The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

titrb Zbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. UPPIkr 7' 411 - SQUARE.—(THIS DAY.) Uries aid, a painter, was charged by Mr. Thomas, • .r,ellevino• officer of St. Margaret's parish, West hor, witli deserting his three children, the eldest of i tlth i s fourteen years of age, and the youngest four Th e s ',*ho thereby became chargeable on that parish.. defendant said he would have supported his. ( I n if he had had work—he did not desert them ; aril been employed four days since the 6th inst. y,,4130n1as said he might have had relief and ern- Th7n, if he had applied to him. °est, defendant said the moment lie had 'obtained I/ 4 that assistance would have been discontinued. teb//.as committed to the House of Correction for a rk,„, Houghton was charged with stealing a Prayer eree 41' Bible fr om t h e new church w hi c h h as l ate l y F r in the Broadway, Westminster. the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, who ett eti previously seen in the church, came into the kr edifice the previous evening about twenty minutes I N e ri the ev ening service usually commenced. He sat cite of the free sittings immediately adjacent to tt , ,,,7 3 . r ented by Mrs. Cook. There were only three +14 3 , 4. 1 1 the church at the time. The . vestry h -keep n , 1414'14re, observed the defendant staring at e . r, a d ! I N,„ t , 11 1 1 to him, thinking that he had something . to 14 el m ' au insane man who is in the habit of attending hw hr t iC r ,eb, but he did ot speak to her. Shortly after s" miss d which were in Mrs. Cook's a e two•o—s 1 7 1 tle e r/ mi nutes before. Sh e mentioned the circum- Ni. '`) the defendant, who said he had not seen the ki ted tt'rorli information which she subsequently re there the defendant was asked to step into the vestry, o Si ° clergym an i n f orme d hi m t h a t h e h a d b een ed Y a me m b er o f th e congregation who The th at he h a d secreted the books on his person. lea tehreerßiant immediately ' acknowledged that he had Vielethi b °°l( s, and produced them from some part of 0,410 g, and sa id he took them t h roug h d istress . -- 'ea into custody nineteen duplicates were found which h Nsae ssion, three of which were for eleven books Th e d a l been pl e d ged. trioht co elend ant who h a d no thing to say to the charge, T.,Ni t ted for t r i a l, b ut or d ere d t o b e b roug ht up T hursday next. a man about thirty years of age, afflicted 4 k 4 l t lit: n t4 , l Ysis, was charged with a violent, and appa -0 vi tt . „-erereked, assault upon a woman of question- The'4ll n amed Harriet Martin, and on Adam Suther ich 'f'ceatan wh had him in custody. :meferidant, who has an impediment in his speech, "!r t( il! t erent s hi m f rom speaking for some mome h n e ts : littleint° a rambling and incoherent statement, which °r nothin to do with the offence with which ehar ged g Iltoiwttaes*ed.. ,w 5/. for ea, offence, or, in default, to be bid:olk c j l b 0 months. 'a charged on Monday with ) t) t 11 1 :P t e l / rs a s g a.a ll u i lt i ' v in h g o a r w lit s tle girl, between seven and 7, day, 1 1 .2! age, was brought before Mr. Bond, ki t 4 N,,,,4%1ig been remanded until that day, when f ee - ,' 54 , and in default of payment he was coin - "we months to the House of Correction. I' It:SALL'-s.-THIS EVENING. QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK. ASCOT CUP. t')l tst Al ce to 4 agst Alice Hawthorn Hawthorn winning both Cup and Vase—t. No other. betting. ai 6 T a n o u f the PUBLIC JOURNALS. • ,- , ,i pr7 E EVEING NE S OF THIS DAY. h 1 )• e t,7.--It s amusing to remark the shifts to , "%le _s"ggliers are driven to extenuate the disgrace of N i t a a o . r ort outh Lancashire. They generally rely upon , Q 1 at b„ Yby which Mr. Entwisle has been returned Seri ir tre J which Lord Francis Egerton and Mr. Wilbra th returned seven years ago,. but they i fact that if the Conservative majority ht and t ' b e ss_ than in 1837, the aggregate of votes 4 4 4 , 0 t,,,, y r registry are much less also ; surely they Na," ll exultin ety g in the momentous fact that Mr. eith e -- Polled nin-eight votes less than returned the ,' % 41:1 4 (1 r (a nd this is the whole reduction), to forget the • s eon t h League Committees, „ey s ant boast of t eir own it,„`ge actually struck off 2,800 Conservative votes • t egi , Cid:diat ' t rY—a reduction that ought to . have made ft " greater difference than ninety-eight votes_ . Nit w ho hurried to town last night, to console t he "s at C.,,tat Covent-garden, and to assure them that tNee'etr;' 4% a great victory, ascribes all the success of I t ii: Q ti b ves - to as landlord influence. Now, landlord '4l Nk pow in South Lancashire as „ rcw, o.s and the return of the renowned I , o 4f ietowse. some years ago will tell what land 14'etst 1 14, 4 in the metropolitan county. The 0,4 4 4 1 4 s of the M orn i ng . Chronicle, too, more s`h o , v si .';r• Cobden, admits that the Conservative o f P a ah na ds Pond d lined theexercise of anony in ceerresepirolielent, c e however, e has a soluti k i thel" a somewhat droll one—the landlords were . past i'qp - , -t eth,,,, -r Principal agents were passive, but the bailiffs ,,•ll 1; Of - ' 4 ll " have done it all." We were not at all Nt,A, 4l (lo s L,l•le Power and popularity of thes . e . classes. f ;„,Tdeed we know that the bum-bailiffs body,con (4lozl-sh.rtli°i'"ciable' particularly in the - suburb districts, mitt reason Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe very 4 eta4illiele)iited to as chairman of . his princil Com- L'ebe :uailiff of extensive practice, though how Mr. ,7 o f 'Mtl know anything of such a functionary ir,fieourse a riddle. We do not, however, .see e peetPlo,; % rthid -I n of the bum-bailiffocracy in Fins !' 1 ,,,,' , 5r 8 as it may be to Mr. Duncomb . e's ) ,ts rasr, *-- ; ajfords any analogy for the authority 1,,, 134 ` 4 ,1 1 , 3 (farm.bailiffs we presume) in South Or % t r ; l'ne farm-bailiff has no authority save Oro t- ,,` l 'ea from his employer, and the gamekeeper has Z.,'lti; i t list'''', e ePt with poachers. But it will not be pre it ''e, " I teb noblemen as the Earl of Derby, Lord Skel k et 'e• Yea th e Professing neutrality themselves, would be Y ptth f Or 4 Meanness of allowing their in t flu nce to be em- Vole is par tY purpose by their lowes servants. The 4 ,1 . 4 MA more insulting than absurd. (I, 4lkl L itC"- th 'rhe Ecclesiastical Courts Bill will—in accord tt;l4'l to- „, e arrangement proposed by Sir Robert Peel—be ti Oo l' tlit, - "trosv evening, on the motion that the . Speaker th '4 :40 ‘‘ So help me God, I have no interest in 4, 1 li g e l 4 4e 1 1:Was the Right Hon. Baronet's solemn declara pteai e measure was on a former . o . ccasionbefo .u re - N: ,This unusually strong disclaimer of "1 4 4t 4 Jill introduced to Parliament by the (lovern ,t, 4 rali. _ . iCtro`,. th e T. excited some surprise. It was commented IV:1417, ted, if it was uttered ; and will doubtless be qtj t , l It he not alluded to to-morrow evening, when . ij s ~4 M I details of the measure are under discussion. ti art re spect for the asseverated disinterestedness of ' 1 et e el, we still consider it our duty to press t t l t I:4l,iie attention both of the House of Commons and 14) %ar i ao tw ° Points in the Bill, which . certainly wear 4 tcl °{. et of one of those jobs by which th . e law re \t, erns.kt.esent Ministry have acquired for their au hors ii` 44 f 9ll of q enee. The first of these two points Gr tt e a n income of 1,2001. a year for Dr. Nicholl, ay fey ho ai,r,,difr, one c f hi s o wn supporters. The second, k % esti s esi s "P thrown by the. Bill to a hybrid class of t.h . t *4ll, of la. pr the ovinces, who exercise the differing J,,De ti i n regard to the education necessary ad. for 'e b , t' l t4,. -e f ollowers, as midwifery and horse-de mg. C c itip' e 'c ur s We have hitherto employed to dex ,l4lll),,ef )4`11:11e jobbery sought to be perpetrate i r n . tittliit',itre,,r• 'Nichol! by means of this Bill, have been pa 1 3 ' 1,7,,,fe1• Dr. Nicholl within the last few days has . ;Nkt t ,; i", d ent or decent--or he has possibly been advised 'r Tie:4 of °e °f the superior Members of Government, tl'etit,r-Gen /gore discretion than himself—to resign his post 4 4 14 ti rp l• That office is now held by a;venerable k i,',li t r b `;, 4 the Ecclesiastical Courts named Burnaby. 1 1 14 s pri n s 'i °l) °sed originally by Dr. Nicholl (in his Bill) i„; q ,eit s ", l . 4- i kr t eltiunert; n for the duties of this sinecure, \; r '' %' e now find sum of 5001. suggested, as a 1 1 ' Thus e the e aged Dr. Burnaby is to do the j.;',,it't.""„„ Performed by his verv-much-junior brother es!.° ll t s l ‘ r i or i l, r . % Year less - thanmodestly proposed by Himself ! The public are so far advantag r e e d. la f o °ll of 5001. for 1 ,2001. per annum causes a . ht i, s 4 , :) ,? e llr of the public, equal to 700/. yearly. As k et ) ,, h ,eo rsw , that involves no work, the holder has no li,'ep I ° l , 4irt • The change, however, suggests a q 1 14 - ; vi e think D N' holl should be called uon to if , , r. r eboil Lir. Burnaby be deemed quite as capable 1 1: 114 0 the of doing nothing, why is the difference___n m o r w . %" e IV, ec attemplated remuneration of a )'t i tt l l 'iriPider7 trt( tll ? difference—viz. 700/. per annum—to Nk en ~ i ,, r to willingNicholl for his Parliamentary I-4 ) • Nicholl . to advocate 500/. a t t , a nd f x i JA t a man every _respect r his superior, r ttab„ lt r hi s (.13 ° 1 1) considered 1,2001. a sane the proper Will o wn services in the very post ? Dr. , -st eely apply to him the words of Horace ‘\';! Lib ernm. munivit iter, daturus %I: l 'N i at hr „ Plura relictis." th„,en of,;; s eet add no more on this subject than the Ika o • 'ar be stfor Dr. Burnaby's good health ; .1,4 11 1 eith e wishes h a p • % Perm ~r "Y his death nor " resignation," the office . of "-tid ~,,`4 4Y be re-opened to the acceptance of its late Olt o -v erte4" i1.1 , 1 , 1 ch for the first of the two points to which we it,Lek k llt h e at e v d e ,have materially damaged the scheme ofjob hir,7tre by the authors of the Ecclesiastical . Courts th - t ` li fY Lshain'' e may, possibly, even at this stage of the kr co '`'lne f e the sensitive Premier into a consent to •Qtr e AlstN et i ) . the more prominent objections involved in I, t B l)e t T Ia 1 , 1 °4 of the second point, to which we have 4, lik e es of t r tY of the country towns there is found oh likens t o ,e, genus lawyer, which certainly cannot Oho t u altio l ete animal which its exhibitor described ar ‘ ll 't . 4 ";" I,* W°t couldn't live in the water, and died tols,osio-Yerywi'lleastriuch as the members of this tribe contrive t t stri d iv oro 4 , in everything ; and on everything they Ittt er and n biquitio In fine, they are both proc iltlrre-il ene e ' ti e 4 o . r, like the e Centaurs of old, two distinct as he divided e4 l Y are reads body. Has a case of assault oc tl ),, 4 dY r ealled to conduct the cause at common law. in a nOther by a naughty name? They are ti ti r h ject t f ht . Ec e o f e °l - I°.w .uP the offender in a suit for defama sl° ltga., mastics! Court. In fact, whatever be the ktir wider, irtioa, whether horse causes, assaults, defanaa fig h 4 , 1 1 1 ,,0r tith rea eh of promise, divorce, murder, larceny, sub strtrl ofest'heehs_urch.-rates, ay-bap , tisrn, or what n . ot, in Is t i t tile s re A e, this half-and-half kind of practitioner tiimtie a r,rits at e a b " . Y to do his best ; and to fight the battles % tis ..'ew °leery, Common-law, Criminal-law, Eccle %tit f' at th e se anywh ssions, or before the Poor-lawr- ere, where law in any shape whatever • i re e g rao „ trade s , an d vs -. frequently master wori tt agtrie_ featur e of thesegentlemen is however, their 13 4 ;enc i l theatloilamentary el=ons—mo;t, efficient when th Si r h 'eeiPal ob' 9, under ground. This pertains to the everation , I .N„ • Pee, adhesion e. We have urged against this Bill. ; seasore to, or consent to modify this part of • th.Mnu, as , w i ll be prepared to test the sincerity of t• ra fin ed asu re r , —So help me God, I have no interest EL, The Bill ••.is Of lOtritc ,0 throw ,It pass in its present shape, , ii . e of a - Per great increase of business, and he 'le ta ' o 4 p P r r o tt ss , Into the hands of the Centaurs dri ven lr as tl ese, and - --n in country towns. To ad 41w °llt of th e these accost the public is to , L eba tes Y 9 k een 0 _ old and med course, which tl °,r Will s , &r° to them, of having recourse for i0t e „, , ,, , took fit to the fountain-head at once, if they t aitl ' be f •soto d o D „ \Vi m . () reed t o • this Bill they will, nolentes t° so me 0 go with the wills of their de -041 eut !e,choi ce ir,utlandish country Ecclesiastical Court, r4 . 1)13 , c ou ' r Tg P„errnitted to them of applying direct t t 4try fo allSe Sir Rotlir octors's Commons. And why ? res,ist et or-Att oyne t Peel wishes to conciliate the 0 ad thus buy off their threat -11 ° ot her art c n Wutely P f the Bill. These are the two "iv" Prlaci r all Y Mod our oppooitioa to siostic pro' It is e verY e high ( c)- i n the and this production of combined wisdom and virtue, by a Cabi net, which, as the Times says, " is composed of a snug party of independent gentlemen, with a good deal of leisure time on their hands." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships re-assembled for the first time after the Whitsuntide holidays. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from Inverness ; praying that the operation of the Savings' Banks Bill might not extend to Scotland. The Marquis of NORMANBY presented a petition from certain farmers in Norfolk. The petition stated that as the law at present stood with respect to coursing, a person being present at any coursing meeting, pro vided the proprietor Of the dogs was not actually present, was subject to. a penalty. The petitioners, therefore, prayed for an alteration in the law. The I)uke of RICHMOND said, the hardship not only existed with respect to coursing, but also with re spect to bare-hunting. The petition was then laid on the table. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved that a Select Committee be appointed to consider the Bill which was at present before Parliament for the construction of a railway from Chester to Holyhead. The reason why he wished this Committee to be appointed was, that he understood that it was the intention of the Government to advance a large sum of money for improving the harbour of Holvfiead. They had no guarantee that the bridge over the Menai Straits would ever be erected, and in case it should not be erected, of course a great portion of the money expended by the Government in improving the harbour of Holyhead would be thrown away. He understood that it was proposed to lay out 600,0001. upon these improvements, and he thought that was a sufficient ground for the apppointment of a Committee. Lord KENYON thought that no delay ought to be allowed to take place in the passing of this Bill, inasmuch as he believed that the Chester and Holyhead Railway would be of great public advantage. Lord MONTEAGLE objected to the appointment of the Committee. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he had not anti cipated this discussion, and, therefore, he had not been able to inform himself fully of the subject, and he sug gested to his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Clanricarde) the propriety of postponing the consideration of the question for a few days. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE then gave notice that he'should on Tuesday next move the suspension of the Standing Orders, with a view to the appointment of a Select Committee on this Bill. After a few words from the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the subject dropped. Lord CAMPBELL postponed the Committee on the Law of Libel Bill till Friday week (as we understood). The Noble Lord presented several petitions, praying that Presbyterian Marriages in Ireland may be legalised. The LORD,CH ANCELLOR said he should be pre pared on Tuesday to lay on the table a modified Bill upon this subject. The Duke of WELLINGTON begged to ask the Nobe Lord opposite (Lord Monteagle), if he would have any objection to postpone a motion which he had on the paper for Monday, as it would be Trinity Monday, when many Noble Lords would be absent. Lord • MONTEAGLE expressed his willingness to accede to the request of the Noble Duke. Several other notices were also postponed. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF • COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. Lord ARTHUR LENNOX took the oaths and his seat on his re-election for Chichester. Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE took the oaths and his seat on his re-election for Buckingham. The Salisbury Branch Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Mr. RASHLEIGH presented several petitions from Cornwall against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Col. GORE LANGTON presented similar petitions. Mr. BOYD• presented five petitions from dissenting congregations in Ireland, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill: Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from a congregation .of Wesleyan Methodists, assembling in Cherry-street Chapel, -Birmingham, to the same effect. Colonel ROLLESTONE presented nine petitions from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, to the same effect. Mr. BARCLAY presented a petition from Newcastle upon-Tyne, to the same effect. Mr. THORNELY presented three petitions—one from Liverpool, one from Stafford, and one from a con gregation of Baptists, assembling in the parish of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. E. TENNENT presented petitions from the Wes leyan Methodists of the counties of Cork and Antrim, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from the metropolis, in favour of art-anions. Sir JOHN HANDIER presented a petition against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. MASTERMAN presented several petitions from the 'rower Hamlets, to the same effect. Sir WALTER MES presented two petitions, to the same effect. Mr. COLLETT presented a petition from 431 trustees of chapels, to the same effect. An Host. MEMBER presented four petitions from the county of Londonderry, to the same effect. Mr. BAILEY presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. FERRAN') presented a petition from Mr. G. B. Ryder, the Chairman of the Chelsea Board of Guardians, complaining of the removal of a pauper in August last, from the Kensington Union Workhouse to the Chelsea Workhouse, during the time that he was in a dying state. On the motion of the Hon. Member, the petition was ordered to be referred to t he Medical Relief Com mittee. Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from a congrega tion of Wesleyan Methodists in Poplar, against the Dis senters' Chapels Bill. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL presented a petition, signed by 60,000 inhabitants of Dublin and the neighbourhood, complaining of the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland, and praying the House not to renew the charter. Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from Ireland in fairour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill ; also a petition from a congregation of Wesleyan Metho dists in the county of Down, and a congregation of Wesleyan Methodists in Newtownards, against the Bill. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from a congrega tion of Dissenters in Scotland, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. ' Mr. G.'PALMER presented a petition from a Dis senting congregation in Berkshire, and one from a con gregation in Buckinghamshire, to the same effect. Lord HARRY VANE presented a petition in favour of, and a petition against, the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from the Arch deacon and clergy of Oxford, against the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph ; also a petition from the clergymen of the Church of England, residing in New castle-on-Tyne, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. BEItNAL presented petitions from several places in Dorsetshire, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the metropolis, in favour of art-unions ; and another from Devonshire, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from a congrega tion of Protestant Dissenters at Swindon, in Wiltshire ; also petitions from the counties of Norfolk and Durham, from Soho, and other places, praying that the Dissenters' Chapels Bill might not pass into a law. Mr. WALKEY presented petitions from several places, complaining of the state of medical law. The Honourable Member also presented a petition, signed by one hundred inhabitants of New Plymouth, in the colony of New Zealand, stating that the district in which they were located was one of the most fer tile in the colony, but that they had the greatest difficulty in procuring labour, because many of the proprietors of land were absentees ; and also a petition from the inhabitants of various dis tricts in the metropolis, praying that the Waterloo, Vauxhall, and Southwark-bridges might be thrown open to the public. Mr. CLIVE presented a petition from some place in Wales, against the union of the dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from the trus tees of the savings' banks in Bath against the Savings' Banks Bill. Mr. GRANGER presented a petition from the Wes leyan Methodists of Durham against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON presented petitions from some Wesleyan congregations in Tyrone to the same effect. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from a Wesleyan congregation in Cheshire to the same effect ; also a petition from the- board of guardians of some union in Cheshire against the bastardy clauses of the new Poor-law Act. Mr. NEVILLE presented a petition from Windsor, against the Dissenters ' s Chapels Bill. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the Baptists of Lowestoff, against the Dissenters' Chapel Bill. MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY BILL. The Manchester Royal Infirmary Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE postponed his motion, which stood for Tuesday n BANK ext, tiIICH ARTE Tuesday, the 25th of June. R. Mr. HAWES gave notice that, on the second reading of the Bank Charter Bill, he should move that no suffi cient evidence had been given to justify the House in interfering With banks of issue. Sir WILLIAM CLAY gave notice that on the Bank Ch a rter Bill being read, he should move to omit clause 5, and other clauses which directed the substitu tion of Bank of England notes for country notes. BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY gave notice, that on the 22d of June he should move for a Select Committee on the 6th and 7th William IV., chap. 27, with a view to repeal so much of the Bill as related to the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph. Mr. HUDIE gave notice that, on the 25th of June, he should move for returns with respect to the Royal Academy. DANISH CLAIMS. Mr. CHRISTIE postponed his motion with respect to the Danish Claims from Tuesday next to Tuesday the 18th of June. 'COURTS MARTIAL (EAST INDIA) BILL. On the nintion of 1)r. NICHOLL the report .pn the Courts-martial (East India) Bill was brought up and received. • • . THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1844, CASE OF J. 11. B. CHICHESTER. Mr. JERVIS said he rose to bring forward the mo tion of which he had given notice, " That this House will, on Tuesday next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the following address to her Majesty, that is to say, that an humble address be presented to her Ma jesty praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take into consideration the claim made by John opton Russell Chichester, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, as sole executor of Robert William Powell, an uncompensated American loyalist, deceased, and that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to advance to such claimant the amount of the balance due to the estate of the said Robert William Powell, for losses in- curred in consequence of his adherence to his allegiance, as ascertained by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, and to assure her Majesty that the House will make good the same." He had hoped that it would not be necessary for him to make any lengthened observations to the House, but as he understood that those who were interested in matters of this kind thought that a sufficient case had not been made out to warrant an acquiescence in the motion, he would proceed to satisfy the House that the gentleman for whom he appeared had a good case. It involved no political question. Mr. Powell, the grandfather of the gentle man whose case he advocated, was a man of considerable property and influence before the breaking out of the American war, and he had embarked forty thousand pounds in mercantile speculations. At that time it was of importance to secure the good feeling of those who were inclined to British connexion. In several of the speeches from the throne compensa tion was promised to those who might sustain injury in consequence of their allegiance to the Crown. Mr. Powell was one of those who remained faithful ; he raised a regiment of militia, and as colonel of it, mu- dered the — greatest services to the Crown. Of the whole claini that he had to compensation he only was enabled to establish a claim to 19,0001. ; in 1823, he out of that amount, received 10,175 L A large portion of the money belonging to the royalists had been expended in royal excursions to Hanover, to Dublin, and to Edinburgh, leaving only a balance of 61,0001. for the despoiled royalists. The principle was recognised by several votes of the House of Commons in 1766, and in the following year, that the colonists who suffered by their allegiance should be indemnified. In 1775 Lord Cornwallis issued a proclamation assur ing the loyalists that they should be indemnified. In the House of Lords the Earl of Carlisle had pro- tested against the abandonment of those deserving men to their enemies ; and the Government of that day had admitted that it would be base in the extreme to aban don the American Loyalists. At the expense of one year's campaign, these Loyalists could bare been restored to happiness and prosperity ; and yet-they had been abandoned. Surely those who had sacrificed their property in the service of their country were en titled to compensation. The article in the treaty re specting the American Loyalists had been designated by Lord MulgraVe as a national disgrace. The blouse should blush for shame if it did not make good the solemn engagements entered into with these men. Let them recollect that this was a matter which might again occur. It might again become of importance to retain men thus situated in their allegiance. Could they trust again to solemn engagements to hold them harm less ? No ; for in this instance .they had not only the promise of the Crown, but an Act of Parliament, and the solemn engagement of the House to make good to the uttermost farthing every loss they had sustained. If they were prepared to violate the solemn engagements they had entered into, and, in the teeth of them, refuse those claims, they might depend upon it that, whenever they made promises in future, they would be judged of by their former actions, and the integrity of this country would be questioned in every part of the world. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE seconded the motion. The SPEAKER having put the question, Sir GEORGE CLERK rose to oppose the motion. In doing so he was not at all disposed to underrate the merits of the American loyalists during the American war ; but it must be remembered, that those claims arose some 60 or 70 years ago. He was surprised that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman should have selected one particular case to bring before the House. On the treaty of peace, ample and full compensation had been given, and it was stipulated that no impediment should be thrown in the way of any just claims. Certain Coin missioners had been appointed by Lord Grenville to ad judicate upon the claims. Two of the Commissioners were Americans and two were English, and they had power, in case of difference, to choose a fifth Commissioner. When however, cases were nearly ripe for decision, it was in variably found that the two American Commissioners receded, and the result was, that it became impossible to come to any decision. In 1802, Lord Liverpool put it to the claimants whether they would have a renewed commission or accept a fixed sum in satisfaction of the whole of their claims. After some consideration, the whole of the claimants acceded to the latter alternative. They agreed to accept a specified sum which was to be paid by America in full of all demands-600,0004 was ac cepted by this Government, and paid by the American Government in full satisfaction of those claims. The claimants felt dissatisfied with this sum, as being inade quate to liquidate their just demands. • A • commission was however appointed in the year 1804, to adjudicate on the claims, and to divide the 600,0001. It was very remarkable that in the only stipulation which was made by the parties in answer to the propo sition of Lord Liverpool, in 1802, 50 per cent. was re quired on the amount of the claims. In 1811 the Commission made its award and distributed the money. In 1812 some American claimants presented a petition to that House, praying for further compensation. A Se lect Committee was appointed in that year, who went into a minute investigation of all the matters to which the Honourable and Learned Member re ferred. A resolution was proposed in that House declaring that these American claimants had made out a case for compensation, but that motion was negatived on the ground that the parties had: elected to take the alternative of making the best terms they could with the American Government. Now, a year or two afterwards, a certain class of claimants, of whom Mr. Powell was one, put in a claim for further compensation, statincr 6 that although the sum of 600,0001 . had been equally divided, yet there were a number of native Americans who had not been engaged in commercial speculations, and whose circumstances entitled them to make a peculiar claim. That petition was broUght un der the consideration of the House by Lord Devon, who who proposed a motion somewhat similar •to that of the Hon. Gentleman. On the division there were seventy seven for the motion, and seventy against it. Very soon after the Chancellor of the Exchequer offered the claimaints one moiety of the balance then due to them. The offer was accepted, and it was considered to be a full satisfaction of all demands. The amount of the claims of these fifty-five persons was 227,000/ Having received by the award of the Conimissioners, in 1811, 105,0001., a balance was still due to them of 122,0241, and they received exactly half of that sum. Now, he asked the House whether, after this subject had been fully discussed in 1821 and 1825, and a settlement had been made, they would permit the question to be again re-opened ? By agreeing to this they would open all the other claims, and revive a question which had been settled 25 years ago. The parties had accepted one moiety of their claim in full satisfaction of their demands ; and he thought that there could be nothinc , more unwise than re-open ing a question that had been satisfactorily settled. He must oppose the motion. Mr. VILLIERS did not know that the claims had ever been satisfactorily settled. The Hon. Baronet said that nothing could be more unwise than re-opening this question ; but he could not see that it would be unjust. The claimant was not a distant connection of Mr. Powell ; he was his grandson, and the representative of the last of the claimants. So that the objection that allowing his claim would open that of the others, did not hold. The settlement of 1802 was opened again in 1821. Colonel Powell did renew his claim every year; and the Exchequer did not say that bis claim was unjust, but that there were no means of satisfying it. Sir G. CLERK said that from 1815 to 1821 the in terviews of Colonel Powell with the Chancellor of the Exchequer were much more frequent than once a year. Mr. HUME said that none of the parties had ever considered their claims as satisfied. He was one who ad vised them to take what the Government offered. If the relative of Colonel Powell was declared entitled to this elaim the relatives of all the others would have a claim also. Ho was much averse to refusing justice to any individual, and he thought the Government had in many cases acted very badly—as in refusing the Danish claims, and the compensation to the British merchants in China. But he should advise his Hon. Friend not to press his motion to a division, as the House was in a state of ignorance on the subject. • Mr. JERVIS replied. The gallery was cleared for a division, but none took place. The motion was then negatived without a di vision. took the opportunity of stating what he had heard, and further, said that these remarks were very unplea sant to his and my feelings, and that if there were anything wrong about the horse he should not remain at my stables. They both protested to him that he was the right age ; that they bred him and had the certificate of his age, and that he need not annoy himself on that head. The horse afterwards ran twice at Goodwood, but owing to his having been amiss, and in consequence not fully prepared, he lost both races. lie went on better some time afterwards, when I tried him, and found him to be an extraordinary good horse, but owing to his being an uncertain horse, and having been several times lame, I strongly advised the Messrs. Lichtwald not to back him for the Derby, but to let him get through the winter. He was- then intended to run for the Criterion Stakes at Newmarket, but ran away with the boy and fell lame in the hock the very day before he was to have started ; the post-horses, which had already arrived, to convey him in the van, • were consequently sent back, and my son wrote to me at Newmarket, and went up to town himself to see the Messrs. Lichtwald ; they had backed their horse, and they told him that if he was not very bad indeed he should go, and they returned to Mitchell-grove with him to see the horse. They then determined, against his and my head man's advice, that he should go, and they started him on their own responsibility the next morning. On my road from Newmarket to London I met the van, and on exa mining the horse and finding him to be very lame, I ordered the postboy to return to Hockeril, and went up to town to state to the Messrs. Lichtwald that it would be ruination to their horse if they ran him. In consequence of that opinion he was sent back to Mitchell-grove; he then went on in gentle work during the winter, and in the month of January, owing to there still existing some doubt as to his soundness, I wished to have Mr. Wood's opinion, and after consulting together we agreed that he should be blistered in the stifle and hock. Soon after, for my own satisfaction, and in consequence of unpleasant rumours that I had heard, and reports that I had seen in the newspapers about the correct ness of the horse's age, I took an opportunity one day of ask ing him to look into the horse's mouth and tell me his age ; he did so, and told me that he was a 3-year old, and I have an impression that he further said he had a very backward 3-year old mouth, as I told my son so when he came over the next day. After this opinion I felt satisfied in my own mind, and paid no attention to the ungenerous remarks which were constantly made in the sporting papers. From this time, after being blistered, the horse went on straightforward and well in his work up to the day of his running. My . son, in the early part of the present month, happening to be in town, saw the Messrs. Lichtwald, and spoke to them of the un pleasant remarks which were continually made in the weekly sporting papers relative to the horse's age, and said that they ought to put a stop to them, as they had it in their power to do so. They then declared to him that they could swear he was the right age, and, before several persons, showed him the German stud-book, which appeared to be perfectly cor rect ; and it was his opinion, as well as mine, that the Messrs. Lichtwald knew their horse to be a 3-year old, and could prove it, otherwise I would not have trained him. In your report of the case in Monday's paper, it is stated that I said "I had been grossly imposed upon by' the Messrs. Lichtwald, and that it was only the vicions temper of the horse that had preventtd an earlier discovery - of the fraud. &c." I beg to say that this is erroneous. ' I should not be justified in saying that I had been imposed upon by the Messrs. Lichtwald until I am convinced that he was a 4-year old, and that they knew him to be so, and I certainly am not at present convinced on that head, and most sincerely hope they will yet send over a complete refutation of the charges brought against them ; and with regard to the vicious temper of the horse, &c., and the subsequent remark, " that it is strange so experienced a trainer should have been so slow in satisfying himself upon the point," I must observe, that his temper was not at all vicious, and that he would have allowed any person to look at his mouth ; but I contend that it is not the duty of a trainer to examine the mouth of any horse that is sent to his stables, but'merely to manage him and to train him to the best of his abilities, and that this is the only instance in my life of my sending for a veterinary surgeon to examine a horse's mouth belonging to another party, and I even go so far as to say that I exceeded m 7 duty in this instance, and my only excuse is, that Idid so, in con sequence of remarks most annoying to my- feelings which had from time to time appeared in the newspapers. In your paper of this day there appears to be a doubt en tertained whether Mr. Wood examined the identical Leander, or an animal prefessedly Leander. To clear up any such doubt, I herewith send a copy of a declaration made by me this day before Mr. Hardwick, magistrate of Marlborough street Police-office. HN F 240, Oxford-street I am, Sir, your very obedient, L humbleJO serv ORTH. ant, May 29. . (Copy of Declaration.) " I, John Forth, of Mitchell-grove, in the county of Sussex, do hereby solemnly declare that in the month of February last, in consequence of certain rumours as to the age of the colt Leander, the property of Mr. Lichtwald, which I then had in training for the Derby, I caused the said cold to be examined by Mr. Wood, the veterinary surgeon, of Arundel, in the said county of Sussex, and that the colt which Mr. Wood did examine and alluded to in the annexed certificate, was the same colt Leander that ran for the " Derby in the present year; and I do further declare that in consequence of the said rumours I questioned Mr. Lichtwald as to the fact of the said colt's age, and he always positively asserted that the said colt was no more than three years old, and that there would be no difficulty whatever in proving the same ; and I do hereby further declare, that I believed the asser tions so made by the said Mr. Litchtwald to be true, and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William IV., entitled 'An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament, entitled, " An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations, taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more en tire -suppression of voluntary and extra judicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths."' "JOHN. FORTH. " Declared at the Police-court, Great Marlborough • street, this 29th day of May, 1844, before me, "J. HARDWICK, - " Magistrate for the Metropolitan Police District." (Copy of Certificate.) " Arundel, May 27. "I hereby certify, that in the month. of February last I examined privately at Mr. Forth's request the horse Leander, and pronounced him to be three years .old; at that time he bad a decided three-year old mouth, and the tushes had not shown themselves. " J. WOOD. "S. T. HARMAN." THE PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. This Company held their half-yearly meeting yes terday, at their offices, 51," St. Mary-Axe. The meeting was numerously attended, and the proceed ings were distinguished by perfect unanimity. The following report was presented by the Direc tors : " The period having arrived, when, in conformity with the terms of the deed of settlement, the half- yearly general meeting of the Proprietors is appointed to be held, the Directors have much pleasure in meet ing you- to submit their report on the state of the concern, and to declare a dividend out of the profits for the half-year ending 31st March, 1844. " The Proprietors are generally aware that the deed of the Company regulates that the statement of accounts is to be made annually only, an arrange ment consequent upon part of the operations of the Company being carried on at such distant points as to create a considerable difficulty in procuring, with accuracy, sufficiently detailed information to enable the Directors to submit half-yearly statements to the Proprietors. The Directors are, however, enabled to state that the receipts for the past half-year have con tinued steadily to increase with the extended opera tions of the. Company, and have been sufficient to enable them, not only to meet every arrangement of the Company affecting the trading profits, but also to provide, by anticipation, for the repairs of the Com pany's vessels ; and to recommend the usual dividend of 3f per cent. for the six months ending 31st March last. _ " The Company's vessels are insured for 292,0001., and one half-year's premium thereon has been appro priated out of the profits of the last half-year. " The undivided profits. of the concern will amount to about 58/., after providing 18,0001. for the divi dend now recommended, and also reserving 8,0001. for anticipated repairs. "The Directors are enabled to state that the Com pany's vessels are in a satisfactory condition, and effi cient for the respective services in which they are en gaged;—by continuing to act upon the . principle, when the vessels are under periodical repair of the hulls and machinery, of adopting every improvement which has stood the test of experience, which the Di rectors consider the wisest economy in the end, they expect that the establishment of the Company afloat will continue to give to the Government the same satisfaction in the performance of the Mail Service which has hitherto obtained for it the approval Of this high authority. "In the last report made to the Proprietors, 29th Nov., 1843, the Directors communicated to them that they had tendered to her Majesty's Government, and the East India Company, for an improved plan of operation in the Indian Seas, in.order to expedite the conveyance of the mails and public dispatches. A lengthened negotiation has since been carried on by the Managing Directors on this subject, and it is still under the consideration of her Majesty's Government and the Court of Directors of the Honourable East India Company. " It is understood that her Majesty's Government have it in contemplation, not only to increase the facilities of mail communication by the establshment under contract of a monthly line to and from Madras, Ceylon, and Calcutta, but also that other extensions will ultimately be adopted by the Government in the Eastern Hemisphere. " The arrangements alluded to are calculated to be beneficial to this establishment, and the Directors have reason to hope that the Company's vessels will be employed under contract by her Majesty's Go vernment for the contemplated service. " In order that the Directors should be in a posi tion to give an unquestionable pledge on behalf of the Company, of their ability to carry out the services referred to, or any portion of them, with satisfaction to her Majesty's Government and the East India Company, they recommended an issue to the Pro prietors in England and Ireland, of 3,000 Scrip Cer titficates, to represent 3,000 Shares, of 501. each, being an additional subscription of 150,0001. The Pro prietors responded to this call by applying for 5,671 Snares, representing 283,5501. but it not having been considered necessary to extend the issue of Shares beyond the number proposed in their circular of the 20th February, 1844, namely 3,000, the Directors were obliged to decline receiving the additional sub scriptions thus tendered. " One thousand Scrip Certificates for the same ob ject were also appropriated for such of the Proprie tors in India as might desire to avail of the privi lege of subscribing at par for the proposed additional capital ; but the result cannot be known until the ar rival of the July mail. " With the view of providing the additional vessels which this contemplated extension of the Company's operations will call for, the Directors considered it de sirable to treat for the purchase of the "Precursor" steam-ship, of 1,800 tons, and 520 horse power, which vessel has been purchased, subject to the examination and approval of the Surveyors of the Admiralty, and other competent parties, as to her hull and machinery. " The well-known steam-ship the " Great Western," of 1,320 tons, N. M., and 400 horses' power, being also offered for Sale, the Directors thought it advisable to purchate that vessel, as she was offered on moderate terms, completely refitted with new boilers, &c. &c. This vessel will undergo the same rigid examination of the hull and michinery, and when approved of as efficient for the mail contract service, will become the property of this Company. "It having been intimated to the agent o f t his Company in Egypt that, in the event of p ro p er fa cilities being provided by the Directors for the con veyance of her Majesty's mails and dispatches on the Nile, this service would be transferred to the Com pany ; no time was lost in contracting for a very superior iron steam-vessel for the purpose referred to, and it is expected she will be sent out in the course of next Autumn ; this measure was the more called for, as, in addition to the foregoing reason, the extension of the passengers' intercourse between England and India demanded an increase of facilities for the river Nile transit, the existing means being insufficient for the purpose. " Several complaints, some of them well founded, have reached the Directors, from Indian passengers, who have expressed themselves dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Egyptian Transit Company; for travellers. The managers of that Company, who have the exclusive charge of the transit across the desert, have promised to remedy the evils complained of, and there is reason to believe they are proceeding to do so satisfactorily ; the Directors are, however, determined not to relax their exertions in endeavouring to obtain better arrangements for the convenience of the public on this portion of the route to India, than have hi therto been provided for them. " The Directors cannot conclude without stating an additional circumstance calculated to increase the confidence of the Proprietors in the undertaking, namely, that they have lately been enabled to reduce the rates of insurance on the Company's floating pro perty in Europe, from 6/. to five guineas per cent. " The points now submitted to the Proprietors embrace the principal objects of interest connected with the Company's operations for the last half-year, and the Directors hope that the feeling of gratifica tion which they experience in being enabled to make this satisfactory report will be participated in by the Proprietory at large. " By order of the Court of Directors, " JAMES ALLAN, Secretary." It was moved, seconded, and unanimously car ried— " Ist. That the Report:now read be received, adopted, and circulated amongst the Proprietors. " 2d. That a dividend of 34 per cent. for the six months ending 3d March, 1844, recommended in the Report now read, be payable on and after the 20th June, 1844, between the hours of twelve and three o'clock on each day, to such Proprietors as are duly qualified to receive the same." A vote of thanks and confidence was then moved to the Chairman and Directors, which was carried unanimously, and the meeting adjourned. DUTCH AND GERMAN MAIL. TIIE HAGUE, MAY 25.—Though the Belgian journals deny the fact, we know for certain that the Cabinet of London has sent an energetic' note to that of Brussels respecting the system of differential duties contemplated at Brussels. The Government has presented to the Chamber a project of law for the repayment in the exchange of a part of the national debt. The principal object in the amelioration of the finance of the State is at the time to regulate the employment of the sums due to Hol land by Belgium. The capital of 80 millions of flo rins at 21 . per cent., invested to the credit of Holland in the great book of the national debt of Belgium, will be exchanged, either wholly or in part, for a capi tal of the same amount in the public debt of Holland at' 2I per cent., or this capital will be invested, either wholly or in part, at a price which cannot exceed 59 per cent. of the nominal capital. We learn that the ex-Regent of Spain, General Espartero, and General Van Halen arrived at Rot terdam yesterday, by a steamer from Cologne. We learn by a private letter from Paris that the Governments of France and Austria have resolved not to interfere in the affairs of Switzerland.—liutch Papers, May 28. T U RKISH FRONTIERS, MAY 13.—We have received to-day letters from Constantinople of the Bth of May. The Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin and the Hereditary Prince Lippe arrived there on the 4th. The most dreadful persecution of the Christians was again going on at Konich. Letters from Alexandria of the 6th of May, state that the Viceroy had arrived there, but have no other news of importance.—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 23. DETBNMINED SUICIDE, By AN AMERICAN.—At an early . hour on Tuesday morning, a most determined act of suicide was committed at the house of Mr. Huens, Prince's street, Spitalfields, by a man of colour, a na tive of America,.named J o h n M oore , 28 years of age. It appears that he had lately arrived in this country, and having squandered away the whole of his money, he had made application to the American Consul to be sent back to his own country. He was accordingly placed by the Consul in the establishment of Mr. Huens, where persons in his situation are boarded and lodged at the expense of the American Government, until an opportunity offers to be sent out by the first ship. He had been in the house but three days. After being out the whole of the day, he returned home on the previous night, about ten o'clock, and went up to his sleeping apartment, which was on the third floor, at the back of the house. He had not been up stairs above three hours, when a heavy fall was heard in the back yard, and upon Mr. Huens going out to ascertain the cause, he found the deceased lying on the flag-stolies, surrounded by a pool of blood, and quite insensible.• He was immediately taken in doors, and Mr. Meeres, a surgeon sent for, who, upon examinition, pronounced him to be quite dead. He had pitched upon his head, and had dislocated the verte brie of the neck. Death must have been instantaneous. The window of the bed-room was, found wide open, and the unfortunate man had evidently precipitated himself therefrom. Not the slightest reason can be assigned for the committal of the rash act. DESERTION FROM THE FIFTY-EIGHTH FOOT.—A great number of cases of desertion are reported to have lately occurred in this regiment, the heard-quarters of which embarked last week for New South Wales, whither the remainder is soon to follow. On Mon day morning, a young man, named George Duke was brought before the bench of magistrates at Roches ter, in the custody of a constable and a sergeant of , the 58th, charged with being a deserter under the following circumstances:—The constable stated that on Friday afternoon, the 24th instant, he went into a low • public-house, on the Brook, at Chatham, and saw the prisoner there, dressed in sailor's clothes. Sus pected he was a soldier, and asked him the question, but he denied it. However, he took the prisoner into custody, and conveyed him to the barracks, where he was recognised. Although only nineteen, this is his third attempt at desertion. he prisoner denied he had any intention to desert, and asserted that he had at once told the constable what regiment he be longed to. The sergeant said that the prisoner had only been absent that morning, and was under punish ment at the time. The magistrates asked whether the colonel would not take the prisoner back, as a straggler, as he had only been absent a few hours, and was found within a mile of the barracks ; but the sergeant said, " No, he was found in plain clothes, and the colonel would try him as a deserter." The magistrates convicted the prisoner, and gave him up to his depot. HAYDN'S "CREATIox:' — The Sacred Harmonic Society will perform this work at Exeter Hall en Friday next. The vocal performers are Madame Caradori Al lan, Braham, snd Herr Staudigl, a combination of talent rarely presenh3d on the same occasion. ERECTION OF AN INN AT ALDERLEY.—The Man chester and Bi rmingham Railway Company have deter mined upon binllding a splendid inn on their line at. the sAlderley station . The building is to be commenced forth with, at a cost nearly 4,000/.--11faccleifiekl Chronicle. APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. Mr. KELLY rose pursuant to notice to ask for leave to bring in a Bill to provide an appeal in criminal cases. It was almost incredible that while in every case of a civil character, no matter whether the question involved a large or a small amount of money, the law as it stood at present gave an appeal. A person who felt himself aggrieved either by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge, could appeal from that verdict or that decision, and carry the case even before the highest tribunal of the land:• But in. a criminal case, which must involve a question .of character, property, or even life, there was no appeal, wording to the law of England, against the verdict of the jury, however erro neous, or the decision of the judge, however mistaken. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE CASE OF LEANDER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln consequence of remarks which appeared in your papers of Monday, yesterday, and this day, headed " Lean der and his Jaw," I hope that, in justification of my con duct and in justice to my feelings, you will insert the follow ing plain statement of facts, which will, I trust, entirely exonerate me in the minds of all honourable men, whose good opinion alone I covet, and to the truth of which state ment I am willing to be sworn :—During the Goodwood race week of 1842 the Messrs. Lichtwald sent three horses to my stables to be broken in and trained, with their pedigrees written and signed by themselves ; they were the following, viz., br. f. by Muley Moloch, out of Barbara, since named Julia ; ab. c. by Scamander, out of sister to Mussulman, since named Leander; and a b. e. by Velocipede, out of Fair Jane ; accordingly they were broken in, and in due time commenced their training. Owing to my being detained in town during the early part of the winter by ill health, I did not see the horses until the end of December following, when I pronounced the Scamander colt to possess the appearance and points of a racehorse. He had an engagement at Ascot, for which he was prepared, and which he won. Some obser vations were made on the race-course about his being a very big horse, and looking more like a 3 or even a 4-year old than a 2-year old, and some short time afterwards Messrs. Lichtwald went down to Mitchell-grove, and my fourth, conveying the Duchess of Buccleuch ; the Lady in Waiting, the Viscountess Canning ; the Lady in Waiting to the Queen Dowager, the Countess of Shef field ; and the Master of the Horse. The fifth, convey ing her Majesty the Queen, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal llighness the Duchess of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday, in the Royal Garthns of Buckingham Palace. His Royal highness Prince Albert, honoured Mr. Sheriff Moon with an interview, yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, vi sited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough llouse. The Bishop of Newfoundland had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Freshfield had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Canada, and the Governors of the other North American provinces, were received yesterday, at . the Colonial office. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. A meeting was held yesterday in the great room of Exeter Hall, of members of the Established Church, the Presby terian Church of Ireland, the Free Church of Scotland, and several denominations of Protestant Dissenters, for the pur pose of devising measures to prevent the passing of the Dis senters' Chapels Bill, introduced into Parliament, in March last, by the Lord Chancellor, and now, having passed the House of Lords, awaiting its second reading in the House of Commons. There was a moderately full attendance in the body of the room, and upon the platform we observed the following gentlemen : Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., in the chair ; Colonel Verner, M.P. ' • J. Boyd, Esq., M.P. ; J. Rashleigh, Esq., M.P. ; Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart. ; Sir G. H. Rose, Bart. ; Admiral llawker, Hon. Captain Maude, Captain Vernon Harcourt, henry Pownall, Esq. ; Henry Blanchard, Esq. ; John Wilks, Esq. ; T. Farmer, Esq. ; A. Gillespie, Esq. ; Rev. Dr. Dealtry, rector of Clapham ; Rev. D. 'Wilson, vicar of Islington ; Rev. Edw. Auriol, Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rev. E. Holland, Rev. Dr. Holloway, Rev. Alex. Irvine, Rev. R. Monre, Rev. H. Cole, Rev. P. Hall, Rev. R. Davies, Rev. R. W. Dibdin, Rev. D. Buell, Rev. T. Redwar, Rev. J. C. Miller, Rev. M. Preston, Rev. A. Thelwall, Rev. H. Beamish, Rev. Jos. Pratt, Rev. R. Brandrain, Rev. J. P. Smith, of the Estab lished Church : Rev. J. Blackburn, Rev. R. Ainslie, Rev. J. Sherman, Rev. J. Burnet, Rev. J. Robinson, Rev. J. T. Hunt, Rev. George Evans, Rev. J. Woodwork, Rev. Dr. Jenkvn, Independents : Rev. Dr. Bunting, Rev. C. Prest, Rev. - Jacob Stanley, Rev. J. Crowther, Rev. W. M. Bunting, Wesleyan Methodists : Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Belfast ; Rev. Dr. Stewart, moderator of the General Assembly of Ulster. The Earl of Mountcashel was to have taken the chair on the occasion, but a few minutes after eleven o'clock, Mr. WILK'S read letters from Lord Ashley, M.P., Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, the Rev. Mr. urgess, of Chelsea, the Rev. Mr. Champneys, of White chapel, and others, apologising for their unavoidable absence from the meeting, but expressing their entire concurrence in its objects. The Rev. Mr. BIACKBURN read the report of the Commit tee, detailing the origin of the Bill, the progress it had thus far made, and the views of the Committee as to the necessity of opposing its passing into a law. • Mr. Fox MAULS then proceeded to address the meeting. He trusted that in discussing the important question upon which they had assembled, it was unnecessary for him to ap peal to them to enter upon that discussion calmly, and in the order of business.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that the Bill had been brought before the public, to say the least of it, in a surreptitiOus manner; and he could not help admi ring, while he at the same time deprecated, the shrewdness and cleverness of its author, who, in so small a space as two little pages and three short sections, had contrived to embody so extensive a mischief—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The title of the Bill was, " An Act for the Regulation of Suits re lating to Meeting-houses and ether Property held for Religious Purposes by persons dissenting from the United Church of England and Ireland." Now, looking at that title, one would suppose that it was a Bill in which the great body of Dissenters of the empire were deeply concerned. But when he came to ask himself the question, what body of Dissenters asked for or petitioned for this Bill—whether the Wesleyan thought it necessary for their well-being; whether the Inde pendents, Presbyterians, or Baptists, thought it requisite for the well-being, or for the maintenance and security of their esta blishments, endowments, or foundations, he found that not one individual of these bodies had ever dreamt of petition ing for it ; but, on the contrary, the moment they had be come acquainted with its provisions, they one and all simultaneously and loudly exclaimed against it.—(Cheers.) Then he thought the Church of England might have thought it in some way necessary.—(A laugh.) But when he looked at the debate in the House of Lords, he saw the Bishops of London and Exeter leading the opposition raised against it, in a manner which did credit to their known character and abilities, and their zeal for the interests of that Church of which they were such distinguished members.—(Cheers.) Then, he asked, what body of Dissenters applied for this Bill. —(Hear, hear.) And he found one small section for whose benefit alone the whole equanimity, if he might so say, of the religious trusts of this country, were to be put in peril and subverted.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Ile was very glad to find, out of the Commission appointed to inquire into the charitable trusts of this country (and there was great ne cessity for such a Commission), that discoveries had been made of mal-appropriation of the funds and endowments of charitable trusts, and that the law had been enabled to set these mal-appropriations right. He was rejoiced to find this, because in all cases wherever the testator left funds to be applied to particular purposes, whether secular or religious (if in consonance with the principles of law and the consti tution), they ought to be strictly followed out.—(Cheers.) Now, it had been found that certain individuals, for a long time, had been in the enjoyment of property to which they had no right or title, and a spirited person had brought the matter to an issue by submitting the question to the tests of the Courts of law, and subsequently to the highest tribunal in the realm—he alluded to the case of Lady Hewley's charity. Upon the decision of that question im portant results had depended ; for it was proved thereby that those who held property illegally could, in the ordinary course of law, be compelled to give it up.—(Hear, hear.) What was the consequence of this decision ? One would naturally expect in this country, and in every country in which order existed, that to the equity of the law as well as to the majesty of the law, all were bound to submit.—(Hear, hear.) Here, however, they had the Lord Chancellor of England proposing the doctrine—not that the subject must bend to the law, but that the law is bound to submit to the subject.—(Cheers.) Now he (Mr. Fox Maule) must for one, protest against such doctrine as this.—(hear, hear.) The other day, on a festive occasion, they might have observed the Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor coquetting together, as to which had been the greater law reformer. But if this was a specimen of their law reform, ho would say, " May we be delivered from such law reformers as the Lord Chancellor." — (Cheers and laughter.) But it was said that the object of the Bill was to prevent litigation. Now, his opinion was that this would not be the effect of the Bill, even if there were no other objection ; so far from preventing litigation, although it might solder up some inconvenient suits for the time being, it would eventually unsettle every Dissenting trust throughout the kingdom—(Cheers)—and in the course of a very few years occasion more litigation than any men pure which had ever come within his knowledge.—(Bear, hear.) There was another point of objection to which he wished to direct attention—viz., that the Bill went to apply the principle of prescriptive tenure to property devised or left in the hands of trustees for religious purposes. That was, as he believed, a decided alteration of the existing law.— '(Cheers.) But although, on consideration, he did not see why property devised for religious purposes might not have the same description of tenure applied to it, by right of prescription, as property devised for civil purposes , he c ould not admit hat any law, so interfering with religious pro perty, should be retrospective in its operation.—(Cheers.) In Scotland there was a prescriptive right for property held for forty years, without disp ute or question ; but would be most unjust if, in the case of a party who had until within a short period of the expiration of the forty years' limit, chosen, or been compelled by circumstances, to forego his right of questioning the title of the posses sor, should, when in a position to proceed to recover his property, be told, " You cannot recover, for a Bill has been passed, enacting that twenty-five years shall give a prescriptive right, and the parties who have wrongfully held the property during that time shall be confirmed in their title for the future." Would such an act of injustice be tole rated? And yet that was no more than this Bill proposed to do in respect to the property with which it would in terfere.—(Cheers.) The third clause of the measure foreclosed the rights of the parties at present claiming, and was there fore retrospective; andalthough in the marginal note to the clause it appeared that pending suits were to be exempted in the clause itself, that exemption did not exist, it having been expunged (as he understood) at the third reading of the Bill in the House of Lords. If it were proposed to apply the principle of this measure to common and every day cases the people would generally condemn it.—(Cheers.) Take the case of a piece of ground left in trust for the purposes of public recreation and amusement, but that, in the course of 'ime, the trustees inclosed the land as their own private property, and alienated it altogether from the objects for which it was devised. Would the people tolerate for a mo ment a Bill giving to those trustees a legal title to the pro perty they had thus become fraudulently possessed of?— (Cheers.) Yet the cases were exactly parallel. He would call, therefore, upon those who did not look upon the question in a religious point of view, to look at in the moral point of view, and they must necessarily join in opposing the pro position. Now, with regard to the retrospective operation of the Bill. There were perhaps no cases in England or in Scotland in which the retrospective operation would arise ; then he must look to Ireland for instances of its effects ; and in Ireland he found two cases, one of them a very special case, and in reference to which more particularly he was inclined to believe this third clause had been introduced.— (Hear, hear.) That case, which involved property to the amount of 24,000/. a-year, and was almost equal, therefore, in importance to the celebrated Lady Hewley's charity case, had been made the subject of litigation, had passed through all its hearings, the Lord Chancellor's opinion had been given upon it, and the property now only awaited the final and formal judgment to be transferred to the possession of the parties to whom it justly and rightfully belonged, and appropriated once more to the purposes for which it had been originally bequeathed, instead of to purposes abhorrent to the feelings and intentions of the founders. —(Hear, hear.) Ile could not but feel surprised and alarmed at the unseemly haste with which the Bill had been forced through the house of Lords, and he knew that it was considered by the promoters of the measure that it was necessary to legislate with haste on the question.— (Hear, hear.) But there had been another decision which ono would have thought demanded at least equal haste—he alluded to the decision in the case of the Queen against Mellis, by which mixed Presbyterian marriages in Ireland, a practice:which had existed for 200 years, had been declared illegal. Surely, if ever a case called for legislation, and re trospective legislation, that was one, yet nothing had been done, so much haste had been shown there.—(Hear, hear.) He contended that it was absolutely unjust, at a time when the Irish Presbyterians were labouring under this grievance, that they should be attacked in this way upon the subject of their trust charities, and that by this Bill the property should be taken from their bands at the moment they are about to regain possession of it, and enjoy its fruits. The Bill was altogether founded in injustice, and they had a right to de mand that it should not receive the concurrence of the Legis lature.—( Hear, hear.) Resolutions were then proposed and carried condemnatory of the Bill, and pledging the meeting to merge all minor dif ferences, and to unite in protesting before the Parliament and the country against the passing of a measure so dishonour able to the Legislature, and so pregnant with danger to the cause of religious truth and that a petition, founded on the resolutions, be prepared, and being signed by the Chairman on behalf of the meeting, be presented to the House of Com mons by Sir Thomas Wilde. The meeting was addressed by several of the Reverend COURT CIRCULAR. • A grand dinner was given yesterday evening at Buck ingham Palace to her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Noble Directors of the Concert of Ancient Music. The company consisted of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of Buccleuch ; the Lady in Waiting on.the Queen Dowager, the Countess of Shef field; the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, Baroness Ahlefeldt; the Duke of Well'ngton, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl of Cawdor, the Earl Howe, Lord George Lennox, Hon. William Ashley, Baron Knesebeck, and Captain Francis Seymour. At a quarter-past eight o'clock his Royal Highness Prince Albert (the Director for the evening, in the absence of the Earl of Westmorland) left Buckingham Palace, accompanied by the Noble Directors for the Hanover-square Rooms. The Royal party left in three carriages ; the first conveying Baron Knesebeck ; the Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert, Captain Francis Seymour ; and the Equerry to his Royal Highness, Col. Wylde ; the third carriage conveying Earl Howe, the e Earl of Cawdor, and Lord Georg e Lennox tr carriage conveying his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Wellington. The Queen, accompanied by the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the remainder of the Royal party, left the Palace soon afterwards, for the llanover square Rooms, to honour the performance of the concert with her presence. The august party occupied five of the Royal carriages, the first conveying the Hon. William Ashley, the Groom in Waiting, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay • the second conveying the Lord in Waiting, Lord Byron ; the Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot ; and the Hon. Charles A. Murray. The third, conveying the Lord Steward, the Maids of Honour, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Frances Devereux ; and the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, Baroness Ahlefeldt. The Gentlemen on the platform, in support of the resolutipr more than one of whom commented in strong terms upon the unnatural union of Roman Catholics and Sociniene in support of the Bill, which could only be looked upon as a sinister attempt on the part of the Roman Catholics to over turn the Protestant Church, and create one common scramble for Church property. A collection having been made to defray the expenses in curred, and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. LITERATURE. THE NEW CURRENCY BILL. A Letter to the Pre.nier, in reply to his Speech on the Bank Charter Act (May 7, 1844). I3y "An Enquirer after Truth." London: Clarke, Pall-mall East, 1844. We really believe that this is the best of all the Currency pamphlets which have been published since the introduction into Parliament of the Bill of 1819. It is a temperate, plain-speaking, closely-reasoned investigation of the premises assigned, this month, by the Premier himself, as those upon which he founds his new propositions for "regulating" (God help u+!) our existing monetary system—for reserving to the Bank of England its charter, on certain conditions—. and for carrying out, in all their extent and to their fullest action, the hitherto but half-developed tyranny and mischief of that measure, which twenty-five years •ago gave the first shock to our commercial supremacy. It does not seem possible to us that any honest man can arise from the perusal of this little tract without being thoroughly convinced of the absolute mistakes, the portentous blundering, of Sir Robert Peel in the very rudiments of the scheme which he has concocted for maintaining a gold standard of value. But we will not bespeak opinions, still less do we desire—V our own impressions be errors or prejudices—to innocu late others with them. At the same time we will freely admit that if the reasoning arrayed against Sur Robert's " assumptions" by the Enquirer after Truth" do not amount to demonstrations of the utter fallacy of those assumptions, we are incapable of dis tinguishing between logical deduction and mere un proved hypothesis. The author, after admitting that Sir Robert Peel, in his speech of the 7th instant, did not over-rate the vast importance of the question then submitted to Parliament, asks this pertinent ques tion : " Why should you restrict to afortn : ght only the time you permit to be bestowed on a measure affecting inte rests of such extent and magnitude? What time is that for enabling the Members even of the House of Commons to form a competent judgment of so complex and difficult a question as the currency, with its bearings on the various classes and interests liable to be compromised by their decision ? If every transaction of business, every domestic arrangement, every contract subsisting or here after to be made, every person in the kingdom from the Prince to the peasant—the most aged to the child unborn —will be affected by the decision to which the House may come on this great question—how happens it that you, Sir, should restrict to so brief a term the period allowed for studying your propositions, tracing their probable effects through their multitudinous ramifications, and consulting those numerous classes of persons, those almost innumer able individuals, whose weal or woe depends on the votes which will be given in Parliament ? Ample notice and the fullest information to the people should have been allowed to precede the discussion, and all who apprehend injury should have been invited to state their doubts and fears in petitions, memorials, or remonstrances. I think I may say, with perfect truth, there never was a measure of such universal and intense interest, hitherto so little understood, urged on with such indecent haste, and so little regard to the sentiments of those who may be the sufferers." He then reflects on the tyrannous inconsistency of allowing men no right of private judgment on a ques tion like this—of the management of their own mone tary affairs—on which every individual naturally deems himself the best judge, so far as it regards his own business. He adds— " Your motive may have been only the desire to avoid that avalanche of.pamphlets which usually descends when any sudden or extraordinary announcement startles the public ear. You are justly afraid of those • who in our day write (as you say) interminable pamphlets on the currency, but never allow us to guess at their meaning.' In this view of the case I have no right to complain." In dealing with Sir Robert's preliminary definition of value, the " Enquirer" quotes the Premier's idea of " the meaning of a pound," on which we have re marked in another part of our paper. The expression of that idea the author correctly quotes from the re port of the debate on the 7th inst., in which Sir Robert concluded that— " The standard of silver up to 1718, was fixed about 1567 ; but in 1717, the value of the guinea was deter mined to be 21s. ; and for a certain period, both gold and silver constituted the standard of value. But in the year 1774 it was enacted that no legal contract should be discharged in silver for any sum of more than 251." Our author remarks that the phrase "subsequent debasements of the currency" conveys a false im pression, when these debasements are said by Sir Ro bert to have made a change in the value of the pound sterling. But this passage we have incorporated else where. Let us add to it this important pendant, re- . specting our gold coin : " With respect to our gold coin, which began to be minted in the 41 Henry 111. (1257), its proportions were 23 carats 3f grains fine geld to half a grain alloy, till 1 James I. (1604), when 22 carats was the standard with 2 carats alloy; at which standard it remains to this day. Thus, according to history and fact, the earlier Kings of England were, in the mintage of their coins, more remarkable for preserving the purity of the stand ard, than for debasing it." lie infers that Sir Robert meant to speak of the diminution of weight, whereby great alteration had been made, not in the name, but in the intrinsic value, of the pound between the reign of the Conqueror and of Elizabeth. But he shows that the admitted fluc tuations of the coined pound of silver, in the same interval, from the number of 20s. to 625. (through other alterations of 20s. 3d., 225. 6d., 255., 305., 375., &c.), did not square with Sir Robert's " doctrine con cerning the pound"—that " quantity of the precious metals of certain weight and certain fineness;" that " certain definite quantity of gold—of the precious metals." " Did you by these expressions mean us to understand that it should consist, at all times, of the same definite quantity of gold or silver—an invariable, as well as a definite, quantity ? If so, your histo rical examples contravene your assertion. . • You must mean, only, that the measure of value should be, at that time when it is the measure of v alue, whenever that may be, of a certain weight and certain fineness." " You next observe, in your brief sketch of our pound sterling, that it was not until a late period of the reign of Elizabeth that silver, being then the standard of va lue, received that determinate weight, which it retained without variation, with constant refusals to alter it, till 1716.' By these words I understand that the pound sterling, from a late period of the reign of Elizabeth, re mained unchanged in value till the year 1716. But here I must again take leave to doubt the accuracy of your, statement. Do you not omit to take into account, when you make this assertion, the difference in the value of silver which was occasioned by the discovery of Ame rica?" How that proportion came to vary from 10 to 1 . to 15 to 1, we have shown in an article which appears in another column. Recurring to the year 1600, • our author says, " At the period in question it.was esteemed as 11 to . 1, and was so represented in our coins : when, there fore, we desire to compare the value of silver coins for merly, with the value of silver coins now, we must take this relation into account. Or if we choose to disembar- _ rass the question of all calculations of this kind, we may at once compare the weight of our gold pound now, with the weight of that which we had at any former period, and the difference between the two will show us the value of the silver pound as well as of the gold pound. You will find in Ilarris (Essay upon Money and Coins, Part 11., p. 2), that the proportion of fine silver to fine gold in the coinage of 1601, to which you allude, was as 10 . 905 to 1, and in Ruding, that while the proportion was as above exhibited (or, as he expresses it, 1 to 10 56-59), the gold pound, called the sovereign, worth 205., was coined of the weight of 171 grains. N ow , if our present sovereign contains 123 grains, and that of Eliz. in 1601 contained 171 grains, it follows that her pound sterling was worth 275. 9d. of our present coin. Admitting, therefore, that the silver coin of Eliz. was the measure of value, and the legal tender of that day, it is evident that as the value of 20s. was equal to the sove reign of 171 grains, the value of the silver pound of that period was also of the value of 275. 9d. of our present coin. For more than thirty-nine 'years before this change was made, that is, from the 4th of Eliz. to her 43d year (155 S to 1601), the pound of silver was coined into 605., and the gold sovereign, worth 205., was of the weight of 174 grains; both pounds, therefore, were then worth 28s. 3d. of our present coin. So much for the "certain definite quantity of the precious metals"—of certain weight and fineness--o f cur " pound" sterling. This exposure of Sir Ro bert's grossly uninstructed brief—upon which he has ventured to move the Commons of England to adopt his mischievous, rash, and ill-considered experiments on the currency, ought surely "to put him out of court," at the tribunal of public opinion, in any case where the interests of domestic industry and corn-. mere° are concerned. The " Enquirer" then gives Sir Robert that severe castigation touching his " erroneous assumptions about the antiquity and uniformity of the measure of value," which we have quoted elsewhere. from the same point we shill take our second, and con cluding notice of this remarkable pamphlet. MR. D'ISRAELI'S " CONINGSBY." —We are re• quested to state that a new edition of this work will be ready fur publication with the Magazines to-morrow, May 31, and those wh o have been hitherto disa pp ointed in procuring it, may obtain it of any bookseller. •. TIIE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO." Besides the poet Barry Cornwall, Horace Smith, Laman. Blanchard, Titmarsh, Peter Priggins, and Mrs. Trol. lope, we understand that Colburn's New Monthly lifaia zine for June will number among its contributors the' . . popular author of " Stories of Waterloo," W. H. Max— well, Esq., whose paper is entitled " Memoirs of a tlemau on Half-pay," a subject which will doubtless re,:' ceivo effective illustration from the pen of this favoutili 1 1 writer. order o e ije a '