The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-25 00:00:00

ti,PIRITot the PUBLIC JOURNALS FRO3I THE EVENING PPAERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Report of Mr. Roebuck's Com mittee on Election Compromises, which had been long looked for, has come at last, and though it is not very long, it is exceedingly full of matter. There is, per haps, nothing in the Report that will startle those who are at all cognizant—and who in these days is not ? —of the nature of the proceedings at certain con tested elections. If Mr. Roebuck's Committee have no other good effect, it will at least force upon Parliament the necessity of taking some step, for its own credit sake, to put an end to practices which might have been omitted if they could have been "kept un known." Considerable delicacy has been shown to wards the parties concerned; who are, in nearly all the cases investigated by the Committee, declared to have denied that they had, " either before or during the election, any personal cognizance of any bribery or corruption' —a state of innocence that must have left them in a condition of extraordinary bewilderment as to what was being done with the large sums of money which they were called upon to supply ! The election for Har wich was proved before the Committee to have cost one of the sitting Members 6,3001.; and above 3,0001. sit' this sum was distributed in bribery among 33 per sons, though the individuals from whom the money came " had no personal cognizance of any bribery !" But a seat for Harwich was a luxury not to be had for the trifling consideration of 6,3001., and it was found necessary to add 2,5001. more by way of compro mise for securing the honour of representing Harwich in Parliament. The reason for the compromise is stated 'by the candidates and their agents "to have been the belief that the seats of the sitting Members could not be held, in consequence of bribery by parties who would have been proved to be agents.' It ap pears, then, that after expending upwards of three thousand pounds in bribery he did not know of, one Of the sitting Members puts down 2,5001. more, to avoid the consequences of the corruption practised against his will, and without his knowledge, by his over-zealous agents. Each csse is so like the other, that it is unnecessary to call special attention to more than one ; but it is observed by the Committee, in re ference to Nottingham, that the system of bribery " was particularly developed in the April of 1841," which was the date of Mr. Walter's election. It is atated that the parties concerned have, with few ex reptions, been willing to appear before the Com mittee, whose proceedings have been facilitated by the full and frank disclosures that have been made by the several candidates. This, indeed, does not sur prise us, considering that the inquiry was not one of a judicial character, and that individuals implicated in the past were not to be held responsible. It is cer tainly wise in them to give every facility to an inves tigation, undertaken with a view to putting an end to a practice which is at once costly its its - operation, and insecure as to its results ; • for, however large the out lay, the enjoyment of its fruit could never be relied on. STANDARD.—In the House of Commons, the fragmentary New Poor-law Bill was read a third time, and passed, with a most valuable clause added by way of rider, upon the motion of' Sir Thomas Acland. This excellent addition empowers Boards of Guardians to appoint local Committees, in order to spare the poor the necessity of making journeys of, it may be, ten or twenty miles in pursuit of relief; perhaps of sixpennyworth of bread, as we have heard has sometimes happened. We See in this clause the germ of a return to sound Christian principles—to the virtual dis solution of the overgrown unions. The next step will probably be the restoration of local workhouses, reserving the union workhouses for the incorrigible and worthless. Thus there will be a perfect grada tion of relief—out-of-door aid to the respectable and industrious, who can in part contribute to their own support; local workhouses for such as are alto gether helpless; and "the union" for the utterly idle ,and profligate. This arrangement, with a permanent Central Commission, sitting as a tribunal of appeal, but originating no orders, would consti tute a perfect system of machinery for a Poor-law ; and to this we trust the law will come sooner or later. Sir James Graham read the present Poor • law Commissioners and their Secretary a sharp lecture upon the head of impertinence : would it not be right to change them altogether ? " Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh." We know :from the best authority, awl every one's experience tells him, that imper tinent persons are generally bad hearted persons. Now bad hearted persons ought not to have that ab solute and complete control over the poor with which Sir James says the Commissioners are invested. We doubt whether even the spirit of Lord Ashley could render the. New Poor-law sufficiently mild and gene rous in its,effect ; and surely - it is not necessary to render a harsh law still .harsher in its operation, by confiding the administration of it to men capabl e o f ; writing as•the Commissicsers.and their Secretery are accustomed to write. DOVER CHURCH-RATE CASE. (From the Dover Chronicle.) Our readers will recollect that, in December 1840, Mr. 1). Palfrey of this town was cited to appear in the Arches Court, Doctors' Commons, for refusing to pay four Church-rates and two Cemetery-rates. The admission of the libel, as far as the Church-rates were concerned, was successfully opposed by Mr. Palfrev's counsel : but as far as related to the Cemetery-rates, no opposition was offered. The payment of these rates was recommended by counsel for Mr. Palfrey, and they were paid accordingly. On the 11th of January last the question of costs was argued before Sir H. Jenner Fust, who con demned the churchwardens in the costs of the four Church-rates, and Mr. Palfrey of the two Cemetery rates. Mr. Pnlfrey's Proctor's charge was £76 1 10 Taken off in taxation 2B 13 4 47 8 6 Churchwarden's Proctor's bill Taken off in taxation l2 7 2 ACCOUNT BETWEEN PROCTORS. Abbott Dr. to Farquhar Farquhar to Abbott Balance 4 9 7 D. PalfreS•, Dr. to Farquher—Bill Additional Bill 8 0 3 Received of Abbott.. 84 2 I 4 9 79 12 6 Ur. Palfrey to Mr. Chalk, Solicitor X 95 .3 1 As this appeared a much larger - sum than ought to be charged to Mr. Palfrey, he petitioned the Judge to revise the taxation of the costs ; and having re solved to prosecute the petition in person, he has been obliged to attend the Court seven times. The Judge on Monday last expressed his surprise that Mr. Palfrey should have so much to pay, but declared that he could not reverse his judgment, and that he had no evidence before him that costs had not been taxed agreeably to the custom of the Court. Mr. P. complained that he had been prevented producing such evidence, by the taxed bills having been refused him by the Registrar; but to no purpose. The late contest has cost as follows : Preparing petition, C pies of same for each Proctor, &c. Two Extracts from Vestry-book Mr. Palfrey's Travelling and Living Expenses in Seven , Journeys to London l3 2 8 Mr. Farquhar's Bill 79 12 6 Mr. Chalk's Bi11l PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 22. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid Share 1,7, 6 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.l66.lll. 94 1,442 41. Aehby.de.le-Zouch Avcrage 1161.5 h . 71 •. ,, ,,...‘- 60 **** . » .. Basingstoke.... ..........................1001.sh • 6 Iput* 51. Br ecknock and Abergavenny ...1501.5h. 9.2 6,000 . 1.16 th. 101. Birmingham,l-16th share ...AI. & 711. 185 4,000 ........, Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l WM. sh .100 p 4 al 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. oh. all p 3 - 400 51. Chelmer awd Blackwater ..... ....1001.sh . 101 500 321. Coventry ....•••••••”•••••••••••••. .. . . •.. 100 Ls h• 305 2 ,,...... Cr0yd0n............ Average 3 . 1.28.10 d. sh . - 2,060 51. Os. Dudley ............. 1001.8 h . 94 600 131. Derby .. ... -.- ...»....-... ... ... ....1001.sh . 12U 20,000 4 per cent. O..anube and M a yne .. ..... 11.135. 46 .pd 31 2.5751 4' Ellesmereand Chester AVertgel33i.sb. 67 .231 MI Erewasn 6,0.5 811 Forth and Clyde ....... 100/ en. 1001. pd. If 2 11,451 7a. Grand 4 unction 1901.11. 123" svoi 255. Grand Union ........ ........•..... 1001•sh 27 1,500 ......... Grand 5urrey...,..., 1001.3 h. 15 1,000! 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. 3,096 .. Grand Western ...« ........ . /1, eh. al Ipd 10 • 600 13 Ns. dii . Olanvirganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4 d, '2lO 749 W. Granthwei lsol.sh. iceo 6 t3B 2. di. Huddersfield;......Average /1. 66.6 d. sh 19 108 ... Kensingtoa l OO sh. allpd 10 25.328 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391.185. 104 .sh Jesi 11,699} IL 10s. Lancaster Average 471.65. 8d ..6% 2,8971 301. Leed s and Liverpool lool.sh 6PO 545 k 1. 1. Ios. Leicester 1401.11 146 1,897 51.25. Leicester & Northampton Aver P31.10: 71 2,409 101 Monmouthshire ..-... 101)1.x1 200 256 161. Melton Mowbray 600 25!. Mersey and Irwell lool.sh. 5;0 3,600 11. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd. 16 247 171. Neath 1001.16. 3011 --- _._. 2,400 51. Peak Forest ..... Average about 781.5 h. 00 21,418 %1. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.161.8 d. sh. 14 5,669 61. Rochdale ....Average i.sl.sh. 6.1 500 81. Shropshire ..... ............... .......1251.5h. 135 806 11/. 10s. Somerset Coal .. . ..... ...............1501.5h. 171* 3,6001. 6 prr cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s.sh . 11'a 709 361. Stafford and Worcester 1401.5 h . 68G 500 151 Shrewsbury 300 9/. 3taurbridge.....—.... 1451.5 h. 3116 3.647 V. Or. Stratford.on-Av or, Aver... 791. 9s. ed. sh . 33 539 Int Swansea .......... ........ ... IOOI.A h. '265 3,762 V. 121. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 35 1,600 f sti . 391. 10s. Trent and Mersey, f share l OOl. ah. 495 6,149 ... ..... 'themes and Medway Av. 191. FA. Bd. sh. 2 l ' Calh 'i 141. Warwick and Birmingham lool.sh 186 I,oooish. 980 16*. Warwick and haw.' 1001.1 h. 1,7 7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs.sh. 55 5.006 365. Wilts and Berko Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 20 400 6,. Wytlev and PAsington......... 1951. sh 74 .26 905 If We], and Arun. .......... ........... 1101. an . 20 DOCKS. 2.6003 Sp. c. Comment al . ....... 4001.0. 61 1,065i5h. 5 per cent. Kest and West India „........... Stock 10114 11.235,31016. 3il.p.ct. L0nd0n..„. ...„ .....................„....Stock 82 Ditto Bons 2.202 11.6.. sd. Bristol ............. ..... Average lel. 9s. sb . 75 -- 08,3241. 51. percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lO6 252,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 99% 500,000 4* per cent. Ditto Bonds .... .... ....... .... ..... .. . lOO% 100,.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years ..... ... ... • . 100 ••..... ..... .... Deptford Pier •• 41. sh. O ••. . p d 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 1/. Hammer5mit1 , ............ ..... .... ...... 501.. h. 21 34 7,231 1,780 1/. 15e Ditto, New, of 74 per cent., 501. sh . 151( 4000 ..... .... Waterloo 1001. sh. 3 5,000 221. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 COL pit 21 5,000 19s. 3d, Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 1234 PO,OOOl. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,846 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 2834 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion ............ ...... .....5001. sh. 50!. pd 69 50.000 16li n er d • IT.] Allianceßritish&Foreignlool.o. 111. pd 1334 51,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. eh. 51. pd 5% 24,000 41. per sh. Atlas 501.1h. 51. pd 144, I,2oofsh. 5/. Birmingham hire.. 250!. sh. 55/. pd 10754 20,000 41. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 41 12,000 61. percent. British Commercial .........501. Ilk. Si, pd 6 5,000 51. pa cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001.10.2110 s pd 65q 4.000 VOs County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 10 4,000 ss. Eagle. .501. sh. 51. pd 4N a s n p d er 3o c t e b n s t . . l Economic Lite 10001. eh. 250/. pd 400 2,271 22e. per cent. European Li. •• ' 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 21. pd 1% 1.000,000/. ff. per ct Globe Stock 195 20,000 51• Guardian 30,000 4s. Od. Hope sol.sh. 51. pd 5 3 4 2,400 51. 12.5. Eld. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 141 7,500 10s. fd. Imperial Lite lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 115 e 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine WO/. eh. 8/. pd 32 2,020 31 104 Kent Fire 5O/• sh• all pd 91 ...... 31. Ditto Life 5Ol. .pd 10,000 9.5 s Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 33 5,000 leis. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 17 3.900 10s. London, Ship .. . 251. eh. 12!. 10s. pd 17 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 25,000 51. per cent. National Loan Fund.. 201. sh 21. lOs. pd 25 1 30,000 st. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 21. pd 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector Ifle 201. sh. 21. pd 19s Od 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....11,0/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 5.500 1/. Provident Lite 1001. sh. 101. psi 20 w0,G69 4s. Od. Rock Life (m. 220/ W. percent. Royal Exchange Stock 170 6,009 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 5/. pd 11 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 5!. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Coro. of ireland2sl. sh. IC!. pd 15,000 g per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 401. pd 51N 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Bit sningham 501. sh. 101. pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 10/. pd :3 31,000 6percent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 22 60,000 51. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 10/. pd lali 3,008 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 101. pd %0 25,000 lb per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 12g1. pd 19 50,000 7i per cent, Manchester and Liver / Ku.sh. 151 pd 194 pool Discount 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO4 sh. 101. pd 4% 10,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. sh. 25/. pd 40 10,000 6 rer cent National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 17i1. pd 151,f, 10,000 6 per cent National Prov;:icial Eng.lool. sh. 35/. pd 35% 10,000 Ditto New.... 10i. sh. 10/ pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 501. eh. 101. pd 32 MOO 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 51. pd 0% GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath ... 901. sh. 16/. pd 22 5,000 ..... .... British 401. sh. 151. pd It ~,,,,,„, r s!.percenti Ditto Provincial ... 2O/. sh. 11/1. pd 13 t. nd Bs. Rs. 921 i 51 10s Birmingham 50, sh. 1(1 1,250 _21 . 0s Bristol 2,250 3/ 104 Brighton qO/. eh. II 750 31 10s Ditto, New 9 01. eh. 15/.0 9 2,471 4j per cent Brighton General .201. eh. a 11pd 94 t,OOO 71.105. Continental Consolidated ....75/. 024 /. pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... WO/. sh. all pd 195 1.000 01. Ditto. New 1001. sh. 75/. pd 150 1.000 31.05. Equitable 5Ol. pd 20 0,000 31. per cent. Imperial 501. sh. 70, 800 5/. pet cent. Isle rit I'hanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 19 1,350 M. per cent. 1 ndependent 901. eh. alit.. 56 4 .000 51. per cont. Phcent: 5O/. sh. 39/. pu 3014 1,000 ti. per cent. Ratcliff lool.Bh. 00/. pd OS 4,000 South Motropnlitan 50/. eh. 13%1. pd 1714 9.900 5/. per cent. United General 501. sh. CI. pd ses 210 5/. pet cent. Warwick 100 51. per cent Wakefield 251 sh 24 1.001. ' 31. Westminster Chartered ..... 5O/. sh. 58 4.00 Ifs. Ditto New 5ll. sh. In/. pd 11% TM 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 161. pd WATER WORKS 1,11010 345. Sum, mgham 2 4 : sh. 95/. pd 91 1,4:33 •!. Fast London 1001.. h. 100 5,500 21 15s, Grand Junction Avera:c 411 1:18. 4d. ch. 6 . 1,000 21. Kent 1001. sh. 52 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 625 1,5 0 6 2110. Ncw River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 i. 4 A 2/ 10s Manchester and 3alford 1001. sh. 54 layi 5 per cent. South London lOO/.sh. 98 .094 4i/. West Middlesex Average 631.1125. 9d. sh. 96 1.3641 U lii York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001.. h. 36 IRON RAILWAYS. 5,300 V. Os. Birmingham and Derby ...-.. ..... 100/ pd 42% 9,580 3 per cent. Birmingham and Gloncester......lo/. pd 48% ibog 0 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter .........1001. sh. 70 pd 41% 7,500 ..... .... Cheltenham& G. Western -.1001.0).80/. 24% 1,000 ..... .... Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 20 8,000 ...... ... Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. pd 1 0.005 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 231. pd 9 10,000 5 pe ....... r cent. Great North of Englandlool. sh. IVO/. pd 75% 10,918 12 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh.. all pd 1.9 25; 00 4 per cent. Great Western 1501. sh. 654 pd Bi 6 25,000 3 per cent. Ditto New 501. sh. 50/. pd 62 2.000 8 per cent. Hartlepool . .... ........... 160/. sh. 1001. pd 145% 8,000 Hull and !Selb 5Ol. sh. 50/. pd 37 2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and 5e1 by............... ....JOU sh. 55 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Mancester 10( " Lsh. 100/.pd 188% 7,9118 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares ..... ......- ..... 501. pd 91 11,495 10 per ceat. Ditto Quarter Shares -.. .. ... ..251. pd 45 36,000 .... ..... London and Brighton ' SSI. X. 501 pd :A% 14,000 London and Blackwell 25/. sh. 251. pd 9S 10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -.201. sh. 201. pd 6 25,000 9i per sh . London & Birmingham 1001. sh. 901. pd 179 25,000 2/. 7s H. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. sh. 251. pd 47 31,250 31.25. 4d. Dit o New Shares 32/.Bh. 321. pd 30 46,200 3 per sh. London and S. Western Av. 431,155. Od. 52 33,900 ......... London and Croydon] Av. 131 . 15s. 9d 12% Ditto New Scrip... • 126 13,000 41. per eh. Manchester and Leeds-1001. sh. 70/. pd 76 13,000 .. 10,000 ......... Manchester and Birmingham 701.8 h. 401. Co Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2 ••.. ..... 10,000 21.105. Midland Counties ....100/. sh. 1001 pd 69)4 15,000 N. Os. North Midland ..... ..)1. sh. 1001 pd 59% 11.10 s Ditto New 401. rd 2-, 10,1 - 8 11.10 s. Northern and Eastern.... 501. sh 451. pd 40% :;.,66U Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. 30/. pd 36 <B,OOO 4 per cent. South Eastern and Dover ...... ... 50/. pd 92 1,000 10i. per coot. Stocktoa and Darlington lOO/.sh. 265 0.000 ..-..... Thames Haven 501. sh 51. pd 6.000 taper cent. ;Cork and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 841 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 51. t. V. pa 12 4,000 11. 51. Alten l5/. sh 12/ ii rpd 1M 10.0041 ......... Anglo MExican,iss.sl.pm.lool. sh. a 1 d 2 Ditto Subscription ..................251 n 0 2% 2,000 Solanos l5O/. sh all pit 4 10,000 U. 10a Brasiliatilmp. iss.sl, prn 251.5 h. 211. pd 9 6,000 ......... Macaubas ds Locaes United 25/.5h.25/. pd 414 11,000 .... ..... Ditto St. John Del Rey 2O/. sh. 141. pd IS 19,000 .... ..... Bolivar Coppe& Company, 201. sh. 20/. pd 1 10,000 „........ Ditto Scrip ...........101. sh. 10/. pd 2 20,000 ......... British Iron lOOl. sh. 701, pd 8 ,008 .......... British Copper 51. sh. 4il. pd 1, Cat Branca lse/. pd 514 Candonga 10,000 1 1 Copiapo ... . 2O/. al). 131. pd 0 8,500 .. Columbian, us. 5/. pm 551. sh. 5.5/. pd 1 2,850 41. English 14/. Cs. pd 1 20,006 6 155 .... - 1 3,00 0 ... 1,501- Ditto Loan Note• iso/.lxl 50 United Mexican, iss. 2 prn, 40!. sh. all pe 14 DWG Scrip l3l Ditto New Scrip. ........ ..". ......41 pi West Cork •...•..............151. ;iii 50/. pd 3 LITER A ItY INSTITUTIONS. ~tp,,~~~Q ....» . 1,000 ......... London, with Bronze Ticket 7sgs.sh. 13 1.500 ......... London University all psi 7 ;go Russell.. .......... 2sgs. sh. 6 King' College lOOl. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. %OM • 655. Australian Agricaltural.loo/. sh. 301 pd 30 6, 0 00 1. per cent. British American Land Company &ea pd 9 tO,OIA 61 per ocat. Canada Company..... sh. 32j1. pd 30 iO.OOO 5/, per cent. tipper Canaoa Loan City Bonds. 4 per cent lOO -.11.00ii 1/, 6s. General Stearn Navigation 15/..h.,141. pd 24% 10/,percent. Hudson's Bay Stock .. . . 254 1!. London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. th , 19% Caoutcheuc Com ....... .1211. pd 12% New Brtinswick Land Comps% pd IS 5;•137 41. per cent . Reversionary int. 50c...1001. sh. 1001. pd gy 21,33 5/. per cent. Ditto 100/. pd 107 ,o(ta Thames Tunnel .501. sh. all pd „ono d., Van Die.ner.'s Land.... 1001. oh. 131, pd 10 LIST .f SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES JULY 111, 1842. BANKS. 1),00r 6/. p. ct. Bank of Scotland .:.831.0a. bd. oh all pd '54 1 ,000,0001 01. p. ct. Royal ofScotland 1004 sh. all pd 155 ;500.0001. Si. p. ct. British Linen Company 1001.3 h. al/ pd 20.5 500,0001. 71 , p. ct. Commercial ........ 1001. pd 160 500,005, Go, ct. National lool.sh. 101. NE 14 500,0081. 8/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2301. sh. 501. pd 75 IJXHI.00(1. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 68 INSURANCE COMPANIES. t4ll.ooosh. Sip. cc. Scottish Union 201 . 5 h. 11, pd 24s Od. 7,500 lo p. ct. Hercules. .. ... 1001. sh. 10/. pd 12% 100,100 10 p. ct. In su rance Co,. of Scotland AO/. sh, all pd 9 50,000 10 p. ct. North British sb. 10/. pd 1 . 0 1,000 10 p. ct. Caledonian Fire....... ..... 100/. sh. 101. pd 20 5,000 10 p. ct. Edinburgh Life.. .........100/. sh. 101. pd 15 00,060 3/ D. ct. West of Scotl an d IOL pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4,818 Edin. and Was. Un.CanalSOL sh. all pd Ditto Allocated .............96/. sh. all pd 311% /25,40( 9 1 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock ......... sh all pd 34 tooth 21 per cent. Shotts Iran kouncterv......sol.sh 48/ pd 35 0,003 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/.sh, 15/. pd 3% CVO 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ..... ....2 5 / 6 11. all pd 30 ~ ......,.......251. sh. all pd 150 7 Le Coal Gas • 201.1h. all pd 26 4,45) iio per c ce en n t, t . . Gl i a t sgowGas 1.154 e:dinburgh and Dalkeithdashray 50/. th 30 On Sunday last, one of the diligences, called Bei-hoe-Poste, was descending the hill of Limonest, near Lyons, when the piece of mechanism for locking the wheel having broken, the carriage ran in on the horses, and pushed them violently forward. The postilion, in place of whipping th em on, and doing all he could to bring the carriage safe to the bottom of the hill, jumped slown. He was cruelly p un i s h ed for his imprudence, for the carriage was overturned at the same moment, and crushed him to death in the fall. The passengers received some contusions, but none of any importance. It is rumoured, says the Constitutionnel, that M. Piscatory is about to be raised to the Peerage, and sent as 31i.. nister Plenipotistiary to Greece. The reigning D.uke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, brother of 64 I{:ng of the teigians, arrived on the 17th, by a spAcial osia at Ogeadawher• ha intends pasaluctha bathing Nam. COMPROMISFS COMMITTEE. REPORT. The Select Committee, who, in consequence of the House having been informed by a Member that he had heard and believed that in the cases of the election petitions presented from Harwich, Notting ham, Lewes, Penryn, and Falmouth and Reading, certain corrupt compromises had been entered into for the purpose of avoiding investigation into gross bribery, which had been alleged to have been prac tised at the election for the said towns, were ap pointed to inquire whether such compromises had been entered into, and whether such bribery had taken place in the aforesaid towns ; and who were empowered to report their opinion, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them, to the House ;—have considered the matters to them thus referred, and have agreed to the following Report : Your Committee, upon a full consideration of the or der under which they were appointed to inquire into the cases of the election petitions referred to them, think it right to preface their Report by stating their own im pression of the nature and objeet of the inquiry which the House devolved upon them, in order that the manner in which they have conducted that inquiry, and the cha racter of the evidence which has been received, may be fully understood and correctly appreciated. They conceive that the inquiry was not one of a judi cial character ; that they were not called upon to decide upon the legality or illegality of the proceedings of any party, or upon the guilt or innocence of the transactions in which any of the parties implicated were involved, in connexion with the alleged compromises and bribery practised in the boroughs comprehended in the order of reference. They understand their duty to have been, to elicit and lay before the House, faithfully and clearly, all the facts of the several cases, rather with a view to expose the evils of a system, than by any direct expression of their own opinion to inculpate individuals, or directly to lay the foundation for any legislative enactment with respect to the particular boroughs in question ; and they con sider that they are borne out in this opinion by the na ture of the debates in the House upon the motion for the appointment of the Committee, and upon several subse quent occasions. In this view of their duty, the Committee called before them the parties immediately concerned in these tran sactions ; and the Committee feel bound, in justice to those parties, to state, that their willingness to appear, with few exceptions, and the full and frank disclosures made by them, have tended greatly to facilitate the pro ceedings of your Committee ; and they have conse quently been enabled to obtain, from the most authentic source, evidence relative to practices, which, although supposed to have existed, have never been before so clearly and unquestionably brought to light. In this investigation it was obviously an important part of the incpury to . ascertain the impression which existed in the minds of the parties respecting their own case and that of their opponents, and under which im pression they were induced to enter into the compro mises. With this view your Committee have received in evidence the contents of the briefs of counsel and the opinions of parties ; but. the Committee wish it to be distinctly understood that they have never relied on such evidence to prove either bribery or any other alle gation against adverse parties. Your Committee having expressed their view of the nature of the inquiry entrusted to them,—viz., that it was to expose the evils of the present system of election proceedings, which the evidence collected does in the most striking manner, and in the hope that, as it is now submitted, it will fully inform the House of some of the most mischievous and dangerous tendencies of the pre sent system, and furnish the most convincing proof of the immediate necessity of some legislative remedy,—are anxious to make their Report whilst measures for the repression of bribery are under the consideration Of the House. It appears, by the concurrent testimony of witnesses most experienced in election proceedings, that the two last Acts relating to the trial of election petitions, the one introduced by Sir Robert Peel, constituting an im proved tribunal, the 4th and sth of Victoria, c. 58 ; the other by Lord John Russell, 4th and sth of Victoria, c. 57, enabling Committees to inquire into the general charge of bribery, without the preliminary proof of agency, together with the greater stringency of the decisions of these Committees in charges of bribery, directly led in many instances to compromises betwe, n parties prosecuting or defending their individual rights, by which charges of gross bribery and corruption were entirely withdrawn from further investigation. These compromises becoming matter of general notoriety, were brought under the notice of the House by the Chairman of your Committee. Your Committee desire to call. the attention of the House to a part of the law of elections which appears unsettled, if not defective. Two parties at an election, both being equally guilty of bribery, but one successful on the poll, and the other defeated, may experience a very different fate in consequence of the present state of Cle law. If the defeated candidate present a petition against the return of his successful opponent, and s:mply pray that the election may be adjudged to be a void election on the ground of bribery and corruption, but do not ask for the seat, he may unseat his opponent, and render him incapable of being again returned ; but as he himself does not pray for the seat, it has in some in stances been determined that a case of retaliation cannot he entered into as respects the petitioner by the sitting Me-tiber. Thus the petitioner, though ,equally guilty, may again propose himself, and be returned in conse• quence of the very bribery practised at the preceding election, and into which no inquiry was permitted. Your Committee, prosecuting their inquiries upon the principle here described, found that in the case of HARWICH, at the last general election, Mr. John Attweod and Ma jor Beresford were returned as duly elected Members for that borough, Sir 1). Le Merchant and Mr. Bagshew having been the opposing candidates. The state of the poll appears to have been as fol lows : Mr. Attwood Major Beresford Mr. Bagshaw Sir 1). Le Marchant That three petitions having been presented against the return of Mr. J. Attwood and Major Beresford, on the ground of bribery, treating, and corruption (see. Ap pendix A.), a compromise was entered into by the agent of Mr. Attwood and Major Beresford on the one part, and the agent of Sir D. Le Merchant on the other, and that the arrangements so made by the agents were sanc tioned and acted on by their principals. The terms of this arrangement were 1. That Major Beresford was to retire, by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds within a month after May 3. 2. That Sir D. Le Marchant was to be allowed to stand unopposed by Mr. Attwood and his agent. 3. That Mr. Attwood should pay by way of deposit, as guarantee, 2,5001., which was to be forfeited provided that the engagements entered into by Mr. Attwood on behalf of himself and Major Beresford were not ful filled, Mr. Attwood himself stating that he considered that he had paid the sum of 2,000/. out and out. The remaining 5001. was paid for Mr. Attwood by his agent, Mr. Currie. .4. That the petitions against the return of the sitting Members should all be immediately withdrawn. That the petitions were consequently withdrawn, and all further proceedings arrested. The circumstances which induced the sitting Members to accede to this compromise are stated, by themselves and agents, to have been the belief, that the seats of the sitting Members could not be held in consequence of i•ribery by parties who would have been proved to be agents.—(See the evidence, of Mr. Currie ; see also the evidence of Mr. Parkes.) The Committee also find that the electors in numbers are 182. That the sum of money expended by Mr. Attwood for_ the election of himself and Major Beresford wasy4s nearly as the Committee can ascertain, 6,804:; and that of this sum a large portion was extN.nded in direct bribery by the agents of the sittinAMembers, and paid chiefly at periods subsequent to-the election. This sum is exclusive of the motley 'Paid for the compromise. The person said. to be employed for the purpose of re ceiving the money, and engaging others to distribute it, was a .babker of the town, who has died since the election. That among 33 persons a sum of above 3,0001. was distributed in direct bribes. That Major '3eresford paid no part of this sum, he not having contributed to the expenses of the election. .That the gross cost of the election on the part of Sir D. Le Marchant was, as nearly as can be ascertained, 1,500/. ; and that a part of this sum, how much does not appear, was spent in an illegal manner ; and 5001. went to pay certain former outstanding accounts. That the gross cost of the election to Mr. Bagshaw was 5001. And it appears also that the bills against Sir D. Le Marchant and Mr. Bagshaw, to the amount of between 300/. and 40Q1., remain yet unsettled. It would appear, also, that a large part of the whole cObstitueney were bribed. That the sitting Members and the other candidates most distinctly state, that neither before nor during the election had they personal cognizance of any bribery or corruption. , Yuur Committee also found that, in the case of NOTTINGHAM, at the last general election, the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Sir George Larpent were returned as duly elected Members for that town, Mr. /John Wal ter and Mr. Charlton being the opposing candidates. That in consequence of the retirement of Mr. Walter and Mr. Charlton early on the day of the poll, a few only of the electors gave their votes. The state of the poll was as follows: Sir John Cain Hobhouse 527 Sir George Larpent .. 529 Mr. Walter Mr. Charlton 142 That two petitions were presented against the return of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Sir George Larpent, by electors, on behalf of Mr. Walter. These two petitions, among other things, charged, iu various forms, that bribery, corruption, treating, abduction of voters, riot, &c., had been practised at the election by the sitting Members and their agents. A third petition of electors was also presented, but this petition seems to have been presented by persons in the interest of the sitting Members, and apparently the object in view was to give, if possible, to the sitting Members an opportunity of making a counter case against the petitioners. The two &A-mentioned peti tions prayed only that the election should be declared void. It was apprehended that on the trial of such petitions, no defence by way of retaliation - would have been allowed ; the third petition, therefore, seems to have been presented in order to let in such evidence. That, after the appointment of a Committee to try the case of the said election, but before the trial thereof, a cempromise was entered into . ,between the agents of Sir Cam Hobhouse and Sii-GeorgeLarpentens the one Perts and an agent L wiau big* 40 age4t. of the petition- 94 94 THI4: SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1842. On the part of Mr. Mills, the expectation was that he was cet tain of being returned upon the vacancy. That the constituency of Readies is 1,050. That the gross cost of this election to Mr. Russell the Committee could not accurately ascertain, as the accounts have not yet been rendered to him. He himself states that he has paid on account about 1,1001. or 1,200/. The agent of Mr. Russell says that he has delivered to him self, as agent of Mr. Russell, further bills to the amount of above 3,000 L, some of which he believes are joint ails of Mr. Russell and Lord Chelsea. Lord Chelsea himself believes, as appears from his answers to the Committee, that his expenses will not ex ceed 2,000/. Of the application of the whole of this money the Committee could gain no accurate information. Mr. Russell, Lord Chelsea, and their agent, distinctly assert that no part was expended in direct bribery ; though it is admitted, by both sitting Members, that so arge a sum could not all have been spent in legal and proper dis bursements ; and their agent, when asked as to this ex penditure, and more especially whether beer-shops had been opened, declined to answer. The opposite agent speaks in very po s itive terms as to the charge of treating and bribery he expected to prove. hat the gross cost of the election to Mr. T. Mills was 1,600!. Of the expenditure of this money nothing very accurate could be ascertained ; that any part of it was spent in direct bribery all parties concerned in its distribution deny ; but, at the same time, it is admitted by Mr. Mills, and also by his agent, that much must have been spent improperly. Your Committee also found, in the case PENRYN AND FALMOUTH, that at the last general election Captain Vivian and Cap tain Plumridge were returned as duly elected; that the opposing candidates were Mr. Gwynn and Mr. Sartoris. That the state of the poll was as follows: Captain Vivian 462 Ca t )tain Plumridge Mr. Gwynn Mr. Sartoris That a petition was presented by certain electors on behalf of Mr. Gwynn, praying for a void election in the case of Captain Plumridge, which petition contained, among others, charges of bribery and corruption on the part of Captain Plumridge and his agents.—(See Ap pendix E.) That a Committee was appointed to try this case, and proceeded so to do; when on the fourth day of its sit-. tang, and towards the close of the petitioner's case, the labours of the Committee were brought to a sudden ter mination by a compromise entered into by the agent of Captain Plumridge on the one hand,and the agent of the petitioners and Mr. Gwynn, the opposing candidate, on the other. The terms of this arrangement were merely verbal, and were to the follewing effect :- 1. That the petition Was to be withdrawn. 2. That Captain Plumridge would thereupon, and before the Ist of July, accept the Chiltern Hundreds, and thereby vacate his seat. 3. That no opposition should be given by Captain Plumridge to the return of any person proposed by the party presenting the petition. That this arrangement..though. made by the, autho rised agent of Captain Plumridge, was made wholly with out his knowledge or consent. The circumstance which by the agent is stated as the cause of his making this cwmpromise was the apprehen sion on his part that any further defence of the seat would have been useless, as he felt certain that the case of general corruption would be believed by the Eh ction Committee. That, indeed, he had no further funds for the defence ; but that, if he could have had all the money that was needed, ho would not have continued the de fence, and that he was entirely led to this determination by tb.e certainty that extensive and systematic bribery would be proved to the satisfaction of the Committee. It appears that during the election Captain Plumridge spent no money, bore no part of the expenses, and he declares solemnly that he was personally not cognisant either of any direct or indirect act of bribery or corrup tion. His agent for the conduct of the petition stales that a general system of bribery did prevail at the elect ion. He states further that. bribery was common to both sides, and this was admitted also by their agent for the petitioners. • The gross sum expended on tho joint election of Cap tain Vivian and Captain Plumridge was, by their agent, stated to he about 4,000/. The gross sum expended by the opposing candidates was, by their agent. stated to have been 4,0001. As in the acknowledged illegal expenditure of these sums, your Committee 13,g leave to refer the House to the evidence of the agents of the sitting Members and the petitioners. This ease kites rise to the observations of the Com mittee nn the injustice resulting from the present state of - the law ih those cases where a void election is simply prayed for, and nut the seat. Your Committee, to whom was also referred an inquiry ordered to be made into certain corrupt compromises alleged to have been entered into for the purpose of avoiding investigation into gross bribery, which had been alleged to have heen practised at the election of the borough of Bridport in June last, and also whether such briblry, had taken place in the aforesaidtown ; anti who were empowered to report their opinion thereon have considered those other matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following separate Report thereupon : • Acting on the principle which had guided their in quiry, respecting- t1 4 cases submitted to them by the first reverence of the House, your Committee proceed e d t o investigate the allegatitins respecting 4112 13 4 -- . A letter from Cahors t the chief town of the depart ment of the Lot, relates that, in the night of the 28th ult., four young men scaled the walls of the cemetery, and, having collected a number of skulls. returned into the town, dressed only in their shirts, and made a sort of dance of death, rolling the spoils of mortality they bad procured before them along the streets. Some of the inhabitants, who witnessed their profane orgies, denounced them the next day to the police, and they will, no doubt, be made to answer for the sacrilege. Lately a well-dressed wan entered a barber's shop at Bati„gnolles, and with great tranquillity desired the owner to shave him. After the operation he complained that one part had been badly done, which the other denied. " Since I must convince you of the contrary," said he, " lend me the razor." Taking is from the man's hand, he drew it rapidly across his throat, and expired instantly.—Boulogne Gazette. On Sunday last a quarrel arose in one of the streets of Marseilles, between a young Genoese and the keeper of a roulette-table, at which the foreigner was playing for cakes, the Genoese maintaining that he had won, and the table-keeper insisting he had lost. At length the Genoese became so enraged that he snatched the index from the table, and hurled it at the head of the other disputant. It, however, missed its object, and entered the eye of a wine-dealer standing by, with such force that it was extracted by a surgeon with great difficulty. The organ was totally destroyed, and an inflammation of the brain, the usual consequence of such injuries, was apprehended, and to prevent which, says the Semaphore of Marseilles, which relates the outrage, the surgeon in attendance has or d ered that a canstant stream o f co ld asicted part. made to flow upon the water should be from a tube The church of Notre Dame is full of workmen jog for the funeral obse qu i es of the. Duke of Orleans. S c P ar nt h e square in front of th e c h urch poles are to be fixed, on w . h win be large orniammes trim me d with mourning crape. In front of the wain .entrance the re i s to be a pavilion, on which the Wein •wili be placed op its'arrival at the chu rch. Th e i n v er i otss ill be profusely hung with black drapery covered ~ with silver seirs, and two . large platforms have -already bee n '' with withieatsfor the Member* of the two Umbria. jc7: The election of it ...A -pu. yf )r the fir 4 electoral ar ti mildiliation of the department of Vaueluse, in the place of the .z A st ,v or titidi s m a: a men, i s 1, 4 ; tae . ,place at Aviguou, • • eit . th q 1.131 b a AVM, - ' ; '•. '' . ''''''''' . '‘ * l' , • - - .4 ' • ,,, ~i .. i z.- • 4 4' 4 • .. 4,•,, 44.,, • II rv .04.i. , 4, •. . /....r. 42 18 11 BumpbaT, which formed the subject of the second reference. The peculiar - Ciicumstances attending this inquiry- hare compelletty,:ur Committee to pursue a course ditferen from that which they have. adopted in all the cases sub. mitted in the first order of reference. Your Committee, as soon as they commenced their task, with respect to the late elections at Br dport, and the compromises alleged to have taken place to avoid in vestigation into the proceedings of those elections, dis covered that two very distinct subjects of inquiry were by all the witnesses forced upon the attention of your Committee ; viz. one, the question of public import, which was deemed common to this and all the preceding cases ; the other, private differences between the various parties concerned in the elections which had taken place. Your Committee determined to confine themselves en tirely to the public question, and refused to inquire into, or to express, any opinion upon the matter of private difference ; and every witness called before them was carefully desired to restrict his evidence to the point which your Committee sought to investigate, and to abstain from any mention of matters of mere personal and private consideration. It was, nevertheless, found impossible so to restrict witnesses, whose chief object appeared to be, by means of a public inquiry, to justify the part which each had taken in a private dispute ; and in sp.te of the continued and strenuous efforts of your Committee, the evidence submitted to them assumed a character so decidedly personal, the public and the pri vate questions became so mixed and blended together, and private feeling so prevailed in every part of the tes timony, that your Committee felt themselves ob iged to decline o.e respOnsibility of reporting it to the House ; and to assure the House, that, in their opinion, nu good object could be obtained by circulating a mass of evidence of the nature described. In the progress of this investigation your Committee obtained evidence sufficient to enable the m to fulfil the Orders of the House, and to report upon the inquiry submitted to them. From the evidence as it now stands, your Committee have unanimously drawn the conclusions which they are now about to lay before the House. For public purposes, the investigation has been sufficiently accurate and extensive. It would, however, he inipwsi ble to determine how much further time would be Ilw• cessary fully to inquire into the subjects of private dif ferences connected with these transactions. • As the Committee d.d not consider it a part of their duty to prosecute such inquiry; they have, without hesitation, stopped short the moment they found the public object attained, thus of necessity leaving the evidenee aitegether incomplete as respects the questions of mere private and personal consideration ; and from this circumstance alone, if no other objection existed, your Committee would have considered it expedient as well as just, to let the evidence remain unpubli,hed. They hope that when the House has duly weighe I the reasons which they now offer for the course which they have deemed themselves obliged to adopt, that their determi nation will receive its sanction and approbation. • Your Committee have been enabled in the case of Bridport to come to the following coeclusion,, which they now lay before the house : They found that at the last general election, Mr. War- but ton and Mr. Mitchell were returned as duly elected, the opposing candidate being sir. Alexander Cochrane. The poll was as follows : Mr. Warburton 304 Mr. Mitchell Mr. Cochrane That soon after the election, Mr. Warburton, hearing that a petition was about to be presented against his re turn, as well as that of Mr. Mitchell, on the ground of bribery and corruption, made an offer to :Mr. Cochrane, which eventually was accepted, and reduced to writing, in the following terms : " MEMORANDUM. "Westminster, 27th Aug., 1841. "It is hereby agreed, that the letter of Mr. Warburton to the Chancell , T of the Exchequer, of this day's date, soliciting the Chiltern Hundreds, is deposited with Mr. Leman, on behalf of Mr. Warburton and Mr. Cochrane, on the conditicn and honourable understanding that it is so deposited confidentially, and is not to be made known or used, under any circumstances, before the expiration of fourteen days allowed for the presentation of election petitions ; and it is further understood and agreed, that the letter is to be returned to Mr. Warburton, if Mr. T. A. Mitchell, within such fintrteen dap, shall have ac cepted the Chiltern Hundreds. It is also honourably understood that no opposition, either directly or indi rectly, is to be offered to Mr. Warburton or Mr. Nicho leth or their mutual friends in the borough, to the return of Mr. Cochrane as Member for the borough, on the vacancy to be created, whether by the resignation of Mr. Warburton or Mr. Mitchrll. "JA3IES PARKES. "JAMES LEMAN." The vircurnstaneem which induN•cl "Air. Wltrhorton to nial;e tLis agreement 1•;re .itated in his evidence to' have ttc..cn— A fear that his friende might suffer in cousen the exposure threatened by .-Mr. e.,ehrane ; c: , finding that he himself might be supposed implicatrd in the malpractices of the election, be was desirous to have a public inquiry ; but deeming himself bound by the ,flier of his agent, and that the uegotiatiun had gone :I) hitn to break it off with honour, lur yiated to 11,:eessity, and relinquished his seat. Mr. Warburton declares most. solilmnly that lie him silt° was not merely not coenisant of bi ibery on the hart of his friends, but that. InAelieved, - dining and till long uLler tto oltvt4o4, t 1440 51,44 pract4co (mild be by 34y • ers against the return, and of Mr. Walter, the defeated candidate, on the other. The terms of this arrangement are set forth in a written agreement, as follows : llemorandum.—London, May 4, 1F42. ) NOtrINGHAIII ELECTION PETITIONS. " It is expedient to settle the petitions now pending, and it is agreed that— " 1. All the petitions shall be abandoned. "2. Within four days from this day one seat shall be va cated. " 3. The sum of 1,0001. to be paid to Messrs. Clarke, Fyn more, and Fladgate, within seven days from this date, in consi deration of the expenses incurred in the petition. "4. It is understood that Mr. Walter is to be returned at the election resulting from the above-mentioned vacancy ; for security whereof, it is agreed that Lord Rancliffe, Mr. Wake field, Mr. John Heard, Mr, Enfield, Mr. }fiddle, Mr. Hurd, Mr. Birkin, Mr. Wells, Mr. Hart, Mr. Alfred Fellowes, Mr. Henry Leaver, Mr. Bean, Mr. Jonathan Burton, Mr. George Bacon, and Mr. Aulton, shall not directly or indirectly oppo-e Mr. Walter at such election, and that in addition Mr. Wakefield shall discourage all oppolition on the part of the persons named in the list copied on the other side of this paper. "5. That a promissory note for 4,0001., signed by Sir John Cam Hobhouse or Sir George G. De H. Larpent, at one month from this date, shall be this day deposited with Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, London ; and that James Baron, Esq., and Sutton Sharpe, Esq., shall decide whether the above conditions have beer, honourably fulfilled; and if such referees (or, in ease of their dingreement, an umpire appointed by them) shall decide that such conditions have not hcen honour ably fulfilled, then the promissory note in question shall be handed to Mr. Walter, or returned to Sir John Cam Hobhouse or Sir George G. De H. Larpent, if such conditions have been honourably fulfilled. " DYSON, HALL, and PARKES, " Agents to Sir J. C. Hobhouse, and Sir George G. De H. Larpent, Bart. " W. M. FLADGATE, " For the Petitioners and Mr. Walter." On the other side of the paper : " MR. CARVER. " MR. G. GILL. " MR. J. ROGERS. " MR. ROBERTS, SEN. " DR. PIGOT. " MR. ROBERTS, JUN. " MR. OLDKNOW. " MR. R. SANDS. " MK. CARTWRIGHT. " MR. 11. FREARsON. " DYSON, HALL, AND PARKES. " W. M. FLADGATE." And the promissory note as follows : " 4,0001. " London, May 4, 1842. " One month after date I promise to pay to my own order the sum of 4,0001., for value received. " JOHN C. H. " At Messrs. Jones Lloyd, and Co., Bankers, London." " Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Bankers, London. " The annexed promissory note for 4,0001., given by the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hothouse, Bart., is to be delivered up to James Bacon, Esq., and Sutton Sharpe, Esq., on de mand made by them to you. " May 4, 1842. " DYSON, HALL and P." " 43, Craven-street, Strand, May 7, 1842. " Dear Sirs,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your check for 1,0001., for share of costs as arranged. " Yours, very faithfully, W. M. FLADGATE, " For Partner and Self. _ _ _ " Messrs. Dyson, Hall, and Parkes." The circumstances which induced the agents of the sitting Members to enter into this agreement are stated to have been— 1. The fear that both sitting Members would have been unseated fur bribery and treating, committed by their agents. 2. And also the dread of the enormous expense that must necessarily have been incurred, with small hopes of success. That the number of electors was about 5,400. That the sum expended on the part of the election of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and Sir George Larpent was 12,0001. Of this sum a very large part was expended in an illegal manner; some in direct bribery—some in treating, and other unlawful proceedings—without the personal cog nizance of the candidates.—(See the whole evidence of Mr. Charles Parkes, Mr. Thomas Wakefield, a 5 well as that of Mr. Fladgate.) The expenditure on the part of the opposing candi dates appears to have been about 4,000/. or 5,0001. The expense was thus comparatively small, because the poll was not taken; and it is stated that the nribery of the voters and other illegal practices in this interest were thL . s rendered unnecessary. It is clear that tin. system on the one side and the other was the same, which system arose in some of the preceding eh-cti.ns, and was particularly developed at that of April, 1841. The Committee find that at the last general election for the borough of LEWES, Mr. Summers Harford and Mr. Elphinstone were re• turned as duly elected ; Mr. Fitzroy and Lord Cantalupe being the ippoing candidates. The state of the poll was— Mr. S. Harford 411 Mr. 'l. Elphinstone Mr. Fitzroy Lord Cantalupe 3BB That a petition was presented against the return of the sitting Members by certain electors, on behalf of Mr. Fitzroy and Lord Cantalupe, which petition, among other things, accused the sitting Members of having been guilty, by themselves and agents, of bribery, cor ruption, treating. That a Committee was appointed to try the case of •the said petition, but that its investigations were suddenly arrested by a compromise entered into by the agents of the sitting Members on the one part, and of Mr. Fitzroy and Lord Cantalupe on the other. . This agreement by the agents was sanctioned and acted on b the principals ; and the Committee beg leave to invite the serious attention of the House to the mode in which the stipulations of this agreement, so far as regards the alteration of the poll, were carried out, and as explained in the answer given to question 1,053. The terms of this agreement were, in fact, set down in writing, but that writing itself has nut been seen by the Committee ; by the witnesses it is described to have been as follows : 1. That the general case of bribery and treating should be withdrawn un the part of Mr. Fitzroy and Lord CAn talupe. • 2. That in case the agents should be unable to place Mr. Fitzroy in a majority by a scrutiny, then one of the sitting Members should resign by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds, and that no opposition was to be off,red to the return of Mr. Fitzroy, either by Mr. Elphinstone or Mr. Harford. 3. That all actions and indictments preferred, respect ing conduct at the election, should on both sides be withdrawn. Mr. Fitzroy and Mr. Elphinstone were placed on the poll above Mr. S. Harford by a pre-arranged scrutiny, and Mr. Summers Harford was unseated. The circumstances which induced the sitting Mem bers to make this arrangement were, first and chiefly, an apprehension that the accusations of the petitions would be proved against them; their agent declaring, " We have only fourteen or fifteen hours to decide it in" (viz . ., whether an agreement should be made); " and after all you have heard, I can only say, that it is lunacy to continue the contest, and you had better arrange it." - The second cause for making the arrangement was the fear of incurring a heavy expense in a hopeless contest. The Committee also found that the number of electors was about 850 ; and that the gross cost of the election to Mr. Elphinstone and Mr. S. Harford, on the one side, was 5,0001. Of this sum, 2,0001 were expended in treating, and about 1,2001. or 1,500/. in direct bribery. - The two Members state that they were not personally cogizant of this bribery, either before or during the election. The gross cost of the election to Mr. Fitzroy and Lord Cantalupe was, as , 71S; . as your Committ ee cou ld as certain, 2,000/. The manner,irrwhich this money was expended is ex plained in t,beevidence of Mr. Fitzroy, who distinctly de. dares that - none was spent in direct bribery ; but states that a portion was expended in keeping open houses be „fore the test of the writ. _ _ _ That the Committee think it right to add, that there were charges of bribery made by the agents of the sitting Members against the petitioners. Your Committee also found that in the case of READING, at the last general election, Mr. C. Russell and Lord Chelsea were declared duly elected ; that the opposing candidates were Mr. T. Mills and Mr. W. Tooke. The state of the poll was— Mr. Russell Lord Chelsea ....... Mr. Mills Mr. Tooke 570 564 410 397 That a petition was presented by Mr. T. Mills, one of the candidates, which charged, among other things, that "gross and systematic bribery and corruption were practised and carried on at the said election by divers persons, with a view to the election of the said C. Russell and Viscount Chelsea." _ _ That the Committee think it right to add that there were charges of bribery made by the agents of the sitting Members against the petitioners. That a Committee was appointed to try this petition, and was proceeding with the inquiry, when, on the third day of its sitting, it was suddenly put an end to by a compromise entered into by the agent of Mr. C. Russell and Lord Chelsea on the one side, and the agent of Mr. T. Mills on the other. The arrangement was afterwards signed and acted on by the principals themselves. The terms thus set forth in duplicate ; one paper signed by Mr. C. Russell and Lord Chelsea, and the other by Mr. T. Mills. " READING ELECTION PETITION. "It is agreed between the petitioner and the sitting Members, as follows : " I st. That the petitioner shall withdraw from the pro secution of his petition ; and such reasons shall be as signed to the Committee as Counsel on both sides shall agree on, and the sitting Members declared duly elected. " 2. That one of the sitting Members shall vacate his seat in such time that a new election may take place during the present session ; and that both of them shall use their utmost endeavours to secure the election and return of the p e titi oner a t the next election for the borough of R ea di ng ( w h et h er c aused by such vacating, by death, adva ncemen t t o t h e Peerage, or any other cir cumstance), without opposition, and to induce the Con servative electors of the borough of Reading to do the same. "That in the event of the pel tioner's electionui.in n ,is t not , being htt, e . ec'ed in the way abov e propowd, the sitting Mern`o,:r,, wi , l , l L fo o r nd th o w n i , tl l l l p a a 6 y 2 (:, lB o 4 o 2 ol . .) two t hou..,and ; p, titioner. C. I{US:q',l,ll., 66 CLIEU-_ , EA. 6' Witness, .A. SAuivonits." Corn pt oirliSed eleCtion The petition on these terms was withdrawn. The circumstances which i n d uce d o t f li p e ay si i t i . l t g ing 2,( l: o le o n l. :la t e tr r t s . Russellthu,to give up t a m im e ( s )s e t at a c a e n r t i r n u t n v, a risk, deemed by Mr. stated to have been 1. An apprehension on the part of the counsel of the sitting Members, that there was great danger iticurryd, by 2 d :..T ere h n e di e ng &i t he seats, ainty of g o r f e i tt ° t Bin e g ni t e ll it;.% b i l t ) li • vUy chance.Of . 1111._unfavourrO4o • possibility charged against hitosek or Ids agk los . ; *at t ribery at the el 4:tio , i was carried or, wholly v‘itil. out his knowledge and without his sailetion, t xpress or implied ; and that his fear, on this subject, Was not !'or himself, but for his frien ls, whom, after the election, he discovered to have been implicated in the bribery carried on by the friends of Mr. Mitchell. In consequence of this agreement, Mr. Warburton accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and Mr. Cochrane was elected without opposition ; as the opposition threatened was averted by the interference of Mr. Warburton and i is agents, and by means of a negotiation, tlik particu lars of which . will hereafter be explaiLed. That the cost of Mr. Warbarton's election was 2,166!. Part of this sum was expended in treating ; and to one peculiar portion of the .subsequent expendititre your Committee would solicit the attention of the House. A custom, it appears, has long prevailed at Bridport. for each successful candidate to give a dinner after t I.e eke - don to such of the constituency as have voted in his fit your ; and in the case now before us, the inn expendo:l by Mr. Warburton, in accordance with thi , etisttile.lvas about TOOL and, the other successful candidate, Mr. Mitchell, for the same purpose, expei.ded a like sum of 700/. It would be well if some meals could be devised of putting an end to so mischievous a custom. That the number of registered voters was 557. That, after Mr. Warburton had undertaken to res . .:lt. a-petition was presented against the return of Mr. Mit chell, on the part of electors in the interest of Mr. Coch rane and that of this petition Mr. Cochrane h... 1 the control and management. This petition c.tntain.-d charges of bribery and corruption, alleged to have been committed by Mr. Mitchell and his agents. That a petition was presented against the return of Mr. Cochrane by electors in the interest of Mr. Mitchell; this petition contained charges of bribery and corruption alleged to have been committed by Mr. Cochrane and his agents, both at the general election, on which occasion Mr. Cochrsne was defeated, and at the second election, when he was elected ; this petition was under the control and management of Mr. Mitchell. Your Committee also found, that various actions were brought for penalties in consequence of bribery, both on the part of Mr. Mitchell's friends, against those of Mr. Cochrane, and by friends of Mr. Cochrane against the partisans of Mr. Mitchell. That mutual indictments were also preferred, and that a rule on the same ground of bribery, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against .Mr. Cochrane was also ob tained. That in September, 1841, and before his election, and in consequence of opposition threatened to his eleeti.n, Mr. Cochrane agreed, with certain electors at Bridport, to withdraw all actions against certain persons for bribery, provided that the threatened opposition was withdrawn. That, at the same period, Mr. Cochrane further agreed, that if the opposition were withdrawn. he could prose cute the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return on docu mentary evidence ; promising not to employ any oral testimony, as that might implicate certain persons, the friends of those with whom he was negotiating. It should be remarked that, at this period, Mr. Coch rane's agent had in his possession documents proving the bribery at Bridport, on the part of Mr. Mitchell's friends, which documents came into his poslessi,in it, consequenct. of a quarrel between Mr. Mitchell and his legal agent at Bridport. That, on this arrangement, the ,opposition 'as with drawn, and the actions withdrawn. That in the month of March, 1842, before the time appointed for the trial of the election petition against the return of Mr. Mitchell, cettain actions were to be tried at the Somerset Assizes, which had been brought against the friends of Mr. Cochrane ; in this state of circumstances, and before any of the trials came on, the following arrangement was made between Mr. Mitchell on the one part, and Mr. Cochrane on the other. Mr. Mitchell agreed to, withdraw all the actions and indictments, and all other criminal pros .0 iings agtinst Mr. Cochrane and his friends, together with the petition, which had been presented against the. return of Mr. Cochrane. Mr. Cochrane, on the other hand. agreed to withdraw the petition against tie return 4* Mr. Mitchell. The circumstance which led Mr. M:tch,ll to agree to this arrangement, was.the fear of being un,eatt dun the charge ok bribery by his'agents. . . On - the other liana. Mr. Cochrane was led to agree to this arrangement from a tear of. the consequences of the various investigations to himself and his friends. Thus, in the various transaction, the following. com promises were entered into:— I. That of Mr. Warburton and Mr. Cochrane. 2. That of Mr, Cochrane and certain eltctors, his op ponent..,.a t Bridport. 3. That of Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Cochrane. 4. That of Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Mitchell. The ~uin expended by Mr. Mitchell in this el. ct;en was 3,300/. Of thi , sum a large portion was split. some in treat ing, some in direct bribery. ']'his bribery was com menced without the cognisance of Mr. Mitchell, but was continued after it had become known to him, not being interdicted by him. '1 his fact was learned from Mr. Mitchell himself, and from one of his friends. The Committee would have been glad, did their duty end here ;. but they are obliged, by their respect for the House, and from an anxious desire that no act of theirs may compromise its dignity and power, to call the at tention of. the House to another circumstance attending this inquiry, which it is proper the House should know, though upon it your Committee will not offer any remark. During the various investigations made by your Com mittee, as they have already had occasion to observe, their endeavours have been much facilitated, and the object whi :h the House had. in view, when they deter mined upon the present inquiry, greatly furthered, by the willingness and candour with which most of the witnesses have come torward to afford the int4niation which the Committee needed, and which those witnesses could for the most part alone afford. No material ob struction has been offered to your Committee, except in the case of Bridport ; and the chief obstruction here has arisen from a Member of your House. viz. Mr. Alex ander Cochrane. (Some extracts here are given of the questions put to Mr. Cochrane, who decidedly refused to state to the Committee how the money ,had been expended.) Mr. Tempi, r, the agent of Mr. Cochrane, claims d his privilege as the attorney of Mr. Cochrane, and refused his evidence because not 'released by his client from the` necessity of claiming his privilege. Your Committee have also to call the attention of the House to the direct and positive refusal of Mr. Thomas Flight to give. any evidence, of ,yhatsoever, desoiption respecting the election at Briiiport. . As regarded the inquiry itself, your Committ, e h ave tote:nar, that the information refused by Mr. Thomas Flight has been supplied by others; and as respects that refused by Mr. Cochrane and his agent, viz., the specific sums spell', and the mode in which they were expended, it was not absolutely required for the piteposys of the inquiry. Your Conniatee, therefore, did not pess the questions, and did not think it neccessary 10 invoke the undoultieJ powers of the House in fwd.. r to enforce an an -wer. That bribery in the present rase did take plat,, all the evidence platrly shows ; tool that it was extehsi e and systematic, and tha it .11S erUCtit•ed bv t e parti of Mr. Cochrane, as ktell as timse of Mr. Mitchell. your Ccminittec cAnnot doubt. • 18th Joy, 1842. The Ciinonittee originally con.isted of Mr. Braniston, Sir Wilburn Heatheote, Air. kVillitun Miles, Mr. Strutt,' Sir Wil. iatts Somerville, Liircl Wort:ley, ;114 Mr. Hawes, Mr. Roebuck ; Mr. Sebright Lascelles, But on the 21st of June Mt Eliot. Yorke and Mr. for M►. Jigs and tiir Wil ion p; l it eli were substituted Hum lle-atbeote. ELECTION COMMI Ti::ES, IPSWIC H. The Committee met on Saturday morniz.g at eleven o'clock. The cross-examination of the witness Beaumont was conti nued by r Austin. No new fact arose out of the cross-exa mination. Hobert Pack was next examined, and stated hat Mr. Bristoe called upon him on the slay of nomination, ant ask. d witness to vote for Lord Desart •and Mr. Ghisioce While Mr. Bristoe was thee, witness's scle asked him to give witness's son a situation at the election as messenger. Mr. Flris - oe said he would, and put witness's son's name down in a book. On the c'ay of election witness saw Mr. Bristoe in the street, but Mr. Gladstone and Lprd Desart were not with him. He told witness that if he would go over to the rooms his son's pay was going on. Witness went to the rooms in the Little Carl ton. Witness asked Blisioe if he could advance his son some money for his pocket-money out at his pay. He told witness to follow him into the King's Arms. He did so. and then Mr. Bristoe wrote a note, and gave it to witness's son. They gave it to Mr. Stewart at the Little Carlton. Mr. Stewart read it, and give witness's son three half-crowns. There was no sti pulation as to the amount witness's son was to reeeive as mes senger. It was here announced that the Speaker was at prayers, and the Committee adjourned. THE INDISPOSITION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR. ch —The Lord Chancellor, who has for the last few days been seriously indisposed, is , we are glad to learn, mu better, anti will, it is expected, resume his duties to-day. THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.—A certain Non- Intrusion minister, not a hundred miles west c.f Dundee, while exhorting his hearers one Sabbath lately, launched out into the regions of the sublime as follows :—"'You tell us you have not time to attend the church ; if an Anti-Coro-law lecturer comes round you find plenty of time to hear him ; .or if a Chartist lecturer come round there is no want of time to hear him. And you roar continually- for your 'rights.' What are your rights ?" And with a powerful emphasis, while with his fist he made the pulpit tremble, he exclaimed—" I will 'tell you what are yoor rights—they are hell and damnation to all eternity !"— Dundee Chronicle. `Zr. Roebuck will have, it is said, very powerful rea sons to regret Lord Campbell's motion not to allow Counsel, being Members of Parliament, to plead at the bar of the House of .Lords on any pending Bill, should it succeed. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman has been retaired. according to report, by a fee of fifteen guineas a night for every night he att , nds ; and us he was ex pected to attend ten nights. th , Hon and Learned Gen tleman may 1.3 e 150 guineas by the professional or ca.te malice of the ex-Attorney General and ex-Lord Chan eeilor Ireland. Who -11 L, ret..,incd Mr. Roebuck we no; ; we . har,, howev.-r, Eeltrd it asked. " Is it Sir R,4,1 e! ? dr, treehttry to pay the expense ?" INTEREtiTING TO LA DlES.—Persons of delicate .-onlnb)xi-n are ste.eeptible I the inthe nee of the :aunt's !•H : :t.t. this peculiar s,ns.at ; and Lad whether fre quenting the crowded saloon, the close assembly, the rural ride or . drive, the summer promenade, or the aquatic excursion, should invariably have recourse to that invaluable diSefliwy. ROWLAND'S KALTDOR, which is rOund to be the most gentle yet etlicaeiour , preparation that seknee has (ii-coveredfh the preservation qf female heauly Through out grace. Thnghtiut season, time and climate, this iaithrul auxiliary arrays the neck and arms it, p;;L1.1 bridiancy, and pap,tuates. the vivid Munro of ,i4V,P4}44.,Q4116404.. _ - T A ETS,SATURDAY . • NI'HITEt HAPEL MARKET. There was a moderate supply, and prices were rather b g"n"ratlY• Beef 2s. Bd. to 4s. ; Mutton 2s. Bd. to 3 s. I.i' ' • Veal 3s t o 4 s . 4d. ; k, Ss. 4 d. to 45. Sd. ; Lamb , 3 .'• to 4s &l. Clover, 2t. 10s. to 61. 10s.; Hay fresh 21. ss. to 41. 4a. ; New Bay 31. to 4/. ; Straw 11. 10s. to 11. 14s. public aucti,o) at 435. TALLOW MARKET. - Some parcels ofSouth ' on the ,por. to 4 15 7 :3 6d ert . can per b e a wt ve been ie typo.c.ssdett EA MARKET. Nothing of con.. qu- t ce d one i n t hi s market. Congo* d, quality, I s . 81,4 d. to I s. 9 d . , and Twankay , p , .r lb. is. 714 to 11. 8. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum sold sksvly. at Mining prices. Proof 2A. Id. to 2s. 2d. good and fine Jamaica, ss. to 6s. 6d. P e d: liritisl. Corn Spi r it s , 10 s ., cas h ; and Geneva, Is' it to 2.. per gallon. Leerar COUNTRY MAR STB W heat. Barley. lUst . Beans. riwir a. to I , AA 511' 4. to 4. 40 45 39 42 tier Quartee.l s. to 3.1 s. to s. s. t . p. 3ath Rtandford 60 68 j2O 27 23 Oridport 57 •—• 52 84 ,22 SO 18 22 32 Exeter 'n4 70 27 34 21 22 40 aloucester :60 64 21 30 111 25 28 duildford f 4 79 26 SI 20 28 30 Newbury -6 73 , 22 19 > 8 34 Reaoing at 74 2.2 36 18 S.disbor) 60 68 32 36 95 z 8 40 ihtrborne 64 66 20 30 18 24 40 Snepron Mallet 58 70 2 1 32 21 24 Uxbridge Al , rrnioster ,45 66 23 29 20 26 as 4 Worcester 64 NI J 22 3.1 .8 teovil 5l 60 24 28 21 32 44 NAKEFIELD CORN MARKE4' o. The supply of Wheat was good; with a large quitnti” duty-raid - Foreign ; the demand was limited, and prices 11 , 2 ,, '" , declined 2 s . per qu arter. Barley nominal. Oats and She b "7 dull, and rather lower. Beans alio receded Is. per qua tter No variation in other articles. . es ea. Essex and —a. 6 r. tr. 62 , . 575. tot ls. -- Lin. and Cam. ........ —s. 58, t.• 1 ,. 4 ....... —a. ss. cr en, White —a. this. tc 6is hP' , Foreign, hed —E. IC s'i'. fi'' c White —s. —4. 1,, f. 3.. Barley, Norfolk and Sta011. Lincolnshire -- Yorkshire Wold Foreign Beans, New ......... 32 2 - 6 s: n: ' 6firl: ----- Old Oats, Potato ! C' . 22s •t , - -t -- Poland - wriezlart. , and Stnal` - s.ealinp 01..11ing t. 30 . r • 'tall , raoesied —l.os :;41-ns. 351. i's. "" 4 , 40 3O 1 ;# S 2 • a , y 4 3 1 :16 - 96 DEVIZES CORN MARKET c a Per Qu4rrer. s.lid. *. d. Per Qua' ter A , J. 4 0 elm %r% t.uat... 5 uto 64 d Oats 2l 0 Second r.'rd dirley ... 23 ~ 30 U ;tread ,pet),:ailonl • 2 1 EEDS COHN %It h ET Wheat, NwittlV. and Sulittlk,rttht, ...• sfts. tO 7 1 , " 4/ 1 . , York. and lancnin. fill b... ~... ....,, ..... . 5';'... • t '7 • = tale), Sorfolk aint buftnik --- Yorkshire and I ineidnshas Grinding _„, 2 " 4 C. 13.. ans Milt, 'IN , o ;f•'• a tuts, Prom vo —Mealing, For. 9d. tolo.l Eng 12 t • t., 130. Pet 8•C e6 .., h•• ling .)9.. to 3 ; eel rule Of %it. , Per Butte!. t• d.. Prt It Vtbla ••.. 41•• clar try 'fats st. 5 4 Pori, 5 I 8 0 LAmb .... !las CAN . 1 . 1.11181)1111 MA RK heat', white,....., 655. to :Os • vow., u 76 lifts. to, tit•tt —s. 6 - • ...,•• Barley, Malting ......„ 30s. to 34s ...... tending.. —s. 0 • ata ............................. 211. to o. /. .•••••o• 014.......... —ti ' e ." Bean , ................-......... 38s to 4. s ...... 01d..........,. —s. 4 ~ .t :Ise •-••••••• ••••••••••• •• ' • 41.1 , 010 4151. 10 ....6 $1••••• Grey orrevome .4- r' -- HUI,I CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) . Red Foreign Barley, Malting GriEding :AI 20s. 3 0 . 1 . Oats, British Foreign (in bond) lB. 201. 2 2 6 Beans... ... Pease, Grey ... ... . :Is, 3bs 311. Blue and White 36s 386.4 05 - Linseed F lour per sack Ilape,,ettl (per . lu quarters) CORNWALL MnRKETS. lebtlated at s 4 gallons to the bushel, Calculated at 24 gallons to ti2!bust)±_' Wheel. Barley. la. d. to s d a. d. to a. d. 1. d. t" 2 Tru ...... 0 7 5_ 0 3 8— 0 0 7 8— 6 3 0— 0 St. Austell... — 0 6 0— 0 3 8 - 0 Boamiti 0 8 8— 0 4 4 0 Liskeard — 0 7 6 0 3 6 ° Launceston •••• 0 7 5 - 0 3 8 0 0 Ca n. Nord 6 6 7 6 3 3 4 2 6 Ye 'rant, 1.1.0 YDS' Sal I PPI NG LONDON, JULY 23.—Wi n d thi s day at No o n, E. to N'E d. DEAL, JULY 22 Wind N. W. to W.N.W., David Lyon, Jamaica ; lion, Thomson, St. John's ; Arri* e. Shields, and sailed for St. Thomas ; Henry Davidson, Gi l l; and Choctaw, Westward ; Marmion, Riven e de Loup. General Wolfe, Demerara. COWES, JULY 22.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Smith, Porto Ril e !, OFF THE START, JULY 20.—Arrd. Royal Oak, Blot Quebec ; Boreas, Conrad, St. Croix for Flushing; Bibby, Snipe, ina, sailed March 11. Os' PLYMOUH, JULY 22.—Arrd. H. M. S. Albatross, B e _.. 9 "1, to DovER, JULY 22.—The Lynx, Stadia, from Neoct; Alicant, has put in here very leaky, and with boas`! the damage done to rig g i ng , & c ., h av i ng b een i n torte" - Lavinia, of London, off Doneness last night Afrd• LtvEßpoot., JULY 2th —Wind N.E. to N., ;a Springfield, Rey, Savannah ; Fe,ester , Mormon, St. Anto n-. Sid. Corunna, and Ann and " a , Calcutta; Harkaway• ginia ; Caledonia, New York ; To ..ntire, Montreal ; Fin..sh uu t : Quebec. Arrd. off, .Talbo , , tiaidee, Margaret, Elizabe t h , Oporto, and Fenella. PENTLAND FRITH, JULY 18.—Arrd. Prince of Wales, HA vannah, tor St. Petersburgh ; William Dawson, Beveredge , au" Britannia, Quebec. Coax, JULY 20.—Large quantities of ice viere fsl l eA i ° with on the 22d inst. in lat. 45, lon. 47, by the Marta, arrd• he r :: OFF DARTMOUTH, JULY 21.—Seagull, Moyse, Cal cutt a, left March 7, and St. Helena May 3' ; Lady Emma , Bu c k land, Hobart Tows, sailed March 25, and Launaeston GLOUCESTER, JULY 21. Arrd. Ireland, Quebec. BRISTOL, JULY 22. A rrd. Eldon, Moon. Quebec. mi d, OFF BEACHY HEAD, JULY 15.—Zeepaard, Gutsres ,l " dleburg for Batavia. POOLE, Jura- 21.—Arrd. Love and Unity, Williams , an George Kiffen, Newfoundland; Reaper, Seaman. Quebec Arrd. off, John King, Bristow, Mauritius, left April 14. lea OFF LYMINGTON, JULY 21 —Mary Ann, Smith, Porto FALMOUTH, JULY 21.—Wind N., fresh breeses.---A ril d Peterel packet, Rio Janeiro, sld. May 25th,Bahia 9th ult., a l L a Pernambuco 15th, with 32,000/. in gold on freight. Sid. fi e ' Gibraltar and Valparaiso. A OFF THE OLD HEAP OT KINSALE, JULY 19.-.. n Us from the Bahamas. ST. HELENA, MAY 30.—The Earl Grey, arrived here f,.,r ore China and ihe Cape, reports that the Robert Small, from c LI cut a to London, had been ashore at Gr e en Point, Table but was got off with loss of rudder. INCOME-TAX. —The editor of the W o rcester 4i re Chronicle justly complains that three partn'rs in one firm O le . . been appointed Income-tax Commis s ioners f o r that w wn ,„ What adds to the an. mal t ' is, that th e se g e ntlem e n are extra sively eneag. din the leathir and gliive-tr a de. and the .. glove-manufarturrr may be compelled to d:sclose the state o o his affairs to iloise. who are so much interested in knowing Ib .. amount and nature of his tran acti ns It is of great intr,: i taper." adds tie writer, 6. that the administration of so hate (, an impost sh..uld be not only impartially exercised, but 'bat I should be exerci-ed without the chance of a suspicion of per " tiality. To compass this the Land-tax Co mm i ss ioners el e gy seven Tories, three of one bu,iness firm, and that firm ellgag. s , e in the staple manufacture of the city, and seven waif. of same political party to supply vacancies." C, ArIECTt NG INSTANCE OF DISTRESS.—On L AW. day last, five men, from Bulwell, were singing and beggiogt the lane leading from Tidon to Chilwell, when they went to to: . house of a poor man named Bostock, to crave charity. by woman inside, the wife of the occupier, met the request l); bursting into tears, and when her grief permitted utterersl she declared that she and h eight children were starving• nearly broken-hearted. She narrated the tale of her woe ~h . ; such an affecting manner, that th e li s t en e r s s h are d k ith t"" di., ressed family the little they themselves possessed.—Nottig latni Review. , l HORRID AND WANTON BARBARITY.—O n tne • At . 11 of Wednesday, or early yeste t day morning, s ome pers on. 01 I undetected, commitnd an atrocious outrage upon seve r; sheep grazing in Pumsteati-marshes. near Woolwich, belong ing to Air. John-on. farmer. The animals were found yester; day morning lying down and bleeding, apparently in the tio s a excruciating agony —three of them with tneir ears, legs. an tails cut off, an d having their backs and sides inhutasne , F , mangled. One of the poor sheep had a shoulder completl separated from its body, as cleanly and dexterously as althoug an experienced butcher had been at work. A short time befo l l this barbarous occurrence, it is supposed the same indiviclow endeavoured to burn the farmer out by setting his premises 00 fire; but the incendiary managed to escape so as not to leave the slightest trace by which he could b e d e t ecte d . D e cis 4 ` measures are in operation for the apprehension of the offender' and it is to be hoped a reward of 201., which has been offer , " will ensure his detection. MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY, VOL. IV.—We a re requested ,to st a t e th a t t h e f ourt h vo l ume of Madamt, ,: I)'Arblay's Di ar y an d L etters i s pu bli shed th i s day P., Mr. Colbu rn , o f G reat M ar lb oroug h- street, an d ma) 11°' be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published :-1. Lord Londonderry's Steam Voyage t° Constantinople by the Rhine and Danube, in 1840-41, 2 vols., Bvo., with illustrations.-2. Mr. Vigne's Travel s in Kashmere, &c., with observations on the late and now passing events in Affghanistan, 2 vols., Bvo., with a va ltl it i able map and 22 illustrations.-3. The Life of .Admir Keppel, by the lion. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, 2 vol s l 8 vu., with portrait. -4. Dr. Granville's Spas of Englan d and principal Sea-ba"hing Places,cheaper edition,in 2 vols., either of which can be had separately, price 12s. each, with map, and upwards of 50 illustrations.-5. La d y Blessington's Idler in France, second and cheaper edition 2 vols., 16s. bound ; and 6. Lieut.-Col. Napier's 14,'L cur' sion along the Shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols.* small Bvo. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 22.—There 1 I ? 5 been a v, ry fair demand for sugars during . the weektt and, without much appearance of business, a good qual ity has been disposed of at full prices.—Bristol Mercury MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-squ are d Mr Joshua Binns, Regent's-park, to Mary Ar.n, daughter of Charles James Jenkins, Esq., of Eastcot Rusl _ On the 19th inst., at St. And rew ' s Ch u r c h. Hertford. t he Per. Henry Fen, ielc Skr.msh.re, Rector of St. Anttrew . s, Hertfwd, to A li n Louisa C a th er i ne. d aug h ter o f J. B. Collitip,. • E q.. late of her Majesty's Dockyard at Malta. /r/I, I, er of On the 15th inst., M r . W . A. H ol l an d , l ate Tressur the Princess's Theatre, Ox ord-street. r• e , On the 20th inst., at N orw i c h . the R ev . H en ry Immo A. 31., formerly cf Exeter College, Oxford. E s q On the 21st in s t., at Harlington, .Ilivlcileser, Spr ang. . On the 21st inst., at Champion-park, De: mars-mu, Jolin Charle s , of Upper Thames-street. On the 22d i gist . , at W a l cot-p l ace , L am b e th, Robert Vat' more, El., aged 5t4. - - London : Printed and Publi.beci by NI I; II DO YO('Ncit ° No 112, Str a nd, a t Th e S u n Office, /12 Si , +. tilt County W Mi44laes, MOUdSy, July -a:.~. .