The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-06 00:00:00

°CONNELL YER3I:S TIIE QUEFN, IN ERROR. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE, of SATUR• DAY and SUNDAY NEXT, will contain a full repert of these interesting proceedings in the House of Lords ; also of the Im portant News from India ; Meditated Conquest of the Putijaub by Ellenborough, and retreat of British Troops before the Beloochecs ; Lord De Grey's Farewell;-Defeat of .the Uovenunent 'on the • Irish Church Question; Cotton . Twist on Practica and Precept; Young England and the New Poor-laws; the extraordinary case of Running Rein, the Winner of the Derby ; the Parliamentary Inquiry into tl e Frauds, Forgeries. and Espionage of the Post-oftcl ; the Horrible Massacres on board the Saladin , and all the News of the Week. Office, 337, Strand, and all Newsrenders. Now ready, in 1 vol., Bvo., price 125., II,ISTORIC FANCIES. By THE HONOUIWILE GEOliclE SYDNEY SMYTHE, M.P. Henry colburn,Tublisher,.l3, Great Marlborough-street. • Just ready, in 2 vols. sinall Bvo., frith Illnstrations. REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA; THE E3O.IIIROR NICHOLAS ..I.Np HIS EMPIRE Ili 1844. r " One 'who has see y u and describes." " Tot on tard tout se scalt."—Maintenon. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING JULY e, Will be performed (by desire) Doniz,tti s One - a, entitled LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. The part of Edganlo by Sig. Marian' ; Enrico, Sig. tornasan ; Bidebent, Sig. Paltoni ' • Lucia, Madame Persiani. After which, a •'DIVERTISSE‘IENT," us which will be intro duced a new Pas de Dcux by Mdlle. Fanny Elssler and M. St. Leon, Pas de Deux by Mdlles. Schaffer and Plunkett, atd the atlinhed Spanish ance "La Saragossa," by Mlle. Fanny Elss'er. To conclude with a Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERRE, aurviucing the Redowa or ..nginal Polka of Hungary, by Mille. Cer:to and M. t. I eon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to to made at the Box Ulnae, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Eignor PU ZZ I respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscriber; to the O,,era, his Friends, and the Public, that HI -11 EN Ih;F IT will take place ON THUHSDAY NEXT, JULY 11, On which occasion will be presented (for the First Time this Season), Donizetti's celebrated Opera, ANNA BOLENA. Henry VIII. Sig. Lablache ; Percy, Sig. Moriani; Smeaton, St nora Favantl; Anna Bot n; Mad me Grisi ; Jane Seymour, Signora Giuseppina Rosetti (from the Italian Opera at Vienna, hsr first appearance in London). In toe course Lt the Evening, Signor Puzzi will perform aSolo on the Horn. After which, a DIV ERTISiEMENT, in which Mdlle. Fanny Ellaler, Mdlle. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon will appear. To be fo!lowed by the Second Act of GUILLAUME TELL. Matilde, Madime Persiani ; Arnold", Sig.:Mario ; Walter, Sig. k. Lablache; and GuiLaume Tell, Signor Fornasari. T. conciude with a Favourite Ballet, in which all the principal Artistes of hor Majesty's Theatre will appear. Applications for Stalls, and Tickets to be m i is to Signor Puzzi, 39, Jermyn-street, St. James's, and ..t the Box-ollce, Opera oionnade. Doors 'pen at Seven. The Odera will commence at I lalt-pcs! Seven o'flock. • IHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKLT MR. BENJAMIN WP.BSTER, LES EE THIS EVENING, JULY 6, Will be repeated the Prize Comedy of QUID PRO QUO; or, THE D AY OF DUPES; With a Prologue spoken by Mr. Webster. Earl of HunKlon N. , r. Stuart; Lord Bell ',moot, Mrs. Nisbett ; Jereny Grigson. Mr. Stric kland; 1-I,n• y, Mr. H. Hol t ; Captain ett, Mr Buckstone; Sir George Mordent, Mr W. Farren ; Coto tees of Hunados, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Mary Rivers, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Grigson, Mrs. Glover; Bridget i rim, Mrs. Humby. Alter the Comedy Mr. John Parry will sing " Fayre Rosamonde." To be followed by a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis eseb, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, .Mr. James Bland ; Mary, Miss Julia Nendett ; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. To conclude wit h THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER; or, Love land the Polka. Philli pot, Mr. Webster; Madelon, Madame Celeste; who will dance the c,lebrated Polk r. Orchestra Stalk, .55.; Boxes, 55.; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, ',1.; Upr...r G tl.try, Is. Half-rrice—Boxes, 35.; Pit, t..; Gallery, ; Upper Gallery,dd. Doors opened at Half-past and the Performances continence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, Pt the Box. o bee, from Ten till Five. PRINCE 'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STU k LT. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, JULY 6, Will be perform d the celebrat*d Opera, L'EISIR D'AMORE. Adina, Miss Austin; Nenierino, Mr. Allen; Doctor Dulcamara. Mr. Paul Bedford. Alter which, LOVE AND CHARITY. In which Messrs. Fitz. ames, Oxberry, and Mrs. Stirling w , ll perform. 'Jo conclnde with a New and Original Burlesque, entitled THE WONDERFUL LAMP, being an Illustrated Version of klaeldin. banazar, Mr. Paul Iledf.:rd ; Aladdin, Mr. Wright; Princess Badroulbadour, Mis• E. Stull. y. I HEACRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA- Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, JULY 6, Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, entitled THE MO MENTOUS QUESTION. Characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, J. W. Collier, Miss Fortescue, and Mrs. A. Wigan. After which a Gaud Burlesque rairy Extravaganza, called M OPEN SESAE; or, a Night with the Forty Thie es. ilassarac, Sir. Keeley; Morgrani, Mrs. Keeley. To be. followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKA MANIA. Characters by Mr. r. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeler. To - conclude with THE THREE FRA DIAVOLOS. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Keeley, Wigan, Diddear, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Woollidge. ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ALTS. Proprietor and Nlanager Mr. BATTY. Great Success of the Chinese Feast of Lanterns, and N Military and Naval Spectacle. THIF EVENING, JULY 6, Will be repeated an entire new Military and Naval Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAIL; or, The Conquests of Amoy by B - dish Arms. New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments.kc., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army and Na% y. Feast of 250 Lanterns. After which ' a graceful and novel pageant, entitled THE ROY a L CO I'ILLION OF FRANCIS 'I HE El IiST; or, I he Beauties of the Louvre. Marguerite de Valois, Mrs. Batty. New and unequalled Scenes of the Circle—Extraordinary Feats of florsernamhip by Monsieur Louis Tournaire, S g. German', Herr eisback, La Petit Isabelle, Mr. Newsome, &c., with Mr. R. Smith's highly trained Steeds. To conclude with THE GREAT STEEPLE.CHASF.; or, Eng. lane's Harvest Home. The doors will open nightly at six o'cloca, and the t ertormances c 'mmence at scven. Box-ottice opened daily from ten till four. 'The private boxes have been reemstructed and decorated wi, h care and splendour. Acting and atagean -mars , Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAVIDGES ROYA I. SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 6, Will be performed an entirely new Aquatic Spectacle, introducing Three. Scenes of Real Water, entitled THE MOUNTAIN CATA. RAC 1; or, The Enchanter's Spell. After a hich, a LiUiputian' Ballet, entitled " Napoleon'.4 Gene rosity," in which the Brockstedt Family—three Gerrnaa Lilliputians, only '2.8 32, and NI inches in height—will perform. To conclude with a New Drama. called THE CARPENTER OF ROUEN in which Messrs Hudson Kirby, Hicks, Neville, Vale, Heslop,Johnson, Mrs. Daly, bliss ferrey, and Mrs. R. Honner will perform Fives and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven 'o Four. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Daylight View of LONDON in the OLDEN TIME! Painted by Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused by this unrivalled production is beyond all former precedent; the artist, the amateur, the casual observer are all struck with its extraordinary beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and are unanimous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific display at Dusk is unjust ; it should be seen in the calm stillness of the qu iet Evening, with its Towers and Simples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to be full appreciated. The Evening PR OMENADE CONCERTS, on Men 'ays, Tues days, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, are upon a scale of more than usual excellence: but words fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT' MITE OF LONDON. Its fearful chiracteristic.s are truthfully pourtrayed, but at the same time so beautifully blended with the Wonders of the Pyrotechnic Aft, that delight is predominant over terror; and the 'Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it with acclamations, and admit that Southby, the Unrivalled Pyrotechnist, 117.3 achieved a matchless triumph. Tho Gardens and Zoological Collection are in the most perfect state, and combining so many and interesting features, are by far the most attractive lounge in or near the metropolis. eeding of the Animal; at Five—Concert at Six—Conflagration at Dusk. Admitt ince, One Shilling. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most inagnlficent and extensive Collect:en of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, In the moat in structive and interesting manner,important the most part of Euro van history, viz.--CHARLES 1., OLIVER CRC'.? WELL, and L.)UI3 XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE HI., and the EMPEROR NATOLEOIN.T, 1n 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Amkassatiors, eat their Ladies, also, many thousands of the Nobility and Pcbile ; rzyi the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase,' by sevei al very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of 11155., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relice, and other 7.urlosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it lught to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. Tho price of admis tion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seem only at the Egyptian Hall," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 6. ritERBIONETER, Lowest, 52; Highest, 6.3: noon, 61. BAROMETER, 29.9.—Wnr0, N.B. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barona , stets fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-RRIDOE ')AY. ?doming ... 0 minutes after 61 Evening 21 minutes after 6 '' ?.-fN 4 clt ; . 4_lP, 11 ; 41,;J- , --- ' iIW v 1 4 ~ , , 10,...mktNif A_„ _IA' il fIO W - 1 ' • . ? P' ej . ... 9 .-- '' 4, ' ilet , ' ' - ' *l7 ye 'f 4' r•m o s ' , - ifit uit - '0- 'r.• *rE i; '..' . ••_ , ----'—' • sECOYD EDITION. /11,Ibironba , LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 6. 1644. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. The returns fur the year and quarter ending July 5,11844, arc of the most cheering description. The total amount for the year is 50,220,6781.—1a5t year it was 47,780,3421., showing an increase of 2,440,3361. A considerable, portion of this increase must 'be placed to the amount of the property-tax ; but independent of that department of the revenue, it is satisfactory to state that all the others are in a prosperous condition. The Customs revenue is 19,770,158/. showing an increase on the year of 835,3491., and an increase on the quarter of 312,0291. The Excise produces 11,965,6021., exceeding the amount collected last year • by 420,0731., and that for the quarter by 85,479/. The Stamps produce 6,518,063/., exhibiting an in crease on the year of 72,693/, and on "the quarter of 46,023/. The Taxes amount to 4,197,516/., the in crease on the year being 6,387/., and on the quarter of 5,0431. The property-tax we pass over, because its amount is already known. The net revenue of the Post -office is 632,000/., showing an increase on the year of 34,0001., and on the quarter of 10,000/. In the Miscellaneous there is a great decrease, both in the year and-darter. In the former the decreaie • is 1,154,4011., and in the latter 641,3371. This is ac counted for by the large amount of Sycee silver received last year; while during the present year, till within files° few days, no importation of the kind from the Celestial Empire has taken place. We are only surprised that the Government did not make a push to place under the head of "'Miscellaneous" the waggon-1 , ads of silver brought to the Mint the other day, to swell out the amount; but possibly they keep it as a bcdy of reserve in case of future accidents. Without adverting to that further, however, there is sufficient cause for rejoicing. All the great branches of industry seem to be in a prosperous state. There is an increase in almost every department of the re venue, both for the year and quarter, and, we are happy to state that in two departments, reckoned the best tests of the prosperity and trade of the country, the Custbnes and the Excise, the increase is most conspicuous. Taking them together, the increase on the year is 1,255,4221., and on the quarter, 397,508/. These show_ the vast resources of the country, and are an honourable tribute to the indus try, skill, and enterprising spirit of the people. We learn, by accounts from the manufacturing districts that trade is still exhibiting symptoms of im provement. In Birmingham all hands are fully employed, and this remark will apply to most other places. Could not Sir ROBERT PEEL, then, try to give these industrious and hard-working peo ple a little more encouragement, by reducing the taxes that press more heavily upon their necessaries of life, and place them on a footing with their riva's on the Continent ? He has reduced the duties on sugar to a certain extent, but he might carry the reduction much further, and that, too, without any danger to the revenue. If he were also to reduce the duty on tobacco, cofThe, tea, and corn, which would include nearly all the• rbreign articles they require for domestic use, the revenue and the comforts of the people would be increased together. He would thus put down those daring robbers of the community., the smugglers, and bring into the Exchequer all the legi timate duties intended by . the Legislature to be ex acted from the public. Even admitting there might be a risk, of which we have no fear, does not the prosperous state of the revenue warrant him in making the experiment ? The Earl . of MINTO, after adverting to the re duced state of the British navy when - qUegtions of threat importance, such as those of Texas, the Oregon trritory, and the war in Morocco, were in an un settled state, asked the Earl of HADDINGTON if it was the intention of the Government to send to the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, such naval force as might be necessary, to protect British interests ? The Earl of HADDINGTON replied by stating that, the Government had such naval forces on every station as they thought sufficient. They had gradu ally increased the forces orj the coast of Africa Ships had been sent out, and others ordered there, and nothing would have prevented them from send ing them out sooner, but the necessity of having ships on the Irish coast. Could 'there be a stronger proof of the impolicy of the Government in regard to Ireland than this admission ? The Bank Charter Bill was read a first time, and the second reading was ordered for Tuesday. ,Lord CAMPBELL moved the third reading of the Law of Libel Bill, which was opposed by the Loan CHANCELLOR and Lord DENMAN. A. division took place, when there were for the third reading 3, and against it 33. The Earl of lIADDINGTON reported from the Com mittee on the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, that the Bill of Lord Powis could not be introduced without the consent of the Crown, and the llouse adjourned. In the Commons, on the motion of Mr. THORNELY, a new writ was ordered for Birmingham, in the room of Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, deceased. On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, the House went into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill. A lengthened conversation took place on the bastardy clause. Mr. T. DUNCOMRE suggested that the time, six months, allowed to unhappy females to name the putative father of the child, was hardly long enough, and urged on the Government the propriety of ex tending it to twelve months. Sir J. GnAnam readily adopted the suggestion, and moved that the word " twelve " be substituted for " six." The clause as amended was agreed to. A number of clauses were passed, and the House resumed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock, Decent circumstances seem to have inflicted " a heavy blow and great discouragement" on that ar rogant and dictatorial bearing which the Home Se cretary has so often exhibited during the present session, when matters were taking an unpleasant and embarrassing turn, and lion. Members on the Oppo • sition side of the House were speaking their senti- ments with more freedom than ceremony; and he , appears to have become as moderate and acquiescent in his tone as he was once, notoriously the reverse. Last night, in particular, during the Debate on the New Poor-law Bill, he displayed a readi- ness to conciliate the opponents of that measure— so far at least as might be practicable without abso lutely compromising what little remains to him of consistency—that- it was quite edifying to wit ness, forcibly illustrating, as it does, the truth of SLIAKSPEARE'S remark, " sweet are the uses of ad versity." On Mr. DUNCOMBE'S suggesting, with re verence to theßastardy clause, that the time allowed to unhappy females to name the father of their child, namely six months, was hardly long enough, and urging on Government the propriety of extending the period to twelve calendar months, the Home Secre tary at once assented to the alteration, adding, with unwonted courtesy, that he thought that the Hon. Member for Finsbury was perfectly right in his view of th e e case. Again, nothing could be more conciliatory or deferential than his manner of defending the power given to the Commissioners of apprenticing illegitimate. :hildren, which Mr. WYNN Ews and several other Nlembers objected to, remarking that such a power could be much more properly exercised by the poor law guardians in their several districts. "He might be wrong," said the Right Hon. Secretary, "in having proposed the clause"—this is no slight admission for Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who last session would pro bably have told the dissentients that they were a set of J'Acs. CADE legislators—" but no one, he was happy to find, impugned his motive in doing so. He was afraid that in those local Boards of Guardians Local interests might be consulted at the expense of the persons about to be bound out. It could not be denied that, in such boards, there might be a natural, though selfish desire, to economise, even at the expense of the poor little helpless children whom they might be willing to bind into a distant and perhaps incommodious situation, in order, to rid themselves and their district of the probable expense of providing for them, in future . What he wished to impose was, net any unnecessary or unfair restriction on the board of guardians, but only to give to the CommissiOners a power over the ap pointments of the board, which would tend towards the benefit of the poor apprentices." • We are no ad*vocates for increasing the already enormous powers of the Peer-law -Commissioners, but on this particular occasion—which is an ex ception ft - ) the general rule—we think that the authority which -it .is proposed to invest in them is perfectly justifiable, and that Sir JAMES GRAHAM . exercised a sound discretion in standing by the clause. In far too many places, the present condition of parochial apprentices is one of stern, unqualified slavery ; it is work—work—work—and nothinghut work —with them from morning till nigh ; hardly the slightest interval "of relaxation is allowed them ; they are ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-lodged, ill-treated, their masters having, apparently, no other object than to make as xnuch money by their incessant labour as possible. The description of the sufferings .of these squalid, helpless little creatures—dread ful as it confessedly is —has, we fear, been little, if at all exaggerated, in Mr. DICKENS' admirable tale of " oiver Twist." Under these circumstances, we agree with Sir JAMES GRAHAM that the Commissioners—or if not the Com missioners; some other unbiassed, uninterested f dis passionate party—should be allowed to exercise a restrictive influence, as regards the binding of parochial apprentices ; for, as Mr. WAKLEr con siderately urged, they are " the orphans of the • State," and, as such, are every way entitled to its I protection. • Accounts rrem Madrid of the 20th ult., announce more arrests. General SAN MiGuEL and his brother had been ordered to quit the capital, but for what reason is not stated.: A general belief prevailed that a decree would appear in a few days for dissolving the Cortes, and summoning a new assembly for October. The Three per Cents. were done at 27 13-16th for cash, and 28 at 60 days. was no quotation for I the Five per Cents. The Moniteur publishes the following intelligence from Morocco : TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH : " OUCIIDA, MOROCCO, JUNE 19. " On the 16th I informed the Morocco chief that I was about to march on Ouchda, but that I still offered him the conditions proposed by me before the battle of the 15th ; he replied pacifically, but with out coming to any conclusion. On the 19th I entered Ouchda without firing a shot. " The Morocco troops had retired two days be fore in the greatest disorder. Discord reigns amongst the chiefs and indiscipline amongst the soldiers. • " This- small army appears to be diasolved. Ouchda will be respected. I shall leave it on the 21st, taking with me about 1,500 persons of the population of Tlemcen and the remnant of the Deyza, who were retained by force, and are desirous of following us. (Signed) "BUGEAUD, Marshal of France." " Ouchda," says the Journal des Debats, " is a little town inclosed by the walls of its gardens, and protected by a large fortress. Its population is esti mated at a thousand inhabitants of the Moorish and Arab race. It has a mosque and three chapels, dedi cated to ancient cantons. The houses, built of clay, are low and of wretched appearance, the streets w find ing and covered with flints. The fortress, where the Raid of the district resides, is guarded in ordinary times by a dozen of soldiers ; but were there .even more it could not be defended, in consequence of its wretched condition. A spring of excellent water, at a little distance from Ouchda, keeps up the whole year round verdure and freshness in the gardens, through which it is distributed by the system of irri gation that the Arabs practise so well. The distance between Tlemcen and Ouchda is sixteen leagues, or about sixteen hours march for the troops. The Inter mediate camp of Lalla-Magrania, in front of Bridgi, is nine leagues from Tlemcen. Ouchda and the camp are each nearly three leagues from the frontier, and con sequently six leagues from each other. A great mis take would be made, if the country where the troops now are was to be judged of by the gardens of Ouchda. This spot can only be looked on as an oasis in the desert of Angad: This desert com mences beyond the River MatoUia, at more than forty leagues from Tlemcen. Like the Algerine Angad, which extends to the south of Tlemcen, it is of fright ful aridity, particularly in summer, though here and there may be seen spots where irrigation is prac tisect,--alid where tillage is carried on. All the rivulets are in that season dried up, and one may march for six or eight hours without finding water. It is impossible at this season to carry on military operations in such a country, and therefore we are not astonished to find, by Marshal BUGEAUD'S dispatch, that he is about to evacuate Ouchda, and return to the Tlemcen territory. Whilst Marshal BUGEAUD was marching on Ouchda, General LAMORICIERE was proceeding back in the direction of Mascara, to defend, if necessary, against the presumed incursions of Ann-EL-KADEn, the countries to the south and south-west, which are, besides, guarded by the columns posted at Sebdou, Saida, and Tiaret, in the limit of the little desert. All the tribes of Oran re main peaceable. Letters confirm what we have al ready announced relative to the occupation of a point on the coast, near Nedroma. Two steamers, each towing a merchant vessel, left Oran on the 23d fp; Djema-Gazouma, transporting a battalion; with pro visions, ammunition, and all the nzateriel required fcr an,entrenched camp. This place is situated at the mouth of the Telez rivulet, which flows from the Nedroma. Opposite is the little isle of Los Cara coles, a Spanish name, which means Isle of Snails. Not far from this are the Zapharine isles, belonging to Spain, opposite the mouth of the Malouia. The post of Gazouma, on the maritime frontier of Morocco, will serve to neutralise all the incursions which the enemy might attempt between Tlemcen and the sea in the district of the lower Tafna." Another telegraphic dispatch announces that the Prince DE JOINVILLE arrived at Oran after a passage of five days. The Funds were slightly depressed on Thursday in consequence of rumours !hat there would be a break up, or at all events a partial modifi cation of the Ministry, and that several of the mem bers of the Cabinet were dissatisfied with the article in the Moniteur, which had been inserted without their knowledge. That article still furnishes subject fur angry comment. Both the Globe and the Journal des Debats deny the correctness of the statements put forth in the Opposition papers, according to which the amount cf indemnity received by Louis PHILIPPE when Duke of ORLEANS, was above 16,000,000 f.; the total amount, as they state, not being more than 5,000,000 f. In the Chamber of Deputies a discussion took place on the recruitment of the army, when Marshal SOULT contended for the eight years' service, on the ground that a levy of 80,000 men a year for seven years' service would only furnish an army of 450,000 men. The Marshal, however, was defeated, and the term of service was reduced to seven years. The de bate on the Budget then commenced, and it is ex- petted to last for several days. The amount of sup. plementary credits demanded is 8,000,000 f. It ap. pears from the Navy Estimates that during the las . twenty years they have increased from 60,000,000 f to 116,000,000 f. per annum. THE BO URSE—THunsDAr, JULY 4. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per C:nts •. • ... 122 33 .. 122 30 .. 122 .. 122 Four-and-a-Half.... 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 . 25 Four per Cents. ...• • 108 .. 108 • . 108 • • 108 Three per Cents..... 82 .• 82 05 .. 81 85 .. 81 8:5 Bank of France •••..••3010 ••3010 3010 .•3010 Lallitte Bank, 5,000 f ShuressoBo ' —5OBO ..5075 —5075 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• . • • • 1051 • • 1051 • • 1051 • • 105/ 1081 • • 1061 • • iOB .. lon Spanish Three?, ex div..• •• • 33i • • 331 .. 331 • • 331 Active •• ••--• • • • • • 30f • . 30i • • 301 • • 30f Passive .• •.•••• • • • • 5i .. 5.1 51. Old Deferred .... . • 51 51 .. 51 r Neapolitan ..... ....... • • • .98 . 80 . 98 . 80 .. 98 65 .. 98 75 Roman .......... .. 104 i .. 1041 .. 104 i RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germ/tin •• • • •••• • • • • 895 .. 895 • .. 895 .. 895 Versailles, 381 25 • • 381 25 • • 376 25 • • 377 50 •• • • 246 25 .. 246 25 • • 243 75 .. 245 R0uen•........... Rouen to Havre...• •••• • • • • 770. •• 770 .. 760 .. 762 50 Orleans ...... ....... • lOlO ..1010 .. 995 .. 997 50 Strasburg to Bale.. Avignon to Marseilles.• •• • • 775 .. 775 .. 770 . 770 - - - RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15rn JULY. St. Germain • •••.• ••• • • • 892 50 . • 892 50 .. 892 50 .. 892 50 Irersallles,R.B.— • • ••• • • • 377 50 • • 377 50 .• 376 25 376 25 L. 8.. ..... 250 .. 250 .. 242 50 .. 245 Rouen... ......... .• .. • • • • 1005 • •1006 25 .• 995 • • 997 80 Rouen to Havre•. 770 .• 770 .. 760 • • 762 50 Orleans • • • • • • .. —lOO5 • • 1007 50 .. i 95 • • 997 50 Strasburg to Bale•••••••• •• 242 50 • • 248 50 .. 238 75 • • 240 Avignon to Marseilles.. • • • • 775 . • 776 25 • . 775 • . 762 50 TIIE LATE MR. J. SCHOLEFIELD.-It has been else where our painful duty to record the decease of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., one of the .Members for Birmingham. The character of this gentleman will be best recorded in the hearts of those in private life, who well knew his worth, and the warmth of heart .and zeal he manifested in ivorks of a benevolent cha racter. It is to be feared that the life of Mr. Schole field was brought to an earlier close than might have been expected,- inconsequence of the intense mental anxiety he felt as to, the results likely to ensue from the passing of a Bill which was read a third time on Thursday night last in the . House of COmmens, within about six hours of. the lamented gentleman's decease. ' It is well known.to those who have watched the Par liamentary career of the late Mr. Scholefield, that from its commencement to its close, the exertions of the Hon. Gentleman ,were 'identified with opposition to the fatal errors of the builioniots, on the very im portant, and, indeed, as it will be yet proved, all im portant question of the currency. This matter pos sessed to his active and intelligent mind, an all-ab sori,ing interest ;- and by those who were associated with him in similar views of our monetary system, neither the zeal -nor the good will, tlid'spirit nor the energy of his incessant exertions in opposingthe Bank Charter Bill can 'ever be forgotten, or adequately acknowledged. As a practical and long-experienced ' merchant, he knew the misery inflicted by the mea sure he opposed in 'its hearing upon the producing classes; and he could feel, it is evident, for those Who were'the subjects of that misery ; he had witnessed it in the ruined fortunes, and, as he often expressed himself, "in the broken :hearts" it had produced. If to the Catalogue of disastrous incidents asso ciated with the -Mental solicitude occasioned by the Government measure . now introduced into the House of Lords, we- are to add his own accelerated demise, we must inscribe then name of one more good man upon the roll of those whose days, like the late Lord Liverpool's, have been shortened by the entan glements of, that maze of difficulties, the monetary measure of the year eighteen hundred and nineteen. BELL'S LITE IN LONDON, GRATUITOUS SUPPLE MENT, SUNDAY, 7th JULY.—Rupning Rein and Orlando; ver batim report of the Trial, to the extent of Eighteen of the Bell's Life Columns; evidence before the Select Committe on Gaming, and the usual Sporting varieties. Belrs- Life is re gularly published in time for all the Saturday afternoon rail ways. A Sixpence, inclosed to Mr. Clement,Jun., 170, Strand, will insure a copyby return of post. All persons interested in Sporting matters should read Bell's Life of July 7. THIS DAY'S NEWS I ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER THAMES. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Thames steamer, Lieutenant Philip Hest, arrived from the West Indies this morning, at half-past four o'clock. The dates of departure of the Thames are from Tampice, 24th May; Vera Cruz, June 1; Demerara, 4th ; Jamaica, Bth; Havannah, 9th; Grenada, 10th; Nassau, 13th,; St. Thomas, 14th ; Barbaddes, 18th; Berinu'da, 20th. Among the passengers is Major Hill, of the Ist West India Regiment, who is the bearer of important dispatches from. the Governor in. Chief of the Leeward Islands. :Th e Medway left Havannah 9th of June, - for Vera Cruz ; the Severn was to sail from Bermuda for Nassau and Ha- Vaiinah, 21st ult. FREIGHT.-1,430,000 dollars 161,650 of which on - account of the Mexican dividend. 91 serons of indigo; 203 ditto of cochineal; •9 boxes of vanilla; 20,000 . dollars' worth of. pearls; 883 ounces of gidd dust. The Thames left at Vera, Cruz her Majesty's sloop Rose. Her Majesty's ship Pique sailed from Vera Cruz on the 25th of May, for. Tampico, llavannali, and Bermuda, with specie. Vice-Admiral ;2ir Charles Adam was at Halithx. - . The Illus trious, line-of-battle - ship, had been sent by the Admiral to Havarmah, it was said to demand an explanation respecting • the imprisonment of several British subjects on account •of the late disturbances in the island, as well as all free Oo loured British subjects having been peremptorily ordered off the island of Cuba, to the rum of many of them. Colonel Thompson, the American Commissioner, who had arrived in Mexico-with, it was said, important dispatches concerning the annexation of rexas to the United States, was to have left Mexico on the 28th of May, and his place was • taken in the diligence for Vera Cruz, but on the morning he was to leave, an order was sent from the Mexican Govern ment that his fare should be returned to him, as no answer • could be given to the dispatches, of which he was the bearer, until- the arrival of - Santa Anna in Mexico, who would cer tainly arrive on the 3d of June. • A report was current that the United States Government had offered five millions oLdollars to Mexico, as - the price of its acquiescence in the proposed plan of annexation.. Much excitement ',prevailed among the English, in con sequence of an English gentleman by the name of Lloyd having been shot through the arm by one of the sentinels on duty at the Palace, for no other cause than hiS Walking on the pavement before the Palace—a walk not prohibited to the Mexicans. - Our Minister, Mr;Bankhead, had with. great promptitude interfered, and the soldier, as well as the officer on guard, had been placed in arrest.' Serious , disturbances took place in Dominica, originating in oppositioo ' on the part•of the - black population, t o th e census which was ordered to be taken on the 3d of June, and which - they imagined be be a preliminary step to re-esta blishing slavery. The negroes collected in considerable num berS,-asSaultiag the enumerators and commissioners, and se verely beating the magistrates who hastened to give their assistance in explaining the meaning of the census. In the neighbourhood of the town of Roseau, martial law having been proclaimed in the island,- the tumults soon ceased, the people being awed - by the presence of an armed force; but in the distant party of the:island, where this could not be so soon done, the mob made use of their power to sack several , houSes; ultimately, being oppo . sed by the militia, they dis persed. About 100 persons were in . gaol, on the depa r t ure o f the packet; waiting their trial: The Governor of the Lee ward Islands, Sit 'Charles Fitiroy, had • arrived in her Ma jesty's ship Inconstant, Capt. Fremantle, and it was supposed martial law would cease immediately. About eight of the insurgents were killed and wounded. Two hundred men of the Royals were dispatched from Barbadoes, tinder the com mand of Lieut.- Col: Archer; on the•intelligence reaching that island. - HAYTI —The ex-president . Herard, finding himself de serted by his troops, embarked at Port au Prince for Jamaica on the' Ist •ofJune, on board her Majesty's ship the Spartan, Hon. Capt. C. Elliot. The French Admiral was at Port au Prince with a filgate'and two other vessels of war.—Herald. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE : (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. • • LIWERPOoL CUP. 14 to 1 agst Aristotle —taken 20 to 1 agst Moss Trooper —t 14: to 1 agst Pagan 20 to 1 agst Trueboy—taken 16 to 1 agst British Yeornan . 20 to 1 agst Arundo—taken 20 to 1 agst The, Era—taken 20 to 1 agst Parthiaa 20 to 1 agat Queen of Tyne —t Offers to take 6 to 1 about Kent's lot. . GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agat Croton Oil 17. to 1 agst. The Currier 12 to 1 agst Red Deer 17 to 1 agst Elysium 15 to 1 agst Pride of"Kildare - 20 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne 18 to 1 - agst Caliton 20 to 1 . agst Poussin. 18 to 1 agat The Best of Three - It is reported that Running Rein has been destroyed to prevent any further discoveries. His ROYAL' HIG lINESS PRINCE ALBERT..—ThiS day, at half-past twelve o'clock, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by a single equerry, drove to Messrs. Christy and Marson's auction-rooms, King-street, St. James's-square,• to view some very celebrated pictures on sale this afternoon. The ar rival of his Royal Highness was quite unexpected. The - Prince entered the rooms almost unobserved, and seemed to examine several of the paintings with much attention—the view of Florence, by Canaletti; " Susannah and the Elders," by Guido ; " The Woman taken in Adultery," by Titian ; and two pic tures by Teniers, seemed most particularly to attract his Royal Highness's attention. There were several persons in the room, who remained covered during the Royal visit, and very properly kept quite away from the Prince. After remaining about half an hour his Royal Highness was attended to his carriage by Mr. Manson. MARKET NE WS.—( T DAY.) COVENT-atILIZII=IV. For most kinds of fruit and vegetables, the supplies of which were unotttally large, we had a steady inquiry, on the following terms .Potatoes, from 4s to as, and New ditto, 83 to 163 per cwt ; Onions, Is 3d to 2s 6d ; Turnips, 2s to 3s 64 ; and Carrots, 5s to 6s per dozen bunches Spinach, 9d to ls ; Gooseberries, is 6d to 3 s ; C urran t s, 2 s to 3s 6d; Broad Beans, .1S to 25,; and Peas, is 4d to 2s 6d; and French Beans, Ss to 4s per half sieve. Asparagus, is to 4s 6d; Oranges, 8s to. 14s ; and Le mons , S s to 14s per 100 ; Pine ..apples, 5s to lOs ; Hot-house Grapes, 3s to 6s ; and Cherries, 2d to Gd per lb ; Peaches, 12s to 25s ; and Cabbages, 6d to is per dozen. Strawberries, 20 to 6d ; and Raspberries, 4d to 80 per pottle ; Cucumbers, 40 to is 6d per brace. Cauliflowers, 2d to Gd ; and Melons, 3s to 7s each." Horse-radish, 2s to 6s . Per bundle ; Small 'Salad, 20 per punnet; Radishes, 3d to 6d per dozen hands; Lettuces, 2d to .8a per score. - • lIIINOMIZPOItD. Our market was only moderately supplied with most de scription's of produce; yet the general demand was inactive, at but little variation in prices. • ra 1.7, GA.TB NX. IPE ILDIEZ9II.II3. L. For prime Mutton, Lamb, and Veal, we had a steady de mand., at full prices. Otherwise the trade was heavy. Beef from 2s 4d to 3s-4d ; Mutton, 2s Gd to 3s -84 ; Lamb, 4s to 5s ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 10d p er Sib s b y the carcass. The supplies of Poultry being only moderate, a slight improvement was noticed in the demand, at full last week's quotations. Capons, 4s to 7s 6d; Guinea Fowls, 2s 8d to 4s ; Chickens, is 6d to 3s ; Duckli ngs, 2s to 3s; Gos lings, 4s 6d to 6s; Pigeons, 6d to 100; and Rabbits, tame, 10d to is 60 each. TIMVIP o We bad a very inactive general deinaln, 3s dy 6 et a p t r o e u vio 4 us d ; ra a t n e d s were mostly supported.—Beef; from, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; M utton , 1 2)s o r B k d , t 2 o s 3 6 6 c1 -1 ro 4 ; a L p a e l n r b Ei 1 s s irea . . - 7-4ILLINGSGATIG. There were full average supplies of most kinds of Fish on offer, while the tradew•as steady at about previous rates. - vinizTEcluunz. _ Although the, demand was On the whole inactive, the prices were supported.—Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 4s to ss; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork 2s 6d to 4s per Sibs. nictVap. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are frcm 8d to Sid; of Household ditto, 6d to 7id per 41b loaf. ZZIDE Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs—Best steers and heifers, 5s 6d to 5s led ; middling hides, 4s 10d to 5s 4d ; inferior ditto, 4s 4d to 4s Bd. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin—Market Calf, 6s 6d to 856,1; shearlings, 10d to Is 3d ; and Lamb skins, Is 3d to 2s each. - 1iK11.7 r.I.II2METS. S di m i r to n , F 4 l r m 4rto lay, 31 lOs to 47; use fulC4olitrB:.e fin M e ea u d p o l w and l ditto,4l lOs to 41 15s; Clover Hay, 5/ to 61 ' 103; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply bit moderate, and trade rather dull. CIIMBERLAND.—Coarsti Meadow Hay 31 15s to 4145; use ful ditto, 41 6s to 4/ 123; fine Upland di tto, 4 1 14 s to 5/ ; Clover -Hay, 51 to 6/ 6§ ; Oat Straw, 1 / 1 4s to 11168; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand; WiumcirArisr...—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41; use ful ditto, 41 4s to 4/ 8s; fine Upland ditto, 41 lOs to 4/15s; Clover .Hay, 51 to Cl . 10s; Oat Straw, 11 12s to I/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Roth Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at barely late rates. The quotations of neiv Meadow Hay varied from 31 to 12s per load. . , WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY. We have a fair arrival of Wheat to this gay's market; the Jade was exceedingly flat,,tuid all.descriptions must be noted la. per quarter lower. Barley in request, at former rates. Oats,'Beans, and tihe lling remain unaltered in value. Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel. EXTRA. Navy. —to 5'3 54 to 55 ~ White — GO 57 bS .Red 55 52 53 White — 56 51 54 fled. 51 52 53 White - 56 54 55 Re d —5 i 54 White — 57 54 56 lied — 55 51 5 4 . White 57 54 55 Par guar c r imperial. Barley, Norfolk an:4 Suffolk Yorkshite and Unto:ll.4llre — 34 :0 33 Gricding Forel — 32 39 31 kyr qr. f 631 b. to th:. budel. Ceans, Small fn. , 8 36 37 Tielss • — 87 31 36 Foreign Oats, Potato a;.d Pola'd ............. , . •" Mealinr....... Ild to 13d., Fe . . ..........—d to —d " St"?. S'v.lling.... .......... ...... .••••••••••••• 163. to 27S W. I.er Load. Malt Rapeseed ........ ..... ........... Os. —I. ........... Lst t. :'heat Suffolk, Essex, and Rent.....,.., Ditto ditto ..... Norfolk ................ ... ..... Ditto ditto .................. Lincolnshire and Cambridge... Ditto ditto ............ YeTkstiirc ditt0.. ......... ........ Ditto ......... Forolg , .................... Ditto ditt0 ............ .M.L.-(THIS DAY.) Ann Skidmore, and two young women, her daughters, were charged before Mr. Trail! with robbing a young country girl, named Files, under circumstances of great aggravation. It appeared that the elder prisoner met' with the com plainant, a girl seventeen years of age, at Manchester, and gave her_ such a flourishing account of " Lunnon," and the little difficulty of getting plenty of work, as to induce her to quit hpr native place. They arrived in town on donday last, and the prisoner, under threat of' " ripping her up," took forcible possession of the poor girl's bundle, containing some articles of dress, and then left her, desiring her to get back to Manchester as well as she could. Since then the complainant has been wandering about the streets, and sleeping in the union workhouses of a night, not having the means of getting home. The prisoners were taken into custody at Peckham the preceding night, being seen there by the complainant, applying to get a night's lodging in the workhouse. Tfic prisoners, who denied the charge, were committed for fourteen days, and the complainant was ordered to be passed to Manchester, and recommended never to leave home, The Earl and Countess of - Granville «ill shortly leave Bruton-street, for the Duke of Devonshire's marine villa, at Kemptown, for the improvement of his Lordship's health. THE STATE TRIALS (THIRD DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY WRIT OF ERROR. THE QUEEN AGAINST O'CONNELL AND OTHERS. Their Lordships met at half-past ten o'clock this morn ing, to bear the further arguments of Counsel in this case. Counsel having been called in, The .Loan CuascELLon (addressing Sir Thomas Wilde) said he hoped he bore in mind that the Judges would have to go on circuit on Wednesday, and if the case was not concluded so as to enable them to give judgment before then, the case could not be determined until next session. Sir Tuossaa WILDE said that he fully bore in mind the importance of having the- opinion of the Learned Judges, and with that view he had compressed his ar gument as much as possible. But it would be impos sible for them to omit anything which they considered material to the interests of their clients. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he only mentioned it that Counsel might be aware of the circumstances. He was only anxious to bring the case to a conclusion, in order that whatever the judgment might be, the part'e might have the benefit of it ; but they Could not do that which was impossible—they could not hear or detern,ine this case in the absence of the Judges, and if the argu ments were not concluded b e f ore Wednesday they must be suspended, in order that the Learned Judges might hear them. Sir THOMAS WILDE said they were there to present the defendants' case to their Lordships with all that pro perly belonged to it,'and if they omitted anything that was material, they would not being doing justice to the parties or to their Lordships, for the decision would not be regarded with confidenee; They had as much as possible shortened their arguments, but they could not omit anything which they considered material. lie hoped their Lordships would devise some expedient. The Loh CHANCELLOR said they could not possibly put off the circuits, because the effect of that would be that a number of prisoners now in gaol would be set at liberty at the commencement of the circuits. He thought it his duty to state this for his (Sir T. Wilde',) consideration, and having done •so he had stated all that was necessary. Mr. HILL then resumed his argument, and said, he felt that he laboured under a great disadvantage in ad dressing their Lordships, because he knew how difficult it was to argue an important case with an impres sion on one's mind that necessary matter must be omitted in endeavouring to compress arguments which •would perhaps be prejudicial to the interests of his clients. Their Lordships would recollect that when he was interrupted yesterday he cited the case of the King v. Burridge, in 2d Lord Raymond's Reports, p. 1,364, and also in the Bth vol. of the " Modern Reports," p. 245. This and other cases showed that a party had an undbubted right of challenging the array. They esta blished the principle, that the Courts would not prevent the defendant farm exercising his right of challenging the array. He did . net anticipate that the right to challenge the array in cases of special juries would . be denied: In Ireland there was a case which was a great authority on that point which had been argued in the Exchequer Chamber before a writ of error, and which admitted clearly the right to challenge the array in cases of special Juries. It was the case of Newland v. King, 1 Hudson and Brooke's Reports. p. 164. In that case the challenge was on account of the unindifferency of the sheriffs ; but the case of the King v. Edmunds was in that case brought prominently before the Court, and the doctrine laid down in the King v. Edmunds wa's limited to - this point, that there could be no challenge of the array on the ground of the . unindifferency of the Master of the Crown-office. The right to challenge the array was the rule. This. was the exception. Now he would ask what ground was there here why the challenge of , the array should not have a useful effect when such ob;ection was made to the array itself? In the case of the " Queen v. Fitzpatrick," which had been tried in ono-of the Irish circuits in the year 1838, and which was to be found in 1 Crawford and Dicks, p. 73, there was a'cliallenge of the array, on the ground of vices-in - Malting up the sheriff's book. The Chief Jus tice in that case expressed an opinion against the validity of the, challenge; but reserved the point. As, however, the defendant was acquitted, the point was not raised. In 1839, in the case of .the " Queen v. Conradine," 1 Crawford and Dix, p. 56, there was also a challenge of the array on the same ground. The presiding judge ex pressed an opinion against the validity of the challenge. I.3nt in both cases the opinion. was grounded upon a reason, the force of which he confessed he could hot see, viz., that the provisions of the Jury Act, 3d and 4th William IV., were directory and not imperative. Before the statute of the 3d and 4th William IV., the sheriff in Ireland was as unshackled as he had been in England before the Revolution. There was no interposition be tween him and the jury until -they earns into the box. The sheriff had an unlimited discretion to arrange the panel from any of the inhabitants of the county he pleased, subject only to the challenge of the array. After the Act came into operation it became his duty to ar s range the panel from the jury book, and to confine him self to the names found there. Ile submitted that these directions were imperative. But admitting, for the sake of arguthent, that they were merely.directory—, The LORD CHANCELLOR—Whatever is directory is imperative.. The question is, if it-is essential. Mr. HlLL—Exactly so, my Lord. I was merely adopting the language which has been used in discussing this question. The Loun.) CHANCELLOR-Whatever is directed to be done by an Act of Parliament is imperative. Whether it is essential to the validity of the act is another question.' . Mr. HILL would adopt his Lordship's term, that the provisions were essential, and use the tern in the strictest sense. But be was now arguing the.point as if they were not essential. The question v. as simply this —had the sheriff, in making the array, acted as a statutable officer, under the Act of Parliament, or according to his common law rights and duties. If he acted as a sta. tutable officer, he was bound to obey the provisions of the Act. It could not be said . that this part was merely directory, and not to be obeyed. It was the duty of a public officer, above all others, to attend to every part of the Act of Parliament ; and when the sheriff arrayed the panel, under the provisions of William IV., the jury book must be the foundation of that panel. He there fore submitted that he was limited in the selection of the panel by the statute. If the book used was not the book provided by the statute a fortiori —if it was: tainted by fraud—how could it be considered that he had exer cised the powers confided in - him by the common law ? It was charged in the challenge that those names had been omitted by fraud, and the charge was admitted by the demurrer. They had a right to presume that, nine-tenths of the names had been omitted from the. book ; and although they might , con sider the sheriff was acting as a common-law offiCer, was it not a crime in the sheriff to take a boOk from, it might be some stranger, in which the greater portion of the names qualified were omitted, and to limit his list by the liSt in the book—a list prepared with the fraudulent intent to injure, the parties. He would suppose the case to have occurred before the 3d and 4th of William IV. Supposing that a party had represented himself as act ing under 'a stattite,:and- by colour of lasv, and by that had prevailed upon the sheriff to act upon a list made up by fraud, the sheriff might have acted bona fide,SbUt still he had acted in such a manner as to taint the panel with a vice, and the panel was therefore bad. Now he sub mitted that the statute 'was not merely directory, but that its provisiens, as regarded the present matter, were essential, and all must be observed, or the whole was bad. If their Lordships looked to the 11th section of the Act they would find ,that it enacted that the sheriff should not, in answer to a writ of venire facies, return the names of any persons not in the book of jurors for the then current year. All parties, the sheriff; the coroner, the heritor, and the clerk of the peace, must refer to that book -* in a subsequent stat u t e , h owever, it was passed, as it ' had been found that owing to the provisions not being understood, in many counties there was not a good jury-book ; and that statute gave power to act on the jury-book of the previous year, and that if there was no good jury-book then resort might be had to the state of things as they existed before the 3d and 4th of William IV. If it was necessary for his case, - which it was not, the- presumption would be that the officers had . done their duty, but it was i mmater i a l to cons id er th a t view Of the case. • - The LORD CHANCELLOR —What was tholast Act to which you referred, Mr. Hill ? Mr. HILL—The 4th and sth of Will. IV., chap. 48, which was an Act to amend the electing of jurors in Ire land. hiS argument was this, if it - was necessary to prove 'the provisions of the Act, or if it was essential, he had proved it but he might have added the proof he had already. given. .This. very section provided that if the names of persons, whose names were not on the jury book, fohnd their way into the panel, and no (Net-. tion was taken till after the trial, the trial should not be set aside on that ground. It was impossible that the Legislature, should have expressed their will to Confine the sheriff to the jury -bock in stronger terms. It was evidently : intended,, by th ose w h o f rame d this challenge, that where the name was not on the jury -book, the trial should be considered : as bad. The LOAD CHANCELLOR observed that . there could be no doubt that the names were to be taken out of the jury -book. Mr. HILL considered such to be the case, but that was not the opinion .of the Judges in Ireland. As the list was to be taken from the book, it was necessary to-Con sider what the book was. • They said that, ; owing to the circumstances 'he had stated - to the House, the present Was not the book. Now the jury-book was the mere copy of a list given by the clerk of the peace to the sheriff, and the recorder was to make up the book from the collector of cos.?. The LORD CHANcELLOR—Won't it go to this length, Mr. Hill ? The names are' to be returned by the clerk of the peace from the collector of cess, and then they are. handed to the recorder: Now supposing that the cess collector had fraudulently 'omitted a name, or that one less was handed ()Ver to the recorder, j - ou must go the length Of shying that would vitiate the book and support a challenge to the array. Mr. HILL - .apprehended that it would. He thought that the great portion of the miscarriage had arisen in at. the precent :case from raising the wrong issue. The question here was simply this—Was there a document, hick was a valid, honest document, furnishing the - source from which the - panel waS 'dram' ? The LORD CHANCELLOR—There are two 'questions which you lia; , e raised • you are abandoning one. You contend that if by accident one name is omitted, that will vitiate the list ; but you allege upon the second that the names were omitted fraudulently, and with a view to prejudice your client. Air. HILL said he supposed he was not fortunate enough to express himself clearly. Yesterday he intended most expressly to state that neither the record, nor he individually, raised that question at all. He was not called upon to speculate as to how much of disobedience to an Act of Parliament would be endured ; but he con fined himself to the allegations upon the record, which Were that the party was prejudiced by it, and that the list was tainted wit}► fraud. It was here made a part of the challenge, that it was to the damage of Mr. Steele. It was stated that the effect was to injure Mr. Steele, and it was stated that the means were a fraudulent omis sion of certain names from the panel. The LORD CHANCELLOR—YO U have a right to put extreme cases on both sides. Mr. HILL availed himself of that right in inquiring into the nature, extent, and operation of a challenge to an array. Suppose all the names were omitted but one, there would be something then which called for redress; and the remedy, he apprehended, was the challenge to the array. Even if the limitation of the panel were honest; it. was unsupported by law ; if it were dishonest, he did not see how any question could arise. He would suppose that in this case tee challenge would produce the greatest inconvenience. Was that a good reason for denying to the subject this ancient and most beneficial remedy ? Was it not a far better reason for amending the Act of Parliament, and preventing it from producing consequences which were never contemplated by the Legislature ? Let the . Act be amended. As a predeces so-r of one of the Learned Judges had sad, " Parliament was always at hand to rectify mistakes." But incon venience, as applied to this particular case, there was absolutely none. lie made no other imputation upon the Recorder except that a great default had be..n com mitted through his not carefully superintending the list, and the only question before their Lordships was, what had been the effect of that default ? The LORD CHANCELLOR—You can say nothing as to the effect of the default, because we have not the facts upon the record. Ma'am'. said he was in the region of actualities. The effect was that there had been a miscarriage; it was the effect in which he was interested, and not the cause. He would now call their . Lordships' attention to the judgment delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of the 'Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland on the important 'point of the challenge to the array, as set forth in the Appendix, p. 119._ ,The Lord Chief Justice commenced his judgment by seating the array es it was set forth, and considering the provisions of the Act of Parliament. lie says that the Recorder is a judicial officer, and that some other officers connected with the subject are mi nisterial. Bat the Chief Justice did not distinguish as to whether the Recorder was acting judicially in the particular point that was under consideration, or whe ther he was not. For he could not consider that some ambiguous expressions which fell from the Chief Justice, that he would consider the record, after he had adju• dicated on each name, and when that portion of his duty had arrived which he is to cause to be done by Others, as acting judicially. He could not be acting judicially in causing persons to assemble these names together, to put them into a list, put them into a proper form, and have them written out in a clerkly hand, and deliver them to the Clerk of the Peace. There was nothing very judicial is this part of his duty, and it was this- very part of the duty of the Recorder to which this challenge applied. The Chief Justice goes on to say, that in the statute no farther peoceeding appears in any part of it to limit Or control the powers therein mentioned to have been provided, ex cept as specified in the Act, and then describes the mode of proceeding. " A party may oppose the claim of a person desiring to be admitted as a juror, and it is for the Recorder - L ee:elusively and finally, to make an adjudi cation whether he is to be admitted or rejected." Ad mitted or rejected to what ? Not to the jury -box, but to the jury list. What was the course of proceeding in the case of votes for aldermen fur the city of Londen ? Was the wardmote at which the votes were adjudicated conclusive of the matt r. Might not the question have to come before the Queen's Bench ? One Learned Judge present must recollect a case in which a long and expensive litigation was carried on for the purpose of ascertaining the validity of certain votes, some of which had been allowed and some had been disallowed by the Recorder, acting as assessor to the Lord Mayor of Lon don at a wardmote in the City. In 999 cases out of a thousand the wardmote might do all that was requisite, but the thousandth case might arise. The Chief Jus tice then went on to say that the Recorder is elected by the Legislature to decide cases of this description : " It is a high and, important privilege with which hp is so invested, and with it is in a great measure connected the flow and fountain of justice, and the purity of the administration of justice." Then the more important the duty, the more important it became that they should not shut out any means of examining whether it was correctly or incorrectly performed ; and when the par tici chiefly iuterestecl in the matter, namely, the parties in the suit, were not. present, how could this be done ? After stating that the Recorder's decision is final and beyond appeal, the Chief Justice states that " another duty is imposed on him, that is, that he shall make or cause to be made a new list, arranging the persons according to rank and property ; and the Act directs, that in the newly-arranged lists, he shall include all per sons who, on a previous revision, have substantiated their claims before him." But he would ask was there anything very judicial in this duty ? The Chief Jus tice then proceeds as follows—" There is no imputation in this challenge, that the omission which was said to have taken place on the part of the Recorder ; was the consequence of improper conduct malversation, or eels ruption—none was imputed to him. But it was said the Act required he should make out the new lists according to rank and property, classing the persons according to such order required by the Act, and that he should do so with respect to all whose claims should be allowed. I do not know how far this is to be carried, but if I understand the argument right, they push it to that extent. Here were two duties imposed on the Recorder: First, he is to revise the lists delivered to him by the collector, and he then is to make a new list according to rank and pro perty ; and he was equally bound to have made no omission, but to have included in the classification of rank and property, every individual, just as much as he was bound by the Act to have allowed or disallowed his claim generally to -be received as a juror. Now how far is that to be carried ? Suppose the Re corder had included every person whose claim had been allowed, but Suppose he had omitted to class them according to rank and property; are all subsequent • proceedings to be avoided, and to be the subject of a challenge to the array, because he has omitted to follow the directions of the statute in this one instance? Suppose he did make a classification according to rank and property, and-suppose he admitted all those persons entitled, will it be contended that he has made a wrong classification, because, by the judg ment he has come to, he has put men worth 2,000/. at the bottom of the list, and put at the top men not worth so many hundreds. Unquestionably he would have de viated from the directions of the statute, but is that a reason why all those proceedings should be null and void, and why, if a trial took place, it should be in the power of either of the parties to show that . part of the Act had been deviated from, and that, therefore, the jury panel in that particular case was good for nothing? If the argument be correct, the consequences must go that length, and I cannot help thinking that such a decision would be most injurious and dangerous to the community." One of their Lordships had said, that one extreme, may certainly be looked at ; but they had also had the kind nesS toe say, that the other extreme may be looked at also. Surely, it was not the mode to arrive at a just Conclusion—to take an extreme case on either side ; but this remark must be made, that the state of facts upon which the Learned Judge hypothetically argued had no relatiOn to the state of facts in the present case. might be an interesting legal speculation, but which might as well be made in the next case that came before him as in the present. The Learned Chief Justice said, that this was a judicial act which could as well be per formed by an inexperienced clerk as by ' the most learned judge.. The Learned Judge did not say what was to be the consequence, if th ere was no list, or a mutilated list, or a li s t tainted with fraud from 13:ginning to end. The Learned Chief Justice went on to say—" I do not mean to question whether the , special jury panel ma y not be challenged : several cases were cited, in which it was so decided :—I do not mean to controvert that, the more so as it seems not to have been pressed on the other side. But I observe that in those cases a protest was made, up= holding their right, and nothing was done to remove it. It is not because the challenge was to the array of the special jury, but because the Recorder has not followed out the directions of the Act of Parliament, and that some person unknown has bad the opportunity of making an alteration in the lists so returned, the sixty persons whose names had been allowed 'by the. Recorder do nut now stand upon the list." Ile seuned to allow by that, that there did exist a right of challenge ; but Mr. Justice Crampton, in his ju4- ment, gave it as his opinion that no such right existed. Thus there seemed to be some doubt about the matter in Ireland ; he trusted there would be none in their Lordships' minds. The Chief Justice went on to say that ",the Ilecorder was not answerable for that ; no blame was imputed to him in the way of anything cor rupt or fraudulent." But • were there no cases of mis • , chief arising, except what arose from fraud ? Might it not be produced flOlll want of care or caution ? The consequences of such want of care or caution might be worse than where there was corruption or fraud, though the parties might not be so much to blame. Then the Chief Justice went on to say, " There is no averment in the challenge that. he 'did not make out the lists accord ing to the Act ;" and he says that " the Recorder is not an officer of the Court.' lie had to. deal with this point before by anticipation, when he called their Lordships' attention to the great legal fact that a challenge to the array was a remedy before those Acts werepassed ; whether the Recorder was or was not .an officer of the court,. was of no consequence, because it' was not a contest in personam, but in rem, a mere en quiry into a document over which the Recorder had control for a certain time ; whether the Recorder was an officer .of the. court or not was immaterial, because, the court by allowing the challenge had the power to get rid of the evil done,. whether by the Recorder or by any other person. The .Learned . Judge then asked the question," who is lo try his .(t he Recorder's) indifferency tie is not here or :represented by counsel.' This ques tion arose from an entire mistake as to the issue. There the challenge to the 'array was for indifferency—was the sheriff represented .? who ever heard of counsel for a sheriff in a challenge to the array . ? He ap pealed to their Lordships' experience. The sheriff Was no party to the issue; and a challenge to the array rose on issue, in law or in fact, between the parties. He did not wonder therefore that the' mind of the Chief Justice came to an erroneous conclusion, because there was no surer means of arrivincr at a wrong conclusion than a mistake of the issue. Ihe Learned Chief Justice then commented on a proposition made by counsel for the defendant., to put back the names for the purposes of that trial to avoid all; question, and that the array should be as it would have been if those names had formed part . of the hat. It was impossible for the defendants to give a clearer proof that they did not resortto this challenge for the object of delay, but that they were desirous of obtaining a jury in, which.the lacy would Iwo just con fidence. The Learned Chief Justice remarked that that offer was not accepted. This fact appears in the judgment of the court below, that -:such an offer was made, and :refused on the part of the Crown. Far be it from hire to presume for one moment that this offer was rejected fOt any improper purpose ;he merely used it in order to show the bona fides with' which the challenge was made. It also appeared from the judgment that this was brought before the Court in e a summary manner. The parties did not wait till th e proper time arose for making the challenge, which could only be done when the jury appeared in the box. Th e Court were of opinion that they bad no powt r of inter* fering, that they could not interfere in that way, whethe r they could so interfere was not now the question, but the less power they had of interfering summarily, the mere reason there was why they should hive allowed the (Awl' lenge. It was said as a reason why the challenge should be overruled, that thi s was a general list not applica ble to this particular case, but to all cases 'occurring in the current year. Be that so. If it were a list made til ) with fraud against all the suitors of the case, or a class of the suitors of the Court, whose suits might come if during the year, instead of being a weak reason, he s houll have thought it a strong reason for allowing the chai lenge to the array, for, be it recollected, the mode it which the party might avail himself of the defect in tlo panel must be by challenge. But it did not all Mow from there being a challenge to the array in thi ease, that there • would be a chal'enge in any othet But; with the greatest possible humility to their Lord ships, he must be permitted to protest against the sup position that their Lordships would entertain such , t question. Their Lordships would not entertain.such s motive as inconvenience for one moment. If info' venience arose to the course of public justice from their having their challenge allowed, let the Legislature frid the remedy, but let it not, on any account, he done at tie • expense of justice. He (Mr. Bill) did not think himself justified in detaining the Right Hon. House by con meriting on the judgments of the two puisne judges, vsl6 agreed in opinion with the Chief Justice, but he woad call attention to the judgment of the fourth judge. namely that of Mr. Justice Perrin, who was .of opinion that this challenge ought to have been allowed. The judgment of that learned and etai neat person appeared to him (Mr. Hill) to ad vance arguments which were well worth the serious consideratioa of that Right Hon. House. That Learned Judge seemed to consider that the words which he (Mr. Hill).`in a former part of his argument had cited of the Lord Chief Justice, might either ; bear a different construction, or the reporter might be wrong. Mr. Justice Perrin then called the attention of the Court to the nature of the allegation made. He said the Re corder knew no more of the error committed than he himself did, and therefore there was not, a shadow of ground to suppose but that he had been imposed upon- Yes; he was unfortunate enough to allow somebody to impose upon him, and what, was the result of that? It appeared in the judgment of Mr. Justice Perrin, who appeared to him (Mr. Hill) to address himself very closely and logically to the real question.. What was the result of the matter? That the general list of the Recorder was ; by some means or another, an inaccurate list. The Recorder, then, was a merely ministerial officer on that occasion, and was no more unswerable for that error than the Learned Judge himself. Then he went on to declare what the nature of the allegation W's to which he (Mr. Hill) had already called the attention . • of their Lordships. An error had been made in that part of the proceedings, which was of the most important . ' character to the interests of the parties accused. Why should it not be corrected ? What possible reason could exist that the error should ,not ba corrected ? Wbat 111 ,; - monstrous Act of Parliament must • that be which de';; prived an officer of the power of correcting his own ministerial error? But it was said the challenge was 11 novel one, and founded on an Act of Parliament dee very recent date. He (Mr, Hill) could not suppose for one moment that because an Act •of Parliament had been in existence only ten years, it was to be set aside because..; of some point of form. The real question was, not what was involved or not involved in form, but what was the principle of the Act, and had that principle been re ' spected and complied with? Mr. Justice Perrin han' strongly and eloquently laid it down that he could not see any objection to this ministerial .error :in the jury. list being corrected ; and he (kr..Hill), had every con fidence that that Right Ilonotnable House mould take precisely the same view of the questions But he Mir. Hill) would not weaken the, effect which. he was sure. Mr. Justice Perrin's judgment must -have made u pon the minds of their Lordships, by• adding anything. ' to what had fallen from that eminent person on the sub ject of challenge, hut, proceed very briefly to notice another point which struck him as being most important. Their Lordships had heard much 'argument upon. the effect which would be produced if only one count in an indictment was good, or rather if there was an indict-. , ment with one good count in it, containing also counts which were held to be bad. He would not urge that point ; but would implore that Right Hon. House not to . decide as to any supposed practice. Practice, it should . be recollected, was at all times a mode of administering the law to be watched with the greatest care and anxiety' What was the memorable answer of Chief Justice Pratt in the great case respecting the useof general warrants ? The practice, from the time of the Revolution down t° • the period of the action, was vouched to show the .righ t ' of the Secretary of State to the use of general warrant' The submission of all parties who had been made•tt, subject of those general warrants was strongly arguetit Court. Their Lordships would recollect what was t f i' e answer of Lord Camden. He said, "It is the subinly siou of poverty to power." And that observation 11 phatically appli e d t o th e p resen t case . H e (Mr. T; had made in qu i r y as t o w h at was t h e cost to the P artie s in this case o f th e vo l ume w hi c h lay upon the i r Lord. ships' table. He spoke of no other expenses, such as procuring copies of various documents, paying fees, &c.; but he merely alluded to the printing of this volume, and the expense of that alone was 4001. Was that an answer to the ebservation that difficulties arose in the way of writs of error in criminal cases? Their Lordships knew that that item, heavy as it was, sunk into insignificance , compared with the many other items that would be found in the bill of costs to be brought against these de" fendants. It was a question of poverty, and not a s l ues" tion of the parties being convinced by their law advisers that they had no remedy. In many cases parties were punished, and the punishment was at an end before it was possible to ascertain whether they had been rightly • or wrongly convicted. How frequently did• cases arise in which points of law were submitted to the considers tion of the twelve judges, and this proved that there was no real remedy upon writs of error in such cases. Lord CAMPBELL—We will suppose that an indictment for murder contains several counts, which is frequently the case. How is the verdict entered ? Is the verdict of guilty entered on all counts ? lam supposing that the judgment, for some purpose or another, is formally drawn up. I remember on the Oxford Circuit a case of this kind, Miss Blandy's case, but I do not recollect whether on the several counts in the indictment verdicts were entered. Strictly speaking, if there is only one felony upon which evidence is give),, a verdict of guilty can only be entered upon one count. Mr. Hu.e----That a verdict of guilty should be entered on only ()tie count is our argument. Lord CAMPBELL—The judgments were always extremely short, there being no fee to be paid for theta according to their length. Mr. flux—He was arguing to their Lordships that where there was a large question of property involved , the case was a difficult one. Persons engaged in such cases had generally property to carry them on. Butt how did this apply to criminal cases? He trusted the ir Lordships would pau se b e f ore they gave effect -, to t he doctrine that indictments might be drawn with a degree of looseness in the use of terms which had been adopted in the present case. This was a matter whibh had been brought for the first time under the consideration of their Lordships, and he trusted that this system would receive a final check by the judgMent which it awaited at the Lordships' hands. When he looked at the record , he found great difficulty in addressing his mind to the subject, owing to the immense quantity of words contained in the various counts of the indictment The first count occupied 50 pages of a large and closely printed book. He could not liken it to the three grains of wheat in the 'bushel of chaff, not that the illustration would fail in consequence of the deficiency of chaff, but of the ab sence of the three grains of wheat. His Learned Friend had addressed their Lordships upon the sixth count. In e' late case which had occurred in the Court of Queell' s Bench, the Court had directed that vituperative adverbs should be disregarded. And, probably, the Learned Judges in that Court would place vituperative adjectives on the same footing. What was there in this count which de signated an offence ? Looking to the whole of this transaction, without having the mind disturbed by what Bentham called " dislogestic words," the whole count was deficient. It was merely an assertion that certain persons assembled large meetings, which they must stir pose to be peaceable, because, bad there been ground for a charge of a breach of the peace against them, the op' portunity of still further extending that immense indict' meet would not have been lost sight of. He foiled throughout the whole of this indictment a Frenchitied form of expression. It Was impossible to read this in dictment without being struck with the wonderful Os; logy between the language in these indictments, and that used during the time of the French Revolution, in the indictments, if they might be so called, of those days* lie could almost suppose that those who had drawn uP ttis indictm en t h a d p l aced the llfoniteur of those da ys Wore them. The defendants were charged with a de monstration of physical force. Was that English or we e it French? This reminded him of a person who was in dieted in France before the tribunal constituted by th e National Convention,for having usedcertain manceuvres. Another person was charged for attempting to denatu-, ralise, by sowing lucerne instead of wheat. In early times theie was a disposition to use figurative language an d expressions in drawing up c ases o f i n di ctment . Black' stone stated that constructive t reason i nc l u d e d a eha1:, 17,, of attempting to accrouch on the Sove r ei gn p ow er. accrouch on the Sovereign power, translated in Engli sh' was a usurpation of the prerogative of th e C ro wn. Th e tree of treason, however, was ultimately pruned to rea l sonable dimensions. They were accustomed to sPlr_„,. to the custom of their ancestors ; but he wished tee!, would always appeal to proper occasions. He clin e have wished that in all cases of past statutes such ju stic e and wisdom had been shown as had been exf o bited in the statute of treason of Henry thatll` Third. By that statute it was enacted . an overt act must be proved to constitute treason' What had been the 'consequence whenever in bad attempts bad been made to enlarge the construction o f the statute of treason? Although tho se a tt em pts might 3n those times have been legali se d by statu t e , y e t as 6 r: A O as those bad times had passed away those statutes ha He been swept away, and th a t venera bl e sta t u t e had ru_, maimed the corpus juris o f th e l aw o f treason . trust" h a t their Lordships would d o f or th e l aw o f cons pi r acy w.„ 6 , their ancestors had done f or th e l aw of treason. m of trusted their Lordships would so construe the .1 1 2 , 7 :11 „. conspiracy that no man should be subjected to sutle,ols " the penalties inflicted by th e l aw o f conspiracy Nrlim THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY (3, 1 ~4-t. r-, '