The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-10 00:00:00

1;r , "„ 1:: 3 f 1 L. ; 24 i O F 4 00- 1 4 ir.# l :O s **,;110 l L /,(~~_ UNRIVALLED DISTRIBUTION !-8,200 MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided en 30th No ember next, amongst 8,200 selected Bonds of the Loan nego led inthe year 1820, and guaranteed by the Government and 11 °Yal Highness the GRAND DUKE of B ADEN. ~1 stribution at Carlsruhe, the Metropolis of Baden, on 30th motetriber next. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins I do. 25,000 " 12 000 " 5111 t R. -- AD. neci 'aye nee .:1,41#: nee the --1:-L5 tell lien , it was 1 - do. 2iooo 1' db. 10,000 " do. - —5,000 " 5,000 8,000 8- 7 40 : - *I;000 iln.n.l _. 1,0 do. - 500 " 5,000 " 'I) do. 200 ' 2,000 " PO do. - 110 '' `°o do. -_ 105 " 21,000 " 467 do . 100 " 7 'B°° do . 94 " .....,,.. 6 ' 2 ° o Money Dividerds, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or 8, 200 741,4001. Stet ling Money . . selected B o nd s , each of which obta ins one of the above Iv. videads. Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 7 16 8 • tlic. g urias equal to £1 sterling a trifle more or less, as per il e d„m2Y's exchange. All the Dividends payable without any 1 ,7 101 1 whatever. DE LAY to 1r " f • the fe` it Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT t o HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. tio t are on sale now at £l2 10s. After 15th - August, if oisPirlier, a higher rate will be established, since the stock , ji! h "t. suffice for the orders. t, h , ° : se who remit £l5 before a rise in price will have been iso; k " s he€l,‘ will receive • an order for the surplus of £2 10s., tihZer With" a warranted SELECTED Bond. To those wit order * reaches us too late for being attended to, their . "` ltt '* -- -uce will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. 114 4 1,.. 2 26th July, 1842. 3 / 4 ATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. Win , THIS EVENING, AUGUST 10. Produeed a New Drama called THE BROKEN HOME 'hi be '`.ters by Messrs. Oxberry, Diddear, Granby, W. H. Bland, o ; } ?recu. Miss Tyrrell, Miss Stanley, and Miss Faucit. tt r , s t will be added, the Farce of DEAN AS A POST.— ppy, Mr Harley; Sally Maggs, Miss Stanley. v„aelt a b,";_kowed by BLUE BEARD. —Blue Beard. Mc. J. Bland ; 'Ap, Mr. Oxberry; Mini, Mr. Leiga Smith; Fatima, Miss ' o `ott err ,,elUde with -LOST AND WON.—Leyton, 'sir. Diddear .„ r. W. H. Bland ; Mistress Ley on, Miss Fauc t. ' 4 Of m e auxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office "us. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at theit Libraries. 2DGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. W ai THIS EVENING, AUGUST 10. yiple!ented an entirely New Fairy Opera, entitled LITTLE e ap ,_ l - 1 11%. G HOOD.—The Overture, and the whole of the Mo t,' srsc'd by Mrs. O. a'Becket, and executed by Miss Romer. "ON ; 'Ls Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Leffler, an increas.d Band and Oft" e 3 luitrcted bi Mr. G. Stansbury. tk oi ttlich, a peculiarly eceentric New Drama, entitled THE s4 O to '" 8 OF THE DEVIL, supported by the entire Company '4i with THE ARTFUL DODuE.—Demosthenes t, r 4c`"'r• Gr. Wild. o f ,and Private oxes may b e Fad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the from Elev 3 en till Four daily, AL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Apo AL Gentry, Subscrilnrs, and the Public, are respectfully SANUMONDAYS, that ° N MON D A N , AYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS 'll qzied u . EVENING FETES will be given, in which *1 e ern. t,'Plri e Ulnae popular Entertainments that have given to this rayon- Ns et , e af recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in. t h e which render tem more generally attractive. rr.St:"AGERIE has h been enriched by many valuable and im. in t - ,73utsitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. c o l tine Mve o'clock. ?ac es ' Q ual VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some a 'hig th e anlodelled, with a Mechanical Table S "Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman tiZ,,tne Castle of St. Angelo. b'" D includes some of the most eminent Performers, con -141 er. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES he q t . ,LES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. k. UMINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIREilp, t ki l 7. leee Dlft A NDOL A of ST. ANGELO, wiih all the gorgeous k atio and magnifieent introductioos that have called forth ac. tli e , t ion,delight and admiration on each evoning of their ex- Fil k 'Aserrainaaing with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, e O,,t , DE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y ETFET in height. V. h ...ens are open Daily from Ten till . Dusk. he Evening 4 1 ' 4 44" the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of H. Peter's, tit,:4 l :2. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, 'dais. Admission One Shilling. - ging ... ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 1 4 minutes after 4 I Evening ... 34 minutes after 4. Uno IVEDIspp o ,- LONDON: - "' ), &Y MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1842. 1 11 ktilt f ac t We adverted to yesterday of the disfranchise on '.ninth of "the electors of Manchester, and 4 - "IY of 'other towns, will not be destitute of political t ie; llc e• In many of the towns, in Manchester itself, it vltki ti ri lif ke to turn the balance and give the Tories a NttliJr at the next election. In Stockp o rt we i n f er di efranchisement must be still more extensive, ``tiv e , til aY deprive the nation crone of' its best represen ;4. til - c 7 s !el sever the present Parliament comes to an end. " decided effect of the disfranchisement of many ptoe -°w er . .classes, will be the increased preponderance t ,tt, ett Y in the Legislature ; and it is not impossible L" , eird less of party distinctions of Whig and Tory, Q st merged in the one general character of free tiltte °ll * great object of the upper classes may b e to t ern 4 t. preponderance, and diminish the influence th rs • , eti, B hips and Tories have their registration Ot th e 4 td registration agents, who will take care , t l Al tt Z t rz fends are not rejected. At the same time the L t 4 li L tii'Ori of parties may make them both indifferent 81 4 4 1 : 1 4 tftt---, and the poorer voters in the larger towns 1,7(11, 11 ')- person to defend or advocate their rights. ; 1 4 1 1 , 4 ; 4 0 wever, the Registration Courts will be open, trtchisement may be even greater than Man ' ) :41 4 , 11 ,c1ic ates, if some steps be not taken to defend had c ''iSe of the lower classes. Sir R. PEEL has con. k - .la. the Registration Courts are the keys to ti,ijtitusi on of the House of Commons. Possibly, Nl,_ e trier gency, a Registration Society might be ;9ilit,"Qtally irrespective of parties or political opinions, ki, s tq l t i ° 4 l ' its object to secure for any man entitled to be d Plac e on the register, or to get his name in it. A very small contribution from each one r'bp:tlY ersons interested might su ffi ce to pay all r''ttk t - ,, 114 es )f such a Society, and secure professional h_"' to watch over the rights of the ten-pounders p atisation , Courts. The Tory and Whig Re oftlilSoc ieties have for their object the disfranchise the t , tk Zse they suppose tobe their opponents, as well t 10 7 0 cIbisement of their friends. The Registration ti , i 4l k I g o lllo I take no objections—should disfranchise k t i 4 hould secure, as far as possible, the fran -04 every person entitled to it. Such a society ti,; (l '44", we, think, do something to lessen the present tp h tt is era Int which is in progress, and to point out e lt 4 %1: 3 by' which in future much of it might be It la 14 11 1 4 11, 4 ? ten months since it was discovered that I )ti , 4 1 4 considerable number of forged Exchequer e 'reulation. Immediately all the Exchequer kOd t} INI Ol e, in circulation were called in to be examized , aerie' t 0 the amount of 236,0001., were detained as t r ,Ntit s ,' On the whole, no less than 377 bills were re 91"eetv the Commission. The titles to such a mass of iuvolving the credit of the Government, re -6 `he to be dealt with most carefully, but, p:t 6 e ;"`. lll e time, most diligently, , that individuals might bA 4l .PAred or ru i n ed by their resources being locked it t r : l qoand was accordingly made on the Govern -11(1); , speedy and even instant investigation, and on ti t tkie t ti ' ll g of Parliament great expectations were en eft 44:,.(1 t hat no time would be lost in examining into th, and either admitting or rejecting the liability, qt.ht e to pay the amount of those bills. k 4 4 4 4 ! able disappointment was caused by the pro kt I°ll of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, , t ti t !.. I !gth, when he merely introduced a Bill to con -4114 Z r erliamentary Commission of inquiry, which he , h 0 * done on the first day of the session, many flip bo A lclers of the bills felt that the Government was ~I t ilt h / vi til their interests. It was the latter end of kit etk e l fore th e Comm i ssion was appo i nted, and it made t `' ni h rt on the 2d instant, having used all due - W the investigation. The Commissioners, how tti ti m e only authorised to inquire into the issue lizttion of those bills, and into the manner obtained by the p ar ti es h o ldi ng th em; t lee etntllingly their Report., some of the principal t 1 444, Wllieh we yesterd a y l a id b e f ore our rea d ers , i s INEtti: o nfined to these obj ec t s . It g i ves no recom - Z ll Whatever as to the manner of dealing with ttp t , e : r k The only part of th e R e p or t w hi c h b ears ,_llktso l4l leo* of a reco mmen d a ti on , i s t h e statement 14 Parties received the Exchequer bills in the ery w %, ay of business, and to them no suspicion what :l'ly has ; that others didnotuse due caution, though 6 for : li ved these bills in th e or di nary way o f b us i ness; 6 t oth er erri the Commissioners su gges t excuses : and tsapect R ar e exposed to a d ou bt, w h et h er t h ey did not 1 NA Ate() obtained the bill s h e d epos i te d w i t h :14 0 , 3 th,t ' Dine kind of fraud. The Commission, therefore, 14 4 :el khea questio n of liability to pay these bills entirely ~l a nd it r ema i ns to b e decided by the Govern -1"I Parliament. What. then must now be the °f the holders, many of whom are individuals of raratf. 11 °1% e IY limit e d means, when they lea rn f rom cur l Est ° f r the ee etiio. Proceedings in th e H ouse o f C ommons c3r ut, that th e Ch ance ll or of the Exchequer can justtily be ne fi c i a l resu l t to the parties concerned, to the public interest," recommend the 1 or te the elect e C onsideration of Parliament this session? s longer these parties must wait before ;e h th _ t takes their case into consideration, and 4 yerii Uhancellor of the Exchequer says that the ve e r alent will 4,t et , d. - require every claim to be strictly in -I,trre zi-tel!=. promises, hewever, as if his own pocket o zrt i ii ;; ; 7 lx. d e , t not to stand oo any technical objections. Y to do justice to the public, the Right Hon. Gentleman is doing great injury to several indi viduals. We have seen no reason, to praise Mr. GOULBURN'S diligence in this matter from the, first. He might have procured the appointment of the Commission in February as well as in April. The Commis sion was authorised to report its proceedings from time to time, and Mr. GOULBURN might hay( made himself master of the results as the inquiry went on. He might have read the Report as soon as it was prepared, and might have been, had he used due dili gence, ready to state his views on the subject to the House as soon as the Report came into the hands of the Members. He might, therefore, with little exertion, and by protracting the session a week, have at once set tled the question, and ddne justice to the innocent hold ers of the forged Government bills. But from the com mencement of this unpleasant affair the Right Hon. Gen tleman has delayed and procrastinated as if there were something which he hoped might be concealed, when the public had forgotten all the circumstances of the trans action. RAPALLO, it appears, was called before the Exchequer Bill Commission, and gave evidence in some respects un- favourable to certain parties. Ile also gave the Commis sion an account of the property he has acquired by the frauds. He was residing at Calais, and seems to have a very considerable property left in the shares of various Companies. We have just received the Report of the Commis sion to inquire into the Exchequer Bill affair. After a patient and laborious investigation, the Commis sioners divide the holders of those Bills into four classes, and report generally and summarily of them as follows : Class I.—As to the first class, consisting of the whole of the parties above mentioned, with the exception of those that will be hereafter particularized, we certify that we find them upon the evidence to have become re spectively the holders of the bills with which they are connected, in the usual course of business, and without knowledge or suspicion that they were other than ge nuine, or had been improperly obtained by any person whatever, and under circumstances which warrant no inference of their having acted with want of proper caution. Class IL—As to the second class, consisting of the following parties, viz, Sir James Shaw, Bart., and Messrs. R. and W. Hichens and Harrison, we find them to have become respectively the holders of the bills with which they are connected, in the usual course of busi ness, and without knowledge or suspicion that they were other than genuine, or had been improperly obtained by any person whatever. But circumstances appear upon the evidence which tend to raise some doubt upon the question, whether these parties have acted or not with want of proper caution: If that question were left to our judgment, we should decide that there is not upon the whole sufficient ground for such an imputation against either of them. CLASS lII.—As to the third class, consisting of Messrs. Ransom and Co., Messrs. Price and Co., Mr. John Wray Scott, Mr. H. Tomkins, and Mr. L. Levy, we also find them upon the evidence to have become respectively the holders of the bills with which they are connected in the usual course of business, and without knowledge or sus picion that they were other than genuine, or had been improperly obtained by any person whatever. But cir cumstances exist in the case of all these patties, which appear us to occasion more difficulty - upon the question with regard to want of proper caution, than arises with respect to the second class; and we feel too much doubt upon. that question as concerns the class now under consideration, to be able to submit to your Majesty any opinion of our own upon the subject. CLASS IV.—We now arrive at the consideration of the fourth and last class, in which we place William Mariner, Francis Towneley De Berckem, William -and James Morgan, and Edward Lloyd Morgan : for of Ha pallo it is, of course, unnecessary to say anything further. With respect to William Mariner, Francis Towneley De Berckem, and William and James Morgan, it is our duty to state that the evidence in relation to them, and even that part of it (singly considered) which colsists of their own statements, some of the most prominent re sults of which are noticed in the early part of this Re port, has impressed our minds with a doubt whether,_ at the time when the bills with which they are respectively connected, and which now form part of the subject of our inquiry, came to their hands, they did not all sus pect that such bills had been obtained by Rapallo through the medium of some fraud. And, on the other hand, we entertain no doubt that, supposing any of them to have been without such suspicion, he is at least chargeable with want of proper caution in having become the holder of the bills under the circumstances detailed in the evi dence. With respect to Edward Lloyd Morgan we collect that he had no personal interest in any of the transac tions in question, and negotiated the several bills which he' received from the firm of William and James Morgan in the capacity of their clerk or agent only; though, as between him and the several parties to whom he de livered the bills, he was the ostensible negotiator. his subordinate position with respect to the firm, and the filial relation- in which he stood to the senior partner, entitle him in some measure to more favourable con struction than the members of the firm themselves. But he was, by his own admission, so well acquainted with the nature and extent of their dealings with Solari and Rapallo, and negotiated so many bills which he knew at the time to have been received from those parties re• spectively, that we feel ourselves obliged to express the same douht with regard to him that we have above ex pressed with regard to his employers. There is, how ever, one case differently circumstanced from the rest, we mean Case 1., in which the firm of William and James Morgan appear to have had no concern whatever, and in which he acted entirely on the private account of Mr. Cook. In this particular case we feel no difficulty in pronouncing Edward Lloyd Morgan clear from all imputation either of fraud or negligence. In the House of Lords on Monday Lord FORTESCUE moved for certain returns, with a view to show that crime had increased in Ireland since the accession of the Tory Government. The Noble Lord followed in the footsteps of Mr. O'CONNELL last week in the House of Commons. He denounced the judicial conduct of chief Justice PENNEFATHER at Armagh, as that of an advocate for the Crown, rather than a Judge ; and he censured the Irish law officers of the Crown for employing spies and informers as approvers in trials for Rib bonism. The Duke of WELLINGTON granted the returns without any hesitation. His defence of Judge PENNEFATHER he rested on the high character of that distinguished Judge. With respect to the spy HAGAN, the Duke of WELLINGTON said that an n quiry had been ordered by the Govern ment, and that if it were found that he in veigled men into Ribbon Societies with the knowledge of the Magistrates, such Magistrates should be punished. We trust the inquiry will be a searching one. We have not the least doubt that if such be the case the number of Magis trates implicated will be very considerable. We question, however, :whether the Tories will have the courage and the public spirit to hold up to general re probation the conduct of their friends. Lord PALMERSTON brought the question of the re ported withdrawal of the British army from Affghan istan, before the House of Commons on Monday. It will be remembered that the Bombay papers brought by the last Overland Mail, stated distinctly that it was currently reported, and generally believed in India, that Lord ELLENBOROUGH had given orders for the speedy evacuation of Caubul, and the retreat of the whole of. the British troops west of the Indus. The Editor of the Calcutta Star, asserted that he had himself seen a copy of such an order, which had been iesned from the Adjutant-General's office. What Lord PALMERSTON then wished the Premier to in. form the House was, whether such an order had been issued ; and to leave no doubt as to his own impressions upon the subject, he expressed a hope that the answer would be in the negative. Sir ROBERT PEEL declined answering the question, on the very reasonable ground that he might prejudice the public service by so doing. There was at pre sent a British army at Candahar, and another at Jellalabad, and as six or eight weeks would be suffi cient to convey any revelation which he might make to the Affghan chiefs, be very properly declined to give any answer to Lord PALMERSTON'S question. Now the inference which we draw from the silence of the Premier is, that the evacuation of Caubul is resolved upon by the Indian Government. We quite approve of this resolution, upon certain conditions, of which the most important are that the prisoners be deli vered up without ransom ; that punishment be inflicted upon the murderers of the Envoy, in the event of it not being proved that he really plotted the seizure of the Afghan chiefs ; and that hostages shall be given us for the future amicable conduct of the Afghan people, with facilities for trading with the several tribes in their country. In the dethroning of the Ameer DOST MOHAMED—in the occupation of their cities and towns by British soldiers—and in the treating the Sovereign, whom we set over them as a mere puppet in the hands of an English Envoy at his Court, we have inflicted upon them wrong as deadly as any which they have retaliated upon us. The Affghan war, begun, as we now learn from the private papers recently published, in monstrous iniustiee on our part, has already cost us seventeen millions sten ling. To carry it on with any degree of spirit could only be done at a monetary expense alone of three millions sterling. Now, the worst of it is, that the Afghans have neither gold, nor silver, nor precious stones, to recruit our Treasury, should we beat them ,to our heart's content. The sacking of their capital ctlg, ( V) se t fit: au , 4,, kiße 017411, ,, , ,, • C. 41 .e.NY '; 'N,'A, 4 -- as" •') M ` off frr, 0 los . rkeU _;~c r,io) ,:s .3! 4 ; trC • IV - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1842. would not supply money enough to provide rations for the army for a single week. There are _no crores rupees to be picked up in - Affgliallitan as there were in the rich cities of - the Mogul Empire in the lays of CLIVE and IlisriNGs. All we have to ex pect is abundance of hard blows. These, doubtless, we shall repay with heavy interest; but barren vic tories are not much to the taste of British armies. Officers" and men judge of the value of the praise by the solid pudding which accompanies it, or cO which it is but the prelude. We are as opposed as Lord PALMERSTON himself to anything resembling a forced retirement from Caubul. We are not for showing our backs while that country contains an enemy in a condition not to pursue, but even to menace us. We have entered Affghanistan as allies ; let us leave it in the same high character. By striking a few vigorous blows an excellent opportunity will be afforded us. We trust the Indian Government will know how to turn our first successes to good account. We must in the first place retake the city of Caubul and the fortress of Ghuznee, which will leave us in possession of all the principal cities in Affghanistan. We will then be in a condition to propose our own terms to the chiefs. Then will he our time to propose the retirement of our troops across the Indus.. By. voluntarily with drawing from Caubul, we shall not in the least weaken the opinion entertained of our invincibility by the Princes on the confines of our Indian empire. They have felt our power, and comprehend the sta bility of its basis, too often to occasion us any more trouble. Our Indian Empire is no longer an empire of opinion. - It is a Government of force, Apical and mental, which no native race is able to cope with. It is not like the image in the King of BABYLON'S dream, having a head of gold and feet of clay. We have, therefore, nothing whatever to occasion us any alarm on that score. We are as finnly.futed on the banks of the Hooghley as we are on those of the Thames, the_ Tweed, and the Liffey. There is no political news of much importance in the French Journals. In the election of President and Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministers have obtained ti signal triumph. The Moniteur, of the. 7th of August, publishes in its official part a note, stating that the King had received letters of condolence on the death of the Duke of Orleans, from their Majesties the Kings of Bavaria and Wurtem mug, from his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse,,and from the_ Senates of ILunburgh, Lubeck, Bre men, and Frankfort. _ _ It is affirmed that the project of law on the Regency will be examined for the last time in the Council which will be held to-day. The Ayuntainiento of Barcelona, has resolved to send a deputation to Madrid, consisting of two of its mem bers, Messrs. Bech and Massadas, to ask for the demo lition of the building in the interior of the citadel. The artillery of the National Guard has received a considerable quantity of powder. It is seriously in con templation to complete the train of equipages, and to improve the materiel. • General Zurbano was to arrive at Puycerda on the 30th of July. The rebels' on disbanding themselVes, delivered up the prisoners they-had taken, and their arms, without ransom. Jose Costa, who signed, as secretary, the proclamation, of Felip, has been arrested by the French gendarmes, and St. Laurent de Cerdans, and lodged in the prison of Perpignan. 'lhe bands which desolated the province of Gerona are retiring towards the coast, where thew hope to find a place of refuge. The Moniteur Algerien, of the 30th of July, announces that there were at Algiers many Arab chiefs, who had come to offer the submission of their tribes.. The roads, to the distance of twenty-five or thirty leagues, were quite safe even for single travellers, as well European as natives.—Commerce. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The effect of the pigeon expresses being at an end, and the Report of the Exchequer Bill Commissioners having appeared, and, therefore, implying the improba bility that rumours will he again be attempted, for some time at least, as a method of influencing our funds, prices of Consols further advanced to 92 94:- for Money, and for the Account ; Bank Stock 169- 170} ; India Stock, 249,i- 2501 ; Exchequer Bills Old, 51, 53 ; New, 49 51 premium. The prices of Foreign Securities were rather higher, and the market firmer than yesterday Belgian Bonds were 1014 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51;1- 52 ; the Five per Cents., 101.1 102 ; Danish, 82 83 ; and Brazilian, 64 66. The Share Market was better. London and Birming ham, 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 49; Great Western, 891 90k; the Half Shares, 63k 64 .: 4-; South Wes tern, 61 62i ; North Midland, 59 60 ; New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern and Dover, 224 WI • Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ; Blackwell, 9 9i ; Brighton, 8i 9k per share. A fair amount of business was transacted in the Fo reign Exchanges, without any particular notice. The quotations of the Bonds, were—Colombian, Dzi 21 ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 334 34; the Three per Cents., 194- 201; Spanish Five per Cents., 20-i 201 ; and the Three per Cents., 194 193. The Report upon the Exchequer Bill affair, in connec tion with dealings in those documents, will. be read with particular interest ; especially pages 374 and 375 ; the late hour at which it was delivered, precludes any par ticular comment beyond that which apperirs in another column. _ _ (From The Sun of Last Night.) The purchases in the Funds have not been so exten sive to-day as they were y . esterday afternoon, neverthe less a fair amount of business has been done, and Con sols have advanced to 91i 92 for Money, and 92 for the Account. Three per Cents. Reduced 914; Three-and-a - Half per Cents. Reduced, 1011 ; New Three-and-a . - Half per Cents. loci ; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Stock 249 250 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 53 ; Nevr, 49 51 prem. In Foreign securities Dutch ,Two and-a-] alf per Cents. are 51/ 52 ;. the Five per Cents., 1014 102 ; Belgian, 1014 1021 ; and Danish 83. It will be observed that the impression which a late Act of Parliament had created in regard to deduction of the Income-tax from dividends on Foreign Stocks, when on foreign account, is incorrect. The report had caused much dissatisfaction, but the answer of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer last night will be sufficient to remove such feeling. The quotation for Mexican is 358. The Shares which have changed hands to• day have been but few; the market, however, is very firm, without alteration in prices. The Bonds which are quoted are only Spanish, the Five per Cents. at 20k, the Three per Cents. 19k. A private letter arrived yesterday from the Cape of Good Hope, written by an observant and highly respectable party. gives a good account of the present condition of the colony. The increased attention which had been directed towards the production of wool, and to the fisheries, had been productive of much general benefit, and to a great extent counteracted the depres sion consequent upon the failure of the wine trade. Here however it would appear that the great drawback to further improvement, which is operating in like manner in other countries similarly situated, is the want of labour. Every inducement is offered for immigration, and it would seem, from statistical accounts, that it is not without foundation. Such Europeans as have engaged in farming operations, particularly in the new settlements, are stated to be doing well, and the immense increase not only in the quantity, but the improvement in qua lity of what have now become the staple, articles, lead to the conclusion that the statements of the rapid advance which this place is making have not been exaggerated. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 8.---NO ma terial, change has taken place in Shares since our last report. The 'sales are—Dublin" and Drogheda, 17 Eastern Counties f New, 81. 7s. 11d. ; Manehester and Leeds, 77i; Manchester and .Salford Banks, 104, ei div. _ CORING PRICES. , BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock .1706 India Stock S per Cent. Red. ....,... 921 Ditto Bonds ....... 33 pm 3 per Ceut. Cons.— 916 , Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent. Red... 1011 \ Ditto New Annuiti e s... New 36 per. Cent... lOOl iEx. Bills, 1,0001....2d. 49 pm NP VP 5 per Cm= — Ditto 500/. 51 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 51 pm Jan. 1860 ...... 12 9-16 1 13ank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l2 5-16!Consols for Acct....... 91* The Duke of Wellington is expected on Friday at Weimer Castle. The Earl ut Wilton has returned to Grosvenor-square from his cruise off the French coast. ZdZISCELLANEOUS. A public meeting was held at the Assembly Rooms, Theobald's -road, on Monday evening, to denounce the system of employing spies, and to petition Parliament concerning the late convictions in Armagh. Among the resolutions carried was one that "the meeting felt it their duty to regard the solemn warnings of history to any system under which spies are cherished, as base, un manly, and tyrannical." Ot - the three. Chartist petitions which have been pre sented to the House of Commons, and successively re jected, the first was signed by a million and a quarter, the second by two millions and a half, and the third by three millions and a half. The Wesleyan Missionary Society's sale at the Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate-street, concluded yesterday. The most curious portion of the sale has been the chased rings and necklaces from Coomassie, the capital of A sh antec. The freeholders and copyholders of the parishes of Leyionstone and Woodford, have addressed a communi catio-.1 to the Verdurers and Lieutenant of Epping, fliinanit, and Waltham Forests, complaining of various encroachments upon their ancient rights, as well as the rights of the Crown, for several years past, and request ing them, as the protectors of those privileges, to attend to the settlement of this subject. FOREIG FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent: !Portuguese, D 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian,p per cent. Bueno s Ayres 6 percent. Russian, 5 pel cent...... Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto. 1824 Ditto, Deferred.... . Danish, 3 per cent B3 IFrench, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent — I Frcuch, - 3 per cent. —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 I Dutch, 24 per cent. 51i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. I Ditto, 5 per cent. ......, 102 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... 94 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 47A Great Western Railway (65 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) . 344 Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) London and Birmingham (90) ...... ..... „ _ Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) ........ .. 474 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 624 North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern E a x n; c l 22 H D o A4S v iN e li paid) r LGGe ( eg s Enh O o_oa:nl , F. 12 74IGibraltar .B.STERDAYS9. 224 46 g COURSE h t . O . . C2F U. 1 25 90 12 71:11ilan - Hamburgh ......M. B. 13 15 Venice Ditto, A Aß notit s we te er r r pd a d a t; l s:i . . ..... 47 Altona ................. . 13 154 Naples Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles ........ ... . 25 85 Oporto 524 Bourdeaux ............... 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26 Frankfort on Maine... 1514 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin 7 New York, 9 1days sight 464 . _ - . _ Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 957 Philadelphia - 46 Trieste, ditto 9 58 Parma OF BULLION, PCB OZ. Madrid ... C,Aiz A 'PortlrgalGolti C0m...3 17 ö Bilbao !New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona l6 i New Dollars 04 10 Seville „, ~ ~,,, 36 ISilver iu Bars... ~,,, 411 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND i; n tatl!tt (91)tit pp tOll. " Who runs may read." WOTLEZGIT . We learn; from the French Papers, that the Soult and Guizot Cabinet gained another triumph in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday . evening by the election of four Vice-Presidents, Messrs. Salvaudy, Bignon, and Debellyme, and General Jacqueminot, all of whom be long to the Conservative,. party. The opposition were quite crestfallen on the occasion, and not .one of their candidates could show a respectable number of votes. The Journal des Debate observes, that the result of the election for four Vice-Presidents in the Chamber. of De puties on Saturday proves that, notwithstanding the .se cession of M. Dufaure, the Conservatives still possess a majority of from 42 to 66 votes, and that some of the Op position candidates were returned. • The Toulonnais of the 4th inst. announces that the transport corvette Le Rhin was on the point of sailing from Toulon for New Zealand, with the new Commander of the French naval station in the Pacific Ocean. . _ The Messayer of Friday night contains an official article relative to the new lines of railroad which the French Government has determined on executing. It states that the preliminary between Avignon and Marseilles, between Dijon and Chalons-stir-Saone, and between O r l eans an d Tours. It steps are taken on the lines then says that the survey of the line from Paris to Amiens, with branches to Lille and to the coast (either Boulogne or Calais) are in a state of forwardness ; and that the administrative council ofrailro4s 'is speedily to be called on to decide on the several propositions.. Accounts from Spain are of the 31st .ult. The Infant Don Francisco de Paula and family.were to leave Madrid on the following morning for u Sebastian. The Regent, the Ministers, and several personages.of distinc tion had,Already taken leave of the P r i nces. The troops of .the garrison had been confined to their quarters, in consequence of a report that a riotous demonstration would he made on the occasion of the departure ,of : the Infants. The Madrid Gazette Publishes a decree ordering all the officers of the army who had not obtained a special permission to reside in Madrid, to return forthwith to their respective corps and posts. Letters from St. Petersburgh state, that when the in telligence of the death of the Duke of Orleans reached that capital, the Emperor ordered a court - mourning of twelve days and countermanded . a ball which w as t o b e, given the following day in hon Our of the Princess Olga. PIS.RLIAIMCEN'rAiLY. The Lords yesterday held two conferences with the Commons, waited for some time to receive Bills from them, passed several measures a stage, including a Bill to repeal an Act just passed, touching the slave trade carried on by Portugal, and then adjourned. The Commons, at their noonday sitting, agreed to the Report on the Bankrupt Bill after some discussion, and ordered the Bill to be read a third time to-day, Sir James Graham gave up the County Courts Bill for this session. A petition was presented against the return of Mr. Walter. At the evening sitting Mr. T. Duncombe presented a petition against the spy system (Ireland). In reply to Mr. Hume, Sir R. Peel said he hoped the House would be prorogued on Friday, and he is to move to-day that it adjourn over to-morrow. In reply to Mr. M. Philips, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said he had received no official notice that our Government would be called on to pay the interest of the. loan for Greece, which it had guaranteed, the Greek Government being unable to pay. In reply to Mr. C. Buller, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer said he should not submit any measure to Parlia ment this. session, relative to the forged Exchequer bills. In reply to Mr. Hume, Sir James Graham gave an ex planation of his conduct in pardoning a Mr. Johnstone, who had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for an indecent assault on his servant. If the reader wishes to see a gross case of a Judge making a state ment to the Secretary of State, in the absence of counsel, solicitor, witnesses, and a prosecutrix, totally at variance with his charge to a jury, and with the sentence he inflicted, and of a Secretary of State acting on such a partial statement without examining a single other person, commuting a sentence, and so stig .matising a young woman, he must read Sir J. Graham's explanation. A more flagrant case has not for a long time fallen under our n notice, or one which more strongly convinces us that the prerogative of mercy should not be left to the discretionary use of any Secretary of State. Sir R. Peel, in a Committee, moved an address to the Crown to erect public monuments to Lord Exmouth, Lord De Samnarez and Sir Sidney Smith, and brought the services of those gallant officers before the House in an appropriate, eloquent, and as Sir G. Cockburn said, beautiful speech. Mr. Hawes, after a few remarks, left the matter in Sir R. Peel's hands. Sir R. Inglis objected to pledging the House to place the monuments in SL Pees ; he wished to have a place set apart for them. Sir George Cockburn, Mr. Hume, Mr. Wyse, Sir P. Burdett, Mr. Brotherton, and others, spoke oh the subject. The address was, of course, agreed to, nem con. The Coventry Boundary Bill was passed after a di vision. The Limitation of Actions (Ireland) Bill was reported. The House rose a little before Teh. - MONEY — TRADE—COMMESCE. Nearly 200 shipwrights employed in the ship . building yards on the Tyne, left their work last 'week, in conse quence of an attempt made to r educe their wages. No disturbance had arisen from the strike up to Saturday. A meeting of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-Law Asso ciation was held on Monday at the offices, West Strand, when thanks were moved to the Earl of Radnor tir his advocacy of the cause of free trade, and his introduction and support in the House of Lords, last Thursday, of a Bill for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. A Staffordshire nailer, at the present rate of work, is obliged to make a thousand nails, two inches long, for one shilling and sixpence-; and a thousand is accounted a good day's work for the generality of workmen. A body of the working classes, in number about 4,000, assembled on Monday evening in the space adjoining the pin-manufactory, St. George's Market, Southwark, and a memorial adopted, praying her Majesty to dismiss her present Administration, anct to appoint a Ministry who will make the People's Charter a Cabinet measure. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The Commissioners appointed under the Southwark Improvements Act held their first meeting on Monday at the Literary Institution, Borough-road. The contem plated improvements are confined to the district of the Mint, a locality which, from the reign of Edward VI., down to the present period, has been the favoured resort of burglars, highwaymen, thieves, &c., including Jack Sheppard and Jonathan Wild. About 200 ot these houses are now to be razed, and the new street will tra verse Harrow-street, Red Cross-street, Duke -street, and King-street, and when completed will form a direct com munication between the Great Dover-road and South wark-bridge. ELECTIONEERING. The Belfast election is not expected to take place till Monday the 15th. On the Liberal side, Mr. Ross, of Rosstrevor, has addressed the electors, and it is said that Mr. Shafto Adair will also come forward. Mr. Emerson Tennent, and Lord Hamilton Chichester, have issued their addresses on the Tory side. o...thitaiin involving . g th NAVAL AND MILITANCY. From a list of the slave-vessels and number of slaves captured by her Majesty's vessels of war on the west coast of Africa, and taken to St. Helena for adjudication, it appears that 32 vessels within the lust two years have been seized, having on board at the time of their capture no less than 5,139 slaves. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Guillamore has been chosen Aide-de .Camp to her Majesty in room of Colonel Dennie, killed at Affghanistan. LAW AND POLICE. At the North Wales Circuit, just terminated, sentence Herlihy Were found guilty, of death has been pronounced on two women for murder, Elizabeth Barrett, aged 23, on her illegitimate child, eight months old ; and Hannah Roberts, only 19 years of age, for poisoning her husbanckwho was aged 74., The trial of the vitriol throwers took place on Friday at the Cork assizes, when DanielsLonerganssloha Drew, Daniel Sullivan, and Timothy and sentenced to be transported for life. were fully The Middlesex Sessions, which ,haye commenced at enormous s ous of Clerkenwell-green 58 prisoners, 40 of 3vhom are cliarged with felony. e The final examination of ilichard. H and le y, Sarah Ann Hunt, and Richard Gifford, ch a rged With being concerned, either as principals or receivers, i n . 4 . large propertyPcalendar t o th e a number of robberies, amount, took place on Monday at Marlborough -street. taken against the prisoners, upon all of which they stood Twelve complete cases out of twenty-one committed. At the recent North Tipperary Assizes, .Tames Shea was sentenced to be hung on the 20th instant for murder, and death was also recorded against Patrick Tracey an d Thomas Dunn for abduction. Five other criminals were also ordered to be transported for life, and three for fifteen years. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. St. Croix or St. Cross, which is situated about a mile from Winchester, on the road to Southampton, is one of the few ancient hospitals or almonries now remaining in this kingdom. By the will of the donor, every traveller who knocks at the door of this hostel, on his way to or from Winchester, is entitled to receive from the porter a pound of wheaten bread and a cup of strong beer. TBEATRICAL. A new melodrame, entitled the Busleranger's Booty, or The Old IVorld and the New, was brought out on Monday night at the' Victoria Theatre. Several amateurs of fashion, assisted by Mrs. Nesbitt, and her sister, Miss Mordamit, got up the comedy of The I?iral.l, and the fierce of TOO Late ibi* Dinner, on Saturday, nt the Dover Theatre. Two new pieces were produced at the English Op era house on Monday night. One was entitled the Broken Home, and the other was a musical burletta„ on the story of Blue Beard. Both pieces were favourably received. COURT—TA-SU I°NABLE . The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort returned to Beau fort. House ye sterday from Brighton. ' The Duchess of Ilichmond and the Ladies Lennox left Portland-place yesterday for Gordon Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose leave town in the course of the week for Buchanan Castle, Perthshire. The Earl of Cardigan has left Portman-square for York. A grand-dinner was given on Saturday at the Claren don llotel, by several Members of the House of Com mons,- to Lord. Mahon and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, to celebrate the passing of the Copyright Bill.:. . Lord Stuart de Rothe:v.!, left London on . Sunday for Antwerp. Lord and Lady Southampton have invited a select circle to Whittlebury Lodge, Northamptonshire. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TIJESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg took their usual early walk to Adelaide Cottage this morning. - 'rho erince of:Wales and the Princess Royal, accom , panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken airings both morning and afternoon. The Royal party left. for . Kew shortly _before one o'clock, and returned to- the-Castle at six o'clock. Lord Byron has arrived,. and has succeeded the Mar quis of Ormonde as-the Lord in Waiting. The Countess of Westmoreland has arrived On a visit to the Queen.- Her }loyal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, and Major-General and Lady Isabella Wcmyss, will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. Captain Francis. Seymour (Scots Fusilier Guards) took his departure this morning. The_Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, arrived. at Kew at ten minutes past two o'clock yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four from 'Windsor Castle, followed by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting ; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince. Albert, in another open carriage and four. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge received her Majesty and the Illustrious party at the entrance to his Royal Highness's residence. A Royal Salute was immediately fired from Kew Green, and the Royal Standard was hoisted on the Church. A dejeune was served to the Royal visitors in the Dining-room, after which the whole of the party walked into the Botanic-garden. Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Princess Augusts of Cambridge, entered a pony phaeton ; their Royal Highnesses Prince Al bert, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and her Serene Highness the Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha followed in an open carriage • and the Duke of Cambri ' dge, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde, on horseback. After taking an airing round the garden, and into Kew Park, the august party returned to the ilesidence of the Duke of Cambridge, and were received by Baron Knesebeck and Colonel Jones. _ The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince and Prin cess of Saxe Coburg, and the Royal Suite, left at twenty minutes before five o'clock on their return to Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Newfoundland. Mr. Spiers, late M.P. for Richmond, in Yorkshire, with his lady and family, have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Italy, after an absence of two years. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH BELGIUM. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BRUSSELS, Am. 6.—The Senate to-day passed the Bill to enable Government to ratify the treaty exempt ing Belgium from the French ordonnance of the 26th of June. The treaty will, therefore, most likely be ratified ere this letter reaches you. The Moniteur Beige of this morning contains the fol lowing Royal Ordonnance, which I am sure will be read with astonishment : " Article Unique.—Provisionally, and to commence on the 15th instant, the Scheldt duties shall not be re imbursed except for steam-vessels which leave Antwerp on the days fixed by the Belgian Government, and only for the number of departures fixed for each of those days. We reserve to ourselves the right to regulate the order of arrivals, if experience proves to us the necessity." The Royal decree is followed up by a Ministerial one of the same date, which at once shows that the above is solely directed against the General Steam Navigation Company, and in order to aid the Antwerp Company in its unfair opposition to the former Article Unique.—The two Companies at present run , ning their steamers between London and Antwerp will obtain the reimbursements of the Scheldt duties for the following departures, viz., the English Company for a de partitre Sundays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays. The Bel gian Company Wednesdays and Fridays of each week." We have then here that which I was loth to believe, and have long suspected, the Belgian Government di rectly interfering, and in the most solemn manner, in fa vour of the Antwerp Company. I prepared a letter some time ago on the subject of these rival Companies, but in asmuch as the misstatements of the Belgian press made to the prejudice of the English Company, which caused me to write that letter, all at once ceased (undoubtedly because their groundlessness was discovered by the au thors of them) I refrained sending it. As that letter, however, contained a correct statement of the position in which the two Navigation Companies stood in respect of each other, and as, in order fully to perceive the extraor dinary character of the two ordinances above quoted, it is requisite that their relative position should be known to the English public, I trust you will not deem it too long for insertion in your columns. " The case attempted to be male out against the Eng lish Company begins with a fallacy and something more. It is not the Steam Navigation Company that run their boats in opposition to the Antwerp Company, but just the reverse. Even the boats of the latter Company were built to trade between Antwerp, Hull, and Hamburgh, as well as London, and not until this navigation was found unprofitable, were their steamers brought to run solely between London, Antwerp, and Ostend. The London Company has no right, and I believe does not complain, that the Antwerp Company seeks to profit by the London trade, but it has a right to complain that the days selected are just the same days on which the London Company's boats had always been accustomed to run be fore they brought their boats on these stations. Here, then, we have the opposition begun by the Antwerp Com pany. The pretence set up for this opposition is public con venience; but will any man believe that the concourse of travellers at Antwerp or Ostend is so great that one steamer a day cannot accommodate them ? Had public convenience anything to do in the matter, the Antwerp Company would have selected for their boats the days when the General Steam Navigation's boats did not run, in order that the passenger who could not leave Antwerp by the Wilberforce on Wednesday might em bark in the Antwerpen on Thursday. To use the lan guage of a Belgian gentleman well known in Antwerp— `The London Company, with laudable enterprise, opened the trade between that port and London when the grass grew in the streets of the Flemish city ;' and now that by this enterprise, and the pnb . = lieity given to its movements, Antwerp and Ostend' have become, to the incalculable benefit of Belgium, great landing places for the tourist, as well as most important mercantile depots, rivals step in, run 'their boats on the very days hitherto belonging to the English Company, and then have the quiet effrontery to complain of opposition ! But why does the Antwerp Company select the daysand hours of departure fixed on by the General Steam Company ?: The answer this ques tion is easy. Thelatter Company hive agents all over the Continent ;,their bills, fixing theday and hour their steamers sail, a - month in advance, are Spilled Belgium; Germany, &c., so that travellers to' Engliiiid; from those parts of the Continent for whom Antwerp and Ostend are-convenient ports, are, at the enormous cost' of the English Company, made acquainted with the hour they ought to be ready for embarkation. Well, what happens ? Down come a host of tourists, travel lers, &c., from the Rhine borders (for example), to Ostend, where, instead of one boat, they find two ready to carry them across the sea. What care Herr Steinkoff, Frau Hochberg, and the family Von Schneefels whether they embark in the Bruges or Sir Edward Banks ? Nay, they know no difference ; want ing to embark for England they step into a steamer thitherward bound. Thus does the Belgian Company rob the English Company of the legitimate fruits of its astonishing exertions. Much has been said about the support given to the Antwerp Company by the Belgian Government. Unless the Belgian Government support the Belgian Company in its unfair acts of opposition, I see herein no just cause of complaint ; but the Govern ment ought not to forget, that those who grant subsidies may exercise control, and that qui non prohibet quad prohibere protest, a SSIII lire ridyttr." I call your attention to this last sentence. When I wrote it, near two months ago, I had no idea the Belgian Government would directly interfere to aid the unfair opposition' of the Antwerp Company. By the ordi nances above quoted, the English Company is sub jected to a heavy duty, if is run a boat from Antwerp on Wednesday, the very day it has always been accus tomed to do so, and the day when by far the greater pro portion of travellers embark for London ; worth of itself the Tuesday and Saturday allotted to it. But, more over, a direct and immediate injustice is perpetrated. Bills are in circulation over the Continent, fixing Wed nesday for the day of departure, from Antwerp, of the English Company's boats—therefore all those who arrive at Antwerp for that day, brought there by the Com pany's advertisement, must embark in a Belgian boat if they embark at all. Is the interference of the Belgian Government in this matter the result of anxiety, not to be supposed afflicted with Anglo-mania ? At any rate, it seems to me a most unwarrantable attempt to injure the General Steam Navigation Company. I take this opportunity to inform you that the Belgian Government continue, up to this day, to advertise the British Queen in the British Gazette (tbe sole English -or here) as commanded by Capt. Keane, which is • notoriously untrue. I long looked on the°advertisement , as an oversight, now I believe it to be a miserable trick, to induce persons to confide themselves to this vessel, as Laing under a clever and experienced English sailor, while, in reality, she is under the command of an inex perienced Belgian sailor, as everybody ought to know. A tremendous thunder-storm passed over Brussels this morning about five o'clock—one crash of thunder, which seemed to rend the-heavens, was awfully near the surface of the earth. Happily the rain fell in torrents. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, Aug. 9. Their Lordships met to-day shortly after two o'clock, for the purpose of delivering several judgments. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenhain, Lord Campbell, and Lord Beauchamp. THE AUCHTERARDER CASE —THE REV. JOHN FERCUSSON V. THE EARL OF KINNOUL.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR proceeded to give the judg ment of their Lordships in tnis appeal, which was heard during the present session. The proceeding was insti tuted by the Earl of Kinnoul, and the Rev. H. Young, for compensation or damages, for having refused to take upon trial Mr. Young, as the presentee of the Church ofAuch terarder.The case came before the Court of Session, and they decided in favour of the claimant by a unanimous decision. From that judgment the defendants had ap pealed to the House. It was net, he believed, for any real inherent difficulty in the case, but on account of the im portance of the subject, .that their Lordships had taken time to consider their judgments. There was one proof that was very clear, namely, that it was the duty of the defendants to take Mr. Young On trial of his qualification as presentee to the church of Auchterrwder. That question was decided by the Court of Session, and it afterwards came by way of appeal before the House, which affirmed the decision of the Court below. The law was established by that decision, and it could not afterwards be controverted. It admitted of no fur ther question or appeal, and, therefore, that point being , clearly establiShed, it was the duty of the Presbytery to make trial of Mr. Young's qualification, as presentee to the church of Auchterarder. The defendants could not :plead ignorance of the law in the present case, because some of them' Were parties to the suit ; nay, more, after the judgment had been affirmed by their Lordships, the Lord. Ordinary pronounced an other interlocutor; by which he decreed that the Presbytery were still bound to make trial of Mr. Young. Mr. Young presented himself to the Presbytery,; the question was put to the vote ; it was decided against admitting him to trial, and the matter was deferred to the General Assembly ; so that the fact was established that the Presbytery refused to do so. Now what was the rule of law ? Why, that when a person had a public duty to perform, and if he neglected or refused to do it, and the party sustained an injury, that was the foundation fur an action. That was laid down in the case of Sutton v. Johnsen, tried before Baron Eyre, of the Court of - Exchequer ; and other authorities might be stated. A case had been cited during the arguments, from Leonard's Reports, of this description. A party had applied to a Magistrate to take his depositions in a certain matter under the statute of Elizabeth, in a case of hue and cry. The Magistrate refused to take the depo sitions, and it was held that the party was entitled to bring an action, he having sustained personal injury. Again, in another case of Sterling v. the Lord Mayor of Loudon, the plaintiff was a candidate for the office of Bridge. Master; there the Lord Mayor refused to take the pull, and it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to main tain an action. This was not only the rule in England, but it was applicable in Scotland, and had been decided in the case of Innes v. the Magistrates of Ediri burgh. In the present case the parties had no discretion to exercise—they 'were bound by law to do the act—it was imperative upon them to accept the party for trial, and under such circumstances it was quite clear the action could be supported. But then it was said the action could not be supported against the appellants—that it ought to have been brought against the whole body. How, therefore, could an action be maintained against the pre sent individuals ? Now, what was the fact— why, these individuals were the parties who had done the wrong in the present instance ; by their vote Mr. Young was' refused to be taken on his trial ; they were the parties, therefore, who had done the injury, and who were subject to the action. There was a case clearly in point on this subject—Ritchie v. Felton ; there the action was brought fora false return to a writ of man damus brought against the Lord Mayor ; the objection taken was that the act was done by the Mayor and Al dermen, and that the action ought to be brought against all, but there the Court decided that there was not the least necessity to adopt any such course, and that the action was rightly brought. The principle, therefore, of the present case was this, that where there was a public duty to perform, the parties were bound to perform it, and that if that duty was neg lected, and the individual sustained injury, he was en titled to his remedy by action at law. The act of the par ties, in the present case, was not a judicial act, but an act imperative upon them. The present appellants were the parties who were bound to do the act ; they had re fused to do so ; and such being. the case, it was his clear opinion that the judgment of the Court below ought - to be affirmed. Lord Baonatum said, agreeing, as he did entirely, with the propositions laid down by his Noble and Learned Friend, he was sure they would think an apology was due from him, not only to his Noble and Learned Friend, but to their Lordships, fur entering at all at large into the question which he had so clearly, so lumi nously, and satisfactorily. stated., Nor should he have done more flail have restod satisfied with expressing his entire concurrence in the decision, with I the exception of a single verbal alteration, which was this—instead of saying that the Presbytery, if they had j taken' Mr. Young on trial—instead of rejecting I would have acted judicially, and would have been en titled to protection, the context of his Noble and Learned Friend's argument went to show that all he meaut was, that this point was not then before them to be decided. With that single qualification, a mere verbal alteration, he should have been satisfied to have ex pressed his entire agreement with his Noble and Learned Friend, but that the very great importance of the case, and the interest it had excited, led him to trespass on the time and attention of their Lordships by entering into it. The decision of the Court against the Presby tery of Auchterarder, that in its continued refu sal to take Mr. Young on trial it had violated its duty, had been confirmed by their Lordships. It was decided that they ought to have made a trial of his qualifications, and, if found fit, to have admittedhim. This decree was allowed, became final, and remained un appealed from that day to this. But the Presbytery still continued in their refusal. At its meeting two motions were made, the first, that Mr. Young be taken on trial ; and the other, that the question be referred to the General Assembly, and the latter was carried ; the refusal, therefore, was plain and decided, and the present action was brought, not like the former one, against the Presbytery as a body, but against the individual members who rejected the motion, and was laid for the damage sustained by an individual, in conse quence of that refusal. But it was observable that the sum mons was different on the parts of the respective pursuers; the presentee only seeking reparation for the damage he sustained from the refusal of the majority, the question of a solatium for his feelings might be admitted. The patron might pursue though there had been no judgment in the other courts ; the presentee only sued under the judg ment that had been given. The question was whether the action lay against them as individuals ; if the former judgment had not been libelled on at all it would have been decisive of the question, whether the Presbytery was bound to take him on trial or not. They came now to the only question at issue between the partieS ; it had been said that they were individuals, and not the Presbytery ; the former action was against the Presbytery, as well as against the individuals, though the judgment was given against the Presbytery alone. If the law cast any duty on a person which he re fused to do, or failed to perform, he was answerable for the damage to those to whom that refusal might bring in jury. If .several persons were jointly bound to do that duty„ they,vvere also liable for the failure of the parties injured;: ,In this case the majority had disobeyed 'the laW, and, therefore, the majority was answerable. Nor was this proposition less binding, be cause there were exceptions introduced into the law of almost every nation in Europe. Thus Courts of J page. were not answerable for their decisions; even. infers L courts, provided the law clothed them with judicial. functions, were not answerable for' errors of iiidgaiwitL EFen where they were only invested .with a ' cllispretionary power, hpwever plain might be their miss injurious the consequence, they were not answerable; but where the law neither conferred judicial power t\or discretionary functions , _ but required certain . things ,to bla done, every body, whatever might be their weri bound to obey, and were answerable for neglect, or refusal, or contumacy. In this respect the comparison between the higher and lower courts seemed to vanish, as inferior courts were answerable, where the higher only were not. It was not denied that the Presbytery had certain judicial functions, but the functions they had exercised in the present instance could not be considered of that nature. It was not necessary for him to go into the question of the Presbytery: being com manded to admit the presentee, as that question did not arise, because the Presbytery had resisted in the outset taking the party for trial. The law had been declared, which stated that the Presbytery were bound to take the presentee on trial. The judgment of the Court of. Session was, that the Presbytery, having refused to try the qualifications of Mr. Young, acted to the hurt and injury of the pursuer, in an unlawful and illegal manner, and that judgment, after great consideration, had been affirmed by that House. The Nobl e and Learned Lord then entered into a lengthened legal argument, for the pur pose of showing that the Presbytery could not be consi dered as having a supreme authority in the Church, sub ject only to the General Assembly, but that it was bound by the law of the land, and must obey it. His Lordship pointed out that the Presbytery stood in the place of the Bishops in England, and mentioned cases in which the Bishops had been subject to a writ of mandamus for refusal of a license ; a nd in what did the action aga i nst t h e P res b ytery differ from an action against the ordinary ? It had been contended that • the Presbytery being a corporate body was not liable. But in the Scotch law there was a great laxity with respect to what were corporations and what were not. Almost any body of persons, acting and continuing to act together under it, might be called a corporation. In England a corporation could only be con stituted by statute, or by grant of a charter from the Crown, and in Scotland diftrent towns had the power of ma king grants,' which:constituted corporations; and unless those various bodies were answerable for what they did, there would be no remedy whatever. In the present case there was proof of an illegal refusal, and contumacy in the performance of a duty, and of injury resulting from it. The Presbytery had refused, and did still refuse, to do what was re quired of them, and a continued wilful refusal to do an net bad been held equjyalent to doing an illeznl one . The charge that the decree of the Court . below violated the consciences of the itinbers of the Church, had not been entertained in the present instance. That was a topic from which they had abstained altogether. He would respectfully suggest to any indi viduals who found obedience to the law of the land re pugnant to their conscientious scruples, that an easy escape from their pressure was placed within their reach. It seemed by other appeals of a like nature to be sup posed that there was something profane in the Legisla ture which acknowledged the Divine origin of the power of the Church in endeavouring to enforce the exercise of its duties by temporal penalties ; yet the compelling men, or a body of men, to exercise the faculties they had re ceived from Heaven, was one of the most ordinary acts of the executive, legislative, and judicial power, not to mention that it was the act of ordination itself, and not the preparatory trial for ordination which the Church claimed to receive from above. But when men sought to excuse themselves for any contumacy, or refusal, or neglect, and endeavoure.l to justify it, they had fallen into a much more practical error—one of a much more sinister as pect, and fruitful of far more dangerous consequences. We have, say they, on the one hand, the opinion of the civil courts, and or. the other the positive injunction of our ecclesiastical superiors ; and that all they did was to refer to those superiors for advice. In what difficulty did they refer to them—touching what nice perplexed matter—involving what tangled controversy ? No less nice, difficult, and perplexed question than whether they were to perform a duty which had been de clared to be incumbent on them,:or whether they were to follow the advice of other persons, who set themselves in opposition to the tribunals of the country, and com manded them to disobey their decrees. And who did they resort to ? Not to unbiased advisers, whose counse 1 would be safe, but to parties whenCe had proceeded the un wholesome advice that they should disregard the law. "It is fit," remarked the Noble and Learned Lord, in conclu sion, ‘! that'these men learn at length obedience to the tribunals appointed over them, a lesson which all others have long ,since acquired, and which they, in learning, must be prepared to practice. It is just that they should make, reparation to those whom their breach of a plain duty has injured—a duty which is not deubtfUl, but which the Courts have distinctly laid down-- 7 one in which their failure cannot be a mistaken opinion nor an error in judgment ; they know what they ought to have done, and they have refused to do it, and the penalty of their transgression is, that they should make compensation to th ose whom they have injured by their pertinacious refusal to perform their duty, and yield obedience to the law." Lord CorrExias; said that he felt great satisfaction that the case had been so fully discussed . by the Noble and Learned Lords who bad preceded him. A few sen tences would express the grounds on which he con curred with the opinions they had stated to the House that the judgment appealed from should be affirmed. The Presbytery in the present case had no discretion: the law was clear. They had refused to obey it, and the re sult was injury to• the party. Such being the . case, he had a right to maintain an action. But then it was said these parties were not individually liable for the acts of the Presbytery at large. Now, what was the fact ? Why, it had been decided by the highest tribunals in Scotland and this country that such was not the. case, and that there was no ground for such a defence. The law was, that parties committing damage were answerable for it ; the appel lants were tke parties who had committed that damage, by violating the law ; the Court of SessiOn had decided that they were liable for that damage, and he had no hesitation in saying that the interlocutor of that Court was correct, and ought to be affirmed. Lord CAMPBELL was also of opinion that the interlo cutors of the Court below were correct, and ought to be affirmed by their Lordships. The Noble and Learned Lord, after going over the facts of the case, stated that, upon those facts, he believed the action was well brought. The refusal to obey the decree of the Court of Session, which .vas affirmed by that House, to say the least of it, was committing a wrong, and if that wrong worked injury to any one, the party committing the wrong might have an action brought against him by th e p ar ty i n j ure d. Th e mem bers of the Presbytery need not feel their dignity hurt by this decision, but it was said that this action was an interference with the right of the Church to confer holy orders. God forbid that any Civil Court should take upon itself to decide whether any person was fit to preach the Gospel or to admi nister the Sacrament ; but he was satisfied as to their jurisdiction in those cases where the preparatory trial was refused. Under the Act of Uniformity the Bishop had been compelled by a mandamus to grant a license ; there was a distinction between a Bishop refusing to ordain hav ing found the candidate unfit, and refusing to grant preparatory examination. From the time of Thomas a'Becket till now, there had been no such assertion of ecclesiastical power, as that a civil tribunal could not call in question - the decision of any Ecclesiastical Court. In the most palMy days of Popery in England, if the EccleSiastical Courts exceeded the canon, an ap plication was made t.) the Courts of Westminster, a prohibition was granted, and the law easily vindicated its dignity if thC Bishop resisted the proceed ings. He was not aware that the Roman Catholic ChurCh in Scotland 'ever claimed a higher exemption from civil jurisdiction than the Catholic Church in Eng land, or that the Reformed Church ever had a greater exemption than the Catholic Church ever possessed. As to the complaint that they were made liable for acting according to their consciences, nothing was more dangerous than that the obligation to obey any law should be made dependent on individual opinion of its pro priety. He believed no Church had ever administered the rites of religion more satisfactorily than the Scotch, as proved by the high moral condition of the people, and he hoped they would continue to dispense those blessings to distant generations ; but for this purpose it would be as well for its members to pay respect to the supremacy of the law, as its predecessors had done. It would be well if they would follow the example of a Mackintosh, a Robertson, and a Blair. A continual application to Courts of Justice would inevitably lead to confusion, and the subversion of that Church which ages had not been able to impair. Their Lordships. then ordered the judgment below to he affirmed with costs. Their Lordships gave three other judgments of no public interest. INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT, August 9. IN RE JAMES BROMFIELD. The insolvent in this case was opposed by Mr. Ilaghe, on behalf of a creditor named James Carpenter. It appeared that Mr. Carpenter had rented a house from the insolvent, in Camden Town, and some of the clauses in their contract not having been complied with, the present opposition was entered in order that the in solvent might be compelled to lodge in Court the lease of those premises under which he derived a beneficial interest. Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS ordered the case to stead adjourned until the lease be produced. IN RE PHILLIP' SPENSER HARRISON. The insolvent was the proprietor of an ironmonger's establishment in Holborn, known as the sign of the Little Dust Pan. He had been a bankrupt some time back, and the investigation under his present petition had been frequently before the Court, and adjourned from time to time. He was supported by Mr. Wood ruffe, and opposed by Mr. Cooke, on behalf of a person named Rowland Williams. Mr. Williams having entered the box, in reply to Mr. COOKE, said he could not be termed in strict parlance a creditor of the insolvent, although he (Mr. Williams) '' had become security for him in the sum of 2002, and con. sequently wished fur the assistance of the Court. lq la , Mr. NicHoLLs said, as Mr. Williams was not a creditor; A he had no right to be heard in opposition. Mr. Gotland, a literary teacher, having been examined - with respect to purchasing some furniture and °thinly - Ow, • perty which formerly belonged to the insolverit:and the r use of which he was still allowed by Mr. Gotland; The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said the insol vent's balance-sheet required some amendment, and as he was at present out upon bail, he shouldbrdei the case to stand further adjourned. w ~ i', :POLICE INTELLIGNCIO: 3OI th! 1 $ CLERK E IV TV ELL bvs" David • Brown, a - gentlernanly=lookine 1361 .4 0 W. 4 ` ) "' charged: ,!.)3r Mrs.. Tryphosa Mine, a ladyiektfie hriG‘"4"9l'.' 46,' Upper North-place; 3 (lriea firi t ;M ei llty ,lm OLP tic . followingtircunistanots - :== 1 ~": 7; , 3 The complainant, .111 rs: Laiie-7 7 .4epiiikicrtbarTiTUT ' been intinfite with the ptitoner , for it earislaitattlelli4 s ..„ ik .„...., She' hid lately been separated &tali liertinisbtuid: Vesfte day about twelve o'clock the trisbnei 'Walked 'het . 3 7 drawing. room, and offered her cake' and wine , tt being, - 4 her birthday, which she refused. Hi then becalm abusive and insulting, arid said he would take her life before the morning, upon which she gave him into custody.—The prisoner was committed, being unable to rind bail. (11,1 i I UNMV-lIALL. Mary Hulse was charged with conveying spirits into the county gaol, against the regulations. One of the turnkeys stated that, on being suspected, she was examined, and a bladder of gin was found in her bosom, which projected out so much as to excite sus picion in the first instance. The defendant was fined 205., and informed, that if she repeated it, the heaviest penalty would be inflicted. LISTS OF VOTJERS.—III consequence of the 31st of July falling on Sunday this year, the lists of voters were exhibited on the church and chapel doors last Sunday, and will be on Sunday next, and may be seen at the house of an overseer during the first fortnight in August. Those persons who desire to secure their votes should not fail to see if their names arc inserted ; and also that names have not been improperly put on. It is better that claims, in cases of omission and objection, where there is sufficient ground should be made by a registration society, where there is one. The following are the grounds of objection :—Peers ; aliens, under twenty-one 'years of age ; idiot or lunatic ; officers in the Excise, customs, Stamps, Post-office, assessed taxes (if appointed by -As sessed-t ix Commissioners) ; new police ; conviction of bribery, or any other crime; pauper; dead; premises not of sufficient value, not a house, warehouse, counting house, shop, or other building ; chambers, if a street door ; lodger, where the premises are not included in the above description ; landlords who did not occupy a suf ficient part ; ser vant, as secretary, manager, or other wise, not being owner or tenant ; not. occupied twelve tnonths ending the 31st of July, or let the premises during any part of the year ; bankrupt or insolvent ; not rated or claithed to be rated ; poor-rate not paid ; window tax not paid ; non-residence within seven miles Ir v in the 31st of January to the 31st of J uly ; partners, where premises do not giv e 101. a-year to each partner ;or not e in partnership fur a year ending the 31st of July, or want of qualification in other respects as above. Naiee• of objection or of claim must be served on the overseetS. - - Mr. Standish has left for the Continent, with the intention of remaining abroad for some considerable time. He has broken up his establishment, and his stud is about fn ha cilia • 1111P5mIlillM=4:= ;*i . i ';- 'J.) be si% e ant, 3ri- rust s a ion, ales ss a nt ; QO tige with ing ' it 8 e, or he er •I-9 4 c ,31, eg o --3! _~! ~ ~. '~ •..,. r~ • I I f~