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I The concluding entertainment—the last of a series of SIR,--A short time ago Captain Valiant, of the melodious Monday evenings, continued unintermittingly 4t h Regiment, b roug ht me a l etter of introduction since Decemb r last, was delivered by Mr. Wilson at the fromfrom Mr. Wien the artist, and info rme d me h ow Music H a ll i n S tore - street yester d ay evening. As a na PPY he sh ou ld' be to show me a wonderful instance farewell lecture, we expected that the best art of the -• o f mesmeri sm i n hi s nurse : he soon afterwards vocalist and his choicest s ongs would be so ",,,brought her to me , i n company w i t h M rs. Valiant and combined by him togethe r as to create a parting fitting to be garnered in remembrance. Nor were :,Ltie.n. eral Sir T. Willshire, Bart. She was a sllort, we disappointed. Mr. Wilson rang the changes on ,Loeneate, artless woman, about thirty years of age— Scotch, Swiss, English, and French, with no less wt .'s., one of tho se worthy and attached servants who are so I riety than richness. First came a merry Jacobite ditty, Fvaluable in families, and so valued and esteemed in 1 in which, as the Highlander, he stuck the " bonny white o od families. She .consented to let me mesmerise I rose" in his bonnet, flung the plaid over his shoulders, her, if her mistress remained at her side. She was shouted aloud for " Charlie," and carolled a curse on p r esently f ast as l eep, and in a state of s l eep -wak i ng. " auld carlie, " or George the Second. Next he rambled tier eyes became firmly closed; she was greatly dis- among the refined beauties of Rooke's " .Amilie ;" he tressed and agitated if I ceased to touch her, though sang the return of the Switzer to his home, pouring his the contact of the toe of my boot against her shoe home-song on the winds, as lie retraced th e p a th wa y s o f his childhood. Thereafter lie chaunt e d o f a S y l p h— one o f w as suffi c i en t . M y purpose is not to describe the those bright enticing spirits of the Rhine, who, with their P h enomena of . • her case, but to give you an account glances, like golden sun-rays, throw a spell and fascina of the inest imable advantages of mesmerism, in tion over the mortal whom they, Siren like, are bent on e nablin oyrg her t o go through a severe and long surgical betraying. Next, he cracked the whip, and jingled the ation, without the slightest pain. The facts you bells of the handsome " Postilion of Lonjumeau," per. .v . 11 find in two papers : one written by the surgeon, sonified the boldness and supremacy of the robber life in himself an unbeliever up to the time of the operation; " Fra Diavolo," and wound up with " Tullochgorum," in the other by her master, Captain Valiant. a glorious roll and chorus. I cannot, however, refrain from mentioning that So great was the desire to hear Mr. Wilson last night, at . his last lecture, that nook, cranny, and corner were fen the Captain first called upon me, Mr. Brookes, lo tilled almost beyond their capacities of space, and re .43l7ll,.rnin..gham, was in m3 , r library, w ith . his patient, . heated encores attended several of his songs. Several of for j e , naktgr, whose case is detailed in your number h: une 4th. Th e C a pt a i n w it nesse d th e exc i te• th e mint and st u p e f ac ti on o f var i ous menta l f acu l t i es in ais countrymen—bold-made,• handsome men—were pre sent near him on the platform, as &so two members thi YMlng woman during her mesmeric sleep-wok. og , by mesmerisin g an d d emesmer i s i ng th e var i ous r ° r respondi ng par t s o f t h e h ead according to phreno ' gY• On ret urn i ng h ome h e t h rew hi s servant i nto the mesmeric s t a t e ; an d, a l t h oug h s h e wa3 totally gnorant of phrenology, as he assures me, he excited and depressed her various faculties at pleasure, with out any hint to her, by manipulating the various Phrenological or gans . I, th ere f ore, repeate d t h ese hrP e riments the day following, when he and Mrs. ali ant, and Sir T. Will s hi re , ca ll e d . D r. Ri gon i , ~e Professo r o f Ph ys i o l ogy i n the Un i versity of Pavia; . th e Turkish Charge d'Affaires, the highly distin guished Mr. W. C. Fox, and several others, were pre sent; some on this and others on a second occasion on . 4 w hich I made the trial. Her eyes were closed, ~14 she was in a perfect sleep-waking, as I have , 3 - h r eady said. On touching the organ of Self-esteem, w e rose instantly from her seat, elevating her hand as d :g, ll as possible, speaking with the utmost pride and ti - n s 'ain, displaying the natural language of these emo in—Us in the most exquisite manner. On e ue withdraw my finger, an d pl ac i ng it u p on th e organ o f Bone and kind e, the chan ge was i ns t an t aneous t o a h um bl e s; l expression of countenance and voice, and f in e w as all gentleness and goodness. On placing my ger on the organ of Wit, she became at once most e 11. .7 and facetious. On pointing over the organ of and Love and Attachment, she became serious izi l ` ( ( , l gentle, and the tears streamed down both cheeks; to her distress was such that I was obliged to b li en over some other organ. She talked of her hus aund, Whom she had not long seen, and of Mrs. Va vi i rs baby, On touching over Destructiveness, her p r i ° d en ce was outrageous ; but instantly changed to e, gentleness melancholy attachment, or wit, Wh en tb oso ''„'Y finger left it f or th e respective organs of s rac ulties. I play e d u p on h er brain, by my t h e s er abo Miracle s of mesmerism, witnessed by me now for in v ‘,.. e ,five years, these phenomena mrpassed all. Still gi' ve '"aracte r is too cautiou s an d l a b or i ous f or me to in ve lll Opinion on mesmeric phrenology till I have btigated this branch of the subject more; and I d ra t herefor e now present you w i th a statement • 1 :7, 11 up by D r . Ch ar l ton. caiL",r• Elliot son th en g i ves t h e statement of Dr. ti n ri ton, from w hi c h it appears that a severe opera frirtiC was perf orme d on t h e gums and j aw of a servant- While under the effects of mesmerism, without er evincing th at the slightest feeling, or even being aware la any operation had been performed. This is fol ed by a statement 'made by Captain Valiant, de teheerib_aing a similar operation on a young woman with Letb_ 8 success. Dr. Charlton, at the conclusion of L e ease described by him, adds, " I had hitherto e ' ;11in the habit of ridiculing, and indeed disbeliev g; every statement connected with mesmerism, b u t Cu it impossible to reject the facts of this case, I:ls,aght home by the evidence of so many senses."] r erhap s some of the medical world will believe this and begin to be satisfied that mesmerism is not ' 4 Pr true, but useful. Ale Professors of University College had the fact " e fore their eves of a set on b e i ng passed into the neck one of my patients wh o requ i re d i t, w i t h out the ; k "ghtest sensation ; .so that whe n I d emesmer i se d h er, p was astonished beyond measu re . Th e f acu l ty of „ v 4 is kn ew th a t_M. Cl oque t cut o ff a b reast from a se ° h Ma n in the mesmeric state w ith ou t th e s li g h test • itto a ,ton, as may be seen in the Pe nn y Cyclopirdia, •Ali;niee,Soninumbulism. But they have all, up to this 'nets :been as indifferent to the fact as the cattle stea47lg- iu....the meadows are to the wonders of the liages passing by them on the railroads. .41Pre Gardiner, of Roche Court, Hamp sot4eLen4anced a young lady preparatorily to having P orts t il• extracted, and the astonished dentist at `i - ord;„ -u tith took them out, prolonging the tug at Mr. (ia „. -e r's request, without her knowledge ; so . that, Ler ink awakened she went to the glass to satisfy of e r s o li tt .t t l i li a a t ra they were ' out. My friend Mr. Prideaux, pton, has extracted several without a op e f,' :after entrancing his patients previously to the 4 : 1 ; (1 ,1 1 . The time will come when no painful ope- Iv iler:; l .7 be performed, without a previous attempt, v tilt n i i 'ere is time, to entrance the patient and pre - have the honour to remain, Sir, C 0,.. H N ELLIOTSON. out t - street, June 21 JO 1842. le Society of True Highlanders, in the rich and sump. zuous array of clansmen—Roderick Dhu would hay:. been proud of them on the mountains. No doubt that the warmth and enthusiastic spirit with which Mr. Wilson was last night received, will waft him on his way to the North Li a glow of pleasure, causing also the remem brance of his flattering reception in London to remain as a spot, green, and sunny, and gladsome in his memory. LITERATURE. BRIAN, THE PROBATIONER. &ins, London, 1842. We have perused this tragedy with great interest, for it is written with force and earnestness, and at the same time with unaffected simplicity. The plot turns on the misfortunes of a young, reserved, stu dious Scotchman, Brian Hunter, who is a tutor in the familg of 'Kaird, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by whom he is deservedly respected for his irreproachable habits, and his conscientious at tention to the tastes and morals of his pupils. Unfortunately, however, for his own peace of mind, Brian cherishes a fervent but secret passion for Mag dalene, a beautiful orphan protected by Kaird ; and after vainly struggling for some time against this dis astrous attachment, he at length resolves on confessing it to the fhir object of his infatuation, being driven to th'.s course from the fact of his having ascertained that she is about to marry his rival, St. Claire. Magdalene listens to his suit, but gives him no hope, though she professes esteem, friendship, &c. for him ; and soon after Wards Kaird ascertains that he has been secretly corresponding with her, whereupon the indignant Provost dismisses him from his post of tutor to his sons. Driven to desperation by the loss of Kaird's favour, and his own strong passion for Magdalene, the wretched Brian wanders about alone in the neigh bourhood of Edinburgh, and in a sudden paroxysm of madness endeavours to stab himself with a knife; but just at that moment his hand is arrested by his two young pupils, who taunting him beyond his endurance, for his meditated crime, he murders them both, and is immediately afterwards discovered, and in consequence executed for the crime. The character of Brian is maintained with unvarying consistency ; and there is infinite vigour in . the scene wherein he first acknowledges to Magdalene the love with which she had long, unknown to herself, inspired him. This last, too, is a sweet and graceful portrait, full of true feminine sen sibility. By a memoir affixed to the tragedy, we learn that it is the production of the late Miss Isabel Hill— a young lady of very versatile talents, and who wrote prose and verse with nearly equal readiness and ability. THE LEVANT MAIL. By the regular mail from the Levant we have received a further supply of Malta papers to the 15th inst. inclusively, with accounts from Constantinople of the 7th, Smyrna of the 9th, and Alexandria of the 6th. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 6.—The only commercial novelty during the last ten days has been the sale by public auction, by the Government, of 10,000 crores cotton, on the 30th ult., at gad. pe r crore, or about sid. per pound, bought by the agents wno were creditors of the Government; while from the present want of water in the canal and lowness of the Nile, this cotton will not be deliverable for six or eight weeks to come. Not withstanding the readiness with which all parties here pur chased for cash the setsainum seed sold last month, deliverable in December next, nu more has been put up for sale, and the Treasury being thus kept without money, no measures can be adopted to pay the whole or any part of the heavy arrears due to the troops and all persons in the employ of the Government, and several acts of mutiny, theft, and insubordination have lately been the result of this abominable want of all system in the Government Financial Department. • The ridiculous tariff of Constantinople, for Custom-house duties, so very inapplicable to this country, has at length given way to a more equitable mode of collecting these duties, more in accordance with the spirit of the treaty, whiCh evidently intended that the import and export duties should be really ad valorem 5 per cent. and 12 per cent., and not nearly double these per-centages. Nothing of any further political interest has occurred since my last. Cases of plague still continue to be reported, a few daily ; but otherwise the mortality of this town is below its usual average. A letter - from Alexandria, June 6, in the Malta Times, says :—" The Pacha, within the last ten days, gave orders that his employes might receive the 25 months pay due to them either in grain, aquavitaa, wine, or honey ; but on representa tion being made by the sycophants at Court, that in paying them in grain he was causing great loss to the merchants who lately brought such a large quantity of commesttbili against Government assignments, he instantly gave orders that they might have as much aquavitaa as they liked, at about 300 per cent. above the market price, but that he could not allow them to have grain. as in so doing he would be acting dishonourably to the merchants. The Pacha is said to be in a very bad hu mour, owing to the disorganised state of his finances. An Arab merchant was murdered a few days ago by some sailors of the Pacha. The murderers have not been discovered. They stripped him of everything he had upon his person. Colonel Barnett is beginning to put in order some of his pug nacious subjects, by informing them that unless they mend their ways and manners he will be forced to order them out of the country. The Colonel dined with the Pacha on the 2d inst. The following correspondence has taken place between Col. Barnett, the English Consul-General and Boghos Bey :. « THE SLAVE TRADE. RLTSSIAN UKASE. v r raas Rollo 11, MAY 27.—His Majesty the Emperor has th e to the Directing Se ate tnhe following ukase, relative to ..oPPression of the slave trade tosieull: ill ustrious predecessor and dearly beloved brother o f I; ; ° Pka l , te e, olory, telg at the most memorable period of his ever h. when the congress of monarchs assembled in established t h e new basis for the political relations of itlvitliltiit;°Peapan Powers, did then recognise, an d, i n accordance Jl liown„ lies, solemnly declare, that the branch of commerce irt„uY the n ame of the African Slave Trade had by the LPare,f`r and enli litened of all times beenjustly regarded pub et'liie the prin g eiples of philanthropy and the laws of lic Ides Y. and that nothing but the peculiar circumstances l'app 'which this trade originated, and the difficulty of l id, ee _ let a4: ll 4 it without preparatory measures, could have 4„tin tl , In a eartain degree, as an apology for . the ' -nee of 041 . s a traffic 1 14 _ th,, so len All the sovereigns L ye thr . ,who signed the treaty of Paris, May 18 (30), 1814, • 4 411 Made it their duty to eo.operate in common, and ,: r fA e on Means in their power, for the suppression of th!s e t lest 411 points of the earth. Notwithstanding their ve, h 'eh for the attainment of an object so important, they j t ,,, l l,act: w r e yer. for the sake of the interests of their respective Cites f l e ' r urn deference to existing usages, and even to pre itatic• e IAY rooted for aenturies, refrained from attempting, t 4 .44 it to determine the time when each Power would t ade. rratbl e and convenient formally to prohibit the slave t better to l eave th e fi na l fixation of that period to ' k:_Rotiations between the Courts. ; j ean pr g o e l e . the issuing of this declaration the slave trade has I , 4l4 , " :::: al e k ht r te .11,14 ajesties by almost all the nations of Europe and Ame 11t'74 th • P r eE•ent especial treaty has been conlluded between the Emperor of Austria, the King of 42144.71? the Queen of Great Britain, and the King of ,pted i • "'th respect to the most effectual measures to be ~to By 4: Preventing the secret prosecution of the said trade. s, t ans i ., a treaty it is determined not merely to prohibit (or -sej• th e . . . , tit lb Prohibition) the respective subjects of the . con hhiession3fters from carrying on the slave trade within the °r under the flags, of the said Powers, or by cap . i Esci r e ' to participate therein, directly or indirectly, tto:.ahLatever • 'but it is moreover provided that every at -I.eCval- t t e u e.,, renewal or prosecution of that trade shall be held JieL t ßEd n ihTh t be crime of piracy, and that all vessels therein e," 1 1' 011 e - au forfeit every right of protection which the flags .1 1• 1 1. of . the contracting Powers might otherwise secure to ‘kp e er t i vtra •faanctioned all the dispositions of the said treaty, 'l%;)itig‘.., - "at henceforth every individual legally convicted of the slave trade, or either directly or indirectly in i a ,ligheipating therein, shall be sent before the legal tir k si k li t p r ra We e liable to the punishment prescribed by our §t tir eits echoic Senate will take care to provide the neces ilrea for the execution of this ukase. 4 Altk pel "NICHOLAS. e rsburgh, M arc h 26 (Apr i l 7) , 1842. " _ ,41 MAYNOOTII.—WouId the Evening 6 4 Soliciter Jackson, and the ranting, rearing and the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ' . lc-stow.,`"tdry other persons, it is needless to name, just ` .. -\....1' 1441471 )e h r e a t" ; e e; like, to be let into a secret ? They are all allynoota—not Trash Gregg more decidedly so . ~yt,,.Q4ve them aff ec t t o b e " cons tit u t e d au th ori t ies ," ,Vth 1 voice potential in matters of the kind. Well, then tlet o .e,Y believe it? There has been a distinct intimation A - 7th % .,.. I . u.a Irish Catholic Bishops, that the grant to May ,iN4ld. be heated a this year, but for the financial ern :et-114e p rA 4 °f country—and there has been no very Rai,_% -n use made, under the asnetion, as we are assured, N'eshei:';Me Minister, that should he remain in power, the t h * bet the his most liberal consideration in the year 1843. o_rter. ..vening Mail to make inquiries in the proper ~/3:6l.tirrnish its gentle and bewildered public with the t 4 41 011 1 , n Evening Post. Intl; 11, Your attenti JUNI; 20,—Permit me on to o ne of those domestic tragedies, which, .%, 4 7.44 1 'Y now and then occur to harrow up the feelings of T a g Glace an d to awaken us Ti_iplace on Friday, tea small village on the south side ',pout three miles from Lisbon :—A labouring .):1111:114_,' fowith rtriathhAte b^y, four years of age, left his home in the P ° rPOser of digging potatoes, large quantities PIT 4 are grown ‘ 4l. the • upon the sandy soil which characterises *hi . Lountry. ; lamentable fatality, the heavy k r u, , made Ilse of by the pas here, descendeil t „th t Z_, l l e ad of the child, and killed it. The father, frantic h7,7lol.‘ts'„Zitrlt,wtitit to communicate the sad tidings to his kNI."I 'Cr b o ars agony, rushed nut of the house, accompa ietP, l tig a • and, to bear home the dead body of . their son,. tir want a,,„ el. , ~w he n, en ,in the cradle. Judge of their renewed ititvtuevoured b their retisrn, they beheld their second child ''seedi ng Y a sow, which wks dragging it about the erupon its entrails. The mother soddenly.disap ‘, 4!' her corpse was discovered the following mornmg, in iht_ tt :nfl he premises. To complete this appalling ea -146.-`l)osne ',man, whose existence had become too dreadful Plaati the muzzle of a gun to his throat, and ter- ZitaZ.,ll-thlZllibtkeeee:ala indiedehtp.oit Thus , i th i e n ,_ en' been a n f g e a short a hour; , whole htci, ; 1 144 115:1. all the place into the deepest consternation, as he ta r his exemplary exemplary conduct and kindness to- COLONEL BARNETT TO BOGIIOS BEY. " Alexandria, 24th May. " Conformably to the wish expressed by the Pacha, the un dersigned has the honour to submit to his Excellency Boghos Bey the arrangement on which he had the honour of convers ing this morning. The undersigned proposes that the duties on imports and exports may be executed ad valorem, accord ing to the declared value of merchandise, and of the produce of Egypt. 'I hat in case the officers of the Custom-house should have reason to suspect that the real value of an article, what ever it may be, exceeds the declared value by the merchants, they may have the powers of demanding that the duty be paid en nature. By this one arrangement one will facilitate the execution of duties, and obviate, at the same time, difficulties which might arise in fixing a just value between the money of Constantinople and that of Egypt. The undersigned has already made known his intention of proposing this arrange ment of his Highness to the Austrian Consul-General, and to the Vice-General of the French Consulate, for their considera tion, and the gentlemen approved perfectly of the plan that he has just now exposed to E. H. Hoghos hey, as a simple and equitable means of avoiding the inconveniences which are pre sented in the actual state of things. (Signed) " C. J. BARNETT." BOOHOS BEY TO COLONEL BARNETT. " Alexandria, May 26. " The undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of the note that Colonel Barnett, her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, has addressed to him, under date of vester terday, on the subject of the arrangement to take place on the manner of levying the duties of imports and exports. His Highness the Viceroy has had laid before him a translation of the note you sent, and has just authori3A the undersigned to signify to Colonel Barnett, that the arrangement in question has met his full approbation, and that orders have been given to that Effect to the Director of the Custom-house, to declare to him, at the same time, that the undersigned in stating in his note of the 11th instant, that the cooa:nerce of the next cot ton crop will be free, so that everybody from that time is free to make purchases of it in every part of Egypt. (Signed) " BOGHOS JOUSSOFF." , " But as it results on another consideration, from the decla ration made by the undersigned, the 26th instant, that the Viceroy has renounced, to date from the said day, to preserve the monopoly, exclusive of the sale and purchase of cotton, and that by the fact of these recent dispesitiow, the treaty of 1838 is now in full execution, and the Dii ector of the Cus tom-house has been authorised to exact the supplementary duty of 2 per cent. on all the merchandise imported into Egypt, from the 26th May, the undersigned is pleased to be lieve that the measures, which have been just expo!ed, will completely satisfy the commerce, and will, without doubt, in their adoption, see the definite solution of the question of Cus tom-house duties. (Signed) " BOGHOS JOSSOUFF." Circular addressed to the Consuls-General of Alexandria, by H. E. Boghos Joussouff Bey, dated 31st May:— " The undersigned has received the order to make the fol lowing communication to the Consuls -General : —Cireum stances having prevented cotton from being comprised in the number of the products of the Egyptian sale, the monopoly of which had been abandoned by the Government, under due of the 23d of November, 1841, and the execution of the treaty re maining from this account incomplete; now some difficulties have been raised to the additional duty of two per cent. by the Egyptian Customhouse, the imports of which are affected by this treaty. In order to put an end to contestations of this nature, the Viceroy has ordered the director of the Custom hcuse not to require the payment of the supplementary duty of two per cent., for merchandise imported from Nov. 23, 1841, to May 26, 1842." The following, dated May 31, has been addressed to the British merchants of Alexandria:— " I am instructed by her Brttannic Majesty's Consul- General to inform you that his Highness the Paella has acceded to his proposition that the import and export duties be for the future levied upon valuation of merchandise, and in Fgyptian currency, without reference to the tariff of 1839. " I am directed also to inform you that the Pacha having now 001 . 0 free the trade in cotton, the five per cent. duty upon th s a impPrts Per):PPs payalsle from the 26th inst., but that three per cent. sl4ty p t° he paid for go o d s p asse d d ur i ng the interval between the 23 ( 1 Alovernbge 6f 140 year and the 26th day of this month.—l have the honour to be; &c. (Signed) "J. L. STODDART." SYRIA. The Naha Times of the 15th says : ot Our news from the Levant contains one important feature —that is, the determination of the tide grc4t Powers that Syria shall again be under the rule of a Christian Prince, At least such appears to be the cause of the unusal activity in the Divan. Of course the Sultan will or must give way. The re port of Selim Bey on the administration of Omer Pacha is anxiously expected. We observe that the Smyrna Journals THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING .7 2 IJNE' 28, 1842, TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, 7TH OF JUNE.—On the Ist the MM.. hers of the Ottoman Cabinet and the high dignitaries of the State met in Council, the Sultan being President, and re. mained in deliberation for several hours. On the 2d an ex traordinary Council was held, and yesterday another took place, Baron de bout queney addressed a note yesterday to the Porte, demanding satisfaction for an insult offered at iteyrout to a French Lieutenant on board the Surprise brig, by two Alba nian soldiers. This cote occasioned some long communications with the Ambassador, ar.d a meeting of the Council. The Sultan's Government, seeing that the complaint was made on just grounds, agreed to grant the satisfaction demanded. In consequence, the F renc h war sc h ooner, t h e Alesange is to set sail from th e B osp h orus to . morrow, to deliver an order to the Moustapha Pacha to give up the two culprits, who are to be brought to Constantinople to receive a severe punishment. Yesterday, Chekib Effendi, formerly Ambassador of the Porte at London, was ordered to repair to Wallachia, to arrange cerL tain differences which have arisen between the Prince and the Primates of that principality." The following is also from the Journal de Smyrne " The little island of Calymnos has just been the theatre of grave events, which call for the solicitude of the Sultan's Government. The inhabitants, having refused to pay ap annual duty of 100 piastres for each boat and 18 for each man employed in the sponge fishery, an Ottoman brig of war was despatched, towards the end of the month, to en. force payment. The Captain on his arrival had an inter view with the Primates, who promised to exert their influence to persuade the population to pay the tax, the moderate amount of which was not contested. The next day one of the Primates, named Ismayl, was invited to dine on board, and whether from having drunk too much, or from some other cause, died suddenly on board. The inhabitants, when in formed of this event, accused the Captain of having poisoned their Primate, and, having risen tumultuously, attacked the boat. which brought the body to the shore, broke it in pieces, and killed five of th e crew. Th e brig immediately brought her broadside to bear on the town, and destroyed - some stores which were within her range. Some Europeans, who hap pened to be at Calymnos, then interposed their mediation, and obtained a cessation of all hostilities on both sides, until orders should be received from Constantinople. Nothing further has as yet taken place. A letter from Aivali, June 4, in the same journal, says— " The Turkish Government, determined to put an end to the disorders which have afflicted this town, dispatched hither a frigate with 500 troops on board. She arrived here the day before yesterday, and immediately the Primates elected by the populace after the late disturbances were arrested and taken on hoard an Ottomon brig of war which hap' ened to be he re, and which sailed this morning for Constantinople. The ar rests were effected without the slightest resistance, and the town is perfectly tranquil." FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JUNE 23.—The average price 'of Whc last week was 23f. 81c., and that of Rye 13f. 35c. We are able to affirm that it is certainly to 20 year% confinement that the punishment of Messrs.Vanderrucere and Vandersrnissen is commuted, and to 10 years that of Messrs. Verpraet and Van Lathem, by a decree of the 19th of this month. They will be confined in the for;- tress of Bouillion. • ANTWERP, JUNE 24.—The British Queen arrived here this morning (the 24th) at half-past eight. It has there;- five performed the voyage in less than 17 days.—Jour ! . naldu Commerce d'Anvers, Juno 25. SPORTING. No handicap in the year excites the same interest or is:the subject of so deep speculation as the Goodwood Stakes. The Chester Cup, the July Cup, the Leaming ton Stakes, the Cesarewitch, large stakes, are all insig nificant as compared with the great Goodwood Handi cap. I trust the following analysis will not be mal a propos : Comparing the number of acceptances in the last five years, 1 observe that, in 1837, thirty-nine were left in out of the one hundred and seven named i in 1838, forty out of one hundred and eighteen : in 1839, forty- five out of one hundred and twenty-eight : in 1840, sixty r four out of one hundred and twenty-seven : in 1841; forty-nine out of one hundred and fifty-one : and now, fifty out of one h un d re d and fifty-two. The number of subscribers, you see, increases annually; and there is no reason why it should not reach two hundred. Surely, the absurdity of not di, viding this stake into classes must be appa rent to the 'veriest dolt. The public complain of the badness of the handicap daily • why, how is i possible so t o we i g h suc h a number of horses as to give them each and every one an equal chance, for so I inter= pret the word handicap. Does the man live who can handicap one hundred and fifty horses so well that tht list be given to me and I cannot strike out one-third tha shall have as ninth chance as if they were stewed ? You cannot handicap good old horses with bad three-year olds : I was about to say sixteen stone and a feather would hardly, in some instances, do it ; at all events, with racing weights you cannot bring them together. It is quite as important that the horses should be classed as that the stake should be divided into classes. I live before suggessed this alteration ; I can now do no more than leave it in the hands of higher powers, who, I am certain, sooner or later, will see the propriety —aye, the absolute necessity—,if attending to my suggestion. For the Wokingham Handicap at Ascot thirty subscribers • are considered sufficient for two classes, and the two races the week before last brought out fields of fourteen and twelve. Here is a specimen at once of the increase of sport afforded by this simple method. Nine of the horses named in this great stake were in Scott's stable, out of which two only accept—Knight of the Whistle and Rhodanthe. John Day had eight en'- teret,l, and pays forfeit with every one, and Mr. Isaac Day with his four, shows the same discontented disposi tion. Ten were named out of the lot trained by Kent on the spot. Of these Bracelet and Proof Print only accept. Ten also were named in Dawson's stable : so two (13e11ona and Arnagill) only accepting. Thus the great stables are in an unusual minority ; so much the better for the small fry. Trenn named tour (Fitzroy, Una, Muley Hemet, and Haitue), and accepts with all. Osborne leaves in Satirist and Van Amburgh, re serving Sleight-of-Hand for the Cup. Forth had six entered, and accepts with Hyllus, Lucy Banks, and the Golden Rule. Lord Miltown named and accepts with three ; Lord Exeter with two ; Heseltine with three— Squire, Alice Hawthorne, and Millepede ; Cooper had three named, leaving in all but I-am-not-aware, a horse that pays f)rfeit for this race for the first time in hii life. Mr. Shelley accepts with two out of four ; Dilly is a satisfied man, leaving in all three entered. Alto gether, if my calculations be correct, thirty-one different trainers have horses engaged in the Goodwood Stakes. The public think the handicap unusually bad : I cannot agree with them, Considering the impossibility of fairly putting together such an immense number of horses, several of which have probably run expressly to get favourably weighted in this very race. Moreover, I hope never to see more than fifty acceptances for any handicap race in England. The tbilowing are the Goodwood Cup weights, cor rected since the races at Newcastle and Bibury : Lanercost, aged, 9st 111 b Attila, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b Charles Twelfth, 6 yrs, 9st 91b Marius, 4 yr., 7st 81b Wardan, 5 yrs, 9st 9lb Bangtail gelding, 4 yrs, 7st 81b Beeswing, aged. 9st Sib Moneda, 6 yrs, 7st bib Mus, aged, 9st 71b Bro. to Plenipotentiary, 6 yrs, Sleight -of- Hand, 6 yrs, 9st 2lh 7st slb St. Lawrence, 5 yrs, 9st 21b G. by St. Nicholas, 6 yrs, 7st Slb Retriever, 6 yrs, 9st Albion, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Satirist, 4 yrs, 9st Canadian, 3 yrs, 7st 4lb Contusionee, 6 yrs, Sat 121 b Meteor, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Galaor, 4 yrs, Bst 10lb Eaglesfield, 3 yrs 7st 41b Van Arnburgh, 4 yrs, e s t 101 b S ea h orse, 3 yrs, Est 13Ib Prince Caradoc, 5 yrs, est 101 b Ballinkeele, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b Bulwark, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b Pharold, 3 yrs. 6st 13Ib Tubalcain, 6 yrs, Bst 91b Jack, 3 yrs, Est 1315 Thistle Whipper, 4 yrs, Bst Sib Nautilus, aged, Est 12Ib Mustapha Muley, 4 yrs, Bst .51h Policy, 3 yrs, fist 101 b The Squire, 4 yrs, Bst .511) The - Golden Rule, 3 yrs, Est Fieschi. aged, bat 31b f 101 b Middlebam, 4 yrs, Bst 3lb I Belcceur, 3 yrs, 6st 10lb Zelmyra, 5 yrs, Bst 3lb Bro. to Garland, S yrs, 6st 10Ib Arnagill, 4 yrs, Bst 21b The Oneida Chief.3yrs,6stlolb Muley Hamet, 4 yrs, Bst 11b Yorkshire Lady, 3 yrs, Est 615 Galen, 5 yrs, est Fireaway, 3 yrs, Est 61b H. by Priam out of Seamew, F. out of Auela, 3 yrs, Est 61b 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Moss Trooper, 3 yrs, Est slb Marshal Soult, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b Martyr, 3 yrs, Est 31b June 27. J UDEX. Baron Deffaudis, who had been sent from Paris with dispatches for the King of the Belgians, arrived at Brus sels on Sunday night last. Finding that his Majesty was at Ostend, the Baron proceeded there on Monday morning, but, before he reached the port, King Leopold was on his voyage to England, and M. Deffaudis returned to Brussels without ac eomplishing his mission. The rejected of Kilmarnock has now added to his other titles that of the rejected of Newcastle-under-Lyme. We are confident that wherever humbug, hypocrisy, and cnta are held in detestation, the intelligence will be received with unmingled satisfaction. In his own country, Mr. Colquhoun was speedily seen through, and his last venture has been made in a quarter where little could be known of him.— Glasgow Argus. BARON PARKS.—Baron Parke, among other distin guished characteis, last week sat for a Photographic Portrait at Air. Beard's establishment in Parliament-street. Like Sir W. Follett, who had previously sat, the Learned Baron expressed himself highly pleased at the very close resemblance of his weights , wordseoignhet s harp miniature. ft is a full length portrait, and forms a most ad• minable likeness of the Learned Judge in his robes. LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. —Spurious weights are being sold, it is said, in London, as genuine Mint sovereign and half sovereign weights, but which arc made and stamped at Bir mingham, and are most shamefully wrong in weight. One pair, bought at a respectable shop in the City, has the sovereign weight 1 grain and 8-10ths too heavy, equal to 30. ; so that a sovereign, as issued from the Mint, would appear one grain, or twopence, too light, if weighed by this weight. The half sovereign is ens-tenth and six hundredths of a grain too light, and will, therefore, make a half-sovereign which is too light appear of sufficient weight to pass current. The spurious weights have on one side an exact copy of the real Mint 1842 ;" and on the reverse, the words weights—viz., the Queen's crest (a lion and crown), and the on the reverse the words " Curt,, A dwt• " so ß y t ele a i l gn i L li l: and C. Ratcliff." But the true Mint grains-oYerPigP•"- - 44qfr il?.c! *piing -19 1 frPqi• A few da y s ago, in lowering th e ' d escent of a. road across the plain of Brachenx, in the commune of Masnieres (Nord), the labourers discovered a skeleton in perfect pre servation, which lay with the feet towards the East. Shortly afterwards they turned up about thirty others all lying in tk same posi'ion. One of the skeletons' had all antique swo,:d between the legs, and a vase at the feet. O ne o f t h e skeletons measured 2 metres 12 centimetres-7 feet Engli s h, 1% i t hi n a b out three quarters of an inch. always find wisdom and firmness in the conduct of the Divan. There is a report at Constantinople that the mission . of Sam i Bey has for its object to give a portion of the Egyptian fleet fol. ayment of the arrear of tribute money." A letter from Constantinople of the 7th inst., in the Journal de Smyrne, says : " The diplomatic conference which took place on the 27th ult. rela!ive to Syria, terminated in the parties concerned agreeing to wait fur the report of Selim Bey, who is speedily expected back from the visit of inquiry he is at present making by order of the Porte into the present situation of Syria, and the conduct of Omer Pacha, Governor of the Lebanon. It would appear that the charges brought against this functionary have not as yet been fully borne out, and that, on the contrary, they have given way under the evidence of a number of facts in his favour. If, therefore, his return is demanded, it is solely for the sake of upholding the principle of having the inha r bitants governed by a Christian Prince, as has hitherto been the case." BRAZILS. Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieut. Herrick, arrived at Falmouth on Saturday morning —from Rio de Janeiro, April 26 ; Bahia, May 11; P ernam b uco, 17. Her mails were taken down to the River Plate by the Cockatrice ; and the return advices brought up by the Viper. Her Majesty's ships left in Rio harbour were the Isis and Crescent, ketch Sparrow, and brig Curlew. The next packet following, the Peterel. arrived April 21, and awaited her de , patehes and mails for England. Her Majesty's corvette Rose had sent into port a slave prize, containing 300 negroes, on ,the 18th of April, which vessel, being condemned, would be in a few ('ays sent to Jamaica with her cargb under the convoy of the Sparrow. Brazilian ships of war at Rio. —The Principe Imperial, Para. guassa, Campista, Andromache, and transport Paraiba. The crops of coffee (1842) will, it is supposed, exceed last year's produce by 1,200,000 bags. The season in the interior had, generally speaking, been favourable, and the harvest of Indian corn, beans, and rice, was expected to be plentiful. • Considerable excitement exited on the slave question. It was believed that the British Government had proffered to ex • tend to Brazil the same measures she proposes to the Spanish Government to adopt in the Spanish West India possessions. The daily press teemed with tirades against what is termed the pseudo-philanthropy of England. An address on the subject, Irons the provincial legislature of Rio, also gave rise to a copious discharge of Brazilian bile. Some ferment also predominated respecting the anticipated dissolution of the new Chamber of Deputies, elected in 1841. The session was to be opened on May 3 ; and the general opi nion is, that shortly afterwards the decree for the dissolution would be issued. Some modification is likely to take place in the Ministry. Vasconcellas, it is said, will come in for the in • terier, Alves Branco, for finance, and Rodriguez Torres fur the marine. Passengers—Messrs. Coleman, Guieguer, Witt, Poole, Webb, Alchorne, and Cuter. Fr e i g h t est i mated at 28,0001. Exchange, .4 to 4 ; on Paris, 345 ; on Harnburgh, 635 to 640. HOLLAND. TiE 1-I.scue, JUNE 21.—The Queen and Princess Sophia I are expected here from Soetsdyk at the end of this week. The Provincial Assemblies are to meet on the first Tuesday ►n July (the sth), in the capital town, to elect Deputies to the second Chamber of the States-General, in the room of those who go out by rotation this year. The difficulties which occur in some provinces in obtaining precise accounts of the quantities of corn, and of the agricul. tural produce, have convinced the Minister of the Interior of the necessity of requiring an annual return. Th e Magistrates of the Communes have, therefore, been requested to ascertain every year the number of acres employed in the cultivation of the several kinds of produce, so that it may be possible, be ginning with the year 1843, annually to obtain before the 15th of January, an accurate account of the produce of the harvest of the preceding year. THE HAGUE, 411/3E 23.—His Majesty's frigate Palembang has brought news - from Java - to the 10th of March thi; year. The island enjoyed perfect tranquillity. Satisfactory accounts had been renewed at Batavia from Sumatra, not excepting the district of Mentiheling, where troubles had been an nounced, but happily did not break out. The amount of the Government produce for 1842, was esti mated as follows :—Coffee, 988,210 piculs; Sugar, 829,485 do. ; Indigo, 2,850,000 pounds; Tea, 388,000 do.; Cinna mo►►, 139,000 do. ; Cochineal, 48,000 do. The Minister of Finance gives notice that the gifts for the relief of the city of Hamburgh to the 18th of this month amounted to 6,600 florins. In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General, of the 18th, the debate on the project of law relative to civil pensions was concluded. It was rejected by a majority of 31 to 12. THE HAGUE, JUNE 24.—We learn from St. Petersburgh, under the date of the 14th of June, that Prince and Princess Frederick arrived in good health, on the evening of the 12th, at the Imperial palace of Peterhoff. As soon as the steamer in which they were was in sight, the Emperor and the Empress went in a yacht to meet them, and accompanied them to that palace. The Imperial Court bad resided there for some day s. _ -- - IRELAND. Dttimm, JUNE 25.—THE ENNIs AFFAIR. -31r. Smyth, the stipendiary, and Captain De Revynes, the unpaid Magis trate, have been suspended from acting u Magistrates until the result of the approaching trial is made known. The following is a copy of the letter addressed to Mr. Smyth : Dublin Castle, 22d June, 1842. " Sir,—ln reference to the late unfortunate events at Ennis, I am directed to acquaint you that the Lord Lieutenant, with out at Present expressing any opinion whatever as to those events, or as to the conduct of the Magistrates or constabulary, feels that none of those parties can with propriety, or with ad vantage to the public, continue to exercise their public func tions until the decision of the legal tribunals, before which the cases must be tried, shall be known ; and his Excellency, therefore, directs that you abstain from acting as a Magistrate until you shall receive further instructions; but no change will be made during the interval in your salary or allowances. " I am, &e. " E. LUCAS. " L. Cruise Smyth, Esq., R.N., Ennis." A similar communication, omitting the reference to pay and allowance, has been addressed to Captain D. Revynes. DEPARTURE OF Loan DE GREY.—The Lord Lieutenant has deferred his departure till the middle of next month. The Orange party are still all but omnipotent in the Castle; and, as Lord De Grey has given in his adhesion to them, it will be no fault of theirs if he do not continue a tool in their hands. MONEY MARKET and CITY.NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. • TIMES.—The Bank of England seems at last to have be come sensible of the complaints that have been urged against them for re-issuing light coin. Forty clerks, it is understood, are ordered to be in attendance on Monday morning, and throughout the week, from six to eight o'clock, for the pur pose of weighing the whole of the gold possessed by the esta blishment, and thus preventing the evil complained of. With respect to the scarcity of silver, and the unwillingness or in ability of the Bank to pay it, it is said that it will last but a few days; the reason assigned for the course hitherto adopted being, that, within the first few days of what is called the " gold panic," there was a call upon its coffers for no less an amount than 100,0001. in silver. As a curious instance of the demand at present for this metal to meet the current purposes of business, it may be mentioned that a country banker paid to-day 2 per cent. premium for accommodation to the extent of 1001., wtile, among many dealers in London, the common premium is 1 per cent. Though the public have heard much of the inconvenience felt in London from the proclamation respecting the gold coin, the consequences to the provincial towns have, as yet, been little adverted to A letter received from Chelmsford is, therefore, of some interest, as showing the effect of the procla mation in that town. The banks, it is said, are crowded with applicants for a change of gold, and these find a difficulty in getting anything but paper money, or other sovereigns, which perhaps turn out also to be light. The manufacturers, agricul • turists, and relieving officers of the poor being compelled to offer a premium for such quantities of silver as they require, this is compensated for by a deduction from the wages of the la bourer. Even for a sovereign of full value it is difficult to get change in silver. Altogether, it is stated, the present excite ment at Chelmsford is equal to that during the panic in 1826. It is asserted in the City, on the authority of parties con nected with the Mint, that the half. farthing coinage will not be ready for two or three months. It is somewhat remarkable that Friday night's Gazette does not contain the usual return of the liabilites and assets of the Bank of England. From the recent change in their time of making up the averages, this return might to have included Saturday last (the 15th), and consequently seven days have elapsed since the period of return without its publication, the ormer custom being to publish it in three days. FOREIGN' cORN. Mr. Bannerman is to move, on Thursday, the 30th instant,. the following resolutions : That by the Acts 31 and 33 George 111., c. 60 and 65, it appears that the King and Council were allowed, when the Parliament was not sitting, to permit the importation of foreign corn, at the then existing lowest duty. That by the Act 39 Geor ge 111 ., c. 87, powers were vested in his Majesty, with the advice of his Privy Council, " when circumstances should so require," to permit the importation of all or any sort of foteign corn or grain, duty free, and also to permit foreign corn to be taken from the warehouse fur home consumption, duty free ' • that it appea rs by t h e same s t atute, which was contin ue d by subsequent Acts for fourteen years, that numerous articles of food were also permitted to be im ported, " when and as often as the same shall be judged expe dient," without payment of any duty whatever. That by the Act 7 George IV., c. 71, the King and Coun cil were empowered to admit, for home consumption, until the Ist day of January, 1827, or for six weeks after the commence ment of the next ensuing session of Parliament any quantity of wheat or wheaten flour warehoused since the 2d day of May, 1826, not exceeding 500,000 quarters, on payment of such duty as should be declared in the Order in Council. As it thus appears from the records of this House, that from the year 1791 to 1827, Parliament has granted authority to the King and Council to reduce, or altogether discontinue certain duties which were imposed on the importation of foreign corn, and other articles of food, it is therefore the opinion of this House, considering the uncertain operation of those laws which lately obtained the sanction of the Legislature, and consider ing.also the present state of the country, that it would be highly expedient to vest in her present Most Gracious Majesty similar authority to that which , was given to her predecessors ; and this House, befac the close of this session, will cheerfully ac quiesce in granting such powers as may enable her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council, to reduce or discontinue, should circumstances so require, the duties which now regulate the importation of foreign corn, until the Ist day of Januar , , 1843, or for six weeks after the commencement of the next ses sion of Parliament. oTered 3 to 1 on them, while the supporters of the Club did not evince the former anxiety to take the odds ; but, nevertheless, there was no paucity of takers, as it was expectel that they would " come eut" in the second i neea. We shall defer our remarks on the play until after the conclusion of the match. ' - ELECTION COMMITTEES. SOUTHAMPTON. The Committee appointed to inquire into the proceed. ings of the late election for Southampton, met yesterday at twelve o'clock, The Hon. J. S. WORTLEY in the Chair. After the Committee assembled the room was cleared, and The CHAIRMAN suggested that the proper course to pursue would be to continue the examination of Mr. Wren, and to confine his examination to the allegations contained in his petition. Mr. BAKER •aid the course he intended to pursue was to proceed with the case he had on hand, and then go on with the general facts relating to the last and preceding elections for the borough of Southampton. Mr. Mackay informed the Committee that Mr. Heart' was appointed by Mr. Abraham and the other petitioner as their agent. With regard -to himself, the Committee having come to the resolution of excluding him, on the ground that he was a witness, he thought that Mr. Baker might be called on to say whether he would be produced as a witness. Mr. BAKER said that Mr. Mackay presented himself as a witness, and that he offered himself as such in his IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 27. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the Board of Guardians of Newbery in Berkshire against tho rating of workhouses. The Noble Duke ex pressed his concurrence in the prayer of the petition. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from a place in Wicklow, against the contemplated measure for altering the Medical Charities in Ireland. The Earl of BANDON presented petitions from seve ral parishes in the county of Cork, against the system of National Education in Ireland. Lord DENMAN presented petitions from societies of Baptists and other Dissenters, in Yorkshire and Cam bridge, praying that affirmations might be substituted for oaths. CRICKET MATCH.--(THIS I)AY.) THE MARYLEBONE CLUTIAND THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX. The great match, whichls played ann ua ll y, b etween eleven picked gentlemen and players of th e county of Sussex and a similar number selected from the Maryle-' bone Club and Ground, was commenced yesterday at Lord's, in the presence of an immense a ssem b lage of tl i c spectators, h (l ut t 0 n, including among whom w several e noticed the Earl of V ent - members of lum, Viscount Fo&stone, Lord Frederick B eauc l ere, and Lord William Beresford, and a number of mem-. bers of the Metropolitan, Suburban, aud- Provin cial Clubs. The match excited very great interest of a speculative nature, the betting hbeing very brisk. At the commencement of the game the odds were all in favour of Sussex, which is to be attributed to the number of professionals engaged to play on their side, as corn pared with the Club, viz., seven on the part of the County and only three on the sido of the Marylebone Club. Subjoined is a list of the amateurs and players :.--. MARYLEIIONE CLUE COUNTY OF s u , sEx, Sir Fred. Bathurst Mr. C. Barton Mr. T. A. Anson G. L. Langdon E. Bayley E. Napper E. Garth C Taylor E. W. Keate PLAYERS. B. Kynaston Box R. Nicholson Dean F. 'l'hackeray HaWkilA PLAYERS. 11 , 44§011 Bailey . LnYWhito , Barker Millytml nillyer Picknell The County, having won the toss, went in first, and exhibited some be aut if u l pl a y. They wer e put out after scoring 90 runs. They were now freely backed i4d of 5 to 4, with but few takers, .. The .Marylebone i r teu ti efut m ttncl their players then wYe{lt iP 44,,t il!?ir Wicket's were lowered i n rapid sue pesston, 'and it was evident that the Club was over matched, their adversaries being too much for them, the playing of the professionals telling fearfully to their disadvantage. At a, quarter-past fiye illtlii: btst tila tt i went in, but he was owl .d out ffitpT PWNnlng Only a few . runs. cly ! p scoo w ,t pap f 'l r s being cast up . it wus f ound 'OW ' arylehone ekVen had Only ~ 41.14 1ied 44 runs, being in a mi nor i ty on the first innings of 46 runs, T backers and time friends of the County were now Inure confident of their success than before, and eagerly., PUBLIC•HOUSES BILL. own case. The COMMITTEE were of opinion that Mr. Mackay could not be present. Mr. Wren was then called, and his examination was proceeded with. He stated on the last day, that Mr. John Hunt and Mr. Coulson called upon him, at the request of Mr. Abrahams, relative to Whit marsh. He called upon Whitmarsh, and after wards upon Abrahams. He told Abrahams that Whitmarsh, would not vote for less than 20/, and that he would not, on his own responsibility, guarantee it to him. Mr. Abraham answered—" We must have Whit marsh, and any arrangement you make will be fulfilled." We then went to Whitmarsh and secured him for 201. Whitmarsh fixed that sum, and said, he would not vote for less. Mr. Whitmarsh and the Dibells went to poll together, and Mr. Whitmarsh said "We will all poll for the same." After Whitmarsh polled they went into a tavern, and remained there for a few minutes, after which they returned to the Castle, and in a private room there he gave the 201 to Mr. Whitmarsh, in the presence of Mr. John Bennett Luce, the landlord of the Castle Hotel. To Mr. Sainx.—ls not aware that the Whig party offered any money to Whitmarsh. He received money from the Finance Committee, between 50/. and 601. Knows a person named Twyford ; did not know him previous to the last election ; Mr. Abrahams told him to go to Twyford, as he understood he wanted 51. He met Twyford and introduced himself to him by mentioning Mr. Abraham? name. He said he knew Mr. Abraham's very well. He (witness) said that he understood he wanted 5/. Twyford answered he did. Witness told him he would give him 51. He went to Abrahams, and he got his signature as a guarantee to the Finance Committee, that the 5/ was to be paid. Here is Mr. Abrahams signature. The witness here handed in a small book to the Committee. He did not pay Twyford. He had other applications for larger sums. At his suggestion an application was made to Mr. Ball, a woollen-draper ' and tone of the Finance Committee, f or more money. Mr. Ball came himself in consequence of that communication. lie saw Mr. Ball give 71. to Mr. Wyatt, the town-crier. • He was not an elector. Does not know what the money was for. He then went to the Portswood, with Mr. Ball, to a voter named Russell. Mr. Ball and Russell had a private conversation. He be lieves it was for the purpose of giving him a bribe. Whets he came back from Portswood, Twyford had voted, and he came to witness the next day and asked for the 5/ He referred him to Mr. Mackay, and Twy fbrd told him that he had seen Mr. Mackay, and that he was satisfied. To Mr. Snm..--Saw Abrahams sign the book himself. The entry was, " Thos. Twyford, 51.," and opptsite was attached A. Abrahams." Mr. " paid " attached to several names in this book. Are these the persons who ; of your knowledge, received money. Witness—The word paid is not my writing, it is the writing of Mr. Duncombe the Member for Finsbury. The witness then proceeded to detail other cases of bribery. Mr. Redwards received 5/, and Charles Houghton received 121. They voted for Lord Bruce and Mr. Mostyn. During the proceedings before the late Committee, Mr. Deacon, the Town Clerk of South ampton, and an active Conseivative partisan, and a Mr. Brown were conversing. together. This was the first day that he (Wren) was examined. Mr. Brown, after the conversation, came to him, and said, " Now, Wren, if you make Mr. Martyn's election secure, I am authorised to offer you a cheque for 1001." He (witness) said he had but one course to pursue, and he refused it. He saw all the persons, mentioned in the list handed to him, acting on the working Committee for Lord Bruce and Mr. Marty n. He saw the following persons on the Finance Committee :—Messrs. Flicker, W. H. Mackay, W. Rouse Mabson, Mr. J. Ball, and Mr. J. Lisle, Town-sergeant. On the day previous to the polling, he handed in a list of the names to whom he gave money. Mr. Mackay objected to the sum of money given to Whitmarsh. Ile (Wren) said that he gave the money under the au thority-of Mr. Abrahams. His list was compared with others, and one of the members of the Committee said that the average price was 81., and that the money would b 9 sent to him. When he left the Committee he met Mr. Lisle, who told him that he should have the money. He received the money. It was between 50/. and 601. He distributed it in the following way :—To Whit- I marsh. 20/. ; to Houghton, 12/. ; to Wyatt, for an elec tor called Fry, 10/. ; to Bedwards, 5/. ; to Paskins and Andrew, 3/. each, lie was out of pocket 2/. of his on n money by the election. He heard Coulson say that there was 5,2001. spent at the last election by the Con servative side. To Mr. SHIEL—Is of opinion that the Whigs practised extensive bribery at the late election ; heard a person say that they spent 4,0001. at it. There was a General Conservative Association at one time in Southampton. It was broken up in consequence of some suggestion that award Association would be bet ter ; heard Mr. Stebling 'say that Mr. Fleming made the suggestion. The object of the Ward Association was to forward the Conservative interests at the election for corporate officers and Members of Parliament. They met at the houses of such publicans as were mem bers; at one house one night, and at a different house ano:her night. Recollects a' Conservative festival in Southampton on the 12th of October, 1840. Several free tickets were issued for that festival. The price of a ticket was a guinea. He distributed about twelve tickets. Sir William Reathcote presided at that festival. There were other dinners given. Almost every house in Southampton was open for the purpose of treat ing. Is of opinion that three hundred persons received money on both sides at the last election. He knows Southampton well. Knows a good deal of pre vious elections. He was a working committee-man. The most expensive election that/he recollects to have taken place for Southampton was that of 1830. In 1832 lie voted for the Whigs. The system was, if possible, growing worse every day. It was customary to employ a great number of persons as colourmen and chairmen. The general price for them was 21. Was never before the last election engaged in acts of bribery. To the CHAIRMA N—lt was in consequence of the great excitement of the last election, that he lent himself to those acts of bribery ; and also because persons, in a more responsible situation than he, asked him to do so. After his return home from the late Southampton Com mittee, proceedings were taken against him by Mr. Mackay. He was sued fora debt of 11.45., due to a person named Squib. Mr. Usher was Squib's attorney previously to this. Mr. Mackay did not give him any notice before the writ was served upon him; the costs were 1/. Bs. He since paid the debt to Mr. Usher, and he offered his costs to Mr. Mackay, who refused it unless he paid the debt over again. Mackay knew he paid the debt to Mr. Usher; wrote to him to that effect. To Mr. SHIEL—Was offered 100/. as a bribe during the late proceedings before the Southampton Committtes and attributes the persecution of which he is the object to the fact that he did not take that bribe, and becati,io be would not perjure himself betoro the Commit:OP, 43re, viously to his comi ng to London, he had a ponversation with Mr. Mackay relative to the proceedings which were to take place before the Committee, and the indemnity which was to be afforded to witnesses, He told Mr. Mackay he should act in an open, fair manner, and Mr. Mackay said he would go tbr six months to poi before he would divulge anything. Mr. Flcining pissed by at the time, and Mr. Macke left WW I iuts been. placarded and caricatured ,Tery pasaibie way si nce the late proceeding s , Mr. HEARN was about to examine Mr. Wren, but it being a quarter to four, the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock this day. -BELFAST. The Belfast Inquiry Cominitto4 Stands adjourned til o-day at twelve o'clock, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 25.—The subjects for the University Prizes for next year are as under THE THREE CHANCELLOR'S PRIZES. Latin Essay, " Qumnam fuerit publicorum certastinum apud antiquos vis et utilitas." Latin Verse, " Venetia)." Feud English Essay : " The Ad van t ages an d Di sa d vantages of th e al System. ' SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE. English Verse, " Cromwell." THEOLOGICAL PRIZE ESSAY. " The Style and Composition of the Writings of the New Testament are in no way inconsistent with the belief that the ' authors of them were divinely inspired." SIRS. DENVER'S THEOLOGICAL PRIZE ESSAYS. 4son the Divinity of the Holy Ghost." 04t the Influence of Practical Piety in promoting the tem poral and eternal happiness of Mankind." The Lawrenee collection of the drawings by Raffaelle and Alicbael Angelo will at length be added to the works of art at Oxford; the purchase has been effeCted by the Committee in consequence of the munificent additional subscription of 4,0001. by the Earl of Eldon, and by a reduction of 3,000/. by Messrs. Woodburn fro* the original price. rtitl ilZv, dames A. Dunnage, of Brasennose College, has 40 appointed Assistant Ch a pl ain to the Tower of London. The 'Rev. F. W. Alant, of New Inn Hall, has been pre sented to the Rectory of Ballintoy. The Rev. Alexander H. Brides, of Oriel College, has been ciesented to the Vicarage of St. Mark's, Horsham, in the county of SktogiA• Tb Master awl Fellows of University College have_pre sßted the Rev. e. C. Cl aug h ton, of their Society, to the Rec tory of Elton, in the county o f H untingdon. Th e Hey. J t C. Pring, of New College, has been elected Chaplain to the Union at Headington, near Oxford. A. letter from Munich, June 19, in the Avsburgh Ga rate, informs us that the Duke de Leuchtenberg after a long stay in the capital of Bavaria, :will come to Paris in the winter, and afterwaids visit his eatatea in Italy. On the motion of the Earl of STRADBROKE, this Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord MOUNTCASHEL gave notice that he should postpone until to morrow his motion relative to certain returns connected with the Medical Charities (Ireland). Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, signed by various parties affected by the tariff, complaining that the tariff had been passed without a repeal of the Corn-laws. AFFIRMATION BILL. _ _ _ Lord DENMAN rose to move the second reading of this Bill. His object was to provide a remedy for, or defect in, the administration of justice, as it now existed in this country. The evil con sequences o f t h e p resen t system, whi c h led in many instances to the suppression of truth, were often felt in civil, and still more seriously in criminal, cases. Individuals, notoriously guilty, hall on many occasions escaped the punishment due to their crimes, because the law required that evidence should not be received unless it were preceded by a particular sanction, which wounded the religious feelings of those who came to depose. Many were of opinion that crime was on the increase in this country— that a portion of our literature had taken a most unfor tunate turn, tending to inflame the passions and to deprave the understandings of the working classes. However that might be, if it were true, as he feared it was, that crime was largely increasing among us, it was the more necessary that they should take every means in their power for its suppression. The sect in whose favour the Bill he had introduced was meant principally to apply, was the Baptists a most respectable body, who amounted to about 100,000 in this country, and to some thousands in Scotland. A large portion of that sect did not object to the taking of oaths ; but there were many of them who felt that objection, and almost all of them were anxious for an alteration in the present law. Again, there were the Independents, also a numerous sect, many of whom entertained the same scruples with regard to the taking of oaths. Under the present system those parties, acting according to their con scientious convictions, forfeited their recognizanees, or underwent a heavy fine, or were sent, perhaps to gaol instead of the culprit, who was screened from punish ment. Was that a fitting state of things ? A man was sent to prison for refusing to take an oath, and yet he saw perhaps a Quaker or a Moravian mount the witness-box to dispose of the lives and fortunes of their fellow-creatures. The man's evidence was lost ; that evidence might have been the the means of saving an innocent man. If a letter were written to the Secre tary of State disclosing and proving this, would he allow punishment to follow ? He (Lord D.) had received a book from a gentleman in America, in which was de tailed the persecution of the Quakers in Massachusetts, many being actually put to death. The Govern ment of Rhodes Island at last took a different view, and they suffered the Quaker simply to declare ; and now the people were beginning to loath that place (Massachusetts) on account of these persecutions. In. the Act of King Charles the Second it was provided that Quakers should be transported for life for the hei nous offence of refusing to make depositions on oath. But they triumphed over all this, and in the reign of William the Third they were allowed to be received as witnesses in civil cases. Since that time they had con tinual advantages. The Moravians also, who were not a sect, but an ancient episcopal church, were admitted to the same privilege, as also were a sect of recent origin. Now he never heard that in any instance the privilege had been abused, and he therefore asked the House to extend the privilege to all those who entertained conscientious objections to an oath. He knew that many people sup posed that there were those who had great regard for an oath, and cared nothing at all for truth. He could not see any reason for that opinion. On the other hand it could not be denied that there were persons who were at all times ready to come into a Court of Justice to de pose to the falsehood upon oath. There was great reli ance placed upon the fact, which was of frequent occur rence in the Courts of Justice, namely, that when a witness was going on in a career of falsehood, he was frequently checked by . being reminded by Counsel that he was on his oath. But in such cases he was checked, not by his regard fur the sanctity of an oath, but by his apprehension that he should incur the penalty of transportation for pelljury. He had now stated a case which he considered would be full of hardship and in justice to a large number of most deserving men. Ile believed that the remedy which he had proposed was efficacious and safe. It had been suggested that there ought to be some re' /stration or some precaution against the abuse of the law by people coming forward oc casionally, and claiming the exemption.—(Hear, hear.) But, as he saw nu danger, he could propose no precaution. The persons on whose behalf he brought forward this measure, would receive the boon with gratitude at the hands of Parliament, whatever might be the precautions with which it should be accompanied. The .Earl of IVICKLOW had not intended to follow the Noble and Learned Lord, but as no one seemed in clined to rise to oppose the second reading of this Bill, he felt it to be his duty to do so. He was much sar prised to find that the Noble and Learned Lord brought so few reasons why the law upon this subject should be changed. The Noble Lord said that a privilege had been ex ttialed to Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists ; but he (the Earl of Wicklow) did not think that that privi lege had been extended to any but Quakers. The Noble and Learned Lord must recollect that the- oltjee* tions of a Quaker to taking the oath were inhe rent in his creed, but the Noble and Learned Lord admitted that such was not the case with respect to those for whom lie pleaded. The cases cited by the Noble and Learned Lord were imaginary ; he had proved none. If this Bill passed, the consequence would be that one half the religious community would object to taking an oath. He (the Earl of 'Wicklow) would rather vote for the abolition of oaths altogether than this Bill. This Bill made a distinction betw een oaths and affirmations, exceedingly prejudicial to public justice. The Bishop of LONDON said he did not know whe ther he could make up his mind at once as to giving a vote upon this Bill. It was a question respecting the scruples of a number of persons and sects. He felt it ju s ti ce to the Noble and Learned Lord to say, that these cases of scruples were not exaggerated by him. He knew that these eases were not imaginary. He knew many hint, self. He knew one, which was the case of a member of , that profession to which the Noble Lord was an orPtt ment. But he (the Bishop of London) thought this Bill took too wide a range, lie hardly thought they were yet in a state to give this question proper consideration. Betbre they altered the existing law, and rem ove d a religious s an c ti on f or eliciting truth, they should, he thought, hear the opinions of those learned persons en gaged in the administration of justice, lie did not know whether all the Judges of the land shared in the opinions of the Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Den man) on the subject. He could not, therefore, give his sanction to the present measure. He admitted, however, that there were evils in the existing system, and that it led to inconvenience, for which it was the duty of their Lordships to provide a remedy. Ile confessed that lie did not see his way clearly in-the case. The whale sub ject relating to the administration of oath .. ,s,a great importance, and d eserve d their .Lortt'Ps-sips' consideration. He had doubts whether now unnecessarily administered in u' r " . .t . tlis were not .ny cases—in cases . relating to property fbr instane-- , er in the examinatup of witnesses at their Lord' The 0 „,: -.nips' bar, or before Judges in Chamber. . . —a.° subject, would yet, he hoped, re eel% e the c° _sideration of the Legislature. With regard of the Noble d Learned Lord, he could not v e it his support, but and Learned Lord, he could not cit his support, but lie could not on the other hand deny the evils of the existing system ; and he should, thvrefore, abstain altogether from voting on the motion before the House. Lord CAMPBELL supported the Bill. There could be no doubt that many parties, whose scruples were net respected by the present law, entertained conscientious objections to the taking of oaths. The result of this was that criminals often escaped, while the individuals who should have deposed against theni were punished. There could be nothing more preposterous than the pre sent system, which exempted sects, but did not exempt individuals, from the necessity of violating their own conscientious convictions. The declaration provided in the Act was, that " I, A. 13., declare that I believe, in my conscience, that the taking of any oath is contrary to the law of God." How could there be any apprehen • sion that a man, falsely snaking that declaration, would be bound by any form of oath that could be imposed upon him? He remembered that once, in the Court of Queen's Bench, a witness, who was rather gaily dressed, said that he would not take the oath, because he was a Quaker. " What (said the Lord Chief-Justice), if you are a Quaker, why do you come here here in the dis guise of a rational being ?"—(Laughter.) But the dis guised Quaker was allowed to make his affirmation, without further question. He was one of those who be lieved that some form should attend the taking of evi dence in a court of justice, to give the solemnity neces sary to distinguish the statements made there, from the unconsidered nature of ordinary conversation. The Noble and Learned Lord concluded, by giving his entire concurrence to*the measure, which he hoped their Lord ships would allow to go into Committee, in which it might undergo such modifications as would remove all the apprehensions that some persons entertained respect ing its operation. Lord GALLOWAY opposed the second reading of the Bill. He would be one of the last men in the /louse to interfere with the religious scruples of con scientious persons, but he believed persons of very different principles would avail themselves of this Bill if it passed into law, Lord ABINGER, in opposing th e secon d rea di ng of the Bill, said that there was not any large number of persons in this kingdom who entertained conscientiously the scruples which the Bill was intended to relieve. In the whole course of a very long forensic life, he had met with but one instance—and, stran g e to say, that oc curred the d ay b e f ore yester d ay . —(Laughter.) A wo.nan said that s h e cou ld not t a ke an oath, because she was a Baptist, and believed that oaths were not al lowed by th e l aw o f G o d. lIe((Lord Abinger) ex plained t o h er , th at t h e i n t e rdiction of swearing in the Scriptures did no t a p p ly to judicial oaths, and she ac cordingly took the oath.--(Hear, hear.) He h a d known, in a Committee of their Lordships' House, where witnesses were examined upon oath, that persons gave evidence at variance with what they had stated MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE. • Mr ROEBUCK appeared at the bar, with a special Report of the Committee appointed to inquire intocertain compromises, an d ot h er corrupt practices, alleged to have ' taken place in several boroughs in connexion with the. late general election. Tile Report having been brought up, was read by the Clerk at the table. It stated 481 the Committee, iu pursuit of the inquiry for which they had been constituted, had found it necessary to issue a. summons to John Walter, Esq., to require his attendance , before them, and that he should bring with him all let ters and documents relating to the election, or to his pit.- tition against the return ; and all bills paid and unpaid on account of the late contest for the borough of Not tinglunn. The Committee received from Mr. Walter a letter declining to comply with the summons. The terms of the letter were, that Mr. Walter had to acknow ledge the receipt of a summons with the signature. of J. A. Roebu c k, Ch a i rman of the Committee. AL thouLth he would be at all times desirous to obey the sure, mons of the House or its Committees, and would be glad to communicate to the Committee any informatio/4 which might affect no one but himself ; yet when he cot. - sidered tne power which the Committee possessed o.l;er those who came before it, and further the influence of the Chairman over the proceedings of the Oam mittee, he begged to point out to the Com mittee the position in Which he would be placid , . if he were b roug ht b e f ore a tr ib unal, at the head of Ivnch was Mr. Roebuck, who in his place in 1 arlinment, on the 14th o f S eptem b er l as t, h a d p ass ed a , scan daloustiste a a u n t d ho u r n foistuan:iletairitrctileecitlihoinelisposi hadp him ap (Mr. Walter) in the alter) Times newspaper, and of which article he (Mr. Walter) did not know who the author was, nor had he ever authorised any one to write that article, or ins ert i t in the Times. On that occasion Mr. Roebuck used dab of th e t the werof. House, the Times, and did not wish the attetli were attacked by following 1 to be repeated, horsewhip the unbecoming expression that that if any M ens b he would recommend him at (mot: to proprietor, Mr. Walter." lie (Mr, yv.) trusted, therefore, that he would not be supposed to sh ow plaocethheimorsdelefrsin a. Court, So When be person who hod expressed such undisguised hostility towards him. Eve* constituted and presided over by a d a ce d li i n sr e e d gar to d if he should be forcibly compelled to appear before the Committee, he should feel bound to decline to answer questions put by a tribunal so constituted. At thee same time he assured the Committee that he did not possess any letters or other documents relating to tkia election, or the petition, nor any accounts of the expenses paid or "paid. Yet, as be was anxious to afford the Committee every information, without subject ing himself to personal insult, he begged to state that Mr. Francis Holmes, of Nottingh am , h a d b een hi s agent on both the occasions when he was a candidate for that borough, and that gentleman was in possession of all the information and documents connected with the elec tions, and the proceedings that grew out of th em. T h i s ,. letter w as d ate d t he 24th June, 1542. 011 receiving this letter the Committee issued a second summons in the saw before in a Committee of the House of Commons. When these persons were asked how it happened that they had stated things before the House of Commons which they "contradicted afterwards upon oath, their answer was, that before the House of Commons they were not upon oath.—(Hear. hear.) He believed, to all religious men, the sanctity of an oath was of the most solemn nature, and that it was generally observed. He had a great re sefur t mustyery• excellen t say, that the Quakers ; t: t s till he examined in a Court o f J us ti ce , h e f oun d no ne so diffi class of all of the men, witnesses he ever cuit to fence with as Quakers— (Hear and a laugh) —so difficult, indeed, that he often was led to think that it was part of their religion never to give a direct answer. —(Hear, and a laugh.) H e did no t mean to say any thing to disparage th e Q ua k ers .—(" H ear , h ear ,' from Lord Denman and a laugh.) Well, if his Noble and Learned Friend wished him (Lord Abinger) to be more explicit, he would say, that with the experience which he now possessed, he would not have supported the law which gate that sect their present exemption from taking oaths, and he certainly would not vote for the exe tension of that privilege any further. Lord BROUGHAM was sorry to find that his Noble and Learned Friend had, but he hoped inadvertently, cast a grave imputation on the Quakers, He (L4d Brougham) had known them long, and he would venture to say that no sect paid more regard to truth, or had ti greater abhorrence of violating an affirmation. He thought the Noble and Learned Lord had mistaken their great respect for their affirmation for their taking nice distinctions, when, in fact, they were as solemnly con. vineed of the sanctity of that affirmation, as others were of t:te sanctity of an oath.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the Bill, the man as completely violated his con scienee by violating the affirmation he had to take under .this Bill, as he would in violating an oath. With respect to the term "sect," would not any conscientious difference on religious points entitle the person to be termed a sectarian ? It was not on account of the opinions upon religion, held by the Quakers, that they were relieved from taking an oath, but on their eon sciencious objection to do so. It did not mat ter what the man's belief was with respect to religion, provided he conceived that it was criminal to take an oath. Was he not, with respect to this question, upon the same footing as the Quaker, Moravian,. or separatist, who were relieved, not on account of their religious be lief, but from their conscientious objection to taking an oath ? He would suggest to his Noble and Learned Friend whether it would not be advisable to refer the Bill to a Committee before whom evidence might be taken on the subject, and an inquiry entered into, He (Lord Brougham) had no doubt but that the result of tlee investigation would be to show the necessity for such a measure as had been introduced by his Noble and Learned Friend. He believed that it would also appear, after inquiry, that a greater number of p e r.. sons than many supposed, shared in the objection to the taking of oaths. The Bishop of LONDON would make a suggestion differing somewhat front that of the Noble and Learned Lord who had just addressed the House. He would propose that the subject, and not the Bill merely, .should be referred to a Committee of the House. Lord PENMAN said, that after what had fallen from the Right Reverend Prelate, and others of their -7- re e . ships, ho could have no objection to have the whole wee ject referred to a Committee cf their Lordship` U cusp , But, at the same time, he should say that hie conviction as to the necessity of such a measure as 1w lead intro. duced was in no way changed. With respect to the state meat of his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord ..A.hinger) as to the manner in which Quakers gave their evidence, he legged leave to say that from that staternenthe entirely differed. For his part, so far from thinking that. Quakers seemed to fence in giving their evidence, he hud always found that they delivered itewith more than usual sincerity, and he had been repeatedly struck by the care and the solemnity which they maLifested. He believed that the men who came conscientiously forward and said. that they could not take an oath without violating, what. they believed to be the law of God, would be as faithful witnesses as the most obsequious followers of any sect. The LORD CHANCELLOR recommended to the House to adopt the suggestion of the Rev. Prelate (the Bishop of London). and refer to a Committee the whole: question of the Administration of Oaths, not only int Courts of Justice, but elsewhere. After a short conversation, Lord DENMAN witink ele the Bill, and The Bishop of LONDON gave notice that he would, to-morrow, make a motion on the subject. The Drainage of Lands Bill (Ireland), the Slave Trade- Treaties Bill, and other Bills on the table, were advanced: a stage. The LORD CHANCELLOR brought in a Bill to ex tend to Ireland certain provisions of the Limitation of Actions Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned at Half-past Sean o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 27. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. A Messenger from the Batik of England app e ared at he bar, with a return furnished by the Bank, itm or di ng :o an order of the House. DUKE OF ARGYLL'S ESTATE BILL. The l)uke of Argyll's Estate Bill was revaied, The Reports on Lesbaizeille's NaturpAh a tio n BA an d Rottma's Naturalization Bill were ttl3o received. GOVERNM T' EN OF N.F.7rFOUN DLAND. i'. Mr. WALLACE preseut':a a petition froth New fogad lat.d, against the Bill ur,tr before the House for tha better re , . utation of the government of th a t co l ony . ~ POOR -LAWS. Mr. f•iCIIOI..EFIELD presented rictitions front the t,:w ii of ghats, in favour Qr Local . ul continuan ce o f t h e Acts of th a t tuts t J or th.t management of the poor.. An Hox. MotnEit 011 etie Ministerial side presented n petiti on f rom foiriteen parishes in the Montgomery and Pool district, in favour of the Local Acts for the manage ment of the poor. 13111.0YMENT IN COLLIERIES. Alr. B , -B. DENISON presented a petition from..a place in Y or k s hi re, in favour of Lord Ashley's Bill for I regulating the employment of children in collieries. POOR-LAWS. Mr. I-ERRAND presented a petition front the rate payers of the township of Wighill, in Yorkshire, h :Oily approving of the constitution and working of the unions formed under the Gilbert Act, and against the •flinciple. of the Poor-law Bill, which takes away the cowrol of the local guardians. The lion. Member also presented a petition from John Brampton, and Betty - , his wife, claiming redress of the House for cruelty practised to wards them by the ComPlissioners of Somerset House,. by whom they had bee discharged front their situations, of Master and Matron of the Huddersfield workhouse. The Hon. Member Concluded by givino , notice• that he would to-morrow move that the petition be printed with the Votes, as,it was his intention to call the attention of the House to the subject of the petition, when the Hon. Member for Finsbury brought forward his motion for the postponement of the fir s t c l ause o f t h e New Poor law Bill. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented several pe . et- Lions from miners and others of Dewsbury, and ot.ner places in Yorkshire, against the passing of any A% for regulating the employment of women and children in mines. Lord ASHLEY presented two petitions —one from Woolwich, and the other from the calico manufac turers ot Manchester—in favour ot a Bill for regulating,. the hours of labour in factories. The NOBLE LORD presented petitions also from Hide and female workers in coal mines, employed in the neighbourhood of Wakefield, in favour of the Bill for re gulating the employment of females and children in mines. BUILDINGS REGULATION BILL. The Report of the Committee on this Bill was brought up and laid on the table. ATHLONE ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that the sureties of Patrick Kelly and other petitioners, complaining (X an undue election for the borough of Athlone were unex ceptionable,