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On the motion to commit the Borough Courts Bill Lord BROUGHAM took the opportunity of censuring the Present practice of passing Bills for establishing Courts to recover debts of small amount, and constituting a number of shopkeepers and others Commissioners of these Courts. His Lordship recommended a general ' Bill, like his own Local Courts Bill, establishing a good i local j ur i sd i ction everywhere, and giving cheap justice il tr% the people. The LORD CHANCELLOR, the Lord I C HIRP JUSTIC E and Lord LANGDALE took similar views to L or d BROUGHAM. Lord ABINGER expressed a hope that the gentlemen o f E ng l an d, w h o are ex t reme ly ig rtrieriarnt of lw who have their interests to serve, and Passions' to gratify, and who have always used the r S se e :sies and the Justice Court to do injustice, might ..iseti; b e separated from the administration of the law. Zia ho pe is the direct reverse of that of the people, who 1 , 1 ,.. , Thee,J not p art i al i ty, let who will administer the Bill went through the Committee without any opposition, iWt, One of those vague di scussions about Ireland fol wfdßwhich was, like most other discussions on the ---'?"'").-..""•-s------- 'S"; ; A i..,.•.'.1 ! L. NEWS I~v'' t same question, full of contradictory charges and party accusations. For one thing it was remarkable. Both the Earls of RODEN and WICKLOW recommended that the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland should be abo lished, and Viscount MELBOURNE emphatically declared that he would not act on their suggestion. He even warned the Earl of WICKLOW to think twice before he again recommended the abolition. It is curious to find the Earl of RODEN and Mr. HUME agreeing on this point of policy, and Mr. O'CONNELL and Lord MEL BOURNE also agreeing in opposition to the other two. The returns which the Tory Lords asked for are to be laid on the table. obtained for the people, without going through the costly and dangerous process of overturning the Legislature itself. Our advices from the manufac turing districts say there is a strong disposition in the people, bitterly disappointed by the refusal of the Legislature to listen to their prayers, to unite and demand a further reform in the Legislature. To stifle this increasing discontent the Houses of Parliament should concede the abolition of the Corn-laws. great influence over the Kabyles, had promised to ensure their submission, or at least their pacific behaviour ; and if they quit their mountains to make war without profit, and to the detriment of their own interest, which is, to sell their produce to advantage, it may be presumed that the ex-Minister of Achmet Bey thinks to get himself purchased at a higher price th an h e appeare d to desire. General Nigrier is regretted at Constantine. A letter from Algiers of the 16th February, says : " Abd-cl-Kader has entered Miliana in triumph. The Marshal has just sent his son-in-law to him, as it is believed, to renew the negotiations respecting the disputed territory, that is to say, Hamza and the tribes en the right bank of the Boudaou. It does not clearly appear what should induce the Emir, now that he has subdued Ain Mandi, to renounce pretensions which he maintained in the midst of his greatest embarrassments. If he persist, and the Marshal does not give up his project of an expe dition to Hamza, we shall have war just at the moment when the Army of Occupation is reduced from 50,000 to 32 000 men. A motion was made by Lord REDESDALE to allow the officer of the House to attend the Court of Queen's Bench with the minutes of evidence before the Com mittee upon the State of New Zealand. It was resisted, as perhaps leading to an invasion of their Lordships' privileges. It was represented as necessary to justice; and as their Lordships did not wish to grant or refuse such a motion in a hurry it is to be mentioned again on Thursday. The Commons did not assemble in sufficient numbers to constitute a House, and were necessarily adjourned. We direct the attention of our readers, and more particularly of the Naval Service, to an excellent letter from. Captain NAPIER, on the state of the Navy, and the measures best adapted to improve it, which will be found in another part of The Sun. As the letter is one of detail, and as the suggestions with which it concludes result from an examination of a number of practical facts, we cannot here do more than express our entire approbation of the plan by which he proposes to render the impressment of seamen as un necessary as it is odious to the country. The Gallant Captain is quite right in believing that the horror men brought up in the merchant service have of being compelled to serve on board ships of the line, is the result of sheer ignorance. It is like the fear which children have of ghosts and goblins—phantoms only existing in the crazed brains of old nurses, but which, forty years ago, were suffi cient to terrify half the population of a country parish, between the hours of sun-set and sun rise. Our ships of war were converted into prisons for the expiation of crime ; for va rious slight offences men were formerly condemned to serve in the fleet by way of punishment ; and in stead of recruiting sailors in the regular way, re course was had to a murderous system of impress ment. The consequence naturally was a very ge neral belief among ignorant seamen in the mer chant service that the life of a sailor on board a man-of-war was hardly more tolerable than that of a convict doomed to eke out the remainder of his days in a penal settlement. " Then we shall have lost a-year when we might have acted with certain chances of success, and begin to act when the chances diminish. The result of the negocia.- tions must, in one way or other, fix our *pinions of the Administration of Marshal Vallee, Which has been variously judged of. We will not prejudge, yet it is difficult n"t to perceive that the Marshal seems to have taken pleasure in turning all the :chances against himself. "—Gazette , de France. We are happy to announce the re-election of Mr. HARVEY, this day, without opposition. The Hon. Gentleman, we are assured from his excel lent speech, will scarcely have taken his seat, be fore' he will convince Messrs. GOULBURN, WYNN, and the rest of his opponents, that it would have been more prudent, on their part, to have abstained from the foolish attempt to worry Mr. HARVEY. BOURSE.—PABN, MONBAIi, FEB. 25. First Highest Lowest Last Price. !'rice. Price. Price. Fr; icli 5 per Cents ....... llO 80 ... 110 90 ... 110 75 ... 110 90 , 4 per Cents lOl SO ... 10! 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents 7B 75 .„ 78 SO ... 78 75 ... 78 50 Balk of t , ranee Lajltte Ba k I,ooof. Sh lOl7 50 ...1017 50 _lOll _lOlO 5,001 f. :,h 5lBO ...51S0 —.5160 ...5160 Belgian 5 per Cents lOO5 ... INN ... 100% ...:005; 3 per Cents 68 50 —. 68 50 ... 68 50 .. 68 50 Belgian Bank 560 ... 560 560 560 Dutch 2% per Cents 54 ... 54 ... ... ... 54 ... 54 S anish Ac ive W .. 19 1 4 ... 19g ... 19 1 ,i Passive 4 , ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% Neapolitan ... 100% ... 100 ... 100% 99 5 ... 99 5 ... 99 5 ... 9J 5 I 0 J% Roman RAILWAY SHA tiE, Versailles, IL B 5 40 ... 540 L. 8.147 50 ... 150 Charleroi 450 ... 450 Orleans „ , We publish in another part of The Sun the 'Naval Estimates for the ensuing year. The public will see that a very small additional demand is to be made for the wages of seaman, the increase amounting only to 9,0001., implying no increase of men. The Ministers do not mean therefore to augment the Navy, considering the number of seamen already provided sufficient for the pros pects of the country. We shall see on Monday whether the House of Commons, which will by tliat time be in full possession, we trust, of the particulars of the insult offered to the British flag, be disposed to take the same view as the Ad miralty. A sum of 49,000/. is required more for provisions than by the last estimates, which, as the number of seamen is not to be increased, must be set down to the Corn-laws, and so the landlords pay themselves for the bur dens they so patriotically have put on themselves. The increased sum required for stores i 51350,000/., a confession on the part of the Admiralty that the Dock-yards are not, or were not, so well provided as they ought to have been. The total increase for the active service above the estimates for last year is 504,0001. Against which there is a small set-off on account of the decreased expense of the naval dead weight. Mr. HUME should look at the slow progress of the reduction of this item, which is far from answering the public expectation. It should be remembered that in proportion as officers are called into active service, a corresponding re duction ought to take place in the half-pay. ... 540 540 ... 147 50 ... 150 ... 450 45CP 425 430 320 ... Strasburg to Bale 3 20 320 ASPHALTES AND BITUAIENS. Seyssel (A) 2350 —.2350 ...‘2300 .. :2300 COURT CIECULAR. The Queen honoured Drury Lane Theatre with her presence last evening to witness the performance of Fari nail. Her Majesty arrived at the theatre soon after eight o'clock, attended by Lady Lyttleton, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, and Colone Wemyss. Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon attended by the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Lord Byron, Colonel Wemyss, Earl of Ux bridge, Mr. Rich, Sir Frederick Stovin, and Sir George Quentin. The Royal party were absent from the Palace upwards of two hours. To eradicate such ridiculous impressions—the result of a bad system of naval administration—and to provide a sufficiency of good seamen, Captain NAPIER recommends the apprenticeship of boys to be regulated by an act obliging them to serve three years of their time on board of ships of war, and thus early familiarize them with the nature of the Service. The other four years he would have them serve in merchant vessels—and thus a ma rine force would be reared up capable of serving on board ships of any description, and fully adequate to every emergency. In this we entirely agree with the Gallant Captain, as well as in the simple and practicable plan which he proposes for enabling the Admiralty to double the number of ships in commission on any sudden emer gency. Something must be done, and that speedily. On the question of abolishing im pressment the public mind is made up ; and there fore the Admiralty cannot be in too great haste to provide a substitute. It may appear an exaggera tion to many who have taken no trouble to inquire how the public pulse beats upon this question, but we verily believe that the forcible impressment of a British subject under the direct sanction of the Board of Admiralty, would at present excite an indig nation as loud and as dangerous as if that very Board was arbitrarily, and of its mere motion, to order such a subject to be whipped naked from Whitehal to the Royal Exchange, and lose his ears into the bargain. Impressment must follow the punish ments of the pillory and the branding-iron. It be longs to an age of ignorance and of force, and must perish with the barbarous institutions by which only it could be supported, and with which it can only co-exist. • Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. _ _ _ The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, honoured Mr. Errington with his company, on Monday evening, at his residence in Hill-street. A Meeting was held yesterday at the Council Office, which was attended by the Lord President, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the Poor-law Commissioners,,Messrs. George Lewis, John George Le fevre, and George Nicholls, and Dr. Kay. Captain Berkeley, R.N., and the Lord Advocate of Scotland, had interviews yesterday with Viscount Mel bourne, in Downing -street. Messrs. Alex. Gillespie, jun., Atkinson, Bliss, Brown, Carter, Dowie, R. Gillespie, Pemberton, and Robinson, a Deputation from the North American Colonial Association, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Colonial Office. The Tories continually reproach the people with desiring Reform, as if all our institutions were per fect and could not be improved. The reverse of their supposition is, however, correct, and no sooner does an individual of common talent, devote his at tention to any particular institution, than he per ceives it to abound in faults. No person ever has, or ever will accuse the present LORD CHANCEL» Mr. John Shaw Lefevre had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Home Office. Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie, G Ivernor of Ceylon, and from Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE LOR, though he is connected with the Liberal party, of being a hasty and eager Reformer. No Court has occupied more attention than his Court for the last few years, and perhaps, no Court has been so much enlarged and improved ; yet this careful Judge bore the following testimony last night, to the mode in which some part of the business of his ju risdiction is managed : " With respect to the Courts of Equity with which he (the Lord Chancellor) was more particularly conversant, nothing could be more inconvenient, and nothing more de fective, and nothing more expensive than the course at present in existence of carrying into effect the every day preceedings of a Court of Equity." The Noble and Learned Lord quoted the matter of Lunacy as an example, and concluded his remarks by saying, that every thing was to be done relating to business in the Court of Equity, by persons especially selected for the purpose. Lord LANGDALE afterwards confirmed by his re marks the LORD CHANCELLOR'S statement. The latter Noble and Learned Lord indicated, as a cure for this, the establishment of Local Judges in every county, concurring in principle with Lord BROUGHAM, who has been a zealous advocate for carrying justice home to every man's door. Lord BROUGHAM had just before, and on very good grounds, urged on their Lordships the propriety of trying the utility of a public prosecutor, and of beginning by assigning one to the Central Criminal Court. His Lordship, in fact, was as severe nearly, on some parts of our civil and criminal jurisdiction, as the LORD CHANCELLOR was on the jurisdic tion in equity. Now, when Learned Lords like these so clearly expose the numerous faults and ARRIVALS. The Earl of Charleville, in St. George's-place, Hyde Park-corni-r ; Lord St. Vincent, from his seat, Aston Hall, Staffordshire ; the Marquis of Northampton, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Castle Ashby ; Sir Walter James, Bart., M.P., in Whitehall-place, from a continental tour ; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Stanley, at Lord Derby's, Grosvenor-square ; Lord De Grey, in St. James's square, from Pansanger, Herts Count Strogonoff, at Crawley's Hotel; the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, and the Ladies Herbert, at Hay-hill, Dover street, from Leamington ; Miss Montgomery, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness Wellesley, at Kingston House, Kensington-gore; Major Stephens, at Cambridge House, from Brighton; the Earl of Yarborough, in Ar lington-street, from Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight; Co lonel and Mrs. Dixon, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Chester; the Misses Fergus, at ditto, from Scotland ; Mrs. Fellows and Mrs. Lyons, at ditto, from Norwich ; James Moss, Esq., at ditto, from Brighton ; Henry Usburn, Esq., at ditto, from Chelten ham; Henry Halsey, Esq., Mrs., and Miss Halsey, at ditto, from Surrey ; Mr. and Mrs. Ponsonby, at the Lon don Hotel, Albemarle-street, front Bath ; Captain Nayard, at ditto, from India. Seamen before the mast are like every other class of artisans. If they are sufficiently numerous their services are always to be had by paying for them. Offer them an adequate remuneration for their time, and the perils to which they may be exposed, and there is no fear of their refusing to serve willingly. Everybody knows that they are not often remarkable for their habits of economy on shore, so that few of them could resist the tempta tion of a trifling bounty. And wherefore should they not receive such a bounty as well as recruits for the land service ? On what principle of fairness is it allowable to bait with gold to catch a soldier, and to employ a press-gan g , a gag, and a ropes end to entrap a sailor? If favour be shown at all, it ought to be shown to the service which most contributes to the glory and the safety of the country—to the Navy over all others. In fact we can have plenty of sailors if our rulers will only go the way dictated by common sense, and the spirit of a more civilized age, to rear and maintain them. And were a proper system esta blished, this could be done at an expense not ex ceeding what the country now pays for the mainte nance of a fleet in a state of deplorable inefficiency. As if to cripple the service as much as possible, there exists an absurd and oppressive regulation, by which, according to the testimony of the Hon. Capt. BERKELEY, the services of from 300 to 400 of the very best and most generally useful men are lost to the country. " You will not allow men," says the Right Hon. ex-Lord of the Admiralty, in his letter to Sir JOHN BARROW, " who receive a pension for twenty-one years' good service, to serve in the Navy. You force them out of it, by refusing the enjoyment of the pension whilst they continue to serve. And it is to be remembered they are the most valuable class, generally speaking —quartermasters, captains of the forecastle and top, in short the leading men in a man of war, nursed and educated in the service ; practical, expe rienced gunners—men invaluable in the formation of a ship's company, in full vigour, and scarcely past the prime of life. Commencing their time for a pension at the age of twenty, they are, at forty-one, forced to quit the service in consequence of this most absurd regulation." Here we see one of the beauties of the present system in full bloom. To increase the chances of saddling the country with a fresh pension, a good seaman is discarded, and perhaps the barbarities of impressment put in requsition to replace him by a man who does not know a mast from a marling-spike ! And this, forsooth, is economy and retrenchment! DEPARTURES. Admiral Sir John and Lady Lawford, from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street. If we take the opinions of certain Irish Peers as a specimen of public feeling in the sister kingdom, the Irish must indeed be a hard-hearted people. In this country the public are generally pleased to hear of a mitigation of punishment, and, even if carried too far, give credit to the Home Secretary for humanity ; but if we are to judge from the incessant attacks made against Lord Normanby, this quality on the other side of the Channel is considered a great crime. It would be unfair however to the Irish nation to judge them by such a test. Though Lord Roden last night expressed joy that the Noble Marquis was no longer Viceroy, the great body of the people at his departure evinced the greatest sorrow. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester will entertain their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and a distinguished party, at din. ncr on Saturday next. Her Royal Highness has a select circle after dinner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, who was expected at Kensington Palace on Friday from Kin mell Park, the seat of Lord Dinorben, has delayed his de parture from North Wales for a fortnight. Lord John Churchill came up from Kinmell on Thursday last. FASHIONABLE PARTIES.—Lord Carrington entertained the Countess of Blessington, Count D'Orsay, and a select party at dinner last evening in Whitehall place. The Earl of Harrowby had a select party to dinner on Monday evening, at his residence in Grosvenor-square. tF} lieoT,county Lord oTHuiNu ot yW Magistracy 4 e r si G e .i r eß i e i , Ed A s u v r e Toi nf r gt e hu g teh r e e Nb t rrau t As o t tallm i D i c e o,xli a ,nlnsi r itemih , ebnA h eiliochtßepN a ei Tatoi s ivsptnhhe b oei w e np r e t,epee n snawz tod i s 1 a n elurad d z.n indis posed, odi posed, and was unable to present a great number of peti tions in favour of the Corn-laws in the House of Lords in consequence. —Morning Herald. take place near Ashby, and as often called upon them to prevent its occurrence, and yet, as far as we can learn, not one effort was made to suppress the tumult or sake the ringleaders into custody, the battle being fought within two or three miles of the residence of that prince of just ases, Mr. Cresswell, without his troubling himself at all about the matter, though he has no objection to ride ten or twenty miles every week to send an unhappy poacher to prison, and to excite the indignation and contempt of those who witness his cruelty and ignorance. Had the Magistrates declared the demoralizing spectacle should not take place, Leicester, Ashby, and the neighbouring towns would not have been so filled with thieves and black guards as they were on Sunday and Monday, and many persons would have been in possession of property which those scoundrels contrived to plunder them of, several robberies having been committed. Lord John Russell con templates a reform of these " Conservators of the public peace;" we say the sooner the better.—Leicestershire Mercury. PRESSING HORN.—IIOII loses its rigidity by the application of heat; and it does so, not only in a degree sufficient to allow of its being slightly distended, or even opened out for lamination as above described, hut by proper treatment it becomes so soft and plastic as to be readily cut like leather, with a knife, and moreover to ad mit of being moulded into an immense variety of patterns. This important property of the material, in other respects so valuable, has been largely taken advantage of by the manufacturer; and among the various operations of the artisan in the workshops of Sheffield, that of pressing horn is, perhaps, one of the most striking to a stranger,— Sheffield ifercury. We have much pleasure in stating that, having observed a greater number than usual at this season of the Year of Highland people in town, we find, on inquiry, that they were several of the Invercauld tenantry, from Glen muick, Glengairn, Deeside, and Braemar, who have been getting seed corn procured from Yorkshire by Mrs. Farquhar son, through the agency of Mr. John Begg, corn-merchant. seed for their Tills lady's benevolent attention to all who are in any way dependent on her, never ceases, as the poor on her ex tensive estates have frequently experienced. The trustees TofhTethuce o l c a u t n e oscnilll Earl of Fife are also providing tenantry in Braemar; and, as a supply of meal is ordered conferredfromt he kindness thei r low o f c o t u h n e t r y p r e o s p t r a i t e e t s o , r ve s, e willthink enabled inr meeting district, toNhtneoD f Fh. r ,g_i o rsie m it through this third season of difficulty pretty well._ Aberdeen Constitutional. ladies df K it eh ssisPoEAfAsdsßoiscEtiiantCgiouLn: distinguished et da o efm F u dzy last, resolved that the honorary medal of the Club be trionic and musical professions. Follotivv.inftg. m tio e ri d , al th s e h C ou o l u d nc b i e l upnraensiemnoteudslytovomtedrs.that the first honorary gracious manner, mark of their estimation of her eminent professional attain. melts. A deputation of the Council waited on the lady, and presented her with the medal, which she received in the most expressing herself highly grati_ fled wi t h t h e honour conferred. WELSH MSS .— S t. D av id' s Day is approach. ing.f ,O n that day meetings of the Anc i ent B r i tons will be held in London, Cheltenham, Manchester, and Livepool, and other places. In Manchesterit is said there are 30,000 Welsh, and hi others of the above.mentioned cities, they are very numerous ; so that even one shilling contributed by each person would be sufficient to publish all the Welsh MSS. in existence, As early as the reign of James 1., a writer thus deplores the loss of our interesting documents: —" There be yett among us certaine old recordes, left, alio devoury nge tyme as yett wantynge ty me t o d evoure a lle. " — afnibrien. vices of the system, and when their condemnation o it is wafted by the Newspapers over every part of the empire, how can the suffering poor, the over-wrought and under-fed artisans, who know nothing of the Constitution but its taxes and its restrictions, to whom it always appears as condemn ing him to punishment or to poverty, regard it with approbation and honour ? It is impossible, and the longer the people suffer as at present, and the longer Noble and Learned Lords can so speak of any parts of our laws and institutions with justice, the greater will be the growing dissatisfaction, and the greater the public danger. _ How are these things — to be remedied ? That n-actical question should be solved by Parliament. But Parliament rejects the task, refuses to redress the grievances and the wrongs of _ the people, and proclaims itself, by adopting Lord Howicx's conclusion, capable of doing much mischief, but impotent to redress even the injustice it commits. We fear there is no re medy to be found. What healing time may bring on its wings cannot be foreseen. Our Legislators, in truth, seem to be working in the wrong direction ; they are multiplying the officers and dependents of Government, spreading wider and wider the sphere of its operations, making it penetrate deeper and deeper into all the businesses of life, and so continually increase the labours which ex perience has already proved it is inadequate to perform. It seems to have no higher object, no better rule of conduct, than to imitate the Govern• ments of the Continent. They provide for every thing, and our Legislature is following in their wake. We might suppose from this that one civi lized nation can no more go far ahead of another in politics and morals, than in mechanics and litera ture. All our arts are now transplanting to the Continent, and in turn we are importing their arts of Government. We have their police, and soon we shall have, under some rural title, a field gen darmerie. Inspectors of all kinds are as common now amongst us as in Russia ; and there is a dis position to multiply them. Lord, BROUGHAM now proposes a public prosecutor, as in France, and dis trict judges, as in French towns. We give no opinion on the utility of these changes ; we only say that in adopting them we are imitating, and appear con strained to imitate other nations. It would hence appear that in politics, as in the common arts, civi lized nations march side by side, one retarding or helping forward another, and all making a common, if not exactly a uniform progress. The Paris Papers of Monday, have reached us in due course. The representation of the second arrondissement of Paris, is contested by MM. LE FEBVRE and LAFITTE, the former the shadow of the Ministry, and the latter alternately a Republican and a Monarchist, but at present a supporter of the Opposition. Both have addressed the electors, and both in the strain of the parties which they repre sent. In the Provinces, the electoral struggle is carried on with great animation. The ge neral impression is, that the Ministers will be in a decided minority at the opening of the Chambers. The elections will commence re gularly on the 3d of March. Our advices from Brussels confidently anticipate a peaceable settlement of the Belgian question. It is calculated that nearly two-thirds of the Deputies will vote in favour of the treaty with Holland. Letters from Bayonne of 22d inst. state as fullows: " The arrests which lately took place among the Chiefs of the Carlist army were ordered by Gen. MA ROTO, who had not even consulted Don CA Rims on them. CASTOR and CA RMONA were believed to have been likewise arrestld. MA ROTO'S enemies insinuated that he had of late kept up a frequent correspondence with General ESPARTERO, and observed the strange coincidence existing between the prorogation of the Cortes and the events that had just occurred in the insurgent provinces. They inferred from it that a plan had been concerted between the two Generals in-Chief, of which the execution depended on the silencing of the tribune in Madrid and the arrest of the Provincial Chiefs. " It was said, that on the 15th something extra ordinary had occurred, and several Chiefs were to be arrested. On the 17th, the Generals SANZ and GUERGUE ; the Intendants URIZ and OCHOA GARCIA, Commandant-General of Navarre ; IT u- The notice which Mr. DUNCOMBE gave on Monday, relative to administering relief out of the workhouses, is in these words : " To move the following resolution :—Whereas those Laws and Regulations which prevent the relief of the Poor out of Workhouses, have no other justifiable object than to teach the labouring classes to rely on their own resources : _And whereas, this lesson is but an insulting and cruel mockery, so long as the labouring classes are deprived of their greatest natural resources by laws which forbid them to exchange their labour for the cheap food of other countries :—And whereas, when unfruitful seasons and the Corn-laws together, render bread dear, the Landed mono poly flourishes at the expense of ,all other interests, while the Poor suffer especial and deep distress :—Therefore, whenever the price of the quartern loaf exceeds seven pence, and the wages of common labour do not exceed two shillings a day, humanity, justice, and policy, alike demand the suspension, for the time, of all Laws and Regulations which tend to prevent the relief of the Poor out of Work houses." RIZA, Commandant-General of Guipuscoa ; the Brigadier CARMONA, and some other supe rior officers, had been arrested and conducted by order of MAROTO to the prisons of Estella. If we are to believe the Estella versions, SANZ, GUERGUE, URIZ, GARCIA, and CARNIONA, wer , e shot a few h ours a f ter th e i r arr i va l i n th a t town." There is but little news from the army of the North. ESPARTERO travels to and fro between Haro and Logrono, paying more attention to the proceedings at Madrid than those of the enemy. News has been received from Africa by the Ramier, that a new rising of the Kabyles had rendered the communica tion between Stora and Constantine extremely difficult. The escorts are now far from being sufficient, and the works must be suspended, so long as the hostilities of these numerous bands shall continue, 13en Aissah, who hag Now this is excellent in its application to the Corn-laws, an d we h ope many ot h er M em b er s will follow so good an example. Mr. HARVEY when he is restored to Parliament, as we trust he speedily will be, will know how to draw up a biting resolu tion on a somewhat similar principle referring to pensioners instead of paupers. By a succession of attacks like those the La n d ocracy may b e s h ame d out of their iniquities, and justice may at length be THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY,- EVENING EDITION,-FEBRUARY 27, 1839 SPORTING IN TELLIGEN CE THE LIVERPOOL NATIONAL STEEPL. CHASE. The Liverpool, or, as it has been called, the National Steeple Chase, came off yesterday at Liverpool, and was won by M.e. Elmore's Lottery. It is singular that in most of these Steeple Chases the outsiders win, and the favou rites are distanced. The concourse of spectators was im mense, and the scene altogether was interesting in the ex treme. The running was tremendous, and one horse was killed in the struggle, but we must defer full particulars till to-morrow. The following is the order in which the horses were placed:— Mr. Elmore's Lottery Mr. Mostyn's Seventy-Four 2 Mr. Webb's Pauline Won by sixteen lengths. MONEY and COMMERCIAL -NEWS CITY, TIVEL YE O'CLOCK ' LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET OF TUESDAY.—Tice de mand for Cotton to-day has been to a moderate extent; the sales 3,000 bags at previ,us prices. A private letter from Liege, of the 23d February, states ' that a party of the corps cf the:advanced guard had arrived, and the remainder was expected in the course of the day. ' The casernes were so full of troops, that they were obliged to quarter the troops upon the inhabitants. They are als o expected at Eupen (frontiers of Belgium). The roads to Aix-la-Chapelle are crowded with troops. We have only one foreign arrival this morning, a Frendh mail, and no ship letters ; consequently there is a very great scarcity of intelligence to the present time. The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London, for the week ending Saturday last, con sisted, according to the official returns, of 11,763 ounces of gold coin, 34,272 ounces of gold bars, 89,229 ounces of silver bars, and 103,635 ounces of silver coin. The gold coin was disposed of aslfollows :--- 6,71 i! ounces to Hamburg, 1,942 ounces to South Austra lia, 1,250 ounces to Rotterdam, 919 ounces to Calcutta, and 750 ounces to Boulogne. The gold bars were shipped as follows :-25,266 ounces to Hamburg, 8,540 ounces to Rotterdam, and 466 ounces to Calcutta. Yesterday was settling day in the British funds, which passed off well, and to-day they are:paying and receiving drafts for the balances:of their:differences. Consols opened this morning at the quotations they closed at yesterday,94 93 for the Account, Money 921 i. The market is very inactive to the present time. Ex chequer Bills, 61 83 ; India Bonds, 63 65 ; Bank Stock, 205 k 206 ; India Stock, 256 k 2571. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British, and most of the prices are nominal as yet. Spanish Active, 18k i ; Portuguese, 344 4; Three per Cents., 214 I; Belgian, 1001 ; Brazilian, 804 814; Scrip, 14 21 Fem. ; Colombian, 284 291; Mexican, 23} 2-q; Dutch Two-and-a-Halfper Cents. 55i I; Fiveper Cents., 1034 i. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Yank Stock 2054 l India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ..... ......... :xi% ai ' Ditto Bonds 65 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 92% % 3 Illi, South Sea Stock — 3.i2 per Cent — Old Annuities 914 Ditto Red New 94 per Cent 100%% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Sank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 06 04 pm. Jan. 5, 1660 l5 Ditto Small 156 $4 pm. Oct, 10, 1859 14 15-16% Ditto Commercial - - pin. Jan. 5, 1860 14% Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1180 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account __ Jan. 5. 1370 — Consols for Acc0unt......... 93 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds 109% Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account - Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account - r Ditto Account ..... -... 54% 5 1 4 Buenos Ayres Bonds - Ditto, 3 per Cent . 21% ?, Ditto Account - Ditto Account ..... ...... - Chilian Bondi - Prussian Bonds _ D tto Account - , Russian Bond s , 1822 ... ...... 114.!,4, Columbian Bonds - e Ditto Account Ditto Account -1 Ditto Metallic - Columbian Bonds, 15:24 - l Spanish Bonds. - Ditto Account - i Ditto Account , - Danish Bonds 7 6 14 6 ' Ditto Bonds, 1934 1834 Ditto Account 7644 Ditto Account. Greek Bonds - ' French, 5 per cent...-. -f. -c. Ditto Bonds, 1525 ; ----- 4 per cent. Ditto Account -1 ---- 3 per cent. - c Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. -! --- Exchange. --- -c. Ditto Account - Dutch, 2,, per cent. 554 ii 4 Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan -.Ditto Account ..... ......... - Brjtish Iron Company P Per Simi e PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY A T O NE O'CLOCK. 50 9 Great Western Railw a y C 0mpany ..............,.,, 55 774 5 Brighton Railwayl7 12% % London and Southampton Railway Company 381 175. 9d. 44%4 ukaicheiter and Birmingham R a il way l5 14 Do. Do. Extension Colonial Bank 25 30 1 4 HA LF-PAS ONE. The private acco un t s from Brussels state that the report on the Protocol was to be made on Monday last, and the ' discussion on it was to take place on Tuesday, which, it was expected, would last during the week. M. Mole, the French Minister, is very anxious it should terminate before the meeting of the new Chambers. It dors not appear that the project of Government will be rejected, which will cause a lively sensation, and make a difference between the nation and the Government, dividing the country into great factions. The mail from Ostend being due to-morrow, we shall have the important discussions in the Chambers. Consols have improved since the morning, the Money Market being good, and may be quoted at 93 for April Account ; Money, 92k 93 ; Exchequer Bills, 66 64 ; In dia Bonds, 65 : Bank Stock, 205 k • India Stock, 256 i. In the Forei gn M ar k et , Spanish Active improved to Isi k ; Portuguese also to 341 354 ;. Belgian, 100,1-; Bra zilian, 804 811 ; Col om bi an , 284 291 ; Mexican, 231 24 ; Dutch Two-and-a-H a lf per C ents., 55i .; Five per Cents., 104 i. Consols for the Account. 93. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. 1 BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .66 India Stack 256% 3 per Cent. Red 93% Ditto Bonds 65 3per Cent. Cuts , (3 Ditto Old Annuities 91% :1•;, per Cent. Red 101% Ditto New Annuities New 3,4 per Cent.— ........ 10% Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 24d....64 pm. New 5 per Cent - Ditt o 500/ 64 pm. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/ 64 pm. Jan. 186 , 1 Oct. 1859 - Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Asturian, 5 per cent 109% Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. - Bolgian, 5 per cent 100% !Ditto. New Ditto Brazilian Bonds B;%a 'PruSsian, 5 per cent - Buenos Ayr, s, 6 per cent.... - Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 1144 Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic - Columbian, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent lB% Ditto, 1824 29% Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent 76 French, 5 per cent.......... -f. -c, Greek Bonds, 1825, sper ct - Exchange -f - c Mexican, sper cent French, 3per cent -f. -r . Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 23% Dutch, 2% per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... - Ditto, 5 per cent. ..... 1034 Great Western Railway ........... London and Brighton itlway 12% London and Southampt on R ailway 414 Manchester and Bi rm i ng h am Railway 14 Ditto ditto E x t ens i on 5 THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Grain and Flour since Mon day are small, but there is a continuation of the supply of Foreign Wheat. The few buyers who attended here to-day purchased Wheat to a small extent at Monday's rates, which were firmly maintained; In other grain few transactions have taken place, but prices remain as bet quoted. The bakers buy Flour rather more freely than of late, and last quotations are realized. COLONIZATION.—It appears by the Perth Gazette (Swan River), that the population there was, in 1838, 2,150, occupying a country as large as Spain.— " Mankind, thus dispersed," says the Editor of the Cape of Good Hope commercial Advertiser, " are like the wheels and springs of a watch spread over the artist's table. Each sleeps, and the sum of all their adaptations and latent lowers, is, practically, nothing. Placed in proper connec tion, each moves industriously round his own centre, re ceiving and communicating impulse and order with all around. We appeal to the population, we could afford to appeal to the very pigs of Perth, whether there is not a kernel of truth in this comparison." The Tory tactics for the Session are as plainly marked out as if they were written in a book before us. They say nothing against Ministers, make no at t ac k, threaten none at p resent . I t is Hail fellow, well met " between the political rivals, as if the millenium were ac tually arrived, and the lion and the lamb were at peace to gether. But the reason is obvious. The seeming calm is merely the precursor of the hurricane. Sir Robert Peel is at his old tricks again. He knows the effect which will be produced through the country by the trimming, shuffling conduct of the Ministers on the question of the Corn-laws. He is holding back his forces until Whig po pularity falls to zero. When the Whigs have sufficiently, as he thinks, damaged their reputation by following in his wake, then he will throw off the mask of hollow friend ship which he now wears towards them, and give the signal for a general attack, We shall then have assault upon assault, motion after motion, to expel the Ministry and let in the Tories to the fleshpots of office. The Tamworth Baronet, in his manoeuvres, is certainly as cunning as the serpent; but, except the confiding and credulous members of the Administration, no one believes him to be as harm less as the dove. In his treatment of the Home Secretary he strongly reminds us of the Brobdignac monkey's affec. tion for poor Gulliver. He dandled the unfortunate tra veller on his knee in all seeming tenderness, until, watch. ing his opportunity, he popped him into the marrowbone, and there left him to make his exit as he could. Sir Robert is equally bent upon mischief. Fond as he affects to be of his darling Corn-law Administration, he will as suredly marrowbone them on the first possible occasion v.hich presents itself to him..—Liverpool Albion. It was understood, when the Anti-Corn-law Delegates left London to consult their several consti tuencies, that their next meeting would be at Manchester. The day of this meeting has been fixed for Friday, the Bth day of March. MANCHESTER EXTENSION RAILWAY BILL. —A Birmingham paper states that " the petition from the landowners against this Bill was presented on Monday evening. It measured sixty-five feet long by two feet wide." SANGUINARY MONSTER.—On Monday last a fellow was brought before the Magistrates sitting in petty sessions, at Ludlow, charged with having wounded in a desperate manner a poor woman living on the Clee-hills. The monster went into the woman's house and attaoked her with a spade, with the sharp edge of which he cut the flesh from her head and face, and fractured her skull. The sur geon stated that the sufferer could not survive, and the pri soner was committed to gaol. The prisoner behaved be fore the Magistrates in the most violent manner, and threa. tened the life of one of them.—Hereford Times, CHILD BURNT.-011 Saturday night last, a boy, six years old, the son of a man named Harris, a carpenter, residing at Little Mill, near Usk, was so dreadfully burned, that he died the same night. The father of the child was at the club, and the mother was engaged up stairs when she heard the screams of the boy whom she had left at the fire below, but before the poor woman could extinguish the flame, it had committed such injuries on him as to render all assistance unavailing.—Monmouthshire Merlin. ::. ago SOUTHWARK ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) RE-ELECTION of D. W. HARVEY, ESQ. The election of a Member to serve in Parliament, for the borough of Southwark, in the room of Mr. D. W. Harvey, who had been declared by a Select Committee of the House of Commons to have vacated his seat in conse quence of having accepted the office of Registrar of Metro politan Carriages, took place this day. It was originally understood that Mr. Richards, the lite unsuccessful candi date, would have come forward to contest the representa tion, but it subsequently turned out that that gentleman had prudently declined the somewhat hazardous experiment of a contest. There being no opposition to the re election of Mr. Harvey, the proceedings took place in the Town-Hall instead of in the open air as was the case on previous similar occasions. At half-past ten o'clock the doors were thrown open, and the Hall was speedily filled in every part. Immediately afterwards Jelin Holmes, Esq., the High Bailiff, accompanied by his assessor, Mr. Payne, Mr. D. W. Harvey, and the gentle. men composing his Committee, entered the Hall, and were loudly cheered. The High Bailiff (Joins HOLMES, Esq.) then said that, having received a precept commanding him to proceed with the election of a burgess to serve in Parliament in the 'room of D. W. Harvey, Esq., who had vacated his seat by accepting the office of Registrar of Hackney Coaches, he had immediately caused proclamation to be made throughout the borough, and they had now met for the purpose of filling up the va cancy. He had had such frequent experience of the love of order which characterized the inhabitants of Southwark that he felt it to be unnecessary to impress upon them the fairness of hearing all parties that might wish to address them. He felt qui'e certain that they would so conduct themselves as to do honour to the inha bitants of the first borough in the empire. —(Cheers.) The precept would be read by the proper officer, and then it would be his duty to call upon them to propose their candidates. The Precept and the Act against Bribery having been read, the usual oaths were then administered to the High Bailiff by Sir Peter Laurie. Mr. B. Wools then came forward, amidst much cheering, to propose Mr. Harvey as the representative of the borough. \lr. Harvey had been known in public life for about thirty years ; he had stood seven elec tions at Colchester, and had been returned sit times for that town. The electors of the borough of Southwark had returned him as their Representative twice, and had on various occasions expressed their high opinion of his public conduct.—( Cheers.) Mr. Harvey had, since his lest election, accepted an office, which he did not then know would have incapacitated him from serving in Par liament till he had stood another election. He had em ployed himself through the recess to carry into effect the duties of a. most important office, requiring great industry and talent--( Hear, hear)—he had discharged those diffi cult duties with satisfaction to all parties, and had suc ceeded in satisfying the parties wish whom he had more particular connection, and the public also, that the newly established office would be most beneficial in its ten dency.—( Hear, hear, hear.) But when he found that the holding that office would be inconsistent with the retaining hi; seat in Parliament, he relinquished the situa. tion. The House of Commons having decided that the situation (even though Mr. Harvey had resigned the emoluments of the office) was one which required a re election.—(Cheers.) That Mr. Harvey was well able to discharge the duties of his seat in Parliament the electors of Southwark well knew.—(Cheers.) This was a time when the presence of such men as Mr. Harvey in Parlia ment was most desirable—when, not only the Ballot, the Extension of the Suffrage, the shortening the duration of Parliament—measures which all present wished for— pressed for consideration. But there was the great question of the Corn-laws—of vital inte rest to merchants, to manufacturers, and indeed to the agriculturists—would be under the attention of Parliament --(Hear, hear)—and Mr. Harvey would, when be was re turned again—as he would shortly he—(Cheers)—devote his talents and experience to this most vital question.— (Cheers.) There was also another question—that of our colonial policy.—( Hear.) Was there not also Canada? and when he mentioned that colony he would tall, them plainly and honestly that it and many other of the colonies of the British Empire were in a state that required serious investigation and the closest scrutiny. For years past for a considerable period, a system of misgovern. ment had been carried on which had rendered these colonies a mass of bribery and corruption. As little in fact was known of the details of the Govern. ment and the system carried on in these places, as if they belonged to the barbarians of Africa.—(Hear, hear.) All they knew of these places was, that if there were sinecures or jobs required, places were found in the colonies for these gentry. If they wanted to provide for spins r in formers, such as Oliver and Edwards, to excite cin that country—if they wanted men to perform i e same disgraceful services as was required of them in o days of Lord Sidmouth, whom they were afterwards air i Ito pro duce in open Court, they sent them to the Cao r of Good Hope, and there gave them public situations. fie believed that in that colony some of these men i lled at the present moment important public situations under feigned names, for even in that remote colony they would not be tolerated if their real names and characters were known. —( Hear, hear.) What had been the system pursued by that country at the Cape of Good Hope and New South Wales? Had they not laboured to destroy the aboriginies of these countries under the pretence of civilizing them ? These matters must soon present themselves to the con sideration of Parliament and the country, and he trusted their late representative, who would soon again again be returned to Parliament—( Cheers)—would devote himself to the investigation of these subjects, and would render himself of ten times greater value than he ever had been before, long as his public life had been. He called upon that gentleman to devote himself to the con sideration of these important matters in Parliament, for that he would be very shortly their representative, he en tertained not the slightest doubt.—( Cheers. ) He would conclude by nominating Mr. D. W. Harvey, as a fit person to represent them in Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. PYLLATT said he was happy to see so many around him crowding into a small room, for die purpose of exer cising the important privilege of the franchise; and he would also appeal to him whom he was sure would be their Representative, and who was fully aware of the important responsibility which necessarily accrued to one who sought to be a Representative of the people. His worth was duly prized, and be would be duly returned. Daniel Whittle Harvey had been tried for years, and never had he been found wanting.—(Cheers.) For years he had proved himself to be the most able advocate of the cause of the people. They had experience of his past conduct ; and in addition he would this day give pledges as to the line of conduct which he would pursue in his public life, and with a breach of which it would never be in the power of any one to taunt him. His presence was needed in Parliament, on account of those causes to which his Hon. Friend (Mr. Wood) had al luded. But there were other abuses to be corrected, as well as those to which that Gentleman had alluded. Were there not abuses existing in the administration of the law ? Were there not gross corruptions in the laws of England ? Did they not all want cheap law ? And who was so fitted by his talents, his professional attainments, and his energy of character—who so fitted for cleansing the Augean stable of the law, as Daniel Whittle Harvey ? —(Cheers.) They were all aware of the very unexpected decision in consequence of which Mr. Harvey had had to appear before them that day. He would state to them the circumstances which had led to this. After having devoted years to the cause of the country, he thought that if still continuing to serve the cause of the country, he could repair his broken fortunes, he would be perfectly justified in so doing.—(Cheers.) Many parsons having repro sented the people, had, after having done so for years, accepted the prize of office and retired from all connection with their constitutencies; such would not be the case with Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey. His virtue was of a lasting nature. He had always been guided by principle, not by expediency, and so he would continue to be guided. It was importaut to strengthen the friends of liberty in the House of Commons. We were still subject to coercion in various forms of law. The documents they had heard read that day savoured strongly of Judge Jeffries, packed Juries, ex-officio informations, and oaths administered by the Bishops in the neighbourhood of the place where they now stood. In Mr. Harvey they found a man who would never succumb to any one upon a question of principle —and on all occasions he was most anxious to support the private interests of the borough, as was proved by the great good he had already done to the inhabitants of the borough in opening the school.—( Cheers.) He would now come to the question more immediately under their consideration, and that was the question of how Mr. Har vey would treat his friends after they had again sent him back to his duties in Parliament 2—how would they be pleased at seeing him entering that House and confounding his enemies ? How would that gentleman look who had found the flaw in Mr. Harvey's seat, when he saw him sent back in triumph ? How afraid they would be to see him coming back to clear the House of Commons from the whole nest of placeholders. They all knew that he was no great friend to Church -rates—(Cheers and cries of " No Church-rates")—he was one who believed that the cause of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would be better supported by voluntary aid than by compulsion.— (Cheers.) The forcing a man to contribute to the sup. port of an entirely different faith from that in which he be lieved, was an anomaly which ought not to be allowed to exist in this free country.--(Cheers.) He spoke warmly upon this subject, because he felt warmly, and in conse quence of that he had to appear in another place to answer for it, and he hoped for their sympathy.—(Cheers.) Well then, upon this question of the Church, who could they send to Parliament so well qualified as Mr. Harvey ? He was one not belonging to any particular denomination, though he believed in the great and saving doctrines of Christianity, and be was so undaunted that the whole House could not put him down.—(Cheers.) He was a man of splendid talents—( Loud cheers)—one who would do honour to, and be useful on, any When they found him then ranged upon the side of Liberalism, how delighted he was to give him 'all the suc cour in his power.—(Cheers.) When he looked at the past conduct of Mr. Harvey, on any occasion when the liberties of the people were Concerned, they must have perfect faith in him.—(Cliters.) Looking at that con duct he, with perfect confidence, asked them for their suf frages for Mr. Harvey. They must return Mr. Harvey in order to show that that borough was not a corrupt one. —(Cheers.) The Tories—(A laugh, and " Ah, Laurie, where are you ?") boasted that Pitt who for years had wielded the whale power of the State, died in debt. By a parity of reasoning they must respect their honoured candidate, who had refused to take a place of emolument which would render it necessary for him to withdraw from his constituents, the electors of the Borough of South wark. With very great pleasure he seconded the nomi nation of D. W. Harvey, Esq., as a fit and proper repre sentative in the House of Commons.—( Cheers. ) The poll was then then taken, and the High-Bailiff de clared that it was in favour of Mr. Harvey, who was duly returned Member for the borough.—(Cheers.) Mr. HARVEY then rose, and was received with enthusi astic cheering, He said, " Gentlemen,--Your worthy High-Bailiff, in the few apppropriate remarks with which he opened the business of this day, well charac terized the Borough of Southwark as the first borough in the empir e . And because it is - so, and merits that appellation, it b ecomes more i mportant t h a t th e electors . of this borough, an d t h e peop l e o f t hi s coun t r y, should know whence it is that at a time when the Senate of the land is assembled, and invited by the Queen to deliberate on divers great a n d ser i ous matters , t hi s b oroug h s hould be deprived of one of its representatives.—( Cheers.) It I! due to those at who se i ns ti gat i on thi s h as t a k en place, t you should know. It is due to the " improved c haracter of Parliament," that y ou s h ou ld k now . B ecause , if it i s not to be attributed to the blackest and basest hypocrisy, the explanation of it can only be found in the a imp character of Pariiament," arid the attachment to prin cipleeoeed which pervades its Members.—( Hear, and cheers.) Now this is the pretext th a t h as b ees pu t f orwar d. T....h .. gentleman at whose instanc e th e i nqu i r y was i ns tituted and who appropriately enough took the chair of the Com mittee—( Shame)—publicly stated: that he was influenced by 1,0 personal or party c ons id era ti ons —( L aug hter) hut that he was animated by that unceas i ng , an d, if it be _ pos sible, growing anxiety which h e th roug h lif e h as m anifested as being the practical guardia n o f th e p r i v il eges o f Pashas ment.—( Laughter.) One of those privileges—the most. prominent—this gentleman deem e d t o b e th e p ro tection 0 1 Members of that House from any influence, however re mote or indirect, by the pursuit or enjoyment of official emoluments. Truly a noble sentiment, and, if u nivor . : sally carried out, could not be t oo hi g hl y eu logiscd —(Great cheering.) But is th ere any f oun d a tion for this claim? I say none—( Hea r )— an d f or t hi s reaso n, that if he ivad been that unsleeping guardian of the public rights which he professes to be, he would have found many. such cases, which bad passed, an d now pass , unn oticed and unregarded._( Hear.) But he lets these cases goon, and only attacks mine ; on the ground that my office, en der the statute of Anne, absolutely incapacitated me from. holding a seat in Parliament. The statute of Anne pro vides two things,—that a person holding an office, whic h had existed prior to 1706, was to be sent back to his cons stituents, and that a person holding an office of profit which should hereafter be created, was to be totally: incapacitated from serving in Parliament. Now the; grounds of this distinction I leave for the perception, of Jesuits of a certain order.—( Laughter.) But it strikes me that if a Member of Parliament, who has per-' haps for many years been seeking after and now holding an office of profit, which, though it was created before 1706, has doubtless influenced his conduct and votes 1 0 Parliament, he ought to be sent back to his constituents , at least as strictly as a person who had been elected to an office of great public importance and of heavy duties which was created since 1706, should be disqualified from sitting in Parliament.—( Hear, hear.) The distinction, I repeat , is too nice for my simple understanding.—(Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, when it is stated to you by my friend Mr• Pellatt, that when I found the effect of this office was to put my seat in hazard I declined the salary, he does no t exactly state the real fact s , b ecause from the beginning ! had the impression that •it might so work, not because thought it might, but because I believed Mr. Wynn al those acting with him would ma k e i t so—(A laugb.)--an though profiting by my long experience my cautaans we re strengthened by it, as I stated to Lord John Je-tussell, that " acceptable as this office will be tome and ;as emolumen ts ' 3et from the beginning I wish three tle . ings to be unde r ' stood by your Lord s hip, w hi c h I vvilA explain to you , '" First, whatever may be its effect on ear seat, and however se' ceptable the salary is to me, which. Ido not deny-4 Hear) - I will not accept it if it imposes the slightest political oblige' ti on. —( Cheers.) If the Government, of which you are the leader in the House of Commons, is to calculate upon s different course of conduct in the expression of my O P i : nion, and in the rec or d o f my votes from that which I have been hitherto accust ome d to g i ve, though I acknowle dge myself indebted to your Lordship for your kind considera tion in giving me the offer of this place, yet, I wish it to be understood, that I will accept it with no such restraintss and it is due to Lord John Russell to say, that he was Ile a less willing to acknowledge my definition of its duties, a ll the absence of all obligation, than I was to impose itel ( Hear.) The n ext suggest i on was this, that if it does o e disqualify, it is quite clear it does not affect my seat, and, there' fore, some pe o pl e m i g h t f ancy that having been returned to Parliament for th e p ro b a bl e duration of six years, I Inig consider myself comf orta bl y seated for that period, an "a also remain in the en j oyment of 8001. a-year. Those a re not my principles, and I am one of those, who think the merit of a man's conduct is to be found in its consistenca --- that he is not always to be turned abou'c by the wind o f a" pediency, and finding apologies in all, sorts of selfish sufti gestions. I therefore told his Lordship that if it slana turn out as I thou g ht i t m i g h t, that m seat and sa'a ., could be held and t a k en together— y that the first night t`'. House assembled I should apply to the Chancellor of ill Exchequer for th e Chil tren Hundreds, in order that, ia might be sent back to m y constituents, for them to deal W it/ me as they should think fit.—( Cheers.) The third a, pro position was this, th a t as i t was not unlikely, 'a the reason I have just stated to you, that !vase: which was strengthened and suggested by my es d perience that Mr. Wynne, and those acting with hitne ari s others, almost as suspi c i ous , t h ough sailing under a n ffe e rent flag—( Hear, hear, an d a l aug h )—might come to t ll conclusion that this was a di squalifying office, my,tb.ob condition was this :—I will put this office into action' A will arrange and adapt all its essentials—l will superinte.nt; through its intricate working —I will give up my time 9 ,i_ i it readiness, while others are pursuing their pleasure or tut. business during the recess ; and if it should turn out th e acceptance of this office is to hazard, in the slighte st degree, the far higher distinction—a distinction not rei ducible to a p ecun i ary standard (Loud cheers)---e being representative of the Borough of Southwark .-- then you may take my services, you snay, keep LI salary, and I w ill reta i n my seat.—(Continued -eheel'a Now it may be said, why did you not keep your place, an. why did you no t reta i n your seat ? My answer to that '- this, it was b ecause I w i shed you should have ass oppor ta ' nitv of showing what your opinion of my conduct was. (Cheers.) I should have conic to, the election before tni constituents without fear; and from the feeling I It: observed almost universally among them, I believe the: would have been pleased to find that I could have returned the salary and my place.—( Hear.) But some gentle's" or other —some man, who although he may des ise Pe ri l; rnentary minorities under another state of things , s had afire n respect for minorities on the poll, inasmuch as it v rasa positi h °, he could never get from.—(Laughter.) He v could say , e did not come there to disturb the borough, or ao crowd t . e d hustings with a number of supporters—that he did net el, to put his opponent to expense, and only asked the supPs .... a of a respectable minority—that of a dozen, electors' d , (Laughter.) He would care nothing for ay ie thous°. 0 arrayed on th e ot h er side, but he would Frevsent a peti tio , to the Hou se o f C ommons, and state ttiat Mr. Harvey vi his oppone n t at t h e election, and that while Mr. Harv ey ..., had his th ree t h ousand votes, and he his ha ker's dozen a ( Hear, and much laughter) —yet inasmuch as he ba s given person s not i ce that all the votes, from one to t ore thousand, w hi c h h ad been given. for Mr. .Harvey, We e er & entirely thrown away—because he h a d placarded the rough with n o ti ces t h at h i s opponent had aCC A w epted a " s e qualifying office, and was not eligible, then he would ba claimed to represent you with his twelve votes to the re, jection of the universal feeling, by which his 00,0 nent had been returned.—( Hear, hear.) I wO- e it have considered myself as acting in an e xtretn a , , : criminal manner, if actuated by personal consviderat W o even if the salary was far more important in its ametiaal than I admit i t was, I should have permitted this—l she-sf never have f org i ven myse lf that great political sin of to aggrandize myself I had placed the cons tituenei. aa this Borough ( one o f t h e most important and extenste'b in the Empi re , as your High Bailiff has termed it) in etiod a position as thee, its great int eres t s. and its trade a n d commerce shoe'ai be confided t o i ts most strenuo us a es determined enemy.—( Hear.) Under these c i rc umstao e + , gentlem en , '1 am not surprised a t t h e zeal and a ff ec tiona readiness w ith w hi c h all classe s i n t h e Boroug h hav e crowded r oun d me .—(Ch eers. ) I am not surprise ellt the absence of all opposition, therefore, on the P r f a s Ose occasion, and I wish to express my thanks publicly to, ',host who are termed the Conservatives of the Borouga, it, it having come forward to pat, not me to ex en se, for would not be productive of arty inconvenience tie m e ', those friends who have rallied round me.—(Loud elL ee- ,;cl The same generous spirit and liberal zeal which, Teln r . - o e o , me and my colleague free of charge on a former (veal o t is in op era ti on on t h e present occasion, and I believe i, advertisement will, within the next twenty-fours,. apPe gr r e the papers announc i ng t h e p l eas i ng fact that a very laari'as per centage will b e re t urne d to those who have so g'see rously and hon o u ra bl y contr ib uted to defray the expauso of this election.—( Hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I w o well pleased t o fi n d th at t hi s po li t i ca l punishment, a l e o f intended to be, is no t un lik e l y to reco il upon the b ea d e the prima r y ag it a t ors , an d w ill not be without aslYse tag for its ex am pl e . N ot exact l y for its coincident circa ary t ee stances, for I am assu re d th a t i nasmuch as my case w as ia first so it will b e t h e l ast.—( H ear.) There never ag_ a u will be a tract of Parliamentary privileges and p recedeeta ... e , the Right H onoura bl e Ch ar l es Wallin Williiam WYeesol (Laughter)—settieg forth that M em b ers takaag office ts ; declining to accept sa l ar y, rat h er than hazard the i r se a 0 have nevertheless vacated them. You need be undertee apprehension that th e same f ee li ng w hi ch dictate d the course pursued toward s me w ill b e observed towards e w e Gentlemen bolding pl aces an d pensions—rnen whoopee never done anything but mischief, and whoee only re ci t e:if, inendation is th a t t h ey are now doing nothing.---(nrer., laughter.) I have documents in my possession in r''',y ence to one gentle man w h o h a d the good taste to be ° l a d Committee, and ts o k a p rom i nent part in it, and. wh o e b - ieb y in the proceedin gs d ec l are d , that this was a place w_es , could not be held with a seat i n Parliamenet, for the ris, sons he had al r eady state d, t h at a Member o f Pari as ment with his hand in the public pursa, was likely to swayed by private cons iderataims and S i s. inducement s , t o th e p re j u di ce of his constitueia_fig Among other Gentlemen on that Committee wo the Right Hon. Henry Go u l burn.—(Groans and hisse 9 There was a return made to the House some f ewea o r f ago, in consequence of as order calling upon Mem be rs and Parliament to state what offices they had ever fille d e d I what pensions and salaries they 'were now receiving, a a o a. find that this gentleman who is s , o keenly alive to th e ,/ for tical purity of th e representatives of the people, he' - au ts nineteen years and three quay ens salaries and ene olein t atis of the annual average and value of 5,2201., which 01 0 , plied by tw en ty y ears, gives 1 00,000/. of the public lid 1 • and yet so small was that son'—so little opportunity a hint—soafford hirngroefatpwroaysidthineg clanger r is offalmiiislydyainngd those debt,sr°lei an d 6 Mr. Pitt, which I beg to assure m his Mr.in pel ( a i t rwe il never be my case, for although I y , may, and I am s edgy will die poor, I shall leave no debts undischar we find this gentleman with his 100,000/., and h olding a office for the lest twenty years, now receia e ln n t oo , sum of 2 ,001 V, per annum all by way of P a e to' so long as he lives. Now as I have already venter , 0 thin refer to a conversation which I had with Lord J °ll o . some firo 7, Iluese',l, I shall take the liberty of stating furtner, which Lord J. Russell himself would COsenity if he were herr, and which he will have an °NAT 1 of seeing through the medium of the public P b r e e fo g re W e told his Lordship that if two places were put —one with a salary of 5,000/. and out of the House, aaei . the other of 1,000/. with active duties and the. _l37ltb of retaining my seat, I would sooner take the p l ac e __....... _ !-J