The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

~• 'prosrc; e nd ur friO. o tebtally wished he er.se ntained , se argc" :11-nueN good in head of 1 ood d wpritted • ronct 0 Moul d s Ire uliiuo 3fembe r had pro' had Fro• lid ur n the G' aid the,' abuse! , d abuse • ml OpylY !Wed or, lon. fili u s i n ceriti Leous, it T T; t 111011,,, o f their e motion dimiuisb 11 be bu t Ile moti on IfpeOP t le. Genue n beforo the fund this pto• • :sible fore south ° , alinisters of ge fi r a subsw .t Was the •usure the Mon ber an d WY van es I.,rea s "' ortblow,' Learaeu. isted that. ;ake o°i ion. Ire 'is but the ur the rabic that der nit, Ill' e the ale. era "° uld Is paid bi fer ll , 0)114 TRY. SUN,- LONDON, PRIDAILTY-1 1 VINT-G-i gY4:l-If. Ararscftsne,74.....nser 4 ‘ , 4 1 . 1 ! 44e 1c,t h e, , t - o l i d o c u n le ,.. t . bo eor l de e ti mg the peoceedings as they 11, - ,(1 He mou=ld . venture to say, if the Hon. 1 .,; () taper wohld rest a little longer, such a body of evidence al d laid ' the House as would satisfy ever. p ar e re • '. He felt convinced that the House would continue 'lttsed,:ii,seerretion towards the Committee of which he was a "ti • h . " 1. • SCARLETT supported the motion, believing that. (business of such a Committee could nut be conducted '`. A iell in private as in public. ESC-OTT -...ae supported the motion of the Hon. Ba rn believing that justice only could be done by allow 4.Proes accused to be pr es ent. H e f ea r e d the Ii on. e .b.' l °er would lay a Report on the table of the House th.on would have no practical effect and would make e who h a d token part in the investigation, extremely 14atisfied with the result. The Hon. Member must },?l' ace th e House and the people of this country that p rio '_!d made out a case for departing from the regular prin ciples of justice in these proceedings. trle - • L ABOUCHERE said he must suspend his judg pront upon the proceedings of the Committee until the 4 „,, e(2 dhiers had been hod upon the table ; but if it then tgeared cleat the Committee had not allowed . parties to th nt ,"'". the charges made against them, he quite agreed It would have no weight whatever.—(Hear, e l. ) But. the question at present was whether e l p• should interfere with the discretion of the to before its proceedings had been brought !' ec, and that being th e que sti o n, he felt I.,`n•ti th , t 1 t° oppose th e mo ti on o f th e Hon. - Member for the e e ,- I, ,. e ,rsity of O x f or d. Th e C omm i ttee h a d a l rea dy pro .e,,rtlll" to a great ex t en t w ith t h e i nqu i r y, an d h e wou ld • 111 3' deprecate any interference with their pro ..uoir PEEL said that the course which he - should e v o , r sae with respect to this motion Would have no refer ent! whatever to the proceedings of the Committee. to :_getting that this Committee existed, the sole question c o l'e decided w as , w h et h er i t was r i g h t f or t h e H ouse o f i n c ' t hotis to p ass a r eso l ut i on contro lli ng t h e proceed gs of all future Committees. The present case was se a l s - J?tis to that of a Committee of the whole Hoose, meh, if' a charge were preferred, a stranger ri 2 right to be present. The cite of ti l l' t t ah " jury was analogous to the present, and yet in t i t s ease there were many charges at which the party te• s r s 4 , ed ,.,„.had no right to be present. He was prepared t o : - 0 •0” distinctly to the motion for giving a right orkersons to b e present at charges made in the House Wet:aion s • • t• INGLIS replied. e i .Sir Zatigers were then ordered to withdraw, but no di ita Ir?.ok place. On our return to the gallery,. we found h 1. • ptINCOMBE on-his legs. He said the House t to lay clown an uniform rule for the guidance of ri : e m a li , t , tees in future. He would move the previous 7. . OIAIV understood it was too late to move the Sir It• ' 4l B question now. PEEL thought it useless to divide on the pre tllfts question an vg Ai r I,feiv:Words' from Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Roebuck, . mr • ..scott, a as l:) • li C rs • u ß in U g. LLEß said that the course his Hon. Friend feawas a guarantee that he did not mean to toditt up hy vindictive measures. He thought the ois Hon.-Friend pursued was the one most likely sir!ancill-ate the f r i en d s o f lib ert y. sir I t PEEL saw no ractical difference between the np elquestin,"°n% and as he was always opposed to taking - --e of the House by questions of a technical e i s re, he would vote for the previous question, as other ,,,..there would be two divisions. . 4.11 e !louse then divided, when there appeared— the • or previous question l2l Against it 49 - Majority for the previous question —72 ?Ni x , its DOVER HARBOUR. efr e „, • CE moved for a copy of the Report of the or aPPointed by the Admiralty to consider the plans re ) , r • Ctivitt for constructing a harbour of refuge at en - ee e r• The Right Hon. Baronet admitted the import 'Oul°f A having a large and good harbour last year, but ci t e," riot make any promises on the subject in conse xLe'ee of the embarrassed state of the .finances. He hoped they improved he would carry out lies promise. T, r • WALLACE seconded the motion. question having been put, 12 e d CUANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he objection to t h e mot i on o f t h e H on . G ent l eman . oti ttalnitted th e importance o f h av i ng a goo d harbour ecast, but he could not at present make any pro le!' the subject. ' ta,„ r • RICE did not want to have a series of harbours site 4: the coast. All he wished for was, that one exten itrirbour should be ci nstructed. ` , `boat PEEL said that the opinion he gave in 1841 eirt,e,,that local exertions would not be likely to prove h est t ual, and that the construction of a harbour on the R er .,P,, r iaciples, whether at Hastings or Dover, should be s ec ,"" in the hands of the Government; but that, irr con te4ence of the finances, such a work could not be en ,t!Poll. He hoped, with the Hon. Member, these °u m the su , !tit:wove, but he could not make any promises on PLUMRIDGE wished the Government would h en ; °lte steamer to clear the mud from the inner har ed Falmouth, fur which nature had done so much „malt so little. tos ir s , t , PEEL Must decline giving any assurance on rui i d Ject• Application had better be made to the Ad la't3' through the usual channel. t:tonaPtain PLUNIRIDGE had made repeated applica .4sheturauhtejoAdmiralty agreed übject. n was thento. Ai r b CORN-LAWS. 4 ' 4 NNERMAN rose to move the following re- the „ 1 1' , of which he had given notice hat it is tte tc t''ltion of this House, that, considering the present ve st - i .. ( ),f the country, it would be highly expedient to th°rittier present most Gracious Majesty, similar au thi s i f to that whi c h was g i ven t o h er predecesors; anti 4 "se, before the close of this session, will cheer hei'lstacjuiesen in_granting such powers as may enable ' 4 taJesty, with the,advice of her Privy Council, to tlt'r.tir discontinue, should circumstances so require,. Seie i a ties which now regulate the importation of foreign lYe i k'' U ntil the lit day of January, 1843, or for six_ ::rosieehftter the commencement of the next session of l'etl'alli-ent." He was aware that her Majesty s Go might ask for the power which he proposed, also that it was opening another discussion on . the &le e ' a ws• It would also be giving the Right iestr`;l.r.able Baronet the power of relaxing the reielons on the importatro. of eorn.. 411, this te, se . t. he said, belt it 'was their imperative duty to agree sliti e jl e Course bef ore th e expiration of the session, that tsted t end to reli eve th e wide-spread distress that ex that ti t! the country. I t was needless for him to say e,e i t etz. " 4l country was, for many years, a large log e 4 exporting •Y• morn the year 1696 we have been an import keiltuatrY, but it was not till 1815 that the Govern es t t ve ntured to press su c h an atrocious prohibitory law o f ,d° preient w i t h r e ga rd to the importation t illo i ( j % :`,'• By the A: t of Queen Anne her . lajesty was tle et .''' a power of regulating the trade in corn. It was nfth from the wording of the Act that the Government it th4 t da y' wisely . attempted to provide against the rise L ll n e l Price of corn to the prejudice of the people. • He 4r t i„" ;Mt trouble the House with any of the statutes re ig to the exporting period. Nut one syllable was 4! e ,..'1 all the 21 A cts re l at i ng t o th e ex p or t a ti o n of corn rul g to im ortation. In the thirteenth year of t i he ThiL his Majesty expressed his great con 'ji.listiottli'tt,.B_e prospect of an enhanced price of corn. This thtatiunis " speech from the Throne, and the consequence speech was, a law prohibiting the expor elee, „"f corn, and in the speech of the of the Exchequer he said that a fount. " ? th e expenses o f the year wou ld b e th e r e , " i 's to be g i ven on th e i m p or t a tion of corn ; and tv ii - s 7 t eat peri o d to 1805 no l ess a sum th an 2,600,00 e/. Cro wn for these be - unties. In the year 1796, the A"ice e w a 3 authorised, whatever might he thecoin ,lu . cu rl' and flour, to permit the importation of alitt free. The Act went still farther, and par e . 1 , 19 importation of all kinds of provisions, cattle, r of ee,, l e,P, Poultry, fowls, and articles of subsistence, 4„'Y (1, -scriptiote—(l-leux, hear.) The next statute tit refer t o was eine of a much more recent date ; Ler 4. 4, when the Right Hon. Gentleman was a Mem the Gov ernm e n t, a rev i s i on o f the Corn-laws liaer?Posed. At that time great distress prevailed, ()11 a ' tittn igh no measure was proposed that ses m. "lite ! ! P t a resolution was moved that the Par- N tei. ,. should allow the Crown to authorise the 4 (,)t - : 1 4; from bond, duty free, a quantity of corn 'Pe % c ' e ,dillg 500,000 quarters. The extracts from the tre ss (4 , 1 1 r. Canning on that occasion proved that the the Government was to relieve the great (Its `). t h 6 country. In the sane debate, a living states the .ilivhorrt he saw before him, the Right Hon. Baronet, to nvitteeuezaber for Tamworth; declared that it was no use corn to be taken out of bond for sale, tae / i tl 'e peopl e h a d no t money to purchase it. 111 N 8 , (41 Gentlem an th en r e a d several passages from Yearr (t hes of Lord Stanley and Lord Aberdeen some lie ( r tr go. wh en they advocated those priticipies which t her e R.) was th en u ph o lding. Before he 'sat down, w as one r emar k w hi c h h e w i s h e d to ma k e w ith re it t ' ,neat had taken place lately ih. that House. The .•ae "a• Baronet had stated that in 1833, 1834, and ishinthe manufacturing districts were in a most flou 'kce. ' fl e oadition. That was certainly an undoubted kern Ile then stated that no corn was imported in those e . 4 oe et , Ibis was an undoubted • fact. The Right Hon. s " the 'am drew the inference that this was it benefit keit) Manufacturing Interest, While he (Mr. 13anner tho. tears, th a t - t h ere was no cor n imported during t hattr ar s, he be gge d to rem i n d t h e Ri g ht Hon. Baronet Year s ,e price o f wheat was 48s. Ba., and in the next four ee ek t te Price of wheat was 645. 41, being no less a diffe itttlee., au 17s. the quarter. Therefore, he left, he House to or 4 l s ,PiPPosing that this . country consumed thirty mil atillet,""; quarters annually, what an enormous sum of boas paid by the consumers of this country Pr ee i e _ se t"ur years for wheat over what was paid 4 11ur "ns years ; and during . the latter period the 'aetur ers were certainly not. prosperous. He there tqletiouttght that he was justified in submitting the re , 4, of which h e had given notice to the House.l. rot th e , ACE seconded the motion. motion being put, 44.thIN fi„,'l,ld,__4l)STONE said he was aware of the unani 4-4'ithe t u l u u ' i n g t " the House with respect of distress . .11 the A entry, but, there were differences of opinion ex ectti uoe relieving it.—(Hear.) The Honourable tn ' an b ad rest e d a great part of his case eh. preeed: th e ! Act s ent of former Acts, and he referred to Ca leis 4 during the revolutionary war. Now he 'n u Q stu ne) sci 4 that those Acts w ere entirely be tli t P re sent qumion The first Act quoted was 2 (1 4 ., ,P:l3'td in 1795, whet; tb i e price of wheat was 755. ete ts Tad, duel;ee tae whole o f die war the average price - 4 -n• and was frequepay 1,),..,",1 never er ereli dr eg 0s • and 100 s. Commer:'" Was then. a•np Aet 11 ' "km, and it was actually 11,7"asarY that (.".! should be passed then; but such Acts woe.- 11tilt1,422aPplicAule to a time or peace. 'The Hon. ".4 "Xt r aerred to the Act of 1826. But it - must be riraembered that that Act only contemplated t the admission of a limited quantity of corn—five hun dreet thousand quarters--a quantity which could effect no good - object when the immenve number of con- ' sumers was con4dered. To give - such a limit • as' that would be perfectly ridiculous when any man might introduce his corn at a duty of from 9s. to 12s: a : quarter.—(Hear, hear.) He stated these facts to show to the Hon. Gentleman how different were the two prieds which it was sought to assimilate by applying, the saine Acts to both. He might add - that the.,e pro hibitions formed one strong argument for the change in the Corn-law which took place some years ago. What was the proposition of the lion. Gentleman ? Was it that the discretionary power with which he intended to invest his Right Hon. Friend—which certainly appeared to be most extravagant—should be exercised at a time when the prices were moderate, or when the prices were exorbitantly high, or was it to be exercised when the prices were as at present ? Mr. BANNERMAN—Certainly—as at present. Mr. GLADSTONE continued—Then if that were the case he said that the Hon. Gentleman was doing that indirectly which he ought to do directly. He ought to raise the question of repealing the law at once, openly, and not go about it in an oblique manner. -(Hear, bear.) If the Hon. Gentleman intended that discretionary power to be exercised at a tune when prices were- low, then he (Mr. Gladstone) did not hesitate to say, that. instead of conferring a boon he was inflicting a - serious injury upon the consumer and the producer.—(Hear.) If they were to wait until corn had reached an extrava gantly high rate it would be an inducement to the im porters of corn to hold back and create an artificial scar city in order to take advantage of the higher price. What was the great objection alleged against the gradu ated scale? The Hon. Gentleman's plan was open to all the objections whiob could be urged - against a repeal of the Corn-law ; and also to all the operations which could be urged against the graduated scale. The Hon. Gen tleman had taken a more unfavourable view of the opera tion of the present Corn-law than circumstances Justi fied, and nothing could tend more to prevent importation at the present moa:ent than the House entertaining the motion of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen. The present law had not as'yet had such a trial as would enable them to form a reasonable judgment as to its results. 'They had, however, had an importation of 190,000 quarters of wheat since the new law came into operatidn. He admitted that was not so much as the wants of the country required. yet he thought there was reason - t o believe that the mer chants would, in a short time, feel inclined to bring into the market the million of quarters now in the warehotiktes, whier would be very beneficial to the revenue, and more beneficial to the country.--(Cheers.) He trusted the House would have no hesitation in rejecting the motion of the Hon. Gentlemen. • - Mr; WARD agreed that it would be better to repeal the Corn-law, but they knew they could not carry the repeal, and therefore they wished to mitigate the effect of the law. The Government had introduced the Corn law on their own responsibility, and they (the Opposi tion) wished to increase that — responsibility by the pre sent measure. - There - had not been a single argument brought forward by the Right Hon. Gentleman that had not been met and disposed of in -IF'26 by Mr. Huskisson and by the Right Hon. Baronet at present at the head of the Government - There were emergencies to which every thing ought to give way—this was one of those emergen cies. The Government had brought the motion upon them- Selves. They insisterlon having the law, let them also have the power of relaxing it.. Let the whole responsibility of executing that law rest upon the-Government. The har vest was uncertain, and the Government ought to have the power of relieving the wants of the people without loss of time, if they thought fit to exercise it. This argument was met by the country gentlemen, in the time of Mr. Canning, as it would, no douht, be met by the present country gentlemen. The country gentlemen then used the same arguments as the Right Hon. Gen tleman who had just addressed the, House. One gentle man then said, s+ hat perhaps country gentlemen would not say of the present day, that thus attack ing the Corn-laws was attacking the Constitu tion ; and Sir John Brydges said, " Pcrish the commerce of the country, but live the Constitution!" It had been said by Mr. Canning that a statesman ought to have two kinds of courage--one, the courage to resist unjust demands, and the other, - t , ) grant demands that were just. Was it not dangerous to, refuse the demands of the people? He (Mr - . Ward) believed in his conscience, that it was so. Winter was coming, and the greatest responsibility would be thrown upon the Government, and this was the reason he would vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend. - Lord WORSLEY said he did not think the motion had attracted that notice which it would have done if it bad been brought forward at an earlier period of the session. He thought that sufficient attention lrad not been paid to it. He did not approve of the proposition, as it would induce speculators to use means to get up the price of corn while - the .agriculturists would never feel themselves safe. lie thought it would be dangerous to vest the proposed power in the present Government, who had conic into power as the supporters of the agricultural interest, but had not proved itself so. The Right lion. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade said there was every prospect of a good harvest ; but he (Lord Worsley) felt. that he was doing his duty in stating that he did not believe that the crop would be an average one. It appeared that the specula tors in corn would act under the new system as they had done under the old one. With these views he could not accede to the motion. Mr. NIILNES said he believed her Majesty's Govern ment were strong enough and virtuous enough to take upon themselves any responsibility whatever. A great emergency might arise before Parliament was called to gether, and he thought it was right that the Government should be prepared for it. lie could not on that occasion vote with the party whom he always desired to support: Mr. P. M. STEWART supported the motion. The Government could not conceal from themselves that the present Corn Bill had the vice of the old one. At' than moment there were . 1,500,000 quarters of corn in bond, which . was more than the Government contemplated, and the speculation was that the-corn-holders would nut pay the nine shillings duty, but wait till it was one shilling. He thought the Government ought, on every account, to be invested with this power. Mr. WALLACE said he had seconded. the motion because he was of opinion that it oug to be agreed to. It was because he had no cOnfitlenci! in her Majesty's Government that he supported that - motion. He he , . lieved that the people would die of starvation in the streets and lanes of every town before the Government would prhpose remedies for their relief. He called upon the advisers of her Majesty to let her know the condition of her subjects. He asked that the people might not be starved. Enormous sums of money had been advanced for various works, and how could they refose to make. provision for saving the people from starvation ? The reason he voted for the proposition was, to put it in the power of the Ministry to mitizate the present Corn-law. Mr. JOHN PARKER said that a great Minister had in 1826 come into the House and said he would, on his own responsibility, afford relief to the people during the tune Parliament was not sitting. • Th:4 Right lion. Baronet now at the head of the Ministry, supported him in that. The exigencies of the country then w ere nothing to what they are now. The distress of the country was then a paralysis, now it, was a decline of the country. If the Right lion. Baronet had properly framed his Corn • law this proposition would nut have been necessary. What they wanted was a communication with America. —(Hear, hear.) They wanted a proper communication with America to • make this country prosperous. He should most certainly support the proposition of his lion. Friend the Memier for Aberdeen. Sir H. PEEL • said that the proposition made by the Hon. Gentleman for vesting. thii discretionary power in her Majesty's Government, which was the object of the motion,. was mainly i‘.sted upon two grounds. The first ground was authority, and that authority chiefly con si.sted of the precedents of 1826; and upon the other; which . was the more important ground--pulAie advan tage.-(Hear, hear.) With respect to the second argu ment, it was quite clear that public' weal was the first consideration. The precedent which had bcea ref rred to it was necessary to exatnine, and see if the real nature of the proceeding had any bearing on the present exist ing circumstances. In the year 1826 the exiting law precluded the admission of foreign wheat until the aver • ate price in the markets of this country attained to 80s. The Government of that day had to consider whether that law should be altered-; and the feeling that pre vailed in the country was that the law required change. The Government under the direction of Mr. Can ning felt that they could not recommend an alte ration, but he proposed to give a discretionary power to the Government to admit foreign wheat under certain circumstances. But under what circumstances ? Under these. The importer was to pay a duty of 2s a quarter upon all corn above 500,000 quarters which should be admitted ; and Mr. Canning stated his reason for giving this discretionary power to be, that the coun try would be for: many months without a Parliament. But so impressed was Mr. Canning with this dis cretionary power, that in the 'ensuing year he intro duced a precaution against those powers being exercised. He now came to that which was of much more im portance than mere authority against the reason of the thing. In the year 1826 Government determined not to submit any Bill to improve the Corn-laws to Parlia -ment ; in 1842 the Corn-laws had biert adjusted, and he was speaking now under a re-adjustment of the Corn laws— (Oh, oh)—and two months afterwards a proposi tion was made to s give a discretionary power to her Ma jesty's Government to alter the duty. Why, he could understand what it was to repeal that law, he could understand what it was to propose material alterations ; but two months after the Parliament of England had settled the Corn-laws, to make a proposition for throwing uncertainty over the whole of it, certainly did appear to him (Sir H. Peel) to be the most ridiculous way of adjusting a difficulty. It was his opinion that if this law were passed, a premium would be held out to the speculators to withhold their corn. Gentleman condemned the Corn-law upon its operation for six or seven weeks. He protested against that de cision. He admitted that the varying rate of duty in creased the temptation to speculation. It had been said that there was no instance where corn was taken out of bond for home consumption, when there was a tendency in prices to rise. In the last week there had been a tendency in_ prices to rise. Thequantity of foreign corn importe d in the week ending the 30th of June was 68,481 quarters, and the quantity entered for home consumption was 25,756. What confidence could foreign Governments h a v e I f) the Legislature of this coun.ry, if, two months after an a djustropw had been made, that adjuEtmext were disturbed ?—(Hear, bear ? ) lie trusted the house would come to the eoPelusion that it was not advan tageous to take from the law the certainty of its exe cution and place in the -hands of the Government a power which might be improperly exercised.—(Hear.) Lord HOWICK said it had been clearly shown that gFeat }stress existed throughout the country, and with equal elearness lia4 it lleGi) Ohi(M11 that but for the Corn • that distress migbt be P.l4loliijd ! • PuFler tbosf, eir .'-`"0,4141 W" cle4ir.44le to give a cumotrinees 11.. ,eretion,lry - powee to the Government It - the prin ciple of adwitting - corn or a limited tine was at:mitted, it would be easy to declare that for a given tame a duty of Bs. should be imposed. Those - ho oppe.7ed a fixed duty did so because it would being more land into cultivation. That could not be urged as an objection to the present motion. He admitted that the measure was Open to objections, but those objections arose, riot from the measu re it se lf, b ut f ro m th e na tu re o f the law which was soeght to be repealed, and holding this opinion he felt it hiS duty to support the motion. Lord JOHN. RUSSELL said that there was one remark which the Right Hon. Baronet had made during the present discussion, and that was, that the present Cora-law caused speculation. The Right Hon. Baronet said that they ought not to judge of the new Bill by a seven weeks' experience. Bat the Muse must consider that the etects produced were the same effects as those of the old law, and which the framers of the new one adthitted was unsuited to the wants of the country. With respect to the question before the House, he (Lord John Russell) could not support the proposition, as be did not think it would remedy the evil complained on He had no doubt that., if the necessity arose during the recess, the Government would take the subject into their own hands.—t Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME said that no man could object more .than he did to plating any discretionary power in the Govern ment, and he should oppose the proposition if he could find any thing better ; but, as that was not likely, he should support the proposition. Strangers Were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided. The numbers were— For the motion ll3 Against it Majority against the motion ... —62 FLAG OFFICERS IN THE NAVY. Mr. HUME moved for a return showing the services of all flag-ofE cars in the navy, distinguishing the date of entry of each offica into the service, -and the several commissions which they have obtained, distinguishing. the period passed in commission in their respec tive ranks, and the total period on full and half-pay ; and showing also the period when each was last employed, and the age of each, officer at the prc•sent time (in continuation of the returns: in the Report' of the Commission of Naval Inquiry, in 1840, No. 11 of Appendix Of that Report, and also in continuation of P. P. of 251 of 1837.) Sir G. COCKBURN opposed the motion. After a conversation in which Sir C. Napier, Captain Pechell, Mr. C. Wood, and Dr Bowring took part, Mr. BIi3OTHERTON -moved the adjournment of the -••- - • 'Air. COBDEN seconded the motion. Strangers were ordered to withdraw and the House divided, when there appeared, For the motion 2l Against it 7l Majority against the adjournment —5O On our return to the gallery, we found that Mr. HUME had moved the adjournment of the debate. After a short coeversation•between - Sir - C. Napier, Sir George Cockburn, and IN;r. P. Howard, the motion for the adjournment of the debate was agreed to without a division. • Sir H. MARDI` GE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws. relating to out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, empowering the Secretary-at-War to pay pen sions by monthly and weekly, as well as by quarterly payments. • Sir J. GRAHAM obtained leave to bring in a Bill to suspend the making of lists, and the ballots and enrol ments for the militia of ie United Kingdom. Also a Bill:for l'urtber suspending the operations of the new ar rangement of dioceses, so far as it affects the existing ecclesiastical jurisdictions. TUe adjourned debate on Mr. Wallace's motion was further adjourned till this day. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Three o'Clock. The Frankfort Journal announces that Lord Pon smhbr arrived in that city on the Ist inst., on his way from his Embassy at Constantinople. 1-lArivEsT PROSPECTS.—With one exception (Gal way), the provincial papers:continue to report most favourably of the prospects of an abundant harvest. The. Dublin Weekly Register of this day says—" Altogether the season is highly favourable. Crops, which were indifferent some weeks ago, have greatly improved ; this is to be said especially of oats. In .the county of Dublin, however, the potatoes have missed is many quarters, and lightning• has done some damage to the wheat; The meadows are also in general light, and from none but a few can an average crop be expected." In the county of icklow remarkably fine new potatoes are to be had in great abundance for Id. per lb. The only danger at present to be apprehended is froM a continuance of the high wind which has prevailed during the past week, which in some districts has caused fears for the safety of the early potatce crop, but 'as yet there is no mention made of any injury being sustained. ' BRISTOL AND EXETER HAILWAY.—Friday, July 1, was the day appointed for the opening of that por - tion of the line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway which connects the towns of Bridgewater and Taunti,n. A considerable number of the Sharehild,rs availed themselves of the invitation given by the Directors to meet them in the latter town. to celebrate the event by a public breakfast. The first train, for the con veyance of passengers to Taunton, was announced to leave the terminus at Temple Meads, Bristol, at nine A. M., but in con sequence of the influx of visitors, additional carriages had to be attached, which caused some delay. At about five minutes past nine the train took its departure, and from its unusual length, and from the engine (the Castor) being decorated with a profusion of colours, it excited on its way a snore than ordinary degree of interest. On arriving at Bridgewater, it was met by a large cone: urse of spectators, who lined the banks on either side of the rail ; and at Taunton the whole population appeared to have come forth on the occasion ; the importance of the event causing the day to be kept as a general holiday.' The, train arrived in Taunton at about eleven o'clock. The journey from Bridgewater (11i miles) occupied twenty minutes only, and the ye. y perfect and complete state of the line was a subject of general remarb. On Saturday an inquest was held before 3,1 r Wakley, at the Volunteer, Upper Baker -street, New-read, on the body of Edward Farrell, Esq., aged 6p, a p-ritleman of fortune, who died of starvation. It appeared that the de ceased had resided for some months at 31, Upper. Baker-street, and possessed extensive pr,perty in Ireland: He had latterly determined gradually to diminish the quantity of his food, and continued to do so even after it was insufficient_ to support life; the consequence was, he became ill, but refusing medical aid, he at len,ih on Monday resolved Slug( ther to abstain from eatirg, and, locking himself in his room, would permit no one to enter for about twenty-tour hours. Finally, the door was broken open, and lie was found in a state of extreme exhauss• tion, fiom which medical treatment restored him for a short time, but a relape ensued, and he died on Wednesday. Up wards of 100/. in cash was found in his apartment. Verdtct— Died from want of food. -- - - PRESTON GUILD MERCIIANT.—This splendid en tertainment, which is held once in every twenty years, is ap pointed this year to take place in the month of September. The last Guild was celebrated in July, 1822, and was unques tionably one of the most superb municii al festivals that has been held since that period in any part of the kingdom. Preston Guild is on the model of the ancient guilds or fra ternities. 'lll,,ugh a Saxon institution, the first Guild Aler t-hint at Preston was held in 2d of Edward 111.. and has been held without intermission at a period of twenty years, ever since that time, when, the Guild Mayor issues a proclamation announcing that " all persons claiming to have any tight to freedom or other franchise .of the borrugh of Preston, whether by ancestry, prescription, or franchise, are to appear by them. selves or their proxy, to claim and make out their several rights thereto, otherwise they will, according to ancient and im memorial usage, forfeit the same."—Leeds Mercury. Woac iiSTE a, JULY 2.—The London mail, which runs through this town to Ludlow, will shortly be taken off the road, and the letter bags for this town, Ludlow, and the inter mediate towns, will be sent on the Great Western and Ilir ming railways, and conveyed to such towns from the nearest stations by mail-carts. Lord Lowther has determined to abo lish mail•coaches where it is prat icable to do so, and he has also ,intimated his intention to dispense with mail-guards on railways. This Ilan, considering that guards are paid now by the Post-office, anti not by fees from the public, will save a great expense. On some of the norihern railways the railway guards have already heea sworn, tsi enable them to take charge of letter_ bags. Tile Earl of Lichfield first ntrodueed the pay ment of guards by the Pos`:7lfice, and prohibited them from taking fees from coach passengers, but this plan was introduced gradually on account of the expense. The payment of the Post-office of the staff of mail guards that was necessary before railroads were completed, would have increased the expenses of the department by an item of 70,0001. RUGBY SCHOOL.---A. large number of clergymen and graduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have sent in their names as candidates fur the Head-mastership of Rugby School, vacant by the lamented death of the Rev. Dr. Arnold. Amongst the number are the Rev. Benjamin H. Kennedy, D. D., Head-master of Shrewsbury School ; the Rev. H. Kynaston, High-master of St. Paul's School ; the Rev. C. Wordsworth, B. D., Second-master of Winchester School ; the Rev. J. W. l3lakesley, Al. A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge ; the. Rev. Charles Ilerivale, B. D., Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge ; the Rev. William Tait, M.A., Tutor of Ralliol College, Oxford the Rev. Charles Osborn, M. A., Master of the grammar School, Macclesfield; the Rev. Robt. Spranger, M. A., Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford; the Rev. Mr. Donaldson ; the Rev. Professor Browne, &c. The election will take place on the 28th inst., and will be severely contested. The Trustees in whom the nomination is vested are the Earl of Denbigh, Earl Howe, the Earl of Aylesford, Sir Henry Halford, Sir George Crewe, Sir Grey Skipwith, Sir Francis Lawley, W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P., Evelyn Shirley, Esq , M. t'., Henry Holbeche, Esq., and H. Grimes, Esq. A GREAT DIFFERENCE.—A gentleman belonging to Glasgow was, the other day, giving an account to his care sposa of the dimensions of the monstre chimney at St. Rollox, mentioning, at the same time, several details connected with its erection, and the magnificent prospect to be enjoyed from its summit. During the conversation he expressed his inten tion of taking an opportunity of making the ascent of the chimney, but the lady strongly and affection itely dissuaded h.m from exposing himself to any danger which might be incurred in the attempt. t..she could not be satisfied upon any ground that going to a height of 450 feet in a bucket, with a landing place apparently only a few feet in diameter, could be accom plished with anything like safety. At length, to dimini.h her fears, the husba,d mentioned the name of a married acquain tance of his, who had been carried to the top of the stalk, when she quickly rej Oh, but you know his life is insured, and that makes all the difference in the world !"—Glasgow Courter. THE WEATHER.—The genial rains during the past week have proved most beneficial to the crops in the home dis tricts, refreshing the ground, and imparting new vigour to the thirsting vegetation. Few seasons of late years have been more propitious to the farmer, the heat being far from exces sive, and the elements so variable during the last few days, that while not sufficiently unsettled to cause more than a very par tial, and by no means important, interruption to the hay har vest, the turnip and wheat crops are benefited to an extent almost ioerestible ; the present season has also been remark able fur the paucity of violent storms of late years so preva lent. On Tuesday afternoon several heavy showers fell in the vicinity of the metropolis, and the barometer indicated a slight fail. The wind was south-west, and there appeared to be every probability of more rain falling. The crops, generally, are de scribed as looking very promising; but the plant of wheat in some districts is unusually thin, probably from the scarcity of Fa in during the openiqg months of the spring. StiDAF4 II A.T4 AT t BATtic----,011 Tuesday, a gentleman, named Eland, who resided in Bloomsbury-square, Called at the public baths, situated in Princes -street, Holborn. He was shown to a room, where he had undressed himself, and was about to fling himself into the bath, when he fell down, ap parently in a fit. Medical assist ance was pron.) obtaintd, and Needing resorted to, but without effect, as life was soon p• LATE EDITIONS of " THE SUN" in tho CI rY. Turn. JOSEPH THOMAS, of No. 1 FINCH- L LANE, CQIIN HI LL, has made. arrangements by which the Public and the Trade may be supplied with a THIRD EDITION a «THIE SITN " PVERY EVENING at HAI:F-PASiSF,V EiNi O'CLOCK, And Subsequent Editions when Published. The THIRD EDITION of " THE SUN" contains the PROCEEDINGS of both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT np to SEVEN O'CLOCK, and all other important in formation accesbitile to that hour. Ort Ttrasna I'S and FarnAvs a full Abstract of the " Lon don Grzette"—Bankruptcies, Promotions in the Army and Navy, &c. &c., will be found in this Edition, the importance of which will be appreciated by MERCHAN l'S and BANKERS for their FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Advertiiements and Orders for " The Sun" received by Mr. Phomas, No. 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; where also may be ,btained Every Morning, before Eight o'Clork, " THE MORNING SUN." qll-102iSON'S SEASONS, • Illustrated with 77 Ekgraviogs on Wool, Edited by BOLTON COREY, Esq , will be ready..for delivery, in a new style of binding, on Fli,lay next, the 15th instant. Square crown Bvo., price 21s. ; in morocco, by the best binders, Z6s. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and LongmanS. NEW NOVEL by the AUTHORESS of THE FLIRT." Now ready at all th e Lib rar i es, i n 3 vo l s. , T HE MAN(EUVRING MOTHER.. A NOVEL. - By the Authoress of • HISTORY of - a - FLIRT." Henry Cnlburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WAR IN INDIA. Now ready, in 2 vas. Svo., with a valuable Map, and 22 ll lusttations, T RAVELS IN KASIIMER P, LADAK, ISKARDO ; The Countries adjoining the Mountain Course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North 44 the Panjab. With Observations on the late and now passing Events in Affgbanistan. 13g G. T. VIGNE, Esq., F. G.S. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries ' in 3 vols. iA_DY BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL, " THE LOTTERY OF LIFE." . " Characterised by good sense, humorous observation, grace of mind, and versatility of fancy."—Athenaeum. " Lady Blessington's book has been very pleasant reading to us. It is gracefully writti , n throughout, and with a lively power of goodhearted ridicule. lady Blessington excels in what we may call refined caricature, in whieh a spirit of frolic exaggeration runs side by side with a cheerful fancy, shrewd observation, and humour both sharp and genial. These volumes wi I add to Lady Blessington's reputation as a lively, acute, and agreeable writer."—Examiner. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough. Street., THEATRE-ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING. JULY 8. The Performances will commence with the New Dram; called THE LuNE HUT. Princpal Characters by Messes. 0. 'Smith. l)iddcar, W. H. Bland, and Harley, Has Murray, Miss Crisp, and Miss Faucit. To be followed by Or , New Burletta, entitled THE WATER ATM in which Messa J,.V.liing, Oxberry, Barke; Misses Murray, Crisp, Pincott, and Hughes, will appear. After which, THE ILLUSTRIOUS S ANGER.—Bowbell, Mr. Harley; Azar, Mr. Barter; Niza, M a. Hughes To conelude with the Farce of A DAY A ELL SPENT.—BoIt, Mr, J. Mining; Mizzle, Mr, Oxberry. • Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. - Gallery, Is. Doors o , en at lialfpast Six ; commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quartet before Nine. Private B.,xes to be had of Mr. Grogan, the Private Box-oflic2 ; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 8. Will be acted Ant er's celebrated O•era of IRA DI A VOLO.— Fra Liavolo; Mr. W. Harrison; Lord Alicash, Mr. J. W e b ster; Lorenzo, Mr. Walto ; Beppo, - 51 r. t.. Stansbury; Giacomo, Mr. LtfiL•r; Zerlina, Miss. Rom i• ' • Lady Allcash, Mrs:Serie. After which, THE ARTFUL DODuE.—Artful Dodge, Mr. G. Wild. To conclu e with a Drama call d THE CROWN PRINCE; or Me BUCKLE OF DIAMONDS, in - which Mr. J. Webster will a l ). Nal% PlAces and Private Boxes may be.' ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Lox Office, from Eleven till Femur FRENCH PLAYS, ST. :JANIES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 8, The Performances will begin "ith .I.E MARI ET L'AMANT. After which, LE PAUVRE JACQUES—Jacques, vieux Musi. cien, Monsieur 13oufle. To conclude with LE GAMIN - DE PARlS.—Joseph (Gamin de Paris), Monsieur 13m.ffe Boxe, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. lid. •, Amphitheatre (or Gallery Stalls), 36.; Gallery, 4s. Doors will 'be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per_ tormances commence at Hall-past Seven Applications fo Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at Mr. Nit. cheil's Royal Library, 33, Old Borid.sticet; and at ;he Box.odiee of the Theatre, %%Mel) is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and - the Public. are respectfully 'informed that ON MONDAYS, TPESDAYS, AND THURSDAY 4 GRAND EVENING FETES will lye given , in ‘v hich will be em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favor,- . rite place of recreaion its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in: trod actions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im. portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Table iu d'actios, repre senting the noce , sion of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles,. to the Castle of St. Angelo. The. BAND includes some of the most em neat Performers, con. • lucted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES ~tI.IsICA LE.S selected( rom the noblest Works of the great Masters. The I LLUMINATIONof ST. NUE/VS, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIR A N DOL A of' ST. ANGELO, wi h all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnificent introductioris that have called forth ac. clammations of delight and admiration on. each evening of their ex. lilbition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the - CASE 4.DE of ;BRILLIANT FIRE, - SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The -Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Muslcales, Illumination of Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, chnrsdays. Admission One Shilling. portation and death on seT s eral offenclefk anotberiiinFder .bas been Connalittel in that part of Ireland : On Sunday la-it, says a letter from Dublin, dated the b:h inst.., in the middle of the noonday, and in the populous neigh bourhood of Della, in the county of Tipperary, a party of four men entered the house of Mr. William Hardy, and robbed it of three guns, a pistol, and sword. Mr. Samuel Hardy, the brother of the proprietor, was in theact of entering the boucv, and making some show of resisting their retreat, when one of the mi-creants came behind him, and struck-him with a stone on the head, from the effects of which he died in a few minutes after. Mr. William Hardy is a respectable farmer, and bears an excellent character among his workmen and neighbours ; his bather, who has been thus foully murdereA, was a most indus trious, upright, and kind man. Without presuming to assert, with the diabolical deeds of COOPER- and GOOD fresh -in- our recollection, that the English are more moral .than the Irish, there is, we think, it marked difference in their .crimes, which may suggest different remedies. Most ofllia great crimes committed here have a sordid origin. They spring from a love of money as a means of gratifying low and sensual passions. The bulk of the crimes committed in Ireland have their origin in revenge, or in a struggle for the means of subsistence. Some dispute takes place about a farm, some tenant - is dispossessed, and another takes leis place; some landlord infringes _ on the customs of the people, and feuds, quarrels, and assassination ensue. For these and _ _ all other classes of great "crimes springing from very different sources, the _legislittor has but one lumping punishment. He thinks, or has thought, that the gel lows is a universal panacea, and he adminkters it in all cases with as much deliberate, but much more mischievous quackery than ever Mr. MoRISoN prescribed his uni versal pill. Such an easy system of generalisation saves the Legislature, we admit, much trouble, but inflicts on it indelible disgrace. With the exception of one or two attempts on the lives of masters in the manufactuiing districts, England is quite exempt from that species of murder growing from feuds and struggling for the meas of subsistence, which take place in Ireland. The. source of this differ ence is .to be found, we are induced to believe, in the independence of individuals in Ireland, and their dependence in England. In Ireland each one of the pea santry, little acquainted with the comforts and luxuries of life, having little or no trade amongst them, supplies the great majority of his own wants. He and his fa mily buy nothing as it were ; perhaps they make a part of their own clothing, but at any rate they do not go to the grocer, the baker, the butcher, the brewer, or the publican for the supply of their daily meals. The family sows, digs, and cooks its own potatoes, and sub sist on them almost all the year round. The Irish, for want of manufactures and trade, Jive, as it were, isolated and independent ; and each man nourishes iu his own bosom the evil passions of the semi-savage. In England, on the contrary, even in the most remote and most rural districts, there are few or no families which do not subsist rather by the exchange of their labour than on its immediate produce. The great ex tent to which division of labour is carried here makes us all mutually dependent, and has done far more to ex tinguish the strong passions of the savage than the use of the gallows, which has been common to both coun tries, and is a relic of the barbarism which division of labour has done much to extinguish. Thus it is the difference in division of labour in the two countries which gives birth to the difference of their crime,. It is customary, we are aware, with those who have acquired something of the jargon, and nothing of the spirit, of the science of national wealth, to speak of it as merely explaining how capitalists heap up money; but those who have caught its spirit are aware that, as in this case, Political Economy is replete with the highest moral instruction. The effect of division of labour in making men mu tually dependent, and, therefore, mutually kind, indicates that the true way to put an end to assassination in Tip perary and other places in Ireland, is to remove all the in pediments which either law or custom has there placed in the way of extending the different arts and manufactures which are suitable to the soil and the people, or which are known to the rest of mankind. When the Irish have bi,Comd artisans, and have ceased to live without ex changing their produce, they will cease to murder men at noonday for party strife, or strife growing out of the contention for a spot of ground. The extension of art, however, will not cure the sordid crimes of the English. We want sordidness banished from our legislation ; we want to get rid of the demoralizing example of lawmakers perpetually legislatingwith a view to their own profit, and setting the horrid example of putting their countrymen and countrywomen to death by hundreds and thousands, in order to extend the cultivation of their own estates. An abundance of food, we are inclined to think, the pro duce of free trade, would both check sordidness in England, and extend division of labour, with mutual de pendence, in Ireland. Political economy, in truth, rightly understood, will be found the best substitute for the gallows in both countries, if it do not teach. us how to dispense with much penal jurisprudence. „ ‘f•-: tat; .), ~..,4 ,, 0 .0 ' , .t,.?:•”; , •-i ; v., • ---,:': -).,- .,'• 44. tut LONDON , FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1842. The tariff went through a Committee last night in the House of Lords, and is to be read a third time this day. Compared to the Cominons, the Lords have made quick work with this complicated law ; but why should they discuss a measure they must not alter ? .Lord STANnotE, indeed, objected to the admission of cattle as now proposed, and the Duke of BUCKINGHAM sup ported him. On a division, however, only eight Lords voted against that part of the tariff, and 44 for it. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S opinion on the point is correct ; the landlords alarm themselves very needlessly. If they are contented with the protection given to corn, they may be pleased with that given to cattle, to im port which, from any great distance, is, as it were, pro hibited by the cost. But some of the Peers do not think that a sufficient security, and they would willingly incur the hatred of their countrymen, in order to clinch the decrees of nature by a decree of their own manufacturing. There is that.in the proceedings of the Anti-Cora-law Conference yesterday which will command attention We shall offer no comment on the bold and honest lan guage which was uttered, but only recommend the ati;- tocracy, if they wish to learn what is passing in men's minds, to study the speeches at the Anti-Corn-law Con ference. Mt% MortrusoN, who spoke -in the debate on Wednes day evening, is one of the greatest and most successful of our inciacanti. — - are preSumptuous enough to believe that newspaper writers, who have no interest but the public good, are in the great majority of cases better judges of questions of legislation affecting the whole community than any class of merchants or traders, who seldom see much beyond their own immediate pur suit, still we are not averse to have the testimony of such that one 1 a prac tical ve m s a ta n te t c o L c o o v nfi er r m a n o d u r over n a v g i e a I s : chief source of the mischief done by the Corn-laws, is the putting an end to a foreign market for our goods. Sir :ROBERT PEEL has recently t told us that commerce is me: ely a barter of eommodities- 7 -that is, one commodity is the market for.another—and consequently to prevent the owner of a cotton-mill exchanging its produce for foreign wheat and flour, is as cifectual a method to stop it I as to burn it down. Confirming this view our great practical merchant said " He believed that there was not a nation or a people in the world, who would not be glad to take from us more of our manufactures than they were at present enabled'to do. , p If we will not buy we c annot sell. The l aw says we shall not buy the very things we most want—namely, food—and y The great difficulty they laboured under was in finding equi• valents to exchange for the p roduce of our Manufacturing skill. Tills he believed was at th e bottom of much of the distress of which the country now co mplained . We were distressed, not because our prices were too high, bat b ecause other na tions could not purchase m ore o f o u r g oods, in consequence ° co l' uoludrgliazvsusexicnluedzienhgntghee importation- of the produce the , therefore the law prohibits the people f rom selling. To prohibit' them from selling is- to p rohib it them from pro ducing ; hence our mills are idle, and tho people out of employment, and in distress. The Whole mighty mis chief, therefore, which is now filling the land with woe, is caused by the accursed law which forin • ds our people from s , dling their goods for food in any and every part of the world. While we thank Mr. DionatsoN very earnestly for his admirable demonstration of the murderous folly of the Le. gislature, we cannot ;o along with him in advocating a fixed duty on corn. We are persuaded that the public is becom ing fast convinced that all corn• keeping -out laws are suici dal, and nothing less will satisfy t h e public mind, or th e j us of all su c h l awF . e victi ms o f fan cied benefits to arise from dis hone st legislation, to sub m it t T ic ti e e o p f eo tl p t e l e c h a a s v e e , b b u e t en th t e o t o o t l o a nb l a lge b en o hl l a i i t de i a c e ) n n tehry ; and though in t m h u e c s h u l i o ig u g g i e e r t t h o ey su s t m ul i d sera kick down the authority of the House of Commons—a circumstance which now seems by no means improbable --they will never be contented till every remnant of the systo 4 by which th e y h ave b een impoverished and aotually starved to secu re th e pre sumed greatness of the lando wne rs , have been swept :sway. for trial of several gr; l . 3 i e vo fo u r s e o t ff h e e n S d p e eeial Commission rs. qiPPei .a 7 d conlpletett its ao4l4st olec it hoproz-04need sentence of trans.! COURT CIRCULAR. Their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended by the Baron de Brandenstein, landed at Woolwich yesterday morning from Ostend. Immediately after their arrival, the Prince and Princess entered one of the Queen's car riages and four, and took their departure for town. Their Serene Highnesses arrived at Buckingham Palace, on a visit to her Majesty at half-past twelve o'clock, at tended by Captain Francis Seymour, (Scots Fusilier Guards) Groom in Waiting on Prince Albert, and the Baron de Brandenstein. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Buckingham Palace in the afternoon to visit her Blu3 trious Relatives. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the garden of Buckinghatri Palace. Their Royal High nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were takt n an airing in the Royal gardens, accompanied by Dowager Lady Lyttelton. . Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Baron de Brandenstein, joined the Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yesterday evening. Her Majesty. the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Duchess and the Heredi tary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Cambridge on Wednesday afternoon, at her residence at Kew. Her Majesty and suite arrived Ht !bur o'clock from Bushy House, Bushy Park, and at half-past four o'clock their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Saxe Meiningen and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, attended by Baron d'Erfra,arrived from town, and joined the illustrious circle. The whole of the party prome naded for some time in the grounds. Soon aftkr six o'clock the Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, and the Hereditary Prince, left for Bushy Park, and the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, returned to town. flis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by Cnlonel Jones, arrived in town at one o'clock yesteiday from Cambridge meetinf , of some -of -the-Cabinet -Ministers -totyk p!aCe yesterday afternoon, at the Office of the Board of 'Trade. Sir Robert Peel, the Duke. of Wellington, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer attended. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence ih Downing-street. MUSIC. " I LANGUISH FOR A FRIENDLY HEART." Sung, written by Major CALDER CAMPBELL. Composed, and dedicated by permission, to the Right Hon. ,the Countess of Me.rborough, by J. PINNING. A pretty simple ballad, 'set to very appropriate music by Mr. Vinning. The melodyis graceful and flowing, and the accompaniment veryjudicious, sup porting, but not drowning ; :the, voice. -It will be a favourite with all those ladies who prefer the flow of melody to the exhibition of mere tours de force, and as it requires no excessive power of•voice to give it full effect, this song will no doubt- become a favourite in the drawing-room. • MR. WILSON'S FAREWELL EN TERTAINMENT in LONDON for the SEASON. On Wednesday Mr. Wilson gave his last entertainment for the season, at the Hanover-square Rooms, which were crowded, and on no occasion could this favourite vocalivt have been more gratified, for the plaudits of his numerottS and fashionable audi ence were given in the most hearty manner. After he had sung his last song, Mr. Wilson, in " a few words at parti ng ," expressed his gratitude fo r the reception his- entertainments had met with. He commenced them by announcing three, and had gone on till he had reached the twenty-ninth, at the Music Hall, in Store -street, besides having given them in the Hanover-square Rooms, in Hackney, in Kennington, Camber well, and other parts in the neighbourhood of London, in all which places they had met with equal success. In conclusion, he hoped that those Ladies and Gentlemen who had attended his Entertainments, many of them without miss ing a single night, bad had no cause to regret having p asse d a few hours in his company. He mentioned his intention of bringing forward his Entertainmenti next season, whieh he trusted would merit the same patronage that those of this season had received, and ended by repeating Miss Joanna Baillie's lines:— Sweet sleep be with you, one and all, And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasures o'er again. To warm the heart, and cheer the sight Gay dreams to all ! Good night Good night ! Mr. Wilson, alter rusticating for a few weeks, visits, as we have elsewhere remarked, the leading provincial towns in Eng land, as also Scotland and Ireland. --- SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A GIRL.—Mr. Baker held an inquest yesterday at the Crown, Orchard-street, Black well, An the body of Esther Dul as , age d five years. Rebeece Ayrei, housemaid at the Crown, said, that on Tuesday morning last she was sent to the back of the house to get a can of water from the 1 iver Lee. She was returning, as she saw the deceased run from the top of a hill down towards the river. The descent was steep, and from the speed at wt. t ieh deceased was running, as she approached the bottom, she was unable to stop herself, and zau direct into the water. Before witness could raise an alarm deceased was carried some distance by the tide, and after she sunk a man jumped in to endeavour to save her. He was unsuecessful,7and an hour and a hall elapsed before the bcßly was lettALL — Yirdiet C` Accidental .depth." ~~ - C OR N-L Vl' S. -A) ISTRESS" 1N • THE COUNTRY. Yesterday evening a meeting of the Young Men's Anti- Corn-law Association was held at the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch, for the purpose of petitioning her Majesty not to prorogue the present Parliament without adopting some legis lative means of relieving the p industriousre:eat frightful st a t e o f destitu tion under which the and productive classes in the kingdum were labouring. Shortly after eight o'clock Mr. George Thompson was called to the Chair, amidst loud acclamation. The CHAIRMAN said, he felt bound to obey the wish of the meeting in acting as Chairman, and to render his humble aid under the present alarming circumstances in which the country was placed. In his opin 4 .on, there never was a public meeting held at a moment when the foreshadowing of coming events was more likely to produce alarm in the thinking mind than the present, for never did the distress of the masses appear so deep or so hopeless, or more likely to sap the foundations of these institutions, which, whatever might be their } articular opinions of Government or policy, were still dear and estimable in all their eyes. And whence arose their distress and its concomitant dissatisfaction? They had within the confines of Great Britain all the elements of wealth and i glory. No sane man would be so impious as to charge it to the Great God of Nature, and yet they, a population whose prominent qualifications were virtue, dtligence, forethought, and a yearning after independence of station, were starving. This nation was free from foreign invasion and intestine feud, and wherever there was a human being to be clothed, that country would semi us the produce of its soil, and ask nothing more in return from us than the more refined and ingenious produc tions of our intellectual advancement. Why, then, was it that England, whose name commanded respect on the shores of the Antipodes, could not support her own children?—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He felt not for the improvident or the idle, but his heart bled for the ill-fed and starving artisan who had a wife and family, and in vain sought for employment where Nature and God intended that bread shoUld abound for all men, but when lie was denied that remuneration which his industry merited—he bled for those who, in the centre of Great Britain, the seat of empire and power throughout the world, and the sanctuary of religion, were perishing of hunger, where more was spent in idle luxury and aristocratic debauchery in onenight than would give work to thousands of the industrious poor.— (Cheers.) if Satan himself had framed the laws they could not have been dictated in a spirit more calculated to hurry men to immolate themselves upon his shrine than those which pressed upon the labouring classes of England,- They were met there that night not only to reflect upon their present circumstances, but also to shape their future course of procedure. If he were asked what steps should the body of the meeting adopt, he would answer do as he did. They had applied to the Queen in the usual constitutional forms, but they found her powerless in the grasp of an all-powerful oligarchy—they had applied to Par liament.—(Laughter.) From that contaminated rendezvous of men who had bought their seats and who were the represen tatives of nought but corruption, they had received nothing but contumely. Again he stated that the only way by which the Augean stable could be cleansed was to do as he proposed, and to the meeting he would say, " Go thou and do likewise." He intended doing that which, if followed up by others, would annihilate a Government in three months, namely, to refuse to pay taxes—to refuse to pay, after the manner adopted by the Society of Friends ; they might take his goods, they might incarcerate him, but one shilling in money should never be tendered to the income-tax collector by him.—(Loud cheers.) That would take the linch-pin out of the vehicle of Govern ment—it would unship the helm and render the cumbrous vessel motionless, and all without any viulatiou of the law or derangement of the properly established order of society. In his opinion, the time for talking had now almost passed by, and the time for action commenced. In saying this, Heaven forbid that he meant any thing irreconcilable with peace, har mony, and the dictates of humanity ; but by a resistance in strict accordance with the principles of the constituted laws of the country, they would so far cripple the Government as to make Sir R. Peel swallow his former professions and pretended principles, as they had done before, in obedience to the pressure from without. Mr. P. A. TAYLOR having proposed the following resolu tion:—" That this meeting views with feelings of grief and alarm the severe, rolonged, continually increasing misery of the industrious classes of the country," ' Which was seconded by Mr. BOOTH, A person named MA NTZ rose to move as an amendment " That the only means by which the present condition of the operatives could be alleviated, was by adopting the principles of the Char ter in the assembly framing the laws ;" and continued, in a long arid rambling speech, to enforce his views, in which he was sup ported by three or four other speakers, amidst much confusion and uproar. The original motion having been put and carried, Mr. H. PRESTON, Jun., proposed the next resolution, which was seconded by Mr. WHITE, and carried after some opposition from a number of Chartists, who jumped from the burly of the theatre upon the platform. It was as follows : " That this meeting has seen, with feelings of surprise and disgust, Sir R. Peel's declaration that he does not hold him. self responsible for the distress of the country, when he has re fused to carry out, in respect to the food of the people, those principles upon which his late tariff was based." The following resolutions were then put and carried, shortly after which the meeting separated. " That this meeting considers that the proasodings of the pre. sent Parliament have shown the utter recklessness with which gereral and national good is sacrificed to selfish and class inte rests ; and regards the intended prorogation of Parliament at such a time as adding insult to injury, and throwing off even the poo: semblance of sympathy with a nation's sufferings." " That the memorial now read be presented to the Queen, praying her Majesty not to exercise her prerogative of pro• roguing Parliament until some measure has been passed which, by admitting free from duty the productions of foreign coun tries, shall at once give employment and food to our unemployed and starring millions." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Entry for Thursday : - TOWN PLATE, B. NL—c by Hymen darn by Perchance ; Brick-groom; Miss Sally, by Nonsense out of Rectory; Espar tero ; Seahorse ; Ma Mie ; and c by Retainer, dam by St. Patrick. • 11 A NIIICAP. —From the Starting-post of B. AI. to the end of new T.Y.C.—Menalippe, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Langclee, 4 yrs, Ifilb ; Minaret, 4 yrs, Bst slb ; the Oneida Chief. 3 yrs, 7st 21i) ; and filly by Bizarre out of Flambeaux's dam, 3 yrs, tist. CHESTERFIELD STAKES.—The Bolero and Nanine Turk and Mary Ann fillies have paid in addition to those men tioned in our last. The Garden Stakes.—Twenty-six horses were handicapped, but there were not acceptances enough to niake a race. THURSDAY.—Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft., Ca. three yrs old and upwards. From the starting post of 13. M. to the end of New T. Y. C. (5 Subs. ) Duke of Rutland's fby Bizarre, 3 yrs, Est (J Howlett) 1 Mr. Price's The Oneida Chief, 3 yrs, 7st 21b Mr. Pettit's Langolee, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 3 Mr. Thornhill's Menalippe, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b Betting.—Two to I agst Langolee, 3 to 1 agst Bizarre filly, 3 to 1 agst Menalippe, and 5 to 1 agst The Oneida Chief. Menalippe and Langolee laid in front in the early part of the race, but were headed by the other pair at the kill, the Bizarre filly winning easy by a length. The Chesterfield Stakes of 30 soya, each, 20 ft ; for two years old ; colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. Last half of B. M. (23 Subs.) General Yates's ch c Canton, by Cain .................(Nat) 1 Lord Exeter's f by Jerry, out of Macremma (41b extra) .., The following also started but were not placed : —Captai n Colquitt's Pickpocket—Duke of Richmond's f by Physician out of Young Sweet-pea—Lord Chesterfield's ch o by Gladiator out of' Anchorite's dam—Lord Exeter's f by Beiram or Sultan, out of Fanny Davis—Mr. Colman's Jamal (late Bacon)—Mr. Thornhill's Extempore, (Ms extra)—and Duke of Orleans Sis. to Jeffy. Betting -2 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's colt, who coughed repeatedly, and had no backers ; '7 to 2 agst Young Sweet-pea ;4to 1 agst Canton ; and 10 to 1 against any other. The running was made- by the Fanny Davis filly, the favourite following her, the ruck, headed by Young Sweet-pea colt, lying up ; this order was maintained with scarcely any change, to the rise of th e hill, where Canton and th e Maeremma filly singled themselves out to finish ; the filly, however, with the extra weight on her back, had no chance, and was beaten easily by a length. Ex tempore and the favourite were third and fourth, and every thing else tolerably well up, with the exception of Jamal, who assisted Pickpocket in making several false starts (in one of which he got rid of his j •ckey), lost start, and never was able to reach the front. The winner is in the Derby. The Town Plate of 501., for three yrs old ; colts, Bst s 71b, and fillies, Bst 31b. B. M. Mr. Rogers's Bridegroom ...(Rogers) 1 Mr. Newton's Ma Mie 2 The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Towri ley's b c by Hymen, data by Perchance—Mr. Arnull'a Miss Pettit's Eipartero—General Yates's Seahorse— and Lord Kelburne's c byy. Retainer, darn by St. Patrick. Betting—Even on Seahorse ; 3 to 1 agst Ma Mie; and 5 to 1 agst the Hymen colt. Seahorse anti Bridegroom occupied different positions at the commencement of the race, the first leading, and the oth er bringing up the rear; a t th e t op o f t h e hill, however, the favo. rite cried peccavi, and Bridegroom, going in front with Ma Mie, defeated her with diffioulty by a head, Seahorse third, and Lord Kelburne's c fourth. Col, g'aol's c by Slane, out of Vulture (Nat), beat Lord Keliturne's Deerslayer ; 200, h ft ; Bst 41b, each; T. Y.C. Vetting, 5 to 2 on Deerslayer. Won cleverly, Deerslayer having stopped when collared. Goonwoon Ftweas.—The Chesterfield Cup, to which there are already 20 subscribers, closes and names to-morrow. LIVERPOOL Cur.—Lord G. Bentiuck's To2sail is declared not to start. SUDDEN DEATH.--Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the Black Horse, Haymarket, on view of the body of Edwin Ball, aged 54, late landlord of the White Bear Tavern, Piccadilly, who died oa Tuesday morning under the following melancholy cir cumstances .-.-From the evidence of several witnesses, who were examined at great length, it appeared that on Tuesday morning, shortly after one o'clock A.M., a disturbance was caused in the tap of the above tavern, which is quite distinct from the White Bear Hotel, by a young man recently dis charged from Mr. Ball's service, who had been lodging in the White Bear tap since his dismissal. Mr. Ball, hearing the noise, went out to assist Mr. Holt, the landlord of the tap, in ejecting the young man, and having succeeded in doing so, re turned to the bar-parlour of his own house, and requested Mrs. Ball to prepare supper. While sh e was i n t h e act o f d o i ng so deceased suddenly fell fot•ward, and died instantaneously. Mr. Woolridge, surgeon, of the Haymarket, deposed to having been called in to see the deceased, whom he found quite dead. He attempted to bleed him, without avail, and attributed his death either to apoplexy or the bursting of some blood-vestel in the heart. It having been rumoured that the deceased had been struck by the young man on the night of his death. witnesses were called to inquire into this statement, and the first exa mined was Joseph Holt, the landlord of the White Bear tap, whose evidence strongly denying the fact, corroborated by other respectable witnesses, completely exculpated the accused from the charge made against him when taken before the Ma gistrates at Marlborough -street Police-court on Tuesday. The Coroner brit fly remarked on the melancholy nature of the case, and suggested it as very probable that the deceased came by his death from undue excitement, in endeavouring to preserve peace in his establishment—a conclusion the jury immediately coincided in, by returning a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." The inquiry, which lasted upwards of two hours, excited much interest from the prevalence of the report that violence had been used by James, who is at present imprisoned far an assault on M r. Holt, but the result clearly acquits him rom this charge. We quote the following from the Presse :—" The oldest man of France is M. Noel de Quersonnieres, who was formerly a commissary of the army, now living in Paris, tho ug h b orn at Valenciennes in 1 728 subject to arty infirmity, tak e s f ou r meals; i He is not day, shaves himself;reads and writes w ith ou t spectacles, sings very agreeably, an d s l eeps soundly. -!-!e poetry, and hi s conversat i on +s foil ci very good wit and sense, abounding with anecd o t es . Al the, fl6age of 90 he married who died in diving birth to a son. He states ttwrites n young English g i r l, aged only h a t his grandmother died at ' gaily , he will frequentl Y the age of 125, an d would have lived longer, but f or a severe Nth When convers ing invitehis friends to his funeral in the next century. ------ -- SODA WATER, ROITORSEDGE and SUMMERS have hitherto relied on the discernment of the public to discover and appreciate the superior quality of the JErated Water produced by their manufactory, and they have scorned to have re cOnrse to arty trickS. In the present day some persone. consider it requisite to make use of puffs and quackery in order to extend the sale of their own productions by detracting from the merits of rival establishments. and S. have such strong grounds of reliance on the supe riority of their own soda-water end lemonade, founded on the recommendation of the most eminent of the faculty, on the results .of the 'most searching chemical analyses, and - the extensive and still increasing demand thatfoi' th t e h m ey by ha th ve e p h a i b th li t e ,v , to le i t t l r i e at te dho theme and itlsiu abroad, of quackery alluded to with the contempt they deserve. B u t if th ese i n di rec t insinuations are 561 to he obtruded on the public, R. and S. feel themselves justified in offering those explanntioe 6 that may enable th e p u bli c t o j u d ge f or th ems elves. If R. and S. have pl ace d t h e name o f S c h weppo upon their bottles, a nttion s it was never to mislead the public as to oeuneeion with that firm, but for the purpose of announcing a legitirruilf fact, and always subordinate to their our.. Without im puting undue credit to the, name of Schweppe, they hare ellen:) , stated that they came from the house of Schweppe and Coe—nn undoubted fact, or doubtless it would heve been denied. For five and twenty years, during the very period that the waters sold by Schweppe alive to that name an the celebrity it ever obtained, Mr. !Nunn:ere was the engineer and manufacturer of the waters saki by that house in London, Derby, and Bristol. It is many years since any person, having the slightest connexion with the name or family of the late Mr. Sehweppe, has been connected with any house in the trade. In the year 1834, the proprietor of the busi ness carried on under the • name of Schweppe an Co. sold his interest to persons .with . whom R. and S. declined to remain : they preferred employing their • in dustry and practical knowledge in establishing a hasinose for their own mutual profit. 'Whether the waters since manufactured by the present firm of Schweppe and CO. retain the quality which acquired for that house all its celebrity, It. and S. decline to give an opinion ; but, in justice to themselves, they do, with the most perfect con fidence and good faith, say that—highly as some ma nufacturers seem to estimate the bottles which bear their mine (expensive an item as bottles are), an d J cult as it is to prevent retail tradesmen from returning wrong ones—there is no bottle b e a r i ng any other than their men, however celebrated, to which lioughsedge - and Summers would wish to add the reputation to be derived from filling them with waters of their own manufactory. ROUCHSEDGE and St' metens only desire such patronage as may be deserved from the .'rated Waters produced at their 'own manilfitetny, and sold under the labels of their own name.-37, Bridge-street, Bristol. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, SIR,—I think it a duty I owe to the public to mulct. known the efficacy of a remedy which I met with acci dentally, and which has been of such wonderful benefit to myself. Some months ago I -met with a very severe accident, having dislocated and fractured my ankle severely. From the great tenderness of the joint I was quite unable to walk, the limb continued very much swollen and edematous, and I suffered dreadfully from severe attacks of spasms in the night, which extended from the ankle to the leg, thigh, back, and to the arias. Having exhausted every resource of relief which I and my medical friends in the country could suggest, to na purpose, I set out for London with the intention of con sulting Sir Benjamin Brodie or Mr. Liston, then to adopt sea bathing. By accident I met with Mr. FEavEn, 16, Ludgate-hill, who app ied his EMBROCATION, and to my great astonishment I had no spasm that night, nor have 1 had one since. The next morning I came down stairs without my crutches, and was able to walk, the swelling of the limb soon subsided, and I sin now rapidly recovering. Having for many years had an extensi ve medical practice in the county of Stafford, I knew of no medicinal compound possessing such wonderful efficacy. In adding my testimony to Mr. b'eaver's Embrocation, I. am actuated by no other motives than gratitude to him. and a sincere desire to make known his invaluable remedy to' my fellow-sufferers. Possessing, as I ever did, the strongest prejudice against everything in the shape of quackery, I should be the last man to uphi,hl a system which, generally speaking, I know to be nothing but a nefarious traffic and humbug. I am, your obedient servant., TREVOR, HOLLAND, Surgeon, Cannock, near Walsall, Staffordshire. P.S.—At the various consultations held upon My ease, the surgeons and physicians (including myself) were decidedly of (Tinton that the frequent violent attacks of spasms would terminate in lock jaw, but as I kayo before stated, I have not had the slightest symptoms of spasms since the first application of this extraordinary embrocation. T. 11. THE INCOME Tax. The following Notice was put up yesterday in the Dividend Pay and Transtbr Office at the Bank of England TO RECEIVERS or DIVIDENDS WHOSE TOTAL, INCOME Itf UNDER 1501. PER ANNUM. • " If your total income is less than 14:0: per " hum, yi ,„ claim for a return of the tax must he Made to , the C..oramis sion,r of the district in which you rg.:;, : d e . Th e mem ,. of your parish will supply you with th , ;necessary forms." NAVAL IN PORTSMOITII, JULY 6.—Our Commander-iu-Chief, Ad miral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.8., has returned from visit ing the ports within the limits of his command, and re-hoisted his flag on board the St. Vincent, 120. Tito gallant offi cer's period of service will expire in Nnveniher, when, it is said, he will be succeeded by Admiral Sir C. Bowler, G.C.R. ailed, on Sunday, the Vestal, 26, Captain Parker, for Sheerness, to be paid off. This ship brought. home Sir Metcalfe from Jamaica, who has been succeeded in the govern ment of that Island by the Earl of Elgin ; she left Port 'loyal on the 25th 'a' Mar, and Las had contrary winds. Commodore the Hon. Henry hyng arrived there a tew days previous, an d after hoistii,g his pendant in the Magniieent, .2, commenced suporintending• the. port duties. She btonght borne a small freight, and has been nearly five years in commission. Sailed, on Monday, the Rose corvette, Commander Bank, under orders to be paid off at Chatham. This vessel has been four years on service, on the north coast of Spain and in the Brazils. Her former Commander (Christie) is prolaoted to Captain ; and she will be re-commissioned, if found fit. Left Rio de Janeiro 1011 t May, where were lying the Iris, 44, Spar row, Curie, and Ardent steamer. The Alfred, 50, had not ar rived from England, The Coll/mt./a steamer, Captain Owen, is hourly txpt-tted from Wir.iltvich, to proceed to the north coast of Ireland on sur vexing service. The new sloop Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, will go out of harbour next week, and shortly afterwards proceed to the West India station, to join Sir Charles Adams' squadron. The Salamander steamer is commissioned at Woolwiets, by Commander Andrew Snape Hamond, 1838. The Fly, 18, with her schooner. tender bramble, 10, arrived at Teneriffe;'on her way to Australia, on the 30th April. It was uncertain whether Captain Blackwood would call at the Cape of Good Hope. The Pique, 36, Captain Forbes, is gradually progressing in her Aln o t u spH tfi ai t trboh in et t d h r.r is ha __ zt rbu o.s o vhiii , but coefntw her destination arv.ictory, is Pi q ue, n s o a t te k l n li o te w y n. Al batross, Excellent, Royal George yacht, and steamers Edict and Volcano. On Tuesday arrived the brigantine Sparrow, Lieut. Tyssen, from the South American station, last from Rio de Janeiro, the 13th May, an d w ill come i nto this harbour to be paid off , having been upwards of five )ears in commission, principally employed at the Falkland Islands. The Actre:.n, 26, Captain Russell, was daily expected at Rio from San Blas, en route to Spithead, and the Alfred, 52, from England, with Commodore Purvis. The Sparrow brings no news. The Isis, 44, was lett at Rio de Janeiro. That powerful war.steamer Geyser, Commander Carpenter, arrived this day from Chathatn, last from the Downs, and re mains at Spithead, awaiting orders. R e p or t sen d s h er to the Mediterranean.--Brighto n Gazette. Three days ago, 11.1. Vallee, a gentleman of pro herty at Valmont, in the Seine Iliferieure, on returning ome from shooting, with his doable-barrelled gun in his hand, found Theophille, his man-servant, disgrace fully intoxicated, and reproved him severely. The man, in Ids drunken irritation, snatched the gun out of his master's hand, and lodged the charge in his shoulder, and in his flight turned at the threshold of the door, and discharged the other barrel, the contents of which, however, only carried away tile skirt of Al. Vallet's coat. Assistance was immediately at hand, end, as soon as the - first attentions were paid to M. Vallee, his as-. sassin was sought for, and nt lenght found in a harm, hanging lifeless from one of the beams. On the 2.2 d ult. a man, name4.l Daemans, and MS . wife were a: wo r k i n t h e fields,in the comm une of .00-- lombien, when so me p erson entered their cottage, and. stole 500 f. and some portable article: , . On their return, after some time devoted to lamentation, they sat down to supper. They were seized a few hours after Wards with violent pains in the stomach, accompanied by vomit ings. A medical man was sent for, who administered antidotes, and soon succeeded in giving relict: The rest of the soup of which they had been eating, and the‘mat ter discharged from their stomachs, were analysed, and, being tested by Marsh's apparatus, gave out strong signs of arsenic. It would seen that the person who robbed the house also threw poison into the pot on the firs. A man, named Jean Angely, was taken up as the perpe tuator of the crime, and sent to the prison of Bergerac. TIIE UNFORTUNATE CIPIIER.—The MarSeiiiet Gazette, a few weeks ago, told. a curious anecdote re lating to one of the first commercial men of the town. This gentleman, having a business correspondent on the, African coast, bethought him some time since, that, a; some members of his family had shown a partiality fur din or two monkeys, he might gratify them by sending for o specimens of these an i ma l s f rom Africa. Accor mgly, he and transmit wrote to his correspondent to procure two or three 0 . 1 species, and it that. themthe Marseilles.n d most admired Chance so between the figures 2 and 3, made the o . very pro-. a ship-porter came in all haste the merchant, in putting down the ou in English Cr), minent, while the u remained scarcely S ow , afterwards, and announced . to him that his i t n o oi t i h tl o is o a ld fte m r menagerie had arrived. . Menagerie !-' cried the mer yes a menagerie , a whole cargo of chant. his consignment „monkeys sxl man I very io o n f had arrived to his consibnment !" merchant could scarcely credit the announcement, until the letter of his. correspondent was put into his hands. In that_ epistle„• st, t et e 4or m ni o )er s so t tel ti 3,u i . uncompromising (I, l , n a i ty s h i i bet h xeeeanc A tai f tb r t i ll c de a ,e l , : e. n ixt e he g u o as t el i ld a h n i t ish a ue ati 160 monkeys, in place of the 203 ordered • but promis e d, as soon as possibl e , to fulfil the entire'demand. The feeling of the honest merchant may be guessed, when, on moving down to the quay to satisfy himself on the subject by ocular inspection, he beheld his 160 monkeys,. all duly caged and littered, and grinningnt birn.with the• most laudable pertinacity. It was a moment when a lean might reasonably doubt whether it. would be beck to laugh or cry. So much for the v a l ue o f c iph ers ! The several witnesses who were yesterday exa mined before the Privy Council against bean, met in the Magistrates' private room at Bow-street yesterday, and were bound over to attend and give evidetyce at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court - - - - .11110Prfer."---. - - ~'> F