The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

11 0 t 1 1,0.7 011 1 Y 11' ' 't 014 lit 0 1): 3 ' flb r ' s ,cteu her° aas in osl e ow' tiler en ' : ,es ar.) the 11_ eh Y free trade in corn, corn would be any er. But th oug h h e gave th e d a t e o f th e fi rs t 47n had f n, which was delivered in 1840, when wheat was was °l, i. h . e did not quote the date of the last, which f r a l ' - ` , sered in June, last year, when wheat had h e er ; more than 33 per cent.—(Cries of " Hear, at ;') • Ile had sometimes found people a little la c: L H:ma to account for their arguments ; contendheg, toy; and did, at one time, that they should have cheap te Ts and stating at another that they did not intend 2.1 11 re the f armers b y l ower i ng th e pr i ces o f th e i r h o w_ modifies. Many were at a loss to understand t... Ar they co uld be benefited as traders, manufactur merchants, and consumers, without the lower .. o f the price of food. Now these people q h ad ams went upon the assumption that they th at e nough to eat already. They forgot in there were a t l eas t 10,000,000 o f p eo pl e e iiit u :s i ,e island s w h o were no t sufficiently fed, and fo r Ln e growers of wheat were raising their produce k )i t he subsist ence o f no t more th an 20,000,000, a t th e t 'ents, of the 28,000,000 of their population ; while , t rest of th e peop l e, b y t h e i r restr i ct i ve an d su i c id a l p e n; Were thrown out of the market for wheat, and heZliving upon potatoes, oatmeal, barley bread, or t ar '(Rear, hear.) Let those people into the the et, bring them f o r w ard as consumers, and then s raight not only sell their wheat to these newly -4..7 customers, but even enable them to buy lii a iThfrom abroad.' A calculation had been sent to *shi e ,Lne other d a y by a large biscuit baker, tr ain ' was worthy of attention, as coming g ar . a practical man. He said that if they of to the people of these lands 21 ounces 3, per per dey, that would amount to it 1""" quarters of wheat ; and if they would allow millions of the people to have this extra allowance, to , r' add ition to what they had, it would amount y Importation of ten million quarters of wheat: 1 13 was was the compensation which they offered to the a,t) w ners and the farmers.—(Laughter.) He sf tild allow the people to prosper, instead ao l e aking them paupers, and then the farmer odeshave them for customers. There were eot :s when corn was so ld as l ow , na y, l ower , i n thi s p erf nt r.Y, under the corn-law, than it would be under th e ee t free trade. When they had famine seasons, as s atsr 3 i s inUst have if they limited their supply to these th ey ", islands, with their capricious climate—when 4et , h ad a succession of three or four years of famine th e s ens, as they had had from 1838 to 1842, what was si ih c '!„nsequence? Why, they starved down and ba- M in e ' their population. He told those farmers ti lo s would like to have their customers at home, tr a ;, f roln 1838 to 1842, 500,000 persons had emi tri from these islands to find food in other coun thier -- (Hear ' hear.) When, at the termination of th e ,triod of dearth, they had but one good harvest, Issilsriculturists were astonished to find that they tis et ,P e t customers ready to consume the extra pro- Is k L e n of their land. IFhy they had been destroy cla:l:4eir custo m ers by bringing down the labouring e te ;es to p o t a t oes an d oa t m eal, and sending away Ni r s . s l t ian who had the means to emigrate to those s which were not cursed with corn-laws. ki ss e was of opinion—and he had said it in the the it 7 of Commons, where he never wanted to pay t 5 O o c ompliments, or say anything that would be l% -e asing to them—(Laughter)—that neither land terlartners, nor farm labourers had derived any W s „,",t from this system. He believed that land thi l ' e g at this moment have been more valuable in eked if there had never been a corn-law. He lki i 7, 4 ed the Government last autumn to send to 1 ,4 y a ribassador in Switzerland for an account of 4 )5, 1 , 11 ,,e of land in that country ; and he ventured ,"41 4 ,1',"1at land in Switzerland was at this time more l ied than land in England, although in Switzer je.,,,re was perfect free trade in corn.—(Hear, ?tre ss ,' had never told the farmers, in all his the reduction that they must look for their remedy kost reduction of rent.—(Hear, hear.) He said, u nfeignedly, that if he were going to take a f era twenty-one years' lease, he te tt l rather t a ke it at all the present a c l . knowing that the corn-laws were to s , qiis aw 'shed to-morrow, than he would take upon ' k trieti: the burden of the land if he knew that the re el system were to continue. In the first case , PerZid be sure that he was surrounded by a pros; t4 „ l ll4" he , e ° llll nunity, capable of consuming all that h br tL,roduce, and he would not confine himself t o th e s 7tuction of old fashioned wheat. But, in to tar, er case, he would dread the retribution that was , 4 3 -1 uPori him in the shape of pauperism, income - rell'„. r ates of every description, and county as `Ns e .'',_ general taxes, which, if this system continues, 41 1 to render and . valueless both to landlord and t4ll-wi t h these convictions, backed as 1 y w, A ""e by the most intelligent amongst the land 4ind the farmers, why need they continue to 'l'a e Is is a c l ose question?—(Hear, ear.) They The no lo nger a b o d y o f manu f ac t urers or traders. lkai had the best of the landlords and the best of the i tlai e js with them, and he did not despair ofyetrepre l'he li g the county o f B uc kingham in Parliament. Iv °4lri e was nets far distant when the landowners . meri t '?,e -just as anxious to claim for themselves the Pri eto nt bein g free-traders, s. the West Indian pro 1411r 1 411 r rb . rs now were to profess their abhorrence as is) Let them look - to what the 47:;1m in t t ad a o u n - e for e the best interests of agriculture, IpeLimprovements in tillage. Who could go li gh the coentrywithout observing the beautiful t ltot }T i e Which the draining tiles presented through '4Cl e land in all directions F—(Hear, hear.) If they c tt iri,.. o that by the mere fright of free trade, what I I A Tr e e trade itself do for the land ?—(Hear, hear, 1,7°,41 t hree He had a letter the other day ss orthu he 1 d in which the writer e , . l , ltt ' ll a n t he was connected with agriculture, and that ufa•cturers of agricultural improvements, of slit 0 % 8 t iles, &e. and that agricUltural chemists and n t e re - -nected scientific improvements in a- Al "nght to subscribe in presenting him (Mr. with a piece ,of plate for his exertions in the v 's ,s t p f e ' ee agri culture. He (Mr. Cobden) shou l d h ave lia elt . loh plate, and he would be bound the Duke tt,' t Iti gham would subscribe to it -I ktin ertt Picture to themselves the candelabrum S I N u Pon a tripod, with a sheaf of wheat in one r) a land a ship in third Power-_oom in another, if;es -- the union of manufactures and - com- Oki W i th agriculture.—(Cheers and laughter.) S7ds o no doubt whatever that the t should shake hmro tr' Pres ri this question in less than five years sN a , e nt tinse.—(Cheers and laughter.) He was ;1'43,14 that they should make the question less of a ; Ito ttw est in, and take agriculture more and more , l i s a , ee l t r view on the subject. Agriculture was the d haigl'ound on which they (the - Leaguers) stop f orm e heard what had been said of the condition `armors.had, There was a gentleman on the plat -411, oth 'els' them just now that he was in company I lit l ßeht er d ay with fifty farmers, when an in fit ea r at his elbow whispered into Ye; that there were not two out of those li ts 4l -...5 - ss Would not be bankrupts in less than two R ear.) H e (Mr. Cobden) was at a large q,,._140 1 ,„. e ,} 11 the Midlaiti Counties on the occasion 5 o;', 1 11 a - ,:eutog-match, at whiaS there were present th e ' l le d owners and in the coursd of discussion te nant t ile s it ion of the farmers they all agiSsed that if k %t 's ‘s, iii ;'Y of the county was sold up not one of . t:lil at 41 be found to be solvent ; and the result of I s j e ts i v „. ci lscussion, on the condition of the land tts ti ttsa that if they were sold up they would not 'ect ._ t o solvent. He (Mr. Cobden) then ven- P i tlen i „; 4 row in an observation ; and he said, - "e the, n, you have had it all your own way ye s ,. eight and twenty years, and_ it "1 N.' were not able to take care of your ser;:i,°w- let us, free traders, have a turn, and see `lt ei , for Shall not do better for you than you have IL l 'sai ri t he . e %l rselves."—(Hear, hear.) Now he hoped, t ," Ro a Tence they had had to-night, that no one rls4 4 ti t s 3' from that magnificent gathering with i t s what they asked for—free trade—could t f k r ltti rti Vr L e i the agricultural labourer. He (the that he ar , 14 nourer) was as low as he could be.- 1 4,, ,Ziaht What they had heard from Mr. Hunt .4 4 -4 "uld be verified by the intelligent 't °I all Vra g arts of the country—that if their kraiatdeli cultsvated not up to the pitch wes e etil tivation, but up to the point at which ksCsntialleatiltivated in parts of Northumberland 1 41 tl i ve ttla „ that then those counties of Eng therre'duce double what they did at present, t ~ t iTh: e .,,w' t ould be three times the demand forl (S'e-h.res,-;' had heard something about the super sttls'ea eve of landowners for their acres. %li lts eve o,lllld not allow any . change to take place h~le ow th n e .'"Pleasing to their eye. They would th:Y, ` ll s 1r green lawns to be ploughed up be t4,,,,grandfathers had looked upon them ; and esr e , li i wat, 'tee must look Upod them forsooth, though s M n o longer was covered with grass , mos s That i t sv ' superstitious reverence for the wo ld a• 4 s h ish weuid u isappear before the stern neces- Oki es th e be imposed upon the owners of the N s and ves in ! saw no other means of drawing their t esti ng their mortgages, and showing f t 'le th an b e accustomed period in the west end l t "ts treating their land as traders did sal commodities, viz., as something t ar, th e li l y skin, science, and capital, they could .hts r.s most possible amount of proclueile— O s' w H e 'S° 4 rai? ,ag that asked the farmers now present ws. they was most wanted to the land of r h i~h"leh Would tell him it was capital, he \vow, ' rneaht i not backs of money, tl e ere , beuseless, but more P* ll P 3 s tt th ere . l t ,.e thin, were now one, and .lice 1"45,4 ‘rs - were f , se a _ ss . now one ; also better plus, * t sv a - VT I better under-draining in every htl t t ‘ ont , the capital which they wanted: but - % e s_% as_ °I be • i ill 1 tl l -Ct,a give it " valU e l ess unless it was allied with c co Pr, Ni,.., 1cr 0 ,,, , nstant increase and production.—..lttllet ' 4 l 0 " he asked how it was that there was 3 At Nit' 4 the I d 1-.• f ' e te tv ar an w.aci, was necessary for its went to n p ii „ . .. " a ?p s i * vv ny, in this country there was Q plethora of eapital. - 'Money was A ,- - tbo THE SUN, li:Eil i c;1)014 ; TInfRS'DAV -EVENING, MARCH 21, 1844. torney hath knowingly and wilfully offended therein as aforesaid, such attorney may be struck off the roll, and for ever after disabled from practising; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Court to commit such unqua lified person, so acting or practising as aforemid, to the prison of the said Court for any term not exceeding one year. _ _ In addition to the above the " new prison regula tions," recently promulgated by the Secretary of State, directs that the governor shall allow prisoners com mitted for examination or trial to see their legal ad visers at all reasonable times, and in private if required, unless a committing or visiting magistrate shall have issued an order to the contrary, or unless he shall know any sufficient cause why such legal adviser should not be admitted. Every person, however, claiming ad mission must be a certified attorney or solicitor, or his authorised clerk. In order to carry the above into full effect, the Sheriffs of London have caused a notice to the following effect to be posted in Newgate : " No person, acting as the legal adviser of any prisoner committed to Newgate for trial, will be allowed to visit such prisoner, unless he is a duly qualified attorney or clerk to such attorney ; and that, in either case, he must produce a written retainer, signed by the prisoner, and authorising him to act as his attorney, and sign an entry in a book to be kept by the gaoler, stating that he is so authorised, and that every attorney, or attorney's clerk,.will be re quired to sign such entry before he will be allowed to have an interview with the prisoner." With regard to what constitutes "acting as an at torney" within the meaning of the above Act of Parlia ment, Mr. Walesby, when lately presiding as Chairman at the Middlesex Sessions, intimated that preparing and delivering a brief to counsel was acting as an attorney. be,a correct one. The law permitted them to charge for the several inquests only from place - to place, the dis tance from their homes they were obliged to go. This was the law; but he had been astonished to find how the practice had varied from the law. To remedy this state of things, and make law and prac tice march together, he proposed to add to this clause the following words :—" Provided always, that whenever any coroner shall take more than one inquest on the same day, then, in respect of every inquest after the first, the said sum of one shilling per mile shall be computed and paid to such coroner, for every mile only which he shall be compelled to travel in going from the place of holding any one inquest to the place of holding any other inquest on the same day." Mr. B. ESCOTT hoped his Hon. Friend (Mr. Pakington) would not press the proviso. The proviso was then agreed to, after a slight verbal alteration: Clause 23 was agreed to. Clause 24 was also agreed to, with an amendment for the insertion of a paragraph including the County Palatinate of Chester. The re maining clauses having been agreed to, Mr. PAKINGTON moved that a clause be added to the Bill, by way of rider, to the effect that—" Whereas by the Act 6 and 7 Victoria it was enacted, that for the purpose of holding coroners' inquests every detached part of a country, riding, or division, shall be deemed to be within that county, riding, or division by which it is wholly surrounded, or where it is partly surrounded by two or more counties, ridings, or divisions, within that one with which it has the longest common boundary : and whereas, as to some such detached parts of counties, ridings, or divisions, there were, at the time of the pass ing of the said last-mentioned Act, coroners appointed expressly for and having jurisdiction in such detached parts only, and doubts have arisen whether such last mentioned coroners were superseded by such last-men tioned Act ; be it therefore enacted, that as to every such detached part of any county, riding, or division, for which at the time of - the passing of the said last mentioned Act there was a coroner appointed for and acting in such detached part, such last-mentioned coroner shall (if now living) continue to hold and exer cise his . former office and jurisdiction w ithi n s uc h de tached part, for so long a time and in such manner as such coroner would have held and exercised the said office and jurisdiction if the said last-mentioned Act had not passed, anything in this or any other Act to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding." The clause was agreed to, and the House resumed. The Report was brought up and received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on the 27th of March. MASTERS AND SERVANTS' BILL. On the reading of the Order of the Day for the further consideration of the Report upon this Bill, Mr. HAWES ' expressed his dissatisfaction with the measure. He thought the clause which gave the power of imprisonment particularly harsh and oppressive. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had net been able to give to the Bill the attention he could have .vished, but he had been given to understand by his Hon. Friend the Member for East Somersetshire (Mr. Miles), that the clause was in its penalties only a re-enactment, but that it was made to extend over work and labour done under contract, which was not the case with the former Act. Mr. MILES said the only effect of this Bill was that it repealed all old Acts, and consolidated them into one. Clause 4, which the Hon. Member for Lambeth (Mr. Hawes) considered too harsh, was exactly the same in its provisions and penalties as in the repealed Acts, but it took a wider scope by giving a power over job and piece work ; but the penalties complained of were just the same as those enacted by the 6th Geo. 111. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought that some words ought to be introduced into the Bill, giving magistrates dis cretion in certain cases. He referred to the case of a young woman who was imprisoned, in Worcestershire, for leaving her master's service without notice, her de fence being that she was compelled to go through a man's bed-room to her own. The magistrate, in justi fication of the course he pursued, said the words of the Act of Parliament were absolute, and therefore he had no power to do anything else but sentence the young woman to imprisonment, it having been sworn that she had suddenly left her master's service. He (Mr. Dun combe) therefore thought that some words ought to be introduced into the Bill, givingmagistrates discretionary powers. After a short discussion, the motion that the Report be considered was withdrawn, and the Bill was ordered to be recommitted. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. On clause l being proposed, Mr. DAVID BARCLAY moved that the clause (which relates to domestic servants) be struck out, and magistrates be authorised in petty sessions to act in eases of masters and mistresses and domestic servants, with respect to claims for wages. He wished to give additional facilities to domestic servants for recovering their wages. As the law at present stood they had no such power, and in consequence it was not an =fre quent circumstance to find a poor servant girl who had been arbitrarily discharged from her situation driven to prostitution to support herself. He hoped, therefore, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir T. Graham) would agree to a clause giving magistrates in petty sessions the power of dispssing of cases respecting claims for wages by domestic servants. Sir J. GRAHAM thought the Hon. Gentleman had better allow the Bill to go through ConiMittee, and move the addition of the clause to which he had ad verted on the third reading, when he (Sir J. Graham) would give it his best consideration. Mr. BARCLAY said he would adopt the course re commended by the Bight Hon. Baronet. The Ist clause was then agreed to. Clauses 2 and 3 were agreed to. Mr. IYEYNCOURT, after a few words from Sir J. GRAHAM, said, lie should at a future period, move as an amendment, that to render this clause operative, the contract at DARBY should Lul be made oppose deinw theriting. Mr. amendment, because of the extreme rarity of such contracts ever being per fected in writing. Mr. AGLIONBY thought it would be very difficult to define the distinction between what was called in the Bill domestic servants and those employed out of doore. Sir J. GRAHAM said, they had not yet had suffi cient time to consider this Bill, so as to be able to make the definition alluded to by the Hon. Member. He ,thought it would be better if they were to report ;progress, when they would have an opportunity of con' sidering the matter in Committee. The House resumed, the Chairman repute-4)&4)97,c, , and the Bill was ordered to be recoremilled PI w e d,„. The other Orders of the . --- ' and the Roue© “dio.,, day next. 7 :_n ..7 ly were then disposed of, d at Half-past Seven o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) MANCHESTER. —Notwithstanding the anticipations which generally prevailed upon the Exchange yesterday, as to the probable adoption of L or d Ashley s amend ment by the House of Commons on Monday night, the market was exceedingly dull ; and all descriptions of goods, with the exception of 40-inch skirtings, and 28- Inch printing cloths (of which latter very few are now made), were difficult of sale,. with a tendency to decline in the prices. The same may be said of alt the ordinary counts of yarn below 60's, which were offered at a slight decline on last week's rates. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 18. —There has been a better demand for flannels to-day than on either of the two preceding Mondays, but no improvement in prices. The wool market remains the Same, both as regards prices and demand. -- • ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury,. March 19. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Ur. Justice CoLERIDGE.) THORNS V. I . OX. For the plaintiff were Sergeant Talfeurd, Mr. Valentine Leo, and' Mr. Beadon; for the defendant, Mi. Godson, Q.C., and Mr. Cooke. The_ circumstances under which- the pia/atilt / in this case was compelled to seek redress for the injuries he had sustained at the plaintiff's hands were somewhat singular. From the evidenc e o f S usan J ones, a very intelligent Welsh hirl, it app eare d t h at on the 29th of last September she, with er master and mistress, into whose service she had entered that day, arrived at the George Inn, Shrewsbury, by the coach, from Montgomery. On alighting, Mr. Thorpe in quired of the defendant, who is the landlord of the George publiadiatise, what was the flire to London. Fox replied 255., et which Mr. Thorpe expressed some surprise, as he said the charge was much lower by the Greyhound coach, intimating et the same time, his intention of proceeding by that con- Veyance, and requesting.the'defendant to give up his luggage, in order to proceed at once to the office of that coach. Fox itnmediately affected great dissatisfaction, and said that the lUggage should not be removed until 4s. were paid for over weight. Mr. ThorPe said that this was an unjust demand, inasmuch as he had already paid his Pare- before leaving Montgomery. An angry altercation followed, the demand was discharged, but 'some expressions 'Of 'no very flattering tendency were thereupon interchanged, and at last out, cut two blows were struck, but it did not cicerty appear who was the first assailant; or who gn' the original provocation ; the plaintiff, at all tYthts ;Rule to the ground, and 'fell across one AP his trunks, his witnesses imputing the fall to A violent blow which he received in the Ince front OW Ott: &ndant in the most wanton manner; the 404sigot 4 wit= nesses attributing i t, hotTover, IrktgziPtAio4ati th e part of Mr. Thorpe. :119 . Of the fall was such as to stun Min for .4 momeat,. and to - inflict- permanent injury of the spine, -the eiThots of which he will, in all probability, ac cording to the surgeon's opinion; 'continue to feel for ignlq tone to come.' Not content with this, it was Vo knocked' together .the ,plaintin bpi% VlTAtug t 4 tW t o pieces, and €1§,..i4 c11 .11W V. 1 4.313 1 of new laid Welsh , As the no re o s tr u u lt 41 131 : 11- e i r l i 9. T i l l ia all v elt e r te l e 4: nii i i g d i4l l ll o 7 n tl ih r.-V e e4a d dq c rPi f i e y n e : d i a a i n dll is esd p4 B7 l4 Yi 1.11,4 A any pecuniary redress for the variqipi bcc.a4mw.ck the occurrence above de.icitird, the plaintitf:uom re. • liitinPf4iClP 0 . 9, 1 1 4r3Pl . cetire'd . to elibelifite, anti returning after an In tNTRI Of . {4bgiii . li4l? 44 hour, found a verdict for the plaintiff, Damages 1094 ; but the pleader, by some inadrertenev, having only laid the damages in the declaration at 401,, amount ef 1"4.1 1 .4 1.Y.t14 tlitmici twill the record tbr that puovirN COURT..—(llefore Mr. Baron PARKE.) The 'eriminal eases, in the investigation of which the Learned, Baron was occupied the greater part of the O , L T were of such a character as wholly to preclude qnr ins them, e'ele4 t l r, Baren Parke having completed the delivery of the gaol, proceeded to assist in the disposal of the civil business. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—DeOy, 4ficr4 gat The Right Hon. Sir 11. c. ilii„4 l , 4131 V-64 in this town at Aqui; 1441 A past five ofclook last evening, and opened the Commission. The calendar was, notwithstanding the recent winter .as: sizes;more heavy than usual, particularly in pßillt there being 60 cases and §§priNll4o 44411 YUSIDE,---,-(DeTunv'T-Aid - Chief Justice Tyr u.) MINT 11: gIIEFFIELD CANAL COMPANY. This was an action to recover damages for an injury al leged to have been sust a i ne d by th e plaintiff, through 'tfie careless and improper conduct of a. , the defenclan wNtclilwo ztic, #twarokyloi Qoqvkael fo; down to two per cent. Every trade, every mann ; facture was over-ridden by competitors having capital wanting employment, and yet the complaint was that they had not capital enough wherewith to till the land.—(llear, hear.) They had heard the cause in the explanation of those intelligent gentlemen who had addressed them—they wanted security for the application of their capital.—(Cheers.) The corn law, which they ever said was for the benefit of the agriculturist, deterred the capitalist from investing in the land, because .on that corn-law rested those other monstrous grievances to which Mr. Lattimore and Mr. Hunt had referred. The landowners, net trusting to the application of skill or science to the cultivation of the soil, confided only in the corn law, which they could only maintain by poli tical means—by keeping the tenantry in sub jection as tenants at will." They made every thing subservient to political power, and they made political power subservient to the corn-law, and thus it was that in a vicious circle the corn-law reacted in an injurious manner upon the tenant.—(Hear, hear.) Thus it was that the corn-law was the basis of every grievance under which the farmers suffered.— (Cheers.) It was not their business there to talk of game but of corn ; but if the landowners prevented by law the people from being supplied with goods from other countries, they invited inquiry as to the way in which they used the land upon which they ;insisted we should he fed ; and if we found they were wasting the produce of the soil for their own useless and sensual amusements, while they denied the people's right to getting food from other coun tries, then their game-preserves and their parks, and every other arrangement about their estates became a fair question of controversy.—(Cheers.) When he (Mr. Cobden) was in Scotland, at a public meeting held in Cupar of Fife, a farmer, whose name he gave to the public on the occasion, informed them, in a letter which he read to the meeting, that he was the tenant of Captain Wemyss, the M.P. for the county, and that he and two other farmers rented seven hundred Scotch acres adjoining the pre serves of Captain Wemyss, and that he had a clause in his agreement by which he was entitled to receive compensation for the damage done by game annually to their crops ; and in the year 1841 these farmers received as compensation for the injury done by the game to the crops on the 700 acres, of which only one-fourth was sown, a sum of 7001., and yet they assured him that that was far from sufficient compensation for the damage done ; for the crop of the year was not only destroyed, but the land was poisoned, so as to affect the 'crops for the succeeding four years.—(Hear, hear.) He had taken pains to inquire as to the amount of damage done by game in this country to crops, and the opinion of intelligent farmers was, that the damage amounted to no less than 2,000,000 of quarters of corn.—(Hear, hear.) Now, if they were not allowed to be supplied with corn from elsewhere, he insisted that they had a right to call on the landowners to destroy the vermin which did so much injury to our crops. He was glad to find that their friends the farmers were putting their brethren on the right scent. Let them, instead of looking after the League as a bugbear, see to grievances nearer home. The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the system.observed with respect to game, and then went on to observe that all parties would benefit from throwing the land on its own resources. He said the usual way was for a Noble Lord first to vote for the Icorn-laws, and then to bring in a Bill to inclose the commons of the country, in order to benefit the poor by taking from them the commons, on which they fed their geese. He did not pretend to be a judge whether those commons were advantageous to the poor or not; but he knew that labourers were very good judges of their own interests, and that they had a very great objection to the inclosure of commons. He knew riots to have taken place, in consequence of labourers insisting upon their rights of commonage.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Fyshe Palmer, who for a long time re presented Berkshire, used to stand up in defence of the peasant's right to the use of the commons, and, on one occasion, he ventured poetically upon the , subject, and he said— " The fault is great in man or woman, Who steals the goose from off the common ; But who shall plead that man's excuse, Who steals the common from the goose ?" —(Laughter.) He (Mr. Cobden) had transmitted to him from the United States of America a speech de livered by a senator of that country in advocacy of free trade, whose sentiments they reciprocated from that gorgeous assembly. He alluded to Mr. MDuffy, who had been twenty years the Villiers of the United States. The Hon. Gentleman then quoted several passages from the speech of that gentleman, which, though used in condemnation of the , protective system to manufactures in that country, were per fectly applicable to the protective system as regarded' agriculture in this country; and he went on to show, that what he called the calico oligarchy in America, were as opposed to free trade as the agricultural oli garchy were in this country. He pointed out that the great majority of the fifteen millions of American citizens were as much in favour of free trade as the greater portion of the inhabitants of this country, and expressed his satisfaction at the prospects of free trade, when the monopoly of what he termed the oligarchy of the madder-hogsheads would be put an end toin America, equally with the monopoly of the agricultural oligarchs of this country. He showed the absurdity of supposing that monarchical institu tions were inimical to freedom, when there were found among the Yankees, who threw overboard what they considered the lumber of crown, church, and aristocracy, those who were opposed, notwith standing all their free institutions, to not only freedom in trade, but also to freedom to the slave. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And he instanced, in proof of his position, their having . at that meeting a Nobleman in the chair. He justified his agita tion on the ground that even in America, where they had republican institutions, men were not able to see their own interests without being taught. lie concluded by stating that Mr. Gisborne, who was to have addressed them that night, had pressed him (Mr. Cobden) into the service, but that Hon. Gentleman would attend on the next evening of meeting.— (Cheers.) Before they separated, he begged to say that he thought they would best conclude the even ing's proceedings by giving three cheers for the Noble Earl who favoured them by taking the chair that evening. He (Mr. Cobden) would be fugleman, and let them be three good cheers. The lion. Gentleman then signalled with his hand, and the vast assemblage rose en masse, and gave three cheers accordingly, with one cheer more. The Noble CHAIRMAN then advanced to the front of the stage, and in a few words acknowledged the compliment, after which the vast assemblage dispersed HORRIBLE ATROCITIES AT PARIS.—The Gazette des Tribunaux relates that for some time past there have been rumours of the existence of A mysterous society in the Faubourgs• -St. Jacques and St, ISlAreelitt, the inegibere of which came forth in the dark, in the environs of the barriers, and having seduced or forced away with them oeveral young girls, did not set, thent At liberty again until they had under., gone the most brutal 0424/Petit. About ten days ago several fathers and mothers of families laid informations before the commissary of pollee that their daughters, 110 were only b e tween twelve and fourteen years of age, had been aeeoSted, some at the Barriere de Fontainebleau, others at the lierriere St. Jacques, by young and well-dressed men, who invited them to go to a dance, and afterwards compelled them to qceept a supper, Of what took place at the conclusion the -;rls could give no aeteoinit, for they were thrown into a poor b . in which they Thr 2, long time, state of let,:rg,Y, and on recovering their senses follll4 tiiMIOPIFP§ corners of the ftOftPll/ €./RYth• against stone posts obscure mentioned. On returning home it :79s found that their per= sons had been so cruelly abased that it was nee:l l BMT to . place them in a hospital. The consusissary, !melted to the utmost indignation, set every engine at work to discover the perpe trators of these enormities, and by his exertions no fewer than twelve of these wretches have been arrested, It appears from the examinations that these pests of society K Joined in hiring a house in the Rue de l'Oursine, to carry on their hideous designs. To this they gave the name of the Tour de Nesle, and they called the room in which they consummated their outrages the Chambre Orsini, MA assuming the name of one of the characters of the drains entitled Teyr Arc,sic. Their victims were of course thrown under the influence of some powerful narcotic. The examinations preparatory tp the prosecution of these wretches are still in Roams, hut 'Tither the name nor station of any one ofthem hat, transpired. • SPRING.—The prevalence of cutaneous visitations at this period of the year inculcates the necessity of pre= serving the Skin in a pure and healthy state, so that its tune. tions may be duly performed. The great celebrity which " Rowland's lialydor ' exclusively maintains as an active yet mild and soothing agent for extirpating all impurities, and imparting a healthy freshness to the Skin, is most plgologly evinced at the present season. This balmy and otioriferons creamy liquid is composed of extracts from the most rare flowers and barbs of an eastern clime—its discovery by a lady of rank, was no less singular than its effects have been felicitous during the last thirty years, jta universally great demand excites the cupidity of unprinciptigl crilPpktners , who give the title of " Genuine" Kalydor to some co'iiipOitat4 of their own manufetetnre of the most deleterious character, containing mineral .astringen,,,t. Utterly ruinous to the Com plexion, and by their yap/Mont endangering health. It is, therefore, imperative on purchaserotO'se4 4 4 4 the words F. awyjAnd's Kalydor" are on the wrapper.—All arias 440 fraudulent &sOgnterfeits. BLASTING Willi wIE AID OP ELECTRICITT.—The first experiment, on a large 644;4 111,?de in this country to lost with the aid of electricity, was tried Olt S*4, - h zday ]rig; rit KnAckiwtog Hill, in the Phenix Park, Dublin. the 'Spot selected for the tatpisagpg aperation (which, notwithstandm the unfavourable state oft 4 weathig i attracted a great crowd) consisted of an immense bank of gal* §1 c 3.'llYter of a mile in superficial surface ; 45,0001 b5. w ei g ht of powder xo-a4 consumed. The necessary arrangements having been made, A; immense hill rose slowly, as if by magic, with a rum bling nom, agil &Tay after the entire mound removed it self into the holiaiv or.4444,_gpidst the plaudits of. the 176 . `4414 an d" crowd, who cheered Captain whose superintendence the experiment was Cang,Vte, . "'TO place where the hill had been is completely level, eg per" yo the success of the experiment. • 4# 44:p Mg. J. F. BLAKE.--The Funeral of the §frp - etvy to the Incorporated Society of • viettaticys, tOWOKa.#I; &Kell : green Cane-. • litsitiF t s cik Trustees and Coin= - -nnir, the re Licensee tery on Saturday m._ ceased, the Governor (Mr. Kees..., mittee of the Society, and others, will acconi r .. mains from his residence, at the office of the 111Orning AU vertiser, to the Cemetery. Several of the past Governors Trustees, and Committee, have already signified their Wen: tion of either accompanying the procession, or joining it on its 'approach to the Cemetery, where it is expected to arrive at half-past oue o'clock.—ildvertiser. SPIRIT of th FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY, GLOBE.—The defeat sustained by Ministers on Lord Ashley's proposed limitation of the hours of labour for women and children employed in factories to ten hours, has filled the ant - manufacturers with delight. The Standard pronounces it a "glorious triumph ;" and "laments that her Majesty's Ministers voted in the mit nority" "It is th e fi rs t t i me they have so voted ; be cause," says the recently-installed organ of the Govern ment, " it is the first time they have been wrong !" The Post absolutely revels in contemplation of the difficulties in which the adverse vote has involved Sir Robert Peel, and in the self-stultifying contradictions which Sir James Graham uttered, in utter obliviousness of for mer speeches. The Times, which on Saturday in voked heaven and earth t aid Lord Ashley in accom plishing his god-like purpose, was yesterday sobered by the vote of the preceding night, and looked at the ques tion with the eye of practical common sense. This morning there is—no unusual thing with the Times—an inclination to give the other side a turn. Sir J. Graham is alternately rated and ridiculed for rigorously adhering to the 12 hours he originally proposed as the maximum of labour for females and children employed in factories. Sir Robert Peel is hit off as a statesman distinguished for infirmity of purpose ; who sees the right course, but, is scared from pursuing it by the difficulties which pre sent themselves :—" He (Sir IL Peel) sees the future duties of the British legislator only to shrink from them. He sees, in the protecti o n o f th e B r i t i s h labourer, no thi ng but a horrible bugbear, pursuing the unfortunate Minister, session after session, through town and country, factory and dwelling, through a labyrinthine intricacy of public and private relations." The truth of the description given by the Times of the Premier, and of his man-of-all-work at the Home office, we are not disposed to question. But we greatly doubt whether the prediction that journal ventures to put forth as to the fate of the Bill, in favour of which it embarks so much zeal, will be realised by the vote to which Sir James Graham last evening announced he intended to appeal on Friday night, when the Bill will be further considered in Committee. Mr. Labouchere having inquired of Lord Ashley "what his int*ntions were as to the amendment on the Factory Bill, which he succeeded in inducing the House to adopt on the preceding (Monday) night ?"—Lord Ashley stated, that "in order to make his amend ment as little offensive as possible in quarters which he wished to conciliate, he intended to submit certain modifications (which he stated at length) in the clause as it now stood, and by which he hoped the oppo sition with which the ten hours' clause had been threatened would be diminished, if not wholly with drawn." Sir James Graham's reply was at once prompt, explicit, and—we apprehend—decisive of the fate of the measure. We have expressed ourselves as doubtful re specting the policy of' this legislative interference with the rights of capital and the interests of industry, now sought to be more stringently applied. The humanity which is urged as the basis of the interference is, we fear, short-sighted, though sincere. Let us not be mistaken. We are no advocates for the ceaseless toil to which the la bouring classes are subjected, and from which females and young persons especially ought to be exempt. Un remitted labour is debasing to the individual, and dan gerous to society. But the severity of labour which is demanded from the working classes, and the meagre ness of the remuneration which most of them receive, is chargeable—not upon the manufacturers, to whom all kinds of cruelty have been imputed, but to the opponents of extended commercial intercourse, and the partizans of monopoly. To these the charge of cruelty to the factory women and children is far more justly applicable than to the master manufacturers ; who themselves share the disadvantages of the restric tive commercial policy, which necessarily falls with crushing weight upon those in their employ. The Ten Hours' Bill strikes at the root of none of the evils which affect the poor. The opponents of al most every other measure which has been proposed, in and out of Parliament, for promoting the physical and moral elevation of the people, are found among the most noisy clamourers for diminishing by law the hours of labour in factories, with the certainty of, by so doing, diminishing the earnings of the labourers, and thus further curtailing their already insufficient supply of food. Those who originated this questionable measure —we speak not of Lord Ashley, who has been induced to take the lead by the impulse of his heart, which has, in this instance, refused to be guided by enlightened judgment in a matter in which his feelings have become embarked ; .but of the origina tors of this Ten Hours' Bill, and those who were most active in launching it upon the tide of benevolent, but, as we think, mistaken philanthropy—the originators of this project are among the number of those who were content to leave the people uneducated and uninstructed in domestic economy; they were horror-stricken at the thought of their being politically enlightened; they were the indiscriminating defenders of the old vitiat ing poor-law system; they are the champions of re strictions on trade—and they would add to the bene factions of their microscopic benevolence, the paltry boon of reducing the hours of the labour of the ill-paid poor, thus making them still poorer ! Surely these re collections are sufficient to create suspicions as to the soundness of the philanthropy whence this scheme has emanated, and to justify a disinclination to accept from such quarters, without the fullest evidence to confirm its claims to confidence, a project which comes recom mended from so questionable a source STANDARD.—Lord Ashley last night declared his willingness to agree to any terms uponwhich the abridg ment of the hours of factory labour, determined upon by the vote of the House of Commons on Monday, should be introduced in the most gradual manner. He was ready to continue twelve hours for six months, then to pass to eleven hours, and not to make the complete reduction to ten hours before 1846. This proposition, we lament to say, was not received as we think it ought to have been, by the opponents of the reduction, .Sir James Graham declaring his resolution to adhere permanently to the twelve hours. This perseverance is to us per fectly inexplicable. The limitation to ten hours will be made final in 1846 as certainly as the year 1846 shall arrive. The feeling of the whole country commands it, and that feeling has grown up too gradually, _and is too much the effect of rational conviction, to be changed in twenty-four months or twenty-four years. The Leaguers will no doubt attempt to operate a diversion in favour of their tyrannical monopoly, by new and fiercer attacks upon the agricultural body, but the Leaguers are in truth already dead beaten—beaten, not solely or principally by the agri cultural associations, very properly formed to check their progress in the rural districts, but beaten in the first place by the good sense of the population in the towns and in the manufacturing districts. It was a consciousness that their fallacies and their sordid.purpose were seen through by the intelligent townsmen and manufacturers that drove them into the country to look for proselytes ; there is, there fore, no hope for them unless the representatives of agricultural districts again throw the town popu lation and the manufacturing population into their hands by opposing the ten hours resolution. Let the agri cultural Members look .to this, They have the League at their mercy ; they may crush it into annihilation by supporting Lord Ashley ; they may revive it in aug mented strength by opposing his Lordship. Last night, the 19th of March, 1844 (we mark the time exactly, be cause, if the agricultural Members now make a mistake, we may have to recur to the state of public feeling at this particular time), last night the emissaries of the League were ignominiously chased from a meeting called iinsinselves le the metrepolla of nglan4-4roin meeting, ipt only in the nietrepi44 Nit in its very centre— and that part of L 044011 where League notions might be expected to • bp moat popular, The meeting was held on Cleyhenwell:green, and, of course composed in much the greater part of the electors of Finsbury—the constituents of Mr. Coroner Wackley and Mr, Thomas Slingsby Dtmcombe. This shows , the estimation in which the League is now held. The ngrienitlirß) ]Vhillhers of the House of Com mons may, by their votes an Lord Ashley's Bill, either confirm the prostration of their enemies, or revive and with this assurance, that it is not in their power. OF ill Ptie pOWPP of 111411111 Man, ultimately to pre vent a ifeq Hpqrs' siil, 01A1101 it is lotto competent to them to sesigeitate the enemy who would ruin them and their constituents, Tut, expepting snob efforts as thp Leaguers may make in the interval to divert pqhlip atknitti, - in from the question, what is there OW can WOW 01 shake the present universal POnVietioll that the hours of continued labour for women and ehillon in factories ought not to exceed ten ? Arguments will no doubt be offered in favour of prolonged labour, and we welcome them, fop we never met one that would stand ten minutes of calm investiga tion, harp, indeed, mot few that, properly con sidered, di4 not-eqqduep to ff. p#011.1411:M precisely the opposite to that t 4 which it was 410094 tAI gIiAM ATTORNEYS, Complaints have frplgently bpen made at the Pen: tval" Ceppipel Cetwt, the Middlesex Sessions, &c., of the disgraceful conduct 4, 1 ti set pf fellows who have long been in the habit of attending tbPp, and "p -ing their services to the prisoners and their friends 48 Ipgal afivi§ers l and who, after extorting from ti t epr a.lmo;t their! 44t §4llling, fqr the alleged purpose of rat4m4g coulia01: i 4 ph* kieharf, '61.1t which, in many instances, they peglept to dot aftpF wards take care to keep out, of the way of their dupes on the day appointed for the prisoners' trial. The atten4l9 of the Legislature has • lately been called to the subject, and The folippiir,q, clause in the late "Act for Consolidating and Atneraling — sOetal - 0 the Laws relating to Attorneys and Solicitors," will, it hoped, put an effectual stop to the di sgrace f u l conduit That from and a fter the passing of this Act, no pestiOn shall apt FA n f}ptqr, ney or solicitor, or commence or defend any action, suit; or other proceeding, in the name of any other person, liisown name, in her Majesty's Courts of Chancery, Queeni'lleiis.4l,,&e., or i 4 Ar t 7 Court Of civil or criminal jurisdiction, or act as' dtfOrney . ei:OlfcipoF in apy ea ' e or suit, civil or criminal, to be tried orcletetnitiO'beEoe any j44,ice i qf assipe of over and terminer apd'gerierargiOl delivery, or at at3y general Or qiis4tr ;es4ibf# cif 1114 peace for any county, city, borotigh, Ohi bet re any justice o r j us ti ces, unless - suet' person shall have been previously to the passing of this Act ad- N4` R(1 Fte:°l , °I; 4 1:7 1 Y? gli/ I'l it i e g IR no . 0 ftfi 4 :orp'es7' l fin i " be u y qualified to act," 410 elause enacts ;f• _any attorney or idlicitor • shall 'wilYially' or _._ • knowingly act as agens. ill Any action, &c., or permit or suffer Ins name to be in any way. made use of in any Stich action, or shall do any other act thereby to enable such unqualified:ll4On tir) uppear t ach o r practice in any respect as an attorney, - gm, knowing' kW p*Opeß not ro be duly qualified as aforesaid, and domv plalnt shall be mode thereof in a summary wa y •t o t. alts said superior -Courts and'proof thereof mad e 18 'W qr upon 04 to 00 ,Ic9, JOURNALS the plaintiff; Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Wildman appeared in behalf of the defendants. It appeared that on an evening in July last the servant of the plaintiff was driving his cart and horse with goods, and "had to pass under an aqueduct, near Sheffield, belonging to the Company. When within six or eight yards of the hollow he was called to, but not in time for him to pull up, and the horse suddenly went into the water so deep as to cover the horse's back. The servant, who was perfectly sober and a steady man, got out of the cart and went up to his neck in the water to endeavour to disengage the horse from the cart, but the water still continuing to rise rapidly, he was warned to " come out, for God's sake, or he would be drowned," and was obliged to do s o , as h e cou ld n ' t sw i m, without having been abl to release the horse, which was drowned. The horse was of the value of 25/., and the injury to the goods in the cart was estimated at about 60/. The material ques tion was the liability of the Company to make compensation for the injury sustained. Under the Act of Parliament they were empowered to make such an aqueduct as at the spot in question, but then they were to leave a certain space (15 feet) between the level of the road beneath and the lower part of the arch, and to make the declivity not exceeding a certain steepn ess . Th ey h ad, however, only commenced the declivity at about 60 yards on each side, and the consequence was, that in th e centre was a sort of hole, wherein the waters that were out had reached about nine feet in depth. Prior to the alteration made by the Company, the road was a dead level, and from the level of the land in the neighbourhood the water never could have exceeded two feet in depth. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 84/. 13s. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—York, March 19. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron Roum.)- THE QUEEN P. JOSEPH CHADWICK. This was an indictment which charged the prisoner with feloniously forging and uttering a receipt, and acquittance for the sum of 12/.. with intent to defraud one John Crowther. There were other counts in the indictment, laying the intent to have been to defraud other persons therein named. The prisoner pleaded " Not Guilty." The prisoner had been admitted to bail, and had sur rendered to take his trial. His appearance was exceedingly respectable, and his whole demeanour that of a person who was perfectly conscious that an acquittal awaited him. The interest of the trial was grearly enhanced by a report (whe ther true or not we are unable to say) that but for this oc currence he was to have been last week married to a young lady of highly respectable connexions and considerable fortune. Evidence as to some facts onwhich the charge was founded was given but it possessed no interest. A considerable number of the most respectable gentlemen of the place were called, who gave the prisoner the highest character; and, The case being summed up, The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The acquittal seemed to be received with approbation by all parties. _ _ (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) THE QUEEN V. COOKE. This was an indictment prosecuted by the Board of Excise against the defendant, who had been an officer of Excise, for obtaining money by false pretences. The indictment had been removed by certiorari, and was tried by a special jury.- Mr. Wortley, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Robinson appeared for the Crown ; the prisoner was not defended. It appeared that the prisoner had what is called " a ride," and had to visit the houses of publicans in his district, to several of whom he pretended that he had paid the money for their licenses, and obtained the amount from them. He then went off to America, where he said he had purchased some land, but came back and was apprehended. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) BOW-STREE7. • Frederick Shaw, a goldbeater, and Frederick Radford, a butcher, were placed at the bar for final examination, charged with burglary and robbery at the house of Mr. Jacob Wor cester, oil and colourman, New Compton-street. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 2d of February the prosecutor's premises were broken into, and a quantity of gold shells, brushes, a quantity of gold leaf, gold dust, toge ther with Dutch and silver metal, were taken away. The property amounted to about 201., and a portion of it was found upon the prisoners when they were apprehended by the officers on another charge. The prisoners declined making any defence, and they were fully committed for trial. '1 he prisoner Radford was next charged with a burglary and robbery at the house of Mr. John Smith, wholesale stationer and bookseller, 49, Long Acre, under the following circumstances :—The prosecutor's factory was broken into on the night of the sth of February, and a quantity of bill and receipt stamps, 90 sovereigns, a number of engravings, some packs of playing cards, and three Bank n o t es o f 20/. were stolen. The prisoner's brother had been in the service of the prosecutor, and some of the articles being found in his possession, he was taken into custody.—He was committed. Both the prisoners were next charged with stealing in the dwelling-house of Mr. Ephraim Smith, working jeweller, 4, Carlisle-street, Soho. The prosecutor stated that on the evening of the 24th of February his parlour door was opened with a latch key, and a quantity of jewellery taken away, value about 2001.—Both committed for trial. The prisoners were again charged with a robbery in the house of Mrs. Green,• 22, Cavendish-square, and stealing a quantity of plate and a great coat. The premises were broken into on the 28th of September, in the absence of the family, and a quantity of plate stolen, a portion of which with the coat were found in the possession of the prisoners, and they were fully committed for trial. The prisoner Shaw was also committed for trial, for having in his possession some gas fittings belonging to Mr. Slater, of Denmark-street. CLEI?KENWELL. Thomas Samdens, a provision dealer, residing in Gray's-inn-road, was summoned to answer the com plaint of Ellen Leet for assaulting her. The complainant, a decent-looking poor woman, de posed that she went into the defendant's shop on Sunday morning, to buy apiece of pork; she offered sixpence half penny a pound for a piece, and the defendant having cut demanded sevenpence, which when s h e re f used to pay, he seized h er by the shoulders, and rudely dragged her across the shop. The defendant alleged that the woman agreed to give him sevenpence a pound. He never touched her, and could produce two witnesses who would so depose. Complainant—Did you not tear my little basket off my arm? The defendant hesitated to framer until the Magistrate put the queetion,:athett he achnitte4 tint he had done so. Mr. Connz—Why, you .a said you hs'" two witnesslis to swear yon never touched her. Defendant—Then wb did so• not pay for the prJrk? Mr. COMBF—Where Zit t he poor .woman's. °as k& Defendant-4 have ,k fr A t Or th s'-rhen give it up to her. , 41e w n ".:nt—Is that justice ? Why s ho u ld s h e get her '72.iet until she pays me for the pork ? Mr. COMBE inflicted a penalty of 11. on him for the assault, and 2s. costs, telling him at the same time that he had no right to detain the basket, and that the act almost amounted to a charge of felony. He Should not keep his shop open on a Sunday morning, and ought to learn to be civil to his customers. The defendant applied language of an indecorous nature towards the Bench, and exclaimed he would not pay a farthing of the fine • but having b een d e li vere d over to the jailor, thought betttr of it, and paid the money. ROBBERY AT A STATION -HOUSE.--Mary Anne Webb alias Quinn, was charged with stealing a pair of boots from George's -street police station, the property of Po lice-constable Harris, 53 E. The prisoner was employed at charing there, and since she was employed Harris and his brother officers have been repeatedly plundered. The prisoner was re manded. Yesterday Luvigi Illaranchi, an Italian, waa charged by Andrew Bertti with having violently assaulted him, and otherwise ill-treated him. Mr. lorry, the barrister, attended for the prosecution, and said that the defendant was one of those Italiin masters re siding on Saffron-hill, who sent about poor Italians with organs, &c., for the purpose of vagrancy. The facts were, that in April, 1843, the complainant was engaged by the de fendant to come to England, under a promise that he would be well fed, and paid 13 francs and a half per mouth to play music. On his arrival in England he was sent out with an organ to beg in the streets, and unless he brought home 2s. per day, he was subjected to the most brutal treatment. On the 6th inst. he took home Ild. to the defendant, when he struck him violently on the head, and ever since that period complainant was kept in constant terror, under a threat that defendant would rum him for ever as a man, if he did not bring home more money. On the 13th instant defendant again beat him violently on the head, for not bringing home is., when he sought the protection of Mr. Luciani, an Italian, who had taken up the cause of this persecuted class of per sons, who were deluded and entrapped into this country for the purposes of vagrancy, and then barbarously treated. The complainant had once been in the hospital for two molls, in consequence of the defendant's violence, whostr.:.ck him on the head and tore his hair. Mr. lorry was., glad that some humane gentlemen were getting up an Institution for the prevention of such abominable tun e and cruelty, and he was instructed by the Committee to prosecute this case at the Sessions. He therefore urged that the defendant should be ordered to find bail to answer the charge, and not summarily convicted. The complainant, a poor sickly looking young Italian (who was interpreted by Mr. Luciani), proved having been engaged by the defendant at Parma, in Italy, on the terms Alluded to by the Counsel, whose statement he in every re spect confirmed. Mr. GREENWOOD inquired whether the complainant had been paid the wages agreed upon ?—Mr. llorry replied in the negativ@, Ike bad not received a single franc,. CIIZEKNWOOD inquired how the complai'n'ant made his way to this eountr?—The complainant saik that hims e lf and eight other Italians, who were like himself engaged to "play music," travelled over the Alps to France, and then by the steam-boat to Laudon, Mr. GREF.Nw(IO4 said that the system of entrapping poor Italiau4 tuta this country was a most 'abominable one, and Bu goad would be effected unless the Sardinian Ambassador interfered to prevent it, having in England no alien laws now. He ordered the defeudant to find bail to answer fig) charge at the Middleie4 Sessions. The dc.feildAnt procured bail and was liberated. JUST AND EQUAL GOVER I S:4SET:IIi IRELAND.—At a meeting of the leading Ritibrrners of Liverpool, held this day, at the Reform Assctolation, Rathbone, Esq., in the chair, it was reached, eh the motion of Thomas Black burn, Esq., seconded by William Wood, Esq., that a publi c Meeting of the Reformers of Liverpool should be held, for the purpose of expressing their conviction—first, that impartial justice was not done in the recent State trials in Ireland; and, second, that the only true way to act. towards Ireland was to deal with that country justly and fairly, both i n le ciaNtitlt and administration. And it was further resolved, that the opportunity of Mr. O'Connell's return to Irela n d should be taken for this public demo ns tratiterpooi 2Tmes. rt.ll:l4latelCL—Tiw -46 NEW HATS I'O a Tlll4 elation. lirthe hats of sinners of r a nfSi wili hfl o ve h d w e lli old t e e d nd oi m i. a n - the Pulice i Which will be hug A I 1 and Comfort of the hien "Whtlat on duty, y adopted throughout to es p a u dd ie . d to ly th in e ease t weather. The plwAt hcif linv4 flre 'very weighty and from their being M+le Plu commonest felt are exceed gly . oppr to t~ 434 precluding the air, so that during the s ummer }and' poly 0.4 - ttutm are daily on the sick lists from diseases of the ii . eatt. The alteration about to be adopted by the Commis 'T.:niers consists of a perforated button affixed on each side of the hat near the crown ; the hat having also an oilst-hole Where the button! ER aftlAad_, gifts to admit air, and thus k e 9 , l 4 : 4 oeli'sheads cool," S evera l o f th ese new 144giatillg is were served to the men yesterday, and they seemed pleased at the improvement. THE NAPOLEON MUSEUM. We alluded last week to an incident that took place at this most interesting and extraordinary national exhibition at .the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, relative to the unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette, on one of the occasions when his Grace the Duke of Wellington honoured it with a visit, and in order that our readers may be able to form some idea of its merits from other sources as well as ourselves, we have much pleasure in giving them copies of the follow ing interesting historical documents, from these we were enabled to take :-Ist. His late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and Lord Holland% pfotests in the House of Lords against the Bill for detaining the late Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena. 2d. The late Mr. O'Meara's letter to the proprietor after visiting the Napoleon Mu seum in company with the Count Survilliers and Prince Lucien Bonaparte, many years before a public exhibition was contemplated. 3d. The Baron Emanuel Las Cases' letter to the proprietor on presenting him with one of the two pens with which the late Emperor corrected the MSS. of the Memoirs he dictated to the Counts Las Cases and Montholon, and General Gourgaud, at St. He lena; and4th, Lord Holland's letter, in 1828, to the writer of a Memoir of the late Duke of Reichstadt, who dedi cated the same to his Lordship. The Duke of Sussex and Lord Holland were among the Peers who individually protested. in the House of Lords, shortly afterwards, against a Bill, called " Bona parte's Detention Bill." Their protest was as follows: " Because,without reference to the character or previous conduct of him who is the object of the present Bill, I disapprove of the measure it sanctions and continues. " To consign to distant exile and imprisonment a foreign and captive chief, who, after the abdication of his authority, relying on British generosity, had sur rendered himself to us in preference to his other ene. mies, is unworthy of the magnanimity of a great coun try ; and the treaties by which, after his captivity, we have bound ourselves to detain him in custody at the will of sovereigns to whom he had never surrendered him self, appear to me repugnant to the principles of equity, and utterly uncalled for by expediency or necessity." " 16, Cambridge-terrace, Edgware-road, " Nov. 26, 1835. • "My dear Sir,—l am very glatl to learn that you con template printing a catalogue of your extensive and valuable Napoleon collection. It is, I believe, unique, and contains numerous exquisite objects, 'which, not being an artist, I am incapable of describing, and shall not attempt to paticularise. I can, however, speak with confidence as to the strong likeness to the deceased Emperor in several of the portraits ; amongst others, that in a bust executed by an Italian sculptor, whose name Ido not recollect. A similar observation was made by his brother, the Count de Survilliers, in expressing . his approbation of your splendid collection. Altogether, I think that your Museum is most interesting, and does great credit to your industry and good taste. " Believe me to be, my dear Sir, yours very sincerely, " BARRY O'MEARA." (corr.) The original is among the MSS. in flit Napoleon Museum. " Sir,—l am much flattered by your dedication, and the approbation you express therein of my conduct in Parliament on the occasion of the imprisonment of the late Emperor Napoleon. " It is my firm conviction that, the more the trans actions of that day are examined by a dispassionate pub • lic, the more every just and generous Englishman will regret the decision taken by the Government of this country. " Accept my beat thanks, and believe me, Sir, your obliged, " VASSALL HOLLAND. "`Holland House, 22d Dec., 1828.7 . " Sir,—The magnificent labours you have undertaken relating to the Emperor Napoleon induces me to present you with one of the pens he wrote with, and which I send herewith. He made use of it at St. Helena in the year 1816. Iri giving it to yOu, Sir, I am making a great sacrifice, as I possess but two of them, and was preven ted from obtaining other things which belonged to the Emperor Napoleon by the sudden and violent manner in which I was separated from him. I offer it to you, Sir, nevertheless, in consi deration of the labours you have gone through in favour , of the memory of that.great man, who i s , an d ever w ill be, the subject affecti o n as we ll as o f my vene ration.—Believe m f e my Sir, y our d evo t e d servant , "BARON DE LAS• CASES." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 20. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY. Mr. GREENE moved that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Eastern Counties Railway Bill to hear the petitioners against the Bill on any ground of objection arising out of the lease of the Northern and Eastern Railway, thereby intended to be confirmed, although such grounds of objection be not specifically set forth in their petitions, provided it be shown to the satisfaction of the Committee that such petitionershave a right to be heard before them.—Agreed to. Mr. TURNER presented a petition from praying that the House would adopt some means which would tend to put an end to the praetice of duelling. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition from the weavers of Aberdeen, praying for a full, fair, and free representation of the people. DROPPED ORDERS. The dropped Orders, in consequence of the House being counted out last night, were re-appointed. NEW WRT. A new writ was ordered to be l issued for the borough of Hastings, in the room of the Right Hon. Joseph Planta, who has accepted the office of the Chiltern Hun dreds. INTERMENT IN TOWNS Ivry TURNER wished t o as k t h e S ecretar y of Stat e for the home Department, whether the Government in tended to submit to the House of Commons any general plat? of cemetery interment ? Sir J. GRAHAM said that more than one Hon. Mem ber had put a question to him of the same kind, at a for mer part of the session. He could only give a general answer to the question. If he understood the Hon. Gentleman, he wished to know whether the Government intended to bring in a general measure with respect to interment in cities. Mr. TURNER explained that he wanted to know if the Government intended to introduce a general mea sure on the subject, applicable to the whole country. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had already, stated that it wits not his intention, on the part of the Government, to introduce any measure that should prohibit interment in the ancient churchyards of the country in which the dead had been interred for centuries. COUNTY CORONERS' BILL. On the motion for the Order of the Day for bringing up the Report on the County Coroners' Bill being put, Colonel T, WOOD said he objected to the Bill on prin eiple, because it transferred the appointment of an ancient county officer from the county electors to the town electors, The consequence would be that the town constituency would overwhelm the freeholders+ of the country. An other objection which he had to the Bill was, that it clubbed together the country and town constituencies, which were heretofore kept distinct. He should There. fns Wye OM the Nil be P 414411004 that day six months. Mr. PAIUNCiTON said as he had several amend ments to propose; he thought it would be bettpr that the Bill should be rec.:in:o;4yd, Aftef ti few wilPcis Nei Mrs SCOTT, the Report was received, and the Bill was recommitted. After a few words from Sir GRAHAM, ?,1, 4;. were liflrPed to ; with seine rlrb4 l !Ind 4!44o l . l dMelits: Clause 6, was also agreed to, after a few observations from Colonel T. WOOD. • When the next clause was proposed, Mr. SCOTT moved, as an amendment thltt O w Ai r c o § tt klts fti t e' 01194 " 014A111 tiO 141.144,:#i{}- th o wore "."coroner sunatouteci in i.t4 Mr. PAKINGTON opposed the -amendment. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE supported the amendment, on the round that as the clause stood at resent it would 15;itsous,' fi9 ho t h ey wci im not consent to a disfranchising Bill. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided, when there appeared_ F A RF the tgaast riefrlTP4 t2 • ••• '' *99litz Pie amendiriggc, , qn flHr tAdq-ne l i fi r i I @ gallery ; 9 iouo elausc! 7 under dieouoson, which was agieeu to ; after a few words from Mr. PAKINGTON. _ _ Clauses 8,9, 19 were egre4 It 0:1 weie agree to, without alteration. On clause 20 being read, P44IIIGTON said it would be in the recollection of the House that when they were last pro c wiii g w i t h this Bill a good deal of . discussion had taken place on the subject of remuneration to coroners, and much differ ence of opinion prevailed.. It had been maintained by ke*fil U o 4 ol 44!iie Affilitl*Pi - OW who 14w ucumigr had: two or more mgne4t6 140 Charged milea ibr them all, and was authorised by the lam to d o so. From that opinion . he .01:r. J?akington) had. differed, and, in Ito looking into the law authorities ; 119 fouud his yuion to THE POST-OFFICE AND MR. • R 0 WL.AND HILL. (From the Westminster Review for March.) Mr. Rowland Hill has printed en analysis of the evi dence taken before the late Post-office Committee of Inquiry, and we are anxious to assist in giving the ut most possible circulation to one of the principal facts of his pamphlet, entitled the " State and Prospects of Penny Postage," published by Knight. The fact to which we allude is the complete refutation of the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer during the last session, that, under the new system of penny postage, " the Post-office did not pay its own expenses ;"—and the refutation is by Colonel Maberly himself, the Secre tary of the Post-office. The statement was made, not upon a return, but a mere estimate, which is now prQved to have been incorrect in nearly every item. One of' its items was a sum of 612,8501., the wholatost of the pac ket service wrongly charged, and charged, for the first time, to the account of Post-office expenditure, as if de signedly to damage penny postage. It did damage it so far . that foreign Governments balancing at the time the propriety of corresponding reductions, imme diately took alarm on reading bfr. Goulburn's state ment, and withheld the boon on the ground that the Eng lish system had proved a failure. The mischief, abroad, that has been occas);med by this extraordinary official blunder, has been incalculable ; and we do not doubt, for it is a queStion of personal honour, that Mr. Goul burn, in his place in the House, will hasten to remedy the evil, to the utmost of his power, by a correct expla nation of the case, now that he is better informed. In the meantime our friends on the Continent would do wisely to disseminate through all the foreign journals the following evidence given by Colonel Maberly : " As I have stated over and over again, looking at it as regards the Post-office revenue now as compared with what the Post-office revenue was before the penny post, the surplus of' income over expenditure is somewhere about 600,0001 l'' The national honour is equally involved in the present relations of the Government and the country to Mr. Rowland Hill. If his plan had proved abortive, we can understand why their author should have been dis missed ; but to adopt his plans, admit their success as far as they have been yet carried out, and to disown all public obligatios to Mr. Hill, is to disgrace the nation. Is there a nobleman in the House who would thus disown a debt contracted on Newmarket race course, and is a great moral debt to be utterly disregarded by statesmen and legislators ? We talk of American " repudiation," but what is this ? And where, in the history of the United States, shall we find a parallel to Post-office treatment of nearly every one who has proved himself a national benefactor by the great improvements he has effected in postal communication ? Mr. Dockwra, who originated town posts shortly before the Restoration,' and Mr. Palmer, who introduced mail coaches about the latter end of the last century, both saw their plans adopted, and found themselves, like Mr. Hill, turned adrift by the Treasury, through the complaints and ghop position of the Post- office authorities. While we write, we are reminded of th e b ene fi ts which would result from one of his propos a l s , t h at of a li t parcel delivery, by a letter fro m P ar i s , i n which the writer inquires why he cannot send to London through the Post, under the new postal convention between Eng land and France, a copy of the Journal des Economistes,, which he finds the Post-office will take no further than Calais ? Our readers should know that while that treaty wa s in progress, an effort was made to procure the privilege of an interchange, through the Post-office, of pamphlets written by literary and scientific men oak both sides the water. This failed (as was underatend) through the difficulties started by the English Post-office, who pleaded the old fallacy, that ttie mails would break dovin with their load. A clause, however, was introduced in favour of periodi ce l s, but even this nig gardly provision for the intere'As of literature and sci-, ence has been, up to the present moment, rendered almost a nullity. Four times we have endeavours?, to send periodicals under the new treaty, and. i n each instance found them charged nearly five shillings, as letters over weight. In a fifth instance, we went personally to St. Martin's-le-Grand, and submitted a packet addressed to France for 'pre -payment. The postage demanded was nine shillings. We then referred the clerks at the Pay-office to the treaty, of which they appeared to know little or nothing, but they obliged us by sen di ng our packet into the Secretary ir office to inquire whether it was one which under the treaty could be forwarded at the reduced rate. The answer returned was in the affirmative, and that the correct postage would be eightpence. The eightpence was paid ; and although in France a volume like t' Lie Westminster Review can be sent any distance for a franc, fift een f rancs were demanded for tt,,j s identla cal packet (under four ounces) when it 82erived at its destination. Wh ere t h e b lame of th isularity lies we know not, for our e_ .Ir4ris to obtain an explanation at home have hot hitherto been successful. In addition to this subject of com plaint, the privilege whibh scientific men formerly en joyed of s en di ng t h e i r l etter, and printed papers aroad through the Ambassador's bag has been stopped. Such is the present state of international communication be tween two great Powers claiming to be at the head of European eivil:aation. --- VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT. COPY of the LAST REPORT frOm the RATIONAL VACCINE ESTABLISHMENT to 'I;IER MA JESTY'S SECRETARY of STATE DEPARTMENT. 'for the HOME TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR .7.1.74EF; R. GRAHAM, HER MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF iv' iATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT Sir,—ln presenting ( Mr Annual Report, we have the 'satisfaction to stab 'gnat the experi ence o f t h e past year ver cey fully .rms our confide nce i u th e protect i ve influen of To/. _cination ; and that th e zea l an d act i vity of the s=: 10 ' . . - al department s o f t h e establishment have k; . , k p t . .t0w! . .., with the increa s i ng d eman d s upon their ser eo. The Metropolitan mortality by small-pox during 'lke last year, which has been remarkable for the se verity of its epidemic maladies, has been esti ma t e d as low as 438, whe reas b y measles alone 1,400 lives have been lost. The number of charges of lymph distributed during the last twelve months being 158,494, will be found to exceed that of the former year by upwards of 31,000 charges, and from which no less than 85,550 cases have been reported as vaccinated. From a communication of Staff-surgeon Hall, at St. Vincent's, we learn that he has succeeded in propagating the true vaccine vesicle from lymph supplied by the National Vaccine Establishment IR the following West India islands, viz., St. Vincent, Trinidad, Tobago, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, and St. Kites. The Board. most anxious, as in duty bound, to carry the benevolent purposes of its foundation to the fullest practical extent., has embraced the opportunity recently afforded by our new relations with the Chinese empire, to send a large supply of vaccine lymph to Hong-Kong, from which may be fairly anticipated the gradual extinction of the small pox, which has so dreadfully ravaged that quarter of the globe. Although the Board continues to receive OCCOACitft notices of failure from the lymph distributed by it, they are, however, happy to state, that such complaints are much reduced in number, the average, as inferred from the receipt of letters, being strikingly decreased ; such failures can only be explained by supposing that the tients were not in a fit state to receive its influence, fb r it has very generally happened that the same peat r. rich has announced a failure i n one di str i ct, has chronicled the success of lymph derived from the seahP source in other parts of the country. (Signed) JOHN GOLDWYER .107DREws . President of the Collet. of Surgeons. V!".!,RIS - Senior Censor. JOHN CLEE V T R T R O u N ,L Registrar. March, 1844. _ . . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK LACES (CONCLUDED)—WEDNRSDAY. The Trial Stake:; of 10 sous. each, with 50 added. One mils. (10 subs.) - Mr. Minor' a Molecatcher, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (S. Darling, jun.) 1 Mr. Brist - ow's Freystrop, 3 yrs, 7st. Thy' following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. St . ';obings's Celeste, 3 yrs, 7st—Mr. Painter's Seafowl, 3 yrs, 6st 121b—Mr. Mostyn's Br une l, 3 y rs , 6 st 121b—Mr. A. W. Hill's Beaumont, 3 yrs—Mr. F. Ongley's The Elbe, 3 yrs, 7st, Betting-5 to 4 agst Celeste, 7to 2 agst Freystr_op, 4to 1 agst Molecatcher, and 5 to 1 ag s t B eaumont. Won by a neck. Celeste a bad third, and caumont fourth. Brunel carried 4lbs overweight. Tho Debdale Stakes of 5 sova. each, with 25 added. Twq miles. Oil Subs.) Mr. Hyde Clarke's Leo, by the Cardinal, list 71b Mr. Laurel's Fire-king, aged, llst 71b .... 2 Mr. Warde's The Surgeon, aged, 12st 3 The following also ran :—Captain Musgrave's Drammoor, 5 yrs, llst 71b—Mr. C. Le Blanc's Huguenot, aged, list 71b; Mr. F. Wilson's St. Cecilia, 6 yrs, llst 7115—Mr. E. Haworth's Marengo, aged, I Ist 71b—and Mr. Little's Plekwick, list 71b. Won in a cantor. The Warwick Handicap of 15 soya. tach, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 40 added. Zr.o miles. (15 Subs., two of whom paid ) Mr. Berrington's Fathew Methew, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Carter) 1 Mr. S. Scott's Mosque, yrs, Bst Slb ........... The following els'', started :—Mr. Ravrorth's Vibration, 5 yrs, Bst 131b--- - Captain Musgrave nd Ajax, 6 yrs—.3lr. Collins IsaaP, age d, 7st 81b—Mr. Rimber's Sylghau, 4 yrs, ist 41b---lir. E. Dan's Jack, 5 yrs, 7st 41b--Mr. Balchin'a TIP Zurate, 4 yrs, 7st—Mr. Holford's Pickwick, aged, 'lst-- and Sir C. Cockerell's Aurungzebe, 4 yrs, Est 71b. Betting-2 to 1 agst Mosque, 4to 1 agst Isaac, 4to 1 agst Pickwick, 7 to 1 agst Father Mathew, 7 to 1 agst Vibration: Won by a neck, after a beautiful race ; Pickwick third an& Isaac fourth. The Farmer's Plate of 50/., with 10/. added. Heats, tw o m il es. Mr. Lucas's f, 3 yrs , 10St 21b (Mr. Hughes) . 2 1 1 Mr. Co is Independence, 3 yrs, 10st 21b Mr. W. Cowper's Carmine, 3 yrs, lOst 21b t) 3 3 Mr. Page's Chaff, 3 yrs, lOst 21b A Forced Handicap of 10 sous. each. Once r' and and a dit. tance. (3 Subs.) Mr. Collins' Isaac, aged, B st 111 :;1), walked over. BETTING AT WAR WICK. nsTER CUP. 9 to 1 on the field 15 to 1 agst Naan—taken 25 to 1 11 '7: Yoked—taken • 30 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn 30 to 'I - agst Evorton. 13 to 2 agst Ugly Buck—t 7 to 1 agst Rattan 20 to 1 agst Running Rein 25 to 1 agst Leander 50 to I Mainatny.—t The rest as before. ON MAKING A BETTING Boox.--" It lends. f t colour to one of the worst features of pot-house life---Ahe Derby Clubs. Taking up on chance the nearest at, h an d sporting paper, we find in its first page no less than fift een of these abominations. They emanate from public-homes in all parts of London—West Smithfield, High Holborn, the Strand, Pimlico, Iluxton, and the London-road, from Manchester and from Sheffield. They are illegal lotteries or little goes--beite set by the cunning publicans (th e D u k e Hildebrauds of--mo dern Alsatian) to catch tippling gulls—traps f or the un fledged apprentice and journeyman —the desolation of many a tidy fire-side. Why are these gambling-houses overlooked! wore than the hells of Regent•street.—Knighes LondOn. I 1 I I