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or ginally entertained on the subj( ct, had perished, sad that Government stood in the same position with respect to the question as at the commencement of the session, and that he could not hold out any expectation. on the part of the Government to introduce any measure v hick would produce those effects which were desirable, and which would alone justify , their interference in the matter. Under these circum stances, it wjas competent t 3 the Hon. Member for Ar• gyleshire tb move the second reading of his Bill on Wed 71esday next, when an opportunity . ould be afforded lief further discussion and reasoning on the subject. Ile therefore thought it would be inexpedient, particu larly as the question which had been put to him had Icon so carefully limited, to enter on the present ocea • • :•ion upon anything like argument on the subject. wevei, he Might be allowed to be explicit'," Ip.o,ix another point, namely, that it was the intention Oovernment to oppose the second reading of the Bill. Sir A. L. HAY wished to ask the Right 'Honourable Baronet, whether he had any ob jection to a motion requesting that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to lay the papers he had re ferred to upon the table of the House. _ _ . _ _ _ _ '6 it. JAMES GRAHAM said that he was not then prepared to answer the question of the lion. and Gal lant Member, as no notice had been given that such queloion would have been put. He would throw out a ..suggestion that the House should meet to-morrow, when the question might be discussed. Mr. FOX MAULE wished to ask the Hon. Member for Argyleshire (Mr.. Campbell) to bring forward the second reading of his Bill on the Scottish Church ques tion on Wednesday next. Mr. CAMPBELL said that he felt himself placed in a position of exceeding - ditfictaty. He could never have expected such an answer would have been given by the Right Hon. Baronet us they had heard that night. It was his intention to proceed with his Bill on Wednes day next, and lie trusted that Hon. Members would .attew - 1 that evening. —(Hear.) NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WALLACE gave notice, that on Tuesday, the 28th instant, he should move for certain returns of the ameunt of money transmitted through the Post-office. Mr. O'CON.NELL gave notice; that in Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Act, he should move a clause relative to Irish paupers residing in this country. NEWFOUNDLAND BILL. _ Mr. O'CONNELLwished to know whether the Noble L ,rd the Secretary for the Colonies would have any objection to postpone the second reading of the New foundland Bill until a petition from the Catholics of New foundland should have been printed. He understood that it tvvuld be printed in a few days. Lord STANLEY said that he had no objection to postpone the second reading of the Bill. Lord ELIOT gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move that the Drainage (Ireland) Bill be recom mitted to a Committee of the whole House. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice Llw.t on Monday next he should bring in . !t Bill to renew .Cite composition of assessed taxes. RAILWAYS BILL—ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Mr. GLADSTONE said that he rose to offer a sug gestion to the House relative to the period for discussing the Railways Bill in Committee. The measure was one of great importance, but at the same time, in the present press of busineSs, he apprehended that it could iwt for some time to come be discussed by the House, on any of the evenings usually appropriated to Government business. Ile would propose, therefore, that the House should meet at 12 o'clock to-morrow, for the purpose of entertaining the subject. Mr. hoped that the motion of the Right Honourable Gentleman would not be agreed to. — (Hear, hear.) If there was any urgency for going through the public business, why had not the House met last night? and who, he would ask, were the parties who took the trouble to turn Mem bers out of the House ? For his part he had made ar rangements which would prevent his attendance to morrow ; and he trusted that they would not meet upon the only idle day which Members had during the k. Mr. LABOUCHERE thought it would be extremely iitleunvenient to take the discussion to-morrow, as, doubt less many Honourable Members, who were anxious to take part in it, had made arrangements that would prevent theta lacing present. thought the best - course would be tip kt, it be understood that the House would sit on Sat.r.rdav week for the purpose of discussing the measure. 1 / 2 1r. GLADSTONE acceded to the proposition, and the subject dropped. The moti•=in that the House at its rising do adjourn to ALizida,y was then agreed to. NOTTINGHAM WRIT. Sir R. H. INGLIS--The Hon. Member glad that in thee case of Weymouth there was no compromise; and why, hfi asked, was not similar credit given to similar assertions of Hon. Members ?—(Hear, hear.) In 21 taes; in which allegations of bribery had been made, the petitions had been withdrawn, and all the boroughs so circumstanced stood on the same foot ing as the boroughs mentioned in the Hon. Member's Wits rassses Indemnity Bill. The point at issue was not whether the Hon. and Learned Member had a right to take six bo roughs and exclude twenty-one, but whether he had laid be fore the House a sufficient ground for excluding a portion of his fellow-subjects—who, by the Constitution, wete entitled to the elective franchise—from the eXercise of their rights.—( Hear. ) The Hon. Member might contend that the case did not rest upon his (Mr. Roebuck's) mere ipse dixit, because one of the Members had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and the other bad refused to answer his question. 1 his was another violent presumption of corrupt and guilty bribery: If the Hon. Member had lived in the days when persons were accused of witchcraft he would, no doubt, have proceeded on the same princi. ple on which theordeal of water was conducted: if the witches swam, they were considered guilty, and ordered to be take', out and burnt ; if they sank, they were considered innocent; in either case, they perished,—( Hear, hear.) If the Honour able Member for Nottingham had said, " I admit the com promise," the reply would have been, then you are guilty ; if, on the other handy as was the fact in the case of Sir John Hobhouse, he had refused to answer, his refusal would have been construed into an evidence of guilt.—( Hear, hear.) He 'could not but call the attention of the House to two or three of the statements contained in the petition. The petitioners stated that they had expected as a matter of course, and of law, that that House would, as soon as a vacancy occurred, have taken the necessary measures to fill up that vacancy, and to restore to the electoral body of Nottingham that right, that privilege, and that duty which the Constitution had vested in them ; but the petitioners said they believed that the writ bac been withheld by a resolution of one branch of the Legislature. He hoped that he would at all times treat that House with the respect which was due to its Members collectively and indi vidually ; but in the discharge the duty which had been de volved upon him by the petitioners, he could not but say that a permanent suspension of the writ, by the act of one branch of the Legislature, was, in his opinion, plainly and flagrantly unconstitutional. The parties to this petition were nearly a, numerous as those who voted at the last election; and these parties declared that they were neither parties to the corn• promise, nor to any of those corrupt practices which had been alleged by the Honourable Member for Bath. They stated, that in no other ca-e of a similar kind, had the writ been sus pended, except upon the report of a Select Committee, stating that the sitting Members or their agents, had been guilty o. bribery. The writ had been suspended, not by any order et tee House, but by what his Right Honourable Friend, the Member for Devonport, had called a tacit understanding. His Right Honourable Friend the First Lord of the Treasury had acknowledged fully, freely, and cheerfully, that the issue of the writ, was a right which ought not to be withheld except far a reasonable time, and for good cause shown. He would ask the House whether, en that day, the 11th of June, he has not a right to ask the House to direct the Speaker to take the necessary steps for issuing the writ? What was a reason able time could not be decided by statute ; it must depend upon the judgment and feeling of the Ho nourable Members who constituted that House.—( Hear. He felt that in moving that the writ do issue in this instance he was only asking for what any Hon. Member would fee himself inclined to ask under similar circumstances. The Hon. Gentleman coucluded, by moving that the Speaker do issue new writ for the election of a burgess to serve in Parliament, is the room of Sir G. G. de H. Lsrpent, who had accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. G. KNIGHT seconded the motion. It could not be denied that the issuing of the writ was the right of the borough except in a case of extreme necessity. It was no light matte to withhold the writ, and nothing but a case of the last neces. city could justify the doing so. Whatever sum of money hac been expended in the last election, not a shilling of it had beer spent in drinking or riot. The franchise of a borough was once considered a very great matter, and that House was sloe to entertain any motion of a destructive tendency ; but now i• was quite another thing; now, if the Simon Pure of the Hous e thought proper to get up in the most irregular and disorderly manner, and asked them to depart from their usual custom, they were to disfranchise six or seven boroughs. He thought if the House persisted in this course it would do anything but increase the respect in which it was viewed by the community. He seconded the motion for the issue of the writ. Mr. ROEBUCK said, he was sure the House would excuse him, if, after the manner in which his conduct had been allude, to, he should address to them a few words upon the present moti sn. He should first observe, that he could not account fns the censures of whi c h h e h a d been: the object. He had not asked for the suspension of the writ for Nottingham. The writ bad been suspended by a mere motion of that House, and witi the approbation of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government.—(Hear, hear.) He had never spoken upon the motion—he had never expressed an opinion upon the matter and therefore he did not see why he was to be appealed to—why he was to be assailed by the virtue of the Hon. Member Ito Oxford, and by the supereminent and sublime virtue of the Hon. Alember fer Nottinghamshire (Mr. G. Knight). The Hon. Member for Nottinghamshire said, that he (Mr. Roe buck) had been invariably telling the House that he was the only honest man in it. Now he would ask whether that were a true statement? He put it plainly to the Hon. Member, that he had no right to make such a charge. If he had not made such a declaration, he would ask, what was the value of the Hon. Member's statement ? • Mr. GALLY KNIGHT—Over and over again you have stated it. Mr. ROEBUCK said he supposed that was something like the announcement of the Hon. Member, that though he hat, assailed the late Ministry, he was not opposed to their policy. They all knew now what was the meaning of what the Hon. Gentleman had said. What he had said in June he denied January ; and what he meant in January was very different from what he had said in June. He ( Mr. Roebuck) had said nothing to the House of himself. He had charged certain Hon. Members with proceedings which they had not the cou rage to deny ; some acknowledged the charge, and others would not answer. He had stated that in Nottingham a compromise ha been entered into. Charges of bribery had been made, and for the purpose of avoiding those charges, it was agreed that one of the Members for th e borougb.should retire. That Hoe. Gentleman had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds ; and the Right Hon. Baronet declared that that was a circumstance pregnant with suspicion. The Hon. Member for Oxford said that he would not state that Sir G. de Larpent did retire, but he (Mr. Roebuck) said that he had retired because he wished to avoid then investigation into bribery. Was that denied? What saki Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government Why, that the subject was pregnant with so much suspiciot that the writ ought to be suspended. What had he (Mr. Roe buck) to do with the suspension of the writ? The Hon. Gen tleman opposite had conic down for the purpose of making ate onslaught on him, and that Hon. Member should very soon find the value of that onslaught. Why, he would ask, should he be dragged into this question ? He had had nothing to do with it ; and, in, fast, he had discussed the question with himself yesterday, whether he should come down to the House, and the result of that discussion wa- that he had staid away because he had never uttered a word about the suspension of the writ for Nottingham. It was the work of the House, and sanctioned by her Majesty's Govern ment. Could there be any doubt that there had been in Not tingham a foul conspiracy to cheat the people of England buying up a constituency 2.—( Hear, hear.) Well, then, why did they charge him, when he wished to bring them to light ?—( Hear, hear.) Was it to hide the poor corrupted voter, or the rich corrupting candidate? What was it the were so tender for? They said they had a regard for the privileges of the people of England. So had he (Mr. Roe buck). He wished that the privileges of the people of Eng land should not be bought and sold like sheep in the shambles. For that purpose he brought forward the consideration of a measure, which may be a subject of laughter to Hon. Gentle men opposite, but which was one of grave consideration to the people out of doors.—( Hear, hear.) It was for their sake that he stood up and thought he was best doing his duty in not allowing the interests of this great people to be bartered for gold to the highest bidder, and that he who did so should be fixed and crucified before the people. It was between them and the subject of his inquiry that the Right Hon. Member f Oxford came. He threw his shield over The past, and said that he was not to inquire into the subject, for it was onl; inquiry he asked fur, and not that the writ should be sus pended. He would not have risen at all, and would not have said a word on the subject, if he had not been so pointedly and personally alluded to by both the Hon. Gentlemen, and in a manner little in accordance with the usual courtesy of the House. He (Mr. Roebuck) never nicknamed anybody, and he wanted to know how the Hon. Gentleman opposite reconciled it with his sense of decency, or with the ordinary feelings of one gentlemas towards another, to nickname him before the House as its •1 Simon Pure."—(Laughter.) It might be well to laugh ; but if he (Mr. Roebuck) chose to exercise half that sort of power exhibited by the Hon. Genteman, he might nickname him in a manner that would make him very uncomfortable— but he had regard for his feelings. Under all the circum stances, he had done nothing that should subject him to the imputation of a desire to have the writ suspended. He ap pealed to the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Go vernment, whether he (Mr. Roebuck) had in the least in fluenced his opinions, and whether his had not influenced the House ? The Right Hon. Gentleman might see a differenco in the cases of Ipswich and Nottingham, but his opinion had no influence on his (Mr. Roebuck's) mind, though it had on the House. In all these cases the Hon. Gentleman had shown a regard for the privileges and forms of that House, and be (Mr. Roebuck) bad a right to believe that he had followed the dictates of his feelings. The Right Hon. Gentleman op posite, however, had guided the House in this matter ; the responsibility, such as it was, rested upon his head; and if the Hon. Member for Oxford had that respect which he trusted all . men in that House bad for parties in the Government, he would have pointed to the Secretary of the Home Department and not to him (Mr. Roebuck), Re (Mr. Roebuck) did not dictate to the House, he had no power to do so ; but the Right Hon. Gentleman, as he ought to do—for his power ought to be predominant in that House, on that side he meant—( A laugh ) told them how t o vo t e , and r ow they were very much ashamed of what they had done.—( Hear, hear.) - After a few words from Mr. G. KNIGHT in explanation, Sir R. PBEL said, if he had used any influence on this oc casion, at the same time, he must say that it was an influence which reason alone entitled him to exercise. He always said from the first, that this question was one of a judicial nature, and he had not attempted to exercise any other influence. He did not think that it would be at all satisfactory to the country to state that when there were allegations of bribery, that the result of the proceeding before an Election Committee should, in all cases, necessarily be conclusive.—( Hear, hear.) When the House appointed the Select Committee to determine per sonal and individual rights, he did not think that they meant to interfere with the general Constitution of the country—( Hear, hear)—and supposing, in consequence of their having passed a law last session permitting an inquiry into bribery without proof of agency, that the result was that the investigations were not conducted as they sited to be, but that compromises were intend into, he did not think that it would be satisfactory to come to the conclusion that, in no case the writs should issue. As he said before, this case being of a judicial nature, ought, in his opinion, to rent on its own abstract and individual merits. He entertained this opinion in the case. He knew the impu tations he would be subject to by this from the Hon. and Learned Alember,—that altogether they ought to act upon principle; they ought not to apply one common rule to all cases. The circumstances were different in the evidence of different cases. They must look to those circumstances— ( Hear, hear)—and look to the different cases, and then come to a conclusion apparently in cons i stent ; but he did not hesi tate to say, that fur every question or charge of a criminal na ture it was impossible to apply one universal rule with refer ence to the evidence bearing on the case. He took the case of Nottingham. What was the case of Nottingham at the time wht n the motion was made for the issue of the writ ? At the time that proposal was made, the House determined to appoint a Committee of Inquiry. Under these circumstances, it was stated by a Member, that the investigation before the Election compromise. at Nottingha m , alleged t Committee hat i ens f xt Nottinghamie brbribery e r y had a ledhad taken to a placempromise. It was and that for the purpose of avo idin g an inquiry into that bri ev bery a compromise had been made. The Committee repotted that the two Hon. Gentlemen had been rightly returned as Members for Nottingham. The House then found this strong fact, that one of those Members who had a right to his seat, as determined by the Election Committee, the next day ten dered his resignatiop. This might be accounted for. It was probable that certain considerations, such as ill health, might. have led to the Hon. Gentleman vacating his seat. But his (Sir R. Peet's) Hon. Friend did not allege that. That he did not exactly understand. With reference to ill health, if that The Order of the Day for the third reading of the Witnes ses Indemnity Bill having been read, Mr. ROEBUCK begged leave to state the grounds on which the present Bill seemed to be necessary. The crime, if to he might call it, was not one of a solitary nature. The crime of bribery could not be committed without two? and what were the consequences of revealing the transaction in the present state of the morality of the world? The crime was not one marked out and branded by society, but one which was tolerated, and therefore it was necessary to have a law to in demnify the parties giving evidence. It was not an inquiry to inflict punishment, but one on which to found legislative enactments. It was said this was stnosel proceeding, but he wished to know where was the danger? He hoped the House would grant him this power by granting the Committee, for be feared, if they denied it, that the inquiry would be imperfect. On the question that the Bill be read a third time, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, from the extent to which the present Bill went, he thought it was fraught with considerable danger. He would draw the attention of the House to the second clause, which empowered the Committee, at its discretion, to report to the Home, certifying that any witness who shall be examined, shall be held harmless from all proceedings, and shall be indemnified from all actions, penalties, and prosecutions, for matters relating to bribery or intimida iMn in the borough, that might be the subject of the inquiry, that might have taken place before the passing of the Bill No Act of Indemnity had hitherto gone beyond indemnifying the witness himself for the matters concerning which he might be examined. This proposition gave an individual in demnity for every act of bribery, intimidation, and corruption of which he might have been guilty prior to the passing of the Act. He of jected to that portion of the Bill, Ist, because it carried the indemnity to the witnesses Deyond what was ne cessary ; and secondly, because it indemnified all persons whose names might be mentioned in the report; and who without becoming witnesses at all were to be indemnified for every transaction in which they might ever have been engaged. He considered these Bills of Indemnity as more calculated to make witnesses than to elicit truth—((;heers)—but he would not go the length of opposing the Bill, but only those parts of it which went beyond established precedents.—( Hear. hear.) Few Bills of this nature had been actually passed. The first was in 1805, in Lord Melville's case; the next was in IMI9, in the Barnstaple case ; then came the Grampound case in 1825 ; and the Penryn case in 1829 or 1830. Lastly came the Stafford ca,e He considered his Hon. and Learned Friend, the Member for Bath, was going beyond established precedent, and was intro ducing a somewhat perilous experiment. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman should not go beyond precedent. The law would compel no man to criminate himself. His Hon. and Learned Friend wished to remove that impediment, and so far he (the Attorney-General) did not object to the Bill; but his Hon. and Learned Friend went further; he said evidence might be withheld, from a desire not to criminate a friend, and therefore he would indemnify the man's friend as well as himself. Now, to that he (the Attorney-General) ob jected. The law justified a man in protecting himself, not in protecting his friend: therefore he would say, let the law take its course. Remove the impediment as respected the man him self, but leave him to the law as respected his friend. It ceased to be the removal of an impediment, but it was in the nature of a bribe. He, therefere, proposed to strike out clause No. 2, which was the pniat of difference between himself and his Hon. and Learned Friend. He should theref ire move, when the Bill was read a third time, that this clause should be struck out. He hoped that, on these grounds, the Hon. Gentleman would allow that clause to be struck out. Sir R. INGLIS said the objection he had against *Abe Bill was an illustration of the hasty legislation of the Honourable Member for Bath on the subject. 'I he Bill which he got leave to bring in, was not the Bill which he now brought in. The Bill of the Honourable Gentleman would nor only in demnify witnesses, but would indemnify parties.—( Hrar. hear.) He would not follow the Attorney-General in his argument, but he would say, that if the present Bill passed. the object which the House had in view would be dearly purchased. Mr. HARDY had great oojections to the Bid. It was monstrous to give indemnity not only to the witness, but to the party respecting whom he might give evidence. How, also, were the witnesses to be compelled to give evidence? The Bill would prove abortive for the purposes fur which it was framed, and he should therefore oppose it. Mr. O'CONNELL :could not see that any answer could be given to the objections raised fly the Attorney-General against the second clause. He (Mr. O'Connell) thought that clause ought to be removed from the Bill. Mr. W YNN concurred in the opinion that witnesses alone ought to be indemnified. Mr. ROEBUCK said that the Bill had been drawn up by two of the highest legal authorities, who had been Lord Chan cellors of England, and he thought that he was therefore pretty well sanctioned in presenting the Bill to the House of Com mons. If the House would allow him, he would withdraw the clause, since the general sense of the House was against it. Mr. LAW thought that professional men ought to be pro tected from giving evidence of privileged communications. Mr. C. BULLER said that unless they acceded to the pro visions of this Bill they would be doing an injustice to the witnesses who were now being examined before the Committee lately appointed on the motion of the Hon. and Learned Mem ber for Bath. They ought to throw the mantle of indemnity over those witnesses, inasmuch as they were obliged to make disclosures which, under ordinary circumstances, they would not have to do. Mr. DARBY saidlithat if the Bill of the Noble Lord, the Member for London (Lard J. Russell) had been suffered to pass, it would have effected, in a general way, what was now sought to be obtained in an invidious manner. After a few words from Mr. WATSON, the Bill was read a third time. On the question being put that the Bill do pass, Mr. C. BULLER rose to propose an amendment, which he did not expect would meet with the slightest opposition ; it was to insert " Bridport " in the preamble of the Bid. Mr. LAW was of opinion that the Bill was quite extended enough in its operations. The amendment was agreed to without a division, and the Bill then passed. Si„ R. IL INGLIS then rose to move that the writ for Noetizieleam should issue. Sir U. GREY wished to know whether the Hon. Baronet intended to press this motion, as there was an nnileretandieig in the - House with respect to petitions a this sort that notice should be given of them, and his fun. Friend had acceded to that by placing the notice tin the paper for yesterday. Ile was ready to admit that if his Hon. Friend insisted on his right, it was com petent for him to Ering it on, but he would put it to him whether it would be advisable for him to do so.—(Cheers.) Sir R. H. INGLIS observed that the application of his Right Hon. Friend had not so much surprised him, as the cheers that had come from the Hon. Member fur 'Montgnmeryshire, because he knew very. well that 'when a vacancy occurred it was a matter of course that a writ should issue. If it was the opinion of the House that he should not proceed, lie would withdraw his motion.—(hear, bear, and cries of " Go on.") He believed the impression of the House was that he • • should at once proceed with his motion. —(No, and Hear.) He could not indulge the hope that his motions would be unopposed, as were those of the Hon. Member for Mon trose, after the interruption which had taken pace. The inotheres of the Hon. Member for Montrose were pre ciee.V.' of the same nature. Air G. GREY—But there was a general consent of the 'blouse with respect to those rnotions.—(Hear, hear.) Sir H. INGLIS (in continuation) said he was totally unconnected with the persons from whom the petition proceeded, and he presumed the petition was intrusted to him from the opinion he expressed upon the issuing of • writs in general. He did not mean by his motion to stud • tiey the decision the House came to respecting the motion of the Hon. Member • for Bath, or any rules of the House irrespective of that motion. He was not cal'ing on the House to take any proceedings to . baffle the decision it had come to respecting the motion of the Honourable Member for Bath, and he begged• to call the particular attention of, the Hon. and - Learned Member to that point. It was only a happy accident which had placed the borough of Nottingham in a different position from Beading, .Penryn, and the other boroughs. There was nothing, therefbre, he should contend, which was essential to the object of the Honourable Member for Bath's Bill to exclude Nottingham from having a representative in the Commons'. House of Parliament. Mr. ROEBUCK--I have proved nothing yet. • Sir L. INGLIS—The lion. Member saki that he had pored nothing yet. He (Sir R. Inglis) thanked him r that. Ile %voted say, then, that they were proceeding to the disfranehismetit of Nottingham, not only on no proof, un no Report of the Committee, on no sworn evidence alleging guilt on the part of Nottingham ; but the Honourable Member himself, who had brought in a. Bill fur the purpose of inquiring into the alleged prac e:tcee of bribery and corruption at Nottingham, said at once, very honestly and candidly, and he (Sir R. Inglis) • thanked him fir it, that he had proved nothing against Nottingham. then he ( Sir R. highs) would say that Notting ham was entitled to the general rule of the law, which was to allow the franchise to every corporation not proved to be . gailty. He would call on the Hon. Member for Bath to die prove this, that there was no evidence in history in which a writ had been suspended, except on the Report of some Com mittee whose attention had been specially directed to the subject. In the present instance, not only was there no such report, but there was nothing but the representation of one Honourable Member rising in his place and very dramatically pointing with his finger to his friends on that side, or his enemies on this. They had nothing but his own ipse dinit declaring that the borough had been the scene of bribery and corruption. He would now call the attention of the House to the proceedings with regard to Nottingham which were matters of history, as far as being en tered on the Journals of that House would render them so. On the 4th of May a Committee of that House was appointed to try the merits of the. Nottingham election, and that Corn . mittee declared that the Right Honourable Sir John Cam • Hobhuuse and Sir G. de H. Larpent were duly elected. From the proctedings which subsequently took place, it ap beared that those individuals were bona fide elected. He ail received yesterday, while in the House, a letter addressed to him by the individual whose name he last mentioned in Connection with the borough, Sir George de Larpent. He felt it to be but justice to hi, Hon. Friend, Sir George de Larpent, to produce this letter to the House. He hoped that it was not supposed by the majority, or by any, that Sir George de Lars. pent hail withdrawn his presence from that House for the pur pose of avoiding any proceedings which the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath might think fit to take. The fact was, which he dial know till 'that communication was made to him, that five weeks before the date of the Report of that Committee, Sir George de Larpent had been confined by a severe medical and surgical malady, and. that he had not been able during the whole of that time to leave his room. Now, h e (Si r R. I nglis) begged the House, and he begged the Hon. and Learned Gendeman, to understand that he did not mean to assert or in sinua,e. on the contrary, he repudiated the idea that Sir G. de Larpent was induced tel accept the Chiltern Hund re d s i n con .sequence of the s'a ' e of his health. He did not assert that— be did riot wi'h the Hun. Member for Bath to believe h. He did n, t require that elequent look from the Hon and Learned. Member for Bath. He asserted that Sir G. de Larpent ac cented the Chiltern Hundreds with no such motive, but he (Sir R. Inglis) appeaied to the Hou e to rescue him from any imputation of having left the House in order to avoid that question, when he told the House that, for five weeks before that time, to the present time, he had been almost wholly confined to his room. • lint his ( Sir IL Inglis's) ease was as strong, if such were the tact. He had a perfect right to accept the Chiltern Hundreds even with that view. Mr. ROEBUCK.—No. Sir R. INGLIS denied this. He did not in?inuate that he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds oil account of ill health. He denied the Right of the Hon. Member to put the question which he had, and he believed that many Hon. Members who at the time had most. .unwillingly listened to the questions which he then had asked, had since seen reason to think the House ought not to have 'sanctioned the course the Hon. Men-her thought fit to pursue. Nottingham did not stand alone.—( near, hear.) Nor did even the other boroughs to which the Ilon. Member had alluded ; because there were many other boroughs equally deserving of the attention of the Hon. Member fur Rath with the boroughs of Penryn and Falmouth, Lewes. Harwich, Reading, and Nottingham ; the seven other boroughs front which petitions bad been presented against the sitting Members o n th e score of br ibery, -- in which the question of bribery had not b een at ail gone io; and the Hon . e eveuld be justified, according to his theory, in insti . - into theneirecrir wastae, ly attending these elec lier9C---(1-kmr, hear.) a list of other brovghs„similarly sittiated.—(Ll"r hear. ) He ought to lielfast--(" Hear, hear," fro;4ifiaoll Great Marlow, Cliihere e , - Mee Roebuck) -to the -list. He meant lielfas ' t under , thoroid . lielition: _ ( H ea r, : hear.) In Weymouth there was a peiition against the,sitting Member _on the score of briber y. FAL.‘ . RNA L--In the, ease of V, elmouth there. was noe . orne - Lee ;:!;i rr. TnE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE ii, 1842. its 4 I.IM tatise, and it was expressly stated that to compromise had taken place to avoid the inquiry into bribery, then the con sideration was ill health, and he (Slr R. Peel) could under stand it. But his Hon. Friend said, at the same time, that hereferr, d to that consideration of ill-health, yet he did not attach im portance to it, and he did not say that was the casef then he (Sir R. Peel) put that consideration altogether out of the question. An Hon. Gentleman said that there was conclusive pront, as he understood him, that either a bond hail been given or a sum of money advanced for the purpose of ensuring the return of another candidate for Nottingham, of (pinions oppo site to the opinions of the sitting M tuber. The House then appointed a Committee to inquire. The question then arose that the writhe issued, andunder these circumstances he ( Sir R. Peel ) thought the writ ought not to be issued, because if the sum of 4,0001. or 5,0061. had been advanced to return a Member of op posite opinions, and opposite to the majority of the constituents, he thought the circumstances ought to be inquired into. Hs. thought the rights of the constituents themselves were not prejudiced by the inquiry, or by the suspension of the writ, as the sitting Member immediately on being declared duly elected relinquished his seat, and made application for the Chiltern Hundreds. Coupled with this was the allegation that a sum of money had been advanced for the purpose of procuring the re turn of a gentleman of different sentiments. He therefore thought inquiry should be had. He should vote accordingly. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD considered that the House had no just cause for the further suspension of the writ for the election for Nottingham. He admitted that inquiry was neces sary, but no progress had yet been made in it, and he saw no reason for keeping the rights of the electors of Nottingham in abeyance, pending that inquiry. The issue of the writ, how ever, would not prevent inquiry ; if he imagined that the issue of the writ would prevent inquiry, he would not vote for it ; but he felt satisfied that no such effect would follow. Mr. C. WYNN said, that it wasperfectly in order for any Hon. Member to bring forward any motion, without giving previous notice. If an Hon. Member chose to get up in his place, and, without having given any previous notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the Union, there would be nothing irregular in his so doing. The present case stood in precisely the same position as when it was last brought before the House, and there could be no difficulty in inducing the House to adhere to its former decision. _ _ _ Captain ROLL ESTON, as one of the electors of the borough, felt it was due to himself, and those whom he knew to be inca pable of conduct such as that described by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, to express a hope that the Hon. Gentle. man had not brought forward his motion without sufficient grounds. It had been asserted that, at the two last elections, no less than 4,000 electors of the town of Nottingham had re ceived bribes. He believed that that statement was correct.— (Hear, hear.) In the position which he occupied, however, he would not feel justified in voting either one way or the other.—( Hear, hear.) Sir R. INGLIS wished to explain, with resrect to what had fallen from his hight Hon. Friend ( Sir R. Peel) that he did not attribute the conduct of his Hon. Friend, Sir G. Lar pent, to ill-health; but what he desired to state was, that his health had been such for five weeks before, and also since the droceeding of that House with respect to the Nottingham election petition, that he could not have attended in his p ace to meet the arguments of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman: tie thought the argument of his Right Hon. Friend referred much more to the case of the candidate than to that of the petitioners, who stated that they were no parties to the con tract.—( Hear, hear.) . The Hon. and Learned Member tor lath said that he was no party to the proceedings wfth respect io Nottingham. He did not indeed kill the dog, but he hail drst raised the cry against him.—(Laughter.) The Hon. and Learned Member had addressed the whole of that side of the House in language which he ( Sir R. Inglis) ventured to say the conduct of some of them at least did not entitle him to ss-, and he was sure his Right Hon. Friend, the leader of her Majesty's Government, would be the first to disown the power .vbich the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath had been pleased to attribute to him.—( Hear, hear.) He begged leave in tell the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath that there .v ere many in that House as little disosed to call his Right lion. Friend (Sir R. Peel) their master as he himself was.— (Hear, hear.) No man had a keener sense of the transcendant :nerits of his Right Hon. Friend than he had, but he begged Lo say that he did not call him or any other person in that Rouse his master.—( Hear, hear, and laughter. ) Sir R. PEEL said that he had stated he thought that was a very peculiar case. An allegation was made that a gentleman .:greeing with a majority of the constituency, had lodged a sum of money in promoting the return of a party opposed to that constituency in political opinions. That he thought was a very important allegation ; and it was desirable that it should be sifted. It was for the interest of the constituents them selves that they should be enabled threughly to understand the llature of the transaction. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House livided, when there appeared— For issuing the writ Against it . . . 136 Majority againg issuing the writ WITNESSES INDEMNITY BILL. would take the subject into his consideration. He proposed, therefore, that the duty be Is. 6d. per pound. Mr. BROCKLEIIeR AT seconded the motion. The re• duction of the duty would have the effect of destroying the trade, and he, therefore, trusted the Right lion. Baronet would take the subject into his most serious consideration. Mr. M. ATT WOOD thought the present duty was not likely to affect the consumer, whereas if it were reduced the effect would be to ruin the trade. Under the preser.t duty the trade had flourished, and would continue to do so it were retained. The former reductions of duty had been attended with the most ruinous effects, especially to the ivork ing manufacturers. Mr. GLADSTONE could assure the House that, there was no disposition on the part of the Government to join the Hon. Member in the disparagement of the policy of Mr. Hus • kisson.—(Hear hear.) With regard to the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield, he would not deny that the present duty on thrown silk was a sufficient protection, but he could not think, if it was altered, there was any reason to suppose that the throwsters in this country would suffer from importations, because there had been a gradual decrease in the importation of that species of manufacture. It appeared to him that, by establishing a duty on thrown silk, they would best fortify themselves to compete with other countries; he must, therefore oppose the motion of his Hon. Friend. After a few words from Mr. ATT WOOD, Mr. STRUTT protested against the doctrine of the Hon. Member for Macclesfield. The manufacturers would look with dismay to a return of the old system of imposing a duty on the importaion of the raw material. He wished, however, that while the Government were carrying out the pr neiples of free trade in respect to manufactares, they would apply the same principles to corn and other articles of provisions. The British manufacturer might then compete with the world. In the present Instance he approved of the Government proposal. Air. T. EGERTON . said, that protection was a'so given to the various articles of manufacture produced in this country. The proposed rate of duty upon silk would still gives protec tion tothe British manufacturer. Mr. t• BROTHERTON expressed himself quite satisfied with the proposal of the Government. Mr. BROCKLEHURST supported the amendment. The Committee divided, and the numbers were, For the amendment 22 Againt it Majority against the amendment ... --218 On the item et "manufactured silk, or of silk mixed with any other material." Dr. BOW RING claimed from the Government a conces sion of a more liberal redaction of duty, in accordance with•the principles they had announced, of putting a stop to illegal trade, and from a fair concession to the manutacturers of France. He thought the duty ought to be reduced in justice to France, because the duty imposed there on our articles vcis only 15 per cent., in some cases only 13 per cent., while this country im posed a duty of 30 per cent., 40 per cent., and in some instances 60 per cent. was taken upon certain articles, in con sequence of the construction of the tariff. He should, the,e fore, propose that the duty on foreign manufactured siik goods be reduced to an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. Sir R. PEEL said he did not think that a reduction of the duty would benefit the consumer in this country ; at the same time, there could be no doubt that there would be great advan tage in a reciprocal point of view. He trusted the House would not hastily press the Government on the subject. He thought it would be much better not to accede to the proposal of the Hon. Member. _ _ . . Mr. LABOUCHERE was of opinion that they might safely leave this matter in the hands of the Government. He thought LAW INTELLIGENCE. 110 USE OF LORDS. June 10 ..„. _ . The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Peer:, present were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. KERR V. COCHRANE. Their Lordships gave judgment to-day in this case. in which there was an appeal and cross-appeal, both of which their Lordships dismissed with costs. MACDONALD V. LORI) MACDONALD, ..... The arguments in this part-heard ease were resumed to-day ROLLS' COURT. June 10. NASII V. MORLEY-JUDGMENT. The MASTER of the Rotts gave judgment to-day in this case in which the bill had been filed, for the purpose of hearing the opinion of the Court as to the valdity of a gift. A person of ti e name of John Williamson by his will directed his executors to lay out a certain part of his estate in the Funds. the interest of which was to be divided by his executors among poor pious persons, male and female, old or infirm, as they should think proper, but omitting large and sick fa.,ilies of gmd character. The next of kin asserted that this was not a valid charitable gift, and filed his bill for the purpose of having it declared. The MASTER of the ROLLS was clearly of opinion that the gift was valid, and decreed ace rdingly. The COURT then proceeded with exceptions and further directions. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, June 10. The VICE-CIIANCELLOR Or FNGLA ND was occupied the whole morning with unopposed petitions and short causes. COURT OF QUEE S BENCH, .Tune 10. The Court was engaged the whole morning in hearing mo tions. BAIL. COURT. June 10. (Tiefore Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) The Court sat at Nisi Prius this morning, and di.posed of a Few undefended causes. His Lordship then heard some motions involving points of practice. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 10. The Court was occupied during the morning with cases in the special paper; the arguments that arose were of a merely technical character. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, June 10. IN RE FREDERICK - BURGHART. The insolvent in this case was (te,cribed in his schedule as a tailor carrying on business at No. 15, Clifford-street, Bond street. On the 6th of May last he came before the Court when the further heap ing was ordered to stand over to this day in order to complete a deficient service. Messrs. 11. S. Wright, of Golden-square, and William Benson Stones, of Warwick street, in the same pl ce, warehouseman, were that day ap pointed assignees, and the insolvent now put in affi.lavits upon which was pounded an application for the removal of the latter assignee. The allegations contained in the affidavit were that the insolvent was the inventor and patentee of a certain striae. ture in gas-burners, by which a saving of twenty per cent. in consumption might be effected. In this patent Mr. :stones had a share of one-fourth, and a gentleman named Var rist offered a sum of tour thousand pounds for their joint rights. The affidavit further alleged that the in. solvent ha.t a right conj intly with Mr. Stones in a patent (the inventi n, as we understood, of Mr. Vat Marino, who passed through this Court a short time since), for gene rating a purer description of gas from tar and water alone, and the :esult of which invention was to ied before several persons of high rank and scientific acquirements, who expressed an unqua lified approval of its merits. The Board of the parish of St. George's, Hanover-square, offered the deponent a sum of 2,0001. for his right durir ' , seven years, provided, upon an ex periment made before them, it was proved to be beneficially practicable, and, upon his applying to Mr. Stones to aid in causing this necessary experiment to be made, he threw all the obstructions which lay ha his power in rendering the merits of the invention apparent. The affidavit then went on to state that the deponent believed Mr. Stones was actuated by a wish to have whatever future profits might be derived from those inventions made available to fiimself solely, after his (deponent's) insolvency, and therefore prayed that he might be removed from his office of assignee as an unfit and improper person. After a short discussion between the Learned Counsel on both sides, the Court ordered the case to stand over for three weeks, all the creditors, in the meantime, receivieg notice of tl.e application, and copies of the affidavits upon which it was founded. CUSTOMS ACTS. On the motion that the House do go into Committee on the Customs Acts, Mr. H Ui said he wished to call the attention of the Right Hon. Baronet to the votes which the House came to last night in his absence, relative to the duty on cotton and wool, which were both raw materials. It appeared to him (Mr. Hume) that those votes were directly against the principles of the Right Hon. Earonet, and he wished before the Bill passed, that the House would consider well what must result from the injury to manufacturers occasioned by such proceedings as this. Sir R. PEEL, who spoke in a very low tone of voice, was understood to say, that he was aware of the determination which the House came to last night ; but, as he had be en obliged to resort to the Income-tax to raise the revenue, h e could not now afford to lose 800,000/,, which was the sum pro duced by the duty upon cotton and wool. The House then resolved itself into Committee, Mr. GREENS in the chair. Clause 13 consisting of glass, earthenware, and porcelain was agreed to without discussion. Clause 14, consisting of silk and manufactures was then pro. posed, and the items up to " Thrown silk not dyed , " were agreed to without opposition. On " Thrown silk not dyed," being proposed. Mr. GRIMSDITCH rose to oppose the proposed reduction of the duty, for which he could see no plausible pretext; on the contrary. he was of opinion, that if the proposed reduction were carri d out a great loss would Jcerue to that branch of the silk manufacturers without the slightest benefit to the poorer or labouring classes. Under these circumstances he should oppose the proposed reduction in the duty.. and le it. place would propose that the present duty should be retained— ( Hear hear) —and he did so, because the present protection did not excred 5 ler cent. He hoped the Right lion. Baronet it would be improper to interfere with the negotiation on this head which had been entered into, and he should vote for the pi oposition of the Hight Hon. Gentleman. Mr. HUME would advise his Hon. Friend (Dr. Bowring) not to press his motion to a division. He thought it would be best to leave the matter in the hands of the Government to make all arrangements they could. Dr. BOWRING sail, as he did not wish to occupy the time of the House, he should not press his motion. Mr. NV ILLI A MS, who rose amid cries of " Withdrawn," " Oh, oh," was of opinion that if the duty upon those articles were reduced as proposed by the Hon. Gentleman near him, the silk manufacturers of England would be ruined, and the market would be removed from England to France or Ger many. He thought it right to make these observa ions on behalf of his constituents, and he must add that on this point he had every confidence in her Majesty Government. Lord HOWICK thought that the House ought to rely upon the negotiation at present going on between this country and France, but if that negotiation were not brought to a speedy conclusion, he was of minion that we ought to legislate with a view to our own interests. 'I he Government proposition was then agreed to. On the item, millinery of silk, being put, Mr. MANGLES proposed that the India manufacture should be placed in on a level with the British. Sir R. PEEL said he hoped the House would bear in mind, in discussing these individual cases, the extreme difficulty which there was in making such alteration as would not inju riously affect existing interests. The reduction proposed in this case was a reduction from 20 to 5 per cent. If he wished to state why he proposed to make this particular reduction, he would perhaps find it difficult to give a satisfactory answer; what they bad attempted to do was to make such reductions as should confer general benefit without inflicting injury to parti cular interests. He therefore hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not take the sense of the House upon it. After a few words from Mr. BROCKLEHURST, the item was agreed to. On the duty upon dresses being proposed, Mr. HUME said if the duty were reduced to 25 per cent., it would give them a desire to dress better.—( Laughter. ) The other items under the head of silk were then agreed to. The Committee were abOut to proceed to the next schedule, that of cords, when Mr. BROTHERTON said that at the present late hour it would not be desirable to go into a new schedule. Mr. MITCHELL, who had a motion on the subject, said that he could not do justice to the subject of which he had given notice at that late hour. After a few obsrrvations from Mr. MITCHELL, Sir R. PEEL had no objection to the Chairman's reporting progress, upon the understanding, that the House should com mence public business on Monday at half-past four o'clock. The suggestion being agreed to, the Chairman reported pro gress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. The Double Costs Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Monday. The second reading of the Poor-law Amendment Bill was postponed to Tuesday. The Sugar Duties Bill went through Committee. The Slave Trade Suppression Bill, the Slave Trade Abolition Bill, and the Slave Trade Treaties Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. REDING TON, it was ordered that no new writ should be issued fur the borough of Sudbury till the 9th of July. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill fur the better regulating the number of prisoners admitted to the general prison at Perth. In answer to a question from Mr. YORKE, Sir J. GRAHAM said if the discussion of the tariff went beyond Monday, and took precedence of other bu,idess on Tuesday, he should move the second reading of the Poor-law Continuance Bill on Friday. The House then adjourned at a Quarter to One. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The country seems to be universally alive to the fact, that election-bribery exists to an extent which was scarcely contemplated; and the House of Commons teems at length disposed to apply some effectual check to the degrading and demoralizing prac tice, which is sapping the foundations of public virtue, and jeopardizing the Constitution, by bringing into con tempt the representative branch of the Legislature. If the source of law be deemed corrupt, its streams will partake of the corruption ; and the people will find an excuse, if not a justification, for evading, or openly vio lating, the acts of Parliann,nt, in the illegality of the mode by which a large proportion of the Members of the H o us e of Commons obtained their seats in the Legisla ture. If the Bill introduced by Lord John Russell do not accomplish all that could be desired in the way of pre vention, it will certainly render the perpetration of bribery more difficult, by including specifically, within the legal definition of the crime, these various ingenious devices for evading the consequences of making direct payments for votes, with which all who have been ad mitted within the walls of a "private" committee-rot tin at an election, are familiar. This more dear and com prehensive definition of bribery will, doubtless, render the commission of the crime more difficult, and its proof, 14y evidence before the tribunals, whether Parliamentary Committees, or the regularly constituted courts of the country, more easy of attainment. In the speech with which Lord J. Russell introduced the Bill, his Lordship made a distinct allusion to the old free, and those other classes of voters, in corporate towns, whose rights were reserved by the Reform Bill. Amongst these the agents of bribery have generally found ready recipients of the bribes they were employed to proffer. The discoveries which have been recently made of the extent - of corrupt agencies upon these classes of voters; the general disgust—strongly acting upon the House of Commons—which has been provoked in the public mind; and the numerous measures which have recently been proposed in Parliament for the future pi e vention of bribery—seem to indicate the arrival of a crisis, which might be improved, for cleansing the con stituencies of these dregs of corruption, which the sup porters of the old system were allowed to preserve by the Reform Bill, and which have been communicating their pollutions to other classes of the electors with which they were associated. STANDARD.—The decision in the cases of the Waterford and Athlone petitions illustrates too forcibly the defective state of the present law of elections, to allow that it be passed over in silence—we call it one decision, because, though there were two several peti tions from different paces, tried before distinct Com mittees, the points decided in both eases are the same. The points decided appear to be these, namely—First, that a returning officer may not reject it vote how fraudulent so ever he may know it to be, if it be ten dered in legal form. Secondly, that a Committee may not inquire into the validity of a vote once offered, though not recorded, except the vote be specially inipeached in a petition. From these two propositions it seems neces sarily to f o ll o w that a sitting Member has no security' whatever for his seat, if any sufficient number of fradu lent votes have been tendered at the poll for his compe titor. The. returning officer must, according t o th e fi rs t rule laid dcwn, receive them as good votes ; or, if he decline to do so, a Committee of the House of Commons must, according to the second rule, place them on the poll, without entertaining any question of their validity. Thus the most grossly fabricated votes for a petitioner, are really subject to no question, either at the hustings or by a Committee. It may be said that the votes which have placed the Waterford and Athlone petitioners in Par liament are not fraudulent votes—the suggestion would be untrue ; but were it true, it is nothing to the pur• pose ; fo r th e rule laid down by the Committees would protect the most fraudulent. That rule, as e have seen, is, that a Committee tf the House of Commons cannot inquire into their validity. Now, the effect of this rule must be, to place tile re presentation absolutely in the hands of the revising barristers. It may be proper to limit the returning officer to the discharge of merely mi nisterial as distinguished from judicial functions; but surely a judicial authority ought to exist somewhere, and it can exist nowhere so properly as in the Committees Or the House of Commons. The decisions of which we com plain were doubtless legally correct, but it is impossible not to see that they tire extremely rigid, and calculated by their rigs or to cause a failure of ustice. The Com mittee, it is ruled, can try only the case submitted to them by the petitionerS; bk . thia is a restrictio whiCh would be found intolerable in any ether department of the administration of thelay,'o IN RE STA NDFORI). The bankrupt, an architect and dealer in pictures of 49, Pall-mall, was yesterday before the Gaul fur choice of assig nees, when he was examined at considerable length, as was the petitioning creditor to the fiat, as to the bone fides of his debt, when statements of so extraordinary a nature were made as induced the Learned Commissioner to require further evidence before admitting the petitioning creditor's (Mr. A/aynard's) debt, and To-day the bankrupt was again examined by Mr. Thomas, as to the circumstancea att wring an alleged mortgage of his property in Pall-mall, which the creditors had every reason to believe wa , alt a made-up story The substance of the evidence is as follows :—The mortgagee has all the agreement , . and the sum of 8001., which I reeeised, was paid to a person named Hannan. and the further sum • of 9601. was paid to the ground landlord. I disposed of my equity of redemption to Mr. John Davis, of Regent-street. I sold it to him for a general" sum of 1,0001., in the month of April or May. 1838, having hail several sums from him in 1837 and 1838, to the amount ot 5001. or 6001. Have you any books or papers to show that any such trans actions as you nips speak ot ever occurred ?—No, I have not. I may have had a copy of the agreement, but it has been taken from me. What attorney made out the agreement you refer to, and give us his name ?—I do not know what attorney made out the agreement, as Mr. Davis got it done himself. I gave no in structions to have it done, but I certainly made the assignment in Pall-mall. Mr. Fuller, Mr. Davis, my wife and myself, were all present at the time, but I believe that my father-in-law , (Mr. Patten) was not then present. Where may this Mr. Davis live now ?—I do not know, al though I have frequently seen him since the execution of the deed. Ido not know who hoteiht the stamp, but certainly I I did not pay fir it. Ido not remember how this agreement was given to me, but I have been charged by my attorney (Mr. Pollock) for drawing the deed. I received 4901, and Mr. Fuller saw me receive the money, and I positively swear that it was not my father-in-law who paid that sum to me. I have nit received the rent of the premises in Pall-mall, but my father-in.law did under a power of attorney from Davis. • When was this power of attorney pre l ated ?-1 should say about a month after the assignment. I cane ot say where it now is. It was brought to me to the Fleet prison. Ido not know by whom, nor what has since become ot it. By Air. Thomas—l now come to ask you a plain but very important question : Did you forge the name of Fuller to the deed ? Mr. Commissioner EVANS —Let the bankrupt withdraw. And this being done, his Honour said, this is a very ticklish point; in bankruptcy, the usual practice is to compel a bank rupt to answer every question put to him as to the disposition of his property ; but I do not think that 1 can ask him so far to criminate himself as an affirmative answer to your question would undoubtedly do. [The bankrupt was here recalled, and the Learned Commissioner proceeded to say]: It you be an honest man you can have no fear and no hesitation in answer ing the quest i.,n, and if you refuse to do so, it will just be next door to your admission of fraud ; but you may answer or not as you please. fhe Bankrupt—Then, I did not, Sir, forge the name of Fuller. Mr. Thomas—Nor that of Davis? —Nor that of Davis ; but I paid for the registering of the deed, because Davis told me "to pay all disbursements." I instructed a Mr. Starke to pre. pare an assignment for a dividend which was due to me under the estate of Calvert, and to which I was entitled. My father in-law has it, but he never sent me in any account. Mr. Commissioner Eva Ns—What is the use of your swear in, in this reeklees taanner, and saying that you had nothing to do with it, when in your letter-book are copies of crowds of letters, since 1841 when the assignment was made, showing that you were the only person who had anything to di) with it ; and here, again, I find another letter, in which Patten states that he will pay certain debts, out of the moneys which he has belonging to you (the ba , ,krupt). However, I think there is no use in wasting time or nape: in taking eiown any thing more of so extraordinary an exatninat on, as it is quite clear that the creditors must get the while of this property back. It will be much better for you, bankrupt, to tell the truth The Bankrupt-11y housekeeper, Sir, can testify to the ex istence of tlr. Davis. Mr. Commissioner EVANS—What I do you mean to tell me that you have known a man for twenty years, and now know nothing of his residence, his eccupation, or his friends? I cannot believe such a story. However, after all the, extraor dinary statements which we have heard, we must dispose of the petitioning creditor's debt bef re we proceed further, and see if there be a bona fide fiat, or no fiat. Several c: editors said that they would take care that there was a good fiat, and the further hearing was adjourned. COURT OF B 4NKIcUPTCY, June 9. SECONDARIES' COURT, June 10. Mr. Secondary JAMES sat in the Court of Common Pleas at Guildhall, this morning. Several undefended cases were taken first. HINES V. BLINKHORN. This was an action to recover the sum of 61. 6s. 6rl for work or labour Oolie. Mr. Kay appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hyland for the defendant. Mr. KAY tested the case, and it appeated that the plaintiff was a poor labouring man. The plaintiff epphed to a person of the name of Milts, who was conducting some work on some ground in Stockwell Park, the property of the defendant, for work. Mills said he could not give the plaintiff any work without the consent of Mr. Blinkhorn. The plain tiff then applied to the defendant, and he referred him back to Mills, with instruction to Mills to set him (defendant) on some work. The plaintiff employed other men,and they were set to remove a quantity of gravel. In all they removed 205 loads, and the agreement was to pay the plaintiff sd. a yard. out of which he was to'pay his men. As soon as they had re. moved the gravel, they were set to cut down some trees, and they felled, in all, 21 trees, and the agreement for these was 3s. 6d. per tree. On the Saturday the plaintiff applied for his money, and he was told that Mills had absconded with the money which was to have been paid to the plaintiff. The plaintiff went with the defendant to the station-house, to give informing] of the robbery, and on the way the defendant said that plaintiff should be paid the whole of his claim. From that time to the present he had not received a farthing. Two of the men who were employed by the plaintiff to assi.t him corroborated this statement by their evidence. Mr. HYLAND then addressed the Jury for the defence, and stated that the defendant. had sold the gravel and trees to a per son of the name of Smith, who was at his own expense to clear the grout .d and fell the trees. Smith was the.] called, and proved that he authorised Mills to engage men to perform the work, but that when Mills absconded he engage:.' them himself. Several other witnesses : were called, who gave similar tes timony, Alr. KAY having replied, Mr. Secondary JAMES summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MANSION HOUSE. An elderly man named William Archer appeared before Alderman Farncombe, by the advice of Air. Booker, one of the officers of Bishonate, for the purpose of making a representa tion about the conduct of the persons employed to administer the Po r-lavr at Norwich. Archer said that Wiltshire was the county in which he was born, but he had lived as a tradesman at Norwich 26 y ears, and during 12 years of that period he had paid 101. a-year rent, which thoroughly entitled him to a settlement thine. 1-I , lntig fallen hoe) poverty by reason of il,i,ess, and the gfneral difficul• ties which I,eset many industrious perions, he found it necessary to apply to the guardians of the poor at Norwich for astrstat,ce, and the answer he received, notwithstanding the a d parently nu t:minable nature of his claim, was that the place of his birth was the only place in which he had establiShed a settlement, and th ,t thither he must go to receive patochisfassistatice. Along with this information they supplied him with money to bear his ex penses, au4 they sent him up to London with directious, assuriug Wm. Henderson, one et the principal assistants at Messrs Morrison, Driloo, and Co.'s, in Fore-street, was brought up by Hoe, the officer, for re examination before Sir Peter Laurie. Mr. Humphries art - nded fur the prisoner, Mr. Laurie, the City pleader, fur a Mr. Birnie, of Peterhead, who was sum moned to appear as a witness, and Mr. Horry for another wit ne,s, Mr. John Henderson, of Newry, a brother to the prisoner. Mr. Clarkson, for the pro ecution, said he came to pray a further adjournment of the hearing, that he might have an op pot !unity of digesting a voluminous set of depositions which had been taken at Peterhead, which possibly compromised other persons than the prisoner. He was in a condition to est -iblibh a second case against the prisoner, in addition to that regarding a quantity of ribbons found in his box, so that tl.e prisoner could not be said to suffer any injury by an adjournment over the ensuorg sessions, while the ends of justice as to other par ties might be better answered if more iliac were allowed for inquiry. It would be necessary to send to Newry and Peter head for further evid•.nee, and the prosecutor could not be pre pared by the present session. Sir PRTER LAURIE asked, how the prisoner and the parties at Newry and Peterhead became acquainted? Mr. Clarkson said the prisoner and Mr. Birnie of Peterhead, Oraper,_ were formerly servants to the firm of Harvey and Co at Dublin, but not at the same time: Birnie afterwards opened a shop in partnership with a Alr. Hawkiogs at Newry, but Hawkins bought hne out, and he set up tor himself at Peter head. Hawkins then took a brother of the prisoner intro part nership; and the knowledge the larties thus had of each other led to a correspondence between the pi twiner and the lutu , e, at Newry and Peterhead. As regarded Mr. Birbie he did not feel competent to make auy charge, but he wanted time to understand the bearing of the voluminous documents placed in his hands. He wished for art adjournment till the 2d July, the sessions commencing on the 41 h July. After some conversation between the Alderman and the Counsel on Loth sides, the prisoner was remanded. W-STuE I;7'. A little boy, named Muir/ was charged with stealing so rte flowers from the inclosure in Lincoln's Inn-square. '1 he Gardener to the Trustees of Line°la's Inn stated that he saw the boy climb over the iron rrintio, and pluck the flowers produced ; they were not worth much ; he did not know h /loc h, but very little—(we should estimate them at about half a farthing,. ) The little fellow expressed his sorr)w, and in defence stated that he saw the flowers lying on the grass, and climbed over to get them. The Gardener produced the Act of Parliament, which pro vided that per,ons offending in, the manner proved against the prisoner, should be fined 40s. or sent to prison for a month. Air. JARDINE said that the fine must he paid. The ptisoner cried very much, and said he should lose his situation; he was quite unable to pay the fine. His mother, a respectable, neat-looking woman, also cried very much, and stated her utter inability to raise money to pay the fine. Alr. JARDINE said he had the power to reduce the fine to 55., and that he should do so on the present occasion. The prisoner must therefore pay 55., or be committed for a week. lie was removed crying, and we almost fear that he was sent to prison. MAFLBOROUGII-STKEET. William Cornish, James Staymaker. and John Lewis, o;:ng men ot vagabond appearance, and Harriet Bunse, Mary - Curtis, aid Mary Maters, ottlig women of the lowest grade, were charged with gambling iu Hyde-;ark. The Park-constable, No. 4, stated that about four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, in consequence of his being info, med that a number of vagabond persons were I ehaving In a very disor derly manner on the Bayswater side of Hyde-park, and :flaking use of ve y gross and obscene language, lie proceed' d to the spot, and found the prisoners sitting togethe.• on the grass play ing at. cards, wrangling and abusing each other in language of a must abominable description. He procured assistance and took all into custody. A complete i ack of cards was found on the prison. r Bun-e. Hanbury, the Head Constable of Hyde-park, identified ail tne prisoners as infesting the park for a long time past. and conducting themselves in a very disorderly and indecent man ner. Tney were also in the habit of sleeping at night there, either by getting into a hollow tree, or huddling together in a heap, for the sake of warmth. He had even repeatedly seen them, at three or four o'clock in the morning, lying in this manner at the font of a tree, although it had been raining heavily during the night. Numerous complaints were continually being made by ladies and gentlemen, and respectable tradesmen, who were in the habit of resorting there, of the way in which their feelings were shocked, by hearing the shameful imprecations n. ade use of by the p. boners, and witnessing occasionally acts of gross obscenity. Mr. HARDWICK inquired why such characters were not kr2t out of the park altogether ? Mr. Hanbury said, a , present it was impossible, for, although they were not allowed to pass through the gates if observed, yet they gained admiss.on by climbing over the palings. iNfr. Haanwicx said idle and dissolute persons should not. under any circumstances, be allowed to infest the park in such a vag shoed way, and which no doubt presented a wear portion of the public from the enjoyment of the air and exercise which the place was purposely intended to afford. He was determined to severely punish any persons found so offending who might be brought betere him, and he should, therefore, commit the prisoners for fourteen days each to the House of Correction. James Young, and James Williams, fashionably dressed striplings, and whose fri,nds, it appea,ed, are highly respect able, were brought up after a night's incarceration in the sta tion-house, charged witli the silly and annoying practice of knocking at doors and ringing bells at three yesterday morn ing. in Archer-street. Piccadilly. Both of them were exceed ingly intoxicated at the time. '1 hey were each fined 75., which they directly paid. CLERKEN WELL. At the sitting of the Court yesterday, Mr. GREENIV::On said that a very illegal practice had recently prevailed in some public-houses of having private theatricals performed in them. Yesterday a young man named Chi ds had been brought be fore him. From his statement it api eared that at a certain public-house in Somers-town, a great number of young appren tices were in the habit. of as embling nightly, each acting a part in some performance—occasionally, too, each had a benefit. It was needless for him to remark on the immorality to which such things woul.t lead. I should, therefore, be put down ; and he called upon the police inspectors to use every means in their power to suppress the nuisance. SHOPLIFTING.—A lad, not above fourteen years of age, and who had been previously convicted under the names of Smith, Wilson, and Williams, was yesterday committed on a'chatge cf stealing forty handkerchiefs from a shop in Drury-lane. UNION-HALL. William Grayson, a fashionably dressed young man, was charged with robbing a lady named Vane, yesterday morning in Blackman •street. The complainant was walking along the pavement when she felt a tug at her pocket, and imn.ediately seizei the prisoner, who was i he next person to her, by the arm. 1-le dt sisted and tried to get away, but she held him until a policeman came up into whose custody she gave him. Site added that she was robbed of 15s. A witness stated that the prisoner was cons antly in the company of pickpockets. The MAGISTRATE said that there were not more dangerous persons about town than such fellows as the prisoner, who having .11 the exterior appearance of gentlemen, commit the most im pudent and barefaced robberies.—C ,mmitted for three mouths. A quarternuster of the 48th regiment of the line was trie.!. a few days ago, berore the Council of W at Lyons, for falsification of accounts. The trial excited inti•rcst from the fact of a sister of the prisoner's. who was tenderly attached to him, having come from Paris to be present at the trial. his manifested the greate-i emotion throughout the la liole of the proceedings, and at the moment th judges were about to de liberate, she flung herself at their feet. crying out ." Mercy, mw cy, for my brother!" He was acquitted, and her joy, as Inky be supposed, was excessive, TEA MARKET. There was little business done. but holders were firm, an d obtained fully former rates. Company's Congou , Is. td- CP TALLOW MARKET. Prices kept up, but the market vies quiet. P. Y. Cap the 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 495. for de l ivery in l as t three Tapp of the year. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last maraet.lay, 63 - 1 . • d . , A 6 Leaez's Main. l4 0 Walls End Sts . wart's ..... .... , 6 Old Tanti .Id .... . '1 anfleld Moor Walls End Clark and Co. \\ ails laud Hedlcy 6 0 Walls End Tees H.etton .... 1 E. BradovirsHetton ... :0 6 Cowpen .......... j 6 I tik, Walls Ep-t Hetton Wails End Morrison' W. E. North Hetton Lyons 17 6.0 a 'lan; :Rorie .......... .... ..... Wale End North Durham 16 of j Front the London New Price Current of ,June I SUG A R.- Importers of West India Muscovadoes Suga h lX manifested more firmness this week ; and although there ~ been much activity in the market, still a lair dema nd has! -' wailed both from Grocers and Refiners, and the prices In d bean fully equal to those of Friday last for all qualities. :,e , To-day the home tiade were free buyers of refined ra paying higher rates. Standard lumps f,tched 83s, and r grocery lumps 82s to 82s 6d. Tatters common and Mitt , 1 82s to 825 6,1 per cwt The supply of common, good's It'-, sufficient tor the wants of the trade : in other articles tb ~,', no change. REFINED.-Prices have advanced Is per cat for ri-.0 Sugar this week, and the demand has been extensive fair` ~ common qualities for home consumption. Melting brown 17i have been selling at 79s to 80., low grocery 80. 6d, g° 4 ,4) floe Bls to 81s lid, standard lumps 82-, tit tiers ordinary:l,lo 81s 6(1, good 82s to 83s 6d, fine B.s to 87s. Hamburgh loavaLs 82s to 83s 6.1, good 84s 63 to 66s 6d, fine 87s to 925, and surio 93s to 97s per cwt. Treacle, common at 2tis 6d , patent 27s t°' best old make 29s 9d to 30s, and Gorden Syrup 30r cwt. Bastards, low sorts have been selling at 4' 50s to 525, good 53, to 555, and fine 56s to Pieces fine at 69s to 735, good 66s 6d to 68s, nai and common 6. sto 63s per cwt. Bonded crush , to 27s 3d for first, and •z6s 93 for second sort. 34s 6,1 to 355, 101bs :31s to 325, and 141bs 30a cwt. "I reacie s , Ils slowly at lOs 3:1 to lOs 6d. 131 to 15s 6d, and pieces at 16s to 22s per ewt. D Sugar, good quality at 23s 9d on board iu Holism 1 - . i A U ItITI US. - I his afternoon the trade operate 4,771 bags at public sale were all readily lisps pi ices Is higher, making the rise for the week I' cwt , good brown 57s to 58s, low yellow 593 lid to 6ls Cd to 63s 6d, good 64s to 665-fine, stone in f catchy titer: was much inquiry, and similar rat , The quantity unsold is under :28,000 bags. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon 1,489 bags 4 112 boxes Bengal Sugar were offered at public sold Is 6d above former rates ; low damp brown 46s 6,1, mid 48s to 49s 6d, good 50s to 525, tint as.d fine sound 5Ds to 555, damp yellow 59s 6d to sound white (date lurid) 64s to 64s 6d per cwt. F OKE/c ,..r.-Holders of Yellow Havannah are to press sales :,1 existing low rates, 17s 6d to / and fine, and Iris :Id to 17s for low and mid qual: zil pri,:es r-main the Off e as last week. Ai OLASSES. -For West India, prices rather last .., ee.: ; Antigua very superior at 325, fine cents good 28s, Sf. Kitts 26,, Ba:badoes fine 31s serratt good 27s to 28s lid, Dominica 27e to 29'1 tit. Lucia 24, per cwt Bengal Syrup 18s 6d I Foreign Molasses at 6s 6d to 7s per cwt. s CocoA.-There are few buyers of West Ind' withstandimg the low rates that prevail; Grenadi for good, and 33s for mid red. Tne market Foreign, but holders are unwilling to give wa: 35s to 365. t, ICE. -For white Bengal Rice, holders ha. disposed to realize, and p: ices have suffered a decli 6d per cwt, at ills to lOs 6d for good ml'' 105 lid for good bold new white; damaged at 7s to i3's first and second class; yellow, at 7s 3d to 8 s per cwt;' , good midding and good white lOs to lOs 6d ; middlt,Ml 9s 6d, low white 8s to 9s, good yellow 8s to Ss 6d, 7s 6d, refracted 6s to 7s 63, filled trom loose in ships 6d t'r 8s per cwt : 600 bags Madras went cheaper, viS. to 9s for fine yellow. Carolina at 26s to 30*; fine, at 17s 63 per cwt. Patna at 14s to 19s per cat. RUM, BRANDY AND HOLLA NDS. - Prices hart tained for Leeward Island Rum this week, cornea , 2s Id to 2s lid, mid 2s 23, good 2s 24d per gallon. Rum firm ; 0. P. fine quality at 5s 6d to 5s t3d, 32 to 34 0. P. 5s to 5s 3d per gallon. Detne!;•ara• quality 3s 8d to 3s It'd for fine. Calcutta Rum hai inquired tor, Is 6d to Is 6id is the value of proof at duty, but f T small parcels with certificate, holders ' Is 8d to Is lOid per gallon. In Alauritius Re firm. Cognac fit st brands of the vintage of 1837, puns 5s ; do 1838, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; do 18:39, - putis 4s 3d; du 1840, hhds 3s 10d, puns 55 act; di, hilt's 3s 9d, puns 3s 7d per gallon. kieneva Is lid quality. British Corn Spirits at 10s cash. COFFEE,-There has been a bri-k demand for all ecriptions of British Plantation Coffee this week, and have obtained an advance on previous rates of 2s to ' unclean kinds have btei: taken more freely, and ;iris. 'ln-day the home consumption market was firm, vately a fair business was transacted; sales of good of were made at 75s to 76s per cwt. In Foreign, howl business was transacted. There was no public 9 description. TEA.-7 he market has presented a firm appeara , this week. Importers have refrained from offering av lie save. and none is declared. A good demand has pi vate contract for black Tea to supply both town orders, and full rates have been paid. To-day the market was in a quiet state for Tea, and were made in either black or green sorts, but holder firm, and few parcels are offering for sale ; good, mound Congou cash is riot to be purchased under 1s 7d Fa LIT. -In Currants a large business has been ' superior sorts have brought full rates, but oth, rasher lower; tine l'atras has fetched 604, other 565, Zaote and Cephalonia 51 s to 525, and infer cwt. At public sale 55 butts 8 caruteels Pats. damaged went at 504 to 58s. There has been a ft, val. The tree of red Smyrna Raisins has declined cwt. A cargo has arrived. Valentia Raisins are request at ass ; for the best Figs the supply is scant wanted. SA Go. —This afternoon 600 bags Pearl Sago at sold at lower rates, viz., good pearl at 15s, and to 9s 6d per cwt. being cheaper. Hoes.—Although the accounts received from the. are uwavourable. there being a large increase of 6' trade have operated with caution ; factors however' ask high rates, but in the present state of the . difficult to give an accurate quotation. The duty i 9 at 110,COO1. OILS.--In common descriptions of Fish Oils a , has beers transacted this week. Holders have obtee. to 321 for Cud, 291 to 331 for Southern, 38/ for pale 311 to 36/ for yehow, brown, and straw colour. Seal is held for 341 per tun ; Sperm at 761 to 771 fo! ti,h. For Linseed Oil prices have been barely 32s V. for small parcels on the spot. Rape Oil, pa l to 475. brown 45, 93 to 46s per cwt. Olive Oil, for Galipoii, and 34/ to 55! fur S;Anish. Palm, for the be,t Cocoa Nut Oil, fine sort at 40s to 4 Southern Whalebone, 1331 to 13e/ per ton. I . fine Colon Cocoa Nut Oil went at 40s to 40s Palm, 301 to 321; 70 tuns fine Southern, 321 TA I.Low—There has been an increased i market, for Russian Tallow this week. Although variation has taken ;lace in price , , still they have e tendency. On the spot 48s to 4es 3d have been rates pad for small parcels of P. Y. Candle. rot the laq three months of the year 49s to 49s 3d per American 42s to 47s for low to fine quality. TOW° 46s nett cash. To-day there was little business transacted in P. 48s is the nearest price on the spot, and 49 , last three months of the year. LLOYD'S Si-lIPPIN LONDON, JUNE 10.—Wind this day at noon, MARGATE, JUNE 9.—The lonia, from Lot got on Margate Sands yesterday, but came off was thought into the harbour. DEAL, JUNE 9 —Wind N.E. to N.N.E. Volunteer, Mann, Berbice. Arrd from the " General Kyd, Madras ; Westminster, New Palermo. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9.—Wind N. E.— steamer Alexandria. Sailed, Wind CowEs, JUNE 9.—Arrd. Commodore N' vannah ; Barrington, Barton, New Orleans. Ore Pc:RTLA ND, JUNE 2.--Ava,tice, Sot Pernambuco ; Warsaw, Matanzas. COWES, JUNE 9. —The William, late Ft hence last evening for St. Petersburgh, grout Castle Point, but was got off the following tide damage, aid is now at anchor to the westward FALmourn, JUNE B.—Wind E., modem' Majesty's ship Star, Rio,' sld. April 10, with B,t PLYMOUTH. JUNE 9.—Wind Jordeson, Odessa. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9.—Wind S. E. modes Choo, Whippen, New Orleans; Emma, Tb , Johanna, Dunn, Iceland. Sld. Milo, Boston ; Herman, Philadelphia; John Bentley, St. Joh: wick ; Ninian. Lindsay, P.alifax ; Chase, Arrd. off, Earl Powis. Mauritius. I ; BRISTOL, JUNE B.—Arid Q Lotus, Samson , -- Pe p e t ga ral I,ir F. B. Head, ditto ; Wilkinson, Bro." D ;osit'._;Y" 9th, The Jane, of this port, sailed hence 01 11 _ 0 „ s t s'ruck on the rock at Piel, and has capsized 1" • . 1 1, 1 1') bottom up. aid is expected to become a wreck. , f ele2 6 1 ,1 GLOUCESTER, JUNE 9 —The Lord Pawl: 111 °,0 br` - 00 1 0, Barletta, which capsized on Sydney Grounds, titoipors and taken into Sharpness Basin, with masts cu o d e Ipf of bowsprit, &c. Her decks have given waY' two-thirds of the cargo is lost. O A d SHIELDS, JUNE 7.—t Ad. Fair Arcadian, l'l4 n e andria. Bth, Saladin, M'Kenzie Valpara i s o. ( . 1 O HARWICH, JUNE 9.—The 'Northumbria, OW Newcastle to Dordt, has been assisted in har e ' struck on llaiabro' Sands. i / -----"""-------"------.'..--- H oroot. , : he.,. lair ('n the 27th ult., at Gu ß y l H ß a T rl if ing S s, Che I A Dr. Badeley, of a son. - On th u e , , t (i th , lee Wight,.: fir f , oie 01 4 MARRIED• re l of - Ormiston, , atLc ofinag,stonnn.Priors, the , i ~, On the 9th inst., at 'A. George's, Bloornsbeti'ib Li 0 , greave, Esq., of Bloomsbury-place, to Eli/sbete• life' widow of George Ranken, Esq., of Tavistockl , t err i ii, On the 9th inst., at S. Alargaret's, estfe ln o. Se ~,, J. Hayman, to Harriet, oldest daughter a Abor , f Ar ' ' On the 7th inst.. at LeamlinlgEtoLin; Maq' cilughter " 0 :C /Ft# Middleton, F. , :q M D On the 24th " o ' f ' A . p . 1 a t Dover. Elizabeth. owiirearioe.a . Wiles Johnson, R.N.. ' of her aesty's shiP ,IY ou 'i c r ale , rgt On the 4th inst., at riackue‘, !Ir. (4 ,,,' I.l° i , 141 0 ' On the sth inst.. Rosa. the wife of Henry _, l 67. Oatland. near Kidderminster, aged 70. , . r.,,entrlisAW°ll lin the 7th inst., C. Ha•ris Esq• 0 ' ''''it i e 1 ,01 " On the 9th inst., Allimia, Wtreester. 'daughter of --* li.t Londcm Printed and Pub bed 11'111t1RD .12.(f. r"• .at Tiir ()tec'T.,Hiel° the County of liliddlisea, Satur:Of " Rent .„, 30s to 3 0 2 470 to 491 59s per lid 64s to led Sugar L o aves 6b° 6cl to 3i t Bastards st Dutch a ad. ted freeli aosed• of, Is 53 to P o 6ls, ri, t ; the sale; tes were, 450 cheiti tc sale, cfr fetched ne 54s 6tli ) 60s re less i 18s6df . Igty. FO above s to 325, and o 22s sq dia da at 341: is imacli r Oe! ave beau , ecline of riddling . Ms v' • tis - 6 -- d, 10,s . in ships ' per. vis• 1 4: ; fine.„ t. '4 have:l) o j common 'I Talton. J ' e Bd, good; ne;•ara or im has . , . proof at t' Aden; ark Rum pit 37, hhdell 839,1101 ' an ; ditto • Is Ild.: , .• t I for all a rk, and t" 2s to Sir I prices ate .s firm, good ord t n, howefte' ablie sale;; : 1 has w ' o l3erg a p re'. a 4 n il le: 1.il.:61;: OTea, an d j ,t holders„ , good,fl , ler Is 7d l• been tilto other ,' titer kIIP i inferior. Patras, en a futt:, , ecliara t? Los are .. s scanty l e ,- to at tweet rid corn. m the PIO L ie of Op ot o, ! re ver are, t f the We duty i s as a go o $ ll • obtol'o or pale 4, Llour. P go t > 771 for , i barely S.. A I ; ) • I, l' ale iol Oil, 59/ 4 01 3° ' Os to 41 , ' , 'this 41, 409 tid .; ' tr/ r. to 33 1 n o i , V i nae tivtt7 hough I/ en have s thd e gi l ii e be del d 3d per cl' ffr Town in P. lif "; je ' •lri i 19s for ~ 4 , E G. f... 1"/ . t° 91 ,ondon lg' i fr ago Ai E., fro torlt i . ....Art4 fi f o f h :eV c_es , d rapie.ro ' i rneav:d r aot r eiled ; :o s it s :: . . orr frl i i ii s ; , -Art ilY ; ni Tate' ' fd . boo 5 ' 1 'gri t • Vl7iif'toof ,Loh,tik .1 him that all he had to do was to represent his case, and be ac cepted as a claimant. Mr. Booker slid, he lam •teed to state that roar and de trepit persons were constantly sent awa: , from paces in whiell they had tatabli,hed settlements by guardians and relieving officers, whose. only object was to get. rid of tlte expelt-e situ trouble, without eating what parishes suffered from the unjust infliction of both. Ihe citizens of London were subjected to that sort of annoyance to a very great extent, although num berless complaints had been made. There was a peculiar hardship in the case of the unfortunate man, for he was al most a cripple, and had been unable for six weeks to do the work which would have kept him away from the parish altoge ther, and on which he had been hitherto dependent for support. Alderman FaaNcoman asked whether the man's account of himself weld be depended upon, and whether poor persons were not in the habit. of making charges without foundation against those who officiated ?-I\lr. Booker said he had no reason to doubt the man s statement, anti he trusted that the Poor-law Commissioners would make inquiry into, and check a practice of so oppressive a tendency, and from which great inconvenience was certainly arising. Ihe applicant had been in the parish of Bishopsgate for a few days, and the authori ties of that parish certainly would not send him into Wiltshire when he had an undoubted claim upon Norwich. Archer said the relieving-officer of Nom eh had advised the Guardians to give him money to pa t his expenses, in order to get rid of him. Alderman FARICCOMBE desired that the man's examination should be taken down, arid that notice should be sent to the Guardians or the relieving-officer at Norwich, that an order would be transmitted with the claimant torthwith. If that otder should not be complied with, the vestry clerk of Bi.hopsgate could write to the Poor-law Commissioners upon the subject. A case relating to the overchargas frequently made by some Custom-house agents, came on a few days ago, of which the Lord Mayor requested a s , •rt of general notice might be taken by the flea spapers, as likely to lead to remedy, wittiout the present addition of particular details. A gentleman who resides at the \Vest-end of the town, stated that a Custom-house agent had made an excessive overcharge in clearing one package of baggage brought to London, in a ship fram t, eylon. The Loan Alstasoit, who is thoroughly acquainted with questions of this sort, expressed surprise at the amount of the charge, and declared that it was more than double what it ought to have been. His Lordship advised the complaining party not to submit to such an impaition, and expressed a hope that he public would object to normous charges made under similar circumstances. His Lordship added, that, in his judg ment. if the question had been brought under the notice of the Honourable Commissioners of taistoin-, the individual re ferred to, as having overcharged, would not be allowed to act as a Custom-house agent any longer. add to Marlborough-street. Yesterday James Glindon was for the third time brought up for further examination, charged with having been concerned, with three well-known thieves who have been since convicted and sentenced to ifteen ears' transportation in hustling and robbbing Sir Wm. Henry Palmer, Bart., of No. Hereford-street, Park-lane, of Roger- his purse, containlng It. 135., as he was proceeding along Regeut-street on the 4th of April last. Mr. Wontner, the solicitor, again attended on the prisoner's behalf. The particulars of this case appeared in The Sun on the first ex. mtnation. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the ensuing Westminster Sessions, and Sir Boger and the witnesses bound over so appear against him. The prisoner was also identified as being an associate 01 common pickpockets, and of having been twice summarily convicted of ;bat offence himself. His mother, who is a respectable aged widow living on an annuity from Government, was present during the examina tion, and was so overwhelmed with g. lel that she was obliged to be carried out of the office. Thomas O'Shea, a middle-aged man, of dirty and dissipated appearance, and three-parts drunk, was placed at the bar on the following charge : The prisoner is an officer in the Hon. East India Company's service. on half-pay, and has been repeatedly brought before this Court for thunken and disorderly conduct. On his being brought into Court, Mr. HARDWICK exclaimed—Why, I sent that man to the House of Correction only a few days ago; how can he be here now? • Ali. Fitzpatrick (the Chief Cleik) said he was committed only for a week, and his time had teip red. Mr. Edward Tyler, of N'. 31.)0, Ite,cut-strect, stated, that about half-past e!even o'clock yesterday morning, as he was walking arm-in-arm with his brother through Church-pas• slge, Piccadilly, the. Itri,oner came staggering up in brunt of them, and spat in both their laces. On being reproached by some bystanners at behaving in such a disgusting manner, he boasted, that if it had been the Duke of Wellington he would have served him the same." The prisoner , a as fined 3/., but, being penniless, was sent to the treadmill for a month. GUILDHALL. MARKET INTELLIGIENCE. CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals have beer, moderrtp of all sorts of Grain. The extreme finencss of the ltoneps-the -who's t;lfile dull. at the trio,. of Monil.;y ,t. Earley spa - O ats rather t, nd upwards. The sale of • I'lour this; week has bees ineonsider,ible at last quotations. SMITH FIELD. The supply of Cattle was short , but otherwise good. Ili . demand for fled was good, but with little alte ration in iWi,es• Mutton, Lamb, V, al. and Pork little in demand, something lower than our last qtrit.ltions. Beasts, 442. AfeeP and Lambs, 11,460, Pigs, :111, Calves, 475. Beef, 3s. to4s. Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. 4 d. to 4 s. 10d. ; • Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. , Lamb. ss. to 6 5 . COLONIAL MARKET. A fair business was done at firm rates ; the ho me trade were the chief operators. Triots y -g' A '4, 10 ~o ~~~ vJ, ~~; ~. • *1 - - • 1 tile Ac . th; Co' fol • 'it • r 111 ~..# 1 Z . ]. . . . v ~, c's ' el; . .4`