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• „ Tbixt Xbition SUN-OFFICE, ,'.:scent o' Clock. LAST INDIA ROUSE. (TIIIS COURT OF PROPRIETORS. ADJOURNED DEBATE ON THE AFFGHAN WAR. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. LEWIS—Then the Board of Directors did not re commend it. He had no hesitation in saying that this was contrary to law.—(llear, hear.) It was contrary to the law of the country. He found by the 33d of George f the lIId., chap. 46, section 52, this provision, " That, inasmuch as extending the possessions in India was repugnant to the wishes, honour, and policy of the d nation, be it enacted that it shall not be lawful for the Governor-General without the express recommendation of the Court of Directors or the Secret Committee,. upon the authority of the said Board, to commence war in India, in any case, except where hostilities have actually been commenced, r preparation made for such commence ment, except in that ease, no war shall be declared or hostilities commenced in India." Now it was perfectly clear from that that the present operations were bad, unless any one would say that the Act of Geo. 111. was abolished by the recent Charter. By that Act the Go vernor-General could not commence war without the ex press command of the Board of Directors, or the ex press command of the Secret Committee, under the sanction of the Board of Control. Now, if that Com mittee had nothing to do with it, he (Mr. Lewis) asked if this war was not a gross violation of that Act ? (Hear, hear.) That Act of Parliament had been vio lated, as the war was carried on without the sanction of the Court of Directors or the Secret Committee. It was violated, in the second place, inasmuch as war had been declared when no hostilities had commenced. — (Hear, hear.) In the 3d and 4th of Will. IV., he found a clause in which it was provided that if war was bund necessary that the deliberation of the Board of Control ought to be secret—that the despatches shbuld be sent to the Secret Committee, to be signed and trans mitted to the Governer-General abroad without inspec tion. Now he thought no one would say that that clause repealed the. Act of Geo. 111. The CHAIRMAN said perhaps it would be better that the Clerk should read the clause to the meeting, re ferred to by the Hon. Proprietor—the clause in the 46th Geo. 111. The Clerk elm read the clause, which provided that if the deliberations of the Board of Control were const; dered necessary to be kept secret, that the despatches should be sent to the Secret Committee for signature, to be sent abroad without inspection. Mr. LEWIS considered that his observations applied with equal force as before.— (Hear, hear.) This was a war conducted without those parties who were inte rested in the welfare of India knowing one word about it. It was clear, then, that the Directors had no power to levy taxes for the support of the war in India. That was the position which he contended for, and which he thought he had proved to demonstration. The war was not only illegal, but contrary to the law of nations. What could be more unjust than to make war upon a nation, not for any real or supposed injury in flicted on us by them, but because there was a bare pos sibility that that nation, at present in a state of friendly relations towards us, might at some future period—God only knew when—enlist itself on the side of an other nation hostile, to us. Such a proceeding was, as he had observed, contrary to the spirit and letter Of the law of nations. The Hon, Proprietor quoted Grotius, among others of the most erhinent jurists, in support of his opinion. And went on to-contend against what he considered the in justice of imposing the burden of the expense of the war on the people of India. With respect to the future policy of the war, he trusted that mercy would mark their conquests, and that nothing like revenge should be evinced in our in tercourse with the natives. He concluded by stating the ;pleasure he had in supporting the motion. Toe CHAIRMAN said that before proceeding further with the debate, he would read a communication which he had to make to the Court, which he would have done previously had not an Hon. Proprietor whom be now saw present, been the ab sent.—(Hear.) On the occasion of the last de bate on the question of the, Hill Coolies. an Hon. Pro prietor (Mr. 0. Thompson) had stated that Sir R. Far quahar, the late Governor of the Mauritius had destroyed - himself. He (the Chairman) met the assertion at the time with a direct denial. He would now make no further observation on the matter, but read a letter on • the subject from the son of that lamented gentlssrnan. (The Chairman here read the letter denying :that there was any truth in the assertion rela tive to ins late father which had been made by the Hon. Troprietor. The letter enclosed three certificates frorri the physicians and relatives attendant on Sir T. Far quhar during his last illness and death. Those certifi cates which were corroborative of the statements in the letter, were also read to the Court by the Chairman.) Mr. THOMPSON expressed his regret at having inflicted any pain, as his assertion must have Alone, on the relatives of the deceased gentleman, respecting. whom lie made that erroneous statement. The impression on his mind relative to this matter had res-ulted from a conversation which he had had many years n e e with Sir T. F. Buxton on the subject. He now apo no'eise.i for having suffered himself to make an assertion however true he then believed it to be, was cal culated ta give such pain to most deserving perso nages, trusted the Court would accept his apology. The Cuai:sataN said that after what had fallen from the Hon. Proprietor, he trusted that the subject would be suffered to drop, and would be revived no more. 'The business before the Court was then resumed, when Mr. Fielder said that having looked over the fourteci Charter papers his conviction was that the war was illegal. • The Hon. Proprietor their pro ceeded to read some extracts from a letter of Sir Charles Grant, addreesed to the Court of Directors at the time -when the renew:al of the Company's Charter was under discussion, and when the Right Honourable Gentle man was President of the Board of Control. In that letter Sir' Charles Grant assured the Company, on the part of the Government of that day, that the rights oe t he proprietors should be respected ; he stated that their s -evenue then was in a most flourishing condition, and the, be believed that, under proper management, it would alsvaa - s be equal to the expenditure. Now he (Mr. Fieldeiro contended that those promises could not be realised, if ti's British Government were to saddleln dia with an expenseof 8,000,000/. for carrying on an un happy and a ruinous war. In his opinion there was but one course to be pursuA nam o Y,:that the whole ex penses of the Affghan expedition hould be borne, not by the natives of India, but by Ihe people of this country. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON rose and said that he felt fully the - vast importance of the question then be fore them, in a material and moral point of view. He was aware that by the terms of the motion the dLcussion was necessarily con fined to . a question of pounds, shillings, and • pence— to the question who were the .parties to bear the ex penses of a war of aggression waged against ,the Aff ghans and their country in Central Asia ? But he -thought that they were first bound to make themselves familiar with the history of that war, and all the t oaterial facts connected with it, ere,. they voted I ron the question then under their consideration. j-ioa- ; stood the facts ? The war had been waged against a eLuntry containing about 14,000,000 of inhabitants. What ha: been the result of that war ? These people had been sentenced, as a nation, to dnath ; and the Bri tish authorities had executed that sentence. They had driven a ruler from his throne ; they had occupied e co untry ; they had made the inhabitants tri- Lutar:es they had razed cities, towns, and for tri saes ; they had inveigled mountain cheftains and thrown them into prison. The representatives of British power ,had acted most unprovokedly, unjustly, lowards the most friend ly tr in the and perfidiously' . (Led inflamed among the natives a more country. They than common ha. Ved—a religious hatred, the most • fierce and implacAle of all hatred. They had inflamed the hatred :if the inhabitants of a country 900 miles•in length, by,:ts many in breadth. The great stieestion-was, whether ti. , e• war had been legally under takein, whether right and justice were upon our side. The question was whether the war was one of which the metions of the earth could approve or was it one which bore the appearance of a piratical war, where every death occasioned was murder in the sight of God. The mseting had not concluded when our report left.] ELECTION COMMITTEES. (T HIS DAY.) SOUTHAMPTON. The Committee appointed to inquire into the proceed ings of the late election for Southampton, met this day a t twelve o'clock, The Hon. J. S. WORTLEY in the Chair. After the Committee assembled the room was cleared, and Th e CHAIRMAN suggested that the proper course to pursve would be to continue the examination of Mr. .u, and to confine his examination to the allegations contained in his petition. Mr. B.,sEit said the course be intended to pursue was to proceed with the case he had on hand, and then go on with thee.gt neral facts relating to the last and preceding elections' fir the borough of Southampton. Mr. AIACKAY informed the Committee that Mr. Hearn was appointed by Mr. Abraham and the other petitioner as their 2.g-J,lt. With regard to himself,. n the h Comm n ittee excluding . i , o the ground tr,iat he was a witness, he thought m that Mr. Baker in:ght he called on to say whether he would be produced f.s a le itness. Mr: BitliEß•said that Mr.- Mackay presented himself as a witues;, awl that he 'offered himself as such in his own case: The Co wICITTEE were of opinion that Mr. Mackay could not b, present. Mr. Wret t was then called, and his examination was pro - 2eeded n ith. lie stated on the last day, that Mr. .John Hunt And Mr. Coulson .called upon him, at the request of Mr. Abrahams, -relative to Whit marsh. He called upon Whitmarsh, and after wards upon .kbraliams. He told Abrahams that Wititnuirsb, wonkd not vote for less than 20L, and that he would hot, on his ow - u responsibility, guarantee it to him. Mr. Abraham answored—" We must have Whit-_ marsh, and any arrangement you make will be fulfilled." We then went to Whitt,larsh and secured him for 201. Whitmarsh fixed that sum, and said, he would not vote for less. .Mr. Whitmarsh and the ,Piliells went to poll together, and Mr. Whitmarsh said .We will all poll for the same. After Whitmarsh polled they went ihto a tavern, and remained there for a fe WRatutes, after Which they returned to the Castle, amd in a . private room ther e he g ave tile 20/. to Mr. bibitirsh, in the presence of Mr. John Bennett Luce, the, landlord of the Castle Hotel. To Mr. not aware that the Whig Harty offered any money to Whitmarsh. He received money from the Finance Committee, between SOL and 601. Knows a person named Twyford ; did not know him previous to the last election ; Mr. Abrahams told him to go to Twyford, as he uaderstood he wanted 51. He met T yford and introduced himself to him by mentioning Mr. Abrahams' name. He said he knew Mr. Abraham's very well. He (witness) said that he understood he wanted 51. Twyford answered he did. Witness told him he would give him 5L He went to Abrahams, and he got his signature , as a guarantee to the Finance Committee, that the 5L was to be paid. Here is Mr. Abraham's signature. The witness here handed in a small book to the Committee. He did not pay Twyford. He had other applications for larger sums. At his suggestion an application was made to Mr. Ball, a woollen-draper, and one of the finance Committee, for more money. Mr. Ball came himself in consequence of that communication. He saw Mr. Ball give 71. to Mr. Wyatt, the town-crier. He was not an elector. Does not know what the money was for. He then went to the Portswood, with Mr. Ball, to a voter named Russell. Mr. Ball and Russell had a private conversation. He be lieves it was for the purpose of giving him a bribe. When he came back from Portswood, Twyford had voted, and lie came to witness the next day and asked for the 51. He referred him to Mr. Mackay, and Twy ford told him that lie had seen Mr. Mackay, and that lie was satisfied. To Mr. Shiel.—Saw Abrahams sign the book himself. The entry . was, " Thos. Twyford, and opposite was attached " A. Abrahams." Mr. SHIEL—I see " paid " attached to several names in this book. Are these the persons who, of your knowledge, received money. - Witness—The - word paid is not my writing, it is the writing of Mr. Duncombe the Member for Finsbury. The witness then proceeded to detail other cases of bribery. Mr. Redwards received 51., and Charles Houghton received 121. They voted for Lord Bruce and Mr. Mostyn. During the proceedings before the late Committee, Mr. Deacon, the Town Clerk of South ampton, and an active Conservative partisan, and a Mr. Brown were conversing together. 'This was the first day that he (Wren) was examined. Mr. Brown, after the conversation, came to him, and said, " Now, Wren, if you Make Mr. Martyn's election secure, I am authorised to offer you a check for 1001." He (witness) said he had but one course to pursue, and he refused it. He saw all the persons, mentioned in the list handed to him, acting on the working Committee for Lord Bruce and Mr. Martyn. He saw the' following persons on the Finance Committee :—Messrs. Flicker, W. H. Mackay, W. Rouse Mabson, Mr. J. Ball, and Mr. J. Lisle, Town-sergeant. On the day previous to the polling, he handed in a list of the names to whom he gave money.. Mr. Mackay objected to the sum of money given to Whitmarsh. He (Wren) said that he gave the money under the au thority of Mr. Abrahams. His list was compared with others, and one of the Members of the Committee said that the average price was 81., and that the money would be sent to him. When he left the Committee he met Mr. Lisle who told him that he should have the money. He received the money. It was between 501 and 601. He distributed it in the following wages :—To Whit marsh. 20/. ; to Houghton, 121. ; to Wyatt, for an elec tor called Fry, 101; to Redwards, 5/. ; to Paskins and Andrews, 31. each. He was out of pocket 2/. of his own money by the election. He heard Coulson say that there was 5,2001. spent at the last election by the Con servative side. To Mr. Shiell—ls of opinion that the Whigs practised - extensive bribery at the late election ; heard a person say that they spent 4,000/. at it. There was a General Conservative Association at one time in Southampton. It was broken up in consequence of some suggestion that aWard Association would be bet ter ; .heard Mr. Stebling say that Mr. Fleming made the suggestion. The object of the Ward Association was to forward the Conservative interests at the election for corporate officers and Members of Parliament. They met at the housas of such publicans as were mem bers; at one house one night, and at a different house another night. Recollects a Conservative festival in Southampton on the 12th of October, 1840. Several free tickets were issued for that festival. The price of a ticket was a guinea. He distributed about twelve tickets. Sir William Heathcote presided at that festival. There were other dinners given. Almost every house in Southampton was open for the purpose of treat ing. Is of opinion that three hundred persons received money on both sides at the last election. He knows Southampton well. Knows a good deal of pre vious elections. He was a working committee-man. The most expensive election that he recollects to have taken place for Southampton was that of 1830. In 1832 he voted for the Whigs. The system was, if possible, growing worse every day. It was customary to employ a great number of persons as colourmen and chairmen. The general price for them was 21. Was never before the last election engaged in acts of bribery. To the CHAIRMAN-It was in consequence of the great excitement of the last election, that he lent himself to those acts of bribery ; and also because persons, in a more responsible situation than he, asked him to do so. After his return home from the late Southampton Com mittee, proceedings were taken against him by Mr. Mackay. He was sued fora debt of 11.45., due to a person named Squib. Mr. Usher was Squib's attorney previously to this. Mr. Mackay did not give him any notice before the writ was served upon him, the costs were 11. Bs. lie since paid the debt to Mr. Usher, and he offered his costs to Mr. Mackay who refused it unless he paid the debt over again. Mackay knew hei paid the debt to Mr. Usher, wrote to him to that effect. To Mr. SHIEL—Was offered 100/. as a bribe during the late proceedings before the Southampton Committee, and attributes the persecution of which he is the object to the fact that he did not take that bribe, and because he would not perjure himself betore the Committee. Pre viously to his coming to London, he had a conversation with Mr. Mackay relative to the proceedings which were to take place before the Committee, and the indemnity ,which was to be afforded to witnesses. He told Mr. Mackay he should act in an open fair manner, and Mr. Mackay said he would go for six months to gaol before he would divulge anything. Mr. Fleming passed by at the time, and Mr. Mackey left him. He has been placarded and carricatured in every possible way since the late proceedings. - Mr. HEARN was about to examine Mr. Wren, but it being a quarter to four, the Committee adjourned to twelve o'clock to-morrow. BELFAST. The Belfast Inquiry Committee stands a ljourned to-motrow at twelve o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the Board of Guardians of Newberry in Berkshire against the rating of workhouses. The Noble Duke ex pressed his coincidence in the prayer of the petition. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from a place in Wichlow, against the contemplated measure fur altering the Medical Charities in Ireland. The Earl of BANDON presented petitions from seve ral parishes in the county of Cork, against the national system of education in Ireland. Lord DENMAN presented petitions from societies of Baptists and other Dissenters, in Yorkshire and Cam bridge, praSing that affirmations might be substituted for oaths. PUBLIC-HOUSES' BILL. On the motion of the Earl of STRADBROKE, this Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord MOUNTCASHEL gave notice that he should postpone until to-morrow his notion relative to certain returns connected with the Medical Charities (Ireland). Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, signed by varties affected by the tariff, complaining that the tariff had been passed without a repeal of the Corn-laws. AFFIRMATION BILL. Lord DENMAN rose to move the second reading of this Bill. His object was to provide a i etnedy for or defect in the administration of justice as it now existed in this country. The evil consequences of the present system, which led in many instances to tho suppression of truth, were often felt in civil, and still more seriously in criminal cases. Individuals, notoriously guilty, had on many occasions escaped the punishment due to their crimes, because the law required that evidence should not be received unless it were preceded by a particular sanction, which wounded the religious feelings of those who came to depose. Many were of opinion that crime was on the increase in this country — that a portion of our literature had taken a most unfor tunate turn, tending to inflame the passions and to deprave the understandings of the working classes. However that might be, if it were true, as he feared it was, that crime was largely increasing amonr , us, it was the more necessary that they should take every means in their power for its suppression. The sect in whose favour the Bill he had introduced was meant principally to apply, was the Baptists a most respectable body, who amounted to about 100,000 in this country, and to some thousands in Scotland. A large portion of that sect did not object to the taking of oaths ; but there were many of them who felt that objection, and almost all of them were anxious • for an alteration in the present law. Again, there were the Independents, also a numerous sect, many of whom entertained the same scruples with regard to the taking of oaths. Under the present system those parties, who, acting according to their conscientious convictions, forfeited their recognizances, or underwent a heavy fine, or were sent, perhaps to gaol instead of the culprit, who was screened from punish ment. Was that a fitting state of things ? A man was sent to prison for refusing to take an oath, and yet he saw perhaps a Quaker or a Moravian mount the witness-box to dispose of the lives and fortunes of their fellow-creatures. The man's evidence was lost that evidence might have been the the means of saving an innocent man. If a letter were written to the Secre t ivy of State disclosinir and proving this, would he allow punishment to follow ? He (Lord D.) had received a book from a gentleman in America, in which it was de tailed the persecution of the quakers in Massachusetts, man y being actually put to death. The Govern ment of Rhodes Island at last took a di&rent view, and • they suffered the . Quaker simply t o d ec l are ; plane now fasstaheeh people . were beginning to l oa th th a t u sets) on account of these persecutions. In the Act of King Merles the Second it was provided that Quakers should be transported for life for the hei nous offence of refusing to make depositions on oath. But they triumphed over all this, and in the reign of William the Third they were allowed to be received as witne.ses in civil cases. Since that time they had con tinual advantages. The Moravians also, who were not a sect, but an ancient episcopal church, were admitted to the same privilege, as ,lso were a sect of recent origin. N ow he never heard that in any instance the privilege bad been abused, and he therefore asked the House to extend the privilege to all those who entertained conscientious objections to an oath. He knew that many pe(ple sup posed that there were those who had great regard for an • oath, and cared nothing at ail for truth. He could not see any reason for thht opinion. On the other hand it could not be denied that there were persons who were at all times ready to come into a Court of Justice to de pose to.the falsehood upon oath. There was great reli ance placed upon the fact which was of frequent occur- , rence in the Courts of justice, namely, that when a witness was going on in a career of falsehood, he was frequently checked ty being reminded by Counsel that he was on his oath. But in such cases he was checked, not by his regard for the sanctity of an oath, but by his apprehension that he should incur the penalty of transportation for perjury. He had now stated a case which he considered would be full of hardship and in justice to a large number of most deserving men. Be believed that the remedy which he had proposed was efficacious and safe. It. had been suggested that there ough to be some registration or some precaution against the abuse of the law by people coming forward oc casionally, and claiming the exemption.—(Hear, hear.) But, as he saw no danger, he could propose no precaution. The persons on whose behalf he brought forward this measure, would receive the boon with gratitude at the hands of Parliament, whatever might be the precautions with which it should be accompanied. The Earl of WICKLOW had not intended to follow the Noble and Learned Lord, but as no one seemed in clined to rise to oppose the second reading of this Bill, he felt it to be' his duty to do so. He was much sar prised to find that the Noble and Learned Lord brought so few reasons why the law upon this sub 'ect should be changed. The Noble Lord said that a privilege had been extended to Quakers, Meravians, and Separatists ; but he (Earl of Wicklow) did not think that that privilege had been extended to any but any but Qvakers. The Noble and Learned Lord must recollect that the objec tions to taking the oath of a Quaker were inhe rent in his creed, but the Noble and Learned Lord admitted that such was not the case with respect, to those for whom he pleaded. The cases cited by the Noble and Learned Lord were imaginery ; he had proved none. If this Bill; passed, the: consequence would be that one half the religious community would object to taking an oath. He (the Earl of Wicklow) would rather vote for the abolition of oaths altogether than this Bill. This Bill made a distinction between oaths and affirmations, exceedingly prejudicial to public justice. The Bishop of LONDON said he did not know whe ther he could makeup his mind at once as to giving a vote upon this Bill. It was a question respecting the scruples of a number of persons and sects. He felt it justice to the Noble and Learned Lord to say, that these cases of scruples were not exaggerated by him. 's He knew that these eases were not imaginary. Be knew many him self. He knew one, which was the case of a member of that profession to which the Noble Lord was an orna ment. But he (the Bishop of London) thought this Bill took too wide a range. He hardly thought they were yet in a state to give this question proper consideration. (LEFT SPEARING.) •' /~'' .-t- -.- V- THE SUN, LONDON', MO ND AT .EVENTNO JUNI! 27, 1842. the Han. and Learned Member for Bath was Chairman, he was informed that though a Methber-a life House he coud not be admitted ; he begged to ask, whether the Committee were justified in issuing that order, and whe ther it was not a breach c f the privileges of that House ? Mr. ROEBUCK said the lion. Member might have saved himself some trouble, if he had asked whether such an order had been issued or not. No person atttnding . on that Committe had received any such instructions it was a misconception on the part of the person to whom the Hon. Member applied. Mr. COCHRANE said, on applying foradmission, he was told that no person was allowed to enter unless he was a member of the Commitea. He certainly added, that if he (Mr. Cochratie) would send in his name, he might be admitted. He did not do that, as he did not want to ask any personal favour of the Hon. and Learned Member. Mr. ROEBUCK said, in order to set himself right he might state that one Hon. Member had come into the Committee that very day, asking if Members of the House were to be admitted. He was informed that the Committee was at that moment under deliberation, and that the Committee had come to the unanimous conclusion that it was for the interest of the inquiry that it should be conducted, if possible, with only the witness under examination present.' That. resolution was read to the Hon. Member when he applied for ad mission. Major BERESFORD said he had sent in a special message, requesting to know if he might be present at the inquiry ; the Committee deliberated on the subject, and he was told that he could not be present. —(Hear, hear.) He then stated that he had applied for admittance as a Member of Parliament, but chiefly as a person interested in the inquiry. About twenty mi nutes afterwards the Committee sent for him again, and he was then told that it was the unanimous con clusion of the Committee that the person under examination should alone be present. He entered into an argument to the effect that he claimed admittance chiefly as a matter of right, as a per son accused, who had a right to hear the evidence adduced against him. This was the right of the greatest criminal, even of one who might be pronounced a felon on the next day.—(Hear, hear.) He claimed to be pre sent on the ground that evidence might be adduced which he might be enabled to refute, while, if be was absent, it was brought against' him in the dark, and his character might be calumniated behind his back, without the power of reinstating it ; he might be stabbed behind his back by anonymous enemies.— (Hear, hear.) He was bound to_ state that the manner of the Honourable Member and of the Committee was kind and courteous in a great degree, bnt they decidedly stated the principle by which persons were excluded. If he insisted on his right as a Member of Parliament, he was told he might be present. He (Major Beresford) then stated that having laid his reasons before that Committee, and having been refused as a principle, he would not avail himself of his right as a Member, as if he did so he considered he should be entering the room under false pretences—(Cheers) — and under those circumstances he should decline enter ing the room. At the same time he felt bound to state, as far as his own examination went, that although it was most stringent and searching, yet it had been conducted in a most gentlemanlike manner. Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE thought the House would agree with him in opinion that some explanation was necessary, as from what had occurred there had been great room for misconception. • Mr. YORKE could confirm the statement of the Hon. Member for Bath. It was not the intention of the Committee to. condUct the inquiry as though a charge had been made against any individual ; and the Com mittee had come to the determination unanimously that, out of delicacy to all. the parties concerned, it would be best that the inquiry should be conducted with closed doors. The application of the Hon. Member for admission had been met precisely in the manner in which the Hon. Member had stated, and the Hon. Member having been refused admittance as "a party concerned, but having had admit tance granted to him as a Member of the House, said that he considered it useless to assert his right as a Member of the House, and retired. The question of, refusing ad mittance to a Member of the House had never even been raised before the Committee. Mr. ROEBUCC moved that the documents which he had presented should be printed for the use of Members only.—Agreed to. AMERICAN SLAVES IN CANADA. On the motiou for the reading of the Orders of the Day being put, Mr. HAWES wished to ask the Secretary of the Colonies, if it was true that on the 17th January last, the authorities of the United States of America had de manded of the authorities of Upper Canada that' they should deliver up a person of colour, named Nelson Haggett, as a fugitive from justice, it being well understood that a fugitive from justice meant nothing more than a runaway slave. No charge was made against the man ' - except that he was a fu2itive from justice. The demand was acceded to, and Nelson Haggett was taken t 3 Arkansas, and lodged in gaol. He (Mr. Hawes) :wished to know, whether this statement was cerrect, and what was the policy intended to be pursued by Her Majesty's Govern ment in similar cases. - Lord STANLEY said the Hon. Gentleman was not correct in his statement. It was perfectly true that an application had been made to the Canadian authorities to deliver up the individual in question as a fugitive from justice. He was charged generally with highway robbery. There was an act of the Province of Upper Canada, authorising the Governor to deliver up to the American fugitives , from Justice, charged with certain specifid crimes, on being furnished with the warrant fer..the committal of such person, and also on being furnished with a copy of the depositions, - provided it should apppear from those depositions, that the person so de manded had been guilty of would have been a offence against the law of Canada. On the first appli cation made for the delivery of this man Haggett, these documents were wanting, and the Governor refused to deliver him up. A second application was made, accom panied by the proper documents, and from the de positions it appeared that the man had actually committed a robbery on a person not Ids master, and he was accordingly delivered up and imprisoned in Arkansas. The question- as to the propriety of delivering him up had been submitted by the Governor to the Executive Council, and, by their advice, the man had been delivered up. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. A messenger from the Bank of England appeared at the bar, with a return furnished by the Bank, according to an order of the House. DUKE OF ARGYLL'S ESTATE BILL. The Duke of Argyll's Estate Bill was reported. The Reports on Lesbaizeille's Naturalization Bill, and Rouma's Naturalization Bill were also received. • GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from Newfound land. against the Bill now before the House for the-better regulation of the government of that colony. POOR-LAWS. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented petitions from the town of Birmingham, in favour of the continuance of the Local Acts of that town for the management of the poor. An HoN. MEMBER on the Ministerial side presented a petition from fourteen parishes in the Montgomery and Pool district, in favour of the Local Acts for the manage ment of the poor. EMPLOYMENT IN COLLIERIES. Mr. E. B. DENISON presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, in favour of Lord Ashley's Bill for regulating the employment of children in collieries. POOR-LAWS. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from the rate payers of the township of Wighifl, in Yorkshire, highly approving of the constitution and working of the unions formed under the Gilbert Act, and against the principle of the Poor-law Bill, which takes away the control of the local guardians. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from John Brampton, and Betty, his wife, claiming redress of the House for cruelty practised to wards them by the Commissioners of Somerset House, by whom they had been discharged from their situations of Master and Matron of the Huddersfield workhouse. The Hon. Member concluded by giving notice that he would to-morrow move that the petition be printed with the Votes, as it was his intention to call the attention of the House to the subject of the petition, when the Hon. Member for Finsbury brought forward his motion for the postponement of the first clause of the New Poor law Bill. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented several peti tions from miners and otbers of Dewsbury, and other places in Yorkshire, against the passing of any Act for regulating the employment of women and children in mines. Lord ASHLEY presented- two petitions—one' from Woolwich, and the other from the calico maeufac turers of Manchester—in favour of a Bill fur regulating the hours of labour in factories. The NOBLE LORD presented petitions also from male and female workers in coal mines, employed in the neighbourhood of Wakefield, in favour of the Bill for re gulating the employment of females and children in mines. • BUILDINGS REGULATION BILL. The Report of the Committee on this Bill was brought up and laid on the table. ATHLONE ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House tthat the sureties of Patrick Kelly and other petitioners, complaining of an undue election for the borough of Athlone were unex ceptionable, MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE. . Mr ROEBUCK appeared at the bar, with a special report of the Committee appointed to inquire into certain compromises, and other corruptpractices, alleged to have taken place in several boroughs in connexion with the late general election. The report having been brought up, was read by the clerk at the table. It stated that the Committee, in pursuit of the inquiry for which th e y had been constituted, had found it necessary to issue a summons to. John Walter, Esq., to require his attendance before them, and that he should bring with him all let ters and documents relating to the election, or to his pe• tition against the return ; and all bills paid and unpaid on account of the late contest for the borough of Not tingham. The Committee received from Mr. Walter a letter declining to comply with the summons. The terms of the letter were, that Mr. Walter had to acknowledge the receipt of a summons with the signature of J. A. Roebuck, Chairman of the Committee. Although he would be at all times desirous to obey the summons of the House or its Committees, and would be glad to communicate to the Committee which might affect no one but himself ; yet when he con sider the power which the Committee possessed over those who came before it, and further the influence of the Chairman over the proceedings of the Com mittee, he begged to point out to the Com mittee the position in which he would be placed if he. were brought before a tribunal, at the head of which was Mr. Roebuck, who in his place in Parliament, on the 14th of September last, had passed a scan dalous and unfounded reflexion upon him (Mr. Walter) as the author of an article which had appeared in the Times newspaper, and of which article he (Mr. Walter) did not know who the author was, nor had he ever authorised any one to write that article, or insert it in the Times. On that occasion Mr. Roebuck used the following unbecoming expression. "that if any Members were attacked by the Times, and did not wish the attack to be repeated, he would recommend him at once to horsewhip the Proprietor, Mr. Walter." He (Mr. W.) trusted, therefore, that he would not be supposed to show a disregard, to the orders of the House, when he declined to place himself is the power of a Court, so constituted and presided . over by a person who had expressed such undisguised hostility towards him. Even if lie should - be forcibly compelled to appear before the Committee, he should feel. bound to decline to answer questions put by a tribunal so constituted. At the same time he assured the Committee that he did not possess any letters or other documents relating to the election, or the petition, nor any accounts of the expenses paid or unpaid. Yet as he was anxious to afford the Committee every information, without subject ing himself to personal insult, lie begged to state that Mr. Francis Holmes of Nottingham had been his agent on both the occasions when lie was a candidate for that borough, and that gentleman was in possession of all l t e i o t n t e s r , N a v n a d s d th a e te p d ro ti c l e 2 e 4 d t i h ng j s u t t h ie a , t the informati o n an d d ocumen t s - connec t e d w ith the elec grlB4e2w. ou to t n of ree th e e i m ring ;h i i s s e n r e t n ed s ; a a lrb, s ,u tt t h h oe e ny tformerhr:cemeetingoe received e , a requiring os efctho second d Committee Mr. al letter fromWAnt e r t r r h : s e w.afollow ingt letter the Committee i s s ue d a secon d summons i n t h e same a t e t n e d r, still declining to attend, andstating that he had no other answer to give than that whieh-vvas communicated in his foriner letter. This letter was read in the Committee at their meeting on the 25th inst., and they accordingly re solved that the two letters. should be reported to the House, that the House might take such steps thereon as to it might seem fitting. Mr. ROEBUCK then moved that Mr. Walter - be called to the bar to-morrow. • • " Mr. WALLACE, as we understood, seconded the mo tion.—A greed to. Mr. BLACKSTONE would suggest to the lion. and Learned Member that his motion should be that Mr. Walter should be called to the bar forthwith, as he be • lieved he was in attendanc?. CASE OF - MR. ST. GEORGE. Mr..SHEIL gave notice that on going into Committee of Supply he should move for the papers in Mr. St. George's case. SYRIA. Dr. BOWRING deferred the question of which he had given notice, with respect to. Syria, to a future day. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice of his intention next session to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the law with respect to Municipal Corporations. BRIBERY BILL. Mr. M. MILNES gave notice of his intention in Committee on the Bribery No. 2 Bill, to move the omis sion of the clause which disfranchised a voter for life who had taken a bribe, and to substitute in its place a clause disfranchising the voter for ten years. MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE—RIGHT OF MEMBERS TO BE PRESENT. Mr. COCHRANg rase and said, on presenting him self at the door of the room of the Committee, of-which POOR-LAWS. Mr. GILL begged to remind the Right Honourable Gentleman, the Secietrry of State for the Home Department, that a deputation from Plymouth on the subject of the Poor•laws, had requested an inter view with him, which he (Sir James Graham) had declined to receive. He (Mr. Gill) had understood that since that the Right Hon. Barone) had received deputa tions from Bristol and Canterbury on tqe subject of the Poor-laws Amendment Act. He wished. to ask the Right Hon. Baronet if this statement was correct, and if so, on what grounds he had refused to see the depu tation from Plymouth ? Sir J. GRAHAM said that it was perfectly true that he had received the deputations from Bristol and Canter bury. It appeared that 'a misconception existed in the minds of parties living in those places as to the operation of the law on the local Acts. He had received those deputations for the purpose of . removing that misconception. With respect to the Plymouth Board of Guardians, he had some time before received a memorial from those gentlemen, setting torth their views of the Poor-law Amendment Act, ,so that no mis apprehension could exist in that case. One part of the memorial of the Plymouth Guardians, related to the relief given by them to ths in habitants of the Channel Islands, and on that point he had referred to the Poor-law Com missioners as being more likely to affbrd them the proper explanation. He must exercise seine discretion with regard to receiving deputations from the Board of Guardians, and he could assure the Hon. Gentleman that it was the necessities of the public se: vice alone which had prevented him from receiving the Plymouth depu teflon, towards which he had not meant the slightes disrespect. IRISH STAMP ACT. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL asked the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he in tended to introduce the Irish Stamp Act. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sad that on the first vacant day he would introduce the mea sure: POOR LAWS. Captain PECIIELL asked the.„Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State f6e the Home Department, if he had declined to receive a deputation from Brighton on the subject of the Nor-laws. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he did not know exactly what took place at the deputation to which the Hon. Gentleman referred. He (Sir J. Graham) had had the honour of seeing the Hon. and Gallant Member at the head of a deputation on the subject of the Gilbert Unions, which rendered him rather cautious in future as to such interviews.—(Loud laughter.) Captain PECHELL wished to know if the Right Hon. Baronet had declined the interview with the deputation from the Brighton Board of Guardians. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he would refer to what took place, and give an answer to-morrow. Misbelief was that he did decline the interview. Mr. HAWES said that with reference to the case of Nelson Haggart, respecting whom he had addressed the Noble Lord, he wished to know if the Noble Lord had any objection to lay the correspondence on the subject be fore the House, together with a copy of the Colonial Act uponwhich the surrender of Nelson Haggart took place. Lord STANLEY said he did not apprehend that there could be any objection. ,Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to know whether the Right Hon. Baronet could state to the House when the Tariff Bill and the report of the Customs Acts would be brought up. • - Sir PEEL said he should very much like to bring them in ht once, but he could not say when, owing to the Poor-law Bill.. It was of importance that the Bill should be tent to the House ofLords. The•Honse generally sat till an advanced period of the night, and he thought that full attention could be given at that time, and he thought it would be better to proceed with the - consideration of the subject after twelve o'clock than at any other. Con o. siderin the state of the public busine ss, he ho p ed the Hon. M em b er (M Brotherton) would forbear fr o m his usual cu s t om ; a nd t h ro w n o difficulty in the way of the proceedings. • After a few words f rom A • BROTH TON, which did nut reach us Mr. MILNER GIBSON submitted to the Right Hon. Baronet, whether it would not be the better course to ' take the Custo ms Bill first, as he would thus ensure. the Tariff passing without delay. Besi des, it. was most dis agreeable for lion. Members, whe n disc ussing the Poet - - law Bill, to be told that by giving a dispassionate and full discussion to that Bill, they were impeding the progress of another Bill. Their arguments were thus in a manner kept in d ures se—under a sort of pressure. He - .would; therefore, ask, whether it was not desirable to take • - • - Customs Bill first. He did not make this suggestion from hostility to the Now Poor-law. He was by no means op posed to that measure ; at the same time, he thought it right to allow every facility fur a full and dispassionate discussion of it. Sir R. PE '&l4 said that when he had spoken of the arrangement, on Eriday night, he was under and engage ment to the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) to bring on the Bribery Bill to-morrow in preference to any other business. He had understood from the Noble Lord that they thould go on with the Bribery Bill to-morrow pro forma, and take it at some future day—either on Friday or Monday next. Under those cir cumstances, he would propose, whatever might be the progress of the Poor-law Bill, that they should begin with the completed Tariff to-morrow, and then go on with the Poor-law afterwards. If there was no objection to this course, they would begin with the Tariff to-morrow at half-past Four o'Clock. After a few words from Mr. T. DUNCOMBE and Mr. LABOUCHERE, the conversation dropped. PRESENCE ( Pt\ R'FIES BEFORE 'IHE COM PROMISE COMMITTEE. Mr. ESCOTT wished to know from the I-lon. Member for Bath, whether in the future proceedings before the Committee of which he was Chairman, all persons, whether Members of that Ilouse or not, would have a right of being present during the examination of wit nesses who made charges against them. Mr. ROEBUCK said that the mode of proceeding adopted by the Committee was that if anything fell from a witness touching another party, communication was made to him of what had been said, and he was asked if he wished to make any statement in explana tion. That was considered by the Committe to be the best mode of conducting a very invidious inquiry. And the House, having entrusted them with such in quiry, he hoped that it would also trust to their dis cretion as to the presence of parties. BRIBERY BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he would move the Bribery Bill, pro forma, to-morrow. Mr. SHEIL gave notice that he would abandon the instruction to the Committee upon the Bribery Bill, of weich he had given notice. TRIAL OF ELECTION PETITIONS. In answer to a question from Lord MAHON. Sir R. PEEL said that he would move on Friday the 14th of July, for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Bill for the regulation of the trial of election petitions. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. ,Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved the resumption of the debate on the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Mr. FIELDEN then rose to oppose the committal of the Bill, but, in consequence of the noise oc casioned by Members leaving the House, and the low tone in which the Hcn. Member spoke, it was almost impossible to catch a single seutenee. We, how ever, understood him to say, that he gave the measure hiis determined opposition, because he was convinced the people had become disgusted with the Bill. He entered into various details, showing the harsh working of the workhouse test, and other provisions of the Poor-law Act. The Right Hon. Baronet had said, that if the country was generally opposed to the Poor-law Bill, there would have been more than a few petitions pre sented against it ; that there had been petitions with signatures only amounting to 25,000 presented against the measure. Now he (Mr. Fielden) must say that there had been more than a few petitions presented against the Bill. The Hon. Gentleman here entered into a detail of the number of petitions, with their signatures, which were :presented to the House this session against the Poor-law Bill, but he spoke in such a low tone as to be quite inaudible in the gallery. [LEFT SPEAKING.] TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. 611: O'CLOCK. GOODWOOD CUP. 6 to 1 agst The Squire 8 to 1 agst Nautilus 9 to I agst Middleham. THE STARES. 8 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle 14 to 1 agst Una—taken 14 to 1 agst Arnagill—taken LIVERPOOL CUP. 7 to 1 agst Heslington 9 to 1 agst Forester 12 to 1 agst any other. ST. LEGER. 6 to 4 on the field. CRICKET MATCH-(THIS DAY.) THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX. The great match, which is played annually, between eleven picked gentlemen and players of the county :of Sussex and a similar number selected from the Maryle bone Club and Ground, was commenced this afternoon at Lord's, in the presence of an immense assemblage of spectators, including several distinguished members of the hunt ton, among whom we noticed the Earl of Veru lum, Viscount Folkstone, Lord Frederick Beauclerc, and Lord William Beresford, and a number of mem bers of the Metropolitan, Suburban, aud Provin cial Clubs. The match excited very great interest of a speculative nature, the betting being very brisk. At the commencement of the game ti2e odds were all in favour of Sussex, which is to be attributed to the number of professionals engaged to play on their side, as com pared with the Club, viz., seven on the part of the county and only three on the side of the Alarylebone Club. Subjoined is a list of the amateurs and players :• 3IARYLEBONE CLUE. COUNTY OF SUSSEX. Sir Frod. Bathurst Mr. C. Barton Mr. T. A. Anson G. L. Langdon E. Bayley ' E. Napper R. Garth C. Taylor 1?. W. Keate PLAYERS. R. Kynaston Box R. Nicholson Dean F. Thackeray Havt kips PLAYERS. Hodson Bailey Litlywhite Barker Millyard Hillyer Pieknell _ _ The Couiity, having won the toss, went in first, and exhibited some beautiful play. They were put out after scoring 90 runs. They were now freely backed at odds of 5 to 4, with but few takers. The Marylebone gentlemen and their players then went in, but their wickets were lowered in rapid suc cession, and it was evident that the Club was over matched, their adversaries being too much for them, the playing of the professionals telling fearfully to their disadvantage. At a quarter-past five their last man went in, but he was bowled out after obtaining only a few runs. On the scoring papers being cast up it was found that the Marylebone eleven had only marked 44 runs, being in a minority on the first innings of 46 runs. The backers and the friends of the County were now more confident of their success than before, and eagerly offered 3 to 1 on them, while the supporters of the Club did not evince the former anxiety to take the odds ; but, nevertheless, there was no paucity of takers, as it was expected that they would " come out" in the second innings. We shall defer our remarks on the play until after the conclusion of the match. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE OXFORD, in ttE 25.—The subjects for the University Prizes for next year are as under:— _ THE THREE CHANCELLOR'S PRIZES. Latin Essay, " Qusenam fuerit publieortun eertaminum spud antiquos vis et utilitas.". Latin Verse, " Venetite." English E.,say, " The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Feudal System " SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE. English Verse, Cromwell." THEOLOGICAL PRIZE ESSAY. " The Style and Composition of the Writings of the New Testament are in no way inconsistent with the belief that the authors of them were divinely inspired." MRS. DENVER ' S THEOLOGICAL PRIZE ESSAYS. " On the Divinity of the Holy Ghost." " On the Influence of Practical Piety in promoting the tem poral and eternal happiness of Mankind." The Lawrence collection of the drawings by Raffaelle and Michael Angelo will at length be added to the works of art at Oxford; the purchase has been effected by the Committee in consequence of the munificent additional subscription of 4,000/. by the Earl of Eldon, and by a reduction of 3,0001. by Messrs. Woodburn from the original price. The Rev. James A. Dunnage, of Brasennore College, has been . appointed Assistant Chaplain to the Tower of London. The Rev. F. W. Mant, of New Inn Hall, has been pre sented to the Rectory of Ballintoy. The Rev. Alexander 11. Bridges, of Oriel College, has been presented to the Vicarage of St. Mark's, Horsham, in the county of Sussex. The Master and Fellows of University Co!lege have pre tented the Rev. P. C. Claughton, of their Society, to the Rec tory of Elton, in the county of Huntingdon. The Rev. J. C. Priug, of New College, has been elected Chaplain to the Union at Headington, near Oxford. THE GENERAL DISTRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—ln times of digress like the present, surely it is the imperative duty of the Bishops, who are enjoying large incomes from the country, and seats in the House tpf Lords, to step for ward like men and Christians, if they expect it should be be lieved that they are sincere in their religious professions, and do their own duty, and also boldly point out to the aristo cratic part of the Legislature, that they are acting contrary to their duty to God and man, in roaiataininv those cruel and wicked laws by which the poor man is deprived of a market or his labour, and cannot obtain the least sustenance till the rich man has levied a heavy tax upon it to increase his enormous wealth. Nor are the clergy, in their respective parishes, less blameable for not lending their assistance to endeavour to re move such destructive enactments. if the dignitaries of the Church, blinded by what they consider their own interest, still choose to neglect their duty , the time may shortly come w h en the Almighty may make use of the People to call them to strict and just account. By inserting the above you will oblige a constant reader of your excellent paper, whg is, Sir, your obedient servant, W.' H. M. CLAUDET'S DAGUERREOTYPE.—An action has been lately tried by the Queen's Bench, brougt by Mr. Beard against M. Claudet, who has obtained so much celebrity for the instantaneous manner in which he p . rodoces exact likenesses, for the • purpose of restraining him from using the • patent obtained by the inventor of the process. The ground of ac tion was that Mr. Beard, having purchased from the inventor the original patent he was entitled to the sole profit therefrom. M. Claudet pleaded that he had purchased a subsequeia patent, which had been 'ob tained for a process by which the -likenesses were ren dered more perfoct. Upon this issue was joined, and M. - Claudet obtained a verdict. Baron Deffaudis, who had been sent from Paris with dispatches for the . King of the Belgians, arrived at Brus sels on Sunday night last. Finding that his 14Isjesty was at Ostend, the Baron proceeded there on Monday morning, but, before he reached the port, King Leopold was on his voyage to England, and M. Deffaudis returned to Brussels without ac complishing his mission. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THAMES-POLICE, ..... - - STEAM•BOAT John Graven, the master of the steam-boat, Waterman, No. 7, appled to Me. Broderip for a summons against Jain Stevens, the master of the. Prince of Wales, a Greenwich steamer, which i.as a'. various times during the season done considerable misch.ef on the river, ran down boats, and caused the immersion of s( veral persons in the water, who have narrowly escaped drowning. Graves stated that he was going down the river in charge of Waterman, No. 7, which was fitted with the patent paddles, and, as nearing the Tunnel Pier, Wapping, he stopped- and eased his vessel, and backed her a-stern with the 'nose towards the pier, the Prince of Wales came up with the tide- to-land her passeng ers at the pier, and upon seeing the Waterman, No. 7, the Captain waved his hand for the helm of the Prince to be put a-port, and hit the Waterman on the bow, and sliding along, struck the starboard paddle-box, and carried a great part of it away. The damage amounted to 41. 19s. 6d. But it was not so much in a pecuniary sense that he sought redress, but to protect his passengers-from the dangers of such collisions with a vessel notorious for her recklessness. He had also to complain of another sfecies of annoyance he re. ceived from the people connected with the Prince of Wales, which belonged to the Black Funnel Steam-boat Company, of Greenwich, who were likewise interested in the Greenwich "solid pier." He was a part owner of the floating pier at Garden Stairs, belonging to 120 watermen, and had taken an active part in favour of his brethren, and every time the Pi ince of Wales passed him on the river, the people on board were singing out, and using most scurrilous language. Mr BRODERIr : If the Thames police saw this. Prince of Wales steamer run foul of your boat, they must attend here and give evidence ; where is your vessel now ? Graves ; In the Commercial Dock, Sir, disabled ; two planks were cut. Mr. BKODERIP: I will grant you a summons against Ste vens, and hate the case heard. ANOTHER BLOW to OUR TRADE. By a very remarkable and disastrous coincidence, the intended enhancement of the Customs duties on manu factured goods in France and the United States is fol lowed by a similar proposition in the Prussian Com mercial League, which, if it should be carried < into effect, will perhaps be a severer blow to our foreign trade than it has experienced for many years. On ' Wednesday the intelligence reached Leeds, Bradford, and other towns of the West-Riding, that the Prussian Government intends to propose, at the meeting of Deputies from the States in the German Commercial League, to take place early in the month of July, at Stutgard, that the duties on all foreign woollens and worsted stuffs shall be raised from 30 dollars per cwt. to 50 .dollars per cwt., that is, from 41. 10s. to 7/. 10s. The proposed high rate of duty would be equivalent'to 50 per cent. ad valorem on the average ; and it would, we believe, amount to a prohibition on most kinds of worsted stuff goods. This, as our readers are aware, has been one of the most valuable branches of our foreign trade. The export of woollen cloths to the Ger man markets has for some years past been reduced almost to insignificance by the tariff in that country ; but that of worsted stuffs has been on the increase, so as in some degree to compensate to the nation for the loss of the woollen exports. If, howeve, the alteration now proposed should take place, the worsted stuff trade would receive a most severe blow, and, our woollen exports to Germany would alio be nearly annihilated. The cotton trade, which has also before suffered greatly by the duties on manufactured 'cotton in the German. League, will be affected by the present measure, as a very consi derable portion of the worsted stuffi; are now made with cotton warps. And the English landowner and farmer are not less , interested, because the chief raw material of worsted stuff goods, namely, English wool, is of their growth. As soon as the intention of Prussia to propose an en hancement of the duties was known, a circular was is sued by a house largely engaged in the German trade stating the fact, and reqtc stit.g the principal manufac turers and merchants in the worsted. stuff trade, in the West Riding, to meet at Bradford, on Thursday, in order to consider what steps ought to be taken. A moat respectable meeting accordingly took place, at which Mr. Kissel, of the firm of Messrs. Kessler and Company, Manchester. made the following state ment, which removed all doubts as to the truth of the intelligence received. He said—By accounts from Frankfort on the Maine, it appears that the Chamber of Commerce there had received official notice that, at the ensuing meeting, early in July, at Berlin, the duty. on all foreign worsted, worsted and cotton mixed dyed, printed, fancy woven or embroidered goods should be raised from 30 to 50 dollars per hundred weight: It is needless to say that this is a most important question for England, as, 'if carried into execution, this new tariff will almost annihilate this branch of export trade into Ger many, and the Yorkshire districts will have deeply to suffer under it. If the Government of England does not immediately and seriously take this matter up, and nae all possible influence and exertion to preVent the intro duction of this new tariff, the consequence for Yorkshire, and all districts connected with the worsted trade, will be most serious. It is to bb feared that they not stop there at Berlin, and that their tariff will end in an entire prohibition of British goods, tlibugh the present duties amount nearly 'already to a prohibition. There is no time to be lost, and the English Govermnent ought to take this affair into grave consideration, and use energetic measures, else this trade will be lost, the same as the cotton goods trade with Germany., After this statement had been lead by Mr. Kissel, a general feeling appeared to pervade the meeting that the best course to be pursued, under the circumstances, would be to send a Deputation immediately V. London, to wait upon Sir R. Peel, in order to represent to the Right Hon. Baronet the extremely critical position in a Bich the trade of this district is now placed by the , threatened increase of duties by the League, and to urge upon him and the Goverment the necessity of exercising all their influence to prevent the change contemplated.—A Deputation was accordingly sent to Sir R. Peel.—Leeds Mercury. ... THE SURVIVORS OF THE LATE cAUBUL FORCE. The following letter has been received, ad. dressed to a Contemporary : Sir,—l take the liberty to address you on the subject of the sufferers consequent upon the lste disastrous retreat of our troops from Caubuli and to beg of you to advocate the cause of the widows, orphans, and other sufferers. Out of a force of about 5,000 me n , but f e w have escaPed , and out of 3,000 or 4,000 camp followers forty or fifty, perhaps, have been saved. Of the European officers eighty-one have been killed or are.mill sing, fifty-three of these of the Hon. East India , • Company's army. About twenty officers are hostages or prisoners. There were about four • teen or fifteen o ffi cer? wives, besides soldiers ' • wives and children, detained as prisoners. MaRY - of the ladies were left without a change of dress. As to the number of those in captivity who m a i survive, time alone will show. It is probable that the cold destroyed as many as the sword; and thus, it is to be feared, that many of the Sal' vivors may be rendered helpless for life! Ga p " mittees have been tbrined at various stations (the principal one at Kurnaul, under the auspices 0f , the Commander-in-Chief), for the purpose 01 raising subscriptions to relieve the urgent di s: tress of those who have lost their husbands all ( ' parents, as well as of those who have lost their Yn, all. Though there are military funds which " provide for the cases of widows and children I f the Company's service, still the calamity Wr cause a severe drain on their resources. In th e case of unmarried officers, there is no fund front . which to assist those who survive. Of those to her Majesty's service, the established fund Is very inadequate. Of the European soldiers fe .., t. " will probably survive. Pensions are granted °l f ,Government to the widows and next of kill 0 „ those killed in action. With regard to the airi l y followers and native servants, perhaps a mount' ing to 4,000 or 5,000, there is no public provisil It is a great object to insure relief to people ° this class, for they are necessary in all artniel and they will nut serve at the risk of life, al, f the consequent destitution of their families. u y the corps now marching i n to Affgha n istan, Ina ° - Officers have been left without servan t s , . and W I. less they would promise a pecu n i ar y compel° tion in case of their death, masters could not pr o ' cure any to accompany them, and the poor sub it ' . tern could not afford to make any such promise'. ' ' India may, with reason, hope on such an ° e ' casion to call forth the sympathies of the ells: ritable people of Great Britain and Ireland, f°' in 1799 the servants of the East India Compel t i as well as the public of Bengal, Madras, 11° 4 Bombay, subscribed nearly 200,0001. to supP ° ' A the war against France, and in 1816, subscrib e ‘` largely for the relief of the sufferers of Waterloo/ and on many other occasions. In the united kingdoms are many of the relit tives and connexions of those in the civil, het Majesty's, and Hon. East India Company's s e ," f ; vices. There are many on furlough, and on t'l li retired list, residing at home or abroad. T° n these an appeal should be made through the ole" dium of the clubs in London, Dublin, V i r e burgh,.&c., as well as in the country, and to 0 5 proprietors of East India stock, and the bisliq r and clergy_ might appropriately appeal to the a l o flocks. It may he necessary to extend the ful l f to be raised towards purchasing the ransom ° 4 the ladies and officers; so that the sympathie3u the fair sex may be well evinced in aiding to r:, lease their sisters confined in a foreign and b o ' e tile land. The nation paid 20,000,0001. to relies', the African slaves, and shall British subjects o° ' be relieved at some cost? i ' I hope the subscription in England, &c.• ss4lJ i , be general. The smallest mite will be accept able, and in proportion as the feeling shall , e generally felt and expressed in favour of t i ` ie unfortunate objects presented to the Po b r notice, the more gratifying- will be the syinlnd ' o 1 and aid tendered on their behalf. It is a natio n s ~ calamity which deeply admits of national sY' f ' pathy, whether the appeal be to the Tory (O the Whig, to those against, or in favour °fit w 0 expedition which, in its results, has prove d. % disastrous. It is like the case o f the offsPr ill in soliciting aid front its mother—the exiles fro Great Britain, asking the benevolent assistal l ie ee ; in the time of deep distress, from the n lOlll 1 country.—l am, Sir, &c. Calcutta, April 16. W. HOUGH, MOP .THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. r e !„: . ..." , ,„ 4, Per. ()nal ter.. s. to s. a . to a. 5. to s. a. to I. s• iv „. Abingdon....', 57 72 26 26 20 31 35 41 si l ~,' Andover...-. 51 61 27 29 f 0 i 4 itimbury !56 tiO 22 `i 14 I'l 36 40 ..- 40 Bas,ngstoke 00 6> i 5 :30 18 56 34 43 35 „„ Ciienceaer 51 70 25 :5 92 31 43 44 33 , Coventry — 65 24 29 4,, , 0 t 6 3 4 _ 40 ..„ Vaventry '6 61 2 1.6 !6 v 1 33 36 27 „. Deihv 6a 71 25 ft) 25 26 34 3. tiowden — t 4.3 3 16 t. 9 i3l j Hungerford it; 7 , ' 29 37 20 28 31 45 138 ~,, Malt n ( 0 i 8 26 32 22 34 1 --, # Mai .entlead 52 75 32 15 25 31 36 44 40 Ni,tringham 56 68 23 29 19 24 :17 40 .." .., Niiawtage 66 79 :•04 31 3 0 32 36 4b ."" .. Warwick Winchester: ..... .76 36 --: 29 4?1 -- ..,, York ...., Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. a. el. s.d. s. d, s.d, e. d. 0.4 1, ... Birmingham 70 !t)36 4 6 3 6 4 0 00 00, u C LEEDS CORN id i BRET. Wheat, Norfolk and Sufftilk, 601 h to frh'ii ....•.« , file, , s , , ---. York. and Lincoln. 601 b... .. . Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk '..94. 0.00. 1 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 631 b.... '10 • to _ ...is.f. _... Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 031 b... 7 12 10 :, i t v o il; to ; :. Oats, Potatoe -Healing, For. 9d. tolOd. Fng. 121. to I3d. P et lee`' Shelling 'Vs. to Sj pet DEVIZES CORN MARKET 6. n Per Sack. s. IL s. d. Per Quat ter. ff. d•., yr"" i First W heat 32 oto 33 6 Oats... ...... ........ 21 t ' 51 0 Second 3O 0 :11 6 Be:ins (per sack)... 16 gd g Third l9 6 27 0 Hour (per hag) 46 0 „. darley 23 . 0 28 0 Bread (lineation). i CHELTENHAM MARKETS. th d. I ( Pet Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. Ash-at barley 3 0 3 9 Mutton Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal Beans 5 0 5 4 Pork ... 0 000000000 ....•..• •.. 7 6 g !'ease 5 0 8 0 Lamb Hay 41.55.. to 4/, 10s. 01 per ton. CANTEBBURI MARKET. 16 , Wheat, white.......... 6511. to 7ios• ••••••• 01d...11b ...4. tO , . •••••••••• red.—........... ti s. to W 5....... 01d............ --s• t? s. Barley, Malting —. 3os. to 341 ........ (ending .. —11. 1 ' ... 0 4. Oats ••••••••••••••• 21s. t0:21.5. ....... 01.1 —...... .... 4 . !: Rearm,.......,..--....... 32s to 4C1I• *wave Ohi w wwwww. ." 4 " .: Pease .............---,.... 403. to —.5.... Urey,,,,,...,,,, SAL t" HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) . 6(x.621 ti". Red Foreign Barley, Malting. GriEdiug Oats, British Fore:gti (ill bond) lBs 2. 9— ' Belns .. ~ .., '3:2s 3 I. 4(6. Pease, Grey ... ,44, 3' l °°' Blue and White 34, 3 ° i. 4s. . e Linseed Flour per sack Rapeseed (per lt; quarters) ... .....i. 37i• ' CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 14 gallons to the bushel. , ......../ ow. Wheat. Barley. 1..........%1.c .., C. d. to i. d. I. d. to s. d. 5. '' , • 0 0 0 Truro —.o 7 5 0 3 8 -- " -'" gel.tone - 7 8 —. 0 3P— ' 0 St. Austell —o so —0 as —: 0 Podium 0 8 8 --0 4 4 ••• 0 0 Liskeard — 0 76 0 3 6 --.- 0 •"' U Launceston Catnvl ford 6 6 7 E 3 0 3 4 2 6 . '' Penzance The New Hamburgh Gazette publishes a I ° Tn liel lion to the King of Prussia fr o m th e merc h an t s o f Ear n i vil, in which, after expressing cLubts as to the disposilon 0 01,, to come to any satisfactory arrangement for putt ng the prohibitive system between th e two coun tries, thN in e l i r t he , that the Convention betwe en th e t wo G tern ents b f bre surrender of deserters may not be r enewe d, as it. :0, 1 ; attended with a ffl icting ci r cum s t ances . Th e poin t t oo t , We must not lose sight of th e f ac t, a n d we av w ri orl r he shame, that our gendarmes a nd p easan t s rece ive Pe" ari d wards from Russia when they arrest Russian desertell 9 vo r! . , consequence is that they hunt down men as if they e rvi`; many wild beasts." Ihe petitioners conclude by f vo rg,,, that they would rather hav e none o f t h e p ro mised so ' of a commercial t rea ty, if thi s di sgracefu l Con deserters, is to be the basis of it. ELABORATE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK:S , - 3ft ' f of 82, Strand, havin g h a d t h e distinguished henour;tre ' to structing, by command of th e Emperor of Russia, tn ev ioull mical clocks, invites a public inspection of thelaiP their departure. DEAL. (From a Correspondent of the Dover Chronicle.) THE LIGHT OF ALL NATIONS—SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO FLOAT THE CAISSON. After many and repeated disappointments, Mr Bush, at half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday night, - had the gratification to find himself and one of his men floating with his caisson on the bring deep. The Monkey steam tug and the Volcano steamer, of 200 horse-power, had at the two tides of the previous day, and at the morning tide of Thursday, moved the ponderous machine into such a position that by removing about ten tons of the ballast previously taken in, as soon as the water had flowed a little above the first chamber, it floated like a cork, in a perfectly vertical position. It was left to float for three hours and a half, during which time it did not make the least water ; and as the time for taking it to the, sands and placing it in its prOper place,• will take up no more than about two hours and a half, it is clear that there is every probability of a successful issue. - We trust, that as the public have been so often disappointed, and now that Mr. Bush can. make a certainty of the, caisson going to the sand on any . day, provided the weather is suitable, that he will give the public timely notice. Such is and has been the interest manifests for the success of the undertaking, that, notwithstanding the repeated failures, at each renewed attempi great numbers of people flocked to the beach, to be gratified, as they hoped, with the sight of seeing her go olf ; and though the attempt was made so late un Thursday ni ; lit, as soon as the " inverted iron pot," as it is huinourously called, was afloat, Mr. Bush was greeted with hundreds of hurrahs, each person seemingly being as much pleased as if he had a pecuniary interest in its success. In closing these hasty remarks, we congratulate Mr. Bush on his success thus far, and cordially wish him un interrupted success in its completion. LLOYD'S SHIPPING NOTICE TO MARINERS. REEF Off POVERTY BAY, NEW ZEALAND.—From the centre of the reef, 'Table Cape bears S. S. W., Young Nick's Head S. W. by W. half W., Tamline bears W. half S, Gable Fixeland bears N. by W. ; extreme northern land, about three miles south of Spring's Head, either N. quarter E., or W. quarter W., doubtful. The brig 311:rtha struck on this reef in . June, 1834, and lost part of her false keel. These bearings (magnetic) were taken in a boat, and, therefore, can only be considered as an approximation to the truth. The reef rats north and south, and is from two to three miles in length, but having a short elbow at the south, and turning narrow towards Young Nick's Head. The soundings (taken at high water) vary irregularly from three to seven fathoms, with patches of long led!). 11Ie sea breaks in on it only in bad weather; and more so when the wind is from the northward to the eastward. It Las been passed with a strong wind from the south-east, and a very high sea, without obser ving.any appear ance of breakers; c;)nsequently, a vessel may pass very close to the reef a number of times, without its being seen. The soundings along the reef, in -shore, were found to vary very re gularly from fifteen to twenty-five fathoms, between the dis tances of three-quarters of a mile and a quarter, respectively. N.S.—High water at Poverty Bay, on full and change of the moon, at six A.m., with a rise of six feet at spring, and of five feet at neap tides. A NAVAL FIELD MARSHAL.—The 21foniteur of Tuesday publishes a Royal ordinance, instituting a past of Field.-Marshal in the Marine Department. .This officer is to be commissioned by the Minister of Marine to inspect at least once in two years the corps of In- --- - -, fantry belonging to the navy employed in the military BIR THS. -- te n--- r t Pg' af h ar bours of the kingdom or in its transatlanti c es t a bli s h- O n t h e 22d inst., the lady of Wakehurst Pry ° , ments, By another ordinance of the 16th i ns t . , th e Wakehurst-place, Sussex, of a son. geCte r King raised to the rank of Naval Field-Marshal d e l a On the 22d inst., the wife of the Rev. Horsee?tr E"'' such Fitte de Soucy, Colonel of the "M a ri ne I n f antr y " (f or of Southhill-with-Callington, Co rnwa ll, o f a daufP i a iiet,•''" such is the title of that arm in F r an ce ). On the 22d inst., at Dublin. the lady of Alfred r ; lair or the King's Regiment, of a daughter,still'b ° • STATE OF THE NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—The bob- Bth, • - e , 4. ( l'' bin net trade, both of fancy and and plain nets, is in a most : On the 22d inst., the lady of James Peunethorn , f $ court, Highgate, of a son. , ~,,,v ~, ° lamentably stagnant state, and scarcely any nets can be (lie- On the 24th inst ,at Clapham-rise, Mrs. Owen P' posed of, except the very best fancy patterns. The lace trade o h daughter. • 0. ,,, i u is rapidly leaving Nottingham . Never at my time was the : to f On the 24th inst., at Spencer-street, NorthaloP exportation of machinery so extensive; as, from the best in- . Mrs. Richard Mullens, of a son. de Wel * ' formation we can obtain, eleven machines will leave for various ;On the 25th inst,, at Portland-place, Madame V an destinations this week. We have a letter, signed F. Bishop, 'of a daughter. I'o' from Calais, dated June 20, assuring us, that in Calais at the , ,-, c he g' n. On the 26th inst., at Woburn-park, .urrei• t present time, there are no less than sir y men in the lace trade ' Locke King, of a daughter. out of work, many of whom have left decent situations in Not- williil tingham, with an idea of getting work there.—Nottingham M.4RRIED. Review. - ! On the 23d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-aqua ro st Ater, ~ THE FRENCH CUSTOM-noust.---The Journal de Barnard, Esq., to Hel.n Georgina Arn o e tr. the or l' Arrondissement du Havre mentions that a poor English- daughter ofthela . te Captain G. Cause, of the , ss oeersil r., t he woman, arriving last Week uith four children, all as ill- ' On the 2 9 th inst., at St. Pancras China', to a J clothed as herself, to join her husband, who is working daughter son of William Hogg, Esq of Bi Ygleswades ne r of Captain Harness, 1C N. 1 ' J o be Sr e ; e of ou the Paris and Rouen railway, was thrown into des pair by of the empfoyes at the Havre Custom-house O n the 25th inst., at Sr. Ann's, Blarkfriarstoungotosbeo th, Wynn Werninck, of the Holt, Bers, E , (1. , • ,- v, i o Eli seizing on two coarse woollen blankets which she had the late Rev J. Werninck, D.D., of Camberwe I.stre et. brought over to wrap her children in. She hid also with eldest daughter cf George Hug g ins, Fsq., of E ar her some balls of worsted for completing a pair of Stock- - jo ssici' ings she was knitting as a present for her husband, and DIED. dor On the 13th of Ma last, at I. ucia,__in the TOO High/ these were also confiscated. Her not being able to speak David Grant, Esq of South- place, Finsbury. Esq . ,Of a word of French added to her trouble. Several persons On the 15th inst . ., at Bath, John Robert Wise, form erlf who were present, moved by her tears, applied to `the i field House, •Devon. • officer to return the . articles, but he:was inexorable. ; of O Ba n ib th eg e g 2 i l e s , t P h ec st li The Journal above-named blames, Gilber''d 2.3- Anne pg. i s , such severity. ! 00 the 22d inst., at Worthing, Sussex , , g eoo , i ,,baro in stringent terms, • i The Echo de Vesone contains an account of a V? ent Brixton. IVir• ,•-•, p. :si a li t r ß c. ayswater, William Low, Et c t ' , wifr storm on the Ilth inst., by whi c h the depaittntnt of the Dor- 01, the 24th inst.. in Acre-lux, . ,„ cka ll,, age" ___-_, o f of Alfred Joshua Xi/um'. F:sq., of Gloucester. s, ° n h dogne was greatly ravaged by the hair. The small river 1 On the 24th inst., at Peckham, l'itot ro irtlM in Salembre became so swollen by the bursting of a water -pout ''' ! '''" ----- '- - -=''''''—`= - -- - -' ------ T:. mVRDO '' straf 4 that it was formed into a torrent, which uprooted large trees, London : Printed and Published ) . ill, washed down houses, and drove the inhabitants of many others Sun ' .17 1 to the garrets and roofs , to escape the inundation. the County of Middlesex, Monday, Jug` No. 112, Strand, at The _Offie , e_2•:• , 642. ,