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VP • .5 - condetsmatinta of _such an opinion. If any body of pro fessing : Christians did .not adroit the Bible into their system of instructionohey were unworthy of the protection anal -encouragement of a. Protestant Government. This objec tion on the part of the Roman Catholics was not general, for they were told that. the Roman Catholic Bishop rf Glasgow adtpitted Roman children to attend the schools of Scotland, in which the Bible was used by all the scholars as w class-honk. If the CatholiC Clergy of Ireland, there fare, were for driving it out of the schools, they must he acting not upon religious scruples, but from disingenuous motives. Very many Catholics in Ireland now sent their children to those schools in which the Scriptures were need. It was, therefore, evident that there was nothing essentially opposed to the feelings of the Roman Cath olics in requiring that the bible should be read. After a few words from the Earl of HADDINGTON and the Duke of Wer,traurrota, the petition was ordered to lie on the tal4e. The Marquis of STAFFORD presented a petition against the present Sale of Beer Act. The Earl of GOSFORD presented a petition for the repeal of the malt tax ; and four others from various places, praying for the abolition of negro slavery. INFIRMARIES (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of WESTMEATH, after a few worde, moved the order of the day for the second reading of the Infirmaries (Irelenal) Rill. The Earl of WICKLOW slid that as the Bill was one of great importance, he wished to know whether any one of his Majesty's numerous Ministers were willing to sup poi t it ; if that were the case he would not oppose the second reading this day, but be thOught that some Minister of the Crown should vouch for the safety of this measure. The Duke of RICHMOND said, as one of the " nume rous". Ministers, being the only one present except his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack, he would say be had come to listen to any discussion which might arise ; and he thought the Noble Earl would have done better had he, instead of alluding to his Majesty's " numerous" Mi nisters, suggested his own alterations or objections to the Bill. The Marquis of WESTMEATH stated the Bill made very little alteration in the existing law, while it went to consoli date the var;ous Acts of Parliament, and contained three clauses which went to prevent moneys which were raised from different counties for affording relief to sick and in firm from being diverted from other than their proper purposes, namely, in supporting the poor in hospitals. The Earl of WICKLOW declared that he did not oh ject to the principle of the Bill ; but when he saw three pages of the Act occnpied with the recital of other Arts of Parliament which were repealed by this, he thought their Lordship ought first to have the sanction of the Mi nisters before they proceeded to the second reading of the Bill, and he thetefore wished it to be postponed. The Duke of RICHMOND tirotestid against the - trine laid down by the Noble Earl, that his Majesty's :vat nisters were to be responsible for these Bills ; they sat as Peers, and the duty of every other Noble Lord was only what theirs was. Toe Duke of WELLINGTON thought it hest it should be postponed till to-morrow, as the Bill related to a •111)• ject of very great importance. He believed it to form one of the most painful parts of a Minister's duty (as we un derstood the Noble Duke) to make himself acquainted with such Bills. The second reading was then postponed till to-morrow. The House adjourned at half past six. IMPERIALPARU_AM EN' THIS DAY, TUESDAY, July 2. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On entering' the gallery at the usual hour, we found about forty Members in the House. Upon the motion of Mr. FINN, the Carlow, Kilkenny, and Tipperary Road Bill, was read a third time and passed. Lord ACHESON presented a petition from Robert Burton, of Newry, against the Dublin Steam Packet Company Bill. The Order of the Day was then read for the adjourned d.l;ate 'm the DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY BILL. Upon the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the Bill was read a third time. Lord SANDON proposed a clause, by way of rider, for the purpose of exempting the pilots of Liverpool, Hull, and Belfast, from the operation of the Bill. The House having resclved itself into Committee upon this clause. S r EDWARD CODRINGTON moved, its an amend ment, that the words," any pilOts whatever," should be 'inserted, instead of those of " the pilots of Liverpool, Bull, a- !fast." ' M r . !t)i'I.NSON expressed his cpinion thst the elvise should he Ina& general. Colonel EVANS inquired why the pilots of other ports were excluded from the chute? Lord SANDON—The pilots of particular ports had been mentioned, because they were those from which alone any dissent had been received by the Committee. Sir E. CODRINOTON objected to the protection of any partial interest's. Mr. O'CONNELL could see no reason for any legis eating on the subject, becatase the Bill could not in a«y way affect the privileges of the pilots. Mr. ROBINSON thought that was good ground for rejecting the whole clause. Mr. EWART and Lord Saranoez wished only that the peculiar, privileges of those pilots, conveyed to them by Am ter and by Aets ?s a il...at, should be protected. shat the clause Sir S.WHALLEY was of aboteld he omitted altogether. O'CONNELL would not have objected to the clause were It not that in ibe first place it was unneces sary, and'in the second if it were inserted it would he likely to hinder the progress of the Bill in another place. Lord SANDON withdrew the clause, and the House ghee resumed. Mr. O'CONNELL then brought up the report, and moved Oree clauses to the effect, that the additional capi tal to he' raised under this Bill should be applied to the improvement of the river Shannon, and that a cEstinct account of the profits arising from it should be kept anti published in the Dublin papers every half year. That was unanimously agreed to. The other was giving a power to sue any one of the Directors, as a nominal 4efendant, on behalf of the Company. PEASE objected to the clause, as it would place an individual Director in a very precarious situation, in the case of any damage being done by the servants of the Company. Mr: Sergeant PERRIN also strongly objected to it as ?Innecessary, a former clause having provided that the company should sue and be sued by the name of the p 9 blin Steam Packet Company. He could see no neces sity ftir the clause, Which, in his opinion, would be in onnsistent with the other one. After a few words from Mr. SHELL and Mr. LYNCH, Mr. O'CONNELL said be would withdraw the clause. All he Intended by it was to give a greater facility to the public, and those to whom the Company owed money. Mr. POULETT THOMSON said this Bill gave e.ert4in powers to the Company, for the purposes of navigation in all parts of the United Kingdom, except . the Thames and -Clyde; he could see no reason why the finciies and G l ue shotA i.e excMed, and h: would therefore p(uposed to expunge that exception from the Bill of the Clyde and Thames. and he trusted he should be sup ported by the tibuse in doing so. There were , oine ob ections to the Bill on other grounds, namely, that it was a pill limiting the responsibility of the party con gasped ; b u t, he was bound to say, the Bill came be fore the House under very peculiar circumstances. Originally it was proposed that the capital should be 1300,0001. ; the capital was reduced to 226,000/., and now all they asked war to he placed on the same footing they would have'been on if . the Bill had been origine , ly passed. He thought there were good grounds for el'ex ing the limited responsibility in this case. Mr. O'CONNELL said, that considering there had been only . a majaiity of one in Committee in f(vour of the insertion of the words " other than the ports and har honor in the River Thames and Clyde," he should not re sist the withdrawing those words from the Bill. After a few Words from Mr. It.'POTTER, the expul inOn of those worde were agreed tit, and the Bill passed. MAGISTRATES OF IRELAND. Mr. P. O'CONNOR rose tit present a petition corn plainine of the injustice of the msgistrates of Ireland, signed by 1,500 of the inhabitants of Kilbrightran in Limerick. He (Mr. O'Connor) continued to receive communications every day from Ireland, complaining that the magistrates, who were lay impropriators and tithe proctors, should be complainants and Judges in the same cause. He was aware it was ridiculous to etand up in that House and present a petition, signed by 1,500 persons, complaining of the magistrates, nut the injustice of tie Irish magistracy had often caused it to be his painful duty to proseente them. It was a very difficult thing to substantiate a charge against a magistrate ; but if justice was not to be got from that House, where • was it to be appl ed for ? He bad shown the petition to the Right Hon. the Se cretary for Ireland, and he had told him he did not know what was to be done, and if the Secretary for Ireland lied been in his place, he (Mr. O'Connor) would tell him he was not a fit Secretary for Ireland, if h (lid w t I • a .rsa dot,, i.£ the Guvanmen to keep pure the channels of justice in Ireland. The Hon. Member instanced the tyrannical conduct of Mr. O'Driscol, and called upon Ministers to revise the magisterial system in Ireland, which was notorious for bid judgment, injustice, and cruelty. Colonel FITZGIBBON defended the c haracters sf some of the magistrates alluded to in the petition. Mr. SPRING RICE knew the parties well, and bore testimony to their respectability and good conduct as magistrates.—(Hear, hear.) He thought these charges arose from political feeling, which ought not to be made the vehicle of personal attack. With respect to the church cess, which had given rise to so much discussion, he could not but congratulate the people of Ireland upon their relief from its imposition. Mr. F. O'CONNOR—The magistrates complained of might have conducted themselves very well up to the pe riod of their being colleagues of the Right Hon. GentL man. It was their subsequent conduct of which complaint was made. Dr. BALDWIN hoped that no prejudice would he ex cited against the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland before he had had time afforded to bim to evince his feeling f that country. His conduct already had been such as to deserve confidence rather than to promote censure. Lord SANDON disliked the introduction of such charges as were contained in the petition, without an opportunity bring afforded to the parties mentioned to meet those charges. It was condemning them on ex parte evidence —(Hear.) Mr. ROBINSON—No such charges should he thus made, unless in cases where application for redress had been refused by the executive Government. Mr. F. O'CONNOR, after a few observations from Colonel FITZGIBBON, asked leave to withdraw the petition. Mr. O'CONNELL regr tted the total irrespomihility of Magistrates in Ireland, but expressed his confidence in the present Right Hon. Secretary. In England a return had been made of the appeals against Magistrates in the Court of King's Bench, which showed that out of thirty applications against Magistrates not a single eriminal in formation had been granted—(Hear, hear)—and in a few ca-es only had they been amerced in costa. The juris diction of the Court of King's Bench over Magistrates was perfectly nugatory.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FINN had tiocu meuts in Ins possession which proved to him that two magistrates were guilty of conniving at legal mur der—documents which were known to the Magistrates but withheld upon the trial, and which bad they been produced would have placed the witness upon whose evidence the two men were convicted in thedock for perjury—the Magistrates not only withheld them at the trial, but eveu after the men bad been ordered for execution: and but for his (111 r. F.'s) intervention, they would have suffered, and who but would say that these men would have been murdered. Dr. BALDWIN said the Hon. Member for Worcester had misstated what had fall-n from him. Sir A. AGNEW presented presented petitions in favour of the better observance of the Sabbath, from Great Grimsby, the clergy of the diocese of Cork and Ross, and several other places. Mr. PETER requested Hon. Members, before they voted against his Bill, to peruse it carefully. Its object was to interfere with no man's religion or irreligion, pro vided it did not insult or interfere with that of others. Mr. HYATT presented a petition from Stroud, against the rating of swell tenements. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from some of the most ancient, opulent, and substantial mercantile Louses trailing between London and Oporto, complaining of the grew, pecuniary, and other losses sustained by them, in consequence of their property, to the =cunt of one hundred thow.and pounds sterling, situate on the south side of the Douro being exposed to continual hazard, arising out of the warfare continued against Portugal for the last ten month,..—(Hear.) The solvency, if not the very exist ence, of the petitioners, depended on some decided steps being taken by Gov-rarnent. Their property to a great extent was injured by the cannon balls, and the bursting of shells among their wine magasines.—(Hear, hear.) They hail been anxious to get their wines shipped to this country, but from difficulties and delay interposed by the Government of Don Miguel. it had b•en found impracticable; and they now intreated the sym pathy and support of the House, for the purpose of m 'king some vigorous effort to rescue their property from its present hasardoul and ruinous state. They did not in any degrre complain of the conduct of his Majesty's Government, but the inquiry of this distress still impelled them to seek their assistance in the immediate liberation of their property. The parties had done every thing they could to effect the removal of the difficulties which had oppssed the exportation of the wines; they had even offered the payment of double duties to the contenting parties, but they were defeated in their efforts. The Flan. Member commended the petition to the attention and serious couvideration and sympathy of his Majesty's Government. Mr. ROBINSON supported the prayer of the petition. The Newfoundland trade would be seriously affected in consequence of the shutting up of the port of Oporto. The very existence of the parties concerned in that trade depended entirely upon the ports of Por tugal being accessible.—(H , ar.) He made no charge against the Government, on the contrary, he believed that all persons connected with the trrde of Portugal were pert -, oily satisfied with the steps the Government had taken, and that it had been anxious to do justice. Lord PALMERSTON could assure the House this p • etition had not escaped the attention of the Government , and he was much obliged to the Hon. Gentleman who had jest eat down for doing' juaticc to the anxiety the Government had felt to do ju , dice to the petitioners, but there was some little difficulty in interfering in this matterwithou appearing ti.-tltapars from that line of neutrality which the' Governm-nt bad determined to par me s a.V‘..re — Saiiie time, occasions might arise in which it would he imperatiec on the Government to interfere in defer.,',lng British sub • jects. It was true, that by the treaties between the two countries even in case of war between England and Portugal, the subjects of this realm would have a right to remove their persons and their property without mo!esta tion, and therefore it did appear to bim they were doubly entitled to that facility in time of peace.--(Hear, hear.) It is not on the part of the merchants that any difficulty arose, the existing difficulties arose on the part of the Government of Miguel. They were still in communication with that Government, and therefore he was anxi ous that an arrangement should be made which would be satisfactory to parties. He could not help declaring his opinion that the manner in which that war fare had been carried on by the army of Don Miguel against Oporto, was a system of war unprecedented in the history of civilized countries.—(Hear.) He could only say, Government had declared to the authorities of Den Miguel that they would hold Portugal responsible for all damage done to British property in consequence of Don Miguel's refusal to let it be withdrawn from Oporto. After the presentation of several other petitions the Speaker left the Chair. The National Scotch Church, Regent-square, was filled on Sunday by perhaps one of the most nume rous and respectable congregations ever assembled within the walls of a church. Such, indeed, was the anxiety to hear the Rev. Dr. CHALMERS, who had been announced to preach on the eccasion, that the church was crowded to overflow lone before the service commenced, and thou• sands were unable to find admittance. ANECDOTE OF HER MAJESTY AND THE DUKE or WELLINGTON.-At the late Fancy Fair her MAJESTY bought at one of the stalls a handsome purse, which slte displayed to the Duke of WELLINGTON, and asked the opinion of his Grace on it. The Duke said be thought it very handsome. Her MAJESTY reptied she was gla 1 he thought so, fur she purchased it for him, and forth , ith presented it.— Sunday Paper. The Cour Royale has confirmed the decision of the Tt ibunal de Premiere Instance in the case of the heirs of the Prince de SALM against CHARLES X,, by which it is declared that a debt incurred by the latter during the emigration, ;or troops raised for the purpose of invading France, is illegal, and cannot be enforced belute a French trihun d.— Galignani's Messenger. THE ORDER OF THINGS.—The great author, CHATEAUBRIAND, dislikes the present Order of Thing,-• That distinguished genius, LAMARTINE, does not sing the present Order of Things. The poet, DELAVIGNE, is un faithful to the Order of Things. The celebrated orator, BERRYER, is opposed to the Order of Things. The great savant, As.Aoo, is against the Order of Things. BER TRAND, the friend of the Great Captain, is no friend to the Ot der of Things. The best artists, painters, sculp tors, savahs of all nations residing in France, have no especial reason to adore the present Order of Things. Poor Order of Things !—French Paper. On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Wood, a respect able butcher, of Highgate, was passing along Caen Wood, the seat of the Earl of Mansfield, when he observed a hu man body suspended to e tree at a considtrah;e height from the ground. The Lady was in a state of decon►posi tion, and it appeared that the deceased had taken off his drawers and shirt and torn them into strips, so as to make a line. The deceased seems to have been about 19 years of age, and of a genteel figure. His body now lies at the Mitre public house, Highgate. It is singular that a gen tleman passed by the tree on Thursday last, and picked up a pair of boots, but he did not perceive the th ceased in ...... . ..r h.inht from which he was su,neaded.7: 4c .0 jKliricis) , *lttito LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1833. The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the House of Com mons' Building , ;, has at length been print- ed. It is accompanied by no less than two and twenty plans for alterations of the present set of buildings. The Committee has decided that the present House of Commons does not afford adequate accommodation for its Members, and that no alterations or improve- ments can be made in the present House which will afford it,—due regard being had to the health anti general convenience of the Members, to the despatch of public business, and to the expense to be incurred. The Committee therefore recommends the erection of a new building. The architects who have furnished plans, which are given in the report, are Sir JOHN SOANE, JAMES SAVAGE, JOHN DEER• ING, ADAM LEE, EDWARD BLORE, FRANCIS GOODWIN, DECIMUS BURTON, GEORGEI3A SEVI, Sir JEFFRY WYATVILLE,'aud GEORGE ALLEN. Besides these; tile Right Hon. W. CROKER, late np., and Mr. WAsON and Mr. 1 - 1 —TRACY, present M.Ps., have furnished amateur plans ; and Mr. SAVAGE has pro duced a plan made by the late WM. KENT, in 1739. It would be presumption in us, with out full examination, to attempt to decide upon the merit of the several plans pro posed to the Committee ; but there are one or two principles which ought not to be lost sight of in considering this question. The offices of the House of Commons ought, in any new build- ing, to_ be concentrated ; accommodation ought to be afforded to all the Members; and as the erection will, it is hoped, last for ages, it ought to be one which shall not be a disgrace to our taste. We do not say that expense should be disregarded, or that the pre sent buildings should not he turned to as great account as possible ; but we do say, that ex pense, on such an occasion, should be a secon dary consideration. We cannot agree with a Morning Contemporary, that the nation cannot afford 20,0001., or even 50,0001., or if need were 100,0001. for a proper place in which its Representatives may discuss its affairs. After giving many millions to Russia on at hest a doubtful consideration of policy, and millions more to the West Indians on a disputed claim of right, it would be strange if the first empire in the world should not he able to afford a House of Assembly to its Representatives. Aniong the va-i.;us plans before us, there is one which stands out from the others, by a proposi tion which, whatever else be done, we trust will be adopted. It is that of Mr. GOODWIN's, for givitig a proper approach to the actual place of assembly, by doing away with the useless rooms which at present make the approach from the Members' waiting or cloak-room to the lobby of the House more like the winding passages to the robbers cave in Gil Bias than anything else ; a simile by the way which struck us, before Mr. COBBETT, in his Grammar, thought fit to call the Honourable House " a den of thieves." Mr. GooDwiN shows that a magnificent approach might he made to the House at very little expense, as all the present walls might be preserved. We will not, as we said before, presume to give any opinion upon the merits of any of the plans ; but Mr. GOOD WIN'S idea with respect to this approach is so simple, as well as beautiful, that we should be prejudiced in his favour. At any rate we trust that this idea will not be lost sight of. There are, and have been, for the last fifty years and upwards, a certain set of men among us whose whole time—attention—thoughts— resources, &c., are absorbed i❑ the one darling passion for notoriety. To secure this triumph they will stick at nothing, however absurd or maniacal ; whether it be holding forth in Un known Tongues; professing to cure all maladies, by rubbing holes in people's backs of the size of a parish poor-box ;or projecting impracticable ' bills for the better promotion of Sunday starva tion. Sir A. AGNEW'S mode of securing notoriety is this last. He has been lifted up into eminence by his preposterous Sabbath Ob servance Bill. And to do him justice, he has chosen his path wisely. Of all cants, the cant religious is the surest and speediest means of achieving notoriety. It is a hit between wind and water—a two-edged sword that cuts both ways. It's very ultra absurdity tells in its favour—extorts, as it were, the attention and astonishment of all parties. When the observant Captain LEMUEL GUL LIVER visited the college at Laputa, he founti that that professor was by far the most generally talked of, whose plans of new improvements were the most absurd and impracticable. Sir A. AGNRW has evidently derived benefit from this hint. The Saint's Bill, comes on, we see, to-night, in the House of Commons. As it is but a variorum edition of the last, we confidently anti cipate that it will meet with the same fate. But let not Sir ANDREW be aggrieved at this. He has already gained all he can possibly desire. He is notorious, to the utmost extent of notoriety ; is more talked of than ever were the Siamese twins ; more laughed at than ever was M. CHA BERT, the fire-eater ; more the subject of askinishment, than ever were the Hottentot Venus, or the pig-faced lady. Besides, has not CRUICKSHANK caricatured him ? What more, then, can he demand ? But, to be serious, we have no patience with such cant. Oar very gorge rises at the nos trum that Sir ANDREW, and the quacks of his school, would cram down our throats. His Bill destroys all healthy, religious feeling, by grafting on it the rottenest hypocrisy. It is a premium on deceit and uncharitableness. If it succeed, then adieu to the true, lowly, chaste spirit of piety, and welcome, instead, . the noisy, unblushing triumph of puritanical quackery ! Let all liberal men forthwith forswear their consciences, abjure their scruples, follow the new fashion, adopt the new religion, toss • up their hats, and shout, " Long life to the conqueror— Vive Humbug !" It will be seen by the communication from the Stamp-office, that the new advertisement duty and Marine Insurance Bill comes into ope. ration on Friday next, the sth July. We men. tion this for the information of our Provincia Contemporaries, and the advertising public it general. The Sun will give the public the benefit of the full reduction in the advertisement duty The French papers of Sunday contain no par ticular news. They state that accounts had been received from Madrid of the 22d June, at which time the Carlists had made a feeble attempt to raise the standard of revolt, but were soon put down. Lord ALTHORP'S resolutions on the Bank Charter proceed slowly, only the second and third being agreed to last night, although his Lordship app cared to expect, early in the evening, that with the exception of the sixth and eighth (those relating to Joint Stock Banks) which he withdrew for the present, he should be able to get through the whole of them. At the same time that his Lordship spoke of this hope, he announced an al teration in his plan of a more singular nature than we had imagined it possible to devise. Parties are to he allowed to obtain sovereigns in the country for a five pound note. The idea of checking a run for gold by interposing Bank of England paper, ig something like attempting to bind down a fire by a flaxen band, and this allowing 5/. notes to be changed for sovereigns will have just the same effect as loosening the band. Lord AL THORP says, that a man shall have gold for one 5/. note, but not for two. All that his Lord ship will do will be to oblige the man to send his servant with the other, for to suppose that he will not contrive to get rid of it, and get gold, as long as gold is to be got at all, is one of those absurdities which we should have hoped experience would have guarded Lord ALTHORP against. Lord ALTHORP'S misfortune is to be induced too hastily to meet the wishes of others without c onsideration. He has adapted his present plan without c onsideration, instead of another proposed by himself to the Bank, which was equally taken up with out consideration. The alteration he pro posed last night was also brought for ward without consideration, and when Sir R. PEEL showed him its extreme absurdity, he was strongly inclined, without consideration, to withdraw it. He, however, persevered in it, but we doubt not that in his Bill he will introduce soma clause again varying his proposition. A pamphlet has lately been published by RIDGWAY, in the shape of a Letter from a Country Banker to Lord ALTHO.IIP on his proposed plan, which, although unneeesivarily running foul of the Scotch Bankers because they take care of themselves, contains too true a pic ture of the evils which the monopoly about to be established will occasion. The following is one of his descriptions of the manner in which it will work : " Country bankers are in number about 1,000, each having a character to sustain in his district as an honour able tradesman, and each interested to know thoroughly the operations of his neighbour. , "The Bank Directors are 26 in number, wealthy mer- chants, resident in the metropolis, having very few ideas in common with the country shopkeepers,' and holding themselves aristocratically aloof from even traders of the middle ranks in London. Fourteen, a Fraijority of these parties, take it into their heads that the Bank issue is far too large, carry a vote that it be reduced, say from 40 or 50 millions (which it would soon be at in a year after the Legal Tender' and Uniformist' Acts were passed) to 30 or SA millions. To itiect this, their agents at the branches would have orders to lessen their issues one-third, or in other words, their accomindation, ,c A country banker, whom the Government had capi tal, for those of Watt Bank of E ng l an d, an d to pay for , the representative of his obliged to chaogt his notes t h e m too; is told she next day he must only have two thirds of the amount of currency he had stipulated for, and upon which agreement he h a d ma d e his arrangements wi with his cua,omets. The country banker must inevitably take this course; there is none other open fur hint ; but to send to every one of the mereharvs, manufacturers, and shopkeepers, who are accustomed to receive temporaty accommodation at periods of the year when the staples in which they dual, or which they work up, are to be pur chased, with c ish, in the colonial, copper, iron, Yorkshire, Lancashire or Irish markets, and tell them, one and all, the ~„„„ t h e y hair- reckoned upon receiving must be cut down ~,? - half, for the banker fearing another curtailment from the Bank, must protect himself by lessening the amount of Bank advances. " The parties so disappointed cannot take up their biils and notes, which are dishonoured—bankruptcies are the consequence, and the dismay spreading, unhinges, as I said before, the whole social system." The effect of this, as the writer justly observes, must be to produce universal distrust and stag nation of trade. It is miserable, at this time of day, to have to urge upon a CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the great modal of non interference with trade. NEW STAMP DUTIES BILL. The following has been posted at Lloyd's this morning : STAMPS AND TAXES. Sta—ln reply to your letter of this day's date requesting for the information of the Committee and Subscribers of Lloyd's, to know when the Stamp Duties Bill, which received the Royal Assent on. Friday last will come into operation, I am directed by the Board to acquaint you that the Biil in question will take effect from and after the sth inst., and that the same may be procured :ram the King's Printer. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, (Signed) CHARLES PRESSLY. Wm. Thompson, Esq., &c. &c. ROLLS COURT.-(TRIS DAY.) MEIJI 's BREWERY.—LATII M V. BA RNETT—LATIIA NI V. INIFATX: In this case, which came before the Court upon an original and supplemental bill, Mr. BICKERSTETII stated that the original bill had been filed for the purpose of having rather peculiar accounts taken of the partnership in thebrewery of Messrs. Meux and Co. It appeared that the present existing partnership in that concern would expire in a few days; and as the bill was framed upon a ground that would render it inexpedient that a de cree should be now taken, without having all the partnership's estate wound up, the Learned Counsel thought it would be better that the case should at present stand over, in order to afford other parties an opportunity of filing another bill, to enable the parties to have the partnership affairs wound up and settled. Mr. PEMBERTON concurred in the proposition, and the causes were ordered to stand over till Michaelmas term. VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-CIIANCELLOR was occupied up to the period of our Reporter leaving with the arguments in the part heard case of " Bainbridge V. Blair," which have already occu pied the Court for two days. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) FLEMYNG AND ANOTHER, V. MACAULEY. Mr. Sergeant WILD, and Mr. RICHARDS, appeared for the plaintiffs in this case, which was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Messrs. Flemyng and Morgan of Glasgow, to recover from the defendants, Messrs. Macauley and Babington, 2471. the balance of an account for cotton goods shipped in 1825 to Mr. Kenneth Macauley, the agent of the latter gentlemen at Sierra Leone. Mr. Sergeant JONES (with whom was Mr. Sergeant STEVENS) after urging some preliminary objections, said that his defence was that the goods were sent out to Africa, not on ac count of the defendants, but for Mr. Kenneth Macauley alone. The Learned Sergeant then read several letters, from which it appeared that no application was made to the de fendants for payment till five years after the shipment of the goods, and that the year before Mr. Kenneth Macauley having died, they asked them how they should proceed with regard to Mr. Kenneth Macauley's estate. The defendant's case had not been brought to a close when our reporter left. WARWICK ELECTIONS. " The Dal of Warwick and family have left England for the Continent, where they will stay some time. Pre viously to his departure, his Lordship c , ,nsiderahly dimi nished the number of his household."— Court Journal. SONGS OF WARWICK. From a volume of unpublished Poems now in the Press. WE'VE BEEN BRIBING. AlR—l've been roaming. We've been bribing, we've been bribing, Freely strewing cash about; Pure election still describing, Till our tricks are all found out. We've been bribing, &c. We've been bribing, we've been bribing, All against our country's laws ; While a triumph we're describing To the honour of our cause. We've been bribing, &c. We've been bribing, we've been bribing, All the ignorant and poor, Till the poor, new light imbibing, Swear they will be brib'd no more. We've been bribing, &c. We've been bribing, we've been bribing 0, for many a happy year I But the hand that was subscribing Is now paralyzed by fear. We've been bribing, &c. We've been bribing, we've been bribing, From a fountain rich and gay : We've been we' . e Till the FOUNTAIN'S run away. We've been bribing, &c. The iron trade is at present pretty brisk, at the prices fixed on April quarter day; so much so, indeed, that some parties confidently look for an advance. This state of the business has had its effect on the workmen, and we have received from one of the tir t iron works in Staffordshire information of their having turned out for an inereaee of waves ; which, as the masters are expected to accede to their demands, will probAq operate a rise in prices of goods as early as the ensuing week.•—Birmingham Journal. On Wednesday last, the anniversary of the accession of his MAJESTY, a splendid dinner was given by his constituents at Bristol to Sir R. VYVYAN. Previous to the entertainment a beautiful box, plated with gold, was prraotted to the worthy Baronet, the inscription on which stated that it was made from part of an oak beam dug out of the ruins of the late Custom House, borne! during the riots in that city. THE VALUE ON MARRIED MEN.—" A little more animation my dear," whispered Lady B. to th! gentle SUSAN, who was walking languidly through a quadrille. "Do leave me to manage my own business, Mamma," replied the provident nymph ; " I shall not dance my ringlets out of curl for a married man."—" Of course not, my love ; but I was not aware who your partner was."— World of Fashion, • A POINTED Joao.--A sportsman, by touch ing his horse near the withers with his whip, taught him to kneel immediately. When shooting, and a dog came to the point, he made the horse kneel, and persuaded those present that the horse was an excellent pointer. A gen tleman having purchased the gelding, was forriing a river with him, when, having touched his withers, he ss is true to the touch—down he dropped in the stream, and soused his new master in the water. The latter, in a great pas.. sion, asked his lamer owner what he meant by selling him a horse that played him such a trick in the water ? " Oh 1" said the otEer, " you h,,uglit him as a pointer, and at die time he went nn his knees be was pointing a sal moss."—Edinturyh Pape•. - - JAMES SMITH, one of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses," is not only a wit but an attorney, and he dwells or dwelt in Austin-triars. Now it so hap pen, d that another JAMES SMITH, solicitor, came to dwell in the :Line building, in Austin-friars, with our friend the parodist ; and the consequences of Lwo JAMES SMITHS, attoroc)F, of No. , he clei!y conjectured. Lettei's, andm ei s t a h ß e e s, confusionpaper o f w a a l s l kinds,m osmost wer amazing.continuallye Atgoinglast, n e astray, morn ing, JAMES SMITH, the new corner, made his appearance in the chambers of his namesake, with an open letter in his hand. This, Sir, said he, I find is intended for you. Ic is a confidential letter, hut I have read it from begin ning to end. " You made a mistake of the same kind a few days ago, and it is most unpleasant." "I really can see no remedy for this confusion, but that one or other of us should leave the building." I agree with you (said our Jams), and you, of course, must be the man to leave." " I do not see why it should be me, and not you," was the answer. " Because, my dear fellow," replied the wit, " you are here JAMES the Second, and therefore should abdicate.—Fraser's Magazine. . . FRICE 4 OF STOCK'S THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. !Link Stock .iliV, 4 i New 5 per Cent. ............ 3 per Cm t. Red. ......88X 9 B,4llndia Stock .................. 3 per Cent Cow , shut Ditto Bonds ..................34 pm. 31, 6 per Cent....... —i South Sea :stock ............ 99 Ditto Red. 98 5X tOld Annuities.... ........... New 3% per cent. 3 per Cent. Ann Ms 4 per Cent. IBA . 102% 1 ,0i% E p x. e 3111 5 ,41,6ite. ....5. ..5354 pm tt,trik Long Ann. to extnrc (Ditto VO ...... 53 54 pm. 7Jan. 5, 186 0 17 1-16 17 I 'Ditto Small ............ 5.3 54 pm. Oct. IC., 1859 — i Ditto Commercial ....... .. pm Jan. 5, 1860 — :Ditto Advertised ......... pro. Jan. 5, 1883 lBank for Account ......... April 5, 1881) Jar. 5, 31 1 0 — l Cons. for Opening .• ••• 90! PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 96% iPeruvian Bonds ...... ......... 191 i Belgian *Bends —i Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account 91t4 1/ 4 i Ditto Acc0unt............ 591 i 3, Brazilian Bonds —2! dis. (173 4 Regency Scrip ......... I )itto Account 67 %% Ditto Account .......... .4i; dis. Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 i Prussian Bonds ................ Ditto Account 23' Ditto Bonds, 1822 ...... 102 3 4 Chilian Bonds ..,.........25% 614 jßussian Bonds, 11322...... 10414 Ditto Account 's'4 1 Ditto Acc0unt......... 1041 16 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account !Spanish Bonds,lB2l ......... :£1,4 Ditto Bonds, 1824 _34 14 2, Ditto Account...lBN 19 ISk Ditto Acc,iiiit...9.s 116 2% Vi ; Ditto Bonds, 18:23 ......... 16 14 Danish Bone 7l! Ditto Account ............... Ditto Acc' nt — 'French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. Greek Bonds... .............. 12 1 4 !-- Exchange ...... —f —c. Ditto Bonds, 182:1 - s per cent....... —f —c. Ditto Account 19 % — Exchange...... -r --e. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent.3ol6 'Dutch, 24 p. Ditto, 5 p c ................... 901 i c ............... 451,',4 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent... ...... 8 7 ,4 ; Ditto Account ......... 48% ~,, t 4 Ditto Account 87%; Ditto Account ......... 911%14 !,4 Neapolitan 1 1214: French Scrip . ............. 414 tun. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE• Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. Liss. at 51. pm.) £1 (1 0 I l Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 13734 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 61 Ditto National 1734 23 Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 I 5. British Iron Mining Company £so 19 Columbia] Milling Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 5034 94 English Mii.ing Company 1234 2.4% tieneral Mining Association l2 8 ,, ,4 Mexican Mining Co. £ 4 6 74 34 3% 7y 5 Real del Monte Mining C 0...., United Mex. Min. Co. (is. at 21. prn.) 40 1 13 6 ditto New Scalp 5 43 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO I I Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company General ateani Navigation ('o. National Provincial Bank of England 5 5 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 35% ------ Arrived Due. Arrived. Due. O America I I Hamburg 0 0 Brazil O Buenos AI res 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagena 0 1 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 I France 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 2 Waterford Gum WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ing 9 minutes after 3. I Evening—Di minutes after 3. QUEEN'S THEATRE. FOR the BENEFIT of Mr. F. B. PIN DAR, Proprietor of the Theatre, and list night but one of the Season. The performances will commence with the POOR GENTLEMAN, followed by PERFEC TION, and to conclude with the very popular Domestic Drama of FAITH and FALSEHOOD. In which pieces (in addition to the present effective Company), Mr. Green and Mr. Haines, from the Theatre Royal Covent-Garden, Mr S , rle, from the Theatre Royal Drury-Lane, and Mrs. Waylett will appear. Boxes 3a., Pir Is. 6.1., Gallery IS , . Private Boxes, I/. and 1/. l Is. 6cl. each. EVERY BODY HAS HIS BUBBLY-JOCK The following anecdote of the late Sir WALTER SCOTT rasa genuine appearance, and we do not recollect of ever seeing it published. A gentleman, in conversing with the illustrious author, remarked that he believed that it was possible that perfect happiness might be the lot of some body or other. Sir WALTER. dissented. " Well," said the gentleman, " there is an idiot, who, I'm certain, will confirm my opinion; he seems the very beau ideal of ani mal contentment." The daft individual was snooving along, humming to himself, when Sir WALTER. SCOTT ad dressed him. " W,el, JAMIE, hop are ye the day ?" " Brawley, ou brawley," answered he. " Now, JAMIme, have you plenty to eat and drink ?" "Ou ay." " And keep you warm ?" "Ou ay." " And are a' the folk kind to ye?" "On ay." " There," said the - poet's an tagonist, crowing, " is a perfectly happy creature." " Not so fast," continued Sir WALTER. "Is there naethinc, JAMIE, that bothers you at a'?" " Ou, ay," said ti.e idiot, changing his merry look, " there's a muckle Bubbly- Jock •i , at follows itie wherever I gang." " Now," said Sir WALTER, " you tee from this that the very simplest and stupidest of mankind are haunted by evil of some kind or other—in short, every one has his Bubbly-Jock."- 4Vinburgh Evening Post. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.-(THTS DAY. This morning these sessions commenced at the Session , House, Old Bailey, before the Right Hon. Sir JOHN nen°Lt. Justice PARK; Drs. DODSON, PRILLIMORE, ADAMS, &C. The Grand Jury having been sworn, the Learned Judge addressed them ; after which they withdrew, and, about half past ten o'clock, returned into Court with a true bill against the following prisoners : William Brown. John Jefferson, and George Davis, Were indicted for assaulting on the high seas, on the 6th of April, William Boucher, William Henry Hanson, and James Mellel Hyde, the captain, the chief and the third mates of the Lad/ Ba f fles East Indiaman. Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosestution. Mt" BARRY appeared for the prisoner Davis. Mr. William Henry Hanson stated he was chief mate of the Lady Baffles, East Indiaman, on her homeward bound voyag e from Bombay to England. On the 6th April they were lyint off the Island of Ascension, and a gentleman from a King' s ship, who had been on board, left the Lady Baffles. Short!! after 10 o'clock at night, witness being on the poop, heard e scuffle forward. Witness went forward, and saw the prisone r Jefferson stripped, and striking at every one who weal near him. Witness supposed he was intoxicated. Wit' ness ordered him to desist :rum fighting, but he would not Witness took him by the az-a to keep him away from those he had been striking. The third mate (Mr. Hyde) foLowed Wit" ness on the forecastle, and then Davis came up and interfered , used bad language, and refused to go aft when he was ordered' The captain (Mr. Boucher) then came up and ordered them 1° go aft. There were seven or eight seamen about the t place, but they refused to go aft, and used gl' sive language. The prisoners still continued fighting , and Jefferson struck at the Captain. Davis caught hold of wit' ness, and in the struggle witness was thrown down. Jefferso ll struck at the third mate several times, and knocked him doh' Lieut. Stirling was on board, having the command of an invalP corps. The men refused to obey the Captain, and abused WO and the Captain was obliged to go to Lieut. Stirling, got about 40 of his soldiers drawn up on the fore pg: of the quarter deck. The Captain again went forwarb with a drawn sword in his hand, and ordered the Pr i ; soners aft. They refused to go. The third mate was the' on the forecastle, and witness was endeavouring to keep thee ° from fighting, and from their attacking the Captain. Jefferso n made a rush at the third mate, who stood behind the Captail' The Captain did not use his sword either to cut or stab Jere,. son, but Jefferson succeeded in striking the third mate, age knocked him down near the scuttle. Jefferson in rust'' ing past the Captain came aga;r..t il.c , oint of the Capta.l o , sword. The surgeon was itninedi.tte:y directed to attend Je y , ferson, who, however, would not allow him to approach. man named Allen, who was active in the disturbance, aw Davis were put in confinement. Brown was not confined rt cause he said he had fallen down the fore scuttle and 15W himself. Brown was confined four days, and Davis ten dale' but Allen was liberated next morning on apologising. 11 crew consisted of about 50, including officers, but severa l the crew being on the sick list, it was necessary to libera l the prisoners to navigate the ship. The part that Brown toe s was his endeavonr to throw the Captain down. Other evidence was adduced, after which Mr. Justic PAO summed up, and the jury found the prisoners Guilty. Sir J. Nicilom. sentenced Brown and Davis (in consider tion of the favourable report of the Captain) to only 14 W I imprisonment, and Jefferson to 8 months' imprisonment. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA' FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Jutv I.—Wind W.S.W.,moderate. Potasmouvu, JULY I.—Wind N.W. to W., squally.— . . rived off port the Authentic, Anderson, from Charleston. FALMOUTH, JUNE 30.—W.S. W., strong breezes and squall)' —Arrived the Emulous packet from the Leeward Island * sailed from St. Thomas's 2d ult. ; Englishman, Harrison, frd Odessa; Henry, Armstrong, and Blessing, Stephens, from" Oporto. Sailed the Oppossum, for St. Domingo, Jamaß , Mexico, and Havannah ; Pigeon packet, for the LeeW' Islands; and his Majesty's ship Sparrow, for Oporto and Lisbo' with mails. TORBAY, JUNE 30.—Arrived the Cater, Sealy, from DO kirk, leaky, bound to Liverpool. BRISTOL, JULY I.—Arrived the Robert Dewar, Dugd' from Newfoundland. GREENOCK, JUNE 29.—Arrived the Jean, Currie, from To nidad. WATERFORD, JUNE 29.—Arrived the City of Waterfo l ! Grandy, and Onondaga, Morgan, from Quebec; Royal Bar Allen, and Sir John Newport, Nichols, from London. G LO UCESTER, JULY I.—Arrived the Pleiades, Wood, 11 .14 Wyburg. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30.—Arrived the Duchess of Clare M`Dowell, from Leghorn. Off port the Lunenburg, frT, Halifax; Fanny, from Newfoundland; and Camoens, ft' Lisbon. LEITH, JUNE .—Arrived the Doris, Barnes, from CO I ' and Ann, Bryan, from St. John's, New Brunswick. BRIGIITON, JULY I. Arrived off' port the Watson, F O.l from Riga , Arrived the James, Marshall, from CO HULL, JUNE 34.1. -- YARMO UT 11, JULY I.—Arrived the Bullfinch, Gunter, St. Petersburgh. DUNDEE, JUNE 29.—Arrived the Euphemia, Gregory, 01 Dantzic. The Flora, Herring, from Liverpool to New Brunswick, sv totally wrecked on Blackwater Bank on Thursday night-- 0 saved. The Fly, of Sunderland, was run down off Hartlepool Friday by the Ann, Brown, from St. John's, New Brunswle l crew saved. The Barbara, of Greenock, was towed into Southport Thursday, bottom up. The Frances, Smith, from St. Kitt's, has arrived in t Channel. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK' By the French mail this morning, accounts from I' , state that the Government have received, by an extraordin' conveyance, accounts from Madrid of the 22d ult., stilt' that the Carlists attempted, on the night of the 21st, create some commotions in the capital; but as they were numerous, they were easily dispersed by the police, and 1 0 of them were arrested. They were in hopes that some of provinces would have revolted, but up to the above date country remained quiet, as the Captains-General had reel' orders from the Government to keep the troops contintl i under arms, so that they might be sent to any point v;i i commotions took place. A French paper contains the following :—Marshal mont, appointed Generalissimo of Don Miguel's army, in London on the 23d ult., at night, on his way to List company with Commodore Elliot, who is going to take thee', mand of the Portuguese fleet. They will take with them naval choice officers of artillery. On their arrival in Portlig; it is said that a general attack will take place on Oporto boa' sea and land. Accounts from Berlin state that the Prussian Govern o - ',he English Government, had received despatches from the nouncing that if the affairs of Portugal were not settled k certain period, his Britannic Majesty would be obliged to ' terfere. A Leeward Island packet has arrived by the Emu which sailed from St. Thomas's the 2d June, and from / f does the 18th May. tA 4 A St. John's (New Brunswick) paper to the 2cl June 11P- received at the North and South American Coffee-house. The barque Mary, which was fitted out by Curry, for an IS months' voyage, arrived at Indian Island last W e i having been absent only nine months, with a cargo of I, ^ barrels of oil, 150 of which are sperm, and 16,000' whalebone. Cl A No with verley THE This ( Cc a twel , these have s situati anecdc to and cute it it m of Loi bodies Liters THE By th Co Licen, Po ton-at " TI Quart “ Nti to bet By tt Benit th By ly 44 vi Pictur "A " Pell By 1 _.....&,„ IMP pubii the t with Pen' leevl THE FUNDS. The debate in the House of Commons last night on the J 3/ Charter, has caused some interest to our capitalists, owil an important change being announced by Ministers, n an o' that the Bank of England notes, instead of being a legal ton for all sums, shall only be compulsory payments for all s above 51., and the speech of Mr. Poulett Thomsom is I looked upon as unfavourable, which has caused the Puna / recede. Consols, which left off yesterday at 90 ;‘, IA for the Acco u 7 opened at the same price, but soon after receded to 89 which price they are at present. It is expected that Ministers will not be able to pass r ) Bank Bill this session, as it is supposel that many alters are still to take place. Up to the present time we have no arrivals from Portsi We have no arrivals of ship letters this morning. Nothing, as yet, doing in the Foreign Market. THREE O'CLOCIP Consols for the Account, SOS . CLOSING PRICES.-FOUR O'CLOCK! Bank Stock 204 India Stock 9 011 3 per Cent. Red SS4 Ditto Bonds 9:pet Cent. Cons 9O South Sea Stock 991: ai per Cent. 95; Ditto Old Aim 67 3 per Cent. Red 964 Ditto New Ann. New 9i per Cent 97i Ex. Bills, lOotl 54 Voio 4 por Cent 1021 Ditto 590/ 54 to , Long. Ann. to expire Ditto Small 54 r Jan. 1860 l7 1-16 Bank St. for Acc. '2 04 Oct. 1859 i Consols for Acc 91, -,4 1 India St. for Acc '2 4-- , FOREIGN FUNDS. y 0 1 a Austrian, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9I Ditto, Reg. Scrip .......... •• i!,. or , Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 22 Russian Bund.s,sper coo' 1; Setif Chilian, 6 per cent 251 Ditto, Metallic ............ ••: ,i'"u`t,_, Columbian, 6 per cent 2l Spanish , 5 tier cent ..... •,• 01 Ditto, 1824 2 l; Ditto, 1823 ................... '' . , !eve Danish 74 French 5 per k cut ..... ..1. • the Greek, 5 per cent. 1825 39 Exchange l.. .. ,1 1e Mexican, 5 per cent. •With Ditto, 6 per cent 371 Dutch, 4 p( per cent ......... • Peruvian, 6 per cent. .....-- ,_,....,_,...„.____,..._,..... r llth MARRIED. i l bet t he r r t' On the 27th June, at Charles Church, Plymouth, by it: N I S. Cornish, A.M., John Eyre Kingdom, Esq., of 31°°',}300 I Step , ford, near Exeter, to Margaret, daughter of James I' l . a s.ow Esq., of Shernell-house, Plymouth. spill Ili a , On the Ist inst., J. T. Mott, Esq., to Caroline Sloa ne n ' .. ale y:::gestdaugi ...... -iterofMr.andLaoy lesloa" Sta le ___ _ _ _ t ge oto r. MUD AND PUBLISHED BY MU RD 0 Y O U N 0, A 0 get Jan. 1860..., SUN OFFICE 112,STRANN LONDON'.