The Sun. — London, England, 1839-08-21 00:00:00

FE i ON. CATHOLIC ri.:STIVAL. 9 A public supper took place last evening at the Crown and Anchor, for the purpose of preser ting the Rev. .1. Harrington with a testimonial of esteem from the St. Mary, Mootfield's,Catholic Burial Society (of which be was the founder), both for his eminent - Ministerial abilities, end for his exertions on behalf of that useful lustidlntion. Between 200 and 300 persots sat down to tin excellent, substantial repast. The Rev. Mr. 1 - 1,111, tof,Moorfi e ld s , occupied the chair, on his right being the respected guest, and around hint many of the Catholic priesthood. After the cloth was removed the Ladies enterral the room, and were received with loud cheering. The R - :v. CHAIRMAN first cave the heAth of her gmvious M:ojestA, which he said Would be ever received 'with devoted affection by English CAtholies.—( Cheers.) They lived in favourable tittles, and Catholics need no longe r hide themselves.—(Tremendous cheers.) The toast was received with three times three, amid immen se cheering. The testimonial presented to Mr. Illrrington, con sisted of a most elegant si:ver t ea - serv i ce , anti he re turned thanks in a speech much applauded. Some good songs were given, and several speeches delivered, and the cordiality of the Meeting was well kept up through the evening. PENNY POSTAGE PLAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta—l ndications appear that the use of small stamps will he adopted, and as so humble an individual as the writer cannot readily get at the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, allow me through the medium of your paper to suggest that the value of the stamps can be assimilated to the money in current use, pence, sixpences, and shillings, thus a large letter incurring ninepence postage, would have a sixpenny and three penny stamp affixed upon it, but if payment at the re ceiving office of letters should be preferred, that could easily be arranged without the stamp. An objection is quoted from some Scotch papr against the use of small stamps, as it would require " every man, woman, and to have glue or gum by them to fasten on the stamps." Now as the pre sent postage of a letter from London to Scotland is one shilling and more, I would beg to ask, if they are con veyed for one penny, why every writer of a letter should nut obtain gum or anything-else necessary for affixing a penny stamp and complying with so simple a reguktion, or on the other hand post the letter unpaid and let the receiver of the letter pay double, or two pince ? X. Y. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD RACES—TUESDAY. The Oxfordshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 i declared, &c. ; three years old and upwards. Two miles 'Twenty declared forfeit by the time pres,ribed. Lerd Norrey's na. Isaac, aged (Darling) 1 Mr. Whippy na. Calmuck, 6 yrs 01111 . Mr. Maclean na. Reliance, aged Mr. I. Day's Caravan, 5 yrs Lcird Dillon na. Tell-tale, 6 yrs A Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. with 50 added from the Fund, for two-yr-old 7st, and three 9itt 41b. Three quarters of a mile. If walked over for, the 50 sovs. to be withheld. Mr. Godda r d' s b c by E m ili us , 2 y rs (Ch app l e ) 1 Mr.' Sadler's c Petulant, by Defence, out of Pet, 2 yrs i ?Ptain Lamb's br c brother to Enterprise, 2 yrs ... 3 . L Day's f by Cain, out of Busk, 3 yrs 4 7The Clunty plate of 501., given by the County Members; three, years old, ist ; four, Bst 41b ; five, Bst 12 ; six and a ge, l -5 Pst 21b; mares and geldings all owe d 31b. T wo m il e inv-s• The winner of one Plate in 1839 to carry 31b ; of trr , .) or more, 51b extra. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs if deinanded in the usual way. Individuals or confederates , not allowed 'o start more than one horse. To pay one soy. entrance, to go to the Clerk of the Races. Mr. Coleman's b g The Stag, aged Mr. W. Sadler's Specimen, 3 yrs 1 2 2 Air. Seckham's The Student, 6 yrs Mr. TOmes's Eliza, 4 yrs 111 r. Goddard's ch c by Shortwaist 111 r. I. Day's Science:3 yrs (Pari s ) 6 1 1 SWANSEA RACES.—THURSDAY. The Tradesmen's Gold Plate of 401, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, 2 ft. Two mile heats. Four subs. Mr. 13, gnell's b m Laurette, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Dixon) 1 Mr. Thomas's b m The Howdy. 5 yrs, 9st 2lb Mr. Gough's bl g The Pilot, aged, 9st 21b Mr. Henderson's ch f Greedy Sam, ist 71b The first heat was won by a length, and the second by a neck. The Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 soya each, and 25 added ; beats, two miles and a distance, gentlemen riders, were won in two heats by Mr. Harris's b g Barrister, aged, I Ist 71b (Mr. U. Harris), beating Mr. W. Tucker's b m Lucretia, 4 vrs, lOst 71b (bolted), and Mr. Wood's b h Game-cock, 6 yrs, Ist 41b ( rider Tell). • A Forced Handicap, of 3 ;ova each, 1 ft, and 25 added, was won in two heats, easily. by Mr. Gough's b h Ray Hampton, 4 yrs, Bst 10lb (I'. Edwards), beating Mr. Henderson's b m, by Dr, Faustus, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b, and Mr. Bagnall's b m Lauretts, 4 yrs, 4 st Ilb. The Beaten Handicap, of 3 sore, with 15 added, was won by two lengths, by M r . M orr i s ' s b g Y oung H esperus, 5 yrs (Moon), beating Mr. Gough's b m Needle, aged. ERAMPTON RACES. Prinaefit was WOLV claimed for R. Etwall, Esq., and not for Lord lier.tinck, as stated in a country paper. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NtWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1839. W E D NES DA Y. Nominations for the Czarewitch Stakes—Cruiskeen, 5 yrs— Medea, 3 yrs—Roscius, 3 yrs—Courier, 3 yrs—The Doctor, 5 yrs—Latiercost, 4 yrs—Easingwold, 3 yrs—lon, 4 yrs--Pa mini, 4 yrs—l-am• not-aware, 4 yrs--The Dey of Algiers, 3 yrs--c. by Longwaist, out of Heron's dam, 3 vrs—Magpie, 5 rs--Polydorus, 3 y rs —C cen i s, 3 yr:—Grey M omus, 4 yrs 'Egvill e , 4 Trs--Ratsbane, 4 yrs—Mus, 6 yrs—Skilley golee, 5 yrs—flooghley, 4 yrs—Bracelet, 4 vrs—Confusionee, 3 yrs—St. Francis, 4 yrs—Mcndizabal, b yrs—Antler, 3 yrs—Compensation, 4 yrs—King Cole, 6 yrs—Sir Mark, 3 yrs— The Fairy, 5 yrs—Chantilly, 3 yrs—Vertumnus, 4 Yrs . --:-Camelino, 3 yrs—Hyllus, 3 yrs—Mountaineer, 3 yrs— Quo Minus, 4 yrs—Quicksilver, 5 yrs—Louisa, 3 yrs— Flahnem an, 4 yrs—Merrythought, 5 yrs—Dadalus, 4 yrs—Caravan, 5 yrs — Skater, 6 yrs---Huckster, 5 yrs—Science, 3 yrs—Tamburini, 3 yrs—Brltsh, 4 yrs--Epirus, 5 yrs—Hetman Platoff, 3 yrs_ Mickleton Maid, 3 yrs—Epidaurus, 3 yrs—Flambeau, 3 yrs— 'Spring field, 3 yrs—Query, 3 yrs—Modesty, 5 yrs—Drags zuam, 3 yrs--Abraham Newland, 5 yrs—The Hydra, 4 yrs— atne,. 3 yrs—Alemdar, 4 yrs—Bosphorus, 3 yrs—Express, 3 Yrs—nevelt, 3 yrs—Dart, 3 yrs--Specimen, 3 yrs—Diamond, 3 yrs--Merganser. 3 y rs —J oann i na, 4 yrs— D om i no, 3 yrs _ Aferran, 5 yrs—Ruby, 5 yrs--Appleton Lass 3 yrs—The brama, 3 yrs—Calmuck, 6 yrs—Turquoise filly, 3 yrs--Bar nacles, 6 yrs--Deception, 3 yrs—The Corsair, 3 yrs—Nickleby, 3 Yrs--Accelerator, 3 yrs—Primefit, 4 yrs—Heroine, 3 vrs-- Slashing Harry, 5 yrs—Shadow, 3 yrs—Cornborough, 5 yrs— St. Martin, 4 yrs—St. Andrew, 4 yrs—Opera, 3 yrs—Malyo lie, 3 yrs—and Galewood, 6 yrs. EWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1839. :MONDAY. Nominations for the Cambridgeshire Stakes.—Science, 3 yrs —lietman Platoff, 3 yrs— St. Francis, 4 yrs—Barnacles, 6 vrs -3 Quo.M inu anknes, 4 yrs—Nickleby, 3 yr s —H a h neman, 4 yrs—Antler, yrs-131y, 6 yrs—The Corsair, 3 yrs—Quicksilve r , 5 yrs —Louisa, 5 yrs—Domino, 3 yrs—Mendizabal, 6 rs—Ruby, 5 yrs—Joannina, 4 vrs—The Skater, 6 yrs—Tamburini, 3 yrs— Alemdar, 4 yrs—Bosphoras, 3 yrs—Express, 3 yrs—Calmuck, 6 yrs—Cara, 3 yrs—Dart, 3 yrs—Epirus. 5 yrs—Tallevrand, 4 yrs—Heivone, 3 vrs—Caravan, 5 yrs—Deceit, 3 yrs— harpur- Iley, 4 yrs —Revoke, 3 yrs—Mickleton Maid, 3 yrs—All-Fours, 3 yrs-Tawney Owl, 4 yrs—Vertumnus, 4 yrs—Polydorus, 3 yrs—Cce.iis, 3 yrs—Peon, 3 yrs—Magpie, 5 yrs—Lanercost, 4 yrs—Compensation, 4 yrs—Roscius, 3 yrs—Camelino, 3 yrs— Merrythought, 5 vrs—Dwdalus, 4 vrs—Th e D rama , 3 yrs f. by Merchant, out of Turquoise, 3 yrs—Brush, 4 yrs—Sca niander, 5 yrs—St. Martin, 4 yrs—Opera, 4 yrs--and The Hydra, 4 yrs—Toothill, 6 yrs—Dragsman, 3 yrs. To declare by the 14th of September. ARUNDEL YACHT CLUB. The last below bridge sailing-match of the seas,,n, for 41. silver cup, given by the me►nhers of the Arundel Yacht Club, came off yesterday, under considerable disadvan tageg. This was the second b_•low bridge match of this Club, and the contest was confined to thelight class boats, belonging to members only. The following had been entered to contend : Bermudian Mr. H. Bales Rod over white. Briton 7 Mr. J. Gardner. Blue. 5 . Dauntless. 7 Mr. J. Edwards , jug. Red cross, blue rrrounu. Sylph 6 Mr. J Stanton White over red. The distance to be sailed was from Greenwich round a boat moored of Greenhithe, and back to Greenwich. The Commodore's flag was hoisted on board his own boat, the Ada Jane, in which a few select frienda were accommodated with a cast to see the match, and at a quarter to eleven the Sylph, Briton, and the Dauntless, came to their stations, the Bermudian Maid declining the contest. The wind was westerly, but was every hour " flying about," as the mariners c a ll i t , an d very squally. At five minutes past eleven the signal was given, and the yachts hauled round, the Sylph, which had been the weathermost boat, loading the way round Blackwell Point ; the Dauntless was right in her wake, and all doing as much as the very small Tian tity of wind out would allow them. Off Barking the wind freshened with a very heavy shower, and came upon the yachts so stiffly that they were obliged to strike their top. sails. The Sylph continued to lead all the way down, and on Erith Sands the Briton went by the Dauntless to windward, and took the second place. At half.past two, the Sylph first rounded the flag-boat off Greenhithe, and turned into the slack ; the D iuntless, which had regained the second place, next, a minute and a half later ; and the Briton about forty seconds astern of her. The wind again freshened with the flood tides; and the Dauntless, which had been gradually gaining upon the Sylph, weathered her in beautiful style, and took the first place, which she maintai ne d a ll the way up, a nd gainin g i n each successive board; She arrived first facing the Royal Hospital, 18 minutes in advance, and was greeted with some hearty cheers. - - There was a large concourse of persons facing the Hos. Pital, and on the Thames, as the yachts came in, there being another attraction for the sight-goers, consistin g of a sculrers match amo n gst the watertnen's apprentices, for a coat and badge, with other prizes, given by the inhabi t4"4. After rowing five heats, it was decided in favour of Joseph Deust (yellow). Dr. Chalmers, in a late letter to the mechanics of Greenock, says, " I now find, both from the state of my engagements and my strength, that I must withdraw from the labours of active life as speedily as possible." E LATE FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. --An inquiry touching the death of the lad R..)gers, one of the parties drowned near Waterloo Bridg', in conse.quenca of .a boat having been run down bs the Smrlight steamer, Was commenced yesterday before Mr. Barker, the body having been discovered within that gentleman's jurisdic tion. As the law requires, h owever , t h at t h e i nquest s h a ll take pl ace i n the district where death occurs, Mr. 1.3 - ,irker contented Istra . sili' with taking eSidei•ce as. to that fact, and th 1 . / was the o removed to We;tminster, where an in quest will be held. tliE MIN, LONDON, WEbNESDAY, AOGeSi" .11', 18-A6'. abet machionry the Hon, Member reonte m pl a 'W in I to give the ihmte-payers Some control over the funds, but Ili'd syst'em as one which the House must approve oft more esrecially at a time when the rates were insreasing, and further demands were being constantly waste upon the aate.payers. He hoped the House would allow the Bill to be brought in. Mr. El UM E replied. the principle of representation and taxation which he con t en d e d f er was recogn i zed i n NO USE OF COMMONS. every municipal Corporation in the kingdom, and the (Continued from our First Edition:) object of the all was to extend that principle to coonties. Mr. HUME was sorry that the facilities of open Joint- There were some objectio ns urged on former occasions stock Banking was to be kept fr om Ireland for another with regard to the fr, quent elections of the Cmincils, and year. the appointment of auditors, which he had remedied in The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he the present Bill, and all be wanted was th at time had adopted the proposition which was made to him at the !should be gismo for properly &mussing its merits. beginoing of the contest, which tams to reserve the whole Ilis hoped th e Eal w ou ld n ot he °permed, several hail been discussion of the flouter till next Session. Th 13.. ink ot introduced within the last moat', for the mere purpose of Leland had acted in the most handsome naintom upon the being printed, and why his bill should not he so, he did not present occasion, and had, as fir as possible, done all in know. If it their power t o f orwar d t h e resent arrangement. was objected to, of course he mum subind. as p Ile was in the then state, o f t h e House, it would be worse than as great a friend of free banking, with the siuole exception useless to take a division, but he hoped the Bill would be of making money, as any one presi nt, but II m aooweo to emetuate ti, , ougeout eversdourity. he obj ec t e d t o t h e f ree i ssu i ng o f paper money. , Mr. T. PARK ER was i n d uty boun d to oppose t h e It had been stated to th e flout:, awl undoobt diy that Bill. ta the county aim %%Hell lie was connected the statement made a great imp''ession on the Elitist,. that A accounts were made tom veiny, and the county was in gentleman who had moved the nomination of the Hon and general satisfied with them. He must oppose the intro- Learned Memher for Dublin, had been f xcluded from an duction of the Bill. office which he had a right to hold, on account ot his poli- Me. G RIM SDITC H said the title of the Bill, ought to tical charricter. The facts were these, and the House be a Bill to establish ceuoty confmion.—( A I iugh ) Ile would see how contrary. these facts wer e t o the im• would give every opposition to the B, lin his power. pression that was created.-- ( Hear, hear.) There was The motion was then negatived without a division. in Dublin a Mr. Robert Rowe, th e Secrets y of the Chamber of C om m erce . a Mr. HUME then rose to mov e f o r it copy of any con gentleman ot the highest possi- tract or agreement entered into by the Board of Admiralty, ble acquirements, one of the be s t p o li t i ca l ceconomists be or any other department of her 31,jestn's Government, (th e Chancellor of the Exchequer) had ever had the good respectine fortune to meet with, an d w h o was the author of sever the convemtece of the mails to the West Indies petitions to that H ouse , part i cularly on the move al and America; stating wheth er the sa me h a s been agreed Y laws. to by private contract or sublic tender; and stating, also, He was a gentleman standing so high in the city of Dub. the terms or cfrws made by merchants of Bristol or other lin, that more than once the Representation of that city parties for the sail contract. was tendered for his acceptance; but he declined receiving Mrr C. WOOD said the only reason why he should it. He died, and his elder brother was appointed a Directorof o bj ec t to th e motion was, that it would be impossible for the Bank of Ireland. It was impossible, by the rules of m i n to comply with it. He was ready, however, to make the Batik, for two broth ers t o b e members of the Corpora an explanation ; and, as that would probably answer the tion, and therefore there had been no exclusion of Mr. purpose of the Hon. Gentleman, he would do so at once. Rowe the younger by reason of his politics.—( Hear, The first contract in point of time was the one for the con hear.) These were the facts as he had stated them, and veyance of mails to Halifax. The Government certainly he trusted that statement was perfectly satisfactory to the had called for a public tender for the performance of that House.—( Hear, bear.) service. The lowest tender fur the performance of that ser- Mr. D. O'CALLAGHAN believed that the Ho. vice once a month, and that was a very unsatisfactory tender nourable and Learned Member fur Dahlia (who was with regard to the mode of carrying it out, was 45 000/. not present) was p er f ect l y aware t h at h e h a d been a year, but the Government had entered into an engage led into error, and would have corrected the mistake ment with an individual for the performance of the service last night, had he not b een t o ld b y an Honourable once a fortnight at 50,0001. ; so that, at an increase of Member that it was scarcely worth while mentioning it 5,000/. they would get twice the serv i c e d one , i n cl u di ng a again to the House. communication with the St. Lawrence arid a conveyance The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to from Halifax to Boston. In consequence of some further be committed to-morrow. DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S PENSION . engagement, an additi ona l expense was rendered necessary by the employment of another vessel. They had contracted On the Order of the Day being read for bringing up for the conveyance of mails to Halifax once a rtd fortni • t.,.. , the Report on this Biil, for the conveyance of mails from New Brunswick to Quebec Mr. WA KL EY said he hoped some one in the House once a fortnight as long as the river was open and the couvey would divide with him against bringing up the Report. ance of mails from Halifax to Bath for the suni of 60,000/. He did think that on principle a more objectionable mea- a year; so that, at an increase of 15,0001., they had more sure could not have been submitted to the House.— than twice the service done, for which the lowest - tender ( Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Kilkenny wa s put in, in this country, which was 45,0001.—( Hear.) had already offered a fruitless opposition to the Bill. With regard to the conveyance of mails to the West This Bill ought to have a dill: rent title. It should be en- Indies, no contract had been entered into. It was dune titled " A Bill for increasing the Pension of the D u ke of b y pr i vate tender. His conviction was that neither in Marlborough by 3751 . a year." If such a title were adopted North America nor the West Indies would it be worth it would be understood by the public ; but the public would while for any one to undertake the service who had not, have great difficulty in comprehending why a Duke was from their interest in the colonies, a much farther interest relieved on this occasion, when if a person of less conse- in the performance of the service than the mere sum paid quence came before the House for redress he would find by the Government. A number of gentlemen deeply in none. But being a D u k e , o f cour se he bad an ample terested in the welfare of the West India colonies, had number of supporters in the House, and got a gentleman come forward and offered to perform certain services to argue his case with such great ability, that lie induced f or 240,0001., and this had been agreed to. He the Right Hon. Gentleman—he had nearly said the Noble would not detail the services performed. At present Lord—(Laughter) —to b r i ng i n thi s Bal. The Right there was a communication by sailing vessels twice a month Hon. Gentleman had now a great sympathy with Dukes, to the \Vest I n di es , and once a month to Mexico. The because he was about t o h e assoc i ate d w i t h them.—( Con- communication with the West Indies was, them fore, sins tinned laughter. )—He (Mr. Wakley) had no such sym- Perfect, and the inter-colonial communicatihn was ex. pathy, and he looked at the case with reference to the ceedingly bad. With all the foreign islands there was no merits of the question and n o t t o t h e s it ua ti on o f the par- communication at all. There was no communication be- Ocular individual who clai me d redr e ss He wanted to tweeri IL-Nano:dr and the English islands, and the conse know if the Duke had performed any public services which quence was that if the Governor of It induras %visited to entitled him to the consideration ot the House. He might wr it e t o th e Govern or of Jernmea, the letter must come have voted as Hon. Gentlemen had wish e d on sundry occa- round by England If specie was wanted to be sent from sions in the Upper House, hut it would be paying dear for M ex i co to th e , W , st Indies there was no mode of doing it his votes to give him and all who cane after him 375/ a except by sending a ship of war for that purpose ; no:. tvas yeur for what he had done in this respect. H p.m did the there any communicatioo to he depended Mimi between House deal with the p oor un d er the Poo"-law Amendinew ih e W es t l o di es an d t h e United St rtes of America. Act ? How did it treat the Chelsea pensioners, who had These d.ficiericies would now ha suopliA in the following no person to represent their interest in this House? But manner : two steamers of 400 horse l awyer each would cross a Duke, having considerable faintly interest,came here and the A t l ant i c every forth' ht t o th e W'st Indies, Tram these found relief. 'rho fi tuic cou ld s h ow i ts symp it h y in that or inch steamers of a similar power would go to the riff case, but it could sh ow none with re fe rence to the poor of ferent islands, steamers would likewise proceed to the (la the country. He ther e f ore rrryved that that t h e Report be ferent colonies of Guiana. Deinerara, and Berbice, to the received this day three months. Caraccas, to Panama, to Honduras, to the Havanna, to Mr. BROTH ERTO N seconded the amendment. Vera Cruz, and the south-western parts of the United Strangers were then imeler to withdraw, but-- States. In addition to this, steamers would proceed from Mr. HUME rose and said, b e f ore s t rangers withdrew, the Havanna to New York and Halifax. Time number of he wished to state his entire concurrence in the views steamers to be employed would amount to fourteen, and of his Honourable Friend. He had opposed the Bill by this means a fortnightly communication would be on a former occasion, and although he had had a opened between this . country and the whole of the seconder, he had not had the good fortune to have any West Indies, the northern part of South America, supporters finding the opinion of th e Hous e to he the southern parts of the United States, Mexico, entirely against him, he thought it necessary to offer and the western coast of the South Americas Continent. any opposition on the present occasion, having already This would be carried into effect early in the summer of recorded his opinion on the subject, but if any other 1841, which was as soon as the necessary arrangement; Member wished to divide, he would not withhold his sup. could be effected. With respect to the terms, the more lie port from him. It h a d b een argue d t h at the Duke of looked at them the mor e was he satisfied with the arrange- Marlborough was entitled to the 5,0001. a year Parliament meets that had been entered into—more particularly when had originally allotted to hint; accordin g to that argument, he considered the enormous expense of providing these this Bill would not place him in th e situati on he ought to boats, and of sending out coals from this country. Ile be in. Parliament thought tit to tax his pension, first 4s. could assure tho Hoene that no propositions had been made in the pound, and then again Is, 6d. in the pound; the to the Government by any party. it was true the terms of latter deduction amounted to 375/. and he considered the this arrangement had been made for ten years, as persons present Bill in the light of a grant for that amount, for he could not enter into any contract for a less term, but it had held that at the present moment the Duke of Marlborough been made an article in the contract, that if, during the ten was no more entitled to this than if he had never bad it, years, any great improvements should be made in steam and such was the opinion of th e T reasury i n th e yea r 1811, navigation, the Government should have the benefit of them. who had made a deduction for the two preceding years, Mr. HUME wished to ask if any prospectus had been from the pension, thus carrying th e i ntent i on o f t h e P ar - issued setting forth the duties to be performed, and .calling liament into effect. He entirely agreed with his Hon, for tenders, and also whether the Hon. Gentleman was able Friend, that if any person in humble circu ms t ances had to state if the parties were now - in a condition to carry their applied for this relief, he would not have obtained it so agreement into effect, or if it would not be necessary even easily as the Noble Duke had. He agreed with the Hon. now to form a company for that purpose. Bart. the Member for Oxford that the whole of the pension Mr. C. WOOD was understood to say that no pro ought to have been retained, if any was retained. spectuses had been issued ; he had no hope of a better ' fie objected to it on another ground, that it ought to have tender: considering, too, that the partici would have to been brought in earlier. He could not see why the present build at least fourteen steam-vessels of 400 horse power, • Duke of Marlborough should receive more than his father it could not be expected that they would be able to corn did. mence for some months. Mr. AG LIONBY as a member of the Committee, The SOLICITOR GENERAL said the subject was felt bound to state that the Hun, Member for Finsbury had of the deepest interest to his constituents—(l'2am hear) completely mistaken the course adopted by that Committee. —and there were one or two points to which he In that Committee the question whether the claimant was wished to call the attention of his Elm Friend. He a Peer or the meanest subject in the realm, was not could not claim on behalf of those whom he had the honor taken into consideration. The Hon. Member was entirely to re p resen t, th a t the consideration of their interests in error as to the votes of that House, which had never de- should weigh with the Government or with the House, to nied the right of the Duke to the Is. 6,1. duty. When he induce them to forego the advantages of steam, if steam went into the Committee, from all that he had heard in were (as he believed it was) more expeditious for the that House, he had a bias in his mind against the claims of transmission of correspondence than sailing vessels. But die Noble Duke, hut, after the arguments that were ad- even on this point he begged to be recollected that the duced before that Committee, and the further evidence that packet service, being a branch of our naval establishment, • bad been brought forward, his opinion was entirely changed, presented a laudable object of ambition to those desirous of and he now believed that the Duke hail a just and equit- entering the navy, and who might otherwise be unemployed, thus was able claim to be r e li eve d f rom th e I s . 6 d . d uty, b ut his an d a nswered opinion, with respect to the 4s. duty rem a i ne d th e same it a mirscry for Mitish seameo, ends which would not be effected by a contract system.— He hoped, therefore, the Bill would meet with the unani. ( Hear, hear.) Supposing, however, that the Government mous concurrence of the House, because the recommenda- had taken an unalterable resolve, he yet would especially tion of the Committee had on every point been unanimous. entreat them, they might believe with no ill will he did so He must say that it was n o t f a i r o f th e H on. M em b er for _se( A laugh)—to make the change with the least possible Finnbury to put the question en the ground of the claims of injury to a port which hail been for a hundred and the Duke of Marlborough, because it hal never been fifty years the port of communication across the Atlantic brought forward or snip mted in the Committee on such --f liar, hear)—with the least possible injury to the grounds. —he would not say ve.ste I rights—but the v datable Mr. BROTIdERTON said whatever defence was at - jaterestc, of th o s e w h o hid tali out large capital, tempted to be made there was no doubt the Bill would be employed il extensive- establishments at Falmouth.— an increase of the pension of the Duke of .\I mrlbarough- ( Hear, hear.) And what he suggested was, that it should who had for 30 veers acqu i esce d i n it. If any of the rela- b e mile a part of the dintract—as to a certain extent he tions of sailors or soldiers applied for pensions after such a 'rusted ho might say it hal been —that the establishinent period they were told it was too lam—.he books were must to some degree b ? fixed at Fnl mout h. H e sa id closed. Why s h ou ld not t h e same pr i nc i p l e b e appl i ca bl e this. b niuse he - believed it w as admitted, that, there to all ? was no port in the United K:ngdom from which Captain PE CHP, LL had supported the Bill in all its vessels could start more 1 a , .vatitageousl ii for the previous stages, mid lie was disposed to support it now. stations across the Atlantic, as Falmouth, there heind no Mr. P. HOWARD supported the Bill. wind with which vessels would not sail there. Another S rangers wer e then ordered to withdraw, and the House conaideration, in which the public, th e te n ded pohlio espe divided, when there appeared. cially, were interested, was this : —Toe letters that came For bringing up the Report .. Against it 5 the greatest proportion—the greatest proportion came Majority The report was then brought up. the letters were taken in at soon i of the western ports, they COUNTY COUNCILS BI L L.—A DJO UR NE D would be delayed. Unless, therefore, these packets were DEBATE. bound by their co atract to take in letters at the extreme Mr. HUME moved the 0 -der of the D.ty for the re- ports, there would be great delay. What he was now stating. sumption of the adjourned debate on this Bill. was not chimerical, for during the last three or four weeks The Grier of the Day having been read, no leas than three packets had been delayed 67 hours in Mr. S ANFO RD regretted that Ilia lion. Friend per- consequences of not being stationed at Falmouth. lie slated in introducing the Bill. The only object he could trusted, in conclusion, that the sense of the House would have in view was, that it should be. circulated during the be manifested in favour of his i view of the case, in ordev proro g ation( ; e but this was done a f ter t h e l ast S ess i on , an d that his Right Hon. Friend might see the propriety of the public opinion was strongly against it. The adopting it, which it was his belief he was inclined to do. principle of the Bill was n ear ly th e same, an d t h e Mr. F. BARING hoped the House would express no machinery was of so cumb rous a nature, that opinion with respect to the propriety of placing the packet it would be attended with the greatest inconvenience station at Falmouth, or elsewhere. If he was in the situa. He imagined that it was the wish of the Hon. Member to tion of his Hon. Friend, standing ap in that House as give superintendence to the rate-payers, and in this desire the advocate of his constituents, he should advocate he concurred; but the plan proposed was so burdensome, the station being at Portsmoush. The Treasury were de that it must necessarily fail in attaining its object. If the termined to fix upon that place for a packet station Hon. Member had introduced the measure earlier in the which was most beneficial to the public service, and Session it might hove been fully discussed. He could as. not to consider the interests of re any parti in rticular. sure the Hon. Member that the feeling o f th e country was He had great gratification in flecting es pa that while his against the measure. It would be necessary to travel great I Right Hon. Friend was at the h ea d o f the T re story, t h e distances, and to go to considerable expe nse to exercise the I Government, in conjunction with the Admiralty, had been getting tired ' a bl e to con f er t h e grea t est a d vantages upon the commerce franch;se under this measure, and people w ere of going these distances to veto. of the country with the world by the increased facilities it Mr. EWA RT th oug ht as the Hon. M em b er for Somer- had afforded to trade. During the last few years a weekly setshi re approve d o f the princ i p l e of the Bill, he ought to communication by steam had been established with Gibraltar vote with th e H on , Member for Kilkenny. If the machinery ......a fornightly communication with the Baltic — a for was complex it c ou ld be amended in Committee, and the communication with Corfu and the Grecian Islands—a st e am Hon. Gentleman, as a country gentleman, was one of the communication between England and India—a fortni g h t ly best fitted for the purpose of suggesting these amendments. communication between England and North America, and It was asked, h ow cou ld i t b e possible for the country now they had secured, by that last arrangement, a fort. gentleme n to taav e l t hi rt y or f or ty miles to do the duty. nightly steam communication between the West Indies, But they travelled quit e enough as it was. And such Mexico, and that country, which was of great importance bounds existed in Franc e , when in fnct they were the only i n t h e p resen t state of their Colonial possessions.—( Hear, means of teaching the French the advantages of a repast- h ea r.) H e cou ld nut b ut b e li eve that these arningernents tentative system. Seei ng that the principle of the measure would be productive efgreat ultimate benefit to the commerce gentleman a s was admitted, it was unfair to r e ject the Bill on details, o f th e country , arid whateve r expense m i g h t b e i ncurre d i n particula r l y t,lie ought t e t i o r h e e qu r i o r s e i d ly to were as any obtaining them, the b ene fi t wou ld f ar surpass that expense. Country Itir. FRE SHFI E LD was glad the H o n. Member f or reasona r. P. .10 WA RI) thought th e propos i t i on a ver y I Kilk enn y h a d b roug h t t h e subject before the House, mid ble one. At Present, measures affecting counties Ihe was most anxious to see the contract or quasi contract were much longer lacing understood than in to..vns. i laid before Parliament. He doubted much whether the measure should be introduced. by Gentlemen who had ob- 1 encreahe Sir C. BURRELL-comMiered it , extraordinary that this 1 strong feeling that was stated to exist on the subject of to communicationby steam, 14 d facilities • • • . 1• ti jetted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's bringing for- I ever found its way to a Gove rnment (Am., except ward the Irish B an k Bill, on account o f t h e lateness of the i through the medium of some great names appe_a , r h Session. Taking the whole c' yif Irehills'ulsica)nn cP icied e the N i ll: o i9g tion, he felt it to be his dot • in a piospectus i and suggesting the wide , fifl , l bar for Somertetshire divided on t . . into "s a ' ' f .- enter prize, awl enormous sdvaiit,wes that would A. biro. the subject, to vote with , aecrue to the public from thin aeaptioo of their pans. the public, as Captain PEC hIE L L hoped the Bill ' Was it tart of the contract that the Comoany was to have to have that which was generally for the information of would be printed . a charter—tvere . they to be clog d &el that the timo had now • thouelit in old times a upon trade—did e— i arrived when they were anxioua to have So me sort of form ' part of the e ,ntrict ? It m ust ; for the contract control over the money that was ra i sed from .them • could not be carried into effect with mu it. 1-1! was most The principle had been recognized in the Bill which had anxious to see the quasi contract. is omaer to know whe. been introduced on a former occasion, and there could he ; ther proper nrraneeinents had been m hlewchla respect to eo reasonable objection to its introduction. „ lie knew-run ' the -..1• 0 f FP:i " Lr' I , was not a quostion of Falmouth, pa:. 7 ,(. , SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven a' Cleir. IMPERIAL PA LI A AIENT. (THIS EVENING.) I except so. fir As it wits the interests of that port were conneetcd with the interests of the public. But every presumption was in favour of Falmouth. It was in pos session of the trade and had been for a century, and he ! challenged a public inquiry into the capbailities of Falmouth as compared With any other port. If there ev 63 to he an alteration in the point of departure, I it might to be after a full ievest:gatien of the subject, and heating evidence pro and con. Every information ought to be given on the su'iject ; and it ougbt not to be, made to depend on the activity of any Honourable i',leniber in getting official information. Ile did not know whht in formation the Honourable Member for Kilkenny might have on the subject, but in the Falmouth Pocket there was a report of a meeting of merchants at Bristol, at evhieli it was resolved that an offer should be made to the Covert me to - convey th? mails to and from the Wk st In.lies for 100 0001. les; than had been cff end by the London C om p an y , w hi c h was un d ers t oo d to b e 240,00U1 Ir app eare d to h ave er eited areat aston - shment that so precipitate a step should have been taken by the Golernment, and that the country at large should not have been informed of their intention. He was ~urprisixt that a contract should have taken place without the public I F being mure: p ly la t e i etd , pilteako s vic was asit r uati c i , e to in obid against each other. p no re.seri why it s ' iou ld not b • retained ese reed it t o th e Admiralty, and he sa w r t i c v d ate by hands, aed the Government tr a the Gov, r.i. ment, who ought eertaiely to be able to perform the duties as cheaply as any c.,mp le y, zF any alteration was to be made in psrt of departure, an opportunity ought to be given for examin g into the reasons for such charges. Lord ELLIOT was ready to concede that the public interests ought to be the object which the Government had in view, but the vaitt: of Falmouth had never been underrated, and if the establishment there should be de stroyed, we might, in the event of a war, find ourselves in a situation of great diffieulty.—( Hear, hear.) He thought the substitution •of steam for sailing vessels was a great advantage, and the question was whether the Government had secured this in the most elf lent and economical manner. It appeared that a Company of merchants at Bristol were ready to undertake the arrangement on more economical terms; and he also understood that a sum had been offered for the bargain, which had been struck with the Government. It was proposed that the packets should take their departure twice a month. That was at the same period as the sailing packets, and therefore the transmission of letters would not be Omer. than at present. But this Company was to have a monopoly for ten years, at 249,0001. a year ; 'set that, whatever improvement might be made, the expense' to the country would be exactly the same. There ,was also . another consid erat i on , gr eat incouvenience would accrue td Mereh an t` e ' desirous of shipping specie to this. couatryiebbeause . ir was well known that merchants preferred shippingeSpecie on hoard a man-of-war to en trusting. to . private • individuals ; 'therefore the merchants wou ld be entirely in the hands of this Company, or would 'be obliged to.wait , for the accidental arrival of a mats-of war. The services of a very great number of offic.rs and sea men would be:dispensed with, and that was a matter worthy of . serious consideration, more especially as to the expense, because all these officers would have t o b e pl ace d upon half-pay e or provided for by some other method. It was also a matter-of the utmost consequence, that they should consider whether they would not by this plan be destroy. in ; ; the nursery for the navy. He agreed with the Hon. Member fur Falmouth in opinion that the Government had by no nteans establish a case. Mr. AGLIONBY was anxious to know whether the Secretary to the Admiralty intended to grant this return fully resisted the plantation of ministers therein by lay ' patrons ; with the names of the ministers so rejected. th RettArn of the names of parishes in Scotland which hav,e attempted, unsuccessfully, under thAt Act, to resist the plantation of ministers therein by lay-patrons ; with the names of the ministers thus intruded into these parishes. '5. Copy of the Rules under which the Government Chure:t patronage in Scotland has been bestowed since the passing of, or u n d er , the aforesaid Veto Act ; especially tt e mode' in which intimation is given to the parishioners, that they shall be at liberty to reject the Government no minee, should such appointment be contrary to their wishes, the time allowed for expressing their dissent, the form prescribed for expressing it, the party to whom it must be expressed or delivered ; also the rule of proceed ing by Government after such dissent has been expressed' and a new appointment has become necessary." give the rea sons w hi ch h i s Honour _ but not being able to able Friend doulArss would be able to urge for these re turns, if the G , wernment objected he would not persist. The LORD ADVOCATE said he must object to the whole of them. Mr. HUME then withdrew the motion."' or not. Mr. C. WOOD —Certainly not. Mr. AGLIONBY underitood as much, and therefore the groundwork of the argument of the Hon. Member was cut away. It was said to be impossible to grant these returns. He should like to know in what the impossibili y coie.isted. If any contract was in existence it could be pro duced, and it no such contract existed it was easy to state so. If no offers is id been made, where was the difficulty of statin g so? It had been stated by the Hon. Member for Periren, that an of had been mule to carry the mails , f , o h r e l ( o 3 o o , v oeoroatnen t. av,e.arNleosswt,hbains would be a saving of one mil the sum agreed to be given b ) lion in the ten years, which was worthy of consideration. There had been ro public notification either by advertise. merit or otherwise to the mercantile irtertst, until the meal- ace;dentally transpired—(Mr. F. Baring—lt was in the newspapers)—but n very short time ago.—( Mr. F. B o a l r:rneg bad-- Tim.);,oe been ff o o n i t h y„ a. did not ought t o oug h t to h ave b e f oee th e country was comm itt e d which there then that to a ten year's bargain, and to a sum of money much less than a hich, he believed, even for a shorter period, would have been sufficie.t. Lord ELIO r said the Falmouth Dlautation, who had waited on :he Treasury, not only were previously ignorant of any such contract being in c mtemplation, but left the Chancellor of the Exchequer equally in the dark. Mr. C. WOOD thought his lion. Friend the Member for Cockermouth would not have listened to what he had stated, which was distinctly, first, that the contract was just as he had represented it to the House; next, that it was a private, and . not a public, tender ; and, thirdly, that no other offer bad been made. With respect to the question of the lionoit.able Member opposite (Mr. Freshfield), all he had to say was that the Government had reserved to themselves the right of naming the port f r om which the vessels were to start.—( Hear, bear.) With respect to the complaint that the arrangement had been effected by private contract, he would observe that in every instance where public tenders had been invited by the Government they bad generally failed, and had always suc ceeded in making much better terms by private contract. As an instance of that, when it was .proposed to carry the mail to Rotterdam, public tenderi were asked for, and only once was received, and that of such a character that the Government felt bound to decline it- So with respect to Cadiz, Liverpool, Dublin. end Halifax—all of which cases the Government had made much better terms of private contract. He believed that the present bargain was en extremely good one for the Government and the public. It remained for the House to say whether, under all the circumstances, the bargain was a fair one or not. After a few words from Mr. WILLIS, Captain PECHELL said the lion. Gentleman had objected to giving a copy of the contract for the convey ance of the West India Mails, on the ground of its being incomplete, but no such objection could apply .to the contract with Halifax, because in a Nova Scotia paper he had seen a vote of thanks to the agent, Mr. Kinnaird, on the ground of his having • made so good a bargain with the English Government, lie thought that great caution should be used with respect to the doing away with the establishment at Falmouth, as it had always been a most excellent nursery fer our seamen. He begged to ask, too, how the mail was to be carried from Halifax to Boston. Mr. C. WOOD -.-Bv steam. Captain PE CHEL L --That was so far satisfactory ; but it was very important to know what the means of com munication were to be between England and our frontier Colony of Bermuda. He trusted these questions would be answered to the satisfection o of the House and the country. Mr. J. PALNIER thought the Government could nut be too open in their dealings with respect to all matters of contract, and deprecated the encouragement of steam vessels, which he considered destroyed nurseries for sea men. Admiral ADAM said that the steamers would carry as many seamen at the packets used to do. Bat he would ask, w:,,s it n:nting for this country to have an immense force of:,!eam-vcs,cls. s ) tit if a war were to breall.uoo morrow we could at once arm and man them for the pur pose of protecting our commerce, hot only in the Channel hut all aver the world.—([f , ar. ) 11 , knew there were at ;present a groat many obj,ctions to steam•vesels, but tune and exp! rience would overcome them. Mr. HUME wished, b •ftre the questiqn was disposed of, to m=ike one or two ob;eruations. lie admitted thAt he had been ignorant of the facts stated by the Hon. Gen tleman ( Mr. ‘Vood), but he did not think the Admiralty or the G-ni,roment had the power of winding this country to contracts for ten years. Hitherto there had always been an annual vote for the expellees of the packets. He would venture to say that never hal there been 2,400,030/. disposed of by one branch of the Government without the knowledge of Rirliameut. This appeared to him to b:e a m ist monstrous prvosition. He trusted the Government would pause before they placed themselves in a siitaltion from which they could not retire, for he was quite sure Parhameat would not sanction a thing of this sort being done privately. It they had power to dispose Of this ,sum, why .shoulA they -not have the power to dispose of 20.000,000/. ?--4 Hear, bear. ) If they were able to make a C-mtract of this nature for ten years why not for 50? In fact they iri:z . ht bini down the whole expenditure of the country.—(H ,ar, hear.) If there wai any objection to the form of the mcstion he xould alter it in any way which might be punted out. Mr. F. HARING said the - returns would not answer the 1 purpose of the Hon. Member; he bad better move for the whole of the correspondence. The Government had been repeatedly urged by parties in that House to perform this service by contract, arid the moment they do so their powers are doubted. This struck him as most extraordinary; it was of great importance that this question should be settled both out of fairness to the Government and to the parties interested. The Hon. Gentleman had better give not;ce friendly yn to t a e ques t i on o f power, plan for ex ecu ti ng these d of a motion for suspending' the c ontr acts at once. Mr. HUME said that would be hardly f a i r towar d s him —he i h e a s d b a y l always contract, been and f as rin the Attorney• General was the p ro p e r person to apply t o , h he hhd no wish to move for thn correspondence, but he would advise the Government to pause. Mr. C. WOOD s Lid it would be impossible to give the Hon. Gentleman more information on the subject than he had already given him. If next Session he chose to move for every scrap of paper connected with the subject he should have no objection to furnish him with them. Mr. HUME said that his only object was that the in . form a tio n relating to this subject should be in possession of the country. . Mr. FRE SHFIE LD W 35 anxious to s ee t h e correspon rdeel'Ta7thien:gmmtlootriteohneeswePxaeqcisittaihinleygnasityn:yrteccm:dm. tPola.ints from the colonies EXCHEQUER BILLS. On the matiln of Mr. HUME'there was or d ered a " Return of the several Fundings of Exehequer Bills since the year 1797, stating the amount of Exchequer Bills funded at each time, the terms on which the same were maiket on the day Chancellor of the converted into Stock ; stating also the price or premium at time amount of tlp n o o f tices b a d been requested. Exchever Bills o' a tlV'''hn ti l d icwneh t hio l 'e l u c gteithuls r e g t tar t lE e ni e; s dx ic o snn: : :.aet l tiqi ; n :t et i 't r 'rvh e aae s ß q t sll . l v ii4t l : i bs ie vu lt e:de t the Exchequ er tthhee i ve n, CHURCH OF 'SCOTLAND. _ by his Hon. Mr. HUME said he Frierti, the Member for Greenock, to move for_ . 1. Copy of the Veto Act of . the General A ssem bly of Seethnd ; or the. document winch is so ca ll e d . - 2. A copy of the roll of tterso in each parish of .Scot land, entitled. under that Act, to exercise the veto ; or a return, r,lityring the number of perons in each parish of Scotland, entitfpd, Lawlor that Act, to exercise the veto. 3. R.e.turn_of the names of, parishes ie Serni ßn d, w ho, sinco tn.! introiaction of, and unds - ,1 that Apt, have success, ,Mr. AG LIONBY gave notice that he should to mor row call the attention of the Reuse to the Second R-port of Committee on P:ivate Baminess, and move resolu tion; Lunde(' on that Report. It WAS his intention also to that certain returns relative to the Six Clerks and Ma::tr's office, which had been entered on the 18:h of July, should be laid on thr table. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. Captain BRYAN gave notice of hts intention in the next Session to move for an increased grant to the Duke of ,Sussex —( Hear, hear.) ;The House adjourned at five o'clock till to morrow. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of this evenin,g comments, in the following terms, on the Session which is now fast approaching its close :—" Parliament will in a few days be prorogued, and the pitiful S2ssi mof 1839 will have closed. We did believe, at this time last year, that the session of 1838 had reached the extreme of worthlessness, but the expe rience of the last six months has shown that we were in error. Is it possible, we will now ask, that the interests of the country can be trifled with in the same manner for another year, and that the same farce will be gone through again in 1840,: of bringing some 600 Commoners, and some three hundred Peers up to London, to amuse themselves, at the public expense, by playing at cross pur poses with one another ? Such will, we fear, be the case, un. less some demonstration be made in the meantime by the people, indicative of a determination to be trifled with no longer. The blame of this state of things is frequently laid upon Ministers, nor is it our intention altogether to acquit them, but the chief blame rests with the people themselves." The Globe, in the course of an article on the Slave Trade Suppression Bill, thus alludes to the demoralising effects of that traffic —" The tendency of the Slave-trade to transform men into monsters has been often shown. The proverbial humanity of 13,•itish seamen was forgotten, and indeed unknown, among the vessels employed in the African Slave-trade, while that trade disgraced our nation. The evidence taken before the House of Commons, in order to show its influence on the moral feelings of the crews en_ gaged in that horrid tr-ific, astonished and disgusted the a hole nation, and produced a feeling of national degrada tion that such atrocities were perpetrated under the British flag. But those disclosures, horrible as many of them were, sink into insignificance when placed in comparison with a fact Lord Minto stated in the debate on Monday evening, from which it appeared that the Portuguese slave. traders, in order to deter our cruisers from interfering with their vessels, had actually concerted a diabolical design, and had given instruetioas to carry it into effect, to poison h g wholesale the crews of British vessels which might in. tercept them." Tile Standard makes the following allusion to the debate on the Bolton Police Bill, last night in the House of Lords :—" The debate disclosed an agreeable sample of the mode resorted to by Ministers for the suppression of Chartism. ' Set a thief to catch a thief,' says the pro verb; but we doubt if its interpretation can be so far strained as to justify the appointment of a Chartist magi strate for the more effectual suppression of Chartist out rages. The excuse of Lord Melbourne was, that the facts stated by Lord Lyndhurst had nothing to do with the question of whether Bolton should have a Police Bill or not ; but even if this were true, they have a great deal to do with the disturbances in all parts of the country which have rendered an increase of the police force necessary. In order that the peace of Bolton might be duly preserved, the Government appointed the Mayor, one of the m,st zealous Chartists in the town, a Justice of the Peace; who. in his turn, as might readily have been foreseen, took care that his constables should be of the same kidney." CAMBRIDGE.—We learn from a Second Edi tion of the Cainbridge Advertiser, that on Tuesday even ing a meeting of about 200 Electors in the Liberal in terest, residing in Barnwell and the neighbourhood, took place on the subject of the vacancy expected to take place in the representation of the town. Mr. Thomas Cross in the chair. lie stated that Mr. G bson came from the hot-bed of Toryism, and preserved himself to the first constituency which offered itself on Reform principles. He suggested that Mr. Gibson would soon have a scat in the Cabinet, and be enabled to reward his supporters with Bishoprics, Deaneries, Commissionerships, &c. &c. A resolution was carried, that no one was entitled to the support of the Reformers unless he advocated Vote by Ballot—Household Suffiage—Triennial Parliaments—and Repeal of the Corn•laws. T. B. Burcham, Esq., then explained that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had con fidentially, intimated to four gentlemen, that. in conse quence principally of domestic calamity, he should be obliged to retire front public life. Upon this. Mr. Alder man R. Foster, Mr. Searle, and himself (Mr. B.) pro ceeded to town. He (Mr. B.) was selected as a member the Reform Club, and because it was thought he might be useful, as knowing many Liberal Members of Parliament. It was agreed that no person would stand any chance in Cambridge, unless prepared to support the Ballot. The Hon. G. W. Fitz william was at first applied to; and on his declaring that he was op posed to the Ballot, Mr. Gibson was suggested. There was no intention of thrusting any particular person upon the electors; and he (as a member of the University) could have no pretence for doing anything of the sort. It was merely meant, that whatever person they selected, should come before a public meeting of the electors, and that, upon the exposition of his views, the great body of electors were to express their approbation or disapprobation of the individual and his principles. Nothing could be more remote from their intention than dictation. He exhorted the meeting to merge little difference>, and con sider only the person who most accords with the opinions of the great body of the Liberal electors, and who had the requisite talent to enforce his opinions in Parliament. After some discussion, during which the 'names of Mr. Merewether Turner, and Mr. Christie, of Trinity College, were mentioned as proper to be put in nomination, the meeting was adjourned till Thursday, to give Mr. Gibson an opportunity of extending and exp!aining• his principles. LAW INTELLIUE,NCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. APPEAL COMMITTEE. (The Earl of SHAFTESBURY ill the Chair.) SIR LUMLEY StiEFFINGTON, BART., V. ALDERMAN ITIGMN SON AND OTHERS. This was an appeal from the decree on the equity side of the Exchequer in England, and made by Baron Alderson in favour of the above defendant,. It was presented this session on Ttiursday, July the 18as, upon I..etition of Mr. John Bell, Parliamentary agent f,ir the appellant. The Appeal Committee granted time until the first week of the next session of Parliament fur the appellant to bring in his case. The matter in dispute consists of a large property at Rotherhithe, in Surrey, and claimed by the appellant. POLICE INMLLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. A few days ago, Airs. Wade, a female of respectable appearance, in deep morning, waited upon the Lout) MAYOR, fcir the purpose of requesting that his Lordship would cause a person named Livingston, who had been carpenter on board a vessel which had been wrecked in the PacifiC . Ocean last December twelvemonths, to ap pear at the Justice-room, and to give such information es he possessed respecting some melancholy occurrences which took place subsequently to that calamity. The Loan MAYOR sent, upon hearing an outline of the ease, a messenger t,) Livingston, to request his attend ance. Yesterday, at the Justice•room, the ship carpen ter accordingly appeared before his Lordship and Mrs. Wade, and the uncle and aunt of the second mate of the wrecked vessel also attended. The following pirti. culars were then in a very confused and irregular manner detailed : By the' statement of Mrs. Wade, it appeared that her son had gone out in the Toward Castle, South Sea whaler, with Captain Kennett, on a fishing excursion to the Sow.h Pacific in the later end of the year 1837. Tidings reached .England some time afterwards that the Toward Castle wiai wrecked near California. but that the crew had got away in boats, and the friends of all on board f a long time were in the most miserable suspence respecting their fate. At length intelligence arrived that young Wade, and Henry Gerard, the second mste of the vessel, and another of the crew, and a native of New Mexico were left to perish in a desolate island about 60 miles from the spot in which ' the ship was wrecked, under circumstances of the most afflicting nature. It also came to the ears of Mrs. 'Wade, that Livingston, the carpenter, who had lately arrived in England, was acquainted with all the circumstances, from the report of which it seemed that the lives of the four poor fellows who died on the island might have been easily saved, if common humanity had been exer. cised by some of those who escaped towards them. [living failed in obtaining a satisfactory account of the event, she was advised to apply to the Chief Magistrate, whom she now besought to make an investigation into the circum stances. The uncle and aunt of Gerard, the second mate, seconded the application of Mrs. Wade in the most earnest manner. They as well as Mrs. Wade declared that they were con vinced that the least offence with which the survivors was chargeable, was a heartless disregard to the condition of their fellow creatures who died by starvation. They ap• prehcnded that a sordid motive might have prevented the neee‘sary interposition. The LORD MAYOR asked whether any of the crew was suspected of having abandoned the f,air persons who were represented as having perished, in order to take possession of any of their property which might have been saved from the wreck? Mrs: Wade said that the - case was as singular as it was beart.rending. She understood that when the vessel struck, the boats into which the Captain and the whole of the crew got were rowed off to an island, after landing upon which the second mate became very ill ; that the crew resolved to return to the wreck, to see whether any thing could . be saved ; and that the second mate being unable to leave the island,_her son, who was greatly aftached to him, and two others, remained with him ; that The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved the Order of the Day for the House goii 4 r, into a Committee on the B an k o f I reland Bill, and s aid, this events which had occurred during the last month 4n respect.to the Bill, imposed on him a task of no ordinary difficulty, and he feared of no ordinary re sponsibility. The difficulty, too, in which the House was p l a ced was of . no slight nature. He wished, before he ap plied himself more distinctly to the resolutions of the Go vernment and the .determination they- had adopted, to explain 'shat were the objects which the Government had in the introduction of this measure. The Bill affected the Bank of Ireland, the Joint , Stock Banks of Ireland, - and - ' - the - litililier-Ks-tOthe Bank: the desi gn wtillYfrerme. for four years certain. anti ten ten years more, o pti ona l, t h e exc l us i ve p r ivilege of issue a boat was to be sent to them as seen as poiiilile; ane treat no human 1 - ,e:rig having approached them fee teethe days, they died of starvation, the body of her son being found with the head reclining upon the breast &t the second mate. The ship carpenter assured the Lord Mayot that the suspicion that there was no fair play exercised towards the deceased men was quite unfounded, He was one of the persons employed in the Toward Castle in tbe whaling voyage. After the vessel struck, they all got into four boats and rowed away for land, the captain and the first and third mates, and two others of the ship's company. soon got out of sight in the first boat, into which they flung them selves, leaving the rest to shift for themselves. It ap peared that some time afterwards the captain and those who accompanied him in the boat were picked up, but that the captain not being able to reconcile himself to the cala mity, leaped overboard. The rest of the ship's company who had got into the three other boats succeeded in reaching a small place called Ceres islaed, but finding that there was nothing to be had there, they preceeded to another at a greater distance, called the Mermaid Island. lipen land ing on that shore they perceived that there was as little promise of relief in their extremity, and then it was pro posed that they should, after a short stay to rest themselves, return to the wreck. This proposal was agreed to, but the second mate being toe ill to stir, and young Wade and one of the crew and a native of the coast having agreed not to leave him, it was resolved that one of the brats should be rowed back for them in the event of success. When the boat reached the sands on which the ship struck it was ascertained that almost the whole of the property was driven ashore, and that the vessel had gone to pieces. The LORD MAYOR—Did you go back as soon as you could to Mermaid Island to the relief of those you left there ? The ship carpenter replied, that a boat went off as soon as water and biscuit were procured, but the surf' was so great she could not venture close to the island. The difficulties and horrors they had to encounter were so dreadful and so numerous that eight days elapsed before they came within sight of the island. As they dared not to venture to the shore on account of the surf, they rowed round, but saw no sign of any living thing. They then returned. Subsequently, a vessel called at the island, and the three bodies of the white men were found, but not even a bone of the black man was to be seen. The LORD MAI OR—I apprehend that, under the horri ble circumstances, those who survived bestowed but slight consideration upon the poor fellows on the island ? The uncle of the second mate said that the crew, as he understood, got hold of a rum cask, which was, with the casks filled with oil, cast ashore, and drank to excess. He believed that Gerard had property on beard, and lie believed too that every thing the ship contained was saved. He therefore apprehended that there might have been no great dispo sition to look after those who might put in their claim for what was found. The LORD MAYOR—Do you accuse this man of being a party to any plan for appropriating goods found on the wreck ? The second mate's uncle—No, Ido not accuse him, but Gerard had money and other property ; there is a likeness of his wife, which was left in the wreck. Why was not his other property also taken care of.—( Here the like ness of a genteel looking young woman was produced.) The ship -carpenter said that the likeness had been washed ashore with other things, and was preserved, Gerard having expressed an anxious desire that those who went to the wreck would be particular in looking for what he regarded so much. The LORD MAYOR—Did you see any money ? The ship-carpenter—l saved a few dollars, which we put into one of the boats. Some of the dollars were my own. Mrs. Wade—My Lord, this man's account differs in many respects from what I understand he first stated. I am quite convinced that my poor son and the rest of the poor creatures who were left to perish might have beer, saved, if there was the least disposition to save them. We are given to understand that this carpenter was left in charge of the boat in which the second mate and my son were to have gone, and that he could of course have gone round to the island in proper time. The distance was only 60 miles. The ship carpenter most solemnly declared that the boat was put under the command of Barbury, one of the crew ; and that be (the ship-carpenter) was wholly in capable of reanaging craft, never having had any practice of the kind. Mrs. Wade—lt was the cruellest thing in the world to leave your comrades on a barren rock, where there was not an atom of vegetation by which they might have kept life in them fora time until succour might arrive. My poor child survived several days, for I have been informed that the captain of the vessel which afterwards touched at the island; said he saw on a tree which stood near the borders, a diary which was kept by the poor unhappy boy, who scraped his name upon the bark, that those who next arrived might he certain of his fate, and communicate it to his mo ther. The mother sobbed bitterly when she mentioned this t filictinr , accident. The LORD Mitvon—What became of the two other boats which left the Island of Mermaid in order to go to the wrvek ? The ship-carpenter—They were lost no doubt. It was night when we got to the wreck, and we lighted a fire, and held it aloft, as a beacon to the two other boats, but we saw nu more of them, and we concluded they went to the bittom. As soon as we could we communicate with the English Consul on the coast of California, we told him of the wreck, and requested he would send down to secure the property. The LORD MAYOR—You Of Course told him about the men you had left on the island? The ship• carpenter—NJ, we did not exactly tell him about them, hut we told the Captain of the vessel who was sent to take charge of the cargo, that they µere there. The second mate's uncle—lt is evident that there was At any rate, a total carelessness about the dreadful situation in which the four unfortitnate fellows were left. A more amiable and affectionate creature never lived than the second mate. He was beloved by every body. Mrs. Wade--I am convinced of that, for I have here a letter from my poor departed boy, mentioning what a warm and disinterested friend he had lost in Mr. Gerard. lam sure that my boy never could leave him in his illness. The ship-carpenter stated that young Wade had himself proposed. unsolicited, to stay with the second mate. He again protested that he and those in the boat with him had done all fur the best. They had witnessed all the horrors of the wreck and the loss of the two boats, and the aban. (hutment of the captain, and they did not know the moment when they were tobe swallowed up themselves—what could they have done in such as ful circumstances ? The uncle of the second mate—lt is quite impossible that in so fine a climate (perhaps the finest in the world) the wind could have continued so violent as to render a visit to the island, which was only sixty miles distant from the wreck, and quite close to the coast on which you were, danger us. You ought to have performed your promise, and saved the lives of your fellow creatures. The Lou) MAYOR—We must make allowances for the situation of those who had already undergone so many perils. It would have been a noble act, and one of which thousands of our seamen arc capa ble, if the promise had been performed at all hazards, but self preservation is a principle of immeasurable strength, and of its operation in this case there is not the least Question. The details which I have heard are melancholy is the extreme Providence has f its own wise nurposcs determined that some of us shall enc.Dunter sufferings in the loss of those who are most dear ti us, which appears at first sight to be unparalleled; but we have only to look round to be convinced that there are others who are as much enti:l,d to commisseration. Mrs. Wade—lf my poor boy had sunk to the bottom of the sea at once, there would have been something in the idea to console me; but to think that he lingered out many miserable days in the agony of hunger and thirst, that is what I cannot bear. The aunt of the second mate appeared also to be completely overpowered with grief, and both of the afflicted women reproached the ship-carpenter in the midst of their The ship-carpenter informed the Lord Mayor that be should be at all times ready to come fotward, and be hoped that when any of the crew who escaped with him should appear in England, they would be called upon to give their account of the whole prry2eedings. He trusted, too, that the Captain of the vessel which took up the wrecked goods would come forward and state Ilia impres sion f. orn.what he had heard and observed. The LORD MAYOR, after having soothed in the most consoling terms the feelings of the relatives of the de ceaied, stated that he should be ready to pay the utmost atten•ian to any furthi r intelligence on a subject so deeply affecting and impressive. VAN ANIBURGII.-The police, with the fore sight which characterizes it on all occasions, has waited until seven o'clock in the evening, the hour at which the public thronged the Porte Saint Martin Theatre, to pro hibit the performance of M. Van Amburgh and his ani mals. The reason given in a bill was, that " measures of precaution required the postponement of the representation to next day."—Paris Print of ANTA ItCTIC EXPEDITION.—Her Majesty's Government having some time since, in accordance with representations made to them by the Royal Society and other scientific bodies, determined on sending out an ex pedition of scientific discovery to the Antartic Regions, under the command of Captain James Cark Ross, the Council , of the Royal S.miety were requested to draw up a Report, enumerating the objects which should more especially receive attention, and embracing disputed points in physics and natural history. That Report has just been completed, and a copy forwarded to the Admiralty Board ; and among the individuals of eminence who assisted in its_ construction were the Marquis of Northampton , Herschel, Dr, Faraday, Professors Grant, ',yell,. ar t • The expedition, which is abundantly provided fort,,,:eneve, conduct its observations in concert, on a Sir J._ , F e moat Royal i scale • and several of the leading , members e the h n the Geographical, and the Zoological Societies a . . tied their intention of joining it. The Cassel Gazette says that ping Russia o f a d Aus tria have addressed a note to the Hanover, questing him, amongst other things, to change the per son . is Cabinet. is /of h IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, AUGUST 20. IRISH BANK. tears. NC; EDI TI I that Bank 'with'n the metropolitan circle. Sa o thou ght that the nterval between the present perio r and the possib'e revision of the arrangements witj ' fair Bank of England might be advantageouslh I employed is ; settling the general prinCiples of ;s,ln•king. Now, certainly this Bill was only means to be ternprary. It had been opposed by var:ou, Members ; first by the Hon, Member for • Kilkenny arguments of ptt l i rlmieo e neuep f eac t tsiil h hpdo a eloie t insHhw h etl who held that banking should be entirely free, and that se, the competition would sufficiently prevent any evils. o a e hh i o ewi dwes ahe:dsnui hoef l sep d s, gui l tyehinibd:eafeeedwerp ro po s ed e t 0 o argue r a i ut g oe r e i an a c t tf,a w ‘,o a o s ru t e rage o af f it t n t se e t byea perfectly theew Int Hon. hige rt olkwle.erme ab i debbeer:..ob rye T he atnye decision it might come to. The discussion on the Bill had, however, subsequently assumed quite another cha racter, and instead of discussing any abstract principles of revenue they were called on to discus; the particular bearing of private interests, and the House and the Go vernment were called on to reject the Bill on grounds pecn4arly Irish. They were told that the people of ; Ireland were adverse to the principles of the Bill, and that it was unjust and imprudent to press it. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had endeavoured so far as he could, and he hoped without offence to the oppo nents of the Bill, to meet the objections that had been urged, and he said as a matter of history, noi of com plaint, that he had been met not by argument and rea son, but by the most pertinacious opposition, purely for the purpose of delay, and with the intention to de!e it the Bill, and preclude the possibility of its being entestainod by the House. He should refer to a few facts and dates for the purpose of showing the nature of the opposition he had met with. LThe Right . Hon. Gentleman here went over the various divisions that had taken place in the progress of the Bill, and ob served that it was not a fair opposition, but a mechani cal opposition, so that, if the Bill was the best in the whole world, five or six Members of that House, if they thought fit, might arrest its progress. In short, acting upon the same system, if the Queen of Portugal could return four Members to that Louse, the progress of the Portuguese Slave Bill might be effectually stopped—a system which, if resorted to very often, was calculated to bring into jeopardy the Cong.:lotion of that country. He had often known the system of ad journment being resorted to for the purpose of prevent ing measures being brought forward after twelve o'clocts at night ; but he never knew, except in the present and another instance—that of the Hon. Member for Brid port—the same system resorted to for the purpose of defeating a legislative measure. It was alleged that the majorities in favour of the Bill had been obtained by the aid of persons holding official situations under the Government, and that the independent expression of the opinion of Parliament had been overborne by them ; but he denied that, and a glance at the names composing those majorities would show that even with out the official gentlemen who had voted, the result would have been the same. The Bill which he had introduced gave additional powers ,to the Private and Joint-stock Banks of Ireland, who complained that in consequence of the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland, they were limited in the means of carrying on their business. The Bill proposed to give these parties the privilege of banking in Dublin, free from all restriction save that of issuing promissory notes. .That power was conferred then not only in the metropolis, but it was also competent to any parties to establish similar banks in Drogheda, Dundalk, Carlow, or any other provincial town. Thei uterests of Joint-stock Banks were not neglected in the Bill. Their houses of business were legalized, and also the power of retiring their own notes. Various other useful branches of banking were extended to them in the metropolitan districts, and especially that of drawing and accepting bills at not less than ten days' date, and for sums of not less than 10/. To England it held out the advantage of reducing the charge of managing the national debt, by the sum of 23,000/. per annum, and provided for the funding of 900,000/. of Exchequer hills which the B ink held, on terms extremely ad‘antageous to the public. Now, it was fairly admitted last night that no expectation could be held out that the course of opposition to that Bill would be aban doned. If it were the mere question of a Bill in which the Government only was concerned, and one which would not affect large branches of their commercial and monetary transactions, the objection of bringing it on at a late period of the Session might have had some weight, for the Government had been 7 ; rather reproached for its disposition to yield to remon strance. But in the present case it was to be Consi dered whether it was just or expedient that they should give way under the peculiar circumstances in which they •' were placed. In the first place, the arrangement entered into with the Bank of Ireland was to be considered, and it would be most unfair to take any course without giving the Bank an opportunity of being fairly heard. Besides they had to consider what would be the effect of yielding to mechanical opposition such as the Bill had met with, and that involved consequences seriously affecting the future well-beiog of Parliament itself, and made the question still more embarrassing.—(Hear, hear.) What, then, was the course it behoved' them to take ? To move for a Call of the House, as sug gested by the Hon. Member fur Wicklow ; but hide.: pendently of the inconvenience of protracting.the Ses sion, and recalling Members who had gone home or to the Continent, in the expectation that the business of the Session had terminated, he doubted whether they could obtain a fair proportion of the 658 Members to attend, and even if they did, whether they would not have still to contend with the very same species of opposition —that the inconvenience to all parties would be fruitless, and that they would be at the end of that period placed just where they were now. Under these circumstances he had communicated with the Bank of Ireland, and in justice to that body, of whom they had heard so much evil, and charges without end, poured out authoritatively upon it, he must say that the conduct of that body, so far as ho had been enabled to judge of it, was the most disinteretted-and public spirited he had ever met with. They were of course aware of the opposition to the Bill, and felt if it was persevered in, it could not become law. To appeal to the House for an alteration of its own orders and re gulations was impossible, and he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) felt that it was of importance that that power of adjournment should be preserved by the mino rity, but if it was desirable to maintain it they should not prostitute it to a bad use—(Cheers from both sides of the House)—and if he had appealed to tne House to al-.er its present mode of procedure, he felt he should have been laying himself open to much more s'.-rious charges than any that had yet been brought against him, and the arguments which had been urged against the late period of the Session, and the merits of the Bill, would have been augmented a thousand fold. Therefore any appeal to the House would not only have been fruitless, but would not have been made by him, because he felt that such a course would be objectionable and indefensible. The question then was what course of proceeding was to be adopted, and he would ask Hon. Members who opposed the Bill what end was gained by that opposition's If the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland was objected to, did the re jection of the present Bill free them from it ? If they wished to favour the establishment of Joint stock banks the withdrawal of the Bill favour them?. The Bill, so far as it went, limited the monopoly of the fla3avonukroefd of Ithreelaens(tiabhllislsienvieenntaanimd p o o p s a r a n t t i p . a icu o l : a n r t s 4 o a c n k d Banks. The effect of withholding the Bill, if nothing more was done, entailed a charge of 23,000/. a year on the country. It would, however, be for the public there and in Ireland to decide, when they had reasoned calmly and dispassionately on the subject, whether the Opposition or himself were right or wrong.—(Hear, hear.) lie should be perfectly ready to abide by the decision of the commercial world of Ireland, and by the. calm, and prudent, and reflecting people of that country whether it would not have been best for the public that the Bill bad been allowed to proceed. One difficulty remained, and if it had not been surmounted, it would have placed impassable obstacles in th e wa y of an y ar rangement. There was a sum o f 900,000!. which the Bank of Ireland held, and which it was one of the ob jects of the Bill to fund. Undoubtedly it would have been productive of the greatest embarassment to appeal to the money market, in order to discharge these bills. The bank of Ireland had it hi its power to throw ob stacles in the way, as consequent upon the acts of those who opposed the Bill, which the priblic might have felt and s uffered from. It was only for the Bank to say t h a t Parliament had entered into an engagement with them, which should be rigidly fulfilled. spiritiTii The e d B ankw h i c h fron of urging, entitled g lreland ,l nyti claim e t i v am i m h t ooar commendation,tgiieen:reroows i , y an whichb apdtbt would re frained embarrass the public, and had proposed to fund 900,000/. of Exchequer Bills not at the Government price, but at that which lied been proposed by the Bank of England. Under all the circumstances of the case, reluctantly— very much against his own wish and inclination, if he bad to fight the battle single-handed—he would have endeavoured to fight it to the last moment that he was capable of maintaining his position ; but he had to look at the waste of the public time—he had to consult the convenience of those around him—he should th.erefore one vear.— rangetnents with the Bink of Ireland for i the full propose to bring in a Bill to continue the existing ar (Hear, hear.) He made that in."("iti°•ntsbyfullest tssent of the Bank of Ireland— withou t its that House con currence he would not have stood.n p hut they cor to make such a proposino ro proposition, convinced dialiy assented t o the. their cause was jug. as they were that th theld stand the test of exatnina upon asked r w in i_ e is e i • p t i l e i . s en he took thewhichare satisfied that they must be triumphant 1 tion. He was next Session. supported fel t confident tli e Bil l t h w a ru t eu in the contest, he would answer that he believed it would be un availing—that it would cause much un-. necessary labour—it would cause a great waste of time, and would render the question wool) -more in tricate than it now was, without in any way advancing_ it. He did it with very great regret, hut he knew no other course that was open to him to follow. He t,.ould propose to go into Committee on the 13111 pro