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i ments of the parties were so well stated in these written 1 papers that the Learned Counsel at the bar said they would ) not waste the time of the Court by saying anything. To alt appearance, therefore, the case would have :seemed to . 1 go off with a few words; whereas the Judges had, in 1 reality, all this enormous mass of argument to read through i at home, and he was quite sure that read through it was, with attention and care, such as the importance of the case 1 and the responsibility of their office demanded.—( Hear, hear, hear.) And he knew that the duties of the Learned Judges were often so onerous as to compel them to tres pass considerably upon their vacations. A return, he was I aware, had been ordered by that House of the number of . 1 days during which the Courts of Scotland had sat. That I return would, he was persuaded, present a very false plc i ture—( Hear, hear)—but if, in addition to that, a return ' were ordered of the number and length of the documents read through by the Judges in the course of the year, the result would be far different. L had been said that there were some secret, unavowed reasons for pressing this Bill. He (the Lord Advocate) knew of none except such as ex isted in the jealousies of some Hon. Members. Of this he was quite sure, that the promoters of the Bill would at any time be perfectly ready to defend it.--( Hear, hear.) With reference to the attack which had been made upon Lord 1 Jeffrey, he (the Lord Advocate) knew that when his Noble and Learned Friend left his profession, he was at the head of it--that his labours in that house had greatly impaired his health ; that he was himself unwilling to go to the Bench, though, anxious that the country should not lose his services, he reluctantly yielded to the solicitations that pressed him to accept the judicial office, of which he was now so great an ornament.—( Hear, hear.) It could not be questioned that the emoluments of the judicial office in Scotland were not such as to tempt those practitioners at the Bar who were at the head of their profession.—( Hear, hear.) And if ever there was an office on which a fair *id just liberality might legitimately be exercised, it most i assuredly was the judicial.—( Hear, hear.) Much had been said as to the alleged extravagance of the retiring allowances fixed by this Bill. It bad been objected that Judges were allowed to retire upon full salary. And this had been stated as if a Judge might be appointed to morrow to the bench, occupy the station for a few weeks, and then retire on full salary. Now the provision was, that a Judge seventy years of age, after fifteen years' service, might retire on full salary. Was it not important to the public interests that a Judge arrived at such an age, and after such a service, should be relieved from the painful neces sity of balancing in his own mind the propriety of remain ing in an office the duties of which he could no longer efficiently discharge—or, by retiring, relinquish the possi bility of earning a few more hundreds a year for his family? —( Hear, hear.) Surely there was in such a provision no great danger of extravagance in the distribution of public funds ?—nor in the provision that a Judge afflicted with some permanent disabling disease might also retire on fug allowance ?—( Hear, hear.) Under all these circumstances he trusted the majority of the House would sanction the Bill.—( Hear.) Mr. WALLA CE said be conceived that he was one of the " triumvirate" of opponents to this Bill it ho had been alluded to.—(A laugh.) Certainly he had always been opposed to granting the public money when be was quite convinced it was not required.—( Hear, hear.) He agreed in characterising the Bill as about the most nefarious job ever seen in that flouse.—( Hear, hear.) He begged leave to correct the Lord Advocate as to the Judges' re. tiring allowances, with regard to which the Learned Lord was quite mistaken—(Hear, hear)—as he would see if he did but read the 13th clause, which " enacted that a Judge Of the Court of Session, who shall have attained the age of 70, and shall have acted as such for a. period of 15 years, or if any Judge of the said Court shall be afflicted with any permanent infirmity incapacitating him from the 1 discharge of his duty, such Judge, in the event o f hi s re signation, shall receive the full retiring allowance."— ( Hear, hear.) There had not been in all that had been said by the Learned Lord Advocate, or by the half learned Member for Caithness (Sir George Sinclair) any thing new, except indeed those facetious outbreaks in which the Hon. Baronet had indulged, and which he (Mr. Wal lace) did not think it necessary to notice. The salaries of the Judges were about to be raised by this Bill. What for ? How was their time occupied? He was not to be deterred by any pleasantries from pursuing this inquiry as to time, which, after all, he considered a main point to be kept in view.—( Hear, hear, hear.) And it should be borne in mind that these Judges did not sit more than five months in the year, or more than two hours in the day. And those voluminous pleadings— i those lengthy documents—which had been alluded to as in I justification, were in fact what was complained of.—( Hear, hear.) No personal imputations were cast upon the Judges --though it was always the trick of the Lord Advocate of the day to speak as if it were a question of the Judge's per sonal character.—( Hear, hear.) With all respect for the I Judges, he ( Mr. W.) attacked the system_( Hear)—and he detested and despised the system of the Court of Session —the people of his country agreed with him, in respect ing their Judges—but abhorring the system—( Hear, hear)—for which they had good reason, seeing the expense and delay attending upon the proceedings in this Court. The Judges had two long vacations in the year—one of four months, the other of two; and on the 12.11 July they would disperse through the country, and none of them be in Edinburgh before the 12th November. --( Hear, hear.) Why, if a Judge only devoted half his time to the duties of his office, it might justly be said that his salary was at a double rate of that which he received ; a Judge, who sat only five months in the year, and received 2,0001. a year, did vir tually receive at the rate of 4,000/. a year.—( Hear, hear.) I In Eagland and Ireland the Judges sat ten months in the year. This was his (Mr. Wallace's) argument for reducing the number of the Judges—that their time might be as fully occupied as that of the others. Those innumerable piles of printed documents which had been spoken of were caused by the rules that these Judges them selves framed. It was not the law, but Judges made law ; and he believed sincerely that they kept up the system, because they saw it was impossible other wise to retain their situations. fie had often before de clared this, and he now repeated it before a new Lord Advocate.—( A laugh.) It was said that tome. new duties were thrown upon; the Judges, but this would not impose upon them the necessity of sitting any longer than they did at present. Then it should be remembered that the number of causes was yearly decreasing, had been so for the last ten years, and would doubtless continue so decreasing.—( Hear, hear.) He had moved for an J enquiry into the subject ; he was not at all surprised that Dr. Lushington, and other Judges, should bare declared their opinions that Judges could not be too highly paid— ( A laugh)—it was all in their own way ; every other body would have done the same ; members of the same profession would alwa!3 " hark together," as sportsmen would say— " on the same scent,"—when that " scent" might put anything into their pockets.—( Loud laughter.) Another reason why the present system was agreeable to lawyers was, that on the 12th of March the Scotch lawyers came to the House of Lords upon appeals, and it was notorious that there were twice the number of appeals from Scotland to the House of Lords than there were from all other pelts of the United Kingdom. He conceived the title of the Bill ought to be as follows :—" A Bill to regu late the duties to be perforieed by the Judges of the Su preme Court of Scotland so as to increase their present state of ease and comfort, by adding largely to their salaries without adding at all to their judicial duties, or diminishing the delays, t 1 penses, and ea d less vexatious created by the breaking up of the Courts during long vacations." He wcu!il, after the close of the Ses sion, appeal to ti.e people cf Edinburgh and the Chartists, whether this was not the true character of the Bill.—(A laugh ) .He was sure he would have a show of hands in his favour. For these reasons he should support the amendment of his Hon. Frig nd. 4 The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would delay the blouse for a very few minutes. Nothing new could be urged on this subject, because all the old objections were answered byall the old arguments in favour of it, and yr hich had always proved satisfactory and successful.—( Hear, bear, hear.) The klon. Member for Greenock had said he venerated and respected the Judges, and }et he stated they upheld the present system, for the purpose of their own private and pecuniary benefit.—(Hear, hear.) He (the Attorney-Gmeral) believed that if the Hon. Mem ber put forth such sentiments even to the Chartists, that the Chartists would hiss and hoot him, and hold his senti ments up to execration.—( Elear, hea:.) It was not right that such language should be made use of in the House of Commons. Personally he had no interest in this question —he would not aspire to a seat on the Scotch Beach, but as a Scotch representative he would pronounce his clear and decided opinion to be, that the Bill was a fair, just, expedient, and politic measure. It had been said the measure was unpopular. He had received no such representations from Scotland as had been referred to, and he was not afraid to meet the Hon. Member before his constituents respecting the merits of this Bill, but if it were ever so unpopular he shoul I feel it to b© his duty to uphold it.—( Hear, hear.) Neither of the triumvirate had said that .3001. a-year were excessive. Mr. HUME—We hate all said so.---( Hear, hear.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had not so under stood. He denied the number of the Judges was ex ceefAe. They had greatly reduced their number already. The population and wealth of the country were increasing, and the judicial business was increasing in the same ratio. There was no ground for saying their number should be reduced, or that they were not sufficiently occupied.— ( Hear, hear.) A. contrast had been drawn between the Scotch and the English Judges. Why, the English Judges were worked too hard.___( Hear , hear, and a laugh.) And it would be indispe nsa bl y judicial strength in England. sar T n h e a c t es wa y to t he increase opinio the opinion he entertained, and he would have nodifficu s lty in expressing in that House, or elsewhere ;because by the present system, they were delaying justice, and violating Magna Charta by the economy, as it w as called , of withholding reasonable compensation for such ad ditional judicial strength as was wanted. In England there were nov' only the same number of Judges Edward 111. This Bill had his full consent and reign of n approb a tion, and he believed it would give satisfaction to th e people of Scotland.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. OS WA LD—The Learned Attorney- General had stated this measure would not be unpopular in Scotland. He (Mr. Oswald) believed that any increase in the sala. ries of the Judges at the present moment would be unpo pular with nine-tenths of the people of Scotland. Near, bear, hear.) Why the Supreme Court of Scotland was a Court which nobody went to that could possibly help it, it was not for him to explain. There was a great want of confidence in that Court, why he could not tell; but it never would have the confidence of the people unless some alteration took place, of which he did not pretend to be a judge. He did not believe that dislike attached to the personal character of the Judges, but there was something about the Court, or in the opinion of the public with regard to it, that he would venture to say there w as not anot h er C ourt i n t h e country t h at h a d so little confidence placed in it. Therefore, the Learned Attorney-General was in error, when he believed the mea sure would b e a popular one in Scotland.—( Hear, hear.) Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when the House divided. The numbers were— For the third reading Against it .................... 21 Majority...... , . .......... —3O On our re-admission to the gallery, the Bill having been read a third time, we found Mr. WALL ACE on his legs, moving the following clause to be inserted after clause 12 : —" And be it enacted, that a return shall be made within fourteen days from the commencement of every future Session, and be presented to both Houses of Parliament, setting forth, in columns, the number of days each Divison of the Inner House has sat during the Session immediately preceding and also the number of hours each of the said Divisions usually sits daily ; and that the said returns shall be signed by the senior Judge of each Court respectively." This was one of the most important questions relating to Scotland that could come before the House. He had re ceived a letter from a Mr. Campbell, which he would read to the House. The letter was addressed to the At torny- General, from a correspondent of his in Glasgow, and clearly pointed out the unjustifiable interference of the Court of Session with a humane Act of Parliament—namely the Cessio Bonorum Act. The Hon. 'Member then read the letter, which strongly deprecated the course pursued by the Court of Session with respect to Acts of Sederunt. Now if that letter was founded on fact it was an undoubted proof of what he had alleged. If the allegations contained in it were untrue, then the Attorney-General had his cot. respondent to deal with, and so had he. For his own part, he would take care that the letter should be made public through the medium of the press, the Chartist part of it as well as any other.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member concluded by proposing the first clause of which he had given notice. The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the clause. The Act of' Sederunt, of which so much had been said by the Hon. Member for Greenock, was nothing more than a rule or regulation of the Court with respect to its own proceed ings. As to the clause that had been proposed, he could see no necessity for it, inasmuch as the object it had in view was already fixed by statute. As to the latter part of the clause, he considered it would be derogatory to the Judges themselves, and would give a false picture of what took place in the Court of Session. He should therefore give the clause his strenuous opposition. Mr. HUM E could not see how it could be considered derogatory to the Judges to make a return of the number of hours they sat. Who, he would ask, were the men that refused to give the information but those who were ashamed that their habits should be known ?—( Hear, hear.) If a Judge did his duty he (Mr. Hume) thought be could have no objection to its being known how long he sat.—( Hear. ) He had been asked upon what ground it was that he con sidered the Judges of Scotland amply paid at 2,0001, a year ? In answer to that question he would say becauss he could get the first men in the profession to take the office for that sum. His only object in opposing the pre sent Bill was to reform the wretched system that ex isted in the Courts of Scotland, and to enable the people of that country to obtain justice, and in his determination to persevere in his opposition to the Bill, he had been greatly strengthened by what had fallen from the Honourable Member for Glasgow. The Ho nourable and Learned Gentleman talked of miserable economy. They forgot that there was always two parties to such bargains—those who paid and those who received. Then he complained of the opposition being given at so late a stage of the Bill. When he had been a little longer in the House he would find that it was necessary to give opposition to some Bills on every stage. His predecessor could have told him that the Bill had befare received much opposition, and that he had found much trouble in carry ing it through its former stages. When he had longer experience he would' find that the opposition was given to Bills in every stage, and that the present Bill had not re ceived half the opposition which many other Bills had re ceived. The opposition to the returns asked for was only a proof to him that they could not be made in such a mea ner as was likely to be acceptable to the public. They wanted to get rid of the printed forms of pleading before they gave any augmentation to the salaries of the Judges. Mr. A GLIONBY had not beard one word applicable to the clause before the House for the last three-quarters of an hour, however, he could not support any clause which should fix the salary of the Judges of Scotland at 2,0001., for he thought that too low a salary to command the ser vices of men fit for the situation. He would suggest, however, that the returns should be got by periodical mo tions--( Hear, hear)—and that it was not necessary to in clude the regulation in an Act of Parliament. Mr. WARBURTON said, Hon. Gentlemen forget that the House had been lately engaged in a discussion with respect to their privileges. Suppose they were to order these returns and they were refused—how were they to en force their privileges unless they were made part of an Act of Parliament ? They could not then be refused, but after what had passed, how were they sure they could enforce their orders ? Lord HO WIC K hoped they would not then bring under discussion any question of privilege—they were not then either doubted or disputed.--( Hear, hear.) But if they were to embody such a clause in an Act of Parliament, would it not be suggesting to those who might wish to dis pute their privileges the propriety of doing so ? Mr. WALLACE, in reply, hoped to gain the vote of the Hon. Member for Cockermouth. He might make periodical motions for these returns, but he might be re sisted by the Lord Advocate, or some Lord Advocate, and what chance had he of getting them. The Hor. Gen tleman pressed his amendment to a ;division, upon which the numbers were— For the Clause l4 Against it 59 Majority The Honourable GENTLEMAN then resumed his argu ment. He entirely agreed with the Honourable Mem ber for Kilkenny. No one here impugned the dig nity of the Court. It was not held to be derogatory to the dignity of the Court of Session that a register of the number of days it sat should be required; but to have the number of hours each day registered, is objected to. He then proposed the following clause, which was negatived without a division:—." And be it enacted, That the President of the Court of Session for the time being, shall, along with the annual return to Parliament of the number of causes tried, &c. &c. state whether any extension of the usual sittings of th( Courts has taken place ; and if so, whether the ex tension has taken place in consequence of an injunc tion from the Judges, or a command issued by the Crown." The Hon. Gentleman then moved the following be added to the 14th clause :—" And be it enacted, That within fourteen days from the commencement of every future Session, a statement shall be presented to both Houses of Parliament, to the effect that the regulations which have been made by the Act or Acts of Sederunt for carry ing into operation the purposes of this Act, and of former Acts, for the better administration of justice in the Supreme and Inferior Courts of Scotland, have all been considered with reference to each other, and are now, under Acts of Sede runt lately made or revised, practically applied to simplify and improve the forms of Court .and proceedings therein, in such a manner as has appeared to the said Judges, or a majority of their number, to be most likely to cheek litiga tion on points of form, and conducive to the despatch of business, with the least expense and delay to suitors." He said it was scarcely known to Hon. Members that a great part of the litigation of Scotland arose upon points of form, for the Court of Session had no machinery for making laws. The addition was also negatived without a division. Mr. WALLACE then proposed the following clause : —" And be it enacted, that a similar statement be trans. mitted, to the effect that the first, seventh, eighth, ninth, rind tenth clauses of this Act have been specially consi dered and given full effect to by Act of Sederunt; and that in their then present form these clauses are found in practice to work well for the administration of justice, and appear to require no legislative amendment." He would merely bring it up, but would not persevere in it in the pre sent temper of the House. Mr. A G LIONBY said these Acts of Sederunt ought not to become law until they had laid on the table of the house for six months, as it was in the case of rules and regulations made by the Judges in England. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the cases were not at all analogous. These Acts of Sederur,ts were made by the power of Judges at common law, whereas the rules and regulations made by the Judges in England were made labeler legislative authority, and had the power of altering the law of the land. The Acts of Sedcrunt could not. The clause was then negatived. Mr. WALLACE said he had another clause, which would have been necessary had the others been carried ; as it was, he would merely bring it up, and it would also be negatived. The lion. Member then proposed, " That the aforesaid statements shall be signed by all the Judges of the Court of Session, or by the majority agreeing in op;nion when they are not unanimous." —Negatived. On the 12th clause being put, Mr. HUME said that that clause stated that great re. ductions had been made in the Courts of Exchequer and o her Courts of Scotland, whereby a saving had accrued of 60,0001. Now he wished to propose the following addition to that clause—" That it is expedient a still further reduction should take place in the number of Ju•lges in Scotland." He proposed this addition, because at present the Judges of Scotland only sat five months in the year, instead of sitting for ten months as the Judges did in England and Ireland. He did not mention the number to which, in his opinion, they ought to be reduced, because every one had his favourite number, and he was only anxious to have the principle affirmed. The House then divided, when there appeared-- For the addition Against it 46 Majority against Mr. Hume's proposition —24 On our admission to the gallery we found Sir WILLIAM RAE addressing the House on the clause proposing that the Judges of Scotland should ba permitted to retire on the full salary. On every occasion whe the salaries of the Judges of England had been in creased it had been considered an act of justice to the Judges of the Court of Session that a corres ponding increase should be made in their salaries also, but when in 1825 an increase took pl ace in the salaries of the Judges in England, and when in the year following he bad proposed a corresponding increase in the salaries of the Judges in Scotland, he had been met with the allegation that a Committee had reported that great changes should take place ments in Scotland, and he hadbeen told to make t ose in the judicial estabblish nchn r a d n i g n e g s i before yin tb y efuce A d a .c he e fol p lo ro n p i o n s g ed so a s n s y io i n ne b re e ase bn o d f s in a t la ro r measure abolishing the Court of Exchequer, making all the ch anges whic h had been propose d b y the Committee, and going still further by abolishing two of the Judges of the Cou r t o f Session. He was surprised that after this no increase had taken place in the salaries. A change of Government had taken place shortly after, and he was glad that the Government had at length taken up the case, and to that provision he should not object. But he did object to allowing the Judges of the Court of Session to retire on their full salaries. According to existing Acts of P ar li ament, they were entitled on retire ment to three-fourths of their salaries, and this he consi dered ample. The grounds on which large salaries were given to Judges were that they had a high station to main tain, and most important duties to perform; but the mo ment lie ceased to be a j u d ge , h e h ad no status to main tain, nor any duty to perform. Besides, the Judges of England and Ireland did not retire upon the full sala ries, which ought to be the case, if the Judges of Scotland were permitted so to do, as he could see no reason for such a distinction being made.— (Hear, hear.) If it were right, it should be made the sub ject of a general Act of Parliament, applying to the Judges of England and Ireland, as well as of Scotland. He would therefore suggest that this clause should be withdrawn, and a Bill introduced in the course of the next Session, making it applicable to England and Ireland, as well as Scotland. He objected to the proposition, because many a Judge, after 70 years of age, was able to perform most important duties, and many of the most distinguished Judges in the Court of Session had officiated after that age with honour to themselves and the country. He pro tested against the introduction of such a clause, and moved as an amendment, that the clause be omitted. Mr. GILL ON seconded the amendment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he should yield to the argument of the Honourable Baronet, and ad vise that the clause be withdrawn. The argument to which he alluded was, that if the principle were good for anything, it should be applied to the whole of the United Kingdom. At the same time he must give his strong opinion in favour of the clause— ( Hear, hear)—because he believed it would be productive of great benefit if such a law were applied generally. Now what was the law? It related not merely to age but to 15 years' service on the Bench. There had been repeated instances in which judges of the most honourable minds and disinterested feelings had, from a reluctance to leave their station and lose their income, and from a regard to their family, felt unwilling to retire when they were required to do so by public expediency.—( Hear.) Mr. GIL LON trusted his side of the House would profit by the lesson of economy which had been delivered by the Hon. Baronet the Member for Bute, and he (Mr. G.) was glad to belong to any triumvirate in the House which was ready to guard the public purse. He was satisfied the omission of the clause would not tend to diminish the dig nity of the bench, which they had been told consisted not in the talent of the Judges, but riding to the Court in a coach.—( Hear, and a laugh.) Mr. AGL lONBY said it had, on a former occasion, when the efficiency of the Scotch Judges had been for several hours animadverted upon, been generally admitted that it would be much for the benefit of the suitors and the public that the Judges should be placed in a situation so as not to have a constant inducement to retain possession of the bench when they were unfitted for the discharge of their duties.—( Hear, hear.) If the principle was good, why not adopt it now in respect to Scotland, and apply it to England and Ireland afterwards ? He should object to the clause being withdrawn. Mr. HUME expressed his regret that the present Go vernmeut, notwithstanding all their professions of economy, should have been committed to an extravagance not jus, ified even by Tories. Mr. E. ELLICE objected to giving the Judges creased salaries before the system of the Courts was amended.—( Hear, hear.) But to the principle of this clause he could not oppose himself. The gallery was c l eare d f or a di v i s i on, b ut the clause we foun was withdrawn. Mr. WALLACE then moved a proviso to the effect " that within fourteen days of the passing of any Act of Sederunt, if Parliament be then sitting, or if not, within fourteen days after Parliament meets, a copy of the said Act be transmitted to Parliament, and that the said Act shall not be binding, till confirmed by Parliament." It was absurd that there should be a pretended sanction of Par liament to Acts of Sederunt, which at present were never heard of, or seen in Parliament, till long after they had come into operation. Mr. GILLON seconded the proviso. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said the words pro posed to be added, would render the clause wholly nuga tory ; the Acts of Sederunt must be acted upon imme diately, otherwise they would be wholly useless. If it were to be rendered necessary to have the sanction of Parliament for them, they might as well obtain new Acts of Parliament. Mr. HUME supported the proviso. Strangers were ordered to withdraw. The House di vided, when there appeared-- For the proviso Against it 53 Majority 36 Mr. WALLACE said he did not know whether he would get any gentleman to second him or not, but he would move that the title of the Bill be " A Bill to regu late the duties to be performed by the Judges of the Curt of Session in Scotland, so as to increase their ease and comfort by adding largely to their salaries, without at the same time adding anything to their judicial duties or dimi nishing the delay or expense occasioned to suitors by the frequent breaking up the Court on long vacations."— ( Laughter.) Mr. E. ELLIS seconded the motion. Mr. FOX ;MULE wished to make one observation befere the question was put. He must protest against these attempts to bring the proceedings of that House into ridicule. Mr. HUME would equally protest against any unjust proceedings being taken by that House ; and if a Bill in its nature unjust, was brought forward, it was only by ex posing it in every point of view, that they could hope for any alteration in it.—( Cheers. ) Mr. E. ELL ICE had seconded the motion because he believed that this Bill would saddle the country with 15,0001., in return for which not one jot of public benefit would accrue, and it, moreover, tended to perpetuate a system which was already the subject of much complaint, as being inconvenient and detrimental to the public inte• rests. Mr. Wallace's motion was then put and negatived with out a division, anti the Bill was passed. Mr. R. STE WART moved the third reading of the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill. Mr. HOPE suggested the propriety of postponing the third reading, as there were several lion. Membets who wished to take part in the discussion who had left the House under the impression that the Bill would not he brought on that night. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL urged his Learned Friend to persist in his motion. Ample notice had been given, and if any further delay took place the safety of the Bill might be endangered. The Bill was then read a third time. On the question that the Bill do pass, Mr. GREENE proposed an additional clause by way of rider, which was agreed to, after which the Bill was passed amidst loud cheers from the Ministerial side of the House. The Paper Duties' Bill then passed through Committee. The Brick Duties' Bill passed through Committee after some verbal amendments had been made. COPYRIGHT BILL. The Order of the Day having been read for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. WARBURTON objected to its being proceeded with at this late hour (it being past twelve o'clock), as there were several important clauses remaining to be dis cussed, which would occupy at least four or five hours. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD said that the objection formerly urged by the Hon. Member against proceeding on Wednesday could not now be urged, for it was Thursday morning._( Laughter.) If the opposition was to be pressed with its former vigour, it would be useless to proceed at this late hour, but he trusted that some arrangement would be made by which he could be allowed to bring it on this day ( Thursday). The Stannaries Bill then passed through Committee. METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill, and a vote was taken to defray the expenses. On the motion of Mr. FRESHFIELD, the Parochial Cure of Souls Bill was read a second time. Mr. SANFORD moved the second reading of the Small Tenements Bill, but, after some conversation, it was postponed till Wednesday. The Bills of Exchange Bill was read a second time. The House adjourned at a Quarter before One o'Clock -PAIN.—A letter from Perpignan, dated the 25th June, which i s p u bli s h ed b y the ° Gazette des Tribu naux, has the following postscript :—" The troops of Don Carlos have got possession of Puycerda, and are conse quently in contact with our frontier. Everybody here wishes for an intervention, or at least for an armed de monstration on the Ebro. It is said that orders have been received to prepare a field hospital, or ambulance, which shoult: seem to indicate that the French Government fore sees the possibility of circumstances which would render the intervention necessary." We must observe that the Toulouse Journals of the 28th, and those of Bordeaux of the 29th, do not speak of the taking cf Puycerda. We only find in the France Meridionale a letter from Ceret of 25th June, to the following effect:-" While the ferocious Count d'Espagne is causing a road to be made toward Puycerda, in order to bring with him the cannon necessary to besiege that town and efface it from the map, like Mantere, Repoli, &c., his banditti stop the diligences and plunder travellers on the roads. On the 22d, the diligence between Perpignan and Puycerda was stopped near Pont do Moretins by an armed band. The passengers, after having been plundered, were taken to the mountains, and will doubtless have to pay a large ransom to obtain their liberty. Among them was a young man belonging to a rich family at Figuieres." THE NEW PUBLICATIONS. Mr. Bentley' Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, New Bur lington-street, has just published the following new works: —I. Travels in North America durin g the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, by tho Hon. C. A. Mur ray (dedicated, by special permission, to the Queen), 2 vols. Bvo., with plates. 11. Captain Chamier's " Life of a Sailor," complete for six shillings, printed and embel lished with engraving, uniformly with "the Standard Novels," forming the new volume of Bentley's Standard Library. 111. The second edition revived, of the History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain, by W. H. Prescott. Esq., 3 vols. Bvo., with numerous portraits. IV. A Summer in Anda. lucia, 2 vols. Bvo., with illustration. V. The Naval History of the United States, by F. Fennimore Cooper, Esq., author of " The Pilot," &c., 2 vols., Bvo., with portraits. VI. Stories of Torres Ye dray (a Companion to the " Stories of Waterloo") by J. G. Millingen, M.D., Surgeon to the Forces, &c., 3 vols. VII. England under the Reigns of Edward and Mary, with the Contemporarary History of Europe, by Patrick' Fraser Tyter, Esq., author of " The History of Scotland," 2 vols., Bvo., with portraits. VIII. Bishop Goodman's Memoirs of the Courts of Elizabeth and James 1., comprising the History of His own Time, edited by J. S. Brewer, M.A., 2 vols. Bvo., with portraits. William Brown was opposed in the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Wednesday by Mr. Cresswell, on the part of Messrs. Marriott. merchants, and a Mr. Perkins. He was supported by Mr. Cooke, with whom was Mr. Woodroffe. The insolvent had been a wholesale grocer in Watling-street. He compounded with his creditors in 1836 by paying them 12s. in the pound, at which time his debts were about 13,000/. ; his business had been very extensive, turning about 60,0001. a year; he had paid Messrs. Travers no less than 90,0001. ; he dealt with the same creditors. It appeared that the insolvent had struggled for some time, and at length was compelled to go to pri son. His debts, &c. were 5,3001., and he had 4,267/. owing to him. On the part of the creditors Mr. Cress. well said he was so satisfied with the honesty and fair dealing of the insolvent, that he should pray his Mr. Cook remarked th a t M r . B rown would leave Court without a stain on hi s c h aracter. The Court ordered the insolvent to be discharged. discharge. a t r hgee. EVENING EDITION. TILE SUN, LONDON, THtTRSDAY, JULY 4, 1839, LAR. rioushetenAdmene c ri y c a o n f i t n h e e r c a l i t a t e n m t s p ts b egin of i t n o d i p v e i r d c u e a i e ls t t o h e bolster up u prices by forced means. They begin to perceive that even the planters themselves—th e interest to which the United States Bank felt itself called upon more par ticularly to extend its protection —are likely to be da maged by them, inasmuch as they are calculated to in duce production to an extent not warranted by a legi timate demand. The scheme contained in Mr. Wilder's Circular is to concentrate all the cotton that may be shipped of the present crop from the United States in the hands of one house at Liverpool—a house sustained by a "great and powerful interest"—the house named being no other than that of his principals, Messrs. Humphreys and ` Biddle, wh o w ill, it is con s id ere d, b e a b le, with certain collateral a id s ," to hold over until the greater part of the stock in England shall be " worked off at an ad vanced price." The expedient of suspending the ship mtnt of the residue of the crop for the space of three months is suggested as another means of answering the same end, but this would not afford a drawing fund, and might have the effect, Mr. Wilder conceives, of again embarrassing the banks. So much for the Circular itself. We may now be permitted to offer a few words as to its origin. Mr. Jaudon is requested by the President of the United States Bank to disavow openly and authori tatively " the participation" of that institution in it. We are willing to put the most liberal construction on this disclaimer, and which Mr. Wilder's explana tion in fact goes to confirm, but that it was issued altogether without the cognizance and approbation of Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle we are by no means satisfied. Mr. Wilder says " the Bank of the United States has nothing to do with it, so far as I know or believe, and it did not emanate freim Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle." These words seem to imply that, although Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle were not absolutely the authors of the cir cular, it cannot with truth be said that they had " nothing whatever to do with it." They probably had a great deal to do with it, but those gentlemen, so far as Mr. Wilder " knows or believes," have never had any correspondence upon the subject with the managers of the United States Bank. Let it have comefr;;;iiat source it may, we do not attach any very gaeat degree of criminality to the pro duction, otherwise than as it indicates a disposition on the part of certain speculators to grasp at every thing, and to interfere with the natural course of trade. All the evil that can arise from the adoption of so visionary a project will assuredly fall on the heads of those who are foolish enough to to entertain and to act upon the recommendations embodied in it. The public securities were very little dealt in to-day, yet the quotations were not materially lower. Consols left off at 931 to for the opening, Exchequer Bills at 265. to 28s. prem. ' In the Foreign House Five per Cent. Dutch Stock was quoted at 1021 to 3, Two-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto 554 to 6, Brazilian 774 to i, Colombian 32 to 33, Mexican 261 to i, Five per Cent. Portuguese 341 to -.1.,, and Active Spanish 191 to i• Great Western Railway Shares were done at 6 to 7 premium, Lond on and Birmingham 70 to 2 premium, CLondoroydonnn aantdl2Birtigoliton 91- i per share. to t dis., and London and Utiited Stat es Post Office, the object of his mission We und ers t an d that a gentleman named Plitt has come o ver to t hi s country as a special agent of the being to obt a i n such particulars as be may be able, from th e Post Office in L on d on , with a view to th e establishment of a uniform penny postage throughout the States. I (From th e M anchester Guardian. ) The arrival of the Great Western has brought a va riety of details connected with the circular alleged to have been issued at New York, by or under the sanc tion of the United States Bank, with the view of keep ing up the price of cotton by advances upon the stock in the United States and in this country, and which circular appears to have given rise to as much doubt and speculation in New York as in Manchester and Liverpool. It will be seen from the subjoined extracts from the New York Morning Courier, that the circular has been avowed b y a Mr. Wilder, who, it seems, is the New York agent of Humphreys and Biddle. Mr. Wilder admits that neither that firm nor the United States Bank has any connection with the circular ; but he says he is prepared to make the advances named in the circular, and that " the reasons assigned for mak ing shipments to Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle are those of the holders of cotton in this country (United States), who seek to protect their own interests by a concert of action." That the circular had its origin with holders of cotton anxious to protect their own interests," we are very COTTON FRAUDULENT CIRCU- (From the Morning Post.) The American Journals just received by the Great Western steamer, abound in commentaries on the Cotton Circular published in the Morning Post, a few days since, and which was in the first instance supposed to have emanated from the United Sates Bank of Philadelphia. We have shown by a letter which appeared in our co lumns to-day, that the President of that establishment disclaims it entirely, and even intimates that he has no intention of making any further advances to the trade. The author of the document turns out to be a Mr. Wilder, as will be seen by the following letter, addressed by that person to the Edit or o f a N ew York, Paper : " I perceive that several of the newipapers have con nected my name and the Bank of the United States with the Cotton Circular, recently issued in this city. You will, therefore, permit me to state explicitly— " That the Bank of the United States has nothing what ever to do with it, so far as I know or believe. " That this measure did not emanate from Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle. " That with the view of facilitating the export of the cotton now in this port, I offer to make the advances named in the Circular referred to. " That the reasons assigned for making shipments to Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle are those of some of the holders of cotton in this country, who seek to protect their own interest by a concert of action. "S. V. S. WILDER." " New York, June, 1839." Mr. Wilder is the agent of Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, the Liverpool firm, who have been, and are still, holding cotton so extensively, and as those gentle men have been actin.. as the co mmerc i a l representa tives of the Unit e d States t Bank, it is no wonder, not withstanding all that is said in condemnation of his cir cular, as a gross forgery, &c., in the Morning Chronicle, that the conductors of the United Bank of Philadelphia should be supposed to have known something about it, especially when it is recollected that the late President, Mr. Nicholas Biddle, in a letter addressed by him some time ago to Mr. J. Quincey Adams, expressed a determination to give such facilities and support to the cotton growers and shippers of America as should en able them to get a remunerating price for the staple in the European markets. The Americans seem to be labouring under some strange delusion with respect to the manufacturers in this country. They imagine that a combination has been formed among them, the express and sole purpose of which is to bring down the price of cotton below its natural value. There has, however, been no such com bination that we are aware of. The operatives in some parts of Lancashire have, it is true, been put on short time ; but this arrangement became necessary, owing to the little demand which has unfortunately existed o late for our cotton fabrics for the export trade, and tile consequent inability of the manufacturers to give the high prices asked for the material. The monopedy of the staple seems to have been founded on the ma Aifesto sent forth by Mr Nicholas Biddle, so that, however the United States Bank may stand in relation to Mr. Wilder, there can be no doubt that that establishment has to answer for much of the embarrassment into which the trade has been thrown by the banking interest. The American journals dwell on something which they have heard of the spinners and manufacturers of Staleybridge, Ashton, Hyde, and other places, having entered into an engagement to reduce the days of labour from six to four days a week, but this, as we have already explained, was a measure that was called for by the exigencies of the moment. It was, moreover, quite a partial measure, and even, had it not been so, the United States Bank had long before declared its determination to uphold -the monopoly of the raw ma terial to their prejudice. They also dwell on the assumed diminution in the crop of the present year as compared with that of the last—for it appears to us to be a diminution that is rather assumed than real ; but what folly this is, when they see perfectly well that the consumption of the article has fallen off in a much greater ratio than its production, low as is the estimate of the latter. The foreign markets were overdone with English ma. nufactured goods and cotton twist last year, and hence arises, perhaps, in a very great measure, the reduction in our exports at the present time. The Liverpool letters of the last few days have given a most deplorable account of the market there for the material ; the following is a summary of the week's trans actions " We have had a very unsatisfactory market since our last report. The depression has increased, the demand being even more limited, and a further decline of id. per lb. generally has been submitted to. The accounts per Great Western up to the 13th inst., received to-day, are without encouragement, and the unimproved condition of the manufacturing interest in this country leaves us no hope of immediate amendment here. We are flat to-day, and the sales are only about 1,500 bales of all kinds. " Liverpool, 28th June." This is the report of a respectable Cotton Broker, and it well explains in a few words the actual state of the trade. But in the course of a very short time the now crop will be coming forward, and what will then be its condition ? Unless there should be a revival in the demand for manufactured goods, of which there is but little prospect, there must be a glut in the market, and the manufacturers will be in a situation to obtain supplies on their own terms. Such, at least, is the only conclusion to which any one can come, we think, who is disposed to take a fair and unbiassed view of the subject. ready to believe, and we intimated an opinion to that effect on Wednesday. But the question remains unan swered, who is to afford the protection required ? That Mr. Wilder as the agent of Humphreys and Bid dle, and acting under a general authority from them, is willing to make the customary advances . upon cotton shipped to their house upon the usual terms, is proba ble enough ; but that he, or any combination of merchants with which be may be connected, is in a condition to advance ten cents. per pound on two or three hundred thousand bales of cotton, and to hold that cotton " until prices vigorously rally," we must take leave to doubt ; and, notwithstanding Mr. Wilder's avowal of the circular, we still look upon it in no other light than as a desperate effort to prop up declining prices by holding out hopes of assistance which can never be realised. Any man who reads the circular carefully will see that the object of the writer throughout was to produce an impression without dis tinctly stating the fact, that the United States Bank and the firm of Humphreys and Biddle were parties to the scheme. That the impression thus sought to be produced was a false impression is now distinctly ad mitted ; that this circumstance alone is quite sufficient to dispose of any credit which the circular might other wise have commanded. It will be seen that, in a communication to the New York Morning Courier, which we have given with other extracts, and which, no doubt, emanates from the parties connected with the circular, the course recom mended in that document is defended on the ground that a powerful combination exists in England to de press the price of cotton ; and the writer refers to and quotes a paragraph which originally appeared in the Guardian of the 1I th of May, giving the names of the firms in Ashton, Staleybridge, and the neighbourhood, who had entered into an en gagement to work not more than four days per week ; and the writer asks—" Does it not become justifiable and necessary to meet such a combination by measures adapted to that end ?" The plain answer to this ques tion is, that the measure adopted by the spinners and the manufacturers were forced upon them by the con sequences of previous speculative proceedings on the part of the Southern Banks, whose interference with the view of bolstering up prices was so fully described in the circular of Mr. Vincent Nolte, from which we gave co pious extracts a few weeks ago. That interference has been productive of the most serious consequences to the cotton manufacturers, not so much by actually raising the prices of cotton, as by creating a general distrust of prices amongst the purchasers of goods and yarn. If there had been no extraordinary interference of this kind, prices might have been higher than they have lately ranged,with• out either producing any such distrust, or causing any seri rous diminution of consumption ; but the knowledge of what was going on amongst the speculative bankers of the Southern States with the avowed intention of giving an artificial support to prices, caused a general failure of confidence amongst all parties connected with the trade. The buyers of cotton goods, fearing that a sudden with drawal of the artificial support might at any time cause a serious decline in prices, have held back from the markets, and purchased only to supply their immediate and press. ing wants. The necessary consequence has been such an absence of demand as has driven the spinners and ma nufacturers to those measures for limiting the production which the circular writers at New York quote as a justification for further speculative proceedings. Very fortunately, these parties are, as we believe, quite unable to carry their schemes into practice; and, if they had the power of doing what they propose, the only result would be the production of a still greater distrust of prices in this country, and a consequent diminution of consumption to a far greater extent than at present. As every thing relating to the supply of cotton must be interesting to a large number of our readers, we give a copy of a circular from New Orleans, which ap pears in the New York Herald of the lath inst., and from which it appears that the crop of cotton is likely to turn out a little larger than the speculators are wil ling to acknowledge, and that considerable parcels are still arriving at New Orleans. Indeed, when we con sider the general character of the southern planters and speculators, and the strong temptation which they have had to keep down the supply, we may reasonably expect to find that a considerable quantity of cotton has been withheld from the ports, with the view of con cealing, up to the latest moment, the real amount of the crop. Connected with this part of the subject is a circumstance which has caused some surprise, and ex cited no little suspicion on our exchange. On com paring the usual account of the receipts of cotton at the ports since the 30th September last, which ap pears in the New York Price Current of the 12th June, with that appearing in the same publication on the sth June, instead of an increase there appear= to be a diminution of about a thousand bags ; the quan tities being stated-- On the sth June bags 1,282,237 On the 12th June bags 1,281,248 On comparing minutely the two accounts, we find the following unexplained incongruities : sth June. 12th June. Receipts at Savannah 191,184 187,831 Ditto at South Carolina 198,721 191,302 making a decrease at the two places of 10,772 bags, which, of course, is an absurdity. It will be seen from the New Orleans circalar, which we copy from the New York Herald, that the receipts of cotton into the ports are there stated at 1,324,020 bags, or nearly 43,000 bags more than the amount stated in the New York Price Current to about the same dates. We cannot pretend to reconcile these wide and palpable contradictions ; but they are certainly calculated to cast great suspicion on the general correctness of the Ame rican accounts of the crop. FEMALE POLITICIAN. It was with 'intense regret that we read the news paper account of two, ladies of title charged with hiss ing at her Majesty on the race-course of Ascot. It is true, that their apologists would fain persuade us, that they were only hissing at Lord Melbourne, and not at the Queen. Be it so. Let us accept the change of the object of their serpent-like salutations. But we do not think that it softens down the offence against female decorum and propriety of manners in the slightest degree. When we see Tory Duchesses and ladies of title hissing on a public race-course, at a political enemy, just as if they were of the lowest rabble, we are too strongly reminded of the Paris fish-women, and of the part which they played in the French Revolution, to tolerate such a fashion i 0 this country for a single instant. It is an exotic which, we hope, may never become naturalized among us. We love the native plant of English loveliness and modesty combined too well to wish to see it superseded by this foreign graft. But the Ascot hissing is not the first or the only disgraceful exhibition of political violence which has, of late years, being exhibited by the titled dames of this country. Everybody knows the story of the Duchess who, at the time of the Catholic Emaneipation debates, thus iddressed the wife of a leading statesman, who was weeping over her Lord's tergiversation on that subject, " Yes ! you may well cry, If he were my husband, I would pray to Heaven, that the ground would open beneath his feet and bide my shame from me." And, more recently, a friend of ours, who was in London, at the Marylc bone election, when Mr. Ewart was defeated by Lord Teignmouth, assured us, that he had no ideas of the violence of a mob until he beheld the doings of the fe male aristocratic mob assembled near the booth at the top of Harley -street, towards the close of the poll. He had passed by all the other polling-places, where the plebeians " ruled the roast," and all was comparatively quiet. There was laughing, joking, shouting, but the voters on both sides had free access to the booths, without any obstacle or hindrance being offered to them. Not so, however, when he approached the Harley -street booth. It was, he says, the most extra ordinary and disgusting scene which he ever beheld. There was a dense crowd of coronetted carriages jammed together, from which the howling, hooting, and hissing, coachmen, footmen, and the ladies within all joining in the chorus, affording a melancholy proof of the self degradation to which party feeling could reduce its victims, while the carriage mob was well supported by another made up of well-dressed pedestrians, of both sexes. Our informant told us of one very curious performance, by a lady of rank, on this occasion, the Hon. Mrs. —, the wife of a general officer. It would appear that she had only just left home, for the first question which she asked within his bearing was— " Who is at the head of the poll ?" On being an swered " Lord Teignmouth," she straightway dropped the arm on which she was leaning, waved her hand above her bonnet, and, shouting " Hurra, hurra!" absolutely hopped a circle in the open street, to the great astonishment of the bystanders, who had never before seen joy express itself in such a grotesque and curious fashion. " I thought her a pretty and sensible woman before," concluded the gentleman who beheld this scene, " but I have considered her to be ugly, hide. ous, and crazy ever since." —Liverpool Albion. MAIDSTONE HOPS. —In this neighbourhood there is a decided increase in the number of fly, and the three last cold days and nights have considerably checked the bine in the weak grounds, which in many places are turning yellow. There is less prospect of a crop since last week, excepting, perhaps, in the very best grounds. Tti E CONVICT WILLIS.—The warrant for the execution of this unfortunate victim to ungovernable passion arrived on Saturday. He will be executed on Thursday, the commencement of the business of the session having been deferred till two o'clock. He still maintains the same sullen and taciturn demeanor which bad distinguished him up to the date of our last publication, almost refusing to hold verbal communication with any one, although he has written several letters to his friends. It appears from in formation which we have obtained from a gentleman of Sherborne, his native place, who has received an order to visit him, that he is about 21 years of age; that he at tended a Sur.day school for three years up to 1834; that he then went to reside at Lymington, from which place he enlisted. He appears to have been in his boyhood of a moody, sullen, stubborn temper, but not to have been marked by any particular ferocity or pugnacity of dilposi tion.—/Efaidstone Gazette. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last evening, alluding to Tuesday's discussion in the Lords on the Jamaica Bill, says :—" The Jamaica Bill, therefore, may fairly be considered defunct ; and an important colony is abandoned to another year of anarchy, in order that a set of men, whose own ambitious views have been disappointed, may enjoy the satisfaction of worrying the Minister of the day. As a matter of course, those who join in this amiable endeavour to make all government impossible, disclaim everything like party motive. The whole Tory clique are animated only by a desire to secure the sanctity of constitutional principles, and to preserve inviolate the forms of popular govern ment 1 None of them indeed deny that the measure will become indispensable, if the House of Assembly persist in its quarrel with the Imperial Parliament: they do no not deny that the House of Assembly has declared that it will so persist ; indeed, it may fairly be doubted whether one of them, however he may affect the contrary, really expects the House of Assembly to give way. Delay, therefore, is the least harmless consequence to which their intrigues, from which party motives have been so carefully excluded, can possibly lead. Ministers will be obliged to abandon the Bill." The Globe remarks as follows on the subject of the Jamaica Bill ;_" The Tory Lords have again glorified themselves, and furthered the designs of their party, by employing their power against the public weal instead of using it for the public benefit. The Jamaica Bill, which escaped the fangs of faction in the House of Commons, has been so mutilated by their potent Lordships as to render it nearly, if not absolutely, in efficient for accomplishing the object it was designed to effect; and which the state of the colony absolutely re quires for the preservation of the peace and the pro tection and improvement of property—both of which are jeopardised, and the latter being extensively injured by the absence of those laws which the contumacious House of Assembly has absolutely refused to pass, or, indeed, to take into consideration." The Standard observes, with reference to the Arch bishop of Canterbury's proposed education motion in the Lords :—" We are curious to learn whether any attempt will be made to answer the arguments for a proposi tion so reasonable and necessary ; but we anticipate that Lord Melbourne will, as usual, talk without answer ing ; this is one of the advantages of a professor of small talk, in the station of a Prime Minister. He can bring into play those talents which he has cultivated in boudoirs and drawing-rooms, when it may be convenient, as it ge nerally is, to Lord Melbourne, to blink the merits of a question. We hope, however, that the people are not re laxing in their preparations to support the Archbishop." THE CROPS. During the past week we havehad an opportunity of viewing the crops in most parts of Cheshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire. Grass is generally thin, but the showers of the present week will quickly improve it. Grain of all descriptions never looked better. In Cheshire the farmers have sown (more wheat than'has been known for several years. Pears and plums promise to be a most abundant crop, and strawberries also look extremely well. Apples are likely to be scarce. Potatoes will be plentiful, and large supplies will immediately be brought into the market. The season is altogether very favourable to the growth of vegetation ; and there is every prospect of an abundant harvest generally.—Manchester During the past week several fields in the neighbourhood of Tenterden have been cleared of hay in excellent condi tion. The crop appears to be quite an average one. The wheats are looking well, and are now in full bloom, as are also the beans and pease. The hops have grown very fast of late, and nearly all over the tops of the poles. The fly has decreased, but the lice appear to have increased, and in some grounds the honey dew is prevalent.—Canterbury Journal. GLOUCESTER.—The rains of this last week, though exceedingly heavy and very hurtful to those farm ers who had commenced mowing, have been beneficial to the corn and grass crops, and have greatly im proved them. The wheat looks well in this County, and is rapidly running into spindle and ear. The crops on the hills are more vigorous and promise better than those in the vales. This season, to use the farmer's language, has been one on purpose to suit the beans, but we fear if there is not a cessation of rain they will not yield up to their promise. Continued rains have always a bad effect on barley crops ; the plants look yellow and sickly, but it is not too late to hope for a better appearance in them. The hay harvest is entirely stopped. The clover and seeds which are cut have suffered considerably, particularly the clover ; some of which has been down for a fortnight. The low grounds adjoining the brooks and the Leadon are flooded, and yesterday, as we passed near there we saw the grass which had been cut down floating on the water. We fear our good friends the farmers will lose all their first crops in the Leaden meadows. The meadows con tiguous to the Severn we believe will escape, as the " fresh" is not so great as we expected, and the tido are moderate. Gloucester Journal. HEREFORD.—WE regret to state that during the past week the weather has continued, with scarcely any inter mission, most unpropitious for the hay harvest. On Mon day the barometer indicated a favourable change, and many , persons were induced to commence mowing; but on Tues day the " glass went down," and ever since, with the ex ception of some sunshine on Thursday, we have had almost incessant rain, day and night. The grass which was mowed early has consequently been much damaged ; and the un cut will now, every where in this part of the country, be soon " dead ripe." The wet is said to have injured the potatoes. —Hereford Times. LEEDS.—During the week we have had a great deal of rain. The hay crops are wonderfully improved, and vege tation generally appears in its highest state of luxuriance. The farmers would now be glad to have fine warm wea ther for the maturing of the crops.—Leeds Mercury. Lawas.—The weather during almost the whole of the week past was variable, and by no means favourable to the business of haymaking ; the heavy showers which fell at intervals having greatly impeded the operations ; a consi derable quantity of grass has been cut in this immediate neighbourhood, and some that has already been hurried to the stack, it is supposed will not come out in such gond condition as might otherwise have been the case. The rains have, however, proved beneficial to the corn crops, the accounts received from various parts of the kingdom as to their appearance being very favourable.--Sussex Ad. vertiser. GLAsoow.—The weather continues all that the agricul turists can wish. Alt erna t e s h owers and sunsh ine arc giving an aspect of health and life to the growing crops we have not witnessed for years. The pasture is also much improved. The hay suffered much from the drought of May, but it is improving. The potatoes appear strong, and though in a few farms some wants are visible, on the whole the potato fields present a picture gladdening to the onlooker. It .has been hitherto a most favourable sea son for the cultivation of green crops. The farmers are now employed in collecting all the manure for the turnip land; they will speedily finish the sowing of Aberdeen yellows—the last put into the ground—and though the season be late, these may yet come to some bulk.—Glasgow Chronicle. Kuso.— With the exception of Monday last, showers of rain have fallen so copiously and generally for the last eight days, that there is now no complaint about want of moisture. On the morning of Friday last this town and neighbourhood were visited with a slight thunder storm, accompanied by an unusually heavy fall of rain, which ectitinued for some hours. In some instances the crops have been partially laid ; but in vegetation generally a very marked improvement is perceptible. If dry and warm wet weather prevail, there is every reason to hope that we shall have an early and an abundant harvest.—.Kelso Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 3. The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day. ANOELL V. DAVIS. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to.day in this case, which was argued in the course of the last week. The case came before his Lordship upon appeal from the decision of his Honour the Vice- Chancellor, refusing to give the plaintiff the costs of the suit. The short facts of the case appear to be as follows : —The plaintiff, who was one of the ti ustees under a deed of the property of an infant, filed the bill against the defendant, a co-trustee, for the purpose of compelling him to account for the sum of 1501. belonging to the infant, which ho had advanced to a person of the name of Amor, as the plantiff alleged upon an insufficient security. Upon the case coming on before his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, he directed a reference to the Master, to enquire into the security; the Master reported as to its insufficiency, and upon that re port his Honour directed the defendant to replace the fund, but declined to make any order with respect to the costs. From the latter part of that decision the present appeal was brought. His Lordship, in giving judgment, went at some length into the facts of the case, and stated his opinion to be, althouugh he was greatly disinclined to encourage ap peals for costs, yet such were tl circumstances of the present case that he felt bound totaw the appeal. Appeal for costs allowed. PICKERING V. PICKERING. The further arguments on this part.heard appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls, were then resumed, and occupied the Court the remainder of the day. VICE-CHANCELLORS COU RT, JULY 3. Exceptions and further directions, of no public interest occupied his Honour the Vice -Chancellor the whole day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 3. GLYNN V. HOLSTOUN. This was an action for false imprisonment and trespass, brought by Mr. Charles Glynn, a merchant at Gibraltar, against General Houstoun, who was Governor there in 1831. Mr. Sergeant WILDE and Sir F. PoLLocx were for the plaintiff, with Mr. HUGGINS ; Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL and a junior were for the defendant. From the depositions put in evidence, and on which rested the whole case, it appeared that on the 3d of November, 1831, a party of British soldiers surrounded the plaintif's house, stopping every outlet, and preventing him from coming out, though he attempted so to do. They were in search, it was stited, of a Spanish refugee, named General Torrijos ; the Governor having published an ordinance prohibiting any foreigners from remain ing in th e garr i son, unless with special license, and having, he said, received information on the morning of the day in question, that General Torrijos had gone to the house ; this, however, was positively denied by other wit nesses. To one of the answers—that the soldiers, who were immediately commanded by Lieut. - Col. Maire, had represented themselves as acting under the Governor's orders, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected ; and after hearing Sergeant WILDE and Sir F. POLLOCK at some length in support of the answer, The Learned JUDGE allowed the objection. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, submitted that there was no evidence that the act, if unlawful, had been done by authority of the Governor, and that the action should have been brought against Lieut.-. Colonel :Mire.—The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages .50/. EVENING EDITION. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS n Account of the quantity of Cotton, in number of bags and pounds, net weight, imported from the United States of America into Great Britain, from the sth day of January to the sth day of June, in the years 1838 and 1839 respectively; distinguishin g the ports from which shipped from the United States, and to which imp or t e d into Great Britain 1838. 1839. lbs. lb s. London 1,231 534 1,174,326 Liverpool 220,222,413 110,311,372 Bristol Cowes Greenock 42 5,534,633 3,084,104 Port Glasgow. 1.455.205 Glasgow 2 ,204,634 2,781,290 --- Total 230,668,203 117,351,134 The official record of imports is not so constructed as to exhibit the number of packages in which the merchandize is contained, or the particular ports of the foreign country from which it has been shipped. In these points, there fore, the foregoing Statement falls short of literal confor mity to the order of the Hon. House; but it is respectfully submitted, as affording the more essential portion of the information required, and as the best return that can be produced without having recourse to the laborious process of a compilation de 7102:0 from the mass of original docu ments-.an expedient the adoption of which would neces sarily be attended with very considerable delay. ( Signed) WILLIAM IRVING, Inspector• General of Imports and Exports. Inspector- General's Office, Custom House, London, June 26, 1839. LT. A Retur n o f t h e Number of MA Bushels of Malt charged with Duty in England, in the years ending sth April, 1838 and 1839; and the same for Ireland and for Scotland. 1838. 1839. England Ireland 2,279,069 2,101,744 Scotland T0ta1......... 40,380,454 40,356,129 G. A. COTTRELL, First Gen. Accountani Excise Office, London, June 22, 1839. CARLOWELECTION The Committee was occupied the whole of yesterday with the vote of John Walsh, which had not been decided at Four o'clock, the usual hour of adjournment. HE MARKE'FS=(YESTERDAY KET.-July 3. s. d. Walls End Stewart' s 22 9 Walls End Whitwell Walls'End Hartlepool 22 9 WallsiEnd Adelaide 2l 9 Walls End Clarence Tees l9 6 W Ils End Gordon 20 9 Walls End Seymour Tees 2) 9 Walis End South Durham 2l 6 Walls End Tees 22 0 Walls End West HettOn 2l Blythe. l7 0 Els icar lB 0 Hartley 2O 6 Howard's Netherton Main 19 Walls End Elgin l9 9 ;t market-day, 11. COAL MAR; Adair's P 6 Hebburn Main 2it 3 0 Lease's Main 23 0 Ord's Redhugh ....... . Original Windsor's Pontop 20 0 Seutb..tbitley l9 0 Wall , .nd Hetton . Wylam. , 29 0 Walk End Hilda ,2 , Walls End Riddell's Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 29 0 Walls End Haswell 29 0 Walls End Lambton 22 g Walls End Pemberton Walls End Russell's Hetton ‘.a t Ships arrived since las COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. I Oats. Beans. I t'l Per Q rter. And0ver,,,,,,,,,,, Birmingham Bridport Cirencester Faringdon/..,,. Guildford a. to s. a. to v. a, to s. 64 SO 30 34 22 30 74 82 29 31 25 63 80 30 40 16 22 73 80 32 36 26 30 64 81 27 32 20 25 65 80 26 30 26 30 68 83 28 33 20 30 72 78 26 32 23 26 63 /co 26 32 22 29 64 70 32 42 28 34 63 75 24 36 20 26 64 74 32 34 22 29 64 75 25 35 20 27 64 74 30 34 20 28 63 75 33 401 28 32 63 74 28 36 20 24 81 35 22 32 70 74 28 32 1 20 7 28 63 72 24 34 25 67 70 27 34 22 26 76 21 22 65 70 32 36 30 32 CHELTENHAM MARKE shel. s. d. to s. Pe S 0 90 40 4 6 30 40 49 56 50 53 I 'Lay 3/.15s t a. to g. 1 s. -- 36 32 40 - 46 - 4g -- 43 Hero*Ord-- Highworth Maidenhead., Monmouth Reading Szlisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury... Wantage Warminster..., Windsor Worcester— 34 44 34 31 40 - 33 42 35 41 48 - - 46 33 42 33 36 40 - 46 I 46 P OWahtsea..t... .... Bui . . .... Harley ... Beans ...... Pease ............ 8eef.........: Mutton Veal Pork ... Lamb to 41. 4s. Od. p lb. d. to d , 000000000 6 9 6 7 0 ser ton. ENDING JUNE 2S. DUBLIN M IRISH MARKETS. :ARKET NOTE for the WEEK From I To 37 0 42 0 —0 0 —o 0 IS 0 0119 0 IS 0 —o 0 2 0 3 HAMBURG MARKETS. Wheat, M GRAIN. arks 42 to 42 l Oats, -- Mecklenburg 420 to 4711 --- Magdeburg 590 to 426 ---.. Eider 402 to 428 Auhalt, white* 404 to 456 ----- red Holstein 170 to CB Rye, Mecklenburg 210 to 264 -- Holstein Archangel to -- Barley, Mecklenburg!) 222 to 240 Magdeburgh • 240 to 231 -- Lower Elbe T'. Carolina and Te nnessee 7 to CO % Georgia, Ist sort 9% 10 2 d................ 8% 9 3d and 4th .... 'BU COY Mocha 103461114 Batavia Sumatra 4% , Rio 4% 6 Bahia SUGAR.— (Wit Havanna!), White Brown 5% 594 Rio, White 6% . Brown Upland — to Mecklenhurg 174 to 189 Elder 132 to 15 Holstein 156 to 186 Petersb. & Riga — to Malt, Pomer an i an 192 tr 204 Buck Wheat l9B to 216 Pease, Upland, yellow 234 to 315 Beans ........ . 2'24 to 255 Tares 240 to 315 Rapeseed 3OO to 408 Ditto Cakes .......... 34 to SO Linseed ditto 52 to 54 I Maranliam Madras 6 7 Surats 6 6% Domingo ........ 7% 8% Domingo La GuaNra Porto Rico... 74 Havannah 49 7 1 8% Discount.) :Bahia, White ............ to 731 Brown . ........... 51 6 Pernambuco, White ...6 Brown ...5 NEW HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL Woaas._We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough street, has just published the fol lowing interesting new Historical and Biographical Works . _f. Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court and Times of Queen Anne, by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, author of " The Life of Henry VIII.", &c., 2 vols. Bvo., 285., bound-2. The Conclusion of the Diary of the Times of George IV., being Vols. 3 and 4, comprising numerous curious and interesting Letters of Queen Caroline, the Princess Charlotte, &c., Monk Lewis's Life, Correspondence s and 13osthumousWrit ings, 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, &c., 289-4. The Life and Correspondence of 'Washington, by Jared Sparks, 2 vols. Bvo. with Portraits, 285.--5. Dr. Vaughan's Pro tectorate of Oliver Cromwell, illustrated in a Series of Letters by the most distinguished persons of the time, 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, 325.-6. Dr. Jenner's Life, and Correspondence, by Dr. Baron, now first published in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, 245. bound ; Vol. 2 may be had separately to complete sets.-7. Queen Elizabeth and her Times, a series of original Letters by the most distinguished persons of the period, 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, 323.--8. The Life and Correspondence of Earl St. Vincent, by Captain Brenton, R.N., 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, 28.3.—and 9. The Autobiography of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798, edited by T. Crofton Croker, Esq., 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, &c., 28s. bound. SILVER WATCHES Two GUINEAS An Assort men t o f S econd-hand Watches of EACH ranted, and o f var i ous sizes, may be selected them w ar frOm, f or t h hove pri ce , at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and W atchmaker, 47, Corn hill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B. A pamphlet, containing a detailed list of the prices of Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, (opposite the Bank of England?, offer the best rich SHELL-BORDERED SILVER WAII ERS, of every size, with plain centres, at 92, per ounce, or with chased centres, at 9s. 6d. per ounce. Price, with Chased Centres. A round ilver W a i ter Diameter. Oz. X. '. d , with she border 12 A round Silver Waiter, with shell lion ler, , 8 in. 1 7 8 lat 9s. ed 5 140 A round Sil ver Waiter with shell border, 10 0 020 9 10 0 A round Silver NVaiter:Nvith shell border, 12 30 15 5 0 A round Silver Waiter, with shell border, 15 42 19 19 0 A round Siker Waiter, with shell border, 18 E 0 40 17 0 A round Sil ver Waiter, with shell border, 10 12 4 8 18 Tho Pl a t e rooms of this Establishment, which are ext 0 en sive, conta i n a large and choice selection of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, and every article requisite to complete a ser vice. List of Prices gratis. A. B. Savory and Sons, Manu facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. On the 30th ult., at Marden-cottage, Ongar, S ara h Hey liger, relict of Count Walterstorff, many years Ambassador at Paris from the Court of Denmark. On the 30th ult., at Gravesend, Hannah, the wife of Mr John Priestly, of Oxford street, aged 39. London: PrinLediand ,P4ubli!h..e__d-,.!)y MURDO YOUNG 356 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone..., 0 Bere ............... l6 stone 0 Barley l6 stone. 232 Oats 0 Flour, per cwt 0 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to Bakers only. 6,281 Cwt. Flour 22 0 I 25 6 I 2 Average price of Wheat and Flour 65, 43. per sack. 4 4 Firsts from . Od. to 255. Receipts of Flour, 11,743 Seconds ..... from 19 22 s s . Ott. to 225. 0ct. 03. Sales of Do. 18,003 Tnirds from 10s. Od. to 12s. Od. PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf 103. I Half Quartern sd. CORK MARKETS,—June i 9 Whe;t (per ..M....t.)22s Od. to 375. Od. Oats (per 14 s t.) ...11 s. 61 to 16s. Od Barley (per 165t.)15 0 22 6 !Flour (per cavt )...16 0 24 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.) l 2s. Od. to'l6^, fid. Beef, 4d. to 7d.. sd. to ed.—Veal, 4d. to 6d. Pork, 41d. to sd.—Fresh Butter, 10d. to 11d, per lb. PRICE CP BUTTER. To the Merch an t s . To the C oun t y . Second First Quality B O B ils P• 9 Third ... ........................... 82 73 Fourth ... .................... . ...... 71 65 Fifth ................................ 62 53 Sixth ........ ...................... 48 3B CLONMELL MA RKET Per Cwt. S.—June 29. s. d. s. d. s, cl. s. d. New Butter BB oto9o 0 Hides ((raw),.......,, —oto 24 0 Oatmeal 12 0 12 3 Bacon P ......... . ... 0 40 0 Rendered Lard 0 52 0 Heads.. . . . ...... 28 0 0 Per Bag. Flour, Second 0 44 0 IFlour, Thirds 0 32 0 - -Household..,— 0 42 01 -- Feurths 22 0 -- 0 Rapeseed 20 0 Per Barrel. 0 1 Barley 13 0 0 Bere 8 4 10 0 Coals ...—.. ........... .-- 0 14 0 Per Stone. Wheat. .1 8 110 I Tallow (rough) 4 0 4 6 Oats 0 8 09 I Potatoes 0 3 ( 4 KI LKENNY MARKETS. Wheat ,per barrel)3os. Od.to 375. Od. Beef (per 1b... ; .., Os, Od. to Os. Cd, OBarley 20 0 22 0 Mutton ..... .... . ... 0 5 0 6 ats . 12 6 14 6 Pork ............... Flour (per hag) 30 0 40 0 Veal .. ....... ....... 0 0 4 0 00 0 Butter (per cwt.) 90 0 08 0 Fresh Butter ..... 0 0 1 7 Bacon Pigs 3 5 0 36 0 Salt Ditto 0 0 10 0 9 Coals '1 0 1 2 P otatoes (per st.) 0 ' ------- A ..rage, 40 4 O mune, No. 1 the county of Middles ex. _ — Th " ursday, July 4,11%98. 1 , 1 . 1 IL,