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MORNING SUN. IRELAND. MARRIAGE OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT. DUBLLN, JULY 26.—This forenoon the nuptials of his Excellency, the Earl Fortescue and Lady Somerville were solemnised at the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park, by the Lord Bishop of Cashel. The ceremony was pri vate, only the immediate relatives of the parties being present. Yesterday the Lord-Lieutenant entertained the fol lowing party at dinner, at the Viceregal Lodge :—Lord Viscount Morpeth, the Chief Remembrancer, the Attor ney-General, the Solicitor-General, the Right Hon. T. Kennedy, Mr. N. Macdonald, Mr. Fitzsimon, Mr. Corry Connellor, Captain Romilly, the Hon. J. Fortescue and the Hon. St. George Foley, Aides-de-camp. PETITION AGAINST THE RETURN FOR WA TERFORD. The petition of the Reformers against the fraudulent return of the Tories for the city of Waterford was lodged in the Hanaper-office this day. Even if the Committee should be composed altogether of Tories, they can scarcely avoid setting aside the return, because the case is so perfectly clear and decisive. REPEAL ASSOCIATION—THIS DAY. The ustial weekly meeting was held this day in the • Corn Exchange, which was very much crowded through out the proceedings. Mr. O'Connell arrived at half-past one o'clock. His appearance was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. Owing to the crowded state of the gallery, nine or ten ladies were accommodated with seats behind the chair. Michael Staunton, Esq., Proprie tor of the Morning Register, was called to the chair. Mr. O'CONNELL said he had to hand in 4301. from persons wbo did not wish at present to give their names. —(Great cheering.) The SECRETARY proceeded to read the correspondence received during the past week. The first letter was from the Secretary of the " Repeal of the Irish Union Society," at Providence, Rhode Island, America, inclosing 53/. 55.•2d. Mr. O'CONNELL moved that this letter be inserted on the minutes of the Association, and that their thanks be given to their friends at Rhode Island. He hailed with delight this generous expression of sympathy from their fellow countrymen in America. The next letter read was from the Rev. Mr. Brennan, at Bellyille, County of Hastings, Canada, inclosing 18/. 45., being the subscriptions of 120 persons. Mr. O'CONNELL moved the admission of these persons as members of tie Association. He could do so in this case, as they were their fellow-subjects. The motion was passed with acclamation. Other sums .were received from different parishes in Ireland. Mr. O ' CONNELL then rose to call attention to the pre sent state of affairs. First, in Dublin, they had been defeated by West and Grogan, but it should not be sup posed for a - tuoment by the Association that this defeat was produced by decision of the real electors of Dub lin. The present Members had been returned by that class of animals called " assessors."—(Laughter and groans.) After making some comment on the Dublin and Carlow elections, he proceeded to say, the present contest had assumed an aspect of religious antipathy, which was produced by the Tories. They had also excited a feel ing of hatred towards Ireland, even among the English Catholics. He read an advertisement from the Tablet of last Saturday, a Roman Catholic paper, for a cook ; every qualification as to abilities and character was re quired, and she should be a Catholic, but there were tacked to this advertisement the words, "No Irish need apply." Here was an advertisement coming from a Roman Catholic ! And this cool expression of national antipathy was published in the only Catholic organ in England. What would the English Catholics be now but for the Irish—he might say for this room—for this man ?—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell concluded by reading the following address, which contains several topics al luded to by him : " DECLARATION. OF GRIEVANCES AND RIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND. " ' Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? Can Gaul or Muscovite relieve you? No! • By your own right arms your freedom must be wrought.' " Corn Exchange, July 26, 1841. " Fellow Countrymen—The Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland respectfully lay before you the following declaration of the rights of Irishmen, and state ment of the wrongs and oppression which Ireland has endured and yet endures. " We ray before you a plain and unexaggerated pro position of historical fact, or of matter now existing. We do not desire to mitigate anything, but we are deter mined not to exaggerate. The plain statement of facts will have a more powerful and permanent effect than any imaginative description. " 1. No country upon the face of the globe ever in flicted upon any other country such wrongs and iniquitous oppressions as England has inflicted upon Ireland. "2. No country upon the face of the earth ever sus tained and endured from another country so much wrong .and oppression as Ireland has endured from England. " 3. No country in the world ever violated towards any other country its plighted faith, and solemn treaties so often and so foully as England has done towards Ire land ; from the massacre of Mulloghmaston to the treaty of Limerick, and from the treaty of Limerick to the unanimous pledge given to Ireland by King, Lords, and Commons, in 1834, at the conclusion of the first debate on the Repeal of the Union. " 4. So far from having relaxed in the antipathy to the Irish people, and- their hatred of the religion of the Irish nation, the Engligh.people now exhibit more venomous -virulence and acrimony than ever they did in the worst periods of our history. Another fact, that the disposition to insult the Irish people is not confined to any party holding the reins of power, is demonstrated by the fact that the mo tion to place the franchises of England and Ireland upgl ' an equality was opposed by Lord Morpeth with as much determination as it could be by Sir Robert Peel, or even Scorpion Stanley. " 6. That the hatred of Ireland is not confined to any Government, but is a popular and national hatred, is proved by this fact—that the 'EngliSli constituencies have returned to the present Parliament an overwhelming majority of enemies to the Irish people, and especially to the religion of that people. " 7. That the English aristocracy have stimitlated, and are at the head of the present hostile movement against Ireland. They have used their influence in affording a highly lucrative patronage to those organs of public opi :nion which are the most atrocious calumniators of Ireland :and of Catholicity. " 8. That the aristocracy of England, the leaders of the present hostile movement against Ireland, have em ployed . enormeus masses of their wealth in the most pro fligate corruption of the English constituencies, in or der to procure the return to Parliament of the inveterate and virulent enemies to Ireland and to Catholicity. " 9. That this wicked hostility to Ireland and to ter Catholic people is vicious, almost to a pitch of demoniacal insanity, inasmuch as it is exhibited at a period when the Irish people, instead of meriting this satanic hostility, are in reality deserving of the respect and gratitude of the English aristocracy of wealth and rank. " 10. That the claim of the Irish people to such respect and gratitude is' fended upon these plain facts ; that Ireland never was so s generally, or for such a length of time tranquil, or unstained by so few retaliatory outrages :as she is now and has been during the Reform Adminis tration, and that the Irish people have not only refused all cotnmunion with the torch and dagger Chartists, but actually demonstrated their readiness to protect the Throne and Constitution, at the expense of their lives, against those misguided persons. 11 . That this diabolical enmity of the English aris tocracy and electors is still further enhanced by the fact that it is exhibited in contravention of the mild and bene welent virtues, and just and patriotic intentions of the -wise and illustrious Lady who fills the Throne of these realms, and whom may God long preserve ! " 12. That another aggravation of the unprovoked and insane hatred of the English aristocracy and electors to people of Ireland is to be found in the contrast with Scotland ; the majority of the Scottish people being de cidedly- favourable to justice to Ireland. " 13. The insanity of the hatred of the English aris toeracy and electors towards Ireland is further demon strated by the fact that their re-establishment of the Orange Oppressions and massacres in Ireland will by inevitable 'consequence, diminish the strength of the British e m pi re and its influence upon foreign nations, by rendering the people of Ireland justly discontented and unwilling to contribute in purse or in person to the support of such a Government. " 14. That under the Administration conducted by Peel and Lord Stanley, it will be imprudent—and,in deed, utterly unsafe—to call out the Irish militia , as that force must necessarily be constituted in the propor tion of ninety-nine Catholics for one of every other re ligion. " 15. That Foreign Powers, in dealing with the Peel- Stanley AdminiStration, will avail themselves of the weakness and wickedness of that Administration, occa sioned by their flI misgovernment oreland. " 16. That the conduct of the Tory aristocracy and electors ih England is thus manifestly marked by that insane self-delusion and political extravagance which ap pear from history to precede, as they presage, some sig nal national vengeance of the Almighty. " We call the attention of the people of Ireland to the consideration of the facts we thus exhibit. We lay these facts before that people —not so much to stimu late their exertions as to guide and direct their conduct, to inspire hope, and not to generate despair ; to suggest to the natural shrewdness and sagacity of the Irish tuition the impossibility of the continuance of a system of administration so unjust, so iniquitous, and at the same time so insane as that now threatened by the sup porters of Peel and Sta n l ey . " WE NOW PROCEED TO THE ENUMERATION OF THE GRIEVANCES OF WHICH THE IRISH PEOPLE COM PLAIN : " 1. Oar fir.it grievance is, that Ireland has not ob tained an equalization of privileges, franchises, and rights, with the people of England and Scotland. "2. This grievance is much aggravated by the fact that Ireland was deprived of her natural protection —a native Parliament—and burdened with the weight of what is called a union, without being such in reality. "3. The giant practical grievance of Ireland is, that the ecclesia:;tical state revenues of the nation are enjoyed by the church of a small minority. _" 4. Thi s g i ant gr i evance is much aggravated by the fact, that the clergy of the dominant Church are in gene ra lvieulent enemi e s o f th e I r i s h peop l e, host i le to their rights,. ; and ca l umn i ous of themselves and of their religion. . ! I .nother g reat gr i evance of which the Irish justly complain is, th e scanty and inadequate measure of cor porate reform doled out to them by the United Parlia ment in a manner much more restricted than the corpo srvisim , 'oral enjoyed by the English and the Scotch. .. T . 7 • he next great an d outrageous grievance of which ez.....15..a7fr, -t Vlain, is, that the elective franchise in Ireland is ~?•••• ,_- by ' bY law to a.m.iserable fraction of the Iri-h ne ./-ri-I_,E r -i,..14. I`,ftetically s , tt - ,r , ' : - 1 . V-11 1 6,;,_ • Peaking, the franchise is not e s njo - ye ° d - I 441 1 •:- - 1 7 per cent. of the male adult population, whilst , 41 .1e7 ~,,_ . ....., . ~,. te-' % % . ; ,_ 1~% from five-and-twenty to thirty per cent. of the male adult population of England and Scotland enjoy the elective franchise. " 7. The next great and outrageous grievance sus tained by the people of Ireland is, that they are inade quately represented in Parliament. The Irish ought, upon a calculation oQ comparative revenue and popula tion, to possess more than 170 Representatives. They have but 103. "8. The next great grievance—and one of the most emaciating; nature—is the enormous increase of the ab sentee drain occasioned by the union ; to the amount al together of, probably, more than four millions of pounds sterling per annum. " 9. That this evil is greatly aggravated by the stir plus revenue of Ireland being also remitted to England, to the amount of nearly two millions sterling per annum, thus exhausting Ireland by the payment of a tribute of upwards of five millions sterling per annum. " 10. That the greatest, the master grievance—the source of all others to Ireland—is the legislative union ; a union brought about by force, fraud, treachery, corrup tion, and bloodshed. " It ought to sink deep in the minds of the English aristocracy that no people on the face of the earth pay to another such a tribute for permission to live, as Ireland pays to England in absentee rents and surplus revenue. There is no such instance—there is nothing like it in an cient or modern history. There is not, and there never was, such an exhausting process applied to any country as is thus applied to Ireland. It is a solecism in political economy, inflicted upon Ireland alone of all the nations that are or ever were. Under heaven there is not — there cannot be any remedy save one, and that remedy can be discovered and worked out by an Irish Parlia ment—and by nothin g but an Irish Parliament. " We have stated the grievances which Ireland endures, and under which she actually suffers. Grievances unparalleled in any other country. " Yet, fellow-countrymen, it is, alas ! but too true, that these grievances, which ought to satiate the malignity of fiends, are not sufficient to satisfy the acrimonious viru lence of the Orange Tory party. That party audaciously threaten to inflict upon the Irish nation the following additional calamities : " 1. They intend to carry into full effect the Scorpion Bill of Stanley, to annihilate the elective franchise in Ireland. They say they will have the power, and you know they have the inclination, to annihilate the re presentation of Ireland, or to reduce it to a mere mockery, controlled and possessed by the Irish Orangeists. "2. The Peel-Stanley party add insult to injury. They declare the that the people of Ireland are such, ' VILLAINOUS PERJURERS' that they justly forfeit all right to adequate representation. " 3. The Stanley-Peel party declare that they will fill the bench of justice with the most acrimonious partisans they can find—with men who declare their conviction that the Irish are systematic perjurers, and that perjury is encouraged by their religion. " 4. The Peel-Stanley party declare that they will not only thus deprive the Catholics of Ireland of all hope or chance of justice from the Superior Courts, but that they will forcibly compel the Irish people to submit to such injustice. " 5. The Stanley-Peel party declare that they will select their Sheriffs from the most violent Orange par tisans from each county and city in Ireland. " 6. The Peel-Stanley party declare that the will re store the practice, some time gone by, of packing Juries in all the criminal cases ; and allow: no man to remain on the criminal Jury panel but partisans of their own religion and politics. " 7. The Stanley-Peel party declare that they will correct the lists of Magistrates by striking out several impartial men, and adding to it clergymen of the Estab lished Church, and every virulent Orange partisan they can procure. " 8. The Peel-Stanley party declare that the people of Ireland must submit to all these additional indignities and iniquities, and that no efforts, however constitutional and legal, to mitigate these evils, or to obtain relief, will be permitted by the civil or military authorities. " 9. The Stanley-Peel party declare that the Press in Ireland shall be subdued ; that, in the present iniquitous state of the libel law, they will meet every unpalatable truth by a State prosecution • that they will prevent the exposure of their crimes by all the inflictions which a bad law and partisan Judges can possibly furnish ; by the summary process of attachment, and by the equally vex atious, though more tedious, proceeding by ez-dficio in formation or indictment. " In fine, between present grievances'andfuture oppres sions, the object of the Peel-Stanley party is to deprive the people of Ireland of all constitutional channels of exertion and of every ray of hope, and ultimately to force them, if possible, into open insurrection. " We caution yon, beloved friends, not to be provoked into any such course. Your bitter and unrelenting ene mies would be delighted could they drive you into insur rectionary courses and violent resistance. You could not gratify your enemies more than by adopting such a course. A stronger argument cannot be used to induce you to avoid it, than the certain knowledge that you could not possibly please your mortal Orange enemies more than by violating the law or committing any outrage. You are unorganised, and you must continue to be so. You are undisciplined, and you must 'continue to be so. You are unarmed, and you must continue to be so. England is at peace with all Europe and America. The Orange party, once in power, could, under such circumstances, pour into Ireland more than 100,000 of the best armed, best disciplined, and bravest troops in the world. They would be irresistible in the field, whilst the dastard Orangemen, of no use in the day of combat, would gloat upon the work of mas sacre, of female violation, and of every other crime which the defeated and the defenceless could endure from the malignity of human fiends. Do not, therefore, we most earnestly and solemnly conjure you—do not gratify your enemies by committing any outrage. Do not give them strength by committing any breach of the law. "Remember, and keep constantly before your eyes, the leading maxim, the very basis of the Loyal Repeal Association—that WHOEVER. CO3I3IITS A CRIME STRENGTHENS THE ENEMY.' • " But there is another, a higher, a nobler motive for your acquiesence in present evils, and for your submis sion to the law. It is to be found in your affectionate, your grateful, your most dutiful allegiance to your illus trious Sovereign. May the great God of Heaven bless and protect her ! Should you be reckless of yourselves, yet recollect you owe a duty to HER and to your GOD, to secure the tranquillity of her Throne, and to prevent the possibility of disfiguring her reign by the shedding of one drop of human blood. No political amelioration was ever worth one drop of human blood. "Be tranquil, then, fellow -countrymen—be forbear ing—be enduring ; BUT BE NOT WITHOUT HOPE. On the contrary. be confident, be full of the expectation of future and not distant triumph : the Orange-Tory reign, the Stanley-Peel domination cannot endure long. In its nature it must be transitory and evanescent. The ev times that approach cannot last long. Amongst the English people themselves Ireland has many active and zealous friends. The friends of Ireland, to be sure, are comparatively few among the English people ; yet, taken by themselves, they are numerous ; and if they be not zealous, they are at all events sincere. Hope some thing from the existence of your English friends. `• The majority of the Scotch nation are with you. Hope much from their zealous and spirited assistance. " The Queen, my friends—our noble Queen—heartily and sincerely desires to see justice done to Ireland : your enemies are equally her enemies ; she is in their toils ; she wears their fetters: but, with the blessing of heaven, and the aid of good men, her bonds shall be broken, your enemies scattered, and she shall be restored to the bril- ----- giant freedom of her majestic throne. " Be peaceable, be orderly—violate no law—commit no offence. But whilst we conjure you to adopt this course, in the voice of allegiance to the Queen, and in reverence to your God, do we ask you to be acquiescent, silent, torpid ? _ _ " No, no—a thousand times no !' " On the contrary, we call upon you to rouse into ac tion, to be energetic, determined, persevering ; lose no day, lose no hour in silent inactivity. Exert yourselves within the limits of the law, and in the channels of con stitutional agitation, and no other. " Hold meetings, register votes, prepare petitions to Parlia men t. T e ll t h at a ssembly manfully—and through them tell the civilized world—how you think, and what you feel. " Let every parish in Ireland simultaneously meet to address the Queen. Let us all pledge our lives, and all we posses s , f or t h e protect i on o f h er person and throne ; let us assure her that she may depend with the utmost certitude upun the bravery and fidelity of her Irish people. "-Whatever be the result—whether the Queen shall be allowed to select for her Ministry friends of Ireland, or whether she shall be overpowered for a season by Tory corruption a n d i ntimidation—let our fidelity be unim peachable, our allegiance pure and unbroken— "' Tr ue as the dial to the sun, Although it b e no t s h one upon. ' ~ N o despair, no hopelessness. On the contrary, be and ch eer f ul in your expectations. bThereuoy• a n i t s, 1 7 i f t e h l l o h l o v pe . co,untrymen, one great, one unfailing resource — one instrument of terror to the Orange Tories, of protection and success to the friends of Ireland—the peaceful ag it a ti on o f t h e R epeal of the Union. ~ W e know Ireland well. We know by experience the feelings and the wishes of the universal Irish people. We know that the fibres of their hearts are entwined around the restoration of the Irish P ar li ament. We know - • *---- the enthusiasm of their souls for the repeal is animated and pro spe rity and vivacious. .. E ver y man of common sense must konfoawg-e-t-hilearti-tshu-s—e, illity ! I only resource for permane rac nt t t i r c a a n b q le u . to Ireland is to be found in the Repeal o the 'Union. It is said the Repeal is imp There is no such word in the vocabulary a moral, a relicious, a brave people. " Impractica ble—to repeal an Act of Parliament ? Impracticable—who that Repeal is required by the overwhelming majority of a nation of near NINE MIL LIONS of human beings ? That which is really imprac ticable is to induce such a nation to continue to submit to the gross, glaring, iniquitous oppression and misrule of the Union. " Rally, then, with us, men of Ireland. Let every human being declare for the Repeal. Let there be no parish without Repealers and Repeal wardens. Peace ably and constitutionally declare your determination, by enrolling yourselves in the Loyal National Repeal As sociation of Ireland. " There is no other means to prevent a separation from England—from haughty, bigoted, tyrannical Eng gland—except the Repeal of the Union. There is no other way to obtain prosperity or liberty for Ireland, but the Repeal of the Union. " Let, then, one shout arise from the Giants' Cause way to Cape Clear—from Connemara to the Hill of Howth—let.there be but one universal voice upon the breeze of heaven, " HURRAH FOR TUE REPEAL 1 !" DANIEL O'CONNELL, Chairman of the Committee. THE SUN, LONDON, TARSDAY, JULY 29, 1841. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOU RNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES. —We yesterday endeavoured to sketch out the limits within which it would be open to the Conser vative Ministry to pursue a variable line of policy, to accommodate themselves to circumstances, and to make considerations of immediate expediency their rule of ac tion. Those limits were sufficiently wide, embracing, as our readers will have perceived, the whole class of subjects relating to trade and revenue, which the Whigs have recently endeavoured to draw into the category of party questions. There is something in the very nature of those questions which obviously distinguishes them from such as are capable of being determined by fixed or uniform principles ; and it would be an absurdity to deal with them by any inflexible method. The fluctuations of price and supply, the vicissitudes of seasons, the state of the producing countries, and our moral, social, and political relations with them,—the revenue laws and commercial systems of foreign states, the pro spects of peace and war, the state of credit and cur rency at home and abroad, the exigeneies of the Ex chequer— these are all circumstances which must be taken into account in settling the time, the manner, the direction, and the degree, in which those commercial maxims on which all parties are agreed, and which were first acted upon under the Tory Govern ments before 1830, are to be practically applied. To fa cilitate the operations of trade, and to provide for the necessities of the public service in the manner the least burdensome to the community, are objects which recom mend themselves so plainly to the ordinary sense of man kind, that no Minister, however stupid, could avoid ap preciating them, or, however dishonest, could have any motive for disregarding them. There can never be any fundamental difference between Whigs and Conservatives upon points like these ; and it is idle for either party to seek to invent one. The only difference is, that the Conservatives desire to promote the interests of com merce without hazarding any disturbance of the framework of society, without doing injustice to one part of the nation under the pretence of conferring a boon upon another, and without holding out to the people the promise of utopian advantages which no Legislation can ever confer. The Conservatives do not aim at accomplishing everything at once ; but they will do what they can—discreetly, cautiously, and gradually, with a constant regard to circumstances, and with a re solution not to sacrifice commerce to agriculture, or agri culture to commerce. It is not by class-interests, either of Manchester or of Kent, that a Conservative or any other Government can be permanently supported ; it is only by giving all their due, and governing for the be nefit of the entire nation. What we have exemplified in the instance of fiscal and commercial questions is equally true of every other question which cannot be referred to the category of fundamental principles. Upon all such questions the Government of Sir R. Peel must be a reform ing Government; by which we mean not a Government which presumes that " whatever is is wrong," but simply one that does not make the contrary presumption,—a Go vernment which knows that society cannot stand still— that human institutions are corruptible and imperfect at the best—and that in things indifferent statesmen can hardly do better than pay homage to public opinion. There may be even many things not strictly indifferent in which opposite considerations may be so nearly ba lanced that public opinion is entitled to turn the scale. It would, however, be the greatest possible mistake to suppose, that because in such matters as these Sir Robert Peel's will be a reforming Government, it will therefore be a Government of concession. No man can be fit to govern any country, who fancies himself to be making concessions when he is removing abuses, remedying imperfections, or earring into effect improvements. Concession implies a departure from a man's own judgment in consequence of a pressure from without ; and he who makes a concession ' when he follows the dictates of reason and common sense must be either very dishonest or singularly foolish. Conserva tism does not mean the preserving everything, but only such things as are worth preservation ; and, in many cases, this cannot be done without cutting off a mortified member, paring down an excrescence, scraping awa y an accumulation of time, repairing a breach, or adding a support. A stationary policy is impossible, and even if it were possible, it would be not conservative, but de structive. Advance, we must ; the only question is, in what direction ? and when means not ends, the physical and not the moral department of politics, are under discussion, all must agree to answer—in the direction of the greatest practicable utility. Bit there are ends as well as means, principles as well as details, fundamental as Well as secondary institutions. It is here that the true difference between the Conservatives and the Whigs is to be found, and this difference m us t b e exemp lifi e d by a widely, an essentially different scope of policy. In being " not disposed to resist such changes as the altered circumstances of society may require," the Con servatives merely agree with every other class of poli ticians, and the profession of such a principle would have been ridiculous if the misrepiesentations of the opposite faction had not made it necessary. The peculiar and distinctive character of Conservatives consists in this— that they are the champions of those positive principles of Government which we have inherited from our ances tors—the principle of civil liberty under the supremacy of law, and of religious liberty consecrated and justified by the homage of the nation to religious truth. They are " determined to maintain on their ancient founda tions the institutions of the country in Church and State." "On their ancient foundations." Not because they are ancient, but because they are wise, and safe, and good ; because they answer the purposes for which they were intended ; because experience has shown that every encroachment upon them has done nothing but in troduce confusion and promote demoralization, retrench ing liberty without adding to the strength of Government, and pandering to popular passions without increasing public happiness. CHRONICLE.—Sir Robert Peel, we are told, is to have a giant's strength, and intimations are given, that if he expects to retain the confidence of his party he must " use it like a giant." Speculations are afloat as to the theatre on which the first grand exhibition of dynamics is to take place. The Emperor of China is a protege of the Tories, and Young France is in a less pugnacious humour than he was a year ago. Besides this, it is more agreeable to stand by and abuse others for not fighting than actually to engage in battle, and the time is past for embarking in a foreign war to withdraw attention from misgovernment at home. In this exi gency, we think Ireland will be selected as a scene for military operations and vigorous government, and an effort will be made to grow war as well as corn at home. But times have changed ; the Irish cannot be dragooned without some plausible pretext, and the immediate doub ling of the army in Ireland, would excite a commotion here which might weaken the strong Government. Preparations are, therefore, made, by giving horrible accounts of outrages at the late elections, most of which we suspect are grossly exaggerated, and some. we have reason to believe, purely fictitious. That an election in Ireland should go off quietly we did not expect. The prospect of Lord Stanley's Bill, and the recollection of the continued pourings forth of scorn and contempt upon the whole nation, in which the Tories have indulged for some years, might have excited the irritability of a much milder people ; but had the violence which has been talked about really occured, we should have had a muc fuller account of the persons intimidat e d, an d th e atroci ties of the Teetotallers would have been put in a more tangible shape. It is remarkable, that in most of these accounts the Orangemen are represented as going to the poll well armed, and as generally overcoming the obsta cles opposed to them. In none of the contests does it appear that the " mob " used fire-arms ; but in seve ral they were fired upon with very telling effect. At New Birmingham the Conservatives are said to have retreated " with the loss of two car- ringes," after firing twice, and bringing down five of the rioters. In the neighbourhood of Nenagh a contest took place, and " the multitude, finally foiled, withdrew to look after their dead and wounded." At Borrisoleigh the Conservatives routed the mob with their levelled guns, and found on the heights "barrows of paving-stoles [this looks like London manufacture] ranged on the moun tain's brow," and " a huge rock was detached from the cliff, and bounded down in the direction of one of the carriages," still "the electors reached the end of their journey without the loss of any of their number." Now, from this account, it is clear that, whichever side gave the provocation, the Conservatives' were the better pre pared for action, and that among the mob many were killed and wounded. The writer who, belonging to the victorious party, must have had ample opportunity of as certaining the amount of loss, omits the names of the Magistrates and others who were wounded by the mob, but makes honourable mention of "police constable Lyndon," which is very like a bulletin reporting the loss of Corporal Stubbs and several general officers. We strongly suspect that, on this occasion, police constable Lyndon does duty fur the whole "casualties" of the Orangemen of Tipperary. HERALD.—A healthy re-action appears to be gain ing ground upon the moral constitutions of the Whig- Radical organs of Ministerial opinion. We are glad of it. It is a symptom of most favourable augury for them, and of very agreeable promise to us. They seem to be impelled, at last, to make admissions which embody a great deal of truth. 'Whether they do so from the love of truth itself, or under a force greater than_truth itself, we cannot yet determine. Are these admissions gra tuitous advances, on their part, to a principle from which they have been so long estranged ? Or are the parties we speak of but unconscious recipients of the sacred influ ence ? Are they magnetised into a state of passive vera city ; and only giving active indications of the new intel ligence within them, at the pleasure of some unseen master of the informing spell, who, like M. La Fontaine . - at the Hanover-square" Rooms, ever and anon reclaims the lethargic "subject" on whose deathlike stupor the electro-magnetic machine and the voltaic battery have played their artillery in vain,—to animation and vivacity by a toti4 of the point of his finger ? Whatever be the true solution of theenigma, it is certain that some of our Contemporaries can give it. There are some, before whose eves the startling evidence of facts has from day to day, developed the fatal tendencies of the career which their patrons were running—into whose ears the appalling denunciations of an indignant country against political compromise and imbecility, without example, have been thundered from sunrise till midnight,--and all equally without effect, in recalling them to a sense of the external condition of public affairs, and the in disputably adverse current of popular opinion setting in against them ! It is certain, however, that they have the sagacity to perceive, at last, and the grace to acknow ledge,—these " signs of the times." We take great shame to ourselves that in the Herald of Monday last we did not recur to these manifestations as the leading poli tical " novelty" of the day. They are most observable in an evening journal ‘vhich takes in high dudgeon our ent anticipated articles. fur In s s i p r ec i u t l remonstrances on the inflammatory tendencies of some of o a b ti e n r g t Qß Peel t hediffiuli difficulties which 8 w andhis leagues when they shall return to office ; it referred to cct co the depressed condition of t ra d e i n the manufactur i ng districts and the superadded b ur d en o f add i t i ona l taxa tion rendered necessary i n order to meet the h i i t e s h r it recent demands of a declining revenue, as the elements of a slumbering volcano, which (it was suggested with a touching simplicity), ‘!n'tight soon become active." The illustration of this opinion was supplied in these re -marks;—that" increased taxation" (which has just been imposed by the Whigs themselves) " with diminished trade" (which is the result of the dabbling of Presidents of Boards of Trade with their running philosophers and travelling journeymen ; of such councils as those of Par nell and Bowring, Poultt Thomson and your very " free traders")—" and bread-at augmented prices" (for which, if -they be demanded,. the poor may thank the more wealthy and active agitators against the Corn-laws for the dis honest arts by which they are trying to force up the 'cern market), " will be an experiment which will pro voke demonstrations of feeling" (volcanic and lava like ?) " out of doors," &b. This the Government ad vocate calls " its calm statement of a self-evident proposi tion." Calm, indeed—but we, to some extent, touched on this topic yesterday. Our present business is to con gratulate the Conservative public on the absolute admis sions which the force of truth (as we have remarked above) or the force of circumstances has elicited from the most determined partisan of the out-going tenants of the Cabinet. " Additional taxation," says this writer, " will inflict additional distress." Why this is true. If there could be superlative degrees of that which is in itself already perfect, we would say, " most true." Yet still, it is " most true" only so far as it goes. It is not the whole truth. Let us supply the remaining part of the proposition ;—," and that additional taxation having been laid on by her Majesty's present advisers, it follows that to them the people must attribute their additional distress." We are not ungrateful, however, for an ad mission of a political—unhappily a practical truth, from such a quarter, although even it fall thus short of the extent of the fact. POST.—Even the most ingenious of the writings of the Whig-Radicals of the present day furnish us with nothing better than a specious variety in delusion. Even the most intellectual among them seem to be utterly in capable of anything in political con t roversy w hi c h i s " direct and honest. Observe what they say with re ference to Mr. Huskisson. Many of the Conservatives avow themselves to be friendly to the views of trade policy developed by that gentleman, and contend that because they are so, they must be opposed to the wild proceedings of the puny " Liberals" of the pre sent day. The Whig-Radicals answer with an assump tion that were the principles of Mr. Huskisson in the ascendant the Liberalism of the present day would be successful. They say it is unphilosophical, and narrow, and so on to abide by the letter o f w h a t Mr. Huskisso n s a id in his day ; and that it is the part of a true political mind to distinguish between that servile imitation of a great man, which consists in adopting, and, under all circumstances, adhering to the specific mea sures which he recommended, and that enlightened re- , verence which consists in studying the spirit of a master's views, and afterwards transfusing it into the reasonings and measures which may be applicable to new combina tions of affairs. We readily admit the justice of the dis tinction. To the abstract proposition we make no objection. The delusion consists in bringing it forward as if it cer tainly applied to the matter in hand, whereas it certainly does not. In the present case, namely, the policy of admitting foreign corn to this country for the sake of what is called " cheapness," and without reference to the other effects of such a policy, there is no new combina tion of affairs. The matter is argued upon precisely the same grounds that it was in Mr. Huskisson's time, and whatever may be thought of the validity of Mr. Huskisson's reasoning, there can be no doubt in the mind of any man of common sense that the letter of his advice, as well as the spirit of it, is ju s t as a ppli ca bl e to the present time as to the time in which that advice was given. GLOBE.—The Times has written two articles, and threatens more, the purport of which is to prove that which was already pretty generally known—that Sir R. Peel does not mean to be tied down to any particular course on assuming the functions of Minister. His primary object having been to get in, his secondary purpose will be to keep in ; and professions which were very useful to attain the first of these views, would, if reduced into practice be very fatal to the second. To wreck the Ministerial vessel when in the hands of the Liberals, it was all very well that the Tory party should assume the fixedness of the rock ; but the rock of opposition is now to be dissolved into the quicksand of expediency, which will be assuredly fatal to the Conservative crew, when the tide of electioneering triumph shall have receded, and left nothing but Tory principles for the Tory craft to rest upon That the expectant Premier has commenced his soundings with the view of following in the course of the Whigs, is obvious from the altered tone of the journals in his interest. Vacillation, which was the alleged crime of the present holders of office, is to be the great virtue of their successors, who are to have the unfettered option of going in any direction that the circumstances of the moment, or, in other words, the preservation of their places, may seem to require. The Times has not even the moderation to claim for its protege the right of making one deviation, however flagrant, from the cours e l ie h as d ec l are d to be the only proper one, but reserves for him the right of going any way at any time, according as the political mind may act on the political weathercock. A statesman who is to be " all things by turns," will assuredly be " nothing long," and his career mus t i nev i ta bl y b e b r i ef as a ..1.- nister. By trying to make himself " everything to every body," he will soon find himself, in the vulgar and some what self-contradictory phrase, "nothing to nobody." STANDARD.—The last number of the Edinburgh Review reminds us of a person at the Court of the un fortunate Louis XVI., who obtained from the populace the surname of Deficit. Now, as her Majesty's Minis ters are as well entitled to -a distinctive title as their predecessors o f th e C a b a l, or th e C oa li t i on , or the Taleuts administrations—none of them weaker or more wicked than the present—we respectfully propose that henceforward they bear the name of the deficit Ministry. They have the most indis putable right to the name. Their deficiency in all the qualifications of statesmen has been abundantly proved ; but this is not what we mean ; we allude to the deficit which they have created in the public resources, which they make the apology an forthe c i l r ann mo t s o t outrageouspropositions, which, strange as it may seem, public consti tutesplea anchor hor o merit, d their their hop e o f a restorat i on to con fidence, their and r the n office. They surely who have, during six years laboured so industriously to create a deficit and now exult in the suc cess of their labours, must be rather proud than ashamed of the title we give them, the " Deficit Ministry." We are told, indeed, that the existing deficit is owing to the unforeseen casualty of the w ars i n C h i na, Syria, and Affghanistan ; but this is not doing justice to the " deficit administration ;" their exertions to earn the title we claim for them preceded those wars. We have before us a return of income and expenditure fur three years, ordered by the House of Commons on the 22d of June, upon the motion of the late Member for Falkirk—who must not drop a tear over the political tomb of Mr. Gillon? He will be missed almost as much as his brother in modesty, gracefulness, and genius, Mr. Joseph Hume—but this by the way. We have before us, as we-said, a return of income and ex penditure for three years-1838, 1839, 1840. Now, upon the first of these years we find a deficit of 441,8191., but there was no China war ; no Syrian war ; no Alfg,han war in 1838. Upon the second of these years we find a deficit of 1,381,9381., and still in 1839 there was no China war—no Affghan war —no Syrian war. In the third year Ministers found that they were going a little too fast in the deficit department, and they added five per cent. to the taxes, but still the desired deficit flourished in abundant " fructification," to borrow Lord Sydenham's figure, for at the end of 1840 we have a deficit of 1,750,543/., making in the three years a total of 3,574,300/.—a pretty deficit realised upon which to retire from business, were this the whole ; but this is only the " fructification" of thr e e y ears , and the pursuit of a deficit began much earlier, as most of our readers will recollect from our reference to Lord Sydenham's notable doctrine of " fructification ;" an i the seven months of 1841 already consumed cannot fail (consider ing especially the election expenses) to enlarge the minus quantity—the deficit is actually no doubt from seven to ten millions sterling. COURIER.—The Revue des deux Mondes, or rather the writer of the eloquent article from which we so freely extracted yesterday, may be assured that without " transactions" of any kind with any party, or the frac tion of any party, Sir Robert Peel, with the " same ad mirable sagacity, ability, dignified, calm, and foreseeing patience," for the extraordinary and conjunctive posses sion of which he is so justly credited by the reviewer, will conciliate for his administration the support, in the main, and sooner or later, of all wise, patriotic, and disinterested men who, however hitherto classed, and sometimes viciously, under certain party ensigns, such as Whigs, Liberals, or Reformers, have yet certain great landmarks of constitutional principles in common with each other, and with the Conservatives, - and which, as such, must ever constitute a broad and impassable line of demarcation between them and the Radicals, Revolu tionists, and Rep ea l ers . Th e ama lgamati on of parties conscientiously according in the same fundamental points of political faith will be consummated by no compromise of principles on either side, nor ratified in the shape of any compact or coalition formally expressed or implied. There are, doubtless, precedents for such combinations and fusions of parties, but they are not generally such as have commanded public respect, even when governed by unimpeachable motives, and arranged between the most honourable men. The Government of Sir Robert wi be, in the proper acceptation of the term, essentially a Reforming Government. Reforming, in the sense in which the illustrious Bacon defined it, when he bade us take heed that it be the necessity of " the reformation which precedeth the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS, FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTER DAY. CHRONICLE.—The rates of the Continental ex. changes underwent s carce l y an y alteration to-day. being mightn ary b t h e e a sme as l considered a a s st exhibitingpo s , but rather on h t m e ore whole t firmness.ey The shipments of silver, it will be observed below, con tinue somewhat extensive ; this circumstance, combined with the export:: of indigo purchased at the recent sales, must be calculated to give them some support, otherwise the imports of corn going on just now, although not on an extensive scale, would greatly counterbalance our exports to the Continent, and thus render the situa tion of the Bank of England, so far as the exchanges are concerned. in a more precarious position. It should not be lost sight of, however, that the recent failures in Vienna and elsewh ere h ave not taken place without having some influence on th e exe l lianges, so far as havi ng greatly circumscribed the dealings on 'Change, many in fluential operators h av i ng very prudently abstained from enteringinto any fresh negotiations, beyond what was absolutely necessary, until things on the Continent as sume a better aspect than they do at present. ADVERTISER. —As some of our Conservative con temporaries have e n d eavoured to cast the aspersion upon the Liberal press, that it is desirous of exaggerating the injurious effects of th e recent cont i nuous rains, with the view of exciting discontent in the minds of the people against the Corn-laws, it may be as well to prove the groundlessness of such an assertion by referring to the authority of a publication that ranks highly with agriculturists as well as with the corn trade, viz., the Mark Lane Express. This authority, we may remark, is the more unimpeachable, inasmuch as the Express is a staunch advocate fur the Corn-laws, the sliding scale, and wholesale protection tO the domestic growers. Our private opinion is still in favour of nearly an average yield, should the weather yet prove favourable ; but .as to.the erroneous impression which seems to prevail in soma quarters, that because the crops a few miles round London have a satisfactory appearance, the same must necessarily be the case in Scotland or Ireland, or even the North of England, the idea, on the face of it, is too absurd to need refutation. The remarks as to the limit ed stocks on hand, the lateness of the harvest, in fact every line of-•the following extract from the Mark Lane Express of yesterday evening is worthy of attentive pe rusal " Even under the most auspicious circumstances, it is now exceedingly doubtful whether wheat can yield air average, either in regard to quantity or quality. " Iu this situation it becomes a subject of vast impor tance to ascertain how we are really situated with regard to stocks, and whether,' should these prove inadequate to our wants, sufficient corn could be procured from abroad to make up the deficiency. With regard to the first question, we can only repeat what we have already asserted, viz., that the quantity of wheat held by merchants, millers, &c., is trifling in the extreme ; and after the most careful and extensive inquiries, we have reason to fear that though farmers may per- Imps still hold about as much as at this time last year, they would be ill prepared to afford supplies, should the harvest - be long protracted, or prove deci dedly short. Considerable importations from abroadwould, therefore, if such should unhappily occur, be required. It remains now to be seen from whence these can be ob tained. The constant demand from this country during the last three years has nearly clear e d ou t th e o ld s t oc k s at those ports of the north of Europe, from whence we are usually in the habit of drawing our supplies, and the utmost we could expect from the Baltic and Hamburgh would not exceed 700,000 quarters. In the Black Sea good stocks are held, and Canada and the United States would also have some quantity to spare should we really require it ; and as there are now about 500,000 quarters under the Queen's locks, in the different ports of the United Kingdom, there are fair grounds to conclude that, if foreign aid should be needed, sufficient might be procured to make up any ordinary deficiency. We sincerely trust, however, that we may not be driven to this extremity, nor do we as yet feel any serious ap prehensions,, being convinced that one month of really fine hot weather would remedy most of the injury the growing grain crops have hitherto sustained." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, July 28. HARMAN V. JONES. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed, and concluded to-day. The case came before the Court upon appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor, restraining the Commis sioners of Sewers, from taking a portion of the ground on which the Sun Assurance Company are erecting their offices. The case for the Commissioners of Sewers was opened on Monday by Mr. Richards and Mr. Lloyd, and yesterday Mr. K. Bruce, Mr. Wigram and Mr. Pole were heard in support of the injunction. They contended that the Act of 2d and 3d Victoria, which gave the Bank of England power to pur chase and remove the church of St. Bartholomew, and the four houses built on its glebe, gave the Bank power, at the same time to do what it pleased with the land, provided that it left so much as would make Bar tholomew-lane of the width of forty feet. The powers of the Commissioners of Sewers to interfere with that land were taken away, and the Sun Assurance Com pany, for which it was well known the Bank of England negotiated, had now full authority to make what kind of erection they pleased on the ground in question. No thing, indeed, could be more unjust th an th e con d uct of th Corporation of the City of London, with which in the present case the Commissioners of Sewers were identical, for they refused to make the improvement themselves because they did not think the public in terests imperiously required them to undergo so large an expenditure as the improvement would require of them, and now, when another party undertook it, an d pur chased, the land and buildings at an enormous outlay, they wanted, through the commissioners of sewers, to step in and take a portion of the ground, which they al leged to be necessary for the improvement of the foot path. The Act gave them no such power ; the Trea sury had refused to interfere ; the Committee of the House of Commons, to which the matter was referred, had also declined to second their views ; and it. was hoped that the Court would not attempt to give their assistance. when it was expressly sworn that the Assurance Company had already voluntarily given up many feet of most valuable ground, of which they should not have been deprived ; and when it was also sworn that the taking away of the portion now demanded by the Commissioners of Sewers would prove a great injury and inconvenience, and so materially alter their plans us to - render the offices too small for the extensive business to be transacted in them. The Vice- Chancellor, after a most attentive examination of the Acts of Parliament, was clearly of opinion that, with repect to the particular piece of ground in question, the powers of the Commissioners were taken away, and in that opinion he had restrained their further proceedings. Mr. IticHARDs this morning replied to the whole of the arguments, and _ _ ThW LORD aIIANCELLOR shortly gave judgment, or dering the motion to stand over, in order that the plain tiffs might have an opportunity of considering whether they would try the right of the Commissioners of Sewers under the Acts of Parliament, to do what they asserted they had aright to do, either by an action of an ejectment. ROLLS' COURT, July 28. THE CORPORATION OF ARUNDEL V. HOLMES. Nearly the whole day was occupied by Mr. Pemberton in his reply in this case. At the conclusion, His LORDSHIP laid the case was certainly a very important one. The question was as to the jurisdiction of the Court in the case. He would look over the papers and endeavour to form his opinion before the recess. He would give notice of the time he would give judgment. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT-July 28 IN RE JAMES PARKINS. The case of this insolvent, a tailor, which was part heard yesterday, was resumed this morning. Mr. Coofce addressed the Court at considerable length on behalf of the insolvent, and contended that there was nothing to show that he had given a fraudulent prefe rence to particular creditors. He had throughout offered such a composition as his property would enable him to pay, and the security of that oiler was proved by its having been accepted by and paid to several of his cre• ditors. The Learned COMMISSIONER directed that the case should be adjourned to afford the insolvent time to amend his special balance-sheet, and to produce his books for the examination of Mr. Burke, the opposing creditor, it being understood that when these conditions were complied with,' there would be no further opposi tion to his discharge. IN RE SIR WM. BOYD. Mr. THOMAS had been instructed to apply to the Court for an order to stay the sale of certain articles of jewellery, which were to be sold by auction by Mr. Cafe that day, at one o'clock. The insolvent, Sir Wm. Boyd, had stated in his schedule that that property had been given away to friends in Scotland, but it turned out that it had been pledged with a pawnbroker. The Court granted the order to stay the sale, with the understanding that, if ➢lr. Cafe required it, the sum he had paid for the redemption of the property, should be paid to him and meantime he was to detain the jewellery till the further orders of the Court. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—Durham, July 26. (Before Lord PENMAN.) HUNTON V. SNAITH. This was an action to recover damages for breach o promise of marriage. Mr. Dundas and Mr. Watson ap- peared for the plaintiff, and Sir G. Lewin for the de fendant. Mr. DUNDAS stated the plaintiff's case to the jury, and in so doing said, the conduct of the defendant would be shown, from the evidence he should lay before the jury, to have been most unhandsome and heartless, and she was now obliged to adopt the present mode of obtaining compensation from the man by whom she had been first deceived, and then betrayed. The defendant pleaded that he did not make the promise, and of that fact there would, however, be ample proof—fulfil it he could not, as he had since married another. He had won the affections of this young woman ; she became pregnant and, pro duced a child ; the was then deserted, anel another was made his wife. The plaintiff is now about twenty-five years old, the daughter of a grocer at St oc k ton , a persOn respectable, though in humble circumstances, who, having several children, the plaintiff was under the necessity of endeavouring to gain her livelihood at service. She went in the capacity of housekeeper to an uncle at Bradford, where she fulfilled the duties of that station without reproach for several years. On his death she returned to her father's house, and shortly after was introduced by the mother of the defendant, who was her aunt, to the house of the defendant. He bad shortly be fore lost his wife, and stood in need of the services of a ' housekeeper. In August last the plaintiff; with the mother of the defendant, went to his residence at Bel tringham, near HeXharn, in Northumberland, and it was then arranged that s h e should remain there a t l eas t dur ing the coming harvest, an d ass i st in his household affairs. During that visit it did unfortunately happen that she be came pregnant by him. She returned to her father's house on the 22d of December. The defendant, before her de parture, had repeatedly promised her marriage. This cir cumstance she imparted to her friends, a wedding dress was bought, and other preparations made for that event. On the 14th of January he came to her father's house, appa rently for the purpose of fulfilling his promise, but in the course of his arrangements with her father, it appeared that the chief motive in his mind was the money he might expect as her fortune, and upon this paltry considera tion it was that he openly violated his solemn engage ment. Her father informed him that lie had a large family, and would not be able to give any portion with his daughter, though he intended to divide his property among them equally at his death. The defendant re mained at the house from the Friday when he arrived till the Monday following, when he disappeared. In the agitation consequent upon this event the pregnancy of the plaintiff was discovered. In a moment of anger, her father turned her from his door, and she took refuge at Houghton, in the house of her aunt, the mother of the defendant. There she was delivered. Several letters had passed between the parties, in which the relation i n which thy stood would be sufficiently manifest to the Jury. One was directed to the plaintiff at her father's house before the engagement was broken off, couched in the usual terms on such occasions. Another she re ceived after she went to his mother's ; it said, " I have sent you all your clothes that I could find, and am sorry for you. Your father may blame himself. lam blame able ; but our union, which might have taken place, is now hopeless." After some further expressions, he added, °•I do detest your father's obstinacy." This, there fore, was the paltry consideration which principally weighed to induce the violation of his promise, and was no doubt the object which he had in view in the engagement which he subsequently contracted. A letter written to his parents after his marriage, dated the 4th of February, mentions that he had contracted matrimony, and says that he supposes Margaret, the plaintiff, has left their house, and intimates his intention to befriend her so far as money was concerned, and adds in the exultation of gratified avarice, " I am perfectly satisfied up to this time, fortune a thousand." It would appear that besides the property which he thus obtained, he had consider able possessions of his own, and he, the Learned Coun sel, hoped that out of this money, which he had made his God, the Jury would award ample compensation to the plaintiff, whom he had so grievously wronged and so basely deserted. The Learned Counsel then called several witnesses, and adduced the evidence necessary to sustain his case. The defendant had, it appeared, subsequently to the com mencement of the action, called on a distant connexion of the family, and expressed a wish to settle the matter, as it was a family affiiir, and he did not like the expo sure of the public press. Sir G. LEWIN, for the defendant, contended that the Jury had not sufficient evidence of any absolute promise on the part of the defendant ; and the promise which he made, if he made any at all, was rather conditional on the father's advancing a portion with his daughter. He would, however, adduce further evidence, to show that the plaintiff had repeatedly admitted no such promise had been made. If; however, the Jury should be of opi nion that it was made out, it would be his duty to lay before them the character of the plaintiff, which was not such as to entitle her to more than the smallest possible damages that they could award. The Learned Counsel then called the mother of the defendant to show that the plaintiff had accompanied her uninvited on her visit to Beltringham ; that a few days after her arrival she be came so intoxicated as not to know what she was about, and that the witness on going down stairs after she sup posed all had retired to bed, found her upon the sofa with the defendant. She refused to return to Houghton with the witness, but insisted on remaining. Other witnesses were called to prove admissions by the plaintiff that the defendant had never promised her marriage, as also to accuse her of levity of conduct with other persons. One of these deposed to a flagrant act of the kind in November last, but the witnesses spake only of occurrences since she left the defendant's r es id ence . _ _ Mr. DLINDAS, in his reply, commented strongly upon the course taken for the defence, and the improbability of the statement laid before them. The Learned JUDGE having summed up the case the Jury, after a short retirement, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 2501. NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Norwich, July 26. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) WILLIMOST V. READ. This was an action for breach of promise of marriage, to which the defendant pleaded that he made no such promise ; and secondly, that after the making of the promise the plaintiff conducted herself in an improper manner, and became pregnant by some person to him unknown. Mr. Palmer and Mr. C. Cooper were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Andrews and Mr. W. Cooper for the de fendant. The plaintiff is a young woman of the age of 24, and carries on the business of a bonnet-maker at Dereham ; the defendant is a farmer living near that town. The defendant had been in habits of friendly intercourse with the plaintiff's family for ten years, but no express promise to marry her was shown previously to the time of her coming, in a state of pregnancy, from London. In March, 1840, she went to town, whence she returned home pregnant. In September following, the defendant went to the house of the lady's father, at a time when she was not only pregnant, but visibly so. . The father asked him when he intended to marry his daughter, as he thought it was high time he did something, and he replied he would do so before Christmas. The father wished to know, " why not then, to prevent accidents," and on the defendant saying it was not convenient, his father-in-law that wished to be said he would support her for a year or two, to which the defendant made no reply. The plaintiff's mother was at this time in much distress, and the defendant told her not to be angry with her daughter, for he was the first man that had be haved improperly with her : lie then left the house, Christmas came, but no marriage came with it, and be. fore the arrival of that festival, the plaintiff gave birth to a youthful " lord of the creation." In the February fol lowing, the plaintiff being ill and in bed, the defendant went up stairs to see her, when she told him she was very unwell, and asked " what would become of her child if she should die ?" He said he would take it home, it should come to no harm, and desired her not to fret. The plaintiff then wished to know what was to become of her if she got better, and he replied he would take her home and make her comfortable. "Ah !" said she, " but in what way ?" and he told her he would marry her with out fail. He was much affected at this time and crying and nursed the child for a quarter of an hour, observing with something like paternal pride and partiality that it was "an uncommon fine child to be sure." The plain tiff got well, but the defendant did not marry her and take her home, and make her comfortable, but on the contrary his attorney refused for him, in reply to a re quest, on the part of her attorney, that he should do so forthwith. On the part of the defendant, some evidence was called for the purpose of showing that the plaintiff was a person of light conduct and demeanour. It was stated that just before the time of her going to town she was drinking tea with a neighbour, and whilst she was there the neighbour's son called her out of the room, and they took a walk together. An aunt of her's, who had quar relled with her family, also stated that she had often seen her walking with one Robert Halliday in the public streets, and once in the churchyard of Dereham. But no evidence of any improper act or expression was given. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in summing up the evidence, told the Jury that the pleas of justification had not been sustained by the evidence, and that the only questions for their consideration were, whether the plaintiff had proved a promise of marriage, and if she had, to what damages she was entitled. The Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 501. damages. This case occupied a considerable portion of time ; the rest of the day in the Civil Court was spent in the trying of trifling actions for debts, of interest to the litigant partied, but to no one else, unless it be the pro fessional men. In the Crown Court, Mr. Justice Williams has been relieving the criminal calendar by trying short and un interesting cases. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. _ On Tuesday Charlotte Clements, a . n old woman, was brought up on a charge of begging. • The charge was no sooner made than the wretched prisoner, made bold and almost eloquent by hunger and extreme distress, exclaimed—" Well, if I did beg, is it not better to beg than to steal ? One or the other I must do, or I must starve. I have not a bit to eat. I have not a place in which to put my head. I have not a rag to put on. What must I do ?" She cried, and her voice rang through the Court. Alderman Kelly was much affected, and evidently puz zled to answer her question. " Look at my body," said she, raising her arms, which were each thrust into an old stocking leg, and turning herself round in the dock, exhibiting her breast and her back, covered only with a piece of ragged linen—no dress, shoes, nor anything. " Now tell me," said she, with great vehemence, the tears streaming down her aged cheeks, " what am I to do? I could sell little things, but they must be bought ; and if I go to beg the money, I am seized and taken to prison." Alderman KELLY—Where is your home ? Prisoner —Have I not said I have none. Alderman KELLY --But you surely know where you come from ? Prisoner—Oh, yes, I know that. I come from Hunslet, near Leeds. One of the clerks stated that she was sent down to Hunslet some time ago, but had returned. Alderman KELLY—Why did you return ? Prisoner —l'll tell you why. My daughter, the only child I had left out of 13, was taken up and transported. She was innocent, I know she was, as you, Sir, who never saw her. But before she went I came to London to see her. That was not a guilty act, was it ? Alderman KELLY—Have you no friends at Hunslet ? Prisoner—None. Father, mother, brother, sister, hus band, and children, all are gone. I have not a friend in the world, but God Almighty above me ; and sometimes I think he is hard upon me to take all away and leave me behind. The worthy Alderman ordered the keeper of Bride well to take charge of her for a few days, and supply her with clothes. Afterwards they must see if something could not be done for her. BOW-STREET. On Tuesday a young man, named Thomas Lake Wills, son of a captain in the marine service, was brought be fore Mr. Twyford, by Peak, a constable in the service of the General Post-office, charged with stealing a letter containing a 101. note, which came into his possession as clerk in the establishment. Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, conducted the prosecution. Mr. W. T. Henderson, manager of the London and Westminster Bank, in Lothbury, stated that on Thursday or Friday last the prisoner came to his room in the bank, and handed him the 101. Dorset note produced, dated the Ist of February, 1837, No. 248, which he said he had found in Blackfriars-road. Mr. W. Blott, clerk in the Inland-office, proved that he note produced, which he believed, from information le had received, to have been sent from Frome on the 16th instant, was addressed to Sheerness, but it never reached its destination. The prisoner was clerk in the Inland-office, and had been on duty in the Ramsgate dis trict on the evening of the 17th instant, through which the letter would have passed. Witness was present on Monday last, when he was asked if he had peen to the London and Westminster Bank about a note, and aft er being ca u ti one d, h e sa id h e had, and that h e had found the note in Blackfriars-road, about half-past 11 on Thurs day morning last. He also said, he had gone to the , "Westminster Bank about it, where he saw the last wit ness, who took the particulars of the note, which he gave to a gentleman with his name and address on a piece of paper. On being further questioned, he said he had given the note to the gentleman who had called with the piece of paper from the London and Westminster Bank about it. The name of the gentleman was Roberts, of Devonshire-place, Camberwell, from whom he re ceived a memorandum of the note, which he subsequently destroyed. Constable Peak, after confirming the statement of the MORNING SUN, last witness as to the occurrence which took place at his lodging, and the account he gave of the note, proes;e4 a medal, on which was, engraved, "'lndependentßoyal Sussex Lodge or Gild- rellows, Brother Drinkwater, Guardian," together with several - other small articles. On asking him. if he had made any presents to the lA' residing at. 41, North-Street, Lambeth, be said he h ad not. Witness next went to the' house alluded to in North -street, where after some conversation with Mrr. Ashbee and her daughter, they went up stairs, and the young lady pointed out a drawer, in which he found five of , gold rings, twenty-seven sovereigns and a half , a p air tortoise-shell sidec-ombs, set in pearl, a gold brooch , a lad y 's green Russia leather companion, some pieces of copper. on one of which the name of "Harris ' was enoTaredt together with sundry small articles produced. There was no reluctance on the part of the females to giro wit ness every information he required. The prisoner declined making any defence, but re quested that certain members of his family might be allowed access to him while in prison, which being ac ceded to, upon the application of Mr. Peacock he was or dered to be remanded for a week. It was stated that the prisoner and the young female , Miss Ashbee, were to be united in marriage in a few days, but that his father, who was present during the ex amination, was adverse to the match. THE MARKETS-YESTERDA Y• CORN EXCHANGE. There have been moderate arrivals of English Grain sine. Monday, and considerable of Foreign Wheat. The weatber being still favourable tendril to make the buyers cautious , an , there was a very slot , ' rate for all kinds of C o rn at Monday. % prices. Flour met a moderate demand at the late advance la prices. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat of all d*criptions vas at the last prices, and the de mand dull for all ki n d s . N o c h ange took place in Poultry, be! trade was good, and th e supplies fair. Eggs, good supplies at previous rates. COLONIAL MARKET. rates for most articles, although a and obtained full r l i Z There was little lif e i n th e M ar k et , but holders we re firm ' quantity of produce was offered at public sale. The Sr mit were larger tha n br several days for raw sugar, previ ous r were asked but the Market was rather quiet. TEA MA RK T h The demand was limited, hut holders r efused to su bm it 0 - 111 any further d ec li ne , an d t h e small parcels sold were at ,(l's;h. rates. Compa n y' s C ongou moved off quietly at 2 s. 3 1 4 cash. OW TALL MAR. y Cdle Prices kept up, b u t the Market was q ET uiet. P. -• three on the spot was h e ld f or 457. 6d. , and for delivery ja months, 475. 9d. w as as k e d. COAL M Ships arrived since 1 a. d.. Hebburn Main l7 t i Liolyweil Man l7 Nelson's West Hartley New New Tantield Moor l5 Old Taiifield Ord's Redhugh l5 C. l'anfleld Moor 2O West Pelaw.... lt 6 last an West Hartley ........ l9 0 Wylath ...... ............. Iti e Walls End Clennell Walls End Heaton l9 1. End:Hedley Walls End Killingworth Walls End Newmarch 17 Walls End Northu berla .d 17 Walls End Riddell's. lB 9 1 ARKET. last market days 300 ~ d_. tt Walls W. ss. EEnddud y : l : l' two e 1 1 ' 1 1 - 0 : Walk End Lambton ......... 1 9 9 Walls End Whitwe ll ......... 0 Walls End Caridoc ............ 0. ' ..... Walls End tiattlepoo .. 9 Tennant's Hartlepool ......... .20 0 Walls End Adelaid e .......... 9 Walls End Barrett ......... .• ; . !! 0 Walls End Brown's Deane 11 Walls End Corn f ot th .... .. ... Walls End Richardson ', Len ; s o 6 Wal s End l e es ............... I Hartley ................... ." 1 5 9 Howard's Netheron 6 Holywtll Trader ............... !t; Killingworth Trader ..... IRISH MARKETS. )ÜBLIN MARkET NOTE for ,he Wcel From 29 0 3 6 0 0 0 ) 14 6 16 0 11 13 ° 6 .... 0 12 0 13 0 ending JUL Y 23" ie. 34 0 ti 15 5 12 0 13 6 259 Wheat,perbarral 't stone.... 0 Bere ..._. l6 stole 415 Barley f l 467 Oats '4 sten, II Four, per cwt. .. 9 stout: 394 Oatmeal-. 9 stone Sold to Bakers only. o I 9.1 6 12,519 Cwt. flour... ..... .. ......... - k, Average price dl %%heat and Flour 51- Rd per sac ° . 5, 04 Fir •us. . from 2 2, . °d t As Yd beettlint ...a... from • ,5.,• to Ns s' - ' Receipts of Flour, 9,1;91 ' - sales of Do. 14,630 from 0• cd . to - AA Trani. ...... from tOs. L..• MICE OF /MIMI , . IScl. Quarterr. Loa: ......934d. i hail Qua: tern .....- -. CORK 0.1 oats 24 , c.,1 to 11 * '. Whezt (per 20s .)29s od. tt. Ms. 0.14 ions /per 145 t.... 1.' . . !4 0 Barley (per 165t.)12 6 13 0 It lorr (per cwt ~. II " Oatmeal (per ewt.).. ...4a.b. Cd to Ifs Od , Reef; 4d. to 7(l—Mutton. 5d to 6d.— Veal, 441 to •••• . Perk, 419. to 5d.--Fresh Butter, led. to lld per lb ' . PRICE OF BUTTER. . Coun tr i 7 To the Merchants. T o the so: First Quality... ........ ........„ 991 ........ ....... ~.... .... ....,:,, Second Third . ......... ..... ....... . ... . .. 91 F0urth . ................. .. - o i Fifth ............ .............. ..... 70 .... .... ""' ...... 1 9 Sixth CLON M ELL M A RKETS... July 24 A L d pe. i wt. 5. .. 4 ,, 3. d , a. d. 4. , tc %I 01 New Butter cli 6tt 102 1; H:des (raw)... ..... '"' c 4 " 0 Oatmeal.. .... l3 0 .13 6 Bacon P. l fs ...... ......4! .., -- ftenderen Lard — 0 52 ',/ deati3,...............'' • A ( Per 1321,. 6 v .d 1 0 !lour, Second .. 0 ::6 -, 1)10urrd5.......r, 0 —Household -- V 34 0 I FOUIli 1 S. , .0 . . ' p Per Barrel . 11 ' 19 ° 3apcseed. . 2 C 0 U I Barlev ............••• 0 Bere lO 0 i C.,..15 ...........'"" I 6 5 rd. KILKENNY NIA R.K EIS. i x Od. tc ,'8 Wl.eat,perbarrel)2Bi. Od.to 355. Od. Beef 'ter li. •••• 1 5 l , Barley 12 0 15 1.) Mu•tc'n . .... •••• 0 tt 4 0 7 'vats . 14 0 15 1. P or k . ..... .......- 6 ~ 0 r Flour (14er bag) V 0 BO 0 V t”' .....,........ . ,-, :.; 0 /.: Butter(pet cwt.) 90 0 WI. 0 crest. Hinter .. . 6 11 Bacon Pigs :39 0 4'J 6 `4.2it Ditto ......... 9 u w Coals 1 0 1 2 l'otatoes ;per st./ . 9 - Up to Sunday afternoon we h ave had a sac sion of dull, cold days during the past week constal attended with heavy showers. We are sorry to Ile that there is still a considerable breadth of hay out,' greater part of which is already unfit for use. On ou - ( 1 day, however, the weather cleared up about mid-day, an Monday was as bright, warm, and sunny as our bear,.`" could desire ; our hopes of f a v oura bl e h arvest wca thr; thus raised were somewhat disappointed by the showeL: morning and damp air of yesterday.—Cambridge vertiser. DEAFNESS.—Sound Magnifiers, and jttvisible Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at ad age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to ea ter conversation, and to catch the sound o f a di s tant 10 ' o ld at a publie assembly; they are th e s i ze o f 3 very small tbel -s, seven shilling piece, and when in th e ' eavity of the e a than are not in the least perceptible n or more uncein f"lab t : posed having a small piece of fine wool in its place; t h e y area IL of a metal to collect sou n d, p ecu li ar to t h e Messrs. S . Solomons themselves ; and althou g h th ey are so extremely seirA yet they enable th ose a ffli c t e d w i t h extre me deafness, 7ri those who are only s li g htly d u ll o f h ear i ng to hear in al s o respect equal to tho s e o f most acute hear i ng . Messrs.Messrs.s. the B. Solomons , 39, Albemarle.street, Piccadilly, o p posite York Hotel, and 76, Ki ng William_street , City. Newly-invf nted riser .ions v anced ' Spectacles, immedi a t e ly th ey are placed before imperfect v ii • c h either by day or candleli g ht, t h at m i st an d dullnes s W inL appears before the eyes is at once removed, every objec t bec , h r t ni be. clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective elreJlg"-tursl comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its yonthful,the and original state. Those valuable inventions have gs i° 7 of patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqualfied aPP r°bati° above 400 of the principal r. - .embers of the medical profession, Ih numerous individuals of high distinction, who have be ce _ m gre'* ite benefited by their use. 39, Alb em arle.st;eet, Piccadilly, o Pci o . the York Hotel, and 7fi, King William-street, City._Nocenne' with persons of the same name. ni aI 4 FLAT GOLD WATCHES, Gold Ten Guineas eac h. Hi g hl y -fi n i s h ed HO RIZONTAL u gy, WATCHES, with engraved or engine-turned Gold or jewelled in four holes, and either engine-turned or el ,. graved cases are offered, price Ten Guineas each. Thes e t ip gant little Watches will be found to perform very c.n .e f,, bey and a printed warran t y i s g i ven w i th f i xed terms , on 'slu e ' . will always receive any attention required. T. COX SAVORY, f r om Watchmaker, Jeweller, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven DaG" Gracechurch .street), London. A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR SE L Z i 4 E — CATALOGUE WITH ENGRAVINGS, Po ~, ola FREE.—The material is so like silver that it can 09IY ted from it on reference to the stamp by persons well acq ua ; - e i v g with it. MANY SPURIOUS IMIT A TIONS are, ble "„ sold. The genuin e me t a l, w hi c h we warrant m ore '" t he than silver, is only to be had at our Warehouse. It Is as same colour throughout, and can b e eng raved the same silver. As a criterion, spoons and f or k s , f u ll sized tablo, 1 ' 1' : 5 desserts, 10s.; tea, s s . p er d ozen. T he C ata l og ue co ER A the prices, with engravings, of ever 111.0NAlONG ARTICLE necessary to th e furnishin g a house of any ' lle ' 25 per cent. under any other old established house. R IPPON and BURTON, i 2, Wells -street, Oxford-street- Established 1820. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst., at C am b r id ge - street, H y d e -park, the La i / of Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a Ot en h On the 26th, at N orwoo d L o d ge, S urrey , th e lady of J aa 1- 111audslay, Esq., of a daughter. lad 9 On the 26th inst., at Hyde-park-gate, Kensington , the of James Pratt Barlow, Esq., of a daughter. On the 27th inst., at Charterhouse-square, the lad y of John James Turned, Esq., of a daughter. ip On the 27th inst., in Camden -town, the lady of Car -- Cecil Johnson, of a son. MARRIED. On the 27th inst., at St. James's Church, William - -Tl°l .l l son of Mr. Holt, of Sackville-street, to Frances-A I elder daughter of the late Mr. Schacht. On the 27th inst., at Battersea Church, Binsteed Gaselee, Esq., of Montagu-place, Russell-square, and Lincoln' ,-inP f barrister-at-law, to Sophia Elizabeth, the eldest daugh ter James Horne, Esq., of Clapham-common. On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Robert Isaacs, Esq., of Tortola, West Indies, to B a rbe r ina, third (laugh' ter of Daniel Charles Rogers Harrison, E s q., of Dough t y' street, Mecklenburgh-square. On the 19th ult., at Paris, the Co un t d e M ore t o n Chabrilla u Esq to Cecile, third daughter of th e l ate P eter d e D o meeq, of Xerez de la Frontera. On the 27th inst., at Trinity Church, Sloane-street, Eons!' daughter cf the late Jacob Henry Franks, of Misterton 11 1; Leicestershire, and C a d ogan-p l ace, to the Rev. Henry Teu - Hecker, of Sevenoaks, Kent. S. A On the 27th i ns t., at S t. P ancras Church, William "". • Westoby, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of Lit coln's-inn, Esq., barrister-at-l aw , t o Mary Frances, only daughter of M r . E. H. Baldock, of Hanway-street. On the 27th inst., at St. Pane] as, Henry Foster , Esq. ' third son of t h e late Charles Foster, Esq., of Virgmia-water: to Augusta, eld es t d aug h ter of James Smith, Esq., of W oburn square. On the 27th i ns t., at the parish church of St. Gabri el Fen' church, Roodlane, the Rev. C. R. Alford, R. A., cura te late cara of Finnin g ly, N otts, i ncumbent of St. Matthew's, R°2ll' t Sarah Jacosh o , e ld est d aughter of the late J o h n Fleet, Esq., of Fenchurch-street. DIE]). On the 26th inst., in Oxford-terrace, Herbert, the infant son of Wiliam Tatham, Esq. aged 7 months. ' On the 'd o f M arc h l ast, at Campbell-town, Van Diemen s' land, Mr. David Nell, third son of Mr. Joseph Nell, of Broad.' street-buildings, London, aged 33. At Newcastle-on-Tyne. Robert Uniacke, Esq. , Pay master of the 10th Regiment of Infantry. On the 17th inst., on board the Hon. Company's ship E din : burgh, C a pt a i n W. B. S ta ff, o f her Majesty's 26th Regim en ' Camcronians, on his passage home from China. On the 20th inst., Isabella, relict of the late Isaac Hitehinr of Gerrard-street, Soho, aged 83. On the 25th inst., at Cowes, Ide of Wilht, Anna Afar 4l ", wife of Thom as H a lifax, Esq., of Portland-place, Londo n. and Chadacre Hall, Suffolk. On the 27th inst., Mr. R. Pledge, of Vauxhall, builder. Loidon : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNatlvi No, 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strad' t 0 the county of Middlesex, Thursday, July 20, 1841. „ •;;. t~ ~. {