The Sun. — London, England, 1839-08-10 00:00:00

EVENING- EDITION. e 1 measures whereby honest Men might find room to live in ' England prosperous and happy. Mr. VILL IE RS thought her tiftts something eetreiteiy analogous between the feeeuite pursued by the Ho nourable Member fer Birminghees le this House and that of the Chartists et public meetings, or- bear, bear, hear.) The Hen. Member coetd hot be surprised, when he uttered such sentiment's eh every occasion. that he was received with far mere favour by the Opposition than by the other side of the House, because there Was some thing so singular in his manner, and so eccentric in the , matter which he put forth, that he contrived to throw dis- i credit and east ridicule on almost every question.-1 (Cheers.) He did not say that the Hon. Member did It intentionally, but this was certainly the effect which he produced. If the Honourable Member for Finsbury would accept a compliment from him (Mr. V.) the speech which he hed made on the present occasion was the best which be had made in this House. The Hon. Mem ber had said almost everything wheels could be urged in favour of these resolutions. He (Mr. Villiers) thought they were too important to be passed over in silence, or ( without the approbation of those who had supported the measure included in them ; and he therefore intended to rote for them. He supported them because they were true, and because it was important the House should ad mit them to be so; because, if the proceedings of the House had not been worthy of the purposes for which they had assembled, it would be one step to repentance if they admitted their sins. Some persons might think that the course pursued by the Legislature was right, and it was well that the people should know what it was. Looking to the general character of our legislation it was not calculated to raise us in the esteem of the country. That was an evil and a misfortune, than which none could he more lamentable.—(Hear, hear.) There must have b. en something in the mode in which business was con .ineted, and the business itself, conducted by the Howse, which produced this result. And the only mode in which the iliscontent could be removed was, either by legislating ttic the people beneficially, or including such a number of 1.:0 people in the Legislature as to render it their own ~ fauit if the legislation were not beneficial. It was pos t sible that they might legislate for the, people as they ought to be legislated for; but only possible—scarcely peeheble. Under the present mode of regulating the fran i chile, and the very limited nature of the franchise, a e monopoly of legislative influence was givers to individual )interests —to sinister, sectional interests, over the Feneral —to the partial, above the national.—( Hear.) This had ! made the legislation of Parliament a ground of complaint (Hear)—and he connected this with the present dis t; ; eences—irrational, absurd, inseene, as their projectors . re. They were only the iedication that the cup was ) now overflowing. But wl:at had filled that cup of discon ; tent?—( Hear.) The wrongs of those just above the class who were resorting to violence. It was necessary that the middling arid the working classes of the people should be satisfied. It was the lowest and the most ignorant order of society that employed physical force, and endangered the public peace. —( Hear.) The House need fear nothing if the e ) esse above these were satisfied. But it was the discon tent of the middling classes, as well as of those below ' them, which gave cause for alarm.—( Hear, bear.) Now the resolutions of the Hon. Member truly described those measures which the House had neglected during the pre sent Session. Mr. WARBURTON said he should support the reso lutions. If he believed thet the existing discontents arose merely from the Chartises, he might be of the same way of thinking with the Neible Lord the Secretary for the Home Department. But the Noble Lord was utterly mistaken in imagining that this was the case.—( Hear, hear.) There w. re a great number of steady, thinking men, who had been the supporters of moderate Reform from the thee when the Noble Lord and Earl Grey first began the Reform agitation—who were dissatisfied with the pre , sent course of Legislation.—( Hear, hear.) Looking to the present state of ,parties, indeed ; the condition of our Legislation was really that of anarchy. Nothing good progressed.—(Cheers) Thus the labours of Parliament were ineffectual. The Chartists interruption to the Anti . Corn-law Agitation did not arise from their friendliness e to the Corn-laws, but to their conviction that petitioning i the House as at present constituted was useless.—( Hear, hear). It was astonishing how the Government could be I satisfied with th e i r i na bili ty to carry use f u l measures.— ; (Hear, bear.) M atters cou ld not l ong rema i n i n t h e pre -1 sent situation, and the preponderance must eventually I turn to the Tory party, unless the Government gave a ; stimulus to the Liberal cause by further changes in the ; representative 5y5tem.......( Hear, hear.) iMr. D'ISR A ELI said he ascribed the present discon tents to the systematic attacks which, since the passing of the Reform Bill, had been made by the Government on the civil rights of .Englishmen, and which had at last ' roused in the people that vindictive spirit which was ever ! the result of oppression, and prompted them to assail the Constitution of the realm. Within the last seven i years, the ordinary time for the lease of a house, t, the Government had attacked the Church—bad to ; tally revo l ut i on i se d the paroc hi al jur i sd i ct i ons of the i country, the most ancient and most intimately associated i with the mass of the community—had attacked the prin . eiple of the Trial by Jury—had destroyed Corporations— had attacked the ancient police of the country—( Laughter ' from the Ministerial benches)—had attacked the old local Administration of Justice—and had confiscated the ancient . patrimony of the people. What should create discontent, ; if tot such injustice as this? In former times, different i parties of the Aristocracy had put themselves at the I head of such insurrections, and given them the cha t meter of political movements.—(Hear, hear.) And per haps it was one of the peculiar features of the present disturbances that they did not display this characteristic, and yet were connected with a deep and wide-spread or ganization. Into the causes of this it was the province of that House to inquire. But one eeuld not shut one's eyes to the fact, that (be people were now only practising the lessens they had received from a certain party of the aris tocracy, who bad formerly taught them for their own poli tical purposes. The Noble Lord opposite (J. Russell), Cm was not only an historical student, but an eminent bistorian,—had traced the progress of the present sedition. It was not for him (Mr. D'lsraeli) to corn- Tsetse with the Noble Lord in framing the pedigree of sedition—(Cries of " Oh, oh I")—but he, for his p,srt, could not help tracing it far higher than Mr. Oast 1, a—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord described these sihturbances to the single efforts of that now celebrated p , - rsonage ; but forgot that there was an Act—the Reform Act—prior to the Poor-law ; forgot that in Birmingham, which had been least affected by the Poor-law agitation— there were formerly heard threats of 500,000 men rising in arms to assist in the deliberations of the Peers on the Reform Bill—( Hear, hear); forgot that the predecessor of the Noble Lord received addresses from crowds, headed with the tri-coloured flag.—(Hear, hear, hear.) It w. 14 admirable to see the hypocrisy with which to: n were frightened at threats of physical force from the poor Chartists of England —as if these were the first that bad appealed to physical force, as if threats of - physical force bad not, ere now, oft wafted into place and power successive Ministries, though now, forsooth, the resistance of physical force teas to be the band by which all the sections of the Liberal party were to be held toge ther, to support a Government owing its existence to ono who, when appealing to the petitions of 500,000 " fighting men," never, oe course, dreamt of appealing to physical force— oh, no—only to the moral, intellectual, force of the masses. —( Hear, hear.) Was it surprising that the people should now turn against the Government those arts and devices which that Government first taught them, when that House had not now such a hold on the affections e'' relit people as to be able to stem the torrent e—( Hear. ) I ens a remarkable fact, that this House, though the y 1,, eest popular assembly in Europe, was constantly nes/ sing " reverend antiquity," as Lord Bacon called it, aen invesmigating the foundations of every thing ancient, as I - his, too, in a nation which, above all things, admired and respected antiquity. The constitution was now re duced to a state of political paralysis. The utmost which could be said of it at present was, that it was a system weereby the Crown could do no wrong, anda Government lie right? Seeing then that, practically, anarchy had been ~.d iced, how could the Chartists be reproached. How ,r , o'd the Chartists be accused of advocating what was heeracticable when they could point to the state of our le h i eition ? No hope would be entertained for the country til: a cordial reconciliation had been effected between the p , ople aed their natural leaders. Now this would only be iee :esult of a strong Government. Whatever scheme the re , .lists might have of an agrarian republic—the middle re —es, of unionist monarchy—Whigs, of place, or Tories ‘.. e ; ,wer, the country wanted a Government.—( Hear, ; . h.) The present Ministry governed nobody. They . 1.. no administaation—for what did they administer—save s , nage ?—( Hear, hear.) This was the necessary result • 1 . - ~ir Whig principles—not of their personal qualities. , , oti-national party, opposed to the national institutions, only exist through excitement and agitation, and . - in as the people returned to their senses, an oli ,, . 1 : r my, supported by sedition, must be unpopular.—( Hear.) "I e was not a week that passed that there was not a .ntroduced that wounded the feelings and prejudices re ; o English people. He attached great importance to ;station now going on, because the people were with " leaders —it made it more fearful.—(" Question, •' ion.") There was great discontent amongst a section tilting to three or four millions of the people—they .lone nothing during the Session, and were about to e ; .ern, with the Colonies in rebellion, and our internal .-. was not secure. .;-. EWART agreed with the Hon. Member, that it ery desirable that there should be a strong Govern ,,, . , t, but he thought it could only be strong in the affec :see .of the people, an d that could only be dby good loess-sires. They had b een like soldiers , beating time hduring the 'Session — there had b een much motion, vlsut no progress. There was too much disagree meet amongst parties —a sort of mild enthusiasm Oh ,tie one hand, and high aristocratic notions on the other, e Itti the sound social reformers isolated in the middle. ' He trusted there would soon be an amalgamation of the parties, and a steady, onward progress of reform, which would at once quiet the country. He abj ure d a ll doc trines of violence, and he trusted the people would be contented with the resolutions of his Hon. Friend, and trust to the sound, well-thinking portion of the people. Sir H. VERNE Y urged the Government to provide for the religious instruction of the people as the best means of quieting the dissatisfaction. Mr. HUME did not think additional chapels and churches were wanted. The contest was between aris tocracy and democracy, and as the aristocracy had the making of the laws, they made them to relieve themselves The instruction the people aed to press upon the p oor. wanted was such as would enable them to profit by chapels and churches. The mitecrable sum of 30,0001. was voted after much discussion, by a majority of two only Ihr the purposes of education. The cause of the sitting discontent was, that the working classes were treatscl as slaves, by having no voice in the choice of re presentatives. If it was unreasonable to ask for relief, the n were these m en unreasona ble The people did not desi re to seize the property of the Country and divide it among themselves. The written dhclarations of the Chartists disproved this. They wished to go% the root of the evil by demanding extension of the Suffrage. The finality de claration of the Noble Lord had done more to produce the &Weent excitement than anythin% else. --- 51 r. W. O. STANLEY attributed the discontent to EW - those in The Itouse who out of the House pressed forward ultra rneasures, thereby deteating many useful and practi cal retorts. The Oev.se divided, when there appeared— For the resolutions 29 Against them Majority against the resolution - S The House then resolved itself into Committee. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the CHEQUER, 118,1521. was voted for tbe Supply of tile year 1858. 5,726,0001, for the Supply of the year 18V9. On the sum of 12,1t26050!. for Exchequer: Bills, in reply to a question from Mr. HUME, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated the Exchequer Bill account to have been In 1836 ....£30,028,655 1 8 31 ................... 26,700,000 1838 •• • • 2'6,273,000 1839 . . • 26,265,000 He would also take that opportunity of stating that, with regard the deficiency represented to have taken place in the Revenue, although there was a deficiency during the last two years, yet during the four years he had held office on the whole there had been a surplus. The income dur ing those four years amounted to 188,71 1 .6,0001., and the expenditure 187,376,0001,, so that during the whole four years there had been a surplus of 1,380,0001. After a short conversation the vote was agreed to. The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday next. On the motion of Mr. EW A Rl', returns were made of the number of executions which took place in England and Wales in the five years ending Dec. 31, 1833; and in the five years ending Dec. 31, 1838, together with the num ber of coMmitments in each of those periods respectively for of f ences which were capital at the commencement of the former period, vit., on the Ist of January, 1829. Also of the names and titles of all Bills, private as well as public, which, having passed the House of Commons in the pre. sent Session, have not been returned from the other House of Parliament ; also, of all Bills during the same period, which, having been returned from the other House of Parliament with alterations, have been afterwards dis sented from and dropped in the House of Commons. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half- palt Twelve. TIIE STORM OF WEDNESIDAY DESTRUCTIVE FIRES ny Tile LioirrstNo._At a late hour on Wednesday night the metropolis was visited by a most severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by hail and rain, which raged for some time, and occasioned very great devastation. The shower of bail was of almost unexampled density, and covered the ground in many places with solid ice. Shortly after the commencement of the storm a flre, supposed to have been caused by the electric fluid, broke out in a lucifer-match manufactory, in Bull-alley, Golden-lane, St. Luke's. Notwithstanding the torrents of hail and rain that were descending at the time, the conflagration raged with violence. The fire con tinued burning upwards of an hour, and the roof and upper part of the premises were wholly destroyed. About the same time another fire, supposed to be occasioned by the lightning, burst forth from some stables, situated near the Regent's Canal, near Lee, which were entirely burnt down before the engines arrived. On approaching the river after the storm, which lasted upwards of an hour, it ap peared very much swollen, and the current was exceedingly strong. OPENING OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND DEII8? JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Monday last the Direc tors of this Company, attended by a deputation from the London and Birmingham Railway, and a numerous body of visitors, left the terminus at Birmingham at twenty minutes past nine, in a special train, to view the works preparatory to the line being opened to the public for the conveyance of passengers and traffic. The junction of the two railways is effected a few yards below the Hampton station, and about 64 miles from Coventry. The buildings on the station, consisting of engine -house, carriage -sheds, &c., are now nearly completed. The line 39 miles in length, is principally laid on sleepers, and the engineering difficulties, with the exception of the Tam worth viaduct, most beautifully constructed, the bridges over the Thames and Trent, and the cutting immediately adjacent to Burton, may be said to be trivial. On the arrival of the company, and at the request of the Directors, they adjourned to the King's Head Inn, Derby, where they were regaled with an excellent collation ; after which the Chairman, Mr. Smith, proposed the following toasts in succession :—" The Queen," " Prosperity to the Bir mingham and Derby Railway," " The Healths of the Engineers to the line," all of which having been drunk and appropriately responded to, the company returned to Birmingham, apparently much gratified with the works and the proceedings of the day. THE NEW HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT.—The new Hackney Carriage Act, it appears, directs that there shall be a plate on each side of the carriage, and a ques tion has arisen whether the aide of the boot or driving box of a cab is to be considered the side of the carriage. Decisions pro and con have been given by different justices, the Queen-square Magistrates determining in the negative. Within the last fortnight, nearly a hundred cases have been brought forward at that office by Carter, a common informer, and the fine has usually been ss. As threats have been held out of bringing actions against the Magi strates in the event of their signing a distress warrant, Mr. Gregorie yesterday inflicted the highest penalty (100, in order, as he said, to induce the parties convicted to bring the matter before a higher Court. EXTRAORDINA.RYSUICIDE.—A few clays since at Marlborough, Henry Martin, a remarkably fine young man, a private in the Rifle Brigade, swallowed two ounces of arsenic. The deceased, it appeared, had mixed this large quantity of poison in a cup half filled with beer, and deliberately swallowed it. He afterwards rinsed the cup out with some more beer, and swallowed that also; and then continued to smoke his pipe and pass his joke as if nothing particular had occurred—remaining in the tap room until his usual hour of bed-time. He died about three on the following morning. An unrequited passion was the cause of this calamity. DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GEN TLEMAN.—Between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, the family of Henry Olevine, Esq., a gentleman re aiding at No. 'III, Mary -street, Mornington-place, Hamp stead-road, was thrown into a state of the deepest affliction by the discovery that Mr. Henry Olevine, jun , the eldest son, had terminated his existence by hanging himself. It appears that the deceased, who was in the twenty-first year of his age, was missing for several hours on Tuesday evening, but no particular notice was taken of it. About half-past ten o'clock one of the domestics entered his sleeping apart ment, when he discovered the young gentleman hanging from the foot of his bedstead by a silk handkerchief twisted round his neck in a curious manner, and tied in several knots, to prevent it slipping. A surgeon was promptly in attendance, but found that life had been ex tinct for between three or four hours ; no alteration in the conduct or appearance of the deceased had been noticed. The cause which has induced the dreadful act is at present inexplicable. OBSTRUCTION AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS. —George Moreland Crawford, Esq., barrister of the Temple, was on Wednesday held to bail by the Magistrates of Queen-square on a charge of having caused an obstruc tion at the entrance to the House of Peers on the previous evening. The complainant was Mr. Owen, high constable of Westminster, and the evidence was of the most conflict ing. character, The high coastalsle and two or three other persons swore that the defendant was one of a considerable number of persons who had collected round the entrance, causing great obstruction and annoyance to the Peers enterinc• The house, and that when requested to move on he had refused. On the other hand, the defendant and several most respectable gentlemen complained very strongly of the insulting and overbearing conduct of the high constable, and denied that there was the slightest obstruction. Bail was immediately put in and ulterior proceedings were spoken of. ARTIFICIAL IVORY.-Certain parties in this town have just obtained a patent for the making of a sub stance so nearly resembling ivory, and so applicable to all the purposes of that valuable material, that it is almost impossible to detect the difference. We have not our selves seen the mock ivory, but we are told that in one instance a working cutler had a quantity of scales given out to him, consisting partly of the fictitious compound, and partly of ivory, and tht he used them in hafting his knives, and returned his work without discovering the dif ference. We understand that an imitation tortoise-shell is prepared and in use, which, for some purposes, is little inferior to some varieties of the real article. It may be expected, therefore, that the quadruped and the reptile for which our artists have hitherto been indebted for the precious substances above named, will henceforth be "left alone in their glory," the former of his tusks, and the latter of his cuirass l—Sheffield Paper. PAUL WHITEHEAD AND HIS HEART.-- Among the most celebrated residents of Teddington were the Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Elizabeth ; Penn, the Quaker ; and Paul Whitehead, the poet. The last is buried in Teddington church, with the exception of his heart, which was removed to High Wycombe, and deposited in a mausoleum belonging to his patron, the Lord le Despencer. Paul bequeathed 501. for the urn which was to contain it. The ceremony of depositing it in the mausoleum was very curious. It was attended from the house by a military precession and a choir of vocalists. Dr. Arne composed a piece of music tor the occasion to the following poetry—we beg pardon, words— which were sung as the urn was deposited <. Prom From earth to heaven Paul Whitehead's soul is fled ! Refulgent glories beam about his head I His muse concording with resounding strings, Give angels' words to praise the King of Kings." The ceremony itself was sufficiently absurd ; but these lines were the topping absurdity of all.—Rambles among lie city of Cabulis inclosed o n th ree the c R A iv B er u s, L i . I .... Bettley's Miscellany. l i sides by a semicircle of low hills, along the top of which runs a weak wall. Thera is no opening towards the east, which is enclosed by a rampart, and here the principal road enters through a gate, after passing a bridge over the river. The Balla Hisaur, which stands on the part of the hill north of this entrance, is a kind of citadel, and contains the King's palace, in which arc several halls dis tinguished with the royal ornament of a guilded cupola. There is an upper citadel used as a state prison for Princes of the blood. . . . Though not an extensive city, it is compact and handsome. The abundance and arrange• ment of its bazars have been already a theme of praise to an European traveller. It is divided by the stream which bears its nam e , and is surrounded, particularly on th e north arid west, by numerous gardens and groves of fruit which trees. Th e most pl hich is s easing spot about it is the tomb of the Emperor B au b er, over the city, surrounded by beds of anernonies and ot h er flowers, and com man di ng a noble e ted pros o p n ec th t e top of ThetcA a ,n h i i t l - 1 it self, and the neighbom ingmeadows, fields watered by streams, interspersed en compassed by mountains, all c,,i with villages, and tr., and orchard's, The e ib ch ute to the grandeur and variety of the landscape. ' and scenery of Cabul have bee n celembsraotefatheh by manyclimate IPersian and Indian Writers. The be au t y and abundance of its ,1 :veers are proverbial, and its fruits are trans p orted to the remotest parts of India.—Mount Stewart phin. sttitu's Account qf Cebu!. THE SUN, LO MgtTING 0, - P THE tOlirN COUNCIL OF BIRMINGHAM. On Tuesday a numerous meeting of the Town Council was held in the Town-hall, for the purpose of considering the Bill now before Parliattient !lir the establihltig of aft efficient polite in the borough. Alderman GAMMON having been called to the and the minutes of the laittneeting haVing been confirmed. a copy of the Bill before Parliament was then read, upon Which the Town Clerk delivered an opinion relative to the Charter of Incorporation, after which he read the following letters, which ha had addressed to Lord John Russell : " My Lord,—Perceiving that your Lordship, on the suggestion of, Sir Robert Peel, proposi l s to appoint a Ooverrirnen't Commissioner to organize ana superintend the police for this borough, I earnestly entreat that the clauses relating to this matter may not be introduced to-morrow, but that a reasonable opportunity may be afforded for sum moning the Town Council to consider a subject which so materially affects their character and the interest of the town. " I am, my Lord, " Your Lordship's humble and obliged servant, " July 31, 1839. " W. REDFERN, Town Clerk. " To the Right liononrable Lord John Russell." "My Lord,-1 beg leave to acquaint your Lordship that a meeting of the Council of this borough will take place on Tuesday next, when the Birmingham Police Bill will form one of the subjects for their consideration, with many of the members. I find amongst them one strong feeling of indignation at the measure, as insulting and despotic—insulting to themselves personally as members of the Town Council, and despotic, as bending to that system of centralization which every good Englishman must bit terly abhor and abjure.--I am, my Lord, your Lordship's humble and obedient servant, " W. REDFERN, Town-clerk." Councillor WATSON then rose and fead a resolution, expressive of his feelings in reference to the insulting, un just, and obnoxious Bill they had just heard read. The Bill before the House of Commons in reference to that borough was without exception the most extraordinary proceeding on the part of Government, aided by Sir Ro bert Peel, he had ever known. It was the result of a most infamous compact, and founded upon the most slender case ever submitted to Parliament. After adverting to the Charter, and defending the several appointments made in the Magistracy, as also that of Mr. Edmonds to the Town Clerkship, Mr. Watson asked—lf it were not a fact that the institutions of this country were based rather upon republican than absolute principles ? Was not the office of constable, and nearly all the other offices, based upon popular principles; and did the present Government think that the people of England would submit to have their liberties thus frittered away—or rather, he would say, did they think the people would tamely submit to have their rights at once annihilated ?—( Loud ' cheers.) Whoever thought so would find them selves mistaken. What ! had they arrived at the point of degradation when they were tamely to submit to have an absolute local despot placed over them, with unlimited con trol over their liberties and their money ?—(" No, no.") He hoped, indeed he well knew, the town of Birmingham was not yet sufficiently degraded to submit to any such indig nity. There could be but one feeling rest ecting this Bill, and that was of abhorrence and disgust. The borough of Birmingham had been for years the most orderly in the country. They bad been proverbial for their love of order and moderation, and they would continue so if they had a government in ;power who would give any hope of relief. If their rulers had only held out any promise that they would do something for the people, or try to relieve their distress, nothing would have induced them to out rage the laws ; but they saw the Government despise all their remonstrances they saw them openly declare against all further improvement—and having lost all confidence in them, they became the prey of bad men. He hoped that Council would tell the Government tliat they considered the Police Bill before Parliament a gross insult to the town, and that they would resist it by all means in their power. He hoped they would take prompt and efficacious steps to prevent the town from ; .being de graded ; and, if after having done their best to prevent the indignity, they could not succeed, he hoped they would at once like men, who felt and knew their position in society, give orders to the Town-clerk at once to pack up the charter and send it back to Lord John Russell.—( Loud cheering.) Never were men more mistaken than her Majesty's Ministers, if they thought that the Council would become the mere puppets of any new despotism they might think of establishing in the kingdom. Mr. Alderman HARROLD, a Whig of the old school, and one of the most respectable merchants in Birmingham, seconded the resolution in a forcible speech. Mr. CULLER supported the petition, and laid bare the sophistry of Sir Robert Peel, with respect to the appoint. ments that had been made by that Council. The two fac tions were leagued together to destroy the liberties of the country. They wanted to establish an infamous system of police throughout the kingdom, to which the people would not submit. Councillor BLARLAND, in strong terms, denounced the Bill as a most arbitrary and tyrannical measure, and which he should resist to the last. It never should come into operation in Birmingham. It appeared to him that the Government were determined on withdrawing from thein selves every support in the country. Councillor MasoN viewed the question, not merely in a local point, but as a national question involving great na tional considerations. The Government seemed deter- mined to sacrifice the liberties of England ; but it was his opinion they would perish in the attempt. Alderman Sturge, Councillors Page, Jennings, Smith, Geacb, Hadley, Philips, and others, severally spoke against the Bill, as alike inconsistent with the liberties of Birming ham and of British freedom. The meeting broke up at half-past two o'clock. The council meet from day to day until the Police Bill is decided upon. The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Birmingham having refused to pay their share of the borough rates, on the alleged ground of the invalidity of the Charter. BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY. The Town Council again met this morning, pursuant to adjournment, when the Mayor announced that the second reading of the Birmingham Police Bill had been carried by a majority of 54. This announcement excited more indignation than surprise, the Council having fully expected such a result, and made up their minds to resist this dis graceful and most unconstitutional measure to the utmost of their power. In this determination there is no doubt they will be seconded by nine-tenths of the inhabitants of the town, amongst whom but one feeling of indignation and unmitigated hostility to the measure exists. After some preliminary business had been disposed of, Mr. Muntz, one of the borough Magistrates, resumed the discussion of the subject from the previous meetings, and in doing so, observed that they were certainly placed in a very awkward dilemma, and unfortunately by the very men who ought to have been the first to support them. The reason why they had applied for the Charter of Incorpora tion was, to relieve themselves from the taxation of irre sponsible bodies ; in this they were successful ; but now they were about to be subjected to a far more despotic power than that from which they had been relieved, for while the body of Street. Commis sioners was composed of men having an interest in the borough, they were now to be placed under the control of an individual who not only might be a perfect stranger to the town, but personally objectionable—an officer who would have the levying of rates to pay himself from 600/. to 1,000/. a year, besides 10,0001. or 12,000/. for the support of the police under his control. Mr. Muntz then proceeded to say that he should most certainly object to the measure, and bad as it was, it was not impro bable that some good might result from it. The Council would now feel what it was to have taxation without rerre sentation, and it would induce them to sympathise with those who were annually taxed to the greatest possible amount, without having any participation whatever in the representation of the country. It would cause a re-union between the middle and working classes, which would, he trusted prove in the end beneficial to the country. Indeed it was altogether incredible to him that any Government calling themselves Liberal should adopt a measure which a Tory Administration would never dare to have attempted. He had no doubt the Bill would pass. All the petitions they could send against it would not stop it; but acti ng upon the principl of a certain great man, he would put their enemies in the wrong, by moving the adoption of the petition which he held in his hand, and which was as follows: To the Honourable the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Town Council of the Borough of Birmingham, SHOWET}I, That a Bill is now pending before your Honourable House, entitled, " A Bill for improving the Police in Bir mingi►am." That the effect of this Bill, should it be passed into a law, will be to despoil your petitioners of their entire authority within the Borough fur the term of two years, and from thence until the end of the next Session of Par liament. That the ground alleged in the Preamble of the said Bill, for its introduction, is, that questions have been raised as to the powers of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough to levy a Rate, by their Council. That your petit.oners have reason to believe that these questions wdl be brought to an issue early in Michaelmas Term next, on an application to the Queen's Bench for a Mandamus against the Overseers of the Poor, requiring them to levy and pay over a Rate to your petitioners; a mode of proceeding suggested by the said Overseers, and assented to by your petitioners. Your petitioners, therefore, whilst protesting as strongly as ever against the principle of the sa id Bill, humbl y pray that, should your Honourable House persist in passing the same into a law, provision may be made therein, that, if the Charter under which your petitioners act, shall, at any time before the expiration of the term prescribed by the said Bill, be declared valid and effectual, your petitioners shall immediately resume, entire and nnimpaired, all the authority appertaining to them under her Majesty's gracious Charter of Incorporation ; and that the said Bill may thenceforth become utterly null and void. The petition having been seconded, Mr. STURGE said he was sorry to have to disagree with his friends, but he was convinced most thoroughly that the Council could not adopt a worse course.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that if they acted steadily, coolly, and firmly the present measure might do more for the cause of Re form than anything that had occurred for many years. If, however, they adopted the petition they would be consi dered as acquiescing in the principle of the Bill, however strongly they might protest against it, which, once passed into a law with their sanction, they would never see re pealed. This view of the question met the general approval of the Council who determined not to adopt a course which might bear even the appearance of compromise, on a mea • sure so insulting to themselves, and repugnant to every principle of constitutional liberty. The petition was then rejected. Mr. Alderman. STURGE then rose to bring forward the following, resolutions of which he had given notice :-Ist. That in the opinion of this Council the new police should be formed of men of known good character, who have for NDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1839 . . acme time pre4ionsly resided In the borough, and that they should never be armed with ani mortal weapon. 'J.& That an address be presented by this Council to the ge cretary of State for the Home Department, praying him forthwith to withdraw the London Police from the Bo rough of, .ilirmingham, Id. That a Committee of this Council moving ibe appointed to investigthe the tautie of the late riots, and that the result of such investigation ptiblished. in the ,Prst resUlution, Mr. Stange said he never brought forward a Moiioti of the stiuridnesss in principle as well as the policy of which he felt more convinced than the present one. He considered it inconsistent with Christianity to take away human life under any circumstances, but he could nut expect the Council, on that ground alone, to adopt the propositiGn before thOrn. When he voted for the establishment of a new police force in iiirthingharti, it was with the object that the property of the poor Might be protected as well as that of the rich, and not that they should be used for dispersing large assemblages of the people by physical force. They had already a standing army which, even in a time of peace, cost the country eight or ten millions per annum. To that or any other such force he objected, altogether on principle, and the only pretence for keeping up a standing army in time of peace, which cost the coun try several millions per annum, was that they should be used under circumstances where the civil force were found insufficient. We held it to be a matter of the utmost im portance that the police of a town should be composed of men of good moral character s who were known to the in habitants of all classes, as men in whom, under every circum stance, they could place reliance, and who would have the sympathy and sup ort in the execution of the duties of their olliCe. "Ihe members of that Council were placed there as the repreSeiitativee of the rate-payers, and the question which they were now called upon to de cide was whether the police should be armed with mortal weapons or not. On this depended much more than many thought; for in hitt opinion it involved the question whe ther the people of this country %retie itl be governed as ra tional beings or by brutal force.—(Cheers.) Most 01'. tainly he (Mr. Sturge) would rather in point of safety go at the head of an unarmed body to silence disturbances of the public peace, because there would be less hostility and resistance excited ; while, if they went armed in case of any collision, the probability was that the innocent would suffer instead of the guilty. He did, however, conceive, apart from all this, that they were come to that point when they must take their stand upon the question, whe ther they were to have a second armed force in the country or not. Upon this question depended the liberties of the people, and he would say, Woe to that Go vernment, be they whomsoever they might, who attempted to govern the people of England by physical force alone. —( Cheers.) He knew that some had thrown the blame of the violence that had recently occurred in their town on the Political Union formed in 1e:32. Now he (Mr. Sturge) was not ashamed to confess that he felt it to be his duty to unite on that occasion with his fellow-townsmen in an endeavour to carry the great measure which he hoped would ultimately have secured to the poorest man in the country every political privilege possessed by the rich ; and, however he might regret some things which had been done by members of that body, he would say that in the great principles upon which it was founded he could entirely unite. Take for instance the following : " To obey the laws of the land • and, where they cease to protect the rights, liberties, and interests of the commu nity, to endeavour to get them changed by just, legal, and peaceful means only."—" That the basis of this Union being a strict and dutiful obedience to the laws, any act or proceeding of any person or persons, which may not be in strict conformity with the laws, is altogether disowned, and rejected by this Union, and declared to be utterly void as to all persons, save such as personally and individually take part in such act or proceeding, and every such person is hereby declared to cease to be a member of this Union, and his expulsion is hereby declared accordingly." Mr. Sturge then proceeded to observe that it was these principles which then made this Union irresistible— ( Hear, hear)--and it was to a departure from th em that they had to attribute the present unhappy position in which they stood • and he thought it too bad that the whole of the working classes of Birmingham should be like a politi ca l involved in one indiscriminate censure, because a few in fatuated individuals had committed such disgraceful out rages. He confessed that he would sooner leave his struggle,country f b e t h ere involved was a i n n yp anything responsibility resting any where it was upon those who refused and not upon those who demanded justice for the people.— (Loud cheers.) He wished to take that opportunity of stating that some members of the Religious Society to which he belonged had thought it right to act as special constables but they had not carried. any arms, nor would they consent to go on duty with those who did. He confessed that he carried his opinion on this point further than many. Had he been called upon to act before the local police and military had been called out, he should cheerfully have done so; but now that both had been called out he could no longer act in that capacity until both were withdrawn from the town.—(Loud cheers.) He wished it to be publicly known that he could not allow his property to be defended by the use of any mortal weapons, and he would freely relinquish all he possessed rather than that the life of one human being should be sacrificed.—(Hear.) He thought it right that the Council should let it be known to the public that it never was their intention, in endeavouring to establish an efficient police for the borough, that that force should be an armed one ; they had already, as he had stated, a standing army, kept up at an expense of several millions per annum, and he trusted they would never submit to have a second armed force es tablished in the country.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. MIDDLEMORE seconded the motion. Mr. Alderman HARROLD objected to the motion on the ground that in the present state of society they could not dispense with the use of mortal weapons for the preserva tion of life and property. Mr. Alderman MtJNTZ considered that they were net then in a condition to discuss the question, as the Council was about to be deprived by the Bill before Parliament, of all power over the appointment of the police. If he thought any good would result at the present time from the adoption of the resolution, he would support it. Mr. STURGE replied that he thought good would result from their declaration going forth to the country. The motion was then put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. Mr. Alderman STURGE again rose and said that he had now a memorial to present relative to the withdrawal of the London police. In bringing it forward he wished dis tinctly to state that he did not intend to cast any reflection upon the persons in authority who had brought that body to Birmingham. Those gentlemen had done all in their power, and as they believed for the best, and hsd he been in their situation under the circumstances he might proba bly have acted as they had done. It was, however, a no vel experiment —they had seen the results, and he trusted they would gather wisdom from experience. He knew that it was easy for himself and others to find fault with Magistrates of the town, but they had had an arduous duty to perform, and he was quite willing to make every allow ance ; but at the same time they must see that the whole affair and its consequences had been turned against the corporation, and hence it was that he thought that the real state of the case ought to be made known.—(Hear,:bear.) He was free to confess that he felt most indignant at the way in which certain parties had attempted to revile them, and he thought it was their duty to make the public acquainted with the real facts of the case.—( Hear, hear, hear.) In the first place the Cor poration had nothing whatever to do with the introduction of the London police ; and secondly, the Magistrates could not be considered as selected by them.—(Hear, hear.) Lord John Russell, had struck three names out of the list recommended by the Council and substituted seven new ones. Amongst those gentlemen omitted by the ff, heeanse he madereu refused to m take certain the M Home Secretary in the Commission of the Pe a ce, C a ptain hi had beenm e, on struck representations a e t a i v r . e ) to r the . s t n C r g h e u Church concludedin by t Townmovin moving theou n cil . adop tion of the f o ll ow i ng memor i a l : " To the Ri g ht H onoura bl e t h e L or d s C omm i ss i oners o f her Majesty' s T reasury , t h e h um bl e M emor ial of the Town Coun c il o f th e b oroug h o f Birmingham. " That this C ounc il, w hil e g i v i ng f u ll credit to those who were i ns t rumenta l i n b r i ng i ng t h e L on d on P o li ce t o Birmingham f or b e i ng a ctuated solely by motives of hu manity, and by a d es i r e of preserving the peace and go o d order of the town without the interference of the milit ar y, and without in any degree condemning the P o li ce them selves as not having endeavoured to disch arge t h e d uty re quired of them to the best of their ability, are o f op i n i on they should be forthwith withdrawn fr om th e town f or t h e following reasons : " 1. That withholding any opinion as to the course the Police adopted, this Council assert, that until th e ir a r ri v al the people had abstained from any personal violence, not withstanding the inflammatory language which had been oath e r , ra quarters, i r s r, e e n s name, addressed to them. " 2. That immediately after the arrival of the Police the measures pursued to disperse the meeting in the Bull-ring produced such an exasperation of feeling as in the opinion of this Council to render their continued presence in this town not only useless but dangerous. " That this Council have come to this conclusion because when a comparatively small number of misguided people attacked the Police-office, where the whole of the Police were assembled, and also the houses of those who the people supposed had promoted the bringing this force into the town, the destruction of property and the burning of houses proceeded unchecked till the arrival of the military. " That it would, perhaps be impossible to give a more striking proof of the lamentable effect of their presence upon the feelings of the people than the fact that notwith standing the outrages which were committed took place by day-light, and in sight of hundreds of the inhabitants, who had hitherto been conspicuous for their orderly and peace able conduct, and for their obedience to the laws, not even the large reward which has been offered has yet produced the conviction of one of those who set fire to the buildings. "3. That the circumstance of the Police being now armed with mortal weapons exasperates the feelings of the people towards them to a still greater extent, and though hitherto the loss of human life has providentially being al most entirely prevented, yet in the opinion of this Council their remaining in the town increases the danger of fresh acts of violence when any contest between this force, as now armed, and th e p eo ple, must produce far more fatal consequences than any collision with the military. "4. That, therefore, this Council having been no party to the introduction, of this Police into the town, deeply lamenting the disastrous events which followed it, and dreading still more fearful consequences from their remain. ing, earnestly request their immediate withdrawal, as the best measure of personal safety to the Police themselves, and the only hope of restoring permanent tranquillity to the town." Mr. JENNINGS rose, to second the resolution, and re ferred to the gro ss an d scandalous manner in which the magistrates of the t ow n had been libelled by the Duk e of Wellington, and from what he knew of the character of the working men of th e t own , he felt convinced, so opp ose d were they to the distruction of property, that ninety-nine out of every one hundred would be ready to turn out for its protection. The MAYOR, before putting the resolution to the meet ing, said that as it referred to the withdrawal of the Lon don police, ar,ld as anme blamo r&qht oeem to attach to the Magistrates for having introduced them, he might state its a fact that on the evening of the 15th July, one hilt' of the London police were to have returned, and the remainder on the following day, so that were it not for the violence that had been committed, a single Londcn police man would not have been left in Bitinitigharn after that The Resolution was carried unanimously. 141 r. Sturm, in moving that a Committee of the Council be appointed to investigate the cause of the late riots, and that the results of such investigation should be published, said whether the inquiry promised by Lord John Russell took place or not, (and he had sufficient experience of the manner in which Parliamentary inquiries were conducted) he thought it was the duty of the Town Council, as the representatives of the rate-payers, to appoint a Committee to inquire into the facts, throwing the investigation open to the press, and report the result to the town. The resolution having been seconded was carried una nimously, when Mr. Stuige announced that he would name the Committee at the next meeting of the Council, as he presumed that one would be called on an early day. The Council then adjourned. EXTENSIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE VLOODg. (From the York Courant.) The rain was accompanied by a high and chill wind, blowing in sudden gusts from the north-east, and moan ing through the crevices of doors and windows, as though it were the middle of a bleak November. Much of the corn, particularly the strong wheat and barley, is so laid that it can never rise again, and it is probable that in many instances mildew will prevail. But it is along the lines of the rivers where the greatest damage will be sustained, the hay harvest being not wholly se cured, and several thot;iands of acres having been com- pletely laid under water. The Don l receiving its tributary, and swollen, and rapid streams, from the hills of Derbyshire, and the district embraced between Sheffield and Doncaster, began to rise on Tuesday morning, and continued to do so until Wednesday morning, spreading itself over the country to an immeasurable extent. Crimpsall, where some of the grass had not been cut, presented one un broken sheet of water, with light boats gliding upon its surface ; and the same aspect was observable over Newton and Bentley Ings, and the whole line of the left hank of the rivet to beyond Thorne. In Frenchgate, Doncaster, the water reached as far as the Brown Cow Inn, and several houses in Marshgate were completely flooded. The flood beyond the Mill Bridge on the Bentley side of the river, was higher by two feet than has ever been remembered, in consequence probably, of some embankment or obstruction in the vicinity. The water rushed over the new line of road to Selby with great rapidity ; and the mail horses dashed through the stream knee deep. One field of grass con taining eleven acres, which was cut on Tuesday,—the heaviest crop we, understand, in the neighbourhood, — the property of Mr. Thomas Ward, has been swum away by the flood. Mr. Ward, indeed, is a sufferer by this inundation, on the whole, to the amount of nearly 2001. But every occupier in the districts where the flood has reached has, more or less, sustained loss, especially in those cases where the crops of corn are embraced in the visitation. The greater degree of damage will pro bably be sustained in the district of the river from Don caster to Thorne. The embankment connected with the " Dun Floods Drainage" below Wheatley, the seat of Sir W. Bryan Cooke, Bart., burst in several places by the extraordinary pressure of the current. We also understand that Mr. Best, of Thorpe, as well as Mr. Nathan Workman, of Almholme, have each nearly five hundred acres of land of various descriptions of produce, including corn and hay crops, &c., under water. The loss must, in this instance, be very considerable. Mr. Burton, of Walt House, who had a considerable breadth of ground under an excellent and a superior state of cultivation, is a sufferer to the amount of 500/. Not only has the inundation been thus destructive to vegetable productions, but the animal creation has also felt its disastrous effects. Many a brood of young partridges, scarcely yet strong upon the wing, have been sacrificed ; and many a hare has lost its life. Several of these were observed swimming for their lives without any apparent point of security, and one was caught by a man of the name of " Hare !" The flood was at its highest point at twelve o'clock on Thursday. From that time, when the turn took place, it subsided very slowly ; and the general opinion was that the larger portion of water had already passed. In the course of the afternoon, a rather singular sight was presented near the Friar's Bridge, for even amid scenes of devastation, some sources of enjoyment are discovered and seized. A whale boat, which had been out on the broad waters of the Artic Regions, crossed Crimpsall, and proceeding with the flood, was steered to the landing place at the Bridge nearly as high as the Brown Cow. After the crew had refreshed them selves, they again pushed into the flood and proceeded on their fresh water way. 'At Rotherham, similar scenes to the above took place. The overflowing of the waters extended hi f way up Bridge-gate, and was in some parts several feet in depth. The turnpike-road from Rotherham to Atter cfiffe was almost impassable, and the coaches had to go by the way of Canklow. About one hundred tons of timber, the property of Messrs. Buxton, railway con tractors, was washed away from Iccless, and struck with great violence against the timber bridge over the Don, but by great exertion it was prevented from going fur ther, or doing more injury. The body of a woman was discovered near Kilnhurst, floating on the water ; it was in a decomposed state, and is thought to be the remains of a woman who drowned herself about three months ago, near the railway station, in consequence of some disagreement with her husband. The body of a man, we are also informed, was found in the neighbourhood. Towards evening the waters began to subside, and in the morning of Thursday, a more cheering aspect was presented, the state of the weather was mere favour able, and the flood in many places had disappeared. At past Retford, many hundred acres are under water ; and on Thursday morning, at eleven o'clock, the waters were still rising, and great fears were en tertained that if they should get six inches higher they would inevitably get into the Market-place, and conse quently into many of the shops. The newly enclosed ears present a very singular appearance, the whole being completely under water, in many places to the depth of four or five feet ; and we may safely assert that such a flood has not been experienced here since the memorable one of the llth of February, 1795. At Whitby, about one o'clock on Wednesday week, the fresh water from the becks above Whitby, came down the river with such fearful velocity, that it broke from their moorings a fishing yawl called the Spring, or Scarborough, belonging to Mr. James Wyrill, also a Dutch galliot, and a raft of timber be longing to Mr. George Vasey, of the value of 401., and part of the cargo of the Larpool, which is now being discharged for that gentleman. Fortunately, by great exertions, the whole of the latter were saved, but not before it readied the harbour mouth. The galliot was driven against the bridge ; and, fortunately for her, her mast was sufficiently strong to retard her progress, otherwise she must have been driven to sea, and, in all probability, would have become a wreck, and might have drowned the crew, as the sea was running very high at the time. All the crew, however, were saved ; but not so with the yawl Spring, which was taunted by the warp of the brig Larpool, and partly filled. She righted, however, but on reaching the bridge again capsized, close to the stern of the galliot, where an awful spectacle presented itself, by two of the crew being seen entangled in the yard and sails, and partly buried in the water. Assistance was soon called for, but such was the force of the fresh, that it became dangerous for any one approaching 'to save them. At length a coble, manned by a crew from Filey, reached the spot, and succeeded in rescuing one of the men, named Wash, whilst the other, after strug ling a while, sunk to rise no more—his name was John Ryall, of Haresbro', son of Mr. Ryall, publican, of that place. Robert Jenkinson of Filey, had a narrow escape with his life—being, in the generous attempt at saving the lives of his fellow men, thrown from his coble by the warp of the Larpool, but being an expert swim mer, he managed to reach the shore in a very fatigued state, being incumbered with sea boots and two heavy jackets. Sometimes he could be seen by the crowds who had by this time assembled, and sometimes the rapid eddies took him quite under water. The fresh con tinued to make the whole of the afternoon ; and, about five o'clock, a small schooner, coal laden, which was at anchor below the bridge, was sunk, and, in the course of the- evening, was dashed to pieces. The yawl also suffered the same fate ; but the galliot was saved with but little damage. It is anticipated that considerable damage has been done to the lands and property adjoin ing the river, by the overflowing of the becks, and there was but too evident signs of this at Whitby, for stumps of trees, rails, posts, and even trees themselves, were seen floating to sea ; as also quantities of hays and a fine young beast, which appeared to be about two years old. It is supposed that Mr. Beeforth has lost eleven sheep in the same way ; and, it is to be feared, that a few days will disclose a still greater loss of life and property. It commenced raininr , about three in the mo rn i ng , a t Whitby, an d continued throughout the day until nine in the evening, without any cessation. The flood came on very rapidly—and, in the course of half an hour, it had risen upwards of three perpendi cular feet in the harbour, although it was low water at the time. MR. DARWIN'S JOURNAL.—The lovers of natural history and geology will be glad to hear that Mr. Darwin (the Secretary of the Geological Society), who accompanied the expedition under the command of Cap tains King and Fitzroy, as Naturalist to the Beagle, in her voyage round the world, is about to publish his account of the geology and natural history of the various countries visited, in a separate volume. The Rev. Mr. Whewell, in his address to the Geological Society, it will be recol lected, pronounced Mr. Darwin's voyage round the world " one of the most important events for geology that has occurred for many years." A VORACIOUS DUCK.—Some time ago, Mr. John Auburn, of Lipwood Well, near Haydon Bridge, ost a gold seal from his watch chain. The identical seal was last week found deposited in the stomach of a duck lwhich had been tempted to swallow the glittering prize. THE CHARTISTS IN SHEFFIELD. " SACRED MONTH" ABANDONED. (Abridged from the Sheffield Mercury, of Tuesday last.) The Chartists of this town have had their nightly meetings regularly during the past week, and all has passed off quietly. Yesterday the adjourned meeting of the Chartists, to take ' into consideration the propriety of adopting the " Sacred Month," was held, and was numerously at tended. Mr. FODEN, in an energetic speech, moved " That this meeting views with abhorrence and unspeakable indignation, the unconstitutional and treasonable at tempts that are being continually made by the factions to subvert the last vestige of English liberty ; and also denounce the brutal and unjustifiable attack of the mur derous authorities upon the people, while pursuing their peaceful agitation ; and feels fully assured, that nothing less than the People's Charter can put a stop to this course of tyranny and oppression." I\lr. MASON seconded it. The Rev. J. THORNTON supported the resolution, animadverting in strong terms on the weak and vacil lating conduct of the Whigs. These imbeciles had added 37,000,0001. of funded debt to the old score. The Whigs boasted that they were for the Throne, the Altar, and the Cottage. So long as they continued to bask in the sunshine of its splendour, they would sup port it, but if the Throne was as it ought to be, they would shrink before its resplendent rays. He concluded his address by adverting in eloquent and glowing terms to the present condition of the Altar, and the poor man's cottage. Mr. Thornton cordially supported the resolution, and retired amidst the loud cheers of the multitude. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Birks) put the resolution, which was carried with acclamation. Mr. T. BRADWELL moved, and Mr. BOARDMAN seconded the following resolution :—" That while we believe that nothing less than an universal stand can get the Charter, we believe that this town and district are not as yet sufficiently organized for the adoption of the Sacred, Month,' but, nevertheless, we wait the decision of the General Convention, and pledge our selves to: adopt and carry out all measures, UNCONDI TIONALLY, recommended by them for securing the Peo ple's Charter." Mr. WOLSTENHOLME supported the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Three cheers were then given respectively for the Charter, Mr. Wolstenholme, and the Queen ; after which the meeting quietly separated at a quarter to ten o'clock. RUN ON THE SAVINGS' BANKS. In a second and third edition the Iris supplies the subjoined intelligence : TUESDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—In nothing does the alarm spread more rapid than with respect to money matters. This is just now being shown by an extraor dinar3" demand on the Savings' Banks. This useful institution In.;:e , yesterday, we understand, paid about 1,2001. to timid dep,:.Nsitors ; an amount something less will be required tcPday ; but notices have been given, we believe, for the withdrawal of 2,0001. more. We fear this consequence of Chartist agitation will prove deeply injurious to many persons who have by industry and economy become possessed of a little property. THE MAY-DAY GREEN MEETING. BARNSLEY, i i O'CLOCK, TUESDAY EVENING.—The town has been in a state of great excitement all the day, in anticipation of a collision between the " powers that be" and the people at the intended meeting for to night, adjourned from Tuesday night last. On Satur day, the Queen's proclamation against illegal meetings, applied by the Magistrates to the one in question, me naced fearfully from the walls those who would dare to meet for the advocacy of their rights. This step was emboldened by the arrival of the mili tary that morning at the barracks, newly fitted up for them at Mount Vernon. The people, on the other hand, showed a bold front, and at seven o'clock tilt May-day Green was filled by a multitude, computed at from 6,000 to 7,000. A placard had been issued by the Chartists to warn their followers that a new Peterloo was preparing for them, and that they were not to give their enemies such a triumph, consequently the meeting was concluded nearly as soon as begun. The Chairman, Rueben Jones, Wm. Clarke, from Ashton, and Win. Hickman, all recommended, in short addresses, the people to retire immediately, and meet on Sunday, in St. Mary's church, to occupy which they had a perfect right. With the exception of numerous companies of special constables, some patrolling the streets, and some fitting themselves for their night's duties in the public houses, the town is in perfect repose. Much bad feeling on both sides, and much fear gene rating mean suspicion of peaceful men suspected of li beral principles, are the consequences of these agitated movements. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS SPOKEN WITII. —The Hermon, of Baltimore Ist inst., lat. 50, lon. 14; Edgecombe, of Liverpool, lat. 50, lon. 13; John Heyes, London to Cape of Good Hope, 10th June, lat. 32 S., lon. 15 E. ; Margaret, Hamburg to Cape of Good Hope, 7th ult., lat. 10 N., lon. 27 W., by the Viscount Melbourne, arrived in the river ; Owen Glen dower, London to Calcutta, 27th June, lat. 28, lon. 20 W. ; Fairy Queen, of Glasgow, 28th, let. 1 S., lon. 20 ; Neptune, Ferris, London to New South Wales, 3d ult., lat. 8 N., lon. 23 ; Charles Hartley, Calcutta to Lon don, 18th, lat. 33 N., lon. 40 W. ; Maria, Amsterdam to Batavia, 3d inst., lat. 49, lon. 7, by the Zenobia, arrived off Hastings ; William Barras, Norrie, London to Port Adelaide, 28th ult., lat. 43, lon. 11 ; Charlotte, of and for Boston, 28th ult., lat. 49, lon. 10, by the George Wilsford, arrived at Weymouth ; Cumberland, of White. haven, 26th ult„ lat. 50, lon. 17, by the Amelia, Penton, arrived at Bristol; Terry, Hodgson, for Quebec, 2d ult., off Cape Hay, by the Derwent, Purdy, arrived in Slud wall Roads ; Elizabeth, Hamburg to Newfoundland, 22d ult., lat. 52, lon. 37, by the Brothers, Vealc, ar rived at Poole ; Kent, 29th Jan., off Oby Major, with 1,200 barrels, by the Orixa, arrived at Canton; Margaret, Clyde to Calcutta, 14th Feb., lat. 5 S., lon. 20 W. ; Clarinda, Bordeaux to Pondicherry, 22d March, lat. 38, lon. 17 W. ; Benese, Nantes to Sumatra, 25th March, lat. 38 S., lon. 34 E.; Richmond, Havre to New Orleans, 23d June, off St. Jago da Cuba. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of August 9.) SUGAR.—In the West India Sugar market there has been less activity this week, the demand has become limited for refining descriptions. Although the town as well as our country trade holds very small stocks of Sugar, still they are not inclined to take more than sufficient to supply their immediate wants; at public sale, 120 hhds. Barba does sold at previous rates ; fine brought 68s. to 695, good 67s to 68s, low middling to middling 65s 6d to 66s 6d per cwt. The stock has further decreased, and it is now 2,153 hhds and tierces less than at this period in 1838. This afternoon 110 hhds Barbadoes at public sale sold at rather lower prices, and went at 65s to 67s 6d for mid to good quality, GO casks washed and shifted sold at 64s to 66s 6d. There was only a limited demand privately, the p . urchases amounting to only 550 hhds and tierces, but in prices there is no further change; the total sales for the week are 2,100 hhds and tierces. MAURITIUS.—There bas been less demand for grocery as well as for refining qualities, and prices gave way 6d per cwt at the public sales, which have consisted of 12,600 bags, which went off heavily, the whole however was dis posed off at and after the sales; low middling brown went at 603, middling to fine 61s to 62s 6d, low yellow 63s to 63s 6d, middling 64s to 645 6d, good 65s 6d to 66d, and fine strong greyish yellow 66s 6d to 67s per cwt. The stock exceeds that of last year by 18,400 bags ; the importation has been on a par with that of last year; one vessel has arrived since this day week. EAST INDIA.—The grocers have purchased less freely of Bengal by private contract, and 840 bags at public sale were only partially disposed of at prices barely so good as those of this day week ; good white went at 67s to 67s 6d, low middling to 65s to 65s 6d, and damps and washed at 64s to 66s 6d : the stock exceeds that of last year by 25,000 bags. In Manilla there has been little passing by private con tract, the attention of buyers being directed to the large auc tions declared for next week ; prices, however, remain firm, and 1,464 bags at public sale were disposed of; low mid yellow at 215 6d to 225, low soft brown 19s to 193 6d, and damps and damaged 17s 6d to 21s 6d per cwt. This after noon Bengal was in better demand by the home trade ; and 3,190 bags at public sale sold at fully former rates, fine white fetched 683 to 695, good 67s to 67s 6d, good middling 66s to 66s 6d, middling rather dingy 65s 6d, damps 65s to 66s 6d, and washed 65s to 65s 6d per cwt. RUM, BRANDY, AND HoLLANDs.—Rum is held for former rates, but there has been only a limited demand for Jamaica as well as Leewards for shipping, and the home trade have bought sparingly; Id per gallon under former rates has been offered for several parcels of Jamaica 30 per cent. over proof, but refused ; 100 puns have been sold at 6s 4d for 35 to 37 por cent. over proof, and 100 puns 30 to 34 over at 6s to Gs 3d; of Leewards 150 puns have been sold, proofs to 3 over at 3s 7d to 3s Bd, 4 to 8 over 3s 9d to 3s 10d, 12 to 14 over 4s to 4s 2d, 16 to 18 over 4s 3d to 4s 4d. Brandy is not cheaper, but the purchases have been limited. Geneva has been taken sparingly, but former rates prevail. COFFEE.—West India of clean quality has brought rather higher prices, but the demand has been restri c t e d by private contract, for unclean sorts there are, however, still few buyers, and 90 barrels at auction were taken in above previous prices, viz., fine fine ordinary Trinidad at 105 s to 110 s ; Brazil, at is 6d to 2s advance, ordinary to good ordinary fetching 51s to 56s 6d, the bulk was sold at 53s 5d to 54s 6d ; besides which 2,100 bags at public sale principally found buyers, and fetched 56s to 56s 6d for fine, and 493 6d for good ordinary ; a part has been taken on speculation. Java, at a further advance of is 6d, gcod ordinary pale has fetched 843 to 853; Batavia, at 73 3 6d to 79s 6d for ordinary to good ordinary • Ceylon has advanced to 103 s for good ordinary-- . at auction 170 bags sold at 107 s for An,etne ordinary coloury, aria good ordinary at 103 s 6d. COCOA.—In West India form er rates h ave not b een sup ported by is per cwt: 19 - 2 pkgs Grenada and 156 pkgs Trinidad at auction ;hav' been offered, a part only of which was sold—the former at 453 6d to 48s for good red, and the latter at 493 to 53s 6d for ordinary to fair, and 56s for good red. TALLOW.—First quality on the-spot at 51s 9d to Ns. New Tallow deliverable in the last three months at 48s 6d to 493, South American Tallow .at from. 433 to 51s pr cwt for low to fine quality. TEA, —The public sales, which commenced on Mou- day , have been well attended by the trade. The prices paid are as follows:—Souchong, mid stron' o u r 4s 3d, mid blackish leaf and little on Souchong fla" 2s 3id a 2s sd, mid rather strong is I lid a 25., but mid rather fresh is lid, but mid old and odd leaf Is 2 d a is 71d, heated Is lid; Hyson, fine, 4s 6d, but mid and m id 3s 9d a 3s 10d, but mid 2s Bd 3 to La 9d, mid rather course 2s 61d ; Young Hyson, but mid little burnt 2s lid; Twankay, but mid rather strong is B}d; brightish leaf Is Bid a is 9d; good ord is 10d ,• Orange Pekoe, mid rather fresh and rather scented 2s 4, 1 ,d a 2s 5d,, rather coarse scen ted 2s 8d a 2s 81-d ; Congou, but mid rather strong old little Pekoe flavour 2s 2d a 2s 2-1-d, but mid blackish leaf little Souchong flavour 2s Id a 2s 14d, preferable to but mid rather strong little black leaf and Hung Muey kin d is 10 1 d a 2s Id, but mid rather strong and rather old is 9d a Is S i d, but riir'd. blackish leaf rather burnt is 8d a Is 81d, but mid rath er coarse burnt blackish leaf is 7d a is 7-Id, but mid rather fresh and rather coarse mixed leaf is 6cl a is 61d, but mid coarse and new is 4id a is 51d Gunpowder, common , 35, hut mid rather fresh and little burnt 3s 8d a 3s 10d. better' 6d ; Imperial mid rather coarse 2s 8d a 2s 10d, COra er Bert 2s 2d ; Orange Pekoe, but mid 'coarse burnt and rath 101 d a 1 ; Caper, but mid is 42d ais 7 1 d ; Caper Souchong, but mid and mid rather burnt is 7d per lb. The auctions concluded this afternoon ; out of 59,81 pkgs put up, 25,300 pkgs have been actually sold. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEIs. Wheat. flarle Oats. _ .. s 40 38 .... - 29 22 _ .- 4r ---' ... - 96 ES-- - -- 42 ...- 4 4 56 , EVEN IN , 4 EDITION. Bea s. e 3. to s 38 42 Per Quarter. Abingdon.-- Andover. -- iiirmingbam Bridport--- Cirencester Faringdon Guildford Henley -- Hereford-- Highworth Maidenhead— Monmouth ... Reading--, Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury... Uxbridge Wantage -- Warminster.. Windsor --- Worcester,~.., S. to S. IS. to s. to s 74 80 36 i 9 27 32 68 74 27 29 63 80 30 40 16 2'2 73 80 I :,‘! 36 26 3 0 C 5 16 9 - 36 53 29 63 80 2(1 30 20 30 (18 RO 28 35 20 30 72 74 26 32 23 26 63 80 26 32 22 0 9 6t 70 32 42 28 34 63 81 35 40 25 32 61 74 32 34 22 29 C 2 1.2 37 11 25 32 58 77 j 36 39 26 33 65 75 33 40 28 32 (13 74 28 36 t 2O 24 81 —j3s 22 32 70 74 28 32 17 28 62 70 30 39 22 28 56 77 36 42 28 30 76 21 22 65 70 32 36 30 32 PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. for the Loaf, Good Bread may be had at ENd„ PRICES OF SEEDS.—JuIy 29. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English Red Clover...7os. 20s. St. Foin 4 0 Old Ditto Ditto —s. — a. — s. Rye Grass 2t5 . . —.4 ° 3 ' i 4. t New Foreign Ditto ...60s. 70s. 80s. nicey Grass —s 40 Old Ditto Ditto s s. —5. Linseed, for feeding 930 New White Clover sos. 60s. 705. Ditto, for sewing ...... -- 5 . Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. --s. Ditto, for crushing...—s. 421.• . "" New Trefoil l7s. 20s. 245. Canary 905 405 Old Ditto s 12s. 2 0 s Hemp —s. Trefolium Q. s, Per Bushel. b English Carraway —s. 48s. 525. White Mustard...los. 04. 17° (ij• Foreign Ditto —s. 465. 50s. Brown Ditto l7s. Ocl. 2 5 ; 9.1 Coriander —s 20s. 255. Tares ss, 31 r 3 ll, Rapeseed, Engin h fine (per Last) 321.34/. Foreign 28 PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS - York Reds (from vessel) Si. Os. to 51 per too. Scotch Reds ditto 2l. Os. to 31. Os. date PRICES OF LEATHER, LEADENHALL H A gto Crop Hides 3 0 to 401 b. each, Ild to 13,}d per lb ; ' lO 4 501 b 12d to 16d ; 50 to 601 b 13d to 18d; Bull Hides, d to to 13d ; Vitriol Butts, 17d to 19d ; English gutts, to 24d ; Foreign Butts, 14d to 18d ; Foreign Hides, 1 % to 12d; Dressing Hides, lid to 14d ; Ditto Shaved, 1 „, 3 .5p0 17d; Best Saddlers' Hides, 15d to Mid; English ri ( : ) , 3; Hides, lld to 15d ; German Horse Hides, 12d to 2 _ c i, Spanish Horse Hides, 13d to 24d; Calf Skins (if routla4o 2d to 4d per lb more), 30 to 401 b per doz. 15d to 22d to 501 b, IBd to 24d; 50 to 601 b, 21d to 28d; 70 to lu' d to 18 to 22d; Seal Skins large, Ild to 15d ; small, 20 d to 22d ; Kips, 16d to 20d ; Basils, 6d to (Id ; Bellies, ' 90; Shoulders, 9d to 12d. A. 46 48 COAL MARKET.—Aug. 9 s. 6 Adair's Bell, Robson & Co. Hartley 18 Clark and Co.'s Hartley lB 0 Carr's Hartley 2O 0 Holywell Main 2O 6 Leaze's Main l7 6 Original Windsor's Pontop 20 0 South Hartley l9 6 Tanfield Moor 22 9 West Tanfield l5 0 Wylam. Walls end Heaton Walls End Killhigworth ... 21 0 Walls End Northumberland 21 0 Walls End Percy Bensham 2O 9 ,"'ails End Riddell's W a ll s r,ndßraddyll'sHetton 23 0 Walls End . l a , vrell Walls End Het,i,Zm Walls End Lambtot; 23 0 Ships arriv-gd since I 1 Walls End Russell's 11- ,v -On '42 • 5 „ Walls End Stewart's ..... 9 1 Walls End Whltwell ....... m , * Walls End Hartlepool ........ Walls End Adehicle .... ..... Walls End Barrett ............ 9 9 Walls End Barrington Tees_ I t 5 Walls End Clarence HettT; 1 1 5 Walls End Nevin's Ta nfiela , 7 0 W. E.Richardson , s Hartle,' ql 6 Walls End Seymour Taos... ti 6 Walls End South Durh.aul.•. s 3 6 Walls End 'Pennant '.. :. ".. 21 9 Walls End West Hatton ..• _ Blythe . ........................... • ;, Cowpen ..................... i s I/ Elsicar... ........................ ... A.' 20 ° Hartley .... ................... : . 9 m Howard's Netherton Na Cast market-day 59. A CAUTION TO LADIEg.—The thieves u. - se . metropolis seem to I,,se nothing of their audacity; lur times even in the presence of the police guardians of streets the gangs of ruffians who infest our public roughfares have recently adopted a mode of robb.lutit ladies which it is thought, from the number of compilbe must have frequently been practised with impunitY• or miscreants watch ladies getting into coaches, cabs,ito, flies ; the gang, which is generally composed of Yel!,' is often smartly dressed, suddenly rush forward, as " of sport, and snatch a shawl, handkerchief, veil, retictile'the watch, which is passed out of view in a moment, Old L i e thieves immediately disappear, although a police colistau may be within ten yards of the spot. Even when 10 vehicle, driving along the public streets, ladies arc 11°' safe from the attacks of those trained ruffians, who or proach the cab or other vehicle, and, should th e g lasSO be down, one or more of these fellows thrust an arm if two into the window openings, and snatch a veil or h aat ' kerchief, and get away before an alarm can be gi ver ; On Wednesday, in Oxford-street, three smart lads a t .: tempted to rob two ladies in a horse-fly by thrusting t b iy hands into the windows to snatch away the ladies' ve t 1 but the latter being well fastened to their bo nnets, , thieves only damaged them a little, but were linable to secure them ; yot the fellows retired but a short distanc e try other chances. ne - MAIDSTONE HOPS.—There is great imp .4 ment visible in the hop grounds of the parishes areiro Maidstone, resulting from the fine weather of the last Je d days, and although in many places the bines have suffeto, much from the high winds, the vermin still o ppress th, o and spots of mould are visible ; upon the whole they '",.. rallied (particularly under the hills) in a way wh ich f in fleets great credit on our planters as high cultivators- 0, some grounds in the Weald district the estimated imP r°l „ , ment within the last week is a bag an acre. If the P er"), sent fine weather continues, without wind, there, is c h l ig r is prospect of a crop. In August, five years sm • ce, a wind destroyed one-fifth of the crop. Everybody sP g 0 - l e i d in the fact that the bines are exceedingly backward, consequently more liable to casualties. din o BLIND ANGLER.—There is at presen t resi e d near Milnthorpe, in this county, an old man ea - es , Williamson, who has been completely blind for some t e- t he This veteran may be seen almost daily fishing Wit' WA s artificial fly at the river Beela, and on Tuesday We e " noticed by several persons landing a fish in beautiful t "e el a t, which proved to be a trout weighing about 21b.--- nzoreland Gazette. tl O THE TOURNAMENT.—The Earl of Eg- -t °4 has taken his departure for Eglintoun Castle, to supe rl T - 0 0 the preparations now in progress for the tournam en " co a e the 28th instant. Two galleries are lo be erected , in accommodate a thousand, and the other two thouseeuvarl dividuals. In the former will be the friends of the '',l*/ and the Knights, and the latter will be devoted to t .,1 1 ; 0 1 sons who make application for tickets for seats, th e et , of Eglintoun having desired Messrs. Pratt, of Bond -str "of to grant admissions gratuitously to applicants desirous to being present. The lists are situate in the park, tree a mile and a half from the Castle. During the ,' days' tilting the procession leaves the Castle abou t dies, for the lists; the whole of the Knights, Esquires, b a i.r "' u l os : Pages, &c., being equipped in appropriate costume. terday we had an opportunity of seeing the greater Por of the splendid dresses to be worn on the occasion, all which are gorgeously superb. A 46 RESPECTABLE" MALE S HOP LIFTEI A young man of " respectable appearance," Dallied Charles Holder, was yesterday charged before the L's . . o Mayor with stealing a scarf from the shop of a hosier the Poultry. The prisoner did not deny the charge, h at said he was drunk. He was remanded till Saturday or parently with a view to the production of evidence as t° his previous character. LADIES' GOLD WATCHES:A, . A variety of excellent and carefully finished Ladies' Sen°'.T hand Gold Watches, many of them in accordance With • latest taste, with Gold Dials, Jewelled, &c., are offered for Seler tion, price from Six to Eight Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Lon Watchmaker, Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, ( Seven Doers from Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange 0 7 ' SUPERIOR SILVER WATC LONDON MADE. Cor P '• A.. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. a hill, London (opposite the Bank of England), submit for 6 th e tion a very large STOCK of SILVER WATCHE S '' whole of which are made and finished under the careful il s ch tion of experienced workmen on their own premises, and warranted for correct performance. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-backed 4 engine -turned cases, warranted X 4 Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with seconds' hand, 0 and double-backed cases, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in four holes, with secon d s ' h an d , • an d d ou bl e - g 0 backed ca ses , warranted 6 Either of the above in silver hunEng cases, 10s. 6d. A large variety of second-hand Silver Watches, whin IP been carefully examined, and can be warranted at . A.• each. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange B IRTHE. cs ,ftolk' On the 7th inst., at Grove-house, Little Bealings, '— the lady of Alexander Colvin, Esq., of a daughter. Vi r • On the 7th inst., at Sloane-street, the lady of Captain Hatnilton Halford, Bengal Army, of a daughter. ti v ten On the 7th inst., in Foley-place, the lady of John l'ai Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., at Wilmington-heath, Kent, the lady John Hayward, Esq., of a son. ----------' MARRIED. de gt On the 6th inst., at Kensington, M ary Elizabethl a el w i er daughter of Harrison G. Codd, Esq., to Alfred W " D.C.L., of Trinity College, Oxford. 0 , rd ieb a On the 6th inst, at St. Mary's Chapel, Glasgow,..." flin all , daughter of Thomas Stenhouse, Esq., of Cross-ri'" Hilh'ouse, Esq., of Finsbury - place , to Christian r., e l pear Glasgow. . . London: Printed and Published by MURDO Yq L nd, ja No. 112, Strand, at The S un Office, No. 112. Str tIA: county of Middlesea.— L . , Satur, , A uguit 1 0 , a; 43 53 _ 46 3 7 42 3 40 s.s) 46 0 5 0 42 26 46 4) 46 - 35 • DIED. _ • to wo , On.the 2d inst., at Great College,street; Camt Charles,-eldest son of Mr. Ch ar l es Th omas Oli ver , age' arti3l' On " the 3d inst., at N ewman - street, Mr. J . P as torlo aged V. • On the 6th inst., in Greek -street, Mr. Scipio Clint, Int' and seal engfaver to his late Majesty, aged 34. e ll ' On the Bth inst., at C a Mb erwe ll, H anna h Eli z abethSl itirt eldest dgughter of Charles Spurrell, aged 24.