The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-05 00:00:00

Vfiirb Witition SUN-OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. - SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PArlaS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—There were two dangers in passing such a measure as the Reform in Parliament ; one of which may be deemed to have been surmounted, but the other still threatens us. The danger which then appeared most imminent to the opponents, or timid friends, of the measure, was that its passing would open the floodgates of unlimited and irresistible change. That the Reform would not be a " final measure" —understanding finality in the sense in which alone honest interpreters ever construed the expression—i.e. that its principles, and leading provisions, would not continue to be regarded, for the ordinary term of things human, as a settlement of the question professed and intended to be settled by its passing—and, for the sake of settling which with some permanence, a large measure was proposed for adoption. if the statesmen who passed the Reform had proved unable to resist the urgency of the movement party for a second Reform Bill, and if it had proved possible to push through a " Reform of the Reform Act," by aid of the pressure from without, we have no hesitation in saying that the greatest dan ger would have fallen on the country which alarmists could anticipate, or revolutionists could desire. We have been saved from that danger at some expense of popularity to the statesmen who resisted it, amongst that class who claimed an exclusive right to the title of Reformers, because they set no limit to change in the form of our institutions. But there was another danger, besides that of reforming too much in one direction. That, indeed, we believe was the greatest danger which then threatened us. The " balance of power" has been treated as a chimera by some politicians, with whom the fact that any doctrine in politics, as in morals, was held before Bentham, is quite sufficient reason for disbelieving it. We conceive that doctrine expresses an important political truth, and that it is precisely the destruction of the balance of powers, and the creation of an absolute p ower in one order of the State, which is the danger to be guarded against most carefully in all organic changes. Whether the order, to which all power is practically transferred by such change is'aristocratic or demo cratic, we conceive that mischief is only done by the very fact that an absolute power is created in any quarter. The question then is, whether giving up the Reform Bill as no final measure of organic change—and surrendering the amended Par liamentary system to a new Radical remodelling, would have been, or would not have been, a virtual avowal that one order was to be absolute in the State, and that its dictates were to be irresistible by the most solemn decisions of the whole Legislature. We are not in the habit of dissembling our views on these questions, and we say plainly that such an admission of a second change, on pure democratical principles, would have been—would be—in our view equivalent to the most violent revolution which could possibly take place in any old and established empire. STANDARD.—Fastidious critics may quarrel with the style of the Kidderminster operatives ad dress, though, as it is much easier to discover faults than to amend them, such critics might be at a loss to write better ; and, at all events, the evidence of strong sense, calm thought, earnestness, and sin cerity, the best qualities of any composition, is too plain in the address to leave any excuse for cavilling at style. Such an address, proceeding from a body of 1,367 men, in no very high rank, earning their daily bread by daily labour, is a gratifying tes testimony to the truth of the proposition which we are proud to have always maintained, whether against Whig-Radicals, who looked with hope of evil to the education of the people, or against Conservatives, who looked with apprehension ; our proposition is, that all Englishmen, at all times, and in every rank, are essentially the same—alike benevolent, reasonable, and just— and that consequently the more they are instructed, the more strikingly will these noble cha racteristics be manifested. The excesses of popular violence in other countries, and of the very ignorant in our own, instead of proving that it is dangerous to educate the labouring classes, really prove the very reverse. Education is power; and power acquired by men will be exercised according to their nature. The very moment you educate an Englishman up to the point that gives fair play to the understand ing, you attach him to the institutions of his country, because you show him that these institutions are the best calculated that circumstances will permit for the moral as well as physical well-being of the whole. llonce the phenomenon that, with as much party spirit as exists in any nation, or probably more, England never gives a deep root for faction. The people love their country and its institutions, because they love what is good and just and wise. They may, as all men may, be perplexed by conflicting theories, as to the best means of promoting the common prosperity ; and they may, as well as all men may, be deceived in the cha racter and designs of those who claim their confidence ; hence party spirit, sometimes wrong, often violent. The intuitive good sense of the nation is, however, always a sufficient guard against the spirit of faction to any considerable extent ; and, as in the case of the Chartist petition, the grossest frauds must be first committed to entrap the more ignorant into the ap pearance of a factious spirit, and equally gross frauds t) magnify the appearance, when obtained, into any thing like a formidable character. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) SOUTHAMPTON. Mr. Austin having concluded his reply shortly after Three 'Clock, the room was cleared. In three quarters of an hour strangers were re-admitted, when The CHAIRMAN . said the Committee had come to the fol lowing resolution:—That Lord Bruce and Mr. C. C. Martyn had, by their agents, been guilty of bribery and treating at the last election for the borough of Southampton ; that it was not proved that either Lord Bruce or Mr. Martyn had been guilty of personal bribery at the said election. Mr. COCKBURN then called on the Committee to declare the late election for Southampton null and void. The CHAIRMAN asked if Mr. Cockburn abandoned the claim set forth in the petition, that Messrs. Mangles and Hutchins should be declared elected? Mr. CocicoußN replied that he thought he could not press for that point. The CHAIRMAN then said it would be necessary for the Committee to frame a resolution, to the effect that those Gen tlemen were not elected. It was then announced that the Speaker was at prayers, and the Committee adjourned till to-morrow. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE. The examination of Mrs. Wayte, continued from our After noon Edition :—lfer husband was examined, and admitted that he had applied to Mr. Harding, the attorney of Mr. Harris, the sitting Member, for the expenses incurred at the Cock by the committee. He said that the only liquors served to the com mittee, or by their order, were wines, ales, and cyder. He v denied that an spirits were ever served to the burgesses. Eliza Davis, servant to the two former witnesses, being examined, said, that she saw Mr! Harris the sitting Member, three times in the committee-room, at the Cock. - She had also seen, on one occasion , spirits served to the voters, whe had become very clamorous, and declared that they would net vote for Mr. Harris, unless they were served with spirits. The Committee adjourned at Four o'clock. QUEEN S BENCH.—(T HIS DAY.) 'ME QUEEN v. ALLEY NE.—JUDGMENT. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Lord DENMAN interrupted the reading of this portion of the affidavit, by asking if it was necessary in the present ease to go into those circumstances ? Are there any affidavits relating to the immediate cause of the challenge? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (who appeared for the prosecu tion) said that he had affidavits showing that the conduct of defendant was such as to justify suspicions being entertained as to the fact whether Mrs. Hemming was his sister. Lord DENSIA.N...-It is to be regretted, if such be the case, that no justification was pleaded in the other trial. The Soucrroa-Ges ERA L said that no justification could have been pleaded without proving a marriage, as the words imputed bigamy. Lord Derrstaw thought it was much to be regretted that the defendant had not accepted Mr. Power's offer, to leave the matter to the decision of gentlemen to be chosen by part par ties. Mr. Power bad acted with the gr eatest •eropriety in making the offer. It appeared, f rom dfendant s own affi davits, that he had put himself in the wrong , because the mar riage had taken place in a false na me , and under a false descrip tion. There was not the slightest doubt, however, but that the defendant and Mrs . .Hemming were brother and sister, and the suspicion to the contrary, therefore, was totally un founded. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, if the Court thought the reading. the affidavits unnecessary, he would not press for their being read; he would merely mention the fact that he had an affidavit from a person, named Baker, stating that he had taken the house No. 7, Wandsworth-road, alluded to in de fendant's affidavit, from a person named Rhoda Mary Chard, the daughter of Henry Chard, since the marriage of Mrs. Dempster Hemming, and that he had seen Mrs. Dempster H em ming, who was not the same person as Rhoda Mary Chard, fro whom he had taken the house.He ought to add that it was not his intention to read any affidavits for the pus.- pose of showing that there was an y im p roper connexion between the parties. Lord DENMAN thought that since the fact was distinctly admitted, it would be useless going further into the fact of the case. The question really was whether a gentleman standing on the floor of tle Court should be fined one shilling or twenty, and that was the narrow foundation on which it was proposed to build up this monster process. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he proposed to show that the reports did riot originate with the prosecution —that they were in circulation throughout the country, and that they had their origin in the misconduct of the defendant. Lord DENMAN—The reports were that they were not brother and sister, but man and wife. Now as that imputa tion is withdrawn, it strikes me that all the rest is unimportant to the present case. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL suggested the propriety of having those parts of the affidavits read which went to show that the prosecutor did not originate the report. The reading of the affidavit of Mr. Power was then con tinued, from which it appeared that the defendant had repre sented himself and his sister to be the nephew and niece of Sir Reinhold Alleyne, and that, on the discovery of the falsehood of that representation, various reports derogatory t o t h e cha racter of defendant and Mrs. Hemming were circulated, and that the prosecutor drew the attention of defendant to these reports, but that defendant neglected to take any measures in consequence. The affidavit of Baker, alluded to by the Sw lieitor-General, was likewise read, and also the affidavit of Mr. .f. W, Moore, who had . known defendant and his sister when they resided at Finchley, as Mr. and Miss Alleyne. It ap peared from Mr. Moore's affidavit, that he had at that period fallen in love with Miss Alleyne, but the defendant refused to permit him to be introduced to her until he (Moore) had paid down 3,000/. Moore did lodge 2,000/. in the bank of Glyn and Company, in the name of trustees, of whom defendant was one, for the purpose of making a settlement on the mar riage. Moore gave the receipt to Alleyne, who drew out the money. The day for the marriage was fixed, when Alleyne informed Moore that an aunt of his sister's had died at Croy don, and that consequently the marriage must be postponed. Alleyne asked Moore to accompany them to the funeral, and they set out in a mourning-coach for Croydon. As they were proceeding down Milbank -street, Miss Alleyne was taken sud denly ill, and the defendant asked Moore to take her home; he consented to do so, and returned with Miss Alleyne accord ingly to her brother's house. On inquiry it turned out that there had been no funeral at Croydon on that day, nor had any person of the same name as that represented to have been the name of the aunt died at Croydon. Various excuses were made for post poning the marriage, until at last Mr. Moore heard that the lady was about to be married to Mr. Hemming. He threat ened to prosecute Alleyne and his sister, when the former gave Moore a cognovit for 2,0001., the money he had drawn from the Bank; and after some difficulty Moore had got his money back by instalments, but not until he had threatened a prosecution. Another affidavit was put in, to show that Henry Chard had been a bankrupt, and that his ex amination had been adjourned sine die by the Commissioners. Lord DENM A N—From the affidavits it appears that there..is strong evidence against the defendant and his sister for a con spiracy, but we are not now tryinc , him for conspiracy. I do not say that they may not have some effect in the sentence to be passed, but it is obvious that the defendant ought to have an opportunity of answering them. It appears to me that the best mode would be to give him an opportunity of answering them if he thinks proper, and after that the prosecutor may bring the defendant up for judgment if he thinks it necessary. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—We had better, then, hand the affidavits over to the other siee. _ _ Mr. Sergeant GouLnuaN, on the part of the defendant, would take any cowse the Court might think fit. Lord DENMAN—Copies of all the affidavits shall be handed to your client. If he is desirous of answering them, he shall have the opportunity. Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN—When will your Lordship fiz for bringing up the defendant for judgment? Lord DENMAN—We will not fix any time. The defendant then withdrew. THE QUEEN V. HARVEY.—QUO WARRANTO. In this case a rule nisi had been obtained calling upon the defendant to show cause why a writ of quo warranto should not issue calling upon him to show by what right he exercised the office of Alderman of the borough of Liverpool. It appeared that on the 29th October, 1841, Mr. Harvey had been elected an Alderman of Liverpool. Among the qualifi cations to hold this office, it was enacted that the person hold ing such office must be entitled to be upon the burgess list of the borough. It was admitted that Mr. Harvey was not upon the burgess-roll which came into operation on the let of November, 1840, that he was entitled to be in the list made out by the Overseers on the 15th of Septem ber, 1841, approved by the Assessor on 15th of October , 1841, and which would become the Burgess-roll on the Ist of Novem ber__,_lB4l. Mr. KELLY showed cause against the rule, and contended that the fact of his being on the new list was his qualification, and that the Legislature intended the qualification to be, that a person should be on the list of burgesses in contradistinction to this roll. Mr. meTow followed on the same side. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL contended that the qua liflcation was, that a person must be on the burgess roll; that the distinction attempted to be drawn between the list and the roll was fallacious; and that the Legislature in tended that the roll, and the roll only, should be the document to which reference was to behad to prove a qualification. Mr. WORTLEY followed on the same side. The CouaT took time to consider its judgment. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Second Edition.) THEILHEIMER V. COLBATCH. The plaintiff in this case was a merchant at Hamburgh, the defendant an eminent warehouseman at Globe-yard, Lower Thames-street, and this action was brought by way of trover, to recover two casks of bristles, warehoused with the defendant for the plaintiff. The statements on both sides at the trial were very conflicting. The'principal witness for the plaintiff was Miss Mary Anne Theilheimer, his sister, who swore that she entered the goods at the defendant's ware house, iq her brother's name. For the defendant, on the contrary, his clerk, Mr. Day, swore positively that Miss F., on entering the goods, gave her name Blumenthal, at the same time re questing not to acknowledge to any one that the goods were her's. He accordingly sent for the goods, and had them brought from on board the Neptune from Hamburgh. Shortly aftewards he received a notice from the owners of the Neptune to detain the goods for freight, and subsequently two attachments were served upon the defendant from persons alledging that they had alien on the property. Miss Theilhemer, however, swore positively that she never gave the name of Blumenthal, and that the entry in the name which was produced could only have been made by the mistake of the Clerk. The Jury found for the plaintiff. and a rule was obtained to set aside, the verdict as contrary to evidence. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE this day, in giving judgment, said this was one of the cases in which the Court found great difficulty in deciding, but in which they ought to abide by the general rule, unless there was something pecu liar to make it an exception. It was impossible not to say that the motion for a new trial involved a charge of perjury against Miss Thielheimer, and therefore the rule ought not to be granted on that ground, unless the preponderance of evidence was clearly against her. It was not denied that there was strong evidence on both sides, and it was not denied that the incongruity was pointed out to the Jury, leaving it to them decide to which witness they would give credit. They, therefore, having everything before them, and having decided one way upon that evidence, why should the Court send down the case for a new trial contrary to the ge neral rule. He thought the case ought to remain where it was, Mr. Justice COLTMAN was not satisfied that a charge of per jury was made out against Miss Thielheimer, and he thought there was no ground for impeaching the verdict. A good deal of doubt might exist about the case at the time after trial, but it had been fully submitted to the Jury, and he was not prepared to say that they did not came to the right conclusion. Mr. Justice ERSKINE said there was a direct contra diction between the plaintiff's witness and Mr. Day, and the Jury believed her in preference. If he (the Learned Judge) had been on the Jury, he might, from the evidence, have come to an opposite conclusion; but still he could not say that the Jury were wrong, and that there should be a new trial. Mr. Justice Canssww. concurred with the other Judges, and the rule for a new trial was discharged. WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Joseph Johns, a young man of fashionable exterior, was charged with having created a disturbance in Spital-sguare. Police-constable H 49, stated that shortly after one o'clock this morning he noticed a crowd of persons in Spital-square, amongst whom was the defendant, who had thrown off his coat, preparatory to engaging in a fistic encounter with one of the bystanders. He desired the parties to move on, and the defendant's antagonist immediately did so, but the defendant refused, and he was compelled to take him to the station-house. In his defence, the prisoner said that he was returning home from the City of London Theatre, when he met three men, one of whom insulted a lady who was under his protection, and he was about to chastise his insolence, when the policeman came up, and although he heard the man abuse him in a gross man ner, he allowed him to depart, and took him (defendant) into custody. The Magistrate considered that the policeman had not ex ceeded his duty under the circumstances, but as the prisoner had already suffered sufficiently he should discharge him. FATAL DUEL. AT PALERMO. We have been favoured with the following from a gentleman at Palermo, dated April 23 : " A most melancholy event has just occurred at this town, which has caused the greatest excitement throughout all the country to the foreign and native at present residing here. Having arrived on the spot where the catastrcphe took place almost immediately after its having happened, and learned all the particulars, I feel it my duty to send a statement of it as non u possible, in order that no misrepresentation may occur. A yacht is just on the point of starting for Marseilles, and I send this by a friend who is proceeding direct to England, in order that he may deliver it to the public press. The event was as follows : ‘, Two officers of the 88th, now quartered at Malta, hav ing procured leave of absence, had come over for a few days to Sicily; they had landed about three days at this place, when yesterday evening a quarrel arose between one of the officers, Lieut. J. Brooke Johnson, and a Neapolitan Noble man, the Due di Calabritti, which proceeded to such lengths that Mr. Johnson, who was somewhat intoxicated, struck the other such a violent blow on the mouth that it knocked out his two front teeth. A meeting this morning was the consequence. Before the affair had got wind to the police, the Due de Cala br:tti, being attended by Mons. del Balzoff and Signor Parisi, while Mr. Johnson was accompanied by his brother officer, Lieutenant Norton, and another English gentleman, called Markland, the combatants were placed at fifteen paces distance, pistols being the weapons used. The first fire took place without effect ; but, unfortunately, notwithstanding every attempt made to reconcile the parties, a second fire was in sisted on, when, horrible to relate, Mr. Johnson was shot dead on the spot, his own shot wounding his antagonist in the face so desperately as to carry away part of the nose, disfiguring him most probably for life. The seconds are all in custody, and it is feared will be hardly dealt with, as the laws against duelling are very severe in this country. As may be imagined, a great groom is thrown over all here by this very unhappy affair." FOREIGN FUNDS. DUTCH FUN OS.—Asismaoard, MAY 3. . Money. Bills. Actual Debt, `2N per Cent aittc. ditto 5 per cent. ... 101% , 11,1 ii Auloi t Syndic,4% per cent .. 113 1 4. Cesfi Ditto, ditto. 334 per cent •••• 77 :8 Commercial Company, 4i4 per cent .... 154 15.5 1 A Ditto ( V 35 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... 100 100. Loan 1937, 5 per cent. • 99 993% ) Exchange on London, T wo month.. ....• 12 IS .• months ........ 12 05 Ilarnburgh, One month 25 31% Two months 35 12 34 Dutch Papers, May 4. tim.c t A N ~, UNDS—Baussets, MAY 3 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 103, 4 ~, Rothsch. id's Loan 5 per C , lit Loan of Thirty I.(i ' llions, 4 per Cent..., 9 3% • — 3 per Cent. ....... .. ---.• Thirty -seven---- -- ... ...... 10 7 :: 1 1 -----(1e4 0 ) Loan of - City, F 32, 4 per Cent. O4 Society of Commerce, 4 ~,i per Cent Oti Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ......... rfztiona I Society — Exchange on London (short) .... — .....ulisluitsitAtiN le S Papers, May 3. A FUNDS.—Vielyrcs, APRIL 25. Live per Cgats.Dletalliques • lOB3 Forst per Cents. 94% Three p ;I' Cents. Bank sharps HAMBURGH BORSENH A LLE, APRIL 30. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1(73 % Anglo. Russian Loan 1715 1711 110% 11% Russian 5 per Cent., let series, Certificate lOl Inseliption, let series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th 1' 37'l 1( 3% Series 99% 99 Ditto in Certificates I 9 ... New 4 per Cent. ( 1840 ) 9( Dutch Actual Debt, ig% per Cent Di tto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds 1 . 155 New Tickets 17131 _ Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per - Cents. GREAT FIRE IN LOCIIAR Moss.—On the evening of Friday last a tremendous fire was seen burning on the Caer laverock side of Lochar Moss, which, it appears, originated near the present resting. place of the steam-plough, right op.. posite to Brocklehirst. Judging from the eye, the range of conflagration exceeded a mile, and, as night closed in, attracted the marked attention of all travellers along the line of the Annan-road. '1 he flame seemed to rise to the height of seven or eight feet, and flickered so splendidly far and near, above and around, that the conflagration, on a scale far exceeding Muirburn, was at once appalling, sublime, and beautiful. Old birds and hares in great numbers were seen flying and running from the scene of danger, leaving pouts and leverets to their fate.—Duntfries Courier. The price of bread in Paris is faed, for the first fortnight in May, at 33c. the kilogramme. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY i'VENINCT, MAI 5, 1842. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before Folll* o'Clock KERRY ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that the petition against the return of the Hon. W. Browne, and Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell, for the county of Kerry was withdrawn. DUNDEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY. The Report of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway was brought up. THIRD READINGS. The Bristol and Gloucester Railway, the Equitable Gas, and the Bristol Floating Dock Bills were each read a third time and passed. CATHOLIC SOLDIERS. Mr. ANSTEY presented a petition, complaining that Catholics were still subjected to many grievances, part titularly of serving in tha army and navy, or as inmates of Poor-law Union-houses and Prisons. Mr. BUSFIELD presented a petition from Man chester, signed by 991 persons, praying that the hours of working in factories may be limited. Mr. HARDY presented st petition to the same effect. POOR-LAWS. Mr. HALFORD presented a petition from the guar dians of a Poor-law Union in Leicestershire, praying the House to protect the guardians in giving relief to able-bodied labourers for the space of one week at least. Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from Barnstaple, against the Poor Law Amendment Act. Mr. FERRAND presented two petitions from York shire, numerously signed, praying that the Poor Laws might be revised. NATIONAL EDUCATION—(IRELAND). Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from a place in Mayo, against the system of National Education in Ireland. Colonel ACTON presented a similar petition from a place in Wicklow. • An HON. MEMBER presented three petitions from Cork, with a similar prayer. Mr. HARDY presented a petition from Dewesbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying that the soli citors may be relieved from the certificate duty. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from Clerken well, praying for the openining of the Metropolitan Bridges. Captain GORDON presented a petition from Aber deen against the importation of foreign cattle. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from Macroom, in the county of Cork, praying for a post-office commu nication between Bristol and Cork. Mr. MUNDAY presented a petition from Belfour, praying the House to pass a measure to remedy the pre sent state of the law with regard to bastardy. The Order of the Day for the second reading of the Public House Bill was read for the purpose of its being postponed to the 18th of May. Mr. G. BANKES presented a petition from the in habitants of . Portland against the admission of foreign stones free of duty. Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from certain in - habitants of Spitalfields against the tolls on Metropolitan Bridges. POOR LAWS. Mr. EOLVILLE presented a petition from the Board of Guardians of the Poor-law Union of Ossulton, pray ing for an amendment in the Poor-law, but retaining the principle of Gilbert's Act. INCOME-TAX. _ Mr. HUME pre;nted a petition from the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Newport, Isle of Wig ht, bearing the seal of the Corporation, and signed by the mayor. The petitioners stated, that the proposed Income tax was likely to be highly injurious to them as traders. The petitioners prayed the House not to tax profes sional incomes in the same way as capital and land. Lord F. EGERTON presented a petition from Pres ton, against the Poor-law Bill. Mr. BORTHWICK presented a petition from Evers ham, against the Poor-law Bill. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from Halifax and several other places, praying for an alteration in the Poor-law Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Council of the British Medical Association, against the Income-tax. LYME REGIS ELECTION. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET brought up the Report of the Committee of selection, reporting that the following Members had been selected to try the merits of the Lyme Ilegis election, viz. :—Mr. Thornley, Lord Barrington, Mr. E. Ellice, Mr. Round, Mr. B. Wood, Mr. E. Carwell, and fir. B. Hawes. CORN LAWS. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition, which, he said, came rather after its time ; it was from Bolton, praying the House to consent to the total repeal of the Corn-laws. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES. The HON. MEMBER then presented a , petition from the Dissenters of the same place, complaining of the dif ficulty of access, without the payment of heavy fees, to the documents relating to births, deaths, and mar riages, and praying for some alteration in the present system. SABBATH OBSERVANCE. Lord SANDON presented a petition from some place _n Scotland, praying for the enactment of a law for the better observance ofqhe Lord's day. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. S. FRENCH gave notice that, on that day fort night he should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of Medical Charities in Ireland. ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that, on to-morrow he meant to ask of Lord Chelsea,Mr.Russell,Capt.Plumridge; Sir J.C. Hobhouse,Sir J.Larpent, and M. H. Elphinstone, whether any of them was cognisant of or party to any arrangement, by which it had been agreed that one or other of those Hon. Members were to accept the Steward ship of the Chiltern Hundreds, in order to vacate their seats, notwithstanding any of them had been declared duly elected by the Select Committee appointed to try the merits against his return.--(Hear, hear.) Be also gave notice that .he should, on to-morrow, move for a Select Committee to inquire whether certain parties connected with the trial of petitions presented to that House against the return of its Members, were not a gross breach of its privileges. The Hon. Member then added that he should put the same question to Mr. John Attwood and to Major Beresford, as to the other Members he had mentioned ; and he should oppose the issuing of any writ for a return for any of the places re presented by those Honourable Members, until the questions he should put were satisactorily answered. Mr. BORTHWICR gave notice that, on to-morrow, he would move that the petition which he had presented yesterday, from the Mayor and Town-council of Eves ham, be printed with the Votes. Mr.i HUME moved for returns, under various heads, of sums expended for the public service ; but the Hon. Gentleman spoke in so indistinct a tone of voice, and the noise in the body of the House was such, that he was quite inaudible in the gallery. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Mr. P. M. STEWART begged to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, of the deepest import ance to the people of Scotland. Owing to the unex pected turn which the question of the Scotch Church had taken on the previous night, from the Government promising to introduce a Bill for the settlement of the Church of Scotland, he begged to ask when that Bill would be introduced, and to express his earnest wish that in justice to the people of Scotland it might be introduced between the present time and the meeting of the General Assembly, which would take place a fortnight hence, that the measure might receive the consideration of that body. Sir J. GRAHAM said he would appeal to the House to say whether the Hon. Gentleman had rightly stated what he (Sir J. Graham) had announced to the House. In putting the question, the Honourable Gentleman had assumed that he had promised, on the part of the Governmem, the immediate introduction of the Bill. What he had stated was, that her Majesty's Go vernment had received from various quarters in Scotland, from persons of opposite opinions, all entitled to the highest respect, such communications as had led her Majesty's Government to, entertain a hope that a settle ment of the unhappy differences that had divided the Church of Scotland might be possible.—(Hear, hear.) To that statement he adhered. Those communications were still in progress ; no measure had been matured but he did entertain a hope that it would be possible for the Government, on its responsibility, to introduce such a measure. The Hon. Member for Argyllshire had con sented to postpone his Bill for six weeks, and he (Sir J. GI abate) would say now what he had said before, that between this time and that, if the hopes of the Govern ment should be realised. the Bill mould be introduced, and the Hon. Member should have due notice of its in troduction. BOROUGH- OF SUDBURY. Mr. REDINGTON said, that as he gave notice of a motion for Tuesday next • respecting the borough of Sudbury, and as he understood that precedence was to be given to the Orders of the Day, he wished to know what course the Right _lion. Baronet would adopt with regard to his (Mr. Redington's) motion, and whether he would allow its precedence ? Sir R. PEEL said, that when he proposed that the Orders of the Day should have precedence of motions, he remarked the absence of the Hon. Gentleman, and stated that he would not ask - for precedence except on the condition of the Hon. Gentleman's acquiescence, be cause as the Hon. MeMber had fixed Tuesday, he (Sir R. Peel) should be unwilling:to interfere with him. But the Noble Lord the Mem ber for London suggested that the Orders of the Day need not be postponed in conse quence of the notice of motion of the Bon. Gentleman. The House would bear in mind, that that was the cause why he (Sir h. Peel) persevered.— (Hear, hear.) He thought the House consented that he should take Tuesi day next, and that he would not interfere with the mo-1 tion of the Hon. Gentleman for that day. Mr. REDINGTON said•he was not present when the Right Hon. Baronet spoke, and he could not lean, prei cisely what had passed on the 9ceasion. He would state to the House, as shortly as he could, the views of the Committee. The Hon. Gentleman then gave notice, that he would move on Tuesday, that the issuing of the writ for the borough of Sudbury be suspended to the 11th of June. .._ • MR. BIDDIMPH. Mr. SHIM - , gave notice, that he would postpone till Monday his question respecting Mr. Biddulph. NAVY ESTIMATES. Captain PECHELL wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, whether he would bring on the Navy Estimates on to-morrow, or on Monday. The reason he asked the question was, that the Gallant Commodore, the Member for Marylebone, who was in terested in the subject, was in the country, and it would be a convenience to him to ascertain the fact. Sir R. PEEL said, certainly not to-morrow, in con sequence of the Income-tax. APPOINTMENT OF BOROUGH MAGISTRATES. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Gateshead, against the recent appointment of Borough Magistrates. The Hon. Memler then proceeded to move for copies of circulars sent out by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the various Town-clerks or Clerks to the Magistrates, between the months of August and December, 1841, requiring information as to the state of the Magistracy in the towns to which such circulars were sent, as to the number of such Magistrates, and of those who had qualified themselves to act. He would offer no apology to the House for bringing under it the subject .of which he had given notice ; for if, the view which he took was correct, it was a matter which imperatively required die attention of the House of Commons. Fortunately, for the liberty of the people of this country, the right of nominating municipal Magistrates had never till a very recent period been vested in the Go vernment. Up to the year 1836 the municipalities of England, almost without exception, enjoyed the right of electing their own magistrates. The right was one which had been inherited by the people from the earliest founders of their institutions, and on that account perhaps it was entitled to their veneration. But it had more solid and practical claims on their re spect. It was admirably adapted for preserving harmony between the Government and those who administered the law throughout the country. Accordingly it was preserved by the Government of Lord Grey, in the Bill which was introduced for reforming the Corporations of Scotland ; and as the Right Hon. Baronet had been a member of Lord Grey's Government, he must have heard with interest and satisfaction of the well-working of the system of which he was in part respon sible. In 1835 it formed one of the provisions of the Bill introduced by the Government of Lord Melbourne for reforming the Corporations in Eng land and Wales. The provision received the unanimous sanction of the House of Commons, but unfortunately, in one of those angry quarrels which had occurred with the other House, it was struck out of the Bill. When . the Bill came down from the other House of Parliament, mutilated in that, as well as in manye ade of that r other r respects, the Noble Lord, then th e l llouse, though he deplored the circumstance of this provision being struck out of the Bill, did not consider it a sufficient reason for rejecting the measure. He observed that he did not think any Minister would be found 'hereafter, who would refuse to the corporations the exercise of this right ; and he remarked, that if any Minister should hereafter be found, he did not doubt but that the House of Commons would not be slow to censure his conduct. The Noble Lord further added, that so long as he held the seals of the Home Office, he should think it his duty to perpetuate the 'ancient practice of the land ; and that no Magistrate should be appointed ix the Corpora tions till he had previously consulted with the town council. With this understanding the Bill passed the House of Commons, and then it was that the ancient rights, which they had recently granted to the people of Scotland by the unanimous sanction of both Houses of Parliament in 1833, which the peope of England had inherited from the date of their earliest in stitutions, which they had preserved in some sort or other through all revolutions for eight hundred years, snatched from them at last, and uncondi tionally given up. He hoped one day to introduce a Bill into that House which would restore to the people of England those ancient rights, for he believed the mu nicipalities of the country were the only safe sup ports of the constitutioa.- 7 --(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, the then Secretary of State for the Home De partment, acted'up to the declaration he made. It was then remarked that his adoration was made before the Bill had received the sanction of that House. It had been said, " yes, it is very fine to consult the Corpo rations so long as the Corporations are of your own po litical opinions." There would have been som justice in the sarcasm if the Noble Lord had made that declara tion after the result of the municipal elections had been determined. But he determined on his course before the Bill had passed that House—before the Corporations had been established—before any man living could pos sibly foresee what would be the result of the municipal Elections. It was then that the 'Noble Lord made that declaration to the House and to the country, and to that delaration he adhered. He (Mr. Hutt) could not con ceive why that example could not be followed. He knew very well it might be said that Corporations did not invariaby recommend the fittest persons to the borough magistracy. He (Mr. Hutt) admitted that he thought it not impossible that the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir James Graham) might . be prepared to shuw many instances in which they had erred ; but did not Lords- Lieutenants sometimes err in their selections of the Ma gistrates for the burgh municipalities. No man would argue that because they sometimes erred, that therefore they must never be appealed to.—(Hear.) Whoever was a good Magistrate for his neighbourhood, for the municipality in which he resided, was good enough for a Secretary of State. The Secretary of State in the selection of Borough Magistrates must appeal to some one of local knowledge, and he was sure he could not find any persons more calculated to give information than those in authority in the borough. That course, however contemptible it was, and he consi dered it so, had been pursued by the Right Hon. Ba ronet. He thought such a course was highly to be la mented. When they considered that the people of Scotland enjoyed the power of electing their own Magistrates by the Act of the year 1833, when it was considered that the Citizens of London did tile same thing, and whether people ef this country falai enjoyed for 800 years a similar right, he thought, under all these circumstances, the House would be of opilion that the Right Hon. Baronet had taken a very improper course, and had most improperly strained the power of the Crown. He had in his hand a list of 400 Magistrates appointed during the last eight months, and such being the case, he should like to know from what motives the Right Hon. Baronet had set about thie Magistrate making ? Was it because the Magistrates were inefficient, or was it because he had documents showing that justice had been improperly administered? The Right Hon. Gentleman had evaded the question with less than his usual address. Would he answer it to-night ?—(Cheers.) The question, however, had already been answered in another place.—(Cheers.) It was customary to speak of the appointment of municipal Magistrates as the act of the Home Secretary ; every body knew that it was the act of the Home Secretary, although the L or d Hi g h Chancellor was nominally the person making the appointment, But the Lord Chancellor himself had declared in another place the reason of these appointments. They had the authority of the Lord High Chancellor himself for stat ing the reason 'of these appointments to be, that the Town Councils had recommended too many Liberal Magistrates to serve the purposes of the present Go vernment—(Cheers)—that it was necessary to redress the balance by making a large number of Conservative Magistrates, in order to secure to the Conservative party the privelege of licencing public houses—(Cheers)—a power intended to be used for electioneering purposes.— (Cheering and counter cheering.) Such was reported to have been the statement 'made by the Lord High Chancellor of England in another place. But the Right Hon. Bart. himself who seldom indulged in any excess of frankness, was reported to have made an avowal of a si milar nature, in answer to certain persons who had waited upon him as a deputation from the Conservative Assoeiation of Devonport. These persons had paid a visit to the Right Honourable Baronet to arrange about the appointment of Conservative Magistrates for Devonport. These persons had reported that they were charmed with the condescension and kindness with which the Right Hon. Baronet had received them ; and in des cr ibi ng their interview with so distinguished a personage, they stated that while they were dilating on the special merits of the Conservative can didate for the Alagistracy, the Right' Honour able Baronet had interrupted them by exclaiming=— "Never mind about particulars—how many will it take to swamp them."—(Great cheering, laughter, and cries of "Name, name.") He had read the statement in a Devonport newspaper.—Cheers, and cries of "Oh 1 Oh !" and laughter.) Ile did not wish to take any unfair account of the transaction. Did he understand that the Night Hon. Baronet disclaimed it ? Sir J. RAHAM—I have not the slightest recol lection of it.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr. HUTT thought, that as the Right Hon. Baronet had not the slightest recollection of it, perhaps the transaction bad not taken place—(Cries of " Oh ! oh !") —but would the Right Hon. Baronet deny that he had acted on those principles.—(Laud cheers.) If he had not done so, had the appointments been made, because there had been any complaints made as to the manner in which justice was administered in the country, or as to the existing number of Magistrates. to quarrel with the appointment of gong cheers.) Ha had received, since of s his intention to ask the House to look theHanhineetyo gaveiwint individual.—(Tory d t i insufficiency f nv iiocdit notice i n ag c o o g f subject, suggestions from various quarters, as to why this or that man was improper to fill the office in such or such a place. He gave no heed to any such communi cations, and he would do the Right Hon. Baronet thej ustice to express his belief th a t he had never p laced u p on the Bench any individual whom be .did not think qualified to fill the office.— (Loud cheers) As far as he had any personal knowledge o f t h e aivointmetits, such unques tionably was the case—(Cheers} —and whilst he com plained of the lar ge a ddi t i o n which the Right Hon. Ba ronet had made t o . the Magistracy, he admitted that in no case had he appointed a person who was not qualified to discharge the duties.—(Loud cheers.) But, he would ask, when he made the last addition to the Magistracy of Hull, w hy did the Right Hon. Baronet place Dr. Alderson at the head of the list ? That gen tleman was highly respectable ; and when he (Mr. Hutt) bad tha honour to represent the borough , Dr. Alderson was of the Liberal party, although, like the Right Hon ourable Baronet, his opinions had since undergone some change.—(Cheers and laughter.) But it was a great slight to other gentlemen who were quite as re spectable, to have him placed upon that account above them. With respect to the town which he now had the honour to represent (the Borough of Gateshead), there were six Magistrates in the borough ; and in number and efficiency they had appeared quite equ a l t o dis charge all the duties of the Magistracy ; and one of them was a consideration._(Great cheering from the Tory benches.) He (Mr. Hutt) very well uuderstood the meaning of the cheers, But he would remind Gentle men opposite, that there was as great a preponderance of Liberals in the Borough.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hononourable Baronet, however, did not think six magistrates enough, and he gave to this fa voured town six Conservative Magistrates in addition making as many magistrates as pelicemen.—(Cheers, a town—why did he giv . e and great laughter.) He asked, Why did the Right Hon pinions predominated, Baronet so accomodate a town, in which Liberal o a majority of Tory Magistrates.---(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord-Lieutenant of Durham thought he could justify the proceedings at Gateshead. by remarking that it was a place where revolutionary opinion pre- veiled, and that the inhabitants of Gateshead had, in a previous Session of Parliament, returned a gentleman of revolutionary principles to represent them. He (Mr. Hutt) was not going to vindicate the character either of his Hon. Colleague, or of the town of Gateshead. It appeared that the Noble Lord had made these observations. He (Mr. Hutt) would wish the Noble Lord to remember, that in this free and intelligent country no character was so revolu tionary in character, was so dangerous to the public peace, as that of a man of high station, of princely for tune, of great political power, who used these uncommon advantages in such a way as to alienate from him the respect and the confidence of his country.—(Hear, hear.) Let him return to the subject of Gates head. When he saw that there, and in other places similarly situated, political party ran high —when he saw that the Right Honourable Baronet had established there a majority of Tory magistrates, and had scattered between 3 and 400 magistrates of Tory opinions in different parts of the country, he must own that he was very much puzzled to know on what principle the Right Honourable Baronet had acted ; and he should probably have been puzzlod to this day had it not been for the candid avowal of the Noble Lord the Chancellor of England. He never understood that these magistrates were appointed solely for political purposes.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped no one would doubt his authority.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman was extremely fond of to quoque arguments. He (Mr. Hutt) would admit then that it was true, he would go farther—(Hear, hear) —for the sake of argument—(Hear, hear)—and would now admit the Right Hon. Gentleman to say, that in stead of having appointed four hundred magistrates from feelings of caprice, his predecessor had ap pointed a thousand.—(Ministerial cheers.) But then he (Mr. Hutt) would ask, what was that to him?—(Hear.) what was that to the people of England, whose interest were deeply involved on the ques tion ? For his part he believed that the to quoque argument, miserable as it was, at best would not avail the Right Hon. Baronet on that occasion. This he was bound to say, that having frequently seen his Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) on the subject of those appoint ments, in consequence of a commission he had received from the borough of Hull, he had always found his Noble Friend anxious to see gentlemen of opinions opposed to his own placed upon the bench of Magistrates. It happened that the Corporation of Hull had originally recommended gentlemen exclusively of the Whig party, upon which the Noble Lord, when the list was presented to him, said that that should not be.—(Hear, hear.) The Noltde Lord did not approve of making the bench of Magis trates the scene of party politics. In consequence of the statement of the Noble Lord communications took place between him and the town council of Hull, and the result was that Gentlemen of the Tory party were placed upon the Bench. A similar course to his (Mr. Hutt's) knowledge was pursued by the Marquis of Normanby. Both those Noblemen were anxious that the Magistracy should in some sort represent the feelings of the country at large. He believed, however, that it would be found the Right Hon. Baronet opposite had acted in precisely the opposite way, Ile believed it would be found that the Right Hon. Baronet had placed upon the bench almost exclusively Members of one party --(Hear)—and placed them there, as he believed, for party and political purposes ; a proceeding which would hardly be found paralleled in our history since the time of Charles 11. He believed that the system introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet was full of danger to the country ; and that was not merely his opinion nor the opinion of every party with which he might be supposed to be connected. He could assure the Right Hon ourable Baronet that that was the opinion of men in every position in life. It was the opinion of Ma gistrates of the same political opinions as her Majesty's Government; it was the opinion of many who agreed with Government in their general principles of policy, but who were disgusted with this abuse of the powers of Government, The House should remember that those municipal tribunals were the only Courts of Justice to which millions could appeal. (Hear.) The Right Honourable Baronet was a man of forture and high station, who could prosecute a suit in a dozen courts if he thought proper; but the poor had practically no other form of civil and criminal jurisdic tion than the local tribunals of the country.—(Cheers.) He was glad to have that asscenting cheer. Was it then right that that tribunal should be political ? He was glad that at least on one point they could agree. He was happy to have the concurrence of the Right Hon. Baronet, that it was hither just nor right, that that tribunal should be a political one. Looking to the state of society in the country, and to the feelings that were abroad, they must see that it was not fit to add to the elements of confusion. The Eon. Member for Bradbury—(Laughter)—he begged pardon for the mistake, he meant the Hon. Member for Bradford (Mr. Hardy) would do little, instead of answering by jeers, to get up when he (Mr. Hutt) had closed his observations, and to reply to those observations if he could. With respect to the Supreme Judges of the land, they were restrained by their knowledge of the law, by their habitual defe rence to the forms of justiee from giving way to any remarkable political t party feeling or bias. But what did these Borough Justices know about law or its forms. They should be raised to their offices for their personal intelligence and integrity, matters of which the Secretary of State could know nothing but which their townsmen were sure both to know and appreciate. But they did not suffer their townsmen to take part in the electiem of these 111;q,is trates to their offices ; they did not care whether those Magistrates obtained and possessed the confi dence of their fellew-townsmen ; all that they cared for was, that they should be active political partisans. He protested against this system, and he hoped the House of Commons would see that the time had come to oppose it. It is now declared that the nomination of the town councils were to be set aside ; that every successive Secretary of State was to appoint as many Magistrates as suited his purpose, and was to be the sole judge of their fitness and character, while an inquisition was set up, or the political opinions of every Magistrate on the Bench, for the purpose of swamping them every time those opinions might be opposed to those of the party in power. He again protested against the system ; it could be fruitful of nothing but mischief, and would render the Bench a scene of violent party and political conflicts, and produce a system about as respectable and respected as the system of this House with regard to the trial of controverted elections.—(Hear, hear.) The whole system was calculated to deprave the character of the Bench ; it was to the confidence which the people of England felt in those who were entrusted with the administration of justice they owed that high tone of feeling which was their charac teristic. Let them destroy this confidence, and the hour was not far distant when they would deeply lament it.—(Hear, hear.) He remembered a passage from Lord Clarendon, which was well worthy of the attention of the Right Hon. Barouet, and of all who were en trusted with the reins of Government in this cum try.—(Hear.) In tracing the causes of the disasters which raised the people of England against that institutions of the country, and which at last drove them to meet their Sovereign in the field. Lord Cla rendon says, " It was not the ship money it was not the exaction of forced loans which smothered in the hearts of Englishmen those feelings of affection and loyalty to their Prince, which, in every age and al, c,rcumstances, had been the characteristics of the race. It was not these thingl it was the scorn and irreverence into which the Judgess of the land had fallen ; it was the consequence of the people hearing the Magistrated pronouncing that to be law which every one knew was not law." If this course was pursued, and if the sanction of the House was given to the innovations of the Right Hon. Baronet, he believed it would be pregnant with disaster to the country. The Right Honourable Baronet at the head of the Government in the course of his elo quent peroration in his speech on the finances of the country, took occasion to notice the va rious calamities with which the country was visited, in the course of the last century—the mutiny of the Note, the rebellion in Ireland, and the war abroad, but if the Secretary of State were allowed to appoint to the Magistracy political parties disgrace and dishonour would befal the country. He did not think the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) would get up and give his approval to this system. He was surrounded by those who said it was his duty to maintain the supremacy of his party under all circum stances, but he (Mr. HO presumed to give him other evidence.—(ob, and laughter.) lie could assure Hon. Members that interruption was very disagreeable. He hoped the Hon. and Gallant Officer opposite would per mit him to offer a few remarks. He would suggest to the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) that he could not lay the foundation of his power on surer grounds, than by securing to the people the equal administration of the law.—(Ministerial cheers.) He would sug gest to him that he could not raise his name to a higher rpitch than by taking care that no individual was raised to the Bench of Juustice, whether it was in the Supreme Courts of the country or in the local tribunals, except those who possessed the confidence of their fellow-countrymen, others may be disposed to give different counsels ; but he was sure that he would do better to give up the little interests of party, which would be fatal to his power and the permanence of his fame.—(Cheers.) — Mr. JERVIS seconded the motion. The question having been put, Sir J. GRAHAM said that when the Hun. Gentleman who had just sat down gave notice of his motion, he he took the first opportunity of thanking hi m f or giving that notice. lie certainly felt that he was under great obligations to the Hon. Gentleman ; for after all that had been said there and elsewhere, with respect to his conduct on this particular subject, he felt satisfied that the Hon. Gentleman was about to bring that con duct under the consideration of the House in some tangible shape, so that be might appeal to its deliberate judgement, and anxious whether the House thought it worthy of reprobation. (LEFT SPEAKING.) TATTERSALL'S (THIS EVENING) Six O'CLOCK. 5 to 1 agst Frederica. 27 to 1 agst Chatham 16 to 1 agst Auckland, 30 to 1 agst 9 to 1 agst Canadian. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BODY OF A MURDERER. — We understand that the hody of the man Cook, of Bitton, who committed murder and suicide, and whose interment, owing to the peculiar nature of the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, could not take place without permission of the Judges, was secretly removed at. night from his late residence, and con veyed no one knows where, or by whom, or for what purpose. That the door was found open in the morning and the body gone, is all that the neighbours know about the matter. — Bristol Times. IMPEItIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 4. The SPES KER. took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. HARWICH AND WORCESTER ELECTIONS. The SPEAKER made similar announcements relati , e to the petitions respectively against the returns for those boroughs. CHURCH PATRONAGE (SCOTLA.NDI BILL. (Continued from our Third Edition of Last Night.) Sir R. PEEL said that in his Parliamentary experience the usual, he might say the universal course, was to permit a Mem ber who undertook legislation to put off his own measin e whenever he judged it expedient—(Hear, hear, front the Mi nisterial benches)—and when a Member not connected with any department of the Government, having undertaken a mea sure for the public good, should see reason to postpone it, the uniform course had been to defer to his judgment. He scarcely knew why the present case justified a departure from that course. He was surprised that the Right Hon. Gentleman should be the person to make that proposition.—(Hear, hear.) He had been for three vears in an office connected with the Church of Scotland, and he never attempted his hand at legislation on the subject.—(Loud cheersr. ) He could not understand how, con nected as he was with Scotland, and convulsed by division as that country was, he never attempted to bring in a .measure on the subject.-- ( Hear, hear.) But an Hon. Gentlemen under took to make the attempt, and proposed a delay of six weeks, and the Right Hon. Gentleman, who acquiesced in the delay for three years, could not - now wait lor a period of six weeks— ( Laughter)—but, contrary to the wishes of the Hen. Member who brought in the Bill, insisted that his own Bill should be read against his own wishes.—( Laughter.) The Hon. Gen tleman who acquiesced in the motion of the Right Hon. Gen tleman said, that the admirable measure ought not to be post poned for a day.—(!fear, hear.) Why, then, was not a mea sure brought in on the subjoct. Mr. P. Al. STEWART—A Bill was brought in in the House of Lords.—( Hear, hear. ) Sir R. PEEL—Why did not the Hon Member bring in a Bill ? Mr. STEWART—I was not then in Parliament.—( Hear. ) Sir R. PEEL did not wish to introduce anything like party . . feeling into so important a measure.—(Hear, hear.) It was a question of a theological. nature.—( Hear, hear.) It was a question of a theological nature, and deeply affecting the peace and tranquillity of the people of Scotland, and he regretted any any kind of angry spirit had been introduced--( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentlemantold the simple truth. When out of office a settlement of the question was attempted, but it met with resistance from the then Government, from conscientious motives, he had no doubt, from the belief that the measure would not tend to a satisfactory settlement. On their return to power, however, they directed their attention to the subject, and with no other motive than to attempt a termination of those differences which diminished the influence of those whom they ought to support, namely, the Ministers of Scotland. They had eason to believe that a fruitless and in effectual attempt would oniy aggravate the evil, and the unfor tunate differences which prevailed ; and on that ground they abandoned the attempt and the single motive for resum ing the question, was that they had received from Scotland voluntary communications from men of both parties—( Hear, hear)—stating that if the Government took up the subject there was a reasonable prospect of their being successful. It was upon these communications that they had acted, and not be cause they were terrified or menaced.—( Hear, hear.) Those communications had reached them at a very recent period, and they thought it would be for the public interest not to jut a stop to the Bill but to ask, for its postponement. They did not ask the Ilonourable Member to abandon his Bill, but to defer the consideration of it for a period of six weeks. He never had spoken bq the subject without feeling the deepest interest in the state of the Church of Scotland, and without the deepest regret at the differences which at present existed in that Church ; and he should consider it one of the proudest acts of the life of any man, if he could bring those differences, by a just and equitable proposition, preseri. ing alike the just rights of the people, and the' just t ights of the Church, to a sa tisfactory termination,—( Cheers.) If those collisions between spiritual and civil authority, those appeals from Court to Court —that constant mixing up of questions of civil right with questions of spiritual jurisdiction, could be put an end to with the acquiescence of the people of Scotland,—if there was even a hope that such might be the case, he for one would never abandon that hope, would never close the door against it. He should be guilty of a dereliction of duty if he were to do so. He hoped the House would not, by now forcing on the discussion, oblige the Government to give up all hope of being able to bring these differences to a satisfactory termination. He hoped the House would so far pl .ce confi dence in her Majesty s•Government as not to compel an Hon. Member whose purity was unquestioned—whose motives were unquestioned—to bring on his Bill against his own conviction. Mr. RUTHERFORD was as desirous as any Hon. Member could be, that every feeling of acrimony or asrerity should be withdrawn from this discussion. He thought the highest credit would be due to any:Member, or to any Government, who should be able to bring about a satisfactory settlement of this question. He for one would Doer be found offering any unnecessary opposition to any such measures.—( Hear. ) He thought the postponement-of the measure instead of assisting the settlement of the question would, on the contrary, greatly embarrass it. If the Right lion. Baronet had expressed himself clearly and distinctly with respect to the result to which nego tiations on the subject might lead, he certainly would not have proposed that this Bill should not he postponed, but they know who were the organs of the opinions of the people and Church of Scotland on this question, and that no negotiation with those parties could prove satisfactory to the people or Church of Scotland. It was a mere fallacy to suppose that. it could. He could assure the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, that they would never settle the question if they shoul i legislate upon it according to the principle upon which Lord Aberdeen's Bill was founded. They would but slake the establish ment of the Church of Scotland to its very Lundation. He should observe that they were about to postpone the dis cussion of the question at a time when the General Assembly were on the eve of meeting. The General Assembly would in the course of three - weeks; and it was certainly of great importance that before their meeting the intentions of the House of Commons upon the subject under the considera tion of the House should be made known. That was one of the principal reasons urged in favour of an immediate discussion of the measure. The explanation of the Right lion. Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Home Department was nothing but a statement of the principle of Lord Aberdeen's Bill, and it was impossible to get anything more out o. him. Under those circumstances he must vote for taking the sense of the House on the principle of the Bill. Mr. HUME said, having lately visited Scotland ; ho was able to bear testimony to the anxiety of the people, in reference to this t!uestion. But he did not recollect during the last 25 years, a single instance in which a question of this importance had been brought forward by any one but the Government. and he believed that if ever the question was settled satisfactorily to the community, it must be through the Government. With these views, he must vote for the postpon merit of the question. Captain Nil , EMYSS entirely concurred in the opinion, that if ever the question was satisfactorily settled, it must be through the Government. He did not think that the people of Scot land could expect very much from the Right lion. Ger.tle man's Government, with regard to any Bill that might be brought in to ameloriate the Stcotch Church. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared-- For Mr. Fox Maule's amendment A gainst it Majority... The Salmon Fisheries' Bill went through Committee. PUBLIC-HOUSES BILL. Captain ROUS move:l that this Bill be re-commited pro forma. He intended to take the sense of the House on the third reading. Captain PECHELL said that this Bill had been before the House for six weeks, and there were various provisions in it con trary to the title. He wanted to know what the Hon. Gentleman proposed todo in Committee pro forma, because it frequently happened that some of the greatest changes in a Bill took place in Committee pro forma. He wished to know whether the Hon. Gentleman intended to persist in the clause re4tive to the steam -boats on the river Names. He hoped the Hon. Member would strike it out in Committee. It the Hon. Gen tleman would not strike it out, he (Captain Pcchell) would give every opposition to the Bill. Captain ROUS only proposed that the Bill should now be re-committed pro forma, and that the discussion should be taken on the principle of the Bill on the third reading. The Bill was then re-committed pro forma, ordered to be printed, and the Report taken into further consideration (as we understood) on Wednesday week. SELECT COMMITTEE ON PAYMENT OF WAGES. ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. C. BULLER said that he opposed the motion for a Se lect Committee last night, but he did not object to the mode in which the Hon. Member for Knaresborough appointed the Committee, though he luid....cumposed it of people of his own way of thinking. He had dealt very fairly in taking almost an equal number of persons from each side, but he made up the Committee of persons of his own why of thinking. He did not find any persons who were engaged in manufac tures, or any who could conduct the inquiry, with a view to their interests. But the Government having acceded to the appointment of the Members; .he thought they were respon sible for the composition' of the Committee. There could be no greater mischief than to make a light appointment in this way. The Committee would be attended by persons of only one way of thinking, and they 'had got a quantity of ex parte evidence which would not be properly sifted. It was nut his intention to propose any new names himself, but he considered the Government were responsible for its composition. Sir J. GRAHAM considered the subject to be one rather for legislation than inquiry. It was notorious that the truck system did prevail, and he was of opinion that any legislative measure would prove an effectual interference. As the inquiry was more limited now than in the form in which it was pro posed, he had thought it expedient to accede to it. He sug gested that the names eflh'e Hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Cobden), and the Hon. Member for Stamford (Sir G. Clerk), be added to the Crimtilittee. Mr. MUNTZ was satisfikl• that no good would result either to the House or the cottony; from the inquiry. It should simply be directed to whether the present laws were as strin gent as they could be made ; if—they were so, where was the the advantage, or the policy, of increasing their stringency when they could not carry them into effect ? He was convinced that whatever law they brought forward, it would be evaded. Mr. REDHEAD YORKE was of opinion that it would he much better for the interests of the labourer, the manufac turer, and humanity, that the motion should have been carried in its original form. Mr. CHARLES BULLER thought that the Committee, as framed by the Hon. Member, would not do justice between the parties. • Mr. HARDY thought on a Committee like the present there ought to be no manufacturers; such a Committee should be appointed as would satisfy the working classes that the law was sufficiently strong to protect them against their roas ters. Being of this opinion he ehould decline acting upon the Committee at all. Dr. BOWRING thought that the stringeney of the Act was the cause of its violation. Mr. FERRAND said his desire was to have the Committee as impartial as possible. To guard against the pcsssibility of a charge of rartiality, he bad mentioned to several Hon. Mem bers his intention of making Lord Ashley the Chairman of the Committee. He had received- a letter, from which he would read a passage, to prove the correctness of his statement as to the ill-usage he had experienced at the hands of the Hon. Member for Stockport.—The Hon. Member read an extract from the letter, in which it was stated, that in consequence of ,he publication of a note from the writer to him (Mr. Ferrand) the public Press and the Corn-law League had assailed him in the newspapers and at public meetings. Mr. COBDEN denied that he had violated any confidence. The Hon. Member for Knaresborough read an extract from a let ter reflecting on his (Mr. Cobden's) conduct to his work people; and afterwards in the course of the evening wrote him a note, simply stating the name of the writer. There was not a word about confidence, nor anything to imply that he (Mr. Cobden) was under an engagement to keep th e name of the writer a secret.--( Hear, hear. ) After a few words from Air. BROTHERTON, which were inaudible in the gallery, Mr. FERRAND said he would not object to the placing of Sir B. Hall on the Committee in lieu of Mr. G. W. Wood. The SPEAKER read the names of the proposed list. Mr. C. BULLER then said that he would oppose the first name, which was that of Mr. Ferrand. After a very destntory conversation, the debate was again adjourned. The Report on the Punishment of Death Bill, and on the Victoria Park Bill, were brought up, and the Bills were ordered to be rcaJ a third time to-morrow. _ . _ The Report on the Knightsbridge and Kiinsington.Openincrs Bill wits brought up, and the Lill ordered to be read a third ' time to-morrow. _ The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Eight o'Clock. COFFEE AND EAT /NG- OUSB KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. This Institution celebrated its fifth anniversary at the London Tavern, yesterday, Sir John Easthope in the chair. About one hundred and fifty persons sat down . to an excellent dinner. The wines were excellent, and the entertainment, altogether, was creditable to the So ciety. After the usual loyal toasts the Chairman pro posed the health of the Duke of Sussex, the Patron of the Association, and spoke in high terms of the generous disposition and liberal principles of that illustrious mem ber of the Royal Family. He then gave " Health and pro sperity to the Institution," which was responded to with loud cheers. The Treasurer then read the list of subscriptions, from which it appeared that the amount this year exceeded that of the preceding year by 50L, and that the Society was in a prosperous condition. The following are the principal subscriptions an nounced in the course of the evening : The Chairman, 20 guineas ; the Proprietors of the Morning Chronicle, 10 guineas ; the Proprietors of the Morning Advertiser, 10 guineas ; Sir John Pirie, 10 guineas; the Proprietors of the London Tavern, 10 guineas ; Mr. Masterrnan, M.P., 10 guineas ; and a great number of other subscribers, averaging from three guineas to one guinea. Several professional singers were present, who de lighted the company with seine excellent songs ; and the entertainment went off altogether with the best effect. THE ARMY IN IRELAND. Her Majesty having been pleased to approve of the 2d Batta lion of the 20th Foot, now at Cork, proceeding to Bermuda. and of the 2d Battalion of the 91st Regiment, now at Naas, proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, these battalions (which have only just been formed) are ordered to be in readiness to embark at Cork on board such tonnage as may be provided for their conveyance to their respective destinations. The Licuttnant-General Commanding will make his half yearly inspection of the 12th Royal Lancers, in review order, at the Phcenix Park, on Wednesday morning. Captain Blacklin has arrived in Wexford to take command of the detachment of the Ist Royals, stationed there, in place of Captain W. M'Pherson, who retires on half-pay. The re tirement of Capt. M'Pherson is much regretted by Lis company. A second draft from the 27th depot, consisting of thirty five young fellows, marched from Galway on Wednesday, as volunteers to the 45th Regiment, under the command of Capt. Vereker. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 3.—The Wasp, 16, Commander the Hon. H. A. Murray, which arrived from the :Mediterranean on Sunday, proceeded the same evening from Spithead to the Eastward, where she will be paid off, arid will be shortly re.. commissioned. The Resistence tioop-ship, Commander G. F. Patey, got under weigh at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, and made sail down the Channel for the purpose of rendering assistance to all such homeward-bound merchant vessels as may run short of provisions from being so long detained in the chops of the Channel by the easterly wind, which has been prevailing for these last five weeks. A vessel better adapted for this parti cular service could not have been selected, as she has provisions on board for 800 men for a voyage to the Fast Indies. It is re ported that there are between 200 and 300 vessels wind•boua in the Channel. The Volcano steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander C. J. Featherstone, got under weigh from the harbour at the same time as the Resistance, and it i 3 stated that she is to accoar pany that vessel on her mission of succour. The Premier transport arrived yesterday morning from the Mediterranean, and has brought home a number of invalid' from the various regiments stationed there. The Benbow, 72, and Daphne, 26, were at Gibraltar whets the Premier left, on the 12th ult. The Winchester, 50, Captain Charles Eden, which is &tits% out for the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Joceline Percy, who is about to as•nme the command at the Cape of Good Hopei being rigged with a rapidity that reflects the highest credit on her officers and men. Although it is scarcely a week since sba has been undocked, she has gut all her masts, topmast, and tor gallant masts up, and her yards across, and will be quite readl to leave the basin in a few days. Yesterday the Echo steam. tug towed out the Success hulk, and three lumps to their mooring at Spithead, preparatory to the resumption of the operations against the wreck of the Royal, George, which it is fully expected will be completely removed during the forthcoming summer. At Spithead .— The Premier (transport). In Harbour.—The St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal George 3acht, Winchester, Sylvia cutter, and the Ect steam tug. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4.—Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.I I •F has assumed the command at Plymouth, and hoisted his 114 ( white at the main) on board the Caledonia, 120, with Captaia Alexander Milne, as Flag Captain ; Commander S. T. Hoods and John Loudon, Esq., Purser, as Secretary. Admiral Sir Graham Moore has left Plymouth, for his teat, Cobham in Surrey. The new steam ship Geyser, Commander Carpenter, is to be at Spithead by the 12th instant. She will take out supernw meries for the China squadron, also two flat-bottomed boat., and despatches for Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, K.C. B. The Wellesley, 72, Captain Maitland, and Larne, 20, Car taro Blake, with the Sulphur, Captain Belcher, and StarlinP Captain Kellett, are daily expected to arrive from the East 1 0 ' dies to he paid off. The former ship has been relieved by tll O Cornwallis, 72. The Agincourt, 72, Captain Bruce, is to leave Plymou th Sound on the eth instant for China, via Madeira, Tenerife, and Cape of Good Hope, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thos. Cochrane, which is at present in the Vindictive, 50. The Avon, steam-vessel, is to be re-commissioned for the Plymouth station by Lieutenant C. Jenkin. A rumour is current, which however requires eenfirma ti*P that Rear-Admiral Hyde Patker, C. 8., will succeed sear Admiral Bouverie, whose period expires in July next, as S O ' perintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard. The complements of the Cleopatra, 26, and Talbot, 26, re' commissioned at Chatham, are to be 240 men each. 'I he new sloop Albatros, recently launched here, will be COu r missioned in a few days. Her dimensions are 105 feet long' and 481 tens ; and she is a very commodious vessel,—.BeigM °S i Gazette. [ADvEnTusEmENT.]—Our readers' attention is di rected to the lollowing communication (translated fro ol the German), addressed to Messrs. lowlands' Agent at Cologne :—" 13, Streitz-euggasse, Cologne, May 23 ' 1841.—T0 Th. S. Ditges.—Sir,—l have much pleasur e in informing you of the extraordinary effects of " Row' land's Macassar Oil :" for above nine years I had note particle of hair on my head, when I was casually recore.,: mended to give this celebrated Oil a trial. I accordingu purchased t.vo bottles at your establishment, and strictlf followed the printed directions : in the course of t wo months my head was covered with fine short hair,lduC —h f I had cut off, and continued to persevere in the use the Oil. The result is, that after five months' per verance, I can now boast of as good a head of hair I° any man in this city. In justice to the inventors I 1 0 1 this acknowledgment, and shall feel great pleasure satisfying any inquiry .-- I salute you with T - 052°A ADAM BAITER, Bth Artillery Brigade."—" Rowlan" Macassar Oil" prevents hair from falling off, or turning; grey ; changes grey hair to its original coloui ; freed from scurf and dandruff, and makes it beautifully. s °, and curly.—.isk for " Rowland's Macassar Oil."' tn „ PURIFICATION OF ELECTORS.—The recent disn. sures of bribery and corruption in the late eections, must cei' d, ' vince even the most sceptical that, for the honour of Englal, and the purity of her institutions, some great change in „ 0 electoral system is necessary. In a little volume, from the P,` of Mr. Buckingham , late Member for Shef fi eld, is containe d plan by which an entirely new system of election is devised recommended to the attention of the community. It is P 0 lished by Simpkin and Marshall, at ss. bound in cloth, 1113 ,, may be ordered through any bookseller ; and at this partica w moment it cannot fail to interest a large class of readers. It " LECTURES ON SCOTTISH MUSIC AND SONG."' Wilson entertained a numerous and fashionable as sembll . yesterday at the Hanover-square Rooms. The subject v/s " Prince Charles Stuart's Adventures," aceompanied by a sf le e p number of songs, which were sung in his usual happy ou fective style. We are glad to find that he is quite recover It from the effects of the cold under which he laboured for a J. days. The assembly seemed highly delighted. tAte TIIE NEW 1\: - OVELS.—We are requested to s ty that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has just IT4 lished the following new works of Fiction, which can n ow be,,in g at all the libraries:-1. Passion and Principle, edited by td*r oi . Frederick Cilamier, 3 vols. 2. Lady Anne Granard! :oo Keeping up Appearances, by L.E.L., 3 vols. 3. Fascina6, o , and other Tales, edited by Mrs. Gore, c o mpri s ing FascinatY!„, First Love, the Mod er n Scipi o , th e Sil ver Ri ng , Retribut le o , Theresa, &c., 3 vols. 4. Adventures of Sir t'ienry Mort ; 4 , the Buccaneer, by the author of " Rattlin the R e ef er ,," ' 3 vols. 5. Joseph Rushbrooke, by the author of ".., Simple," Jacob Faithful," &c.; cheaper editions, 5.;1," g 6. The School for Wives, by the authoress of ' 6 Temeliata 3 vols. 7. The Man of Fortune, by Mrs. Gore, 3 . .1.1 0 the in a few days will be published, The Lottery of Lir" Countess of Blessington, 3 vols. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.—The Queen I , lold fl. la - - e . V .. e l e y at St. James's wiii ig Palace yesterday afternoon, which was i tc - e their a attended. Shortly alter two o'clock, her Maj esty 1 t. Albert left Buckingham House for th e P a l ace, w ith tendants, in four of the royal carriages, escorted by a troo p the Life Guards, The r o y a l su i te was much cheere d, as t 6 1 1 passed through the P ar k, b y t h e people who had assembled 01 the occa,ion. og BIR'I7I S. 1, ! On ihe 19th ult., at Cawthrone Parsonage, the la dy ofie Rev. A. M. Parkinson, of a son. Es o q. n , o tl f r a 2 s 0 7 11 1 h . ult., at 'Horringer, the lady of Geor g e 140 4 ' 1 ' On the 28th ult., in Bedford' street, Liverpool, Mrs. n Neilson, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Leamington; the lady o f R. B.:De.'3r •l o EsOn q., of a daughter, who survived but a few hours ti• the 30th ult., at Dalton, near Ulverstone, tuts y.. 8 •f t he Rev. John Baldwin, of a son. • On the 30th ult., at Sandgate, Kent, the lady of With ° Peareth, Esq , of a daughter. On the Ist inst. the wile of John James Wilson, Esq.) suf. geon, Doughty-street, of a daughter.' On the Ist inst , at Wilton-place, the lady of Adam Br° r° low, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. On the Ist i ns t., at Compton-terrace, Islington, the lady ° J. 111'Crea, Esq , surgeon, of a daughter. t i s s On the Ist inst., at Calthorpe-street, Guildford.:street , lady of T. A. F. Reynolds, Esq., of a daughter. . kei On the 26th ult., at Inwar MARRIEP dleigh, Devon, Mr. Alfred Dr 3- j, solicitor, Barnstaple, to Frances Emily, eldest daughter of Elton, Fsq., of Putney. ott On the 29th ult., at Christ Church, Surrey, Mr. J. E. ~, of Cockspur-street, to El , za, daughter of the late Mr. I .l ' ° "" s Evans, of Great Guildford-street, Southwark. DIED. ireo On the 29th ult., at Avenham Cottage, Preston, Lana" W. Tomlinson, Esq., aged 54. On the 17th ult., at Leamington, Colonel Gold, C.ll. lat of the Royal Artillery. Le i ' On the 26th ult., Samuel Miles, E sq ., o f Narborough cestershire. 1 0° On the 27th ult., at MI ton-squ are , Eli za b e th, w ideW ° late Edmund Briggs, Esq., 01 Dalston. On the 29th ult., at Hallow-park, near Worcester, oir Bell. ICH., Professor of Surgery, in. Edinburgh. On the 29th ult., at Isli ngton, Mi ss Barr, late o f N. 2-t hol r v stow, the only daughter of Mr. Barr, of Clapten. 0 Londcn : Printed tlnd Published ty MURDI) YO l l O4 l, ill No. I 12, Strand, at The Suoi. Office, No. 112, Stra ti the County of kLiddlesez, Thursday, May 5, 1642. AV K. 7 A Almey in the V THREE Interes Deposit. SHIP The CI COMPA Viady, on: precisely, from Eigi Ikhout Atlson, i dip of Ju - The T had on ap The Di Tinder. 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