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the communication between the world we live in and these unknown regions. Moreover, we have heard, on good authority, that a certain adventurous steam-boat, eontaining a pleasure party from Dundee, did actually bring-to at the pier of Si:. Andrews, much to the sur priseof the denizens, who, theretofore, had no more practical knowledge of " smoke ships with chariot wheels," than the Chinese ; but whether this attempt has been repeated, oar authority saith not. At all events, however, it is slear, that the adventurous spirit of modern discovery, bids fair to reopen the communi cation between St. Andrews and the civilised world. Our pilgrimages to St. Andrews hare been winter excursions. Thenatutal scenery around it is naught ; and it is at that season that it' receives its most charac teristic class of inhabitants—the remnant of those who linger about its venerable university. In the summer season we are told that sundry red-faced, quick-walking Dundee citizens, with first-rate appetites, squat their fine families along the borders of the links, for the benefit of sea-bathing, and the fine bracing air. To find St. An drews with such occupants, is as incongruous as the ren counter of the French traveller, who, when he had pene trated to a distant, and, as he believed, hitherto unknown temple on the Indus, found a party of English ladies, with pink parasols, pic-nicking at the gateway. In winter, these migratory birds are gone, and the city is left in the peaceful possession of its native rookery. Looking through the vista of a long and wide street, you will see, perhaps, no other human being than a professor, in his Geneva gown, stalking along with measured step, and with a countenance on which you find deeply impressed the fact how very difficult it would be to beat into the head behind it any notion which is not fully a hundred years old. Perhaps the scene is a little more lively—five or six red specks are seen advancing in the distance, and as their bulk enlarges in the retina of the eye, you per ceive that they are so many students in their scarlet cloaks, each with his Colleetanea or his Euclid under his arm, and locking,' as Fox said of Thurlow. ' wiser than any mortal man actually is.' A staid sedateness, as of Sleepy-hollow, marks their walks, and shows the influence of the place—the power of the genius loci in subduing to its solemn tone the natural buoyancy of youth. What a new world there is to open on their spirits when they are removed from among the lumber of old tottering opinions, and set down in the busy whirl of modern useful active existence FRASER' S MAGAZINE. Like every one else who has ever bestowed a thought on the subject, Fraser—Tory as he is—ex presses, in no measured terms, his astonishment at the grossly inconsistent conduct recently pursued by the House of Commons on the Factecy question. " Something is required," he says, " to preserve for the House any share, however small, of public respect and public confidence. A few more such exhibitions of pliability to the Minister's will, as have lately come before us, cannot fail of bringing the repre sentative system into contempt. Unless it be Sir Robert Peel's intention, not merely to lord it over the House of Commons, but to show to the whole world that he does so, it will be advisable not to repeat the Comedy of Errors, on which the whole world has recently gazed with wonder." It will be advisable certainly that such a comedy should not be repeated in St. Stephen's, but it will be so, just as often as the Premier may choose to issue his despotic mandate to that effect. Should he, for instance, insist on the Conservative party stultifying itself on the subject of the Corn-laws, no doubt that obsequious squad will obey him, without so much as a whisper of remon strance, and support the very measures to which it has so long been inveterately opposed. There is nothing too difficult of digestion for a Conservative. He can swallow any nostrum, no matter how unpa latable, provided it be presented to him by the hands of the Prime Minister. "An Episode in the Tines of Phillip the Fifth of Spain," is a story told with especially as respects the denouement, which is very skilfully wrought out. " Animal Magnetism" de votes far too much space and attention to one of the most cowl-ions quackeries of the day. " The Picture (lalleries" is a series of eon amore criticisms hy Tit marsh on the principal paintings in the Exhibition, and the Suffolk-street Gallery. The critic scarcely does justice to Mr. Hay don's picture of Napoleon musing at St. llelena, which is a very striking pro duction, and remarkable for its extreme simplicity. hi the course of some comments on the " Oxford Professors of Poetry," the author mentions some severe strictures of Southey on Dryden, to the effect that he was among the second-rate poets, and that in stead of " amending ages to come, he was the pimp and pander of his own." Dryden was certainly far from immaculate in his public conduct, but his faults were chiefly those of the age in which he lived, which more or less has a direct influence on us all. It should be borne in mind, too, that if he was a servile flat terer in his dedications, it was poverty only that made him so—that gaunt, malignant Fiend which tames the boldest spirits, and bows to earth the most soaring natures. As a poet, so far is Dryden from being—as Southey would intimate—among the second rates, that he is fore Most among the great geniuses of his country, nor can our language show two produc tions more perfect of their kind than his " Absaloin and Achitophel," and his " Theodore and Honoria." We subjoin the opening passage of an article on the " Red Indians "—who are still, we believe, resident in the metropolis—chiefly for the sake of the diverting anecdote with which it is introduced : " There is a story told of the late Dick Martiti, which occurred forcibly to my mind when I paid my first visit to the Ojibbeways. Dick, being at Greenwich fair, was led by a very superfluous curiosity upon the part of the king in Connemara, to enter a booth, whose proprietor professed to exhibit a wild man l"There, assuredly, he saw a very wild-looking individual, with his head and face covered with a profusion of red, shaggy hair, regular glib, nearly naked, and with a chain about his waist. But Mr. Martin. upon observing that the savage seemed to display towards him some uncouth and uneasy signs of recognition, was induced to examine him more closely, and the result was that he recognised in the wild man' ono of his own tenants, and shouted out, • with all the indignation becoming a legislator in favour of animals, ' Why, then, Flaherty, you blackguard of the world, what is it you're about there, at all-at all ; making a beast of yourself entirely—entirely ?' Earn ing the rent for your honour !' was Mr. Flaherty's pro pitiatory and, to an Irish landlord, unanswerable reply. Now, really, when I first gazed on these Indians, an im pression, almost amounting to conviction, took posses sion of my mind, to the effect that the chiefs, braves, squaws, and child before me, were neither more nor less than a party of • the finest peasantry on the face of the earth' (as Mr. O'Connell calls them), who were em ployed in earning the rent for some flinty-heared Sasse nach, landlord. As to the features of the strangers, their resemblance to those of the Celtic Irish was most exact, most perfect. Take half-a-dozen of the denizens of s, and a couple of Hibernian basket-women from Covent-garden market, paint them, and decorate them with skins, and scalps, and claws, and feathers, and, for all matters of appearance, to a casual observer, they would be as good Indians as if they had been im ported hither from the eastern shores of Lako Huron. And as to the dancing, singing, shouting, drum-beating, tomahawk-twirling, and club-brandishing, they could be taught it all in a week. On examining the Ojibbe ways more narrowly, however, I discovered certain marks which distinguished them from the Celtic Irish, , and satisfied me they were not impostors, but real Red Indians. First, they had those small and dQlicately moulded hands and feet which the Celtie multitude, in Ireland, at least, can never generate ; and, secondly, the muscles of the arm were so slightly developed as to show that they never had been; at any period of their lives, engaged in the.practice of manual labour. This clearly proved that they were not the indigenous offspring of the island of saints, though, if some antiquaries be collect, they may boast a common origin, namely, from the Jewish nation, and this would account for the precise similarity in the cast and style of the features, and con tour of countenance. Raving now dismissed all scruples about the authenticity of the performers, I set about con sidering them curiously. The-men were sufficiently clean built, but not tall .er muscular, nor, apparently, either, very strong or very actitre.:_Strip them of their weapons, and Deaf Burke would • double-up' the six of them in three minutes. Give.ttien:(their war-clubs only, and one Anglo-Irish Tipperary boy Would make short work of them with his blackthorn stick." ILLUMINATED' MAGAZINE. Mr. Jerrold's " Chronicles of Clovemook." which, though somewhat too vague and desultory in their character, abound in point and brilliancy; and exhibit here and there thoughts pregnant with meaning, will . be more attractive to the generality of readers this month than..they have yet been, for they detail the history of a young man of genius, who is visited one evening in his lonely garret by no less distinguished a personage than the Devil, dressed, of :course, in a full suit of mourning. This visit gives the author an opportunity of venting divers apt sarcasms against the hypocritical cant of those who, when they fall into sin, attribute th e i r beekslidings to the instigations of the Devil, in stead of to the promptings of their own evil nature. The object of Satan s visit to the youth of ge nius, is to request him to write' his memoirs in a kindly and forbearing spirit, which,, however, the 'young man declines doing,. partly from conscientious motives, and partly because the Evil One' has been fuel enough to. Pay him for the task, beforehand. The conversation that takes place between this 'amiable couple is of the most pungent and diverting charac ter possible, especially,in those places where it glances at the conventional notions and practices of, what is called, respectable society. " A Defen ce for Poe ts" is contained i n five small poems, gracefully versified, and in which occurs this just and impressive thought : '" The heart's religion is its poesy." In the article en titled "Bowie-knives," the author describes the par ticu -1 ass ef a most murderous single combat that took place a geol. or two since in America between a Georgian doctor and a MiSsouri farmer, in consequence of a polit icai dispute, which ended in the death , of the latter, under circumstances of inconceivable atrocity. "A Parting Glimpse of St. Giles's" is a graphic sketch of the in terior of this distinguished locality, which, it seems, will soon le numbered among the things that once were---T ro j a fuit! The illustration prefixed to this article is full of spirit, but indeed all the plates in the number are of a superior character. We quote from the Chronicles of Clovernook," the young genius's accou n t o f th e earlier 'portion of his career:— " My parents let me foll ow my own will, which, at a very ear ly age, dayeloped itself towards doing nothing. And, indeed, throughout my life, that, my first bent, has ever directed me. My brothers, who were so very stupid, and therefore fit for nothing, were early placed in the world, and indicated the truth of the parental opinion, by making their fortunes. They were dull blockheads, according to my father, and so became men of wealth and influence by the very force of their insensibility. Now I, who was brimfull of genius, was to do every thing by some extraordinary hocus pocus dreamt of by my parents, but of which I, indeed, had not the remotest knowledge. Leave Jack alone,' would still be my father's cry, ' he'll make his way in the world—how can it be otherwise ?ho has such wit Well, after spend ing my little patrimony—and in its happy mode of out lay I may be permitted to observe I showed a genius for ten thousand a year—and after losing some twelvemonth or two at bo-peep with bailiffs, you will judge of my destitution when I tell you that I found myself reduced to pen and ink. Oh, my friends! there is a condition for the human animal. Consider the outcast. The maker of matches has a business ; nay, he is the pos sessorla a mystery. When he has made his matches. there they are—tangible wood and brimstone ; their merits open to the eye of cook and housemaid. Con scious of the excellence of his ware, the matchmaker may higgle gallantly for his price ; matches are things wanted in the commerce of life ; it is no difficult task to recommend their utility to the world, alive as it is to the worth of firelight. But books! their worth is a matter of fancy, say of weakness, to the weaker part of man kind ; they have no standard value, none, at their birth. Hence, the unknown maker of a book—l speak especi ally of the time when I first sinned in ink—is a sort of gipsy in the social scale ; a picturesque vagabond, who somehow or the other contrives to live on the sunny side of the statutes, but is nevertheless vehemently sus pected of all sorts of larceny by respectable householders. Shall I ever forget the uneasiness, the look of distrust from my landlady, when first the alarming truth fell upon her, that her three-pair room sheltered an author —or rather, an author in the shell, for as then I had hatched nothing, but was only sitting upon foolscap ? Good soul! in a flutter of concern, she told me that that very room had been tenanted, for three long years, by an honest journeyman tailor, whose rent was regular as the Saturday ' • she looked at me from head to heel, and said she hoped that all was right; though I could perceive that she spoke in the very forlornness of the feeling. And, after all, the woman had truth upon her side. Her tenant tailor had an allowed business; was a recognised necessity by fallen man; wasmoreover one of a worship ' ful guild; an artificer whose cunning administered to human pride; whose handiwork was all-in •all to worldly triumphs. For instance, what would be a coronation without a tailor? What would be man, left to nothing more than sheepskins and parrots'plumes? Hence, the woman, in her strong sense of the decencies of life, ac knowledged the vital use of the labourer of the needle; hence, when she learned. that I only dealt in pen and ink, she looked upon me as a sort of vagabond conjuror; a white wizard, whose very money—if ever she saw it— might be of doubtful origin. Shillings got out of an inkstand, she could hardly look upon as good mint coin: and for this reason she could not comprehend how any man, by mere pen, ink, and paper, could give value re ceived for the ready cash. Now the tailor's work was plain: a pair of breeches wag a tangible thing; and spoke as it were common sense to the common sense of man and womankind. But authorship! Alas! how small to the breeches was a tale in verse!" THE SCOTT MONUMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. " Exegit motumentum rere perennius." Sim I regret to learn from the Committee that there is still a deficit, in the sum required to finish Sir Walter Scott's monument, of something less than 1,0001. This ought not to be. The structure has been for a considerable time in progress, but its completion is delayed for want of sufficient funds. It is a sad reflection that, after a lapse of nearly twelve years from the decease of this illustrious man, the structure is still unfinished. Without wishing to cast any reflections on the nobility and gentry of the " Modern Athens," I really think they have been somewhat dilatory, and have meted him out but tardy justice in offering up their tribute of admiration at the shrine 'or his genius. They ought most decidedly to have led the van. Let it be remem bered that it was his birthplace, where the first dawning of his genius displayed itself as a tale-teller, when the ap plause of his companions was his recompense for disgrace and punishment. It was his chief residence during his life for a certain part of the year, where he underwent the toil and drudgery of the law, and where he frequently " Penn'd a stanza, when he should engross." It was the place where many of his poetical pieces were written, and not a few of that splendid file of historical fic tions that have conferred on all the monuments of his coun try a more than classic immortality. He. has celebrated their city in more than one of his poems and romances, and has made it the chief scene of one of the finest of his fictions in the " Tales of my Landlord—The Heart of Mid-Lothian." He also designates it the " .Queen of the North ;" and in that beautiful apostrophe, in canto iv., stanza 30, of " Marmion," he exclaims with enthusiasm—. " Mine own romantic town !" From these associations alone, the " Modern Athenians owe him a deep debt of gratitude, which, as I before observed, they have been rather tardy in acknowledging, and I should . have. thought that a much larger sum might have been sub scribed con (more in a much shorter space of time. The capital of the West exhibited • a promptitude worthy of a great commercial city, a statue having been erected to his memory many years ago in Glasgow, which he has for ever celebrated in his " Rob RoY." • It is not ,my intention to enter into a dissertation on the merits of the author of " Waverley," either as a poet or a novelist ; but as one who is sensible of the great benefits which his works have conferred on Scotland at large, I cannot retrain from offering my humble tribute of admiration to the Northern Magician. I earnestly hope that the admirers of Scott, now in Edina, who have not yet contributed, will exonerate themselves from the stigma of tardiness by immediately subscribing towards the completion of this National Monument to his memory. Your most obedient servant, C. P. J. 5, Westmoreland-street, Portland-place, May 29. THE ITALIAN OPERA. Il Barbiere de Sivigla was repeated on Saturday night to a house equally crowded as on the Thursday, but still more fashionably filled than on that occasion. The other entertainments were La Vivandiere and the ballet of Alma; the former interposed between the acts of the opera. The audience sat out both, and remained until the termination of the performances. Among the distinguished personages present were— The Queen Dowager, attended by Earl Howe ; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck and Col: Stevenson ; the Duchess of Gloucester; the Dukes of Leeds and Montrose ; the Duchesses of Leeds and Montrose ; the Marquises of Ailesbury and Huntly ; the Marehionesies of Ailesbury, Conyngham, and Wellesley ; Earls Shelburne and Pembroke ; Coun tesses of Westmeath, Sefton, and G1et4.7,a1l ; Viscounts Castlereagh and Ranelagh ; Count Esterllazy ; Lords Trimlestone, Kenmare, Emlyn, Altamont, and Sandys ; Ladies Trimlestone, Kenmare, Joddrell, Wombwell, E. Thynne, Eleanor Balfour, Shuckburh, and Seymour Sirs P. Joddrell, Loftus, Otway, C. Kent, Robert Wilmot Horton, A. Clifton, H. Webb, H. Meux, and H. ; Honourables Mr. Yorke, Mrs. Yorke, Mrs. Dawson Darner, Mr. Baring, Mr. Standish, Mr. Vord, &e. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The season closed on Friday, when Mr. Bunn delivered 'the following address : • " Ladies and Gentlemen—There are , two reasons for in truding myself on this occasion—one is, that having on a recent instance done me the honour to summon me before you in a peculiarly gratifying manner, I am, like the rest of the world, too fond of a good thing to part with it very readily ; the other is, that I think it much better to render an ac count of myself than to entrust it to any other, however elo quent the substitute may be. This evening terminates an arduous and a long season ' • and having in my hand a pro gramme of the promises held out to you at its commence ment, I am in a position to state that those promises have been fulfilled, at least twice over, and I have but one promise more to make, which is, that my speech shall not be as long as my season. I stated my intention of producing two new operas, and two new ballets, with the aid of the hest talent I could procure ; whereas we have produced four grand operas, and five ballets, besides the Christmas pantomime, and nu merous revivals. We have introduced to your protection some of the most distinguished artistes to -be found—many principal ones of our own fair island,' and many from other lands, assured that your generosity would at all times be ex tended to talent wherever it might be obtained. " That generosity has enabled md, after many years of management, to solve a question mooted long ago, whether the national theatres' could ever be made a source of profit. I directed them both a few years since—something on the principle of a man riding two - horses at one time. Between ourselves they threw me ; but I got up again on one of them, and, with boundless thanks for your goodness, I have won the race, It does not become me to enter upon an argument, taken up brothers, respecting the peculiar character of the entertainments which have formed. one principal source of attraction. To those Who may object them, I can only reply that the voice of public opinion has been My sole guide, and that voice has spoken loudly in my favour; and that, more— ' over, there is the other theatre in want of* tenant, and nu merous perforniers anxious to be engaged in it. For myself, I have but to say that my humble . exertions to merit your approbation have been seconded by those of the Committee who preside over the destinies of this theatre, in a manner at 'once honourable; generous, and full of feeling—by the performers, who,. without any . reluctance, have laboed cheerfully and loyally=and,by the best directed energies Of all concerned, and that throug,h their agency we conclude to-night. a season unparalleled. in success for at least twenty years. " What more can 1, what more need I Say . Why nothing, but in the name of those respective parties, most sincerely to thank you, and for myself, to assure you that my gratitude will only end with my THE BUNN TESTIMONIAL'. The piece of plate presented to Alfred. Bunn, Esq., at . Drury-lane Theatre on the 29th ult., may bi inspected at the manufacturers, Catchpole. and Williams, 1204 Regent street, during the week e —June 3, 1844. • , LYCEUM Timeiiep.—The following distinguished persons have visited this theatre.during the week :—ller Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Brunswick, Earl and Countess Bruce, Marqois of Bland ford, Countess Dunmore, Lord Fitzgerald, Lord Dillon,: Lady Duff, Lord Mountcharles, Lord Eliot, Lady Somer set, Baroness Ahleteldt, Sir James Graham and family, Sir Loftus and L a d y O tway, Si r S y d ney -Ile r b er t, Vi s -• count Emelyn, Lady Curtis and family, Mr. Henry and. Lady Meux, Lord Bateman, Lord Fdlkestone, Lord Gardner, Lord A. Lennox, Sir C. East, Mr. and Mr's.' Trelawney, Hon. Mrs. Vevey, 'Hon. W. Ashley, the Swedish Minister,' Colonel Daniel, Baron Hugel, Ricardo, Esq., Baron Koller, Sir Robert Cunliffe, lion. F. Cavendish, Colonel Dixon, Captain Clarke, Mr. GlegF, Mr. and Mrs. Biddulpb, Mr. and Mrs. S. Cox,. Littledale, Eaq., Sir William Medlycott" and family, Colonel Conyers, &c. Dom y E the executors or Suave'. —1 definitively rnitirviteizi arranged' a his late Royal 'Highn ess, that the collection of boo k s THE i at Li l l en z g A t it h r d contained in the late Lkike's library shall be submitted to public compe • tition The sale will commence early in June. terday in some Public prayers were offered up yes , of the Roman Catholic, chapels of the metropolis, for the welfare of Mr. O'Connell and his felloW Osman,. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NING-, JUNE 3, 1844. even persons in authority there might think otherwise. He should next allude to the consequence that arise from the free admission of sugar from Brazil, and Cuba to this country. The measure proposed to Parliament by Sir R. Peel did not in any way emanate from the anti-slavery party ; at the same time he '(Mr. Gurney) would assert that it would cause the admission of but a 'very small portion of slave grown sugar, although it might cause some increase of con sumption upon the' continent of Europe. He hoped that Anti -slavery Society would at all times use their influence, and that influence were great with the Government to adopt such measures as would put an end to slavery.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ANSTEY regretted to see so small a meeting. After reflecting upon the matter with much attention he felt bound to . say that his conscience compelled him to vote for the amendment. With respect to discouraging slave-grown pro duce by abstaining from the use of them, he for one would be most anxious to adopt any practical mode for carrying it into effect. .Mr. BIAIR said he considered it to be the duty of Govern • meat to discriminate between the dishonest and the honest man ; between the man who raises his produce by slave labour and him who does it by free labour. After a few words from Mr. J. STRANGE, in support of the original motion, Captain STUART contended that commercial slavery would not exist without there were consumers of the slave grown articles, who acted as employers of the slave traders, He entreated the meeting to disregard what had fallen from Mr. Thompson, and recollect the final account they would have to render of their conduct in encouraging slave trade He thought that for the protectionof liberty and philantrophy the Government was called upon to interfere with such fiscal regulations as would discourage the slave trade.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN put the amendment ; when only seven hands were held up in its favour. lie next put the original motion, in favour of which 82 persons voted. 'After the Chairman declared the original motion to be carried, a vote of thanks were passed to him, and the meet ing separated. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PIPERS OF THIS RAY. GLOBE.—The prison doors have closed upon O'Connell find upon those who took a prominent part with him in the Repeal agitation. Pending the decision of the House of Lords on the writ of error which is to come immediately before it—and which may even pronounce . illegal the very judgment by which the parties are suffering—it might be deemed impertinent, if not ~ presun;ptuous, in us to raise an argument upon the points which await the deci sion of such a tribunal. The attention of the legal profession in both countries will be fastened upon the proceedings in error ; and the people of those countries, but especially those of Ireland, will await, with breathless anxiety, the decision which will reverse, or affirm, the judg ment pronounced by the Court of 'Queen's Bench in that country. The doubt that still rest on the legal validity of the proceedings in no respect-diminishes the responsibility of the Government to public opinion, nor exonerates it from the censure which it has justly incurred by the prosecution. The former is solemn; the latter Is severe. At no period of the agitation whence the Government affected to apprehend danger—which, had it really felt, would have led to an earlier interference with the " monster meetings"--was the peace of Ireland so fearfully perilled as when O'Connell was conducted from the bar of the Court to the prison to which he, with his coadjutors, was - doomed for taking part in those meetings. Whether the law was really stretched beyond its due limits to reach the leaders of the Re peal movement, or whether it was merely extended to its utmost length in order that it might reach them, we will not now argue. One thing is certain—the ingenuity of the most skilful sophists has been tried, and has not pre vailed, to mystify the long-delayed interference of the Go vernment, or to avert the conclusion which flows from it. The meetings were spread over a period of several months. They amounted to forty-nine in number. They interference on the part of the executive gave notice of any apprehension of dan ger to the public peace, or of desire on the part of the autho rities that they should be discontinued. The legality of the object for which the meeting were held was admitted. The constitutional right of meeting was unquestioned, and un questionable. If the mere question of numbers diminished or vitiated the right, the Government was bound to ad monish, to warn, and- s -if in its decretion it thought pro per to proceed to that extent—to prohibit, the meetings. Not a single breach of the peace had occurred at or had arisen out of, any one -of the numerous meetings. No sooner did the authorities intimate their will and pleasure that the "monster meetings" should cease to be held, and is sued a Proclamation to that effect, than it was obeyed. With a promptitude that deserves to be mentioned to his honour— with an earnestness which attested his anxiety, O'Connell exhorted end commanded the masses over whom he ex exercised an absolute control, to return every man to his own home. The implicit obedience yielded to the Proclama tion, by which the Clontarf meeting was prevented, is the best possible proof that had a similar interference on the part of the Government been deemed necessary at an earlier period, a similar submission to the constituted au thorities would have been shown. The public tranquillity was placed in much more peril by the imprudent, if not preconcerted, lateness of the hour at which the Procla mation was issued—allowing of scarcely an opportunity of preventing the coming multitudes from reaching the ap pointed rendezvous—than by any or even all the meetings that had preceded it. Whatever had been the calamitous consequences of an accidental collision between the military and a part of the people, coming—as they had been wont to come, without expectation of interruption, and with out intention of harm—the Government would have been the direct occasion of the calamity. Not a single overt act alleged against. O'Connell, in support of the conspiracy charged, upon him and his coadjlitors, bears so suspicious an appearance as the issuing of the Proclamation, at the late hour at which it appeared, does against the Irish Government. But for the promptitude and energy with which its manifest ten dencies were counteracted by the address that O'Connell drew up, printed, and dispersed among the multitudes when on their way to the meeting, the plains of Clontarf might have become an Aceldama, and the history of that day's doings have been written. in blood,. On the bead of the Government must rest the bliirieuf tlje long-continued agitation. History will pronounce upon the cits,acter of the policy by which the Government has sought to sustain itself in Ireland, if the immediate consequences of that policy -- do not showliow ill suited were its measures to establish order among its inhabitants. ..... STANDARD.—The debate of Friday night suggests two considerations. First, whether it is proper to protect public worship from outrage by offences less than breach of the peace. Secondly, whether better and cheaper tribunals for causes testamentary than the ecclesiastical courts can be found, for it will not be enough to show that those courts have 'faults, except some means of amending these faults be proposed, and some better courts substituted. Now, with reference to the first point, it will not be disputed that public worship may be scandalised and interrupted by many things short of breach of the peace, by many things that constitute no common law offence. Is there to be no protection against such scandals and offences, or if it is proposed to guard against them; will it be quite safe to enlarge the present juris diction of the lay tribunals, as to the construction of what is decorous or indecorous in public worship—to refer the matter, for example, to police magistrates. We very much doubt whether this would be a step in favorens libertatis. As to the causes testamentary, we know not what tribunal can be substi tuted for the Ecclesiastical Courts in such cases, except the Courts of Equity. Causes testamentary are precisely of that kind which the ordinary tribunals of the country cannot entertain, because they have not the necessary machinery, and are, in all respects, framed with a view to the litigation of a different kind of questions. Everything, in fact, to be strict multitude legal language, properly the object of a common-law suit. must be reduced to one or more distinct definite issues, whether of law, or of fact, or of both ; but testamentary causes cannot be re duced to such distinct issue or issues. Even were wills which they are not, of contingent and complicated ques ti ons , which can be dealt with only by a process ana l ogou s to that of the Roman law, and of courts: of equity. Abolish the jurisdiction of - the ecclesiastical courts in testamentary cases, and you send every will cause to London to be made the subject of a Chancery suit. That is, theyalw always written rititseento in a at the very time when you are bringing the common law home to every man's dbor by the establishment of local courts, you destroy thirty-five local courts of equity in order to centralise the subject of their jurrisdiction in London; at an enormous addition of expense to the unhappy parties compelled to resort tci them. Does not this look very like folly and contradiction? One word upon the question of costs. Why are the costs so heavy ? The Legislature has abandoned its charges upon suitors, by the remission of stamp duties; the judges, we believe, are seriously desirous to reduce the amount of costs; the bar has surrendered a great deal of its profits; still costs have undergone no sensible diminution, if they have not rather increased. This is a riddle which we believe every unprofessional man wishes to see solved, but which, as we have reason to . know, even eminent lawyers cannot solve. The late Chief Baron Abinger having, about two or three years ago, declared from the bench, that it was impossible to run up the costs of writ, declaration, and interloculory judgement beyond five pounds, a friend, the protector of a poor man persecuted by a shark, assured the Noble Baron, whom he met the next day at dinner, that these costs had'been, in a very simple ease, run up to ten pounds. Lord Abinger expressed his • disbelief. On a subsequent day, however, the bill of costs, regularly- taxed at 101. I ls. 4d., was presented to him : he examined the items, shook his head, and came to the conclusion that until the whole system of costs is changed, so as to make excessive charges penal, the Legislature and the Bench must labour in vain. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. The Earl-tif.CAWDOR presented a petition against the union of _thesees- of St..Asaph and-Bangor: - • . The Duke of BUCCLEIXCH presented a petition praying for, the legalisation, of Presbyterian marriages. Messengeis from the ,Commons brought up .several Bills. . . The Marcluis of NORMANDY presented several peti tions from diffeient parts of Ireland, praying their Lord ships to legalise Presbyterian marriages. WOOL mums.. . Lord KINNAIRD wished to ask the Noble Duke on the cross bench . (the_ Puke of Richmond),.whether,_now that he had got the return rela tin g to the wool duty, and considering a lite appointment which had• been made in the Government, he intended to make any motion on the subject of the duties on wool. He wished also to move for.a return of the imports of salmon since the alteration in the duty. He moved for this return to show that the reduction which had taken place in the prodUce of the Noble Duke's salmon fisheries in Scot land was. not owing to the importation which had taken place under the tariff. The Duke of RICHMOND expressed his great sur prise At the course. whchicahrgtheetoNmobakle e L a o g r a d in h s ad t htiamk,eine.t. him question, N ro e s b e l t e o L p o u r t d a hadaiy i and in doing so , he indulged in no insinuations against him (the Du ke of Rich m o n d.) If th e make it like a man. It was contrary to the practice. of that House, and contrary , to the practice of society, in Which Gentlemen were suppcised.to move, to make such insinuations as the Noble Lord had indulged in. What did the Noble Lord mean by alluding to a recent 4139int mut, it he did . not allude :to .the appointment of one of his (the Duke of Richinond's) brothers to the office of 'a Lord of the Treasury. Did the Noble Lord suppose that because that appointment had been made he (the Duke of Richmond) was thereby .``. gagged.".„ (Hear, hear.) He- had known nothing of the appoint ment Of his brother until after it had taken place. His brother certainly Came to him a nd informed .him that the appointment had been 'offered to . him, and..ivished to have his advice upon it. Ilia answer was, `.`. I think you .had better . remain in .ihe command of your re giment ; • hut you --are the best judge. I would net take office under the Government because I cannot agree with all their measures." His brother, however, accepted the offices (the Duke, of Richmond) would .~. remind their Lordships that he had given up his place as a Cabinet Minister, because he could not agree with his colleagues. He would say nothing now about the coal duties, as he intended to speak upon the subject on the third reading of the Coal Duties Bill. Lord KINNAIRD disclaimed any intention of insi nuating that the Noble Duke would be " gagged" by the appointment of his brother. After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND, the subject dropped. FACTORIES' BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third.reading of this Bill. The Earl of RADNOR did not think that legislation was required upon the subject of female labour in factories. The Duke of SUTHERLAND would not oppose the Bill. He would, however, have supported a measure limiting the hours of labour to a smaller number than twelve hours. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes to Four NEW MEMBER. Mr. ENTWISLE was introduced by Mr. Blackburn and Mr. W. Patten, and took the oaths and his seat for South Lancashire. The further consideration of the Reports on the Ash ton and Staleybridge Railway Bills was postponed till to-morrow. The Slammannan Junction Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. The Eastern Counties (Newport Deviations) Bill was read a third time and passed. - The "Report upon the Wick Tree Roads Bill was brought up and received; as was also the Report upon Edward's Estate Bill. _ . birb 'ambition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK. ASCOT CUP. 7 to 4 agst Alice Hawthorn • 7 to. 1 agst Lothario 8 to 1 agst Coranna 10 to 1 agst Poison ASCOT VASE. 7 to 4 agst Alice Hawthorn 2 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn winning both Cup and ViIES ASCOT STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Priscilla Tomboy 6 to 1 agst Fox 6 to 1 agst Donnybrook Blackdrop does not start, and Ameer has broke his leg. ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.-THE FREE-TRADE QUESTION. (THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. SMITH, of Sheffield, rose to address the meeting. If he could have pinned his faith upon any set of men, it would have been upon his friends on the platform ; but, having carefully considered the subject, he had come to a diametri cally opposite conclusion. This question involved the exer cise of the right of private judgment. The question was as to the best mode of carrying out the anti-slavery . prin ciple. The adopting fiscal regulations involved the principle of applying to Government to inflict a pecuniary penalty upon those who differed with them in opinion. They had no right to do this. He held it was not the best course for any philanthropic body to apply to Government to carry out its views. The society which sought such aid fettered their operations and became mixed up with political parties. Where was the principle to end? Was. it the province of Government to interfere in this way? No 1 They had too much Government meddling already. If they bad a right to go to Government to carry out their views, so had any other body a right to ask for the imposition of a tax to carry out their views. They were establishing a dangerous precedent, and by thus acting they were placing the anti-slavery principle at issue with other great principles.—(Cheers.) Free trade was phi-. lanthropy upon its noblest basis. It was said, it was a diffi cult thing to ask Government to -maintain 'existingduties and to impose fresh duties. The principle was the same. He denied the existence of any such distinction as that now sought to be established.—(l - lear.) He did not hesitate to say that if they succeeded in their non-intercourse with Brazil, they would inflict upon the population of Sheffield and Manchester a•- degree -of suffering of which they had no' idea. Sheffield- was reduced almost- to a state of desolation by these fiscal regulations.. If they ceased to buy, they must cease to sell, and by re fusing to buy Brazilian sugar they tied up the bands of the Sheffield workman, and prevented him earning his living by his labour. These men thought the sympathies of the Society should not be carried to the other side of the water only. They demanded their sympathy—not their alms, but their assistance—to enable them to earn their own living. He considered that their plan was ineffectual for the suppression of slavery in the Brazils, be cause nothing was more delusive than certificates of origin. They would continually have forged certificates, and a re gular system would arise of defeating the law. Now, accord ing to our treaty with America, we should be bound to take the slave-grown sugar of Louisiana on the most favourable terms. It was true that Louisiana did not produce more than enough for its. own consumption ; but Cuba sugar might be imported into Louisiana, and the whole of the Louis iana sugar might find its way into this country. Would you take stolen goods it was said? He knew no difference be tween the receiver and the tkief; and he could not make any difference between the man who took Russian tallow, know ing that it was purchased by Brazilian sugar, or he who wore American cotton and the man who received Brazilian sugar directly. But then it was admitted that all that was wrong, but they wished not to do any more .wrong. Let them first take the mote out of their own eye before they attempted to. take the beam out of their brother's eye. They were not in a position to go to the Government and ask them to impose a pecuniary fine upon those who differed with them in opinion. Ile should therefore move, as an amendment, that the clause in question Ise annulled. Mr. Joi'sx BRIGHT, M.P., rose -to second the amend ment. It would be observed that with respect to this question there were. many points on which they were agreed. They were all agreed in opinion as to their -detestation of the horrors of slavery and the slave trade. They were all agreed that prima fiicie it would be better to have a free impor tation of sugar and of every other commodity. It would be admitted that freedom of trade conduced to maintain the peace of the world, and that restriction produced first the •war of tariffs, and then the .war of force, but it was said that thii was an exception if we refused to Aid intercourse. with nations holding slaves, they ought.also to refuse t 6 hold intercourse with nations committing crimes of other kinds. Now, that was an un-. tenable principle. If they refused the produce ofßrazil, they should adopt tLe same rule with respect to Russian and Egyptian produce. The produce of land which was stolen, was as much stolen goods as the produce of labour which was stolen, therefore they ought to refuse the produce of our West Indian Islands, and of the United States. He considered the principle absurd, but if they adopted it they should carry it out. They were told they were increasing national guilt. Who were to be the judges of national guilt? Ile denied that we ware increasing national guilt, or the right of any body of men to call on the GoVernment to interfere to make them nationally moral in that respect. Everybody was anxious to sell more of our cutlery- to Brazil. : We exported large quantities of goods to the Brazils, sleet received in return sugar, a portion of which was refined in bond, and a portion taken to foreign countrit. Our ships took sugar from Brazil to. Russia, and purchased leather, and tallow, and flax, and brought them to this coun try. Did not the gentleman, therefore, who lit his candle, or wore his shoes, or put on his shirt, incur the same airiourit of guilt as. If lie used Brazilian sugar ?—(Loud cheers.) There was no guilt in either. Then came the question of the stimulus to the slave trade. Now he did not admit that the total abolition of all discriminating duties would stimulate slavery, although be was willing to admit it for the sake of argument. The Committee admitted that theypetitioned Go vernment in favour of the admission of free=labour sugar. Now_ that would give quite as great a stimulits . to slavery as the admission of all sugar, without distinction. There was no essential difference between the effect on slavery of the pro position made by the Committee and that of the free traders. The free labour sugar of Java was in the markets of the world competing with Brazilian sugar, and selling at the same price. It was absurd to say that ours was a better market than any other—we did not give a higher price than any other parties; it Was clear that the price here must be re gulated by that abroad. The free labour ' sugar which now went to Germany would come here,' and its place there would be supplied by slave labour sugar. With. regard to Lousianian sugar it should be remembered' that every Lousianian ,planter exporting a hogshead of sugar was entitled to, receive a hogshead of Cuba sugar free of duty ; that would set free the, whole of the Louisianian sugar, which we were bOund to take by treaty at the lowest rate of duty. Let their see the argument which they were giving to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a planter, and the President of the - Board of Trade, a planter; they were giving them every inducement to continue slavery in Brazil, in order to keep up their own monopoly, which would of coarse fall whenever slavery should fall in the Brazils. They made the Government odious abroad. The Brazils knew that the Government was not sincere, and therefore they viewed them in the light of hypocrites. It was no light mat ter for the Committee to weaken the exertions of the friends of the anti-slavery cause in this country, by dividing it upon this'question. It was giving a weapon to monopoly, and monopoly was but a milder form of slavery. They were abetting a crime of precisely the same nature as that which they warred against, although it might not come in so - hide= one a form. At the late meeting there was manifested a strong feeling in favour of the abrogation - of-that clause; and the Committee should recollect, that however conscientious and honest might be their scruples; those scruples were not participated in by the bulk of those classes who had been the very backbone of the anti-slavery movement in this country.. They bad no right to inflict upon the poorer clues of this country the sufferings which they were inflicting on them by the course they were pursuing. If they persisted in carrying out this most unreasonable proposition there was scarcely an individual in the counties of York or Lancaster who could give the society his cordial support. Throughout the king dom there was a difference of opinion with the committee. It was not essential, and why, therefore, should they obsti nately adhere to it. He was sorry to hear from Joseph John Gurney, as lie had from others, that they would with draw unless this resolution were carried. He doubted whether the present was the sort of meeting • in which the question ought to be discussed. The question had been carried by a large majority in Exeter Hall against the resolution. The Government were making use of the Com • mittee as their tools merely—had' no sort of affection for them—and would throw them off as soon as it might suit their purpose. Mr. LEFHOY considered that the admission of slave labour sugar would effect the repeal of all the laws which they had passed for the abolition of slavery. Mr. Bright said that this matter would interfere with the commercial policy of the country; but if 'that gentleman thought so, surely the best means would - be to apply for a remedy for this evil.to, the Legislature, and not impede the great Christian movement for the abolition of the slave trade. He would trouble the meeting' no further than protesting , strongly against any measure that would present any obstruc tion to the negotiations which the Society might enter into' with the Government.—(Cheers.) A long discussion here.. rose upon the proposition of ad journing the meeting until four o'clock, which was supported by Mr. George Thompson, Mr, Bright, and the majority, of the meeting, and eventually carried. - The meeting resumed at half-past three o'clock, although it was understood to hare been adjourned for an hour from three o'clock. , - After a few words from Mr. AtxxAsihsa, Mr. G. THOMPSON said he felt assured that slavery, in its most odious forth,' existed in the' Rroduction of other articles of trade ; bnt they now songht to induce the meeting to be-- lieve that the Government ought to discriminate the particu lar articles which should be consumed by the great mass of the people. He thought their condUct was in some degree inconsistent, 'for they_ made no efforts to do 'away with the serfdom of Russia, or the galling slavery which prevailed in Egypt. But they never protested against commer cial relations with thcse countries. , He considered all legislation upon this subject was wrong, because they were only a minority, and consequently had no -right to coerce the great majority by legislation. They disclaimed all appeal to force,' yet they sought for the Government force, which was nothing more than physical ;'and he thought it was a wicked prostitution of the powers •of Goverpment to prevent a population of twenty-six millions from trading with the Brazils or Cuba. The great mass of the people were opposed to such a course ; and they never committed power' into the hands of Government 'for any such a purpose. No justification could be given for limiting free trade or preventing the people from purchasing this sugar while there were so many other slave-grown ar ticles in consumption is this country. • He regretted to hear some of his friends pronounce those to be nevi fangled doc trines, and suggested that they should go back to the days of :Wilberforce. Mr.,S. BOWLING thought that it was not right to attribute error or sin to others because their conduct might be contrary to the views of the objectors. lie denied that the effect Would Press so.heavily *vim the artisans of Leeds and other large manufacturing towns, as had been represented by his friends, Messrs. Bright and Thompson. He could hot tinder stand why the minority now—supposing it to be a minority —had not quite as much right to appeal to the Government now acCiarkson had to apply almost unsupported for the abolition of slavery. wMsuultrcg.aSr. not GURNEY did not believe that the majority of the people of England, if they ' knew the case thoroughly , hadHe ee tooto haigfhreaenaiddmeaisosfion the people o f all o E descriptions ngiand of o to believe that. The general prosperity of Culni would he considered be 'materially and rapidly increased if slavery were abolished in that country, although some philters and EaTbATION'IN IRELAND. Mr. HAMlLTONNpresented a petition from Bandon, signed by Lord Bandon on behalf of the meeting at which it was agreed to, against the present system of national education in Ireland. The lion. Member pre sented petitions from Carlow and other places to the same effect. _ _ DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. Mr. MORGAN presented several petitions against the Bill, but the designations of the petitions were not heard in the gallery. Lord BARRINGTON presented petitions in favour of the Bill.--(Hear, hear.) • Captain PECIIELL presented petitions from New Harbour, Worthing, and other places in, Sussex, against the Bill. Mr. VESEY presented petitions from Maryborough and Abeyleix, in the Queen's County, against the na tional system of education in•lreland. . . Mr. IRWIN presented petitions against the Dissen ters' Chapels Bill, and also petitions against the union' of the bishoprics of Bangor and St. Asaph. Mr. BARNABY presented petitions in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and against the union of the Welsh bishoprics. Mr. ALDAM presented petitions from Leeds against the Dissenters' Chapel Bill, and others, as we under stood, in favour of the 13i11.—(Hear.) Mr. PRAM.) presented petitions against the Bill, but we could not catch the names of the petitions. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from congre gations of Wesleyan Methodists, and of Baptists, against the Bill. Mr. P. HOWARD presented several petitions from congregations of Wesleyan Methodists, and others, against the Bill. Mr. STRUTT presented petitions from Derby in favour of the Bill.- 2 -(flear.) Mr. HARDY presented a number of petitions from Durham against the Bill. Captain RODS presented several petitions from con gregations in Westminster. against the Bill, and also several in its favour.---(Hear, hear.) Mr. BOYI) presented petitions from Coleraine, against the Bill, and also for the legalisation of mixed marriages by Presbyterian ministers. Colonel RA.WDON presented petions in favour of the mixed marriages. Sir R. INGLIS presented petitions against the Dis senters Chapels Bill, .From places in Dorsetshire and Berkshire. The Right Hon. Baronet also presented a petition from the holders of benefices in Sussex and in Yorkshire, complaining of the present law of parochial assessment. Ile also presented petitions from various places, against the union of the Welsh bishoprics. Sir WILLIAM CLAY presented petitions from Dis senters of the Tower Hamlets, against the Dissenters' Chapels, Bill. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented petitions against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, from the congregation of the Wesleyan Chapel at Birmingham, and from the congre i gation of the Wesleyan Chapel at Islington, near Bir mingham. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented similar petitions. Mr. E. TENNENT also presented petitions to the same effect. Dr. BOWRING presented several petitions from Lynn and other places in favour of the Bill. Lord DUNCAN presented several petitions from Bath and other places against the Bill. . MARYPOItT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. G. DUNCAN, the Lords' amendments to the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Bill were agreed to. . On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the Liverpool Docks Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Ventnor Improvement Bill was read a third time, and passed. M. ROSS presented three petitions, from Down and Antrim, against thQ Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Lord F. EGEWIVN preaeuted similar petitions. Mr. LABOUCHERE presentiid aradar petitions from Taunton and other places. _ _ _ Several other Members presented petitions against and in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition signed by 60,000 persons, praying for some inquiry into the course pursued with respect to the export of coals. On the mo tion of the lion Member the petition was ordered to be printed, When he gave notice of his intention to call the attention of the House to the subject on an early day. Mr.-12. PHILIPS presented several, petitions against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY' presented similar petitions.. NOTICES OF MOTION—TIIE STATE TRIALS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that, on the first day on which the order of the day for going into COm mit tee of Ways and Means, or Committee of Supply, should be read, he should move for an address to her Majesty, praying that the further execution of the sen tence passed on Mr. O'Connell be suspended till the writ of error should be decided. • TRADE WITH PRUSSIA. Dr. BOWRING gave notice of his intention to move for the production of any correspondence between the Foreign-office and the Government of Prussia, with re spect to our commercial relations with that country. PUBLIC' ACCOUNTS. Dr. BOWRING, seeing the Hon:Baronet the Secre tary of the Treasury in his place, asked when the re turns relating to the charges that had been made on the manner of keeping the public , accounts might be ex pected to be laid on the table ? He had given nOtiee of a motion on the subject, but'considered it important that the returns should be before the House before he did so. It appeared from Sir G. CLERK'S answer, that the returns were not ready, and Dr. BOWRING deterred his motion• till they should have been perfected. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. P. BORTH WICK gave notice that on the report of the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill being brought up, he should move that it be received that day six'rnonths. SCOTCH CRIMINAL LAW. Mr. WALLACE moved for a return of the protest of the jury who tried Alexander Walker for an assault, with intent, &c., and for other documents connected with the trial. POOR-LAW RETURNS. Captain PECHELL moved for a return of the number of paupers who had received in-door or out-door relief in the various parishes of the kingdom, which are not joined in unions. ART-UNION COMMITTEE. _ _ _ Mr. WISE moved that Mr. Liddell and Mr. Hayter be discharged from further attendance on the Select Committee on Art-Unions ; and that Mr. Mackinnon and Sir Wm. Clay be added to the said Committee. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE said that her Majesty's Government had stated that it. was their intention to take the Poor-law Bill immediately after the Factories Bill. It now appeared the Right Hon. Baronet intended to proceed with the Bank Charter "Bill. The second reeding of the Poor-law Bill had been permitted to pass sub silentio upon the understanding that it would be brought on early. It now appeared as if it were to be indefinitely postponed. He wished to ask if the Go vernment Would fix the day when the discussion on the Poor-law Bill was to come on? Sir R. PEEL said that there was nothing more diffi cult than to fix the precedenbe of important measures. The Bank Charter Bill, involving, as it did, the mone tary interests of the country, was a measure of the ut most public importance. He would, however, on Thurs day state the precedence in which he intended to take the public business fir the week. 31r. B. COCHRANE wished. to know whether the Right Hon. Gentleman would state on Thursday when he would proceed with the Bill? Sir R. PEEL said he would state as nearly as pos sible when he would bring it on.---(A laUgh-) Mr. ROEBUCK wished to know when the Right Hon. Baronet would proceed with the Ecclesiastical COurts Bill.—(A laugh.) Sir R. PEEL said that he s h ould , first proceed with the Bank Charter fill. He did not know when he should proceed with the second clause of the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill?—(A laugh.) Sir W. BARRON: wished to know when the Right Hon. Baronet would proceed with the Irish Registration Bill.—(Laughter.) Sir R. PEEL would endeavour hereafter to name such a.,day as would be, convenient. After the answers he had given to other questions, the Hon. Baronet could not expect that he would now name a day. Lord J. RUSSELL asked whether he was to under stand that the first business on Monday would be the Bank Charter Bill ? Sir R. PEEL'Avai understood to say that nothing was to take precedence of the Bank Charter Bill. GUERNSEY. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet whpthey the staterent he had seen in the newspapers respecting the sending of troops and mili tary stores, and ammunition, was correct, and whether i t was in consequence of any local disturbances in the Island they were sent. Sir R, PEEL said he wished the Hon. Gentleman would put the question to the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he was in his place. Mr,DUNCOMBE gave notice of putting the question accordingly. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked if the Right Hon. Ihronet (Sir R. Peel) had any objection to lay on the table a copy of the judgment and commitment in the case of " The Queen v. O'Connell and others." Sir R. PEEL said, perhaps the Hon. Gentleman would give notice of his intention to move for it. CANADA.—MR. BARROW. On the Order of the Day for going into Committee. on the Sugar Duties being moved, Lord SANDON presented a petition from Liverpool against any reduction of the duty. Mr. ROEBUCK hoped the House would allow him to take that opportunity to do justice to a gentleman,. Mr. Barrow, respecting whom he had made some observa tions on the debate on Canada. [The Hon. Member spoke in so low it tone that he could not be correctly followed.] He had received a letter from Mr. Barrow, explaining that he was not the author of the note which he (Mr. Roebuck) had attributed to him in the debate. WAYS AND MEANS.-SUGAR DUTIES, The Order of the Day for the Committee of Ways and Means (Sugar Duties) having been read, and the Speaker having left the chair, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that although he was addressing the House formed into Com reittee of Ways and Means, the object of which was essentially to provide means for raising the supply for carrying on the Government and administering the affairs of the nation, he was sure that there was not a Member who heard him that was not prepared to admit that questions were involved in the resolutions which he had to submit, of far greater importance than mere considerations of revenue.—(Hear, hear.) 'He was sure they would all admit that the sugar duties involved considerations of greatest importance to all classes in this courary—to the interests of our own colonies, and to our intercourse with those nations with which we had so long and steadily delayed to form treaties, in consequence of considera tions with which this question was connected. It would be his duty to reconcile the various con flicting points which would arise out of the alte ration in the • sugar duties; It would be his duty to reconcile the measures which would be taken to secure a supply of sugar with the course which the Government had pursued with respect to the slave trade, and also with the interests of those who had . in vested their property in the colonial possessions of this country, and which it was his duty, as- he believed -it was the inclination of that House, to uphold. • There was one thing iii which he felt satisfied that he should have the unanimous support of the House—as to the necessity of keeping up the supply of sugar which had become almost a necessary of life, essential to the com fort of a large number of the people ; upon this ,the - House had always expressed a decided opinion. The maintenance of an essential article was a subject on which he was sure there would be no difference ofopinion, although there might be a difference as to the manner in which it would be most expedient to maintain that supply. That object had heretofore been secured by the legislation which they had at .different times adopted. Previous to the emancipation of the negroes the eroduce of our West Indian colonies was more than sufficient for the consumption in these countries, and allowed of the export of at least one-third of the whole. At that time the supply of this country was secured, and there was a good assu rance that the price would be kept down to a proportion with the prices in other countries, by the effect of that large and constant surplus, disposed of in the other markets of Europe. But when the emancipation of the negroes took place, there was a pro bability that there would be a diminished supply, to meet which diminution Parliament determined, by equalising the duties upon East and West Indian sugars, to bring into the market the produce of a part of the Britishdominions, having a rich soil, cultivated by free and cheep labour, and possessing very great facilities of communication and transit to this country. He did not apprehend that the immediate consequence of adhering to the present system would be to create any great dearth ,of sugar, or cause any serious-incon venience in this' respect. But when he' considered the improved condition of the population within the last year, from the extension of employment and increase of wages that had - taken place, and the consequent'demand that would arise for an article that was now little short of a necessary of life,' he had thought it his duty to sub mit_ a measure that should provide, not merely for the supply of it that might be imme diately required for the consumption of the country, but also to create something of a surplus. There was, in consequence of their altered relations with China, a facility of procuring a supply from that country, and it was important, in order to extend their trade, that a freer admission should be given to, other articles -from China than those which they had hitherto taken. Under these circumstances - he had thought it his duty to sub mit the proposition of which he had given notice, for the admission of free labour sugar upon the terms stated in the resolution. The proposition was not now for the first time submitted to the House, and on looking back on the occasions on which it had been under consideration, he could not find that there had been any disposition on the part of any gentleman in that House to object to the principle of an arrangement. If it .had been opposed on those occasions, it had been metiv arguments applicable to the circumstances of the tune at which the proposition was made, He would ask the lion. Member for Taunton (Mr. Labouchere) upon whom it had devolved to resist this propi?sition, whether . , his objection to it did not arise principally from the circumstances of the time. This country was then under the obligations of commercial treaties with the United States, and particularly with Brazil, and it was impos sible to draw the distinction between slave and free grown sugar ; while professing to admit the latter they might give indiscriminate admission to the latter. In regulating the mode in which free labour sugar was to be* admitted to their markets, they must first guard against the invasionof the -principles on which they proceeded, by allowing the introduction of free labour sugar being made a cloak for bringing in the sugar produced by slaves. With respect to the mode of guarding against such an introduction, he thought there would be but little difficulty. It - had been found .that a certificate of origin, accompanied as it was - now intended it should be by the certificate of the British .'authority at the port of shipment, were sufficient to prevent any invasion of the law. It was not necessary to repeat the arrangements which would be adopted to prevent the introduction of slave labour sugar under the denomination of free-labour sugar. Those arrangements had been found quite effectual in relation to other articles. There were some who supposed that the protective duty of 10s. per cwt. was more than was necessary for the protection of our colonial interests against the competition of f r e e -l a b our sugar , b u t it should be recollected, that in Java alone a much" greater quantity of sugar was raised than was requisite for the supply of the country; and it was raised in great quantities in Manilla, where its cultivation was capable of being greatly extended; and that with re spect to Chins, while it was impossible to calculate the quantity of sugar which must be expected from that couetry, it was well knoivn that it 'exported large quantities to countries in the neighbourhood. - Ile found, ' however, that the measure' which he was about to "submit to the Ileiuse was likely to meet with opposition from various quarters on different grounds. The lion. Member for Dumfries argued that no distinction of duty ought to be made between sugar, the produce of the British possessions, and thrt which was the produce of any other country. The Noble Lord (the Member for London) was prepared to contend that no' distinc tion in duty ought to be made between sugar the produce of free 'labour and 'sugar the produce of sieve labour, whilst his Hon. Friend - behind him was prepared to agree that the protection proposed for colonial sugar against sugar the produce of free labour was insufficient, and therefore he proposed a reduction of the duty on colonial sugar. With respect to the proposition of the Hon. Member for Dumfries, he need not occupy the time of the House by discussing it. It had been fully discussed in 1842, when the House had expressed an opinion not in accordance with that entertained by. the Hon. Member, and during the present year in a discussion on the ques tion of coffee; the House had adhered to its former opinion, which was that the colonial possessions of the empire were entitled to protection, He came, in the next place, to consider the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Bristol, and he could assure him that those interested in the West Indian pessessions of the country must not impute to the Government waist of sym pathy with their interests and feelings. He felt deep sympathy with their interests,' and he could make all allowances for the feelings under which they laboured. But after most attentive consideration of the subject, be believed the measuie which he. ,was about to pro pose was the ope which would ultimately prove the best calculated to, promote their permanent prosperity. He would not deny but that the effect of the measure would be to effect a certain reduction in the price of sugar, or rather to prevent its augmentation; but of this he was confident, that all of the dangers which could affect the West Indian interests, none could be greater than such an increase in the price of their staple commodity as would inflict such an injury upon' the population of this country, as to raise a permanently hostile feeling against them. He was convinced that if the price of sugar was to rise to 495. a cwt., as it was in 1840, the effect which it would produce upon the permanent interests of the colonial proprietors would be most disastrous. He thought it was necessary where it was intended to make li change in the amount of duty at the earliest possible mo ment, to intimate to the parties what was the amount of the protection to be ensured on the introduction of sugar, the produce of free labour. The - colonies stood in this particular situation. They were looking .at en early period of having the .opportunity of employing additional labour. In order to do this, they . would have to invest .capital,; and he . thought, therefore, before they called upon them to embark in this expedition, it was but right that they should know dis tinctly that the protection theynow had would be retained to them. With respect to the-notice that had been given by. the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, he had only to say that he thought it would be found to be one very difficult to 'carry out. The Noble Lord was prepared to extent to all sugar the *tie protection. The views of the Noble Lord appeared to him not calculated to effect the object he had in view. lie was for unlimited introduction, and that would undoubtedly tend to theinereaseof theslave-trade. But he would leave it to the Noble Lord to explain his own views on the sub ject. What inconsistency would it not be on their part to make such exertions as they had been making for the suppression of the slave trade, and which was still car ried on in spite of all their energy, in spite of the vessels which they had on the coast of Africa, if they now gave facilities for the iotroduction of slave-grown sugar. It would give those who, seer engaged in the slave trade every inducement to continue it. Whin the estimates were before the House the Hon. Member for Montrose said, with perfect truth, that they could only suppress the slave trade by diminishing the profits as those 'who were engaged in it, - • and not by force. How' could they more e ffec ; tually reduce the profits of those embarked in the sW ts trade, than. by shutting them out from the 11 121 1‘ e of of Great Britain? He should therefore like to know 1 4 the Nob - e Lord would defend his proposition? He heard it hinted that by admitting sugar the prottecerr" foreign countries not using slave labour, they would deer ate a vacuum in other countries which should be supP, o. from Brazil and other slave-growing cons° o f He differed from that view entirely. He w ts opinion the effect of it would be to enhanee_,,,k price of slave-grown sugar as contrasted ";„ the produce of free countries. But it was h er matter to them how other countries acted, J or t consciences would be free. He now begged to ted to another part of the question, that which reith., to the granting of favourable terms to countries with which they had commercial treat' ; j Brazil was a country with which they had a trgutio this kind. They had also treaties with United Stater,. Sweden, Mexico, Buenos itiL e Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru. In some of 4 7 0 ./ countries there was no pretence for ,s11,)„'.0; that the slave trade existed. Mexico and 1110 bits had declared that they would consider the sl'o trade as piracy : and there was no appreheasio to the amount of sugar which those countries 10.• produce, or of any encouragement for the 5,.04 trade. The only territories that Otto, were those of the United States and Swe,",„,` Sweden possessing only one small island, the prearier which was not sufficient for the supply of Swe d ",,, o o self. The United States certainly produced 50,0 0 ' " t ig per year; but they also imported a very large ( I ° ,oo from other countries. But, it had been segg' that the Americans would give a bountipt lls. or 18s., to enable them to compete•o ode er that was not consistent with the general cam h American statesman who had recently abolished system of bounties upon exports. )60' a After few further observations the Right floa. It o tleman concluded by moving :--- Ist. That,. t4/1 ,, raising the Supply granted to her. Majesty, the it .. e lfof duties now payable on sugar be further continersfot a time to be limited, save and except that from alt r ei the 10th day of November next, there shall be d 9'o on brown, Muscovado, or clayed sugar, certien, t o the growth of China, Java, or Manilla, or of and tf " i$ foreign country the 'sugar of which her Allij es ' e od Council shall have declared to be admissible, Its being the produce of slave labour. 1% 1,14 d The hundred weight Together with an additional duty of 5/. per cen,.t"-- ,1 the aforementioned rate. 2. 'That, from and after the 10th day of 1 0 .!41,0 next, her Majesty be anthorised, by Order in Con, is give effect to the provisions of any treaty 5" force, which binds her Majesty to admit segt l 6 9 l 0 , produce of a foreign. country, at the same de"oote are imposed on sugar the produce of the most AO nation. 401 mdet" Lord JOHN RUSSELL,moved as an sine. .Anti i the proposition of _the Chancellor of the Esc op reduction to thirty-four shillings of the duty sugar from, foreigu countries. (Lary srEAsimc.) - • DUTCH AND FLANDERS M e r y Butrssm.s, MAY. 30.—The Princess Cleole ntill oi j i:j her consort, Prince Augustus of Saxe Cobe r g'.e at half-past seven on Wednesday evening, hY.Btog train at the railway station, where the Royal cbe were ready, in which they proceeded direct to ce of Lacken. - - e r a The Chamber of Representatives has at ' env ie eluded to-day the debate on the timber dutiesi..s,pt commencing the debate on . the article coffee; Ali mortier and M. Rogier proposed that this artic'oet, be reserved to be discussed in Secret Cete°lthe that the. Chamber should immediately examine , l, ceptions that may be made in favour of the she entrepota. This was-opposed by the Minister. 0 ;ir' terior.. It was resolved that the whole tariff be diScussed, and that the exceptions to be. Dow' • be afterwards examined in Committee. The Government proposes a reduction of 2 6 `Prai;) in favour of the national flag, on coffee breog i : x ies from the countries where it grows. Messrs. eops and Dumortier proposed an amendment, to ty. vantage of 35 per cent. to the national flag. ' 1 ment was rejected. -• • iif.„o The average price of wheat, last week, 19 1 ,., 0 rr and that of rye 101. 86c. The duties on 103 r 1 and exportation remain as before. " Tni arrived here this Morning, at half-n o to o'clock. The King being informed of • his &O some way to meet him and "accompanied h 1 std' palace, where he was welcomed . by her. MN 000 Queen, his. sister. The Emperor intends red morrow for -London, and will afterwards re tu • Hague and spend a few days. . , 0 009 MAY 31.—The Emperor of Russia,. wit 7 t o tir l Y suite, set out this morning from Rotterdate . ,, , te jte l y, for London. A project of law has been pre s ',lo9l Second Chamber of ' the - States-General; for R i.s hoj sum. of 156,000• florins to the fifth ehapter of tu of the 'expenditure of 1844-45; which sums or e _ d io l4 for the improvements of the - roads in the P`" Friesland. ' tic A l . ' ROBBERY O F A BANKER'S. 3 40 1 11 last, a person of respectable - appearance , About .16 age, who gave his name as _ James. Richards, but,„,o o ll give any particular account of 'himself, was exiniumptrd a Bench of Magistrates; at the George Inn, Luton' eo shire, on a charge of being concerned in stealing parcel, containing 1,700/, in notes, and bills of e'llti f !, the amount of 2,000/.; in the month .of , S ep t._, °- 0 , It appears that, on the 25th of September ' , l l r o:l9e , containing the above property, was intrasto, • / the Bedford coachman, to be delivered at the b cop) of Sir Charles Price and Co., King William •streetl A o'lo l after the coach had reached town it disaPP eA Ttid.,. mysterious manner. Advertisements were iros . or oar ti in newspapers at the time, offering a handsome 71001..0/1 person who would give such information as ml immediate recovery of the p arcel ; but no one 11. to hay been tempted by the offer. Nor flees there'appear o df le io anything heard of its valuable contents until Ye On that day the prisoner , made his, appearance st 0 0 t I .4 just as the * shops there were about to be clos ed h> purchases from three different tredeausear o ftln note at each. By a strange coincidence, t h ey keepers happened to go to smoke his pipe on tu eu tioli f at the same inn, and one of them happening td 0110',„04 course of conversation that a r e s pe c table-100k,'70 t y appeared to be a stranger in the town, had en ' e e d AA; just as it was about to be closed, and exchangbi, firdy„ for a pair of stockings he had purchased frer i l l .iylie ll t ori i other two shopkeepers preseist inquired the dose m ot o h person, and on hearing it said it was eq1141V 54 :10 0 :4 same individual had purchased a pound or br e t .. joy them at a late hour on the same evening, a 51. note from each of them. This excited cod iousdo picion, and the result was that the prisoner 0 ,7 : in and taken into custody. On being searched , Ireti l op cheeks were found upon him; and it was di se ikreo" ll .o o ) the same evening, he had.managed to change je different shops iii the town,: and all these, As. c , hieg.l other 51. notes found upon him, were proved ' ip 'Vcros. i i a portion of the contents of the pared stolen re Odd, last. He underwent aprivate'examination berutso:;ifd trates on Saturday mill on Monday, and s r F Tharsday, when lUr. Robinson, the' • solleP„"oe j 1,4 garden, attended on his behalf; The ge ntivl 3, e t to-the banking-house of Messrs. Sharpies, E gt° io fa o ' by whom the parcel had been forwarded, wr,, e ' r od', but the evidence was not gone into at any leigosot ft 4 Robinson requested that his 'client might be 15 1 0 41 few days longer, which was assented to. singular, that, since the apprehension of the 51. notes, which also formeda portion of tbe, have been pissed at Luton. - .1 in c Al It was stated by. Captain Laws, 1 ':' ' o f I/ dente before the Committee of the, get ° b a ottt° i / on the Hull Docks Bill,, that the war bet, Manchester , and • Leeds Railway, at-idarleyArierefi comprise six acres. of flooring. In thei r joi t it houses along their line the Company bs/toosK one time, sacks, which, wtwn riMg e AP/ tended over eleven acres of ground; u i c b The return of severe illness under Wu re fir rablo Earl Grey now suffers, has sgail l f Oe?' tioneering' speculations in the borough ° ol illiof f ," The very advanced age of Earl Grey n o t the apprehension that his Lordship cal ; 0 4 and in. the melancholy event of his ee - 0 , 1 Howick will succeed to the peerage, se ( Iv 05, 1 IV a vacancy will occur in the representatio n de otolge of Sunderland. Such an event, it u n pOOOOYI immediately bring Colonel T. 1 1 . field as a candidate on liberal and free 1 7 0 , by and under the present state of poi-jail' 01/ i t derland, there can be little doubt but, the would be triumphantly elected, whoever opponent. MONTHLY MILITARY 0.0 __,,,r, General—C. P. Dou laa . (3 6 l leg.; Major Generals—Cro g sse, f orm erly o c , E. I. Com. Se'rv. - - i# I , Colonel—R. Monerieffe;-late of R. lifar.", Lu o, rA! Majors—Myers, Unatt., at se a ;J. l 'l , frio r Serv. ~-, la -hortigr* d; Captains—J. Wilson h.p. 7 Dr.; if- -1,,,3th 4rA U. ( ge4rYs do. on board thi Rattlesnake i ''''' ti.:*l Kent. Mil. ~,/. r tli p ; tiorpor Lieutenants--Allen, 4 Dr. Gds. 43 0 .- --° e - r; ...- P,' ''' Moffatt, 46 F., on hoard the General Palo olter.,. ' F. j Lethbridge 85 F. ; Olphert, g• Ary g o, 1,:;1", 11 R. Vet. Bn. ; Neale i (Adj.) h.p. 25 Dr. ; , pli •Q. Alderson ? h.p. 33 F. ; R. Madden, lite R. Ar t col , . Commissariat Dipartment—Dep• Con irli. • A $ turin, b.p. ,y( Assist. Comm.n Gen.—l. Irvine. ' . -- - . - ioti' . i o ( —— - - -. 0 7 - .71/ - T io 0 !,. * London : Printed and Published by -- 0 0- tr No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tl' Sus,. 00 Strand, in the' Precinct of the Savor' w Ifiddloaas, Monday, Jane 3, 1844. opponent •- • el.. tile BilitrffS. " .„, o deh °l 0 1 On the 31st ult., the lady' of Mr. John l''' t o i hole Tavern, Strand, of a daughter. . VO X ' vi e , On the 25th tilt., at Bigods, Duamow , stiic i E. C. Woodbridge, Esq., of a daughter.. f .v 'l O On the 26th ult. , Mrs. William Beath, l 0 ° t 0 0 1 as On the 30th ult., at Wheatharepsteai, ffert/' , 1 the Rev. H. 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