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had been violated, and deprecating such proceedings. ' The letter concluded with these words—" The thoughts of a citizen ought to be as free as his person."—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) He hoped it would not be said that, in England, at that period, they were not able to realise the wishes of a :Minister of France in 1815. Under an established and regular Government he believed they were not reduced to the fatal necessity of employ ing so degrading a means of securing the public safety. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he was anxious to take that opportunity of making some explanation to the House on a point which involved his own personal cha racter. It had been asserted that, in consolidating the Post-office Acts in 1837, the late Government gave a fresh sanction to the power under discussion, and actu ally pushed that power beyond its previous extent. Now, he begged to state distinctly, that if that were the effect of the Consolidation Act, he alone was responsible for it. It was suggested to him, as a member of the Post office Commission, that great iuconvenience arose from the Post-office Act being spread over 130 separate en actments. That suggestion was made by the Hon. Member for Greenock ; and he complied with it, on the con dition that the Act should simply be a Consolidation Act, and that the tnerits of the question should not be discussed. His Hon. Friend the Member for Greenock in particular had kept most sacredly that bargain, he did not raise any of the questions he had threatened to do; he had allowed him (Mr. Labouchere) to proceed with the con solidation ; that was an act of consolidation, and that only ; there was no flesh power given, nor was it in tended, the object was to leave the Act where it was. The only alteration he had proposed in the Act was to take away the punishment of death in cases in Ireland, where it had been taken away in England. He felt no doubt by the consolidation that had taken place they had not made the law more stringent, but if it was so he, and he alone, was responsible fur it. He had endea voured to discharge his duty to the best of his abilities, and if he had failed be was to blame. With respect to the question before the House he rejoiced at the course taken by the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Home Department ; he was glad that the whole ques tion would be looked into, and he was sure his Noble Friend the Member for the City of London would not shrink from having his conduct inquired into when he was in the Home-office. He (Mr. Labouchere) could not think there was any real public object gained by opening letters, in the manner and for the purposes they had hitherto been. He could not see any State necessity for exercising the power in that sweeping way in which it was exercised by Mr. Fox, in 1787, when he opened all the letters to the ambassadors from foreign countries; but this he could readily conceive, that there might be occa sions when it was necessary to adopt such a course— such, for instance, as a conspiracy against the life of the Queen. The Hon. Gentleman who had spoke last had raised an objection to the Committee being a secret one. Now, he could not see any objection to that. lie could not see any difference between a Secret Committee and one with closed doors, except that the Secret Committee might exclude Members of that House, and for his own part he could not see why Members should claim a pri vilege which they refused to the public. As to the names of the Committee he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would adopt the usual course. He was glad at the course the Government had pursued, and he thought if• they had at once stated their views and reasons for the course they had taken, instead of refusing to do so, public anxiety would not have been so excited as it had been, and the only way to allay that anxiety was to have a strict and searching inquiry into the whole matter. Sir R. PEEL cordially and personally shared in the satisfaction expressed by Hon. Members that there would be an opportunity given of obtaining full information on the subject of the invidious power of opening letters. He rejoiced in it, because these acts were not the acts of an individual member of the Government, but of the Government itself.—(Hear. bear.) It was not right that those on whom the law placed the performance of a cer tain duty should bear the obloquy of it. The great object for which the Committee was to be appointed was to obtain full and complete information as to the usages and circumstances under which the authority had been exercised, and there would proceed from the Committee an opinion as to whether or no, in the case of a particu lar Administration, the power had been perverted from the course it was intended to pursue ; whether it had been used for the promotion of party interests or private curiosity, or for the indulgence of private malignity, or for the great purpose for which it had been given, viz., the maintenance of the public interest. That was the great object the Government had in view in proposing this Committee. They had left out lawyers purposely in order that there might not be any squabbling as to what the law was. Suppose they had proposed to ap point the Hon. Member for Worcester, and the Hon. Member for Exeter, on the Committee, and they had disagreed, in what situation would they be placed? The law was not the question the people wanted to be satisfied upon what they wanted to know was, why the Government had pursued the course it had done, and whether they had pursued it properly. lie thought the gentlemen they had named to form the Committee had intelligence enough to come to a right conclusion without the aid of the Hon. Members for Worcester and Exeter. He hoped, therefore, the House would not call upon the Government to appoint lawyers on the Com mittee. As to Mr. Home Drummond, it had never occurred to him that he was so acute a lawyer; they had named him out of respect for his character; and. if it was supposed that any advantage would accrue to the Government from his appointment, they would forego it, and appoint another lion. Member in his room. Objections had been made to the Committee being a secret one; it was made so in order that persons who had held high stations might more fully detail what had. been done. The Committee, having heard the statements of facts would have a full opportunity of stating whether the statements were satisfactory or not, without disclos ing names ; if they wanted to get at the real state of the facts as to the motives of the Government, they would only accomplish it by having ,a Secret Committee, that was the only way in which they could get at the whole truth. He trusted that the House would think there was such manifest justice in the appointment of the Com mittee that they would at once agree to it. Every one of the five Members the Government had chosen had given their votes against them on the last occasion the question was brought forward. He hoped the House would allow the Government to substitute some other name for Mr. Home Drummond, and would permit the Committee to be appointed that night in order that they might not be involved to-morrow in an invidious discus sion as to who should be members of the Committee. Lord JOHN RUSSELL agreed so entirely in the course taken by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, that he should not have considered it ne cessary to say a word to the House, had it not been for some allusion the Right Hon. Baronet made in his speech on laying grounds for the appointment of the Committee. The Right Hon. Gentlemen had referred to what he had stated on a previous night ; he had come down to the House on that occasion thinking he should vote with the Right Hon. Gentleman, but he found he could not do so. There was one special allegation made by the Hon. Member for Finsbury when he *ought forward his motion with respect to the letters of Mr. blazzini and Captain Stolzmann—he said that those letters had been opened, not for the purpose of finding out a public enemy, but for the pur pose of aiding a foreign country against some of their discontented subjects, who had taken refuge in this country. Now he (Lord J. Russell) did not consider that a legitimate exercise of the power. He had given the Right Hon. Baronet credit fur having properly exercised the power he possessed, although he had refused to give any explanation to this House of his reasons for doing so. He thought the Right Hon. Gentleman's refusal to give any explanation was, as far as the suspicions of the pub lic were concerned, most unfortunate. But he (Lord J. Russell) could not lament the course he had taken on that occasion. After the refusal to give any explana tion, the suspicions of the public could not fail to be awakened ; the same inflammatory statements would have been made, the same excitement would have existed in the public mind ; and even then, according to the Right Hon. Gentleman, he would not have granted any inquiry. But as the members of the late Government had taken the course they had done, the Right Hon. Gentleman now thought it necessary to appoint a Committee on the subject.— (Hear, hear.) He thought a very good con sequence had resulted.—(Hear, hear.) He should sup port his Hon. Friend, the Member for Finsbury, think ing it quite fair that, as the Right Hon. Gentleman's conduct was attacked, the conduct of his predecessors ought to be inquired into also by means of a Committee, But he entirely agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman in the reasons he bad stated why this Committee should be a secret one ; by that means, its purpose would be much better answered, the inquiry would be more strict, and the Members would be more able to make up their minds on ‘ the subject, than if it was made an open Com mittee, and its evidence canvassed day by day. For his own part, lie was ready to agree to any selection of names for that Committee which the Right Hon. Gentle man might propose, and he could see no objection to • those he had chosen. He thought it much better that they should now close this part of the discussion, and proceed at once to appoint the Committee. lie was ready to give, himself, any evidence before that Com mittee that he was able to give, though there were many others who could state better than he could, the manner nts, in which the power had been exercised. At all e e ve let the whole subject be investigated, and, if th was to be retained, let the terms of the law be power clearer; and, on the contrary, if it should appear that the power was not necessary fur any public interest, let it be discontinued. Mr. WAKLEY was quite sure that the public would not be satisfied with the reasons either of the Right Hon. Gentleman or of the Noble Lord (J. Russell) for making it a Secret Committee, and he must say it ap peared to him a most extraordinary mode of satisfying public curiosity on the subject.—(llear, hear.) Did the Members of her Majesty's Government think they mono polised all the curiosity of the world ?—(Laughter.) The Government had the power of looking into people's letters, but the people wanted to know to what extent it had been done, and why it had been done ? The public bad expressed much surprise and indignation at the course that had been pursued ; but the Right Honourable Secretary at first said boldly, " I won't tell you what has been done. I feel it consistent with my public duty to be silent. You shan't know any thing about it." But the public were still very anxious, and the press, he thought, in contradiction to his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Roebuck) had very laudably, and in a very excel lent spirit, excited the feeling that then existed through out En that had so far gland—(Cheers)—a feeling brought the Right llon. Gentleman to account that ho now consented to some inquiry, and it was to the press they were indebted for that inquiry.—(Loud cheers.) The public said give us investiga tion, and it was a deference to public opinion which the Right lion. Baronet stated as his reason for granting the inquiry. lie stated that public feeling had been so excited on the subject, t h at he felt it his duty as a Minister of State, to consent to the investigation. Yes ; but how were the public to be satisfied, by being told that all the secret was to be confined, to the keeping THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1844. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE was glad to hear that. The public wished to know the full extant to which the power had been exercised by the Government and their predecessors. The Right Hon. Baronet had said that he wished to state the truth, the whole truth, and no thing but the truth. He had hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet was about to make a statement of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth ; but he had not stated one word about Mr. Mazzini. The Right Hon. Gentleman had stopped short, and had said that he (Mr. buncombe) had asserted that the Dublin bag and the Brighton bag had been called for, and that he had said that every body's letters bad been opened. Now that was not what he had stated. He had said that there was a secret department at the Post office where these deeds of darkness were done ; he said that not only had the letters of individuals been opened, but that, occasionally, different bags had been carried there, kept for an hour and a half, and then returned to the sorters.—(Hear, hear.) The sorters, of course, did not know what letters had been abstracted. He said, for instance, the Dublin bag, or the Brighton bag, might be called for. He had every reason to believe that those bags had been called for.—(Cheer:.) He had not said that everybody's letters had been opened at the Post office, but he had said that the roving commission which had gone down into the manufacturing districts had, per haps, opened everybody's letters, and he hoped the Com mittee would inquire into the conduct of the roving commission in 1842.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped they would have no scruple if any letters of his had been opened in saying so.—(Hear, hear.) He called upon them to repeat specially if any letters from the Albany had been opened. He had been informed that the Al bany letters had been stopped. He had no doubt the Right Hon. Baronet thought he was only in the execu tion of his duty if he had so done.—(Cheers anti laughLer.) He did not know why the Committee should be secret. As it was, the responsibility of the investigation would rest wholly upon the Government ; and if he sb ould have reason to believe that the Committee had not done their duty, and had not satisfied the public, he st.ould not be precluded from again opening the question, and proposing some other mode of investigation.— (Hear.) The motion was then withdrawn, and the question was put on Sir James Graham's amendment for the appoint - ment of a Secret Committee. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished the words to which he had alluded to be introduced. Sir R. PEEL had no objection to the introduction of the words " the extent to which, and the circumstances under which that authority had been exercised." Mr. ROEBUCK suggested that the words should be rendered still more stringent. Sir R. PEEL thought there was no necessity for any alteration. The Committee had full powers, and was not composed of lawyers, who would quibble. Mr. WAKLEY said that there was not one word about resealing letters, and the Committee were. not bound to make any observations on that part of the question. He suggested that the words "to report as to the reclosing an resealing of letters" should be in troduced. Mr. ROEBUCK reminded the Right Honoufable Baronet that it did not require a lawyer to quibble. Mr. MACATJLAY thought the powers which were given to the Committee included everything necessary for the fullest investigation. Sir J. GRAHAM had carefully considered the terms of the motion, and had studiously made them as wide as possible. He proposed to have a most complete, thorough investigation, and he hoped the motion would be per mitted to stand in its original terms. The motion was then agreed to. Sir J. GRAHAM having been given to understand that Mr. H. Drummond had practised as a lawyer, pro posed to substitute the name of Mr. Wilson Patten in stead of Mr. IL Drummond on the Committee. Mr. HORSMAN did not object to any of the Mem bers of the Committee, but he thought it extremely desirable that the Hon. Member for Finsbury should be on it. He would, therefore, suggest that two names be removed, and the names of the Under Secretary of the Home Department, and the Hon. Member for Finsbury be substituted for them. Sir R. PEEL hoped the House would be satisfied to let the Committee stand as it had been originally pro posed. Let it not be said of that Committee, as had been said of another tribunal—" I looked for a judge and I found an accuser."—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman had expressed strong opinions on the sub ject—so strong that he was satisfied he himself would not wish to be on the Committee. They meant no per sonal disrespect to the Hon. Gentleman, but they followed the precedent which had been set by Hon. Memoers opposite in the case of the Hon. Member for Cork, against whom the Hon. Member for Blackburn had pre ferred an accusation, which had been referred to a Select Committee, from which the accuser was excluded. As they had acted in conformity with that precedent, and as the Committee was composed of five members oppo site to four members on that (the Ministerial) side of the House, he trusted there would be no further oppo iition to the appointment of the Committce. Mr. SHEIL said that the case alluded to by the Right Ron. Baronet was the case of an individual—this was the case of the public. A more analagous case was the Election Committee of the Hon. Member for Bath, who was a member of the Committee himself. although he was the accuser. It was objected that this was a Secret Committee—one great point of that objection would be obviated if the Hon. Member for Finsbury, who would thoroughly investigate the subject, and in whom the public had confidence, were appointed a member of it. The name of Lord Sandon was then proposed as a member of the Committee and agreed to. On the question being put that Mr. Wilson Patten be a Member of the Committee, Mr. HORSMAN moved as an amendment, " That Mr. Thomas Duncombe be a Member of the Committee." Mr. DUNCOMBE hoped the Hon. Member would not divide the House on the subject. He could assure the [louse he had not the slightest wish to be a member of the Committee.—(Hear, hear.) He had certainly made strong allegations, and as the Right Hon. Gen tleman stated that there was no foundation whatever for them, he trusted there would be the fullest investiga tion.—(Hear, hear.) He must say, however, that he did not . think the Committee had been fairly selected— not according to the customary forms of the House. The selection of Committees had been partly by Mem bers of the Government and partly by Members of the Opposition—he thought that was the course which ought to have been pursued on this occasion. Lord J. RUSSELL would vote for the Committee as at present constituted. He thought they had. been named in a fair spirit ; but he must say that he could not consider the Hon. Member for Finsbury in any way disqualified from being a member of it. Dr. BOWRING thought the Hon. Member for Fins bury ought to be a member of the Committee, as that lion. Member represented public opinion without the walls of that House.—(Laughter.) That Hon. Member had exhibited peculiar delicacy and modesty on this occasion. —(Great laughter.) He was quite sure the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government would admit that his Hon. Friend had acted with pecu liar modesty.—(Renewed laughter.) It would very much allay the feeling which existed in that House, if the Hon. Member for Finsbury were appointed on the Committee. The amendment was then withdrawn, and the members of the Committee as already proposed were agreed to. Mr. JAMES begged leave to move the appointment of Mr. Duncombe as a member of the Committee. The House divided on the motion, when there ap peared— For the motion Against it .. . Majority against the motion —76 Mr. WILLIAMS then moved that Mr. Hume's name be added to the Committee. Dr. BOWRING seconded the motion • but it was withdrawn after a few words from Sir R. Peel and other Hon. Members. Mr. DUNCOMBE then moved, that indemnity be given to those witnesses who might be examined before the Committee. Officials at the Post-office, whose bread depended on their situations, would not. give evidence unless they were guaranteed against loss. If those men employed in the inner office admitted before the Committee that they had opened letters, they laid them selves open to an indictment, as they could not produce the warrant. Sir R. PEEL said the Government would, of course, take upon themselves the whole responsibility which might attach to the matter, and none of the subordi nates should be subjected to punishment for acting ac cording to orders. Regarding indemnity to witnesses, any suggestions made by the Committee on this head would, of course be attended to. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice of his intention to move that the evidence taken before this Committee be printed. The Committee was again named as originally consti tuted, and finally agreed upon. STATE OF PRISONS. Mr. MACKINNON rose to move for a " Select Com mittee to consider the reports of the inspectors of pri sons, and the state of discipline in the gaols, for the adoption of an uniform system of punishment, with such improvements in the management as can be safely adopted." Improvements had been made in the state of prison discipline by the Noble Lord the Member for London in 1835, and great advantage was derived from those improvements. The reports of the inspectors sug gested several improvements, but there was a great variation in their views. Under those circumstances, he thought it desirable that a Committee should be ap pointed to inquire into the subject, and till they made their report the country would not be satisfied. There was a variety of systems recommended, some re commending the silent system, some the factory system, and others other systems. If a Commission was ap pointed it would not satisfy the public; but if a Com mittee was appointed, he thought it would give satisfac tion. Before the system of solitary confinement was adopted, he thought they ought to have a Committee to inquire if it was not the most dreadful punish ment that could be inflicted on human nature. This system bad been tried in Pittsburg in America, and it was not successful. The silent system had been tried in Pentonville, and the Penitentiary, but that produced the most disastrous effect upon the minds of the convicts. It was the object of several persons to take away from the magistrates the power they possessed and to give it to a central board. He wanted a Com mittee to investigate whether this was desirable. lie doubted of the principle of centralisation, which seemed to be the order of the present times. There was cen tralisation of the poor-laws, centralisation of turnpikes, centralisation of banks, and centralisation of railways. He would not object to the Right Hon. Baronet being at the head of a Board for carrying out a system of uniform prison discipline, but there was no guarantee that some person in which ho could place less confidence would not be placed in the Home-office.—(Hear, hear.) He believed there could be no Government who wished to centralise less than the present Government ; and ' yet, from peculiar circumstances, a system of centrali sation was spreading which might lead to serious inroads on the liberty of the subject. It had been said that the object he sought would be effected better by a Commis- 52 128 of nine Hon. Gentlemen, Members of that House, whose / opinions upon what had bee n done would be communi cated to the House ; but who could make no revealment of the manner in which this odious practice had been exercised or of the extent to which it had been exer cised.--(An Hon. Member—" They can.") Yes, by a general declaration ; but he would put it to the Speaker whether it would be competent to the Committee, to present that evidence to the House and have it printed. The Right Hon. Baronet had alluded, with great clear ness to the part taken by the late Members of the Go vernment in the debate, and had alluded to what they had done when in office. Now, he inferred from what had transpired that all the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to do was this :—to admit what he had done, not to get out of it by saying that his conduct had not been worse than theirs. He means to prove to the Committee that if letters had been opened to this extent, it had been done in a greater degree by his predecessors. Now, would that be very satisfactory to the public ? It was said that when persons of a certain description fell out honest men got their own.—(A laugh.) Now, if it had not been for the hostility manifested by the Members of the late Ministry, they would have got no inquiry at all. He was glad of the falling out of gentle men on both sides of the House, but he questioned much if the Government would get their own. He believed that if great care were not taken, the practice, so much condemned, would be carried on under the au thority of the Secret Committee ; for, from the manner in which the inquiry would be conducted, it would be admitted that the power ought to exist ; and if the power was to exist, who was to place a limit to it? He had heard no reasons why there should be an exception to the general rule of Committees in that House. The Com mittee was to inquire into the state of the law. Now, what had transpired in another place with regard to the law ? In that place they had the first legal authorities in the kingdom, persons to whose judgment, in legal matters, the whole public were willing to submit. They had the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Justice of England, and some half-dozen ex-Chancellors. There they sat, on both sides of the House, maintaining diametrically opposite opinions. The Lord Chancellor main tained that one warrant was sufficient to open a number of letters. The next Chancellor sup ported hies in that opinion. Another high legal authority backed the Chief Justice in maintaining that an express warrant was necessary in every case, and notwithstanding the se differences, and the turmoil between these high authorities, his Hon. Friend pro posed to put lawyers on the Committee. If the Lord Chancellor did not know the law, where would they find lawyers in this House who did ? If the lawyers on the Committee were to debate the law of the question for a month, they would not understand it at last. He ad vised Hon. Gentlemen to apply the principles of common sense and common justice to what they found with regard to the practice of opening letters, and what was the statute-law of the realm, then the public might be satis fied with their decision. If they did not, nothing would satisfy the public that this odious and detestable power ought to be continued. A more odious and unfair prac tice was never exercised, or one more calculated to give offence and annoyance. It was a remarkable thing that the Right Hon. Baronet had not contradicted a single allegation made by his Hon. Colleague. All the Right lion. Gentleman stated was, that if he had done it, it had been done by his predecessors. The Right Honourable Gentleman did not deny that there was a secret office—he did not deny that whole bags of letters were sent into that office. his Hon. Friend did not say they were opened there, but from representations made to Members of that House, Tie believed the practice had been carried to an enor mous extent. He believed the letters had been opened again and again at the instigation of foreign Govern ments. These were the allegations, and such was the impression on the public mind ; and he would ask, was it not the duty of that House to meet the question at once by appointing an open Committee? He was con vinced the public would not visit the Hon. Gentleman with any more condemnation than they would the Hon. Gentleman opposite ; and if it were proved that they had done the same thing, so great would be the obloquy .cast upon them, that the Right Hon. Baronet would .escape, and, in that case he would be glad to have voted for an open inquiry. Mr. M'GEACHY supported the motion for a Com mittee, and was glad that the Government had consented to grant it, as having been a sufferer from the reconside ration of the decisions of the House on two former occa sions—(Laughter)—he should have voted according to his sense of duty as an independent Member without regard to the Government. stir. WALLACE agreed with the Hon. Member for Finsbury, that it looked more like the two official sides of the House coming to an arrangement, by which the public should have the least possible information. lie was convinced the public would not be satisfied with a Secret Committee. lie really did not know what was meant by a Secret Committee. Independent altogether of the practice of opening letters for which warrants were granted, the great body of the people believed that the system was practised irrespective of those war rants. In consequence they had no confidence in the Post-office. He had in his pockets letters sent to him within the last few days—some of them with printed, others with written, notices on their backs, saying it was not worth putting seals upon them, to give the Govern ment the trouble c.f opening them. He wished to bee the Post-office put upon the best footing. This Secret Com mittee would have no effect upon the people, and unless the evidence were published there would be no use in granting it all. It would be considered a mere delus'on, a mere mode of getting rid of a disagreeable subject, and which would be no use whatever. The Hon. Member for Finsbury seemed to have the power of guiding both sides of the House, and of compelling her Majesty's Go vernment to take what course he was pleased to direct, and he hoped, should therebe any embarrassment in form ing a new Government, her Majesty would not forget his Hon. Friend, and he hoped, following his usual course, he would divide the House on this occasion. Mr. MACAULAY said he should not have addressed the House, had not some allusion been made to him in his absence by the Right Hon. Baronet. If he under stood rightly what had been stated, the Right Hon. Baronet had imputed to him, first a dereliction of his duty as a sworn servant of her Majesty, and, secondly, of having made a personal attack on the Right Hon. Baronet himself. Now he denied that in any respect he had ever violated the oath or the duty of a Privy Councillor; mid he denied having divulged any secret which had come to him in that capacity. He also de nied that in that character he had been informed of the practices of the Post-office, and no one in that House was more ignorant of those practices than himself. He de nied with equal confidence the charge of having made an attack on the Right Hon. Gentleman. lie came down to the House intending to express concisely a very strong opinion on the state of the law. If he had de parted from that course, it vi as in consequence of the Right Hon. Baronet having himself refused to give any explanation of the principles on which he had acted. That refusal was at variance with all his ideas of Minis terial responsibility; and there was a wide difference between the conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet id this respect and that of those who had preceded him. There was never before any Minister called to account for the exercise of that power except Sir R. Walpole, and he stated immediately on what principle he had acted; but this the Right Hon. Gentleman had repeatedly refused to do. With respect to the appointment of a Com mittee ha saw no objection to its being a secret one. He thought it likely that some secret connected with their foreign department might transpire if the Com mittee were made public. But with respect to their internal affairs, he thought the people might be allowed to judge for themselves. The principal question the Committee had to report upon was the state of the law, and he should be much surprised if they did not report the necessity for a great alteration in it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL briefly explained that he had never intended to state that there should not be a permissive exercise of that power. Mr. W. WILLIAMS feared that the Committee, composed as it was exclusively of Members of the two great political parties, would not command the confidence of the public. The public would not be convinced by any report they might make, unless there were some in dependent Members appointed on that Committee. He should, therefore, be inclined to move that Mr. Dun combe and Mr. Hume be added to that committee. — (Cheers.) The Hon. Member for Finsbury, who had made the charges, ought to have an opportunity of prov ing them ; and the Hon. Member for Montrose, in whom the public had great confidence, and who was used to conducting investigations, ought also to be a Member of the Committee. Mr. CURTEIS thought that the thanks both of the British and the foreign public were due to the Hon. Member for Finsbury for having brought forward this subject.—(Cheers.) It was an indefensible and cruel act to open the letters of foreigners, and to betray their con tents to their foreign Governments.—(Hear, hear.) In the name of humanity, he thanked the Hon. Member for Finsbury.—(Cheers.) Nothing could be more unjusti fiable than to reseal these letters after opening them. By so doing, the Government rendered itself a party to any crime which might be committed in consequence.— (Hear, hear.) However severely the press might have handled the Right Hon. Baronet, he believed that if it bad not been for the independent press of this country, they would never have stood, with regard to this ques tion, in the situation which they then occupied. The oratory of the Hon. Member for Finsbury would have been unavailing if he had not been aided by the press of the country.. The Hon. and Learned Member for Bath was not j ustified in speaking of the press in the manner which he Lad done. The Right Hon. Gentle man's colleagues had manfully come forward to his aid, and to share any obloquy which might attach to it. The thanks of the country were due to the Hon. Member for Finsbury for his conduct on this occasion. Air. T. DUNCOMBE, in reply, observed that if he possessed the power which the Hon. Member for Greenock had attributed to him, of directing the Minis try, he should certainly have induced them to go further than they had done. He felt convinced the public would not be satisfied with the investigation which had been proposed that night. He did not believe that there was any necessity for havinc , the Committee a secret one, and he did not believe that the country would be satisfied woisthedt.herl:i'hoemitntiigthtetel v i i o h n ic . h u t a h r e on H e o hd n. a Ge p n r t ep le o m s a t n d h a a d pro posed. p Com mittee of Secrecy to inquire in t to the state of the lew directing the opening of letters at the General Post office, the modeterms, he indi did not ht think the exercised. under oe' Committee could N investigate the cusp of Mr. Mazzini and : thers, he thought the words "the circumstan ces under s)-hich,and the extent to which it has been exercised," ought to be added to the motion, as under those words ' the Com mittee would hare the power of investigatin g the circum stances tinder which the letter of Mr. Mazzini and other foreigners had been opened ; for one of the principal charges against the Government was, that they had opened the letters of foreign exiles at the instigation of foreign Powers. Sir R. PEEL said there would be no objection to the words o ff ernment dezired the fullest investigation. sion than by a Committee. He was of a different opinion A Commission worked in the dark, and the country felt no satisfaction in reading the report. But a Committee examined openly and fairly, and the public saw the grounds of their derision. The Hon. Member concluded by moving for the Committee. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion. There was no subject of more importance than that. He was alarmed at the intention of the Secretary of State to intro duce the solitary system before conviction. A more in human scheme he could not imagine. The Hon. Member then read a letter from the Under-Secretary of State to the Middlesex Magistrates, stating that Sir James Graham wished arrangements to be made for the intro duction of the system of solitary confinement before con viction. In America the effect of this system had been to produce idiotcy and insanity. Did the Right Hon. Gentleman feel justified, as a Christian, in enforcing such a system against those who might proved to be innocent? The greatest delusion existed in reference to the cost of prisoners confined under this system. He had shown, some time since, that the cost of maintaining each prisoner in Pentonville was not less than 401. a year. The prison at Pentonville, which was sufficient to hold 500 prisoners, had already cost 870,000/., and the prisoners there cost not less a sum than 481. 12s. yearly ; while poor labourer in Suffolk, to keep himself, his wife, and family, did not get more than 201. a year. Then, with respect to Parkhurst prison in the Isle of Wight, that had already cost this country 76,0001., and 5,0001. or 6,0001. was being spent upon it every year. He thought a check ought to be put upon these things, and that the Committee asked for by his Friend should be granted. He would cheerfully second his motion. Sir J. GRAIIAM said that it appeared to him rather inconsistent that tho Hon. Member for Coventry should second the motion of his Hon. Friend, considering that they held such different opinions on the subject of prisons and their discipline. His Hen. Friend, who had brought forward the motion, thought the local magistrates should retain their power, while the Hoe. Member for Coventry designated them as an ignorant and malignant body. The Hon. Member had fallen into several errors in the statements he had made ; he had talked a good deal about the solitary system—solitary confinement was un known in this country. There was what was called the separate system, but that was as different as light and dark from the solitary system. He thought, upon the whole, that the system, as it now existed, was a good. one. , Solitary confinement he considered to be indefen sible, as it often led to madness and idiotcy ; but sepa rate confinement, when the party was properly watched, he believed to be the best system that could be adopted. As to the statements that had been made by his Hon. Friend who had brought forward the motion, that pri soners were not allowed to speak even to the gaoler, they were totally without foundation ; the truth was, that the prisoners spoke, if they chose, to u. or 10 persons in the course of the day, and they were instructed by masters. The separate system in England was combined with what was called the factory system, and by means of that system the prisoner was preserved from the risk of contamination from intercourse, and from the effects of total solitude. The Government had no intention of forcing the separate system on the magistrates of Mid dlesex. All he wished to do was to give the magistrates the best information in the power of the Government as to the mode either of enlarging old prisonS or building new ones, and that best mode he believed was to be found in the construction of separate cells. But it must not be imazined from that reason, that it was intended also to force the separate system of discipline on pri soners. As to the motion of his Right lion. Friend, he could not believe that at this period of the session it would be advisable to appoint a Committee. That would only have the effect of throwing confusion and uncer tainty into the subject. He hoped his Hon. Friend would not press his motion ; but if he did, he trusted the House would agree with him in not acceding to it. Mr. WILLIAMS explained. He had not made any charge against the magistrates as a body. Mr. ESCOTT said, in the early part of the session he had asked the Right Hon. Baronet to give his opinion ns to the legality of applying the separate confinement to prisoners before trial. He believed that the law merely contemplated the security of the persons of pri soners, that they might be forthcoming on the day of trial; they were not placed there for punishment. What he wanted to know was this, where was the authority for applying punishments to persons not proved guilty of any offence? He should not go into any controversy as to the various shades and degrees of punishment con tained in the various systems, the silent, or the separate; he wanted to know where the Act of Parliament was to he found that authorised magistrates in England in in flicting punishment on those who were merely placed in prison for safe custody before trial. He had never heard of any such statute on the book ; he should be glad to hear if no such statute existed. But .if no such statute existed there arose a much more serious question, for it would then be the bounden duty of the House, in the ab sence of any law, to see that no such practice was continued. Sir J. GRAHAM said the General Prison Act gave the magistrates the power of classifying prisoners; and if that was desirable in any case, it was the most so between convicted and unconvicted prisoners. The pri soners waiting their trial had separate sleeping cells, but they were permitted an intercourse with others during the day, which was not allowed to those who had been convicted. He referred the Hon. and Learned Gentle man to the 2d and 3d of Victoria, sec. 56. Mr. WAI(LEY perfectly an-reed, with the lion. Mem ber opposite. He believed that when that Act was passed it contemplated merely the personal security of prisoners before their trial. He had been much struck with what he had heard in one of the gaols in this country two or three days ago. He found, on inqpiry, that the lowest kind of diet was forced on prisoners in that gaol on their remand ; they were not allowed any animal food for the first fourteen days of their detention. Now was that fair or just ? These men were merely suspected of offences. Sir JAMES GRAHAM—What gaol is that ? Mr. WAKLEY—The New Prison, Cleikenwell. Had he known this motion was coming on he would have brought down the dietary of the prison. He had the statement on the best authority ; the diet was gruel, bread, and broth ; they had no meat till after fourteen days. He was so struck with t h e c i rcumstance that he stated he would mention the subj ec t in the House on the first opportunity. He believed the Com m i ttee , a t thi s period of the session would be useless; but he hoped, from the manner in which the subject was treated, that he would not object to grant it at an early period of the next. The subject was one of immense importance, and not only ought they to inquire into the subject of prison discipline, but into the manner in which persons in authority exercised the power of commitment. He had known cases of persons sentenced to hard labour when suffering in the last stage of disease, and living only a few days after their commitment. lie had known per sons who had been sent into the infirmary the day they had been committed, and who in a week after had expired. At the present moment, there were a number of idiots in the House of Correction who had been committed by police mag i s t ra t e s for de manded a searching scrutiny . Th e Right Hon. Gentleman had complained of the different views entertained by various offences. These wer e matters which the mover and seconder, on the subject of solitary and separate confinement. The fact was, the solitary system ought t 3 be known as the d em oniacal system. Nothing could he more atrocious or horrible, and when the separate system made any . advances towards the solitary, it became objectionable in the highest degree. The Right Hon. Baronet had alluded to the Pentonville prison. He (Mr. Wakley) had originally entertained the strongest objections to that system. He had opposed the erection of it when it had been originally proposed, and had used all his efforts to prevent its establishment, because he considered that the system would produce the most horrible effects on the prisoners confined there. He had been called upon to exercise the functions of his office in that gaol, and, knowing the desire there was to ascertain what was going on there he had gone a little beyon d h i s duty, in ordt r to know by y the system on th e p r isoners. surprising. Th e prisoners the The effectsresult badpr od it been ced most were brought before the jury ; ell persons in authority in the gaol were ordered to leave the room ; the pri soners were informed that they need be under no fear of consequences—that they need entertain no apprehen sion of any danger or inconvenience to themselves from any communication which they might make, and it was again and again intimated to them in the broadest manner, that no person in connexion with the gaol was in the room. They were questioned as to how they were situ ated, and asked if they preferred the discipline of that gaol over any other? Every prisoner examined gave his most unqualified approval of the Pentonville over every other gaol. They all stated that the diet was ample, and that the education they received, and the trades they were taught, were of the greatest service to them, and afforded them amusement. They were asked if, on suffering separate confinement, they found the solitude annoying to them? Th e rep l y was, no t in the slightest degree. They were asked if they had any complaint to make against anything they found in the gaol? and the answer was, they had n o t one comp l a int to make. These results had astonished hi m, an d, h av ing previously ex pressed himself as hostile to the system, he thought it but right to state these extraordinary results of his ex perience to the House.—.(Hear.) No doubt separate confinement had the effect of depressing the spirits, and he thought he had notic e d som ething of that sort in the manner of those prisoners; but they all spoke most gratefully of the treatment which they had received, and seemed much rejoiced at the idea of going to the colonies on tickets of leave, and gaining an honest livelihood as respectable persons there. He could easily believe that they would be buoyed up by the hope of bettering their condition, and he hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet might be induced to shorten the period of con finement from eighteen to twelve months, if he found that period sufficient for the correction of their moral character. Thera had been three cases of lunacy removed from Pentonville to Bedlam. He did not believe that either of those cases had been produced by the discipline of the gaol, and in two instances it had been proved that there had been an hereditary pre disposition to the disease. He thought it his duty to make these statem en t s to the House, as h e h a d origi nally opposed the institution of that prison. Mr. MACKINNON replied. He would not press the motion to a division. Mr. COLLETT, on b e half of Viscount Ingestre, postponed the consid erat i on of t h e p e titi on o f C a ptain Dickenson respecting the ship Thetis. The motion was withdrawn. Captain POLHILL moved for leave to bring in a Bill to exempt from payment of the stamp duties all policies of insurance made for protection against loss of growing crops, &c., But the SPEAKER having ruled that, in the first in stance, notice of the motion should be given ; and, in the second, that it could only be made in a Committee of the House on the Stamp Act, the motion fell to the ground. Mr. MILNES' motion to call the attentidn of the House to the papers lately presented respecting the trial of a Maltese at Tunis, for murder, was postponed in con sequence of tho absence of Sir Robert Peel. Mr. TUFNELL, in the absence of Lord Palmer ston, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to continue to the end of next session of Parliament the Acts of the present session, for suspending certain actions grounded upon several statutes for the prevention of excessive gaming. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Dr. BOWRING inquired whether the Right Hon. Gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade was cognisant of a project of the Belgian Government, for introducing differential duties on tobacco imported into that country, seriously prejudicial to British interests. Mr. GLADSTONE said he believed it was true, but an Act had passed both the Chamber and Senate of Belgium, which imposed a certain differential duty upon tobacco. He could not conceive anything less likely to answer the object contemplated. It was a mimicry of the course pursued by greater countries.(Hear, hear.) He believed that the differential duty in this instance was exceedingly small. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and tl e House adjourned at Twelve o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, JULY 1. UNLAWFUL OATHS (IRELAND BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Eirst Clause ( That the Act 2 and 3 Vie. 3. 74, shall con tinue until ) :—Motion made, and Question pro posed," That the blank (page 2, line 6) be filled up with 6 one year :'"—Whereupon motion made, and Question put, " That the Chairman do leave the Chair :" The Committee divided : MINORITY—AYES, 40. Aglionby H. A. Archbold, Robert Barnard, E. G. Barron, Sir H. Bellew, R. M. , Brotherton, J. Busfeild, W. Curteis, H. B. Dennistoun, J. Duncan, George Dundas, Frederick Esmonde, Sir 'l'. Feilden, d. Forster, Matthew French, F. Gore, Robert Greenaway, Hawes, IS. Humphery, J. M‘Taggart, J. Morris, David Mo:rison, General O'Brien, J. O'Connell, M. J. O'Conor Don Ogle, S. C. EL Plumridge, Captain Power, James Rawdon, J. D. Shell, it. L. Somerville, Sir W. Stansfleld, W. R. Stewart, P. M. Stuart, Villiers Strickland, Sir G. Tancred, Henry W Thornrly, Thomas Wallace, Robert Wawn, J. T. Wyse, 'Thomas TELLERS Norreys, Sir O. O'Ferrall, R. More MAJORITY—NOES, 51. Ackers, James Gordon, Captain Palmer, G. Aeland, I'. D, Graham, Sir James Peel, Sir Riii.rt Baird, William Grogan, Edward Price, It Baring. W. B. Hamilton, Lord C. Pringle, Alexander Bentinck, Lord G Harcourt, G. G. Rushhiooke,Colonel Blackstone, W. Hayes, sir E. Shaw, F. Boldero, H George Henniker, Lord Smith, T. BC. Bowles, Admiral Hepburn, Sir T. B. Smollett, Alexander 11, uce, Lord Ernest Herbert, Hon. S. Somerset, Lord G. Buller, !Sir J. Yarde Hodgson, Richard Stanley, Lord Burroughes, 11. N. Hope, Charles Sutton, Hon. H. M Cockburn, Sir G. Dope, G W. Vevey, Hon. Thomas Corry, H. Jermyn, Earl Vivian, John Ennis Darby, George Knatchbull, Sir E. Wortley, J. Stuart Dougla. , , Sir C. .Lefroy, Anthony Wortley, Hon. Jobn Drummond, H. H. Lincoln, Earl of Yorke, R. H. Eliot, Lord M'Geachy, F. A. Escott, Bichkam M`Neill, Duncan TELLERS. Gaskell, James Milnes Meynell, H. Young, John Gladstone, W. E. Milnes, Richard Lennox, Lord A. Gladstone, Captain Neville, Ralph SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The proceedings in the two Houses of Parlia ment last evening indicate increased embarrassment and un popularity to Sir Robert Peel and the Government of which he is the chief. The Bill introduced by Earl Powis to the House of Lords for repealing the Act for uniting the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, had passed the second reading by a considerable majority, notwithstanding the efforts of the Duke of Wellington, as leader of the Government in that House .of Parliament, to obtain its rejection. In the course of Sir Robert Peel's memorable " explanation" hi the House of Commons, on the adverse vote on the Sugar Duties, the Right Hon. Baronet showed how greatly he had felt himself personally annoyed, and his position injured, by the vote of the Lords on the Welch Bishoprics; indicating, as it did, an indisposition, in that quarter also, to place im plicit confidence in he r Majesty's Government. The embar rassing effect.of the decision of the House of Peers on Lord Powis' Bill was increased by a difference of opinion reported to exist between the Head of the Board of Trade and the rest of the Cabinet respecting this measure. Mr. Gladstone was known to be in favour of the retention of the two Bishop rics, and is said to have intimated that he would be com pelled to vote for the Bill if it came before the House of Commons. The alternative, in such a state of things, must be a resignation of office by Mr. Gladstone; the effect upon the efficiency and character of the Government would be most injurious to both. Pledged to resist the Bill—which was certain to pass through all its stages in the Peers, with the prospect in the Commons that it would cause one of the most efficient members of the Cabinet to withdraw from his connexion with it—a course has been taken which, if it has relieved the Government of an immediate difficulty, has increased in intensity and extent the dissatisfaction of the High Church portion of its adherents. The prero gatives of the Crown were involved. Her Majesty's advisers had not thought proper to obtain her Ma jesty's consent, so as to justify the House in proceeding to pass the measure. And this preliminary objection—only imperative when taken, but not essential to give Parlia mentary validity to the Bill—was interposed to stay the further progress of the measure, which was thus dishonour ably " burked," to prevent it from working worse mischiefs to the Government in the House of Commons. The Duke of Wellington " had no authority to give her Majesty's consent to the discussion of this Bill ; and on that ground alone the Right Rev. Bench ought to withdraw their support from this Bill, and allow it to drop. He had not the power or the inclination to amend the Bill and implant such machinery as to carry out all those objects in relation to these dioces3s which were proposed in the report of the Commissioners, and which her Majesty in Council had power to execute if this Bill was not passed." This objection might have been taken ab initio ; and would have prevented the unfortunate vote on its second reading. To take the objection after the House of Peers had, by a considerable majority, in effect passed the Bill, was most ungracious. The Duke of Newcastle pro nounced the course taken by the Government as a "manoeuvre —a State trick." The meekness of the Episcopal Bench was ruffled; and Bishops spoke unadvisedly with their lips; while lay Peers were fired with holy zeal in behalf of the Church. The Duke looked more than usually grim, un moved by the discord that prevailed; and Earl Powis closed the scene by referring to precedents which showed that, with reference to similar measures, the preroga tive of the Crown had never been interposed, as a bar rier to their being entertained by their Lordships' House. It is obvious that the prerogative of the Crown was never thought of by the Government until it became necessary to get rid of the Bill, which was fraught with the elements of discord among the members of the Cabinet. To pre- Vent this, the prerogative of the Crown was made a pre text for getting rid of the Bill—a mere stalking-horse, kept in ambush, to be used whenever the exigences of a tottering Ministry require its aid to serve their pur poses. If we turn to the Commons, we see the Premier compelled, from very shame, to forego his purpose respecting the Irish Registration Bill. The second reading of the mea sure was announced by Sir Robert Peel for last evening. After shelving one Government measure after another, as im possible to be proceeded with at this late period of the ses sion, the order of the day was moved; the Irish Registration Bill was to be discussed, and then its further considera tion postponed till the next session. This trifling with the public time, and "manoeuvre" to entrap Members into premature opinions, was well exposed. At length Sir R. Peel, seeing the hopelessness of resistance, gave way ; and the Irish Registration Bill, which more than three years ago was deemed essential to preserve Ireland from a host of evils, re mains among the useless parchments on which abandoned measures are engrossed—fit only to be cut into slips fur " measures more useful, but of less dignified appellation. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle threatens that the great "Mazzini question" is to be anew agitated in the House of Commons to-night. We have no objection to this provided that the question be treated fairly, which it cer tainly cannot be without a full and searching investigation into the custom of the Home-office for some considerable pe riod of years. As we have before said, " The custom of an office is the law of that office"—a law rigidly binding upon all who occupy the office, and the investigation for which we call is indispensable to the ascertaining what is the custom of the Home-office. Let Sir James Graham's immediate predecessors in the office—Lord Normanby, Lord John Russell, Lord Duncannon, Lord Melbourne—make a clean breast as to their practice, and then the public will be in a condition to form a correct judgment of the present Home Secretary's conduct, but not before. This consideration is not offered as a to quoque argument, a kind of argument which we, at least, shall ever disdain to offer in behalf of any Conserva tive against a charge brought by Whig-Radicals, because we think that a Whig-Radical practice ought generally to be known only to be shunned—" Ut fugerit exampla vitiorum qunque notando." But we recur to our proposition, that the custom of an office is the law of the office ; and it will hardly be disputed that the uniform practice of his four immediate predecessors in office must be to Sir James Graham a conclusive evidence of "the custom." We are in possession of some curious facts and revelations connected with this subject, which would astonish those who see the Members ofLord Melbourne's Government—particularly Lords John Russell and Palmerston—joining in the cry against Sir James Graham. We have heard something, too, of the history of M. Mazzini, which, independently of his sup posed connexion with the only conspiracy that threatens the peace of Europe, would properly render him an object of peculiar vigilance. It is better, however, to wait until the ex-Home Secretaries shall have had a distinct invi tation and sufficient time to explain their practice, and M. Mazzini's history will come out more conveniently upon a formal inquiry. Meanwhile, though this gentleman has lent himself to very worthless persons on the present occasion, we would not, even by implication, offer him an injustice. We are not aware that there is any impu tation whatever upon his honesty or honour as a private individual ; but he is said to be an extremely prompt, energetical, and bold person—admirable qualities in a good cause, but which, in the warm temperaments of the south may lead men concerned in political intrigues to contemplate the use of means which our more phleg matic disposition reject, and which we would not willingly see resorted to among strangers, much less among our friends. Again, we disclaim making any charge against M. Mazzini, except that he is a man of an impetuous and daring i t f em n p o e t r ;forantihl the sake n o i f e e n the s r u s r , el e y u , gh f t or to t h h e ei c r los o e w ly n wa s t a c k h e e s d , when they are supposed to be engaged in dark political in trigues. In justice, thereft , re, to M. Mazzini, of whom, as we firmly believe, a great deal more than the truth has been told by some officious agents of the Austrian Government— tnlote less g e a s te G d r . aham and law—thethan imnatotredrereetgohatatefaihrelj;ublylySinirveJsatmi HOLY ROOD PARK.—The improvements in this Royal . park, under the direction of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, are at present proceeding very satisfactorily. A number of workmen are employed in completing that portion of the new carriage-drive between Dumbiedvkes and St. Leonard's, which was commenced last season. The old wall which divided the valley from the fagade of Salisbury Crags is being pulled down, and the ad jacent ground tastefully formed into gradually sloping banks. To the eastward, the Washing-house," with the unseemly walls around it, have been cleared away. The house over looking St. Ann's-yards, long occupied by Mr. David John stone as a public-house, together with the house adjoining it on the west,are also removed. The remainder of the south wall of the Archer's-garden, part of which was lately blown over during a high wind, is now taken down. We trust that the " Rood-well" will be preserved and properly protected. The draining of the meadows—one of the most important parts of the contemplated improvements—will, we hear, soon be proceeded with. Thus, Holyrood is, at last, in a fair way of being rendered fit fur the occasional residence of our beloved Sovereign and her illustrious family.—Edinburgh Courant. Lord Milton's yacht the Merlin came up the river, from Cowes, Isle of %%right, and to-day the Noble Lord sails for the coast of Scotland, intending to visit the Earl of Mor ton's, Dalmahoy - Caatle, Mid-Lothian. LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, July 2. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN, and a London Special Jury.) CONSPIRACY.-THE QUEEN V. LORD ASHBU RTON AND OTHERS. This was an indictment against Lord Ashburton, Mr. F. Baring, and Mr. Mildmay, members of the house of Baring and Co., for a conspiracy to ruin and destroy the credit and property or Mr. Kinder, by procuring an Act of the Legislature of Mexico to nullify a contract in which he was engaged. Mr. Erie and Mr. Bodkin conducted the case for the prosecution; and Mr. Kelly and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defendants. This case, which occupied the attention of the Court during the whole of yesterday, was resumed this morn ing, when the case for the prosecution closed. The fol lowing are the facts of the case, as we gathered them from the evidence of Mr. Kinder, and from the very vo luminous documentary evidence which was put in and read, eonsistine , of all the proceedings in a Chancery suit instituted by Mr. Kinder against Baring and Co.:— In the year 1825 Mr. Francis Baring, who was at that time travelling in Mexico, agreed, in conjunction with the representative of the house of Mr. Kinder, in Mexico, to take a very large tract of laud, extending from - ocean to ocean in that country. Information was sent to the members of the house of Baring in London, and to Mr. Kinder, by their respective agents, and it appeared that both parties were dissatisfied at the purchase. At that time the house of Baring' held dishonoured bills of Kinder's to a large amount, and granted him indulgence, to which Mr. Ede contended he was well entitled, inas much as his res mrees had been stopped by Mr. Francis Baring in Mexico. Mr. Kinder, it appeared, had sug gested to Lord Ashburton the propriety of transferring the purchase to a joint-stock company, but the firm of Baring, which had kept itself aloof from all joint-stock companies, refused to accede to such a proposition. Baring and Company sent out to their agents in Mexico, warning them as to Kinder's credit, and stating that they held dishonoured bills of his to a large amount, and desiring their agents to adopt every means in their power to put an end to the contract. In accordance with these instructions, the agents exerted themselves to procure the passing of an Act through the Mexican Legislature to nullify the contract. This Act was passed on the ground that foreigners could not hold land in Mexico, and it appeared from certain letters from the Mexican agents of Baring and Co., that one of them, a foreigner, named Noulti, had bribed certain metn bees of the Legislature to support the Bill. These transactions took place in 1829. In 1830 Mr. Kinder went to Mexico. He returned to England about the year 1837, and in 1838 he filed a bill in Chancery against Lord Ashburton and his partners. They put in their answer, which gave Kinder access to all the papers. In 1840, and just as Lord Ashburton was on the point of sailing for Mexico, Mr. Kinder went before the grand jury at the C en t ra l Criminal Court, and pre ferred this indictment, on which Lord Ashburton was arrested, and gave bail at the Judge's Chambers four days before he sailed to the United States on a diplo matic mission relative to the Boundary Question. Mr. KELLY, for the defence, commented on the con duct of Mr. Kinder, waiting sixteen years before he brought forward this indictment, and in bringing it for ward in the manner and at the time he did, just as Lord Ashburton was about to leave England as the represen tative of his Sovereign. With regard to the facts of the case, he contended that if the House of Baring had been desirous of ruining Mr. Ki n d er , th ey m i g ht have done so most effectually by securing him on his dishonoured bills, instead of holding theta even as they had done. It appeared that at first Kinder had expressed himself dissatisfied with the purchase, and there was nothing to show that he had even expressed his satisfaction at it, so that the house of Baring might well believe that he like themselves would require to get rid of it. their interests in the purchase being identical, and as they knew that Kinder was not possessed of funds sufficient to carry on the undertaking, it was not surprising that they should desire to get rid of the connexion with him. There was nothing illegal in supporting a Bill before the Mexican Legislature to nullify the contract ; but then it was said hat Mr. Noulti, the agent, had bribed. True, in his accounts there was a — sim entered for bribes, but those bribes had been paid without any com munication with the Barings, who knew nothing of Noulti's acts until after the transaction had been con- chided, and with regard to those bribes it should be re • collected, that in many foreign countries it was im possible to get any great public business, even of a judi cial character, transacted without giving what were called gratifications to every officer, from the judge down to the crier. Now, all that had been done had been to allow these sums in Noulti's account, and no doubt, if they had not been so allowed, Mr. Kinder would have called the attention of the Court to it, as a most unfair and most unjust transaction. Then, with regard to the communication to the agents on the subject of Kinder's solvency, that was certainly a confidential com munication. No action of slander would lie on such a communication. If it had been brought. Messrs. Barings might have justified, and have put in the dis honoured bills in evidence, and, therefore, this could not be given as evidence of a criminal conspiracy to ruin the prosecutor. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT. James Neale, aged 13, and Mary Ann Neale, aged 22, were charged, Mary Ann with stealing a gold watch, value 221., the property of Joseph Vivian, and James with receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. The prisoners were in the service of the prosecutor. The watch was lost, and the prisoners were afterwards found offering it Sor sale in Petticoat-lane. The jury found them both Guilty, and they were sentenced, the boy to three months' imprisonment, and the female to one years' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLE RKEIV WELL. Two young men, named Passon and Martin, were charged with refusing to perform the work assigned them in the Hol born union workhouse. It appeared from the evidence that, on the previous night, the prisoners were admitted as casual poor, and, having re ceived their bed and breakfast, refused to work four hours at picking. oakum, according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament, and not only refused, but used the vilest lan guage, and threw two bundles of wood at the taskmaster. They were likewise most impudent to Mr. Wilkes, the re lieving-officer. The prisoners attempted to show that the workhouse porter, Barlow, had been insolent towards them, but this ac cusation they altogether failed in substantiating. Martin was sentenced to five days, and Passon to fourteen days' imprisonment. MARYLEBONE. John Brotherton, a sailor, was charged before Mr. Long, by Mr. James Trinder, landlord of a public-house in Maryle bone, with having threatened to take his life, and with using abusive language towards him. Mr. Trinder said that the defendant, who was his wife's nephew, came into his house last evening, and after using abusive and disgusting language, threatened with an horrible oath to rip him up. The defendant, to the best of his belief, was not in liquor at the time. Two witnesses, who were in the prosecutor's house when the occurrence took place, corroborated his evidence. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said he only re turned from a long voyage the other day, and that he called on his uncle respecting some money which he owed him ; he neither used insulting nor threatening language, and begged the Magistrate to deal leniently with him as he had a wife and family to support by . his industry. The complainant denied that he owed the defendant a single farthing, he believed him to be a dissolute person, and bore a bad character amongst his ship-mates. the defendant promising that he would not annoy his uncle, he was ordered to enter into recognizances to keep the peace towards the complainant. Last week it became a matter of doubt whether or not the stables in Regent's-park Barracks were infected with glanders, three of the trooper's horses having been recently shot, in consequence of their exhibiting symptoms of this malady. It, however, fortunately proves, upon a veterinary inquiry which has been made, that the disease is merely influenza. THE WEITHER.—THUNDERSTORM.—On Monday afternoon the metropolis and its neighbourhood, particularly the west and north-western suburbs, was visited by one of the most heavy and severe storms of thunder and lightning, accompanied by a drenching rain, which lasted nearly an hour. The atmosphere, on Sunday, was exceedingly sultry, and in the afternoon there were indications of an approach ing storm from the west, but a strong breeze springing up from the north-east, it was not heard or felt in the neighbour hood of the metropolis, although it fell heavily over Berk shire and Oxfordshire. As the afternoon advanced the wind shifted to south-east, and shortly after four o'clock dense masses of clouds appeared on the horison, advancing against the wind from the north-west, and indicating an approaching storm. By a quarter past five o'clock they had extended themselves all over the heavens. The storm commenced about half-past five o'clock, by . drops of rain as big as a crown piece, which was immediately followed by a vivid flash of forked lightning and a heavy peal of thunder. `A cessation then took place of about ten minutes, when the whole power of the storm appeared at once to burst forth, and continued, with scarcely any intermission, until nearly half-past six o'clock. The storm was most severely felt in the neighbourhoods of Acton, Wellesdon, Harrow, Hamp stead, &c. CHILD MURDER.—On Monday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, as policeman Hart, L 58, was on du 4 y in the Belvidere. road, Lambeth, lie was informed that the body of an infant (not quite dead) was found in the timber yard belonging to Mr. Patrick, situated near the old Guild ford Barge, in the above road. The policeman immediately proceeded to the spot, and saw the infant bleeding from the head, nose, and ears, and lying immediately un derneath the wall of a house next to the timber yard. On looking about he pc; ceived marks of blood on the top of the tank, and found the child had been thrown over the wall from the yard of the house, nearly ten feet in height. The policeman directly went to the house, and on knocking at the door it was opened by a young girl, seventeen year. of age, the sister of the landlady, who with her hus band, was from home at the time. The policeman questioned the girl on the subject of the finding of the child, but the girl denied any knowledge of the cir cumstances, when the policeman, observing that her hands and apron were bloody, asked her the reason, and 'she be trayed so much confusion that he went to the station-house, and a surgeon having examined the girl, it was at once as certained that she ha recently delivered herself of a child in the water-closet, marks of blood from which place to the wall, over which she must have thrown the child, were perceptible. It was found the child was still living, but the injuries it sustained were of such a serious nature that it ex pired in about two hours after the discovery was made. The girl herself was immediately conveyed to the workhouse. In the timber-yard, into which the infant was thrown, two large watch dogs are kept, both of which were found licking over the body when the horrible discovery was first made. To nu Worms.--The first furnace at these works was, on Friday se'nnight, "put in blast," upon which occa sion the numerous workmen employed at the place were in • dulged with " cwrw da." The first tapping of the furnace took place on Monday, and the second on Tuesday. The sample is most satisfactory, and bids fair that the iron of the Tondu works will be equal to that made at any works in the principality,-.,Cambrian, Julie 29. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.) HAY PiUtILIEMTS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Mtadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/ ; use ful ditto, 4/ 4s to 4/ 12s; Upland ditto, 4/ 14s to 5/; Clover Hay, 5/ to 61 los Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s; '%% Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply but mode rate, and trade steady. s * CUMBERLA:.ND.—Coarse Veadow Hay 31 15s to 414 s ; use ful ditto, 41 6s to 4/ 13s; tine Upland ditto, 4116 s to 5/55.; Clover Ilay, 4/15s to 5/15s; Oat Straw, 1114 s to 1/ 16s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 163 to I/ 18s per load. Both hay and straw sold readily, at full prices. WIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 10s' to 41; use ful ditto, 414 s to 4/ 103; fine Upland ditto, 41 12s to 5/ ; Clover Hay, 4/ 153 to 6/ 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. New Meadow Hay was selling at from 31 5s to 4/ 6s per load. comoNzar... SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is heavy, about 300 hhds having been sold at rather lower prices. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 90 hhds Trinidad, 110 puns Molasses, 11,848 bags Mauritius, and 600 bags Madras. The Trinidad Sugar and Molasses were taken in, the former at 563 to 56s Gd for good to fine brown, and the latter at 25s for fair quality, being about the previous value, but at which there were not purchasers. Nearly all the Mauritius was disposed of, but went off very heavily, and at a decline of fully is to 2s, the more particu larly on the lower sorts ; low to fine brown brought 48s to 553, an low yellow 55s Gd to 67s ; the Madras sold at 43s to 48s for low to mid brown, which is also a decline of fully 2s. The only transactions which have transpired worth reporting consist of three large cargoes of yellow Havannah, contain in r , about 7,000 boxes, which have been sold afloat at 19s Gd to 21s 6d, deliverable either over the ship's side in London, or near port on the Continent. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,121 hhds 161 tierces 211 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 1,648 hhds 101 tierces 225 barrels. The stock in the same places is 11,456 hhds 1,651 tierces 1,762 barrels. COFFEE.-195 casks 203 barrels British Plantation only partly sold at rather lower prices. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and "West India Docks was 403 puns 22 hhds ; there were taken for home consumption 80 puns 8 hhds, and exported 34 puns 4 hhds. The stock in the same places is 9,646 puns, 2,070 hhds. ---- SALTPETRE.-1,443 bags Bengal at auction all found buyers at 24s to 26s 6d fur 11 to per cwt. refraction, being about former rates. SPICES.-1,106 bags Sumatra Pepper were all taken in above the value, viz., at 2, 7 3 d for good black. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is in good demand at 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt on the spot, and 42s 6d to 42s 9d for the last three months. Town is 43s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market is quiet and the arrivals have been large. The stock in London is 31,058,0001bs against 27,822,0001bs at this time last year. The price of Cougou ord to good ord 10id to Ild, and Twankay good ord to but mid is 2d to is 3d per lb. The home consumption from London this year has been 11,793,0001bs or rather less than last year. TOBACCO.—The market, during the last month, has not presented any feature requiring particular observation. Sales have been effected to a very limited extent, and have in 39a° instances been rather in favour of the buyer ; neverthess, no general alteration can be made in the quotations. HEMP.— The price of clean is 29s to 30, per cwt. (From the London New Price Current of July 2.) SUGAR.-To-day buyers of West India Sugar operated with caution, and the limited business transacted was in most cases 6d per cwt under the rates of Friday: the purchases amounted to only 350 hhds &c. including 142 hhds 8 trcs of Barbadoes at public sale, which went off with heaviness, and at a decline on the rates of the former sale of Gd for the better, and is per cwt for the lower qualities; fine yellow went at 64s to 655, good 61s 6d to 635, mid 59s to 60s Gd, low 57s 6d to 58s per cwt. The assortment was large of all descriptions. REFINED.-To-day the home trade purchased Refined goods with reluctance, and reduced rates were accepted, brown Lumps selling at 73s 6d to 745, and standard Lumps at 75s to 75s Gd per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is wanted , and prices are firm at 26s to 26s 3d for first quality. Mnuninus.-The transactions have been upon a large scale, but the market having been freely supplied, prices have suffered a decline of is 6d to 2s 6d for brown and eon': mon yellow, and is per cwt for the better descriptions. Tlos afternoon buyers were cautious in their proceedings, in con sequence of a public sale of 8,000 bags being declared for Friday. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon Bengal Sugar was not s° much wanted, and two parcels offered at auction, amounting t. 3,577 bags, went off quietly, but the whole sold at former rates ; fine white at 65s to 67s 6d, good 63s to 63s 6d, middling 60s Gd to 625, low 59s 6.1 to GOs, middling yellow 57s 6d t ° 58s 6d, good middling 595, damp yellow 565, and white 598 6d to 67s per cwt. FOREIGN.-Yellow Havannah Sugar has met with atteo' tion, and in some cases merchants have succeeded in obtain" , ing rather higher prices. To-day there was no public sale °: Foreign Sugar, but privately several inquiries existed; cargo of yellow Havannah afloat, of 2,500 boxes, sold for near port at 19s 6d per cwt. On Friday, 250 boxes white 8 0° 500 boxes of yellow Havannah will be offered at auction. A CocoA.-There has been no public sale of West India, o ° ' privately few parcels have been disposed of, although there are sellers upon rather lower terms. Foreign Cocoa 11°5 sustained the former value. This afternoon, Bahia (,o' sold 28s 6tl to 29s 6i for fine bright red, being cheaper. 11 TEA.-The market has presented a dull appearance for descriptions of Tea since we last wrote. To-day, there icr, rather more demand for Tea, and prices have made a stanc y it was difficult to purcha se common soun d C on gou under 101 d per lb. RICE.-For Bengal Rice full rates have been paid. 1 1, Foreign East India Rice more business has been transaet el a at the previous currency. Patna Rice at 13s to 16s; a ° Carolina at 21s, 245, and 26s per cwt. l'ea COFFEE.-Importers of West India have again supP.',,, the market largely : still a good demand has been etP: rienced for all clean qualities, and the rates previously e•st"i; blished are sustained. This afternoon Mocha at a decline former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt, fine ord green mixed ele2 garbled went at 66s to 67s 6d, mid greenish 67s ", to 68s, mid yellow 67s 6d to 68s, triage 47s to 50s, and s e ', damaged 34s to 67s 6d; Ceylon fetched 52s for real good olio. and 48s 6d to 51s for sea damaged first c l ass . E a st I° .(1 „1 ; went at 30s 6d for good ord Padang, and 51s for Beog' to Jamaica all sold at steady prices, good mid fetched 9 63 a 975, mid 86s Gd to 945, low mid 81s, fine and fine fine ° r 6 d 67s to 755, and triage 54s Gd per cwt. Ceylon Coffee 4 93 to 50a good ord. MOLASSES.-For West India rather lower rates are accent e 4 ;. Antigua fine new at 265, St. Kitts inferior 23s to 23s 6d, f a Lucia 22s to 23s ; Trinidad taken in at 25s per cwt for g v :'J, quality ; East India Molasses at 15s to 17s per cwt duty P a y t , Jamaica Honey of good and fine quality at 65s to 75s per e 'd SPICES.-Black Pepper has met with a dull demand , ° er e rather lower rates are accepted. In the value of white th is little variation. Ginger is still wanted, and East Indio,.°„ l (f fetching stiff rates. This afternoon Malabar Pepper D',l heavy sifted went at' 3ad to 34d, and sea damaged first 311 second class 21,d to 3d per lb. Russ, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-Jamaica Rum at t rates ; common quality 3s 2d t o 3 s sd, f a i r 33 t o 36 per eld, over proof 3s 6d to 3s 9d, good 32 to 35 over 4s to 4° . , t o fine 32 to 36 over 4s 9d to ss, and very superior 5s 5s 4d per gallon. Leewards at 2s 2d to 2s 3d per go'i i g proof strength. Demerara 3s to 3s 4d per gallon for str o descriptions. Calcutta Rum is 11dto is 111 d P., 3l e r for proof, with certificate. Sellers of Brandy on ls/, terms. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, I ,; it io 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d ; ditto 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns ss; I', 5 1840, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s lld ; ditto 1841, hhds ss , P id 4s 10d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d ; mid to good op of other brands 3s to 4s 6d, and low 2s 8d to 2s 10d per g al l lon. Geneva for export at Is 9d to Is 10d ; fine in parcels fetch 3s to 3s 4d per gallon. To-day proof LeaT: ii i. at 2s 2d to 2s 2id, and good brown at 2s 3d per gallon. cutta at is 112 d to 2s per gallon, proof. but SAGO -This afternoon Sago met with more attention , holders were compelled to submit to a decline in prices °l oc i to 2s per cwt ; good small white Pearl at 18s to 19s, g i da middling 17s, and fine 20s 6d to 21s per cwt. Bertllo',,i, Arrowroot went at lid to is ld ; St. Vincents 54d to 1 2 P, Jamaica 8d to 10d, other sorts West India is to Is East India 20 to 3d, South Sea 2id; East India T° lll- rinds 15s to 17s per cwt. INDIGO.--In East India those parties that are inclined to realise have been compelled to accept prices 2d to 4d P er under those of last quarterl at 801 to sale. °rm.-Sperm Oilo 83115 s per tun for fine go h d a few lots very low, 5615 s to 70/, and Headmatter fet e dy 841. For common Fish Oils higher rates have been, 1 63 tamed. Southern Oil at 321 to 331 lOs for fine, 3 °' 0 , to 311 15s for good, and 301 to 30l lOs per tun for conl o il Sales of pale Seal have been made at 351 lOs to 36/. tio ai at 33l 10s to 34l per tun ; Sea Elephants' Oil for expurts i ; eo in bond, went at 26/ 5s to 27155. Olive Oil has been to sparingly, and lower rates again accepted-Gallipoli l it "„er to 48l 10s, Spanish 46l to 47/, and Barbary 45l to 45l 10s,yo tun. Linseed Oil at 25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt. Cocoii taken in and withdrawn at 30s per cwt for good. It 9,11 pd steady-pale at 38s to 38s Gd, and brown 37s to 37s "' l it) , cwt. Palm at 27s to 28s 6d per cwt for good to fine q o ,tlf To-day Linseed Oil firmer at 25s 9d to 26s per cwt curr e '' paid. TALLOW.-For Russian Tallow on the spot a good del i „el has been experienced ; P Y Candle at 41s 3d to 41s 6d .t cwt. For delivery in the last three months of the Year,,lor 42s 6d to 42s 9d per cwt. Town Tallow at 41s to 41s 6';pa cwt nett cash. New South "Wales at 34s 6d to 415 9d. „": 15 1 0 , 44s to 458. Odessa 40s to 40s 6d, and South American (Al 41s per cwt. To-day PYC at 41s 6d on the spot, and 4 10 to 42s 9d per cwt for delivery in the last three months ° year. [ADVERTISEMENT.] GREAT DEBILITY or ell , SYSTEM CURED BY ITOLLOWA.Y'S PILLS !-Mrs. John e o a lady of fortune, residing in Regent's Park, had let for the last seven year s i n a very l ow , nervo us 5 !. of with a deranged stomach, s i c k h ea d- ac h es, an d l0'," is appetite. She had consulted th e first medical ° le o ( ' the metropolis, but got no relief. She is now, hot ] , 0 by the use of these wonderful Pills, restored to as 1 1,70 0 state of health as she ev er en j oye d. Th ese Pills s" ho se be taken by all persons of sedentary habits, or W of constituti ins have been impaired by foreign climat e :4 l the baneful use of calomel. Sold at Professor Holloged Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may b e v el' gratis), and by almost all vendors of medicine the° out the civilised world. BIRTHS. 8 01 At sea, on the 7th of May, on board of the ship 1 9.:, the lady fW. Vansittart, Esq., Bengal Civil Service , O i le ste r o i On the 19th ult., in th e Vi c t or i a -p ar k, near Man c ior, the lady of Joseph St. J o h n Y a t es , E sq ., b arr i s ter -at - a son. _.../ GR , 113- Stu .kt ley n, Fart,--ron star ofti ASYI held at Ha t The All 2 illstaut, 2 5, Tibbe 170 co 1 , , • Wt. g the busin ess, It was I 4 MPIY Butt C arry out tlement be m ay yet be B alhe t o i 'Y ork), or m the 31st of Shares b e York, j, t an _einn, , E ur Port re, above bon! ranged nis repaired a l trusts they hi nl 'with Ju - , 1 IC - 4 1 OR Lass. Th ( r eney for apiendid To elleet Genti ez of getting nenr Sot I) ELIGE ME: Premi zes ' 4)f jw y, ' Victus!y The cotnprisin every des th e beaut grou nd, en the Swansea, and coral Castle, / 3 and of Ilfraccunt built of b room`, 1 ,, cheerful every oth pn(xi wit Priatei i Swansea Swansea'. 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DIED. On the 29th ult., Rebecca Greenwood, aged 21 jetd cousin of Mr. G. Tennant, W es t m i ns t er A r ms, 1 1 ° I. ' road, Westminster, much lamented. At sea, on the '2sth of May, on board of the ship the wife of W. Vansittart, Esq., Bengal Civil Servic i , e ,ioD74 , On the 23d ult., at C o l e H ouse , D evo nshire, P ta ist Maria Georgiana, youngest daughter of the late Capp, Payne, of Nutwell, near Lympstone. TO On the 27th ult., at Richmond, Surrey, France s r. verer, wife of Colonel the Lion. Henry Edward Oev — On the 27th ult., Harriet Sarah, the wife of ISP A Dixon, of Circus-street, Greenwich. 6, 1? - 11 London: Printed and Published by MURDO / 40., No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , o 4,ol Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the v" • Middlesex, Wednesday, July 3, 1844. tier; "m ath c onstit full d o , be v „ l eith er genera and en A sr etter, and, Ti