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The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON. THIS EVENING, Jura f 12, Will be produced the Historical Play of KING HENRY V., From the Text of Shakspeare. King Henry the Fifth, Mr. Macready. After which, THE MARRI \GE OF FIGARO. To-morrow, King Henry V., with A Roland for an Oliver. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.: LAST WEEK OF THE OPERA COMPANY! Great Attraction ! Two Operas in One Evening ! FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. TEMPLETON. THIS EVENING, JUNE 12,: Last time but two of Mini's Grand Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr. W. Balf?, ; Elvin°, Mr. Templeton ; Amina, Miss Romer. To conclude with the Romantic Opera of GUY MANNERING. Henry Bertram, sitl► additional Songs, Mr. Templeton. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot insert the unauthenticated account of an attack on ICU snn+ P pf al . (' '. Mr. YIkEVENING EDITION. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 139. In the House of Lords last night an interesting and instructive conversation took place on the two circulars lately issued by the Government for placing arms in the hands of one particclar class of persons, and for preventing another class from training and drilling. The Duke of BEAUFORT properly said that the circulars bad been misunderstood,and that he had discountenanced the applications which had been made to him by certain parties to have arms. The Noble Duke referred to the applications made by the Chartists of Salford and Bath ter arms, as illustrative of the working of the circular. Viscount MELBOURNE explained under what circum stances the circular had been issued, and so expressed himself as to give rise to an opinion that he did not ap prove of the circular offering arms to one class of the people. The Duke of WELLINGTON made the inconve niences of the circular more apparent, by stating that a Chartist Mayor of Bath this year might require arms for the people, and a Tory Mayor next year ; and so the factions might be armed against each other at the expense of the State. Lord ELLENBOROUGH contrasted the two circulars, and showed that while one invited some persons to arm, .the other excited the Magistrates to have them apprehended, if they learnt how to use the arms. In fact, a case has occurred at Barns ley, in Yorkshire, in which some persons, not Chartists, have been held to bail for training and drilling. The conversation ended by Lord MELBOURNE consenting to lay the circulars on the table of the House. The Report on the Sale of Beer Act Repeal Bill was received with some amendments, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time. Lord BROUGHAM seems con fident of carrying it, and hurries it on. In the Commons, Mr. PROTISEROE, who has rup tured some of the muscles of his leg, was excused from attending the Carlow Election Committee, which is to proceed without him. A good deal of business was postponed, and amongst th I •tr• O'CONNELL'S motioa for allowing a Roman Ca 15lie to be Lord Chancellor of Ireland. We rather regret " "St as we should like to see that question debated. At Present the Master of the Rolls, Sir M. O'Lootttubt, is by Common consent admitted to be a very fit man to hold the Irish seals, but he cannot, because he is a Catholic. The best mao, therefore, for the office, and the man who would best please the majority of his countrymen, cannot have the office in deference to the members of the Church of England, which, as far as Ireland is concerned, is governing the country by a minority, and for its advantage. The ridicu lous theory, then, of excluding men from public offices on account of their religion, upsets all the principles of a Representative Government, and has a tendency to in troduce anarchy into society. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, stated that he meant to incorporate a limited number of persons, including the Moderator of the General Assembly, to have the privilege of printing the authorised version of the Scriptures in Scotland. Mr. WILLIAMS complained that a petition which the House had ordered to he printed was not printed. It was answered that the petition was a political pamphlet, which Mr. WELLS, the writer, had taken this means to get printed. On a division, the order for printing it was rescinded. Mr. WAKLEY'S motion conePrning the petition of the Glasgow spinners, complaining of Mr. STUART, was postponed. After Mr. MACKINNON had obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend th© laws regirding turnpike trusts, the House was counted out at Half-past Seven o'Clock. The Bishop of LONDON, on Monday, said the claim to the general education of the people had never been made by the clergy. They claimed the right to the exclusive education of the children be longing to the Church of England, and Loin that right, with GOD'S assistance, they never would re cede. If this is all that the Church requires, what becomes of the very first resolution agreed to at Willis's Rooms— ,, That every system of educa tion intended for the people at large should be un der the superintendence of the clergy, and in con formity with the doctrines of the Church of this realm, as the recognised teacher of religion." This is widely different from the claim put forth by the pious Prelate in the House of Lords, yet this reso lution did the same individual second at the meeting of the National Society for Pro moting the Education of the Poor. This resolu tion, assented to by sixteen Prelates, by many of the Nobility and Members of the House of Commons, belonging to one psrty, pro claims that millions of Dissenters shall be ex cluded from that system of education which the Bench of Bishops, supported by the House of Lords, will alone sancti on . Thi s unc h ar i ta bl e resolution, coupled with the perverse opposition made by certain of the Dissenting clergy to the liberal, Christian, and, we may add, Protestant plan proposed by the Government, has sunk deep into the hearts of all who are anxious to save the poor, who " are destroyed for lack of knowledge," snd threatens the fulfilment of the curse—" There shall be like people, like priests." Many persons are beginning to despair of this righteous cause, when they see the very men who are shut out by the Church joining with that Church in defeating a plan which was conscientiously intended for the secular, moral, and religious education of all classes. We confidently trust, however, with the writer of the following incontrovertible arguments on this great question, that they have taken too gloomy a view of our future prospects—that bigotry and ignorance will gradually disappear before the light of truth, and that as the Church has already followed, though slowly, in the track of the friends of general education, by adopting the plans of the Lancas terian schools and Normal schools, she will still continua to follow, till that only rational and only possible system of general education, which includes all classes, shall be adopted . The following extracts are from the A/hence/tin of last Saturday " In matters of faith there are but two possible princi ples for adoption—the le:Ivo-Aim of a creed by absolute authority, or an acknowledgment of the unbounded right of every man (as co,f, , s.:edly alone answerable for the con- I s eq uences of his ov , .n decision) to jute for hims e lf. T he former is Popery. the latter Protestantism ; and betwe en them there is no mezzo termine no grounds for Jesuitical distinctions. One min has, on the Protestant principle, as good a right to private judgment as another, and has an equal right to have that judgment respected in all its le gitimate consequences. To impugn this right by restric tions, civil or religious, in any particular, is, to that ex. tent, despotism, or Popery. In point of fact, Protestan. tism is as much directed against an assumption, on the part of the State, of a control over the creed of the people, as against the Pope for imposing one particular creed. The Scotch Protestants successfully rebelled against this usurpation, while the struggle against it in England has been the cause of two revolutions. " But in the present state of the public mind, it may be most useful to touch on the practical consequences of this system of exclusion. Its chief advocates profess an ardent desire to see the people educated ; but he who really de sires an end, should desire the means essential to its ac complishment : it is tibsurd to profess to seek an object, and at the same time insist on a sine qua non condition, which renders that object unattainable. In education, there must be two parties, the teacher and the pupil. It is to no purpose that the former is willing to instruct, if the latter will not come in to his tuition,—under such circum stances, education is impossible. To place the clergy of any one sect at the head of national education, is to de cree that there shall be no education at all. Each and every sect has a perfect right to think its own the only true faith ; but, in the present position of the world, they cermet act on the thought ; for the Catholics will not be hove the P. otestants, nor Protestants the Catholics ; and the East Kent Baptists have told the Established Church that their truth is " a pernicious heresy," to be abhorred. If such be the overreaching character of religious zeal, then eduertion must be placed upon some ground which shall be neutral to all. The Bishop of London has very feelingly lamented that thousands of neglected children are wandering through the streets, "in danger of perish ing eternally, for want of education." Will this evil be lessened by affixing unpalatable conditions to tuition ? or can the Right Reverend Divine imagine that an educated man, however taught, is further off from the chances of vital Christianity, than the wandering disciples of police dis cipline ? Lord Abinger also, professing himself no enemy to toleration, protests against the nation giving other education than that of the established religion. We cannot but ask him, why ? The pretence to a right of preventing any man from educating his own children in his own way, is solemnly abjured : but what avails the ac knowledgment of the abstract proposition, when the privi lege is practically confined to him only who can pay for it? If every man could educate his own child, national educa tion by the State would be a useless and an absurd interfe rence with private rights. It is because the,poor cannot discharge this paramount duty, that the State inter feres. If, then, the State confines education within the pale of the Establishment, it practically denies the religi ous rights of the D:ssenting pauper, while it as assuredly defeats its on proposed end in undertaking the business. Would any one dare to refuse bread to all but conforming paupers ? Or is the bread of intellectual life less an inde feasible right, than that material daily bread for which we are divinely taught to pray ? " But while opinion is forming on this point, is secular education to remain as it is? Is nothing to be done till Whigs and Tories, Churchmen and Dissenters, can com pose their differences, and remember that they are men ? We know that many who have hitherto warmly advo cated a public endowment of national schools, are be ginning to waver, and to fancy that such institutions are suited only to despotic states, where the absolute will of one master can enforce universal obedience and subjugate sectarian jealousies. We, however, bate no jot of heart or hope : our faith is unshaken in the ultimate establishment of truth and of justice, in defiance of all opposition : we look on the progress of the last- thirty years, and we cannot doubt of its influences on the generations which are to come." We rejoice to learn, from the complaints made by the advocates and defenders of the plunderers by means of the bread-tax, that the Anti-Corn-law League is effecting great good. The Poll-tax men are dreadfully alarmed. Lecturers are their abhor ' rence ; cheap publications fill them with dread ; they are apprehensive of nothing so much as the people getting accurate knowledge ; and they are calling for subscriptions and devising means to keep up ignorance and delusion. They are worthy allies of the clergy, engaged like them in a crusade against knowledge and honesty. Fortunately for us, the only means they can possibly have recourse to, that of sending forth counteracting cheap publi cations, and rival lecturers, will the more provoke discussion, and the more rapidly bring their mono poly to an end. It is as impossible that the gigan tic system of plunder by law, which is instituted for the exclusive benefit of the idle, do-nothing landlords, and the do-mischief tithe-Lords can be con tinued, when the eyes of the nation are opened to its true nature and consequences, as that the nation should tolerate a gigantic system of Burking. The horrible proposition of MARCUS was at once seen through and abominated ; and whenever the more horrible scheme of the landlords is seen through, as it must be by the light of knowledge, it will be dissolved. We say more horrible, because that was the painless extinction of those who had never known pleasure, while this is the painful ex tinction by a slow and lingering process of those who are sensibly alive to all the pangs of want and hunger. Whenever the scheme of the land lords to enrich themselves at the expense of starving the people shall be properly appreciated, it will be, like the abortive scheme of MAR cus, stifled by the execrations of the people. That end must be promoted by discussion, and thus the Corn-law advocates, by proposing to counter act the Anti-Corn-law League, will but hasten, the inevitable doom. Even such rows as they kicked up at Huntingdon and Cambridge cannot serve them, though a repetition of such conduct will add to their disgrace. We have more than once called the public at tention to the fact that a great contest is going on throughout Europe between the ecclesiastical and secular authorities. The dispute between the Archbishops of COLOGNE and POSEN on the one side, and the King of PRUSSIA on the other; and between the Scotch Church and the Law Tribunals, are only parts of this general contest. Our squabbles about education belong to the same extensive strife. Nominally it is the Clergy and their deluded followers against the Whigs, but effectively it is the priesthood against the secular power. The attempt of the Privy Council to assume a controul over education, by under taking to improve it, and so removing it from under the special dominion of the priesthood, is what excites the latter to resistance and sedition. In this great quarrel the Tories are traitors to the secular power, and they would creep into office as the tools of its opponents. They are parties to the universal conspiracy of the priesthood, to usurp or maintain influence over the mind, and to gratify their own ambition, they are willing to betray the best interests of mankind, and place them in mental slavery. __......._ The public will rejoice to see by an advertisement from the Post-office that steps have been taken to accelerate and increase the communication between England and Ireland. Every such proof of activity in the Post-office, however, only excites in us hopes of further improvement. According to the arrange ments proposed, Dublin—and of course all Ireland will share in the advantage—will receive two mails from London per day, at the convenient hours of seven in the morning and seven in the evening; and we hope that departures from Ireland will secure a similar advantage to London. At present the delay in delivering letters after the day mails arrive is so great, that a considerable portion of the ad vantages for which the additional expense is incurred is lost to the inhabitants of the metropolis. The public offices may receive their despatches as soon as the mail arrives, and the Treasury may not, therefore, be acquainted with the delay ; but, from our own experience, we can affirm that the letters which reach London by the day mails are not delivered for two or three hours after the arrival of the mails. Due diligence seems not to he used in sorting the letters ; and we must again recommend the authorities to have this great metropolis divided into districts, and have the letters so far sorted in provincial places as to come here almost prepared for delivery. By this and other means which the authorities may adopt, the delivery of letters will be greatly facilitated. We are afraid, too, unless some other ar rangements are adopted than those which at present exist, and which are proposed, that the time at which the second mail is to leave Dublin will prevent it reaching the metropolis so as to be of much advantage to men of business. It is now pro posed that the two packets which are to pass between Dublin and Liverpool, and which will enable the two capitals to communicate with each other in twenty-four hours, shall leave Dublin at 5 30 P M., and at 11 30 P.m., with only an interval of six hours between them. That arrangement may be useful to the north-west of England, but for the metropolis it would, we believe, be more advan tageous that the which now leaves Dublin at eight o'clock in the morning for Holyhead should come by Liverpool, and so bring by the shortest conveyance all the intelligence which reaches Dublin by the morning mails. By not send ing a mail off for Liverpool in the morning, e e news which may reach Dublin from the other parts of Ireland in the morning, being sent only by the Holyhead packet, will not reach London for thirty-six hours, when it might come hither in twenty-four. There may be difficulties in the way of what we propose of which we are not aware, and some objects may be contemplated by the arrangements proposed that are not apparent on tile face of them, but at present they seem to us not exactly calculated to satisfy the inhabitants of London. Mr. PETER BORTHWICK, of whom the laughter loving world appears to be becoming ungratefully forgetful, has addressed a letter to the Morning Herald, expressive of his discredit of the Carlist massacre of the women and children of the town of 14011 in Catalonia, officially proclaimed in the columns of the Moniteur. PETER is a man of weight and influence ; and to prove to his Spanish friends the extent of his devotion to the cause of the PRETENDER, he boldly opposes a surmise to an official statement guaranteed by the high cha racter of General HA RISPE. This is not the conduct of an ordinary partizan. Men less sensible of their claims to national belief than the redoubted PETER, and less anxious to display the full extent of their zeal, would have waited for the arrival of some letter or report, throwing discredit upon an official statement, before pronouncing it " of no futher importance than as it illustrates the facility with which inven- tion can attribute cruelties to those who only suffer them." But PETER knows and feels that his opinions are entitled to more credit than facts resting upon the testimony of any Government, and he seizes the proper occasion to demand credence for them. Be sides, PETER has been in Spain, and, like the tra veller in the fable, arrests us with— " Sir, if my judgment you'll allow, I've seen, and sure I ought to know." Thus, with the easy familiarity of a courtier, who spent upwards of 11, week within sight of the illustrious Court of Estella, and was permitted for nearly fifteen minutes together to stand in the august presence of Don CARLOS—he observes in his letter to the Herald : " I should be guilty of a criminal and cowardly deser tion of truth, if, after what I have seen and know of the Ministry, and of the General-in-Chief of the King of Spain, I hesitated to declare my firm conviction that not one of those distinguished persons is capable of sanctioning cruelty or unfair warfare in any shape whatever." This is surely as conclusive as it is modest. With a humility truly rare in these times of up start pretension, PETER does. not once allude to what he saw and knew of the " King of Spain," but contents himself with vouching for the humanity of his Majesty's Ministers and his General-in-Chief. PETER might have told us if he pleased that he was as familiar with the PRETENDER as he was with his Ministers ; but this, with the modesty characteristic of great minds, he has thought proper to omit. He might have even gone farther, for he might have added that he actually saw Don CARLOS, which amounts to a personal intimacy, denied him in the instance of some of the Prince's advisers. For the re verses experienced by MAROTO, the Carlist apolo gist, PETER, reverts to the Spanish career of no less a General than the Duke of WELLINGTON. Verily, his Grace may well regard the following as a left-handed compliment, though proceeding from a source so worthily Conservative : " If you think the retrograde movement of Maroto upon Llodio over Ramales and Guardamino, a movement con ducted with equal skill and success, a proof of bad ge neralship, then you must condemn all retreats, and the '• foremost man of the day,"the Duke of Wellington, must be, in your account, no soldier, because he retreated, leav ing his wounded, by-the-bye, from Talavera de la Reyna, and from Burgos," &c. It might be argued in favour of the DUKE that his retreats led to victory—MAßOTO'S to shameful defeat ; that his Grace never retreated before a force which his army, under the command of a pre decessor, had been able for three years to keep in check, whereas the conquerors under ZARIATEGUI, EGUIA, and GOMEZ, were the conquered under MoßoTo's generalship. But what are plain facts when opposed to the fancies of Mr. PETER BORTH WICK ? Well may iVIARrYro exclaim, if he escape long enough to receive another flying visit from the honourable admirer of Parthian tactics in modern warfare— " Welcome, thou worthy partner of my laurels Thou brother of my choice I—a bond more sacred Than Nature's brittle tie. By holy Friendship I Glory and Fame stood still for thy arrival : My soul scem'd wanting of its better half, And languish'd for thy absence, like a prophet Who watts the inspiration of his God." As long before that time, however, there is just reason to fear that MAROTO will die the death of a traitor and a murderer—for he is both—we do not see that Mr. PETER BORTHWICK could dis play his intimate acquaintance with the Court of Estella to more advantage than in writing epitaphs for that General, and his colleaczues of the PRE TENDER'S Cabinet. Perhaps short memoirs, after the WALTON fashion, would be still better, as they would afford space for the more racy of the countless anecdotes which so observant a traveller, and so discriminating .:a judgeof human character as the illustrious PETER must have picked up during a six weeks' peregri nation in the Basques, with no other drawback to the acquisition of know ledge: but the trifling obsta cles arising from an ignorance of the language, the history, the religion, and the manners of the people, Bestir thyself, good Master PETER. Thou hast a marvellous invention, and—as thy letter to the Herald proves—no lack of assurance. " Don CARLOS, his Court, and his Ministers, from mate rials supplied during a fifteen minutes interview with the PRINCE, an eight-day residence. in his capital, and a six weeks' sojourn in Spain, by an ex-comic performer of Hamlet," will be no bad title, good Master PETER, for thy book. About it, then, straight ; it will do more credit to thy inventive powers than attacking the veracity of official despatches. One part of the Tory creed is, that Members of the House of Commons should disregard their constituents. They receive power, like the priests, from a kind of divine mission, and are not responsi ble, as they think, for its exercise. They disdain appeals to the people, and have, in their own en lightened convictions, a safer guide than public opinion. They may vote or not vote, they say, according to their own judgment; and to be obliged to act under the dictati on of their constituencies is to be delegates, - not representatives. Poor deluded men I if they do not defer to the constituencies they have other masters. The service of the Times is not one of perfect freedom, as that Journal gave the Tory Members, yesterday - , plainly to understand. The Tory Members: are admonished that they have got an unbusintss-like habit of indulging in dinner society, and they dine when the Times re quires them to be at its command. Poor wretches! even the negro is allowet I to dine—the factory girls are allowed to dine—btr t the Tory Members must not dine ; it is contrary to the wish and command of the Times. Verily, the Tory country gentle men who love their east ,—the Tory eldest sons of Tory Peers—the few wt :althy Tory merchants and bankers, who sit in the House of Commons, and even the younger s( ins and mere office and salary seekers of the part ;y, have given themselves a hard task-master. They have got a habit of dining which the 7 'toes undertakes to correct. Let it empty their put ses, and it will cure them. Our readers will z r‘o doubt be curious to know why the task-master nww scolds his dining slaves. The majority was 34.. The Tories were left in a considerable minority .„ an d the Times immediately smacks its cart-whip, and flogs the hides of the Tory Members. Fort nerly they were admonished not to frequent gambi jug-houses and balls when they ought to be at a ti, ivision ; next, for some simi lar offence, they were d escribed as half atheists and infidels; and now they a re reproached with being too fond of the pleasures of the table. A JOHN K.Nox or a ROWLAND Hu; r. never applied the spiritual scourge more rigoro t isly and dexterously to his congregation than the Times applies it to the Tory Members of the Ho- as k of Commons. "H. B. is very impartial, ar p robably may find an appro priate subject f or a skes. ch, in the Ti mes flo gg i ng the Tory Memb ers i ioin the dinner tabl e , w i t h Si r JAMES GRAHAM, in tin' House of C ommons , talking against time t r , a ll ow the whipped-up Tories to reach it before th,e.tlivisiori.. The proceedings ha tlie French Chamber of Deputies on Monday, are concitsive proofs of the little influence which the Cabinet is, able to exercise over the delibera tions of that Assembly. I Nothing can be more inoppor tune for the Govercurvantt, at the present moment, than an unnecessary display of e ympathy for the patriots who fell during the " tly re ' e e n nous days." When, there fore, M. Cuaru , ,, DE A lONTLAVILLE proposed, on Monday, that tb . , rema i ns; „ of the victors of July should be collected in- one t( anb fit . the foot of the monument now in the c ourse of erection, to perpetuate the memory -. of that eve' s t , M. D L ICIIATEL, Minister of the I n t er i or , opposed it on t h e gr , Fund ttati ~ the Government had it in contemplation to ' bring in a , . Bill upon the anbject. The Chamber, however, una n i t . 10%31Y adopted M. CIIA. PUIS DE MONTLAV7 ,ILLE'S p , oi , , s iti,en, from whose very able speech, on th' is occasir ,n, v ,, e s e L 'ect the following extract :—.. " Tho preservaf ion of the o f the heroes who had ~~, TUE gITN I LONDON, wEDNESDAY , l2, 1839. fallen on that memorable occasion was a noble prisilege conferred by France upon the capital. The presence of their manes within its walls, he said, would be an eternal warning to the meti in power never to forget that the strength of a G overnment resided i n l ega li ty , and in a scrupulous respect for the Constitution. They did not fight to gain crowns, but to give crowns; they did not expect, after the victory, to obtain ranks, honours, lu crative situations ; they knew that they had no snch remu nerations to expect; they unconditionally offered their lives to thei r country and liberty ; they were animated with the purest love of country—ii was the noblest instinctof the soul th a t exc i ted them to die. Without ambition, without any desire of personal advancement, they knew that if they escaped the royal bullets, once order was restored, they should return to their workships, to earn an existence by the sweat of their brow, and that they should derive no other satisfaction than the innate conviction of having done their duty, and thi; satisfaction of conscience they deemed sufficient. Unite in the same tombs the remains of those holy victims, deposit them at the foot of the monume n t w hi ch is now to the revolution of July, 1830, on the spot where the revolution of 1789 originated and triumphed, and then only will you have it in your power t o say that you have done your d uty. " During the s ame s i tt i ng, the Cham b er a d opte d t h e project of law for granting compensation to the widows and children of the National Guards killed in the enzeulcs of the 12th and 13th of May. Thirty-nine votes were giv en aga i nst the measure. The disarming of the pupils of the Polytechnic School is loudly condemned by the Opposition Press. All the gunsmiths of P ar i s h ave likewise united i n a protest against being compelled to act as police spies, in the in stance of persons purchasing fire-arms at their shops, as the Government now proposes they shall do. No credit is attached to the professions of the Ca binet to render more effectual assistance to the Queen Of SPAIN. A letter from Bayonne, of the 6th instant, has the fol lovving :—"Since the occupation of Orduna, Espartero has not fired a shot. He is fortifying with great care Orduna and Arceniega. A great fermentation was said to exist amongst the Carlist troops. Maroto was rapidly falling into disgrace with Din Carlos, and losing his influence also with the army. In Navarre several battalions had refused to obey his orders for marching to Durango. A report had reached Bayonne that a military insurrection had broken out three days before at Estella, during which cries of Death to Itlaroto were frequently uttered. It is added that on General Diego Leon being informed of the circum stance, be had marched on the same day to within a few leagues of Estella." BOUR S E. P Al<lB, 'MONDAY, JUNK 10. f'frai Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ... ...... a: l 43 ... 111 50 ... 111 45 ... 1,1 50 3 per Cents 7O 83 ... Si) ... 79 85 ... SO Bank of France ...... Laffitte Bank I,ooof. SM lO7O ...Rl.° ...1070 _lO7O 5,004.0 h 5230 ~• 5 235 ...533) ...5233 Belgian 5 per Cents l O2 ... 102 ... 10'2 ... iO2 3 per Cents 72 65 ... :3 65 ~. 72 CO ... 72 CO Bank 8" ... Sl9 ... 800 ... 811) Coupons Spanish Active ll l4 ... 19+?.i ... IN ... 19X Portuguese 3 per Cents Nea, entail Roman I RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 7OO ... 70J ... 700 ... 700 L.B. 469 ... ` 2 f l o ... 195 ... 195 Havre St. Germain . C ''‘ ) ••• GOO ... 660 ... 660 Madrid Papers of the 3d inst. have been received, but their contents are of no political influence. The Carlist General Count D'ESPAGNE, has published a despatch, with his account of the capture of Ripoll, in Catalonia, in which he states that the lives of 400 pri soners were saved. He admits that " innocent victims fell," but rejoices in witnessing in the destruction of Kipoll " a nest of hornets, enemies of religion and royalty," a manifestation of the " sure justice of God !" What blasphemous villains these Carlist cut-throats are. Of the much-talked of co-operation of the French Government with that of England in the tranquillization of Spain, we find the following statement in the Me morial Bordelais of the Bth instant. We have said elsewhere that it was not credited in Paris, because no promise of the Government was supposed to be worth a straw : It is reported that Espartcro is powerfully recommended to the Queen by the Tuileries C.-.binet, and it is even af firmed that the new Ministry of the 12th of May ( Soult) has sent to Madrid a plan of attack, to surround by degrees the privileged provinces of Biseu and of Navarre. This plan would consist of re-establishing the communications between the Encartaciones and Bilbao, in seizing upon and fortifying the necessary points ; afterwards an effort would be made to take possession of all the ports on the coast, from Portugalette to St. Sebastian—a difficult operation, but which would be aided by the English and French na vies, in order to contract the circle of the Carlist insurrec tion, by depriving it of all resources by sea. The line of Valcarlos would then only remain to be re-established to prevent the passing of supplies by the Pyrenees, and thus prepare the way for the campaign of 1840. God grant that, in the meanwhile, the belligerents may come to an understanding to restore peace and tranquillity 1" QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) Til! QUI:E! , :, U. HAWDON AND °TREAS.— . PAUL PAY. " The defendants, C. Hawdon, J. A. Richardson, and G. H. Richardson, were this morning called upon to receive judgment for the publication of a series of libels in the " Paul Pry," reflecting on the charact er o f M r . S m ith son , an Attorney, in • Southampton-buildings, Chancery -lane. Several affidavits having been recd, Mr. JEItVIS on behalf G. Richardson, another learned Gentleman on behalf of J. A. Richardson, and Hawdon in person, were heard in mitigation of punishment, and Mr. ALsswxnsw in aggravation. Mr. Justice LITTLKDA L E then passed the sentence of the the Court, and said, that with regard to the defendant, J. A. Richardson, the C iurt was of opinion that the ends of justice would be satisfied with a nominal punishment, and, 'therefore, he should be discharged on the payment of Is. C. Hawdon was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in the Alarshal sea, and G. 11. Richardson to three months' imprisonment in the same prison. THE QUEEN D. DRURY. The defendant appeared this morning on the floor of the Court, for the purpose o f rece i v i ng judgment for a libel pub lished by himin the Lincoln Gazette, of which Paper he is proprietor, reflecting on the character of the Rev. Sir Charles Anderson. He expressed his sorrow for having hurt the feel ings of Sir Charles Anderson, and having apologised in the most ample manner, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on behalf of the prosecutor, ex pressed himself perfectly satisfied with the apology, and did not press for punishment, and the defendant was discharged. In the course of the morning the Speaker of the House of Commons entered the Court, and was greeted most cordially by Lord Denman and the Learned Judges on the Benches. Having taken the necessary oaths to enable him to act as a Privy Councillor, the Hon. Gentleman retired. COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY.) The Conti; this being the last day of term, gave judgments the following cases : HOPE T. WEST. This was a rule nisi for a new trial, upon three grounds :—first, misdirection ; secondly, that the Jury found a verdict on all the counts, when the Judge told them there was no evidence in the first count ; thirdly, an arrest in judgment. The rule was made absolute on the second ground, but not upon the other two. COOK V. STEVENS. This was a rule to show cause why the defendant's plea of a release from one of the two co-plaintiffs should not be set aside, with costs. The action was upon the covenant by defendant to pay the excess beyond 20s. in the pound received from other parties upon two bills of exchange—the breach assigned by the declaration was, that the defendant had received two sums of 145/. and 481. from other parties—and he pleaded a release from one of the co-plaintiffs. The CouaT said that the rule of law was, that a release should not be set aside unless there was evidence of fraud be tween the releasor and the defendant, and in this case they thought there was no such evidence.—Mule discharged. MUSKETT V. HILL. This was an action upon the case for obstructing plaintiff in the enjoyment of a license to mine, (somewhere in Devon shire) which he had received as the assignee of two parties, Cettry and Stacey, who had been in possession. The case was argued at great length, a term or two ago. The plaintiff had a verdict on the three first pleas, the defeudantlon the 4th. The plaintiff appeared for judgment on the 4th plea, non obstante, as insufficient, and as against evidence. It was objected first, that the license to mine conveyed no interest that could be as signed. The Court drew the distinction between a license merely to do anything on another's land, and a license to carry away the produce—the latter was in the nature of a grant, and would therefore be assigned. The defendant also objected that the alleged obstruction was before both parties had exe cuted the assignment, though after one had. As, however, there had been a subsequent general refusal to admit the plain tiff's workmen, the Court over-ruled this objection. It was further urged that the action should have been one of covenant or trespass, and not upon the case. The Court held that a man sustaining temporal loss or damage, by the wrongful act of another, might bring his action on the case. The fourth plea, admitting the breach, disputed the sufficiency of the no tice. The Court held the notice bad, but decided that as he admitted the allegation of breach in the declaration, the pe titioner was entitled to judgment on all th e p l eas, non ob stante, &c. 'rite Court will sit in banco (under the new act) till Satur day; and from next Wednesday to the following Saturday. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. (Before Lord Abinger and Mr. Justice Littledale. ) Northampton—Monday, July 8. Oakham—Friday, July 12. Lincoln and City—Saturday, J u l y 13. Nottingham and Town—Thursday, July 18. Derby—Saturday, July 20. Leicester and Bolough—Wednesday, July 24. Coventry and Warwick—Saturday, July 27, MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) .._ CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain . and Flour, this week, have been mode rate, and Foreign. s value, other qualities have been The best Wheat has ob able. In Barley, Beans, and P . eas. •, no change. Oatsobtained rtaaitneedboAtihonodfay rather higher rates. Little doing in the Flour trade. A RRIVALs. ' Barley. 0 ,ir,. English .....•...• 2, Rio qrs. Wheat. Irish ......•••••• 4,2C0 n '''''''''''''''' AND LEADENHALL I . I Foreign The supply was large, but trade dull, and prices lower. Pee 3s. to 4s. M utton 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Lamb ss. to ss. Bd, Veal 35. 4EI. to 45. Bd. Pork 3s. dd. to 4s. Bd. Irish 3s. to 3s. 6d. Poultry in small supply, few buyers at market, and prices lower. Fowls 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Geese 4s. to es. 6d. Rabbits Is. to Is. 6d. Leverets 3s. to Gs. Quails Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. Dottrells 2s. to 3s. 6d. Ducks 2s. to 2s. 9d. Chickens 2 s. to 3s. Peafowls Os. t o I Is.. Guineafowls 3s. to 4s. 6d. Eggs 4s. 6d. to ss. 3d. per 120. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies good, and prices much as before. Turblt, 4s. egl• 2 to 155.: Solo, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; S a l mon, I.A. and 25. perW h i t l iri b. g ; s , 11 4d. laek t od a 70. 1, Bd. to Is. d. ; Hadd oc k s , 6d. to Is. ; Oata. I Flour 980 qm 1,3110 acks 6,29 brls. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JUNE 11.—Wind S.W. fin© weather.—Arrived the J( hn, Smith, from Calcutta; Mary Eliza, Pattison, Do. ; Captain Cooke, Ceylon ; Eiiza Stewart, Miller, Canton ; Runnymede, Manilla; John7Roruily, Kendall, Cape of Good Hope; Loyal William, Fannel, River Gambia; Annanda'e, Burgess, Jamaica; Osbert, Domi nica ; Imogene, Maxwell, Canton; Leontine, Samarang; Biencystock, Cuba ; Orient, St. Thomas ; Proven, Charleston. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Montreal, Griffin, from New York ; her Majesty's ship Bolivar, Bermuda; and Emily, Walch, Youghal. Sail d her Mjesty's ship Childers, Mediterranean; and Spey, Brauly, Qacbec. Pr.l 7 NtotTrn, JUNE 10.—Arrived Willmct, Miller, from Batavia ; Wm. Glen, Anderson Clering, Sierra Leone; and Mary, Jackson, Hamburg. Sailed Amelia Thompson, Dawson, Sydney. FALMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind S S.W. to W. S.W. fresh breczae.__.Arrived the Chas. Buchan;from Port-au- Pfince. Sailed Royal Tar (steamer), Vigo. Off port— Gustava, Bolair, New York; and Dement, Reddell, Ho bart Town.. LivrarooL, JUNE 10.—Wind, N. W., fresh Isreezes.— Arrived the Adrastus, Day, from the Mauritius ; Black Prince, Martin, Valparaiso ; Priscilla, Pernambuco ; Dyson, Miler, Utica; Governor, Jamaica; Ocean Queen, M‘Master, Laguna ; Paragon, Hardy, Trinidad; Delhi, Crocker, New Oilcans ; Waterville, Monte Video ; North Britain, Sullivan, New Orleans ; Osciola, Child, ditto ; Laurens, Micry, ditto ; Catherine, Morat, ditto ; Almatia, Winsor, ditto; Gulnare, Barnharn, Mobile ; Seajil, Leslie, ditto; Harriet, Muneford, ditto; Alfred, Churas, Savannah ; Hillsborough, Lamb, ditto; Harriet and Jessie, Rogers, Charleston ; Chieftain, Steel, ditto ; Mary, Shepperd, ditto; Laguna, Freeman, Virginia; Magura, New York; Sheffield, Allen, ditto; Cubi;t, Sumner, ditto; Orange Branch, Lisbon. Off port, Al batros, Africa; Phoenix, Antigua; Clyde, New Orleans ; Helens, ditto. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—We have had a fair demand for cotton to-day, and prices have been fully maintained. The sales are :3,000 hags, all to the trade. Arrivals this morning—French mail ; and ship letters from Valparaiso ; Sydney 19th January ; Hobart Town 16th February ; Cape of Good Hope 28th March ; Sin gapore ; New. York by the Montreal. From Hubert town papers received to the 16th February : —The Derwent will sail for England this evening, the Colonial Secretary and family take their passage in her. W e have received Canton papers to the 13th February. The above papers contain a long proclamation from the Governor, ordering the back-doors of the factories to be blocked up with loose bricks. (Extract.) " Tang, Governor of Canton, etc., proclaims to the security merchants, for their full information:— " Whereas, on the 22d day of the 12th moon (26th Jan.) I received a despatch from the Hopp°, setting forth the following :—lt appears that in reference to the foreigners' factories, they are inking back doors fronting the north, I already gave forth my edict, command ing that, agreeably with the memorial presented to the Emperor in the time of Keen Ling, these should be stopped up to conform exactly with the old rule, and prevent leaking (out and in); and at the same time I wrote to your Excellency that your Excellency should issue orders for the same being put into force, as on record ; however it appears that the Hong merchants have petitioned me to the following eliect:—We the Hong merchants, with deep respect to all 11” particulars your Excellency's Edict, several times impressed upon them, the said foreigners, that they should take the back doors fronting the north and have them stopped up when it appears they all said with one voice that they had not opened these back doors for the intention of smuggling, but as a precaution in case of fire." TEA PROSPECTS OF UPPER ASSAM. September 8. My dear Sir,—l write these few lines, knowing it will be agreeable to you to learn ab ou t t ea , an d our ings in this quarter. lam happy to say that the manufacturing ;s now finally over for the season, with treble the quantity of tea made last year, and very likely more, as it is not weighed. I sadly fear we shall not have hands to manu facture next year, for the people are engaged in sowing their rice crops, and will not work for us. We are happy to learn that C,:ptain Elliot has at length been empowered by the Home Government to establish a maritime police at \Vhampoa; for the serious mutinies on board the John Bull and Imogen loudly called for some severe coercive measures for the preservation of order among the crews of the British ve.ist:ls, and for the pro tection of life and property. COMMERCIAL REMARKS.-Cotton.-In the Bengal staple there has been no transactions of any importance ; the holders maintained higher prices than the dealers at present were disposed to give. During the week, various sales ',were made, to the extent, of Bombay cotton, of 4,000 bales, of good and middling qualities. Cotton Yarn—Sale of about 200 bales of Water Twist have been made, but Mule Twist, is very low. Long Cloths.—A few thousand pieces white and grey have changed hands at a shade lower than the previous prices. . . Opium—A seizure on the river was made a few days since from a Chinese boat, nhich led to the detection of a smuggling transaction of some opium connected with if, and which has caused much investigation by the Govern ment, and c•msiderable alarm among the dealers. The deliveries from fling-Kong during the past have been of Old Patna 4, New Patna 119, Old Benarcs 11, New Benares 26, Malwa 107,—total 227 chests, prin cipally sent to Macao and the Westward; but no estimate of sales can be given. Woollens—Pretty extensive sales have been made last week, say 4 to .5,005 pieces, but at low prices. We have the arrival of two more New York packet ships, bound to Liverpool and London, but they are of old dates. The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London in the week ending on Saturday last were as fol lows :—According to the ot1;ial returns 4,580 ounces of gold bars shipped to Hamburg, 3,750 ounces of gold coin to the same place, 7,400 of silver coin to the West In dies, and 20,000 ounces of silver bars to Bombay ; thus it will be seen that the shipment of bullion from this country has greatly diminished. The Governor of the Mauritius has issued a proclamation for the final termination of the apprenticeships in that colony, which is to take place on the 31st of March. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday were at much the same rate as on the previous post day. Consols opened this morning at the same quotation they closed at, 94 to e, for the Account ; Reduced 924 / I. The reports at the west end of the town of some of the Ministers going to resign, requires as yet confirmation. No credit is given to the above reports in the City, which may be observed by the steadiness of the British funds. The Foreign Market is quite inactive, and the prices are nominal as yet, Spanish Active, 191-i ; Portuguese 351 ; Three per Cents. 211 ; Brazilian, 791 a ; Bel gian, 1011 102 • Colombian, 31 ; Mexican, 261 ; D u t c h Two-and-a• Half per Cents. 56 1 ; Fire per Cents., 1021 108 k. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock lll3 IY, 21 . India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. s23‘l4 1 Ditto Bonds 34 31 pni. 3 per Cent. Cons -i South Sea St oc k — 3 per Cent 99% 1 Old Annuities - Ditto Red. - New 3% per Cent New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. —32 urn. Jan. 5, 1800 14% 5-16 Ditto Small 34 32 pin. Oct. 10, 1559......„ ........... Ditto Commercial — Irv'. Jan. 5, MO — Ditt o Ad vertised ..... —— r -u. Jan. 5, 1880 — sank Stock fer Account .. li/4 3 April 5, 1880 -- India Stock for Account ... Jan . 5. 1870 - Consos for Aoceunt 94% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS TIII3 DAI A'r ON L O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds — i Peruvian Bonds .... Belgian Bonds —! Porttiguese Bonds. Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bends —l Ditto, 3 per Cent. ` fig Ditto Account ....... .. Chilian Bands ' —' Prussian Bonds — D tto Account Spanishitto Metallic ) Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, H 24 ... 31%14 '.— It% Ditto Account -- Passive Ditto Account — Def,rred B% Greek Bonds French, 5 per sent.... —f. —e. Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account --- 3 per c 4 per c ent ent ...." —I: —c. —f. —r. ----- Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. --- Exchange. —f. --• Ditto account ......... ...... Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto, G per Cent , Ditto Account — Ditto Account —, Ditto, 5 per cent . 102% Neapolitan. .....', Ditto Acc0unt........ — PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 16 10% :ompzny III )„1116% AN GE YESTERDAY. I Gibraltar 4B Leghorn .30 30 Genoa 25 75 Milan.... 3l Venice Naples Pa:enno . per oz. 120 Lisbon ... .......... ........... ..... .. 54% Opor'o 54% Rio Janeiro ns Bahia 27 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia 4n PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. Portugal Gold, c0in.....i0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in br.rs... S IS 0 New Doubloons . ..... .... 0 0 0 New Dollars 4 10 0 5 A Silver in Bars MALP-PAST GIVE. The British and foreign markets have continued inactive during the morning, but the most important feature is a decline of Bank Stock from If to 2 per Cent. ; the cause of this sudden del): e3sion is not exactly known, report says the joint stock banks have Leen selling the above stock ; others are of opinion that it is owing to the scarcity of money, which no doubt exists at present, particularly:in the Foreign market, for which an enormous rate of discount is demanded. Eastern Counties Railway ...... London and Greenwich rtailway CI COUItSE OF EXCHI A nsterdam C.F. 12 5W at sight R...... U l2 6 A itwerp... I,mburg • Altona 3 days' sight 25 45 ..................3Otto Ms 25 75 .......... 25 t-13 13 mrdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 152 ?etersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us ION Berlin i %cie ie n , n te a . ,..e . tf .d ec it t t i o ve 6-3 M 13 1 07 3 Madrid. Cadiz 37g Gilboa Bircelona 36% Serille Cape of Good Hope papers ar ! just receive I. They contain a very long correspondence respcctir g the furnishing of gunpowder and arms to the Cafffes ; but there is no news in them from the Borders. The Batavier, Dutch steamer, has arrived. The Dutch Two-and..a-Half per Cents. are 5-1-,1 15-16, lower than the last prices ; Fire per Cents 102 7-16. Consols same as in the morning, ; Reduced 92i, has Bank Stock reced e d upwards of 2 per cm'. been done at 92j ; Exchequer illlls, 30 31 ; I n di a B an d s , a3t43 1; 1934, present, 191. Spanish Active, 19i ; Port uguese, 351; Three per Cents., 21i; Colombian, 311 ; Brazilian, 791 ; Dtitch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 564 ; Five per Cents., 1021. Died, on the 4th inst., at Bath, aged 72, Clive, Esq., brother of Henry Clive, Esq., late candidate for the representation of Ludlow, and Mr. E. B. Clive, M. P. for this city. The news of the melancholy event reached Mr. Henry Clive, on Thursday, by letter, which he found waiting his arrival at Dinham House, from th , .. Guildhall, where he had been returning thanks to his friends and supporters. The Hon. Gentleman took his departurefrom tyLcuodulonw, Press.inconsequence, a few minutes after.—Her e ford LITERATURE. FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE of the MODE in which the LAW is ADMINISTERED by COUNTRY MAGISTRATES. This is the title of a pamphlet which has just been published by Ridgway. It is from the pen of Major Handley, a Magistrate of Lincolnshire, and gives an instructive dektil of certain proceedings of his brethren the worshipful Justices of the Peace for the Parts of Kesteven. A more unscrupulous set than the author makes out these Lincolnshire worthies to be, it is not easy to imagine. More than the half of them, to be sure, are parsons, and when we have said that, our readers will be prepared for any deviation from truth, for any perversion of justice, for any malignity of feeling, for any low tricks of circumvention—in short, for any kind or degree of misconduct to which power in improper hands has always been known to lead. Of all t',►e numerous evils connected ►sith the legal establish ment of a dominant sect, that of investing its priests ►with temporal power is the greatest. In any hands power is a dangerous deposit—in those of a priest it is a positive curse, both to society, and to the individual who exercises it, under so many temptations, not merely to abuse it, but to pervert it to the worst of purposes. Mr. Waters, the Rev. Magistrate with whom origi nated the persecuting proceedings against Major Hand ley, which have inflicted so much disgrace on the Magis tracy of the Kesteven district, was caught by the Major in the act of strangling a case brought before him as a Magistrate. His conduct was represented, as it ought to have been, to the Deputy Lieutenant of the county ; and in order to extricate himself from a not very pleasant (dilemma, this wealthy clergyman, putting a confident, ec clesiastical face upon the matter, sits down and concocts a statement, by way of a counter-charge against his detector in the aforesaid act, who had, in the justifiable warmth of the moment, expressed himself somewhat un courteously in regard to his conduct, which statement he transmits to a brother Magistrate, to be used as a weapon of attack. It appears to hare been put into skilful hands. General Johnson, the Chairman of the Sessions, becomes the willing instrument of Waters' plans. He carefully treasures up the document en trusted to him, reading just so much of it as suite his purpose—of bringing a charee of assault against Major Handley, but refusing—will it be believed ?—to give the accused either a copy or a sight of the paper containing the accusation. Whether this be a mode of acting consistent either with the spirit of justice or the practice of Courts, we shall leave others to determine, but it certainly is very convenient to those ►who adopt it, as it enables them to shift their ground as occasion may require —a species of tactics at which the Hon. and Gallant Officer has proved himself to be singularly expert. It may not be quite out of place, if we here consider the defence which Gen. Johnson sets up for this departure from the ordinary course of procedure, and also the qualifications which he possessed for carrying on, with a due degree of ardour and perseverance, the persecution of Major Handley. The following extract will throw a little light on the subject : In the letter to Mr. Chaplin, the Vice-Lieutenant ; above quoted, General Johnson, then thoroughly enlisted as a partizan, hints " that Mr. Waters may carry the affair into a court of law, when Major Handley's having a copy of this early written letter might be injurious." In. jurious to whom ? It, could not be so to Major Hand ley, for in a court of law Mr. Waters could not make evidence for himself, whatever party spirit may enable him to effect in the Parts of Kesteven. Then it seems Mr. Waters' " early written letter" might not benefit his own case. Therefore it is, his friend, General Johnsen, refuses to supply Major Handley with a copy of a docu ment which ultimately is used as a bill of indictment against him, and upon the allegations of which an application is made to the Secretary of State. Yet this gentleman thinks fit, as will be seen hereafter, to shelter himself against all personal conse quences under cover of " public duty." And whence proceeds this conduct on the part of a man of station and character? The answer is short. At a meeting in Lon don, on the 9th of February, 183 S, General Johnson held up to public odium the conduct of the Guardians of the Bourn Union, as wanting in humanity towards the poor, and quoted three cases as within his own knowledge. On the 22d of the same month the Bourn Guardians, by let ter, requested General Johnson to furnish them with the names and parishes of the parties said to have been treated with inhumanity, and expressed an anxious desire to give explanations as soon as they learned in what quarter to direct inquiry. To this request General Johnson replied by saying— " I feel there would be no end to this sulject, if I was to enter into an explanation with every Board of Guardians to whom I may allude when expressing my dislike of the Now Poor-law ; at the same time I thank those at Bourn for the offer of explanation on their part, which I will avail myself of when I see occasion." Of this Board Major liandley is Chairman ; and such was the feeling excited amongst the Guardians by the loose charges made by General Johnson, and his cavalier manner of refusing explanation, that an effort was made to lking the matter before Parliament. A Select Committee of the House of Lords was appointed, General Johnson and witnesses from Bourn were examined, mad a complete exoneration of the Guardians was the result. Indeed it is only neoessery to read General Johnson's own evidence to be convinced of time utter fivility of his charges, and the unscrupulous way in which he adopts a story jumping with his own preju. dices. Extracts from the Report cf the Committee have been circulated in the neighbotirhood of Bourn under the direction of the Poor-law Commissioners. This is be- lieved to have supplied General Johnson with that senti ment of active hostility he exhibited towards Major Hand- Icy in the affair of Mr. Waters. The narrative then goes on to describe a series of ma gisterial meetings, at which the greatest irregularity in point of form, the grossest partiality towards the Reverend delinquent, and the most barefaced in justice towards Major Handley, are perpetrated, seemingly without the least compunction. So far do these worshipful Reverends and their lay co adjutors carry their insolence, that they actually presume to represent to the Secretary of State that the object of their persecution, in whose case they had violated every rule of law, every principle of justice, and every dictate of charity, was not a fit person to sit on the same bench with them ; and then, to crown all, pre tend that they arc ill used, because he will not listen to their application, and become the tool of their vindic tive spite. The merits of these gentry and of their proceedings are thus summed up by the author of the pamphlet : No cue can have read this narrative without involuntarily saving, " Can such things be done in England ? In what does this conclave of country justices differ from a Star Chamber ?" They erect themselves into a tribunal, an in quisition for judging the conduct of their brother Magis trates ; they receive communications of accusation, upon which they act, judge, condemn, but refuse to allow the person most implicated to have a copy of " the indict ment," an indictment absolutely framed subsequently to the investigation. Then look at their course of procedure. They refuse to take hearsay evidence tending to show the motives and feelings which actuated Major Handley's opponents ; his witnesses are tied down to the rigid rules of the common law courts ; he is harshly and coarsely told by the Vice-Lieutenant and his instrument, the Clerk of the Peace, " that the business of the meeting is to be strictly confined to the charges brought by him against Mr. Waters," and that the " Vice- Lieutenant will not sanction any attempt to trifle with the time of the Magistrates on subjects unconnected with the business of the meeting." Not such is the measure dealt out to Mr. Waters. He is permitted to cast the grossest charges, such as violence, and an assault upon the Bench, upon Major Handley, without the ordinary fair ness of disclosing to the accused the whole of the terms in which such charges are made. No rigid legal or tech nical rules bind his witnesses. Mr. Hildyard, his colleague and abettor in the act which Major Handley charged against him as wrongful, is allowed to give evidence, and make statements at his discretion. Against the recep tion of Mr. Hildyard's evidence at all Major Handley strongly protested ; and in ordinary cases, decency would have induced a person sustaining the charac ters of a party, witness, and judge, to be guarded in his statements; but all ordinary rules seem violated in this case. Mr. Hildyard, under colour of defending Mr. Waters, his defence being the proper "business of the meeting," makes the most virulent general attack upon Major Handley in a written statement, which is by no means the substance of what the Reverend Gentleman delivered viva coce. Nothing like this was said in the hearing of Major Handley; Major Handley is there re. preseeted as " angry arid violent ;" and his intimation to the shifting Magistrate that the law should not be evaded, is said to have been made in " his usual violent manner." Mr. Hildyard had been called upon by Major Handley to affirm or deny the assault, imputed Post by General Johnson and then by Mr. Chaplin in the presence of Mr. Hildyard, which he bad refused to do, and then insi nuated, in his deliberately prepared statement, imputa tions of habitual violence. Having the same disposition to wound, without the audacity of Mr. Waters, he fritters the original charge of actual 'assault into ,an intangible one of " habitual violence." Those who know any thing of Major Handley, know the absurdity, the malicious folly of such a charge as " habitual violence ;" but then Mr. Waters' method of dealing with favoured cases was to be protected, and a favouring tribunal had been obtained, which, though professing to judge of charges against Mr. \Voters, was in truth sitsing in judgment upon Major Handley. Of Mr. Waters' motives enough has been said ; and a cause for General Johnson's eager hostility has been intimat, d. He has been convicted by a high tribunal, a Committee of the House of Lords_ convictsd cut of his own mouth, of msking the most baseless and unsupported charges of inhumanity against the Guardians of Bourn, and yet he is still permitted to act as the head of a body of Justices, and sit in judgment upon one of those Guardians. fl aw d fferent is the fate of another opponent of the New Poor Law, the Rev. Mr. Stephens ; he for doing as an indivi dual what General Johnson did as a . Magistrate, is sub jected to a criminal prosecution. NI ho would not be a Justice of the Peace ! Is it the alleged violence, the falsely imputed violence, of Mejor Handley's demeanour which has shocked the Vice_ Lieutenant, and rendered him blind to the one-sided character of these proceedings? It cannot be. That gentleman cannot have forgotten his own public outbreak of temper at I3ocesa's Lincoln concert. Neither will the Tory zaal of Lord Winehiisca and Mr. Chris , toplier be overlooked. It is to be hoped the Reverend Magistrates, Messrs. Waters and II ldyard, are not to be taken as average specimens of the Clerical Magistracy; if so, the crom monly reesived opinion, that the Clergy are unfitted for the judgment-seat, will have been demonstrated ; and those who say there will always be found in a Clerical Justice an absence of any grave sentiment of responsibility, EVENING tprrrox. of that calm determination to administer the law as it is, regardless of all personal wishes of the administrator, the sole safeguard of public justice, which has so generally caused their r.cts to be likened to those of women; wherein passion, sympathy, antipathy, and prejudice usually prevail over evidence and reason. That the present publication will not tend to raise the country Magistracy in public estimation, is regretted by no one more than by Major Handley, who, in his own defence, has been compelled to put it forth ; but the fault is not his. In the excess of his zeal the Vice-Lieutenant hag caused an imperfect, one-sided, and garbled statement of the pro ceedings to be disseminated; and even now the local journal, supposed to be under the influence of the Clerk of the Peace, is scattering abroad its vituperations with all the fury of an antiquated scold ; and Major Handley has only to lay the whole of the facts before the tribunal of the public, where he is satisfied the judgment of the Folking ham conclave will be speedily reversed. SMITH'S STANDARD LIBRARY. We have here three new parts of this elegant and useful miscellany ; one, containing the poems of Gray and Collins ; another, Auson's Voyages round the World ; and the third, Coleridge's translation of Schil ler's Wallenstein. Each part is got up with singular neatness, as respects print and paper, and is published at so cheap a price as to bring it within the means of the poorest man in the community. COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences yes terday of her Majesty. The Qucon, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, the Princess Victoire and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Coburg, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, and Count Alexan der Mensdorf, honoured the Italian Opera wit'a her pre sence last evening. The Royal suite included the Mar. chioness of Normanby, Baroness Fenyevessy, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lord Byron, Mr. Rich, and Colonel Wemvss. The Marchioness of Normanby End Lady Caroline Barrington have succeeded Lady Lyttelton and Lady Gar_ diner, as the Lady and Woman of the Bedchamber in Waiting on the Queen, and Lord Byron and Mr. Keppel as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Hops Johnstone, and the Hon. Miss Boyle, visited the Zaological Gardens in the Regent's Park yesterday afternoon. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Augusta and Mary of Cam bridge, and attended by Miss Kerr, also visited the Gar dens. The Dueness of Cambridge afterwards took a drive with her Mjesty the Queen Dowager in a carriage and four. Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg, accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorf, and attended by Lord Alfred Paget, visited St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday. H.s Serene Highness afterwards visited the exhibition of the Royal Academy. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr and Baroa Knesebeck, honoured Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby with their cumpaliy at dinner on Monday evening, at their residence in Piccadilly. Their Royal Highuesees afterwards went to the Dowager Lady' Rendlesham's party in Bruton -street. The Duch, ss of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Sir C. Metcalf, BArt., and Mr. Robinson, had inter views with the Marquis of Normauby yesterday at the Colonial Office. Mr. Macleod, M.P., had an interview w:th Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. Despatch s from Sir John Harvey, Governor of Nrw Brunswick, end from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. BEER-SELLERS. The followin g is a copy of the Petition t o P ar li amen t adopted by the Committee of the Beer-sellers of the me tropolis and its environs, as well as on behalf of the Beer trade generally : Humbly She weth—That the many experimental at tempts at legislation, to which the laws for regulating the sale of Beer have, Session after Sssi,ion, been subject, have operated injuriously upon every interest connected with the Beer Trade, by depreciating the value of the ca pital embarked s therein, from the i n s ecur i ty i nsepara bl e front such an uncertain and vacillating course of procedure. That the laws for o;_ , ening the trade in beer, did not receive the sanction of the Legislature until ample evi dence had been adduced of the abuses which had cor rupted the old system, and of the prejudicial operation of the restrictions which limited the sale of beer and rendered it a rigorous monopoly, equally injurious to the agricultural interest, the revenue, and the public. And that when a FREE TRADE in Bait was thus established, and many thousand persons induced to embark their property therein under the faith of an Act of Parliament, the Legis lature evidently contemplated a great public good, equally to benefit the agricultural, the commercial, and the manu facturing classes of the community. Your petitioners respectfully submit that the opening the trade in beer has fully answered the ends proposed, by the increased demand for barley consequent upon the addi tional malt used, a more ready market has been created, and higher prices paid for agricultural produce—by the reduction in price effected by competition, a saving exceed ing double the amount of duty remitted, has been realised to the public ; from the same cause the quality of the article has been fully maintained, while from the additional duty paid on the increased quantity of malt and hops, the revenue has been considerably increased. Yet while those engaged in the New Beer Trade, were thus carrying out the intentions of the Legislature, they themselves have become the objects of jealousy, calumny, and misrepresentation. Individuals, and interests, whose patronage has been interfered with, or whose pursuits have been effected by the operation of the Beer-laws, have ma ligned the beer-seller and the beer-house, representing the one as the outcast of society, and the other as the hot-bed of crime and immorality, assumptions equally false and in vidious, but promulgated with the hope of prejudicing the Beer-laws in the opinion of your Honourable House, end of effecting thereby a return to that old system of restric tion and abuse, under which favouritism ruled, caprice dic tated, and monopoly aggrandized. From such feelings, and from such sources, your pe titioners humbly submit, have originated the many past and present attempts to repeal or sub vert the Beer laws. Not content with prior possession of the market —with holding the best situations, and with enjoying privileges denied to the Beer-seller, his opponents would yet sweep him from existence, and blot front the Statute book the laws which called him into being. Your petitioners feel that they have the most tangible ground of complaint against the present Laws—from the capricious manner in which they are too generally adminis tered, the Beer. seller is deprived of a considerable portion of the protection the Legislature intended to to afford him, and an invidious and unnecessary distinction created be tween the two classes of tradesmen licensed to sell Beer, alike unjust in principle as injurious in operation ; the Beer seller is vexatiously restricted in his hours for sale, while the Public, house and the Gin-shop are permitted to conti nue open without restraint ; for the most venial offence, he incurs the severest penalties, without mitigation, or the privilege of appeal : while the tenure of his license is now rendered precarious, and denied even to his widow in the event of his death Your petitioners would notice, that the official records of crime demonstrate that instead of an increase in the num• ber of ddinquents, as compared with the increase of popu lation, a decrease of convictions, of more than three per cent. has accrued in the last four years : and as for immo rality, it is evident that the house in which beer only is sold, cannot ba so injurious to the well-being of society, as that in which ardent and intoxicating liquors are freely re tailed. Both require regulation, but the laws for enforc ing that regulation should operate equally and impartially : and if such laws be but fairly carried out, the beer-house will be found as free from complaint as the hotel or the tavern. Your petitioners respectfully submit that the many hundred brewers, who under faith of the laws, em barked a large amount of capital in the trade, have a strong claim on your Honourable House that the property, which so many thousand Beer-sellers were, in like manner, induced to invest, in taking and fitting-up houses for public accommodation, has an equal claim to legislative protection ; while the still greater number of individuals employed in or dependent on the beer trade, as at present constituted, afford an additional reason why your Honourable House should reject any mea sure, which, wider pretence of emending, the 13eer-laws, would subvert them and thereby render valueless capital to the amount of more than four millions sterling—ruin nearly fifty thousand Beer-sellers—and deprive of employment, end turned into the already overstocked labnur-market, two hundred thousand individuals, now dependent on the New Beer trade for support. For these, among other reasons, your petitioners humbly nod respectfully pray, that your Honourable House will put an end to the ruinous experimental Legis lation to which the interests engaged in the. new Beer trade have so long been subject, by passing a comprehen sive law, which shall equally effect and control all persons licensed for the sale of beer or spirituous liquors by retail, agreeably to the recommendation of a Select Committee of your Honourable House. And, as in duty bound, your petitioners will ever grate fully remember the same. We regret to state that Sir Benjamin Stevenson died on Monday evening at half. past six. We stated yes terday that he was in a very precarious state. The death of Sir Benjamin will cause a vacancy in the Woods and Forests, of which he was one of the Commissioners. GRAND BANQUET AT GOLDSMITHS' HALL. —The Prime Warden and Warden of the wealthy Corn. pang of Goldsmiths issued cards yesterday for a grand en tertainment at their hall in Foster-lane, on Wednesday, the 31 of Ju'y. Thz., Dukes of Wellington, Beaufort, Rut land, and Dorset ; Ma-quises of Londonderry and Salis bury ; Earls Aberdeen and Winchilsc2 ; Lords Marybo rough, Mahon, Ellenborough, Stanley, and Sandon • Sirs Robert Peel, Henry Hardinge, G. Clerk, James Graham, &c., have been invited. REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.---\\Te are au!horised to state that Lord William Bcntinck has made arrangements to resign his seat for the Repre sentat i on o f Gi4sgow, or account of con tinued bad tie..lth. We like wise understaud that Mr. Oswald has be en preva i le d upon by the Liberal party to allow himself to b e put i n nomi nation as Lord William's successor. From Mr. Oswald's long and well known services in the furtherance of Reform, he will rec eive tho unanimous suppo r t o f t h e Lib era l party in this city. Indy( d, Mr. Roebuck, who, it was thought would be brought forward by a portion of the electors, has written to some of his friends in town, stating, that in the event of Mr. Oswald standing for the Representation of Glasgow, he Hill not think of offering any opposition to him.—Gla. , gcw an:nide. Now ready, with a Portrait of Queen Caroline, T HE CONCLUSION OF THE DIARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV. Being Vt.ls. 111. and IV. Comprising numerous Curious and Interesting LETTERS of QUEEN CAROLINE, the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, And other Distinguished Persons. tE3' To ensure the completion of their Sets, the Purchasers of Vols. I and 11. of this Work should give Immediate Orders to their respective Booksellers fot these Concluding Volumes. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. )riag 'urn- ken ould The e to !rest t i l er the: ross atch