The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

00.41•41... MA ITRITIUS.—Fine yellow at 648 to 655, good 62s to 635, middling 60s to 61s 6d, low 58s to 598 6d, and co mraon to fine brown 52s to 57s per cwt. BAST INDlA.—There has been an improved demand for• .Bengal Sugar, and rather higher rates have been given; Manilla 178 to 225, and Java 18s to 248 per cwt. YO2EIGN.—For yellow Havannah Sugar rather higher rates have been paid. White Havannah all taken in &acme the value, middling to good at 26s 61 to 29s 2d, wad ordinary 25s 6d to 265. For Brazil full prices have boett given ; good yellow Bahia at 198 for refining here umber bond, and small parcels of low to good white at SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE. -s-A general impression seems to pervade the public mind, and especially that portion of the community most conversant with the administra tion of the" justice of the country, that the time has arrived for the abolition of Grand Juries. The Grand Jury of the last session of the Central - Criminal Court made a presentment to this effect on: appearing in Court at the termination of their duties, for the purpose of being formally dis charged. With the opinion thus comm unicated, the presiding JUdge expressed his concurrence. The Grand Jury of Surrey made a similar representation this morning, on appearing in Court with their last bills. The views expressied by the latter body were expressed in the following.terms : resent "It is the opinion of the Gr and Jury, in the p improved mode of administering theustice of the coun try, that the institution of a .Grand Jury, though at the time of its introduction of great value, is now not only unnecessary, but actually injurious to the public interests. " First : Because the careful investigation of the cases by the committing magistrates, assisted by professional men, who (where the cases are heavy) appear on the part of the prosecution, and for the defence of the pri soner, has already sifted 'The evidence ; thus rendering another intermediate inquiry wholly unnecessary. " Secondly The opportunity afforded by the inter vention of a Grand Jury between committal and trial for tampering with the witnesses, often causes the , evidence given before the Grand Jury to differ from that given by the witnesses Wore the magistrates. It is thus frequently changed both in its terms and ten dency. The bill is, consequently,' ignored through a deficiency, of evidence ; the operation of the law is obstructed ; and the guilty party escapes by means of the very institution which is designed to aid in the administration of justice. "Thirdly: The province of the Grand Jury is often abused.. t Bills - are preferred, and accusations made, the grounds of - which hare not undergone previous investi gation by magistrates. Such proceedings are often proiapted byan expectation of extorting money from the parties accused, or to subject them to expense and annoy ance for the purposes of revenge. " For these reasons' the Grand Jury consider their functions as no longer beneficial; that they are often in jurious, and might be Safely dispensed with." The Chairman of the bench expressed, in strong terms, an opinion, that the change alluded to is worthy the consideration both of the Legislature and the Government; especially as similar views had been recently expressed by other grand juries. The institution of a public prosecutor—to whom, or to his deputies, the evidence in each case should be submitted previously to trial, and by whom the pro ceedings should be instituted and the prosecution car ried on—would be a salutary substitute for the Grand Jury. The classes out of which the Grand Juries are now taken might be most beneficially , associated with•theif fellorv-eitizens from whom the Petit Juries are selected. Thus the intellectual elements of the latter 'Would be improved; and the public administra tion of justice in the Criminal Courts of the country raised:in character and improved in efficiency. STANDARD.—The buildings designed for a col lege for the cultivation of " modern languages and literature" have just been completed at Oxford, and a prospectus of the plan and design of the proposed in stitution has been issued. We have not been so fortunate as to see a copy of this prospectus, which-is made the subject of unfriendly cri ticism -by the Times ; but we think that in the cri tique itself of our contemporary we find proof that our, contemporary is unjust. The p rinci p al groundsof the Times complaint is, that " A rule is laid down entirely prohibiting all entrance upon the subject'ofreligion in the academical study of these [the modern] languages. Religion appears to be considered—upon that easy liberal theory which has severed the connection between religion and know ledge in all other branches—to have nothing to do, with - modern literature ; and accordingly an ex press rule is inserted, involving very clearly this principle:" Now -surely there is here a very un fair inference drawn from a rule which plainly understood, appears to be unexceptionable. The " College,of Modern Languages and Literature" is not a substitute for, but an auxiliary to, the estab lished system of University education, of which it will not be disputed that it is properly careful of the reli gious instruction of the young men subjected to it. There is not, we are happy to say, one college or hall, in Oxford in which a sound Scriptural education, in the pure doctrines of the Church of. England, is not a principal, we may with gratification say, the principal object of instruc tion in . -the undergraduate course. At Oxford, therefore, no merely auxiliary instruction can be charged -with effecting that divorce between learn ing and .religion which the Times seems to appre hend. The young men will go to the Col lege of _Modern Languages and Literature in structed, and (as far as human teaching can confirm them) confirmed Protestant Christians, to learn,- it may ba the French, German, Italian, Spanish, modern Greek, or whatever other modern language may be there taught, and which they may wish to learn, just as they might go to a school of riding or fencing, or swimming or music, not to receive religious instruction, or to learn to slight religion, but to acquire an accomplishment with which properly doctrinal • religion has no con cern. Every Christian, no doubt, feels the force of: the apostolic injunction, that " whatever we do, all must be done to the glory of the Creator" — but this contemplates ends, not details, and the best men daily do a hundred things with which they would deem it a fearful irreverence to rssocia`e a direct allusion to the truths of religion. Now to us it appears, that between the philology of modern languages and religious truth there is no ne cessary a Inflexion, any more than there is between religious truth and riding the great horse, driving, swimming, or fiddling. There is, therefore, no impro priety in-exchid:ng rehgieus discussion from a strict L..urse cif philological study, which, let it be constantly remembered, is pursued concurrently with a separate course - of careful religious study, and in subordina tion to. it. The Times, indeed, seems to feel that the merely philological course of study proposed in the Collegesof "Modern Languages and Literature" will riot support its censure ; and therefore, by an artifice, which.sve cannot help regarding as an unworthy one, tries enlarge the sphere of study at the new college; . to the whole field of letters. " The whole field . of mo lern literature, it must be Swerved, is a pretty wide ground entirely to gisconpept with: religion in this way ; and the misfortune' is, - too, , that it does not stop with itself, but drags other de . partments into the same serape." 'lhis is a . pnor fallacy. The College for the Cultiva tion of Modern Languages and Literature, plainly intends no more than such cultivation as is already t‘ston , ,cd upon classical literature; from which latter cultivation it will, we presume, be admitted, religious discussion is and ought to be excluded, for though Our contemporary may not understand the distinction, our Universities have always sepa rated r e ligious and profane literature as anxiously in their study, as they have been careful to unite them in the student. It is indeed the unhappy corn bination of these two naturally distinct, and in value immeasurably unequal objects of study, in one and the same -pursuit, which in early times paganised Christi anity into Romanism. May we not fear that the Pl atoni- Clam made fashionable by the late eccentric Mr. Cole ridge, - and mixed with religion by his followers, is exercising through the Tractarians a like injurious in fiueneolpon Protestantism ? They surely are mistaken who think that the sun of truth can be assisted by such dim tapers as even the brightest lights of human genius. Who would illustrate the Pentateuch by •Herodotus and Lucretius, the Psalter by Pindar and 'lloraoe, and the Prophets and the New Testa ment ly Plato and Cicero? As witnesses to historical _sects, 'the writers of Greece and Rome are use ful 10p, to religious education, but to allow them to mix , as teachers—to make their dogmata the to bf "religious discussion," were a grievous sin. 'The ease of classical education, then, clearly :proves the possibility, and in particular instances the necessity, of separating many branches of study from an intermixture with . "religious discussion ;" and the only question that can arise is, whether "modern lan ' uag,ea and ditiurtiture" ought not to be so separated? For:ourselvei"*e have no doubt upon the point. We s know of no single book in any m o de rn language which I could properly be made the textbook of religious instruc • tion for members of the United:Church of England and Ireland. , There are many excellent theological books in the French language, from De Moroni to D'Au ' higne s with which we, perhaps, might not quarrel, but • We should be slow to recommend them to an Oxford college. As to the other languages of continental . Europe, they are , as res p ects theology, a perfect blank to the. English Protestunt, except the crazy literature of Germany, which, with its rationalism on one side, - • and its platonicism on the other, and its cold-hearted • infidelity, the foundation of both, is worse than a lanks—it is a labyrinth of traps and pitfalls. There is, therefore, an utter want of books in the modern languagea to supply topics of religious discussion ; ant if books were forthcoming, where are the teachers ? The use of a college of modern lan , guiges' is to teach men, not merely to read modern languages, but to write those languages and to speak THE POOR-LAW COMMISSION REPORT. The Poor-law Commissioners for Scotland have had their report presented to the House of Commons. Public attention has long been attracted to the issue of these appointments. The people at large, looked to obtaining a more uniform and equitable mode of assessing for the poor, and more ample provision for them.. A considerable portion of the ratepaying minority, on the other hand (or those rather who should pay rates but do not), with the expectation of no change being permitted, have waited with equal anxiety that they may continue as they are doing, to absorb for their own use that portion of the national property which in reality belongs to the poor, and which is the first claim that should be paid from all property whatever. The object of the Government, by institut ing this inquiry, undoubtedly was to meet the demands of these desiring a change, but from the report before us, there is no prospect that any change will be effected, at least on authority of the Commission. By selecting. Scotchmen exclu sively, by constituting two-thirds of the Commission from landed proprietors ' who most likely pay no poor-rates at present, and the other third from clergy men, who had taken an active part in the management of the system as it exists, a Commission was selected of men unanimously wedded to the continuance of the abuses that have Ithert`Complained of, and who, in their report, shut their eyes to all the suffering and its causes that had been presented to them, and conclude by recommending a continuation of the present prac tice in all its deformity ; or at least such slight changes thereon as would not be worth, to the poor, the paper that an Act with the alterations would cost. At the time the Commission was appointed, we ex pressed our approbation of Mr. Twisleton having been made a member of it. We had every reason to believe that Mr. Twisleton would do his duty faith fully and effectively, taking an enlightened and hu mane view of the case. In these expectations we are glad to say we have not been disappointed. Mr. Twisleton, though a public servant, and standing alone,has had the firmness to dissent from the rep ort in its conclusions, and to publish along with it his reasons for so doing. The first part of the report is taken up with a pretty lengthened statement of the general working of the Scotch system of relieving the poor; and the first conclusion come to is, " That the funds raised for the relief of the poor, and the provision made for them out of the funds raised for their relief, are in many parishes throughout Scotland, insufficient." The next conclusion, after the introduction of some pages of evidence and reasoning on the subject, is " That it is not desirable that there should be any appeal from the decision of the parochial managers as to the amount of allowances:' Having thus summarily decided that there should be no appeal from the parochial managers, the Com mission next consider whether they may not also, as at present, centime& to assess themselves or not for the poor as they :have a mind. On this subject the Commission state that, — "Not only has no case been made out for so great a change upon the system now in operation, accord ing to which it is left to the parochial authorities to provide the requisite amount of funds for the poor, either by an assessment or otherwise, as they may deem most expedient; but the voluntary method of providing these funds, to which a preference is still given by a large portion -of the intelligence of the country, has appeared to us, in a great variety of in stances, to work in a satisfactory manner, and to be productive of beneficial effects. In these circum stances, to introduce a measure necessarily subversive of it, would certainly be inexpedient." Having thus decided that there shall be nothing but voluntary assessment, end that there shall be no appeal from the parochial authorities, the Commission next recommend "that a board of supervision, all the members of which should be unpaid, shall be established for a limited period, to which board re ports shall be made, at least twice in the year, from the parochial boards, stating specially the numbers and condition of the poor in each parish, and the amount of relief, in such form as shall be prescribed by the board of supervision ' • that complaints may be made to such board, and that such board shall have the fullest power of inquiry and remonstrance. That the board of supervision shall make a report annually to the Secretary of State on the condition and manage ment of the poor throughout Scotland." The Commission next recommended " that the heritors and kirk-session, or other managers of the poor in each parish, shall be bound to appoint a sala riel clerk, or other officer, who shall be required to make the reports to, and conduct the corespondence with, the general board of supervision, and that the remuneration which such officer shall receive shall be fixed by the parochial board of management." In the rural parishes, it is recommended "that those persons only are to be considered heritors, and held entitled to vote as such, who have a valued rent to the amount of .51. Scots, or upwards." " Subject to the limitation which we have above suggested, (the Commission says) we would further propose, that in rural parishes in which an assessment is raised, the body to be entrusted with the power of imposing such assessments and administering the funds, shall consist, in addition to the heritors and kirk-session, of a certain number of persons, to be chosen by the rate-payers not being heritors as above defined." For the town parishes the Commissioners say— " We are of opinion that it is desirable that all parishes, which, either in whole or in part, are situate within the parliamentary boundaries of any burgh, should be united and held to be one parish, for the purposes of providing for the poor, and of settlement. " We would farther recommend that the managers of the poor in such united parishes, should consist wholly or chiefly of managers, to be elected by the rate-payers, and also of the provost or chief magis trate, ex qfficio. The number of votes which each rate-payer shall have, being regulated by the amount of the property on which he is assessed.' The report then goes on to recommend that two or more parishes may unite to build poor houses. That medical relief should be supplied more exten sively than at present. That where there are no poor houses there should, be dispensaries established, and after detailing a number of cases given in evidence regarding the inadequate treatment of poor lunatics, the report recommends that lunatics should be sent by their parishes to lunatic asylums. Parish autho rities are recommended to relieve all cases found des titute in their parishes, the expense to be recoverable from the parish of the pauper. A relieving officer is recommended for every parish, and the same facility for removing English and Irish paupers from Scot land, as exists , for removing foreign paupers from England. Further, that "in each parish the board of managers should he required to defray from the funds provided for the relief of the poor, the expenses of educating pauper children." In addition to the remedies in existence, it is re commended that " husbands or fathers neglecting to maintain their wives or families, be punishable crimi nally by a summary process, in the event of the wives or families becoming chargeable on the parish. And that, in like manner, fathers of illegitimate childre• where such fathers admit their liability, or have been found liable by decree of a competent court, shall be punishable criminally by a summary process, if they neglect to pay the aliment, and the child become chargeable. It is next recommended that the' period for obtain ing a parish settlement should be extended from three to seven years. After some other unimportant recommendations regarding settlement, the report proceeds at great length to consider the important question for which the Commission was appointed, viz., the relieving of able bodied persons when thrown destitute for want of employment. Against the . granting of relief the authority of a great number of witnesses is quoted, but none of the witnesses favourable to relief are no ticed in the report. The situation of the unemployed at Paisley and Dunfermline during the late distress is also examined at length. Against the granting of relief to the able• bodied when unemployed, some Highland innkeeper, an underling - to the Duke of Richmond or some of the Highland lairds, we suppose, is quoted, and next the Duke of Richmond himself, Sheriff Campbell, of Pais ley, the Rev. Mr. Chalmers, of Dunfermline (who last year made himself famous by his hasty desertion of the Free Church), and lastly, Mr. Hunt, of Pit tencrieff, Dunfermline, a manufacturer who, by his business, has raised himself to possession of a man sion-house and country e§tate — M r. Hunt's evidence will give an idea by what means—and as it is about the longest quOtation in the report against relieving the destitution of the unemployed, we insert it as it appears. Mr. Hunt— " A manufacturer and dealer" his evidence bears, " in the coarse description of goods above mentioned, offered a few days ago to employ from 500 to 600 workmen, now idle, at a reduction of 25 per cent. on their wages. A committee of these workmen waited upon witness yesterday to ask him to subscribe for the relief of their distress, and to consult him as to the propriety of accepting the offer of work at re duced wages. Witness told them that he would sub scribe for the relief of their immediate wants, but that it was necessary that they should employ any money which they received from subscriptions in sending their young men to find work in other places, as it was obvious that there were more people in Dunfermline than could find employment in it, unless they choso to work at the reduced rate of wages ; that with regard of g ion ardto the question of wages, it was quite plain that the r a t e mus t a l wa ys be. regulated by the whichpersons t the wantingdemand em f p o lo r 3 l rm a b e o n u t, r borethat i to s the b y the supply and demand." The Commission conclude this part of the subject as follows :—" In fine, having in view the not inade quate relief hitherto afforded in periods of a depressed 21.2. to 23s per cwt. MOLASSES.—West India at rather lower rates, Antigua of good quality and fine Dominica at 26s to 27s *3d. Bengal 15s to 17s per cwt. COCOA.—Prices are still on the decline for West India ; none has been offered at auction, and the few parcels sold privately have been rather under former COFFEE.—Of West India none has been offered at Fablic sale. In Jamaica purchases to a fair extent have been made privately at full rates; mid quality has fetched 88s to 935, and superior 94s to 96s per cwt; some vessels from Jamaica are daily expected. To-day Ceylon Coffee at 49s to 493 6 d pe r cwt for good ordinary ; other sorts it the 4d per lb duty are unal tered in value. Fofeigii . Coffee was sought after, Rio at Ms to 32s for ordinary to good ordinary, and good ordi nary St. Domingo, 31s 6d. TEA.—There has been a falling off in the demand for Black Tea, and the limited business transacted has been upon easier terms ; common Congou for cash selling at 110 to ls, ' ()nod common Is Op to Is, and Pouchong ord to good ord at 4d to 9d per lb, but for Green Tea prices are firm, the supply being small. To day the operations were extremely limited, and former rates were with difficulty sustained. Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—For Jamaica Rum former rates are sustained ; 26 to 28 per cent. overproof 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 30 to 35 over 3s 5d to 3s 9d, good 3s 10d to 4s, fine 4s 2d to 4s 6d, and superior 4s 8d to 5s per gallon. Proof of common quality has been fetching 2s 2id, and good brown ditto 2s 3d ; Demerara 35 per cent. overproof at 3s 3d per gallon. Calcutta Rum is 10d to is 10id per gallon accepted for p roof, with certificate. For Brandy prices have a downward tendency excepting for low descriptions :—Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 741, puns 5s 5d ; ditto 1839, 'Xihda 5s bd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s 3d. puns 5s Id ; ditto 1841, hhds 5s 2d, puns, ss; ditto 1842, hhds ss, puns 4s 11d, middling qua lities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and low 2s 8d to 3s per gallon. Geneva shipping sort on the quay is Is Bd, and fine for duty 2s to 3s per g allon. English Corn Spirits lOs 2d per gallon, cast). To-day Brandy was at rather lower rates ; Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1842 selling at 4s 10d to 5s per gallon. A parcel of Leeward Island Rum, just arrived, 8 per cent overproof, has been sold at 2s 5d per gallon. SAGO.—Fine large bright Pearl has fetched 20s per cwt. The lowest price of common small Pearl is 12s 6d. Sago Flour at 19s to 20s per cwt. RlCE.—Bengal Rice, middling white selling c at 103 9d to I Is, and better sorts 11 s 6 d t o 12s ; lOs per wt for low white. Yellow Madras 8s Gd to 9s, and yellow Java 8s 9d to 9s per cwt. Cleaned Rico at 13s to 16s for Patna ; and 21s to 26s per cwt for Carolina. • Lenico.—ln East India little business has been trans acted in any description, and in some cases the rates ac cepted are rather under those of the last quarterly sale; Spanish has been less inquired for, but prices do not give way. This afternoon low mixed Bengal Indigo sold at 2s 6d to 3s 2d, and Guatemala at 3s 3d to 3s Ild for low and middling quality. On.s.—For Linseed Oil reduced rates have been taken; sales made on the spot at 25s 9d to 265. Rape Oil, pale at 38s 6d to 395, and brown 37s 6d to 38s per cwt. Palm Oil at 26s to 27s for good, 24s to 25s 6d for middling, 20s Gd to 23s 9d for inferior, and 18s to 19s 9d por cwt for very low dark quality. Cocoa Nut Oil may be pur chased upon lower terms. Ceylon taken in at 30s per cwt for fine quality. Holders of Olive Oil are more inclined to sell, 51/ for Gallipoli, 501 for Spanish, and 491 to 491 lOs per tun for Barbary. Common Fish Oils have met with a dull sale ; Cod at 33/ 5s to 33110 s ; Seal, pale, 334 yellow and straw Seal 29110 s to 314 and brown 281 to 29/ per tun. Sperm Oil at 751 to 761 for fine British, and 73/ to 741 per tun for other descriptions. This afternoon Southern Oil at 271 to 301 per tun. Lin seed Oil at 25s 6d per cwt. TALLOW.—Prices cannot be quoted lower at present for Russian Tallow on the spot, 403 to 40s 6d is the value of P Y Candle. 'For delivery for the last three months of the year at 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow at 38s 6d to 39s per cwt nett cash. South American at 33s 3d to 38s 3d, for middling to fine, and New South Wales at 36s 6d to 37s per cwt. To-day there was little business done in any sort of Tallow, but in prices there is no variation. THE LAW OF ARREST IN THE CITY. A curious circumstance exemplifying the benefit of the law of arrest in the City occurred a few days ago. A mercantile house in Jamaica having determined upon a speculation of shipping a large quantity of goods for the markets of Central America, engaged a German, who was proceeding to those parts on some business of his own, to undertake the management of the speculation. The German accordingly proceeded on his errand, and the house in Jamaica received from hire several letters announcing sales from time to time made, until it appeared that nearly 5,0001. had been received, when the correspondence suddenly ceased, and the house could get no more answers to their letters. Under these circumstances, the firm naturally became alarmed, and set on foot inquiries concerning the German, when they learned that he had gone to New York, and subsequently that he had sailed for England. They forthwith dis patched one of their clerks to England by a steamer, which was fortunately on the point of start ing in search of the party. The clerk arrived in London late on the evening of the 11th instant, and on the following morning proceeded to the house of the correspondents of his employers. The corre spondents without delay accompanied him to their solicitors, an eminent firm in the City, and on their way to adopt means of frustrating the palpable object of the German, they were lucky enough to meet the identical person coaling out of the offices of the Co lombian Mining Company. A messenger soon learned that the German had called at the offices of the Com pany in order to obtain an introduction to a bul lion broker, and that he had been referred to a well known City house of that description. At this critical time the parties ran off to the bullion broker's, who informed them that the Germa n had left with them to be assayed, a very large quantity of bullion and gold dust, and was to call at two o clock that after noon to receive the value. Application was then made to a judge for the arrest of this wholesale robber, to effect which a warrant was granted, and an officer was posted ready to meet him at the place where the treasure lay. As might be expected, the German was punctual to his appointment ; and, on making his appearance, was shocked and astonished at being grabbed for the sum of 5,0001. On being arrested, he exclaimed " Hang dis England. Half an hour more, and it would have been all right." He could not, of course, procure bail, and the only alternative he had was to make a full acknowledgment, and to give up the keys of his luggage, which, upon being searched, was found to contain bills and other securities, amounting, together with the bullion and gold dust, to nearly the full sum for which he had been seized. The not least curious part of the story is, that the German arrived in London only a few hours before the arrival of the clerk of the Jamaica house, and that both put up at the same hotel, neither of them being aware of the locus in quo of the other. The business of the clerk, it will be observed, was completed in the most satis factory manner in two hours, and in less than two days from that of their arrival, they were both pas sengers in the same vessel for Jamaica. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Mediterranean, Liverpool to the coast of Africa, 3d inst., lat. 44, lon. 11, by the Lusitania, Gibbons, arrived off Brighton. Solway brig, 2d ult., on the Equator, in lon. 22 W.; Gentoo, Liverpool to Madras, 3d, on the Equator, in lon. 20 W., by the William Bailey, Tyack, arrived in the river. Gratitude, Africa to Falmouth, 10th ult., lat. 3 N., lon. 23 W. ; Emu, China to London, 16th, lat. 13 N., lon. 33 W. ; Eleanor, ,Sandwich Islands to L Africa ondon, 2to 6th, Falmouth, onl hit. 33 N., . 33 W. ; Barbadian, 15th inst., lat. 42, lon. 17, by the James Campbell, Pitcairn, arrived off Plymouth. Anne Wise, Cadiz to Felix, New York to Stockholm, 13th inst., lat. 47, lon. 22 ; Circassian, Cuba to Swansea, 15th, lat. 49, lon. 19 ; Mary, ship, 16th, lat. 49, lon.lB, by the Triton, arrived off Falmouth. Onderneiring, for Batavia, Jan. 23d, off Prince's Island ; Sultana, Brede River to London, 11th ult., lat. 4 N., lon. 25 W.; schooner Candidate, 12th inst. lat. 47, lon. 12 ; barque Bee, of Liverpool, same day ; Hambro barque, showing D. P. over 3643, 16th inst., lat. 48, lon. 10 ; Legatus, of London, same day ; Sarah and Maria, from China, out 179 Lys, 23d, lat. 49, lon. 5, by the Harmony, arrived off Falmouth. Ironsides, Li verpool to Pernambuco, 21st inst., by the J amaica, arrived off Plymouth. Chusan, New Orleans to Liverpool, 12th inst., lat 47, lon. 19; Chilian, Liverpool to Lima, 16th, lat. 47, lon. 10, by the Independence, arrived at Liverpool. Republican, Bremen to Quebec 14th inst., lat. 48, lon. 15; Emelia, bound to Miramichi, same day, lat. 49, lon. I t s, by the Regalia, arrived at Cork. Harriet, Jamaica too Quebec,T, 9 Liverpool,n dolnl, 11th, :11 jo i at n ht 5 : t 4 . 190: 1 t a . :0. 48,n4 7 1 , ( 1 o . n. a 26 ; Retson, Savanilla bust mainmast, &e., by the ,Mary Campbell, head, twenty-five of leagues.2l; 23; Oporto, bargue w Lo iti n i d v. on ,hi t te o C w a e m st p o b f ell S , c arrd. iiiY NNoff-ithCelorkss. THE SAXON MoNARcs.---The King of Saxony, though only a third-rate So H v i e s rer a l, e House L y xt is will yet be received with IN th ,h e om gr m ea o te r s e t es d p is e t c i i n a c u to t n h . C the Sovereign to o ti b i nr owes alle giance ; they are all Dukes of Saxony ; and his future re cognise, in the infant Prince of Wales, onee Kind will nobles. All the male branches of the English Royal l e t f o will now hold that . rank in Saxony according 1; al t1 1 : anilly • which regulate the succession of nobility on the Continent. It It was to this Sovereign that her Majesty paid the high co en m t. pliment of sending a special mission to invest him with the order of the Garter; and though the Emperor of Russia may not come, still the Br itish Court will be called upon to dis play all its magnificence and hospitality, as a sort of avant courrier to the illustrious personages who were, and, perhaps, are to visit us. We have the Crown Prince of Denmark, who, though not comin on a visit to the C ourt, will, doubt less, be invited there. his Royal Highness ;purposes making a tour through Scotland. The Danish Minister left town some days ago to meet the Prince.—Cheltenham Looker-on. A HAT BY POST.--A straw hat was sent through the post last week for the Rey. W. Horton, of Preston, paid by aid postage damps ___ L . MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (F rom the London New Price Current of May 28.) Sucam.--For West India Muscovado Sugar the de ''Ylf474airosefeetnely limited on Wednesday and Thurs- I,ItY/ ,plgriday grocers and refiners were induced 1 . 3 „;1 51 ,L 1 _ ~ Yase m„,c, freely, in consequence of merchants l'unnfltiVigt, iC auction On former rates of 6d to is rer ,i-Ot• \-.' ~ _-1- 1, - 141tYlim.t , -- day Refined Goods were not to be tircitaied ozr , th terms of last week; br Awl lumps were eo d-W765-'6l and Standard Lumps 77a 6d to 78s Ort,:,'T grocers are generally disposed to get ......i. N deiced tit Refined Sugar. The market is firm for bonded Crushed Sugar at 26s per cwt, and several orders are unexecutel THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EYENING, MAY 29, 1844, state of trade or mar ufactures, by voluntary contri butions, made on the emerging of such periods, at d the improved system of administration, with referenca to the funds thus raised, which, under the teaching of experience, has been gradually going forward.. . • We strongly advise, therefore, that the Poor-law of Scotland, with reference to the important section of it which has been now under review, shall be continued unchanged." Having thus given our readers a brief outline of the report of the Commission, from which so much was expected, we shall conclude car notice for the present by inserting the protest against the report by Mr. • Twisleton, but with the intention of returning to the subject when the document itself shall hive been a short time in the hands of the public. The cool way in which the Commission and their favourite witnesses dispose of destitution will not readily be forgotten. They propose to offer work at a reduction of 25 per cent.. • they tell the workman his wages must be re • gulated by the demand—that the wants of himself or family must not be taken into consideration—and that when he cannot find work in one place, he must travel to another, and another, and another, but he is never to seek assistance. Such a remedy was surely easily discovered before the appointment of this Com mission, whose disposal of those in want to die, or continue suffering, sets all the calculations for improv ing the condition of the population as coolly aside as if the members had lived during the days that burn ing for witchcraft was in fashion, or though those whose wants they refuse to relieve were some inferior class of beings living in the moon, and not endowed with the same sympathies and the same wants as themselves. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. William Clough, master of the brig Bolden, of Shields, was summoned to answer the complaint of John Whit ing, for having unlawfully detained him a month longer than necessary for the discharge or the cargo of that brig in the port of London. The question which came on a few days ago, before Sir Peter Laurie, as to un reasonable delay, excited a great deal of interest, particularly as the Lord Mayor had expressed much in dignation at the unpardonable treatment of the poor families of the crews of the colliers, resulting from the prodigiously long detention of the vessels in the port of REASONS OF InSSENT FROM THE FOREGOING REPORT. I. Because the proposed alterations in the Scotch Poor-law are, I am afraid, insufficient to remedy the defects which arc admitted to exist in their adminis tondOn. Alderman Humphery was at the time sitting with the Lord Mayor, in consequence of some serious cases of smuggling for adjudication, on which the presence of two magistrates was necessary. The complainant stated that he had signed articles of agreement to work the vessel from Bartlepool to Lon don and back, at 41. the voyage ; but he had no notion when he signed that he would be detained beyond the three market days allowed by the Act of Parliament ; but twenty market days had elapsed since the arrival of the brig, and no money had been distributed amongst the crew, and therefore their wives and children were in a state of destitution, and, in some instances, they must be obliged to appeal to the cold humanity of the unions. The LORD MAYOR—On what day did the vessel arrive in the port of London ? Complainant—Upon the 13th tration. 11. Because, while it is admitted that the provision at present made for the relief of the aged and infirm poor is in many parishes of Scotland inadequate, the main reliance for the supply of this deficiency seems to be placed on a proposed board of supervision, or standing commission of inquiry, with ample powers of inspection, but with no administrative control or direct authority. But it appears to me, that the striking inade quacy of the allowances at present made to the aged and infirm poor in a large proportion of the unassessed rural parishes of Scotland, arises, not so much from ignorance of facts, as from want of funds, which again is owing, in no small degree, to theories respecting the effect of any provision for the poor, even when it is restricted to the relief of the aged and the infirm. And any statements made annually in reports, tending to show that this class of poor are in a destitute con dition, will be met by the usual answer, that the only cure for such evils is in the moral and religious edu cation of the young; and that a provision for the poor creates much of the misery which it relieves, but does not relieve all the misery which it creates. 111. Because no proposal is made for requiring the managers of the poor in, unassessed rural parishes to assess themselves for the destitute, aged, and infirm of April. Tho LORD MAYOR—Why, Captain. Clough, has not the cargo been sold ? The defendant said it had been sold on Friday. It was not, he believed, in his power to oblige the factor, to whom it was consigned, to sell. The inconvenience experienced by the delay of vessels pressed heavily upon the captain, as well as upon the men, brut blame did not attach to the former any more than to the latter. The complainant (backed by several other men in similar circumstances) said it happened that the captains took good care of themselves, for they had a claim of so much per ton upon the owners for any delay which took place beyond the three first market days, 'while the men were compelled to wait until the factors chose to sell the coals, without receiving the smallest remuneration. The LORD MAYOR—As I read the Act of Parliament, the men must not be detained beyond a :reasonable time. New seven weeks I consider to be mrst unreasonable. If the poor men who are complaining of' this oppressive course supposed that such detention were contemplated, they would not have engaged to work the vessel. They were morally, and in my opinion legally, entitled to extra pay for this delay, which interferes so lamentably with their ability to support their families. The captains, by holding over the cargoes, enhance the price of coal to the public, and according to the argumemts used by the defendant they may delay in the port of London for six months, and aggravate beyond endurance the suffering of the crew with impunity. The conduct of the de • fendant in this case, and the agreement drawn up by him, are not in accordance with the spirit of the Act of Parliament. Alderman lIUMPIIERY—The public are sufferers by such conduct to the amount of seven or eight shillings per ton more than they ought to be charged, a matter which it would be strange to overlook when such a noise is made about the duty of fnurpence a ton upon the article. My advice to the defendant is fist he pay his crew for n voyage and a-half at any rate. The complainant said he would be satisfied with that arrangement. Since the vessel had come into port another vessel had made two voyages. Here one of the crew said that a vessel from Hartlepool had been ordered not to be cleared of its cargo until the coals should be sold at twenty-five shillings per ton, and that vessel had been in the port of London upwards of six weeks, and might, under such circumstances, be de layed a good deal longer: The Loan MAYOR then asked the defendant whether he was prepared to agree to the proposition to pay the man for a voyage and a half. If not, the law should certainly be put in force against him. The men were entitled by Act of Parliament to all reasonable informa tion, as to the duration of the ship's delay. The object appeared to be to exclude the public and. the crews of those vessels from the advantages of the voyages ; and the offence was the greater, as the Thames was crowded beyond all example with shipping. Alderman HUNPHERY—By holding back these cargoes, the additional penalty inflicted upon the public is to the extent of 40,0001. a-year. The LORD MAYOR—I shall require an answer from the defendant on Wedne3day, as to his intentions with respect to remuneration to these poor men, whose fami lies must now be undergoing severe privations. The complainant and the crews of the several vessels most gratefully acknowledged the benevolent inter ference of the Lord Mayor, who evidently considered that the owner, the factor, and the captain, were all actively concerned in hindering the sale of coals, for the purpose of enhancing their price, and thus abridging the comforts of those who were daily undergoing some pri vation or other. Johan Eivar•t, the mate of the ship Alexander, from Rostock, was charged with having been on board that vessel, with the knowledge that she had stowed away amongst her cargo a large quantity of tobacco, made up into parcels, each of which weighed one pound. Two of the crew had been committed, a few days before, upon a similar charge. The mate was not brought up with the convicted defendants, because of the inconvenience likely to arise from capturing an officer so prominently engaged in the vessel. Captain Schroeder, the commander of the vessel, stated that he knew nothing whatever of the tobacco. In the course of the investigation it was stated by Mr. Davis, one of the Revenue officers, that two-thirds of the tobacco used in the metropolis were smuggled, and that the tobacco on board the Alexander was foaud amongst a quantity of rags, in which there happened to be extreme heat, and which would, if the detection had not been made, in ell probability have ignited and consumed the ship. The LORD MAYOR suggested the propriety of, in all cases, making the captain responsible. If instead of the infliction of a penalty, the captain was sent to prison for a few months, smuggling would not flourish as was now the case. Captain Schroeder said the mate had gone three voyages with his vessel, and he had reason to be well satisfied with him and never suspected him, and could not at that moment suppose him capable of winking at such a shabby exhibition. It was stated-that some of the steam•vessels had been fined forty times for conveying smuggled goods, and that 20,000 pounds weight of tobacco had been lately cleared out of the Custom-house in Dutch cheeses. The LORD MAYOR and Alderman HUMPHERY then declared the defendant to be guilty, mad fined him loot. Mr. Cutler, one of the officers of the Watermen's Company, applied to the Lord Mayor for a summons for John Williamson, the father of the boy who took on board his boat the children who were lost in the Thames. The LORD MAYOR said he was glad to find that the Company was about to adopt a proper course. Mr. Cutler said his object was to have the father made answerable for having allowed his son to work his skiff on the 19th instant, on account of which three children were drowned, without having taken out a license from the Waterman's Company. He also applied for a sum mon% for George Scott, who was his apprentice, calling upon him to answer for having taken eight passengers on board his skiff, the skiff being licensed to carry no more than six passengers. 'The Loan MAYOR said that, by a little vigilance, the serious evil of crowding boats would be effectually re medied. Mr. Cutler observed that on Sunday last the Thames was so crowded with vessels that the navigation was in a great measure blocked up, and the steamers, with great difficulty made any progress at all. Ilis LORDSHIP issued the summonses in both cases, and appointed that the defendants should be directed to attend on Friday next. Captain Rowland, the Harbour Master, waited upon the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the River Thames, and reported to his Lordship, that in the month of April, as he was employed in raising a wreck about a mile and a helf below Tilbury. he observed, on the 25th of that month, a ship with a signal of distress flying, towed down by a steamer; and believing that something was amiss, he manned his boat, and proeeeded to the vessel, which proved . to be the John Woodall ; that he ascertained that the master was absent, and that the ship was on fire, and, after due examination, directed that she should be scuttled as the only means of extinguishing the fire. That after the vessel had been sunk in shal low water, near the bank, he succeeded in raising her by means of two steam-tugs ; and that if such course had not been followed the vessel would have been de stroyed. Captain Rowland stated to bis Lordship that the navigation was thus cleared of what, if at once blown up would, in all probability, have been a very dangerous impediment. The Loan MAYOR expressed his gratification at the skill and success of Captain Rowland's experiment, and said he infinitely preferred the plan of raising wrecks to that of blowing them, as the latter mode was not only calculated to obstruct the. navigation, but to do much mischief to the nets of the fishermen, who supported their families by the use of their nets. CLERKEN WELL. poor; using these terms in the most comprehensive sense, as including all those who are entitled to relief under the present law. It appears to me that the mischief's which have been attributed to assessments for this class of poor have been remarkably exagge rated, even although they may not be altogether vi sionary. On the other hand, this mode of providing for the aged and the infirm is the most equitable which can be adopted; its general tendency, as dis tinguished from its invariable result, is to insure an ampler supply of funds than can be raised by volun tary contributions; and it reaches non-resident heri tors, and others who may give either nothing, or com paratively little, in-aid of the church collections. IV. Because it is not proposed to render it com pulsory on the managers of the poor to provide me dical attendance for paupers. The arrangements for medical relief, and the power of fixing the scale of remuneration to medical practitioners, are to be left exclusively to the local authorities, who may deem that they have a direct pecuniary interest in fixing the scale of remuneration as low as possible, or in throwing altogether upon medical practitioners, as is very frequently the case at present, the burden of at tending the sick poor gratuitously. V. Because it is not proposed to authorise, or to render it compulsory upon the managers of the poor in large towns to provide houses of refuge, or poor houses with wards for able-bodied persons. But establishments of this kind, which are, in fact, iden tical with English workhouses, appear to me essen tial to the proper management of the poor in large towns ; and without them I do not see how the beg ging, which prevails to such an extent in the chief towns of Scotland, can be suppressed, consistently with humanity, or in accordance with public feeling. VI. Because, while in reference to towns with a population above 5,000 inhabitants, the advantages of poorhouses for the reception of certain classes of poor, entitled to assistance under the present Scotch poor law, are clearly pointed out, as subsidiary to out door relief;' yet the erection of such poor-houses is proposed to be left entirely to the discretion of the local authorities. But while I adinit that the arrangement of various details may be safely vested in the managers of the poor in each parti cular town, it is my opinion that the principles of dealing with a subject so difficult as that ofadmninister ing relief, should be settled by the more enlarged wisdom of Parliament. And a matter of such im portance as the erection of poor-houses ought not to depend either on the honest judgment, or possible caprice, partial knowledge, or narrow views, of acci dental majorities in particular localities. VII. Because no ,proposition is made for dealing with the case of large towns, when, during seasons of depression of trada, large bodi es o f o p era ti v es are thrown out . a ernploytnent, and become dependent for subsistence upon public charity. It seems to me desirable, that in all large towns which have a poor-house with wards for able-bodied men, the managers of the poor should have a dis cretionary power, with consent of a board of super vision, to assess the inhabitants, for the purpose of setting to work destitute unemployed persons, with out requiring them to enter such poor-house. The aid of a poor-house, with wards for able-bodied persons, materially facilitates the operations of those who, in periods of depression of trade, under take the duty of giving out-door relief to a certain number of that class. NIL Because no alteration is proposed in the Scotch law of rating, which is peculiarly anoma lous and defective. The usual mode of levying the rate on what is called " means and substance," is similar in its main features to the income-tax, but is unaccompanied by, those safeguards with which the levying of the incomeetax h&.s been surrounded by the wisdom of Parliament. Either, therefore, safe guards should be introduced, for the purpose of in suring secrecy and fairness, or the attempt to assess supposed Means and substance should be abandoned, and the mode of levying poor -rates in Scotland should be assimilated with that which is in operation in all other parts of the United Kingdom. EDWARD TIVISLETON. —Glasgow Evening Post. al, I PatricA CarroliWasciiaiied with the following savage assault upon Thomas Prince, a coach-maker, residing in Turnmill-street : The prosecutor appeared in Court with his head bound up ; he seemed to be faint from loss of blood, and declared he was suffering great pain. It appeared frein the evidence that, on the previous night, the pro secutor and his father, being perfectly sober, were passing through Clarke's-buildings, Gray's Inn-road, when they saw the'prisoner beating a woman, who was screaming violently. The prosecutor, actuated by motives of humanity, interfered, and begged of the prisoner to desist; but the prisoner immediately knocked him down. He then ran into his house, which was hard by, and rushed out, in company with another man, armed with iron bars. Before the prosecutor recovered from the former blow, the prisoner, raising the bar, inflicted a deep and extensive wound on his head. The blow rendered him senseless, and he bled profusely from the wound. Connor, having .been disarmed of the bar, seized a broom-stick, with which he struck the prostrate and insensible man on the arms and sides, until he was bruised all over, and his left arm powerless. Police constable 144 G came up some time after, and, w ith much difficulty, secured the prisoner. The prosecutor was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where the wound, which is an inch and a half long, was dressed. Mr. BROUGHTON remanded the prisoner until th e re , suit of the injuries the prosecutor received should be as certained, as in the event of erysipelas occurring, the wound in the head might prove fatal. Thomas Bresnahan was charged with stealing a large quantity of lead, the property of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. In order to complete the new line of communication between Oxford-street and Holborn, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests hate purchased several houses in Nii3y l l I- v •;. - -.titi ( ~- • 0 . - t A GEN TLEMANLY SWINDLER. About two months ago, a person of genteel exte rior, nearly six feet high, and about fifty years of . I . in O d n rheiiiiatirsrtievaal thehe alighteddatnodpwa'yalkthede s i Tliitrroet, the e n age, arrived at hotel in this city from hot,Monmouth a fly e y l hire of the fly, and the usual fees to the driver; this was, unsuspectingly, complied with, and the gentle man took up his quarters with. mine host, staying there . nearly a fortnight. In the meant i me he conversed with the landlord about taking a, house in the neighbourhood , suitable to his apparent condition in life ; at length he resolved • upon engaging lodgings in the city, on the plea of economy, until the difficulty of obtaining a house pleasing to the taste of a lady-like woman who was with him, and whom he represented as his wife, about 40 years of age, with Scotch accent, together with a little boy, between seven and eight years, could be accomplished. Subsequently to taking these lodgings he took a house at Portson, and commenced gardening operations, preparatory, as he represented, to going there to reside. During his stay in Hereford he rode out every day, and con ducted himself in all respects as a man of fortune. His real character, however, having arrived, several of the tradesman whom he had " patronised," pressed him for the monoy, and an early day was fixed for payment. The day previous to that fixed, he hired a gig and ordered it to be sent a little way out of town at an appointed hour, under pre tence of going a short distance for a ride. In order to get away his luggage, a carpet bag (pre viously obtained on trust of a tradesman in the city), the lodging-house keeper's attention was diverted to something at the back of the house, whilst the bag was given to a person wside to convey it to the gig. Off they started to Bromyard, and on their arrival he got a man to take the gig back to He reford : telling him the person of whom he had hired it would pay him for his trouble. The unsuspecting man paid the gates on his return, and when he arrived at llereford, found the owner of the gig, not hay ing been paid himself, of course would not pay the poor man, and he had to wa lk back minus his dis bursentents.for . the tolls. . From Broniyarc' he went to Worcester, and from Worcester to Birmingham or London'. He victimised the Hereford people to the extent of about 1001., having paid for one month's lodging only.—Abridged from the Hereford Times. THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, FOR 1844. We understand that a leading article, on the present year's Exhibition of the Royal Academy, by one of the most distinguished critics of the day, will appear in the June Number of Gotham's New Monthly Magazine. George's-street, Bloomsbury. On the roof of one of these houses the prisoner was seen ripping off the lead between 9 and 10 on the previous night. The police hastened to the place—one of them, 140 E, got upon the roof, whilst the others were posted in the street below. As soon as the prisoner saw the constable on the roof, he immediately " gave chase;" the constable followed; at length the prisoner dipped into the roof, the con stable popped in after him ; the prisoner ran along the space betvteen the roof and the ceiling, followed closely by his pursuer. At length the consta ble was alarmed by a crash, and on advancing a little perceiVed that the ceiling having given way, Bresnahan had partly fallen through, and having been caught be tween the joists in falling, remained, like Mahomet's coffin, suspended in space. The painful position of the prisoner was much aggravated by the endeavours of his friends in the room below to pull him down, whilst the constable strove to keep him where he . was. At length the police came up stairs, and the prisoner was secured. About a hundred- weight of lead was found piled on the roof, which had b2en recently cut from the gutter. The prisoner was remanded. William Hogg was charged with the following mis chievous conduct. The prisoner was standing by the window of Mr. Foxwell, a linen draper, residing at 26, Judd-street, at three o'clock on the previous day. The shopman de sired him to leave, but he struck him on the face, and then thrust his hand through a large pane of plate glass value 2/. 55., and damaged artificial flowers and ribbons on the inside to the value of 3/. more. In default of paying the' amount of damage done, the prisoner was committed to the House of Correction for two months. MARYLEBONE. A girl named Reynolds, alias Ellen Fitzpatrick, was placed before Mr. Rawlinson on the following charge:— Francis Cole Himbert, of the Hyde Park Hotel, said that the prisoner had entered his service about six weeks ago, representing that she was Ellen Fitzpatrick. She referred him to Mrs. Dymond, of 22, Frith-street, Soho square, for a character. He went there, and that lady told him that she had had a girl named Ellen Fitzpa trick, and could vouch for her honesty and - sobriety : He upon these representations, and believing the prisoner to be the Ellen Fitzpatrick to whom Mrs. Dymond re ferred, took her into his service. He had reason to be lieve that the prisoner, from the time she had entered his house, had committed robberies upon the different ladies upon whom she waited. Unfortunately, however, he was not in a condition to prove either of those, but he ' had written to some of the aggrieved parties, and they had given instructions to their solicitors. What those instructions were he was not prepared to say. He wished therefore, merely to go into the question of the false character, and he would, therefore, call Dr. Dymond to prove that the prisoner had never been in his service. Dr. Dymond, 22, Frith-street, said that the prisoner wa; known to the real Ellen Fitzpatrick, but that her name was Reynolds, and she had never been a domestic in his house. The prisoner made a rambling defence, after which the worthy Magistrate said that she had not even the excuse of a girl who, getting into work by means of a false character, was determined to make a good one by honesty, diligence, and sobriety. She, on the contrary, had from the house that she had been admitted to, Mr. Himbert's, pillaged all who came near her, and he, there fore, felt it his duty to inflict the highest penalty the Act would allow, which was to pay 201., with 10s. costs, or go for three months' to' the House of Correction. Mr. Himbart said that there, were wages due to her to the amount of 11. 11s. 6d., and her box of clothes yet remained in his house. The prisoner directed that her sister, who was in Court, should receive them. WORSHIP-S TREE T. Monday a man named Thomas Patterson, and Eliza beth Patterson, his wife, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, on the following charge of robbery and attempted murder, upon a young man named George Allen, a linen-glazer, residing in Monkwell-street, Fore street, Cripplegate. The prosecutor, whose face was a mass of cuts and contusions, and in other parts of his person bore mani fest evidences of severe ill-treatment, stated that as he was passing through Aldersgate•street, at eleven o'clock on the night of Sunday, the 19th inst., he was accosted by a young woman, with whom he ultimately went to numerous houses, and lastly to a very wretched one, where he was attacked, robbed, and then wounded. The whole proceedings were of the lowest and fiercest cha racter. At last the prosecutor made a violent struggle, and succeeded in breaking away and running into Ar thur-street, where he met a policeman, and while telling him of the ferocious attack that had been made upon him, the two prisoners passed the end of the street, and were immediately pointed out by the prosecutor as two of the persons implicated. Henry Turpin, an officer, who searched the prisoners' house, deposed to finding the outer case of the watch and the prosecutor's money-bag there, and to the floor of the room being in several places dyed with coagulated blood.—Both prisoners were fully committed to New gate for trial. Brown and. Smith (officers) stated in the course of the examination that the female prisoner had belonged to a desperate gang, which had been routed out by the parish authorities from Granby-street, Waterloo-road, where they had located themselves, and afterwards distributed themselves in other parts of the metropolis. The male prisoner was stated' to be very respectlbly connected, but bad bean discarded by his relatives in consequence of his marriage with the other prisoner. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, MAY 25. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN ENGLAND. Mr. CUMMING, of London, said that since last year a most important change had taken place in the de signation of the Presbyterian Synod in England. They had agreed to exchange that portion of their title "in connexion with the Church of Scotland," and immediately agreed to receive a deputation from a body who were known by the title of the "Free Church." This had taken place immediately after the late secession, and the result was that the Synod, which was recognised as in communion with the Church of Scotland, had ceased to exist in any way whatever. It had been said, that the declaration in favour of the Free Church had been come to unani mously, but the true cause of unanimity was because many of the ministers of the Church of Scotland in Eng land were so dissatisfied with the statements made in the Synod, that they studiously, and by concert, absented themselves from its meeting. It was not, therefore, right to suppose that all the ministers who had been in connexion with the Church of Scotland had alien ated from that connexion, or lost their affection fur it. On the contrary, some of the best and ablest minis ters in England not only maintained the connexion unimpaired, but had become more attached to the Church than they had been before.—(Bear, hear.) He rejoiced that that attachment had become stronger, and that he had it in his power to say, that many who had separated in consequence of the ex citement, were now rapidly returning within its pale. There was one church within the Presbytery of Lon don which could not contain the number that had returned, and who were sick to the heart of the at tempts made against it.—(Hear, hear.) All that he wished to ask of , 'the Assembly was, that the tie which knit the' Ministers in England to the Esta blishment should be as broad and palpable to the eyes of the public as it could with consistency be made. The reasons for this were extremely cogent, for state ments were circulated in England to the effect that the churches there were disowned—that the Church of Scotland had nothing to do with them. All that was necessary, then, was simply that they should be recognised—that the Assembly saw in them a useful outpost of the National Church.—(Hear, hear). He could make statements to the house which would prove that some ministers in England had rendered no unimportant services to the interests of the Church. It was reported throughout London, that all religion had evaporated from the Established Church of Scot land—that scarcely an evangelical minister was to be found within its pale--and that those who remained were absolutely Socinian in their principles. When ap.• plication was made to therresb ytery of London for i n for illation on the state of the Church, they gave a true statement of the facts of the case. The Presbytery in London had divided itself into two parties—one half of whom, whose trustees were less specific as to their connection with the Church of Scotland, re mained attached to it, while the other parties, whose trust-deeds stated distinctly that they should be in connection with the Established Church, had alien ated itself from it. He believed that, as soon as those had light to see their duty, there would be seven or eight, instead of only three churches in con nection with the Church. In Liverpool there were two churches—one retained its connection with the Establishment, and he believed the other would very soon be the same c — (Hear,hear.) Several ministers in England were anxious that something should be done to rally the scattered forces throughout that country, and he had received letters showing how desirous they were that the Assembly should adopt some measure which would mark the line of demarcation of such as were ministers of the Church of Scotland. Many in England were anxious to combine the status of being connected with the Church of Scotland, while they courted all the popularity of the secession —they having never formally renounced their con nection with the EstabliShment. He. would suggest that in these circumstances the Assembly would be pleased to request the scattered ministers of the Church in England to form themselves into presby teries, and that those presbyteries should form them selves into a synod—composed exclusively of the licentiates of the Church, and allow the synod to send a deputation to the Assembly ; or perhaps it would be still more advantageous that a small committee of the Assembly were appointed to confer with the ministers in England as to the way in which their relation to the Church of Scotland should be recog nised.—(Rear, hear.) The connexion with England was of great importance to the Church, fur many persons came to the metropolis to spend a few years —perhaps but a few weeks ; and if there was no Church connected with the Establishment, they would go either to the Episcopalian Church, and thus be in danger of forsaking the Church of their fathers, or they would join those who were hostile to it, and then return home to exert themselves to its prejudice. But if the Church kept up its connexion in London, there would be every prospect of those who visited that city being sent home better Christians and better men. The connexion with English churches was also valuable and use ful in regard to the schemes of the Church. The EPI copalian Churches entertained much sympathy with the Church of Scotland, there being a general con viction that its position was the right and tru e ota l i and that it ought to have their sympathy and co-ope ration.—(Hear.) He had conversed with several of the most celebrated ministers of the Episcopalian Church on the subject—a minister who had sent tea guineas to the five schemes which he (Mr. C.) He lieved he would annually contribute.—(Hear . ) repeated his earnest request that the Assembly shotu" u give some distinct expression, indicating the tie villie° subsisted between it and the Churches in England . , Dr. BROWN, of Greenock, said, that in every worcl which had been so well expressed by his Rev. l'rienda he most cordially concurred. He would simplY ad that there was a very crying rea 3 on why, a c anmittee mi should be appointed as requested by Mr. (,um i g and that was that from representations made to es " from Liverpool and London, it was absolutely nec sary that some deliverance should be given b,y th Assembly, in order that those places of worship whici a l but formerly were in connection with the Church, which now had separated from it, should be reclain!eu by judicial procedure—that, in short a plea in, equitY might be entered. ca Dr. Coox said it was certainly of great importaP.,h to the Church to be on a most intimate footing the Presbyterians in England attached to it. I`_ knew there were many zealously attache d, and wn,.ut; by the communications they had sent, showedl anxious desire to know in what relation they re a so stood to the Establishment of getting its supP° ll ' that they might manage their churches , an d e" -,r—v 'ts the different offices in a manner consisten t with.l f views. The church at Liverpool had evidence of its attachment to the Establishment/ t. expressing its great anxiety for guidance in this resP e . n ., lifter a few observations from Dr. Muir and cipal Macfarlan, ; re Mr. PRINGLE, M.P. expressed his cordial satin ere tion at the readiness with which the Assembly:foe to accede to the request of Mr. Cumming, e. 11 ',..d. Committee was appointed; and after some praa,, ing3 of no interest in the evening sederunt, the 0 ° sembly adjourned till Monday. given a stri.lob, FREE CHURCH—SATURDAY. Mr. BRIDGES brought up the subject of til e , i t he ir provement of the church psalmody, and enforne ( !•: f • necessity of taking up the matter with more hni.;;;4 energy than it had been in time past. He n °t : go r• the great attention paid to this part of Christian ce ship in the early part of the Church's history, il.„ c h it, trast with the comparative indifference with svnl'fle was generally regarded in modern congregations; es. hoped the subject would be taken up by the rot tional Committee of the Church, for it wa s there to,. it should be seriously considered that the m usica le . lifications of their schoolmasters might be mor e „,„Irdst rally enforced. He proposed a sub-counnittee,—inte the Educational Committee to take the s ub j ect consideration. tt bo° tl Mr. MACFARLANE,, of Renfrew, said, thit, had music of a simpler kihd as a sort of 1e55 00 ,,, to for their congregations, and could intere st the"; to take an united interest in their improven3ee''" psalmody, he had no doubt that much good W,"' result.—lt was agreed to appoint a committee, OVERTURE ON UNIVERSITY TESTS* Mr. Sheriff SPEIRS said, it was useless for tits go minutely into the history of these tests, subject had been so amply discussed elsewhere'bees was well known that until lately they I,xnaiina; virtually abolished in all the Universities Of coda the' and that their revival at the present time was notheo purpose of embarrassing those persons who wew, hot' have been particularly obnoxious to the Se na ' ,1 to deny the honour to those who, for conscienc e tio a had become members of the Free Church of Se°, s ities; —(Applause.) All the professors in the 'Unit,b who had become adherents to the Free ChlP-testi Scotland, had at one time subscribed these veldt which were now so much spoken of; and tie:4 t° ac lherl; to be considered, in all fairness, as yet them in spirit and in substance—(Applauee„.l out great clamour had been raised about the subroios of doors ; and they knew the result of the aPP le t fo r to the House of Commons. The attent r , to their abolition, in the form of an applic et- ,0 10 Parliament, had failed; but it had failed in hoffe way as to leave no doubt that the country t t 0 0 would soon set this matter to rights , and tP S teti short time they would cease to suffer from thes e , al ' e which bore so heavy upon those professors nl4l not happen to be members of a Church PreEstssesl. ment.—(Applause.) The Assembly, at the hot time, was unable to do anything in the nat te n f i llt e ,, he trusted that by the next Assembly they sys - , n igo' better prepared to act upon the subject. The -6005 remit the overture to a committee, with instt e w e 04 11 upon the subject generally, and directions to the specially over the interests of the members of the Free Church, who were professors in the Univ er :ol o ' Dr. CANDLISH said he entertained no alarr : c - a tt ° ever for the result of the present agitation. . 1 (1 $ 1 1 -- te disruption from the Establishment, the Free t' f 00° had been the means of extending the cause ° chi religion generally, and stirring up a spirit of 0 0; tian brotherhood in many evangelical denorninebor and might it not reasonably expect, that by then ode in g forward the question of university tests, cops' accession would be made to the cause of eduotter both moral and religious'? Even shou ld theld l4f. swell out into popular excitement 51101 / 4 . g od:, Maule's excellent proposal not be carrie 0 "" - ant - °- great good, he had no doubt, would be attee the result. tod The subject was, accordingly, remitted to $ mittee. cr409 0 DEPUTATION TO THE UNITED ASSOCIATE .A r Dr. CANDLISH said that, in the absence Obe Welsh, he had merely to report verbally, as $ ll/ Oo$: of that deputation, that, notwithstanding tbeAtisen ante to be made for the difference between the',„ect and the body which they visited, upbn the • Church Establishments, they had been rec eive all and cordially, and were deeply im ressed friendship shown them. There cPould be " D - ol es'' . render of our principles in thus bc; ing that friendly intercourse between o t o j 10 0 , 111 bodies. The Free Church had got g rnsts nc tli them ; and they, in their own peculiar circu-ri-osOto might derive much benefit from their connec;esd/A. it. He trusted that they would alwaYs beljtists welcome every . denomination of evangelical %),.. e Dos —that they might draw tighter and tighter 170'5; of Christian unity—so that our branch of i t ted /1.1 byterian Church might be found to be Bn-113$ t he one soul and one spirit. to Mr. HENDERSON, of Glasgow, also test il ' e itb, tt o brotherly reception the deputation had rae t .roes t o'clockTlle A m s i sem io l n il d y ay th . en adjourned u ntil 11° ' re s ve , til_ eir LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAlLVlAirlinsjfisr,p -gratified to find that this comp ' any are in i c ' n - g - 1 0 "; 0 0", second class carriages—an improvement • 1 : °- ,OP . 'I P The third class carriages are also undergo' :ere" e e l 0 mcnt, being now covered over, although n''' t ii c° o b e u ttl a b e but so long as the journey occupies e i g ht h° o f 0 - I be creased accommodation inducing Birmingham and London, there is little fea r ,. 00 3 04 a ny °the' ci s; ,a poorest from resorting to these slow C onvoY ° n e e g of are indeed sufficiently uncomfortable for the giro ill-clad, especially in wet and wintry wot ile " t'e'nd • , - hanr.lournal. v i e ar of 0 CHANGES IN THE SERVICE. --The Iri c- d r iocs ef # O4l has been presented to the Chancellor of tV ro ael oc ii through him to the Bishop, by the churcblvbejnt o ch,' the principal part of the lay members, for ' Li 0 f r io s' ton of certain changes into the s ervice ; 6u , c , 08511 011 ; ing in his surplice, reading the prayer for an f c, militant, causing public collections on 5 ,. 51 0 ,, 0 0 , 0t iol P days from the congregation, dismissing U - !„ e r egu' r ,ios s ; days, without a benediction, and for nert al- bris te flol l° ' alleged to be very offensive in reference toc dead." and more especially in the burial of the Free Press. ^, J. 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