The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-28 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. that those Gentleman who now spoke at the latter part •f the debate would speak at an earlier hour instead of postponing it. He did not wish to make any motion on the subject. He agreed v; ith his Hon. Friend, and had always voted with him on every occasion that night work was very prejudicial to the public interest. Many of the most important measures of the Session were passed after midnight, which would have been more ma turely considered if they had been brought before the attontion of the House in the day time. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the original Order l3O For Mr. Brotherton's Amendment 31 Majority for the original Order 99 On our admission to the gallery we found PRIVATE BILLS (COMMITTEES.) Mr. E WART, addressing the House on the motion with respect to the Private Bill Committee, of which he had given notice. He said it must have struck almost every Member who had either personally attended, or become acquainted with the proceedings of Committees on private business that the constitution of those Com mittees was capable of much amendment. The first thing which struck him was the necessity of reducing the number of Members composing them. The effect of that reduction would be to increase the responsi bility of the Members forming the Committee, and the efficiency of that body, but not only was there ground of complaint on account of their constitution, but the character of the Committees had been com plained of. It had been, and he feared with too much justice imputed to those Committees, that they acted freqeently from local and personal feeling, he need not say how grievous such a charge was when made against the Members of that House, how much it would tend to lower them in public estimation. And how necessary it was therefore that the ground for such imputations should be removed. Members might now be personally interested, and yet they might be upon Committees on Private Bills: They were selected from the localities from which the Bills emanated, and therefore were neces sarily interested. He appealed to Gentlemen who had sat upon those Committees when, after the Committees had met, they were not often divided into several local parties, so that the Members were sometimes led by local influences, sometimes by political influences, some times by influences still more partial and personal. He saw several Hon. Members near him who served on a Committee last Session, which was prolonged for the space of about two months ; he alluded to the Liverpool Docks Committee. In that case the contest became one almost purely between two local parties, and it was almost impossible, from the views taken by most re spectable persons on both sides, for the Members to separate and keep clear of those local prejudices which to the Noble Lord, the Member for Liverpool, on the one hand, and to himself (Mr. Ewart) on the other, rendered it so difficult to come to a conclusion. But this was only one case ; such instances were almost in numerable. There was no Honourable Member who had served upon Committees, who had not reprobated this evil in a tribunal which ought to be strictly judicial, and should never be made the vehicle of local and per sonal feelings. It had even happened that on a purely local matter, political subjects had intervened ; one political party had taken up one side of the question, and another party the other side. It had been per ceived, for instance, that by the passing of a particu lar Act, the number of voters belonging to one .party would be diminished, and thus the measure, from being a purely judicial one, had become, first, a local one, gm:badly, a politic it one, and thus the ends of justice were frustrated, the House did not do its duty, and the public interest. was damaged by such proceedings. He bad already spoken cf the system of canvassing which took place both previous, to and during the sit ting of a Committee—it wee a system much to be de precated ; therefhse he thought the time had come when they were called upon to vindicate the character of the House, and that Hon. Members should be al lowed to do their duty to the public. The public had not slumbered on that important question. Certainly there had not been many petitions from the people of Eagiand, but a reference to the Journals of the House would show that there had been numerous petitions presented from Scotland, complaining of the subject. Ile supposed that arose from the superior foresight and knowledge of the people of that country, which induced them to look sharply after the . doings of those deputed to represent them. He proposed that as they now had a Committee of Selection at the begin• nine, of a Ses,ion, as Committees were required, the Committee of Selection should choose seven Members from among those' gentlemen who were least interested, either personally or locally, Isith the sulject•matter of the ail to he considered. Ilia object was to increase the purity of these Libunal. , . Ile had no doubt that by reducing the numbers, he would ieerease tie respoesibility and insure a more regular attendance. He did net cense before the House without seine evidence on the subject, aiel. lie would give them the epioioa of a gentleann weal ver sed in the practice of Parliamentary Cunanaittres, who wis able to form an o f -inion upon the subj,:ct, namely Mr. Ha; ward, the well known Par i,:incntr.ry Arent. His evidence went to :.her, that pet sota, would he prevented from fight:ag a bad cause before C;ramittce, if th case was to he hard before an lin partial tribunal—that tke present system was one of very great expellee, where the rich ruin hi.d a decided advantage over the peer man—that it would be a cidqd advantage to have a sea , .ller unnther to fcrm the Co,nmittee, as it would enerease the rcsp-rot.ibility and 4 , C , 110 a better attendance. evidence of otlftr witnesses on these pints was to the sense effect, and it was distinctly shown that local isfluetase was too frequently exerted in levees of a measure beiere a Com mittee of the House. O.i these grow ids it apoeared to him that the e.i:c!e,iion of Meath :-is who wcre locally ni ioteresteMtither by tliselves through their Constituents wo , :i1(1 be attended with beneficial results. The principle was admitted to be one of reform, whirsli had been already in some tlegre carried into effect. Committees would thus he totaily changed ; there would be thus an entire reforaritioa effected in then:. He had not only the evidence taken before Partin. nientary Committers to siJpport the suggestion which he made, but he had also the satisfactien to r.ntl that the plan which he proposed was odopted i.i tire House of Lords. It was well known to Hen. Members about him that in the Heues of Lords they fetind it ahse lutely necessary to adopt the plan which he new sul.- mitted to the consideration of the House. He would not further advert to that part of she question, but refer Hon. Members to the c\;idenee of the Doke of Ps'ehmond respecting this subject, end which lie (M r . Eesert) had then before him. Inc hul also before him so me evidence given by Pailiamen'ary agents during the last Session of Parliament before Committees of that House, estahishing that the expeihnents made in the other House had succeeded. He felt convinced, that by the ellanje which he proposed, not only would the tribunals to which it applied be rendered more pure, but business would be better conducted, and the delays which had been hitherto to a very great extent effected during the sittings of Committees by Mem bers interested in the questions ender considera tion, would be put an end to. He said Members had caused delays, and it must in evitably b e so , as th ey were interested as partisans, and they acted with the spirit of pirtisan•. Another advantage of the system he proposed was, that messy excellent Members who at present were scarcely ever called on to serve on Committees, would have their talents and their energies brought into action. If Mem bers did not happen to represent places in some large manufacturing districts--:f they represented purely ag ricultural districts—they were never called on to act, except on some petty miserable Bill affecting some change in a road, or something that never called forth their talents. Indeed he felt confident that the plan he proposed would materially benefit the House. At the same time he wished it to be understood that by his plan Members on Private Bills' Committees would not thus undertake two offices at the same time. If the House wished the question might be limited to Private Bills' Committees ; he only desired to carry a sound principle into effect. He therefore called upon that House to adopt the amendment lie proposed. It af fected the character of the House—and the character of a public body like that House, should be as that of an individual—the first of all considerations with it. The character of their proceedings should be as pure as possible, or at least as little contaminated as possible. Strongly feeling that that principle ought to be the basis of all the regulations of that House, he called upon the House to assent to the proposition which he laid be fore it. Mr. AGLIONBY seconded the motion. Sir. GEORGE GREY hoped the Hon. Member for Wigan would not press his motion to a division, but would await th e resu l t o f t h e i mprove d system now in operation. Ho hoped the Hon. Member would think his purpose was sufficiently a ns were d i n h av i ng b roug ht the question bore the H ouse . If t h e H on . Gentle iaan did press for a division he (Sir G. Grey) should be compelled to vote aglinst him. Mr. AG LIONBY said it had been always thought most essential to have our tribunals as pure as possible from all private and local interests. This, question was not a new one, but had been raised again and again be fore the House. It was necessary to have local infor mation, but it was not necessary to have local intere s t —(Hear, hear) —or if it were, the local interest he would have should be the same as that had by the House of Lords. It was admitted that no Member . who h a d pecuniary interest could sit on a Committee about to decide on sow q u es tion that mlqhtaffe!l it, and h e (Mr. Aglioliby) could not distinguish betw een pecuniary interests and the bias and force imposed upon Members by th e w i s h es o f th e i r constituents.—( Hear, bear.) The system adopted by the House of Lords was found to work very well, and he could not see why the House of Commons should be behind that Noble House in reforming its private business. Sufficient time bad been allowed for trial of the present system. bear.) The Speaker had had the honour of introducing many reforms, but many were still required. Mr. GOULBURN h ope d that Hon. Members would take the advice of the Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey), and not press for a division, It was a question of great importance. If he considered a Committee of the House of Commons as a purely judicial tribunal, he might agree with the Hon. Member for Wigan ; but he did not regard a Committee of that House as acting in an exclusively judicial capacity, His view of them was that a Committee was appointed to do that which the House of Commons itself ought to do, but which, for the convenience of public business, was devolved to a selection of Members of the House to prevent the House being so encumbered with business as to be pre vented discharging its duty to "the public. He should as soon think of excluding any person from giving in formation as a Member of the House of Commons from a Committee on a question in which he was locally in terested. The Hon. Member for Wigan's motion went to the point that no Member should serve on a Com mittee who, through his constituents, was interested in the Bill. Now that would exclude him from doing that which was one of the objects for which he was re turned.—(Hear, hear.) A Peer had no consti tuents to represent, and could have nothing but a local interest, therefore the House of Lords were bound to take measures to prevent their Com mittees being formed by those who might be person ally interested. He (Mr. G.) could not consent to adopt a practice, which, in his view of the duties of a Member of Parliament, did incapacitate him from su perintending the interests of those by whom he was s'nt to that House.—(Hear, hear.) The present sys tem ought to have a fair trial, but at all events it was a subject of too much importance to be decided in so thin a House. Mr. WARBURTON could draw no distinction between the duties of Members upon public Bills and their duties upon private Bills. Members were sent there not as the agents or attorneys of their con stituents, but to consider the interests of the whole empire.—(Hear, hear.) No doubt the present prac tice was an improvement upon the old system, but even now repeated applications were made from Com mittees on private Bills, in consequence of the requisite number of disinterested Members not attending, for permission to proceed in spite of that non-attend ance. He was of opinion that the sooner the present system was changed the better it would be for the pub lic.--( Hear, hear.) Sir CEO. STRICKL AND said that if his Hon. Friend pressed his motion to a division, he should cer tainly vote with him, because he was inclined to think the Committees wanted further improvement. At the same time he thought his Hon. Friend had not com pleted the plan he intended to adopt. He agreed that the Committees ought to be kept as pure as poss.b!e from local interests. .He thought that the plan pro posed by his Hon. Friend might be more fully worked out, and he would therefore wish that he would not call on the House to come to a decision without further consideration. Mr. ESTCOURT thought that the Hon. Member might more properly have introduced his proposition some years ago, when abuses existed in regard to Com mittees on private Bills, which had since been removed. The amendment had been made on various occasions, and some of them ha tee eourse of last Session. Be sides, no slstem could obviate every possible inconve nience ; and for his part he was of opinion that if they removed from Private Bill Committees all Members who had an interest in them, they would only deprive themselves of the necessary local information. Mr. LABOUCHERE hoped that his Han. Friend would no press his motion against the recommenda tion of the Committee of last Session that the system then adopted should have a fair trial. The question whether Committees should be exclusively official and divested of local interests was one of very great diffi culty. That House could not separate its Committees from the representative character of the whole body, and render them strictly judicial, as were the Com mittees of the House of Lords. Mr. PRYME considered it would be a great evil net to have local Members on the Committees, and thought that a Committee, constituted on the plan of the Hon. Member for Wigan, might, with the greatest possible desire to do justice, commit gross injustice for want of local knowledge. Mr. HUME would ask the Hon. and Learned Member for Cambridge what he would think if he were to see a jury-box filled with persons having a local inte rest in the matter to be tried, and the cases of a jury and committee were exactly similar. He would admit that it had been usual to consider Members were placed on those Committees to do the jobs of their constituents. But that was an abuse which ho wished to see done away with altogether. He would admit that many a b uses w hi c h 1 1 •1,1 e xi s ted formerly in respect to the ap pointment to Private Committees, had been remedied, but that was only a reason for getting rid of the rermir, jag ones. He thought that the time had come when there should be no more temporising, and would, therefore, support the motion cf his lion. Friend. He, for one, would not be afraid to go before the country on this question, as he was convinced that every honest constituency would say that they would nailer £llbMit a question to a C Hnmittee having no lola' interers than be s:uhj,ctcd to ,j )liLing. Mr. RICE s chat it was frecoenly considered an a dv ao t,, g e at qu.lrter sessions and assiz,ni‘ far a jary t o have local koo,.:ledge of the matter in dispute. Mr. JAM STEWART supported the motion. Mr. EWA RT, with every disposition to accede to the prepesition of the R:ght Hon, throaet felt, so strenely that justice and reason ve:,:re on his side, thlt, 117, iteist press the question to a di.'ision. Setangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Meuse divi(h d, then there appeared I: Jr Mr. E.7nrt's resclutiv.m4 22 tim againq the resohtioa3 --2 COPYRIGHT „ILL. Oa our al!nission to the gallery we found Sergc:Ant TALFOURD on his legs, moving for I: , ave to bring in a Bill to amlnd the law with rcsp,?et to enpyriabt. Mr. Mr. WARBU RTON could as:;ure the House that he ((10 not intend to let even a stage of the Bid pass without olThring to it his most strenuou3 aed dotermined opposition. When the matter was formerly discussed, either upon the introducing of the Bill or the second readiee , , Gentlemen on that side of the Home stated that they entirely diagrced, both wall r2spect to the principle wad details of the Bid, but if he (Mr. War burton) weuld allow the Hon. and 1,-arned Member to hring in the Bill, when it came into Committee they would ar,i.rt him (Mr. Warburton) in opposing( till de tails of the Bid, and then there w3uhl no dia:ult v gaffing- rid of the qtrs:ion. He (Mr. Wirimr;on) divided the House on Ihe second reading, end these Gentlemen voted tit ii the Hon. and Learned man. Ho (Mr. Warburton). ref course!, supposed that when the Bill came to the Caminittee he shouid have had the assistanco of thx. , .e. M•mihers. Amongst whntn were her M ijesty's Attorn::.: 7 '•Gencral and same of the CAhinet Mitdsters ; but when the Bill came into Committee he (Mr. Warburton) had as much reason to ce.mpiain of the state of the House as the Hen. and L'arned Ges!nticman had. Those had promised him their support were not in attendance, i.nd he had to riz.ht f•gainst the Bill single handed. He (Mr. War burton) would not commit the same m;stake azan, and therefore it was that he was determined to fiiht it in every stage, and if he co.itd net get support in that House, he would endeavour to get it out of it. He considered the Bill as one that was calculated to in flict the greatest injustice on certain portions of the community. In the very outset of the question the Hon. and Learned Gentleman and himself were at issui, upon the true principle on which the judgment of Members ought to be guided with respect to the measure. He (Mr. Warburton) considered that that judgment ought to be formed upon its utility. He did not agree with that mode of meeting the que:- tion. He contended that the interests of authors and the interests of the public were both to be considered, and properly and duly weighed. It was upon these grounds that the discussions before the Judges and the House of Lords proceeded. On former occasions, when this question had been argued, the Hon. and Learned Member had said, " I have the common law right with me." - Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD interrupted the Hon. Member by saying that he was quite unaware that any opposition would be made to his motion ; he had no notice of it, and he trusted that the House would not commit the injustice of taking advantage of his surprise. —(Cries of " Adjourn.") Mr. WARBURTON observed that he also had been taken by surprise, for he was not aware until half an hour before he came down to the House of the motion of the lion. Gmtleman. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD stated, that not being aware of the opposition, ho w °aid renew his motion on Friday. CONSTABULARY BILL. Mr. HODGES obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the Constabulary Force of England and %Vales. The House adjourned at Eight o'Clock. ROYAL MARINES.—An order was on TLl3:4lay received at the Woolwich division of Royal Marines to forward immediatc!y two recruiting parties, one to Edin burgh, under the command of Captain Philips, and one to Hereford, under the command of Captain Wright. It is said similar orders have been issued to the other divisions at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, preparatory to a considerable augmentation of this force. The number of companies about to be raised is twelve, which will give commissions to twelve Captains and twelve First Lieu tenants, and the appointment of sixty sergeants and sixty corporals, five sergeants and five corporals being attached to each company of marines, while there are only three sergeants and three corporals attached to companies of the line. The difficulty which at present exists in obtaining men for the Royal Marines, renders it probable that for the inure speedy raising of the number required, a reduc• tion of the standard of height, or an addition to the amount of bounty, will be resorted to. The Earl of Wilton arrived in town on Monday evening from Eaton Hall, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, in Cheshire. The Noble Earl has quite recovered from his indisposition, and will leave Grosvenor -square at the c l o s e of th e wee k t o j o i n Ole Countess of \\ ilton, at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mow. bray. THE SUN, LONDON, TH CR ,DNY, JANUARY, 28, Is4l. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN MENT. SIR VALENTINE BLAKE'S FOURTH LETTER, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—Like other venerable institutions, which bad for their object the good of the commonwealth, Poyn ings' law was invented by succeeding generations to sub vert the civil and religious liberties of Ireland ; else the boasted repeal of that much calumniated and mis understood statute (on a dispassionate consideration of the harmony between the Crown and the people which that Act, if rightly construed, was calculated to establish--of the noble and generous conduct of the magnanimous monarch by whom it was suggested, and the unanimous and grateful adoption of it), would bo justly condemned as an act of folly, if not a perfidious violation of the public faith. The law of Poynings was obviously introduced as a mere personal res!riction upon the power of the Lord Lieutenant to assemble the Parliament, or to recom mend measures for its adoption, without the previous knowledge and approbation of the Crown. It was, in fact, a security to the people for the perfect enjovmentof their privileges, and when occasionally suspended, in succeed ing times the suspension was looked upon by the people as a suspension of the Constitution, with intent to throw odium of some abuse of power upon the local Government, and accordingly there was no usurpation, no oppression, no tyranny that could dishonour a King or a Deputy, or that could defraud and enslave the Parliament and the people of Ireland, that was not resorted so under colour of Poynings' law, on the pretence that it extinguished the Constitu tion of Parliament. Upon this misconstruction of that statute, a corrupt Court majority always interposed to refuse the permission of the House to any Member to introduce any Bill upon any subject what ever, even a Money Bill, which had not been previ ously certified and agreed to, first by the Lord Lieute nant and then by the. King in Council. So that, in fact, all law, human and divine, was set at nought in the first instance, to feed the sordid and sensual desires of a monster, to whose arbitrary will the acts of the two Legislatures of England and Ireland were sub ordinato,and by whose orders the anti-Christian engraft meet of a Protestant Church, without a congregation, was reluctantly submitted to with fear and trembling by a Roman Catholic Parliament and a Roman Catholic population. This system was contrived and acted upon by Queen Elizabeth and King James, who waged a war of exter mination against the rights and liberties, as well as the lives and properties, of the population of Ireland, and however otherwise and elsewhere pure and upright the reformed religion may be, in Ireland thus introduced, forced forward, and fostered by extortion, confiscation, and persecution on the one hand, and by inducements of temporal power and advance ment on the other, it will be described in times not far distant as an impious mockery of religion by all good men, and is so now by the true advocates of real Protestantism—for it is unlike the Church of England except in external form, and may be compared in spirit to the acerbity of a convicted harlot in a sa cerlotal habit, seeking, by prostitution and defamation, to extort money under false pretences of sanctity and religion, If Poynings' law had not thus been perverted to produce vice and immorality as a substitute for the national religion, there would never have been penal laws, confiscations, exclusive franchise, cor porate monopoly, or religious discord in Ireland. The great error in 1782 was not to have vindicated the true interest and meaning of Poynings' law— instead of, by its condemnation and repeal, having as sented to the propriety of the misconstruction of its salu tary enactment. Had this course been adopted there would have been ever since a resident and inde pendent Parliament in Ireland, which could not have endangered the integrity of the empire—all I would have been content ment and loyalty, and there would have been equally diffused throughout Great Britain and Ireland a reciprocity of feeling and interest far more binding than any legislative enactment (even if fairly obtained) can ever produce. It is under those extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances that the principle of Representative Go vernment, and the moral effect of the true Reformed Religion, have never combined, or been fairly tried in Ireland—the introduction there of the double onerous union of a Reformed Church with an Unreformed State, has created, for several successive generations, two irreconcileable. parties : a majority of the landed proprie tors, yoked to a prolific idol, which they consider as the shield and protector of their temporal power and ad vancement, worked up to a pitch of religious insanity on the one hand, and the people to a man, including the occupyieg tenants of the foregoing High Church party, and a most respectable and highly influential mi nority of the lords of the soil on the other--and, there fore, the only question considered in Parliament by the Asti :formers, woh reference to the Irish franchise, or to any other rneasui e, is, how far it will be car sst ent evith, or prejudice the stability of the false D e ity which Lord Stanley represents and worships, without any regard to the natural feelings, prjudiees of Cie balk of the popelition—objects which ought. to be, and are, a priaiary consideratioe, especially in matters of religion, with a!! cons . .itu:i3nal aid high s:.atesmeo, throughout the civilized I have th,.l honour to be, S'r, Your obliged and obedient servant, VALENTINE BLAKE. Gqbert Abbott a'Beekett aryl Henry Pvne, Eqtli.ci, were yes.trdly calLd to the bar, by ttw 11,n. .ciety c.f Fres i\LP., has announced his Inten tion to re,ign Or: representa:lou of the united burouln cf Penryn and Fa!rnouthin a future Par is Tient; he Du! ,:e aud Duchcs6 of SutherTand, accom pani,cl by the Marquis of Staff,r , ..l, and the Ladies I, , veson flew r, will I v; Li'ilesha:l, Stßffordshile, early in ti.e nsniog wc.',L , lc for Stalford House, for the szasoa. The Eall of Sandwich has purchased a man sion in Dnver-strec - i, adjoining Vicount Powerseourt's arni Earl of Mexharough's. We have to record the demise of Major,Gen. Sir Henry Worsley, G. C. B , which took place last wcck in tllc Isle of Wight. The gallant General was in his 73• l scar. On Monday morning a lad named Evans, the son of a labcerrg man, was placed in the stocks at Watford, alder rAtlicr pr eeliar circumatances, and which have c eatcd a good dad of interest in the town and neighbour hood. It :-peArs that about seven o'clock on Sunday evening, Evans, the lad in question, was w,lking• down t',le 11 L ;li-struet, Watford, nith four wild rabbits Li his hand, %%hen he n:et Mr. Capel, a county justice, who a,ked him some c,a.stions about tee rabbits, ar:d he told mhe teas going to take them to a perton in the toir.n. Caliel teen charged hint with offering aim for sale, and laid hold of bins, and fur a constable and ordered hint to t Ice ham to the cage and lock him up, and the ea. er d'd so, and he remained all eight in the c-'ge with nothing but some a:raw to be upon. Tne next morning he was taken to the private office of Mr. Pugh, where Mr. Capel attended, and upon his own view convicted the &fondant in the pe nalty- of 53. for folio7'ing his wcedly calling on a Sunday, and in default ordered that lie should he put into the stock,. The boy said that he would try and get the money, and the ()Meer accompanied him for that purpose, but being unstic c-s-ssl'ul, he was eventually placed in the stocks, and re mained there for two hours on Monday morning before cc was released. The father of the boy has for a great many years been employed in the establishment of the Earl of Essex, and his mother in that of Lord Clarendon, and it does not appear that he was ever before charged with any offnce. CHARTIST B 4PTISMS.—The Chartist places of Sunday .convocation, er " preacl,ing shops," as Mr. Moir, the tea-dealer, termed them, continue to be attended by numerous misled tradesmen and their families, and the torn of baptism has been gone through on sixteen to twenty children in one day. It is usual to giv . e the children the names of some demagogue orator, or trcasoa able fel.on, who is suffering in the cause of the Charter. On a late occasion, there were three John Frosts, an Ann O'Connor, and a Mary Vincent, named in the " Noddy" Church, when no fewer than twenty-five children went through the form of baptism. —Glasgow Courier. PUBLIC REWARDS.—THE LATE CAPTAIN IlawETT.—The situation of Captain Hewett's family is a good example of how public rewards are distributed. " Captain Basil Hall has published an appeal to the grate ful feelings of the nation in behalf of the widow and eight children." The question which strikes every man is, why should Captain Basil H-al have been compelled to do anything of the sort? Captain Hewett was a remarkably industrious man in her Majesty's service ; and although he lost his life in a branch of it in which the man of science Las to s:nother many of the lr. d lew.ions of the sailor," he has left behind him the fruits of his labour, at the Admiralty, which will save thousands from the sudden watery grave which he wet himself. Fortunately for us " Gentle men, who live at home at case," and think " nothing of the dangers of the seas," as the Burns of our navy once sang the late Captain Hewett had no chance of distinguishin g himself But look at Admiral Stop. ford's despatches. Does be not give to the gentleman who sounded so beautifully every spot where every anchor was to be cast his share of the victory ? The lost he,e night late Captain H ewett was emp l oye d i n t h e same b us i ness a s t n, w home; tr e a on swb w ro e t r l e aer s , i a tt n in d g hi a s t eldest home o and by our firesides I And Capt. Basil Hall has "to appeal to the grateful feelings of the nation" for his widow I Shame on it. Shama on us, if private charity is thus to do public jastice I Shame on us, if the widow of such a man as Hewett is, after privations hardly heard of in romance, to starve with a large family, on a dead Lieutenant's pension. Why do we say this ? Be cause we know (it was quite an accident that we did know it) that the stream of private charity is stopped towards the family, from a conviction that the Go. vernment ought to take care of the widow, and that not to • jga ra''v for we cannot replace husband, son, and brother. [The' above remarks were suggested to the writer by a gentleman, who is a large subscriber to the fund. They are not in his own words, but it is the substance. Ha is an influential M.P. and F. R S., and seems to live only to do good, forgetting politics where science is concerned. Many of his remarks about the pen sions given to Messrs. Somerville, Airy, Faraday, Sze, arc omitted; but if the Government, Whig or Tory, does not remember the dead as well as the living, som:thine• will be said of these matters hereafter.)—Morning Herald. MONEY MARKET and CITY' NE WS. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) TIMES.--The letters from Manchester state that very large orders have been received there from Mexico for British " throstle-yarn," to be exteuted within a limited time, and subjected to a moderate rate of duty o n ly on importation. This is animportant relaxation, though but a temporary one, of the previously strict law, by which English spun-yarns have been entirely p ro hibi te d i n t h at country. These orders, if they can be completed within the time which has been fixed, will amount to above 200,000/., and have produced some increased activity in the trade, the attention_ of the spinners usually engaged in the German and Russian trade bring directed towards this new market. Money had become more easy, and the bankers were ready to accommodate the spinners and traders of the second class. Although the quotations for the English Funds have been throughout the day as nearly a s p oss ibl e t h e same as those at the close of business yesterday, or, if anything, were slightly inclined toa further d e p ress i on, t h e de b ates of last night have, considered is thought , themselves, p ro d uce d a favourable impression, and it s thought, th a t h a d i t not been for the counteracting effect of the Speech from the Throne, stocks would have risen. The absence of any thing in the speeches of the Members of either House that could be interpreted into a disresp ect f or F rance, and the general tone adopted in alluding to that country, what ever might be the different tendency of particular speeches, have been considered satisfactory, as showing that no ill feeling exists in this country, but that, whatever may be the opinions as to the foreign policy adopted in re ference to the affairs of the Levant, the desire of peace is unanimous. This, it is thought, would have been s;fficient to remove so much of the unfavourable im pression produced yesterday as was caused by the omis sion of " France" in the Speech, especially with the ex planation of Lord Palmerston, that it was occasioned by the notion that it would be inconsistent to express regret, when there had been no diplomatic termination of the in. tercourse between the two nations. All good effect that might be produced from this source is, however, counter acted by the paragraph recommending that provision be made for exigencies, as the necessity of raising money seems there to be too plainly expressed for its effect on the stock-market to be easily removed. The Speech itself has been further discussed to-day, and dissatisfaction is expressed at the want of reference to the Boundary ques tion, the state of Ireland, and other important topics, most persons seeming to agree with the strictures of Sir Ito. bert Peel on this head, and to think that the Speech has been even more than usually vague and unsatisfactory. Altogether the English stocks were at the close of busi ness a shade lower than yesterday; but, nevertheless, very few transactions took place. CHRONlCLE:—Attention has been greatly directed to day to the debates at the opening of Parliament. The funds still continue depressed, but the transactions have been limited. The notice given for a Bill to equalise the duties on East and West India rum, is looked upon as a measure of which the West India interests cannot with fairnesss complain, as the differential duties now existing have excluded the East India rum from the home market. POST.---The funds generally in both markets influ enced apparently by the same considerations as yester day, were again heavy, the dealings having still reference priecipally to the Queen's Speech in Peril:intent. A public meeting took place to-day of the shareholders of the United Mexican Mining Company. A Repert was laid before them which seemed, upon the whole, to afford satisfaction. It transpired that the auxiliary loan of be tween 60,0001. and 70,000/. bad been entirely paid off, and that, on the arrival of the next packet, IL ss. per share on the red scrip shares would be paid, which will amount to 251 per cent, upon the only debt outstanding against this Company. The sum is about 40,0001. This being redeemed, if the workings continue to show a prosperous result, a ge neral dividend may be looked for. The claim of the Eng lish Company on the Raves family, a legally-admitted claim, exceeds a million of dollars (250,000/ ) Under such circumstances there is little doubt of a renewal of the lease of the mine,which expires at the end of the pre sent year. The debt forms, of course, a prior mortgage upon the property. Independently of this demand, the works, engines, and other assets of the Company are va lued at from 300,000 to 400,000 dollars. Yet the original registered shares are worth no more than 21. per share, or as many shillings as the pounds subscribed in the first in. stance, the black and red scrip share being at 31. and 61. respectively per share. The symptom is a good one. We may make sure, from the indications presented in the pre sent ease, that the public are becoming at length duly sensible of the great uncertainty that exists, to say the least of the matter, with regard to all foreign speculations of this description. SUN.—To day the Funds were depressed by the pre vailing disinclination of most parties to speculate or invest, unless at a turn in their favour, until it is known how the ways and means of the country will be raised. Consols for immediate transfer receded again 1 1 ,- per cent., being marked 894 to -a, and for time the accurrent value was 89 to The mlrket closed heavily. Bank Stock was rat her firmer at 169 i, and Eist India Stock was steady at 250. In the heavy Stocks a good Lu3iness was done, but it was at prices rather more against the sellers. The New Three-and s- Half Per Cents, ranged from 98 to 97 ; the Three per Cents., from 89-1 to 90 ; and the Reduced T.ireo anl-a-l-lail per Cents. from 93t. Exchequer Bills wete worth 4s. to Gs. premium, and East India Bonds ss. discount. Business in Forcizn Market was dull all day. Spa nish Actives were worth 241 to 2 , Q ; Portuguese, New Fire per Cents declined from to :31 3, but rallied and closed at 32 ; Columbian Stock was without 11- teration, but Mexican was 281 to ; Peruvian brought 15i ; Buenoi Ayres, 22 to 21/, and Brazilian, 73; to 70 ; Dutch Two-and Half per Cents., were at 50/ to and the Five Per Cents at 9t to 98i. Tile Market fur Shares kept up pretty well. Great Western broutrlit 27 ; the Fifilis G E l f to C 4. ; the Bir mingham Quarter 25 to 241 ; and the New 28 preen. The cause of the advance in the Birmingham Shares is said to be a plan that has bean projected fur calling up an additional capital to pay cif the certificates, and thus ielieve the Campany of these incumbrances at once. The Indigo sales terminated this afternoon. The 'quantity actually sold was 4,200 chests, being more than nine' at this time of year, and ;he priccs rtaliz•7d were fully equal to expectation, and such as give rise to the hope of a brisk trade in most branches during the summer. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the M ites ) • The Queen's Speech has now b een rea d t h reug l ieut tile greater part of England, and h as a b un d ant ly con fi : riled the graphic description given of i t b y Si r R o b ert P ee l_ as a document after Telleyrnnd's own heart, in its eapeity of concealing the thoughts of these from whom it issued. The country never 'lewd of a Speech so rich ia its nee a qualities, FO perfect in the art of leaving all unsai:l en which the publ:e were best entitled to be satisfied, end which they were most anxious to learn. Whi'st we are told by Mr. Daniel O'Connell of the hundreds of thou sands of the Queen's subjecte who have seem them selves in to his banded conspiracy for teering to pieces. the ' Act of Union, the Queen's Ministers, as if dreading to look the mischief or its author in the face, pass both ever without a s} liable of notice ! Whilst a war has been raging upon cur Indian frontier, one of the last events of which was a battle wherein we lost twenty British officers, and of the other results of which no detailed knowledge has reached the people of England, what say s t h e R o y a l Sp ee ch upon this alartmirg subject? It never mentions ledia at all? Whilst the State decuments of North America aro full of the critical question of the north-west frontier, re specting which no syllable satisfactory or reassuring, be yond hopes that Great Britain will maintain peace by giving way, has yet been uttered in any quarter, official or unofficial, what says her Majesty's Speech to comfort us ? Literally, not one word Whilst • naval armaments and expeditions have been carried on exteneively, the weans of the country anticipated, the Sinking Fund sacri ficed, Lens and taxes have become inevitable, what says the Speech with reference to our financial condition ? Nut • a single word I Whilst former Speeches, during actual peace, have dwelt with satisfaction upon the assurances from " all " foreign Powers of their friendly disposition, and of their anxiety to keep at peace with England, in the opening paragraph of the present speech the significant term all is omitted. Whilst England has been threatened, and Europe agitated by open threats of war like measures by one great military Power against Great Britain and her Allies—whilst it woul.d have been a natu ral and easy method of tranquillizing the public apprehen sions, to indicate (had it been true) that the cause for such alarms had disappeared, or had even diminished, by including France among those Powers which bad conveyed to our Government an expression of their friendly anti pacific spirit towards Great Britain, France is in the Speech passed over by the NI hi,g Ministers, as if she formed no part of the European Commonwealth, or deserved no notice on the part of Queen Victoria but one of avereion or contempt. How far it may suit the taste of France to be put on a level with Mr. Daniel O'Connell and his repeaters, in a document addressed to the whole civilized world— how far it may comport with the pride of a nation which has talked so loudly, we might say importunately, about its honour, and dignity, and offended grandeur—a little time may show ; but this we can vouch for—viz., that all Englishmen whom we have conversed with are hurt, for the sake of France, at so glaring an omission, and sur prised at the inconsiderate levity of such a neglect. Still a far graver consideration is, that had the existing state of our diplomatic intercourse with France been sueb as would bear a favourable or promising construction, the British Government cent/4 net fail to have seized the opportueeny of so representing it, or so i m plying its amicable character, to Europe. (From the Morning Post.) The Globe, in reply to the just animadversions of the Conservative press on the foolish and mischievous suppres sion, in the Que en ' s S peec h, o f to pics which ought to have been intra uce d i nto t h at d ocumen t, w it, we ask, if the Speech were really de_ has nothing to ad vance but the f o ll ow i ng . miserable and shallow argument ad !mane s :—" If t h e document so unmercifully assailed were really as ri c h i n d e f ects as i s as serted of it, how is it that in n e i t h er H ouse, a l thoug h t h e Tories posses.; a de cided m a j or i ty i n one, and. a power f u l minority in the other—h eer fieient iiisome and erroneous in its other topics , that the Toras did not move an amendment on t he Addre ss , which wa s a n ec h o o f t h e S peec h , an d tint; manifest to the country their supei ior - nequaintance with its for ei g n rela tions —its colonial dependencies—arid its domestic condi tion ? That the Tories are exceediegly desirous of exhibiting their superior capabilities of goverment will not be doubted, That a successful onslaught on the Ministry at the very open ing of the S ess i on , and on the Address to the Throne, in re- Ply to the Speech of the Queen—which we are again and again reminded is the composition of her Ministers—would have been seized on by their hungry partisans as a realiza tion of their hopes, as the fulfilment of their confident pre dictions, uttered in every finial of language during the re cess, cannot be denied, and yet they suffered the golden opportunity to pass by 1" We can inform the Globe why the Tories, although they possess a decided majority in one, and a powerful minority in the other House of Parliament, did not move an amendment to the Address, and we arc the more bound to communicate this information as the inducement to Tory forbearance was one which our Mi. nisterial Contemporary, from any experience he can have bad of the conduct of its own party when in opposition, need not be expected to conjecture. It is that the Tories in Parliament, having it in their option to achieve a party triumph over their political opponents, or to render an important service to their country by counteracting in some degree the mischief which the imperfections of the Speech from the Throne was cal culated to produce, had an instinctive preference for the latter alternative. That a Wl:ig Journal should neither understand the force, nor even perceive the existence, of such a motive, is quite natural, and perfectly in unison with the invariable conduct of the Whig party when out of office. The defects of the Royal Speech which the Conservatives in Parliament chiefly censured and deplored were, the omission of any notice of the state of our rela tions with France, and of any censure of the re peal agitation in Ireland. The opinion entertained of the latter omission, not merely by the Conservatives of Great Britain and Ireland, but by every man in Great Britain, in whose breast the spirit of party has not extinguished every manly and patriotic feeling, was well and forcibly expressed last night in the House of Commons by Sir Robert Inglis. It is the unanimous opinion of all men, without distinction of party, excepting only those who enjoy or hope to reap sonic private and personal advantage from the Ministers of the Brittsh Crown continuing to truckle as they have hitherto done to Mr. O'Connell. But between entertaining this opinion and moving an amendment to the Address, in pursuance of it, there is a wide and important distinction. The amend ment to be practically useful, must have comprehended the suggestion of measures for the repression of the Re peal agitation, or at least a direct censure of Ministers l'er the encouragement they have afforded to the per sons most actively engaged in it ; and upon such an amendment the Conservatives would unquestionably have obtained a great party triumph in recording in its favour the votes of an overwhelming majority in one House of Parliament, and of a majority within two or three in the other, The party triumph would have been signal, and if the Conservatives in Parliament for bore to seize it, it was in the pure spirit of patriotism that they nbstained. The amendment might have been lost in the House of Commons by a majority of two. or three; and had the majority been only one, it is quite certain that the repeal agitators in Ireland would have taught their dupes and victims to regard it as an expression of the opinion of the House of Com - mons in favour of repeal, and would thus have been enabled to extend the sphere, and increase the in tersity, of a dangerous and pernicious excitement. (From the Morning Herald.) Neither the Duke of Wellington in the Upper House, nor Sir Robert Peel in the lower, would have taken the pains which they did, upon the first night of the Ssssion, to conciliate the feelings and soothe the temper of France, if both the one and the other were not strongly convinced that the course of our foreign policy during the past year had not been such as to afford some just ground of ofleace to,that country. Indeed Sir Rsbsrt Peel, who went more into the merits of the case than the illustrious Duke, ex pressly acknowledges that unnecessary cause of irritation was given to France by the course which the diplomacy relative to the Eastern question took under the aus p ices of Lord Palmerston. Whoever recollects the view which we took of the conduct of our Foreign Secretary, in the month of October last, touching his unnecessarily discourteous treatment (not to use any harsher term), will find the opi nion which we then expressed, and which, among the Lon don journals, we stood alone in expressing, fully borne out by certain passages in the able speech of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Conservative op position, who cannot be accused of a disposition to exag gerate the errors, or be too severe upon the policy of Mi nisters at any time. The conduct of Lord Palmerston on the Eastern question should always be considered in con noCen with the previous policy of the Whigs, who, during ten 3e irs, assiduously cultivated, and it was their frequent boast that they had dune so successfully—a close and in timate alliance with France, as absolutely essential to the preservation of the peace of Europe. That being so, everybody must admit that to justify Lord Palmerston in suddenly breaking off a connexion so long and assidu ously cultivated, he ought to he able to offer auth grounds for abruptly signing the Treaty of the 15th of July without the participation, or even the knowledgemf France, as would amount to an overwhelming necessity ; nothing short of this could justify him or any Britise Minister in putting the peace of Europe in jeopardy, as he un questionably did, and reviving all those ancient feelings of national animosity in a great and gallant people, which had all but involved Europe in the conflagration and cala mities of a general war. But Lord Palmerston has not been able to other any such grounds of justification—he has not been able to show any necessity for taking a step ehich gave an appearance of capricious levity to the policy of England, wounded the pride of Feince, and endangered the peace of Europe. Let us see now in whet way Sir Robert Peel treats this subject, after having had some months to consider it in all its bearings, and to form an opinion recommended to the approval of his judgment and his conscience by alt the advantages of de -I.b,rate and matured reflection. On the question of the ' 'wheyof interven'ion betvvcen the Porte and th e vassa l Prince of Egypt, the Right lion. Baronet expressly re serves his opinion until the production of the documents by which Government is bound to establish the necessity for that inte:vention of which this country has not yet ascer tained the cast or the consequences. But in regard to the soit'of spirit displayed by our Foreign Secret:try towards France, the documents, or at least the statements both in crtmination and defence, are befx e the public. It nould have been better and more satisfactory if there had been in reality documents producible in relation to every step taken in these negotiations. But Lord Palmerston chose to depart from the old and safe course of conducting negotiations, by substituting oral cornmurricati..lis for written documents: for this he received a sh:irp reproof from the Duke et Wellington, who said " he did not know why it wal that the negctiatio:!s hal been carried on con filentially and by conversation, rather than in the usual di plurn2tic manner, by notes." \Vilma Lord Palmerston was a Tory he seas obliged to adhere to the old ru'es, but sines be became a \Vhig lie has riforincd all that, prefer_ rang fur some p::rscn or other which the Duke of Welling ton ea.-.r.ot die ire, the testimony of uncertain tradition to that of authentic records. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The electors of East Surrey must be up and doing. They were late in taking the field ; the greater is the nccesity for vigorous exertion. Their flag is hoist,d ; and they have a candidate in Mr. Alcock well qualified to unite the suffrages of all who deprecate the calamity of a Tory restoration to power so long abused. The county representation of England is, generally speaking, in a most incongruous and discreditable state. It is neither with the Government nor the people; it is the party neither of Court nor country. In its policy, the honour of the Crown and the interests of the nation are alike disregarded. It chiefl; represents an oligarchy, and a monopoly. The sturdy independence that once charac tenised the yeomanry 11?,3, to a great extent, evaporated. An honourable and stimulating exa-nple is required. The men of East Starry arc in a good position to make the first advance towards a c h ange , a great practical Reform in county representatio n . • Sh ou ld they. succeed, timid serfs will become trusty yeomen in the political struggles of other counties. Their example will be es a trumpet blast, and the main strength of the Tory battalion will be broken, its heavy horse, that Las so often rode roughshod over the industrial classes, both of town and country. The principles of the Liberal candidate are such as may claim the support of all friends of a sound system of popular education; of all friends cf a protected, honest and independent suffrage ; of all friends of the combination of an Established Church with reli gious toleration and freedom; of all friends of a broad a tad firm basis for representation in an extended franchise ; and of all friends of that free trade in the produce of the earth, which is a surer pledge of remuneration for the far mer than any bread-taxing, rent. raising device ever invented by the shott-sighted cupidity of a dominant class. The electors of Walsall and Canterbury have motives for exer tion equally strong with those which should act t.pon the Surrey freeholders, though of a different kind. The Libe ral cause has not only to make an invasion upon the county representation, but to repel an invasion of the town representation. The success of a Tory party in a borough of not less than ten thousand inhabitants is a strange phenomenon, indicating a problem to be solved, and an abuse, somewhere, to be corrected. Perversion, corruption, or delusion, is implied in the fact itself. The natural and entire Liberalism of the town representation has been acted upon by ad ;hree; by perversion, in the organized efforts of Toryism to avail itself of the technical defects of the registration; by corruption, in the whole sale application of the sinister influences of intimidation and bribery; and by delusien, in the adroit use of such topics as the backwardness of the Whigs to make further institutional reforms, the pressure of the new Poor-l aw , and other points tending to obscure, in the perceptions of the many, the immense difference betnecen the present and a Tory Government. Three mouths of a Peel Ministry would dissipate all these fallacies for ever. B u t t h e . con viction would be purchased at a bitter price, S T RABISM vs.—Mr. Curtis, w h o h as l ate l y vi sited the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, &c., and witnessed Professor DieffAlbsteli operate for squinting, has introduced a new mod e o f cur i ng t h at de formity without an operation. DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN,—One de finition is as good as a thousand, and there is one at band which embodies as much truth and wisdom as mind can conceive, or man utter!! Need I say that I allude to that which is now matter of history —to a definition of the term "gentleman," at once comprehensive, plain, correct, and perfectly proper, d e li vere d b y t h e eminent :Mr. Thurtell, at the Old Bailey, before the bar and bench, assembled to pronounce en the merits of a celebrated performince of his in a branch of the fine arts (Viz. Murder considered as one of the fine arts in Black wood, November, 1839) 11;s night-scene murder of the gamester Weare. This consummate artist's definition strikes me as being equal, if not superior, to any of the dicta in art delivered by Sr Joshua Reynolds him self. To the question asked of Thin - tell, what do you mean by a gentleman ? this great man ar:d magnificent arlium mayisler readily replied—" A gentleman is a res. yeetable person, who keeps his horse and gig." What force l what surprising simplicity we have here ! Blood- Harvey, steam. Watt, gravitation. Newton, are in comparison to our defining discoverer, nothing, noodles, nobodies, next efk:n 'o Lonentitics. Thurtell bad the bead to conceive, and the moral courage to develope and declare a great social truth, involved in a definition which net only remains in full force to this day, but which will descend to future ages an indestructible landcatu k for the enlightenment of society. --Sportsman, POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE. MANSION-ISOU USE. THE Loss OF THE DRYAD AND AltOTlllill CHAP:GE I OF FRAUD UPON INSURANCE COMPANIES AGAINST M. S. S. WALLACE AND P. M. S. WALLACE.—AIter time witnesses relative to the loss of the Dryad had been erg j amined on Tuesday, s Mr. Clarkson addressed Sir Peter Laurie in dm following manner :—On behalf of thoso I represent:- here, I have to request of you again to remand those. prisoners, and I know that in making that applicationi I shall be expected to bear in my recollection what passed in the Court of Queen's Bench upon this matter a few days ago. Sir PETER LAURIE—Do you mean a remand gene rally or a remand till to-morrow morning? Mr. Clarkson—A remand over the present Session. Sir PETER LAURIE—Then you had better apply t o me to-morrow. I cannot tell what I shall do until thus: whole of the examination is complete. Mr. Clarkson—Then I think it right before I leave this presence to-night to state, in the presence of the: prisoners and their advisers, that I shall be instructed'. to-morrow morning to lay before you evidence of a similar transaction by the prisoners, in respect of a vessel of which they are they are the owners, or part owners, called the Lucy. X shall be prepared. to show the effecting of an insurance by them of goods on board that vessel, of which a third brother is the acting master on board if she is now at sea. I shall show insurances effected in Scotland, and insurances effected in this country, to a considerable amount. I shall be able to give you to-morrow morning reasonable, but not conclusive evidence from a custom-house of Scotland, and from the custom-house of the port of Bristol, that the goods so insured never were on board that vessel called the Lucy. She was chartered on a voyage from Bristol to Llanelly, and from Llanelly to Valparaiso. At Llanelly she was to take in a cargo of coals, and that cargo she did take in, but with the exception of those coals, I am instructed that she never had'an article of goods on board. There will be also this singular fact laid before you, that. at the In surance-office in Scotland, and at the Insurance-office in England, the goods which are specified in one of the policies which I now hold in my hand, consisting of earthen ware, barrels of pork, and tierces of beef, iron, anchors, and the like, amounting altogether to 930/. were actually insured both at Glaegow and in England. Insurances were effected for the very identical goods in both places and to the same amount, so that they were insured twice over. I shall be able to satisfy you that none of those goods were ever on board that vessel at all, and then I shall ask for time for the purpose of en abling me to complete that inquiry. I do nut wish to anticipate any thing, only I think it right to state that I intend to lay that evidence before you, not in a shape that I can ask that the parties may be committed, be cause P i have not evidence sufficient for that purpose, but I have letters which will satisfy any reasonable mind, and which I have r.'3 doubt will satisfy those who appear here for the prisoners, that time ought to be given to us to complete the inquiry. Idu not mention this with reference to the view which may be taken by the Magistrate as to the course to be pursued with re gard to the present inquiry, for the Magistrates' de cision will depend wholly upon the evidence given in support of the charge now under consideration, separate from any other. Mr. Charles Philips—l do not complan of the men tion of this subject, but I wish the Magistrate to 'un derstand that it is our full intention to oppose with all our might a remand over the next S, scion ; for if the prisoners are not remanded there is a very easy mode of dealing with the matter, by applying to postpone the Mr. Humphreys—Sir Peter Laurie has said, very properly,.that he will not entertain tho application till all the depositions have been taken. Sir PETER LAURIE—If this second inquiry is gone into, J think the prisoners ought to have a day or two to prepare themselves for it. Ido not think it will be right to oblige them to bring on one upon the tail of another, without giving them a little breathing time. I know nothing of the ease. 111 r. C. Phillips—Nor any of us, of course. But with respect to the case in which you have been labo • riously employed, and for so long a time, I shall cer tainly press yoU either to commit the prisoners for trial or else to discharge them. Mr. Clarkson-1 abstain from saying anything about that now. Sir PETER LAURIE—I wish you in the meantime to turn it in your mind whether you know an instance in which, where a person is accused upon more than one' charge, he has been committed before the evidence has been taken before the Magistrate, on the second charge. Mr. G. Phillips—There are plenty of instances of it. It is the custom to convict upon one charge, and to prefer half a dozen afterwards, and give notice to the prisoner of it. It is every day's practice. Silt PETER LAURIE—This does not square with what has been said that everything that passes before the Magistrate must be taken down. Mr. C. Phillips—l will put this case to you. Suppose a party is committed, and after his committal a charge is discover,,d, of course the prisonor gets notice of the charge, otherwise the party would be debarred from bringing any. Sic 1 3 E - riAt LAtiarE—Yes, if Ihe discovery is made after the commi'-tal ; but here is a discovery before committal. Mr. C. Pbiiiips repeated that it was every day's prac tice to commit a prisoner on one charge and to give him notice that there were a variety of other charges intended to he brought against him. Sir PETER LAURlE—According to the decision of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench it does not appear to me to be the custom at present. Mr. Clarkson—lt is right I should state that with respect to the vessel called the Lucy, there has been no account at Lloyd's. Nobody knows whether she is lost or whether :.he is forthcoming. Sir PETER LAURlE—According to your statement of it it is a fraudulent insurance. Mr. Clarkson=Yes. I am not in a condition to charge the prisoners with any felonious act with respect to that ship. Mr. C. Phillips—So far from it thd ship may be swimming in the water now. Mr. Clarkson—l am willing to admit that if lam not entitled to a remand upon the present charge, I cannot expect a remand upon the second charge, for 1 am not in a condition to show anything amounting to a felony ; and therefore it is a charge on which the pri soners would be entitled to be admitted to bail. Mr. C. Phillips—Therefore the only question for Sir Peter Laurie will be whether he does not think that this case is ripe for a committal. Mr, Ciarkson—That is, in other words, whether in the absence of a witness, who is still i❑ the Mediterra nean, for whom we have sent, and who will he brought here without loss of time, the Magistrate is bound to send the witnesses for trial before we arc ready to make out the case against them. Mr. C. Phillips—My friend knows very well that on such a statement a judge would postpose the trial in a moment. After some further conversation, Sir PETER LAURIE thought it would be advisable to postpone the case of the Lucy till Saturday, and Mr. Clarkfon readily assented. . _ A!derman PutrE stated that intelligence of the Lucy could not be expected until about May. The proceedings were then adjourned till Saturday next. It is supposed, that, by the exertions of Mr. Phillips, the solicitor for some of the insurance companies, and Mr. Farquhar, the solicitor for others, an embargo has been laid upon property in the possession of the priso ners to the amount of 5,0001. Sir PETER LAURIE said, that in his 14 years' expe rience as a Magistrate , he never saw a case so skilfully conducted on both sides. BOW-STREET. LIBERATION OF MR. VINCENT THE CIIA RTIST....- Yesterd y Arthur D ) son, bo3kseller, of No. 146, Kingsland-road, and Richard Cameron, Lracer and stock-maker, of No. 12, Dorrington-street, Clerkenwell, attended before Mr. Hall, for the purpose of putting in bail for Henry Vincent, the Chartist, at present a pri soner inOakham gaol. Mr. HALL inquired of the parties whether they were housekeepers, and had paid their rent and taxes? Mr. Dyson said he paid 30/. per annum rent, and had paid both rent and taxes. Mr. Cameron said he paid 501. rent, and all was paid up with the exception of the last quarter, which was ready for his landlord when he called for it; he had paid all his taxes. • Mr. HALL asked whether they had their receipts with them ? Both parties having answered in the negative, Mr. HALL said that they were to be bound for Vin• cent for the term of three years. It was necessary that their receipts should_ be produced. He had no doubt that all would be right, but it was his duty to make proper inquiries into the matter, . It was then arranged that the parties should attend again on Friday, when, if the documents produced were satisfactory, their bail would be taken. Colonel Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Peel have ar rived at Farrance's Hotel, from Marble Hill, Twickenham. RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF THOSE WHO PERISHED IN THE THAMES STEAM VESSEL. —Alderman Pirie on Tuesday stated to the Lord Mayor that a distinguished member of Lloyd's had signified his willingness to Necive subscriptions for the di s t resse d widows, - orphans, and other relatives of the unfortanate craw who perished in the Thames steamer on the 4th of January. It was, lie observed, unnecessary to detail the particulars, as the public papers had so f u ll y stated the nature and horrors of the disaster, hut his great object in coming forward on this occasion Irss to assure his Lord s hip, and through his LQrdsbip the public : that the necessities of the relatives of the poor follows who were lost were very great. The Lord Mayor expressed his gratification at the exertions which the highest characters in the City were determined to make to raise a subscription for such • objects, and stated that he had no doubt of the result, EVFNING EDITION. I COURT OF SEW OF - WES T. j MINSTER AND PARTS OF MIDDLESEX. A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the Citj and liberty of Westminster and part of the County of Mid* dlcsox, will be held at the Sewers -alice in Greek-street Soho-square, on Friday next, to proceed with the following business : went 1. To try Traverses of such parts of the Presentment of the Jury on the Ranelagh District, delivered into Cool on the 27th November, 1841, as relate to Building s n (l f heretofore rated, Chapel and Wards, and 57 Ac res Land of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea—St. Luke's Chu ° , Robert -street, Chels e a—th e Chap e l (l a te old Chur ch / I Church-lane, Chelsea—the Workhouse in Gloucester road, Kensington—and the Burial-ground and Workhouse' Arthur -street, King's-road. ocl 2. To mak e a d ecree f or a R a t e on th e Ranclagb on the Counters Cre e k S ewers , on ho u ses, &e. 6 "" and on Land at 2d. in the pound. sat 3. To sign the Rate-books for the New Rates, Putt o f to the said Decree, an d th e Ab s t rac t o f t h e Rate-boo ks- the Rates made 15th Novemb,:r, 1839. TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS. The turn-out of colliers n; this district has, ire lieve, become general, except in some few inatauZ where their demands have been acceded to. We lieve that in the first i ns t ance th ey ma d e a demand e , an advance of 10d. on every 4s. of wages they vier ° ,i bs ceiving (being the amount paid per pit load). the masters, we believe, agreed to thi s ad van ce, and 'l. g men resumed work ; but after wo r ki ng a few clai l i ,„l these advanced prices, they agai n t urne d out, t"„. -demand no w b e i ng f or a f ur th er a d vance o f 10d. 1 !" - ,, pit load. In other words, after succeeding in o btaiol an advance of a b ou t '2O per cent., the colliers are n t ; r demanding that the increase shall extend to 40 P si ccnt.—a demand which, as may be expected, the c O l masters generally are determined to resist. Tae 1 ices arc consequently out in the Manchester distrto t' be Bolton district, and the neighbourhoods of A 5 , 11: Little Halton, &c.; but in West H o u g ht o n, Blao r. 6 wad some other pla ces , th e y are wor ki ng a t the adva nc e of 10d. per pit load. A Correspondent at Ashton states, that all thec I liars in that neighbourhood are out ; and adds masters, it is believ e d, will be oblig e d t o g i ve soingl Vance ; but to what extent is not yet known. stalks of coal on hand at the pits are very small , a n t the proprietors of some of the pits decline selliog— pr4lsent.—Manchester Guardian. COLLIERS' TURN-OUT..—The brief turn-out eel tit e colliers is virtually at an end for the present, as all; pit s in this neighbourhood are at work. The rfi :ii however, are not satisfied with the resu lt, as the 501 : n advance asked for has not been obtained in solt r ," ‘ stances. At the collieries of J. Fl e t c h er , E sq ., at f t " ton, the advanced price was ref use d, an d n ew lia-„'-if crtigaged, wlio came in very freely.; and, at the closco lasit week, a notice was issued, stating th a t s uch 01 t y old'. hands as should offe r th emse l ves on M on day ` ner d ing last should be accepted, but none afterwards; it is;Stated that many of thorn seized the opport uD r i dt anti returned to work on the old terms.—Belton Press. CORN AVERAGE. ii ENERAL AVEltAtil: 1 her 71:10 INcek ended be. 22, 1 the titspectors,li the tlifierctil Walos,per Imperial Quarter. Wl‘at. Barley B.. Mi. I Rye 'RICES OF BRITISH C 1)11 '10 ( ! t'4o, made up from the Ilet'"ilitiP ; Cities and Towns in Engi a " • 21s. 4:1. Berns. ........ 394.101 31s. id. l reaw ........ , 3 35 ' 1E LAST SIX WEEKS. OATS. I RYE. DEANS. AVEIt A GES OF 171 Week ending! wn EAT. IBARLEY. I P ~ --6 40 I Dee. 11 ,32 I 0 4l , „" 1 1 40 18 6O 1 32 4 2.1 5 33 5' 40 . 43 25 6l 8 32 11 21 5 32 7 140 ,!, :9 i t Jan. 1 .6 Vl 6 32 6i 29 I' rg ji 8 CI 7 32 10 21 8 :3: , . 5I 40 :, 33 ' 15 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX '' " 91 Wheat (os. 100. I Oats Barley ' . 3 Sd. I Rye DU riis OW FOREIGN 55 cOn li tt Bil . ecaasues::::::::1° ;:. 1 74 4 i Wheat 2*q -' 2 (l. Oats I . Barley THE MARKETS. - MARKET. last market-day, 112. COAL 0. s. (1.1 tl 0 Ships arrived sine • S. Maydon Main l6 6 Walls End Stewart's •••• '''' 9.-i 0 Middle's West H ar tl ey I S 0, Walls End Caradoc ........... 0 0 Orig , nal Windsor's Pontop 13 6lWalls Eed Hartlepool" ..... 96 ' 0 Smith's Pontop l7 OiWalls End Kelloe ........... 0 0 Walls End Brown's 2l 6, Walls End Adel4itle ••••• 'O. O. $ Walls End Clennell 19 0 WAII3 End Seymour ... , Walls End Hilda ..... 22 0! Wal l s End Tees ........••• .. 17 I Walls End Killingworth ... 911 - lartley .......................... ;0 A Walls End Iletton 25 0 Howard's Nether.oniAtlO• 10 ' Walls End Lambton 4 0 a . to S. 39 a 35 40 10 70 38 46 33' 5g 47 36 "* .41 _... 35 41 40 44 42 44 46 28 31 38 40 3 „, t4 g i a as 42 44 6 q 0 4 2 41 411 48 44 2.4 46 33, 33 45 01 3r. 40 4 ,1 37 . 9 40 2.6 j 7 36 0 10 42 i 33 A. , ~Tan. "26 lei I; 81. to v 9 2 8 1 1 6 10 8 '' 8 0 8 1 4 / , '7 7 0 10 8 0 , 2 9 s' 3 0 0 0 0 6 0 :31(i 3 41 6 O • 40 0 41 40 0 49 40 u 4 1 a as 0 yz , 0 49 6 ao , 21 6 0 :0 0 0 40 0 :u; 0 es 43 0 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. 1 Wheat. i Barley. 1 Oats. Beans. t...—...-- .Isa... ••••..........erub. .---... Per Quarter s, to s. s. to N. Is.to a. a. to 6 Heston Braintree 53 , 62 24 34 26 30 38 4( Big liton 53 C 8 28 56 22 26 59 31 Coalliridgc..,, — tI, 31 ...... 22 3 C Chichester.-- . 6 (10 32 I 23 _ 9'. Duinnow Grantham Grimsby 54 -60 35 39 22 23 42 49 Hall,llaM Hitchin :Ai CO 30 38 22 30 28 3! Ipswich 5l (70 20 31 24 28 38 4( Lewvs 53 64 34 36 121 23 as 3E Lynn Maidstone ! 51) 62 311 29 26 32 139 • C Norwich ,16 I'3 21 34 •• 2S 112 28 , r( Petworth 153 6 ; 33 :16 28 33 45 4( Ron lb r d Sandwich '53 61 34 43 '27 34 33 4:: Tnelford Wi,hcch ...,, I ,; 57 C 3 123 54 24 :',O 37 ` c Wirmtham 54 61, ! 25 23 1 , 2.6 91 Yaouth ! 1;0 (75 !27 31 124 30 . )0 4'' Li t , NB POOL COHN MA it ii ET.—Jan. i:( %VHF:AT, English, White, our 701 b. ~~. --- Sc'etell, W2leh, and 7ianx Irish, Vrhite 8 Fproign atTs, Bugli,li Whist) ; and Scotch, per 451 b 2 ~, , • Foreign OATs, English, Welsh, an , •• - Foreign lIARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. - Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter - Foreign Fi.oria, English, per 2801 i). - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 240 n • CORK, Inr 480Ih. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) lied Foreign Barley, g Grinding - Oats, Bri(1,11 Foreign On bond) Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White. q; F -5 01, 463. t., 8 • 5 '; 465. s "' 20s. fr 2 s 2rs. t2'85.15. Ins. IS , 2 ,, 16 4 . 18 " "i 403. 315.2 55 • I(ni. 41i * 1 ;4.4. 4fs —l. Linseed .......... Flour (Tc r enek).— ...... .....,..., Rapeseed per 10 quarters).— CIIELTENHAIII 14Altii.ETS. Fcr Bushel. s. cl. to s. d.! Per lb. Wheat 6 .arley 3 8 4 2 Mutton . .................. Oats 3 0 39 • Veal fleas . rea,, , ............ ...., •••'' Hay 4l. !Us. to 5!. 0,. 01. per Wu. 41 " ti is 8 I 3 7 0 CANTEIMU RI MARKET'. --'' S, , 1. , ' Wheat, white..—........ (Os. to 645. ......... old-- ..-..• - g to... -- . A. --, ret1.........,.......... 573. to 615.....,. 01d,............... ~....o . garloy, Malting --„. 31s. to 3.;5...,..- Grniting- -- " ,5..t , to •''':. Oats :...-........----- -. 235. to 275. ......,,. Olti.----.. ---:: B to ', ean5.........m. , ............ 3.53 to 4 5..-... 01d.....-..... '-';‘,':: to '''' Pease ........-......—......... 425. to --s. ..-... Grey ..,......-. 3 t 0 , " • , CIIELIIISFOIM 7.I.AIKET. ~, t o , 4' Wheat, White............ (1 t., 71 Oats •••••' 59 .II hod ............... 57 it: I'case, Ursv . ... .. ... ••••''' 10 49 . Earley l3 36 White ............. , g , 1 Cheraiier ....... 36 37 Beans, Tick ................ 9; Grinding i •orer rC o 0 THE SET TLING OF TIIE: on good au th or i ty , that inamedialeb after the oo d i re leon' the Addr ess , Lurd Aberdeen and de Duke of will introduce a bill into the House of Lords for 5 1 1 nir as they ,call it, th e S co t c h Ch urc h que stion. it° Correspondent of the Globe fo r SPOONS, FORKS, &c., superior to Silver pi. rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons ear fork:( str iel Dessert, 103. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dozen; T a ble CaP n t e olii‘j 8 inches high, is. per pair; th e particular metal ° l ,`, l!e fo c l . these articles are made is so like s il ver , that it Cali " i 3, 00 from it by the stamp ; eve r y ar ti c l e ma d e i n s ilver Pi tured in this materill by , re etr RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford -s '„olf r : Who, to prevent impositi on , con fi ne t h e sa l e o f it to the— . . —.— Catalogues of prices gratis. - BIRTHS. Pr of ~A., rd On the 26th inst ,at W a k e fi e ld, t h e lad y l'u'il nell, Esq., of a son, ' •LI Fete On the 13th inst. at Florence, the lady of W. ". o f Esq., late of the 7thDrvgoon Guards, of a daughte r. , l 3dl On the 24th inst., a t Park-road, Regent's. park , t ''' . ori' S. J. Pullin, Esq., of a son. An dy the 24th inst., Mrs. Andrews, wife of Mr. S. f timbcr-merchant, Hertford, of a daughter. ire ° On the 25th inst., at Camberwell, Surrey, the 0. E. Greory, a son. I%ir f " On the 25t q. h inst., at Powis-place, Haverstoek-hill' foll° Protheroc, of a son. , A ,,, or On the 25th inst., in Devonshire -street, the ii.••• .oll' Irving Glennie, Esq., of a son. o r_ . s/ On the 26th inst., Mrs. H. 11. Pifer, of Easteh MARR 1 ED. tip. eh .T644' On the 19th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Bath, C roce Esq., of London, to Mary C r o r o me , w id ow of Mr. - • „f ed L late of Bristol. On the 25th irmt., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Ar„ r of " rington, Esq., of Southend, t o E m il y F ren ch, daug";are• c, late John Barry, Esq., of Montague-street, Russell-glir. J. lei On the 26th inst., at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, of Hawdon, of M a id en -l ane , c i ty , to Eli za , d a ughter ' Frar.cis, Esq., of New-grove, Mile-end-road. On the 26th inst., at Lakenham Church, near No r attPr Brayi:e, Esq., of Clapham, Surrey, to Elizabe tli, daughter of Willi am Taylor, Esq., of Great Yurn' A , It ,4 16 r DIED. On the 2d inst., in Dee-street, Aberdeen, Mil. n - - : ray, reli c t of the late A. Murray, Esq., of Symond 0.".." don, and Elm-place, Finchlcy. roil) /1 On the 19th inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott, of :the ~' , 0; ni 11 11 " Hammersmith, aged 78. On the 20th inst., at Liverpool, Lieutenant William f t he half-pay Rife Brigade. t „„ r o . ~,, On the 23d'inst., in London, Margaret, late Admiral William Gordon, and widow of tho laW •'• Of 0111 Y datig i rrorP' ' of Seaton, Aberdeenshire, aged 86. . crong On the 24th inst., at Eaton House, Liverpool , A' ~ t Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, aged 42. A e , rel, " On the 24th inst., at Pipe-hill, near Lichfield, -41.„,rvallton-°" of the Rev. F. Willington, formerly Rector of Trent, Derbyshire, agei 8.5. London: Printed and Published by 11IIIRDO - st ool No. 112, Strand, wt The Sun O ffi ce, No. 11 2, 0 41, the county of Middlesex.m.Thunday, Januar/ 2.1 j. " A r 1 -,; ~ i, ] ~.1 7 l = 1 . J J i