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LONDON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1830. Lord ELLENBOROUGLI asked Viscount MELBOURNE whether the information recently published from China were well founded. The Noble Viscount said the Government had no official information, but he believed the facts to be as the Noble Lord had stated. Lord BROUGHAM, prosecuting his hostility to late legislation, had a message sent to the House of Commons for a return of all the Bills brought into the House of Commons since the Ist of July. • On the Report of the Metropolis Police Bill being brought up, and on Lord ELLENBOROUGH moving to omit the clause concernin g dogs, the Noble and Learned Lord expatiated on the evil of employing dogs in carts. We regret to see such a disposi tion in any Lord ; for the employment of dogs, as Lord ELLENBOROUGH immediately afterwards explained, is necessary for many of the poor to obtain their living. Several Peers, however, followed Lord BROUGHAM'S lead ; one said so employing dogs was new, another that it was unsightly. Of course, if the poor could keep carriage -horses like the Peers, they would not employ dogs, and as they cannot have horses, it seems to us cruel, not to say one-sided, par tial, and contemptible legislation to prohibit them from employing d ogs . B ut t h e P eers have more regard for dogs than poor men and women, and so they protect the former and starve the latter. What are they pre paring for themselves ? Lord ELLENBOROUGH gave up his humane intentions, and the canine intentions of the framers of the Bill received their Lordships' sane tine.. The Slave Treaties Bill • was thrown out on the second reading. The Earl of MINTO moved it in a speech which was not heard in the gallery. The Duke of 1% ELLINGTON opposed the Bill, as having the effect I of making war on Portugal. He admitted our right I and duty to call on Portugal to carry out the treaties, but he contended that the Government could do that , better than by the instrumentality cf the Bill. Viscount MELBOURNE defended the 1.:;111 as a pledge given to the other House, and contended that so far from involving this country in a war with Portugal it would enable the I Government. to avoid a tv,ir. The Earl of DEVON supported 1 the views of the Duke of WELLINGTON, and on a division i they prevailed by 88 to-32. W e have no recollection that this Bill enecuntered any opposition in the Com mons, so that it adds to the number of legislative in ! faints wantonly slaughtered by the Peers. The Unlawful Oaths Ireland Bill, on which a discus sion 5 , 1,13 expected, was read a second time without any discussion, which is to take place on going into Com mittee. Lord ELLENBOROUGH merely said that the Bill was so carelessly drawn, that should it pass, all their Lordships will be guilty of an unlawful confederacy. We will not say that, whether the Bill pass or not, such is the case ; but we will say, that their Lordships do form a confederacy very dangerous to the public happiness. Their Lordships sat till Nine o'Clock. In the Commons a similar question as to China was put, to that put in the Lords, and received a similar answer. Load JOHN RUSSELL brought the question of privi lege in the case of I'oLAcK v. HANSARD under the notice of the House, and after showing the necessity for the House now to defend its privileges, moved a resolution, that Messrs. HANSARD acted under the orders of the House, and that to bring, or assist in bringing, any action against them on account of such publication, would be a breach of the privileges of the House. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT spoke of the difficulty of the case, and was afraid lest the House should involve itself in trouble. Sir R. INGLis, true to the superior respect he has always evinced for the Courts of Law to the House of Commons, opposedthe resolution, an d contended that it would be of no use ; that they were riot likely to sit above three weeks ; and that if they imprisoned the attornGiy, other attorneys would be found to carry on the suit. Sir R. PEEL sp o k e i n f avour o f the tuotion, which he described as extremely moderate. Ha quoted the ' evidence eby aM Pr. oLAck, to show tlivt, it was of Z kindaland that v o e u ht to be known to p ersons going t o N ew , and to the evidence of other persons, to show what the characterotYinacx was, in order thet those evidence interested in hi s might know what reliance to place on it. Sir S.LUSHINGTON sp oke in favour of the resolutions, and Mr. O'CONNELL ad vocated Lord JOHN RUSSELL st ated t h at still stronger measures. since he had first addressed the House, he had receivedot a . letter from Mr. fPOLACK, stating that he had n orized Mr. SHAW to bring an action against Messrs INGLis persisted in dividing the IiHANSARD s n o i n the question, ; Sir It. and was supported by five Members an other teller besides himself ; he was opposed L e i ud j ,i ) ng tile resolution passed, as well as other ;:ensso;lualtli(oinsso, instructing the Messrs. HANSARD not, to see the House the letter of the attorney. We rejoice to involved in such contests, as they will compel it to place the law on a proper footing. It is a disgrace to the Legi..te lature that any doubt whatever should exist as to what is law or what is privilege, and as to what can or cannot b • prosecuted and punished as libel. We do rit , ; blame this Legislature for not deciding the ever-varying relations of profits, wages, and rent, which it does not create. But law and privilege are its own offspring, and if it cannot adjust them, what can it adjust ? The Courts are its creatures, why does it not teach them to know their maker? The Bank of Ireland question, on brigging up the Report, gale rise to another diseusson. Mr. O'Cc►N NELL, Mr. A. YATES, Mr. O'BRIEN, MR GISBOR/VE, and several other Members, opposed the motion, chiefly 0.1%••••••• V.v.% . TlO (UANDS IN NEC ZEALAND. A The DIRECTORS of the NEW ZEALAND LAND COMPANY hereby give notice, that Orders for Land may be ~ purchased at their Office, which will entitle t - a holders there(); to select Country Section, either at the Company's principal Settlement, or at Hokianga, _Kaipara, Manukau, the islands of 'Wai-keke and Paron, the borders of the Thames, or any other part of the territories already purchased by the Company, as soon as the same shall i.,- surveyed. The holders of such Land 1 Orders will aho be entitled to claim fiim the Company a pas sage to New Zealand, f•ee of cost, for themselves, families, and ( servants, to the extent of 75 per cent. of their purchase money. Further particulars as to the terms of purchase, may be ob tained on application to the Secretary. By Order of the Directors. JOH?. WARD, Secretary. i New Ze a l an d L an d C ompany ' s Offi ce , No. -. -s t, Adam-street, Adelphi, 23d July, 18.39. To be had at all the Libraries, T HE NEW NOVELS, JUST PUB LISHED. 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Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. On :SIONDAY, Tt:ESDAY, and THURSDAY, AUG. sth, 6th, and Bth. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM PETRES. Exhibition of the Extraordinary newly-discovered Light KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. And, at Dusk, the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECLA, &c. Admission One Shilling. Feeding flour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning...—. .;ti minutes atter 7. Evening ... c 2 minutes after 8, „sz%=s , x~ ; ,, ~:~.- Zfu We inserted yesterday the Report v of the Fresh Fruit Committ ee , an d we a d vert to it to-day to no tice what we consider a remarkable circumstance, showing how much legislation depends on chance. Mr. HODGES, the Member for West Kent, drew up and moved the adoption of an elaborate Report, recommending amongst other things, the restoration of the former duties, or at least a protecting duty equivalent to the peculiar burden from which the British fruit 'planter cannot escape. This Report was rejected by the casting vote of the Chairman. But the Chairman might have been Mr. HODGES, who was proposed by Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, and if he had been Chairman, as perhaps he ought to have been, of a Committee promoted by him, and for the service of his constituents, the Report would have been carried the other way, and Parliament would no doubt have adopted the recommendation of the representative of the fruit growers. Thus it was far less' utility and sound reasoning than a mere chance that determined against imposing a heavy additional tax on plums, cherries, and apples to increase the rent of the landowners. We apprehend that a similar chance is the foun dation of many laws ; at least we every day see that the most capricious circumstances, the inci dental illness, or the momentary perversity and ill temper of one or two Members, decides the fate of a measure in either House of Parliament. Nay, the whole course nearly of our legislation has been momentarily influenced by a very trifling misunder standing on a most trifling subject between h e r MAJESTY and Sir R. PEEL. Witnessing and knowing such facts, it is quite impossible for us to reverence the laws now made, however willingly or unwillingly we may obey them. In fact, the measures daily passed by the Legislature are the objects of the most unsparing criticism, ridi cule, and contempt. But that which now happens concerning the laws daily passed, happened with many of the laws of former times. They, too, were the result of capricious or chance-begotten circumstances, though they might not have been so much noted as such circumstances now are. The great bulk of our Constitution has perhaps no better or more valid origin than the ridiculous or contemptible laws we every day witness passing through the Houses of Parliament ; and yet it is a common maxim, that there is no higher duty, no greater virtue, than to obey such laws. This matter should be placed on its right footing. It is clear that as long as the bulk of society is arrayed on the side of law, be the law evil or good, it must be the interest of individuals to obey. They cannot escape from the operation of the law ; they obey it as a matter of necessity ; and in this sense, rather than in any other, it is properly said to be the duty of men to obey the law. When, like Mr. O ' CONNELL, backed by seven millions of Irish men, he could set it at defiance, obedience ceased to be a virtue, and rode over the law. The cruel treatment to which the Chartist dele gates, Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS, have been subjected in Warwick Castle, cannot fail to be the means of producing a material change in prison discipline. The facts which the investigation of their complaints has brought to light prove most satisfactorily that the boasted maxim of English law, " that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is found guilty by a jury of his peers" is a positive falsehood. There is no such thing in prac tice, and however unpleasing the truth may sound, we do not believe there ever was. It is a mere fig ment of some waggish lawyer's brain,—a satirical hit at the gross departure from justice which takes place in England every day in the y ear , an d a l most every hour i n th e day. In what prison in the kingdom is there a separate provision made for the confinement of persons committed before trial ? ln not one is there any such provision. Those who have the privilege of regulating the gaols, the county Justices, seem never to have dreamt that any distinction ought to be made between the man accused and the man convicted of a crime. The utmost extent to which our boasted prison improve eeent has been yet carried—and that in buta few in stances—is to arrange criminals into certain classes; it being, seemingly, taken for granted that it is the same thing to be accused and to be convicted. Now what is the object of lodging a man in gaol who is accused of an offence against the laws ? Simply that he may be kept in safe custody until his trial comes on. Any restraint beyond this is manifestly and often cruelly unjust, for no one till then can possibly know whether the accused is guilty or not. It is exactly the kind of justice which RHADAMANTHUS is described by the poet as administering in the Infernal regions, who first punishes and then inquires into the case. That which justice and humanity equally demand • is that an accused person should, with the exception of the restraint necessary for his safe keeping, suffer no greater privations than those to which, in his parti cular station of life, he is at other times exposetE Now, if this be but barely just towards persons who are accused of violating the known laws of the land, how much more ought such a course to be observed towards men in the situation of LOVETT and COLLINS, who have, in fact, violated no law ? The charge on which they were committed to prison is libel, the most indefinite of all charges, in as much as no mortal man can tell what a libel is, un til the verdict of a jury has determined it in each individual case. It is, therefore, utterly impossible for any degree of caution to secure the person who meddles with a pen against the possibility of being found guilty of this offence—not against the law, but against the opinions or prejudices of the dozen men who may chance to find themselves in the jury -box to try him. There is, moreover, this peculiar hardship in the case, that the inditer of falsehood is much more favoured by the admi nistrators of justice than he who never steps be yond the strictest limits of truth ; for, if a man accused of libel thinks to escape by pleading the truth of the statement—as some men in the inno cence and ignorance of their hearts might be apt to imagine—he is immediately warned by the Judge not to adopt so dangerous a line of defence, for it is a maxim on the Bench, that " the greater the t r uth, the greater the libel." Now, since it is so difficult to know beforehand what may or may not be a libel, one cannot but see that there is a wide distinction between the crimina lity, if we must use that word, of the person who falls into this legal trap, and that of him who commits what all men know to be a violation of the law of the land. What then shall be thought of that system of prison discipline, or rather of national justice, which con d emns men merely accused of doing that which may turn out to be nothing wrong, which is assuredly no contravention of any law, to the indig nities and privations inflicted on convicted felons ? - - DISTURBANCES IN NEWCASTLE (From the Tyne Pilot.) RIOT ACT READ —THE MILITARY CALLED OUT. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYN E , TUESDAY, DA LI, PA ST 9 P. M. Notwithstanding the notices which have been issued by the Ma gistrates of their determination to put a stop to, and disperse any or all illegal meeting s a t tempte d to be held in the borough, a number of 01-hardy individuals, principally from the neigh bouring villages, in defiance of the municipal authorities, marched into the town with sticks, preceded by a bank of music. They proceeded to the foot of Dean-street, and in a short time returned, in order to proceed to the Forth, for the purpose of holding a meeting pursuant to their often-evpressed intention, in spite of all authority. Shortly afterwards the Mayor (J. Fife, Esq. ), acccmpanied by Dr. Headlam, one of the Magistrates, and Mr. J. Brown, clerk to the Magistrates, appeared on horseback in Mosley-street, and were speedily surrounded by a not very great number of indivi duals, to whom he spoke respecting the impropriety of their disturbing the peace of the town, and exciting alarm in the minds of the peaceable inhabitants urging upon them the necessity of retiring to their homes. They went on through Collingwood• street and Westgate -street to the end of the Spit tal, and waited for a short time. Between eight and nine o'clock a band of special constables, headed by Ald. Ridley, Ald. Dunn, Robert Plummer, Esq., and W. Loraine, Esq. Magi strates, marched from the Manor-station, and were met by the police, who came down Westgate -street. The Mayor and Alderman Headlam then rode on the Forth, in order to in duce the people assembled there to return home peaceably and orderly ; they left the Forth, but followed the Mayor back to 'Westgate-street, purposing to parade the street, as they frequently done before, but their further progress was arrested by about 70 of the police, who, armed with cutlasses, and formed in a square, offered an obstacle to their again en tering the town. Th e Ri ot Act having been read, and the peopl not feeling inclined to disperse, the police were directed by the Mayor, who headed them, to move forward. The ban ners were immediately seized, the Mayor having hold of one, and 'they 'were all soon in the hands of the police. A speedy retreat was made by the mob along the Seotswood-road, nearly to the Forth, where several heaps of stones are laid. The police, in returning to Westgate-street, were in turn assailed by volleys of stones and bricks. Two or three in dividuals were here taken prisoners in the act of throwing those missiles. In the mean time, a troop of cavalry and some infantry made their appearance in Westgate-street, who, on the return of the police, offered an effectual barrier to the mob, who were never very numerous. They not showing any disposition to more off, the cavalry marched along the road, clearing it as they went. The infantry followed a short distance, whilst the street was occupied by t h e po li ce and special' constables, Four prisoners being in custody of the police, were then taken to the station. Their names are Edward Coulson, John Mills, Andrew Guthrie, and John Stirling, the latter of whom, we believe, it is who, we are exceedingly sorry to say, was found to have received a wound as if from the point of a cutlass in the ab domen. The poor fellow was evidently suffering much pain.-- Mr. Mark, surgeon, who resides near the station, was promptly in attendance, and immediately rendered his professional as sistance, and we hope he will speedily recover. At ten o'clock the military began to clear the streets, and clean heels were exhibited in every street as soon as it was known they were coming. A number of people were walking about, but we think more from motives of curiosity than anythin-- else. ELEVEN o'CLocx.--The military are posted at° the corners of the principal streets, and a number of prisoners have been taken to the police station ; but we think they are not charged with anything serious, or with being in any way identified with the previous opposition to the law. [Rumour is rife, and amongst other idle reports we find that it has been stated that an armed force of the malcontents was expected to march from Winterton. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals this week of English Wheat and Flour hare been better than for some time past, of other Grain the quantities are small, but Foreign Flour comes in plentifully. The Wheat trade is extremely dull, but the factors not disposed to take less than last day's advance. In other grain no variation. Ship Flour has obtained higher prices this week, but the trade is very heavy. E y hglish ........ rish ... ......... Wheat. 4,540 ps. ARRIVALS. I Raley. (3r, vs. k °reign, The French Journals appear to tak e an ex t raor di nar y interest i n t h e negotiation the Banks of Eng land and France, respecting the loan of two millions sterling in gold required by the English Bank for the maintenance of commercial credit in this country. By the Journal des Debats and the Courrier Francais the advancement of the loan is warmly recommended as a measure combining liberality and sound policy ; by on the impropriety of legislating on such an important the Constitutionnel the loan is partially approved question at the close of the Session. of, the only fear expressed being of a misunder- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUE R an d Mr. standing, or rather a war between the two coun- Cr. AY supported it on general principles, the CHAN- tries, before its repayment, in which case the CELLOR most erroneously. He insisted on the State journalist argues that France would have supplied maintaining a standard of value as it ma i n t a ins a her enemy with the most offensive weapons ; while by standard of wei g ht s and measures. The one being the the Commerce the loan is condemned as illegal, and proportional parts of known quantities, which the dangerous to the welfare of France. It is clear, from State does not establish, but ascertains and certifies, the whole tenor of the article in the Commerce that the the other being an ever-varying and unknown relation, writer knows nothing at all about the matter. The which in point of fact the State neither does nor can gold which the Bank of England proposes to borrow has ascertain nor establish ; for it admits of theissue it cannot been deposited for years in the vaults of the Bank of prevent, the issue of paper money, and it freely admits France, as useless to the nation as iC it were at the the import and export of metallic money. But Mr. RICE bottom of the Atlantic ; and it has not escaped the at is domatically ignorant of the subject, and therefore tention of the ablest French political economists that talked nonsense. What are the boundaries of the duties it can never be better employed than in drawing closer of Government is yet wholly unknown, though Mr. the commercial interests of the two countries, and more Rica settled them as flippantly as he would settle a especially in preventing a crash here, which would in -11 question concerning the colour of his next new coat. volve France in a common ruin. As no French The House admitted his logic, and 61 Members—yes, Journalist either doubts the solvency or the good faith 61 out of 658 Members !—voted for bringing up the Re- of . the Bank of England, we pass over these con port, and 20 against it, Mr. O'CONNELL, like a siderations. trump, aga in divided the House, on the motion for In the Univers Religieux of Wednesday, received bringing in a Bill to carry out the resolution, when, with the other Paris Journals of that date, we find it by the votes of 68 Members against 16, the monopoly stated that the French Government had received Intel of the Bank of Ireland was continued. A tenth part of ligence that MEHEMET Au accepted the invitation of the House suffices to inflict that mischief on the the Porte, and had arrived at Constantinople with the country. The whole House would not have the power Capitan Pacha's fleet. This news is important if true, to undo a grain of the evil it does. but it seems to us highly improbable. Equally pro- Subsequently the AdmiraltyCourts' Bill went through blematical is the statement which appears in the Car•ls a Committee, after a considerable discussion, principally rune Gazette, that Admiral STorE ORD had encountered on the increased salary, and on the propriety of allowing the Turkish fleet, and compelled the Capitan Paella the Judge of the Court to sit in the House. On the to return with it to'iConstantinople under a stronc , Bri first question, the Committee decided, by 80 to 35, that tish escort, guaranteeing, however, the safety of the the Judge's salary should be 4,0001., not 3,0001. a-year. Turkish Admiral's person. On the latter it decided by 61 to 51, that the Jud ge The Commerce states that a band of Carlists violated should sit in the House. There were several other the French Territory near Jaca, for the purpose of divisions on the Bill. The House sat till Half-past pillaging the Spanish village of Cianfranc. They were Two o'Clock. successful, leaving the miserable inhabitants without horses or food. There is no domestic news of the slightest interest in the Paris Journals. BOURSE.--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31. HALF-PAST THREE. —The approach of tile settling (to. morrow) in French Stocks has given briskne.,s to the Market. The Three per Cents. for the Account opened at 80f. 50., rose to 801. toe., and closed at 801., being sc. higher than yesterday. The Five per Cents. from 112 f. 5c., advanced to 112 f. 10e.„ and receded to close as they opened, this being as yesterday. At half-past two, time for declaring on the option of calls, the price of the Three per Cents. wag 80f. oc., but little was called. Fur Money the Five per Cents. are unaltered, and the Three per Cents. 10c. higher. The Bank ot France Shares have advanced 25f.. The Laffitte Bank 1,0001. Shares are unaltered, those of 5,000 f. are Of. higher. The Belgian Three per Cents, for the Account, settling on Friday, 72f. 50c. No alteration in Belgian Bank Shares, nor in Spanish Active. The Versailles Right Bank Railway Shares, the Havre, the Orleans, and the Strasburg to Bale, are as yesterday for Money. The Versailles Left Bank 'lave advanced 7f. 50c. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents l:2 10 ...' 112 10 ... 112 5 ... I.2'i 5 4 per Cents lO3 ... 11'3 ... 103 ... 103 3 per Cents Bl 5 ... SO 10 ... 80 5 ... 8 , IC Bank of erance 2755 —.1775 ...27:',5 —2775 Lattitte Batik I.ooof. Sh 1,1150 —.1050 —.11)50 ...1050 5,000 f. bh 5213 ...5215 —.5215 ...5215 Belgian 5 per Cents 102% ~. 102% ... 102% ... 102% Belgian Bank 775 ... 781 ... 775 ... 780 :Spanish Active Passive 4 .. 4k ... 4 ... 4 Neal.:olitan ._ Ro man lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101% _RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, et. B OB2 50 ... 682 50 ... 012 50 ... 082 50 LB 345 ... 310 ... 345 ... 352 50 Havre Orleans . Strasburg to Bal e ... 327 50 ... 33j ... 327 50 ... :430 Montpellier to Cette • 397 50 ... 397 50:...:297 50 ... 397 50 Seyssel (A) ASPHALTES AND Bll' m U ENS. - 2 '59 ... 2050 ...200 ...2050 In a letter from the Russian Pro-Consul at Aleppo of the Ist ult., describing the battle of Nezib, we find it stated that the engagement between the Turks and Egyptians commenced on the 23d of June, and was re newed early on the 24t1i, when the former were com pletely routed. Of the Turks 4,000 were killed, 2,000 wounded, and 8,500 made prisoners. IBRAHIM likewise took 120 pieces of cannon, 10,000 guns, the military chest, containing 45,000 purses, with tents, waggons, stores of every kind, and a quantity of jewels. The Egyptians lost only 350 killed and about 800 wounded. The next day lanamm pursued the routed Turks to Baragick, where he found 30 pieces of cannon, 5,000 guns, and a quantity of military stores. In the Ottoman army there were several European officers, of whom five French men, the Polish General MoLEsiet, and a Prussian Baron were killed, besides nearly twenty European Physicians and Surgeons. Such Europeans as were made prisoners were brought to Aleppo, and passports offered them, without ransom, to proceed to any country most agreeable to them. About 700 of the prisoners sought and obtained permission to enter the service of MEHEMET ALT. Letters from Madrid of the 29th, with the Gazelle of that date, have been received. They bring General O'DONNELL'S despatch, narrating his defeat of CA BRERA near Lucena, which was the subject of great re joicing in the Spanish capital. The Christino General, Don DIEGO LEON, is devastating the country round Los Arcos and Estella, destroying the harvests, and burn ing the houses. This atrocious system of warfare has provoked the Carlist General, Ello, to declare that he will have recourse to reprisals. We regret that General LEON has stained his well-earned laurels by such inhu man and barbarous atrocities. Dutch and German Papers were received this morn ing with accounts from Hanover, of the 25th ult. The citizens were in a state of the greatest excitement, every man going about with a copy of the city charter of 1831, in his hand, and pledging himself not to allow any power on earth to violate it. King ERNEST had sent to his Royal brother of Prussia, requesting that in the event of disturbances, the garrison of Magdeburg may be placed at his disposal. The pear is ripening fast. Oats. Flour, 400 in. acks 0,3,0 ......... j i 0,410 I 2,(Z0 I 1'2,74,0 SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply moderate, but the trade dull, and a slight decline occurred. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6.. Beasts 583, Sheep and Lambs 9,080, Pigs 550, and Calves 402. -- br Is. CITY FISH MAR. Good supplies of most kinds, and the de KE m T and fair. Turbot 53. to 18s. ; good Salmon Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Soles 6d. to 23. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters 10d. to 3s. ; Whitings 3d. to 6d. ; Haddocks 6d. to Is. Mr. Miles has been appointed inspector of fac tories, in the room of an inspector who was dismissed. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1839 RAILWAY ACCIDENT, and STOP PAGE OF THE GRAND JUNCTION LINE. STAFFORD, WEDNESDAY NlGHT.—Between three and four o'clock this morning, an accident, attended by some injury to two locomotive engines, and the total stoppage of the Grand Junction Railway line, occurred at the Bridgeford station, four and a half miles distant from this town. The night had proved unusually stormy, and the rain, which tell in torrents, had so increased the water in the course at the top of the cutting above the level of the line, as to cause it to burst its boundary, and to run down the .cutting with terrible force, carrying with it a krge quantity of loose gravel, which collected upon the line, and ultimately formed a mound upwards of eighteen inches high upon the rails. Ahout the time stated, the luggage train from Birmingham, propelled by two engines, came along the line at the ordi nary speed, twenty-five miles an hour. Both en gines ran on the mound, and, being thrown off the rails, ran across the opposite line. They sank to a consi derable depth in the sand, and were so placed as to form a complete barricade across the whole width of the railway. Fortunately no person received any injury. This may be attributed to the sand, in which the engines became em. bedded, breaking the impetus, so as to prevent anything like a heavy shock. Some short time after this event the London mail trains up and down arrived at the spot. Sig nals were made, and b o th tra i ns were stoppe d i n t i me to prevent the mischief that would undoubtedly have ensued. The bags were transferred from one train to the other, and after about an h our ' s d e l ay were despatched by two extra engines. This was provided for by an ar rangement at the Warrington station, it being the rule there to despatch an engine in search of the trains, whenever they become half an hour overdue. The Harpy engine left Warrington at a quarter to six o'clock, and at seven o'clock Mr. R. S. Norris, the resident engi neer at Warrington, followed with another engine and a gang of men, provided with the apparatus neces sary to meet every contingency. Mr. N orr i s p asse d t h e Harpy engine, bearing the down mails, at Crewe, and he arrived at the scene of the accident shortly before nine o'clock. He found the two six o'clock trains there. The first step taken was to transfer the passengers and their luggage from one train to t h e ot h er , a work wh i ch took considerable time, but which was done with all possible ce l er ity. The half -past ten o'clock train arrived soon after, and the passengers were all safely transferred from that to a train of empty coaches, which had been sent (loan for the purpose from Stafford, in which they were forwarded to Birmingham. The removing of the sand and the placing the fallen engines upon the line, was the next thing that engaged Mr. Norris's attention. Great activity was displayed by the labourers, and by half past twelve o'clock, Mr. Norris had the satisfaction of seeing both lines quite clear, since which time the trains have been passing and re•passing as usual. The damage done to the cutting and engines is trifling, and will be replaced at the cost of a few pounds. FROM A CORRESPONDENT. ) A serious accident occured. to the up-train from Bir mingham to London yesterday, about half-past one o'clock, about four miles below Coventry, through the neglect of one of the police, whose business it is to shift the points. In consequence of his placing them in an improper form the train was turned off the rails, and a dreadful smash took place; the engines and fire of the carriages ran off the rails and turned over; the engine run into a ditch ; the carriages were smashed to pieces, and several persons seri ously hurt. The guard was jammed between two of the carriages, and remained in that state for about 20 minutes, and it required the assistance of a number of the work men with their crow bars and axes to break up one of the carriages before he could be extricated. One gentle man received a dreadful fall on the head and face, and was otherwise severely bruised ; he was conveyed to rim Co v,ntry station. Several ethers received very severe bruises, and two ladies were also much hurt. The accident caused a delay of two hours and a half. It is to be hoped that the authorities will make a strict inquiry into the cause of the accident, and that if blame is attributable to any one, an example may be made, as a warning to others belonging to the establishment. If the accident had occurred on an elevated part of the line, the whole of the train would have ran off the road and the consequences might have been most dreadful; but, fortunately, it was on a level with the lands adjoining. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE Ws CITY, T WEL VE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. --We have no alteration to notice in Cotton to-day, the s a l es arc 2,500 to 3,000 bags at y ester day's prices. The arrivals this morning are the French Mail, ship letters from Valparaiso, Barbadoes, and Rio Janeiro, South Australia, 9th March, and Launceston, 25th March, and Mauritius, all old dates. The Dutch mail has arrived with papers to the Ist ir,st. bringing the Dutch prices from Amsterdam of the 30th ult., Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 54 15.16; Five per Cents., 102 7-16. On the eve of the Stock Exchange being closed yester `erday afternoon, a notice was posted at the Bank as fol. Lows : "BANK OF ENGLAND. " At a Court of Directors, held, Aug. 1, 1839 : " Resolved, that the rate of interest on Bills of Exchange and Notes, discounted at the Bank of England, be six per cent. from this day." No doubt the above measure, taken on the part of the Bank Directors, was in consequence of the precious metals being still exported. It will also have an effect on the Cotton Market at Liverpool, causing the prices to recede. We apprehend the most weight it will have will be in the United States, on which subject there are various opinions. The well-informed on the affairs of the United States express their opinion that the increased rate of discounts to six per cent. will not cause there a more serious evil in the Money Market, than on their hearing of the increase to five.and-a-half per cent., for before the above notice can arrive out the panc and mischief, to its full extent, is expected to have taken place. By the returns which have been made, it appears that during the period from the 25th and the 31st July, silver coin has been exported to the amount of 265,260 ounces, and in bars 22,353 ounces; gold coin 2,280 ounces, and in bars 2,390, most part of which has been sent to China and the colonies. The Notice from the Bank has not had the least effect on the British funds this morning. Consols, which closed heavy at 92k, sellers for the Ac count, opened this morning at 92* buyers, with little doing as yet; Exchequer Bills, 14 15; India Bonds. nothing done ; Bank Stock, 182 183; India Stock, 2511 In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal at pre sent. Spanish Active, 19+; Portuguese, 311- 32+ ; Three mexico n , 294 ; Belgian, 1034; Danish, 75 76 ; D utc h Colombian, 32+ 1- ; per Cents., 20k; Brazili an , 781. 7 9 + ; Two -and-a-Half rcr Cents. 544 i ; Five per Cents: 1032. -a. etclOES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1 82% , India Stock per Cent. Red. 92 % Ditto Bds — pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9l 7f;i % 2 lii ' South Sea Stock — 3 per Cent — : Old Annuities Ditto Red. 13054 100 ; New Ditto , New 3y per Cent New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, .£l,OOO ... 12 5 in. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ........... ... 500 ... 14 10 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l4si; 7-16 'Ditto Small 14 1,?. 15 pin. Oct. 10, 1850 . 1401 Ditto Commercial par Jim. 5, 1560 14 I -16 Ditto Advertised ..... P.'. Jan. 5, 1680 - Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 -- Congos for Account PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCF . Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account I) tto Account Columbian Bonds 11 31/i I i Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 18Q4 Ditto Account 32 ~.a" ,{ Ditto Account. I 9 ,AM Danish Bonds i Ditto Account 1 Den rred 8 , I, Greek Bonds —l French, 5 per --- - r rencn, 5 per cent, f. —c _...cto Bonds, 1825 ....... .... 4 per cent. Ditto Account — --- 3 pee cent. - Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. i ---- Exchange. 255. 40-, Ditto Account ..... ......... D u t c h , 254 per cent. 5 4.i Ditto, 6 per Cent. — Ditto Account 5 I 7 , ;, Ditto Account 993(,141 Ditto, 5 per cent Neapolitair — Ditto Account..." . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY Al' ONE O.CiocK, Paid. Per Share. London and Southampton:...... HALF PAST ONE. Up to the present hour the raising of the discount by the Bank Direction has not had any effect on the British Funds. Consols remain steady at 92k, alternately buyers and sellers. About 55,0001. Exchequer Bills have been sold, not by the Government: brokers. Part cf them were disposed of at five shillings premium, at the same time they were at seven shillings, but the Banknotes were wanted immediately by the sellers ; another part of them were sold at eight ;billings. We understand that a bill was discounted yesterday by a first-rate bill broker in the City, of 36,0001. at the rate of eight per cent. Consols for Money, 901; Exchequer Bills, 12 15 India Bonds, n o thi ng d one ; B an k S tock, 1824 ; India stock, nothing done. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 19i I; Pas sive Bonds, 4A-; Portuguese, 314 ; Three per Cents., 204-; Colombian, 3 0 1; Mexican, 29i; Dutch Two and-a Half per Cents., 54i; Five per Cents., 103/. No further arrivals, or any reports to communicate. The Hamburg snail is still due. A foulness of the Teeth is by some people as le r,:garded as it is easily removed; but, with the fair sex, with the polit e an d e l egant part o f t h e world, it is looked on as a certa i n mark of s l ot h ; not on l y because it disgraces one of the greatest ornaments of the countenance, but the smell imparted to the breath by dirty teeth is dis agreeable to the patients themselves, and extremely offensive to others in conversation. To remedy these evils, and to prevent their taking place, is recommended Rowland's Odonto ; which, as an embellisher and preserver of the Teeth, and co nsequent promoter of comfort and attraction, is certainly the first Dentifrice of the present age. Mr. BURKE'S NEW PEERAGE AND BA RONETAGE, FOR 1839.—The new edition of Mr. Burke's " Peerage and Baronetage," which has just appeared, forms one of the most splendid volumes of its class that it has ever been our lot to notice. The work has under gone the usual searching revision, which precedes the pub. lication of its successive editions, in the course of which more than 10,000 additional names (the collateral con nexions of the Peerage and Baronetage), have been ob tained and inserted, so that almost every one, however re motely allied to the hereditary rank of the kingdom, is now included. The genealogical researches of the author in furtherance of his other works, more especially of the History of the Landed G entry, opened new sources of in. formation to him, which in this impression of the Peerage and Baronetage, have been amply profited by. The New Peers and Baronets, also, will be found fully detailed. Amongst the embellish mants, this new e di t i on i s particu larly distinguished by an emblazoned title. page, designed and executed after the fashion of the ancient Missals, and comprehending the badges of th e different orders of Knighthood, &c. BIRMINGHAM RIOTS. WARWICK ASSIZES (Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE. THURSDAY EVENING. This being the day appointed for the trial of the par ties concerned in the late riots and destruction of pro perty in Birmingham, at an early hour every avenue leading to the small and inconvenient Court in which the Crown business was transacted, was crowded with persons anxious to obtain admission. By the judicious arrangements of the Under-Sheriff, Unit, Esq., ample accommodation was provided for the gentlemen con nected with the London and Provincial Press, who made almost as formidable an array as the Gentlemen of the Bar. The galleries were occupied almost exclusively by ladies, among whom we understand were Lady Dormer, Lady Poulett, and several other ladies of rank. Several of the Birmingham Magistrates were also present. At a few minutes past nine o'Clock Mr. Justice LITTLE DALE having taken his seat, the doors were thrown open to the public, and in a few minutes every corner was occupied. A considerable portion of the time of the Court was occupied by Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE delivering an opinion on an application that had been made by Mr. Miller on the previous day, relating to a road question, but the details were not of any interest. Jeremiah Houtel, 34, Francis Roberts, 26, John Jones, 21, Thomas Aston, 15, and Henry Wilkes, 21, were indicted for that they, on the night of the 15th of July, did, riotously ani tumultuously, assemble to the disturbance of the public peace, and did, with others, demolish, destroy, and pull down the house of James and Henry Bourne, grocers, of High-street, Birming ham. In a second count the house was laid to be the property of Humphrey Pountley, and in a third count they were indicted for " beginning to demolish." The prisoners, on being asked in the usual form whether they were guilty or not, replied—Not guilty, with the exception of Thomas Aston, a young lad, who appeared to have received some wounds on his bead. He pleaded guilty, but on the nature of the offence being explained to him, he said he had referred to some thing lie had taken out of another shop, above that of Mr. Bourne. A plea of not guilty was then recorded. The prisoners were again indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James and Henry Bourne, and stealing th ere f rom B,ooolb s. of tea, of the v a l ue o f 2001 . ; 20,0001b5. of sugar of the value of 7001. ; forty chests or canisters, and other property. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. Mr. DANIEL said he had an application to make on behalf of Henry Wilkes, who had just pleaded. He was committed on the 18th July, for a misdemeanour, by two Magistrates of Birmingham, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Lawrence. rhe offence was alleged to have been com mitted on the 15th of July, and until the indictment had been read, he was not aware that he was called upon to plead to a felony. When a person was committed by a Magistrate, he had the opportunity of hearing the evi dence to be brought against him, that he might know if innocent what defence he should have to make, and that was a most merciful provision of the law. That opportunity, however, the prisoner had not had. Another advantage of such a course of proceeding was, that the prisoner and the Court might have an oppor tunity of seeing the depositions that bad been made in the first instance, and comparing them with the evidence given to the Jury. He was now aware, for the first time, from the officer of the Court, that the charge against the prisoner was a capital one, although he bad hoped that the offence of " beginning to demolish" had been, by the humane temper of the times no longer a capital offence. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL felt it his duty to interfere. The Learned Gentleman was not entitled to make a speech. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE--What is the nature of your application ? Mr. D ANlEL—Either that the trial should be post poned, or that the Court should direct that the legiti mate means of defence should be placed in the hands of the prisoner, as if he had been tried at any other time. He complained that the prisoner, who had been committed on a misdemeanour, which might affect his purse or liberty to any extent the mercy of the Judge might deem fit, was now brought up upon a charge affecting his life. By the 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. xxx. s. 8, which included a variety of cases; " beginning to demolish," one of the offences with which the pri soner was charged, was a capital offence, although the actual firing was not. If the depositions made, in the first instance, were unadded to and unaltered, he had no objection to the case being proceeded with. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL was about to oppose the application, when Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said he had never heard of a case of felony in which the prosecutor was obliged to put his evid ence i nto t h e h ands of the prisoner. How ever, he had no objection to allow the case to stand over till the Learned Counsel had an opportunity of seeing the indictment and making an affidavit. Mr. MILLER made a similar application on the be half of John Jones. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL bad no objection to the Court consenting to the application, it being understood that the postponement would be merely for a reason able time to prepare an affidavit. He believed the other three prisoners in the indictment had no counsel, but he thought the best way would be to allow the case as against all the prisoners to stand over. Mr. DANIEL then applied for leave to look at the in dictment, and the names of the witnesses on the back of it, which was acceded to. After the lapse of about a quarter of an hour, The affidavit of Henry Wilkes was put in and read. It set forth that he had been committed on the 18th of July, on a charge of misdemeanour on the evidence of witnesses, and that he was now called upon to plead to two indictments for felony, of the circumstances of which he was utterly ignorant. That he had employed counsel to defend him against the charge of rnisderne nour, but there being now 17 witnesses for a prosecu tion, with the particulars of which he was altogether unacquainted, and of the nature of the evidence in which he knew nothing, he believed if the trial was postponed, he should be able to show that he was not guilty of the felonious portion of the charge, and he therefore prayed a reasonable postponement. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had no objection to accede to any reasonable application for postponement, when good grounds were laid before the Court. There were some new enactments with respect to cases of misde meanour, by which copies of the depositions and of the names of the witnesses were to be furnished to the pri soner, but these enactments did not apply to cases of felony. No special grounds had been alleged by the prisoner to take his case out of the ordinary and general rule. If he had alleged the absence of any material witness, that would have been a good ground for post ponement, but he saw nothing in the affidavit to entitle him to the postponement. Mr. DANIEL thought the very circumstance of her Majesty's Attorney-General being present took the case out of the ordinary course. In cases of high treason politics were taken into consideration, and the law threw its safeguard around the prisoner. It was said that because the absence of a material witness was not alleged, the application must be refused, but if the prisoner (who deposed that he was entirely ignorant of the cir cumstances of the case) bad dared to perjure himself by stating that a material witness was absent, he would not have been entitled to any credit from the Court. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said it appeared the pri soner had been committed for a misdemeanour on the evidence of six witnesses, and had been furnished with a copy of the depositions. He was now indicted for a felony, and there were seventeen witnesses on the back of the indictment ; and whether these seventeen wit nesses might all be applicable to the case of the priso ner Wilkes, or to some of - the others, he (Mr. Justice Littledale) did not know. However, he would give the prisoner the benefit of all that. It seemed he had in- , structed Counsel to defend him from the charge of misdemeanour, supposing he would be tried for that offence ; but he being now indicted for a felony, it was urged that the course of the defence would be different from what it was originally intended. It did not ap pear to him that the general body of the defence was so far varied as that the prisoner should be taken to be entirely ignorant of its nature, so as to have it post poned to the next Assizes ; but it seemed but just, as the defence might be somewhat varied to give the pri• loner reasonable time to s!ttape it, as for all he knew it might be necessary to do so, and he would therefore postpone the. trial till to-morrow. Mr. DANIEL suggested that it should be put off till Saturday, as the prisoner would have to send to Bir mingham. Mr. Sergeant GOULEURN suggested that they should now go on with it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL did not think the Learned Sergeant had any right to interfere until the Court had decided what should be done in the present case. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said, under all the circum stances, he thought it wouild be better to postpone the case, both of Wilkes and Jones, till Saturday morning. The ATTORNEY -GENERA L said, as no application had been made for postponeme at, on behalf of the other prisoners, he proposed that they should now go on with the case. The Clerk of Arraigns said the two boys, Gaven and Acton, were also indicted for larceny. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said it wasrather out of the ordinary course to take a common offence when the parties were charged with a greater one. Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN—They are both minors (pointing to the prisoners, two little boys, one of fifteen and the other twelve years ol(1). Parturiunt mantes, et nascilur ridiculus mus.—( Minch laughter.) Mr. DANIEL—But, de minim is lex curat.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. MILLER said there wr.re several cases which they were ready to go on witb , and there were others which were not prepared, at id that these were the cases that the Attorney-Ge t ieral was most desirious to try, and those which were prepared he would not take. The cases that had beim postponed, for anything he knew, might be found in the same situation on Saturday as they were at. present. He thought the Attorney-General should have taken the cases in the I order in which they had been placed, and which had been understood. Relying on that arrangement, the very parties which the Attorney-General was so de sirous to press on were not consequently pre pared. It would be proper, certainly, that the Attorney-Gener a l should state what were really to be his arrangements, and what he meant to do. He (Mr. Miller) was engaged for Fussell, and was going to make an application, and the Attorney-General was actually going out of Court when the application was about to be made. This was not customary, unless sonic purpose was intended, and common decency re quired that a reason should be assigned ; and on the part of Fussell he would insist on the necessity of the arrangement being named. The ATTORNEY-GENERA L did not think that any one could say that he had not done everything that he could be expected to do. He had left it in his Lordship's hands. He had not been aware that any particular arragement had existed. He should have no interest in the matter beyond that of discharging his duty as an officer in her Majesty's Government. He knew of no trials that were to come on to-day but those which had been named, the cases of Howell, Roberts, Jones, Preston, and Wilkes, and the usual course was to try all felonies first, and then to try misdemeanours. He had expected that the persons charged with pulling down and destroying would Iliac been tried to-day, and that might have occupied the whole day, but that had as unexpectedly gone off. It was the general rule to try felonies first, and then misdemeanours, and so had his Lordship decided. There could arise no great inconvenience from pursuing the usual course. He believed that he was the individual that would suffer the greatest incon venience ; but that he did not regard—he was ready to make any sacrifice ; and he would leave it to his Lord ship and the public to judge whether or not he dis charged his duty. He was not prepared to go on with any of the cases that had been alluded to to-day. He had considered that had been acquiesced in and in that belief he was withdrawing from the Court. He would have been very well pleased to remain, for he had no doubt he would have got a deal of valuable instruction from his Learned Brethren ; and he might have heard some more jests, whether well or• ill timed he did not mean to say, but having come to this conclusion as he had understood it, he concluded that his presence was not now wanted in Court. He regretted that he was leaving, for it was peculiarly in convenient to him, and the public time was wasted, for while the discussion was going on and occupying the time of the Court, the trial might have been finished. Under these circumstances, he hoped he would have his Lordship's permission to withdraw, and he would be prepared to go on with the cases of Collins and Lo vett in the morning. Justice LITTLEDALE said be did not think he was entitled to call on the Learned Attorney-General to go on with the cases of felony, as it was the usual prac tice on Assizes always to dispose of the cases of felony before the cases of misdemeanour were tried. Mr. MILLER made a few observations.• The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply, said he would be prepared to go on with the misdeineanour cases to• morrow, and he would do everything in his power to meet the convenience of every one. METR OPOLITAN BEER-SELLERS _ - The fourth anniversary dinner of the Metropolitan Beer sellers Protection Society took place last night at High bury Barn Tavern, Islington. Upwards of eight hundred persons sat down to dinner in the large hall, and we were informed that three hundred more were accommodated in an adjoining room. Mr. Warburton, M.P., had consented to take the chair, but in consequence of that Gentleman's absence, occasioned by his Parliamentary duties, Richard Bacon, Esq., an opulent brewer, carrying on business at Twyford, at the request of Mr. Bishop, the Secretary to the Society, presided. The cloth having been removed, 11' on Nobis Domini was sung, after which The CHAIRMAN rose and said, he was certain every one present must sincerely and deeply regret the absence of Mr. Warburton, because that gentleman had proved to them an able and sincere friend, and his reek and station in life would have given that weight and importance to their meeting, which he was sure under his humble influ ence would not be imparted it. But Mr. Warburton was attending to the business of the country in his place iii Parliament, and under these circumstances he was sure they would permit that gentleman to draw largely and li berally on their kind feelings.—( Hear, hear.) He (the Chairman) had been called on at a moment's notice, and had consented most reluctantly to occupy the important post of Chairman, and therefore he was afraid he should require, in no small degree, their indulgence. i Their worthy friend Mr. Warburton, in the letter which he bad sent to their excellent Secretary, and which contained a sufficient excuse for his absence, stated that " on account of an unexpected discussion in the House of Com mons upon a matter in which I have always taken part, and which stand for the first opening of the sitting this evening, I am prevented attending your meeting. I have, therefore, to request you to supply my place, and at the same time to assure the gentlemen as sembled how ready I shall always be to afford them my assistance whenever they may be unjustly assailed in Par liament, and how desirous I am, by giving them and their property every reasonable legal protection, as a necessary consequence to add to their respectability."—(Cheers.) Custom and courtesy always introduced at every meeting of Englishmen the health of her Majesty the Queen; but he was sure those present would not drink her Majesty's health with any such cold calculating feelings, but with the most cordial and lively feelings of loyalty.--( Hear, hear.) It was the boast of Britain that the Queen reigned over an empire on which the sun never set, and the mer chants of which were pi inccs, but England could now make another boast, which was that her young and lovely Queen held undivided sway over the best feelings and affections of a happy, contented, and loyal people.-- ( Hear.) He would therefore propose " The Queen." The toast having been drank with all the honours, and the National Anthem having been sung, Mr. APTED of Reigate, proposed the " Health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the rest of the Royal Family," which was drank with enthusiasm. Mr. LARCIIIN, of Richmond, said he should have felt great hesitation in taking upon himself to propose the next toast, were it not that he felt the moment it was named, the response to it would be such as to require little eloquence from him to recommend it. He could not forget that it was her Majesty's Minis ters who had stood forward boldly to protect the interests of the beer sellers when attacked in both Houses of Par liament.—(Cheers.) To them he was sure every one present must feel he owed a debt of gratitude for the man ner in which they bad been protected. He would, therefore, without further observation, propose the " Health of her Majesty's Ministers."—( Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with three titres three. Mr. Wells sang a comic song in such excellent style that lie was unanimously called upon to mount the table and furnish the company with a second edition of it. Mr. BISHOP then rose, and was received with the most enthusiastic applause.' The toast he had to propose was one that would he responded to with the most grateful feel. ings. In the cause in which they had embarked they had bad to struggle in nn uncommon degree.—(Hear.) In the early part of this year the Chairman of the Worcester Quarter Sessions, at the expense of the county, sent to every Magistrate throughout England requesting that they would do all in their power to annihilate the beer , sellers, by abolishing consumption on the premises so as to render the trade not worth following. A certain class of persons thought that was a very convenient opportunity to follow up the attack and to endeavour to re duce the beer-sellers so low as to prevent them seeing the Ist of August.— (Hear, hear.) Means were also taken by one, who in former times was looked upon as a man to whom the working classes were much indebted, to ruin the beer-seller. Henry Brougham had rendered great services to the poorer classes, but Lord Brougham, the moment he became a Peer, lost sight of the comforts and the protection of the people.—( Hear.) Lord Broug. ham had said that " if a few firm measures were adopted the sinking vessel would be entirely lost, and the crew left to the waves." But when he (Mr. Bishop) looked around him that day, and saw such a formidable and numerous " crew" present, he thought that Lord Brougham had as little true prophecy in him as he had law.-- (Cheers and laughter.) The first Bill Lord Brougham, who professed to be an experienced lawyer, brought in, had such an informality on the face of it, that it would have been a dead letter. But the beer sellers had been fortunate enough to obtain friends in both Houses of Par liament, so influential and so zealous in the cause, that even Lord Brougham himself, at a late interview which the Committee had had with him, said, " Do you think I will send niy Bill to the House of Commons to be scouted by them, when they have declared by a ma jority of sixty, that they would not entertain the principle."—(Hear.) This victory, however, had not been achieved without a great deal of trouble; but the trouble was nothing as compared to the success--(Cheers) —and the idle boast of the Magistrates, that they would sweep the Beer Act from the Statute Book, had entirely fallen to the ground. The House had given leave for the introduction of Mr. Pakington's Bill, but with the distinct understanding that it should not interfere with the con sumption on the premises. They had many influential friends in Parliament, and one gentleman bad said—" I know nothing of the publican--I care nothing for the beer-seller, but Ido care for the public. The public have a right to be served, and if the medium through which th e y are served is shack l e d b y restriction, andem , - braces a s pi r i t o f monopoly, i t i s m y d u ty to correct actuatedectthat.s —( Hear. ) I n d ee d, t h at s pi r it appeared to have a a o ll d th ad ei v r o f e r a ie te n d ds th in e P ca a u r g l e ia o m f e t n h t e ,w b h e o er h s a e d lle so rs. z — eal ( o .H us ea y r, as ha s e ist r ed ) rHeceeid from several :Members would now reael extractsferroa of Parliament wh i chmletters who h had been ad been invited to attend, but who, from unforeseen events, had been prevented conferri‘nogotihdatmheoontoioun, wasrupon tfhreommeoente ing. The first letter he i who, from his property and oifn the u aristocracy—that influence, mig ht be considered was s e t r h ed as moving in the first ranks Marquisof Westminster. That Noble Lord in his letter, sa id e " Believing the beer-sellers to have been unjustly attacked, I made my humble efforts to save them from unmerited spoliation—l trust with some success. I wish w i t h greater. Though at a distance from the scene of social merriment, on the first of Aegust, I shall not forget to drink he s alth and prosperity to the party assembled on the occasion." The next letter was from that respected gentleman who had occupied the station of Chairman of the Committee that was appointed to inquire into the Beer-laws, and who must necessarily have had abundant means of judging how far the laws had worked well or ill. He said " I was glad to find that our efforts were successful in resisting what I always thought an unfair attack upon.the capital and industry invested in the beer trade."--( Cheers.) j EVENING EDITION'!„ The next letter was from the Chancellor of the Exche quer—( Loud cheers)—who sai " It would give him, great pleasure to reflect that he d, had been the m eans of putting the trade on what he considered a just and fair tooting."._( Hear, hear.) Mr. Briscoe, formerly Member for Su rrey , an d a man of the greatest integrity, in his letter said, " I can assure you that my vote on t hi s and every que s ti on h as b een guided by a sense of justice and a rtgard t o t h e welfare of all."—(Cheers.) Manyother letters had b een received, but he (Mr. Bishop) nould not detai n th e meet i ng by reading them. The Licensed Victuallers, i n t h e early part of the S ess ion, had come f o r war d i n a manner most uncalled for, unk i n d, and untradesmanlik e , b ut t h ey forgot that nearly 17 out of 20 of them had emb ar k e d i n t h e b us i ness since the Beer trade had commenced.—( Hear, hear.) The licensed Vic' tuallers sought to b e re li eve d f rom their compet itor . in trade at th e ex p ense o f t h e public, but the motto °f every one engag e d i n t ra d e ought to be " and let live." The publicans thought, because they happened to ha" a trade in their own hands, that they had a right to cot iae ' tinue it. Wh en th e h ac k ney - coac h proprietors b a d the rule, and th e p u bli c conven i ence called for an alteration, did they st e p f orwar d and say to Parliament, " How dare you sanction the use of any public conveyance but our coaches Fire and Life Insurance Offices had been long establishe d, but the publicans instituted one for themselves, and thereby interfered w i t h an i nterest then existing.—(Hes t.) He did not not complain of this—they had a right to do t but what b e ment i oned it for was to s h°o that they c ou ld not a f ter that, with a very gv o 4 grace come forward and say, "do not suffer the beer sellers t o compete with us in trade. " Again they b a d started steam-boats, and had tri e d by re d uc i ng the rate s to outrun old compan i es; and he (Mr. Bishop) recolleM e a one of thei r comm i ttee saying the sea was the highway ° f the public, and they bad a right to walk on it.'"; (Hear, hear.) Th at he admitted, but while they clai med that right the mse l ves, let them not be unchart" table enough to endeavour to prevent others avail themselves of Hear, he ar .) A ga i n t h e license d victuallers said, " We consume a lot of glass and we gill manufacture it." They had accordingly established company for that purpo se . H e d i d not deny their right ,„ do so, but wh a t he would say to th em was, do not, after a" these acts on your part, be so uncharitable as to say " Y ou ' the labouring class es , s h a ll not havea pint of beer with out we serve it you."—( Cheers ) H e had therefore 5b there was a h ost i n the field ready to crush, them if th e y cou ld, b ut he thought the license': victuallers would find the razor which they had sharpeo e o for oth ers t h roats woul d cut their own, and perhaps a li ttle deeper to o th an t h ey wou l d like.—( Cheers and laughte r ' ) He would now come back to the more immediate purple for which be had risen, namely, to thank their Parlie mentary friends for the encouragement and support thef had given their cause—a cause in favour of which the! had nothin g to urge b ut public usefulness, although the toast which he was a b out to propose related entire!! to their Parliamentary Friends, yet there was an indi vP dual whom h e cou l d not pass over, and who had dote as much for the beer trade as any one, he alluded te t ie respected M r . B ar b er Beaumont. That gentleman, seeilig the hostility so zealously waged against the beer-shett ass views wrot e to L ord Melbourne, and stated 11. views on the subj ec t. H e told Lord Melbourne t bas lie was the owner o f thi rty-two puhlic.houses, but Os s he had a less number of beer.houses on his estate, and that he had watched the progress and working of the beer bill, and was sat i s fi e d i t was a p u blic benefit' It was principally through Mr. Beaumont's exertions ths' a Parliamentary Committee had been obtained, to i c i . ' „ l quire into th e li cens i ng system, and he bad pro v e d it was so f ru itf u l o f a b use, that to use the w o r d , , of Lord Br oug h am — no " floury" Brou g h am —that o'e r ; an angel the owner o f t h e H ouse, as well as the sign' could not be improved.—( Hear, bear, and laughter.) " had also described the Licensing Magistrates as "Pew ter ' pot Justices," and " monopolising brewer's hacks. %* ( Cuminued laughter.) lie would conclude by proposi v the health of th e i r P ar li amentary Friends. He was ex' tremely sorry they had not present those Parliament ° I, Friends who were k in d enough to accept the invite d ° I the Committee had thought it their duty to send in retg for their kindnc se, but th e same reason that prevented L U r , Warburton attendi ng h a d k ept the other Members away! Unexpectedly a discussion had been fixed for that evenierl in the House, in which they were deeply interested. "'a ever, they had th e i r ass i stance, and he regretted they het' not their presence.—( Cheers.) The toast was drank amidst the most enthusiastic ar plause. Mr. KYNNERSLEY regretted the toast he had been requestel to propose had not been entrusted to some one compet!nk to do justice to it. He felt great diffidence in addressing so large an assembly of his fellow -countrymen, but the' toast he had to propose was one in which the brewer, the; seller,and the consumer were alike interested--namely," T he ' Metropolitan B eer - se ll ers ' Protection Society. " That , ciety was established in 1834. Persons who had then env' barked their capital in the beer trade, felt that they had ema' barked it in a business that was surrounded with difficulty and dangers. They felt the necessity of uniting them-- selves into a Society for their mutual protection, and be believed the f o r mat i on o f that Society was princ i pa itY owing to the exertions of their respected Secretary. - 7 (Cheers.) For the information of those who might ont be aware of the particular objects of the Society be would mention that they were— "l. The general protection of the Trade, whene ver its interests are effected by any measure under the con sideration of the Legislature. " 2. To provide, and be, a focus of useful information' available to subscribers. 3. To protect its subscribers in the lawful exercise of their trade, particularly against vexatious annoyance* ' by common informers; and to secure their property from petty depredators. " 4. To raise a fund, from which to allow temporary • or permanent assistance to members of the trade, or to their widows and orphans —provided the member has sub scribed not less than three years to the funds of this So ciety." He believed most of those present had seen the neces sity of such an association, because since the establish -. ment of the beer trade, not a Session of Parliament bad passed without some attempt being made either seriously to cripple the few privileges the trade possessed, or en tirely to annihilate them.—( Hear, hear.) The Society had, if it had done nothing else, prevented an immen se amount of mischi e f b e i ng i n fli cted on the tra d e.— (Hear, hear, hear.) But they need not have any appre hension, a s th e pu bli c were with them, and upw ards 900,000 si gna t ures h a d b een attached to petitions Pre sented d htHhethey yi twjwloyout, produceduol adt PccTadooronhml conclude justice complete uu m :sedit e teie n cet e t rbroeyt i po n f 00 lotr t ihmht h eas e atle i ttr r oi roßai f nsn a etg v ei, onr Beer-sellers' t i stn r heh . daie - 1 ter tre ( rstsa L phpde o e u , dacnhd Socie t ye he r e cheering') So ciety."--( Cheers. ) must M Mr. H t A t. :;K g leNt trhoesier Drunk with three times three. t c o o country ase friends, the nest toast. particularly TIPY those who have been zealous and active, an had proved theme selves " friends indeed." Delegates had been sent from various towns to London, for tbe p u p t o b s e e t ol taod w eek a . tching over, and protecting the interests 0 from por T t, h h e i a r s , f s r i i e n 'l c d e h e I c r a - m e S e t o f t o L n 0 , n d t o h n e h d Po e e nr e l °d e l f t et d a oc a t t e i i i l tu o c s r. responding with members, and had proved himself worthy of their thanks. They had also present several delegat es from Bristol, Birmingham Ashton-u n d er -L yne , Brighton' ' Boston, Bllston, Bradford, Horncastle, Huddersfield, Hyde, Leeds, Halifax, Macclesfield, Reading, Sheffield , Spalding, and Wolverhampton, all of whom were equally entitled to their th an k s . Il e therefore gave the healt h of " Their Country Friends."—( Cheers.) The toast having been drank amidst great applause, Mr. SEFTON returned thanks. He considered the coo: bination of the licensed victuallers was one of the n' unprincipled, the m os t i mpu d ent, hard-hearted and unfeel ing that was ever entered into by one body of men against another.—( Cheers.) What made it more disreputable and disgraceful was the ground on which they bad entered on their crusade against the beer shopkeepers, naming the. ground of morality I O n t h at ground had the publicans of England ran their tilt against them. Why he (Mr. SO was surprised on first coming to London to find the gin palaces were crowded at eleven o'clock on a Sunday fore noon. He was surprised that Members of Parliament, with the scenes before their eyes of drunken disorder among the mass of squalid wretches that visited the gin-shops, should think of putting down !he humble but convenient and comfortable place at which the poor man might obtain necessary refreshment.— (Cheers.) He could not find words to express the disgust he felt at the conduct of men who, while they talked of mo rality, nphold the fountains of vice, immorality, wretched ness and poverty.—( Cheers. ) Mr. Cox said it was his pleasing duty to propose the health of a gentleman, whom he was sure they would all feel indebted to for his kindness in consenting to take the chair, and for the excellent and enlivening manner in which he had presided over their festivity.—(Cheers.) The toast was then drunk with great applause. The CHAIRMAN thanked them for the hearty manner in which they had drank his health, and for the kindness with which they bad borne his sins of commission and °milk Mon. He had hoped in the early part of the day that Mr. Warburton would have been able to have attended, for he would indeed have been happy to have accepted the Chil tern Hundreds, and to have give n up hi s seat to that gen tlem(Laughter.) But when another anniversary came round (and he had no doubt they would have another and another, and another —aye —even a cente nary.)—(Cheers)—he hoped to have the pleasure of seeing Mr. Warburton as well as several other of their valuable friends present.—( Cheers.) He (the Chairman) felt a deep interest i n t h e progress of the Society. It was a Society e s t a bli s h ed to prevent oppression, and tha t was the safest an d b est way of redressing grievances. He thought th e li censed victuallers had found they had caught a Tartar, and he did not think they wo uld bear much more of them.--( Cheers and langhter.) He bad no doubt the day was nigh when the beer-sellers would obtain their just rights. They asked for no favour or affection.—( Hear, hear.) Under Acts of Parliament they had employed time, labour, capital, and industry. and all they wanted was fair protection and a fair return. --(Cheers.) They did not shrink submitens bet they would not willingly and tamely to to sion.—( Cheers.) No class of men had been so in both in person and character as those connected with the beer trade.—(Hear.) Lord Brougham had said that e few cracked pots, and a few second-band pipes, constituted the stock of d beer-seller.—( Laughter, and a cry of" That shows his ignorance.") He (the Chairman) could show my Lord Brougham brew-houses which it would take ell faith b his pension to purchase.—(Loud cheers.) H o u s es bad erected, and leases had been purchased on the of Acts of Parliament, and all he desired was an open beer trade.—( Cheers.) Let them consider bow it of fected the revenue. The present Mini sters h a d at first taken it up as a revenue question, but when they came to sift into it they found the beer-sellers were an injured and I a calumniated class of men. There were persons connected with tire beer trade, who would not, either in point of property or respectability suffer in a comparison even with Lord Brougham himself.—(Loud cheers.) He di . I . not like personarities, but if a warm or a fl y were tro d cm, it would turn ; and he would tell L or d Brougham