The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-11 00:00:00

TbirV rHE FUNDS-(CL BRITISH, ,OSING PRICES.) _ FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 914 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 924 Ditto Old Annuities , 3i per Cent. Red .loog illitto New Annuities... New 31 1 per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 48 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001— ... 50 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... BO pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1800 — Consols for Opg. ...... 914 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent_ Ditto, 16:24 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. •Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. !Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, M etallic ...... . - Spanish, 5 per cent...—. 22g- Ditto, Deferred... . Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 182.5, 5 per cent — :Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 364 French, 3 per cent. —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1t , 37 ;Dutch, 14 per cent. Peruvian,lB`2s,6 per et. 7: - . . Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 10 1 a SHARES. Birrninp,ham and Gloucester Rzilwa.y (100 p) Ditto New Shares (171 paid) l3l Enstei n Counties Railway (:23 pa:d ) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 504 Great estern Railway (6.r paid) ...... 891 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loin Notes (71 paid) Lonnon and South \l estern (431 15s Odpd) 63 Northern and Eastern (43 paid) North - Midland Railway ( 100) Ditto Thirds ( paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 26i Ditto Serip. (5 paid) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. Tint NORTH 1.1311E10.A till PLATE. —4 to I agst Alice Ilaw thorn—taken ; 3to 1 agst the Shadow—taken ; 8 to I agst Galacr—taken ; 11 to 1 of Beeswing ; ,12 , o 1 agst Jack Sheppard—taken freely ; to 1 agst Beilona—taken ;15to 1 agst Gallipot ; 100 to 6 agst Mena—taken; 100 to 6 agst :Meteor—taken; 100 to 3 agst Arkanus ; 100 to 4 agst Pliarold; 100 to 4 agst Theon. ST. LEG Ea. —7 to 4 agst Attila; 12 to 1 agst Cabrera-- taken ; 13 to 1 agst Belefettr—taken • 18 to 1 agst Meteor.; 20 to I vgst Auckiand—taken ; `5 to 1 agst Ballinkeele; 40 to 1 agst The Lord of liolderness—taken; 1,000 to 20 agst Ehot corn taken. THE LATE . PEERY —Mr. Greville, we understand, has e ,, rninenecd prnceeou;gs agaiLst the editor of the Sunday Times for hi el ; the eause of action is 'an article that appeared iu that paper. relative to the vtithdrawal of Canadian. TUE WILKir. -MONUMENT. (Tills DAY.) MEETING AT THE THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN. A public Mseting was this day held at the Thatched House Tavern, for the purpoSe of taking into consideration the best mode of ennimemorating the late Sir David Wilkie. Among the subscribers present we noticed Lord Mahon, Sir W. Newton, BiShoptopPleiteme, Allan Cunningham, &c. Sir ROBERT Fete took the Chair. Our reporters were at first refissed adm'ssion to the meeting, and it was not until some time after the Right Hon. Chairman took his seat that it was decided that the press could be admit ted. On on arrival in the room we found Sir PETER. LAURIE proposing that the best mode of com memorating the late Sir David Wilkie, was to erect a statue.: Mr. ALLAN CUNNING/IAM proposed that 1,6001. should be voted for that pur,aose. The CIIAIR3IAN salehofeourse he did not wish at all to say any thing that might influence the meeting, but his strong opinion was that 1,6001. ought to be applied to she erection of a statue. He thought it ought to be a work creditable to British art, and he did not think that they ought to expect en artist of diitin guished merit to take it witli.ut being fairly remunerated for it. —(Hear, hear.) Ambition in the artist, and a desire to distins guish himselt by having his name coupled with that of Wilkie, might indw e bins to under ake the work fat 1,2001., but then they unlit all steeply regri t his not being fairly remune rated.—(Hear, hear.) He thought 1,200/. was too little. It would cause the statue to be unworthy of the name of Wilkie —(Cheers.) This statue would he the first thing strangers and foreigners would look at, as the monu ment of one of the greatest of British artists, and he should be very sorry if that monument did not sustain the reputation of British art, and therefore he thought certainly that 1,6001. was not at all too much; indeed, he should be very unwilling to refuse 2,0001.—( Hear, hear.) HiS own opinion was, that the statue should be as worthy of the artist as possible.—( Hear. ) • Sir P. LAURIE took the liberty of suggesting that the reso lotion shout I say the amount of subscription, without specifying the sum of 1,6. 01., as they might obtain more than that sum. The CII AIRatAN said he thought the resolutionsought to be • worded that the whole sum collected should be appropriated to the erection of a statue, as a question might arise if the specific tam c f 1,6001. was tamed, and they got 1,7001., of how they were to appropriate the remaining 1001. Bishop Corrr.EsToN said, that the authorities of St. Paul's Cathedral would not allow any statue to be erected in that Cathedral, unless the artist was paid a minimum price of 1,0001., therefore he thought that the suns of 1,6001. could not be cowidered too much. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which, it ap peered, had been previously moved by Sir Peter Laurie, to the effect that the amount of subscriptions be applied to the erection of a statue. The CHAIRMAN saisl, they had then to consider a most im portant question, namely, to whom the execution of this work was to be committed, and what steps they should take with a view to the a •leation of an artist to whom the work should be entrusted. This was the next question they had to consider. la 3/ ES HALL, Esq. said that with the permission of the meet ing, he would submit a resolution to the effect, that under the direction of the Sub-Committee the execution of the statue to Sir David Wilkie be entrusted to Mr. Joseph, he being in pos session of a bust of Sir David Wilkie, which was highly ap proved of by the family of Sir David Wilkie, and he being in other respects sn artist well calculated for the undertaking— his works being well known to:the public, and highly esteemed. He (Mr. Hall) believed he should best consult the wishes of t ie meeting by occupying- but a few moments of their time. it must have been a matter of satisfaction to all to know that they were likely to escape those unsatisfactory delays and anxious discussion; which usually attended such competitions, for he conceived thst there was a very easy mode of escaping from that dilemma. • During the life time of the man whom they wished to honour, it might have been doubtful as to whom the artist should be to whom they would entrust the work. His own impression would be, that the constituted authorities—persons'who had received academical honours which have been entrusted with it. But, when the in ci.t.clual whom they wished to honour, was removed from them the question became quite .different. The first question was what were the materials in existence for such a work. Now it so happened that in that instance they had soddenly and lamentably lost their friend Sir David Wilkie, for he was sure he might call him a friend. They had the means of preserving his likeness. Mr. Joseph had in his possession a good like ness, which hail been esteemed and admired by the family of Sir David Wilkie. Had Sir Francis Chantrey been living a dilemma might have arisen, but in the present instance he thought Mr. Joseph had a claim upon the Committee. He was a personal friend of Sir F. Chantrey, and so high was the opinion of Sir Francis of Mr. Joseph, that he wrote him to say that he was about to retire :rum the profession as far as regarded taking orders for private busts, and therefore there was an opening for Mr. Joseph. He (Mr. Hall) might say, that he was so confident of Mr. Joseph's suc cess, yet be himself was not so confident. On the last occasion when he was about to be proposed, lie.told him (Mr. Hall) to state, that whomsoever. should be chosen he should be most happy to place all the materials he had in his possession at the eisposal of the person so appointed.—(Hear, hear.) He thought, under all the circumstances, Mr. Joseph was worthy of the honour. Sir W. NEWTON briefly seconded the resolution. • The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, for entrusting the s erection of the statue to Mr. Joseph, when • •fir. BU MNET said that there would be no difficulty in pre servirg a likeness from the pictures of the late Sir D. Wilkie. But, independently of that they had met to consider the pro priety of raising a statue to his memory, and not a bust, and a statue awl a bust were two different things. Ile knew one statue in Westminster Abbey that gave him no idea of the person for whom it was intended; a sculptor should not con fine himself to the defects belonging to thnindividual,•but look more at the mind of the man. He suggested that the statue should be open to competition, and moved an amendment to that 'fleet, having mentioned , the name of Mr. 'l'. Campbell - ta an artist well qualified to undertake the statue. The amendment was seconded by N E . W. SIMPSON. Some conversational disenseion ensued as to a cast of Sir David Wilde, mentioned liy Mr. ALLAN CUNNINGIeAIII, who was favourable to competition, an opinion coincided with • by Mr. T. Pilluars. Sir P. LAURIE said Vat the feeling of Sir David Wilkie's family was decidedly in favour of the bust by Mr. Joseph. He alluded to the unsatisfactory result of the competition in the case of the Neson- Pillar. All the world, he believed, came betore the' Committee with models ; they were not satisfied, and fresh ones were called fur ; the whole summer was wasted, and whether they had given satisfaction with the pillar at last was extremely doubtful.. The Duke of Wellington advised them not to go to competition, but his advice was not followed. He was authorised by the family of Sir D. Wilkie, that nothing would give them greater satisfaction, th an a statue after r the best of Mr. Joseph. Sir C. FORBF.S bore testimony to the merit of the bust as a likeness, and deprecated competition. Sir M. A. SIiEE bad not come prepared to discuss the ques tion now started. The greatest talent the country had pro. duced, ought to be commemorated by the greatest talent they now possessed. He suggested that it would he much better if the Committee would meet again for the express purpose of considering the matter. Sir R. PEEL said the present question was a very important one, and was not confined to the present occasion. They must honk forward to similar subscriptions in honour of distinguished men, and it Was important the public mind should be impressed with the opinion that the selection, was not made without full consideration. He, for one, had had no opportunity of seeing the bust by Mr. Joseph. He was quite aware of the objections to delay, and the difficulty of making a selection after going to a com petition; but he thought that they ought first to have before them a knowledge of all the memorials which exist of the late Sir David Wilkie, either pictures or casts, that they might be able to make a selection. He had seen busts made after death of very imperfect materials, as those of the Dean of Christ church and John Hunter, by Sir Francis Chantrey. He thought it would b e more satisfactory to Mr. Joseph himself, if this meeting were adj ourne d, ar: d a notice ;„;iveu in favour of Mr. Joseph. Mr. JERDA N thought the inconveniences of competition would no t a pp l ygreatly in the p resen t case , w h ere a statue had been decided on ; they should only have to look at the likeness, - Sir Ti. PEEL would like to know how a competition for a statue was to be conducted. The best sketch au to the general design might not be the best as to likeness. Sir 31. SHEE said there were two considerations which the meeting should bear in mind, first, the likeness of th e indi vidual, and, seco n dl y , t h e excellence ot the statue as a work of art. He conceived that a strong likoness of the individual was not the mos that important consi deration. H e t h oug h t i t mould he much bettermeeting should adjou rn . Sir H. PEEL said if the meeting adjourned it was im portant to make up for what purpcse they adjourned ; they should make up the.r mind what question should be de cided when they next met. Sir T. BARING thought what they had to settle was the selection of an artist, and the question of competition was no competition. rd MA ICON said they - seemed all ' pnt to be goveo. on MA namely, ' The l; namely, that they could not then o gitestiou was whether or n o t the s Jf_ e •c ' t ct an artist. - a io ; competition. His Lordship then proposed shou ld tit-cidcd b tition. —" That thi s meet : - log be postponed until Saturday the 2d of July ; that the Com- mittee be summoned to meet on that day, for the purpose of selecting an artist for the execution of the statue ; and that public notice be given that such is the object of the future meeting." Sir M. Sttz, having seconded the resolution, it was put from the char, and carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. JEADAN, seconded by the Bishop of I:Lawnarr, the following resolution was agreed to :—" '1 hat the name of no artist should be proposed atthe nextmeeting,un less an intimation of the same should be sent to the Secretary a week previous to the meeting►, and that a week previous to the meeting the Secretary should state to the Committee the names of the artists." A vote of thanks was then unanimously carried to the Chair man, who returned thanks, and the meeting separated. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF Tins DAY. GLOBE.—The " merits" of the Ipswich case were perfectly plain : there was a clear legitimate case for inquiry—expressly .referred by ,the Ipswich Coin mittee to the House. The Committee in effect had said, "If you are, fond of fishing inquiries, cast: in your nets here, and you cannot fail' of a good hanl." Not a bit of it. Nothing but the most peculiar rea sons could induce Sir Robert Peel to suspend the con stitutional rights of Ipswich ! The express Report of the Ipswich Committee was, it seems, no peculiar rea son. Very peculiar are Si r Robert's reasons for suspend ing, or refusing, to suspend, writs. Ipswich must not be suspended, where mal-practice was proved. Nottingham is suspended, where mal-practice is suspected without proof. Ipswich, which had been remanded, as it were, for further examination, is suffered, by the Ministerial Dogberry, to " stoll out of your - Company." Nottingham, which labours under no regUlar charge at all, is "comprehended" as " vagrom, ' and " will be made 'to bring Le formed forth, I warrant you." And Sir Robert Peel tells us that these are "questions solely !6f a judicial nature," and that he acts on them solely "with reference to the judicial merits of each particular case !" But the truth is, the inquiry has been stripped as much as possible of all judicial character. It is not a judicial inquiry ;it has no judicial object whatsoever. It is a fishing inquiry for 'all the various modes of corruption at certain " elections (tliose elections only being excepted where the fishers would be sure of their. prey). The sole motive for it is the innocent unac quaintance of the House with such practices ; their utter want of knowledge of them, and the necessity of knowing something. about them, before they can he in a condition to legislate for their suppression ! We do i say such inconsistency, and such imbecility, were never before palmed on the House even by this plau sible leader. " You have acted," said Mr. Roebuck, " on his judgment, and you are now, it seems, very much ashamed of what you have done." We should think so ; and we should think that even Mr. Roe buck's praises cannot quite reconcile the Premier with himself; as . they certainly cannot reconcile his conduct with reason or justice. STANDARD.—Perhaps the most important in cident of last night's proceedings in. the House of Commons was an explanation by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the late proclamation on the sub ject of the gold coin was merely a routine announce ment, literally copied from former proclamations, • which every Government had been accustomed to issue .from time to time. We. hope that this explanation will allay the anxiety which a mis apprehension of the proclamation has occasioned, and which, besides causing much inconvenience to individuals, has very seriously embarrassed the retail trade, at a time when any branch of commerce can ill support difficulties. It ap pears from the course 'taken by the Bank, as well as from all that we have been able to collect by inquiry, that the average depreciation of the gold coin in circulation—a depreciation inevitable from more - than twenty years' wear--does not exceed a small fraction of a farthing in the sovereign. Whe ther it might not be' better that the public . in its col lective character should bear this loss, than indivi duals, may be a question ; but that dealers act un wisely in turning away their customers in considera tion of a loss of, say three farthings in five pounds, scarcely admits of doubt. The prudent course is 'manifestly 'to take the current money, and, if neces sary, compensate the loss by a trifling addition to the price of commodities. We think it right to say so much, because we have proof of very serious mis chief resulting from the late indisposition to take gold • coin in payment. COURIER.—We have before expressed our asto nishment at the absence of any intelligible principle in the proceedings . adopted by the House of Com mons with regard to the issuing of new writs, and its decision last night tends in no way to diminish that feeling. "It was stated"—"it was alleged"—" the Honourable Member for Bath asserted"—such were the grounds upon which the continued suspension of the writ for the borough of Nottingham was sought to be defended and justified last night oTouncls Which, as they appear to us, would not war rant the slightest interference with the paltriest privilege of the meanest subject or the most not°- , riously corrupt voter in England—much less justify the deprivation of the electors of Nottinghani of half their right of representation. If punishment is to attend upon, not merely hearsay evidence, but the belief of some Honourable Member, in the truth of rumours that may have reached him, if " it has been stated" be the prelude to a sentence of condemnation, and "it has been alleged" be the forerunner of a verdict of guilty, those who know the credulity of Honourable Members, especially as regards imputations upon their opponents (facile credunt quod amant), may well ,tremble,for the consequences of such a reckless and illegal course of proceeding. • A petition, we helieve, was presented against the return of Mr. Grogory for.the city of Dublin ; but was withdrawn previous to the sitting of the Committee for the trial thereof —the same may be said of other places too nume rous too mention—all these petitions contained charges of corruption, personation, bribery, and all other pos sible and impossible offences against the sitting Mem bers. Well is not the fact of their withdrawal pregnant with suspicion ? Does it not point at a compromise ? Is it not as plain as that Mr. Roebuck is actuated by the purest and most patriotic motives in his present course of proceeding, that a bargain has been struck " we shall allow you the undisturbed possession of your seats for one month,' or one session, but you shall give them up to us'at the expiration of that time —turn about is fair play." Now what can be clearer or more conclusive than that such contracts have been entered into in all those cases where petitions with al legations of bribery have been presented, but not pro secuted ? PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House af Commons.) • FRIDAY , JUNE 10. NOTTINGHAM WRIT. DIVISION ON ISSUING THE WRIT FOR NOT TINGHAM. NORITY—AYES, 41. Glynne, Sir S. R. Mackenzie, Thomas Godson, Richard Mines, It. M. Grimsditch, I'. Newry, Viscount Grogan, Edward O'Brien, A. Stafford Hamilton, W. J. Pagrt, Frederick Hamrden, Renn Palmer, G. Henley, W. Polhill, F. Hinde, J. H. PJllington. Viseoui Howard, P. H. Ponsonhy, C. F. A Hughes, W. B. Repton, George J Kemple, Henry Round, C. G. Law, Hon. C. E. Lockhart, William Lowther, Colonel Lygon, General Antrobus, Edmund ' Arbuthnot, Hon. H, Arkwright. George kttwood, M. Bagge, Wm. Bateson, Sir Robert liroadwood, H. Browne, W. Buckley, Edmund Collett, W. Bickford Crawford, W. S. Darby, George Duucombe, 'l'. S. , Escott, Bich kam ' Forbes, William TELLERS. Inglis, Sir R. H. Knight, Henry Gaily Acland, Slr Thoma - s - Acton, Colonel Aldan), William Armstrong, Sir A. Baukes, George Bannerman, A. flaring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Barneby, John R. Berkeley, C. Berkeley, Captain Bernal, R. Blake, Mark llowring, Or. Brotherton, J. Chapman, Aaron Chapman, Benjamin Chetwodo, Sir John Cholmondeley, H. Cnristie, \V. a Clive, E. B. CoNeri, Richard Cockburn, Sir G. Connolly, Colonel Corry, 11. Cowper, Hon W. Craig, W. Gibson Denison, E. Beckett D:nnistoun, .1. Desart, Earl of Dickinson, F. H. 'Jivett, E. Douglas, Sir C. E. Duncan, Lord Duncan, Geo rge Dund,s, David Eaton, Richard J. Ebrington, Viscount Ellice, E. Evans, William Ferguson, olonel Fuller, A. E. Gladstone, W. IL Gore, Robert Goulburn, H. Graham, Sir J. tJORI T Y-NOES, Granger, T.SC: Greenal, Peter' Halforel, H. Hamilton, J. Hans Hanmcr, Sir John Hardy, John Hasti:, A. Hawes, B. Hayes, Sir E. Heathcoat, John Heatheme, G. J. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Hervey, Lord A. Hodgson, H. Hollond, Robert Hope, Charles Horsman, E. H ume, Joseph Hutt, W. Jerrnyn, Earl Jocelyn, Vibcount Johmtone, Alex. Johnstone, Sir John Jolliffe, Sir W. Knatchbull, Sir E. Lambton, H. Laseelles, W. S. Lawson, Andrew Legh, George C. Layard, Captain Lemon, Sir C. Lincoln, Earl of Lowther, J. H. Mangles, 11. O. Marjoribanks, S. Marsland. H. Martin, John Masterrnan, John Alaule, Hon. la . x Mitcalfe Henry Morris, David Alorison, William Murray, A. Norrey et, Sir D. O'Brien, W. Smith O'Connell, M. J. 136. O Connor Don Ogle, S. C. H. Peel, Sir Robert Peel, Jonathan Pollock, Sir Fred. Price, dlichard Protheroe, E. Rae, Sir William Ramsbottom, .1. Richards, Richard Roebuck, J A. Round, John Rundle, John Rushlarooke, Colone! Sandon, Lord Sheil, Somers, J. P Somerset, Lord G. Somerville, Sir W. Stanslield W. It, Stanton, W. a Strickland, Sir 0. Strutt, Edwaid Sutton, Hon. H. Tapered, it. W. Thornely, Thomas Trench, Sir Frederic] Tuite, MM. Vane, Lord 1-1. Vernon, Granville Vivian, J. Vivian, John Ennis Wallace,it. NVard, 0. Watson, W. H. Wemyss, Captain Williams, Win. Wood, Benjamin NVorsley, Lord Wyndham, Colonel Wynn, C. W. Yorke, H. Redhead Young, John TELLERA. Fremantle, Sir T. Tutnell, Henry STATE OF TRADE. FoRE/GN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JUNE 10. We have no ticed a little more activity in the foreign wool trade during the present week, and (in these depressed times) a fair quantity of wool has been sold. In prices no perceptible alteration has taken place for tha last too or three markets. ENGLisii WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JUNE 10.--During the present week there has not been any alteration firthe general el d l state of this market, and w¢ therefore refer to our l ast week's report. YORK WOOL AIARKET, JUNF: 1h which has been nearly 9.—There has been n ago all sold. of wool at thi s d ay ' s mar ket, v sold. The prices are much the garne as last week's quotations. TRADE or LEEDS.—There has been a falling off in the demand for goods at our Cloth Halls this week on a compa rison with the last. The little that is doing is in tweeds, beavers, and fancy cloakings, whilst fine and middle qualities of dials cor.tinue to be very. dull : prices remain 'stationary. The sprint; demand being now nearly over, and a total abserme of sreculation fur the autumn, causes business to ha very drill in ihe wareh,,uses ; but there is a pretty general opinion that there will be an improvement in the course of a few weeks after the tariff is finally settled.—Leeds Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, .JUNE 11. 1842. ATTEMPT TO MURDER. The Court of Assizes of the Eure-et-Loire, held at Evreux, was engaged, on Friday and Saturday last, with the trial of two men, Langlois and Gode froi, for an attempt to murder the farther of the former, under the following circumstances :—Lan glois, the prisoner, having expectation of a consider. able inheritance at the death of his father, was eager to enter into possession. He first attempted to poison his sire, by sending him an omelette drugged with ar senic, when at work in the fields. This however failed, producing only a violent sickness. Upon this he se duced a shepherd, the other prisoner, Godefroi, a man aged only twenty-three, b u t married and having a family, and being in the greatest distress, to become the murderer of the elder Langlois, by shooting him. To insure his success, Langl o i s made him practice, by firing at rabbits, fowls,' and other objects. When thought to be a sufficient marksman, he was put on the watch for an opportunity of shooting the parent of his suborner. Finding, in October last, the old man, who is 72 years of age, in his orchard gathering apples, Godefroi fired at him, and struck him. He then hastened back to the house of the son, and, not finding him at home, left word for him with the servant that he had hit the rabbit, but it was not yet dead. Langlois, on receiving this intelligence, went to his fa ther, feigning great grief; but finding that his father had only his arm broken he deter mined to have again recourse to arsenic, and sent Godefroi to a chemist's to p urc h ase some , but fortu nately it was refused him. Langloi s , th e so n, li ve d i n concithinage with his female servant, who was with child by him. She was acquainted with his horrible projects, and frequently remonstrated against them, upon which he quarrelled with her and ill-treated her. At length she communicated these facts to her brother and his wife. They, on hearing of the at tempt against Langlois, sen., went and related the whole story to the Chief Magistrate of Guillefontaine, in the Seine Inferieure, where all the parties lived, and the nefarious act was perpetrated. Lang lois, the son, and Godefroi ' were arrested, and in dne time' brought before th e Court of A ss i zes f or that department. Notwithstanding the evidence of the guilt of the prisoners was incontrovertible, and Gode froi fully confessed his share in it, and declaring that he Was to receive I,ooof. as his reward, the jury, in delivering their verdict of guilty, found that there were extenuating circumstances in favour of both the delinquents. The Procureur-General, discovering some flaw in the tbrm of delivering this verdict, which subjected both the convicts to the minor punishment of hard labour at the hulks for life, instead of death, appealed against it to the Court of Cassation, which quashed the judgment, and ordered a new trial before the Court of Assizes for the Eure. At this new hearing, all the facts of the case were again given in evidence, and Godefroi renewed his confes sion. The prisoner Langlois was further proved to have been so avaricious as to have committed robbery and forgery for the purpose of obtaining money. Holding a farm under his father, at a rent of I,Boof. a year, he had, on the day before the old man's life was at tempted, written his name to a receipt for 900 f., two quarters rent then actually clue ' in order thereby to save nine-tenths of the money he was to pay Gode froi for the bloody deed. The proceedings were not concluced till 12 at night on Saturday, when the jury retired, and remained upwards of an hour in de liberation. On their return, they found Langlois guilty of parricide, and Godefroi of murder, with extenuating circumstances as to the, latter alone. Langlois was condemned to death, and Godefroi, as before, to hard labour at the hulks for life. G REAT EIGHT-OARED CUTTER MATCH. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) OXFDRD v. CAMBRIDGE. This contest, which has excited so much interest, not only among the members of the respective Uni versities, but also with the boat-clubs and aquatic amateurs generally, took place this afternoon, and a more brilliant affair it has seldom been our lot to wit ness. Shortly after one o'clock the river presented a gay and animated appearance, and several gal leys, with their coxswains in gay attire, being in the neighbourhood of Westminster-bridge, showed that the above match had caused an excitement 'amongst the elite of the boat-clubs, not usually witnessed now-a-days, and proved that it is only necessary to announce a match, which has the appearance of hon esty about it, to call forward in full vigour that interest in boat-racing, which has of late appeared almost dormant. By two o'clock there were hundreds of boats, from the plebeian punt 'to the aristocratic cutter, issuing from the yards of the several builders On the Surrey side ; nor were there wanting steamers, with their display of female beauty, to enliven that which was to be, indeed, a stirring scene to the lovers of this popular, fashionable, and manly amusement. The betting had been 5 and 6 to ,4 on the. Cantabs, almost throughout, although the Oxonians, were not wanting,in friends to take the odds, and, at last; to lay even: How far this was justified, the result of the match will best tell. Although two of the Oxonians had been prevented from rowing by the Heads of their respective Colleges, substitutes were not long want ing, although such an interference must have operated prejudicially to a crew, which had been practising together for some months before. Shortly before four, the appearance of the purple blades making to wards Westminster-bridge, indicated that the hour of trial had arrived, and that the Oxford crew were eager for their work. The general move of the steamers upwards, together with such other Wats as required a mile or two the start, to enable them to see the finish of the match, proved that it would not be an easy task to keep up with the wager even with this advantage. The light-blue boat, with white oars (Cambridge's) dashed gallantly through the bridge, against tide, and soon rounded the pier, and took their station on tae Surrey shore, and in a very few seconds; both crews were in rowing trim, and it would be difficult to find two crews more evenly matched, or a similar number of well-grown men. • At eighteen minutes to four the start took place, the Oxonians' taking the lead, but in a few seconds were passed by the Cantabs. The advantage was merely temporary, for the Oxonians again went bythem at the liorseferry in gallant style, and at the Cadogan pier they were at least six boats length in advance, which, however, was triflingly diminished at Batter sea-bridge. Off the Red-house the Cantabs drew on, but were soon tired of the sport, and dropped still further astern. At Broome House-lane the Oxonians were full three boats-length before the Cantabs, who in a short time after gained a little, but very trifling. The Oxonians went through Putney- bridge exactly 15 seconds a head, and they were exactly thirty minutes and three-quarters rowing the distance. It was a splendid match. PROMISSORY NOTES. ( From last night's Gazette.) An account of the average aggregate amount of promisiory notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circula tion in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks in S co tl an d , b y the Bank of Ireland, an d by all other :lank° in Ireland, and of the Average Amount of Bullion in the Ilink of England, during the four weeks endirg the 2tlth day of May, 142, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :,. ZNGLANI). Bank of England £17,891,000 Private Banks 5 ,365,364 Joint Stock Banks SCOTLAND. Chartered and Private Joint stock Banks 2,951,383 IRILAND: Bank of Ireland Private and Joint Stork Banks 3,093,000 1,963,152 Total Bullion in the Bank of England £ 7,383,000 HENRY L. WICKHAM.' Stamps and Tait's, June 10, 1842. LIGHT SOVBRIZIGNS.—According to a return in the appendix to the " Report on. the Banks of Issue," p. 280, of gold coin tendered et the Bank of England, from January 1, 1837, to December 31, 1840—four years—there were presented 62,000,000/., and there were rejected, on account of being " 11,000,0001., or under one-sixth. Now the light coin amounts to one-half of the entire circulation ! But though bankers and others, who can forward thousands in bulk to the Bank of England, may be able to obtain 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for the light coin, the public, who have small amounts, have no such chance ; they must sell to bullion-brokers, as has been done very extensively, they giving 3/. 175. per oz., or 100. under the Bank and Mint price. Thus the pubic will have no means of proceeding, but forthwith to sell to bullion.brehers the refused or light sovereigns and half-sovereigns ; and persons skilled in these matters calculate that on the 6,000,0004 of light weight the public will lose 2fr per cent. The loss, therefore, which will be sustained will be sixpence per sovereign on the average, or 150,000!. It appears by the account above referred to, in the Appendix to the " Report on Banks of Issue, that in 1837 there were tendered to the Bank of England 1 4,772,4611., of which amount 1,736,378/. was rejected as being " light;" fiat was nearly one-ninth of . the whole amount; while . of the 17,627,499/, tendered in JB4O, 3 ,798,6354 was rejected as " light," or u n d er one -fif t h, Th us, in th ree years the system advanced from one-ninth to under one.fifth, and in the very next year to one-half—a fraud upon the public, which the public will have to pay, to the calculated amount of 150,0001. SPORTING. In, one short week an absolute town of booths, many pcssessing the convenience of comfortable ha bitations, springs up on Ascot Heath. The fact that e the owners pay from th ree t o thi r ty gu i neas f or per mission to erect these, affbrds ample proof of what a multitude of souls must be assembled daily to reim burse the adventurers for their expenditure. This concourse of people from every part of the country, the immense number of carriages, the display of the Royal cortege, the first Nobility, and the most cele brated personages in the kingdom; the Royal stand, the towering, grand, and minor stands and their in mates, the accumulation of sporting depredators, pick pockets, sharks, and gulls, constitute a scene far be yond my power adequately to describe. I make no such admission in speaking of the races. On Tuesday there were seven, and the old horse Satirist, having a different chance, comparing the weights with those carried for the Craven Stakes, at Epsom, won with all the ease imaginable. James, our James Robinson (as he is termed, heaven knows why), appeared in the yellow jacket, first time : the Marquis of Westminster, it seems, is so dissatisfied with the late mysterious circumstances connected with his Derby horse, Auckland, at Epsom, that he has discharged both jockey and trainer. These are serious measures ; and serious measures, I must say, all things considered, were absolutely called for. Auckland won his race cleverly, not fit, and nuilgre, his leg and all other nameless complaints. The late Epsom accounts are, I may safely say, not half settled, and at least a dozen of the re gular frequenters of the hottest part of the magic circle, have retired for reasons well known to the public ; my surprise was then excessive at the sums of money wagered on this and the other races, espe cially the Vase : I have been at Ascot many years, and I declare I have never seen anything like the money laid out on the small races. 'ln speaking of the Ascot Stakes on Monday, I said the three year old would win, if Ithodanthe and :\Tonops could not ; the one was coughing, and the other did not start. Mr. Forth's Vibration won, and Hyllus was se , t , cond ; anothe r proof of this stable's power when the ground is hard, and a proof that good horses may give bad horses almost any weight in the world. Hyllus, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 71b., beat Revoke a quarter of a mile; the mare is the same age, and carried 6st 101 b. The race for her Majesty's Vase was most interest ing, and hundreds upon hundreds were laid out on t'ould mare Beeswirig, her first appearance South. Lord Jersey's Oaks mare was not sufficiently re covered to start. Poor Bosphorus looked as if he had just come out of the hospital. Jack, my friend Jack, will see a better,day than this; I laughed at him for the Derby, but I will not have him to be good for nothing at all ; freely backed at 3 and 4 to 1, rat one time fancied he really was to be in front : he was beat off. I may have cause to change may opinion be fore concluding this letter, but my impression this Tuesday evening is, that the jockey, not the horse, won the Vase ; that The Nob was completely shut out, or that he would have won. This is the horse, The Nob, that ran a dead heat with Palaemon at New market, and was hardly thought good enough to start for the Derby last year. The Sir Harry pot boiled over, scalding the cooks terribly; the fact is, the Scott party do not yet see where their luck is to end : they have won the money, and right glad am I to see it thus freely and daily ink ested. Her Majesty, who looked remarkably well, was lou e dlycheered r and left the course directly after the r ace for the le. • There were only four races run on Wednesday. The little Howlett, who rode Mr. Wreford's filly, not thinking this sufficient sport, contrived a dead heat for the Plate, which he certainly might have won as easily at first as he did afterwards. I must ob serve, that the judge did not to-day give anything at all like universal satisfaction ; a vast number of gen tlemen declared they could see better than Judge Clarke, and as to Auckland's race, every ono thought he had won, forgetting that a man (Robinson) rode Barrier, and that Auckland could hardly be in a fit state to run two days following, after his Epsom di versions. He tried every stride, and swerved at last —a sure and almost infallible sign of distress. The glorious uncertainties of horse racing are here again displayed. The winner of the St. LegerAhe horse that beat Coronation, succumbs to Ajax, late a plater —now, what ? It is a dangerous game, the watching public running too closely. I was told that a dog crossed the course at. the first turn,. just in front of Satirist, and I believe this is true, as certainly,Robin son lost more ground here than could otherwise be satisfactorily accounted for. The betting was again unusually heavy—the sun unaccountably hot. Every year one is apt to think there never was such an A.scot before, as the boys at EtOn 'always imagine they eclipse their predecessors in boating, cricketing, &c. Lanercost, the best horse in Eng land, Beeswing, the old mare, winner of almost as many cups and races 'as her sire (Dr. Syntax having started forty-four and won thirty-three times), St. Francis, winner of two Vases, carrying top weight, and one Ascot Cup, the Nob, a horse having only on Tuesday beat the mare, the winner Beeswing, at 51bs. less weight, and Eringo. We would almost imagine such a field as this never met before din the presence of Royalty. Alas, poor Lanercost, I fear he will never show again : if he has not absolutely broken down, he pulled up so lame that he can scarcely show again the present season. He looked per fection,, and (which is the fault with most of Scott's horses) he looked fat. Bat how are we to' reconcile the running on Tuesday and Thursday ? The mare giving weight to both the horses that beat on the first day, beats them both, and much easier, on the second ; the only difference in 'the two races being, that the Cup course is half a mile the furthest, and this was thought to be most in favour of St. Francis. Following the example of Lanercost last year, this horse also having been beat for the Vase and weal the Cup, the mare took the lead, and was never headed, and won by half a length. I think these two races are sufficient to frighten all beings like myself, who profess to take upon them selves the office of Judge Clarke three days before the races. Lanercost falling lame was, of course, out of the way, but reading my own remarks on Tuesday's racing in this very epistle, and looking at the running of the Nob and St. Francis in [the Cup, I think I may presume to repeat that the jockey, James Robinson, and not the horse, St. Francis, won the Vase, and this is my interpretation of the very difficult question above propounded. The Manchester division are great winners : the gentlemen who won o - A . the Derby, I fancy, will have to refund . a portion of their gainii—that is, when they get them. There were many other races, but I have not space to say much about them. The crowd assembled on the laWn in front of the stand may be imagined when I say, that independent of the weekly tickets and share- , holders ' nearly fifteen hundred pound s was rece i ved at the doors. I mentioned on Monday, that Brown's cards were to be substituted for Oxley's, by order of the Master of her Majesty's Buckhounds. I hope and trust that Mr. Oxley's turn may come again in 1843, for I never saw, on any race-course, such scandalously incorrect printing as i n th e par ti cu l ars o f th e Wo kingham Stakes yesterday ; scarcely a figure was right. Two such good W okinghams, and such fields of horses, have not met at Ascot for -ears. Four teen started in the first, and thirteen in the second., The favourite in each race w a s se cond, and considering that Beeswing and Lauer cost were both backed even against the field, for the Vase and Cup races, the fieldsmen have had a good week ; not better, however, than the proprietors of the Grand Stand, for such success has attended their exertions that I hear they have very little short of 1,0001. in hand to be given to be run for next year. Here ends the Royal meeting. Her Majesty was vociferously cheered on Thursday, and the Duke ? Was not the Duke cheered? How different the re ception of her Majesty's Ministers last year. Then groans and hisses were only to be heard, while on Thursday cheers and hurrahs literally rent the air. June 11. v JUDEX. USELESS RESTRICTIONS ON RAILWAYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slit,---The Directors of the Great Western Railway, yield ing to public opinion, have adopted the plan, common on all other lines, of allowing the doors of their carriages to remain unlocked ; but, in carrying out this improvement, they have raised up new inconveniences. The following statement of what has occurred here during yesterday and to-day will ex plain the present evils. Yesterday a young lady, wishing to communicate with a friend in inn:situ tram London to Bristol, her lather made inquiry at the station on the subject, and was told that no one but pass •ngers were admitted; however she sent the footman to make the attempt, and he was refused admission. Yesterday likewise a gentleman in a very enfeebled state of 1 health arrived here, who, not finding his servant in attendance according to his instructions, imagining that he might have mistaken the time, sat down patiently a quarter of an hour, and then, on speaking to one of the Company's servants, was informed that his man would not be admitted. Being assisted down stairs be found the servant had been waiting there for him. And to-day a gentleman wishing to see his son, a lad of f.amteen years. in the carria,v, was refused entrance. Thus it apperrs that the Directors had resolved that the public should not gain their point in one way without feeling their power in another; in fact, they have taken care to make their present concession the ungracious vehicle cf a neNgrievance. I hope, however, that public opinion will be powerful enough to over come this new evil, especially as I am informed that such a system of exclusion does not exist on other lines. The et.ses mentioned speak sufficiently for themselves. It is indeed quite preposterous that any Company shoulifiriseoninfri•nge o v n er t y .hesimcponle venience of th e p u bl ic as t h e G re at Western Railway C ompany ecin determi ne d to d o . I t i s idle for them to say t h at the timenetoffotr the admissionilrse rvantssvoof passengers would be e m rs u , ch occupied by an arrange. meat expedient of giving what might be called "visitors' cards" would easily make a sufficient distinction between the two classes of individuals. Stich admission I deem a public right. Pray, let us have y our ad voc acy for the remo va l o f t h e ev i l now , set forth.—l am, tdr, AN INHABITANT OF BATH. ' Lath, June 10, 1842. LThe parties in all the cases named are known to the writer, who gives his name. EUROPEAN POPULATION OF ALGERIA. The last census of the European population in Al geria gives the. following results : December .31, -1841—French, 15,497 ; Spanish, 10,790; • English and Maltese,-4,576 ; Italians, 3,436 ; .Germans,&c., 1,422 ; total, 35,721. • , December 31, 1840—French, 12,554 ; Spanish, 7,721; English and Maltese, 3,395; Italians, '2,753 ; Germans, I 1 9 67 • total, 27,680. Out of 1,000 Europeans, 434 are French, 302 Spanish, 129 Maltese, 96 Italians, and 39 Germans, and natives of other countries not specified. The French are in an absolute majority at Philippevilre and at Cherchel], the Spanish at Oran, and the Mal tese have been for several years in possession of the relative majority . at Bona. The inferiority in the number of women, compared with that of men, shows how much our establishment is as yet removed froth the equilibrium which exists when families are well constituted. Ihe 35,721 Christians of the regency are divided by age and sex in the following manner, 17,313 men, 8,207 women, and 10,201 children. Fdr 1,000 men, there are found in the whole of the population 474 women; and 589 children. By a happy compensation fertile insufficiency in number. European Women are more fruitful in the colony than. in Europe, for births which are in France but one for 32.60 are in Africa one for 28'67. This comparative in crease has been maintained with very feeble varia tions since 1833, and this effect of a law well known in the increase of, population, will not come to a stop, until the number of inhabi tants shall approach. the limits which are ae signed • to it by the resources of the country. The number of deaths. continues unfortunately to be greater than that of birthS, se that the increase of the •population is to be astaibed entirely to continued im migration. - In , 1841 the births were 1,246, deaths 1,588, the proportion. being ore birth in 28.67 inha bitants, and one death in. 22.49. The following . re turns of the deaths in various places of Al geria contradict • all • the received • opinions • as to the respeetiVe salubrity; of.. several points occupied by the French. In Algiers there are POO deaths out of 20.85 inhabitants. Oran .274 in 19.35. Bona, .131 in 3016. Philippeville, •123 in 31.8. Mosta ganem, •013 in 35.91. Bugia, .009 in 48.00, and Cher - ellen, .020 in 16.65.. Very striking and very strange anomalies are also observable in other respects. Whilst the civil population • scarcely loses one individual in 22, the army, which has neither women, children, nor old men amongst it s numbers, and which is composed of men in the.prime of life, loses 1 out of 7 by disease, spleen, and nostalgia; the. officers -are attacked - five or six times less than the common soldiers. , In 1840," in an effective force of 62,331 men, 9,567 died in - the hospitals alone. Soldiers, condemned to confinement for offences are, contrary to general. experience, from being forced to live a regular life, much less se-. verely treated by disease, and escape better. In the Jewish population in the towns of Algiers, Oran; Bona, and Mostaganem, during • the years 1838, 1839, and 1840, the loss was one in 39.31, which gives, with an almost imperceptible difference, thaproportion observed . in France. The Turks lived to great ages at Algiers, and the natives, on whom death falls heavy in.towns, pear to preserve in the country parts their ancient longevity. In the European population, also, very striking differences may be remarked, according to the classes of society, the professions, and the manner of living. To quote a single .example, in 1840 amongst grown men there was one death in 21.35, and amongst women one in 3544. It must be then allowed that the vitality of the new population of Algeria, and of the army, depends in a great degree on moral and political causes and shocks which require to be studied with great care. Perhaps when the European population shall be well settled down and have become accustomed to the climate, the present mortality may decrease, and the country become as it was in the time of the Romans. Sallust in his Jugurthan war says, " Pleros que senectus dissolvit, nisi qui ferro aut bestiis inte riere, nem. morbus baud scepe quemquam superat.'' (Old age wears out the greatest number, unless such as perish in war or by wild beasts, for sickness rarely destroys any one).. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 10. NOTTINGHAM WRIT. Sir G. GREY wished to know whether the Hon. Baronet intended to press this motion, as there was an understanding in the liouSe with respect to petitions of this sort that notice should be given of them, end his Hon. Friend had acceded to that by placing the notice on the paper for yesterday. Ile was ready to admit that if his Hon. Friend insisted on his right, it was com petent for him to lsking it on, but he would put it to him whether it would be advisable for him to do so.—(Cheers.) Sir R. H. INGLIS observed that the application of his Right Hon. Friend had not so much surprised him, as the cheers that had come from the Hon. Member for Montgomeryshire, because he knew - very well that when a vacancy occurred it was a matter of course that a writ should issue. If it was the opinion of the House that he should' not proceed, he would withdraW his motion.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Go on.") He believed the :impression of the House was that lie should at once proceed with his motion. —(No r and hear.) He could not indulge the hope 'that his motions would be unopposed, as were those of the Hon. Member for Mon trose, after the interruption which had taken pace. The motions of the Hon. Member for Montrose were pre cisely of the same nature. Sir G. GREY,-But there was ageneral consent of the House with respect to those motions.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. INGLIS (in continuation) said he was totally unconnected with the persons from whom the petition proceeded, and he presumed the petition was intrusted to him from the opinion he expressed upon the issuing of writs in general. He did not mean by his motion to &tel . tify the decision the House came to respecting the motion of the Hon. M e mb e r f o r Bath, or any rules of the House irrespective of that motion. He was not calling on the House to take any proceedings to baffle the decision it had come to respecting the 'notion of the Honourable Member for Bath, and -he begged to call the particular atten:ion of the Hon. an d Learned ..Member to that point. It was only a happy accident which had placed the borough of Nottingham in a different position from Reading, Penryn, and the other boroughs. There was nothing-, therefore, he should contend, which was essential to the object of the Honourable Member for Bath's Bill to exclude-Nottingham from having a representative in the Commons' House of Parliament. Mr. ROEBUCK--I have proved nothing yet. Sir R. INGLIS—The hon. Member said that he had proved nothing yet. He (Sir H. Inglis) thanked him forthat. He would - say,then,that they vecreproceeding to the disfranchisment of Nottingham, not only on no proof, on no Report of tbe Committee, on no sworn evidence alleging guilt on the part of Nottingham ; but the Honourable Member himself, who had brought in a Bill for the purlieu of inquiring into the alleged prac tices of bribery and corruption at Nottingham, said at once, very honestly and candidly, and he (Sir R. Inglis) thanked him fir it, that he had proved nothing against Nottingham, then he (Sir R. Inglis) would say that Notting ham was entitled to the general rule of the law, which was to allow the franchise to every corporation not proved to be guilt f. He would call on the Hors. Member for Bath to dis prove this, that there was no evidence in history in which a writ had been suspended, except on the Report of some Com mittee whose attention had been specially directed to the subject. In the present instance, not only was there no such report, but there was nothing but the representation of one Honourable Member rising in his place and very dramatically pointing with his finger to his friends on that side, or hip enemies on this. They had nothing but his own ipso digit declaring that the borough had been the scene of bribery and corruption. He would now call the attention of the House to the proceedings with reg a rd t o Nottingham which were matters of history, as far as being en tered on the Journals of that House would render them so. On the 4th of May a Committee of that House was appointed to try the merits of the • Nottingham election, and that Com mittee declared that the Right Honourable Sir John Cam Hebhouse and Sir G. de H. Larpent were duly elected. From the procredings which subsequently took place, it a peared that • dime individuals were bona fide elected. lie had received yesterday, while in the House, a letter addressed to him by the individual whose name he last mentioned in connection with the borough, Sir George de Larpent. He felt it to be but justice to his lion. Friend, Sir George de Larpent, to produce this letter t» the House. He hoped that it was not supposed by the majority, or by any, that Sir George de Lan• pent bad withdrawn his presence from that House for the pur pose of avoiding any proceedings which the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath might think fit to take. The fact was, which he did know till that communica'ion was made to him, that five weeks before the date of the Report of that Committee, Sir George de Larpent had been confined by a severe medical and surgical malady, and that he had not been able during the whole of that time to leave his room. Now. he (Sir it. anglis) begged the House, and he begged the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, to understand that he did not mean to assert or in sinuate, on the contrary, Ins repudiated the idea that Sir G. de Larpent was induced to accept the Chiltern Hundreds in cone sequence of the sate of his health. He did not assert that— he did not wish the lion. Member for Bath to believe it. He did not require that eloquent look from the Hon and Learned Member for Bath. He asserted that Sir G. de Larpent ac cented the Chiltern Hundrenswith no such motive, but he (Sir ft. Inglis) appea'ed to the Hou e to rescue him from any imputation of having left the Ihmse in order to avoid that question, when he told the House that, for five weeks before that sine, to the present time, he had been almost wholly confined to his room. Bat his ( sir R. I ng li s ' s) case was as strong, if such were the fact. He had a perfect right to accept the Chiltern Hundreds even with that view. Mr. ROEBUCK.—No. Sir R. INGLIS denied this. He did not insinuate that he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds on account of ill health. He denied the Right of the Hon. Member to put the question which he had, and ho believed that many lion. Members who a; the time had most unwillingly listened to the questions s4.ich he then had asked, had since teen reason to think the House ought not to have sanctioned the course the Hon. Member thought fit to pursue. Nottingham did not stand alone.—( hear, hear.) Nor did even the other boroueha to *birth the Hon. Member had alluded; because there were many other boroughs equally deserving of the attention of the Hon. A!ember for Bath with the boroughs of Penryn and Falmouth, Lewes. Harwich, Reading, and Nottingham ; the seven other boroughs front which petitions had been presented against the sitting Members on the score of bribery, in which the question of bribery had not been at all gone into; and the Hon. Member would be justified, according to his theory, in insti tuting inquiries into the circumstances attending these elec tions.—( Hear, hear.) There was a goodly list of other boroughs similarly ,ettneted,--( Hear, „beer, ). ought tq have added - Great Marlow, Clittierbe, Ilear, hear, from Mr. Roebuck)—to the list. He meant Belfast thnhr the old pe , icior.—(Hvar, hear.) In Weyer:llth thc:e was a the sitting; Member en the score of bribery. Mr. BERNAL—In the imArtnf Sir R. H. INGLIS—The Hon. Member said that in the case of Weymouth there was no compromise ; and why, he asked, was not similar credit given to similar assertions of Hon. Members?--(Hear, hear.) In 21 cases, in which allegations of leribery had been made, the petitions had been withdrawn, and all the boroughs FO circumstanced stood on the same foot ing as the boroughs mentioned in the Hon. Member's Wit nesses Indemnity Bill. The point at issue was not whether the Hon. and Learned Member had a right to take six bo roughs and exclude twenty-one, but whether be had laid be fore the House a sufficient ground for excluding a portion of his fellow-subjects —who, by the Constitution, were entitled to the ! elective franchise—from the exercise of their rights. —(llear. ) The Hon. Member might contend that the case did pot rest ,upon his (Mr. Roebuck's) mere ipse dixit, because one of /be Members had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and the other ' had refused to answer his question. !I his was another violent presumption of corrupt and guilty bribery. if the Hon. Member had lived in the days when persons were accused of witchcraft he would, no doubt, have proceeded on the same princi. ple on which the ordeal of water was conducted: if the witches swam, they were considered guilty, and ordered to be taken out and burnt ; if they sank, they were considered innocent ; in either case, they perished,—( Hear, hear.) If the Honour able Member for Nottingham had said, " I admit - the coin promise," the reply wculd haze been, then you are guilty; if, on the other hand, as was the fact in the case ot Sir John Hobhouse, he had refused b answer, his refusal would have been construed into an evidence of guilt.—( Hear, hear.) Ile could not but cill the attention of the House to two or three of the statements contained in the petition. The petitioners stated that they had expected as a matter of course, and of law, that that House would, as soon as a vacancy occurred. have taken the necessary measures to 1111 up that vacancy, and to restore to the electoral body of Nottingham that rightet hat privilege, and that outy which the Constitution Lad vested in them ; but the petitioners said they believed that the writ had been withheld by a resolution of one branch of the Legislature. He hoped that he would at all times treat that House with the respect which was due to its Ikleinhens collectively and indi vidually; but in the discharge the duty which had been volved upon him by the petitioners, he could not but say that a permanent suspension of the writ, by the act of cone branch of the Legislature, was, in his opinion, plainly and flagrantly unconstitutional. the parties to this petition were nearly as numerous as those who voted at the last election; and these parties declared that they were n Wier parties to the com promise, nor to any of those corrupt practices which had been alleged by the Honourable Member for Bath. They stated, that in no other. ca , "e of a similar kind, had the writ been sus ' pended, except upon the report of a Select Committee, stating that the sitting Members or their agents, had been guilty of bribery. The writ had been su-pended, not by any order of tke House, but by- what his Right Honourable Friend, the Member for .Devonport, had called a tacit understanding.' His Right Honourable Friend the First Lord of the Treasury, had acknowledged fully, freely, and cheerfully, that the issue of the writ, was a right which ought not to be withheld except for a reasoneble time, and for good cause shown. He would ask the House whether, en that day, the Nth of June, he had not a right to ask the House to ditect the speaker to take the nocessery steps for issuing the writ ? What was a reason able time could not be decisied by statute ; it must depend upon the judgment and feeling of the Ho nourable Members who . Constituted that House.—( Hear.) He felt that in moving that the writ do issue in this instance he was only.askieg fur what any Hon. Member would feel himself inclined to ask under similar circurnstences. The Hon. Gentleman coucluded, by moving that the Speaker do issue a new writ. for the election of a burgess to serve in Parliament, in the room of Sir G. G. de H. L 'Tent, who had accepted the office of Steward of her.Alejesiy's Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. G. KNIGHT secended the. motion. It cooed not be denied shat the i-suing of the writ was the right of the borough, except in a Case of extreme necessity. It seas no light matter to withhold the writ, and nothing but a case of the last neces sityi could justify the doing so. 1% h atever sum o f money h a d 1 - been expended in, the last election, not a shilling of it had been spent in drinking or riot. The franchise of a borough was • once considered a very great matter, and that 'House was slow to entertain any motion of a destructive tendency ; but now it was quite another thing; now,"if the Simon Pure of the House thought proper to get up in the most irregular and disorderly manlier, and asked them to depart from their usual custom, I they were to disfranchi,e six or seven boioughs. He thought I if the House persisted in this course it would do anything tot increase the respect in which it was viewed by the community. He seconded the motion fur the issue of the writ. Mr. ROEBUCK said, he was sure-the House would excuse him, if, after the manner in which his conduct had been alluded I to, he should address to them a few words upon the present motion. He should first observe, that he could not account for ' the censures of which he h a d been the object. He had not asked for the suspension of the writ for Nottingham. The writ had been 'suspended by a mere motion of that House, and with the approbation of the Right Hon. raronet at the head of the Government.—(Hear, bear.) He had never spoken upon the I motion—he had never expressed an opinion. upon the matter ; Land therefore he did not see why-he was to be app ea l e d t o — w h y he was to be assailed by the virtue of the Holt. Member for Oxford, and by the supereminent and sublime virtue of the Hon. Member f r Nottinghamshire (Mr. G. Knight). The Hon. Member for Nottinghamshire said, that he (Mr. Roe buck) had been invariably telling the House that he was the only honest man in is. Now he would ask whether that were a true statement? He put it plainly to the Hon. Member, that he had no right to make such a charge. If he had not made such a declaration, he would ask, what was the value of the Hon. Member's statement? Mr. GALLY KNIGHT—Over and over again you have ' stated it. Mr. ROEBUCK said he supposed that was something like the announcement of the Hon. Member, that though he hid assailed the late Ministry, he was not opposed to their policy. I They all knew now what was the meaning of what the Hon. Gentlemen had said. What he bad said in Jute he denied in January ; and what he meant in January was very different from what he had said in June. He (9,r. Roebuck) had said nothing to the House of himself. He had charged certain Hon. Members with proceedings which they hart not the cou rege to deny some acknowledged the charge, and others would rot answer. Ile had stated that in Nottingham a compromise had been entered into. Charges of bribery had been made, and for the purpose of avoiding those charges, it was agreed that one of the Members for the borough should retire. That Hon. Gentleman had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds ; and the Right Hon: Baronet declared that that was a circumstance pregnant with suspicion. The Hon. Member for Oxford said that he would - not state that Sir G. de Larpent did retire,but he (Mr.' Roe buck) said that he had retired because he wished to avoid then investigation into bribery. Was that denied? What said Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government? Why, that the subject was pregnant with so much suspicion that the writ ought to be suspended. What had he (Mr. Roe - buck) to do with the suspension of the writ? jhe Hon. Gen tleman opposite had come down for the purpose of making ar, onslaught on him, and that Hon. Member should very soon find the value of that onslaught. Why, be would ask, should he be dragged into this question ? Ile had had nothing to do with it ; and, in, fact. he had discussed the question with himself yesterday, whether he should- come- down to the House, and the result of that discussion was. that ho had staid away because he had never uttered a word about the suspension of the w-it for Nottingham. It was the work of the House, and sanctioned by her Majesty's Govern ment. Could there be any doubt that there had been in Not tingham a foul carispiracy to cheat the people of England by buying up a coustitueucy ?.—( Hear, hear.) Well, then, 'why did they charge him, when he wished to bring them to light ?—( Hear, hear.) Was it to bide the poor corrupted •voter, or the rich corrupting candidate? What was it they were so tench r for? 1 ney said they had a regard for the privileges ot th e p eop l e of England. So had he (Mr. Roe buck) Ile wished that the privileges of the people of Eng land should not be bought and sold like sheep in thashambles. For that purpose he brought forward the consideration of a measure, which may be a subject of laughter to Hon. Gentle men opposite, but which was one of grave consideration to the people out of doors.—( Hear, bear.) It was for their sake that he stood up and thought be was best doing his duty in not allowing the interests of this great people to be bartered for gold to the highest bidder, and that he who did so should be fixed and crucified before the people. It eas between them arid the suLjeet . of his inquiry that the Right Hon. Member f Oxford came. He threw his shield over the past, and said that hew - as not to inquire into the subject, for it was only inquiry he asked fur, and not that the writ should be sus pended. He would net have risen at all, and would not have said a word -on the subject, if be had not been so pointedly arid personally alluded to by both the Hon. Gentlemen, and in a manner little in, accordance with the usual courtesy of the House. He (Mr. Roebuck) never nicknamed anybody, and lie wanted to know how the Hon. Gentleman opposite reconciled it with his sense of decency, 'or with the ordinary feelings of one gentleman towards another, to nickname him before the House as its " Simon Pure."—( Laughter.) It might be well to laugh ; but if he (Mr. Roebuck) chose to exercise' half that sort of power exhibited by the Hon. Gent eman, he might nickname him in a manner that would make him very uncomfortable-- but he had regard for his feelings. Under all the circum stances, he had done railing that should subject him to the imputation of a desire to have the writ suspended. He ap pealed to the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Go vernment, whether he (Mr. Roebuck) had in the least in fluenced his opinions, and whether his had not Influenced the House ? The Right Hon. Gentleman might see a differenco in the cases of Ipswich and Nottingham, bat tie opinion had 110 influence on- his (Mr. Roebuck's) mind, though it had en the House. In all these cases the Hots. Gentleman had shown a regard for the privileges and forms of that House, and he (Mr. Roebuck) bad a right to believe that he had followed the dictates of his feelings. The Right Hon. Gentleman op posite, tiewever, had guided the House in this matter • the responsibility, suc h as i t was , reste d upon hi s h ead; and if the Hon. Member for Oxford had that respe.....t which he ti usted all men in that House had for parties in the Government, he would have pointed to the Secretary of the Home Department. and not to him ( Mr. Roebuck). He (Mr. Roebuck) did not dictate to the House, he had no power to do so ; but the Right Hon. Gentleman, as he ought to do—for his power ought to be predominant in that House,on that side he meant—( A laugh)— told them bow to vote, and ow they were very much ashamed of what they had clone.—( Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. G KNIGHT in explanation, Sir R. PEEL said, if he had used any influence on this oc casion, at the same town', he must say that it was an influence which reason alone entitled him to exercise. He always said from the first, that this question was one of a judicial nature, and he had not attempted to exercise any other influence. He did not think that it would he at all satisfactory to the country to state that when there were allegations of bribery, that the result ire the proceeding before an Election Committee should, in all cases, necessarily he cenclusive.—( Hear, hear.) When the House appointed the Select Committee to eetermine per sonal and individual rights, he did not think that they meant to inierfere with the general Constitution of the country—( Hear. hear)--and supposing, in consequence of their having passed a law last session permitting an inquiry into bribery without proof of agency, that the fesult was that the investigations were not conducted as they u ed to be, but that compromises were entered into, he diet riot think that it would be satisfactory to Nome to the t anclusien that, in no case the writs should issue. As he said before, this case being of a judicial nature, ought, in his opinion, to rest on its own alistract and individual merits. He entertained this opinion in the case. He knew the impu tatiens he would he subject to by this from the Hon. and Learned Member,—that altogether they ought to act upon principle; they ought not to apply one common rule to all cases. •The circumstances were different in the evidence of different cases. They niust look to those circumstances— ( Hear, hear)—and look to the different cases, and then come to a conclusion apparently inconsistent; but he did noeihesi tate to say, that for every question or charge of a crimirgit na ture it was impossible to apply one universal rule with refer ence to the evidence bearing on the case. He took the case of Nottingham. What was the case of Nottingham at the time when the motion was wade for the issue of the writ? At the time that. proposal Was made, the House determined to appoint a Committee of Inquiry. Under these circumstances, it was stated by a Member, that the investigation before the Election Committee of Nottingheni had led to a rempromise. It was alleged that extensive bribery had taken place at Nottingham, and that for the purpose of avoiding an inquiry into that bri bery a compromise had been made. The Committee repos ted that the two Hon. Gentlemen had been rightly returned as Members for Nottingham. The House then found this strong fact, that one of those Members who Lad a right -t o hi s seat, as determined by th e El ec ti on Committee, the next 'day ten tiered his resignation. This might be a ,- counted for. It was pte‘ia I that certain considerations, such as ill health, might hey tSso Hon. Geeti‘mei, tacatieg his scat. But his ( Sir R. Peel's) Hon. Friend did not alit!, .ze that. That he did . . had taken place to avoid the inquiry into bribery, then h; s Frl was the cause, and it was expressly stated that no ceor e ' rnill ! sideration was ill health, and he (Slr R. Peel) couldundefetra;,, it. But his Hon. Friend said, at the same time, that here ,: , _' to that consideration of ill-health, yet he did not atta_•b eo ir_. portance to it, and he did not say that was the case ; th o . ,r e (Sir R. Peel) put that consideration altogether out . f os 7; question. An Hon. Gentleman said that there was een" eree: proof, as he understood him,'that either a bond had heel? P ee or a sum . f money advanced for the purpose of ensuring LP °I icturn of another candidate for Nottingham, of opinion s % e ; P site to the opinions of the sittindMember. The Hou.sel4.l appointed a Committee to inquire. The question then era se the Writhe issued, andunderthese circumstances he ( Sir R. re7et thought the writ ought not to be issued, because if the se:,,ul '.J.0001. or; ,000/. had been advanced to return a Member __ .. l v i ci io sii:, opinions, and opposite to the majority of the constitlie he thou thought the - . ht the circumstances might to be inquired into .4 rights of the constituents themselves wer e ,7 0 prejudiced by b e e inquiry, or by the suspension of thew e p e 'j the sitting Member immediately on being declared dulnl.,c,,' relinquished his seat, and made application for the Cl:ll_ e w t :f a the le' Hundreds. Coupled with this was the money had. been advanced tot - the purpose of procuring this tutu of a gentleman of &Iren e A sentiments. He ~„. allegation that e'" thought inquiry should be had. `li,' should vote ae reordoe'4,, , Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD e e ensidt red that the n bp bad no just cause for the further suspeneionof the writ for . election for Nottingham. He admitted diet inquiry was l °_>9 s4ey, but no progress had yet been made in it, and he sa . a ; i , reason for keepiug the rights of the electors . of Nottiteg'boo abeyance, pending that inquiry. The issue of the wri t , ioue ever, would rot prevent inquiry; if he imagines that o t e . t it i. of the writ Would prevent inquiry, he would not vote ly bur he felt sat i- fied that no such effect would follow. ,ef Mr. C. WYNN said; that it was perfectly in order lee Hon. Member, to bring forward any motion, without g_ .. 0 previous notice, If an Hon. Alember chose to get tip 2s o o place, and, without haeir g given any previous notice, t° ael for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the Union , e l would be nothing irregular in his. so doing. The presen t Pet stood in precisely the same position as when it was last beeue'd before the House, and there could be no difficulty ire ind o c' the House to adhere to its former derision. Captain ROLL ESTON, as one of the electors of the borT's o ls felt it was due to himself, and those whom he knew to be ' o r pable of cenduct such as that described by the non' n ee. ' Learned Gentleman, to express a hope that the Hon. Gl,O man .had not brought forward his moti o n without suel o , grounds. It hail been asserted that, at the two last elec t no no less than 4,000 electors of the t own o f N ott i ng ham had t e ceived bribes. lie believed that th a t s t a t ement was c orree; es (Hear, hear.) In the position which he occupied, /IWO he would not ,feel .justified in voting either one way e r other,--( Hear, hear.) ell i Sir R. INGLIS wished to explain, w ith res p ec t te, t e had fallen from his Eight Hun. Friend (Si r R. P ee l) 1e',,, , did net attribute the conduct of Ins Hon. Fri en d, .Sir . G. 'I, pent,.to ill-health; but what_ he desired to state wad, ei t i health had been such for five weeks before, and a l s o eiat' proceeding of that House with re s p ec t t o _ t h e N o teing t b . election petition, that he could not have attended in his r to meet the arguments of the Hon. and Learned Gentle " He thought the argument of his Right Ik o n. -Friend re f s e much more to the case of the candid a t e than ' to that otet petitioners, who stated that they were no parties to the tract.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. and Learned Mere! , Bath said that he was no party to the proceedings with s' to Nottingham. He did not indeed kill the dog, but-be first raised the cry ag ainst himee—(Laughter.) The Ho; L , arned Member ha d addressed the whole of that side 9' House in language which he (Sir R. Inglis) ventured ,to . the conduct of some of them at least did not entitle him ", and he was sure his Right Hon. F r i en d, th e l ea der 0 ' Majesty's Government, would be the first to disown the ''ei von, Is the - Hon. and Learned Member for Bath had eel le pleased to attribute to him —( Hear. hear.) He begg to tell the Hart. and - Learned Member for Bath thst : ....ere many in that House as little disposed to call his Hon. Friend (Sir R. Peel) their master as he himself 5- (Hear, hear.) No man had a keener sense of the tr. ' ' merits of his Right Hon Friend than he had, but he to say that he did not call him or any other person ia House his master.—( Hear, Iter, and laughter' ) Sir R. PEEL raid that ru t had s tated b e t h oug ht that id very peculiar case. An allegation was made that a get• , agreeing with a majority of the constituency, had lOdged s of money in promoting the return of a party opposed P ie constituency in political opinions. That he thought . _ very important allegation ; and it was desirable that ins - be - sifted. it was for the interest or' the constituents t ' selves that 4 h ev should be enabled threw w hly to iderstae ° . nature of the transaction. Strangers were then ordered to withdrew, and the 11 divided, when there appeared— , For issuing the writ 4l • Against it 4..- ai Majority azain s t issuing the writ ' WITNESSES INDEMNITY BILL e „ e w s c i s , i :i :lndemnity p r e s e ß n i t l 1 Billh a v i s n e g e m b e e e d n t r o e a b d e , The Order of th e D a y f or t h e t hi r d read i ng of the "' Mr. ROEBUCK begged l e a ve t o s t ate the frog'''' necessary. fhe : if to he might call it, was not one of a solitary n a turi;:4 - crime of bribery could not be committed without tweo' what were the consequ ences o f revealing the transaction t'; present state of the mot ality of the world? The erinte one marked - out and branded by soc i ety , b ut one ' w hie" , tolerated, and therefore it was necessary to have a law t° o demnity the parties giving evidence. It was not an inela a i inflict punishment, but one on which to found lege; _enactments. It was said this was a novel proceeding, 111 - Wished to know where was th e d anger ? H e hoped t he fi e - would grant him this powe r by grant i ng t h e Committee, • . feared, if they denied it, that the inquiry would be har e , • - On the question that the Bill be read a third time, . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL sa id , from t h e e ete' p which the present Bill went, he thought it was frati4i considerable danger. He would draw the attentions .. ee, House to the second c l ause , w hi c h empowered the earn/. at, its discretion, to report to the Howe, certifying te al ' witness who shall be examined, shall be held harmless ";iti proceedings, and sh a ll b e i n d emn i fied from all actions,Pe ' d t te h o a r t i in mightthe b have r a o v uh eg k t e h n at o m ac i e gh h t ef b o e re th t e he su p b a je sa c i t hg of o tl f ie the ie' , lo, and prose cu ti ons , f or matters relating to bribery or int'V t; No Act of Indemnity had hitherto gone beyon d"f hide' ,e . the witness himself for the matters concerning Vill're V, Might be examined. This proposition gave an initivill s 7 demnity for every ac t o f b ri b ery, i ntimidation, and c arre f 0 of which he might have been guilty prior to the passing ° s e. Act. He otjectedeo. that portion of the Bill, let, bee' , carried the indemnity to the whnesses beyond what cesssry ; and secondly, because it indemnified all d whose names might be mentioned in the report; O es eif without becoming witne s ses a t .l; were to be indemow every transaction in which they might ever have been el i He considered these Bill s o f I n d emn i ty as mor e make witnesses than to elicit truth—(Cheerl)—but he r is not go the length of opposing the Bill, -but only those llete it which went beyond established precedents:—(Hear. y, • Few Bills of this nature had been actually pa-sed. The 6r , 1) :e ' in 1605, in Lord Melville 's ease; the next was in P 3 1 9,9 ",fe Barnstaple case; then came the Grampound case in It 'td the Penryn case in 1829 or 1830. Lastly came the SUS" . p 'l He cousieered his Hon. and Learned Friend, the Menril'A' , w as Bath, was going beyo n d es t a bli s h e d precedent, and '' F o clueing a somewhat peril o u s exper i ment. The Honed Learned ..ientleman should not g o b eyon d precedent. l'ils would comeel no man to criminate himself. IF' t f and Learned Friend ws h e d to remove that inipedirne e ets so far he (the Attorney-General) did not object to the ': but his Hon. and L earne d F r i end went further; li-ei evidence might be withh e ld , f rom a dedre not to crire" - J! friend, and therefore he would indemnify the man's frile ,. well-as himself. Now, to th a t h e ( t h e e ttorney- Geier ' li se jested.. The lave justified a man in protecting himself', tr protecting his friend , therefore he would say,-let the l' e tie; course. R e move the impediment as respected the m' u s' s self, self, hat leave him t o th e l aw as respected h i s fr i en d . It ' - ell to be the removal of an impediment, but it was in the P yt of a bribe. He, therefore, proposed to strike out clael ff 2, which was the poi n t of di ff erence b etween hi mse lf 0 0 )", Hon. and. Learned Friend. He should therefde move, ofs the Bill was read a third tim e , th at this clause should be', out. He hoped that, on these gro un d s , th e H on .' Ga t would show that clause to be struck out. he IP Sir R. INGLIS said th e oljection he had ageinit t' o s i t'; was an- illustration of the h asty l e gi s l at i o n o f the Hole✓, Member for Bath en the s u bj ec t. Th e Bill which et!' leave to bring in, was not the Bill which he now brollP j ell The Bill of the Hon o u ra bl e G ent l eman wou ld not lee , ' demnity witnesses, but wou ld i n d emn if y parti e s..—(Heaft e t' d He would not follow the Attorney-General in his e . ,_ r g u s l7/ but he would say, that if th e p resen t Bill passed, 1 1 , • p which the House had in vie w wou ld b e d ear l y purchase D f l i Mr. HARDY had great objections to the Bill• pe e monstrous to give indemnity not only to the witness,b o _ s o ,,e party respecting whom h e m i g ht give evidence. - 11 ' s ye were the witnesses to be compelled to give evidence ' es' Bill would prove abortive for the purposes for whiel' framed, and he should therefore oppose it. co n Mr. O'CONNELL;couId not see that an y answeL e ef e e be given to the objections raised by. the Attorney - Os' -against the second clause. He (Mr. O'Connell) OOP e clause ought to be removed f rom the Bill. 9 11 Mr. NV YNN con curre d i n th e o pi n i on t h a t w it n esse i , ought to he indemnified. of' e Mr. ROEBUCK said that the Bill had been drawl!, etl ) t i two of the highest legal authoritie s , w h o h a d b een I , "`' r i ll cellors of England, and he th oug ht th a t h e was t h c refore well sanctioned its presenting the Bill to the House ;f r,i,e es} mons. If the Hoene would allow him, he would vritht t et re clause,, since th e genera l sense o f th e H ouse was again s l , 4 ) P Mr. LAW thought that professional men ought to. 00 s. ee tested fr o m givi ng e vid ence o f p r i v il ege d communiestltes Pie Mr. C. BULLER said that unless they acceded t 0 , 0 to, / , ,e visions of this Bill they would be doing an injusl,e‘ te iel' it „ . . witness, s who were now being examined before the ( 1,,t Pio' lately appointed on the motion of the Hon. and Lea ri .' r eeti sn lj I ; ber ler. Bath. They ought to throw the mantle. of '' te teed over those witnesses, inasmuch as they were obliged eee o .° di , clesures which, und er or di nary c i rcumstances , tu ' as not have to do. . o re t 0 , c n .fir. ieeeis LI ar saidi,:that if the But of the INohl ~fferel e t Member for London (Lord J. Russ e ll) h a d been $ s ro ° pass, it would have e ff ected, in a general way, tsb'' , " d . sought to be obtained in au invidious manner. oil re' After a few words from Mr. WATSON, the Nl' e . . third time. On the question being put that the Bill do poet t, erbie Mr. C. BULLER rose to propose an arnendole z . l oo t_w? did not expect would meet with th e s li g ht es t° Vol .?.ai to insert " Bridport " in the preambl e o f the Bill. , to 007; Mr. LAW was of opinion that th e B i ll was V I : e'slie enough in its operations. e 134" ' - " The amendment was agreed to without a diso Or sAt Bill then pasted. iese CUSTOMS ACTS. res, On the motion that the H o u se d o go i n to nee.' tit tOl. e..e ; Customs Acts, fti o ' , .., Ar. HUME - said he wished to call the attention - Hon. Baronet to the votes which the House easne, t° „ o l,sti) in his absence, relative to the duty on cotton. an4, f fi r . were both raw materials. It appeared to hire ( that those votes were directly against the princiPle s . ° :3, tb Hon. Earoo , :t, and lie wished before the P 3s ',„`' t he IW", house would consider well what must result I r ° :ihis. to inanitfacturers occasioned by such procee dings 3 ' f vo iee , ,, t rati Sir It. PEEL, wh o s p o k e in a very low tone t i o e teritailiew understood to say, t h at h e was aware of the e had` 116 which the Howe came to last night ; but, a: . r ev O. obliged to reso r t t o t h e I ncome - tax t o raise tI t h e tt( could not now a ff or d to lose 6110,000/., which was , ;,2e duce Th d e House by the d they ut u resolved itself into Coincat, pon cottn and wool. ~t e e g t , , ,Ptstvi c o n in the caai r . iq ielell7. Clause 13 consisting of glass, earthenwar e, . • =1; agreed to without dison. Clause 14, consist i cu ng o ssi f silk and manufactures s- a t e posed, and th e it ems up to " Thrown silk , agreed to without opposdion. On " TI . " " e tiett d - PP" . the being proposed, orePal le Mr. GRIMSDITCiI rose to oppose L e 1 0 Kete*TA' of the duty. for which be could see no i dausib ,pf-y> ° e l contrary, he was of opi n i on , t h a t if the Pr, u r,h 4 t.lA l l l ,,- . lh ont a, great loss would i(' , 7r L ue: t ' bet icat_„; he the 'silk' tnanu!actureis without tile s ' ig" e t cirean' sfa rir: i" poorer or lab,urinz clas-es. Linder the , c • sn; r ropasrti redu.etion in r et ec os Pl , t% ! the posent tiuty:•proent pr r 3 0.00 (Hear hear)—and lie did so, Riga' because th gon. hs.4 sit " 4 d 121,, 144, I,ytt k. 4 k trit asci, 4 4, 41 1 „ n i t s A. 5,3 t,t At a, 4 ,~ YP