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Zilttob Ibttu SL7C-OFFICE, Seem o'Cloch. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The debate and division on the Ballot, which is to be brought before the House of Commons to-morrow by Mr. Ward, will, under existing cir cumstances, excite more than ordinary attention. If the sukeet, from the frequency with which it has been debated, preclude the possibility of novelty in argument, the arguments which its advocates will again employ for the purpose of urging its adoption on the Legislature, will be clenched by the more powerful energy of facts. The mode by which a large proportion of the, Members of the House of Commons obtained their seats at the last election is now so notorious—the evidence which has estab lished bribery and other corupt practices, in nxiny cases, and the generally-admitted em- Ti l ;•yment of similar influences in more, have established conviction in the great bulk of the community, that a pure constituent body cannot exist with open voting. The desire for the former, which :all profess to feel, naturally implies an applica tion of the means best calculated to secure the latter. The former opponents of the Ballot, if they persist in their opposition, are now emphatically called upon to propose a better protection to the franchise than that which the ballot-box would supply. The old .pretence, that to look for perfection in any system . 33 futile, and that the present mode of voting " works well," cannot longer prevail. The present system, it is now admitted on all hands, works ill. The appalling scenes which have recently, in numbers unprecedented, been brought to the view of Parlia mehst, and have been exhibited to the public eye in ih•e reports of its proceedings and those of its. Election o. -,,mittees, must render it impossible for this cuckoo note of the Tories on former occasions to be revived in the Wining debate. Ridiculous as it was aforetime in the ,estimation of the country, it would be still more so .st the present time. A protest would be found against its use in the numerous reports of the Election Committees, and in the numerous cases of alleged corrupt compromise referred to Select Com mittees, condemning, with the stern dignity of outraged truth, the monstrous assumption. The House -of Comlnons cannot, with its present damaged reputa tion, afford to treat the remedy for bribery and cor ruption in the election of its Members with the same indifference approaching to contempt as when the Ballot was before it in former Parliaments. Every Member who now opposes the proposed remedy without introducing a distinct substitute, does all in his povaer to perpetuate the disease ; and raises a shrewd suspicion that he is personally interested in preventing a cure. STANDARD.—That the seemingly divided con dition of the Conservative party in Parliament affords a ground of triumph to its adversaries cannot be con cealed ; and the attempt to conceal the truth, at the cost of suppressing a fair estimate of the causes of division, and the proof that these causes are either contemptible or easily removable, would be the grossest folly. There is one class of malcontents, calling themselves Conservatives, whom we anxiously dis miss at once—they are the earliest, most active, and most persevering of all. Sir Robert Peel was scarcely a day in office before they commenced the war against him. These are the disappointed expect ants of office. For the honour of Great Britain let it be remembered that this knot of intriguers are almost exclusively Irish; not, however, the repre .sentatives of the strength and intelligence and loyalty of Ireland—the Protestant, or, if the name is pre ferred, the Orange party in Ireland. No, the names of the Lortons, Farnhams, Verners, Conollys, will not be found among them, but the lingering remnant of the old "undertakers "—the faction of no principle, who have as often betrayed the Protestants of the sister island as they have made use of them. These dis nppointed place-hunters are not formidable in num bers, but they are active, and unscrupulous, and malignant ; they understand perfectly well the policy of an ill-timed motion, and do not find it difficult to snake use of a part of the press for their occasions; but .the whisper of the clubs is their grand resource. We dismiss these, in the first place, as men whose motives are deserving of all contempt, as men who have no thiag in common with the other dissatisfied Conserva tives, and whom it would be an injustice of the worst ftind to associate with honest and honourable men. In the next place we may refer to those who are displeased with the concessions made to Mr. Roebuck in the matter of election compromises. These are -.men entitled to respect, first, from the character of -the greater number of them, above all from the character of their leader—if Sir Robert Inglis will allow us to call him so—a character second to none ,in the House. of Commons for ability, integrity, and stile purest patriotism ; secondly, from their manifest votive, the love of justice, as they regard justice. Teese gentlemen are, we think, mistaken ; the very proofs that are advanced to justify their discontent satisfies us that they are. The third class of the discontented has been created ;by the financial measures of the Government. To this class we willingly concede all that can be claimed disinterestedness, honour, and patriotism ; but we omust stil persist in protesting against their anger as uYrj ust. 'What could the Minister do ? He had a great a'nd' growing deficit to supply. He had proof that this could not be supplied by retrenchment or by indi rect taxation. The wealth of the country had not been diminished ; on the other hand, it had enor mously, increased, but it had passed into compara tively few hands, and they could be reached only 3y a property and income-tax. But to obtain a pro porty and Income-tax without a bonus of some kind wt's hopeless, as the experience of 1816 had shown, arm l the tariff was the only bonus that could be offes'ed ; but the tariff had the necessary effect of arraying against the Ministerial scheme the best feelings of the best men in the country. We must now come abruptly to that which the Con - servatives have before them—that on which they may unite, and force the Minister to what we are sure must be his own inclination—a great amelioration of the New Poor-law. If they do not act together upon this question there will he an end to all pretext for complaint that the Minister does not consult the principles of his party ; for surely it is necessary , to the justice of such a complaint that the party prove itself to have some principles in common. Never theless, here we have Conservatives—men, we doubt not, of conscience and honour so wedded to the system of discipline and centralisation, as even to condemn 'before hand the slight amelioration promised by .the Home Secretary; for it is to condemn even these slight ameliorations to eulogise the present law as the Member for Droitwich has eulogised it. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) CLAYTON V. NCGENT. This was a case left by the Court of Chancery to be tried before a special jury. The question at issue was the validity of a will made by the late Sir G. East, by which he demised his real property to the plaintiffin this case, who is the second son of 1r William Clayton, Bart. The defendant was heir at-law to the property. It appeared that the testator, who was a person of somewhat eccentric temper, drew 110 the will without legal assistance, and had it attested %by two of his servants: This took place in the year 1320, and two additions were made to the will in the years 1825 and 1827, which were similarly at tested. The variorts bequests were made to parties who were designaod by different letters of the Greek alphabet ; ara a paper was added to • the body of the will, stating that the key to these 'letters would be found on a card locked up in a certain desk The card was found as pointed out by the testator after his demise in the year 1828. There were various .circumstances, however, which created a suspicion that this card was not in existence at the time the will was ./Ittested, or at least that it had undergone some alter %lions. It appeared too that some. of the b:suests made were written in pencil-marks, and som e of those marks seemed to have been erased while Others were substituted in their stead. In some oar's of the will blanks were left, which had never been 'filled up. It was further shown, that in the year 1820, a legatee was mentioned under the family name of a husband to whom she was not married until the year :after. On these grounds the Counsel for the defendant ,contended that the will. had not been legally executed, ;that thz, testator had filtered it alter it had been attested, and that there was nothing to prove that the card con laining the kov to the name s of the le g atees h ad been written at the' s xne time with the will itself. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the'defendant--thus setting aside the demise of the real property made ,in the will, and declaring that it should be given over to the defendant, who is the heir xt law. The Solicitor-General appeared for the plaintiff, and the Attorney-General for the defendant. Excellency . the Lord Lieutenant 'accompanied by the Countess De Grey, intend leaving Ireland the first week in July, en route for the German Spas, which have been recommended by the physician for his Lordship's health. He continues, we regret to say, to suffer severely from the effects of rheumatic gout.—Dublin Evening Mail. ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUEEN'S AccassioN.—This being the atmiver,ary of the Queen's accession to the Throne, the day was ushered in by merry peals of bells ; the. Royal standard was hoisted on different church steeples and public buildings, and the Park and Tower guns fired double Royal salutes at one o'clock. 'The House of Lords on Saturday ad journed over to Tuesday, also in honour of the day. A shocking circumstance happened at Romsey, Hants, during the thunder -storm on Tuesday. Two lads, sons of Mr. May, of that ,town, were fi s hi n g nea r Lo r d Palmer ston's seat, Broadlands, and when the thunder-storm came en they sought shelter beneath a tree. The tree was struck by . lightning. One of the lads was killed on the spot, and the other was most severely injured. It is a singular fact, that • there has been no storm in Hampshire for many years past tthat has not been more severely felt in the neighbourhood of )Romsey than in any other part, and in every instance some fatal accident has resulted, or some considerable destruction of property. .1 young woman of Billy B ercl eau , in Picardy, has just been sentenced to thr ee years' imprisonme n t f or cruelty to her mother. :31 PE idAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. The Charterhouse Hospital Estate Bill was read a third time. Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese of Elfin, in Ireland, com plaining of oppressive grievances in regard to their temporalities ' • also from several parishes in the diocese of Tuam, complaining of the present system of national education in Ireland. An How. MEMBER presented a petition from the tanners and manufacturers of leather in the town of Colraine, in Ireland, praying the House not to pass that part of the tariff which affects their trade. _ _ Mi. MURPHY presented a petition from certain millers and millowners of Cork, complaining of the importation of foreign flour. Mr. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL presented a petition from Glasgow, signed by 14,300 inhabitants, praying for the abolition of Church patronage. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from a gentleman of the name of Price, residing in Essex, praying that a clause might be introduced into the Railways Bill for the protection of property adjacent to railways. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from a place in Durham signed by 144 rate-payers, against the New Poor-law Bill. Lord ELIOT presented a petition from the Dublin General Dispensary, praying for a system of medical charities in Ireland. Mr. CHUTE presented a petition from West meath, praying for a revision of the Grand Jury Laws in Ireland. Lord SANDON presented a petition from Liver pool, praying for inquiry into the system of education adopted in the College of Maynooth. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WALLACE gave notice of his intention to substitute the following resolutions for the motion in the notice which stands for the 23d of June, with re spect to the distressed condition of the working classes : " Resolved, I.—That the trade and manufactures of this country are labouring under great embarrassment and difficulties. " 2.—That the industrious classes are also suffering many privations, and severe distress. "a. That this state of things has been gradually ad vancing for several years past, and is now extending in a most alarming degree. "4. That the alterations made in the Corn-laws, and in the Duties on Imports and Exports, coupled as these laws have been with an Ineome tax, to add nearly Four Millions of taxation to this already heavily bur dened country, cannot be expected to afford that relief, which the continually declining state of trade, and the distressed condition of the people so urgently require. " 5. That, therefore, the welfare of her Majesty's faithful people, and the future peace and security of the country imperativety demand that effectual measures shall immediately be taken to rescue the working classes from the privations and sufferings they have so long borne, with a degree of patience and fortitude, which spe cially entitles them to the affectionate sympathy of their Sovereign, and to the respect, commiseration, and assist ance of this House." griecial Commission and the commencement of the General Commission of gaol delivery ? He would also ask why the General Commission could not commence its labours with the county of Tipperary, instead of commencing at the other end of the circuit, by which means the great expense of this special commission would have been saved, and this great job would have been prevented. At the same time he felt bound to state, that he ac quitted the Noble 'Lord of all participation in that job, the whole affair having, as he believed, been con cocted behind the Noble Lord's back. Lord ELIOT said that the date of the Special Commision was the 10th June and that it would be opened on the 28th June. The general Commission was dated the 9th of June ; but it would not be opened at Tipperary until the 28th of July,—one Calendar month after the opening of the Special Commission. The Judges who would preside over the Special Commission were the two Chief Justices, and the prosecutions would be conducted on the part of the Crown, by . the Attorney-General, Sergeant Greene, and Mr. Scott. He was not able to state what the exact expense would be, but the expense of the last Special Commission in 1839 was 3,0631. Great inconvenience would have arisen from any alteration having been made in the usual manner of going the circuit, inasmuch as the time for holding the Sessions was in general regulated thereby; butl he did not rest the defence of the !flea sure on those grounds. It was deemed necessary by the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers of the Crown to issue this Special Commission, in order to impress upon the minds of the people of the country the necessity of obedience to the laws ; and if it should realize what was expected from it, the expense would have been well incurred. He was willing to take his share of the responsibility, and felt that it was exceedingly improper to impute the mean and paltry motives to the Attorney-General for Ireland, which had been imputed to that officer. Sir H. W. BARRON had not imputed any mean or paltry motives to— Mr. F. SHAW rose to order. The Hon. Baronet having asked his question, had no right to say anything further which would be likely to give rise to angry discussion, or to raise angry feelings. Lord ELIOT had not alluded in what he had said to anything that had fallen from the Hon. Baronet, but motives had been attributed to the Attorney- General elsewhere, and by other parties. Sir H. W. BARRON was satisfied with the Noble Lord's explanation. In reply to a question from Sir W. SOMERVILLE, Lord ELIOT said it was not the intention of the Government to introduce any measure in the course of the present session with respect to the present sys tem of pawnbroking. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that he would, to morrow, move that Mr. Redhead York and Mr. Mackenzie be added to the Committee on compromise. Sir F. BURDETT said he would, on an early day, call the attention of the House to the invention of Captain Warner. GOLD COINAGE. Mr. C. BULLER said he rose for the purpose of bringing under the consideration of the House the gold coinage of the country. He believed he was quite in order in doing so before the reading of the Order of the Day. He thought it was a matter which ought to be discussed as much as possible without party feelings. He had no intention of criminating the Government, but he felt that it was his duty, in conformity with his opinions upon the subject, to state that he highly disapproved of the conduct which they had pursued in reference to this matter, and to give the grounds upon which he thought that their conduct was improper. No one would be more de lighted than himself,.if the Government would take steps for tranquillising the confusion which had ot:curred. He thought the House would agree with him, that this was a matter of deep moment to the whole community, and, above all, of deep moment to the poorest classes of the community. The Hon. Member for Essex talked the other day about the poor not being willing to take gold. The fact was, that the gold coinage of the country was chiefly re quired for small daily payments. In this metropolis the vast proportion of the workmen received more than 20s. per week, which they were paid in gold ; others, who received above half a sovereign, were paid in the same manner, whilst the pay ments of the rich were principally made in bank notes, or by cheques upon. their bankers. What was it that he complained of in the conduct of the Government ? What was the nature of their proclamation ? On the 3d of June her Majesty's Go vernment, without any notice—without any prepara • tion of the public mind, issued a proclamation. warning the public that there were great quantities of light gold coin in circulation, calling upon the officers of the Government to enforce the law respecting the defacing of the coin, and also calling upon her Ma jesty's subjects to do the same. No statement was made in that proclamation of what the law was re specting the cutting and defacing of .coin. The man who kept a tripe shop—(Laughter)—in White chapel, or a baker's shop in Tothill-street, was left to consider for himself what that law was. When he pointed out to the House that such persons might thus have been led into a violation of the law, by which they and not the persons who had injured the coin would suffer, doubts must arise as to the propriety of issuing the procla mation. What was the effect of the proclamation ? It was to discredit the whole of the gold coin of tne realm. That was, nobody hereafter would safely take those coins, as they had done for the last twenty-five years, merely by number. Supposing the impress was defaced, and every one was obliged to take the coin by weight, the effect would be, that the coin would be paid in large sums into the Bank of England, and thus would be driven out of circula tion the gold coin of the reigns of George IV. and William IV. He wished to impress upon the House that this step on the part of the Government was no thing less than the calling in of all the gold coin of the reigns of George IV. and William IV. The loss of the depreciation of the coin fell on the hclders of the coin on the 3rd June, when the procla mation was made. This loss fell on the retail trades men, and a great many of the working c l asses . H e wished to state that, in his opinion, upon general principles, that it was unjust, for the loss should fall on the accidental holders of the coin. What was the cause of the deficiency in the coin ? Although many persons said that holes had been made in the sovereigns, yet the real cause was the wear and tear of the coin during twenty-five years or twenty years' circulation. Well, he said that it was monstrous that the loss should fall on the holders. It was not the fault of the holder in June, that these sovereigns had been in circulation twenty five years. He did not know of the mis c hi e f w hi c h had been going on for twenty-five years, and, therefore, it was unjust that the punishment should fall on him. Now he would ask what was the good of this ? Was it to deter the per son who really played tricks with coin by plugging it ? Why the person who played tricxs with the coin always took care that the coin should as soon as pos sible go out of his possession. He was a person certain not to hold the coin. He was the first per son who damaged the coin, and of course he got rid of it in order not to be discovered, so that the loss fell entirely upon the innocent person, and the loss had not the effect of deterring persons from the com mission of the offence. This loss was very heavy to the individual holder, while it could easily be borne by the public What was the whole amount of the loss ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer averaged the loss at 3d. per sovereign, or 1I per cent., as the general depreciation of the sovereign. It was ENGLISH REGISTRATION. supposed the amount of deteriorated gold in Sir J. GRAHAM said, that as the registration for the country amounted to about six millions, and at England commenced this day under the existing law, the rate of depreciation stated by the Chancellor of it was the opinion of the Government that it would the Exchequer the total loss would amount to no be inexpedient to interfere with the registration under more than about 90,0001. Now it appeared to him, the law as it stood. He had, therefore, to state, for that upon every ground of justice and expediency that the information of the House, that though leave to loss should not be borne by the accidental holder of the bring in a Bill on the English Registratien would be coin. Such a coin was opposed to every former prece moved for this session, yet it was not with any inten- dent in our history. A distinction had always been made tion to press it. But as it must be passed before the by the Governments of this country between a de next 20th of June, in order to affect the registration preciation of coin caused by wear and tear, and a de of next year, it would be laid on the table this session, predation ca use d b y il legal practices. In all cases, and be passed in the early part of the next. parties were not allowed to suffer because they hap- IRISH REGISTRATION. pened to be in possession of coin which was deterio- Lord J. RUSSELL asked the Right Honourable I rated by reasonable wear. A statute of the 19th of Baronet whether there was any intention on the p ar t Henry VII., cont a i ne d a provision to that effect. a of the Government to press the Irish Registration Bill z si a m be il t a h r ; waseannadcttmheenstame principlepassed been 29th recognised of i this Session ? Sir R. PEEL said the Government had no inten- in various succeeding reigns. In the year 1776, the tion of pressing the Irish Registration Bill. this Ses- depreciated gold coin was called in ; a provision was sion ; but he was not prepared to state whether or then passed that allowance should be made for reason not it would be laid on the table. able' wear ; and it was a remarkable fact, that the Mr. C. WOOD was addressing some observations allowance made amounted nearly to the extent of to the House on the subject, when he was interrupted I depreciation in the coin of the present day, as stated by the Speaker as being out of order. by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Mr. MILNER GIBSON wished to know if it was allowance made was one-and-a-half grains in the intention of the Right Hon. Gentleman to intro- every 130, which made about one-tenth per cent. duce a clause into the English Registration Act doing I hat was somewhat between the two of the present away with the disqualification consequent upon a depreciation. Now, he must say, that when her Ma change of residence. He had received so many corn- jesty's Government issued its exhortations to the plaints from Gentlemen of Conservative principles, as revenue officers and others to cut and deface every well as from Gentlemen of Liberal opinions, of the coin which they found to be deficient in weight, the miscarriage of the Bill on that subject that he hoped proclamation ought to have told them that they did it the Right Hon. Baronet would introduce some clause i at their peril, and that if they made any mis into his Bill to remedy this inconvenience. take, and cut and defaced coin that was not Sir JAMES GRAHAM would, when he asked deficient they should have to compensate the owner. permission to introduce - his Bill, state to the House In the Act of 1832 it was expressly enacted that if what measure would any person should cut, deface, or destroy coin that be was deficient only on account of reasonable wear. . ( t A he la p u r g ov h i . s ) ions of the intended TIPPERARY SPECIAL COMMISSION. But what was most important from the whole having understood th a t th e h i story o f thi s coun t ry, s i nce the revolut i on, N for Ireland, was now i n a was, t h a t w h enever th e o ld co i n was ca ll e d o S b i l r e Lord,H W. the ß Secretary AßßN condition to answer, th e qu estions which he (Sir I in, the deficiency was borne by the public, H. W. Barron) had put to him th e other evening, and not by the holder. He had not been able relating to the Tipperary Special C ommi ssion, he to find any thing to the contrary, and he th oug ht th a t would now repeat them. H e wou ld ask if the Noble the cases which he should produce were perfectly de- Lord was aware of the probable expense of the cisive as to the principles which had heretofore always Special Commission for the couuty of Tippera guided the Government since the R evo l u ti on . Si nce ry ; if he could state the difference in the dates of the that period, there had been three re-coinages. One POOR-LAWS. Mr. COLVILLE gave notice that, on going into Committee upon the Poor-laws, he would move a re solution against the abolition of the Gilbert Unions. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY moved the substitution of Sir John Hanmer for Viscount Marsh= on the Select Committee, relating to the borough of South ampton. LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. Captain BERKELEY said, that seeing the Gallant Admiral opposite in his place, he wished to know from him whether it was a fact that after the issuing of the proclamation relative to the gold coin, the crew of the vessel Byng had been paid in light sovereigns, thereby causing a loss to the men. Sir G. COCKBURN said that having seen a state ment to that effect, inquiries respecting it were made at the Admiralty office, and it was ascertained that there was not the slightest foundation for it. And not content with this, inquiries were made at the railway station where those sovereigns were said to be stopped, and so far from that being the case, the delay which arose was occasioned by the difficulty in getting the notes which the men received changed. Captain BERKELEY could only say the informa he received on the subject was different from that obtained by the Hon. and Gallant Admiral. ABSENCE FROM VESSELS. Captain BERKELEY wished also to know from the Gallant Admiral whether there were any orders issued by the present Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, preventing the officers at Malta from going on shore in consequence of the state of dis cipline in which the crews were—the officers having been complimented in the highest possible degree. Sir G. COCKBURN said, that the order to which the Hon. and Gallant Officer alluded, related to in discriminate absence from vessels, and he was not aware that any complaints had been made on the sub ject from the Malta station. POOR-LAWS. An HON. MEMBER gave notice that, in the event of the motion for limiting the duration of the Poor-law Commission to one year being lost, he should move that it be limited to three years. Lord COURTENAY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to explain the Acts now in force relating to pawn brokering in Ireland. Mr. FERRAND rose to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department. On a former evening the Right Hon. Baronet read an extract from the Report of Mr. Mott, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, in which four Magistrates of the county of York were accused of squandering the money of their parishes for the sake of popularity, and of being talked of as friends of the poor. He (Mr. Ferrand) as one of the guardians of the Keightley Union, which was alluded to, assured the House that he knew nothing of such conduct ; and he had written to one of the Magistrates who were attacked, and he received from him an assurance that there was no foundation whatever for the accusation. Now, what he wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet was, whe ther there would be any objection to lay the Report of Mr. Mott upon the table of the House. Sir J. GRAHAM had no objection to the Report being laid upon the table of the House, if the Hon. Gentleman would move for the return ; and he sup posed that if the Hon. Gentleman, or his friends, wished to consult the document, they would find no difficulty in obtaining a copy at the office of the Commissioners. Mr. FERRAND then moved for a return of the Report of. Mr. Mott, which was ordered. IRISH TITHES. Mr. SHAW said, a considerable sum of money, amounting, he believed, to about 25,000/., had been collected and paid into the office of the Paymaster of the Civil Service in Ireland, on account of sums of money due to the Irish clergy from the Irish landlords, but that no part of that amount so paid in had been received by the Irish clergy. He believed that an arrangement had been made, by which a part of the amount was to be paid immediately, and the rest at a future time k and he wished to asii, whether this arrangement would be carried into effect ? Lord ELIOT said he had already answered a ques tion on the subject put by the Right lion. and Learned Member, and he .could not do more than say that such an arrangement having been made, it would be carried into effect with the least plkible delay. PH +' Kik,' LONDON, SioNDA. 4/ Y ET.EiqiNd-, 3 -4 UNt 20, 1842. was in the year 1696, in the reign of William the Third. On that occasion, the House of Commons consented to pay all the loss upon the silver coinage. The de preciation had been enormous, and the greatest con fusion prevailed ; so that the people were willing to pay thing out of the public purse to get rid of the inconvenience. He did not think that the precedent of the re-coinage of William 111. was to be followed out in all its circumstances; for it was effected with great loss to the public, and was at tended with very great fraud. But did the Govern ment on that account throw the whole of the loss in the next re-coinage upon the holders ? He then came to the great re-coinage of gold in 1774. When compensation was given to the holders accord ing to a plan for which Lord Liverpool referred them to the books of the Treasury. Those books might be printed for the use of Honourable Members but he apprehended it would be expensive. The plan the Government then adopted would be best stated by the resolutions of the House of Commons, to which he begged to call the attention of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer.. The House of Com mons had a Committee of the whole House on the subject ; and it was resolved that the gold currency of guineas, half guineas, and quarter guineas should be called in by degrees ; that certain days should be appointed, after which the existing gold coinage should not be received by any collector of the public revenue ; and that certain other days should be appointed after which they should not be allowed to pass in any manner whatever, but that they should be called in and recoined, according to the established weight. On the plan of calling in and recoining the gold coinage, the public bore the loss aris ing both from the deficiency of weight and the expense of recovering. He might not be able to ascertain what the exact amount of the cost was, but he found it stated, in Macpherson's An nals of Commerce, that in 1774, the sum of 46,0001. was the sum charged as the deficiency of weight, without the charge of re-coining. In 1777, he found a further sum of 105,0001. was put down, for the expense, both of coinage and deficiency of weight. He could not apportion this sum between the two items, but there was one sum of 151,0001. for both. There was another instance within their own recollection the great re coinage of silver in 1816. There was no gold recoined in that year, but the silver was more depreciated than had ever been known, and the Government determined to call it all in, for the pur pose of recoinage. Did they then adopt the views of the present Government, that it ought to be the holders that should bear the loss ? No such thing. They threw the loss on the public, provided for it from the public fund of the country. The amount of silver coin then in the realm WaS 2,500,0001., and it was stated in the Report that it was depreciated no less than 30 per cent. The loss upon the silver coin was therefore 750,0001., and it was borne by the public. As he had the advantage of addressing a Conservative Govern ment, who venerated the principles on which former Tory Ministries, he would read the principles upon which Lord Liverpool and the Government acted upon that occasion. He (Lord Liverpool) said that with regard to indemnity he felt disposed to propose, and he was sure the House would adopt, the most liberal principles. Their Lordships were aware that when a new coin was issued in other countries, and the coin called in the Government received the coin by weight, not by tale, so that the public incurred the loss that was occasioned by its circulation; but it became the Go vernment and Legislature of this country to be more liberal. Such was the language of Lord Liverpool before the Bill was brought in, by which it was proposed, that the silver should be received at its current value, and called in. That was the principle on which the Government proceeded, and he found the same principle laid down in this House, by a great authority, the then Master of the Mint, Mr. Wellesly Pole, who said " that when the people had no alternative but to receive the coin in circulation it would be ahardship to allow them to suffer from the fault of the Government, and he should, therefore, propose the exchange of all the coin." And that proposition was made. when the coin was depreciated not 21 per cent., but 30 per cent. —(Hear, hear, hear.) He (Mr. 'Wellesley Pole) said, that while he was anxious to preserve the public from such loss, he was desirous that in dividuals should suffer as little as possible. It was, however, impossible to prevent many persons from sustaining loss by withdrawing the coin from circulation, but it was the duty of Government to make the loss as little as possible. Persons were ap pointed to give money of the full weight to those who held the depreciated coin, but perhaps the Government would say that the precedent of Lord Liverpool in 1816 was against him, and one that should deter the Tory Government of this time from following it, but it must be recollected that the case of the Go vernment of that time was fifteen times stronger than it is now, and the depreciation was 30 per cent., and not 2 per cent. as at present. He had heard it stated in defence that that course was not pursued with regard to the gold coinage. Now the coinage of gold at that time could not be drawn into a precedent, because it was a new coinage. He had stated, that while he condemned the course adopted dy the Government, he would point out S the course he thought they ought to pursue ; they ought to have adopted the course as near as possible that was adopted on a former recoinage. It had been said on behalf of the Government, that if they gave a full-weight sovereign for a light one, it would in effect be a premium upon clipping the coin. He granted that the depreciation of the coin was an evil ; but it was an evil that did not require to be put a stop to in a moment. What had alarmed everybody was the Government, declaring that the coin was light. ' If the Government had, when it found the sovereign light one-half per cent., called it in, and issued a full weight sovereign for it, it would not have cost the country more than 90,0001.. At that depreciation they might have stopped, and then the public would have known what course to pursue. He believed if the Go vernment had taken proper precautions they might have prevented the depreciation of the coin. He thought that the loss of 9,0001. in ten or twenty years would have been an infinitely smaller evil than the discrediting the whole gold coin of this country. He now came to the manner in which the Government had acted, and the circum stances under which the proclamation had been issued. The Government seemed to have issued its proclamation as though it were the most ordinary thing in the world. Not a word of previous explanation had been given to the public ; without any notice the whole gold coinage was discredited ; men were sent away with their sovereigns, parties refusing to take them, and no explanation was oftered by the Government until the questien was mooted on that side of the House. He knew it might be said that conduct of that kind would tend to make the public cautious about taking money. Why, there could not be a greater evil, than that of exciting suspicion with respect to the coinage.—(Hear.) To set every one upon weighing sovereigns and half-sovereigns, would cause the greatest confusion in commercial transactions, and cause a great waste of time and labour to the public.—(Hear, hear.) The system of the middle ages would be revived, and every man would be compelled to take with him a Jew with a pair of scales for the purpose of weighing what he had to receive, for the purpose of ascertaining that it was of the proper value. The country had for some time been free from this monstrous evil that no complaint had been heard, and all sus picion had in fact been lulled to sleep. The recent events had led some to exclaim that the only way to remedy the evil was to re store the good old one-pound notes. He confessed he should be very unwilling to have recourse to such an extreme remedy. In 1816 the gold coin was called in, but the public mind was then prepared for it, and a good silver coinage was substituted. Notice was then given all over the country that the coin should be brought in on a certain day, when the old coin would be changed for new. The whole was done in a very short time, and without loss. There was no new 'coinage now to supply the place of the old, and no precautions whatever had been taken to enable the public to change the old coin for new, which ought t o h ave been done e v e n if the holders had had to incur the loss of the depreciation, which he thought they ought not to do. Now what had the Government done towards providing new coin in substitution for the old ? Why they had issued a proclamation for a new coinage for half. farthings.—(A laugh.) [LEFT SPEAKING.] TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. IX O'CLOCK. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 5 to 1 agst Shadow 6 to 1 agst Beeswing. GOoDWOOD PLATE. 9 to 1 agst Welfare 10 to 1 agst Daddy Longlegs. GOoDWOOD CUP. 7 to 1 agst Middleham—taken 10 to 1 agst Nautilus—taken. An accident from phosphoric matches occurred a t few days si nce near Versailles. Two p ers ons we r e t rave lli ng in an open cart, when the suddenly bottom, and communicating to s uddenly were alarmed by furious flames bur s ti ng through their pantaloons.. They instantly sprung in haste to the ground, and had sca rce l y the vehicle, even to the wheels, was i nvo lv e d i n t h e fi re, and time to get the horse out of the shafts before the whole were consumed before any endeavours could be made to stop it. The matches, the ignition of which had caused the accident, were in a basket, Atte er things, at the bottom of the cart. MOVEMENTS OF THE ORDNANCE CORPS IN CANADA. A private letter, dated Montreal, May 28, has been received at Woolwich, and contains the following account of the changes about to take place in Canada —Major Furneaux's company of the Royal Artillery was to march on the 31st of May from Montreal to Chambly, when Captain Cater's company, sta tioned there, would immediately proceed to Kingston. Major Armstrong's company will arrive at Montreal on the 31st May, and he assumes the command of the Artillery in that district on the Ist June, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Macbean, who pro ceeds to England with his family, about the 4th or sth of June, in the Douglas, for London. Major-General Sir James A. Hope, K. C. 8., having arrived at Quebec, by the Acadia, to take the command of the district, Lieut.-General Sir James Macdonnell, K. C. 8., and K. C.H., who lately held the com mand, will embark in the ship Douglas on her arrival at Quebec, for a passage to England. The Governor-General, Sir C. Bagot, G.G.8., arrived at Montreal on the 21st May, and was received by the inhabitants in the most enthusiastic man ner, arches having been erected in the streets, with other de monstrations of loyalty and approbation. Captain Hill, and a detachment of Major Harrison's company, left Montreal for Amherstberg, to relieve Capt. Sheppard and a detachment of Major Otway's company, on the '29th May. Major Otway's company will proceed to Quebec on the arrival of Captain Cater's company at Kingston. Major Harrison goes to Kingston, and Captain Glasgow, with Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun's company to Montreal, to await the arrival of the companies from England, when he goes to Quebec, as there will be one of the new companies stationed at Montreal with Major Armstrong's company, and the ether at Quebec, with Lieetenant•Colonel Colquhoun's company. Colonel Campbell and Lieutenant Townsend are at Kingston. The Colonel is on the Board still sitting respecting the fuel sup plied to the troops, and it is expected the members of the Board will have to go over all our military stations in Canada before their labours are concluded. Captain Wodehouse and Lieut. Wright will immediately proceed to England. Lieutenant Fitzgerald remains at Chambly for three months, and does duly with Major Furneaux's company at that station. From other private sources it is understood the whole of the officers of the Royal Engineers and the Sappers and Miners under their command, will be withdrawn from Canada. It was at first intended that these troops should have been removed direct to Gibraltar, but in consequence of the Admiralty having represented that a passage for them would be attended with greater inconvenience than to England, it has been re solved to send a company from this country to Gibraltar, and that the others in Canada return home to occupy the vacant station, which will be at Chatham, in the event of the 11th company being selected for foreign service. MAJOR-GENERAL ELPHIN STONE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I shall feel very much obliged by your inserting the accompanying letter, addressed to the Morning Advertiser, in your valuable paper ; and remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, COLIN HALKETT, Lieut.-General. United Service Club, June 16. Copy of a Letter from Lieut.-General Sir Cohn Halkett, G.C.8., to the editor of the Morning Advertiser. " United Service Club, June 16. " Sir,—My attention has only just been called to a letter signed T. M.,' which appeared in your paper of Thursday last, reflecting on the conduct of Major-General Elphinstone at Waterloo. My name having been alluded to in the above statement, I feel myself bound to state that as I did not leave the field, in consequence of my wound, until the close of the battle, I had an opportunity of observing the conduct of the whole division, the command of which had devolved upon me earlier in the day in consequence of the wound of Lieut.- General Count Alten, and that I am warranted in stating that there is no ground at all for the assertions made against the conduct of Major-General Elphinstone—on the contrary, his behaviour was in every respect that of a gallant officer. " I did not accompany the division on its march to Paris ; but in consequence of the Major of Brigade having been killed, and there being no staff-officer with the sth Brigade, I ordered my senior aide-de. camp, Capt. Marshall, to accompany Major- General Elphinstone, on whom the command had devolved; and on the Captain's return to me at Brussels his report was entirely favourable to Major-General Elphinstone. " I beg. therefore, distinctly to state that the allegations in the letter of T. M.' as to what occurred during the battle are false and ungrounded; and of what is stated to have taken place during the march to Paris I never heard one word until the publication in your paper of Thursday last was brought to my notice. The enclosed letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, who commanded the brigade of Guards, sets that part of the subject at rest. " Requesting you will be pleased to give these letters an early insertion in your paper, " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, " COLIN HALKETT, Lieutenant-General. " P. S. The accompanying letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Harty, commanding the 33d Regiment, has also been trans mitted to me. " Southwick-crescent, June 14. " Dear Sir Colin,—An anonymous publication has been sub mitted to me, in which an officer commanding a regiment in your brigade at Waterloo is stated to have quitted his corps , when they were compelled to retire, and, instead of endeavour ing to rally them, to have made the best of his way to the nearest square of Guards ; and, further, that he was then repri manded by the officer commanding the Guards, and desired to go back to his regiment. In justice to Lieutenant-Colonel, now Major General Elphinstone, the officer respecting whom the statement is made, I feel myself called upon to assure you that I was so situated in respect to the square in question during the whole day, that had an officer from another corps had any communication with it, I could scarcely fail to have been aware of it ; but neither I, nor, as far as I can find, any other officer of the Guards present in the battle, either witnessed or heard of the circumstance related by the anonymous writer until the paragraphs in his letter were submitted to them. " I remain, dear Sir Colin, yours faithfully, "P. M A ITL AND. " To Lieutenant-General Sir C. Halkett, G.C.8." " 11, Promenade-villas, Cheltenham, June 14. "My dear Parkinson,—l am grieved to find that the Morn ing Advertiser, of the 9th, has made a malicious and false attack on our old and good commanding officer, General Elphinstone, and hope you intend to write to the Editor, con tradicting the whole statement. I can state positively that I had the honour of serving under him as Captain on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June, and while the regiment remained in France, and never saw a soldier more cool and possessed of more courage than he exhibited on all occasions while in com mand of the regiment, and that part of the paragraph which states that the men on the line of march up to Paris called him a coward, is equally untrue. It never came to my know ledge that such a scandalous assertion had ever been made re specting him till it appeared in this newspaper. There is not a shadow of a ground for any of these charges again3t our old commanding officer, and therefore 1 hope you will not allow such falsehoods to remain uncontradicted. Ever truly yours, " J. M. HARTY, Lieutenant-Colonel, " Commanding 33d Regiment. " To Colonel Parkinson, C. 8." THE KIRK. (From the London Correspondent of the Scotsman.) Two of the great apostles of the agitation—Doctors Candlish and Buchanan —were deputed to London, to proselytise Members of Parliament. They arrived in the metropolis, per steamer from Leith, with a cargo of the pamphlets and publications of the General Assembly. These active and zealous missionaries, to do them justice, disseminated far and wide their paper and print. " The Claim, Declaration, and Protest of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland," in a goodly quarto type, and" the Church of Scotland's Claim of Right; to which are prefixed the speeches of Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Gordon, and Mr. Dunlop, in the General Assembly, in support of the same, May 24, 1842," were duly on the breakfast-table of every Member of the House of Commons this morning—whether Tory, 'Whig, or Radical. Nor did they confine their la bours to this dissemination of tracts. They got Mr. Fox Maule to sign a circular to two hundred Members of Par liament, inviting the Representatives of the people to hear their " sweet voices" this afternoon on the grievances of the Kirk, at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, Westminster. But, with the usual fatality attending the agitators, the hour named was unfortunately two o'clock—affording only two hours for the "explanations," as the House of Commons meets at four o'clock. Clergymen are apt to be long in their discourses; and the two hours, as might have been imagined, did not suffice for a patient hearing of Drs. Candlish and Buchanan ! The meeting, thus ill-advisedly convened, was an utter failure. Not more than two dozen Members of the House of Commons at tended this funeral service of the Kirk. The paucity of at tendance evidently much abashed and discomfited the agitators. Their select vestry was composed of equal parts of Tory, Whig, and Radical, English, Scotch, and Irish M.P.'s; of Scotch Non-Intrusionists, English Saints, and Irish Presbyterian Pro testants—a motley jury to hold an inquest on the suicide of the Kirk ! I must, however, do Dr. Candlish the justice to say , , that after he had recovered his breath from the panic of this miserably thin audience, he earnestly and eloquently descanted on the text of his mission for an hour and a quarter. The reverend improvisatore ably and fervently handled the Non- Intrasion history, from its commencement in 1834 to theprcsent hour. Dr. Candlish was to have been followed and backed up by his fellow-apostle Buchanan ; but Mr. T. Id. G. Escourt (the Member for Oxford University, arid a Doctor of Civil Law), j putting some hard questions on the sentiments of the Kirkites in regard to civil and ecclesiastical law, an interlocutory dis cussion followed Dr. Candlish's long sermon, which occupied so much of the only remaining half-hour, that the meeting broke up on an intimation from Hon. Members that in all probability there would he " no house" unless all the M.P.'s present im mediately departed to attend in their places in the House of Commons! This notable assembly, therefore, was prema turely dissolved, and adjourned sine die to St. Stephens. The scene then resembled the drawing up of the curtain for a new opera, where the manager comes on the stage and announces —" Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to say that the prima donna is so seriously indisposed, that she cannot possibly appear before you this evening but at the risk of her life." A snore ludicrous juggle never took plaee. The actors in this mum mery had been cautioned that the trick would be played, hut, like the sceptics, could not be induced to believe. Thus are the Non-Intrusionists fairly floored by the wily Premier and by false friends, and thus is all legislation cushioned ! THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY INTREPIDITY or A Boy.—The extraordinary instance of intrepidity and heroic conduct of the little boy, Joseph Lague, in saving the life of another, the particulars relating to which were detailed in this journal of Thursday last, has been rewarded in a man ner which speaks highly for the liberality of the English public. On Saturday morning Mr. Berkley Westropp, the Secretary to the Royal Humane Society, waited upon the authorities of St. Pancras workhouse, to collect the particu• Lars of the case, with a view to lay it before the Governors of that Institution, in order that the poor boy may receive therefrom a suitable reward. The boy and his mother, who is in the receipt of parochial relief, being a widow with seven children, was introduced to Mr. Westropp, and he expressed himself highly pleased with the poor little fellow's appear.. ance. On Thursday evening, in consequence of the para graph in the newspapers, two gentlemen in a cab called at the house of Mrs. Lague, No. 4, Oxford-terrace, King's-road, and presented her with the sum of 11. 155., 10e. of which was to go towards buying the boy some clothes, and bs. to be placed in his name in the savings' bank. They promised to call again, and on the mother showing them the book, proving that the deposit had been made, that they would made it up to something hand- some. On Friday morning an elderly gentleman, in his car riage, called at St. Pancras Workhouse, and expressed a great desire to see the boy. He was sent for by the porter, and on seeing him, the gentleman took off his glove and shook him cordially by the hand, and gave him a sovereign, promising to see him again and do something for him. Another person pre sented the mother with 15s. for his use, and in the various public-houses about Camden-town subscriptions are in course of being collected. M. Duptu:z.—This celebrated tenor singer, so long known at Paris as the premier sr jet of the Grdnd Opera, is now in London. Whether he comes with a view to any pro fessional engagement, or whether his journey hither is merely for recreation, has not yet positively transpired, but the general belief is that he has accepted an engagement with Mr. Charles Kemble, and that he will make his debut as a singer in the English language at Covent-garden next season. There is a rumour that he has been already offered an engagement at her Majesty's Theatre, and that Otello was to be his first character, Rubini having kindly consented to take the comparatively small part of Roderigo. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. THE MinnEnx OF THE 5001. BILL.—We published lately an account of an application made by Mr. Hum phreys, the solicitor, for a warant against a person named John Alves, who was charged with having stolen a bill for 5001., the property of two ladies of high respectability - , who entrusted him with it to discount. The bill, it will be recollected, got into the hands of a person named Bowie, who keeps a grocer's shop in Shoe-lane, and who stated to the ladies that he had advanced 2001. to Alves upon it, and was to give 2001. more to that indi vidual in the course of the day, reserving to himself 100/. for the accommodation ; and subsequently Bowie offered to restore it to the ladies if they would hand over to him the - 2001. he declared he had advan ced, and the one' hundred pounds interest, to which he considered himself entitled by virtue of his arrange ment with Alves. The ladies, however, who happened to have clever advisers after they got into the hobble, re fused to pay one farthing, and Mr. Humphreys, the soli citor, gave notice to Bowie not to negotiate or part with the bill, under any circumstances, as it had been stolen by Alves. On Saturday Mr. Humphreys waited upon the Lord Mayor, and informed his Lordship that an anonymous let ter had been received, enclosing the 5001. bill. The ladies, Mr. Humphreys said, were most grateful to his Lordship for the assistance rendered to them on so important an occasion. The LORD MAYOR said he was happy that the stolen bill had been recovered, as no doubt its restitution would save the ladies a great deal of disagreeable trouble. His Lordship, however, regretted that the person who had stolen it had escaped. BOW-STREET. The two persons who, on Friday week, were remanded on a charge of defrauding a young West India mer chant of 301., by conspiring with others to cheat him at the game of thimble-rig, at Ascot races, were brought up for final examination, when Mr. Humphreys, the so licitor, attended on the part of the prosecution, and Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Lucas, as counsel for the prisoners. The evidence adduced on the former occasion having been read over, and no furthur evidence being offered, Mr. Adolphus contended that there was nothing in the case that would justify the Court in committing the prisoners, or even holding them to bail. Mr. JARDINE, after consulting several law books, said the case was a very peculiar one, and expressed a doubt whether the prisoners would be convicted, if he commit ted them for trial, and ultimately he ordered them to be discharged. The City policeman, who apprehended the prisoners, asked what he was to do with the six 5/. notes he had taken from Williams at the time of his apprehension, and which had been identified by the prosecutor as those which he had paid to Williams ? Mr. JARDINE said he would not make any order re specting them,_ upon which the prisoner Willi ams sa id, " I demand those notes as my property, and desire that they may be given up to me immediately." The policeman said he had not got the notes, but they were at the station-house, and would be delivered up to which ever party the superintendent thought was entitled to them, on hearing which both the prosecutor and prisoner wended their way to the station-house, to en force their respective claims to the notes, the validity of which will, in all probability, have to be decided by an action at law. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday, Mr. Wm. Austin, the landlord of the White Bear public-house, in Little Newport-street, Golden-square, was summoned for refusing to receive and afford accommodation to Win. Galahar (a recruit in the 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards), duly billited up!in him. William Bale, corporal in the 2cl Dragoon Guards, stated, that about seven o'clock in the evening of Wed nesday last he went to the defendant's house with the recruit, and presented a billet for him for one night. lle handed it to the defendant over the counter, who having read it, threw it down, and said he would have nothing to do with it. On being remonstrated with, he said he had had a billet about two months ago, and he'd be d—d if he would have another, and witness might go and do his best and worst. The billet was, in conse quence, returned to the inspector of police from whom it had been obtained, and another procured for a differ ent house. Sergeant E. Fagden, of the 3rd, or Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards, corroborated the foregoing statements. The defendant said this was a most gross conspiracy against him to extort money. The facts of the case were as follows :—The complainant and his witress, with three or four recruits, entered his house, all of them in a very intoxicated state, and complainant, pro ducing a paper, said, " Here, landlord, give me change for a 5/. Bank of England note, all in silver mind; let's have none of your light gold." He declined doing so, ;:nd the whole party directly left the house without a word being uttered about a billet, or indeed was a syllable mpoken but what he had mentioned. Mr. HARDWICK—Can you expect me, for one moment, to entertain a defence so utterly at variance with all probability?—it is perfect nonsense. You might as well tell mo that a party came into your house to billet a soldier, and that all they did was to stand upon their heads. The defendant said that a respectable tradesman, a customer of his, was standing at the bar at the time, and would, if the case was allowed to stand over, come forward and prove what he had stated to be correct. He would have attended 'then, but he was obliged to go a short distance out of town on particular business. Mr. HARDWICK—I certainly shall not postpone the case on any such preposterous statements. Defendant—The informer and his witness were beastly drunk. The sergeant and corporal both stated that they were perfectly sober. Police-sergeant, No. 8 of the C division stated that the sergeant and corporal applied to him for another billet a few minutes after they had been to the defend ant's house, and that they were then perfectly sober. Mr. HARDWICK (to the defendant)—You are making your own case worse by throwing out these unfounded imputations ; and, taking the whole of your conduct into consideration, I feel it to be my duty to inflict the highest penalty the law allows—namely, 51. The defendant said he was constrained to abide the Magistrate's decision, however unjust it might be. After some further consideration, Mr. Hardwick mi tigated the fine to 3/„ and the defendant not having the amount about him was detained until he procured it. The complaining party in these cases is entitled to one moiety of the fine. LIGHT GOLD. We are surprised to learn that a large quantity of light sovereigns were issued from the Pay-office in Portsmouth Dockyard (and we presume the same has been done at other places) since the proclamation was published respecting this portion of our currency. As almost all, if not all, the payments made at this place are for wages, we think that something should be done to prevent the further issue of any except such as are of the legal weight. We have heard of one tradesman in the neighbourhood of the Dockyard, who has been much in the habit of giving change, who will lose con siderably by the number now in his hauds, nearly all •f which were paid as wages from the Navy Pay-office. Surely this must be the result of oversight. The Go vernment are bound to prevent the issue of any money by their servants but such as is of full value. We hope this notice will have the effect of stopping the evil corn. plained of. The parties receiving money at the Pay office have no means of proving its weight at the time of receiving it, neither can they change any part of it after having left the office.—Hampshire Independent. Some tradesmen arc still deducting 3d. for evey grain deficient. This is evidently unjust. There are 245 half grains in a sovereign of the current weight, and as a so vereign is equal in value to 240 pence, the tradesmen who buys gold at a penny the half-grain must gain five pence if he can buy as many grains as amount in value to a sovereign. —Lancaster Guardian. The proclamation respecting ..old has, durinz the last week, prmduced a most unsatisfactory' relati on between the payer and receiver The injustice of nicking the present holders of gold the losers of sixpence per pound, as the consequence of years of depreciation, is keenly felt, and prove_: great mismanagement at head -quarters. —Benda 1111erc ury. NATIONAL DISTRESS-MEETING OF DEPUTIES IN LONDON. The daily increasing sufferings of the people, the har rowing details of which are given in every page of our present number, cannot much longer be left without a remedy. Parliament is dragging on apparently in utter forgetfulness that multitudes are perishing for want of food. The Premier has already hinted at a prorogation. This must not be allowed without another, and a stre nuous effort to bring the Legislature to a sense of its duty. What is to be done ? The Council of the League have resolved upon calliug a Special General Meeting o; Deputies, to be held in London immediately. The day fixed upon is Monday, the 27th June —the place of meet ing, Brown's hotel, Palace •yard. To this step we have been urged, not only by the, necessity of the case, but by numerous and pressilig communications from our friends in ell parts of the country. We, therefore, earnestly entreat all the Anti- Corn-law Associations, and every friend of free trade throughout the kingdom, to be prompt and enQrgetic in rendering their support to this movement, and in ap pointing deputies to the meeting. The country cannot brook the delay of eight months which must elapse before another session of the Legislature. The question of free trade in food must—shall be re-opened before Parliament separates. The peace of the country re (mires it. The lives and interests of millions are tremb ling in the balance—it is for our friends to say which way the beam shall incline.—Anti-Bread Tar Circular. A letter from Toulouse conveys the following particulars relating to the late fiery metecr seen on the 3d inst., as having been communicated by the Director of the Obser vatory of that place. "It was apparent at the Observatory at the same time as at Montpellier, and was also seen by General Lejeune, who was on horseback, during the space of time that he rode about 50 yards. These circumstances prove that it was from a great height above the earth, and allows a belief that it must have descended near, but not touching our planet. It was for a long time believed that these meteors were produced within our own atmosphere, but their periodical appearance, which now seems to be fully established, has for some time led towards a belief that they are small planets, like the earth, regularly circulating round the sun. Another bolide, or globe of fire, passed on the 9th inst. at 1,421,122 metres fr om th e eart h' s sur f ace . It s relative velocity of motion round our sphere was 37,330 metres (rather more than nine leagues) a second, and its absolute swiftness in the space greater than that of the earth by 40,902 metres (a little more than 10 leagues) a second. Consequently, at the moment of its greatest brilliancy, it must have been far beyond our atmosphere, which does not extend to above 100,000 metres in vertical height." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The Boyne transport, Lieut. George Young age/ arrived on Thur s d a y f rom Gib ra l tar , with naval and military invalids, under charge of Mr. Lardner, surgeou of the Jaseur sloop of war, and returned ordnance stores, as guns of increased calibre are being M ounted in that gar r i son , w h ere the repairs of the fortific ations had commenced. Th e American squadron had le ft tb vicinity of Gib ra lt ar ; b ut w h et h er i t h a d go ne home or to the coast of Afric a , was not k nown. Th e Formidabl e ! 84, Capt. Sir C. Sullivan, was about to cruise on the east coast of Spain. • The Danish corvett e Fl ora , o f 20 guns , Capt. Pale: der, arrived at C owes on W e d nes d ay, from Lisl"neo her route to Cop en h agen . Sh e h as on b oa rd onota bo Captain in the D an i s h service, a scientific offiecri W oo acts as tutor to a h os t o f y oung gent l eme n, wh0,. 0 bringing up for th e serv i ce , no l ess t h an 42 of wo tb , ,o came up yesterday morning to pay their respects W Port Admiral, and to visit the flag-ship St. Vinctiot„,.., 'The Scylla, 18, Com man d er Sh arp, arr i ve d a t Ils"“ on the 20th May; the Sappho, 18, Commander Par r 4 lett Halifax, for Q ue b ec , w i t h spec i e f or t h e troo ps / ar the same date. e . bf The Pique, 36, was r e - comm i ss i one d on T ues da y , Capt. Forbes. , $1 ivi . The Beagle, surveying s hip, C apt. S to k es , 7 Adelaide, South A us t ra li a , on t h e 28th Janina,' it for The freight ship Athenian, Mann, with provii° l3 " the China fleet, sailed on Monday last. The Pluto steamer was paid off at Woolwich yesS The ship George Fyf e , f or N ew Z ea l an d , is 11e'''' head, and will sail in a day or two. The Madagascar, W e ll er , E ssex , B rewer, an d a er " B A 0 0 phalus, Bell, fo r M a d ras an d B enga l , l ett Sp i t hew Thursday. The St. James, Sebor, New York packet, will Ils i/411 Monday. r Di The Calcutta, arri ve d thi s even i ng, f rom Van A i $ men's Land, sailed th e 10 t h o f F e b ruary, out 1284 o; Captain Ross, with th e T error an d E re b us, too k his o , departure fur the South Pole, from New Zealand, i° . 0 tuber last, and nothi ng h as s i nce b een h ear d of !Jr o p. pedition. They were all well and in high spin"! leaving New Zealand. The Gladiator, New York packet, Captain Brin arrived tnis evenin g ; s h e l e f t t h e S tates on t h e 221'' , 1 The Mary Anne, t rom M a d ras , anc h ore d at St. or--;. this evening. of The Plantagen e t, J o h n Domett, arrived off the is le Wight this aftern oon , f rom C a l cutta, the 3d Feb.' "- the Cape of Good Hope 10th April. viso Admiral Sir Edward C o d r i ngton , b e i ng a b out to 0 the whole of his station, will start to-morrow i" , Fanny for Jersey. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 16.—The Diligence, trad i t i l lt sailed on Sunday for Woolwich and Deptford'air stores, and the Devon, lighter, with stores for •L o t broke. The Stork, 6, was commissioned by LieuTro, C. G. Butler, on the same day. The Star, ptti l Lieut. T. Creser, arrived on Tuesday from Falolle and came into harbour to be paid off. The Neal' w der, arrived from Li ver p oo l yester d ay, w i t h newly. 0, men ; and the Gypsey, t en d er , f rom Sheerness, $1,1.,i f oi l pernumeraries. Sailed the Adventure, transports."' stores, for Portsmouth. Wolf, 18, was yesterday,` missioned by Commander C. 0. Hayes. The A 4!:. 50, was masted, and 1 , ill shortly be commissionea , In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Wolf, Star, i 7 7- mel, Atna, and Confiance steamer. , PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS PROMOTIONS. Assistant Surgeons--Mr. W. D. Wilkes, to the.? I , of Surgeon. APPOINTMENTS. • Captain—Henry Forbes, to the Pique. Lieutenants—G. E. Patey, and R. B. Harvey, AiOH4 Wolf ; J. McDougall, E. H. Kennett, T. Hedera H. Western, and H. M. B a k er, to t h e Pique; P - • Byng, to command the Avon steam vessel. Master—Henry Paul, to the Wolf. Acting Master—George Filmer, to the Pique. Surgeons—W. Folds, to the Pique ; John Edwate7 the Excellent. Ic; /.11 Assistant Surgeo ns —R. J. S cott, to t h e San is A. D. Milne, to the Pique ; T. R. Pickthorne,„ St. Vinceut ; G. M. McClure, to the Excellent.. • AlO Pursers—Stephen Rains, to the Wolf ; John. Ws7 the Pique. Chaplain—Rev. W. R. Payne, to the San Josef. V Clerk-in- Charge—J. C. Aldridge, from the Dew the Avon. Volunteers Ist Class—B. C. Pym, io the S c ylvie Mitchell, to the Pique ; A Campbell, to the Verees-O Royal Marines—Lieutenants Steele and Davies, 0 1 Pique. Mr. John C. Sabben, Assistant-Surgeon, is apt o o 4 Assistant-Surg eon o f P ortsmouth Dock-yard, vice P;' promoted. 14. , ‘ved Nj o 7 I ' • ty LLOYD'S SHIPPING VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—COMitIIO, liarletta. to L i ii, (out 80 days), 14th i ns t., o ff C ape Clear, N.W. by , miles ; Trio, Malta to Gloucester, Jane Day, by toP. (cutter), arrived at Falmouth ; barque Mary, for April 21, lat. 16, S., lon. 26, W. ; Mary and Jane, 1 / 4 to Liverpool, 4th inst., lat. 22, by the Derwent, array , Penzance ; Bremen barque, No. 34, bound west, 28th lat. 42, lon. 31, by the Marianne, arrived at Falmouth ; . ni re s Liverpool to M aur iti us , 6 t h i nst., lat. 4.5, ion. 14; I.''''' Dobbin, Bth, lat. 48, lon. 12, by the Skipton, arrived IL! ' mouth • Vixen, London to St. Helena, Oct. 9, lat. 4 .. „,7.' 9, by the Sham, arrived at F a l mcu th ; C ygne t o f YO (10 days without meat), by the Pegasus. LIGHT HOUSES ON THE COAST OF SWED E Swedish and Norwegian General Cot 17, St. Helen's-place, June 18, 'in Sir,—l beg leave to inform you that the Royal Nor iL at Stockholm, by or di nance , b ear i ng date the 15th Aprilt: ). has commanded that the following alterations be ',little P' .. under-mentioned light-houses on the coast of Sweden. Ist. Falsterbo Li g ht-h ouse i s i ntended to be change d' an open coal light, as at present, to a Lentille light of iP; cond class, with stati onary fl ame ; i n consequence when; tower will undergo considerable alterations, to be corm as soon as possible this year ; during whieh time, ariP4 the new light can he exhibited, which is expected tolate e t on the Ist of July, 1843, the light will be inaintai., l3 v . means of a large lantern, to be fixed as high as possilx e the tower, but which cannot, however, be expected to II . • intensity the power of the former coal ' light. I A 2d. The Kullen Lighthouse will likewise be a ltered • Lentille light of the second class, with stationary 111 0* its tower will consequently partly be pulled down and : During the time occupied in the repairs, which will ts:. 0 menced during the present year, the new light 4. ' i f ren.oved from the tower to a rock situated close thrtf, 4 , , nearly equal height, alter which the coal light Willi" ~, 44 present be maintained. 3d. In consequence of his Majesty's gracious eniA ' it is intended to commence this year the erection, of A house, seventy feet high, at Momps Tange, one mile ~,, , the town of Falke n b urg , an d on t h e coast of Holland, ''-' Cattegat, where a revolving light will be placed, whieho OW' 11 $ 1. ever, with regard to the time occupied in making the r e 4ll tiun, and in the inten s it y o f t h e li g h t, will be quite diffe,ls_,,,, the light announced t o „ b e ex hibi ted at Anbalt on theutt4'7 March this year. ,: , , 4th. During the pre sen t y ear t h e coal (l i ght at Svate. ' near the Sea of Al an d, w ill b e c h anged to a stational having eclipses at i n t erva l s. D ur i ng the time rein - sit:' -- .. 0 the alterations a n d repa i rs o f t h e tower, the li' tained by means of a lantern. sth. The time when the above alteration: will, in due course, be made public. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most o b e , To the Secretary, Ll oy d's. CHAR' I3UDE LIGHT IN TILE HOUSE OF C, report of the Committee of the House of Bude-light, has Just been printed. It al Gurney has been constantly engaged in th House since the early part of 1839 to the pi out any remuneration, this question having bee• to be left to a vote of the House, and that his is termed the atmospheric Bude-light, and • describes to be " a cheap, beautiful, and effi lighting," is now osed in every part of the • Commons and offices, and is recommended by t be applied to the future houses of Parliament. called before them some of the most scientific who added their "conclusive evidence" as success of Mr. Gurney's plan, and this not mere, to the Houses of Parliament, but with respect ings and churches now lighted by the system elsewhere. As to the expense, the Commix " the saving during the time that Mr. plan has been in operation, has been 464/. 95. per annum ; but this affords the saving which will accrue if Mr. tern be applied to all the Parliamen t As to the general saving effected by the use of Bude-light, as compared with any other plan sidered it to be one half, Professor Wheatstone one half, Mr. Gurney 46 to 48 per cent., and mate that of Dr. Arnot, placed it in the r , There is some interesting evide:ice respeetin light at the crossing in Wat , . , rloo-place. It expense of the li g ht in W , ,, ter i oq _place is ab ou , the power of it, by tht measurement of scient equal to forty-five corr,mon street lamps. It i apparatus ni-cessar:; for the l am p an d f or purifying the ol' very simple and ir4expensive. The evidence gives the e fts c i , rative cost of F i ght from different sources, the r ice he ec e r being taken f,•om the average of the last two year:, 'Y e besP i e . appears tha%, the atmospheric dude-light is one hall 00 a' te : than ges. more than two-thirds cheaper than co sd- dr°_, that is one-fifth the cost of sperm oil, one-ninth tha t the c ol , ; r pos'Aion candles, and one-eleventh that of wax. As 50 w ed t e , pr,rative quantity of heat given by the different lights e osa h ° o Domestic purposes, it is stated that the heat from t h a lf t :o , pheric Bude is less than that from oil, and less tha l l eg lr from coal gas. The whole of the evidence is ozeeem teresting. BIRTHS. Ay of r On the 14th in s t., a t H anwe ll , M i ddlesex, t h e L i Rev. On t J.ton, of a daughter. he 16th inst., at Leamington, the lady of C. 13/ ' so f, bald, Esq., o f a d aug h ter. On the 16th in s t., a t Gl aze l ey, S a l op, the w if e of O s J. W. Bromley', M.A., of a son. On the 18th inst., Mrs. W. Storrs Fry, of a datight er o . f On the 18th inst., at Hillingdon, Middlesex, thelacif Garratt, jun., Esq., of a son. ptioa ~•' MARRIED. f ies' he , On the 9th inst., at Westend Chuich, near B° % - ter ° it " 11 1 0 l ir William Roberts Worsley, Esq., to Mary, only (Wig - Rev. John Fowler, of Harefield, Southampton. .„ y o' , l l ' e , i On the 14th inst., at St . John's, Hackney, the II.; JO n y Torkington, to Anna, second daughter of the ~,'" ° sod - .° ~' iin,, Powell, Esq., of Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-field's' d,,1t.. Clapton House Hackney. j3re 0 , On the 15th jest., at Framfield, Sussex, J. B even t it e Esq., of Rakeengrany, Wicklow, Ireland, to 'Maris' y° daughter of A. Donavan, Esq of Framfield-e,ark ' 4 ~ 1 : DIED. foroerlY On the 1 lth inst., at Brussels, M. Hoper, Esq'' SOO Old Burlingt on - street, London, aged 80. Co 11 0 ' se On the 11th i nst., at Blackheath, Kent, Henry of It Harvey, Esq., of St. Day, Cornwall, aged t e rtoV•_ jv On the 16 t h i ns t., Miss JanFraTh, late of HO fa ro"' Oa the 16th inst., at Mitcham, S. Adams, Totnes, Devon, and late barrack-master at Noun& , agoc ibo On the 16th lost. , at Old 'Change, Mrs. Thei°°_,....lloo , of London • Printed and Published by /UMW° No.ll o -, S tram!, at The Su). Office,. No. 1 12 ' the Couut] 9f Middlesex, Monday, June l.42. v 11 k :a 5!; a~ light will a be tv- ons are c etyrn le bedient sew s T nt, i,;' RLES TO T Ag e - OMMONS,— t ) COMMOII S, °n Att appears th" At he service, o , v itr i )resent ,eeri y'niro ilb s nv w light , which the rrf .g effective ,yo suss H present „,e , the Conlo ti 'if r e t ra o Teh t ne he Cof° P' l4 s:: jE tf lij erely with r. t to large Pi m in Londo n sittee repor t A O! Gurney" F L 4, at the 11 4 v l no rhea' !°' Gum!' f t idio e ntary 0 01 „„pfl e f the a ,tnle'r coo' D r, tire 4 tll o , e ra,..ber d t.tAs low ef of 8 t r o n wi s g Mr. 6 0 , 11 0 appears bou t ' out 6d. P e . be iti ap !ntifio , hs t is stated '7,0, the