The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION SECON D EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Cloak. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS DAT. (From the Globe.) Whenever the Tories happen to be in a small mine,. rity upon a division of the House of Commons, the Conservative organs of the Press amuse themselves and their readers by endeavouring to show that the defeat their patty has sustained is, in fact, a victory. It may be very satisfactory to the patrons of the Standard to be carried through a series of statistics about " pairs," " absentees," " deserters," " the Irish tail," and " place-holders," until they are brought to the comfortable conclusion that a majority of five against them is one of thirty two in their favour ; but as long as the simple yet inflexible rules of the unerring Cocker continue to prevail, it will be impossible to snake 294 a greater number than 299, however hard the Tory scribes may ltbour to prove it so. It is really amusing to notice the various ingenious devices to which Conservative calculators resort, in order to " lay the flattering unction to their souls" that the state of numbers in the recent division was the result of anything rather than an expression of the sense of the Howe of Commons,—which is the obvious and only solution of the triumph of tl e Government. The Oppo sition papers go into absurd and puerile details about casualties having kept away from the House on the eventful night such and such of their frionds—whereas, if these casualties arc to be taken into account, it might probably be shown that the greater number of absent members would have voted on the side of Ministers. There is something particularly cool in the proposi tion to deduct 40 from the majority as about the num ber of Ministers and place-holders who voted on Thurs day last,—the objection taken to them being grounded, it is presumed, on interest ; but, if there be 40 who voted holding place, it would be curious to ascertain how many were, by the hope of place, induced to swell the minority. Taking it for granted, at a moderate calculation, that for every office filled by the Whigs there arc on an average at least three greedy expectants among the Tories, surely, if 40 place holders are to be struck off on one side, 120 place hunters ought to be struck off on the other. (From the Standard.) The two grounds of apology for Lord Morpeth's Bill are, fist, that the franchise qualification is un certain in Inland ; and, secondly, that the consti tuencies are in a dec!ining state, and in danger of being further diminished if purged of fraudulent votes. The fal,ehood of both pretexts was triumphantly de monstrated in the four days' debate. The franchise qualification was proved to be as certain in Ireland as in Great Britain, if words wean the same thing on the one side of St. George's Channel as on the other. It is nothing, to the purpose to say that a few Whig- Ridical 1 twyer.., iltvated to the bench from tie obscurer ranks of the bar fo:- factious purposes, interprt t the law d:fferently from all the Judges of Eiigl led and the gre it majority of the Irish Judges. The law is still the same. rite law was not altered either as to cer tairty or effect by the corrupt misinterpretation of the Judges of the first Charles or the second James ;' two and two make four, though knaves may try to mislead u., or loots may mislead themselves by saying that they make five. It is a remarkable fact, that every English 1 twyer, who spoke in the debate, from Sir Wiliiam FoLett downwards, langhed to scorn the pretence that the e could be any honest or rational doubt as to the Irish fran• chise que.l ficatior, and the only Irish lawyers who affected, however faintly, to defend such a doubt we-e Mr. Pigot the Precursor, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell the R'pealer. The motives of these Persons are easily urderstood. (From the - Coutier.) Considerable attention has been devoted of late years to the subject of lunatic asylums, and generally the pub lic have foil stved with much interest the course of those improvements in the treatment of insane and unhappy objects, and is hospital discipline, which have honoura bly characterised the present time and the many phi'an tbrapic persons by whom promotel It was therefore natural that ttose who had t teen leading parts in per fecting new institutions and reforming defective modes of practice, where falling within the scope of their du tics or observation, should in the progress of their la bours be led to inquire into the systems prevailing in the noble and older foundations of the country, with a view to correct such abuses as might have crept through time into the general management, and of ameliorating, or, if need were, of ref )acing, by more enlightened modes of treatment, the special methods established when the moral phenomena of the limentable disease of lunacy were more imperfccrly understood only, or when, in fact, it was treated almost exclutively as the province of nac.lical art and medicine, to the neglect of the appli ance of those moral agents, which aro now found so cf fectire to the end, of kind treatment, soothing language, gtntle demeanour, gradual weaning of the less cx•. cited brain from the particular origin of irritability and impercepfble restoration at length, as symptoms bccan e list disturbing and lucid intervals more frequent, of the mental faculties. Under the influence of such feelings and desires, it wa•, therefore, that the state of the Royarklospital of Bethlem attracted the notice of certain inquiring and benevolent minds among the governors thernselae , , as well as among the public, and this nas t`►e less remarkable, as, so far back as 1814, the result of a Parliamentary inq uiry disclos- d the existence of 1 e o 1 t in g barbarities in regular practice there upon the most un protected and unfortunate of all objects. It is not with the intention of now throwing discredit on the management that u e allude to the disgusting de t i s embo lied in that Report, such as we find them quct•d in a very able pamphlet of " Six Litters to the President of Bethlhem Hospital, on the Management of that Establishment," lately published by Simpkin and Marshall. We arc quite of opinion with the candid author, that " A perusal of the List of Governors is alone sufficient to sati.fy the most prejudiced objector, that no abuse will be wilfully upheld ; and that if Bethlem does not take that rank in public estimation to which, by its wealth, its power, and its respectability, it is entitled, it is because of the sluggish nature of its constitution, and the uchesitating belief of its members that all is rightly done when all is rightly intended." But it cacnot be denied that there has been, and still is, pro bably, much wanting to promote the more extensive usefulness of the Hospital. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lord hips met at Five o'clock. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS—CASE OF MR. BAINES, Lord MONTEAGLE preserted a petition from Leicester for the liberation of Mr. Baines, and for an alteration of the laws relating tl Ecclesiastical Courts. The Marquis of NORM ANBY laid on the table tl , elast B.' plrt of th e P oor -l aw C omm i ss i oners . The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from Carlow, against the Parliamentary grant to the Col lege of Maynooth. The Earl of RIPON begged to ask his Noble Friend the Secretary for h whether there was any objection i t i o em la on the table Home Department Department of the House papers relating to the condition of a . new colony, known t by.lle name of as he South Australia. That c o l ony , understood, sto hasr,e bad been formed on a new principl e , and v su pported itself, but t'e manag ers o f ita they contrived to incur a debt of upwards of 30,0001., w i no means on earth of paying. It was said that thcy iand tended to call upon the pablic to pay it ; and if that was their intention, he (Lord Ripon) thought it desir able that their Lordships should have some information on the subject in the mean time. The Marquis of NORMANDY said that if his Noble Friend tiould put his question in a definite form, be would endeavour to lay the information desired before the House. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN'S TRIAL. Lord DENMAN presented a petition from one h of i the clerks of the Central Criminal Court, praying t at the depositions forwarded from that Court, in the case of the Earl of Cardigan, might be returned, as they would be required in the approaching trial of Captain Douglas, Tne Noble and Learned Lord supported the prayer, and moved that the depositions be returned by messes of of their L or d s hip s ' own .—Ordered. CHURCH INTRUSION (SCOTLAND). The Earl o f DALHO USIE gave not i ce t h at h e would to - morrow evening p ut a quest i on to t h e E a rl of erdeen , as to the course which he meant to pursue this SessiOil,on the subject of the intruson of Ministers in the Church of Scotland. Their Lordships then adjourned at Twenty Minutes past Five o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. ARMSTRONG took the oaths and his scat as Member for the King's County. The Hon. Member was introduced by Lord Morpeth and Colonel Wasteora. On the motion of Mr. WALLACE, the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greeoock Railway Bill, was read a second time. Mr. HURT presented a petition from a place in Derbyshire against the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Mr. DUNBAR presented petitions from places in Armagh and Antrim in favour of Lord Stanley's Irish I Registration Bill. Mr. HUTTON presented a petition fromtheJe s of Dubl in , praying that they might be allowed to th of the Ist ac cept of corporate o ffi ces by taking the oa th and 2d of Victoria. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL presented a petit i on from Liverpool, signed by 22,t , 00 persons, praying for the repeal of the Union. Captain BRYAN presented petitions from parishes in Kilkenny, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Bill ; and against that introduced by Lord Stanley, for the Re gistration of Voters in Ireland. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from tl .e Board of Guardians of the Silford Union against tl a Poor•law Amendment Bill. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from Exe ter and various other places in favour of Lord Mor peth's Bill for the registration of voters in Ireland, and against the Bill introduced by Lord Stanley. Mr. ROUND presented petitions from Essex against the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Lord MORPETH presented petitions from parishes in Londonderry, Antrim, and Down, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Registration Bill. Mr. BLAKE presented similar petitions from Gal way. Mr. W. EVANS presented a petition from a parish in Derby, in favour of Church Extension. Mr. G. W. WOODS presented three petitions from Kendal, in favour of the Copyright of Designs Bill. Mr. W ALLACE presented a petition from Green ock, praying that molasses in bond may be permitted to be refined ir.to sugar. Also a petition from the same place, stating the opinion of the petitioners, that Cie House had been paying a great deal tao much attention to Church maters of late, and suggesting that their time would be more profitably employed by considering the best means to build the Navy cheaply, and man it well. Major M‘NAM ARA presented a petition from the Grand Jury of the county of Clare, in favour of the Irish Drainage Bill ; also a petition from some place in the county of Galway, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Re gistration Bill and against Lord Stanley's. Mr. BINGHAM BARING presented a petition from some place in Staffordshire, praying for the exclu sion of Roman Catholics from Parliament. Mr. I'. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, signed by upwards of 2,000 of the inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury, against the New Poor-law Bill ; also a petition from an individual named Bagster, residing at Hereford, stating that he had watched the operation of the Poor-law Act, and that the cruelty and expense entailed by it were almost beyond endurance ; that the rates in Here foid had in conseqnence been raised from 4s. 6d. to 9s. 7d. ; that robbery and incendiarism had increased in consequence ; that many of th e poor rather starve than go into a workhouse, and that if it were continued, the lower classes would he completely alienated from their superiors, and praying that the 8.11 for its continuance might not pass into a law. Mr. H. DRUMMOND presented a petition from the Presbytery of Eigle praying for the better obser vance of the Sunday. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. how long the discussions on going into Committee of Supply and the debate on the estimates might occupy the time of the House. It was likewise to be con sidered that it would be very inconvenient to fix the Committee for a Bill of the nature referred to for some day on which it could not be conveniently brought forward, inconsequence of the estimates not having been previously introduced. It would likewise, continued the Noble Lord, be very inconvenient to many Members to be summoned to a very full attend. ance immediately preceding Easter, when very few would be disposed to attend the House, and when any debate in Committee could only lead to further postponement. These are considerations affecting the general business of the House as relates to the present Bill ; but there are other considerations relating to the Bill itself. If I were to consider merely the di. vision which had taken place on Friday morning last, and the 296 Members who were present to vote against the second reading of my Noble Friend's all, I should be disposed to consider, were I to look to that circumstance alone, that the measure was one which could not in its subsequent stages obtain the assent of the House. But the discussion on that second reading would lead me to a very different con clusion. There were several Members who in stating their determination to vote against the second reading of the Bill did not dissent from what I considered the general principle on which it is founded, against its being advisable to endeavour to fix the franchise for Ireland by some clear and simple method, and at the same time to amend the registration laws in that country. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Lyndhurst bad both stated in the House of Peers that they consider ed the rating test the b es t p oss ibl e t es t o f qualificat ion under the Municipal Corporations' Act. I think, there fore, that it would likewise form the best criterion of the test of the right of voting for Mem bers of Parliament. With respect, therefore, to the adoption of this general principle, I see no rea son to delay the further consideration of this Bill ; but in order to fix the amount of the franchise, it is desir able that there should be, before the House proceeds to further deliberation, further information as to the valuation.—(Cheers and laughter from the Opposition.) I am surprised at the feeling and sentiment which this announcement seems to create in Hon. Gentlemen op posite, beceuse I nee on the benches opposite several Hon. Gentlemen who spoke during the late discussion, aid who made it the gist of their argument that before they could agree to the 101. test it was absolutely necessary that they should have further information as to the valuation. Therefore, when I stated that I proposed to gratify the appetite for inormation, I cannot but be surprised at the manner in which that announcement was received.—(Loud cheers from the Ministerial benches.) However that might be, I think in common with my Honourable Friend, the Secre tary for Ireland, that it would be desirable that we should endeavour to obtain some further information as to the manner in which the valuations had been made, so as to ascertain, at least to a great extent, the propor tion per cent, which the valuation bears to the real valor. I do not think it will be necessary to defer the Bill to any very long time to obtain this valuation. But I think likee Le that it is of the utmost importance that the House should come to a calm and deliberate consideration of the subject. I think that the forcing on the part of the Government the assent of the House to that peculiar qualification which they think best, or on the other side a peremptory and abrupt rejection of it, would be equally impel tic, and with regard to a Bill like this, concerning the whale interest of Ireland, whoever bears the blame of prelonging in I , eland unnecessarily the state of excitement which at present exists there, would be deeply responsible to Ireland and the country. I do not therefore propose to delay the proceeding with this Bill beyond the period when it can be fully considered. It is of importance that it should go into Committee in sufficient time for the Bill to pass this Session. I should propose therefore to take the discussion in Committee in the first week after the Easter holidays —(Murmurs on the Conservative side, and Ministe• rial cheers)—and I pr o p ose th a t the Order of the Day be now read, for the purpose of its being postponed, and I should propose to postpone it tell Friday, tl:e 23d.—(Renewed murmurs.) I see the Right Hon. Geatleman, the Member for Montgomery, and some others, seem to think that an unreasonable postpone ment, but my own opinion is, that to force on the dis cussion of this question without due consideration would disappoint the reclines of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY immediately rose, and said—Sir, I must confess that I share 1 irgely in the surprise— (Tremendous cheering)—which has been expressed by my Hon. Friends around and behind me, at the propo sition which has been made by the Noble Lord, and the course which it is intendel to pursue on the part of the Government.—(Renewed - cheering.) Not that , we do not think—ter we have avowed it and declared it— that the information on which the Noble Lord in tended to proceed with his Bill was so meagre and so inconclusive as to be wholly insufficient for the founds. tion of a measure of such importance—(Cheers)—nest that we do not think that the information, so far as it went in its meagreness it Fe f, would tend to destroy the principle and the propositions of the Bill of the Noble Lord ; but I at least do fe el astonishment that upon a subject of this immense importance, when the Noble Lord himself presses upon us the importance of the gi e gest consideration, fie greatest deliberation, and the greatest caution, at the commencete eat of the Session, and before arty notice had been given from any quarter, her 1113jesty's Government should have ventured to submit to the consideration of the HoUse a detailed proposal for a measure of this extent, involving such interests, ex citing such hopes and anxieties, and t at at the expiration of one fortnight from that time, her Majesty's Government should comedown to the House and tell you that the information they had given you is all the infor mation they themselves possessed.---(An ironical cry of tt Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.) Is it not all the information they possess ?—(Loud cheering on the Tory side of the House.) Sir, I assume that the Government in giving us the information they have furnished would give us all that it was in their power to furnish.—( Hear, hear.) If they have not, they have deluded and deceived the House—(Loud cheers) — in calling upon Parliament to sanction a measure not only upon evidence confessedly imperfect, but upon evi dence more imperfect than it was in their power to afford.—(Cheers.) But I assume they have co more evidence, and than I say, for a Government after talk ing about the caution and deliberation necessary to be observed upon a measure of this sort, it does seem to me the height of rashness t bring forward such a question, and to submit it in the form of a pro position, to be supported by the Government upon in formation which they now tell you they feel to be in sufficient to guide the decision or to sanction the vote of this House.—(Cheers.) I came down, naturally expecting that the Noble Lord having admitted, and having contended almost as strenuously as I did for the removal of the evils involved in the sys tem of registration, 'but feeling that there were still greater evils thea that system of registration, natnely, the uncertainty of the law, and if there was greater evil than that, it was the restriction of the franchhe, I naturally concluded that the Noble Lord, having the recess to consider this matter, having con sulted with his colleagues, and having brought forward a Bill which had received the sanction of the Cabinet, and was a Government measure, would be pre pared to vindicate and defend the propositions they had avowed and put forth as the foundation, as the princi ple, and, as the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary at War said, the very essence of the measure.—(Cheers.) And Sir, I must not permit the Noble Lord to take the notice he has done of the statements made on this side of the House without pointing out the difference in those statements. He tells us that it is admitted that the Poor-law valuation is a desirable test of the franchise. Now I tell the Noble Lord that in the sense in which it is so used by the other side of the House it will be no such thing.—(Cheers.) Because the basis of his Bill is excluding altogether the test of the 10/. profit which was the basis and foundation of tho mea sure which that day ten years, the Noble Lord sub mitted to the consideration of Parliament. —(Cheers. ) The Noble Lord in his Bill, excludes from it alto gether the value of the test of rating, and he put in its place that gratification which any pauper may acquire. As a test of the nett annual value of the property, the difference between which and the rent paid in the beneficial interest, a rate subjecting the party to taxation, is a valuable check, It is important to limit the value of the franchise held, but unless the amount paid for holding was combined, it was no real test. came down prepared to give the Noble Lord a n th :t i e give Nobleev , e tt and to e N e L o rd shall rdhas so pursuedi t no w notwithstanding the preparedcours wh o i h eh lo ILaorardasndoetiscireoutshacts anyon geonien,gwibnetno 13 ri tu lia m ll i be perfectly ready to meet the Noble Lord, a whenint Committee m is y pen intention those. e t o l a u r a s k e h of relative t o th e 5 / . rating f anch Ise in coun o ti f e t s, teh a e nd seS t n h sil e el r stol.thaokuesettieoldtenof the Comm itte e in fr anchisetowns, an and it is my i n t en ti on reading elauses I h ave stated to the Nobl eo those two upon dth I should take would ma i n l y d epend on the course rteakcoeunrbsye the Noble Lord. I gi ve the No ble Lord credit for his ingenuity—(Cheers) —in thisloreigapt e lateostsponement, thereby placing his Bill and n period of the Session as to cause the a to be defeated by the me re l apse of time Sir, I do not hesitate to say that I entertain great suspicion as to the motive which has induced the Noble Lord to take this step — (Cheers from the Oppo s i t i on benches)—and at the same time the Noble Lord, i n taking this course , is well awar e o f the disadvantages we to which to when press ht fo rwardeh the Noble s N ub o j b e e t thes rwould inform th e H ouse most plausibly that he has h ad the second re ading of his eby endeavouri ng to compel second reading of m y Bill at a Bid sanctioned by a small majority, and that h e is waiting for further information at the earliest period to be laid before him. (Hear.) Sir, I see the inge ouiti of the Noble Lord's course of proceed. Mr. GREENE brought up a report from the Pri vate Bills' Committee, stating that the petitioners for the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill had not complied with the standing orders. Ordered to be referred to the Committee on Stand ing Orde7s. The HON. UENTLEMAN also brought up a report, stating that th'e petitioners for Vie West Durham Rail way Bill had complied with ac standing orders.— Leave was given to bring in the Bill, which was read a first time. Oa the motion of Sir J. P. B. CHICHESTER the Barnstaple Road Bill was read a second time. Mr. WYSE presented a petition from the county of Waterford in favour of Lord llorpcth's Registration Bill. Lord F. EGERTON presented a petition from 3,500 inhabitants of the Borough of Salford i❑ favour of Lord Stanley's Registration Bill. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from John Joseph Stockdale complaining of the treat ment which he bad experienced from the House, and praying that his case might be t then into consideration ; also from an indivieeal of the name of Hughes, Georgo yard, Lombard street, complaining, that he bad been overcharged in the window tax ; also from the county of Glamorgan a7,ainst the New Poor-law Bill. Sir R. BATESON presented a petition from the cow ty of Londonderry in favour of Lord Stanley's Re gisti a:ion ail, and against that brought in by the Go vernment. Mr. E. ROCHE presentld a petition against Lord Stanley's Registration al', and in favour of Lord Mor pc th'e, signed by 2,664 t e sons in the county of Cork. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented petitions from pa rishes in the counties of Bedford and St ,fford in fa vour of Church Extension. IRISH REGISTRATION BILL. Colonel RA WDON presented petitions from places in the county of Down in favour of the B!11 brought in by Lord Morpeth, and against that of Lord Stanley. Colonel WESTENRA presented retitions from the King's County in favour of Lord Morpeth's, and against Lord Stanley's Bill. An lioN. MEMBER prevented a petition from a place in the county of Surrey against the encouragement of idolatry in the East Indic?. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition in fa vour of the extension of the Copyright Designs Bill. Mr. O'CONNELL presented nineteen petitions from several places in Ireluad, praying the House to adopt the 811 introduced for the' extension of the registration, and to reject the Bill for its extinction. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented thirty-five petitions against the extension of the Copyright Designs Bill. Mr. H. GRATTAN presented petitions from the county of Danegal, in favour of the Government mea sure for Irish Registration. The Hon. Gentleman stated ore of the petitions was from four individuals who complaired they had been forced to sign a petition in favour of Lord Stanley's Bill by the Magistrates, who did not disclore to them the nature of the petition ; one of the petitioners stated, " I never would have signed the petition above a'luded to had 1 known the purport of' it, and I thaught no gen tleman would have so deceived me." Another said " When I refused to sign, the Magistrate said be would write to my landlord, and not only against Ire but any one the who should refuse ;" and another said advan tage had been taken of a loan of money that had been lent him to induce him to sign the petition. The Hon. Member raid he had abstained presenting the petition until he had been twice applied to to do so. Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition from Messrs. Dugdale and Co., calico-printers, Manchester, in favour of the Bill for the Extension of Copyright De signs. Mr. HODGES presented a similar petition from Kent. Sir E. PEEL presented a petition from a place in Stafford hire in favour of Church Extension. Mr. SONIERS presented a petition from Sligo in favour of the Government Registration Bill. Mr. HAWES prciented a petition from Cambridge against the power of the Poor-law Commissioners to compel the appoirAment of Episcopal Chaplains to the unions. Sir G. SINCLAIR presented petitions from Scot land, praying for the abolition of Church Patronage in that country. CANTERBURY ELECTION. Thu SPEAKER informed the House that one of the sureties on the Canterbury petition was unobjectionable. POOR LAWS. Lord ELIOT gave notice that in Committee on the Poor-law Bd', he should move a clause that the landlords of tenemeLti rated under 5/. should be rated to the Poor-laws instead of the occupiers, and certain other clauses. Sir E. KNATCH BULL begged to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies, whether it was his intention to bring on the Poor-law Continuance Bill on Monday next, on which day it was fixed in the order book. If it was not me ant to bring it on on that day, it would be convenient if the Noble Lord would state what day it would be discussed ? Sir J. RUSSELL did not propose to bring it on on that day, but he would on Friday or Monday next state on what day he would proceed with the Bill. The Noble Lord was proceeding to address the House on another subject, when he was interrupted by— Sir JAS. GRAHAM, who said it would be more convenient if the Noble Lord would answer a question which he meant to put to him in the first instance. The House would recollect that in the year 1839 his lion. and Learned Friend the Member for the Uni versity of Oxford, and an Hon. and Learned Gentleman, the Member for the city of Oxford asked the Noble Lord whether it was the intention of the Government to grant any pension to Lieutenant M'Cormick, of the Royal Navy ; and the Noble Lord stated that the Go. vernment had come to no resolution on the subject. Now he found, by th e Navy Estimates, w hi c h were about to be referred t o a Committee of Supply that night, that a pension h a d b een granted to Lieute nant M'Cormick for woun d s received in the servic : . He wished to ask the Noble Lord what partieulir ser vice was it in which the wounds were received for which the pension was granted, what was the date of the Order in Council granting it, and whether be had any objection to lay a copy of it on the table of the House ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that ho would answer the questions of the Right Honourable Gentleman as h precisely as e could. The services on account of which Lieutenant M'Cormick had been recom mended for a pension to the Lords of the Admiralty were performed by him hnder the command of the superior Colonial authorities, in the capture of the Caroline.—(Hear, hear.) That recommendation had been made to the Lords of the Admiralty at the com mencement of the last year. With regard to the Order in Council, be was not sure of the date, but he would have no objection to lay it before the House. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (IRELAND.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL then rose, and said—He was about to state the intentions of her Majesty's Go vernment with respect to the Bill of his Noble , Friend the Chief Secretary for Ireland. He had thought that subject required some further consideration, and he was not prepared on the night of the last division to state the intentions of the Go vernment. As the matter was one of so much import ance the House would allow him to explain in a few words the reasons for the motion which he was going to make to the House. The first consideration related to the general business of the House ; and on the t subject he bad considered that they were non arrived at the first day of March, and that the esti mates had not been yet voted, nor had the House gone into a Committee of Supply. It wus impossible to sit) THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1841 ing ; and seeing the ingenuity of that course of proceeding, and giving the Noble Lord notice of the opposition, which I mean to give to the two !e W ing principles of his Bill. I will not, under the sur prise which this course taken by the Government has caused to me, as it has to my Henouroble Friends around me, I will not bind myself abselutely to any day for the discussion on the second reading of my Bill. This I will do. I will -postpone the or der from this dey to the 24th of March, and within ten days from the 24th of March, I will give to the Noble Lord a distinct declaration, whether, upon full consideration of all the circumstances, it is or is not my intention on . that day t o p ress f orwar d th e se cond reading of my 13111.—(Loud cheers.) On the motion of the NOBLE Loan the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Irish Registration Bill was then read, for the purpose of its being post poned till the 24th of March. Lard J. RUSSELL having moved the Order of the Day for going jute Committee of Supply, Mr. HUME begged to move for the return of which he had given notice, and which he thought the more important, seeing that it was inte n d e d t o move f or a very large additional force in the course of the evening. The Hon. Member then moved for " An Address to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to direct that there be laid before this House, copies or extracts of the Correspandence between the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department and the Governments of France, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Turkey, since 1838, respecting the Pacha of Egypt, and the interfe rence with the province of Syria." POST•OFFICE. Mr. GGULBURN begged to ask a question with reference to some accounts which bad been lately pre sented of the net produce of the Post-office revenue for the last six or seven years. It would be necessary to make a short stitement in oreler to render it intelligible to the House. By a return presented of the net amount of Post-office revenue it would appear that tl e amount was 447,000/. which, as compared with the revenue of the P‘ist office for the previous year exhibited a defi ciency of 1,200,000/. He had reason to apprehend that that presented altogether a fallacious view of the matter, under the . new system, of the Post-office revenue, and the question he wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman was, whether that view of the subject was correct in connection with the statement he was about to make. Of that 447,000/. which had been paid into the Exchequer a considerable portion was the revenue derived from official correspondence, and that, having been vcted by the House, via., in fact, not a receipt of revenue, but merely a payment on the one side, and a receipt on the other. T 1 ey had on the table the month's offici.l corresponder cc, which amounted to 16,0001., and it would therefore be evident to the House that 'the official correspondence fur twelve months woe 1•1 amount to nearly 200,000/., which roust be deducted with 470,000/. return as post-office revenue. But there was another great item of deduction to be made. It appeared that on the Ist of January, 1840, the unpaid balance in the hands of the two collectors of revenue amounted to little short of 200,000/., and it was quite clear that the balance in the hands, under the new system, must be as nothing compared with the former balances and therefore a further deduction on account of these unpaid balances must be mad-. Having made these two deductions, the result would be that instead of 447,000/., the balance to the public credit would be li:tle more than 40,000/. pr 50,000/.—(Hear, hear.) He wisher', then, to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether that was not a correct statement of the case, and whether the statement which he (Mr. Goulburn) made as to the loss sustained was not as the law stated it? Ships arrived since); a. d. Aklair's dell, Hobson & Co. Hartley 1 , 0 Muddle's West Hartley l9 CParette Main ......... IS Cur's Hartley Dean's Primrose 1; :s Derwent Main l7 u Hebburn C Llolyweil Ma n New 'I alifield Moor .. l9 Old Axwell Main Orig'nal Windsor's l'oiito,i 17 The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQNER said that if the Right Hon. Gentleman had waited for tho course of a day or two, he would have had that in formation he was so anxious to obtain. The 11: 6 11t. Honourable Gentleman was perfectly correct in sep posing thtt the Exchequer returns included all the posting of official as well as private documents. With respect to the amount 200,000/. st c!e l by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, as paid for official posting under the new system, the sum was not so great. The Right Hon. Gentleman here proceeded to detail the difference in the amount of postage paid for official documents under the new system ; but he spoke in a tone so indistinct that he was quite inaudible in the gsllery. SUPPLY--NAVY ESTIMATES. Mr. MORE O'FERRALL moved the . Order of the Day for going into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates for 1841-2. On the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair, Mr. HUME said it was his intention to have sub mitted some resolutions respecting the deficient state of the revenue, as compared with the expenditure, but he thought it would be better to hear what the Government had to say to warrant so large an increase as was now runtimod in the expanckitura of the. n.vg undor the circumstances in which were placed. (Cries of "'Hear, hear.") It was perfectly we'l known that for the last four years the revenue had been deficient as regarded the expenditure, in round numbers, four millions sterling. The returns made on the mo'ion of the Hon. Member for Harwich, showed the irregular manner in which this deficiency had been pro vided for. But the point to which he (Mr. H.) wished the attention of the House should be direct d was that their estimates exceeded by threo and a half mil lions those of 1836. They had gone on gradually increasing them since that time, notwithstanding tle distressed state of the country.—(Hear.) The revenue up to April Bth was exactly 283,000/. less this year than it was last year, notwithstanding the increased taxation. One of these things must consequently follow, either the new taxation had failed or some mis take had taken place with regard to the accounts brought up. It was not possible to believe that in the whole Customs Department and the whole Excise department, with an addition of five per cent., and with an addition of ten per cent. on the assessed taxes, there should be a di fieency this yell. of 283,0001. He thought the Government ought to provide some way of supplying the deficiency, and not to go on adding loan after loan, in order to provide for this great expenditure. It appeared to him the House ought to consider if there was any necessity for continuing this large expenditure at the pre sent moment. We _had secured what the Noble Lord and his colleagues bad gone so madly madly about in Syria, for a great part of this expense had been incurred there, and they had been told by the Queen's Speech their object was attained. If so clearly there ought to be a decrease in our expenditure, instead of which there was a considerable increase to be voted for our naval and military force. He had as he had said brought down some resolutions to submit to the House, but it had been suggested to him it would be better to hear the Govern ment statement, and then to print his reselati and take the sense of the House upon them. He was determined to submit his propositions to the House, unless he heard to-night some very satisractory reason to the contrary. The House then went into Committee, when Mr. MORE O'FEItRALL rose to propose the Navy Estimates for the ensuing year. Before, how ever, he went into these estimates he would state the balance sheet of the year ending the 31st of March, 1640. The excess' of expenditure (or that year was 29,694/. This was the first vet e for which he had to move ; and it was right that he should state to the Committee the circumstances which rendered that vote necessary. (The Hon. Member was Leird with difficulty amidst the noise of Members moving from their places and the cries for " Divide." Mr. Hume calid out, 1 wish the Right Hon. Gent'em:tn wort .1 speak up—we can't hear a word.—(Hear.) Mr. O'Fer rall proceeded—Previous to the year 1832, the balances of former years were left in the Exchequer and were applied by the Admiralty to such purposes as the Lords Commissioners thought proper, and occa sionally they were made available for such emergencies as occurred last year. That was considered a great abuse ; and was strongly condemned by the Right Honourable Baronet the Member for Pembroke, inas much as the Admir&ty took upon themselves to ape!) the money vo t e d by Parliament to purposes differeet from those for which the we re designed. When the Right Honourable Bar net was made First Lord of the Admiralty he applied himself to re medy the abuse, and the Act of 1832, the Ist and 2nd William IV. e. 40 was passed, in the 3rd section of which it month of Nov em b er to t h e au di tors , that provided that setthe balan ce s h eet of each year s h ou ld be in the h upon it what comment they thought did not pro v id e f or t h e di s posal of the unappropri tafitt. they But might the make Act. unappropri ated balan ce ; an d i t became a subject of arrangement between the Treasury and the Admiralty. If any improper expense had been incurred by the Ad miralty, they could be be brought to account for it by the House, and he was ready to defend their conduct os that head. The first vote was for a sum of 29,694/. excess of expenditure for t h e year ending the 3 lst of March, 1840. That balance on a sum of 5,000,000/, would not, ho thought, be considered a large one, especially as it was impossible for any one to calculate precisely the extent of such an expenditure. The second item would he a supplemental vo t e f or the s um of 161,5001 He should observe, that in August, September, and Oc tober last, great exertions were made in all our dock yards, seamen were taken from all the maritime towns and ships were sent to every edquarter it was of impossible the orl to foresee f rom day to day w h a t might occur. wd. Other Governments had increased their armaments. The Government, finding that this was the case, was fleet wee i ncreased, trans ports were obliged to be t a k en up f or t h e conveyance of r einforcementsincrease toti ourcolonies, lepricee The Alediterranran set Vi ce h a d been performed with a a n it d theexcess wohvoelre theof e t l s i t a t t . mates amounting only to 161,900/. He therefore hoped that the Government would not be considered to have acted improperly. He now came to the estimates of the present year, and he fe3l under considerable difficulty in approaching the subject, as he wai about to ask the Committee for a large increase, if he did not recollect that for the last six )eare, whenever the Navy Estimates had been brought forward, the Government had been blimel for not asking enough.—(Hear, hear.) The Govern ment had not been influenced by those attacks to ask for more than they thought was required—neither would they be prevented from asking for a large increase, where they thought it might be necessary. In bringing forward the estimates he shall cautiously abstain from the introduction of any topics which did not properly belong to the Estimates, believing as he did that the question of the Navy Estimates should be discussed without anything like party feeling, as a question which was interesting to all men of all pasties throughout the nation.—(Loud cheers.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) TATTERSA LL'6-THI `'EKING. 0 ' HALF-PAST S IX O'CLOCK. THE DERBY. 18 to agst Rosalia—taken 16 to agst Coronation—taken 20 to 1 agst Eringo—taken 4 to 1 agst Scott's lot—offered 30 to 1 agst Wellington 33 to 1 ag,t Str Hans 35 to 1 agst Mongclian—taken 20 to 1 agst Soult 25 to 1 ag,t Ralph 30 to 1 agst Wahab 50 to 1 agst Joachin—taken 50 to 1 rg.t Nob—taken 50 to 1 ags: Ermengsrdis—tsken 50 to 1 agst Belgrade—taken 50 to I agst Danotev a —tAken 2000 to 40 Pgst Knigh sbridge 25 to 1 agst Whistle—taken 20 to 1 agst Palwreon—taken 23 ti 1 vv. CarAdoc--taken 500 (Yen Coronation and Palrernan aga Rosalie and Cameleon—taken 1000 to 15 agst Filehley 2000 to 40 agst M raing Star—taken COAL MARKET.--(THIS last market day, .C 7. s. e. P.nitop Windsor' . 37 6 lanlield M00r.... Tan tied Moor Butes l7 ti Willlngton A 9 Wylain Walls End Ferric e and Co :2l ti Wslls End Clennell walla End .;osfo th Walls frut Heaton Walls End Hilda ..... .......• 21 U Walls End Hotspur • 0 0 Walls End Killinsworth :1 3 ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.-An accident tf a fa•cl nature, ari!ing from cue - sive carelessness en the part of the unfortutia'e deceaFel, occurred at the Steventon station, to a man upwarqs cf sixty years of age, on till afternoon of Thursday let, who was knocked down (as he was inca.itiously cros!ing the li•te) by the half past four o'clock train from Wocton Bassett to Paddington. The poor ftllow, who get his living by selling fruit, WAS struck by a projecting portion of the engine on the 11 , 1td, and his death nau , t have been in gtntaneous ; for, upon his re3e'ving immediate assistance, life was found to be extinct, arising from a stvei . e wound on head. But very few• drops of blood oozed from the wound. It should be observe.' that there is a footpath which crosses 1112 lines at the place where the accident oc curred, where the Company's men arc stationed to endea vour to prevent accidents occurring through the careless ness of the public. _ _ STRANGE BRIDEGROOM.—A couple I)resented themselves before ti,e eurtve of Wrexham Church on the morning of Tuesday last, to be joined together in the holy bonds of matrimony. The service hal proceeded to that part ( f the ceremany nhlre the minister calls upon the bridcgriom to say Pfter him, " 1, A. B. take thee, C. D., to be my wedded wife," when the man, instead of re peating the words, said, " I well, I'll have her." The minister remonstrated With him, and told him to repeat the exact words after him, as above m:n tioned. The man, however, peristed in his manner of reply, and saio, " I !Null, I'll have her." Tha clLrk, thinking he had some impediment in his speech, whispered to him softly to repeat the words aft r the Curate, but without effect. The man conri,rued t) reply as before; and the Curate, who said he was an obs'iiate fellow, re fused to proceed with the ccromony. The parties came from Church unmarried. The man is a potter, and lives in the Walks, Wrexham,—Carnarvon Herald. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—A re turn has been male to the House of Commons, showing the total net income and expenditure of the Ur ited King. dom for the last four years, from which it appears that the excess of expenditure over income amounted in 1837 to 655,7601, in 1838 to 315,2281., in 1839 to 1,512,7921., and in 1840 to 1,593,970/. ; making a total of 4,107,7501 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. CtionctuitATEs.--This Ra; a casr.„ which stood by spe;.:ialadjournmeat for boring on Saturd Ay, Oursuant to summonses which hAd been issued undr the statute 531 George 111., cap. 127, entill:d "An Au for the bLtter regulatiqn of the Ecclesiastical Courts of Eng hnd ; and for the more easy recovery of Church miff." Mr. Teague appeared for the parish, Mr. Edwards for the appcilintF, via. , M. Heath and Mr. Crooks, householders in Fetter-lane, in the parish of Si. Dan• star's in tlsc West. Mr. Sloan, one of the Churchwardeas of the parish, tAted that he had made a demand of 18g. for church rates, of M-. Crooks and Mr. Heath, and payment was refused. The rate was made as far back as the 12th of June, 1839. By Mr. Edwards.—We have collected part of the rate. The collector having made his demand, I made mice afterwards, and produced the resolution of the Vestry, which gave me authority. Sir P. LAURIE wished to know why the rate was objected to as to its validity ? Mr. Edwards considered that certain moneys and es tates had inea left fur the proper repair of the church, and that such donations and bequests had been applied to other purposes—purposes contrary to the testamen tary grant ; hence, he contended, that in point of law, no legal claim could be made upon his clients. It was said by the respectable gentlemen to whom he was op posed—" We have granted annuities upon the funds you allude to," but that was no answer. Sir PETER LAURIE—We must have evidence before we can proceed any further. Mr. Sloan said he was born in the parish 59 years ago, and had had something to do wi.h the manage ment of its affairs during the last four or five years. Mr. Edwards (int2rposing)-1 gave Mr. Teague no tice to produce certain books, but he has not ; there fore. I am entitled to give secondary evidence. Mr. Teague—Mr. Edwards requires books and do cuments so Er back as 1808. We do not produce them, and we act undee the advice of a learned civihan. Sir PETER LAURIE thought that the opinion of the most learned doctors could have no weight as the matter at present stood. Sir P. Laurie wished to know whe ther the appellants went to church, a-rd were seat holders ?—Mr. Churchwarden Sloan—Cert rinly not, your worship. Mr. Edwards—My clients are Churchmen in the strict sense of the word. They do not, however, go to this Church on account of the bickering. there have been.—(Skame.) Mr. Seeley, a respectable inhabitant said that he understood from what he had heard that the resist ance of payment arose from the notion of a misappro priation of funds. Mr. Elwards—Certainly. _ _ . Mr. Seeley—Then we have no objection to go to the Ecclesiastical Court, to show how wu haYQ disposed of those funds. After some further conversation, the Magistrates (Sir Peter Laurie and Sir Chapman Marshall) confirmed the rate. The case of Mr. Crooks, the other appcd:a!lt, was called on, and the same adjudication made without observation by solicior on either side. Mr. Edwards then gave notice that he should g:va notice to the Magistrates who had heard the case of his intention to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for an order, but would leave the other party to apply to the Spritual Court, if they thought fit. Here the matter (mica for the present. B C) W . S 7' REE 7'. LOAN SOCIETIES.—In the course of the last week several persons have applied to the Magistrates of this office for their advice and assistance under the fellow ing circumstances :—They had become sureties for per sons who hal borrowed money of different loan so cieties, and who had made default in payment of the in stalments due from them ; ihat in each of their cases an attorney was one of the shareholders of the society; and that when the party borrowing made a default in his payments, the attorney, instead of summoning the sureties before a Magistrate, in order to compel them to pay the amount, had commenced proceedings against thorn in the C,urt of Queen's Bench, thus putting them to very considerable and unnecessary expense. This course of proceeding appears to have been adopted in consequence of a decision of the Magistrates at the different Police Courts to compel sureties to pay the amount for which they had under taken to become re sponsible only, and not the floes also, which the bor rower may ba‘e incurred according to the rules of the society. On Saturday, a person, named Thomas Jones, came before Mr. Jardine, and stated that he had become surety for a person named Moran to tl:e Union Joint Stock Loan Society, and tl:at lllorgan, who originady borrowed 15/., had only repaid 61. las. of the money, and Francis Broww) (the secretary) summoned him (applicant) before the Magistrates of the aboyeoffice on the Bth of October last for payment of the balance 8/. 10s., when Mr. Twyford, before whom the case was heard, dismissed it on the ground that the society itself had not complied with its own rules Alter this deal sion the applicant did not expect to hear any more of the matter, but on Friday to his surprise, he received a letter from an attorney, stating that unless he paid the amount in the course of the following week proceedings would he taken against him in the Court of Queen's Beech, in order ta compel him to do so. Mr. JARDINE, in this case, repeated the answer he ficl previously given to several similar applications, viz., that the Loan Societies Act pointed out a specific mode of proceeding against the sureties of persons who were defaulters in their repayments of money borrowed by them from loan societies, and also against their sure ties, by summoning the parties before a Magistrate ; but at the same, it did not restrain such societies from taking proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, or any of the superior Courts at Westminster, to recover the amount due to them. He (Mr. Jardine) war, how. ever, of opinion that such societies were not legally justified in instituting proceedings in one of the higher Courts for that purpose, but he would not take upon himself to decide upon a question of such importance, and would recommend the applicant to consult some re spectable solicitor on the subject.—lt appears that the 17th clause of the Loan Societies Act, 2 and 4 Vic toria, ch. 10, enacts that—" The treasurer or clerk of the society for the time being may proceed for the recovery of the sum due on such note against the party or parties liable to pay the same in arty County Court or Court of Conscience or Request, having ju risdiction to the amount so due, according to the course n 3 practice of such Courts." The only clauFe in the Act which alludes at all to the Superior Courts is the 16th, which, after directing that the societies shall summon defaulters before a Magistrate, and directing the Magistrat s to issue execution against their goods in defauli, of payment, stated, as if the intention of the framers of the Act was that no proceedings should 'be taken against them in the Superior Courts, " That no such proceedings (before such Magistrates) shall be removed by certiorari or othtrwise into any of her Majesty's Superior Courts of Record." The question is one that has excite,' great interest among the class of persons peculiarly affected by it, and the decision respecting it is anxiously looked forward to. EMBEZZLEMENT.—A lad in the employ of Mr. W. H. Smith, newsvcnder in the Strand, was committed to Newgate for trial, for embezzling 31. ss. 10d., re ceived by him on account of his master. QUEEN-SQUARE. James Clough, 98 B, William Prince, 183 13, George Holed, 193 B, and Stephen Burr, 119 B, four of the Metropol tan Police, were placed at the bar, charged with having viidently assaulted John Tworney, 37 B. Mr. Barefoot, an inspector of tie division to which the men belonged, conducted the inquiry, which bad been directed by the Commissioners of Pulice. Complainant, whose head was bound up, aid whose general appearance betokened a full balf-Wour's sharp contest with such an artiste as Toni Spring, state.' that he came off duty at seven o'clock on the morning of Tuesday the 23d, and in a few minutes afterwards went into the Stags public-house, in the Fulham-road, with the defendants, who had also just been released from night duty. At Burr's solicitation complainant tossed him for a quartern of gin, which complainant won, but beer was ordered in mistake. Burr then challenged him to toss for another quartern, which he did and won again,but Burr refused to pay, asserting that the toss was not fair, and complaivant refused to toss any more. Defendant Clough then challenged him to toss, which he refused to do, when he (Clough) seized the beer and swore that complainant should have none of it, to which he replied that he did not care, as he had not got to pay for it. Clough thee told him th.t if he (lid not toss he would knock his - Irish head off. Complainant told him that he had better let that alone, when on a sudden he came up and struck him on the eye, aid Prince and Burr immediet:ly " pitched into him," and he was forced into a corner near tt.e door. Howel also got hold of him, and called out, " Give it to the d d Irish " Complainant was compelled to hold his head down, and he imme diately received a violent blow on the side of t'ae head with some hard substance, which he supposed to have been a quart pot. A deep wound, about three inches long, was inflicted, from which he bled profusely. John Cottrell, 177 B, was present when the matter occurred. Complainant made his escape and went to the watch house, where he reported what had occurred. Mr. Shuter, jun , a solicitor, attended for the de fendants, and proceeded to cross-examine the com plainant at some length. Complainant said he was sober at the time, and he was sure he was not drunk. He admitted having re ported Clough and Burr that night for being in a pub. lic-house while on duty. He denied having cut his head, by falling against the bar at the public-house. John Cuttcrel, 177 B, stated that he was in the Stop public-house when the affray took place, the whole of which originated in the complainant, who, on entering the house, challenged to toss any of them for beer, and having won a pot from Burr, seized it, and said no one should have any of it. Words ensued, and Clough interfering, the complainant made a " grab" at him, and witness, fearing a row, left the bar, followed by Burr, who, he could swear, never touched the com plainant, and who from the first appeared to be far gone in liquor. Sergeant Tringham, 18 B, stated that he released the complainant from duty at ten minutes past six on Tuesday morning, and he appeared then to be perfectly sober. Comp' iinent had about two o'clock on that morning reported Burr and Clough as having been drinking at the Hope and Anchor whilst on duty. The witness fe;it it his duty to make proper inquiries on this subj2e, which he did, and found the. report of com p'aieant to he fl e. He then told complainant thel he must report him for making a false charge, but he begged him not, as it would bring him into disgrace with his friends. Sergeant Thatcher, 17 B, said that complainant came to him bleeding profutely on Tuesday morning. He certainly appeared to have been drinking a great deal. Defendants een'er.l having struck the complainant. He came in and quarrelled with them, as had been stated by the witnesses. Mr. BuititELL said that although it was evident that the complainant had been much injured, yet there was no evidence to show by whom. The defendants must, therefore, be discharged, as the testimony of the wit nesses did not agree with that of the compllinant, who by their st aement was evidently under the influence of liquor. UNION-HALL, Ed wai d Willis; a medical student, was brought be fore Mr. Trail, chargel on suspicion with breaking open the writing desk of Mr. Henry Lambert, another fellow student, and sealing 44 sovereigns. Mr. Lambert stat ed, that he and the prisoner, who were fellow students, occupied lodgings at No. 47, in the York-road, Limb( th, and slept in a double-bedded room. On Wednesday last, complainant discovered that six sovereigns had been taken out of his writing desk, which was in the sitting room, and he mentioned tie fact to the prisoner, who on Iwing apprised of the cir cumstance, said that he had also been robbed of a dia mond brooch and three sovereigns. In consequence of the robbery the complainant took his writing-desk up st sirs to his bed-room for safety, and ho then went out, and returned at seven o'clock, when, on examining the desk, he at once observed that it had been forced open, and discovered that 38 sovereigns had been abstracted. The complainant added, that he and the prisoner took the lodgings, and that the latter did not abscond. In reply to Mr. TRAIL, the complainant said that the prisoner did not complain to him that he had been robbed of three sovereigns and a diamond brooch until after he (complainant) said that his desk ha I been opened, and six sovereigns stolen. They had break fasted together the same morning, yet the prisoner did not say one word about his having been robbed. Th e prisoner afterwards said that he had the diamo n d b rooc h given him the night before it was steles from him. The bed-room and also the sitting-room which they occupied were also open, and the landlord and landlady and the three servants had access to them when they thought proper. Sergeant Aylesbury, of the L division, stated that when the prisoner was given into his custody, he said that the diamond brooch, of which he had been robbed, was given to him by a lady at Wandsworth to has e re paired. Witness asked him where the lady lived, and offered to accompany hies to the house to ascertain the truth of his assertion, but he refused to tell him where she lived, or to give him any information on the subject. Mr. 'FRAIL asked the prisoner whether he wished to say any thing to the charge? The prisoner declared that he was perfectly innocent of the charge, and that he knew nothing whatever about the stolen money. lie said that he had lost three sovereigns and a diamond brooch at the lodgings, but that he would be very sorry to accuse any person, as he did not know upon whom suspicion rested, as their apartments were open to all persons in the house. Mr. TRAIL asked the prisoner from whom he had the diamond brooch, but he refused to disclose the name of the lady, or even to give the place of her abode, as ho had a strong objection that it should be even sup posed he was suspected of felony. Mr. Trail told him that the inquiry could be made without any communica tion of the kind being made to the lady ; but the pri soner still refused to agree to the suggestion, and a s there was no further evidence to adduce, the Matristrate said that he considered there was so muck suspicion at tached to the case, that he should call upon the ac• cused to find sureties to appear at the Court on a future day to answer the charge. The prisoner not being prepared with the requisite sureties, etas sent to the county gall. DEATH OF THE EARL OF ROSSE.—We re gret to announce the death of the Earl of Rosse, which took place on Wednesday evening, at his Lordship's resi dence in Brunswick-square.—Brighton Herald of Friday. The deceased was in his 83d year, having been born May 21, 1758. He succeeded his uncle in 1807. By his wife, Alice, daughter of John Lloyd, :Esq., he has left four children, the eldest of a horn, Lord Oxmantown who formerly represented the King's County in Parliament, is in his 41st year, and married in 1836, Mary, eldest daugh ter of John Wilson Fitld, Esq., by whom he has several children. The late Peer was one of the Representatives of the Irish Peerage sitting in the Imperial Parliament ; his death cooaequcntly creates a vacancy in the number of that body. EVENING EDITI9I SOUND DUTIES, ( From the IlferM" t ;lr — tg Chronicle) dal, That crying grievance on the Baltic trade —the Soloed is :stout to be brought under the consideration of the sires Commons, Mr. Hutt, the Member for Hull, WI trberl notice of a motion on the subject for the 9th of 3 ! ere te asits is no question ol m•we pressing importance to the in , for 110 European commerce, nor any which calls more 1 unl t i a the interference of Parlian ent. How it hss happenedetl,Look twenty-sixth year of peace, a fifth-rate power 1 1 'r: o botss, should be permitted to extort from shipping passing t' ssr i t (s , tolls to the amount of more than 200,0001. sterling In". 4 .ltab u p on of oe, which from 70,000/. to 80,000/. rer annum falls up . "" shipping alone), whilst its right t 3 such a revenue Is s ite in dispute, but in great part nototious s ly unfounded, " r unaccountable. The banish Government n,ut'das ever, have long sines been prepared for a, t . 4 It retribution, and that day is probably no t very far L O - O titta• is impossible for the European Powers to permit The n ance of the Sound dues on their present footing. Th i in si ' o r c al ment hich these dues form to the extension of ourcosarlookol relations with the Baltic ports is toe serious to be markets ere by the British Government, at a time when our Inar' ssa fle• threatened with the active competition of continental On o r tures. Prussia is deeply interested in the abatement o!):_te sauce sshich almost precludt s commercial intercourse 1.,,71,0 her Rhenish dominions and her provinces on the P O 7Ol Sweden, ancientl exempt from the burden, is now un a bic h o severest sufferers} though, inch ed, it is hard to say ri ta tir the States bordering on the Baltic has sustained there' jury by Danish exactions under the Castle of Croaenb er P o oli That a shi toll has been levied in the Cattegat flyer times is true, but it is out of the power of the Kings° es Sste mark to show thatwarrants either custom or treaty warra toe_ t boo ing dues, or mode of collecti in. Without going back good old d a y s w h en Vas Sound duty did not affect were en or at all, but consisted in the simple tribute of a g n noble for every sail, it is sufficient to remark th at the P,nti r title is understood to rest mainly upon the Christiano Tea. of 1645, and upon a subsequent treaty, or convention, penhagen, in 1701. The Chrictianople treaty contaistV? of duties, said to be the groundwork of the Fres ° sea and provides that non-enumerated goods shall bed 'This t according to the usage of merchants. •-• 1- sea' explained by the Copenhagen treaty to he one P er oster art valorem on the goods of favoured nations w ool which category Great Britain and all the T r t ae.si' trading powers now stand), leaving 1* per cent. the oish mum to be required from nations not so favoured. 111 _, at were understood to be the leaitimate dues during a an, s aitss of the last century is weeknown, though at Wab r t dir period the present abuses began it may not be so PAYd cover. In " Busching's Geography" (a German cosi pctear reputation in its day), it is stated that in 1752, Eag i s i s , h ,,' Sero 4 , Swedish and French ships were not searched at ''"; Is IP' arid paid only one per cent• for goods not specifieu t. ' s atl tariff ; but that other nations paid 1* Per eell n a ss ' o o4l must submit to be searched. What, therefi re, .."- must do as the very first st towards th e si r blishment of a legal right, is to show that th e II t tern of usances which she has latterly . trek within the limits of the rates sanctioned by How she is to make out this we eannot Ott ta tbs for, in "mint of fact, the usances exceed the legal r e ;aott i s extent of 2, 4, and even 6 per cent. Sugar, e'ffe e ' a nsoa sa articles of colonial produce, being unenumerated , are n or r the goods the most heavily charged by the utances;._, oft these usanees established even in the form of an Ofge"' ir so that, for aught we know, an attempt may be In ed u e au ltla el , crease the tolls still further, if foreign interposition s" - u g tosi speedily take place. Whether the Danish not fairly be called upon to refund such sums a s :tort proved to have been levied in contravention of the leg s t Pr . is a point which deserves consideration • and we s:s h tru ebi esti Palmerston will not overlook the just of Briu — s claims Goverinne si . b. "00' in this particular. We are aware that his Danish Majesty expends S", -- a e Csi s. t s t portion of his Sound revenues upon lighthouses in ", - Aso su n ; gat ; but this portion is' ver inconsiderable, r:oinPar7, for which the public gets nothing whatever in retufLb ti: t mitting that Denmark has a right to some toll, it is 1 : . "„ RC' that the present exactions should be reduced wit" l- n tirel if n ot e. lunits ; and that the Sound dues should be, abolished, at least placed on a footin not absolutelY toes not s i g to the commercial Interests of Europe These al e Ps: of Hanover in the waters of the Elbe, can be when either the Icing of Denmark in the Sound, or tr i staas . perm itt !w are. struct the course of navigati on a t th e ir free 014Y_, to er We say nothing here of th e St a d e d u ti es , further tr"c ef a sr press our hope that the commission understood tohace re sult s ' pointed for their adjustment will lead to satisfactorl 04ses But wo wish to impress upon those who are exerting 0 1 e , 900 for the reform of our tariff, that an alteration in t is the dues is one of the indispensable preliminaries towart7. oo sri" largement of our commercial policy. Mr. Hutt 's ei°J ;siste r i we have no doubt, be well supported. Let the L e g it - 1 14,7. only supply the favouring gale, and we venture tl f e. Palmerston will find speedy means of applying a rear abuses we have noticed. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN AIARKETg.:___/sie. . r Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bea ns ' •••••• 0. 111 Per Qua.ter.i s. to s. s. to s. s. to 5. t° Ai 40 / Abington 56 60 :4 34 22 ft) 40 - Andover 53 61 27 SO 20 51 64 2".' 31 24 :9 -- 4 7; 4% Basi gstoko 4 65 26 35 21 :7 40 t7irenc-ster 55 62 27 32 24 28 40 " 40 • Coventry — 62 33 24 33 3 7 - Laventry Deiby 64 67 29 36 25 $0 4 2 •••_,., 1 1 Ilowden — 72 42 24 40 35 , litingerford 50 6i 33 37 25 33 44 .•••• Malton - 43 / Mai , enhead 51 73 33 38 25 34 43 — 0 Notting 13 69 26 36 *..4 74 4 id Watitage ham 65 60 t 4 40 26 3 2 2 3 6 , o 4 0 Warwick - A -- 3 Winchester 70 —36 29 -- o' • York 6O 32 46 28 30 -• 1. 1 i• I s• 6 7 Per Bushel s.d. s. d., s. d. a. d. s.d. s.d. s. . - • 9 r # Birmingham 7 484' 39 53 40 49 56 *O 6 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKE T 4. SA-to. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Su (Bulk ...... —s. 604. 10 "" 0 66 F t, --- Lin. and Cam. ..•••• ••• .••• , ..... 4 e. ~ ‘• t • s. d. a. d.l s. d. a. d. la. d. s. d. / 1. d. a t e # 6,, 74 S 39 5 3 4 0 49 5 6 a 6 16 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET 01 1 - 61. .:, Norfolk and Su ffblk ... —a. 695• 1 ° ;,,," P e 00 Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire V; hite to 4 36 nee Foreign, Red —a. --s• - Ai , s , 0.- do --..--- White _ a. .....„ t0 . 0. , - - _,. geol., Barley, Norfolk and Suffoa ---- Lincolnshire ---- Yorkshire Wold . 265. 10 •"",... ope . ::, - ::: 6 - 2 1 s. t £ o o o *' '' '' o d e s' : . ofri a , .... s „ to ,••,•• get •---... ---- Foreign 40.. to 4 . 3& Joe ;6 Beans, New --- Old Oats, Potato 7- •ea• P a il* —-- Peland —a. __ s to 7 w oo __,to 1 1 . s_t_. / vriezland and Sm A! -- s.z:sling Shelling Malt —l.os. 201.0 c 3131 * (4. Rapeseed . NEWCASTLE CORN Ec a t i Red. 0. 614 Wheat, Northumberland s4s —a ........ „,,. O. Norfolk and Suffolk 625 665. .... 1 1, O. H 4O : No n r.. e kes• vv v r Ter hi,e 7 --• Berwick and Scotch 6 Is. 651........ ' 6 l - i. 04 Foreign s9s. 628.......•• .....4 .1 . rtyo, Norfolk and Suffolk 34s 2f 4 0 ....... „..... . Foreign 3O : 34 s ....... ::::; s am. , 0 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 34s. --5 ....... ...a... 4 ' kw Grinding and Feeding Los. 30s..•••• .... „ . ...4. a Halt, Norfolk and 5uff01k...... .......... . 56, 6"5....... ....4. ... A. t Beans, Sinai! ...,,, ...I. -- Tick . ......,,, 4•2 a 46e.....•• . .„.....A• Pease, White 36s. 3s l - •"' a - ' 4. ... • - Gra y ...... ...„.. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... ... 255. 26x.•.••.• ....a. •"'''' ..------- Feed 225 24 , ....... _.....r --Foreign Flour (per aackl 4ss. 48a.•.••.• SCOTCH MARKETS. 70; 01' , "0 Wheat. Barley. Oars. Beans. ......-< . , .._. ---. --- ---.-.' , 0 ..,... C' s 9 tj 56 kberdeen s' to 60 25 to 20 11 to 2'2 -•- 33 ;- ' Berwick 36 45 Is 23 16 23 2 90 - '', Zold•treain - : 2 (3 1 Capin* (Fife) IS 05 "6 31 18 22 ' 2 ' l 42 1 " !)unbar IS (18 211 48 23 27 40 ~, ...- .o.' Elgin Inverness - Kelso ..., .. 36 47 IS 22 16 21 31 ', 4 4 4 , / Kirkaldy - 30 - 53 4 5 ;!I I "... , Perth - co iiir;' • Thu size of the measure varies throughout 5" II A ODIN G FON CORN MAPKE T * I 13 ' 11 4 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pe o e; 1 45 5 . od 1. ir•t 72, I'd 31, 04 , 6.4 ,S . i s 0 ,1 6. i '-';', Oil Second 1 .2.: Od 31s 64 26 04 ''"' 1 Third 57, Od 29, (Ii ..3., oil 'ss (1,1 Average,.. It. 0-, 101 11•1' 2 '''" 60Z DA Llti I' ITH COI 1N NI Alt K ET. . e. 4 6 ' ise' -- Wheat Barley. i Oats. r e " ' od i 4 v- First 7ils i a :33s 0I I 30, 4,4 46 4 m 8 0 4 Second o2s Od 31s 04 ...4s id ';:'' 0 - i 55 Third . 5lB 6il 20s 02 17' 4.1 ..'' o.‘i GLASGOW CORN I\ll lI K ET. a . d• 641 b. 1' 0 W4 0 0 Wheat, per 9401 b. a. d. s. d. oat,. per' ~, • nritish, old 32 61°25 6 1 r ..1 1 ...................... 1 0" 4 new ~,,.. ,6 Citnada, free 0 - o ... ,426 0 w ~9 0 0 1 ' Beans, lie Irish Barley, per 32019 Scottish ................ t. .,,, 0 0 English 26 0 20 6 Pease, Scot tish ...* 1 7 • LOU Scottish 22 0 '24 6 Oatmeal, per 14011 , ..* 44 0 Irish mii,...... `" otll4 .._.,.-__..- mei,- i i TEETOTALISM IN IRELAND.---At ti T heoba . held the other day in Cork, at which the Rev The Enrolled, Mathew Aa: preset,t, it was stated by one at" co roll e c , that " they had e:glit Roman Catholic Prelates r had r r a i and 700 of the Catholic clergy. The late W ° r geocj o. duce) I,l47,ooo—which, added to the f° r , a1e 4 ,647 ,0 A of returns—namely, 3,500,000—1eft the total hou sbilu a Yes, four millions six hundred and ferry-Seven tfood and the population of Ireland ..ere at that mome nt itte' dttermined tectotAllers I" ,g 8 7 n f THE WEA TLIER.—The last week Iv- - 0 ,0; 6 cession of cold drizzling weather, and the hig he , s il was ~,. the thermometer, which at noon on Sunday w . c t i clegr e 4 degrees, was at noon on Tuesday, when it w as -. n ts d url 'st The nights have been cold, and the coldest po sun dsi 4 tbo week at the Zoological Gardens w ere 00i F. ; a t st midnight, when the thennotneer was 30 der e d e r p-res% ; n ie o'clock on Tuesday mt.rning, when it was 38 ; ° the 5- 0 0 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning 32 degr ees (d tl igli t j a y hour on Thursday morning, 37 degrees: at inn Sato . op Thursk , 37 degrees; and at 4 o'clock 7 gacka - c h mornieg, 35 degrees, Yeiterday at fl oor, ,'' d wa s e s ,,, the thermometer was , 13 degrees. 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