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rbtrbf lZitition I -.1 -01'1% 1 C_E, 'Seven o' Cluck. ANOTHER CONSPIRACY TO MUR DER LOUIS PHILLIPPE. Another conspiracy to assassinate the King of the French has happily been detected ; and several per sons, chiefly ouvriers, have been arrested, among whom is the notorious Considere, twice before implicated in similar plots, but acquitted. A quantity of petards, arms, and ammunition, found in their possession, has been seized. The following letter contains the fullest particulars relative to this most:atrocious conspiracy : " PARIS, MAY 7.—A rumour prevailed yesterday that a conspiracy to murder the King had been disco vered, to which, however, little credence was attached, - the more especially from the silence observed by the Government Journals last night, and the absence of all allusion whatever to it by any of the journals ' of this morning. I find, however, upon inquiry, that the fact is but too true, that a discovery has been made by the police, which leaves no doubt of the ex istence of a plot not only to murder the King, but to involve in the same fate as many members of the Royal Family as •should be with his Majesty at the chosen moment for putting the atrocious plan of the conspirators into execution. It appears that during the summer months the King is in the habit of driving out from Neuilly in a large open caleche, accompanied by the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Upon such occa sions the carriage is unattended by a military escort, and the horses are driven at a merely ordinary pace. These circumstances seem to have suggested the idea of an infernal machine, and one has been in vented of a simple character, being in form an ordi nary sized ball, calculated to burst upon falling, and to shatter everything near it with irresistible force. The principal material is said to be a fulmi nating powder of a very powerful character. The instruments for working, the materials, and some balls, were found upon premises adjacent to Considere's wine shop in the Rue Montmartre. This Considere has been *vice tried for complicity in plots to murder the King, and each time acquitted. He was one of those tried in connection with Quenisset. Considere has been arrested, with seven others. This conspiracy will load, in all probability, to more stringent laws. The police authorities complain that they have no preven tive power—they say that, no matter how strong the moral certainty may be on their minds that marked and suspected persons are planning wickedness, yet that they cannot interfere ; and then when the . plot comes to light, p eo pl e ask what were the ? Of what use are they ? And what has been done with the secret service money voted for preventive objects ? Upon the other hand, the abuses' to which so dangerous a privilege might give rise can not be lost sight of. Up to Thursday night the police remained in ignorance of what was hatching. " On Sunday evening last the King sat at an open window looking upon the garden of the Tuileries dur ing a whole hour, while a musical band was perform ing below in honour of his fete day. The garden was densely crowded, and it was observed that the greet ing of the multitude was of an unusually cordial character. The public mind has latterly, thanks to a wise and moderate Government, been so calmed and re gulated, that a return to loyal feelings appears to have talen place, and the discovery just made will excite horror and disgust universally. • The Chartist petition, which excited some curio sity, no longer attracts attention. The dangers just discovered at home from regicide ruffians have de stroyed all interest, if any existed, in the proceedings tif the malignant and cowardly demagogues of the other side of the water." ARRIVAL OF THE CLYDE STEAMER. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.-The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steamer, the Clyde, ar rived at Southampton at a late hour last night. She left Havannah on the 16th April, and brings all the mails. They were landed at Falmouth, and will not be received in town till to-morrow. We have received by this vessel a file of Havan nah papers to the 16th ult., but they contain nothing of importance. The Creole men were liberated by the Court at Nassau on the 16th of April. The Clyde has brought a quantity of money for the payment of the Mexican dividend. (From the Nassau Royal Gazette of April 16.) THE CREOLE MUTINEERS. The 17 men who remain of the 19 originally 'con fined in the gaol of this • town, under circum stances with which the public are already familiar, were this morning discharged by proclamation of the Special Court, or general gaol delivery, which was convened for the occasion, and before which they were arraigned in order that they might undergo a trial for piracy, should any prosecutor, appear. The United States Consul repuested further time that he might procure evidence ) substantiate the charge ; the Court, however, de cided that it would be most unjust further to detain the men, as there was not even a possibility of pro uring any evidence which could bring the crime h ome to them. They were accordingly discharged. (From the same of April 6.) .The Teviott, Lieut. Crock, R.N., from Turks Is land, with the March mail, is just anchored outside of Hog Island. (From the same of April 9.) The Teviott sailed on Thnrsday, about noon, for Havannah. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.-(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The SECRETARY then proceeded to read the Report. After referring to several reports which had been received from different parts of the country, it stated that by a report which had been received from Norfolk, it appeared that a large proportion 'of the young of both sexes had not only forgotten the little they ever knew of general learning, but also whatever scriptural and catechetical knowledge they bad ever acquired. In one village a female had officiated as parish clerk for the last two years, because none of the adult males were able to read ; in another, not one individual of the labouring classes in the parish could read or write, and an intelligent farmer gave it as his opiniorethat in a population of 200, the present clerk of the parish was the only man in his sphere of life who could take the office. Of four trustees who were lately selected to execute a deed, three could only sign with a cross • and in two of the county towns, one containing a population of 2,000, aad the other 4,000, it was a matter of notoriety that several leading- tradesmen and many smaller ones could not write, and could. only read imperfectly. It was stated that the model schools of , :he Society continue to maintain their reputation, and that though, numerous applications were continually rejected, 700 boys had frequently been in attendance. The girls' school also maintained its - numbers. The normal schools and training establishments had, during 'he past year, been maintained in undiminished efficiency. In reference to the necessity for female education, it was stated that, of 710 females who had been 'taken into custody by the Metropolitan poli ce , only 22 could read and write, while only one had received superior instruction. The special subscription which last year was reported to amount to 9,0001., with the addition of a grant of 5,0001. from the Govern ment, had increased to 15,620/. Under the head of general operations, it appeared that 55 new schools had been opened during the past year. With respect to the foreign 'operations, it was stated that the British Free Schools at Paris were still prospering. The four schools of the Belgian Evan gelical Society contained above two ;hundred children, who are daily receiving scriptural instruction. The school for poor foreigners in St. Peteisburgh continued to proiper. In Greece, the lonian Islands, and tiaroughout the Morea, education was advancing: as was the case also in Africa . and in the East. The girl's school at Patras. now con tained 450 children, and another was about to be evtablished for children above the station of the poor. In every part of the West Indies, and in Canada and in Australis, education was gradually advancing. The Report concluded by calling upon the meeting to enable the Committee still further to ex tend the 'blessings of education. The Treasurer read the cash account, from which it ap peared that the whole income of the Society for the past year ).mounted to 7,0E101. 13s. 4d. H. Leaoucniaz, Esq., moved the first resolution, pro posing the adoption of the Report, and that John A bel Smith, Eeq., should be requested to accept the office of Vice-Presi dent of the Society. Lord WORSLICY seconded the resolution, which was then put from the Chair, and carried unanimously. The Bishop of Noawiew moved the following resnlution 6 * That this meeting, grateful for the continuance of the Royal patronage, desires most respectfully to acknowledge the im portant subscription of her Majesty the Queen, 100 i. annu ally."—( Great cheering.) The Right Rev. Prelate, in alluding to what had been stated in the Report with respect to Norwich, said, however just the accusation might be he believed it would never be made again. —( Cheers.) The clergy of his diocese were now ably and energetically seconding him in his views for the education of the people.—(Cheers). Soho els were arising in all directions, and the greatest interest was felt and manifested in the prosecution of education. He trusted that all parties would unite to dispel the ignorance which prevailed lo such a fearful extent throughout the land.—( Cheers. ) winch Aber. SMITH, Esq. briefly seconded the resolution , - was put and carried by acclamation. The Rev. Mr. &rover. proposed the next resolution, ivhich was to the effect :—That the Meeting being deeply impn,ssed with a sense of the importance of the objects of this :Society, and the heavy responsibility devolving upon those whose dat, it is to edu cate t h e ch i ldren of the poor, is most desirous of creOrtis" n g its sympathy with them, and anxiety in every way to pro mote their personal comfort and improvement. The Rev. Mr. PRICHARD seconded the resolution„ wait" , was passed unanimously The Rev. M r . chaplain to the Swedish em bossy, ruse to speak to the resolution. He wished to avail hilly elf of th s opportunity to express the great Rbligation whir h his ncuive country owed to England, from .the time of King Eebeldred: 850 years ago(f to the p resen t l ime. Ile had had great opport un i t i es Sweden of the system °rein° I bi - ( ught over from thi s the great advantal ets in country, which had been tsineele man in Swe but There was :tut a ehe .in octal name of den " Lancastert72". well aequa inted with scrib.xl on 500 schools, b u t was . was re, onkv in hearts of every one in S w ed en . etigrav( on the Several other matter-of-form resolution s were the, 2 proposed -to the meeting, in the cour se o f which Mr. K e ihb m e l e e, the Rev. Mr. G oger l y , f rom India, andothe - v om a ge n ' le- - men, ettithesssed the meeting in fine and eloquent 1 iarangues, which l ye .much regret want of space wholly preclud es us from publishin t tr• A rote o•'( ;thanks was passed with acclamation to the Noble Chairman, ; u2d his Lordship, having briefly a c k now l e d ge d th e honour, th e meeting adjourned shortly befor e f our o' The G ov ernment of Lucerne has addreE sed a cir cular to alI t, he other Cantons of Switzerland, inviting them to ome to a defi oitive resolution in the affair of th e conven t s o f °Argon. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) LYME REGIS. The Committee met this morning in room 2. The scrutiny into the qualification of the votes was proceeded with, and one vote was struck off the poll. As the examinations of the wit nesses are entirely confined to the value of the holdings, and other points affecting the occupation and qualifications, they possess no general interest. The scrutiny was proceeding up to the adjournment. NEWCASTLE-UNDER:LYNE. .• The Committee met this morning, Sir J. Y Buller in the Chair. Three witnesses were examined in support of the alle gations of bribery and treating. One of the three witnesses was Mrs. Benison, who kept the Roebuok Inn at Newcastle during the election, but had since removed. Her evidence went to show that liquor was supplied to voters in her house during the election. The last witness called was an old man named Samuel Hedge, who stated that on the day of the polling he was forced into the Roe buck by a party of persons, and kept there, in a first floor room, till seven o clock in the morning. He was kept there against his will. Some brandy and water was ordered for him while there, but he was very cautious as to what he drank. He at last got away, when they did not see him. Witness was a burgess of the borough. The Committee adjourned at Four o'Clock. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) CRIMINAL INFORMATIOM.-THE QUEIEN V. A. A. WATTS. In this case a rule nisi had been obtained by the Attorney- General, calling upon defendant, the proprietor of the United Service Gazette, to show cause why a criminal information should not be fi led against him for the publication, in his jour nal, of a scandalous libel, reflecting in a most disgtsting man ner on the character of Captain Morris, of Ddvonport. The rule came on for argument this day, and Mr. THESIGYA, on the part of the defendant, retracted all the imputations made on plaintiff's character, expressed de fendant's sorrow for having made them, tendered the amplest apology, and consented to pay all the costs, if plaintiff v. ould consent to the rule being discharged. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on the part of the plaintiff, said his only object had been to vindicate his character from the slanderous imputations attempted to be cast on it, and that having been accomplished, he would consent to the course sug gested by his Learned Friend. TAXATION OF COSTS. Lord DENMAN, in the course of the morning, stated that it was the opinion of the Court that, in the taxation of costs, the Master ought to have more power; that the Master should consider what was reasonable, and not confine himself to al lowing one consultation, if he should be of opinion that more were necessary ; that with regard to models, the greatest vigilance and care should be exercised in the allowance for them, but still that the discretion of the Master ought not be limited. A NORFOLK CONSTA BLE.—THE QUEEN V UTTING. The defendant in this case, JohnUtting, who it appeared was Overseer, Surveyor of the Highways, and Constable of the village of Acle, in Norfolk, had been convicted, at the last No rwich Assizes, of having conspired with one Anna Bunn, to falsely accuse one Daniel Durrant of rape, of which crime the said Daniel Durrant had, in consequence of such conspiracy, been convicted at the previous Assizes. Utting was this day brought up to receive the judgment of the Court. From Lord Chief Justice Tindal's notes of the evidence taken at the trial, it appeared clearly, that Durrant was inno cent of the crime laid to his charge, and that he had been con victed in consequence of the conspiracy between the defendant and Anna Bonn. The only motive for defendant's conduct seemed to be the desire to extort money from Durrant. The defendant addressed the Court in mitigation of punish ment, and stated that he was innocent of the crime of conspi racy, and that throughout hehad acted solely under the direc tion of the committing Magistrates. Mr. B. ANuxEws and Mr. Br LEO having addressed the Court in aggravation, • Mr. Justice PATTEXON proceeded to pass the judgment on the defendant. The Court was entirely satisfied with the verdict of the Jury. It was impossible to come to any other conclusion than that the defendant was guilty. The offence was one of a most serious description. The defendint had conspired to chrage a 'man with an offence for which death might have been the punish ment, at the time the charge was made, and, as it was, the man had suffered most severely, having been only recently released from the hulks, having been pardoned by her Majesty. The defendant's conviction—and the only motive on defendant's part seemed to be, a determination to get some small sum of money from the man Durrant. The sentence of the Court was, that the defendant, John Utting, be imprisoned in her Majesty's gaol of Norwich for twelve calendar months. The defendant was then removed in custody. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—When Pitt, in 1783, submitted his scheme of Parliamentary Reform to the country, he suggested a mode of dealing with delinquent bo roughs which seems to merit the consideration of Parliament and the public under present circum stances. We have nothing to do with the sincerity, or insincerity of Pitt. When he made his proposal he might, or he might not, have been desirous of amending the deformities which had grown to an unsightly bulk on the re presentive body. But we have to do with the evil which deforms our present electoral system ; and which, if not arrested in its course, will assuredly eat into the very vitals of the electoral body, and make it one unmitigated mass of loathsome rottenness. It requires a firm nerve to operate upon an excrescence so gigantic—to employ the necessary process for ex tirpating so virulent a disease. No tampering, no patching-up kind of treatment, will do in an emer gency so imminent. The mere skinning-over sort of policy—timidly plastering over the peccant parts, to hide the frightful ravages of the moral and political leprosy from the public gaze, and thus endeavour to conceal the spreading of the malady which threatens to vitiate and corrupt the entire mass will not do in the present case. The probe must be applied with a determination to reach the root of the disease. The public eye will be fixed with an intensity of gaze upon the process, which will evince the deep interest that is felt in the result of the operation. Will the House of Commons agree to Mr. Roebuck's motion for a Committee to inquire into the "compro mises," which have prevented a disclosure before Committees of the wholesale bribery alleged in the numerous petitions against returns of Members to that House ? We think it will. Will that Committee de termine to bring to light the hidden works of darkness —will it compel a disclosure of the agencies by which the compromise was brought about—the inducements to the " arrangements "—the terms—the securities for the due fulfilment of the treaty in each of the cases? If it do so, it will deserve well of the country; for Parliament cannot delay the remedy, when the disease is shown to be so virulent in its nature, and so extensive in its range. If the Committee hesitate—if it shrink from pursuing the inquiry, and shelter itself behind forms, and entrench itself within precedents, in order to avoid responsibility—then will the consequences of so deep a disappointment to the public hopes rest upon its head. Each member of such Committee, who con sents to cover the delinquency of candidate, agent, or constituency, will be justly regarded by his country as an approver of the system he endeavours to perpe tuate, by concealing its operations. STANDARD.—We do not remember many poli tical incidentsthat have excited the same degree of in terest created by Mr. Roebuck's motion. They who are sincerely desirous of the stability of all estab lished institutions regard the event as one which, if properly employed, may go far in securing the present constitution of the country ; while the enemies of order trust to the unwillingness of Parliament to let in light upon its own construction as supplying pretext and a means for further innovation. They are fond of recollecting that the attempt to save East Retford cost, as they think, sche dule A and schedule B, and they hope for the Bal lot and Universal Suffrage as the result of a refusal of inquiry upon the present occasion. For our own part, we will not disguise our wish that Mr. Roe buck's motion for inquiry may be successful, and that inquiry may be prosecutad to the fullest extent. There are difficulties, no doubt, in the way, but, hap pily, these are difficulties which may be overcome without the slightest sacrifice of any principle deserving of the least respect. The proposal deals with nothing but those arrangements of convenience, which, for want of a better name, we commonly call " conven tionalities." Now, conventionalities are very well when they do not obstruct the path of justice, or fence immoralities ; but when they do, " conventionali ties" ought to give way. It is a monstrous thing, say some, that a Member of Parliament should be questioned as to his mode of getting into the House of Commons, or as to his motives for retir ing in favour of another gentleman. Question less, such interrogatories place some gentlemen in a very awkward position, as Sir John Cam Hobhouse can tell ; and if the House of Commons were merely a club, possessing no influence upon any beyond the persons composing it, there might be something in the objection to this disagreeable inquiry, though even in that case, if any means injurious to public morals were resorted to in order to obtain admission, an upright and resolute Magistrate would make it the subject of investigation, despite the wounds that he must necessarily inflict upon the rules of courtesy. But the House of Commons is intended to be something more than an agreeable club : it is intended to influence the destiny of millions of human beings, and of a mighty empire ; and other considerations, auxiliary to the care for public morals, require that its constituent members be elected by fair and incorrupt means. That the great majority of the House are gentlemen re turned without a shade of bribery, every candid man will admit. The county Members, with ou t exception, are so returned ; and - we may say the same pretty generally of the rural boroughs, some of which we could instance that have returned gentlemen against the will of the elected ; but these almost involun tary legislators are generally . ultra-Tories, though it has happened at the late election that some of th em have, with a full knowledge of their character, been returned by constituencies of what are called Liberal principles—a tribute to private worthof honourable which itis hard to say whether the tribute is most to the giver or to the receiver. One has a pleasure in contemplating such noble proofs of the natural dis postion of Englishmen, and it is not foreign to the matter in hand ; for we may be well assured that if bribery could be effectually got rid of, cases like these would be much more common, if not universal. COURlER.—Although deprecating the bitter and virulent tone of Mr. Roebuck's interrogatories, and the necessarily partial character of the proceed ings he instituted on Friday night for the pur pose of inquiring into and dragging to light the debasing and corrupt processes whereby various Hon. Members have obtained the privilege of sitting and voting In the House a Commons, we cannot re fuse to the Member for Bath the paced of our appro bation on the grounds of stern impartiality, and good intentions. That the "political Napoleon' who took Nottingham by storm at the last general election, the purity-lovingex-Presiden of the Board of Control, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, owes •no deep obligations of gra titude to Mr. Roebuck, and will offer up no very fervent aspirations for the success of his motion this evening we can well imagine ; nay, that very sagacious and con sistent specimen of Whig-Radicalism will exert all his little power to defeat the motion and baffle the proposed inquiry we can easily believe, deeply impressed as we are with the conviction that the agencies by which the election (election, indeed !) of himself and his convenient umbra was carried, exceeded in glaring and unblushing profligacy those brought into play in any other city or borough in the United Kingdom. Sudbury, he well knows, was bad enough ; Ipswich was tolerably deep in the mire of corruption ; neither Southampton nor Lewes had much reason to boast of the purity and independence of their respective constituencies ; but Nottingham far transcended them all in the infamy and shame lessness of its election proceedings. In most of the other places, the successful candidates contented themselves with one species of foul agency ; bribery-, quiet, silent, business-like bribery alone, obtained in other towns ; but in Nottingham, bribery the most gross—drunkenness the most disgusting—were aided, supported, and accompanied by the most ferocious demonstrations of violence, intimidation, and club law. And hence it is that we have our misgivings as to the cordiality of the reception Sir John Cam Hob house will give to Mr. Roebuck's motion for a Com mittee of inquiry TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. Six O'CLOCK. 7 to 2 agst Attila 3 to 1 agst Frederica 9 to 1 agst Canadian 13 to 1 agst Auckland 15 to 1 agst Lord of Holderness 20 to 1 agst Jack—taken 27 to 1 agst Balllnkeele 27 to 1 agst Chatham 33 to 1 agst Meteor—taken 1 . -(THIS D AY.) last market .day. 32. g. d. Walls End Hetton 20 9 Walls End Lambton Walls End Morrison IS 11 Walls End Pemberton l4 6 Walls End Russell's Hetton 20 6 Walls End Stcwart's Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Heugh Hall 29 6 Tennant's Hartlepool l9 Walls Ei.d Bowburn Walls Endßrown's Deanery 19 0 Walls End Coundon lB 3 Walls En 1 Clarence Hetton 16 9 Walls End Richardson'sToeslB 0 Wal s Et. d Tees Blythe l4 3 Cowpen Hartley lB 6 Llangennech Coal! 23 0 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1842 by the determination which he had shown (notwithstand ing the conclusive proofs which he had received of the unfounded character of his statements) not to do those gentlemen even tardy justice. He lied the greatest respect fur the private character of th e Noble Marquis, and in • expressing himself so strongly now, he was not doing anything inconsistent with that respect, or with the usages of Parliament. He then put the question to the Noble Marquis, of which he had given notice, whether he was disposed to retract or adhere to the accusation which he had made against the Magistrates of Sunderland ? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he had lis tended with the greatest attention and respect to the speech of the Noble Marquis, and he thought the Noble Marquiss's desire must have been to have a run at her Majesty's Government, and the latter part of it was cer tainly to arm an opposition to her Majesty's prero gative, which he ought not to have mixed up with his statement of evidence.—(Hear, hear.) It seemed as though, after the reply, the !Noble Marquis had received troru the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, he bad armed himself and come down to that House for a determined attack upon the humble individual who then addressed them. He (the M arquis of Londonderry) hoped before he sat down to be acquitted from the charge brought against him by the Noble Marquis. To commence he must undoubtedly declare that he was a little hurt at the want of courtesy of the Noble Marquis the other evening. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly befure Four o'Clock. The Boston Harbour Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. ROYAL EXCHANGE. On the motion of Sir M. WOOD, the London Bridge Approaches and Royal, Exchange Avenues Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The Market Harborough and Brampton Road Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. HARDY, the Metropolitan Wood Paving Company's Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. BARNARD, the London and Greenwich Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. LOWTHER, the York Ca thedral Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Dr. BOWRING, the Imperial Bank of England Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Lord NORREYS Moved the second reading of the Britwell Inclosure Bill. The Bill was read a second time, and ordered tobe committed. Mr. E. TURNER presented a petition from Truro, against the Income-tax Bill. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from a parish in Kent, against any grant to the College of Maynooth. Mr. PLUAIPTRE presented a petition from Rams gate, to a similar effect. TEN HOURS BILL. Mr. BECKETT presented a petition from the opera tives of Leeds, praying the House to pass a Bill to re strict the hours of labour to ten hours a day. Lord ASHLEY presented a petition from Blackburn, in Lancashire, praying that the hours of labour might be limited to ten hours per day. Sir H. DOUGLAS presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, to the same effect. Mr. FERRAND presented several petitions from places in Yorkshire, praying that the hours of labour might be limited to ten hours per day for five days in the week, and eight hours on the Saturday for all persons working in factories, under the age of thirteen years. EDUCATION IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. Mr. RICARDO presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of the Staffordshire Potteries, complaining of a want of instruction to the Roman Catholics in the Army and Navy. Also, a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark, praying that the Metropolitan Bridges might be opened to the public. Mr. R. YORK presented a petition from Durham, from an individual whose name we did not learn. The petitioner stated that he had saved sixteen persons from -drowning, whereby he had contracted a chronic com plaint, which had reduced him to great distress, but he was prevented from obtaining relief, owing to the opera tion of the new Poor-law Bill, and he prayed for an al teration therein. Mr. REDINGTON moved that the proceedings in the Southampton Committee be printed.—Ordered. Mr. G. BANKES presented a petition from a place in Dorsetshire, praying that no alteration should be made in the duties on the importation of foreign live stock. Col. LYG ON presented a petition from Worcester shire against the Turnpike Trust Bill. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. Mr. WARD presented a petition of a peculiar charac ter, which had been signed that morning by 173 inha bitants of Southampton, andthe petition stated that they, the inhabitants of the county and town of Southampton, were deeply impressed with the truth of the Report lately made by the Select Committee appointed by that House to try the merits of the last election for the town of Southampton, at which the freedom and purity of elections were grossly violated, that being the se cond time within nine years in which the Members had been unseated in consequence of the election having been accomplished by fraudulent means. They also stated that under the present election laws the same practices would again prevail when they were again called upon to exercise their Parliamentary franchise, and they therefore humbly submitted that no new writ should be issued for a fresh election for Southampton until such measures were adopted for the prevention of these grossly demoralising and unconstitutional practices as they (the House) should in their wisdom think fit. The Hon. Member then moved that the minutes of evidence taken before the Southampton Committoe be printed.—Ordered. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS. Mr. HOWARD presented petitions from Roman Ca tholics of Staffordshire, Westmoreland, Lancashire, De vonshire, and Huntingdon, for a better provision for the spiritual instruction and aid of Roman Catholics in gaols, workhouses, and in the Indian army. CLERKENWELL IMPROVEMENT. On the motion of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, the Clerken well Improvement Bill was read a second time. TAXES ON FOOD. Mr. VILLARS presented petitions from Dartford, Glasgow, and several other places, against all taxes on food. _ EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Mr. A. LEFROY presented a petition from a place in the county of Meath, against the national system of edu cation in Ireland. INCOME TAX. Mr. LEADER presented a petition from the Church warden and Vestry of St. James's, Westminster, praying the House not to pass the Bill for the Inome-tax, which they considered inquisitorial, oppressive, and demoral ising. NOTINGHAM ELECTION. Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition signed by 36 electors of Nottingham, praying the House to enquire by a select Committee into the circumstances under which the procedings upon the petition against the return for the borough of Nottingham were brought to a close, and the disclosure of extensive corruption had been pre vented. THE TARIFF—INCOME-TAX. Mr. G. PALMER presented petitions from persons engaged in the leather trade, at Epping, and in various places in Essex, against the proposed reduction of the duties on the importation of leather and of boots and shoes. Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition from Ply mouth against the Income-tax. FISHERIES (IRELAND). Mr. F. FRENCH presented a petition from Clonmel against certain clauses in the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill. THE FACTORY BILL. Lord MAHON presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, in favour of a Bill to limit the time of em ployment in factories to ten hours daily. Mr. ALI)HAM presented a similar petition from Leeds. Mr. CUMMING BRUCE presented a petition from Forfar against the provisions of the tariff with respect to live stock. NOTICES OF MOTION. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that in Committee on the Tariff he would move, that instead of the duty proposed on straw-hats and plait, a duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem be levied. THE TARIFF-TIMBER DUTIES. N be h l ponsa e na question from an Hon. Gentleman, v could not learn, relative to the duties to aidnsoaliee w r to timber,e The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said (as we understood) that the timber imported since October n b bond o N f vo b u o l n d d p ; a b y u t t h e t duty he tnn in b e existence 4Wa w h s t e , n a i n t d w n a o s now a i k n e bond, would pay the duty of that period at which it was imported. CASE larr.yS forll l Ireland, l a s a n i t n h a h t i s s e p e l i a n c g e, th h e e N v e o n b t l u e red Lord,to ask ke him S e- OP MR; •BIDDULPI I. Mr. ac question respecting a matter of which he (Mr. Shiel) had given notice. It appeared that Mr. Biddulph, Magistrate of Kin g ' s county of considerable respectabi lity, was fired at some time ago, and two persons Colville and another were tried for firing at him. No less than three trials took place with reference to this matter, two under the late Government. At the last trial a complaint was made by Lord Charleville, respect ing the constitution of the jury. The la st trial took place at the late Spring Assizes, when the prisoners were acquitted. It appeared that, on that trial Mr. Keating a man of distinguished ability was sent down as counsel. Upon the e examination of Mr. Biddulph, it appeared that he in his capacity of Magistrate, had conveyed a dvice to the two . persons charged with the felony to abscond and fly the country. On the cross-examination by Mr. Murphy, he (Mr. Murphy) aid, " I shall now leave you in the hands of the Attorney- General." Mr. Keating was then th e representative of the Attorney-General. After this Mr. Castles, Mr. Buddulph's steward, stated he had been authorise d b y Mr. Biddulph - to advise the prisoner to fly the country. Mr. Biddulph .had since been dismissed by her Majesty's Government. Re (Mr. Slid) wished to know the day on which the trial had taken place upon which Mr. Biddplph was dismissed. Lord ELIOT said, he believed the Right Hon. and learned Gentleman had stated with perfect accuracy the facts of the case. He (Lord Eliot) regretted that - the Right Honourable Gentleman had not given him intimation of the specific question he had intended to :put upon which he desired an answer, but he would take -care to ascertain the dates, and let the Right Hon. Gen tleman know. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, upon - the investigation of the circumstances, had dismissed Mr. Siddulph from' the commission of the peace for King's -County. The first intimation that Government had ;received upon the ,subject was, from a question ; put by a noble person in another place. Under these circumstances he hoped the Right Hon. and Leari;ed Geatlumail wond ..;atisil;_d taken by the Government and the Attorney-General. Mr. SHIEL expressed his satisfaction at the reply of the Noble Lord. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. ROEBUCK moved the Order of the Day for re suming the adjourned debate on the breach of privilege. The Order of the Day having been read, Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from the bo rough of. Reading, stating that the petitioners had heard of the circumstances that led to the debate of Fri day night, that they believed that the charges con tained in the petition against the return for that borough were and are true, and that the object of the arrangement that had been made was to prevent the dis closure of the corrupt practices that had prevailed ; they, therefore, prayed the House to grant a Select Comittee of inquiry without delay. ELECTION PROCEEDINGS—ADJOURNED DE BATE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF A SE LECT COMMITTEE. Major BERESFORD said that it was his intention to address the House on Friday evening, when he was per sonally attacked, and he hoped that he would not now be precluded from addressing the House. The SPEAKER said that the question should be put first. The question having been then put, Major BERESFORD said, he was anxious to address the House, especially as he was not in the habit of occu pying its time on a subject in which he was person ally concerned, and in which his honour was concerned. —(Hear, hear.) He rose for the purpose of saying that he considered this Committee should be appointed —(Hear, hear)— which would not be so unparliamentary as the precedent which the Hon. and Learned Gentle man opposite (Mr. Roebuck) sought to establish. He believed the question of the lion. and Learned Member was unparliamentary, and he should refuse to answer it, though if it were put by a competent authority, he would not.—(Hear, near.) He did not object to the Hon. Gentleman's request for a Select Committee, but he did object, and with reason to the manner in which he asked for it—the matter he brought forward—and the tone and gesture with which he enforced it. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had charged him personally with bribery and corruption, and he stated that a rumour was abroad to the same effect, but he thought the Honourable and Learned Member should have known that rumour had been called a lying jade, but he, too, heard a rumour, perhaps as well founded as that of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, that he (Mr. Roebuck) was a Member of that House without a qualification, and that he swore to that qualification the very day on which it was executed for him in London. That was one of the rumours which he (Major B.) had heard, and, perhaps, as well founded as that upon which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman charged him. He had heard a rumour, also, that not patriotism alone, but that bad feeling, also, had excited him to his present measure. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps that was unfounded also, and he had not come to point the finger of scorn and malevolence at any person; but he thought the Honourable and Learned Gentleman was trying to establish a dangerous precedent, and one which ought not to be tolerated. It was better they should go before a Committee regularly and fairly appointed to vindicate their characters, then to be called on to do so in that House, the arena of public discus sion. —(Herr, hear.) He had said that the House and Learned Gentleman was at liberty to draw what con clusions he pleased, and the Hon. Gentleman drew false conclusions, which he always would do as long as he argued upon false premises. The Hon. Member for Cockermouth had also made a remark, which he could not assent to. He knew no reason why, because a man was accused, he should be judged guilty if he did not immediately appeal to some tribunal for the purpose of clearing himself. He protested against any such conclusions being drawn, and he trusted that the House would grant the Committee. Mr. C. WYNN had moved the adjournment of the debate, for the purpose of affording himself an opportunity of maturely considering what would be the effect of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman's moiion. That motion appeared to him to be of too general a nature. The Honourable Member had brought forward nothing specific for the House to inquire into. The Honourable and Learned Member had brought forward certain charges against certain individuals, but there was nothing definite in them—the charges ought to have been specified. There had been one case mentioned in which it had been stated that a bond had been given with a conditional penalty to be enforced on the withdrawal of the petition, if the Member did not resign his seat within a certain time. In another instance it had been stated that a sum of money had been laid down. If a corrupt contract could be es • tablished no doubt that would be a case of breach of privilege. But there might be a case in which a person not being able to support the expense of defending his seat and not wishing an investigation to go forward affecting his character during his absence, might say to his opponent " If you wish merely to get a new election, you shall have an opportunity of going to one, for I will resign my seat." Of any such arrange ment as that the House had no right to complain. He thought the regular course was for the Hon. Member to bring forward a separate charge in each case, and upon that charge the House would determine what course it should adopt in each special case. In each case the facts and charges might be taken down as the groun:e_ upon which the House acted, and it would then be entered on the Journals as the evidence of that ground. He had studiously abstained from enter ing into the merits of the case that had been referred to, but he thought that the adoption of the course he had proposed would be consistent with justice ; as it must be clear to every Hon. Member that it would be much better that each ease should be disposed of according to its own merits, than that fishing or roving commissions should be appointed. Mr. WARD could assure the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, that nothing was further from the desire of any person on that side of than to further the issuing of a fishing or roving commission ; but there were certain allegations which had been made by his Learned Friend, which he believed could be proved. He believed that his Learned Friend had understated his case, and that more might be proved than he had asserted. The allegations that had been made had in a great measure been confirmed by the conduct of certain Members. In Nottingham so clear was the evidence of malpractices that one of the Hon. Members had. found it so impossible to defend his seat that he had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The object of his honourable ambition was a seat in that House. He stood two contests for Nottingham, and that was no small proof of sincerity.—(Hear.) Why had he withdrawn ? His withdrawal was itself, under the circumstances, all the confirmation the House could require as a -ground for investigating the facts, and those facts he believed would be proved in Committee. With regard to the Gallant Major who had just addressed the House, no one could suppose that he was cognisant of what had taken place at Harwich, but still as the reports were rife it was necessary that the matter should undergo investigation. They had heard from his Hon. Friend, the Member for Bath, something about a Parliamen tary Napoleon going down to Nottingham, but it ap peared that there was also a Parliamentary Csar, who had been down to Harwich, and this Veni- vidi-vici-Gentlem an had swept everything before him the strength of his arms—(Laughter)—and in that town 83 objections had been served on one side, and 81 on the other, a number which included a very large proportion of the voters.—(Loud Laughter. He did not say they had all been bribed, but the objection had been served. They had been told, and he believed proof would be adduced before the Committee of the fact that in the cnnrse of two or three months the House were to be deprived of the Gallant Major's service, with no ex planatien of the fact, except the inconvenience of allow ing the allegations of the petition to be tried before the House. He thought such charges ought not to be made without being thoroughly investigated. They were told that there was at that moment a bond in existence pro viding that a penalty of 2,000/. should be paid unless the constituency were dealt with in a par ticular manner, and landed over to a particular individual without opposition. He believed that fact would be proved before the Committee. This could then, be called a fishing Committee, grounded as . . _ was upon certain allegations made by his Hon. Friend, He would entreat the House, to pause before deciding upon the course to be adopted. This was not a fishing Committee ; it was not a morning Com mittee, but one confined and limited to cer tain cases adduced. Let them give such a Com mittee the adequate powers and authority, and they might depend upon it, that ,those who wished to stop the rapid progress of corruption and bribery at elections in this coantry would find that they never had so good an opportunity of effecting their desires. He had no party or personal feeling upon this question all he wished to see was the axe laid to the roof of a system, un dermining the morality of the co ;ntry. In the present in ' stance, they had to deal not with mal-practices sanctioned by election committees, but with malpractices, in which the name and character of that House were constantly mixed up, and which were most dangerous to the moral health of the nation. He trusted that the Right not Hou. Baronet, the First Lord of the Treasury, would throw any obstacle in the way of the inquiry now sought for, which inquiry it was his interest as well as that of the House at large to promote. He hoped that all due powers would be given to the Committee, for the purpose of bringing the just censure of the House upon those who might be proved to have infringed upon its liberties, and to have compromised its character with the country. Sir R. H. INGLIS said, it was very true that the present could not, in the common sense of the word, be called a party question. inasmuch as the allegations made by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman opposite affected both sides of the , H ouse . Not having had the advantage of b e in g p resent on Friday night when the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman put his question, he would take the liberty of expressing, with respect to it, that and which he should have personally desired to do, which had not been done by other:. He certainly should have en deavoured that that question should have been put not without opposition from an individual at least. He should have endeavoured to have resisted the inquiry supposing the Committee were granted, he would ask by what course of proceeding would the result so confi dently anticipated by the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath be arrived at? Did he mean to riake individuals cri minate themselves. Did he mean to take the evidence of informers as to practices in vvVeh they themselves were implicated ? If so, he would c Ada! y have followed the example of the Old Bailey, bvt would not so satis factorily arrive at the conviction to punishment of the parties accused. For those reasons he would certainly vote against the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman. • Mr. R. YORKE simply rose to quote an au thority which would be respected upon this subject which had been brought before the House, COAL MARKE Ships arrived since d. Aciair'a Buddle's West Hartley lB 0 Carr's Hartley ... 18 6 Leaez's Main l4 0 Nelson's West Hartley l7 1, New Tanfield Moor l3 9 Ord's ltedheugh l4 6 Sontop indsor • 15 6 Townley... ..... 1 I 6 West Hartley... ea 19 0 Wylam . .... . . ... ••••••••••••• 15 6 Walls Did Hedky ..... IS 3 Walls End Walls End Killingwortd lB 6 Walls End 19 I) Eden 18 6 Walls Endßelmout 19 6 W. E. Bmddyll'sHetton Walls End 20 9 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. THE TARIFF. The Earl of HARDWICKE presented a petition from Cambridgeshire against the reduction of the duty on the importation of horned cattle. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Lord LORTON presented a petition from a place in the county of Longford against the present system of National Education in Ireland. IRISH MAGISTRACY. Lord DE GREY, in answer to a question from a Noble Friend on a former evening, had to say that the name of Mr. Bidduph had been struck out of the list of Itish Magistracy. The Marquis of NORMANBY regretted that his Noble Friend did not accompany his answer with some explanation as to the reasons why a just any necessary a measure had been so long delayed. He agreed with his Noble Friend that it was no part of the duty of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to read the newspapers. But the ignorance of the Noble Lord on the subject of Mr. Biddulph's case, showed that there was very great remissness on the part of those who ought to give his Noble Friend the proper information on such matters, and when such remissness was habitual, the newspapers were not to be despised.—(Hear.) When he (Lord N.) had the honoar of filling the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, there was the greatest unity amongst all branches of the Irish Government, and no trial of im portance took place without his being informed of it by the law officers of the Crown. The case of Mr.Bithlulph was three times brought before this House. and yet for two months no notice was taken of it by the Irish authorities. That the dismissal had taken place at last might be regarded as an intimation that the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government would do as much justice to Ireland as was consistent with keeping his party together.—(Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving for a return of the correspondence relating to the case. Lord DE GREY had no objection to the production of the papers, and could only say that he had acted in the case of Mr. Biddulph as soon as the information came before him in a tangible shape. He (Lord Grey) had acted not for himself, but for the country over which he was placed ; and when he found he did not give satisfaction to that country, and to the Sovereign who committed the government to him, he would resign the office. The Parish Property Bill was read a third time, and the Kensington and Knightsbridge Opening Bill, and several private Bills were read a second time. THE COPYRIGHT BILL. A Message from the Commons brought up the Copy right Bill which was read a first time. Lord LYNDHURST said he should move that the Bill be read a second time to-morrow, and that the dis cussion be taken on going into Committee. Lord BROUGHAM entirely concurred in the course proposed ; and he was sure that all who took any part in the discussion of this measure were actuated only by one motive, to secure to literary gentlemen as much ad vantage from their works as was consistent with the due protection of the rights of others. THE MAGISTRATES OF SUNDERLAND. The Marquis of NORMANBY lisal to request the attention of their Lordships to a subject which he had mentioned before they separated on Friday last. He would, however, say one word in the first place as to the order of their proeeedings- He found there was a disposition shown the other night strictly to adhere to a rule of the House, to which he had not seen much regard paid on former occasions. He had no objection to make upon that subject ; but he owned that he had found the other night. with a feeling of disappointment, mingled, perhaps, with other feelings, that honourable men, who bad come forward at the earliest moment to repel unfounded accusations, had the justification delayed by the backwardnes of the Noble Marquis (the Marquis of Londonderry) to bring the question in any shape before the House ; that Noble Marquis being their accuser to whom, with a generous confidence, they had trusted to make their defence as public as the charge. He had now only to ball upon the' Noble Marquis to make good his former charge, or else to retract it. He should Lead to thier Lordships certain resolutions which had been forwarded to him by those gentlemen—resolutions which had been agreed to at a meeting of the Ma gistrates of Sunderland, at which Mr. Rchard Spoore presided, in the absence of the Mayor.— (The Noble Marquis then read the resolutions in ques tion, which were to the ellect, that the allegation that the late Government had appointed a number of magis trates who were all Whigs was incorrect ; that the alle gation that the magistrates had refused licences to any but Whig voters was totally unfounded ; that out of eleven parties to whom licenses had been granted, four had voted for Lord Howick, two for Mr. Attwood, and the remaining five had not voted at all.) Those Magistrates had also forwarded a letter to the Noble Marquis, repelling, in the most re spectful manner, the charges he had made, and that letter, it was stated by the Noble Marquis, had been forwarded to him by certain gentlemen, all ()f whom were Whigs. Now what would he thought of the knowledge of the Noble Mar quis on the subject of the Magistracy of the county over which he presided as Lord Lieutenant, when the House was informed that the Mr. Spooro who had signed the letter to the Noble Marquis was a Con servative ?—(Hear, hear.) The Nohle Marq,uis had refused to do justice at once to those parties. The Noble Marquis need not have expressed any opi nion on the subject, but having done so, he was bound !o give the same publicity to the answer as to the ac cusation. But the most important part of the case was, that the Noble Marquis had made an accusation agninst the Magistrates that they had refused licenses , to every person not of their political opinions. To ascertain the justice of the accusation it was neces sary to know who were the parties applying for such licenses. Of sixteen licenses applied for eleven were refused, and of those refused, a majority of two to one were those who voted for Lord Howick; four voted for Lord Howick, and two for Mr. Att wood ; the other five had no votes. The mayor of Sunderland was Sir Hedworth Williamson, the late Member for the northern division of the county, and High Sheriff, and those who knew him must feel that there never existed a person less likely to he a party to any such proceeding. He had constantly acted as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and he had autho rized him to say, that no licenses had ever been refused on the ground of politics.—(Hear, hear.) Besides, Sir Hedworth Williamson had assured him that he never heard of such a thing discussed as the granting or withholding licenses cn party grounds. If the Noble Marquis opposite had heard that party feeling was allowed to prevail in any such way, it was his duty to have made such representations as would procure the inthiediate dismissal of those gentlemen from the Magistracy ; instead of recom mending that an equal number of the opposite party should be sent to job the other way.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that the Noble Marquis had shown great credulity, and had been greatly imposed on. His lend ing himself to the injurious aspersions upon those gen tlemen, of w h om he ought, in his capacity of Lord Lieu tenant of the county, to be on all occasions the careful superintendant, and when they were unjustly accused, or grossly maligned, the steady protector and earnest yin- dicator—showed that the Noble Marquis was not fit to fill the office which he held. This was more completely proved , in the autumn of last year. He refered to the dis cussion arising on the disputed election of Caernar- G::. 01, :11:t [LEFT SPEAKING.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKE]V TVELL. Adolphus Conneslith, a Prussian, about 34 years of age, was re-examined on a charge of having robbed Mr. Charles Nock, goldsmith and jeweller, of 28, Gerrard street, Soho, of property amounting to 1501., and with having nearly murdered the policeman who took him into custody. It appeared that the prisoner, who is a married man ith three children, was in the employ of Mr. Nock, and was on terms of great intimacy with Mrs. Nock, whom he visited during her husband's absence. On Thursday Mr. Nock went to Kensington, and was told, upon his return, that his goods had been removed in a van to Margaret-street, Clerkenwell ; his wife he found had left her home with his four children. Mr. Nock then went with a friend and a constable to 76, Margaret-street, where he found the prisoner and his wife and children. His wife, on seeing him, ran down stairs and escaped over the back wall, leaving her children. The constable told the prisoner to consider himself in custody, but he re fused to be taken, and immediately assaulted the police man with a candlestick, and knocked him down ; a vio lent struggle ensued, during which the policeman was dreadfully injured, and would have been murdered by the prisoner had not assistance arrived. The prisoner was also very much cut about. Proof was then brought that the prisoner had hired the apartments, and brought the goods (belonging to Mr. Nock) to the house in a van, and had paid for their conveyance hitnself. Mr. GREENWOOD considered the robbery had been clearly proved, and fully committed the prisoner for trial. ELECTIONEERING TACTICS. The work of discrediting the existing electoral body, and the Parliament returned by it, but above all the inquiries instituted by that Parliament into the immaculateness of the gentlemen, who claim a right to sit in it as the re presentatives of the people, goes on as bravely as Chartism itself could desire. Every day adds to our experience of the working of the system, and increases our contempt for the mockery of justice, which it pre sents. Both parties are now combining to stop an ex posure which they see to be dangerous. The effort will only deepen the impression, which publicity had pre viously produced. Everybody knew from the very first meeting of the present Parliament, or rather frOm the last day of the general election last year, that, whatever might have happened in the way of corruption elsewhere, there were two or three places so pre-eminent, so specially, and peculiarly distinguished by the wholesale way, in which every conceivable variety of malpractices had been carried on, that their detection and disfranchise ment were regarded as inevitable. Nottingham and Harwich stood at the head of this list. At Nottinghagn Sir John Hobhouse and Sir George Larpent had beaten Mr. Walter at his own weapons, and driven him from a field where he fancied his triumph certain, if there were such a thing as gratitude in the electoral world. But past favours, though barely six weeks old, go for nothing at Nottingham. Pay to-day and trust to-morrow, is the word ; and as it is not in everybody's power to pay 15,0001. twice over in three months, Mr. Walter gave way, like a prudent man, trusting to a petition fur his slice of the loaf upon more reasonable terms. Harwich, on the other hand, has been a standing joke at the Carlton against Sir Denis Le Marchant, the new Whig Baronet, and whipper-in. His happy security— his unexpected defeat—the novelty of buying a man's whole Committee over his head, and handing these wor shipful gentlemen over, Chairman included, to their rightful owner, Mr. Attwood, like a lot of bullocks at Barnet, or Smithfield, as soon as the purchase-money was paid—had something about it peculiarly tickling to the fancy of those who think that there is no such thing as political morality , in the world, and that every man has his price, if you can but come up to it, and know how to hit the proper time. The only awkward thing about these illustrations of " the legitimate influence of property" is the exposure, which at Harwich was inevitable, unless a mortified oppo nent could be appeased. The Tories kept the second seat, therefore, to the last hour of the last day that it was possible to hold it, and then threw a Beresford overboard to let Sir Denis in. Of course, nothing of this appears upon the journals of the House. On the contrary, the farce is kept up to the last with infinite spirit. The Election Committees are appointed. Mr. Cockburn, who appears for Mr. Walter, in the Nottingham case, disavows all imputa tions upon the conduct of the sitting Members, and states his belief that, from the very loose character of the two, or three hundred witnesses, whom he must have brought up, he shall best consult the interests of his client, by stopping the proceedings in limine—and the Report of the Committee consequently is, " that the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, and Sir George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent were duly elected to serve as burgesses in this present Parliament, for the town of Nottingham ;" while, in the Harwich case, Sir Denis Le Marchant, in prupria persona, communicated to the Speaker, " that it is not his intention to proceed with his petition," in consequence of which unlooked-for determi nation, the order referring it to the General Committee of Elections is discharged. At Reading, acting upon a similar principle, Mr. Russell and Lord Chelsea, the two Conservative candi dates, were pronounced to be irrevocably seated by their Chairman, Mr. Hogg, to the great astonishment of all who knew the extent to which bribery and treating had contributed to influence the rejection of Mr. Mills ; while Captain Plumridge was, to all appearance, as quietly confirmed in the representation of Penryn, without the slightest elucidation of the motives which had induced certain parties to protest against his return. And yet, by some singular fatality, it will happen that, one by one, all these decisions will be reversed. Sir George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent will be com pelled, ♦ery shortly, by ill-health, to accept the Chiltern Hundreds ; and such will be the revival of Mr. Walter's popularity at Nottingham that no Liberal will venture to contest it with him. Sir Denis Le Marchant will find Harwich tumbling into his arms, when abandoned by Mr. Beresford, the fickle object of its venal choice. Lord Chelsea, recommended by his physicians to try the air of the Continent, will make an opening at Read ing for Mr. Mills, whose character is already so highly appreciated there, that fifty of . his Conservative oppo nents profess their fixed determination not to counte nance any resistance to his return, And though we cannot find that any similar change has occurred at Penryn, we should like to bet five to one, in hundreds, that Captain Plumridge's successor will be a staunch supporter of Sir Robert Peel. We leave our readers to put these things together, should we happen to prove true prophets as to the result. If they do not furnish an argument for a change of sys tem, we know not what can. It is fortunate, however, for the ends of justice, that the plan was not adopted sooner. We have the records of Ipswich, Sudbury, Marlow, and Southampton, before us, and we mayjudge, by what has been discovered, of what has been sup pressed. If the pairing off principle had been resorted to sooner, much valuable knowledge would have been lost to the world. Luckily, the rogues have quarrelled, and the old proverb is likely to come true. We trust that a complete exposure of the system, as it now works, will take place in the Ballot debate, and that men will not be deterred by any, false delicacy from speaking out. So long as each candidate for political honours can see with his own eyes that he gets actual value at the polling booth for the money, which he pays, it is folly to imagine that corruption can be checked. There will be rich men to offer bribes, and poor men to take - them ; while, as the natural fruit of this unprincipled traffic, a perverted code of morality will grow up, in all matters connected with elections, amongst men honoura ble, and right-minded enough in other things. There can be no greater curse for a country than this. It has gone too far in England already not to make it a very grave question where, and how, the plague can be s ay e d.-- . Week/y Chronicle. ONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. au UN.—The English market has been in a very feverish e, both Friday and Saturday, and prices were again a ade lower. This circumstance forms no cause for surprise, when the rapid state at which Consuls ad vanced, and the present quotations be considered. It is almost unprecedented to see a Three per Cent. Stock at very nearly par, and can only be accounted for from the absence of any outlet for the investment of spare capital, and the depression of trade. It is satisfactory to be able to state, that a decidedly improved demand has arisen within the last few days for many articles in the produce markets, and that the rates fur money are rising, which may be considered as a sure indication that commerce is rallying. It is also g-atifying to observe the total absence of speculation in these bonds, which, not long since, were suc h great fa vOurites with the public, and by which so much money has been lost ; with all this vast accumulation of capital, which so long remained without employment. The quotations for these papers have been gradually sinking, and they are now apparently rapidly going into oblivion. The mission of Mr. J. A. Palmer to America is viewed with some suspicion, lest it may be the prelude to an at tempt to reinduce purchases of American Securities; monied men of all denominations are decidedly averse to any operation of the kind, the losses sustained by the United States Bank, and several of the individual States of the Union, being too recent to render further reliance on that country, whether federal or separate, impossible. Consols closed at 921 92i for money, and 92192 i for the account. Bank Stock 167 168 ; India Stock 247 249, and Exchequer Bills 36 39 premium. Foreign Securities remained as on yesterday. Bel gian, 101/ 102 i ex dividend ; . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 53 53+ ; the Five per Cents. 101- ; Danish, 80i 8i ; and Brazilian, 67_68. Railroad Shares were dull, partaking in the depression of the highest market. London and Birmingham, 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 52 54 ; Great West ern, 93 94 ; the Half Shares, 641 64a ; South Western, 63 64 ; Gosport, 63 64 ; North Midland, 64 66 ; the New Shares, 311 321 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30 301: Eastern Counties, 91 9i ; Blackwall, 12 ; the New Shares, 10 ; and Brighton, 364 36* per share. The Bonds were quoted—Colombian, 26 26/ ; Mexi can, 33 33i ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 371 ; the Three per Cents., 22 22 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 231 231 ; the Three per Cents., 23 231. DARING ROBBERY.—About eight o'clock Thursday evening a man, shabbily dressed, made his appearance at the front kitchen window of the house of Mr. Edward Simpson, in West-square Lambeth, for the purpose, as it seemed, of so liciting charity. The man's wretched appearance inducing the servant to go to the pantry for the purpose of supplying him with some tood, he took advantage of her absence by abstract ing a quantity of plate that had been left on the dresser with the dinner service, and contrived to get clear off with his booty. THE SISTER OF BURNS. A sister of Ill!rus, the best survivor of his father's family, stin lives. Siie is now a widow, at an ad vanced age, and resides at the village of Tranent, in liaddingtonshirc, with two untiarried daughters, who endeavour to support her by the exercise of their needles. She is a decent-looking old person, with a good deal of the poet's physiognomy, and particularly his fine dark eyes. The youngest of William Burns s children, she was twelve years old at the time when. he died at Lochlea, a broken-spirited man. She was one of the household at Mossgiel during its occupancy , by Robert and Gilbert Burns in succession, and she afterwards married a person named Begg, who, for ten years, conducted the business of Gilbert's farm of Dunning, on the estate of Sir Charles S. Monteath, of Closeburn. Since the death of her husband, her sons being all removed from her, and unable to assist her, she has been dependent on her two daughters, who, though active and most respectable young women, are barely able to keep house for themselves ' and their venerable parent. In short, the sister of Burns has fallen ' in the course of Providence, into poverty, and her last years are threatened with those, distresses, the dread of which is the theme of so many of her brother's verses. I was much affected on hear ing her say that having, in her earliest years, been , witness of the troubles which lowered over her fa- , ther's house, having afterwards partaken of the hard - • ships at Mossgiel, having passed through a long mar ried life in circumstances at no time easy, and . being now reduced to absolute indigence, she felt as if she had walked side by side with grief froth her very childhood. One only alleviation of her fate has sprung from the fame of her brother, ' in the shape of the most trifling annual pittance from the Scottish Exchequer. She was lately a candidate for the benefit of a fund called the Craig-Crook Mor tification [Anglice endowment] ; but her application for the meantime failed. lam satisfied, from rigid inquiries, that Mrs. Begg and her two daughters are perfectly worthy persons, and that complaint would r never have been heard from them, if. the most self devoted industry on the part of the young women were sufficient to keep their mother in comfort. The r public is, doubtless, much taxed ; hut, on the other hand, some claims are sacred. The poems of Burns daily give delight to thousands, and will continue W do so for ages. His productions wax yearly in public esteem, as time passes on and brings no second Burns. The name of the Ayrshire bard has even been assn.' ciated by some living writers with those of England is proudest. While he soars so high, to think: of one so near and dear to him as a sister sinking int penury—hearing from a cold ingle-cheek the echoes a nation's acclaim at every mention of the name sl*. bears—she, the last of the real members of that groli?:,' which, as a poetical picture, must live for ever in the " Cwtter's Saturday Night"—in short; the " sister d,, Burns"—to think of all this, is more than I can. stir,, pose the public patiently enduring, burdened as it —Correspondent of the Inverness COurier. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. I Few. --....- Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to .. e. to.s. a. to 1. s. to i• • Boston iSraintree 52 70 27 34 93 29 33 38 35 4 6 , ighton 55 70 27 31 20 26 32 41 34 31 Cambridge — 66 25 16 29 P' " Chichester 6O 61 26 32 20 24 36 40 24 Dunmow 47 57 20 31 19' 25 23 40 32 . 0 " Grantham Grimsby 56 74129 33 Ifs 21 36 40 1 , Hailsham 66 72 26 32 19 21 30 34 29 P.'' Hitchin 150 67 27 34 UO 30 34 45 i Ipswich 151 60 22 281 21 26 V 30 29 , Lewvs 5B 68 27 28 . .' 19 • 20 34 36 33 ' r t , Lynn 54 66 24 29 jl4 20 28 32 36' Maidstone 59 67 36 39 '26 32 38 40 • a l . A Norwich Petworth Rom ford Si 62 24 30 18 16 54 34 26 4 ,1` :; Sandwich 6l 71 23 34 95 30 33 39 36 fc ' "Cnetford ..... Wisbech .... ~a.'" Witham Si 61 21 26 19 25 24 34 26 ',', Yarmouth 6O 69 SO 32 24 30 38 40 asi ,4. ', WAKEFIELD CORN 51A RI•E•I' The supply was moderate, and prices of Wheat, Oats, ShOP ling, and Beans, were rather higher. No variation in Barbi' .6 54 •34 26 0 Sandwich 6l 71 23 34 95 30 '33 ;.9 36 Thetford ..... Wisbech Witham Si 61 21 26 19 25 24 34 26 a'"„ Yarmouth 160 69 SO 32 24 30 38 40 314 ,4 1 ' ' WAKEFIELD CORN 51ARKET was moderate, and prices of Wheat, Oats, Sisk ins, were rather higher. No variation in Bold ' idles. Essex and Kent -a. 60s. to 621. fine OP* Norfolk and Sistiblk ...... --s. 51s. to 595. fine O. --- Lin. and Cam. -s. b4s. to 5Ss. tine 61.. .----- Yorkshire -a. 565. to 595. fine 61.. • , -- White , -a. CO.. to 625. fine 64 4 .• .---- Foreign, tied -a. -s. to 613. fine 45 1 . White -s. -s. to 66.. sine 9131. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 24s. to 26;. One es- i: .----. Lincolnshire ' , Gs. to 28s. fine :7 0, ---- Yorkshire Wold . 263. to 28s. WO.. • , - Foreign Beans, New ----- Old Oats, Potato --s to 225, fine 245.' ---- Poland -s. -s. to 225. snit Ns=' • - w'riezlan.l and Smal: -- Nealing 3holling Malt -1 0s . 2 4 3 . 1 . ... t 01. 2 7 3:5 . 17ns . . P p t e r f L" --'l5: . '.. Rapeseed LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-Ma 3 91 , W' ' WHEAT, English, White, per 701 h.... -- Red ... 9 3 0 11 - scotch, Welch, and hlanx ' 0 0 -6. ft ' -. Irish, White 7 0 7.. 9 , ;! --- Red 6 0 - 1 0 ' . O - Foreign OATS, English. Welsh, and Scotch, per 45113. .. 2 . ---- Iris!. - Foreign • r. u 0 tA EtLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter SO 9 c- 4 0 - Scotch and Irish, pet 601bs. Feeding 3 6 310 - BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 3O U 40 - Irish, &c 36 0 33 :,' - Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per In.i.:erial quarter 3O 0 42 ‘' --Foreign iloua, English, per 2801 b. 8 0 54 0 - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24filbs ...... ..... .. 45 6' 27 t', INDIAN Coax, per 4801 b. w......., .48 0 40 Rita, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter ... 4b 0 6 2 I/ The suppl . ling, and lien and other art Wnest, Rea LEEDS CORN 51 A RKET. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. .. 535. to 635. .1 York. and Lincoln. 601 b.... Barley, Norfolk and Sulthlk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 031b..... 3ls. to 3 85 . i. 1 Oats, Potatoe -lilealing, For. 9d. tolOd ...... .......Eng. 9)4d. to IN a. per 51° :A - ',.;'' Shelling .. 27a. to 295. per I" , , , DEVIZES CORN MARKET. d Per Sack. s, d. s. d. Per Quat ter, a. d. ,i. l 9 First Wheat 33 0 to 35 0 Oats ... ...... ....... SO 0 to a. Second 94 29 u 31 0 Beans (per sack)... 16 0 " third Barley 26 0 83 0 Bread (pet gallon). 1 9 '''' CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. d.tc ti ' ', , i, seat dusk 6 y 3 0 3 9 Mutton 1 Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal Beans cease 5 0 8 0 Lamb 7 ..9 Hay 41.55. to 41. 103.0 d. per too. ' ' • CANTERBURY MARKET. ' Wheat, white............. 655. to 70.5. ....... 01d.... —5, t0 76s • ; red........... Bus. to fin 5...... 01d......7., —s, —s. to I ' Barley, Malting ..... 30s, to 34s ..—.. Grnding.. —I. to ••••i• •”, Oats Beans..... Pease .....-----... 40s. to --5..... Grey...... 345• to -- 1 ... ' CHELDISFOR MARKET. . 46 Wheat, White 1.4 to D 69 Oats l9 to - 34 Red Carley Chevalier '2 33 Beans, Tic k 2B __ -.. 34 Qrinding HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) 6oi, Ws. 668. Red Foreign Barley, Malting. 3os 325. 938. GriEding 2B, 298. 31". Oats, British Foreign (in bond) lBs 205.229. Beans 32s 3es. 40s. Pease, Grey Blue and White 36s. 385. 409. Linseed Flour per sack Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) .. HAMBURi4 MARKETS. . GiLAIN. 10 Wneat, Marks 414 to 492 Barley, Mecklenburgh 356 to e t .-- Magdeburg - blagdeburgh....l62 to ;7 0 , 4 Anhalt, white 420 to 491(--- Holstein l3O to ' l4 4 ----- red ... 372 to 480 ---: Oderbruck. 165 to ~,gt .---- Brunswick 414 to 492 Oats, Elder .--- Mecklenburg.. 375 to 468 -- 'Mecklenburg ----- Polish -65 to 525 -- Holstein 126 to ...., ~ -- Holstein - Upland mil ... Rye, Mecklenburg ..... 46 to 9.491P0a5e, Mecklenburg , 210 1011 ~.. -- Marks 252 to 28 Beans 258 to Otkv' -- Elbing and Ko- Buck Wheat 231 1° d et 1 . nigsburg - ,:: -- Pomeranian 2 4 to 2hl Malt -- Antra corroN. Carolina arid Tennessee 7%t0 9% bO s larrnham 18 0 :c t ir ;: b 1. qeorgia„ Ist suit 7% 8 Madras 5„, , ' 434, 1 2d 6% 654 Surats. 3d and 4th ... 4% ti Domingo ......,........ 0 5 COF 'EE. Ifeeh,,. 13 to 13% Domingo Batavia 4% 5% lA, Guayra , sumatra -- Porto ttico Rid 2% 5% Havannah Bahia 2% 5% $ UUA it.— (Wit Havannah, Whit Brown 2% 2% Rio, White 214 4 Brown Manilla. Brow 4 6 1 ~4 N ESS 1 1 sp , io A . , h E 3 3 5, Discount.) Banta, White Brown 1 Pernambuco, White ..: 1 i t° g 3924 '' Brown l% 1, !it. 2% to 2% BRISTOL S UG A R M ARKET , F RIDAY , Mir A is The wind has at le ng th c h ange d, an d arr i va l s are "coming fast. The greater part of the two small cargoes reaeutlY ceived have been sold at rather extravagant prices, general expectation is that the buyer s will now do better. London, prices are already rather e a s i er , th e se llers being itul l '" more inclined to give way.— Bristol Mercury. t A horrible fratricide was perpetrated last week 11 St. Just (Loire). Two brothers, name d Tholome,havill quarrelled, the elder of them, on the same day, entered a fie in which hie brother was at work with his wife and two od ic, persons, and deliberately taking aim at him, at a distance of few paces, with a gun which he held, shot him dead. but BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., at Tours, the lady of Thomas Butler, E 4l. ' of Brunton, Northumberland, of a son and heir. On the 2d inst., Airs. Kislingbury, of High Holborn, of a 5 °,.; On the 4th inst., at Lavender-hill, Surrey, the lady of PP Brightman, Esq., of a dau ghter . _ tbe On the sth inst., in Hanover-terrace, Regent's-par.. , lady sof Lieutenant-Colonel Goldie Taubman, Scots Guards, of a sun. MARRIED. f a 1 On the 3d inst., at Wandsworth Church, Kingstnill GIL°, Key, Esq., eldest son of Sir John Key, Bart., to Mary Sip second daughter of G. H. Hahn, Esq., of the Orchard, w''''' worth. On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square , Al%f A. Spong, late of the King's Rifles, to Susannah z-elby, of the late James Selby, Esq., of Town Mailing, • DIED. On the 3d inst., at Dorking, Elizabeth, the wife of I4lBs' ander Hart, solicitor. r On the 4th inst.. Mary T eresa Louisa, the eldest &II of William Church, Esq. Or. the sth inst., a t L eam i ngton, Thomas C o lbeck, 554.' surgeon, of Hertford, aged 69. 3 OfMaw c.carzosa—, London: Print e d an d Published ly MURDO YO /T L,• V - a , it' No. 112, St ran d, at T he SUP. Office, No. 112, S tray' the County of Aliddlesex, Monday, May 9, 1842. STEAI The GIC .&MPTON MOUTH v Steamers B ce, every s th and 15t . For f ur tl I) teeadilly ; Lion Comla N.B. sTEA3 ^- 7 For Majesty's 11 FATTY R. RAITSON DAY. MOI BURG, eves the Outwar Passports of the Swe( These I Steamers fr to Rammer btlegh- by Si thence to th Pete rshurgl The soca For forth tinll;:6f& . rip E I .icr BT Li' Thiirsdl Thursda Thursch Thursd: Ilursch F'n' Freigl C H it ion —T. Il irtain ham R. Le eedig—Hai pe.7lowA— n(G c eI T E Y S u• Sarg At . a nu nu Rev. E. It was un , l!vsented to Pose renders i topolis, b wbe y n 1 4 12 cifor hi s u ' ol tirge on to 1 ' ftrelved— tune ts. •