The Sun. — London, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. I(Hear, hear.) Now, what was the state of the Bank of Ireland? Tho banking assets of the Bank of Ireland according to the account he had were as follows :—Circulation, 3,481,0001. ; Deposits, 2,698,000/. ; Surplus fund, 1,053,000/. ; making a total of 7,432,000/. It was to be recollected that the Bank never gave any cash credit. If a mercantile man wanted accommodation he must begin by discounting his paper, say to , the amount of 2,000/. or 3,000/., the Bank charge discount for that ; the party whose bill is discounted is allowed to draw etieteues, bat no interest is given by the Bank for the use of the moNly,4o that they had tbe benefit of every shilling the man did nest claw out the day after he had. discounted the bill, and if be attempted to draw out the whole, the Bank of Ireland would refuse to discount a shilling for him. It was clear, therefore, that the Bank of Ireland was an unaccommodating Bank. They had private securities in their hands to the extent of 2,1300,000/., and they had in Consols and Exchequer Bills upwards of 4,176,0001., and the House must recollect that that four millions was money lent to them by the public, payable on demand, so that in reality the Bank of Ireland was a trading company and not a bank.—(Hear, hear.) Their monopoly consoled them. Their control over individuals gave them great profits, and yet the Chancellor of the Exchequer heated that in times of difficulty they had stood their ground. In all that he had stated, he begged it to be un derstood that he did not mean to say one word in disparage ment of any gentleman connected with the Bank of Ireland. He treated them only as a commercial company, but indivi dually he believed them to be persons of worth, honour, and integrity. The 2,600,000/. that he had spoken of was distributed thus at their two branches. They de voted 1,450,0001. to one establishment—while in Dublin, they only devoted 1,198,0001. so that where a large sum was not wanting they gave it, and where a large sum was wanting they were stingy.—( Hear, hear.) He had a state went of the monopoly profits of the Bank, which could not be less than 107,0001. a year. They had stated it at 111,0001. Haring already troubled the House at such length he would not go into the details ; it was enough for him to know that they made a profit by their monopoly.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He was himself a Governor of one of the Joint-stock Banks in Ireland,' and if any person thought that he put any profit into his pocket from that concern, they were at perfect liberty to do so. He believed that he should make the property in the Bank of which he was at the head 1 more secure by allowing the monopoly to go on ; but speaking there as the Representative of Dublin, he was ready to join in any law to make Joint-stock Banks secure to the public, but then, as a matter ofjustice, ifthey limited the Joint-stock Banks in order to giie that security, let them limit the Bank of Ireland also. They ought not to limit the one without pursuing the same course with respect to the other. He would now come to Drogheda. Steam navigation had reached it, and it was now becoming prosperous, and all that it wanted now was a proper and secure state of banking. Some of the delegates from that town, he believed, were listening to that debate. Their object was to ask the House not to leave them entirely under the lash of the Bank of Ireland. Dundalk also asked the assistance of that House. He believed that Newry raised the same cry—Carlow also called upon them. There were also the towns of Kilbeggan and Moate—the former was within the metropolitan circle, whilst the latter, which was prosperous and flourishing, was' without it. Look also at Mountinellich, in which they could not establish a branch. Why the nature of the monopoly was to wither and decay instead of promoting the life-blood of com merce, and as to the whining cant of their referring to Ame rica, where there was a free trade in banking, let them recollect that in England they had a free trade, and also in the rest of Ireland exclusive of the capital.—( Hear, hear.) He was ready to give them any security that might be required for the credit of Joint-stock Banks, but let them not extinguish the commerce and enterprise of the country under the blighting and withering influence of monopoly. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer was against a free system of banking let him out with it at once. Let not the Right Hon. Gentleman come forward with a paltry rag of political economy, and attempt to patch up one portion of the country with efree system, while he excluded all bank ing vitality from anther portion. Let him rather bring for ward a system which by its liberality and its universality would savour of justice.—(Loud cheers.) He begged to move that Mr. Bernal do leave the Chair. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON said the two objections to the position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was, that it was too favourable to the Bank of Ireland, and that Government had made terms of too favourable a nature to the Bank. He must say, however, that a loan of two and a half millions at 3i per eent. for three years, could not be considered very favour able. With respect to the monopoly of circulation which the Bank of Ireland enjoyed, the Hon and Learned Member had not shown a single instance in which the Bank had, dur- $ ing that long period of years, exercised it unjustly or impro perly. He admitted the truth of the Hon. Member for Kil kenny's argument, that if too many notes were issued they would be returned _upon the Bank, but the worst of it was, they were sometimes returned at a time when the Bank was noble to pay them.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member had net, however, dealt fairly with the House in alluding to the cerrespondence of the Earl of Liverpool with the Bank of England. • He had led the House to believe that it applied to their circulation, while on the contrary it alluded to their en deavouring to prevent any bank having more than six partners. In his (Mr. Thompson's) opinion thel Right Hon. Gentleman's proposition was one which would confer great advantages ttleon the country, and was only fair to the Bank of Ireland, and it should therefore have his cordial support. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the prosperity of Drogheda had been used as an argument in favour of the continuance of the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland ; but if the argment was good for anything, why had not Dublin improved ?—( Hear hear.) The commercial prosperity of Drogheda was to be at tributed to her steam navigation. He believed he represented the opinions and feelings of all parties and persuasions in that town, the Corporation and the Liberal party, when he stated that the general conviction was that the general accommoda tion extended by the one branch established there, was not sufficient to enable them to carry out their commercial pursuits. —( Hear, hear.) He was not afraid, although it might be Ivied as argument in favour of the Bank of Ireland, of stating the commercial intercourse between Liverpool and Drogheda . They had three factories for spinning flax, and one for cotton. These had been erected within the last two years. There were twenty-seven flour mills within the immediate neighbourhood of the town, 7,100 persons engaged in the linen trade, and there were five steam-boats plying between Liverpool and Drogheda. That was strong evidence of the prosperity of the town of Drogheda. At what was the amount of the discount trade? Only 600,0001. ; while it would require four times that amount to meet the demands of the trading community.— (Hear, hear.) The consequence was, they . were obliged to carry. their discount trade to Dublin, Belfast, Dundee, Liver pool, and other places ; and the result was a steady and wholesome state of things in the commerce of the town. They were completely at the mercy of the Bank of Ireland, which ' limited their discounts, and, as far as they could, controlled the extension of their trade. All they wanted was permission to go elsewhere. It was a great fallacy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to compare Dublin and London. The latter was the great commercial head of the empire, while Dublin was but a mere provincial town.—( Hear, hear.) They had consolidated the Customs, they had consolidated the Excise, and why should they continue the banking monopoly in Dnblin ? Liverpool was the commercial capital of his (Sir. W. Somer ville's) part of the country, and not Dublin, with which their trade and commercial intercourse was comparatively trifling. Believing that the continuance of the monopoly would be detrimental to the best interests of the country, he should support the motion of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny. Mr. HUTTON regretted the subject was introduced at that late period of the Session. He concurred with his Hon. and Learned Colleague in his entire disapprobation of the narrow and confined spirit in which the Bank of Ireland had administered its important functions. If the Hon. Member for Kilkenny's amendment meant to ' deprive the Bank of Ireland of the power it had of issuing notes, and putting the Bank on a sounder basis, he (Mr. H.) would have concurred with him ; but he confessed he was not pre pared at present to give an unlimited power of issuing notes to every bank within a short distance of Dublin.—( Hear, hear. ) He was afraid so great a power would prove ruinous, and, by adopting that course, they would be creating vested interests, which would render the subject more difficult to be dealt with hereafter.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. WARBURTON could not agree with the Hon. Mem ber for Kilkenny, that there would not be an over issue pro vided there seas a free trade in banking. It did not follow that beiteseise there was a free trade in banking there would be a payment in specie. Therefore he was against a free trade in beets ; but it was because he was opposed to the Hon. Alem ber for Kilkenny, that he could not agree to what the Chancel lor of the Exchequer said. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had said, " Let us renew the Charter of the Bank of Ireland,. which he admitted was established on incorrect principles." Why should the bank be continued for four years on false principles? A good opportunity was now afforded to the Government if they wished to do so, to put the Bank on better principles, • and during these four years the foundation might be laid for a better system at *he period when the charter would expire. He thotight the Hon. Member for Dublin was perfectly correct in objecting to the proposition of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, at this late period of the Session, and he should vote for the motion of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, far this reason, that it left the matter open. The existing contract with the Bank of Ireland would run to the next Session, and next Session Parliament would have the opportu nity of revising all that related to the Bank of Ireland. It was for that reason he agreed to the motion of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, and he believed many would vote for that motion, but would not have voted for the amend ment of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. S. O'BRIEN thought the Government had laid them selves open to the animadversions of the Hon. and Learned :Member for Dublin, for not having brought this subject for ard at an earlier period of the Session. Indeed the question they were then discussing ought to have been discussed two 'Veers ago. The Government ought to show why this discus sion had not been brought forward in 1837, and he was satis fied that the course taken by her Maje , ty's Government en this question would create surprise and disappointment. In discussing this question, they ought not to be guided by local circumstances or interested parties, but they ought to deal fairly by the public on general principles. The Bank of Ireland was conducted on unsound principles, and he contended nothing had been urged to show wh y Ireland should deviate from the sound principles of banking. It appeared to bias that the pub lie had demanded that, such a system of banking should be esta blished as would guarantee the public against the contingency of failures. That system was adoeted in the Joint-stock Banks. The public would repose confidence only in those establishments which, to all appearance, had solvent partners, and which had the greatest number of partners ; and he was satis fied that in three or tour years there would be no pri v ate banters at all. The Bank ought to publish its accounts. It would be utterly impossible for an unsound bank to continue in existence for an hour under the system of weekly publication o f its accounts. Th e quest i on before the House, he apprehended, was whether it was just to confer on one Company advantages which they were not prepared to confer on another.—( Hear , hear.) They might maintain the principle that the State alone ought to issue notes and coin money, but it could not be maintained that one Company ought to have advantages over another. He conceived the only justification for renewing the charter and privileges of the Bank of England was that there was a sort of State necessity ; and had he been in Parliament he would have voted against the renewal of the Charter to the Bank of England. He trusted the Hon. 11Iemter for Kilkenny would press his motion to a division. Mr. REDINGTON thought no case had been made out for granting a new monopoly to the Bank of Ireland. With re gard to this monopoly it extended for 65 miles from the metro polis, an area of one-third of Ireland, a lar ger extent in propor tion to the area of that country, than the Bank eof England oc copied in proportion to the area of this country. lie should vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Dublin, and con sider that he should best promote the interests of those who sent him here, and his own views, by offering every opposition to the plan laid down by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chan oellor of the Exchequer. The CHANCELLOR of the. EXCHEQUER replied. A more important vote the Committee was never called upon to give. The reposition was to pass a resolution upon which a Bill was to be introduced, which the House would have the power of discussing in all its details , an d makin g such amendments as might be thought proper. Between the first and second reading ample time would be given to the considerationfurther of the Bill. But if.th e reso l u ti on s hould be negatived, all considera tion would be prevented. The proposition to leave the Bank of Ireland monopoly unchanged came from those who objected to it altogether. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) pro posed to go on with a legislative measure, in order to consider whet portion of these exclusive privileges should be continued , and what veers . o to objection. With respect to the Hon. ,Member for Bri.. -. ,who di sagree d w i t h t h e principles of free trade, in fact, te combined with those who wer in favour of unrestrictive banking. There could not be two opinions more strongly contrasted. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was not contending for any mono poly in banking. He was contending for the exclusive power of making money, issuing promissory notes paying in that d s trict. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, as well as the Hon. Member for Limerick, said that a distinct pledge had been given by a former Government, and that it was so stated in th.i evi dence. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was nce in clined to dispute that. He confessed that any pledge iven by Mr. Huskisson, and the Earl of Ripon, was entitled to every respect, and he did not wish to undervalue it. In the evidence of Mr. Callaghan it was stated that Mr. Huskisson and the Earl of Ripon regretted that they could not give any pledge beyond that of suing and being sued. Nothing could be more distinct. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) communi cated with the Earl of Ripon, and drew his attention to the evi dence, and held in his hand the answer of his Lordship, who stated that he had no distinct recollection of the trans action ; there could, however, be no doubt that he did not, be cause he could not give any pledge as to what might be done fourteen years after the question arose. His Lordship stated that he had no doubt expressed his regret that no more could be done for the Joint-stock Banks than to give the power of suing and being sued, and that he should have been ready to have given to them the same advantages as were obtained in 1826 from the Bank of England for Joint-stock Banks in this country. Now, here was a distinct denial of the fact, on the Earl of Ripon's recollection, that any engagement had been en ' tered into. The House would bear in mind that the utmost extent of his (the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) proposition was to make an arrangement with the Bank of Ireland, which might be terminated within the period of four years with any principle which might be adopted as to the currency here. Under these circumstances, he hoped Hon. Gentlemen would do him the favour of voting for the resolution. Mr. O'CONNELL said that Mr. Callaghan must have had a distinct recollection of the fact, because he was looking out for, and obtained, 225,0001. in consequence of that pledgo. The Earl of Ripon merely reasoned upon the subject, and stated that he had no distinct recollection. It was strange that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relying on the impropriety of establishing free trade in banking, said that he should have the votes of those who disliked the principle. Would he vote against free trade in banking? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that he would, and submitted that it was clear, from the answer of the Earl of Ripon, that he did not give any pledge as to what might be done fourteen years afterwards. After a few words from Mr. HUME and Mr. ELLIS in ex planation, the House divided. The numbers were— For reporting progress ....•• 35 Against it Majority --80 We understood the Committee again divided on Mr. Hume's motion, when the numbers were — For the motion ... •• Against it ... 112 Majority On our re-entering the gallery, we found Mr. O'CONNELL said he would divide on every stage. The people of Ireland could never have time to consider the Bill till the 20th of August, when who would keep Members here after the grouse-shooting had began, and the partridge-shoot ing was coming.—(Laughter, and Hear, hear. ) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought this opposition unfair. He believed it was for the interest of the country that the Bill should pass : some Bill on the subject must pass this Session. Mr. ELLIS protested against such a measure being imme diately pressed forward at thisperiod. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It is abso lutely necessary. Mr. ELLIS denied that it was at all, for the Charter of the Bank might go on till altered, and might therefore be postponed till next Session. He moved that the Chairman report progress. Mr. O'CONNELL said the people of Ireland had bad no notice of the measure ; it had not been inti odnced more than three weeks, and from that short . period it had been under stood that a different plan would have been proposed. Not a single argument had been urged in defence of the monopoly ; and the people of Ireland had been very ill treated by the ' Government in the matter.—( Hear, hear.) Sir W. SOMERVILLE corroborated what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Dublin. He thought that it had been understood that this monopoly line was to be given up. He considered that some longer time ought to be given for consi dering the report of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. SHIEL believed that the great body of his constituents were averse to the renewal of this Charter. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN thought the question ought not to be proceeded with in the present Session. Mr. REDINGTON concurred in the opinion of the Hon. Member who had spoken last. 3lr. HUME thought, before a question of the importance of the present was decided, there ought to be a call of the House. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Com mittee divided, when there appeared— For reporting progress Against it lO2 Majority 69 On our admission into the gallery we found Mr. ELLIS on his legs, moving that the Chairman do leave the Chair. The Committee divided after a few observations from Mr. O'CONNELL, when there appeared— For the motion 32 Against it Majority against the motion —6l On our re-admission to the gallery we found The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on his legs. He hoped the House would allow the Bill to be brought up, and go into Committee, when any amendments it was thought proper might be proposed. Mr. O'CONNELL said it was clear there could be no gompromise after the tone of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it only remained for him to discharge his duty to his con stituents in the best manner he could by resisting the further progress of these resolutions. Mr. HUME complained that the people of Ireland wore not apprised of what the purport of these resolutions were, and that it was attempted to hurry them through the House. Lord J. RUSSELL thought if the measure excited the great opposition that was said in Ireland, there would have been a fuller attendance of Irish Members in the House. Three weeks' notice had been given of the measure, and there could be no allegation of want of proper intimation. If it was not discussed now it must be discussed to-morrow or Monday night. Mr. O'CONNELL denied that there had been a full dis cussion of the question. He believed that the majority of those who had heard the incidental debate of that evening had voted against the resolutions, and if he was not de ceived, the Noble Lord himself had not heard the debate —( Hear and laughter.) He had no objection to the debate being resumed that day (Friday), but he certainly objected to going further that night. Colonel SIBTHORP was glad to witness the division on the other side of the House, as his side might expect to derive advantage from it.—(A laugh. ) Mr HUME moved that the Chairman report progress. After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER, Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place, the motion having been agreed to without a division. SLAVE TRADE (PORTUGAL) BILL. Lord PAL3IERSTON moved the third reading of this Bill. After a few observations from Sir R. Inglis, Capt. Pechell, and Sir T. D. Acland, the Bill was read a third time and passed. The Reports on the Jurors and Juries (Ireland) Bill, and the Ecclesiastical Districts Bill were brought up. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, the following Members were nominated a Select Committee on the Metropolis Improvements Bill :—Mr. Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Matthew Wood, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Viscount Lowther, Mr. Herries, Admiral Codringtou, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Clay, Mr. George Palmer, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Pendarves, Mr. Barnard, Sir Benjamin Hall, Mr. •Wakley. BIRMINGHAM POLICE BILL. Mr. F. MAULE moved the committal of this Bill. Colonel SIBTHORP objected to the Bill proceeding at such an hour (two o'clock nearly), and in such a House (of about a dozen Members). Mr. F. MAULE said the peace of Birmingham depended on this Bill. Mr. PLUMPTRE recommended his Gallant Friend to withdraw his opposition. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and Sir R. INGLIS joined their solicitations to the same effect, with no avail. LANDS IN NEW ZEALAND. The DIRECTORS of the NEW ZEALAND LAND COMPANY hereby give notice, that Orders for Land may be purchased at their Office, which will entitle the holders thereof to select Country Sections, either at the Company's principal Settlement, or at Hokianga, Kaipara, Manukau, the islands of Waiheke and Paroa, the borders of the Thames, or any other part of the territories already purchased by the Company, as soon as the same shall be surveyed. The holders of such Land Orders will also be entitled to claim from the Company a pas sage to New Zealand, free of cost, for themselves, families, and servants, to the extent of 75 per cent. of their purchase money. Further particulars as to the terms of purchase, may be ob tained on application to the Secretary. By Order of the Directors, JOHIS WARD, Secretary. New Zealand Land Company's Office, No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, 23d July, 1839. SLAVE TRADE. Lord PALMERSTON brought in a Bill to continue an Act of last Session enabling her Majesty to execute certain slave treaties. The House adjourned at Two o'Clock. BIRMINGHAM RIOTS• [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK, P. M. Peace, law, and order have at length been restored. How long we shall enjoy those blessings the prophetic visions of the Birmingham seers cannot conceive. Many are of opinion that they will be short-lived, and that very few indeed, even amongst the authorities, place any confidence in the present apparent peaceable state of the borough. Neither the civil or militiry authorities have been induced by it to relax for a moment their vigilance. The Rifles and London Police still do duty in the Public-office, and the streets and suburbs are patrolled. From the following it will be seen that the fire of Monday was the act of an incendiary : FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. Whereas, on Monday night last, July 22, some evil disposed persons did wilfully and maliciously set fire to the premises of Mr. Whittall, builder, of Lancaster-street, Birmingham, who ever will give information that will lead to the conviction of the offender, or offenders, will receive the above reward from Mr. Redfern, at the Public-office, or Mr. Whittall, Lancaster-street. The Committee appointed to conduct Messrs. Collins and Lovett's defence, have issued the following Bill: " DEFENCE FUND. " A Committee fur the defence of Lovett, Collins, and others, sit daily. Parties who have made collections in aid of this fund, are respectfully requested to pay the same, without delay, to James Guest, No. 93, Steel House-lane, who is duly autho rised to receive the same. As the trials commence on Mon day, the increased exertions of every friend is respectfully re quested. _ " Signed on behalf of the Committee, " WILLIAM CARDO, Sec. pro. tern." The attempt to get up a subscription in behalf of the police will, in all probability, prove a failure; and as little success is likely to attend the petition for a Repeal of the Charter of Incorporation granted to the Borough of Birmingham. SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.— On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, at the Buffalo's-head, New-road, St. Marylebone, on the body of a full-grown female child, which was found dead in Devon shire-place Mews, at an early hour on Tuesday morning last. W. Hassell, a coachman, deposed that about half past one o'clock on Tuesday morning last he was waiting at the corner of Devonshire-place Mews for a carriage coming home, when he saw a bundle lying a few yards from him on the footpath, which turned out to be the body of a newly-born female child, full grown, wrapped up in a piece of white rag and a black silk apron, the latter nearly new. It was quite dead. The Coroner, after viewing the body, said the impression on his mind was, that the child had been suffocated by the nose and mouth being kept firmly closed, so as to prevent respiration, there being a blue mark on the parts specified ; but, in the absence of evidence of such facts, the only verdict they, the jury, could conscientiously return was, that the child was found dead, b ut h ow i t came b y its death, or whether it was born alive, there was no evidence before them to prove. The jury agreed with the suggestion of the Coroner, and re turned a verdict accordingly. THE LATE INSULT TO THE QUEEN.--Yester , day Charles Willett, who was arrested in Hyde Park on the 17th, for insulting the Queen, was brought to the Home -office for examination. Messrs. Min shull and Twyford were the Magistrates present. Tne prisoner expressed his regret, and attributed his mis conduct to excess in drinking. He was ordered to pay a fine of 51. for the assault on James Light, the Queen's outrider, or to be imprisoned for two months, and to find bail, himself in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, and in default of bail being given in, to be imprisoned for six months. • LONDON : FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1839. The Bishop of EXETER last night informed the Peers that he had heard from high authority, that one of the causes of the disturbances at Birmingham was dislike to the Poor-laws ; and he added that if it were so this source of dissatisfaction ought as speedily as possible to be removed. It is so seldom that we find ourselves agreeing with the Bishop of EXETER, that we eagerly seize the opportunity of recording our agreement ; but we know not why, if the dissatisfaction of the people at the Poor laws should be removed, their dissatisfaction at the Corn-laws, at being excluded from the representation, at being obliged to pay tithes, should not also have its causes removed. We are delighted, however, to find the Bishop of EXETER laying down the satisfac tion of the people as the reason for making laws, and if he will only stick to that text, and always preach on it, we have no doubt that he will soon occupy the place in the Convention left vacant by the secession of Dr. WADE. Bishop PHILPOTTek, the pastor of the poor, one of the direct successors of the lowly JESUS, would be more in character preaching peace, charity, and long-suffering in the Convention, than in fanning the flames of bigotry and persecution in the House of Peers. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in presenting a petition from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, embracing a majority of the Clergy of the Church, for the promotion of the Church Establishment in the Colonies, said that the wickedness in the Colonies was so great, that it was almost too shocking to speak of ; the only proof of which given by the Most Reverend Prelate was, that for fifty or sixty miles there was not one Church. What monsters those people must be, by this rule, who have only mosques. What an unholy earth, too, ours must be, for only a very small part of it is yet blessed with Anglican churches. The Marquis of NORMANBY and the Archbishop mutually flattered each other on their zeal for church-building, and the Bishop of LONDON laid it down as a rule that the Go vernment was bound to meet the wants of the people in the colonies for churches and parsons. Heaven, in its mercy, help the Colonists, for should the parsons get firm hold of their broad lands they will turn society there as they have turned it here, into a den of strife. Lord MELaounNE, in answer to a question, admitted that the Turkish army had been discomfitted. Lord BROUGHAM asserted that it had been totally defeated. On the Order of the Day for going into a Com mittee on the Irish Municipal Bill, an instruction to the Committee was agreed to, for removing Galway from Schedule A. to Schedule B. The House then went into a Committee, and the alien Lord immediately went into a long statement of the mutilations he wished made in the Bill, and his reasons for making them. He first proposed to raise the franchise to 10/., next to appoint the Sheriffs by the Lord Lieutenant, and objected to the clauses transferring the power of raising money from grand to petty juries. He proposed that those towns only should have Charters which asked for them. His Lordship declared, in conclusion, that if his amendments were adopted he should support the Bill ; if they were not he should oppose it with all his power on the third reading. Lord BROUGHAM opposed Lord LYNDHURST, and was, in so doing, appropriately employed. After a comparatively brief discussion a division was taken on Lord LyNciiitinsT's amendment to raise the franchise to 10/., which was carried by 93 to 50. That destroys the merit of the Bill, and of course the House of Com mons will not pass it. We are to have another mock ing of the people therefore, but they arc getting tired of this ridiculous game of do nothing, if the Lords are not ashamed of it. The Bill, with other amendments, went through the Committee, and was ordered to be printed. The Church Discipline Bill was read a third time after some opposition on the part of the Bishop of EXETER, and a division, on which the motion was car ried by 21 to H. After some preliminary matter of little interest and a brief dispute as to the order and mode of pro ceeding, the House of Commons went into a Commit tee on the Bank of Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered into a very long history of the Bank of Ireland and of Irish banking. The Right Hon. Gentleman denied that the Bank of Ireland was a mono poly, and repudiated the principle of free trade in bank ing. Singularly enough the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER made the great demand which had occasionally taken place for gold in Ireland, deranging the circulation, while no such demand had been made in Scotland, with its system of banking, a reason why Ireland should not have the Scotch system. He went at great length into the evidence given before the Committee, and stated that he proposed to leave the exclusive privileges of the Bank within the same circle as at present, to con tinue the engagement with it till the engagement with the Bank of England expired. The interest now paid to the Bank of Ireland is 41. 7s. 6d. per cent., and this the CHANCELLOR proposes to reduce to3i-percent.,which will give the Bank of Ireland 23,000/. annually less than at present of the public money. He made it out that the Bank pays the dividend on the National Debt and other services, which put it to some few thousand pounds expense, and that seems to be all that it does for the power which the improvident CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is disposed to give it to tax the community to a considerable extent every year. As a bonus to the public, the Right Honourable Gentle tleman proposes to relieve it of some of the exist ing bad laws as to banking. He called on the House, as the guardians of the people, not to allow them to injure themselves by trusting bankers ; or not to allow them, like the frogs, to commit suicide to save themselves from slaughter. The Right Hon. Gentle man concluded by moving his resolutions. Mr. HUME then made his exordium, and gave his view of the Bank of Ireland, which we have no time now to analyze, and concluded by moving a reso lution to put an end to the privileges of the Bank. Mr. CLAY opposed Mr. HUME'S motion, and made a long speech on banking, which wanted the merit of being applicable to the question before the House. Mr. O'CONNELL opposed the CHANCELLOR of the , EXCHEQUER, and moved that the Chairman leave the chair. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON supported the CHANCELLOR. After some discussion, the Committee divided on Mr. O'CoNNELL's motion, which was lost by 55 to 115. Mr. HUME'S amendment was then put, and lost by 36 to 112. On the main resolution being put, several divisions were taken, Mr. O'CONNELL having stated that he would divide on every stage, on questions that the Chairman do report progress, do leave the chair, &c. Finally the House resumed without deciding on the reso lution. We are glad of this, for the question wants more discussion. It is scandalous to bring on such a question on the 25th of July, when two-thirds of the Members of the House are not in town, and when more important business falls to be discussed night after night, than at any previous period of the Session. We quite agree with Mr. HUME, that there ought to be a Call of the House before proceeding with such a mea sure There have been more than 500 Members to decide on the choice of Speaker, but the welfare of Ire land, which is involved in a good monetary and banking system, is settled by only 120. Will the country tolerate such a miserable fraction of the House of Commons bartering away its best interests to a set of money-jobbers at the command of Mr. RICE ? We hope not ; and that the scheme to bolster up the Bank Monopoly here, by continuing an almost equally monstrous monopoly in Ireland, will be de feated. The House sat till Two o'Clock. The distinguishing feature of Lord JOHN RUS SELL'S new Rural Police Bill is, that it places in the hands of the. Justices meeting in Quarter Ses sions the power of raising any number of police they please, of officering it as they please, making the rate-payers of the district pay all the expenses, subject only to the approbation of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Let us sup pose, no unlikely thing, that Lord MELBOURNE'S Ministry is at an ead, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL ceases to be Home Secretary, and is superseded by Sir JAMES GRAHAM or Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL ; and we ask Mr. HUTT, we ask Mr. M. PHILLIPS, and we ask all the advocates of the abolition of the Corn-laws, who seem in clined to support this measure, to reflect for one moment on the fact, that they are placing all this new power in the hands of the landowners, in the hands of the Corn-law makers, in the hands of those who avow a disregard of the prosperity of the empire, of the lives of the people, and a hatred of free trade. Then the squires, encouraged by one of their own august body, as Home Secretary, who thinks that no national suffering can for one moment be put in comparision to the evil of a re duction of rent, and of heavy clay lands going out of cultivation, would be able to raise an army of their own, officered and controlled by themselves, but paid for by the people, wherewith to enforce obedience to that most finished specimen of human wickedness, the law for starving the industrious peo ple to enrich the do-nothing squires. Such a system has, unhappily, come down to us, it is our boasted Constitution ; but we implore the lovers of free trade, we implore all the Anti-Corn -law inhabitants of the empire, to refuse it an additional sanc tion and additional power by placing this new police in the hands of the squirearchy. Not enough that the squires have the yeomanry at their command, allied to them by interest and dependent on them by feeling, to make the starving peasant hunger on at Bs. or 9s. a-week, but they must now have a new police created for their pur poses, for which the starving labourers and shopkeepers, who want a free trade, must pay ! We are not astonished at the great majority of the Members of Parliament acquiescing in this scheme ; it is an admirable contrivance to disarm the hostility which Lord JOHN RUSSELL knew awaited his own better-liked project " of one uni form system, placed under a central head ;" but we shall be much astonished if the advocates for the abolition of the Corn-laws, within the House and out of the House, do not strenuously resist the scheme. The abolitionists who allow it to pass without resistance, may still assume the airs of honest men, but they must give up all pretensions to the character of wise or reflecting politicians. On what account are riots likely to rise ? From hunger caused by the Corn-laws. This scheme of a police is avowedly intended to put down such manifestations of displeasure, and will thus enable the landlords to suppress every expression of feeling which they dislike. It is a means of putting down Anti• Corn-law opinions ; and the squires, by the aid of this new police, will be en abled to imprison, transport, and slaughter, those who are resolved not to see their wives and families starved out of existence. Till the Corn-laws be abolished, or the Justices be chosen by the great body of the people, and be made responsible to them, we can only consider a rural police, organized by the landowners and officered by them, as a means of maintaining the most iniquitous law that was ever tolerated by civilized men. Should the land owners be enabled to triumph over righteousness by the aid of the Anti-Corn-law Members of the House of Commons, we shall see in it an evidence of the approaching termination of all the glories of Eng land, for Providence wisely and humanely maddens men before it destroys them. In directing our remarks against these measures, we wish it to be understood that we do not point them against the Ministers, except as they are the unreflecting instruments of a ruinous system. They are the organs of the middle and upper classes, who are so terrified that they know not what they do. They have pressed on the Government for strong neasures. " The middle classes here," says a correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing from Newcastle, " blame the Ministers for not having before now put down the Chartists." The bulk of the Liberals in Parliamen t who repre sent the middle and upper classes exclusively, join in the same demand. All our theorists look for safety only in a strong and centralized power ; and the Ministers are urged, both in Parliament and out of Parliament—both by practical men, who speak from their fears, and by speculating men, who speak by system—to establish an extensive and vigorous police as a means of preserving order and peace. Such being the fact, we only blame them for not knowing that their present plans are only a continu ance and extension of the system that has plunged the country into its present difficulties, and for not having firmness enough to resist the solicitations and demands of the constituencies. The QUEEN, whose power the Ministers hold, reigns over all, and should do justice to all ; the Parliament, including both Houses, represents only one-fifth of the people. It is a fact, however op posite may be the theory, that at present this one • fifth of the community has an interest adverse to the other four-fifths. Capital, or property, and labour are unhappily at variance. We do not in quire into the cause, we only affirm the fact. We are not a Court, to say which has justice on its side, but Journalists recording the existence of the dis pute. One party only, the fifth of the com munity, is represented in Parliament. Now, what we blame the Ministers of the QUEEN for is, that they act as the servants and instru ments of the fifth part of the community only. That they study only its interest and wishes, and are driven by its alarm and terror into extending a system which has for its object to put down the four-fifths of the community, and to suppress the opinion and measures which the single fifth dislike. They are in fact less the servants of the QUERN than the Parliament ; less the organs of the whole community than of the fifth part ; and the great change which this marks in our Constitution, the decay and even extinction which it proves of all separate power in the Monarch, it being all ab sorbed by Parliament, so that the Crown can no longer stand between one class and another, toge ther with the existence of the dispute we have mentioned, and the conduct of the Ministers in yielding to the minority, justifies the demand of the Chartists for Universal Suffrage. In the narratives of mariners we find many in stances of ships weathering the most dreadful storms only to founder in the smoother waters. A similar fate appears to await the SOULT Cabinet. Having weathered the popular tempest without and d avoitl e 1.-4: breakers within the Chamber of Depu ties, the State pilot has run the vessel upon some sunken rock within sight of the haven of rest, and the cry is raised that it is going to pieces. To drop metaphor, the dissolution of the present French Cabinet appears frotn the French Ministerial journals of Wednesday to be determined upon by the Court. The Budget is voted, the labours of the Session are ended, and the Ministers having sufficiently disgraced themselves, by sacrificing their principles and popularity to forward the KING'S views, will be dismissed. LOUIS PIIILIPPE has sucked the orange, and of course cares nothing for the peel. A reconciliation between TITTERS and GUIZOT is talked of, and it is plain that some in trigue is on foot, and that .THlErts is at the bottom 'of it. SOULT has already consented to sacrifice! some of his colleagues provided he will be allowed to retain his present office. But that the recent events in the East renders impossible, unless LOUIS PHILIPPE choose openly to assume the functions of Foreign Minister. SouLT is not acquainted with the rudiments of diplo macy ; he does not understand the princi ples of international policy sufficiently to decide how far any change of circumstances ought to modify the conduct of the Government without previously consulting the KING, and in the event of the appointment of a Conference for the settle ment of the Eastern question duties would devolve on a French Foreign Minister which even the KING could not perform through the instrumen tality of such a diplomatic tyro as SOULT. WC are therefore of opinion that in the event of a change in the Cabinet— a change which appears from the Journals to be inevitable and immediate, Marshal SOULT will be obliged to resign the portfolio of the Foreign Department. The Gazette de France—a Royalist organ, con tains the following account of the battle of Nezib, fought between the Turkish and Egyptian armies : The Turkish army occupied a strong position at Nizeb. Ibrahim, who had received the Pacha's permission to make an attack, wished to assail this position in front, but Soli. man Bey (Colonel Selves) succeeded in restraining his ardour, and it was agreed that the enemy should be drawn by manoeuvres from his entrenchments. The Egyptians made a feigned retreat, and the Seraskier, Hafiz Pacha, sent out a strong division of cavalry. The first corps it came up with, composed of Bedouins, dispersed according to the order they had received, and the Seraskier, ima gining that the Egyptians might be easily routed, advanced with the whole of his forces. Thus he abandoned his strong position, and two formidable k edoubts constructed by Prussian officers,from which great advantage was anticipated. In order to draw the Turks still further from their entrench ments, Ibrahim and Soliman continued to retire for two hours, hastening to gain a field of battle which the superior judgment of Selves had previously selected as one of the most favourable. On reaching this ground the Egyptian army suddenly faced right about, and, availing itself of the nature of the position, formed into compact masses, the in fantry in the centre, the cavalry and light artillery on each wing, and made vigorous charges on the Turks, who were astounded by this sudden attack. The ranks of the latter were soon thrown into disorder. The Seraskier, however, rode up to the front, and by his valour, and the bravery of the corps around him, remedied for a time his false step. His heavy artillery, unfortunately for him, could not come up, and the light guns of the Egyptians, directed by European officers, and seconded by well-timed charges of cavalry, threw his ranks into disorder. His wings were at the same time too extended, and his troops, excited by the ardour of pursuit, had not preserved any regular order of battle; they could make scarcely any resistance ; and at this period some corps of Arabs, which Ibraham in his retreat left in ambush, on the right and left, fell upon the Turkish rear, and thus completely put the Ottoman troops to the rout. The disorder became so great, that the Turkish soldiers threw away their arms, and fled in the utmost confusion. Part of the troops endeavoured to re gain the entrenched camp, while others made for the most fordable points of the Euphrates. It appears that a large portion of the fugitives succeeded in escaping, and that the massacre was not so great as might have been expected. But the camp, artillery, baggage, and even the muskets of the Turkish army fell into the hands of the Egyptians. The Seraskier, carried away in the general rout, crossed the Euphrates. His horse, wounded by a ball in the shoulder, fell from loss of blood in the middle of the river, and would have been carried away with his rider, when a young Albanian, on a small Epirote horse, seized the Seraskier by the middle, and contrived to get him safe to the other bank. Three hours afterwards Ibrahim was reposing under the tent of the Seraskier. The Univers states that the Turks lost 6,000 men killed, and that as many were made prisoners. The same journal asserts that the French Govern ment received des patches announcing the sailing of the Ottoman fleet from the Dardanelles on the 28th ult., without any opposition on the part of the French fleet then in sight. The Bayonne letters of the 19th inform us that there was in fact a combat on the 15th, in the environs of Allo, between the Queen's troops under Diego Leon and the Carlists, commanded by Elio. The Carlists confess a loss of 26 killed and 122 wounded, Goni, who commanded their right wing was wounded in the thigh. The loss of the Constitutionalists is not known. It seems to have been an affair which had no results of any consequence. On the other hand the Eco del Aragon of the 18th speaks of an action said to have been fought by Amor and Aspires, in which the Constitutionalists are reported to have had the advantage, in consequence of the arrival of the Gene ral-in- Chief in the heat of the battle. Lastly, the Sentinelle des Pyrenees, has the following letter from the frontiers, dated the 18th :—" The provin cial deputation of Navarre has addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants of that province exhorting them to abandon the cause of the Pretender,,which a deplorable error had led them to embrace. It tells them that the struggle has al ready continued six years ; that it has swept away thou. sand of their children, that the Queen's armies march from victory to victory, that France, in concert with England, has manifested its desire to establish the throne of Isabella." A Dutch Journal (that of Utrecht), has the following letter, doted Curacao, May 30 The Congress of Venezuela has refused to sanction the treaty concluded with France. The conduct of France towards Mexico is disapproved of by all the Journals of South America, and is censured by some of them in very bitter terms. 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The call on such of the Shares as have been allotted being now in course of payment, the Committee, in order to facilitate their arrangements, and to provide, as extensively as possible, for public accommodation c(n the first starting of the Carriages, hereby give notice that they will be happy to receive Com munications from such Coachmasters and others as may be desirous of Contracting for Carriages, addressed (post-paid) to the Committee, at the Chambers of Mr. Hodgson, Solicitor, 21, Lincoln's Inn-fields. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Positively the Last Two Nights of " Alice Gray" and " The Phantom Ship." THIS EVENING, JULY 26, Will be presented (last times) the popular Domestic Drama of ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. To conclude with, THE PHANTOM SHIP. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. GRAND FLOWER SHOW. On TUESDAY, July 30, the ROYAL SOUTH LON DON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY will hold their Splen did SUMMER SHOW of all the Foral and Horticultural Products of the Stason ! ! The unrivalled Band of this Establishment will give A GRAND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. Exhibition of the Extraordinary newly-discovered Light KONIAPHOSTIC, __ . _ • Under the superintendence of Mr. H. Carter. And, at Dusk, the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECLA, &c. _ _ _ Gates open at One o'clock. Admission One Shilling. PROMENADES MUSICALES El 7- CHAMPETRES. " KONIAPHOSTIC," and ERUPTION of HECLA, every MONDAY, TUESDAY, and. THURSDAY. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning 55 minutes after 2. I Evening ... 13 minutes after 3, e _ 4. 14 17665.-- Zbv %un+ BOURSE.-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24. HALF-PAST THREE.—Business has been still more un important than yesterday. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 65c., and rose to 79f. 70c., last price. The Five per Cents, have had but the one price of 111 f. 80c., so both closei as yesterday. For Money the Three per Cents. are sc. lower, and the Five per Cents. sc. higher. Neither the Bank of France nor the Laffitte Bank Shares are altered. The Belgian Five per Cents. have crept up The Three per Cents. have not been quoted. The Spanish Active has declined I; after having oscillated frcm 191 to 194, it closed at the latter price. Little done in Railway Shares. The Versailles Right Bank have declined 2f. 50c., as have the Havre. The Strasburg to Bale are 7f. 50c. lower. The Versailles Left Bank and the Orleans not altered. The St. Germains have again not been quoted. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 4% per Cents lO5 75 ... 105 75 ... 105 75 ... 105 75 4 per Cents lO2 60 ... 103 ... 102 60 ... 103 3 per Cents '79 65 ... 79 70 ... '79 65 ... 79 65 Bank of r'rance 2750 ...2750 ...2750 ...2750 Laffitte Bank I.ooof. Sh lO5O ...1050 ...1050 ...1050 5,000 f. Sh 5215 ...5220 ...5215 ...52•?0 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 677 50 ... 677 50 ... 677 50 ... 677 se L.B. 357 50 ... 362 50 ... 357 50 ... 362 50 Havre 977 50 ... 977 50 ... 975 ... 975 Orleans .. _ ... ••• ••. 452 50 452 50 452 50 452 f,() _ _ _ _ Strasburg to Bale 336 25 ... 336 25 ... 330 ... 330 Brussels and German papers of the latest dates have been received. Advices from Vienna of the 17th ult., state that the report of the destruction of the Turkish army produced a panic among the stock jobbers in that capital. Rumours were afloat that Great Britain had secretly encouraged the late SULTAN MAHMOUD to commence hostilities, and that in consequence of this the British Ambassador and Prince METTERNICH were not on the most friendly footing. Great excitement was likewise produced in Hungary by the publication of the following Imperial rescript, addressed by the Em peror to the second Chamber of the Hungarian Diet, now sitting at Prague FERDINAND, by the grace of GoD, &C. " Having come to the firm resolution to enforce the respect due to the laws and to protect the liberty of speech in the Diet of the kingdom of Hungary, nothing would have been more agreeable to us than to have observed the labours of the Diet so develope , themselves as to cause no serious uneasiness in our breast respecting the maintenance of the constitutional system of the kingdom, and of its ancient institutions, which are specially placed under our Royal, protection. Notwithstanding, however, it has come to our knowledge that, during the Sittings of the Second Chamber of the States of the 3d and 4th instant, certain things took place which are contrary to the respect due to the Judge of our Royal Court, as well as contrary to the order essential to be observed in the public discussions, as prescribed by the laws of the kingdom ; these occurrences evidently are attacks upon the palladium of the Constitution, and the independence of the tribunals which his Majesty and the States ought to unite in considering inviolable ; and lastly, they visibly tend to overthrow the barriers erected between the legis lative and judicial powers, as a protection to each. " In condemning in the most severe terms the attacks and the language directed against the Royal Court, which are altogether inexcusable, because they indicate an existing abuse of the liberty of speech, and a ten dency to contemn the ancient Constitution, we exhort our faithful States to take our observations into considera tion, and, in future, to maintain within the legal bounds the order of the deliberations of the Diet ; and we otherwise assure them of our Imperial and Royal goodwill and benevolence. " Done at Vienna, this 10th day of July, 1839. (Signed) " FERDINAND." The Members of the Second Chamber regarded this rescript as an attack upon one of their most sacred pri vileges—the liberty of speech. It consequently added fuel to the flame which it was meant to extinguish. We regret_to add that the embarrassments of the Govern ment were increased by unfavourable intelligence from Servia, Bosnia, and Montenegro, where the mass of the people were manifesting symptoms of discontent and an insurrectionary spirit truly alarming. In fact, the ele ments of revolution are at this moment manifesting themselves all over Europe. SEASONABLE INTIMATION.--If any spirit whatever, can be more applicable to the disorders incidental to an exuberant fruit season than BRETT'S IMPROVED COGNAC, which possesses all theestimable properties of the choicest pi oductions of France, it must be their GINGER BRANDY, a fine aromatic liquor, prepared exclusively by the eminent Russian Distiller, who supplied the Imperial hospitals of St. Petersburg and Riga, during the awful visi tation in the year 1832, with the most beneficial effect. For the accommodation of every class of purchasers, both these Brandies may be had in sealed pint and quart bottle', 2s. and 3s. 6d. each (bottles inclusive), as well as at 18s. by the single imperial gallon or upwards. HENRY BRETT and C 0.., Old Furnival's Inn, Holborn Bars; HENRY BRETT, jun., 109, Drury-lane; ALFRED BRETT, NO. 50, Stones'-end, Southwark. Beware of counterfeits. GENERAL CONVENTION. (THIS DAY.) Mr. WOLSTENHOLIVIE in the chair. A letter was read from the Delegates, at Birmingham, asking a further remittance. After some discussion, Mr. O'CONNOR emphatically declared that the whole question of the legality or illegality of the Convention would be raised upon the trial of the Birmingham Dele gates, and' never would the funds of the Convention be better employed than in now establishing the rights of the people ; and he should move that it be an instruction to the Defence Fund Committee to engage Sir C. Wether ell for the defence, whom he would rather have than the whole bar of England, for he knew that Sir Charles would do his duty like a man, and read the Magistrates and the Government of this country a lesson on the tyranny and imbecility of their proceedings, which would do more to establish the rights of the people than all which had hi therto beenidone.—( Hear.) On Mr. DUNCAN'S subsequently moving that the letter be referred to the Defence Committee, Mr. O'Connor withdrew his motion, and Mr. Duncan's was agreed to. Mr. BUSSEY reported his journey in the north. The people in Yorkshire were, to a certain extent, prepared for the sacred month ; but they regretted that Delegates should have voted for the commencement of the month who were not yet confident as to the ability of their con stituents to bear the privations of that period. In one of the densest manufacturing districts the masters had given notice that if the Convention did not now make the men cease work on the 12th of August, the masters would, as it would be to them a great kindness.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. HARNEY then reported his mission in Northumber land and Cumberland where the people, though too poor to be prepared in provision for the national holiday, were perfectly prepared in spirit. Of the run on the banks of the Tyne, he could speak with certainty. He had ad dressed 40 public meetings in a month. As to the speech for which he was to take his trial next week, he would only say that if it had been correctly reported by the spy, it did not commit the Convention.—( Hear, hear.) He had done his best to excite the people ; but he was careful that the effect should be seen, not when it would injure the people, but their tyrants.—(Hear, hear.) He had found the people often ready to slake themselves in blood rather than lose the Charter. If ever the Charter was won, it would be by the men of the North, and if they were not now prepared, they never would be. The Convention had began at Birmingham to take steps which had excited the expectations of the people, that they would adopt energetic measures. But he was sorry to be obliged to say that he believed the Convention, if it had not lost, was rapidly losing the confidence of the people, through its conduct on the subject of the sacred month. What fitter day could be fixed on for beginning the na tional holiday than Monday, the sth of August, the day when the news of the trial of the delegates would arrive ? Why now delay? Information wanted, forsooth I What then, were all the simultaneous meetings a farce ? He trusted the people, and if acquitted would, within forty-eight hours, be with the people. He should be grieved to find this movement dwindling away in a dungeon. Rather than endure the lingering horrors of transportation, cheerfully would he face the hangman's rope. The Convention would not do its duty unless for their unfortunate brethren now doomed to con finement and banishment they procured freedom. And how could they do that? By calling upon the people, and placing them in collision with their tyrants. This move ment could not fail, unless through the misconduct of their leaders. Where were the numbers and the enthu siasm so much boasted of in the North? If the Con vention were not prepared to meet the consequences of the struggle, let them resign their trusts, and the people would elect another Convention, who would pro claim the national holiday, and bring on the contest, with out which never would be obtained the salvation of father land. Either the people were strong enough to procure their rights, or not. If they were, why not call upon them? If not, why n)t tell them frankly that they must despair ?—(Hear, hear.) The leaders of Lancashire and Yorkshire had wickedly deceived the Convention, for the people there were as fully prepared as those of Northum berland, Cumberland, and Durham—if allowed now to go back, wearied of useless agitation, to their slavery, they would never more be roused.—( Hear, hear.) The Convention might, at this last moment, show to the country that they were fitted for the leadership of the people, but if through any timidity of theirs this movement failed, they would deservedly be the object of universal scorn, No man in the Convention, however cautious and prudent, was safer than another—his young blood might be taken first by the tyrants, as the most ardent in carrying out the movement ; but the cause once ruined, the most moderate would alike partake the common fate. No medium now —we conquer, or we fall. Mr. O'CONNOR might have wished that the people had commenced the holiday on the day when the convictions in Wales took place, but if they did not feel sufficient interest in it the Convention could not excite them. He feared among the leaders of the people, not the traitor or the spy, but the fool. He did not mean to say that Mr. Harney was either—( Hear, hear, and a laugh) —but this he knew, that the people would not be misled by Mr. Harney. The Convention then entered into private business. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TH lIRSDA v. —We con. tinue to have a good demand for cotton. This day's trans• actions, 5,000 bags ; since Friday an advance of 3-d per lb. - Arrivals this Morning—French.and Ostend Mails; ship letters from Africa, Demerara, and Jamaica ; Calcutta, by the Bengal Merc hant. The meeting of the Bank Directors yesterday was con tinued to a late hour in the afternoon ; and after they broke up no notice was issued, although it was generally expected. The important point of their discussions still continues to be a profound secret. The exports of bullion from the 11th to the 17th July bas been—Gold coin, 2,730 ounces ; bar, 2,172 ounces. Silver, in coin, 41,098 ounces. Against the above return the exports from the 19th to the 24th July are—Gold bar, 1,600 ounces; and coin, 2,020 ounces. Silver coin, 69,949 ounces ; and bars, 21,060. The great bulk of the silver has been exported this week to China, to replace that portion of silver which ,the stoppage of the opium trade has withdrawn from the market for the purchase of tea. We have received the journals of Antwerp of yesterday's date, which contain the speech of the Minister of the In terior on the closing of the Session of the Dutch States General by Commission. He says that in consequence of the arrangement of the affairs with Belgium, the budget for the year 1840 will not be laid before the Chamber until the next Session, owing to the great changes in the ex penses of the public service which will take place. There is also to be an alteration in the coinage. There is nothing further of importance in the speech. Consols opened this morning at 922 I for the Account ; Money, 924, with little doing at present. Exchequer Bills heavy at 9 11 prem. ; India Bonds, nothing done ; India Stock, 253 254; Bank Stock heavy, 1861 1874. In the Foreign Market, Spanish 194 ; Portuguese, same as they closed, 344 ; Three per Cents., 214 22 ; Brazilian, 784 794 ; Colombian, 321- 33 ; Mexican, 284 29; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 554; Five per Cents., 1034 Ir. PRICES U k STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 92P„ Ditto Bonds lB pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 92% 1% South Sea Stock 3%. per Cent — Old Annuities Ditto Red. 99; 100 New Ditto New 3% per Cent 99% 9 % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 .. 13 11 prn. Jan. 5, 1860 14% Ditto Small .. 12 14 pm. Oct. 10, 18 59 l4 1-16 Ditto Com me r c i a l — pm. Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised pm, Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... 188% April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 924 g HALF-PAST ONE. We have received the Hamburg papers of the 23d July. They bring the Exchange 4of a schilling higher, and the price of gold 4 mark lower. Exchange 13 54 ; Gold, 433 marks ; 106 ; Bank Share sl5 16 to 15 18. No political information in the above papers of consequence. Not a feature worth notice up to this hour has taken place in either of the Markets. We understand that the sum required for the Croydon Railway will be to a small extent, about 70,0001., and there is little doubt that it will be easily obtained. Nothing as yet has transpired respecting the long dis cussion at the Bank yesterday, in alt probability the ope rations in the Exchanges this afternoon, may lead to some clue. Consols may be quoted 92k for the Account ; they were in the morning 921; Money 91i; Exchequer Bills 11 10 ; Small ditto 12 14 ; India Bonds 18 prem. ; Bank Stock 1861 187. In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing. Spanish Active, 19+; Portuguese, Three per Cents. 21i ; Colom bian, nothing done ; Mexican, 28i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 55k; Five per Cents., nothing done. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS sank Stock 187 3 per Cent. Red go% 3 per Cent. CUB. 9l3g 3X, per Cent. Red 5,9% New 3y4 per Cent 99% New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 .................. 14% Oct. 1859 ....... . ........ 1 t 1-16 Jan 1880 ........... ..... i India Stack !Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,0001 .2d 19 pm. Ditto 5001 11 pm. Ditto 5001 14 pm. Bank Stock for Opg India Stock for Opg Consols for Opg N FUNDS Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent. Ditto, Deferred B% French, 5 per cent 112 f. _..c. Exchange —l; —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, '234 per cent. 53 Ditto, 5 per cent. k RES, 3! , ay lway 15% ay (Trunk) JO% ailway 37% FOREIG' -- - Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent 103% Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent I9Y, Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 32g, Danish, 3 per cent Greek Bonds, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 , NI4 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent l9 S 11) Great Western Railway -"- Ditto New Shares ...... London and Brighton Rallws London and Greenwich Rail , London and Croydon Railwa York and North Midland Ra MRS. BISHOP AND MR. BOCHSA.--Mr. Bishop has addressed a letter to the Times in reply to Mr. Riviere's and Mrs. Bishop's letter lately published in that paper. In this letter, Mr. Bishop says, " Justice to myself demands my most solemn denial of our ever having lived otherwise than on terms of perfect unanimity, and the utmost confidence, until a few weeks since, when in conse quence of what had passed, I considered it my duty, in the presence of her father, on the authority of a husband, and with the feelings of a husband, and the father of her chil dren, strictly to forbid all further intimacy with Mr. Bochsa. In defiance of this injunction, and without any professional engagement for her being proposed to me by Mr. Bochsa (as on former occasions), or any reason exist ing to prevent my accompanying her, she, wholly without my consent, and clandestinely, left her home to proceed to the continent, under the circumstances which have been stated. Then follow the extracts. They are strongly corrobatory of Mr. Bishop's assertion. EVEN ING- EDITION'. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Braga.uza was presentee: to her Majesty at an audience yesterday at Buckingham Palace by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 'The Duchess was attemded by Lord Lilford, Lord in Waiting on the Queen. Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Torringtom Lord in Waiting, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting. The Princess Augusta visited the Queen yesterday. Viscount Melbourne and Vioeount Palmerston had audiences yesterday of her Majesty. The Royal Dinner party at thee Palace last evening, included the Duchess of Richmond, Lady Caroline G. Lennox, Earl of March, Countess of Charlemont, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Surrey, Hon. W. Cowper, and COonel Wemyss. Yesterday was the birthday of ,the Duchess of Cambridge. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Prin cesses of Hohenlohe, and attended by ti'm Hon. Miss Eden, came to town yesterday from Bushy Park , and paid a congratulatory visit to her Royal Highness at Cambridge House. The Princess Augusta, attended by Lady Mary Pelham, came to town from Frogmore Lodge, and visited the Royal Duchess. Her Royal Highness also received visits from the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Sussex:. In the after noon the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Maly of Cambridge, paid a. visit to the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Several of the Foreign Minis vrs and many of the Nobility called and left their names for her Royal Highness at Cambridge House du ring the day. Vie Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoened the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry with their company at dinner last evening, at their residence at Rose Bank. The Qaeen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and the Print'esses of Hohenlohe, visited the Duchess of Bra ganza yesterday at Mivart's Hotel. The Princess Augusta, attended by Lady Mary Pelham, left. Cambridge House as half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon,; on her return to Frogmore Lodge. The Princess Aug;rths d idMr. Hayter the honour to give a • final sitting yesterday for her portrait in his picture of the. Coronation. A deputation, consisting of Lord Eliot, M.P., the Solicitor- General, Sir R. Rolfe, 11%P., Mr. Pendarves, M.P., Mr. Freshfield, M.P., Alfred Fox, Esq., Captain Rogers, R.N. and J. Bond, Esq., R.N., had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing -street. The Earl of WarwielChad an ioterview with Viscount Mel bourne yesterday in Downing-strect. Earl Talbot, Mr. Maude, and the• Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces, had intei•viesys with Lord J. Rus sell yesterday at the HoMe Office. Mr. Alexander Stewart, of Nova Scotia, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office. THE NEW POLICE BILL. ST. MARTIN'S-IN.THE-FIELDS' MEETING. (THIS DAY.) . _. _ . This morning a meeting of the inhabitants of the above parish, assembled pursuant to a requisition numerously signed, took place place in the Vestry-room, near the Church, to take into consideration the measures now in progress through Parliament relative to the Metropolitan Police, as also thelbest means of obtaining an equitable ad justment with the Police Commissioners of their increased demands for Police-rate, brought on solely by the opera tion of the New Assessment Act. Mr. WEST in the Chair. The following resolutions were proposed by M r . R. S. WILKES ; and passed unanimously : " That a petition be presented to the House of Lords, praying their Lordships either to reject the Bill altogether as an attack on the liberty of the subject, or to make such modifications in its enactments as shall render it more conso nant to the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the Me tropolitan Police districts. That the efficiency of the police would not be impaired or its utility rendered less by allow ing parochial authorities a control over the force employed in such parish—and a control equally over the funds which they pay for the support of the police ; and that in conse quence of the operation of the New Assessment Act, the valuation of the parish had been increased to an amount exceeding 20,0001., upon which the police may demand and receive poundage ; that under the circumstances they had no right to such additional charge ; and that applica tion should be made to the Commissioners on the subject, and also to the Secretary of State." A petition founded upon the above was agreed to, and the Marquis of Westminster was dominated to present it to the House of Lords. --- ------ ----- Thanks having been given to the Chairman the meeting separated. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) The supplies of English Grain this week are very small, but of Foreign Wheat and Oats there are fair quantities. English 'Wheat has advanced Is. to 25., and Foreign 2s. per quarter, with fair sales of the latter. In other grain no variation. Flour comes sparingly to hand, and prices are improving. SMITHFIELD. A large supply to-dayi;;Fridal, --- bUt trade generally very drooping. Fine Beef declined 4d. per stone of tilbs. ' • Mutton and Lamb sold slowly at a slight decline ; Veal and Pork at former rates. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s . to 4s. 10d. ; Veal,.4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb' Ss. 4d. to 6s. Beasts, 693 ; Sheep and Lambs, 9,000 ; P i g g ' 540 ; Calves, 445. CITY FISH MARKET. Good supplies and a fair trade, prices steady. Turbot, 59. t ° 18s. ; Good Salmon, Is. to Is. 6d. per pound; Crimped,' 3 9 . ; Lobsters 6d. to 3s. ; Salmon Trout, Iod. to Is. 6d, ; Soles, 6d. to 2s. 6d. per pair ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; and Haddocks. 6d. to ls. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEET. Wheat. i Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease- 8. to r. 30 34 29 31 30 40 32 36 97 32 26 30 28 35 26 32 26 32 32 42 24 36 32 34 25 35 30 34 33 40 28 36 Per Quarter. Abingdon.-- 13. tO S. 64 80 74 52 63 80 73 80 64 81 65 80 r 43 80 72 78 63 ho 64 70 63 75 64 74 64 75 64 74 65 75 63 74 a. to a. 38 is. to s. 22 30 25 16 22 26 30 20 25 26 30 20 30 23 26 22 29 28 34 90 28 22 29 20 27 20 28 28 32 20 24 22 32 17 28 20 25 22 26 _ 21 22 65 70 132 36 30 22 CHELTENHAM MARKI be!. s. d. to s. d. Ps 7 9 8 0 Beef 4 6 5 6 Mutton .... 36 43 Veal 49 56 Pork ... ..... 5 0 5 3 Lamb ay 31. 15s to 4/. 4s. Od. per ton. V ERPOOL CORN MARKET.—JuIy 23. ish, White, per 701 b. lls. pd. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 96— Red 8 (I Foreign 7 3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 4 0 Irish -Foreign 0 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 Scotch and Irish, pet 601bs. Feeding 4 6 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 Irish, &c. 39 0 Foreign 40 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 46 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 280:b. 52 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 34 6 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per I mpenal quarter NIALT, per Imperial quarter .to L Sirminghani Cirencester Faringdeni.«. , Guildford Henley Hereford...—. Highworth Maidenhead.. Monmouth Reading Salisbury Southampton Stroud ---- Tewkesbury., Uxbridge Wantage Warminster., Windsor ......... Worcesterwl - 33 - 39 32 40 - 46 - 49 - 46 -...-.. 34 44 34 40 33 42 41 46 - 40 34 39 bU 70 74 63 72 67 70 28 32 24 34 27 34 35 -- 33 4‘.i. 36 40 _ 42 33 48 ... ...• Per Bug Wheat Barley Oats Beans . Pease - 476 4 WHEAT, Etcj d.to£ l . 6 9 , 6 'At 7 t 61, I 0 & to 113.8 d. 10 8 9 9 10 0 • 9 3 11 3 4 2 3 11 0 0 40 3 0 5 5 0 43 0 43 44 0 50 0 48 0 56 0 55 0 :36 0 43 0 43 0 70 0 LEEDS CORN MARKET.— Jujy 23 Wheat, Norfolk and Sitilblk, 601 b. ---- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. s4s. to 725. V', Barley, Norfolk and Sutfblk --- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding 13s. to 3 " „:: Beans Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, For. —(1. to—d Eng. 14d. to 15jid. per stolac., Shelling 36s. to 375. per Insta MEMOIRS OF HENRY GRATTAN, BY U l5 Sox.—lndependent of the important interest attached to these volumes, from their containing the secret corre spondence of various Viceroys of Ireland to their Cabinet employers in England, and especially that of the Earl of Buckinghamshire to Lord North, in which the peculiar services of various parties are detailed ; another of th e most interesting features is the v i v id manner in which the' author throws off the characters of the principal person ages connected with the history of the period of which he writes. Among these arc George 111 —Sir John Mar lay—his grandson, Chief Justice Marlay—Anthony Ma lone (Chancellor of Exchequer)—Dr. Lucas—Lord PPrY —Sir Hercules Langrishe—Mr. Henry Flood—Jobn Wilkes—Lord Chatham—Judge Kelly—Mr. Denis Daly —Lord Chief Baron Burgh—Mr. Forster, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons—Mr. John Forbes—Barry Y 44- verton (Lord Avonmore)—Gervase Parker Bushe—Duke of Leinster—Lord Charlemont—Mr. Scott ( Irish Attor ney- General)— Earl Buckinghamshire—. Sir Richard He ron—Lord Carlisle—Sir Samuel Bradsheet—Dr. Jebb— Father O'Leary—Lord North—Mr. Eden—Duke of Port land—Mr. Burke—Mr. Fox—Mr. Fitzgibbon (Lord Clare)— General Fitzpatrick— Lord Abingdon Mr. Hardy—Lord Rockingham—Mr. Pitt. &c. &c. The private correspondence between Mr. Grattan and his friends, especially while a Templar in London, forms also a most interesting portion of the volumes. LD A S B H . E S F A V ID E RVan P d LSOANTSE,DmanIin VfaleNtuEringCsOipveLrsinEißoSs. 14, A. Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of E ng l an d) , h ave for choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and ORNA MENTAL ICE PAILS, to which they wish to direct attention. The price Of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in use), 81. 106. the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat), 101. Bs. the pair; the Victoria Pattern, 151. the pai r ; t h e resden Cooler, 191. tne pair, &c, all of whic- are strongly mounted with Silver, and have Silver Shields for Engraving the Creat or Coat of Arms. A pamphlet is published, wit drawings of the above and other articles of plate genera ll y, which may be had on applica tion, free of cost. POWERFUL MUSICAL BOXES, in W ood cases, 12 inches long by five inches wide, each playing four airs , with the me c h an i sm finished in a very superior manneri ar e offered for Five Guineas each. Also a few of the sam e description, larger sizes, at the following prices:— Six Airs ...... ..- ..£7 £7 7 0 Eight Airs extra, i Eight Airs ...... ... 818 6 large £l4 14 9 Three Overtures l4 14 At T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Got& smith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Deers from Gracechurch-street). N.B. The small Musical Boxes 3i inches long, continu! selling in tin cases, price I9s. each, or in composition shell cases, 255. each. A Catalogue containing a List of the Music may be had gratis, or can be forwarded by post as a single letter in answer to a post-paid application. ____......... DIED. On the 24th inst., at Old Brompton, of consumption, Eliz a, the eldest daughter of Mr. Hinrich, of John-street, Adelphip aged 21. On the 24th inst., Antonio Jose da Costa, son of Antonio di Costa, Esq., of Pentonville, aged 21. On the 24th inst., at Bromley, Middlesex, John Pitchford, Esq., aged 67. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand , I" the county of Middlesex.—Friday, July 26, lek39.