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the pit "rather fresh," and commenced annoying some females. When remonstrated with he struck a man con nected with the theatre, and gave him a black eye, and broke a chandelier in the saloon of the pit.—He was fined for the assault, and adjudged to pay damages. . I kb .44,44. MAR YLEBONE. Monday afternoon the Court was much crowded, in conse quence of its having been the day appointed for the further ex amination of George Raymond Kelly, the self-styled naval officer, who, on Monday last, was brought before Mr. Raw linson, on the charge of having, by false representations, obtained property of west-end tradesmen to a considerable amount. Some particulars were given on the former occasion. Evidence was now tendered showing that on the 22d of Fe bruary the prisoner obtained 4/ on the pair of pistols from Messrs. Beattie and Nottey, pawnbrokers, Portman-square, and that they also, on the 12th of March, advanced to him 201. upon the guns. The guns and pistols were produced, and identified by Mr. Bishop as being his. The third charge was preferred by Mr. George Bowron, bookseller and stationer, 213, Oxford-street, who stated that en the 12th of March the prisoner called at his shop, and selected, from a great many which were shown to him, a dres sing-case, desiring that it might be sent, at seven in the evening, to 59, Baker-street, for the approval of his father; he (illr. Bowron) took it thither himself, and gave it to the female servant, who, after going into the prisoner's apartment, came down, saying that Mr. Kelly (the prisoner) requested that the article might be left till Monday morn ing, as his father had not arrived ; the request was complied with, and on the morning in question he (Mr. Bowron) again went to the house, when he saw the landlady, wilco, en finding that he had parted with his goods, expressed her regret, and said she had no doubt that the prisoner was a complete swindler. It' further appeared that the guns and dressing-case were ob tained on the same day, and that in the evening thereof the prisoner quitted the house in Baker-street in which he had been living. Phelps, the constable, produced two keys taken from the prisoner, and Mr. Bowron identified them as belonging to the dressing-case of which he had been swindled. Mr. Joseph Softlaw, of the London-bridge House Hotel, stated that on the 22d June, the prisoner came to bis establish ment and engaged a bed-room in the name of Mason, saying that heiwas the son of Admiral Mason, commanding tl.e fleet in the Mediterranean. He had borrowed a sum for the pur pose, as he alleged, of liquidating the amount of tae bill, but not a farthing of the account had been paid. The prisoner had nothing to say, and he vesi, fully committed to Newgate to take his trial upon the three. Charges first gone into ; that preferred by Mr. tteftlaw co;uld, not be entertained, as it was clearly nothing but a debt, LAMBETI.i:sTREET. RECEIVING STOLEN P';,o - Ptarv. - 2-IFesterday, after the night charges were. disposed of, Mrs. Susan Lee, the wife of a wealthy Jew, in Rosemary-lane, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, on'a charge of purchasing a lady's gold watA, of the value of ten guineas, for thirty shillings, we',..l knowing it to have been stolen. Elizabeth Connor , V a s also charged with disposing of the property. The, watch was the property of a Miss Stallypress, and was stolen from her side as she was passing from Dcomark-street. Ratcliff-highway, to her father's house. It was traced into the possession of Mrs. Lee. Both the prisoners were then committed for trial. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 29, 1842. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Forester, to appoint Frederick John Trick, Esq. (late of the 6tith Regiment), one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentle men at Arms, vice Raymond, retired. WHITEHALL, MAY 28. The Lord Chancellor has appointed A. H. W. Drewe, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, in the county of Southampton, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JULY 16. The Lord Chancellor has appointed W. Docker, of Birming ham, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a Master Extra. ordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WAR-OFFICE, 4uc. 2. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet W. Squire to be Lieutenant, by purchase , vice Brytiges, who retires - Second Lieut. A. R. Robinson, from the 87th Foot, to be &met, by purchase, vice Squire ; Cornet A. R. Robinson to be Adjutant, vice Warner, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Aug. 2. 9th Regiment of Foot—Staff.Surgeon of the Second Class J. Malcolm to be Surgeon, vice Sievwright, promoted on the Staff. Aug. 2. _ _ 12th Foot—G. H. M. Johnston, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Beere, appointed to the 20th Foot, Aug. 2. 13th Foot—Major T. C. Squire to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Tronson, who retires upon full-pay; Capt. J. G. D. Taylor to be Major, vice Squire ; Lieut. G. King to be Captain, vice Taylor; Ensign A. Montgomery to be Lieutenant, vice King ; J. F. Woolhouse, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Montgomery, Aug. 2. 20th Foot—Ensign W. P. Radcliffe to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Hall, who retires ; Ensign D. Beere, from the 12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Radcliffe, August 2. 32d Foot—E. Moorhead, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice M'Gregor, appointed to the Staff, August 2. 33d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. G. Bowlby, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mackin tosh, deceased, Aug. 2. 37th Foot—Ensign J. Jones to be Adjutant, vice Byrne, who resigns the Adjutantey only, Aug. 2. 52d Foot—Colour-Sergeant J. Williams to be Quarter nsaster, vice Chine, deceased, Aug. 2. 71st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon G. Carr, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M'Diarmid, who exchanges, Aug. 2. 79th Foot—Ensign T. B. Butt to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Milbank, who retires • J. A. G. Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Butt, Aug. 2. 83d Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel B. Trydell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice the Hon. Henry Dundas, placed upon half-pay ; Brevet Major J. Swinburne to be Major, vice Trydell ; Lieut. W. Garstin to be Captain, vice Swinburne ; Ensign the Hon. W. Gage to be Lieutenant. vice Garstin ; Ensign W. A. R. Maxwell, from half-pay Unat tached, to be Ensign, vice Gage, Aug. 2. 87th Foot—F. Colegrave, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Robinson, appointed to the 3d Dragoon Guard's, Aug. 2. Ist West lndia Regiment—F. Andrews, Gent., to be As sistant-Surgeon, vice gowlby, appointed to the 33d Foot, Aug. 2. 2d West India Regiment—Capt. T. Armstrong, from half pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice G. F. Horsford, who ex changes ; Lieut. G. Howell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Armstrong, who retires, Aug. 2. To be Aides-de-Camp to the Queen—Brevet Colonel G. A. IVetherall, of the Ist Foot, vice the Hon. H. Dundas, dis missed from that appointment Lieut.-Col. Standish Viscount Guillamore on half-pay Unattached (with the rank of Colonel in the Army), vice Dennie, killed in action, July 29. BILEVk-T—Captain T. Armstrong, of the 2d West India Regiment, to be Major in the Army, November 23. liosetTAL STAFF—Surgeon J. French, M.D. from the 4ftth Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, August 1 ; surgeon F. Sievwright, M.D., from the 9th Foot, to be Staff- Surgeon of the First Class, vice John Lightbody, who retires upon half-pay ; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon S. M. Hadaway to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Malcolm, appointed to the 9th Foot; F. Reid, M.D. to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Hadaway ; Assistant-Surgeon J. D. M'Diarmid, frem the 71st Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Carr, who exchanges ; Assistant-Surgeon D. M'Gregor, from the 32d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Greer, deceased, August 2. MEmoaawnum.—The Christian name of Ensign Campbell, appointed to the 94th Foot, on 224 July 1842, is William 11ilsorn Commission blthe Lord Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire. Berwickshire gilitia—John Johnstone, Esq. i'o be Major, vice Swinton, resigned, April 10. BANK RUPI CY SUPERSEDED. JAMES DAWSON, woollen cloth•merchant, Hndders- Seld, Yorkshire. BANKRUPTS. JOHN IVERY, builder, High Wycombe, Buckingham shire, to surrender, August 11, at half-past two, and Sept. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane, official assignee ; Ashley, Shoreditch. HENRY JOHN WATKINSON, cardmaker, Hightown, Yorkshire, Aug. 2, and Sept. 13, a t t en , at the George Hotel, Huddersfield. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London Higham, Brighouse, Yorkshire. CHARLES BINDLEY and FRANCIS COPLAND, coach makers, Birmingham, Aug. 19, and Sept. 13, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham. Alexander, South-street, Finsbury-square. Middlesex. THOM AS COLLETT and JOSEPH SMITH, cotton spinners, Ossett, Yorkshire, Aug. 12 and Sept. 13, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Hampson, Manchester ; Adlington, Gregor!, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London. WILLIAM WARD, plumber, Manchester, Aug. 22 and Sept. 1(3, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Hadfield, Manchester, Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London. HENRY HILTON, bleacher, Over Darwen, Lancashire, August 23, at three, and September 13, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Neville, Ains worth, and Beardsworth, Blackburn. HENRY ROGERS, wine merchant, Dartmouth, August 15, and September 13, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, F eter. Michael, Red Lion-square, London ; Geare, Mount to , and Geare, Exeter. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. C. Daly, bookseller, Red Lion-square, Aug. 25, at two—T. D. Taylor, oilman, Lower Holborn, Aug. 25, at eleven—T. Hill, jun. and W. Brookes, merchants, St. Mary-axe, Aug. 24, at half-past ono—B. Marshall, tallow melter, High Hol born.; Aug. 24, at two—R. J. Makins, grocer, Blandford stre et, Manchester-square, Aug. 24, at one. In the Country. .1. Elliott, currier Birmingham, Aug. 25, at three, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—J. Parsons, maltster, Mans field, Nottinghamshire, Aug. 30, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—J. Darbyshire and S. Pope, calico printers, Manchester, Aug. 23, at ten, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES—AUG. 23. J. A. and D. Webb, farmers' blacksmiths, Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire—J. Critchley, bricklayer, Liverpool—W. Brown, cotton manufacturer, .Manchester—T. Ginger, inn keeper, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire—T. Hill, Jun. and W. Brookes, merchants, St. Mary-axe—H. English, printer, New Broad-street. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. Nivoley, L. Nivoley, and F. Chowne, foreign importers, Regent street—ll. and J. Aste, corn merchants, Tottenham court-road—T. Dayson and W. Line, wholesale picture-frame manufacturers, Phoenix-street, Soho—C. J. Scott, J. Scott, and R. Stephenson, biscuit bakers, Wapping-street—J. Han cock and G. B. Yates, wine merchant, St. Dunstan's-hill, Tower-street—W. W. Heap and C. Smith, manufacturers, Manchester—S. Johns and E. Hollingsworth, milliners, Ware, Hertfordshire—J. Armstrong and W. H. Dirks, drapers, Man chester—A. C. Scott and C. Currie, manYfacturers, 31anebes ter—J. Godwin, R. Hensley, and C. Godwin, woollen drapers, Bristol (so far as regards It. Ilensley )—C. Morson and W. Wilkinson, jun., dyers, Barnsley, Yorkshire—J. C. Cockerel' and W. D. Clarke, upholsterers, Blackman-street, Southwark —J. Bowler, sen., W. Bowler, and J. Bowler, hat manufac turers, Bridge-street, Southwark (so far as regards W. Bowler) —B. Peacock and W. Haslewood, physicians, Darlington, Durham—J. Gartosr. Butterworth, and 11. Scholfield, cotton spinners, Castleton, Lancashire—T. and J. Tyler, florists, Bethnal-green —R. J. and W. Booth, pawnbrokers, Woolwich—J. Reid and C. Brooks, eating-houie keepers, Fenehurch-street—W. Amos and J. Prince, sponge merchants, Walbrook —S. and J. Gutteridge, ship builders, Selby, York shire—C. J. Carr, J. Bridges, W. Webster, jun., and J. Web ster, nail manufacturers, Belper, Derbyshire (so far as regards C. J. Carr). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Weem, Perthshi r e, A ug . 5 ROBERT MENZIES, trader, and Ai, at one, at the Chambers of J. and J. Miller, Perth. THOMAS ADAMSON and CO., shipbuilders, Dundee, Aug. b and 213, at tine, at the Chambers of C. and J. Kerr, Dundee. DIXONJACOB D EDGAR, merchant. Castle-Dougl as , K trendbright, Aug. 8 and :29, , at one, at the Douglas Arms Inn, Carte-Douglas. JOHN HAMILTON, writer, Paisley, Aug. 6 and 27, at twelve, at the Chambers of J. Dunn, Paisley. WILLIAM WATSON, merchant, Cromarty, Aug. 6 and 29, at twelve, at the Commercial Inn, Cromarty. ALEX. BROOM, draper, Glasgow, Aug. 10 and Sept, 2, at one, at the Chambers of J. Smith, Glasgow. JAMES HARLEY and CO., wholesale warehousemen, Glasgow, Aug. 9 and Sept. 6, at two, at the Counting-house of J. Gourlay, Glasgow. JOHN GILRU'fH, ironmonger, Dundee, Aug. 11 and Sept. 8, at one, at W. Anderson's,jun., Innkeeper, Dundee. LAURENCE WILSON, mill-spinner, Miamill, near Dun fermline, Aug. 8 and Sept. 6, at twelve, at the Spire Hotel, Dunfermline. JAMES NAISMITH, builder, Hamilton, Aug. 11 and Sept. 1, at twelve, at the Hamilton Arms Inn, Hamilton. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT SOUTHERNDOWN, GLAMORGANSHIRE. This delightful little watering place was recently thrown into deep grief through the death of two un fortunate young ladies. The circumstances are these :—On Thursday last a lady and her two daughters, of the name of Mary and Jane Gething, of Newport, went for the purpose of bathing down to that portion of this delightful beach allotted ex clusively to the ladies, and which lies close to that reef of jutting rocks called the Dunraven Point. The tide was at the furthest ebb. Having been in ,the water some time, the mother beckoned to her daughters, who were in advance ofher,and admonished them to come out, instead of doing which, to increase their mother's alarm, they only proceeded the further, and turning round this dangerous rock, fell unfortunately into weep pool, formed there by the junction of two strwig cur rents, and which is called the Witch's Foot. When the wretched mother saw their ineffectual struggles, having called in vain for assistance, she rushed into the water, and being exhausted through terror and surprise, sank amidst the waves. There were no in dividuals on the beach with the exception of two ladies and some children, who were too helpless to give aid, though they screamed for assistance, but it was not in vain. Mr. Gething, who is a respectable merchant in Bristol, was expected daily at Southerndown by the family, and had arrived that moment on the neighbouring cliff, to seek them. Hearing the screams of those ladies who were on the shore, he ran to their assistance, and their detail of the catastrophe filled him with dismay. They had rescued the mother, and now was the task for the wretched father. He found the corpse of one, which was taken to a neighbouring , house, but life was quite extinct; the body of the other sister was found in the pool six hours after. The mother, it is supposed, will not recover her reason. The Bay of Souther down is not only safe, but possessed of advantages little inferior to any in Wales. Therefore, to the rashness of the unfortunates can alone be attributed the whole of this heart-rending affair. The youngest girl, it seems, that morning, addressed her mother, and begged " they might have their last bathe," saying, " we shall leave to-morrow." Truly it was prophetic ot their last bathe, and their conveyance in the hearse homeward on the morrow. Dunraven is the residence of Lord Adare, one of the county Mem bers, and we cannot speak too highly of the conduct of her Ladyship throughout the affair.—Carmarthen Journal. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. During the present week showers have been more fre quent than might have been wished for the hay-makers, but they have done much in Yorkshire to refresh the pastures, and to increase the supply of after-grass ; and the spring corn, potatoes, and turnips, as well as the second crops of clover, are quite flourishing under the influence of the genial showers by which the country has been enriched and the prospects of the farmers improved. New wheat has found its way into some of our southern markets, so that the corn harvest may be said to have commenced under auspicious circumstances.—Leeds Mercury. The weather has continued very favourable since our last, and a considerable breadth of hay has been secured in first-rate condition. Another week of favourable weather will enable the farmers to stack the remainder. The harvest will be pretty general in a fortnight should the weather continue favourable. A field of barley, be longing to Mr. Emerson, of Ovingham, was cut on the 23d inst.—Durham Advertiser. We have had another week of most propitious harvest weather, and its beneffcial effects are perceivable in all kinds of agricultural produce. The hay harvest is now nearly over, and most of it has been got in in fine condi tion. Indeed, although the yield is considerably below the average quantity, the quality is so superior as to make the hay harvest of this year of nearly average value. Nothing can be more promising than the appear ance of all the grain crops, and the small quantity of barley already cut has fully equalled the expectation of the farmers.—Carlisle Patriot. Reaping has generally commenced in this neighbour hood (Reading) under very favourable auspices, and the crop of wheat is generally good in quality, and of a fair average quantity. Some new wheat was sold at Ux bridge market, on Thursday, at 725. per quarter ; it weighed 641bs. per bushel.—Berkshire Chronicle. The cutting of wheat, peas, and rye has commenced in different parts of this county, and will soon become general. Where thinness of plant was complained of in the wheat, great improvement has taken place. The forward-sown barley will be a full average in quantity, and the quality promises to be good, if we hare fine weather to secure it. Oats are much improved, hut do not promise to produce an average.—Cambridge Chronicle. The corn crops all look healthy. I n th e V a l e o f ! Clwyd wheat, barley, and oats, approach an average crop, especially barley, which in general is particularly fine. On good lands the ears of wheat appear to be heavy, though in parts the crop is thin. Several farmers concurred, that the bad weather in the last seeding time caused a less breadth to be sown than is usual. In Flint shire the crops are lighter, though in some parts the ears are well filled. In several districts oats are quite ready for cutting, and wheat nearly so. To all appear ance the harvest will be early, in fact closely following on the heels of the hay harvest. We were gratified to see the great extent to which turnip growing is adopted. The prospects of this crop are most flattering.—Chester Chronicle. Tits LATE Loss OF LIFE NEAR CHATHAM.—Al though several of her Majesty's Ordinary boats have been searching the river Medway since Monday afternoon for the bodies of the six unfortunate persons belonging to the Sheer water surveying steamer, who, it will be recollected, were drowned by the overturning of a boat near Chatham, it was not till Sunday evening that any was discovered, when that of Mr. Thomas Correll, the surgeon, was picked up within a short distance from where the melancholy occurrence took place. It was immediately taken ashore at Upnor, together with another body, supposed to be one of the seamen, which was at the same time found by another of the boats, where they await an inquiry. Mr. Correll has left a wife, residing at Harwich, to deplore his loss. They had only been married four months. The names of the other sufferers are David Edgar and William Marshall, quartermasters ; Thomas Spar row, boatswain's mate ; Henry Kemp and Henry Bond, sea men. It is a singular fact that Lieutenant Cudlip, who was the only one of the boat's crew that was saved, is the only sur viving officer of the unfortunate ship Fairy, which foundered at sea during the dreadful storm in November, 1340, he at that time having charge of the Fairy's tender, which outlived the hurricane. All the sufferers, excepting the deceased Bond, were married men, and have left children living at Harwich. FIRE ON CORSTORPHINE HILL.—On the fast-day, last week, some of the wood on this hill was discovered to be on fire, which it required the exertions of a number of people to extinguish. It was supposed to have been accidental ; but a circumstance occurred yesterday morning, which has given rise to various surmises. At an early hour the coach-house at Clermiston House, on the west side of the hill, was found burn ing, and on investigation several articles of a combustible na ture were found collected near the door. The fire had been burning some hours, and had deeply charred the beam over the door, but was easily extinguished.— Caledonian Mercury. STRONG SYMPATHY IN THE DOG.—An interesting ' instance of this feeling in the canine species, the authen ticity of which may be relied on, lately took place, or rather is still proceeding, at Invergeldie, a large sheep farm on the estate of Lawers, near Connie, Perthshire. The overseer became severely indisposed, and for the first ten days after their master had taken to bed his two faithful collies refused to be comforted, mournfully declining all sorts of food, nay, even milk warm from the cow at last pressed upon them by the domestics. At length their case became so serious—for they were otherwise valuable dogs—that the overseer's mother was prevailed upon to inform her sick son, though at the time very low, of the cir cumstance, begging of him, as a Bernier ressort, to try what effect his own word would still have upon the mute mourners. By an effort he succeeded in a weak voice to name his favourites, pointing at the same time to some food, placed at hand for the trial. This gentle command had its effect ; the dogs at once obeyed, and have since, as if it were still repeated to them, which it is not likely ever to be again, continued to take as much as supports life ; but once every day at least, and oftener if oppor tunity offer, they glide together into the room where the sick man is, slip stealthily to the bedside, raise their fore paws upon the bedclothes, and in this attitude con tinue together for some time to gaze intently on the pallid features of their now unconscious master, and then droopingly retire out of the room.—Stirling Journal. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, JULY 29.—.01.1F market has been dull and quiet this week. The country de mand affording but little inducement to purchase, a few lots only have been disposed of. Prices remain uuvaried. The distressing state of commercial af fairs, generally, while it limits business, making more than ordinary caution requisite, renders it more than usually imperative to obtain that fair remunerating profit, to which every man of business is entitled, as the reward of his judgment, his assidUity, and the outlay of his capital. Any system of trade, therefore, which destroys profit, and strikes at the root of all confidence between man and man, creating sus picion, reflection, and complaint, becomes insupportably odious, and is a matter in which all honest tradesmen arc interested, because aggrieved. In this light only can it, be viewed. So long as a heavy article, like sugar, is sold at any price that will command early cash—so long as it is used as a stalking-hors e to cover ulterior and foreign purposes—so long as it is made available-to raise large sums of ready money to be employed in other schemes, or in removing any possible temporary appre hension—whilst this course is pursued, the prosperity or even the success of dealers in this commodity exclusively must be sacrificed ; and so long as the West India mer chants lend their property to be perverted to the destruc tion of its fair value in honourable trading —so long can this stem be maintained. No exterior regularity, no plausible profession, will ever. make such a vocation honest or creditable.—Bristol Mercury. Her Majesty, it is said, means to honour in an especial manner the next birth-day of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which takes place on the 26th inst., when the Prince will enter his twenty-fourth' year. A large party will be entertained to dinner at the Castle, and her Majesty will, it is understood, afterwards have an evening party, for which cards of invitation will be issued to the principal nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood of Windsor Castle. ..,%• 4 .4 TriE LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1841 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, Aug. 2. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock; the Doan CHAN CELLOR OH the Woolsack. Lord KENYON presented several petitions praying for inquiry into the system of education pursued at May nooth, with view to the withdrawal of the grant to that College. INSOLVENT DEBTORS RELIEF BILL, The Insolvent Debtors Relief Dili Was read a third time and passed. Lord BROUGHAM hoped their Lordships would bear with hint tt moment, while he took the op , portunity to tender them and their Lordships his hearty thanks, on behalf of A very Unfortunate and numerous class of his relloW.Sub3ects, and to express to them their hopes as well as gratitude with regard to this Bill, abolishing, as it must do, in a great many oases, imprisonment for debt, and obtaining a distribution of the estate of debtors among the cre ditors, As long ago as 1828, he had strongly urged the necessity of such a Bill as the present, and he hoped it would be received by the other. House of Parliament with the same fi'voiir with which it had been received by their Lordships, Lord UAMPBELL rose to move an additional clause to tikt Lord BROUGHAM—The Bill has passed.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Lord CAMPBELL entirely agreed with the objects of the Bill, but had not been prepared for the railroad pace with which it seemed to have been passed. Lord BROUGHAM suggested that the clause, if ne cessary, might be added in the other House. LICENSED LUNATICS ASYLUMS BILL. It having been announced that the Members of the Commons appointed to conduct the conference with their Lordships on the Licensed Lunatic Asylums Bill, were in waiting, Lord Beaumont and several other Peers attended for their Lordships, and on their return re ported that the Commons had agreed to some of the amendments, and from others they disagreed for reasons they had stated. . el . 1. , Atiiong those names it did so happen-- and he grieved that it was so—that one-half of the num ber were mercantile firms of British subjects: Some of those firms were known to be engaged in the slave-trade; and of those who had signed the certificate vouching for the honour of a mail engaged in what the laws of the country denounced as piracT—of those engaged in traffic in Itio who gave him a character for probity and honour, three different firms had lost amongst them 120300/. stet.• ling by the recent capture of vessels engaged in the slave trait. Their Lordships would now observe the langtiage Of commendation with which the nratiliati au thoriti'es eulogised our merchants in return for theft certificates. A journal known to be under the patronage of a celebrated Brazilian Minister, not nOw in office, had the following passage t--" We declare that we have a great respect for the English merchants in Rio, not only for their conduct in our internal concerns, but principally for the wayi n which they contri bute to the ransom of captive blacks in Africa whether by ordering goods fit to be employed in this work of humanity ; whether, by lending their money to the adventure, or whether, as is said, by running vessels destined for the coast." " Not only for their conduct in our internal concerns 1" That meant importing 70 or 80 Slaves, and not only that, but grant ing certificates to slave traders. "But principally for the way in which they contribute to the ransom of the cap tive blacks in Africa, whether by ordering goods fit to be employed in this work of humanity !" Whether by muskets bought for 16d. a-piece, and known to burst the first time they were fired ; whether by shakles and manacles, or the goods purchased for carrying out this work of humanity, or whether by . the purchase of slave vessels, they did not particularise. Such vessels for example, as that lately taken by Captain Denman, who, to the honour of his name, he (Lord Brougham) might confidently assert, if not the first amongst his gallant brethren, had equalled any of them in the war —interminable war—and he rejoiced to say, success ful war, which he had waged with these felons of the coast—he stopped one small vessel of 47 tons with 370 negroes on board. Eight to one ton ! being five times more than our slave carrying had permitted. It was not necessary—it was not useful, that he should fall into any exaggeration on a motion of the present kind. He defied the imagination of man to conceive a case worse than was eonveyed in the bare statement of the fact he had mentioned of 370 unhappy wretches being crowded in a space not larger than a Thames barge. He did not mean to attribute all the horrors of the system to those parties whose capital was engaged in the trade of Brazils and who drove that trade ; but he could not acquit them of being accessory to it, of pro fiting by it, and that they must know it was a fad placed beyond all possibility of doubt. He would take the case of the Mining Companies. Those Companies were chiefly carried on by British capital, and some of them had their seats in the city of London itself. He understood that at a meeting of one of those Companies it had been dis tinctly stated that one ground for a call being made on the shareholders for an increased payment in the shares had been the expense to which the Company was put for carrying on its operations in the mines. What were those operations ? Why it appeared that 5,0001. had been expended by the Company in one year in the pur chase of 73 slaves. Again, it appeared that 63 slaves had been purchased in the following year ; and the num ber of slaves employed altogether in the mines amounted to 2,000. Could there be any doubt as to the way in which the 5,000/. were employed ? If the Directors of the Company should say, that for aught they knew the money was expended in buying Creoles, and not newly imported slaves—that latter purchase being allowed by the law, he should tell them that an inquiry into the facts would prove the fallacy of such a statement. No people in that country could doubt for a moment whether a slave were a Creole, or whether he had been lately imported. A person had only to be a fortnight in the country . to be enabled to distinguish the two men, without hearing them speak a word. But if any doubt could remain to the eye, none could remain to the ear, because the instant these unhappy beings attempted to speak, it would be seen at once whether they had been imported from Africa, because in that case they could not speak a word of Brazilian or Por tuguese. Besides the price showed that those slaves were not Creoles. These seventy-three slaves had been purchased for 5,000/. making it utterly and absolutely impossible that they could have been Creoles. The price of a Creole was 1201., 1301., or 140/. ; but those slaves he had mentioned had been bought at the rate of half that sum. Let him see any man purchasing a jewel for less than half its value, even though it were not brought to him by a suspicious character, and he should have his doubts as to his honesty ; but let him see a man pur- chasing a jewel brought to him by a most suspicious character, and he should desire no further proof that one was the receiver and the other the thief. But an unli mited supply of Creole negroes could not be obtained ; the quantity was always limited, except under extraor dinary circumstances ; and it was only by new negroes that the plantations and mines could be worked. Let them consider the position in which these rich men placed these negroes ; their agents on the spot might be more guilty than themselves, as seeing all of the details and having a more specific knowledge attic circumstances; but it was themselves who set this traffic in motion. Some of those agents bore what was equal to a Magistrate's commission. The cargoes could not be landed in the harbour of Rio, not so much from the fear of the national authorities as of the British Commission ; they were landed outside the bar, and conducted inland, where bar racoons were constructed in the woods, and in these the poor wretches were cooped up. He had asked how it was that six or seven hundred men could be marched away without resistance, and he had been told if he had ever witnessed the scene he would not ask what precau• tions were taken, for the slaves were landed in such a state as rendered any attempt at resistance or escape utterly and physically impossible. And all this was well known to the authorities. He should not attempt to draw nice distinctions between the guilt of agents and principals, but he could not acquit those who indirectly put this infernal ma chinery in motion ; those who profited by it, whose speculation, whose labour all tended to their own gain, were all consummated by the perpetration of an act of accession to that villainy, of which, if they were not ac cessories, they were at least encouragers; these he could not hold blameless. Their capital, their enterprise, their industry were as certainly the main-spring . of the slave trade as the main-spring of that clock (pointing to the clock of the House). put in motion the hands, which reminded him how much longer than necessary he had detained their Lordships in dwelling upon these circum stances. He remembered an Eastern tale which some what illustrated this subject. It represented some tyrant, who was minded to put two persons of his own family to death, but even his otherwise relentless nature shrank from the sight of the murder he was about to commit. He commanded an agent to perform it, who partaking of the same scruples, entrusted the task to a slave, who, being led into a cavern, saw a rope which de scended into a hole at the extremity. A hatchet was put into his hand, and he separated the rope, which disap peared rapidly into the hole. He was then led to the ad joining palace, and found that his victims had been sleeping under a marble canopy, which, when the rope was secured, descended and crushed them by the blow. The tyrant shrank from the sight ; but, by the blow of the hatchet in the hand of the slave, as certainly caused those deaths, as those speculations, as that capital, kindled the wars, committed the murders, stimulated the tortures' and shed the desolation over Africa, which had deluged that country for ages, merely to glut with wealth those cruel nations who, more than any others, were ostentatious devotees to the religion of charity and peace.—(Hear, hear.) He alluded tc the manner in which their Lordships had been em ployed on the day preceding, to show that if they could disallow the plea of distress, when indecency or immo rality was involved, they would not hesitate a moment, for the sake of trade, when mercy and humanity were endangered, neither towards the rising of the sun, nor to his going down, would they wage war for the lucre of gain against virtue and human happiness—wars such as were never waged by the greatest tyrant that ever sat upon a throne. Let them remember what was said by the greatest of our poets, and not the least of our patriots, " That it was the prerogative of this country to teach the nations how to live." But it was with peace and freedom that the commerce of England held her holy alliance. Far greater than Greek or Roman charity would be their Lordships' protection to those for whom he pleaded, and they would call down blessings from heaven upon the country and themselves by taking the course which, with all humility, he called upon their Lordships to take. They would add to their own glory, and bestow upon him the greatest favour which he could desire in discharging a sacred public duty. The Noble Lord conclnded, amidst cheers, by moving a resolution to the effect that it was expedient to take measures for preventing the employment of British capital, and of British agents, in the slave trade. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that after the attention with which his Noble Friend had been heard, he was sure their Lordships would all be anxious to have some measure under their consideration which would be effectual to put an end to the evils which his Noble and Learned Friend had with so much eloquence pourtrayed. He felt that if the House adopted the motion, it would be absolutely necessary for the Government of the country to bring forward some measure for the suppres sion of those evils. His Noble and Learned Friend had mentioned that some persons bearing her Majesty's commission were concerned in these transactions. That was a part of the evil for which there was no difficulty in finding a remedy.—(Hear, hear.) But having at tended most minutely to the speech of his Noble and Learned Friend, he could not discover anything like a road to an effectual remedy, as the evils were perpetrated in a country where they were not contrary to the law, and he should be totally at a loss to know how the English Government could obtain the information which would enable them to propose any measure. What, therefore, lie proposed was, that his Noble and Learned Friend should himself bring forward a measure which would have the effect of putting an end to the per petration of those crimes, and relieve the country from the disgrace of their continuance. He (the Duke of Wellington) would submit to the House, and his Noble and Learned Friend, an engagement on the part of the Government that they would take his measure into con sideration at the earliest possible period in the next session, for the purpose of rendering it a perk et pwa-rhti,chLoLrdorßdroWnhialranm rnea,,ure. cli A tie ft a e n r d t a h : sh E o a r r t l coorns-e Riponrs at i t o o n ok i n a withdrew his motion. The motion was then withdrawn. A message from the Commons brought up th e Bri bery at Elections Bill, and the Drainage (Ireland) Bill, LIMITATION OF ACTIONS (IRELAND) BILL. On the Order of the Day being read for the House resolving itself into a Committee on this Bill, 'The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that he proposed that the Bill should come into operation in the month of July, 1844, in order to give parties affected by the me-- sure time to assert their rights. The House then went into Committee On the M. The different clauses Niiete egreed to after a short dis cussion, and the Report was ordered W be neeived,on Thursday. The Colonial Passengers Bill, and the Bonded Corn (No. 2) fill Weht through Committee. I i The Joint-Stock Banking fill tubs read a third time and passed. The Double Costs Bill wept through Committee, was reported; Mid ordered to be read a third time on Friday. The Ordnance Services Bill went through Committee, as did iitsd the Western Australia Dill: On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL the ttibety Elections Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday. The Bills oti the table were forwarded a stage, awl the House, at half-past Eight o'Clock, adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Aug. 2. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. STANDING ORDERS. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET moved the consi deration of the Report from the Select Committee on the Standing Orders revision. Alterations were recom mended for the purpose of increasing public convenience, by making the Standing Orders more simple and more easily to be understood by the public. An important alteration was to reduce the number of the Committee from 15 to 11, and in future to make Chairmen of Com mittees on petitions Members of the Standing Orders Committee. Another alteration was, that any Member not being present at the time the Chairman shall be ap pointed, he shall not be eligible to serve on the Committee. Mr. GREENE agreed with the alteration as recom mended, but there was one Standing Order retained, which he thought the House would do well to abolish, and that was the order for Railway Bills being discussed on Tuesdays. He did not see why they should place Railway Bills on a different footing to other private Bills. He would therefore move that the recommendation of the Committee be adopted, with the exception of that Standing Order. Lord G. SOMERSET hoped his Hon. Friend wculd withdraw his amendment, and leave the subject for con sideration for another session. Mr. LABOUCHERE defended the Standing Order, and Mr. GREENE withdrew his motion. _ After a few words from Mr. C. BULLER and Mr. ESTCOURT the original motion was agreed to, and the Report was brought up. COMNI - ITYEE OF ELECTIONS. SLAVE TRADE. The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the second reading of the Bill to enable her Majesty to suspend so much of the Slave Trade Prohibition Act as related to Por tugal, lie stated that since his accession to office he had lost no time in renewing the negotiations on this subject, and the Portuguese Government having issued a decree declaring the slave trade to be piracy, her Majesty's Government had thought it advisable to suspend such portions:of the Act as subjected Portuguese cruizers to seizure and condemnation in the courts of this country. The ratifications of the treaty had been sent from Lisbon, but as they might happen to be exchanged after the rising of Parliament, he had thought it right to make provision for such an event. The Bill gave power to her Majesty to declare by an Order in Council the suspension of so much of the Act he had referred to as related to Portugal. He need say nothing of the Act itself, as he anticipated no objection to it. The Act which it would partly suspend was one but little consonant with the friendship and intimacy subsisting between this coun try and the Court of Portugal ; it induced a state of par tial and indirect hostility, and must have led inevitably to direct war with a more powerful country. The Bill was then read a second time. STAMP DUTIES ASSIMILATION (IRELAND BILL. The Stamp Duties Assimilation (Ireland) Bill wen through Committee, and the Report was agreed to third - reading on Thursday. _ Lord LONDONDERRY presented a petition from the Rev. R. Sulez, late English chaplain at Lisbon, com plaining of having been improperly removed from his situation, to which he had been appointed in 1819. BOLTON POLICE BILL. The Bolton Police Bill went through Committee. SLAVE-TRADE. Lord BROUGHAM then rose to submit the proposi tion on the subject of slavery, of which he had given notice. He said half a century had now elapsed since Parliament, acting, not for this country alone, but for the world, had held up to the indignation of mankind that execrable traffic which for three hundred years had been the scourge of Africa and the disgrace of Christian Europe. To that righteous act Parliament was coun selled by all the genius of the age, unstained by the virtue, and animated by the pious zeal of the time. To that period succeeded a length of time, for which Par liament alone was to blame. Though denounced, the enormity was protected ; and after being universally condemned, it continued to flourish and to increase. But at length its sentence was recorded by Parliament, and the enormity was prohibited and declared illegal. It was determined that crime should not be called trade, but that those who were engaged in it should be punished, as criminals of a far more venial character had been punished. How was it, then, that at this moment, thirty years after that great consummation, he was again there to complain of the slave trade, and ask for new laws to put it down ? Laws, not against foreign nations, over whom they had little or no control, but subjects known to the Crown and the law ; and who failed in their duty both to the law and to the Crown. lie would proceed to demonstrate that he was not bring ing vague unsubstantial accusations. He should show their Lordships that, by the aid of British speculation, by the accession of British agents, and by the employ ment of British capital, it was in a great part owing that the slave trade was still perpetrated in those foreign settlements. He would go at once to show what the proofs were as to whence the capital came to carry on this traffic. Their Lordships knew that in Cuba—he said they knew it, because it appeared, by the papers which bad been returned to their House—it appeared in the correspondence of the Ministers of the Crown, and he, therefore, said they knew that in Cuba and Brazil— which were the great wrong-doers—the increase of the trade—he spoke of Cuba now—there was proof that between the years 1827 and 1831 the increase of trade had been fourfold, and that there had been a correspond ing increase in the importation of slaves. In those four years there were imported 32,000 slaves from Africa, besides 91,000, the annual average to fill up the blanks caused by the deaths exceeding the births, making in the four years 123,000 at the least, according to the official returns of the authorities in Cuba themselves, making a yearly average of 30,000. In Havannah in the last two years 142 vessels delivered their cargoes of human beings, and the returns gave for these two years 50,000 a year, and the price had increased from 601. to 801. a head. Thus it was seen that not less than four millions a year were expended in this traffic in Cuba alone, whereas the whole exports of Cuba amounted only to three millions annually. This showed that the capital for carrying on the slave trade with that island was not furnished by the island itself. If they went to the Brazils they would find the accounts the same. At Rio in the three years, ending 1839, 144 ships de livered 217,000 slaves, being no less than an average of 70,000 slaves yearly, at a cost of 80/. per head, which is the price there. Five mil lions and a half sterling was, therefore, the yearly expense of slave importation into Brazil. It was need less to ask whether Cuba or Brazil could furnish these millions ; it was certain that they must have foreign as sistance, and looking round to the quarter from whence it must come, it was painful to be obliged to confess that from this country alone could it come. He should show their Lordships, by _specific evidence, that there was no escape from that conviction. He would not rely upon the fact that it was impossible that those who en tered into speculations in those foreign settlements must know whence their supply of negroes was derived. In the Senate at Rio it was declared that the law for preventing the importation had fallen into disuse, and a petition was presented from the Provincial Assembly of Bahia, and another Province, urging the Senate to repeal—not the law pre venting the slave trade, for the law had fallen into dis use—but to repeal that part of the law which gave free dom to the newly-imported slave. The ground on which they asked for the repeal was that the law occasioned unavoidable immorality, because it was impossible to ob serve it, and the citizens were compelled to violate it under the eyes of its administrators. Those Assemblies called upon the Senate to legalise piracy, and to give them full license to carry on the slave trade. It might be supposed that he was wrong in accusing English mer chants and capitalists of employing their wealth in this traffic ; but there was not only the general probability, from the enterprises in which they were engaged in those foreign settlements, but he had direct evidence of the fact. On the 14th July, 1838, the Commissioners wrote to Lord Palmerston—that is, the English Commissioner settled at Rio—that various undertakings which re quired the employment of slavers were concerted in this country, and were every day multiplying. But it was not upon any such vague statement as that that his case depended. He would refer to the case of a vessel under Russian colours, which was seized and brought into Sierra Leone, where it was released by the authorities, on the ground that there was no jurisdiction ; but he could show that there was jurisdiction. However, she was re leased, and being released she was sold; she was pur chased by a merchant in this city, who has been a natu ralized subject of this country for twenty years. Who was she purchased for ? A Spaniard, a notorious slave trader ; by whose capital he cared not.—(Hear.) She was then sent forth or her voyage of depredation ; she touched at Cadiz, and afterwards she was seized on the coast of Africa, with papers on board which made it certain that she was there, and there only, for the pur poses of the slave trade.—(llear.) There she was seized and condemned, for aiding and abetting that trade. At the time that she was seized her master was on board ; he stated that she had nothing to do with the slave trade, but that statement was not believed. Another brig, from Liverpool to Bahia, went out with a crew of English sailors. She professed she went out for the Brazils, but afterwards she was fitted out for any port. The crew considered their articles broken, as they had to come back to an European port. But new persons were taken on board, and those persons took the ship over to the slave coast ; the charterer being a notorious slave dealer, the consignee a notorious slave dealer, and the port the most notorious slave port en the coast. There she arrived with abundant evidence on board of what her cargo was, and she was convicted, as the other ship had been, for slave dealing. Much about the same time a gallant officer stopped a vessel on her wyage to Brazil. Whether she came from Africa or another port to Brazil did not appear clearly from the account; she might have been a coasting vessel. But it did appear that she was going with a cargo of between feventy and eighty slaves, and was bound to a plantation belonging to an Englishman settled in Brazil. He would only mention one more case which came be fore the Privy Council, in which it appeared that the vessel which had been condemned had been past all doubt engaged in slave trading. And one very remark able circumstance came out on that trial. It appeared that the person who fitted out the vessel. and who was as noted a slave trader as any of those to whom he had already referred, obtained a certificate from about 26 or 30 merchant houses in Brazil, to the great probity and high honour of that individual—a man as well known to be a slave trader as it wan known what his name was iu Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET brought up the Report of the General Committee on Elections. CORN. Mr. GLADSTONE moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be gra ciously pleased to order to be laid before the House copies of the Returns made by British Consuls abroad to the Foreign-office, in the year 1841, of the prices o' Foreign Corn. CHURCH-RATES. Sir J. EASTHOPE moved for a return of the Church rates made in every parish in England during the last two years, of the total amount collected, and of the total amount expended in the repairs of the church. The re turn now moved for was an amended form of that of which he had given notice some time since, and he appre hended that, in its present form, it would not be objected to. He would take that opportunity of asking the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government if it was the intention of the Right Honourable Baronet and the other Members of the Government, during the recess, to give the subject of Church-rates their con sideration, for the purpose of introducing some measure in the course of the ensuing session for the settlement of the question, or whether the Government was satisfied with the state of the law as it was at present ? Sir ROBERT PEEL could not undertake to give any assurance to the Hon. Gentleman that during the course of the next session the Government would in troduce any measure on the subject of Church rates. At the same time he would not under take to say that he was so satisfied with the law on the subject as it stood at present that he would always adhere to it. He would not say that of any law, but at the same time he would not undertake to bring forward any measure on the subject next session. Sir J. EASTHOPE said his question practically came to this—Did the Government intend to take the subject into its consideration ? _ _ Sir. R. FEEL would not sanction any expectation that her Majesty's Government would, in the course of the next session, bring forward any measure on the subject of Church-rates. Mr. ESTCOURT was not sure that the return ought to be agreed to. Sir J. EASTHOPE said he had submitted the motion to the Right Hon. Secretary of State for the Home De partment, and that he had stated that he saw no reason to object to it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHHEQUER sug gested that the amount in the pound of the rate should be stated. Sir R. INGLIS thought there would be considerable difficulty in preparing the returns. Mr. HAWES asked whether the return was opposed or not? Sir J. GRAHAM said the Hon. Gentleman had, at his request, withdrawn his former motion, and had sub mitted the present motion to him (Sir James Graham), and he certainly could see no objection to it. He admitted that there might be some difficulty in procuring the returns, but he, in obedience to the order of the House, should feel it his duty to apply to the different churchwardens to make the returns, and he thought that they would only be acting in the fulfilment of their duty in making these returns in obedience to the order of the House. Mr. DARBY objected to these returns, which would be useless for any practical purpose. After a few words from Mr. HARDY and Mr. HUME, the motion was agreed to. BANKRUPTCY BILL. Mr. BECKETT gave notice of his intention of pro posing certain clauses in Committee on the Bank ruptcy Bill. RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. ILUME gave notice that on Monday next he should move that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying her to appoint a Commission to in quire into the allegations of the petition presented to that House from the Raja of Sattara. LICENSED LUNATICS ASYLUMS BILL The Order of the Day for the appointment of Mana gers of a Conference with the House of Lords was then read. Lord G. Somerset, Sir J. Graham, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Estcourt, and several other Members, were appointed as Managers on the part of the House of Commons. After the Conference had been held, Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET informed the House that the managers had delivered to their Lord ships the reasons for disagreeing to their Lordship's amendments. STEAM-SHIPS FOR MEXICO. Mr. COBDEN bogged to repeat the question which he had put to the Right Hon. Baronet last night, with respect to the vessels fitting out to take part in the Mexican war. Sir R. PEEL said he believed the facts were these — two vessels were fitting out, one at Blackwall and the other at Liverpool. It was said that those vessels were being fitted up for the Mexican Government. Application had been made to the British Government to permit them to be manned with British seamen, and that per mission had been refused. The honourable Member was under the impression that one vessel was to be commanded by an officer who• held a commission in her Majesty's navy. He could state, that in consequence of an application from the Texian Minister on the subject, that Minister had been informed that no officer in her Ma jesty's navy would be allowed to serve the Mexican Government against Texas. The Texian Government had been informed that if hostilities should take place, it was the intention of the English Government to main tain a perfect neutrality. Mr. O'CONNELL said the treaties with Texas had been laid on the table at so late a period of the session, that no opportunity had been afforded of bringing under the consideration of the House the state in which those treaties left the com munication between this country and Texas. There was a law in Texas that no free subject of colour should remain there longer than a certain time. He would feel it his duty, whenever a convenient oppor tunity arrived, to call the attention of the House to the subject. Lerd PALMERSTON said he believed the laws in Texas were precisely the same as the laws in the southern states of the United States. _ _ _ Mr. O'CONNELL said it was only in the State of Carolina that the law existed. Lord PALMERSTON said that so far was the Texian Government from being at our mercy, that we were on the contrary at their mercy.— (Hear.) They had already secured the recognition of their independence by treaties with the United States of America, with France, and the Nether lands, and the question came to this, whether the commerce between England and Texas should be placed on the same footing as the commerce between Texas and other countries, or whether we should be exposed to dis advantages to which other States were not subject. Mr. C. BULLER said that he did n ot think it would be proper to require of a State to alter its internal laws on entering into a treaty with another eountry. Mr. LABOUCHERE thought that the House had no business to interfere in such questions as the present. It was a subject for the consideration of the Governments of different countries. Mr. HUME said he should consider it would be most desirable that our Government should interfere, if possible, to prevent the hostilities which h a d tak en place between Mexico and the Texas. Those hosti lities would necessarily produce great misery in those States, and would necessarily greatly inconvenience British trade. Sir R. PEEL said, that the dissensions between those States and South America, had been undoubtedly attended with the worst effects. They carried on their hostilities with the bitterest animosity ; pirates were en couraged to enter into their service ; they destroyed each other's commerce ; they prevented the growth of their natural prosperity. Those events, in addition, interfered with their communications with those countries. which were the first to recognize their independence. But it was principally on the ground of the fatal consequences to those States themselves that those hostilities were .to be deprecated. Every effort in the power of the British Government would be made to contribute to the restoration of tran quillity in those countries. The Report of the Committee of Ways . and Means was brought up, and leave was given to bring in a Bill founded on the resolutions. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. On the motion of Mr. C. BULLER, the Bribery at Elections Bill (No. 2) was read a third time, and passed. DESIGNS COPYRIGHT BILL. - Mr. GLADSTONE moved the Order of the Day for briugiug up the Report on this Bill. Mr. - WALT/TAMS moved as an a tn.;,,idult•nt, that the Bid be re.coinnUttal; Mr. J. HEATHCCiAT t,hought the Bill deserved greater consideration than it had r!Teived, and he should therefore Stltp o.rt the motion of the 11, _ , n. M ember for Coventry. He its-tight if the Bill were re-committed it would save time. His fitll objection to the Bill VisS' that it introduced a principle that 4 .")'lst never .acknowledgcti by tlic: of the country, and to *hid! the greatest authorities had &Tressed themselves decidedly hostile. He alluded to the prifichtlt. of secrecy. Ile cotild not sec how trade could be carried on ander this Bill with anything lihe fairness or advantage, The Bill would tittlifd great amitsettrnt to the lawyers, but very sorry amusement to those who We're Plected to its operations. He would like td know from the -light Hon. Gentleman what the shopkeepers *ere to do with their goods if this Bill passed into a law ? flow was a shopkeeper in some remote parts of Scotland, Ireland, or Englwid to know whether or not a particular design was pirated or not ? Every manufacturer by ihe ope ration of this Bill would be liable to have his properly confiscated. He also complained that there was no competent tribunal established by the Bill to try the patent tight, The difficulty seemed to him to con sist in finding out what Wes to be designed.—(Hear, hear.) Then it was referred to the Magistrates to deter mine what was the nature of the design. He thought that the Magistrates know very little about the matter, and he would have less objection to the Hill if the deter mination of the subject was left to the Magistrates wives ratter than to the Magistrates themselves.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) There was nothing defined in the Bill, as to what constituted a new design. Almost all existing designs were mere compounds. The Bill could do no good—it might do much evil. It would be used by common informers to harrass tradesmen, in the hopes of profit, and by the competitors of tradesmen as a means of annoyance. (Hear.) He cautioned the House against this reckless mania for legislation on subjects of which the House could know nothing.-(Cheers.) It appeared to him that if an individual went to France, secured copito of their designs for the spring market, brought those de signs to tngland, and registered them under this Act, that that individual Would, by means of this Bill, secure to himself a monopoly of the importation of French maw nufactures. When patterns, were manufactured in France for the next spring trade, a person might go over, and by acting cautiously, copy the pattern, bring it over here and enter it under this Bill and claim a copyright in it. His advice was, not to pass this Bill `his year, but to leave its consideration to another session. Mr. E. ELLICE hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would pause before he passed this Bill. He knew how little time the Right Honourable Gentleman had to give to such subjects, but he thought if he had applied himself to the consideration of this Bill, and the vexa tious provision referred to by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, he would have hesitated before he had undertaken to ride the hobby of the late Hon. Member for Belfast, whose spirit for legislation had car ried him so far as to believe that the House could legis late effectively on this subject. He (Mr. Ellice) would not go over the various details of the Bill, but he was led to understand that the lace trade would not be af• fected by it ; but now, after the desultory proceedings which had taken place, it was discovered that that trade was involved with many others affected by the Bill. He thought that trade ought to have had fair notice. They ought to have been allowed to lay their case before the House. It was impossible for any two Magistrates to decide what was a new or what was an old pattern. This Bill provided that the case should be decided by a Ma gistrate, who was unable to tell whether the pattern was new or old. He (Mr. Ellice) would not extend the discussion, but he prayed the Right Hon. Gentleman,. who knew how important it was that trada should be unfettered, not to expose trade to the evils which this Bill was calculated to :inflict upon it. With respect to the place he (Mr. Ellice) represented, he did not think the Bill would do either good or harm. Dr. BOWRING had no objection to the objects of this Bill, but he thought the machinery of the Bill was alto gether objectionable. He thought the protection of copy right was,. on the whole, a desirable object ; but that it was not absolutely necessary to prosperity, was proved by the fact that in Switzerland there had been great pro gress in invention, notwithstanding the absence of pro tection. The mode of obtaining redress by this Bill was highly objectionable. Unless they could provide some prompt ! means of preventing piracy it would be better to have no protection at all.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped that the Right Hon. Gentleman would reconsider the subject, with a view to bringing forward a more mature measure in another session. Mr. HUME objected to the Bill, on the ground that it would add to the restrictions on commerce which already existed, and which had been proved to have produced the greatest mischiefs. If the Right Hon. Baronet wished the manufactures and industry of the country to extend, he must free them from their shackles, and must not throw impediments in their way. He there fore hoped the Bill would be allowed to stand over till next session, and that a new Committee would be ap pointed by the Government. He would support the amendment of the Hon. Member. Mr HENLEY hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would allow the Bill to be re-committed, and would allow further time for consideration. He objected to the power of the Magistrates to give distress warrants, and to the difference made between England and Scot land and Ireland. Mr. M. PHILIPS coincided with what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. Ile felt much obliged to the Gentleman who had last spoken for the statements they had made with regard to the legal part of the question. He had, on Saturday week, recommended the Government to withdraw this Bill for the present session. He bad on that occasion alluded to the fact that 2,0001. had been subscribed towards the Belfast election by certain gentlemen, among whom was Mr. Henry, a calico printer, and he had certainly thought that many of the calico printers had also sub scribed to it. lie had since then received a letter from Mr. Henry, which, in justice to that gentleman, he would read to the House—(The lion. Member here read the let ter)—in which Mr. Henry distinctly repudiated the impu tation that the money in question had been subscribed on account of Mr. Emerson Tennent having supported this Bill.) Mr. Henry stated that he was the only calico printer who had subscribed to that fund which had been raised by gentlemen, friends of Mr. Emerson Tennent, and admirers of his political character. In justice to Mr. Henry he read that letter, and at the same time he begged to state that in referring to Mr. Emmerson Ten neat on that occasion he had not had the remotest inten tion of throwing any imputation on the character of Mr. Emerson Tennent. The question put by the Honourable Member for Tiverton was well worthy of consideration. What was an original design ? He held in his hand one of the ugliest patterns he had ever seen.—(A laugh.) (The Hon. Member here exhibited the pattern in ques tion to the House, which certainly answered the cha racter given of it.) Now that horribly ugly pattern was claimed as an original design. The history of it was this. Two manufacturers in England had gone over to Paris, and each had purchased, at the same place and at the same time, the pattern in question. One of these parties had arrived in England a few days before the other, and had published the pattern first, although the other party had several pieces of goods of that pattern in his warehouse. Now, according to this Bill, the one party would have a copyright in this pattern, and might prevent his neighbour from selling his goods for three months. Now he thought they ought to pause before enact ing slaw which would give the wealthy such an advantage. There could not, he thought, be much progress made in any measure of this nature, until an international copy right should be established.—(Hear, hear.) The present Bill would lead only to useless litigation, and he again urged upon the Right lion. Gentleman the propriety of withdrawing it for the present session. He asked the House to consider the progress which had been made in manufactures by foreign countries during the last ten years, and not to pass a measure which would give to them increased advantages in competition. Mr. GLADSTONE said he wished the House to con sider whether the objection to the Bill, on the ground of time, was, upon the whole, a fair one. The Bill had not been introduced by the Government, but by the Hon. Member for Belfast, on his own responsibility ; and upon his losing his seat, the Bill, was taken up by the Govern ment. The Hon. Member for Coventry entreated the House not to pass a Bill of that description, until the representations of the trade had been heard. Now he believed there never was any measure before Parlia ment with respect to which such an objection was less appropriate. He could state with confidence that it was only a minority of the trade who objected to the Bill, and he believed the great majority would be greatly disappointed if it did not pass during the present session. Let the House consider by what authorities the Bill had been supported. In the first place it had, in 1836, re ceived the sanction of the Committee who sat to consider the state of arts and designs in this country. That Committee recommended the main provisions of the Bill. In the year 1840 a Bill was introduced on that subject, which was referred to a Committee up-stairs, and the main provisions of which corresponded with those of the Bill before the House. That Bill passed through the Committee up-stairs. With respect to the machinery of the Bill, he admitted that it wls inferior to that which existed in France, but he believed it was granted as a concession to the opponents of the Bill, who objected to the expense of proving the patent. The Bill was again introduced in 1841, and referred to a Select Committee, of which the Hon. Member for Manchester was a mem ber. The Bill would probably have passed into a law during the last session if its progress had not been cut short by the political crisis which intervened. Why were not the objections to the details taken in Committee ? The Hon. Member for Coventry, did he not attend on Saturday and propose alterations, but the Hon. Member for Tiverton did not attend and say a word about the lace trade ; though this Bill had been before the House six weeks, not one word had yet been heard of a protest; the Bill had been allowed to be read a first and second time, it had passed through Com mittee, and now when the time came for the receipt of the Report, they heard for the first time of any protest relative to the lace trade. He did not intend to enter into the broad question of what would be the effect of this Bill upon the trade and commerce of this country ; but he would say that it was the opinion of the sup porters of this Bill, that it would tend to increase the wealth of this country, and give prosperity and energy to its manufactures. This Bill had the sanction of repeated Committees, of repeated Governments ; it had the sanction of the majority of the people out of doors and of Hon. Members in that House; and in spite of all these sanctions they were asked to postpone this Bill for another session, for the purpose of another in quiry, for the purpose of re-eliciting what bad already been ascertained. He (Mr. Gladstone) thought it would be a cruel and unjust course to pursue towards those whose e7tpeetations had been raised on this sullied, to consent to the withdrawal of this Bill. He should therefore oppose the motion for the postponement. WILLIAXB said, it was ilia igteutiowta offer arnetidrneeis to thislt. As he could not sped . lie evi , -4 , 51 to ask the Soeuiter whether he could propose those amendments when the Bill was being read a third time ? 'The SPEAKER said the proper course for the Hon, Member to pursue would be to agree to the amendments . of the Committee; after which, the Hon. Member weuid be able to propose any anit Lord PALMERSTON said it ilid not appear with re- 11. 4 1 gard to the machinery of this Bill that they had been suc cessful in removing all objections. The law, as it - tood, recognised to a certain degree protection to the .; . 41 inventor. If that law went as far as the Right lion. of Gentleman said it did, he had not quite explained the necessity for those additions which had been made. He uederstood the particular object of the Bill was to app) 10 1 . the law to certain branches of trade which it (lid not at .7 present embrace. He (Lord Palmerston) would only state his opinion upon one branch. and that was the lace trade. He thought his Hon. Friend and Colleague had ;) , 5 1 made out a strong case for restoring the Bill to the smile '4,10 state as it ti,tuod upon the second reading ; and he hoped cj i p that if the night Hon. Gentleman,who founded his argu merits in favour of this On of the Bili upon the wishes ;0 1 which bad been expressed fir the protection which he s . ; i ot said this Bill would afford, should find, as his Hon. Friend had stated on behalf of the lace trade, that it would only be an embarrassment instead of a benefit, he would not force it upon them.—(Hear.) Sir T. FREMANTLE stated that there were two kinds of lace—pillow-lace, and that manufactured. by machinery. Hon. Gentlemen must not arrogate to themselves all the arguments, for they were only ettli ported by one class of lace manufaCturers. Sir R. PEEL thought the special question of trying whether protection should be given to lace should be discussed on the third reading. The general question w as one of more importance. (The Right Hon. Baronet here snoke so indistinctly as to render his remarks inau dible.). The manner of distinguishing one pattern from another was very difficult to be understood. Here (the Right Hon. Gentleman taking up a pattern)—here's one —here's a great big black B, then there are two little r's, then the word " cambric" is printed ; then " Rd. Cobden - and Co."—(Laughter.) I think that's a very ugly pattern.—(Renewed laughter.) Then it goes on, " London British Manufactory. Published as the Act directs. March Ist 1841." That was the:may of distin guishing one pattern, and a very pretty way it was. It was rather hard for a man who had paid 70/. or 801. for a pattern, to be deprived of the benefit of it by a man . who did not pay a single shilling. A person, wider the present system, waited to see if the pattern succeeded,' and then inundated the market. Just as a person began . to reap the profit of his in v en tion, another p erson pro-, ' ,s fited by his capital and liberality towards art and designs.issa filling the market with an interior article. Now thOt ; 1 1 operated as a great discouragement to improvement' There were only three months' protection given at pre-' s s sent. Why did France beat them ? We were superior to them in manufacturing, hut they were superior taste. He (Sir R. Peel) had been told by some of this constituents of the Hon. Member for Coventry, that there. was a complete suspension of business until they got the French patterns. That was a convincing proof that there was want of taste. The Coventry patterns would not sell in the London market, but the moment the French patterns came they sold. There was no rea son whatever why so „ t o Englishman should not design as well as a Frenchman. The reason was the law was defective. The object of that Bill was, to give the same degree of prOtection that , f ) existed in France. The Bill had been under the -4 consideration of that House for three years, and had been received with favour by the House. Many of its advocates had left town, and therefore the weight of of authority was now against it- He had no interest in the question, and far from im peding our manufactures, he thought it would operate in increasing that part in which we were deficient--that of design.—(Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances, s, and considering that the Bill had been under considers tion for three years, he thought the House ought to - pass the Bill. Many decided advocates of free trade were strenuous supporters of this Bill. There was the Hon. Member for Kendal and the Hon. Member for In verness, and he hoped another session would. not pass without affirming the principle of that Bill, and causing an improvement to—he hoped he might use the term late—stagnation of trade. Mr. 3. HEATHCOAT explained. He had been pre' vented by indisposition from attending when the Bill s s passed through Committee. Mr. E. ELLICE explained. He did not object to the principle of the Bill, but to the machinery. After a few words from Dr. BOWRING, which were not heard in the gallery, Mr. BROTHLRTON said this was a very difficult , question, as- there was so much difference or opmion hen,nthe subject, at the same time , i f he had not appre sions that the passing of the Bill would be injurious to trade, he would not offer his opposition to the measur.e• But he considered that they w ere runnin g a great. risk 10,v introducing a measure of that kind. The existing was passed in 1787, and th e trade bad improv flourished since that time. In 1830, they nianufaqhree; 360,000,000 yards, hal fof which was for exportation . now exported more than 360,000,000 yards. Now' sd . ro ing to this, he was very unwillin g to adopt anY Eies calculated to injure that trade. The Right Iton w would said there was superior taste i n France. I C o i le (sie s granting copyright give an improved taste ? liti- B.) thought that this Bill would produce no thing but t lire gation, as there was such difficulty in ascertaining 'wha • • that copyright, and what was desig n.- H e conceived there would be so many cases of litigation that the good - expected from this Bill would be counterbalanced. He thought the effect of the Bill would be to raise prices- t Under this Bill it would he difficult to know to whom the pattern belonged, as this was a secret register. The , patterns, contrary to what the Right Hon. liaronet said. did not average more than 7s. in p rice, inste a d of 14 ~, or 151. This Bill would have the effe ct of keeping do.wn i those rising geniuses which were constantly springing up. The Bill would hold out encouragement to reigners, as it would induce the Belgians to establish- print works to the injury of the British printer. 00,2. effect of the Bill would be, probably, to benefit a few. but it would injure the great body o f the poblie, os and th,, ; t he I safest course for him to pur sue would be to pp Bill. nd the' St ra ngers were then ordered to withdra w, a House divided — For bringing up the Report • 73 , For the re-committal Majority in favour of bringing up o e the Report s--59 The R , port was then brought up. Mr. WILLIAMS then rose to propose amendmen ts ' he S The first amendment he inte nded to p ro p ose was on t.. second clause. The speech of the Right Hon. Barone t showed that he was ignorant of the subject upon whic h he was now legislating. He ( Mr. Williams) had 0° personal interest in this subject, although the contrail was stated. The Right Hon. Gentleman, the VW' President of the Board of Trade, also Showed that h° , ,, did not pay much attention to th e sub j ect. . . The to . ' facturers -and merchants of the co untr y were oppose... , any change in the present law. The Right Hon. Gr4 o- S tleman stated that the Committ ee which sat in 1836 re'', commended a measure like the present. He (Mr. WI: was a Member of that Comm i tt ee, and he denied that any such recommendation was made. The Right Hon. Gentleman also said t hat the a pp ointment of LI Magistrates to decide upon the design was of long sti ke n t ' ing. It was never applied to the principal branch of manufacture. They wanted to smuggle this Bill, ° which they knew nothing at all, through the :House, The Right Hon. Gentleman was suppo rted by a large . 0 11 ::, jority, but he would venture to say that nineteen out u" every twenty of them did not unde rstand a s in g le one s .E the enactments of the Bill. The amend ment be intend to propose was, that all the words after the word " coPY; right," in the 3d line of the 21 clause, should be expunger' By the present law two Mag istrates were to deeioe , upon the design, and they could award damages tot e' amount of from 51. to 301. He did not see'Wherigt: they had to sit there making la ws with res p ect to 1094 :": tors of trade, on which they were entirely igtior°: with the exception perhaps of half a score , a nd withont? receiving any application fr om t he trade:generallf 11 make a change in the law. He did not See.. why the,: should thus act in opposition to those who were aloof interested in the matter , es p eciall y as there was 00"1 less copying than in former years, as *as admitted ov en by those who supported the present Bill. He denio" that French articles were preferred ,to English, becanO r they were more tasteful ; but they were referred be:: cause they were the fashion. It was, most difficult to sii. 7 . what was a new des i g n. He knew a person who per, duced 700,000 pieces annually, and though h e pro' duced new designs every year, he was not able to ssi what ad a o - s n be e eo i i p v n eg d , a e pn s i rd . g om n d ua w ye a db : e . co butHn s e i di w et r a e s wd a aa w s m a aware he o of onlyirceasui .result o t v n eo e nf p: e K de a s legi Let them look at the endless variety - of patterns th:r was continually produced—and all of them P rodue from the combination of former patterns—there was {ii such thing as a new and original pattern. In seeking `; protect a new design, they were seeking to proteetv; phantom, and the only effect of such legislation would so to produce endless litigation. The lawyers were . % only ersons who would benefit by the Bill, for it won give ris:' to endless Chancery suits. With a view u• preventing litigation, he should , i n the course of th!, Bill propose alterations fur the purpose of preventing 140,, suit in Chancery, or any a ction at, law, and should Pr% pose to make the decision of two Magistrates final.. ps; should also endeavour to prevent the extension o f eu P4_ right to articles which were not included in the original_BuS The effect of this Bill would be togreatly enhance the priF; of calicoes, whichformed a principal ar ticle of clothing fa the poor. A merci(ant had told him, that if this passed, he must cease to deal in British calicoes aittigetbe9. so great would be the obstacles it would throw in , or way in executing orders for the foreign nisrke.... tr 4 i 3e merchant told him that if this Bill passed he should mediately enter into a tr, aty with a calico-prioter B.lgium to print his calicoes and expert them from Oro country. He w fluid send his calicoes manufaciure d jt England to Belgium, and get them printed there. was proposed to give a peutectien of three y ars to terns in wool, which had tie' er yet been pr .tected. j , sa me thing was proposed with I.:.:! s ard to flax •:nti eartlet % ware. which were not ,o protected, uiia with Tegard piece fringing-, bad not been pr, , terted 11 0 ,, t1 4. 1839.,,.ere i n C e.i a u r d i e T i , n wi t i h ie is h I3ill, and with its; c't i° 0 11 1 1 3 : 8 1 '; g; IIaTIOTIZS. it lees proposed to mend the prott . cti on one year to three. t•lh.twl., wre in the soma categoo: The experiment of protectien f a year to red articles had net n fairiv tried, and he p rotes tor against this interferetea., ethicli was .uncalled ' by the trade. He objected also to t he txtindikr, the copyright to crapes and pr i o ted furni ture„ Ile should make his objections to the various clausesstil . they were proposed. The first amendment be sh,ti propose would be in the second clause, which proVio', three means of litigating the question :—First, h)L i, Chancery suit ; second, by an actiOn 1aw,;,,ign441111.", by a reference to two Magistrates. He should pr opn an amendment to leave out all the words. giving-1;n 1 pow of wi appeal to the aeuft GURooni Ckr gOo" i'lent to The a • Mr. V 41 wool, n t welve Ifr. 11 whi t Mr.c e h ex Sher ; thre e r, Afte r ' 14 , 1 35T 1,-"r• V 1:0