The Sun. — London, England, 1849-07-05 00:00:00

tirb Vlittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up certain Bills. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Ham mersmith praying fur an alteration in the laws relating to the sale of beer. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a peti tion from the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, praying for the abolition of the present tests in the:Universities. ROME. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that, on Monday week, he should bring forward a motion on the subject of Freneh intervention in the Roman States. He re joiced to hear that the war was ended without any es sential damage to those monuments in the safety of which the whole civilized world took interest. AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL. Lord MONTEAGLE brought up the report of the Committee on this Bill, with amendments. The report of the Bill as amended was received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. OATH OF SUPREMACY. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from the Earl of Clancarty, complaining that he was pre vented from exercising his privileges by the oath of supremacy, as he could not, considering the policy pursued towards Roman Catholics of late years, take an oath declaring the non-existence of the authority of the Pope within this realm. LOAN SOCIETIES BILL. This Bill was read a second time. ASSAULTS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a second time. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION BILL. This Bill was read a second time. SOAP DUTY ALLOWANCES BILL. This Bill was read a second time. SHERIFF OF WESTMORELAND BILL. This Bill was read a second time. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock to day. HOGHTON'S DIVORCE BILL. Sir JOHN YARDE BULLER moved the consider ation of the petition of John Swarbreck Gregory (pre sented 4th July), relative to the service of a copy of the Bill and order for the Committee, in the case of Hoghton's Divorce Bill. Mr. Gregory, the petitioner, was called to the bar, and examined by Sir John Yarde Buller, in support of the allegations Contained in the petition. On the motion of Sir J. Y. BULLER, it was agreed that personal service of certain documents in the case upon Mrs. Hoghton, now resident in Calcutta, should be dispensed with, and that service on her procter be sub stituted.—Agreed to. BEER -HOn SES. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Ham mersmith complaining of the spread of beer-houses. THIRD READING. The General Land Drainage and Improvement (In corporating and Conferring of Powers) Bill was read a third time and passed. POOR-LAW (IRELAND) BILL. On the order of the day being read for the House again going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. LAWLESS moved the suspension of the 10th clause of the Act 10 Viet., c. 31, commonly called the Quarter -acre Clause, for a limited period. Ho had originally voted for the quarter-acre clause, believing that its operation was only intended to be temporary. The small farmers of Ireland were to be pitied more than any other class of the community; and the opera tion of this clause was felt nsost seriously by them, be- cause it deprived the cottiers of the - rsian3 of tup- port, and threw them upon the rates for a subsistence. The Hon. Member read long extracts from Parlia mentary reports, and argued from them that the distress which they depicted arose from the quarter-acre clause. His experience of 'the working of the present law, for which he bad voted, led him to regret that he had voted for the quarter-acre clause. He concluded by moving a clause repealing the quarter-acre clause. Sir WM. SOMERVILLE opposed the clause. Mr. E. B. ROCHE supported the motion of the Hon. Member for Clonmel, considering that the quarter acre clause had led to wholesale extermination in Ireland. Mr. FAGAN also supported the clause. Mr. J. O'CONNELL regretted that Government had not proposed to abrogate the quarter-acre clause altogether, instead of for a limited period. This system of legislation was ruining the souls as well as the bodies of the Irish poor. The heavy curse of the poor man was upon the deviser and framer of this clause. _ Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD said the operation of this clause was fatal to the prosperity of Ireland. He did not wish to say that there was no need of any limitation in administering relief to the Irish poor, but he begged the House to remember that they were not now legislating for a common case. The effect of the extension of this clause would be to leave a discretion in the hands of the board of guardians whether they would give relief or not.: Mr. P. SCROPE said the result of this clause had been to desolate many parts of Ireland:; a large por tion of population had withered away under the operation of it. Along with their land par ties had to give up their homes as well, before they obtained relief ; if not they must die of starvation. and many preferred this fate. He hoped that the House would consent to suspend the clause. Mr. MONSELL was bound to acknowledge that the account given by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down was too true. He, however, thought that Ho nourable Gentlemen who had spoken had all of them: neglected to state the evil which existed on the other side of the question. He would suggest to the Hon. Member for Clonmell (Mr. Lawless), that he should at preient withdraw his motion, and at some future period bring forward a clause which should give to boards of guardians power to suspend the quarter-acre clause in cases where it might seem expedient so to do. He thought, too, that the law ought to be made more clear, as different boards of guardians interpreted the law in different ways. Sir DENHAM NORREYS thought that this clause operated as a great check upon poor-law relief in Ire land. He thought that the Hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. P. Scrope), in his detail of the miseries of the Irish poor, had confounded the operation of the 4/. clause and the quarter-acre clause. Many persons had received relief, as would be seen from the evidence given before the Committee of the House of Lords, without giving up their farm. Mr. SCULLY thought it was necessary to suspend this clause. They were now at an extraordinary crisis in Ireland, and the question was not whether they should supply the poor with work and wages, but whether they should furnish a starving people with food. The vast majority of the people of Ireland were in a state of absolute starvation, and while the people were receiving relief under the existing law this clause only served to keep the people idle and the laud out of cultivation. Sir L. O'BRIEN said there was a class of persons who had been entirely lost sight of in this discussion, and that was the poor rate-payers, who were entitled to as much consideration in the House as the poor? Now, just consider what would a poor struggling rate-payer, paying perhaps 7s. 6d. in the pound, feel when he saw his next door neighbour holding a still larger quantity of land than himself in the receipt of relief under the law. Well, then, suspend this clause, and there would be no end to such cases. The galleries were then cleared for a division, but none took place. On our return to the gallery we found Lord JOHN RUSSELL impressing upon the Com mittee that the object of a poor-law should be to give as much relief as possible, but it was impossible, if not un just, to say, that in no case should they refuse relief. He, therefore, could give no pledge that the quarter-acre clause should not be acted upon. Mr. GRACE knew from experience that the clause precluded many suffering and deserving persons from obtaining relief, and gave his warm support to the motion. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it . ... 74 Majority ... ... —62 Sir JOHN WALSH moved the following clause " And be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act it may and shall be lawful for the Poor-law Commissioners, and they are hereby required to divide the electoral divisions of the several unions in Ireland into such and so many rating districts as to them shall seem fit; and when the said division of such electoral division shall have been duly made by the said Com missioners, eac h such rating district shall constitute a separate rating district for the relief of the poor now resident within the same, and no pauper or destitute person shall be entitled to relief under this Act or any Act for administering relief to the destitute poor of Ire land, save and except from and on account of the rating dlstrlct, so to be formed as aforesaid, in respect to which his legal so o laim for relief arises i . and . such electoral shall continue to divided b as aforesaid, shall rating districts ele9toral division, for all the purposes of election of an at the board of guardia tuardians, and of re e c...f the union within P shall be situated ; provided resentatioß which same Com ci m a i lw!tys, that in forming such rating districts the circumstances will permit, _sasioners shall,to aaathae far as boun daries of the several prop h er v tls re w g i a t r h d " la pro-Veirtyelleof tlral division, so as to form (or in such each . proprietor in such electoral division union, if they shill so think fit,) into asisc3ientfarate rating district, if such property shall amount d to the annual sum of 1,0001.; and if the rat r e a c t i e v , ; n " " : any such property shall not amount to the said sum, t it of shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to uniteeh and so many of the adjoining properties as to them uc shall seem fit, so as to form a separate rating district for the purposes of this Act : and provided also, that no rating district, to be formed under the authority of this Act, shall exceed in rated value the amount of 3,0001. per annum: and provided also, that nothing heroin con tained shall be construed to limit or prevent the said Commissioners from forming any rating districts of any smaller extent than 1,0001. rated value per annum, if it shall seem expedient and necessary to them so to do." Sir W. SOMERVILLE trusted that the Hon. Mem ber would not press this clause, as they were nearly at the close of the Committee, when it wou ld not be ad visable to discuss the merits of it. Sir JOHN WALSU c onsented to withdraw the clause, but thought the question of the area of taxation was one of the most important parts of the Irish poor-law. Colonel DUNNE observed that thb Irish Members would never be satisfied until the question of art a . was determined. After a words from Mr. ROCHE and Mr. HERBERT the clause was withdrawn. Mr. POULETT SCROPE then moved the following clause:—"And whereas the relief that can be afforded to certain classes of the destitute poor, under the second section of the said recited Act, is confined to food only, and that many such persons have experienced great suf fering, and the destruction of health, and even of life, from want of the means for procuring shelter, clothi: g, or fuel wherewith to cook the raw food alio% ed to them, be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the guardians of any union in which the order of the Poor-law Commis sioners to afford relief to such persons is in force, to afford such other relief to them, besides food, as shall ap pear to them necessary for the preservation of their lives and health." Sir W. SOMERVILLE opposed the clause, observing that it would open the door to very great abuses. It was impossible fur any law to meet every case of difficulty; and instead of distributing clothes, which would give rise to abuses, he thought they ought to confine them selves to relieving the urgent necessities of the poor. Mr. J. O'CONNELL alluded to the wretched condi tion of some of the poor, and said he considered that the proposition of the Hon. Member to supply them with clothes would be of great benefit to them, and would protect them from much misery. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD said it would be a matter of economy in many instances if the guardians had a discretionary power of administrating clothing and shelter to applicants for relief, as well as food. For this reason he would support the clause. Mr. G. MOORE said the present system of adminis tering out-door relief in Ireland was wholly inadequate to support the life of the applicants, and the consequence was that hundreds of the people were literally dying from starvation. Mr. CORNE WALL LEWIS said the giving a discre tionary power to the guardians to administer relief in shelter and clothing would lead to no practical results in the poorer districts in Ireland, unless there was a power of increasing the fund out of which the relief was granted. Mr. P. SCROPE said the guardians at present had only the power of giving relief in food to the able-bodied poor; and he thought a poor man who had been turned out of house and home [required relief in shelter and I clothing quite as much as food. He was therefore de sirous of giving the guardians the discretionary power of administering relief to the able-bodied in clothing and shelter as well as food. poor-law ster would oual ways t Lord JOHN RITSSrp as not tfficsuaildtyo i ao nduc*? the able- b odied any be subject to th poor to prefer the accep tance of that relief to sup p orting door relief in su ch a way tiliem selves by their own labour. He admitted that it might be in many cases most desirable that the guar dians should have the power of granting relief in shelter and clothing as well as in food; at the same time he thought such a power would be always liable to abuse, inasmuch as the able-bodied labourer would frequently prefer such relief to depending upon his own exertions. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no divison took place, the Hon. Member for Stroud having agreed to withdraw his clause. Sir D. NORREYS proposed the following clause : " Whereas the reduction of the period of residence which shall create chargeability from thirty months to twelve months, will tend to increase unjustly the rates of the cities and towns of Ireland, inasmuch as from the demo lition of the houses of the poorer classes in the rural districts, the destitute poor are compelled to seek shelter and employment in them, be it enacted, that no destitute poor p,r..on claiming relief shall be chargeable to the electoral division in which any city or market town may be situated, who shall have come to reside therein within two years next previous to his application for relief', un less he shall, previous to such two years, have occupied some certain place of residence therein for twelve months continuously, but that in every such case the applicant for relief shall be chargeable to that electoral division to which he would have been chargeable pre vious to his coming to reside in the town electoral divi sion." The proposition of the Hon. Member for Cork would not relieve the small towns. What he (Sir IX Norreys) proposed was, that the provisions of the poor law should not become applicable to a pauper who had not come to reside in towns within the last two years. Mr. HERBERT opposed the clause. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause Against it Majority against the clause The clause was consequently lost. Colonel DUNNE then rose pursuant to notice to move the following clause:—" And be it further enacted that when any land shall have been unoccupied and laid waste for the period of twelve months next before the 25th day of March, 1849, the board of guardians may excuse any new occupier of such land from the payment of any arrears of rates left unpaid by a former occupier of such land." Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the clause, consider ing that if it was passed it would have the effect of excusing the payment of all arrears whatever. After some discussion, Colonel DUNNE withdrew the clause. The House then resumed. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he proposed to take the report tomorrow at twelve o'clock, and the third reading on Monday next. The House, shortly after four o'clock, adjourned to six o'clock. ... 73 ... -66 The House resumed at Six o'clock. BRITISH GUIANA. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the elected mem bers of the colony of British Guiana complaininf that they ale compelled to pay a civil list to the extent of 39,0001. a year when the circumstances of the colony could not afford it. ... 92 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1849. HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, JULY 2.—TH E BOUR SE —lnl3nd Funds were in denisiid at the opening of the Bourse, but there was a gradual decline, and they closed at a depreciation. Russian and Amsterdam Funds on the other band were unusually steady. Spanish, French, and Portuguese without fluctuation. AMSTERDAM, JULY 2.—Our Vienna correspondent has communicated to us a document which is of great importance to the holders of Austrian funds ; it is an Imperial decree dated June 20th, stating that holders may .receive in exchange for their coupons an equivalent • sum calculated at 250 Wiener Waerhung per cent. in a new fund which bears interest at five per cent. payable in specie, either at Frankfort or Amsterdam. By a decision of the 25th the Austrian Minister of Finance has decided that all persons who desire to avail themselves of this decree are at liberty to state whether they wish to have the interest paid at Frankfort or Amsterdam.— Ifandelsblad. _ AMSTERDAM, JULY 3.—Yesterday afternoon her Royal Highness Princess Marianne, quitted this city to commence her tour for Syria. She embarked on board the steamer William 1., Captain Savart. She was accompanied by a suite of twelve persons, among whom are the Rev. J. H. Van Sen den of Zwolle. Her Royal Higness proposes to touch at Bordeaux, at Lisbon, and some of the principal ports of the Mediterranean, before she pro ceeds to Jaffa, whence she will commence her tour through Syria and the Holy Land. THE HAGUE, JULY 2.—The Government steamer Cerberus arrived here on the 30th from Vlaardingen ; it is the forerunner of the herring fishery fleet, and had on board 58f tons of herrings. The usual offer ing of the first fruits of the fishery was presented to the King and the Royal Family. The remainder was sold this evening at 700 f. per ton. The steamer reported that the fishery was extremely abundant this season. The health of the men engaged in the fishery, amounting to 1,600 persons, was good. The Dutch herring fleet consists of 110 vessels. THE CHOLERA. — The morning's report from the Cholera Hospital, of July 2, states that on the pre vious day 10 fresh cases were admitted, 7 persons died, 3 recovered; remaining under treatment, 56. At Leyden 42 persons were attacked on the 28th and 29th, of whom 31 died. Total number of cases 301, deaths 154, recoveries 23, under treatment 124. 66 cases have been admitted into the Cholera Hos pital since the 10th, of these 44 died, 4 recovered, 18 remain under treatment. At Utrecht 15 fresh cases were brought in, and 7 proved fatal; remaining under treatment, 8. No fresh reports have been received from other parts of the country, but the foregoing show that the disease has assumed a very malignant character.— Dutch Papers, July 3. HOP IN'FELLIGENCE. BOROUGH, JULY 2.—The accounts continue to come unfavourable from the hop plantations. The duty has been done at 80,000/. and 90,000/. We have a firm market; the hops on sale are pretty much the inferior sorts. MAIDSTONE.—The bines have not retrograded, and by some are considered to have improved during the past week. In many parishes of this immediate district, foul as they are they do well to maintain their ground. A few weeks' warm nights and genial showers might even yet offer them a enrolee of recovery, but the season is slipping on, and the nights are chilly to a degree almost unprecedente=d at this time of the year. Cultivation will probably tell, should a tavourable chance arise, but at present the crop seems to "hang fire " in a way which is anything but pleasant to the eye of the planter. YALDING AND .11 uNToN.—The hops in some few grounds continue in a growing state, and bid fair for a crop, while others, and the great majirity, are almost overcome with fly, flea, &c., which it appears almost im• possible for them to surmount. MALLING.—The hops grow, considering their foul state. Sonic grounds are weak and short of bine; others throw out healthy 'coking branches, but the vermin, which are as thick as ever, follow them up to the very tips. Huyrox.—Although it cannot be said that our hops are free from vermin, yet hitherto they have been less 'infested than many others. Consequently, unless we have a more serious attack, at this late season, we have at present, pretty generally, the prospect of growing some good hops—many, it cannot be, for, like the great busk of the plantations, our bine is far from being full and vigorous. IGEITLIAM AND SEAL.—Within the last few days there is a decided improvement in the hops, and, unless there is an increase of fly, hopes are entertained of a crop. CRANBROOK.—There is still a considerable quantity of vermin and honey-dew on the bine, and it is the opi nion of some connoisseurs in this neighbourhood that there can be but few hops grown here this season. HORSMONDEN.—lmprovement has been observed in some gardens this week, and in most grounds a great decrease of fly; but lice and honey-dew are as prevalent as ever. The strong bines (of which we have a good portion in our parish) are still in a growing state. LAMBERIIIIRST.—The hops in this parish are looking very bad. The lice are daily increasing, and every pro bability of their going black. Our prospects are very discouraging. BRENCHLEY.—The reports from our planters are some what contradictory. Some era of opinion there are some clean shoots appearing; on the other hand it is quite evident we have more fresh fly. On the whole there is no improvement. HAIMILURST.—The hops are very bad, and many grounds in this vicinity are hopeless. WROTHABL—The hops here are in a very unfavour able state, the insect being decidedly on the increase. The honey-dew also is still seen in many gardens. GOUDHURST.—In the early part of the week there was a considerable decrease of vermin, and the honey • dew is also disappearing. This change has taken place upon the strong grounds. The weakly land in the first growth still continue so, but still the bine has made considerable progress this week. There is a very small quantity of fly , goldings as compared with former years; a few niggers are to be seen. SHARDEN AND BIDDENDEN.—In some grounds the vermin is on the decrease; the niggers have made their appearance. In general, the bine presents a very un healthy appearance. Unless there should come a favourable time for the Midsummer shoot, there must be but a very short crop. ORPINGTON.—The hops about here are much in the same state as last week, still there is a slight improve ment. The rain on Friday night has somewhat revived them. CANTERBUItY.—The hops everywhere present the most unfavourable appearances. Laden with fly, lice, and &a, and honey-dew dripping trom the Wiles, the plant is fast sinking to an irretrievable state. The last few days have been warm, but the nights, in some in stances, quite cold. Unless a spe edy change ensue, of settled warm weather—warm by eight as well as by day —the crop must be exceedingly small. Bets are freely laid against 80,000/. General accounts speak of au in crease of fly and honey-dew—of the bine mostly being very tool, black and curling, and altogether evidencing no hope of halt an ordinary crop, even if the weather heareatter prove favourable. EDENBRIDGE.—The best grounds are improving, but the weak bines cannot do much. The niggers increase very fsst. _ _ lluttsT•GßEEN.—Generally speaking we can quote no improvement in hops since our last; they continue in fested with vermin to a great extent. The midsummer shoot seems very tardy in its progress. TICEHURST.—We find a decided decrease of ver min this morning (July Ist), and an improvement in the bine, particularly among the Jones's, has taken place within the last few days. Buawssu.—The bine in this neighbourhood is re ported to be less infested with vermin than hitherto.— Maidstone Gazette, July 3. LONDON PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. The anniversary festivel of this unpretending, but most useful and benevolent society (for providing the deserv ing poor with bread and coals in all parts of the metro polis and its suburbs), was read yesterday at the London Tavern, Henry Pownall, Esq., in the chair. The report states:— . . -- "The public press has brought much to light which before was concealed, through circumstances which have called forth the prompt and vigorous interference of several benevolent magistrates ; but these cases, numer ous and fearful as they are, form but a very limited por tion of the number which exist; while, heartrending as not a few of them have been, they are greatly exceeded by those by which the committee of this society have ;ound themselves surrounded in the various streets and courts of London. Among the cases now referred to, whole families have been found, of from six to ten or even more human beings. Not a few have been met with who were reared in the lap of plenty—who commenced their career of life with prospects of the most flattering o r d er, b ut w h o , by unco n t ro ll a bl e provi dential circu mstances, have b een re d uce d to a di rect l y opposite conditi on i n lif e. S uc h are th e o bj ec t s w hi c h this society see k s out, and to whom, as far as means are furnished, a id i s a d ministere d . " From th e l et of January, 1 8 4 8 , t o t h e en d of M arch, 1849, upward s o f 18,000 tickets for 41b. loaves of bread, and 56ibs. of coals, have been issued to the deserving poor, through contractors, appointed in all parts of the metropolis and suburbs, the latter delivered free." The usual loyal toasts were given, and responded to with every demonstration of loyalty ; after which the chairman made a very powerful appeal on behalf of the institution, which had such strong claims upon the hu manity, especially of the metropolis. The amount of subscriptions received was 1751. The vocalists engaged on the occasion were under the direction of Mr. Turner, nasisted by Miss Thornton, Miss Hayes, Miss Wilkinson, Mr. Shoubridge, Mr. Holmes, and Farquharson Smith. The dinner and wines were of course of the best de scription. Mr. Harker officiated in his capacity of toast master with his usual judgment. Happiness, like mocking, is catching. At least, none, but tht so who are happy in themselves, can make others so. No wit, no undeist,nding, neither riches o.ir beauty, can communicate thi, feeling—the happy &acne can mAo happy. Live and joy are twins, or born of each other-._j iiza Cook's Journal. TUE lIAY HARVEST.—iIe hay harvest has now fully commenced in this neighbourhood, and the crops bid fair to be more than an average, both as regards quantity and quAity.—Derby Mercury. By checking the flight of expectation, we cheat disappointment of its paio.—Eliza avk's Journal. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANr:ERY Cor7l?Ts, .Tdy (iiefore sir J.v,-IGRA3I,) EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY C.3IPANY V. lIATTERSBY. Luis EloNoun, iu this case deew(d the better course to take, as regarded the interests and rights of the parties, was to direct a reference to the Master to have an ac count taken, also to send an issue to be tried at law. The form of the issue not having been agreed upon by coun sel, the case stands over to give them the opportunity of arranging it. (Before Sir J. KNIGHT BRUCE IN THE NATTER OF THE JOINT STUCK COMPANIES WIND ING UP ACT, 1848, AND OF THE BT. GEORGE'S STEAM- PACKET COMPANY. The testator, Mr. Jonathan Pim, a director of the St. George's Steam-packet Company, purchased 40 of the company's shares, for which he paid 2,0001. to Mr. Joseph Robinson Pim, the managing director. He, however, did not tike out the shares in his own name, but bad them entered in tiro names of Mr. Thomas Harvey and Mr. Joshua Pim, his son and executor. These parties were accepted, but after the testator's death the shares were found in his desk by his son. Some doubt, however, having arisen as to the legality of the shares, the son sent them to the managing director to have them cancelled, but with the view, it was stated, of having other shares substituted. An entry was made in the books of the company testify ing the act of cancellation, but instead of 40 other shares being returned to the executor, 27 certificated were sent, with a letter promising that 13 more would be subsequently sent. The company, as is generally known, became unfortunate, and the object of the pre sent motion was to render the testator's estate liable for his proportion of the losses of the company as regarding the 40 shares. His Honour was of opinion, that the act of the authorised agents of the company had termi nated the partnership existing between them and Jona than Pim as regarded the 40 shares, and that therefore the testator's estate was not liable. He gave that opi nion without touching on any question which may arise with respect to the 27 substituted shares. PREROGATIVE COURT, July 3. (Before Sir H. JENNER FusT.) HIS SERENE HIGHNESS HESSE HOMBURG/I, DECEASED. Dr. DEAN said the deceased in this case died intes tate, leaving a brother and two daughters ; that by the law of the dukedom the brother of the deceased is not only successor to the kingdom, but also to his real and personal property. The only property left by his Highness in this country was three dividends upon stock standing in the name of the late Duchess's exe cutors. He (Dr. Dean) asked the Court to grant admi nistration to the present Landgrave, as the brother of the deceased. The Learned JUDGE observed that the law being in favour of this application, he would decree adminis tration to the present Landgrave of Hesse Homburgh, and, at the same time, ordered an office copy to be de livered, &c. MARY RUSH, DECEASED. Dr. ADDAMS said the testatrix was the wife of the late James Bloomfield Rush, who had made himself no torious by being an actor in the late wilful murders at Stanfield Hall, Norfolk. The testatrix made a will in 1844, and died in 1848. Rush proved this will and also a codicil, purporting to be that of the testatrix. The will bequeathed the property to the children, nine in number, but the codicil gave it to Rush, and made him sole executor. The Learned Advocate said he applied to the Court to set aside the probate granted to the codicil, as being a forgery, and not the writing of the testatrix, the application being made by Mr. John Soames, who was guardian of the children, on the affidavit of Emiily Smdford, who was subscribing witness to it. The affi davit stated that it was written after the death of the testatrix, by direction of Rush, and attested by thorn both. He (Dr. Addams) felt the position the Court was placed in, to be call, d on to revoke a former act upon ;he evidence of such a person as Emily Sandford, but he hoped the Court %%ould take into its consideration the situation of the younger children, and that the party making the affidavit could have no interest in asserting an untruth. _ The Learned JUDGE thought be could not act without some furthi r evidence to prove the signature was a for gery. He must, therefore, direct the motion to stand over until he had some corroborative evidence. WESTMINSTA , I* COIJNTY COURT. (Before D.C. MOYLAN, E , q., Judge.) PIRACY OF CRUIRSHANH'S " TOOTH ACHE '—ROGUE V. ELLIOTT. This was an action brought by David Bogue, pub lisher, of Fleet-street, to recover from the defendant, Mary Elliott, a publisher of Holywell-street, damages for the infringement of the copyright of a work entitled " The Tooth-ache, imagined by Horace May hew and realized by George Cruikshank," of which the plaintiff was the proprietor. Mr. English appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Roberts for the defendant. Mr. ENGLISH stated that his client sought protection against the piracy of the work in question, " The Tooth ache," under the sth and 6th Victoria. He should show the plaintiff to be the proprietor of the work; that it had been duly entered at Stationers'-hall, and that he had suffered by the infringement of the copyright. The JUDGE said the right was not in the publisher, but in the author. The plaintiff must show that the work was assigned over to him. Mr. ENGLISH said he was prepared to prove the plain tiff's possession of the copyright. Mr. James Brownless, chief clerk to the plaintiff, stated that Mr. Bogue was the registered proprietor of the work. He engaged Mr. Horace Mayhew and Mr. George Cruikshank. the former to write, and the latter to illustrate the work. Witness knew the extent of the sale of the work. Of one edition, plain, at Is. 6d. per copy, 3,000 were sold; and of another, coloured, at 3i. per copy, about 1,500 more. The sale fell off consider ably shortly after the pirated edition of the defendant. (The witness produced the original and the imitation, both of which were banded to the Judge.) He went into the defendant's shop himself, and purchased the pirated edition. The defendant told him at the time that it was not an original work, but that it was copied from another, published in the Man in the Moon, at 2s. Wit ness knew that it had never been published in the Man in the Moon. There was no pretence for supposing that the work had been copied from anything but the plain tiff's publication. Mr. ROBERTS, on the part of the defendant, submitted that the plaintiff must be nonsuited. The work was not registered until the very day the action was commenced. The entry at Stationers'-hall should have been made before the action was brought. The JUDGE expressed himself of the same opinion, but thought technical objections not the best way of meeting the case. He suggested an arrangement between the parties. An arrangement was then made, by which the de fendant was to give up the blocks of the pirated work, and the plaintiff to cease all proceedings. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD CoI,RT. (Bpfore Mr. Justice COLTMAN and Ar. Justice MATJLE.) Mary Ann Hogden. 34, a married woman, was in dicted for the minder of her female child by drowning it. The pris.myr was arraigned before Mr. Bullock at the sitting of the Court, and a Flea of Not Guilty was re corded. Mr. CLARKSON, upon the Judges taking their seats. applied to their Lordships to have the plea of Not Guilty erased from the indictment, upon the ground that the prisoner was not in a tit state of mind to plead, or to understand what she was called upon to answer. The Learned Counsel said that the trial was postponed from the lust session in order to give an opportunity for the production ot evidence of her insanity, and he had wit nesses in attendance to prove that fact, hut if their Lordships would hear the evidence ot Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon ot Newgate, upon the subject of the pri soner's present cum: hien, he apprehended that they would consider it unnecessary to proceed further with the inquiry at present. Mr. Justice COLTMAN, having made some inquiries, and referred to the Act ut Parliament having relation to the subject, ordered the plea of Nut Guilty to be erased, and directed that a jury should be impanelled to dispose of the question of the prisoner's sanity or insanity. Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon of Newgate, was then ex amined upon the voire doire, and in answer to questions put to him by the Court, he expressed his opinion that the prisoner was at the time insane, incapable of under standing what was going forward, and incompetent, therefore, to plead to the indictment against her. The Learned JUDGE having briefly explained the nature of the inquiry to the jury, they at once returned a verdict in accordance with the opinion of the surgeon, and Mr. Justice Coltman directed the prisoner should be kept in safe custody until she should be in a fit state of mind to take her trial. Wm. Anstead, 32, clerk, was indicted for feloniously forging and uttering a cheque for 631. 135., with intent to defraud the London and Westminster Bank. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Law prosecuted; Mr. Parry was for the prisoner. The offence imputed to the prisoner appeared to have been committed in a very ingenious manner. It ap peared that some years ago he had been known to Mr. Vokins, a coal-merchant at Pimlico, but he had been lost sight of since 1645, leaving an account unpaid. On the 21st November in last year the prisoner made his appearance at the counting-house of Mr. Vokias after banking hours, and having introduced him self to him, expressed his willingness to pay his debt, at the same time giving an order for coals to the amount of 21., and he produced a cheque for 181., upon Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, and Mr. Vokins gave him the difference in gold and a cheque upon the London and Westminster Bank for 3/. 13s. The cheque appeared to have been drawn in a very careless manner, the word three being written at some distance from the margin, and the first letter being a small " t", instead of a capital, and the cheque being altered by the word sixty being placed before the three, it was presented in that shape to the bankers, and was paid with four 10/. and four 5/. notes and cash. The cheque was presented by a woman, who was evidently acting in concert with the prisoner, for immediately after the cheque was paid th e q greer portion of the notes which were the produce of it were traced to his possession. Mr. Justice MAME, in summing up the case to the jury, said that although the cheque in question had cer tainly originally been drawn in a very careless manner , yet if the jury should be of opinion that the prisoner had made the alteration in the amount, or had caused it to be presented, knowing that it had been altered, he would, both ac cording to the letter and the spi r it o f th e law, have rendered h imself amenable to the charge of orgery. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the pri soner w as proved to have been on a previous occasion convicted of felony. He was sentenced to be transported for ten years. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Sarah Mills, why was indicted with a person named Hansel! for conspiracy, in endeavouricg to extort money cr , vnw gentletnAn. nava by ri %AA', wt to eT libc 11;:221 manor conceiniog him 'in the Satirist pews pap-T. was yesterday plaeed et tnu b.tr to plead. There wa, au against the s',,aue varties felony, arising out of the smile transaction. 'Mr. PARRY, who appeared for Hansen, applied to have his trial postponed until the next session, on the ground that he was in such a bad state of health that it would endanger his life if he were to take his trial at this time. _ _ _ Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the prosecution, said he believed tho statement of the c..ndition of the defendant Hansel! was quite correct, and, thtretore, he could not oppos- the appiicadon. The defendant Mills pleaded "Guilty" to the indict ment for misdemeanour, and " Nut Guilty " to the charge of felony. Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for this defendant, said he wes requested on her behalf to offer a most humble and sincere apol gy to the respectable prosecutor for the act she had committed. He at the same time said he believed there was very little doubt that the defendant had been made the instrument of a more guilty party, and under these circumstances he trusted the Court would pass as lenient a sentence as the justice of the case would admit ot. Mr. BALLANTINE said that the defendant was charged jointly with a per-on named Hansel!, who had the management of a newspaper called the Sutirist, with endeavouring to extort money from Mr. Bevan, the prosecutor, by threatening to publish libellous matter concerning him in that journal. He was instructed to state that the prisoner was known by the prosecutor to have been formerly in a respectable position, and that her friends and connexions also filled a position of respecta bility, and he believed that the prisoner when she first applied to the prosecutor for money was driven to do so by the pressure of poverty. Those ap plications were not paid any attention to, and the defen dant, there was very little doubt, had alter this got into the hands of Hansen, who had made use of her to turther his purpose of extortion, and from this time a series of most brutal attacks had been made upon the character of the prosecutor in the journal in question. The prose cutor, however, believed that the defendant Mills was merely a tool in the hands of the other person, and he was therefore desirous to recommend her to the merciful consideration of the Court. With regard to the charge of felony, he should refrain from offering any evidence. The COMMON SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said that he thou.! ht the defendant had been very well ad vised, and had acted most properly in pleading guilty, as the only atonement in her power. The Court, however, had a duty to perform, and he did not know of any more serious offence, or one that was more likely to create misery in families, than this of endeavouring to extort money by threatening to make charges of a dis• graceful character. Taking into consideration, however, that the defendant bad pleaded guilty, and that Mr. Bevan had recommended her to mercy, the sentence would be much more lenient than it otherwise would have been, and that was that she be imprisoned for six months without hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mary White, an elderly woman, was brought before Mr: Hardwick charged with manslaughter, by cutting the throat of her husband, Peter White, with a knife. Charlotte Tucker deposed that she was a single wo man, and occupied the second floor front room, at N 0.15, Hertford -street, Fitzroy-square. The prisoner and her deceased husband lodged in the front parlour. About nine o'clock on the night of the sth of June witness was in her room, when she was alarmed at hearing screams of murder issue from the front parlour, accompanied with the breaking of glass. She looked out of the win dow and saw several persons about the door. She then ran down stairs, and when near the bottom she heard the deceased say, "For God's sake mike hate down, for my wife has cut my throat." She tried to open the parlour door, but did not succeed, in consequence of its being locked inside. She then wont to the street-door and sent a lad for the police. The prisoner and deceased frequently quarrelled, and witness had seen the deceased strike the prisoner several times. She never heard the prisoner make use of any threat towards the deceased. Golst en, 85 E. said that about twenty-five minutes past nine on Tuesday night. the sth June, his atten tion was called to 15, in Hertford-street, by the cries of Murder and police." The parlour-door was fas ten% d; he got in at the window; the room was in darkness, and he heard a man say, "My wife has cut my throat." He then opened the door and let his brother officer in. They got a light, and found the deceased standing up in the room near to the door, and bleeding verytnuch from a wound in the throat The deceased said, pointing to the prisoner, " My wife has cut my throat." She was standing up near the fire place, and said " He (the deceased) has struck me three times, and then he got the razor to cut my throat. I wrenched it from his hands, and drew it across his throat." Witness then took deceased to the hospital, and the prisoner was taken to the station by the other constable. Wilby, 77 E, corroborated the evidence of the last witness, and in addition stated that on searching the room he found the knife now produced covered with blood. Mr. Henry Searle Guys said he was house-surgeon at the University Hospital. On the night of the sth of June, about half-past nine, Peter White was brought to the hospital. He appeared faint from the loss of blood which had flowed and was still flowing from a wound in the throat. The wound was two inches and a half in length, and In depth nearly an inch, injuring, but not severing, the windpipe, He lingered until Sunday, July Ist. The immediate cause of his death was inflamma tion of the lungs, but the primary cause was the wound in the throat. Such a wound would be inflicted by the knife now produced. The depositions made by the deceased previous to his death were then put in and read, and the prisoner was committed to take her trial for manslaughter. W OR S HIP-STREET. MURDEROUS Ou'rnedE.---Mr. S. Joseph Coe, described as a person in independent circumstances, was charged before Mr. Hammitt with having cruelly maltreated his wife, who was so seriously injured that some doubts are entertained of her recovery. Police-constable 315 K stated that at three o'clock that morning his attention was attracted by an uproar in front of one of the houses in New Somerford-street, Cambridge-road, upon reaching which he found a lady lying in a state of insensibility in the gutter, with no thing on but her night dress, and surrounded by several persons, one of whom pointed out her husband as bay ing reduced her to such a condition. Having secured the prisoner, who was standing a few paces off, he as sisted the others in conveying the lady to her bed-room, and the family surgeon was at once sent for, who pro nounced her to have been so dreadfully injured about the head and abdomen that it was impossible at present to form an opinion as to her recovery. Mrs. Maria Reynolds, landlady of the house where the occurrence took place, stated that the prisoner and his wife bad for some time occupied her furnished draw ing room and other apartments, and that at a late hour on the preceding night the former returned home in a state of partial intoxication, the first intimation they had of his arrival being his hurling a stone through his wi'e's chamber window. The door was opened as quickly as possible, and the prisoner proceeded to the bed-room, but he had only been there a few minutes when witness was alarmed by the sound of blows and loud screams from the wife, which were almost immediately succeeded by a heavy fall upon the floor. Witness instantly hastened into the room, where she found his wife I) ing upon the ground, and the prisoner standing over her, with one of his hands entangled in her hair. Witness succeeded with some difficulty in extricating her from his grasp, tend wus supporting her to a chair when the prisoner made a violent attack upon his wife, and atter striking her repeatedly in the face, knocked her back into the chair, when she became stupified, and sthilst witness was attending her, he struck her three or four other blows with such force that she was reduced to a state of complete insensibility. The prisoner then retreated down stairs and went out, and after the lapse of a consklerable interval she succeeded in restoring the injured woman to consciousness, and supported her down stairs with the intention of protect ing her in her own bedroom for the rest of the night; but upon reaching the passage the prisoner returned to the house, and immediately commenced a third attack upon his wife, striking her repeatedly till she again tell in a nearly senseless state in the passage, when he kicked her violently on the lower part of her person. She was raised from the ground by the witness, and staggered out into the street, but upon reaching there instantly fell down in the kennel, and remained there till the arrival of the constable. A certificate was handed up to the bench from Mr. B. Shaw, surgeon, of the Cambridge-road, which described the lady as suffering from serious injuries inflicted upon the head and abdomen, and declared her to be in a state which precluded the possibility of her removal. When called upon for his defence, the prisoner said he had been out for some hours, and that on, his return his wife, who was of a very jealous disposition, accused him of passing the evening with some other woman, which so greatly exasperated him that, after some words between them, and he being in a state of intoxication at the time, he certainly struck her, but had no recollection what ever of having either beaten or kicked her in the exag gerated manner described by the landlady on the second occasion. Mr. EIA.3IMILL said it was a most serious case, and after the evidence he bad heard as to the condition in which the lady then was, he felt it his duty to remand the prisoner upon the charge; but would consent to ae cept substantial bait for his future appearance—the pri soner himself in 801. and two sureties in 401. each, with 48 hours' notice to inquire into their sufficiency. RAILWAY btiAith MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 4. STOCK EXCHANOT.—There was a fair amount of business trans acted to day, and prices were firm. The sales are—Lancashire and Yorkshire (31. and L.), Quarters, 5 1 ,6 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 735. 9d. dis.—Lancaster and Carlisle, Thirds, par—Lancaster and Preston, Quarters, 12 1 A —London and North-Western, 13031—Ditto, New Quarters, 3% p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Prefer ence, 11/. Bs. 9d.—Midland, Halves, 12% dis.—North Staffordshire, 4/. 115. 3d. dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (It), 41 ,6 dis.—South- Eastern and Dover, 20%—Ditto (No. 2), 14% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase). 6 per cent. till 1850, 3/. 16s. 3d. dis.—York and .North Midland. 30—Dutch Rhexish, dis. MANCHESTER, Juav 4. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow: Leeds, Fifths, 3•i dis.—North Statiordshire, 4 dis. —West Riding Union, 4;54 dim YORK, JULY 3. STocK Excnarmr.—The transactions to-day have been as fol low : Great Northern, 101. Gs. 3d.—North British, Quarters, 3% Ditto, Preference, 2%- North Staffordshire, 18—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Gooie, N. Div., guaranteed 5 per cent., 10% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick,.(G. N. B. Purchase), 4%. GLASGOIV,JCZY 3. SrocE EXCHANGE —The transaction,. to-day were as follow: Caledonian, Preterence, 11/. lit. 3d.—Great Northern, Preterence, 5 per cent. guaranteed. 60s. COWES, JULY 4.-.. Wind S. W.-Acrd. Quinnebsng, Jones, MatogAs. PROTECTION OF WOMEN. -- --- Mr. T. BARING presented a petition from certain Wesleyan Methodists in favour of the Bill for the better protection of Women. VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. The Vancouver's Island Administration of Justice Bill was brought up from the House of Lords, which, on the motion.of Mr. HAWES was read a first time and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Mr. HEADLAM presented a petition from New castle-upon-Tyne in favour of the adoption of the people's charter. FRENCH INTERFERENCE WITH ROME. Mr. T. DUMCOMBE presented a petition from cer tain inhabitants of Holborn, complaining of the armed intervention of France in the affairs of Rome. THE STATE OF THE NATION. Mr. DISRAELI said it was impossible for him, ac cording to the forms of the House, to bring forward the further discussion of his motion on the state of the nation until the 31st of July. It was extremely in expedient to go into the discussion on such a subject at such a time. If the Noble Lord at the head of the Government would therefore give him another Govern ment day, as far as he (Mr Disraeli) and the gentlemen or. his side of the House were concerned, nothing should take place on their parts to prevent a division taking place on that day. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was of opinion that if the adjourned debate on the Honourable Gentleman's mo tion was to be continued, it was desirable that it should be continued without delay. Under these circumstances, and at a further sacritice of con venience, he was willing that the adjourned debate should be resumed to-morrow. (LEFT SITTING.) CRICKET.--(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT V. GENTEMEN OF SURREY. The following is the score up to six o'clock:— Surrey, total first innings ... KENT. F. Gosling, Esq.—b Denison ... F. Dyer, Esq.—c Garland, b Denison ••. S. Norton, Esq.—b Denison ... ... ••• J. Kirk, Esq.—b Haites N. Felix, Esq.—b Garland ... ••• ••• A. Mynn, Esq.—b Garland ... ... ••• Captain Latour—b Unite ... ... ••• C. G. Whitaker, Esq.—c Davis, b Unite ... J. Cousens. Esq.—c and b Garland ... H. Baldock, Eq.—not out ... T. 11. Brenchley, Esq.--not out M. Lancaster, Esq.—b. Hate 83, w 4, ... Total . . 33 ~. 28 WHAT THE STATE GETS BY LIFE ASSURANCE...- When assurances upon human life are effected fur busi ness purposes, we consider that the State should derive benefit irum them, in the shape of taxation; but where they are effected against future calamities which may come, at any moment, when we least expect such a visitation, perhaps, out of small earnings, and by much self denial, we find in practice, that any such impost is a tax upon. Providence, of the most dangerous and im politic kind, since life assurance is diminished, accord ing to the extent of the tax. About 60,000,0001. are invested in life assurance, from which the State derives an annual income of more than 1,000,0004 A tax upon Providence of such a nature and amount is a curse and a blow dealt at the happiness of a nation.—The Reporter for July. TIIE CHOLERA.—We are glad to be able to state that hitherto there has been no extension of the Asiatic cholera in this town or its immediate neighbourhood. We have again to record a few new cases, several t e rminating fatally ; but there is yet nothing to show any spread of the epidemic. Thera have been in all three deaths, includin g that of Moore's, noticed in our last, from the , same house in Charlotte-street, Cambridge-street, Chorltun-on-Med lock; and a fourth individual, or I,dger, in the house hag had a severe attack, but through prompt and effec tual medical aid, ho is how out ei.danger. TLere have beenlat eo s n ev } e , r r a i l da lleVl cases also in Manchester, two of them severe, but the fatal, besides that Friday night ; . and one case in of pa t t h ie e nt man is Jaceosveirliorlgla.diwanhoch:is teedr Salford, rather Guardiau. TUE LONDON BANICERS AND THE BRITISH BANK• —ln our two last numters we have noticed the prin ciples and proceedings of the company established fur introducing the Scotch system of Banking into London, and we are to hear that there is every probability that a very considerable modification in the old London houses is likely to be effected.—The Reporter for July, Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking,—Eliz a CoolCB Journal. . CITY OF LONDON. ELECTION. i (Fr.,ra the Chelenham Examiner.) We cannot help thinking that the House of Peers has committed itself to a struggle from which it can derive neither honour nor advantage. Its championship of the obsolete principles of intolerance and exclusion is not only unwise, but ill-timed and bootless. It is certain not to be successful, because it bas arrayed against it the growing conviction and the enlightened good sense of the great mass of the nation; and there never yet was an instance, and probably never will be, in which the House of Lords has succeeded in obtaining a position adveise to the general opinion of the people. The vote which threw out the Bill for admitting the Jews to Parliament a as a grand and elaborate mistake. Their Lordships had done enough already to mark their disapproval of the measure in throwing it out once; but to rfject it again, when it came recommended by increased majorities of the House of Commons, was an act of sheer infatuation. Their Lordships' decision on Tuesday evening was one which, in the memorable language of one of themselves, will " go forth without authority, and come back without respect." The majority of 3,515 in favour of Mr. Rothschild's reelection must have already convinced them of that, for by that reelection they static' com mitted to a struggle with the electors of London, in which they must sooner or later be defeated. Mr. Rothschild re-enters the walls of Parliament with a prestige which he never possessed before, and which has scarcely ever been possessed by any man sirce the doors of Parliament were flung open to the Catholic by the Clare election. What Daniel O'Connell then did for his creed Mr. Lionel Rothschild will now do for his. He becomes, not simply the London merchant—the representative of the first city in the kingdom —but the representative, and champion, and embodiment of a great principle. In his per son that principle will be fought out and carried. No adverse vote of the House of Peers, though a dozen times persisted in and repeated, will now turn the people of London from the struggle in which they find them selves involved. They will fight out this principle as they have fought out others before it. They will main. tarn the struggle as only an English constituency can maintain it; and they will win the battle against intole rance and bigotry, as they and their fathers have won hundreds before. Wo have no wish to complain unfairly of the conduct of the House of Lords, or to impugn their motives. We have no doubt that many members of that House do honestly and conscientiously believe that it would be wrong to admit the Jew to Parliament. But let us look for one moment at their position in reference to this question, and the rightfulness or justice on their parts of any offensive persistence in their present conduct,as against the repeated and unmistakeable expression of public opinion. No one denies the abstract right of the House of Lords to modify or even veto any measure of state policy, or any change in the present laws of the realm, or any innovation on the Constitution, as defined in the strict letter of the laws of Parliament; but we cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that this is a question which concerns primarily and solely the constitution of the Houie of Com mons. No one as yet dreams of making a Jew a peer of the realm, or a Privy Counsellor, or Lord High Chancellor : the question is simply whether the people shall elect, and the House of Commons receive, a gen tleman against whom there is no shadow of objection, except that he is a Jew, and as a Jew refuses to blas pheme against his creed, by swearing "on the true faith of a Christian." Now, we submit that this is a question which may fairly and properly be left to the people themselvee; and to the House of Commons, who are chosen by them. If the public opinion in England was against the admission of the Jew to Parliament, constituencies would not confer their suffrages on members of that persuasion. If there were anything derogatory to, or contaminatory of, the House of Commons by the admission of Jews, majorities of that House would nut consent to their admission. But the negative of both these propositions has been esablished beyond all question—Baron Rothschild has been twice elected by the largest and most intelligent constituency in the empire, and the House of Commons has affirmed by repeated majorities the propriety of those elections. The principle contended for by the people has thus been affirmed by the electors of London, by the House of Commons, by the members of her Majesty's Government, and (without at all trenching on the non-responsibility of the head of the State), we may safely add by her Majesty herself. The House of Lords, or rather some ninety or a hundred Members of the House of Lords, is the only party which opposes the measure, and that opposition is, we take it, more on theo logical than on practical or constitutional grounds. We cannot but rejoice, therefore, that the citizens of London have confirmed Mr. Rothschild's election, be cause such a step is the surest way of bringing about a solution of the difficulty. And we cannot but hope that the House of Peers will, after this demonstration cf public opinion, give way to a power which they cannot conquer, and before which they must ultimately succumb THE LATE JAMES KNOX POLK. The Eleventh President of the United States is no more. Mr. Polk died last Friday night near Nashville, of a chronic diarrhozia, after a very short illness. Pre - sident Harrison closed his career within a month of the day of his entrance upon the duties of his office; Presi dent Polk in about three months after his term had ex pired. Of eleven ex-Presidents, Messrs. Van Buren and Tyler alone remain among us. Mr. Polk was the youngest man ever inaugurated as'l President ; only 49 years and four months old when he took office. His connexions were members of the old revolutionary party who bad aided and favoured independence before and during the war of 1776. James Knox Polk was born iu Mecklenburgh County, North Carolina, No vember 2, 1795, and at the time of his decease was 53 years and seven moths old. Some accounts make his ancestors Irish, others Scotch; some say their original name was Pollock, others that it was Polk. We think it probable that they emigrated to the colo nies from the north of Ireland. It appears that his branch of the family had resided in Maryland, in Penn sylvania, in North Carolina, and finally removed to Ten nessee. Andrew Jackson stated, in 1844, that he had known James Knox Polk from his boyhood, and that " a citisen more exemplary in his moral deportment, more punctual and exact in business, more energetic and manly in his expression of his opinions, and more patriotic, does not live." Mr. Polk's father is, we think, still alive—he was a farmer and removed to Tennessee in 1800, when James Polk was in his 11th year; it is also said that he acted as a surveyor, and with his family had to toil hard for a living in the valley of the Duck river, then a wilderness. James Polk was the oldest of ten children, acquired the rudiments of an English and classical education near his home, and after years of suffering from a very painful complaint was relieved by a surgical operation. He gained high honours at the University of North Carolina, was assi duous, persevering and regular in his attendance, a good mathematical and classical scholar. In 1819 he began to study the law with the celebrated Felix Grundy, of Nashville; was admitted as a member of the bar of Tennessee in 1220; and was well employed in his line. He served as clerk to the Tennessee Legislature, was next a member for Maury, his place of residence, and in 1825, in his 30th year, elected to Congress. It he was opposed to a national bank, he hesitated to ex press that opinion for the first two years in which he sat in Congress ; but after Mr. Van Buren went to Washington as secretary, to wit, in August, 1830, Mr. Polk began to give the Tennesseans some hints about " the monster." Upwards of 24 years since he married the daughter of Mr. Joel Childers, a merchant of Rutherford county, Tennessee. Mr. Polk had no children —was unostentatious, quiet, domestic, and religious— not fond of show, dancing, dissipation, and late bouts, I Mr. Polk was a member of the Presbyterian church. It i 3 greatly to his credit that he had the reputation of being no duellist, no gambler, but a steady opponent to speculation. He was 14 years in Congress, and two or three of these years Speaker, having been • chosen in December, 1835, and in September, 1837. No more thorough-going party man could be found than Polk; he was very industrious, and, while on the floor of Con gress was reported never to have missed a vote. As he received a vote of thanks at the close of the session of 1837 for his impartiality as Speaker, it may be inferred that he had great control over his temper. He was a ready debater, delivered long and animated apt eches, and was one of the few hardworking legislators in his day. To those who saw him when on a visit to this city, during his Presidential term, his countenance and manner bore the impress of anxiety and care. In his intercourse with the public he was affable and courteous; his voice was strong but unmusical ; he was clear-beaed, and espablo of grasping, comprehending, and explaining complicated matters of public interest; a polite and attentive listener ; and so regular and devout iu early life that during the four years that he was at college he (Mr. Polk) never once missed prayers. His personal character was irreproachable. "Of Mr. Polk, as a private gentleman, and as kiviwn to us in his social and domestic relations," said the editors of the National Intelligencer, " we have no disposition to speak otherwise than with entire respect."—New York Tribune. POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Scarify, county Clare, Ire. land, having been constituted a post town, the post office there will be opened fur the issue and payment of money orders ou and after the 6th instant. BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—During the last few days, several men under the direction of the Trinity Board have been employed on the Goodwin, about midssnd. It appears the object is to force, by, means of atmospheric pressure, several lengths of cylin drical iron tubes into the sand until some solid mate rial is arrived at; each length of tube is about 10 feet long and 2i in diameter, but although six lengths securely fastened have been made to penetrate a depth of about 60 feet beneath the surface, no foundation has yet been reached. It is in contemplation as soon as a substratum sufficiently firm is found, to place several tubes of similar dimensions at approximate dis tances, and to erect a beacon thereupon. Should the attempt succeed, and sanguine expectations are enter tamed that it will, there exists little doubt of the impor tant effect of a structure of Ibis kind, in diminishing the amount of danger to shipping on a spot proverbial for its disasters an .d fatal coast queoces to life and property. —Dover Ttleg7apk. RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE COMPANY.— We are glad to announce that this compa❑y is now in full operation. Its object is the assurance of the lives of passengers by railway; and inasmuch as Lon/ may be received for a few pence in the event of death durii g a single journey, we should think all railway travelers would avail themselves of so ample a mode of providieg for their families in the event of accident.-7 he Reporter for July. 4.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. 3Ni ode : iv ) o v z (th: T wri S :( 3 y,i I fta o ottl Uras York. Hoor, JULYBserißremen. m 4th, ,Buenos Ayres; Kepler, Krudop, Yin None, Meycler,VL.l - Southampton, Morgan, New York, and sailed THE COUNTRY MARKETS, NrWC ',STL7 , I* TT1.17. .TT7LY 3.. . thig arTIVA::; Of !I" opa E•:111()CelTh atij C 0,1111,,, t 11:4 I eas , coast or s co d an d, its ~, an d ra il jo; t h a town, ins ended for our mark e t, have b een 2A ; also age , seasonable supply from the border counties. As a vol°' they are of an unusually prime quality. With sheep 0 . , lambs the supply is again large. The former are good point of quality, while the latter Ye very indifferent. 3 ' supply of beef will comprise 620 head of beasts. The inevel both in the numbers, weight, and quality, from that of 1 week, together with buy e rs b e i n g l ess numerous , e ausel , i : general reduction of 6d per stone. Business is exceedift dull, and a considerable quantity remains unsold. The nurifr of sheep and lambs is 6,500 head. The mutton trade is sl°_ °l at about is per head, a n d a grea t quant ity i s st ill on ban l Lambs are selling freely at a decline in their value from week, and will be sold. Prices—Beasts, prime Scots, 6s ; e i middling, 6s ; large steers, best quality, 6s; middling, 5 1 to 5s 9d ; inferior beasts, bs per stone of 141bs. Sh 41d to Is a head below bid% lambs, 6d per lb, sinking the o e g A EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JULY 3.—There in the market to-day t,7 sacks oatmeal, each weighing O a ' imperial, which sold thus:-38 at 11 lO s Od, 2 a t 9s u",, i 19 at It 9s Od, 7 at It 8s 6d, 3at 1/ Ss ed, oat 1/ 711 v. Average price of the whole, 119 s 5d 9-12ths. 5 sacks gad whereof 2 suld at 325, lat 30s, 2at 295, and oat 28s. IYd barleymeal, which sold at 2:s 6d. 1 sac k p easemea l, Wbw, sold at 20s. 19 sacks pot-barley, w h ereo f 11 so ld thus.„, 3 at 119 s Od, 2 at 1/ 7s 6d, 1 at It 6s 6d, 1 at 1/ 511 v" 4atl/ 4s ,01. 2 sacks brosemeal, none told. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JULY Supplies of all kinds large. Oat straw, from 5s 0(1 4 7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, Sc 0 '. 4 6s Od ; barley ditto, 5 s Od to 6 s ed. Hay from 7d to 9‘ll' stone. BANBRIDGE, JULY 2.—Oatmeal, from 12s Od to 12S per cwt Indian meal, 9s 3d to 9s 6d per cwt ; flour, firstit i 1121bs, 14s 9d ; second, Lis 6 d ; third, 12 s ; fourth, 9s bran, 6s Od ; wheatmeal, 12s 6d to 14s Od; wheat, from o i # to 00s Od per cwt. of 1121bs; oats, from 7s 4d to 7s per cwt of 1121bs; barley, 7s 6d to 8s Od per 0 1 best butter, firkin, at the scale, bid per lb • roll, to 6d per ib ; beef, 4d to 5d ; mutton, 5d to 6i; po tato; for seed, Os Od to Os Od per cwt ; for table, from 6s Oil (/ Os Od per cwt ; hens, 8d to 10d each ; chickens, to Is Od per pair; ducks, 10d to is Od ; turkeys, Os u u Os Od each ; geese, Os Od to Os Od ; eggs, hen, 5d to Ocir dozen ; duck, Od to 6d per dozen ; turkey, 9d to Os per doll goose, Os Od to Os ; hay, upl a nd, f rom i s 4d t o I s 6d per C A; ditto, lowland, from Os Od to is 2d ; s t raw , f rom Od to 1' turnips, Od to Os Od ; pork, none at market this L15,,1 0 lamb, from Od to 6d per lb. Weight of bread at Harttu a Moore's bakery, 4 1 bs for 51d. Old grain whiskey, at P' Robert Bell's, 6s 3d per gallon, duty paid. BALLYMENA, JUNE 30.—Oats, 7s 3d t 10d; oat.--, o is ; 12s Od to 12s 9d per cwt ; butter, 6/d ; beef, 3d to 6d per pi mutton, 4d to 74 ; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 170' 0 third, 15s Od ; inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, 108 Od ; b r o Os Od to 6s 8d; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 956 d to 101,, yellow, 9s 6d to 105 Od ; potatoes, 5s Od to 54 104 per cwt; Is 3d to 2s Od per cwt ; American flour, 30s per barrel; tall, 4s Od to 5s 4d per stone • flax, 4s to 6 3 6d ; straw, 84 to hides, 2s 64 to 65 64 e a ch ; pork, 35s Od to 41s Od per 0 : 4 turnips, 8d to is per ditto; c arro t s , O s to i s per di tto ; ber 5s 9d to 6s 6d ; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d. COAL MARK C.. 1. YESTERDAY. Bate's West Hartley... 13s 3d 'Hutton Huddle's W. Hartley.. 13s 9d Morrison 1 4 56 Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main..... 12s OdSouth Hartlepool Holywell Main l4s Od Whitworth l3s6 North Percy Hartley.. 13s 3d Cowndon Tees ... Ravensworth's W.Hart 12s 61 Denison tantield Moor .... ... . . 13s lid South Durham 1 51 16, West Hartley 11 West Gornforth . ...... Wall's End, &c. Gibson Hilda l4s 9tl Cowpen Hartley Hedley Urpeth ... 15 1 6 Eden Main Lambton Primrose Hetton Lusus NATUR2C.—We have to record a 1 5 nriura, of which, in modern times, the Sicilian t Riits and Christina and the Siamese brothers were i 4 most memorable instances. At Eerneghem, a vilo three leagues from the town of Bruges, for 4 nearly the central point between Brug es , Th' ol out, and Ostend, were born, o n th e 28 t h ultoi children of the female sex com p act l y un i ted to ', other. The two bodies joi n a t t h e s id es ; t h e lira union beginning a little below the right breast of one and the left breast of the other, and contil i d as far as the nav e l, so th a t t h e c hild ren d o n ot 0 each other in the face, but are turned one d wards the other in an oblique position. Their 11° ,4 arms, thighs, and legs are perfectly free, and ;# have the -perfect use f their limbs, and their p utts ) is such as to permit their mother to nurse both ' l ` . 4 same time without difficulty. The curate of the 11 - 1 baptized them the day of their birth in the naltw e l Marie and Sophie. The parents are poor B ern working and residing on a small farm held by I s 4 o bachelor. The husband's name is Tanghe ; his aged about 38 years, has four children.—Brussels Mr. Roebuck, in putting a question to Lord merston on Friday night, with respect to the ai t e e ff m Roe, took occasion to administer a we ll- me ri buke to the French. He pointed out " the monstroj consistency" of which they had b een gu ilty. "H a d S,', l ;! or Austria or any German nation gone to the ws','",y Rome, and poured shot upon its works of art, at leasi_j approbation of the act would not have been accotorrd with surprise, but that France, who had prided on all occasions with being the patron of the tri France, who claimed to have f oug ht th e ba,,t 4 ; f liberty for turope—that s h e s h ou ld b e the asoo interfere with the only rep u bli can Government 1:0,11 had 'arisen out of her own rev o l u ti on , was lad e s monstrous inconsistency. The French Bet an y ample to the ItOnatins ; they incited them to do I t l e i they had done, and now they attacked brother Republicans. Alas for the chividrld France !" Lord Palmerston tacitly acquiesced in 0 4 ;01 flee of Mr. Roebuck's withering remarks, and ni° the He that the Government were no parties to transaction, but on the contrary witnessed it " II regret." We believe this is the feeling entertaine d ol men of all shades of political opinion in this noun s d and that universal indignation would have been exPr e d if the Government had been in the slightest t e r V mixed up with the enormous crime which the ,d r Republic has committed against the Roman peo Carlisle Journal. DESTRUCTION OF A CHURCH By broke out on Friday night in the Free Church, Charles -street, which, we deeply regret to add, roP e i accomplished the utter destruction of that sacred 1 1) tare. The flames were first observed about 1 1111 711 nine o'clock i ssu i ng f rom th e u pp er w i n d ow s 4 :".1 building, in which, owing to its isolated positiony the ignitable and uncon fi ned mater i a l s w hi ch constielifi the fittings of the int er i or , t h ey soon advanced so their ruinous career that even the best directed) sustained efforts to check them would have been ungd ing. As soon as the fire was discovered the bell George's Church sounded the alarm, and the engin*; ( o St. Thomas's, St. George's, and St. Mary's parishes'? those of the Caledonian and other insurance- 0 r d ' hastened to the scene; but, owing to the i m p oss ibilT o i procuring an adequate supply of water, their eV could not be efficiently brought into effective requW e i The root very soon fell in, and, the flames having th li o d quired free scope and impulse, burned wi t h great brills t p illuminating with a bright but saddening glar ° o o adjoining streets, where several thousand spectators 6d, assembled. A body of police and a company of the Regiment were promptly on th e s p ot , and afforded possible assistance in w o rki ng th e eng i nes and main ing order. In about two hours the church, which very modern and well-finished editice, was reduced d complete ruin. We are unable t o account f or t he orb of the calamity, which, if it had occurred on a night vi j oi divine service had been ce l e b rate d, m i g h t have W I , 0, the t uppoeition that it origii.nted in connexion wit t e gas; but we belive the church had n o t b een eroP o d tor public worship siren Thurseay. We are not $ whether the building was insured.—Dublin p a per. of THE PRINTERS' PENSION S OCIETY .—YeSte, evening a general meeting of the supporters 00 0 0 mittee of the ab o ve i ns ti tut i on was h e ld at t h e Lo Tavern. The report for the past year stated although from th e genera l causes wh i ch had 000 almost all ch a ri ta bl e i nst i tut i ons, the amount 0, id annual subscripti ons h a d f a ll en to 470/., being 5%80 than last year, the b ene fi ts o f t h e soc i ety have not 0 curtailed; on the contrary, an increase of 28/. in 1 10 1 ,00 has been during the year paid t o p ens i oners, of '°V there are now 55 on the funds, the males receiving 0 and widows 9/. each per annum. The sum receicea the last anniversary dinner, presid e d o ver by the Pid quis of Northampton, was 235/. 10s. The balanceld figured the receipts by don a tions, l egac i es , an d s ub° i or Lions, &c., to be 1,213/. 16s. I Id., w hil s t t h e ocPe Lure left a balance of 661. Iss. 4d. The funded prof invested with the Commissioners for the Reduction ° National Debt was 5,209/. ss. 7d., producing an int o of 200/. a year. o f [ADVERTISEMENT.]—An E x t raor di nary C o re r t Ulcerated Leg by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Este et a letter from Mr. :Eastwood, of No. 4, Marvell-street , to Professor Holloway, Sir,—" For two years I was grisl ° afflicted with a bad leg which was full of ulcers. I apPl ii i f several doctors and took their remedies, but without the f a goo d ; at length happily for me I procured some of your h i roent and Pills, from Sirs. Nobl e , o f t hi s town, wh i c h ba effect of curin t l g my leg in a b r i e f space of t i me, in grat itree/ which 1 make this case known in the hope that other " 1 derive benefit by a d opt i ng a similar course. " Sold Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment' Strand, Lond on . BIRTHS. 1 On the 96th ult., at Bryanstord, county Down, they the Rev. D. Melville, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Stourton Rectory, the wife of CO W. J. B. Estcourt, of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Upper Harley-street, the lady" .of bert Pole, Esq., of a daughter. On the Ist inst., Mrs. James B. Tomalin, of a 8.3 n On the vd inst , a t C urzon -street, blay-fair, the 910 . ', Hoyle Oddie, Esq., of a daughter. On the 2d inst., a t Cecil-street, Strand, the wife -of Pbf Frodsham, of a sou.l On the 2d inst., at Westbourne-terrace, Mrs. Robert derson, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at Wellington, Somerset. George of Fox, Esq., eld es t son o f the late Edward Fox, Esq., °'fit den-house, to Jane, eldest daughter of Samuel Dobreet of Wellington. 0 1 $ On the td inst., a t All es l ey, Warwickshire, Jobe Esq., of Priory-hill, Wolston, to Sarah, only sister / Rev. E. Gibson, M.A , of Allesley. DIED. Oi r On the Ist inst., at Albi on l' o tt aze , H ert f or d -roa d. land, John, eldest son of John Cottell, Esq., of th e India House, aged 34. On the Ist inst., at Kemerton Rectory, aged 8 1 D. Thorp, M.D., father of the Archdeacon of B r istol., of On the 2d inst., at Canton-place, E as t I n di a - ro ad,' John Clayton Mills, Esq., aged 81. 421 At 41, Queen- square, Bloomsbury, Mrs. I3oydell, e I , J I I London: Printed and Published by MURDO Y O U r in 7 Ai r , No. 112, Strand, Printer, a t Th e Sun Office,, L A O Strand, the Precin c t o f t h e S avoy, in the rt"' Middlesex, Thursday ,July 5 t 1849. C' The power Becurii per Ai 10th J Ten, Posed Lando ir( Saloon No al Time. *O4 9 %t 11!.4 1: 6 I 7 Oran every 4 FROM the Rain Time. ...—__,.. U. Y. 8 40 9 201 10 10 40 11 201 12 1 20 4 201 11 6 20 6'40 *7 20 --___ Obi a treet. Pali tnittv 80. Three Packei Brans PaSl Tema Street 31a, Paper the pa laxity ICltte and tt I 'ram . 1 4 /tater an Wrier ante, baYon lady ( V T 1 tors free, I