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The PI THE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COM I'AN Y. (Provivonally January 17, 1549.) Capital, 2,000,00e1., in 80,000 Sham. of 25/. each. Fret:MU - LAU rtepOSlt, 2s. 61. per Share FrOspeltV3esL awl full information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Offices of the Company, 12a, Cannon row, Westminster, on at - plkatios. G. F. FIORE, Hon. Sec.. pro tzm In a neat vklurne Bvo., bound, price 10s. 6d. SCENES WnERE 'fl MUTER HAS TRIUMPHED. By the Author of The Gaol Chaplain." Richard Bentley, New Buriington-street. HEE, MAJ ES i'l"S THE AT RE. Signor PUZZI'S Benefit. On THURSDAY EVENING, Will be pertormed Donizetti's celebrated Opera, DON PASQ U A LE. After Which a grand Pas de la Couroune, by Mdlle. M. Taglioni And M. Dor. To be followed by the Last Act of the celebrated Opera, IL G WHAM E TO, n which Mdlle. Parodi and signor Moriani will appear. To conclude with the Divertissement LA PRIMA. BALLERINA. The principal parts by Mdlles. Petit Stephan, Marra, Thomassini, Julien, Aussundon, Lamoreux, and M. Paul Taglioni. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual, price 103. Gd. each. Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. Last Night but One. TO-MORROW EVENING, aances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with LA DOUBLE ECHELLE To conclude with LE COMTE ORY. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be presented Donizetti's admired Opera, entitled LLTREZIA BORGIA. After the Opera a new grand Pas de la Couronne by Mdlle. Marie Taglioni and M. Dor, To conclude with LA PRIMA BALLERINA. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Ticks' s to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, price 10s, 6d. each. 11.1. M. it. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old BromptOn. THIS EVENT N • Will be performed a new and original tragic Play, in Five Acts, entitled STRATHNIORE. Prin _ipal characters by Messrs. C. Kean, H. Vandenholf, Buckstone, Howe, Stuart, Rogers ; Mrs. C. Kean, Mrs. Fitzwilliata, and Miss Reynolds. To conclude with the Comedy of WILD DATA. Rover, Mr. James Walack ; Harry Thunder, Mr. H. Vandenhoff ; Lady Ama ranth. Miss P. Horton. THEA ritk,,, ROYAL. ADIMPHI. Cadet tae direction a Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE KNIGHT OF ARVA. After whi.iti a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF TIIE FLOWERS. To be followed by a novelty in the thape of A MOST UNWAR -INTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright cthe annoyance of Mr. Peal Bedford. To conclu6e with JOHN JONES. /LOYAL THEATii6. 4. 3 ador ihe Management of Madame Vestris. foie Leesee. Mr. Charle - ; Yvhe THIS EVL:NING Will be performed THE SEVEN CHA3IPIO.NS OP CHRISTEN DOM. To be foNowed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. To conclude with AMATEURS AND ACTORS. Dre 43 e,; tipper &ate), 4s. ; rit, 2s. , Gallery, 1 !. jio Italf-price to ahy part of the house. The - Sew No. 2, lirClia ; - ;!er.- street, is open to the public :very rill std. .a ALLY ktt)Y AL AMPLUTIILATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. ruder tie Patronage of her M ijesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever engaged in tins or any other establishment at one time Mtlles. Adelaide Hinisie, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite Jeanette. In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in announc ing that he has engage i that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte, whose brilliant triu;nphs on the Continent ant in America have ac quired for her the appellation or the Equestrian Enchantress. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled 7AIOOLTAN and GOOJEttAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. Tu bc: twit/wed by an inimita ,-, 13 display of SCENT e it T tiE CIRCLE. in which Marie Macarte will a ATar, supported by the first Equestrian talent or ibe ia r. To conclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled THE CROCK OF GOLD ; or, The Murder at the Hall. ,yen fro:;, , -;:q.;ven till Tour. '•'r. Wc-ct. IWYAL (JUKE Y ZooLoGICAL GAItDENS. Engagement of Al. JULLIEN. First Week of the Army and Caledonian Quadrilles, IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. ruder the patronage of her Mos: Gracious Majesty, ha , Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The Public Press has unauimously pronounced the Storming of Badajoz to be the most perfect aed life-like exhibition. The Nobility, Gentry, and the Pablic are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every 7 40NDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THUItSDAY. Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public *pinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever presented—Splendid Menagerie—Julien's unrivalled Band—Vo cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder— Solos by Koenig, Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of Badajoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard ment and attack—gallant defence—rush to the breach by real troops —and final taldeaux in honour of the " Hero of a hundred fights." Doors open at Nine o'Clock, e.x, ; feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling. REFRESIIMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only Could b 3 procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinct portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. WEATHErt.—St7N 01 - 3 ICE, JuNr. 26. 'fiLansac..n - s . rna, Lowest, 56: Highest, 65; Noon, 71. aIIidNETER, 30.05. WIND W.—light 'orgr.-ze and fine sunshiny weather. ET .VATii.R. AT LONDON BEIDGE. Tlll6 DAT rninr, 1 rnir. after 6 Evening, 26 min. after 6 To•Moaßow—Morning, 53 min. after 6 I Eveninv, 18 min. after 7 1 ...".1 4,ft 4 4 t - , t , lit e '. , 1 ' .011. aU I • p 44,.). dr, 7 4 4. , -g-' -.2 b. m ‘4. c..r. V A'l' . • ' - r •oS " Y • Rorr - - . , :-t,-- atlientna LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1849. Although Lord LINCOLN'S motion respecting Van couver's Island was dropped by a "count-out" imme diately after his admirable exposure of that shame ful act of Ministerial jobbery, the subject will be brought forward again by the Noble Lord, in the shape of a grievance upon the first Sup. ply night that may appear to present a favourable opportunity. It is hardly neces sary for us to say we are glad of this, seeing that from the very outset we have protested against the transaction as one damning to the patriotic disinte restedness of the Administration. Under whatever form the matter may be brought before the considera tion of Parliament, it cannot appear to the popular representatives as otherwise than a monstrous subordination of public interests to private emolument. As such, therefore, it demands the rigid and exacting scrutiny of the House of Commons. That scrutiny it will command either during this or on some ensuing session. The importance of the retention of an island like that of Quadra, command ing the whole of the Pacific, and affording an outlet for the productions of our North Ame rican possessions, would constitute of itself a gua rantee that ultimately the fact and the manner of its transference will be subjected to the inquiries of the Legislature. But in addition to this powerful inducement to an investigation, there is the notorious incapacity of the Hudson's Bay Company to effect anything else than the systematic sterilization of any territory that may, by an evil destiny, be brought under their jurisdiction. We call it sterilization ad vhedly, fer we cannot regard that plan as other than a plan of deliber ito sterilization which reduces a country to a wild, exuberant, spontaneous, any} consequently profitless state of vegetation, simply for the purpose of aiding the propagation of the fur coated animals, from the bear to the beaver, from the lynx to the ermine. This system of manage ment has been carried out uninterruptedly by the Hudson's Bay Company throughout the whole of their gigantic possessions, and this system, in spite of such farcical masquerades of colonization as the Red River settlement, they are determined to carry out, per fas et nefas, for their own private advantage as a mercan tile association. Now it surely does not remain for us to pronounce such a scheme of government as not only pernicious to our interests as a nation, and preju dicial to our reputation as a civilized race, hut a disgrace to us as an empire, and a crime to us as Christians. The fact is legible on the face of all history, both ancient and modern, both remote and contemporary. It was the circumstance of WILLIAM Rurus pre cluding the possibility of sLything like agri cultural progre:s in the largest and most fruitful portions of Hampshire (he New Forest) tit itnparted to his reign an air of such savage austerity. Yet what WILLIAM RUFUS did to the portion of a mere province of his dominion, at a time when that dominion extended no further than beyond the boundary line of the Grampians and the shores of Englan d, the Hudson's B a y Com pany have done (and that tco in the eighteenth and ninetzenth centurieses to half of a vast con tinent Ilke the northern continent of America. Wh a t WILLIAM Rums did for the sake of the manly sport of bunting, the Hudson's Bay Company have been and are doing fur the sake of so much profit as traders ! Let them draw a warning in the shape of a deduction from the annals of their native country ! Let them remember how the Second WILLIAM fell a victim to his inordinate passion for sport l And let them beware lest they may find themselves destroyed by some Parliamentary Sir WALTER TYRRELL ! Unless they be absolutely blinded by their avarice as specu lators, by their greed of emolument, by their lust for an exorbitant per centage in profit, they will yield before their barbarous and extortionate proceedings have driven the country to desperation ; they will, in particular, shrink from the ridicule attached to those who emulate the fabu lous dog dropping the substance to snatch the shadow. To them we are satisfied that Vancouver's Island will prove nothing more than a shadow, a shadow reflected to their avaricious eyes in the waters of Nootka Sound. Even now, in this early stage of the proceeding, when the ink is scarcely yet dry upon the document which consigns Quadra to their dominion, the effect is be -1 ginning to manifest itself in a detestation of their barbarous system, which must inevitably tend at last to undermine the whole superstructure of their sway in North America. A more unfortunate time for the negotiation of such a transference could not by any possibility have been selected. Now, when emigration has be come a necessity,:the idea of barbarising yet more of our colonial territories becomes more than ever re pulsive. Now, when the golden discoveries in California have opened a fresh field for commerce en the western coasts of the New World; and now, when intelligent men are beginning to argue for the formation of a trunk railway connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific—the notion of handing over Vancouver's Island (the only available port belonging to England on that side of the Eastern Ocean) to the Hudson's Bay Company, becomes a project altogether insuf ferable. Nor are these the only prominent reasons why any honest Government directing the affairs of England should pause before juggling away for so many years such a possession. The fact upon which we have more than once enlarged before this, the fact upon which we shall not cease to enlarge so long as the geological and geographical advantages of Vancouver's Island remain in jeopardy, the fact that the soil of that island abounds in coal, with the additional fact that that coal is literally lying on the surface, and not so far buried in the earth as to require labour for its acquisition, are suffi cient reasons for a disinclination, on the par of Eng ' land, to resign her hold upon Vancouver's bland, simply for the personal satisfaction of a solitary member of the Cabinet. As a coaling station Vancouver's Island is universally admitted to be invaluable; and yet it is this Vancouver's Island that has been shuffled over into the clutches of a company of fur- traders ! It is this island which has been thus rashly lost to us at i the very period when the dawning commerce on the Pacific and the advance of steam navigation, both in regard to merchandise and war, rendered the retention of such a coaling station in such a quarter of the globe more than ever inestimable ! " The Position of Vancouver's Island is such that there is little reason to doubt its wealth and consequence will place it high in the scale of England's offspring." That is the opinion, simply but emphatically pro nounced, upon the importance of Quadra by the projector of the North American Railway, in a new and more practical argument in favour of his gigantic project, an argument contained in a pamphlet,* still more worthy of consideration than the one previously addressed by him to the author of the " Clockmaker." No sane man, glancing at a chart of the world, will gainsay the truth of that declaration. Since the periods of its being visited by Coos, by MEARS, and by VANCOUVER, the estimate formed of the value of the island, and of its contiguity to the North- American Continent, has progressively advanced. Surely, it is the height of impudence, not to say the most flagrant of all the evidences of jobbery, for a Cabinet to make away with this large and important spot of ground at the very epoch when the appreciation of its value has attained its extreme altitude ! Lord Lltacoma should feel a profound confidence in the sympathy, not of one or two, but of a wholenation, in those bold and laudable exertions which were, the otter ....rang, all lint frustrated. If an army of soldiers, or a number of individuals of any kind, were placed in circumstances that it became necessary continually to remove a quantity of pon derous material up an inclined plane or a steep accli vity, it must be obvious that the mode in which the individual burden was placed must have a material influence upon the muscular powers and physical en durance of those by whom it had to be sustained. For instance, if each man's share of the burden was of the weight of seven pounds, and the weight was attached to his ankles or part of the lower extremities, the weakest would become actually crippled by the pressure and exhaustion of strength, whilst even the strongest would find it a great impediment to loco motion, and if able to go for ward at all thus leg-logged, to quicken their pace from a walk to a run would be utterly impracticable. But let the same weight, or even one considerably greater, be placed in a knap sack or other convenient and condensed form, and borne between their shoulders, and it forms no serious impediment to progress. Every man in this country is placed under cir cumstances that he has continually to carry a burden, if not in pounds weight, in pounds money, being the share apportioned to him to contribute by taxa tion to the national revenue, and the weight is placed in that most inconvenient and oppressive mode by which it cripples and exhausts the feeble, checking the rapid progress of the strongest. Hence the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his annual exposition on Friday night, is quite content, and his auditors seem tolerably well satisfied to find, that the burden is not so great as entirely to arrest the progress of those who carry it ; that another year has rolled round, and still the charge-bearers move on, however difficultly or however slowly, but as to increasing the speed into a quick march, far less to run, he never dreams of such a thing, whilst the idea of flying would, of course, be quite chimerical. When the labours of the Liverpool Financial Re form Association, and the attention of thoughtful and inquiring minds upon the subject have been carried to a sufficient extent; when a Minister of Finance shall be found capable of comprehending the question in all its bearings, one who could see that powers of production almost infinite, when unre. stricted and under some modifications, are necessarily limited and finite, under others, it will perhaps be found, that the inconvenience of our present burthen arises not from its ponderous and insupportable weight, but from the mode in which it is imposed— that the nation is in the situation of the army carry ing their knapsacks strapped about their heels, instead of being bor ne upon t h e i r s h ou ld ers. There are two sources, and only two sources, from which revenu e can be obtained. From wealth already produced—Capital, and from wealth in the course of production—Labour. Those who have advocated direct taxation instead or indirect have, we think, usually erred in considering the former as the only proper fund from which to derive revenue ; but we take a different view of the subject, and though considering a system of direct taxation as superior to indirect taxation as the knapsack on dm t e h e eb i a t ck pr i o s pe to r the knapsack about the heels, yet that the whole weight of taxation shuldnottbe country, and upon the real or accumulated property of the and that labour should take a fair proportion of the burden, because the functions of a Government are not exclusively for the protection of the property of the rich, but the protection of person — the liberties and lives of all ; indeed, friendly as we are known to be to free trade, w e believe there are many functions which have hitherto been performed by individuals or companies which could be more effectually and more economically performed by the State for the well-being of the entire population. Perhaps if it were proposed for the first time, that a Government should commence the business of common carriers, and convey our newspapers and letters from one town to another, or take up one province of banking, the transfer of money * " The Employment of the People and Capi!al of Groat Britain in our own Colonies, at the same time assisting Emigration, Colonization, and Penal Arrange ments, by undertaking the Construction of a great Na tional Railway between the Atlantic and Pacific, from Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, to Frazer's River, New Caledonia." by Major Robert Carmichael Smyth, Wits two maps, Bvo., pp. 76. Metehim; London, 1849. from one place to another, this might be considered as stepping out of the latitude c , f a Government, an interference with individual or private operations; and that on the rrinciples of free trade, or laissez faire, as it is called by an eminent writer,* a Government should hold entirely aloof ; hut it is difficult to con ceive that any Private individuals, or public compa nies, who of course would subject different parts of the island to different regulations vs to carrying letters, could accomplish the business of carrying letters and. newspapers, or paying money orders so systematically, and, as it regards one of these two functions, at so little cost to the public. Perhaps, if a Government were to undertake the supply of gas, of water, and other functions hitherto performed by individuals or companies, there might be great advantages and eco nomy. In all these arrangements the welfare of the entire community would be promoted—that of the la bourer as well as the capitalist; and the same is the case with many functions at present performed by the Government. Therefore, there is no reason that the former should not contribute also ; and even if the present taxation takes too large a proportion from labour and too small from capital, far better to con tinue the proportions as they at present exist, shifting the burthen from the heels to the shoulders, rather than consume time and energy in disputing whether a larger portion shall be attached to the heels of one man and a smaller portion to those of another. Financial reformers lay great stress on economy, and no doubt it is a very important element in a national administration of funds, as well as in the funds of a private individual, but we view an altera tion in the system of taxation as calculated to accom plish more for the relief of the tax-payer than the most rigid economy could possibly do, even though it realised the whole of Mr. COBDEN'S beau ideal of a budget—ten millions per annum less than the existing estimates. The mode by which we conceive that the existing burden would be borne with as much relative relief as the knapsack on the back instead of the ankles, is by the total abolition of all indirect tows, and the substitution of direct taxation exclusively. Our Excise duties, our Customs duties, such important branches of the revenue, are taxes upon consumption, and here it is that the evil is so great. An indivi dual, a family, a large establishment are,perhaps, able, and only just able, to bear up under the load, which these imposts are, in addition to their assessed taxes, parochial taxes, and income tax, if in the posi tion to contribute to these latter; but the effect of the taxes upon articles of consumption, through Ex cise and Customs, has the necessary tendency of keeping in check and within restricted bounds benefical consumption, and conse quently beneficial production, the source from which additional supplies could be levied either in relief of existing chargebearers, or to meet increased public expenditure for beneficial public objects. Let this be illuetrated. Here is an individual, or a family, or a class, which may be called the producing class, and the case will be better illustrated by interpreting the term producing clans beyond those who exert manual labour. Let it include those who bear a share of the national burden, not paid out of accumu• lated capital, but from their industrial or professional pursuits, the daily labourer, the mechanic, the artist, the preceptor, the medical professor; all these may, for the sake of illustration, be supposed capable of bearing the quota of taxation which falls to their share under the present allotment, although, doubt less, large numbers are from time to time driven from their position unable to maintain it, and sink down into a lower grade, or seek a refuge in emigration; but if those able to maintain their posi tion add in any way to their consumption of articles of daily and necessary consumption, they are imme diately the subjects of large additional taxation, and thus it is that the great check is kept upon the vital energies of the nation. If they marry, or, being mar ried, have additional children, or, whether married or unmarried, add in any way to their establishment, here is an immediate heavy penalty for the trans gression. More tea, more sugar, more coffee, greater consumption of the necessaries of life, becomes the source of additional taxation, and thus a continual drag-chain is placed upon the energies of the nation. levied and collected. If on the present consumption of tea, of sugar, of coffee, of beer, of wine, of other articles of daily use in the various grades of society, the ratio bears as at present, let it be borne; but to impose it in such a way as to prevent consumption from doubling, quadrupling, or increasing in any determinate degree, is manifestly impolitic and injurious. Consumption, necessary consumption, sustains life and adds to the enjoyment of it, whilst the population must necessarily be restricted to the means for sus taining it. Each individual must, in the aggregate , be considered a producer beyond his consumption. No doubt there are numerous exceptions to this rule, but as no wealth can be produced without a pro ducer, and as the clearest statistical facts show that wealth is in a constant course of augmentation, not withstanding the daily consumption and the waste and destruction from frequent wars, fires, ship wrecks, and other causes, if the producers did not create more than they consume, this would not be the case. To prevent the producing classes from in creasing their numbers by imposing a penalty on the consumption of those things which go to sustain life, is manifestly injurious and impolitic; whilst to restrict the healthful enjoyment of life from the moderate use of articles of daily use cannot be advantageous. It may be said there would be great practical difficul ties attending an alteration from a system of indirect to direct taxation. Probably there might be some difficulties. What is there which is unat tended with difficulties? But let the Minister or the nation become thoroughly convinced of the desirability, not to say absolute necessity, for the charge, and the difficulties may be easily sur mounted. On a future occasion we may, perhaps, adduce some of the difficulties which are advanced, and the mode by which they may be obviated. * Thomas Carlyle. CotatTs-DIAuTIAL.—The melancholy case of Mr. Douglas, late captain of the 16th Regiment—a case upon the glaring injustice of which we have twice pronounced our opinion, namely, on the 11th of May and on the 22d of June—is beginning to force itself on the attention of those whose duty it is in such cases of error to demand a revision of the sentence. In our legal contemporary, the Jurist, of Saturday, we observe an elaborate criticism upon this singular trial and its defence. The conclusion drawn from an inap,rtial examination of the facts by the Jurist—one of the first organs of the legal profession—is, that the finding of the court was grossly opposed to the prin ciples of justice, and was prcnounced in direct defi ance of the evidence. The whole criticism consti tutes a striking professional corroboration of the views expressed by ourselves in our article of the previous evening. On Saturday moreover, there appeared in the United Service Gazette, the following announce ment:—" We have heard that Mr. Warren has de clared his intention of never again attending a court martial as an advocate, unless the constitution of these courts be essentially altered." Should this re portlost inp observedr him prove ewcorrect,iath fearless so m the e and fa interest, militaryit professionfaithful i r v o lfriend. a I announcement twill b will contained. in our advertisingfrom an n columns, that a address upon the subje c t of Mr. D forpreparing eing publication,. by Mr. Warren himself—the address Sovereign. form of a letter offered to our Most Gracious sm a variety of reasons, the appearance of the g p n a ' mp r h o l m et Will be looked for with peculiar curiosity. LEDRU Ronmx.—While we are authorised to contradict the statement that the Leader of the Mountain is at present residing at the Sabloniere Hotel, the opinion is very generally believed that this celebrated .11,?public:in is now living in our me tropolis. The circum stance of his escaping in the disguise of a servant is c orroborated by a detailed statement to that effect in the Solid Publique of Lyons. UTILITY OF THE TELEGILAPII.—Yesterday morn ing a pleaqire trip kit Birmingham for Lincoln, with about 3 000 persons; a ft!w hours afterwards great ex citement wes caused in the former to wn b y a report that an accident had occurred, acid that 500 persAis were killed. The railway station was insta ntl y besieged by anxious inquirers; the electric telegraph was linmf,- niately called in aid, and in a few minutes intelligence was received that the whole party had arrirtd safely in Lincoln. The rep.irt of such an accident seems to have been a most cruel hoax. Lord and Lai)" Jonn Russell had a dinner party on Satuiclay, at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. The company included the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, Lord Melguud, Lady Charlotte Elliot, and Mr. Landseer. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1849. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS Y.) lIOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER OA the Chair blio.:tly after Twelve o'clock. THIRD READING. The Eastern County , : and Norfolk Railways Amalga mation Bid was read .1 third time at.d passed. CONSIDERATION OF REPOR US. The reports upon the following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Airdrie Police and Municipal Bill. Great Northe , n Railway (Amendment of Acts, De viations and Enlargements at and near Bostou, Bentley, Lincoln, and King's-cross) Bill. Holm° Reservoirs (Increase of Rates and Amendment of Act—No. 2) Bill. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Acts Amend ment, Branches, and Deviations Bill. Stirling and Ihnfermlieie Railway (Deviation of Branch to Alba Harbour; Diversion of certain Works; Extension of Time for comph• ting Line and taking Land; and Amendment of Acts) Bill. PETI LIONS. Mr. HENLEY presented several petitions from places in Bedfordshire, praying that an enactment might be passed to prevent trading in prostitution, and for the protection of virtuous women. Similar petitions were presented from other places. THE IRISH STATE PRISONERS. Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN wished to know whether there was any truth in the report that the cholera had broken out in the vessel destined to convey the state prisoners from Ireland? Sir GEORGE GREY was understood to state in reply, that it was true that the cholera had broken out, but that other arrangements had been made with respect to the conveyance of the prisoners. Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN then made an observation to the effect (as we collected) that on one or two occasions he had opposed the Transportation for Treason Bill, but would now offer no further opcosition to the due course of justice. He thanked the Government for the hu manity which they ha 1 shown with respect to the pri• soners, and trusted that such oecurrences as had taken place would not happen again. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Irish Poor Relief Bill, and the discussion of last night was re sumed by Sir J. WALSII, who moved an amendment on the first clause, to the following effect:—" That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Poor-law Commissioners, and they are hereby required to divide the electoral divisions of the several unions in Ireland into such and so many rating districts as to them shall s:fena fit; and when the said division of such electoral division shall have been duly made by the said Commissioner, each such rating district shall constitute a separate rating district fur the relief of the poor now resident within the raise, and no pauper or destitute person shall be entitled to relief un der this Act or any Act for administering relief to the destitute poor of Ireland, save and except from and on aceount of the rating district, so to he formed as afore said, in respect to which his legal claim for relief arises; and such electoral division, so divided into rating dis tricts as aforesaid, shall continue to be an electoral divi sion, for kll the purposes of election of guardians and of representation at the board of guardians of the union within which same shall be situate: provided always, that in forming such rating districts the Commissioners shall, as far as circumstances will permit, have regard to the boundaries of tt e several properties within such electoral division, so as to form the property of each proprietor in such electoral division (or in such union, it they 51y..11 so tt ink fit) into a separate rating &strict, if sucks property shall amount in rated value to the an nual sum of I,OOC/ ; and if the rated value of any such property shall not amount to the said sum, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to unite such and so many of the adjoinin g p ro p ert i e: as to t h em seem rit, b 0 as to form a sep a r a t e ra ti ng di str i c t : or t h e pur poses of this Act; and provided also, that no rating dis trict to be forumd under the authority cf this Act shall exceed in rated value the amount of 3 000/. per annum; and prosided also, that nothing - herein contained shall be construed to limit or pr vent the said Comlaissiont:rs from forming 'try rating districts of any smaller extent than I,oooi. rated value per annum, if it shall seem ex pedient and necessary to theta so to do. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the matter ep peared to him to be placed in this form. A debate had bien taking place during the whole night as to the maximum rate, and the House was then proceeding to dis cuss the details, when the Hon. Baronet had risen to propose the substitution of a rating district for electoral division, thus getting rid of the whole question.— (Hear, hear.) He did not wish to enter into the question of the area of the districts.—(llear, hear.) The Hon. Baronet had introduced a clause which gave every encouragement to landlords who possessed more than a 1,0001. a year, and every discouragement to those who had less. In England there were about 200,000 landlords, and the average of income was about 2001 a year. He hoped the House would not enter into the question of the size of the area. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said that if the Noble Lord did net wish to outer into a discussion he should not have acquiesced in the truth of the statements which had been mate by the Hon. Baronet who had just sat down. —(Hear, hear.) He must say, however, from the op portut,ity which he had had of judging in Committees' up stairs, that it the area of taxation were not dimi nished the number of bankrupt unions would be very much increased. It vs as a question of considerable im portance; to him as an Irish landholder. Sir JOHN FAKING TON made some remark, which we did not catch. Lord CLEMENTS said he thought that the Boundary Commissioners had acted in the best way. Mr. SFA FFORD said that if the substitution which had been proposed were to take place he thought that the Commissioners would be able still to retain the same number of poor-law guardians. Mr. CONOLLY said that he had understood that the diminution of the area of taxation would be un just for the small holders of land ; he thought it would be as well if the Noble Lord at the head of toe Govern ment would make some distinct statement on the subject. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he had not stated that the particular principle of this reduction would be to prejudice the small landholders. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD thought that the discussion at the present time was very inconve nient to the House. Still pauperism in Ireland was not to be put down by some strong measure, and he thought that the reduction of the area of taxation was such a measure. But it was very inexpedient at the legitimate time s l id t h at i t had appeared time for raisin g th e p resen t present. time. he found th at several Hon. Gentlemen dtwoihsShboibirmsa'jeitq:oibuWi.beesAcßtehrda;Stwith him in several points yet differed with him here, and as be s h ou ld h e sorry to prejudice thiquestion, which was one of great imp o rt a n ce , h e should not at ,u, present o a )considered i s d i e t r . ed that the House having The amendment wds then w i t hd rawn . Mr. N in favour of a max i mum decid ed rate, t b h y e a larg eques majority n aju t w was as to w the amount of that maximum rate should be. Mr. Twisleton had recommended that it should ba 7e. in the electoral divisions, without a union rate. He woul d therefore move that that recom mendation bad been adopted, th ere must neces should be adopt e d by the House. As a maximum sarily be a fund somewhere, and he was of opinion that such supplemental fund should be raised by, a national rate on the union, as he could not see the Justice of one part of a union being called of anoth er p ar t. s fi u ci p e p b o b r y ted the proposition of the Ho n . Northamptonshire. said that, t a ki ng th e ra t e f or th e the union r a t a a l so , h e did no t e u eA l o c,mi n tororb. t rde o aGrl :y J. tfd. oiirs districts RUSSELL AtsNs d E e aLd think there would be any necessity for a supplemental fund, but if the proposition of the Honourable Member for Northamptonshire , was to be adopted, there would be a necessity of coming on the Consolidated Fund. Colonel DUNNE objected to the maximum rate being higher than 55., and supported the amendment to that effect. He aas convinced that to make it 7s. would be utterly useles,. He should like to see a maximum rate of 35., and would support a motion to that effect. Mr. HERBER r supported the amendment of the Hon. Member for Northamptonshire. If Honourable Members supported the proposition of the Go vernment they would put a stop altogether to improvement in Ireland; for no one would be disposed to give employment to the poor in his own district if he found he was charged a 2s. rate for the support of the poor in another district. Sir G. GREY felt bound to contend that the Consoli dated Fund ought not to be made liable to supply defi ciencies in the electoral districts. He contended that the proper course to pursue was that which was now proposed, namely, that when the maximum rate was at tained in any electoral division, the other divisions of the union should then be rated to supply the deficiency. (LEFT SPEAKING.) LLOYD --- LONDON, JUNE fine. Bahia 24th, Jane, Gough, Rio Grande; Gleaner , S T. m (T ode i r l a i te S b p ree A zo Y an . d ) ' Robert Alexander Park, GALWAY, JUNE 23.—Sid. FALMOUTH, JUNE 21—Variable and Light.—Arrd. Arrd. New York. BRISTOL, UN J E 94 Wi- d S.—Arrd. Emerald, Dug- L. dale, Barbadoes. Sid. Francis Walker, Calcutta. 25th, Sophia, St. John's, New Brunswick. OFF PENZANCE, JUNE 22 —Unicorn, Demerara. DEAL, JUNE 25.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E.—Arrd. 21st, Soarahaya, Swaris, Banjoewangie for Rotterdam. 25th, Reliance, Watson, Matanzas. Arrd. from the river and sailed, 26th, Abbcrton, Carr, Port Philip; Henry Tanner, Davies, Port Natal; Ceres, Culverwell, Sierra Leone; Amtgade, Costa, New York. HULL, JUNE 25.—Wind S.W.—Sld. 22d, %Volga, Quebec. OFF CASTLEHAVEN, JUNE 22.—Sir Charles Napier, Tei.re, Mobile; Mary Ann Peters, Brown, Savannah. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 25.—WiLd S.-- Arrd., 24th, Eu phurnia, iien fall, Quebec. 25. h, Mary, /\ ew Calabar ; General Berry, Patterson, New Orleans; Elizabeth, Rers, ditto; S‘r Charles Napier, Teare. Mobile. Shl., 24th, William, Il4l.fax; Renard, ditto; 25th, Beatrice, Pernambuco ; Robert, liavaiinah; Salem. Quchfc; May, Constantino-le. Off, Herald, Machio ; Isabella, Huguenot, Lancashire. The Sp. , culator, hence to Tampico, was taken into Key West, lit inst, having been on shore on the reef, and part of her cargo sold; vessel condrnan, d. A ship waa seen ashore on Tennessee Reef, 3d inst, with s,veral wreckers around her. PoiturcAwL. JUNE 23. SW. Derwent, Demerara. CARDIFF, JUNE 23.—S1d. Cornucopia, Panama; Nueva gtene, Rio Juneirv, OFF DOVER, JUNE 23.—Arrd. Santa Anni Gennaro, Catit-ro, Toyo,ao. tor Sr. Petersburgit. :4IIELDS, JUNE 25.—Wind S. and S.S.W.—Sid. Pi:ot, Li , NDONDERRY, JUNE 23.—Arrd. Sunny Eye, f3ea bury, Ntw York. CORE, JUNE 23.—Wind S.—Arrd. Bileon, Ilocd, Ma tanzas; Barton, Mackay, New Orleans. SWANSEA, JUNE 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Como doze, Crawley, Cuba. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY ) NA R Ie2t.ETS. SIVIITRFIELD.—MeadOW iltiry, 21 lOS to 31153; Clover litto, 2/ 15i to 51 03 ; and btraw, 11 8a to 11 13s per I cad. Beth Hay and S:raw moved off steadily, at full prices. UUN BE P.LA.ND. —Meadow Hay, 21 153 to 3! 18i; Clover ditto, 31 03 to 41 153 ; and Straw, 11 9s to 11 143 per load. Trade firm, at the above quotations. lIITECHAPEL. —Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31 153 Clover ditto, 2/ 15s to 5/ Os; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 13s per load. Supply limited, and trade firm. COLD/ 3/L. SUGAR.—The market lOiiirristiPlantation continues stea iy, in consequence of the extreme firmness of holders and the limited quantity offering. The sales are 270 hhds, at an advance of fully 6d since this day week. The quantity lauded last week at the East and West India Docks was 808 hhds 92 tierces; there were taken for home consumption 1,438 hhds 76 tierces 248 barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,745 lihds 1,985 tierces 4,187 barrels. COFFEE.-320 bags 20 casks Plantation Ceylon sold readily at an advance of 2s to 3s per cwt; from 40s to 49s 6d for good triage, to f fine ord; 1,400 bags common very good ord Native Ceylon brought 344 to 36s 61, being a further improvement of 6d to is per cwt; 2,100 bags Java sold with spirit at 35s to 47s for good ord pale to f fine ord coloury, being an advance of 31 per cwt since the last public sale, and 700 bugs damaged Ilavannah also sold at higher rotes, chiefly from 294 to 365. Pri vately 4,800 bags good first Rio sold at about 296 9d. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 159 puns 7 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 168 puns 26 hhds, and ex port( d 72 puns 155 hhd3. The stock in the same places is 19,564 puns 2,729 hhds. RfcE.-2,000 bags Bengal sold steadily, at 91 to lOs for low to good mid white. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 38s to 38s 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 39s 6d. TEA.—The market is steady, and the deliveries last week ware fair. Congou, ord to good ord, 8,1 to Bid; Pekoe kind, is 6i to is 10d; Twanksy, good ord to but mid, 6d to 7d; Canton kind, 3id to sd; Ily son, good ord, 10d to Is; and add to good mid, 1,9 d to 3s 63 per lb. QUEEN'S BEA CII.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nibi Prins, before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.) THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK V. HARMER. This was an action brought by the Duke of Bruns wick against James Harmer, Estp, the proprietor of the Weehly Dispatch, to recover compensation in damages for a series of alleged libels. The libels complained of alleged that the Duke of Brunswick had been expelled from his dominions, be cause he was a tyrant, and had outraged the feelings of his subjci, trampled on the laws, had the letters in his post-office opened and plundered, and had been guilty of so much atrocity that his subjects had expelled him, and burned his palace. The plaintiff denied that there was any truth in these allegations, and held that they were published in order to injure him publicly and privately. On the other hand the defendant pleaded the statute of limitations, as regarded the first alleged libel, and justification. The Duke conducted his own case. Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. Martin appeared for the defendant. Tile Duke of Brunswick read a long speech, setting forth that during his residence in this country he had been grossly libelled, by the Satirist and other paper 3, when Lad followed him into society and rendered his existence most unhappy. But the libels, for the pub lication of which he sought compensation, partook mire of a political than of a personal characti r, though not devoid of the latter, since they had reference to evcrits in Brunswick, as contrasted with that at Lucca, The plaintiff then read the libels, and called upon the jury to award him ample compensation for the injury he had sustained in consequence. lie then called the following witnesses : Mr. J. W. Jones, a libratian at the British Museum, produced copies of the Weekly Dispatch, of the 18th September, 1830, and the 17th of August, 1845. Mr. Debenhatn, of the Stamp-office, produced copies of the paper of the 3d and 10th of October, 1847 ; the 12th of March, 2d and 9th of April, and the 25th of June, 1848. Mr. Juhu Harrison, clerk to Mr. Warnford, the plain tiff's attorney, proved that from 1830 up to 1847 the defenr?ant and Mr. Robert Bell were proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch. eapviin Reinhold proved purchasing the Weekly Dispatch newspaper of the 19th of September, 1830. Porch:lsta the p%pers in March, 1848. Cross-examined—He was a teacher of languages, and lived at No. 10, Oakley-street, Lambeth. and had known the Duke ten or twelve years. He purchased the paper by the Duke's direction. He had to call the next day for them in order that they might search for them. This the plaintiff intimated was his case. Sir F. MESMER then proceeded to address the Court on behalf of the delendant. He said it was usually sup. posed that when a person appeared in a court of law without counsel that he was under much disadvautsge, but he confessed that on this occasion the defendant had been allowed considerable latitude—he had been allowed indulgences which would not have been allowed to a practised advocate. On such occasions an advocate on the other side did not like to interfere. Therefore on that occasion the plaintiff possessed an advantagp over the defendant. The case was a remarkable one as presented to their notice, for it began with a charge of libel alleged to have been published so far back as 1830. Now one would have imagined that if there was anything in that alleged libel that outraged the feelings or assailed the character of the Duke, so as to render the matter one for inquiry in our courts of justice, he would have resorted to such a course—re sorted to it when the publication first appeared, and that he would hardly have waited nineteen years, when probably the person who penned the article was dead, and when, as stated in the letter that had been read to them, "many of those now connected with the paper were little boys." Indeed, his course was not a little re markable. lie said, " It is true that from 1830, down to 1847, nothing appeared in the columns of the Weekly Dispatch of which I have a right to complain, but in tee year 1847 I find the words • outraged and indignant subjects.' In 1848, I find the words ' ruthlessly hurled from his throne.'" lie (Sir Frederick Thesiger) found in the same paper that it was stated that other exiles had favoured this land with their presence; but the in genious way in which the publication of 1830 was made to speak, at the present day, since it was raised as the means of making out the publications of 1847 and 1848. This was the most remarkable mode of making a person accountable for libel that be had ever heard in a court of justice. If the action stood merely upon the articles of 1847 and 1848. there would be no pretence for alleging that they were libels, s,p that it was only by snaking them point to what had; appeared in 1830, and making it interpret what had been published in the latter years, that the Duke could seek damages at their hands. In deed, the course the Duke had adopted was altogether unfair to the proprietors of the paper; fur the paper of 1830 would never have seen the light, it would have been consigned to the dust of the Stamp-office, if the Duke had not directed his emissary to obtain a copy, and if they wanted any evidence to prove that it had been con signed to oblivion, it was to be found in the fact that a search had been made for it. It had not been repub fished, and so far as the proprietors of the paper were concerned, the matter had been entirely forgotten. In deed, but for the anxiety of the proprietors to oblige every customer, for the sale of the copy for which the Captain had applied, they might have pleaded the statute of limitations. It might be true, as the plaintiff had alleged, that he had been compelled to bring a great num. bur of actions, and that he bad been successful to a very considerable extent. Ile had alluded to certain news papers, and had insinuated that the Dispatch had fol lowed the same case of extortion; that it had marked him out, assailed his private character for gain. Of the result of the actions to which he bad alluded, he (Sir F. Thesiger) might express his satisfaction; twice he sought compensation for libels on his private character, and indeed he held that man a public benefactor who, when he was unjustly and unworthily assailed in his pri vate capacity by the public press, brought the matter before a jury of his country, and he would not for a moment stand up and assert the right of a public journal to assail private cha racter. But he thought, if they were to consider the article of 1830 as making part of this inquiry, they would be much mistaken, since the question they would have to decide would be one of a very , different character. They would have to say whether a journalist was or was not entitled to discuss matters of public and general im port- Sauce. 1/e asserted and vindicated the right of the public press—a right to attack the public characters of public men, and to express its strong and honest opinion upon all public events. They were matters of history upon which every man had a right to form, and to ex press his independent opinion in this free country; and he would venture to say, that if they looked carefully into the columns of the newspapers that were pre sented to their notice, they would see nothing but re marks upon the public conduct and public character of the Duke, which, he asserted, the public press of this country had a right to animadvert %on in any terms, however string, provided they were satisfied that it was not done with any private malice or with the view of assailing his private reputation through the medium of his public one. Now the events with which the Duke of Brueswisk was mixed up were events of great public and political importance, and had become, therefore, part of the common property of the history of Europe. It was porfcctly clear, from the letter of Mr. Oddy, which hid been put in, that he was compelled to leave his country, as a revolution took piece there, that his palace was setup fire, and that he was obliged to escape, that, his brother was now seated upon the throne trent which this journal asserted he had been driven. The public journalist took different historicalnion t vents into his consideration, and expres,td his opinion how revolutions were effected of an unexptehceted cha princi. racier, and his opinions upon those who were the WeehN pal actors in them. If the pro Dispatch believed that the DOJO excited the that he had rßtorursnswick had aced the part of a traitor, dis gust and hatred of his subjects, that they rose indignantly against his oppression, that they hurled him from the throne, was there anything in the consti tution of this country er m law, as applicable to the press of this country, which could restrain the expression of those opinioes and feelings which he might thiak proper to express upon the occurrence of such events? How many eueccesfill insurrections had they seen within the last few years; monarchies shaken to their foundations, and the rulers of thozo States becoming exited in !oreign countries; and how often had they read the opinions that hd been given expression to with regard to tee characters and conduct of those mo iinrelis who had been so driven from their countries. Take, for instance, the case of Louis Philippe whom this paper, called " the ex-traitor of France." Let them re member how his conduct had been animadverted upon. It was impossible to imagine any attacks upon character more serious than those directed again ,t him. Take, again, the opening observations made wieli regard to the conduct of the Pope, Charles Albert, the King of the Two Sicilies, and with regard to other princes—for in stance the King of Sardinia, the Emperors of Russia, of Prussia—all of them allies of this country—and all of them just as much entitled to maintain actions against the editors of other newspapers as much as the plaintiff was entitled to bring this action against the Weekly Dispatch. Did they believe that these public persons would have any right to assail the public press, or indeed take any legal proceedings because the newspapers, confining their at tention to the public acts of public men, and having better opportunities than most men of estimating their characters, chose to stigmatise one as a wretch, another as a monster, and another as a tyrant. He apprehended if the editor of a paper appealed in his remarks entirely to pubic conduct, to historical incidents, and did not assail the private character of individuals, he appre hended that they had a right to do so—to speak in the strongest manner without being assailed by legal pro ceedings. He now came to the real question between the plaintiff and the defendant, and the liberty of the press in this country He denied that the defendant had published any attack whatever on the private character of the Duke—he de nied that the Weekly Dispatch had directed its attacks to anything except the public events in which he was concerned, and his conduct during that time, and he ap prehended the Editor bad an undoubted right to view such acts, and to present them to his readers in the tight in which he viewed them. The Duke, by his secretary, said he was not sent away—that he left voluntarily, and that his subjects in order to show their regret made a bonfire of his palace.—(Loud laughter.) But the Weekly Dispatch took a different view—it thought and said that his palace was not set fire to in order to light a beacon to guide him on his journey.—(Laughter.) But the Duke, in his secretary's letter, had libelled anti slandered the dead and living members of the dead saying, that George IV. hid enough of sins of his own to answer for without taking the additional weight of his (the Duke of Brunswick's). The Duke knew that the letter could not be produced in evidence, being written to the editor of the paper. He, therefore, commenced his action and made the purchase of the very paper in which the letter had appeared the ground of his proceedings. Such a course was unworthy and ungenerous, and had he ob jected to its production be should have been told that the letter was evidence against the person to whom it was addressed; and if he had attempted to show that its contents were false, he should have been told that that was not material to the present inquiry whe ther these libels were published or not, and whether they were libels. They could have no doubt that this action was brought in order that the letter assailing the characters of the living and the dead should be produced —otherwise why was the matter allowed to slumber for nineteen years. Ile contended that the editor of the Dispatch could not be held liable for a publican in of a letter of the plaintiff's. A letter sent to a private individual could not be held a publication unless sent with the view of committing a bleach of the peace. What was the argument used? Why, because the articles of 1847 and 1818 contained the very com mon word " outrage," which also occurred in the article of 1830 ; that the writer of the latter article: most have had the former letter in his mind. Such . was the slender foundation upon which this supersti uc:ure was based. The alleged libel likened the plaintiff to the " village despot" and "com mon•pelted sovereign" the Duke of Lucca. But the Duke of Lucca had not thought proper to bring an action. It went on to say that the plaintiff carried off his jewels, and it must be said that such an act was one of a private rather than of a public nature, and therefore it was a libel ; but nith Dogberry he might say " Comparisons -are odious." Again, his depostism was likened to that of M•Deu gal, the master of the Andover workhouse, That, be held, was a fair ground of comparison, namely, the machinations of a petty Prince. Then another of the alleged libels consisted in a long article, in which the name of the plaintiff was not mentioned, except that he was "driven from his throne by his outraged and indignant subjects." The Duke said be was not. The Weekly Dispatch said he was. It says, " I look to all the cir cumstances—to the firing of the palace, and the yells of your subjects, and we say your subjects, who were indignant, did rise, and they expelled you." How often had these very wards been applied to the ex-King of the French and other fallen sovereigns, and yet they had brought no actions. They were not there to try the merits of the revolution in Brunswick, whether the Duke was driven away by his misrule, by the popular indignation, but they had to say whether a public journal bad a right to remark upon public object., and whether it had a right to assert its views for the benefit of those to whom the pub lication was addressed. But if they fettered the press in the expression of its judgment on matters of this kind, the liberty of the press must be at an end. The remark with respect to the crimes of Geo. IV., showed the dexterity the Noble Duke had acquired by his practice in our courts. He held that the sale of the copy of the paper was a re publication of an old libel ; and upon this logic the Dispatch was to suffer. The Dispatch said in reply to one of the letters addressed to it, "It he fights a battle with us, it will be a political, not a personal one. We shall rake up no filth to pelt him with. Is may be worth the while of certain in famous publications to seek out miserable sources of private scandal—ours is a public concern, built upon public character, rewarded by public support, exercising public influence," which showed that the defendant did not intend, and had no wish, to deal with the private character of the plaintiff. Now those were the grounds on which he took his stand, and showed that the Weekly Dispatch was justified in making use of the expressions it had; it spoke favourably of the damages which the Duke had rceived from papers that made a trade of extortion, and he should be rejoiced, if he over and over again re covered damages whenever his private character was assailed; but he insisted, upon public grounds, that journalists had a right to deal with the public characters of public men; and they might congratulate themselves as, indeed, did the Dispatch, that monarchs and other exiles had found a safe asylum here. If the Duke was a tyrant, he was righteously hurled from his throne—if he, was guilty of misrule and misgovernment, it w as right that he was deposed. He held that the plaintiff was a lair object of criticism, and that the Weekly Dispatch had steed properly in what it had dune. lie should like to know where they were to stop if the Duke of Brunswick was to be allowed to come into an English court of justice to gig the British press, and to prevent its expressing its opinions, honestly and fear '. ssly, with regard to the public events that happened in his kingdom, and to the circumstances which led to his being driven from it. Wh , re were they to draw the, line? The Duke of Brunswick was not to have a mono poly in those actions; he was net to be the only public person who was to be exempted from the attacks of the press. The same principle which applied to the Duke of Brunswick to-day would apply to every other reigning or exiled monarch to morrow; and the result would be that it would be quite impossible to express any opinion on public matters, except in that mincing and diluted way which was far from desirable in a public journal. He therefore stood upon this ground: he utterly denied that there had been anything like the publication of an article in the year 1830, for which the defendants were to be held re sponsible to the Duke of Brunswick, or that in the article of 1847 or 1848 there was anything which, in the smallest degree, reflected on the private character of the Duke of Brunswick. He (Sir F. Thesiger) did most earnestly and anxiously assert the right of this or any public journal to express fearlessly its opinion of the Duke's public conduct, if it thought that conduct was obnoxious to public comment; and if the jury, by their verdict, should lay down a contrary principle, they ould do more to destroy the liberty of the press than had been done for many many years before. He thought this public journal was completely defended in this action ; and he certainly looked with some anxiety to the result of this investigation, but not with out a most sanguine hope that that result would be the acquittal of the defendant. Lord DENMAN then summed up the case to the jury . He said the Duke of Brunswick, who was the plaintiff in this case, complained of several libels which had ap• peered in the Weekly Dispatch at various times. The question was, whether the jury thought that the articles in question were libellous, and if so, what damages the Duke of Brunswick was entitled to. [I lere the Learned Judge read the article from the Dispatch of the 26th December, 1847, in which the expulsion of the young f hima t h e rtf outtrothem- 0.13. u:e'rbll: George Duke of Blucher from his dominions was spoken of in d disparaging terms.] The proper observation seemed to him (Lord Denman) upon that article to be, that that term was used rather as a bye•word, and that the Duke was spoken of Ets a person who had improperly governed his country, up h o e n Duke taken refuge in this country. Then b and written t they had immediately a long letter l Y Oddy, and of Brunswick's directions by Mr. 1 i i Wollfiatmlie description addressed to this paper, comp.a.n.ngi smis , al front his given in the paper of the Duke (1 that expla nation was that the Duke was leave. his country Men he country; and he (Lord Denmau 6 , 3 ,...., hen Sovereign subj.cts, but being about, to)otu_'sdir,diveztuaowdyth froth o in b ls mob rising against him_ was prevented doing so y ~, to England and ep: nd his on to „st fiohting at W st't fire to his snd at last I.— ) 11 ., ( , , D hispalace, manodnedyesi!lg there; the Yurt , then Prince Rigout of Charles; u eh:'ftratil:telnu In; That letter G.e l. g n e t . „r.ne,,,, doom warimsta,adleed4fohrishemwitaids s oEl i lu d ni rg ir bi a aan b nue I d e es9 : : private e I z ''l upon fortune moment this helplesS 1 1 to keep P"'sessl'", of the Duchy and • only ten Yet , rs '.'l age, private fortune of 2111atil?e Duke of BI UMWiti did what Charles, anti never to let bite Duke vi nin o t u h t a n t f r h e i . s p e cCA that e must o ut hes. a N p o p w ca h r e ed (L to ur h d im D. thut aura) ; in, giving directions to Mr. O w a d s d Y to highly write r P a re L l e t t n :r i b ' of that kind ititcting in those he had no right whatever terms On George, th e F - to cite the case of George the Fourth for publication in this paper in the manner in which he ri fLoted on that monarch. It was an attempt to publish a libel, with respect to the late King, who possibly might or might not have been justified; uut, certainly when a man com plained of being libelled in a newspaper, he ought to be the lust to take that opportunity of publislg in a newspaper a libel of another. [Here the Learned Judge read the remaining articles charged as libellous. fie roust observe that it was c!esr that on the part of the Weekly Di, , patch, erd of the Duke of Brunswick also, that the Duke of Brunswick had been subject to very atrocious libels in a certain infamous newspaper ; this the It' eddy Dispatch wde perk ctly awe! e of, and in one part of the articies complained of as libellous the editors of the Dispatch seemed to have drawn a distinction between their own conduct and that of the newspaper in question, lie (Lord Denman) agreed fully with the Learned Counsel,. that the most ample liberty ahau!ci be given to the public journalists in obaerviag on known facts, either public or private, and with respect to the Govern ments of foreign countries, they had a perfect right to state any opinion they might entertain, unless it re ft.cted on private character; but then the personal cha racter of a man might be such as to be affected greatly by his public acts, and he might chow himself to be in famous and cruel, and to deserve the name of traitor and tyrant; but no parson had a right to charge those public acts upon him, unless he could prove them. Now, itdid not appear to him (Lord Denman) that the publication fell at all within the question, tither of historical statement or political remark. There were several publication* and he was of opinion that the first publication was not protected by the Statute of Limitations, because it was sold at the otlice, though not in the ordinary way, and any one ani x ht have brought it there. He thought that that publication was one for which the defendant was answerable. It had been stated in the Dispatch, and told with great eloquence by their counsel, that " it ise after all, a proud reflection to the people of the island of Britain, that it is this haven of repose and secu rity to which the barque of the political exile invariably speeds, in order to escape from storms, and commotion at home," and then the cases of the Kivg of Fiance' and the Duke of Brunswick were referred to in illustraf oa of that sentiment. But unee the notion of the liberty of the press, it must net b.:: a 1 wed to public journalists to assail the character ut public indi viduals who came to seek a haven of repose in this country by stating facts must highly discreditable and unwarrantable, and I van cruel, on their parts, and which mould subject them to the higtust punishment if they were brought into a court of law. It appeared to him dist he had gone through the facts of this case, and it was entirely fur the jury to ,say what damages, if any, the Duke of Brunswick was tntitled to, if they thought those publications were libellous, and he left the matter entirely in their hands. The jury retired, and, after being absent for about 20 miuu:es, returned into court, and stated they found for . the plaintiff—Damages, 500/. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings gat Nisi Pritt3 at Westminster before the LOW CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) NOTTIDGE V. RIPLEY AND ANOTHER. This case was resumed to-day. Mr. MILNE, a commissioner of lunacy, proved having seen Miss Nottidgc at Mr. Stilwell's asylum on two oc casions in company with Dr. Pritchard when he con versed with her, and came to the cenclusion that she w . 49 of an unsound state of mind. Dr. Pritchard had since died, but he entertained the same opinion. She endea soured to avoid or to evade all questions respecting her own peculiar religious opinions, which circumstance W& of itself a ground of suspicion as to her sanitY• only delusion was upon religious epiniotsi and she spoke reasonably upon other subjects. Delusion upon a particular subject was sometimes called monomania, and persons who were under the influence of it wer e sometimes harmless, and were allowed to go at liberty lt : Mr. Proctor, also a commissioner of lunacy, said r gions delu4en was a common form of insanity, and persons under the influenc e o f it were periletly sensi he and reasonable upon oth e r subject,. He thought the i fact of her having, immediately on leaving the at lluni! given all her money to the person who was the subjea of ter delusions was a proof of her insanity. A clerk from the Bank of England stated that 5 , 7 w 7 , 4 7d. in Three-and-a-Quarter Cent. Annuities had bi en transferred by the plaintiff to Mr. Henry Jame s Prince in May, 1848. Air. COCKBURN then addressed the jury in reply. Th e t.e Learned Counsel ciAnmented at great length upon t",. address-of Sir Frederick Thesiger and the eTicleccu which had been produced in the case. The trial bad no , coneluded when we went to press. y r j:&zif aaj t tan NEWCASTLE RACES. (Tins DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. John Cosner Mallon ... Slowstorm ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 CO URT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, attended by the Comtesse Van der Struten (Dame du Niels), isnd Major de Moerkt rke, arrived at Buckingham Palace at halt-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, on a visit to the Queen, and was received by htr Majesty and Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by the Countess Desert, Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lient.• Colonel the Bon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie, inspected the Honourable Artillery Company yesterday morning. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise yesterday, in the garden of the Palace. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking' ham Palace. The company included her Majesty the Queen of the Belgian*, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, and Ma" dame Van de Weyer, La Comtesse Van der Straten (in Waiting on the Queen of the Belgians), Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Spetb, the Marquis of Breadalban e, the E.trl of Desarr, Mt do Moerkerke (in waiting on the Queen of the Belgians), and Sir George Ceuper. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend ance during dinner, and pertormei thefollowing pieces Overture, Zannetta Auber. Waltz, Toe Sonnambula Strauss. Grand Selection from Figaro ~. Mozart. Masanielto Quadrille on Airs from Au ber's Opera , JoHien. Kraigh's 141arseh der Preister, " Athalie" Mendelssohn• Her Majesty's Private Band afterwards attended is the Palace. Her 119yal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester will receive a distinguished circle on Friday next, the 29th instant., at Gloucester House, to have the honour of rne, ting her Majesty. Their Ropll Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess Of Mecklenburg Strelitz, attended by Lady Augutta Cs dogan, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured Lady Howard with their company yesterday afternoon, at Craven Lodge, Fulham. A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock yester ('ay, at the Foreigtootlice the Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, .V s i iL s i c . : jb u oo nt Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Fran cis Campbell, 1 13 , the t h e Ea ß rl ig o h f t C n ar o l n is . le n , and the Marquis of Cl a n r i cai d e . The Council slit hours. e sat llobhouse,toorod The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had s Committee meeting yesterday, at their office i n white' Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the . Colonial.tffiee for th o G overnors o f H ong Kong apc` Ceylon. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday, and heard au appeal from the High Court or Admiralty, Que, n v. 13,4cher. An appeal from the Arches Court, Wilson v. Wilson, was commenced. 11° Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, the Judge of the Prerogative Court. 0 1 Chancelli r of the D uc hy o f C ornwa l l, and t h e J u dge o f the Admiralty Court. MR.STUART'SEXEMPLIFICATIoNSOF SHAILSPERE.-- - This popular tragedian has keen recently giving his Shakt.peiian exemplifications at the Literary Institution , Leicester-square, with much success. His first enter tainment consisted of selections from Macbeth, and his second of illustrations of the characters of Cardinal Wolsey, Timon of Athens. &e. He was assisted by :liedlle. Lauriette, and the twin vocalists the Misses E. and M. Brougham, who sang several popular airs be tween the parts. QLTHEN OF THE OFO P F E T IN H C E E ALB ERT, Asp VISIT OF E II N E li p A o l w A: . G E E S TRY, ANDAIYD , e B E L GI ANS TO THE HAYMARKET THIS EVENING —tier grac i. usly pleased to w ino , Majesty has been rice her intention of honouring the Ilitatre•ROyaj, flay mar k e t, with herpresence this evem,,, n, an d b„ n gr p aciousy she has pleased 0 n M t i ; e W occasion. etiand to cern.- rston a new pl a y of Strathmore, in which Mr. and _lra. Charles Kean so admirably sustai n the prin • cipal characters, shall be M W a e . are ' rejoiced thus to find her Majesty extendi ~ p m e a r n k l m t e h d at to a legiti mate drama, the . production of native talent, superintendence of e artistes, and produced under the tor the British 1 a manager who has done more Prince Aloert erama than any manager li v i ng . hcr Ahj est acecmFanies h e r Itinjesty, and the Queen Y the Que e n l' . 11evrager and h er Majestyty of the Becnans will also hon our t he th' acre with their presence. The performance of Strathmore will, by roved command, cummenco at • ne o'clock. I t w ill b e prece d ed by the 'the Lu • lir tga7id, tied be followed by Our friary Ann. Hutu DEETSCIIOCK'S MATINEE MUSICALE, —The concert of tins celt brat, d pi,.nlat taken place 10-morrow, at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover-square, on which oce,sion the 68neticiare himself will perturna several of his must admired rump isitions. lie will be aw,hted by several of his compatriotes ; among o:hers, by lierr Pisack, and by that most fascinating of artistes, Mdlle Jt tey de Tre Ili. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOllllll, cf Na. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office. n. 119. Strand, in the Precirwt c,f the 'n'avoy, in the county Diidtiltsex, Tuesday, June 26, 1849.