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Sixth Edition, with Woodcuts, Is. London: John W. Parker, West Strand. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madame SONTAG.— It is respectfully announced that ONE GRAND MORNING CONCERT u ill be given in the Great Concert Room, early in August, being the only Concert in which M idame Sontag will appear in London ; full particulars will be duly announced. In addition to the united talent of her Majesty's Theatre, the valuable assistance of the eminent Pianist, M. TItAL BERG has been secured. Amongst other features of the Concert, Vadam Sontag wl I sing some favorite pieces in the Italian, French, German, and English languages. HER 3IA.JESTY'S THEATRE. MADAME SONTAG, The Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, and the Public are respectflilly I Ifonued that a GRAND EX ritA. NIGHT will take place TO-MORROW EVENING When will be performed OTHELLO. To conclude with LES PLAISIES DE L'IIIVER. Applloation for Boxes, Stalls, and Ticke s to bo made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as aftial, price 10s, 6d. each. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. MADAME VIARDOT GARCIA. 'IDe Directors of the Royal Italian Opera have the pleasure to announce to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, that Ma dame VIARDOT GARCIA will appear TO-MORROW EVENING, When will be performed itleyerbeer's opera of L E P Ii 0 P II E T E, Which has been for some time in active preparation, with New Emery, Dresses, and Decorations. This Opera, the exclusive right of representation of which has been secured to the Royal Italian Opera, will be produced with all the resources of this EstaAishment, under the superiutendenee of Mr. Costa. TIIEATER ROYAL. ADELPIII. Under the direlli , n a Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be rre!crAtil a new piece, entitled WEBSTER'S ROYAL TEL) BOOK. After which THE KNIGHT OF ARC' A. 'ln be followed by TIIE IRISH POST. Ti, conclude with A NABOB F• - •R AEI lIOUR. ROYAL LYCI•AJA , I THEAT/ig. Unin the War:agorae:lt e! Madame V.lttrits. Sole Lease.e, Mr. C. - Wale , Mahe .vs. TH!S Ev ElciNe 4 Will be performed THE WATER PARTY. After which, TIIE PRINTER'S DEVIL. To be followed by To conclude with A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. , 1: , EY'S ROYAL .4MPIIITTIEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majeaty the Queen. lie Royal Ilightfess Prince All , ert, M. Jean Klare in his extraordinary per.Ormanees on Le Globe lioulant. The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at one time : Wiles. Adelaide Minnie, Valentine, Louise Tonirnaire, La Jeane Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite Jeanette. In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great p!easere in rr.nounc jog that he has eugage t that peerless equestrian Marie ikfacarte, whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac quired for her the appellation of the Equeitrian Enchantress. TIIIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled 3100LTAN and GOOJEnAT; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. To de to:lowed by an inirnitahle display of SCENES IN 'THE CIRCLE. in which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To coesclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled CRAMOND BRIG. Box-office open from Eleven till roar. -tavo Man.ger, Mr. W. Welt. ROYAL SURIZEY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. Cnder the patronage of her Mos: Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager. his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The Public Press has unanhnously pronounced the Storming of Badajoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition. The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public arc respectfully infbrmed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDS F.SDAY, AND THURSDAY. Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public opinion to be the most perfect and llfe-like exhibition ever presented—Splendid Menagerie—German Band and Chorus—Vo cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder — Solos by licenig, Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of Badajoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard ment and attack—gallant defence—rush to the breach op real troops —and final ta*,iles.ux in honour of the " hero of a hundred fight!." Doors open at Nine o'Clock, A.M. ' • feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling. Third Flower and Fruit Show THIS DAY, July 25. TO CORUESPON DENTS. "J. H."—Bcm, not Blum, underwent the operation about eighteen months back, in the University College Hos pital. TUE WEATHER.—Son 08FICE, JULY 25. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 64; Noon, 62 , BAROMETER, 29.52. WIND W.—heavy showers, with occasional sunshine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAT —Morning, 37 min. after 5 ! Evening, 58 min. after 5 To-Moanow—Morning, 21 min. after 6 I Evenlne, 43 min. after 6 A /„. " r‘4l 4 , .01T6UI• A4.fr 4 - -!•;; . f.. -t" 4 .Z, V ' t, c 1'44 •• aios " RO ' .. . . 'l£l, (Sliming LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1849. Although conflicting intelligence still continues to be received from the seat of war in Hungary, it is impossible not to recognise through the shadows of misrepresentation the glorious fact of the continued successes of the Magyars undcr the banners of BEM, of GEORGEY, and of DEMBINSKI, guided and harmonized by the inspirations of KOSSUTH. According to an article in the Wiener Zeitung, written on the irregular authority of a communica tion from Buda-Pesth, in the Oesterreichische Correspondent, the combined armies of Austria and Russia have effected a total defeat of the Hungarians in the vicinity of Waitzen. Yet, us in a hundred similar misstatements as to the movement of the belligerents, the truth creeps out through the very glorifications of the German newspapers, that the Imperialists have experienced a reverse instead of having obtained a victory. Even taking their own admissions as the guidance to our conclusions, it is established that on the 15th instant (Sunday), the army of liberation having made another desperate struggle to sever the lines of their antago nists, the Russians, under Prince PASKEWITCH, re treated at noon in confusion to Duna Keesh. So serious, indeed, was the discomfiture of the Cossacks, com• manded by the infamous General whose name is the object of execration throughout Christendom from hav ing caused Hungarian ladies to be publicly scourged and branded, that even in the words of the official organ of the Austrian Camarilla, the journal pub lished at Olmutz, " the Russians have received a severe check," having been repulsed as far as the plain of Kakosh. Together with this confession, it is explicitly allowed that the Magyars have latterly extended their field of action very considerably, 4 , if they have not," says the Wiener Zeitung, "if they have not broken through our lines and marched to the North." The reason for this continued success in opposition to such frightful odds as those presented to them by the legions of the two Emperors is, beyond the indomitable valour of the Magyars, the unanimity with which their heroic leaders act in obedience to the masterly plan of the Hungarian President. To secure the effectual defence of the country be leaguered by such gigantic antagonists, and invaded from almost all directions, it has been determined by LUDWIG KOSSUTH to require the concentration of all his troops (excepting only a formidable garrison at Comm)) in the district of the Theiss. To this end General GEORGEY, commandi ng the soldiers en trenched round Comorn, marched down the banks of the Danube, in the direction of Waltzer), with the in• tention of effecting the intended junction with the main body of the army of the Hungarians. Hearing of this movement, it appears that RAunErto's di visiou on the 3d instant left the capital (Pesth), an d advanced by forced marches to the assistance of the Ressans ; the consequence of which arrangements was the terrific struggles before Waitzen on the 15th instant, in which the Imperialists as usual claim to have obtained the advantage, and to have driven bleVkitg.rebels" to Corn Drn, although acknowledging therniets*,) at the same time , t hat PASKE WITOI4 '444sbeen entirely cutgeneralled, and that the : 1 Cossacks had been repulsed as far .as D' Keesh. Now, if the Russians onefe4ls:, instant, were compelled to retreat so far iTh4bui p a,r , direction, it is quite clear that the Austrian reinforcements under RAMBERG shared in the disgrace of their repulse—seeing that RemßEßG's division advanced (on the 3d) from Pesth, and that the Russians under PASKEWITCH were forced back from Waitzen towards Pesth—Pesth being only dis tant about an hour's drive from the spot to Nvhich they retreated, namely, Duna Keesh. So muc% for the last triumph of the Austrians, and their allies the Russians —a triumph which, on examination, turns out, like so many of their preceding victories, to have terminated in their complete and ignominious dis comfiture. While this satisfactory information is arriving from the seat of war, we can point with a pardonable satisfaction to the gradual increase of our Testimonial expressive of English sympathy for the heroic. Hun garians. The amount is still, we are rejoiced to say, gradually accumulating, and we are more than ever sanguine that in the end it will he mndered sufficient to enable the hussars at Folkatone to return to their countrymen to share in the defence of th? noble land of their birth--the land consecrated by their blood and liberated by their victories. As the time for her MAJESTY'S visit to Ireland draws near, public attention, already gratifies with contemplating the event itself, seems t) be occupied with speculations regarding various details of the proposed expedition. How the QUEEN should be ad dressed, an Irish contemporary has already taught us ; but plausible as his suggestions are, they are, to our thinking, deficient in tact and good taste, two very important qualities in political and, indeed, in all social matters. These suggestions are to ff.() effect, that loyal, and affectionate, and respectful as the various addresses to be presented to Queen VICTORIA by her Irish lieges should be, nevertheless they shculd be administered cum grano sails. The long list of Dish grievances should be gracefully inter woven into the hospitable welcome—the lips of the loyal speakers should be wreathed with smiles, while their eyes should glance daggers of reproach. These and similar suggestions are, we doubt not, inspired by the best of feelings, by a pa triotism zealous for the national welfare, and a nobly independence that would scorn to veil with a courtier's flattery the indignation exc ited b y real or supposed wrongs. Still, honou rin g suchi, sentiments, as W 9 anxiously solicitous us as we are— to theunquesftuionnaabslmy much as as any " repa l ,er or rebel of them all—for the welfare and happiness of Ireland—we ' cannot but consider such suggestions as most; un suitable and ill timed. Her MAJESTY'S visit, like a LORD MAYOR'S dinner, has "nothing to do with politics." Political speeches are as out of place and as mauvais ton in the one case as in the other. If the Irish people, or any other subjects of the Crown, deem it advisable that their peculiar grievances should be particularly brought under notice of the SOVEREIGN in her capacity of legislator, the road is open—let them petition Parliament. There is, to our thinking, something most un courteous and ungenerous in the idea of assailing her MAJESTY individually with a catalogue of grievances, which she, individually, is incapacitated from remedying. It is, however, unnecessa7.y to enter into an argument against a subject as visionary as the giants of " Don Quixete." We cannot think for a moment that the advice alluded to will be acted upon, and even if it were the public addresses are the least important part of the national welcome. That welcome will be proffered to Queen VICTORIA, not by a few officials, but by an entire people. She will recognise it in the hearty eloquence of the untutored brogue and the glad enthusiasm of honest faces, " albeit unused to the courtly' mood." The facetious Punch has in this, as in many things, been more ihbppy in his suggestions than his (so-called) wiser contemporaries. " Sure, sisther dear (says Hibernia to the royal Britannia), it's not what you've been accustomed to exactly, but anyhow ye're welcome !" If, therefore, the formal addresses, in accordance with the above-mentioned suggestions, should remind her MAJESTY that the state of Ireland is not like that of the country she has been. accus• toured to " exactly," the unkindly remark will be drowned in the popular rejoinder, " but anyhow ye're welcome! Anyhow her MAJESTY will be welcome, more truly welcome than any sovereign in those good old times when kings were kings and The People existed not. Our Q,nEurq, the constitutional Queen of the British empire, which empire though it be, yields to neither republican France nor emancipated America in liberty and democratic blessings our QUEEN goes from one part of her dominions to another, not, like the absolute autocrat, to alter laws at pleasure, but she goes— ' the type of the unity of the sister kingdoms—to bind together the broken links of that (hardly to be called) international amity which should, and, we trust, ere long, will, constitute the glory and happiness of England and Ireland. Hoping this, believing this, we say to the framers of the Irish addresses—we who, no less than themselves, have the happiness of Ireland at heart—for the sake of that happiness, let bygones be bygones ! The injunction is, we may be sure, unneeded, and henceforth, after her BIA. JESTY has passed over it, St. George's Channel will, as commerce teaches us all seas should do— " But serve to join the kingdoms it divides." A more mischievous error can hardly be imagined than the habit of regarding matters which occur in Ireland as exclusively Irish, and those which occur in England as exclusively English, merely on account of the locality in which they have taken place ; whereas, in truth, there is scarcely an occurrence of importance in any part of the three kingdoms which may not justly be regarded as of imperial interest, and which does not make itself felt in every corner of the United Empire. A matter which has lately occurred in the Court I of Common Pleas in Ireland, and which was brought before the House of Commons, by petition, during the past week, affords a strong illustration of the soundness of this maxim. The principle involved appears at the first view to be exclusively Irish, but there never was a question mentioned in that House which more nearly touches the interests and the pockets of the industrious classes in this country. The point at issue was the legality of unequal tax- CASE OF CAPTAIN DOUGLAS.—A brief announce ment which has been recently going the rounds of the metropolitan and provincial journals, and which has been duly published in our own columns, will, no doubt, have already attracted the public attention and have recalled to mind the painful circumstances connected with this monstrous case of injustice. That announcement was to the effect that the verdict pronounced on Captain Douglas is about to undergo revision. How much the demand made by that gallant and honourable gentleman for a revision of his sentence is justified, may be seen at once from a fact which we here, we believe, announce for the first time—the fact (for such we understand it to be) that the verdict against Captain Douglas was decided only by a majority of ONE. EMIGRATION MAP OF THE WORLD.—An admirable map, on Mercator's plan, ha s j us t b een pu bli s h e d f or Smith Evans, by B. R. Davies. It fills up a hiatus, at the existence of which we have long wondered— pourtraying every portion of the globe belonging to the British empire—on whose territory the sun lite rally never sets. The map is altogether quite in valuable. SHARPE'S CORRESPONDING MAPS. A copious index to this novel and ingenious atlas has just appeared ; and completes the very useful labours of the projector, Mr. John Sharpe. We congratulate him on the successful termination of his undertaking. THE NEW HAND MAP OF IRELAND ; SHOWING THE PROPOSED ROUTE OF HER MAJESTY.—Nothing could have been more apropos than the issue of this map by the spirited publisher of the "British Ga zetteer." It is admirably got up, cheap in price, and contains, besides Ireland and the course of her Majesty's route, an excellent Map of Englani and Wales, with all the railways laid down. Tourist:, and all who are interested either in the welfare of Ireland or in her Majesty's progress, could not do better than provide themselves with this pleasing pocket companion. THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' MAGAZINE. No. I. Another shilling magazine has sprung into existence in the form of this amusing little aspirant for public favour. As an initial number the one just published in anticipation of the August periodicals is peculiarly meritorious; and we can augur well for its prosperity if the subsequent instalments be only proportionately meritorious. Almost every one of the inaugurative contributions is characterised by its hilarity, and the tone throughout is singularly genial and pleasant. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES, " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION "WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY. " —Kossuth's Protest against Russian Intel yen lion. ation ; whether, in fact, Parliament is still bound, as it unquestionably was in the earliest times, to tax every subject of this realm secundum statum et facultates. This is a principle which we have often maintained; it is one in which the true interests of the industrious classes in England are probably more deeply concerned than in any other, it is one also in which the owners of property, if they understood their own true interests, would, above all other bodies in the kingdom, be called upon by self-preservation to sustain. ' The legal question was raised in this manner. A distress having been made for pcor-rate, the owners 1- of the goods " replevied," and commenced an action Richar. in " replevin " against the guardians of the union. An Enemy The guardians put in an " avower," justifying the dis- SuabtstchrtepLtioonnL tress under a certain statute. The plaintiff re- II Morris S. Oppenheim, plied that the statute on which the guardians lA. 11. Kinglake, Esq. . relied for justification was void, being in di- j Sergeant Storks .., rect conflict with the seventh article of the Thomas Chamberlain ... treaty of Union, which ordained " that all public Five Gilders, Gray's Inn-road ... expenses of every kind were to be defrayed indis- G. P., Glasgow criminately by equal taxes on the like articles in both A Few Friends, per W. W. - countries—that is, by a uniform taxation." The plea A I N . eedr ii,,, Lo , yal Subi in bar also alleged " that th e t reaty of Union was w a fundamental law, constituting the Imperial Par liament, and appointing and limiting its power of taxation in a manner which it could not legally violate; and that having done so by authorising the levy of the tax for which the distress had been made, it had inadvertently exceeded its legal powers, and that a statute so made was to be controlled by the treaty of Union, which originally constituted the United Parliament, and marked out and limited its powers." To this unusual, but very intelligible plea, the guardians put in a general demurrer, and issue having been joined in demurrer, the case was called on for argument in the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin in the usual course. The judges, however, of that court refused to hear argument ix support of that plea, because it alleged that Parliament was omnipo- * Here, at any rate, is the latest, and not the least striki ng illu s tration of the Widow's Mite. tent. They called up on th e counsel for the plaintiff • iNiislaid fora day or two, in consequence of the number of to show cause why the plea should not be taken off communications. y tearin the file, interrupted him o n every occasion that he * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo attempted to sustain his case, and ended b Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. from the files of the court the plaintiff's plea in be g r ARRIVAL Or THE 70TH REGIMENT IN INDIA.—The solely because it alleged that there was a legal limit following ships, with port: , ors the powers of Parliament..ors of the 70th Regiment on board, arrived at Calcutta:—The Dudbrook, May 12; Lord Dalhousie, May 16; City of Poonah, May 17; Now, the question of the boundaries of Parlia. §oubandur, May 22; Cotfied, May 14. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee recently Formed to carry out the Testimonial. Subscriptions already received ... . Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds, of " Reynolds's Miscel lany " ... ... 1 1 0 Richard Jones ... 0 0 6 An Enemy to Russian Interference ... 0 1 0 Subscription collected at the meeting on Monday, at the London Tavern ...*2O 7 3i Morris S. Oppenheim, Esq. ... 0 5 0 A. 11. Kinglake, Esq. ... .. 5 0 0 Sergeant Storks ... ... 1 0 0 Thomas Chamberlain ... 0 11 0 Five Gilders, Gray's Inn-road 0 2 6 G. P., Glasgow ... ... 0 5 0 A Few Friends, per W. W. ... 1.0 10 0 A Needy Loyal Subject ... ... 0 1 0 A Few Working Men who Thi^k 0 6 0 J. A Few Friends at the Harcourt Arms ... 0 3 6 A Baptist ... ... ... ... 0 7 6 A Few Friends at the Craven Arms, Marshal street, Golden-square ... .. 0 14 0 A Few Friends of Hungary and Poland .. 0 5 0 A. Fennell ... ... 0 2 6 Friends to Hungary, per J. G. (the amount being colected in Is. subscriptions) ~, ... 5 5 0 Friends to Hungary, 3d donation 0 4 0 Two English Ladies who hate and abhor the unmanly Austrian flogging, and sympathise for the cause of the brave Hungarians R. C. ... ... ... Clio ... Per George Smith ... Robert Wm. Ellis, Colston• parade, Bristol ...325 2 1 ... 1 1 0 ••• 1 1 0 -0 9 6 -0 5 0 ... 0 10 6 Total £359 4 4i inentary jurisdiction has been argued in our English courts of law from the earliest times, and our Eng• lisb judges have never refused to take the subject into their most serious consideration. In BONHAM'S case (8 Report, p. 118) Sir EDWARD CORE and the entire Court of Queen's Bench decided " that a statute may be utterly void ;" and Chief Justice HOLY, and the then judges, subsequently declared (City of London v. Wood, Mod. 687) the decision in BONHAM'S case to be perfectly sound and unquestionable. In the case of DAY V. SA VADGE (Hobart, p. 87) the same principle was laid down in the most positive manner, and up to this hour the question of the extent of Parliamentary jurisdiction remains one of the open questions which occupy the minds of jurists, and which all courts are bound to consider, if brought properly before them. But the judges of the Common Pleas in Ireland not only refused to listen to any argument on the subject that had been so frequently argued in the English courts, but they would not even allow a pleading which mentioned it to remain upon their file. The manner in which they received the case, and the mode in which they disposed of it, may be judged of by the following extract from the authenti cated report of the case : •• Mr. Ellis—Why should this case be treated differ ently from ordinary arguments? Surely it is to be governed by other cases previously decided; and i❑ the case of Marryat v. Wilson,' a right granted by treaty was taken away by statute; yet the twelve judges of England set up the right granted by treaty, notwith standing the statute. They thus decided that a statute was inoperative to destroy a right secured by treaty. A similar rule was made in the case of Sutton v. Sutton.' If Ibe allowed to do so, lam prepared to establish every legal proposition in my plea by autho rities of the highest and most unquestioned character. Lord Mansfield " Mr. Justice Ball—But we aro not Lord Mansfield. Go and argue the case before Lord Manejield, if you can find him." If Judges thus assume the power to forbid, upon ' their own motion, any defence which they may be iindisaosed to hear, to take in this manner a pleading off their files, and by so doing to prevent the possibi lity of an appeal, there is an. end to all safety for life lor property. This mode of dealing with a d e f ence l properly pleaded has never yet been attempted in LI this country, and we h o p e th a t it never will. But to 1 , protect the rights of English suitors it is necessary to notice this proceeding on the part of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, which, if generally fol lowed, would render each court an absolute and irre -1 sponsible tribunal, whose decisions would be final and conclusive, and from which there could be no appeal. Mr. HERCULES Ems, the counsel for the plaintiff in this case, subsequently petitioned the House of Commons for a restoration of his professional privi lege to defend his client and support his plea by ar gument is open court. The Petition Committee, however, for reasons best known to themselves, did not deem this petition worthy of being printed. It was last week moved by the Honourable Member for Yt,uglial that the petition of Mr. ELLts should be printed. The motion was, however, opposed by Ministers, and negatived. The constitutional right of a British subject to lay his grievances, in decorous and respectful language, before the representatives of the people has thus been infringed upon. We shall not offer any further comment on the proceeding of the Judges of the Irish Court than that it appears to constitute a most dangerous prece deni-, which should be earnestly protested against, in the strongest terms ; but with respect to the subject matter of the plea, wLich asserts the illegality of un equal taxation, and alleges that principle to be sus tained by fundamental law, which we have so often declared to be called for by equity and common sense, it is worthy of the most serious and attentive consideration. ONE O'OCLCK. cLosING n,q• - zs `'F F<ItITRIFI rEris — DS tRICFS. Bank Stock 3:,;er Cent. Reduced Anus ...... 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 3 18 93 92% 92% New 3 per C(_ , nt. 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Certificates 60 1 / 2 80:1 Ditto, Bonds PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSLNG RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen ... 50 Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... ... ....... ..... I A Birming, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 45.... 1, 2 p. ex in %px in Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference East Anglian, 234, L. tk E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 31% ...... 1% .. Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 9 9 1 A 9 ...... .. Do. New Guaranteed 20 ...,.. x int & x new 6 per Cent ... lO ...... .... . Great Northern Do., 1 ,4 B 6 per Cent 7%. ..... sy l „ „ 5 Gnat Nofth of Englancl 100 ..... Ditto, New.ls/ l5 .. .. 34 Great Western 100 ...... 83N .. 8 3 3 /4 Ditto, ~ 4 4 Shares Ditto, New 171.- ..... 15 ... .. 1144 l l l4 Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 93 . 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Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 61 / 2 Northern of France,..... 13 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... 97 MINES. Barrossa Range 28s. •• •• JOINT STOCK BANKS. 24 London & Westmi ns t er . 20 ...... ••••••••• LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.I LONDON, JULY 25.—Wind at neon W.S. W., moderate breeze and cloudy., OFF DOVER, JULY 24.—Candidate , Barbadoes. CLYDE, JULY 21.—S1d. City of Glasgow, Calcutta; Shannon, Boston; Excelsion, ditto; Ant, Miramichi; Lady Falkland, ditto. DEAL, JULY 24.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W.—Arrd. Jane, barque, Adelaide, South Auelralia; Record, Putullo, China; Jane Gleason, Pickering, Callao; Mary Hay, Volum, Bahia; Albion, Harris, Jamaica; Waterlily, Loyd!, Jamaica; Sultana, supposed from Jamaica; Herman, We lob, Baltimore for Rotterdam; Prince George, Tdsk€•r, Quebec; Elizabeth, Quebec; Elizabeth, Van Dieman's Land; Reurd, China; Jane, Glassen, 20th, r,yanGVr‘liogi: 2 B l a s h t i . a ; Dauntless, Quebec. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 24.—Afrd. Paella, steamer, Weeks, Gibraltar, left 15th, Ca3iz 16th, Lisbon 19th, CLYDE, JULY 21.—Arrd. Lady Sale, Perry, St. John's, New Brunswick. 22d, True Blue, Oliver. Port Wallace; Washington, Montreal. 23d, Diana, Pak roon, St. Croix; Helen, Taylor, Newfoundland. LEITH, JULY 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Jane, Hunt, Miramichi. 30Cipaaoirly,:to0A; LIVERPOOL JULY 24.—Wind S.S.E to S.W.—Acrd. 23d, Campbell, Dixon, St. Domingo; Keepsake, G ra y, Montreal; A n t e l ope, C arr i c k , Gibraltar. 24th, D. K. Dourd, Richibucto. Sld. 24th, Beethoven, Calcutta; MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm at full prices. Sales 9,000 bales, 1,000 -of which were taken for export, end 8,000 on speculation.—Railway Shares were dull, and at lower prices. The accounts respecting the growing crops are so favourable that the transactions in grain at Mark-lane are necessarily restricted. The arrivals are moderate, and prices are firm. It appears by; the letters per Indian overland mail that a list of the shareholders in the Union Bank of Calcutta had been completed, and that 160 names were protected by the scheme of liquidation. On the other hand, however, there were many defaulters among those who could afford to pay, and these were likely to be called upon far their quota towards the liabilities. The Honoureble East India Company appear to have come to a very wise determinatien, viz., that their ser vants in the East shall not be connected with any joint stock company; an.. accordingly a term of one year is allowed that they may arrange to be quit of any stake that they have. Possibly had this rule been sooner in existence we should not have heard so much of Sir Thomas Turton's defalcations. At least the amount might not have been nearly so large. The letters and papers from Ceylon notice the signing by the merchants and planters of a memorial against the fraudulent use of chicory. This is to be transmitted to the Iterate Government. The weather was not alto gether seasonable, and rain was wanted in some parts. The following is a statement of the export market at Colombo: — Our shipping operations are drawing fast to a close, owing both to the adverse nature of the weather and to the paucity of the stocks of produce on hand. The wea ther, however, might have been worse, and one or two sunny breaks have occasionally enabled shippers to keep moving. There is no doubt that the monsoon has fairly set in, y: twe have scarcely lad any violent weather such as usually ushers in the south-west winds. There still remains six ships in our roadstead loading.for Lon don; of these one will sail in a day or two, and another, the Alorning Star, leaves for Gallo, where she will fill up. Owing to the anxiety of some captains to get away be fore any heavy weather comes 'upon them, a decline in freights of ss. had been submitted to, an d quotat i on; have been accordingly 31. 15s. to 4/. for Coffee Oil, but they are now again quoted at 4/." The cinnamon cuttings were expected to be late. We gave yesterday an outline of the American news, and the letters were delivered in the afternoon. The Quebec Herald states that the Commerce steamer, which was chartered for Halifax, will not go there in conse quence of her proprietors being unable to effect insurance upon the voyage. It appears that there is no provincial office in a position to effect insurance on sea risks, and that the agent of some American insurance at Qat bee asked so high a premium as to render it impossible to pay it, without secrificing the entire profit on the voyage. The report of the Amsterdam market states that good purchases for inveetment have been made, and that the prices were very firm. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 51 15-16. Mexican bonds had been more in request. At Frankfort on the 21st inst. Aus trian Stock was (rioted 76. The Vienna price on the 20 was 93. From Flanders the accounts of the growing crops are most cheering, and the potato crops will be exceedingly prolific. - Many shareholders may be encouraged, by a decision in the Northampton County Court, to attempt the re covery of deposits paid upon abortive schemes. A party who had paid money fur scrip in the Chartist Land Company, recovered from the promoter on the ground that the deposit was paid at a time when the company was provisionally registered, and had not ob taned ct:mplete registration within a year, nor was the previsional registration renewed from year to year. When a comp ley is only provisionally registered, 10e. per 1001. is ad that can be lee,ally received as a deposit. The Funds are flatter to-day in consequence of the decline on the Paris Bourse, and the statement that the Sardinian Government declines signing the conditions of peace with Austria. From Hungary, to the deep regret of City people, the intelligence leas nfavourable to the cause of ;iberty. Consols have been 928 to 93 for Transfer, and 92-1-, to 93 for Account. The :New Three-and .a-Quarter per Cents. are 938 a. Bonk Stock is worth 198 to 200. Exelicapier-bills have been 475. to 505. premium. The Foreign Stock market is dull. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 184 0; Portuguese Four per Cents. 301; and Brazilian 84. Peruvian Active Bonds have been 51; M• xican Stock is 264 to 27. Nothing fur ther has transpired concerning the firm selected for the agency. Russian Bonds have declined to 1051 and 105; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. are 511 to. The Railway Snare Market is dull, and although prices have changed but little, the tendency is rather to decline. 20% 30L 736 Ann Hood, Rio Janeiro; Argo, Acapaleo; Henry Clay, New York; Douglas, PriEco Edward's Island. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY,) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESD AY The supply of English Wheat here to-day, was chiefly composed of Monday's unsold samples—the fresh arrivals from all quarters being extremely limited. As the attendance of buyers was small, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was exceedingly heavy, and the inferior qualities were easier to purchas.3. The imports of Foreign Wheat have been confined to 3 300 quarters. Sales progressed slowly, at barely Monday's quotation. No English Barley on sale, but the supply of foreign was tolerably extensive. The Barley trade ruled heavy, at last week's ereline in prices. Malt—the supply of which was tolerably good—sold heavily, at late rates. There was rather more doing in Oats than last week, and late rates were fairly supported. Beans and Peas commanded very little attention. Indian Corn was offering at a decline of from Is to 23 per quarter. Fine Dour was held at full prices. In other kinds, scarcely any business was transacted. 37 -- 3CO I 179 - 40 I C 7 9 -30 - --- Malt, 3,020 Qrs. nououalt Limp anannwr. The plantation accounts being rather more favourable, the demand for all kinds of Hops is in a sluggish state, at barely the late advance in the quAa,lons. I.' - :e duty is called 60,0001 to 75,0001. Sussex pockets, 31 8, to 41 12s; Weald of Kent pockets, 31 1-1 i to 4/ 10; and East Kent pockets, 41 4s to 71 7s per cwt. AIIRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. ; Oats. I Flour. 930 qre. I -- qrs. 470 qrs. I Flour. '930 Erglish Scotch Irish. Foreign •• •• •• "L1TH1TMC17.11.7. , 14 , Z. Our market to-day was steady tor each kind of Mfat, at full prices: —Bent, from 2s 4d to 34 6d; Mutton, 3s to 3s 101; Lamb, 4a to 5s ; Veal, 33 to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s per 81131, by the carnse. MA RLBRO'-ST REET—( THIS DAY.) Thomas Ryan, Patrick Jordan, John Burhe, William Crimmen, Edward Breen, Phillip Butte, and David Smart, ail denizens of that delightful classic locality, Orchard-place, Portmaresquare, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having created a disturbance at the Albion public-house, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square. They were also charged with vio lently assaulting sc veral police constables, who were called to take them into custody. John Roberts, landlord of the Albion public house, Duke-sreet, Grosvenor-square, stated that, about seven o'clock last night, the prisoners Ryan, Ciiinmen, and Jordan, came into his house, and went into the tap-room where they had something to eat. I n a b ou t half an hour they left the house, and on his wife going into the tip room she missed a knife and fork which she had lent to the prisoners. The pri soner Ryan subsequently returned and pulled the kuifo and fork from his pocket, and laid it on the bar. Wit ness told him that he thought he should be justified in giving him in charge for taking the keife and fork. The prisoner made use of a filthy expression, and said he might bed-. The other prisoners then came in and began creating a great dinturbanee, and striking several of the customers who were standing at the bar. The prisoners then ran out of the house, aed witness followed them into Oxford -street, when, on meeting with two constables, he gave them in charge. The prisoners were very violent, and the constables were roughly treated. Hart, 205 11, deposed that he was on duty in Oxford street about mine o'clock last night, when Mr. Roberts came up, and pointing out Ryan, Jordan, and Burke, requested him to take them in charge. Witness took hold of Ryan, and called another constable to take the others. Ryan refused to go to the station, and as wit ness was endeavouring to persuade him to go quietly, Crimmen came behind him and struck him a tremendous blow in the face. The other prisoners t hen surrounded hitn, and attempted to rescue Ryan. Witness drew his truncheon, and kept them at bay till other constables arrived, when they were all secured and taken to the station. Rounding 351 A, who had a tremendous black-eye, and was otherwise disfigured about the face, corrobo rated the evidence of the last witness, and stated that, on going to the assistance of 223 D, he was surrounded by several of the prisoners, and Jordan streck him on the esse and mouth, which was much cut. He was then knocked down on the ground, and while lying there he received several kicks from the prisoner Burke, who wrenched his staff from his hand. Several other constables, who were more or 'less in jured by the prisoners' violence, were then examined in corroboration of the above; and the Prisoners, on being called upon to answer the charge, all stoutly de nied ill-treating mu of the constables, who, they al leged, bad exceeded their duty in interfering with them. Mr. HARDWICK said he thought the charge sufficiently proved, and committed the prisoners Ryan, Jordan, and Burke to the House of Correction for six weeks, and the other prisoners were comm i t t e d f or twenty-one day& I IRELAND. THE ILLEGAL PRCCESSIONS IN THE NORTH. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—The Northern Whig of this morning says:—" Yesterday Mr. Baldwin, who presided in the Crown Court et Downpatrick in the ab sence of the Chief Baron, referred in very decided terms to the processions and exhibitions at Doily's Brae on the 12th inst. The fancy that either party was not from the first violating the law is now dispelled; both were simply illegal and rebellious bands, and all who countenanced them, or either of them, were abettors of their flagrant violation of the law. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO BELFAST. The following letter has been received by the Secre tary to the Flax Improvement Society of Ireland : " House of Lords, Friday Night. " My dear Sir,—As I could not give you any defi nite answer to your letter of the 11th, I deferred writ ing until I could do so, which I am happy to say I can now in a favourable manner. Sir George Grey has com missioned me to say that both her Majesty and Prince Albert will be happy to avail themselves of the opportu nity of witnessing the proposed exhibition of flax manu factures. " It is probable that the Queen will be at Belfast about .he 10th of August. " I shall certainly be at the Society's rooms in time to ake my place as President. " I remain, my dear sir, " Very truly yours, " DOWNSHIAE." " To James Mac Adam, Esq., jun., Secretary to the Royal Flax Improvement Society of Ireland." DREADFUL MURDER —A convict, named Pearce, was murdered by four other convicts, in Carrickfergus Gaol, on Monday morning. We have very much pleasure in stating that Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, to whose claims to the vacant judge ship we calk(' attention yesterday, has received an ()trivial intimation of Ms elevation to the Bench. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's promotion will cause a vacancy in the representation of Reading. The banking-house of Butterfield and Company suspended payment in Pe,ter, , fiell, on Mondry the 231 inAint. The principal absconthd on Wednesday, the 18th instant, since which day he has not been seen. Although not a bank of issue, their liabilities are supposed to be very great, and in winding up the affairs, which are supposed to be in a very bad state, a small dividend only can be paid, if any portion of a moiety at all. Their London bankers were Messrs. Bosanquet, of Pall- Mall. This affair has caused a great panic in the neighbourhood. MANSLAUGHTER.— The evidence at the inquest, which has been adjourned twice, upon the body of Martha Wilkinson, an illegitimate child, who was beaten to death ten days ago by her father at Kirkby, Notts, was brought to a close on Monday afternoon last, when the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against William Atkinson." The coroner (Mr. Swann) imme diately made out his warrant of committal, and the prisoner was conveyed by train to Nottingham county gaol, where he will have to remain till the next March assizes to take his trial for the offence. A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to overcome.— Eliza cook's Journal. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 24. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition against the London Corporation Bill. The Bishop of HEREFORD presented a number of petitions from the Clergy of his Diocese, praying for a measure to provide religious instruction to the children of persons receiving out-door relief. The Boroughs Relief Bill passed through committee. Sveral other Bills were advanced a stage, among which were the second reading of the House of Com mons Official Offices Bill, the committal of the Joint stock Company Bill, the third reading of the Highway Rites Bill, and the committal of the Petty Bag Office Bill. Lord REDESDALE objected to a clause in the last Bill, on the ground that it tended to increase public expense, by raising the ealaries of clerks in the Poit office. Lord CAMPBELL assured the Noble Lord that the clause had no such tendency, and that it' he had any apprehensions on that head, he would write to Lord Langdale on the subject, and inform the Noble Lord (Lord Redesdale) with that Noblo Lord's opinion.— (Hear, hear.) lie therefore hoped that the Noble Lord would not oppose the committal of the Bill, as he would have time and room to offer any opposition he might thick proper, when the Bill was brought on for a third reading. . . This proposition was agreed to, and the Bill was committed. The Small Debts Amendment Bill was then corn mitted; and several other 81113 were advanced aptage. THE BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Lord STANLEY said that they were at present within three or four dtys of the termination of the session, and now, on the 24th day of July, many important Bills came up to their Lordships' House from the Commons. They had before them several important measures— some to be read a first time, and others to be considered in Committee. There were the Dublin Thitine; Bill, the Poor Law Charges Act Ameniment Bill, the Pavilien at Brighton Bill; ell of these he conceived might lJt.g-itice have been brought under the c e nsid erat i on of their Lord ' ships. There then was anothir Bill which had been most unreasonably delayed. He meant the Pilotage Bill, which was a matt( r of very serious important , atlleting our treaties with foreign powers. It was a Bill the iaiportane4 of which c .;uld hardly- he exaggerated, and yct it had thus been dela) ed till the very cltise of the session without there being the least mees:-iity for any arch postponement. They had that (ley gone throu g h he knew Pot how many Bills; yesterday they had disposed 84 p 84 p 92:% 82.% 44A 26N 51 14 18 , 4 231 11% of 22. Now, he could not help complaining that they should be driven into these slovenly modes of legislation. He eheuid be sorry to raise any impediment (ir occasion any diffintlty in bringing the session to a clos=e; but it did appear to hires that 'fmy of those Bills, might have • been brooglit forward at an earlier period of the session, and he did not see why they should have been so berg delayed, Earl GREY said that the 'complaint just made by the Noble Lord opposite was, to a certain extent, well founded; but it was a complaint at least 50 years old; it was made during every Administration and at the close of almost every session. He was afraid that such delay must be regarelOd as a neesseary consequence, proceeding from the constitution of the two Houses of Parliament. He had himself not long since supported 13:11 which he had hoped would have mitigated the evil, but he regretted that that proposition had not been agreed to elsewhere, and he still believed that it would have worked well. On the present occasion, however, he thought there were no just grounds for complaining of delay, and the Noble Lord inust remember that the forms of the other House gave only two days to the Go vernment, and even those were often taken away from them by motions as amend men t s t o go i ng i nto Com mittee of Supply, and thus the time left for carrying the important measures of the session was circum scribed within a very narrow compass. Now, as to the present year, there were many measures of consi derab!e moment, which were brought up to their Lord ships' House at an early period of the session, amongst which he might mention. the Navigation Bill. As to those that remained, they were little more than continua tion Bills, or annual Bills; and with regard to the Pilot age Bill, it was merely a metteure to give the Trinity House and other authorities power to relax their rules, if they so thought fit. 14)id STANLEY admitted the difficulties to which the Noble Earl re'erred, but observed that the Government might have obtained leave to bring in the Pilotage Bill long before the 12th of July. As a proof o f t h e s l ovenly, careless manner, in which - legislation was carried on, he might mention the Defects in Leases Bill, for the cor rection of a blunder in which they now had another Bill before them. The Earl of lIARROWBY presented a petition from a place in Devon is favour of a superannuation fund for officers under the poor-law. The House then adjourned till half•past four o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday). HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 24. The SPEAKER resumed the Chair at Seven o'clock. Mr. 11. DRUMMOND gyve notice that at the earliest opportunity he would move the abolition of all duties on soap, candles, and malt made by persons for their own use. JUVENILE?: E IIIGR ATION. Lord ASHLEY then rose, according to notice, to bring under the no:ice of the House the state of a por tion of the juvenile population of the metropolis, and to move that it is expedient that means he annually pro vided for the voluntary emigration, to some of her Majesty's colonies, of a certain number of young per sous, of both sexes, who have been educated in the schools ordinarily called ragged schoels, in and about the metropolis. He was very anxious to excite some interest, and to obtain some support, in pointing out the importance of a really repressive system. Prison discipline was a question which at the present moment excited greet and general interest. The separate, soli tary, and mixed systems of confinement had each their several advocates, but if he could show that the proven titive system was the best, he thought he should be en titled to support.—(hear, hear.) Last year he had stated that the number of this class in the metropolis was about 300,000, from subsequent inquiry he had very much under-estimated the real number. He had then fully described their habits, lives, and modes of obtaining an existence, and had shown the danger which arose to society from the existence of such a mass of persons of such che.- meter and pursuits. As a means of enabling the House to ju,ige of the extent of the evil for which he was anxious to provide a remedy, he would call atten tion to a return he had prepared, showing the compara tive number of males committed in the years 1847 and 1848. In 1847 the total number of committals was 41,479, of these 8,405 were under twenty years of age —between ten years and fifiecn years of age there were 3,228, and under ten years 360. The total num ber of mates committed in 1848 was 42,933, and there was a similar proportion of committals above the age of ten years, while in the number of those under tea years, the age during which they were in the ragged schools, there was a decrease.—(Elear, hear) The total in crease cn the year was 1,464, and of these one-half were under twenty years of age. The proportion of the committals from ten to twenty years of ego was 12,693 to 18,000 persons from twenty-five to fifty, being one-third more of the latter ; but when they came to trials and convictions the case was reversed, of those bet ween bin and twenty years of age the convictions were 1,237, while the convictions of those between twenty-five and fifty was 1,059. He found the same rule prevailed at Mauchester, from which he had returns, and which ho instanced because i was a large town, sub ject to somewhat similar influences, and because accu rate returns were kept. These fects showed a most awful and fearful proportion of juvenile crime, and that if it was at all possible to apply a preventive system, they were bound to do so, and to look directly to that class among whom the seeds of crime were sown in early life, which the utmost amount of after care might not be able to eradicate.—(Hear, hear.) In order to ascertain the opinions of those most conversant with the facts, he addressed a circular to city missionaries, teachers of ragged schools, gaolers, and others. He put the ques tion to them, "Do many adult males become criminals for the first time after twenty years of age ? ' To that question he had received answers, from 43 committees, " very few."—(Hear, hear.) Some replied that a very small proportion indeed became criminals for the first time after twenty years of age, and these were chiefly caused by drunkenness and want of employment; but they were very few—not one in fifty. Another reply stated that "of the poorer classes in cities hardly one becomes criminal after twenty years of age." Now, what was the condition of that class who thus grew up to be criminals ? A short time since, feeling anxious to know the actual condition of this class, he had perambulated a greet part of the City in which they had their haunts.—(Hear, hear.) He had penetrataal into the lanes and courts where these children and young people were crowded together. In other places he found that most of them who had no other shelter lived in the dry arches of unfinished or uninhabited houses. These arches were small and dark. A hole had been made sufficiently large to enable him to creep into them, and no ore could see who was there until a lantern was thrust into this hole. The House might imagine the condition of these miserable creatures. They were asked to come to a model lodging-house the following day, and thirty-three of them did so, whose ages varied from twelve to eighteen years of age; of these twenty four had no parents--(Hear, hear)—six had but one parent, three had stepmothers. Most of them had been once in prison, and one boy, only fourteen years of age, had been in prison twelve times.—(Hear, hear.) The whole of them were a prey to vermin, begrimed with filth, in rags, and not a few of them suffering from eieltness.—(clear, hear.) He examined most of them personally, and privately, as to their previous lives, and he had reason to believe they told him the truth. He took them separately into a private room, and he said to them, " Now, I am going to put a few plain questions to' : you, not with any view to your injury, and I hope you will answer me truly. When I have done I will answer any question you may put to me."—(Hear, hear.) They thought the terms were fair and agreed to answer him. He asked how often have you slept in a bed during the last three years? One said twice, another said three times, and another could not remember ever having done so. He then asked them how they lived, and they frankly confessed they had no other mode than b egg i ng or stealing. The only legitimate mode of earning a pinny which was open to them was to pick up and sell old bones.—(Hear, hear.) But they freely confessed to him that they and their class bad not and could not have any other mode of living but by begging and stealing. Now, he wished the House to observe what was the condition of this class—they were almost trained to crime at an early age. They replied, when asked to give up that kind of life, that it was no use, they had no other means of living. They formed a most dangerous class to society, and were ever ready to create or take advantage of popular commotion. The Noble Lord illustrated this fact by an. anecdote of a lad of seventeen, who went over to Paris, about four years sire?, with his mother, and who had fought in the barricades in the late French revolution. These .boys received no education from society, and could they be surprised at the fact that they not only did not respect the rights of property, but glo ried in violating them.—(Hear, hear.) As an instance of this feeling, he might relate an anecdote which had been stated by a teacher of a ragged school. Fourteen lads entered the school, one Sunday night, who were not known to him. The practice was to receive and teach all e who came. They sat very quietly till t h e clock struck eight, when they rose in a body and marched out of 'the school. The master stopped one little fellow, and said, " You must not go, school is not over yet." The reply was, " I .must ego, don't you hear the clock has struck eight, and I mast go to work ?" " What kind of work ?" " Why, to cluster round the chapel doors as the people are coming out."—(Hear.) Such, then, being the moral condition of these outcasts, he would ask if they could refrain for art hour longer in instituting measures to reclaim them ? There were two modes of proceeding ; the first was, to wait until they commit ted crime, and then bring them to trial, and imprison or transport them. Th e other was, to take a preventive course, and anticipate the gaoler by education, indus trial training, and a better position. It was said that this was a hopeless case ; and, as far a . s the pre sent mode of priso n dis c ipline went, perhaps it was true. It was in their case alto ge ther i no p era t ive in deterring from the commission of crime. It might deter those who committed crime from wantonness, or who had means to fall back upon; but the class of whom he spoke bad no such means. H wished to call the attention of the House to what might bo termed the various causes of juvenile crime. These were, the example and neglect of parents, the careless exposure of articles, especially of food, in shops, and the existence of those places called the casual wards. Oat of 250 persons that be once met, no less than 42 had told him that it was to the casual wards of the union they treced their every misery and their first step in crime. The want of employ meat was another prolific source of crime. The goal system was not that on whic't they could rely for the re:ortna• tion of criminals. At one time he recollected having been requested by 150 of ihc most notorious thieves in the me tropolis, to meet them and give theta the benefit of his council as to the nao loin which they could extricate them selves from their career of cr:me. He found as,einbled in the Mitiories no less than 250 persons. They oLe and all declared thew:elves tired to death of their lives, beset by every kind of misery, for a long period not knowing how or whera to g!: .t a ine,sl. He told them that the . question they hau propounded to him was one of a most difficult character to answer, inasmuch as employment WAS most difficult to be obtained by honest means, alto• nether untainted by crime. How could he advise them to go and ask for that which of his own knowledge he Was t),wilre industrieue, well conducted men could not in more than one instance out of three obtain. The re formatory system carried out in the pul)lie gaols had failed, hut it would succeed if the crientnals were placed in a position where they would not have to endure more dean human nature could stand. The system of emi gration ought to be encoureged with regard to the children_ attending the regged echoel,, and on receiv ing a certificate of good conduct they should be sup• plied by the Government with a sum of money suffi cient to enable them to go to the colonies. The best results had already flexed from the countenance given to those children who wished to emigrate. In point of fact, ten times more good was effected by the 1,5001. expended under the ragged school system than if 200,000/. were laid out under the present system of prison disaipliee. Of all systems ihe workhouse was the worst in which to train children such as he was now bringing under their consideration. They had a great evil to deal with. They had before them these 30,000 children, and what would they do with them? Let the House recollect the filthy and extremely ignorant state in which they were generally found. No one would employ them, and the only fool they had was obtained by begging or by stealing. How could such children get education, or any means of improvement? Tinny were, therefore, driven into crime, and into the worst of practices. What, then, di I these promoters of raged schools do? They opened echools for their anception, and en deavoured in every way to gain them over to improved habits as wed as to educate them. A child at these Scheels must be ,naintained by its pereuts, and then as a reward for good conduct they wished to be able to hold out to them the prospect of their being sent out to the colonies, and being placed in the way of bettering their condition. All children to be entitled to this born are revirecl to be of good health, to have attended some industrial class for a certain period, to be able to say the Lord's Prayer, end have some knowledge of their religious dutits, and to be maintained by their parents fur the period of five months. Parliament made a grant every year for education to the amount of 100,0001., and from a participation of any portion of this grant the children of ragged schools, from their habits and necessities, were altogether excluded. What, then, had been done? They had established 82 schools, in which they had 80,000 children, and he could not speak too highly of the efforts of the voluntary teachers. Under these circumstances it was to the Houle of Commons they looked to take up that duty which pri vat-s benevolence seemed no longer able t o susta i n. Il e submitted, then, th e i ssue to the representative s of the [ea*, relying that they would ant in the spirit of the prayer which was upon their lips every evening— " That it would please God to have mercy upon all who were desolate and oppressed, and upon the afflicted and the fetherlese."—(ficar, keen) Sir GEORGE GREY, after complimenting the Noble Lord for the active and praiseworthy part he had taken in the promotion of ragged schools, referred to the early efforts of Sheriff Watson, of Aberdeen, in the establish ment of these schoehe who had set an example which bad been ably followed by his Noble Friend (Lord Ashley). He thought, however, if his Noble Friend had made him,elt better acquainted with the subject, he would not have made the observatiens h' had thrown out about the prisoners at Pentonville and Parkhurst. He seemed to think that that class of prisoners were let loose upon so. i•, None, however, were sent to those prisons but prisoners who were under sentence of transportation. Notbi g, he (Sir G. Grey) would admit, could be more gratifying than the manner in which it appeered those boys had expressed - themselves on their arrival in the colonies; and he had letters which had been received from persons sent out fron Parkhurst sad Penton vide, which he would be happy to put into the Noble Lord's hands, and which he believed, were of au equally gratifying character. He agreed with his Noble Friend that the amelioration of society must be of slow growth, but he would caution him against thinking that by any means at the disposal of Parliament anything could ho done to off et a r a pid change in the condition of that class in whose welfare he was so much interested. After referring to the mo tion which the Noble Lord had submitted to the House, he prece.. , eced to express his doubts as to the propriety of carrying it into effect. Much us they were bound to sympathis© with that particular class of children to which he referred, they must not overlook the danger of hold ing out a premium to crime —(Hear, hear)—and what ever Parliaments did it must make a distinction bee tween the children of honest parents and the children of bad habits and propensities. The Right Hon. Gen tleman hero read a document, setting forth the views of Government at the time the experiment was first made of tending children from ragged schools to the colonies by aid from Government. 'the Noble Lord had told them that there were 30,000 children of that class al luded to in London, and averaging the expense at 101. each, a sum would be required amounting to 300,000/.—(l-fear, hear.) It would be necessary that if any step should be taken by Government in furthe rance of the Noble Lord's scheme, it would be oho' lutely necessary that other children —children of in dustrious and honest parents, should be participators in the benefit.—(Hear, hear.) He had received letters from Glasgow claiming to have some aid such as had been extended (as we understood) to schools in Aber' deen. He did not think that Parliament, by any enact ment, could enable any class to feed and clothe them selves, and he therefore doubted that by any system of emigration they could confer the very great advantages, which the N o bl e L or d seemed to anticipate. He would mention that ho had a representation from the grand jury at York, last year, with reference to certain crimi nals who were convicted of sedition and other offences, setting forth that these people had come to a sense of the errors they had committed, and that they dreaded being again cast upon society; and the gentlemen of t ._ b : grand jury, therefore submitted to his consideration tut, wisdom and the humanity of Government enabling that_ people to bettor their condition in the colonies. lie stated.. to the grand jury, in his reply, that he should be me!! happy to comply with their euegestion if it were in bib power to do so, but that the applications from persons 0 , unimpeachable character were so numerous that Govern' merit cunt not possibly afford to these people, who were of course entitled to a p re f erence, t h e a id and ass i stanc e . that was required, and h o was - consequently compelled to refuse the prayer of the gran d j ury . I f t h e House should give their assent to th e N o bl e L or d' s proposition he would say that it must n o t i n f a i rness b e l i mited to one particular class. The i n t erests o f society requ iredthat the children of the h onest an d i ndustrious classes should at least be participaters in any advantage w hich Parliament could hold out, and, above all, they should take care that any benefit they conferred should not be given as a premium to critne.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. PAGE WOOD was glad that an experiment had been made in carrying out the views which the Noble Lord had laid before them, but be confessed he had, from the firet, doubts of the success and propriety of the scheme, and his opinions were grounded upcm the fact that they had in the workhouses over the kingdom so many orphans who could not be provided for. He thought► therefore, that it was their first duty to attend to the . claims which such a clas of children had upon them. An appeal • same of the kind as this r: be urg e d w i t h at this n least equal force in behalf ~f th ca .:hods in connexion with many Dissenting congregations. H e Was qu i te fa— miliar with tho diffic7lties of the question, and assured: the. House that it was quite necessary for them to be on, their guard against their benevolent instincts, which, as . in the ease of almsgiving, frequ ent l y prompted them to . bestow money on those who were either quite unworthy' of it, or who, being worthy of it, became immediately' inactive, and ultimately ruined. He thought, too, that,. considering the great difficulty which poor and honest struggling people experienced in procuring the moiler which was necessary to enable them to emigrate, it we*' most unjust, to say nothing of its being extremely wrong in principle, to allow dishonesty and crime to be— come a stepping -stone to that which frugality and pru dance could not obtain.—(llear, hear.) But, supposing . that the House should adopt the principle of the resolu tion, then he should suggest that the grant should not be made from the public purse, but should be admi nistered in the several localities by the individuals who contributed to it. Lord ASHLEY replied, and the resolution was by leave withdrawn. Lord DUDLEY STUART postponed until .next ses sion his motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the case of Krishna Rao Wittul of Baroda. BRITISH GUIANA. Mr. HUME move the following resolutions on the evidence and report of the Select Committee on British Guiana:— That it appears by the evidence taken before the Select Committee on British Guiana, that that Govern ment has been carried on for the last ten years in oppo sition to the expressed views and opinions of the elective members of the Colonial Legislature, and that the sup plies are now stopped in the col on y, b y centiew d oppo sition, to the great injury of the colony." " That this How eis of opinion that th e ti me has ar rived e reduced, when public expenditur e of the col on y s h ould D as e de fired by the colonists; and also f or t h e hen the establishment of a responsible Local Government, which should have full power to decide on the extent and na ture of their establishments , and to provide the means for paying the . same." The Commit ee, after pursuing it labours under very disadvantageous circumstanees, inasmuch as the colonists who complained had no notice of the appointnvnt of the Committee, and were only ad m i tted upon pedeion to give evidence before it,had made a r e p ort which, in his opi— nion, was quite inconsistent with the evidence. It was the report only of a majority of tEe Committee, and as such a very meagre, haltand-half, no report at all. The cases of Ceylon and Guiana were brought before the House in the present sess i un as proper subjects of inves tigation by a Select Committee, and Guiana had been taken first, as being the more urgent of the two. The House would remember that the supplies for carrying on the Government of Guiana h a d b een stopped, that t h e publicinstitutions of the colony bad been at a stand, and the general branches of the Colonial Government were at variance. With regard t the Home Govern ment of the colony, the conduct of Lord Grey was not only against reason but against law, looking at the institutions of the country. The colonists bad a majority in the Court, but they had in evidence that, as the Governor had a double vote, he had the power, under the direction of Lord Grey, to o verrule . the wishes of th e e l ec ti ve mem b ers. The minority o f the representatives had petitioned Lord Grey for a re duction of salaries, but they had received for answer, that no reduction should be made in the civil lilt, bug everywhere e!se they might make what reductions they. pleased. He thought the Col on i a l o ffi ce h ad tre ated them in with hez.r:l,ss indiff,ren co . Th e com bi ne d C o urt had refused to vote the money for the civil list, and there was no resource hut anappeal meat. The colonies c anplained that all the promises to tha I m p er i a l Perlis _ of the Colonial offico had be en b ro k en . Th e Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial department would not make the least concession, an d th ere f ore t h e H o use was called upon to interfere, Where was uns continued tat THE SUN, LONDON, WETYNF.SDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1849 tha He be( aid Ai raj It