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ALS S DA oTOO I 6 I tra,nce. A . table wail down to",', ruttc , — ; were°l se,ii:et; Wo s close ve the P', exe rtion; Gentleulp e in a fe e said Daniel O'Connell saith, that the said several per sons whose names were so emitted from the said frau dulent paper writing purporting to be such general list, were also omitted from the said book purporting to be the said jurors' book, and from said list pur porting to be the said special jurors' list." Here again, there was no aliegation that the names were not omitted from the jurors' book ; it was only alleged that they were omitted from another paper which was not a document within the Act of Parliament. The challenge again proceeded to say :—" And the said Daniel O'Connell further saith, that the said several persons so omitted as aforesaid had been duly ad judged and allowed by the said Recorder at said special sessions to be the persons having the qualification qualifying and entitling them and each of them respec tively to be upon the jurors' book, and also to be upon the special jurors' list, for the current year, to wit, the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four." Now, he contended, that there was no power in the Recerder to allow any such thing. Heiread the 26th section of the Act to bear him out in thil-assertion, that the Recorder bad nothing to do with . j .n dgiug whether these • persons were qualified to be on. the jury-list at all. The next allegation was, that the'said Daniel O'Connell further saith, that the panel made to try the issue in this case Was arrayed and constructed from the special jurors' list, for 1844, " to the manifest wrong and injury of the said Daniel O'Connell." Again, in this allegation it was not denied that the special jury-list was re gularly made up by the Sheriff, and though it was stated it was to the manifest wrong and injury of the chal lenger, yet there was no affirmation that * was made Without his privity and knowledge, or that he was not the party by whom it was done. These were the grounds on Which the challenge was to be set aside and quashed. This was the whole Of the challenge ;it was quite unnecessary to enter here on a discussion upon the Act of Parliament, because there did not arise any point on the challenge which could vitiate the array. But with regard to the course taken by the Crown, of demur ring to the challenge instead of joining issue upon it, he contended that the Attorney-General for Ireland had no Other course open to him, and would have committed a gross violation of duty if he had not done so. He had Pursued the same course himself in a challenge made on the special commission. He should now pro ceed to the enactments of the Act of Parliament. The omission of a name could not render the whole array illegal. There was a penalty upon the collectors if they did not make out the list right, or inserted any names improperly; Names might be omitted by the collectors of the grand jury cess ; the book might be made up and The jurors impanelled with that omission; but then there was a provision in the Act by which a party might get his name inserted. An omission could not have the effect of invalidating the jury list. This point had been wice brought before the judges in Ireland. The first case was that of " The Queen v. 'Fitzpatrick, in Craw turd and Dick's Reports, vol. 3, p. 513. The second case was that of " The Queen v. Conroy?' A prisoner was indicted for murder upon four counts. There was a challenge to the array, and '.Jr. Justice Holywell, in giving judgment, said that the effect of allowing one de fect to vitiate the whole indictment, would be that the whole fabric of the adminis tration of justice would fall to the ground. The coroner was a general and not a particular officer. The array in the case of the coroner might be challenged, but it could not be in the case of a particular officer. If there were any fault in the Crown-office, application should be made to the Court. He trusted that from the authorities which he had cited he had shown to their Lordships that there was no ground for Challenging the array on the ground of the omission of names. He would not trouble their Lord ships further on that point. He would next come to the plea in abatement, that the traversers ought not to have been called on to answer the indictment, because the witnesses examined before the grand jury had not been sworn in court. It was impossible to contend that such plea could have been allowed by the court. The Act does not say that the jurors should be "sworn," but that they should be "sworn or affirmed" in court. But there was another ground on which the plea was bad. It does not state the names of those witnesses, nor that they Were unknown to the defendants. He held it an essen tial point in pleading that these things should be stated. theut the f ac t that four witnesses were examined before grand jury was not a ground of objection . tw the indi • • ctment ; for it was a non-constat %al other witnesses were trot examined. Lord BnocouAm—The grand jury might find from Their own knowledge. h _The AVT O RNEY- GENERAL — Or they might examine 7 1. 4 of their own body, upon his oath as a juror. (The 44 a, 1t rued Attorney-General then cited cases in support , that view, from Carrington and Marshall , and a l so Lewin's report ; but it was impossible in the gal tilifs guess even their purport.) There was now an ';tent matter to which he wished to call their Lord ,ll-ttention. It was the assignment of errors i n fac t " appeal to the House of Lords. That was the fir s t li n ale he had heard of errors in fact assi g ned in that x o use. He submitted that their Lordships' House, as 'Louse of appeal, could not deal with errors in fact. He would first read the plea. (The Hon. and Learned Gentle- A f % t hen read he leas from pages 80 and 82 of the appeal.) the r ticli th e t defendants had pleaded an abatement in course of the suit, and the authorities u p on that sub ject wer e to that their be found in " Comyn's D i g est. " He trusted Lordships would hold that the j ud g ment of The Court of Queen's 'Bench on this subject was correct. In " Comyn's Digest," in page 597, there was the case of "1 1 10 e v, Sir John Moore, and the point there de cided tots that error in fact was not assignable in the xchequer Chamber_ That case was brought before th e Court of Queen's Bench in the case of " Castledyne v. Munday," in 4th Barnewall and Adolphus, p. 97, and the point was also raised in the " Meg v. Wood," in Chitty's Reports." In that case the ground of error Was the separation of the jury before they had given their verdict. There was an application for a new trial, and afterwards a writ of error was brought into the Court of Queen's Bench, and that court gave judgment against the parties who brought the writ of error. `,There was then a .writ of error to the House of Lerds, anal one error assigned was the fact, and the qbes tion put to the judges was, whether the error Was such as to enable' • the House to take int o consideration the error of fact ; and the )udgeS• gave it as their opinion that it was not. The judges ii tided that Parliament could not decide the question. Lord CAMe.BELL — Vi r aS it decided that in a case of coram nobis theaLwas no remedy by writ of error ? The ATTORNEY -GENERAL said that it was. Lord CAMPBELL &might it monstrous that the subject Should h ave uo reme dy if the Court of Appeal decided against of irist him by w rit of error. If there was an assi g n- Ai error eoram nobis it was upon the record. Lord 13notronasr—Was not what was assigned for . error more ministerial than anything else ? p , The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was Lot aware of any other th ese cases upon the subject, and h e merel y mentioned It t ese cases for the purpose of calling the attention of "eir Lordships to them. Now with regard to thelcon alruction to be placed upon the Act of Parliament, he would, in the first place call their Lo rdshi p 's attention to th e .i Act 56, G e o. 111. cap. 87. The enact ments of that bei ng e t were intended to apply to all indic tments ; its Object to prevent grand juries in Ireland from returning dills without examining witnesses. 'Then came tho Act `of the Ist and_ 2d Victoria, cap. 37, and he wished tb di -leet their Lordships' attention, to the preamble of this ct, more particularly after wh had fallen fro or n? the L ord Chief Justice of the Commo at n Bette that morning 111 giving jud g ment, before their Lordships. The re c ould be no doubt but that the proper way to cons true an Act • of Parliament was to look at the preamble and enact rents, and co ll ec t from them the intentions of th e Legis ture. Now the preamble said that after the passing of that Act was, no bill should be returned to a grand jury unless the witnesses had been sworn; and it went on to a w a y , " Whereas the viva voce exa mination of witnesses very salutary, and whereas g reat dela y had crisen e rn swearing them in cour t, for the re medy' thereof, this Act ha d been made." And it then went on to enact that in all eases of bills of indictment sent up to grand juries in Ireland, before such hill should be sent up the clerk of the Crown at assizes or th e clerk of the peace at q uarter sessions, shall be en dorse upon the back of the indictment the names of wit tresses, and the grand jury were e sithorised to examine s uch persons upon oath, to be administered by the fore -44111 or one of the jury.. The enactiuy, part went on, af ter reciting that the oath so administered was to be in lieu of the oath required by the Act of Geo. HI., to , I . * het " th a t no foreman or juryman shouldexamin e an y t he whose name was not so entered. T he clerk of e Crown had in this case endorsed on the back of the Ledietment the names of the witnesses, and the question "Is if when the clerk of the Crown of the Court of Qu'een's Bench in Dublin had endorsed the names of the Witnesses on the back of the indictment, and those wit lasses had been sworn and examined before the grand jury,ry, if' the provisions of the law had not been comp lied With?. 17e would refer their Lordships to th e case of Doe and Brandy," 7 Barnewall and Cresswell, p. 643, as to the manne r in which Acts of Parliaments were t o be s ulastru e s. I t was th e re laid down that to construe 'i s n Act o f P ar li amen t, it w as necessary to take the con - Z e ti°o, not only of the preamb le, but of the whole ; and when a clause was more extensive than the tinroeEumb le, they would put the more extend ed interprets upon it, if necessary, to give the Act effect. Now . :',ere they found that the object was the substitution of ;Ts 13ill for the Acts of the 56th Geor 111. The prof also at the end said nothing about the clerk of the Crown at the assizes, or the clerk of the peace at quarter ses -81"o ; b • ut simply said, "the clerk of the pea ce or the clerk of the C; own." The object of the Legislature was r s ubstitute ones mode of swearing for anoth er, and it Was intended to t ,pply to all indictments. There was another view to be t s :ken of the case, which was, that, liltieeordin to strict legal :weaning, the Clerk of the Crown thethe Queen's Bench Duislin, was in fact the clerk of _„.._a . .ssize. In the case of tbe " King and the Justices e ' Al e Al e iddlesex," 3d Barnewall anst Adolphus, p. 300, in a in which the Sheriffs of Midd.'esex applied for com raraiisation for the lo ss o f gao l f e es, under an Act of Par ent which stat e d th a t suc h c ompensation should be assessed by the justices at quarter sessions, subject to tale toa ward of the judges of the assize, the justices refused award compensation. on the ground that there were 'l3 ...lodges of assize in Middlesex, and no judges of as pr, whether Pc' th r e Y Court of The question then arose, the assizes for Queen's Bench was not ofs the county of Middlesex, and whether the Jud ges that Court were not the judges of assize. Tenter den, Judaea o f in giving judgment, said that the Ju , the Court of Queen's Bench and of the Court Cesiu m) c o. n P leas were the judges of assize for the of Middlesex within the meaning of the Act of Tio ti t i " ; ln u t e Y en' s Then, if that were disk case, and the Court Bench was the proper Court of Assize, then provisions of the Act had been literally complied Le gislature, coi with. ,They found, , therefore, the intention of the Le neidin„ with the strict legal meaning de and he thought their Lordships would of dthee e that the assizes mere, in legal parlance, in THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1844. that instance, sitting in the Court of Queen's Bernch. There were a great number of other cases, which showed that the Court of Queen's Bench was a court of assize. Ile would only make a few observations upon what had been said with regard to the counts of the indictment, as his Learned Friend, the Attorney-General for Ire land, would deal more at large upon that point. Ho would contend that it was immaterial even if there were, bad counts in the indictment ; but he was prepared to argue that all the counts in this indictment were good and valid counts. He would contend that the offence' was but one-, though it was laid in different ways. He would first call the attention of their Lordships to that, count which charged the defendants with con spiring to bring into contempt the tribunals esta blished for the administration of the law in Ire land, and to diminish the confidence of her Ma-. jesty's liege subjects in them. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to a case in page 678 of the 6th volume of Term Reports, and to other cases, to show that there was a distinction between an indictment for a conspi racy, and an indictment against an individual. He asked. was, or was not, the charge laid in the eighth count, namely, the conspiracy to bring into contempt the tri bunals of the country, an indictable offence? His Hon. Friend said, that reform might be made in the law, that persons might league together to make those re forms—to reform the. Ecclesiastical Courts for instance. He (the Attorney-General) did not dispute that, but he said it was an indictable offence for parties to conspire and confederate to bring into contempt the tribunals of the country as by law established. He begged on this point to refer their Lordships to the observations made by Mr. Justice Buller, in the case of the King v. Wat son, 3d Term Reports, p. 196. His Learned Friend, put the case of a number of persons meeting together, and agreeing to write down the Court of Star Chamber, and he then put the case of the abuses which prevailed in the Court of Queen's Bench and the Court of Common Pleas, amongst the judges of the land, in the time of the Stuarts, and he read a pas sage from a work of the Right Hon. Gentleman in the other House, in which he, in strong terms of vitupera tion, attacked the'courts of justice of that time. But he (the Attorney-General) would contend that, with re gard to the Conrt of Star Chamber, and with re gard to those bad times, it was not a mode of trying what .persons were justified in doing at present. His Learned Friend might just as well have said that they were now indebted for the liberties they enjoyed to the army of the Prince of Orange, and to the employ ment of that army by the gentry of England against the King. If the abuses that prevailed were put down by force of arms, yet it was a means beyond the law ; and though we may feel that men were then justified in re sorting to them, transgressing the law and going beyond it, for the purpose of redressing their grievances, yet it did not follow that at the present day parties were at liberty to take the same means of bringing the constituted authorities of the coun try into contempt. Suppose a conspiracy was ,formed, of which the overt acts were publications of a nature that would bring the Constitution into con tempt, would not that be an offence. This count of the indictment charged a conspiracy to bring into hatred and contempt the administration of justice. That count could be proved if it should be established that the parties had poured fourth a succession of libels having that intention; beyond all doubt this would be an indis putable offence. But his Learned Friend said if persons did honestly believe that the Court of Queen's Bench now was in the same bad state as in the time which had been mentioned, they were entitled to meet together, and combine, in order to write it down. This he wholly denied, and when his Learned Friend said that if they honestly believed such to be the case they had a right to meet for that purpose, let them ob serve what it would lead to. Where was the distinction to be drawn ? In the same way, parties might honestly believe that it would be for the benefit of the public to conspire in the same manner against the Houses of Lords and Commons ; for the same reasons they would be jus tified in writing them down. In the attempt to reform the institutions of the country, persons were not jus tified in meeting together to conspire to bring into hatred and contempt, above all with respect to an authority which could not be brought into disrepute s ithout sapping the foundations of the Constitution. Were their Lordships prepared to say that this was no crime, or that any number of persons might meet to gether for the purpose of writing down the tribunals of the country, and bringing them into contempt and dis repute ? Lord CAMPBELL—You should take the whole of the count which lays the charge of bringing the tribunals of the country into disrepute, for the purpose of having others substituted for them. That is certainly much like what we call law reform. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the - count did not state certain of the tribunals of the country, but the tribunals, Lord CAMPBELL—That others may be constituted ; it may be that those others are to be constituted by Act of Parliament. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the statement in the count was that parties unlawfully conspired, for the purpose of inducing her Majesty's subjects to withdraw their business from the tribunals of the country. It was not that these tribunals were to be swept away and others substituted. The existing tribunals in Ireland are to remain ; but the conspiracy was to shake their founda tions, by . bringing them into disrepute, and withdrawing their business from them. -- Lord CAMPBELL—The courts are to remain ; but a concurrent jurisdiction is to be given to new ones, and there is an incitement to the people to leave the old ones and come to the new. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was not for him to argue with his Lordship ; but he supposed, if the exist ing tribunals were to continue, they were, at the same time, to be brought into disrepute and contempt. Lord BROUGHAM said it would have made the count quite clear, if it had said these new tribunals were to have been constituted by other means than by Act of Parliament. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL continued. There was only other count to which he wished to call their attention. It was the sixth, which charged the meeting in large numbers, and, by demonstrations of great physi cal force, to make changes in the law. It was objected that the count did not distinctly state who was to be intimidated, or how the intimidation was to be effected. He submitted that that was not neces sary. The allegation was that the parties conspired together to cause a large number of persons to meet toge ther, with a view of procuring a change in the law. The Learned Counsel then referred to the case of The Queen v. Eccles. In that case certain persons conspired toge ther by divers indirect means to prevent a certain person from carrying on the business of a tailor. The Court was of opinion that it was not necessary that the means should be set out. In the case of the King v. Gill, Ist Barnewall and Alderson, the parties were charged with combining and conspiring together, by divers means, unlawfully to obtain possession of large sums of Money. Lord Tenterden said that the indictment was sufficient, as the gist of the offence was the conspiracy. The Learned Counsel mentioned another case, in which certain persons were indicted for a conspiracy to de fraud divers of her Majesty's subjects. The Court of Queen's Bench were of opinion that the count was good without stating who the persons to be defrauded were. So with regard to the persons to be intimidated. Here was a conspiracy to collect together great masses of the people, with a view to pro. cure a change in the law ; and the inti midation was used against all persons and all bodies who might oppose and resist a. change in the law. It was not necessary that the count should state against whom the intimidation was to be directed. Lord CAMPBELL—It is said, on the other side, that the intimidation might be that of a highwayman, or of persons seeking to intimidate the Legislature. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that would not aliply . to a count which referred to an attempt to change the law Lord BROUGHAM—Mr. Kelly argued in this way.. There is a body of people coming down to prevent the Legislature from doing what it is minded to do. Then would very loyal people take part with the Legislature, and preserve to them free liberty of action, by intimidating the intimidators. The ArroRNEY-GENERAL said he did not suppose for a moment that their Lordships would adopt that view. I He would now leave this case after referring to the form I of the recognisances. His Learned Friend said that if a person remained six years in prison, he might then come out of prison without entering into recognisances. The object of recognisance was, that the person so imprisoned, should not be let out of prison until he had entered into recognisance to keep the peace—no matter what length of tide he had been imprisoned. He would not trouble the House by further reference to precedents. He submitted that he had shown that this appeal in error must be rejected. Mr. Justice GURNEY suggested that the. Attorney- General had said nothing about the indorsement. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that there were other points upon which his Learned Friend, the Attorney- General for Ireland, would presently address their Lord ships. With respect to the indorsement, he would only say that there was only one error assigned on that point, and that was by Mr. Steele. The indictment could not be affected by that, for the indictment was found before the endorsement could be made. The LORD CHANCELLOR—There is nPo time fixed at all for the endorsement. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL —Certainly not. The-error in fact admitted that the witnesses were all sworn properly before the grand jury, and that the Bill was founded upon that evidence. In conclusion, be sub mitted that he had shown to their Lordships that the verdict was not at variance with the indictment—that it did not find the defendants guilty of more - offences than they were charged with—that there were no grounds for the challenge of the array—and that there was no ground for impeaching the judgment of the court below, because the witnesses were sworn by the grand jury. He sub mitted that their Lordships must decide that there were no grounds whatever for reversing the judgment of the court below. The Hon. and _Learned Gentleman, who was heard for the last few minutes with great difficulty, then withdrew, apparently much exhausted. The Lord. Chancellor and the Judges then retired for a short time. On the return of their Lordships, Mr T. B. C. SMITH (the Attorney-General for Ire land) then proceeded to address their Lordships. He appeared also on the part of the Crown, and he thought it would not be consistent with his duty to occupy their Lordships at any great length, as the case bad been so fully argued by his Learned Friend theAttorney-General. He would endeavour to compress his observations into narrow a compass as possible. Now he would first "t;Pply-"4f to the challenge of the array , a nd he r *hei Lordships came to consider the thought that when .._ I,Z unsupported either by challenge it would be found to ~ _ - "r misconduct substance or form. There was no defau,..... • 16 4 , attributed to the sheriff. The challenge was only to ...- array empannelled by that officer. Now by the 9th section of the Jury Act, to which their Lord ' ships had been referred, the clerk of the peace L having made out the jurors' book, was to de 7 liver it to the sheriff, and - by the 24th section of the same Act, the sheritZ within ten days after the ' jurors' book had been delivered to him, was to make out a special jury list, arranging the persons according to • i their rank, property, and so on; and that the jurylist . so made out by the sheriff was to be the special jury list_ for that year; and there was a special rule in the 11th section, by which the sheriff was not to return the names of any persons not contained in the jurors' book for the then current year, and by the 25th section, where an order was made for a special jury, there was a provision that the officer of the court, who was to strike the special jury, was to appoint a time and place fur that purpose and the statute then provided that the sheriff and under-sheriff should be' required to bring on that day their special jury-list. Now there was no pretence whatever that the provisions he had mentioned had not been properly complied with, and there was nothing to show that the twenty-four jurors, had not been properly selected. In this case there was no default, partiality, or misconduct attributed to the sheriff, and he could not believe that their Lordships would uphold the novel doctrine, that a challenge to' the array was 'to be considered as good when there was no default,partiality, or mis conduct attributed to the sheriff. The law, as laid down in Coke upon Lyttleton, 156 B, is clear and precise upon this subject, and in the same work, 158 A, it was stated that if the array was quashed process should be awarded to the coroners, and if the coroners were indifferent then to persons appointed by the court. This proved clearly that the cause of challenging the array must be some fault in the sheriff, and he would ask the Learned Counsel 'on the other side what would be the nature of the award which he would have entered upon the record if the panel were quashed without fault of the sheriff, and to whom under those circumstances they would have it directed ? This was not an unfair test, for if they set aside the panel returned by the sheriff, the law pointed out the offieer to whom they were to apply. But in this case everything that had been done by the sheriff had been right and correct throughout; and he would ask what award was to be entered on the record? Were they to call on the coroners to return a new panel? Why, they would return the same, and there would be the challenge to the array again. The statute expressly stated that the sheriff was to return no name except he found it in the jurors' book. How was the sheriff then to take upon himself to say, of his own mere motion, that al though he had a jurors book in his possession, returned to him by, the proper officer, he would cancel the jurors' list of 1844, without any order of the court? Why they were .calling upon the sheriff to violate -the Act of Parliament. He must be justified, when he had no jurors' book for 1844, to go to the one for 1843. But how could he take upon himself to decide that the jurors' book de facto for 1844, was not the jurors' book de jure in the case of the, Queen v. O'Connell, although it might be in other cases? In a case of this kind, if there were any fraud in the jurors' book for 1844, ofany ground for saying so, it was a nullity in point of law. The defendants should make application to the Queen's Bench, founded on a proper case, and supported by proper affidavits, and no doubt the court would inter fere. He could not admit that the court would inter-' fere in every case ; but, where it saw a proper case ' it would interfere. He submitted that the chal lenge was' bad ; but if it were capable of being entertained, and they wished to establish the invalidity of the jurors' book, they were bound to raise distinct issues, so as to raise the question of validity or inva lidity. He submitted, as in the present case, there was no pretext for saying- there had been any fault on the part of the sheriff; there was no ground for challenging the array. The Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman then re ferred to the provisions of the Jurors' Act, and the mode in which the Act prescribed that the general list was 'to be made out. The challenge of Mr. O'Connell had admitted that the provisions of this Act had been complied with, except in one particular, namely, that the names were not arranged according to rank and pro perty, and that a list containing all the names arranged according to rank and property was not delivered to the clerk of the peace. Would their Lordships hold that such an averment could be supported if even there was a single name placed out of its proper order? He did not believe their Lordships would hold any such thing. The challenger went on to state that " a paper writing, purporting to be a general list, had been illegally and fraudulently made out by some person or persons unknown." That was the averment in the chal lenge of Mr. O'Connell, but there was a slight variation in the challenges of the other traversers which had been alluded to by his Learned Friend the Attorney-General. [The Learned Gentleman was proceeding when our report left.] MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. The Colonial Postage Bill, the Three- and •a-Half per Cents. Exemption Bill, and the Assessed Taxes Compen sation Bill, passed through Committee and were reported. The Militia Ballot Suspension Bill, the Stock in Trade Bill, and the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. VAGRANTS' REMOVAL BILL. On the motion that the report on this Bill be brought up, Colonel RAWDON said that, under the operations of this Bill, many cases of hardship would occur. He thought it would be a hardship for an Irishman who had lived in this country for a number of years, and had con tributed to the prosperity of the country, to be sent to Ireland in case of his becoming destitute. • Sir J. GRAHAM said this Bill was merely to con tinue for one year more an annual Bill. With respect to the case of hardship instanced by the Hon. and Gal lant Gentleman, he could only say that such hardship might occur to an Englishman residing in Ireland. The subject, however, would be taken into consideration by the Government next year. After a few words from Mr. Palmer, Col. Rawdon, and Mr. Brotherton, the report was brought up. SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved the second reading of this Bill. The Bill having been read a second time, Mr. BLACKSTONE moved that counsel be heard at the bar against the Bill. Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., was then called in, and addiessed the House on the part of the mayor, aldermen, and bur gesses of Sudbury against the passing of this Bill. He contended that the present Bill wholly differed in principle from any former Disfranchisement Bill. It proceeded on the assumption that certain facts which were set forth in a report of some Commission were true, and acting upon this assumption, and without any examina tion of witnesses, it was intended to punish a whole con stituency for offences which were charged upon a portion only of that constituency. This, he contended, was case of peculiar hardship and injustice. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that, in his opi nion, the Learned Counsel who had just addressed the House had failed to make out a case to justify the House in refusing the second reading of this BilL He (the So licitor-General) freely admitted that the extreme step of disfranchisement should not he taken but upon very strong and just grounds. But it bad been clearly and indisputably proved that a majority of the electors of the borough of Sudbury were tainted by corrup tion. He admitted that if this strong fact had not been made clear and indisputable, he would not be enti tled to claim the support of the House to the second reading of the Bill. He (the Solicitor-General) had at that time nothing whatever to do with other cases, how ever analogous. He had singly to do with Sudbury and its corruption, as those corruptions had beer. proved. And if the Bill :passed, as he trusted it would—as he was sure it would—it would undoubtedly act as a warn ing and an example to other places ; and this was one of the greatest advantages that might be expected to accrue from the Bill. It should be particularly impressed upon the recollection of the House, that the Bill which he now proposed was the third Bill for the dis franchisement of this borough that had been brought before that House. Two other Bills of disfranchisement had upon previous occasions passed that House, and been sent thence to the House of Lords, where unfortunately, from one circumstance or another, they had been stopped in their course. And yet. after all. these warnings, there had at the very last election been practices of the most gross and profligate character—thus showing the pre determination of the voters in this borough that their elections should be carried by bribery and bribery alone. No less than three thousand pounds in gold had been received by a clerk and agent of Mr. Dyce Sombre, one only of the candidates, and the whole of this large sum had been expended in the most disgusting mode of bribery, by parties utter strangers to the borough. And yet the just and legitimate expenses attendant upon the election—such as the printers', and other necessary bills, were to this day absolutely un settled. There was a system in Sudbury of the most atrocious character, which it was well-known had ex isted for years and years, and which was this :—When an election was likely to take place every publican opened his house to the world at large. At• each house a large debt was owing for expenses incurred at the last previous election, and which debts always remained unpaid from the close of that election to the time when another was about to take place. These debts were called "fixtures," and they were paid thus. When candidates came down at an election time to offer them selves as candidates for Sudbury ; the first thing they were presented with was a statement of these " fixtures.' If the candidates paid these "fixtures" or debts due from the last election, then they were accepted as candidates, and stood a fair chance of being returned ; but if they declined to pay off these " fixtures," then all they had to do was to pack up and be oft; for no chance would they have of ever repre senting the borough of Sudbury.—(Laughter.) Such was the system—the disgusting system—which prevailed in this notorious and profligate borough. All he asked the House now to do, was to proceed on the evidence in the book now upon the table, and at once to disfranchise a place in which there was no nucleus for honesty and public virtue. Where the franchise thus taken from Sudbury was to be extended to, was not then the question before the House. That was a matter for after consideration ; and therefore, confining himself to the only point strictly before them, he thought Hon. Members could, upon the evidence now before them, have no difficulty in agreeing to the second reading of the Bill for at once disfran chising the borough of Sudbury. Mr. BLACKSTONE felt that if he attempted to op pose this Bill he would not be successful, as the Bill had been taken up by one of the law officers of the Crown, and came with the whole support of the Government. He did not, therefore, feel called upon to make any op ,,n to the Bill, although he did not beli eve th a t th e whole of the e . :l7. th . rs of Sudbury were corrupt. --:*to e on this Bill he On the motion for the C0ma,..... should move, as an instruction to the Vv that the right of voting should be extended to the hun dred in which Sudbury was now situated, which had been the course pursued by the Government with respect to Bassitlaw, that place having been extended to the hundred of East Retford. If he should be unsuccessful in this, he'should take the sense of the House upon the principle of the Bill on the third reading. Mr. TUFFNEL expressed his satisfaction at this having been` introduced.- He trusted that the Govern ment would, on every occasion, do all they could to put down bribery and corruption. He congratulated the Government upon their having introduced the Bill, and he sineerelyhoped that it would be successful. Mr. DILLON BROWNE thought there were other boroughs in the country, besides Sudbury, which ought to be disfranchised on account of bribery and corruption. Mr. W. WYNN thought the House'ought to be con sistent with itself, and proceed at once to pass this Bill. Ile thought the eviden ce w hi c h had been adduced, with respect to this Bill was amply sufficient for the House to act, in legislating on the subject. He looked upon this Bill not merely as a penal but a remedial measure. He thought that no borough had ever exhibited such a sys tem of bribery and corruption as that which had been shown in the borough of Sudbury. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow at twelve o'clock. The House then adjourned until Five o'clock. MONEYAND. COMMERCIAL NEWs'. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales, of which 1,200 were taken by exporters. The rates were steady. Sales 200 Pernams at ad. to 58d., 50 Maranham at 54d., 150. Egyptian at bid. to &id., some Surat at 3d. to 30., and the rest American at 4d. to 74d. for Orleans. Shares were rather healthier, with a good business doing.—Bir mingham Wand Gloucester, 94 ; Dublin, and Cashel, 47; Eastern Counties Registered, 13* ; Glasgow and Greenock, 11* ; Grand Junction, 229 ; Ditto Half, 1141; Great Western Fifths, 23i; London and Brighton, 46i ; Midland Counties, Quarter, 234 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter,lo/ ; South- Eastern, 35* ; Trent Valley, 101 ; Lyons and Avignon, 1/. 18s. 6d. ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,l4. The commercial letters received yesterday from the Bra zils are not of a satisfactory character. Much disappoint ment continued to be expressed at the want of a greater de gree of liberality than has been shown towards Brazilian produce admitted to British ports. A most extended trade would be carried on in our manufactures were but the imposts upon sugar reduced a trifle only. The attempt to introduce into the London market Aus tralian salted meats appears to have met with very indifferent success up to the present time, and there are some who look upon it as a decided failure, and augur no better re sult for the future. We think, however, in reference to the latter, - that whatever may have been the case hitherto, too hasty a decision should not be come to as regards what may be accomplished hereafter, since it is a matter of considerable importance, and in which perseverance would be highly laudable. We pronounce no decided opinion, however upon the subject, and the heat of the climate may be an objection ; but the following informa tion from Mr. Williams, the American Consul, at Sydney, to the Editor of the Herald published there, seems very favour able : " Knowing the solicitude which is felt by this community to learn the result of the salting experiments of the last season, I have much pleasure in stating, that Capton Tabor, of the American whale ship Tuscaloosa, who supplied his ship with colonial salted beef, on his last visit to this port, has informed me that he never had beef on board his ship which gave himself and his crew better satisfaction than that from Sydney. The beef in question was packed with Liverpool salt exclusively, and he thinks might not keep so well for a long voyage as if -St. Übe's salt had been used." The editors of the Sydney Herald say in reference to this communication :—" This beef we understand was cured so far north as the Richmond River. We have also been informed that the colonial beef shipped on board her Majesty's ship North Star was so much approved of, that on her last visit to Sydney she landed all her Deptford cured meat, and filled up with colonial." As respects railway property the circular of a Manchester firm, received to -day', has the following remarks :—" The Government and other dividends coming upon the market along with rents, and the continued difficulty of employing money beneficially, will work favourably for railway adven tures ; moreover, the improving traffic for the last half year, in comparison with the same period of the former, cannot fail to have influence, especially under the increasing abun dance of capital, unrequired, as it is, for other purposes at the present time • The Funds are steady to-day. The dividends are now in course of payment at the Bank, but parties receiving on the first day, except bankers and trustees, are not generally those who have a surplus for re-investment. Consols for Money and Time are 98i to 99. Exchequer Bills realised 745. to 765. premium. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 102/ to I, and the Three per Cents. 994 to I. Bank Stock has been firm at an - improvement to 194, and East India Stock at 284* to 285. The Government broker has bought a small parcel of Consols. Business in the Foreign Market is extremely dull. Mexi can have gone back to 35i for the Five per Cents., and to 15i for the Deferred. Spanish are a dead letter for the pre sent. The Fives are called 23 to i t , and the Threes 33 to Colombian Stock has been at 13i to Belgian Bonds are quiet at 1031, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 61. There has been less business doing in the Railway Shares, but, generally, the holders require very full rates. Birming ham have touched 127 to 128 premium. Great Western are 50* to 504, and Bristol and Gloucester, 16i premium. North Midland are 2 to 3 discount. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock . .. ....... . . ....... 199% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ........»..,.«... 99%* 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 8 % 599 334 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 10234 New 3% per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 7-1634 India Stock Bank Stock far Account ... 199 Consols for Open ng 99 Exchequer Bills, I%d. 130 10001. ..... ..... 74 pm. 5001.. .. ... 76 pre. Ditto 74 put. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 10334 Columbian Bonds Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. .... ........ Ditto for the Account, 36 35504 Ditto Deferred Stock 15% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 ........ Ditto for the'Account. 23 Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account Dutch 2 1 ,6 per Cents a — , Ditto for the Account ..... •“•••••• Dutch 5 per Cent 5................ ....... 100% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PaR SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 9834 to Ditto New 1734 ...... 24% Bristol and Gloucester 3O 46% to Chester and Holyhead 5 ..... 41 to ' Edinburgh__ and Glasgow 5O ..... 62 ...... to Great Western London and Birmingham. lOO .228 , Ditto % Shares London and Brighton 5O 46 to London and Croydon North British North Midland Trent Valley York and North Midland North :9-1:1 Ditto 34 Shares 25 52 to Ditto Scarboro' Branch 'Orleans, Tours, and B ordeaux. .. 1 Fernand Rouen. .... 20 - MANCHESIKR STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY B.—We have o a d n d a o quiet market,and ii without material Manchesterch a change ga and d B i n p Birming ham, c m e n : — Lg - ham, 54 ; Date; Quarters, 31 ' . 7s. and 3/. 7s. 6d. ' • Trent Valley, ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 15-16. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(tHIS DAY.) LONDON, JULY 9.—Wind N.W., light breezes and fine. DEAL, JULY B.—A.M. Wind light andvariable. P.M. S.W. to S.E. and S.S.W.—Arrd. Conrad, Hanns, Rio for Hamburgh ; Potentate,, Sutherland, China; Awe, Whitehead, Calcutta, for Bremen; Protomelia,:. M‘Diamid, Mauritius; John Wil lis, Willis, Demerara; Campbells, Orr, Barbadoes ; Glasgow, Somerville, Quebec. Sld. Pagoda, Cape of Good Hape ;, Pro tector, Eliza Gilles, Fannga Gaingues, and Columbus,. Ichaboe ; Mary Dare, Valparaiso. PORTSMOUTH, JULY B.—Wind W., fine.—Arrd. Euterpe, Hill, Havannah, and proceeded for Cowes ; Choice, Crane, Quebec; her Majesty's ship Camperdown, Sheerness. Sid. Foam, China. Off, Anna, Havannah for Bremen ; Superb, Baltimore for Rotterdam ; Switzerland, Knight, New York. COWES, JULY B.—Arrd. Expedition, Rio; Florentia; Good wyn, Manilla. OFF ST. ALBA.N'S.—Harriet, Newfoundland • , PLYMOUTH, JULY 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Lady. Mary, Bower, Quebec. , FALMOUTH, JULY B.—Wind moderate.—Arrd. off, Isa bella, New York for Bremen ; Recovery, America; Lady Mary; St. John's ; Endymion, Miramichi, for Hull. • OFF FoucgroxE.—Clara, Crowe, Sydney, New South Wale's, Feb. 20. PADSTOW, JULY 7.—Arrd. Voluna, Shippegan. • GLOUCESTER, JULY B.—Sld. Till, Quebec. SWANSEA ' JULY 7.—Arrd. Michael Williams, Bridgeford, Valparaiso, 104 days. PILL, JULY s.—Sld. Independent, Quebec. CORK, JULY 6.—Arrd. Jane, Cunningham Rio Grande ; Lady Falkland, Baker, St. Domingo ; Rapid, Thomas, La guna. Sld. her Majesty's ship Albion, Gibraltar. OFF .CORK, JULY 6.—Lecan, Lima, left Dec. 24, Juan Fer nandez Feb. 24, Flores June 13 ; Lady Colebrooke, Mobile, Theron, Restigouche, Brazilian, Cunningham, Newfoundland. LIVERPOOL, JULY B.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Victoria, Guisby, Tobasco ; Metoka, Rockall, Lancaster, Bahia; Martha Walpole, and Victoria, New Orleans; Alex ander Grant, Mobile ; Lord Seaton, St. Andrew's ; Am broesne, Quebec; Speed, Mobile; Ocean, Charleston; Yazoo, New York. Sld. Lord Elgin, Jamaica; Canada, Africa; Mary Campbell, Vera Cruz; Richard Andrews, Virginia; Melessa, Bay Chaleur. Off, Corsair, Halifax ; Ann Baldwin and Elizabeth Radcliffe, Lima; Denison, Antigua; Amazon, Valparaiso Pluto, IMPORTANT TO MARINERS BOUND TO THE PORT OF NEW GRANADA. The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's o-day British Vice-Consulate, Santa Martha, May 3, 1844. "Sir,—lt is proper to inform you, for the information of merchant vessels bound to the different ports on the coast of New Granada, that it is requisite that they should come with bills of health, signed by the Consul or Vice-Consuls at the port from whence they come. During last month three British vessels have had to undergo quarantine at this port, owing to their having sailed without them. " W. Dobson, Esq." PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the rotes and Proceedmgs`qk Me Howe of CoMMoor.) MONDAY, JULY 8. MIDDLE LEVEL DRAINAGE AND NAVIGATION BILL. Report considered ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Amendments made by the Committee to the Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the words " That the" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " Bill be re-committed," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :" The House divided MAJORITY—AYES,' 116. Allix, Jahn Peter Elphinstone, Howard Mundy, E. M. Bailey, Joseph Estcourt, T. G. B. Napier, Sir Charlea Baring. F. T. Evans, W. Ogle , S. C. H. Baring, Thomas Farnham, E. B. Ord William Barnard, E. G. Flower, Sir James Packe, C. W. Barron, Sir H. Forman, T. Seaton Palmerston, Vis. Beckett, William Forster, Matthew Parker, J. Bellew R. M. Fuller , E. Peel, Jonathan Benett , John Gill, Thomas Philips, G. R. Berkeley, Captain Gladstone, W. E. Rashieigh, Wm. Beuverie, E. P. Gore, Montague Round, John Bright, John Goring, Charles Russell, J. D. W Brisco, M. Greene, T. Sandon, Lord r.roadley, H. Grey, Sir G. Shaw, F. Brotherton, J. Guest, Sir John Sheil, R. L. Buller, 'Sir J. Yarde Hamilton, Lord C. Shirley, E. P. Burrell, Sir C. M. Heathcote, G. J. Somerset, Lord G. Campbell, Sir H. Hodgson, Frederick Sotheron, T. H Cavendish, Hon. G. Houldsworth, T. StuartAV illiers Chapman, Aaron Howard, Lord Strickland, Sir G. Chapman, B. Howlek, Lord Struts, Edward Cholmondeley, Hugh Hughes, W. B. Thesiger, F. Christie, W. D. Hume, Joseph " !homely, Thomas Christopher, It A Humphery, J. Thornhill, G. Cobden, Richard Hatt, W. Trollepe, Sir John Cockburn, Sir G. Irton, Samuel Tumor, C. Colebrooke, Sir T. James, William Vane, Lord Harry Collett, John Kerr, D. Villiers, Charles P. Crawford, W. S. Labouchere, H. Vivian, J. H. Dalrymple, Captain Langston, J. H. Walker, R. Dawson, T. V. Layard, Captain . Wall, B, Denison, E. Beckett Lowther, Hon. Col. Wawn, John T. Dickinson, F. H. Macaulay, T. B. Williams, W. Divett, E. IWGeachy, F. A. Wood, Charles Duncan, George Mangles, R. D. Worsley, Lord Duncombe, T. S. Manners, Lord J. Yorke, R. H. Dundas, Frederick Masterman, John Easthope, John Miles, P. W. S. TELLERS. Eaton, Richard J. Mitcalfe, Henry Pusey, Philip Ebrington, Viscount Morrison James Hayter, W. G. MINORITY-NOES, 26. Bagge, Wm. Copeland, W. Ramsbottom, J Beresford, Major Dougla , i, Sir C. Rushbrooke,Colonet ' Blackstone W. Ellis, Wynn Seymour, Lord Blandford, Marquis Gisborne, Thomas Smyth, Sir G. II Bowes, John Hawes, rt. Town eley, John Bruce, Lord Ernest Hussey, Thomas Wodehouse, Edmond Buller, C. Inglis, Sir R. Carnegie, Captain Knight, Henry Gaily TELLERS. Chute, W. L. w. Lowther, J. H. Jocelyn, Viscount Cole, Hon. H. A. Manners, Lord C. S. Bentinck, Lord G CHEAP LIVING IN CARMARTHENSHIRE.—A friend of ours, who was at Laugharne last week, informs us that a family may reside there quite as cheaply as in France. At present, comfortable houses are to be had from 101. to 151. a year; ducks or fowls, ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. per couple; fine geese, 2s. to 2s. 6d. each ; eggs are now forty for a shilling ; veal, 4cl. per lb. ; mutton or lamb, sd. por lb. ; servants' wages, 31. to 51. per annum ; fish, the same day it is caught, from Id. to 441. par lb. • oysters, in the season, 6d. per hundred; fresh butter sold there last Friday, Bd. per lb. Sea bathing may be enjoyed on very fine sands, near the town. A family may reside at Laugharne for one half the expense that would be incurred at Bath or Cheltenham. — The Silurian. THE GIRLS.—They think on Hymen and can't help sighing. When their lovers forsake them they can't help crying. They sit at the window and can't help spying. Into private matters they can't help prying. To get each a beau they can't help trying. When together their tongues they can't help plying. At the mirror they can't help twist ing, and turning, and trying. They screw up their corsets, bring on the consumption, and can't help dying.—American paper. A new church has been erected in Birmingham, and will be consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, on the 25th instant. The church is dedicated to St. Stephen. GRAND FIELD-DAY IN HYDE-PARK YESTER DAY.—Yesterday (Monday) there was a grand field-day in the large space of ground generally used for such purposes in Hyde-park. The troops on the ground consisted of the Ist and 2d battalions of the Coldstream Guards, making the full strength of that distinguished corps about 980 men ; the 2d and 3d battalions of the Grenadier Guards, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Grant ; the Ist bat talion of this regiment is now at Winchester. Including the bands of both, there were about 1,500 present, and all were under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Walton, of the Coldstream Guards, a gallant officer, who, in addition to many other glorious scenes, witnessed that of Waterloo. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Coldstreams, arrived on the ground at the appointed time. His Royal Highness was mounted on a grey charger, and was attired in the regimentals of the corps, but in undress, viz., blue frock coat, with sash, sword, &c. At about a quarter past eight o'clock the several battalions assembled—the first of the Coldstream coming from Portman-street Barracks, and the second from the Wellington Barracks, St. James'- park. The 2d battalion of the Grenadier Guards came from Charing-cross Barracks, and the third from the present sta tion at St. John's Wood. The usual manoeuvres were then gone through, and lasted for some time, after which the troops returned to their barracks. A grand review of all the troops stationed in London or adjoining will take place shortly, and preparations are now being made very extensively in antici pation of the affair. THE , CHINESE RANSOM.—Yesterday afternoon, shortly after one o'clock, a special train on the South-West ern Railway arrived at the terminus, Nine Elms, containing nine tons and a half of Sycee silver, which bad been brought from Portsmouth under convoy of a detachment of the 47th Regiment of Foot. The above specie is part of the money agreed upon by the Chinese Government to be paid to this country for the ransom of Canton, and arrived at Portsmouth a few days ago in her Majesty's ship Childers. The specie was conveyed in seven of her Majesty's Artillery vans to the Mint. • NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.—PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY. —Telegraphic orders by the Semaphore were received this morning from the Admiralty for the St. Vincent, 120, Capt. R. F. Rowley, to prepare immediately for sea, and to be ready for sailing by four, P.M., when her orders would arrive. She is new taking in a supply of provisions and water. At one, P.M., 150 additional marines, with two officers, embarked on board her, and 160 able seamen were sent from the Vic-' tory and Excellent, which were sent to Spithead in the Rocket and Echo steamers. The Commander-in-Chief's flag will be removed to the Excellent pro tem. She is or dered to Gibraltar. The (long expected) Camperdown, 104, Captain Martin, has just anchored at Spithead ; her officers and crew will be turned over to the Queen forthwith, ,she being ready for their reception. ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH RAILWAY .—This morning (Saturday), shortly before six o'clock, an accident occurred at the station here of the most alarming kind, but most providentially, and it was like an especial interposition of Prodence, no lives have been lost. About half-past five o'clock in the morning a great number of trucks, loaded with large stones and bricks, were prepared at Cowlairs to be brought down the incline by three breaks. By some great misfortune, either seven or nine of the trucks were shoved forward and on to the incline. They immediately began to move downward, of course, and although, as we understand, one poor fellow leaped on a break, which was forward, to try to stop their ownward course, all his efforts were unavailing, and the carriages came rushing down the incline with an appalling speed which no one can describe, the rails, as they neared, being actually on fire. There was no human power now to stop them, and down they came, three of the fore most running right through the centre of the large station house, through both walls, and out at the front, into the door of the bar of the North British Hotel, on the opposite side of the passage. There was no person in the station-house, and no one was hurt. The breaksman leaped off, we believe, and was injured, but how he escaped with life in such cir cumstances, is more than we can understand. There were in all nine or ten waggons, we learn, came down the incline, six of which were smashed to atoms. The gratitude of every person in witnessing the effects of the accident was that no lives were lost.—Glasgow Constitutional. ACCIDENT BY FIREARMS.—Last evening a frightful accident, from the use of firearms, occurred to a lad, named William Haycock, aged 15 years, the son of a master baker residing in Pomeroy-street, Old Kent-road. It appears that having procured a small pocket pistol, he had loaded it with swan shot, when not being able to fix the percussion cap he got a stone, and incautiously began to knock it on, when the pistol suddenly went off, and the whole of its contents lodged SUBMARINE OPERATIONS.---011 Thursday week, in his thigh, lacerating his flesh in a frightful manner. He the smack Argyle, of Jersey, belonging to a company in the was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where he was immediately West of England, arrived in Castletown-bay, Isle of Man, attended to by Messrs. Cocks and Callaway, the surgeons, with a celebrated diver, apparatus, &c., for the purpose of who extracted a considerable number of shot, but in conse taking up the brass guns and other parts of the wreck of the quence of the severe nature of the wound considerable doubts Racehorse sloop-of-war , lost on Langness-point, about 21 are entertained of his recovery. years ago. On Wednesday last a great number of people, FATAL EFFECTS OF FRIGHT ON A HORSE.--A few gentle and simple, were out at Langness, looking at the diver. days ago, a man in the act of backing a horse and cart into The weather was beautiful, and there were persons sailing on th e s ea at Deal, near the Walmer-road, whith a view, it is that day who had not been on the water for many years. supposed, of training it to draw a bathing machine, found There was not a single boat left in the harbour. The diver the animal manifest so strong a reluctance to approach the has succeeded, with the assistance of the crew of the Argyle, water as to tremble from head to foot. Unfortunately the in taking up about 30 tons of pig-iron, a large quantity of man persisted in urging back the horse, which had hardly copper, and a large anchor and chain. The diver was under reached the water when it dropped down perfectly lifeless. Water three hours at one time on Wednesday.—lsle of Man The animal is said to have been worth twenty guineas paper s Dover Telegraphs MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) U.s.y MARKETS. SMITIWIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41; 'use ful ditto, 4/ 4s to 4/ 8s; fine Upland ditto, 4/ lOs to 41 15s; Clover Hay, 5/ to 6/ 10s; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14 s t o . 1/ 16s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at barely last week's quotations. CUMBERLAND.--Course Meadow Hay 31 15s to 414 s ; use ful ditto, 4/ 5s to 4/ 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4l 14s to 5/ ; Clover Hay, 5/ to 6l ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/; use fal ditto, 4/ 4s to 4l 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ lOs to 4/15s ; Clover Hay, 5/ to 6/ 125.; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14a to 1116 s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. New Meadow Hay was selling at from 31 to 4/ per load. comornam. SUOAR.—There has been rather more business doing in British Plantation, at previous prices ; 600 casks have been sold, inclusive of those brought to auction. The public sales have consisted chiefly of 113 casks Barbadoes, 8,056 bags 86 cdsks Mauritius, 3,913 bags Manilla, 275 baskets Java, and 901 boxes Havannah and Cuba. The Barbadoes went off very heavily, but mostly sold at a further decline of ls, viz., mid to fine yellow, at 58e 6d to 65s 6d. Nearly all the Mauritius found buyers at 55s to 60s for low to very good yellow, and low to fine ditto at 46s to S4s 6d, being inmost instances a reduction of folly ls. The Manilla and Java sold, the form& at 13i sa to 16s for very low soft to mid dry brown, 18s 6d for mid greyish YelloW ditto, and the latter at 17s 6d to 23s for mid brown to low strong white, all of which are about previous prices. All the Havannah were also disposed of (excepting 160 boxes low to mid white Cuba, which were taken in at 27s 6d to 30s 6d, being above the value) at 17s to 20s 6d for good brown to fine greyish yellow, which are likewise about former rata The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,098 hhds, 101 trcs, 417 brls. The imports of British Plantation sugar into London this year, to the' 31st inst., are 38,022 hhds, 4,458 trcs, agai nst 32,279 hhds, 3,801 trcs at this time last year. The stoc k in London is 16,231,hhd5, 2,455 trcs, a E 1 526 bags Ceylo n an d 7 0 b ags L a G uayra, East 443 offered by auction , w ere ne arly all taken in at 503 to 52s for good d t hhds' are large r . 1,887 tr cs a t t hi s t i me l ast year. The COFFEE. - 1, 526 pale to mid coloury. Ditto, Plantation kind, and fine ord even palish La Guay ra, at 46 5. The stock of British Plan tation in London on the Ist inst. was 4,294 hhds, 4,005 brls and bags, against 3,08211114 1,966 brls and bags at the s ame sgtocaiksns o t r oflo very India good ord. Ceylon, 63s to 93s for fine ord time last year. . The import this year have increased about half. COCOA.-17 4 bags Grenada at auc ti on were c hi e fl y t a k en in at 36s to 42s for mid to good red, being about the compa rative value. Rum.—The q uantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks is 73 puns. The stock in London on the Ist inst. was 11,683 puns 8,211 hhds, against 16,010 puns 5,444 hhds at this time in 1843, RICE.- 3,600 bags Madras, all sold at a decline of nearly 6d, viz., at 7s 6d to 8s 6d for ord to good. SALTPETRE.-1,226 bags Bengal found buyers at 24s to 25s 6d, one lot 26s for 10 to 4i per cent. refraction, being the extreme value. TALLOW.—P Y.C. is 41s to 41s 6d per cent. on the spot, and Town 43s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market is quiet, but the consumption is tole rably good. INDIGO.—The public sales of 13,146 chests, commenced this morning, but as they will last several days, it is too early to give an opinion. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Wtt ptnton. " Who runs may read." 0 ILEIG2C. A fire broke out at Algiers on the 26th, which destroyed property, a considerable. portion of which belonged to the Government, to the amount of 52,0001. . , The last aelvices receivedfrom Oran at Marseilles announce that the Emperor Abd-er-Rhtimon has formally disavowed the hostilities commenced against France, and that El- Guenioni has notified to the tribes on the frontier that it is expedient to relinquish the pretension of removing the fron tier of Morocco to the Tafna. The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th says :—"The last ac counts from the west continue most favourable. Since the brilliant combat on the 15th-of June, no act of hoitility has been committethbY the Moorish chiefs, who have retired with their troops several days' marches behind Ouchda." La Presse, in its correspondence from Toulon, says that Abd-el-Kader had received from the son of the Emperor of Morocco a supply of 6,000 English muskets, with instructions for artillery service, printed in Arabic and English. A letter from Trieste says that the Emperor of Russia having recognised the Constitutional Government of Greece, diplomatic relations are to be renewed with that State. M. Persiani, on the part of Russia, has communicated the fact to the corps diplomatique., It is reported that M. Doschkow, the Consul-General in - Moldavia, would go to Athens as Russian Ambassador. M. Persiani is recalled. M. Fokk is appointed Russian Consul-General in Egypt. A letter, says the Paris Presse, from Rio Janeiro, of the 10th of May, states that the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs has informed the foreign Consuls that the treaty con chided with England eight years - ago, which expires on the Ist of November, will not be renewed, Arrangements made afterwards extended this treaty to France, consequently from the 2d of November the duties on all goods imported from Europe will be raised to 50 or even 60 per cent. ad valorem, and that not the original value, but the value in Brazil— that is to say, with freight, insurances, and other expenses included. Such an increase of duty is equivalent to a pro hibition, and no doubt if it be so maintained it will exercise a disastrous influence on our (French) exportations. We learn from Cuxhaven that the body of • Mrs. Smith, who lost her life in the wreck of the Manchester, has been taken up near Kronprinzen Krong, and landed there. LAW AND POLICE. In the Common Pleas an action was brought by Mr. An derson, a horse-dealer, against Mr. Elmore, to recover the price of two horses which the plaintiff had sold to defendant. The horses were warranted, and the defence was 'that there had been a breach of the warranty, as the horses were un sound.. The defendant paid into Court 611., the price which one horse fetched, after deducting the expenses of the sale at Aldridge'a Repository, and 41. the sum the carcase of the other horse, who had died, had fetched. Evidence was given of the unsoundness of the horses by Sir W. W. Wynn, Mr. Mason, the steeple-chase rider, and a veterinary surgeon, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 3151. At Marylebone Police-court, John Brown was charged be fore Mr. Long with having attempted to stab a man, named Matthew Delahey, residing in Crawford-place, Bryanston square. Complainant stated that on Saturday last, as he was proceeding along the Alpha-road, Regent's-park, the prisoner cried out in a bond voice, "Clear the way." Com plainant, not knowing what was the matter, jumped off the foot-path into the road, when the prisoner pursued him, car rying in his hand an open clasp-knife, with which he twice tried to stab complainant. He fortunately escaped being in jured. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that he had been drinking with a brother whom he had not seen for some years before, and he had no knowledge of having acted wrong. Mr. Long fined the prisoner 5/. ; in default of pay ment, two months' imprisonment. At Worship-street, a very respectable-looking young man, but whose name was not given, was brought before Mr. Bing ham upon a charge of assaulting one of the officers of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. A railway inspector said that the defendant, who bad come up from Essex, had behaved in a very extraordinary way, but he believed that the unfortunate gentleman was insane. His friends live at Witham, in Essex, and he is by profession a surgeon. The defendant being asked if he wished to say anything, replied that he was guilty of everything that they said against him, and ready to submit to any punishment, and, in return, he asked the Magistrate if he ;was a ventriloquist? Mr. Bing ham directed that he should be detained until he could pro cure bail, two sureties in 25/. each, and he was removed in custody. When in the cell, he addressed an incoherent letter to Sir Robert Peel, signed," Ellison Spencer Douglas Grove." COUNT-TASEKION.II23ZE. The Earl and Countess of Eldon entertained at dinner last evening, at their mansion in Hamilton-place, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, Lady Harriet Paget, the Misses Paget (two), the Hon. Ridley Colborne, M.P., Mr., Mrs., and Miss Farrer, Mr. Obler Farrer, Mr. Tay lor, and Mr. Baddeley. Lord Bateman entertained a small party to dinner at his Lordship's residence on Sunday, in Portman-square, among whom were Earl Spencer, the Earl of Oxford, Lord Harley, Lord Rodney, Mr. Arkwright, Mr. Knight, and Capt. Main waring. Lord and Lady Sydney left Cleveland-square on Monday for Dover, en route to Germany. Lord Eliot and Lady Jemima Eliot entertained a large party at dinner on Saturday last. The party consisted of the Earl and Countess of Glengall, Lord and Lady Georgiana Bathurst, Viscount Eastuor, Lord and Lady Sondes and the Hon. Miss Mulles, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, Lord James Butler, Mr. Maxwell, M.l'., Mr. Lushington, and Mr. Leslie. The Marchioness of Normanby has left the Clarendon Hotel, on a visit to Lord and Lady Ravensworth, at their villa, Percy's Cross, on the banks of the Thames, where a select family party has assembled. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and a distinguished party, were entertained at dinner, on Saturday last, by Mr. Harcourt, at his residence, in St. James's-place. Mr. and Mrs. Standish Standish entertained at dinner, on Friday last, the Marquis of Huntly, Viscount Northland, Lord and Lady Aylmer, Lady Morgan, Sir John and Lady Gerard, Mr. and Mrs. D'lsraeli, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Wilson Patten, Count Koudriaffsky, &c. Mrs. Standish had a soiree afteriards. VEXSCZIMANZOI7S. Mr. Richard Spooner has accepted the invitation of the Tories to come forward as a candidate for Birmingham. Di- vision, we regret to say, still exists among the Liberals, and both Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Sturge are canvassing the electors. " On Saturday morning," says a writer in the Warder, " Mr. O'Connell commenced his great literary labour—his 'Life and Times,' or by what other style and title his projected autobiography is to be distinguished, employing Mr. O'Neill Daunt as his amanuensis." A great deal of dissatisfaction has been caused with respect to the recent promotions to the office of Landing Surveyors, in consequence of two of the gentlemen who have been for tunate enough to obtain the appointments having been passed over the heads of several officers :of acknowledged talent and undeniable probity, who have been acting in the vacancies caused by the recent dismissals, &c., for alconsider able period, and who, therefore, expected to be promoted in their proper turns, according to the established rule and prictice. The works for the new harbour at Aberdeen have been contracted for by Messrs Oldham, builders and railway con tractors, of Cheltenham. The sum is 99,660/. When com pleted, the new harbour will be one of the most commodious in the kiagdom. Last night the Philharmonic Society concluded a brilliant season, the most brilliant that it has had for many years. The royal and noble directors have officially appointed Mr. Loder leader of the Ancient Concerts, in place of Mr. Francois Cramer, resigned. THE laorz TRADE.—As an instance of the in. creasing briskness of the above trade, we may mention that the shipping agent, at Newport, of a large establishment on the hills, in one day last week received by post aclvices of charter parties, for cargoes to be shipped, amounting to 3,000 tons of railway iron. The rails are chiefly for Charleston, S. C. Monmouthshire Merlin. - - OPENING OF LETTERS:.OII• Thursday last, at Cupar, before Mr. Sheriff Jamieson, a young woman was charged, at the instance of the oint Procurators-Fiscal, with contravening the statute of 1 Victoria, cap. 36, sec. 25, in having, while in charge of the post-office in a village in the country, on the 6th day of May last, opened a post letter which had been put in there. She pleaded guilty, and her agent, Mr. M‘Glashan, stated several circumstances in mitigation of punish ment, and produced certificates of her good character. The sheriff in pronouncing sentence stated, that he believed she had opened the letter out of thoughtless curiosity; but that there was nothing more sacred than letters put into the Post-office; that the arrangements of our Post-office were guarded by Act of Parliament, which made severe punish ment applicable to offenders against its laws, and hence its present efficiency. He therefore sentenced her to pay a fine of 5/., or to be imprisoned for sixty days. The fine was im mediately paid.—Scottish Record. ACCELERATION OF THE NORTHERN MAlLS.—Yes terday the mails from the General Post-office, conveying newspapers and letters to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and places beyond those cities, were accelerated by the command of the Noble Earl at the head of the department. It has been stated that the morning and evening mails would leave London one hour earlier than heretofore, in order to give to the above places additional deliveries ; but this, it appears, is not the fact. The mails will leave London at the same hour, morn ing and evening, as formerly, and we were yesterday (Monday) informed at the General Post-office, that the additional advantages to the northern districts, which have been for some time in contemplation, will be secured through the following means: :—According to the old practice, the mail-bags to Edinburgh, and those also which have to be forwarded beyond that city by cross-road mails, were dispatched at eight in the evening from the General Post-office, thence to the ter minus of the Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways to Lancaster, where they arrived at fifty-one minutes past seven the following morning. At twenty minutes past eight a.m., they were forwarded by coach to Carlisle, and thence to Edinburgh, arriving there at forty-three minutes past one a.m., thus occupying twenty-nine hours and forty-three minutes in the transitfrom London to Edinburgh. Yesterday, instead of their being forwarded by Lancaster, they were dispatched to Newcastle (north), and thence to Carlisle by the newly opened railway, thus saving upwards of an hour, the whole distance to Edinburgh being completed within twenty-nine hours. The morning mails from London will be dispatched at nine o'clock a.m., as usual, from the General Post-office ; but, instead of arriving at Edinburgh at twenty five minutes past two p.m., on the ensuing day, it will reach its destination shortly after one o'clock. To effect this great improvement, arrangements have been satisfactorily c on .. eluded with the London and Birmingham, the Grand Junc tion, the North Union, and the Newcastle and Carlisle lines of railway. The above acceleration of the mail bags will also allow of more time for posting in Scotland, and also per mit of bags being brought from a great er di stance round Edinburgh and Glasgow, for delivery along the line, and in the metropolis and its environs. THE RING or SAXONY.—On Sunday his Majesty the King of Saxony, attended by his usual suite, visited the city of Bristol, and proceeded'to the Bath Hotel, Clifton. His Majesty, after attending I?ivine service, proceeded to view the various beauties of Clifton, and was, as we under stand, particularly struck with the romantic grandeur of St. Vincent's rocks. This morning he proceeded to view the steam-ship Great Britain, on board which his Majesty was received by the Right Worshipful the Mayor (Mr. W. L. Clarke), Captain Claxton, R.N.; Mr. T. It Guppy, Civil Engineer; and Capt a i n Elt on, by whom his Majesty was conducted through every portion of the ship, which excited the most marked commendations from the Royal per sonage, who expressed repeatedly his astonishment at her stupendous size, and the massive and powerful machinery with which she was fitted. His Majesty then to Leigh Court, the se at o f M•P. r J, proceeded which has been so often visited by Royalty. 7'nere he viewed the superb gallery of paiatino; and paiook of a d(jeuner. On Monday —.Lig, it is understood, his Majesty would depart for I Wales, to view the Dowleis Ironworks, the property of Sir J.. Guest. THE LYCEUM. A dramatic version of Boz's popular tale" Martin Chuzzle wit," was brought out for the first time last night at this amusing little theatre, and was received throughout with considerable applause.. The drama is, we understand, from ,the pen of Mr. E. Stirling, and the main incidents of the story have been put together with no or di nar y s kill. Th e eharacters, too, .for the most part, were sustained with great ability :—Mr. Frank Matthews as Pecksniff, with his hair standing up in three separate " Brutus's," was the engraving animated for the occasion: Tom Pinch's bald head sur rounded by the fringe of hair was perfection. This same Tom was delicately acted by Meadows, but there is no opportu nity of realising the Tom Pinch of the book. Mr. Keeley is Mrs. Gamp, and his sentimentality is capital ; Mrs. Keeley is the boy Bailey, and dashes through it with hilarious flip pancy. The ruffian Jonas is played by Mr. Emery, who dis plays a great deal of talent of somewhat a coarse kind, and has evidently studied the varieties of the character as a surly brute 'and as a sanguinary murderer. Mr. Wigan, being a clever'actor of fops, shines forth as Tig ; Miss Fortescue is gentle and amiable as Mary; 'while Mr. Vining has nothing but walking gentleman's work to do in young Martin. We must not forget a meritorious performer named Turner, who plays Nadget, with an excellent conception of the sneaking peculiarities of the spy, while he has a tendency to push the eccentricities into caricature. There are no great deviations from the story, but the scenes in America are omitted. The grand stage effect of the piece is the view of London -bridge wharf, with a built steamer, and a lighter that glides along the water, and receives goods from a crane. This scene, with all the attendant' bustle; is very cleverly managed: WILL OF THE LATE THOMAS CAMPBELL. We have been favoured with a copy of the will of this dis tinguished poet, which we subjoin. The personal property, we understand, has been sworn under 2,0001., and will pro bably not realise more than 1,5001. "This is the last will and testament of me, Thomas Camp bell, LL.D., now resident at No. 8, Victoria-square, in the county- of Middlesex. "Whereas, under and by virtue of the will of Archibald Macarthur Stewart, late of Ascog, deceased, my only son, Thomas Telford Campbell, will, upon my decease, be entitled to a certain sum of money, which I deem a competent provi sion for him : I do not, therefore, intend to make any provi sion for him by this my will. " I give and bequeath the silver bowl, presented to me by the students of Glasgow when I was Rector of that Univer sity, and the copy of the portrait of her Majesty Queen Vic toria, which was sent to me by the Queen herself (and which two articles I reckon the jewels of my property), and also all and every my manuscripts and copyrights of my composi tions, whether in prose or verse, and the vignettes which have illustrated my poems, and also all and every my books, prints, pictures, furniture, plate, money, personal estate, and effects whatsoever and wheresoever whereof I may die pos sessed, after and subject to the payment of my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, which I do direct to be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease,,unto my niece, Mary Campbell, the daughter of my deceased brother, Alexander Campbell, late of Glasgow, for her own sole and separate use and benefit. " And I do hereby appoint my staunch and inestimable friend, Dr. William Beattie, of No. 6, Park-square, Regent's park, in the said county of Middlesex, and William Moxon, of the Middle Temple, Esq., to be executors of this my will, and also to act as guardians to my said son ; and I revoke all former and other wills and testamentary dispositions by me at any time heretofore made, and declare this only to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand, the seventh day of November, 1842, " THOMAS CAIIPBELL. " Signed, published, and declared by the testator, Thomas Campbell, as and for his last will and testament, in the pre sence of us, present at the same time, who in his presence and at his request have subscribed our names as witnesses, " EDWARD CLIFFORD, 9, Ranelagh-grove, Pimlico " HENRY MOXON, 67, Ebury-street, Eaton-square." THE WAVERLEY BALL.--Last night this ball took place at Willis's Rooms, and there were between 1,200 and 1,300 personages of rank and fashion present. We have only Aline to observe that it was the most superb public ball ever given in 'this metropolis. • Owing ,to the late hour at which our informant left the ball, we must defer until to morrow a more extended report of this magnificent fete. DRUNIiENNESS AND DEATH AT FAIRLOP FAIR.— On Sunday evening, Harriet Milwood, a middle-aged female, who with her husband kept a large toy stall at Fairlop fair, and who had been in the habit of going to different fairs to follow the same occupation, drank to such excess as to be come much intoxicated. Her husband and herself had, in Consequence, some words, when the latter declared she would. stop on the ground no longer, and managed to get into a light cart for the purpose of going home. When about to drive away, her husband, who had suffered much from her conduct during the evening, exclaimed with much fervour % " I wish you may break your neck before you get home." The wretched woman took no notice of the observation, nor did she make any reply, but she had not driven away more than two hundred yards when she tumbled out of the vehicle, and falling with considerable force on her head, actually broke her neck, and in a few moments was a corpse. Her body was removed first to a booth on the ground, and afterwards to a public-house in Barking side, to await a coroner's inquest. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—We have seen letter, dated Van Dieman's Land, Feb. 14, and addressed to a party in this city, in which the writer, who has frequent opportunities of hearing of these exiles, says they are all well in health and spirits, and owing to recent alterations in the convict system are now at liberty in the colony, and are con sequently free to dispose of their labour as they please.— Bath Journal. STEAM.—" Talk about your northern steam-boats," said a Mississippi fireman the other day, "you haint had a biler burst for five years. Don't require no spunk to navi gate them waters, any fool can do it ; but it takes a man, stranger, to ride one of these here aligator boats head on. to a sawyer, high pressure and the valve soldered down 600 passengers on board, and every soul end angere d.”— , lifax paper. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS:T{Ie following gentlemen have been elected Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians :—Dr. Guy, of King's COLege, London ; Dr. Conolly, of Hanwell ; Dr. Plenderles* of Ramsgate ; Dr. Forbes, Dr. G. 0. Rees, Dr. Cursham, Dr. Ramsbotham, and Dr. Hughes. THE CONVICT DALMAS.- , --It is expected that the removal of the convict will take place in the course of the week to Bedlam, an:order to that effect being daily expeUed at Horsemonger-lane. Since the arrival of the remieve on Thursday last the convict has been exceedingly cteerful, but has abstained from making the slightest all vision to the dreadful crime of which he stands convicted. His daughters have for the present discontinued their visit and we believe, through the influence of the reverend chaplain, and the kind ness of some friends, have been placed in respectable situa tions. The conduct of these young women has been praise worthy in the extreme, and has gained for them the pity and esteem of all those with whom they have come in contact since the occurrence which threw them in an unprotected state upon the world. DEPLORABLE Loss OF LIFE AT BEAUFORT.—It appears that the subterranean fire noticed in our two last papers, continues to burn with unabated fury in the moun tain near Beaufort Works, and we have this week the melan choly duty of recording a loss of life occasioned by its effects. The combustion of the Black Band and coal produced a quan tity of noxious vapour, principally composed of carbonic acid gas, the destructive properties of which are so often the occasion of death to parties incautiously descending into old wells or brewers' vats ; and, as we stated last week, SOlr,e of the men and women working in the levels beneath the 'burn ing mess were then carried out insensible, and with difficulty were recovered from the effects of inhaling the F A& But on Monday last, results still more serious were ex perienced under the following circumstan,ees :—About half-past five o'clock on that morning, a master, miner, named William Tippen, went into his level for the ,-,airpose of com mencing the week's operation, and in half an hour was fol lowed by David Prosser and his two sons. Between ten and eleven o'clock other miners went in ane4 found the four un fbrtunate individuals lying on the ground quite dead, and the party who brought out their bodies w ere nearly suffocated in tie attempt. The surgeon of the works was in immediate attendance, but found that life had fled some hours before. The whole of the men employed in the Beaufort mines have since abandoned their work, and traces of the gaseous exha lations from the fire are said to be perceptible even at Nantyglo underground works—distant a mile and a half. The bodies of the four unfortunate men were interred on Wednesday afternoon, at the Calvinistic Methodist burying ground, at Gwaingoch. There were not less than 3,000 per , sons present on the melancholy occasion.— Silurian. LOSS OF LIFE THROUGH BOAT-RAClNG.—Yester- day an inquiry took place before Mr. Carter, at the George, Bankside, as to the death of William Brag, aged 34, who was drowned through the enormous swell caused by the racing and number of steamers now on the river. Mr. Smyth ob served that it was actually dangerous for merchants and lightermen now on board their craft, in consequence of the swell the steamers caused by their rapid speed and close ap proach to the shore. He did not wonder this man had. 'been drowned, for, having, after the immersion, gone. on beard the barge, he found the stern lifted at least three feet, in the air. The men could not work, and accidents were of daily occur rence. He had himself seen at least three, tons of water thrown into a barge by some of those steamers passing, and he thought that some opinion should'be expressed in their verdict as to the conduct of the parties. The following special verdict was then returned :—" That the deceased was accidentally drowned by falling into the river, the jury being of opinion that it was caused by the great swell caused by the passage of the steam-boats." MILITARY DIsCIPLINE.-011 Thursday week, three privates, named Walker, Watson, and Youn belong ing to the first battalion of the S co t s ,Fusileer Guards, at present quartered in the Tower, were tried by a district Court-martial on the charge of having,' early en the morning of Tuesday, the 18th ult. (the anniversary of the ever-me morable battle of Waterloo), suddenly absented themselves whilst doing duty on the main guard of the Royal Mint, St. Katharine's dock, and remaining absent until apprehended, nearly sixteen hours afterwards. They pleaded guilty, and were re-conducted to their place of confinement, the Spur named ard-home. Next day (Friday) another private, Anderson, was also tried by a district Court-martial for having been found intoxicated whilst doing duty as sentry on the morning in question, whereby the others ef fected their escape. He also confessed the charge, and was sent back to the guard-house. The finding of . the court martial in both cases having been transmitted to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief, was subse quently approved by his Grace, and on Saturday forenoon last the guilty parties were brought from their place of con finement to hear the sentense of the Courts-martial read over to them, on parade, by Lieutenant-Colonel Drummond, the officer commanding the Ist battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards, which was as follows :—" Walker, 12 months' - Watson and Young, 18 months' ; a n d A n d erson '( t h e sentry ), two years' imprisonment." The prisoners, who are all young men, were shortly afterwards handcuffed, and sent off, under a military escort, to Coldbath-fields House of Correction. On Saturday forenoon another private, named Brown, who had been tried by a general Court-martial for absentinghim self from his barracks and striking a corporal whilst heading a scout party in search of him at one of the fairs lately held in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, was also brought from his place of confinement to hear his sentence read over to him by Lieutenant-Colonel Drummond, which was, that he be transported beyond the seas for the period of seven years. A STRANGE FANCY.—The following ludicrous circumstance took place in Falkirk last week. The parents of a child about six years of age, on ordering him to bed, were not a little nonplused by his answering, I'm no gaun to my bed the night, for I dreamed the 'streen that I was to sit on a stick and sleep like a lien." Persuasions and threats were all in vain, on a stick he would' be; and, willing to gratify what appeared to be a momentary notion, the parents, in want of a proper bauk, proposed that the back of a chair should serve for his roost during the ?light. No sooner said than done, the child denuded himself of his clothes, hung them on the chair back, mounted his roost, and, in a few minutes, to the surprise of all, was fast asleep. He was al lowed to remain thus for some time, and, on being awakened,. it was only by working on his fears that he was ultimately induced to relinquish the bauk for a more comfortable nest. — Edinburgh Evening Post. .: -~ ~~•t ...r~~N .4 4