The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-06 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE • TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. roorn was c-owded t o excess unt il near seven o ' c l oc k, itthe b etting, whi c h was very an i mated, led to some highly titi rtant diargrs. C oronat i on was i n great d eman d , at a di ,t' abed pi i ce, but in consequence of the shyness of the offers, , 011 &0t b eked; half a point above the price stated below and been.taken The'elrlier offers against Van Am it Zo'„atid Rosalie forboded a and in the case of Rosalie ir," Place to an alarming extent, 15, 17, and in some 01;11A1 re2fused. ,i- 7 ,es 1 8 to I hav;ng been laid against him ; the last offer of Van ,Amburgh was laid against in one in lakm f to 1, but rallied so effectually that 10 freely and he left off in good odour. Eringo kii ih al mon were backed at 20 to 1 each (afterwards offered), the w i e i 'aule odds was re Ilid to a small sum against Knight of 4 23 istle, who was not in much request. Ralph was backed tht•kp a ,, l '.: 2 s to 1, and Galaor, for nearly 2001., at 25 to 1, a tfesq.trpovement on any.previous quota' ion. Wahab had lostTrds at 28 to 1, and three or four bets were booked •arshal Soult at a decline of several points. The odds 111 ,„, a gainst the Duke of Wellington, Morning Star and y'do7l 4 , box were la i d th ree or f our times. A few bets were W"ek t ,,He ,000 Guineas Stakes at prices that make it d,oubt . le 'l of the four favourites will have precedence this day the Chester Cup bets were to a small amount. TOUSAND GUINEAS . sto TWo I agst Mr. H Thornhill's Erin go STAKES —taken g"' I ag‘t M r . W re f or d' s W a h a b t ° 1 a2st Lrd Albemare's Ralph 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey' s l Jo achim Btn 1 THE DERBY. to ' agst Scott's lot gst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation p ‘ • i t) I agst Lo r d Westminster's Van Amburgh—taken 2, 0 , 0 agst Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt 2. ) 1 agst M r . Greville's Palwmon 2 3 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle C3 t , 4 agst Mr. Mostn's Prince Caradoc—taken ' asst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—taken 25 t0 , agst r. Vansittart s Galaor 3g i o agst Mr. Wreford's Wahab ‘t Duke of and's Sir H I agst Duke of Rutland's Sir Hans gst estm ßutl inster's lUarshal ans Soult t o I agst Colonel Peel's Cameleon 4° 4oi asst Colonel Anson's Duke of Wellington—taken to,° 1 agst Sir G. Heatbeote ' s Mongolian 60,,," ) 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Brother to Phosphorus 1 ,0%,7 1 agst Mr. Ford's Metternich 1kp 1 , 1 5 agst Colonel Crauford's Ermengardis 1 ,00 0 "), agst Lord G. Bentinck's Mustapha—taken 2,0 00 I 'lo agst Lord Westminster's Morning Star—taken !,00 0 :° agst Mr. Clerk's Gammon Box—taken ', ,0 00,7 5 agst Mr.. Allen's Phaon—taken ~ 040 , "" at-st. Ford's Young Quo Minus—taken 5 asst 11 Westbrook's Mobarek—taken . ..r9 t , ° ais - t. Van r Amburgh, and Rosalie c.—taken 5 00; ° ! agst Galaor and Palmmon—taken , 6 00,„ -° °° ,1 Ralph agst Wahab aOO Wahab agst Cameleon I-000 Knight of the Whistle agst Ralph .° 400 Rosalie c. agst - Prince Caradoc 10 b CHESTER CUP. I agst Gallipot —taken. 20 to 1 agst Bellona—taken. Exeter's EXTRA. Ist,„v:IIARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1843. k i t t 0 1. 4 ,, 1 4 Y.—Duke of Bedford's e. by Taurus, out of Mona, sov ch cby Beiram, out of Marinello. D. M. s • h ft It k "e • ,k• Rdford's c Jerry Sneak, agst Lord Exeter's cby ;."'e ll' ' h f 11 , e out of Dram, Major's dam. R. M. 200 fors. h ft. (144:4 P i ,DA Y • weepstakes of 100 sovs. each h ft, colt p ro . ~oTi" "es r est 21b ; mares or st3llions which never .. l ipne r, allo w ed 31b s , both 51bs. D. M. e bern rle's cby Hornsea, out of Ralph's dam, (31bs.) t iNV, tafton's c by Hornsea, out of Pastelle, (31bs. ), Mr. ebY ' 8 e by Emillus, out of M Sprite, (51bs.) ange! Wurzell, 11Ir. Bowes's bretby, out , f Streatham ktsb CRAVEN MEETING, 1844. .".—Duke of Bedford's f by Liverpool, out of Play 4-istt h f ord Exeter's fby Beiram, out of Datura. D. M. rt. it C o WEDNESDAY. 4 depi l and Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 15ft, and 5 only wired on or before the Ist of May, with 100 sous. added I . Copeland, Esq. ; the second to save his stake. 1,1:: r ound and a distance. Itilb an, aged, 9st 41b—Isaac, aged, 9st 21b—Potcntate,aged, fih"-Zohrab, aged, Bst 91b—The Lord Mayor, 5 yrs, ,Gibraltar, 4 yrs, Bst Sib—Prizeflower, aged, 0% Retriever, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—King Cole, aged, I ) , , , lti t iji - Gale n , 4 yrs, Bst 21b—The Shadow, 5 yrs, est— (:)'' 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Bellona, 6 yrs, 7st 121b— or,i'ljus, 4 yrs, 7st 12 1 b—interlude, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b \ iki lo ,'"elate, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Mayboy, 4 yr.., 7st IMb g lh 'Pat, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Dunstan, 4 yrs, 7st 81b i il lac t k' n 5 yrs, 7 t 81b—I-am- sot .aware, 6 yrs, 7st 81b t ie r . 10 eck, 4 yrs, 7st 81b 7 - George, 6 yrs, 7st 81b—Re t411>..!Ira, 7st 61b—Tuly, 4 yrs, ist blb—Vertumnus, 6 yrs, 'anacea, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Turncoat, 6 yrs, 7st I's 7 e ' 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Hautboy,4 yrs, 7st 21b—Lady Grove, 1N,1,114 21 b —Margaret, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Sir 11 .. lark, 5 yrs, Ruler, 4 yrs, 7st —Nlilksop, 4 yrs, 1 St— Rough 7st—Ararat, 5 yrs, 7st—Little Philip, 4yi s, 4 1 1 .: ,71„Ir George, 4 yrs, 6st lb—Martha Lynn, 4 yrs, 4 ustalla Muley, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—b c, by Newttin d IN 1 41 Olt nke, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—The Witch of Whorley Hill, , 3 41 1/ s-Naarnah, 3 yrs, sst 91b. °N THE FUNERAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. ..a t r,f l THE EDITOR .OF THE SUN. last Number there appeared a letter addressed h by a w. Muir, Ass istant Minister at Temple, in Scot p'uttrial nrson professing himself the author of the Ode on I ' o 2l L. °f Sir John Moore. enrle is profession I am bound to believe Mr. Muir to be e ll of education, and of sufficient critical acumen to % ! 11 0e i e u rno authotship of that Ode to be fully established in iq 4 : on,ei i v r e s of the Rev. Charles Wolfe," and therefore I ;4 4 any reason he could have had for the pub!ica :ltii,,ql above - mentioned letter, except perhaps to silence K t! pretension by an appeal to living evidence, if such \ lll l 4l exist. I have the pleasure of being able to satisfy 0 41 1 ,! on this point by referring to Dr. Dickenson, Bishop L s Dr. Russell, Archdeacon of Clogher, and to the ortirner O'Sullivan, rectcr of Killyman, near Dungan ttittylnwl'llarid. These distinguished persons were all contem ;q h . " 1 1 Mr. Wolfe in the University of Dublin, two of kl4ets,,l?osona friends, and I believe one c them, at least, 'ent when Fart of the. Ode was actually composed. Writer • • k ls ,of this letter hopes he may be exeused for stating, ei s. `",ti a onal evidence, bift as an apology for what might letiad happiness the appearance . of officious zeal, that he him- Ott k c7.n u appiness of enjoying Mr. Wolfe's intimate ac- Cir e e,e ro cl during several of the latter years of his life, and o f 4, In his own lips an acknoaledgvnent of the author- Qket er e Ode in question. Such an avowal from such a 10sli is" The Memoirs" faithfully pourtray, would, he t h ' lc ed b • e s e admitted by Mr. Muir as precluding all doubt oJect.—l have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient servant, ktil l JOSEPH MARSHALL, k titit, April 5. Chaplain of H.M.S. Victory. WOOLWICH-SATURDAY. 'Pt • ROYAL ARTILLERY. fi b 0 : 1 , 11 Pascoe's company, Bth battalion, left Wool 4onday, and proceeded by railway from Euston- L. ll.' * Liverpool, where they embarked in a steam 'ltic.ti'er Ireland. Major G. G. Palmer's company. 14th t l / 2 i t kt t l i e, , with Captain Cornelius and Lieutenants lender lurner, arrived at Woolwich at eleven o'clock t. th e o tilt evening f..orri Ireland. eg trt ,ant...Gerteral Lori Bloomfield, Commander of Ou; 14 m, who has returned from leave and resumed "shra il ; t3 of his station, examined Major G. G. Palmer's til k Y,.% the parade on Thursday, and expressed his 16 . 4k: 1 ° 11 0f the soldierlike appearance of the men. His •-st •P al. in the kindestmanner, addressed them, .0, iqO tt l out the ad va ntages they would obtain by continued 11:104 t gd uet, and the satisfaction it would Frovc to their N th be able to report favourably of their steadiness • l i n t Pion to the duties they had to perform. It is qe t i t m Major G. G. Palmer's company will receive in tltts?ihtt to embark for the Cape of Good Hope in about tit i t ti t aut fr om t hi s thee. t, f',o4Ported that the folios" ing officers are about to re- I;41 the Royal Artillery on full pay :—Lieutenant ' ridge, Majors Colebrook and G. G. Palmer, teaitAll°l Seale!' and Howell. promotion cf Quartermaster Sergeant J. S. Forbes etk iv tlarterrnaqcr will advance several deserving men been long in the service, a step, and it is expected o s t" shortly be five or six further commissions to the 'trig t ;lbartermaster, in consequence of the recommen 15:4%411°1e recent Military Commission, which will hate k i t wh erit effect, by holdir g out hopes of promotion, to '‘iti tt . render thenise.ves worthy of this benefit and 1 0 1411 0 . i n the service. Vtli c ‘ n boal concerts for the gratification of the officers 044 4 ' friends commenced yesterday (Friday) in the Ot to cu.-room of the R iyal Artillery, and were tat 4s ly attended. The band performed some of the 4411 most fa-hionable airs in a superiLr style. j e llt ROYAL MARINES. NI p ett y-ant J. K. Wilson has been appointed Adjutant tt„ n tt oath, vice Dwyer, promoted. Lieutenant eW serving on board the Prince's Charli,tte, 104 I .GQ 4 g *- 4 11 ip' of Admiral the Hon. Sir Rotert Stop ' •GC. M. G., at present in the Mediterranean. S w „ke et . SOUTH WALES.—Yesterday, a nume '4V"4 \lv -I , l 'g of merchants and others connected with New ti, s list o a 'es was held at the George and Vulture Tavern, to latex car was the exy.edi,ncy of resisting the regula- Nta i i issued by the Commissioners for Colonial Lands 4.k ti tlao t °:atinn, " for the information of persons sending out PI bounty to Nev South Wales or Van Diemen's 14,49 st!'r• Baldwin, M.P., in the Chair. The Chairman INtiled r e dthe object of the meeting. Mr. Marshall then of e „, l o det a il to give a narrative of the Government sys cot;ulgration, and of that carried out on the Bounty sys e4ding that the Bounty system was the best. A se tit Je t t It y ll s d olutiuns, which were first read collectively, and then thikeeti n s e(%nded seriatim, were unanimously 'adopted by e rtt:l ) ,,, Po r , - ,g' Pledging it to the resistance of these regulations, Pe 3' of ', l. . 4 ,exit. of a Committee to communicate with the Se- Itti ) :lktt tr - late ; and if this was not found sufficient, to bring A ftet . i 4 thbzfore Parliament, and expressicg hope that at et v ot e theantime the regulations would be suspended. 11; , e e p of thanks to the Chairman and Mr. Marsh..ll, the tit .00. warated. ;0 1 , 11 ! luli.—On Saturday morning the whole h),•,,ltlat„ ; k r the Royal Artillery not on duty were assembled the infliction of punishment to the extent of 100 Alacartnev A native of Ireland, who was tried t ' ll , e 4 4r .ilea;, a t i p nrtial, and found guilty of having attempted . to tip t th reehurn on the previous Sunday morning. It n er eho rol e Prisoner had insisted on joining in the parade be htf t he h m s vice while he was in a state of intoxication, and Zdl l , hi ? , . been entered to retire ; and that on being brought Iti:thinrrgeant and ordered to be taken away, I.‘ made a 1 , 1 111 1 :t m 'llh hi s bayonet, which world have'taken effect °el ( „.' ao d o f the men had presence of mind to ward off the ;ha: he p su ,eeceeed in Wresting the weapon out of his hand orb ter c(1 use h. again. Macartney bears a ve , y bad I tt the regiment, having been four times in custody Atri, e servi drUnkenness •, and although he has been two years t he h e he has not' yet learnt his drills, owing to the e l'o :44l kP e b r e n in confinement in the guardhouse and in ‘V t 4 . 5 t a _,nitentiary. an k Lqpi, 1. 1 and Countess of Behnore are on the - , 41.1 - 7tt., y'vrn for Castle Coole, Fermanagh, Ireland, after to,_na% several months from that country. The Noble I lii t l7 t, las•• - 't e ' s i ll ''e rn d considerable benefit from his residence at LC". t rier, and from his lengthened slourn at 14Sraali 1:-.4P0 APaIL 3.—The Royal mail kid aod 1 1 . t t bla. sailed from Liverpool yesterday for exieon for tab raauTt°u• he carried out nearly 100 passengers, 5 4 , 115 Laster , PUBLIC MEETINGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE. SUN. " We must stand by our right to hold public meetings." SIR —I most cordially concur with you in the remarks you made upon the subject of public meetings a few days ago. We are advised by some fainthearted Whig journals to discontinue public meetings until certain men, calling them selves Chartists, shall have learnt to respect the rights of their fell)w-countrymen! Now, Sir, I always prefer standing by my own rights to leav ing them in the keeping of Chartists, Whigs, or any other party. The question is, whether pub lic meetings, upon important subjects, .can be held legally, peaceably, and with effect? I say yes. The machinery exists in every municipal borough, calculated, and expressly designed for, the decorous holding of public meetings; and I say, moreover, that it is the fault of the Mayor, who is also in all cases a County Magistrate, if such meetings are. no: protected in the exercise of their English rights of petitioning and making known their grievances. A meeting, called at the request of a. body of requisitionists, by the Mayor or other constituted authority of a borough or town, is presided over as a matter of usage and right by the person, in his official capacity,who calls the meeting. But the inhabitants may, if they please, call a town's meeting without the intervention of the chief officer, and in such case they may elect their own Chairman. In the late cases at Manchester and Leeds, however, the Mayors were behind the hour appointed by themselves for the meetings, and some people took advantage of their absence to nominate other chairmen, and they had, under such circumstances, a right to do so. The Mayor or other authority who has called a town's meeting should take his seat as Chairman before the clock strikes the hour for which he called it. He is then responsible for the peaceable and or derly conduct of the meeting. The entire police force is in his hands, and the military power also, and what are these for, except to protect us in the .peaceable enjoyment of our rights? The object for which the meeting was called having been explained, no other question can be entertained. Let us suppose that the meeting were called " to consider the propriety of peti tioning Parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws," and that a person moved a resolution in favour of the Charter,—it is put of order to put such a motion, and as the Mayor is bound to preserve order, be cannot put it. He should inform the indivi, dual mildly, but firmly, that the motion is irre 12vant. If he refuse to yield to the Chairman he must be removed by the civil power, along, with all who back, him. There is no tyranny in this ; it is merely a defensive act, to secure to the meeting an opportunity of expressing an opinion upon the question which brought them together. They may decide upon that question in any way they please. The Chairman must put both the affirmative and negative, and the majority, whether yeas or nays, decides the fate of the meeting. Can any thing be fairer than this ? The day after, or the same day if they like, the Chartists may also hold their meeting, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parlia ment for the Charter, and they have a right to the same protection against the disorderly inter ference of Anti-Corn-law men, that the latter have against theirs. In my opinion the Mayor ought to convene public meetings whenever called upon to do so by a numerous body of re quisitionists of reputable character, no matter of what class, provided only that the object in view be legal. But this rests with him. With our municipal organization—those good old Saxon institutions of local self-government — to shield us from the ukase of a certain "Irish gen-• tleman," now in York Gaol, against holding any more public meetings, why should we follow the advice of Whig Journalists, and abandon that right of assembling to petition and complain which forms one of our distinguishing charac teristics as compared with the countries of the Continent ? It would doubtless give great de light to the Duke of Buckingham and his party, if those who advocate the repeal of the bread tax would give up their right to hold public meet ings. And by the way, Sir, let me ask, in conclusion, whether we are quite sure that the attempt to put down Anti-Corn-law meet ings has not originated with the bread-taxers themselves ? The late disclosures before the Walsall Election Committee have proved that the Chartist leaders are hired by the Tories to kick up rows at the Anti-Corn-law meetings. One of them, the hero of the Northern Star, and for- years the terror of peaceable meetings in Manchester, is proved by the evidence of one of the witnesses, to have hired himself out to the Gladstone party at Walsall. • There are other leaders of the Chartists whose means of honest livelihood are not very appa rent. The people must be warned and guarded against such leaders, and there 'is no better way of doing so than at public meetings; there fore, I repeat, we must stand by our right to meet and petition. I am,. Sir, your's faithfully, AN ANGLO-SAXON. April 5, 1841. P.S. We want one man of spirit amonst our 250 and odd Mayors to take the bull by the horns, and set an example to the rest. There seems to be a very undue notion as to the right of a minority in a meeting to put down by brute clamour the majority, and prevent their being heard. Sir Joshua Walmsley, the popular Mayor of Liverpool, did good service by his firmness in defending our public rights on one occasion, and he has been more popular ever since. In no town are meetings more orderly now than in Liverpool. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Pi ince Albert, attended by the Hon. Mis 3 Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel 11'emyss, and Colonel Bouverie, visited her Ma jesty the queen Dowager yesterday afternoon, at Marlbo rough House. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes terday. The Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Elisabeth Leveson Gower, Lady Anne Ma i i Dawson, Vi- count and Viscoun tess Palmerston, Lady Fanny Cowper, Viscount Jecelyr, Br-ron Stockmar, and Dr. Preetorius. The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards at tended during dinner. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duke of Sussex yesterday at his residence in Kensington Palace. Prince Ge )rge of Cambridge visited the Queen Dow. ager at Marlborough house yesterday. The Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most lionourah!c Privy Couneil had a meting yesterday after noon at the Council-office. The Lords pi e,ent were, the Marquis of Lansdovrue (Lord President), Lord Mont eagle, and Sir George Grey. Mr. Brother:on and the Mayor of Manchester, Sir Thumss Potter, and F. Deputation, had an inteniew with Lord John Russell at the Cdonial-office yesterday. Lieut -Colonel Mill. r had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. General Sir Ge rge Anson had an interview with the Marquis of Norraanby yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. F. Dundas had an intet view wi.h Lord Juhn Russell at the Colontal-offi':e yes•erday. Despatches from the G ,vernt,r of British Guiana were received yesterday at the Colonial-:iflic,. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. The Messiah wal performed at this theatre last evening "for that night only,"_as stated in the hand-bills, " and by special permission of the Lord Chamberlain." Why this oratorio should be limited to one night we cannot con ceive. The play-going, and alto the church-going pea p'e, might be much benefited during Lent by listening to the noble music of Handel, and to the beautiful selections from the sacred poets, who have clescri+Jed the coming, the crucifixion, and the resurr,!etion of our Saviour in such glowing and sublime language. No sermon from the pulpit, though p cached by the pious Ili: hop of Londor, or the melt Bishop of Exeter, could produce any effect at all to be compared to that which is felt in a theatre when the words of haiala and Job, cr the sublime effusions of the Evangelist who dwelt in the isle of Patmos, are accom panied by the divine music of the Prince of sacred composers. At the commencement of the third part of the Messiah, last night, the audience evinced by breathless silence the powerful impression made by Madame Caradori Allen, when recHng the following words from Job, " I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he stand at the latter day upon the earth • and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep." This v.as the most effective part of the performance. Mr. Phillips performed hit part well, but he wants the energy and enthusiasm of Braham. The band was numerous, and under the able guidance of Sir George Smart, executed the music with good effect. The house was well attended. PARIS, APRIL 3.—There is a report here that a gencrr.l polhical amnesty is to be granted on the cc easi ( f the baptism of the Count de Paris, and that Prince Louis Napoleon is to be included in it. It is a fact that an amnesty has been for some time under con sideration, but it does not appear that the Cabinet are t all unanimous as to the extent to which it is to ge. Fir my own part, I think it is yet too early to release Prince Louis, although his utter political insignificance would cu. t:inly justify such a step. The yrsparations for the bal Vim are on a scab of magl.ificence which is almost ut. rrecedented during the present reis,!n, and the King has resolved on making peat sacrifices from his privy purse. -.. Evening paper. _ _ COWES.—Lord Corry has taken the large cottage. The Marquis of Conyingbam is F till at Hain(t Lodge. Lady Harriet Mitellill acDebourn Lodge. R Mtiklarn, Eq., at Egypt House; Mr. Wilmer a; Clate. Invut House, and many othtr.s are already taken. • THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 6. 1841. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS oF YESTERDAY. From the Globe.) By the a•r:val of tie North America, we are furnished with intelligence from the United States three days later than was brought by the Halifax. The general tendet.cy of the contents of the letters and papers (the substance of which will be Hurd in another co wain) confirms the impres!i in already produced, that lease bctwt en the two countries will sustain no interrup- Lion by the more recent affair of the Caroline, or by the dispu as which had arisen upon the Boundary question. The financial difficulies of the union occupy the special atteati in ot the new Administration, The Pre sident his, in 'consequence, ?lisped a proclamation, esti vening the Congress for an extra ardinary Session, to take i,,to its spec:al consideration "sundry important and weightymatters ptiticipaygrowing out - f the conditmnofthe revenue and finances of the country." The cause of this ex tra session of the Congress is, doubtless, thus ex plicitly state.% in crier to preveat any misconstruc tion of the proceeding, as th ugh there were anythng in the position of the Government with respect to the negotiations with this country, which ren dered necessary an appeal to the assembled repre sentatives. Si l compelled to wait—though with inereas ing cmfidence in a sat:sfaotary result —f n• the intelligence which will remove any latent fears of war Letween the. two countries, we may . avail ourselves of the interval for the purpose of glancing at the opposite views v hich have been taken ot General Harrison's icaugural address, and also of the more gmeral question arising out of the treatment and detention of Mr. APLece, by :patties in this country. Those wee regard the United States only when their GoSernment affects war home politics or trade, will be little ins 1 net to peruse with ca e the inaugural speech of the new President. Yet to all who refit ct sithout preju eltee or violent party feeling on the posi.i )II occupied by the United States, and the inflaence they exert on the general destinies of the human race, this document—considered as a critique on the American Constitution by the,man who :s called on to fill its highest office—will be read with deep interest. We consider General Harrison's address a tem perate and manly document, allowing for the unavoidable fl ittery of his audience, comprising the representatives of the ruling Majority. It is rare for Englishmen to Isaok with candour and moderation on the Government of the United States; it would rather seem to furnish distorted parallels to our extreme parties—the one see isg, in this tension of democracy. a regime applicable to ourselves; the eth. - r a beacon of revolution, by whose warning light. our State vessel should be guided into the• harbour of passive Toryism. (From the Standard.) Whoever has paid attention to the late proceedings of thet House of Commons must see that it i 3 now far the first time that that assembly is approaching to a condition of intelligence to legislate for the poor. The new law has furnished that instruction which an experiment always fureishe2, and the in struction has been forced upon the House, however reluctant, by the benevolent importunity of the public. Already the harsher provisions of the law are ei h2r ex plained away or formally condemned ; and the process of amsltoration in this respect must proceed, if the country persevere is its humane exertions, L f vell'eh we have no doubt. Already the Comrni-i -sioners have had some sharp rebukes to hata ble their arrogance and mitigate their tyranny. Al ready their hours are counted, and they hue been apprised that even the respite with vilacla they are indulged is to be dependent upon a cunsiderab!e amendment in their conduct. With the termination of the Commission, however, will expire that principle of centralisation, and the principle of central control once ex tinguished, it demands little foresight to anticipate with per t; et. certainty that the management of the poor will return to its old kindly charnel. The unions wall he dissolved inevery case in which they shall not be found beneficial to the poor—the vi'e clauses, exposing weak young women to the arts of seducers encouraged by a Ltgal irresponsibility, will be repealed. We have already aid that the cruelties of detail will cease when we have ,aid that the management of the poor will return to the old channel. What, then, of the law may be expected to remain ? the provisions against expensive lit gation—the provisions against paying wages from the poor•rates, and, as a consequence of this, a more equitable scale of rating—a beneficial remnant beyond question. The experiment has been tried , let us take from it all the profit it affords; we have just mentioned a part of this profit, but a far greater good remains— the moral lesson The old Poor-laws were unpopular with many besides the prating coxcombs who made a cha racter by railing at them in speeches, pamphlets, and re. views. The new Pool-law has demonstrated that this un popularity was unjust, that if the old law was not fault less, it stood in the way of another law, which has been liLtle better than a mass of blunders and cruelties. (From the Courier.) The present pause in the question of the Scotch Kirk is the prelude to events that will no doubt prove critical. The Non-intrusionists are takii.g advantage of it to in struct his Grace of Argyll to play the part assigned to him in the drama ; and under the drilling of a certain learned Sheriff and a certsin Advocate of pamphleteering notoriety now in town, the Noble Duke is expec ed to be perlect in his lesson by the time Parliament meets after the Easter recess. What is then to be brought forth time will show ; at present we only know nega tively that " the abolition of patronage " is not the " mouse " with which the " mountain " is in labour. Scotland has been agitated from Berwick to John O'Groat'a by Mr. Mecg 11 Chrichton, "el hoc genus," itinerant crazy.hrained orator', to obtain the expulsion of this cursed " Achan " from the camp ; but the cun ning and canny leaders are quite ready to perpe tuate the " sin," if on. no other cmdi,inn they can avert the calamity that now stares them in tke lie:, the renunciation of their stipends, glebes, and manses. The intended Bill 9f the Duke of Argyll is ex[ectcd to accom plish the objcc'. In the me intime the Strath bogie ministers, awara of what awaits them at the next Assembly, coma of patronage what may, and knowing we'll that his GI ace of Argyll will not be permitted to introduce any clause for their salvation, are beginning to look about for a plank in the storm ; and thus they are again turning their eyes to Parliament and to her Maje_te. We verily believe that it is in the lacer harbour that they will ultimately find refuge. They cannot be legally deposed by the Assembly, should the Sovereign refuse to counte nance the dced, through her representative in that vene:- able body ; and they will appeal to the Throne that they and their families may not be cast upon the wide world houseless and pennyles', for no other crime than obeying her Majesty's laws, and payieg due respect to the decrees of her Majesty's Judges. This is literally the offence with which they stand cuarged, and which has been found relevant to infer the penalties and deprivation of their offices as ministers of the Established Church of Scot land. THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP. The non-arrival of this vessel, which left New Yerk or the 11th ult., with twenty-five passengers and some freigl:t, begins to cxc to serious apprehensions for her fate. These apprehensions arise from the fasts that not less than three sailing vessels, which b.ft that city after her, have arrived, and that two of them encoun tered severe starms. The fist vessel was the Orpheus, Capt. Cole, which sailed on the 11! h, two hours after the . President, and whim encountend, on the 12th and 13th, a storm from the north-east during which she was hove-to. On the 14th the itarm abated, and the wind chopped round to the southward. The royal mail steams - Columbia, which had artived at EI ilifax, en countered the same storm, and lost foresail, jibboom, and one of her quarter boats. Now there cannot be a doubt, that the President was caught in the same norm, although, from her steam-power she would be much nearer the banks of Newfoundland than the Orpheus. She was very deep, drawing, when she left New York, not *cgs than 18 feet. Supposing that she was not, during the storm, damaged either in her bull, rigging, or machinery, at least not seriously ; if she put back to New York, she would, we think, reach that port before the evening of the 19th ult., hut we know that she had not reached it up to that time ; if, her feel being exhausted, she were working her way to the eastward, under canvass, she ought, seeing the quick passages made by the Virginian and the North A merica, to have made her appearance off the coa:A long before now : 'ait, if she had to run to the southward, and had made fir the Western Isles, for the purpose of replenishing her coal, she is nut yet due ; the Liverpool, steam ship, when an the winter of 1539 compelled to run to the same islands, to replenish her coal, having been 27 days on the passage from New York to Liverpool, via Fatal. The prevalent opinion is, that the Presiceat must have run to the Western Isles, and that she may to expected to arrive in a few days. Indeed, there was yesterday a rumour afloat that the Lynx, which had arrived, in the morning, in seven data from St. Michael's, had seen the steamer making for Fayal ; but subsequent inquiry satis fied us that the rumour was an idle one.—Liverpool Albion. conceit, who allows himself to be put forward, who really fc his po , iian. _ . In the meantime, we call attention the fact, that a princ'pal leader ( Nightengale) of that incorruptibly pure body ; gave his patriotic ail to the attempt to put another r vet in the " statviton kw," by means of the Walsall election, for hire IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 5. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. A messenger from the House of Commons brought up the Houghing of Cattle (Ireland) Bill, the Durham Railway Bill, and the Manchester and Salford Water works Bill. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY brought in a Bill to amend the Ecclesiastical Revenues Bill, which was read a first time. On the motion of the Marquis of NORMANBY ,he Commons' amendments to the Houghing of Cattle Ireland) Bill were agreed to, and the Bill was read a ,hird time. The Earl of ROSEBERY presented a petition from Honiton in favour of the Jews' Declaration 8.11. Lord STRAFFORD presented petitions from Donegal and other places in Ireland against Church patronage in Scotland. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented 112 petitions from likes in Scotland for the abolition of lay patronage in the Church of Scotland. As a Presbyterian, he felt it his duty, in presenting those petitions, to express his entire concurrence in the prayer. He contended that the present state of the law was not only unsatisfactory to the people of Scot land, but inconsistent with the fundamental principles of their Church, which required that no minister should be - appointed to a parish contrary to the wishes of the people. The Bill of his Noble Friend (the Earl of Aberdeen), who was too good a Presbyterian to propose any thing which he did not think advantageous to the Church—had been far from allaying the discon• tentment of the people upon this question. Its effects would be to place the Church under the chariot wheels of the civil power. The Noble Marquis referred to the opinions of Lords Monboddo and Kaimes, in order to show that, in spiritual matters, the Church was all powerful. He entreated the House to take the subject into its most serious consideration, bearing in mind that the Non-intrusion principle was the fundamental prin ciple of the Church of Scotland. The people of Scot land took the liveliest interest in the preseat ques tion, and greatly as they valued the privileges conferred by the Reform Bill, they valued their spiritual privileges st , ll more highly, than any political rights that had been conferred upon them. The Earl of ABERDEEN wished to know whether the petitioners were in favour of non-intrusion, or the abolition of patronage ; and also whether he sup ported the abolition of Church patronage or not? The Marquis of BREADALBANE said the people of Scotland were deeply interested in the question, but they, he had reason to believe, would be satisfied with a much less stringent measure than the abolition of Church patronage. With respect to his own opinions he was in favour of a veto, with such modifications as would prevent intrusion. The petitions were then laid on the table. The Population Bill was read a third time and passed. The Chelsea Poor Bill was read a second time. The Earl of MOU NTCASHEL presented several petitions from Presbyterian bodies in Ireland against Church Intrusion in Scotland. The NOBLE EARL then moved for a return of the number of workhouses contracted for by the Poor law Commissioners in Ireland, the unions in which they were to be erected, the sum which it would cost for the completion of each contract, the quantity of land attached to each, and the number of paupers which each would accommodate.--Ordered. The Earl of FALMOUTH gave notice that early after the holidays he would present a petition from from inhabitants of Cornwall respecting the removal of the packets from Falmouth to Dartmouth. Lord FITZGERALD presented a petition from Westminster for the abation of tolls on the metropo litan bridges. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table returns relating to the population and commerce of Great Britain, its colonies, and dependencies. The NOBLE MARQUIS gave notice, that after Easter he would , move that the state of the law respectmg promissory notes should be referred to a Select Com mittee=(Hear, hear.) STATE OF CRIME IN IRELAND. The Earl of CHARLEVILLE rose to move for a copy of the criminal calendar, at the Lent Assizes, 1841, in the King's County, and a copy of the rule of the Court thereon. He felt great reluctance in making this motion, but his duty to the loyal part of the population of Ireland required him to call the atten tion of the House to this subject, and to take this occa• sion of pointing to the consequences of the course which the Government had of late pursued in Ireland, in not exercising the prerogative of the Crown in setting aside improper persons upon the list of Jurors. In the King's County crime had greatly increased of late years. Several murders had been committed, and many attempts at murder in the open air, and in the pre sence of many of the people, who refused to give any assistance to prevent the crime, or to arrest the perpe trators, and the large rewards that had been offered in the unfortunate cases of Lord Norbury and Mr. Frazer had failed to obtain any information as to the offenders. The Noble Earl read extracts from :correspondence between the Magistrates of that county and the Executive on the subject of these murders, and the extraordinary sympathy with the mur derers evinced by the people. In the case of Colgan and Dogherty, who were tried for attempting to murder Mr. Biddulph, the sheriff gav ein a panel of fifty names. Eleven of the persons on the list were absent, twenty-seven were challenged by the prisoners, and the remaining twelve were sworn as a jury. He must here admit that up to this time the Executive had done everything to assist the Magistrates, and deserved their thanks. But if ever there was a time when the Government ought to have taken the greatest precautions to prevent im proper persons being put upon the jury, the period he alluded to was that time. No doubt the Noble Marquis (Normanby) would call this an agrarian outrage— s he termed every other atrocious outrage ; but the Noble Marquis could not plead ignorance oil' the character of the persons who were placed upon that Jury. The names of the persons most known in the county as con nected wieh the Ribbon Society had bcea privately corn- Inueicated to the Government before the trial, and not withstanding that knowleege, three of those persons, who might have been challenged and set aside by the Crown, were allowed to be sworn on the Jury.—( Hear, hear.) The consequence way, that notwithstanding the Evidence, the Jury could not agree to a verdict, and the prisoners were discharged. So in the case of the murder of Mr. Bo3le, eleven of the Jury were agreed upon the verdict of guilty, but the twelfth man stood out, having been known to declare before he went into the box that no evidence would induce hi n to find Collins guilty. The Jury was discharged, and the prisoner escaped from punishment. On th's occasion also the Government might have exer cised the privilege, and prevented so improper a person from being sworn. There were several other cases of a similar nature, in which jus ice had been defeated by the determination of the Government to abstain from chal lenging on the part of the Crown. By this conduct they diseeuraged gentlemen from risking their lives for the purpose of bringing assassins to justice. The Noble Earl then read extracts from a placard, posted on the walla of a chapel, and bearing the signatures of eight of the jurors who sat upon the trial of Colgan and Do herty, repudiating, in ve.ry strong language, th•u impute tioes that had been cast on them for not finding those per sons guilty. He called on the House to observe the accu sations which these persons insinuated against the Solici tor-General and their brother jurors of thirsting for the blood of Irishmen. What he had to complain of was, that the Executive did not supprrt the Magistrates in their exertions to vindicate the laws. He concluded by moving for the returns. The Marquis of NORMA NB Y said that there were generally two grounds taken for refusing the production of papers ; first, that such production might be detrimental to the public service ; and, secondly, that it was not in the province of the House to investigate the subject. He should not resist the motion on either of these grounds, if the Noble Lord should press it; but he wished the Noble Lord had given the subject more consideration be fore bringing forward the motion. Their Lot dships should recollect that, by this motion, they were called upon to prejudge criminal cases which would be tried at the next assizes. The Noble Lord had omitted to state that when the Jury was empanelled the list was read over name by name to Mr. Biddulph himself, who bad stated that a more fair Jury could not be empanelled. Much of the Noble Lord's information was derived from sources on which he could not place reliance. There were 123 names called oven-, and Mr. Biddulph stated that if 50 of those were struck out there would be a sufficient number left to form an independent Jury. Mr. Biddulph only objected to one, and the only reason he could give for his objection was, that be did not like the man. He (Lord N.) was sure that no man would do his duty more impartially than Mr. Moore, and among the most pleasing recollections of his Government of Ireland was the fact, that Mr. Moore had said that he was convinced that the then mode of conducting the government of Ireland was a proper one, and that notwithstanding his previous connections he should give the Government his support. In the Noble Lord's letter to Lord Ebrington it was stated that among that Jury was a person who was master in a Ribbon Society—that was also stated in a Dublin paper, and the name of the Juror was then stated to be Egan. Now there was no person of hit name on the Jury. The Crown Solicitor stated that never had a Jury been formed more in accordance with the directions of the Attorney-General, or more approved of by the prosecutor himself. Mr. Biddulph stated his opinion that it was a very fair Jury. It would bay been useful if the Noble Lord had followed the example of the Crown Solicitor, and abstainesi from giving any opinion as to the guilt of the prisoners. With regard to the case of the murder of Hughes at Armagh, and the trial of Mr. Gray at Baltiby, he had information from the! Crown solicitor that the same course was pursued at Ar magh as had been pursued at Monaghan, There were five persons from Baltiby, and who had been pat aside by the Crown Solicitor, because they had been ob jected to by Mr. Gray on a previous occasion. Mr. Samuel Gray was rather a well-known character to th-i • Lordships. There were four other Jurors set aside be• cause they were known boon companions of Mr. Gray. In the Noble Lord's last letter to Lord Ebtington he designated the trial as a solemn mockery cf justice. Now he must say he thought the Noble Earl was not justified in making use of such an expression. The charge brought by the Noble Earl was that the Jury, who had not re turned a verdict, bad defeated the ends of justice. Now he thought it but justice to state, that the Jury was ap proved of by the prosecutor, and it was admitted that the evidence brought before them justified a affluence of opinion. There wa s a f ur th er p assag e of the letter, in which the Noble Earl said, that in authorizing the prosecution of those attacking Mr. Bilduiph, the conduct of Lord Ebrington contrasted most favour ably with that of himself (the Marquis of N rrmanby) in the case of the murjer of Lord Norbury. Now he should have recollected the exertions he had made at that time, and the answer he had g'ven to the Noble Earl in that House. The Noble Eel' had had a Committee of that House sitting for three months to investigate the state of crime in Ireland. He bad had an opportunity of fully investigating the subject, and only once incidentally had that case been alluded to before the Committee. Now after that the Noble Earl was not justified in making such insinuations against him, when, having bad - every opportu nity of bringing forward his case, be bad not thought pro 'per to do so. The Noble Earl on that occasion had relied on the information of a person whose testimony was not worthy of credit, and who had deceived the Noble Lord, as the Noble Earl himself had since discovered. The Noble Earl had alluded to a case at Longford, in which Mr. Fox, the sheriff, had sel:cted a Jury of " strong men." Why, the meaning of strong men was, that they were strong party men, and their Lordships would not be surprised to learn that they had come to a different con clusion from a previous Jury. He admitted that the prin ciple of setting persons aside by the Crown on account of their religious opinions, originated during his (the Mar quis of Normanby's) administration. That had been dote with the approval of Sir Michael O'Loghlin, the then Attorney_ General ; and he contended that it was the sound and proper principle upon which Juries ought to be selected. When the law no longer made any distinction between Catholics and Protestants, he did not think it judicious to keep up these distinctions in the Jury box. He regretted that so much intemperance of language had been used towards the me m b e rs of that religion and their pastors, by persons whose rank and station ought to have taught therm better. When it was said that the Catholics of Leland were worse than Turks or Hindoos, he was not surprised that there should be dissension and excitement still kept up. He believed the people of Ireland were easily led by kindness and concilivion, but they would not be coerced or dragged by the chains of despotism or . tyranny. He trusted their L or d s hips wo u ld no t sanc ti on the produc ion of those papers under the present circum stances, and while these men were still untried; and he hoped the Noble Earl would sea the propriety of.with drawing his motion. Their Lordships would be gratified to learn, notwithstanding the statements of the Noble Earl, that crimes of a serious nature were considerably reduced in number, and that the tranquillity of the country was much increased. The Earl of GLENGALL was rc aiy to admit that, owing to the efficiency of the pdice, there hid been some diminution of crime. He regretted to say, however, that crime was not punished to the exter,t it ought to be, so as to operate as a warning to others. There was the greatest difficulty in procuring .witnesses to give evidence or Juries to find verdicts, and out of 1,446 rewards of fered by the Government and the police for se rious offences since 1827, only forty-seven had been claimed, showing a very large amount of crime still unpunished and undiscovered. If the system was adopted of s:nding the Crown solicitor down to the assizes two or three weeks befire they commenced, it would prevent im proper persons getting upon the Jury, which frequently arose from the local ignorance of the Crown solicitor and the parties acting on behalf of the prosecution. The Marquis of NORM ANBY begged, in addition, to read the letter which the Lord Lieutenant addressed t.) the Noble Earl on the subject of the tri si of the men for the attempted murder of Mr. Biddulph. The letter stated that the inquiries the Lord Lieutenant had made from the Crown solicitor and other parties, bad enabled him to ascertain that the Jury in that case bad been fairly and impartially selected,—that the prosecutor had expressed his satisfaction as to the persons of whom it was composed —and that ho did not think there was any reason to sup pose that any person connected with the ribbon system had been upon the Jury. The Earl of CHA RI EVILL E replied. With regard to the correspondence that bad taken place between him self and the Lord Lieutenant he had certainly looked upon it as, in some respects, private and confidential, and had not felt himself justified in referring to it. The Noble Marquis had complained that the Earl of Rosse and himself had been in the habit of referring, in very improper terms, to the conduct of the Roman Cathol c clergy, but be cer tainly denied that he had ever so expressed himself of that body. With respect to the case of Mr. Biddulph, after the communications he had made to theGovernmee the was surprised to sec the names of persons returned whom he had represeeted, from his knowledge of the county, to be unfit. In consequence of the Noble Marquis having de clared that he had cautioned his Noble Friend ( Lord Ebrington) to look watchfully to his ( Lord Charleville's) conduct in the county, he made up his mind that he would not interfere in any case in which he could not be certain that he would have the support of the Government in the execution of his duty as a person bearing her Majesty's Commission cf the Peace. But, notwithstanding that determination, he did everything in his power to assist the Government in dis covering the persons concerned in the attempt to murder Mr. Biddulph. The conduct of which he complained was the improper, unjust, and unconstitutional interference to which he was subjected, when, in conjunction with other Magistrates, he committed a man to prison upon a charge of robbery and attempt to murder. The officers sent down by the Government liberated the man, without bea-- ing the evidence upon which he had been committed. That conduct gave rise to a feeling that the Government were nut disposed to support the Magistrates in the pro tection of property and the punishment of crime. The communications made by him to the Irish Government were of a confidential nature, and be had not expected that use to be made of them which it had pleased the N.,ble Ma•quis to make ; and he thought that the Noble Marquis bad :received communications from Catholic gentlemen which might have prevented him (the Marquis of Norman by) from holding him up as a firebrand in his own cnanty. He lived in peace and kindness with the people on his own property, and he defied the Noble Marquis to state a single instance in which he had behaved unkindly to a single in dividual, because that individual wan a Roman Catholic. He thought it right to vindicate his Noble Friend the Earl of Rosse from the attacks of the Noble Marquis. On the occasion of the attempt to murder Mr. Sim, an amiable, but eccentric gentleman, who divided his property with all who chose to come and live in a community which he had formed, the Earl of Rosse, being Lord Lieutenant of the county, stated in a letter to that gentleman, that there could be no doubt that the many attempts upon that gealeman's life were occasioned by a supposition that bin proceedings were likely to draw proselytes from the Romish Church, and that it was an opinion amongst Roman Catholics that murder in such a case was not a crime. It was true that on the Sunday following the Roman Catholic priest did from the char address his congregation to in culcate a very opposite doctrine, namely, that every person who concealed from the Government any information cal culated to tring a murderer to justice, was as guilty of the crime as the ;meal perpetrator. But there had been much to justify the opinion of his Noble Friend, and the attacks made by the Noble Marquis were totally unwarranted. The Noble Marquis had boasted of the increase of crime i❑ Ireland ; but ho would refer him to the numerous meet kg; a.f Magistrates which had recently taken place, at one of srnich it was shown th at twenty-six crimes which occurred in one night were set down in the returns as ore. After a few words from the Marquis NORMA NBY, the motion was withdrawn. Their Lordships then adjourned at a Quarter to Nir,e o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Amur. 5. TLC SPEAKER took the Chair shortly beforeyour o'Clock. Mr. Campbell, from the East India House, presented an account of the compensation given to the retired officers of the Company. Mr. CHALMERS app ared at the Bar, and brought up the evidence given before the Committees on the Can terbury and Walsall Election Committees.—Ordered to lie on the table. POLLOC AND GOVAN RAILWAY. Mr. JONES moved, pursuant to notice, that the Committee to which the Polloc and Govan Railway was r, feiled, should have leave to sit and proceed with the investigation on Tuesday (to-morrow) at twelve o'clock. • Ater a short discussion strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were— For the motion 42 Against 38 Majority On the - motion of Colonel G. LANGTON, the Portbury Pier Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committ-d. On the motion of NIr.ORD, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. BOWES, The We:t Durham Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART, The Monkland Canal Bill was read a second time, and oraered to be committed. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD WATER WORKS BILL. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON the Lords' Amendments to this Bill were agreed to. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, April 5. The House sat to-day to hear appeals; the Peers pre sent were, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Bradford, and the Bishop of Winchester. LAWRENCE V. BLAKE, The fu-thar a-guments on this part-heard appeal were re:timed to-day. The else carve before the it Lordships upon appe,l from the decision of the Court cf Chancery In Ireland, declaring ti a! the esta•e rf the appellant was bound t) make good a sum cf 10,0001., wLich had been obtained from him by false pretences by a person of the name of Robert Arcedeckne Burke. Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Loftus Wigram appeared for the al)} ellant, and Mr. K. Bruce and Mr. Jacob for the respondents. Mr. Pemberton on the part of the appellants resumed and concludei h;s arguments to-day. Mr. Loftus Wigram fAlovred on the same side. M-. K. BRUCE - then proceeded to address their Lord ships on Lehi,lf of the respondents, but had not concluded when their Lordships rose. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—KiNGSTOX, APRIL 5. Mr. Baron Parke left Kingston on Saturday, and it was arranged that Lord Denman should alone dispose of the _ Elie Lordship was engaged the whole of the day in try ing a case of alleged nui,alce, against a Gas Company at Vauxhall, which was not disposed of when our account left. MASON V. THE HON. LUKE KING. This cause ta as tried on Saturday, before Lord DEN MAN and a Common Jury. It was an action against the lite High Shet iff of the county of Surrey, under the Act of the 28th Elizabeth, cap. 4, far extortion. By the Act in question, a Sheriff is entitled to a poundage of one shilling in the pound, where the sum distrained for does not exceed one hundred pounds, and sixpence in the pound fur any sum over that amount, and the Sheriff was not en , titled to any furklicr charges, except the goods seized were sold by auction. It was alleged in this case, that although the goods had not been sold by auction, the Sheriff's oflicm had made a demand of bl. 18e. for the Sheriff, as fur a sale of that description. Mr. Sergeant Channell and Mr. Charnock appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Plal conducted the defendant's case. The case occupied the Court for several h(Airs but the following are the circumsta ices that appeared it evidence : —The plaintiff had obtained a verdict against two persons, named Rosin and Newland, for the sum of 901. 55., and a writ of execution was placel in the hands of the Sheriff, who seized the goods of Rosier, and sold them for 101. 189. He subsequently took possession of Newland's rroperty, and disposed of it by a bill cf sale, for 1061,, and a charge cf four guineas was made by the Sheriff upon the bill of sale. The plaintiff subsequently applied to the Sheriff for a return to the writ, and this return wal to the efEct that he hail paid out of the sum in question 301. for the rent of Newland's premises, 191. Ist 6d. for ex r eases ; end lie also returned that he had paid tl-e 101. 183. received from Raler's effects, into Court, under an interpleader rule. The plaintiff called for 'an account of the expenses that had been i lcurrei, and it then appeared that there was not only a charge of 41. 4s. for the bill cf sale, but there was also a charge of 51. 18s. for broker's commission and auctioneer's charges. Thi , , it was contended, was a violation of the Act of Elizabeth, and that the defendant was liable under the statute iu question either to be sued by a common in former for the penalty of 401. offered by the Act, or to be liable to the plaintiff in treble damages and costs. Mr. PHILP, the plaintiff's attorney, was called to prove the greater part of the above facts, and the writ, return thereto, and the other documents were put in evidence.. It appeared in cross-examination that the auctioneer had been applied to to sell the goods, and that it was by an arrangement to which the plaintiff's attorney was privy that the goods were disposed of by bill of sale instead of by auction, and that this course was tolopted with a view to obtain a larger amount for the plaintiff. Mr. THIISTGER remarked upon the fact at considerable length in his address to the Jury, an.l submitted to them that, under these circumstances, the Sheriff ought not to be punished for doing with the consent of the plaintiff's attorney an act, the object of which was to benefit the plaintiff by realizing a larger sum for the goods that had been seized. Lord DENMAN addressed the Jury, who, after a short deltheration, returned a verdict for the plaintiff far three times the amount of overcharge and treble costs. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, APRIL 3. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) John Thomas, the elder, William Thomas, and James Por ter, were indicted for the wilful murder of James Nutt Pearce, at Bristol, on the 16th of August last. The unfortunate deceased Pearce, had been an accountant, but havin g been thrown out of employ, had for several years past acted as a private watchman in St. George's parish, and upon the 9th of February, 1832, had received an appointment as a special constable to preserve the peace. It appeared that on the morning of Sunday, the 16th of August last, between two and three o'clock, a young man, named Gough, detected John Thomas the younger in the act of stealing some apples from his father's orchard, and having sent fur Pearce, and also for John Tho as the elder. Gough, in the presence of his father, gave young John Thomas into the custody of the deceased. 'f he deceased and Gough then took their prisoner, old Thomas quietly following, to the city po lice station, which happened to be full, and accordingly they proceeded towards the county police station, which is some distance off, and had got as far as the George and Dragon, which adjoins the Redfield School, when the prisoner Porter, accompanied by William Thomas, came up with a large stone in his hand about the size of half a pint, and exclaimed, " Un less you let him go, I will dash your brains out." The deceased, however, kept his hold, and Porter immediately struck him two or three times with the stone on the back of the head with great violence. Old Thomas then came up, and attacked Pearce, telling him that he would nothave hisson taken to pri so -, while Porter and William Thomas fell upon Gough, knocked him down and kicked him with great severity. Assistance, however, soon came ; the neighbours were alarmed by the cries of " murder," and upon their interference, Porter and the Thomases made off. Pearce, who had been thrown with the back of his head to the ground in the struggle with old Thomas, from that time became very much dejected. Ile complained of great pain in his head, and in a few days be came delirious, and walked about his bed room crying the hour, then sank into a state of stupor, and after remaining a fortnight at home after the accident, was sent to the Infirmary, where he died on the 7th of September. Mr. GODSON addressed the Jury for the prisoners, and the JUDGE summed up, when the Jury found all the prisoners .guilty of manslaughter. They were immediately sentenced to transportation for life. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. George Frenaby, 34, described as a jeweller, was in dicted with Mary Ann Franklin, and James Harding, who surrendered to take their trial for conspiracy. In a variety of oiler counts the defendants were charged separately with obtaining money by false pretences. Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Bodkin, conducted the prosecution. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Chambers appeared for Frenaby and Franklin, and Mr. Ballantine defended the pri soner Harding. A great number of witnesses were examined, but it will be unnecessary to detail the whole of the evidence that was ad duced. the charge imputed to the de'endants was, that they had gone to the shops of different pawnbrokers in the metro ' olis, and offered in pledge articles ingeniously made up to represent diamonds, but which, in reality, were of very little intrinsic value, and by this means that they defrauded them of the amount advanced upon the articles, Which in some cases was as much as 5!. for articles which were not intrinsi cally worth more than as mar.y shillings. It transpired in the course of the evidence, that these " imitation" diamonds were manufactured in great numbers by parties in London, where it appeared some of the defendants had obtained them ; and it was Iso stated that the stones were cut in Paris, but that the secret of manufacturing them was only known in this country. They were so welt executed that even persons experienced in such matters could with difficulty discern the deception. 'the Learned Counsel addressed the Jury fur their respective clients, and contended that the specific charge against the de fendant had not been made out, and that even supposing the facts to be admitted, the charge of conspiring had not been made out. The RECORDER having summed up the evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, but re commended the prisorer Franklin to mercy, on the ground of her having been under the influence of the prisoner Frenaby, with whom, it appeared, she cohabited. The CoultT said that the prisoners had been properly con victed of a most persevering system of plunder on the public, and although there might be circumstances favourable to some of the prisoners, yet the Court felt bound to pa , s a sentence of st:rne severity upon them all. Franklin was then ordered to be imprisoned for three months, Harding for six months, and Ft enaby for twelve months. 'the prisoner Frenaby, as he was leaving the bar, declared that he was not the most guilty party, but tLat he had been led into the scrape by the prisoner Harding. ILLNESS OF EARL GRANVILLE.—We re gret to state that int, Pigance was received at the Fere 7 gn Office, on Saturday, of the serious illness of Earl Gran ville, the British Ambassador at the French Court. Lord Lev son, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, left town shortly afterwards for Paris, to vi: it his noble parent. At a full meeting of the Town Council of Man chester. held on Wedneday, a resolution th a t b o th Houses cf Parliament should be petitioned fur the total and immc &ate repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws was passed nanimously. EXTRAORDINARYTRAVELLING.—Some time ago a gentleman in York undertook to perform a journey from York to the metropolis, and arrive again in York vaith;n twe:-,ty-four hours. The attempt was made during the present week. The party alluded to started from the railway station at Yo,k 3esterday morning acok, at forty five minutes past eight o'clock, and arrived in London pre cisely at half-past seven the same evening. lie transacted business with one or two patties in London, and availed himself of an opportunity of visiting Covent Garden Theatre, where he remained upwards of a quarter of an hour ; and af:er taking a stroll through the market, and purchasing sundry early productions, returned by the mail train to York, where he arrived (with comparatively no twigue) Ilse following m orning, at ten minutes before eight o'clock—thus completing the whole journey in Vaeaty-three hours and five minutes, a total distance of 450 miles.—Doncaster Gazette. Accounts reached town on Saturday from Newn ham Paddocks, the seat of the Earl of Denbigh, stating that Joseph Bonaparte (Count Survilliers) had been taken suddenly and alarmingly ill, and that Dr. Gran. villa had been sent fir express to attend him, with Dr. Elmore and Dr. Morgan, the resident physician. We aro happy to add that when Dr. Granville left the Count yesterday morning he was considerably better. THE WAI.SALL ELECTION. It is almost impossible to place in sufficiently strong contrast the conduct of the two parties. The Reformers endeavouring, on the one hand, to enlighten the minds of the constituency; and the `Polies, on the other, labouring to brutalise them, by adding beastly excess to the ignor ance which they sought to perpetuate, present a charac teristic picture of the two parties. Loud was tie &amour against the introduction of Mr. Arland into the borough : and why was this clamour raised, or, what object had Mr. Acland in view which could be justly condemned by any reasonable or honest man ? He came, net to coerce or to corrupt the parties whom he addressed, but to establish them in the Possession and exercise of the.r political privileges, while he taught them to make the exercise of them honourable to them selves as reasonable beings and patriotic citizens, and ad vantageous to the community to which they belong. Their emtes must exercise an influence on the prosperity and happiness of the nation, and he exhorted them to have re gard to the necessities of the starving millions of their countrymen, while he taught them how they might cont 1- bete to the relief of those necessities. The knowledge which the friends of Mr. Gladstone would inculcate on the peofle, is only this—that they, being comparatively poor and powerle's, are only des tined fur sli,vcs; that it is unpardonable presumption in them to think for themselves or act for their own interests, or to do anything in their political capacity beyond obey ing she commands. of their taskmasters. Nut even Tories themselves would, for a moment, com pare the introduction of such men as Messrs. Acland and Sydney Smith, with the hiring of such agents as Messrs. Patch and Nightingale. The friends of Mr. Smith act through the lecturer and debater; those of Mr. Gladstone, t' rough the kidnapper and intoxicator—Abe former seek strength by teaching men to think and a.'t on rational principles ; the latter by degradiog and brutalizing them. '1 he: exposure of such differe..t principles of action must surely result in the success of Marin and the discomfiture of Tory acts. The brutatizi g party may pcofes not to feel the inflimy t';ey have incurred; it is generally only the individual of overweening vanity and NORTH MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY BILL. Mr. JOHN PARKER moved that it be an instruc tion to the Committee on the Bill for granting further powers to the North Midland Railway Company, that they have power, if they see fit, to dispense with the to Standing Orders, so as to allow the said C om p arl borrow on mortgage the whole of the money which they ask to raise by the Bill. Mr. L ABOUC HERE said that parties concerned in the Bill applied to the Board of Trade on this ques tion, and his answer WeLF, that it was not in the pro vince of the Board to interfere , but that whenever it came in his way to discuss the Standing Orders in the House, he always recommended the the tl same (louse time, give to adhere to them. But he certainly dul, his opinion on this case, that if it should be found that there was no violation of the Standing Orders. in permit ting the course which these parties wished to adopt, he saw nothing in the Bill itself to make that course objn tionable. But he most distinctly said that it would be a most improper thing in him to give an opinion in fa vour of departing from the Standing Orders—( Hear) —and se far from supporting any such departure, he wo uld decidedly oppose it. He was not' opposed to the a pplication on the part of the Company, if it could be complied with without violating the Standing Orders. Mr. BERNAL thought the House should take the question of the St inding Orders into their considera tion and make some alterations in them before they could entertain a motion llke the present. He would express no opinion upon the zaie before the House. VENING EDITION. Sir R. INGLIS thought the Company, when they came before the House to raise an additional sum of money, should comply with the regulation which re quired them in the first instance to advance from their own funds 10 per cent. of the amount required. Mr. HUME said one of the great evils of the rail way system was the fallacious estimates on which they were originally based.—(Hear, hear.) He would merely instance the case of the Great Western Rail way, which had been compellel to come three times before the House in order to raise further sums of money in conscqueace of their estimate being so much below the expenditure. He objected to the House giving these Companies any further facilities in the borrowing of additional capital. Mr. SHIEL thought that if the words " to dispense with the Standing Orders" were struck out, and it were left to the Committee to construe them, the difficulty would be removed. After a few words from the SPEAKER, which were inaudible in the gallery, the motion was withdrawn. Sir J. Y. BULLER brought up the Report of the Committee on the Eastern Counties Railway Bill. Mr. MARTIN presented a petition from Lancaster against the Poor-law Bill. Mr. WARR URToßpresented a petition from Brid port in favuur of tLe Medical Reform Bill. Also a peti tion praying that the judgment on Mr. HethAbgton mi : zht be remitte4. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from Sid mouth and other plices, praying for Church Extension ; also petitions praying for the exemption of workhouses from Parliamentary and ether taxes ; also a petition from Torbay, praying that the packet station might not be removed from Falmouth. Sir It. INGLIS presented petitions from the counties of Salop, Somerset, York, Durham, Lancaster, Nottingham, Suffolk, Sutherland, and Stafford, praying for Church Extension ; also a petition from the inha bitants of St. Martin's-lane, praying for the abolition of tolls upon the metropolitan bridges. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from Birmingham, praying for the removal of taxes from articles of necessary consumption. Also, a petition from a borough in Seotlind, praying for the Extension of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Annual Parlia ments. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from Westminttar, praying for a better qualife atien for me dical practitioners. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from certain rate-payers of Bristol, praying that the Poor law may not pass the House until the People's Charter has been made the common law of the land. Lord MELGUND presented a pet . tion from Nor folk, praying that no farther grant might be made to the College of Maynooth ; 6lio from Montrose, praying for the abolition of Church patronage. General LYGON preiented a petition from Worces ter, and another from Gloucesor, praying for further Church accommodation. Mr. A. WHITE presentel a petition against the Poor-law Bill. Mr. NIUNTZ presented a petition from the inhabit. ants of St. George's-road, Lambeth, praying for the ex tinction of the tolls on the metropolitan bridges. Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from Leo mins.t.:r, praying for the repeal of the Roman Catholic Relief Biil. . Lord ELIOT presented a petition from the paro chial Clergy of Hoy, in Cornwall, praying fur the revision of the tithe system. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Lunt:lab, praying for the remission of the sentence upon Mr. Hetherington. Mr. FOX MAULE presented eleven petitions from different parts of Scotland, praying for the total abolition of Church patronage in that country. Mr. MORRIS presented a petition from Carmar then, in favour of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill. Mr. S. O'BRIEN presented similar petitions from several places in Ireland. Mr. THORNHILL presented a petition from the Mexican and South Americas Association at -Liver pool, complaining of the high rate of duty upon coffee. Lord CASTLEREAGH presentel a petition from the County of Dawn, Ireland, against Church patronage in Scotland. Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition in favour of tiie B 11 before V:e House for Medical Reform. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition against the Poor•law Commission and the Poor-laws, in which the petitioners stated that the people had a right to maintenance, and that, in their opinion, if they were unable to obtain it, their allegiance to the Crown was forfeited. RAJAH OF SATTARAH. Mr. HUME inquired of the Speaker if he ocubl, to-morrow, present a petition from the It 'jail of Sattarab, who had been deposed by the East India Company, and was now a prisoner at Bmares. The Hon. Gent. stated the petition was in the Mahratta language, but that he would endeavour to procure a literal translation. He remembered the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth hating presented a petition from a native chief of Africa some years ago. _ . The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman was at liberty to present the petition, provided he confined himself t] st.iting the substance of it. Mr. HUME then said that he would present the petition to-morrow. WAGES OF LABOUR. Sir W. MO LESWORTH gave notice that shortly after Easter he should move for the appointment of a Committee inquiring into the wages of labour. On the motion of Mr. BLACKSTONE the minutes of evidence takeo before the St. Alban's, Walsall, and Canterbury Election Committees were ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. HERRIES, an account was ordered of the sums expended by the East India Com pany in the expedition against China, which were to be repaid by her Majesty's Government. Lord 'FEIGN MOUTH wished to put a question to the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Colonies, relative to the appointment by the Crown of a Church Warden of the parish of Marylebone, and also as to the course which it was the inten tion of her Majesty's Government to pursue in regard to a Bill that was pending for the regulation of tLo ecclesiastical affairs of the parish. Lord J. RUSSELL said that Churchwardens had been appointed by the Crown, and the Commissioners of Woods had recommended that measures should bo taken to indemnify them either for the expenses of pursuing the remedy pointed out by the 56th Geo. 111. c. 57, or by such other modes as the Law Officers of the Crown should think proper. With respect to the Bill the Noble Lord had adverted to, it was the intention of the Government to introduce such a Bill in the present Session ; but Lord Duncannon had thought it desirable to obtain the consent of the vestrymen as much as possible to the Bill, since it would have the effect of taking away from the parish of Marylebone that control in eccle siastical matters which it possessed by the Local Act. But the attempt to obtain the consent of the vestrymen and the parish generally had excited great discussion, and the Bill being, as the Noble Lord had stated, of the nature of a private Bill, he (Lord John Russell) was afraid that it was now too late to proceed with it in the present Session. It was, howexe-, the intention of the Government, in such manner as they might be able, to proceed with a defini tive Bill on the subject. Sir BENJAMIN HALL said he hoped that whatever B 11 might be brought in, ample time would be given for its consideration by the vestrymen of the parish. Distresses had been put into the house of Lord Kenyon, and alto of the other churchwarden. Colonel WOOD wished to know whether the in demnity would be enforced ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said proceedings would be taken under the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown, to indemnify the churchwardens. On the motion of Mr. FOX 111AULE, the further consideration of the Silk Factories Bill was postponed to the 211 of April. inquire when the Report of Mr. HUME begged to Commission . • the ap po i nted to inquire into the stat e o f ou ld be laid on the t a bl e o f Children in the Factor ies w the House ? I\lr. FOX MAULE said he hoped that by the middle of June the Commissioners would be able to g i ve i n t h e i r s eparate Reports. It would be some time after that be fore the entire Report would be completed. On the m otion of Mr. FOX MAULE the Lords' anwntiments to the Turnpike Roads 13111 woe a g re ed to. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Ad ministration of Justice Bill, No. I, was read, for the purpose of its being postponed to the 29th of April. POOR -LAW BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the Houso should go into Committee pro forma on the poor-law Lord ELIOT said the Noble Lord having con sented to the principle of the clauses which he had proposed, he wished to know whether the Noble Lord intended to introduce them into the Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL said they would more properly, with some oth e r clause, come into a separate Bill. Mr. W AKLEY wished to tak e this opportunity to. bring before the notice of the house the dietary tablo in use in the City of London. It had been alleged in that House that the object of the Poor-law Amend ' moot Act was to provide for these who were destitute, to take care of the funds of the parties who paid the Poors' rates, and to enforce a proper test of destitu tion. It had also been said that its object was to in troduce one u niform system throughout the kingdom. On Friday night it was alleged by an Hon. Member that the B 11 had awed to be unpopular in the City of London ; but when that Hon. Member was asked if relief was withheld from the able-bodied in that City biz answer was that he believed no such order had been issued. Such was' the feet ; no such order had been issued in the City of London, and hence, with other ar rangements that had been cal-lied into effect, the Poor law Bill in the City had ceased to be unpopular. Great complaints bade beea made againzt the beanty , 3 , 59.4 10° 1 - 0 3, i4 90, R , 10 ' PIS 7”4 5 , 7 1 ..