till Saturday, and the male prisoner was discharged. WORSHIP STREET. CHURCH-RATES.—Yesterday Ar. Yardley, the vestry clerk, and Mr. St:ilte3, a churchwarden, of St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, attended before Mr. Bingham, to sus tain upwards of 90 summonses against householders of the parish for non-payment of Church-rates. The majority of the defendants were substantial and re spectable tradesmen, who resisted the rate upon principles, amongst whom were numerous members of the Society of Friends, and a few of the recusitats vl ere Dissenting Minis. ters of different denominations, Mr. Behan, the solicitor, whom the Friends had collec tively retained to defend them, intimated to the Magis trate that it was his intention to dispute the vaidity of the rate elsewhere, chiefly on the ground that a portion of the fund raised was to be applied to the liquidation of a debt which ought to have been paid a vear ago. Mr. Yardley admitted that it was intended to make the rate retrospective, and they lipid the authority of the Act of Paliament for doing so. Mr. Bingham, after referrin r to the Act, said he in clined to the opinion that Mr. 'Bevan's objection was un tenable, and he recommended tint gentleman to take time to reconsider the point, or to take the opinion of Counsel upon it. • Mr. Bevan acceded to the Magistrate's suggestion, and it was arranged that he should attend on that day fortnight to communicate the course be ints nded to pursue. Mr. Cooper, a member of the Society of Friends, then stopped forw,rd, and complained of a mis-statement in a report of tho former proceedings , which had appeared in set era papers. It was erroneous ly stated that the F fends, although they refused to pay the rate in money, had been in the habit of leaving out a p i ece of plate of 801. cient value to cover the amount. Such a statement w as entirely without foundation, and as it was calcu l at ed to produce an impression that the Feaciety of Friends had en tered into a sort of collusion w rh the parish authorities, he hoped it would be publicly c o ntradicted. They re. sited the rate from a firm crnvi tic n that it was altogeth, r opposed to the principles laid dawn in the New Testament. Mr. BINGHAM observed that th e erroneous ttnement would no doubt be corrected, A few orders were then wade upon defendants w h o pleaded poverty, and to whom time; ,was allowed. The proceedings were then adjc timed until text Thurs day week. THE CONVICT CLUBBE .—The Judge left an order at Ruthin for his execution en Tuesday the 13th instant but a respite for one month has s harce arrived. He is reduced to a survivingAledical men doubt his the awful day of mer e skeleton, t and is very ais punishment. He has ac knowledged that he alone did the tleed, and that no one was present at the time except his ir gt i in and himself.— Carnarvon Herald, MORNING EDITION• CORN A VERA E Elt A L AVER.kGE PRICES OF BIIITISFI For the Week ended April 16, 1841, made up from the lifiul!"4l the tnspeetori in the different Cities and Twwn* in Engt39" walos, per Imperial Quarter. ----- ----- Be Wheat......... 635. )6. I Oats 13.trIcy 3,5. O. I flyer AVERAGES OF THE LAST sIZ WEEKS. - , ,gAS% Week ending NYLIEAT. BARLEY. OATS. RYE. , BRANS. 1 . . _,.„„... --'...------.1--- Niarchl2 (l3 11 '32 1 I )22 11 35 1 119 9 l 33 1 63 9 33 2 :.3 0 33 6' 29 • ~, 0 1.1 2 1... -i 4 :'2 11 23 5 34 9 ' 3.) 5 - 9 99 April 2 li 16 (s 8 32 6 1.'3 5 3(3 5 141 6 0 134fEltIAT. AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX VVS " t o, ", twat (4 . 01 ( Oats itarit.y, . 9.2 s 101, i R j Rye 'ls 3. 41 . Pea5e........... DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 0 4 Wheat o'. 11.1. i Oats od ,•.. r 1 e v l3, 10(1, ( !lye THE MAIM ETS.-YEStERDA COLONIAL MARKET. de There was very little business done, and prices we re t ho pressed. For B.P. Sugar the dcma- d was contined to er wants of the grocers, and prices were about Is. per cwt• i a lit than in the beginning of the week. Coffee firm, wit.h demand from the trade, especially in the clean sort; Hir e ', - „ L dull of sale, the purchases could not be made on easier tern Pepper in partial demand at full prices. Saltpetre wi lY nr e alteration in price, but the demand dull, andholders seetale" incbned to realize. TEA MARKET. Prices firm, viith a fair demand. The nearest prier of o3l/3 1 ; pany's Congou was Is. 5 3 4 d. per lb. cash, at which there 7 4 few sellers. The deliveries continue extensive, offering gri at encouragement to the holders of the artielr, as no tun of moment can be expected for some time to come. TALLOW MARKET. Can° No change in tho value of this article. Fine yellow es . 48s. per cwt. on the spat, but the trade refused to purchase cept from actual necessity. The deliveries were snaall• WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. „ a t , There was a fair supply, and the trad e b oug ht rather 5 .; ingly ; but prices were unaltered. Cl over , 41. 129. to 51 : 4. per Meadow Hay, 31. lt)1. to 4/. 17s. ; St raw , 1/. 179. to ' ' load. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. „........."' Wheat. j Barley. 1 Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to r. )a.to s. S. to 6. " 1 40 B.ston 33 38 19 26 35 40 V. . 4 ! Braintree 5l 67 27 35 Pt 29 35 40 ~."' Al 11. ighton 59 1.7 26 35 24 90 4 59 4 e .' 49 aintiridge - t. 3 I - 3i, - 23 - 3 8 /1 1 Chichester 2 23 3 i 22 24 40 42 •''• el. Dunmow 6O 68 32 36 22 31 35 40 .• Grantham lrinishv - 33 IA 20 38 DS ~,.'"' 9. Hails ham CO 66 20 31 23 05 33 4 0 ' 7. -' Hitchin 53 C 4 j3O 37 22 30 34 4) 37t 41 Ipswich 5O 66 j 29 f's 21 26 37 41) f, SO Losses 6l 62 30 31 ..?2 zi 34 3 4 •", 6 0 Lynn Maidstone s') 6; 36 39 no 33 3.4 40 „I 4 0 Norwich Poe worth - .7 Rumford 6O 74 3.1 35 22 30 36 44 ":, 41 Sandwich l2 71 30 :34 26 30 :- 5 43 1,,' 44 Tnetitied - Si Wighe,rn Witham 15 6 66 9 , 31 26 31 36 42 ••'-', 51' Yarmouth 162 66 31 31 24 3.} 140 41 •''' LI VER POOL CORN 51 k rtKET..-April 20 l 8 O' l '' WUEAT, English, White, per 701 b.... ------ Red ... 9 e 9 0 - Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White •-. 2 A 5 Red - 0 0 - Foreign 7l 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 4511) 2JO 3 8 ••••••••••••- Irish - Foreign nATILEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter .. 05 0 4 ' - Scotch and Irish, per 6011 is. Feeding 3 0 4 , u BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 43 () 48 e e --- Irish, Ike - Foreign Pease, Englisn, per Imperial quarter an 0 30 4. - Foreign elcuit, English, per 2501 b. ----- Irish ‘)ATMEAL, English and lriSll,pOT24tilbs .. 20 0 , :0 7 . , .NDIAN CORK, pt r 43011). RYE, par Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, Whit( (per Quarter) s6s. 6 0 s• 0 1'.• Bed ..4.. Ms. l' , ' ' II'• 6 e'' Foreign . 545. (I v.. ~. Barley, Malting 2Os 30 3 • ' l3 ' • • , . n7s. Grinding Oats, Britt do Foreign (in bond) Beans Pease, Grey- . Blue and White . „ ~.. 3 9 6 , .0. ••'' , ... tals. Linseed • . .. ... Flour (per sack)... ... . 33 18 . . 3 4 . . F.: , .• .5; - _ - _2. 33'• 25L Ittpcseed per 10 quarto's) CHELTENH A 51 MARKETS. d. t , d ' Per Bushel. s. d. to s. cl.t Pet ID. ~ 0 Wheat tlarley. . 3 0 '4 3 i Glutton .................. .. ' Q 9 Oats 3 0 30 I Veal ........................ 7' ; ? :leans . rease Hay 4 ,. liis. to W. 04..0 I. per lon CANTEII BU RI MARKET. to -"• 4 Wheat white--- Ohs. to 703....... 01d.......... -- 1 . ~,...f - red-.........- s;.s. to 6 i 5....-. 01d............ •••-s• to ...5. Batley, Malting - 395. to 315...-.. Gr•nding.. •-s• ;,',„..5. Oats -...........--..--. 21s. to 275. -- 01.1,............. --',. ','„", s Beans .............---. 31s to 375.... Old-......... -- 41 ..;.`" . ....s. Pease -..........--...... 425. to -s. -. Grey........- 3.95." - 40 , CHELMSFORD 111-REET. . .3 to . . ' N Wheat, White 67 to 751 Oats ......... . ................. ~,„ 4r . , Red Barley '33 :36 White .............. •,l,';' it Chevalier ....., :l6 371 Beans, Tick ................ 11 iv Grinding - --- ' f 're 's ° From the late Henry Cowper, Esq., 0 einarle' Waters, Herts., to Messrs. S. and B. Kilt:mons, 39, Al . b . , ,iiis o.. street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King " des ( f°f street Bank of Ea gland.-" Gentlemen. many years, I was induced from recommendation to try you 1 .. tha t ble Voice Conductors, and I have great pleasure in telling yo_u sr , they enable me to hear persons in company and at a place o a t - n w t ", shipmost distinctly; and in consentience of the great adv 3 6: Which I have derived, I have recommended many persona. to you and suit my sight precisely, having been fos t. and their report is similar to mine-most favourable. The Spy tacles and Hand.glass which you have sent one are very exe?i1:01:1 have ever tried ; the transparency of which is so brilliant, T e i although I have passed my 66th year the 22d of gay 1. 11 t• Y e ; t an 4 and surpass any thing of the ki!„ enah'e me to read, &c., by candlelight with the greatest 1101 , comfort to myself.-Gentlemen, I return yon my best ;,%s•;' and re main your most obedient servant. HENRY CO ! to e : June 22, 1839."-General Browne Clayton feels desiroo'4l sae press the comfort and advantage he has derivt dat his ad Ynn' , a nd of 70 years, and after two years' trial, from the use of M0° 1 ;011 0 B. Solomons' newly-invented Spectac;,es ; their valuable in proilf fully merit the patronage they have received of the 1 018 ,. 1 . OW; and so many individuals of high distinction, as well as 0(170,0" roils scientific anti eminent medical practitioners.- - L nn 25th Feb, 1841.-Address, Addignton Hall, Lancashire. co. LIABILITY OF A CARRIER FOR Ti ls , n eC Bse DUCT OF Ills DOG.-On Tuesday last the follo ls "71P; came on for final hearing before the Sheriff-substitu te °f sow milton, at Airdrie, and excited considerable interes`i'deace finally, no small amazement in Court. From the r ora ° adduced in this case, it appears that a person of tr, , 0 0Ot of Smellie, a carrier betwixt Coatbridgo and Ll'l e e artr had been returning from Glasgow with his loaci to sil e , accompanied by his faithful dog, under chain all a bo o," in the usual place, below the body of the cart. Oi l t m iog 10 to Coatbridge, a man of the name of Brown, boWt i ly ac' Langloan, overtook Smellie, and they, being slig"stioet quainted with each other, commenced a con" ti i, at: which continued until the car:ices horse drew 100 4 7: watering-place by the road side. While the aellnadiestui, therefore, quenching its thirst, Br ow n ra ther itle . "' vi str' sat down on the nave of the cart wheel ; which th e d deoli dog espying, and considering Brown an intruder. Ol io the sprung upon the wheel, and putting his head betf e b al f spokes, gave the said Mr. Brown a slight bite, "b i g roOr all the dog could do under muzzle and chain. T : pliv joo b ' e : ing of the dog at Brown, set the restive hone ' L tt e t set, quick motion, and the sudden turning of the wii e- 0 0 t P " tuiste:l, strangled, and killed the canine f4vouritetion br spot. For the above injury Brown claimed repa ra , jeriC fore a court of justice, and the Sheriff-substitute gag;esitle' milt against the carrier--fining him two guinea* expenses.- Glasgow Constitutional. -- 4 -11;-:-v g PLATE -A. B. SAVORY and SON- v ite thg e facturing SilVersmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London., 0 PP,;70,', Bank of - England. The best wrought FIDDLE PA cc' rr.), SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, at 7s. 2d. per oill!1, 0 0 1 following are the weights recommended, but the art ° d• be had lighter or heavier at the same price per o unce. A, I. 0 OZ. 1. d; 10 I . 4 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 30 at 7 ,`,'" 7 ,„ 0 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 ''. 10 +,,'" 4 12. ditto '1 able Forks 36 7 2 ,.„'" 7 ''," 12 ditto Dessert ditto ", 7 .... 3 1. 8 2 ditto Gravy Spoons l9 7 2 '' . 3 11 9 1 ditto Soup Ladle. lB 7 2••• 310 0 4 ditto Sauce ditto.. lO 7 f' "' 1 l i . lo 4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt strong) ............•••• • 2 1,, 1 ditto Fish slice ... ............................ ... 5 19 ,0 12 auto Tea Spoons lO 7 '''". 0 I. , e d 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong) ................. iiitioo, N. 13 A Price Current, stamped as a Newspaper' • ve to t . by drawings, and containing every information rela u eiplic ° purchase 01 silver or Sheffial plate, may be had en,. a a r ug , tion, or will be sent into the country, free of postage, '" so a paid letter. TABLE durability, equal inapp: f or CANDLESTICKS, arance.Ta s inches high, 75. per pair; 9 'echos high, 93. ; 10 itle,'!_b 13* per pair , ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches.ill_Tei e e?; per pair; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and el P., sioi, tre, 4s. each. The particular metal of which tho, j fror great variety of otter articles are made, can only be tow silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. .... >Ol RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-wee' la)lPeereianrdle°,steicS,khi I::: f , assar.arannait - _ BIRTHS. $ 1 On the 20th inst., at Nott in g -hill-s q uare, Mrs . Franc/5° . pave Curtis, of a son, still b orn. 11 4 cholas, of a son. On the 21st inst., in Nottingham-place, .„ter , On the 17th inst.. at King's End House, near W°"'" s the lady of Captain W. S. Aluersorn, o f a son. Ol e ' On the 17th inst., at Bentinek- street, Alanchester•K • Mrs. Georg e the wife of Captaine Smith, . Edward Fleatlicotof a. 4°T l . : MARRIED. ;1011. On the 13th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squal4l;4l :Robert Resker, of the latter of Walbrook, City, youngest son of Mr. '' 0 1 06 of Writt:e, Essex, to Sarah Margaret, daught er - the 20th inst., at H place. Hackney, 11r. Henry CO t 04 ton, to Eliza, daughter of the late W. Kent, E g l'' ° wick-hill, Bath. otk lateLl i u i o e c k l nil d i i n n e g g Rut t, fj 3, ander ° h , On the 20th inst.. Warendon Bucks, Thoutai dattg - Esq., of Littlehar!e-tower, Northumberland, to Emily, ter of the John Fisher, Rector of Wavendon. • ' fo to! 0 On the 20th inst at Tottenham, the Rev. Henry , cd . jo ie) eldest son of tho Rev. Thomas Newcome, Rector of 'wint er ' to Charlotte, fourth daughter of the late John Alio 1 , , on the 21st inst , at St. Mark's, Kennington, Esq., of the same place. e Re• jo , th d , J. Roasell, 8.A., • assistant minister of St. Mark's , S o d, t y n erbn Clsr mestic chaplain to his Grace the Duke cf Sut he Marianne, eldest daughter of John Norman, Esq. , of t str e ' ham -road. On the 21st inst., in Prenrietta-street, Brunswifaktel, E. Levin, Esq., to Anne, second daughter of the 1 Samuel, Esq t I{; it DIED. of 1 1l On the Ist inst., at Malta, Mr. Charles Cotton Majesty's ship Princess Charlotte, son of th e late ALI— , Ite l Richard King, Bart., aged 17. On the 17th inst., Agnes Lucy, youngest toto w Ile' Sir G. S. Robinson, Bart., of Cranford, N0rt"71 ) .., the On the 18th inst., at Longsight. near 3lanche t .. . too Owen Lloyd, incumbent of Langdale, Westmorlan d e _ Atilt a On the 18th inst., at Fawley-court, Bucks, Frao,eoo,3ilihhot daughter of W. P. Williams Freeman,_ EN., aged on ly' aseg Oii the 19th inst., at Guildford, Maryanne, of the late E. Mentin, of the Society of Friends• hild of thfiro, of ip London Printed and Published by AIURDO tZtiondt No. 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffice, Ne. 11g, tie county of Middlesex.—Friday , April 23, 1841. El Atall TANT s LIHEHT King' s H It was t Tha again adv against th clyle— as thtetire c trot. litig 1 1 their —,- 4 ,l lB N)prov( liZtou s the educa to be trai be COtIVCI tecution— Ptinciules ,3. Tha 1 4"41: milh ':a v uln 11 : 113 ai°ll:: t onhn o ne: I litPe—co aditeeted effi Sikh exer IVATER A 11 TH ages to =tad an tl of yowl wondere ttenuine attra c t e( When tl those Pti is the despair Yontt a sseral or is equall if not t thetnsel at once of life facultie. t he met and re• loss or ( •pp.one and reel this me, Prep Mr. Gi Co., W No- 21 W. th and tif 'each. tvhich t M ay retail 1(4, 4 cid e r Pttt.