The Sun. — London, England, 1834-07-03 00:00:00

:ENT, 's past tWelve I time. atford Bridge ,L. ouse resolved the bill, W. he effect that , !cl where eel ld t, as it well be bill. . The roL AND end Punishment 0. mber of Cool' ti on : -Crimes , Not Ca piv in either period• 46, 561 53,022 Dr 13 per cen ve lately cease o nce to prose• :, t increase of and this 0 .19 co classes, be The OP' increase of 44 ihed rigour in red death ' iecond peri° l " Crime , t " Not Ca, i n either in o d. t. pen 38,415 t. 7 .2 p er cent. to resist the If preservi n g if wigs neces- endmcnt Was robberies I f violence to Ldment. Mimeos. isgraceful to countrlt should be laws, whe.se, of the trio ly harm ? It wring of the i 3en life an tand, it wa s is, under th e fence. The some Wl' Id said that ll the boxed looking on' went out to cause death: s which ha d 'capons vvi tp ? He was 11 with death elief, though .nd the bill mittee. _ d to be re- seat for the !eted on en- the whole it would be ffect a great HILL, the court poWer should be i that house Reilly, Mr. member f' 9t in the laws' Luse for the FILLY, Lord lgers were when there .hat instea d lagistrate al, that it be !fence whe n sit would be committe d of defend' of a claus e itions Wade the depo" mal a prin' the case in I membe r in w hich 'uilty 3d at a ad' subsequen t TportunitY 'test init ls ", )e extended ,LoYD, 6ir id learned len m erely mselves by erminatiol l I leave t° )AY.) KER, and $ ise excite ( ' ire before ant in Bi- 11e racted 1 1 5 :ed 7s. 6 '' Plaintw also re' i. Maio' is refusing Ipon from UP to holding L and gave ion-hous e he action 115 L Upoll :40145h 1 0 y to move For him• Y.--The formatio n t her Ma' 1, in orde r r• the pre" veral city "a)esty, is Lnsdietio o and it io will ll' Quee n ' Dbility, to corpor a on th° Y es purrs r 3cede h j f a s leou l gr e° I for the Liant OLD BAILEY SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. These sessions commenced this day, before Mr. Justice OOSANQUET, Mr. Justice PATTESON, and the usual city au thorities. Among the prisoners arr a i gne d was G eo . S tuar t, a li as Sherwood, who was indicted for uttering a forged 51. note. The indictment also charged the prisoner with returning from t r ansportation, the prisoner having been convicted of forgery In the 57th year of George the Third, and sentenced to death, 'hid' sentence was commuted tot ransportation for life. On the 29th of May, he was discovered to be at large in this country. The prisoner objected to plead to the charge, saying he had never heard it before.. Mr. Serg eant ARABIN—You can say whether you are guilty or not. you refuse to plead, the court will enter a plea for_ y ou. The prisoner then pleaded Not Guilty, but requested time to prepare his defence. The court granted the application. -Robert Barnes, aged 22, was indicted for assaulting Ste- Phen Ford on the King's highway, and robbing him of four sovereigns and 255. in silver. The indictment also charged t he Prisoner with having been formerly convicted. I t appeared from the statement of the prosecutor that 01 1 the night of the 11th of May he met the prisoner and another person in Whitechapel ; he treated them with some gin, and they persuaded him to go into Bethnal-green road to see a girl of their acquaintance. On the way the pri soner and his companion knocked him down and robbed him. He was apprehended a few days afterwards. AA officer named Davis proved that the prisoner had been for merly convicted. He was commonly called " Bobby Odd E YE" having one eye black and the. other grey. The prisoner was found Guilty. ,john R o bi nson , age d 24, was i nd i cted f or assau l t i ng Ed ward Yler, and taking from his person the sum of 31. ss. L The prosecuto r res id es a t Sh ac kl ewe ll. O n t h e 21 s t o f J une he went to the Swan, in Hungerford-market, about four o'clock in the afternoon. The prisoner came into the room, and inquired whether any one had been looking for him, say mg he had just taken a great deal of money, and wanted to Pin it into his lawyer's hands. He 'then pulled out a roll, which app eare d to cons i st o f b an k notes. H e expresse d a f ear lest he should be robbed, and asked prosecutor to show him !bout town, as he was a stranger. They then took a walk together, and proceeded to Hyde-park, where the prisoner tl lPiled him up, and took the money out of his pocket. An other man accompanied them, but he was dismissed before they got far, the prisoner giving him what appeared to be a half sovereign, saying " Take that between you for your trouble." The man offered witness the half-sovereign, wishing him to give h. change, but he refused to have any thing to do with it. The !tom still kept following them at a distance. When prosecu tor was thrown down he called out for assistance, and the pri loner was stopped by a gentleman in a chaise. Crois-exammed by Mr. DoANE—Never saw the prisoner b efore. N o t so sober as to recollect every thing that passed. Yid not remember inviting the prisoner to dine with him on the followi ng. Sunday, or recommending his daughter for a wife to th e prisoner. Georg e Garland was in Hyde Park on the evening in ques t ° I; and heard a cry of " Stop thief !" immediately after which ",g„savr the /prisoner put his hand on the rail and jump over. tress attempted to stop him, and received a blow in the breast. Witness seized him by the coat. He said, let me t 7 ), my boy : it is only a fellow wants to give me a dusting." itness refused to release him until he was satisfied there was no charge against him. A gentleman drove up in a cabriolet and desired witness to hold the prisoner fast, as he had seen non rob a countryman. The prisoner told witness he would give him 201. to let him go. After some delay a policeman Was found to whom the prisoner was handed over. As they were going to th e s t a ti on -h ouse t h e pr i soner t h rew d own a pocket ,Oook co nta i n i ng 5 / . fl as h -notes near t h e park-gate. In P i ccad i lly he threw down two 201. flash notes, and put something into 111 5 mouth. He was searched, and on his person was found a erown-piece and a shilling. Police constable A 100, who took the prisoner into cus %),dY, produced the articles mentioned by the last witness. fade Prisoner struggl e d t o ge t awa y f rom th e w it ness , and both together, but he could not succeed in escaping. Cross-examined—Found no sovereigns on the prisoner. The prisoner said it was impossible that he could have swal lowed the sovereigns. The waiter at the Swan was brought to the stati on -h ouse t o id en tify hi m , b u t as soon as h e saw On he declared that he was not the man. at Mr. Ju s ti ce P ATTESON summe d up , an d t h e J ury pronounce d Ine _prisoner—Guilty. Joseph Ch a mb ers , aged 26, and James Bond, aged 20, We reindicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of 'Oho *Lachlan, and stealing a sheet and other articles, his Property, on the 26th of May last. It appeared that the prosecutor, a bookseller in Ship-yard, T emple -ba r , went out in the evening, and during his absence two men resem bli ng t h e pr i soners were o b serve d i n t h e s h op Yan opposite neighbour. The door was locked by the pro secutor when he left his shop, but on his return he found it open, and several policemen in it ; the sheet and the other articles were gone. The prisoners had been secured, and on their persons were found the property, and forty-eight skele ton k eys. The prisoners were found Guilty. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS (FROM DEAL, JULY 2.—Wind N. E. LLOYDS.) No arrivals. The Castor remains. PLYMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind E., strong. FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind E., fresh breezes. CORK, JUNE 30.—Arrived the Woodbridge transport, Hughson, from London for Halifax. LIMERICK, JUNE 30.—Sailed the lanthe, Langley, and United Kingdom, for Quebec, with emigrants. Arrived the Earl Moira, Perry, from Quebec, and Mould, Vaughan, from London. BRISTOL, JULY 2.—Arrived , the Convivial, from Newfound land. HULL, JULY I.—Arrived the Dan whaler, Rosindale ; Hal e,Y°ll, Shepherd ; Anny, Shemells ; Garnet, Moulson ; Roch i:alls Tucker, and-the Brunswick, Robinson, from St. Peters surgh Leipsic, Liedam, and Magdalina, Pohlson, from .J.ockholra ; Oscar, Lawson, and Wilton, Reeners, from !liega ; Ceres, Walker, and Brancepeth Castle, from Wyburg ; o, Michieffrom Narva ; and the Agnetha, Hansey, from Yburg. I.I4 MBURO, JULY 2,—Arrived the Calo, Harrison, from St. Petersb urg h . t vxRPOOL, JULY I.—Arrived the Sir George Murray, Be v_Ferley, fr om Ch ar l eston ; P rov id ence, V o lb rec h t , f rom Dant zl and Marianne, Rechels, from Memel. T UALWAY, JUNE 30.—Arrived the Margaret, Berachell, from ‘ - 'aPe Br e t on . 4 BERDEE N , JUNE 30.—Arrived the Mary, Sinclair, from aq - rrived in the river the Lustre, Sh e ph er d, F o l e y, Ed mon d, _, Venus, Gowans, from Riga; Frederick, Franz, Andries, Ro Stock, and Lord Strangford, Latta, from Hamburg. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAI7MARkETS.— (At per Load of 36 Trusses . CUMBERLAND. arse heavY Lowland Meadow Hay £3 10 to £3 15 i'l. 1,, Meadow Hay 4 0 4 5 V i seful Old Ditto . 4 5 410 Cl over V 4 0 . 5 10 and Meadow and Ry e .g rass H a y 5 0 5 5 Oat Stta: v Z 1 12 to £1 14 f Wheat Straw ll6 18 - SMITHFI SMITHFIELD. N ° e a l : 8 1 ? b eavY Lowland Meadow Hay ...... ***** #3 15 to £4 0 i,.. !endow Hay ~'seft.l Olcl Ditto Clove r Meadow Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ........... 4 , --....- 4 1 5 513 Oat r HaY (extra fine ......X5 10........Genera11y ~ .. Straw... .... ..Lll4to 41 16 I Wheat Straw ..... - COAL MAR . Adair Per Ton. s. d 's Rensham M Dean's Primrose l6 9 Ea st Percy l6 0 ti — ' ll ,son Low Main ~.- ` ° ,Y vvell lB 9 ,i'd.B R edhugh........„...... WY,„` 4) fteld l9 9' Hartle ... • N VYI Y ...".. .... , am 18 6 ~"alls End Bell, Robson & Co. 18 0 ..Walls End Ilewicke and Co lB 9 Falls End Brown's lB 0 walls Clark and Co. l6 9 w E nd 18 9 ' 4l B End Go fo r th ..............:._____ ,KEYS -July 2. Per Ton. s. d Walls End Heaton lB 9 Walls End Hilda lB 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Newmarch lB 0 Walls End Northumberland l7 6 Walls End Perkins l7 6 Walls End Riddell's Lamhton's Primrose Walla End Hetton l9 y Walls End Lambton ••=0 9 Walls End Russel's Hetton l9 9 Walls End Stewart's ...... Walls End Adelaide Walls End Gordon 18 0 Wheat HULL MARKET.—JuIy 1. Old —s. 425. 48s. Now —s. 46i. sthi. ""----. Foreign --s. Ns. 545. ln bond... —B. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —5..11. 255 . Old ..... .... —s. —s. —s. ---- Small or Feed —s. 21s 235. -- Foreign —s. 16s. 186 Parley, Norf. & Suf.... —s. 2Es. 30s. Line. & NVeld —B. 263 :Os. ------„,,, Foreign Be 3N. - 345. 365. Foreign Pease, White --s. 365. 40s. Grey —s. 30s. 343. Tares Ra —s —.4. —s. F ore i gn peseed. in bond none. ....... .. F ree, per last 291. 301. Os. k -IL Boy D.—Robert Boyd, murdered at Malaga on dell th of December, 1831, was the son of Archibald °' N I of Derry, Ireland, a hi_ghly respectable gentle man 6, -, a i nd t.reasurer of the county of Derry. Two of his bro stl.-.8 have attained superior rank in their respective profes s-p —one a barrister, the other a Protestant clergyman. lceout six years ago Mr. Boyd, sen., died, leaving a handsome onavnistio.n for a large fam . ily. Robert was then in India, a Lieu in the East India Company's service. death 1,,, At his_ father's____ had returned from Greece, having gone out under .... Caine home on leave, and. about November,lB 6 29 e , r h o e . the and ardent influence that led him to devote himself to ..le Spanish cause. At that period, November, 1829, he had n ot met with Torrijos, and was undecided as to returning to 4 7a, his leave being nearly expired. He had then about d o with with Coutts and Co. He had received a good educa a, and bad read a great deal. Poems which -breathe an l lv arie r dv o ee t n e t love of freedom he could repeat by the hour. He e ne trY and prose with ease and correctness. We be b__, e game 3,000kt0 the Torrijos project, in which.he em it, with ardour. Often it was tried to dissuade him from sz : r bit arguments were answered by a quotation from Moore den-,Yr, oil, vihich had more fire with him than " cold pru fr__ 'as he used to say. " Yes (he would cry) 'tis all very ,!•_) . ;a for those who are content to vegetate from day to day, memorialand year to year, until they slide into their graves--tlieironly _e. their money, their'only history their ledger—for m e, sink or swim, I'll gain a glorious name or an early grave." Nil n % ." 1,1 come the glowing poetry, and the unanswerable in an a t t i lc ing. He was a perfect sample of a young, wild, ro ,__ a .; and highly -gifted Irishman. His ag . e, at his death, )1 ,1 5 ,, bout 24. In person he was of middle size, handsome; and e ' ftrepable and indicative of liveliness, good temper, - 'tient-- FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis of Bristol, from his seat, Putney Heath, Surrey ; G. Higgins, Esq., at the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, from York shire ; Atkins, Esq., at ditto, from the Continent ; Baron Tuyll, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from America ; Mr. Aroux, at ditto, from ditto ; Mr. De Lisle, at ditto, from ditto ; Mr. Beckett, at ditto, from ditto; Sir Richard Hoare, Bart., at his seat, Stourhead House, Wilts, from Bath; _ Brooke Greville, Esq., from a tour ; Kirkman Finlay, Esq., at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Gregory, in Grosvenor street, from Leamington, Warwickshire; James Stratton Cole, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Cole, at the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, from their seat, near Chard, Somersetshire ; Mrs. Hippersley Coxe, at ditto, from her seat in the New Forest, Hants ; Walter Fletcher, Esq., and Mrs. Fletcher, at ditto, from Dover; Count Zapall, at ditto, from ditto ; A r th ur H u bb ar d, Esq., andAliss Hubbarad, at ditto, from ditto; Edward Jobson ' Esq., and Master Jobson at ditto, fromditto ; Timothy Tillson, Esq., and Airs. Tillson, at ditto, from Brighton ; the Baroness de Corvaja, at Fladong's Hotel, Ox ford-street, from the Continent; Thomas Lewis, Esq., Airs. Lewis, and the Messrs. Lewis, jun., at ditto, from Wales ; Colonel and Mrs. Deacon, at ditto, from Beaconsfield; H. Sherard, Esq., at ditto, from Sidmouth ; Gutteres, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; Rev. Mr. Loftus, at ditto ; General Gleig, at ditto, from Cheshire ; Colonel Vaughan, at ditto, from Leamington ; Captain Lewis, at ditto, from Wales. chair. DEPARTURES, Sir W. Edward Rouse Boughton, Bart., and family, from the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, for his seat in Worcestershire ; Sir Arthur' Farquhar, R.N., from ditto, for Sussex; J. Whitmore, Esq., and Mrs. Whitmore, from ditto, for Ramsgate; James Wil liams, Esq., Mrs., and two Misses Williams, from ditto, for Chel tenham Edward Franks, Esq., and Miss Franks, for Oxford ; Joseph Inder, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; Thomas ameson, Esq., and family, from ditto, for Ramsgate • Lieut. Robert Halle, R.N., from ditto, for Portsmouth ; Colonel and Mrs. Wollaston, from Fladong's Hotel, Oxford -street, for Shenton Hall, Leicestershire ; Colonel Watson, from ditto, for Lincolnshire; Charles Coaney, Esq., from ditto, for the Continent; Messrs. De la Rive, from ditto, on a tour ; Lady Farnham, for Cowes, Isle of Wight ; Sir T. and Miss Gooch, from: the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Brighton; Earl of Enniskillen, for Farnham, Surrey; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Foord Bowes, from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Hoper, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for their seat in Suffolk ; W. Dodd, Esq., and the Misses Smith, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for Chichester; Mr. and Mrs. Sloane Stanley, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for their seat, Cranbury Park, near Winchester ; the Warden of All Soul's College, Oxford, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Lisle Follett, from ditto, for Malvern Wells ; Hon. C. F. Stuart, for his seat, Erskine House, N.B. ; Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Massingberg, for their seat, Ormsby Hall, Lincolnshire; Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Bucks, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for their seat, Moreton, Devonshire; Mr. and Mrs. Tuffnell, from ditto, for Essex ; Sir Henry Fane, Bart., from ditto, for Lincolnshire ; Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Grantley Berkeley, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Harrold Hall ; J. and F. Horner, from ditto, for the Continent. VICTORIA THEATRE. Miss Mitford's long-deferred tragedy of Charles the First was brought out at this theatre for the first time last night. Why the Lord Chamberlain, or that man of astringent virtue, Mr. " George Colman, the Younger"—as he loves to intitule himself, from the circumstance, we presume, of his being far advanced in his second childhood—should so long have put a veto on the performance of this drama, we cannot for the life of us make out. Throughout, it enlists the sympathies of the audience on the side of Charles , taking Hume as its guide, who we need not assure our readers, is a zealous partizan of the Stuarts. Not one passage—nay, not one single sentence is there that can in the slightest degree wound the feelings of the loyal—unless, indeed, we except a random remark let fall by Cromwell, to the effect, that there shall be no more kings in England—a hint which the audience received not without dissatisfaction. The main fault we find with the play is, that it falsifies history in its two leading characters. Charles is too favourably, Cromwell too unfavourably, drawn. Miss Mitford has gone to Hume for the former, and, as a matter of justice and fair play, she should have gone to Godwin for the latter. Charles was by no means the high-principled, patriotic, chivalrous monarch she has represented him to be. He had certainly many good qualities; he was amiable, accomplished, a good father, and a good husband—we were going to add, a good friend, but when we think of the fate of Wentworth, we must deny him this praise—but he was insincere, capri cious, and with a strong leaning to despotism, which was only kept from bursting out into absolute ferocity, by the gentle nature of his disposition. He would have been the best of all possible Kings, if his subjects would have only allowed him to have his own way. He would have loved them to distraction, if they would but have permitted themselves to be taxed up to the chin. He asked little or nothing of them. All he desired was their cash, and their unhesitating submission. The charac ter of Charles may be summed up in a word. He was not to be trusted. He played false, alternately, with both parties —his own and the republican. But for this vacillation and in sincerity, he would never have perished on a scaffold. It was his own weakness of character that lent its chief strength to Cromwell. It is now, we believe, pretty generally known that the stern soldier would have saved his monarch, but at the very moment when both parties were negotiating an amicable adjustment, Cromwell found out that Charles was busy tam pering with the Royalists against him. From this hour, the half-betrayed republican resolved on his death. It was a sad necessity, but we know not how it could have been otherwise. The whole dynasty of the Stuarts seem alike to have been tainted with the grossest insincerity. There was a certain something in their nature especially abhorrent to that manly frankness and love of plain dealing that marks the English character. Experience, which is the best wisdom, was wholly lost on them". From the first, down to the last James, they proved a curse to the kingdom they misgoverned. It is not a little curious, that the very same double dealing which brought Charles I. to the block, brought Louis the X V Ith to the guillotine. The Republicans would have saved the one, as the Girondists would have saved the other, but both parties felt equally that neither monarch was to be trusted. We have hazarded these few remarks, merely to show that throughout her tragedy Miss Mitford—for praise-worthy reasons, no doubt—has taken an ex parte, an ultra-Tory view of history. Her Cromwell is a failure, not from any lack of energy, or acuteness of ap prehension, but because she has made him a regicide from volition, whereas he was one from necessity. True, he might have saved the King—even after his condemnation—but then that act would eventually have insured his own destruction, if not from the Royalist, at any rate from the'Republican party. In every other respect, Miss Mitford's Cromwell is a well conceived character. It has vigour worthy of the most masculine intellect. The struggles between the stern fanatic's sense of hu manity and his devouring thirst for self- aggrandisement—his by-touches of remorse--his fierce breakings-out of enthusiasm— and his strongly-felt consciousness that he was at best but an agent in the hands of destiny—a conviction by:which all bis ac tions were regulated, and which reconciled him to his wildest projects;—all these broad and subtle traits of character were drawn out and anatomized by Miss Mitford with a force, a distinctness, a minuteness and precision of purpose, which prove that the profoundest secrets of the heart are to her no mystery. She has probed Cromwell to the quick—sounded all the depths and shallows of his mind. With consummate art, too, she has kept under, and sobered down, his well-known love of fanatical display ; and though with perfect truth and keeping she might have made it prominent, yet she has wisely consulted the taste and temper of the day, and borne in mind, that to a large portion of her audience, the puritanism of Cromwell would have been unintelligible. Mr. Cathcart played this very . difficult character with marked skill and felicity. He is an extremely chaste actor, though not without energy, intelligent, and fond of his art. He avoided many temptations to rant—even though he, must have felt that by so doing, he could have drawn down the thunder of the galleries on his head. His'voice is melodious, but not strong. Its under-tones are remarkable for their distinctness and Impressiveness. In the earlier parts of the play he was somewhat tame, but he nobly redeemed himself when it began to stir and move forward, which is not till the third act. Occasionally we detected a slight imitation of Kean's mannerism, but it was not the imita tion of a mere servile mimic, but of a clever and zealous admirer. We cannot say much for Mrs. Fisher's Henrietta. It wanted almost every thing it should have possessed, grace, feeling, and dignity. The lady, however, did her best ; but she should look more to the intellect, than to the clap-trap of a character. By-the-bye, this part, so far from assisting, only obstructs the progress of the play. It is a drag-chain on its wheels of action. Abbott's Charles was judicious and impressive, but there was too much " sawing of the air" with his hands. His de livery was better than his gesticulation, which was redundant throughout. He was attired after the fashion of Vandyke's portrait, even to the wearing of the hair, and looked Charles to admiration. The last act was the best. :It had more vigour and action than all the rest put together, and might have justly ended with the King's entrance on the scaffold, except that in that case we should have lost the striking grouping in the last scene, where the tolling of the Abbey bell announces the wind-up of the catastrophe. The tragedy is beautifully and carefully written—luxuriant in some, parts—in others ap proaching quite to a puritanical simplicity. We cannot help observing, that a few pretty Della-crusca touches of poetry, about buds and flowers, and so forth, were put into the mouth of Charles's daughter (a child only ten years old), quite con trary to all truth and propriety of character. On the whole, the play was well received, well sustained, and well got up. A spirited prologue, full of thought and poetry, was spoken_ and, we believe, written also--by that very intelligent actor, Mr. Serie. By-the-bye, what is this gentleman about ? He must not be idle. The drama cannot afford to lose him. As Captain Lindsey, a gentleman residing at Ken sington Gravel-pits, was bathing yesterday morning in the Serpentine-river, a man stole his coat and waistcoat, in the pocket of which was a valuable watch and gold chain. Capt. Lindsey saw the fellow take the Coat and waistcoat, but, being in the middle of the river, he could not get out to stop him. EUROPEAN COLONIES.—Mr. Howison the au thor of this work, is favourably known by his " Sketches of Up periCanada," and by another publication on Colonial Life,:whose pleasant impressions we remember. After a silence of some years, he again comes before the public, with a more exten sive personal experience, greater information, a much larg er field, and a higher aim. In clearness of delineation, graphic effect, and light brilliancy of touch, he is equal to the best writers of the day. Mr. Howisou does not give a measure ment of the height of mountains, a genealogical analysis of the various soils, or any other of the specific details which are classed by the geographer under the head of physical, but something much more agreeable to read — a portraiture of the land and sea, as they appear to a keen observer and lover of the picturesque, and who finds that the dreary expanse of the Great Sahara, or the unrivalled sterility of the Karroo, is not barren, at least, of interest. According to our author's ex ample, there are better, or, at all events, pleasanter modes of exhibitifig the social and moral condition of colonists, than tables of imports, exports, Br,c. "...Spectator. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1834. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL RACES—JuIy 2. The Croxteth Stakes of 15 sous each, and 30 added. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Mostyn's b f Queen Bess, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ...(Lye) 1 Mr. Giffard's b h Perseverance, aged, 9st Colonel Crawford's nd The Mystery, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b 3 The following were not placed :—Caractacus, 6 yrs, 9st ; Syren, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ; Prince Llewellyn, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ; Despot, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ; and Stenton, 5 yrs, Bst 61b. Betting-5 to 2 agst Prince Llewellyn ;sto 2 agst Persever ance ; and 6to 1 agst Despot. Won easy. Produce Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft. Two miles. Twelve subs. Lord Wilton's br cby Camel—Arachne (Templeman) 1 Mr. Charlton's The Tulip, by Wamba Sir It. Bulkeley's by Peter Lely—Mrs. Suggs Sir G. Pigot's ch f, by Whisker—Sunflower 6 to 4 agst the Tulip ; and 7 to 4 agst Arachne. Won easy. Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, and 30 added, for 2-yr olds. T. Y. C. 19 subs. Lord Derby's Verbena, by Velocipede (Lye) 1 Mr. T. Johnson's Jupiter, by Langar 2 M. Houldsworth's Hectic 3 The following also started : —Mr. Watt's ch f by Velocipede, Sir G. Pigott's Altamont, Sir T. Stanley's Peter Simple, Mr. Bower's Bucephalus, Mr. Turner's Equator, Mr. Attwood's Calista, Mr. E. Feel's Profligate, Colonel Crawford's Freckle, and Mr. romp ton's The Stag. 6to 4 agst Verbena, 7to '2 agst Jupiter, and 4to 1 agst Watt's. Won easy. A Maiden Plate of 80 sovs was won in two heats by Mr. Houlds worth's Forester, beating Tom Jones, Rifleman, and four others. Cup Betting-5 to 2 agst Chancellor, 7to 2 agst Physician, 6to 1 agst Giovanni, 9to 1 agst Dancing-master, 10 to 1 agst David, 10 to 1 agst Satan, 12 to 1 agst Catharina; 14 to 1 agst Fitzdictor, 17 to 1 agst Inheritor, 17 to 1 agst Sir Grey, and 15 to 1 agst Rust. St. Leger-5 to 2 agst Chasse, 3to 1 agst Mr. Powlett's, and 7 to 2 agst Bellinge. Cocking—Lord Derby is four battles a-head of General Yates. A beautiful tesselated pavement was a few days ago uncovered by some workmen at Meux, in Holderness, which was doubtless formerly the floor of the abbey church. It was taken up on Thursday. The following conversation is literally true : it was overheard this morning. A maid-servant in the Finsbury district asked a cat's-meat-man at the door, if he had voted for Mr. Wakley? "No," he replied, with an air of insulted dig nity—" its only the lower borders wot woted for Wakley !" The result has shown, therefore, that in Finsbury at least, democracy is at a discount.—Morning Post. A dreadful accident occurred in the neighbourhood of Cambridge on Saturday. Four unhappy men working in a chalk-pit were crushed to death by the falling-in of an immense mass. Three of them were working together, and were crushed to atoms ; their remains could not be distinguished, and they were buried in one common grave. The fourth survived some little time. The Coroner's inquest returned a verdict of " Ac cidental death."—Stamford News.. It appears from the last report of the Societe de la Charite Maternelle, that in 1833 there were received into the Foundling Hoipital 4,803 children, of which 1,751 came from the Lying-in Hospital, and 281 from other hospitals. In the total number only 478 were indicated as legitimate. Of these, 1,259 died in the hospital before they could be put out to nurse. The Sociite Maternelle afforded relief in 1833 to 713 mothers of families.— Galignani. A few days ago the piecers in one of the Oldham cotton mills struck work for an advance of wages. Their ages are from ten to fourteen ; but such is the extraordinary precocity of these little operatives in matters of business, that a meeting of their important body was called to take place at a beershop, a chairman and Secretary were ap pointed, and a copy of the resolutions ordered to be furnished to their employers. The circumstance at first bore an alarming aspect, but the momentous affair was at length com promised, and all is quiet again in Oldham.—Bolton Chronicle. Bell's Life in London of yesterday, June 29, price Sevenpence, is reprinted, will be kept on sale, and may be had (franks gratis) at the office, No. 170, Strand. Belts Life in London published the most full and copious Ifitticulars of the contests between Dutch Sam and Tom Gaynor, Swift and Noon, at Andover, to the extent of four folio columns, Coroner's Inquest; and every particular interesting to the Amateur. An Edition of Bell's Life in London, for the country, is regularly published early every Saturday After noon, which may be had within 200 miles of London on Sun day. All Sporting events of interest are accurately published in Bell's Life in London, a file of which is recommended for useful reference.—( Advertisement.) SOMETHING NEW.—An agricultural friend has related to us the following :—He has observed, for some weeks, that two of his cows gave but very small quantities of milk in the mornings, at night they gave the usual quantity, but in the morning it was not unfrequent for them to withhold it altoge ther. He could not account for it, but was satisfied they must have been milked, vet, with all his precaution, he could not discover the offender. Yet the evil continued—until a few days since, when it was discovered that a couple of good-sized hogs were stationed, one on each side of the cows, "playing the part of the calf" with much self-complacency. The cows and hogs had been kept at night in the barn-yard together, and it appeared that the grunters had so far ingratiated them selves into the good graces of the cows as thus to be indulged with the first milking.—Auburn Journal (America.) TILE ALMSHOUSE BOY.—A youth, who was brought up at the almshouse, was lately taken into the family of Mrs. in Pearl-street, to run errands. The first day he became an inmate of her house, the following dialogue passed between them Are you not sorry, my dear," said Mrs. —, " to leave home ?" " No," answered he, " I don't care." "Is there not somebody at ome whom you are sorry to leave ?" resumed she. " No," replied the boy, " I .am not sorry to leave anybody." " What, not those who are good to you?" rejoined she. " Nobody ever was good to me," said the boy. Mrs. which strongly painted his helpless lot, and the cold indiffer ence of the world. The tear stood in her eye. "My poor little fellow," said she, after a short pause, " was nobody ever good to you—have you no friend, my dear ?" " No, for old dusty Bob, the ragman, died last week." " And was he your friend ?" " Yes, that he was," replied the boy, "he once gave me a piece of gingerbread."—New York Sun. EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE IN A BOY.-011 Tuesday afternoon, as two young m en were b a thi ng i n th e River a little below Greenwich, one of them named Mebbery, who was unable to swim, was carried out of his depth by the strength of the tide. Some lads belongi ng to the Hospital, who were on the bank at a short distance from the 'spot, and who witnessed the circumstances, seeing the man struggling in the water, considered, as one of them has since observed, " that he was trying something." The calls of his companion for help, however, induced them to run up to his assistance, when one of the boys, John Felstead, of the lower school, gal lantly leaped into the water without even waiting to take off his shoes, and swam to the spot where the poor fellow was sinking. The boy caught him by the hair with one hand, and supported himself for several minutes by swimming with the other. He was at length obliged to let go his hold, and the man sunk ; upon rising again the boy caught hold of him by the arm, and held him until a boat came to their assistance, into which they were both taken, the man almost in a state of insensibility, and the boy greatly exhausted, having been in the water nearly a quarter of an hour. When they were landed Mebbery offered the lad money, which he refused to accept, walking away as quietly as if nothing had happened. The noble conduct of Felstead` has heed communicated to the Royal Humane Society.—Greenwich Gazette. CHARMING OF ASNAKE.—III the morning of the 3d of December we awoke early, when , I was much sur prised by my friend, Lieutenant Baillie, calling out, " A snake a snake look at the snake !" We all stared at him, lying in his hammock, and, to our astonishment, beheld a mon strous serpent twisted round the rope which supported his hammock, with its head at some distance above my friend's, darting out its forked tongue, and examining him as he lay stretched below. " Lie still," cried the fiscal, "he won't hurt you ;" and calling in two or three of the natives, he pointed it out to them. One of these men advancing towards it, caught its eye with his own ; the animal now appeared to move its whole body with fear or pleasure. The native step ped backwards, without turning the sight of his eye from the fierce orbit of his enemy ; and, as he kept backing, the snake, with his head steadily advancing, gradually uncoiled his body from the rope round which it was entwined. At length his whole body, trailing on the ground, moved slowly along after this coloured man—eye fixed upon eye--until a youth, making a dash from behind a bush, in an instant flattened the head of this:dangerous monster with one blow of his club ; and al though the body still undulated like the waves of the sea, it was now perfectly harmless, not being able to seize with its mouth. They immediately hauled him up to the branch of a tree, and, as our cooks in Europe serve an eel, they skinned him whilst the poor animal was writhing in the agonies of pain. This snake was called the Libare, and measured 19 feet and a half in length.—Colonel St. Clair's Residence in the West Indies On Wednesday last an inquest was held before Mr. Rutter, on the remains of John Chrichley, 22 years of age, who died under the following circumstances :—lt ap pears that the father of the deceased, a draper in Shudehill, corner of Smithfield-market, died about twelve months ago, leaving him executor, with the sole control of the property. He immediately launched forth into the most extravagant habits of dissipation, which continued henceforth to his death. On the 14th of June he left home, and did not return until the 24th. He then sent for a next-door neighbour, and told him that, he was a dying man ; that he, the neighbour, must make his will for him, but that all his money was gone. The person fearing that the wretched youth had taken some fatal drug, sent for Mr. Guest, who prescribed a quantity of green tea, of which the deceased was to partake solely until three or four o'clock the next morning. The deceased heard this direction, and refused to follow it, saying he would have none of their chamomile. Mr. Guest went away, and in a short time afterwards the deceased called the neighbour up stairs, saying he supposed he (the neighbour) did not think he had courage to do it. The latter hastened to the spot, and found two empty phials on the table, which had been placed there during his absence, and each of which had contained lauda num. Mr. Guest was again sent for, and the stomach-pump applied, but without effect ; and the wretched young man continued for sever a l h ours in 'a state of delirium, uttering the most awful lang,Age, when death put an end to his ravings. During his lue',d inte rva l s , h e s t ate d t h at h e h a d b ee n staying at a brothel in, Bo( th-street, and had been kicked out when his money ',vas gor e. The keepers of the house in question, named '‘,.- 7 torgan, wi re yesterday brought up in the New Bailey, iin °'lder to find bs il to answer a charge of keeping a disorderly . .souse at the sess'ons. A coroner's jury found 'a verdict of— I" Temporary in: anity." The deceased has left two sisters. - Manchester Adt ertiser. HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE. His Majesty held a levee, yesterday afternoon, at the Palace, al St. James's. The King gave audiences to the Prince of Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, to deliver his letter of recall ; and Mons. de Gersdorff, the Minister resident from the King of Saxony, to take leave, on going to Germany for three months. Their Excellencies were in troduced by Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the Ceremonies. _ _ In the closet, Mr. Hamilton Hamilton, his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United provincei of Rio de la Plata, to take leave, was presented by Viscount Palmerston. At the levee, M. Achart, Attaché to the Belgic Legation, and the Major FieldoTp, were presented to the King, by M. Van de Weyer, the Belgic Minister. Mr. Alexander Turnbull, his Majesty's Consul at Marseilles, was presented, on his arrival in England, on leave of absence, by Viscount Palmerston. Mr. Abercromby was presented, on appointment as Master of the Mint, by . Lord Althorp. r Captain Byng, M.P., on his appointment as a Lord of the Trea sury, by Earl Grey. Sir John Sinclair, to present a vindication of the Church of Eng land, by his son, the Rev. John Sinclair. At the entre levee, there were present, his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, the Russian and French Ambassadors, the Sardinian, Neapolitan, Prussian, Belgic, Danish, Bavarian, Portuguese, Greek, Spanish, and Saxon Ministers; the Austrian, United States, and Swedish Charges d'Affaires ; M. Wallez, Coun cillor to the Belgic Legation, the Secretary to the Danish Legation, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Groom of the Stole, the Commander of the Forces, Viscount Combermere ( Gold Stick in Waiting), the Captain of his Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Master General of the Ordnance, the Vice Chamberlain, the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, the Trea surer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the Master of the Ceremonies, the Master of the Robes, Sir Wathen Waller (extra Groom in Waiting), the Dean of Here ford (Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting and Chaplain to the Queen), Colonels Sir Chas. Thornton and Wynyard (Aides-de- Camp to the King). At the general levee were : DuKE—of Beaufort. • Ma aQuEssEs—Lothian, Westminster. EA Rts—Digby, Grosvenor, Aboyne, Gosford, How, Brownlow, Abingdon, Cawdor, Westmoreland, Warwick, Darlington, Morley, Denbigh. Visc o u xr,-Comberm ere. LORDS—De Tabley, Dynevor, Delamere, :Stormont, Skelmers dale, Farnborough, Adolphus Fitzclarence, Rolle. HONOtTRABLES—Lieut.-Colonel Fane, Colonel Parker. Sifts—Alan Bellingham, John Sinclair, Wathen Waller, B. Codrington. Rev. DOCTOR—Thackeray. REV. MEssiEnas—John Sinclair, Evelyn L.. Sutton, B. Bray. MEsstE trus—Tatton, Egerton, Donovan, Wilkie, R. A., Tur guand, Abercrombie, Alexander Turnbull, Hamilton Hamilton, Chichester, M.P., Stayner, Bothwick, R. Collins, Forster, M.P., Edward Candler, Young, Osborn, Welby, Bason, Turnbull, Mon tagu, Parker, Dymoke. ADMIRALS—Sir Charles Rowley, Sir Robert Otway. GENERALS—Sir D. Gilmour, O'Loghlin, Sir J. Fraser, Sir J. Macleod, Dyott, Sir A. Hope. CAPTAINS, R.N.—Aaron Chapman, Pelly, Daniel Stephenson, James Young (Trinity-house); Hon. H. Duncan, George Hope Johnstone, Sir W. G. Parker, Bart., T. Dickinson, Sir H. Pigot, C. H. Watson, J. H. Tait. COLONELS—Gore Langton, Sir J. Harvey, A.D. C.K., Daube nay, Power, Nicol, Horton, Rawdon, Mason, G. E. Jones, Tayler, Reeves, Lord Dufferin, Hon. G. R. Trever, Histed, Spink, Sir H. Wyatt, M. Fraser. COMMANDERS, R.N.—Aldridge, Sinclair, Hawkins, Carleton, Codrington, G. Dixon. MAJOR—Fancourt. LIEUTENANTS, R.N.—H. J. Harvey, Daeres. CAPTAINS—Byng, M.P., W. W. Congreve, Reeves, Lott, Wise, Fellowes. Liitrxxxarrrs--Fitz Patrick, W. F. Beatson, Welby, J. Find ley, Hon. F. Villiers. E 1G w—Ring. The following presented addresses and petitions to his Majesty : The Archbishop of Canterbury: From the clergy of the deanery of Sarum, expressing deep gratitude for his Majesty's determina tion to support the Established Church. Also, from the clergy of the deanery of Mursley, in the diocese of Lincoln, humbly praying his Majesty to discountenance any measure for the admission of Dissenters into the Universities. The Earl of Abingdon: From the rector and inhabitants of Tylehurst, in the county of Berks, declaring their attachment to his Majesty's Roy . al person, and expressive of their gratitude for his Majesty's determination to maintain the Protestant Church in violate, as by law established. And a petition from the rector and inhabitants of Erbistock, in the diocese of St. Asaph, praying his Majesty to maintain the union of Church and State. Viscount Combermere : From the magistrates, clergy, and other inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Knutsford, in the county of Chester, thanking his Majesty for his gracious declaration in support of the Establishment of the Church of England and Ireland, as expressed in his Majesty's answer to the archbishops and bishops who presented an address to his Majesty on his late birthday. Earl Howe : From the archdeacon and clergy of the deanery of Leicester : the mayor and corporation of Leicester ; the inhabitants of Leicester and its vicinity ; the parish of St. Nicholas, in Lei cester ; the parish of North and South Kilworth ; the town of Atherston, county of Warwick ; and the hundred of Hinckfad, in the county of Essex, expressing gratitude to his Majesty for his gracious declaration in favour of the Established Church. The Earl of Digby : Several addresses from the county of Dor set, signed by I 1,927 individuals, thanking his Majesty for his gra cious declaration about the Established Church ; and from the parishes of Ashill, Broadway, and lltor, in the county of Somerset, thanking his Majesty for his gracious declaration about the Estab lished Church. Earl Brownlow : From the Warden and Corporation of Lowth, in Lincolnshire, with the inhabitants of that town and neighbour hood, expressing their gratitude to his Majesty for his late gracious declaration in support of the Established Church. A similar ad dress from the inhabitants of Sleaford in Lincolnshire. Earl of Warwick : From the inhabitants of Wooten Warren, Henley-in-Arden, Arden, Beasley, and Underhall, in the county of Warwick, thanking his Majesty for his declaration of support to the Established Church. . -- Earl of Westmoreland : From Kettering and Wellingham, county of Northampton, thanking his Majesty for his gracious speech to the bishops. Earl of Darlington : From Shifnal, county of Salop. Lord Delamere From Middlewich, Devenham, and Great Bud worth. Lord Dynevor ; From the town of Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. Lord Stormont : From the Mayor and Corporation of the city of Norwich, in favour of the Established Church, and against the ad mission of Dissenters to the Universities. Mr. Chichester, M.P. : From the Mayor and Corporation of Barnstaple, thanking his Majesty for his gracious declaration in favour of the Established Church. Addresses to the same effect were presented from Challacombe and Newport, Devonshire ; Chelwood, Somerset ; six parishes in Norfolk ; Wooten Warren, Henley-in-Arden, and Underhill, 'W a rwick ; Dean and Chapter of Gloucester ; Archdeacon and Clergy of the Forest of Dean ; Stroud, Stow, and Eastington, Gloucester ; Bath ; Newton Abbot, Woodlands Hennock, &c. The followin g gent l emen were presen t e d t o his Majesty : Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Fane, 34th regiment, on his pro- motion. Lieutenant H. J. Harvey, R.N., on his promotion, by Col. Sir John Harvey, K.C.H. Rev. Dr. Thackeray, Provost of King's College, by Earl Howe. Capt. Wise, Warwickshire Yeomanry, by the Earl of Warwick. Mr. Edward Candler, on being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Northampton, by the Earl of Westmoreland. c on 4iander Hawkins, on paying off the Raleigh, and return from the Mediterranean, by Lord Auckland. Captain'Reeves, 99th• Rcgt., on going on foreign service, by Isis father, Colonel Reeves. Captain W—Congreve, King's own Dragoons, by Lieutenant- Colonel Stisted. Mr. Young, Commissary of the Field Train of Artillery, on pro motion, by Major-General Millar. Mr. Fester, M.P., Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire, by the Right Honourable E. I. Littleton. Mr. Stayner, Deputy Post-master General of the Canadas, on re turning to Quebec, by his Grace the Duke of Richmond. Lieut.-General O'Loghlin, to take leave on going abroad. Commander Sinclair, R.N., by Lord Auckland. Lieut.-Colonel Rawdon, Coldstream Guards, on promotion, by Colonel M'Kinnon. Commander Aldridge, on promotion, by Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence. Mi.Bothwick, by Sir B. Codrington. Lieut. Dacres, Royal George yacht, by Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence. Commissary-Gen. Farquhar, by Lord Viscount Combermere. Mr. Montagu Parker, by the Earl of Morley. Captain Lott, East Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, on going abroad, by Lord Rolle. Mr. Robert Collins, by the Earl of Kinnoul. Captain Sir William G. Parker, Bart., R.N., by Lieut.-General Sir H. Taylor, G. C. B. Colonel Nicol, 66th Regiment, on being appointed a Companion of the Bath, and on his return to Canada, by General Lord Hill. Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Jones, R. A., on promotion, and attain ing the command of the 89th Regt., by . General Lord Hill. Lieut.-Colonel Haughton, on his appointment to the 15th Regt., by Lieut.-General Sir J. Kempt, Master General of the Ordnance. Lieut. Webey, by Lord Howard of Effingham. Lieut.-Colonel Power, R.A., on appointment to the command of the Royal Artillery, in the Mauritius, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Commander ~Codrington, on appointment to his Majesty's ship Orestes, by Lord Auckland. Lieutenant W. F. Beatson, by the Earl of Rosslyn. Lieutenant F. Villiers, on return from abroad. Ensign King, on return from the West Indies, by Colonel Findlay. Lord Byron and the Hon. Captain G. Campbell, R.N., were the Lordand Groom in Waiting. His Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers present at the Levee. In consequence of the report of the Committee of the Privy Council, to consider certain petitions concerning the removal of the Assizes, it was ordered that., for the future, Assizes should be held at Swansea and Cardiff, instead of at Cardiff alone, as heretofore. A decision of the Judicial Committee of the . Privy Council, re lating to an allowance for salvage, and two decisions of the same Committee respecting French claims, were approved of by his Ma jesty in Council. The Honourable William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The King gave audiences to Earl Grey, Viscount Palmerston, the Marquis of Winchester, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Adolphus Fteclarenee, the Hon. Captain George Campbell, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, Sir James Kempt. The Prince de Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, had an audience of the Queen yesterday, to take leave. His Excellency was intro duced by the Earl of Denbigh, her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The King had a small dinner party last evening at St. James's. There were present to meet their Majesties their Royal Highnesses the Princess Augusta (attended by Miss Wynyard), and Prince George of Cambridge (and his preceptor, the Rev. Mr. Wood), Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, and the Princess Lieven ; Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister ; the Baroness D'Ompteda, the Lady of the Hanoverian Minister ; Mons. de Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister ; the Dukes of Devonshire and Argyle ' • the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe and Brownlow ; the Countep Brownl4w, Lord and Lady William Russell, Lady Clinton, and the _Right Honourable Sir William Fremantle. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Marquis of Salisbury with his company at dinner on Tuesday evening, at his residence in Grafton-street. The Dukes of Cumberland and Sussex, the Duchess of Glouces ter, and the Princess Sophia, visited their Majesties yesterday. The Duke of Saxe Meiningen honoured the performance of The Siege of Corinth, at the King's Theatre, on Tuesday evening, with his present. FINSBURY ELECTION. It having been announced at the close of the election that the final state of the poll would be officially declared from the hustings at Islington-green, yesterday, at one o'clock, by Mr. Hollingsworth, the returning officer, an immense crowd of persons assembled on the green, and surrounded the hustings long before the hour appointed, and the greatest satisfaction appeared to pervade all classes (except the immediate friends and supporters of the defeated Tory candidate) at the result of a contest which has relieved the borough of Finsbury from the disgrace of having elected a representative whose political opinions and principles, whatever might be his private worth, were obnoxious to the great body of the electors of that im portant metropolitan borough. Soon after one o'clock, Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Babbage, and Mr. Wakley appeared upon the hustings, surrounded by their respective friends, and Mr. Pownall arrived shortly after. Mr. HowNoswoaTii, the returning officer, then declared that Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., was duly elected member of Parliament for the borongh of Finsbury. (Loud and general applause.) Mr. DUNCOMBE then came forward and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering. He would not congratulate them on the victory they had gained over Tory influence, if he did not feel that the means by which that victory was obtained would bear the strictest scrutiny. (Cheers.) According to the statement made by the returning officer, he had a majority of 599 votes above his Tory opponent ; and he had no hesita tion in saying that, had the poll been left open for an hour longer, he should have polled 300 votes more. But his majo rity would have been greater still had it not been that, at two o'clock, when the Tory cause was on the decline, Mr. Pownall's committee insisted on putting the bribery oath to those electors who came to vote in his (Mr. Duncombe's) favour. ( Cries of " Shame, shame !") He could not see why so great an insult should be offered to the independent electors of Finsbury. (Great confusion, in the midst of which Mr. Pownall was un derstood to deny the statement.) It was useless to deny the fact, for when he questioned the returning officer upon the subject, and asked him why the bribery oath was administered, he said that he was desired, on the part of Mr. Pownall's com mittee that the oath should be put. ( Renewed confusion, and cries of " No, no.") The statement was contradicted, but the returning officer, who was present, bore him out in his asser tion, and furnished him with the names of the parties who, on the part of - Mr. Pownall, had thus insulted the electors of Fins bury. (" Name them, name them.") The hon. member then retired, and was loudly and generally cheered. Mr. POWNALL then came forward, amidst a storm of groans and cries of " hear, hear, " and " fair play." -.He declared that as far as he was personally concerned, he had. nothing to com plain of on the present occasion, nor did he intend to have ad dressed the electors again, if it had not been for a statement which the hon. gentleman, now the member for Finsbury, had just made with regard to the bribery oath. He could assure the electors that if any persons on his behalf had required the administration of that oath the circumstance was not known to his central committee, and he would further assure them, on his honour as a man and a Christian, that the first time he had heard such a statement was from the hon. member himself. (Applause.) So far from his requiring that the bribery oath should be put, he had himself written on Saturday last to the returning officer to say that he had too good an opinion of the electors of Finsbury to require such a test. The hon. gentle man, on retiring, was loudly applauded. Mr. WAKLET then ascended the hustings, and was greeted with deafening shouts of applause from the surrounding crowd. The attacks he had made on Mr. Duncombe's public conduct, and he now regretted that he should have had occasion to at tack such a man, for, although his political opinions did not go quite so far as his own, he still believed that the man who was now their member had some good stuff in him. (Cheers.) Mr. Duncombe had promised to do his duty in Parliament, and he believed that he was too honest to break his word; and as long as he continued t o act for the good of the people he should have his humble but hearty support. (" Bravo, Wakley.") He wished now to call the attention of the elec tors to a subject of great importance, in which their future in dependence was concerned. How did it happen, he would ask, that out of a population of 220,000 inhabitants, which the borough of Finsbury contained, 9,200 only had a right to vote ? (" Shame 1 shame I") He contended, that by virtue of the qualification clause in the Reform Act 30,000 electors would have the right of voting if they would only take the proper means of asserting that right. The simple duty which they had to perform was, to pay their rates and taxes between the sth of April and the 20th of July following : and he would further tell them, that hundreds and thousands throughout the country could exercise the right of voting without any reference whatever to the Reform Act at all ; for what did it say ?—that the present occupiers of premises of the yearly value of 101. might vote in the election for members of parliament : • so that, a lodger who paid but 4s. a week for the apartments which he occupied would have the right of voting. For example : sup pose a man paid 401. a-year for his house, and that he had three lodgers, each of whom paid 101. a-year for the apart ments which they occupied under him, those four persons would each be entitled to a vote, provided that the landlord had paid up his rates and tales within the period which the act prescribed, for if he had not done so, they would all be disqualified from voting. He implored the poorer inhabitants of the borough to look to their own interests, and by so doing they would have it in their power to elect whom they pleased. Mr. Wakley then referred to the Poor Law Bill, and said he was first prejudiced against Mr. Duncombe because he saw him surrounded by persons who were friendly to that most atrocious measure, which, if passed into a law, would for ever destroy the middling classes residing in the rural districts. He then took a review of the bill. Although a radical reformer to the fullest extent, he would never recommend the people to procure their righ's by violence, but he advised them at the same time not to be too patient. They should openly tell their members that they were not satisfied with their conduct;; and of this he was con vinced, that there never would be a thorough reform in Par liament so long as the bishops were allowed to sit and vote in the House of Lords. (" That's just it; you have hit it, Wakley.") Mr. BAnDAGE then came forward, and was very favourably received. He observed, that one reason for his appearing before the electors of Finsbury as a candidate, on the present occasion, was, that at the last election for the borough he had polled 2,300 votes, and before the commencement of this elec tion he received a requisition, signed by upwards of 600 electors, calling upon him to allow himself to be placed in nomination. He consented ; and he confessed that, on look ing to the poll, he was not a little surprised to find that of the 600 friends who had thus called upon him not more than two thirds had polled for him. ( Shame, shame.) There might be excuses however for their conduct under the circumstances of the election, but had those 600 gentlemen come forward and voted for him on the first day of the election, he might now have occupied the station which the hon. gentleman (Mr. Duncombe) filled. He attributed his defeat to the un founded rumours which had been circulated by the press that he had resigned the contest. He did not, however, make any charge against the press further than this, that a power which ought to defend the cause of truth and justice had been perverted-,in his- case. to party purposes. N6twithstanding his declaration to abide the issue of the contest, he had been asked by some gentlemen to resign (" Shame, shame !") but he told them he would .not. The only reason for his corning forward as a candidate for the honour of represent ing the borough was, that he considered he possessed some knowledge of arts and manufactures ; and he conceived that as a member of the House of Commons, he might be enabled to apply that knowledge for the benefit of the working classes whose interests he had always humbly but zealously advocated. ( Cheers. ) The thanks of the press are due to Mr. Hollingsworth for his exertions to procure accommodation for the reporters. The conduct of the police, too, was most praiseworthy. The Court of Directors of the East India Company have recommended the under-mentioned gentlemen to the Governor-General of India in Council as members of the law commission to be instituted under the provisions of the Act of the 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 85, sec. 53, viz. :—Wm. Hay Macnaghten, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service ; John M'Pherson Macleod, Esq., of the Madras ditto ' • George Wm. Anderson, Esq., of the Bombay ditto ; and Charles Hay Cameron, Esq. The Grand Shooting Match between Mr. Edge of Manchester, arid Mr. Groom of London, for 100 sovereigns, commenced this day, and will terminate to-morrow. The conditions are that each party have 25 birds per day. Great betting depends upon this event as the known abilities of the Metropolitan gun seems to carry the.bets. CHRISTIANIA, JUNE 19.—A lump of silver was obtained last week in the silver mines of Koningsburg which is perhaps the largest ever seen. It weighed 71 cwt., and is es timated at the value of 13,000 specie of dollars. The Zara Gazelle announces that in Hungary millions of beetles are devouring the crops and the foilage. To destroy them, smoke and othr means have been resorted to, but without success, as these experiments appear rather to make them come out of the ground than to exterminate them. The Grand Jury have had a very arduous duty to perform during: the Middlesex General Quarter Sessions, having found no less than ninety " true bills" against various prisoners in the calendar for Middlesex and the Old Bailey Sessions. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A YOUTH.— CORONER'S INQUEST. I ---Yesterday evening an Inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, before Thomas Stirling, Esq., to inquire touching the death of Samuel Fitzgerald, a lad aged only twelve years. Mr. Frederick Hatley, fishmonger, of Riding-house-lane, Maryle bone, deposed that the parents of the deceased resided in the same house. On Monday last, about two o'clock, witness was attending to his business, when his wife gave an alarm that the deceased was hanging in a room on the second floor. Wit ness ran up and found the father endeavouring to cut his son down from a peg behind the door. Witness took the knife and severed the handkerchief which suspended him. Mr. Elkins and another medical s entleman attended, and pro nounced life extinct. Jane Fitzgerald, a girl about fourteen, stated her father and mother were very kind 'to tbem. The jury returned a verdict " Thai. the deceased destroyed himself _ in a fit of-temporary meMarderingement. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 2. Lord ROLLE presented four petitions from parishes in the county of Devon for protection to the Established Church. _ _ The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions from Shrewsbury, and parishes in Derby, for the better obser vance of the Sabbath. He meant to say that the legislature of a Christian country was bound first to prevent, as, far as it could, any gross, notorious, or scandalous profanation of the Sabbath ; and, secondly, to afford to the lower classes of the community those opportunities of religiously observ ing that day which were necessary for their welfare on earth and salvation in the world to come. The petitioners were in favour of the bill now on their lordships" table waiting for a committee, but were opposed to certain clauses of it allowing travelling, the keeping open of public-houses, and labouring in various trades on the Sabbath. He had often given it as his opinion that unless the legislature could prevent the rich profaning the Sabbath in those points it would be very wrong to attempt putting any such restraint upon the poor. He had no doubt, however, that Sunday labouring and trading was carried on to a much greater extent than was necessary. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented peti tions for the better observance of the Sabbath, from Hythe, Folkstone, Sandling, Roverhead, and other places in Kent. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented petitions for protection to the Church, from Croydon, Whitchurch, and other places. BREACH OF. PRIVILEGE. On the motion of Lord WYNFORD, the order of the day for taking into consideration the petition of Mr. Bit tleston was read. Lord WYNFORD then moved that the petition itself be read, which having been done by the clerk, his lordship moved that the petitioner be brought .to the bar, repri manded by the Lord Chancellor, and discharged out of custody. The LORD CHANCELLOR put the question, That Thomas Bittleston having made his submission to that house by petition, be brought to the bar in custody of the Usher of the Black Rod, reprimanded, and discharged upon payment of his fees." The question having been carried in the affirmative, Mr. Bittleston was brought to the bar. The LORD CHANCELLOR having, according to the customary form in such cases, placed his hat on his head, delivered the following reprimand : " Thomas Bittleston—You have acknowledged that you are the publisher of a composition which this house has pronounced to be a gross violation of its privileges. " You have acknowledged that you had the superintendence and control over the paper in which that publication was made, that you could have prevented its insertion, or altered it, if you had thought fit. " You have since addressed a petition to this house, ex pressing your regret at the grave offence you had committed, and throwing yourself upon the mercy of this house, that in administering that justice which is due to itself and the King's subjects (for the privileges of this house are their privileges), it may be pleased to temper justice with mercy. " This house has listened to your prayer, and directed that you may be reprimanded at the bar, and ordered to be dis charged from the custody of their officer, upon payment of your fees. " If any other person except myself had been the subject of that violation of the privileges of this house which you have committed, I should dwell at greater length upon the unpa ralleled enormity of your offence. Nor am Ito be deterred from any false feeling of delicacy, from giving your offence its proper appellation, merely because I am the individual against whom has been hurled that insult which by this house has been deemed so gross a violation of its privileges. " It was an offence, not against the man, but against the office—not merely against a peer in his Parliamentary ca pacity, but in his judicial office—the highest that any of the King's subjects can exercise ; and if it had been allowed to pass without animadversion and due punishment there would have been an end of those high judicial functions which the members of this house, to the advantage of some twenty and odd millions of his Majesty's subjects inhabiting this kingdom, now exercise. " Nevertheless, enough has been said in reprobation of your offence ; and let neither you nor others who may chance to hear of this proceeding flatter yourselves that if the offence be repeated the lenity of your present punishment will be suf fered to form any the slightest precedent as to the measure of punishment hereafter. " You are directed to be discharged out of custody now upon payment of your fees." Mr. Bittleston then withdrew. Earl GREY moved that the reprimand just delivered by the Lord Chancellor be entered on the minutes. The motion was not put, as it seemed to be the opinion that it would be entered without motion to that effect. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, at a subsequent period of the evening, called their lordships' attention to the pre cedents, whereby it appeared a specific motion was neces sary. His lordship moved accordingly. POOR LAWS AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. BERNAL and others from the Commons brought up the Poor Laws Amendment Bill. Earl GREY moved that it be read a first time accor ding to the custom of their lordships' house as to bills coming from the Commons, After the bill had been read a first time he should propose that it be read a second time on Monday next. The Earl of MALMESBURY was sorry to trespass on their lordships at this early stage of the measure. He could not, however, allow the opportunity to pass without making some observations upon the late period of the session at which this important measure was brought up to them. They were now in the sixth month of their sitting, and they were now for the first time called upon to legislate upon a measure in its provisions and consequences, and the sweeping changes it was calculated to introduce in the framework of society, not less important than the Reform Bill itself, the consequences of which no man could estimate in importance or extent, or see the end of. He assured the noble earl op posite that he was actuated by no . party feelings,but he must protest against this bill being brought up in this shape. The objects of the measure might be divided into three, viz., re lief, settlement, and bastardy. The bill upon the first sub ject he knew very well must have originated in the other house ; but upon the other two subjects it would have been much better had bills relating to them been brought into their lordships' house, so that the two houses might be con currently legislating upon the question. If this had been done, they would not now be called upon, at this late - pe riod, to go through a bill• of such importance, contain ing not fewer than ninety clauses. (Hear, hear.) And how long had the House of Commons been en gaged upon this bill ? Since the 17th of April, the day on which it was introduced, being just seventy-six days. He supposed their candour would allow their lord ships as much time, and then they would be sitting there till September next. •,,At the'sametimethere . Were other bills of importance before their 'lordships. It would 'be far bet ter and wiser, and enly just.W•the rich and the pOor, to let the measure stand over 'to another session,ln order that their lordships may have time well to understand it, and obtain the opinion of persons throughout the-,countryprac tically conversant with_ tbe.various and important subjects embraced .by the measure. • The mal-administration of the. existing laws was the great evil of the pre sent system. But he knew that, attention having been turned to the subject, great improvements had taken place within the last two or three years, and these improvements should have time to extend to other parishes. If they pro ceeded to legislate hand over hand in this way they would do great mischief. A spirit of practical improvement was abroad : let it have time to work. The attendance of their lordships, he was sure, - could not be expected at that late period of the session. The noble earl proceeded to animad vert upon the various provisions of the bill. He particularly deprecated the bastardy clause, and appealed to their lord ships' feelings as men whether they would condemn the victim to all the pains of her offence, and let the more guilty seducer stalk abroad in security, and with perfect impunity. He did not mean to discuss the provisions of the measure, but he must say that he did not approve of any part of it. The chief object of the bill seemed to be the establishment of a central board of commissioners; who were to sit in secret conclave, and whose functions were destined to cut off entirely all that connexion and depen dence between the rich and the poor which had heretofore been held to be so beneficial to both classes. He hoped the noble earl would not press this bill upon them during the present session. Earl GREY said lie entirely agreed with the noble earl that this bill less than any other ought to be considered or treated as a party measure. His Majesty's Government had given a most careful and diligent attention to this sub ject, which was, as described by the noble earl, one of the most complicated and extensive bearing upon the interests of the people, and involving consequences of greater im port, perhaps, than any other measure brought before them in the present session. This being the true character of the bill, he hoped their lordships would be disposed fairly and fully to attend to its provisions without reference to its being proposed by his Majesty's government, b u t with re ference only to the merits of the bill itself. That such a bill required the most m ature deliberation he admitted, and he regretted that the bill had not been brought up earlier ; but he certainly thought they would not come unprepared to the discussion, considering the time that had been given for its co nsideration, and the period the able report of the commissioners, which had attracted such universal atten tion,and gone with so muc h l a b or i ous researc h i nto t h e u had bee n b e f ore t h e pu bli c. S t ill l ess cou ld h e think t they would come unprepared to the discussion when he considered how long and frequent and minute had been the discussions in the other House of Parliament on the subject, and .to which their lordships could not but have paid att en ti on . From these sources he had no doubt their _ lordships' labours, would be greatly facilitated. He could not, therefore, agree to postpone the consi-