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Why is not this question left rather as an open question, on 'Wald! each Minister may exercise his own discretion ? We know that in tie Government there are many friends to the ballot ; why, then, are they now prevented from giving their powerful assistance to a measure of which they once were the able supporters? Why are their lips to be closed ui 11 - 1- teal of office ? I trust that before long the rjoyern ment, or. rather the anti-ballot Members of the Go •sernment, will change their course pa question t end if they will not themselves bring .it iorward a. a. Uovern ment measure, that they will at least lee.s7.: it as an open question, and allow their colle;. (guos are in favou r o f i t to speak and to vote accor- their previously avowed opinions. Public opi,n)°l, is 'setting in in f avour o f t h e b allot with a steady flow. 'mu may for a season stop by your ob stllas thele advaT ~4- e.zi„ tide ; hut it mu s t eventually rise above a barrie, a'ad carry you before it with resistless force. I cannot bettsr Conclude what I hare to say on this subject thin by quoti ag the words of one of the chief men in the country : althee,gh they were not spoken on this question, they are most nt::..ifeable to it : the words are these:-s" The great disease ti society, the great impediment to quiet government, the great evil of the day, the greatest prevailing abuse at present is, that every one thinks he luta a right to employ td. influence over another; each practices it, and each exclaims against its practice in a third person. The landiard enforces it on his tenant—the customer over his tradesman ; they force con science, and they drive persons against their will to the poll, to vote contrary to their own wishes. I say, then, upon whatever side this influence is exercised, it is a cruel tyranny and a groan injustice. I saw that it is a great evil ; it is one, too, pre vailing in a greater degree in this than in any other country, :and that in no other country but this, where there is a popular 'form of government, does it prevail." These arc sentiments whick would do honour to any man ; they are the honest, the manly, the straightforward sentiments of'a truly liberal-minded man ; they are words spoken only a few weeks past, by the Prime Minister of this country. He is the most popular —yes, Sir, he is still the most popular, and he is still deservedly the most popul ar , Mi n i ster who ever governed this country. To me these words are as a good omen of our future and not very distant success in carrying this all-iinportant question of the Ballot.—(Cheers.) Lord DALMENY said that if any thing could convince him that the Ballot was a desirable system it would have been the clear and eloquent statement of the Hon. Member for Lorvlon—( Hear, hear)—but after closely attending to the discussions which had taken place upon the subject for three aoccessivc Sessions, he had become mere and more convinced that such a system would be most pernicious.—(llear, hear.) The Ballot would relieve the elector from all the responsibility which he at present owed to his fellow electors. Who, he would ask, were the parties who were shouting for the Ballot ? Precisely those who on all other occasions loudly advocated entire publicity ? The Ballot would not enable the voter to vote according to the dictates of his conscience, because the same influence of the landlord which was now exerted to make the tenant vote in a particular way, would be put into ef!ect to prevent him from voting at all.—( Hear, hear.) He denied too that the Ballot would produce that entire secrecy as to votes which was attributed to it. He would never sanc tion any system which could only reach the perfection ascribed to it by systematizing falsehood, and which made secresy the guarantee of honesty.—(Hear, hear.) He would leave it to others to compare the fine old English principle of independent and fair voting, with the mean, low, crafty, pusillanimous, and dissembling spirit which would be engendered by the Ballot.— (Oh, oh, and Hear.) The best information he had received from, parties acquainted with the working of the Ballot in America showed it to be ridiculously inefficient there. 'Dr. BOWRING said when he visited the cantons of :Switzerland he was told that the Ballot had had the effect there of introducing peace into the community, and that it had been done mare to establish harmony and prevent corruption than any experiment that had been made.— (, Hear, hear.) I t was k nown generally, and the Noble Lord must know, that even amongst his constituents the question of the Ballot had made great progress ; indeed, lie must feel that if there was any one thing more than another which was calculated to put in peril his situation in that House, it was such a speech as he had made that night, and there never was a question which had made :such rapid progress in the public mind as this.—( Hear, hear, hear.) One of the Noble Lord's objections to the Ballot was that it was un-English. He would maintain, on the contrary, that it was not an un-English principle. What was asked was that the people of England should be enabled to do what they Considered right. If a man was in so independent a situation 'that he could proclaim his votes to the world without sacri fice, there was no reason why he should not do so ; the Ballot would not prevent him.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. EWART said, if in America the Ballot was not fully practised, it was because it was found efficient when it was required. In his conversations with Americans, he had asked them, " Do you invariably use the Ballot ?" and the answer he obtained was, " That they did not because they felt that the power they possessed of resorting to its protection was a gua rantee against oppression, and he was satisfied that the same pewer would give equal protection in this country." In France the power lay dormant till it was called into operation by the 'despotism of the Restoration ; and the Noble Lord called on them to show him their mechanism to carry the Ballot into effect before he gave his consent to the measure. He denied, however, that the success of the measure depended on any peculiarly ingenious mechanical contrivance. In France and America the mechanism had not failed, and it had succeeded also in the clubs and vestries of this country. He had con stantly voted in favour of the Ballot, and he should continue to vote in the same way. Colonel THOMPSON observed it had been said that voting was a trust, and therefore it ought not to be done in secrecy ; but was it supposed that the voter would any better execute his trust because he was exposed to the chance of oppression ?—(Cheers.)—and the Noble Lord also said that it tvas opposed to the spirit of the institution for any one in whom A trust was vested to be allowed to vote in secret. Now he thought he could show cases in which the spirit and the con stitution and the law were directly opposed to this view, and in which the voter under very important circumstances was restricted to voting in secret, not being allowed to vote in any other way. He alluded to military and naval courts martial. Those who sat on courts martial had a most important office to perform. They sat on the life and honor of their fellow creatures, and it was demanded of them to vote secretly—why ? Because it was thought that this practice afforded the best security for a pure decision; because it was considered that this was the more effectual method of ensuring the maximum of good and the minimum of evil. Every man declared so lemnly that he would not divulge the votes or proceed ings of the courts martial. There was another case in which art officer declared, not on his oath but on his honor, that he would divulge any vote or opinion given by any Member of the body, or even his own. That he thought was an excellent principle, and ought to be adopted by the sup porters of the Ballot. What was its effect? It was this; no man asked the officers how they had voted, and no man perse noted them for not telling, because it was known that the an swer would he, " You are asking me to declare that which I have undertaken not to declare." He put it to Hon. Gentle men whether that principle would not be advantageously adopted in legislating for the Ballot. Mr. BRODIE made a few observations which were inau dible. We understood him to say that he should not vote on the present occasion. Mr. VILLIERS said the effect of the Ballot would be, that men would not promise their votes, and canvassing would be Put an end to ; for who would trouble themselves to canvass for votes when they had no means of telling whether the pro, raise given - would be violated or not ? The Hon. Gentlemen °Ppositq would, no doubt, vote against the motion, but they did oot come forward in defence of the opinion on which that v" . ..e would be given. He advocated the Ballot, because lie 'ores aware that it was the best protection for the pure exer eise of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.) The tendency of pub feeling in this country for the last twenty years was to de- Mocratic power. Public opinion supported every measure which tended to the extension of that power. Yet those who opposed it exclaimed, they prophccied, that it would cause some injury to the country, something . destructive to the wel fare o f the nation. Every one of these predictions had been Falsified. He agreed with the Hon. Member for the City, in thinking that a gre,at moral advantage would be gained in th e Vote by PP2.lOt, aed that it would improve both the cha 'eeter of *2ae candidates and the constituents. It would teach the oo:aclidate that he would not secure his seat without deser \itig the good opinion of his constituents—without securing that good ()Onion it would be useless for him to ask for the votes of his constituents. It would, too, be for the advantage of the people. For men then to get into Parliament, the head, rather than the head-money, would he considered.--( Hear. ) Tflose who opposed the Ballot he believed, did not assign the peal reason for doing so. He believed, so contradictory were t he arguments o f these persons, that if all the arguments used tq opposition to the Ballot were placed together, they would °o found to be answers to one another.—( Hear, hear.) Lord DALMENY explained. Mr. W. ROCHE thought there was no m easure more :ikely to afford satisfaction to tho country than that proposed 6 Y the Hon. Member for London, and lie was satisfied that Itnu e cou ld be found more congenial to the wishes of the people. • Mr. ROI3IN SON stated that if he thought with the Hon. "number for Wolverhampton, that the Ballot would have the Orect of improving the constituency of the country, and the c haracter of that House, be would be one of its supporters ; 15 at as it was, because from the best consideration that he could. Rive to the question, that he had come to an opposite concha. i °ni that he should now feel b• - ,und to vote against such an t li novation upon the established i nst i tut i ons of the coon- He had himself the honour of representing a very 4 rge constituency, and although many of them were fa vourable to the Ballot, yet still there were an im me• nse majority, and in that majority w ere to b e i nc l u d e d ,'!(, , poorer classes, who were against the B a ll ot , or were in (aS "if:rent respecting it. The elective franchise he regarded a• public trust, and should therefore he openly exercised. 'here were Members of that House who would, he was sure, tlt that they would be very glad if they could give their l ' r ,` l tos tinder c - over of the Ballot.—( Hear, hear, from Mr. : I , r ,°to, and other Members. It seemed that that was admit- Hear, hear.) He was only stating that Members were l isTa called upon to give their votes in the execution of a duty, •h• h were contrary to the wishes of their con 14„tituents, and l4 that ic they would be pleased to let their consti 4,"ts suppose that they had voted directly the opposite._. r e an cheers from Mr. Grote, and other Members.) He fl',7embered putting the question in this way to a deputa , tion ;" 41 a Political Union, who asked him to support the Ballot ; th ough refused to do so, every one of those persons ° „ t e . ,( l for him. He should feel it to be his duty to oppose the t6 '.,, t ',on of the Hon. Member for the City of London. T he House then divided— Ayes N9C3 88 139 Majority agminst the motion -51 C. BULLER Obtained leave to brin g —in a Bill to amend the law relating to Notaries Public. Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring . in a Bill for the *Lett Convenient division of counties intn polling districts tat' the election of Members of Parl'aitenty and taking ti.e poll in one day. Mr. FORSTE was understoxl to point the Noble Lord's attenildti to the inconvenience of taking the poll in contiguous counties, on the Fame day. Leave was the given to bring in the Bill, FACTORY ACT. Mr. HINDLE Y moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the prese .t Factory Act. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished the Hon. Member to ex plain his reason for introducing the measure during the present session. Mr. HINDLE Y felt sorry to be obliged to obtrude himself upon the attention of the House on the present occasion, be cause he knew, that in the minds of many Hon. Members, the Factory question was considered to have been disposed of by the vote of the other nighr. Now, though the friends of the Factory children were glad to have succeeded in inducing the Government to withdraw the measure of the President of the Board of Trade, yet they were desirous of seeing an effective measure substituted in its place. It would be in the recollec tion of the House, that all the statements used by the oppo nents of the Right Hon. Gentleman's proposition on its second reading, admitted the necessity of a change in the present Act, but deprecated that proposed by the Right Hon. Gentle man, as being a retrograde movement in the cause of humanity and justice. He (Mr. Hindley) considered that the enforce ment of the present law would be productive of great incon venience both to masters and men. This view of the subject was confirmed by an article in a newspaper of great circulation in the manufacturing districts, the Leeds Mercury, in which the conse quences of leaving the:law in its present shape were thus stated:— " The present law will therefore remain in force, according to which no child can be employed in any mill more than eight hours a day on the average, who has not attained the age of thirteen years, or at least whose ordinary strength and ap pearance'4lo not bespeak that age, without subjecting the master to a heavy penalty." * * " The effect of these re strictious will be, that, except perhaps in half a dozen mills, no children under thirteen years will be employed at all; or they will be employed in open and entire disregard of the law." * * * "In the numerous manufacturing villages, where so great a proportion of our woollen cloth and fancy goods are made, the law will be wholly impracticable; because children of the legal age cannot be obtained ; and the mills must there fore either be shut up, or be worked in defiance of the law." * * * " The consequence, as we have said before, will be, either that at least three-fourths of the mills must be shut up, or that the law will be set at defiance.' " * * * " Such will be the effects of the law, if it should be enforced ; and every workman, as well as every master in the country, is subject to it. If it should be evaded, how frightful an amount of perjury must be committed in the evasion ! If it should be set at nought, what a pretty lesson our Legislators will then be giving to the people, of respect for the laws and the law-makers !" He thought, therefore, that a change ought to be made, and he should therefore propose an uniform time for all children under twenty-one years of age, namely ten hours per day. Mr. LABOUC H ERE said it was the general feeling that the present Act had not had a fair trial, and the Bill, if now allowed to be introduced, would create great excitement in the manufacturing districts. Lord ASHLEY would be bound to support the Bill if pressed, though he had advised the Hon. Meniber not to bring it forward, as this was not the proper period, and pressing of it now would do more injury than service to the cause. Mr. WA SON observed that the necessity of some altera tion was admitted on all hands. Mr. G. F. YOUNG thought the motion, though doubtless well-intentioned, ill-timed, and hoped it would be withrawn. He thought the Ten Hours' Bill was the only practical safe guard thrown round the defenceless children. The Hon. Member was only embarrassing the question of relief to the children. Sir J. C. HOBHO USE was understood to say that the Government plan should be allowed a fair trial, and that it was injudicious to interfere with it. He thought the Hon. Member should not press his motion for the present. Mr. M. PHILLIPS would ask the Hon. Member did he expect that this Bill, if introduced, could be carried this ses sion ? If he could not, was it not doing mischief to introduce it for the purpose of exciting agitation ? That at least would be its effect ; and another effect would be, to produce a greater infraction of the present law. At this late period of the ses sion they should not legislate further. Mr. WORTLEY thought if the Hon. Gentleman had not a fair prospect of carrying his Bill this session he ought not to precipitate legislation upon it, especially if it would disturb the public mind. He was most anxious for the relief of the chil dren, but he thought the present proposition could effect no good. Mr. HINDLE Y, in answer to the Hon. Member for Hali fax, said that the Bill which the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Hobhouse) had introduced in 1831 had been carried through in six weeks ; and who supposed that the present Session would not last at least that length of time ?—( Oh, oh.) Why let the House consider the Stamp Consolidation Bill which the Chancellor of die Exchequer had in hand, and which he certainly considered would alone occupy several weeks. As to the charge which had been made against him of inconsis tency, in bringing forward this Bill after he had opposed that of the President of the Board of Trade, this was entirely with out foundation. All the arguments which he had stated in the course of the debate went to shew, and the. Right Hon. Baronet she Member for Tamworth had admitted it, that a change in the present law was necessary, and the Right Hon. Baronet had given it as his reason for voting for the second reading of the President of the Board of Trade's Bill, that alterations might be mad:: in Committee. Admitting the ne cessity of a change, therefore, there was surely no inconsis tency in opposing a measure pregnant with evils to children under thirteen years of age, and bringing forward one which was calculated to protect those under twenty-one. Indeed it behoved him, as one of the opponents of the former Bill, to bring forward another, because the Right Hon. Gentleman in abandoning his measure, had given the House to understand that he would change any injurious consequences which might arise from enforcing the present law upon those who had voted against him. Not wishing to incur any such responsi bility, and knowing that the present Act was unpalatable, both to masters and men, he was prepared to lay upon the table of the House a Bill which would obviate the difficulties arising from the present law, and which, he did believe, would be beneficial to all parties. As the House, however, appeared to be unwilling at this period of the Session to enter again upon the question, he felt himself compelled to bow to their decion. He complained, however, that the friends of the factory children had been on several occasions charged with all the ill consequences arising from the present Act, and even his Majesty's Government had not scrupled to lend them selves to the accusation; but as it was most unfounded he hoped it would be withdrawn. If it were given up he should have less objection to withdraw his motion. He hoped, therefore, that if ho did this, the Government would also withdraw the declaration that they had made, removing the responsibility of enforcing this act from their own shoulders to those of their opponents, on the ground that the Government, were not the parties who originated the measure, the fact being, that the present law was the offspring of the Government and of no other individuals. The Government must take the responsi bility of the measure entirely upon themselves. Mr. G 0 ULB URN said that in opposing the introduction of the Bill lie could not be charged with inconsistency, as he had actually voted with the Hon. Member on a late occasion against the proposition of a distinguished Member of the Go vernment. (Mr. Thomson, wo suppose.) But as the sense of the House was clearly opposed to the present motion, he would suggest that it was better not to urge it. Lord F. EGERTON said a few words to the same effect. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that as the Hon. Gentleman behind him had alluded to the part taken by Government on the present subject, he thought it right to state what his ( Lord Russell's) impression was with respect to it. He certainly had understood that the feeling of the large parties who voted on a former occasion against a Bill brought in by his Right Hon. Friend on this subject was this, that a sufficient case of necessity had not been made out to call upon Parliament to interfere with an Act which had already been passed, and to disturb its operation whilst it was yet an experiment. After that vote, he ( Lord John Russell) had certainly felt it to be his duty to carry the law into effect to the best in his power. If a new Bill were to be introduced on the subject at present, he should utterly despair of carrying the law into operation. Mr. BAINES was sure the best mode of securing tranquil lity in the manufacturing districts was to let the present law work out its way for a time until its efficiency or inefficiency was seen. He would therefore advise the Hon. Member to withdraw his motion. Mr. HINDLE Y said, that as the Noble Lord had agreed to take the responsibility of the present law, he should con sent to withdraw his motion. In doing, this, however, he felt conscious that he had been prepared to lay before the House a measure which would relieve them from the difficulties which would arise from the present state of the law. As to the opinion that some Hon. Members had expressed, that the agi tation upon this subject out of doors would geese, he believed the contrary would be the case. The people were determined not to rest till they obtained an effective Ten-hours' Bill ; and in their attempts to do this, he should be ready to assist them by every legal and constitutional means in his power. He hoped the number of the friends of the factory children would so increase in that House, that such a Bill would, ere long, be carried by a triumphant majority. COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND). The LORD ADVOCATE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the office of Auditor of Ac counts in the Court of Session in Scotland, and for the ap pointment of two Accountants-General in the said Court. Sir W. RAE opposed the motion. The only object of the Bill was to give 3,0001. a year to men for doing nothing. Mr. HUME thought it would be better to suspend the Bill until it was ascertained whether the reductions already recom mended by Committees of that House might not effect the general object contemplated by the Learned Lord. The LORD ADVOCATE and Sir W. RAE mutually explained. After a few words from Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Goulburn, and Mr. Bannerman, the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion 93 Against it _ _ 69 Majority in its favour 24 SHERIFFS' AND BURGH COURTS (SCOTLAND). The LORD ADVOCATE then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the 'constitution, jurisdiction, and forms of pro cess of Sheriff's Court, and the civil jurisdiction of Burgh Courts, in Scotland. He did not find it necessary on the present occasion to enter into a discussion of the de tails of the Bill. ihe measure would come umler discussion on another and more opportune occas i on . Sir W. RAE complained of this Bill being brought in at UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 24.—The Rev. Thomas Worsley, M. A. Fellow of Downing College, has been unanimously elected Master of that society, in the room of the late Mr. Serjcant Frere. The election took place yesterday morning in London, and not last week as has been prematurely stated. On Monday last the following prizes were adjudged : MEMBERS' PRIZES FOR BACHELORS OF ARTS. James Ind Smith, Trinity College. No Second Prize adjudged. Subject—Extincta servitute apud Insulas Occidentales„ qucedent conzmoda vel incommode possint exinde oriri? MELBERS' PRIZES FOR UNDERGRADUATES. William Gilson Humphry, Trinity College. No Second Prize adjudged. Subject—hi Republica Gene constitutd aunt kereditario jure At a congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees - ere conferred : DOCTOR IN PHYSIC. John Barr, Emmanuel College. BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. John Henry Pooley, St. John's College, (camp.) MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. John Smith, St. John's College. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Richard Elwyn Roberts, Clare Hall. At the same congregation, the Rev. Thomas Spence Phelps, M. A., of Balliol College, Oxford, was incorporated M. A. of Emmanuel College, in this University. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, WEDNESDAY. —We have had a fair demand for Cotton to-day. Sales 3,000 bags, without alteration in prices. CAUTION TO FARMERS AND TRADESMEN.- _ We have before had occasion to caution our readers against the tricks of pretended money-lenders, and several cases have come before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, where per sons duped by them have been brought to ruin. A circular addressed to a highly respectable tradesman in this county is now before us, in which the parties offer to procure merchants', factors', brokers', or tradesmen's bills of exchange, to any " rea sonable amount," either to get discounted, or to pay away in the course of business, and a ivofully long sermon on the ad vantages of the bill system is appended to this friendly offer. The gentleman selected for this special mark of favor is par ticularly requested not to show the circular to any ore, unless he he a confidential and respectable friend, whose object it is likely to secure. No doubt other gentlemen, in Essex, have received similar communications, but we would advise them to pause ere they burn their fingers. —Esser Hcrahl. After the review on Saturday, the inhabitants of Kensington were agreeably surprised at the gates of Holland Park being thrown open for the reception of the Royal Horse Guards Blue, on their return to Windsor—Lord Holland, on being applied to, having kindly given his assent to Colonel Hill—where, by the judicious arrangements of Quarter-Master Turner, each soldier received a bottle of porter, with bread and cheese, supplied by the worthy host of the Holland Arms after which they proceeded, highly gratified with their enter tainment. JEWS.---On the 17th of May last Mr. Hawes presented a petition to the House of Commons from a Mr. Ebenezer Dermer, the object of which is thus stated :—" The petitioner cannot withhold the expression of his alarm and ap prehension that a Bill for the incorporation of the Jews along with the Christian citizens of Great Britain and Ireland, if carried into execution, would be at most decided variance with the prophecies of the Old Testament." WATERLOO DAY.—Here, as everywhere else, the anniversary of this great victory now passes off very quietly. A few years ago, the neghbouring woods were laid under con tribution, that green boughs might flaunt o'er all the town— banners were displayed —the youth rejoiced in a long holiday, and convivial gathering mustered at night ; but, so far as popular demonstration is concerned, Waterloo day has lost its freshness, and, like all other " great victories," it has become alone the property of hi s t or y. O n S atur J a y l as t, however, a party, amounting to nearly thirty gentlemen, assembled in the house of Mr. Archibald JohnstDne, of the Ewe and Lamb Inn, to do honour to the occasion. —Dumfries Courier. About two o'clock on Saturday morning, the inha bitants of Kelso were suddenly aroused from their slumbers by the ringing of thefire bells. The cottage in which the fire occurred, situated in the lane leadin g from th e f oot o f t h e Wood Market to Ilempseed Ford, being unoccupied, a id fresh footsteps having been observed in the garden behind it, there is but too much reason to suspect that the fire was the work of some incendiary. By the exertions of the people assinibled, and the ti me l y arr i va l o f t h e fire-engines, the fire was clothed to the cottage in which it originated, which was totally con. sumed. No clue has as yet been obtained likely to lead to the detection of the incendiary. —Kelso Chronicle. On Monday evening a meeting of inhabita Itg of this town took pl ace a t the Peacock Inn, f or t h e purdose o f entering into a subscription in aid of the O'Connell fun 1, now raising in different parts of the kingdom.-- IVolverh unpton Chronicle. The carpet-weavers at Kidderminster have resumed their work. No alteration in the rate of wages has taken place. At Folkstone, on Sunday last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, there was a heavy storm of rain with thun der and lightning, which set fire to a stable in which were two horses. All was destroyed. !The roads in the neighourhood of Edinburgh are mich infested with swindlers, notwithstanding 'the e Ker t ions of the authorities to put them down. so late a period of the session, and said he should n:serve his observations with respect to it for another tlpportunity. Mr. WALLACE protested against the continuance in office of the sheriffs depute. He should take care that these offices, which were now sinecures, should be efficiently fixed for the future. Mr. HUME was surprised to hear the right Honourable Gentleman opposite speak of the late period of the session. He hoped that every one of the necessary measures of re form which had been introduced would be passed that House before the Government consented to prorogue Parliament, or to allow the session to close.--( Hear, hear.) He trusted his Hon. Friend (Mr. Wallace) would persevere in his in tention of opposing the continuance of the present office of sheriffs depute. After a few words from Mr. GOUL BURN, Sir G. CLERK said, that considering the very small por tion of the time of Parliament which was occupied with Scotch subjects, he thought that Scotland, too, would be justified in putting forward a claim for "justice," when measures of the first consequence to her- interests were deferred to such a period of tho Session as to render it almost impossible to reckon upon their passing.—( Hear.) Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. REGULATION OF LIGHT-HOUSES. Mr. P. THOMSON moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of light-houses. The object of it was to place light-houses in England under the management of the Trinity Board. The light-houses in Scotland and Ireland he did not intend to bring at present under the supervision of the samo Board. Mr. WARBURTON was opposed to the proposed mea sure, on the ground of the expensive character of the Trinity Board, the control exercised by which it was intended to in crease. After a few words from Mr. YOUNG, and Mr. R. STEUART, Mr. HUME supported the Bill as putting an end to the system of private light-houses, than which nothing could be worse. After that he trusted that Government would take the whole subject into their hands. Mr. HAWES complained of the constitution of the Tri nity Board. Professional men were two much excluded from it. Mr. P. THOMSON defended the character and conduct of the Trinity Board, and contended, that during his know ledge of that Board he had never witnessed greater atten tion to the commercial interests which came within their sphere. He was bound, also, as a Member of the Commit tee of that House on that subject, to say that it was difficult to imagine a purer management by any body of men, who re ceived neither foe nor reward for their exertions; and where they had been called upon to pay salaries, they had meted them out with all due attention to economy. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. COMPENSATION TO THE OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. HUME begged to ask the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he had fixed the time at which the sub ject of salaries and compensations to the officers of the House should be brought under the consideration of the House ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that lie proposed to bring the subject under the consideration of the House early on Wednesday next. STAMPS AND NEWSPAPERS. Dr. BOWRING begged to ask the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer if he had determined on the period at which the operation of the new Stamp Duties generally, and of the new Stamp Duties on Newspapers, was to commence ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated (as we understood the Right Hon. Gentleman) that it was his intention to propose that the operation of the new Stamp Duties generally should commence on the first of January, and that of the new Stamp Duties on Newspapers on the sth of July. HAND-LOOM WEAVING. Mr. MAXWELL rose to propose his resolutions relating to Hand Loom-Weaving. Mr. WARBURTON observed, that the Hon. Gentleman's notice stood No. 6in the votes. He begged to know if the Hon. Gentleman was not present when the House came to that number, in an early part of the evening ? Thus to postpone a notice from one part of an evening to another, was in his opi nion a more objectionable proceeding than to make a motion without any notice whatever. After a few words from Mr. MAXWELL and the SPEAKER, the former fixed his motion for the sth of Jul}, expressing his hope that the Noble Lord would give him an opportunity of bringing it on on that day. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he could not give any such pledge. COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.F. 12 (IN Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6!4 A rawer') l2 5 Ifamburg M.B. 13 14 Minna l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto ....... .............. Us 25 90 7 , Tarseilles. Frankfort m 4 Maine, Ex. M 154 Petenibuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Berlin Vienna, effective fl M. 10 12 Icieste ...... ditto lO 13 Madrid Ililboa 14.reeiena Saville Gibraltar 36 t,6 `,ll;i 48 (THIS EVENING.) FISHERIES. On the motion for resuming the adjourned debate on the clause proposed on the third reading of Fisheries Bill, Sir B. VERE moved, as an amendment, that the debate be further adjourned to Tuesday. After some conversation, the House divided : For the amendment 29 Against it 5B Alajority The debate was then resumed, and the clause was agreed to, and added to the Bill by way of rider. The remaining Orders of the Day having been disposed of, the House adjourned, on the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, at a quarter to one o'clock. TJIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1836 SUN OFiIiCP,, Se,on o'Clock•. JAMES ROE, draper, Wells, Somerset, July 9, and Aug. 5 at eleven, at the Swan-hotel, Wells. Hope, Wells; Meredith ; Heatheote-street, Mecklenburgh-square. NG.E.-(TITIS DAY.) Leghorn ;8 Genoa 25 85 Milan 'll Venice 47 Naples 4014 Palermo per oz. I Lisbon 55% Oporto 56% Rio Janeiro 36% Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight .1% Cork 1 1,4 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ, Portugal gold, Coin CO 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 5 Oq f MPERIAL PARLIAMENT, 110 USE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. LIVERPOOL DOCKS BILL. • Lord F. EGERTON moved the further consideration of the Report on the Liverpool Docks Bill. Lord CLIVE moved the recommittal of the Bill on the ground that the clause exempting the Docks from toll would operate injuriously to other ports. Mr. WILBRAHAM seconded the motion. Lord SANDON opposed the re-committal. Other ports had been exempted from toll, and he did not see why Liver pool should not have the same privilege. The bondholders of the Liverpool Dock Company had lent their money on the as surance, and under the security, that the whole trade should be liable to toll. He submitted to the House, that this clause for the exemption of the places in question, as proposed by his Noble Friend, could not stand without notice being given to the parties interested. Mr. JERVIS supported the re-committal of the Bill. Mr. EWA R,T did not wish to waste the time of the House, and therefore, as this was a question entirely relating to the Standing Orders, he hoped the Speaker would have the kind ness to give the House his opinion upon the matter. It would save much time, and he was sure the House would be satisfied with it. Captain EGERTON thought the House ought to weigh the subject well before it decided upon it, otherwise it might do great injustice to the parties. Sir J. WR 0 TTE SLE Y dissented altogether from the pro position of the Noble Lord. Mr. BROT II ERT ON supported the clause. The SPEAKER said that if he understood the objec tion of the Noble Lord rightly, it was that the clause in ques tion ought never to have been introduced into the Bill, as it was not in the power of the Committee, consistently with the Standing Orders, to introduce such a clause. This was the only material point for the House to consider. If there was any alteration in a Bill, whether by way of addition or dimi nution, it was requisite that notice should be given, so that all the parties who would be affected by the alteration should have sufficient notice. Now the Committee made an alteration with respect to tolls without notice, and this, necessarily, was inconsistent with the Standing Orders. He hoped that the House would always bear in mind that the Standing Orders were made for the protection of all classes of the community, and it ought, therefore, never to be held as a reason for suspend ing the Standing Orders, that the alteration that was made would be without particular injury to individuals.—( Hear. ) After a few words from Lord CLIVE, which did not reach the gallery, Lord STANLEY said, if the object of the Hon. Member for Liverpool was to throw out the Bill altogether, it would be better to raise the question at once, and not to waste time in discussing this particular clause. Mr. EWART would feel it his duty if that clause was left out to move the rejection of the Bill altogetlic . r.—( Hear.) Lord SAN DON said it was his intention to move that all the amendments to the Bill should be agreed to with the exception of that clause, which related to the exemption of certain places in Cheshire from the dock dues. The SPEAKER thought the decision of the House should be taken upon the other clauses first. Mr. EWART contended that the clause in question was the pr:liminary matter before the House.—( Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER said the question would be put upon each of' the amendments, and then it would be competent for the Hon. Member to take the sense of the House upon that clause. _ • . Mr. J JERVIS would then be placed in a very awkward situation, for he might not object to all the amendments, yet he might not wish to vote for them. He would be willing to take the Bill with all its faults if the places in Cheshire were exempted, yet he would be obliged, if the proposed course were pursued, to vote against all the amendments. Mr. BROTHERTON moved that the amendment be taken into consideration that day six months. Mr. EWA R T rose amidst loud cries of " Spoke, spoke." He would then take the division, upon the understanding that involved it the principle of the Bill.—( Hear, hear—Divide.) On the present occasion he was sure he represented the ma jority of the town of which he was the Member, as it was re presented by the Town-Council. That Town-Council came before the House prima facie. The Bill which was pro posed by his Noble Colleague, took away from the Town- Council the power vested in the old Corporations ; and the question was, whether the power vested in a Corporation full of abuse, should or should not be handed over to a Corpora tion in which these abuses had been removed.--( Hear.) His Noble Colleague had proposed, with some apparent plausibility, that the appointment of the Manager of the docks of Liverpool should be in the dock rate payers. Now the dock. rate payers were a most fluctuating constituency, on the con trary the Town Council were elected by thousands of their fellow -townsmen. Besides this objection to the constituency of the Dock rate-payers there was this, the wealthy mer chants of Liverpool could purchase as many shares as they pleased, and by that means they obtained an undue influence. Independent of that the Bill divided the police of the town. The chief Commissioner of police gave evidence as strong as possible showing the impolicy of dividing the dock police from the town police. It was dangerous, and attended with expense, to have two bodies of police instead of one. If the clause had been carried in the Committee it was through the un paralleled exertions of the Hon. Member for Harwich, who, on this occasion surpassed all his predecessors in the science of whipping-in.—(A laugh.) It was against all the evidence, and he could not help expressing his astonishment that his Noble Colleague should advocate the separation of the poi:cc of Li verpool into two sections. Ile called on the House to throw out the Bill. It took away from the Municipal bodies which they had themselves created, that legitimate power that ought to be vested i n t h em— i t was contrary to the principle of the Municipal ReforM Bill,and to all the principles of sound policy lie concluded by moving that the report he taken into fur ther consideration that day six months. Lord SA N DON said it was very hard that a question of a purely commercial character should be converted into a qUes tion of politics, and that Hon. Members connected with the Government should sanction a course which must be produc tive of serious injury to the commercial interests of the coun try. The Trustees had made several propositions to the town council, with the view to obtain an amicable and satisfac tory arrangement, and it was not until all these overtures were rejected that the present Bill was introduced. The first great struggle on this subject took place in 1825 and 1826, when Mr. Gladstime endeavoured to wrest the power from the Tory Corporation, and place it in the hands of the rate pa)crs. The grounds upon which this struggle took place was, that the Corporation was an irresponsible body. It might be said that the case was now altered since the measure of Municipal Reform had passed ; but he (Lord Sandon) would ask, was the town council elected by the rate payers ?—( H ear , h e ar.) The Police atta c h e d to the Docks would by this Bill in no way be connected with the Police of the Town, which was neces sary and essential in order that the Company might have complete control over those who were to watch the pro p(-y which was under the care of the Dock Company. He would defy his Hon. Friend to sly that the Dock estate SECOND EDITIO THE LONDON GAZE PTE THIS EVENING. LORD GAAMBERL AIN'S OFFICE, JURG 22. Orders for the Court. going into mourning, on Sunday next, the 23th instant, for his late Majesty the King of Saxony, viz.— The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans, and tippets. 'the Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen,' black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Sunday the 10th of July next, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, cr white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The Gentlemen to wea . r black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Sunday the 17th of July next, the Court to go out of mourning. DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 22. The King has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Joseph Doyle to be Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Grenada. WHITEHALL, JUNE 14. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Horatio Compigne, of Gos port, in the county of Hants, Gent., to be aZlaster Extraordinary iu the High Court of Chancery. _ _ WHITEHALL, JUNE 20. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Chzrles Arthur Tennant, Dewsbury, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Mastcr Fxtraor dieary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN HAYES, builder, Little Bartholomew Close, London. BANKRUPTS. JOHN SELLER, tailor, Pulborough, Sussex, July 8, an d Au gust 5, at ele ven , a t th e Half Moon Inn, Petworth. Blackmore, Temple, London ; Ellis and Hale, Petworth, Sussex. WILLIAM BLLTRTON, gentleman, Field-hall, Staffordshire, July 8, and August 5, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Stone. Bar low, Stone ; Barker, Gray's Inn-square, London. THOMAS WOOTTON, Wimeswould, Leicestershire, and EDWARD WOOTTON, Derby, horse-dealers, July 7, and Aug. 5, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Loughborough. Brock, Loughborough ; Douglass and Cragg, Gray's Inn, London. CHARLES HUIN, builder, Newport, Monmouth, July 1, and Aug. 5, at eleven, at the King's-head, Newport. Platt and Hall, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's Inn ; Prothero and Phillips, Newport. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Sir R. PEEL wished, for the sake of general conveni ence, to make some arrangement with the Noble Lord with respect to the Irish Tithe Bill. The principle of the measure, he apprehended, would require only one discussion. Of course neither he nor any other Gentleman would be precluded from entering upon the details. That discussion might be taken upon that clause which refers to the leading princi ple of the Bill. He should propose that the Noble Lord should name the day on which it was probable that the clause would be taken under consideration by the House.--(Hear, hear.) The Committee stood for Friday next, but he understood that the Hon. Member for Kilkenny had a motion to propose on that night, which would most likely take the whole evening. He should therefore propose that that clause should be taken on Monday se'nnight. The clause in question was the 50th, which gave the Lord Lieutenant the power to appoint Commissioners to apply the surplus.---( Hear, hear.) That raised the whole question of the principle, and if it met the general conve nience he should name that day for the discussion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought that some day should be named for proceeding with the clause to which the Right Hon. Baronet had referred. Of course he snould not be able to say how far the Committee would proceed on Friday, if they proceeded so far as the 50th clause, he certainly should be quite ready to postpone any discussion on the clause till the Monday following. If the Committee proceeded as far as the 50th clause, he would undertake it should not be proceeded with till Monday. Sir ROBERT PEEL thought it was the general desire to take the discussion on the 50th clause on Monday. Lord J. RUSSELL should propose going into Committee on Friday on the Bill, on the understanding that the 50th clause should not be proceeded with till Monday. Mr. OLIPHANT presented two petiti ons f rom P ert h, and one from Leslie, in Fife, against the Municipal Corpora tion (Scotland) Bill. BRIGHTON RAILWAY BILL AND BLACKWOOD RAILWAY BILL. Mr. WA SON called the attention of the House to the fact that the Reports on these Bills were not, yet presented, al though there was ample time for doing so. TITHE COMMUTATION (ENGLAND) BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the Ordar of the Day for [he House to resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Ware, [n Hertfordshire, against that portion of the Bill which related :a personal tithes. POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. Mr. MACLEAN begged to know whether the Poor Law Commissioners had the power of preventing the poor from attending divine servic e on S un d ays ? _ _ Lord - JOHN RUSSELL said that on one occasion they had been let out, and instead of going to church they spread themselves over the country, doing much damage to the public. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. D. W. lIARVE Y complained of the uncertainty at tending the public business of the House, as Hon. Members did not know what measures would or would not he be brought forward in the course of each evening. It would be very de sirable if that was ascertained. Lord:J. RUSSEL L feared it would be objected to him that he had brought forward measures in the absence of Hon. Members. He would propose, after the Tithe Bill, to take the Lords' amendments to the Municipal Corporations ( England) Bill. After that the Charitable Trustees Bill, and then the Plura lities Bill. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The House was occupied from three o'clock to a quarter past five in further hearing evidence on the Stafford Disfran chisement Bill.- The LORD CIIANCELLOR then took his seat on the Wool sack. Lord HAT HE RTON presented a petition from Bilston in Staffordshire, against' Church Rates. In 1827 a large sum of money was raised on bond for building the church, and as church rates had been sufficiently opposed in that parish the bond holders ia some cases were in great distress. They prayed that the House would take some steps for settling the question. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from the under-graduates of King's College, Aberdeen, praying for delay in the Scotch University Bill. • PRISONS. The Duke of RICHMOND wished to ask a question of much importance of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government. Last year, a Committee of their Lordships had reported that the state of the' City Prison, Newgate, was a disgrace to the country. They were fully borne out in that by the evidence which they had laid on the table. It was imoossible for any one to see the prison without being convinced no prisoner could leave it without being much worse than when he was put in. That Report had been corroborated by the Report of the inspectors of prisons who bad since visited it, and it was proved on all hands that they were a disgrace to the country, and it would be a disgrace to that House if they allowed such a state of things , to remain. He wished to ask the Noble Lord wh e th er it was the intention of Govern ment to remove the prisoners from Neergate to the Peniten tiary,—as they had the power to do under an Act of Parlia ment of last session. Had they taken any steps to remove the evil complained of, or would they do so. Lord MELBOURNE said the reports allrded to had been under the serious attention of the His Majesty's Government. The Noble Lord 'the Secretary for the Home Department, had already given the matter his ut most attention, and there was a Bill now in preparation for amending the Gaol Act according to the Reports of the In spectors of Prisons. From the late period of the Session he was afraid that Bill would not be passed this Session ; but early next it would be introduced. With respect to Newgate, all that the Noble Duke had stated was perfectly correct. A proposition had been made by the Government to the City authorities, which, if accepted, would remove the evils which now existed there and in all other City pri3ons. No answer had yet been returned, but there was reason to believe that the Corporation would accept the measure as proposed. He was not aware of any intention to remove the prisoners to the Penitentiary—he trusted that that measure would be rendered unnecessary by the remedies which had been proposed. Earl RIPON was glad the Corporation was likely to ac cede to the proposition of Government. The Marquis of WESTMEATH said the returns upon the table respecting the Church revenues of Ireland were ex tremely incorrect, and he should move on Thursday that they be amended. The Duke of RICHMOND wished to know whether pri soners were to he removed from Norgate to the Penitentiary, as the Secretary of State was empowered by law to do? Lord MELBOURNE said that every attention would he given to the subject, with the view to remedy the evil cote. plained of. DUBLIN POLICE BILL. This Bill was read a third tine; and on the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, a clause was added, empower ing the Lord Lieutenant to appoint Divisional Justices. IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from I-lavcrford West in favour of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill. EarI.WINCHELSEA presented a petition from the county of Kent, praying their Lordships to adhere to their amend ments. THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. The Earl of FALMOUTH complained that he had been misrepresented in the papers, in respect to the petition pre sented last evcning_from the architects. EIERNE BAY PIER. The Herne Bay Pier Bill was read a third time and passed. SCOTCH ENTAILS. Their Lordships then went into Collimate° on the Sc,:ch Entails Bill, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the Chair. On clause 3 being read, The Earl of MANSFIE LD objected to this clause, which had ever conferred any power for political or party purposes. On the contrary, the dock keeper and manager, and:the other officers, were usually of what was called the liberal party.— (Loud cries of " Question, " Divide.") If the Bill was re jected; therfi wotrld Ire no protection for the great commercial interests of the etitintl.—( Question.) It would throw the whole of that trust into the harids new Corporation, as it had been said that it was formerly in the . hands of the old corporation.—( Renewed cries of •' Question," " Divide," Ike.) Mr. STANLEY thought the Dock rate-payers were a most improper constituency, is their interests were transitory, while those of the town-council werb permanent. As a Member for Cheshire, he asked a ll th ose w h o tre:P well-wisher s o f t h e town of Liverpool to join with him in en&avouring to re ject this Bill.—(Loud cries of " Divide.") Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the Original Motion For Mr. Ewart's Amendment Majority in fatour of the Amendment... —24 On our return to the gallery, we found Mr. P. THOMSON on his legs, fie said he bad taken no part in the political part of this question,—( Loud cheers.) Politics had been most improperly mixed up with it.—(Re newed cheers from the Ministerial side of the House.) He looked at the subject only in a commercial point of view. He duly considered the matter in this light, and in his opinion it was the only light in which it ought to be viewed. lie was afraid he had given dissatisfaction to both parties, as neither was content with the plan he had suggested. His opinion was decidedly against the recommendation. He considered that the Dock rate-payers were the most improper parties to ho entrusted with the management of these concerns— he had stated this to the parties themselves. He considered the proposition of the Honourable and Learned Member for Liverpool nearly, though not quite equally objectionable, be cause it seemed to him that the dock-rate payers ought not to be in any way concerned in the management of the docks.--(Hear, hear.) But, at the same time, he felt strongly, and he wished to impress it on the House that such a question ought not to be made a matter of party arrangement in Committee, ( Hear, hear,) and be hoped that in a future Session the matter would be brought in a public shape before the House.--(Loud cheers.) They ought to have the opinion of Parliament taken relative to the constitution of the body, and that the commercial interest would be considered in the reduction of the dues, and that propersecurity would be taken for the dues, so that they should not be improperly raised, and that they might be managed with economy and propriety. He trusted that the Bill would be made a public Bill in the course of the next Sessions, and by that means be brought in a proper shape before the House. A Message from the Lords brought up the Parrott Naviga tion, and several private Bills. NORTH AMERICAN BANKING COMPANY BILL. On the motion of Mr. RICHARDSON, this Bill was read a third time. .. 17 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. COFFEE.-Jamaica tine mid. at 1095., g;.`ad mid. 955. a 965., mid. 88s. a 91s. and 945., good and fine wt. a 7858.6. 6d. a s B4s., triage 635. a 755. ; Demerara mid. unclean 7. The Foreign Market is beginning to look better ; 1,000 bags Braxil sold privately at 535. a 545. for ord. to good o.rd. colour), and a cargo of St. Domingo afloat for the Mediterran san at 555. The public sales of Coffee this afternoon consiste:l of 306 bales of Mocha and 37 casks Jamaica, the latter sole at full prices, good middling 87s. 6d. ; the former was all taken in Is. a Is. 6d. above its value, good common green garbled at 675. a 675. 6d. ; the former price offered and refused; Sumatra is in demand at 41s. a 435. 6d., and sales of fine Surnarat have been made at 495. Foreign is held for stiffer prices ; 565. offered for a cargo of Brazil afloat to be delivered at Trieste, and refused. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The sales of Rum since last Friday are 300 puns. (Wedderburn's), at 4s. 6d. a 4s. Bd., mid. 4s. 3d. a 4s. 4d., and 150 puns. 30 to 34 per cent. over, at 4s. a 4s. 4d. ; 300 puns. Leewards 16 to 23 per cent. over 2s. Bd. a 2s. I Id., 5 to 6 over 2s. 5d., 3 to 4 over 2s. 3d. „ Berbice, 5 per cent. over, fit for duty, at 2s. sd, in bond, and some of about the same strength, but not so good as to quality, at 2s. 4d. In Brandy or Geneva there is little doing ; the latter is ls. I Id. for the finest. TALLOW.-455. 6d. fur Petersburgh Yellow Candle ; no sellers under 465. 9d. Market brisk. This afternoon Tallow on the spot was in brisk request at higher prices, 45w.. 9d. paid ; for delivery, few sellers at 465. 9d. PROVISIONS.—Irish Butter at 84s. for Limerick, and gB: , . for Cork landed ; English has declined 2s. The demand t e 'r Bacon is extremely moderate, although a reduction of 4s. a ss. on former rates has been readily submitted to ; prime small' Waterford landed sold at 495. a 50s. and large 475. a 48s. There is little demand for Lard at 665. a 68s. for bladdered. Foreign Cheese is 2s. dearer, and in brisk request. WOOL-Van Diemen's Laud good flocks have gone at 2s. 4., 2s. 6d. a 2s. 7id. ; fLid, Is. Sd. a 2s. lid. ; ord, Is 5 d. ; Lambs, 2s, a 2s. ; Cape, 114 d. a Is. 61; Odessa, a -5.1 d.; Danish, ad: a 7 d. There has been a brisk demand by private contraci for different sorts of Wools : further arrivals of Vend Diemen's Land have come in. TEA.-The sale of Teas at Bristol went as follows:-Can ton Bohea duty paid 2s. 41d. a 2s. qd..- Congou, but mid., Is. 2d. a Is. 23 . -d., do. rather blackish leaf ls. 3i-d. a Is. 41, blackish leaf rather course ls. 6d. a Is. 81, blackish leaf 2s. a 2s. id., do. strong 2s. 2d. a 2s. 4d., do. Pekoe flavour 2s. Gd., Cmpoi Is. 10d. a 2s. ; Souchong good to fine 2s. 2d. a 3s. 7d... SPICES.-There has been a good demand for Pimento at an improvement on foriner rates of id. ; at auction 29J bags, &c. sold briskly, ord. and mid. at 3i-d. a 40., good 4 : }d. Nutmegs are 2d. cheaper, parcels of good bold Singapore sold at 6s. 7d. a Gs. Bd., and some at Gs. 61, but generally there are not sellers under Gs. Bd. Ginger is taken freely at aactiou; 46 pkngs. Jamaica went at 6/. 93. a 11/. 175., and 240 bags Malabar at 675. Gd. a 70s. 6d. The public sales of Pepper this afternoon amounted to 1.524 bags, mostly sold at steady prices, good heavy Malabar 413. 537 bags E. I. Ginger went at 395. 6d. a 40s, for common. 60 bags ord. Pimento sold at 4d., rather dearer. Ou.s —First quality at 351. 15s. a 364, and some ordinary at 351. Sperm is much wanted for a rival, and prices have advanced 40s. for fine quality. Linseed Od is dull of sale, and prices arc 9d lower, selkrs on the spot at 40. Palm is 39 a 395. 6d. At auction this afternoon 200 tuns Southern sold slowly at 3GI. a 361. .ss. TURPENTINE, 14s. a 14s. 6d. ; Spirits in good demand at 25., and are now scarce. SALTPETRE at 295. 6d. for good ; strong bold Calcutta ur refracted at 303. TOBACCO.—At public sale 28 cases 50 se?ons New Havan nab Leaf all taken in at 3s. 4d. ; afew cases of the Havannah ;egars only found buyers at 10s. 6d. NITRATE OF Som.—A small parcel has been sold at 203., del iv:rabble over the ship's side. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The whole town was yesterday in an extraordinaref state of excitement, in consequence of the trial of thc preceding clay. There is but one opinion, not only as to the utter absence of all evidence of guilt, but as to the absolute impossibility of reconciling- guilt with many of the ciremnstances disclosed. Though it is difficult to prove a negative, the prosecutor's own wit oesses satisfkd every person at all acquainted with hu man nature that the - parties must be innocent. Indeed so conclusive did the evidence of innocence appear, that our Tory Contemporary, the Standard, goes so far as to recommend to the deluded husband to banish from his mind all the unworthy suspicions which had been infused i n : o i t .. I t se ld om h appens that a- dafen dant, after a number of witnesses have.been heard Against hiln, can aff or d to go to,. a jury without calling evidence to contradict or at least clear. up socnu circumstances. But though Lord Melbourne could have produced abundant evidmee to establish the, utter falsehood of some of the statements of they witnesses for the prosecution, form -lately for him, the statements were so inconsistent with all probability, and the falsehood of the witnesses was so clearly es tablished by them Selves, that there could bo no diffi culty in leaving the case as it was to an intelligent English jury. Never, perhaps, did a counsel display more skill and persuasive eloquence than Sir joint Campbell on this occasion ; but though the Rigbt lion. Gentleman established, in the most triumphant wanner, the innocence of his client, the Jury were as fully satisfied of that innocence before he opened his lips as they were at the close of his speech. But with the joy at the establishment of the innocence of the parties, there was mingled a strong feeling of indig nation at the base and unworthy means resorted to by faction to accomplish its selfish ends. We have received a number of communications on this sub ject, to which we may refer oki a future day. • The speech of the Attorney-General directed the public to the source whence this foul conspiracy emanated. We arc mistaken if . the matter be allowed to remain where it is. Indeed, public justice loudly calls for the punish ment of the guilty parties who caused the scene of wickedness exhibited in this trial. The unhappy plain tiff is more pitied than condemned, for it is evident that he has been the unconscious tool of. designing men for the accomplishment of their political pur purposes. A more flagrant conspiracy, supported by more manifest perjury, has never occurred in the an nals of Westminster-hall. It is to be hoped that pro ceedings may be adopted that will clear away the mys tification that now sat - rounds this subject ; and if the wretched individual s whose poverty i n d uce d t h em to consent to crime may be thought too conte mp tibl e f or 'animadversion, th e i r suborners- have not the same plea for impunity—they are worthy of and should meet with the full vengeance of the law.—Morn. Chronicle. ll- Marie iefeux, of M ara i s au C ure, i n tne M anc h e , died last week at the age of 106, playing preserved nearly all her facti'ties till the lest. /lowed the heirs of entail in possession the power to graitt feus for building, notwithstanding the prohibition hi tte deeds .of entail. The principle was one which he genii not ggree to, as it would enablethe heirs of etzt&ii to let land to increase the I 0!. constituency. It would also be very injuriwg to th c heirs in succession, and be productive of much incon..celenee where a difference of political opinion existed. The Lord con eluded by moving that clause 3 be expunged. The Earl of ROSEBERRY had proposed the c ;:tuse with the impression that it would produce considerable N 'nefiejal effects on the estates of gentlemen of small fortune. The Earl of DEVON did not think it a proper clat 'se to be introduced into the Bill, and therefore he should sup, ol't the motion of his Noble Friend. After a few words from Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the House divided, when there appeared— For the clause Against it Majority (LEFT SITTING.) (From the New London Price Current of June 24. Stiomi..-The advance on West India since Friday has I. ven fully Is. 6d. a 2s. ; Demerara browns sold at 665., which is now the lowest point of the Market ; good grocery from the sable glace fetched 675. a 68s. ; Jamaica fine 695. a 725. ; Antigoas good 695. a 705., fine 725. A 735. ; St. Vincents good for the p.m 675. a 6135. ; from other places dark brown Sugars have+ been sold at 645. 6d. a 655. Gd., mid. 675., good 68s. a 695., and fine 70s. a 735. ; at public sale 125 hhds. Barbadocs sold briskly at 695. a 735., being 6d. a Is. above former rates. In retininr , and grocery Sugars, one parcel of BO hhds. Antigua sold at 695. e a 725. This afternoon brown Suga..-s sold at fibs. up to 735. for fine; still the appearance of a rising market, and ggreat firmness. The lowest point for low brown Sugar on Friday last 635., the lowest en Tuesday 643. 63., she lowest point this afternoon 66i. It being now settled that no alteration. will take place this Sesson in the bounty on refined Sugar, has occasioned a good demand from shippers, and an advance of full 6d. paid, 445.6 d, given for fino crushed, or 853 6d. long p; ice for Lumps to pass the standard; 84s. given for brown Lumps, and 86s. a 87s. for Powder Loaves. Sales of Dutch crushed laade at 425. 6d. This afternoon there was again an extensive de mand from the Grocers, and higher prices paid 86s. 6d. a 875.. given for Lumps under the standard, and 88i. for those equal to the standard, under which there are now sellers ; brown Lumps are not now to be had under 86s. 'ft. e shippers are mostly out of the Market, owing to the high price:: paid by the home trade. 100 hhds. fine Crushed sold at 45.:;. Dutch Crushed is not now to be had under 435. 6d. MAURITIUS.-Very low foxy brown sold at 595. t.) 605., mid. 61.5. 6d. a 635.,_ good brown 645. a 655., good mid yel low 655. 6d. a 675, fine 763. 6d. EAST INDIA.-.-Fiat strong white went at 425. a 435. 6e., mid. 40s. 6d. n 41s, 6L 1 ., ord. 375. 6d., washed 365. 6d.. 38s. 6d., fine yellow souni 395. a 40s. 6d., yellows at 365, a 365. 6d., mid. soft 345.` 4 15 1 d. to 355. 6d., ordinary 335. 6d. to 345., and washed at 30s. 6d. to 345. FOREIGN.-Old quality at 403„ ; 80 boxes white at 555. MOLASSES.-30s. 6d. a 31s. paid for good Trinidad; and 30s. for other kinds. •