The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-20 00:00:00

I-4 1 4V :,.NINGr COURT CIRCULAiz. . Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon acemnp•inied by the Princess of Leiningen, and attended by the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quet,ttn,. th e . E ar l o f Uxbrid7e, Lord Byron, - Wood Wemys.:, LOrd Lilford. and Sir Freder.ck V;seeutit Melbourne had an audience yesterday of het Mai -sty. • Tht. Royal dinner party at the Palace last even'tra in 'eluded the Marq ris of ii,adfurt, Earl of Belfast, Viseounl. M. lbourt - ;e, R , p;ht Hon. George Stevens Bing, and the Hon. William Cowper.. The two Princesses of tiohenlohe landed at the Tower S'airs yesterday afternoon from the Continent. Her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Clinton and her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain received their Highnesses on their arrival. The Princesses accompanied the Queen and Lady Clinton, in a carriage and four, to Marlborough House. The Duke and pudicPs of Cambridge honoured the Marquis of Hertford with their company at dinnt:. yesterday. The Princess Augusta. attended by Miss Wynyard, honoured Lady Taylor with a visit yesterday, at her resi dence in the Regent's Park. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir Henry Halford with his company at dinner on Tuesday evening, at his residence in Cu , rm street. Ills Royal Highness after wards honoured Lady Shaw Stewart with his company at her residence in Upper Grosvenor-street. Mr. Wallace, M. P., and Mr. Warburton, M P., had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing street. Colonel Sorrel and Captain Hobson had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Colonial Office. The French Charge d'Affiires _transacted business ycs terddy, at the Foreign Offi:e. The Spanish Minister had an inoerview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Home Office. LIABILITY OF PRINTERS. The liability of printers to be harassed by every vaga bond informer, if they neglected to put their " imprint" to everything which issued from their (aces, is at an end, by the Act 2 Vic , cap. 12, just passed. The old penalty of 20/. for every copy of such neglect is repealed, and the law is now contained in the two following clauses of the Act al?nve_ntentioned ; and further, all printers or parties now suffering from impending informations, can be relieved by an application to a Judge, on paying taxed costs " out of pocket" which the informer may have incurred : " And be it enacted, that every person who, after the Passing of this Act, shall print any paper or book what seever, which shall be meant to be published or dispersed, and who shall not print upon the front of every such paper, ir the same shall be printed on one side only, or upon the the first - or - last leaf of every book or paper which shall con sist of more than one leaf, in legible characters, his or her name and usual place of abode and business, and every Person who shall publish or disperse, or assist in publish ing or.dispersing. any printed paper or book on which the neme and place of abode ot the person printing the same shall not be printed as aforesaid, shall, for every copy of such paper so printed by him or in r, forfeit a sum' not snore than' five pounds: provided always that nothieg herein contained shall be construed to impase any penalty upon any person for printing any paper excepted out ot the ope ration of the said Act, either in the said Act or by any Act Made for the amendment thereof. " Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not he lawful for any person or persons whatsoever to com mence, prosecute, enter, or file, or cause or procure to be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed any action, bill, Plaint , or informalion, in any of her Majesty's Courts, or before any Justice or Justices of the Peace, against any person or persons for the recovery cf any fine, penalty or forfeiture, made or incurred, or which may hereefter be ineurrred under the provisions of this Act, unless the same be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed in the name of her Majesty's Attorney-General or Solicitor-General ill that part of Great Britain called England, or her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland (as the case nr.ay be r espectively); and if any action, bill, plaint, or infer- Illation shall be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed, i n the name or names of any other person or per sons than is or are in that behalf before mentioned, the larte and every proceeding thereupon had, are hereby de clared, and the same shall be, null and void to all intents and purposes-" ORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The second ex ibition for the season of this Society took place on Sa turday a f ternoon , at t h e i r gar d ens at Chiswick. The beauty of the weather and the advance of the season, so Propitious to all the delights of floriculture, the crowds of fa shionable people now in town, and the reputation which the Society deservedly bears, drew together an assembly the most distil - yle and brilliant. During the early part of the afternoon the sky was rather cloudy and lowering, but s ubsequently, when the gardens had received their fuil c omplement, and were filled though not crowded, the glo rious burst of the summer sun shot his burning rays of eastern magnificence on the scene, and rendered it indeed It spect ac l e ufsplendour. We were glad to sec many per. sons of distinction present. The exhibition itself was far above its ordinary standard of merit. The display of cacti, pelagoria, heaths, and orchides, contained some raro VeeiMeng, and the fruit caused many mouths to water and many eyes to admire. Prizes were distributed. L . POST HORSE DUTY.—The work of reform ''s been taken up at Banbury in the shape of a petition a gainst the po s t horse duty. If this impost is suffered t o co ntinue we shall shortly have not a single coach on the react ''''". Oxford Herald. %,,•,, I P . osr-oFFicE A RRANGEMENTS.—Great pro ) pl, t ' t 'al ch anges i n th e P os t- o ffi ce arrangemen t s are t o ta k e e ' '44 the 9 0th of this month . On that day, besides e t - fit', Ang the day mails, the crows-postwarns are to pro. gr Y the d a y mail s , an a lteration which will be felt as a ekt be ne fi t to man y. We may here take occasion t o Etate our hope that the extra labour thus imposed upon the Postmasters in the prpvinces will lead to some increase of P a y. No policy is so had es that of overworking or under. Payin g those who are placed in confidential situations, par ticularly situations connected w i t h t h e correspondence of the country. We detest the candle-end and cheese-paring economy of the Whigs in matters of such importance.— .11•orthampton paper. MYSTERIOUS MURD ER IN WALES.—.A young lady was found murdered near the source of the Wye, on the summit of Piinlimmon, in Wales. on the 17th ult. A deep stab penetrated her breast. The murderer is sup- Petted to hive been a gentleman who accompanied her up the mountain, and whom the people of the hamlet, where guides are usually procured, took to be either her lover or ner husband. Th ey were ev id ent ly on a t our , an d were b oth strangers. The perpetrator of the offence has not since been heard of. WHISKERS.—" I cannot imagine," said an al derman, ~ Why my whiskers should tutn grey so much soone r than the hair on my head." " Bnause," observed a w ag, " you have corked much harder with your jaws than your brains." REFORM IN TENNESSEE.—A taw is proposed to Te aneee to sell off at auction all the baldiclors to the highest bidders amenz the young women. A capital law— I le go for it.—American Paper. On Saturday last, a case of emb e zzlement was heard before the magistrates at Monmouth, against a man n amed John Jones, a wagg o ner, in th e serv i ce o f M r . ' 4ll , of ltedbrook. He was committed for trial at the suing assizes. There is a great deal of poetry in the butter tr a d e, „ as we learn from a Providence grocer, who adver "'elt a lot " of apreposyssing colour, and sweet as morn ing roses newly washed with dew." A QUESTION ANSWERED.—A Yankee and Irish man h appen i ng to b e r idi ng toget h er , passe d a ga l. '''' , a• "' Where would you be," said Janathan, "If the gallows had its due?" " Riding alone, to be sure," B ald Pat. We notice that grass has been cut in several Places in this vicinity. The rain now falling hay, however, of et:Ruse put a stop to the progress of the mower, but its eU ee4 will, we doubt not, be , found to have added mate ,t.t'ally to the bulk of the crop, already a fair average, when the 'weather shall become suitable for the resumption of his labours.— Worcester Herald. EXTRAORDINARY MODE OF FISHING.— AS some of the fishermen belonging to Newquay were pro- Feedinir round Tewan Head, in a boat on Thursday even ,l4g, the 30:h ult., they observed a large fish near the sur ,4( eof the water; and as they had no weapon on board hoard but their oars, the man in the bow of the boat took IP the grapnel, and threw it at the fish for the purpose of stunning it. The instant the fish saw the grapnel plunge into 'the water, it turned quickly, with its back downwards, ard s wallowed it in sight of the men; after which it was drig gecl into the boat, and moved about a.nongst them with only Part of the shank of :he grapnel protruding from its enor teas jaws. The grapnel was about twelve pound weight, 'kith' four claws, end when measui ed across by the shank, t he points of the claws are fifteen inches apart. This fish 'S of the cartilaginous tribe, and is well known by the name of the Monk fish. Its weight was upwards of 120 pounds. - ---Plymouth Journal. PUNISHMENT OF DRUNKENNESS.—Monday %t Guildhall several persons were charged with being drunk. Amongst them was a woman named Ann Brown, Rho had been repeatedly in custody for the same offence. Sir Claudius Hunter, the sitting magistrate, put in force so old law, which enacts that persons charged with being d runk telly, for the second offence, be bound with two sure ties in the sunk of 10/. to of good behaviour th ence f ort h. T he prisoner not being able to find such sureties for h e r futur e sobriety was committed till the next sessions. The Bremen Gazette has just been prohibited to the kingdom of Hanover. This honour the Bremen (suzette now enjoys in common with the Hamburg Borsen Hall e , the Deutsche Couricr of Stuttgart, and several other of the leading papers of Germany. - - A B os ton (American) Paper says, their towns -7"14. Abel Sniggs, has a dog so closely resembling one belonging to Tom Clegg, that it often happens that C legg's dog takes himselt into Sniggs' house, and does n o t discov e r his mistake until informed by the cat. In New theyrleans, says the Pica . gune, it is the fashion for young men to wear their hair so long be hind, that it subjects them sometimes to serious inconve uience. The last case related is that of a young buck, who vcent two squares in the rain before he found out that the servant had closed the door on his locks as he sallied out. A vast and most gratifying improvement has taken place in vegetation recentl3. The grass fields, in Particular, have assumed a much more satisfactory appear ance• On all the rich and even middling soils the crop will doubtless be a pretty fair one, but on poor soils, whe re the dearth h as of course been more felt, the crop will b e light. Throughout this county the wheat is, on the whole, looking very well, and we hope we may anticipate an latindalat harvest ; we have, however, heard that in many 'nuances the wire-worm has made great havoc in the fields. Lent corn, viz , beaus, barley, &c., are looking ar.el the pi.otato fields have partitken in a considerable degree of the beneficial effects produced by the late genial change of weather.—Gloucester Journal. „ CHUL{ :I-RATES, LONDON COM MITTEES, AND "THE PATRIOT." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sirt,--You and your re,-dens will baar ire witness t for many months past I have.. laboured, in season and out cif season, to impress up-or the Dissenters of this country, a conviction that the Ministry would do nothing ror the re dress of th,.ir grievances, aril that their self-constituted Landon leaders were the instruments of supporting a delu sion by which a lazy confidenee in others was substituted for exertion in their. own behalf. My labours on this sub ject have brought upon me the especial chastisement of the gentlemen who constitute the proprietary of the Patriot newspaper, the Church-rate Abolition Society, the Reli gious Freedom Society, and who under various designa tions attempt to manage all the operations and the funds of the Dissenting body.. Even so late as February last the Patriot announced that four or five of these gentlemen, in their capacity as a Committee of the Church-rate Society, had had a " sat. - sfactory" inter view with Mr. Spring R cc, and I was visited with all the thunder of the Patriot for denouncing as dishonest or imbecile the men who, with the experience of the last four years, could pick any satisfac tion out of Mr. Rice's smooth phrases. For a long time the subject of Church-rates was put al most in abeyance by a confidential assurance, conveyed to all parts of the kingdom, and frequently renewed through semi-official channels, that the Minivry were heartily with us, and only wanted our vigorous support to enable them to act on our behalf. The sopport was given, but we who chose to doubt their sincerity, and who counselled self-re liance, were regarded like Jews, Turks, or Infidels. Fore mast and latest in supporting the delusion was the Patriot newspaper, and now, when it has become too bare to de ceive an idiot, that same newspaper coolly announces, as I read in an extract in your paper, that the Ministers will not, either now or at any future time, attempt to abolish Church-rates. I am happy to say the Dissenters from end to end of the country are exerting themselves, and taking the subject under their own management, and it may give your readers some confidence in the result of - such management, that the doctrines of the Patriot, have very little accept ance, and the organ itself very little influence among them. The classes whom it professes to represent number about 4,000 Churches and congregations, and the value of its influence on their proceedings may be judged of liom the fact that its whole circulation is not more than half enough to send one paper to each congregation. Theexample of the noble men at Leicester, and of Mr. Baines, against whom an ecclesiastical unbailable writ of attachment has issued, will be followed, even although the Patriot should continue to maintain silence on the subject. Mr. Thorogood, in Chelmsford gaol, Mr. Apaley Pellatt, Mr. Wade of Deptford, the 115 summoned and•nine cited to the Ghostly Court at Ipswich, and the excitement in every direction, testify that -the_ Dissenters are no longer inactive, and I have been constrained thus to note the latest sign of heslthy ac ion, viz , that the Patriot itself believes further delusion impracticable, and has abandoned the sinking ship. - I am, Sir, your Obedient servant, Bungay, June 15. 1839. JOHN CHILDS. .We regret to announce the death of Lord Wm Bentinek, , Nhich took place yesterday evening, after a long illness, at his residence in the Rue - (Thaussce d'Antin. His Lordship ,was in his 66 h yesr, and his death will be a sub ject of deep regret, not only to a very extensive circle of private friends, but to his country at large, which he had honourably served in nearly all parts of the world.—Gulig nani's Messenger, Tuesday. The Bishop and Clergy of the diocese of Derry and Rapboe have signed a protest against the establish ment of a new theological college in Ireland ; and re questing the Members for the counties and places within the united dioccses to oppo-e any such measure. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro hafe arrived at Apsley House from Strathfleidsaye, where they have been passing the honeymoon, his Lordship having paired off with Lord Duncan. DEVON COUNTY MEETING.---The Reformers had so large and decided a m , jority, that we do not sa how any man with bis eyes open could " mistake" that fact un less he were occupied by some great delusion—or laboured under some ocular infirmity which rendered his vision fal lacious. For the credit of the county it is satisfactory to us to be able to solve the problem, fur indeed we should not like it to go forth to the world that the great a , ;l impor tant county of Devon, celebrated for the high respectabi. lity of its gentry, cherishing within its bosom many who displayed the greater characteristics of the true old English gentleman should have for its Sheriff a gentleman capable, either from weakness or dishonesty, of grossly misrepresenting the truth to serve the paltry purposes of a disloyal faction, and lending the authority of his office to the enemies of the Queen's personal liberty and sove reign prerogative. We say we are glad to be able to re move all doubt on this subject. We are enabled to shew that the High Sheriff:, Edward Codrington Parr, is an honourable man, and the Under-Sheriff, Mr. Charles Brut ton, though somewhat below Parr, is a most honourable man, and that the Tor:es who accepted the beggarly boon of an erroneous decision, instead of a great old constitutional victory, to which they now say they were entitled—are " all, all honourable men !" The solution is this. The High Sheriff has a constitutional defect in his vision. If ten thousand persons are before him he sees ten thousand; but for every two persons on his right he sees but one, whilst for every one on his left he sees two. The great oculist of the age, Mr. Alexander, of London, has had the case submitted to him, and has decided that it is " past all surgery"—the organ of num ber which the phrenologists place near the eye is imper fectly develqped—and unevenly divided—so that it is two to one over the left with him. With this explanation we hope that the Reformers of the county are satisfied—the Sheriff might have set the matter to rest, by counting out the numbers on either side—for which the Castle Yard afforded such facilities. He would not, however, condesend to do this, and we must rest satisfied with the reflection that our majority was, in point of fact, so great as to equalize the division before in the optical - delusion under which he called for the show of hands. We give the Tories joy of their work. They have prevented an address from the great County of Devon, going up to the Queen, but acy have not been able to send up their consolatory amendment to Sir Robert Peel.— Western Times. FIRE IN THE BOROUGH.—On Monday morn . - ing a fire broke out in the upper part of a house tenanted by several families, situated •in Fishmongers'-alley, - Mint, Borough, and before the firemen succeeded in extinguish ing it very great damage was done. The Dianio di Roma reckons at 30,000 the number of strangers assembled at Rome, on the 26th ultimo, to behold the ceremony of the canonization of five new saints. MARCH OF CIVILIZATION.—In the new colony of South Australia, the " good old English cus• torn" of husbaLds advertising their wives, declaring them selves not answerable fur their debts, &c., has already been acted upon. PROGRESS OF THE BALLOT.—The numbers in each division since 1833, stand thus:— In 1833 For the Ballot lO6 Agaihst it 1835 For the Ballot 146 Against it 319 1836 For the Ballot.. BB Against it 1837 For the Ballot 155 Against it • 267 1838 For the Ballot 2OO Against it 317 1839 For the Ballot (including tellers) •218 Against it 335 Thus it appears that the majority last night is only 16 mote than in 1835, while the minority is increased 72. THE DivisioN.—The following Cabinet Mi nisters voted against the Ballot : —Lords Ilowick, Palmer. ston, and John Russell, and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer; and were supported in their views by the follow. ing gentlemen officially connected with the Administration: —Mr. F. T. Baring, the Hon. W. Cowper, Sir R. M Rolfe, Mr. Charles Wood, and Mr. Vernon Smith. Among the gentlemen connected with office who supported Mr. Grote's motion, were the Hon. Colonel Anson, Mr. Ber nal, Mr. G. S. Byng, Sir John Campbell, Mr. Gordon, Sir G- Grey,the Hon. Fox Malik, three Lords of the Treasury, and its Chief Secretary, Mr. More O'Ferrall, Mr. J. Parker, Mr. R. Steuart, and the lion. Edward - John Stan ley ; Sir Henry Parnell, Mr. Pigot, Mr. Poulett Thom. son, Sir E. Troubridgc, and Sir Hussey Vivian. Lord Cremorne has made good his claim to vote at elections for Irish ,Representative Peers. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING PRACTICAL DE sIGN.—On Monday Evening, a meeting of the Council" of the above Society took place at their Rooms, Saville House, Leicester-square, for the purpose of electing a President, Vice-Presidents, and Auditors for the ensuing year. C. K. Nicholls. Esq. in the Chair. After several able addresses from Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Elmcs, Mr. Horton, Mr. IV3se, M. P., Mr. Foggo, &c., the following gentlemen were elected :—W. Ewalt, Esq., M. P., Pre sident of the Society. Vice- Presidents—The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. I'., Thomas Wyse, Esq., M. P., J. Ashton Yates, Esq., M. P., Sir Martin Archer Shee, Dr. Ord, James Elmcs, Esq. The Auditors chosen were Messrs. Harrison and Wainwright. Mr. A. Crosby the Secretary, was unanimously re-elected. A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting term'nated Lt a late hcur. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. —At the ordinary meeting of the Statistical Society, held on Monday evening, a report was read from the Committee of Vital Statistics on the degree of health and mortality in the metropolitan police, from official do cuments furnished by the Commissioners, from 1830, the period when is was embodied. The average number of officers in the force is 3,300 in the seventeen divisions, making an average of 195 men, the smallest, or A, containing 116, and the largest number in the K division king 290. Theme aro every year received 1,100 new members; the number resigning or discharged being 1,068, and those who die annually being 38. Of those admitted two-thirds are of the ages between 20 and 31, and the remainder from that age to 38. Being a selected body, the value of life is above the usual average, and the tendency to fall is counteracted by the constant discharge of the unhealthy. The bodily labour is considerab'e, each walking on tie average 20 miles per day, which, with avendance at police-offices, may be estimated at 25. Out of the seventeen districts the most healthy are those of Whitehall. West:pin ter, and Kerisingtun, and the least healthy arc Holborn, Finsbury, and Hampstead. Out of the whole force 24 per cent. are always sick; in the least healthy on the average of 121 days, and the most healthy 61 per man. The maxi mum illness was in January, and the minimum in June or July, wilt the exception of epidemical seasons, when there is a slight variation. _ _ In the case of Dodd v. Dodd—the parties are Quakers—Dr. Lushington yesterday 'pronounced for a a decree of separr.tion at the suit of the wife on the ground of the husband's adultery. An attempt is to made at " a great public meet ing," somewhere in the metropolis, on - Monday next, as a demonstration against-the New-Poor DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. TIIE HAGUE, JUNE 14 have a'rcady mentioned that the Government has made every preparation to place - all the branches of the Administration on the peace esta blishment, as soon as the ratifications of the treaty are ' reeieved here: all the orders arc issued, and all the requi site decrees signed by his - Majesty. It is Aimee that the extraordinary Directors and Com : mi-sioners of Police, who have been employed since 1830 in several fortresses of North Brabant, will be honourably discharged from the performance of these func.tiona, that the law for repr4 , ssing scditions proceedings being useless in the altered state of things, will be revoked, and that all the resolutions by which a special superintendence of strangers is commanded will be immediately annulled. AMSTERDAM, JUNE 15.--O.IC of our Journals says that " England and Belgium are reported to have declared, on the exchange of the ratifications, that they did it with the undestanding that the sequestra tion laid on the land round the Palace of Laeken, which is the private property of his Majesty the King of the Nether. lands, shall not be taken off till the two Kings shall have made an agreement respecting the possession of it." This is so far incorrect as it implies that the ratification of the treaty by these two persons was accompanied with a resolution, on which its validity was made to depend. The same paper says, that the Plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria, and Russia, said they would oppose this, because on a former occasion reservations enough of those two powers had been received. This again is wrone, no objection was made by them or by the F. ench Plenipotentiary, to the declaration of Lord Palmerston and M. Van cc Weyer, which could not in way affect the execution of the treaty by Belgium. Queen Victoria, who is not much versed in diplomatic matters, had required that on the ratification of the treaty everything should be done to gratify the wish of her uncle, and to promote the happiness of his life. Lord Palm•Tston, whir has often been embarrassed how to comply with the wishes of his young Princess, wit) appears by no means to comprehend that it is not enough to wear a crown in order to do whatever the wearer will, has caused to be inscribed in the protocol against the exe cution of the 15th article of the treaty, so long as King William does 'not consent to sell to King Leopold the !and, &c., that surrounds the Palace of Lacken, and which seems so indispensible to the happiness of his life." That the plenipotentiaries of the four other Powers allowed of such a protest can may be ascribed to a courtesy carried, perhaps, too far towards the Queen of England, and to their conviction that their Sovereign would never theless take care to enforce the entire and immediate exe. cution of the treaty. Now see the 16:11 article : " The sequestration laid during the troubles on patri monial estates or domains of every kind whatsoever, shall be taken off without any delay, and such estates or domains shall be immediately - restored to the lawful owners." Now it so happ7tris that among the sequestered pro perty of our King there is some which the King of the Bel gians would be glad to possess, because it immediately borders on his palace. This wish, in itself, is nowise objec tionable, but since King William, as it appears, has not been ready enough to promise to sell this property, which entirely depends on hia own will, Palmer. ston and Van de Weyer have thought fit to declare that, in manifest violation of the ]6th article, the restoration of the King's private property shall be deferred till that Prince shall be induced by this enactment to re nounce that right to the free disposal of his property which belongs to every member of society, to sell their property to the persons who hold it illegally and by vio lence. We, too, out of courtesy to Queen Victoria, who is so tenderly concerned for her uncle, will not say in what code of laws such a doctrine should have a place ; but it is certain that hist. , ry will one day pass a severe judgment on Princes who have so abused their ;.igh authority, and those members who hare not courage to refuse to assent to the execution of such measures. We are convinced that if the Act of Ratification of England and Belgium had made mention of such an unheard-of reset vatim, by which the sacred rights of property, one of the most sure foundations of the State, would be so shamefully trodden under foot, none of the five other Plenipotentiaries, any more than the Minister of the Ne therlands, would have exchanged the ratification of the treaty, but, this not being the case, they probably received the protest of Lird Palmerston and Van de Weyer for notification. We hope that the same will be done by our Court, and it will not condescend to give any answer what ever to such a declaration as the English and Belgian Plenipotentiaries have had inserted in the protocol. In conclusibn, we must observe that Lord Palmerston him self is so far from considering the declaration as a reser vation in the ratification of the treaty, that he did not say a word of it in bringing the treaty before Parliament. Handelsblad. RIO JANEIRO -SLAVE TRADE. The following are extracts td a letter from an officer on board her Majesty's ship Electra, dated April 4, 1839: " We arrived at this beautiful place on the 28th of March, after a tolerably good passage of 56 days from Spithcad, having touched at Lisbon, Madeira, and Porto Praya. On the 25th and 26:h of March we captured two slavers from the coast, with 480 slaves on board ; the brigantine Carolina gave us a 12 hours' chase, and did not heave to till the shot went over her. This inhuman traffic is carried on to such an extent that 60,000 are said to have b.!en landed on the coast of Brazil during the last six months ! and unless the British Government send out a number of fast-sailing vessels, the trade will increase. The Lords of the Admiralty have sent the Cameleon and Wiz trd ; they might as well send a cow after a hare—indeed the Bra zilians do not suppose the British are in earnest, or that they wish to suppress the slave wade, or they would take more efficient means to stop it. To give you an idea what a set of rzscals these Brazilians are, an English merchant was engaged to act as proctor to captors, on which he received a letter, sr'ying, if he interfered he would be murdered. You may, therefore, imagine what a set of rascals they are. We ought to have an 80 g un ship, with a flag at this port ; the interests of the British merchants require an imposing force to protect them and their valuables. • You will hardly wonder when I tell you that six and eight rill:lions of British manufactured goods arc imported annually to this country. On our arrival here we found the Gossamer, and she only got in two days before the Electra. " APRIL 2 —Arrived, the S:ag, from the Falkland Is lands, in seventeen days. Lieut. Salbourn came pas senger, having invalided from the Arrow. Lieut. Robin son, the former Lieutenant of the Stag, had been appointed to the Arrow. Commanders Mainwaring, of the Stag, and Preston, of the Electra, have changed ships ; the Electra will sail in the course of a few days, to join Admiral Ross in the Pacific ; Commander Smith takes a passage in her to join the President, The Dolphin, United States schooner, arrived from the river Plata, on her way to New York. She left there many French ships of war, assisting the Monte Videans against the Buenos Ayreans, and her Majesty's ships Orestes and Actaeon. The ships here are the Stag, Eli ctra, Camdeon, and Grecian ; the latter sailit to-meat row, to cruise off Cape Frio. From her superior sail ing I have DO doubt she will capture several vessels in a short time. Three schooners came in to-day, all in ballast. They certainly landed their black crop on the coast, as vessels never come to Rio. When I boarded the pirate vessel the Electra took on the 25th they were wowed like pigs in an Irish steamer, and wallowing in their own filth ; 58 of the poor devils were chained together, and had been so for 30 days. As soon as she arrived at Rio the armourcr of the Electra was sent to knock their irons off; he coaxed them, which delighted the poor devils, and nothing could exceed their gratitude. The small-pox is very prevalent amongst them ; since they left the coast they have buried about 50 children monthly. We are obliged to keep boast rowing guard at night to prevent the slaves from being stolen. The other night John Curtis (son of Sir Lucius), prize master, fired into a large boat that was coming nearer than she ought, and from the noise on board it was evident some of the scoundrels had been hit. Since that time they had given our prizes a wide berth. Some difficulty is thrown in the way of condemnation. The mixed commis sion is quite a farce. _ _ " The next ship for England is the Fly, then Imogene, Samarang, Sparrowhawk, and Electra. Lieutenants He. seltine of the Electra, and Robinson, of the Grecian, have exchanged ships. 6" The Calliope sailed on the 19th of March for the River Plate, to strengthen the foie° in that river; as, in consequence of tho unsettled state of affairs there, the French are carrying everything before them. The Ame rican ships Independence and Fairfield are at Monte Vi deo; the latter is a corvette, mounting twenty-two long 24-pounders. I guess the Symonds and Daphne would have no chance with her. The schooner is going to clear out the Customs, and these letters must be aboard: so farewell." TIIE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.—His Grace's illness has proceeded from the measles, and we understand the Marquis of Worcester has also been laid up with them. Yesterday the Noble Duke was considerably better, and his son was recovering.—Morning Herald. [We presume from this that the measles are prevalent. They were also so prevalent at the Cape of GJod Hope, by the latest ad vices, that it was conjectured nearly 30,000 people have been laid up with them. The disorder has not before visited that colony, we arc told, for 35 3cars.] Mr. Kollmann's fourth grand Concert took place yesterday mcrning at the Hanover -square Rooms, or, which occasion some instrumental novelties were intro duced, for the purpose of further developin g the superior powers of the patented Pianoforte, of which he is the inventor, and with the merits of which the musical world is now well acquainle 1. The performances went off with great and deserved ;approbation. The Second Ann tversary Dinncrof the Newspaper Press Benevolent Association is fixed for Saturday, July 13 (not 15th, as mentioned in yesterday's Sun), o n which occasion Lord Lyndhurst one of the Vice- Presi dents, has kindly consented to take the chair. His Lord ship has expressed very friendly wishes for the success of the Society. The dinner will, take, place in the Grand Masonic Hall of the Freemason's Tavern. Following the examples successfully tried by the Musical Fund Society, &c., ladies, instead of being limited to look on from the galleries, will dine with the company; and thus, besides being seated near their husbands, brothers, sons, or other natural protectors, may fully enjoy the rich musical treat that will b • proferred on the occasion, again under the su perintendance of Mr. T. Cooke ; some of the most dis tinguished perf,,rmers on the English and Italian boards having promised to attend. • MR. HENRY ,GRATTAN.—A work, we un derstand, is on the point of - making its appearance which cannot fail to excite extraordinary interest at the present moment, when the political movements of all parties in the State turn almost exclusively on Ireland. The work to which we allude is a Life of the great Henry Grattan, written by his son, the Member for Meath. Such a work must necessarily busy itself with al the great events in which the present prospects of Ireland took their risc ; and to Ireland in particular the recollections it musts a up of her earliest friend and most illustrious defender will give it an intensity of political as well as social interest which no other production of the kind could have a. hope of THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY, JUNE 20, P-39. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, tim. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shercs . Annum. raid. Share 1,71:6 7 pet cent. Ash tc ri and Olehali..Average9 7 /. 1 Hs. sh. 130 ..082 41. Ashby -e-le-Zi...,11 A..-".:age 1131.5 h 70 1,200 Basir gstoke. 1001.8 h. 5 1,0115 N. Brecknock and Abergavciiny 1.50 P. sit. 8,000 1.".5. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share 8 1 1 . & 71!. `' loo DWG : , *,d I;,verpool Junctl' 3, ,./ 60.100 pd sU+O j/. Bridgewater and Taunton .100 L FL. oil pd 400 4/. Chen - ter and Black water 1001. sh. 500 48!. Coventry 100/.Bh. 4,545 Croydon 2,0611 4:. Os. Dudley .. ..... 1001. sh. 600 141. Derby 100/. t h . 10.000 4 per cent. tianune and Mayne 411.158. 4d .pd 3,5751 41. Ellecmc re and Chester... Average 1331.5 k. Zil 62:, Ercwach ICOI.III. 1,297 301. Forth and Clyde ....Average 40 0 1 .)61 1 . th• . ,600 161 Grand Junction 11.n1. sh. 2,8491 U. Grand Union 1001. sh . :1,500 Grand Surrey lool.sh. 0,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan l6Ol. 3'196 MO 131. 12s. 9d. Glamorgan:hire, Aver. cost 1721. 13x.44. 749 10s. Grantham l5O/. sit. 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6.. 6d. sip, 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 5.425 Il. ss. Kennet i lid Avon, Aver. 39/. lh, loti. sh. 2,897; 30'. Leed N and Liverpool 100/. sh. 5151 151'. Leicest er l4O/. sh. 1,897 6/. Os. Leicester and NortkamptonAver c3l. I Os. 2.400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 150 10/, Melton Mowbray 1001. eh. 500 251. Mersey and Unveil 100/. sh. 3,0c0 11. los. maccitfs6ohi.. 1001.8 h. all pd 217 171. Nenth - lOOl. O, 2,400 5/. Peak Forest A veiny about 78/. sh. 1,418 Ifs. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/. 16s. 8(1. sh. 5,669 6/. per cent. rtochdale Average 851. sh. 500 8/. Sitroprhi re .1'251 . sh. 890 Cl. 108. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 3,a00/. 4,4 ev-r cent Ditto L ock Fund Stock .. .12 1. 'al- sh. 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 500 91. Shlewspzu y NW. sh. 300 9 1 . Stourbridge ...„, ___.„, 3,1147 2/. Os. Stra L!oru..un. a vui. e.verage 7W. 9s. tid. sh. 533 161. Swansea ...... . .... lOOl. sh. 3,762 U. Iss. Severn and Wye and Railway Ar 351. sh. 2.600110 i. 021. 108. Treat and 51ersey, 1 share 100/. sit. 8,119 I,ooos h. } Warwick:Ltd Birmi%gham 1001. sh. I,ooolch. I_6l' 9%.0 154. War wis.k and tiapton lOOl. sh. 6,000 41.05. Woreest et and Birmingham A v. 731.85. sh. 5.000 255. Wilts ar.d Berks Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 600 3/. Vit yrley and Essington 1251. sh 426 Wisheach IOW. sh. t/05 Is. Wey and Arun llOl. h. DOcKS. 23C 2(3 351 10 284 745 228 112 138 151* 710 i r.BO 330 I ' 6" 8 ' nn c. Commerc al ..'OOl. sh. 60 1,06515 h. . • East and West. Indi. Stork 113 3.239,31011. 555. p.ct. Lonilmt ock 67 Ditto bonds lOl 2.'209 21. 19s. Bristol 68,3241. 5/. per eeist. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1.352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 100 i 500,10)0 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOll 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO e. 500 ..... Deptford Pict "01. sh. 201. pd 11 BRIDGES. 1,600 l's. Hammersto.ti ' 50/. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark ' Old 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, N ew, of 71 r cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 5,000 225. OA, Ditto, Old Annuities of 8!, 6O/. pa 2.1 e 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 401. pd 201, 10,000/ 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds l2O 5,848 17s Vauxhall ...... ....,Avlrage 701. 103. 3d. oh 251 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/10s Albion 5001. oh. 501 pd 74 90,0001'5 per cent.] Alliance Britisn &Foreignloo/.sh. 101/. pd 151 / and 15s. 10,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd 01 21,000 €l. per sh. Atla' 591. sh. 51. pi 141 3 1 0 ,2 0,0 0044h 4 . 1 °lO/. sh. 55/. pd 1071 2501. sit. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. percent . British Commercial 504 sh. 5/. poi 6 percent.si fi ß i r r i i t r i i , i h ng i h i s r i e n 4 ire 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical & Medi :r 1 ;Me, ICOI. sh. 2/10s pd 4 4,000 21 10s County 20,000 55. Eagle „„, 5 - 5 per cent./ Economic lase lOOO/.01. 250!. pd 406 "'" tand 301 bs. 2,271 225. per cent. European Li..' 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New "01. sh. V. pd 1; 1,000,0001. 6/. per ct Globe Stock 13.51 20,000 Si' Guardian lOO/. sh. 0711 pd 381 10,000 a. 6d. Hopes 501. sh. 51. pi 51 2,4(10 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fir.. ' , TV. sh. 50/. pd 1371 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 101 10,458 41. percent. Indemnity 010iine 1004 sh. 8!. pd 25 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 59/. sh, all pd 92 Si, Ditto Life. 50/. pd 79 10; 1 00 16s. Law Life 100/.-sh. 10/. pd 291 5 000 10s. London, Fin?. 2'i/ sh. 12/. 103. pd 18 3,900 10s, London, Ship .51 sh. 12/. 10s. pi 18 1,000,0001. ... .... . Minerva Life 500,001 1 /. :30,000 M. per cent. Palladium Lito 5 0 1 . sh. 2/. pd 2185 50,000 4!. per cent. l'roteetor Fite 2O l. sh. 2/. pd 16., Od 2,500 U. Provident Liie 00,000 lis. Rock Life 0 0/. sh. I!. pd : 1) 5 09,220! 5/. percent. Royal Exchange Stork... 227 6,000 5 per cent. University Life IOW. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh, 51, pd n JOINT STOCK BANKS. 15,000 S per cent. Agric and Cum. of Ireland 25/. sh. 101. pd 5.000 A ustrala , ia 4Ol. sh 40/ pd 69 10;o00 10 per cent. Bank of Bit mingham 3'.l. sh. 10/. pd 13 ' 0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... .50/. sh. 5/. pd 16t 31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminsterloo/ Eh. 20/. pd Di 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13 .1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 100/. oh, *O4 pd 50 25,000 Liverpool 10 01 sh. 10!. pd 23/ 5 and Liver_ 1 50/. sh. 151 pool Distrot pd it',l 20,000 7 pennant 7pe r :e. Pa t. i‘ " l l ini n c c h he e s ,t t e e r 1041/.811. 251 pd 27 r . , 20,000 Prnvincial 11 in koi Ireland:oo/. sh. 25/. psi 48 50,00 National Pank of Ireland 5' 1. sh. 1711. pd 14 10,000 5 per cent. NI-atonal Pr o vincial Eng. 1 10 . 0, oh. 351. pd 8,01 10,003 ...... .. Ditto New lO/. sit, 10/ p.l 10: 10,000 ...... ... Gloticester.nli re 5O l. s h . 10/. pd 20 6,000 lOper cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AN)) COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16.3 Od 'Bath 9.0/. eh. 1({1. pd 21 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. ICI. pd 21 moo E . 5 , NeW . "1:3 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 19 pd 25 928 5/ 10a Birmingham 5O! sh. 98 1,250 21 Os Bristol 2,250 3/ 10s Brighton 2Ol. sh. 111 . 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2O /. s h. 18/. pd 9 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. oh. all pd 17 1,1100 11. les. Continental C.casolidated 751. 621/.pcl 100 1,000 10/. City of London IOO/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New 4,000 31.05. Equitable ... 'O/. pd 2.51 10,000 01 per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of l'hanet °U. sh 2Ol. pd 18 2,1350 61. per cent. Independent '3o/. oh. all pd 53 9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 59/. sit. 32/. pd 28 1,000 4!. per cent. ltateliff 100). sh. 80/. pd (ill 1,000 Smut., I , l,tri o ,nuri.r. 5112..r.1i. 101. pd, is 9,2110 4/.per cent. United General SVBII. 461. pd 36 240 5/. per cent, Warwick ..............501. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3 1 . Westminster Chartered ....... 5O/. sh. 551 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5(l. oh. In/. pd 10/ 780 5!. per cent. Yarmouth 20/. sh. 101. pd WATER WORKS. 1,800 10s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 20 1,434 61. East London lOO/. sh. 170 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction Average 411 13s. 4d. sit. 69 2,000 21. Kent 100° sh. 451 372 10!. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3Z6i 1,500 2/ 106 Now !Byer London Bridge Water Ann 6la 6,186 2/ les Manchester and Salford .lOOl. sh. 54' 1,000 4 per cent. South Lonlon 'Oa sh. 101 8,2•44 -4!. West 'Middlesex Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 104 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 7O/. pd 65 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 5O/ pd 27 15010 Bristol and Exeter 1001 sh. 05 pd 10 nno Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 21. pd (14 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. sh. 201. 7' 3,000 Clarence lOOO sh. 100/ pdi 351 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 5/. pd .4 60,(10'3 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 16. pd Hi Grand Junction 1001. sh. 951. pd 205 Great North of England 30/, pd 50 5,000 Great Western lOO/. sh. 654 pd 74 2,0 0 0 liartlepool 100!. sh. 1001. pd 125 ... ...... Hull and , clay 5111. sh. 25; pi 140 10,000 B ' °°° ...... ... Leeds and Manchester 1001. A. 51. pd e 2,100 Sl. per cent. Leeds and Selby._ ..... • 100 sh. est 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington .501. sh. all pd '75 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchesterlol3.sh. 100/.l'd 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "5/. pd 6 3 , 30 00 ...„ ..... London and Brighton 5Ol. sh. 22/ pd 1:i London London t o o D na i d l c t andG t h o n ac it : ul r,da r anc n t .d e i rd ri j : B S u : t h iit : ro n enn a r t, l i e i, l or i 12,0(10 /0,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ....201. sl4. 201. pd Ii 25,000 London and Birmingham 1001. sh. 991. pd 197 T n r g. O 1. : a. 5 m. k 0 .5 1 I.l s . 1 t l . , i . h . . 1 . 1 1 5 5 8 1 :1 1 : . . I Pdp p d t: d . t 1 1 1 1 3 8: ,.. ~7 : 1 . 31,090 .. London and Seuthampton Av. 351, 17s. 10. 4', 14,000 6, 0 00 Ditto New Scrip IL pd 8. 12,010 Northern 1/ittoEaxttiednls,.i 14,000 Manchester and Leeds ...100/. sh. 501. pd fi.i 10,060 a o s n tern 1001. sh. 13/. pd t" '''/ pd . i North Midland 10(11. sh. 65/ .pd (ill 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3 0 /. pi 36.4 26,.100 ... South Eastern and Dover .'l2/. Ixl li I, l 'oo 101, per cent. Stockton anti Darlington lOW. oh. 2.11, 9,000 Tha.oes Haven 50/, sh V. 10s. pd 0 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. th. 'll. pi 0 MOO MINES. 8,100 Albion Copper 5l. s • 2 11. pd 12 1,000 11. ss. Allen 151. sh. 121, it rpd 10 10,000 ........ Angls Mexican, iss. Si pm.loo/. sh. al 'id 1 Ditto Subscription 'l5l. !hi Si 2,000 1 0 1. Rolancis l5Ol. sh all p 1 93 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian him. iss. 51. pm 35/: sh. 201. pd 19 6,000 Macauhas Se Cocae , United 25/. sh. 2 1. pd 12 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Bey 20/. sh. 111 .pd 31 10,000 • Bolivar Cppocr Company...2o/. sh. 201. pd 5., 10,000 Ditto Scrip 101 . sh. 10 /. pc] Pi 20,0110 British Imii ....... .................... eh. 5411 pd Pi 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 11/. pd 1 4 Cats Branca...- Ft/. t d 8 Canclonga 10 m OOO 11 Copiapo 20 /. sh. 131 . rd 16 8,500 ... Colun:an, iss, 51. pm.... 55/. sh. 551. pd n i 2850 SI. En g lish 20,000 ......... General Mining Association2o/. sh. 184 pd 7 ~,,, ......... Mexican Company 1001. sh. 5511. pd 4 1 3, , 00 , .......... Polberon Consols . lO4 sh Si. pd 4 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered llitto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 160;: 10,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm .40/. sh, all pd l'A Dtttt. Scrip 2` Ditto New Scrip 211/. 5/ p.i.' 4 West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd 5/3 / LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with 13renze Ticket 75gs. sh. 16 1,500 London University ............ 1001. sh. all pd 23 700 King' CoVegc 1001. pd 19 I ...... Av. 75/. eh .. 21' 11, 1 10000L A, L ..gs A nrai : clue E iRt O toir U oam t i 0 i )1. sh, p . d .. 4 , 6 1 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company 2:11. pd , 4 per cent......... ... 1001. sh. 304 pd 29 15a. Australian illS C E C I t a e o y u c t:l l i o nz C y o l m i i t p . a so n y e : : . ; ......... . 5 .. h ...1 1, ,5‘ 21 ) 1 1 .. rci , i: IL 6s. General Steam Navigation 15/. sin: 114 d "'" 10,000 61 per cent. IC : t n ny a d d uo i E .: C , Cd o os i r a n , 20,000 00,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,:a ! Lo . an .............. ; ............. .. 1(2u.) 101. per cent. Hason's Bay Stock ..., ........................ 2,000 ' IL New Brunswick Land Cempaur...:;o/ Ditto New {OOl. sh. 854 pd 118 Thames Tunnel 4,1100 ....... .. 50/. sh. all kid 9 (51. Van Die. Jim's Land l6Ol. sh. p-1, 10,000 1 . • pd p l 8 2 2 , e 7 7: 5 3 4 : 5 51 1 .... p. p er -: . i .e c n t t : LIST OF JUNE SCOT'TISHO CMPANIES , pi? l CES, 1, 1839. 1.500,0004 ii, p. n Ct. n ri ,ay „ a k i 0 0 1 f s s c c o o t t l i a a n n d d ...83/ .5 ..6 1 5. 8 1. : 1:1 . h._h.h ., h:.. h i.hi.51.00:.m;:::.i..ipdpdpdppdtp)ddd 1210:121s....‘0151::::::: BANKS. : e s n e () C o i : pani d . ._ 2 . . :9 1 1 0 0: : si l . B. ' hbbs s hh h . 4 : in ,a 4 , 40, 1 1 11. 1 1 :. p.i, c p P yd d d di 52 1 1 613 tv 8 ( 10 ,4 1 11 1 / ... .. ct. Commercial 5,000,000. CI. P. Naion ..o c Glasgow Union 4252"1"::;"2:1113:: :546: ppop7 cc-ect : : : S I Ur Westerni INSURANCE, NLC: Linen C 0 M P A N 1 ES . /001 1. . . , 2 1 5 0: ' . .'70 5h 61 5 i ;. c c:: 5 1::a h ... 1 ::C .It o: n ot Scotlan 2 : 2l l l. 6 .) p. Ir . sh. 10/. pd 19/.los L sh. 10/. pd 14/10s 10 0 3P• ‘• ivi IS ~ AI 0 U; - . ********* '" 10/. pd it Os 5.7" "°°o pp: Ce'tt : CEda' el•:1;t113.1(1)0un.11: S c otl an d g.ihn k . :ra te r 25/ . Ed . n 0 as. Un. Canalso/. th . 450.8-0,i;O:000 .. 6 . ::". cc:: Hercules ‘ N D o i ti r t t o . h zAt n ‘, il ly l l i , e t i s . i t c : all pd 474 5,400 5 per cent. Edin comp; • .s h. all pd 251 Carron Iron ily 9qn, 4,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron iounrierv I 8e Leith Gia ... • - ''• Pd 5'31. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburg: .ac ss.2o/. sh. IEI4 pd 81 - 50 . 7' s s h b • fil pd 44/ 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburg 1 ~0 1, as ...2/. sh, all pd 50/ rqtr,it (./ S 4,450 10 per cent. Glas, 7 ~, ~ 25/. eh , all pd 501. 75 . ! 74 per cent. Leith C(...1 .fis . . 29/. all. a ll IA 50 1 . 1,200 Edinburgn mid Dalkeith itar'mlyso/. o.h 371, 2,010 5 t i er cont. Feu' table IMO,, ( : 4 ilfir/a, n V .45/. sh. pa :),,, li ;it The Tyne Pilot s ays, large blue pri nte d placards past week, making inhabitants generally, in conse sreamen have been posted through both our good towns during the o t f e , n vr w a t r in h g ar o in ff g er a s rr t i o ved ind in ue oeu harbour. to enter her Majesty's Navy ; and considerable interest has b ci e u e o n nec m o a r nif a es s t l e o d op by the where she i 3 now moored near the Low Lights, North Shields, for the purpose of receiving volunteers • for the Royal Navy. She is called the ..tna. sir I/Wilson Commando:, and arrived-herd - en - Sunday-montinyfrom Leith, . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COtIIfONS, JuNE 19. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before four o'clock. Mr. CAMPBELL presented certain papers from the India House. On the motion of Mr. WELBY, the Committee on the Grantham Small Debts Bill was ordered to be revived. On the moticn of Mr. BROTHERTON, the Lords amendments to the Leeds and Manchester Railway Bill were agreed to. The Hon. Gentleman then presented a petition against, as we understood, the second *reading of the Ship Propeller Company Bill. The Report on the Norwich Improvement Bill was brought up, and the Bill read a third time and passed. On the motion of Sir E. KNATCHBULL the South Eastern Railway Deviation Bill (No. 2) was read a third time and passed. The second reading of the Ship Propeller Company Bill was, at the suggestion of Mr. BROTHERTON, postponed for a week. DIVORCE BILLS. Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved to discharge the Order of the Day for going into a Committee of the whole House on Alison's Divorce BjII, on the 2Gth ii.stant, ai,d to commit the Bill to Mr. Ord and the South Northum berland List. He made this motion with a view of doing away with the necessity of taking evidence at the bar of the House on Divorce Bills, and wosld suggest the propriety of referring all such Bills, for the future, to a Seleet Com mittee, who should report as usual. Mr. CHRISTOPHER would suggest the propriety of appointing a Committee at the cenirneecemtnt of every future Session, fur the purpose of taking Diverce Bills into consideration. Mr. FRESHFIELD thought that it would be better to refer all these cases to a Judicial Committee, who were acquainted with the laws of evidence, but he objected to a Bill having reference to no locality being referred to a particular list. Mr. GREEN could not but regret that a question of so much importance should be discussed in so thin a House ; because it was, in fact, a proposition for changing the whole practice of the House upon these Bills. Under such eh cumstanees he thought it would be desirable that her Majesty's Ministers should be present, together with the M em b er for the Tower Hamlets, who, he understood, had proposed a scheme on this subject. For his own part, he coasidered the proceedings of the House on these Bills extremely dis graceful, and should be hlppy to see them put an end to, but in the present state of the House he trusted that his Honourable friend would postpone the consideration of this subject till there was a more full House. Mr. W. PATTEN had no objection to postponing the motion of which he had given notice. The reason why he had adopted the present course was in order to prevent the parties being. put to expense. Mr. .ESTCOU RT thought that no disadvantage would be felt by the parties by postponing the Committee for a few days. Rli 7Th 61.1 11'0 V4l The motion was then agreed to and the ord er f or go i ng into Committee discharged. On the motion of Mr. VILLIERS STEWART, the River Moy Navigation Bill was read a third time and passed. Petitions against the Government plan of National Education, and praying her Majesty to rescind the Order in Council for the appointment of Education Commis. sioners by—Mr. Tatham Egerton from Chester ' • by Mr. Bcw,s, from Dudley ; by Si r C. B. V ere , from Lowestoff, Tosvcester, and several other places; by Mr. W. Patten, from Warrington and Chester; by Colonel Sibthorp, from the City of Lincoln, in which the petitioners stated that although the original scheme was nominally withdrawn by the Government, they feared it would be renewed by some subterfuge and trick, if not unworthy the men, at least un worthy the station they occupied; by Captain Alsa,ger, from Kingston-upon-Thames, and several other places in Surrey ; by Mr. Christopher, from five places in Lincoln shire ; by Mr. R. Hill, from 1,000 females of Shrews bury ; and by Sir R. Bateson, from Londonderry. Mr. CRAWLEY presented a petition in favour of the Government plan of national education. Mr. M. PARKER presented a petition from the County Palatine of Lancaster against the County Courts' Bill. Referred to the Committee. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Lord A. CONYNG HAM presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of C snterbury in favour of the Government plan of national education. Mr. HAWES presented a petition to the same effect from the Delegates of the three Protestant Denominations in London and its environs. Petitions against the 13111 were presented by Lord Grimstone, Mr. Codrington, Mr. Borroughs, Mr. Clive, and Lorel Eliot. Mr. Blackstone presented two petitions against educa- tion from Warrington ; Mr. Bagge, live from Norfolk ; Lord C. Manners, from Ashby-de-la. Zouch ; and Mr. Round, from Essex. Petitions in favour of education were presented by M . T. Duncombe, from Finsbury ; Mr. T. H. Berkeley, from Bath; and Lord Melgund, from Harwich. Mr. 'F. DUNCOMBE presented four petitions from Finsbury, in favour of a penny postage; and a petit:on from a person earned Williams, in favour of a scheme to enable the working classes to purchase annuities. Mr. RAIK ES CURRIE presented a petition from the ladies of Northampton, in favour of a penny postage. Mr. W. Duncombe, Lord Dungannon, Sir C. Knight ley, Lord Stanley, and Sir Thornai Fremantle, presented petitions against the Government plan of education. Lord DUNGANNON presented a petition from Chep stow, against any further grant to Maynooth College. Mr. MACAULAY presented a petition from a con gregation in Edinburgh, in favour of Church extension in Scotland. Sir W. FOLLETT presented a petition from Exeter, praying . the House to present an address to her Majesty to rescind the Order in Council of the 17th of April. Sir It. INGLIS presented petitions from St. George the Martyr, from Chelsea, and other places, againSt the Government plan of education. Capt. PECHELL presented a petition in favour of it from New Shoreham. Lord A S FI LE Y presented petitions against the Govern ment plan of education. Sir R. PEEL presented a similar petition from Tam worth. Sir J. GRAHAM presented petitions to the same effect , rom Cumberland, as did Mr. GODSON from Kidderminster, and Sir G. SINCLAIR from a variety of places. JAMAICA. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the Order of the Day, for the third reading of the Jamaica Bill. Mr. HUME asked if any answer bad been sent to the request of the Assembly, that they might be allowed to legislate as a Colonial Assembly was entitled to do, or whether the colony mere still to be g.verned by the Order in Council. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the Hon. Member had misunderstood the request of the Assembly—who asked that the Crown should relinquish the right of this country to legislate for the colony—(No, no)—and if the Ministers of the Crown 'acre to advise such a measure they would be liable to impeachment. Mr. HUME protested that there was no such intention in the request. He was not at liberty to read the request, bet if so he would convince the House that the Noble Lord was in error. All that the House of Assembly did was to ask the simple question, which any man of common sense could have replied to. He would not give any opi. nion on the Prisons Bill, but this House by that Bill having interfered and taken from the House of Assembly he power of legislating for the internal affairs of the Colony. the House of Assembly wished to know if they were at liberty to legislate for their internal affairs, because it was no use for them to do so if they were liable to be interfered with. The Hon. Gentleman here read the resolution, and drew particular attention to that part of it which stated that the House of Assembly wished to be informed by her Majesty's Government whether her subjects of Jamaica were to be treated as subjects possessing the power of self government, or as a conquered colony, to be legislated for by means of Orders in Council, or by proclamations from the Governor having the force of law. No answer had been sent to that requisition, and on that ground he took his stand against thes (proceedings on a point of law. If her Majesty's Ministers had returned a simple answer that they did not intend to interfere any further the House of Assembly would have no objection to resume their legislative functions, but that answer had never been given, and on that ground he ob- - jeeted to the measure. Mr. LABOUCH ERE thought that any gentleman who had paid attention to the documents laid on the table, must see that the Honourable Gentleman was in error in the statement he had made with regard t the spirit which actuated the House of Assem bly of Jamaica. The question they asked, irt fact, was, whether the Government would pledge itself that Parliament should henceforth deal with the Assembly of Jamaica in a manner different from ash it it had hitherto done. Of course the Government could give no such pledge. He would bring to the recollection of the House a resolution which had been carried in that House by a large majority, arid in fry: ur of which, if he recollected right, the Hon. Member for Kilkenny himself had voted. He begged toremind the House that the resolution had been come to after they had passed the Act for the Abolition of Slavery,after tLey had passed the Abolition Act Amendment Bill, and after they had asserted their right to interfere with the Legislature in Jamaica. After they bad done this they had come to a solemn resolutiou to the effect that when the term of the negro apprentice ship had expired, they would continue to watch over the interests of that class of the population of Jainaica. He would put it to the House, after that resolution bad been passed, whether it would not be an Act of the grossest delusion on the part of the Government of the country, if they had used language to the House of Assembly of Jamaica which would have conveyed to them the impression that they were not disposed to use due vigilance. He thought the only objection to the course that had been pursued by the Government was, that they had exercised too much forbearance, after the con duct of the House of Assembly, in coming to a re solution. to suspend their business, after they had told the Governor three times that they would not transact the business of the Island unless they had certain assurances. After that the Government would have been justly chargeable with subterfuge if they had held any lan guage to the House of Assembly of Jamaica, that if they did not do their duty, they would do it for them. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in moving that the Jamaica Bill be read a third time, said that he had considered the objection that had been made by the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite, as to the time when the Act should come into operation. His object was to afford the House of Assembly fair and ample time, and he had therefore altered the time for the Act coming into operation till the Ist of October. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE begged to ask the Noble Lord (John Russell) a question, which would not require so long an answer PS had been given to the lion. Member for Kilkenny. Supposing that Bill was carried into opera tion, would it be administered by the present Governor of Jamaica ? '"Lord 'JOHN h. SELL said Sir Lionel Smith had been transferred from the Government of Jamaica to that ~~ ef the Mauritius, and Sir Charles Metcalf had been ap pointed Governor of Jamaica in his stead. Mr. HUM E would enter his protest against the Bill, but did not mean to divide the House upon it. The 13;11 was then read a third time. On the question that the Bill do pass, Mr. GO UL BURN said the question had been so fre quently before the House, that he should compress his ob servations into the smallest compass. He had intended to propose the omission of the first clause, but that would now preclude the Right Hon. Gentleman from making the alteration proposed when the period should arrive when the Act came into operation. It was his intention to pro pose, in the first instance, the omission of the three first words of the clause, and if he succeeded in that, he should then move the omission of the whole clause. He was led to believe that the Government bad a bone fid e wish to give to the House of Assembly an opportu eity of conducting the business of that colony; that they were sincere in saying that they wish to uphold the popular branch of the Constitution of that country, and that the colony should continue to be governed by a Governor, a Council, and a House of Assembly. The introduction of the first clause in the Bill tended greatly to creating an had sposition on the part of the Assembly to withdraw from the position which they had taken up. It was to be remembered that the resolutions were tiot passed by a majority of the llouse of Assembly-21 out of 45 only having voted for the resolutions—this was art ample reason for omitting the first clause —the majority nut having tsken any part on the occasion, it was but fair to suppose that they were not prepared to take such strong measures as those who did vote. _He would confine himself to two or three poires. This clause would repeal all the existing laws relating to con tracts. It was only by the existing laws now that emancipation of the Negroes had been etracted—that celtivation could be carried on with success. He also objected to the inequality of the law on the subject of contracts, for if the mister was injured, he could only recover by action ; whilst the servant could recover against the master by distress. Another objection was that the contract law affected 'the whole judicial system of the co lony. By this Bill it was proposed the petty Sessions should consist of two Stipendiary Magistrates who should appoint another Magistrate to. sit with them, who would, to make use of a well-known expression, be placed like a wild elephant between two tame ones. He would ask any gentleman what would be his feelings it he were called on to sit as a Magistrate in Petty Sessions in conjunction with two Stipendiary Police Magis trates. He would ask if any one would accept of the Commission of the Peace wider such circumstances ? (The Right Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cries of " Divide, divide," which prevented our catching the conclusion of his address.) , Mr. fl UM E rose amid loud cries of " Divide, divide, Oh, oh !" He objected to this Bill on principle, although certainly it was less objectionable than the last, became it did not suspend the functions of the Ilcuse of Asserribly, nor give the Governor power of levying taxes, but still it interfered with the powers of the Assembly. He would assent to the doctrine of the Right Honour. able Under-Secretary fur the Colonies if be would only prove the existence of the necessity. If the Assembly were not supported in those powers which Parliament had conferred upon them, discord and confusion would be produced in the colony. No complaint had been made by the inhabitants of Jamaica, calling for such a measure as the present, except the Governor, who had throughout acted with haste and indiscretion.--(Hier, hear.) Joseph Sturge—a man who was well known for his exertions on behalf of the negro, had, on the sth of May, written a letter, in which he stated that everything was going on well in the colony, that sugar ivas being well cultivated, and that peace prevailed in the island. Why should such a happy state of things be interrupted by the Government ? —( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member proceeded to read other letters of a similar purport, but was ren dered almost inaudible by the loud cries for a division. There never had been a Bill carrying a more fallacious front than the present, for it professed to protect the negro while it did no such thing. What bad the friend of the negro—Lord Brougham—said of this measure, why, that there never was a greater delusiOn practised on the abolitionists. The fact was, the present measure was to prevent the negro from enjoying the rights which were given him under the Bill that emancipated him from slavery. He trusted, there fore, that the Bill would b e rejected, and he, for one, would vote for the expulsion of the first clause. He objected to the proceeding altogether.—(The :Hon. Gentleman sat down amid loud cries of " Divide.") Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the Hon. Gentle man who had just sat down had divided his argument into two parts—the first against the Bill which had been dropped, and the sec on d re l at i ng to a quest i on w hi c h h e had asked about twenty minutes ago.—(Cheers sand laughter.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to the probability of many Members not having read the the Orders in Council; he would say that he believed that many Members had not heard the arguments brought forward so ably by the Learned Agent for the Assembly of Jamaica against this Bill, If they had done so he was surprised at the little effect their arguments had produced on Hon. Gentlemen opposite. The arguments of that Learned Gentlemen had not been directed against this clause, but against the second clause in the Bill. He had not argued that the Orders in Council were oppressive or inoperative; be had not impugned the statements that had been made that these Orders in Council had been for six months in operation in the other colonies, and had not been found to fail: but he had ad dressed his arguments entirely against the second clause of the Bill, and he thought that that was the course that should be taken by those who contended for the constitutional right of the Assembly of Jamaica to legislate, because it was the second clause that enabled the Governor in Council to continue certnin taxes, if he should deem such a course expedient. He had argued that, according to the Act of 1778, the giving the Go vernor in Council the power of imposing taxes would be an interference with the Constitution to which the House ought not to assent. He had argued this point very fairly and ably, but the House had not been convinced by his argument, and he was surprised, when, at the conclusion of the Learned Gentleman's speech, the Right Hon. and Learned Member for Ripon had got up and given notice of a motion for the rejection of the first clause. So little had he been convinced ky the arguments of the Learned Agent for the House of Assembly that he bad given them completely the go bye, and had proposed the rejection of a clause to which be had not even made an allusion. If they left out this clause they might prevent any legislative mea sure being enacted for the benefit of the negroes, they might prevent the enacting of laws relating to vagrancy and the improper occupancy of lands, but they would not main tain the right of the Assembly of Jamaica. ( The Noble Lord sat down amid loud cries of " Divide, divide.") Sir ROBERT PEEL would willingly have yielded to the impatience of the House, if by so doing he thought he should at all conduce to maintaining the credit of the House in the eyes of the country. This was a question re lating to one of the most important colonies of the British empire, and he felt the Hcuse would be placed in a most difficult position if they consented to this Bill. .The Noble Lord had complimented the speech of the Agent fir Ja maica, and be bad always observed that that Noble Lord was in the habit of complimenting that speech the most highly which did hint the least damage.—(Cheers and laughter.) But what did that prove ? Why, that they were not acting in concert with the Agent for Jamaica. It proved that they were willing to provide for any contin gency that might happen, and to enable the Government to provide by the locel authorities for the government of Jamaica in case the Assembly should continue to suspend the executive of their functions. But they went further, and provided for the permanent legislation of Jamaica, at the same time that they declared it was their intention and their wish that the House of Assembly should resume its functions. But how could they hope they would do so with this Bill? They said that unless they passed the most im portant Bills in six weeks, they would suspend their Le gislative functions. He would ask if they felt it decorous to adept such a proceeding as this when they looked to their own conduct on the Church rates Bill, or the Irish Tithe Bill, or the Joint-stock Banks Bill, and on the legislative measures in regard to Canada ?—( Cheer& ) That Government which p o itp one d the consideration of any legislative measure in regard to Canada to 1842, told the House of Assembly that unless in six weeks they passed these most important measures, their functions should be suspended. This course would be giving to the House of Assembly a great advantage— they were manifestly in the wrong now, and he was most anxious not to reverse the position. He had a strong feeling on this subject. If the House of Assembly should continue to refuse to legislate for the benefit of the negro population, he would give the Government every support and tesistance they might require. But he was convinced that the present Bill would only tend to embarrass the future course of proceedings. It did not reserve to the Imperial Parliament the power of determining what course should be pursued in any emergency that might arise, but it gave to the Governor, a new Governor, perhaps totally unacquainted with the circumstances of the case, and who might he sent out by the next packet, the power of determining whether or not it was fit that the Constitu tion of Jamaica should be suspi-nded. But they made it impossible by holding over them this coercive threat that they should resume their functions. If they wished to carry any useful measures for the benefit of the negro population, would it not be said that it was done under the coercion of this menace They would place the Assembly in the worst possible po. sition ; they would be retained as a Legislature, but it would be as a discredited Legislature.—( Cheers.) Sup. pose they passed those laws, the Act gave the power of deciding according to the discretion as to matters of a local character ; it did, not say to them absolutely you shall adopt these Orders in Council. Now, suppose that in sume matters of detail the Assembly should have, bone fide, some doubts as to the expediency of adopting all the provisions of the Order in Council, and the Governor in Council should differ from this, them grave question was not reserve.l for the decision of the imperial Parliament to determine if the occasion were sufficient to warrant a sus. pension of the functions, but was left to the decision of the Governor in Council. In what position was this placing the Imperial Parliament? Would they support the Governor in Council, or would they supersede his act and revive the House of Assembly ? The question was one entirely as to time. Was it fit that the course to be pursued in the event of the continued refusal of the House of Assembly, should be determined on by the Imperial Parliament in February next, or by the local authorities on the 15th of October. If the House of Assembly should be found refractory, and should still decline to perform their duty, then the crisis would be grave enough to summon Parliament for the purpose of considering the course that ought to be pursued. Bat the present Bill was not a wise piece of legislation, it was merely a paper plaster to cover the wounded honour of the Government, and it covered it very imperfectly. Honourable Mem bers on his side of the House were not acting in con' cert with the Agent for J ama i ca, they were not a ct. ina in the spirit of parti zans hi p —(Loud cries of " Oh, oh,'' from the Ministerial benches, responded to,by cheers_ from the Opposition) --but they entreated the Govern ment not to place the Imperial Parliament in the wrong, and not, after deferring the consideration cf some of their .1~ EVENING _ED ETI N own measures for six years, press on the House of As sembly of Jamaica the necessity of deciding in six weeks. Mr. L ABOUCH ERE rose, amidst loud cries of " Divide," which continued durirg the whole time he was ad ressing the House, so as to render it exceedingly diffi_ cult to catch what fell film the Right lion. Gentleman. He was understood to say that the question was a very simple one. It was universally admitted that it was desirable that the House of Assembly should be called together, and invited to resume their duties to the Colony of Jamaica ; but the House would still maintain the ground it had assumed in the last Session of Parliament, and if the House of Assembly should persist in following its present course, it would take care that the people of Jamaica should suffer as little as possible ; for this reason the power was given to the Governor of reviving Bills, which was the strongest part off' the Bill now before 'the House : and when the Right Hon. Gentleman spoke so slightingly of the authority of Mr. Burge, he was more inclined to defer to the opinion of that Learned person on this subject than to that of the Right Hon. Gentleman. lie fully concurred in all that had been said regarding the tranquil lity existing at present in the Island of J ynaica, and he at tributed the maintainance of that tranquillity to the excr tions of the ministers of religion, who had been made the objects of so much obloquy. But was it St that this state of things should continue, and was it not the duty of tho Go vernment to provide for the good government of the island? Regulations were required on three subjects—the laws relating to contracts, vagrancy, and the occupation of lands. The House of Assembly had decided that there was a pressing necessity for the enactment of those laws. By this Bill the option was given to the II ,use of Assembly to enact these laws, and the ne•thod followed on the present occasion was not a new one ' • they had fo' lowed precisely the same cour se w hi c h had been adopted in similar instances. The Counsel for the Assem bly had not stated that he found anything objectionable in the Orders in Council, and yet the Right Hon. Gentle man now came forward at the eleventh hour to impugn them. If the House refused its sanction to this Bill, they would be abandoning the position they had assumed list Session, and would show they were not prepared to act up to the spirit of the resolution which they had then come to. S:rangcrs were then ordered to nildraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the original motion For the amendment 267 257 Majority in favour of the passing of the --- 10 The result was received with much cheering from the Opppsition, which was met by counter cheers from the Ministerial side of the House. The Bill then passed. Considerable laug►her was caused in the House on the question bring put that Mr. Bernal be directed to take the Bill to the Lords, and request their Lordships' concur rence, in consequence of that Hon. Member having op posed the Bill. ' Petitions were presented in favour and against the Go vernment plan of education by Mr. 'Gladstone, Sir J. Y. Butler, Lerd Sandon, Lord Ingestrie, and Lord Worsley, EDUCATION—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Oa the motion that the Order of the Day be read for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. W YSE was willing to give the Noble Lord, the Member for Lancashire, full credit for honesty of pur pose in the speech which he had a few nights since ad dressed to the House. He seemed to have raised e up for himself a sort of phantasmagoria that affrighted his ima gination, created solely by the idea of a general system of national education. But if the Noble Lord had looked from the little world of that country—if be had looked abroad upon the world of civilised man, he would find that the monster he had raised, the nun:strum horrcnde, in. gene, cui lumen redemplum est, was bul a mere chimera, and which could never be created out of a general system of popular education.—( Hear, hear.) If the Noble Lord of 1839, was opposed to a general sys tem of education, he thought the Right Hon. Secretary of 1831 was more than a match for himself. On these grounds he certainly could not ascribe to him the vast gladiatorial powers which the Noble Lord below him ( Morpeth) bad attributed to him. The Noble Lord had designated the Government Commissioners not only as an arbitrary and irresponsible, but also as a despotic and absolute body. If such were the powers of the proposed body, what should they say of the Boerd appointed in Ireland, which had much less responsibility, and far greater powers, and which had not the sensibility and susceptibility of change that attached to every Ministry in that country ? The Go verernent Commissioners were subjected in every act they did to the power arid rontroul of the House of Commons, while the Irish Education Board was a permanent one,mcrely reporting its proceedings once a year—and leaving the power. to confer gratuities on masters, to establish normal schools', to cnduw echools, and in all these matters they were abiolutely without check cr contrail!. The greatest objection of the Noble Lord appeared to be directed against the system of educating children of different religious opie nions in the same schools. The Noble Lord seemed to think it a most dangerous course to edopt, and that the venous versions of the Scriptures which might be intro duced, would be calculated to produce the most lament. able results, and an indifference to religion. He re gretted, however, the Noble Lord had not seen fit to introduce into that country the same system which had been so well introduced and so generally adopted in Ireland. In good faith, honest intentions, and sincare , gonvictions, he knew of no difference between the two countries; audit' the Noble Lord had in the one case advocated a system of edu cation for Ireland which he had condemned when it was proposed to establish it in England, he thought the country should be allowed to choose bet Ween the Noble Lord as he was then, and the Noble' Lord as he fortnerly was.— (Hear. ) When he (Mr.' Wyse) had introduced a plan of education for Ireland in 1831, he had stated its details very fully to the House. The principle of that mea sure had been adopted by the Noble Lord, and without subrnitlitio•" his plan - for the—consideration of Parliament h e h a d, by a sort of Ore'onnance du Rot, con stituted his Board of Education in Ireland. He did not blame the Noble Lord for that measure, on the contrary, it had his most hearty concurrence, and when the question had been brought before the public, lee (Mr. Wyse) had stated his strong conviction thatthe Noble Lord had, by it, conferred as great a" boon upon Ireland as had ever been conferred by any Government that had preceded him. He regretted to find so much of the time of the House taken up with discussions on mere matters of etiquette and detail when the question was last before it. They should recollect that they were far behind the rest of Europe in civilization and education, and that that was the question before the House.—( Hear, hear.) The whole tenor of the debate however appeared to be bow they could best render religion sectarianism, how they could convert edu cation into ignorance and prejudice—not how much they could concede to the people, but how much they could withhold. The present social and physical condition of that country was a question of deep importance and pro. found inquiry to the philosopher. In the agriculture of the country there were great drawbacks arising from the ignorance of the parties engaged in it. These men knew nothing of the application of chemistry and imereved machinery to husbandry, and the cultivation of their land, by which unfertile soils were rendered productive. Would it be contended that these parties should be de prived of the benefits of such a system of education as would enable them to apply these improvements to their farms?—( Hear, hear.) In the same way, if the y went into towns they would find the principles of health and exercise but little understood—they would find th it few efforts were made to render unwholseme employments less injurious, and in many instances the sugge.,ti..ns of benevolent men for promoting the health and comfotbs of the workmen bad, through ignorance, engendered feelings of animosity against their ben:factors and mas ters. Let them look at the case of hand-loom weavers_ they not only could see no use in machinery, but 'con ! sidered it as their ruin, and not beneficial to the country —nay, they even extended their vituperation to the higher classes, and all those who saw of what immense advert tage.machinery was to the country. He would then cat the attention of the House to the moral contlliion of the poor—in many places one-tenth, and in otners one -seventh ,were living in cellars. Was that a state that could exist if the people were educated? From the retuens of the state of crime in the country .it was clearly shown that the greater part of it arose from the want of knowledge. Bible reading alone would not do, because it was taught in all Sunday schools—it would not do unless it were accompanied by a further knowledge and fuller instruction; that fact was proved by the 'circumstances which took place, as it were, under the very spires of Canterbury, end in the near neighbourhood of that great Metropolis. The people who there believed in Sir William Courtenay as the Seviour, had all the advantages ef Sunday Schools v er y few of those who were punished, and who considered themselves as martyrs, but were posses-ed and wet.e well acquainted with the Bible ; but there was in that part of the country a lamentable deficiency of schools for giving general and liberal education. It was laid dawn by the Committee -on English Education after much and searching scrutiny, that the great increase in crime was to be attributed to the want of knowledge.—(Hear, hear.) It was a well vecrtaincd fact, that while America educated 1 in 4; Prussia, 1 in 6 ; Holland, 1 in 8 ; England educated on!) , some 3, in 30. l a v n ii di i n tie), f t3u placesnd c,.m thee average was so lox as induce d by the want of education, when they found they were behind every other civilized country,- surely as men and as Christians they must be anxious to put an end to such a system. The voluntary principle in such a case would not work, and as they had already done in the police system and in the Poor-laws, they !twat have a cell trelized system, to be of any avail in a national point of view. These voluntary schools were generally set up by a squire or a clergyman—the first might travel on the Con tinent, or reside in London, the latter might be translated to another benefice. Was the educa- Lion of the country to rest upon such a weak basis? No; he wanted to see a really national, unsecta. rian system. The National Schools, and the British and Foreii,a, - n Schools had nearly all the e;ils of these proprie tary schools—they had all the defects which the Noble Lurd (Stanley) attributed so justly to thrs Kildare-street S.iciety. Both, in fact, excluded the Catholics, and the Natic.nal Schools virtually excluded the Dissenters. Le,t not the Catholics be charged with being against the circulation of the Holy Scriptures. Within a very short time they had circulated na less than 2 70,000 Bib!es and Testaments at 25 per cent. cheaper than any issued from Oxford and Cambridge. He joined those w h o wculd give education on a plan which would admit all only in country, In for y, b ut mgr,classes—all very y ec o ts l — d sects—the t e n e y s o , ut n li o of t in the whole throughout Europe, all education was in the hands of the CbUres, but that was a state of things teat was then un avoidable, because the whole of Europe was divided into two , classes—the men of war and the learned men. Would any one say that such a sy s t em was fitted for su .h a titae as ours, wh en sc i ence was divided from religion, and th e press from both ? Could it be said that the Church had a right of superin tendence over sceular .education? W ou ld the Cb urc h itlist on teaching the dissentient portion of the community a well as her own flock ? She could not be considered a national teacherunless she did, and be admitted that she 1144..tbc....rig1it to. superintend-the religions cducatett?f the people, but each Ch urc h s h ou ld l oo k after the education of her own f.u:k. As to this grant of money, he did not Clink the Treasury was the best repository of IT'"'"Y I