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: more thaP C cutlet:o l i. but kells,d Flo (NV 1. thought the 110 11 ' lie rt . their PI s-applY f„, :lo co if "`r • ' luppinos thin g whieh bous to ra's ;tice to the Il e (Sr , Nob] , L ord . proprieto:. tppointive h e \Vest 10 topoinnneen ut Comnatt •efutation to Oe:11, that $ to an entell Lear . 11 4 t ould oPP ° t he 2.1 to be e r " e his lab a d not he ° o 4ernbet On° ea c lear, see king.doi, Were to st to exP 4 ind to d e e i r l e l e apply " 1.1 t d to refuse Th e lonics. 11 , in the rid heuilhi che; d, a nd men ; of pe• the! ail l er atisfied turitiuS le a e shou ld to eased, and years, they had this hardship indicted upon them, that they I tad to pay thi er passage.back: • Ile adniitted_ all thdt had 9 s e-ets said i n praise AA'. Sir Lionel Smith; hut he present -i overnor of the Mauritius, Sir W. Gorden, was a man ' l f rhOin thelr,reatcsi confidence could be. placed, and he sure the House of Commons and the country might , rely upo n hi s govern i ng t h e co l ony i n a proper and up ''right manner. He could assure the House that every Precaution had been taken to protein emigrants, the contract system had been annihilated, free labour had S • been.. established, .and medical men had been apponted every ship t a ki ng on t emigrants. The Court of 'rectors and Proprietors of the East India Company 'lad given their_sanction to this meaeure s notivithstanding t he oppositi,M 'of the - Hon. Member for Beverley; And such -being the ease, he trusted the House would follow so excellent an example. He had now fully stated the case, and he confidently left, the decision - ' -- uPon it in the- hands of the House. -Mr. HOGG explained. Mr. HASTIE made a few observations that were in azdible in the gallery. Sir R. H. INGLIS oppo s ed the Bill. It appeared from the Report of the Committee which had sat upon the subject ; that the people for whom they were legis lating were incapable of understanding the nature of the contract s into which it was proposed they should enter. Ile believed that the system would only give rise to a new slave trade. Mr. HUME supported the Bill, He saw no reason . Why the natives of India should be prevented from going to a foreign country, where they might find, that ' c loployment which they could not obtain at home. What - Would be said if a law were proposed to prevent Irish teen from leaving Ireland, or a law to prevent Scotchmen Isom leaving Scotland ?-(A laugh.) He did not see, however, why the same principle should not be extended to the natives of India as to the inhabitants of - Ireland or Scotland, or any other portion of the empire. He could 'hot consistently, with the principle of free trade in la bour, consent to the rejection of the Bill. Mr. BROWNRIGG supported the Bill. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment —94 The clause was then agreed to, and the Bill was passed. ASSESSED TAXES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the As sessed Taxes Bill (No. 2). Mr. HUME objected to the clause relating to the In ,e(nus- tax, which affected the payment of dividends to the '''reign holders of stock, which lie thought would be in convenient. The Bill was then read a third time. On the question that, the Bill do pass, es lir. W. G. WOOD objected to a particular clause, r• 4, and moved that it be omitted, on account of the laste with which it - had been introduced. lie thought tpractice of inserting clauses in this manner was a very objectionable one ; and he had, therefore, called the attention of the Houie to the clause. - • „ Th e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the 4 ' had been limited to some alteration in the assessed t •and he had himself moved the struction to the • eramittee on which the clause Was . founded. So , s s r from wishing to keep gentlemen in igno "ance, he had moved that the Bill should be reprinted - and circulated for the use of the Heuse. The clause was °°l Y intended to extend the principle of Bill to f • °r eign dividends, as wed as colonial dividends. I,tr After a short conversation, in which Mr. Aglionby, t • M ar k Philip s , Si r R. Peel, and some other Members ° °k part, the clause was agreed to, and the Bill passed. PARISH CONSTABLES BILL. On the motion that the-Report on this Bill be received, • Mr. PAK[NGTON said he hoped that the further con sideration of this Bill would be postponed till the ne xt ses,ion, as many gentlemen had left town who took a dVep '•nterest in the subject. , „ T. DUNCOMI3E said he thought that very-un s'onstitutional power was vested in constables, and the 4?ceeli of the-Right Hon. Gentleman on the subject last !ght had caused considerable alarm in the public mind. i'st i 'e Power of constables was not properly defined in this The constables of this metropolis had latterly „taken great power to themselves, which had been more Particularly shown that day. A meeting had been called 4 1 , Deptford o n the subject o f th e C orn -l aws . M r . „ "ompson, the Corn-law lecturer, was to have been pre sent, but from some cause he was absent. At that meet :g a great number, of what were called Chartists, attended. Th e room i n w hi c h t h e meetingwas to have _,ea held was f oun d to b e toe small and the meeting large to th e o p en a i r . Th e meet i ng was h e ld i n a the7ge open pl ace w h ere i t cou ld o b struct no one . Wh en meeting had assembled in the open air, Dr. '-u• Dowell rose to address the meeting, and at the 'foment he rose to address the meeting, advocating theth principl es of the Charter, the police interfered, and lim ey said the meeting was an unlawful oue, no doubt Graham jam na e t s ed o by the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir stop it. ); nr T . hey said this is an illegal meeting, and we M'Dowall immediately said, I obey your orders, wh at h ave you now to say ? They answered and said, go away ? Dr. M‘Dowall said I shall go awa y t u lli s way ? No, sated the police you shall go this 11 3 7 . No, said D r . MsD o W a ll, P I will go my own „ '' ” 1 3'. No, they- said, you shall not ; and they imme tlhiately co ll are d hi m , an d carr i e d him off. They carried I ° l to the station-house. This had occurred this i v "ing, no doubt caused by the doctrine lajd down 4 T the Right Honourable Baronet. The people fo lowed 11 they said, Let us see what they are 11 1 , 11 g to do with our friend the Dector.—(Laughter). p e n tieed no: laugh, for he could assure them that the would not stand this sore of treatment. They e t , i ' d Let us see w hat they are going to do with o ur h:,, °4 the Doctor. They followed him to the station i'"e, and then five or six others were taken, and were h 4 v in th e station. Sunie of 'the parties had come to oor e (Mr. T. Duncombe) to know what was to be done. -e Men in the station-house would be brought up be e the M ag i s trates to-morrow morning, They had e ° taken to the station house, and the police had re fused,, to t a k e b a il for them. This was a gross outrage boon the liberty of the subject. That House ought to considerate in giving power to constables without de ssriing it. He should therefore move that the debate be - scorned. fir J. GRAHAM said it had become his duty to re rt th e mot i on ma de by the Hon. Member the night be e, as it was an attempt to erect that House into a Z 4 7t of appeal from trial by jury , ar.d he was happy to , 4 '" that a ma jority of the House had agreed with him, an d d ec id e d aga i ns t the motion. It was not with less tegret than surprise that he found the Hon. Gentleman i ti . 4l l ) ,loying bin - ISW in forestalling the administration of t ice. The Hon. Gentleman was callino on a public vscussion in a case, the facts of which had been in .eat4tated.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir James Graham) w ould be grossly violating his duty, it he followed up the ulcer, which hail been so prematurely brought under iL 4 e ussi on .—(H ea r, hear.) He was quite sure that jus ('c Would he adminis'ered with due regard to law. If h s ` 4 law had been violat A, then would be the time to , 1 , 1 "°S; the sUbject under discussion. The Him. Gentle ina° was pleased to say that the constables had been on the o ccmion more or less by what had It;„ from him (Sri J. Graham). Now if they h gleeted or overstepped their duty, they would be a t wl'ettable to froM any the law. Mem h T ber e law of that was theirHo guse, euid, h o ever ot O % h i g h - With referenc-m to the suLject more immediately Crd debate, he thought the Hon. Gentleman had li t read the Bill, or, if reading, he did not understand it. ',„, e Said that the power of the constables was nnt limited ti i defined, but if the Hon. Gentleman would refer to the h` d, he would find that a clause was there provided for t t ', Purpose. The Hon. Gentleman said that some con al-4°les had acted illegally. Well, the parties had a re -7,'ltlry in th e ir own hands, as they could indict the con ee,4es. What was more easy than to indict the party, ,` } l „t) bring an action against them ? ft AGLIONBY said differing as he generally did h`uti th e political measures of the Right Hon. Baronet, ,11 Must say that - in this Bill he should give the Right 0 , 11 . Baronet his most cordial support. th`APtain PECHELL did not approve of this Bill, and l e ,?ugh some parts of it were worthy of attention, his r Ilion was that the suggestion for the adjournment was t.s v ery good one. ~ e , 4 l .ts HUME said if the Right Hon.. Baronet would , -- "m"fer - th e constables to exercise a power which they lit abase, he might be sure, whatever instance of such took pl a ce would be brought under the notice of I ' 4 - lament. BANKES thought it a hardship that counties W h ich had athipted the rural police should have be saddled with the expense consequent on the opera -'5" of this Bill. He suggested that the allowances to constables when. on extra duty, should be 'lo a thed not on the parish to - which- the constables be- Oged, but on the county generally ; otherwise it would tiytlising; but an advantage to a parish to possess an I % C constable. With respect to the commitment of see ll , ll persons to gaol, considering the contamination to she _ y they were thereby - subjected, he would suggest adoption of a clause "empowering Magistrates to r is ! : uMit for trial young persons who are charged with ttto l° l!4lal offences to locksup houses instead of the county jf Mr. DARBY opposed the clause and the suggestion. as,,,PuYment out of the county rate was introduced into a i i ,•!"rochial Constables Bill, it would lead to endless con- C,„"- He also opposed the clause for pro vidin g lo c k-u p t h - ` 4o es for criminals before trial, as if they adopted it. 15' would be bound to create two sets of prisons and. I:oll officers. 1 1 „ 4 r- J3ANKES would leave the matter entirely in the edsof the Governu ant. But he wished to know whe s ';„ 1 ' the words of the Bill included- the expenses of pur -11-k",g criminate who were not committed. lr J. GRAHAM thouglit the words proposed by the Member would fix them on the county rate. stet h 4 ". BURROUGHES rose to proposed an amendment, the- SPEAKER said it could not be proposed now, ES the ge ltie a t ite.son before the House was the adjournment i f T. DUNCOMBE said he had only made the mo loe te pUrpoSe of raising the question. lie would, s r,efore h , withdraw it. 44 _1 . he Report was then brought up, and on the motion • 1 ,7 it be - received, )1,.;• RROUGHESproposed the amendment, of which' given notice—" And be it enacted that in all r ,, , es, ridings, and divisions of counties, wherein a th tce force :hall have been established under the au -I:ritY of an Act passed in the third year of the reign of li s c,'Present Majesty, intituled, ' An Act for the estab tell-N"t of County and District Constables by the t t e l— coity of the Justices of the Peace,' and of any Act r the amendment thereof, it shall and may be lawful the Justices assembled at any General or Quarter thereof, by of the Peace, Or at any adjournment sat e°f, by a resolution duly passed at such Gene lid; or Quarter Sessions or the Pi-ace, or at any iturnment thereof, to . declare that-, in consequence t ho efficiency of such police force it is inexpe- M'..n i .....L'F.is. client to put in t h ree the provisions of this Act, either in. tie aliole cOunty - or ridiag or 'division - thereof ; anti on such resolution ly..ng duly registered in the zni flutes of the proJeedings of sucb • General or Quarter Sessions, or adjournment therco:', then and atter the passing of such resolution the provisions of this Act shall cease to take effect within such county, riding, or division, during so long us such resolu tion shall remain unr e seinded. Provided also, and b.t it further enacted, that it shall, and • may be . lawful for such Justices, at any . subsequent Ge neral or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or at any ad journment thereof, after .having given notice of their intention so to do, to rescind such former resolution, and thenceforward to proceed to the appointment of con stables in manner and form as hereinafter by this Act directed, as if such former resolution hod not been passed." Sir JAMES GRAHAM felt bound to oppose the clause. The Rural Police Act by no means Intended. .to do away with parish constables, and the present Silt was intended to make the parish constable an efficient officer instead of an efficient One, as he was at present. The principle of the clause was diametrically opposed to the principle of the Bill. Mr. PACKS supported the Bill. The amendment of Mr. Burroughes was then nega tived without a divisiOn. Several verbal amendMents were mad, iii the remain ing clauses, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time this day. - TOBACCO REGULATIONS BILL. The Tobacco Regulations Bill was read a second time. . SUPPLY. • The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up. TILE ECCLESIASTICAL LEASES BILL. .. Sir J. GRAHAM said he should proceed with this Bill on Friday next. BONDED CORN BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. G. W. WOOD moved for copies of the correspon dence and communications which have passed between the Ureasurx and the Chancellor of the Exchequer re spectively, and the University of London, through its Chancellor, Senate, and Registrar, relative to the esti mates for the service of the University for the current year.—Ordered. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half past One &Clock. ANTI-CORN LA►W CONFERENCE. The istembers of the Conference met yesterday at Herbert's Hotel, Palace yard, shortly after twelve o'clock, P. A. Taylor, Esq., in the Chair, who com menced the proceedings by reading the correspondence selected to be laid betlwe the Conference. The first wa.4 a communication from Forfar, addressed to Mr. J. Hume, M.P.:— TO JOSEPH HOME, ESQ.. 31. P. Date ► Forfar, :Ist July, 1842. At a large public meeting of the inhabitants of Forfar, held in the open air, on. Thursday morning, the 21st July, at which there appeared to be between 2,000 and 3,000 persons present. '1 he Provost having been called on to preside, the follow ing Declaratim was moved by the Rev. W. Lone, seconded by Mr. Peter Thornton, and unanimously carried:— That this meeting, aware 4, f the widely apread and daily augmenting distress of the millions of the population through out the manufacturing districts, are convinced that unless re lief is speedily afforded, by removing those monopolies, and re dressing those grievances ' of which the people righteously com plain, outbreak and revolution may immediately ensue. That, with these facts before them, this meeting regards the cruel indlfference with which Parliament appears to treat the woes and wrongs of an impovershed, starving, and air:l,st ex asperated people; as the gre=atest insult that can b e offered, in return for their patient and peaceable endurance of unparal leled distress. That fearing that her Majesty's Ministers may be so infa tuated as to attempt the prorogation of l'arli sment without paying any regard to the present alarming stale of the country, this meeting respectfully, but urgently, call upon J. Hume, Esq., the representative of the Angus Burghs, in conjunction with other Liberal Members of Parliament, to offer every pos sible opposition to the prorogation of Parliament, and to endea vour, by eery constitutional means, to arrest the wheels of Government, by the rejection or prevention of all votes of sup ply, until such time as some efficient measure of relief be adopted for the country, and till the wrongs and just grievances of the people are redressed. That the Chief Magistrate of this town be requested and authorised to sign this document, in the name of the thousands now assembled, and forward the same, without delay, to .t. flume, Esq., and that a copy of the sam.t be inserted in some of the local newspapers. ( Signed in the name, and on behalf of the meeting), JOHN BOOTH, Jun., Esq., Provost of Forfar, Chairman. Sunday, two o'clock, 1842. I do sincerely hope the Conference will neither break up, nor allow the supplies to be voted, without ringing the his tory of our wrongs in the ears of our oppressors. The Con ference is doing immense good here. iNo.hing else is talked about by Whig, Tory, or Radical, and 1 verily believe were this the beginning, instead of the close, of the session, that Minis ters must yield. We must not give them a moment's peaee till Parliament breaks up ; and berore it again opens we must again be at our posts in London, determined to remain there till full and complete justice is done to us. Depend upon it if this is done, that no Ministry can stand the storm which will be raised. Our friends in the House will be irresistible, and the pressure out will make them so. THOMAS WOOLLEY. Brentford, Middlesex, July 23, 1d42. Sir,—l should be glad if you would lay before the Con ference the following returns, showing the increase of pauperism in the Brentford Union since Lady-day, 1839. The people of West Middlesex are slumbering in fancied security ; but it is to be hoped that the ten parishes which eompose the Brentford Union will now open their eyes to the fact that the g , neral distress has already began to affect them, and that their best. policy is to join heartily with you and the Conference in agi tating for the total repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws. No. of Paupers at Lady-day, 1839 :—Out-door • In-door. 1,742 No. of Paupers at Lady-day, 1812 :—Out-door In-door 451 4195 1,742 4,095 Increase of the No. of Paupers 2 353 Money expended strictly for the relief of the £ s. d. Pour in the year ending Lady-day, 1639 ... 3,w37 4 11 Ditto ditto for the year eliding Lady-ilay, 1642 5,903 13 8 Increase £2,068 8 8i The returns for the intervening years show a gradual increase, and therefore Ido not think it necessary to copy them. I will only add that these returns have recently been ordered by the Board of Gpardians. I think it would be well if our friends who are members of Boards of Guardians would obtain similar returns froin their respective unions ; lam persuaded it would then be found that distress is spread far mere widely than some• persons imag.ne.—l am, Sir, yours respectfully, ONE OF THE GUARDIANS. P. S. In cons quence of the increase in the number of pau pers the relieving officer has applied for adcitional assistance. Nottingham, July 25, 1842. Sir,—l am only just in receipt of the " Parliamentary Re gi4er" for Nottingham, and forward some showing the deficiency of voters through non- payment of rates compared with last ear, agreeable to promise in my letter of the 16th inst. Yours most respectfully, W. CRI P PS, pro JOHN PLACE. ST. MARY'S. Rates unpaid 265 Left the p Irish Dead 335 New names on register 182—Deficient 153 T. NICHOLAS. Rates unpaid Left the parish ... 47 Dead 79 New names on register 61 ... ST. PETER'S. Rates unpaid 25 Left the parish ..... Dead 61 New names on register 51 ... 10 181 loss than in 1841. admitted the.. their great .engine must be the opinion of the masses ; but they co uld not create an enlightened state of opini on in a d ux , and their efforts should be di- . reated to diseminating informations among the people. But those who had so long refused their just demands,. would only be moved by the prospect of the actual dan ger of fortis re.iistance. If asked to be merciful, they replied with Shylock— " On What compulsion must I ? tell me that.' What had caused th& tUnvaral if mighty Rome ?—of proud Venice ? Aristocratical oppression. Let them look to Genoa and the other cities of Italy, and they would learn that s.ooner or later aristocratic oppression would meet its just reward. The French Revolution taught the same lesson. • Let our own sordid bread taxers study that lesson. It had been asked who might he considered the most ferocious murderer—he who cut his victim's throat, or he who suffered his victim to die a thousand deaths by faniine. Throughout the whole range of history nothing could be found more horrible then the death of Ugolino—and how did the conduct of the tyrant who starved. him to death differ frith that of the English laudocracy. The Italian was actuated by feelings of revenge—the English aristocrat from sordid self-interest. The Italian left ,a family to starve—the English aristocrat left a nation to starve. He knew that it had been proposed by one who would go down to posterity as Mr. Gallows Knight, to hang the prophets, yet he would warn them to beware in time. Mr. SIBSON (not a delegate, and a gentleman who ap peared to be unknown to all present) then rose to ad dress the meeting. He said he had been a farmer, and at cne time a strenuous advocate of the Corn-laws, but that he had, by the force of circumstances, become con vinced that it . would be for the benefit of the agricul turalists themselves that the Corn-law should be repealed. Mr. CRABTREE, of Todmorden, read a statement for the purpose of showing the • intense distress existing among the labouring population in that locality. Children frequently went out into stables to . pick up beans and oats, and other portions of the provender of horses, and ate them to supply the cravings of hunger. Every trade was in a state of the extremest suffering and destitution ; and if Sir Robert Peel pro rogued Parliament without the ad o ption of same reme dial measures, the consequences in the ensuing winter would be awful. • Mr. SHAW, of London, said ' that he had known the .metropolis for the last twenty-four years, and had never experienced anything like the depression of trade and the want of confidence from whiCh the trading interests of London were suffering at the present moment. He attributed all the existing distress and misery to class legislation—(Cheers)—to those Acts -of Parliament which. prevented the industrious artizan front exchanging the fruits of his labour for the agricul tural produce of other parts of the world. To those laws he attributed the great increase orpauperism..in conse quence of which the rate-payers themselves were being gradually ground • down into jelupers, and that state of things would - continue, 'unless free trade principles should be completely established. Sir Robert Peel had said that machinery was the cause of distress. Why, machinery had never done tailoring work, machinery hail never done shoemakers' work, machinery had never made a shirt, machinery had never made braces, machinery was not employed in the tigri culturul districts ; and yet the distress was as intense among . tailors, and shoemakers, and sempstresses, and bracemakers, and agricultural labourers, as it was among any other class of the community. He had the other day, in a large manufacturing town, said to some of the persons out. of employ,. suppose- it is • machinery that has thrown you out of work." " Oh, no, Sir'!" was the reply, " the machines are standing idle now ; while the machines were at work wo were employed, now they are idle, we are idle." " Well," was his reply,- " now the machines are out of employ, I suppose you will go to your handlooms and work, and keep them out of em- ' ploy ?" The labourers rep'ied that they could get no orders, there were no orders coming from abroad. So much for the fallacy of machinery being the cause of dis tress. Then Sir R. Pe:l talked ofovertrasling. Why, as long as we could • get an equivalent for the goods exported trading could never cause distress. Trading was the glory of England, and if it had not been for- the skill and industry of the manufacturers and traders England would at this moment have been a miserable agricul tural country, with only two classes existing in it= landlords and slaves. What had Unproved the value of the land? Certainly manufacture , ; and - to them it was that the aristocracy was indebted for the increased value of their estates. Sir Robert Peel had eueted from Mr. Beckinghain's work on America, fn. the purpose of showing that even. in • New York, where the price of labour was high, and there was a great demand •for labour, persons had died from destitution, and Sir Robert had attributed a great portion of the distress- in Anierica to the Americans having speculated in stocks, shares, railroads, tied canals, instead of devoting their energies to agricultural pursuits, which was the basis of national . wealth Why, it was the Corn-laws of England which had obliged the 'Americans to speculate in this manner, because England refused to take their agri cultural produce. Now, what was the cause of these deaths from destitution in New .York? it should be recollected that nine-tenths of the emigrants who went to America landed at New York. He had known 7,000 or 8,000 emigrants land there in one month. Many of them landed just at the commencement of the winter, without a shilling in their pockets, without any clothing—in fact , they were paupers, who had be• n shipped off from Eng land for the United States. At the commencement of winter the rivers and canals were frozen over, provisions were consequently scarce, scarcely a place could he pro cured for these poor creatures to sleep in, and many doubtlessly died of starvation ; but what occasioned this ?• doubtless- the English Corn and ProviSion-laws, which prevented these poor people getting cheap food at home, and forced them to emigrate. slf they had, had the means of • proceeding up to Ohio - as soon as they landed, and about 61. each would enable chem•to• do so,' they would be in a .country where a carpenter would earn ss. 9d. a-day ; a stonemason, or a bricklayer, 6s. 4d. ; a weaver, ss. 3d. ; and a farm labourer, 3s. lid. In Ohio the price of' a quarter of wheat was 325. 4d., and the beef was only 2d. a pound. In the West the labourer would be far better off than he would be here. He had known several labouring. • emigrants, who, after being there three years, had beentne possessed of twenty acres of land.—(Cheers.) Unless the Corn-laws were repealed, England would sink lower and lower. They were getting poorer and poorer every day, and the poorer they got the more powerful did their oppressors become. The object of the aristocracy was to reduce them all to a state of I serfdom. The cause of Corn-law repeal was making great progress in Ireland ; and if they would send over a few lecturers there, the farmers of Ireland wo:dd be- • come enlightened on the subject, as they were now be ginning to see that the Corn laws were a fallacy. Mr. LEWIS, of Stroud, said that throughout the agri cultural districts, the farmers -were beginning to be dis satisfied with the Corn-laws, and were inclined to be in favour of the repeal. Mr. MOORE next addressed the meeting. He said there was one point in reference to this subject which they should endeavour to keep before their eyes—namely, the necessity of quickly- accomplishing the object they had in view—the repeal of the Corn-laws. - For the last four or five )ears, manufactures were steadily getting into a worse state than they had been in hitherto. Sir R. Pei.•l might quote communications, and City articles, from the cewspapers, but the question was - plain. Had the rwople got bread—had the got employment—had the number of persons who Vielted for relief to the work= hou-ie become diminished ? No. Things were daily getting worse and worse, while the Government were looking to the chapter of accidents for a remedy for the evils of the country—looking to a good harvest, from which the relief to be derived was at least temporary. They need not then look to the Government, unless they roused the people. Let them agitate, agitate, during the next few months, and success must follow their efforts. The Government complained of the obstruction of pub lic business when the friends of the people in the House of Commons endeavoured to draw attention to the dis tress of the people, and seek a remedy for it. What was the meaning of such • complaints ? Was it not the business of Government to attend to the condition of the people ? What was the use of a Government if the people under its protection was to be starved ? They should be most urgent at the present time to attain their object ; for if things continued as they now were, other countries which weru becoming our rivals in the prochw don of manufactures would exclude us from every fo reign market. Let them take care lest the repeal of the Corn-laws should come too late to remedy the evils which they. had originated. Why not throw open our ports to America—to the whole world? Away with the sophism urged by the short-sighted advocates of the Corn-laws, " be dependent on foreigners." Why not look upon the natives of foreign countries . as brothers, not as strangers, to be treated with suspicion strangers, to spite whom, we starved ourselves lle feft.rred to - an article in the Sunday Times, headed " Will the military fire upon the people ?" from which he quoted the following passage:—"'Phis is a question which those who are hinting at physical force being a pewee, for the presentdistress should put to themselves. It is et question which has been already answered by the military themselves, who instead of preparing bullets to feed the starving multitude with, have made collections to assist them with food. The 88th, the bravest regiment • that ever faced their country s foe, whose bold and daring deeds of valour have entitled them to have in scribed upon their banners the motto "Clear the way !" the relief of the have ixmr s o t f tb e sc a r s i t b ie e b d a t r t ; la a r n ge d sum t o wards the paymaster of the 71st regi ment, stationed at St. John's, Upper Canada, has trans mitted to Paisley 801., tha amount of a subscription made by the officers and men for the relief of the poor of that town I the subscriptions of the non-commissioned officers and privates exceeded '621. When the con duct of the commandant of the garrison of Galway, %vim would nos allow the military to fire upon the starring men, women, and children, who broke open the eeevision stores in search of food, is coupled with that Of the 71st and 88th, the physical force quacks may doubt the efficiency of their bullet nostrums. They may depend upon it tt the soldiers have the hearts of men, and that they will not the upon their own flesh and blood—their fathers, brothers, and sisters, whom star vation has driven to madness. Even the majesty of the law is checked in the vindication of its power, as evinced by Mr. Bennett, Queen's Counsel and Crown prosecu tor, in the case of the Ennis riots, who, after the con viction of the rioters, prayed that the sentence should not be passed upon them for nets committed by them when suffering from starvation. Baron Richards, the Judge who tried them, expressed his delight at the accused escap i n g, as he emphatically declared that it would be to him a source of heartful pain to sentence men to punish ment, for breaches of the law which starvation forced them to perpetrate. Those circumstances ought to open the eves of our rulers to the • unnatural state to which bad laws, and class legislation, have reduced the coun try, and ought to make them tremble for the result." The facts here mentioned, should teach the Government, that there was a point, beyond which they could not go, in trying the patience of the people, for they might find P. A. Taylor, Eq. Mr. Alderman CHAPPLE, being called on, said he had ri-ceived two letters—one from his salesman, the other from his son-in-law, both speaking of the great depres sion or trade. Having read the letters, he said, these were short, but weighty statements, a'd contradicted the assertions of the Manchester Guardian respecting the re vival «of trade in th;.t town. lie had given some detailed statements of the distress of the c , ,untry, which had gone forth to the public, - but by no means to the extent of which they were aware. . When he went to reside in the township of Chorley land was, let for agricultural purposes at 21. 10s. per acre, which had since been sold for building, at from 401. to 120/. per acre. Another case he was acquainted with was, that of a manufactory where 25,000/. had been sunk within the last year. Not could save the country except a removal of all 'restrictions on commerce, and giving them a free inter course with all the world. He had lately been present at an interview with one ,of the Ministry, who was mentioning various difficulties with Nhich the question was surrounded ; he (Mr.",Chapple) said the question laid in a nutshell ; there were' two persons wishing to exchange their commodities, but a third part , stood be tween them, and said they should not do it. So we were half-starved for the want of their food, and they half naked for want of our goods. The distress could not be seen in London ; they must go to the distressed districts to as , prtain the truth of the facts they stated. Rut if some remedy were not applied the distress would reach , the metropolis '; if it went on in the same ratio, the starving people would come up by thousands and help themselves to their surplus. The land must support the poor ; that was the first demand on it. The clergy had secured their portion, and the other part, the landlord's, would, in such a state of things, be worth nothing at all. Mr. GASKILL (of Warrington), after -pologising for his incompetence as a representative of the Anti-Corn law Association of IVarrington, proceeded to draw the attention 'of the meeting tai the state of the manufacturing towns of the north. They did n,t, depend so entirely on tile cotton manufacture as Manchester; they had various other branches of trade established among them, and in all the depression which had fallen on the commerce of the country, they had hitherto maintained their prosperous conditiun ; but now there was bankruptcy among their shopkeepers, distress among the operatives, and increasing poor-rates, and it was evident that the only remedy was an organic change in their commercial system. There was one view , of the question which could not be dwelt on too lung— that was, how could they effect their ends. The great engine they must use to overturn th is gia nt mono poly was the people.—(Hear, hear, and ch ee rs.) They must instruct thew in politics and political eco nomy. But when their lecturers were addressing an g :cultural audience, perhaps it would be advisable that they should connect with ,a repeal of the C.nn-laws a repeal of leases, that they might show them the battle they were fighting was that of the people at large. It was Trir cvir LONDON, WITTIVMDAY TVEVING, rem! e1...7, 1842.. that the power on which they relied might fail them. Ifowever, he reprobated violence of any kind. and con tended that, -by preserving the peice, , the people had everything • _to gain. Ho inisted on • the • .riOtt which the representatives of the people had ,4 the House of Commons to st o p th e su pplies till wants of the people were attended to. They were bound by every means in their power to embarass the Govern-• went—a Government that had embarassed the . country ---,that had starved _ the. people. He rejoiced-that-Sir It Peel had added the Incotne, tax to -the other burdens of the country. It would rouse the people to a sense of the oppressive conduct of the pre.ent Government. And when the people firmly and with the voice as it were of one man demanded the redress of their grievances,. de minded the repeal of the Corn-laws, that repeal would be granted, and the sister monopoly .of the sugar duties would •be removed.. Then too the Income-tax would be put an end to. The middle classes had been hitherto attached to parties—to Whigs and Tories, instead of attending to their own in terests,. and hence the strength of their oppressors. The middle classes had never been united enough—above. all,. they never had sympathy. enough with the pourer classes. They did not stretch out the hand of safety to their suffering countrymen till the waves of oppression approached themselves. The hand-loom weavers were the first agitators against th e Corn-!aws, but they were not supported by the membersof the cotwounity whose assistance would have been m os t va k t ibl e --by the middle -•- e l as seswho let the •question slu m b er sf r om 1815, when the q uestion was firs t raised by the hand-loom weavers, until the distress resulting from those restrictive laws began to affect themselves. . Alr. EDWARDS, of Lambeth, concurred in the pro priety of embarrassing the Government by every means, till the wants of the people were attended to and remedied. Mr. SIDNEY SMITH announced that the members of the deputation who had waited on the Cabinet Ministers on Monday, would report the result to-day. The m2eting was then adjourned till to-day. - - INTERVIEW WITH SIR JAMES GRAHAU.—(YESTERDAY.) Mr. 11. ASHWORTH, as the Spokeisman of the Deputa tion, drew the attention of Sir Jarries Graham to the im portant Tact disclosed by Mr. Rawson, namely, that Great Britain had for upwards of 200 years manufac tured hosiery for all . the world. The country which plumed itself upon being the most advanced in civilisa tion, was the only country in which the people were ceasing to wear stockings—and he would observe of his own neighbourhood, that :often as he bed heard of the distress having pro Coded from over production, there were people whose families were supported by weaving shirting and other cloth, who %%ere themselves shirtless. • The people of his own neighbour hood were moral, skilful, and intellige n t, and therefore when he heard, a s u p on t hi s occ a s i on , of the exaspera ted language of those wh o were su ff e ri ng in. other. pluem, he felt but little appreh ens i on f o r the peace of that part of the country. It was true they were discon tented, .and how had . they shown it ? They had taken into their consideration how they should avert the greater calamities which awaited them, and what was the course they were pursuing ? They had sent a mmorial from Manchester to their Representatives, signed by upwards of 60,000 persons, and another from Salford to Mr. Brothel-ton. signed by upwards of 6,000, requesting them to stop the supplies. Sir J. GRAHAM—How many amongst those 70,000 persons,underzAand the-subject ? _ _ Mr.. ASILWORTH could not pretend to answer, but there were many of them who did understand what they were doing, and in defending such a course, they took advantage of the precedents which were fre quent previous to the Revolution of 1668. Before that period, the revenue of this country was principally raised from the landholders ; and when they saw extravagance and foreign wars, they at once stopped the supplies. It would also be recollected, that the industrious classes felt that they had now endured long and great privations, and that they were accustomed to remark upon the advan tages derived to the country from the •exercise of their skill and labour ; that the landowners of the present day had received improved rents, and enjoyed a command of comforts unknown to their forefathers, whilst the labour ing classes found that their condition was daily becoming worse. . Sir J. GRAHAM here suddenly interrupted Mr. Ash worth; by inquiring whether he was to infer that the la houring classes thought that they had some claim to the landowners' estates ? Mr. Ash WORTH, under somo emotion, appealed to the Deputies whether it was their opinion that he, had con veyed any such idea. They at once, and unanimously declared that it was utterly impossible for any one to have taken such an impression front what Mr. Ashworth had stated. Mr. AsuwoliTH proceeded, and reminded Sir James Graham that Sir Robert Peel had told the landlords that the manufacturing prosperity of this country was of far more value to them than any advantages they could pos sibly gain by the Corn-ita ; and he (Mr. A.) might take the liberty to assert ; as his opinion, that, if the Corn-laws were not repealed, or if the present de pression of trade continued, the remaining interest which landlords might possess in mortgaged and rack-rented estates would not be worth many years' purchase. Upon the rising of the Deputation Sir J. GRA Ham remarked, in a way somewhat promo- nitory, that if any serious outbreak were to take place in this country, in one week all the institutions of the cOun tiy would be broken down, the rights of property would Le saer:liced,• and even the labouring classes themselves uould be amongst. the greatest sufferer& Mr. ASHWORTH said if Sir James Graham would also allow him to,. speculate —upon the results of such a disaster, he would venture to say, that whatever might befal the rest, the sound religious feeling ,of the ,country would be safe ; that the sound moral tone of our middle-class would be prescrved, and, though it might pass through a severe or d ea l, industrial freedoth would eventually he established. INTERVIEW ------ -- --- ITH LORD RIPON AND MR. GLADSTONE. The Deputation proceeded at two o'clock to the office of the Board of Trade, and were introduced to Lord Ripon and Mr. Gladstone. The injustice of fettering our commercial intercourse with America was touched upon. Lord RIPON said that it did ; not follow that they would expected, even were those restric gtieotntshreemmoavrekceLt they was notorious that corn was some years dearer there than in England, and, on an average of a number of years, it was during half the time as dear as in England; and the price was habitually dearer than in the corn-exporting countries of Europe, who would supply this country were a free importation permitted. Mr. BRIGHT said that the American tariff in 1824 and 1826 was only passed by a bare majority in both Houses of the American Legislature, and the evident injustice of our Corn-law was the cause of the defeat of the free trade party; and moreover if .his Lordship admitted, as he had done, that corn could not be brought into this country from America cheaper than our home-grown produce, then where was the necessity for keeping up a barrier to keep out their corn? The democracy of Ame rica were opposed to restriction, and now that the two parties in that country were balanced was the important crisis fur this country to act. Lord RIPON said that the Americans themselves had a Corn-law against the admission of Canadian wheat. • Mr. BRIGHT—Yes ; and the carriers of that measure quoted our example as a precedent. As we had set them an example in a wrong direction, we could not do better than set them right. - Lord Riroal said it was not so clear that America had a superabundance of corn. They had imported it from England and France. Mr. RawsoN—And %Ne complain that that scarcity is the result of our restrictive laws, which tend to repress American agriculture. • Lord RiPox could not discuss the subject at length, but might be permitted to say, that nothing but a con viction that it was for the benefit of this country that he had been induced to support any Corn-law ; and it' any one would convince him that ho was wrong, he would abandon it. Mr. GLADSTONE inquired whether there was no symp toms of any alleviation in, or improvement of trade ? Alm Alderman CHArrEL said there was non© whatever and, in corroboration, read two l etters h e h a d rec e i ve d that morning from Manchester, from which it appeared that both the existing distress and the depression of trade nut only continued, but was greatly aggravated. The Deputation then withdrew. oilf 1809, Magnet, , SUPPOSED WRECK OF THE MAGN ET SLOOP OF WAR.--lii the Borsenhalle, of the 21st inst., ap into Malimo, p n e e a a r r a a an pla a e c e coi e m a t ile o d f t i ) t ro, ves a s n e d l t h a a k v e i n ng been raised, neodimicmha, commanded dstturpinpgoseddieislytahre lag sloop Captain of war, INltirris. ''She mounted two 9-pounders and -sixteen 321 b. cairotuides. From her appearance it i s surm i se d that she has been many years under water. A number of cases, containing spike nails, and it quantity of clothes, have been saVed. Of the latter the linen portions are rotten, but the woolen, on the contrary i (particularly the blue cloth) is in good preservation. The most curious circumstance is the excellent state of the works of three silver watcheS found in the cabin, which it a ppears. after the inspection Of a watchmaker, are capable of being repaired. The remains of a man's body was discovered in the hold, but the condition of which is not stated. Her bowsprit is gone, and, from the damage to the bows, it is supposed she must have been run into by a large vessel. She is built of oak, and copper-fastened, and is represented to be worth the expense of raising her. CORONER'S INQUEST. —THE MURDER AT PECKHAM RYE.—Last evening, at seven o'clock, this inquest, ad journed from Tuesday e vening last, was resumed at St. Thomas's Hospital, before W. Payne, Esq., th e Cit y Coroner. The deceased, James White, was buried on Friday last, in the burial ground belonging to the hospital. Inspector CaMpbell. of the P division, produced a draw ing of the barn and the gr ounds adjoinin g . Two wit nesses then gave some additional evidence, but it was not of any importance. The Coroner then read over the whole of the evidence to the Jury, commenting on it as he proceeded. 'The witness. Barnett was recalled, at the request of one of the Jurors, and stated that he had examined the clothes of Webb on the Wednesday morn ing, but could not discover any marks of blood upon them. The Jury, after a lengthened deliberation, re turned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and that the evidence was not suf hnent to prove who that person is," Webb, who is now in Horsemonger-lane gaol, will be re-examined at I.lnion Hall this day. PROOF OF POWERFUL WRITING.--Th e late Mr. Cobbett was fond of applying a ir..gative test to his powers as a writer. el. always know," s a id he, "when p I have liit my opponent a hard kpeck, by th e nn i se b e makes, If he be quiet under the Infliction, la m pretty `isure that I have hit wide of icy mark ; but 'f he bellows !immoderately, I may safely cc Elude that I have bit him I hard iu a tender place." Now ready,• in 3.v015. post Svo,, ..._ S T 0 N'E , II-E N G E; Or. the ROMANS in BRITAIN. . A Romance of the Days of Nero. " Ibis is a work which at once interests and informs in an ex . raordinary dvgree. With a surprising variety of striking in , •ident, and a most exciting story, it leads the reader on with thrilling anxiety, never once ,allowed to flag. "—Court Jou' nal. " A very superior work, the prodution of a thoughtful and .Cultivated intellect."—Sun. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street l',"" TO be had at all the- Libraries. HAMBURGH, JULY, 1842. 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The Performances will commence with CAPERS AND CORO.' NETS.—Characters by Messr.. Wigan, Granby, and Oxberry, Miss Pincott, Mrs. Granby, and Miss Murray. Songs by Mrs. H. P. Grattan, &c. kfter which, the New Burlesque 4allet, called OR IZELLE!— Characters by Signor Oxberrini and Madile. Louisotta Fairbro. tnerini. To which will be added, the Farce of DEAF AS A POST.— Tristram Sappy, Mr Hartey • Sally Maggs, Miss Murray. Ta conclude with the DREAM AT AEA.—Characters by Messrs Oxberry, W. H. Bland, and 0. Smith__: Misses'Pincott and Faucit. Boxes, 4s. Pit, Ss.— Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past Six commence at Sevea ; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at theit Libraries. Jul Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." LONDON_: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1842. It afforded us great pleasure to read Lord BROUGHAM'S able and temperate speech on the (lollieries Bill, de livered on - Monday evening. Nor, was our pleasure diminished, by perceiving a coincidence in the views of the Noble Lord, with those we have laid before the readers of The Sung though expressed neither so cau tiously, so elegantly, nor so fully as . were the views of the Noble and Learned Lord. Were our legislators to be guided by half the discrimination the Noble Lord inculcated on them most ably' and eloquently—were they M . make themselves only tolerably well ac quainted with the feelings, habits, and wishes of the working-classes, the Statute-book • would be far less inewnbered than at present with worthless laws, and the terri!)le chasm which now separates the classes would scarcely exist. In truth, the eager zeal of the upper classes to legislate for the colliers, comes from the sud denness with which the upper classes have become ac quainted, for the first time •in their lives, with the condition of the collier population. They are more alarmed by the strangeness of the scenes, than by their actual inhumanity, and their law is much more the offspring of their ignorance than of a complete and mature knowledge. There are many other occupations, probably, as full of hardship and suffering as those of the colliers, with which their Lordships, from haring heard of them before, have no desire to meddle. For example, Lord BROUGHAM said :—, With reference to the effect of trades on health, it was 'the lot by which men lived, that they should earn their bread, not only by the sweat of their brow, but by the wear and tear of their constitutions. It was as lamentable as true, that many employments there were which were not healthy any more than easy, and he was almost afraid to think of the vast number of instances in which the labouring classes were, and nanst be, employed in trades which tended directly to injure the con stitution, and to shorten life. 'l he subject was a painful one, but he was forced upon its consideration, not so much by the particular measure before the House, as by measures of a similar tendency, which he was sure would spring from it, which he was sure were lurking in its wake. How many trades were men engaged in, trades the effects of which para lysed the limbs, such trades as those in which paint and white lead were used, or such trades as that of braziery, which generated peculiar complaints, or . those trades in which steel filings were used or produced, which gave rise to asth matic complaints. Again, let any man go amongst the peasantry, and examine the difference between the peasant who had passed his time in hard labour up to the time of, perhaps, forty-five years of age, and the man of seventy, who had passed his life iu the ordinary pursuits in which men of their Lord ships' station in society were generally engaged in. Let any man compare the two ; he would put the man of forty-five or fifty down for seventy years of age, and in the other case he would be likely to fix the age of the man of seventy at from forty-five to fifty years. The Commissioners for inquiring into mines, how ever, have based one of their most effective appeals to the Legislature on the effects of labour- in the collieries in developing and distorting the frame, and on the early period at which colliers become old men. But Lord Ilitoucaram's remark that all hard-worked men, even including the peasantry, are much Sooner old men than the gentry, who are well fed and work very little, and the colliers being one and all hard-worked men, shows at once the error which has been produced in our eager legislators by the partial and exaggerated Report of the Commissioners, In the Report of the Poor-law Commissioners for 1842, which is full of valuable information concerning the influence of the circumstances to which the labouring classes are exposed on their health and mortality, to which we ,hall again speedily refer, it is stated of Derby, that the average age of professional . ,persons or gentry is forty-nine years, of tradesnen, thirty-eight., of labourers and artizans, twenty-one ; of Rittland, that the average age of the first is fifty-two, of the second forty-one, and (tf the third thirty-eight ; and of Manchester, that the average age of the first is thirty-eight, of the second twenty, and of the third seventeen. Without now enter ing into the question of the eomparative mortality of town and country, though, that is not settled by such tables, unless the migration from one district to the other be ascertained, we refer to the uniform greater mortality-or shorter lives of the labouring classes than the classes .of traders and gentle men, of which these are only specimens, as a complete confirmation of the great principle laid down by Lord BROUGHAM, and a full refutation of the implied state ment of the Commissioners that the colliers are shorter lived than other overworked men. Let us add that while a moderate portion of useful wealth-producing labour would not shorten the lives of the ;entry, it might, by lessening the excessive toil of' all the labouring classes, add much to the average duration of their lives, and much increase their health and happiness whilo they lasted. The various acoupations of colliers, glass-workers, braziers, white lead manufacturers, &c., being admitted to be necessary, Lord BROUGHAM disposed very ably of the objection to setting young icOPPIo to learn them : If it was admitted that the Legislature could not or should not interfere in such cases, then he averred that a certain in ference followed, and which could not be escaped, and that was, that to a certain degree comparatively young persons must be allowed to enter into these e mployments. There were many such employments which could not learned unless young persons began r,t twelve Of thirteen years of me to ini►iated into them. Therefore these unwholesome trades, if they were to be ex ercised at all, must not only be exercised by men, but by youths under the age of 21, or under the 'age of 17 or is. This argument might be held to apply, to boys of ten years o i age and upwards, but he believed that it ought not, and did apply in children - of more tender „years. Bill when they „., rye cuter the ,-,7_iidance of natural and Humane feelings en terittg up O: this field of legislation, it was Very fit that they shOuld look about them to ace how wide that field was, and ho',V far they proposed to ad7ance into it. He would remind their Lordships that they were making laws to control the labouring classes of the community, and not intended to affect the rich. They were rearing up a power to affect not the strong but the weak, and let them take very good care not to subject, themselves to the well-grounded imputation which had been made against almost all legislators, in every age and in every country, that they were very apt to forge fetters for the weak, but only to cast a gossamer over the strong. ' Lord BROUGHAM'S contrast between the colliers send ing their children at an early period into the mines, and other parents stunting the grdwth of their boys to fit them to ride races fur the aristocracy, was done in his happiest and most effective style. His allusion to women sacrificing their own children in order to gain a little money by nursing the children of the aristocracy, the ladies of which frequently cannot, or will not, perform the duties of a mother, was, however, still more effective and searching. Was there anything (Le said) more certain than that the most wholesome nutriment a child could have was that with which nature had furnished its mother?—was there any thing more certain than that by withdrawing their natural nutriment, and thus entailing the absolute necessity of bringing the chill up in a less wholesome manner ---:vas there anything more certain than that children, for want of their mother's nursing, must often perish before their time ?—was there anything more certain than that this was an unnatural stopping in nature the duty of a mother to suckle her own child ? But did he blame these poor women who handed over their own infants to the care of a foster mother, in order to get advantageous places for themselves ? Did he blame this? No, he lamented without blaming it; but he could not close his eyes to the fearful extent of the evils produced on the bodies and minds of children, and he would add, on the minds and feelings of the mothers too, by that sys tem which was now so universally practised by parents among the working-classes, of not suckling their own children, in order to be employed in suckling the children of those in easy circumstances, and especially in that rank of life to which their lordships and the Members of the other House of Parliament belonged. Such home thrusts, by so polished a weapon as Lord BROUGHAM'S language, must have made a deep impres sion on. their Lordships', understandings, and we hope, also, on the understandings of the ladies of England, who, we believe, take an active interest in collier women and little trappers; and they may perhaps think that the vast sacrifices required to provide jockeys and nurses for them, are at least as proper objects of legislation as women and childrea working in mines. The public are under a great obligation to Lord 13notrazzAsz for his courage and manliness in stemming the heady torrent of the suddenly swollen humanity of the upper classes, and for the calm, dispas sionate, and able manner in which he compelled them to triemselies." But we must not - omit to say that for manliness and courage the Earl of RADNOR is the equal of the Noble and Learned Lord, but wanting his eloquence, the just sentiments he has snore than once expreSsed on the Collieries Bill, have not been so effec tive as the admirable speech of Lord BROUGHA I. The first Report of the Commissioners appointed by Sir R. PEEL to inquire into the collection and manage ment of the revenue has been published. It relates ex clusively to the port of Liverpool, and discusses such matters' as the employment . of tide-waiters, paying officers by fees or salaries, and the exorbitant salary of the collector, 2,9001. The Report may be interesting and useful to the Treasury—it may not be without its charms for the merchants and Custom-house officers of Liverpool, but •it is of no importance as a State document, and of little interest to the public. It is altogether and exclusively an office paper proper for the ' Treasury •to possess, and nothing n.ore. It will not; however; disappoint the hopes of the public, for so little was expected of the Commission, that, till. the Report revived the recollection of such a Commission having been appointed, it had entirely slipped out of the public mind. Every one. of the Com missioners is a sub of the Government., and the Report is little more than a statement made by the Treasury to the Treasury. Perhaps it is more a striking example of an easy mode of multiplying useless documents, putting the public to a very unnecessary expense for printing and paper, than of anything else. If the public is to pay so largely for becoming acquainted with the Treasury se crets touching the arrangement of Custom-houses, they might as well remain shrouded in mystery. The Trea sury might have acted on the Report, if it contain one valuable suggestion—which we have not been fortunate enough to discover—without printing it. Yesterday the Earl of STANHOPE in the House of Lorils threatened the Peers with a convulsion. Yester day Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in an interview with the Anti_ Corn-law Deputies, let fall a phrase which indicated that he is alarmed for his cstate. For our Ministers to hear such things, and express such apprehensions, is both new and startling. That the danger is freely talked about is, however, ono good guarantee that it will he warded oil—in what manner, is the business of Ministers. They have one and all assured the Anti. Corn-law Deputations that the subject of the national distress has engaged the ' serious attention of the Cabinet. COURT CIRCULAR. • WINPSOR, TUESDAY. —The Queen and Prince Albert, an the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha walked-this morning to Adelaide Lodge and Frogmore, and re turned to the Castle in pony phaetons. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have been taken out as usual, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. About two o'clock in the afternoon her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Frogmore Lodge, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir George Cooper, Bart. This afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, and the Equerries in Waiting, rode out on horseback into the beautiful glades of the Great Park, followed by the Princess of Saxe Coburg, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Devereux, in L pony phaet one. Viicount Jocelyn is expected to-day on a visit to her Majesty. Lord Charles Wellesley and Colonel Sir George Cooper, Bart., will have the honour of joining the Royal Circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at twelve o'clock yesterday, for Frogtnore Lodge, near Windsor. After the d6euner given at Kew on Monday to . the Queen Dowager and the Royal Family, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cam bridge, came to town, and honoured the perform anee o f H err Dobler, at St. James's Theatre, wi th their presence. Mr. Litton, M.P., Mr. ateson, M.P., Captain Jones, M.P., Sir R. Fefguson, M.P., and Mr. John Irving, M.P., accompanied by Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. Dehanv Solicitor of the Excise, h a d an i n t erv i ew w i t h the Chancell or of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing -street, an the subject of Distilleries. The Coinmissioners for the Government of the Pentonville Prisoir, held a meeting at the Council-office, at two o'clock cm Monday. There were present Lord Wharncliffe, the Vol of Devon, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Fergusson, Major Jebb, Mr. Crawfurd, and Mr. Whitworth Russell. The Agents of Jamaica, Barbadoes, Grenada, Antigua, and St. Vincent's, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, at his official residence in Downing -street. A Deputation from the manufacturing districts, including Mr. Pawson (Mayor of Leeds), Mr. Henry Ashworth of Bol ton, Messrs. Holdforth, Chappel, Gardiner, Ashton, Burk, Oat,on, Walker, Higginhottom, Carrick, and Bigg_s had ap, in terview with the Earl of Ripon ye s t er d a y, a t the OfF.ce of the Board of Trade. The Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, transacted business yeeterday at the Foreign-office. Sir Allan 111 4 1Niab had an interview Rap Lord Stanley yes terday, at the Colonial-oflice. A Deputation, including Mr, iloadlr, chairman, and Messrs. Lock and Coulson, membiera of the Hull Dock Company, Mr. Frost, the Solicitor, and Mr. Elul tl,e Clerk to the Corn parry, had an ittterview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Mr. John Lefevre, at the Treasury. OPENING of the BRIGHTON RAIL WAY STEAM-PACKET NV HILRF. BRIGHT4N, JULY 26, 1842 . —Yesterday a. party of about fifty gentlemen, invited lay Mr. Dean, one of the Superintendents of the Landau and Brighton Railway, sent on board the General Steam Navigation Company's packet Dart, after v,ho had landed her passengers from Dieppe, a,c the Chain Pier ; and proceeded to Shoreham Harbour, to celebrate the opening of the new Steam paelfe Wharf, erected by Ow Railway Company at their terminus at Kingston% The vessel entered the western arm of the liarloar, instead of the eastern as hitherto, and niclOrPti alongside of the Gene ra l St eam N av i gat i on Company's vessel - the Lord Melville, which had arrived yesterday to start to-day on hov tirst voyage to Havre. The gentlemen, after iweeting the excellent accom modation of the latter vessel, which has been newly fitted up eirpres4y for this station, went on shore to examine the arrangements at the new Wharf, which is constructed in the most substantial and efficient manner, and there. is the same depth of water alongside of the Wharf as on the bar, A place is fitted up for the examination of passengers' luggage on the spot, so that within the shortest possible space of time after the arrival of the packets, passengers will proceed by a special train, which will h e sen t on t h e packet's arrtx4l to convey them to the Bright on stat i on ; and 111%,e who proceed to London may do so by the first train after the packet's arrival ; and passengers from London may place themsely-es in the Railway Traie at London-bridge., awl in les s th an t h ree hours after em bark at the, \Villain smooth water. The improvements in tlw harbour, and the accountle.clation afforded by the Railway, offer advantages which only require to be known to be appreciated, After inspeet4 the improvements, the gentlemen sat down to au excellent cold collation, laid out under an awning on board the Dart, Mr. Deane in the Chair, supported lay Mr, Catt, Mr. Folkard, and other infiueti li g geilOv.nwn, who drank success to the new under taking, and th e new station, besides many other toasts. • The face of the country at this moment presents the ,_tiPPearancp of luxuriant garden. Everywhere the corn i1:e 1 44 are fast approaching to maturity ; hay-making 4 in same districts completed, and in others gene ral, and numbers of men and women are employed at it. The potatoe crop this year indicates an abundant yield, indeed far beyond an average crop, and with a ecmtinuance of warm weather will become available for food at a low price in a very short time.—Cork Southern, Reporter. ARF:I3)ELGION:AoAINST TIM KIRK. We cow; ,the fai)Uwing grAphio - de3erirtioa I torn tae GiJsgew Ariis of Monday -•- Thursday last, the day appoint6l for humiliation WI prayer by the General Assembly, was generally observed as a holiday by the citizens of Glasgow, and, as far as. our knowledge reacnda, by the whole of Scozland. In this city the shops and other places of business were generally shut in the principal streets ; but throughota the suburbs the reverse was the case, nearly all the stops being open. Of course, public worship was celebrated in all the Established churches; but the only Dissenting churches open were those in connexion with the Re formed Presbyterian Synod. The attendance was, we understand, generally very limited, and the worshippers were chiefly composed of females. Never, we believe, in the annals of Glasgow, did so large a proportion of her inhabitants leave it in one day. - Every mode of convey anee was made available for the transference of the citi zens from the dust. and smoke of the city to the quiet and i .nds, tag o i r g o t a n•atin s gfr e e_shn a e ehes freshness of the country 1 the steare 4Pats, i overflowing, while thousa a n n d d s e fil n u a n i d -b trerr ‘ u ve •a r y e O r ri n T " ) . o lci t 10 t1' every rural nook in our neighbourhood. It is not easy to arrive at a very correct conclusion respecting the numbers who on Thursday poured into the country ; but some idea may, neyerthelesa, be formed if a glance is given at the various public conveyances put in motion on the weas ie n . From information communicated by the rail way officers, we learn that the number of pmengera from Glasgow, , on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, amounted to 5,000 ; on the Ayr Railway, 3,300 ; to and from Paisley, 2,652 ; on the Graenovk Railway, 3,035 ; there left the Bromielaw twenty-firc river steamers, and, averaging the number in rech at 400, we have a total of 10,000 ; the persons who traN yelled by canal we have not ascertained, but taking ince, account the trips made, and the number conveyed on each occasion, we may safely set them down at. 3,040 those who went by stage-coaches, gigs, carriages, and other vehicles on the common road, can only be gue sse d at • but we believe we are not above th e mar k, w h en, including these, we put down the grand total of persons leaving the city, by conveyances of every kind, at tip wards of 27,000. From all parts of Scotland, we have received intelligence to the erect that the Past was is reality kept as a holiday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES. RACE-COURSE, TUESDAY AFTERNOilti.—That etor is the first meeting of the kind in the kingdom, is., an esta blished fart that; no one who has had th e evil of hi s e y e . will gainsay. Newmarket, Epsom, Ascot, and Doncaster, each has its peculiar claim to papnlarity—the first as being the " Lords and Com:nons " of the turf; the second in its Derby and Oaks ; the next in its Sovereign and the Cup ; and the last in its St. Leger; each varying from the other, but ire itself "great," as the term is generally used. But it is not front one important race, or from one peculiar feature that Goodwood derives its reputation, but from the combination of many —from the extraordinary number and value of its two and three yrsold stakes, its magnificent cup, its handicap, its profusion and variety , of prizes, its excellent course, and the delightful scenes., by which it is approached and surrounded. The compa wanting the single charm of Royalty, surpasses ali other r a m:- ings in rank and splendour, is generally large, and always, with. out the annoyance of a mob. The arrangements, too. .are Con— ceived in the best possible taste, and are carried out with a pre cision and completeness that leave nothing to be (I , 4sired ; every thing, in short, is quiet, regular, business-like, and, at the same time, in the highest degree enjoyable. This brief introductitsa has been suggested by our experience of forinermeetings, and is fully justified by the appearance of the list anti of the.race course at the present moment—the one is overflowing with sport, and the other is graced by as elegant au assemblage vs; we ever beheld at this highly favoured meeting. The weather is brilliant, and the ementble a fruitful subject for description. but the short space afforded us for making up and forwardi li i . our dispatch, warns us t o re f ra i n ; f or the like reason it is nn-. possible to obtain a list of the arrivals at present —s,re may probably have an opportunity of furnishing ono in our next. Meanwhile we may state briefly that Goodwood House is full of distinguished visitors,and gnat, with the exception of Petworth, all the gentlemen's wets in the neighbourhood are open to company. In consequence of the number of events or decision, the racing commenced at half-past t we l ve o ' c l ock, with The - Craven Stakes, of 10 soya. each. Mile and a quarter. (9 Subs.) Mr. Etwall's Discord (Melody c) 5 yrs, Set 10th, J, Day, jun 1 Lord Jersey's f, by Bay Middleton, 3 yrs, 7st Col. Anson's Elopement, 3 yrs, 7at ...... Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b 4 Mr. Forth's Paul Potter, 4 yrs, Bst 41b Betting-6 to 4on D iscor d ( t ) , and sto 4 sgst The Cerriet. Elopement went away with a strong lead, and made running to the distance, when Discord ran . past her, and went in an easy winner by two lengths ; the Trampoline filly beat Elopement cleverly for the second place. The Levant Stakes of :30 sovs. each, 30 ft for, " yrs old. Half a mile. (17 subs. ) Lord Maid s t one ' s The Caster (Scott) L Mr. Tree' s B ast il e Lord Exeter's c by Beirarn, d by Emilius Lord G. Bentinck's Bramble Mr. Gratwieke's Hopeful ...... ........... . ' 4 ... 5 Betting—Even and 3t04 on The Caster ; and 3te 2 agst Hopeful. The f avour i te made nearly all the running, and won by a length ; Hop e f u l was b eaten off. Ihe Drawing-roam Stakes of 25 sore. each, with I a bonus of 10 sovs. each ; the winner of the Derby er Oaks Sib cam ; the second for either 41b. D.C.S. The second to receive 100 soya. out of the Stakes, and the winner to pay 2.5 sovs., to the Judge, 41 ears, to the Stakes, 50/ to the bonus. Duke of Bedford's Envoy, Sst 71b Cul. Peel's Seahorse, Bsl 71b . 2 Col. Anson's Attila, 9 st llb . 3 Duke of Richmond's Eaglesfield, S. 'l' uglestield, Sst 71b Mr. Greville's Gunter, Bst 7111 ...... ..... 0 Mr. Goodman's Rover, Bit 716 0 Lord George Bentinck's Misdeal, Sst 71b. ....... ...... 0 Lord Exeter's Albi on , fi st 71b . Betting-6 to 4on Attila, and 7t02 on Envoy. Misdealt lt made the first running, followed by Eaglesfield and Albin Envoy fourth, Attila and S'eahorse lying in the rear, away from their horses. They ran in this as for a mile and halt, when Eaglesfield took up the running, followed by Attila, Sea-- horse and Envoy, Eaglestield's lead however, was short, ks be razz against a post. at the turn tot straight running, and was putout of. the race. Envoy theu took the le,d,ann ni h Attila and &sabots* in attendance, -went on to the distance ; they then closed upon and headed him, till close to the chair, when Envoy neat up with a rush, caught them, and won by half a length, Seahorte beating Attila by as much. The others were tailed an ios-. mense distance. Sweepstakes of 300 says, each, It ft for 4 yrs old, Three wiles and three quarters. (12 Subs.) Lord itentinck' s M us t a ph a (Rotlersl Lord Wes t mi ns t er ' s Van Amburgh .... ..... ........ Lord Chesterfield' s Mehemet Art Even on Mustapha, and 6to 4 - agst Van Ainburgh. Mut-. tapha took a tremendous lead at starting, kept it to the end, and won it by twenty lengths. The Gratis's:Le stakes of 100 sovs. each, In ft. for 3 yes. old. Mile and a, half. 67 subs. Lord Varolam's Robert de Gorh am , Bst 71b ( Cotton) 1 Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre, Set 71b.., ..—•- 2 Lord G. Bentinek's Fi re b an d , est 51b .. ... ..... 3 Duke of Richmond's fby Elia out of 13aleine, 7st 131 b ...... 4 Mr. Bowes's The Lady of Silverkeld Well, Set 51h 5 Even on Robertde iiorham, and 7 to 2 agst Baleiney Following Iltssfapha's example, the favourite jumped off with a, lead of about twenty lengths, and kept, it to the end. Such a tailing race, for the distance, has seldrm, if ever beets seen, The Goodwood Club Stakes of 10 sous. each, for 3 yrs Oda and upwards, ridden by Members of t h e Goodwood Cluts.:s Craven Stakes Course. (IS subs.) Mr. Tollett's The Tiger, aged, 12st ~......,(Gen. Gilbert) ' Lord Eglinton's The Tiger, 5 yrs, list 121 b ..... 2 Lord G. Ilsntincles Proof Print, 3 yrs, lOst 101 b Count liathyany's Nicholas, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b ......it . C. Cnokerell nd Man Friday, 4 yrs, list bib Lord G. Bentinek's Flytrap, 3 yrs, 1 llt ............ 0 Lard G. Bentinck's Th e Y or k s hi re Lady, 3 yrs, lOst slb Betting-7 to 2 agst The Tiger; 3t o 1 tight Man Friday t 4to 1 agst The Young-'un ; and 4to 1 agst Nicholas. Von by a head, after a fine race. Match 4000 sous. h'ft. Cap Course. Mr. Johnstone's Chtiles the Twelfth, Bst 71b.....(Mar 50n ) I. Mr. Lichtwaltr's-F,Yllus, Bst 21b (ca r . Bst 41b) ( Robinson) 6 to 4 on rioarles the Twelfth. Hyllus made all the rnne:s sig to the o !.statice, where Charles the Twelfth went up, lawa e d hin, and after a desperate race, won by a neck. The Welter Stakes of 20 sore. each, for 3 yrs old, lOst . 1211 s 4 yrs, 12st 41b ; 5 yrs, 12st 1216 ; 6 yrs and aid, 14 st , Gentlemen riders, & c . C raven Stakes Course. ( . 7 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 6 yrs ...(Lortl 7.../arch) Mr. Holmes' Vulcan 5 yrs (Cast, P e tt a t) 0 A dead heat, which was not decided when ors account left. The Ham Stakes of 100 sous. each, h ft, for 'two yrs old - colts. Bst 10Ib, and fillies Bst 71b. T. Y. C,. (32 Subs. ) Lord Eglinton's b c Aristides—R. Middleton, all. albs (Lye) IL Col. Peel's br c Murat, by Slane (allossied 6 lbs) The following: also started:—Mr, Gratwicke's f Mary (allowed 61bs. Atison's:Armitage—Lord Exeter's se, by Refrain, dam by Emilins (alisiwed 61b)—Mr. reford% b e by Sultan, Junior, oat of Victoria (allowed 31b)—Mr. Wreforg' s b e by * Bay Middleton ' out of Ma rge lli na (a ll owed 31h) and Duke of Richmond's be by Elis, out of Clara (allowed 31b). Betting-7 to 4 agst Aristides, 4to 1 agst the Victoria eo;ss i 5 to 1 agst Armitage, and 6 tot agst Murat. Wort easily, by two lenzths. LATEST BETTING. GOODWOOD STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Knip,ht of the VS Vistle—t. 9 to I agst Mr. Graydoo's Helpmate—taken 9 to I agst Mr. Greville's Welfore—taken 9 to I agst Mr. John Day's S,C. Lawrence -,taken 14 to Paget Mr. Beresford' s The Corsair 20 to I agst Mr. Shellel's Daddy Longlegs 20 to 1 agst any other Tupsley and Studley Royal are reported to be lame. THE - CUP. 4 to I agst Mr. Bell's The Squire--taken 6 to 1 agtt Mr. Johnstone's Charles the Twelfth,--taken 10 to I agst Lord Chesterfield's Marshal Soulk 12 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Belcceur 25 to I art 111 r. Higgins' Priam 7 to 2 agst all the three yrs old. LEGER. 20 2 toto grit Co e l l o o n n e e l i l , P l A : ee i ls n :Sea s ls43 A lio t ffrse la—t"en freely 30 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Aristides—taken FATAL IV . A GC. ON ACCIDENT.—In consequence a • both at the east end of Fleet.. ' Fetter-lace p has i be , been lately a vei l . for carriages of all descriptions anti for thronged thoroughfare . is somewhat dangerous, and on Monday The southern end of it, ;,. ee e s Coffee-penes, horses. . named Henry Rafter, aged seven s re tre pa e i t rs an in d i t ii he ch e a a n r e r Chaucer}'-lane, carriage l :il?, . , year F, was noc . . ked off the fewavement and run over by a coal waggen. He died in aminutes after he was picked up. His pareats reside at No. 5, Fl eur-de-lis-court, Fleet abletienrgnoovneryakilliatit.r fellow, street, and have a small independent fortune, and deceased., when start hi of m fai age, n life. rly would have been entitled t e a .ufficient Wm tA i 1;3 - the recent death of Wasey Sterry, Esv, solicitor, at ilomford, as maxtv-tts eight Offices ham) ) Pe-- come vacant, viz., clerk of the peace for the liberty. and clerk to R. Reede's feoffees, commissioners of Pr ring, vestry, the Romford and Ilford benches, tax cr_nnus sioners, and commissioners Gi . sewers. Most of ti' legal gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood have enured, the field, in warm pursuit, as candidates.---Ess ! r Herald. A Const ant i nople letter of the 29th ult., in a Ger man paper, states that the Porte has addre?esed a note to the Ambassadors of the European Power, expressing , its dissatisf act i on at t h e i r intervention in savour of ti e Christians, i nstea d o f l eav i ng them t‘ app' al t o t h e Go vernment for protection. The same letter states, that the Porte is about to Send a Commissioner to En g l an d , to purchase four large war steamers. O i t • AU: " • ° • .. 4 ' 5 , 4 .5 . :031*.;di 504 „, ET MON . . • • Zbt ,§3411., •z.." ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the immense overflows that have been attracted by the performance of " La Sonnambula," supported by the first musical talent this couhtry ran produce, it will be repeated THIS EVENING, JIILY 27. The performances will commence with Rebint's LA. SONNAM BULA.—Amira, Miss Romer; Liza Mrs. Serie; Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler; Elaine, Mr. W. Harrison; with an inezeased Band, and a powerful Chorus, conducted oy Mr. G. Stansbury. Alter which, Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH; v - ith all Locke's splendid Music, sung by the entire Opera Company. Places and Private Boxes may be t , ad of Mr. J. kerschncr, al the Box Office, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARIYENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Pubiic, are respectfully informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAIN, GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em. belied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity; with additions and in troductions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remod:lled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'actioo, repre. se nting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. The BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con lucted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES .l tislC A LES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIR A N DOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnifieent Introductions that have called forth ac elammationa of delight and admiration-on each evening of their ex. hibiticm, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC ODE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, tilirandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given ou Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays. Admission One Shilling., TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " A Friend to Ecclesiastical Moderation" has been received, and though we concur in the views of the writer we cannot insert it, because we have a great reluctance to publish any' comments on letters addressed to other papers. • ,f2fffM '~~ ~. I V i