The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-27 00:00:00

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R COLRT CITICULAL The Queen and Prince Albert. walks d, yesterday fore noon, inc idle royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. ner Highness the Prine , •ss Royal, accompanied the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, was taken an airing Yesterday, in an open carri:ge and four. His Royal High ne s s Prince Albert, attended by Mr. Geo rge Edward Ansln, want, yesterday morning, to the °ffice of the Duchy of Curnsv,-.11, in Somerset House. Tne Royal 'Tinnily- acre taken airings yesterday, in the royal gardens. th !Ter M a j esty, attended • by her Lady i n W a i t i ng, l e f t Palace yesterday, fa- an airing, in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert accompanied the Queen, on horseback' the Equert ies in Waiting. Colon , 1 Arbuthnot and Major -General Sir EdWard Bowater, also attended on horseback. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yester ,°43 evenin g , i nc l u d e d . th e P or t uguese Mi n i s t e r and the Barone ;; d e Moncorvo, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, th e Alirquis of Lorne the Marquis and Marehioness of ere' - n, the Earl of , Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of duoßoieher Lord John Russell, and Mr. Fraser Tytler. The ban f the Coldstream Re : , iment of Foot Guards Was in attendance at the Palace during dinner. Her Royal Highness theThichess of Gloucester left to wn on Tuesday, for her residence, Bagshot Park. lier R') . ) al Highness the DuChess of Cambridge took an airm-, yesterday, in a carriage. O'Reilly-, Attorney-General fur Jamaica, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial olß Mr. Ashbel S :n ith, Ch ar ge d'Affaires of Texas, left town for Paris yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a T here yesterday, at the office, in Whitehall-place. There were present—the Bishoof London, the Earl of Il esborough, the Right Hon. H. iobhouse, and the Dean of Westminster. Mr. Wood. Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Robert Neilson had an interview yesterday with L ord Stanley at the Colonial office. ° BSERVATIONS ON THE SPEECH OF MR. WILLIAMS ON THE CURRENCY BILL. c , TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Mr. 'Williams's speech occupies by far the largest r tion of the debate on Monday evening, and as every sen tence contains an error in statement, or principle, and those T°ra are evidently adopted by the great majority of the ch 7use, I intrude on your columns to point out the mis evous mistakes to which the Hon. Gentleman. gave ut terance ;-- , First. He asserts of En That the excessive ra circulation of the England paper had encoug ed speculation." olv, it is clear, that Mr. W. imagines (from the vast im pnance he attaches to its Operation) that the Bank of Eng circulation constitutes a preponderating portion of our t eal circulation. He admits that our trading transactions are far greater t llan those of F r ance, yet he does not discover that specula t4l IS carried to too great an extent in that country, though th e curren c y of France amounts to one hundred millions , and th e Bank notes have not averaged twenty-five I oeeondly. He complains that while 1. ranee has one hun t';;fd millions of gold and silver, we, requiring more, have only ~,,i rt Y• The obvious inference is, that we ought, in his a rk'n, to import and pay for the difference, seventy millio ns least ! lie then treats us with the monstrous absurdities ,(3,1-IJaciel Hardcastle and Mr. Horner, and their stuff about de preciation." e he truth is, that our paper circulation never was , ne v e r f " ; 14 be, depreciated in any degree—the idea arose from con ") 11 of terms. Gold was much wanted for payment of o r f °() Ps and rose in price ; and our ingenious theorists , instead s aying that "gold had risen," said " paper had fallen I" . e.Y might as well have said that paper had fallen, because i aret or b urgun dy, f rom a short harvest, had risen in price, that my son Henry had fallen or shrunk in stature, because i ll, brother Leopold had grown three inches taller during the last Year. triMr' Williams refers to the panic of 1825 (like the inns °us Attila), but cannot perceive that the country was then saved from convulsion by the enormous issues of Bank of „ Il t giand paper between the 10th nd 20th of December, and ni fa p vour of a Bill which wall render any repetition of sae..h saving process impossible. ell might the old writer say that " those whom Jupiter "Its determined to destroy he first deprives of reason." COMMON SENSE. • OUR FATE IS SEALED. Sin s — ' l TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. he astounding, the inconceivable ignorance of our t i i i6:slatur e leaves us without hope for the future. Peel con tones his currency course without opposition; he makes i s ,',',cessions of points as unimportant as whether a soldier's „, s 'i(el should have on it twelve or fourteen buttons, and no 4 ;7, rises up to denounce - and lay bare the monstrous fallacies :::: u hr f reer i fo n ou o rse us sy p st r e in: . iples on which Procustes Peel bases his write on the 26th of June, at a distance from London—it possible that some Member whom Providence, 4 , ( 3 : "nearly miraculous interposition) has blessed with com evill sense, may have pointed out to the House the terrific s with which we are threatened. 11 , 0 4 " an ena c t me nt comp r i s i n g a thousand evils, it is scarcely L ih r tfi while t o notice more than the most enormous of the ""ders th! . will ' content myself, therefore, with calling att ention,to T he features of this legislative Frankenstein. al tzl h e first is, the attempt to convert our circulatio n from one s te ,,, °B t wholly of paper, to one almost wholly metallic; the th e 4.l , to restrain our circulation to a fixed amount, though re sp t 4 tension of commercial transactions may render a cor 11"ding extension in our machinery of transfer imperative. ( 4s e objections to a metallic currency are manifold. First thi r , a Ying most on the surface), is its costliness. If we add millions of gold to our currency, we must give thirty the of second objection is, the impossibility of obtaining a si 4t e ient supply of the metals. Our real ma in currenc y con ,B of bills of exchange, of which 25 0 millions are consta ntl y t i ;, a t. These hills pass through as many hands as Bank' of 08 , ee5 !, 4- land notes of like amount, and perform exactly similar in our transactions. "e third objection is, that metal, instead of being steady, eoetinu a lly shifting its relative value ; and that if cir -4lstances cause it to flow out of the kingdom, thus m akin g i t tv ,aeimm in our circulation, there are not any means of fill top that vacuum. N Attila Peel imagines that he protects commerce, by pine Bank notes convertible into gold. Now, independent fact that he cannot accomplish this, his effecting his th:lr'se would do little to benefit commerce ; the rendering (~,,b l o hler of a note secure, would not protect the depositors 4„,'", se interests are in the ratio of four to one of that of the t, - ;"„t,"olders), nor the billholders, whose interests are as eight 1 1 oe of the noteholders. could in no degree create additional wisdom or caution sitq u a o rikers in l en di n g their own capital, or those of their de s..rs; and it is obviously on this point that the whole of power to meet engagements depends. f 0 4 . 1! Rob er t a d m it s th a t th e B an k o f E ng land may issue 2 to th e amoun t o f thi r t y m illi ons — s i x t ee n on bullion, thaeeli on Government debts, &c. The deposits exceed l et L . e . eli millions. I repeat a question I have put in a former thi r ,'" - -If panic should arise, and the depositors withdraw ti ot :een millions of the gold, how are the thirty millions of 8 to be cashed? COMMON SENSE. SINGULAR CASE at the MANSION- HOUSE. th' e l Mr. Cornbedun, on behalf of his friend, a foreigner, of tio„ ll4 lne of Bergstol, requested permission to call the atten pof af the Chi e f M ag i s t ra t e t o th e ou t ra geous conduct of a s itt4 c ,,man, of the name of Hamgra, who had stopped the un enligrant the other evening, and taken away from him Ti tie an d g o ld watch. 114 'a foreigner ' as well as his broken English could express ts, had called upon the policeman to take him : t ?, magistrate, that any charge which the man " dressed e ka - little b r i e f aut h or i ty " m i g h t c h oose to make, might be titr t , lll l l ?ed into. This Mr. Hamgra declined to do, or to re folh„.."le abstracted property. M. Bergstol had, therefore, ,the;,"„a, (l —(we were going to say the "robber," we mean)— „T'acer, and luckily meeting with Mr. Cornbedun, to whom well known, that gentleman had insisted on the great a ccompanying him to the Mansion-house. rtt, A asked what justification he could offer for the out ac had committed, Mr. Hamgra assumed a profound and rcir t V look, assured the Mayor that he had great deferenee e authority of the Chief Magistrate, but must "most faetfully, but firmly, decline to answer the question. He n titt ered divers grand sentences about the power given k4 t l :yolice, and referring to the case of the Secretary of tikiVor the H ome D e p ar tment and Mr. Mazzini's letters, ckti t i j e d his conviction bf the similarity of the circumstances, v.i aat any inquiry into his motive for taking the property, th e ' 4 4 he intended to do with it, would "be fraught with DroZast dangerous consequeces to the empire," and was `` t ling in this strain when n our reporter left. A/ r „ 4ncii, '.GED CHILD 1 URDER s . ti.,,, 4 lYesterday afternoon at t h e_ —llr. - l a d tre n e n t, 114,, -, 1 ! on the body a • m y a e le an i g nfa w n e t m , a a l a leg h. e a d me t d o ar al , (l , ll 'd by the hand ef n ofl e ts w . i l i y io b th n e r r n ` ll 4dr dYland, late housemaid in G e i f bs t o h n is , . ,54,, 4) ra of the above house. the service young circumstances of f Mr. narrated. Hy -10 ss gathered from the lengthened examination of a lel- L ii , sissrvant of the accused, may be briefly ,r, a een in the se rise t h -( ' 11 11 b •service of Mr. Gibson y durin given st, latterly had to e atonths, and her appearan ce ciente. When questioned oil tluspicions that she l e subio t however, s w he as stoutly denied the fact, and p a i t ' I's went on ai usna in . 11144. ' -e ' and was unable Derr very much of spasms in the chest, elf-o;t'urin 'her usual work. retired to rest with her d went down stairs for a peC'Servant about eleven o'c S lo n a c• but appearing to be in ustti, P,?irl the latter got up a ' Iles -(, warm water,.which the accused placed upon her to her mistress's hed 1- in c ' '' 'h is gave her no relief, and her sufferings appearing ti, ) ,,,, -tese, the witness went down to illness, and inquired if ' t o she informed of 11 Y 141 1 bour, and the witness qit,„; s hould call in assistance, or take her anything. . Mrs. tt'll inquired if Hyland was in . a Gibson then said, %I v '' , that she did not know, adding that she complained it flint acute pain from spasms. Mrs. thi n 4t were the case, she f(4,4 and the witness returned to her room, where it was not necessary to send for any d (ilt•ii,, and walking about, apparently in great agony. and Hvlan Nl i be t t ,,e l Y, both parties went to bed g ti rt , ne witness between five and sts a o'c a l l otk on Tuesday "list ' ;<e>i saying she was unable to get up to do her work, and A slight link in th, ei( that a charwoman might be sent for. I % l q et i . , l4 i l l of newt witness's evidence was here. w ting, the e the Savoy I.l v 1 t Pc '" A t upo ich she entered being the d a p n arture of N I and, at nine o'clock in the morning, from previously latid te t a, in a cab. Her quarter's wages had . been 54 1 , 1 0 her by Mrs. Gibson and after paying o P or three "Ns t 4ecuunts to her fellow -servants, sher w uested wit- Isft till earl up her box and send it to a certainplace, to be 41le w ' V ane d for; cautioning tier, at the sane time, not to 'Thi Q i. t i_s mistress to look in it, as there as was t tosom_ey linen (le t ,„!! she did not wish her to see. Subsequen IH land's Ivr 4 ; g its the box was examined, and the body y of an infant, wound • ti q ti 4 1 ) in petticoat, one string of which wash er e lip; r ound its neck, was discovered therein. Tpolice , 1 0 di tantly informed of the circumstance, and succeeded e 144k:covering the mother at a lodging-house, near Shoe 7 , t 4 ti f„r'Qt°''', Blackfriars from whence she had been removed_ t ti, i ' ri -- ...tr a y-) 2 . 1 , 'm Union wo ' rkhouse, where she now remains let th,-,,''sen thought desirable that a postmortem examination .te Pro„rdy should be made before closing the inquiry, h Fb u 'ngs were adjourned for that purpose. i oni , 11 ,, i l 'iN AND CASHET RAILWAY.—The House of ''e rn "" Laving, suspended' the Sanding Orders in favour o d f tial e ~.gissa of this measure the Bill has been read a secon 1,1; - uu Mill go into Committe«: in Monday next, Ist July : • et Laden)uis and Marchioness of Douglas (Princess . Marut . Por t are expected t c e arrive at the Duke of Hamilton's, " Ar r i t Z square, on-Monday m at, from Brodrick Castle, Isle ', . \-,. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—" Thank God we have a Sir James Gm ham!"—may exclaim all determined admirers of the entente cordiale with all Powers, no matter by what sacri fice obtained. It might have happened, by en untoward chance, that there was a Tory honnete-homme at the Home-office. Dis aliter visum—it is ordered provi dentially, for the views of all lovers of prostration before all . Powers being, that there should mot be an honest Tory, but a renegade Whig, at the head of our police. The corruption of an author, it has been said, is the generation of a critic ; and the corruption of a Whig, it should seem, is the making of a spy for Turin or Vienna. We give Sir Robert Peel credit for this last specimen of the cast of parts in his Ministry. It is pos sible that Sir James Graham in Ireland might nit have matched the De Grey coup de theatre of the Clontarf proclamation, and its concomitants. It is tolerably cer tain that in India he would have stopped short of the glories of Sinde and Gwaiior, to say nothing of the Samson-like exploit of the gates of Som nauth. At the Foreign-office, we cannot quite think he would have preserved Aberdonian meekness ; • and we should almost have trusted his complexional ill nature to save our diplomacy from that security of insult, which even President Tyler feels—that most offensia e bull-frog that has yet leapt on the back of King Log. But at the Home Department !--ah, there indeed. Sir J. Gra ham is in his element. There the entente cordiale is safe in his hands ; for it depends on good offices entirely in ac cordance and congeniality with his °an nature. How fortunate ! France will be satisfied with running her rigs in the Mediterranean and the Pacific. America with insulting our policy, and asserting her right to take Texas and the Oregon. Russia with undisturbed arma ments in the Baltic or Black Sea ; and condign ven geance fir insults in sartorial ears to imperial breeches. It is impossible fur the entente ccrdiale to be preserved at a cheaper rate! But tastes vary. President Washington lost the entente cordiale with some Choctaw or Chickasaw chief or other, because he had not the hospitality to devote Mrs. Washington to his service. He would graciously have declined the courtesy—but not to have had it offered was unheard of in Chickasaw comity— almost amounting to a cases belli. In like manner his Holiness the Pope, or his Silliness the King of Sar dinia, or some other relic of savage times still unac countably not " improved" out of Europe, comes with a civil request to our Home Secretary to act as his tool and spy in the British Post-office I—to teach his subordinates in that department the knack of un sealing and re-sealing letters, without leaving traces of the felony I All in the interest of his Holiness, or his Silliness ! Are these the sort of favours Lord John Manners wants reciprocity for by an embassy at Rome ? Suppose ad anti-Puseyite minister, having scent of an alarming progres's of the Oxford conspiracy against the obedience of the Church to the State, and accrediting an Ambassador to Rome for the useful purpose of demanding inspection of all the letters from Oxford Fellows to Romish Cardinals. We believe he would find an abundant harvest of " conspiracy." But is such a harvest worth reaping ? And are we, who have no such harvests to reap in any foreign bureau of espionage—who don't care a straw how many block heads conspire with pen, ink, and paper —who laugh at all metaphysically explosive missives sent through the Post-office—are we, who have no recipro city to ask for in this dirty trade—are we to con taminate our public service gratuitously with this foreign virus ?—to teach our functionaries lessons by warrant, which afterwards they may repeat without warrant ? It appears to us that when Government opens letters, it should do what every individual does when he opens letters —namely, avow having opened them. We cannot conceive that the power representing the nation can be entitled to practhe forgery of men's seals to conceal inspection of their letters ! Is it pos sible that this can be a question amongst freemen and men of honour? STANDARD.—The - Mazzini Correspondence Ques tion occupied the House of Lords for a considerable portion of its sitting last night, but without leading to any practical result. The subject is one which presents remarkable attractions for grievance -mongers, like Lord Radnor, who introduced it to the House of Lords ; it is, as the fashionable phrase goes, excep tional—that is, it is not governed properly by the ordi nary rules, and it seems to inflict a hardship, while, from the nature of the case, the details of any particular instance cannot be conveniently explained ; in short, it deals with matter, to make accusations in ss hich is the easiest thing in the world, and in which the best de fence is odious. That the Government ought to have the power of detaining and opening letters seems to be pretty generally conceded ; but many who concede this, qualify the concession with an opinion thlit the power ought to be exercised with great caution, which opinion is no doubt well founded ; but all this leaves the matter just where it was before, for who shall determine what is a cautious exercise of the power ? In Mazzini's case, the case which has been brought forward as a matter of complaint, the power appears to h ave b een exercised most cautiously, fo r it is not pretended that Mazzini himself, or any of his correspondents, has suffered any thing by the opening of his letters, if it be not the cloud thrown over their political intrigues, by the consciousness that the British Government is acquainted with them. The more we consider the subject, the more convinced we are that the sacredness of post-letters is a very much exaggerated notion. We ought, perhaps, to acknowledge ourselves incompetent judges, because we certainly differ from many whose authority we re spect upon the question of secresy. We have no love or sympathy for those who love a secret. In the affair in hand, however, we need not trust to our own impressions; for the law of the country, which is the embodied wisdom of the country, has as little respect for secrets as we have. If the law enables a Secretary of State to read a man's letter, the law no less enables a magistrate to place the writer of that letter in a witness-box, and compel him to tell, upon his oath, every word written in that letter, ' if there is a prima facie ground for supposing that the letter can reflect an important light upon a question of a trumpery assault or a debt of 40s. He must be a subtle casuist who can distinguish between the inva sions of secresy, in the two cases ; but every one can • appreciate the greater hardship of being obliged to publish on oath a man's secrets in a court of justice, than having them read in a closet by a Minister of the Crown, bound by honour, and responsible in character, not to make an ill use of the information thus obtained. There is one point raised in Lord Denman's excellent speech (and excellent in spirit, in matter, and in style his Lordship's speeches always are)--a point which we own caused us some difficulty ; we allude to the near proximity of the practice of re-sealing the letters to the crime of forgery. We think that there is no good reason for this re-sealing. The person whose letters have been opened ought to know that they have been opened. The practice of this quasi forgery most probably, arose in bad times, not remote from those in which spies were employed, and from the zeal of subor dinates, always disgracing and sometimes seriously embarrassing their principals, by pushing vigilance and caution into downright fraud. Lord Denman knows that all the processes of his Court were, while imprisonment for debt before judgment wa s permitted, executed by the most villainous frauds ; hardly a writ was served or a debtor arrested without the agency of some vile lie. Most persons, probably, recollect the story of a father stolen by . a bailiff from his starving children, under pretext of bringing him a present of meat for his Christmas dinner, and the further prosecution, by the bailiff, of the hungry children at a police-office for detaining the meat. Well, if the processes of the courts of justice have been so abominably dishonoured, how can we wonder that something of the same kind may happen i n t h e Post-office, by converting an act of strict Justice into an act of fraud ? We are quite sure that since the attention of Sir James Graham has been called to it, the practice of resealing must be discontinued. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) There continues to be a good and extensive demand for yarn, especially for the better qualities, suitable for the Russian market, and prices are generally firm and rather buoyant. In the goods market there is little change from last week ; 40-inch shirtings and 9-Bth printing cloth are in limited demand, and rather lower in price, whilst 27-inch printing cloth sells readily, and at rather better prices. Domestics also are rather easier of sale, but without change in prices. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE 24. There has been a very fair business doing in flannel to day, at former prices. The good demand for goods at the present season of the year is supposed to proceed from a spirit of speculation, as many are of opinion that wool will keep its present upward tendency. POACHING EXTRAORDINARY. —We have often heard of the ravages committed by the hooded crow on the eggs of game during the breeding season, but we were scarcely prepared for such a proof of wholesale destruction as the following fact discloses. A few days ago, Mr. Purves, tenant of Linton Burnfoot, ascertaining that there was a hooded crow's nest in a certain tree on his farm, proceeded to the spot with his gun with the intention of destroying the brood of young, before they took their departure from the parent nest. On arriving at the place, however, Mr. Purves was much disappointed at discovering that the whole brood had flown. Knowing the destructive propensities of this vermin, he had the curiosity to examine the ground around the foot of the tree, and was so astounded at the number a partridge egg-shells which he found strewed about, that, lest lie should be accused of exaggeration, he took the precaution of requesting two gentlemen, his neighbours, to assist him in counting the shells, when, to their astonishment, they picked up the enormous number of one hundred and ninety-six shells of partridge egg., within a few yards of the tree I The whole of these eggs were evidently consumed in feeding the young birds ; but how many the old lady and gentleman had themselves gobbled up without ever bringing them near the family domicile, it would be difficult to estimate. Kelso Mail. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE AT • SOLDIE R ' S F UNE RAL, Life Guards, WINDSOR, JUNE 25.—Yesterday afternoon th funeral of a private, named Garride , in the I st . Regiment of f left the cavalry barracks (which are in the adj oin of Clewer) for the church in that village. Upon tiTegf!) narish procession (preceded by a firing party , under the commainnlf Major Heppy) arriving on the ground, there was neither clergyman, clerk, nor sexton to be seen, and not even a grave dug for the remains of the deceased! The clerk and sexton, after some little time had elapsed, were found, and from them it was ascertained that, from some neglect (but on the part of whom did not appear), no orders had been received for the funeral to take place. The sexton and assistants then pro ceeded to dig the grave • the corpse, in the meanwhile, being taken into Clewer church, and the comrades of the deceased " standing at ease" in the churchyard. This operation ne cessarily occasioned a delay of upwards of two hours, at the expiration of which the body was consigned to its last rest ing- place. POWDER MILL EXPLOSION AT EWELL.—On Mon day morning, at five o'clock, the roof of a powder mill in Ewell Marshes, near Epsom, belonging to Sir Henry Brydges, Bart., was blown off, the explosion being occasioned by . lin accidental combustion of the materials used in manufactunng' gunpowder. Several persons were at work on the premises at the time, but they all escaped injury. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1844. COURT OF SEWERS. A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster and part of the County of Middlesex, was held on Tuesday at the Court-house, Greek-street, Soho square, for the purpose of further considering the correspond ence between the solicitors of Mr. George Bird, the con tractor, and the solicitors of this Court, on the subject of the failure of certain portions of the "main line of the Ranelagh main sewer, in the Gloucester-road, Paddington ; and for other business. The chair was taken at 12 precisely by T. L. Donaldson, Esq. Mr. G. Bird was seated in Court, and his solicitor, Mr. Garrard, took part in the proceedings. The CHAIRMAN having briefly stated the objects for which the Court had been called, Mr. LESLIE suggested that the matter in question should go before a jury. He was decidedly averse to any settlement between the solicitor of Mr. Bird and those of that Court, and should give such a proposition all the opposition in his power. He could not see why the subject now before the Court should be so quietly determined between the pro fessional men; and he thought that they (Commissioners) should declare that the sum of money paid to Mr. Bird for fulfilment of his contract should either be refunded, or that that gentleman should be compelled, at his own cost, to re store the sewer in a workmanlike manner. Mr. CUMBERLEGE said that he had paid particular at- tention to the various reports drawn up upon this sub ject by Mr. Phillips, the clerk of their works ; and he thought that the honour of that Court would be im pugned, unless they adopted some measures to guard themselves against the infringement' of that and their future contracts. He was of opinion that the Court ought to appoint some eminent engineers, in addition to their own officers, to report on the works in question. He had no wish to speak disrespectfully of Mr. Bird. He believed him to be an estimable man ; but if they were to place any faith in the reports of Mr. Phillips—and he (Mr. Cumberlege) saw no reason to doubt them—they must come to the conclusion that the works had not been properly done, and that the contract had been infringed. The Hon. Commissioner then moved a resolution in accordance with his speech. Mr. LESLIE said he should support the resolution proposed by his friend Mr. Cumberlege. Mr. HAWKES felt it his duty to oppose the resolution. He thought it would be impossible for any contractor to under take any important work at the instance of the Commis sioners, if they were to be treated in the manner in which Mr. Bird was proposed to be treated by Mr. Leslie and others. Mr. GARRARD said that if the Court resolved itself into a Committee of Inquiry, he would produce competent wit nesses, men of good standing, who would proire the truth of every statement he had, on the part of Mr. Bird, advanced on last Court day. The resolution was, after some further discussion, negatived. Mr. LESLIE asked if he might be allowed to put a question to their own solicitor at that stage of the proceedings? The CHAIRMAN-If it did not involve a speech—(A laugh) —he thought the Court would have no objection to a ques tion being put, if it was material to the subject they were discussing. _ __ _ _ An Ha. COMMISSIONER asked if the question had any re ference to the propriety of Mr. Bird's restoring the sewer to its original state? _ _ _ Mr. - LEsuE—Certainly it had. The question he wished to ask of Mr. Smith was, if he had any doubt as to the liabi lity of the contractor to that Court? The CHAIRMAN begged to know if the Hon. Commissioner referred to a general or particular liability? Mr. LESLIE repeated his question. The CHAIRMAN thought that, if the question referred to a general liability, the putting it was of no value whatever; if to a particular liability, he thought it ought not to be put. An HoN. COMMISSIONER (Mr. Allanson, we think) said that Mr. Bird took the contract to carry out the sewer in a certain line, and according to a certain plan ordered by that Court. He did carry out that plan, under the inspection of their clerk of the works. Now, he thought that, if the contract had been infringed upon, either by a departure from those plans, or by the use of inferior materials, it was the duty of the officer paid by that Court to say, at once, to Mr. Bird, "You are not doing according to your contract," and he ought, at once, to have stopped the works before they had further pro gressed.—(" Hear, hear," from Mr. Leslie.) ' If he did not perform his duty, he ought not to be retained in his situation. —(Hear, hear.) In all public works they left it to the clerk to see that those works were properly attended to, and that they were finished as they ought to be. They ought to re member that the works they were now deliberating on had been paid for by them, with the sanction of that officer, and why now should they come to Mr. Bird, and say " You have done your work badly, and we must take you to task for it." It was a matter of gross injustice to Mr. Bird, for they must not forget that it would not be that gentleman's pocket alone which would be affected, his reputation was also at stake. He repeated that it was a mon strous injustice to expect him to restore those works at his own cost. He thought a more sensible proposition for all parties would be for that Court to appoint some eminent en gineer, Mr. W. Cubbitt for instance, to meet another gentle man, nominated by Mr. Bird ; that they, after examining the works, might come to some conclusion, or perhaps leave the settlement of any difference between them to a third disin • terested person, who would act as umpire in the matter. He would embody a resolution to that effect, and read it to the meeting. Mr. GARRARD begged to state that he had consulted Mr. W. Cubbitt, and that that eminent engineer did not wish to interfere in the question. Mr. ALLANsoi said that in that case he would leave the name blank, and it might be filled up by the Court after wards. Mr. LESLIE-By a species of ballot perhaps.—(Laughter.) Mr. Allanson's motion having been put by the Chairman, Mr. LESLIE said, that he objected to it on a point of form. They had already, on a previous day, come to the resolution of placing the matter in the hands of their solicitors, and the resolution of that evening would rescind the prior one, by transferring the question to the surveyors. After considerable discussion, the resolution was in a mo dified form, carried by a majority of three. The CHAIM/AN said, that the next subject to which the Court would direct its attention was " to consider the Report of the surveyors, herewith enclosed, with plan and section, on the drainage of Plumptree-street, Belton-street, and Bow street, in connexion with the metropolis improvements." The report argued upon the necessity of, and recommended that a new sewer should be formed in connexion with the proposed line of new streets, reaching from the New-road to the river, and embracing the badly drained locality of Long acre and its densely populated neighbourhood. The report further recommended that the sewer might be immediately commenced, as those at present in existence were much too inadequate for the purpose of drainage; and it also stated that it was especially necessary in or ler to relieve the sur charge sewer which passed through St. Martin's-lane. A letter was also read from the Lords Commissioners of Woods and Forests on the subject. Mr. LESLIE objected to the levying of a new tax on the already over-taxed inhabitants, for the purpose of adding to the value of a Government speculation, which they were pleased to term improvements. By receiving and acting upon that report they would be destroying all the shores at present in existence, and adding to the value of Government pro perty at the expense of the general public. It behoved non professional Commissioners in that Court to be very careful how they gave their votes in those cases of improvements, for how did they know that gentlemen opposite had not an interest in the very buildings for which this sewer was in - tended. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in- the Week ending Saturday, the 22d of June, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General: Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of Five years. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 226 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B7 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5l 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 233 286 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 24 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion _ The CHAIM/lAN must really call the Hon. Commis sioners to order. He thought it most indecorous to impute motives to any . Commissioner in that Court. Mr. LESLIE was sorry that simple truths were so badly received in that Court.—(Laughter.) He was not imputing motives. He was merely stating a possible case ; and if the Chairman were so minded he (Mr. Leslie) could state many of a similar character. An HON. COMMISSIONER begged to correct a term used by Mr. Leslie. He had called the new improvements a Govern ment speculation. Now, he found, by the book in his hand, the evidence taken before the House of Commons, that Government would actually lose by the so-called speculation, to an amount exceeding 99,0001. Mr. LESLIE wished to know the intended width of the new street. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 1 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 46 • 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 9lB 942 Deaths from all Causes 920 946 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER THE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption 125 147 Scarlatina Pneumonia . .. ..... 66 79 Dropsy .. ... .. .. ............ looping Cough 22 33 Typhus 36 31 Small Pox 3O 15 Disease of the Heart Measles 2l 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhcea.. .. ..••• 9 12 Sudden Deaths l5 15 DISTRICTS. The CiamotAN—Fifty feet. Mr. LESLIE said that that of itself was sufficient to show that the Government property would be improved in value. He thought, and he repeated that the Woods and Forests ought to pay for their own sewers. The CHAIRMAN contended that the proposed sewers, being a great public benefit, ought to be immediately commenced. When finished, the Woods and Forests would be charged at the usual rate of lOs per foot frontage on all their line of property. He should, therefore, propose that the Court approve of the report of the surveyors. The resolution was carried. After some further discussion on the subject, an amended re solution was put, to the effect that the Lords Commissioners of Woods and Forests should, ere the sewer was finished, pay into the works a sum of 1,0501.85., being the rate of sewerage upon their line of property. Some other business having been transacted, the Court adjourned. West 142 138 North l9l 171 Central East South 230 242 _ Total ••. 00000000 ••.... ..... 920 946 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLE RKEN WELL. Two sweeps, named Housley and Gryfin, were charged with the following outrageous conduct : Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning an other sweep, named Palmer, was coming out of a house in Ball's Pond, Stoke Newington, when he was attacked by Housley, who, actuated by feelings of envy at Palmer's having obtained employment, then knocked him down, and kicked him on the head, so that blood flowed from his eye and nose. Police-constable 175 N, hearing cries of " Murder," ran up and seized Housley, but he tore himself away from the constable, and, taking up the leg of a mahogany chair, struck him twice on the head with it. The constable again grappled with him, but Griffin ran to the rescue of his associate. In the first instance he attempted to throw a sackful of soot on the officer, but failing in that struck him with his clenched fist, and endeavoured with all his might to rescue Housley. Other police-constables, however, arrived, and both prisoners were secured. The prisoners, when asked for their defence, impu dently said that Palmer had no business coming into their district. THE LOSS OF THE MANCPLESTER. By the Vivid steamer, which arrived la•3t evening from Hull, we ascertained that the Transit str4amer made that port on Monday, from the Elbe, and Cu., additional particu lars brought by her confirm the mela - Acholy fact that not a life was saved. When the Transit lef the Elbe on Saturday the wreck of the Manchester could b e seen to the northward of the harbour, but the crew were ur table to gain any tidings of any bodies washed ashore. The following is a copy of a circular sent by Mr. Sanderson, the: agent of the Company at Hull, to which the Manchester belonged, to the several parties interested in her loss : _ "Hull, June 24. "In reference to my advices of the i 21st inst., the following is an extract of a letter received t' As morning from Ham burgh, too truly confirming the r melancholy anticipations. We have now no hope as to the di: ;estrous fate of the Man chester and those on board : " Ha xaburgh, June 22, 1844. " Our apprehensions have unfo•. qunately been too well founded, and the loss of the beautifi d vessel, the Manchester, is no longer to be doubted. The wi •eck has been seen at the north-east end of the bank of Vog el Sands, about 13 miles distant from the Danish coast, where a great number of pieces of wreck have been driven ashore. T here is a report that part of the valuable cargo has been pick ,ed up, but we have no particulars about it. The clock of th, 3 cabin has been brought to Cuxhaven, showing the time of I lalf-past one o'clock, and also a pocket watch, showing the ti me of one o'clock, so that the unfortunate accident appears to have occurred about mid• night, after a run of about 32 hot In from Hull. Her frag ments brought here are nearly a' 1 dashed to pieces by the violence of the breakers, and all li 'yes are undoubtedly lost.' " I may further add, besides the e irew, consisting of 22 per sons, the following are ascertained to have been on board:— Mrs. St. George Smith and her so n and daughter (the two latter being about 26 and 22 years of age), from Drogheda, on their way to Graffenburgh, in Silesia, for the benefit of their health ; Mr. Rothsay, of Leed a, wool merchant ; and it is thought that there was one or tw '0 others, but nothing par ticular has positively been ascertai aed. Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced Housley to pay a fine of 2/., or a fortnight's imprisonment, for the assault on Palmer, and to a week's imprisonment, without fine, for the assault on the constable. Griffin was sent to prison for five days, without fine. A young man, named Passon, of miserable appear ance, was charged with refusing to perform the work assigned him in the Holborn Union workhouse. The evidence of Baldwin, the task-master, and of Barlow, the porter, went to prov ethat the prisoner had been received as a casual pauper into the workhouse c.n the previous night ; that he had slept and breakfasted there that morning, and, when asked to perform the work assigned him by Act of Parliament, four hours' labour at picking coir yarn, he refused. When told that, if he persevered in his refusal, they would bring him before the magistrate, he said he did not care if they brought him to h—l. The prisoner, in answer to questions from the Magis trate, said he had been ten years at sea ; he had bee n in L ondon for the last fortnight, wandering about the streets half-starved. "J. SANDERSON." BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.— By the return of the General Steam Navigation comp any's packet, the Magnet, this morning, we learn that the I king of the French was ex pected to arrive this day at Vilh I d'Eu. His Majesty's car riages and horses arrived at the Chateau yesterday. Prince Soitokoff, from Russia, arrived by the Magnet to-day, and lended on the chain-pier. The Prince de Joinville h as done Captain W. Hall, of her Majesty's yacht Vic toria and Albert, the honour to address to him a letter highly complimentary, wherein he has expressed the high gratificati on he has received from the perusal of his book, the .6 Voyage 8, &c., of the Nemesis," and much extols her various exploit s in China. He concludes with requesting Captain Hall's a cceptance (as a small token of his esteem) of a brace of pistols . The pistols are of a most elaborate manufacture, and most . highly-finished twelve-inch barrels, half stocked with ebony ; Ordaici with silver, and were contained in a most superb rosew. Pod case inlaid with silver. The value is said to be 100/. assigned Mr. G R y E o rO P OD r r so N n V e h r— y d ß i e d c y au o s u e n w o h t e p n e l r fm m m e t i h n e t o t a sk the workhouse last night, after being out all day in the rain, they gave me no supper, and although my clothes were all wet I was obliged to lie on boards all night. Mr. GREENwoon (to the porter)—Did he get his sup per ? The porter replied in the negative. Mr. GREENWOOD (to the prisoner)—But you got your breakfast, and would have got your dinner if you had picked the yarn. The pris - Oner said he did not think the treatment he received justified them in asking him to work. Mr. GREENWOOD said as the prisoner had refused to do the work, and persevered in that refusal, he must send him to prison for five days. We have reason to believe f ;hat the appointment of Lord Heytesbury as Lord Li .eutenant of Ireland has been all but definitively settled .—Evening Paper. Prisoner—Thank your Worship ; I wish it were for IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. five years. He was committed. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 26. QUEEN-SQUARE. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY.— William Burns, a (Four o'clock), at which time there were exactly forty • man about thirty years of age, having the appearance of M em b ers present. • a cabman. was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bond, i The Lords' Amendments to the Manchester Police chfirged by Mr. Lympus Hurst, a gentleman, holding an Bill were read and agreed to. Marianski's Naturalisation Bill was rea d a thi r d t i me appointment in the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and wh o I resides in Priory-place, Walworth-road, with endeavour- land passed. ing to extort money from him. On the motion of Lord INGESTRE, the Gasps The complainant, when he entered the witness box, Fishery and Coal Mining Company Bill was read a was seized with faintness, and was removed from the second t i me and ordered to be committed, after a few t Court into the air. On his return, he stated 11at observations from Mr. R OEBUCK an d M r . G LADSTONE. about one o'clock this morning, as he was crossing West- Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Rochdale, Iminster-bridge towards the Surrey side, on his way home, s i gned b y 6,000 persons, against the formation of a the prisoner, who was accompanied by two women, came troop of yeomanry in that town and district. The Hon. up to him and said in a determined tone, " I want some M em b er gave notice that, on reading the Orders money." He asked him what he meant by such a de- o f t h e Day to-morrow, he should call the attention of mand, and feeling alarmed at his conduct which was unlike t h e Secretary of State for the Home Department to the that of a beggar, or of a person in distress, and fearing subject. that it was his intention to rob him, he told him that he Mr. DENISON presented a petition against the union had no money and went on. The prisoner, however, of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph. followed and pushed against him repeatedly. A police- Mr. RUTHERFORD presented a petition from the man, who appeared to have been w a t c hi ng the coopers of Leith, praying for th e re p ea l o f t h e d u ty on prisoner, came up, and he gave him into foreign staves. custody, when the two women who were Mr. W. MILES presented petitions from Somerset with him absconded. The complainant further said setshire against the agitation carried on by the Anti that he had taken some whit key-and-water during the Corn-law League, and in favour of protection. evening, but was perfectly conscious of all that occurred. On the motion of Mr. WYSE the following resolution Policeman, 53 13, corroborated the preceding evidence. was agreed to---That the Second Report from the Com missioners appointed by his late Majesty King William When the prisoner was taken to the station-house and searched, four sixpences were found on him which he the Fourth, and re-appointed by her Majesty the Queen, attempted to swallow, but was prevented from doing so. to inquire into the manner in which railway communi- He was quite sober. c a ti n ti d o , ns sig c n a ed n m T o . st Drummondadvantag , eo T u . sl p y . promoted in pe lr te e r - Policeman, 25 B, said he had known the prisoner for l by some time, and had frequently seen him in the society of B arlow, and Richard Griffith, dated the 13th ' day of convicted thieves. He had been a cabman. He did not July, 1838, and the appendixes annexed thereon, and know how he obtained kis living. presented to both Houses of Parliament by order of her The prisoner said he had been to the Bower Saloon Majesty, be referred to the Committee on the Great with the women, that he was drunk at the time of the Southern and Western Railway (Ireland) Bill. occurrence, and pushed against the complainant by D r. NICHO LL presented several petitions against the accident. He did not demand money of him. Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. BOND said he had no doubt but that it was his in- Lord INGESTRE presented petitions from Wolver tention to commit a felony; and he must have been suc- hampton, Milton, Brough, and other places, against the cessful had the complainant been a person eas ily i n ti- repeal of corn-laws. midated. He should commit him to the House of Cor- APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. rection for six weeks, with hard labour. Mr. GODSON, for Mr. Kelly, moved the Order of WORSHIP-STREET. the Day for the second reading of the Appeal in Crimi- EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT CAsE.—Thomas Walter Wilson, nal Cases Bill, for the purpose of postponing it until a tall, well-dressed man, was, placed before Mr. Broughton, next Wednesday, when Mr. Kelly would take the sense the sitting magistrate, and charged on a warrant with assault- of the House upon it. ing, and attempting to violate Mrs. Eliza Vale, a married COURT OF ARCHES BILL. woman, whose husband is a plumber by trade, and resident Mr. 11. ELPHINSTONE moved that the Order of the in Plumber-street, City-road. Day, for the adjourned debate on the second reading of Mr. W. Heritage appeared in support of the complaint, and Mr. E. Vann for the defendant. the Court of Arches Bill, be postponed until this day Mrs. Vale, a very good-looking and respectably-dressed fortnight.—Agreed to. woman, about thirty years of age, deposed that the defendant, NOTICES OF MOTIONS.—SECRET DEPART who is of the same trade as her husband, had lodged in their MENT OF THE POST-OFFICE. house seven or eight weeks, and about twelve o'clock last Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that he would, on Saturday night he came home, and into the kitchen, where Tuesday next, move for a Select Committee to inquire she was making some gruel for her husband, who had come into the Department of the General Post-office, corn home an hour or two before, and retired to bed rather un well. The defendant, while she was so engaged, kissed her, money called the Secret-office, the duties of the persons engaged therein, and the authority under which the but she declared solemnly, upon her oath, that he did no- • 'unctions of the said office are discharged.—alear.) thing more, and did not attempt to disturb any part of her dress, nor make any improper proposition to he r , a nd both IRISH AND SCOTCH BANKS. of the doors were open at the time. Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice that, on the motion Mr. BROUGIITON put various questions to witness, who re- for going into Committee on the Bank Charter Bill, he plied that she had been married several years, and she and would ask a question of the Right Hon. Gentleman at her husband had always previously been on good terms, but the head of the Government, whether it was the intention she believed, from his keeping closely about her, that he was of the Government either this session or next to extend rather jealous, and since this occurrence he had been so the provisions of the Bank Charter Bill to the banks of violent that she appehended some danger. Ireland and Scotland. James Vale, the husband, said that he returned home be- CORONERS (IRELAND) BILL. tween ten and eleven on the night in question, and went to bed rather unwell, and lie afterwards, hearing the noise of On the motion of Mr. GROGAN, the Coroners (Ire the defendant below, went softly down stai rs t o li s t e n, and land) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be . there heard the defendant tell his wife that he had reason to committed on Wednesday week. believe that witness had "a fancy woman," but the wife re- The Appeals in Criminal Cases Bill, the Lime Toll plied that she had never any reason to suspect it. The wit- Exemption (Wales) Bill, and the Juvenile , Offenders ness said he then distinctly heard the sound of two kisses, Bill, were postponed. and having got into a situation where he could see into the CORN-LAWS.—ADJOURNED DEITATE. kitchen, witnessed conduct on the part of the defendant, The Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned which proved unequivocally his criminal intention. He im- debate on the corn-laws was then read. mediately rushed in and beat the defendant with all his might, and pursued him to his bedroom, b ea ti ng hi m until Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN said, the Noble Lord who had occupied the last hour of last night, and the he rushed out again. He then, he said, got hold of a brass t o candlestick, and beat the defendant with th a t un til he b ro k e first hour of the morning,had alluded the agricultural it over him, and then threw his clothes out into the street labourers of Dorsetshire, but he should leave the Hon after him. His wife, he said, went upon her knees, and pro- ourable Member for that county to reply to his state tested to him that the defendant had not attempted any- ments. There was much, however, in the Noble thing but to kiss her, but what he saw on the part of the Lord's statement, in which they must all ag, Tee. There defendant, he said, proved the vile intention of the latter, was an acknowledgment of the extreme difficulty and from whom his wife was receding when he entered. importance of the subject under consideration, and there Mrs. Vale being recalled, declared repeatedly, in the most w positive manner, that the defendant, as she was pouring out as an admission of the duty they owed to the poor ; and there was a very feeling allusion to the great interval the gruel for her husband, came in, and putting his hands on her shoulders, kissed her. That was all he did or attempted, Members which now separated the poor from the rich. Hon. and that, she said, was of course without her consent. In everything else her husband was entirely mistaken, and all opposite often alluded to the extreme import ance of providing a sufficient supply of necessaries for that he had described must be a delusion of his jealous and the people. The question was one of great importance, excited imagination. as it included the question of cheap provisions.—(Hear.). The husband admitted that he had previously a jealous feel- It was part of the tactics of the members of the Anti ing of the defendant, for he once before saw him kiss his wife Corn-law League, when they met with an argument in the kitchen, and then spoke to him about it. that they could not answer, to call it an exploded fallacy, Holland, the warrant officer, stated that, when he served the warrant, the defendant, as they were p rocee di ng to the and to talk about old ladies and country squires, and when they had raised a laugh under cover of that, to fall station-house, said, " I did kiss his wife, to be sure, but then back upon some argument more easily manageable, and I had a sufficientund thrashing for that, and I think that ought to be " On the way to this Court yesterday, how- to call that returning ever, he intimated a more particular intimacy with the com wife. League had a great advantage in haranguing multi plainant's..tudes on account of their violence and their ea:treme The defendant now denied the construction put upon what pies. They contended for total and immediate repeal, and he had said by the officer, and his solicitor said, in his de- this gave them a great present advantage over more fence, that on the occasion in question, he had been drinking moderate men ; but when they came to put their theo a little, and that what then took place was correctly stated ries in practice, they would discover that they were im by Mrs. Vale, and not such as the jealous imagination of the practicable. One of their principles was to buy in the husband represented it. cheapest, and to sell i n the dearest market. Now, he Mrs. Vale again assured the Magistrate that the fact was had never heard of any one that would object to that as as she had stated it. an abstract proposition. But were Hon. Gentlemen op- Mr. BROUGHTON, after commenting upon the case said, that posite prepared to carry out that proposition without the wife completely negatived the charge of assault with the intent imputed to the defendant, and he should, therefore, compromise?— (Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) Were dismiss that; but the defendant might be indicted at the they prepared to carry it out in private life ? Would sessions for a common assault, and he would require the de- they dismiss an old man, whom they had long employed fendant to give bail, his own recognisance in 501., and two at 12s. a week, because they could get a younger man to sureties in 401. each, to appear and answer any such charge as undertake the same work for 10s. a week ? If they car might then be preferred. ried out that principle strictly, there would be an end The defendant was locked up in default of bail to all neighbourly feeling and domestic charity, and if it were to be earned out without compromise in public life, it would destroy our honour, our defences, and our national character. If any foreigner, acquainted with our social state, were to be told that there were a set of men who were in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws, he would say that they must be either too visionary to be listened to, or too dangerous to be trusted. The Pro tectionists might as well raise a cry for a return to the war prices, as the Anti-Corn-law League for total and immediate repeal. The League had done themselves injury by their violence. For one recruit that joined them, many left them ; and those who were leaving them were the parties who supplied the sinews of war. Did the League consider, because of the violence of their exertions, that the Right Hon. Baronet was induced to make the declarations he had done ? The attempts of the League had been unworthy of them. Whatever the conduct of the landowners bad been, it was very different from that of the League. He would now go into the history of the League, and in doing so he must ask for some consider able patience from the House ; but before doing so he would advert to some of the statements of the members of the League. The Hon. Member then referred to a speech of Mr. Cobden's, and also to one made by tin Hon. Member for Bolton. He also read several extracts from speeches delivered by Mr. Ward and Mr. Bright. The Hon. Member for Durham spoke of the aristocracy as the enomies of the human race—as locusts preying on the community, and said that the distresses of the people were laughed to scorn in the halls of the aristocracy. The Hon. Member for Stockport did not entirely confine his censure to the landed aristocracy. He said much greater scorn was due to those mercantile men who be came allies of the aristocracy. He must now beg the patience of all the House, except the Members of the Anti-Corn-law League. (The Honourable Member here untied a large bundle of quotations from speeches, &c., made by these gentlemen ; the ap pearance of it excited a general cry of " Oh, oh," from the House.) The first quotation read by the Hon. Mem ber was one from a speech of the Hon. and Learned Member for Bolton, at a dinner at that town in 1838, in which he called on merchants and tradesmen to join the League. In another part of the speech the Hon. and Learned Member (Dr. Bownng) said that the "Anti-Corn-law League would be the arbiter of political power."—(A laugh and ironical cries of "Hear" upon the Opposition side.) The next quotations read by the Honourable Gentleman were from the "Anti-Corn-law League," the "Circular," and other publications of the League, which gave instructions to travellers and others as to the mode in which they were to distribute the papers, and disseminate the doctrines of free-trade, and inculcate a hatred of the " most infamous of human laws."—(Laugh ter on the Tory benches.) One of these instructions was to cause copies of the " League Almanac" to be hung up in club-rooms, public-houses, reading-rooms, black smiths' shops, &c.—(Great laughter.) The Hon. Mem ber then exhibited to the House a copy of the Almanac, amidst renewed laughter. This Almanac gave the names of all the anti-corn-law saints—(Laughter)—the first of whom was the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton, who was born in the year 1802— (Great laughter)—John Bright first saw the light in 1811 (Renewed laughter) and though great obscurity existed with regard to Homer and Shakespeare, they had great pleasure in stating that Dr. Bowring was born on the 17th of October, 1792.—(Great laughter.) He now came to another part of the proceedings of the League, called the pulpit agitation. The Hon. Gentleman here read ex - tracts from the Anti-Corn-law Circular recommending a system of pulpit lectures on the subject of the corn-laws. The Hon. Member, also, read extracts from the speeches of the Dissenting ministers assembled in the Manchester conference. The Hon. Member for Stock port had stated at the conference, that this was a middle class agitation, and that they had had recourse to the usual methods adopted in carrying on middle class agitation ; they had procured the co-operation of Dis senting ministers, of ladies, and they had organised tea parties. So that it appeared that the characteris tics of a middle class agitation were Dissenting minis ters, ladies, and tea parties.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) the Ministerial benches.) He was sorry not to see the Right Hon. Member for the city of Perth in his place, in order to congratulate him on the most remarkable in cident of modern times; for according to the opinions of the League, the most remarkable incident of modern times was his declaring himself in favour of total and immediate repeal. That declaration had been looked upon as the precursor to a similar declaration from all the members of the late Whig Cabinet. The Noble Lord the Member for Sunderland was on the same side as the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Perth, but the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London had, by his speech last night, injured the cause of repeal. The League had not been neglectful of the sinews of war, and this was the manner in which they provided them. (The Hon. Gentleman then read several extracts from the addresses of the League, and from the speeches of its leading members, inculcating the necessity of providing sufficient funds to carry on the agitation.) He next read an account of the expenditure or 2.484/. Bs. 6d., which he said was the first, the last, and the only account they had ever given, although they had received 159,0001., thus leaving a balance of 156,5151. , 11s. 6d. wholly unaccounted for.—(Tory cheers and laughter.) The Hon. Member having concluded the reading of the extracts of the speeches of the members of the League on this subject, referred to a paragraph in the Quarterly Review, and then said he would now ad vert to the last section, namely, the interference of the Corn-law League in the elections of the country. The ' Hon. Member then proceeded to read extracts from speeches made by members of the League on the subject. The League had offered a reward of 1001. at several of the elections for the detection of bribery, but had not succeed in establishing a single case.—(The Hon. Mem ber exhibited a placard offering the reward. He then read a letter from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Mem ber for Edinburgh, to Mr. Maclaurin, a member of the League, declining to attend an Anti-Corn-law meeting.) He (Mr. S. O'Brien) had learned that, in consequence of this refusal, Mr. Maclaurin had determined to contest the representation of Edinburgh with Mr. Macaulay ; and he (Mr. O'Brien) hoped, if he did, that he would be well beaten. The League had recently interfered in several elections, but had been successful in none—all the victories of the League came at first, all its reverses at last. The only borough that had returned a member of the League, was that in which the League had not, and would not, be permitted to interfere. The League was very extravagant in its promises, but very scanty in its performances. Notwithstanding that they had vast res)urces, and considerable ability, six months ago the League was in the height of its power and influence— what were they now ? and what had they accomplished? If he had desired an organised body, possessing all the means and appliances for the d es t ruct i on o f our insti tutions, he would have selected theAnti-Corn-law League. They had endeavoured to sow dissension among the different classes of the community ; in fact the League possessed all the elements for sedition—they had de clared that this House did not represent the people, and had impudently attempted to tamper with and influence the constituencies of the kingdom.—(Laughter.) If the proceedings of this body were not adverse to the law, they certainly were abhorrent to the Constitution of this country. He would vote against the motion, because he did not wish to see protection to British agriculture abolished, and because he did not consider the present a fitting or a proper time to make the motion ; and, at the same time, he would enter his protest against the narrow, selfish, unconstitutional policy of the Anti-Corn-law League. only get the market value of his land. If they were re duced to continental prices, would they not be compelled to adopt the continental system of the proprietors culti ‘ ating their own estates without the intervention of the tenant farmer ? Now, as to the poor man, for whom so much was said in that House, and so little was done— Jlear, hear)—he believed that he was better off with high prices and high wages, than low prices and low wages. He believed also that the object of the League ' was to reduce wages to the continental level, and quoted a passage from a speech of the Hon. Member for Wol verhampton to bear him out in the assertion.—(Mr. Vil liers denied the correctness of the report.) In that case he would retract it ; but the Hon. Member for Birming ham had made a declaration to the same effect. He did not think that the corn-laws could be said to be detri mental to trade and commerce, when it was stated by the free traders themselves, that in the last forty years the manufactures of the country had realised enough to purchase the fee-simple of the whole land of the king dom. Other nations, too, had seen the advantage of the protective system, and were more extensively adopting it. Mr. WARD said they ought to express their obliga itions to the Noble Lord for having, brought back the debate to something like its proper object ; for as to spending two hours in reviewing all that had been said I and done by the Anti-Corn-law League, he considered it a mere evasion of the main question, of how these laws bore upon the interest of the community. If the Hon. Member for North Lancashire had come forward a twelvemonth ago, and charged the League with being a seditious body, it might havo been open to him to have done so ; but for him to do so now, holding the position of the President of the Publishing Council o the Agricultural Protection Societies, which had used the same means as the League, with the ex ception of the great talent which that body brought to the question, he thought was rather out of place. Those societies were now copying, though at a very humble distance, the efforts of the League. Now, as to the question itself, if he could believe, according to the Noble Lord, that there was a regular sliding-scale be tween the landlord and the tenant, and that the land lord always reduced his rent in proportion to the price of corn ,he would concede that to be just. But they never heard of anything but miserable abatements of five, six, or ten per cent. The tenant took the farm in the expectation of making a rent according to the price pro mised by the corn-laws, which those laws were not able to secure to him. The Right Hon. Baronet had not been able to secure to the farmers the minimum price of 565. promised by the sliding-scale.—(No, no.) He contended that if he did not make an actual promise, he did a virtual oue, and that promise had not been kept. The Noble Lord alluded to the interests of the poor man, about which so much was said in that House, and so little done. God knew that was true enough. But where were th ose w h o ca ll e d t h emse l ves the friends of the poor to-night. They shrank from this discussion. Where were those who, when they were dealing with the interests of others, practised a cheap humanity at other people's expense.--(Hear, hear.) Where was the Noble Lord, the Member for Dorsetshire ? Where were all the " young England " party? They were all repre sented by the solitary gentleman (Mr. P. Borthwick) who had the peculiar distinction of being the only man in the House who could be found to second the amend ment moved to the resolution before the House, and he must do the Hon. Member the justice to say that he never saw a man more unwillingly dragged into a dilemma. He thought too, it was to the credit of the House, that no allusion had been made throughout the debate, to that amendment, except by the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade, who said that where it could be proved one man had been thrown out of work by machinery, he would show a hundred families main tained in comfort by it. But where were all those who, when they were dealing with other people's property, used such loud language about zeal and care for the poor man ? Had they all had time to get sober like the Hon. Member for Nottinghamshire? He could conceive nothing more contemptible than the position they would henceforth occupy in public opinion. He totally denied what had been stated by the Noble Lord as to prices and wages. A position more untenable, and more unfounded than that of wages being regulated by prices, he had never heard. In many parts of the country wages were lower than they were five years ago. The farmers were not responsible for this ; there were more persons pressing on them for employment, and consequently there was less money to be divided among them. And he would take this opportunity of alluding to a practice adopted in Suffolk, against which he, as an o ld su pp or t er o f the poor-law in that House, must strongly protest, that , was the introduction of another test besides the workhouse test, before giving a man a right to relief. It was the intention of the law that the workhouse text should be the only one. That was generally understood in 1833, but it appeared that in the county of Suffolk a certificate was required that a man could not obtain work. The Noble Lord had said that commerce had flourished even when the corn laws were more stringent than they were at present. It was a bold assertion that the corn-laws could in any way tend to promote commerce ; but the Noble Lord was one of a clique, and bold assertions of this kind were always received with favour by gentlemen opposite. Why, it was well known that every Government found it difficult to make commercial treaties with other countries in con sequence of those laws. The correspondence which had taken place between the Noble Lord and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs with the Government of Prussia proved that.—(Hear, hear.) He should like to know what advantage it was to the Noble Lord to pay double for his sugar. But he supported the sugar duties in order that the corn-laws might be protected ; for there was an implicit contract that one interest was to support the other. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Pre sident of the Board of Trade was fond of abstract princi ples. He declared that he regarded dear bread as the greatest of public calamities, while in the same breath he said that the admission of 160,000 quarters of corn, at a duty of 17s. was a proof of the admirable working of the present law. The Right Hon. Gentleman, at the head of the Government also dealt in abstract assertions, of which, if he performed but the tithe, he, and the band et free-traders by whom he was surrounded, would most gladly follow him. He would prefer him ten times to his Noble Friend the Member for London, who was the type of the fixed duty. Should the Right Hon. Baronet have any further quarrels with his party, the free traders would most gladly accept of him for their leader.—(Laughter.) The Noble Lord upheld the principle of a fixed duty. The Right lion. Baronet ad hered to no principle at all. The Noble Lord hinted that when they came to a compromise, Hon. Gentlemen men opposite would find him a most convenient person. No doubt a fixed duty would be preferable to a sliding scale, but if the Right Hon. Baronet could get rid of the drag chains by which he was encumbered, and work out a partion of that large theory which he put into such a comprehensive shape before. the country, there was no person whom he (Mr.. Ward) would like so well to follow, because the Right Hon. Baronet made a great deal of a bad cause, and if he only set himself seriously to carry out the principles. which he knew to be right, his eloquence would carry,- everything before him; but when the Hon. Member for Somerset said he now depended on the Government, and when, after praising the manliness and straightforward ness of the speech of the Hon. Gentleman the President' of the Board of Trade, which he (Mr. Ward) never before heard were characteristics of that Right Hon. Gentleman's speeches—(A laugh)--he said he hoped they would engage in a new compact with the Govern ment, the Right Hon. Gentleman actually got excited on the subject, and put himself out of his ordinary calm course to cheer the appeal made to him. He had asked for a fair trial, and he believed the Right Hon. Gentle man intended to give the law a fair trial. What was a fair trial? Was it one, two, three, five, or ten years ? He did not believe the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, would have made the speech they had heard from him last night were it not for the rain which had fallen, and which had, in siyme degree, removed the fears for the harvest. Was th e country to undergo all the misery and suffering of two or three bad harvests before they had—he would not say convinced the Right Hon. Baronet, because he was convinced, as he (Mr. Ward) was—but before he could, with as decent a regard for consistency as possible, re verse his mode of action? The Right Hon. Gentleman would then tell Hon. Gentlemen opposite that the Ume was come when it was impossible to resist any banger the general demand for the repeal of the corn-laws. He knew that at present the advocates for a repeal of the-- corn-laws were labouring under a disadvantage, because there was no scarcity of provisions, and there 'was no great deficiency of work. But that was a bad state of legislation which depended on the state of the weather. —(Hear.) This was a landlord, and not a tenant c i ties tion. There was never anything so bolstered up as %his Pro • Corn-law League. The first association was gsat up by a landlord, Mr. Tower of Essex. It was the landlords who raised the fund to support it. He did not believe that in a single county the tenants had origin ated any movement. It would be wiser —more honours tble, and more profitable, for Hon. Gentlemen opposit e to look at this question fairly and openly; instead of sta ring off the evil hour by a large majority of votes, wit bout convincing any , being that they had a single sound tuegu meat upon which to take their stand.—(Cheers.) Sir sr. TROLLOPE said he did not intend to speak upon this motion, were it not that the Hon. Genileman who spoke last asserted the Pro-Corn-law Society had copied the Anti-Corn-law League in everything but their talents. They did not copy it in interfering with the elections. One of the fundamental rules of the Society with which he was connected was not in anyway to interfere with the elective franchise, there fore that part of the statement of the Hon. Gentleman was not founded in fact. He also denied the statement of the Hon. Gentleman that the Pro-Corn-law Ass o ciation was repudiated by the tenants of the country. On the contrary, it was originated by the tenants them selves ; at least, that was the case in the county which he, represented. The principle of the Anti-Corn-law lasague was an aggressive one—their's was a defensive one. They were not jealous of the Anti-Corn-flaw League ; they simply wished to stand on the protective system as regarded themselves.—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) One good result which followed from the Anti-Corn-law League was, that they taught the land lords to know their own strength, and they did not mean to lose it. The Hon. Gentleman them referred to the agricultural improvements which had taken place in the county of Lincoln, and said that if the poor in the county of Suffolk were employed, and their wages raised, they would hear no more of incendiary fire:se—. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Sussex recom mended capital punishments to put a stop to those in. cendiaries. He (Sir J. Trollope) hoped that such a course would never again be resorted to.—(Hear, hear.) If the corn-laws were repealed all the land must be lee stored to a state of pasture, and it would afford ma in. tenance only to shepherds, and the labouring elas:les would be ruined. Captain LAYARD said another opportunity was now given to the House of taking under consideration a law which, in his opinion, was opposed to the best interests of the people, and in direct opposition to the principles of humanity and justice. And although there was no doubt that the Ministers would, on this occasion, com mand an overwhelming majority, and that the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton's motion would be defeated, yet he felt that the opinion of the people of this country was, that the interests of the many were sacrificed for the benefit of the few; and that the tower of strength which the agriculturists prided themselves upon, not being founded on the rock of justice, would finally be swept away by the tide of public opinion, which, for some time had been setting in against it, and by which it was already undermined.—(Hear, hear.) It was not only the injustice of this law in itself, the depriving the people of cheap food, the restriction it put upon manu factures, the feeling of distrust which the people felt against those who acted upon such selfish as well as ridiculous opinions, but the other bad consequences which it entailed ; for it was for the sake of the corn-law that the House had been made to lower itself as it had done upon the Factory Bill; and alas! which miserable example it had again followed on the sugar duties. We were apt to speak of the superiority of this country to others in her laws and institutions ; but for his (Captain Layard's) part, he tho ug ht th at as long as this law was in operation we could not do so with justice. Some years ago, when in China, he was fortunate enough to become acquainted with one of the Hong merchants, a clever, intelligent person ; and they often used to con verse on the different customs and manners of their re spective countries. He (Captain Layard) told his Chinese friend how barbarous the practice was ac counted which they (the Chinese) followed of bandaging up the feet of their children as soon as they were born, and pressing all the small toes under the sole of the foot, and he asked his friend if many of the children did not die from such treatment, and what could sanction such a barbarous custom? The reply was, the custom is a cruel one. Hundreds die from mortification; but we have a set of old women who live by it, and is a part of their trade, and we cannot break through it. Now, if the Chinese merchant had asked him (Captain Layard) if it was true that we had a law by which the food of our people was restricted, if he had said, true, our wo men take short steps, but yours are on short commons; ours die in infancy from mortification, but yours die at all ages, from disease and decline, brought on by insuffi ciency of food—what could he (Captain Layard) have answered, not at that time having heard the celebrated speech of the Paymaster-General of the Forces, that this law must be enforced for the.dower of young ladies and the jointure of old ones? For his part, he thought our Legislature quite as barbarous as the Chinese. He felt that some gratitude was due from the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government to the League ; for the very man, who some time ago he had charged with wishing to have him assassinated, had come to his assistance, and saved, for a time his political existence. The Right lion. Baronet had certainly lost the great guns from his party; but as they had been pretty well used up, perhaps the Right Hon. Baronet did not think it of much consequence. He alluded to the Hon. Members for Knaresborough and Shrewsbury. The Hon. Member for Knaresborough was at first con sidered a great gun; indeed, he had been fired right and left amongst . the manufacturers ; the Hon. Member for linaresborough having, as he thought, had enough of the manufacturers, took a shoot at his own party, when the Right Honourable Baronet the Secre tary for the Home Department, calling Mr. Jlott to his assistance, rushed in to stop the discharge, but it had taken place, and in his (Captain Layard's) opinion, had considerably damaged all who had anything to do with it. The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury, he thought, might very fairly be compared to a clock which went pretty well for some time, but not having been oiled, at last began to go rather irregularly. The hands at one time were supposed—the clock hav ing gone three or four hours without stopping—upon foreign policy, to point to some diplomatic appointments abroad ; it had been hinted that the Shrewsbury clock, though it had not yet aspired publicly to being the clock at the Horse-guards, and thus to regulate all the other clocks, had certainly wished to be the clock at the Admiralty, where exact time was not of se muck conse quence. The Right Hon. Baronet not thinking the Shrewsbury clock to be a chronometer, was perfectly re gardless of what way it went ; so at last it became quite irregular, attacked the Right Hon. Baronet for taking the liberty of talking about the gentleman who said he would squeeze himself into a quart ;bottle, no doubt knowing it was no very pleasant operation to try to squeeze into any place, however small, and not be able to effect it.—(Loud laughter.) " A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind." But now the Right Hon. Baronet, and the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, might boldly come forward upon free trade principles, seeing how little power those gentlemen had, and having no reason to fear the watch-word of the Hon. Member for Reading, however powerfully exerted—" To your tents, O Israel !"—(Laughter.) Nothing could be more as tounding than to find the Hon. Members for Knaresbo rough and Shrewsbury against Ministers, and the Hon. Members for Stockport and Durham supporting them. But such had been the case. The Noble Lord, the Se cretary for the Colonies, had brought forward a fixed duty for Canada ; would he do so for this country? Why he had not done so, he (Captain Layard) could not tell ; except that, following the example, instead of learning from the history of Jeptha, and having made unwise promises and rash vows at the end, it might be called the twilight, of one session of Parliament, he was determined that the House should pay the sacrifice in the next, which it accordingly did. At any rate, he thought the Noble Lord ought not to object to an in quiry into the law as it at present stood.—(Cheers.) Some short time ago he (Captain Layard), being at the Opera, had the pleasure of seeing the Right Hon. Ba net there—(Laughter)—and he certainly thought that the beautiful ballet of Ondine—(Renewed laughter)— was a fair representation of what was going on in the Right Hon. Gentleman's mind. Cerito seems a fair and lovely representation of free trade, flitting and dancing before the mind of the Right Hon. Baronet, and when the Ondine comes out of the shade and is startled at her own shadow, how just a representation of what happened to the Right Hon. Baronet when he first - broached free trade principles !—(Cheers.) How he started back (though the start was not quite so graceful as the one made by the fair Cerito) when he saw, not indeed his shadow, but the shade which came over the mournful countenances of the agricultural Members. But for his (Captain Layard's) part, he trusted the Right Hon. Ba ronet would soon give up coquetry, after the manner of the fair Cerito, with the shadow, and that when he opened his arms to embrace it, it might prove to be the reality and not the shadow of free trade. The Right lion. Baronet had said he would not go back. " E'en not to retrograde is to advance, And men must learn to walk before they dance." For his part, he would rather have a small fixed duty, thinking it a fair source of revenue to the country, but as there seemed no hope of that, he should vote in favour of the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. Trusting that the time would come -••— When free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames would flow for all mankind, While nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide." Colonel RUSHBROOKE, who spoke in so low a tone of voice as to be scarcely audible, read a statement to the House, in reply to the letters which have recently appeared in the Times, respecting the state of Suffolk, and the cause of incendiarism in that county. He regretted that such letters had appeared in a journal so widely calculated as the Times, as he thought they would do more harm than good. The writer of those letters seemed to have a strong prejudice against the new poor-law. Now the partial and superficial inquiry which he, a stranger, must have necessarily made could only have led him to a lame and impotent conclusion. The Times reporter stated that the increase in the num ber of prisoners in Suffolk, since the passing of the new poor-law, was very great. Now, he (Colonel Rush brooke) had ascertained that, in the seven years before the passing of that Act, the number of prisoners was upwards of 5,000, while the number since was only 4,100. Notwithstanding the representations of the Times reporter, he (Colonel Rushbrooke) could say that in no part of the kingdom were the poor better taken care of than in Suffolk. Lord RENDLESIIAM b.,lieved that the tenant-far mer and the poor man were as much interested in this question as the landholder. The assertion that the te nant-farmer would be benefited by the repeal of the corn-laws, because his rent would be reduced, was un founded; it seemed to be supposed that there was but one party to the letting of a farm, but it should be re• membered that the landlord, like every one else, could. Mr. M. GIBSON said that in investigating thrmode in which the society for maintaining the corn-laws acui the society for abolishing them had originated, th e y had been led away from the real question, which was, what was the benefit supposed to be conferred upon tb a cow! Itir ov 04 r e to ,ted 00 00' rat e been , rot 's TO- )