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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning IN NEXT SPECTATOR, AND A STAMPED SUPPLEMENT OF EQUAL SIZE. LORD DURHAM'S REPORT on CANADA, at full length, in the more important parts, and the rest epitomized; and the cream of his Lordship's CORRESPONDENCE with Lord GLENELG, late Secretary of State for the Colonies. Office, 9, Wellington-street, Strand. TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. IHE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES now assembled in London, have appointed Members of their body to visit the following places in the ensuing fortnight, to explain the prin ciples of THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER and NATIONAL PETITION : Messrs. R. Lowrey and A. Duncan—Devon and Cornwall. Messrs. H. Vincent and W. G. Burns—Gloucester, Somerset, and Hereford. Messrs. J. Collins and J. Cleave—Hampshire, South Wilts, and Isle of Ai ight. Messrs. J. Pearse and W. Cardo—Bucks and Berks. Messrs. L. Pikethly and J. B. O'Brien—Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. Persons in the above districts are requested to co-operate in the getting up of Public Meetings. By order of the General Convention, WILLIAM LOVETT, Secretary, (pro. tem.) Great Marlborough-street, Feb. 13. T HE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S LIFE. Edited by Captain C. R. SCOTT. To be published in Twelve Monthly Parts, with numerous Illustrations, at 2s. 6d. each. The First Part of this Work will appear with the Magazines, en the Ist of March. *.* Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. NIA OF LONDON THE UNION Bi Capital 3,000,0001., i DIREC' in Shares of 50/. each. TORS. Thomas Meux, Esq. A. Cockburn, Esq. David Skaiffe, Esq. Benjamin Boyd, Esq. Peter Laurie, Esq. James Farquhar, Esq. W. P. Craufurd Esq. John Connell, Esq. .LSON SCRIMGEOUR, Esq. Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman. Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq. George Webster, Esq. John Barnes, Esq. J. W. Sutherlaad,Esq. W. M. Nurse, Esq. Major-Gen. Arehibabil Robert son, llon. E. I. C. S. 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There are many cir cumstances that tend to render this offer a desirable one. which cannot be explained in an advertisement, but would be fully en tered upon in an interview. The speculation promises splendid success, and is, as far as any speculation can be, devoid of risk. Apply, post paid, to X. Y. Z., at I, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street. 11" E UNREPRESENTED MEN OF FINSBURY and the RADICALS of LONDON, Will be addressed by Members of the GENERAL CONVENTION, On CLERKENWELL-GREEN, TO-MORROW EVENING, THURSDAY, F. 14, 1839, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK, JOHN FROST, Esq., in the Chair, Delegate from Monmouthshire. :lEN of LONDON, rally round the CONVENTION ! 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Claude Melnotte,: Mr. Macready ; Colonel llamas, Mr. Bartley Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Helen Faueit. After which THE KING AND THE DUKE; or the Siege of Alenqon. Governor of Alenc,on, Mr. Bartle:• ; Chapeanbas, Mr. Harley ; Laura, Miss Taylor. Friday—A grand Musical Entertainment by the Concert Band from the English Opera-house. Saturday—The Tempest, and Fair Rosamond. Monday—King Lear, and Fair Rosamond. ..... e",.., o, ..e.- 1 :: -Pet, ~..0- , -. 17,',.v.,..,--'' , .v....,.....,t,z 4 1 ,.. ~ 4 . .4 4 * e '-'O7-"'a" ,' rr - ..-a .- - ))e ala' LONDON : WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1839. EVENING EDITION. Talk begets talk, as art begets art. How beautiful are the w or k s o f t h e pa i nter, and the sculptor, which spring from th e concept i ons o f t h e poet ! W e cannot pay a similar compliment to the talking Parliament, and to the contradiction s which reputed errors in one place bring forth in another. Viscount PALMERSTON the night before last indulged in some comments in the Commons on the remarks of the Earl of ABERDEEN on the Treaty with Austria, and last night the Noble Earl, in the LORDS, corrected the Noble Viscount. According to the Treaty with Austria, British and Austrian vessels are to be placed on the same footing on entering the ports of the Danube, which the Earl of ABERDEEN says Austria cannot stipulate because those ports belong to Turkey, and Viscount PALMERSTON implies she can- Viscount MELBOURNE seems to side with the Earl, though probably as long as Austria is on a friendly foot ing. with Turkey Viscount PALMERSTON may be, in fact, right. This little difference gave rise to a conver tion in the House, which may be read in our report. Lord BROUGHAM, on presenting a petition from Walsall, for the repeal of the Corn-laws, adverted to the recent re-election of the Judge of the Admiralty Court, for the Tower Hamlets, and objected to such a judicial officer sitting in Parliament. The Judge, it appears, has no salary, and is paid by an annual vote in the Navy estimates. Lord MELBOURNE agreed with the Noble Lord in strongly condemning this anomaly, but dissented from the opinion that the Judge ought not to sit in Parliament. Petitions were presented for the abolition of the Corn-laws by the Earl of DURHAM and Lord VRRNON from Derby ; and against the abolition, from the Not tingham Agricultural Association, by the Duke of NEWCASTLE. A long and not uninteresting conversation took place on the subject of Naval Schools and Education. It was introduced by the Earl of HARDWICKE, and se veral Noble Lords took part in it. Nothing resulted from it, except the conclusion, that we are the worst educated naval people in the world, and have the most unscientific shipbuilders, and yet practically our naval officers are amongst the best in existence, and our ships beat and take all others. The education is the theoretical part that is undertaken by Government and is slovenly done. The actually practical part is as it were left to the people and it is . done tolerably well. No motion grew out of this conversation, and at it conclusions the the House of Peers adjourned to Thursday. In the Commons a considerable number of petitions t , l ' and against the Corn-laws were presented. Col. presented one from Wetminster, praying the House to economise its time, and s not engage in useless discussions. m agistrat e referenc e t o M r . FROST, the Monmouthshire 'magistrate and m em b er o f t h e N at i ona l C onvent i on Lord JOHN RUSSEL L s t ate d t h at t h e correspon d ence Which had passed must be produced, but it was not moved for last night. Sir R. PEEL wished to learn from Lord JOHN RUS.• 3 ,E .r u what c ourse h e meant to take with reference to al • VILLIER'S motion on the Corn-laws, or, rather, he wished, we think, to terrify Lord JOHN into his own course. Lord JOHN declined answering till Thursday. A long statement made by Lord JOHN RUSSELL on the subject of education, followed by a number of speeches from Hon. Members on the same question, occupied the major part of the evening. We will not enter into this important subject now, because we think it ill-timed and misplaced. The people are too knowing al ready for the Government and the Legislature, and to increase their knowledge is not that one thing which is now most imperatively required. The Ministry and the Legislature waste their precious time in now dis cussing plans of education. For our Parliament now to trouble itself about schools is to act on a pre-con ceived theory, and to shut its eyes to the duties it is imperatively required to perform. It proceeds to build up a system, and fails to observe that it is not what is now suitable to the wants of society. A system of edu cation might do, if the community were just breaking forth out of the egg ; but it is fully fledged and is escaping altogether from those who expect to bind its feet and wings by school learning. At the same time the long debate, particularly Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech, may be read with pleasure from its enlightened s entiments, and with profit from its numerous facts. We shall be able to form a better opinion of the plan proposed, when we see the papers which were last night laid on the table, and are to be printed. At present we shall only say that its principal feature is an unpaid Board of Commissioners, to be presided over by the President of the Council, the Marquis of LANS DOWNE ; which Board is to have the distribution of the funds appropriated by the State for education. We hope while these schemes are on foot care will be taken to establish schools for country gentlemen and parsons ; for we are not acquainted with any classes who so much require moral instruction, or instruction in the principle of meum and teum ; and also schools for Legislators, for they, more than any other set of men, in the country, require, in our humble apprehension, to be taught their duties. The cotton-spinner twists a most beautiful thread, the ploughman makes a straight furrow, the printer sets up thousands of letters made of little pieces of metal, into words, sentences, pages, and columns, without one mistake, and each and all of the industrious classes the Parliament is to educate, per form their duties so as to be creditable to themselves and the country ; but we have Sir ROBERT PEEL'S authority for saying that our Legislators are the most slovenly in existence, and botch their work more disgracefully than any gipsey tinkers. We hope, then, if we are to have a grand scheme of national education that the Parliament will not forget its most wanted part, a school— a normal school—for Legislators. On the motion of Mr. Alderman Wool), a Select Committee was appointed to take into consideration the several plans for improving the Metropolis, including the building of the Royal Exchange, which is to be accomplished, it was hinted, without continuing the tax on the people's coals, which, next, to the bread tax, 1 is the most scandalous of all taxes. Mr. WALLACE, after making an able statement as to the defects in the mode of administering justice in Scotland, moved for a Committee to inquire into the subject. The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the mo tion, which was withdrawn after a protracted discus sion. Mr. WALLACE also moved that no Bill affecting trade or commerce be introduced after Easter, unless on special cause shown. Mr. HUME seconded the motion, which was avowedly directed against a practice of Mr. POULETT THomsoN of bringing forward important measures towards the close of the Session, and getting them passed without due sifting. Mr. POULETT THOM.. soN defended himself, and after some discussion the motion was withdrawn. Mr. Sergeant TALFouRD obtained leave to bring in his Bill for amending the law of copyright. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better protection of purchasers against judg ments, &c. ; and Mr. Fox MAULE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to improve prisons in Scotland. Mr. BROTHERTON made his usual motion to prevent business being commenced at late hours, but was de feated on a division by 26 to 19. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in several Bills to improve the administration of justice in Scotland, and gave notice that he meant to move for a Committee to consider of the propriety of increasing the Judges' salaries in Scotland. New writs were issued for Leitrim, in the room of Lord CLEMENTS, deceased, and for Carlow, in the room of Mr. MAULE, now a Baron of the Exchequer. The House, though there were not many Members present at any time, sat till past Twelve o'clock. The state of the Supreme Court of Justice in Scotland, forms a most singular anomaly in the administration of the laws of the country. Mr. O'CoNNELL in former days used to paint the Irish Bench in most extraordinary colours—describing one Judge deaf, others more ignorant of the law than any Barrister of two years practice, and all of them blinded by political prejudice ; but if we are to believe the statements made by Scotch Members last night, the mode of administering justice in Ireland, or indeed in any other country, must sink into the shade when compared with the system to which the people of Scotland submit at present. On reading the statements, a stranger would suppose that the Scotch are such a well-regulated people, so little given to litigation, and so versed in the law themselves, that Courts of Justice are mere super fluities, and only kept up to fulfil one of the ar ticles of the Union. The Supreme Court sits at an average 104 days, or three months in a year, and only for an hour and a half or two hours each day, which, supposing it were to sit as long each day as the English Courts, would amount to about twenty days in the year. One would conclude, that Judges who can settle all the important suits of a country in so short a period, must be men of great quickness, and not broken down either by age orinfir mities. But what is the fact ? The Hon. Member for Aberdeen gives an account of a casual visit to the Court, when he heard one of the Judges deliver a judg ment, who was said so be ninety years of age, at all events he has been 45 years on the bench ; he was propped up by two of his brethren, one on each side, with a person at his back—all the rest of the Judges according to similar testimony, were from 65 to 80 or 90 years of age. One of the residents was said to be in a state of mental imbecility, caused by great age and infirmities—the other President was labouring under a painful disease, and unable to attend to his duties, a third Judge was stone deaf—in short it appeared there were only four Judges in the two divisions fit for duty. But our brethren in the north are callous, passive, and con tented people, and their representatives are of the same cast. They have but one member who calls out for justice to Scotland, and that he does only at long intervals, or at late hours. Were the Irish bench in such a state the Member for Dublin would give no rest either to the Government or the House till the system was reformed and the Bench filled with men—not deaf or decrepit, but in the vigour of life, and fit to discharge the importan functions of a Judge. In the unprecedented space of 40 days we have, by the extraordinary activity of Mr. WAGHORN, been put in possession of Bombay papers to the Ist ult. The Atalanta left Bombay on the 2d January, and arrived at Suez on the 20th ult. His Highness RAGOJEE ANGRIA, of Colaba, died 26th December. It was rumoured that a de putation of Government officers had been sent to take possession of his territory, and to annex it per manently to the British dominions. The arrival of the Maingay from Maulmain at Madras, puts our contemporaries in possession of intelligence from Burmah up to the 14th ultimo. The Resident was still at Amerapoora in the most humiliating condition, and all applications made by Col. Benson with reference to the unsettled and degraded state of our diploma tic intercourse with the Burmese Court were met with shuffling and evasion. War seems to be inevitable, and as a shadow cast before the coming strife her Majesty's 62d Regiment are under or ders for the field, and the whole of the Military departments at Ma dras are in a state of active preparation. The Lord Hungerford arrived at Calcutta the 17th December, all well ; the Robert Small, ditto, 14th December. Colonel Worseley, 28th N. 1., died on the 2d December, at Meerut. It has been thought necessary to organise a force of five regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, a de tachment of artillery, and the whole Scindian con tingent, for the reduction of Jhansee, the fort of which is garrisoned by 15,000 fighting men.— Agra, Dec. 6. The Rajah of Kolapoor died the 29th Nov. George Hay Boyd, Esq. died at Ceylon on the 21st November. The Ceylon Papers also contain a report of the death of Miss Wedderburn. The whole of the Scinde force arrived at its destination, and disembarked without the slightest difficulty on the 23d, 27th, and 30th of November and December 1. The camp is formed five miles below Vikkur. The remainder of the European Regiment, the 24th N. 1., 30th European Artillery, and a troop of Golundauze, the whole under the command of Col. Bagnold, have been dispatched from Bombay to take possession of Aden. Half the army of the Indus (from Bengal) is remanded. Major-General BROOKS is appointed a Brigadier of the first class, to command at Mhow. Major-General FEARON to command at Poonah. Brigadier GIBBON to command at Deesah. Ahmednuggar is abolished as a military corn mand. Head Quarters, Camp, Ferozepore, 14th Dec., 1838. 1. The head-quarter camp will be struck on the morning of the 16th instant : and the head-quarters staff will march, according to a route to be prepared by the Quarter Master General of the Army, to Meerut. 2. The Commander--in-Chief intends to proceed on the same morning, by boat, down the Sutlej and Gliarra to the Indus, and so to Bombay. 3. The time has therefore arrived when his connection with the Bengal army must cease; but he cannot allow it to be severed, with first bidding the army farewell, and offering his best wishes for their prosperity and happiness. 4. The support which he has received from the general officers holding commands, and the generally excellent conduct of all ranks in the army, European and Native, have for some time past ren dered his command a task of great ease; and he offers his best ac knowledgments and thanks to all, for this gratifying result. 5. He feels that he cannot adequately thank the general Staff of the bead quarters •f the army, for the able and friendly assistance which they have rendered to him on all occasions ; and he now takes leave of them with regret, and with feelings of cordial esteem and regard. _ _ By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, J. E. LUMLEY, Major-General, Adjutant-General of the Army. His Highness RAGOJEE ANGRIA, of Colaba, died 26th December. It was rumoured that a de• putation of Government Officers had been sent tc take possession of his territory, and to annex ii permanently to the British dominions. H.M.S. Cruizer was despatched to sea, on 28th De cember, with sealed orders, and so suddenly that several of her officers were left on shore. The Beloochees and Scindians are collecting in large numbers to oppose our march, although there is as yet no manifestation of an open opposition. The Ameers are also fortifying Hydrabad. The accounts from Sauwun Warree state that disturbances had again broken out in that State : a detachment of the 16th Regiment, under Captain Duff, had been sent to suppress it. The Carnatic, with Sir Jasper Nicholls on board, arrived at Madras 20th Dec., and landed the fol lowing morning, under the usual salute. The retirement of Sir H. PANE from the com mand of the army had been announced in general orders. DELHI, DEC. 4.—Sir Henry Pane, accompa nied by an A.D.C., Captain Hay and Dr. Wood, were expected to go on board their boats at Fero zeepore, on the 15th, in progress to Bukeer, and pro ceed via Bombay to England. The Head Quarter-staff would commence their march from Ferozeepore under the senior officer, General Torrens, for Meerut, on the 16th, via Kurnaul, which place they will reach on the 2nd January, and Meerut on the 9th. General Hon. John Ramsay will act as Commander-in-Chief till the arrival in India of the officer appointed from home to succeed Sir H. Fane. The following passengers proceed to Suez by the Atalanta on the Ist January.—Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs and family ; Mrs. Onslow and five children ; Sir Herbert Compton ; Miss Compton ; Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm ; Major Geor g e Lee, of H. H. the Nizam's service ; Dr. Smyttan ; Spencer Comp. ton, Esq. ; Hon, P. Anstruther and Lady ; J. W. Whitehead, Es q . ; Mr. W. Young ; Mr. Theophilus Heale, as Deck Passenger ; Commander J. H. Rowband, I.N. as Do. ; Robert Jump, Es q . ; Mr. Paulo de la Girounere ; Mr. Francis Van De Paul ; Mr. Van Den Bosch ; Don Mathies de Meer ; Monsieur Barriot ; two European Servants of the two last-mentioned gentlemen ; two Native Servants of Mr. W. Stubbs ; one European and one Native Servant of Sir Herbert Compton ; one European Servant of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm ; one Native Do. of Spencer Compton, Esq. Letters from the Camp of the Indus army state that intelligence had been received by Government from Cabool, to the effect that DOST MAHOMED and his brothers had finally come to the reso lution of co-operating with the Indian Govern ment in effecting the restoration of Shah Shooja, on condition of jagheers or pensions being guaran teed to them. This, it is alleged, is one of the most probable of the reports lately circulated, as the arrangement is one the Affghan chiefs are most likely to come into. The meeting between the Governor-General and RUNJEE►T SINGH had taken place. Lord AUCK LAND arrived at Ferozepore on the 27th of November, on which day RUNJEET SINGH also made his appearance, and joined his troops encamped on the opposite bank of the river. A complimentary deputation was sent to the MAHARAJAH, who received it most gra ciously, and desired his son, KURRUCK SINGH, to to return the visit, and convey his " salaam" to Lord AUCKLAND. RUNJEET SINGH waited on the Governor-General on the 29th Nov., and Lord Auckland returned the visit tin the following day, and thus the tumasha ended. A grand review of the whole force took place on the 3d of December. Things appear to remainjn statu quo, in the Burmese quarter, and no mention is made of the Napaulese. The Agra Ukhbar of Dec. 6, states that a dis turbance of rather a serious nature had broke out at Jhansee. For the reduction of the Fort—occu pied, it is said, by 15,000 fighting men—it had been thought necessary to organize a force of five regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, a detachment of artillery, and the entire Scindeah contingent. The whole to be commanded by Sir T. ANBURY. There were two opposite parties at Jhansee ; and as Mr. FRASER, the Commissioner, had declared in favoui of neither, they are united in determina tion to oppose us, under the impression that our object is to annex the disputed territory to our own. Singapore Papers of the Bth November intimate that the Dutch and the Bugis are at loggerheads, and the former have invaded the Bugis district Bonarattee, destroyed the villages, and devastated the country. The Dutch schooner Maria Frede. rika had been captured by the pirates on the coas of Borneo. Advices from Bangkok to the 15th of Septem ber state that the Siamese were very busy making preparations for war against the Quedah Malays. The KING had been extremely vexed at the loss of Quedah, and had vented his resentment in extensive decapitations ; the late Governor of that province is among the number of victims who have suffered from his MAJESTY'S anger. Trade was dull, munitions of war being the only saleable articles. Madrid Papers of the 4th inst. have reached us this morning, but they merely bring reports of pro vincial contests at Municipal elections. The pro ceediugs against General CORDOVA and NAR VAEZ are understood to be dropped, greatly to the annoyance of General ESPARTERO. The pro gramme of the New Premier was hourly expected. Accounts received this mornin g from Spain, dated Logrono, the 9th, state that 9,000 men, com manded by GUIBALDE and GA VIN, had assembled at Ciremgur. MAROTO was marching with all the troops under his command to Estella, where Don CARLOS and his Court were expected on the 15th. It is not yet known whether this division of the army intends crossing the Ebro, and, if so, who is to protect the passage of GUIBALDE'S troops. As the roads are becoming practicable, it was expected that a battle would shortly take place. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been received ; but to such as care nothing about the electioneering pasquinades of rival candidates ; they contain little news of any interest. The Constitu tionnel states that all correspondence from the elec toral departments announce the certain triumph of the Opposition. The Courrier Francais has dis covered that we have abstained from celebrating the French victories in Mexico out of sheer jealousy at the success of France in rivalling us as a naval Power. This is yet somewhat premature. The following paragraphs include whatever there is in the way of news in the French Journals : The following are the latest accounts from the squadrons in the Mediterranean : " The English fleet is still at Malta, where it will paps the winter. The Ottoman fleet has returned to the Arsenal at Constantinople. The Egyptian fleet has returned to the Arsenal at Alexandria, with the exception of some vessels which are stationed at Candia and on the coast of Syria. The French squadron under Rear-Adrairal Lalande has quitted Ourtac ; and on the 17th of January the Hercule and Santi Petri of the line, and the Bounainville brig, anchored in the road of Smyrna. • ' • The Austrian division, under Commodore Bandieta, is cruising about the coasts of the Archipelago, except the Montequeule brig, which was at anchor in the road at Smyrna. TOULON, FEB. S.—Detachments of troops, destined for Africa, arrive here every day. The Agathe corvette is to sail to-morrow with 450 to Bona, and will bring back a battalion of the 12th of the line. The Diacleme, of the line, will sail on the 10th, with 1,000 men for Algiers, and will bring back to France an equal number. The Accounts from the Levant, brought by the Minos, are not interesting.—Le Commerce. It is not only the Prefects who are summoned to Paris. A multitude of Sub-Prefects are sent for to receive electoral Firrnans. It is not only the Ministerial Journals of Paris that are thrown away with profusion even in the public roads; an extraordinary use is made of all the Journals of the Department which repay in columns the subsidies which they receive. They are regularly forwarded to the electors, under cover of the Prefects. This is considered as a public service. What enormous expences. The cost of this general election is estimated at two millions. It will be paying rather dear for the fall of a Ministry long since condemned, but in its incredible infatuation it flatters itself with obtaining a Chamber which shall pass a sponge over such enormities, and augment the secret funds to pay for secret manoeuvres.—Le Constitutionel. In the year 1831 the number of births at Vienna was 16,295 (645 more than in 1837) ; the number of deaths 14,399 (1,241 fewer than in 1837); marriages 3,337 (124 fewer than in 1837). According to the last census the population of Vienna, amounting to 334,500, not including strangers, who make but THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY,-EVENING EDITION,-FEBRITARY 13, 1839. * short stay in the garrison. Within the walls there are 1,217 houses, inhabited by 53,640 persons. In the thirty-four suburbs there are 280,860 inhabitants in 7,031 houses. The Vienna University in the half year, 1838, 1839, has 2,620 students, viz., Jurisprudence, 655 ; Me_ d o i r ci D ne iv , i 6 ni 6 t o y ; 2 S s u 2 rg ; er P y, h 4 il 6 o 6 " . ph / y l , e s t 7 h 7 ree Gymnasia in Vienna have 1,684 students. BOURSE--Peats, MONDAY, FEB 11. HALF-PAST FOUR.--The Three per Cents. 78f. 75c. offered. First Highest 1 ow. st Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents. 4% per Cents lO6 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106 3 per Cents. 7B 45 —.78 h 5 ...'7B 45 ...78 50 Bank'of France 2600 _2602 50 —2600 _9600 Lafitte Bank I,ooof. his Belgian 5 per ,n 2 Cents. 991 i ... 99N ... 99;4 3 per Cents. ••• 68 67 75 ... 67 75 Bank 560 ... 555 . .56t Spanish Active Portuguese 3 per Cents. Neapolitan „ Roman lOO 10 0 ... 100 ... 110 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain s9° ••• 59 i — ... 557 50 ... 587 50 Ve sailles, R. 8.550 ... 550 ~, 50 ... 550 LB Charleroy 445 ... 922 50 ... 445 "' 445 ... 415 Rouen „, 9,2 50 ... 925 Orleans 450 ... 450 „, 4V, ... 445 Strasburgh to Bale 3 27 50 ... 327 50 ... 325 ... 327 50 Mulhausen to Thann ASPIIALTES AND BITUMENS. Seyssel (A) 2BlO „.23 0 ...woo Polonceau Galvaniz:d Iron ...20 • 4.2.5 • 3:•0 CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY JUDGMENT.--ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD P. PRATT, CARTER, AND OTHERS. The Loan CHANCILLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, the arguments in which were concluded yeskrday. Our readers will recollect the matter came before the Court upon motion to discharge an order of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, direct ing the committal of the defendant Pratt to the Fleet for a breach of the injunction of the Court. His Lordship in giv ing judgment, said that he had again read through all the affidavits, and paid that attention to them which it was absolutely the duty of the Court to do, particularly in a case where the liberty of the subject was affected. His Lordship agreed with the observa tions of the Counsel for Mr. Pratt, that no'attention ought to be paid to any statement of declarations of Mr.' Pratt which took place previous to the injunction being granted, except for the purpose of seeing the situation in which he stood with reference to St. John's College and the poor people of Bagley Wood. There could be no doubt that Mr. Pratt had taken a very active part in asserting what was represented to be the rights of the poor people of Bagley Wood, for he had not only asserted those rights, but had assumed a sort of lead in carrying on the contest with the College. That being the case, the question was whether Mr. Pratt having beeen served with the objection on the Bth of September had or l'ad not, on the 14th of December done that which amounted to a breach of it ? The injuetion prohibited him from cutting down, destroying, or carrying away any trees, saplings, or underwood, then growing in Bagley Wood, and there could be no doubt that the wood carried away on the 14th December was wood standing and growing in Bagley Wood at the time the injunction was served upon Pratt, and the question was, whether he aided and assisted in carrying it away. It was true, that he did not manually or corporeally act in carrying away the wood; he did not drive the cart, or put the wood into it; it was not necessary that he should do so to come within the scope of the injunction, it was quite sufficient if he was present aiding and abetting. That he was present there could be no doubt, Pratt admitted it himself, but he said he was there for another pur pose. Now, the facts totally denied that statement, for it appeared that Pratt, having been informed that the workmen employed by the College were about to remove wood that had been cut, he was found going to the wood, and was present at the committal of the act, which the Court, by granting its injunction, had declared to be un lawful, He distributed beer among the people, who were resisting the College; and it was proved, from the evidence, that he stated to them, "Don't. interfere with the College.men, if they don't in terfere with you." What was the inference to be drawn from that? Was it not clear that he meant to say, " If they do interfere with you, you must interfere with them." That was assuming a super intendence—it was taking upon himself to direct. He must have known, and the other party must also have known, that he was acting as their leader • that he was so, was clearly moved by what he had further stated, because he had observed to the assembled multitude—" If you make a disturbance, I will leave you." That was equivalent to saying—" lam your su perintendent, you are under my control, and if you make a disturbance, I will leave you." He was, therefore, leading and as suming a control over them, and it would be a mockery of justice, if a party who had placed himself in the situation of Mr. Pratt, was allowed to countervail the orders of the Court by saying that he was not there for the purpose of inducing a breach of the injunction : It was the duty of the Court to vindicaie its own own orders, and if Mr. Pratt, as he had stated, was ignorant that he was violating the orders of the Court, he must take the consequences of the law. But what was the answer to all this ? why, Mr- Pratt stated that he was there for the purpose of preserving the peace; if he was so, he was doing that which every good subject ought to do, but unfortunately for Mr. Pratt, the evidence of the case proved the contrary; every allowance, from what Mr. Pratt had stated, it was clear that he was present, not for the purpose of pre serving the peace, but to prevent the wood being carried away by the servants of the College. If his object had been the preservation of the public peace Mr. Pratt would have persuaded the persons, who, there could be no doubt, were under his control, not to go on, but so far from that,he encouraged them to proceed. His Lordship con sidered that he should be abandoning all the principles of criminal and civil law ifhe did not hold that a person who had acted as Mr. Pratt had done, was liable for the consequences of what had taken place. He was satisfied that it was his imperative duty in the present case to vindicate the orders of the Court, and such being his opinion, the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor, directing the committal of Mr. Pratt must be affirmed with costs. Tna NEW MASTER.—It was generally believed in the Courts of Equity to-day Mr. Duckworth, the Member for Leicester, will be the new Master in the room of Master Cross, resigned. Should such be the case, there must be a fresh election for Leicester. QUEEN'S BEN CH.-(THIS DAY LIBIL.—BURRIDGE V. BUCKLAND. Mr. 'DUMMER, Sir W. For.Lwrr, and Mr. COCKBURN, appeared for the plaintiff: the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr. KELLY, and Mr. WYLITMAN for the defendant. Mr. COCKBURN having opened the proceedings, Mr. TIMMER proceeded to state the case to the jury. The present action was brought to recover compensation in damages for a libel on the plaintiff, who at the last Shaftesbury election was the mayor and returning-officer of that borough. The libel complained of was one of very grave character—it was that Mr. Burridge, in the ex. ercise of his duty was guilty ofgreat partiality and wilfully contravened the act of Parliament by means of which a colourable majority was obtained for the candidate whom he favoured. This was a charge which affected him not merely in his public, but in his private character, for no man wbo could violate a public duty of this description was fit to be trusted in the most ordinary affairs of life—it struck at the root of his moral character. It was impossible for him to be silent under such an imputation, for he was perfectly satisfied of the groundlessness of the charge, and was therefore determined to wipe off the aspersion by challenging his accuser to a public trial; and under these circumstances he called for heavy damages against the party who had so deli berately and wantonly denounced him. The election took place on the 26th July, 1837, the candidates being Mr. Poulter and Captain Matthews. There was no doubt that Mr. Burridge, who is a solicitor, and who was the returning officer of the time, as far as political feeling was concerned, was in favour of Mr. Poulter; but no person unacquainted with his political sentiments could have ascertained what they were from the proceedings which took place during the election. Mr. Burridge conducted himself with the strictest impartiality, and sometimes, when any question of serious doubt arose, he rather inclined against the party whose principles he espoused than fall under the reproach of those who expected a different result. When the show of hands was to be declared, to the surprise of Mr. Poulter's friends, Mr. Burridge stated it to be in favour of Captain Matthews. When the special constables were to be nominated, he desired each party to send in the names of fifteen per. sons, and all were appointed. On the day of nomination he requested the friends of the candidates to deliver a list of the persons whom they desired to be present, and the parties were ad. mitted indiscriminately. In every step of the gentleman's pro gress, he challenged the minutest inquiry. The result of the election was that Mr. Poulter was found to be in a majority of five over Captain Matthew—the numbers being for Mr. Poulter 224, and for Captain Matthew 19, and consequently Mr. Poulter was declared duly elected. Against the return of Mr. Poulter a pe tition was presented. That petition contained no distinct and spe cific charge against the Returning-officer; it merely contained the ordinary allegation that he admitted improper persons to vote, and rejected those who were entitled. The result of that enquiry was that Mr. Poulter's return was declared to be void, and Captain Matthew to be duly elected. After" being thus successful, it might have been supposed that the petitioners would have been satisfied, and would have abstained from bringing any charge Against their ad. versaries ; but on the 13th of April, 1838, a long address, in the name of Captain Matthews, was widely circulated throughout the borough of Shaftesbury. The Learned Gentleman then read the following portion of the article which was the part particularly com plained of : " TO THE ELECTORS OF SHAFTESBURY. " Gentlemen—l have deemed it advisable to defer the pleasure of addressing you upon the successful result of o ur appea l to Parlia ment, during those proceedings , in the H ouse which were the consequence of Mr. Poulter's letter, as published in the Morning Chronicle. " The sense of the House of Commons upon that address has been expressed with sufficient clearness to absolve me from the painful necessity of bestowing further notice upon it. " When (in consequence of the wilful refusal of the returning officer to follow the directions of the Reform Act) a fictitious majority of five deprived me of the return to which I was entitled, you resolved, under the highest legal authority, to demand justice from the House of Commons, I felt it but a slue return for your exertions, to maintain, through all its stages, your petition ; although circumstances left no doubt in my mind that the object of my real opponents was to put me to a ruinous expense in claiming my right. 'I I therefore consider myself bound to give a brief account of the proceedings before the Committee; and I must first inform you, that finding, by the opinion of Counsel, that the returning officer's conduct had subjected him to prosecution, and to a heavy penalty, the necessary notices were served on that gentleman, after he was discharged as a witness. " I am, however, very unwilling to urge proceedings, either against him, or against others, whose conduct during the last elec tion has equally rendered them liable to various indictments, if I find it to be the opinion of my friends that my moderation at present will not be followed by a recurrence of such events hereafter." The Learned Gentleman then:proceeded :---This article most dis tinctly and specifically charges Mr. Burridge with the wilful contra. vention of his du by, which could only have arise n from a p olitical motive, and a desire to further the views of the candidate whom he favoured. Under these circumstances Mr. Wills, the partner of Mr. Burridge, addressed a letter to Captain Matthew, stating his in. tention to ceinmence an action for the vindication of his character, and wishing to know if he would admit himse lf to be the author of answer was received, but it appeared' the letter. A satisfactory that Mr. Buckland, the Town-Clerk, and the agent of Captain Mat thew, had been a party to it , i n asmuch as the proof-sheet had been cor rected by him. A letter was then addressed to him, re . questing to of the add ress ; and on the f o ll ow i ng day, Mr. Buckland informed be informed if Captain Matthew was the writer Mr. Wills, that he really did not know what to do about it, whether to give up the manuscript to the printer or not, and the plaintiff must take his own course. Under these circumstances, ' Mr. Burridge had no other mode than to proceed against the dotes dant, wh o was now here to answer for hi s s hare in the transaction, not that he was the real defendant - , f or Captain Matthew would no doubt consider hi mself honourab l y b oun d to save him harmless, and there was n o d oubt of reaching the re al party. The defendant pleaded first th at he was not guilty. H e would be proved to be so by correcting th e Proof for the printer. He then said that the state ment in the a dd ress was true, for that the plaintiff', Instead of putting a proper qu es ti on to the voters who come to the poll, such as was required by th e R eform Act, w ilf u lly contravened and disobe„ ed the provisions o f the Act, an d wholly refused to p ut, and did not put the questi on in the form prescribe d. That brought the matte r to a distinct i ssue between the parties. He (Mr. T.) should h ave no difficulty i n sati sfyi ng oper course prescribed by the Act, and that the Jury that the Ma y or did pursue, strictly and literally the pr there was no p retence for saying th e re was any wilful contrav en . tion of the A c t . The constituenc y of Shaftesbury was compo se d of the old con s ti tuency, the sco t an d lot voters, and the ten-po un d householders. Th e rights o f th e old cleetors were preserved to th em by the 33d secti on of the Ac t, and any person who had the ri g h t to vote six mo n th s prior to the pass ing of the Reform Act h a d pre _ else'' , the same right afterwards. The Reform Act required that certain Acts should be made out by theoverseers, first a list of persons entitled under the view right given by the Act, and secondly, a list of those whose rights were reserved, and the form was given on the schedule by which the lists were to be made out. Now, when an election I took place, if a 101. householder had removed from the house for 3 which lie was registered he lost his qualification, because it depended on the occupation of a 101. house. The right of the scot and lot voter did not depend upon property—it was a personal qualification, and he might change his residence over and over again within the periods of registration, and not lose his vote. Therefore, in the schedule the place where the party resides was merely inserted for the purpose of designating and identifying the person. The 58th section required that three questions should be put, but the third question was the only important one on the present occasion—" Have you the same qualification for which your name was originally in the register of voters now in force in this borough ?" When the first of the scot and lot voters tendered his vote, an agent of Captain Matthew requested the question to be put to the voter in the form of a printed paper which he handed to the Mayor, and he requested also that the voter might be called upon to sign the paper. The Mayor said, if any provision was pointed out in the Act requiring a person to sign, he would de sire the person to do so, but as none had been shown, he refused ; and the Mayor put the first question—" Have you the same qualifi cation for which your name was originally inserted on the register of voters now in force in this borough ?" and then added, " as an inhabitant paying scot and lot six months before the passing of the Act of Parliament." That form was adopted with. out any objection on the part of Captain Matthew or his agents. It was the course which had been pursued during the two former elec tions ; and therefore Mr. Burridge was greatly sururised to find, some months after the election had passed, that he was seriously and deliberately charged with having wilfully contravened the pro visions of the Act, in the form in which he had put the question. The question, as put by the Mayor, was literally and faithfully pursuing the requisition of the Act. It was a most cruel, harsh, and unjust imputation, thattheMayor had been guilty ofa misdemeanor, by wilfully neglecting the duty imposed upon him. He called upon the Jury for such heavy damages as would satisfy the public, his fellow citizens, and friends, that his character was free from any imputa tion. This was a charge not hastily and inadvertently made. The charge was deliberated, repeated, that the Mayor had wil fully miscondncted himself, and that he was now lying under ac. tious brought against him for these penalties; and under these circumstances he should blush for the administration of justice if a party were to appeal to a Jury in vain for heavy damages. Lord DENMAN—I suppose it is in vain to suggest any arrange ment in this matter. The election has been over some time now. The Learard Counsel consulted for a few minutes ; after which, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had no difficulty in stating that the publication was written at a moment of gret t irritation. It was a matter of history that out of the Shaftesbury election there arose a very keen controversy, and that a great deal of very strong lan guage was used on both sides. He would further say that a good deal of difference prevailed as to the construction of the Act, whether the right of voting was lost by a change of premises. No one could say there was any intention of throwing any imputation upon the character of the plaintiff, and he would agree to a verdict for the plaintiff of 40s. Mr. TOES!GER Said that if Mr. Burridge had done anything to inflict pain on Captain Matthew, he regretted it very much. Lord DENMAN said the most honourable course was, when a man bad been betrayed into improper expressions during a period of ex citement, to make a full apology for it. There appeared to be five persons to whom the question had not been put, but he believed the fate of the election did not turn on that point. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that Mr. Poulter's majority was struck off on a different ground. Lord DENMAN—On two different grounds. There were two re. markable pieces of law down.—(A laugh.) A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff—Damages 40s. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. We have short supplies of English Grain and Flour this week, buta fair quantity of Foreign Wheat. The trade for Wheat was firm at the terms of Monday. Barley of good quality maintained its value. Beans and Peas still dull in sale. Oats were held more firmly than of late. Flour continued to experience a vary heavy trade. ARRIVALS, I Barley. Wheat. Oats. English I 13304 - r,. I 1,20 qrs. 1 910 qrs Irish - - . ,0 0 0 Foreign NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Pot,. 970 j acks brls A good supply, steady demand, and prices much as quoted last Saturday. Beef 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. and 4s. ; Mutton 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork 3s. Bd. to 4s. sdd. and ss. for fine; Irish 3s. to 3s. 6d. per stone. Poultry and Game in good supply—the demand fair, and prices unaltered. (The Hop, Oil, Metal, and Colonial Markets, continue as last reported.) MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The demand for Cotton to-day has been to a fair extent, and full prices have been obtained. The sales are 4,000 bags, chiefly American. Arrivals this morning, a French mail; the Ostend mai not arrived as yet ; ship-letters from Monteviedo, Maran ham, Havannah, Rio Janeiro, and Demerara. THE FUNDS. We have only one arrival of foreign mails this morning, in consequence of which there is a very great dearth of in telligence in the City. Late yesterday afternoon there were several reports, but all of them appear to have ori ginated at the Stock Exchange, and this morning they have died away, therefore they are not worth mentioning in our Report. The ship letters are of old dates. The exportation of precious metals from the port of London, for the week ending Saturday, according to the official returns, were 1,410 ounces of silver coin, forwarded to South Australia; 18,420 ounces of gold bars, shipped to Rotterdam ; and 5,800 of gold coin, of which 5,500 ounces were sent to Rotterdam, and 300 ounces to South Australia. We bear that a new Joint Stock Bank will shortly be announced, under the title of " The General Banking Company," and its management will be under a Board of of Directors, composed of some opulent persons in the City. Money has been scarcer his week than for these two weeks past. The - transactions on the Foreign Exchange yesterday afternoon have not been so extensive as they were ; for these three or four days past the demand for bills to sup port the banks in Belgium and France have considerably abated. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 92i buyers for the Account ; Money, 92i I. Scarce any business doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 63 65 ; India Bonds, 61 63; Bank Stock, 2031 204}; India Stock, 252 253. In the Foreign Market the only alteration in the prices is in Spanish Active, which closed at 19/ at present 191 j; Portuguese remain at the leaving off price, 361; Three per Cents., 224 Belgian also, 981 99; Bra zilian, 791 80; Columbian, 281 291 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half no alteration, 541 i; Five per Cents., 102/ 4. We just learn that overland dispatch has arrived from India of the Ist January, from Bombay; a Bombay paper of the 30th December has been received, but it does not contain any news of importance. The private letters from Bombay of the Ist January are of a favourable nature, and state that Sir Henry Fanc was not going to join the army. The above express came via Marseilles. COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. kmsterdam C.F. 12 4 f Gibraltar 43 Ditto, at sight .... ..... .. ~ 12 1% l l Leghorn ` - ',Ot Rotterdam O U. 12 4 ! Genoa 25 SO Antwerp... Hamburg. ........ M.D. 13 10 i Venice .37 A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 35 Palermo per oz. 119 Ditto... .. .. ........... 3 Ms. 25 60 Li s b on !A% Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, ELM. 151 Bahia , 6 Petersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us. 11% Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effective f1...2 M 10 3 Philadelphia 46 Trieste ditto lO 5 PitloE OF BULLION, per ()Z Ilatirld 37 Cacti^ Bilboa Barcelona '36 Seville `r,'6% Portugal Gold, ' lB 0 Foreign Gold, in bars... 0 0 0 New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0 New Dollars ........ 0 4 101 _ , Silver. bars. standard... 0 5 0% HALF-PAST ONE. Intermediate dates have been received from Rio Janeiro this morning, stating that news had been obtained from a passenger in the packet from Buenos Ayres, that advises had been received from Valparaiso that the Chilien army, in Lima, had surrendered to the Peruvians; and that the Bolivians, under General Brown, had entered the province of Salta. To the above we must add that dates from Rio Janeiro have been received a few days since, of the 15th December, and the above letter is only of the 10th December, there fore we do not believe that the above information is correct. Consols have improved since the morning, when they were 92i, at present may be quoted 92 i f Account, 921 Money, with a firm Market. Exchequer Bills, 63 65; India Bonds, 63 61 ; Bank Stock reached 2051, at pre sent 2044 ; India Stock, 2534 2544. In the Foreign Market there is no alteration in the prices. Spanish Active, 191 ; Portuguese, 361 ; Three per Cents., 224 4 ; Belgian, 984 99; Brazilian, 794 80; Colombian, ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 544 4 ; Five per Cents., 1024 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 92 1. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .......« ..............2 4% India Stack 9 543 3 per Cent. Red per Cent. Cc.its 93% Ditto Bonds 6l 921 i Ditto Old Annuities — O 3s per Cent. Red ................100N Ditto New Annuities New 3y 2 per Cent 100% Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 25d....65 pm. New 5 per Cent T Ditto 5.101 I's pm .. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 fib pm. Jan. ISO) Oct. 1859 25.1 S Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUSDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto . Prussian, 5 per cent........... Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic. — Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, Consolidated 19% French, 5 per cent.,....... —f —e. Exchange —ll —c. IFrench, 3 per cent f. ' Dutch, 23¢ per cent. ,Ditto, 5 per cent. 10.:% SHARES, Great Western Railway ..,. --.... ............................. '79 London and Brighton Rai1 way.. ,,,,,, ..................... 1()% London and Birmingh am Railwayl7s Ditto quarter Shares IA Landon and Greenwich Railway ..._ Asturian, 5 per cent - Z. --- Belgian, 5 per cent. 149 Brazilian Bonds 79% Buenos Ayrcs, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Coloinban, 6 per cent. — Ditto, 1824 29% Danish, 3 per cent — Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — Ay 44 London and Southampton Railways London and Croyd on R a il way IN London and Croydon R. ilway (New Scrip) North Midland Railway ....... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being only 29 Members present at four o'clock, the House adjourned till to.morrcw. ILLNESS of Mr. HODGES, M.P.—Mr. Hodges is suffering severely from a portion of lead from a pencil having fallen into one of his ears : the severe swelling and pain of which have prevented him from attending his Parliamentary duties. BIRMINGHAM THEATRE.—The celebrated vo calist, Braham i h as b een engage d by th e enterprising manager o f this Theatre, who, we are glad to find has, since the commencement of the season, received the reward of his exertions by overflowing houses. FREAKS OF FORTUNE.--There is no truth in the report that a distant relative of Mr. Garrett's has recently died, leaving him the sole legatee to upwards of half a million of money. Mr. Garrett, although in business, and the proprietor of the American Wine and Spirit Stores, Oxford street, and several other establish ments of alike nature, is a man of great wealth, and stands not in need of such a bounteous shower from the God, Plutus. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 12. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at a few minutes before Five o'Ciock. AUSTRIAN TREATY. Lord ABERDEEN said it was very difficult after the debates in the Houses of Parliament were published, to avoid knowing what they were. He never himself did take notice of them in his place after they had been published. At the same time he never could permit any body to take notice of anything re lating to himself without taking notice of it. It ap peared, from what had taken place last night, that the Noble Viscount opposite, and his Noble Colleague, viewed the same matter in different lights. The Noble Viscount had given him ( Lord Aberdeen) a very satisfactory answer to the question he had put to him the other evening. His Noble Colleague, how ever, had directly contradicted him, so that he ( Lord A. ) was unable to conceive what the answer to the question was to be taken to be. This made it necessary for the House to have the trouble to hear the question put again, which he should now repeat to the Noble Viscount, and he hoped the Noble Viscount would repeat his answer. The fourth article of the treaty with Austria, stipulated that all vessels coming from the ports of the Danube, as far as Galacz inclusively, to Great Britain and her dependencies, should be received as if they came from the Austrian ports. He (Lord A.) had said before that that was a stipulation, for anything he knew, perfectly competent for Great Bri tain to make. It was in her power to stipulate to re ceive vessels from the Danube, or from China, or from any other place as Austrian vessels, if she should think proper. But it went on further to stipulate, that all British vessel!, with their cargoes, should be placed on the same footing as Austrian vessels, whenever such British vessels should enter into or depart from the same ports.—( Hear, hear.) But as those ports were not Austrian but Turkish ports, his question to the Noble Viscount was, what security Great Britain could have for her vessels to enter into Turkish ports, by virtue of a treaty with Austria? And the Noble Viscount's answer was, that the thing was impossible. Their Lordships would observe, that all the ports on the Danube were Turkish ports. There was a shallow called the Iron Gates, through which no vessel could pass, but into the Turkish ports. To be sure, it would be a very odd sort of way of entering into a treaty, if the Noble Viscount and his neighbour were to enter into a stipulation between themselves to come into and go out of his (Lord Aberdeen's) house just whenever they pleased. He should think that they would at least make him a party to such a stipulation.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) So he should have thought they would have made Turkey a party to the Treaty, when Great Britain and Austria were entering into a treaty that British ships should be received into Turkish ports. This treaty certainly pre sented a mode of stipulating which was a novelty to him. The Noble Lord also denied, as he ( Lord A.) had under stood, that this treaty was framed on the treaty which he ( Lord Aberdeen) himself had concluded with the Austrian Plenipotentiary in 1829. He would read the preamble to that treaty. It was that the two powers being desirous of extending, augmenting, and enlarging their com mercial relations and states and possessions, and affording every facility to their subjects who participated therein, the treaty was entered into. Those being the motives, the preamble went on to state that nothing could mutually ac complish them more effectually than maintaining all the reciprocal relations which existed before the convention. The Austrian Plenipotentiary was appointed to con clude the treaty for that purpose. He thought that this was an improvement on the treaty of 1829 ; but it was a following up of that treaty, and he was was exceedingly happy to find that the Noble Vis count was disposed by this treaty to cultivate a friendly relationship with tie Austrian powers. We had ceased to talk of natural enemies, but he did not know that we had ceased to talk of natural friends ; and it had always appeared to him that Austria was the natural ally and friend of this country, not from any simi. iarity of institutions, because those were but frail supports of national interest, but because we had no conflicting interests with Austria, but above all because for many years the policy of Austria had been decidedly pacific, which ought to be the bond of Union between her and this country, and in deed, between her and any other State. Nothing could be more agreeable to his feelings than to find that the Noble cords were taking steps to cultivate a friendly relation with Austria. But he could not forget that it was nos many years ago, when he was, if not in that House, certainly out of that House, frequently stigmatised with being the pupil and friend of the distinguished Prince of Austria; but it was one of his greatest satisfactions to re flect that he had been instrumental in concluding a friendly treaty with that State. Lord MELBOURNE said there certainly was no greater evil attending the debates in the Houses of Parliament than to have discussions in one House upon what took place in the other; because, when such discussions were brought on, it was either found that all had been precisely settled and accurately understood, or inaccurately understood and left entirely unsettled. He was not precisely aware of the observations to which the Noble Lord had alluded, but he apprehended it was impossible they could bear the im port and meaning he had put on them. The concluding part of the 4th article, where it was agreed that all British vessels, with their cargoes, shcull be placed on the same footing as the Austrian vest els, whenever such vessels should enter there, was n Austrian stipulation. It was insisted upon by the Austrian Plenipoten tiary—and although it was seen by her Ma jesty's Ministers that it was objectionable —yet inas much as it was insisted upon by the Austrian Plenipo tentiary it was agreed to; and there coald be no doubt that this stipulation would be carried into execution where Austria had the power. He apprehended that nothing re pugnant to that could have been said in any other place. But what British vessels should do when they entered into such ports must depend on the law of those ports—(Hear)—and when they departed from such ports, they would be received into the Austrian pots as vessels coming from those ports. That alone could be the meaning of this article, and he apprehended that no other meaning could have been affixed to it anywhere else. The Noble Lord (Lord Aberdeen) had gone to say, that this treaty had been negotiated upon principles which had dictated former treaties which had been entered into by the Noble Lord. He ( Lord Melbourne) appre hended that it was quite impossible to suppose that. It was clear that the two were framed upon the same principle, so far as the object of extending the intercourse went, and this Treaty carried that further than the other. It included the Mediterranean, Malta, Gibraltar, and all the shores of Africa within the Mediterranean, such as Africa and Egypt, and so on. It also authorized Austrian vessels bringing the produce of those countries to enter into such ports ; and that was a considerable extension of the commercial intercourse between the two countries. The Noble Lord said there was a disposition to lay great stress on that treaty, and to take too much credit for it.—( Hear.) He (Lord Melbourne) denied that there was any disposition on the part of her Majesty's Government to claim more for it than that to which it was fairly entitled. He saw nothing of any such disposition manifested; he was aware that the treaty had been the subject of much outcry, but be did not believe that that treaty could be fairly subjected to any such charges. With re spect to the power of Austria, and the position that State held in Europe, and with respect to the weight and power which it was said to possess, he had never professed to hold any opinion differing from that of the Noble Lord, nor had he ever uttered any sentiment whatsoever inconsistent with the greatest anxiety and solicitude to preserve their amicable connection with that power, and above all to maintain with her and the rest of the powers of Europe those com mercial relations which were of such paramount import ance, and tended to the ultimate benefit of all. The Earl of ABERDEEN complained that the Noble Lord had not directly answered his question. He denied that the treaty conferred any peculiar advantages on British ves sels. In fact it gave no commercial advantages beyond those treaties which were established with France, .Sweden, the Netherlands, and other States. He was happy to hear that Austria had made great improvements in her com mercial system, and was disposed to adopt our vigorous principles, but nothing was provided for in that treaty on that account. He still thought that it was most unusual quite unprecedented, and not a courteous proceeding to an independent State for any two powers to agree how their vessels should be received in the ports of that State. The Marquis of LANSD 0 WNE apprehended that no objection had been made, or was likely to be made, to that treaty by the State in question. Negotiations, he believed, would be set on foot to extend their commercial relations, in furtherance of that treaty, and it was difficult for any person who knew the state of the Austrian dominions, and especially those provinces adjacent to the banks of the Da nube, to say how far those principles might not be extended. JUDGE OF THE ADMIRALTY COURT. Lord BROUGHAM, having presented a petition from the borough of Walsall, in Staffordshire, in favour of a total repeal of the Corn-laws, said—My Lords, I will take this opportunity to mention a cir cumstance to your Lordships, and as you are the highest Court of Judicature in this country, it appears to me proper that your attention should be first directed to it. The circumstance refers to a Right Hon. and Learned Friend of mine, the Member for the Tower Hamlets, one of the metropolitan boroughs. That Right Hon. and Learned Friend of mine is now Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and vacated his seat in Parliament as such Judge. I have been informed, and I find it stated on the best authority, that there still prevails a practice in his instance, and in his instance alone, of all the Judges of this country, utterly subversive of the independence of the Judge—entirely derogatory of his dignity—wholly anomalous in its nature—grounded on no principle, but rather a violation of all the principles upon which ju dicial services should be remunerated. He has no salary. - - I( Hear, hear.) He is a Judge, and the only Judge who receives no salary—he has his office for nothing—he is excluded from practising at the bar—he is a Privy Councillor, and how, my Lords, is this Judge paid ?--How is this Judge, who is one of the highest in this realm paid ? By an annual vote in the Navy Estimates—(hear, hear)—hehas no salary except some fees an which make s th e case in aggravated degree much worse for those fees, and are hardly anything,in time of' peace, and they are 8,0001. a year in time of war. My Lords, if there be any one more than another in this country wh o h as th e power of involving this country in hostility with other nations it is precisely th e J u d ge w h o p re sides in this Court, to which all the delicate, difficult, complicated, and intricate clues_ usually lions of international policy are know that th e gre at Northern war with referred. We all Russia, one of the most dangerous in which this country was f or a long pe riod engaged, arose out of proceedings in that Court. My Lords, this Judge has no salary except a vote in the navy estimates; he holds a most difficult office, although no t a very laorious one, but most important, and re qu i r i ng talents, learning, and exper ie nce, of the highest ord er i n this country, all of which, I rejoice to say, have been se_ cured to it by the appointment of my Right Hon. and Learned Friend. I am sure I need say no more to convince your Lordships that this ought not to continue— ( Hear, hear.) I have made these objections to the mode of payment adopted on a former occasion in the House of Commons, where I took objection to the mode of appointment, and in a still greater degree to the mode of payment. There is another obj ection which I sh a ll be prepared to state when an oppor tunity is afforded me.—( Hear, hear.) When that 0 1 3- portunity a rr i ves , I s h a ll b e prepare d to conten d that that j u di c i a l s i tuat i on oug h t to b e rendere d r incompatibl e w ita the situation of a Member of the lowe, House of P ar li ament . Si r Willi am S cott, i n ' a i s c elebrate d decision remarked, upon a case similar to this, and he ob served that it w as calculated to excite the feelings in the popular mind, and in the representatives.o.t. of the peopl e , b eyon d a l most any other class. That cele brated decisi on o f Si r W. Scott was in a ease of peg !. slavery. Would it be decent, my Lords, for a Membe r fora popular constitu enc y (Si r W . Scott was,, I believe , .! Member f or O x f or d), at a t i me w h en be woul d be called on as a Judge to decide upon a questior! so exciting to the popular mind as one connectco! with Negro Slavery, to be placed in such a politionr And, my Lords, that is not all. There is a week in ti me o f war t h at po li t i ca l quest ions do n ot come before him. In m an y o f th ese political opinion is m ucb diversified, and so narrow was one division in this H oes " „ that there was an equality o f vo tes of your Lordships upon it. All t h ese are questions which must be decided by th a t J u d ge , w h o , on t h e very occa sionv of his re-election on th e b us ti ng% yeste rday, ? himself to be a steady a n d regu l ar mem b er o f on e politic hardly, party. On these grounds, therefore, my Lords, I give n° , tice that I shall oppose any Bill brought into this "VII —for there must be a Bill t o gi ve hi m a sa l ar y—that I s oppose the passing of any Bill, and I shall take the sea!! your Lordships upon it, which does not secure th e independence of the Judge in both senses—independen ce "' point of salary, and independence of any popular constitue ncy, and independenc e of an y p ar t y i n t h e Lower Hous e . c Parliament ; an d I mus t say that if f were to declare w hlch i would secure the grea t es t share of independence, I dec lare that I think the latter would confer the most independence. —( Hear. ) Viscount MELBOURNE did not think the present t u b: most convenient time to dis cuss th e quest i on , but as tuto Noble and Learned Lord had thought proper the introduce it, h e wou ld say t h at i n t h e fi rst par t of Noble and Learned Lord's observations, he entirely a l : curred. He agreed with him that the emoluments were to o small during peac e , an d t oo great i n t h e event o f a war unci d the new character which was then conferred on the Judge; an he entirely conc u rr e d w ith hi m t h at i t cou ld not b e too soon before some legislative measures were introduced in order 1 ° correct those evils, and to pl ace t h at L earne d P ers onage Il v , a more firm, certain, and becoming position, with respect salary and emoluments.—(Hear, hear.) At the sa* time that he declar e d hi s ent i re concurre nce Ou t agreement with the Nobl e an d L earne d L or d i n the fir st part of his statements, he could not allow that opportunitit to pass without decla r i ng hi s ent i re di ssent from hint to regard to the latter p ar t.—( Cheers.) He thought Honourable and Learned person ought to have a seat.° the House of Commons, nor did he think his judicial I °. tegrity would be in the lest affected by that circurnstan e i ; He did not think it at a ll w i se or pru d ent to i m pover l s that assembly, and depri ve it o f a ll hi g h l ega l an d judici al assistance. He thought that was a bad course of polieli and one which h a d b een p ursue d too f ar. H e Thig,sl;, be allowed to s t a t e t h at t h e o bj ect i ons taken by tbe 1 ` 119 , : y o il and Learned L or d, if t h ey h a d any f orce at all, aPP"'t equally to that H ouse as to t h e other House of Par li ar den' and he apprehended that no objection bad been takeilt hitherto. Accordi ng t o t h e l aw and constitution o f country, the perso n h o ldi ng the highest judicial st,attbioap Thit should have a seat in th a t H ouse. —(Hear, hear.) '— position necessarily br oug ht th em i nto contact w ith 1)0 , litics, and subjected them to political associations and po litical,.: feeling; and it appea re d t o hi m to make a ll the jections which had been urged by the Noble and Learneur Lord as applicable to Judges having seats in the House, :as to their having seats in the House of mons. That was his opinion unquestionably upon the; subject. Whe n th e Bill was introduced in the eth ic House, and if it p asse d t h rough i t, then, when t h e y the shape in which it - came up to them, would be the t'" - to pronounce an opinion upon it. Lord BROUGHAM—OnIy there was thi s slight di f ' ference, that their Lordships were all Judges there' lf ( Hear, hear, hear.) Even the Noble Viscount hir ns a ) s was a Judge.—(L aug h ter. ) He was a Judge of APPei to that House, an d th at H ouse was a Court of a Jul;c.a nature as much as it was a L eg i slative Assembly.--(ueL hear.) Th e i r L or d s hi ps act according to the i r 0" oaths, and had no constituences to control thedli He did not mean to say that was a Court r ° , l Justice ; but if hi s N o bl e F r i end opposite (1)°,1, Lyndhurst), instead of acting according to his c° rience as a J u d ge, had to go to the constitucee of Middlesex or Westminster every six weeks to re f; der an account o f hi s own conduct to 5,000 1 3( Tia P ili the case would be very different.—( Hear, hear.) "„ t o f respect to the Noble Viscount's statement of Member s the House of Commons having been an11 e1 ,1„ 2 3 to judicial situations he undoubtedly must a","; that their party (the Whig party) had endeavour e d be much as possible to separate the judicial fredl, t , o political functions, and that system had always c i sanctioned by the Tory party; t h e ten p , of which had been to limit as much as possible the c° g , flexion between the L eg i s l a ti ve an d the judicial funct iee g o He begged to add, th a t if t h e Noble Viscount had ha d , 4 1 much experience as h e (L or d B rougham ) h a d " n r of the questions th a t came b e f ore the C o urt - 0 Admiralty upon a pp ea l ; neutra l quest i ons, and questiens;er the law of nations ; he would have recollected that ; oy about ten years of the last war, from 1799—esPe e ' 8 „a, about 1807—that neutral questions, the Orders in Colvin- f and the political topics of the day, were, /l ine out, ten, questions of d ec i s i on b y t h e Court of Adm i ra lty They were what were called questions of neutral righ t ''' . (Cries of " Hear, hear.") CORN-LAWS. Lord DURHAM presented a petition against the Cow'slaws, but in co nsequence o f the low tone in which the Noble Lord spoke, we could not catch the name of i s" place from whence the petition came. CHURCH RATES. etit The NOBLE LORD said h e had also a petition to P re h s i r li to their L or d s hi ps from a very important Society, ter" to he particularly directed their attention. PreviousilLst stating the prayer of the petition, ho would mention tu,. er when it was first brought to him by the Hon. Member for Boston, the Secretary of the Society, he had stated th at , r would not pledge himself to support the whole of the Pr a i l t e h o s f d th , e ho p w et e i v ti o o r n ; fhooltweiT.ietro be just and dnduptry to proper s it up m p i o g r h t t t be. 1, 0 Dis senters of thi s emp i re on many occasions. • Thep et t he was from th e C omm i ttee of the Protestant Society f er „ r3 ,.. Protection o f R e li g i ous Liberty, established for tsve" be eight years. They prayed that Church-rates might is abolished, an d t h at the religious education of the Plis might be b ase d on just and liberal principles• ion , principles had always been ;in favour of tolerat t he but at the same time he was not prepared to sol 3 l 3 , °rt , a iog particular measures prayed for in the petition. Comb from such an important body as it did, representing. s e e rs large class of society in this. country, as the petit did he had no doubt their prayer would reoeive that et` tv g tion not only from the House, but from her Maje sty, Government, which it deserved. CORN-LAWS. &O ra The Duk e o f NE W C A STLE presented a petit i on the Notti ng h am Agricultural Association, praying 01;s:4 alteration might b e ma d e i n the present system ofCoro. cow He supported the prayer of the petition because he fitl y sidered th at t h e whole of the best interests of this eettin depended en ti re l y upon the welfare of the agricultural, terest. Lord VERNON presented a petition of the MaY? r e- Town Council of Derby, praying for the total and I diate repeal of the Cornt-awe. NAVAL SCHOOLS. tter The Earl of HA RDWICKE begged to call the a :DS tion of the Hou se t o a question which their Lor dsup might consider of small import, but it was one, he c 0 , o f assure them, which the public out of doors considerede so very great importance. The question which be hi address to the Noble Lord opposite was, whether he, .to yet made up his mind as to the system he intendeual adopt with regard to the question of naval edoea ti o ° o. About two years ago there existed a seminary at I' bo e mouth called the Royal Naval College—it was . I)eli e s , about that time, the Noble Lord opposite having , 0 ceived that the youths would be better educated Iwo) The Noble Lord was quite aware that he (Earl of ost had tak en a d eep i nterest i n the subject, and findingd, be two years had e l a p se d an d no system h a d been adeP!' e - 44 considered that he was perfectly justified in putting, question to the Noble Lord. The sy s t em carried r .1 : 1 0 o f the College to which h e h a d referred was that rut., ro e thirteen yea rs o f age were entere d for the purpo se 01 ceiving, gradually, instructions in the theory of the P p , fession ; they w ere t aug h t t h e pr i n ciples:of geometry , a lit t ho nomy, and all other branches of education useful 1 11 ,. f naval service, a ll o f w hi c h t h ey afterwaras applied toitees'd professio n . Th ey were a l so i nstructed in tne pr i e ciP au ib hydrostatics, in ship-building, and in fortifications , kto e having completed a plan within a given time , youth was p erm it te d to go i nto t h e N avy, an d as 4 _ it ward for his act i v it y i n hi s stu di es, h e was allowe d certain number of months' service for the time spent in tb, College. These youths were instructed in the doelt-Y a e sti they bad the advant age o f see i ng s hi ps d oc k e d—no uto, advantage, he could assure their Lordships, for many c ,j; cers in the Navy had not seen that operation perform.a Jet they underwent the sy s t em o f e d ucat i on w hich e.r l _, them at once to become us e f u l i n t h e s i tuat i on of Mu!! 0 0 men ; there was also thi s a d vantage , t h at yo uths betty the tender age of 13 and 15 were educated on shore? ..j ae most under the parental eye—that they could not go ett l '_, ; io the gates of the College without seeing something instroaueL oa to them in their profession. If they completed their edu„ . _ri; in two years or less they were allowed two years time; it . % r e completed their education within three years they, y e jt allowed only two years; and if they did not complet e within three years they were turned out as incapakae• _ to ; plan also cost the Government nothing. In the ostinrso of either 1832 or 1833 the College cost 500/,, but at e was a note attached which stated that the next est, r i e3 b ie would be nill. That system was abolished. The oaths. Lord opposite adopted a plan for educating the ./ 43- _ or i afloat ; he proposed to get gentlemen from Oxford; , ere' Cambridge, men of high attainments, *Yu ° a nd.' to have the privilege of sitting at table were , messing with the officers, and other a d va ntages s o h s held out to them—thos e gent l emen were to h o ld eue aboard ship. The former plan, in his opinion, was much more advant age to the youth of so tender an age-- he was exempt e d f rom walking the deck during the n watches—he w as s h e l tered from the wet and cold—anod, 13 ! r at all times was under the parental care. On the . l e .. a hand, at sea he was exposed to all the inclemencies of systemweather, of which educationalonecouldw oul d b r u e itn o d s e m r ri e d i m o p u o . of situation —the making and shortening of trio visiting new ports—all would distract attentir,n he study—these were the two plans, and so :ex on %t was aware was a fair comparison between them., The nlio ICi College that c point of importance to be considered was t 3- I,e cost._ e. 4 be , be' t be whenosbtenwoathsirnigghtssibTlehetch;nAt:le jos o stating yaetsahralb year—;here pensionsl r J e ed w , e b r u e t 2l. galis; officers amounted to I,s ir o i of the line afloat, as they were told—the 21 schoolmr could not have less than 100/. a year each, which ga 7 e, at once a sum of 3,500/. for the a b o liti on -of the C 0 1 .1,,, Was the system even car r i e d i n t o e ff ect , h e would ask';' er a whi be g Ite; Ad nav co lt He wh o ti los bac) grv, that th at Pen. l e 1 g' t o e Arc Sitn