The Sun. — London, England, 1836-06-27 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The di: 3cussion of the Commons' amendments upon the " am mdments" made by the Tory Peers upon the Irish M unicipal Reform Bill, is fixed for this evening in the '` douse of Lords. Will their Lordships agree to the modification of the Lyndhurst scheme, to which the I louse of Commons, for peace sake, have con sentad ? Have they, in the interval that has elapsed sir,ce the mutilated measure left their House, at tended to the proceedings out of doors—to the public meetings in all quarters of the empire in favour t ' Irish Corporate Reform—and, from the tone ul t tenor of the speeches delivered, and of the resolSaions agreed to, and of the petitions adopted am ) , since presented to Parliament, gathered wisdam—even that little wisdora which suffices to tell them that they have hitherto deviated into the wrong road in regard to this ques".ion—and that if they dog gedly persevere in, the manifestly insane at tempt to interp ose b etween Ireland and the just and natural advantages to which she is en titled by the Act of Legislative Union, and to set the declared will of the people and of theiT , representatives at d e fi ance, t h eir very " O r d er will be in danger ? These questions will he answered. by the decision to which their Lordships will re am to night. To those who think a reform of S l oe House of Lards desirable, to every man in the United Kingdom,l and the elass is now numerous, who thinks that here ditary les_cislation is fraught with anomaly and danger to the state, a persistence on the part of the Peers in their refusal of British immunities to the Irish people a l wordd be extremely acceptable. To-night we shall know whether the Tory Peers mean to play the game of their opponents, by making another addition to the long score of Lordly malversation. This much, how ever, is certain, that the Tory Lords shall not have their way in abolishing the Municipal system in the sister country. They may refuse to reform that system this Session ; but extirpate it they shall not. To the existing race of convicted Municipal peculators and wrong-doers, their Lordships may, by their vote of this night, give a prolonged existence—a prolonged tenure of the right to rob and fill with corrup tion the Jury-box ; but if they fancy that, by a decision adverse to the modified Bill which is to engage their attention, they can degrade Ireland below the level of Great Britain, contrary to the avowed resolve of th e p eop l e o f England, and Scotland— to say nothing of our Irish fellow-subjects—and re move all future chance of reforming the municipal sys tem in Ireland, by altogether abolishing that which is old and corrupt, they have suffered their passions to comrait sad havoc upon their senses. The present measure goes up to their House under circumstances fa r different from those which attended the progress of 'the original Bill from one House to the other. When the former Bill left the House of Commons, it had in that House but a majority of 61 ; and, as the distinc tion has been drawn, we may add, these consisted of the representatives of Scotland and Ireland. The present Bill has passed the Lower House by a sweep ing majority of 86, and in this number is included a majority of 49 English Members. Furthermore, the former Bill had not elicited a manifestation of popular feeling ; the Peers need not be told by us what a spirit has been awakened by their mutilation of that Bill, and how strong and general a feeling, in favour of the principle of the present mea sure, has been expressed in every portion of the United Kingdom. These are important facts, .and they may possibly work a beneficial, prudent change, in the proceedings of the Tory Peers. And yet, it is to be apprehended that the maxim —quos Deus volt perdere—applies to their Lord ships. Their backers are evidently either de mented, or so blinded by malice, that they cannot appreciate the signs of the times. We see by a long and ineffably stupid and grossly dishonest letter, published with all the showing off' of leaded typography (heaven knows the writing was sufficiently leaden without this addition of the base metal) in the apos tate Journal, that the huge boa—to use a felicitous figure applied in reference to the same person by the late Mr. North—is again coiling his unwieldly folds through the congenial pages of that print, and trailing his foetid slime on the public path. This worthy " comrogue" of the corruptionists imagines, we sup pose, that people will overlook his apostacy also, and the motives which led to his becoming a renegade Against the country hr, betrayed," and attach importance to hie dull lucubrations. Why, however, does not the blockhead contrive to escape palpable absurdity and self-contradiction ? For in stance, he says, that the Irish Whigs were the first who called for the " abolition" of Irish Corporations. And how does he set about the proof of this men dacious assertion ? When, by quoting a sentence from a letter of Lord Cloncurry, writtes.- some seven years ago, in which that Noble Lord, ex pressing liss individual opinion respecting the pro bable results of Catholic Emancipation, says— " Corporations will be reformed or abolished ; the public funds will be carefully husbanded and im partially administer e d." H ere we see that in 1829 Lord . Cloncurry, speaking for himself alone, antici pated as the first portion of his alternative improve ment the reform of such corporations. Yet ni the teeth of the Noble Lord's express words, the plodder who comments upon his language with consummate effrontery or marvellous obtuseness of intellect, quotes Lord Cloncurry in proof of the assertion that it was the Irish Whigs who first demanded the abolition of Irish corporations. Supposing, however, that the as sertion were true, how far would that circumstance in volve in difficulty or contradiction those who now insist on Corporate Reform in Ireland—the same having been already established in Great Britain ? Unquestionable the abolition of the existing municipal system in Ireland would be a benefit;—but is that a reason why the greater benefit of a reform in the system should be refused on the one side, or overlooked on the other ? Above all, why should the Irish people—forming as they do a third of the imperial population—be in sulted, as they have been so flagitiously by Baron Lyndhurst and his followers in the House of Lords, hi the contumelious denial to them of a salutary British law—and on the plea, too, of their being " aliens in religion and in blood ?" For, be it eve - r remembered—and indeed there is little chance of its soon being forgotten—this is the ground on which the Tory Lords rest their opposition to the Reform of the Irish Corporations oil the same principle which guided the framers of the measure by which the British car porate system has been purified and made a fosintain of usefulness, instead of being a source .)f mischief and pollution. As we began, so we conclude, by asking—Will the h ere dit ar y L eg i s l ators of the Tory school persist, in that factious opposition, and adhere to that iniTaitous plea ? Let them take heed, lest present ol;stinacy lead to more extensive demands from the peof,e, and mare extensive concession on the part of the .?eers, in the next session. To maintain Gat ton, dee Tories sacrificed all the boroughs in schedule A. 'Let them take warning from the past, and not ins - ate the municipal enfranchisement of fifty Irish towns by their wicked attempt to abolish corporate government in the Irish capital, and eleven other ities and large towns. In 1830 the Tory Peers -would preserve all corruption ; in 1836 they will abo lish all, because of the existence of the alloy of cor ruption ; in both cases their hatred and their fears were towards Reform. We had written thus far when a very able article in the Journal des Debats of Fri day last, on the subject of IriS'n Corporation Reform, was pointed out to us. The looker-on is often the best judge of the game. 'e r ne Journal des Debats may be described as almrSst a Tory paper, and its advice may produce more eaPrect on that account on the opponents of Corporate Reform. Having stated the plea that the Admission of Catholics into the Corporations would he attended with a re-action against the Protestants, the writer asks, " But, after all, is it necessary on that account, as the House of Lords wishes, to introduce into the general system of the institutions of Great Britain an anomaly offensive to the Irish people, who have already suffered so much from a legislation founded on the same distrust, and will they never offer them any other than a negative reparation ? Is this not constantly turning against them, a state of things which is not their work, resentments which have been too long provoked, an agitation for which they are less to blame than their masters ? In vain the Tories re peat that the justice rendered to Ireland by the Catho- lie Emancipation Bill, has only made it rise in its demands. Emancipation was but a means, and that great measure left so much to be done, that this un fortunate country owed it to itself to press the conse quences to arrive et advantage's more ipdsaik...C . , Ko're immediate, which should des.c:eviA . tO dcyths in the misteoce df the urets'sk•k" After some observa tions on the of Ministers, the writer goes on to ob>liiiVe—" Assuredly these are immense con eesq.AlS made by the House of Commons to the pre ,`lnlices and the f ears o f the Tories. They prove that the popular party can be contented with a slow pro gress and deini-triumphs ; that they how when to compromise ; that they do not believe it indispensable to do every thing at once, and to attire by one kap ht the end of their career. if the House of Lords shall have the good sense to display the ,same spirit of con- . ciliation and prudence, England will, perhaps, conti nue for a long time to give the world the spectacle of a great political Alia social revolution, taking place calmly, and by the force alone of public opinion and the public reason.”—Morning Chronicle. It is difficult to understand what the idiots of the Whi o ".itadical press mean by their jabbering about the political origin of the recent trial. Is it meant that a man who suspects that he has been injured by the se duction of his wife should abstain from any attempt to obtain redress, because the supposed seducer is Prime Minister ? Then, what is meant by our political su•- •e" port of the plaintiff? We never wrote one ,me On the subject till it had been a matter of public fame that Mr. Norton had commenced, an action against Lord Melbourne. We certa;oly did then say, what we now repeat, that if Lord Melbourne was guilty of the offence imputed to him, he was unworthy to temain another day in the high position of Prime Minister.. We might have added, that he was unworthy to it again in the society of gentlemen ; for if he had been convicted of that renne, of which he has in our opi nion been most justly acquitted, what was the nature of his guilt ? First, he had abused the patronage of his Ace, by bestowing a valuable appointment in or der to facilitate the seduction of a poor friend's wife ; next, he had taken advantage of the natural gratitude of a warm-hearted woman, and by a sort of moral duresse had claimed the surrender of her honour as the equivalent for his bounty. Thank God! the noble defendant stands clear of these monstrous offentcB against political and social duty. I3ut were we wrong in saying that a person Convicted of such offences ought not for a day longer to direct the Councils of his Sovereign? The sentiment we abide by, though we rejoice that the cause which inspired it does not exist. This is the only answer we shall condescend to give to our miserable cavillers.—Times. Although it is probable that we shall now hear no thing more of Mr. Poulett Thomson's proposed Bill for removing existing restrictions on infant labour in our great manufactories for cottons, consumptions, and coffins, and although, for the present, there must be a relinquishment of that humane and ingenions expedient, in virtue of which, by rendering the toils of factory children wholly insupportable, their lives and sufferings would be proportionally shortened, and a larger average of our surplus population annually draughted off into " another country" than the emigration policy of this realm has herotofore contemplated ; yet the remarkable instance of contraband mercy shown up by Lord Ash ley on Monday last, whereby it seems a number of boys had been indulged in tearing up their employers' Woollens and their own vitals for 34 successive hours, plainly shows, that unless the utmost vigilance be exer cised in restraining the compassion of such masters Ps Ibbotson, Taylor, and Co., of Batley, their zeal for literally smuggling "little children" into the kingdom of Heaven is likely to operate to an extent not hitherto anticipated, we suspect, either by the inspired canon or by any human code. All levity aside, however, we feel constrained to recur to the condition of the factory children from a well-founded apprehension, that what cupidity has failed to wring from the Legislature is actually effected to a considerable extent by some other means. Not that the Batley style of execution is ever likely to be adopted by the respectable manufacturers of England otherwise than as a foil to set off in advantageous relief their more moderate scale of- infanticide at the proposed rate of 12 hours' labour per diem ; but that the motives and facilities possessed by parents and masters for prac tising deception, regarding the exact age of children between the years of 11 and 14 are such as awaken the suspicion, strengthened by facts, that the recent attempt to obtain an augmented Labour Bill has been nothing better than an end to procure by Parliamen tary sanction an impunity for those evasions of the existing law which we fear are extensively resorted to in most of our principal manufactories. What number of boys and girls may occasionally be doomed to such gallies and shambles as are kept by Messrs. Ibbotson and Co. we have no means of detecting. The dis tinction acquired by these gentlemen is, we earnestly trust, an unrivalled one. We cannot believe it possible that a case of similar atrocity is anywhere to be found ; nor are we unmindful of the fact, so creditable to many of the master manufacturers, that their 'anxiety to render their mills and factories as little injurious as possible to the health of the swarms of children employed by them, is satisfactorily shown by the ma chinery they have erected for the partial absorption of the dust or other floating particles inseparable from the processes of cleaning, carding, and spinning, as well as by their laudable attention to the cleanliness and venti lation of their establishments. All this we have seen and admired. But the truth is, that with every favour able allowance that can either be claimed or conceded on account of such attentions, there are still connected with the labours of factory children certain revolting evils, both essential and accidental, which, far from warranting any relaxation of the existing statutory restrictions, do in our opinion demand a yet further interference on the side of morals and humanity. In the first place, we are well convinced, from good in formation, that the present law requiring children to be not under a certain age before they can be eligible for the factory labour of eight hours a-day, is very exten sively evaded. Parents, anxious to increase their income by receiving wages for their offspring whose registers of birth they are sel?om able to produce, are tempted to represent thisni a year or two older than they actu ally arc ; on the other hand, the interest of mer cenary masters, intent chiefly on obtaining cheap la bour, is the reverse of involving any nice scrupulosity as to Children's ages, inasmuch as boys or girls, pro -oded they be at all fit for waiting on the machinery, receive a lowness of remuneration corresponding to the tenderness of their age. A practice exists, too, whereby the responsibility of this is attempted, we suppose, to be in some degree shifted from the em ployer. Three or four looms are undertaken by an expert girl of 15 or 16 years of age. She is the only person employed at these looms by a direct engage- ment with tile master, in virtue of which she some times receives a maximum of 225. per week ; but, as she cannot personally superintend the whole of the looms under her charge, she usually engages the as sistance of two or three very young children, often bee own sisters, who being neither hired nor paid by the manufacturer, are generally considered as her servants, for whom she is held to be responsible. One conse quence of this superficial arrangement is, that a num • ber of youthful subordinates are to be found at the looms, who, in appearance at least, are under the statutory age. Again ;we entertain very strong doubts whether the employment of young females at all in such establishments, and still more, whether their constant as sociation with men and boys in their (lady work, can be vindicated on any sustainable plea. While these females are not more than 10, 11, or 12 years of age, their subjection to eight hours' labour a-day, prematurely accelerating or injuriously retarding the proces ses o f nature—often f a i nt i ng with heat or weariness—always inhaling an atmosphere corrupted with floating flakes of cotton or wool—and this at a period of life requiring peculiarly the indispensable requisites of pure air, mo derate exercise, and healthful recreation—is, in our opinion, neither considerate nor humane. On the other hand, when factory girls, at the age of puberty, arc seen working in summ er , una b le to endure stay s , an d pre scnting an unseemly exposure of neck and bosom, forced upon them by weather-heat, aggravated by toil and steam, as well as crowded and confined rooms, a scene i s exhibited to the casual spectator, and to the men and boys of the establishment, scarcely consistent with com mon decency. The ordinary averment that our valuable cotton manufacture ought not to be lightly meddled with, is one which may safely be admitted, we think, without necessarily involving the cOntinilauce of stteh proprieties., N7eftt in. the t;:aii;, .6r eien the I,Y! . e_;';..:At l'fi'ocieralcd syst e m of f ac t o ry labour imposes uponits youthful victims, are their animal exhaustion, their consequent recourse to the stimulants of gin and opium, their deprivation of educational advantages, their pulmonary and chronic ai.eav:e., with obscene convcrsttio Ana theii Vl\ course. Ilia timtglt all tth'esY3ColkennikAlo lilgilt be charged trp.m.i the eN.isti'n4 With a conclusive , nes's 4 vViaoMt arginneht 'Whieh hO'rcaSua,ble person conld Ethikay, ive lions d thein ilke:o,kiihi'f- aggressions which may ftr Attemptod by rd - r. Poulett Thomson's Nire.-pullers shall compel us to speak out. Suffice it to say, in the meantime, that if any thing were wantin?„ to prece from the most intelligent and unobjecti ,- )kiable sduite's., the cruelty and criminality of vela' irig the pie':§eikt stiietions on the labour of fzietoi.y ehilAeAl the ii'rthif so desidetatetl can be adtlOced fill 11 tiidst itresistibl'e form. A curious Aila va1,41,6 pATTif)hlet iipetl phis sub ject, pnlished ilr 16,3 i, bech bs, which, independehtly Of ih Wi)',tltory statistics, pos sesses the . vaIUASI4 o:l7.insie recommendation of having been . wi - ittn by an extensive manufacturer at Bury, Mime private interests are generally supposed to be at variance with the recorded conclusions of his observation and experience. So prejudicial, indeed, were his views thought to be to the various modifications of factory depravity, :oppression, and slaughter, that his alarmed opponents actually bought up his little work with an avidity which left extant only a few stray copies) of which we have been supplied with one. The writer who is understood to be a Mr. Gregg, the letvliug partner of one of the largest manufacturing houses in Lancashire, has cut open the concern and let out its corruptions with a keen and unsparing knife. How any man above the condition of a savage can be familiar with its disclosures, which humanity has extorted' from the author in opposition, as he be lieves, to his pecuniary interests, and yet remain an advocate for increased hours of labour among factory children, is to us utterly inexplicable. With Mr. Gregg's useful testimony in the cause of factory morals and mercy, which we shall certainly recur to, if circumstances render this necessary, it gives us pleasure to associate the name and efforts of that eminent manufacturer and very honest man, Mr. Fielder', M.P. for Oldham. Differing from Mr. Fieldeu as we do respecting the safety and soundness of many measures of the present sub-Ministers, we are yet at one with him in his opinion of their " insuffi ciency"---" their dabbling officiously in affairs which they do not understand ;" their yeerirws and vacil lations "in passing an Act to-day on one authority, and then repealing it to-morrow on another ;" and, finally, their acknowledged proneness to " sport with" the most grave and important interests. " The curse of the factory system" (see Mr. Fielden's pamphlet, p. 25), as he aptly designates his production, is shown up by him with great fidelity and spirit. We recom mend it to the especial attention of the " officious dabblers" he speaks of ; and of Mr. Poulett Thomson who moves like a parrot in his official cage, swinging in the circle hung up for him by his Manchester mas ters, re-echoing their opinions, and gratified by their " scratches poll, pretty Poul," will still refuse to abandon the interminable chatter of the economists, and learn the lessons taught him by this experienced, independent practical man. Mr. Fielder' and the country will be furnished with another proof that the policy of " Pretty Pour and his Ministerial tribe is determined by neither right nor reason, but solely by an instinctive and indestructible attachment to their official nest, which they alteraatcly feather and foul. —Times. Two new projects of foreign loan are, it is said, in agitation in the City. The one intended to prop the feeble sceptre of Donna Maria of Portugal—the other the tottering crown of Donna Isabel of Spain. We trust the public are already on their guard against these dangerous experiments. We trust that the many successful proofs we have given of our watchfulness over their interests will induce them on this occasion to listen to our warning voice. We hope they will not, for the fifth time, become the dupes of loan contractors and jobbing agents, who care not for the ultimate result of any speculation, provided that their commission is en sured. With regard to the first of these projects—are the public aware that when the Government of Donna Maria expelled that of Don Miguel, Portugal owed but 1,500,0001. of foreign debt, and that since the great event was accomplished the foreign debt has been in creased to 13,500,0001. sterling ? Yes, with the bless ings of constitutional liberty, Portugal has had the blessing of 11,000,0001. additional weight of debt im posed upon it, and England with the glory of having, achieved the great work, has had the pleasure of pay ing that sum to our most ungrateful allies. Are the public aware how their money has been disposed of ? We can tell them—principally in repaying, at an im mense profit, the persons who fitted out the buccaneer ing expedition to Oporto ; and next in furnishing the means of plunder to the Portuguese patriots them selves. The first is a matter of notoriety by the large fortunes realised in Portuguese affairs, since ground down, to be sure, by fishing in Spanish troubled waters : the other can be easily proved. We shall take three items for the present as specimens of the rest : Paid the Duke of as a compensation for having emigrated Paid the Duke of P-- for ditto Paid the Marquis of S-- for ditto £90,000 Yes, this is the way in which money lent by unfortu nate English families, with the hope of establishing a better income, is disposed of. Only 90,0001. among three constitutional heroes ! Only 90,0001. for having run away from Oporto in 1828, and abandoned their dupes to march through Gallicia, and living in clover in England, and being worshipped at one end of the town, and fed and feasted at the other. If a loan be now made, how will it be disposed of ? We can give a good guess. First, in discharging the arrears of all the hungry civil, military, and naval employ& of the Portuguese Government, who have been in arrear for a considerable period; secondly, in repaying the native creditors the sums they had advanced on the late change of Ministry, for which they are becoming -clamorous ; thirdly, in providing a fund for the dis charge of the future dividends accruing on former loans. Can anything he so barefaced ? Will John Bull give his cash as a spoil among the Portuguese ? Will any father of a family who speculates on the bread of his children dare face his home at night after lending a shilling for such a purpose ? The creditor may sup pose that British influence will protect him. Why England and Englishmen are despised in Portugal— hatred to England is the openly avowed, IroaSt of the day—death to the English was the war cry of the late riots at Oporto. The Director of the San Car los, at Lisbon, employed by the Crown, had the inso lence to refuse the British Minister a box last season at the Opera, because Lord Howard de Walden had previously subscribed to the French play. This little fact proves the whole case. There is neither trade nor revenue in Portugal—the Government is so feeble that it has not vontured to collect a single tax. Beyond the gates of the large towns the Queen's authority is but nominal. If England refuse to lend money a bankruptcy must take place. The revenue is even unequal to meet the ordinary expenses of the State. With regard to the second project, we imagine that no loan jobber can venture, in the face of so many ex posures of Spanish fraud, to ask for more money in the name of Donna Isabel. Let the accounts pub lished in the Espanol, a Madrid paper of the late Ad ministration, be an additional warning. The Queen's throne is exposed to daily peril—it has been alone supported by the presence of 20,000 foreign bayonets, and the moral influence of British aid—but even that ground now begins to fail ; jealousy of the Estrangcro is again resuming the ascendancy.. Spain rejects our mercenary aid as a stain on the national honour. The present Government is as feeble as the last ; it will re ceive our money there is no doubt, but a bankruptcy must take place unless we continue to furnish the sup plies. Let Lord Palmerston indulge his visions of Peninsular glory at the expense of the nation he re presents ; but let the British public be on its guard, and let no honest man sacrifice the bread of his chil dren to sustain profligacy in Spain, plunder in Portu gal, and to assist that party in both who detest Eng- " means in their land in their he ar t s , an d o ppose by all power an intercourse beneficial to dd trade.-----;Morn fo2',- ,Herald:. -. ate gla d .!, ,:•!,,.! ,:..,. ~. ..•. 11 , e bability that the Selfs-deAdtiii4 08mMercial enormities. connected with the feudal law of impfiSonni'ei: l t _e , .'4 l debt, will be brought to some prompt determination. A notice has been ; given that a Bill, for the purpose of ',O ill s il'6eraildil; I . ik;ill. P i e b r i-oo , lit f4ii-Ward ,forthwith into 4‘C ItalSe of LOri'ds .I;Y qilL Nil!. e.li - Wil'oi. T 1 May thus be considered as a MiniSterial measure, arm it y.ill he lirciti'glit fOrfard, iii er the beSt auspices, as . 1 1 I.F4rls fill iii. Red iidilitiEt ,in iteiT6e„ . as i; . "11 as finder —,..,.. , • ; , :i ;) , , ,i!. the best auspices as reg a rd s an ca ii y 414. z,, rer ,,, P;lent settlement of the question. The purpose of bring ing it first into the House of Lords, instead of car rvitw it up from the Commons to the Lords, is a :rice obvlo - its iiiid sagaciatisi It will antleipaii! ii,i'.4. olik;iiite ail iiitiiiiftte alit! prejudicial delay, by meeting At .6ifee Miat6 , Ci clbstacies dr dhjeetioris their Lord- Ships niay lie di - gpOSed :to . thi-Cii7 in its Ni*. lt is a i , i'll'olC.Birie tileaSiie, *lacti is as stife of pa6A-i g ii'itti: dill iiiipcaillient through the Lower House, as it is sure of being impeded in its passage through their House. Certainly the injuries which have been done to mer cantile and commercial transactions, by the numerous postponements with which this excellent measure has had the ill fortune to be encumbered, may be said to be almost inappreciable. Neither is the philanthropic view of the subject to be slightingly passed over, when we reflect what numbers of British subjects— " denied the common air, and common use of their ' own limbs"—have been waiting the hour of their social redemption with those disappointed feelings of " hope deferred which maketh the heart sick." Painful, indeed, is the thraldom of large sections of British subjects, confined in various gaols through out the British dominions, under circumstances of more prolonged severity than happen to the most hardened criminals—and that for no criminal offence. It is, however, not the philanthropic view of the question, but the commercial, which will array the most irresistible arguments against the further con tinuance of this obnoxious law. It is the above practicable and business-like view of the question to which we mean to adhere, in the few brief remarks, which the recent Ministerial notice in the House of Lords, on the subject of the Bill about to be intro duced there by the Lord Chancellor, appears to claim. Where are the persons to be found who exhibit any ,,thing like an open expression of opinion in favour of the present law ? We believe it would be very difficult to indicate them. When dragged into the light by the most searching pursuit, they will be found to exhibit the interesting features of sheriffs' officers, bailiffs, and pettifogging attorneys. Indeed even theSe are ashamed of manifesting their opinions very openly, although their bread depends on the continuance of the abuse, and they, therefore, confine themselves to " hint a doubt and hesitate dislike" as the practicable results of its abrogation. They arc fearful, forsooth, for public credit, which they are kind enough to take under their especial patronage. Just as Goldsmith's swearing trooper expressed his fear lest religion should be endangered--so do the men who live by the discreditable process of buying up doubtful debts, for the purpose of extorting costs and fees, express their fear lest public credit should be endangered along with their disre putable means of livelihood. Why, credit has been more impaired by the law, both in public and private channels, than can bear calculation. Vast sums of money, equal to a fifth of the annual income, are use lessly wasted in law expenses. A large portion of the population is cut off from the natural exertion of its industry ; and society is cut off from that industry's profitable results. Meanwhile the wives and children of the imprisoned debtors come upon the poor-rates, and continue still more to aggravate the pressure upon industrious exertion. So far from credit being injured by the reform proposed—so far from that reform being liable to the sarcastic imputation levelled at it, that it is for the purpose of protecting dishonest debtors against their honest creditors—its operation will be di rectly the reverse—it will protect honest creditors against dishonest debtors. What is, in fact, the present operation of the law ? Does it tend, by the example of malignant punishment, to prevent improvident or unprincipled individuals from contracting debts which they cannot discharge ? Quite the reverse. It tempts and prompts ,the improvident to contract those debts ; since the tradesman becomes perniciously facile in trusting, in proportion to his confidence in the thumb-screw placed in his hands by the present law for extorting, through the influence of fear and pain, a usurious charge. The charge is usurious, being na turally calculated according to the risk run. A tradesman's counter, by this process, becomes a gam bling table ; but, unfortunately, the mischief is not confined to the victim if he pay the usurious charge, or to the tradesman if he does not pay. Non-payment is infinitely more likely ; inasmuch as a man who gets into debt with a deliberate intention of never paying at all, or being whitewashed, does not care a single straw whether he is charged one-third more than the market price, or double the market price. Unfortunately the innocent public suffer for all this usurious ab surdity and improvident profligacy, in which the debtor and the creditor are equally to blame—the one spreading the net, and the other rushing into it. Prices in consequence are unnaturally raised ; for the real money price will always apptoximate towards the fictitious credit price. All these various abominations a fictitious credit—the very worst filth of the whole Augean stable of the law--a Bill for the abolition of Imprisonment for Debt will sweep away. We wish the measure, therefore, full success. That success we cannot doubt that it must have. With the exception of the minute and not very reputable fractions of society to which we have referred, there" are no patrons of the present law except some few antiquated Peers, who either deem it their duty to resiS.t•all change, or their province to maintain the ferocious laws of the Norman demi-savages, who violated the fundamental Saxot common law, when their ruthless rapacity prompted them to invent this. We congratulate the descendants of the Howards and Talbots, on their very respectable alliance with pettifoggers and bailiffs. In reality these are the only champions of the extant law. The great majority of merchants and bankers and of the respec table trading middle classes, have unmistakingly pro nounced their opinions respecting it. They have passed sentence upon it, and it is impossible that its extinc tion can be any longer delayed.—Morn. Advertiser. A meeting of Members of the House of Lords, at which nearly a hundred Peers were present, took place on Saturday at Apsley House, for the purpose of determining upon the specific course which they should collectively and individually 'pursue in re ference to the message of the Commons' House of Parliament on the Bill for the Reform of the Cor porations of Ireland, as amended by their Lord ships. The following were among the Peers com posing this important assembly :—Dukes—Cum berland, Wellington, Newcastle, Buccleuch, Beau fort. Marquises—Salisbury, Hertford, Ely, Down shire, Chohnondeley, Camden, Bute, Londonderry. Earls—Winchilsea, Wilton, Westmorland, Leven, Warwick, Verulam, Talbot, Rosslyn, Ripon, Powis, Mansfield, Lonsdale, Limerick, Harrowby, K in noul, Glengall, Falmouth, Devon, Dartmouth, Clan william, Carnarvon, Brownlow, Beverley, Bathurst, Aylesford, Abingdon. Viscounts—Beresford, Strang ford, Combermere. Barons—Wharncliffe, Wallace, Heytesburv, Kenyon, Lyndhurst, Montagu, Mary borough, Prudhoe, Redesdale, Rolle, Skelmersdafe , Fitzgerald, Exmouth, De Tabley, De Roos, Cowley, Bexley, Carbery, Carrington, Colchester, Colville. It is impossible that the proceedings and resolu tions of so numerous a meeting on a subject which deeply interests the community should fail to become the subject of immediate and general conversation in political circles, or that on an occasion where there was no obligation and no motive to secrecy, much of what occurred should not transpire. Without claim ing the advantage of access to any higher source of in formation than that of the current conversation in such society as may fairly be presumed to o btain the earliest And most correct intelligence on such all occasion, we ma y therefore venture to lay before our readers what we upon the authority to which we have al luded, have been the character and results of the meeting 01 : . Saturday at Apsley House. There was not, we are happy' to learn, the least hesitation or re luctanceof any individual of the noble on the part . to the course prop ose d f or assembly to giv e his assent, e a political m ee ti n g its approbation. Ne ver was Olt+, - upon any subject at which a more perfect and cordial prevailed. It will be seen by the list we have giVen rilioie t t h':llf several Peers were present who refused to' vote for tit'd in4o;i,hnents introduced in the. l'3lll on the ntotion of Lord FitXlWiald', , or_who voted tokwithwn un , dtsguised reluctancd. Th'o'se Peers were, we undersi'.4 most prompt 4thi reserved in the expression of , oticurrezice in CIU line of conduct now recommended foir t!f fitiloption of 4('; 1-Ic4* of Lords. What that conduct is 1&.!.- , 4 r• # -,„ - explaineu iii v r eril , rom. It was the unanimous opinion of the assembieO flfret ,the duty of the HonSe Of Lords commands a deterni;;O. - 1 4 r1.11 , 7renee to _J:f_i't;iqi'‘';ll' in' prevent the creation of new Cdftli)7,rs4- tions, of " nor';;121 4e , :tito'illsd of agitation," in any city or borough in Ireland, upon Pi' i.if4olrtlyhatever. Cor porations in Ireland, to become p(lNictil ), , , , .trotnents in the ihiaitit tf demagoues, lay and ecclesiast:tftii! 14!ele will be none. Upori o'ittt we are sincerely hapfy and grateful to learn there is nd IflH.! !').o ,possibility, of OrOproinise, or even of negociation. TIM Miatter is fixed diid The intelligent and enliglifok4 Peers who constituted Oie,rnbly of Saturday are not, however, so remindful of tile ft - 'fi' which is due to a co-ordinate branch of the Legistattift'a 0).7 go tenacious of opinions they have once expressed as Ea have refused to the amendments of the House of Commons that full and mature consideration to which they are entitled. Their Lordships, although they will not permit the O'Connell Government to ered " normal schools of political agitation," under the nickname of corporations, in any of the towns of Ire land, whether large or small, are not indisposccl, we understand, to give a favourable consideration to the opinion of the House of Commons that, for the pur poses of municipal administration, it may be advan tageous to extend the the application of a statute al ready in beneficial operation in several places in that country, for the creation and regulation oflocal boards. By this concession, should it be offered, the question between the two Houses of Parliament will be consi derably narrowed. It is only in twelve of the cities and towns of Ireland that the Bill, as re-constructed by the House of Commons, proposes to establish the "normal schools of agitation," while to the twenty places next in population and importance the Bill, in its present form, applies the far wiser and more salu tary provisions of the statute above alluded to. The difference between the two Houses would then be reduced to this, that the machinery for local admi nistration .which the House of Commons thinks admi rably adapted for twenty of the principal towns of Ire land, the House of Lords thinks well adapted not to those twenty only, but to twelve other towns also. We are at a loss to conjecture upon what principle the House of Commons will be able, in the future dis cussions which the question in this position may oc casion, to sustain the validity or importance of its dis tinction between the twelve towns and the twenty. Several passages at the beginning of the document presented to the Lords in conference, entitled " Rea sons of the Commons for dissenting from the Irish Municipal Bill sent down from . the Lords," animad vert upon the Lords' amendments, and, without dis tinctly asserting, seem to insinuate that in adopting those amendments, the House of Peers went beyond former precedents, and laid the foundation of a practice incompatible with the due discharge of their Legislative functions by the two Houses of Parliament. In the dis cussion of to-night the first attention of the House of Lords will be directed to the reply which ought 'to be made to this complaint on the part of the Commons. The constitutional question will, we venture to promise, be treated as such questions are generally treated in the House of Lords, with due gravity, with profound erudition, and with consum mate talent. The reply of their Lordships, we also venture to anticipate, will be conclusive and triumphant. Should any party in the House of Lords attempt to sustain this complaint, put forth by the House of Commons as to the constitutional competency and re gularity of their Lordships' procecedings, it is probable that this preliminary discussion may proceed to such length at to postpone the practical questions at issue to a future day. We anticipate, however, with the fullest confidence that upon every point connected with the subject, whether constitutional or practical, the House of Lords will be found fully prepared to vindi cate the course it has determined to pursue ; to sustain the exalted character it has long enjoyed as a delibera tive body ; to discharge its duty with calmness, dig laity, and spirit ; to realise, in a word, the high and just expectations of the country.—Morning Post. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Intelligencer.) LEEDS.—The demand for goods in both the White and Coloured Cloth Halls has been rather better on the last two or three market days than for some weeks previously, and there is a fair demand for finished goods ; but it will be yet two or three weeks before the markets take a de cided turn. At most of the Continental wool markets, an advance of 3d. to sd. per lb. over the prices of last year, has been obtained, which will prevent any sudden or ex tensive fall in the prices of the staple commodity in this country. BRADFORD.—Thursday was again a good market as re gards the demand for manufactured goods, the principal purchases being , of six-quarter merinos of secondary qua lity, to meet the demand. Prices were consequently firm, as was also the case in the yarn market, where considerable business was done. In the wool market there were not any very extensive transactions, and prices, if anything, receded a trifle. HALlFAX—Saturday was even duller than that of the preceding week, and the prices of goods declined. ROCHDALE, JUNE 20.—We had a very fair demand for goods to-day, fully equal to the supply, but no variation in price. Wools of low and middle qualities were scarce, and sold readily. YORK, JUNE 23.—We have again had a good supply of wool at to-day's market, with a good attendance of buyers ; still, however, prices may be quoted at the last week's quo tation. We have about four ,sheets of wool left over to next week unsold. For fine Cheviot hogs, Is. 7d. per lb. ; half-bred do., Is. 6d.; super good bred hogs, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d„ and to ls. 61d. ; two-third hog'd, Is. 4: 1 2 -d. to Is. 5 d ; half hog and ewe, Is. sd. ; one-third hog'd, Is. 2id. ; all ewe, Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. ; Masham hogs, Is. Id. to Is. 2d. ; locks (cots out) 9d. to 10d.; do. (cots in) I Id. to 12d. The accounts from Manchester and the other towns largely engaged in cotton manufactures are of the most sa tisfactory character ; it is known that the stocks of yarn in this country are reduced to a very low ebb ; and there is little doubt, from the caution with which our German customers have for a long time past been making their pur chases that there is almost an equal scarcity with them. Early in the morning of Saturday last, some labourers engaged in raking filth from a pond adjoining the public road which runs through the town of New Buckenham, and leading thence to Old Buckenham, Barham and Ken ninghall, discovered seven Prayer Books of different sizes and descriptions in various parts of the pond, and which, from their being scarcely penetrated by the water (although seve ral feet below the surface) could not, to all appearance, have been immersed above a few hours. Two of them are of the best description of prayer books issued by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, four of a smaller description, and one very elegantly bound in purple morrocco, gilt, &c., with the name of the owner in gold letters on both covers, which however has been so care fully erased as to leave nothing distinctly legible, although the name seems to be that of Mrs. Fraser; none of the other books have any mark. As no loss of this description of pro perty has taken place in this neighbourhood (New Bucken ham), it is hoped that the foregoing statement, thus publicly announced, may meet the eye of those who have lost the arti cles in question, and lead to the solution of the mystery which at present envelopes this singular occurrence. Norwich Mercury. TOLLS ON STEAM-CARRIAGES RUNNING ON COMMO N Roans.—A Bill has been brought into the House of) led b y Commons l which repeals all tolls now levied on carriages propelled other than animal power, and levies tolls on them on the principle that 15 cwt. of the machinery and carriage of steam-carriages is equivalent to one horse. The tolls to be levied on this principle are set forth in a schedule. If the weight exceed 15 cwt., and do not exceed one ton and a half, the toll is to be the same as for two horses ; under two and a quarter tons, the same as three horses ; under three tons, as four horses, &e. Carriages propelled by steam • are not to be used for passengers till the boilers have been tested ; and the proof that it has been, with the weight of the car iage, are to be registered and inscribed on the carriage. The :Bill is short, which is a great argument in its favour. The Waterloo day was held on Friday last, and w-as celebrated by the ringing of the bells, &c. A great number of persons assembled on the Bowling Green, where they had a dinner; in the afternoon they sent for the band,. butt e weather proving rainy, they retired to the Mundy Arms Inn, and left the band only 2s. 6d. and a little ale; not being sa tisfied with this recompense for five or six hours playing, the band followed them to the inn, where a battle ensued, and the musicians' shirts, handkerchiefs , a nd coats were torn in a shameful manner,—Nottinghamßeview. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STOCKBRIDGE RACES—SECOND T , e , o-Year-Old Stakes of 50 sovs. each ; colts, Bst. 7lb.' flies, Bst. 41b. T.Y.C. 11 Subs. Mr. Sadler's efi, f, Defender Chapple / Mr. Ilawlinson i s c, Chadlington 2 Mr. Sadler's b. f. Sister to Delightful Mr. Herbert's ch. f. Maid of the West Pettinre:--Even on Defender, 5 to 2 agst Maid of the West, 3 to PIO Cnadlington, and 6to 1 agst Sister to Delightful. .Abeati tifut 7 1 • CC, and won fry Half a peck. The two first are in the Derby. The Hunter'!" StAcs of 10 aov6'• each, h. ft., for hunters ; fotrt )0 . 5 old, l Ost. 11b; five, list. ; six, list. 51b. ; aged, list. 71b. Md 11 , 1'0' a half. 14 801 a., Mr. J. 4" , :*rnpbell na. 6 yrg... ...... Col. Bou Terie 1 Lord Watetlitrilt's Miss Chance Captain Williarnscds Bittern ..................... 3 Betting-2 to lon Silk., and 3to 1 agst Miss Chance. iiii?#:iiettp of 20 sovs. each, 5 it. Mile and a half. 4 Subs. fit 14s.worth'sFirman, 5 yrs, Bst. 71b,.,5. Roger I Captain Pet!ole t t Hannah, 5 yrs, 7st. 21b ............ 2 Mr. Finch's OutC.lltf, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b Betting-7 to 4 agst FirrOan, 7to 4 agst Outcast, an d 3to 1 itEst liantittit, Won eas;. he Longstocil Stakes of 50 sovs: each, b. It. One mile. Me, 8-Adler's Brother to Delight walked over Knighton Race* commenced on Thursday last ; the Rad— tiolgilire Stakes were ,tot in two beats by Mr. Thorne's c. by Rossrdi owl the Whip StAes in three heats by Mr. Ackers's Moor Court litsm, Good sport was expected on Friday. AQUATICS, PA , match between Archer and Morton, to Gravesend and back will he started at day-break to-morrow morning. Morton gives his opponent to Deptford, and goes: off himself from London-bridge. ft is not only a long pull an d a strong pull, but really a dangerous undertaking. Betting is 2to 1 agst Archer, The private match between Mr. George and Mr. Childe, to row from Waterloo-bridge to Westminster and back,. was d e : tided on Saturday, Mr. Childe and his opponent each startea well, and were stem and stern a short distance, when gr. Childe rowed a-head, the other gentleman being close astern, Off Dent's wharf the keel of the leading man's boat scraped the ground, and canted her head round. Mr. George passed by, but the other gentleman appeared so much discomfited by ilea mishap that he made but little effort to overtake his opPo tient. Mr. George won easily. Friday a six-oared match was pulled from Windsor -bridg e to Boveney and back, between the Eton collegians the one boat, the Thetis, manned by Boscowen, min. Rayer, Berea ford, Smith, and Elway—Baring, steerer; and the Etonian, by Woodhouse, Fellowes, Miles, min. Bailie, Forbes, and Barry—De Selig, steerer. 2to 1 and 5t02 on the Thetis. At starting the Etonian for a time appeared to have the ad vantage, but at the Clump the other came up and took the lead. At Lower Hope the crew of the Etonian began 5 0 lag, and the Thetis from this period gradually pulled avail from her opponent, took the turn cleverly, and won by a con siderable distance. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS toURING LAST WEEK• Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease Per Quarter. s. to a. e. to s. a. to a. a. a. r. to s. Carlisle 52 28 24 37 . 29 Hexham.—.. . 34 44 25 28 16 22 44 hl 23 26 21 22 34 36 34 3 6 Penrith 57 29 27 33 Sheffield*. 51 36 25 39 Winchester 50 58 28 31 20 22 42 44 Per Bushel. s.d. F. d., b. d. s. d. l s. 4. s. d. s.d. r. d d. 0. 0 ; Carmarthen......... 6 0 66 33 0i 20 2"t 00 00 00 0,. Cowbridge--... 00 76, 46 00 } 20 36 56 0 0 00 p 0 Newcastle (Staff.) 6 0 6 9 3 6 40' 3 0 3 4 5 0 5 3 0 0 0 (,). Northallerton ~.r.,.0 7 3 0 " 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 5 6 6 0 0 0 Stone—.* 8 0 8 6 4 0 4 8 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 0 0 Swansea 58 6 8 38 44 24 30 00 .00 00 0 0 Warwick 80 90' 3 0 4 6 2 0 11 3-5 6 6 0 0 0 00 Per 8011. Barnardcastle I 2 6 14 9 0 0 8.6 7 0 8 0 r 6 100 76 Durham ----Ill? 6 134 70 B'3 50 63 7 84 76 PR Richmond 'l2O 146 80 8.6 50 74 go. 96 90 Stockton 0 12 6: 8 6 9 0 4 2 6 2 7 6 AVG 00 O'' WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —June 24. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk ..... —s. 455. to —a. tine a c 0 1• Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire —s. 455. to —a. flue 495. hite WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —June 24 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk ..... —s. 455. to —s. flue : 41 ' -- Lin. and Cam. —s. 455. to —s. fine 510 Yorkshire —s. 455. to —B. fine 41116 White Foreign, hed —s. —s. to —s. fine — l6 White —s. —s. to —s. nne --s• Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 2Bg. to 31s. fine Ws. Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold Foreign Beans, Old 37s. to 425. fine —S. New 365. to 41s. fine —ll, Oats, Potato —s. to 20s. fine Ws. Poland —s. —s. to 20s. fine 21s. Friezland and Small Bleating Shelling Malt —s. 41s. fine 465. per Load. ltapeseed 34/. Os 35/. Os. —l. Os. per Last. .RKETS Beans. to 2.5 28 21 al 22 26 _ 30 31 23 30 3; 32 33 27 30 -- , 2 4 2 5 25 48 43 , ut the countlt ... ..... rune '22. lay, and SCOTCH MA' Wheat. 1 Barley. 36 to 41 33 37 32 36 , 38 56 48 58 40 50 41 46 35 40 137 42 50 56 ze of the m, 30 to 31 23 26 21 24 1 26 31 30 33 24 26 30 35 23 26 23 31 23 26 teasure varil 1 NB URGE small suppl: CORN 111 of all kind Wheat. I Barley. I First s2s. , d. .7s. 2d. 5ec0nd........ 4 0 35 0 Third Aberdeen Berwick Coldstream Cupar Dundee Elgin Inverness Kelso . . , Kirkaldy Perth The si ED. We had a very rather quick. 43 0 :32 0 Oats. 21 to 2,5 I 17 20 16 18 18 22 20 25 16 20 22 26 17 21 20 23 20 22 !s through, A RKET.- ; of Grain t, Oatmeal._ 32 to 5 t 38 4" le males were Oats. Pease. Beaus 28s 8(1. 40s. (id 90s Od 25 0 39 0 38 0 22 S 37 0 .37 U 2/. 89. 830. Ave . rage price of Wheat • PRIORS OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. bd. to 08.8 d. Freshßutter, Bld. to 19.111 d. Mutton 0 6 0 8 Salt Ditto 0 9 0 0 0 6 010 Ditto, per cat.-- 0 0 72 0 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per doz. -- 0 41 Lamb, per qr. 3 0 5 0 OatStrawtkpl.)..... 8 0 10 0 fallow, 0 40 0 Wheat 5 6 '7 0 Quartern Loat —off o 7 Barley Ditto 6. 0 7 0 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 5 0 0 Hay,perst.--- 1 2 1 3 EDINBUIIGH MEAL MARKET.—May 21. There was a middling sopply of Oatmeal at this day's market, and the sales were rather heavy. Per Sack of 280:b. Imp: First Oatmeal Second ditto _ 8ar1eymeat.....'...... PC3SVIT4eaI 1 1U 01 l'ot Barley—No. I p et cwt. 10s.-2,1 Per Stone oll4lb. Imp. First Oatmeal £o 2 g Second ditto i:arleymeal 0 I 9 re.semeal 0 1 1 , 2 3 .--„Id, 14s —4th, 16.____..s ____,.-I'eml,"W GLASGOW CORN A moderate business doing in Wheat, it er 2401hh. s. d. s. d. British, old 25 0 t 027 MA RKE'I. -. . —June 22. ;rain i little :Iteration in prices. Oats, pi,,r 2041 b. D. d. s. d. Irish .. l7 0 to 20 6 British . n 19 0 2 1 ° Beans, per 111, English Scottish 1 Pease, Scottish „ .., 19 4 1 El n " Oatmeal, per 1401 b l6 0 t n " n '' Flour, per 22i0 --- new Canada, free 26 0 27 0 Irish Barley, per 3'2011i English —CI 0 Scottish 25 0 26 0 Jrish CORNWALL MARKETS. Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. is. d. to s. d. Truro s. d. to s. d. 0 12 0 0 9 2 0 9 6 0 9 6 0 9 6 0 9 0 0 10 0 0 11 0 _0 ° 6 0 a s' 6 0 6 - 6 7 0 0 a 7 b 9 6 0 Helstone St. Austell.. Bodmin - 0 19 Liskeard - 0 17 Launceston - 0 19 Camel ford l6 0 19 Penzance l9 0 21 MINING INTEL Quantity of C6ppei Ore sold Quantity of fine Copper erage Produce ,LIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Skr 1 763 a 140 0 ' 1 714 _ rerage Standard. 1301. Is. Oa, Amount of Sale, 13,432 . 13s. 6d —A' MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROr.;II -- .. G. Delvalle, bill-broker, Peckham-grove. a " J. P. Burley, plumber, Luton, Bedfordshire ... .......... a 11 W. H. Alexander and Co., hardwaremen 3 1 2 J. Haves, builder, Little Bartholomew.clOse 'l'. W, Willows, fishmonger, Fleet-street '.... .e . a 11 G. T. C Dodd, ollins jun., plumber, and E. mber,, orse. F in butchers chingf , ield 1 Newgate-market .............. I 's il l F. Shaw, ones,, Kent 1 ' W. Gilbert, stat King Lynn J. Andrews, victualler, Seven-dials _now!". ADVERTISEMENT./ PATENT LEVER WATCHE S' With silver double-bottom cases • £6 0° With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which s watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest improvement!' i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, caPPe" hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining pow!! to continue going while winding up, at the above price, bir T. CON SAVORY, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, , London- B IR TZT S. On the 25th inst., in Harley-street, the wife of J. G. Duff, Esq.! of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Holvenden, Kent, the lady of Captain Twee. die, of a son. On the 24th inst., at Ilarlesdon House, the lady of W. Curtis, Esq., of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at Kemp Town , Brighton, Mrs. S. Wyndham, of a daughter. MA RR I ED. On the 2d inst., at. Hampstea d, the Rev. John Brereton Lang ord, of Rowel, county Cork, to Emma, third daughter of the late J. Hughes, Esq., of Harden Ash, Essex. On the 23d inst., James Taniere, Esq., of Presibury, near Chel tenham, to Hannah, third daughter of A. H, Hepheote, Esq., of Blackwell, .Derbyshire. I On the 21st inst., at Bateomb, Somerset, the 'Rev. F. D. Fos ter, Rector of Doddington, Gloucestershire, eldest son of the late Rev. Edward Foster, of Wells, to Caroline, 'eldest daughter of the late Rev. W. Coney, of Cookham Elms, Berks. On the 22 , 1 ins t., at Bantaskine, Alexander Speirs, Esq., of Elderslie, M.P., to Eliza, eldest (laughter of T. C. Hagart, Esq. On the 14th inst., at Dublin, Thomas James Quinton,' Esq., of Somerset H o use, London, to Mary, relict of W. 116 ad, tsq., and daughter of R. Knight, Esq., of Fi tzw illi am - s treet, Dublin. DIED. On the 29th inst., at Bruges, aged 75, Captain and Adjutant E. Broughton Foster, formerlyof Knowle Hall, Warwickshire, youngest an d only surviving son of the late J. Foster , Es q ., of Aylestone Hall, Leicestershire. On the 23d inst., in Pratt-street, Lambeth, Mr, George Cook, aged . On 7B the 23d inst., at Downe-lodge; Wandsworth, aged 67, Robert Rickards, Esq. On th e 24th i ns t., Mr. James Baker , of Albion -terrace, New North. road, aged 73. On th e 19th inst., at Froeester , Gloucester-shire, John Key s, Esq., of Tenhy, South Wales. On the 24th inst., at Ledst o ne Hall, Yorkshire, Lady Bouverie, wife of Major-General Sir 11. F. Bouverie, K. C.B. • On the 24th inst., at Oak Hill, Handsworth, near Birmingham, aged 73, Mary, widow of the late W. Whateley, Esq. London : Printed and Published by WIRD° YOUNG. of Po' 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county of Middlesex. it'. THE SUN, LONDON, _MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1836. F w s 3