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It W ATE!: AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.NIORROW Morning__ minute; atter 4. 1 Evening ... 6 minutes after 3. -- 4 _Y., • VI 44 ) '6; 4 -- LONDON : TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1139. toe The House of Lords was chiefly employed last night with a batch of Irish Bills, of which the Better Preven tion of Assaults: Bill—atter some observations to show Low slovenly the Bill was drawn—the Constabulary fore Bill, the Spirit Licenses Bill, and the Sheep- Sterling Pill were read a second time ; the Shannon after a short philippic by Lord ELLEN BOROUGH, acid the Dublin Police Bills went through a Committee. If laws could make a land prosperous and a p:?"pie orderly, trelund most be the most pros pendia anti - orderly country in existence, for the Parlia ; Inent, with a most gracious beneficence, showers upon fi;rivarding this batch of Irish Bills, their Lordships. discuised, in Committee, the Metropolis r . o li et , Bill. Lord Bnounitam essayed to procure the rejection of the third clause, giving retiring pen -605, but he Wil3 defeated by three, their Lordships finding it impossible, though it were to gratify party male- t eleace, to vote against a clause . the principle of which is vary clear to; many of their Lordships. Clause 2.5, e:rablinc , one Magistrate summarily t o di s p ose o f Irk wa's thrown out by a majority of 3, on the recon inendation of Lord LYNDHURST. Several other clauses were amended or rejected, and the Bill, if it pass at all, :rill be sent down to the House of Commons very much mutilated. It went through the Committee, but is to receive further amendments on the Report, which is ordered to be brought up to-day. Their Lordships ) rose before Nine o'Clock. The first business of any importance transacted in the House of Commons last night was the rejection of a petition offered by Mr. FIELDEN from the Cobbett • Club, giving a history of the malversations of Parlia 't meta and the grievances of the people. It touched the House of Commons too much on the raw ; it was rub- Inez nitre into their wounds, and they' kicked it out. Larivser to a question from Mr. EWART, Sir J. klositousE stated that all the transit duties in the Presidency of Bengal were abolished, but in the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras that much wished for result had not yet been attained. The Lords' amendments to the Irish Corporation Bill were, on the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, orddred to be taken into consideration that day three months. His Lordship adverted to his intention of briogity , in another bill this Session, but announced tliat he- had given it up: After some observations by Mr. SHAW, and a, tolerably long -speech from Mr. t OToNNELL, the motion Was agreed to, and Ireland is ti) be left with her old Corporations till the next Session. The chances now are that she will get no Corporation Reform at all, till she gets a sweeping one which will 2ertAinly not please the Tories. The Lords' amendments to the Prisons Bill, includ - ieg their rejection of the clause to allow Roman Ca tholic clergymen to visit gaols containing 50 Roman Catholics, were agreed to, under a protest from Mr. LANGDALE sod lir. A. YATES. Ott the third reading of the Poor Rates Collection ' 1..;f1. Mr. DUNCOMBE moved a clause to exempt pa •: 1,41 - 1 governed by a local Act from the operations 3 of the Bill, but was defeated by 45 to 21. Several M,ashors then reproached Lord JOHN RUSSELL in stro;kk terms with breach of faith. and again divided, though equally unsuccessfully, on the question that the de Mr. DuseomßE said that the parish of S'. Andrew'i Holborn, had given 3,000/. for a Act, which would now be so much waste paper. The Birmingham Police Bill, after some fruitless op pc.ition, was rend a second time by 38 to 10. , Report on the Spirit& Licenses Bill caused so.iie little conversation, several Members contending 1 th a t it would injure the publicans. The Report was however brought up on a _division by .2.8 to 19. . •" • , i oavoitt opposition the Duke Of MARLBOROUGH'S Pension Bill was postponed, but the foundation of an ' other piece of legislation, made necessary, we believe, by the r e j ect i on of the Irish Municipal Bill, was laid. Lord Moapirttt obtai ne d l eave t o b r ing in a Bill to restrain the alienation of Corporate property in Ireland The House rose at Half-past Ten. , ' NV e see by _ an advertisement which appeared in I ,:tur paper of yesterday, that the Government is about to fund four millions of Exchequer bills, about (re seventh of which has been created for the Shannon job. It is true that the bin s funded are those dated in March aad ,Tune be ast ; but they might have been kept in circulation issue of Exchequer bills for other Purposes been i" had no t t h e inconveniently large. But whether the Shannon job, or any other jobs, have given rise to this funding, al ought to alarm the community to find tso it large an increase is to be m ade to the National Debt Debt in a period of profound peace. The charge arising from the p resent p ro p osal will amount to one-fiftb`of the charge for the 20 millions debt con tracted t o compensate the slave owners, which has caused much lamentation even by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is probable, indeed, that the present loan will not be contracted for on such advantageous terms . "as that was, and that it may add, with a ieficient revenue, 200,0001. a-year to the national exrutliture. Contemporaneously, then, with the vigour 'if the Government to suppress Chartism, the National Debt, the great source of Chartism, and of many of the f.pb!ic difficulties and embar rassments, is to be iiirrease4 by four millions ster ling. The country appears to #s very much like 1. e r ,2 - an lahouring under cie::.rittni &era", ns, whose ptirecieiall compels hi m to ta ke ‘'Yery d a y at: 47.- creased dose of the poison, the continued use of which has brought him into his wretched condition. 1 , We can have no hope that the lesson this reads to our landlords will have the least influence on them. They arc the most stolid of mortals, as Lord HOWICK once implied. According to Mr. OA STLER, the Parliament and the land owners will learn nothing from less empha tic teachers than fire and sword. At the same time, while there is a possibility of drawing or driving them back from the precipice to w hich they are hastening, it is our duty to place before them the consequences of their conduct, amongst which the public discontent, the public extrava gance, and the increase of the National Debt, may undoubtedly be reckoned. To bring the matter more distinctly home to them we beg to direct their attention to an I article on the state of the money market, which we copy from the Times. From that it appears that the necessity of funding Exchequer bills arises from their abundance, and the interest of money being upwards of 6 per cent. It further appear highly probable that the interest of those Exche quer bills which are to remain in circulation, must be raised ; and this rise of the rate of interest, and this addition to the debt, will both constitute an additional mortgage on the land. Now, so far as the necessity to fund Exchequer bills, and to raise the rate of interest on diem, springs from the rise of the rase of interest in the market, that is immedi ately caused by the difficulties under which the Bank of England labours, and they again are caused by the Corn-laws. Consequently, what ever proportion of the increase of the interest on the National Debt, funded and unfunded, falls on the landowners, must be set off against the advantages 1 to them of the Corn-laws, for those laws take that sum out of their pockets. I I But this rise in the rate of interest, caused by the Corn-laws, operates still more injuriously to the land-owners and to the farmers. Sir JAMES URA iIAM has stated that five-sixths of the land of England is mortgaged. Of course some of those mortgages are continually falling in, and require to be renewed, and on all the money the land-owners now have to borrow they will be required to pay the higher rate of interest caused by the Corn-laws. The whole tribe of land-owners and farmers, the former from their general habits of thoughtless ex travagance, and the latter from the long period—a whole year at least, and when they first plant hop-gar dens or orchards, and when they breed and fatten stock, two or three years—which must elapse before their produce can come to market, are essentially and emphatically a borrowing and a debtor race. On them, consequently, the rise in the rate of interest falls with double weight. Nor can what remains of the usury laws protect them from the demands of the lenders. When, as the Times says, 15 per cent. can be made of money, will the landlords be able to borrow at 5 ? Certainly not. The farmers may not see the matter so clearly, because they borrow chiefly goods from tradesmen and artificers, whom they are to pay at Michaehnas ; but the price charged to them will be in some measure determined by the general rate of interest, and when they buy on cre dit, as they generally do, and must, in proportion as the rate of interest is high, it will add no small sum to their Michaelmas and Christmas bills. Many of them, however, are direct and continual borrowers from bankers and other moneyed men, and in such cases this rise in the rate of interest, which is mainly caused by the Corn-laws, will be plainly and palpably felt. In all cases we have no doubt that those laws take more out of the pockets of the farmers than they put in. There is another consideration which they will probably overlook. It is generally, and, we believe, correctly stated that the average rate of interest is always determined by the average rate of profit to be made in industrious occupations. It is also af firmed, and we believe with truth, that as men must before all things be fed, the aver age rate of profit made by cultivati n g 0 the land determines the rate of profit in all other occupations, and also determines the rate of interest. Now, there are no circumstances what ever in the present state of our manufactures to warrant a rise in the rate of interest ; but in the great increased price obtained for agricultural pro duce this year, giving a high profit on the cultiva tion of land, there is good reason, on the principles we have just stated, why the rate of interest should rise. In fact, the monied classes being sure, as Lord BACON says, to get the money into their box, and being, in fact, the masters of the needy ianutords and the borrowing farmers, are taking advantage of the increased profit made by cultivating the land to raise the rate of interest, and so to gather to themselves .most of the gain which the selfish law-making landlords most un justly and cruelly extort from the people by a tax levied on their bread. It is to us pleasant, by thus tracing the effects of the Corn-laws, to obtain a conviction, that like other dishonesty, like vulgar pocket-picking, or viler burglary, those who practice the rascality of making Corn-laws are but the poor tools of more accomplished money getters, and never rise either into wealth or dis tinction like the master receiver. Mr., or as he is called King, OASTLER promises, we see, in a letter published in the Times yesterday, that hence forth all the men of the North, whom he kept from agitating against the Corn-laws, w ill no w ag it a t e f or the repeal o ri f them ; and coinciding with Lord JOHN II ussELL, furnishing as sure a test of truth as the coincidences of a Frenchman and Englishman, he adds, that when they unite with the middle classes to procure the repeal of the Corn-laws, resistance will be hopeless and impossible. His assertions confirm many other indications of the same ten dency, and justify a hope that his prophecy is well founded. In that case the landowners will be compelled, amidst justly earned curses and heartfelt contempt, to give up their scoundrel laws, while their monied masters, the great and real owners of their estates, will have taken care, as we have shown, that they shall not even profit temporarily by their rascality. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY found him self in a somewhat awkward predicament in the House of Lords on Friday last. The Most Reverend 'Prelate was, to use a sea phrase, literally " taken aback." He presented a petition from somebody or other, complaining that many mem bers of the Church of England were sliding into the ungodly and dangerous practice of assembling in unlicensed places of worship for the purpose of Divine service. The Archbishop, no doubt, thought that he was doing good service to religion by exposing, with a view to re medy, so great an abuse of Christian liberty as such an enormity implies. His astonishment may therefore be easily imagined, when a fierce can nonade was opened upon him, and the Church over which he presides, by Lord ELLEN BOROUGH and Lord RODEN. These Noble Lords, so far from seconding the prayer of the petition, scouted the notion of attempting to bolster up the Church by restrictions, not only absurd in themselves, but im posing great hardships on many sincere adhe rents of the Established faith. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH took the opportunity which was thus afforded him, to point out to the Primate of all England the grievance which he, not differing in one iota of form or doctrine from the State ordained system of worship, laboured under, in common with all other strict members of the Church, in being prevented, by an obsolete law, from having Divine service performed in his house in the pre sence of more than twenty persons. He was so situated that the parish-church was not easily accessible to him in winter, and the consequence was, that the 70 or 80 persons composing hi s household were deprived of all opportunity of worshipping their Maker in the public ordinances of religion. So greatly did he feel this inconve nience, that he declared himself ready to build a church at his own expense, and endow it during his life, if the Church would dispense with the law. It seems difficult to conjecture what possible objection the re cou ld be to so generous a proposal. We do think members of the Church are hardly dealt with, in being compelled, as they must be in many country districts, - either to lay themselves ice to a severe performed o e r n m a e l tj , b i open s considerable portion,eliogrioutos forego thepublin their c worship of GODaltogether ilhgouas houses, for a they are worse off than the Dissenters, li thinking that this senseless' . liable to no such penalty • this who respect a r e and we cannot help sense less practice, has contributed law, and more its share to swell the ranks of Nonconformity. The Archbishop, not being prepared with a reply to questions which he did not anticipate, and had probably never considered, shuffled out of the dilemma, by promising that any proposal made to him in the regular way of business by the Noble Lord, would meet with due consideration ; but oracularly observed, that changes, which seemed easy at' first sight, were often found to be attended with in surmountable difficulties. If we may judge of the extent of the difficulty by the extent of the change, we must agree with Dr. HOW LEY that, in Church changes—till very lately at least—the diffi culties must have been indeed " insurmountable." That ra has, however, passed away. Reform has laid its unhallowed broom even upon the sacred • cobwebs of the Church. Why then should the Most Rev. Prelate, who has himself ventured to wield this formidable instrument, shrink from a pro position like this which, although it should, as lie seems to dread, disincline people from going to the parish-church, who, by the way, do not attend it now, would still have the effect of multiplying churches, and not only of extending the Church, but of extending religion also—none the worse for being found raising her voice in unconsecrated places. We hope the Archbishop is not afraid that the one extension would militate against the other. We have received a copy of the Petition of the Cobbett Club, signed by T. SAVAGE, Chairman, (ho. ROGERS, Treasurer, and B. TILLY, Secre tary, which Mr. FIELDEN offered to the House of Commons last night, and which the House reject ed. Though it be long, we should willingly, were it safe, make our readers acquainted, for their instruction, with the language Which the House of Commons regards as insulting. But after the declaration of the Attorney-General, that a hand hill containing that language would be considered as having a tendency to excite insurrection and blood-shed, and be a breach of the peace, we can not fly in his face and ask him to prosecute us. \Ve are compelled therefore to decline inserting the Petition, though it was read in the House of Com mons. We may at the same time say with Mr. FIELDEN, that the Petition contains scarcely any thing which a great majority of the people, not being members of either faction, would not agree to. We learn from Chester that the Magistrates there being much alarmed lest the peace of that ancient city should be disturbed by the Char tists during the approaching trial of Mr. STE PH ENS, have issued a proclamation calling on all householders to be sworn in as special constables, to preserve peace and defend property. The pro clamation says that "The Mayor and Magistrates have strong grounds to apprehend that the peace of the city may be disturbed by an attempt on the part of evil disposed persons from the manufacturing districts to liberate the prisoners who are about to be tried for sedition and unlawfully arming, at the ensuing Assizes." Nov, such a proclamation, if it have no bet ter authority than mere rumour,—and we are assured it has not, will have two bad effects—it will frighten very unnecessarily and wantonly all the timid persons, including most of the ladies of Chester and its neighbourhood, and it will tend to inflame the minds of the Juries by whom the prisoners are to be tried for sedition and unlaw fully arming. We are not sure that an honest and up9ght Judge, aware of the present propensity to alarm in the middle classes, would not find in it sufficient reason to postpone the trial to the next Assizes. Justice requires that these men should not be tried while the Magistrates issue such pro clamations, and while the Press teems with exag gerated accounts of the arming o f Ch ar ti sts , and the discovery of Chartist manufactories of pikes, mus kets, and ball-cartridges. There is a new kind of Titus Oates terror spreading through the land, not on religious but political grounds, against which ,fudges o ug ht to protect th e accuse d Ch art i sts , f or i vain for them to l oo k t o J ur i es f or pro is in pro tection. Letters from Lisbon of the sth instant announce that Lo RD PA LmEßsToN's Portuguese Slave Trade Suppression Bill excited the wildest outcry among the organs of the Slave Trade in Portugal. The Nacional and the Procurador dos Probes are for a war with England rather than suffer this nefari ous traffic—the staple of Portuguese commerce, and the main-spring of her colonial prosperity—to be abolished through the agency of Great Britain. It will be curious to mark the tone of these jour nals when they learn that the House of Lords here threw out the Bill, and still more so when they be come apprised of the determination of the Noble Foreign Secretary to carry it, in Ur iti,li uo its re-introduction to the House of Com mons on Thursday last. The Nacional contends that the Portuguese Government has only to issue letters of marque against England, to enlist thousands of foreigners under the conquering " Lusitanian banner ;" and of course, when the rejection of the Savery Suppression Bill by the Lords is known in Lisbon, the same Journal, with a modesty peculiar to the Portuguese Press, will attribute the conduct of their Lordships to the terror inspired by such an apprehension 1 This may console the national vanity of the evil-doers for a week, about which time the account of the resuscitation of the defunct Slave Bill will reach them. That week will have allowed time for the slave-traders to make preparations for extending the traffic, unawed by a further apprehension of British vigilance ; and thus the inhuman and im moral conduct of tilt Lords in rejecting the first Bill will cause the blow to d escen d with double violence upon the heads of the Portuguese man stealers. On the night of the 4th the country house of Mr. O'NEIL, Danish, Belgian, and Turkish Consul-General at Lisbon was broke❑ open and property stolen to the amount of 1,000/. sterling, being for the most part jewels. The robbers murdered a servant who sought to prevent the robbery. The French Journals, though still occupied with the Eastern question, are obviously unable to shed any new light upon it. An article ita the Siecle, however, is well deserving of notice. According to that respect able and generally well-informed organ of the Liberal party, the object of the majority of the Members of the French. Cabinet in sanctioning the assemblage of a large military force at Toulon, is, that France may, should the Russian fleet enter the Bosphorus, seize by a coup de main, either upon St. Jean d'Acre, or Smyrna, in order to make an Ancona of them. This would be a novel mode of co-operating with England to maintain the in tegrity of the Ottoman Empire. And yet its suggestion does not all surprise us. It is of a piece with the fai.ciful, absurd, selfish, and unjust projects, which many members of the French Cabinet are daily in the habit of indulging. The Journal des Debals publishes a letter addressed to Sir JOHN M‘NEIL, late British Ambassador at the Court of Teheran, to the Prime Minister of the SHAH, recounting the indignities which forced him to demand his passports, and quit Persia ; with the answer of the Grand MousTimiu, denying or qualifying the state ments of the British Envoy, and attributing to his ar rogance and intemperate zeal the failure of his mis sion. We are at a loss what degree of credit to attach to the alleged authenticity of the letters. But this, in truth, is of the less consequence as they contain no important allegation not already before the public. The only thing very remarkable about them ►s their appearing first in a French rather than in a English Journal. If authentic, they must have been procured through the agency of some of the French officers at Teheran. In an extract from a letter from Constantinople of the 17th ult., it is stated that HAFIZ PACHA, on learn ing the death of the SULTAN, surrendered the remains of his army to IBRAHIM. If this report be confirmed, MEHEMET ALI will have the whole military as well as the naval strength of the Ottoman empire at his disposal. On the night of Thursday last a fire broke: out in the Civil Hospital at Toulon. It was extinguished before any serious loss was sustained. No lives were lost, nor were any individuals seriously injured. The Editor of the Gazette de France, the Royalist organ, was sentenced on Saturday to pay a fine of 2,000 francs, and suffer imprisonment for three months, for publishing a libel against the Government. The following extracts include the only remaining intelligence in the French Journals of Sunday : It seems certain that the Council is still as much divided as it was some days ago, notwithstanding the assertions of the Ministers to the contrary. On the other hand, the language of the English press is still as hostile to Mehe met Ali, and as embarrassing to the Cabinet of the Tuile ries, which the Morning Chronicle reproaches (who would believe it ?) with projects of aggrandizement. A portion of the Cabinet, it is said, still insist on the necessity of as sembling at . Toulon a corp s o f t roo ps, for the purpose of supporting in some part of the Ottoman Em pirestulipeonretgthg ociations of our diplom ac y, but this opinion meets with an obstinate opposition in the highest depart ment of the Governmnt. It is, however, high time to come :to some decision for events become more pressing in proportion as our rulers hesitate. The Court appears to have received decisive news. What may it be ? The official evening journal does not say a word of it ; but its very silence has added to the importance of the conjec tures that are in circulation. Shall we suppose that the ilfohiteur Parisien h as been instructed not to announce that Admiral Stopford has attacked the Turco-Egyptian THE SUN, LONDON', TUESDAY ) AUGUST 13, 1839. fleet, or that the Russian squadron has arrived in the Bosphorus ?—Notional. A letter from Constantine, of the 26th of July, says : " The excessive heat keeps the troops inactive ; there Are no expeditious at this moment, and we only see convoys set cut from time to time for Jemilah and Selif, where our troops continue quietly to establish themselves. Many important families bre preparing to set out for France, most of them intend to settle there. There are especially three native families, which, in spite of the assurances of the General, still dread the return of Achmet Bey." One of those families possessed a very handsome Moorish house, ornamented with a colonnade, to which the Bey took a fancy ; lie merely said to the owner....-' I shill have these c 1 Imns taken away.' The owner having resisted, the Bf y caused him to be beheaded, and seized the object that he coveted. In the other families he caused the hand somest women to be seized for his harem, and the husbands to be strangled."—Courrier Francais. One of our Contemporaries, who appears to us more witty than wise, ridicules "the idle and worthless leaders of the Chartists, who have been accustomed to live by their tongues, and will not readily return to work with their hands." But such an ob servat i on app li es qu i te as strongly to those who live by th e i r pens, an d , lik e t h e leaders of the Chartists, merely fl atter some preva l ent prejudice, some favourite notion of some particular class, as to those who live by . their t ongues . No Ch art i st orator has y e t made a fortun e equal to Mr. Walter. It was well observed by Mr. Buller, some nights ago in the House of Commons, that Chartism, or the popular discontent, has now not only it s orators, b ut i ts P ress, and, as long as the sentiment prevails, men will appeal to it both by written and spoken words, as the Times appeals to Church of Englandism, th e M orn i ng P os t to Cur doinied l yiesarni and th e Gl o b e to m i ddle-class alarmism. t The leaders of th e Ch art i sts are orators Court rather than writers, because it is cheaper and more convenient to speak a score of leading articles to 10,000 or '20,000 hearers thanto write an d p r i n t th em ; and is, therefore, more suitable to the finances of those whom the orators address. Provided they speak truth and good sense, we see no difference between their occupation and that of an Editor of a Newspaper, except, perhaps, that it requires a more ready and off hand talent. Our Contemporary should shun witti &sms that will be made to recoil against his own occu- pati on. ERRATA.—III the first leading article, yesterday, the word " person" should have been " parson." The word " Government," in the quotation from Dr. Franklin, in two places, should have been "fool." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.) DEAL, AUG. 12.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Forres ter, M'Arthur, from Tobago; and Sir George Arthur, Tindal, Hobart Town. Sailed the Edward, Dobson, for Quebec ; Stephen, Henzell, Pictou ; Cyprus, Nicoll, Odessa ; Henriette Clementine, Trieste ; and Countess of Durham, Johnson, Cape of Good Hope. Po ters'atou'rx, Ato. 12. —Wind N. N. W. to N.— Sailed the Euphrates, Wilson, for Sydney, New South Wales; Sir Edward Paget, Campbell, Ilornbay ; and Quebec, Hebard, New York. FALMOUTH, A yo. 11.—Wind N. N. W., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Duke of Gordon, Humphries, Aux Cayes. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 13..--Wind —Arrived the Murray, Hauston, from Jamaica,—sailed, 3d ult. ; ton, Ing'rsoll, from. New Orleans ; Faside, Dalhousie ; Saint George, Ltinnan, from Ditto ; Apollo, Rendall, and Mary Wylie, Miller, Riga; and Jackson, James, from Narva. Sailed the Susquehannah, Micrekin, for Phila delphia; Coromandel, Pearse, Boston; and Magnet, Moreton, Montreal. POOLE, AUG. 12.—Sailed the Flora, Shaddock, New foundland. BRIDGEWATER, AUG, IL—Arrived the James Johnson, Weashirburn, from Memel ; and Providence, Aid, Africa. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTll.—The Isabella, bound to Sun derland, 7th ult. ; Agamemnon, of Sunderland, 24th ult., lit. 46, long.. 57 ; Isabella of Newcastle, for Bristol ; 13ridgctown, of and for Waterford, same day—by the John Francis, arrived at Cork, Helen, Brook, Liverpool to Baltimore, 21st ult., lat. 42, long. 47 ; Coventry, New castle to Quebec, 26th ult., lat. 47, long. 36—by the Mary Walker, arrived in the Clyde. Swallow, of New York, 6th inst., lat. 57, long. 10—by the Lady Gordon, arrived at Maryport. Ariadne, steam packet, Mackay, Clyde to New Holland, lat. 25, long. 34—by the Inca, arrived at Gibraltar. William Harrington, of Newcastle, 27th ult., lat. 49, long. 26—by the Alexander, Darnell, arrived at Yarmouth. Lady Kinnaird, Dundee to New York, 31st ult., lat. 36, long. 47 ; Hindoo, bound to New York, 6th iust., lat. 51, long. B—by the King Henry, Leach, arrived at Dublin. MONEY ANDCOMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOGI, COTTON MARRET, MONDAY.—The — Sales of Cotton this day amount to 3,000 bags, at a decline of id. per lb. on Friday's prices. The St. Christopher paper gives the arrival of Lieut.- General Cunningham, with his cordial reception end his speech to the Legislature " Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Council, " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " I feel highly favoured that my first administration of a Government should have been appointed in so loyal and distinguished a colony. " The mutual feeling of confidence and regard which existed between you and my excellent and valuable prede. cessor : the.meapres which von have pursued in co-opera tion with him since the abolition of th. .r,r,r.oticeshiP system, and the general good understanding which appears to exist between the proprietary body and the working classes, are additional cause of congratulation : they afford the strongest assurance that a similar feeling of kindness and courtesy will attend my intercourse with that Honour able House, and that a like benevolence will characterise your further enactments, and that generally all classes of society will vie with each other in proving that their greatest object In life is to show glory to God and good will to men. With such a state of public feeling, and conscious - of my own sincere desire for your welfare, it might be deemed irrelevant to anticipate any diff erence o f op i n i on between the Executive and the Houses of L eg i s l a t ure . I merely advert to the possibility of such an occurrence, in order to express my earnest hope that n o p etty diff erences of any kind will be, at a period . so momentou s f or th e well being of the British West Indies, suffered to intercept or interfere with honest, patric,tic, and speedy legislation, whenever it is required for the welfare of this island. "C. J. CUNNINGHAM, " St. Christopher, May 30. " Lieut.-Governor." The Exchange comes b y the H am b urg mail higher, 13 ; Gold 433 ; Metalliques 006; Bank Shares 1,495. The funding of four millions of E xc h equer Bi lls conti nues to excite the specr!l atire and monied i n t eres t i n the City. The general opinion is, that the Ch ance ll or o f t h e Exchequer is much puzzled in his financi a l operat i ons, an d the old practice of subscribing at the Bank of England for such part of the advance, has, in the present instance, been departed from. It was reported in the course of yester day that a deputation was going to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer for an explanation as to the mode of subscribing for the contract, without which it is not expected that any of the leading mo n i e d fi rms will i send in their tenders. It s just stated that a notice is expected from the Treas ury every h our w i t h some further information or explanation on the subject which has caused Exchequer bills to recede from the closing price of 7 10 premium to par, and 3 premium. As yet it has not had any effect on the British Funds ; on the contrary, Consols area shadebe ; Money, ik ; Ex. (iieuetterthanth9eyclosed, and , 911 for Account premium. In Indi a B on d s not hi ng g ma r y maybe Bills quoted at par 3 done. Bank Stock, 183 187 ; India Stock, 247 249. Spanish Active closed 194 k,at which price they are at present ; Portuguese 291 30, as they closed ; Three per Cents. 181 191; Colombian, 311 32 ; Mexican, 274 28 ; Brazilian, 781 ; Belgian, 1024- 103}; Dutch Two-and -a. Half per Cents. 544 -,1; Five per Cents. 1031 k. Vtry few arrivals this morning. PRICKS OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK. Bank Stock lB5 y 4 3 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 91%.% Ditto Bonds l4 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons 9l%k 3s , South Sea Stock per Cent. _—Old Annuities Ditto Red. ............ j New Ditto New 31, per Cent 98%%%3s 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 34 2 pin. Jan. 5, 1860 l4 7-16% Ditto Small 5 1 5 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 — % Ditto Commercial , par. -J2n. 5, MO 14% Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1830 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account ........ 91% HALF-PAST ONE. j We cannot as yet ascertain if any tenders bare been sent to the Treasury for the funding of the fou mil lions of Exchequer Bills. Various opinions still prevail on the subject. It is expected it will terminate in the same manner as the dead weight. Consols continue firm at 91 for the Account; Money, 91-4- ; Exchequer Bills done at 7 prem., par, 3 1 4 2 prem.; India Bonds, 14 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1861, 1851 lower ; India Stock, 2471. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 191 ; Portu guese, , ,29 5 4 4 ; ; Three per cereCnet. Cents, 19; Brazilian, 78 • Co lombian, 31i; Mexican, 27.1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., Up to the present hour we have no further arrivals, or any political news to communicate. 10,000 Exchequer Bills have been done in the course of the morning at par. Money continues very scarce, 6 to 7 per cent. given in the House to the Account, and 8 per cent. given out. A report prevails that a deputation has been to the Chancellor, but he was absent. They wished to ascertain from him further particulars concerning the funding of the Exchequer Bills. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Sank Stock ......... .......... 185% India Stack 0 4 7% 3 per Cent Red .... .................. 91% Ditto Bonds ..........••• 3 per Cent. Ccus. (l' % Ditto Old Annuiti . es 69% 3% per Cent. Red ......... 99% , Ditto Sew Annuities ...... New 3 % per Cent .................. 98 , y 8 ', Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 'd • 1 pm. New 5 per Cent. ....... .. ........ , Ditto 6 0 „„„,' 11 2 pm. Lwig Annuities to expire .... Ditto auku...••••• Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto. New Ditto R us sian Bonds, 5 per cent 114 ' Ditto, Metallic — 'Spanish. 5 per cent l4l c ent •...... ...112f . c. % Di tto , Deferred B% 5 per cent Exchange F P r r e u n s c sn h ia , 5 pe —c , —l. F r ench, 3 per cent f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. r 54 % % RES. Ditto, 5 per cent. lO3 Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lll Brazilian Bonds ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1324 .............. 52 Danish, 3 per cent ....... ..... Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct. Mexican, 5 per cent ............. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1825 ......... ts.N Peruvian, 1323,6 per c0nt..... SH A 6 Eastern Countios Railway ......... -•••••••• 6B .................... Great Western Railway .. Ditto New Share s 9 • London and Bright on Railway ...................... ..... London and Blackwall R a il way ........................... 1071 London and Birmingham Railway ..............«..•••••• Ditto New Shar es London and Southampton London and Croydon Railway (Trunk). BO lir-STREET.-(T MS DAY.) Mr. James Brontcrre O'Brien, the Chartist Delegate was brought before Mr. Minshull, by Thomas Click, a constable of Newcastle. upon-Tyne, upon a Bench warrant, signed by Mr. Justice Coltman, in which he was charged with haling true bills found against him for sedition. The defendant was attended by Dr. Taylor, Mr. Carpen ter, and several Delegates ; and after he avowed himself to be the person named in the warrant, Mr. MINSHVLL said there was not much use in his making any observations, although he was prepared to hear any thing he had to advance. Mr. O'Brien said he was aware there was not much use in saying anything oil the present occasion, and he would reserve his defence for a higher tribunal. Mr. MINSIIULL inquired of the constable if he was authorised to accept of bail. The Constable said he was instructed to have bail ac cepted if the defendant could procure it. Mr. O'Brien observed that there were four other persons named in the indictment, for each of whom bail to a mode rate amount was taken, and he was prepared with the same if it met with the Magistrates approbation. Mr. MlNsiivee had no objection, and the bail he should require would be the defendant, in 1001. and two suretieg in 50/. each, to meet the charge at the assizes. Mr. Rogers, of High -street, Bloomsbury, and Mr. Hartwell, of the Cornwall-road, Lambeth, then came forward, and they being considered sufficient securities, the defendant was liberated. BIRMINGHAM,-(MONDAY). (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) TWELVE O'CLOCK, P.M. Of the three men placed upon their trial, all who heard or read the evidence against them would at once come to the conclusion, that if any were to suffer the prisoner Howell ought to be the victim. The evidence against Roberts, who is a man of unblemished character, as also against the prisoner Jones rests but on slight foundation. And it is monstrous to think of sacrificing the lives of at least two men, for the folly or madness committed in a moment of excitement. But it can be clearly proved that Roberts was, as he stated on his trial, totally innocent of any participation in the offence for which he has been con demned to die, that, as he himself declared on his trial, he never took part in the transactions charged against him, and that he would have been able to estab lish an alibi in his favour, had he had the means of bring ing witnesses to Warwick in his behalf. As for Howell, the evidence of whose guilt seemed conclusive, still stronger proofs of his entire innocence of any participation in the riots and incendiarism of the night of the 15th, have been brought to light, and will be, by the time this reaches you, in the hands of the Secretary of State. On his trial he had not a single witness to speak in his favour, but at the same time he strongly protested his innocence. Of the different persons, who swore to Howe! as being the ringleader of the mob, and one who was rendered more re markable by using a crutch, and having only one leg, only one of these spoke of the features of the prisoner, all the others having no doubt satisfied themselves as to his identity with the person whom they had seen leading on the mob. A strong colour was given to this presumption of guilt, from Howell having been taken next morning in a state of in toxication, with a dangerous weapon in his possession. There is not the slightest doubt that the ringleader of the mob was a man with one l eg , o f somew h at t h e same age as the prisoner, but stouter built. He was seen brandishing a thick stick, or bludgeon, and calling out to the people, "Come on my l a d s ." H un d re d s o f persons saw this remarkable leader of the rioters, who was described next morning and during the night as "the man with the wooden leg," and one of the witnesses who ap peared before the Magistrates on the examination that took place at the Public Office, described the ringleader as having " a wooden leg." Howell, as I before said, has not yet got even a wooden substitute for the loss of his limb, and having been observed on the morning succeeding the disturbrnces in a stale of intoxication, and with a dan gerous weapon in his possession, he was at once laid hold of as being the leader of the mob. The exertions, however, which have been made within the last few days by a few benevolent gentlemen in the town, have succeeded in discovering a chain of evidence almost irresistible as regards the guiltlessness of the unhappy man. This evidence I shall not now go over ; I shall pro bably he able to forward it to you in detail, for your paper of to-morrow morning. Petitions are still in course of signature in favour of the unfortunate men, as circumstances unravel themselves tending to prove their innocence, a painful degree of in terest seems to be excited. This evening the inhabitants of St. Thomas's Ward met, when a memorial to the Queen was agreed to, praying that the Royal prerogative of mercy might be extended in the case of the unfortunate men. The other wards of the borough will meet in the course of the week, and the current of the public feeling and sympathy has never been more unequivocally evinced than in the case of the prisoners now lying under sentence of death at Warwick. The town is perfectly tranquil, and there is every pro bability that it will continue so. CHARTIST MOVEMENTS AT NOTTINGHAM. (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY, SIX O'CLOCK P.M. The sacred three days' holiday commenced here this day, under auspices not the most favourable to those who had espoused it. Yesterday (Sunday) a number of the Char tists proceeded to Church to hear Divine service, and in the afternoon and evening were addressed by Mr. Woodhouse, the Nottingham Delegate to the National Convention, in the Forest. During this forenoon large parties of them paraded the streets, and about two o'clock crowds of people had collected in tho Marhot-place p ccemingly alscorbccl ;1 earnest conversation. At half-past two, the Magistrates, who h.ul been citti.x er P.li,e-offiCe most of the day, issued a bill prohibiting the meeting. Three o'clock came and no appearance of any speakers, and then forming them selves into a procession of fours and fives, linked arm in arm, they proceeded to the Forest, about a mile from the town. Here from 6,000 to 10,000 persons assembled, and one of them, named Barber, having told them that they had met to discuss their rights and wrongs, a hymn was sung and prayer offered, and then Mr. Woodhouse pro ceeded to address the meeting. He had proceeded but a short time when a cry was raised that the Magistrates were coming, and immediately a rush was made to get away by great numbers. Just on the outside, riding down the hill, came Thomas Nixon, Esq., a County Magistrate, with Mr. Satchell, the Magistrates' Clerk, and immediately cries of silence were raised by several, which were followed by a most tremendous yell, and waving of hats, clapping of hands, and other noises to frighten the horses which were very high spirited. Mr. Nixon rang ing up against the crowd was surrounded directly, and taking a card out of his pocket he proceeded to read the Riot Act, and disperse the meeting ; but the yells again commenced, and the horses reared and plunged dreadfully. Mr. Nixon, however, stood his ground firmly, and again tried to read aloud, but a shower of stones obliged him to proceed to a little distance. He again re turned, but being struck with !parry large stones, as well as Mr. Rugely, he wheeled his horse round, and galloped off to the barracks to fetch the military. An immediate adjournment took place till the next day, but hundreds stared to see the upshot. In ten minutes afterwards the Mayor of Nottingham, and other Magistrates came upon the ground. Ten minutes more elapsed, and a report was spread that the Dragoons were coming; it proved correct, for almost directly Sir Charles Napier and Sir Charles O'Donnell, the two Generals of the district, the former with Aides-de-Camp, and accompanied by Sir Maxwell Wallace, the Colonel of the sth Dragoons, Captain Sulli. van, of the Rifles, and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Satchell, appeared and joined the town Magistrates. About a hun. dred yards behind them were formed two troops of Dra goons, and two companies of Riflemen, ready to act. The people, however, quickly dispersed, and the military re turned to their barracks. Two men, named Thom as Wright and James Shiel were apprehended for throwing stones at the Mayor, and escorted to the Nottingham Po lice Office by the Riflemen, where the Magistrates were sitting. The Magistrates remanded them till twelve o'clock the next day. Wright was taken to the county gaol, and will be brought up on Wednesday. Eight o'clock.—The people are standing in the streets in earnest conversation. A troop of dragoons has just gone through the town parading. Great alarm prevails, and threats are held out against many persons. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY FISH MARKET. There were good supplies to-day of all kinds of Fish, and prices were steady. Turbot, ss. to 10s., 153. and 18s. Good Salmon might have been bought at Is. per lb. ; Christchurch, 2s. 6d. Soles, 6d. to 3s. per pair. Lobsters, 9d. to 2s. 6d. each, and much cheaper. Cod, Is. to ss. and 7s. each. Whiting, 3d. to 6d. each, and Haddock, 6d. to Is. each. hiJIVGERFoRD MARKET. Prices of Fish much the same as in the City. Butchers' Meat in fair demand, and prices steady. Beef, 7d. to 80. ; Mutton, 70. to 80. ; Veal, &I. to 9d. ; Pork, 70. to 80. Vegetables in fair supply; prices continue rather to go down. HAY H a y, old and new, 603. to 80s., 905., and 105 s. ; Clover, 803. to 1003. and 120 s. ; Straw, 383, to 425. per load. ARREST OF A CHARTIST.—On Monday afternoon, about two o'clock, as a police constable of the bi division, named Serle, was passing through the Black friars-road, his attention was arrested by a man at the head of a Chartist procession (which was then on its way to Kennington common), who was brand►sh ing something in his hand which had the appear ance of a dirk. He went up to the man, and discovered -it to be a species of sword, sharp at both edges, and brought to an extremely fine point. It was about six teen inches long, and had a wooden handle. There were two other men, ivith similar instruments, on each side of this individual, who, on seeing the policeman, imme diately decamped, Serle endeavoured to secure the in strument, and convey the man to the station, in which attempt he cut his hand in several places very severely, but eventually succeeded. The man, on being taken to the station, said that he had intended to use the dirk against any one that should dare to molest him. He gave his name George Fincher, 2, Charlotte -street, Curtain-road, and said he was a shoemaker. He was taken to Union. hall, where the case was heard, and he was ordered to be locked up in default of bail. Vincent and his companions are not subjected to the customary regulations of our county prison, of hav ing their hair closely cut, and wearing the prison dress.— Merlin. TILE ARREST of Mr. BRONTERRE O'BRIEN. —( From a Correspondent.)—Lat e on Monday night the above• named gentleman was served with a Judge's war rant, and taken to Bow -street by an officer from New castle-upon-Tyne. Mr. O'Brien was to have started by the evening train for the North, for the purpose of surren dering himself, but in this he has been prevented, and saved a troublesome and fatiguing journey. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUG. 9.--Sugars continue very steady, and a fair business dOing. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day shortly after Twelve o' Clock. On the motion of Mr. C. WOOD, the Halifax, Hud- dersfield, and Bradford Small Debts Bill was read a se cond time, and ordered to be committed. MANCHESTER POLICE BILL. Lord G. SOME ft SE I' presented a petition from the inhabitants of Manchester. signed by 7,290 persons, against the Manchester Police Bill. BIRMINGHAM RIOTS. Mr. WAKL E Y gave notice of his intention to present to-morrow a petition from Mr. Carpenter, the Chairman of the Convention of the Industrious Classes, relative to the three prisoners Robert, Jones, and Howard, under sen tence of death in Warwick gaol. BIRMINGHAM POLICE BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Birmingham Police Bill. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD felt bound, in consequence of the wishes of the greater portion of his constituents, and the whole of the Town Council of Birmingham, to move as an amendment that the Bill should be read a third time that day three months. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion For the amendment . a Majority Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved the committal of the Manchester Police Bill. Lord G. SOMERSET said on Friday last he had given his assent to the further proceeding of this Bill, but since then he had made many and diligent inquiries; lie had taken much pains to learn the true state of the case, and he was now of opinion that the measure was unnecessary. It was too strong a measure for superseding local authority, and was not justified by the circumstances of the case. The Noble Lord founded his measures because he wanted to have a strong body of police in :Manchester, Bolton, and Bir mingham, in consequence of the tumultuous nature of the proceedings of the Chartists—he (Lord G. S.) had deeply studied passing events, and he was of opinion that they were not of so dangerous a character as to justify such a Bill. He was quite aware that yesterday there had been some windows broken, but he was also aware that that violence had been put down by the police force, now in existence, and without any necessity for the military force. There were now 220 persons, well organised and trained to their duty ; they had been organised for a number of years, and the system of watch, as he was in formed, could not be improved.—( Hear.) Manchester was not therefore like Birmingham —it was much better off. The cases of the two towns were totally different, for in the case of Birmingham the public money was to be applied, but in the case of Manchester the whole of the funds were local. A very large meeting had been held since the in troduction of the Bill was known, and it was attended by persons professing all shades of politics —every one, Con servative, Whig, and Radical, all unanimously said, ►he present measure was wholly unnecessary, —( Hear.) It was only on the Saturday that it was known at Man chester the Bill had passed a second stage ; and on the Wednesday following the petition had received the signa tures of 7,000 inhabitants of Manchester, of all shades of political opinion, representing the property and respecta bility of the town, strongly deprecating the measure, and yet those were the persons for the protection of whose lives and property the Noble Lord said the measure was absolutely necessary. Those persons differed with the Noble Lord in toto, and said the measure was uncalled for. They were of opinion that the ordinary police were perfectly efficient. The Commissioners had a legislative right to levy a rate for the police, and if that was refused, they had power to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus, and therefore there was no chance of Manchester being left without a police, force up toJuly, 1840. As far as he ( Lord G. Somerset) could under stand, the opposition of the parishioners to the measure had not a tincture of party spirit about it ; on the contrary, Radicals, Conservatives, and Whigs all joined in saying the Bill was totally unnecessary. Why should the local authorities be superseded by Government Commissioners ? He would not insinuate any thing unfair ; but he could not but observe that the speech of the Hon. Member for Salford countenanced an impression which had extensively prevailed in Manchester, that the great object of the Bill was to relieve the present Corporation, or rather the indi viduals, from considerable difficulties in which they were involved, having, on their own authority —pa triotically enough, no doubt—established a police force, and finding themselves unable to levy rates for its support, hoped that the Commissioners under this Bill would take that force as their own, and thus extricate these persons from tbeir embarrassment; and it was natural, certainly, that if that force was a good one it should be so adopted; but this accounted for what was otherwise unaccountable —the approbation given to the Bill by the Manchester Council, when the Council at Birmingham resisted their similar measure. Believing that the forcing this Bill through Parliament during the disputes relative to the Manchester Charter would produce great discontent in the town, and frustrate the desirable object of preservins the peace of the town, ho moved that this Bill be com mitted that day three months. Mr. M. PHILLIPS said the House must be aware he felt himself in a very unpleasant situation in coming for ward to support a Bill, which he believed was necessary for the tranquillity of the town which he represented, but which he admitted did border somewhat on an unconstitu tioral character. It had been represented that a consider able amount had been collected by the Police Commis missioners. But the point which it was important to bear in mind was, whether their power of collecting the rates could be relied on with certainty.—( Hear, hear.) And he begged tr. d;roat attention to•the 124th clause of the 11th (=L.. IV.—thQ Act under which the Commissioners were empowered, and it would be seen that by this clause any parties depositing the amount of a disputed rate with the collector, and giving notice to the Commissioners, might appeal against such rate to the quarter sessions, within four months. Now tnerc was a great distinction between paying and depositing. Money deposited he considered could not be appropriated. The collector dare not apply the money so deposited with him to the usual purposes— till the vexata questio was settled : till then the money was as though paid intolCourt. But there was nothing to prevent parties objecting to the rate, from sufferin g dis tress, and putting in a replevin, thus postp on i ng thedeci sion for 9or 12 months perhaps. He thought this mea sure wisely and judiciously framed, and calculated to prevent those heart burnings which would otherwise Prevail. It should be borne in mind that ther e were, in fact, two bodies of police in the town, one that of the Corporation, the other that of the Commissioners. And he thought that instead of co-operating together, which it was scarcely possible to expect, seeing that they were directed by opposite parties, instead of co-operating to preserve the peace, the would themselves be found the disturbers of the peace.—( Hear, hear, hear.) The se lection of the force, he considered, would be best committed to persons unconnected with the party feel ing so prevalent in the town.—( Hear, hear, hear.) As to Salford, it had its own Local Act, similar in effect to the Manchester one—and there being nu disputes in Salford on the subject of contesting jurisdtJtions, if the police were inefficient (which he was not aware that they were) they could be increased to any extent under that Act.—( Hear, hear.) He could not help remarking, that it was rather singular that the petition against the Bill should have been hawked;about by a ve.y" conscientious" party for signatures on a Sunday.—( Hear.) Mr. G RIMSDITC LI believed the 81111 unnecessary. Why not introduce a short Bill to settle the disputed point ? The Commissioners and the Corpordtors were many of them the same parties.—(Hear, hear.) There was no evidence offered to the House to prove that they ought to pass such a Bill as this. He thought there must be some pressure upon the Noble Lord to in duce him to bring in such a coercive measure as this. He wished the House to pause before they sanctioned such a measure as this. He was sure it would be received with disgust and dissatisfaction. The manufacturing towns were not in a position to bear the imposition of ad ditional burdens. He hoped the Noble Lord would show the aecessity which existed for this measure. The situation of Manchester was entirely different from that of Birmingham. As regarded the town of Bolton the burden would be intolerable. Mr. P. TH OMSON could certainly not congratulate the Noble Lord opposite on the support he had received from the Hon. Gentleman behind him because he differed entirely :from the Noble Lord in the grounds of his opposition. It had been stated that noreason had been brought forward for passing the Bill. Why, the fact was, that the reasons adduced were so strong that the Noble Lord who now pro posed the amendment was induced by them to vote for the second reading of the Bill. It had been contended that the casa was not parallel with that of Birmingham ; he contended that it was so as far as the necessity of pro viding some police force went. There was this difference, however, between Manchester and Birmingha m , th at t h e Town ouncil of the latter place had provided no police, while to the honour of the Town Council of Manchester, they had provided a mo•t efficient one. The Town Council of Bir minaham had opposed the Police Bill for that town, while that of Machestcr placed itself in the hands of the Govern. ment. The reason the Government had not introduced a Bill similar to the one referred to by the Honourable Member opposite was, that it might have the effect of unsettling the decisions of the Court of Law. Believing the Bill would be productive of great good; it should have his most strenuous support. Mr. DARBY supported the amendment, believing that there was no necessity for the measure. Mr. BROTHERTON was proud that he had always voted in favour of the people and for every liberal measure —he did not support the Bill because he liked it, but be. cause ho wanted to save the peace of the country. The Hon. Gentleman opposite said there had been no burnings at Manchester. Did they want to wait till such scenes were exhibited—did they not think pre vention better than cure ? He recollected the riots of 1815 and 1829, when there was no police to prevent them. If the House did not pass the Bill such would be the state of things again. He submitted to the Bill, not because he liked it, but because he saw the necessity of it. Mr. BOLLING had supported the second reading of the Bill, but from the communications he had received from his constituents, he was now prepared to oppos e a ll those Bills, as he now thought the peace of the dist r i ct would be best preserved by their withdrawal. Lord J. RUSSELL said the clause opposed b y the Hon. Gentleman was that one which the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Tamworth said it w as hi s duty to propose as Conservator of the Peace of t h e countr • why it should be good for Birmingham and s h ou l d not be be pla i c applied to Manchester he did not k now. His d uty was e take steps for the preservation of the pea ce in every wherein it could not be done by t h e local authoritiese the chart er o f According to the opinions he had ta k en, if rtiising r a t es incorporation was good, the wholeatpo'er of there 4 la the Corpora was a deci s i on for the support of the police wag Veqt e . ora tion, and therefore immetlir4el)-• that in a cowt of law that the that decision would . • charter carry th u g pone w " , good, all rates ' for the pu r p ose luenCe, tb- 4 .-.. ordered by the cotmeil and 9 - " la ....ouid be ... 1 an ea..- all other rates i' Polk .1.- EVENING EDITION. levied by other authoriCes, would be bad rates. If that wa . , so, it was evident there would be many parties on whom claims might be made for paying ths rate to the Police Cammissioners, who would hesitate to pay that rate. ( We shall give the conclusion in our SECOND EDITION). COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and attended by the Countess of Charlemont, left town at a quarter before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in. an open carriage and four, for the resi. dence of her iNhjesty the Queen Dowager, in Bushy Park. Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, and Colonel Buckley, followed in another carriage and four. Her Majesty and suite returned to Buckingham Palace, at seven o'clock. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening included the Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Albe marle, Earl of Surrey, Viscount and Viscountess flowick, Hon. Mr. Berkeley Paget, Mr. Rich, and Mr. Brand. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, left town at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, on a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence -in Bag shot Park. Bishop Macdonnell, Dr. T. Rolph, and the very Rev. A. Macdonnell had an interview with the Mar. quis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Belgian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreig❑ Office. Captain Hobson, Captain Mackenzie, Mr. C. Lush ington, M.P., and Mr. Carmichael Smythe had inter views with the Marquis of Normanby at the Colonial Office yesterday. Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Macken zie, Governor of Ceylon, and also from the Governor of south Australia, were received yesterday at the Co lonial Office. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and family take their departure early this week for Dredling stone House, N. B. The Marquis, we hear, has taken Dudley House, Park-lane, the former residence of the Marquis of Conyngham, for a term of years. His Lord• ship has also purchased considerable landed property ad joining Bentley Priory, of Mr. Drummond. It is said the consideration amounted to little short of 100,0001. PARACHUTE ACCIDENT.—On Monday even ing Mr. Hampden, who has already made two descents in his parachute, the one from Cheltenham, and the other, about two months ago, at Cremorne House, Chelsea, made a third experiment with his dangerous machine from the Flora Tea-gardens, at Bayswater. When the balloon had ascended about three-quarters of a mile, dash down-came the parachute, and up went the balloon. The former heaved heavily from side to side, but as it descended it came more steadily, and at last fell upon the branch of a tree in Kensington Gardens. Mr. Hampton seemed stunned : he was assisted out, but at first could not speak, and was very faint. He was carried to a tavern, cheered as he went along. He was hurt in the chest and knee. The valves of the balloon did not open, consequently it ascended to an immense height, and has not been heard of since. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND Bllt NIINGITAM RAILWAY.—Another unfortunate man has lost his life on the London and Birmingham Railway ; his name is Thompson. He was employed in holding a horse when the two o'clock train came up on Friday afternoon. The noise frightened the horse, which threw the ill-fated man across the line of teams, and the whole train passing over his body, it was literally cut across. MUTINY AT SEA.—The seamen on board the Franklin, Captain Farwell, from Liverpool, mutinied in New York Bay last month, and seven of them are arrested, charged with the revolt. There are no less than 798 uninhabited houses in the township of Oldham at present, partly attributable to the entire stoppage of the machinery of some mills, and the consequent emigration of the hands. When Samuel Scott, of Hulme, was arrested in his own house on Sunday last, he was employed in making ball-cartridges with gunpowder and Northern Stars. 68 cartridges and 168 bullets were found iu his house, and also a quantity of loose gunpowder and several pieces of the Star, the latter being intended for conversion into cartridge papers.—Gateshead Observer. . . A letter from Fra n kf ur t t o th e Emancipation says—The provisional state of things in Luxemburg and Limburg will continue some time longer. The King of . Bavaria and the maj or ity o f th e Di et t hi n k t h at t h e terri tory of the Grand Duke of Luxemburg-Limburg, ought not to be more closely connected with the kingdom of the Netherlands than the possessions of the house of Nassau in Germany formerly were with the United Provinces. THE CROPS.—We are informed by two gentle men well qualified to judge, and who have just made a tour of 300 miles in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Lincoln, that the crops of all kinds are most abundant, and in excellent condition. Never was so large a quantity of wheat known ; nor is the corn laid in those counties as it is in Yorkshire.—Leeds Mercury. POPULAR COMMOTION.—We wish not to create unfounded alarm. There may have been too muc'o of this disposition in the public press; but it will be good policy to be prepared for coming events, so far as they may be anticipitated. There are certain appearances in the present political state of our country by no means favour able to domestic and wo pr,ociva a threatening cloud hovering over the destinies of England. We repeat that it is not our wish to create unfounded alarm ; yet it is our duty to express openly our opinion that evil is near at hand. The next week may prove that we have some reasonable ground for such an opinion. It may happen that many thousands of the discontented may be collected in powerful masses, from the great manufacturing and mining districts, displaying their moral and physical strength ; striking terror to the souls of the timid, and disturbing the tranquillity of the country. We anxiously wish all may be well at the close of next week. A great movement may be expected to commence on Monday next (yesterday).— Warwick Advertiser. COURT MARTIAL AT WOOLWlCH.—Yes terday morning, William Hemmings, a private of the 24th company of the Royal Marines, was brought out into the Barrack ground, Woolwich, to receive the sentence of a garrison court.martial, of which Colonel Wright was presi. dent, held on Friday last. The charges of which Hemmings had been found guilty were, first, for quitting the guard without leave, and absenting himself for three days; and secondly, for stealing a regimental coat belonging to Ed ward Wells, a private of the same company. For the first offence, he had made himself amenable, by the articles of war, to the punishment of death, by being shot, or such other punishment as should be awarded by a general court martial. The delinquent bore an irregular character, hay ing been, on a previous occasion, confined for twenty 'l a ys in Coldhath.fields prison; and the sentence that was now awarded him was to receive 150 lashes. The sentence of the court-martial having been read by the Ad!sttant of the division, Hemmings was ordered to strip, and was imme diately seized up to the triangle, and at the word of com maed the punishment commt need. After he had received one hundred lashes, Dr. Hunter, the medical officer in at tendance, recommended that the remaining fifty lashes should be remitted, which was immediately granted by the officer in command. /lemmings was subsequently removed to the infirmary. COLONEL SEVE, OR SOLIMAN PACIIA.— The following account of the career of Solirnan Pacba is given by the Siecle, which affirms that the family name of this officer is Seve, and not Selves, as it is generally written :—" Ile was born at Lyons, Ist April, 1787 ; he entered the navy in 1799, and the 2d regiment of Marine Artillery in 1803. In 1807, he left that service and entered the 2d Hussars, but was not made sub-lieu tenant till 1813, after 14 years' service. In 1814 he was promotes to the rank of lieutenant in the 14th Chasseurs, Discharged (deniissionaire) in 1815, be was restored the year following, and received half-pay till the year 1818. M. Seve made the campaigns of the years 7,2, 10, 11, and 12 of the Republic, and that of 1805, in the frigates the Meuron and Hortense, and the ships IA the line the Indomptable, Pluton, Bucentaure, and force. On land he was engaged in the following campaigns :-1809 in Austria, 1812 in Russia, 1813 in Germany, and 1814 in France. He has received six wounds, and had a horse killed under him at the battle of Brienne. He finally quitted the service because he could not obtain a confirma tion of his promotion to the rank of captain, and went to seek his fortune in Egypt, where he has found a glorious one." HUMAN SKELETON DISCOVERED.-- OnThurs day se'nnight a person who was walking on the beach, under the Coast Guard Station at Cornhill, near Dover, disco. vered some small bones which he knew to belong to the human foot. Having mentioned the circumstance he re. turned to the spot on Saturday oo search, the a re c in co a m in p d a e n r ie n d f It t w h a e s buried zigza in road the shingl e, leading by two oth e ec r lh s e , at eltkltheweinieff,s,ofnnannmndda.kn near g eiffmetno, Cornhill . Dover, where i t was submitted to the inspec macehditicpalthgeen t c a h l ole'suen skull t a o n t h t s o k e t tf h ri e nm s o k ft u hs l oe l m o be f e a full-grown ctil young They brought woman, ma i r i n o l ou T ncheedbody to ap_ be p co ea ni r e c e d tu to re h s a w ve er l e ai hazarded n inthe gro un d f or many years. Various on the occasion—such as, that the deceased might have been drowned at sea, and washed ashore ; that she might have been overwhelmed by a fall of the cliff, &c. ; but as the discovery was unaccompanied with any thing tending to throw light on the circumstance, spotth e au willse of probably n fe r andeve ever enveloped n h v e e r l n i interment m i n e nmt mystery, e t r h y i . s --Dover Chronicle. A SCORPION.—A few days since the operative hatters in the employ of Mr. Jacl:son, of Oldham, on cut ting up a piece of logwood which they have for the use of their hatting, f oun d i n t h e i ns i de o f t h e t i mber, a living scorpiorA ; it ran on the floor for several minutes, when one of the men cut it with a knife; it died immediately, and is now to be seen, in spirits, at Mr. Jackson's shop. It is a singular reptile, and very like a small lobster. —Liverpool Mercury. On Monday next, the Duke de Rov - igo will lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Starner, daughter and co-heiress of the late Colonel itiimer, Carnelly, county Clare. The lady being a Fre',estant, and the Duke a Roman Catholic, the cereisss,ny will, in the first instance, be performed by thz lice. Mr. Young, of Clare, and afterwards by the Rev. Mr. O'Gorman, P. P. The Duke is son of savary. Duke of Rovigo, Chief of Police at Paris, under the Bonaparte dynasty, and successor to the celebrated Fouche in that de partment.--Limerick Chronicle, in consequence of tl's: late heavy rain and wind the duty on the hs - siis has fallen 25.0001. Great mischief bat bees 4 .^.;:ie to the bi " ne. —Maidstone J'ostenal. it Call e r herring," Three a penny," Four a penny," are cries which have rejoic e d t h e ears of the lovers • in Gateshead of fresh herringfor several days past.