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arrival of Mr. Ellice he wrote to his i sioble Friend an account of an interview which he had' had with two of the MinisterS of the Shah of Perea. That interview took place in consequence of Mr. Ellice having been in structed to inforin the Ministers of the Shah that the English Government could not encourage his pretensions to dombaions beyond his own empire, and that the Affghans were to be •:Xma..idered as an independent State. On his making thisistatement both the Ministers protested against considering the Affghans as a Govern ment cr. a consolidiated State ; they declared that a large portion of Affghan belonged to the Shah of Persia, and they stated that they considered that the, domirdnn .of Persia extended to Ghuznee. • Commenting upon this letter, in'lB36, he wrote stating . that he felt that the Government could not permit the extension of the Persian Government further east ward, with a due regard to the Indian Empire of England. .Count Simonovitch was recalled, and the unhappy plan employed, in all these intrigues was beard of 'no more. The rumour was that he put an end to his own. existence. Dost Mahomed Khan received a letter frz;nn the Russian empire, accompanied by presents, in which way all matters of importance were transacted; and at the same time that he received that letter he received u nether from Count Simonovitch, thus open ing a political correspondence. Every body knew the pretensis?n to power that had arisen in these very ter ritories, which they were then adverting to. Was the Governor-General of India to pass this over without explanation? Was the Noble Lord (Palmerston) to treat such a ding as this as a trifling matter? The time was; come when they were called upon to show to the Shah of Persia, that the permission of England was at least as valid as the permission of Russia. They did show it, and an effect was produced At once.—(Hear.) A great deal had been said about the opinion of Sir Alexander Burnes, of which he wished to speak with the greatest respect. He (Sir J. C. Hohhouse) had had the honour of corresponding with him, and he considered him an honour to his station. But, supposing Sir Alexander Burnes had given an opi nion contrary to that upon which Lord Auckland had acted, was that a charge against Lord Auckland .? Was the Governor to act uniformly on what one man said? Was he not to consult others, and act upon what he con sidered as the best opinion ? He would tell the House what the opinion of Sir Alexander Burnes was. But, in the first place, he must say that there had been no garb ling whatever. There were certainly parts of the cor respondence suppressed, but that was for a very good reason. They never, in arsy way, attempted to conceal the epinions of Sir Alexanuer Burnes. One great pro lect in this affair was, whether there should have been any intervention at all. Now, what was Sir A. Burnes' opinion upon. that point ? In a letter to Lord Aulkland, in 1839, he stated that having laid before his Lordship the strong demonstrations on the part of the Russians, and, considering the affairs of the country, he thought that the Government ought to interfere. On the sth of March, 1838, in a letter, also published, he stated that the circumstances were in full justification of that move ment. In another letter, dated June 3, 1838, he stated that theßritish Government could not, with credit to itself, permit the present state of affairs in Caubul to con tinue, and he considered that they ought to demand an explanation from the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. The letter went on to state that if it was the object of a Go vernment to destroy the power existing in Caubul it might he done by means of the brother of Shah Soojah, but that it was necessary to complete success that the British Government should take the question up, and that it should not, be left to the chiefs themselves. The letter then gave reasons why the Sultan Dost Ma homed lihan should net be chosen. He stated that he had no ability to rule ; that he was a very good man, but incapable of acting for himself ; and the letter con cluded by stating that it would be only to send two re giments. with the Shah Soojah, and nothing further was required to fix him for ever on h:s throne. Now, this was the opinion "of the very man whose opinion was taken as being in contradiction to that which was stated to have been followed by Lord Auckland. He (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) thought it necessary to read these statements to the House, to prove that many parties were deceived. He thought, if they quoted authorities, and told him that Lord Auckland did not follow au thorities, when they told him that he had the means of forming a right judgment and did not du so, he (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) said that they were wrong. Now, the Hon. Gentleman had quoted another authority— Mr. 3. 11. .BAILLIE—I quoted from the published documents. Sir J. C. HOINIOUSE—It was no less an authority than Colonel Wade, who wrote in a most decisive way in favour of Lord Auckland's policy. He might quote twenty other authorities on the subject. Did Lord Auckland rush headlong into this enterprise ? fio ; he maturely censidered all the perils and the magnitude of the scheme, and in undertaking it he had a full know , ledge, of the awful responsibility which he took upon himself:—(Hear.) In a letter addressed to the Secret Committee, dated the 20th of June, 1838, be stated that there was nothing in the appearance of Russia, to alarm him, and he believed that the Russian agent was not to be trusted. On the 12th May following, ho wrote to say that circumstances had oc curred which would materially modify his views, for the Russian. agents put themselves prominently in aid of Persia, and that opposition must be resorted to. Extra.oulinary excitement was produced in the pub• lic mind throughout the Atighan States, and in a letter, dated the 13th October, he said that of the justice of the course which had been adopted, there could be no reasonable doubt. In another letter, Lord Auckland said that he was' fully aware of the responsibility of his situation. It was dated June 12, 1838, and he again stated his conviction of the hostile proceedings against Russia. And in another part he said the seige of Herat had much occupied the minds of the people of India and our shrewdest observers, including Mr. Sutherland, Colonel Skinner, &c., have concurred in describing the fever of restlesness as beyond anything that had ever been seen —" religion, and circumstances attendant upon the Rus sian name, had of cted the minds of all." The Hon. Member, had affected to laugh at the effects of these matters upon the minds of the, people. Did the Hon. Member know more than Lori Auckland—did he know more than Mr. Sutherlanq s or Col. Skinner ?—(Cheers.) He must _say that wish' these opinions before him, he could not but think that Lord Auckland exercised a sound discretion in the part he undertook.—(Cheers.) He now turned to that part of the Hon. Member's charge wl*.ih referred to the necessity that there was of warning Persia off Affenanistan. He thought thatthe opinion of Sir Alexarater Burnes on this subject would be sufficient, who said. that Persia should be kept back—thus far shalt t'aou go, and no futher. Then came the question as to whether a judicious choice had been made with re spect to Shah Soojah. They knew nothing against Shah Soojah. At the very time the insurrection was brewing against ,Sir Alexander Bnrnes and Sir W. Mac naghten, they were warned of the mischief that was to be anticipated by that very Shah Soojah himself. In 1814 we made a treaty with the Affghans, and made them an independent State ; the whole of that treaty was meant for the protection of India, and when Persia showed - herself willing to be backed by Russia in the aggression of our empire, of course we treated her in the same way as when she was backed by France in 1809. For whe ther hacked by Franco or Russia it mattered not ; it was the face of Persia, backed by a powerful ally, approach ing so near,the frontier of India as to unsettle men's minds. It was not the first time that we had gone to Central Asia. In 1814, 'when Hindostan was attempted to be taken, Lord Wellesley- entered into a treaty with the Persians to prevent India being attacked. In 1809 the Government of India counteracted an attack upon India Mach in the same way. It sent Air. Elphinstone to Caubul to 'persuade the Affghans that they should make common cause with us, and attack or act with Persia as the case might be. The threatened invasion did not' take place—but it was this mode of acting that prevented it. The Hon. Gentleman thought fit to say that he did not think it at all likely that the States would rise up against us, and he laughed at the Nepaulese. He (Sir J. Cam Hobhouse) was of opinion that those States should be watched closely, and with a jealous eye. Be was of opinion, too, notwithstanding the opinion of the Hon.' Gentleman to the contrary, that the success of the Affghan -campaign in 1839 was attended with very beneficial results ; and he could tell the Hon. Gentleman that the disasters in Alfghanistan, great - as they were, had not produced the same feeling in India as they had here.--(Hear, hear,) He knew it. It was only this morning that he had • seen a gentleman from Calcutta, and he was quite surprised at the feeling it seemed to excite here. He had " no doubt there bad been a great loss of valu able life, but as fur thinking that the loss of the Indian empire was concerned, ur that the disasters were such as had never occurred before, or never were likely to occur agaiu, he thought it was ridiculous." He (Sir J. C. Wobhouse) differed entirely from the Hon. Member. He thought all Lord Auckland's policy would and must be carried out. He believed no Governor would dare to alter its Was a great disaster to turn them from perse vering. in their policy ? He trusted not. The Hon. Gentleman had talked of this war as if nothing had yet been gained from it. It was lamentable to see the igno rance that existed on Indian affairs. The Indus at this Moment was navigated by English steam ships, and a British, flag hung there ; and at this.moment the Ameers of Schide, where, a few years ago, an Englisnman dare not show himself, were now as much under the con trol of the English as it was possible for a tributary State to be. The Right Hon. Gentleman said that the commerce of the . Indus had fallen off. From 1840 to 1841, the exports to the Indus rose from 5 lass in 1840; to 43 lees of rupees in 1841. There was a fact for the Hon. Gentleman. The Hon. Gentleman said com tnerce, was falling off,, and then spoke something, about cotton twist. Now he could tell the Hon. Gen tleman that the export and the import duties in Calcutta had both considerably increased during the ,last com mercial rear. The exports had increased 801,090 L, and the inipjrts 1,300,00 d. The Hon. Gentlemansaid this had been productive of many pernicious effects. He should like to ask, wi-at was not productive of pernicious effects to a certain extent ? The Hon. Gentleman made nit the whole charge upon India to be 20,000,00(2 A .:apex which he hi li in his hand made the return 1 7 , 000 ,000/. sterling. .The charges occasioned by the war amounted to only 2,700,0001., and the revenue only 'ell off 467,00 a, and that falling off was occasioned in onsequence of the discontinuance of the opium trade. io much fur the finances of India. And besides, 52,000 were added to the Indian army durir.g the administra ion of Lord Auckland. There were only 11 steam oats in India, but 131 steamers were added since.— .Bear.) And was it nothing that the British flag MIS seen where it 'lever appeared before, on the Tigris • -. nd Euphrates ? • The best moral effect was pro .lced.in:Europe by their p o li cy in India, and lie hoped he Right Hon. Gentleman would not give way to any groundless alarm, but would follow out the same policy suth respect to India. History proved that their Indian 111 Vtginpire possessed an elasticity which always caused it 'Ji rise after temporary depre s s ion.— (Hear, hear.) If would have an they trusted to Parliament they neve r o . [plea empire. at pg. The same otac4o pry was aisva.s s sided when they met with reverses:iulndia. The Hon. ' 4 Fe r f d ,, 1 ~~ Gentleman alluded to the brilliant career of Laid Wel- lesley, and the great success of his Indian administra tion. But in the midst of his career the policy of his conduct with respect to the Mahratta war was commented upon by Lord Castlereagh in 1804. The Right Hon. Gentleman then went on to quote from various papers to show that if the policy which was recommended by Parliament in relation to their Indian territory were carried out, that empire would never hare arrived at its present power and extent, and all , he trusted was that he would have the honour of assisting in a vote of thanks to some future warrior—as was the case on former occa sims, for having retrieved their melancholy, but he hoped partial disasters.—(Hear, hear.) He had now performed his duty, and he had to thank the House for the patience with which they heard him—(Hear, hear) — and he would sit down, as he before said, impressed with the most thorough conviction that Lord Auckland was was not only justified in the course he pursued, but that if he acted otherwise he would have rendered himself amenable to the just censure of Parliament and the country.—(Cheers.) Lord JOCELYN wished to state a few facts, which he collected from sources which were deserving of credit. He was rejoiced at the vigorous measures taken by the Government, but he hoped the House would pause be fore they took measures to reconquer Affghanistan.— (Hear, hear.) The arguments for the Affghanistan war, were the necessity for a strong barrier for their Indian empire and the necessity of making men believe in the strength of their Indian empire. But was not the best barrier for that empire to be found in public opinion, and the bravery of their troops ? He did not see the object of invading Affghanistan, the people of which country were remarkable for their bravery and love of independ ence, and in which the foot of the invader had never found a resting place ' • a country, moreover, the most friendly of all Central Asia to this country ; and, at the same time, they professed the most friendly inten tions, just as Catherine the Second did, when she was about to invade the Crimea. No one felt more respect for Captain Burnes than he did ; but previous to his in terference no one heard much of Russian intrigue.— (Hear.) If all that had been alleged against Russia was true, this country had fallen into their trap with a ven geance. For the purpose of raising Shah Soojah to the thr•me, the late Government had stopped at nothing. He would ask whether England had a right to enter into such a war as had taken place in Affghanistan? Hun dreds of thousands had fallen in a war which he consi- dered not only unrighteous but un•English. He thought that a proper and just line ought to be drawn as to how far this country should go on the bank; of the Indus. He deprecated the policy of those who had ad vocated the war in India, and contended that the policy that had been adopted was petty and selfish. He thought such a policy could not be deprecated too much. The flag of England had waved and would wave for thou sands of years in a just cause ; but in a cause like the present it would be covered with disgrace. Mr. HOGG said, that as his opinion had been directly alluded to, and as his Right Hon. Friend, the late Presi dent of the Board of Control, had so much, although no doubt unintentionally, misconstrued his statements on a former occasion, he trusted he would be allowed to tres pass for a time upon the attention of the House. He had formerly contended that the pension to Lord Keane should be paid out of the Exchequer of this country; and he should then be ready to maintain that 1). large portion, at least, of the expenses of the Affghan war should be borne by the people of England. His Right Hon. Friend had also alluded to a resolution of the Court of Directors. He (Mr. Hogg) well remembered that, when that resolu tion was put, he had objected to the word " sagacity;" but the Chairman assured him on that occasion, that the employment of the word did not convey an approval of the specific course taken by the Government of India. He could further assure the Right Hon. Baronet that the Court of Directors would be a very unfavourable body for him to appeal to. The motion of that evening placed him in some embarrassment, for he could not ap prove of any course which would paralyse the energies of the country at a period when action and union were called fur on the part of our Government.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think that the disasters which had befallen our arms in the East, should prevent that House from taking any course which could embarrass the Government, now that the national honour was to be vindicated, and that the perfidious murder of our troops in the East was to be visited with the punish ment which it deserved. He had further to observe that a motion of censure of the Eastern policy of the late Government could not properly originate at present in that House, which had never expressed an opinion respecting that policy, at a time when its remonstrances could be attended with effect. The Indian Government, previous to the war, had been placed in a position of great difficulty. The papers which had been produced had, it appeared to him, made out a satisfactory case of Russian aggression and intrigue. There was besides, at the time, a vague apprehension—a growing suspicion —in the East, that English power in that part of the world was about to be shaken, and shaken by the in trigues of Russia. He believed that the object of the late Government, under those circumstances, was to show the world that we were not afraid boldly to en counter the dangers which threatened us. He ad mitted that the case was one in which the wisest might err, and where none should be condemned. But he differed widely from the policy that had been adopted ; with regard to their own interests it was most unwise. With regard to Affghanistan, it was most un just. The Right Hon. Baronet had spoken of the ad vantages that had resulted ; as far as he could, he had admitted them ; but the cost of the war had amounted, he believed, to eight millions. Now, had he contended for the principle of non-interference, he zould have under stood it. But all he said was, that we had interfered at the wrong time, with the wrong chief, in the wrong place. Now he was opposed to interference altogether. His Right Hon. Friend said, if we did not interfere, Russia and Persia would ; but, in that case, they would have met with the disaster, the defeat, the expense, that we have done, and we should have been safe within our own frontier. If it was necessary to oppose Russian in fluence, why not have done it openly by a fleet in the Baltic, instead of an army on the Indus ? Why should they shrink from the responsibility of their own acts ? After what had passed, he wished to state that the Court of Directors never knew, or heard, or were consulted, on that war ; the first they heard of it was from the in telligence that an army had been assembled on the Indus, with the exception of the Members of the Secret Committee One statement had fallen from his Hon. Friend as to the reception of the Ambassadors from the Raja of Sattara ; nothing could be more void of foundation. The dethrone ment of the Raja of Sattara was approved of by three successive Governors of Bombay. With respect to the statement with regard to the finances of India, he thought the Hon. Member for Guildford had indulged in some rash assertions. He could not admit their truth ; but, on the other hand, he could not allow it to go forth that they were in a state of bankruptcy. At the present mo ment the balance in the East Indian Treasury was 1,600,0001. It was unfair to charge the horrors of the war upon the Indian Government. The Right Hon. Baronet would remember that on the occasion when the vote of thanks was given to Lord Keane, he particularly guarded himself against expressing any approval of the policy of the war. He said that every consideration of the policy of, the war ought to be excluded. Nothing could be more marked or guarded than the Right Hon. Baronet on that occasion, and his opinion was coincided with by every one in the House. It was also the opinion of the Court of Directors ; they ,only demanded that they should be exempted from pledging themselves to the policy of the war. As far as he had any communica tion with India, it was difficult to find any one who ap proved of the policy of the War ; the general opinion was, from the very first, that it was must erroneous in policy, and towards Affghanistan that it was unjust. The Right Hon. Baronet said that Lord Auckland might have .made out. a better case than he had done in his manifesto ; not a single reason had been alleged, except that the chiefs of Affghanistan had thought proper to enter into friendly relations with Persia, instead of ourselves ; he said that he wanted to establish commer cial relations with them, and to introduce English ma nufactures among them. But what was the nature of the territory, with respect to invading it ? They might lament the state of Affghanistan, moral, physical, and political, but these very evils made them an impassable frontier between them and the powers of the West. The climate was subjected to alternations of extreme heat and cold ; its soil was barren and unprofitable, and intersected with mountains that were quite impervious, except by passes and defiles, which roust subject an invading army to destruction. The people of the country, in spite of all the compli ments that had been passed on them, were proverbially base ; they were divided among a number of petty chiefs, all with conflicting interests. An invasion might be possible, if they established a despotic Sovereign, with whom an agreement might be made for the mainten ance of an army. As long as the authority was di vided they were safe ; but put a despot on the throne with unlimited power and danger was to be apprehended —and that was precisely the absurd policy which they had pursued. If it had not been for the position which he held in the East India Company, and the manner in which he had been alluded to, he would not have trespassed upon the attention of the House. Mr. HUTT said he believed no one could have read the papers presented by the Noble Lord and the Right Hon. Baronet without coming to the conclusion that Russia had been engaged in intrigues which were dan gerous to British power. It was the opinion of almost every individual conversant with Indian affairs, that the time had arrived when some new policy must be pursued. The Hon. Gentleman said that, in order to counteract the designs of Russia, they should have sent a fleet into the Baltic. He appeared to forget that he was recom mending a European war, the disasters of which it was impossible to foresee. With respect to the expense of the war, he believed that it was justified by the necessity. On that occasion they were not discussing the good Go vernment of India, but whether they should have India at all.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL said the question which the House was called upon to consider was whether, under the present circumstances of the country, and in the present state of our relations with Affghanistan and India, it was desirable that the particular papers for which the Hon. Gentleman had moved should be produced. He formed his judgment upon no other consideration than this, what was best for the public interest under Oe y present circum stances; he forgot singlefor point which gotallpiailtryad weighed with him was,as, all politi ca l dif ferences; the what in the present position of Indian affairs was the best course for that House to pursue ; and forming his judgment upon those considerations alone, he came to the conclusion that it would not promote any public interest to present the papers for which the-Hon. Gentleman had overnment Now it moved. Now, to illustrate his meaning lie would refer to our present relatio ns with that g reat power, the conduct of which app eared to have raised ar.) the apprehensions of her Majesty's lafitee G He alluded to the conduct of Russia• —( would be perceived that after many transactions on the part of the agents and the Qovernreent of Russia, full explanations were demanded by the Noble Lord, and the papers, and had acted wisely in deprecating discus sion on the policy involved. The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury had accused the late Government of supine ness in conducting the foreign affairs of the nation, and their following it up with terrible energy. He certainly might accuse the Hon. Member of much supineness during the last three years, though he could not charge him with having followed it up with any terrible degree of energy. —(Laughter.) In their silence at the time of suceess, and their attack at the time of disaster, unconnected with the policy, there was a great want of moral courage. It was evident from their refraining at that period, they did not expect they could carry the opinion of Parliament, with them. There was nothing in the success to pre vent their bringing the policy under the consideration of the House ; and as to the distance of the operations, that did not prevent the Rignt Hon. Baronet opposite from bringing forward his motion on the war with China. He would admit that the statement of the RusLian Go vernment was correct, and that the agents had exceeded their instructions, yet still their case stood on good grounds. Great stress was laid'on the opinions of per sons who were supposed to be able to form a correct judgment on the subject, and Sir A. Burnes and Sir H. Fane had been quoted. Bnt there never was a case in which the current of authority was more one-sided than in the present. The Home Government and the Gover nor-General of India came to the same conclusion, with out any previous concert with regard to the measure which ought to be adopted for the defence of the Indian possessions. He said of their Indian possessions, be cause he denied that it was for any European pur poses. If they had not an empire in India, it would matter little to them whether the Persians conquered the Affghans or the Affghans the Persians. In the year 1836, Mr. Ellice, who was well versed in Indian affairs, and who was in Persia and India, said it would be fraught with the utmost danger if the influence of the Shah were permitted to extend over Affghanistan. Mr. M`Neil told the same thing, and several distin guished men in India were of the same opinion. The opinion of Sir A. Burnes, as appeared from the public papers, went in the same direction. But it was said that in his private letters to his friends, be expressed opinions adverse to the war. Now, he (Lord Palmerston) had two letters in his possession from Sir Alex ander Burnes, dated the 4th and 26th of August, In the first letter he says, " I have great hopes that our army will march from Candahar to Herat, and that the Ameer will evacute Caubul, which will enable us to do this." In the letter of the 26th, he says, "We shall send Mahomed Khan to the Shah, to assist us in secur ing Candahar, but he will not be listened to in his ob jections to Soojah-001-Moolk, as they are untenable. I have seen such papers since I arrived here, that I know how critical is this course. Act we must, and if it only concerned the Peruxes, or the Sadducas, we must hesitate in rejecting the former." These were the opinions of Sir Alexander Burnes. All the authorities connected with India, that were in possession of knowledge on which a sound opinion could be formed, were of opinion that active and immediate measures were necessary to secure' Affghanistan.— (Hear.) This country had, for a great number of years, recognised Persia as a sort of protection for its Indian possessions ; but since the accession of the pre sent. Shah, Persia had acted in a very different manner. Since that time she had been desirous of extending her possessions. and what was the result ? Why , whn it was seen that Persia was taking steps detrimental to this country, vigorous steps were immediately taken. It was thought by many that that was a bad step to take, but what had been the consequence of it ? Why, for three years no disasters had taken place. It was true that disasters had taken place since, but they had nothing to do with the original policy of the measure ; and such being the case, it was no proof that the policy pursued was not sound and judicious.—(Hear.) He agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet that the disasters that had taken place were no reason for imagining that they had not es tablished their affairs in the same position in India as they were before. He was convinced that the measures the Indian Government were taking would have the effect of placing this country in the same position with respect to Affghanistan as they were before.—(Hear. hear.) He should be sorry to see the British army laying Affghanistan waste, but still there was something to be done to keep up appearances. He could understand a Government saying that the cha racter and standing of the country required that a great disaster should not be tamely submitted to ; he could conceive that a great expense might be incurred for the sake of securing to a nation the commanding station which it formerly held ; he could conceive a Government saying that the position from which we had been driven was such that it was essential to our empire that we should regain it ; but if they were to regain it, he thought it sh - )uld not be regained in order that it might, as recommended by some, be abandoned again. The Right Hon. Baronet had very properly abstained from stating what might be the future policy of the Govern ment upon the subject of our affairs in India ; but that Government would indeed be bold which, having charge of the interests of a great nation, would dare to take a step that would endanger the empire, and which would abandon those defences and that barrier which their pre decessors had established in the East.—(A laugh.) The Right Hon. Gentleman, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, smiled while he thought merely of the expenses of the expedition, and forgot every other consideration, Sir It. PEEL—But where is the barrier ? Lord PALMERSTON—The Right Hon. Baronet would learn the value of Affghanistan as a frontier to our Indian empire from the lion. Member for Beverley, who had set a due value on its importance. The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury, in the course of his speech, not content with the wide range which Indian affairs had offered for his fancy, was pleased to express his condem nation of the foreign policy generally ,of the late Admi nistration. But that policy had ensured the peace of Europe, without in any way lowering the character of England, and that policy had, in most instances, been eminently successful. He repeated that the manner in which the late Government had conducted the foreign affairs of the nation, had given satisfaction to the coun try at large ; they had also been enabled to become the mediators of peace between other countries. Such was the respect and confidence felt towards the English Go vernment, that when the English Consul approached the coast of New Guiana, his vessel was boarded by contend ing deputies, who referred the party disputes they were unable to settle, to his decision, and that mediation had been quite successful. As far as the management of their foreign policy went, the more it was inquired into the better they should be pleased. Whether the present Government did or did not follow the same path as their predecessors, he was sure that the whole country, that all the other nations of Enrope, and an impartial posterity, would render them that justice which the Hon. Member seemed disposed to deny them. He was prepared to stand by the papers that had been produced, it would be impossible for any Government to publish in extenso, all the despatches of its agents; if they did, no agents would write any despatches worth receiving. He thought it was rather ungrateful of lion. Gentlemen to accuse the late Government of a reluctance to produce papers; he believed they laid more papers before the House than any Government ever did. He hoped the present Government would be able to produce as ma ny papers f or all they might do, and all they would not do, as the late Government had for all they had done. Mr. HUME complained that the Noble Lord had ;tot produced all the documents from which his case might be judged. He believed that the Government of India had not been influenced by any desire to add to its territory. The Ho.. Member then referred to several of the des patches ofSir A.Burnes, with a view of showing that there had been a great aggression on the part of the late Go vernment. Although it might be desirable to form a barrier, was it possible to form one at a distance of 2,000 miles from our own territory with the Punjab between us and the barrier. At the very time we undertook the invasion ofAfghanistan, we were receiving the assur ances from Russia to which allusion had been made. He implored the House to obtain that information which would enable them them to judge of that policy, and to cast blame on those who were really blameworthy. Lord JOHN RUSSELL begged to state that as far as lie and the Members of the late Government were concerned, he had no objection to the production of the papers.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had given reasons why the papers ought not to be pro duced; he (Lord J. Russell) coincided in opinion with the Right Hon. Gentleman, and for the reasons which the Right Hon. Gentleman had given he would vote with him against the production of the papers ; but he begged it to be distinctly understood, that the mem bers of the late Ministry had no objection to the pro duction of the papers. The Hon. Gentleman had made a most singular charge of unfairness and suppression. He supposed the Hon. Gentleman would not wish to have large volumes of documents published which no one would read; but he had complained that not only was Captain Burnes' despatch omitted, but that Sir W. Macnaghten's answer to it was suppressed also. The Right Hon. Gentleman said that Captain Burnes' letter was most important ; and that the argu ments in it were most cogent ; at the same time he considered Sir William Macnaghten's reply as of little consequence. That was the Hon ourable Gentleman's opinion, but other gentlemen might be of a different opinion. At all events, having omitted both, the late Government could hardly be charged with unfairness. Capt. Burnes might, at one time, have stated that a union with Dost Mahomed would be the best' alliance, but the correspondence showed—indeed Capt. Burnes had himself shown—that it was impossible to come to any arrangement with Dost Mahomed, for he was always seeking what advantage he could gain from our friendship and alliance. Dost Mahomed asked cer tain terms, which, when he thought that Russia and Persia were advancing ,ho seemed disposed to raise. The Hon. Member then read a short passage from a despatch of Captain Burnes, and certainly, if ever there had been a garbled extract that was one. The extract stated that Dost Mahomed was willing to agree to terms for our alliance, and that all that he asked was that we should use our good offices for him with the Maharaja, and the Hon. Gentleman had not gone on to read the answer, leaving it to be understood that we had refused to accede to those terms, whereas it the Hon. Gentleman had gone on he would have found that our Aucklandthat it was_ himself, Envoy's reply wa s that, with respect to ou r g ood offices, there could be no objection to u se them with the Maharaja. Lord ecl Maynll a l l iance 1118,3 t with stated im no s t elf d ; e n a desirable minute to l make Dust Mah o med. At one time it w as im p ossible to make an alli a n ce w ith Dost Mahomed. Would an y one, then, maint a i n th a t this wa,4 unreasonable ? Did the i n dated Hon. Gentleman who made that motion himself think that it would be desirable to lend the British power to Dust Mahomed in order to make war against Runjeet Sing? The Hon. Director who spoke in the course of that debate objected to this policy. It might bo bad, or it mi g ht b e good policy : he would not discuss that question ; but it sho wed what a differ ence of opinion existed with resp ect to this p r oceeding. He ti}ought the Secret Committee of the Beard of Directors, which was especially appointed to w a t c h th e foreign policy of India, were the best judges of the policy a the war, end they entirely agreed with the_Atte. those explanations were frankly given by , the Govern ment of Russia. They were contained in the papers which had been laid upon the table. In those papers, whatever might have been the conduct of the Russian agent, however suspicious it might have been—and he admitted at once that it did warrant suspicion, and even required explanation—yet still there was, on the part of Russia, a distinct and unequivocal disavowal of that con duct, the recal of one of the agents of that Go vernment, and a positive assurance, on the • part of the Emperor of Russia, first, that he had no wish whatever to disturb British supremacy in India ; secondly, that he had an earnest desire to act with respect to the affairs of Persia upon a per fectly good understanding with this country. Those assurances were encouraged by Count Nesselrode, and Coat Pozzo di Borgo, then Minister of Russia in this country, in the most unequivocal and decided manner to the late Government. The Noble Lord, in the course of that correspondence, had expressed himself satisfied with the assurances which had been given by Russia.— (Hear, hear, from Lord Palmerston.) But the Noble Lord went further than merely expressing satisfaction. In his note to the Russian Ambassador, dated December 20, 1838, the Noble Lord said, alluding to the explanations of Count Nesselrode with respect to the conduct of the Russian agents in Persia and in Caubul , " The despatches from Count Nesselrode, hich your Excellency has communicated to me, contain on those points assurances the most full and complete. Her Majesty's Government accept those assurancta as entirely satisfactory." The Noble Lord then went on to state his conviction that Russia did not harbour any de signs hostile to British supremacy in India, and the des patch then alluded to the instructions which had been given by Russia to her agent in Persia to co-operate with the British agent in that country in persuading the Shah not to undertake any more expeditions similar to the one he had undertaken ag ainst Herat. From the Noble Lord's declaration that he accepted those declara tions as satisfactory, he (Sir. R. Peel) inferred that the Noble Lord placed confidence in them—(Hear, hear. from Lord Palmerston,`—and for himself, he (Sir R . Peel) felt bound to state, that there had been, to his knowledge, no act done by Russia, in respect to her relations with Persia, and more especially in relation to Affghanistan, subsequent to our late disasters, but was in precise and exact conformity with that declaration.— (Loud cheers.) He begged at the same time to say, that whatever might be the conduct of Russia, the British Government in India was powerful enough to protect itself--(Cheers)—that it did not depend on the co operation or good faith of Russia, or of any other Power; but he felt it to be his duty publicly to declare in the face of Europe, that it was impossible for any Power to have acted, not only with stricter good faith, but to have exhibited a more friendly feeling towards this country than Russia had done with regard to England, both in Persia and 'Affghanistan—(Cheers)—and that at the moment of our disasters, in the latter country Russia had exhibited the most unequivocal proofs of friendly feeling—(Loud cheers)—and of a desire not to interfere with the British supremacy in our Eastern dominions. — (Continued cheering.) That being the case, how could he reconcile it to his sense of duty to produce papers relating to a different state of things ?—(Cheers.) Would it be wise to disturb the amicable relations at present existing between the coun tries by producing documents which had been 'Written under different feelings?—(Cheers.) On the same ground he must refuse to enter into any discussion on our In dian policy. He stood in a different position to that occupied either by the Hon. Gentlemen who had proposed and seconded this motion, or by the Right Hon. Gentle man opposite who had been called upon to vindicate the policy which had been pursued in India. He (Sir R. Peel) was charged with a great responsibility, and he thought it would tend more to the public interest if he were to abstain from entering into discussion on the subject at present.—(Hen, bear, hear.) We knew of the misfortunes of Caubul—we were uncertain of the fate of the garrison of Ghuznee—an effort had been made to relieve Candahar,' with the result of which we were, as yet, unacquainted—and he did not think that the present was a time to enter into any discussion on such subjects. He could not, how ever, quite coincide in the observations of the Right Hon. Gentleman on the subject of Indian finance. Whatever elasticity the Indian finances might have ex hibited at former periods, he could not consider the present state satisfactory. He (Sir Robert Peel) had made no exaggerated statements of the financial diffi culties of India. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would refer to the papers, he would find s that in 18:"5-36, there was in India a surplus of revenue over expendi ture of 1,556,0001. ; in 1836-37 it was 1,100,0001. ; in 1837.38 it was 650,0001. ; in 1838-39 it was 280,000/. ; in 1839-40, instead of a surplus, there was a deficiency of 2,414,000/. ; and in 1840-41, there was a deficiency of 2,334,0001. The expenditure of the Indian Go vernment, in 1835-36, was 15,766,000/. ; in 1839-40 it was 11,615,000/. ; and in 1840.41, it was 19,330,0001.—(Hear, hear.) Now, under these cir cumstances, he certainly thought it desirable that en deavours should be made to equalise the revenue and the expenditure. They should recollect that in India they had no Income-tstx, that the collection of the re venue must press hardly upon the cultivators of the soil, and must produce a bad effect, in their opinion, of our Government. Ile agreed with the remarks of the Hon. Gentleman, on the inevitable tendency of our Indian empire to extend itself ; and he feared that, wherever a civilised nation came in contact with one less civilised, such must ever be the case ; but that general tendency could not be taken as a sufficient justification of any par ticular expedition ; and he hardly thought the Right Hon. Gentleman himself would consider that tendency as an argument sufficient to justify a march upon Persia, or the occupation of Bokhara, under present circum stances. The Right Hon. Gentleman had expressed a hope that the policy of Lord Auckland would not be departed from. He (Sir R Peel) thought that, considering the great distance we were from the scene of action, and our un certainty with regard to what had occurred, that it would be premature in him to pledge himself to the adoption of any particular line of policy, but whatever line of policy he might think it expedient to adopt, he would never forget the paramount necessity there was for up holding the honour of the British arms.—(Loud cheers.) He considered the disaster at Caubul as a great military loss, but by no means as a disaster of such a nature as to affect our dominion over our Indian possessions. It was impossible to see the examples of fortitude, fidelity, and valour, which that disaster had called forth—(Cheers) —without feeling satisfied on that head.—(Loud cheers.) How could they look to the patient endurance, to the persevering valour, of Sir Robert Sale—(lmmense cheer ing)—or witness the heroism of that Lady—(lmmense and continued cheering which drowned the conclusion of the sentence.) He thought that those efforts and examples ought not to permit them to be cast down or dispirited. These were not greater reverses than had occurred be fore, and he bad the utmost confidence that by the valour and fortitude of the British arms these disasters would at least be so far repaired that they would not in the slightest degree shake the confidence of the people of England in the supremacy of the British arms. As he said before, he would not say a word more on the subject, as he purposely avoided discussion, and he avoided the expression of any opinion, under the present circum stance, of the policy of the Gavernment ; but he could not quite acquiesce in the fairness of the quotation which the Right Hon. Gentleman made from his (Sir R. Peel's) speech on a former occasion. The Right Hon Gentle man, referring to the declaration in the Queen's speech in the year 1839, observed that all he (Sir R. Peel) had said on that occasion was, that he viewed the prospects of India with great anxiety. Now he did not think any public man, speaking on such a declaration—of course the subsequent events were unknown—he did not think that any public man could do so without same forebodings. He was afraid that be did not limit himself to the mere expression of anxiety on that point. The words he made use of were these, that " I will now advert to a subject"—he merely quoted the expression he made use of in his own vindication ; in 1839 these were the words he used :—" I will now advert to a subject of far deeper interest than the question before the House, a question not relating to matters of domestic nature, for it refers to the state of the British empire and interests in India ; for I consider it most important to divert the attention of the inhabitants of India from war, and teaching them the habits and oc cupations of peaceful industry. When I contemplate the evil consequences of a great financial expenditure im posing the necessity of additional taxation on the sub jects of this empire, I am bound to say that I cannot look to India without the deepest anxiety." He also re ferred to that part of the declaration of the Governor- General, in which he stated that his Majesty Shah Soojah entered Affghanistan surrounded with troops, and that his possession of the empire would be supported. What he said upon this was, " that is to say, this country has entered into an engag ement to this extent that the tyrant and enemy of Caubul would be supported. Now, Sir, I shall require some explanation on that point. The Shah who was deposed in 1809, deposed from all authority, marched with 20,000 men into the country, and the new Governor-General gives a guarantee that he shall be placed possession tomet r up . a t on t of f the t that e princ i pl e thronehron and llmbl tledg e qually ua t an his continuance dapapl slalso. ilft England leaan i r n ds was to attempt to place Charles the Tenth, if he were still alive, on the throne of France, with this single difference that the Shah has been deposed 30 years." This was what he said in 1839, and he could hardly be charged with having expressed perfect satisfaction. He did not wish to say more than that in 1839 their disasters were unknown. The Right Hun. Gentleman had referred to the motion respecting Sir John Keane. Certainly nothing could be more expressly stated than his (Sir R. Peel's) reservation. In the moment of success he was ready to give every tribute of applause to military skill; yet, even in the moment of success, he did net mean to imply approbation of their general conduct. At the same time, he was very little disposed, now these dis asters had happened, nor was that the moment, to make any positive declaration with respect to that policy. H e trusted that he had fulfilled the assurance which he gave to the House, that he would discuss this question with ref( mice to public considerations alone.—(Hear hear.) Those public considerations had induced him to think that it was not desirable to produce those papers, and the same consideration prevented him from entering into any discussion of a party character, but strictly confining himself to the question. Lord PALMERSTON quite agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet in thinking that it was not expedient to produce these papers. He agreed with him for the reasons stated, that it would be inexpedient now, when for some time past a footing of former good understand ing prevailed between Russia and England, because the transaction bad taken place under difficult circumstances. He was happy to hear from the Right Hon. Baronet that good understanding still existed between Russia and England at the time when they left office.—(Hear.) He was glad also to hear the Right Hon. Gentleman state that the Government of Russia had shown, in regard to the transactions which had taken place since with respect to Persia tynd Affghanistan, the suite friendly feeling and good. faith that then existed. The Right Eon. litronot was peratly -right in refusing THE. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1842. Government. Russia having disavowed the acts of her igents, and approved of the Persian policy, there could ie no foundation for a European war with her. The Gentlemen opposite had reserved their attack, like the vulture, till the moment when the soldier was wounded 4nd fallen, but still he was glad to perceive that their -,ase was so utterly weak, as he trusted the House would decide it to be. Mr. BAILLIE complained .hat the despatches of Captain Burnes, which had been produced, were those of the period when he had adopted the policy of the Governor-General. He should not press the motion. Mr. HOGG and Mr. D'IsnAELI explained. Mr. HUME having objected to the motion being withdrawn, the House divided, when there appeared—. For the motion 9 Against it • Majority against the motion On our return to the gallery Mr. WALLACE was on his legs, asking whether the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel) would give him in opportunity of bringing on his motion on another vening ? Sir R. PEEL said that, considering the business that was yet to be gone through, and the little progress which was made with respect to the Poor-law Bill, he could not make any promise to the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. WA.I.LACE said that, in that case, he would make the motion on the first supply night ; and, failing that, he would bring it forward on Thursday, the 7th of July. On the motion of Mr. HUME, an account was ordered of all the monies received by the Commissioners ap pointed by the Act 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 77, and subse quent Act, to carry into effect, with modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, stating the several sums received by the said Commissioners, and from what sources re ceived, in each year, since the passing of the Act; also, an account of all payments made by the said Com missioners in each year, stating to whom paid, and for what purpose to be applied, in each year, up to the Ist of January, 1842. Mr. PROTHEROE mcved for a Return, from the Keeper of the Public Records, of the names and titles of tne several works which were partially prepared for publication, but left unfinished, by the late Record Com missioners ; stating the names of the Editors of such works, and the estimated cost of publishing the same, either in a complete or incomplete state : together with an accurate Catalogue of the various MSS. and Copies of Records made at the public expense, or by order of 'he late Record Commissioners, and not prepared for pub lication.—Agreed to. Sir JAMES GRAHAM obtained leave to bring in tLe following Bills :—Bill to encourage the establish meat of District Courts and Prisons ; a Bill to amend the laws concerning Prisons ; a Bill to continue, until the Ist of October, 1843, the exemption of inhabitants of parishes, tow:iships, and villages, from liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade, or other pro perty to the relief of the Poor ; a Bill to amend and continue for one year the Acts regulating the Police of • Manchester, Birmingham, and Bolton. CUSTOMS BILL. On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE this Bill was re-committed, with the understanding that any discussion on the clauses should be taken on the bringing up of the Report on Monday next. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. DRAINAGE (IRELAND) BILL. The Report on this Bill was received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. BONDED CORN BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and was ordered ;o he reported this day. The House then adjourned at Two o'Clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 23. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Camp bell. COOTE V. LE VOER FRENCH. Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the arguments in this ease, which came before the House upon appeal from the judgment of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, June 23. (Before Vice-Chancellor BaucE.) EYSTON V. SIMONDS. This case was heard this morning. The bill prayed spe cific performance of a contract. His HONOUR, in pronouncing judgment, said the estate in question was purchased by the late Sir Joan Gallini in the year 1786, who continued in the - enjoyment of it until 1801. Since that time the parties interested had claimed under his title. The trustees, desiring to dispose of the property, put it up to sale, and no blame attached to them for selling the property, believing, as they did, that there Was a good title. It appeared, however, that in fact Sir John Gallini was an alien ; that when he acquired the equitable title in the first instance, he had not even acquired letters of denization, and that though he subsequently ac quired the legal fee, it was afterwards escheated. The objection was the subject of considerable negotiation between the vendor and the purchaser. It was contended in the Master's office that this was the case of a man selling an estate not his own without acquiring a new title, and not suppoating the old one. He could not view it in that light. The title did exist, the estate was descendable, andthe subject of conveyance. It wasonly subject to this contingency, that if the Crown thought fit to raise a claim, the title might be defeated. He thought the present title was clearly within :the established rule of the Court, allowing a vendor within certain limitations of time to make ' good his title if he could even while, and in some instances even after, the case had lett the Master's office. The point which had struck him most was, that in the abstract, which was originally delivered, neither the letters of denization nor the alienage was noticed ; but it occurred to the purchaser that Sir John Gallini might have been an alien, and on his asking the question, in April, 1839, he was told that he was an alien. If the purchaser hall held his bond, and said that he had been deceived, it was possible that he could not have been compelled to complete the son tract. Instead of this, however, the parties continued in negotiation upon the subject of the purchase, very prolonged negotiations took place, and it was not until the latter part of 184 U, this having occurred in the spring of 1839, that the matter was finally broken off. Having regard to what had taken place between the parties he was of opinion that that point was nut open to the purchaser. It appeared to him, therefore, that both points must be decided in favour of the vendor, subject to the obligation of paying the purchaser dl his mitts at law, and all the costs of this putt up to the confirmation of the report. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 23. THE CORPORATION OF COVENTRY V. LYTHAM. AND OTHERS. This is a special cue, in which the question at issue is, whe ther certain parishes in the immediate vicinity of Coventry form part of the city, and are liable to the payment . of the city rates, under the Municipal Corporations Act. '1 he defendants contend that the parishes form part of the county of Warwick, and not of the adjoining city. The arguments in the case, which are expected to occupy the Court for some days, turn upon the interpretation of an cient statutes, and present no subject of genera► interest. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opened the case this morning for the plaintiffs. COURT OF COJL(IOIV PLEAS, June 23 (Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and a Middlesex Special Jury.) MACRE:ADV . V. HA It )IER AND ANOTHER. The Jury in this case having been called over, only eiglst Special Jurymen answered to their names, and a tales was prayed. The Jury, having been sw urn, Mr. Glass' opened the plsadings. Mr. PLATT said this was an action brought by Mr. Macready, the celebrated actor, and the lessee and manager of Drury lane Theatre, to recover damages from the deiendants, trio were the prop' letois of the Weekly Dispatch newspaper, for the publication of a libel reflecting on his character, and cal culated to do him a serious injury. The libel complained of was a critique which appeared in the defendant's paper of the 2d January last. The plaintiff's theatre had opened on the 27th December preceding. Previous to the opening of the theatre, the defendant's paper, in several incidental notices, had spoken favourably of the plaintiff, and had expressed a wish for his success, but on the 2d of January this article appeared, which was not a fair criticism; of that the plaintiff would not complain, but of a tissue of false and ma licious attacks, calculated to inflict serious injury on the plain tiff, both as a manager and actor, and as a gentleman. It ap peared that the public press claimed a right to have two free admissions to each theatre. An application was made on the part of the Dispatch for these admissions to Drury-lane, which was refused; the Dispatch had neither the ad missions nor the advertisements, arid on 2d January, the week after the refusal, the article complained of appeared. ( The Learned Counsel then read the article complained of, in which the writer, speaking of the conduct of Mr. Macready, with re gard to excluding persons of improper character front the Saloon, said that the arrangements at Covent-garden had already done all that could be done for keep ing the pure separate from the impure, but that Mr. Macready, under the pretence of virtue, made the matter infinitely worse ; because by collecting all those per EOM in one part of the theatre, he made them more conspicuous. It then censured him for enticing' i modest women to frequent the Sa loon under the illusion that none but chaste women could enter it, and how, it asked, did he propose to exclude those who, although not so degraded as the lowest classes of those who frequented public places, were yet far from being virtuous and chaste, add ing that the mischief ought to have been foreseen, and that Mr. Macready ought to be ashamed of himself. It then proceeded to speak in severe tt - Trns of the company, and of Mr. Macready as an actor, saying, that although he was great in melodrama, his range was more circumscribed than that of any actor who had ever attained celebrity. It was Bruin, always Bruin, nothing but howl and growl—that his mode of influencing the public press was scandalous—that thoie who praised him were plentifully supplied with orders, and had his advertisements, while those who gave honest criti cisms had the supplies cut off—that he had formerly attempted to introduce the French system of claquers, but that it had failed because those persons had clapped when they ought to have been silent, and been silent when he expected the need of their assistance; that his abilities were " eabin'd, cribbed, confined," and that his treatment of actors and actresses was ungentlemanly . and harsh.) These remarks were certainly not fair ernici,m. It was a personal attack. It was not an attack upon his mode of conducting the theatre, but it imputed overbearing and ungentlemanly conduct to him, and that he had delibe rately entered upon a system, for the The mere purposes of b ase lucre, by which the pure and the impure were con gregated toget her. defendants had nut attempted to justify this l:bel, and ;lr. Macready came there to vindicate his rights as a British subject. He was not to be assailed because he was the manager of a theatre. The power of the Press was a frightful engine. 'they had all heard of Mr. Alderman Harm e r. H e h a d f e l t i ts power ; and those who had felt the power of' the public Press were aware how it could be abused. Th e d e f en d an t actuated by feelings of petty disappointment, di'play e d thi s rancour and indignity towards the plaintiff in the hopes to crush him. If they were of opinion that such was the case, the plaintiff would be en'itled to heavy damages on ac c ou n t of the vast circula tion of the paler that contained the libel. The following wit nesses were then called : Mr. John Williams--1 contribute articles to the Dispatch I usually write theatrical amid, s. I remember the opening of Drury-lane Theatre on Monday, 27th December last. I went to the theatre on the Wednesday and the Thursday following. I did not go to the keeper of he free-list office. lam not certain whether during that week I made any application to the keeper of the free list. I did some time or other make application to him. I asked him what papers were in the free list. I was told that the Weekly Dispatch was not in the free list. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILDE...-It is usual for the Press to have free admissions. The Dis patch has availod itself of these free admissions. I hive availed myself of the free admissions to the Haymarket. The practice continues of giving free admissions to the papers. I cannot tell the day I ascertained that the Dispatch was not in the free-list of Drury -lane. Re-examined by Mr. PLATT.—I seldom went to the Hay market-except when a novelty was produced. The Dispatch had two admissions to the Haymarket. I paid for my admis sion when I went to Drury-lane. I did not get there until late—at the commencement of the pantomime. I did not see Mr. Macready. This was the plaintiff's case. Sir T. WILDE said he thought Mr. Macready would have had more reason to complain of the Dispatch if they had praised him for being an actor of the greatest versatility. If they had said that in tragedy he was dignified and ma jestic, tender and pathetic in turns—that in comedy he was gentlemanly, elegant, light, graceful, and hi larious, that in farce he was laughter-moving and humorous, and that in pantomime he was the most expert and dextrous harlequin who had ever appeared on the stage. It they had said this, and the audience had found when they went to see him, that instead of all this, Mr. Macready was the same ineverything, then indeed he might have complained that his au diti,rs owl been disappointed, and a serious injury inflicted on him It was the duty of the press to purify and guide the public taste, and to prevent public nuisances. It was the terror of the press alone which prevented the public taste from being polluted ; and provided a writer did not travel ont of his limits, provided he confined himself in his criticisms on a public man to his ppblic capacity, he might be as severe as he pleased without being libellous. A motive had been ascribed to the defendants that they had published this critique because Mr. Macready had refused them free admissions. Why did Mr. Macready refuse them free ad missions, unless that he feared honest criticism ? The article in question did not exceed the fair bounds of criticism ; and if Mr. Macready had not been, he would not say the most sore-headed, but the most sensitive and excitable of mortals, this action would never have been heard of. If they thought his conduct with respect to the saloon calcu• lated to produce moral evil, they were justified in commenting upon it. It was ridiculous to pretend that Mr. Macready's management might not be criticised—to ask if they might not be permitted to discuss whether Mr. Macready was an actor of limited powers. He had been before the public for years. The public could judge. Did Mr. Macready imagine he was the only actor who ever lived with regard to whose merits all parties should be unani mous? If they returned a verdict for the plaintiff it would be a mockery to say that theatrical criticisms were free, and there would not be a bad actor, a bad singer, or a bad dancer who would not brihg his action for libel. This was the first attempt which had been made to put down criticism, and he hoped it would be the last. He therefore confidently expected their verdict would be for the defendants. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, in summing up, said that the various topics commented on in the article were all fair sub jects for public discussion ; that a man occupying the station of Mr. Macready might be considered as public property, and was therefore fairly open to public observation. If, however, they considered that the defendants had exceeded the bounds of honest discussion, and had assumed the cloak of honest discussion merely to hide private malignity, then their verdict would be for the plaintiff. The part of the publication which seemed to him most likely to bear cut this inference was the commencement, in which the writer stated that Mr. Macready made a pretence of virtue. It was, however, for them to determine, and give their verdict accordingly. The Jury then retired, and after an absence of three quarters of an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 51. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, June 23. 114 THE MATTER OF RICHARD MOORE. The bankrupt was described as a hay-salesman and corn chandler. It appeared also, in his subsequent examination, that he hid been the proprietor of a public-house and livery-stables in Mile-end-road. [he amount of debts in his schedule was stated as under 2,0001 , and the available assets at about 2901. Debts to the amount of nearly 5001. were also stated as due to the estate, out of which only 1501. were accounted good. The bankrupt was subjected to a long examination by a creditor named Jones, who contended that he was not entitled to pass his final examination, on the grounds of having trautiu lowly contracted debts with him for goods sold at the time when he (the bankrupt) was perfectly aware of his inability to meet other and more extensive liabilities, and when a docket was about being struck against him. After a long and uninteresting discussion,,the examination was adjourned for a month. POLICE INTELLIGENCE , GUILDHALL. _ _ Mary Lacy was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Copeland, charged with setting fire to the house of Mrs. Ro setta Moss, of North-buildings, Finsbury. Mrs. Moss stated that she engaged the prisoner as servant about a fortnight ago. Wednesday the prisoner came down stairs, and said the use was on fire. They immediately went up stairs and found the bed in one of the rooms on fire. The room was occupied by a gentleman who lodged in the house. They turned the bed over and put the fire out. The bed was on a mattress made of straw. Upon questioning the prisoner as to the origin of the fire, she said she supposed that some of the gentlemen must have been smoking, and have dropped a spark on the mattress. In about two hours afterwards, this transaction being at about six o'clock in the evening, the pri soner was sent up stairs to make the bed. She immediately came down stairs, and said the house was again on fire. A gentleman who was in the house went up stairs, and found the room in flames. He ran into the street and called fire, and part of the fire brigade, being at that time in the immediate vicinity of the house, came in and put out the fire. The fireman stated that he extinguished the fire and then examined the room. He found several lucifer matches on the mantelpiece, and observed that some had been rubbed along the top of the table, and had left a mark. The curtains of the window were burnt, and the bed-curtains, but nothing else. When he went in the girl was so much alarmed that she fainted. '1 he girl, in her defence, said she knew nothing as to how the fire happened. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said he would send for the girl's father, to enter into recognizances for the appearance of the prisoner when called upoa, in case any further evidence should be obtained against her. BO W-STREET. A HOPEFUL LITTLE LOT.—Three little boys, named Daniel Madden, Thomas Maxwell, and John Welsh, all of them 13 years of age, and with the most villainous cast of countenance that one could come across in a day's match through " the Dials," or any other similarly classic neighbourhood, and whose shorn locks bore evidence of but a recent incarceration in some of those delightful seminaries for naughty boys—the Peniten tiary, Tothill-fields, or " the Mill"—were charged with the following robbery : •. An intelligent little boy, named Thomas Clinch, al,o 13 years of age, stated that on Wednesday night about 8 o'clock, he was taking a drink at the pump near the Freemasons' "tavern, when the prisoners came up to him, and Madden took a silk pocket handkerchief and a penknife out of his pocket. Wit ness immediately collared him, when he dropped the handker chief upon the groUnd. He then went to look for a police man, and whilst looking for one he saw Maxwell take a snuff box out of a gentleman's packet. The prisoners were together all the time. Policeman, F 43, took the prisoners into custody. He found a snuff-box on Maxwell, and two ragged silk handkerchiefs on Madden, but nothing upon Welsh. Thompson, F 49, stated that the prisoners were all known to the police. Welsh had been several times convicted, and had been twice tried at the Ohl Bailey. 'I he first time was for picking pockets at Greenwich Fair. Witness believed he had a very bad mother, who made him go out to steal. The other two had also been frequently in custody, but he could not re member what were the occasions. In answer to questions from Mr. HALL, Madden stated that he hid no father. His mother went out washing. He was in prison last about nine months ago for a month. Maxwell said that he had no father. His mother cleaned trotters in the sea son. lie had never been in prison, only once before, about three years ago, in Tothdt-tields fur ten days. Mr. HALL sentenced Welsh to three months, and the others to two mouths' imprisonment in the House of orrection. :I/A /LLB OR b G STRE ET. John Samuel Edwards, a young man evidently still labour ing under the otlects of iaraixteation, and who stated himself to be tile son at a master builder, living in Nottingham-mews, ft i g t,streer, Mary lebone, wis charged with committing a vio lent and unprovoked assault on :Martha Simmer, a fruir-w man, arot knocking a basket off her head, ,ontaining some tresl, gathered stt ats berries, by which 12 gallons of fruit were entirely spoiled. The complainant stated that about ten o'clock yesterday, as she was proceeding along Oxnrrd-street with the fruit on her head, the defendant came up behind her and struck her with his doubled fist in the small of her ha k, arid then koncked her basket off her head, and kirke,i tt :turd ihe contents about he street. The• value of the fruit, w.,s lii-., hisidesher loss of time. 'I he defendant. said that. she s; ruck him tit st. Mr. MALTBY eaid it was very unlikely she should do so, and without he paid the amount of the damage he had so wantonly done, and also made her Compensation for her loss of time, and the blow he had struck her, he should fine him vet y heavily. The defendant said he had no money about him, but he would send to his friends and get what was required. lie was locked up in the meanwhile. UNION-HALL. A JUDGE AND JURY CLUB.—JantesGardiner, IVilliam Young. and James Freeman, were charged with committing a violent assault on Thomas Davis, under the following circum stances :—The complainant and defendants are all inmates of Christchurch workhouse. and are employed breaking stones for the parish. Of late a " Judge and Jury Club" has been estab lished by some of the male paupers. The complainant having recently committed some act against the rules of the society, was tried by a " Special Jury," and sentenced to receive two dozen w ith a broom handle, and to be afterwards rolled in some horse dung which was spread out in a corner of the place where they were at work. The sentence was accordingly car ried into effect, the defendants, who were described as the most troublesome men in the house, being the ringleaders and the parties who inflicted the punishment. The complainant, in describing the circumstances, said that his back and shoulders were black and blue owing to the severity with which he was beaten by his assailants. r. COTTI NG II A M inflicted a fins of 40s. on each of the de fendants, who, in default of payment, were committed for a month each to the treadmill. SOUTH-SEA HOUSE. A general meeting was held yesterday at the South-Sea House for the purpose of electing Director for the ensuing year. There was no other busine,s before the meeting, and the Court adjourned e.aly. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 22.—The steam-vessel Avon is com missioned at Woolwich for service in thy West Indies by Lieut. Henry Byng, and will be stationed at Jamaica. . . . . The packet brig Stork, ofd guns, has been commissioned for the Brazils by Lieut. Charles Butler, and to have a com plement of 50 men. The corvette Wolf, IS, has been commissioned at Plymouth, by Commander Courtney Osborne Hayes. She is built on :he principles of the late Rear-Admiral John Hayes, C.B. The America,so, shortly be commissioned at Plymouth, and also at Bombay, 84. The corvette Larne, '2O, Captain Blake, arrived on Sunday from the East Indies and China, last from the Cape of Good Hope, having left Trincomalee so long since as the 7th January. The Sulphur and Starling, surveying vessels, were there, and were to sail for England early in February, 60 that they may be looked for daily. The Larne brings no news ; she has lost several officers by death ; has been in commission nearly' five years, and is to be paid off at. Chatham. The Wel lesley, 72, C.,ptain Maitland, may be expected daily from the same quarter, and will come into this harbour to be paid off. The ships fitting out in this harbour are the P.que, 36, Capt. Forbes, Albatross, 16, C-mmander Yorke, and Satellite, 18, Commander Gambier. The two latter are n< arly manned, but are still in the basin. t4The /Etna i s to be recommissioned at Plymouth by Lii ut. Raymond, for service as a receiving strip at Liverpool. Monday, being the anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne, was observed here with the usual demonstrations of loyalty. The Royal standard flisated over the public establish ments and ships of war ; an•i merry peals from the bells en livened the day. Ihe usual salutes from the gatrison and shipping also took place. Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.8., is gone in his tender to visit the several ports within the limits of his com mand. The Gallant Admiral's period of service will expire in Deccan next) The Cal( utta, 84, Captain Sir Samu3l Rober,s, is or home from the 11Iediterranean, to touch at Gitra,iar sad I.* bon, and may be expected shortly. The Isis, 44, Captain Sir John Marshall, was at ho de Ja neiro, on the 25th of April, about to proceed to Rio do la Plata, whence she was to return, to await the arrival of the LOW Ad• miral. The cutter Seafiower, Commander Bobilliard, ix expected from Jersey, to refit, &c. At Spithead—Larne corvette. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Pique, Satellite, Alba tross, Excellent, and Royal George yacht.— Br ightoto Gazette. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended June 17, 1842, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englami and Wales, per Imperial Quarter Wheat......... 635. 10d. i Oats Barley 26s. 10:. 4 . I Rya .... ..... 363. WI Pease... ..... .323. fd. AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Week ending) WHEAT. BAELEY.I OATS. I RYE. BEANS. [!BASS -. -------- ..-.—.-- ..-.-----1 3 --..-----...---------- ay 13 69 9 26 3 19 6 31 3 31 9 31 M • 20 5O 925 11 19 5 32 431 731 4 27 6l 10 25 11 19 7 31 7 32 1 30 11 June 3 63 6 k 6 # 19 7 33 6 32 5 32 5 10 64 0 26 8 20 11 31 9 33 1 3 7 i 17 63 10 26 10 21 6 36 10 33 9 311 6 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEK Wheat 62: 3t. 1 Oats Barley. 26s. 4d. I Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat 103 Oci. 1 Oats Barley los. 0,1. I Rye THE MARKETS.-Y ESTER DAY. COLONIAL Al ARKET. ribs - market looked healthy. The home demand was good► and shippers looked more to several articles. Arriials were larger from most parts. Raw Sugars in good request .at: the rates last quoted. Refined sold steadily at 83s. for standard lumps. Coffee firm, and wanted; good ordinary Ceylon 765. per cwt. Cocoa firm, and wanted ; 355. to 425. for Trinidad. TEA MARKET. There was a fair business done, and full rates were paid. Company's Congou Is. 9d. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm, but the market was dull at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 495. 3d. for delivery in last three months of the year. Town Tallow 48s. 6d. per ciAt. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. There was a good supply, and fine and middling qualities met a ready sale at our highest quotations ; the ordinary sorts more in demand, and full ss. per load higher. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 5/. 10s. ; Hay, first cut, 2/. ss. to 41. 45.; New Hay, 31. to ' 31. 3s. ; Straw, 11. 121. to 11. 16s COUNTRY CORP AIARKETS. Wheat. Birley. Oats. — Beans. Pease. ---- - ----.....--'' 'Per Quarter.: s. to s. s. to s. s. to 5. s. to s. 'JO 1. Carlisle 6B 31 23 46 Hexham 43 72 36 38 •.3 28 _ Morpeth Penrith Sheffield - Winchester 52 69 23 '27 20 26 35 40 ... -- Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d s.d. cd. Carmarthen 6:i 711 0 0 4 4 0 0 1 9 5 6 0 0 0 0 0t) Cowbridge Swansea Per 8011. Barnardcastle 13 n 18 6 8 9 .9 0 4 0 7 4 9 6 11 0 0 0 0 0 Durham '136 15 6 7 6 80 56 6r• 00 9tioo •0 Richmond l4 0 19 o i lo 0 11 0 6 0 7 410 0 12 0 0 0 O 0 St oc kton LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—June2I wil err, English, White, per 701 b.... ----- Red 9 6 11.1 0 --- Scotch, Welch, and Manx --- Irish, White 7II 8 6 -- Red 7 0 8 0 -- Foreign ..... OATS, English. Welsh. and Scotch, per 451 b 33 0 5 5 --- Irish 3 4 3 6 -- Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ...... - - • • • A n A S . . . .‘ . - --- Scoich and Irish, per 6011;s. --- Feeding :3 1 4 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 343 0 49 0 - Irish, Sec . - Foreign PEASE, Englien, per Imperial quarter -- Foreign . FLoua, English, per 26‘.;113 .-- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401h5. .. '2B 0 91 0 ISII•IAN Coati, per 480th. RYE, per Imperial quartet MALT, per Imperial quarter - 0 KETS. .he V 1 cek ending JUNE 17. From To Average f6O Wheat,per barrel 2 , ,, t001e......1 27 0 37 0 32 0 i, here ... l6 stole — 6 —li 0 0 B ar l ev f 6 stow-- 0 0 6 2,437 Oats '4 strut lO 0 18 0 13 5 ..... Flour, per cwt. .. 8 sw.o: — 0 0 •- 0 1.230 0atmea1............. 6 stone 115 f 17 6 16 9 Sold to Bakers only. 7,958 Cw A t. F10ur........,.. ....... . 9if 24 0 21 11 46 ' Average price a ... Vv . heat and Flour 55. Od per sac.k. . ' Firits..—.,.. . from 18s. Od .to 24s 0 8 Receipts of Flour, 9,2 (. 91, cenu , 2 .... ... 7.: from Is. Cd. to Ills Al Gales of Do. 9,645 Tnirds ......... from 9s. Od. to 134 04 PRICE os , BREAD. . Quarter' , Loa! ..... ...."A. 1 Hall Quartern .....4%d. CORK MARKETS.—June 18. Wheat (per 205t.)28s Od.tol'ls. od, oats (per 14st. .... 9e.6d. to 12s. ed. Barley (per 165t.)10 6 12 6 'Floe r (per cwt ).... 7ii 2 0 - Oatmeal (per cwt.) 2.. Od. to 13s. Od , .. . Beef, 6d. to fid.—Mutton, sd. tnad.—Veal, 4id to 5d Pork, 4d. to sd.—Fresh Butte', 11d. cc —d per lb. PRICE OF RUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Country • , First Quallty..• ........ ... we.. 6 0 1 - •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 71s Second 6. 76 ......................... 7 Third .. ......... •• • •••• 0000000 NI 68 ••• , •••••••••••••• 1 1. SON 4.. be ' Fourth . . 00000 . 00000000 aim... 58 _............................... 47 . , Fifth ...•... 43 ............................. 37 ' Sixth ... .... 28 ••••••••••••• CLONMELL MA RKETS...../une 18 Per Cwt. A _ s. d. s. d. s , d. P. ~ 0 New Butter 00000 ....98 oto 99 0 Hide , traw)......... , .... wto 2 .. • ,. 0atmea1...... o. oo .... 0 14 6 8ac0nng5..........44 C 46 v Rendered Lard 0 62 Per 0 ii 8at ead5................26 'J ..... -,° t ~: .r. Fleur,Second ..- 0 40 A 1F10ur.1turdit.......... 6 le 0 1 —.Household.-- 0 38 01 - 3 -- Fouttda.....lB 4 ..... • „s Per arrel. R a peseed 20 0 —Ol Barley ...............16 0 19 1 1 , Sere l3 0 I Culs ....«...........+ 0 + . f.` . KILKENNY MARKETS. .-fl Wheat,per barrel)2Bs. Od.to 33..04. fleet ;per 1t•......, 04.0 J. to Os. Pe Barley 12 0 19 0 :Judea ..........., 0 5 0 1 9 . 1 Oats l4 0 15 0 Pork ................ 6 4 07' Flour (per bag) 25 0 bli 0 Vett! ..............,.., 0 6 0. f ,r , , Butter(pet cwt.) 0 0 98 0 iresh Bunn ..... 0 0 1: . , Bacon Pigs 45 0 46 0 Salt Ditto ... .0 6 . 0 1 Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes &et st.) 0 9 00 . IRISH MARI OUBLIN MARKET NOTE for. HAMBURII MARKETS. GtIAIN. Wheat, Marks..,' 420 to tol Barley, Mecklenburgh ;74 to LY° --- Magdeburg - blagdeburgh... 166 40 2 ' -- Anhalt, white 4.6 to 5114 -- Holstein 174 to In • - red ... 390 to 510 --- Odgrbruck. 165 to 14 0 Brunswick 44 to 5n9 Oats, Elder ... . . ......... 160 to 10 " .., -- Mecklenburg 384 to 489 -- Mecklenburg .e.lllO-441% -- Polish 56 to 546 -- Holstein 1 !0 Id ,4 -- H o l s t e in - Upland Rye, Mecklenburg .... 267 to 3 . OiPoase, Mecklenburg -- Marks 252 to 165 Beans 256 tor` ~. -- Elbing and Ko- Buck Wheat ......... 231 to nigsburg 224 to 28€ Rapeseed, Hanover ... 585 4 0 °Z -- Pomeranian -- Anhalt COTTON. . 6 Carolina and Tennessee 7 (*to 9% Marrnham . - 6 • - i 0 (4eorgia, Ist sort 7% 8 Madras 414 b 2d 6%4 6% Swats... 3i 4% 3d and 4th COF FEE. 4% Arch- l'i to 13% , Dcmingo 3% to. Batavia 4% 5% La Guao'a 4 • 4 Imatra - u -. Porto Rico ..... ............. 5% ,g. rAk, 2% 5% Ilavannah ti% ''' Bahia SUGAR.— (W It 1 8% Discount.) Hovatinah, White...—''' 3 to f? X, Banns, White ov 10 2 20 r Brown 2% 2% Brown 1% , 4 Rio, White 27i, 4 Pernambuco, White ..J% '„; Brown - Manilla. Brow' 11, 2% to 2% MR. \TIGRE'S TRAVELS IN KASIIMERE, &CP P I would be difficult (observes the Naval and Military Gagsllll Si pout out any one Look ot travels which has claimed Oh' " t i attention for many years, that has deserved it more tully red unreservedly then does this of Mr. ; and this is true in every point of view in which a hook of travels can be r. e l ra de rl—is he , Sri the political impoi lance of the countrlieo about %%hid' it concerns itself, the novelty and curiosity °c i d details brought to light, the care and skill with which it details have been noted and arranged, the philosophical ol' i to in •A hich the writer's observatiuus have been made and live n the world, and the fund of information that has been e°l 7o pressed into a comparatively small space. Mr. Vigne cond°:, us from Constantinople, by Trebizond and Kurdistan , to Er„,-. ',um, into Persia, crossing it tram Tabreez to Tehran; the';6, to the south, visiting all the other chief cities of Persia, ,: o eluding Ispahan, Shiraz, and Bushir ; embarking for Bore`!„,10 passing some time in the adjacent countries , seeing the I,"_,s of Imperial Delhi, making a considerable sojourn in S in:lap :7r finally exploring the entire valley of Kashmir, and all the ee tries adjoining the course of the Indus. The volum es are je lustrated by 22 engravings, from designs by the Author, 'LI valuable map, engraved under the sanction of the ROD. India Company. GALWAY, JUNE 20.—Since the disturbanc e be r. Monday last, this town has been perfectly tranquil. The fil sti a men took to their beats, and went to sea early in the w e r ah previsions having experienced a seasonable reductio n in P t t o no further commotion is apprehended. It was feared tits op country people, hearing of the violence committed onlo!:ttra would not bring their goods into the market ; and on W 7004, day the supply was scanty, from that cause; but an evrour ance of potatoes was brought in on Saturday , and sold la ' o t, pence a stone. This ,is nut an extravagant price, th ° ' l l ,7,t in fraction over threepence always pinches the poor man drat the present dearth of employment any price at all must §t him. Of the scarcity of money you may judge frotn,Witers Loughrea, in this county, when the famishing peoP'„Oote riotously assembled to oppose the forestallers in the,-Icerti, market, eggs were offered ter sale five fur a penny , and After quite fit for the pot, were sold fur sevenpence a couple• a r e , a long drought we have been visited with seasonable 11 : 11 . freshing rain, which only seemed wanting to confir m ticipation of an abundant and early harvest. friS ßte THE HELPER, JUNE 20.—His Majeszy Indies, Palembang, Captain Frendenberg, bound for the Ell t 1 , 41 put to sea to-day with Hear-Admiral Lucas on bir d ' OA distressing accounts are received from various quarte r ! s effects ot very dry and hot weather, which has c susen,.., sbe great scarcity of fresh water, and so parched the fields 41' cattle can scarcely find pasture. pen t ' ELABORATE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCICS.- - '” f ; o f CO' of 82, Strand, having had the distinguished flonn u "teen c ! strutting, by command of the Emperor ot Russia, MO f; i0 0 la mieal clocks, invites a public inspection of them P r ` their departure. BIR2'HS. On the 12th inst., at Copenhagen, the lady of th ill e Robert Stevenson Ellis, M.A., of a son. , ftef• On the 13th inst., at Goring, Oxon , th e wife of the 11. Broome, of a son. On the 3 4th inst., at Nantes, Mrs...l. Stewart, of 5 5 p 0 ' tb° , e , On the 19th inst., at Dinas Mowddwy, Merion ID" lady of F. Howard, Esq., of* daughter. eld, EK" On the 2011 i inst., the lady of Thomas Dufg of a daughter. si ind MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, il• libtri°tte Smith, Esq., of Cricklewood, Middlesex, to Mrs. Emma Lomax, of Chester-place, Kennington. ii, P des. On the 21st inst. , at Herne , Ken t, Arthur Stilive o m , of Alooroft House, Hill.ngdon to Elizabeth lei, thir , u daughter of John Finnts, Esq., of Dover. Gar jner. , 00 11 A t All Saints Church, Air. James Anthony ,on of Captam James A. Gardner, 11. IN•, to Ala„A,rtnoet, 0 116 surviving daughter of the late J. H,-ward , EA+ f°l '. Tou lir idge. sm O it tLth; :s4 l , l ., l o h r i ii ns i t g . h , at eNisot,rl:twhl!feept:iire:eenjr:e rts::::,:t.t.haege:3:7:°;::enr On the loth inst., at St. H R e o l c ie h r e ' ' s du ' u CO° r the youngest son of Henry Campbell White,,,;"q.' Hall, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, aged ,'''' ..oir -I°er ' ' On the 17th inst., at Lady Ilobhouse's, lioulogne__nalogli, Count Edoatdo lirant:aleoni, eltie,t son of Grehbi , , in Italy. • a 61 ................ OY I JI ,i' --- t'IlD O .onclun: Printed aid Published by 11 ,1 , 1 it ,, , SW" ' ..\ ti. 112, Strand. at the Sllh OffiCes 1.4,1-$4 l. the County of Middlesex, Fridayi . 110 " ' of Count Pr.