The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-16 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION DECAYED FREEMASONS. The sixth anniversary leitival in aid of the Asylum for the relief of aged and decayed freemasons, was ledil Yesterday at the Freemasons"favern. Mr. Benjamin " ( ( 1 , the. Member for Southwark, was expected to take e chair, but owing to the excitement caused by the forthcoming election and the duties which he has to Perfnrin towards his ' 'constituents, he could not attend, 1114 , s cut a lett er stating the cause of his absenc,-, and 'llei°B ing the sum of 101. for the benefit of the Institu teix n ' 111 '• J.' Copeland B e ll was propose d b y D r. Cru as chairman, and appointed by general acclamation. About 130 sat down to dinner, which was served up in ~e 4eel lent style, and in the gallery were many ladies who -I)Peareq to take great interest in the Institution. 4 1 . 41011 g' the rest, Miss Hawes and Miss Turner, who heir their services on the occasion. Mr. Broad- After urst also lent his aid in support of the Institution. A „ ft „ er the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman called the at meeting to.the great object of the evening, ct„e asylum for aged and decayed freemasons.. He stated • at the commencement it met with great opposition, ttralt had finally t • Plied and was now in a flourishing ition. lie triheu n in g ' aveSuccess to the , Asylum for I,`,hy Aged and Decayed grateFremasons.' The toast was drank with applause. in An address was then pronounced by Mr. Osbaldiston t„,. fuv uur of the Institution, which was followed by ful?, Staa " s , written by Mr. J. Lee Stevens, and beauti eorejaB:l", by, Miss Turner. They were rapturously en sio_ no tile words were so appropriate for the 0cca ...1.4 that we should not be justified in omitting them, ' 4O l we therefore give the m a t l engt h : — ." Wherel7here p l easures beam, wh ere joys abound, .a h alone are f Where even pp l y oveearts may deign to be,ound, There still is room for Charity ! The brightest eyes may brighter smile— The warmest hearts may warmer glow — That from enjoyments turn awhile, `To dry the tears of want and woe ! ,Id "here unhappy discord reigns, ...I,,h:heeoerrreree, eplaesisli hatredfrow i n v s e l m vi t a h y starting veins, Tsytiilelldisinrgoom for Charity ! to her pure delight, Contending hearts more genial grow, And foes that were, as friends unite, , Th e , To dry the tears of want and woe !' Dr. C r `-:!'8111Nlax then gave the health of the Treasure l r t , frierid. " 'fix, and paid a high compliment to this o l taken ' the brotherhood, for the active part he had i)r. the cause of charity. fe elin ' 41;culx returned thanks in a speech of much Stated for which we regret we cannot find room, and p4n ti l . Ut the, conclusion that the Society was in a prosy. th,v.P.. c.iinaition, and that after meeting all expenses, Tii'll,t:,l funds to the amount of 3,100/. sulAcr-..'eeretary then read the report and the list of gout) I P ti uns for the ve-tr. Among others ` were Lord E, I"nipton,2l/ ; — Golds wort „' 10 guineas; ---- Browse, Esq, 3 10 guineas; J. Vink, 'oral , Esq., 21/. ; —Tancred, son,. 1 ., 0 guineas; C. Vink, Esq., 10 guineas; J. .Ander n„:4l-• Proprietor of the British Queen Newspaper, 2 tit% a ' and great number 05 others, whose subscrip tendati'll. "tinted altogether to 5401: The dinner and a . t- Ileat,l,l,i,as excellent, and the evening altogether , f w was lug , Ithlil that hilarity good humour, and friendly ET - la Ystt r i leh.so eminend - characterise this ancient and tuts institution. 3 it h t ir li r, _ LE -caSENTATION OF MARY -A !! BONE. t q r l ' i s utlZer,°o.us meeting of the electors of . All Souls District of 'at Ti..,",..11,‘vaa held yesterday at the sun and Horse Shoe, tn'ecue.,..a Litiwiteld•street, for the 'purpose of taking measures to p e ethi, „., attendance of the Reformers at the great Ballot `' ) loss', 3 , "'ich is to take place this day in the Theatre of the Alp . lal• ;e, ll i l e a _ i ned " t i t :' o l ,'a.ving been unanimously voted to the Chair, be that the Tb formers the , nt i n t , oh vino of the meeting to . ted with d attireh ae district should be made fully acquainted 6,43.• by and ()bled * of the Pallot to be taken the next twlCale'sseatiZein:tit of . the rival Reform eandida.es, at i„„ , e e. ~,,a, .elhe object was t) determine' which of the restt'aachiw•"e pi ror Jr.A Young, ought to retire from the fl ....., Oiteq, to avoid a division of the Reform in -4704 tile ear, hear he r• 1 It vas agreed that the result of 11 ,i (1 4 - ; °Rtnstilltlld intittence"not only l the candidates . but . their , to'rsa,swo... a t if l'.. Young . should be in the minority his tk„uloa n , „: all. in their power t o . promote the return of ate , - -z a .pier and Sir Benjamin Hall.—(Cheers.) If, el l l3 — f tieiZ a s _Yr Sir Charles Napier shrld be in d the e minority, et`ienra.) If bound by a similar ple g .—(Loud t propose he , b e tked I ..i tL anY c'ectur had a resolution o the'll heady '' t he purpose for which the . meeting was called,_ the .i llt ,,Y to hear him • if not, Mr. Wilson, a me . mbei . f ' .4llot'"v..ommittee ' would explain the manner in , t.hich . 1 t '115 0 , 1 rt,..1, o, be Conducted.—(Applause, and cries ot ie,ir. wtino.") I, 4r P o l Y to b • : ° 2' aaid all present were aware that a sch f is t m . e , h k i ugh, to - uePl.nred, had arisen amongst the Reformers of se ct . be et , , i vhicli he would not now allude,as ofa both , t _tis of u ' t. t rtniiied on, by the consent rtn't be ter •' e -e Libera's, by which their differences i_. l t ? th, ..r. 'rimed, he hoped, for ever.—(Cheers.) He then tot i e ng. tar ' 4 ' (Atar letter which had been sent, enclosin a bal ti If, a • .to each Of the 8,750 registered electors who g had 'ke t. Liberal at former elections, or had been registered I‘h.. th e last el. • t e ,,".eitl 1 -,, t , colon• No person would be allowed to ballot ' li!,: and the IL e"4. 'rg' '' . to the scrutineers the . lette . r which he had Only pledge to be required. if any one,was, ti,Att(7s,,ill^tailednis.io.t_Yote for C • a bbell, or Hamilton.—( Cheers. ) tzte r r 3 Pre, tot then unanimous . ly . agreed to, pledging the tb • ''''t to abide by the division of the ballot,. and to 11:hqt.sholitirbesel'arate views in support of the candidate who by old of the 1 . 4 the mr.jority at the close of what was termed litil,"'Ults 1,, I,'.akers the " Reform Poll.' . ' ,( 4 . - • tli e s ti v :"i7 . been voted to the Chairman, and to Mr. e.} l , i 'ltali a , eeting separated. I ‘lrA' "as I: fle eting with Mr. Churchwarden Gibson . in the . t be Xil.,, n ehl at the Half-Aloon, Clipstone-street, ii! which ‘) 4l tarn explained the manner in which the ballot was " tht" l'te Napier, and vote l, Ink, . e enthusiastic cheers for Sir C. .ii r qi ti . 'len,' its ',,.„,41e Chairman, the meetine separattd at a a late attiees,i<7^iieation being occasioned " . by the numbers of %. 'din e , L une np to receive information as to the mode of th,"rat,il4l.lll3`!)l)e adopted at the great meeting of this da_y :wn VPhi,''',,val 7V,_'nga were held at the Bee Hive. Somers' 1 1 , ''' Li '4K, ace road . Bayswater, and atthe 141 , Et 1), c, areroad. Woos 4.16 SP ______ IN :,,,,, `RATE ATTEMPT AT MURDERad that gtina,4ll.--.on Monday evening reports were a lbstlgot,e,,tirieTarnth:rileo,rl Art;ller ? h d shot a bombardiherrobeloan,gy '4444l4 to the 6_ r_ilept, Which proved a too true. A en.opem ath battahon of the Royal A d : 14 1, l i s t ,I),Y Colonel Chesne has recently arri ye r a t i t ll t e h r e 3 Malta and 4 11 V. 1 , ." In ace of ,f 110" lediterranean 'i c a beloging to the co nea Y riy ten years' service at an li kv . h nael b een o _ . A gunner t establishment, named 1!11. tha sne ,:', Rthard durmg the h day ) in the Royal Arsenal. tA4tic,ietrr;teteaYn, treeti .relc.7v, so w 'freely as to become t in cr . (efetneir•lbelgofdkits that guard, to the Royal itltitn.red, am ~1 7 1 ,t s e, , h , re i he drun d , n 0 a t quarrel with anti h . ''' k dr' by 1 1 - u na h j. \ ( ,ril y ent e er; i ~thei?.dn.ful m anne r . ' ass'eevver l i pe n r i sons in the room, including g ' the altreated, his eye heing . c n ut lei‘°,llThatatg:' and or g; Several interfered between done. nis ~,, sk_and prevented any further mischie this Al'Gar. tt'''''Y left‘Cit 41444 seven. Shortly after 4 ".' to th . • . Ihe e banaek-'(.° • - n wing of the great ., arch. cante " and proceeded in a state of intoxica re4'N. tirlfortonate bo in in the eastern name is ~tantling at th e Itlbad:er, whoseve„adesk,. when Al'Ciar- s John Grace, ks,i,'Jr"eeeded ~,,,,v4le , thot ` wa s , and tak• ' trid entered -the back ng fired it. at his deliberately to to the placevieti•mhere Thehi sn r3tsed i, on the right . diate;v fell, and artilter' ''o the ab omen. Grace !Tame ' ed by the it down, side of the spinal column, ;iort issYllati who was passing the room, alarm Pri__rtne musket, entered the room d shot the 'ilk), s ,i' li f' , Who at once declared that " and b discovered' he the a Ordnance I , 4 e r sitit al, w e h wnort.led man was conveyrd tiered to t' ere Sir J. Webb, the priecipal t . o officer of the de ,Wa' In attentiance and every whether tie rs is ,tne sufferer .I'e tioned him as to at5, 1 ,..4 , 1 b een _, • ,p. oho cm s. assistance was ren 't 1 th't r'"? The wounded previous alterca i tion, e o n r ce m . -hether t'llat,irreeplied7., .41asesIni. L t c e a v u e s r e !:or Thet e offence. *,ollltit_ille liver ; but as any • attempt to probe the abdor_a . , o ball is supposed to have c'vli)lii,jou"tr/ett,al, the exact seat of the wound is not k n n t osyn n . g Th I, sur ,e!. ApGnse towlical gentlemen is that he ca l h, l t. Iv— "rarretty! wh o bas been fifteen yea is a man Ittes,ht‘t3 ' mediately placed under arrest. bad cha- H r s 'n e in the regi ;4qtr il ~,ctranced in year', and bears a notoriously .... cr , ,_ japecle'dine regiment: Grace is a married man, and which 4 ae ted _ 4 l the company to which he belongs, and to which tkkas ord rly. ka.,ttlßEll BALL. --THE NEIkiESIS s IRON the at -4tl( -'N •"}:4l. ---We last week drew the attention of our kel c ,s t e the exploits performed by this vessel en we 4titk:ilt.th,e Chinese forts on the Canton river. N 'tlii,i' .'" the mtitne, that her guns, two thirty-two-o_ t 'in, • ,p's,. had been cast by Messrs. Fawcett and P lelipt,.;,tll,l tolvn. ap e h.,, now before us a letter from e h ° 3' tb'' 1- J 0 %H and th e - offiee - rsof the Nemesis, addressed . 4 ~e r, -Ir. 1 ball which had Fawcett. The letter vas accompanied eN fi r .' '!ulgular present, namely, a . Admiral's J4 k i ed from the Nemesis into the Chinese ja. 11 44 1 .,. 11 the affair in lnson's Bay, on the 7th of last h'lkj.:o4lld afterwards recovered on boarding os 4esaio'lt‘T the action This curiosity is now in the .l P the said It 41: 1 , f 'f Atr. Fawcett N , h we have no doubt, 711 show , tilthelY Personxeseiro4‘ofos'ee c i e n l g itlye subjoin a copy 18, 41 , ett er Tigris, 14th January, tillit ii-it,eirattinaitil 1 1411 1 ae.islPthe offic_ers of the Nemesis pre , - Qv Plea Stir sompliment to M . r. Fawcett, and have itty t . e to present him with one of many of his kinn,..`ll;" Pounder shot which was fired into the Chinese t ° ,! . l tb :I.' 3 ~ War junh from the Nemesis, in Anson 's Bay, ..te w t. ,. ''i'l January 1841, and afterwards recovered from t il l i t , ! 4 ,' lll '''' . ~ f the jun'k. aptain Hall and his officers at . i•Ot t ,, ~Ime beg .to express to Mr. Fawatt . the: aivere, ielitnion of tile excellence of his guns, which a ',..t:..q i/alltiftlily ''jrlAVitibion.in every respect.—W. Fawcett, Esq." dY PI'oSEI) SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.—Mon- L, loorilinz. b • . ,Z,:',,staits ~,,,.aesout,stx o clo t k, as the watermen belonging to o,ll,,,,ro'lut:rnvoottr?nList 7 .br!dge, e the u r on the Sur. ey boats,nhary stiso le ve.red the shawl C 4rl ""t of a fealag'e ienironof they • Information of the lh.prnr%tanee was coMmunicated to the Police station-house in after -'l'.eet•• and pfilice constable Fenn No. 154 L, hav'ng, 44'11 dfficulty, found out, the apparel to have belonged to Ar se et :'' Insisted Priest, whose parents reside in Lambetla-wallt, th s ,,,, itnted thither, whe n the tiiitressed father recognised the ) 41 , 1 t1 al bonne t as the property of his daughter, who, from h qt • i'l(rtolfn cause, left hom e two or three days ago, and has h Slti..e b 'R No e,en seen. The drags were procured, but the body Of - Yet own found. The deceased was about twenty years I Re. A ki, t , .3 11 1) A -A1•11 TRAVELLING ON THE DCNDEE 41iNi;`191)tOvrit IiAH.wAY.--The General Assembly's ,31,„ alit_,4,ll, accompanied by deputations from the Was %)ll.l the Railvvay, Sabbath Sessional Union, 1, °' 'Scottish Lord's-dav Society, and from Ar t ' waited on the shareholders of the Dundee and. tj oroath li. •' F l st.tt 41•A'ay, at their annual meeting, appointed ' e sr; !It which was held at Dundee on Wednesday, Itintils` astant, the oli . e . st of the deputations being to re ,ky 1 14 „,1tt against trasi-ellins, on the Sabbath-day. After Nlot7l.l)(*n heard, a vote was taken for the followirg `21'11„15,11, which wa.s carried by a majority of votes : ke;‘' I' . ' tue partners disa wove of the me of railways for tittl;;4rPoses on the Lo P r i d' - d y and agree to memo ')itit'iLle,Alosttnaster-Genesr-alafc: relieve them front car .l, 1., )15 Z i ,- 1 -t , oYal mail on that day.” —G a gow Herald. tb'r,). k.VIrY.--Williatn Munro, farmer, near -‘l44in Inve-nshirc, diet's en Thursday week, lAD, —.l' ago 0101. at the - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON AND MOULSEY HURST RACES. • The following programme of this meeting which commences this day includes the entries made on Monday a'ternoon. WanNEsnAv.—The Gold Cup (in specie) by subscribers of a soy. each, with 40 added by the Proprietors of the course, ' for all ages ; 3 yes, 7st 71b; 4yi s, Bst 10lb ; 5 yrs, 9st 31b ; 6 yrs, and aged, 9st 71b. flares and geldings allowed 3lbs; the winner to be sold for 2001., &c. Heats, once rod and a distance. Mr. Scott's Windsor, 3 yrs ; Mr. Hotnsby's Rey( ke, 5 yrs ; Lord Chesterfield's La Gitana, 3 yrs ; Sir. Goodman's Bed ford, 5 yrs ; Hon. J. S an di an d s ' :Moleskin, 2 yrs ; and 3 lr. Booth's Isabella, 6 yrs. The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes (handicap) of 20 soy. each, 10 ft; and sft only if declared &e., with 50 added by the Proprietors of the course; the second to save his stake. The Pocket Viper, 3 yrs, sst 716 ; Bedford, 5 p.s. 9st 21b ; Fitzroy, 4 yrs, 9.. t ; Perseus, 4 yrs, Ist 4,1); 31ohneux, 4 yrs, Bat 416 ; W e lf are , 4 yrs, Bst 21b; Cantle, 4 yrs,. ist 61h 1 Chymist, 6 yrs, Bst Ilb ; Valincourt, 5 yrs, Ist. 101 b ; Slung o' Parke, 4 yrs, 7st 71b; Nicholas, 4 yrs, 7st 21b; Hellespont, 4 yrs, 6st 13Ib ; Carlos, 4 yrs. 6st 6lb. The Strawberry Hill Stakes of 3 sovs. each, will 30 added, for horses th/4 never won a plate or stake of the value of 501. ; 3 yrs-old, Ist 51b ; 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; 5 yrs and upwards, Bst I -lb. Heats, one mile and a quarter. The winner to be sold for 1001. Sir. Jenkins's Kate Kearney, 6 yrs ; Mr. J. Harman's ch g Wonder, aged ; Mr. Coleman's ch h ; Carlos. 4 yrs ; Mr. Goodwin's St. Preux, 4 yrs ; Mr. Wisdom's b m Maid of Sussex (late Grimalkin), 5 yrs; Mr. S. Scott's Abel, 5 yrs; and Mr. G. Clifton's ch c Playfellow, 3 yrs. THURSDAY.—The Hurst Cup of 50/. in specie, by Proprie tors of the Course, fee for all ages-3 yrs, 7st 411) ; 4 yrs, .Bst 7lb ; 5 yrs, 9st llb • 6 yrs and aged, gat stb ; m:res and geldings all 31hs. The winner to be seld for 2001. Heats, once round rnd a die. Hon. J. Sandilands's br g Easingwold, 5 yrs ; Mr. T. Har man's ch g Wonder, aged ; Mr. Balchin's b m Siang, aged ; Mr. Booth's Isabella, 6 vrs ; Mr. Hornsby's Revoke, 5 yrs ; Mr. Goodmen's Bedford, L yrs ; Mr. Coleman's Chymist, 6 yrs ; Captain Gardnor's Dismal Jemmy, 4 yrs; Mr. Stirling's fhe Comptroller, 3 yrs; Mr. Shelley's b g Munchausen, 6 yrs; and Mr. Wright's Folly, 4 yrs. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas, free for all ages ; three yrs 7st Mb ; four yrs, 9st llb ; fire yrs, 9st. Illb ' • six yrs and aged, lest 21b. The winner to be said for 5001. &c. Heats twice round and a dis. • Mr. Coleman's Carhs, 4 yrs ; Mr. Goodman's Mungo Parke, 4 yrs ; Mr. 'l'. Harm In's eh g, Wonder, aged ; Mr. Horrsby's Revoke, 5' yrs ; Mr. Goodman's Belgrade, 3 yrs ; Mr. Balchin . .s Slang, aged; Mr. Stirling's The Pocket Viper, 3 yrs ; Mr. S. Scott's Windsor, 3 yrs; Mr. Coleman's Chymist, 6 yrs; Mr. Shackell's Cantle, 4 yrs ; Mr. Sherrard's. br c, by the Colonel ; Hon. J. Sandilanas Mo &lin, 4 yrs; Captain Cardnor's Ben Brace, 3 yrs. Ihe Albert Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 25 added. Weights as for the Strawberry Hill Stakes. The winner to be sold for 1201. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Dockeray's Lyster, 5 yrs : Mr. Wright's Camille, 5 yrs ; Mr. Bacon's Aseanius, aged ; Captain Gardner's Dismal Jemmy, 4 yrs. FRIDAY.—The Innkeeper's Plate of 401., added to a Sweep stakes of 3 soya. eachs Weights as for the Albert Stakes. Heats, once round and a distance. The winner to be sold for 801. Mr. Kingsley's Tenebro3a, .5 yrs ; Lord Chesterfield's La Gitana, 3 yrs; Mr. Coleman's Carlos, 4 yrs; Capt.aig Gard nor's Dismal Jemmy, 4 yrs ; Mr. G. Clifton's Playfellow, 3 yrs ; Mr. Goodwin's St. Preux, 4 yrs ; Mr. Balehin's Clematis, 4 yrs ; Mr. Shelley's Hellespont, 4 yrs ; Mr. Wright's Ca mille, 5 yrs ; Mr. B icon's Ascanius, aged. A Free Cup; given by the Proprietor of the New Toy Hotel, Hampton Court; three yrs, List 71b ; four yrs, bet 51b; five yrs, 9sl; six yrs and aged, 9st 51b. Mares, &c., allowed 31bs. Winners, once this year, 51bs ; twice, Sibs ; and thrice, 101bs extra. Mile heats. Mr. Bacon's Ascanius, aged ; Mr. Harman's Wonder, ag ,, d ; Mr. Stirling's The Comptrr,ller, 3 3rs ; Air, Jenkins's Kate Kearney, 6 yrs ; Mr. Hornsby's Revoke, 5 yrs ; Mr. 13alchin's Clematis, 4 yrs ; Mr. Coleman's Ch, mist, 6 yrs ; Mr. Cole man's Carlos, 4 yrs ; Hon. J. Sandilands' Easingwold, 5 yrs ; Hon. J. Sandiland's Moleskin, 4 yrs ; Mr. S, Scott's Wind sor, 3 yrs ; Mr. Wright's Folly, 4 yrs ; Captain Gardner's Ben Brace. 3 yrs ; and Sir G. Clifton's Playfellow, 3 yrs. The Military Hurdle Race Sweepstakes did not fill. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. . GOODWOOD, 1841. Handicap for the Goodwoed Stakes of 25 son. each, 15 ft., and 5 only if declared on or before Tuesday next ; the winner of the Gloucestershire or Sonsersetsh,re Stakes, or of the Liverpool July Cup, slbs extra ; of any twc of those Stakes 71bs extra. Cup Course. St. Francis, 6 yrs, lOst 61b ; Hyllus , 5 yrs, lOst 216; Beg garman, 6 yrs, lOst 21b ; Charles the Twelfth, 5 yrs, lOst 216 ; Epirus, aged, lOst ; mshury. 5 yrs, lOst ; Caravan, aged, 9st 101 b ; Clarion, 5 yrs, 9st 6lb ; Sleight-of-Hand, 5 yrs, 9st 61b ; Little Won.ter, 4 yrs, 9st, 61b; Maroon, 4 yrs, 9st 61b ; Arctic. aged, 9st 21b; Retriever, 5 yrs, 9st;. Bulwark. 5 yrs, 9st ; The Lord Mayor, 5 yrs, 9st ; Isaac, aged, 9st ; Roscius, 5 yrs, 9,t ; Warden, 4 yrs, 9st ; Calypso, 4 yrs, 9st; Crui skeen, aged, Bst 131 b ; Tuhalcaln, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b ; The Poten tate, aged, Bst 131 b; Tamburini, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b; The Currier, 5 yrs, 6st 10lb ; Fitzroy, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib ; Bellona, 6 yrs, tst 101 b ; Pocahontas, 4 yrs. Bst 101 b; Zohrab, aged, Bst 101 b ; Melody colt, 4 yrs, Bst - 101 b ; Bedford, 5 yrs, Bst 81b ; Welfare, 4 yrs, Bst 71b ; The Corsair, 5 yrs, Bst 61b ; Jenny Jones, 5 yrs, Bst 61b ! Ruby, aged, Bst 61b; George, 6 yrs, Bst 51b ; Chit Chat, Aged, Bst sth ; Ararat, 5 yrs, Bst Sib ; Stickler, aged, Bst 51h; Modesty, aged, Sat 51b; Orelia, 6 yrs, Bst 31b ; Interlude, 4 yrs, Bst 3lb ; Dr. Caius, 4 yrs, Bst 2lb ; Mayboy, 4 yrs, Bst 21b; Broadwath. 4 yrs, bst lib; Black Bess, 4 yrs, Sat Ilb ; Benjamin, 4 yrs, Bst , Confusionee, 5 yrs, Bst ; Vulcan, 4 yrs, Bet ; Lady Liverpool, 4 yrs, Bst ; Colchi cum, 5 yrs, Bst ; 10, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b ; 13elissime, 6 yrs, 7st 1311); The Skater, aged, 7st 13th ; Ratsbone, 6 yrs, 7st 131 b ; Black Beck, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b ; Naworth, 4 yrs, Ist 131 b ; Caenby, 4 yrs, 7st 1216 ; Master Joshua, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b : Vapour, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ; The Jovial Bachelor, 4 yrs, ist 121 b ; Zoroa-ter, 5 yrs, 7st I Ilb ; .Recor,ier, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b ; Bos phorus, 5 yrs, ist 101 b ; Tearaway, 3 yrs, itt 10Ib; Monte ziana, 5 yrs, ist 101 b ; Fickle cult, 4 yrs, 7A - 101 b ; The Duke of Wellington, 3 yrs, 7st 10lb ; Cecilia c, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Mona, 4 yrs, 7st 91b ; Valaincourt, 5 y rs, 7st 91b ; E. 0., 3 yrs, Ist elb ; Chasseur, 4 vrs, 7st 81b; The Knight of the Whistle, 3 yrs. 7st Sib ; Adrian, 5 yrs, 7st Sib ; Mungo Parke, 4 yrs, ist 811) ; Adrian, aged, 7st 71b ; Chymist, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ; Pathfinder, 4 yr.>, 7st 71b; 1-am-not-aware, 6 yrs, 7st 71b; Auburn, 5 yrs, ist 71b Alolineux, 4 yrs, 7st 7lb ; The Un known, 4g-ed, 7st 61b ;. Belgrade, 3 y rs, 7st 61b ; Bracelet, 6 yrs, 7.st 61b Revoke, 5 yrs, Ist 61b ; Cantle, 4 yrs, Ist 51b ; Tim Young 'Un, 4 yrs, 7st 51b; The Ruler, 4 vrs, 7st 51b; Brother to Prizeflower, 5 yrs, 7st 41b ; Science, 5 yis, 7st 41b ; Una, 3 yi s, 7st 41b ; .Muletecr, 4 yrs, 7st 4ib ; Spangle, 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Champagne, 4 yrs, 7st 2lb ; Little Philip, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; Isatelta, 6 yrs, 7st 21b ; Monops, 4 yr=, ist `Jib ; Mobarek, 3 yrs, Ist 11b ; Mulciber, 4 vrs, ist; Quick silver, aged, 7st ; Darkness, 4 yrs, 7st ; Perseus, 4 Nrs, Ist ; Mustapha, 3 yrs, 7st ; Stork, 5 yrs, 6st 131 b ; Specimen, 5 yrs. Est 121 b ; The Maid, 4 yrs, Est 1 Ilb ; Exit, 4 yrs, Est Illb ; All Fours, 5 yrs, Est 11 lb ; Aspatria, 3 yrs, 6sti 1 Ilb ; Oakbrancb, 4 yrs, Est 101 b ; Half Caste, 4 yrs, Est Sib ; Ma-: rius, 3 yrs, fist 71b ; Wirrestrew, 5 yrs, 6st 71b ; Hrimbleton, 3 Est 71h ; Portrait, .3 yrs, Est 716 ; Master Tommy, h b, 4 yrs, 6st Ist ; Wanton, 4 ;Ts, fist 7lb ; Henri Quatre, 3 yrs, Est 41b ; Cambyses, 4 yrs, 6st 41b ; Carlotta, 4 yrs, 6st 41b ; Concertina, 3 yrs, 6st3lb ; Busk filly,4 yrs, 6st3lb ; Zelmyra, 4 yrs, 6st 211); Sister to Broadwath, 3 yrs, Est 21b ; Pluto, 5 yrs. 6st 21b ; Pelcrine, 3 yrs, Est 21b; Hull Bank, 3 yrs, - Est llb ; f by Sir Hercules out of Concordia's dam, 3 yrs, sst 12th ; Carlos, 5 yrs, sst 101 b ; c by Niuley Moloch's dam by Actaeon, 3 yrs, Sat 1011); Beelzebub, 4 yrs, hat 101 b ; Lady Georgina, (h b) 4 yrs. sst 71b ; Monsieur le Sage, 3 yrs, sst 71b ; Jessica, 3 yrs, sst 51b ; Huon, 3 yrs, sst 5b ; Whis perer, 3 yrs, sst 41b; Hugh', 3.yrs, sst 41b; Benedetta, 3 yrs, r•st ; Brother to Phosphorus, 3 yrs, Lat ; La Gilt tna, 3 yrs, Sat ; Mi s s Nowell, 3 yrs, a feather ; Sultana filly, 3 yrs, a feather; Confederate, 4, yrs, and Domino, 5 yrs, paid. PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, AND CORNWALL, 11=41. Handicap for the Saliram Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, ar:d 5 only if declaieil by Tuesday next ; the winner of the De vonshire Stakes at Exeter this year or of any stake amount ing to 1501. after the publication of this 'handicap, 5 lbs extra. Wardan, 4 yrs, lOst 71b; Melody c, 4 yrs, lOst Sib; Con federa'e, 4 yrs, lOst 11b; Jenny Jones, b yrs, 9st 131 b; Lions, 4 vrs, 9st ; Cracksman (h b), 5 yrs, 9st ; Master Tommy (h b), 4 yrs, Bat I llb ; 4ecimen, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Motarek, 3 yrs, Bst 10Ib ; Pelerine, 3 yrs. Bst 101 b; Stork, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; Pergamus, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; Pluto, 5 yrs, Bst 7lb ; Stickler, aged (h b) Bst 131 b ; Passport, 6 rs, Bst llb ; Au burn, 5 y,s, Bst. 11b; Adrian, aged, est. ; bl g, by Logic. out of Martha, 5 yrs, Bst ; Hambleton, 3 yrs, est ; Variety, 4 vrs, t 13Th ; Sultana filly, 3 yrs, ist I Ilb ; The Juwes , , 4 yrs, Est 71b; Abracadabra, 4 yrs. Est ; Cerito, 4 yrs, bst 101 b. WORCESTER, 1841 Acceptances for the Worcester hire Stakes :—Modesty, 6 yrs, Bst 71b; Retriever, 5 yrs, Bst 11h; Fat Jack, aged, Bst; Ernest the First, b yrs, rat 121 b ; Jenny Jones, 5 yrs, 7st I Ilb ; Dunstan, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b; Hautboy, 4 yrs, 7 , t 61b; Melodrame, 6 yrs, 7:4 61b; Marialva, 4 yr , , 7rt 41b ; Nluleiber, 4 yri. 7st ; Busk filly, 4 yrs, tilt 61b ; and bl c by Camel, dam by Peter Lely, 4 yrs, Est. DANGEROUS STATE OF BATTERSEA BRIDGE.-At a Court of Conservancy held before the Lord Mayor and other City Authorities, at the Toen-hall, South wark, on Saturday, after swearing in the Jury for the Conser vancy of the Sprrey side of the Thames, the Recorder, after alluding to the antiquity of his office, and its duty in the pre vention of obstructtoni in the Thames, bitterly complained of the loss of life, which had in many cases attended steam com munication. But few weeks had elapsed since a serious acci dent had occurred at Battersea-bridge, which was proved, upon an inquiry being instituted before a Coroner's Jury, to have originated from the manner in which Battersea-bridge was built, the obstructions from the starlings, and the lowness of the arches at high water, preventing a vessel of any size going through any but the centre arch. At Rackiriar's-bridge, also, a very considerable nuisance existed, arising from a number of barges being moored so closely to the arches as to prevent a free passage up and down the river. The Jury subsequently pro ceeded up the river in the city barge, to personally view these nuisances, so as to enable them to make a presentation at the next Court day on the subject. From the remarks of the Re corder, it is expected that Battersea-bridge will be pulled down. and a new one erected in its place. _ WATERLOO DAY —A grand review will take place in Hyde Park on Friday next, in commemoration of the battle of Waterloo. 'I he 11th, or Prince Albert's Hussars, are coming up from Hounslow, to assist at the spectacle; and it is expected to be the most splendid review which has been wit nessed for some years past. Sunday next, the 20th instant, is the anniver versary of the accession of our beloved Queen Victoria, and and the following day the anniversary of the proclamation. About eight o'clock, last night, a riot of a dis graceful kind took place in the Gallowgate, which, for a time seriously endangered the . peace of the city. A soldier having been guilty of disorderly conduct, a police man took him into custody ; but no sooner was he in charge, than a number of his companions, and some labourers, came to the rescue, while the policeman was joined by a brother officer, and a substitute. Blows were severely struck by the soldiers and labourers, and while the policeman was down, he received a severe wound be low the eye from a kick, and the substitute was injured to the effusion of his blood. That which makes the mat ter worse is, that the soldiers were headed by a Sergeant, and tiley eventually succeeded in deforcing the officers and liberating the prisoner. All, or the greater part of the men who acted the principal part in this affray, belong„ we believe, to the 29th Regiment, now in the Infantry B.trracks, and we learn that they were subse sequently confined in the guard-house, from which they will likely be' taken this morning to the Police-court.— Glasgow Herabl. It is only necessary to grow old to become more ‘dulgerit. I Fee no fault committed that I have not coin t, d myself.— Goethe. Reuitorcements for India will commence leaving Chatham dot hig the pEeFent month. The total number of tro. p a to be embark,n ter the three Presidencies will average about t3OO. Detachments to about the same extent also pro , teed direct to China in addition.-- United Service Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNES:DAY, JUNE te, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Rectory, Feniton, June 11, 1841. SIR—I have seen in the newspapers a long account o!' the Bishop of Chester's Charge to his Clergy. I beg leave to observe, in the first place, that the Gospel which is there preached is “. no Gospel at all," (to borrow his Lordship's phrase ;) and in the second place, that his Lordship would be a much more faithful Minister if he were as zealous for nforming as he seems to be for extending the Church. _ . I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, 11. E. HEAD. " fly one way alone (his Lordship is reported to have said) can man propitiate the Son, and that is by believing on him His faith in this atonement wnich leads to his acceptance," &c., &c. With all due respect to the Bishop of Chester—man cannot " propitiate the 5.,n," either by " believing on him," or by anything else. '1 he doctrine of Scripture, and of the Thirty nine Ankles, (which the Bishop of Chester does not seem to understand any more than the r st cf his Right Reverend Bre thren,) is, that the Divine Saviour saves and regenerates the clidthesi of promise of his own free grace ; and thin "believing " is the effect (and not the cause) of tlrs salvoion. What his Lordship preaches, if one may judge from this " Charge" is, a more plausible kind of Posejd-m, or Popery. The eirors in the Confirmation Sei vice, which are couiitenanced is this Chari,e, may seem light in the eye. of the 'r Lordships the Bisho, s ; but they arse far from being light in the eyes of him who warns us nut to " tea,h things which we ought not for filthy lucre's s. ke " I am far from imputing what are usually cal ed sordid motives to the Bishop of Chester. I only assert that principles entirely subversive of the Gospel, and contrary to it, are to be tound, as well in his Lord ship s Charge, as in the Confirmation Service which he up holds. The Puseyitcs speak of " reserve," in preaching the doctrine of the Atonement. The truth is,—they do not under stand it. And this remark equally applies to the Bishop of Chester—if the repor:.'of his Lordship's Charge (which occu pies three columns of the Record newspaper) be eon's et. H. E. HEAD. THE FLESH LUSTETH AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINT THE FLESH.-GAL. v. 17. By H. E. HEAD, A.M., Rector of Feniton. This conflict is not experienced by unregenerate men. It is not, the working or counterworking of feelings merely natu rat It is not produced by one corrupt propensity waning against another. Pharoah, for example, wished to lord it over Israel ; but feared lest Egypt should be destroyed. lialaam wished for the rewards of divination ; but feared the loss of character as a seer of the visions of the Almighty. Ungodly men in all ages wish to give the rein to lawless passion; but fear some temporal calamity. All these cases are quite dis tinct from the conflict between the flesh a n d THE S PIRIT . I. By whom is this conflict experienced? By the children of pi omise, Ito. ix. 8, the heirS . rif salvation, Ileb. i. 14, the seed of God, Hos. i. 4, whose names are written in the book of life, who are chosen in Christ before the foundation of the Eph. i. 4, by the children of God, in short, whose pe culiar distinction it is that the Spirit in due time enters their hearts, Gal. iv. 6, in order to contend against the flesh, and to save them, 1 John iv. 4, from p er i s hi ng i n i ts corrupt i on. This affords an answer to the questicn 11. Who are the contending parties in this conflict ? The flesh and THE SPIRIT. The flesh is the entire nature with its affections, as well as its lusts, which we derive from Adam, and which we bring with us into the world. Its thoughts are only evil continually, Gen. vi. 5. It brings forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolemess, Matt. xv. 19. Though it may some t.mes wear a plausible or pleasing aspect—in reality, it is the enemy of Got, and cannot please God, Ro. viii. 8. Therefore the thir. teenth article testifies of all works done previously to regene ration, that they are not pleasing to God, that they are not performed on the principle of evangelical obedience, and that they partake of the nature of sin. Therefore our Lord declares that those who continue unn-generate shall bo at length stripped of their apparent goodness, and that that which they seem to have shalt be taken from them, Matt. xiii. 12. The other contendir e , part is " THE Sen t ur," that is, the divine nature, 2 Peter i. 4, the second Adam, the eternal God from heaven, 1 Cor. xv. 47, to whom the regenerate soul is united as one Spirit, 1 Cor. vi. 17, " very and eternal God." Article 5. The term " the Spirit" in such passages, does not indicate anything inherent in the natural man —nor, on the other hand, does it indicate the Third Person in the Deity, to the exclusion ef the other two; but rather Deity in gene ral, as contradistinguished from '5 the flesh." The divine union of the regenerate soul with God is expressed variously. For example—" If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in yt-u, he, &c., Ro. viii. 11 2 • Christ liveth in me, Gal. ii. 20; know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? 1 Cor. vi. 19. The peculiar operation of the PA RA CLETE is not the point un der consideration at present. Suffice it to remember that the Triune God is signified by " the Spirit," the combatant who was against the flesh, John iii. 6, iv. 24. 111. Who is the victor in this conflict ? This question surely is quite unnecessary. For if the eternal God he one of the contending parties, who or what can possibly prevail against that ? ‘..0 then, if that be the case, the heirs of . salvation may fall asleep! They may do next to nothing, or nothing, or worse than nothing ! They are sure to be saved, let them do what they will !" To this very shallow but not very new method, Ro. iii. 8, of raising objections to truth—the answer is clear and obvi ,, us. God will not suffer the heirs of salvaion to fall asleep. Or •if they do, In will take care to awaken them. Sampson, if he had been left. to himself, would have been a perfect slave to Satan. But the Spirit of the Lord, in spite of his corrupt nature, ever and anon came mightily upon him, so that the enemies of holiness quaked for fear. the great Elijah would have despaired. clad he been left to himself he never would have arisen from that juniper tree. But the Angel of the Lord came to the desponding Prophet, and con streined him by a touch to walk forty days and forty nights without food or rest. The prophet Isaiah was for cutting short the theme of inspiration with a " Woe is me, for I am undone !" But the grand perspective of eternity was spread before his passive sight ; and he became a pen in the hand of the Almighty. Ihe prophet Daniel was stretched on his bed ) and there no doubt he would have fallen asleep. But lie was constrained to behold the mystical beast—and to write what he had beheld with feelings of the deepest awe. The hi:id of the Lord is net shortened : nor do his children need that helping hand now less than, formerly. So that when they would give way to the carnal nature which works within them, the Spirit of the Lord comes mightily upon them, and in despite of sin, sloth, sorrow, and despondence, stirs them tip to enterprise, and se:f denial—or sets before them pro phetic visions, causing their minds to understand, and their hearts to delight in the things which the prophets have spoken John xvi. 13. In this sense we may understand St. Paul's words—lf the Spirit of him that raised ep Jesus from the dead dwell in you &c. Ito. viii. 11, so as to constrain you to render your mem bers instruments of righteousness unto God. Ro. vi. If we content ourselves with anything short of this doctrine of the divine Saviour's quickening and preventing power, expressly, effectually, and perpetually exerted for our benefit—we throw ourselves back upon our miserable works, into a worse position than that of Adam before his fall—we make the word of'God of none effect, and grace is no more grace, Ro. xi. 6. In short— if it be objected to the security and perseverance of the saints that "the flesh lusteth against the Spirit"—be it also remem bered (and blessed be God fir the expression—for it contains the et.ergy of the Gospel !) that " THE SPIRIT CONTENDS AGAINST TIIE FLESH." Hence they are already said to be ,nore than conquerors. Ro. vii. 25 ; viii. 37 ; 1 John v. 5. Conquerors they are, and conquerors they always shall be— unless you can prove man to be a more powerful combatant than God. 1 Cor. xv. 57 ; 1 John iv. 4. IV. This conflict (belt g the certain effect and token of eternal life and salvation in those who experience it)—to what is it to be attributed—on what foundation does it rest? It is to be attributed to the eternal election of the Father. iv. 6, audit is founded on the atonement of the blood of Christ —a d.,x;rine which shall be con%iitered in the next tract. V. 'The effect produced by this conflict in the children of God, is—" bitterness and sweetness." Rev. x 10. The " bitterness" arises from an experimental acquaintance with original and actual sin. Ezek. xxxvi. 31—the ‘• sweetness" from an adequate estimate of the length, breadth, depth, • and height of the love of the Saviour, Eph. iii. 18, which causes them to sing —O how sweet are thy words unto my throat ! Ps. cxix. VI. The prize of this conflict is, that when Christ shall ap pear, the Sons of God shall be like him. 1 John iii. 2. The greatest of :hem can hardly have more than this, and the least shall eertainly not have less. ELECTION' MOVEMEN TS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) • GLOUCESTER, MONDAY EVENING. —A requisition, nume rously and respectably signed, was last week presented to H. H. Carter; Esq., Mayor, requesting him to convene a meeting of the inhabitants, to express their opinion on the pro p ised repeal of the Corn-laws, and to forward the return of two Corn-law tepeale.s for this city at the ensuing election. In pursuance of which a meeting was appointed for one o'clock this day, to be holden in the Tolsey. 'I he Mayor was called to the chair, and shortly after the commencement of the pro ceedings the room was so densely crowded that an atijouin ment took place to the Shins flail, which was immediately tilled. Tho greatest unanimity prevailed, excellent speeches made, and resolutions condemnatory of the infamous Corn-laws unanimously carried. J. Phillputs, Esq., M. I'. for the city, was preser.t, and delivered an effective address in favour of total repeal. He is safe, and there is every prospect of the re turn of Captain Berkeley as his roleague. THC ELECTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Allow me to direct your attention to Brighton. A general election will soon take place, and it is wel known how matters stand there—that the Liberal party, united, is strong enough to carry triumphantly two Ilemhers ; but a fatal di vision in their ranks gave the Tories a chance of which they eagerly availed themselves, and the consequence is that Liberal Brighton is neutralised, the votes of their excellent Member Captain Pechell are nullified by the counter •votes of Sir A. Dalrymple. Well, is that division healed or not? If not, in the burning struggle we shall see ret•eated the unace , nintable scene, I do not wish to use strong language, of Liberals voting fir their bittetest enemies, the Chartists supporting the man who, on Mr. Duncombe's motion for the release of political of fenders, kept out of the way, who had. not the manliness to record his vote against him, but whose character is well enough shown by abstaining from voting. He owes his seat to the Chartists—his vote would have turned the scale, his seat yet depends on the support of the Chartists, he has thrown them overboard at a most important moment. Will they again com mit such a political ,uicide as would be involved in the act of supporting him ?—Your - s, &c. A LIBERAL. THE WEATHER.---NooN, JUNE 15. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAT DE-STREET. Barometer nermometer... 59 Highest 7O I Lowest ...... 52 Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. --- DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—About a quarter before three o'clock on Sunday morning last an alarming fire took place on the extensive premises belonzing to Messrs. Fairburn and Co., engineers and boiler-makers, situate near the river eer s ide at M 11-wall, Poplar, opposite Deptford Dockyard. It appeared to have commenced in the paint work s h op , a small wooden builchng detached from the main premises, and was nut extinguished until the pace was e n t irely burned dorm. Th e loss will fall on the -tin It surauce Office. At the time the fire wa, r Ming at Astley's Theatre on Tuesday morning - last, a no th er broke out in Church row, at a d Luk e's iunbove-ckuopfieSdth.uuse, thp Church,ropty m hick burnt with great fury for nearl y an h our , and wholly des- royed the premkses No. 5, n of the Ironmongers Company. An editor, out west, heads his list of marriageswi •., Asse items ;" another calls them " feats of the ring," The hay halseat has commenced in this neigh bourhood, several fields having been cut and ca rr i e d off in prbne condition, during the week. The crops in ge neral are very abundant, promising more than an ave rage yield. There is ever prospect of a fine harvest, both as regards quantity and quality.---Carmarthen Paper. NEW AND HORRIBLE ATTEMPT ON THE 'LIFE OF THE DUKE OF NORMAN DY, SECOND SON OF LOUIS XVI. AND MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. About four weeks ago this unfortunate Prince was officially informed that his life was in' danger ; but strong in his confi dence in the Almi g hty, h e contented himself by replying that he would make intimation ofit to the police. According to his cus t om, he went to town upon the business of hit new invention, and returned to his residence in the country, where for some time past he had established his laboratory or workshop, for the manufacture of certain military arms. We have already given accounts in our papers of the 4tli lab, and 18th of April of his new and formidable projectile, submitted to the inspection of a committee of superior officers at Woolwich, at the same time specifying that the committee had sent to the Prince twelve thirty-two pounder bombs, and at his desire, another eighty-two pounder, that so, he might, on a large:. scale, exercise the full powers of his invention upon- 'them. During the time that his alai Highness was engaged in making the necessary pt eparations. for this . purl 0 various agents, hired by the Prince's political enemies, and suitably disgu s d, after bribing the servants, fraudulently introduced themselves into his house while he was absent, though they but imperfectly succeeded in their diabolical oject 3he Prince always works secretly, and these wretches, having won over the fidelity of his domestic), found their way, by that means, into the laboratory. The Prince. on his re turn, &covered nothing, except noticing that a key, similar to his own, hail been lett in the house ; whereupon he repeated his severest injunctions' against any person, on any pretext, being admiqed into the house, and discharged forthwith the suspected servant. Th e d ay f ol lowing, the Prince, having re turned from the c.ty, to adjitst a piece of mechenism for his preparative trial, was thus Occupied, when fire (the prepared material of which had evidently been coneeyed into the room during his absence, and concealed in .a heap of combustibles) suddenly blazed out from a corner of the apartment. In less than three seconds, the entire room was in flames; unfortu nately he had left, near the window, a small barrel full of it.flammable ingredients,. an I which formed a component of his Royal Highness's invention. The Prince, terrified at danger so imminent, sprang into the midst of the fire to snatch away the barrel that he might hurl it through the window ; but at this moment, the stuff it contained ignited, and the explosion was inevitable. Although the barrel was already lifted to the window, by which alone the exp'osion became less perilous the Prince's Lice was dreadfully burnt, his left hsnd cruelly injured, and almost shattered, and his right terribly burnt. The Prince then beheld himself surrounded by flames, through which he was compelled to rush to make his escape by the door; scarcely, however, was he out of danger when he remembered that, in the same room, in a corner to the right, he had left the machine destined to be tr.:et! at Woolwich. which was his only hope, and on which he had ,acrificed his last resources. Seizing water in haste, he threw himself anew into the flames, fighting against them, and an almost certain death, with the courage of a lion. His shirt caught fire and scorched and lacerated his body. By means of tno other measures of water, he at last succeeded in extin gu shieg the fire, unaided by any other person. The Prince has wade a representation to the police, and furnished them with such necessary clues as shall lead to the discovery t.f the authors of this atrociaus;:ct. Justice awaits them —her eye is already upon certain individuals known to have been, on more occasions than one, guilty of other conspii acies against the unfortunate son of Louis X VI. Let us hope that this time the criminals, whosoever they may be, will not escape the im partial justice of our couctty. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. SPANISH SWINDLERS. The soi-disant Marquis d'Albora and Chevalier Joseph Speroni, of whose condemnatitin by default, on the 26th nit., by the Correctional Tribunal of Blois, we have given an account., having moved in arrest of judgment, were again brought before the same tribunal on the 4th inst., to undergo a full trial, and as the summary of the in dictment, as given by the public prosecutor at the hear ing, furnished us with fuller details of the extraordinary and eventful career of these adventurers than we were before in possession of, we return to the subject. D'Albora is a tine man, tall in stature, with a martial air, and a remarkably quick and brilliant eve. He was dressed in black, and conducted himself with confident assurance, but without insolence. His associate, Speroni, on the con trary, was the very type of our friend Bertrand, the huinole attendant of the notorious Robert Macaire. Among the articles brought into court to be produced in evidence, was a splendid uniform, richly embroidered with silver, and a cross of the order of San Fernando. From the statement of the substitute of the Procureur du Rui, we collect the following facts:—D'Albora was born at Genoa, in 1788. In 1812, lie was a lieutenant in the trench Imperial Guard, but in that year deserted, and was admitted by' the Junta of Cadiz as a captain in the Arragon Hussars. Here he remained till 1814. when he was arrested, and confined in the castle of Badajoz. Being released by the amnesty of 1814, he was, in June, 1815, admitted into the King of Spain's Dragoons ; but in 1816, in consequence of Isis vicious conduct, he was discharged from the regiment, and sent out of the country. In the year 1819 he appeared in Paris, and for. the first time assumed the title of. Marquis, and the military rank of colonel. In December, 1819, he was a prisoner of state in Ivree, and in 1823 in the fort of Saint Charles, at Fenestrelle. Front 1824 to 1828 he was travelling at Jerusalem, Napoli de Rumania, Alexandria, •Beyruth, Samos, and Smyrna. He pretends that during this pe riod he was serving under General Fabvier, but this officer deities any knowledge of him. In 1828 he returned to Genoa, and in December of the same year he received a passport for America. At the same time the Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affairs I wrote to his Consul at Bordeaux, warning him that D'Albora was no marquis, but a man of bad and immo ral character. In 1829 he fell in at the Havannah with Speroni, who was his fellow countryman, and was sent by his friends out of Sardinia to save him from the con sequences of some political delinquency. From this time the two have been inseparable. In March, in 1830, they were at New Orleans, whence they went to Chiapas, in Mexico, under pretence of serving against the Spanish expedition then in preparation. At I'arisapa, being taken for a spy in the service of Spain, he was assailed by the populace, and so severely treated that he lost his right hand, which was carried in triumph through the streets. Being rescued at last, he went to Tonald, where he obtained letters of introduction to Santa Anna, and went to Mexico to solicit means to go into Greece to join, as he stated, his old companions in arms, in fighting for her freedom. In this it appears he failed, as in June, 1831, D'Albora and Speroni embarked at Vera Cruz for Bordeaux, where they arrived the following August. Here they contrived to delude and obtain from the Sardinian Consul a certificate that they were po litical refugees, and there upon received the Government allowance of three francs a-clay. They went to reside at Moulins, where D'Albora was admitted into the first society, and excited great interest, by affirming that he lost his hand in fighting for the Polish revolu tion. In 1832, D'Albora obtained permission to come to Paris with Isis Fidus Achates, and for a time made a great display of fortune ; but at length it was ascer tained that they lived by swindling, and in May, 1833, they received orders to quit the capital. In July they embarked at Calais for England. How they contrived to live there is not known ; but in March, 1834, a passport was granted to Colonel the Marquis I)'Albort, as a native of Corfu, but a subject of tis Britannic Majesty, to go to. Spain through France. They, how ever, took a Circuitous route, and went by America. At Philadelphia, the soi-disant Marquis took the first steps fur becoming a citizen of the United States. At New York he proclaimed a resolution to go to Texas, and lend his aid in maintaining its indepen dence ; and was artful enough to obtain letters o 1 -re commendation to that country front several Atherican Generals of celebrity and influence. D'Albora and Speroni, however, did not avail themselves of them ; for they stopped at New Orleans, thence went to visit. Charlestown, and afterwards traversed the island of Porto Rico, in every direction. In November, 1836, they embarked at Cabo Rojo ; and • having, in February, 1837, reached Gibraltar, afterwards visited Cadiz and Seville, where they were again stopped and sent back to Gibraltar. They next made their way over to Algiers, where they at first were well received, and allowed rations ; but were soon de tected, and made off to Toulon, and thence to Marseilles, where D'Aloora, by assuming the - character of an Ame rican, procured from the Consul of that country a. pass port for Spain, which enabled him and his companion to reach Madrid. Being once more routed out, they again went to England. At the close of 1838, being at Portsmouth. the captain of a French ehasse-maree agreed to take them on board, and on the 2d 'ld unary, 1839, the vessel was driven, by stress of wea ther, into a matt port on the coast of Finisterre. From this moment D'Albora began to perform a new charac ter, and declared himself to be a Spanish refugee colonel in the service of Don Carlos, and a devoted victim to that Prince's cause, having, be said, made great sacrifices to it of advantages arising from his birth as the son of a Viceroy of Peru, a Knight of the Order of San Fer nando, and other higL distinctions, assuming all th e haughty demeanour of a Castilian grandee, and thus presenting himself at Archbishops' palaces, Noblemen's chateaux, and other elevated mansions.. He received large contributions, but uniformly through the medium of his confederate Speroni, who every where appeared thep place, gave howei'er, as his nephew. Thus, he found hiinself installed for weeks at a time in the first houses at Morl a i x , C aen , he D star a u found his L Lille, at the which lastwane, as him an order to leave France. Not many months afterwards, he made his re-appearance in Brittany, where he married the girl Victorine, who, dazzled by the title of Marchioness, followed his fortunes till his arrest at Blois, where, as we have stated, she was involved in the prosecution, but, having shown that she was an innocent dupe, was acquitted. Having, in his last excursion, run through Belgium, Cologn e , iw yenee, Manheim, Cassell, Altona, and Hamburgh, he once more re-entered France, and, in August last, was at Rouen, where he formed even more brilliant connections than before. The Duke de Crillon not only supplied him with money, but permitted him to bury in his own family vault a child, of which the unfortunate Victorine Was delivered at Altona. Many other legitimists lent their aid to the support of his establishment, in commisseration of his sufferings, as they believed, from his fidelity to his rightful king. At lust lie reached the end o f his present career. Leaving Rotten for Bordeaux, they passed through Paris, and arrived at Orleans, wher e a col lection to a considerable amount was made for them on the faith of the letters they Drought, but, on reaching Blois, this stupendous bubble burst, and th ey were all arrested as they were entering the diligence to go to T ttiinsg sub ordinate in. N unimpeachable docunren wellts. ours. D'Albora, with his wonted assurance, maint a i ne d as Hi thes a e t t of m l s though his identity as marquis and colonel, and denied every point that made against him, but all his allegatio ns were unsupported by evidence, and most of them contradi c t e d by ormandy, and the other parts of France, were p rove d by personal witnesses, as ordinate complicity of Speroni. The Tribunal- conse bora to be imprisoned for two years , and Speroni for one. quently declared them both guilty , and cond emned D'Al- 1:, carried on since ssrs. John Heron FAILURE --- WIG A LARGE I: h e e e n fa a il s u t r o e p stoppage here ir of Thomasthe Sovereign n b y l% I N i l i and Co. A meaingof creditors is called, and proposals will be made to resume work. Their liabilities are reckoned up s‘ards of 100,0001. Numters of poor people are thus thrown out of employment, and some banks will, it is feared, be large suffrrers. IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 15. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. Lord ROLLE presented a petition from Devonshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. The Duke of RUTLAND presented petitions from Leicestershire and other places, praying that no altera tion be made in the present Corn-laws. The Insolvent Debtor's(Yreland) Bill went through Committee. The Metropolis Improvement Bill was real a second time. Lord DUNCANNON said the object of the Bill was to enable the Commission to raise monies on certain Crown property in • Middlesex rather than to issue Ex chequer Bills. Several Bills were forwarded a stage. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a eetition against the Poor-law Bill ; also petitions from Yorkshire that no alteration be made in the Corn-laws. The Earl of RAI)NOE said he should'present a pe tition on Thursday with respect to the Poor-law Bill, from certain operatives in Manchester, and he should call their Lordships' particular attention to it. Lord WHARNCLIFFE laid on the table a Bill for the amendment of the Marriage Act, especially with respect to the clause which related to marriages in cer tain degrees of affinity. • The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition from Kilkenny against the Corn-laws. Lord BEAT MONT presented a petition to the same effect. The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from the seven Ministers of Strathbogie who have been suspended from their offices. The Noble Earl re marked very strongly on the case of the petitioners, who, he said, had been suspended from their offices fur the sole crime of acting- up to the laws of their country. He had known several of these gentlemen, and knew them to be amongst the most exemplary and orthodox ministers existing in the Church of Scotland. The case of these gentlemen had excited a strong feel ing in the Minds of the people of Scotland. Meetings were held, and they came to resolutions reprobat ing the treatment of these gentlemen. He (the Earl of Aberdeen) thought the tyranny towards those gentlemen was never surpassed by the Church of Rome in its greatest presumption. Viscount MELBOURNE said he regretted the pi esent state of the Scottish Church, but he was not prepared to admit that that state of things could be attributed to any remissness on the part of the Government ; the Government were determined to enforce the law of the land, and he had no doubt that the Lord Advocate had done all that it was his duty to do.—(Hear, hear.) The Earl of HADDINGTON said the General As sembly had appointed a sort of roving Commission, with authority over five Presbyteries, and had given them power to frame whatcv?r rules and regulations as to matter of ecclesiastical discipline, and otherwise, as they might think fit. What would any Right Rev. Prelate say to that ? 'He contended that such perversion of power, was gross illegality. The Marquis ofNORMANBY said that instructions had been conveyed to the Lord Advocate to take steps whenever he thought proper, and as he had not done so on the present, occasion, he must have thought it unne- cessary._ The Marquis of BREADALBANE complained of the strongilanguage employed by the Noble Earl (Hadding ton), and of the one-sided view of the question which he took. cHe (the Marquis of Breadalbane) deprecated any interference on the part of the Government. The - Duke of ARGYLL made some observations, which were inaudible in the gallery. Lord BROUGHAM said the Court of Session of Scotland had determined this question, but the Presby t?ry had applied to the House of Lords, and it had been _ _ most ably argued and fully considered. Their Lordships were ably assisted by the law Lords ; and they had also come to a clear decision, confirming the opinirn of the Court of Session. This decision, however, had not been obeyed. He, for one, would never permit the powers of the highest Court of Judicature to be infringed upon. Viscount MELBOURNE said that nothing could be further from his intention, than giving anything like en couragement to thma who had neglected the law in Scotland. It was their intention to execute the law, but the General Assembly had not done that which it had been contended they had a right to do. If they had - done so there was the law as a remedy. The Go vyrnment considered that the best way of executing the laW was for it to execute itself. Lord BROUGHAM never meant to say that it was the intention of the Government to give encouragement to violators of the law. What he had stated was that he intention was one thing and the tendency was nother. Lord BELIIAVEN thought that if the question could be tried on the presentation of individuals on the the deposition of those individuals, it would be the best way to settle the question. After a few words from the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Argyll, and the Lord Chancellor, the subject dropped. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition from the Agricultural Association of Essex praying that no alteration be made in the present Corn-laws. .Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Devonport in favour of the Jews Declaration Bill. Also a petition from Pontefract cand other places in favour of the measure in troduced by her Majesty's Government. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. .The LOED CHANCELLOR said the object of this Bill was to secure to the poor the benefit of The Bill proposed to do this in two ways. It was to save the expense whenever trustees were appointed. 'When new trustees were appointed, of necessity there would be a transfer of the property to those trustees. When that happened—and it continually happened—considerable expense was thrown on the trust fund. A deed had to be drawn—an attorney to be employed--the stamp duty paid. In small charities this was a great hurthen. The object of the present enactment was, that whenever such event. 4 as these should happen, the property shall be vested in the remaining trustees ipse facto by their ap pointment, with power to make up their number. The other object of the Bill was not a question of expense ; it was a question of total denial. The words in the Mu nicipal Act were that " all the estate, interest, and title which at that time existed in the Corporation or any individual holding it for the Corporation shall on the Ist day of August 1836; and from and after that. cease and determine." That is that from and after that time, the Lord Chancellor must be applied to to make such order as he shall think fit. The Noble and Learned Lord concluded by moving that the Bill be then read a second time. Lord LYNDHURST opposed the Bill. He thought that a Bill of this description ought not to have been in troduced at this late period of the session, more particu larly considering the state of the two Houses of Parliament. The object. of this Bill was to confirm and complete the title of those trusts which had passed under the Municipal Act. He would state one circumstance, which was, that a great number of these trustees consisted of Dissenters from the Church of England, and a great part of the property to which these trusts referred consisted of estates vested in the Church of England, a great many of them were ad vowsons, and this was the reason why he called on their Lordships not to confirm their title. He would refer them to the Corporation of Bristol. The trustees of the charities there only contained eleven mem bers of the Church of England. There were a great number of estates which were ob viously granted for members of the Church of England, and amongst. the property was these advmv sons, and Dissenters had a right to present to livings. This was nit guarded against in the Municip a l R e f orm Bill. In the Irish Corporation Bill it did so. In that Bill it was provided that no person should interfere with the presentation of livings who was not a member of the Church of England. It was for this he objected to the Bill. He thought, under all the circumstances, that it ought not to be brought forward at this period of the Session, and that it ought not to be brought forward under any circumstances without being first referred to a Select Committee. He, therefore, moved that the Bill be read a second time that day three months. Lord 131.101.11{GAM said he was quite astonished that his Noble Friend should take this objection, on such a ground. If this Bill was thrown out, they put into abey ance much of the property of thig country belonging to the poor. He fully expecte,d . ;his Noble Friend to h ave concluded by moving theitisertion of a clause with re- „ spect to advowsorm. But he (Lord Brougham) could not see what danger there would be even if it were to happen that Dissenters in some corporations should have Church patronage. There was nothing in the law of this country which prevented Dissenters from holding advowsons. It frequently happened. Jews may hold them. They were rate-payers. The Noble Lord seemed to conclude, that because they were Dissenters, they would present Dissenters to the livings. The Earl of WARWICK opposed the Bill. LOrd LYNDHURST explained. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said, that as Parliament would meet again in - the course of two months, the in terests of the objects of the Bill would not be injured by its remaining for consideration till then, which he thought would give satisfaction to all parties. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that there had been as many various opinions on the construction of the Act as there had been persons who had given them. The Earl of RADNOR thought that the objection to Dissenters intermeddling with this property came with a peculiarly ill grace from the Noble Lord (Lyndhurst), who, when Chancellor, had been one of the principal supporters of the repeal of the Test and Corporation Laws ; thus, under the old municipal law, enabling Dis senters to become members of corporations, and giving them this very right with which he now objected to en- trust them. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and their Lordships divided, when there appeared— For Lord Lyndhurst's amendment 52 Against it Majority in favour of the amendment —26 The Bill was consequently lost. Their Lordships then adjourned at Half- past Eight o'Clock to Thursday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 13. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. The Lords amendments to the Totness Small Debts Bill, and the Wigan Small Debts Bill, were agr ee d to. I"assavant's Naturalization Bill was read a third time and passed. The Abingdon Road Bill was read a third time and passed. On the Order of the Day for bringin g up the Report of the St. Johns Hospital (NV inchester) Estat e Bill , Mr. LEADER opposed the Bill on th e ground that it would be a violation of private interests. The lessee of . this estate had been promised a renewal of his lease foF a term of 21 years, and that was all he asked . tor. He thought, moreover, the interests of the charity were nut promoted by selling MORNING EDITION. the property by private contract instead of by public com petition. No injury could arise from the postponement of the Bill until the next Parliament, which would meet in about a couple of months, and he trusted, therefOre; the House would not object to a motion for its recommittal. He should therefore move that the Bill be recommitted. Sir GRAHAM defended the Bill, and said the pur chase had been narrowly scrutinized, and was approved and sanctioned by the Court of Chancery. _ _ Mr. BRISCOE supported the motion. Sir E. SUGDEN said nothing was more absurd than to*talk of the tenant having an interest in this property. It appeared that he had nothing but a verbal promise of renewal of the lease, which was of no legal effect what- ever. • Sir DE LACY EVANS said an appeal was made to the House to confirm or annul any decisions. They were simply asked to allow a re-consideration of the question, in which he trusted they would consent. The House then divided— For the motion Against it Majority against the Motion... —57 The South Metropolitan Gas Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Lord MORPETH the Railway (Ireland) Bill was read a first time. On the motion of Wyk R. PEEL the Elections' Peti tions Trial Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER the Appropriation Bill was read a third time and passed. Colonel SALWEY wished to call the attention of the Under-Secretary of State to a matter which, though it had affected him personally, was also of some importance to the public. From time immemorial there had been a highway through Windsor Park leading from Staines to Reading ; but on Wednesday night last as he (Colonel Salwey) was passing through the Park in his carriage after ten o'clock, he kund the gate on the road closed, and on ordering it to'be opened, he was assailed with the most unmeasured abuse, and told that though he would be allowed to pass on that occasion, he had .no right to travel on the road after ten o'clock. Now, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State whether such conduct had been in any way authorised ? Mr. L. J. STANLEY said that the keeper had no authority to act as the Hon. Member had represented, and his conduct must have originated in some mistake, which he would take care to see rectified. The Militia Pay Bill was read a third time and passed. Messengers from the Lords brought down various Bills. 23 80 The Lords' Amendments to the Gourdon Harbour Bill were ageed to. The Lords amendments to the Stoke-upon-Trent Small Debts Bill, were agreed to. DISTRESS OF TB E COUNTRY. CORN-LAWS. On Mr. SCHOLEFIELD rising to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice on the subject of the distress so generally existing throughout the country, Mr. GODSON rose, and claimed precedence for the motion of which he had given notice relating to the peti tion of Edward Ki!bean Cox, as his motion related to a matter of privilege. The SPEAKER did not consider that the petition of Cox could be considered as relating to a question of pri vilege, and therefore the Hon. Member for Kiddermin ster could not bring on his motion out of its regular order. He therefore called upon Mr. Scholefield to proceed. Mr. SCHOLEFIELI) then rose to move the following resolution :—" That the extreme suffering of the indus trions classes, from want of employment, low wages, and high price of provisions, renders it the imperative duty of Parliament to devise means for the alleviation of the great misery which now pervades all the manu facturing districts of the country." The Hon. Member commenced his address in a very low tone of voice. We understood him to say that the House of Commons ap peared to him to be hardly aware that such a thing as distress existed in , the manufacturing districts. and those who were aware of the distress seemed to be totally ignorant of the cause. The pressure of taxa ion upon the industry of the country was the cause of t.iese sutferings. At the present time the manufitctur ins interest was in a most depressed state ; nearly all the markets in the world were, in a great measure, closed against them. The manufactures of many other coun tries were excelling those of England ; those of Ger many, for instance, excelled those of Sheffield. One pe culiar feature in the suffering which existed was that the condition of the middle classes was scarcely superior to that of the working classes—(Hear, hear, hear)—so low iaere the profits afforded by the varioua branches of ma nufacture. He begged to call the attention of. the House to the state of Birmingham at the present time. .The following documents bearing upon this subject were then read by the Hon. Member : " The condition of the inhabitants of Birmingham is more deplorable than ever. Cruel mortgagers are dis posing of property on which they have advanced money, for less than one-;.bird of its value, or rather, I should say, they are purchasin g buildings at th a t ra t e . I n consequence of trade being so bad, and levies, and taxes so high, mortgagers have not been able to be punctual in the pay ment of interest ; their property has been a d vert i se d to be sold, and no sale being practicable, a legal process has been gone through, and the property been transferred from the legitimate owner to the mortgagee, and this has been the case, lately, in a great many instances." " Trade is daily getting worse. Whilst the number of bankrupts is less, the number of insolvents is greater in all the manufacturing districts, and the poor debtors are crying Make room, the prison is too small for us.' • This was, actually the case. itL.Bir mingham only a few weeks ago, when the Commis sioners held a Court for the relief of insolvent debtors, and -those miserable mein have been sent forth into the world, pennyless, and nothing but•an alteration in trade can prevent .their conning to the workhouse. Alth oug h it was so recently emptied' of its inmates, there is a fresh • succession of unfortunate debtors, many of whom have lived respectably, and contributed largely by the pay ment of taxes and poor-rates to the benefit of tile commu nity, but whoare now about to perish in obscurity. . . " Tradesmen, with very few exceptions, are in jeopardy every hour. They apply to the pawn brokers in vain, for they have granted loans till they have no money to lend ; and the con sequence is, all the heads of families are in ill health, and medicine is of no avail. Dope deferred maketh the heart sick,' and one need not be skilled in physiognomy to be able to discover, by a man's counte nance, that he considers himself standing on a quicksand, and unless he is unexpectedly supported, that he must shortly sink."• Another class of extreme sufferers were those who were obliged to go to the pawnbrokers, and he had most painful evidence of that. The Hon. Member here read the following documents, in order to prove the distressed state of various parts of the country : "A list'of one week's pledges at one shop, containing 65 pledges, out of which only two lots exceeded 3s. each. Upwards of 30 pledges are gowns, shifts, women's petti coats, and children's froc!is ; the rest•areshawls, men's waistcoats, and jackets, a bed cover, a pillow, a wed ding ring, and other small articles, the whole averaging only ls. 9d. each in value. "'Birmingham contains 94 pawnbrokers, and if each lies 65 pledges per week, the weekly number of the town, of small pledges, not exceeding 3s. each, exceeds 6,000." A former statement sent him shews that the master ma nufacturers had so many goods in pawn, already, that the pawnbrokers are unable to find further money to ad vance upon them. As an instance of the great distress in Birming ham, he would refer to a letter that . had been written to a Clergyman of that town ; " A week has passed, and you have vouchsafed us no reply. Nine weeks have gone since the Committee con cluded its labours, reporting, that they had found above 40,000 individuals so miserable as to be grateful, —yes, humbly grateful—for a donation of less tnan tfd. per head per week. Nine weeks have passed since that re port ; trade during that period has actually grown worse, and nothing has been done ! no attempt has been made to relieve ! "We pray you to consider how ill such poverty brooks delay ; how many miseries and anxieties, crowding in each successive hour, have made each week an age. . Some victims of our neglect have, in that period, found refuge in the grave. No ministration of earthly comfort soothed their last mortal agony : the aid, for which affection yearned, a necessi tous poverty denied—they rest—but, to the living is left the undying regret—that the thousand appliances which might have restored health, or softened pain, were all denied. " The productions of every climate, tributary to our industry, and plastic to our skill, fill every store with the means of enjoyment, and yet, English poverty is as unequalled as English wealth. Workmen, with larg e families, are receivinm six to eleven shillings per wee k , and would be able, if they could work full time, to earn from 15s. to 30s. per wee k. How these families live and pay rent can only be answered by the poor creatures themselves. I know fortlihhe they hogs eane tdifferent obligedlitter tto crowds knowot f og e pt in places, called e a allnedddwellingsocfhaanot ll he ages,rfit s bothhlae are compelled to pass the night at the same time. Is not this enough to make Chartists ? Is not this enough to demoralize the people ? "At the Board of Guardians, yesterday, a young woman applied f or re li ef, whose husband had been three weeks in prison for a debt due for provisions ; he has nine weeks longer to remain ; himself and his wife are steady people ; they have two small children. The Guardians thought the woman appeared almost lost for want ; they allowed her three shillings, and two loaves, per week, • for nine weeks—not sufficient, after paying for lodgings, to keep body and soul together ! more could not be allowed to her, as levies are so high, and many persons who pay them stand in need of parochial relief. " Last week a young wife died in child-birth : her time was come, liut, for want of strength, she was not ab!e to bring forth—a physician was called in but his assistance was unavailing—he said, he had no doubt her death was occasioned by deficiency of nourishment." Now he had been told by an Honourable Baronet in that House that his rents were well paid—that he had never received them better. He (Mr. Scholefield) said that he thought he was a fortunate man, but at the same time he said that he thought if his tenants were tradesmen, they would have not been paid, because it was only by profits that their rents could be paid, and they were not mak ing any. A new state of things had now arisen, the people out of doors were taking a course of their own, they were adopting a plan which they thought best calculated for their own interest. He was at a town meeting some time ago, the ob ject of which was to petition the House of Com mons for a repeal of the Corn-laws, and the conclusion to which that meeting came was not to peti- i tion, because they felt convinced that the repeal of the Corn-laws would do them no good. A week after he was at a meeting at Sheffield, and there the same results followed ; there they r;:fused to petition for the repeal of the Corn-laws, because they considered it a delusion to tell them that that repeal would relieve their suffefinks. And at a late meeting at Liverpool of the Working Classes, the chairman said--- That the next speaker, Robert Jones, though a man ivell able to express his views on this great question, was unable to read, and he, the chairman, would therefore move the resolution for him— " That these laws, which wring from the wants of the poor, in order to support -a monopoly to the wealthy, are cruel, unchristian, mid unjust ; alike opposed to the word of God and the ,happiness of man." Robert Jones, in moving the adoption of this reso lution, said that, " like some hundreds, if, not thousands, of those present, all the property that he had in the world he had with him—all the estate that God and his father had left him on the earth, and that English land lords would allow him, he held up to them (holding up his hands). These were all his property -; and he found that in consequence of the Corn-laws, and other wicked laws, he was robbed of so much of the produce of his es tate that he and his children had to rise many a time from the table with half-filled 'bellies.—(Hear, hear.) This was not the cause of party or faction. It was the cause of the whole human family—it _was the cause of justice and truth—of, God, and of humanity ! A tax upon bread !—a tax upon life itself—a tax o l a the very existence-of the working man—a tax on eternal justice, and on the providence of God !—(Hear, hear.) God sent untaxed rain to water the - earth ; God brought untaxed corn out of the earth ; God had spread a boun tiful table for the whole family of man on the face of the earth—but man put his avaricious hand on the bread, and snatched it from the hungry lips of the people of England." The question on the minds of all those who were friends of humanity and justice was what under such circum stances was to be done. It was well known to the working, and to every other class of society, that there was abundance of wealth and property - in the country; - and the poorer classes were of opinion that they ought to be relieved es.st of the superfluities of the rich by the imposition of a p roperty tax. It might be asked rwhat motives induced him to bring forward his motion at the present period, when he knew it could not lead to any practical result ; but he could-assure the House that he felt himself compelled to call attention to the extreme misery and suffering of the working' classes. He con cluded by putting his motion in the hands of the Chair. Mr. WILLIAMS had not intended to take any part in the debate, but he was unfortunately too well acquainted with the misery and starvingcondition of the industrious classes of this country to allow him to-hesitate to second the motion. He was well aware, condemned as the House was to cease its existence at an early period, that no practical result could be arrived at, but still he thought it right that public attention should be fixed upon the sub ject. The cause of the distress of the millions of the pro ductive classes of this country was to be found in the ex- • cessive taxation imposed on them. ' More than half the wages of the working men were taken from them in taxes paid to the State, and they were taxed to nearly an equal amount by the landed aristocracy in the shape of Corn-laws and other taxes imposed on the necessaries of life. He believed that if an end -was not put to that state of things it would be impossible for them much longer to compete with foreign countries. Manufactures. were progressing in the United Stsites, in Switzerland, and in Germany, where the price of provisions scarcely exceeded one-half what they cost labourers of this country. He must say, however, that when he saw the propositio:is put forth by her Majesty's Government to relieve the people of the country front one of the most oppressive taxes to which they were subject—namely, the Corn-laws . —when he saw the manner in which the measure was rejected, it led him to believe that there was no feeling in the House to attbrd relief to the working classes. His lion. Friend came f rom a di s t r i c t th a t Was suffering in common- with every other portion of the country, and that suffering he (Mr. Williams) believed had been increasing during the last two years, and at the present moment there was no hope or expectation, that that suffering would cease. He was sorry to say that House by decisions, had produced a deep impres sion on the working-classes of the country. that they could hope for no relief from legislation. The conse quence, was that discontent and disaffection prevailed among the working-classes. He was sorry to believe that that discontent would ge on and increase to a frightful extent. They could not expect to see men unsurpassed by any nation in the world inskill of industry, yet unable to support their families in a state of contentment. Unless something was done to improve their condition, he looked forward with great apprehension to the safety of property, and every thing else in the country. They * had heard a great many causes assigned tbr the unfor tunate state of things that existed in France, during the Revolution. Most historians assigned it to the pressure of taxation, which the people were minable to bear, and which taxation was imposed by the aristocracy, who were themselves free from taxation. It was the same in this country. With the exception of a very small amount, the whole 52,000,0001. now levied on the people was levied on the middle and industrious classes of this country, because it was levied on articles necessary for their consumption. It was true the higher classes paid taxes on those articles, but they paid much less in degree, in many instances less by 100 per cent., inasnittah as the taxes were laid on the value and not on the quality of the article. The aristocracy, who had the power of making laws, had managed to free themselves from the burdens which they imposed on the community at large. The tax paid by the people through the Corn laws alone exceeded in amount all the taxes paid by the landed interest put together. • He would not, however, trespass further on the attention of the House, as he, was well aware-that - nwpractical effect would f o ll ow Irons- the motion which he undertook to second. Mr. lIINDLEY said that it. was IJecause he had felt that the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member for Bir mingham could not be attended with any practical effect that he had given notice of the motion which he had placed upon the papers of the House. But at the same time, though the motion could not lead to any immediate result, he was convinced that in the country at least it would be attended with important consequences. The Bight Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir B. Peel) had on a for mer occasion brought forw.xdasmotion which would lead to a speedy dissolution. He saw two parties striving for power. He was anxious before the struggle came on to assert on behalf of the working people the principle that taxation ought to be laid on in such a way as should he satisfactory. and just to the industrious classes of the community. The present moment more particularly called for an investigation into the circumstances of that class. Thev had heard the statement of his Honour aLl the Member for Birmingham. He would not now allude to the subject further than to stzt ' as a proof of the great- distress existing at'Manchester and elsewhere, that the property to which his Hon. Friend the Member for Salford had the other evening alluded, as "having cost 120,0001., had since he .had given notice of this motion been sold for 26,0001., be7ng one-fifth of what it cost.—(Hear, hear.) It would I • useless attempting to eTcite the sympathy of the House, if the House had not in its power the means of relieving these distresses ; but it was in the power of the House to relieve them ; nay, the House had itself been a main cause of them, bythe practical injustice it had com mitted in continuing the present system of taxation, which pressed unequally and unjustly on the middle and lower orders of society. Now, could the Government of a country be considered in a state of safety when it was known that the taxation of the country was re gulated, not according to the principles of justice, but ac cording ascertain class interest preponderated more or less in that House? The Hand-loom Weavers Commission had stated in their Report that the Government of this country was in the hands of a small minority of landowners, who possessed the whole. of one House and the greater part of the other, and that the Government of a minority could only be safe while it was popular, and could only be popular while it avoided the appearance of selfish legislation. They must all remem ber that in 1833 Mr. Cobbett had called the attention of the House to the inequality of the stump duties. The Chancellor of the 'Exchequer of that day had promised that the abuse should be rectified. Had that been done ? What was the present state of those duties ? On con veyances of the value of 101. the stamp duty was 10 per cent., on those of 501. value, 3 per cent., and on those of 2,0001. value 1 per cent. On mortgages of 10/. value the duty was 10 per cent., and on those of 2,0001. the duty was only 6s. per cent. Whenc. the gross inequality in ,the duty of conveyances and mortgages of 2,0001. ? Why , becauselanded proprietors seldom wanted to dispose of their estates, but often wanted to raise mortgages on them. Again the stamp duty on bills of 10/. was 10 per cent., on bills of 1001. 4s. per cent., and on those of 10,0001. 3M. per cent. On receipts the duty on 101., 55. per cent., on 201., Is. per cent., and on 10,00 01 . lid. per cent. Now as the three-fourths of the stamp duties were collectedon bills below 100L,could anything more clearly show the monstrous injustice Which was committed on the middle and lower classes of society? Let them recollect that of five millions a ble-bodied men, four millions were unrepresented in that House, and it was, therefore, doubly the duty of the House to protect their interests. But if they took advantage of the power to extract more than the fair sham , of the taxation from the persons who were unrepresented, it was addin in justice to insult. If he were to ask any Member of the House if the shilling of the po or man ought not to g o as far as the shilling of the rich one, h . e should at on ce re . ceive for an answer, undoubtedly it should. But what was the fact. He had applied to a grocer to furnish him value of g with a list of the articles furnished by him to a p oor person and to a rich one, and the result of it w as, that while out of a weekly expenditure. of Is. VA. a poor is o a o s d h s e , rw t o h t e llianrpiealild 8-td. . duty, upon haavinn.geekonly expenditurely of 16s. 2d., paid only 3s. 80.. so that whil e t h e poor If at did could no t be continuedjustieeto theih person only got 6:ld. value for his shilling, the ri c h ma n got qd. value for his s hilling.— ( l ear, m hear.) safety M to tliat ti a ie sta sta te te o things they h industrious poor it would be in vain for them to expect happiness or peace in the c ommun i ty. Of all the injus tices inflicted on the labouring classes that involved in the present Corn-laws was, he thought, the greatest. He expected that the discussion on the Corn-laws would have tam place. He thought that after the debate on the Right Hon. Baronet's (Sir IL Peel's) motion it would be in the power of Government to bring forward the discussion, but on mature consideration he saw from the difficulties in which the Government were placed —he saw from what the Right Hon. Baronet had said, that no new business ought to be entered upon by the Government—that after the vote which had been come to they ought to finish the business of the session as soon as possible, and to appeal to the country as to the measures they proposed. He regretted that the discus sion had not taken place, and it was for this reason that lie regretted it, that it would be in his opinion better for all classes interested in the question that the discussion should take place in the House rather than out of doors. Every possible means, placards, pamphlets, &c., were resorted to to raise an outcry against any attempt to alter the Corn-laws. The Hon. Member here read a n extract from a pamphlet bearing out his statement, and then went on to say that a greater fallacy was never at tempted to be palmed on any buciety than that of the - ~' c s, c 1 • • • I