The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-12 00:00:00

Vim* T.4"-:4lttiliti" SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE. ( Tins DAY.) Mr. DANIELS, of Marylebone (in continuation fiorn our Afternoon Edition) said—So did he ; but he thought they would not advocate that cause the worse' for having their bellies full.—(Cheers.) He, however, thought an Extension of the Suffrage without the Ballot would be worse than use less. Thousands in the borough of Marylebone had ceased to register, on account of the oppression to which they had been exposed, and he was of opinion that it would be of no use to ex tend the suffrage without, at the same time, extending protec. tion to the voter.—(Cheers.) Why, Sir James Graham had, in 1835, stated that if the Corn-laws should be repealed, the landlords would not be able to pay the mortgages. Were the people to be taxed in order that he landlords might. dishonestly retain possession of that which was not their own?—( Cheers. ) If they were not the rightful owners of the land, let them give it up, and let the rightfal owners take possession. —( Loud cheers.) He was himself a pawnbroker, and had had oppor tunities of seeing the dreadful state of distress existing. A poor creature had pawned her bed, and afterwards sold the ticket; she had previously disposed of her mattia,s, and then she burned her bedstead ; and when asked why she had done so, she replied it was to prevent the landlord from getting it; and we were nearly in the same state. We should soon be obliged to burn the bedstead to prevent the landlords getting it. He wished other places would take example by Alaryle bone ; there, in order to prevent a Tory from getting in, they had sunk their private differences, and pieced the two men be • fore the constituency, balloted for them, and had, in conse quence, returned two Liberals. While the Government were splitting farthings they should nit be splitting straws. Let them unite, and then they must secure the repeal of this iniquitous law.—(Cheers.) Mr. SIDNEY SMITH raid that before he addressed them on the measures winch ought to be adopted, he begged to remind them that none of the expressions uttered in the Conference would be looked upon as expressions of mere individual opinion. The country looked upon them as the representaiives of the people, and considered that the opinions were the expression of the opinion of those represented. The country looked to them to exercise prudence and wisdom in the conduct of the great cause which they had undertaken. It had been sug gested that their agitation was not on a sufficiently broad basis ; they were told that they should join with it the Suffrage movement. That question had frequently been gravely dis cussed; and it had been thought the most wise course to turn neither to the right nor to the left, but to keep this agitation before the country independant of any other—(Cheers) —and even at the expense of any other.—(Cheers.) The joining it. with the movement for the extension of the suffrage woulo be rather ruining its basis. The representation was a creature of civilisation ; but was that so broad a question as the question whether man should have food—whether man should live by his industry ? With regard to the extension of the Suffrage, he had his own opinions, and, as an individual, he would be happy to join in any well-considered movement for the exten sion of the Suffrage, but he could not consent to join the holy cause in which they were engaged for the re peal of the Corn-laws, with any other cause whatever. If they had exhausted every expedient, and had made no tro gress in the pubic mind, if they had not advanced at all in the agitation of the great question, then he would say it was time to say that human nature had reversed its ordinary impulses, and, with however g reat regret, he would say that the country, which was incapabl e of listening to appeals such as theirs was not worth sawing—that there was do constitutional change which could do good to a country plunged so deep in the mire of calumnies and avarice. Had they themselves done their duty ? It was the people that were to blame for the present state of things. They might talk of class legislation—was it class legislation that sent in a Tory from Leeds ? Was it class legislation that returned two Tories for Blackburn? Was it class loislatien that, till the last Parliament, sent a Tory from Bolton? Was it the same thing that made Stockport, which for the last six years had been sinking under the Corn-laws, never have the good sense until last year to return any but a Tory ? When, however, they returned that excellent man (Mr. Cobden) they had not, as, a body, half done their -busi ness. They heard Mr. O'Connell, who came there as the solitary representative of 105 Members of Parliament from Ireland, say that he was ready to assist them. Would Ireland join them? agricultural Ireland—lreland that was at present in a state of starvation, that was infinitely worse off than Eng . PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, LTUESDAY, JULY 12. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS, per shares. Annum. Paid. Share. !,7i 6 7 per cont. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lbs•sh. 94 1,1;‘ , 41. Ashby.de -le-Zouch Average lltl.sh •;1 ,`6 . 1 Basingstoke... • 'ool.sh. 5 1,02•5 51. Br ecknock and Abergavenny 1501.513. 92 9,000:1.16th. IN. Birmingham, 1 -16th share ..„81/, & 711. 153 4 ,000 ....„.. Ditto k Liveroooldunct.l2ll. sh .100 pi 11 600 31. Bridgewater and Tatinton.lool.6 h. an pi -- 409 5/, Cheinterr.Ed Blackwater 1301.5h. 101 570 3.2:. Corentri 1001.5 h. 305 ...„... Cr0yd0n...,,......- Average3l/.23.10d. oh . - 2,060 51. Ca. Dud'ey '001.3h. f 4 son 131. Defoy lool.sh . 120 2 ; 0 0 0 4 per cent. Dl.nune and Mayne ... ...... 411.130. 4u .pd 31 3,5151 4' F.,ilesm.oreandChrutcr Average 1313:.5h. 67 -,;;n 62/ Erewssn - . lOO/.ln. 724 0,4,5 834. Forth and Clyde 11.4;;,3 'is. Orem id unction - .....1001.sn 123 -4 2 i;49i 255. Grand Union 1001.3h . 27 1,500 *m.o.. Oren cl Surrey ;„0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1601. 3,046 ..' Grand Western (KW 13 124.6 d. Gismorganshire, Ay, r. cost 7721.135.1 d. 210 149 12/. 6/tenth...sr. 1501.3h. 2eo 6.238 7.. 03. firddetsfirld, Al-m:4;4,511. 6o.fri. sh. :9 100 ` Kensingtoa ICO oh. allpd 10 25 - 2201 11.10 P. Kennet. rid Avon, Ac. 3 9 / . IFO. W-1. st, 17 Io 11,6991 IL 103. Lanca..tcr Average 471. Co. sd t.17 , i 2.81+71 504. Leensancl Liverpco; - 1001.3 h 650!+2 5451 11. 10s. Leicester 140/.51' 149 1,F97 51, Os. Leicester tt:. Nort '..ampt ou Aver 1.31.10r 72 ~ 1 119 19L M o nmouthshire, '019.51' 2440 250 13!. Melton r• , -yelray • It`Ml.sh. 200 500 v 5/, Mc , :sey nod lrwcll 1001.5h. 540 3,00) 11. 10s. I , laceli.z , e7.a.. • lOU. sh. all pe 16 24'7 171. Noath lool.sh. 285 2,460 51. Pea* Norm kveh.ge about 7ril.sh. 410 2..418 %l. nagcnt'o (or London) Av. f131.165.8d. sh. 14 31.69 • nl. no.lbdale Average i.lsl.sti. 92 509 81. Shropshire 909 -. 11!. 105. Somerset Coal l5O/.sh. 179 3 gIY fl . tip, cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 'r'l 108.311. 114 790 wt. StaiFord anti 'Worcester 140/.3h. 6511 'i3o •5/ Shrewohury . 1251. oh. 290 300 tit. Gtourbriego .„, 1451.5 h. 396 2,047 91. Os. Stratford-ua-Av•ii. ri rt! i ....7t; l . 93.1 , r1. , h. 3.1 533 1211 Swansea 1001.5b. 285 3,762 2!. 12s. Severn anti Wye &Railway Ar. 2 i9/.90. sh, 45 110,1 an. W. 105. Trenton.! Mersey, *share KU. ah. 475. 9,149 I . (lB°3h ' I 141. Warwick and P.'sA=osolam ......1001.01, 188 I,oooish , 0.50 10,. Warwick and :levy,'" 100/.3h. 117 7COO ;1 ' , / , /orecslcr & Ili:ntinglimn Av.7B/.t'.s.sh. 55 5.,000 361,.. Wilts and I... Jerks Av,„"ee 01. 103 Bd. ,h. 21 041 6. Wptlnv an 3 totilt, rAnti 12.51.3 h 74 „26 ..„..... W;oucricn 90 5 is . Wey and Arun. ' 101. on. 20 Ci;.C.fi S. 7 . 6 " le 1 3p. c. Commerc al !COL sh. 61 1;9{'81x 1 . - 5 per cent. Nest and West India ,-......... Flack 1010 :1,223,3105i. 211.p.ct. 1..0nd: , n Stock 12 Ditto Bonds 2,2510 .11. es. sd. Brlsto) .. N .... ... Average 14 - /. 95. sh . 75 60314/. 51. per cent, Ditto ote ......... 's, various amounts lig ?52,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 100 1 4 5" . C . .;20 0 4h per cent. Ditto Bonds 20.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bends tor 10 years ~,,A 4 Deptford I'ier ..... "01. sti. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammetsmitl• 501.7 h. 21'4 1,231 Southwark, Old ...... ...Av. 631.25 Ed. oh. 3;, 0 1,780 1/. 153. Ditto, New. of 7.j per cent., 50/.3h . 15 , 1 i u,OOO ...... ... Waterloo lOO/. oh. 3 5 , 000 2‘.ls. 0,1. Ditto, ;Ad Annuities of 81 COL p 4 21 5,01,b0 193.3 d. Ditto, New Ditto of il. 4O/. pd 18 , 6 r , fl;Yjn4. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bolide 5,845 -is Vauxhall ........Amage 701. 105.3 d. oh 28% ASSUR A NCE COMP.& Ic.: ES. 2,000 31105 Alhion 5lO/. sh. 501. pd 99 51.000 11'1 1750 t *l Alliance 3ritish to Foreignlo2l. th. i ll. pd . Irs4 ss, 0110 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine MO! sh. Si. p 8 5 7 ,, 24,000 IL per sh. Atlas 5O/. ob. m. pd Ili, 4,2000 h. Si. Bi r mingham I. ire....... ..... 250/. oh. 55/. rd 107 2 , y3045 4/.percent. British Fire 9 :10/.3h. 59/. pd 4 I 12,000 M. percent. tlritish Commercial 5O!, s!:. 5!. p 8 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical 1 . .. Medical Lite, 1601.0.2/105 pd • 614 4,900 2/ 03 County l9Ol. tli. 10!. pd 10 4,000 3.0. E , p' e 501.3h. 51. pd 411 ,-,,„-, c", 5 per tent.) ....„, land nib , s Economic Late '6OO/.5h. 2501; pd 460 2,271 Vs. pc r ctat t. Eurcpe, , n LI,: "0/ oh. all pd V.I. 50,060 23. Ditto, New ow. sh. 2/..1 1% sOO/. (1 -- et Globe . Steck 125 -',' :Kona. .pel ....ae . .o,oon ► 5l. . Genii sn ~ .l and -Ireland , whose inhabitants had been shot down by the Repo es. Ost. Hope Wash. 51. pd 534 wad sh. 50/. pd 140 military, when starvation compelled them to tweak in and take 2,430 5/. 12.5. Rd. Imperial hire 7,Y: 1 ) 10s. fd. Imperial Lite ION. she 10/. pd 'lli other people's food when they had none themselves ? Ireland 11451 5/, per met. Indemnity Aiarine PI". ab• 81 . rd 3•2 . I would; he 'mew, must join them. Ennis, who had alone done ?,CO:l 31 101 Kcal Fise ''''i 'h. all I ' d 91 its duty, had rent to assist" their Conference, two 31. Ditto Life 50/. pd 10,000 253 -Law Life teem lose London, Ere 23/, Oa 12/, les. pd 17 risking trade, and all was happiness and prosperity ; the bane -3,900 lOs. London, Ship .. - 25/. sh e Pal. 10s. pd 17 • ful ireluence of the Corn-laws had reduced them now to little 1.e051,0 0 0 1 . ... ..... Minerva 1.; le Vat/. sh, better than a trifling village. But they had been told that the 2..„n0n !,/ e per cent. National Lean Fyne. ....lel. all 2/. 10:. psi 2 3 , :10,8n0 et. per cet. t. Palladium late full she 11, hit people would not join them ; if nut, he must say that he should 50,0410, 5/, per cent. Protector 1 ;f s '9/. she '2l. 1•d f 9,, 0 1 despair of any honest movement in this country. Let them go oi,orn 4 per cent. Prntestant lAsscritcrs ....Ifau, sh, 51, pd . ai,f, to Ireland. He wanted to go to Ireland. They had %y et it. Provislent bit: IOW. sh. lei. pd 20 hardly agitated the agricull ural districts at all, and yet etie s eeo 4s. Od. Rock Life 9,1,2'20 1 at. ver c , tet. Royal Exchate, Sock 170 they hoard every day of farmers and agriculturist slipping in 5t,09.4 5 per cent. University Life WO/. eh. Lt. pd 11 and becoming converts to their opinions. They appeared to . ? e 144000 4 per cent. United Kinedern Life 100/. Bra ~ pd • , ..to be ,beginning to understand, as they ought to have under . JOINT siu CK 'BANKS, • ',..,- .4 - i' •-- dtood long ago, that if the harvest should be a bad one the dis 25,ente A gric. and Com. of Irelaa(l2sl. sit. 10/ F.'. , i tress must increase ; whilst, if it should be good, on the con retro e per cent. esustrateste ........... -. tet. sh. 40f. ;41-k•A ovate to percent. Ban 'a of Bitkoingharo...' 5 0 1 , she 10/,DII 13% teary, they would get low prices for their wheat, at the same rote la percent. Birmineharn.Bank . sn/. sh; lorfa ill time that 'hey had high rents to pay. When the farmers were .11.0(q) 6percent. laandon - la Wastminstdellrn shavvi . 0.12:1 r."titice fully, convinced of this they would find little diffi wp, - U . London Jain t s :stool: ~,,..,..„59t. see tee r 1:71 1 ,4 30 1 *:4?' - ulty hi , making way in the agricultural districts.- Arlo . .4 per mit. Lencaster ~.r . ....,....e..51t0tteb. 40' eseissi lo per cart. Li5t•e*4.1114.411i.••:443.0 0 4,41(iaiii:4:71 1 1 9 , : ‘'. Blar e hear.) In the House . best night Mr. Villiers, 5:1.000 7it ea' cesa. •":arteltetster Ittni Live; -1,,, a , m , nd 4 3 e esetho was , : the , representative el l the League in the House pcol Illictritht:::.ll, .. ,13; 7,11 ti0r gal l - r ~ ,,i c o mmons brought *or d motion for the total • • ;es, , , . war a :13,609 7 reereeet• ma " e "'" ""''''',rl l ir'4o ll i.l Mica', and The Ikbl4 voted for that motion last night for the 'etesese O pea cent. Provincial Bank a IT( an. tstf. - . as loam ti ;Cr rcpt alatitmliMnleiffllrelandbitatskotl is 344 first time. Lore's John Russell himself voted for their motion. le,ooo 6 pai penr; , ele i torwpriiiitoi,Kr t geWeele. .- p . s s ---- - - F( Hear e - ; sear. ) The Corn-law was the battle-ground on lome .1. 0, . l'ilf l D -I. '° * ' 4w "" t°t43 ;14g1 4 :4; 1- lifl.'.'a the people had chosen to fight the aristocracy of the i 'v" ' ' ' -1 t ' l3llfle " t " -.li4 Pe Nl44ti . ;ii v*4 l l 4 ,4„ '). 5. 6 k-gese s, '-'"•'''Ciiiintry.; They must fight it out, and they would gain 3,000 10 p;,tent., kratnEl a r , . a .1 • ' .A.q LIC•Arr met illnttlXlnailealatdiretninso l strene;h every day. They must not mix up any s ome . el6et k l, : J aa1 aaa , a , ‘ „,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.. 1 ,,,,..., i n iA. , l2_,_A a sans 'pater consideration with this cause, and he would I :1,000 e - 0„,,, . ‘,„ ....,liaqq, l 4l:es t ny ous , ~ 4 , 1 , r - / 17, Pri .., r177,1:ay that he bel•eved it was the constancy with which they a .OlO 1 3 i•Percyq Ditto erofttletat ) .:...2!. nB5 itlT. Ru lei . . adh-red to this single object which had given them the success and Fts. Ga. 925 , 51 lOs Billnity)3111 s.rfaaaalit to, ' which they had ash eyed. They could not expect ministers Of the a. . 2 y0 ,:, its tu a:1'; :_fivitatob a...‘aaaa4-44.144-esanieri*At. tar alaCipospel to aid them with their services if they made this a poli -2.250 al Igk n i f oNshApn,,figai_ 4_ ss atrt; ;,. „ I'l, . lint question instead of a question of charity. He would inn -750 •.31 wi 'ant% rev, .2154..11DM1 allnatitaf 1. a, ----' 4 " v pl ire them again not to mix up this matter with any other • OW 1 : 4 00 71 41 1 pe u t o .ce s. 04 Itt co i n g t h in tp y t 74qat . syd7,,ftnir.,.. , :-Td. 2,1411 . 16 , r.. thing. They might join their suffrage societies if they liked, and 1,000 IN. 'City di Lffitinit.ll4(.lkalai.silf,B 2 l l ,o l ll 13 ,; he should not object to join a suffrage society, but even that 1,900 at. ~- , oitto,,iver n . 0 , Ipo .s.,fe re ße. - iel, L., n , i ,hOu i d be distinct from the Anti-Corr.-law League as a league. 3 . 4100 3 /•°'• ' ' ° : •q i ' itltble , hit '''" u 7 :" '*",,e, "474. l , L' 2 se .. 6. ss ijete wished to avail himself of that opportunity of laying before Arm :se tier cent. tremekielisserestortquresserriewrreAls ji l eHs them what he would call the statistics of national distress, Or 80 5L per cent. Isle nt'lna_ e_, ~ ~ _ 2,35 n 61 , per cent. : ndepen el.l.iV.C...ll4 . ineleaflissesee alleee of ' the results of the prevailing evils upon the state of our papule vino 5/. per cont. lehrontisee . ~,,,fir t ,t r, soM,,W, sots ! 'AN ' tion generally. It had always appeared that the temporary 41. per cent. Ratelir I,OOOV ...... a . Soutla.Matrapetkitajaa.sa.s9/i5h. , 2P14. 1 .pd 1:14 - .; ... . . . 0,040 5/.per cost. United General 1 sese s e, r i . N :,,, s I•eessed that the worst apprehensions which he entertained 240 51. per cent. Warwick . - " '.«.'.a - .'...".::... • - ''sso/. att. 50 • I were derived from his sense of the effects which must follow 400 5/. per cent Wakefield.,.... - 9 5/. sh. 22 . 1 . from the deterioration Of the physical condition of our people. 9,01,0 3 /- Westminster Chartered- r is .He maintained that the greatness of this nation arose neither 0,00 12s. Ditto New ..................1; 1 1. sh e 5 1 () 0 1 1. 6 p h 4 , mo 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. sh. 18/. pd . l from its institutions nor from any casual circumstances, but wATErt worti(s . from the inherent energy, industry, and ingenuity of 4,W9 345. Birmingham 25'. is. 231. pd 21 its inhabitants; and those qualities they owed, he 4,433 71. East London I". ih. 120 was persuaded, to their superior physical nature. Neon • 2/ 15s, Grand Junction Averaee 411. 17s. 4d, sh. tic Now, what he most apprehended from the existing distress was latest 1.1. Kent 100 /. sh. 5.2 % 372 101. Liverpool B oo tl e 2202. sh. Lea a gradual but certain deterioration of the. very breed of our 1,560 2 ttes New River London Bridge Water Ann... CO people. History told him that when the physical condition of A 48f. Of lOs Manchester and Salford ICOL sh 54. , , a nation was undermined, its moral energies soon be- LW , 5 per cent. South London M.A. 141 5,21 , 4 4 I/. West Middlesex Average 631.1125. Pd, eh. PO came impaired. He found from statistical details lying 1,360 li Its York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001, sh, 36 before him, that crimes had invariably increased in this IRON RAILWAYs, country in proportion as food had become dearer. And fosson 93. Os, Birmingham and Derby ..... lOOl. pd 42 further, it appeared, that in proportion as the price of food had i;.,5a0 3 pet cent. Birmingham and Goo:caste. 15,0 0 4 per cent. Pristol and I..:xeter toot. she 70 pd ' 42 7,50 , ~,,,„„ Cheltenham& G.Westerst ...INTL alt. Ed. 24% years the number of deaths had been considerably greater than e,eoe clarence 160/.41. 100 t. esi 20 in the year 1820, and the period which immediately followed. e,eoo ~,,,,•,. Dublin any! Drogheda 1091. sh e a:, pd In 18: • ;0 the poor-rates amounted to 5,630.0004, with wheat etenors ...... ... Fa: tern Counties 2 5/. sb. 231. pd 87 4 at 70s , a' quarter ;in 1840 the rates rose to 6,014,000/. Even 10,010 5 per cent. Great North of Englandloo/...„, iroi . pd 77 In; ba 12 percent, Grand Joaction le„i.sh.. all pd 1,11 under the operation of the Poor-laws the distress had been so ti; Ii) 4 per cent. Great Western .:stan. sh. 651. pd 85 great as very considerably to increase the poor-rates. Irene() 3 per cent. Ditto New 591. sit. 501. pc] el That increase afforded the clearest indication of the 1).900 8 per cent. Hartlepool lO 3. th. 100[. pd 145t, :s deteriorating effect of the Poor-lasts in destroying eosin Hull and' elby .., ',air* 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby . - ""h ' 1 , ) 11 , 1 , 7, 4 1 1 ; (1 . 3 ,,,, 7 the independent spirit of the people. These were some 3,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester.lot./.sh. 100/.psl 183% general statistics which they should always bear in mind, as eere to per cent. Ditto Ha'..i Shares 5O/. pd 91 they afforded a complete answer to those who said that the 11,495 10 per seat. Ditto o'4a:ter Shares 23,00 d Lander. and Brighton 50/. sit. 5 2 0 5 1 . 0 Pd 1 31351; distress was partial. 'I hey proved that dear bread was at the 24,0n0 1,010.4111 and Blackwell 25/. sh. 251. pd „,,,4 root of their misery, and dirt if they had cheaper bread soots, si vet- cent. lamden -nit Greenwich "0/. a 201. pd 5% nothing could be more certain than they should obtain relief s,o'o 9 per she London & Birmingham 1001. eh. 93/. pd 17/ from the misery into which they were plunged. One moat 25,e00 21.7 s fd. Ditto tlit,rter Shares 25/. sh. 25/. pd 11,250 11,250 et. t's. 4d. Dit o New Shares 12 /. she 32/. pd 46 3 , 36 remarkable circumstance was that they had obtained from their 411,`1011 3 per sh e London snit S.Western Av. 414 Ls. Od. tiO% opponents a statement of the increase of the poor-rates of 5e3,000 - .... ..... Leedon and Croydon , , 12 ~ the country for a considerable period bask. In the year Ditto New Scrip.- Av.. 31. 15s. 9d . Ile 174 8, when wheat was not more. than 255. per quarter, 12,000 4a per sh. Manchester and Lee: 3...100/....h. 70/.0 73 the poor-rates for England and Wales amounted only to In,otlo „. It4ooo al.3nche,ter and Itirmiagham s 7T/".5T!',1 1 4. 1.1% 720,000/. In 181 8 when wheat had risen to 88s. 8d a quarter. •- ~ Ditto Ex teneies, '7l. pd 2 the poor-rates had risen to 9,320,000/. ---. (Cheers.) They had mom 2/.lPs. Midland Comities .......,..11an. sh, Intl pd 6054 been met by the allegation that there had been a great increase 15,000 a/. Os. North Midland li a es Ditto New. • 10,1 Mi 11.1 1 ', Northern ard Eastern.... 50/. sh. X. pd 4::O°Z additional claim .on the poor-rate. But he was not setseo Preston aud V. yre 5O/. she au/. pd :re inclined "to give in to this answer ;an increase in the 28,000 4 per cent. South 'Eastern and Dover 5O/. pd 220 population ought not. necessarily to cause an increase 1,000 sot. per scut. Ste cktoa and Darlington ...... IOW. sh. 2d5 in the pauperism of the nation. It ought only to be viewed 9,000 .... ..... Thamts Pleven 5Ol. sh 5/, pd ape 8.000 tr cent. York and North Midland 50 . sh. 50/, pd 83 as an increase in the number of customers to the producer. Bpi MINES, even this argument was not left to their opponents. In 187.6, %COO A tbion Cepp.e- 5 /. ". ; - -1/. pd 1 2 . when the price of corn had fallen from 88. s. Bd. to 395. 4d , the 4,000 11.55. Aiten 15/. sh 12/ it s pd I'4 poor-rate fell from 9,000,000/. to about 6,000,000/. There had bet ri 10,0013 ... gradual increase since that, in proportion with the increase in Ditto 'Subscription ‘l5/. pa 2% 2,000 Bolanoa . l5O/. sh 311 pe 4 the price of food. They might attempt to account by the 11.00 e le iOs Brae:L . llo.omi). iss. 5/. pra...05/. sh. 111/ pd 9 transfer of the woollen trade from the west to the north of 6,n00 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey ~.2tll sh. 14/ pd England, for the depressed state of the west. 10,000 took the woollen fabricsthat employed Deliver tersper Company, efe.sh. 20e pe 1 1 1 But if they 13,11410 . ..... 20,000 ......... British. Iran lOOl. sh. 701 pd 8 two-thirds since 1820. The whole exports had fallen ,004 Britis h Copper 5/.lh. 41/. pd IN Cate Branco. 6 4 1. Pd 54 off; the north - bad not received a trade which the Caandenea tope; 1 1 Copiapo . ....., ..... ......201. its. lal. iai o attention to a few important facts connected with the state of 8,50 0 )- ...... Cohn-obese, is& 5, pat....531.5h. 55/. pd 1 Hungary and Transylvania. They possessed tracks tweet ei• Etigash 2n, 000 ..... ~. General Miring Associatlon2o/ sh.tat pd 2% of land capable of affording inexhaustible supplies of 6,155 ....a.. Mexican Company 100/.0. Get . pd 1 food, their mining districts were rich and productive, while they 3,00+1 .. , s,ers, ..„,„., nest del Mente, s.l.tegistered 2,4 coldidele pDWer to make their laws, were ready to adopt such a Ditto toast Note- 1501. pd tai l i iii r tariff as would enabe them to take our manufactures if we would United Mealcan, is s. 2 pea 401. sh. all pd Ditts. Scrip l% only take their corn in exchange. 'the agents for making these Ditto Ne.w Scrip 41 74 arrangements were now in England, and if we did not embrace West Cork W. sh 110i.pd 3 their offers, they had another alternative. They said they had coal LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. iron, and all the elements of manufactures; therefore, if the ', nen ..„..... Londen, with Bronze:Ticket ...75gs. 517. 13 English manufacturers could not produce to advantage 1,5f10 .......... :tendon University lOO/ sh all rd 7 7;0 ......... Russell • a i o. s c h. 6 in this country, then his choice of situation and King' College lOO/, 1p.% every facility, if they could only bring with them MISCELLANEOUS, that which Hungary had not-capital and skilled la . atom 3,51. Australian Asricultural.loo/. sh 20: ;at 30 0,1•06 !. per cent. British American Land Company 3,iapd 9 bout . Thus, if they did not take their agricultural produce, Iti,eal N. per cent. Canada C.7,,any 100/. she 22f,/. pd 30 they should perhaps be shut out both from a customer and a eteeee 5/, per cent. T:ipper Cana sa Loan City Bonds, 4 per rent 'earl Nasigatia n 15/ - h , ,090 11- 65. Generah?. The assistance of this country, too , was but ,trifling. Fiume, 2 24% 10Lerent. Hudson e Bay Stock '• • • 141. pd IL London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av.1725/1. d 751, sh e 1 1.2 %% the port of exit, could be reached in three weeks vo y a g e, or a Caontcheu 1 c Company month. There was one subject to which he would advert be- New Btu DM ick I,a7._•e c ti c Co i n e zal s s i y i i r e l. pd 12 tore sitting down ;it was the mixing up of the questicn of the 5;•87 41. pet cent. Reversionary Int. S franchise with the subject of the present agitation. They zees et. per cent. Ditto New ........................... t rj..p i l 10? They would assist ere , ..... e, Thames Tunnel ....... e ...... ou .s.an Fe 7 ought to keep the two measures separate. 10. 00 0 Ss, Van Die..resh's Land.... 100/. sh. 19.. pd 10 eat-h other if kept separate ; whereas they were sure to fail if mixed up together. After a few words from Mr. Johnson. in explanation of some errors which had crept into the newspaper report of what her had stated on the preceeding day, a statement of which he ex pressed his intention of sending to the papers, Mr. Itewsoe wished to call the attention of the meeting to a matter which had reference to the character of the delega tion. Mr. Gaily Knight, the Member for Nottinghamshire, was retorted to have said in the House of Commons last night . He (Mr. G. Knight) adverted to the manner in which this question had been brought forward, and particularly dwelt upon the admission of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. (Mr. Villiers) that the motion was not his own, but the motion of the Anti-Corn -law League. lie (Mr. Knight) doubted whe ther the Ilouse should quietly submit to the dictation of such a bo d y. o Be (Mr. Rawson) was surprised to fled such language front such a person as the Hon. Member for Nottinghamshire. There was another remark to which he wished to refer ; it was the followirg. e. On a previous evening the lion. Member for Stockport (171 r. &Weir) asked him ( Mr. Knight) what was the state of Nottingham. It was certainly not in such a state as he could desire to see it; but he had every reason to believe that it was not in the appalling state that the Hon. Alember had described. In some branches there were already symptoms of improvement. He hoped that this would be cons o l a t ory to the Hon. Member, and that it might induce him to think that the accounts he had received from other places were as much exaeeerated as that with which he had been furnished from Nottingham." Now he wished to draw the attention of the meet enl, e a g n a d te h s e t l h v a a t a f i n e r td ry c t ri h re e e y to n o g u London thi s' were llemokant erwesptheeattabtiheeinDe had left. .There - was a friend, however, of his, to his right hind, who had come from Nottingham, to• whom he wished to put a few questions. He should feel obliged if Mr. Sneath ~, ~+lo • L4ST of: SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES JULY 6. 1842. BANKS. I.glen t floß , el, p. et. Bank of Scotland...BV. Os. _Bd..sn• an In' . sh . a_l , l ,_ p_d 1 15 54 5 9.T9,001 C!. p. ct. licyal of Scotland 1001 W 11,01,01. Si. p. ct. British Linen Company 100/.sh,:dl pd ‘os ,‘ 5001. s h. i ool.pd -no . e(10,0P01. V. p. et. Commercial 1001.0 h. 101. pd 14 ~„, 'BolPtalt. 6 n. et. National "-• ' tiin, pilool. Bt.. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501 . p d 75 1. ( Y10,0G01. 6p. ct. West ern of Scotland 2OOl. sh 40!. rd C 8 INSUR NCE . 2f.(1,11005h. flip. ct. St otti:h UnionCOMPANIES 20/.s h. 11. pd 24 s Od. 7 ,5 , 10 1 9 p. ct. Hercules low. eh. 101. pd 12 it 11(1' ' °()° lu P. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .19/. An all pd 9 50,(En In p. ct. North Lettish 200! rh. IN. pd SO I,CDo In p. et. Caledonian Fire ion.'. sli. 10!. pd 20 5,t " 1 2 P. et. Rlinburgh bite.. lOOl. sh. 101. pJ 15 rio,oco 2} t. ct.. West of Scotland . MIi.cCELLANEO US. , " 4 918 .... nitto Allocated' OM sh. all pd 1384 4? . 25. 4ct . r& per cant. Edi nh. Joint St..ek Water 2.74. sh all pd 34 i Woo 2,§ per cent. Sh?tts Iron ioundorv 50/.sh 49/ pd 3 , 3 0 . 10 3 ;5 per cent. Edinburgh It, Leith Gl:ss zig.sh. 16!. pd 3% 4 : 1 p0 10 per 7ent. Edinburgh Coal Oa" ".5/.sh. all pd 50 . Glasgow Gls ...... .... 251. sh. all pd 52 5.450 10 Per can.. Leith Coal ' i t i Gas ... .....a 201.5 h. all pd '26 m 711 per re' 1-154 •....,•.... Edinburgh and Dalkeithrtaliway 50/.sh 30 liuinphroy paired off last evening w!th Mr. Aaron Chapman in favour of Mr. Villiers' motion for going into Committee on the Corn-laws. thejletiv,v 11.. --' ll . fell in the early rart of rl4' :310 41.44 hiFloatirii.,r Island in -Demerit Loj te has disappeared. i gencralli• 'believed, hoWever, that lon the return of warm dry weather, and the receding to its late level, the island will spin be visible. would state whether the unemployed in 'Nottingham were less than formerly, and whether, as he was a guardian. the appli cations for relief were on the increase or decrease. Mr. SNEATH observed that there was an increase in the paupers. Only last Tuesday they had a great quantity of new cases that had never been on the books before. Mr. Rawsots wished to know whether Mr. Sneath thought they were likely to increase ? Mr. SHEATH thought it extremely likely, as a great number had been turned off within the last fortnight or three weeks. He considered it reasonable to suppose that they would not apply for relief directly, but it was generally supposed that the in crease of paupers would be great. They were now paying 100/. more a week than last year. Mr. RAWSON wished to know whether there had been any falling off in the branch of trade to which Mr. Sneath be longed? Had there been any falling off in the wages? Mr. SHEATH observed that the wages in his trade had cer tainly fallen off. The men were not getting anything like half, they were not getting a third of what they did a year ago. Mr. Hawsers considered that a dreadful state of thiugs, and yet in the face of all this, Sir R. Peel, last night, in alluding to the statement that had been made respecting a fall in wages, had said, "that it could not proceed from a want of the repeal of the Corn-laws ; but from competition among the manufacturers themselves." Now he thought it had been clearly shown that the fall of wages could be traced to the Corn-laws. He thought the details that had been given by Mr. Sneath were such as should induce them to double their energy in the great cause in which they were embarked.—(Cheers.) Mr. SIDNEY SMITH considered it very important that the country should be' informed of the gross decep tion which last evening • Eir Robert Peel had practised either upon himself or upon the House, or upon both, relative to the proi.pects of the harvest. '1 he Hon. Baronet had congratulated the country on the fact, that on that day the price of wheat had fallen 2s. per quarter, and that there fore the prospect of abundance was indicated by the clearest test, that of the market. What ! Did he forget that the temporary fall in the price, produced at ould rise in the duty, and therefore just postponed the liberation so clamantly required from bond. The truth was, that the fall was indicative of a deficient har vest. It proved that the farmers kid their account with this— that if they did not sell their wheat now they would be swamp ed with foreign wheat at the ls. duty. The best proof that the harvest was short was that the price of wheat in bond was higher yesterday than before. 'I he importers knew that they would get it in at the Is. duty with greater certainty than they did before, and, therefore, should hold firmly at an increased price. The farmers perceived this also, and th ere fore sell off now, before the fall, which they' dread is coming. The state of the market, therefore, just proves the reverse of the Prcmier's inference. He (Mr. Smith) really believed that the Govern ment was even more ignorant than callous, and ignorance, as it was their best excuse, so it was their only apology for perse vering in a course of policy which was hastening the country to destruction. On the motion of Mr. Rawson, the following Resolution was unanimously agreed to, amid much cheering . " That the thanks of this Conference be given to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, fcr the able manner in which he brought the subject of the national distress before the House of Peers. That the thanks of this Conference be given to the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., and to J. Fielden, Esq., M.P., and to the Members of the House of Commons who supported the motion for a Committee of the House to reconsider the question of the Corn-law, with a view to its total repeal." Mr. liwwsosr, just as the meeting was about to break up, observed, " Don't forget that Lord John Russell voted for the Committee."—( Cheers. ) The meeting then adjourned to eleven o'clock tc-morrow. CONSERVATIVE GATIIERING.—h is reported that there was a large gathering of Conservative Members at Sir Robert Peel's this morning, nominally for the pur pose of considering what would be the best course to adopt with regard to the Poor-law. It is, however, ru moured that the real object is to sound the Conservatives as to the propriety of relaxing the rigour of the existing. Corn-law. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 8. Corps of Royal hrgineers— Second Capt. V J. Biscoe to be Captain, vice Mackenzie, retired on full pa', ; FirFt Lieut. It James to be Secotal Captain, vice Biseoe; Second Lieut. Hon. H. F. Keane to be First Lieutenant, vice James, dated June 28. Erratum in the Gazette of the 17th of Junela_t. DERBY MILITIA.—For E. Coke, Esq. to be Major, read T. Coke, Esq. to be Major. WHITEHALL, JUNE, 29, '1842. The Lord Chancellor has appointed T. A. Smith, cf Man chester, Gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. THOAIAS HENRY MUNDAY, bookseller, Crii plegate. HARRY COLLIN SJEFFREY S, - miller, Woolock,.4ht op shire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM HEYWOOD, merchant, Manchester. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE HENRY HARBISON, merchant, Moorgate street, City, to surrender, July 22, and August 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alrager, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Boxer, Moorgate.street. SAMUEL JACOBSON, picture dealer, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, Aug. 4, at eleven, and Aug. 23, at one, at the Bankrupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-T3ne. Jones and Cooke, Gray's inn-square, London. JOHN CLEGG, silk manufacturer, Manchester, July 26, and August 23, at twelve, at the Commimioners'-rooms, Man chester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; Bagshaw and Stevenson, Manchester. THOMAS ENDICOTT, innkeeper, Bath, July 28, and Aug. 23, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, bath. Jones and Blax land, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-slrect, London ; Hellings, Bath. LEWIS DURLACHER, picture dealer, Westminster, July 26, at twelve, and August 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptc!. Edwards, cflieial assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry • Walford, Grafton-street, Bos.d-street. DAVID BARBOUR and JOHN NORRIS, soap-boilers, Liverpool, July 23, and Aug. 23, at two, a . the Clarendon rooms, Liverpool. Booktr, Liverpool ; Holme, Loftus, and Young, New-inn, London. AMES FISHER, draper, Chorlton-upon-Medlook, Lan ' easter, July 20, and August 23, at eleven, at the Commis sioners'-rooms, Manchester. Appleby, Aldermanbury, Lon don ; Oliver, Manchester. RCHARD WILLIAMS, farmer and malsier, Alvington, July 27, and August 23, at eleven, at the Bear Inn, Newr.hnn. Blower and Vizard, Lincoln's lnia.fields, London ; James and Son, Newnham, Gloucestershire. JAMES EVANS, iron founder, Darwen, Lancashire, July 25 and August 23, at eleven, at. the C' mmissionere-rooms, Bolton-le-Moors. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; Blair, Manchester. EDWARD STEPHENS MESSITER and FREDERICK MESSITER, tailors and drapers. Malmesbury, Wilts, Aug. I, at two, and Aug. 23, at six, at the Angel Inn, Chippenham; Wilts. Millard and Adams, Cordwatners'-hall, London; Chubb, Mahnesbury. WILLIAM PA till, shopkeeper, Smallthorn, Staffordshire, July 26, at four, and Aug. 23, at twelve, at the Leopard Inn, Burslem, Staffordshire. Wolston, Furnival's Inn, London ; J. and W. Ward, Furslem. PETER HUAIPHREYS, builder, Cholniondely, Cheshire, July 30 and Aug. 23, at eleven, at the Hop Pole Inn, Chester. Harper and Parry Jones, Whitchurch, Shropshii e ; Vincent and Sherwood, King's-bench-nalk, Temple, London. JOHN PINNOCK THIRKELL, farmer, Cranbrook, Kent, July 25, at two, and Aug. 23, at twelve, at the Guild hall, Canterbury. Bartlett, Beck-street, Regent-streetLoncion. COM-PROMISE COMMITTEE. (THIS DAY.) SOUTHAMPTON. The Committee met at the usual hour, the Hon. J. S. WORTLEY in the Chair. Mr. Lankaster was - called, and produced the accounts of the election on the Liberal side. He had not seen them since the 14th of September. In the promise book was the name of Whitmarsh. He had promised to vote for Capt. Mangles. He voted for the Conservative candidates, and Mr. Sharpe made a note of his being brought up by " Jack Wren." There was a memorandum of his own to this effect, " Was not this a voter who promised Cooper." He had a list of chairman and colour men, but no payments were made. He attended the Liberal Committee every night, and he was satisfied Mr. Wren was never there. Abraham Cave was called, but there was nothing of import ance in his evidence. Edward Cockerell proved that Wren told him, when he re ceived the Speaker's w arrant in September, he was offered three hundred pounds by Mr. Baker, if he withdrew his objections, and told what he knew (Stile election. Mr. Wren told him that he had never received money from Mr. Mackay. He (witness) did What he could to forward the interest of Lord Bruce and Mr. Martyn. To Mr. BAITER—Wren did not withdraw the objections. To the CHAIRMAN—He had no doubt that bribery was committed on both sides. It did not come under his own ob servation. Persons asked him for bribes. He did not counte nance such applications. Samuel Liuney proved that Redward told him; he had not received any money as a bribe. Redwards commenced the conversation with him. Thomas Brown was . present. Did not know much of Redwards. Henry Pike proved that Wren did not show him ten pounds on the day of nomination, which he said he got front Mr. Mackay. Has not the slightest recollection of it. it was not likely that such a circumstance would have taken place without his recollecting it. Never told Wren he got 221. for a dinner at the Albion. Wren told him he was made an ..ffer by Mr. Baker. To Mr. BAKER—Is a strong Conservative. Got 101. at the last eleetion ; it was an exchange for other money ; had two rooms occupied in his house ; one of them was a refreshment room ; supplied refreshments; was not paid ; did not expect any payment.:There was a cheque ler 22/. in his name. lie did not receive the money ; the Banker's accounts ate wrong ; Knows the Godley,. Did not pay them any money. Did not pay either of them. Did not employ them, or either of them as messengers. (Mr. Baker here referred to the evi dence taken - before the late Committee, by which it appeared that the witness employed one of the God leys at ss. a-day, and paid him about 4!.) His memory was now refreshed.—(Laughter.) He did pay Godley some money. He paid it out of his OR n pocket. He did not state to the late Committee what he stated to-day about Wren. Thomas TwifOrd was next called, and stated that Mr. Wreni canvassed him at the last election, and gave him a note to a pa - son called Mackay. Is a tenant of Mr. Abrahams. .►ir. A brahams did not canvass him for his vote. To to Mr. BAKER—Knew Wren before the election. He did not promise Wren to vote. He asked witness to vote for Martyn and„Brtice. Witness answered that it was likely he would. Witness .said he did not like to be losing his time. Wren asked him whether 51. would be an object to him. lie (witness) answered it would, and he wished he could get it. On the day of the election Wren desired him to breakfast at Pike's ; did so, and from thence he went to vote. lie afterwards called on Wren fur the money ; but he (Wren) said he had given away what he had. He gave witness a letter to Mr. Mackay. He did not know what Sir. Mackay it was. He did not take the letter to Mr. Mackay ; he tore it up. To the COMMITTEE—Cannot say why he tore the letter. Cannot say why he should tear the letter, by which he was to get the Si. he was so anxious to receive. He did not expect anything from Wren. Joseph Clerk was called, and stated that Charley Brown came up to him and took gold and notes out of his pocket, and said that is the way we are doing it." Ile knew Brown was ac tive on the Conservative side. Thinks it was not likely he could have such a sum .of his own. Believes that there was bribery and treating at Southampton at the last election. William Gale examined—Was a voter at the last election. Voted for Lord Bruce and Mr. Marten. Lisle employed him as a messenger. He got 7s. 6d. a day, and was paid weekly. Ile was also emploied as colourman at 11. a day. He was em ployed two days as colourman. That money is due to him. Charles Brown stated that the money he had in his hand, and which he showed to Mr. Clark and Mr. Buchan, were for things which he procured for the purpose. The notes were what are called " flash" notes. He did it by way of a joke. The votes will follow those who have plenty of money. Knows Mr. Wren. Saw him at the time the late Committee was sitting. Mr. Wren came to him and said that he (Wren) wished to speak with Mr. Deacon. Witness in formed Mr. Deacon, and then he took Wren to him. He left them speaking together. He did not hear what they were speaking about. Mr. Joseph Ball stated that he had signed cheques. One was for 75/. ; it went to pay for dinners. Received a letter from Wr e n stating that theme were seven or eight voters who could be bribed. lie saw Wrcn, and said it was absurd to bribe, as the election was secure. He went with Wren to Portwood to see a voter' named Russell. Saw Russell but did not speak to him. Wm. Hogson, an innkeeper of Southampton, stated he had supplied dinners and grog to several voters, and was paid 11e0/. oy Sir. Cheeseman. Mr. Cheeseman, president, Mr. Lucas, the secretary, and Mr. Scobell, the treasurer of the Conservative Convivial Asso ciation, were cailed, and produced the Looks and accounts of the Association. In reply to Mr. Baker, Mr. Cheeseman stated he had re ceived 400/. front Sir. Siabson and Mr. Stebbing, out of which he paid the debts of the Association, for dinners, &c. One halt of this money was given to him subsequent to the election. The examination of this witness having concluded the Com mittee adjourned. CGURSE OF EXCIJA Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8i Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona Paris, 3 days' tight ... 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maitre... 151 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Berlin. . . NG.E.—(THIS DAY.) IGibrattar, . Leghorn ..... 'Genoa Milan .. f 3l Venice Naples . . ....... 40 (Palermo, per oz 1:20 Lisbon Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro :26t Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 clay s sight 4b Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07.. Foreign Geld, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin-... 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 0 0 Silver in Bars. 4. 0 0 0 Vienna, effec. 11. 3 111. 958 Trieste, ditto 9 59 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville ............ ...... 36 M ARM:: T INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of July Supan.—Since. our last report, importers of West India Muscovadoes Sugar have manifested more firmness and have ob tained former prices for all descriptions. To-day there was more activity in the British Plantation Sugar Market, and the prices paid were equal to those of Friday. This afternoon the public sale of 149 hhds 1 tree Barbadoes was well attended, but the biddings were languid, and a part only found purchasers at prices 6d per esst under those of the previous sale,—fine yellow sold at 65s 6d to 675, good 63s 6d to 655, mid 60s to 63s per cast, it was upon the whole but an indifferent parcel, being deficient in colour. REFINED. —A better demand existed for Refined Sugar for home consumption, and a good business was done at stiffer rates; standard lumps fetched 81s, Tittlers Sis 6d to 86s, brown grocery lumps 80s to Bls per cast. Bastards were in good request at. 49s to 61s, and pieces at 62s to 745. In Treacle more business was done. The market is firmer for bonded crushed Sugar ; the demand is good at 26s to 26s 3d per cwt. MAURITIUS. —This afternoon the demand was active and prices were firm; at auction 2,157 bags were readily disposed of, and at prices fully equal to those of the farmer sale ; fine brown went at 57s to 58s, low yellow 59s to 59s 6d, mid 60s to 61s 6d, and good 62s to 63s 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—In the middle part of last week the market for Bengal Sugar was in a dull state, and suffered a decline of 2s. per cwt. Manilla is not offered at lower rates. Java has been in limited request only, but holders are firm. Siam has been sustained. White common to good 17s to 225. brown and yellow 14s to 16s 6d per cwt. 'this afternoon there was no public sale of Bengal, but privately a fair busineess was done at lull prices. For sale on Thursday 3,000 bags white arc declared. FOREIGN.—This afternoon Havannah Sugar was inquired for, and some parcels were disposed of privately at 17s to 19s 6d for common to fine yellow, good to fine white at 28s to 303, and common to mid at 25s to 27s 6d per cwt, at which rates holders are firm. In Brazil there was rather moae business doing ; brown at 14s 6d so 17s per cwt. There was no public sale. On 'Change a cargo of yellow Havannah Sugar of good quality was sold or Belgium at 19s per cwt. COFFEE.—The rates previously established' have been fully sustained for British Plantation Coffee, and a good demand has existed, the parcels brought forward have all been dis posed of. In Mocha a good business has been trans acted privately, and higher rates have been paid. This afternoon the home trade were desirous to operate, and a good demand prevailed: privately large sales of good ord Ceylon were made at 75s to 76s fine ord 76s 6d to 77s per cwt, being is 6d higher. The public sales consisted of 39 casks Berbice, 707 bags East India, the former went higher; fine mid at 114 s 6d to 1153 6d, good mid 112 s to 112 s 6d, mid 100 s 6d to 105 s, and good ord 64s ; the latter sold at full prices ; good ord mixed Batavia at 30s to 345, low 28s, good ord Pa dang 30s 6d, and damaged in the country 25s to 29s 6d per cwt. Foreign Coffee this afternoon was sought after, and 3416 d to 35a paid for good- ord St. Domingo with colour ; Rio of common to fine, ord fetched 32s to 36s per cwt. ' None was offered at auction. TEA.—The (Weiland has been good fur Tea since last Tues .day, but the announcement of the large quantity'of 47,000 packages for public sale this week has prevented any further advance ; former rates, however, have been• maintained for . all sorts. • To-day there was little business. transacted, and the, Tea market tresented'a quiet appearance, the atteutien of the trade being directed to the sales which commence tosmorrow, but prices were steady; common sound Congou Is Bid to is 9d per pound cash. COCOA.—The market for British Plantation is firm; fine red 40s to 425, mid to good 36s to 39s and common 34s 6d to 3 35 45 s 6 to d 3 p s e :f e o a r st p . ara F . oreign has brought 36 s for Gua y a q uil, and Moeasses.—This afternoon the demand was good ; 106 puns We s t India and 37 hhds Mauritius were offered' at Rues aloe, the former went at 27s for good new Trinidad, and the latter at 20s 6d per cwt. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Prices have been firm for Leeward Island Rum, proof common quality at 2s. OlAd. to 2s Id., good 2s. lid. to 2s. 2d., two to ten per cent cent. over 2s. 2id. to 2s. 3d , twelve over 2s. 3id. to 23. 4d. per gallon. The supply of Jamaica is large, and prices have a downward tendency; fine quality at ss. 2d. to ss. 5d., good 4s 11d to 56 Id, mid and good mitt 4s 4d to 4s 10d, and common 4s to 4s 3d per gallon. Demerara has been barely sustained, and Mauritius Rum is dull of sale; Calcntta at is 5d to is lid for proof at the high duty, and at Is 7d to is 10d at the low duty. The market for Brandy hasbeen in an inactive state ; Cognac, first brands of the vintage of 1837, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s 11d ; 1838, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d ; 1839 , hhds 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d ; 1840, hhds 3s 10d, puns 3s 83 ; 1841, hhds 3s 9d, puns 3s 7d per galliin ; Geneva at Is lid for common ; the market for Baitish Corn Spirits at lOs per gallon, gash. To-day proof Leewards fetched 25 lid to 2s 21d per gallon ; i b in a a g t s na a , t a b u r c in ti g on th m e - Jamaica. good anti fine sorts, at 4s 8d to 5s 4d, and middling 4s to 4s 6d per gallon. businessS m m more i e l C a - — s '1 done, e d y Pepper vaa in lanited request, and 1761 atlO2%clastois23(4,,gdnfeear ratherco RICE.—For Bengal Rice the pi ices paid have been again ra iler higher; fine white by private contract 12s to 12s 6d, mid to good 1035 d to 1 is 6d, low dusty 103 to /Of 3d. and yelleva erfeultlaveanluein. 8s 93 to Vs fid per cast, 103 63 to I 1 s for good mid white. and 84s to 88s paid for middling. at stiffer rates. Good and fine white have fetched lOs eel to 123, low and mid 9s to 10$, and yellow 83 to 8s 6d per cwt. Madras Rice at 8s to 10s 6d per cwt. Carolina at 30s for first. 28s for second, And, 26s for inferior quality. Patna 15s to '2os per cwt. This afternoon East India middling white at 10s 6d to Ils pet cwt. TaLLow.—Holders of Russian Tallow are reluctant to give way in price, on the spot 47s 9.1 to sibs are the nearest rates for P. Y. Candle. Fur delivery in the last three months 48s 9d to 49s per cwt. South American at 41s 63 to 46s 9el for ord to fine. Town Tallow, at 475 6d nett cash. OILS—For all descriptions of common since this day week prices have been . firm.' Cod Oil 311.. lOs kr 311. 15s Southern 321, to 35Z, pale old Seal 371, yellow and brown 311: SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Lord Brougham last night brought before the House of Lords, by a motion for a Select Committee, the unparalleled distress of the country. The motion was resisted by the Government on the same groundi sa those which were adduced in the House of Commons —that an inquiry into the subject, with a view to dis cover the source of the calamity, would necessarily be tedious, and that an attempt to discover and apply a re medy would be futile. The people, then, so far as the Go vernment and the Legislature, influenced by the Govern ment are concerned, are left without help and without hope ! Lord Brougham's speech last night was worthy of the Noble Lord's best days. It was emphatically ad rem. By keeping to the subject, instead of being tempted to indulge those aberrations by which his Lord ship's statements and arguments on important questions have frequently been weakened, and his efforts stultified, the subject was invariably kept before the minds of his audience, and its important features illustrated with a clearness, and stamped with a force upon the judgment and feelings, absolutely irresistible. Having laid before their Lordships authe nticated statistical stateme nts , the validity and correctness of which were not di sputed , Lord Brougham selecte d instances of sufferin g from the tion, the intensity of distr ess and suffering, to which the general mass, by way of exemplifying the deep destitu labouring classes in the manufacturing districts are reduced. STANDARD.—The distress in the manufacturing districts again furnished occasion for long debates in the two Houses of Parliament last night. The debates upon this subject are painful and wearisome ; but let them not be thought unprofitable, how hopeless so ever a present remedy—how far so ever Lords and Commons may be at present from the truth. It is right that the Legislature should manifest its sympathy with a people suffering with noble resignation ; and it is " by mistakes we learn," as a wise man •has said ; by fully examining all paths it is that the riLrfit path is at length discovered. In the House of Lords Lord Brougham moved for a Committee to inquire into the causes of the public distress, and proved, by a very long and ingenious speech, with which he introduced his motion, that he at least is in the dark upon the subject. His Lordsh:p, however, failed to show that a CoMmittee, would much enlighten him. A Committee to collect all the evidence that could offered, ax;d that properly would be offered, must sit for years, and in the end it would arrive only at the fact, which is uilhappily too ob vious to require -a 'single witress— the fact that the manufacturing people are. exposed ,cruel• privations. A Committe could pronktnee only - upon details, but the real mischief lies in a principle THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 142. —a principle plain to the sense of any rational man, i IOsT 361., t n new ho p le Seal at 361. 103 per tun. Southern 6/. whose understanding is unfettered by the chains of that 7 a 141 at this time. Sperm 791. to SO/. for the to best British. Linseed Oil 32s 3d n he s . ot• for delivery 32s r d most narrow of all narrow systems, a miserable political Rape, brown at 45s 9d to 465, and pale p at -46 s 6d to . 4Gs 9d economy. The only liberal reasoners are they who per - cwt. Olive Oil has been taken rather more freely—Galli titterly reject these manacles of system, and they polli at SF/, Spanish 53l to 541 , and Barbary 51 / to 52 / per I have no difficulty in detecting the cause of the tun. Cocoa-nnt Oil has been sustained. Palm Oil, first sort present national affliction. Let us then try to do at 321 10s to 3:3/, and inferior kinds at 301 to 32/ per tun. for Lord Brougham what no Committee can do. This afternoon Cocoa-nut fetched 39s 6d to 4vs per cwt. Let us try to emancipate his mind from those wretched trammels by which he is hampered and perplexed, and direct him, if not to an immediate remedy !Or the existing distress—which is, we fear, unattainable—to the causes of that distress ; and as his Lordship has, in the course of his legal studies, learned from Quite, that to trace an evil to its source is the first step to its removal, he will appreciate the ser vice. This service is due to Lord Brougham more than to any other man, because (as we believe) he has, un consciously, done more by his brilliant talents and un tiring energy, to create the affliction which he laments, than any other man living. IMPERIAL PARLIAME: , II`. (Tins DAY.) jIOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. MINES AND COLLIERIES. Lord LYTTLETON presented some petitions against clauses in the Mines and Collieries Bill. A message .from the Commons brought several Private Bills which had passed that House, and some others, in hich they had agreed to the Lords' amendnn nts. The Perth Prison Bill passed through Committee; and was reported. The Dublin University Right of Voting Bill, which takes away the Parliamentary suffrage from persons who have only an honorary degree, also passed through Committee, and was reported. EMPLOYMLNT IN MINES, &c. The Earl of GALLOWAY presented a petition from Callandar, and other places in Scotland, in fro - our of Lord Ashley's Bill. SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT. On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, the Sudbury Witnesses Indemnity Bill was read a • second time, a cut through Committee, was reported, read a third time, and passed, the Standing Orders hav ing been suspended to facilitate its progress. LORI) ASHLEY'S BILL. The Marquis of LON DONDERRY presented petitions from Durham and Yorkshire against certain portions of I the Mines and Collieries Bill. He took that opportu nity of denying that the coal-owners had entered into any compromise with the promoters of Lord Ashley's Bill. RAILWAY BILL. Lord CAMPBELL present( d a petition from Mr. George Walter, tranaging director of The Greenwich Railway, settiug forth that the petitioner had invented a means of ,preventing the overturning of railway carriages by making the centre of the carriages the centre of their gravity, and praying for inquiry. MINES AND COLLIERIES. Lord WHARNCLIFFE stated, in reference to the petitions on this subject presented by Lord Londonderry, that it was the intention of the Government to remain perfectly , passive in the matter. The Earl of CLARENDON presented a petition from the Union of Dudley against the Bill. BIRMINGHAM POLICE. Lord REDESDALE prescn4d a petition signed by 15,0)0 inhabitants and rata-payers of Birmingham, pray ing that the House would take seine means to reduce the expenses of the Police force and that they might be re lieved from the present charter of incorporation. SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT. • The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from the Mayor and inhabitants of Sudbury, against the disfran chisement of that borough. The pEtitioners stated that they thought Sudbury was no more then a great many other boroughs, and that a whole borough oughtnot to be punished liar the delinquencies of a few. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Lcrd BROUGHAM presented several petitions from places in bhropshirc, Yorkshire, and other mining dis tricts, some in favour of and some against this Bill. [LEFT SITTING.] IiOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. The Cambuslang - and Muirkirk Roads No. 2 Bill, the Patn-son's Estate Bill, the Davidson's Estate Bill, Duke of Cleveland's Estate Bill, Vere's Divorce Bill, and Vis count Fitzwilliam's Estate Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Lords' anitndments wr re agn'ed to in the Toxteth Park Paving and Sewerage (No. 2', the Leeds Improve meat, and the-Let & Burial Grounds Bills. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT. ACT. An HON. Mousen presented a petition from unions in • Gloucestershire and 'Warwickshire against the bastardy clause in the New Poor-law Bill. NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND.) Mr. Sergeant JACESON presented a petition' from• some place in Cork against the system of National Edu cation in Ireland, and in favour of the syStem adopted by the - Church Education Society. TOBACCO REGULATIONS BILL. Mr. LITTON presented' a petition from Coleraine, in Londonderry, against certain elauses in this Bill, more par ticnlarly the sth, preventing the retailer of tobacco from selling sugar and molasses in same premises where tobacco is sold: , . • MR. HULLAII'S CLASSES. Sir lATEL rose pursuant to a notice he had given,. to present a petition from the pupils educated at Exeter Hall, under the sanction of the Council of Education. Ifeliad been requested by certain parties to present this petition, and as the tencUr of it was such that it could offend no one, he 'had acceded to the request to present it. As he was .presenting a petition, the rules of .the House would not allow him to do otherwise than read it,. and that was the course which he should therefore adopt. 'The Right lion. Gentleman proceeded to read the heads 'of the 'petition, which stated that on the -Ist February, 18 1 11 the - singing class.-was established •, since then. AOO Scllpolmastvo and schoolmistresses had, been instructed -AO noW , there were not less ',ban 50,000 children. in London learning singing from the masters and.inistresscS WhO had previously received their instruc tion from Mr. Hullith. The petitioners were anxious to -.be instructed in any Other branch of edu- - cation which the Council of Education might put -within their reach ; and they stated that classes • had already been formed for drawing and writing. The petition concluded by praying that the House would be pleased - to -make such alterations in the terms of the grant as would enable the Committee of the Council to'appropriate • such sums of money as might be , necessary towards the expenses of educating the pupils in Exeter Hall. He (Sir R. Peel) assented to the prayer of the petition ; he approved of singing, for he thought it would tend to improve the order of the children in schools, andprtmote the progress of educa tion. He thought the application of a small sum of money, in the manner prayed for, could not be consi dered objectionable. • Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the Board of Guardians of Durham, against the bastardy clause in the New Poor-law Act ;- also a petition to the same effect from the Board of Guardians of Easington. NOTICE OF MOTION. . Mr. WALLACE gave n o tics that, at the coma! ce mcnt of the next Session. he should me% e for a Comnni , tee to inquire whether it be desirable to have a different standard of value than was at present in use. He should also move for a Committee to inquire iato the practice of the Scotch Law Courts. 1)r. BOWIING moved for a return of the newspaper stamps and advertisement duty since the last return. — Ordered. Mr. HUME gave notice that on• Thursday next he should move for a similar return - to that which he had already moved for relative to Pkg.-Officers. Colonel SIPTUORP expressed a hope that her Ma jesty's Government would be pleased to lay on the table of the House certain papers which he had moved for as far back as July last, they being important documents relating to the continuance of a paid commission. Mr. T. IUNCOMI3F, presented a petition from Pais ley, praying for an inquiry into the distressed state of that town . ; also a petition from the NOrth Riding of the county of York against the New Poor-law Bill. Captain PECHELL wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet uith reference to two Bills which were to be read a third time that evening—the Fishery Continuance Bill and the Slave treaty Continuance Bill. He wished to know if the former treaty had been brought to a conclusion, and he also wished to ask with re spect to the Slave treaty Continuance . Bill, whether it was the intention of the Government to bring -in a Bill for the division amongst the captors, of property taken under the Portuguese flag in 1839. Sir R. PEEL said he wished the Hen. Member had given notice in the morning of his intention He (Sir R. Peel) could give no satisfactory inforthation with respect to the Fishery Treaties Bill. With respect to the latter question the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman would not be surprised if it was not the intention of her Majesty's Government at present to introduce such a Bill. . . Mr. T. EGERTON presented a petition from Chester against the Bastardy clause in the new Poor-law Bill. BILL FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF HER . . MAJESTY. Sir E. PEEL rose and said that he apprehended the House would not consider that it was upon light and trifling grounds that he called their attention to the state of the law which provided for, the personal security of the Sovereign—(Loud cheers)—and the necessity of giving such additional protection to the person of the Sovereign us much as enactments by law could secure. He said he did not make that proposal upon light or trifling grounds, when it was notorious that within the short period of two years three assaults upon the person of her Majesty had been made having been committed by the discharge, or attempt to discharge, fire arms, either endangering the personal security of her Majesty . or calculated • to excite alarm and apprehension in the mind of her Ma jesty ; disturbing the public feeling and the public mind, by naturally great apprehension for the safety of the Sovereign.—(Gheers.) If it were possible for a law to afford additional protection, Parliament ought not to separate before it enacted such a law. He was glad to state, that in considering the means of providing that additional protection, he did not feel it necessary to call in the aid of extreme punishment. He did not con template the necessity of creating any new treasons, and he did not contemplate the enacting any new capital punishments for (lances directed against the life of the Sovereign.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the object might be effected without either the oonstitution of new treasons or the infliction of new capital punish ments. If the state of the law were such that it encum bered the trial of certain offences with needless form and sol emnities which were calculated to administer to the morbid vanity of those individuals who committed those crimes, partly to secure them an unen viable notoriety. In those cares thos. . solemni ties and foimal proceedings should he dispensed with. It became necessary, for the purpose of explaining to the house the character and tenor of the measure he proposed, shortly , to review the existing state of the law with respect to treasonable attempts on the life of the sovereign in this country. He might throw from his consideration all those acts of constructive treason, such as levying war, or an attempt • to force bertDiajesty:s consent to certain measures by intimidatiOd. - It was only necessary fur him to refer to enactments mhich provided for the persosUal security of the Sovereign, and those laws which provided pu- nishment for offences connected with the persOnal secu rity of the Sovereign. Now the state of the law at pre sent, confining himself to treasonable offences directed against the personal security of the Sovereign, was upon an ancient statute of Edward M., which'it was pro vided that it was treason to compass the death of the Sovereign. That compassing the death of the Sovereign must he accompanied .by some . overt act, such as 'a direct attempt against the life of the Sovereign. That where there was constructive treason he did intend to enter. But as far as the personal security of the Sovereign was concerned, compassing the death of the Soverei , !:n, accompanied by an overt act is made treason by the statnte of Edward 111. At a subsequent period, so recently as the 36th Geo. 111., chap. 96, in consequence of an attempt made upon the life of his Majesty. The statute was passed which made it treason to compass the death or destruction of the Sovereign, op-the infliction of any bodily injury to the Sovereign tf nding; 'to death and de— slruction, or the maiming of the Sovereign. There was -no charge until' the year 1799. If the indictment was proved of a charge of treason, it was necessary to try the prisoner with all solemn practices of the law. That sta ff passed in the reign of George 3d. In the year 1799 an attempt was made on the life of George the Third, by a person of the name of llatfiela, a conviction took place on the ground of insanity. The form of proceeding was under the Act of William By the Act of 1800, in case of the offence of compassing the death of the King, accompanied by some overt act, the form of trial was dispensed with, and the trial made the same 'us in cases of ordinary murder and malicious shooting. But if the offence was committed under the statute of the 36th George 111., and was that of compaSs ....... big the wounding of the Sovereign, there was no power of dispensing with all the solemnity of a trial for high treason, and the person must be arraigned under that statute. What he proposed was,' that, in the second case, as well as the first, the proceedings should be of the ordinary description, known to the ordi nary cases of tise law, and that it should not be necessary to go through ail the formalities described by Mr. Erskine in the trial of Hatfield. Immediately after the trial of Hatfield those formalities were dispensed with. and he could not help thinking after the experience they had had in the repeated attempts upon her Majesty, from which the intention to kill or wound her Ma jesty might be fairly inferred, the investing those wretched criminals with the dignity of traitors, and making the charge against them with all the solemnities of high treason, almost tempted them to commit the crime for the sake of the sort of dignity with which it invested them. Ail that he proposed to do was thae where there was an attempt to wound the Sovereign as well as. in the other Act passed after the trial of Hatfield, the prisoner should be tried by the ordinary trihueals of the country as fur an ordinary charge, and that all these formalities should be dispensed With. In this they were acting on the same principle.; as those hich had induced them to decide in the case of Francis, after full consideration, that notwith -standing his life was forfeited to the laws of the country, yet it would not be for the public interest that he should be executed. However heinous was his attempt, yet acting in accordance with the commands "of their most graCioirs Sovereign, they applied the same considerations to his case as they should have applied to a case of common crime. They had, therefore, in a Csbitict Council, reviewed all the evidence taken against him (Francis). They had resolved not to come to eny decision upon a matter of such importance without having an interview upon it with the three Judges in whose presence the prisoner had been tried, and with the law officers of the Crown—the Attorney-General and Soli citor-General—by whom that prosecution had been con ducted. The result of that conference was an unanimous opinion, upon a review of the whole of the particulars of the case, that it was not advisable, in that instance, that the capital sentence should be carried into execu tior. The opinion of the Judges was found to be in pre cise conformity with that of the law officers of the Crown, • by whom the prosecution had been conducted. Under these circumstances, he thought the House would be of opi nion that they had taken a more effectual. security against the repetition of such an offence, than if they were to depart from the usual course of proceeding. it was not necessary. for him to enter into a detail of the reasons which ' indeed • them to come to that deci sion, it would be, he thought, sufficient for him to point out that the law officers of the Crown had advised the adoption of such a egorSe. 'i'he Bill ihe proposed Would also provide for other offences besides • those which bore the name of high treason. The Bill would subject to severer punishment than could be at present applied all the e el&nees which were connected with the discharge of fire-arms, or attempts to annoy her Majesty, even where the ease did nut amount to high treason. He did not think he could do better than read to the House this new class.. of uflnces, against which it. was proposed b provide. He proposed, that after the passing of this Act, if any person discharge, or at tempt to discharge, or point, aim, or present at, or near the person •of the Queen any gun, pistol, er other de scription of :fire-arms, or any other arms what soever, although the same should not contain any explosive or destructive material ; „cr should discharge, or attempt to discharge, any eXplOsive substance or ani4gaial - at. or ,near the person of the Queen ; ur it' soy person strike, or attempt to strike the rerson of the Queen with any offensive weapon,or, by any other means whatsoever, oe. wilfully throw or attempt to throw any substance whatsoever. at or on the person of the • Queen, with intent. in any • case aforesaid to injure the person, of the Queen, or with intent, in any of the aforesaid cases to break the public peace —he proposed that every such person so offending should be subject to certain punishment, not of undue severity. He thought that this law would derive great efficacy ; from public opinion. He proposed that a party so ot fending—that was, intending to hurt her Majesty wil fully, or annoy her, should be subjected to the same penalties which applied to offences of larceny: —that was to say parties so offending should be subject to transportation fur a period not exceeding seven years. But he proposed that the party should be subject also. to another punishment which he thought much more worthy of the offence, and much more calcu lated to repress it, viz., that there should be a discre tionary power to imprison for a given -period, and to ins ffict personal chastisement.—(Loud and general cheet s ilia%) With dais punishment he thought those miscreants would not be incited to the offence by being made the objects .of that disgraceful and stupid sympa thy which some people felt for offenders of that descrip tion. Let it be known to the world that if men could be actuated by base and malignant motives, to endeavour to prevent the Sovereign from enjoying in peace and tranquility the rights and privileges of' her station, the punishmentinfficted for such detestable acts would be severe personal chastisement. He confidently hoped that without calling in aid extreme severity, the provisions of file law which he was %bout to introduce, would effectio ally prevent the:repetition of such attempts. They had notguard against attempts on her Majesty's Crown, but agi'lat miscreants who committed an offence with scarcely an assi;;b'=i?le motive. The law had never :,sv. that any being in the contemplated the possih; form of a man could find an; satisfaction in firing a pistol at a young lady—that .. . 141 .Y. a mother— that• Lady the Queen of these realms and it was monstrous that that Lady should not be to the same protection as the meanest of her subjects.—(He:."-) lle hoped the House would respond to the proposition that a new security should be given to her Majesty. They knew that her Majesty might repose with the grc atest confidence on the affections% of her people ; what they had to guard against was the designs of these wee:wheal miscreants—designs which were calcu lated not only to disturb her Majesty's peace, but the peace of any loyal subject of the- re alm. The enact ment which he proposed trenched upon no principle of English jurisdiction, impose no undue severe pu nishment—he was sure that the measure which he proposed would' meet with the unanimous ap proval of that House, and that every Member would retire from his Parliamentary labours with the hirah Satisfaction of thinking that he had, by his vote, contribu ted to that security and that tranquillity which the Sovereign bad a right equally with her subjects to enjoy.. The Right Hon. Baronet then moved for leave to bring in a I ill for providing for the further security and pro tection alter Majesty's persnn.—(Cheers.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he rose-to express his cordial assent to the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He entirely agreed, 'that when new mischievous crimes were committed, it was desireable that the law should be made adequate to meet those those offences. The Right Honourable Gentleman, as ho understood, did not propose at all to alter the law of treason, or the offences which cause under that description. In fact, they had not then to deal with phets and coespi racies for the purpose of overturning sh' State. With respect to crimes of that kind, certain seciSsities had been provided by the law, and were fitly pro vided, and with regard to one of them, indeed, the power of being defended by Counsel had been since extended to persons accused of felony of an ordinary Ha • ture. But the offence with which the Right Hon. Ba ronet proposed to deal was new in its kind. It did not spring from any political psssions, but, as stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman, from some base and malignant passim), to injure the person of the Sovereign. When they saw offences of this description committed so frequently as they had seen been committed Within two years, it was a case when the law should be altered,- and in which means • should be provided to bring those persons to trial speedily, and without those solemnities fitly pro vided for crimes of a much graver nature as respected the State.—(Hear, hear.) With - regard to ordinary cases of treason; there was great difficulty in ascer taining whether they were the result of a conspiracy, but the offence for which the present remedy was pro vided was committed In the face of day, and must be committed in the presence of many persens. He agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman that it was right to meet such offences with a new law, and he also agreed with him as to the kind of punishment he proposed to inflict —(Hear, hear.) As they were offences of a base and degraded being, a base and ,degraded species of punishment could be most fitting, appeared to them.—(Bear, hear.) It was hard to know their motives. Ile could not conjecture how any person could be tempted to interfere with the ordinary recreations of the Sovereign. and deprive her Majesty of that fair - exercise to which she was entitled—(Hear, hear)—and as they knew she was exposed to those attempts more than others, he entirely fig( cd that it was time to have such a remedy pro v id e d as wou ld put an end to such attempts, and be effectual in stopping that love of notoriety from which they were supposed to proceed.—(Hear, hear.) When it was found they were treated with the punishment they properly deserved, he trusted that in future ,years they would nut have the pain of wit nessing. crimes, not only distressing to them, as giving pain eel alarm to the Sovereign, but as they were clearly disgraceful to the nation.—(Cheers.) . Nr. HUME trusted that the House would maul- *.eb mously agree to • support. t 1 proposal of the Righ t ilonourabte Baronet. He vould suggest the law officers of the Crown sit onld now undertake to revise all the old statutes bettring upon the law of treason, and should- frame them i,.qo one comprehensive enactment. • Mr. O'CONNELL hoped it would not be - dc.emed presumptuous in him, if he interfered an o ccasion in. which the House was certainly unaninNus. But he co uld not avoid expressing in the na.'ne of h i cons titutents, and in the name of that part of the empire from which be came, the unive rs al ab horrence telt there for those attempts which In:al befll made upon the life of • her Majesty. He. was thank i° to her Majesty's Government for the intrcAleti°" of a measure which was calculated to mark with the CO" . tenptuous execration of the nation those brutal o ffen es '.. ' If in private life an assault. upon a tnother going %vit t% children to the worship of her God wou ld be a subject ot abhorrence, how much more were those attempts ou lire of the most universally popular Sovereign of o'l w ,1 1 country, who as the object of the admiration au" the affecticn a all, calculated to excite general nulig- nation ? That these brutal offences should be continued_ was a disgrace to the rtatien, and afilictint: to every right ; feeling. He rejoiced to find that the Bight 1 10- nourable Baronet had brought forard the prese of nt w motion. The rules sh.ouN not stand in the way i the immediate passing of :Inch a Bill, and he hollt7 t the measure which contains a clause providing th e ' punishment should follow the 6-Nence as soon as possi °e iafter it had been committed.—(Dear, hear.) Colonel SIBTHORP approve,l of the measure intro: duced by Her Majesty's- G overnm ent. lie only r egretted i that the punishment proposed for t he crime in que.sticat was not still greater. Leave was then given to bring in tN Bill. Sir R. PEEL brought in the Bill, 'which was the n read a first and second time, and was irdered to be committed to-morrow. (LEFT SITTING). p f ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN CE. HOME' ClRCUlT—Chelmsford, July 11. Both Courts this morning proceeded to business (the i re' mission having teen opened pn Saturday), Lord Abinger siding on the C. own side, and Mr. Justice Coltman at Prins. Owing to the Quarter Session s being held last w er when a great number of cases were disposed cf, there wc:e ce% few prisoner's far trial, and none of the cases are of a se 6° character. CROWN COURT. Lord AIUNGER briefly charged the Grand Jury, when the ' retired, and a number of cases were tried , but they were de st tote of public interest. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) HOULDITCH V. TAE EARL OF LICHFIELD. This was an action to recover the sum o f 3,50131., the azooe,lZ of three bills of exchange drawn by a p ers on described WIZ pleadings as Margaret Edmonds , and accepted by the r sx drt defendant. The cause stood first on the paper, but before' .A ,41' Jury was sworn, t Mr. THESICER (with whom were Mr. Platt and Mr. 1' er 0V dorff) for the defendant , moved to pos t p one the trial, oa oc? strouad that Mrs. Edmonds, whose name was stated pleadings, and who was a material witness, could not be iicenaed, although great diligence had been used by the . ant's attorney, to procure her atten dance. lincer thosa ‘7 cunrstances, it was hoped the trial weuld be postponed. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL (with Mr. Pa ? ,.ley) resisted e , application, on an affidavit, stating that the defendant's g ,, ad s ,,i, his house in St. James's-square, were az: casly sold, and that . 1 : 0 . , personal property at his scat in Staffordshire, was advertistd_:,u, be sold ou the Ist of August. There VaS no affidavit of ar e , defence, although 'a number of pleas ha d been p ut u p on the f,,,e cord, and it was clear the application was onl y made for 1." urposes of dela p y. :sir. Justice CoLTMAN thought the application for r:,' pont:tient should be granted, but at the same time said it. , certainly desirable the trial should t ake p lace before the don ant's property was sold. He 'therefore suggested that th e should stand over to be tried in t he course of the present Ore * An arrangement to this effect was accordingly made. . 04 'the Court then proceeded with the ether common causes. In some the parties were not prepared to g o to 10 rci and they were struck out of the list ; in others, the rec, were withdrawn, and the result was , that at twelve o'cloo 05. whole of the list, with the exception of the S p ecial Jury ee° had been gone through. Mr. Justice COLTMAN' inquired whether there was .013°91' tress that the Court could go on with? g ieft Mr. THESIGER said there did not appear to be anytb;e'tste but the Special Jury eves, and it was not customa r y of be them on the first day of the Assizes; indeed , h e did Pe* , hove any of the parties were ready to proceed to tr ial. 1 , Mr, Justice COLTMAN, having consulted with the Che r t ile Assize, - adjourned the Nisi Prins Court until this rnornhog' c ir business not having lasted more than a n hour and a half, l ot or cumstance of very unusual occurrence on the first day . 0 of Assize. His Lordship afterwards disposed of several 0;40. felon) ; and this morning he will proceed with the Special J". . . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ~ BO IV- S7' It E I:: i. . car t ' Thomas Norwood, a driver of a Post-office collectiegv,ol was charged . with stealing 16 newspaperee the prePe' ' the Postmaster •General. . Mr. Peaeoek conducted the prosecution. 1 1 , 0" Matthew Peake, a constable employed in th , v Genera cciott office, stated, that in consequence of informaton he at 1,,t0r, he watched the cart which was driven by the prisooer 01 , ~., ti t day night about half - past five o'clock, and on arr;viang .;,.r)/ I t north end• of the yard it stopped for the purpose of .% 'Pe e hags taken out. 'f he pri s oner got down from the 6 °. -I: ` 4 to assist in the unloading, and placed the bags at the di , itc ,iii ii; cart for other persons to take them away.. -11 e rerool about tun minutes, and on coming• out, his,- isockets,*4 tali, more bulky than when he entered. Witneis appreaelieo „r. thin What the pockets' contained ; but the prisoner i , t',", road into a pubtic-house, where he remained a 151301tc . . i,CI;: ' his return to the yard, he was again about te,mougt,?...,. c t lteo' drive away, and when witnessasked ivii at bes.ereied*Vorj it'' he replied nothing. J-10 - ,,, however;, aimitted- that he" wi ne s or three newspapers,..after,questinnitig ini again • to?,,a l ir' took him into the inspector's room to i 143 i the ;Iridttr`ipt: fore they arrived there, the pritoner sal' ,I"a'ray,7l:Vit eV' do look over it this time, anctl'il never do so, eigio*:iss,, .witries,s said, he should tee - the inspector; and,explairrtOtoct r ter to him. The prisoner then took from his,pockeD" , % - pc s ' of newspapers , addressed, " Mr. -Griffiths, INcivistarte l lit' St. Helens,' sent by J. Clayton." , 10n -being before -1 7. / 4 'specter, the prisoner took four other newspapers fr°ll, pockets, saying, " Pray, Sir, forgive rue this time, ' 3 1 7,;', 0 ,,, never oit again ; " and when the inspector asked him,,, - .to', had got them,l h said, "in the cart." There ‘"„ Or other newspapers found in another pocket, and he "li f il conveyed to the station-house. Witness went,. an 4 leso, searched his lodgings, 4, Fisher-street, Red Lion-squatf i lr a parcel of papers produced , consisting of two numbed'; , ' ; , Dispatch sod a Bell's Life. t .llo' Thomas Mortimer, shopman to Mr. Clayton, news 0 1# 320, Strand, said that. the parcels produced, addressed, it c Griffiths, was directed by him on Saturday last, avid l ie ~: tamed eight papers, value 3s. ltd. The parcel, he u e lor was sent on Saturday, to the receiving-house of i‘l r * 0 Strand. *1 b t se; Mr. Scripps, a news-agent, Southmolton - stree t, as, be - dressed the four, papers produced on Saturday, an d efic e. evt ry reason to suppose tliey were put into t h e post -0 i deo , Daniel Gordon, assistant-publisher to the Era, al° (l ice ° lied several papers which he had sent to the post" ° 0 Saturday last., , a; ( harles Bowyer, a letter-carrier , who acted as a g u ,:at,,,r the eart driven by the prisoner on aturday night, pre,`"2" or on his way to the Post-office they called at Mr. Jones '' : 1 ,,' Strand, where they took up newspapers. • dirt The prisoner was ordered to be remanded for a for ', give time for further inquiries. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T ' HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 11. REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. 1,.1":4 Mr. VILLIERS rose to move a rep eal of the C°l.o,,tli.ss If that amendment were a mere personal matter , it t t ha would have been more likely to induce him to w ithdra7, t o . o , the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet with reseee interruption of the public business, but the case wo _: to ts much urgency to allow of his acceding to a n y su c h stigge' to g io l, amendment which he yroposed was , tha t previouslY ideal+ into Committee of Supply, they should take into con: to i' v e te , an ensrmous grievance ; a greater grievance than tbs,„e i t of er his amendment referred could not be inflicted upon t 4l "pb l It was a grievatice which interfered with theirsoteoe with their industry, and with the free inte ic itit i7 110 1 the necessaries of life. He would not then ,;nit say 'got general argument, for everything which he could ~5 " D e already said upon that subtect.—( Ilear, hear. ) P e 'e act solely upon his own judgment in brie; in:; that otbeS, fore the Howe. He acted in compliance with the l 'o t sstl o in accordance with the expectations of those grew! aods the people who were now suffering from this la' i t o o• yl regarded themselves as the victims of its (Ve ra b ad gathered this information from the gentlemen wh ° ,, e tore t ol e delegated from the manufacturing towns to lay L: o , e re public the state of the population. Thel Let , et its acquainted with the distress of the country, and tr i i r teo v e oe, opinion that the best plan was to ask their to „de that. House to meet them in a couferehrel erl7,s! eider what would be the best way °, f s i; . t e their grievances under the attention of tli: t 10, 0 10 ) what should he the remedies. They had Ol' e sitif e , , l° day, and it was carried by acclamation that the 4 110 0- wor was now about to make should be submitted to the „sail er e consequence of that request he wa.s new . abeu t t t , s ° the °e i te self of this opportunity to ask the litsuse to reve: g oet e 1, the unprecedented position which loth House- that wards t!se people, he thought it not unrcasonable fle coil; tile should t;_ wand the repeal of the Coria-laws•if ceito therefore, move that this House do resultes It' e t bis V o lt mittee to inquire into the best means by wisi'h t eat t ref e r be repealed. The law itself contained a provisego. i ts ~e er_ t he open to at, v Member of that House to rnocc't,,,t t; te se i P , and it was perie.etly consistent with that provisi °n 1 %0 sent proposition s .hould be made. If the objec t : el. ct i e. i; Bit was to re ,-nove the defects of ti? ; tb' co such a failure had n. that had happened unds'r the old law, had biter' ale we • t; r th e r 'ver been seen in legislatioer:i ,rte of the reduction of duty hat; had no offect, fo c;ite e t , a s " de rlt had risen ever since it can. e into o p eration. dt' ?tad passed, all the evils had increased in intensity Lad esettertoscired ground for inquiry into it. s gince that law oto eot lea n various were the admissions of the extent andii to o ; 0 t , which had resulted from that la or. Ore nll . l l e ehe f ' t , aeltre thousand persons were dependent on paroer a ti o nee, for a iv factured goods were not saleable; and .5001.0 Rhea at ted that the people ought to obtain the ez o , c oo ti e a: eca at the places, and in the manner, ta t ist r , ; 7 ,1 . 10 iota ° r ,ot them cheapest. Since the Bill had I'o ° A admits C OO 0 1. the House now to repeal these. Several . I " fl ' i , e ople tie co°, o e made by the Ministers of the Crown. 3 be „ ss ' e s of i re believe that, admitting as they did, the dist , "` . 4 e It .." - ey d' t it to they could refuse to give relief to the peol s t e- i t ted sibte to disguise the extent to which the disl ist. He believed the gentlemen °pp:pate ba. esieh k e j l osjii , its fullest extent, and he understood that the \teS, t bst , 00 ronet w hen he sass the De le g t ; MO ° i)g that their statement offerdinenntrover tilde Pr, 4 00 V ic o tress. He (Mr. Villiers) had ohierved tha l ' em so. Otr i ee the other side sat perfectly quiet when any st:bs, o: F it t o made of the distress existing in the t° I ,I;P e D ,C6 to which they belonged. They appeal ell s e ot to d o ff truth ot those statements. This distress .w.a.teateitts the tot the manufacturing districts. and such s t :," were s o d° ec t, tneee in Committee lately by char,.} to to "less' as', intelligent people in agricultural districts. z! , if not ort ., ' O l,l that the distress in the agricultural equillen _ lt, c o that in the manufacturing districts• r'reteci.,, that in Devonshire the people, never we : eritp ant! be 0 0 not he worse off than they were at I.o ‘e of the GP s shire they were quite as had. ~t incre'; et ,• the tb tended by its wual COTlFCCittellec, the . a g , i . e ob ,,,Tve yd iii The Juuge, Ale. justice Colo idge, crease of crime, and had made cro ne want of a proper education, but its lguk inG