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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS For the conduct of certain of the Bishops there appears to be no possible palliation but insanity. Whoever listens to the discourses of some of these learned persons will agree 'with us (hat they are more characteristic of -simeesiewhen feudal Barons, nay anointed Kings, trembled at the thunderbolt of excommunication, than of a period when the sacer dotal vestment is honoured only for the Christian virtues of the wearer, and the interests and autho rity of an established church are so well understood to be in their political nature subservient to the well-being and amenable to the powers of the state. The Bishop of Exeter's attempt to frighten the King into a total misapprehension of his most sacred duties to the nation, of which he is the chief ma gistrate, and apart from his duties, to which his Ma jesty can have no functions as a Sovereign to per form, has been regarded everywhere as among the most disgusting exhibitions of priestly quackery. It wanted but one or two such offens:ve efforts to bring to a point the conspiring opinions and feelings of society in relation to the proper sphere and ser vices of the whole bench of Bishops. The vote of the previous evening was a suitable preface to " Phillpotts on the Coronation Oath." It pushed forward once more the Right Rev. Fathers before their countrymen in the character of aliens to the universal spirit of the people, and disposed men to act eagerly upon that conclusion at which a great majority of sound thinkers had long since arrived— viz., that Bishops have obligations to discharge which are wholly incompatible with their posses sion of seats in a legislative assembly as Barons; and that from one or the other they ought to be en joined to retire without further ceremony. This ge neral assent of temper and opinion was strikingly fortified by the intrusion of Dr. Phillpotts between the King and the body of his subjects. The im pression against the Bishops has now ripened into a moral certainty, that ere long some decided mess sure will be proposed to Parliament for disembar rassing its councils of their presence. What public good, indeed, hare they ever effected there? What improvement of the law of England has ever been indebted to these pious and unworldly pastors for its adoption by King, Lords, and Commons ? Irt what struggle between constitutional right and arbi trary power have they not taken part against the cause of liberty ? As for any support of the church of Christ—that is, of religion—afforded by the Right Reverend Bench in Parliament, such, we grieve to say, has been their general conduct, as to create a belief in the public mind, that a Mi nister who bribed high enough might gain their votes for any the most ruinous measure that ever was thought of, short only of abstracting more titan an equivalent for the said bribe from the privi leges or property of Bishops. We hope the feel ing against their Right Rev. Lordships, carried to that extreme length, was unfounded; but the odium produced by their habitual acts, as legi.- latois, against their whole order, is matter of notorie'y not worth further discussion. Look ing to the Parliamentary history of Bishops and their votes, we should say that they have hung together, on most questions, after a fashion extremely unusual—indeed, unexampled —among temporal Peers. A single Bishop may now and then have separated from the herd in a particular case; but his segregation could always be accounted for by circums'ances or motives which made the rule derive strength from the exception. The collective votes of the Bench itself were seldom if ever trace able to political reasoning upon the merits of the question : they were the votes of a body influenced by an esprit de corps, else why should not Bishops, like other Lords, have been distributed between Go vernment and Opposition ? But they have not been so. The power of translation has enabled the Minister of the day to command, in most instances, the votes of my Lords the Bishops, and where the Minister has not commanded them, it was because he was supposed by those rev. calculators to be at the head of a fragile and short-lived administration, about to be succeeded by another party, to which accordingly, as a sounder speculation, the:Right Rev. Lords attached themselves. Whether the vot. sof the bench of Bishops have recently—that is, during the last year or two—been governed by any such provident, though happily fallacious, computation of Political contingencies, is more than we shall at present argue ; but servile or factious partisans it is unquestionable that they have in the long run proved, and in both shapes they have shown themselves unworthy to sit in Parlia ment. But besides this sin of legislative dependence and unworthiness, there is another and still graver consideration,—in order to make them bad Lords of Parliament, they have fiist been made either bad or inefficient clergymen. There never was a more monstrous crime against the church, considered as, what she professes to be, the handmaid of religion, than the withdrawal of the Bishops from their sees for full half the year, during their attendance on Parliament, unless we fiad one in their indifference to the clergy and local interests of their sees, induced of necessity by the corrupt system of translation. If an expedient had been advertised for to destroy the establishment in the minds of the people, none could have been hit upon more ingenious or success ful than these two—lst, the compelling the non-re sidence of Bishops, while we were insisting on all hands that non-residence in the case of other clergymen ought to be put an end to by law, as fatal to the interests of religion ; and, 2d, encou raging in every Bishop the hope of a removal to some more lucrative see, as a recompense for political baseness. Can anything be more shocking than such a complex system of anti-religious legislation? If the church be to be reformed, begin at the tip — reform the. Bishops. Withdraw those temptations to political guilt, which are likewise covers for hy pocrisy in matters of religion, and hardeners of the heart against the purest spirit and most sacred obli gations of Christianity. Relegate each diocesan to his see, enforce his residence as strictly as that of the poorest incumbent; and to us, indeed, it seems Iv no means evident that, as a security for the i s hoie9 of the best and worthiest men for Bishops, they ought not to be elected by the clergy them selves from amongst their own body. Something analogous "to this election prevails in the Scottish etburch. But we set out with saying that the con srietinn against the legislative capacity of Bishops has of )ate been exceedingly strengthened; we now tezpresi our belief that a serious effort will shortly be made to exclude their spiritual Lordships from Parliament : and of this more anon.—Tinzer. The late division in the House of Lords has had the effect of extracting from the hitherto thick-and thin supporters of Ministers an unwilling acknow ledgment that they have become unpopular ; and fqr this change in public opinion the writers in ques:ion have also the candour to assign the true cause—viz., that it is owing to Ministers not having realized those expectations which the passing (Attie Reform Act had, naturally enough, given rise to. All this is well, as far as it goes. The acknowledg- H rnent of error is the first step towards correcting. lout when these very persons, in the same breath, %accuse the people of having beeorne unreasintat , le and impatient, and allege that Ministeri hate not had time to fulfil their engagements to,the country, they either deceive themselves, or attempt to im pose grossly upon the country. The truth is, that Ministers, to say nothing of the- want of abili y be trayed by some of them, have forfeited the confi dence of the country by a weak and unworthy en deavour to pander to and propitiate a party, who have taken the first opportunity of rewarditg this t►uckliug subserviency in the way in which every honest man must always wish to see it heated, whether in public or private life. They must have known, unless they were blind alike to the past, the present, and the future, that, in the eyes of the party we allud e to, they had sinned past all hope of forgiveness, and that the sufferers by schedule A would be sure to, omit no opportunity of wreaking their vengeance upon those who had broken in upon and di• , tioyed a craft which, like of irnage-making a 01 1, brought no. small .gain" to its professoie. Yet it has been in the hopeless expectation of neutralizing this implacable hostility that the authors of the Reform Act have shipwrecked a well earned reputation. In contradistinction to this, what ought to have been, and what must still be, the policy which, it behoved them to pursue ? Was it not evidently to throw them selves upon the people, by whose firmness and consistency the great measure of Lord Grey's Ad ministration had been accomplished ? We do not say that they should have done this in a mean and trubkling sense, for the people as well as their rulers are liable to err, and must submit to have their judgment corrected when it goes astray. But in the main the people generally judge rightly, and it has therefore been little short of madness in a Mi nistry which had hitherto been bore along trium phantly upon the tide of public opinion to throw themselves on shore, and that in the heart of an enemy's country. Unless experience is totally lost upon them, they must now see their error and hasten to repair it ; and this they may with the more rea diness and alacrity do, if they carry with them this undeniable assurance, that whoever may be Mi nisters must do the same thing. The reasonable hopes and wishes of the people must be complied with. The results of the Reform Act must come into operation, even were its bitterest opponents in office to-morrow. As a political manoeuvre, these latter may still play off their enmity to it, and pro fess it to be the sure forerunner of all imaginable ills. But they know the contrary, or at any rate they know that the consequences of reform are become inevitable, and that a Minister might just as wisely attempt to turn the tide of the ocean as to resist the scarcely less powerful tide of public convic tion, when reasonably grounded and firmly fixed.— Morning Herald. We are glad to see, by the motion of Mr. Ellice, on Friday night, for a Select Committee to probe the bribery and corruption of Stafford, that the House of Commons will not allow that infamous borough to escape because the petitions against the return have been abandoned. The seats of the sit ting Members are of little importance compared with the extinction of the corrupt system of misrepre sentation so long and notoriously prevalent in that place. The cunning burgesses of Stafford, as in the case of their Liverpool brethren, set up a defence, that they were pure and undefiled at the last elec tion; that is to say, that, having the fear of a reformed Parliament before their eyes in December last, they observed an unusual caution and decoru:n in their iniquitous practices. But if by delays in the forms and procedure of Parliament a constituency has the lucky opportunity, pending their trial for political cor ruption, of exhibiting a temporary abstinence from corruption, is their cunning self-denial to operate as an indemnity to past offences ? The doctrine of repentance would, indeed, he stretched to an exces sive length. The Liverpool Corporation Conserva tives argue—" True that the freemen under our wings have been for successive elections abominably corrupt—that we were detected in 1831, and by a premature dissolution of Parliament escaped punish ment—that, warned by our danger, we contrived that Lord Sandon's friends, in lieu of his commit tee, should discreetly manage the treating and bri bery—and therefore, now we are absolved from all our former sins, and the corrupt freemen are metamorphosed into patriots !" Yet this is the main argument of those who are now so busily employed in opposing further inquiry. Who can doubt that within one or two per cent, the pre sent freemen electors of Liverpool are the identical individuals as notoriously bought and sold in the municipal and election contents as Irish pigs in the swine markets ? Why should the great majority of all the independent and intelligent classes of the borough vote in favour of liberal candidates, and the bulk of the freemen oppose them? Unless we greatly mistake, this curious problem will be solved by the Committee which Mr. Benett to-morrow will revive " to pursue their inquiries" into the abominations of the borough. The redress which an unreformed Parliament last year intended to concede will never be refused by the present House of Commons. Indeed it is sufficient to excite suspicion, and to institute inquiry, when a close Corporation is seen opposing investigation, and ac lively endeavouring to defeat the motion of Mr. Benett. If the Liverpool Conservatives and the members of the Corporation really desired to clear themselves and their subservient freemen from the imputation of annual bribery and systematic corrup tion in contested elections, they would court Parlia mentary inquiry. The very position of the parties be speaks volumes. Why should a body of public men thus impeach their fellow-townsmen, if their charges are utterly unfounded ? Why should the accused oppose a public trial ? It is in vain to meet grave and public charges by the counter-imputation of po litical and religious malignity against the accusers; and recrimination is no substantive defence. We do nor doubt that Mr. Benett will carry his motion, and that the freemen of Stafford and Liverpool will be buried in a common grave. We will also ven ture another prediction—that ere long municipal reform will sweep out and purify the chambers of the Corporation of Liverpool. We do not doubt that there are many respectable, and some few liberal-minded individuals in that select body; but We are sure that open doors, open books, and elec tions " ffesh and fresh," without bribery and treat ing, would render the local government more pa latable, and unquestionably more useful, to their fellow townsmen. It is disgusting when tempters endeavour to disguise the sins of their guilty dupes; and we are confident Mr. Benett will command the votes of every independent and honest Member of the House of Commons.—Morning Chronicle. We have hitherto abstained from noticing, except by a few cursory remarks, the language in wh ch the King's Ministers, and the demagogues whom the King's Ministers hate and fear, have spoken during the past week of the privileges of the House of Lords. We time thus abstained, because we have heard in that language, not the intemperate effusion of capricious spleen, but the deliberate expression of mature hostility ; because we regard the noble orators of the Parliament, and the noble logicians of the press, not as angry children who meet an unexpected disappointment with an unpre meditated complaint, but as ambitious men oppos ing to an ob-tacle which they have long foreseen the announcement of a purpose which they have fully considered. The question which has been mooted is one which most constantly recur, and one upon which it is desirable that men should form their opinions upon a far more enlarged view than that which is suggested by the particular accident which in this instance introduced the discussion. Whether our conduct towards the Portuguese rivals has been worthy of our old renown for sincerity and good faith is a question of which we are unwilling to underrate the interest; but we altogether lose sight of its comparative insignificance when we recollect that from this time battle is fairly waged between the Conservative and the Leveller for the preservation or the abolition of our hereditary Peerage. Let us, therefore, say a few words on this argument, selecting for its examination a morn- ing Ofl which the marvels which reform has wrought do not dazzle us in a reported debate; a morning on which we are not hurried into violence by the fervid eloquence of Lord Ebrington, nor deluded into mistake by the playful wit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Is there, in the first place, any man who doubts that the Kit , g's Ministers have de termined, for the completion of their improve ments, or for the retention of their places, to de stroy the existence or to crush the authority of the Assembly by which the improvements are con demned and the places endangered ? If there be such a sceptic let him coolly review the transac tions upon which we base our conviction. The House of Lords sees in the license given to certain proceedings of British subjects an interference in the quarrel between the pretenders to the Clown of Portugal amounting to a breach of the netyrality which the Government is pledged maintain. Let us as sume the position fur % ' ;lticli Our adver saries contend, that there has been no such inter ference. It follows that the House of Lords has been wrong upon a point of international law, has misunderstood the argument of Vattel or forgotten the authority of Bynkershoeck. For this, by Lord Grey and Lord Brougham, the House of Lords is held up to public scorn and ha tred as hostile to any amendment of any institution; for this, by the Journal which is the recognised in terpreter of the mind of the Cabinet, the extinction of the House of Lords as an independent legislative body is openly demanded; for this, by the Sovereign himself, a waspish and unkingly rebuke is given to the House of Lords, which no Sovereign would utter who did not utterly forget that the privileges of the hereditary coronet and the privileges of the hereditary crown are liable to the same objections, are recommended by the same advantages, and must hereafter be assailed by the same enemies, and de fended by the same friends. It is true that the se ditious clamour is not now heard for the first time. The independence of the _House of Lords was for a time taken away, that the Reform Bill might be come the law of the land. But for that most treasonable suspension of the Constitution two plausible pretexts were urged, of which they who relied upon them can no longer avail themselves, by which they who were quieted by them cannot be again betrayed. The Reform Bill, it was said by some, involved arrangements in the frame of the Lower House with which the Upper House had no right to busy itself. The Reform Bill, it was asserted by others, introduced a vast organic change into the whole system of our Government, whose importance was such that for the insuring of its success, every irregularity might be excused and every violence justified. The sub ject on which the House of Lords expressed its opinion last week was surely not prohibited to it by either of these considerations. It was a subject on which if that House is still to be a deliberative body, it was in every way qualified to deliberate. We rejoice, we confess, that it is upon an affair of this sort that the House of Lords finds itself op posed to the Government. If the collision had taken place on a Bill for the confiscation of a little property, or the abolition of a little Christianity, the meditated annihilation of the House of Lords might have seemed only the necessary step to the desired benefit. But when the Peers are threatened in the Parliament, and li belled in the newspaper, and reproved from the throne for desiring the maintenance of a neu trality which Parliament and newspaper and Throne all profess to maintain, it is clear that the destruc tion of their powers and privileges is contemplated, not as a means to some good otherwise unattainable, but as a consummation for its own sake to be de voutly wished. War then has been declared by the Ministers and their masters against the hereditary Peerage of Great Britain. Before many months shall have passed away the British people will have to pronounce whether they will have such a House of Lords as their fathers had, controlling in one crisis the excesses of the multitude, in another the encroachments of the Sovereign; or whether they will have a House of Lords which shall be nomi nated by the Minister of the day, to applaud his speeches and to register his edicts; or whether, finally, they will strip " the Lords Spiritual and Temporal" of their lawn and ermine, trusting hence forth the honour and interests of the empire to the sole guidance of a House of Commons which is at once officious and insolent, boisterous and ser vile, ignorant and precipitate—a House of Com mons, which, being, as it were, by the delusion which attended its election, condemned to involuni tary popularity, has contrived, by an almost inexpli cable ingenuity, to be, in one brief session, ridiculed, and doubted, and execrated, from one end of the kingdom to the other. Let no man deceive his neighbour, and let no man deceive himself. The struggle may be postponed for a month, for a year; but postponement will not render it the less inevi table. Sacrifices may be made, as they have been made before; but the sacrifice of part will only make resistance the more difficult when the rest shall be demanded. We desire, therefore, that now, while our passions are unexcited and our temper calm— now, before the bludgeon has been lifted or the brickbat thrown —now; before Mr. Attwood has roused the ferocity of a rabble or Sir Herbert Tay lor committed the honour of a King, this prospec tive reform may be seriously taken to heart by those who are most able to judge for themselves and to guide the judgment of others. We appeal to all honest and enlightened Englishmen, not to the selfish or the unprincipled—not to Lord Ebrington, who will go through any tilt h that he may blot out the title he inherited, nor to Mr. Littleton, who will go through as much that he may have a title to bequeath—but to every edu cated gentleman of England who has knowledge to understand what is right and spirit to risk some what in the doing of it. If the hereditary Peerage appears worth preserving to the most intelligent classes of the community, to our gentry, to our clergy, to our opulent merchants and traders, they must be prepared to aid its more responsible sup porters, not with silent sympathy and timid appro bation, but with a hearty, perhaps a hazardous, co operation. Fur the present we will not assume that the hereditary Peerage is serviceable to the State. Lord Grey may be tight ; it may be time for their Lordships to set their House in order. Lord Brougham may be right ; their Lordships may be adverse to every wholesome improvement. The Times may be right; the House of Lords may be " absolutely nothing." The Examiner may be right; the House of Lords may be a House of mis chief. But we say once more, let the matter be fairly considered, and let it be considered betimes. Morning Post. Colonel Torrens is, we understand, to move, this evening, as an amendment of the order of the day for the further consideration of the Bank Charter, that that Charter be continued for one year without alteration. The objects aim e d a t by this motion are evidently two-fold ; first, to get rid of the very favourable bargain which the Bank has driven with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and secondly, to give time both to the Bank and to the public, to consider more maturely the situation in which they are placed. On these same grounds do we approve of this motion, and trust that it will meet with no opposition. A little further time for consideration can do but little harm in this case, and the proposed delay is likely to be amply compensated by an im proved knowledge of the course of policy which ought to be pursued. While on this subject we beg to recommend to the notice of our readers a pam phlet which has just been published by Ridgway, and the author of which is Mr. Joplin. The title of it is " The Advantages of the Proposed National Bank of England, both to the Public and its Pro prietary." It is an able pamphlet, and explains, in a very business-soit of way, the limited view which it takes of the subject.—Morning Advertiser. Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Digby, K.C.8., is now confidently spoken of as likely to have the command at Sheerness, on the striking of Sir John Beresford's flag.— Naval and Military Gazette. ABOLITION OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. —The following is an extract from the American Presi dent's address to Congress, dated December 6, 1631 " Actuated by similar views, Congress, at their last ses sion, passed an Act for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States ; but the provisions of that law have not been deemed such as were adequate to that relief to this unfortunate class of our fell.iw•citizens which may be safely extended to them. The points in which the law appears to be defective will be particularly communicated by the Secretaty of the Treasury ; and I take pleasure in recommending such an extension of its provisions as will unfetter the enterprise of a valuable portion of our citizens, and restore to them the means of usefulness to themselves and to the community. While deliberating upon the sub ject, I would also recommend to your consideration the propriety of so modifying the laws for enforcing payment of debts due either to the public or to individuals suing in the courts of the United States, as to restrict the impri sonment of the person to cases of fraudulent concealment of property. The personal liberty of the citizen seems too sacred to he held, as in many cases it now is, at the will of a creditor to thorn he is willing to surrender all the means be has of discharging his debt," COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 8. THE KING V. THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. This was a rule for a mandamus to the Lord Bishop of Winchester, as visiter of St. John's Col lege, Oxford, commanding him to hear the appeal of Dr. Free, concerning his deprivation of a fellow ship in that college. Mr. Sergeant COLERIDGE showed cause, and read the affidavit of the Bishop, as well as the affidavits of the President and another officer of the college. By the Bishop's affidavit it appeared that the appeal had been already heard and decided upon. Dr. Free appeared personally in support of the rule. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was of opinion that the mandanzus ought not to go, as the Bishop had already heard the appeal. The rule was therefore discharged. BAIL COURT, JUNE 8. THE BISHOP OF BRISTOL V. THE INHABITANTS OF BRISTOL. In this action the Right Rev. plaintiff claimed compensation from the inhabitants of Bristol for loss sustained during the riots there, and Mr. FOLLETT moved for a rule to show cause why the cause should not be tried at the next assizes for Somersetshire, at Bridgewater, before the Judges of assize, instead of before the Sheriff, as there were likely to be many points of law for discussion.--Rule granted. THE LATE CARMARTHEN ELECTION,-..THOMAS V. SAUNDERS AND ANOTHER. Mr. EVANS moved to change the venue from Carmarthen to Glamorgan, on the ground that an impartial trial could not be had at the former place. The plaintiff, an attorney, had been very active in the late election, and this was an action against the defendants (magistrates) for an alleged false corn mitment.—Rule to show cause granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 8. FURNIVAL V. STRINGER AND ANOTHER. Mr. Sergeant WILDE moved for a rule to show cause why the venue in this case should not be brought back from Surrey to London. It is an ac tion against the late Sheriff of Surrey and the gaoler of Hotsemonger-lane Prison, in which the plaintiff is confined for debt, for an abuse of their power in confining the plaintiff in a felon's cell, and withholding from him the usual indulgences allowed to debtors, for no misconduct on the part of the plaintiff, but merely for the safer custody of his per son, in consequence of the largeness of the debt for which he is in prison, namely 10,0001. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. ADMIRALTY COURT, JUNE 8. THE RELIANCE—IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. This was a question as to the validity of a bot tomry bond, and the decision of the Learned Judge is of considerable importance to those engaged in mercantile and shipping affairs. The Reliance left London in November, 1827, for Calcutta. Captain Hayes, her master, had a letter of credit on Gilmore and Co, of Calcutta, for 1,0001., which the master was directed to lay out in the purchase of goods, should he not get a full freight back to Lon don. The only power left to the Captain was, that in the event or the Burmese war breaking out, he might engage her as a transport in the service of the East India Company. The ship arrived at Cal cutta in May, 1828, and was placed under the agency of Gilmore and Co. She was freighted to the Mauritius with rice, from whence she proceeded to Van Diemen's Land with sugar, returned to Cal cutta, was again freighted, and took trips to Arra can, the Mauritius, &c., Messrs. Gilmore making advances, and taking freights, agency, costs, &c. In the mean time, the owners had sent out a letter, disapproving of the conduct of Captain Hayes, and directing him to return home in ballast if he could not get a cargo, but was afterwards despatched to the Mauritius, &c. The vessel had been absent from her owners three years, and at length Messrs. Gilmore obtained a botiomry bond on the vessel for 1,000/., the validity of which was opposed. Sir J. NICIIOLL said the captain had no powers to bind the ship, no case of necessity having ex isted to authorize him to do so. For the general interests of commerce masters, should have power in extreme cases, when from accidents or other causes they could make their home voyage without advances. In the present case Ito such necessity existed, and it was his duty to pronounce against the validity of the bond and dismiss the suit with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday Lord Glengall, accompanied by the Marquis of Westmeath and two other gentle men, came to the Mansion-house for the purpose of having the charge made by Dorah Butler against him investigated. His Lordship evidently laboured under extreme indisposition. Mr. Adolphus at tended upon the part of his Lordship. The LORD MAYOR—There is a correspondence between Mr. Rowley, Lord Glengall's solicitor, and Mr. Smith, the vestry clerk of Whitechapel, on the subject of the application of that parish to his Lord ship. It is rather extraordinary that to the last two or three applications of Mr. Smith to Mr. Rowley no answer was returned. Mr. Rowley (as our reporter understood him) said that he acted upon the conviction that there was not a syllable of truth in the statement of the female, and that any further notice of her or her ap plication would have been quite superfluous. Mr. Adolphus—Did she not say that she acted as midwife to herself, even in the street, and that she immediately rose and walked off with her child from the east end to the west end of the town? Mr. Smith—So I was informed by our parish officers. Mr. Adolphus—lt is the first time such an affair has occurred since the days of Yarico, ho delivered herself of a mud-coloured baby by the side of a pool of wafer, in which she washed it, and afterwards washed herself.—(A laugh.) I wish Mrs. Dorah Butler would favour us with her presence. The LORD MAYOR-1 have, I declare, taken great pains to investigate the circumstances of the accusation, and I put a variety of questions to her, for the purpose of ascertaining whether she was telling truth. She told me that she saw you at your house in the Regent's-park, and I find that you had a house there. Lord Glengall—l have not the most remote idea who or what this woman is. The LORD MAYOR—It is evident that she knows your Lordship, if you do not know her. Mr. Adolphus—No doubt of it. The poor Irish know the persons of their countrymen who are high in rank and station ; it is a necessary consequence of an eminent position in society. A friend of Lord Glengall—A woman swore two children to me in Ireland. She swore that I went to her in disguise in the Lying-in Hospital, and I had never in my life seen her, except once in my capacity of magistrate, when she came to swear a child before me to another man.—(A laugh.) I, however, would not let her escape me. For the sake of the public I prosecuted, and she had eighteen months' imprisonment for the perjury. The averment of Doral► Butler was then pro duced and read. It merely stated that Lord Glen gall was the father of her child, now three years old. The LORD MAYOR—It is certainly odd that she does not make her appearance. The Vestry•clerk of Aldgate—She was seen on Thursday last, but the beadle cannot now find her. The woman in whose house she lodged is, however, to be found. The LORD MAYOR then sent for the landlady spoken of, arid the following statement was made in answer to questions from the Lord Mayor arid Mr. Adolphus :—" I saw Dorah Butler on Tuesd iy last, when she left her child with me and went out. She slept with me that night, and told me that the officers were after her, and Lord Glangall wanted to take her up, and have her tried at Marlborough. street, near his own place. She went out in the morning, and on returning she wanted me to keep her child. I told her that if she would not take the child I would give her into the hands of the watch. That frightened her, and she took the child and went away. It was plain that she was afraid of the police. She was an honest woman, and paid me punctually whenever she got money. She gave me half of the last shilling she had when she was going away. I knew her about six or seven weeks, and she used to go out and sometimes return with money, but how she got it Ido not know. She was frightened about the police officers, and said that her sister lived on Lord Glen gall's estate, and she was afraid his Lordship would turn the poor thing off on account of the exposure that was made. Mr. Adolphus rose, and, addressing the Lord Mayor, said—" My Lord Glengall has, ever since he learnt that the charge was brought against him, felt the greatest anxiety to clear himself from the imputation cast upon his character, and the moment his health permitted him, came forward in his own vindication. He has no knowledge of the person who has brought forward the charge, and it is quite obvious that her non-appearance is not attributable to him or to Mr. Rowley. I have only to say that his Lordship will be ready, should the Lord Mayor consider any future investigation of this subject ne cessary, to appear and repel the accusation." Lord Glengall and his friends then quitted the justice-room. BOW-STREET. A young man named Tohn Calvert, who, it will be recollected, was brought to this office some time ago, charged with having repeatedly endeavoured to intrude himself upon the personal attention of Miss Taylor, the actress of Covent-garden Theatre, was on Saturday again brought up upon a similar charge after having spent the night in the station-house. It appeared that, after several attempts, he con trived to evade the vigilance of the doorkeepers at the stage-door of the Olympic Theatre, and to find his way behind the scenes, in search of Miss Taylor. He was there at last recognised by Mr. Bartley, the stage manager, who, knowing the purpose for which he had come, desired him to withdraw. This he refused to do, and repeated his determina tion to have a personal interview with Miss Taylor. Mr. Bartley, finding remonstrance was in vain, was obliged to send for a police officer, into whose cus tody he gave him. Mr. Bartley stated, that since he had been in custody before, he had written to Miss Taylor, ten dering his addresses, and that she had peremptorily declined the honour which he had intended her. The defendant was determined not to be satisfied until he received Miss Taylor's rejection from her own lips. Under these circumstances, he was again ordered to find ta•o sureties in 50/. each, and to enter into his own recognizance in 100/. to keep the peace; in default of which he was committed to Clerkenwell prison. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday R. Shepherd, a footman in the ser vice of W. Field, Esq., was brought before Mr. DYER for final examination, charged with having committed several robberies upon noblemen residing at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street. John Davy, footman to the Earl of Longford, said that, in consequence of some of his master's property having been missed on Saturday last, his Lordship directed him to inspect his wardrobe, when several articles of wearing apparel were dis covered to be missing. A search amongst the ser vants ensued; and as the prisoner slept in a bed room adjoining his Lordship's dressing-room, he was requested to bring in his bag, which he had placed in his master's travelling carriage, then standing at the door of his hotel, and which in five minutes more would have been on the road to Brighton. The prisoner took the bag into the hotel, having fir-t opened it, and taken out a bundle, which he placed under the seat of the carriage. Witness brought this bundle into the hotel, and on inspecting the contents before Mr. Gould and other persons, some silk stockings and silk and cambric handker chiefs belonging to Lord Longford were discovered. The policeman who searched the prisoner found two bunches of keys upon him ; and this cir cumstance led his Lordship to mention that a short time ago a dressing-box belonging to the Countess had been opened, and 26 sovereigns stolen. Her Ladyship refused to acquaint Mr. Gould with the circumstance at the time, because she was fearful, if the thief was not immediately detected, he would perhaps discharge some of his domestics in his anxiety to prevent any irregularity occurring in his establishment in future. Upon trying the keys in the bunch, one of them was found exactly to fit the dressing-ca.e. In the prisoner's bag were found 21 sovereigns in gold, and notes of the value of 201. more. When the circumstances of the detection of the robbery became known, the Earl of Enniskillen mentioned that he had been robbed, under particular circumstances, of a bank post-bill for 201., and when inquiries were made, it was ascertained that the pri soner had changed a similar bill with a coffee-shop keeper. In the prisoner's bag some stockings, &c., belonging to his master, were also found. The prisoner declined saying anything in defence, and was removed from the bar, and the parties bound over to prosecute. SITUATION AND CONDITION OF INDIA.- Besides a most interesting narrative of his excursions among the Himalaya mountains, and of his visits to the courts of the native Princes, Major AactiEft, in his " Tours in Upper India," just published, touches upon almos t every subject of importance connected with our Eastern possessions, the following among many others:—Renewal of the Charter—Land Revenue of India—Monopolies of Salt and Opium—The Tea Trade—Disputes with the Factory at Canton—Remarks on the Government of the Company—Colonization and Commerce—Administration of Justice—Ecclesiastical Establishment, &c. &c. AWFUL DISASTERS AT SEA.—The Lima, Captain MAROON, sailed from Newfoundland, May 11. On the morning of the 18th of May, in lat. 46, 20. lon. 45. 50., when about 400 miles from Newfoundland, being completely surrounded with ice, their attention was aroused by hearing a gun fired, shortly after which they descried a boat at some distance. The Captain instantly hove to, till the latter came alongside, when he took the individuals in her on board. They reported themselves to be the second mate and twelve of the crew of the Harvest Home, Cap tain HALL, of Newcastle, from London for Miramichi. They informed Captain MARDON, that on the 9th May, the Harvest Home was struck by a piece of ice, which stove in her bows. All hands were immediately put to the pumps, by which means they succeeded in keeping the vessel afloat for two days, at the expiration of which time the second mate and twelve of the crew quitted her in the long boat, the Captain and First Mate having refused to leave the vessel, saying " they would stick to her while a timber remained afloat." On the second day they became bewildered among masses of ice, and again fell in with their own vessel, which they bad mistaken for another, and found that the Captain and mate had left her, sup. posed in the jolly boat. Shortly after another boat, with thirty persons, came in an opposite direction, and boarded the vessel. They proved to be the Captain and crew, and part of the passengers (including two females), of the La , ly of the Lake of Aberdeen, bound from Belfast for Quebec, with upwards of 200 passengers on board. Those who had boarded the wreck of the Harvest Home, when they saw the state she was in, with her hold full of water, made a simultaneous rush to return to the boat, which was at that moment pushed off, and several of them were precipitated into the water. One of them, however, was fortunate enough to make good his leap into the boat which contained the crew of the Harvest Home, and he has now arrived in Liverpool, in the Lima. He states that the Lady of the Lake struck upon the ice, and im mediately fi:led, when the Captain and crew took to the boat, leaving the sinking vessel crowded with the re mainder of the despairing and shrieking passengers, to the number of 160 or 170. The crew of the Harvest Home state that after they left their vessel the last time, they saw nothing more of the other boat. Several of the indi viduals who had fallen into the sea when the latter was pushed off, were drowning, but it was impos4ib'e for them to render any assistatace...Liverpool Advertiser. HAVRE, MAY 27. (EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. " Dr. Bowring's visit to this Liverpool of ► created a great sensation amongst us. The accou , preceded him, from the different towns along the he had visited, made our good folk look on him the lions of the day ; for on no occasion had' journ /lls-Carlist, Juste Milieu, and Republ on any one point, except in praise of this iti missioner. His perfect knowledge of the free off-handed manner, and a certain tact sesses of putting his opinions, rendered him pular. " He arrived on Wednesday, and left us to- , authorities and principal merchants paid him . tion, and the Ch am b er o f C ommerce nomu mittee to confer with him on the object of his v 1 are of course v ar i ous op i n i ons on t hi s R ec i proci l but Bowring has succeeded, in a great degree, I over the wavering, an d creat i ng some d ou b ts 10 of his most strenuous opponents. The elite of chants here are men of considerable reputation, have published well-written and comprehensive commercial affairs ; particularly a Monsieur is a man of extensive information. " The general feeling is decidedly liberal; $1 fully aware of the value which would be derived free intercourse between the two countries. T 7 has shown itself in a quarter from which scarcely have looked for it. A newspaper is , Lyons as the organ of its artisans and labourii tion : in one of the last numbers of this journa a leading article in favour of a free interchange modities, which for liberal and sound politi. views, might rival Say or Sismondi—writtei strength and comprehensiveness, which, coma such a source, is extremely gratifying. Tbi greater proof that a conviction of general bet overcome the acerbity of political rancour, tin manner in which the reciprocity system, as expl Bowring, has caused all parties to combine in its Fancy to yourself a state of society, so divided: line of demarcation so strongly drawn, that if the salon of a Carlist, a Juste Milieu, or a Rel you find not a soul, but such as profess the pot' nions of their respective hosts ; yet upon Or which is acknowledged to be one of national general utility, the organs of each party are tryil force to the expression of their opinions in f a eol There is an article in the last number of the Jot Havre, complaining, that there was no given to the body of merchants, except their chosen representatives the Chamber merce, to express their decided approbation system of free trade. It is fair, however, W f there seems to be a distrust on the parts of th , merchants ; they think the English are not sin( that this Commission of Commercial Inquiry has result of a political arrangement on the part of vernment to acquire information, and, without its professions, to turn it to its own purposes. Th 4 lity and sincerity of our views are, however, graft folding themselves; and the organ which the Go , . st , has wisely chosen to assure them in the proper 0 0 ,011 could not have been better chosen than in 13° 0 0 g Sir,' said a gentleman of considerable rep the other day, as we returned to the salon, after 3 u oll which the American Consul gave to Dr. Bo wring► which all the authorities were present, 'such 031 " l 'ell ( mixes with practical people, who is so well.infor,f: details, and so accessible, will do more to further t°,o jectsof his Government, and I must say the genets'. than twenty atnbassadors.'" oration, jog' ~1 1 1471 and Rors: ileli v l 'hat 2+ it t ' l ,"ked Offi n )of pi Pi ll ', A •AT 'ls !wool° 0 . p the„ h .,,,' COI him 0— " 11 , TED d the ' ' "/), T La . blieso a g i ve NI itinerse.At 11 ''''' Cott lenge!" whicbtO d illi ng t ,,, , otre /1 ' Servi4 t of Tfi 1 to-dst pr ° ffiee, ini gr ell e f '' r fir ninsteuy re. is visit , , melt,' Ni' Ho ,e,in.. 110p Q , I ~ in the , `-- 3k3 ' e of tit' ,'ION S tion, 0 0 ,10 give 80 7 0 ,f , De l i ool' t' .e a . Raity h ) ilo r ,.'Vae, 90a tbe e„ . . 4. He rived ft ° ta l e p• Ten, This t ai'Vq• 1 11, 1 ,: , [ 1 ge, c h o n e . a t, ~,, is p&p , c,-4i,kbei puri.% 0 ,1 ' eos,,,z urns', , lipt , igia,, or , dlse Ilarge 1.2ng,p 4 „.• 'co. eu° ll ;iii ‘ 9 ', t ki 'l , ritten e t And com ing ttit t co °I i i %f p Pe Tber e ,, $ i2glam d bevel: 0 0 , '') no r thao, / ,11 T. exp l36 `o 4 n its :PO A ided, com, t if yoto 1 1 1 10, . a Repo'," (~ '-v 1 , : ,: c o , , 0 4 ,, , pow. • the 0, 4 , this an Use of LI b e peo' , trying of I'4l"tY's favour - ' kir rn rad , ' el ' CO,e' e j o g ~. ,1 . OpP ° : ' ept t i r ,. n• of , 0 Ltion 0' to sayjj 44: r the rry I k vt y , s I s i nc ere? i gnat has be e° , ' t of oOr j , 1 )ut regn, The i llr i Graodytitaliffil?s COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. ~ .."1° Wheat. Barley. (Oats. 1 ... 3 . 4 ----- --- Per Quarter. 8 . to s . a. to s. 5. to s• 8. / 4 0 / Carlisle 58 - 21 - 18 --• # Hexharrt.........-. 52 64 27 30 17 21 ... 0 Morpeth -..... 44 50 25 27 17 19 ...., 0 Penrith --.......- 59 - 25 - 18 0 Sheffield ............. - 54 - 27 - 18 4 ; Winchester 48 54 22 26 22 24 , . ii. i 'l l , Per Bushel. s.d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. 9 . '',.; "jj 0 $ l , Carmarthen...-. 6 0 6 2 6 2 9 1 4 1 ' 6 ll Cowbridge 66 7029 Newcastle (Staff.) 8 0 8 4 6 5 0 2 9 3 3 56 I/ Northallerton ...... 70 9 336 5t0ne............... 8 0 8 8 4 0 4 8 3 0 2 3 „ 6 0 0 $ 1 Swansea «..... w..... 68702 4 2 8 I 8 `,4 '5 6 Warwick 9 0 11 0 3 0 4 6 2 0 3 0 Per Roll. a. 10 0 0 Barnardcastle ...... 11 0 17 6 8 0 8 6 5 6 6 76 g Durham 12 0 14 0 70 79 43 61 ' 7 6 1 Richmond ......... 11 0 16 6, 9 0 9 6 5 0 6 ‘,6 69 5t0ckt0n............,. 11 6 12 31 9 6 10 0 4 6 5 " L ob WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. -.June 7. ~_ geer m , Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Su ff blk...-s. 465- P gi." . " fine ra, Lin. and Cam -s. 40 3 . to 1. .. fine wr --• Yorkshire -s. 385 . to 5 e 6Ol , - White - Foreign, Red ...-S• 428. 7 , nne "- White .. . . ......-s. 525. to 5 • „....031 , Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk . ".. 205. to 245. Et: 00 , - Lincolnshire 2os. to Vs. 11 ' 1 ;0 -- Yorkshire Wold 20s. to 245. S.. l ' Foreign -S. to - 5 . Oo; OS. Beans, Old - New 28s. to 325. il so Oats, Potato lBs. to 20s. ,P„'"i 0 0 ! -- Poland -s . 16s. to 190. r„. Ir, --- Friezland and Small -s. 15s. to 18s. Itor i --.4 ' to to 588.535. fin e t i. - Healing Shelling 0 0s. to 245. Od. Per iptr, Malt 3os. 355. fine 395. per.,s,,P Rapeseed 2l/. Os. 23/. Os. 231. 10s. Pe' ..______.....___. SCOTCH MARKETS. ...,... ,I '.. 0 0.- f Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. . 4 0 --....-- •.......• ..........."... .9 . 5 0 - Aberdeen ...... 40 48 22 26 16 19 -- „Th 2 5 Berwick...-. :35 37 18 20 12 14 ilB f; , / Coldstream .. 36 38 18 19 13 14 19 r , g '` ... / i upar ........ 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 „x", ..., / Dundee -.... 50 60 30 33 20 25 30 nr o', ...• / Elgin ............. 40 49 24 26 16 20 23 "`,., 4 6 / Inverness.- 40 46 24 27 16 20 23 „,,,‘••' .... j 4 Kelso 36 38 19 21 12 14 20 '`",.. 43 / Kirkaldy...... 48 61 23 29 16 20 45 „,.''' ... d j. Perth 50 56 23 26 20 22 22 ::: ..... 01 ,;.. / 10 The size of the measure varies throughout the , . ea l EDINBURGH CORN IVIARKIM- Ju n e s -- „..5 e t •We had a large supply of a ll ki n d s o f G ra i n to-dit'', SO Barley, and the sales we r e h eavy i n genera l . o ' 4 o l Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 321 0$ First 6ss Od -s 04 22s 44 32s Od S cond Third s2s Od -s Od 18s Sd 27s Od Olt 4 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. t 0 P . O Beef, per 1b..., Os. 4d. to os. M. Freshßutter,lb.s. lo 9 0 Mutton...-. 0 5 0 7 Salt Ditto...-. 08 „ 0 „ o'i Veal 0 4 0 8 Ditto, per est t. 66 t' a . a u 0 j Pork.., ~..,,,,....' -"...." 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 0 0 " S 0 I Lamb, per qr. 3 0 5 0 OatStrawocpl.) 7 "a 1 fallow, cwt.... 35 8 37 6 Whe a t D i tt o ... 7 0 610, 0 0 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 B ar l ey Ditto ... 6 ........... Potatoes. 1711 b. 0 4 0 0 H a y, p er 5t...... 0 8 .1 4. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.-Jun e 10ei, P.. raid` The supply of Oatmeal at thi s d a y' s mar k et wa s 0 the sales rather brisk, at an advance of Is. per sack.. jolPi Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. P er St one o f 1 4 w* .X 0 1 6 First Oatmeal £l 10 0 Fi rs t 0 atmea 1 ......... 0 i A 1 Second ditto 1 8 0 S econ d di t t o ......•••'" 0 ' Barleymeal 1 6 0 Barleymeal ........ •••••'' o .l o l ' Peaserneal 1 3 0 Peasemeal . . ..... ....1. Pot Barley-No. 1, per cwt. 128.-24, 148.-34.165! , 18 r GLASGOW CORN MARKET.-June Oats have a tolerably f a i r sa l e , b ut other descripti 5. 0. e' o 0 1 0; are dull, with little alteration in prices. Wheat, per 2401 b. i. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. fg Ot - 15" British, old 230 to 29 0 Irish l5O 0 , - new 25 0 27 6 British .........• f .11.,. / 0 Canada, free 27 0 30 0 Beans, per ........ 0 16, Irish Barley, per 3201 b. S co tti s h English 0 - C Pease, Scottish ... 10.6 4 4 Scottish 22 0 23 6 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 4 50 Irish __.......--__ ; 0 1 4 ; 4 (d) - 4; t ed I)et ed ' M isted, (if 2,0 U, parts, ,_______ lI 'PTI 4 44 c, R. WV, 1.111 CORNWALL MARKETS . O"' TRURO-Wheat (average) 215.-Barley, 9s. 3d.- - to 9 0. ST. AUSTELL.-.-Wheat, -s. to 215.-Barley, 7s. to 7s. 3d. to P 96. 0*" . M r 4 cl Go PENZANCE-Wheat, 20s. to 215.-Barley, 9s. „ od• - Ll:1 1 - ,°41 Wi os. to 7s. 6d.-Beef and Mutton, Od. to 6d.-For'' „.0 0 ( I )isYlbe r 1 Butter, 9d. per lb. gs. o6 Og- LAUNCESTON-Wheat (average)l9B.6.L-Barley , • li t 4 k , in ss. 3d.-Beef, 5d.-Mutton, 6d. , 2•tb LNKEARD--Wheat, -s. to 20s. Od.-Barley, es. (XL ir • to Os. 6d. oato, 60. t) . l as, BOOMIN-Wheat (average) 205.-Barley, Bs. W."' N r4 l. 6° l i P a r n HELsTom-Wheat, 20s. 6d.-Barley, Ss Gd. 10S. 00. I-- e to ST. COLUM 11-Wheat, 20s. to ...S.-Barley, 9 s. Co j9„,'"ves and Mutton, sd. to 6d.-Veal, 0,1.-Lamb, Od. lw t - ' l 6li,: ja wi V„," °. BI MINING INTELLIGENCE , . Ore c , Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last ThurdaY ..j. l • ‘A, i 'eli ah 't Average Produce...-. 16 9, )74, 4!one e fuantity of fine Copper.. 1 15 e and mount of Sale, 13,1451. ISs (if 4 ttbi ii , St Y itt 44 pt. :.41 ed itt,tllilk:l at ti t A ant V4ttil lu ; of tatty 41( t c , f t c marlllll.lal 441" ,}:N t Y of t '1 11 %t 4114 ge 'tf i ght e , i t ! lO~tted 'Y vti t 4 . 4 , fi 44, 4 a n , It :e)sng 'Y, by Ba O rt n , t A h l e rs B . th H i e n n st y .,a F - t iu t d h 3r e:h r -21 , ouse of her father, Sir • if o l f ß a T d il aughter. il. : °I „, 1P On the sth inst., at Goldington, near Bedford, George Musgrave, Esq., of a son. Ol e MARRIED. M 311e 61 . 1 11 On the6th inst., at the Abbey Church, Great ,_„0 - i i h Rev. William Henry Rooper, 8.A., Rector of AIN:d010: 0 11 0 " Huntingdon, to Caroline, eldest daughter of the la` c prii' v e, Buck, Esq., of the Inner Temple, London, and o' Yorkshire. ThotOgr e On the fith inst., at St. Clement's Hastings, laq,.pi , Esq., of Upper Bedford-place, and ' of Farm Grinstead, to Henrietta, widow of the late W 11 Esq., of Somerset-place. of DIED. A 9 4 ' i . , ,pf , W ar On the 7th inst., at Bromley, John Rober t OP Shooter's-hill. y 0 v mil,' , de , On the 7th inst., at Twickenham common, ~-, n s. ~, ;2, daughter of John Bull, Esq., of the House of Coln.1 0 ( ti :1 1 ',, On the 6th inst., at Lambeth, Elizabeth Jane, w, 1 . ' . : 1, st' E. G. Beckwith, Minor Canon of St. Paul's Catneu:L'ipsoPt $, On the sth inst., at Nottingham-terrace, Wm. ft— ..,,f, late of Paternoster-row , ag ed 59. wife dip. On the 2d inst., at Penshurst , Kent , Am elia, Bailey, of Bern ers-street. PRINTED AND PUBLINDED BY MU R D O Y 0 10 SUN Orrice, 112, STRAND. LOODOI4 o, f s) If - ; /141 44 1 i /'~/