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1 2°PPerted b y f acts; a petition he had that day presented e hem the householders of St. James's, in which it was stated that the Ballot was adopted in their parochial matters, and that. !!. both secured secresy and prevented intimidation. De ,ocquevill e a l so affirmed that the Ballot was the great protec tion of th e e l ectors of France against undue influence. Under th e present system a man was inclined to resent a vote Riven aainst hi m as a wrong, b ut he d i d not th i nk he would act thus fluenc e of inferior agents over the proprietors of land, who fre ofently incit e d t h eir principals to vengeance. The influence sTPropert (Cho one thing, but the despotism of property was other..... ers.) He did nat think that the fair influence c i ) P r °Perty wonld be diminished by the Ballot. A good land ord would still retain it. But it was for them to consider, W.bether th e i nfluence of property might not be ultimately car d f to excess, b y w hi c h t h at i nfluence would be endangered. ore the R e f orm bi ll was introduced, the system of I"eatnation was carried to a monstrous excess, and 'tt ol igarchical interest had arisen in the State. Since e b Passing of the Reform Bill, borough after borough See l fallen into the hands of a few individuals ; and it would _ ae Fra as it before long " a close county," would become a fa befeiliar phrase. It was said, however, that immorality would encouraged by a system of clandestine voting—that dis sttnulation and falsehood would be its inevitable results—that 'te n would make promises without any intention to fulfil them is-end that distrust and jealousy would usurp the place of con ki:enee .and good faith. Now it was his conviction that pro wl 9 given from a man's free volition would be always gene rraisle Qbs erved, and that no reliance should be placed upon pro thes wrung from terror or won by corruption. He found in it Nspeech of Demosthenes, on the " False Embassy," a pas e so strikingly in point that he could not refrain from reading t° the House, although he was aware that but little value Wa .._ 3 . generalky set on the opinions of men who flourished in statin g tittles. In the speech in question, Demosthenes, after le °44ll g that the vote was to be by Ballot, in addressing an as forutbly o f 500 judges, proceeded to say—" If any of you, be eaterye nave entered this assembly, has had the misfortune to 1 into a promise to vote against your conscience and rais e It . Your country, bear in mind that that pro that Col void; those with whom you have entered into i t culpable engagement will not know whether you fulfilled oil er cot but there is a Divinity above that has cognizance of d „.Y°ur faults, that will know whether you have fulfilled that t'aZuto Your country which is paramount to every other ebb e, • Your vot e iksecret, and by the wisest law that Solon T he Passed, immunity is secured to you."—( Hear, hear. ) e v . P e was a truth and force in that sentiment applicable to ~,3 4 Y count-3, where free institutions existed. A b bentraet wits a void one; and the performance of a c trust ought to ie c r t . e nded with sa f ety . Th e f ranc hi se was not a trust f or an b e v lual, it was a trust for one's country ; and parties should "controlled in its performance. He admitted that there were evils connected with the Ballot, but he believed that they ' ,Ze e snore than out-weighed by those incidental to the present ei t i, °l . He was free to confess that if the franchise were ex ke,'2cst with perf ect f ree d om , h e, f or one , s h ou ld w i s h to pre. 40 that system of voting which was congenial to the ancient t. ' t s of the people of England. He admitted that an honest ttou g '. l dY, and in the face of day, recording his conscien the - Pinion, p r e sente d a no bl e spectacle ; but let them turn e b. t r eyes for a moment from the contemplation of such an o je*t t° the scenes which took place in his (Mr. Shiel's) t i : t ti z!vretch e d country. Let them turn from " the Cumber brevi,"4/esenan," who s e s pirit was as free as the air which he ati s f;" e s—s( Hear, hear)—to the 10/. freeholder, who had the t sn ip to pass the Registration Court, and who hadreceived th a er raons from his landlord to attend at the hustings. Let te le ° aPPo'se a contest between a Whig and a Tory ; on the ia,„„ s ee were the poor man's feelings—and he had his feel -14;"(1.4ke themselves—on the one side were all his national kahtlections, all his religious emotions, all his personal at e ti ,l rl ents, all his aff , ctions—perhaps on the one side he saw lu s ,:° whom he w as accustome d to regar d as t h e d e li verer o f behir, trY, while his heart beat, and his eye grew dim, as he 1 64 i ; but, on the other side, he saw the champion of kgoit ere e ascendancy by w hi c h th ere was a ti me when his Red e _ r Y was trampl e d un d er f oo t, w hi c h v ilifi e d his religion, eoatette c overed hi s a l tars w i t h oppro b r i um, w hi c h l oo k e d w i t h he , 41 Pt upon a ll t h at h e revered ; b ut i t was for the latter hip s 'lls e called upon to vote—( Hear, hear)—it was for able, was called upon to give his false, his miser seue% 4eatorted suffrage. Trembling, cowardly, shrinking, tag s I a ble to sustain himself, he mounted the hust inottes, if it were a scaffold, and with a voice almost vot e ate with emotion, when asked for whom he would aeeet e : t te,red n o t t h e name o f t h e man w h om he re detested wh om he loved, but that of the man whom he loathed, hifitun i 4 "d abhorred—( Hear, hear)—or, perh a p s , un d er th e volt e d ; • °f . emotions half heroical, and h a lf reli g i ous , he re iiirn;. ' c ut the ty ranny th at was soug h t to b e r i vette d upon " Perhaps he did vote in conformity with the dictates of o, l ,°tiscience, nd with what, under the influence of a gener poorgelusion, he r regarded as the ordinance of his religion. The * LB ! before a month had gone by, all he had on earth hi e l e i lz e 4 . The horse with which he ploughed, the beast lota R a ve him milk, the bed upon which he reposed, were no G o r ;he went forth with Providence for his guide, and .Pre,,:". his avenger. Was that a system which they were forC r . e,d to maintain? For that system no man who had come ki to sr t ato oppose the Ballot had proposed a remedy. But the pte t „,,,,t!as, ooth, an il process, ad an u-Enlish ultrk,;''ng fo( Hear, hear. ) immoral He understood n the force g of that tld, Phrase ; he knew th e no bl e a t tr ib utes o f t h e people of 4, ll ,Country. Fraud was, indeed, un-English ; duplicity and pia-dealing were un- E ngl i sh. But bribery, too, was not ku n ."b ; cowe r i ng f ear upon t h e one s i de, and brutal tyranny t,:n..the other, were un-English. And yet these were the un m;ll.lllsh consequences of th e present system — consequences to N ti ch he c a ll e d upon t h em to app l y a remedy in the name of 414 and humanity—in the name of e v er y hi g h an d h onour- OConsideration. —(Hear, hear.) They were told that they lt leave the correction of the abuses of the present system tpt ilitNi c opinion. But the power of public opinion hail not ti est. ot bribery, and still less, he believed, could it arrest in sZtion. There were many wh o con d emne d b r ib ery, and t la. Owl considered coercion as a subject of self-congratulation ; tii? Were landlords—great patricians—who openly p roc l a i me d lisd, k a mar, had a right to do what he pleased with his own," •‘`ho boldly advocated the doctrine of coercion. Now, while th „ etited."mguage was held, he thought that public opinion tact-4 1 ' 10 rd but a very inadequate remedy for existing evils ; :_orft; ll 2 . a . t . were so, he entreated them in the name of the high Iltet . . at ' ' '`utlrenown of this country—he entreated them in the eerywe- O O.s motive national and individual, to pause before esseo,7 l e iao, d the means, the only means by which the spirit 417eought into the present system . could be re flbonly means by which all the suffering and all the " followed from a general election could he arrested h4 1( 1 : 48 ' , about which there was not a glimpse of hope en, LO ., Of things the most calamitous and degrading, Sir J on cold be applied .—(Cheers. ) ,710'llet G R AHAM said, that the Right Hon. Gentleman ;:411e.; Just sat down had observed at the commencement 1, - ;: t biees , Plet t h, and with very great fruth, that the present A s Ow n One to which even genius and eloquence like ts --°11. .e °°l,l not add anything like freshness of argument. s ' s4 . c o rtain lY he (Sir J. Oraham) should say that the Right I# 3lll *ttle s -entl eman seemed to have implicitly relied upon the - "rob, s of the memory of those gentlemen who had been e llr„ 10 3 4.7, Of former Parliaments, and upon the absence of Luiol t ,„,0n the part of new Members, who he appeared to 'eltil:,7 4B t have abstained from all reference to that most 4 t a!Pd elliository of former debates, he alluded to " Han 11t H he should say, without meaning any offence to the d, onourable Gentlemen, that everything in his splen- Zo_ . l ''':usation was to be found, almost without excep- IS t e a tt ' e l l in the order in which he had stated both his si lad d ''s arguments that evening, in the speech which lest eh vered on the same question in the year 1839 k% ° eeasion on which the matter was under discus- K al S l i d that House. The Right Honourable Gentleman teat he thought the question was to be treated histo 171tetriprl that it was of vast importance to refer to what had til o the Previous to the introduction of the Reform Act, at jti k Onle Lord the Member for London. He believed that t a 11 °n• Gentleman was not correct in stating that the (k!tne l k, e °f Lord Grey's Government to whom the preparation 4 °1 %1 Bill was entrusted consisted of five persons. He t jahatn) thought it consisted of only tour persons, wh ue late I.ord Durham, Lord Duncannon, the Noble ashen')e e saw opposite (Lord J. Russell), and himself (Sir 1&:d 0 „ lie could not refer explicitly to what had oc -11:9, that t hat occasion. He had already stated, in the year C 4 the Noble Lord, the Member for London, declared 411 had received the permission of his late Majesty to make htsded thdisclosure of the secret counsels which had pre tra km: in troduction of the Reform Bill.—[Lord J. Russell ii, tt t an observation, which wasinaudible in the gallery.] ot volt. le h., •Graham) stated then, and he repeated now, 'g ad t toi received no such permission, and he was therefore a Peak with considerable reserve. The Noble Lord teiouldr, correct him if he should fall into any error. e e a ern observe that the measure prepared by the Com pAkr„d I °!ed by Lord Grey's cabinet, was not brought for. t o sagej nt as a measure to which they were individually fi . a or to which they meant finally to adhere ; but they had th,lhe Cab, to be afterwards considered by their colleagues Op en It met. He might be allowed to state in passing 1 41, 4 41(6 ° occasion had he voted in favour of the Ballot. sup . P P, previous to the passing of the Reform Act, had th e bad vo lt but No; a, (Sir J. G r aham) had differed from him, Jett course after "vu against the measure. NO, observe what was takenthe hia no, nth the pass i ng of the Reform Act. In o, 4l oti ori .°f April, 1833, Mr. Grote had brought forward j 4 1 S„ io n Psi la favou r of the Ballot. Lord Althorp upon that last "he appealed to every gentleman who had been • e the o rnament, and who knew the whole proceedings, of Re form Act was going on, whether the pro. te • the that mea ure did not consider that so far . to be P r esentation of the people was concerned it the • ° s onl e lor.rked upon as a final measure." There had ,/lesi kn e dispute as to the word finality, but that was • Noti tti " given by Lord Althorp himself, because ,I,ssu 'e Lord hatated tat the Government proposed the It':,.kle r i o a s, a final one. He li con urred in the opinion of the isbit i °, et t i;'. h and as far as he was concerned in Lord Grey's - "a‘o; t-e geforrn Act was a final measure. With respect to the r%00.4f.,the Noble Lord the Member for London, he con ,4`rse 1 , 11 . all that had been stated; and with respect to the h,„sits tr ,,, ra t ued by Lord Grey's Government the Noble Lord as not w "ea connected with it as himself. If he believed the t,il!Po rt it likely to be a barrier to ulterior changes he would ti t ' 'Lond on ; but he agreed with the Noble Lord the Member t o a , d e , ire that it would lead to as great changes as the Char -1,101 th at u .', - --( Hear, hear.) He concurred with the Noble tttel',eesal .the Ballot were granted the next step would be 4/;;., eiteri... 4 " r age• That was a proof that the 50/. tenants ,o•Lse their franchise fairly, notwithstanding they were / their landlords. He was of opinion, with the Hon. Vl%r for the th e county of Middles x, that secret voting was •English character. The only party to whom the 11 4 , Nti Ptr, 74rara\vailable was the juggling hypocritical coward.— if ha_ r •J It was inconsistent with the manners, feeling, ih4 ere .e of Englishmen or their institutions.—( Hear. ) 1 14 'Age must entertained the question of the Ballot Universal for t is w as tist ,f s ollow as a necessary . consequence.—( Hear.) Vri a ip he would misfortune to despair of the present state of M would not support the Ballot, and he trusted that the u be rejected by a large majority. ;the 7 4 4 h "geant MURPHY believed that the people of Eng hltdad bar._o bound hand and foot by the aristocracy because p s;.° the Vote by Ballot Hear.) If the Ballot was hellie ro ine 'Ple why had it been . recommended by the Right Z ved thnatet by Hear, hear.) For his own part he t.lo,l,, : ertt jr:tietir dlreallnyallot was the Only just mode of voting. Bo ot ORAHAM denied that he had been pledged time. It was true that the subject had po lio meet ev iscu s i on in Lord Gr's Government, but by ar lv't hi, ery Member of that Government was allowed to dih 0 ,2,wn ?p i nions ( ttl;r eo C O NE ions. *denounced such an arrangement as wardly e 11,1 i a'wl paltry conduct.—( Hear. ) He believed t'tad lk, r, aa - a o h t : v a s the only Just mode of taking the opinion (°' the ta, theihasuld , therefore, give it his support. He vt ,„e astle. o r g during the discussion on the , the wee r -Lyme . ttld kno , election, an instances of a fattier, who, t at , ednee that his son had accepted a bribe, had at e" 4 I sad. when at the hustings, and seen him take the bribery tit tre ..o.iwnen asked how he could have allowed his son to self, his re 1 tO t ibtl 4 h e s e z e , was the. was, "he had seen many others do ,ta ._ °ll did more k2ti ".teCtiOn coo. system for them! In the case of the ate ,sus devices hail:- nimittee, a witness stated that a contested t r . :a c hi ng of th ery to public morals in that lace than all ministers of the Gospel could counteract. i Nttltt ,, ,re.s.ko rue been h been resorted to escape the obligation of had recommended that by leaving out the would swear the truth. But many had "kinitted th.at trouble to solace their consciences Yateightforward perjury. That was the Eng % att stra i.eu. hi d eotts, horrid system. And yet they ut Y A se .t, talked of conscience ! and in many discussions on religion in that House how many bigoted refusals were there to do justice to others, becausa they differed in religious belief from them. There was one advantage, at all events; they were all agreed, theoretically, at least, as to morals; but here was a practical demonstration of the practical effect of their English system—their conscientious system, which loft the briber to get the value of his money from the bribed. The effect of the Ballot would be to make men generous, noble minded, humane.—( Hear, hear.) The deteriorating effects of the present s;:stem were undeniable. No one had attempted to deny the existence of bribery. Some had qualified it; others might have exaggerated it, but all admitted the frightful ex tent to which it prevailed. He certainly should vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the observations of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, would not allow him to give a silent vote on the motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield. With respect to that portion of them which referrel to what had taken place relative to the Reform Bill, he did not know that. the account he had to give, would differ materially from that given by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He (Lord J. Rus sell) would allude only, therefore, to what had been his own expections and (.pinions on the subject. The late Lord Durham had, in the year 1833, stated at• Gateshead, that there had been a Committee, consisting of members of Lord Grey's Government, appointed to prepare a plan of a Reform Bill. That statement led to another statement • in the Edinburgh Review, which to his (Lord J. Russell's) • mind, and to the mind of any one conversant with the trans actions of the period, bore the character of having been written or communicated by some member of Lord Grey's Government. Upon that occasion he ( Lord J. Russell) thought it necessary to apply to his late Majesty, King Wil liam the Fourth, to allow him, if he should think it at any time necessary to make a statement of what had occurred with respect to the Reform Bill, so far as his (Lord J Russell's) own public character was concerned. He had received his Majesty's gracious permission, and some time afterwards he had made the statement to which his Right Hon. Friend had alluded. That statement referred, as the Right Hon. Gentleman had said, to the recommendations of the Committee to Lord Grey's Cabinet. Those recommendations were a general outline, which was to be considered by the Cabinet before being finally adopted. There were two points with regard to which the Committee made recommendations which had not been adopted by the Cabinet. They related to secret voting—( Hear, hear)—and the duration of Parliament. The votes which he had given previous to that occasion were in conformity and consistent with the votes he had given since, namely, against the Ballot. He had had an opinion—not the opinion he now entertained after the discussions which had taken place, and the various lights in which the question had been put—but he had had an opinion partly gathered from his own reflections, and partly from the speeches made on the subject by Mr. Brougham in this House of Parliament, showing as he (Lord J. Russell) thought, that secret voting would not be carried into effect. There were other reasons with regard to what he considered likely to be a consequence—increase of bribery—which had made him totally averse to the adoption of the plan. There were other reasons in its favour ; and with respect to the whole sub ject he then thought, as Lord Althorp afterwards expressed, that it would be desirable, if possible, to make the Reform Bill, which was to be introduced, a final measure. It seemed to him that by leaving those questions of secret voting and duration of Parliament to be afterwards debated, the set tlement of the subject would be effected better than it other wise could. Those were the reasons that had operated on his mind with reference to those questions. However, on mature deliberation, the Cabinet had rejected those two points of the scheme, and he had willingly consented to propose the Reform Bill without those parts of the scheme being introduced. He had on that occasion stated that there was no provision for the adoption of the Ballot —no provision with respect to the duration of Parliament that he himself did not consider that those subjects were finally concluded, but that Government if they should hereafter see reason to think that that measure might be usefully adopted, would be at liberty to recommend it. That was substantially the state ment which he had made, differing as the Right Hon. Gentle man had shown from the statement afterwards made by Lord Althorp, who considered, not at that moment, but during the subsequent discussion, that the enactment of the Reform Bill was a settlement of the whole question. He had endeavoured to state carefully what was his own impression on the subject, what was the determination of the Government, and it would seem to him to follow from that statement that either with respect to himself or any Member of the then Government, they were at liberty to take any objection which might seem to them a valid objec tion. With respect to the Ballot, the statements, that had been made that night on the subject, seemed to have this difficulty in them that they did not contain the whole of the plan which the majority of those who were in favour of the Ballot were disposed to support. Now, if they adopted the Ballot, as the electoral body was now framed, with respect to the smaller boroughs, it was probable that wholesale bribery would be practised. He asked, then, if the Ballot had even been found to produce wholesome and salutary effects in other countries, was it likely to produce them in this?—(Hear) bear.) He said with his Hon. Friend, that he could imagine nothing more contrary to the 'English character. He could well imagine that there were ingenious persons who had carried to perfection the machinery of the I3aLot box, that they could place in a room a certain contrivance which would prevent the possibility of any one discovering for whom a man gave his vote; hut then what machinery was there which would make an Englishman—. an English farmer or an English tradesman—reserved, and cunning, and secret, in all his transactions ?—( Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.) Let them show him, if they could, by what contrivance the character of an Englishman would be so changed that his landlord would not be able to tell what were his political opinions? Let them show him the contrivance by which at no club, at no dinner, neither in the privacy of his domestic life, nor on any occasion of public excitement, he should betray his sentiments, or that it should only be on this day of voting that he expressed his opinions, and on every other day, they should be perfectly secret and perfectly concealed, —( Hear, hear.) These things were contrived in the Senate of Venice. In the Senate of Venice there was a most ingenious contrivance with respect to the election of the Doge. S e ven elected forty-toe, fifty-five elected five, and five elected twenty three, and through that contrivance it was said that elections were decided without bribery, without intimidation, and with out influence of any sort. That might suit the close and reserved character of the Venetian Senate—it did not suit the character of the English. --( Cheers from the Ministerial Benches.) By means of such voting they might in some cases prevent intimidation and bribery, but the great, the gigantic, evil which they would introduce would far counterbalance all the good which they would effect, and the loss of the honest and brave English character would be a loss which nothing hereafter could ever repair.—( Hear, hear.) He had new stated the grounds upon which he had voted against the Ballot on former occasions. With respect to the change then pro posed, he could not imagine that it was the only change which its advocates recommended; he, therefore, asked to have the whole plan before he voted for any change of that descrip tion. Taking the Ballot alone, he doubted its excellency. He knew of no country in which it had produced those excellent and beneficial effects which it was said it was intended to pro duce. He thought, in itself, it was calculated to produce fraud and concealment, and to injure the character of the people; and therefore now, as on former occasions, he must record his vote against the motion. —( Cheers.) Mr. WAKLEY said he was very much surprised at the cheers with which the Noble Lord had been received by Hon. Members opposite. In 1831, the Noble Lord, in con junction with the Right Hon. Baronet, agreed in recom mending to Lord Grey's Government that the Ballot should be one of the measures taken into consideration and adopted. He thought that showed how recklessly, thoughtlessly, or dishonestly public men shaped their course with regard to different measures which they submitted to the Legislature. In that case he did not believe that the recommendation was dishonestly made; but it was an exemplification of the fact, that measures affecting the rights and liberties of the people were frequently brought forward by men holding most responsible situations without due consideration. Now he was placed with respect to this question of the Ballot in a very disagreeable po sition.—(Laughter.) In the speech of the Noble Lord there was but one argument against the Ballot, namely, that if the Ballot was applied to the present constituencies it would lead to other changes, the most important of which would be an ex tension of the suffrage. Now his conviction was directly the reverse. The present constituencies had a monopoly of the power of voting, the number who possessed the right to vote being as one to seven. Did the House believe that if they were to give to the present electors the right of exercising the electoral franchise in secret, and free from the responsibility which the opinion of the non-elector now threw upon him—did they believe that the electors would be willing to swamp their own power, by bringing in a greater number of voters ?—( Hear, hear.) There was a great deal said about independent voting, but he believed what they really wanted, was voting on their own side of the question. The working classes would say, in reference to this question, " If you are determined to adopt the Ballot, give us first a share in the suffrage, and don't place us at the mercy of men who are unmindful of the interests of their country." Consequently, although he should vote for the motion—( Laughter)—notwithstanding all he had said against it—( Loud laughter)-he concluded simply with this remark, that if the House should carry the motion, and if a. Bill should be introduced for carrying it into effect, if he could not succeed in connecting with this motion an extension of the suffrage, no person would give to it a more hearty, a more consistent, or a more determined opposition than himself.—( Hear.) Lord WORSLEY supported the motion. His belief was, that notwithstanding all the arguments which he had heard that night against the Ballot, there were abuses in the present system which could not be remedied by any other measure. He thought the people would not possess the full benefit of the Reform Bill until the Ballot hadbeenestablished._ Mr. WARD rose amidst loud cries of " Divide," and said that in the then state of the House he should compress the few remarks be had to make into as few words as possible. He ruse with peculiar satisfaction, at the close of a long debate, to find that hardly any of the statements upon which lie rested his case had been contradicted. In fact all his allegations were admitted—nobody disputed them, for all acknowledged that bribery and corruption prevailed to a great extent. The Hon. Member for Pontefract absolutely gave him hopes of his being a convert to the measure. He (Mr. Ward) had risen as the advocate of the Ballot, believing that they could suppress bribery by law, and that they could not touch intimidation. The Noble Lord said that the Ballot was not sufficient. One half of those who looked to the question that night did not at tach any finality ; on the contrary, he did not believe the Ballot alone would be the means of a perfectly free representa tion of this country; but he said that it was the most bene ficial and practical change the circumstances of the country would admit.—( Hear, hear.) Nothing would more contribute to put an end to that practice which they all seemed to deplore. The Noble Lord objected to it on the ground that it would lead to further organic change. Now, the Noble Lord had to contend with that argu ment when he introduced the Reform Hear, hear ) The Noble Lord also referred to Rome, and said that the Ballot existed there when corruption was at its highest. He (Mr. Ward) did not think the people believed that the Ballet would introduce a higher state of morality amongst constituencies, but they believed that it would check intimidation and bribery. The Noble Lord also referred to France, but a French writer had lately said that their great security lay in the Ballot, and that it was their highest privilege, and he further stated that. if it were abolished, the power of the Government would he increased.— ( Cries of " Divide, divide.") He would not detain the House ; he had felt it to be his duty to bring the subject forward, and he should leave it in the hands of the Howe. The House then divided— For the motion .. 157 Against it '29o Majority against the motion .. —133 CUSTOMS BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Customs Bill, and certain verbal amendments were made. The House then resumed, and the Bill was ordered to be printed.—Report on Thursday next. ELECTION PROCEEDINGS. On the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. W. Miles and Sir W. Heathcote were discharged from further attendance on the Election Proceedings Committee ; and Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr.-Eliot Yorke were added to it. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND). Lord ELIOT moved for leave to bring'in a Bill to amend the 3d and 4th of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland." The Noble Lord explained that the object of the Bill was to remedy some informalities that had occurred in municipal elections in Ireland. 'l'hc motion was agreed to, the Bill was subsequently read a THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1842. first time, and was ordered to be read a second time.on Thurs day next. The Home then adjourned at One o'Clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, JUNE 20. POOR LA' I!' AMILVDMENT BILL. Motion made and Questjon put—" That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"—The House divided : MAJORITY-- AYES, Gladstone, W. E. Gladstone, T. Wynne, Sir S. R. Godson, Richard Gordon, Hcn. W. Gore, Montague Goring, H. D. Goulburn, H. Graham, Sir J. Granby, Marquis Granger, T. C. Greenaway, C. Creme, 'l'. G. Grogan, Edward Grosvenor, Lord R. Hamilton. W. J. Harcourt, G. G. Hardinge, Sir H. Hawes, B. Hayes, Sir E. Heneage, G. W. kleneage, 1. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Herbert, Hon. S. Hervey, Lord A. Hogg, J. W. Hoboes, W. A'Court Hope, Charles Houldsworth, T. • Howard, J. K. Howard, H. Lord . Hughes, W. B. 1 I me, Joseph Hussey, Thomas Hutt, W. James, W. Jernry n, Earl John-tone, Alex. Johnstone, Sir John Johnstone, Hope Jones, T. Kemble, Henry Knightley, Sir C. Labouchere, H. Langston, J. H. Lascelles, W. S. Layard, Captain Lcgh, George C. Leicester, Earl of Lemon, Sir C. Lincoln, Earl of Lindsay. H. Luton, E. Lockhart, William Long, Walter Lopes, Sir Ralph Lowther, J. H. Macaulay, 'l'. B. Mackenzie, NV. F. Math an, Mira MacGeachy, F. A. Mahon, Lord Manners, Lord J. Marshall, W. Marsham, Viscount Martin, John Martin, C. W. Miles, P. W. S. Miles, W. Mitchell, T. A. Morris, David Morrison, James Mundy - , E. M. Actand, T. D. Aelann, Sir Thomas Adore, Lord Adderley, C. B. Aldani, William Allix, John Peter A ntrobus ' Edmund Ashley, Lord Bailey, Joseph, jun. !Lillie, Colonel 0, Rill am Bannerman, A. Baring, W. B. Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Barneby, John Barrington, Lord Bentinek, Lord G. Beresford, Major Bernal, Bernard, Viscount Blackburn, John 1. Flake, M. J. Bodain, W. H. ILldero, Henry G. `iottield, Beriab etraniston, T. W. Broadley, Henry lrodic, W. B. Browne, W. Buck, Lewis W. Burtci d, Win. Cardwell, Edward Cavendish, Hon. G. Chetwork- Sir Juhn Cholmonjeley, H. Chute. W. L. Clay, Sir W. cloy ton, U. R. Clerk, Sir G. Clive, E. B. Crive, It. H. Cockburn, Sir G. Connolly, Colonel Courtenay, Viscouel. Crc sw,n, Baker Cripps, J. Darner, Hon. Dawson D ar b y , r4eorgt, Dawnay, Hon. W. Denison, Joh n Evelyn Dickinson, F. H. Douglas, Sir Howard Duguale, W. S. Duncan, George Duruip's, David Eaton, Richard J. }Airington, Viscount Egerton, W. T. Ege.ton, Sir P. G. Ellice, lit. Hon. E. Ellis, Wynn Eliot, Lori Eseott, Bichkam Estcourt, T. G. B. Evans, William Fellowes, Edward Fleming, J. W. Flower, Sir dames Forbes, William Forster, Matthew Fuller, A. E. Gaskell, J. M. • Gill, Thomas Ainsworth, Peter Archdall, General Baskerville, T. B. M. Beckett, William Bell, M. Bernal, Captain nowring, Or. Brocklehurst, J. Brotherton,.l. ,:ochrane. A. Collins, W. Colville, C. It. Crawford, W. S. Denison, E. Beckett Drax, J. S W. E Duke, Sir James Duncan - the, 'l'. S. :NORITY-NOS, Duncomhe, U. Ltwall, R. ' Ferguson, Sir R, A. Feilden, W. Fcrrand, W. B. Heiden ' J. Grimsditch, Hall, Sir B. Hanmer, Sir John I Hardy, John Harris, John Q Henley, J. W. Hindle ' , Charles Hodgson, R. Hornby, John James, Sir Walter .;ervis, J. 3IINORITY of Twenty ( Tellers includes of Mr. Ferrand's Amendment, " Thal adjourned : Brotherton, J. Etwall, R. Collins, William Hawkes, I'. Colville, C. IL Hindley, Charles Crawford, V S. Johnson, General Diu, J. Lawson, Andrew Duke, Sir James O'Connell, D. Duncombe, T. S. Paget, F. 2 19 * Murray, A. Neville, Ralph Norreys, Sir 0. Nortrd.ald, Lord O'Brien, J. O'Brien, W. Smith O'Connell, M. J. Ogle, S. C. H. Pakington, John S. Palmer, It. Parker, John Patten, J. Wilsm Pee:, Sir Robert Pe,,iiarves, E. W. Philips, Mark Pigot, Sir R. Plumridge, Captain Pollock, Sir Fred. Pringle, Alexander Posey, Philip Rashleigh, William Rice, E. B. Rolleston, Colonel R se, Sir George Rundle, John Rushbrooke, Colonel Russell, Lord John Russell, Lord E. Sanderson, R. Sandon, Lord Cott, Robert Seymour, Lord Seymour, Sir H. B. ' Shaw, F. Sheppard, Thomas Smith, J. A. Smyth, Sir G. H Sotheron, I'. H. Stanley, Lord Stairtou, W. H. Stock, Dr, ' Strutt, Edward Stint, H. C. ' Sutton, HOll. H. M. Temient, J. E. Taylor, Thomas E. 'Da rnhill, George Tollemaehe, F. J. Trevor, Hen. G. R. rullope, Sir John Tulle, H. M. Turner, E Tumor, C. Vane, Lord H. Vere, Sir C. B. Vivian, J. H. Waddington, H. S. Wall, B. Wawn, John T. Welby, G. carte White, Henry Whitmore, T. C. Wilde, Sir T. Wodeliouse, Edmond Wood, Benjamin Wood, C. Wood, Colonel T. Worsley, Lord Wrightson, W. Yorke, Hon. E. T. Young, John TELLERS. Fremantle, Sir T. Baring, H B. 48. Johnson, General Lawson, Andrew Lowther, Colonel Master man, John Napier, Sir Charles O'Connell, D. Peellelt, Captain Polhill, F. Repton, George J. Richards, Richard Walker, It. Wilbraham, R. B. Williams, Wm. Yorke, H. itedhead TELLERS. Sibthorp, Colonel Wakley, Thomas ) who voted in favour the Debate be now Pechell, Captain Wakley, Thoinia Williams, \V. Yorke, H. R. TELLERS. Ferrand, W. B. Fielden, J. ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS. Woolwrcir, MoisnAY.—At half-past 8 o'clock yesterday the Royal Marines, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Powell, marched to the Royal Dockyard, and were stationed at the landing-place, to form a guard of honour for the reception of their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, who were expected to arrive about that time. Colonel T. A. Puke, C. 8., Commandant ; and Colonel Mercer, and all the Royal Marine Officers in the garrison not on duty, were also present in honour of the occasion. Shortly afterwards a field battery of four light 6-pounder guns, under the com mand of Captain Stanway arrived, and was drawn up on the west side of the landing-place, to fire a royal salute. About the same time the officers and men of the 73,1 regiment, under the , command of Colonel James Frederick Love, C.B. and K. IL , arrived, and were drawn up in a line leading from the entrance to the dockyard, past the Royal Marine Barracks, as the route by which their Majesties in tended to proceed to Buckingham Palace was in that direction, through the village of Charlton, and the Blackheath-road, to the Green Man, where the horses would be changed. Almost at the same time a detachment of the Bth King's Royal Irish Light Dragoons (Hussars), under the command of Lieutenant Brown, arrived, and were drawn up on the wharf-wall to form an escort to the Green Man, where another detachment would relieve them, and escort their Majesties to Buckingham Palace. At half-post nine o'clock the Royal standard was hoisted on the flag. stall in the dockyard, and from the mainmast of the Wil liam and Mary yacht, the Geyser, Alban, Black Eagle, and the other Admiralty steam-vessels in the river opposite the dockyard hoisted their signal colours, and presented a gay and animated scene. The Royal standard was also hoisted at the mortar battery, and the Royal At finery attended, and was formed on each side the line of road by which their Majesties were expected to proceed. At half-past ten o'clock the arrival of one of the trading steam-vessels from Ostend communicated the intelligence that their Majesties would not embark at that port until nine o'clock this morning, and that consequently they could not be expected at Woolwich before half-past eight o'clock in the evening at the earliest. On the communication of this information to the respective commanding officers, the troops were marched back to barracks under orders to hold themselves in readiness to assemble at eight o'clock, P. sr. In the course of the afternoon a communication was re ceived from the Admiralty that the Ariel steam-vessel, Master Luke Smithett commander, was telegraphed rounding the North Foreland with the Belgian flag at her mast-head, at half-past three o'clock P.M. It was then ascertained, as near as possible, that their Majesties would arrive at Woolwich at almut ten o'clock at night. The field battery was then ordered to the depot, and the troops info' med that their attendance would rnit be required at that late hour. At precisely a quarter to 10 o'clock a steam-vessel, with four lights upon the most prominent parts, made her appear ance in the distance, and as she rounded the lower part of Woolwich Reach, a splendid blue light was exhibited as a signal, and exactly at ten o'clock the Ariel came alongside the Dockyard basin with their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians on board, with their suite and three travelling and one luggage carriages on board. Captain Sir F. A. Collier, Knt., C.B. and K. C. H., in full naval uniform, decorated with his various orders, immediately went on board, and was intro duced to their Majesties. Lieut.-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C. 11., with M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Ambassador, followed, and welcomed their Majesties. T ord Sydney and Lord George Lennox, Lords in Wait ing, also went on board to attend on the King and Queen of the Belgians, and accompany them to Buckingham Palace. In a few minutes after wards their Majesties landed, after, in the kindest man ner parting with the commander of the vessel, and were received even at that late hour by a large concourse of specta tors, who uncovered their heads, which was acknowledged by his Majesty walking to the carriage with his hat in his hand, and repeatedly bowing to the ladies and gentlemen assembled, Four of the Royal carriages were in attendance, and the one in which their Majesties were seated was escorted by Lieut. Brown and a detachment of the Bth Hussars; and after leav ing the Dockyard the Royal cavalcade proceeded by the lower road, through Greenwich, for Buckingham Palace, where they would arrive about eleven o'clock. So far as the light afforded an opportunity of judging, their Majesties looked remarkably well, and her Majesty smiled and appeared pleased with the novelty of landing, lighted by a number of lanterns, having the appearance of an illumination. Their Majesties were repeat edly cheered by a great crowd on leaving Woolwich. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CHRONICLE.—We hear serious complaints to-‘lay regard ing the scarcity of silver, for which the depreciation of gold by the Government proclamation has produced a great de mand. The industrkus classes who have been compelled to part with their sovereigns at a loss varying from 2 1 ,4 to 5 per cent. and more, have required silver in exchange, as their pay ments in general have been under 51., and the consequence has been a general demand this morning, from different quarters of the country, for a supply of silver. That demand could not be su} plied. The Bank of England declined to part with the amount required, and thus the originy.l evil of the ill-advised and inconsiderate proclamation regarding the gold coinage is aggravated by the neglect to provide a proper supply of silver to meet the demand, NNhich the forcing in of the gold at a depreciation was calculated to create, and %vhich ought to have been anticipated and foreseen. We cannot permit our selves to believe the accuracy of a statement, made by a cor respondent, that "the Mint were issuing new light-weight sovereigns of 20s. value, two days only before the orders were made knoWn as to weight, and that for 1,000 of the self-same coins, taken to the Bank of England, only 9851. can be ob tained." As our correspondent writes under the signature of " Fair Play," he will allow that such a serious accusation against the Mint ought not to be made without most unques tionable authority. ADVERTISEMENT.—DENTITION.—ThereiS perhaps no part of the human frame which more admirably exemplifies the wisdom and bounty of the Creator than the structure and arrange ment of the Teeth ; for while among the animal races, some tribes are endowed with teeth which allow them to live only on vegetable diet ; others being furnished with an apparatus cal culated only for animal food ; man is provided with teeth which render him omnivorous, and enable him to live either on animal or vegetable substances, as either may be most conducive to his well-being. The embellishment, care and preservation of these important ports of the hun-an economy are objects highly im portant ; and, among the various preparations offered for the purpose, the °dont°, invented by Messrs. Rowland, of Hatton garden, stands unrivalled as a dentifrice, excelling all others in its capability of embellishing, purifying, and preserving the teeth and gums. TILE MANEUVRING MOTHER.—This New Novel, by the Author of " The History of a Flirt," has at length made its appearance, and we doubt if it will not rival its predecessor as much in popularity as it certainly does in v ar i e ty, an d conse quently power of entertainment. "'The History of a Flirt" was confined almost exclusively to the personal adventures of one individual; but "The Manoeuvring Mother" offers us dozen heroines, and as many heroes, to choose out of— all of them more or less qualified to fill that office. The four daughters who figure in the matrimonial schemes of the Alanceuvring Mother" afford a fund of entertainment by their various humours and characters, while the tribe of lovers who flutter round them, and the host of incidental persons who take part, from time to time, i n t hi s exce l lent ta l e o f rea l lif e, and the numerous incidents that fill it with perpetual movement and action, will probably ensure for it universal favour among that class of readers who are wise enough not to think the worse of instruction, because it comes to them through the medium of amusement. The Echo des Vallees of Bagneres, in the Hautes Pyrenees, states that a bear, which had for some time haunted the forest between Heches and Sarrancolin, has lately destroyed six cows belonging to farmers at Heches. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF 'YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Standard professes, as cur readers i z eow, t., represent the Conservative Dem,:cracy, which we understand to mean the sincere bigotry and honest ignorance of its party in the country. How reconcile sincere bigotry and honest ignorance to conduit on the part of Ministers which must clearly show those who. have any glimmering of sense that they, at least, have been dupes The Standard's mode of doing this difficult and rather dirty work is characteristic. The Standard has been in the habit of amusing the Conselwative Democracy " with d clamations against the " money-power," and representing the " money power" as inspiring in an especial manner the late :Mi nistry. The Standard has been conveniently oblivious of toe obvious fact, that as the landed interest claim to be the possessors of the bulk of the solid weal la and employers of by far the largest proportion of the labour of the country, the landed interest must, in fact, wield the greatest proportion of this abused money power. And so indeed they do ; they form the greatest " money-powtr" in the country, and the power which is most determined that its money shall rule all the rest, and that legislation shall be conducted with a sole view to its prices--i. e. its money-power. We need not ask whether money-power was arrayed on the side of the late Government. But as the present Ministers find it neces ee,:sary to take a leaf out of the book of their prede cessors (however garbled or interpolated) in the chapter of commercial relaxations, the Standard is put to its shifts to find a defence for their doings which it can hope to render palatable to its readers, the " Conserva tive Democracy." In this extremity it is compelled to have recourse to its old bugbear, the mone ypower. The rnoney-power which influenced the Whigs, dictates, it seems, w the Tories ; and the Tory Ministers are not to be blamed for giving way to it, though the Whigs were! STANDAIta—In the Ho use o f Commons Mr. C. Buller otisred a complaint of the effect of the late pro clamation upon the subject of the gold coin, which gave rise to a debate of considerable length. The Chancellor of the Exchequer defended the proclamation, on the ground that it hart been called for by the pressing impor tunities of binkers and merchants, andjustified the seem ingly abrupt manner in which it was issued by the neces sity of using secrecy to obviate an opportunity for exten sive frauds. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made one observation which deserves general attention, namely that it is as offence legally punishable to refuse coin of full weight. The question is one of great difficulty, as is proved by the conflicting opinions of the most able men at different periods of our history. On one side there is the inconvenience of such a proclamation as has been issued—an inconvenience which we need not describe, as few but the very richest have not felt it. On the other, there is the certainty that any different course would cause a mutilation of the coin so extensive that scarcely a single piece of full weight would remain in cir culation, or find its way back to the Mint. Let it once be known that a sovereign, how much soever deficient in weight, retains its nominal value, and all the ingenious processes of sweating. clipping, plugging, &c., would be put into universal activity. Perhaps a partial remedy might be found by forming an estimate of fair wear and tear according to the age of the eoin, and fixing it for a definite time at a value proportioned to that estimate — say, the sovereign of George the Third at 19s. 6d., the sovereigns of George the Fourth and William the Fourth at 19s. 9d., the sovereign of the present reign at 20s. ; this is pretty much the estimate which the public has formed in practice. Still the remedy would be but par tial and insufficient as a guard against fraud, for many of the older coins retain their full weight, as not having been used in circulation, and sorae of the new have been diminished by dishonest practices. On the whole the Ministers have, perhaps, taken the wiser course, though that course is unavoidably productive of great hardship —a hardship, however, which necessarily wears itself out, and which has already been sensibly alleviated. AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY. A public meeting of the friends of this Society was h',old yesterday in Exeter Hall. The meeting commenced at twelve o'Cclock, Lord Ashley, M.P., in the Chair. Besides the Noble Chairman we observed on the plat form the Earl of Fortescue, Lord John Russell, Lord T ignmouth, Lord Mahon, Lord Sandon, Lord Howick, the Bishops of Norwich and GLucester, the Von. Arch ! dean; n S. Wilberforce, the Rev. Dr. Dealtry, Sir R. Inglis, Sir T. D. eland, the Hon. W. Cowper, the Hon. • scenes, &c., &c. The Rev. Dr. DEALTRY and Sir R. INGeis read the Report, a great part of which consisted of remarks on the Niger expedition, and the disasters attending it. ird JOHN RUSSELL: moved the adoption of the Re port. The conclusion to be derived from that Report was that they ought nut to allow tko clouds which had appeared at the dawn of their enterprise to prevent them from going forward in the great work which they had commenced.—(Hear, hear.) eiuch was the impression with which he addressed the meeting. If they suffered themselves to despair of the ultimate success of their enterprise, which was as much based in justice as in charity, they would be rebuked by the history of those events with which the name of Icfrica and of the slave trade were connected. They would he reminded of the discouragements which were felt by the. , who first attempted the abolition of the slave trade, and yet how complete was the ultimate principle of those WHO sought that object.—(Hear, hear ) And with re spect to slae e-y itself in the West Indian colonies, how great wet e the interests involved, how powerful were those, who, in the name of the West Indian Proprietors, called upon the Legislature not to abolish slavery, yet those who were for the abolition of that accursed crime—for an accursed crime he thought he might now, at least, call it—(Hear, hear) — did not relax in their efforts; they were not discouraged by the power which was wielded against them, and, through the blessing of God, they, too, had ultimately triumphed.—(Cheers.) Let them be encouraged by these past succeses to make further efforts on behalf of humrnity. The object of that Society was to discharge a great debt of justice and of charity from Christian Europe to oppressed and benighted Africa. That debt had been incurred by the hor rors which, for many centuries, were sanctioned by the British Crown, by the British flag, and by the authority of the British name.—(Hear, hear.) The captivities and bloodshed of Africa—the manacles, the mortality, the oppression, the whip, and the chain, with all their accompanying circumstances of disgust and torture, had been protected, authorised, rod even pro moted by the power which Great Britain wielded in the civilized world. Was not that a debt which they ought to endeavour to discharge ? and to discharge not merely bti that which they had already done, not merely by declaring that no British subject should engage in the slave trade, or be at all concerned in that horrible traffic; not merely by declaring that no British subjeet in our colonial possessions should be held in slavery. There still remained the memory of those oppressions, of those crimes in which they had had all been partakers, and for these no sufficient atonement could be made unless they exerted themselves actively and continuously for the i inprovement and the civilisation of Africa.—(Cheers.) With respect to the means by which that object was to be attained, he was not one of those who thought that it was to be effected in any one . mode. He thought that by various modes, and in various directions, they should attempt to attain their object. He could not but rejoice at the success which had attended the efforts of our naval cruisers on the coast of Africa.—(Hear, hear.) By many that was thought a n a l m o s t hopeless enterprise, yet from accounts which had recently been received, it appeared that on some parts of the coast it could now scarcely be said to exist. That was a gratifying proof that, although their efforts might for a time seem to fail, success would at length attend them. The Report alluded at some length to the progress of the Niger expedition. As the Minister of the Crown he had done his best to secure that that expeditionshould be fitted out in such a manner as would be most likely to secure success, though knowing the danger to human life, that he did not think it right that any one should be engaged in the expedition who did not volunteer their services.— (Hear, hear.) Lamentable as had been the loss of life attending that expedition, he could not regard it as alto gether a failure and calamity. They had at least shown that the flag of England, and the authority of England's Sovereign, was put forth to favour commerce and civilisation in Africa ; and let them not think that that would in after times be remembered by a savage people as an unimportant circumstance. If they saw the commercial ships of England intent only upon gain, her naval force intent only on projects of dominion, they would give little credence to cur professions of being guided by the light of the Gos pel ; but when they saw Englishmen ready to sacrifice liaittsthe river Niger, their lives for objects of peace and charity, then, indeed, they would believe our professions, anl: li b e e g i e N t ' i ill uni e with us for every good purpose.—(Hear.) But there were other advantages which might be derived failure. n g to by its mala dies.y ad t c h te e d m ? f T ,: y this d l expedition earnt bsexp h notwithstanding erienee t in the upper parts of it, was most unwholesome to Earepean constitutions, but they had not found that the teach them Why, that they ought to endeavour byever Y means in tirican \ s v h t t li t em d se id lves this wer t i e ! their power to enable the Africans themselves to teach Africans on their own continent ; and in one point itself' of view, this was an obj ect ; slaver y seemed to favour this object. One wouldimagine that such a dreadful institution as that of slavery would contain no cheering feature, no light by which its darkness could be illumined, yet the slavery which had grown up in the West Indies, in conjunction with the education which slaves had received from her ministers, had prepared men who were capable of enduring an African climate to extend the truths of the Gospel among their own co untrymen. — (Hear, hear.) That was a very important consideration when they were attempting to civilise Africa. Let them not, then, mistrust the ultimate success of their endea vours ; let them, if defeated in one mode, try another ; let them seek to acquire fresh information ; let them devise fresh enterprises in new directions ; above all, let them not doubt that while the spirit of universal emancipation , aided and sanc tified by the spirit of the Christian religion, —while these animated their endeavours they would ultimately secure the happiness and the s a l vat i on of millions of their fellow-creatures. — (Cheers.) 'The Venerable Archdeacon S. WILLERPORCE se conded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Several other resolutions were proposed, seconded, and carried, and a vote of thanks having been ; g,ven to the Chairman, the meeting separated shortly after four o'clock. TIM WEATHER--THE CROPS.—A very gratifying change has taken place in the weather within the last few days. The iron skies which we have had for the last month have relaxed, and soft and refreshi ng s h o wers, with pleasing alternations of sunshine, have succe e d e d. The effect of these on t h e crops is already manifest. 'the herbage, which was scant an d b rown from uninterrupted h ea t, has already becom e verdant and witha luxuriant. con tinTuhanece of appearance p ran r c e e sen o t f h t a ls p e m c changeis promise w e ll.— gratifyi ng , an d Ipswich Express. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. BRISTOL, JUNE 20.—The neighbourhood of Bristol has within the last three days been the scene of some of the most daring highway robberies, acompanied with violence, that have been committed of late years in the entire kingdom. The whole of these robberies have also evidently been perpetrated by the same persons, an organized gang of ruffians consisting of seven persons, three or four of whom are armed with large horse-pis tols, and who have attacked farmers and others on their return from market, within even a single mile of this city, at as early an hour of the night as 10 o'clock in the public road, and in the ' most daring'manner. 'The first of these robberies was com mitted on Friday night, on the person of a professional gentle man of Bristol, Mr. Francis Edwards, about two miles from Bristol, on his return to his residence at Redland, about a mile from Cote-house, Westbury. Mr. Edwards had not proceeded farther than about one-eighth of a mile before, as he caste oppo site a place called Ilenleeze-lane, he saw two men sitting down whom he had noticed following'him at a previous part of the even ing. tot having any suspicion, Mr. Edwards proceeded, and when he had gone a little farther, three other men jumped sud denly out of the hedge, one of whom placed a pistol to his month, and the other two a pistol to each side of his head, threatening to shoot him if he made the least noise or offered thu slightest resistance. Mr. Edwards then observed that the other two men whom he had seen following him had joined the party. Finding that the least attempt at resistance must prove fatal to him, Mr. Edwards quietly submitted, when they pro ceeded to rifle his pockets of his purse, containing four or five sovereigns and some silver, and of his gold watch, which being suspended by a guard chain, they found some difficulty in getting off, and twisted its chain violently round his throat, so as almost to produce strangulation. After they bad thus robbed him, they marched for some distance by his side, still holding their pistols to his head, and threatening to shoot him if he gave any alarm. When they got on a favourable part of Durdham-down they suddenly darted off in different ways. Mr. Edwards im mediately ran back as fast as he could to Cote-house, and in formed Mr. Ricketts of the robbery, when that gentleman, who is in the Commission of the Peace for the county, immediately sent out his servants and raised the neighbourhood in pursuit of the highwaymen, but unfortunately without success. Mr. Edwards has offered a reward of 201. for their apprehension. On Thursday night, a waggoner of Stoke, about three miles from Bristol, was driving along in his waggon, when he was stopped by evidently the same gang of fellows, two of whom placed themselves at the horses' heads, while the othersjumped into the waggon and proceeded to rifle his pockets, but, fortu nately, the sound of an approaching carriage being heard, they made off. _ On Saturday night the same gang perpetrated one of the most daring robberies we have ever heard of, accompanied with the most brutal violence, within a mile of Bristol, on the Horfield road, The following are the particulars :—A Mrs. Collard, the wife of a respectable farmer at Aldermondsbury, five miles, from Bristol, was returning home in her covered cart, on Saturday night from the Bristol mar ket, accompanied by Mr. Smith, a carpenter, of Aldmouds - bury, who was driving, Mr. Smith's son and a young woman sitting behind. On at riving near the first milestone five men . suddenly jumped out of the hedge, two ran to the horse's head, a third pointed a pistol at them in the cart, and the other two, who were also armed with pistols, got into the cart and demanded their money or their lives. They then dragged Mrs. C, Hard and Mr. Smith out of the cart in the most violent manner, and having thrown them on the ground proceeded to rifle their pockets. Having robbed them, they beat them about the heads and faces with the butt-ends f their pistols until they ceased to move, being reduced to a state of total insensibility, and no doubt being thought dead by their assailants. Mr. Smith's son jumped out of the cart, and, fall ing on his knees, begged them not to murder his father; they then beat him in a similar manner, and baying left them all lying in the road, made off. The sufferers were in a short time afterwards found by some persons coming up the road; they were removed to their re sidence, where they still lie in the most dangerous state. Mrs. Collard has her teeth beaten out, with some very severe con tused wounds of the face and head. Mr. Smith is so beaten about the head that he has lain in a state of perfect insensibility ever since, and scarcely the slightest hope can be entertained of his recovery. On the same evening two labouring men, who were return ing from market on the same road were stopped and robbed, and beaten by the same five men. As the men attempted some slight resistance, one of the robbers attempted to fire his pistol at them, but it fortunately flashed in the pan. They were then robbed of their earnings and some groceries they had pur cliaged. The poor fellows were then bsaten about the head with the butt-ends of the pistols and thrown into a ditch. The five robbers are described as follows :—Three of them are short men wearing smock-frocks, with Jim Crow hats ; the other two are dressed like navigators, and have high black bats. The police are using the most strenuous exertions for their apprehension. TO SIR ROBERT PEEL. A cruel attack upon me, Sir Robert, to attribute all my in. terference with the arbitrary proceedings of railroads to per sonal fear. Nothing can he more ungrateful and unkind. I thought only of you and for you, as many Whig gentlemen will ' bear me testimony, who rebuked rue for my anxiety. I said to myself and to them, " Our lovely and intrepid Minister may be overthrown on the rail. The locked door may be uppermost. He will kick and call on the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms in vain. Nothing will remain of all his graces, his flexibilities, his fascinating, fa-•etious fun, his social warmth ; nothing of his flow of soul, of his dear heavy pleasantry, of his prevailing skill to impute disorderly wishes to the purest heart, nothing will remain of it all but a heap of ashes for the parish church of Taruworth. He perishes at the moment that he is becoming as powerful in the Drawing-room of Court as in the House of Parliament—at the moment when Hullah (not without hopes of ultimate success) is teaching him to sing, and Melmotte to dance." I have no doubt of your bravery, Sir Robert, though you have of mine ; but then consider what different lives we have led, and what a school of courage is that troop of yeomanry at Tamworth, the Tory Fencibles. Who can doubt of your cou rage who has seen you at their head marching up Pitt-street, through Dundas-square, on to Liverpool-lane, and looking all the while like those beautiful medals of Bellona Frigida and Mars sine Sanguine, the very horseslooking at you as if you were going to take away three per cent. of their oats? After such spectacles as these, the account you give of your own courage cannot be doubted. The only little circumstance which I cannot entirely reconcile to the possession of this very high attribute in so eminent a degree, is, that you should have selected for your uncourteous attack enemies who cannot re sent, and a place where there can be no reply. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, SYDNEY SMITH. STRAWBERRY ttILL. On Monday was sold the portion of Horace Walpole's books, having reference to the classes of British and Foreign topo graph), architecture, antiquities, coins, gems, and ancient sculpture'. The whole obtained good price., and produted 300/. The most valuable work of the day sol d was— 1,028. Gemmarum Antiquarum delecius ; ex prrestantiori bus destimptus, qua: in llact)listliecis Duels Marlburiensis con serrantur, 1781-90, folio, two vols., in morocco. 591. 6s. 6d. Lille. flee history of this celebrated work, generally designated the " Maiihorough Gems," is not generally known ; and the fol lowing is partly drawn from Lord Orford's autograph note. " Cabinet of Gems," formerly belonging to Lady Betty Ger maine, and to William Ponsonby, second Earl of Besborough, formed the collection of George Spencer, third Duke of Marl bin ough, and from him were called the Marlborough Gems. Lady Betty Germaine's cabinet was part of the collection of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, the distinguished virtuoso, in the time of Charles I. ; from him the gems descended to his great-grandson, Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk ; his Duchess, Lady Mary Al ordaunt, being divorced from him, she carried off all the valuables of the Duke's great ancestor, and they became the property of Sir John Germaine, her second husband ; at his death he bequeathed the gems and other articles of vertu to his second wife, Lady Elizabeth, sister of the Earl of Berkeley. who survived her husband many years. Lady Betty Germaine, the donor to Horace Walpole of Anna Bullin's clock, now the property of her present Majesty, on the marriage of her great niece, Mary Beauclere, daughter of Lord Vere Beauelere, to Lord Charles Spencer, brother to the Duke of Marlborough, g,ve her the cabinet cf the Arundel gems for Lord Charles, her husband, to present to the Duke. Lady Betty Germaine hail valued those gems, cameos, and intaglios at 7,0001.; and the Cupid and Pysche, the finest antique intaglio extant in Europe, at 500/. The acquisition of such a cabinet by the Duke of Marlborough caused him to be desirous of obtaining also Lord Besborough's, of which there is a printed catalogue drawn up by Laurence Watter. The Besborough gems were purchased for 5,0001., and from these conjointly drawings were made by Cipriani, and engravings by Bartolozzi. No hart of this information has been hitherto made known to the public; as regards the subsequent history of the book full particulars are given in the " Bibliographical Catalogue of Books Privately Printed," compiled by Mr. John Martin, librarian to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn. CHINA. An estimate of the sum required to be voted in the year 1842, on account of the expenses of the expedition to China.— Eight Hundred and Six Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty six Pounds. Balance due to the East India Company, according to the following statement . Further MITI to be provided for the year ending 31st Alarch, 1843 .. 461,336 XBOO,OOO Bills drawn by Captain Elliot, on account of Works at Hong Kong Medical Stores supplied by the Admi ratty for the service of the expedition... 3,566 6,5(i6 G. CLERK. £906,566 Whitehall Treasury Chambers, June 16, 1842. STATEMENT ABOVE REFERRED TO. Actual Expenses in India, from January, 1840, to April 1841, as far as ascertained, Rupees 69,49,509, at 2s. old. £709,327 Expenses of Indian Estimate in 1841-2, Rupees 71,82,312, at 2s . 718,231 Freight, &c., at home of three ships in conveyance of troops diiect to Hong Kong Probable amont of batta to sea and land forces under the Royal grant Received out of the Parliamentary £1,598,330 grant for 1839 40 £150,000 Ditto ditto ditto ..... 23,442 173,442 Ditto ditto ditto 1840-41 400,00 Itemittancs from China to Calcutta in bullion and bills in 184 L- 49 686,224 1,259,666 Balance due to the Company on 30th April, 1842, exclusive of suns that may be chargeable for hire of steamers, and other expenses not ascertainable at this date, subject to future examination and settle,•ment - - - FRENCH PLAYS.—Bouffe's first appearance in Les Enfans des Troupe on Monday drew together a large number of distinguished personages. St. James's was crowded from the slips to the stalls, and this excellent actor was loudly applauded. It is a famous little piece, and was announced for repetition. M. SALABERT S CONCERT.—A concert was given by M. Salabert, at the Opera Concert-room, on Monday morn ing. Frezzolini was to have sung, but did not appear. Lablache was rich both in pathos and humour. A fan tasia on the national British airs God save the Queen" and " Rule Britannia" was played with great precision and power by a youth named Michael Angelo Russo, who was greatly applauded. HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mademoiselle Rachel performed her Herndone on illonday, and the same grandeur and propriety that characterised her acting last year, was apparent this, but greater. Without accumulating new traits, she has more clearly defined and wrought out at the present time the conceptions of her heroine. Mademoiselle Rabut performed the Andromaque, and M. David the Orestes. \V. Wordsworth, ,jun., Esq., has been appointed e'istributor of stamps for the counties of Cumberland and West moreland, in the room of his i,athar, the great poet, who retires upon a pension. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, June 9 1. Th;s being the first Seal after Trinity Term, the LORD CHANCELLOR satin Lineo:n's Inn-hall, and took appeal motions. QUARRIER V. COULSON. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumedand con cluded to-day. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he must carefully read over the affidavits before he gave judgment. ROLLS' COURT, June 21. Lord LANGDALE sat to-day in Chancery-lane, and disposed of some motions of an uninteresting nature. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, June 21. The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took notices to-day, it being the first Seal after Trinity Term. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 21. ' The Couar sat in Banco this morning, and heard arguments in c;:ses in the new trial paper. None of the cases were of any importance except to the parties concerned. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 20. PETTITT V. MITCHELL. Thesrial of this cause, which was partly heard on Saturday last, was resumed this morning. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Words worth conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Sergeant Bompas, Air. Sergeant Channell, and Mr. Miller that of the defendant. The action was brought by the plaintiff, who is an auc tioneer, to recover the difference in price between the proceeds of a quantity of cloth upon its resale, and the price at which it was knock e d d own t o t h e defenda nt! on the sth of June last year. The defendant claimed the right of ascertaining by measurement and inspection, before payment, that the cloth was in quality, quantity, and description, equal to that men tioned in the catalogue, but the conditions of sale required that payment should be made before delivery, and the privilege which the defendant claimed was refused to him, The main question between the parties, upon which a great number of witnesses were examined, related to the custom of the trade, and it was contended on the part of the plaintiff that no such custom existed as that mentioned, while the defendant's ease was, that it was quite usual to make an allowance before pay ment for short lengths. Air. justice Eassxiiix left it to the Jury to say whether there was such a general custom, or whether, from the previous course of dealing between the plaintiff and defendant, they could infer such a contract as that on which the defendant relied. The Jury retired shortly after four o'clock, and at nine o'clock returned and found for the plaintiff for the sum claimed-31 1. 108. JUNE 21. CURLING V. JEFFERY AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought against the proprietors of the Exeter and Yeovil mail, to recover compensation in damages, for injury sustained by the plaintiff, in conse quence of the overturning of the defendants' coach, upon which he was riding as an outside passenger. It ap peared that a few miles beyond Basingstoke the horses became unmanageable and ran away, whereby the coach was partly upset, and the plaintiff thrown violently off. The evidence was conflicting as to the appearance of suf fering which he exhibited on being taken up, and put into the inside of the coach, and the defendants proved that he for some time afterwards went without his arm in a sling, and was active in the business of his profession as a solicitor; but, on the other hand, the evidence of his medical attendants, of his clerks, solicitors concerned in business with him, and other witnesses, it was shown that he had really suffered a severe sprain in the tendons of the fore arm, which was followed by pain ful and alarming symptoms of inflammation, and that his whole system had received a violent and dangerous shock, which prevented him for several days from attending to business. His having gone about for some time as if nothing happened. was accounted for by his imprudently underrating, in the first instance, the amount of the injury, and in his zeal fbr business exerting himself too much, notwithstanding the pain he must have suffered. The defendants offered 301. compensation before the action was proceeded with, and this being refused, they paid that sum into Court. Mr. Justice ERSKINE, in summing up, expressed some dissatisfaction that, from the manner in which the pleas were framed, he was obliged to allow the Court to be occupied six hours with a cause which ought to have been decided in one. The Jury having retired for about an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages 201. over and above 30/. paid into Court. BAIL COURT, June 21. THE QUEEN V. SMYTH. This was an indictment preferred by the Commissioners of Pebee against the defendant, one of the brothers of the Princess of Capua, and Lady l)inorben, for an alleged indecent assault upon Police-constable Morrison, of the C division, on the night of the 17th of February. The proceedings had been removed by a writ of certiorari into this Court. '1 he Attorney-General, Mr. Pollock, and Mr. Waddington, conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Platt and 31r. Bodkin appeared for the defendant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL at some length stated the case, the substance of which has appeared in The Sun. Several witnesses were called, whose evidence supported the statement of the Attorney-General. Air PLATT, after a powerful address to the jury, called the fiillowing witnesses. His Grace the Duke of Beaufort—l have bees acquainted with the defendant between two and three years. I have been in the constant habit of meeting him in society, and his charac ter is irreproachable. The defendant was introduced to me by his loyal Highness Prince Capua. Lord William Somerset—l have known the defendant be tv% een three and four years; have repeatedly met him in so ciety. His character for morality is of the highest order. Ihe Earl of Chichester—l have known the defendant fifteen years; his habits and character, during that period, have been irreproachable. I believe him incapable of acting as has been stated. Sir Colin Hackett—l have known the defendant six years, and, during that time, both in his moral and professional duties, his conduct has been unimpeachable. 1 he Hon. Mr. Callahan gave similar evidence. Sir H. W. Barron, M.P.—I have known the defendant 20 year,, and during that long period his character has been irre proichable and most strictly moral. Captain Ogle-1 have known the defendant 20 years, and have met him in various situations in life. The defendant, when a boy, was attacked with a nervous affection, and he always, whet he speaks, puts his hand upon the person he is address ing. lam convinced he is unconscious of so acting. The Rev. C. Wetherell gave similar evidence. The Duke of Beaufort and the other witnesses corroborated Capt. Ogle's evidence as to the defendant's habit of catching hold of the hand of those he addressed. Air. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up the evidence. The Jury retired, and upon their return, they gave a v,rdiet of Net Guilty, with the following addendum : " The Jury were unanimous in their verdict of Not Guilty, and that not the slightest stain attaches itself to the defendant, nor do they blame the conduct of the prosecutor, the police constable, but they think that he acted from misconception." The verdict appeared to give unusual satisfaction to a most crowded Court. WILSON V. MACLEAN, This was an action brought by Miss. Wilson, \\to keeps a boarding school in Russell-square, to recover the sum of 25 guineas, the price of a quarter's schooling given to two young ladies, danghters of the defendant. It appeared the daughter, of the defendant went to Miss Wilson's school on t'.te 19th of October, 1839, and left on the 13th oE July, 1841. Up to the 3d of April, 1841, tb.e plaintiff was paid to the full amount, anO, the question was whether the plaintiff, havir.g calculated the year at nine months, three being allr,w e d for vacations ; and upon this calcu lation, the quarter having ended on the 11th of June, WqS entitled to recover for the quarter commencing after that time. It was contended, on the part of the defendant, that the year ought to be calculated in the ordinary mode, upon which the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. The Jury rotiirod, and after some time returned with a verdict for thyt plaintiff. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Henry King, fl 9, was indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Samuel Edwards Poulett, and stealing there from fifteen forks, four spoons, and other articles. From the evidt nee, it appeared that the , A ife of the prosecutor, with her sister, 't , !ft the house in Church-row, St. Pancras, on the afternoon of the 7th June last. They did not return till half-past clever i o'clock at night. Mrs. Poulett had opened the outer door with a latch key, and was in the act of opening the par!our door, when the prisoner came through the hall from the kite) ien. He said to Mrs. Poulett, "Don't you know me—don't he alarmed." He went out through the hall door, upon which they gave an alarm, and a person of the name of Marshall ob sc roc(' the prisoner creeping under the palings, en deavouring to. escape. Marshall called out to him, upon which he ran away. Marshall followed him, and after he had pro ceeded some distance, the prisoner dropped a bundle, which, on examination,. was found to contain the property named in the indictment. Marshall continued his pursuit, upon which the prisoner turned round, and knocked him down. Marshall how ever got up. and again pursued the prisor.er, and at length cap tured and gave h irn into custody. The LEARN/ :n JUDGE summed up the evidence, and the Jury at once rt turned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced. to transportation for life. Mr. Baron CiIi.KNEY then addressed the witness, John Mar shall, and said tb e Court entertained the highest sense of the courage and man liness which he had displayed under circum stances of co nsikrable physical disparity, as the prisoner was a very powerful man. and the Court had therefore determined to nia:k their approbation of his conduct by ordering him a re al and of W.. The witness re,speetfully thanked the Court and retired. AN ArrtmrTE . D SUICIDE.— Thomas Fountain, aged 37, a baker, was indiettN I for unlawfully attempting to commit self dcst ruction. Policeman, R If ;3, stated that on the 6th June last, at about an hoed. after midnight, he saw the prisoner in the Greenwich road with a bottle i n his hand. He was sitting down, and ap peased in a despond .ing state ; the witness went up to him, and asked what he we s drinking, but he made no answer. Wit ness then took the bottle from him, and found it to be labelled laudanum and pois on. Witness asked the prisoner if he had taken what had lig Zen in the bottle, and he said that he had, and he expected t; o get rid of the troubles of the world ; and if he did not do so ':aen, he would cut his throat or drown himself. Witness took hi a:. into custody. When he was at the station house a surges a was sent for and the stomach-pump applied, and a quantity of laudanum taken from his stomach. The prisoner Ea id, in his defence, that he did not intend to kill himself. We had been for a long time afflicted with rheu matic gout, ant h e was in the habit of taking laudanam for it. On the day iti qu ( stion he had walked to Greenwich, think• ing it would do him good. Having had an attack of the flout that day whil e a t G reenw i ch, he took a great deal to srink, and on col ning home he bought two-pennyworth of laudanum, thinkin g it would take off the effect of the drink, but he had no in tention of killing himself ; and he had often taken double the c uantity in the space of 24 h ours . The Learned 3 t inGE having summed up the evidence, The Jury acqui .fled the prisoner. NE IV COURT. Thomas Kin,3 43, described as a draper, residing in Beth nal-green, was it dieted for stealing a quantity of lace, the pro perty of M essrs. Grocock and Co., of Bow Church-yar d. Se veral other indie tments charged the prisoner with stealing and receiving, and a eeeiving only. had purchased from the prosecutors several parcbei-ust they never reached thei 3 d est i nat i on . Th e y w ere at length ° It appe are d that Messrs. Pearce and Woodwatd, foflaTuea.unTtott,ie, goods were 1 ariwarded to the waggon-office. pos-ession o f t h e pr i soner , who could give 00 exll t u r n a a c t ed to the iunasto how he becan ie pi issessed of thern, The Jury f ounc l th e prisoner Guilty. , The prisoruir s who were ing the ca pt a i n o f a vessel in in the coicteig on Thursday, for assault ing seas, were brought up, and Samuel Ogg v ; as sentenced to be imprisoned for six months ; James Houghton for two months; Richard Inkpen for four months ; John Rutherford for six months ; and Hugh Pi rer for three months. The judgment upon the other defendants was respited until the next session. Frederick Pridham, 20, described as a labourer, was in - die , ed for stabbing and wounding the Baron Wilhelm Oster, a Hanoverian officer, with intentto do him grevious bodily harm. All the particulars of this assault have already appeared in The Sun. Ihe jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Judge or de. ed him to be imprisoned for twelve months. shore, the young man who was convicted on Monday of cut ting and wounding his brother, was brought up for judgment, and sentenc.d to be imprisoned for twelve months. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE RACES.—MownAY. Match, 100 to 50 ; Mile and a half—Mr. Heppel's Lady - Flora, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Livesay), beat Mr. Crawford's Royal Charlie, 3 yrs, 7st 71b. 6 to 4 on Laey Flora, who had it all to herself from end to end. Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft., for three yrs old colts, bat 41b ; and fillies, Bst ; the second to save his stake. Two miles. (7 Subs.) Mr. Bowes's The Artful Dodger (allowed 31b)...( Holmes) 1 Colonel Crauford's f by Langer, out of Mermaid Sir C. Monck's bc by Langer, dam by Filho (allowed 31b) 3 Mr. Orde's Beeswax Betting-2 to 1 agst Artful Dodger, sto 4 agst Langar filly, 4 to 1 agst Beeswax, and 4 to' 1 agst Langar colt. The Langar filly took the lead, with Beeswax and The Artful Dodger close up to the distance, where the latter went in front, and, after a good race home, won by about a length. Produce Sweepstakes of 50 soya, each, h ft, for two yrs old colts, Bst 41b ; and fillies, Bst. T. Y. C. (6 Subs.) Mr. Blakelock's A British Yeoman (W, Oates) 1 Mr. Jaques's Semiseria 2 2 and 3tol on A British Yeoman. A neck-and -neck race throughout, and won on the post LI a head only. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with a Purse added, for hunters, four yrs, llst 21b; five, list 111 b ; six and aged; half-bred horses allowed 71b ; and mares and geldings 31b ; winners extra. Two mil .s. Gentlemen riders. (15 Subs. ) Mr. Ileadlam na. Robinson, aged (Major Campbell) I Mr. Simpson's Aggravator (half-bred), aged. 2 Mr. Crawford's Centurion, aged The following also started but were not placed :—Lord Lon donderry's Claret (half-bred), aged—Mr. Brandling na Shiraz, aged—Mr. Maitland's Clem o' the Cleugh, 6 vrs—Mr. J. Cookson's Dr. Oliver, 6 vrs—Col. Thompson's Hamlet (half bred), aged—and Capt. nroadley's Birthday, aged. Betting-6 to 4 agat Hamlet ;sto 2 agat Clem-&-the- Cleugh ; 4 to agst Dr. Oliver ; and 8 to 1 agst Aggravator. Hamlet made the running till descending the hill, whem Clem o'-the-Cleugh took it up and carried it 'along the flat, to the Morpeth turn, where he was challenged by Aggravator and Ro binson, went up on the inside, and after a splendid race won by a neck; Aggravator beating Centurion by about half a neck. The Alaiden Plate of 501. ; three yrs, 7st slb ; four, Bst 51b; five, &c., Bst 101 b ; mares, &c., allowed 3ih. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Kitching's Priscilla Tomboy, 3 yrs ... ...... (Oates) 1 1 Mr. Harrison's Wilfred, 3 yrs 4 2 _ . Mr. Johnstone's fby Voltaire, out of Wagtail, 3 yrs 2 0 Mr. Singleton's Smike, 3 yrs Sir C. Monck's bc by Master Syntax, dby Filho, 4 yrs 0 dr Both heats won easy. NottruummitaLA ND PL ATE. —No betting on the Stand, the business being done at the Sun Inn in the evening. Accounts received this morning state that Alice Hawthorn is at Newcastle, but is not likely to start for the Northumber land Plate; she is reported to be amiss. There was no change in the betting except as it regarded her. /~ A LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON, JUNE 20.—Wind this day at Noon, S. to S.W. DEAL, JUNE !I.—Wind S.E. moderate ; 19, A.ll. S.W. moderate, r. n. strong breeze.—Arrd. Calcutta, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Colonel Hardwicke, Calcutta; Mary Ann, Madras; lilizabeth,Granada ; Two Friends, Havannah ; William Forster, Nassau; Plantagenet, Domett, Calcutta. SR Foam, China; George Wallis, China; Olympus, New Zealand. FA ',mount, JUNE 17.—Wind variable and light; 18, S. to W. S. W. light. —Arrd. Lord Lambton, Persian, and Rose bud, Odessa ; British Queen, Pioneer, and Oak, Ancona ; Jay, Ebenezer, Mary, and Norton, Leghorn. Sld. Solway (steamer), Duncan, West Indies. Arrd. off—East India Packet, Bakker, Java for Amsterdam ; Mary Ann, 'Madras. BA LTIMOILE (Ireland).—Arrd. Campbell, Monte Video. BELFAST, JUNE 17. Arrd. Waringford, Donald, Barhadoes. ‘VATERFORD, JUNE 16.—Arrd. Placentia, Hayden. New foundland. CORK, JUNE 17.—Arrd. Munster Lass, Farmer, Savanilla ; Amity, Barris, Laguna; Dania Dyer, Dyer, Kerteb. Arrd. off, Jean Papti.te, Buenos Ayres, and sailed for London ; Thistle, Elder, Bombay. _ . _ OFF THE LIZARD, JUNE 14.—Graaf van• Hogend4p, Deltaas, Batavia. CORK, JUNK 16.—A boat, marked Lady Sarah Bayley, of London, bottom up, with jury-mast stepped, a short time in water, was picked up May 1. off the west end of Jamaica, by the British King, arrd. at New Orleans, from Liverpool. PENTLAND FRITH, JUNE 16 —Arrd. Guana, Grenada. LivErtroor., Ju tilt 18.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrived the Sarah, Nlontreal. 19, Catherine. Williams, Mobile ; Harriet liockwell, Briard, do ; Thomas P. Cope, Philadelphia. Off Port, Islam, Barballoes; Columbus, New York; Southerner, do; Richmond, Maracaibo, sld. 17; Agnes, Braithw aite, St. Thomas; Athens, Chase, New York; Lamport, Armstrong, Quebec; Oromocto, Cronck, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Britannia, Coulthard, ditto. 1801, Stirlingahire. Davidson, Bombay; Mary and Anne. Bruce, Monte Video; Broad Oek, M'Coy, Bahia; Hernia, Bowman, Jamaica.; Rapid, Stewart, Antigua; Abeona, Eason, Quebec ; Mountaineer, Stickney, ditto. 19th, Blezenge, Banks, Calcutta, Lucy Wright, Pollock, Bombay ; Alexander, Johnston, Jamaica; Caroline, Crawford, Grenada; Mettelta, M'Lauren, New York; Caledonia steamer, Lott, Halifax ; John '.ll' Adam steamer, Cobb, Pieton ; Alex ander Edmond, Strange, Halifax. LONDON, JUNE 21.—Wind this day at Noon, variable. OFF HASTINGS, JUNE 20.=-Manita, Bolton, Singapore. DEAL, JUNE 20.--Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Esperance, Maherly., Calcutta; Thames, Barclay, Jamaica. Arrived from the River anti remain, Marquis of Hastings, Hobart Town ; Togliatti, Adelaide; Ida, Jamaica ; Hindostan, China. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 20. —Wind S. W. to S.—Arrd. FOBlll, G rein, London, for China. COWES, JUNE 20.—Arrd. Two Sisters, Mayo, Tobasco ; T acitus, B .rstow, Matanzas ; Rapid, London for Grenada. OFc PORTLAND, JUNE 18. Erasmus, Java, for Rot berdam. STANGATE CREEK, JUNE 19. Arrd. Jane, M•Laren, Cibraltar ; Clipper, Jean, Mogadore. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 20.—Wind S. S. W. by W.—Arrd. Arm and Jane, Smith, and Gardiner,. Cobb, Calcutta ; Kilblain, :Shaw, and Engtand, Thompson, Bombay ; Richmond, Carnie, :Nlo.racaibo ; Mara, Morphew, Barbadoes; Albion and Mary, 211obile ; Aurelius, Forster, Savannah ; Southerner and Co 3urnbus, New York. Std. Jane, Africa ; Jonathan Fell, Rio; Alcyone and Countes3 London, Quebec. Arrd. off. Mary Ann 'Webb, China; Columbia, Jamaica. Arrd. Aurelian, New 'Glasgow, and Colonsay, towed in from the latter port disraasted. FA r.mount, :NNE 19.—Wind W.S.W. to W., fresh breeze. --Arrd. Trogliton, Coates, Odessa, and ski. for London. Coax, JUNE 10.—Ski. William Laye, Jamaica. The Ann, Martin, arrived here from Leghorn, was in contact, on the 9th inst., in lon. 11, with the Howard, of London, appa rently bound to North America, and lost foresail, jibboona, :stancheons, &c. OFF TILE OLD HEAD or KINSALE, JUNE 16.—Minstrel 1303., Maine, Lima. Ore THE ATIZENHEAD, JUNE 16.—Cesmock, Atherton, :Laguna; London, Draper, Savannah. The Sir George Arthur, bound to Bermuda, with convicts, -was spoken by the Calcutta, Chalmers, arrived in the River; •the crew had mutinied, and were secured below. The Calcutta supplied cue man to steer the ship. THE MAILS FROM FALMOUTH. ( Copy.) Falmouth, May 12, 1842. Sir,—ln consequence of the numerous statements recently brought before the public by parties in London, complaining of tile unnecessary detention of the mails at this 1 - iort on being landed from foreign parts, more particularly when arriving just after the departure of the public conveyance, 1 am requested by the Falmouth Harbour Committee (as its chairman) cf. seect fully to suggest for the consideration of his Lordship, the Post-Master-General, whether it cannot be arranged that the north mail which now quits at half-past six, r.m., should start - two hours and a half earlier, say, at four, r.M., taking with it -the City letters then ready, which being delivered in Bristol at mine, A.M. (or thereabout) the following morning, in time to profit of the mail train of that hour to town, it seems clear would enable the bags to he delivered in London at about one or two o'clock the same afternoon. This alteration would give the London merchants two departures (instead of one) per day from Falmouth, at intervals of twelve hours, would not incur, it is presumed, any additional expense to the revenue, and would seffle a question which, whether real or imaginary, has beet endeavoured most unfairly and improperly to be made a ground of attack on the capabilities of the port of Falmouth as to internal communication. In laying these remarks before his Lordship, I can only hope, nn behalf of the Harbour Committee, that the motive will be appreciated, and that the suggestions, such as they are, will receive that consideration and attention which the Post-office departreent may deem them entitled to.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, ROBERT R. BROAD, Mayor. To Lieut.-Colonel W. L. Maberly, &c (Copy.) General Post-office, June 13, 1842. Sir,—/laving submitted to the Postmaster-General vo . ar application of the 12th -aitimo on behalf of the Falmouth H,,r bottr Committee, praying that the present North Mail from Falmouth may be altered into a London Day Mail, I have re ceived the directions of his Lordship to inform you that having given his best attention to the subject, he finds that such an arrangement would be highly prejudicial to the interests of so many towns and districts of importance in Cornwall, that he does not deem it expedient to adopt your suggestions. I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, t,Signed) THOMAS LAWRENCE. Robert R. Broad, Esq., Mayor, Falmouth. (Copy.) Falmouth, 15th June, 1842. Sir,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your le'.ter of the 13th inst., in reply to my application of the 12th ult. to Col. Maberly, on behalf o the Falmouth Harbour Committee, praying, for the reasons therein stated, that the present up north mail be made a London day mail. . . Having had the opportunity ()flaying said letter, immediately on receipt, before the Town Council, I am requested to ex press their extreme surprise and astonishment that so reason. able and well-digested a proposition for so general and so na tional an object, involving moreover little, if any, extra ex pense to the revenue, should be thrown overboard on so ir.suf ticient a reason as tht it " would be highly prejudicial to the interests of so many towns and districts in Cornwall." Of these towns and districts so positioned, no one here appears to be at all aware ; acid I cannot but conclude that, if the Post office Department. possessed the inclination to carry out the plan proposed, there would be no difficulty in its accomplish ment. The inhabitants of Falmouth have, however, acquitted them selves in the eves of the public in the steps taker: by the H bour Committee, and with the General Post- office must rest in future all reflections reoardßiloigi3tEhewr R. non-existence c:o: Mayer.amid,day delivery of foreign mails from this port in the city of Lonekm. I have the honour to b e, Sir, y our most oh:dient servat t Thos. Lawrence, Esq., General Post-office. LIGIrT S° REIGNS.—The trading porti on of theinhabitantsts of Canterbury have felt considerable inconvenience, owing to the pmclamation of her Majesty's Government re specting li g ht sovereigns. It is almo st as d i ff i cult now to get a sovereign changed it, it is to earn one. We know of a farmer who yesterday went to the Bank to get some money changed to pay his men with, anti the loss he sustained in the exchange was about 60s.—Dover Chronicle. SOVEREIGNS. —The panic prevalent in Lon don and elso.vhere respectin g light sovereigns has reseed Ips wich, and has, to a considerable extent, affected the retail business of the town. The discount charged on 'a light sove reign is one shilling, nor will one penny of this stun be abated by the recipient.—lorrich Express. MONEY MAnKET.—GoId Was in a feverish state, owing to the process of sweating, and parties who expected to find money extremely heavy were surprised at its uncommon lightness, which they only perceived when bringing it into the market. Sovereigns with the coupons (or little pieces) cut out were freely offered for 9 05., and as freely declined, and many pie ,iee persons made endeavours to turn the scale by filling ire t ,-2 ,