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EVEN ING IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, AUGUST 21. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes past Toro o' Clock. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER, the - Exchequer Bills Funding Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER the resolution of the Committee on the Exchisqlter Bills (Ireland) Funding, were received, and leave given to bring in a Bill. Mr. HUME begged to ask what success bad attended the plan of the Right Hon. Gentleman for funding the remainder of the four millions of Exchequer Bills ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not at present give a satisfactory answer, but he would do so to-morrow. BANK OF IRELAND. The RIGHT Hort. GENTLEMAN then moved the second reading of the Bank of Ireland Act Continuance Bill. Mr. FINCH could not allow that opportunity to pass without expressing his regret that the rate of interest to be paid to the Bank of Ireland was not the same as that contemplated in the Bill that bad been withdrawn. Mr. ELLIS thought it rather unreasonable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be called upon to re duce the rate of interest when that was contingent upon other arrangements which had not been carried into effect. He thought it much better to leave the Bill where it was. Mr. HUME was sorry that the facilities of open Joint stock Banking was to be kept from Ireland for another year. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had adopted the proposition which was made to him at the beginning of the contest, which was to reserve the whole discussion of the matter till next Session. The Bank of Ireland bad acted in the most handsome manner upon the present occasion, and had, as far as possible, done all in their power to forward the present arrangement. He was as great a friend of free banking, with the single exception of making money, as any one present, but he objected to the free issuing of paper money. It had been stated to the House, and undoubtedly that statement wade a great impression on the House, that a gentleman who had moved the nomination of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, had been excluded from an office which ho had a right to hold, on account of his poli tical character. The facts were these, and the House would see how contrary these facts were to the im pression that was created.—( Hear, hear.) There was in Dublin a Mr. Robert Rowe, the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce a gentleman of the highest possi ble acquirements, oue of the best political ecconomists he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had ever had the good fortune to meet with, and who was the author of several petitions to that House, particularly on the usury laws. He was a gentleman standing so high in the city of Dub. lin, that more than once the Representation of that city was tendered for his acceptance ; but he declined receiving it. He died, and his elder brother was appointed a Director of the Bank of Ireland. It was impossible, by the rules of the Bank, for two brothers to he members of the Corpora. tion, and therefore there had been no exclusion of Mr. Rowe the younger by reason of his politics.—( Hear, hear.) These were the facts as he had stated them, and he trusted that statement was perfectly satisfactory to the House.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. D. O'CALLAGHAN believed that the Ho nourable and Learned Member for Dublin (who was not present) was perfectly aware that he had been led into error, and would have corrected the mistake last night, had he not been told by an Honourable Member that it was scarcely worth while inntioning it again to the House. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S PENSION. On the Order of the Day being read for bringing up the Report on this Bill, Mr. \VAKLEY said be hoped some one in the House would divide with him against bringing up the Report. He did think that on principle a more objectionable mea sure could not have been submitted to the House.— _ _ _ (Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Kilkenny bad already cffered a fruitless opposition to the Bill. This Bill ought to have a different title. It should be en titled " A Bill for increasing the Pension of the Duke of ISlariborough by 375/. a year." If such a title were adopted it would be understood by the public ; but the public would have great difficulty in comprehending why a Duke was relieved on this occasion, when if a person of less conse- quence came before the House for redress he would find none. But being a Duke, of course he had an ample number of supporters in the House, and got a gentleman to argue his case with such great ability, that he induced the Right Hon. Gentleman—he had nearly said the Noble Lord--(Laughter)—to bring in this Bill. The Right Hon. Gentleman had now a great sympathy with Dukes because he was about to he associated with them.—( Con tinued laughter.) He (Mr. Wakley) bad no such sym pathy, and he looked at the case with reference to the merits of the question and net to the situation of the par ticular individual who claimed redress. He wanted to know if this Duke had performed anv public services which entitled him to the consideration of the House. He might have voted as Hon. Gentlemen had wished on sundry occa sions in the Upper House, but it would be paying dear for his votes to give him and all who came after him 3751. a year for what he had done in this respect. How did the House deal with the poor under the Poor-law Amendment Act? How did it treat the Chelsea pensioners, who had no person to represent their interests in this House? But a Duke, ha-ring co,,sidvrnUe family interest, came here and found relief. The House could show its sympathy in that case, but it could show none with reference to the poor of the country. He therefore moved that the Report be received this day three months. Mr. BROTHERTON secondad the amendment. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but— Mr. HUME rose and said, before strangers withdrew, he wished to state his entire concurrence in the views of his Honourable Friend. He had opposed the Bill on a former occasion, and although he had had a seconder, he had not had the good fortune to have any supporters. Finding the opinion of the House to be entirely against him, he thought it unnecessary to offer any opposition on the present occasion, having already recorded his opinion on the subject ; but if any other Member wished to divide, he would not withhold his sup port from him. It had been argued that the Duke of Marlborough was entitled to the 5,0001. a-yearj'arliament bad originally allotted to bins; according to that argument, this Bill would not place him in the situation he ought to be in. Parliament had thought fit to tax his pension, first 4s. in the pound, and then again Is. tid. in the pound; the latter deduction amounted to 3751. and he considered the present Bill in the light of a grant for that amount, for he held that at the present moment the Duke of Marlborough Was no more entitled to this than if he had never had it ; and such was the opinion of the Treasury in the year 1811, who had made a deduction for the two preceding years, from the pension, thus carrying the intention of the Par liament into effect. Ho entirely agreed with his Hcn. Friend, that if any person in humble circumstances had applied for this relief, he would not have obtained it so easily as the Noble Duke had. He agreed with the Hon. Bart. the Member for Oxford that the whole of the pension ought to have been retained, if any was retained. He objected to it on another ground, that it ought to have been brought in earlier. He could not see why the present Duke of Marlborough should receive more than his father did. Mr. AG L 10. NB Y as a member of the Committee felt bound to state that the Hon. Member for Finsbury had completely mistaken the course adopted by that Committee. In that Committee the question whether the claimant was a Peer or the meanest subject in the realm, was not taken into consideration. The Hon. Member was entirely in error as to the votes of that House which had never de nied the right cf the Duke to the Is. 6d. duty. When he went into the Committee, from all that he had heard in that House, he had a bias in his mind against the claims of the Noble Duke, but, after the arguments that were ad duced before that Committee, and the further evidence that had been brought forward, his opinion was entirely changed, and he now believed that the Duke had a just and equit able claim to be relieved from the ls. 6d. duty, but his opinion, with respect to the 4s. duty remained the same. He hoped, therefore, the Bill would meet with the unani mous concurrence of the House, because tile recemmenda lion of the Committee had on every point been unanimous. He must say that it was not fair of the Hon. Member for Finsbury to put the question an the ground of the claims of the Duke of Marlborough, because it had never been brought forward or supported in the Committee on such grounds. Mr. BROTHERTON said whatever defence was at tempted to be made there was no doubt the Bill would be an increase of the pension of the Duke of Marlborough, who had for 30 years acquiesced in it. If any of the rela tions of sailors or soldiers applied for pensions after such a period they were told it was too late—the books were closed. Why should not the same principle be applicable to all ? Captain PE CHE LL had supported the Bill in all its previous stages, and he was disposed to support it now. Mr. P. HOWARD supported the Bill. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House t livided, F w er h h en rin th .7n re c, upapptehae red,Report Against it Majority The Rep or t was then brought up. —43 COUNTY COUNCILS BILL.—ADJOURNED Mr. HUNIE moved o the DEBATE. of the ad Order of the Day for the re sumptionpay debate on this Bill. The Order of thehaving thatbeen read, Mr. SANFORD regretted si*ed in introducing the Bill. The e his Hon. Friend per blel circulated object he could haie in view was, that it should rculated during the prorogation ; but this was done after the . last Session, and the public opinion was stro ng l y principle of the Bill was nearly the it. Th e inconvenience. m achinery was of so cumbrous b a nature, that same, and t h e it would be attended with the greate s t fi e imagined that it was the wish of the Honl'ivier g ive superintendence to the rate - payers, and in this r de r sir to b e c oncurred ; but the plan proposed was so burdensome, t hat it must necessarily fail in attainin g its object. If the iron. Member had introduced the measure earlier in the Session it Migilt have been fully discussed. country as_ sure the FiCin. Member that the feeling of the y was against the measure. It would be necessary to travel great distances, and to go to considerable expense to exercise the franchise under this measure, and people were getting tired i of going these distances to vote. Mr. EW ART thought as the Hon. Member for Somer setshire approved of the principle of the Bill, he ought to vote with the Hon. Member for Kilkenny. If the machinery was complex it could be amended in Committee, and the Hon. Gentleman, as a country gentleman, was one of the keet fated for the purpose of suggesting these amendments. It was asked, how could it be possible f or the countr y gentlem en to travel thirty or forty miles to do the duty. But they travelled quite enough as it was. And such boards existed in France, where in fact they were the only means of teaching the French the advantages of a repre sentative system. Seeing that the principle of the measure t was admitted, it was unfair to reject the Bill on details, particularly as the duties required were such as any country gentleman ought to be ready to execute. Mr. P. HO WARD thought the proposition a very reasonable one. At present, measures affecting counties were much longer being understood than in towns. Sir C. BURRELL considered it extraordinary that this measure should be introduced by Gentlemen who had ob jected to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's bringing for ward the Irish Bank Bill, on account of the lateness of the Session. Taking the whole circumstances into considera tion, he felt it to be his duty, if his Hon. Friend the Mem ber for Somersetshire divided on the subject, to vote with him. • Captain PE C HELL hoped the Bill would be printed for the information of the public, as the time had now arrived when they were anxious to have some sort of control over the money that wa s raised from them. The principle had been recognized in the Bill which had been introduced on a former occasion, and there could be no reasonable objection to its introduction. He knew not what machinery the Hon. Member contemplated in order to give the rate-payers some control over the funds, but the system was one which the House must approve of, more esrecially at a time when the rates were increasing, and further demands were being constantly made upon the rate-payers. He hoped the House would allow the Bill to be brought in. Mr. HUME replied. The principle of representation and taxation which be contended for was recognized in every municipal Corporation in the kingdom, and the object of the Bill was to extend that principle to counties. There were some objections urged on former occasions with regard to the frequent elections of the Councils, and the appointment of auditors, which he bad remedied in the present Bill, and all he wanted was that time should be given for properly discussing its merits. He hoped the Bill would not be opposed, several had been introduced within the last month for the mere purpose of being printed, and why his bill should not be so, he did not know. If it was objected to, of course he must submit, as in the then state of the House, it would be worse than useless to take a division, but he hoped the Bill would be allowed to circulate throughout every county. Mr. T. PARKER was in duty bound to oppose the Bill. In the county with which he was connected the accounts were made up yearly, and the county was in general satisfied with them. He must oppose the intro duction of the Bill. Mr. GRIM SDITC H said the title of the Bill ought to be " a Bill to establish county confusion."--( A laugh.) He would give every opposition to the Bill in his power. The motion was then negatived without a division. EAST INDIA TRADE. Mr. HUME then rose to move for a copy of any con tract or agreement entered into by the Board of Admiralty, or any other department of her Majesty's Government, respecting the conveyance of the mails to the West Indies and America; stating whether the same has been agreed to by private contract or public tender ; and stating, also, the terms or offers made by merchants of Bristol or other parties for the said contract. Mr. C. WOOD said the only reason why he should object to the motion was, that it would be impossible for him to comply with it. He was ready, however, to make an explanation ; and, as that would probably answer the purpose of the Hon. Gentleman, he would do so at once. The first contract in point of time was the one for the con veyance of mails to Halifax. The Government certainly had called for a public tender for the performance of that service. The lowest tender for the performance of that ser vice once a month, and that was a very unsatisfactory tender with regard to the mode of carrying it out, was 45,0001. a-year, but the Government had entered into an engage ment with an individual for the performance of the service once a fortnight at 50,000/. ; so that, at an increase of 5,0001. they would get twice the service done, including a communication with the St. Lawrence and a conveyance from Halifax to Boston. In consequence of some further engagement, an additional expense was rendered necessary by the employment of another vessel. They bad contracted for the conveyance of mails to Halifax once a fortnight; for the conveyance of mails from New Brunswick to Quebec once a fortnight as long as the river was open, and the convey ance of mails from Halifax to Bolton for the sum of 60,000/. a-year ;so that, at an increase of 15,000/., they had more than twice the service done, for which the lowest tender was put in, in this country, which was 45,0001.—( Hear.) With regard to the conveyance of mails to the West Indies, no contract had been entered into. It was done by private tender. His conviction was that neither in North America nor the West Indies would it be worth while for any one to undertake the service who had not, foam their interest in the colonies, a much farther interest in the performance of the service than the mere sum paid by the Government. A number of gentlemen deeply in terested in the welfare of the West India colonies, had come forward and offered to perform certain services for 240,000/., and this had been agreed to. He would now detail the services performed. At present there was a communication by sailing vessels twice a month to the West Indies, and once a month to Mexico. The communication with the West Indies was, therefore, im perfect, and the inter-colonial communication was ex ceedingly bad. With all the foreign islands there was no communication at all. There was no communication be tween Havannah and the English islands, and the conse quence was that if the Governor of Honduras wished to write to the Governor of Jamaica, the letter must come round by England. If specie was wanted to be sent from Mexico to the West Indies there was no mode of sending it except by sending a ship of war for that purpose ; nor was there any communication to be depended upon between the West Indies and the United States of America. These deficiencies would now be supplied in the following manner two steamers of 400 horse power each would cross the Atlantic every fortnight to the West Indies, from these branch steamers of a similar power would go to the dif ferent islands, steamers would likewise proceed to the dif ferent colonies of Guiana, Demerara, and Berbice, to the Caraccas, to Panama, to Honduras, to the Havannah, to Vera Cruz, and the south-western parts of the United States. In addition to this, steamers would proceed from the Havannah to New York and Halifax. The number of steamers to be employed would amount to fourteen, and by this means a fortnightly communication would be opened between this country and the whole of the West Indies, the northern part of South America, the southern parts of the United States, Mexico, and the western coast of the South American Continent. This would be carried into effect early in the summer of 1841, which was as soon as the necessary arrangements could be effected. With respect to the terms, the more he looked at them the more was he satisfied with the arrange ments that had been entered into—more particularly when he considered the enormous expense of providing these boats, and of sending out coals from this country. He could assure the House that no propositions had been made to the Government by any party. It was true the terms of this arrangement had been made for ten years, as persons could not enter into any contract for a less term, but it had been made an article in the contract, that if, during the ten years, any great improvements should be made in steam navigation, the Government should have the benefit of them. Mr. HUME wished to ask if any prospectus had been issued setting forth the duties to be performed, and calliper for tenders, and also whether the Hon. Gentleman was able to state if the parties were now in a condition to carry their agreement into effect, or if it would not be necessary even now to form a company for that purpose? Mr. C. WOOD was understood to say that no pro spectuses had been issued ; he had no hope of a better tender : considering, too, that the parties would have to build at least fourteen steam-vessels of 400 horse power, it could not be expected that they would be able to com mence for some months. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the subject was of the deepest interest to his constituents—( Hoar, hear) —and there were one or two points to which he wished to call the attention of his lion. Friend. He could not claim on behalf of those whom he had the honour to represent, that the consideration of their interests should weigh with the Government or with the House, to induce them to forego the advantages of ste tm, if steam were (as he believed it via , ,) more expeditious for the transmission of correspondence than sailing vessels. But even on this point he begged it might be recollected that the packet service, being a branch of our naval establishment, presented a laudable object of ambition to those desirous of entering the navy, and who might otherwise be unemployed ; thus was it a nursery for British seamen, and answer..d ends which would not be effected by a contract system.— ( Hear, hear.) Supposing, however, that the Government bad taken an unalterable resolve, he yet would especially entreat them, they might believe with no ill will he did so —(A laugh)—to make the change with the least possible injury to a poi which had been for a hundred and fifty years the port of communication across the Atlantic —( Hear, hear) —with the least possible injury to the —he would not say vested rights—but the valuable interests of those who had laid out large capital, employed in extensive establishments at Falmouth,— ( Hear, hear.) And what he suggested was, that it should be made a part of the contract—as to a certain extent he trusted he might say it had been—that the establishment must to some degree be fixed at Falmouth. He said this, because he believed it was admitted, that there was no port in the United Kingdom from which vessels cculd start more advantageously for the stations across the Atlantic, as Falmouth, there being no wind with which vessels could not sail thence. Another consideration, in which the public, the landed public espe cially, were interested, was this :—The letters that came from Falmouth came partly from London, but that was not the greatest proportion—the greatest proportion came from the North, from Glasgow and Ireland ; and unless the letters were taken in at some of the western ports, they would be delayed. Unless, therefore, these packets were bound by their contract to take in letters at the extreme ports, there would be great delay. What he was now stating was not chimerical, for during the last three or four weeks no less than three packets had been delayed 67 hours in consequence of not being stationed at Falmouth. He trusted, in conclusion, that the sense of the House would be manifested in favour of his view of the case, in order that his Right Hon. Friend might see the propriety o f adopting it, which it was his belief he was inclined to do. Mr. F. BARING hoped the House would express no opinion with respect to the propriety of placing the packet stationeket station at Falmouth, or els ewhere. If he was in the situa tion of his Hon. Friend , st andin g up in that House as the advocate of his constituents, he should advocate the station heir' , at Portsmouth. The Treasury were .de termined to fix' upon that place for a . packet . station which was most beneficial to the public . service, and not to consider the interests of any parties in particular.. He able ev e h tr a on d cmo g enn r f e et , a r great gratification in reflecting, that while his Right u Hon. Friend was at the head of the Treasury, the in w th i e c th o g n r i had afforded y to trade. (ies upon the commerce communication by steam of the country euantcetsitonadSvvaitnhtat,he .Admiralty, had been Du r ing the last few years a weekly tharne had d rl b d e b n y th t e b i l n i, c h r e e d as w ed ith fa G ci i l b it r i n e l s ta i r t w be it t h w C ee o n r E —afortnightly communic fn at a io n n d w e ith es th a e 13 . - Itic—a d f , ortni s . g e h a t m ly communicationcommunication . England d e Grdeciand.lslan s—a t now they had secured, by that la t aa st nnd arr r a ' communication between England nightly steam communicatiownhiclahe was t n h ig e ae—ln W ae North America, and arrangement, fortnightly a Indies, ffort nightly r t. Mexico, and that coon ry, great . importance in the present state of their Colonial s of hear.) Ile could not but believe that . —(Hear, would be productive ofgreat ultimatebe.nefitto the commerce THE SUN, LONDON, TWURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1839. of the country, and whatever expense might be incurred in obtaining them, the benefit would far surpass that expense. Mr. FRE SHFIELD was glad the Hon. Member for Kilkenny had brought the subject before the House, and he was most anxious to see the contract or quasi contract laid before Parliament. He doubted much whether the strong feeling that was stated to exist on the subject of increased facilities to communication by steam, had ever found its way to a Government office, except through the medium of some great names appear ing in a prospectus, and suggesting the wide field of enterprize, and enormous advantages that would accrue to the public from the adoption of their plans. Was it part of the contract that the Company was to have a charter—were they to have that which was generally thought in old times to be a clog upon trade—did that form part of the contract? It must; for the contract could not be carried into effect without it. He was most anxious to see the quasi contract, in order to know whe ther proper arrangements had been made with respect to the ports of departure. It was not a question of Falmouth. except so far as the interests of that port were connected with the interests of the public. But every presumption was in favour of Falmouth. It was in pos session of the trade and had been for a century, and he challenged a public inquiry into the capabilities of Falmouth as compared with any other port. If there was to be an alteration in the port of departure, it ought to be after a full investigation of the subject, and hearing evidence pro and con. Every information ought to be given on the subject; and it ought not to be made to depend on the activity of any Honourable Member in getting official information. He did not know what in formation the Honourable Member for Kilkenny might have on the subject, but in the Falmouth Packet there was a report of a meeting of merchants at Bristol, at which it was resolved that an offer should be made to the Government to convey the mails to and from the West Indies for 100,000/. less than had been offered by the London Company, which was understood to be 240,000/. It appeared to have created great astonishment that so precipitate a step should have been taken by the Government, and that the country at large should not have been informed of their intention. He was surprised that a contract should have taken place without the public being placed in a situation to bid against each other. Formerly the packet service was in private hands, and the Government transferred it to the Admiralty, and he saw no reason why it should not be retained by the Govern. ment, who ought certainly to be able to perform the duties as cheaply as any company. If any alteration was to be made in the port of departure, an opportunity ought to be given for examining into the reasons for such charges. Lord ELIOT was ready to concede that the public interests ought to be the object which the Government had in view, but the value of Falmouth had never been underrated, and if the establishment there should be de stroyed, we might, in the event of a war, find ourselves in a situation of great difficulty.—( Hear, hear.) He thought the substitution of steam for sailing vessels was a great advantage, and the question was whether the Government had secured this in the most efficient and economical manner. It appeared that a Company of merchants at Bristol were ready to undertake the arrangement on more economical terms ; and he also understood that a sum had been offered for the bargain, which had been struck with the Government. It was proposed that the packets should take their departure twice a month. That was at the same period as the sailing packets, 'and therefore the transmission of letters would not be oftener than at present. But this Company was to have a monopoly for ten years, at 240,0001. a year; so that, whatever improvement might be made, the expense to the country would be exactly the same. There was also another consideration, great inconvenience would accrue to merchants desirous of shipping specie to this country, because it was well known that merchants preferred shipping specie on board a man-of-war to en trusting it to private individuals; therefore the merchants would be entirely in the hands of this Company, or would be obliged to wait for the accidental arrival of a man-of war. The services of a very great number of officers and sea men would be dispensed with, and that was a matter worthy of serious consideration, more especially as to the expense, because all these officers would have to be placed upon half-pay, or provided for by home other method. It was also a matter of the utmost consequence, that they should consider whether they would not by this plan be destroy. ing the nursery for the navy. He agreed with the Hon. Member for Falmouth in opinion that the Government had by no means established a case. Mr. AGL lONBY was anxious to know whether the Secretary to the Admiralty intended to grant these returns or not. Mr. C. WOOD—Certainly not. Mr. AGLIONBY understood as much, and therefore the ground-work of the argument of the Hon. Member was cut away. It was said to be impossible to grant these returns. He should like to know in what the impossibility consisted. If any contract was in existence it could be pro duced, and if no such contract existed it was easy to state so. If no offers had been made, where was the difficulty of stating so ? It had been stated by the Hon. Member for Penryn, that an offer had been made to carry the mails for 100,0004 a year less than the sum agreed to be given by the Government. Now this would be a saving of one mil lion in the ten years, which was worthy of consideration. There had been ro public notification either by advertise ment or otherwise to the mercantile interest, until the matter accidentally transpired—( Mr. F. Baring—" It was in the Newspapers")—but a very short time ago—(Mr. F. Baring—. Two months.") Well, it did not appear then that there had been any effectual public notice which there ought to have been before the country was committed to a ten years' bargain, and to a sum of money much less than Which, he believed, even for a shorter period, would have been sufficient. Lord ELIOT said the Falmouth Deputation, who had waited on the Treasury, not only were previously ignorant of any such contract being in c ,ntempktion, but left the Chancellor of the Exchequer equally in the dark. Mr. C. WOOD thought his lion. Friend the Member for Cockermouth could not have listened to what he had stated, which was distinctly, first, that the contract was just as he had represented it to the House; next, that it was a private, and not a public, tender ; and, thirdly, that no other offer had been made. With respect to the question of the Honourable ?lernber opposite (Mr. Freshfield), all he had to say was that the Government had reEerved to themselves the right of naming the port from which the vessels were to start.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to the complaint that the arrangement had been effected by private contract, he would observe that in every instance where public tenders had been inviteu by the Government they had generally failed, and had always suc ceeded in making much better terms by private contract. As an instance of that, when it was proposed to carry the mail to Rotterdam, public tenders were asked for, and only one was received, and that of such a character that the Government felt bound to decline it- So with respect to Cadiz, Livcrpool,Dublin, and Halifax—.in all ot which cases the Government had made much better terms by private contract. He believed that the present bargain was an extremely good one for the Government and the public. It remained for the House to say whether, under all the circumstances, the bargain was a fanr one or not. After a few words from I. ELLIS, Captain PE CHELL said the lion. Gentleman had objected to giving a copy of the contract for the convey ance of the West India Mails, on the ground of its being incomplete, but no such objection could apply to the contract with Halifax, because in a Nova Scotia paper he had seen a vote of thanks to the agent, Mr. Kinnaird, on the ground of his having made so good a bargain with the English Government. He thought that great caution should be used with respect to the doing away with the establishment at Falmouth, as it had always been a most excellent nursery for our seamen. He begged to ask, too, how the mail was to be carried from Halifax to Boston. Mr. C. WOOD--Bv steam. Captain PECHEL L—That was so far satisfactory ; but it was very important to know what the means of com munication were to be between England and our frontier Colony of Bermuda. He trusted these questions would be answered to the satisfaction of the House and the country. Mr. J. PALMER thought the Government could not be too open in their dealings with respect to all matters of contract, and deprecated the encouragement of steam vessels, which he considered destroyed nurseries for sea men. Admiral ADAM said that the steamers would carry as many seamen as the packets used to do. But he would ask, was it nothing for this country to have an immnnse force of steam-vessels, so that if a war were tb break out to morrow we could at once arm and ma❑ them for the pur pose of protecting our commerce, not only in the Channel but all over the world ?—( Hear.) He knew there were at present a great many objections to steam-vessels, but time and experience would overcome them. Mr. HUME wished, before the question was disposed of, to make one or two observations. He admitted that he had been ignorant of the facts stated by the Hon. Gen tleman ( Mr. Wood), but be did not think the Admiralty or the Government had the power of binding this eountry to contracts for ten years. Hitherto there had always been an annual vote for the expenses of the packets. H e would venture to say that never had there been 2,400,000 1 . disposed of by one branch of the Government without the knowledge of Parliament. This appeared to bim to be a most monstrous proposition. He trusted the Government would pause before they placed themselves in a situation from which they could not retire, for ho was quite sure Parliament would not sanction a thing of this sort being done privately. If they had power to dispose of this sum, why should they not have the power to dispose of 20,000,0001. ?—( Hear, hear.) If they were able to make a contract of this nature for ten years, why not for fifty? In fact the) might bind down the whole expenditure of the country.—( Hear, hear.) If there was any objection to the form of the motion he would alter it in any way which might be pointed out. Mr. F. BARING said the returns would not answer the purpose of the Hon. Member ; he had better move for the whole of the correspondence. The Government had been repeatedly urged by parties in that House to perform this service by contract, and the moment they did so their powers were doubted. This struck him as most extraordinary ; it was of great importance that this question should be settled, both out of fairness to the Government and to the parties interested. The Hon. Gentleman had better give notice of a motion for suspending the contracts at once. Mr. HUME said that would be hardly fair towards him—he bad always been friendly to a plan for executing these duties by contract, and as to the question of power, the Attorney-General was the proper person to apply to ; he had no wish to move for thn correspondence, but he would advise the Government to pause. Mr. C. WOOD said it would be impossible to give the Hon. Gentleman more information on the subject than he had already given him. If next Session he chose to move for every scrap of paper connected with the subject he should have no objection to furnish him with them. Mr. HUME said that his only object was that the in • formation relating to this subject should be in possession of the country. Mr. FR ESHFIELD was anxious to see the correspon dence, more especially any complaints from the colonies relating to the existing system. The motion was then Withdrawn. EXCHEQUER BILLS, On the motion of Mr. HUME there was ordered a " Return of the several Funding of Exchequer Bills since the year 1797, stating the amount of Exchequer Bills funded at each time, the terms on which the same were converted into Stock ; stating also the price or premium at which the Exchequer Bills were in the market on the day on which the notice was issued by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; s t a ting also the amount o f E xc hequer Bills then outstaning at the time of the notices hem.- given, and the rates of Interest which the Exchequer Bills' bore." CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Mr. HUMS said he had been requested by his Hon. Friend, the Member for Greenock, to move for 1. Copy of the Veto Act of the General Assembly of Scotland ; or the document which commonly is so called. 2. Copy of the roll of persons in each parish of Scot land, entitled, under that Act, to exercise the veto ; or a return, showing the number of persons in each parish of Scotland, entitled, under that Act, to exercise the veto. 3. Return of the names of parishes in Scotland, which since the introduction of, and under that Act, have success fully resisted the plant a tion of ministers therein by lay patrons; with the names of the ministers so rejected. 4. Return of the names of parishes in Scotland which have attempted, unsuccessfully, un d er t h at A c t, to resist the plantation of ministers therein by lay-patrons ; with the names of the ministers thus intruded into these parishes. 5. Copy of the Rules und er w hi c h t h e G ove rnment Church patronage in Scotland has been bestowed since the passing of, or under, the aforesaid Veto Act ; especially the mode in which intimation is given to the parishkners, that they shall be at liberty to reject the Government no minee, should such, appointment be contrary to their wishes ; the time allowed for expressing their dissent, the form prescribed or customary for expressing it, the party to whom it must be expressed or delivered ; also the rule of proceeding by Government after such dissent has been expressed, and a new appointment has become necessary." The Hon. Gentleman said that not being able to give the reasons which his Hon. Friend doubtless would be able to urge for these returns, if the Government objected he would not persist. The LORD ADVOCATE said he must object to the whole of them. Mr. HUME then withdrew the motion. Mr. AG L lONS Y gave notice that he should to-mor row call the attention of the House to the Second Report of the Committee on Private Business, and move resolu tions founded on that Report. It was his intention also to move that certain returns relative to the Six Clerks and the Master's office, which bad been ordered on the 18th of July, should be laid on the table. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. Captain BRYAN gave notice of his intention in the next Session to move for an increased grant to the Duke of Sussex.—(Hear, hear.) The House adjourned at Five o'Clock till to-morrow. THE CHARTISTS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY. For some months past the Chartists have.bcen in the habit of meeting on Holloway Head on Sunday morn ings, for the purpose of hearing newspapers read They have, however, been lately all but discon tinued. Some few, however, were still accustomed to meet, and in order to put a final stop to their pro ceedings, the Magistrates ordered thirty or forty o the London Police to take possession of the groun.fr on Sunday morning last. About eleven o'clock some twenty or thirty men met in groups upon th. ground, upon which the policemen began to dis perse them, and severely beat some of them t‘ it h then staffs. A young man, named George Jones, who, wit!, another person was passing at the time, was knocked down and severely beaten. In consequence, sum monses were applied for on Monday against sergeant Charter and private Newman of the A division. To day was appointed for investigating the case, and at 11 o'clock, Mr. Charles Shaw, and Mr. Thomas Clarke took their seats. Th 3 room was crowded by many respectable persons. Mr. George Edmonds attended for Jones. Several witnesses proved that a violent and totally uncalled-for attack had been made on Jones, who was also proved to be a good character. The Magistrates, after hearing what the police had to say in their defence, and after having retired for half an hour, were of opinion, that the assault was proved against Newman, a policeman, and they regretted that in the discharge of his duty, he should have com mitted himself in the way in which he had. There was some doubt about Charter's (one of the policemen's guilt, and they should not convict him. They ordered Newman to pay 40s. and costs. They were certainly called upon to keep the peace, but not use unnecessary violence, and they were bound as far as pos sible to discriminate between offenders and innocent per sons. His intention was that 30 or 40 policemen should be on the ground, but he told Mr. May, the Superin tendent, who was a man of well-known humanity, that no violence was to be used. The Magistrates wished it to be known that they were determined not to sanction undue violence either on the part of the London or any other police force that might be in the town. These observations of Mr. Shaw, who is a Conservative, afforded great satisfaction, and tended in no small degree to allay the feeling which prevailed in the room. Mr. May said he would pay the fine, and the parties [eft the office. The case occupied upwards of three hours. CORONER'S INQUEST. THE LATE FATAL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT NEAR WATERLOO BRIDGE.—Last night an adjourned in quest was held at the Savoy Palace, Savoy-street, Strand, before Mr. HIGGS, Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, and a Jury of fourteen gentlemen resident within the Precinct of the Savoy, to further prosecute an inquiry into the circumstances attendant upon the death of Henry John Hay, aged 18, an apprentice in the New Bell's Messenger office, who, together with another youth named John Rogers, also an apprentice in the same office, was unfortunately drowned by being run down by the Starlight steamer on the evening o: the 14th instant. After a lengthened inquiry, several of the jurymen re quested to be allowed to leave for a few minutes to pro cure refreshment, whieh being acceded to by the Coro ncr, a scene of disorder ensued that 'almost beggars de scription. Many cried out, " Give it the steamers," " Blow 'cm up," " Commit them for Manslaughter," &c. The CORONER said it was impossible to proceed under such disadvantages, and moved an adjournment, which was ultimately agreed to. Mr. CATTARNS, Solicitor to the Steam-boat Com pany, said that throwing aside all remarks that had been made both for and against the Company he had the honour to represent, he offered, on their part, to pay the funeral expenses of the two deceased. This was agreed to by the parents. Adjourned to Tuesday next. In consequence of the unsettled state of the weather no progress has been made in the hay harvest during the past week. Many crops are yet even uncut. The heavy rains that have fallen within the last few days have excited the most serious apprehensions for the corn harvest, which. under the most favourable circumstances that can arise, must now be very late —Durham Chronicle. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--The receipts: for the last week were 2,9191. 23. 11d. ; number of pas sengers, 17,358. —Railway Times. Although there can now be no doubt that a long. period will cot elapse before a vacancy occurs in the represen tation of this borough by the elevation of Mr. Spring Rice so the Peerage, yet we believe the Liberal party have not yet agreed upon the gentleman who will be proposed as his successor. The general feeling, however, appears to us to be decidedly in favour of Mr. Gibson, the late Member for Ipsivieb.—Cambridge Advertiser. OPENING OF THE VERSAILLES RAILWAY.— This railway branches off from that of Paris to St. Ger main, and passes through a rocky and troublesome country. Oa the 27th of April, 1837, the law was passed authorizing Messrs. Rothschild to execute it; ,and on the 4th inst. it was opened, having taken not more than two years and three quarters for its completion. It was originally in tended to have had an independent entrance into Paris, hut by an agreemeat with the St. Germain Railway, the two lines have been united, so as to have a com mon depot. The line seems efficiently constructed, and the rails well laid, and the locomotives perform their duty satisfactorily. They are of English make, and were manu factured by Messrs. Sharpus, of Manchester ; the working engineers are also English. At an early hour in the morning the office was beset with a great crowd, awaiting the opening of the doors, and in the course of tho day it was calculated that fifteen thousand persons were carried, realizing above forty thousand francs, or about sixteen hun dred pounds. Being on Sunday, a great crowd was at tracted, not only from Paris, Out from the neighbouring towns, to witness the ceremony of the inauguration. AN ESCAPE.—On the passage of the ship Alexander from New Orleans to New York, a young lad of about 14 years, from a naturally frolicsome and mischiev ous disposition, became so troublesome in his pranks, that he was threatened by the captain, if they were continued, that he would confine him in a water-cask. Our youngster took no heed, however, and at his next offence was put into the cask, which was headed up, leaving a large hung-hole for the admission of air. That night the ship encountered a violent storm, and, in a sudden lurch the cask containing the hoy rolled over into the .sea. The circumstance was not noticed by those on board. Fortunately the cask struck bung up, and floated about thirty hours, when it was thrown upon the beach at Cape St. Bias, Here the boy made desperate efforts to ext; icate himself from his prison without success, and in despair gave up to die. Seine cows, however, strolling on the beach, were attracted to the cask, and in walking around it, one of the number, it being fly time, switched her tail into the bung-hole, which the boy grasped with a desperate resolution. The cow bellowed, and set off for life ; and, alter running some 200 yards with the cask, struck it against a log on the beach, and knocked it, as we may say, into a cocked hat. The boy, thus providentially released, was discovered by some fishermen cn the point, and taken into Apalachicola, where a small collection being made for him, he was enabled to proceed North by the way of Columbus.—St. Joseph's Times. ACCIDENT BY FIRE ARMS.—This morn i ng between eight and nine o'clock, a dreadful accident oc currcd to Mary Holdeness, housemaid Of Captain Balfour, Gloucester place, Portman-square, It appears that the footman was ordered to pack up a brace of pistols, with some fowling-pieces, preparatory is the family leaving town, when be imprudently ran with the pistols in his hands into the kitchen, where the housemaid was sitting at breakfast with the cook, exclaiming " I will:shoot you ;" and, at the moment pulling the trigger, part of the contents (swan shet) entered her right side. Surgical aid was procured, and the shots were extracted, but she lies in an alarming state. It is a singular circumstance, that all the Equity Judges, and eleven out of the fifteen Common Law Judges (including all the Chief Justices), rec , .ived their education at this University, as will appear by the following list :—Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham, Trinity. Mas ter of Rolls, Lord Langdale, Caius. Vice Chancellor, Sir Lancelot Shadwell, St. John's. King's Bench, Lord Denman, Chief Justice, St. John's : Sir Joseph Little dale, St, John's; Sir John Pattescn, King's; Sir John Williams, Trinity. Common Pleas, Sir Nicholas C. Tin dal, Chief Justice, Trinity ; Sir Thomas Coltman, Trinity : Sir Thomas Erskine, Trinity. Exchequer, Lord Abinger, Chief Baron, Trinity ; Sir James Parke, Trinity ; Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Caius ; Sir William Henry Maule, Trinity. Of the four remaining Common Law Judges, Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Bosanquet received their education at Oxford. We believe Mr. Justice Vaughan and Mr. Baron Gurney were not of either University.— Cambridge Advertiser. Our readers will perceive with pleasure, by the Report, the prosperous state of the North Union Railway. Their traffic already is competent to make a dividend of 7 per cent. per annum, and there is no doubt it will in- crease much more as soon as all the :machinery can be brought into play. We are happy to see the arrangement that is come to with the Grand Junction and Birmingham Companies, to run the carriages right out from Preston to London, meeting the Liverpool and Manchester line at Parkside, and running about a mile on it to where the Grand Junction joins. By this arrangement passengers, without changing their carriage, or their seat, if they please, are comfortably transported from Preston to Lon don, or vice versa, 230 miles, in about ten hours, by the quick trains. This most desirable arrangement for the public has been accomplished by the unani mity which subsists between the Boards of the N arth Union, Liverpool and Manchester, Grand Junction, and Birmingham lines. Our Railway Boards in the North are generally distinguished for this ireerchange of friendly feeling, and hence one great secret why the public is so sa tisfied, and their lines pay so well. When a gentleman of ability and of business habits becomes a Director on any one Board, he is quickly elected into the Boards of all the connecting lines; and thus, like atoms of one great parti cle, the boards cohere and work together, and one mind and one system pervades the whole. A similar feeling, we hope to see here in the south. When the branches of this line, now in progress, are opened, connecting it with all the principal towns in this manufacturing district, and immense coal-fields and valuable mineral property, it will doubtless rival the Liverpool and Manchester and Grand Junction lines in its profits.— Railway Magazine( Qu arto S s) or &tut doy. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the Potes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.) POOR RATES COLLECTION BILL. Clause to exempt parishes having local Acts, brought up, and read ; Motion made, and Question put,-66 That the Clause be now read a second time :"—The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 21. Henniker, Lord Redington, T. N. Holmes, W. s a iwey, Colonel Hume, Joseph Vere, Sir C B. Humphery, J. Vigors, N. A, Langdale, Hon. C. Williams, W. Lincoln, Earl of TELLERS. Lowther, J. H. Duncombe, T. S. O'Connell, D. Pechell, Captain Darby, George Douglas, Sir C. E. Ewart, NV. Fielden, J. Finch, Francis Gaskell, J. M. Grimsditch, T. Hawes, B. ,JORITY-NOES , Hoskins, K. Howick, Lord Hutton, It. Irving, John Kemble, Henry Labouchere, H. Lushington, Hon. S• Macauley, 'l.'. B; Nadi, ay, I'. St. John Milton, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Muskett, G. A. Pigot, D. R. Pryme, C. Reid, Sir J. B• Rice, T. S. Baring, F. T. Bernal, It. Bridgernan, H. Briscoe, J. I. Broadley, Henry Brotherton, J. Bryan, George Callaghan, Daniel Divett, E. Eliot, Lord French, F. Gordon, Robert Grey, Sir G. Harcourt, G. G. Hawk es, 1 Hobbouse, T. B. Rich, Henry Rolfe, Sir R. M. Russell, Loid John Rutherford. A. Sheil, R. L. Somerville, Sir W. Stanley, W. 0. Steuart, R. Stock, Dr. Tho 'son, C. P. Troubridge, Sir T. Wood, C. Yates, John A. TELLERS, Stanley, E. J. Parker, John THE CHARTISTS AND THE ARMY • A Correspondent of the Naval and Military Ga zette, whose panacea for all the political, economical ; and social ills that afflict the country is " more sol diers," supplies the subjoined somewhat curious and very characteristic speculations : " Could the disaffected be drawn together in one mass (writes the Hotspur) the cannon would crush them like wasps beneath a lion's paw : the sole question is, how to get those wasps under the paws of that lion— ' Hie labor, hoc opus est.' A squadron of Life Guards would scatter ten thousand Cossacks ; but the Cos sacks might wear it out by eternal fatigue and return ing on its flanks. " Does any one in his senses suppose that, were re volt determined on, the people would begin by forming across the streets, and exchanging shots with the regu lars ? The Radicals are not such fools. That might (10 very well for an unorganized Irish mob ; but the Quaker Lancaster and Maceroni have together taught them a different way of going to work. The first signal of mischief will probably prove an incendiary outbreak at Wolverhampton, or some third-rate manufacturing town. Part of the Birmingham troops promptly march to the rescue. Immediately on their departure, Stour bridge, occupied by colliers, may hoist the tri-coloured flag. For its reduction, another detachment marches, so soon as four companies of the 29th can arrive from Weedon to take their place. The detachment marched upon Stourbridge requires one of the teo field-pieces at Colonel Thorn's disposal, and by a few shots at the corner houses, followed by a rush with fixed swords, or what would be better, with rifles slung, sword in hand, the insurgents will be reduced. Meanwhile the work would " sae bonnily on.' The oil-shops, cs.c. in the suburbs, first assailed by small parties, are set on fire. Suppose the flames appear in a dozen places at the same time Each must be attended to ; yet not more than 12 dragoons, or 20 bayonets, can be spared for each. When thus divided into small parties, the out break in the town itself begins. Stopped in every direc tion by overturned carriages, carts, and caltrops, the communications of the soldiery are interrupted ; stray shots from windows or corners of streets ' strike their columns, and in the darkness they hesi tate to assault houses, the holders of which stand ready with halberds reaching over the infan try fusil. Under the most favourable circumstances, a night attack requires great skill in the leader, and much confidence in the troops. The only chance of success lies in reliance solely on steel ; but no officer can forbid loading, if opposed to weapons which his bayoneteers have not been taught to overreach. Missiles from the houses, grenades, glass bottles, brickbats, would knock some over, and not improbably detached sec tions, finding their retreat cut off, might capitulate with the mob, whilst three or four hundred men, still effec tive, rallying on their barracks, or, which would be better, seizing on the railway depot, can act only on the defensive till relieved by reinforcements from Lon don, that the Government could hardly spare. " The arrival of those reinforcements would termi nate revolt undoubtedly ; but what would be the result of one week's paralysis of our internal communi cations ? A run upon the Bank is the least thing to fear. How many of the London traders could stand a panic now ? Is one in five hundred of those purse proud brawlers prepared promptly to wind up his accounts? I know not, but rumours are rife that there is something rotten in every department of affairs. The aristocracy would be assailed not less than their in feriors. Pressed upon by their mercantile customers, the bankers could make no advances to their noble pa trons. The terror, the distress, the destruction thus caused, would go far to bring about a rising in the me tropolis as well. A hundred thousand destitute work men might, in three hours, destroy what we could hardly restore in the next thirty years. I do not, however, expect that the revolutionists will speedily so commit themselves. The time is not vet come. Were Birmingham or any other town to pro. claim a republic, let me ask whence the troops for its reduction could "t present be spared. The 45th and Life Guards from Windsor, the 11th Light Dragoons from Brighton, the Cavalry regiment at Ipswich, with such of Brotherton's bull-dogs at Maidstone as have been tolerably broken in, form our whole disposable force. Dismounted Cavalry, armed with the new percussion carbine, and drilled by Pasley in esca lading are doubtless, as stormers, worth twice their number of knapsacked Foot, untaught to close if their adversaries stand firm. Unluckily our horsemen on home service are neither so armed nor so drilled. To the 2,500 soldiers thus disposable, might be added half as many police, each equal, either individually or in mass, t o a Ch art i s t pike-man ; and perhaps six field pieces might also be spared from head-quarters at Woolwich ; but if those six field-pieces practise no bet ter than I observed them not long since at Woolwich, they might almost as well remain at home. To assem ble even this force, Brighton, Maidstone, Canterbury, and Norwich, all towns abounding with revolutionists, must be left to proclaim the Charter, if they will. Un doubtedly the efforts of the seditious would soon be repressed ; but what if, scattering through the country in small bands, they commenced a skilfully arranged system of Chouannerie ? One third at least of England affords facilities for that c onfounded system, of annoy ance, at least equal to Brittany or La Vendee." ----e_....r._-----_---- --- -- - A Correspondent writes, that Mr. Eley, he in- ventor of the patent wire cartridge , h as recentl y brou g ht to perfecti on a waterproof detonating cap, which must prove of great s erv i ce to sportsm en, as the ordinary percussion cap is liabl e to b ecome totally useless whe n e x p ose d to the slightest damp. Th e ne w cap may be rolled in wet flannel for any AWFUL DEATH.--A coroners inquest was held on Tuesday, a t th e C oac h and Horses , Stra nd, before Mr. length of time without suffer in g the slightest injury. Higgs, on th e b o dy o f Mrs. Mary Ann Be dford, aged 42 years. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who was enciente, and within a few days of her confine ment, retired to rest about ten o'clock on Sunday night, immediately after having eaten a very hearty supper. On awaking at th ree o ' c l oc k t h e next morning she complained of a great diffi cu l ty o f b reat hing, and appeared to be dying from suffoc at i on. M r. W a lker, of Drury lane, surgeon, was sent for, and his assistant, having promptly attended, said that nothing could be done for the deceased, as both herself and the child were quite dead. Verdict—" Died of suffocation." The official Gazette of Ilunich announces that whilst Russia is enforcing quite a commercial blockade against Prussia, the Czar proposos to opon all pn,3l - Jio canals with Austiid. com mu n ic ation b y roa d, rai l- ru ad, and EVENING EDITION. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL 1 DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. SUMSIARY. AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 19.—Letters from Berlin of the 12 h iustant, informs us (the Handelsblad) that Her Ma jesty the E ,press of Russia is severely indisposed. NIMEGUEN, AUGUST 15. —For some days past work men are bu,iiy employed in removing the guns from the walls of this fortress. THE HAGUE, AUGUST IS.--Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Albert of Prussia are expected about the 20th of this mcnth. Prince Henry went yes tereay to Flushing, but intends to return by the 22d of this month We hear that the opening of the railroads to Haarlem, which was to take place on the 24th of this month, has been necessarily put off from want of the several locomo tives that were to have corn , from England, which delay must chiefly be attributed to the disturbances in that kingdom, and especially in districts went those engines are manufactured. It is hoped, however, that intelligence of their being sent off may he hourly expected, when they will soon arrive, and be employed here, as everything is The Courier of last evening comments, in the following erms, on the Session which is new fast approaching - its close :—" Parliament will in a few days be prorogued, Led the pitiful Ses . sion of 1839 will have closed. We did relieve, at this time last year, that the Session of 1838 lad reached the extreme of worthlessness, but the expe rience of the last six months has shown that we were in •rror. Is it possible, we will now ask, that the interests the country can be trifl...d with in the same manner 'or another year, and that the same farce will be gone hrough again in 1840, of bringing some 61'0 Commoners, tad some three hundred Peers up to London, to amuse hemselves, at the public expense. by playing at cross pur poses with one another ? Such will, we f , •ar, be the case, un ,ess some demonstration be made in the meantime by the people, indicative of a determin ,tion to b- trifled with no ,onger. The blame of this state of things is frequently laid upon Ministers, nor is it our intention altogether to acquit them, but the chief blame rests with the people themselves." The Globe, in the course of an article on the Slave Trade Suppression Bill, thus alludes to the demoralising ifects of that traffic:—" The tendency of the Slave-trade o transform men into monsters has been often shown. The proverbial humanity of British seamen was forgotten, tad indeed unknown, among the vessels employed in the African Slave-trade, while that trade disgraced our nation. The evidence taken before the House of Commons, in order to show its influence on the moral fe.-lings of the crews en ,,,aged in that horrid traffic, astonished and disgusted the whole nation, and produced a feeling of national degrada ,ion that such atrocities were perpetrated under the British flag. But those disclosures, horrible as many of them were, sink into insignificance when placed in comparison with a fact Lord Minto stated in the debate on Monday evening, from which it appeared that the Portuguese slave traders, in order to deter our cruisers from interferinc , with their vessels, bad actually concerted a diabolical d. sign, and had given instructioas to carry it into effect, to poison by wholesale the crews of British vessels which might in. tercept them." The Standard makes the following allusion to the debate on the Bolton Police Bill, last night in the House of Lords:_" The debate disclosed an agreeable sample of the mode resorted to by Ministers for the suppression of Chartism. ' Set a thief to catch a thief,' says the pro verb; but we doubt if its interpretation can be so far strained as to justify the appointment of a Chartist Magi strate for the more effectual suppression of Chartist out rages. The excuse of Lord Melbourne was, that the facts stated by Lord Lyndhurst had nothing to do with the question of whether Bolton should have a Police Bill or not; but even if this were true, they have a great deal to do with the disturbances in all parts of the country which have rendered an increase of the police force necessary. In order that the peace of Bolton might be duly preserved, the Government appointed the Mayor, one of the most zealous Chartists in the town, a Justice of the Peace ; who, in his turn, as might readily have been foreseen, took care that his constables should be of the same kidney." Three: per Cents. Bank Shares Sig ..... .. 1526 —M(gemeine Zmtuvg. August 15 SHIPPING IN FELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) ready on the road. VIENNA, AUG. 11. —The Russian Ambassador Von Tutecheff, is expected here every moment. It seems that Count Ftquilmort, the Austrian Ambassador at St. Pe tersburgh, will not return to his post for some time, for he is gone to Switzerland, and will go then to Aix, where his lady is for the benefit of the waters. It is believed here that the Hungarian Diet will he shortly diaolved.—Ail. gemeine Zeitung, Aug. 11. MONTENEGRO, JULY 31 —The late predatory incursions of the Montenogrins against the Spizzanets, in the Pa chalick of Scutari (in which they were guilty of a gross violation of the Austrian territory) has totally failed. The Slizzanets were well prepared, and received the rob hers with a well directed fire of musketry, which they did not long hold out against ; they endeavoured to retreat as quickly as 1 ossible, avoiding the Austrian territory (lest they should get between two fires) ; they have however been guilty of a new excess, breaking into the Austrian territory to plun der. But the Chasseurs stationed there received them as they well deserved, and compelled them to retire over the frontiers, which the Chasseurs, according to agree ment, did not attempt to pass. We cannot conceive why no serious measures have been adopted against these un ceasing affronts. The treaty lately concluded between Vladika and the Pasha of Scutari is not ratified by the Shirks of Podgo riza, Ipusch, &c., who affirm that the Pacha has unlaw fully and unnecessarily sacrificed them and their territory. The old enmities therefore still predernimate. WARSAW, AUGUST 11.—Princess Pa skiewitch and her two daughters set out yesterday for the baths at Erms. The Adjutant-General, Count S:rogonoff, arrived here last night from Moscow. We had lately a dreadful thunder storm, just at the moment when a great number of persons going to bathe in the Vistula were on the river in boats, on which occasion about twenty persons were drowned. ODESSA, AUG 2.—The journal of this town says : " Several foreign journals have announced that the new Sultan, soon after his accession to the throne, had revoked, or at least suspended, the measure relative to quarantine, prescribed by Sultan Mahmoud. This report was circulated likewise in this town, but the captains of ships who have lately arrived from Constantinople directly assure us that it is utterly destitute of foundation."—Journal de Frankfort, August 17. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 19. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 23,i per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A inort Syndic, 4% per cent Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent SI 82% Commercial Company, 4 , per cent l7z 17: 1 4 Ditto (MI? and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 18:17, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 t•er cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 07% Two mon sha —Dutch Papers, August 20. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, AUGUST 14. Bills Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent 103% 103% Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1034 Exchange on London, three montls - -Prussian State Gazette, August 15 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, AUG 10. Five per Cents. IVlQtalliques Four per Cents. DEAL. Alit,. 20.—Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the George. town, Kean, from Demerara; A delgonda, Sappenburg, St. Thomas's ; Houghton Le Skeene, Proude, Monte Vider.:; Elliots, Smith, Quebec ; Mozambique, Gillies, St. John's, N. B ; Jane, Thompson, River Gambia; Chase, Cadiz; Anne, Dryborough, Oporto. Sailed the Mary, Ann, Tarbutt, Madras;• Annandale, Burgess, Jamaica; Maunce, Quebec; A nglio, Axil, Newfoundland. LivxarouL, AUG. 20. Wind N. N. E. to N. N. W.— Arrived the Adrianople, Janson, from Archangel. Sailed the Black Prince, Martin, for Valparaiso ; Earl Grey, Hurst, Newfoundland ; Ann, Gothan, Orfeur. Off port, the Elizabeth Radcliff, from Valparaiso; Wanderer, Trini dad ; Henry Hoyle, Oporto. RA➢ISGATE, AUG. 20.—Sailed, the Matilda, Jackson, for Jamaica, ..... PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E.-- Arrived the Aurelian, Forbes, from Quebec. Off Port, The Harrison, Surfl , cur, from Maranham ; Wm. Gray, Scudder, Batavia. COWES, AUG. 20.—Sailed, the Elizabeth, Si mes , for Miramichi. DOVER, Auo. 20. Off Port, the :Vapor, Artie, Teneriffe, Niva, Scott, Onega. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind, N.W. FALMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind W.N.W. to N.—Arrived the Robert Pratt, from Odessa; Sailed the Iberia, steam er, Cooper, for Vigo, &c. Off Port the Old Maid, Tully, for Quebec ; Victoria, Russell, for River Gambia. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.---The Hibernia, of Waterford, sth inst., lat. 50., long. 26, by the Cornelius, arrived at Fleetwood ; Harvest Home, Thompson, Falmouth to Miramichi, 14th inst., lat. 49., long. 11, by the Olive Branch, arrived at Poole ; Portia, Clarke, from Glou cester, 10th inst., lat. 51., long. 21, by the John and Mary, Stephenson, arrived at Bristol; Hartlepool, Hub bard, London to New York, 2d inst., lat. 41. N., long. 25 W., by the Twee Cornelissen, Veenstra, arrived in the Texel. POCKET-PICKING.—At Bow-street Police-of fice on Tuesday morning three lads, named Hutley, Stur geon, and Dodd, were placed at the bar, charged with at tempting to pick the pockets of gentlemen in the Strand. The first-named prisoner was seen to follow a gentleman from Hungerford Market to Temple Bar, and to make fre quent attempts to get hold of his pocket-handkerchief, but without success. The other two prisoners were close at his heels, ready to receive and make away with the booty. They were committed to prison for three months, with hart. labour. Two other lads v,ere also ordered to receive the same punishment for carrying on the same trade in Long Acre. POWERFUL MUSICAL BOXES, in wood cases, 12 inches long by five inches wide, each playing four airs, with the mechanism finished in a very superns manner , are offered for Five Guineas each. Also a fevi : '6l the same description, larger sizes, at the following prices Six Airs £7 7 ft Eight Airs extra, Eight Airs Three Overtures 14 14 0 At T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Gold smith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhilf, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B. The small Musical Boxes, 3} inches long, continue selling in tin cases, price 19s. each, or in composition shell cases, 25s each. A Catalogue containing a List of the Music may be had gratis, or can be forwarded by post as a single letter in answer toa post-paid application. PLA FE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS Manu facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London ( o pposite the Bank of England). The best wrought FIDDLE PATTERN SPOONS and FORKS, at is. 2d. per ounce. The followin& are the weights recommended, but the articles may be h a lighter or heavier, at the same price per ounce. oz. s. d. X. a 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 90 at 7 2... 10 5 . 2 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2 ... 7 3 0 1 . 2 d i , , 't a bl e Forks 3O 7 2...10 15 0 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2... 7 3 4 2 ditto Gravy Spoons lO 7 2... 3 n e 1 ditto Soup.l.adle 10 7 2... 3 .11 8 4 ditto Sauce ditto lO 7 P... 3 16 6 4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 1 0 1 ditto Fish Slice .... 12 - ditto Tea Spoons 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong) 0 A Pamphlet containing detailed Lists of the Prices of various Patterns of Silver Spoons and Forks, Sliver Tea and Coffee Ser- vices, and of the different articles of Plated Ware, may be had on application, or will be sent into the country in answer to a paid letter • the Plate Rooms of this Esta blishment contain a large selection of every article requisite to complete a service. THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY. We scarcely need inform our readers, that, since our last publication, this town has been perfectly quiet ; and not the slightest attempt has been made to hold a meeting in the open air, or to disturb the peace in any other way. We subjoin some particulars relating to the Chartist proceedings at one or two other places, which did not reach us in time for our last publication. ROCHDALE.—The national h diday has passed over here without one breach of the peace ; and, but for the rabble that came from Heywood on Wednesday, none could have distinguished the commencement of the sa cred month from that of any other month in the year. Some few may have lost a day's work in going to see the fooleries that were passing in other towns ; but even ' these are heartily ashamed of their conduct, and are willing to acknowledge, that no amelioration of their condition can be obtained by attending to the advice of the National Convention. BOLTON.— This town has remained in the same tranquil state we noticed in the Guardian of Saturday ; and all arrests for the present have ceased. A meet ing was held in the Working Men's Association room, Mill Well-lane, on Monday evenin.. last, for the pur pose of preparing for the defence of Warden, Lloyd, and others, who have been committed for trial, and for raising subscriptions. Several persons were appointed as collectors ; others gave their names as witnesses, Mr. Cobbett was selected to defend them at Liverpool.— Manchester Guardian. BLOOMSBURY TRIALS.—FuII Reports of these important trials in Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, August 25, taken exclutively for that Journal, together with all the sporting intelligence of the week. Early orders to and from agents are indispensable. Price of Bell's Life in London, Fivepence.—Office, 170, Strand. Orders received by every agent in the kingdom. THE TOURNAMENT.—The Earl of Eglintoun, the giver of this chivalric entertainment, is in his 27th year ; his Lordship succeeded to the large unincumbered estates of his grandfather, Hugh, Earl of Eglintoun, in 1819, when his Lordship was only seven, and he had, therefore, a long minority. His Lordship's mother re married with Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, Bart., Knight Marshal of the Household. STREET MUSICIANS.—By the new Metropo litan Police Act, which has just received the Royal assent, it is enacted (clause 57), " That it shall be lawful for any householder within the metropolitan police district, per sonally, or by his servant, or by any police constable, to require any street musician to depart from the neighbour hood of the house of such householder, on account of the illness of any inmate of such house, or for other reasonable cause; and every person who shall sound or play upon any musical instrument in any thoroughfare, near any house, after being so required to depart, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 40z." (FRotr A CORRESPONDENT.)—The enforce ment of the Lord Mayor of a penalty of 201 upon a salesman of Billingsgate for selling more than twelve pair of soles in one lot has caused much excitement, and the fact that more than twelve salmon cannot be disposed of without infring meat, adds to the general excitement. The evidence af forded by Mr. Taylor, an extensive salesman of Lombard street, goes far to establish the impolicy of such an Act, as he states that soles in cold weather arrive at market in better condition in large lots, and that salmon is brought from Scotland and Ireland packed in boxes with ice, fre. quently arriving after market time, and would not be dis posed of on that day were it not for those who buy an entire box or number of boxes • the salesmen being un willing to open a box to sell a few, as the air is admitted and the fish injured. , F AT AL CAB ACCIDENT.- T AB inquest• was held on Tuesday at St. George's Hospital on the body of a cab-driver, whose death was occmioned by the viciousness of a horse which he was driving. It was prow(' that deceased's master knew the horse to be ur,fit for work in the public streets, arid a deodard of 101. was imposed on the horse and cab. ANOTHER FlRE.—While the fire was raging in Cheapside, on Tuesday night, and at the time it was at is height, an express arrived with intelligence of another dreadful fire, which was raging in the village of Ilford, in Essex, about eight miles from London. Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent, immediately started several of the brigade engines to the scene. THE ALLEGED MURDER ON THE RIVER TIIAMES.—On Tuesday the adjourned inquest on the body of the female about twenty years of age, who was found off Horsleydown, on Monday week last, in a state of na kedness, with marks of violence on her person, was pro ceeded with at the Vestry Hall, Fair-street, before Mr. Payne and jury. In addition to the former particulars a woman came forward and charged her husband with havine thrown a female overboard from the brig Eliza, of Goole, lying off Wheatsheaf Wharf, and, further, that he had confessed that the woman whom he had murdered was found. The husband was called in, and admitted that he had been employed on board the Eliza: but denied any con nection with the death of the female. The Coroner refused to examine the woman in consequence of her being in a state of intoxication ; but gave directions to the summoning officc r and the police to make every inquiry into the affair, and subsequently adjourned the investigation till Tuesday next. GLASGOW DISCOUNTS.—In our last we stated that the Glasgow B inks. had fixed on charging 51 per cent. on all paper that had less than five months to run. While they are thus discounting bills at si, they are only giving 31 per cent. on deposits. We recollect informer days, when 5 per cent. was charged for discouf e s,interest at the rate of 4 per cent. was allowed on deposits.—Glas gow Chronicle. CAMBRIDGE.—We learn from a Second Edi tion of the Cambridge Advertiser, that on Tuesday even. ing a meeting of about 200 Electors in the Liberal in-' terest, residing in Barnwell and the neighbourhood, took place on the subject of the vacancy expected to take place in the representation of the town. Mr. Thomas Cross in the chair. He stated that Mr. Gibson came from the hot-bed of Toryism, and presented himself to the first constituency which offered itself on Reform principles. He suggested that Mr. Gibson would soon have a seat in the Cabinet, and be enabled to reward his supporters with Bishoprics, Deaneries, Commissionerships, &c. &c. A resolution was carried, that no one was entitled to the support of the Reformers unless he advocated Vote by Ballot--Household Suffrage—Triennial Parliaments—and Repeal of the Corn-laws. T. 13. Burcham, Esq., then explained that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had con fidentially intimated to four gen tleme n , that, in conse quence principally of domestic calamity,i he should b e obliged to retire from p u blic life. pon,this, Mr. Alder man R o F t o o s w t Foster, H , Mr. . e 4 Searle, r. . B was a L himself selected ( A R l s r . a B. ) memberpro ceeded it of the Reform Club , and because was thought h e might be useful, as knowing many Liberal M em b ers of Parliament. It wa s agreed that no. person wou ld stand any chance in Cambridge, unless prep are d to support the Ballot. The Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam was at first applied to ; and on his declaring that h e was op posed to the B allot, Mr. Gibson was sugg es t e d. T here w as no intention o f thrusting any particular person upon the electors; and he (as a member of the U n i vers i ty) could have no pretenc e for doing anything of the sort. It was merely meant, that whatever person they selected, should come before a public meeting of the electors, and that, upon the exposition of his view s , t h e great b o d y o f electors were to express their approbation or disapprobation of the individual and his rrieciples. Nothing could be mor e remote from their int ent i on than dictation. He exhorted the meeting to merge little differences, and con sider only the person is ho m ost accor d s w i th the opinions of the great body of th e Lib era l e l ectors, an d w h o h a d t h e requisite talent to enforce his opinions in Parliament. After some discussion, during which the names of Mr. Merewether Turner, and Mr. Christie, of Trinity College, were . mentioned as proper to be put in nomination, the Tile' l ll7 Ttulrs+l,l., to give Mr. Gibson uti Lthio,Lu.",y exWaining his principles. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at St. Petersburgh-place, Bayswater, Mrs. Henry Johnson, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Ditton-park, Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. George Hope, of a son. On the 17th inst., Mrs. Hassard Hume Dodgson, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Blackheath, Mrs. S. Herman de Zoete, of a daughter. On the 1 7th inst., Mrs. Charles Gaselee, High-street, South wark, of a daughter. On the 18th inst., the lady of John Tidd Pratt, Esq., ° f a son. On the 18th inst., at Oldbury-place, Ightham, Kent, the lady of Thomas Selby, Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th i ns t ., at Muscovy-court, Tower-hill, Mrs. James Davies, jun., of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at the Clifton Villas, Maida-vale, the lady of M. P. Guimaraens, Esq., of a daughter. MA RR IED. On the 15th inst., at Charlton Kings, the Rev. George Royd3 Birch, of Paris, to Sophia, fourth daughter of Sir Wil" Liam Bart., of Charlton-park, Glocestershirc. On the 26th of June, Mr. John Henry Brune, of Primer Paso estate, Cuba, to Mathilde, eldest daughter of Monsieu r Laine, of that island. On the 3d inst., by license, at the parish church, Chatham, Mr. M. S. Stephens, of Gibraltar-place, to Miss King, of High street, Chatham. On the Sth inst., at the Cathedral, Canterbury, Mr. Alfred Boydell Lambe, of New Bond-street, to Mary Eliza, eld est daughter of George Austin, Esq., of the Precincts. On the 12th inst. , at Erlangen , George Horne, Esq . ' °f London, to Caroline Rosalie Lederer von Li e d ers k ro n, e ldest daughter of Dr. Von Liederskron, of Erlangen. DIED. At Dacca, in Bengal, in May last, Herbert J. Kerr, third son of Herbert N. J. Kerr, Esq., of St. Ann's, Forfarshire, aged IS. On the 18th inst., at Sion -cottage, Bath, Rear-Admi ral Master, aged 69. On the 19th inst., in Giltspur-street, Sydney, infant son of Frederick Barron, Esq. On the 19th inst., at Ballards, near C ro ydon, Mary, relict of the late Richard Powis, Esq. London : Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG' .° No. 11'2, stravd, at Tht Sgrr Offr!e, No. ll°, Strand , In —Mors v. August. 22, ~