The Sun. — London, England, 1833-08-02 00:00:00

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T 4. rtit T , BANK CHARTER. th e : PETITION to Parliament against H 'Jurions Restrictions upon the Number of Ec Bankin g E sta bli s h men t s , w ill LIE FOR 1' "Pla t `‘E at th e BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE, 110N:144% at the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, 44•Icreet, and at the KING'S HEAD TAVERN, *nn. LONDON, P RIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1833. q i "e tyranny of the Rus s i an NE R.O towards t: t P ales, s till cont i nues as i mm i ti gable as ever. Ih, „ tll onster's latest act is an order substituting I,e,et t essia n l anguage f or t h e P o li s h, so t h at 111,•ei)rth th e aggr i eve d p a t r iots must express to_ u lt n : e r:se of s u ff er i ng i n t h e dialect of their Of erase 3 d ea dli est enemy. eruelt • This is a refinement th, y which entitles NICHOLAS to rank as riot4t hBst an.dn3t ac complished despot that ever lived, In on hts el tie log Lord P ALMERSTON S late eulo ineneY• cast Their Lordstlips, in their wisdom, decided . n 41 ; Y a Majority of 50, that to eman rate th e •,- (:)11 • eWB Was a flagrant inroad k on d the tinelitution. Accordingly they bur -e the ke:ll°lwithstandinc, that the Constitution, to att erve whose precious life they perpetrated the eve:f 81Tocation, has been dead and buried, lsb a° t heir own showing, ever since the year I N Th e A n of CANTERBURY, ach,,is°PPosed the measure, made a curiousc. i , hich sl° l 4 ill the course of his ee h It is d'rerves attention, not only because h _ s yot e , h i ee tly at variance with the spirit of effect lief o , ill u t also because it shows the blessed and Prej udi has already worked on the temp tion,') ,dices of the Episcopal Bench. Chri st; (111,°th his Grace, P . e e r r s t ecu_- , lia r ,i tv . ahity ; neithe r was it awapsartn‘o‘of part Si ', t° Punish the religious errors of others; r . , e1 8 , - : 4 Ying and so thinking, the Right Rev.. lieu, - Prying and deliberately to punish the ". ~Itließt-her'Ors" of the children of Israel, by sla r n e i-_ krtij y " e doors of the Legislature in their fa t ce t s he Y 4( liiii ss . a most consistent politician ! 1 toiler 1 ") as we said just now, is curious ß . o for l t re4s tals than this. It gives the lie direct 1 'erar: thousand years of clerical rapine, into- Pat t -e ' and bigotry. What, " persecution no 1)4:.3f Christianity. I" What then induced thet 411"?I R ITigs ' drlW ings, and quarterings of . the s -`; rl ses ; the sawings alive of the Vaudois as: I,44ee•erlitifio roastings of the Jews ; the m 0 .. t ge i, o ' St. BARTHOLONIEW; the atrocities iilen, t s i t ; the fires in Smithfield ; G. 'lle' t ' ll e°ll ; drag coming down to a be l t a t t e e r r period, unde„ to d, t e art of persecution being ‘ 44ll a e 4S Siltned a more civilized, but q i u m e t sti l o e n es , I'll at ,t(kts form —what, we repeat the !'ilitiltlduced the Test Acts—the Catholic Dis 'lt -e : - the loud high-church howl against WES t'4 r ''t . Y . , WHITFIELD, and the two 4 ef a ch.,s l t !' ,c. persecution" never formed " part p art :el 'allay,' if it . were never the Mots ,' Christianity to punish the re , ligious *lay ;°` others," how came all this about ? this' pOi ti P t l ase your Grace to illuminate us on If reh„.; °.°ll s "persecution" have ceased, or '.th" . dissolution, i lt i iS tl I L I , it be giving symptoms of t '')ei r : - ,: o the charity of churchmen, to t.hl.tie,i_lea)-gsee ( ; )1 0 ' r el f - interest, that we must attribute bu 1 ..e age, will r ather to the improved character ° of those rough, Dandle Bing to eth shoulder, which it is beautiful and persecuting, or (: sing g witness. Whether 0- , t, rand persecute, to Persecute, the Church has been . g . 1 Pe.ipo ell by her sense of interest. For selfish Ptirposea she once roasted a Jew ; for the same ° lth e 7 B ' she now thrusts him from the portals 11 %l i i n egislature. Reason and conviction have Kp e li g i „° do with either act—self alone is the , L o ~"g agent. 1 11 h i 1.4 SEAGRAVE emulated the Archbishop I.,ords s.trenuous opposition to the Bill. His lft ev e r shi ll did so, on the score of his excessive ` ° r the interests of true religion. It is clear I,3ttatlehthisis that his proximity CO the Epi . scopa a l I, e ‘v "as been the blessed means of making l t , At, 'l,an of the owner of t h at " Cypricm re- Eerkeley Castle (as Sir J. SCARLETT dap/ t co:r 1 00 :••••"' ebind mod. the Make! h a t 8 Ss nl. 08 W itbSene e rou a Of: Iget 3l. per Ce°- Piedtooot; let all 0/ 1 for su ff" 2 u 1 " - reach to' ‘• the re„, f the renderin 4 i a garg.'", he Libe r '' eh may be ' Italy under date lays ip /b. d that tile as it h,. sl l e that tP! federati6ll: s pirit P . , itne WIOI .eted to be ct of NI Iccurren'P" ne of the _A , as facto r ' ci )fr _A ' rators, , the be ee ider of the ency, psA disco/et; versace sent theo, r e regul lifF estedt „, 62 oor, ent cleo e* horn/ell follooliog the oceuf: ;130V/ 0 have be e " DWitZ, W b° &nil:1 01°11 copies baesSdOr of s statio n end of tb relieved 11t1 ,, orals& enterou- ej coinPlt, Auso' ly leave off se V cOine ••••• iiicorla • looseigr e a y dePor, An i o n g o i nn j al &O il u' ° an A r „ fa jo :oon ce ba s ouo g o lt tAi g s 1 in a e 1 0 t aces) g s eiuce uferago ae d :is hono ur :l Cbounta, j I band, 1° stinguilb id 00 'olignac 143 the paP er6 e aye 0 11 0 nf 1:1 _ ug coo on rat j 0 % the fe e " o f ial P IA° lig ;hat i t h o s , „ ai d g t ai Jositioa be i Ward* ne at eeo o l e that, "1 0 , g a PP r° o' g ieir atla s) , froal gi I ; a p 0 'f,i• 71 11. aro- •v)1 vet CO ) and 11 : gian t r ;II s . A )0 1 Pa P Y to the Vi ConY e ! t tbe on f ° ` t bi een o P c itp I thi' t b' ntly 0 0 0 „ntioo 0. 4 88 s to o 115 4 4 to , 9-. to v" 04 oec pair,/ o g Gla o lb t er dy .pY ot,„, r b°7, 10 " " Du° ° o4 j of str log be te rd, tbrti tol ° have le r ' CO °i d t v eS Se herb' ri v At' 0 0, Are 04, o re 3 3 1 4 fr i ; ,perc e it' 4131 so oe , 'ear„4, 03.1 103 £1 6 6 once happily styled it), in the same way as Mother Cole was converted and endowed with " a gift for prayer" by her frequent spiritual interviews with Dr. Squintum. German. Papers have been received, but they contain wathing worth extracting. We siae that Lord ALTHORP announced his intention last night to persevere in pressing for ward the Bank Charter Bill, and that its discus sion was only delayed till the Abolition of Slavery Bill 'gas disposed of. In the meantime, the trier chan is of London have got up against the Bill a petition whose only fault is, that it does not go far enough. We perceive from our advertising columns that this petition is to lie for signature till Friday at the British Coffee-house, Cock spur-street ; at the City of London Tavern ; and at the King's Head, Poultry. All who wish to see banking put, in some degree, upon a sound foo4,ing, will attend at one of those places and express their wish. Mr. F4WART, last night, brought forward a rrotion of great importance. It was a resolu tion calling upon the House to express its opi nio.a of the justice and propriety of admitting s'Jgar and coffee, the produce of free labour,from the East Indies, at the same duties as are paid by the same articles coming from the West Indies. Lord ALTHORP moved the previous question upon the motion; and Mr. EWART, " relying upon the practice as well as the pro fessions of the Government, declined pressing it to a division." As there would not be time to pass any law this session carrying the resolution into effect, we are inclined to agree, that moving the previous question was the best tnode of dis posing of the subject, but we cannot at all agree in the validity of the reasons given by Lord ALTHORP for not legislating upon the matter till we see what will be the effect of the Slavery Abolition Bill. " In former times," said his Lordship, " when this question had been brought under the consideration of the House, the case stood in a very different situation from that in which it was now placed. At those periods the sugar of the West Indies very much exceeded in quantity the consumption of this country, and he therefore always thought that the proprietors of the West Indian colonies were more apprehensive than they need have been at the admission of foreign sugar. The price of their sugar in this country depended on the price which sugar bore on the Continent, and therefore they had no effectual mono poly in this country. The case had now, however, assumed a very different appearance. In consequence of the operation of the Slavery Abolition Bill, there might be a great falling off in the production of sugar:" With all submission to his Lordship, he does not do away with the necesity for doing jus tice to the East Indians, but merely shows that some of the reasons in support of it are changed, and that the new ones are stronger than the old. Heretofore, says his Lordship, the opposition of the West Indians has been the result of blinded selfishness; they could not have been hurt by the measure, they were not benefitted by the mono poly, the public was not hurt by it, but it would have been well to have opened the trade to East Indians on an equal footing, for the sake of the principle. One would think that when circumstances are about to arise which will make the monopoly of the West Indians highly prejudicial to the public, which will ren der the question one of a practical nature, as well as one of principle, which will make justice to the East Indians a benefit to the country, one would think, we say, all these circumstances, so many additional reasons for at once legislating upon the principle of equalization. We could understand the planter saying, " We have been growing more sugar than has been wanted by the country, and our competition has kept the price down ; but now you have emancipated the negroes, they will not work so much as they have done, sugar will be scarcer, and besides the 20,000,0001. we have received as the full value of' the slaves, whose labour we are still to have for seven years, we now hope to have a swinging profit out of you on oar sugar." We could understand this, we repeat, in the mouth of a planter, but we cannot understand it in the mouth of a Minister of the Crown, and that particular Minister, too, who will be most embarrassed by the quantity of sugar produced and imported, falling off one half or one third which, in the first instance, it is not un• likely to do. Such an event may give the planters high prices, but will make a woeful hole in the four millions of sugar duties. Instead of delay in legislation, we contend that the change which the Slavery Abolition Bill may produce, imperatively calls upon the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to prepare with all convenient speed, so as to be carried the first thing next session, a Bill for admitting sugar from the East Indies, being the produce of free la bour, at the same rate of duty as that from the West. Otherwise, one of three consequences must occur,—That the field negroes must, for the next seven years, work as hard as ever, and as much against their will as ever, from having no wages ; that the amount of sugar pro duced in the West Indies must fall off, and consequently the revenue derived from it ; or that, to prevent the reduction of the revenue, sugar must be admitted from South America, — a pretty result of all our sacrifices and exertions. The last official accounts from Madrid state, that considerable uncertainty still prevailed as to the course which the Spanish Cabinet would be likely to adopt towards Portugal. In propor tion as the successes of the Pedroites increased, the rage of the Carlists had also increased, and the Church party had exerted itself vigorously in support of the Miguelite interest. At one time it was supposed that the efforts of this party had been successful, for orders were sent oil to the commanders of the Spanish troops in Estre madura to hold themselves in readiness for a march towards Elvas ; but at another council influence of M. ZEA prevailed, and it was re solved to make no hostile demonstration for the present in favour of MIGUEL, but merely to establish a cordon of observation. M. ZEA is said to have had great difficulty in inducing the KING, and some of his colleagues in the cabinet, to adopt this moderate course, be de claring the presence of the Duke of PAL INIELLA with the expedition from Oporto, was a guarantee against the establishment of a Government in Portugal, which would jus tify ally apprehension on the part o f the Spanish Ministry, the Duke having gained the ascendancy over the Ultra-Liberals in the Cabinet of Don PEDRO ; and assures them that the British and French Governments had pro mised to exert their influence towards the for mation of such a Government by the Pedroites as would prevent the possibility of at tempt at commotion among the Spanish Liberals, under an expectation of receiving support from Portugal. These arguments had, it appears, prevented an immediate act of intervention by the Spanish Cabinet in fa your of MIGUEL; but at the date of the last despatches there were still doubts in the minds of the British and French representatives as to what might follow. On the whole, however, we are inclined to Hieve that the Cabinet of Madrid will lean tc moderation. " Emancipate .he Jews, indeed !" said a Noble Lord last night, on the presentation of a petition— " I wish to God the Jews would emancipate some of us." HORRID MUtDER.—We have received the following letter from Dublin, dated Monday, three o'clock :—" The w iole city has just been thrown into a ferment by a most dreadful occurrence. Mr. NATHA • NIEL SNEYD, wine-merchant, a gentleman extensively known and reelected, was shot while walking in West moreland-street A. respectable looking middle aged man fired at him a ham of pistols; both balls passed through his head, and he unfortunate gentleman fell dead. No cause can be in.igned. The assassin gave his name as MASON, and is now undergoing examination. He is sup posed to be insure." Mr. SNEYD was a most estimable man, both in its public and private character. He was for many years one of the representatives of the county of Cavan in the House of Commons, and was connected with several of the nincipal families in that part of the country. —Morning ilerald. There i: one point connected with India at once interestiag to every one whose lot has been cast for a time in Ash, as well as the many thousands who are connected with them at home, all of whom will feel grateful to Sir ROBERT hoards for bringing forward the important subject of steam navigation. The proposed lines of intercourse by Egypt and the Euphrates have both been carefully Examined by Captain CHESNEY, and that o' the Red Sea (of Ire) by Captain HEAD, who urges this route with mich force and energy. The reports of Captain CHESNEY, bawever, make it almost a balanced question as to the separate advantages of each, and if this be so, Ministers have a simple task; for if it be difficult to say which is the preferable one, both may be tried experimen tally, and that one continued permanently which proves on experierce to be the cheapest and best. We already have a lire _of packets monthly to Malta, and it can not, theriore, when so much is done, be a very serious ex ense to continue that line on to Kander den or Eqpt, and then to have a small river steamer on the E.phrates or Nile, the rest of the distance to be conpleted by one of the Indian steamers ;—in which war it is said that a few thousand pounds would suffice fo an actual experiment for twelve months by either of hew ; and, were the expense greater, the coon. try ghoul( afford it, to accomplish so great a matter as this intecourse would involve, not only to the public, but privee individuals. We cannot learn that there are any serial* objections either to the Euphrates or the Red Sea; bu if there be such in the one, there will be the resource of the other ; and if we do not like either *f them, way not run the Malta line of packets onwards by Constaninople to Trebisond, and thence by land to the Tigris atd the Euphrates, or through Persia? for we ac tually bole three routes, each of which would give us a c ommmication in from 37 to 47 days. Mr O'CONNELL.—Mr. O'CONNELL, after his lateQuizotic and abortive attempt to reform the par liamenary debates of the Times, may justly cry out with Hermit, "Tpe Times are out ofjoint, 7 oh, cursed spite, That ever I was born to set them right." BUTISH MUSEUM.—According to the statutis and rules as altered (included in the returns move! for by Mr. HAWES, and lately printed by order of the Louse of Commons), it appears that the Museum is to be closed to the public in September only instead of Augut and September as formerly, but it is to be regretted that fhe Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun weeks are still preserved as vacations. Persons wishing to see the methls or prints must give one day's notice of their inten • tion. Those who apply for admission to the reading room must produce a recommendation satisfactory to a trustee, or an officer of the hou.e. Books, deeds, or charttrs, may be taken out of the Museum to be produced in evidence. No officer, or attendant, is allowed to take any fee, or gratuity from any visiter of the Museum. Every officer to have a vacation of thirty days between She let of August and 81st of October, and may have a longer absence if the trustees see fit. The ordinary business of the Museum to be managed by a standing committee of fifteen, three of whom are to mike a quorum. A list of donations to be printed every year, and a copy transmitted to each person, whose name shall be recorded as a donor. The Museum not to be opened on Tuesdays or Thursdays; those days being reserved by the trustees for the admission of persons eminent for their rank, learning, &c. _ _ It may be interesting to the legal profession to knew, that the anomaly which has hitherto existed in the writs in personal actions in the county of Middlesex, being issued by a different officer from that issuing them in all other counties and cities, is about to be done away with, a Bill being in progress through Parliament to put the signing, sealing, and issuing of writs of summons, &c. in Middlesex upon the same footing as in other counties. As it may not be generally known, and toll gate keepers may not improbably leave people to find it out, the knowledge of the annexed may be a public con. venience :—The second clause of the 2d and 3,1 of WH.- Lux IV. c. 74, being an Act to explain certain provisions in Local Acts of Parliament relating to double toll on turnpikes, recites that any waggon on which a penalty for overweight has been levied, shall, on receipt of a ticket to that effect, be exempted from any further penalty for overweight on that day, and on the same trust, provided there be no alteration of the loading of such waggon. About ten days since, in raising a large block of stone, weighing several tons, from a quarry on Combe Down, a living toad with only three legs (wit mutilated, but evidently so formed) was found on the block beneath, forty feet below the surface. In the raised block was found a small cavity, just equal to the bulk of the toad. The animal was almost of the colour of the freestone, and is still alive, and in the possession of Mr. LANKESHEEK, the quarryman.—Bath Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION IN CALICO PRINTING. —A merchant of Manchester wanted 1,500 pieces of printed calico, of a particular description, printed in three colours, to send off the next day to America; not finding them at any of the warehouses, he went to Ilarpur hey to Mr. LOCKETT'S, who had nothing printed of the kind wanted. This was at 5 in the evening, and it was necessary to have the goods in M inchester the next day before 1, to go by the railroad to Liverpool. Mr. ALSOP, who is at the head of Mr. LOCKETT'S establishment, said he was willing to undertake the order at his own risk. lle did so ; the pieces were printed in three colours, dried, glazed, packed, and sent off to Manchester by 12 o'clock ; they reached Liverpool at three, were put on board, and the vessel sailed at five, just 24 hours after the order was given. GoooLptirN.—We are requested to state that the New Edition of this Work will certainly be pub- fished by Mr. BENTLEY on Wednesday next, when it may be obtained of all respectable booksellers in the Untied Kingdom. Agents :for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. CHARACTERISTICS OF GOETHE.-" We can scarcely find the means of expressing, except in lan page which may be deemed the diction of indiscriminat ing flattery, our admiration of the truly extraordinary manner in which she (Mrs. AUSTIN) has rendered all their various contents—metaphysical reasonings, poetical decla mations, and social dialogue—into correct, nervous, and vernacular English. Most of our readers will remember the interest which was excited by the appearance of the "Ger man Prince's" travels in England, and how obstinately, not withstanding all the assertions of critics and booksellers, and the strongest internal evidence of authenticity, many people persisted in believing the work to have been manufactured at home, merely because the language did not offer the slightest traces of transfusion from a foreign original. The volumes before us evince the same elegance of ex [cession, the same felicitous rendering of each original phrase by its English counterpart, at once with accuracy and freedom, employed on a far more difficult suutject. " • 1. Mrs. AUSTIN has presented us, in these three volumes, with a variety of materials for judging of the character of GOETHE, both as a man and an author."— Edinburgh Review, July. EFFECTS OF BAD MEMORY IN A CLER GYMAN.—On Thursday, July the 18th, the clergyman of Upton Bishop, in this county, was engaged to be in at tendance at six o'clock, to perform the funeral rites over a child that was to be interred, who had died on the pre vious Monday. Accordingly, the corpse was in the churchyard at the hour appointed ; but, to the great grief and mortification of the parents and others in attend ance, to, the numb er o f twe l ve , a f ter rema i n i n g till n e arly nine o'clock, no clergyman arrived. The clerk was then solicited to allow the corpse to remain in the church until the followi ng d ay, wh i ch he pos i t i ve l y re f use d. Th e corpse was ther e f ore carr i ed back, to t h e di stance o f 12 mile', by young f ema l es, The only excuse through the village of Crowhill. given by the clergyman was, that it had entirely slipped his memory , and hoped the corpse would be brought the following day. 1M PERIALPARLIAMENT THIS DAY. rRIDAY, AUGUST 2. HO USF OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took his sett about a quarter past twelve o'clock, at s v iich time about thirty Members were in the House. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. LITTLETON moved the order of the day for the House resolving itself into a Committee on the Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill. Lord DUNCANNON, in a very low tone of voice, in timated his intention to move an amendment to some clause in the Bill, but the nature of it was not heard. Mr. GRATTAN, in the absence of the Hon. Member for Waterford (Mr. Barron) moved an instruction to the Com mittee to the following effect :—" That so much of the 39th of Geo. 111., cap. 17, should be repealed, as compels the Grand Jury of the county of Waterford to build any county infirmary they may erect in the town of Kilmac-Thomas ; also to insert a clause in the Bill to empower the Grand Jury of the county of Waterford to build one or more infirmaries in any part of said county that they may think proper." Mr. LEFROY did not intend to make any formal objection to the House going into Committee; but he begged to remind the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Littleton) that on a former division 27 Irish Members voted against proceeding with the Bill, and only seven voted for it.—(An Hon. Member said 17 voted for it.) At all events, a great proportion of the Irish Members of all parties concurred in wishing it to be post poned. He hoped that English Members would not suffer themselves to be made the tools for forcing such a measure as the present down the throats of the people of Ireland. Mr. LI'FTLETON thought the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman had not been present at the last division.—(Mr. Lefroy —Yes, I was.) He had thought not, from the Hon. Gentle man having stated that only seven Irish Members voted for the Bill, whereas there were 17, and therefore the grounds of the Hon. Member's objection fell from under him. The mea sure had now been under consideration two sessions, and he was strongly inclined to its leading principles. If he were to devote the recess to the further consideration of it, he should certainly adhere to all its leading and general principles. — (Hear, hear.) He could not consent to any postponement of the measure. Mr. SHAW put it to the Noble Lord (Duncannon) whether it was not the unanimous opinion of the Committee not to press the Bill forward this session. Lord DUNCANNON admitted that when the Bill went last into Committee it was not in a fit state ; but it had since then received considerable alteration, and he believed it might now be considered perfect. He was aware that if it was passed it would not come into operation until the next sum mer assists; but then it would afford better opportunity for the Grand Jurors and others, intrusted in carrying the Bill into effect, to become acquainted with the manner in which the work would have to be done. Mr. WINNINGTON hoped the Noble Lord Would perse vere in completing the Bill this session. Mr. EVANS said it would be enough to pass an Act, for the present, to regulate the system of tenders and contracts. After a few words from Mr. FINN, Mr. EvANs, and Mr. LirrwroN, the House went into Committee, Mr. Bernal in the Chair. Clause I was agreed to, without any comment. On reading the 2d clause, Lord OXMANTOWN objected to that and the three fol lowing clauses in limine, because they did not sufficiently con nect taxation with representation. Mr. Sergeant PERRIN objected to the giving rectors and vicars the power, under the Bill, of acting as justices. He also thought the qualifying income of the justices should be 100/., instead of 3001. per annum. After some observations from Lord Duncannon, Mr. D. Brown, Mr. Shaw, Mr. _Finn, and Mr. Sergeant Perrin, who withdrew his amendment, the clause, as originally proposed, was ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 3 and 4 were ordered to stand part of the Bill, with some verbal amendments. The sth clause was then put and supported by Mr. Littleton, Sir E. Wilmott, Mr. Ruthven, and Lord Duncannon, and opposed by Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, and Mr. Shaw. It was then agreed to. The clauses up to 16 were then agreed to with a few verbal, unimportant amendments. Clauses 17 and 18 were agreed to with some verbal amend stems. On arriving at clause 19, which provided for the reception of tenders, and entering into contracts for public works, Mr. SHAW asked what assurance there was that the works would bt properly done. Lcird DUNCANNON—Securities are provided for. Mr. SHAW said they all knew that securities were in most instances inefficacious. It was a very bad system to be com pelled to receive the lowest tender, for it frequently happened that cheap work was the worst performed. He thought a dis cretion should be permitted, having due regard, of course, to the expense. Mr. O'CONNELL said this was one of the best clauses of the Bill; for it would do away with that system of jobbing and favouritism which have been so long practised in Ireland. —(Hear, hear.) This was one of the leading principles of the Bill, for it would do away with the system by which Magi strates got their rents paid, by employing some particular per son to do a particular work. The clause provided not only that the work should be done at the cheapest price, and that the contracts should be open, but that parties should give ample security that the work should be properly performed. Mr. LEFROY suggested that there should be a discretion not to accept the lowest tender. Mr. LITTLETON said the great matter was to have a cor rect specification. The principle of competition should be strictly acted on, and he was convinced it would be found in England to work well. The clause, as amended, was then agreed to. Clauses 20, with several verbal amendments, was agreed to, and ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 21 to 25 were then respectively agreed to. On the reading of clause 26, Mr. O'CONNELL suggested that its provisions should be extended to the city of Dublin, and other Grand Juries other. wise generally excepted from the provisions of the Act. Mr. LITTLETON said there would be no occasion, as by the Bill all transactions would take place in open Court. Mr. O'CONNELL—But the Bill did not open the courts of the city of Dublin, and other places generally except ed in the Bill. He wished the Bill to be left as it was to effect the intended purposes; and only asked, with respect to this particular clause, that its operation might be extended to the city of Dublin, the city of Cork, the city of Londonderry, and the town of Galway. Lord DUNCANNON said he would offer no objection. After some observations front Mr. SHAW, Mr. LEFROT, and Mr. O'CONNELL, the amendment was agreed to, and the clause as amended ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 27 up to 29 inclusive, were agreed to with a few verbal alterations. The House then resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. The SPEAKER then left the Chair. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain this week are considerable, and of Flour good. The weather continuing fine, our Wheat trade is very dull, and rather lower than on onday. Barley, Beans, and Pease, are heavy, at former prices. Oats find buyers slowly, but are not cheaper. The Flour trade remains as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat. 1 I Barley. Oats. Flour. English 13,260 qrs. 1,280 qrs. 5,410 VS. 7,24osacks Irish — - I 4- , 880 ,-Foreign O- 660 SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts and Porkers was limited, but the former were chiefly of inferior quabty ; the supply of Sheep, Lambs, Calves, and Mulch Cows, moderately good. Prime small Veal was somewhat brisk, at an advance of from 2d. to 4d. per stone; with Beet, Mutton, Lamb, and Pork, the trade was dull at Monday's prices. Mitch Cows went off heavily at last week's prices, an useful Short-horns, with her small Calf, producing from 151. to 181. PRICES PER STONE OF BI.BS. TO SINK THE OFFAI.S. s. d. to P. d.i s, d. to s. rt. Inferior Beasts 2 0 2 21 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0. Prime small ditto 4 6 5 6 Prime large Oxen .. 310 4 01 Large coarse Calves 3 2 310 Prime Scots. •F‘c. .... 4 0 4 2 Prime small ditto 4 6 410 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 o', Large Hogs Second quality ditto 3 Ii 310 1 Small Porkers 4 2 4 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 2 Suckling Calves 12s. toi s each. SouthdownWethers 4 6 4 8; Quarter nldPigs 12s. to 18. , .each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. _ Beasts. Sheep and I :alas. I Calves. I Pigs. 470 I 8,130 32 1 9 llO NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone 5. d. to. (C rs . Beef, inferior middl;ng --- prime large 3 2 3 4 prime - Frime small... 3 6 3 8 Pork, large yea' 3 0 4 8 --small Lamb :3s. 6d. to ss. Od. DENHALL MARKETS by the Carcass. s. d.tos. d. 22 2 6 36 3 8 310 4 0 30 3 8 42 4 8 - ----- --- Lord GREY, though in general good health, h as found it necessary to leave town for a few days, in consequence of the great fatigne he has had to endure. He is gone to East Sheen with his family. DEATH OF MR. SNEYD.—This afflicting, but not unexpected, event took place this morning at a q uarter past 4 o'clock ; and the gentlest and kindliest s pirit that ever filled the breast of men flitted from its habitation of clay. The eulogy of Mr. SNEVD is to be found in the tearful eye and sorrowing visage of every inhabitant of this great metropolis ; and his obituary is to be read in the universal sensation of horror at the manner, and general feeling of grief at the circumstance, of his awful and untimely demise. One fact is pregnant with proof of the existence of these sentiments, and to an extent unparalleled :—Mademoiselle TAGLIONI has been perform ing to the most crowded assemblages ever collected within the walls of Hawkins's-street Theatre. The places were taken for Monday evening, up to the very ceiling. The assassination of Mr. SNEYD occurred at 3 o'clock. As a matter of course, the melancholy intelligence spread throughout the city with the rapidity of thought. The curtain rose at the usual hour—there were not three hun dred persons in the house i..-Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday, LITERATURE. MANUAL OF EXPERIMENTS ILLUS• TRATIVE OF CHYMICAL SCIENCE. BY JOHN MURRAY, F S.A &C. Eva. HIOHLEY. Nothing could tend to demonstrate more clearly the rapid strides making by the moderns in the most interesting and useful of the sciences, than the contents of this manual. Besides experimental data of the utmost consequence, not only to the Tyro in chymistry, but to the more matured stu dent—and for all it is still a study—the volume before us contains some pertinent remarks on the nomenclature of the sciences, and also on the his tory of definite proportions ; and it is enriched by much original matter, the result of Mr. Murray's persevering and well directed labours. Our recom mendation may be thought to be somewhat tardy, as we observe our copy is of the third edition, but we ale not the less sincere, when we advise all whoever would attain a concise knowledge of chymistry to become possessed of the work. We venture, however, to demur at one—and but one—of the author's conclusions. In describing Jackson's inflammable lamp apparatus, he opines it to be " the best and most simple application of the curious fact discovered by Dobreiner, at Jenp, namely, that finely divided or 'spongy' platinum is ignited by a current of hydrogene." Day's Self acting Illuminator we take to be a much better mo dification, and as we have not yet seen any written description of it, we shall append one. It consists of a glass-stand, which is about half-filled with sulphuric acid, diluted with water, in the proportion of nine-parts of the litter to one of the former. To the cover of this stand, which is not fitted too closely, an inverted bell-shaped glass is affixed, being suspended at a little distance above the bottom of the receiving-glass or stand. In this bell-glass a coil of zinc is hung by a strip of lead, which is supported by a copper hook from the inner part of the cover; and the glass also serves as a recipient for the hydrogene that is formed by the action of the sulphuric acid on the zinc. Upon the cover is fixed a bronze figure, from whole mouth the gas is permitted to pass, when the arms of the figure, which act as a stop-cock, are moved so as to lift up an extinguisher from a miniature vase, over which a small pellet of prepared platina is suspended. On the emission of the hydrogene, the platina is im mediately ignited, and then produces the ignition of the jet of gas. For the information of Mr. Murray, as well as that of our readers generally, and in justice to the , ingenious manufacturer, we add, that his to Day, ) in the Poultry, we are indebted for this " new light" producer. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, AUG. I.—Wind N.E. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. I.—Wind N E.—Sailed the Canada, Briton, for New York. FALMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind E. to S.E.,moderate.—Arrived the Treasurer, Lowrie, from Port-au-Prince. Off port the Hymen, Lotherington, from Jamaica. SCILLY, JULY 30.—Arrived the Young, Augusti, from Rio Grande. BRISTOL, AUG. I. Arrived the Dominica, from Tobago. HOLYHEAD, JULY 31.—Arrived off port the Indus, Hunter, from St. John's, New Brunswick. LIVERPOOL, JULY 31 —Arrived the Cumberland, Gardner, from Baltimore: and Syren, Langlois, from St. Petersburgh. Off port the Harmony, White, from Porto Cabello. CORK, JULY 30.—Arrived the Lark, Smith, from Lisbon. HULL, JULY 31.—Arrived the Chilton, Wilbridge, from Pictou ; Clarkson, Irvine, from Quebec; Fanny, Estell, and Ricardo, Munro, from St. Petersburgh ; Annies, Wright, and Broderick, Peart, from Wyburg ; Ocean, Kirk, from Pernam ; Commerce, Massam, from Stettin; and Sir David Milne, Hill, from Dantzic. COWES, AuG. I.—Arrived the Anne, Williams, from Batavia The Drie Marias, bound to the Netherlands, and the Dank barkeit, for Dordrecht, are detained at Sourabaya. The Elizabeth, Johnston, from Halifax to Guayaquil, is re ported to have been lost 25 days after being at Valparaiso. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Batavia, dated March 19:—" Since the let instant no Dutch vessels have been allowed to depart for Europe, in consequence of the opinion prevalent here, that a war has taken place between Great Britain and Holland." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. The only arrival this morning is a Jamaica mail, which sailed on the 11th of June, and from Carthagena on the 30th of May, by which Jamaica papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. The Earl of Mulgrave, it is said, complains of the conti- nued vituperation of the press against him; but who has he to thank for this, but the Court Journal, who so bespatters him with fulsome praise, that it is necessary to counteract it, lest it should be supposed that the Earl of Mulgrave was that great and good man which he is represented to be in a paper, under his immediate control. Let Lord Mulgrave muzzle the editor of the Court Journal, his personal Secretary, and others of his party, and we shall be content to be silent; but Lord Mulgrave must not expect that his influence will ever curl) or suppress the honest expression of public feeling, which he will always find in the Jamaica Caurant. _ _ . (From the Jamaica Courant of June 10.) It is reported that the Attorney-General, after keeping the depositions in the case of the " King against Sundry Indivi duals," for wantonly injuring a number of tomb-stones in the Jewish Cenietery in Spanish Town, has returned them to the gentlemen at whose instance the prosecution was commenced, with a note expressive of his determination not to be counsel against the prisoners, as the offence is not a public one ! What ! the destruction, or even the attempt to remove tomb stones not a public offence? We should just like to know if Mr. O'Reilly, or Dan O'Connell, would be after being quiet if a Roman Catholic cemetery had been profaned. They would not ; and we care not who the dead are ; their ashes and the memorial of their friends ought to be considered sacred ; and we are almost afraid that a little of the old leaven of the Roman Catholic religion exists in the breast of the first Catholic Attorney " , eneral of Jamaica. It is a well-known fact that even savages respect the sacred depositories of the de parted, and Mr. O'Reilly has, we believe, the supreme honour of being the first lawyer who ever declared that the profanation of the " narrow house " is no public offence ! Robert Davis, a slave tried in January, 1832, for using sedi tious expressions, and sentenced at Sav-la-Mar, by a General Courtmartial, to be transported for life, has been pardoned by his Excellency the Governor, in consequence of a request made by Mr. Stephen, previous to his removal from the Colonial_ office. In Ireland sedition is something ; but in Jamaica it appears to be patronised merely to please the saints of England, who, in their turn, if ever they obtain the ascendancy, will not return good for evil. Great fears are entertained for the safety of the cutter Bridget, which sailed from Carthagena on the 28th April. We have given a true picture of the cause which has brought Jamaica to her present condition, and we have no hesitation to state that while a single Methodist or Baptist preacher is per_ mitted to pollute our shores, we can expect neither peace nor comfort in a colony to which nature has been so bountiful. We received yesterday by the packet, Bogota Papers to the 12th ult., but they contain no intelligence of interest. It is, however, hinted that the Venczuelian Government, under Paez, will soon swallow up Columbia, and send O'Bando back to New York with as little delay as possible. THE FUNDS. As yet we have no further news from Portugal, for which great anxiety is expressed to ascertain the operations against Lisbon, Consols opened at 861, to 89. At present they are at the same price with little doing. HALF-PAST ONE. To the present time we are without any further arrivals from any quarter. We understand that a letter is in town from General Saldanha, dated from the Emperor's Cabinet, nine o'clock at night after the battle, in which he states that Marshal Bourmont has had a severe lesson, and one of his par ticular friends was killed in the action ; the loss in officers and men was severe. Consols are at present 89 for the Account, with little doing. In the Foreign Market, Portuguese Scrip has been conti nually fluctuating; it was done at 131, went down to 13, up to 141, and it is now 131. In other Securities nothing doing. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 89. DECREASE OF CRIME IN THE COUNTY 01' ESSEX. —T he number of prisoners committed during the six months of the present year, as compared with the corresponding six months of the past year, presents a very pleasing proof of the reduction of crime in this county For trial at sessions in the six months of the present year, there have been 298 ; last year, 368 ; a decrease of 70 in the six months. The commitments fur the Assiz!s for the like period are still more flattering. In 1832 there were 179, in 1833 only SS ; less by 91, being full lift) per cent, decrease, --Essex Herald. on 7' HER N CIR C 1.7 l'4)ylkitA 3 to;'s l l ll .„ lr Mr. Baron BOLLAND °per Ati4,CopplissiTa.cr Saturday night, and yesterda eveti4 4 Justice DENMAN arrived from rue calendar is by no means heiPettdMieins two or three charges of a serious character. JULY 30. A gSIZE INT Mary Thornton was indicted for having, in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, feloniously attempted to suffocate a new-born child of which she had been delivered, with intent to murder the same, by throwing upon it a quantity of coals—to wit one bushel. Several other counts in the indictment varied the charge. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner was in the service of a Mrs. S iphit, and that whilst washing in the coal-hnu4e she gave birth to an illegitimate child, which was subsequently found partially covered with small coals, but still living, and at the time of the trial in good health. . - —..... On being called upon for her defence the prisoner ap peared greatly distressed. She did not deny having had the child, but she was so dreadfully ill at the time as not to know that the child was alive. His LORDSHIP summed up, when the Jury retired for about t n minutes, and returned with a verdict of ac quittal as to the felonious intent, but guilty of concealing the birth. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AssAut.m.—Mrs. Susanna Jenkins charged Mrs. Jane Quick with having committed an assault, by flinging some dirty water over her person, and also with having effected a compound fracture of the crown of her lace cap. Mrs. Jenkins said that the defendant was her back attic lodger, and having private reasons of her own for preferring her "room to her company," she proceeded up stairs, for the purpose of giving Mrs. Quick notice to quit. Wtien near the door of the room, she heard Mrs. Quick in con fidential conversation with a neighbour; and after listen ing a short time, she was, as she declared, " struck all of a heap," at bearing the epithet of " a gallows old " something which sounded similar to " witch," applied to herself. Bursting with indignation, she re. tatiated at the top of her lungs, by another epithet, tolerated only amongst the ladies of Billingsgate. NJ sooner did the unpleasant sound retch the tympanum of Mrs., Quick, than she snatched up a curious collet inn of slops, which stood handy, and having peeped over the balustrades, she discharged her liquid missiles with accu rate aim at the ample visage of Mrs. Jenkins, who, fur the better eas'ng of her mind, stood at that moment looking upwards at the object of her angry vociferations. Mts. Quick then ran down stairs, and having laid hold of Mrs. Jenkins's cap, she committed the damage complained of. Mrs. Jenkins declared that she considered her life to be in danger, for a woman who would call her such an unchris tian name, was capable, in her opinion, of committing any enormity. Mrs. Quick, in defence, declared that Mra. Jenkins commenced the fracas by attempting to force her xv a y, while in a state of intoxication, into her room. "Me drunk," said Mt s. Jenkins. " Oh, your Wor ship, I am ready to take my oath that I never drink more than what does me good." " Are you, sure," said Mr. CONANT to the defendant, " that Mrs. Jenkins was intoxicated ?"—" Why, your Worship, she is the parish midwife," said Mrs. Quick, " is it likely she would be sober ?" The force of this argument was not ex telly admitted by the Magistrate, who, however, settled the matter by allowing the warrant to stand over, in consideration of Mrs. Quick quitting the house by a stipulated time. MAR YL EB ONE. SINGULAR CASE OF AFFILIATION.-Yesterday, Mr. Robert Lloyd, a gentleman of fashionable exterior, re siding in Bryans'on-street, Portman-square, attended by his solicitor, Mr. Flower of Hatton-garden, appeared before the sitting magistrates, Messrs. HossaNs and Tomas, at the instance of the parish officers of Maryle bnoonte,betloonsghottov h c i a ffi us , e in w a ti sm y u t c h h e a h s on E ou liz rs :b o e f th pa l t v e e r s n r i , ty a should girl of eighteen, had declared that the said Mr. Lloyd was the true and genuine papa of the smiting cherub, a_ eti three months, which she d indled in her arms. The young mother, having gone through the usual formalities of an oath, made her statement with much apparent mo desty and diffidence, from which it appealed that she was a dressmaker, and had lately left the shop of her mistress in Holborn. She first saw the defendant in August last near Red Lion -street, when lie accoved her and followed her home, taking care not to omit any op. portunity during their progress thither of launching forth various encorniutna on her form anti beauty. lie after wards walked up and down in front of the shop for at least two hours, in the expectation of agrin seeing her, but finding that his fond hopes were not likely to be rea;iz,d, he made his exit from tie spot to which " all-powerful love" had so long rivetted him. Nothing daunted by the sad disappointment, the vicinity of the loved abode was again honoured on the following evening by the prese ee of Mr. Lloyd, who, catching a glimpse of his damsel near to the blacking manufactory of the renowned Day and Martin, whispered into her ear " the soft tale of love," and said how much delight lie should experience in Ineet • ing her by " moonlight alone" near Hanover-square ihe next night. To this proposition, after many importuni ties, the blushing damsel acceded, when, at the appoinre I time and place the lovers met, and, after a little pr. Joni nary discourse, proceeded to a house in Woodstock-sneer, where in an ill fated hour she yielded to her admirer's wishes. Many subsequent meetings took place, tall at length the fa Etiz ,both made the unwished for discovery that she WA? enceinte. She had till lately known the defendant by the name of Jones, and was not aware that lie had ever gone by a different cognomen till told by a policeman that lie was Mr. Lloyd She was quite positive that the defendant was the father of the illegitimate chit which she held in her arms. Mr. Lloyd denied in the most unequivocal manner that he had any knowledge of the said Elizabeth, who was so desirous of favouring him. She, however, persisted that ail she had said was true. Mr. Flower should beg that the case might stand over, in order that Mrs. Carr (the defendant's landlady) might come forward, who could prove that the com plainant had told her that she had been promised marriage by a young man, in the event of her finding a fattier for her child.—The case was accordingly postponed till a future day. NEW NOVEL----" LA COQUETTERIE," OR SKETCHES OF SOCIETY IN FRANCE AND 8ELC1031......1i seldom a work of fiction combines, with an interestinf, tale, pure morality, and an insight into the society and conduct of the upper classes. We have found it unite in this work, written, we understand, by a lady of rack, and from its just delineation of society in Belgium, ha+ been purchased by a high diplomatic character, and pre. sented to King LEOPOLD. The Atheneum thus spe tks of ." We have seldom met with a work where the ci a racters converse, act, and live, with more eleg ince an I genteel ease. It is decidedly clever." FANCY FAlRS.—These lairs are indeed a strange fancy; charity, it seems, has no naked charms, mutt be attired in the robes of merchandise. The quenters of fancy fairs have a few guineas to spend, bat not on relieving misery or succouring the distressed, but in pleasing themselves ; the contrivance, then, is 1, 1 combine the gratification called pleasure with the pries., cipal object for which the guineas are to be extracted. It is effected by a series of pretences ; a lady of rank enters into a compact of this kind with the subjects she intends to work upon. She says, " Now I suppose I am worth look ing at anywhere, but more especially to that kind of person that has few chances of seeing a lady of fashion at her best. I will therefore dress myself up in my most becoming style, and consent to show myself in a stall to all those who will pay a certain sum to the chat ity. But I must not stare like a figure in a glass case; the show will then be too barefaced ; I must make the pretence of having something to sell, and these somethings to sell will also be useful in extracting gains even beyond the admission-money. Though no one wants the at titles ; though they arc not worth a tenth of what I sh ill iisk for them, yet, out of compliment to me, and for the pleasure, of making purchases from one of my rank, many will buy; and the pretence of selling- will be a mcht agreeable way of exhibiting :all those advantages of air, and shave, and graciousness, which I suppose myself to possess. All this is sheer gain to the charity, my vanity is gratified, and the curiosity of tha spc . atars satisfied." None bat a very mercantile people surely could hit upon the ez. pedient of playing at trade for charity ; and it is still further characteristic of this most aristocratical and most commercial land, that the merchandise should be baited with rank and fashion. The combination of a love of truck and barter with the well-known reverence for aris• tocracy is particularly ingenious when considered as en!- blematic of the national character. The fancy fair . 15 hen, or ought to be, the beau-ideal of John Bull; for one room he finds commerce and charity hand in ti n ; ur ex t Pan coult3 rank and trade, beauty and begging, splendour all her gilded wings to shield a poor ben, live a year on the mere gilding of the s al i t! wi ng to ; hut - a.. volenee going about in the mask °I va c n h Y a ' manner grand contrivance to do good, but in such - do it a bargain,--New Monthly illagaz4 olject.zgv.)c.) it :-'