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GRAND FLOWER SHOW. TO-MORROW, THURSDAY, Aug. I. GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM• PET RES. Exhibition of the Extraordinary newly-discovered Light KONIAPHOSTIC, Under the superhArndenee of Mr. 1-1. Carter. And, at Dusk, the ERUPTION of MOUNT HECLA, &c. Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are doubtful if we shall be able at this busy period to find room for the Defence of Mr. T. Attwood and the Birming ham Political Union. " One of the Working Classes," on the Mutual Advancement Society, shall appear when we can find room. HIGH wATER. AT LONW IN BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning 51 minutes after 5. I Evening ... 17 minutes after 6. --.?"; d- :, _.,:q_...„...„ _ Mf r avte.... ,... -, -.. :,.,.,),„. ' - ~ 1 .4 ', • ..:,4,...* e catlx+ LONDON : WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1839. In the Lords more petitions were presented against the In.l.and Warehousing Bill. In reference to the motion relative to the Adminis tration of Justice in Ireland, which Lord BROUGHAM is to bring on next Tuesday, the Noble Lord said he should undoubtedly bring it forward on that day. The Noble Lord's reference to this subject pro duced an animadversion from the Earl of WICKLOW, oa those who had committed a gross breach of confi dence, and a g ross breach of privilege, by allowing pri vate drafts of Reports brought down to the Committee, and marked private and confidential, to go forth to the public. He thought 'Ale matter ought to be inquired into. It was published io the Dublin Evening Mail, the Orange paper, Lord RODEN'S journal. We hope the matter will be inquired into, not that we think the publication of the least importance, but because we should like to see this gross breach of confidence traced up to the Peer, be he saint or sinner, who was guilty of it. A little conversation took place on Lord BROUGHAM'S intended motion, but his resolution is quite unalterable. Lord WARWICK referred to the petition of LOVETT and CeLLINS, presented by Lord BaoucatAx, and con tended that the Noble Lord had been imposed upon. Lard,,BaOuGHam said the statement of the Noble Earl confirrnEd that of the petitioners. We have read the Report of the Magistrates presented by Sir EARDLEY WILMOT to Parliament, and we are quite of Lord BROUGHAM'S opinion. Every word of the petition is substantiated. Lord BROUGHAM added, that they were kept nine days in prison before bail was accepted, and he stated a fact, which we have great pleasure in re peating, as conferring honour on the gentlemen concerned, namely, that Mr. LEADER and Sir W. MOLESWORTH wrote to Birmingham, and offered them selves for bail. Then, when it was found that they were not defenceless, forsaken men, the Magistrates accepted bail, which ought to have been taken in nine hours, Lord BROUGHAM said, after the men had been arrested. We are glad also to see the attention of their Lord : ships celled to their own iniquitous legislation. The Corn-laws were petitioned against, and Earl FITzwIL. LIAR, who presented the petition, reminded the Peers of the drain caused on the Bank of England by purchas ing foreign corn, which had reduced that Corporation to a dangerous condition. Unfortunately, at present, the weather makes this subject of peculiar importance. A few days more such cold rain as we have had for these four days, will place the harvest in peril. Prices are again looking up ; corn is already ordered from abroad ; more gold is going out to purchase it ; the Bank is endeavouring to bolster"up its finances by a loan contracted in Paris ; and the country is placed in a very dangerous situation by the Corn-laws. They will be repealed, probably, by the weather ; and the Peers will for evcr have lost the opportunity of retrieving their character from one of the heaviest charges that were ever brought against a trusted and . honoured Nobility— that of starving their confiding fellow-subjects to enrich themselves. " Most of the statutes or acts, edicts, arrests, and placarts of Parliaments, Princes and States for regulating, directing, or restraining of trade," said FRANKLIN, " have, we think, been either political blunders, or jobs obtained by artful men for private ad vantage under pretence of public good." Our Houses of Parliament have not altered since FRANKLIN'S time, though they have perhaps become more audacious. The Inland Warehousing Bill, as we predicted, was !thrown out on a division by 48 to 38. Lord Asn- BURFON'S motives we cannot presume to ques tion, though the house of BARING is a great mercantile house, having large connections with the sea-ports, and probably not many with the inlacd towns. Of course, this rejection of a measure could not originate in what Dr. FRANKLIN called a job. The Bill was, however, thrown out, like so many other Bills. Never can the Peers want a reason e for such casting away ; when they can allege none other they throw out Bills from wan tonness, as for example the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill on Monday night. It pleases them to wanton in their power and to strangle the offspring of the degraded and unresenting Commons. Th e i r L or d s hi ps are not to sit to-day. Petitions aga i nst Ch urc h -rates and for Church Exten; lioni n the C ommons, show the hatred of the people for clerical rapacit y , an d the zeal of the clergy in ex teading their dominion. Which will beat? We bet on the laymen. Avarice will overcome piety. Mr. LaßouctlEßE answe re d a question put by Mr. BERNAL, by stating that the Government had received no intelligesce whatever that the Negroe s of Jamaica were arming, or had refused toqiay rent. Why should they ? They have no Corn-law. Mr. BtouNT took his seat for Totnes as he was the first comer; and Sir GEORGE CLERK is to-morrow to call the attention of the House to the necessity of renewing the Sessional Order for both Members, in case of a dou ble return, to withdraw. Ai. CHARLES GREY, with the best intentions, brought forward a measure to enable the peopl e to hold annual meetings, and to give the industrious classes a regular means of influencing the Legislatu re. Hi s propos i t i on Lows that we live i n extraordinary times, but Sir CHARLES explained that such meetings were consistent with the old laws and practices of the country. Con trary to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, he said it was difficult to say what constituted a legal or illegal meeting ; but Lord Joins expected all the Birmingham people to know that whish the Judges did not knew. Sir C. GREY'S motion occasioned but very little discussion, and was not pressed to a division. Mr. T. DuricomßE brought the case of Mr. THoito- GOOD before the House of Commons, and moved a re solution condemning his imprisonment, and condemning Church-rates. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the previous question, but before the vote was taken on that, an objection having been made to the form of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion, he proposed to modify it by leaving out the words des cribing Mr. Tmoaocoon as having been treated with un called for severity, and his treatment as reflecting dis credit on those who instigated the proceedings against him. This amendment the Tories resisted, and a di vision took place on the question that the words be left out, on which they were defeated, by 44 to 20. On the resolution so amended being again put the House divided on the previous question, when Mr. DUNCOMEE'S resolution was carried by 42 to 20. We see by the lists that Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not vote for his own motion which the Tories took up ; we presume there fore, that his objection to the resolution was confined to the words which were omitted. The resolution as carried was as follows :—" That it appears by certain papers laid before this House, that JOHN THOEO - a Protestant Dissenter, has been confined in her MAJESTY'S county gao l o f Essex, since tne 16th day of January last, for neglecting to appear in the Consis torial Court of the Bishop of LONDON, for the non payment of ss. 6d., being the amount of Church-rate assessed upon him for the parish of Chelmsford.' It is the opinion of the House that it will be the duty of the Legislature, at the earliest possible period of the next Session of Parliament, to make such alterations in the existing laws for levying Church-rates, as shall prevent the recurrence of a like violence being ever again in flicted upon the religious scruples of that portion of her MAJESTY'S subjects who conscientiously dissent from the rites or doctrines of the Established Church." The refusal of the Royal Academy to supply the House with some returns, was brought under the notice of the House by Mr. HUME, who moved that the order be enforced. Sir ROBERT INGLIS moved that it be rescinded. As many Members are admirers of the arts, the subject gave rise to a considerable debate which we shall probably notice on a future opportunity. Mr. HUME'S motion was lost on a division by 38 to 33. The House adjourned at a Quarter before Two o'Clock. Two very useful disclosures of the partisan con dition of the Magistracy have just been made, the first by Mr. PARKES of the Magistracy of War wickshire, the other by an unknown hand of the Alagistracy of the Isle of Wight. We hope to find room speedily for Mr. PARKES' excellent let ter and excellent exposure of the Earl of WAR WICK ; at present we mean only to refer to the two cases as an indication of the state of the Magis tracy generally throughout the country. " On inspection of the commission" says Mr. Parkes" "(and the county has to thank you (the Earl of Warwick) for public attention being called to it through your gra tuitous abuse of me), I see that including 15 Noblemen, 6 Honourables, and 14 Baronets, you have, in gross 157 lay Magistrates. In this number I find 49 Liberals only, many of the latter as non-residents not acting 1 Now to your clerical portion of Parson Justices. Few counties can compete with you in number or proportion of clerical Magistrates. Sixty Vicars, Rectors, and Curates, are in the Commission, forming upwards of a fourth of the entire county Magistracy I With a good knowledge of the county and the help of local friends, we find that in the 60 priests you have but five Liberals 1" _ _ The Magistrates of the Isle of Wight amount to twenty-seven, and of these twenty-one are Tories and six only are Liberals. Amongst the Tories there are four parsons. In the Isle of Wight the principal part of the property is in the hands of Liberals, which makes the preponderance of Tories in the Magistracy more remarkable. Now, in the great majority of the counties of England, the Magistracy, as in Warwick, and as in the Isle of Wight, is composed of Tories and Parsons. Some of our Contemporaries make an outcry at this. We consider it perfectly natural. It is what we should expect. It is, in fact, what the Liberal public demands. Never is there a vacancy in a Lord-Lieutenancy or in any public office, but the whole of the Liberal press demands that it be bestowed on a Liberal ; and if the Ministry bestow it on a Tory or a Doubtful, the whole Liberal press falls foul of the Ministry, as if they had committed a crime. Now, this is exactly what the Tories did during the many years they were in office, and the consequence is, that the Magistracy and the Lord-Lieutenancy, and the Episcopacy, and the Church generally, are all crammed with Tories. Their policy the Whigs are now required by their partizans to imitate, and between both, as each gets the ascendancy, all the offices in Church and State will be filled with gentlemen whose chief merit is that they are Whigs or Tories. The principle on which they are placed in office will naturally guide their actions, and justice will be administered, and the State governed, with a view to secure the ascendancy of Whigs or To ries. With all deference to our Liberal Contempo raries, we cannot approve of that, and by the same rule that we condemn the Tories, we cannot hold the Whigs to be innocent if they follow their example. And how is it to be avoided ? We know not, for our boasted Constitution is a Government by alternate factions ; and while each will allow the people to assail the other, the utmost extremity of care is taken that we shall not assail the principles by which each alternately triumphs. While this evil cannot be remedied, we admit the propriety of jealously guarding the Constitution from invasion and encroachment, for those who are kept out of its pale will not have their veneration for it increased by the character which it receives from the mutual attacks of each party. Lord JOHN RU S SELL, we are bound to state, seems to have a far greater spirit of impartiality than any of his predecessors. Nobody ever heard of a Whig being admitted either into the Magis tracy or into any office during the palmy days of Tory rule ; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes to create a rural constabulary, to be wholly placed in the hands of the Tory Magistrates. The majority of the Magistrates are Tories ; in the hands of the Magistrates he proposes to place the power of forming a rural police to any extent they please ; he proposes to give them the power of taxing the people to maintain it; and if he had devised a scheme purposely to increase and consolidate the power of the Tories, he could have discovered nothing so admirable as this scheme of a rural constabulary, formed and organised at the discretion of the Tory Magistracy. We trust, however, notwithstanding the advocacy which his scheme finds from some, so called, Liberal journals, and s o - ca ll e d Liberal Mem bers of Parliament, that it will, for this Session at least be defeated or given up. What title the Magistracy have to any increase of power we cannot understand. What they possessed under the old Poor-law they abused to the ruin of the people. To take the poor out of their hands was one object of the new Poor law. Their unjust execution of unjust Game-laws demoralised whole districts. When outrages oc curred, scarcely any of them were found to do their duty ; and the Parson and Tory Magistracy of Kent, in 1830, allowed the county to be traversed by bands of discontented men, unresisted. One of them, indeed, displayed, we remember, a remark able degree of vigour in 1838, not in instructing his flock when Timm appeared, but in sending the troops against some poor enthusiasts. The great hulk of the unpaid Magistrates are equally ineffi cient and unjust ; they are the avowed tyrants and enemies of the labouring classes ; and to add to their present power, that of organizing and control ing a rural police, is to perpetuate and extend a system against which the Liberal press and the Liberal party have disclaimed ever since we can remember. Shade of BENTHAM ! what say you to a proposition for increasing the power of the unpaid irresponsible Tory Justices I The debate in the House of Commons on Mon day night must have convi nce d our readers that our view of the Birmingham Police Bill was not erro neous. We objected to that measure, that parties were so much exasperated against each other in Bir mingham, that now to appoint a police would expose that force, which is so useful when duly organised for the repression of crime, to the animosity of both Tories and Chartists. And what trans pired in the House of Commons on Monday ? Why, Sir ROBERT PEEL insisted so much on the present exasperat e d s t a t e o f p o l i tical feeling in Birmingham, that Lord JoHN RUSSELL would not on Monday evening proceed with the Bill, and kept it back that he may limit its duration, and place the police force under the control of the Home Office. Would it not therefore have been better not to have brought forward the measure, as we contended from the first, and to have provided for the temporary security of Birmingham, by swearing in a great number of special constables—as has been done at Newcastle as well as at Carlisle —and maintaining a small military force in the town ? Le g i s l at i on on the spur of the moment, which can only represent the passion of the moment, must be injurious ; and no doubt Lord J. RUSSELL now langins to regret If there be anything established in the practice of Parlia ment, more particularly of late years, it is that grants of this kind should be made in the House of Commons ; that they should be carried, by address, to the foot of the throne : and that they should be administered on the respon sibility of Ministers. It has been said, that the first grant of 20,0001. for the purposes of education was a new principle. Indeed ! Then how did it happen that the Right Rev. Prelate did not object to its being made ? Have any of your Lordships ventured to dispute the right of the House of Commonsto come originally to such a grant ? No, not one. Year after year has this grant of 20,0001. been voted—year after year it has been voted without any objection having been taken to it; and yet your Lordships are now to be told that the present grant is a novel proceeding, by which the House of Commons seeks to put aside the constitutional privileges of this House. The Right Rev. Prelate may perhaps say, that there are particular circumstances connected with this grant which distinguish it from all other cases. Now, I contend that there is not in the grant even the appearance of anything like a proposition to withdraw anything from the Church. There is, therefore, no special case which renders it necessary for the House of Com mons to proceed by Bill instead of resolution, and to send up that Bill for the approbation of your Lordships. I might re mind you that there are numerous precedents of high authority to justify the course now pursued. In the year 1829 the House of Commons came to a vote, by which all the grants pre viously made to the Bishops of Ireland for the administration of charter schools in that country in connexion wi'h the Church were placed at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant for the time being, and were to be applied generally, without distinction of sects, for the purposes of education. Was that so or was it not ? If it were so, and it would be difficult to deny it, they were guilty of an attempt to delude and to deceive your Lordships, who said, that it was a novel mode of proceeding, and without precedent, to act upon a grant upon which your Lordships had no means of pronouncing an opinion. There are, however, cases of grants which go far beyond the grants to which I have just referred. There was a special authority for making such grants in the last Charter of the East India Com pany, not objected toat the time. There were grants for our colonies in America, for our West Indian islands, and for our settlements in New Holland —all made upon the express un derstanding, that a portion of the funds so created should be allotted to the Dissenters, and that a system of joint education should be adopted for Churchmen and ,'dissenters indifferently. Your Lordships will find on your Table a very able dispatch from sir J. Franklin, the G overnor of Vat.- Diemen's Land, detailing the difficulties which he has met with -4 4. e which h h e has overcome,in carrying a j o i n t system ofeducation. for Chu.. • men and Dissenters into effect in that colony, and stating the very beneficial results which he has every hope of deriving from . it. lam sure, that it will not be said by any of your Lordships, that this has taken place in a distant colony, inhabited by convicts, Of the families and cOnipanions of conniets, for whom any mode Of itistrttction is indifferent. But where and how had this eon.: Vitt population arisen ? Wcatld to Ciod that tlidse persont had beeii instructed as they ought to have been in this country, and then, in all probability, they would not have become forced residents in that penal colony ! Who will venture to say, that if schools for general, moral, and religious instruction had been esta blished in Manchesteri in Litteptiol, iti fluty, in Salrotd4 in Birmingham, and In our other large commercial and manufactur ing towns, the great feeders of our penal colonies ; and that if the population of those districts had been trained in those schools in good moral and religious principles, no matter whe ther those principles were those of the Church of England, or of some sect dissenting from it—who, I ask, will venture to say that many of the convicts now in New Holland, and several from the parent land, might not have escaped from their pre sent cruel fate ? Again, in the East India Company's Charter there has been a particul ar provision inserted for the purpose of enabling a joint education to be given to the children of various Christian Churches. Let me not, then, be told that it is an unalterable principle of Parliament to exclude all sects of Dis senters from instruction, either general or special, and that its grants are solely devoted to the education of children in the principles and doctrines of the Established Church. The system of inspection which the new plan provides, gave great offence to its clerical oppo nents. They felt that there was nothing in the plan of education which they have adopted in what they call their " National Schools," that could stand the test of examination. They knew that the funds had been misapplied, and in order, therefore, to get rid of those officious persons who " pry into abuses," they raised a cry that these inspectors were to be appointed for the purpose of interfering with the religious instruction given in the schools, whereas no one entertained the most distant thought of such a thing. Lord LANSDOWNE'S observa tions on this subject will, we are sure, meet the ap probation of all right-thinking persons : Of this plan no part was, in my opinion, more unexception able than this wise provision of inspectors. I appeal to the experience of those Noble Lords who sat upon the Committee of Inquiry into the state of Education in Ireland, of which Committee I had the honour of being Chairman—l appeal to the experience of those Noble Lords, whether they were not met at every step of their inquiry by evidence showing that some inspection of those schools, on behalf of the public, was absolutely indispensable to their success as a means of promoting education? I have the authority of the Secre tary of the National Society, and also if the Secretary of the British and Foreign Society, both men of great sagacity and experience in education, both of whom stated that the inspec tion of the schools is at the root of all good. I could carry your Lordships through a long detal of the present state of the schools in different parts of the country, and could show in what a wretched condition many of them are, owing to the want of this inspection. I have by me the notes of a member of the Church of England, a gentleman filling, too, an important and responsible public situation, who, from motives of benevolence, has visited many of the National Schools not distant from London. His notes prove, that in some of those schools, the state of educa tion, though perfect in form, is so deficient in substance, that though all the children can repeat the Catechism by rote, not one of them knows or can give any meaning whatever to the words contained in it, including those most significant of the religious tenets and distinctions to which so much importance is attached. _ . I must also state that, it has come to my knowledge, that, in some instances, the Treasury grant has been misapplied, and has been directed to very different objects from those which were originally intended. But the Most Rev. Prelate seems to apprehend that there is lurking, under this proposition of in spectors to see the regulations properly enforced, an intention to interfere with the ecclesiastical instruction of the children. Will the Most Rev. Prelate believe me when I a•sure him that it has never entered into the mind of any one Member of her Majesty's Government that the inspection should be used for the purpose of interfering directly or indirectly with religious in struction. But what it is proposed, and what it is most important to effect, is, that the inspection shall be applied to the in troduction of these improvements which even in secular edu cation may be effected, and those admirable arrangements which your Lordships may witness at the school in Norwood, established by the Poor-law Commissioners ; arrangements not bearing upon the question of religion, but bearing upon that which is of equal importance—the training the children in habits of order, cleanliness, discipline, and industry, which might form a part of a general system of education without interfer ing with these high truths, which it is the duty and the privi lege of the Church to inculcate. We have pleasure in learning from the French jour• . nals, that the calendar of Republican guilt for this year will not indicate to posterity the anniversary of the " three glorious days." No conspiracy, emeute, tumult, or individual atrocity aiming at the overthrow of the Government, saddened the felicitations of the Citizens, or filled with dread apprehensions the members of the Royal family ; and yet the Royal closet is.not the abode of tranquillity ! The Peers, who resent as an insult offered to them the pardon of BARBES, do not allow the KING to rest day nor night, for having refused them the head of that brave, but misguided fanatic. The National Guards, too, are furious that the brave man who ex posed their cowardice and incapacity, should not be made a spectacle to glut their dastardly spirit of revenge, and, of course, their no less gallant officers co operate with the discontented Peers. in embittering the KING'S repose, by representing on all occasions that the loyalty of the Guards is much shaken by the pardon extended to the author of a revolt in which their blood was shed. Now this is really monstrous. These men, who affect to be the very pillars of the Throne, would employ the Royal prerogative exclusively for the grati fication of their appetite for blood and plunder, in order to perpetuate a system which enables them, in a great measure, to live at the expense of their fellow-citizens. The majority of the Peers of France are little better than state paupers. They have no claims as a public body upon the respect or the confidence of their country. They are, for the most part, either soldiers of fortune, who transferred their allegiance with their swords to the chief uppermost for the time being—worshippers in turn at the altars of Democracy, Imperialism, and a char tered commixture of all three ; or they are hack poli ticians, worn-out diplomatists, versed only in State knavery ; or Government officials, all depending upon the Royal Treasury for the means of supporting their meretricious dignity. There are exceptions to be sure, and illustrious ones too ; but they are so few in number, and appear to exercise so little influence, that we may pass them over, without exposing ourselves to a charge of unfairness. The Peers of France do not represent a class of society imbued with permanent instincts and interests ; they are but a knot of individuals, dissimilar in origin, in associations, in recollections, pursuits, and every thing but the desire to maintain a position neces sary to the subsistence of some, the personal safety of others, and individual consequence of nearly all. They are sensible that the people regard them with a feeling more dangerous than that of indifference, and, there fore, they seek to cast the odium of their own acts—of acts purposely designed to crush a popular movement which threatens to destroy the abuses by which they are upheld—on the KING. The costume of the Na tional Guards purchases exemptions from certain taxes which press heavily on the labouring classes, and hence the efforts of this body to prevent all communication between the KING and the disaffected, other than those recognised between the tyrant and the slave. Now that these facts have come to light, we think that it is the duty of the Liberals throughout France to adopt measures for silencing the ferocious clamours of the Chamber of Peers and the officers of the National Guards. For this purpose addresses ought to be got up in all the large towns, thanking the KING for his firmness in resisting the clamours of his Cabinet and of the Court of Peers, for the execution of BARnES, and pointing to the peace of the capital during the celebra tion of thefetes of July as incontestible evidence of the wisdom, no less than the humanity, of his MAJESTY'S conduct on that occasion. Such addresses would convey the popular voice in language not to be mistaken to the foot of the Throne, and would not fail to influence the future conduct of the Court in seasons of perhaps equal emergency. Of domestic news we find very little in the Paris journals of Monday. A letter from Toulon contains the following notification : " By a telegraphic dispatch of the morning of the 24th, the Minister of the Marine has ordered the Admiral Pre fect to get ready for sea the Algiers and the Marengo, which have been now two years constructing. " The three vessels which are in the harbour—the Montebello, the Diadem, and the Santi-Petri—receive every day levies of marines to complete their crews, and are to leave Toulon in a very short time to go to the Levant. " The corvette Victorieuse sails to announce this re inforcement. The Nestor has been dismasted in order that its masts may be put into the Marengo. There is great movement in the harbour on account of these hasty armaments. " The frigate Thetis will soon be ready." We have no additional news that can be relied upon as correct from the East. One letter from Alex andria states that MEHEMET Au was so puffed up with his late victory, that he was hesitating whether to refuse or not the Regency of the Ottoman Em pire. Such statements are deserving of very little at tention. The Moniteur Algerien of July 20 gives an account of a sort of terror which has seized the European inhabitants of the Mitidja. Some musket shots were exchanged in consequence of a mistake between a patrol of native ca valry and some Europeans settled at Ben Yoruef, and the appearance at different points of three Hadjout brigands, who have been every where driven off, had spread alarm even in Algiers. The arrival of forty Moivers, who came to have their accounts, even gave rise to the report of the evacuation of the plain by the Europeans. These alarms were soon dispelled. The measures taken by the inhabitants here have restored tranquility. The Messager of this evening (the 28th) says, that the operations of which we spoke yesterday between several banking houses of Paris and the Bank of France, to pro cure fifty millions in cash from the Bank of England, on the deposit of two millions stirling in Exchequer bills, is definitely concluded. Courrier Francais. TORTONI'S HALF-PAST TWELVE, MONDAY. -- yes_ terday there was little doing here, to-day there is still less, in fact, nothing, the post closing so early hardly a soul has shown himself; to-morrow affairs will take their ordinary course, and the fetes of July be forgotten for another year. Papers, The subjoined extract from the Hamburg received this morning, contains the latest intelligence received from Hanover. It is of considerable interest. The contest betwixt King ERNEST and his subjects is evidently very far from being at an end. The presenta tion of addresses to M. RUHMAN, a functionary under the barn of Royal displeasure, is a revolutionary novelty THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1839. that he listened to the representations ok the Bir mingham Magistrates. We are much pleased to see that the admirable speech delivered by the Marquis of LANs DoWNE, in the House of Lords, on the subject of national educa;• tion, has been printed in a separate form, and pub lished by RIDGWAY. This is an honour which few speeches—Jew late ones, at least,—better de serve. Not only is the subject itself important, but the views of the Government had been so stu diously and grossly misrepresented by designing men, actuated by the worst of motives, that the public mind had become greatly perplexed as to the real merits of the question at issue between the advocates and the opponents of education. The fac tious motion which the Archbishop of CANTER BURY was—we believe much against his will-- induced by a mitred brother, who is as far his inferior in every quality that constitutes the Chris tian character, as he is his superior in what is called ,worldly wisdom, to bring forward for an address to the Throne to stop further proceedings on the education vote, afforded the President of the Council an excellent opportunity to set public opinion at rest on this much agitated topic. Of this opportunity he availed himself so well that he scattered to the winds the objections which had been made to the Government plan, by showing that they were founded on mistaken or dis torted conceptions of the plan, and on mis ' representations of the objects of those who had framed it. Nothing in short could be more complete' than the discomfiture which the Noble Marquis gave to the hopes of the factions, by his clear development and able defence of the principles on which the Government had acted in this matter. It is not, however, in the nature of faction to rest from its labours, although it may have been overthrown by the weapons of reason and truth. It returns to the charge armed with all its old instru ments of falsehood and chicane, re•asserts with un blushing impudence what has been again and again confuted, and basely persists in perverting state ments which it dares not openly attack. Such has been the course pursued by some of the Tory Jour nals with respect to the education question. The Morning Post and the Herald have been particularly active in this part of their vocation of late, and as the speech before us furnishes a complete answer to all their petty cavillings, we shall make a few extracts from it for their especial benefit. One of the objections conjured up against the Government plan is, the usurpation of which the Privy Council has been guilty in taking upon itself the regulation of all matters affecting the education of the people. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE having shown how far this country is behind most of the Continental States in regard to popular education, and alluded to the effects of this inattention to the instruction of the people, as exemplified in the conduct of the followers of the madman THorr—in the immediate neighbourhood, be it remembered, of the oldest and amplest establishment for religious instruction in the kingdom, where, it might be supposed, from the number of holy men maintained solely for disseminating the Gospel, the very air would possess a religious influence —pro ceeds to combat this objection in the following manner : I come now to consider the manner in which the authority of the State should be exerted in furtherance of education, and this brings me to the particular consideration of the motion of the Most Rev. Prelate, in reference to the Order in Council which has been laid on the Table, and which has excited so much animadversion. I feel, in adverting to the objections which have been made to that document, with great respect to the Most Rev. Prelate, that I must borrow the aid of the Most Rev. Prelate's magnifying glass to be able to handle them, and to discern with any plainness the grounds on which they rest. In the first place I must say, that the Most Rev. Prelate's mo tion, though professing to be drawn from the document on the Table, and to be a recital of facts, is, unintentionally, no doubt, on the Most Rev. Prelate's part, as incorrect statement of the facts. In the second resolution their Lordships are invited to declare " That it appears, from the documents last mentioned, that a Committee of Council has been appointed, consisting exclusively of Members of her Majesty's Government, for the purpose of considering all matters affecting the education of the people, and of superi n t en di ng t h e app l icat i on of any sums which may be voted by Parliament for that purpose." Now where, I ask, does the Most Rev. Prelate find this in formation? It is not in the Order in Council. I will tell the Most Rev. Prelate where he has found the latter part of his resolution, or rather where it has been found for him, for 1 am sure that the candour which always marks the Most Rev. Prelate's conduct would not have allowed him to insert the words if he had found them himself. They were contained in a letter of Lord John Russell's, and have been trans ferred from that letter to the Order in Council, which the Most Rev. Prelate affirmed to be the Order appointing the Commit tee. The words are not to be found in the Order in Council, , but in a letter written long before the Order was made ; and in the interim, when the pr o p r i e t y o f appo i nt i ng the Committee of her Majesty's Ministers came to be considered, it struck me that the words were of too vague a character, liable to be mis interpreted, and involving the Committee in a scope of action too wide for such a body. The advice 1 had the honour of giving to her Majesty on this occasion was, to confine the func tions of the Committee to superintending the distribution of the grants made by Parliament. Those words, therefore, " all matters affecting the education of the people," were purpoiely omitted in the Order. Is it then fair, is it just, for the sake of raising an argument against the Order in Council, to ascribe to it a proposition, which not only does not form a part of it, but which has carefully and scrupulously been excluded from it. Confining the Order in Council to that which it really contains, I would ask the Most Rev. Prelate candidly to declare to me, what difference there is between the appointment of three or four of her Majesty's responsible servants, including the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, to superintend the distribution of the money voted by the other House, and the leaving the distributon Of that money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer alone ? lam ready to admit, that if a Board had been established by Act of Parliament to take into consideration the whole subject of education, one of the first things would have been to place one or more of the Right Reverend Bench upon that Board. But, at the same time, it cannot escape your Lordships' atten tion, and the attention of the Right Reverend Bench, that the moment that was done—the money that was voted for the pur pose of education, being the money of the whole nation—being the money of the three millions, or four millions, of persons who are separated from the Church, as well as the money of the members of the Establishment--the moment that was done—the moment that one of the Right Reverend Bench was placed upon the Board, a claim would immediately arise to place some Dissenter upon it also. Does the Most Reverend Prelate think that this would have advanced the cause of education— does he think, that it would not have given rise to many differ ence! and to great difficulties ? The Crown pursued a different course. Instead of leaving the duty to one Minister, assisted by a secretary, and one or two clerks, it is now intrusted to two or more responsible Ministers of the Crown. These Ministers, I need not say, are annually accountable to Parliament, and it in any one instance the public money is proved to have been misapplied, it will be easy for Parliament to rescind the resolu tion of the Committee of Council. Anything like a permanent settlement of everything connected with a question like the pre sent I have not yet seen attempted either in this or in the other House of Parliament. When I state that it would be an at tempt made in a case delicate in the extreme, surrounded b) difficulties on every side imposed upon the Government and the public with a full sense of all the obstacles which political and re ligious feeling would oppose to their progress, I think that I have said enough to show that a permanent settlement is at present quite out of the question; and if there be anything more than another to recommend the present arrangement, it is this, that it is of a temporary nature, that it can be modified at pleasure, that it can be revised at any moment, and that it can be enlarg ed on any future occasion if it shall be found to work well for the benefit and improvement of the people. So much for the objection against this plan, founded on the fact that a temporary Committee of the Privy Council is to distribute the funds granted by Parliament. The point upon which the Tory Journalists have particularly exercised their snarling propensities, is the unconstitutional nature, forsooth, of the educa tion grant. "Itis a thing altogether without pre cedent, as well as quite contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution," yelp out these sagacious bipeds, " that the House of Commons should take such a step as this without the concurrence of the Lords." Hear how triumphantly this point is dis posed of in the speech : __ in the political history not only of Hanover, but of most German States : HANOVER, JULY 22.—The city is perfectly tranquil. The last disorder was on Saturday evening - . A report that artillery would b e b roug ht ou t and loaded with grape-shot, had attracted some persons to the vicinity of the guard of the Palace, where the cannon, it was said, were already planted (which was not the case). The gendarmes distri buted some blows among the noisy young vagabonds in the streets, which they very well deserved, and arrested some of the 'frost refractory. The King himself, with his suite, was at half-past nine in the evening in a corner of a street near the Palace, where he witnessed the conduct of the police, and convinced himself that no citizens were con cerned in this disorder. Yesterday being Sunday, it was apprehended there might be a greater crowd round the guard-house, and M. Evers, the Syndic, went to the spot in person. The people listened to his exhortation, and all went home, so that by ten o'clock the streets were cleared. The ultra party seems evidently unprepared for the turn which matters have taken, and for the King's yielding. They rather expected that the magistrates would resist them, that the citizens would interfere, and so soon find their way to the King. The magistrates themselves have now allayed the fermentation among the citizens and re frained from all acts of disobedience. Numerous detach ments of cavalry and artillery will arrive on the 30th, in the environs of the Capital. It is said that unpleasant ac counts have been received by the Cabinet from the Pro vinces. It is feared that arrests will follow. The magis trates have not yet received any answer to their petition for the reinstatement of Ruhman. The events in Hanover aro said in letters from the Provinces to have caused a great sensation. An address of thanks to Ruhman, has been agreed to at Osnabruck, and similar addresses from other towns are spoken of. HANOVER, 24T11 JULY—The King's long expected an swer to the two petitions for the reinstatement of Ruhman has not yet been received. It is not impossible that an answer of the King declining to comply with the petitions may be received today, in which ease Ruhman's suspension will continue. STOCKHOLM, 16TH JULY—It is stated in some (not offi• cial prints), that a commission consisting of Swedish and Norwegian members is appointed to draw up proposals for the regulation of certain papers relative to the union of Sweden and Norway. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JULY 26. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents Bank shares 1517 1513 An 10-Russian Loan 1117% 107% Russim S per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lo2li 10 - . - iN Russian 5 per Cent. Hop and Lo. 3d and 4th Se. i s Ditto in Certificates - 97% 97j-i Dutch : , .ctual Debt, 2 pe Cent 54 Ditto 5 per Cent lOl Polish Bond, New ticket Anglo- oanish Loan, 3 per Cent 71% 71 1 4 Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent....... 10l!i EXCHANGES 0%; LONDON. HAMBURG, JULY *26.-13. 51,—Two months, 13. 3%. PCTF:RSBURGH ' JULY f9._ 11 11-32. CHRISTIANIA, JUNE 17.—Three months, 4. 116. STOCKHOLM, JULY 19.—S,venty-five days, 11. Nil. BERLIN, JULY 23. —Three months, 6. 2114. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck ingham Palace. Prince Mavrocordato, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary from the King of Greece, had an audience of the Queen to deliver his credentials. Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister, had an audience of her Majesty to take leave for a short time. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Vis count Palmerston, G. C. 8., Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Torrington, Lord in waiting, Mr. Rich, Groom in waiting, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, (Clerk Marshal) Equerry in waiting. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Braganza, yesterday, at Mivart's Hotel ; her Imperial Majesty returned with the Royal Duchess to Buckingham Palace, and visited the Queen. . Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence last evening. The Royal suite included the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Paget, Viscount Torrington, Mr. Rich, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. . _ Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of Hohenlohe and the Hon. Miss Eden, arrived at Marlborough House at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Bushy Park. Her Imperial Majesty, the Duchess of Braganza, attended by Lord Lilford, visited her Majesty in the afternoon at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, paid a visit to the Queen Dowager on Monday, at her residence in Bushy Park. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the Earl and Countess of Mansfield with their company yesterday afternoon, at their residence at Caen Wood. A deputation, consisting of Lord Eliot, Sir R. Rolfe, Mr. Freshfield, A. Fox, Esq., Captain F. Rogers, R. N., and Mr. W. H. Bond. R.N., had an interview with Vis count Melbourne, yesterday in Downing-street. A deputation from the Licensed Victuallers of the me tropolis and the country, beaded by Lord Viscount San don, M.P., Mr. Clay, M.P., Mr. Hawes, M. P., Mr. Mark Phillips, M. P.. and Sir S. Lushington, M. P., and consisting of Mr. Coates, Mr. Reader, Mr. Walter, Mr. nibble, Mr. Bryden, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Vousley, Mr. Clayton, Mr. Hook, Mr. Rockley, Mr. Wire, Mr. Blake, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Oates had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday in Downing-street. Mr. Wallace had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home-office. The Grecian Minister and the French Charge d'Affaires transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Lynch, 31. P., had an interview yesterday with Vis count Melbourne. THAMES ROYAL YACHT CLUB. The annual above-bridge match of this most celebrated Club, which enjoys the distinguished honour of being pa tronised by her Majesty, and of which Admiral Sir T. Hardy is the Vice-President, came of yesterday, with, we regret to say, less eclat than any of its preceding ones. There was barely wind enough to try the sailing merits of the yachts, and the weather was anything but favourable to the attendance of company, the rain descending heavily during the whole of the time the yachts were competing. The following had been entered Name. Tons. Owners. Colours. Haidee ... 7 ... N. Pegg, Esq .Blue and white Keppel 9 ... B. Holt, Esq .Blue, with white diamond Arrow ... 7 ... K. Frankham, Esq... Blue, with white arrow Sylphide 9 ... H. T. Fowler, Esq... White, with red cross Caroline 10 ... D. Ramsay, Esq Blue, with white ball. The withdrawal of the Arrow and the Haidec necessarily diminished the sporting interest, leaving the Keppel the decided favourite. At four o'clock the signal was given, and the boats canted round in style. The Sylphide was first under way, and led the van, the Keppel was a goof second, the Caro line bringing up the rear; and in this order they passed through Waterloo-bridge, where immediately afterwards the Keppel, who had come up, passed her leading anta gonist to windward, and from this moment she never lost her first place. In turning over the slack against the dead water, coming down, the Sylphide overhauled her oppo nent, and took the lead ; but off the distillery at Wands worth she carried away her mast, and of course gave up. The Keppel went down to Temple Gardena a winner by eleven minutes. _ _ _ ---- ..... ------ The contest was for a very handsome gold cup, which was afterwards presented at the British Coffee-house. ACCIDENTS.-Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, a coal waggon belonging to Messrs. Champness, of Waterloo-wharf, Strand, had delivered part of a load of coals in Little Tothill-street, Westminster, which is very narrow, and is not a thoroughfare ; when; th e carman, in): stead of backing the waggon for a few paces, endeavoured to turn it round; the consequence was that the wheels caught against the curb-stone, the waggon was overturned, and it as well as the coals, about twelve or twenty sacks, were thrown with great force upon the shaft horse, who was literally buried under them. When he was released it was found he was dreadfully hurt, some of his legs being broken. The animal groaned piteously for upwards of an hour before directions were given to kill him. It is very fortunate that in such a crowded neighbourhood no other accident happened in consequence of what appears to have been the carelessness of the carman. On Tuesday morn ing, about half-past eight o'clock, three men, who were employed on a new building which is erecting at the corner of North Wellington-street and Exeter-street, Strand,'on their return from brealscast, had just ascended the scaffold to work when one of the putlogs gave way and they were precipitated to the ground. One of them received injuries so severe that there is no hope of his recovery ; another had one of his eyes knocked out by falling on a sharp cornered stone ; and the third had his arm broken. They were immediately taken to Charing-cross Hospital. NELSON PILLAR.—The Sub-Committee, ap pointed to superintend the erection of this national tribute, met on Thursday last for the purpose of accelerating the object they have in view. There were present the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Cockburne, Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. John Wilson Croker, and Mr. C. Wood, MP. The Lords of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have assigned Trafalgar-square to the Committee as the site, and the place selected for the pillar is that now enclosed on the south boundary of the square, as being the centre of the whole space from the National Gallery to Charing-cross. Mr. Railton, the architect, reported favourably of the foun dation. It is understood that the Committee at this meet ing determined to proceed with the erection of the pillar and statue, which have been assigned to Mr. Bailey, with the funds at present in hand, amounting to 17,000/. The execution of the four lions at the corners of the plinth has been confined to Mr. Lough, but it is feared that the nar row state of the funds will render the postponement of the completion of this commission necessary. It is also in. tended to give the bass-reliefs on the four faces of the plinth to other sculptors, but these, like the lions, must de pend on the funds at the disposal of the Committee. It is difficult to suppose that almost the only national tribute to our greatest naval hero will be suffered to languish for want of money. The two statues to the military hero of the age have already secured 40,0001., and it will only be necessary for the public to be made aware of the necessity which exists for additional contributions, to obviate the difficulty in a manner, and with a promptitude, alike ho nourable to the spirit of the metropolis and the national honour. METROPOLIS CHURCHES FUND.—On Sunday morning at the parish church of St. Dunstan's, Fleet-street a sermon was preached by the Rev. Robert Montgomery, author of " The Omnipresence of the Deity," in aid of the fund for building fifty churches in the eutparishes of the metropolis. The Rev. Gentleman preached again in the evening in support of the same fund. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Small supplies of English Corn, but a good quantity of Foreign Wheat, which goes to bond. The price of Wheat has advanced 25., at which some business has been transacted. Other Grain without, alteration. For ship parcels of Flour higher prices were asked. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English ..... 1, , 50 31 qrs. 210 irs. 2,260 acks _ Irish Foreign, 20,740 3,2b0 24,44:0 - bris. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. A moderate supply, and prices looked upwards. Beef, 3s. 2s. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. 10d. to 4s. Bd. ; Irish. 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d. A large supply of poultry, and trade was good, prices steady. Geese, 4s. Gd. to 6s. tid. ; Chickens, Is. Gd. to 2s. 6d, ; Leverets, 2s. Gd. to ss. ; Fowl:, 3s. to ss. 6d. ; Ducks, 2s. to 3s. ; Pigeons, 4d. to Bd. ; Rabbits, 6d. to Is. ; Quails, Is. to Is. 6d. ; and Turkey Poults, 4s. to 6s. CITY FISH MARKE. Supplies good, and so was the demand, prices steady. Tur bot, 55. to 18s. ; Good Salmon, Is, to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Lob ster,, 10d. to 3s. ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; and Haddocks, 81 ,0 Is. LLOYD'S . SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Jutv 30.—Wind E.—Arrived the General Hewitt, Sellers, from Quebec. Sailed the Mary, Mac auley, for Sydney ; Lady Faversham, Webster, Bombay ; Ceylon, Cox, Honduras; Francis, Hunt, Montreal; Ex press, Nlann, Miramichi and Guiseppe, Palermo. Put back the Dryade, for London, and Diadem, and since sailed again. LIVERPOOL, JULY 30.—Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the Belvidere, M'Cawn, from Charleston ; ar.d Broom, Que bec. Sailed the Hibernia, Cobb, for New York ; Geor giana, Parsons, ditto ; Token, Pattison, Quebec ; Re becca, Drake, St. John's, New Brunswick ; John Porter, Crowder, Halifax ; James, Ford, Labrador; and Nais, Gething, Newfoundland. Off port the Gunga, from Mau tius ; Denmark, Charleston ; Vesper, Montreal ; Robert son, ditto; and Queen, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JULT 30.—Wind S. E.—Arrived and sailed the British Tar, Fraser, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, JULY 29. —Wind S. W., strong,—Arrived the Ruby, Cook, from St. Domingo. FALMOUTH, JULY 29.—Wind S. to W. S. W., strong gales and squally. DOVER, JULY 30.—Arrived off port the Catharina, Sundman, from Bahia. BEACIIY HEAD, JULY 25.—Off port the Jules, Sheri_ dan, from Tabasco. SOL THAMPTON, JULY 30.—Arrived the Triton, Rattnn, from Memel. COWES, JULY 30.—Sailed the Johan, Micff, Batavia. SALCOMBE, JULY 29.—Sailed the Dispatch, Adams, for Algiers. PENZANCE, JULY 29.—Sailed the Honour, Christmas, for Smyrna. It has blown a very heavy gale all day at south-west. - - BRISTOL, JULY 30.-Arrived the Idas, Potts, from Tri nidad ; Emily, Coather, St. Vincent ; and Eleanor, Rees Barbadoes. GLOUCESTER, JULY 30. Arrived the Convention, Memel. FISHOUARD, JULY `39.—Arrived the Triton, Arrowsmith, from Quebec. DUBLIN, JULY 29.—Sailed the Escort, Minto, for Que bec, and George and Henry, Ross, for Cadiz. CORK, JULY 28.—Sailed the Thomas Harford, Veale, for St. Andrew, N. B. LEIT►c, JULY 29.—Arrived the Gloire, Moller, from Dantzic; Apollo, Daws, ditto; Integrity, Jamieson, Windau. SHIELDS, JULY 28.—Arrived the Britannia, Oliver, from ; Anna, Egus, Copenhagen ; Antelope, Paul, Quebec; Richard and Ann, ditto ; Charlotte Wilhelmina, Volsch, Pillau ; Liebe, Brown, Lubec; Tagus, Sinclair, Dantzic. SUNDERLAND, JULY 29.—Arrived Navarino, Dantzic. YARMOUTH, JULY 30.—Arrived the Spring, Clare, from Archangel ; Sella, Graham, Riga. MONEY AND COMMEI{CIALNEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning—French mail ; Ship letters from Jamaica, Africa, Bombay, 16th March, old dates. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JULY 30.—" We have no change to note in our Cotton Market; the sales to-day are 2,500 bags, to the trade. The Hamburg mail has arrived, bringing the Exchange on London 13 ; Gold 433 ; Metalliques 100 ; Bank Shares 1,513. The Governor of Guadaloupe has decreed that from the date of the 29th of May, and until otherwise ordered, the sugar of Guadaloupe and its dependencies may be exported from the open ports of that colony by every flag and for every destination. The last accounts from Martinique, represent the' crops as suffering from the effects of a long spell of dry weather, so that the prospects of the next crops were of a gloomy character. THE FUNDS. There is a report in the city that the negotiation for the fifty millions of francs, to be imported into this country in gold, by the Bank of France, is not entirely broken off, and that the Bank Directors have some hopes of accom plishing their object. This operation cannot be done openly by the Bank of France, as it is against their charter, but may be executed by the capitalists of Paris. The Bank of France remains neuter in the transaction. Small profits will not be refused in the present times. The dullness of the weather and the great dearth of in telligence this morning, owing to the very few arrivals, damps the spirit for speculations in the various funds. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92u-' I for the Account, opened this morning at 92,-i; Money, 91,:i 92; Exchequer Bills, 11 13. In India Bonds nothing doing as yet. Bank Stock, 186 187 ; India Stock, 2521 253/. This Is settling day in the Foreign Market, which, ac cording to information, we have no doubt will be easily adjusted, as it is not of an extensive description. The chief business doing at present is arranging the various differences, as paying and receiving the balances. The prices are nominal, and may be quoted as they closed—Spanish Active, 19,1; Portuguese 32i-; Three per Cents., 26 ; Brazilian, 78- 794- ; Colombian, 32} ,i, ; Mexican, 293 30 ; Belgian, 1031 ; Dutch Two-and-a -' Half per Cents. 54-7 T 55 ; 1- ; Five per Cents. 103. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday were much the samo as on last post day, with the exception of Paris, which was a shade lower ; there was an improvement in the Dutch. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1854 I India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ( 52 , 45,, !fit Ditto Bonds — pm. 3 per Cent. C0n5....914 2 1%3i1i South Sea Stock — 3;4 per Cent lilvii .4, Old Annuities — Ditto Red. 923 i% New Ditto New 3 per Cent Ncw 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 13 14 pin. Jan. 5, 181)4) l4 5-16% Ditto Small l5 13 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l4 3-16 Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, MO — Ditto Advertised ..... pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account 185;,i 5 April 5, 188(1 — India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account ...92 1 / 6 IT,, 2 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 7 9 ,,i 874 Ditto New Bonds 3l ii% Ditto Account Buenos Ayrca Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds -, Prussian Bonds D tto Account ... ......... ... Russian Bonds, 1522 — Columbian Bonds ; Ditto Account — Ditto Account ___ __-_,l _ Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 32% Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account. Passive Deferred B% _ Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account French, , 5 per cent —f. —c. 4 per cent. 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange. Dutch, 2K, per cent. 5475% Ditto, 6 per Cent 29N! DittO Account — Ditto Account Neapolitan. —! Ditto Acceunt........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. _ Eastern Counties Railway l6 Brighton Railway 22 London and Blackwall Railway l3 10!,‘ COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. Amsterdam. C.F. 1.2 5y Gibraltar 49 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Genoa... 25 75 Antwerp... Hamburg, Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 35 Paiercno per oz. I'2o Ditt0....... ........... 3 Ms. 25 65 Lisbon 54% Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, ELM. 151 Bahia 27 Petersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us. 10N Buenos Ayres Berlin _ _... . . Vienna, effective H... 3 M 10 5 Triestr. ditto lO 6 Philadelphla 4h PRICE . OF BULLION, per OZ Portugal Gold, 0 0 Foreign Guld, in bars 3 18 0 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver in Bars HALI-PA ST ONE. The following was posted at the North and South Ame rican Coffee House : IMPORTANT FROM CHINA. Hz.driti 37 Cadiz 37, 131lboa Barcelonz 36% Seville 36a " The Hon. East India Company have received dis patches overland from India. The China trade was stopped; all British ssbjects taken prisoners. Dates from Bombay, 3d June ; Calcutta, 20th May; China, 7th April." Since the early part of the morning Consols have re ceded from ;),`).l to 91i, and at present may be quoted 92. 20,0001. Exchequer Bills were sold by the Government broker, but it is not ascertained if it was for the Bank. It is doubted by the — well-informed that all the British subjects have been imprisoned by the Chinese—only a few dealers in opium. The news from China has not had any eff.'et on the market. Exchequer Bills, 11 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1851, lower; India Stock, 253. In the Foreign Market the settling of the Account is going* off well to the present time , mon e y bein g rather easy for the settlement. Spanish Active nothing doing, 191 ; Portuguese heavy, 30, ; Three per Cents., 20; Mexican, 29k; Colombian, 32}; Brazilian lower, 78'4 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i; Five per Cents., 1031. ----""•""Bat"-r_Fre TEST FOR FOR A CHARTIST. —A Thornley Char tist, whose views went a litt le be y ond the " five p oints :' was talking to a brother pit man about his " reets ." " What d'ye mean by yor reets ?" said the latter. " Wh y, ,, answered the Chartist, " we're gaun to have a' the greet folks' things divided amang us. They've had their turn lang eneugh. Divn't ye think that rect ?" " Smash, then, I'll tell the' w hat ; thou hez two pigs, an' aw h ev nycn. So lets leve l atween oursels, and see how it fits." We need hardly say that the p ro p osal did n ot fit. Like all " Levellers," the Thornley wanted to A B e t ween six . Bet level down (not up) to himself. A CCIDENT BY FIRE.RMS ii Smith, idd aged ex illiddlesex, e s, . and seven o'clock on M ond ay morning, 19, the groom of Mr. Wilkinson, of sb was firing off a fowling-piece that had remained loaded for a considerable time, when the barrel burst at the breech and blew his hand off by veyed in a state of great tortur e to University College Hospital, where amputation of the arm at the elbow joint was found to be indispens a ble. He remains in a preca rious state. The Chartists in this town, in accordance with a resolution to abstain from the use of all exciscable articles, have commenced drinking herb tea, and smoking herb to bacco.—Brighton Herald. IMPERIAL PARLIM‘IENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS The SPEAKER took the Chair at 12 o'clock ; Mere were then only 22 Members present. One by one dropped in till ten minutes past the hour, when there were 26 ; a t the quarter, there were 36 ; at the twenty minutes No s. 38 and 39 arrived, " No. 39 " being none other tha n Mr. Fox Maule himself, the Under Secretary for the Ho me Department, and his appearance was hailed by a s li g ht cheer. The 39th, with the Speaker, baying made the House, they forthwith proceeded to business. METROPOLITAN POLICE COURTS DILL. On the motion of Mr. F. MAULE, the House resolved itself into a Committee on this Bill, commencing at clause 13, on which Mr. LAW observed that there was no provision for evenings' attendances at the P. lice Courts, to decide on charges taken at the close of the day, when othei•wise the parties might have to bear a night's confinemen t in the station house, on cases utterly frivolous. Mr. F. MAULE said, in the Police Bill it ~w a s Pro vided that on trivial charges, in the evening, the Incpec tor at the station house might take bail for the app c aranee of the party in his own recognizance, or on other pc rsons l Mr. LAW was aware of that, but he thougl t se c "i g ht powers should b e re p ose d i n aut h or iti es o f more than an Inspector of police. Mr. HAWES said, the evening sittings had been for merly found useless, as the Magistrates had little or nothing, to do,and what was d one was o bj ect i ona bl e to b ot h pat tiessan u witnesses were too often drunk--nor did he for ills own, part think very highly o f j us ti ce a f ter di nner . —( A laugh*/ In consequence of the representations of a Police Coinreit tee of that House, the Secretary of State for the Ilume Department (who had under this clause the same pcsver of fixing the times of the sittings) had a b o li s h e d the 'fumingsittings. But, if necessary, the Sec re t ar y o f State cou ld again order the Magistrates to sit in th e e v en ing, or at a n y period which the public safety required. Mr. LAW said that in the cases to which he had e the difficulty could not, he apprehended, be remed led b y the Secretary of State, who was not to be found at his t own office after a certain hour. He would propose thi the same hours should be observed as at the Central minal Court, and would propose that nine o'clock be in . stituted for ten. Mr. FOX MAULE said that Magistrates co'idd be „ s compelled to attend at such times us th e S ecretar y a So' might order Mr. LAW would rather leave it to the discretion of t he Magistrates. Mr. HAWES said the clause was similar to the Coe to the Police Act. He deprecated evening sittings. Mr. LAW said his sentiments on the subject of ecieni e g sittings were well known; but he could imagine circum stances where the sitting of the Magistrates at siss:h be hour might be of th e l ast importance. Thcrefoce "" thought they ought to h ave th e power to sit in the evcning' The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought that nine o'clock was too early an hour. Mr. LAW said a Noble re l a ti ve o f hi s f or s i x teen ye ars had taken his seat on the Bench rather before omit th as after. Mr. HAWES said that no judge ever had or could 54 1) for eight hours a day throughout the year. It would e wasting the energies of the Magistrates to call upon t hem e to do so, and would deter that class of men from acce,Pl office whom he was desirous of seeing occupying situaP en of such high responsibility. Mr. LAW thought as there were two Magistrates c' ne might relieve the other. Mr. G ROTE objected to the amendment of the. Lear red . Recorder. Except in very rare cas es th ere wou ld be tit' t tendance at the Police-offices at so early an hour as nine" , Mr. LAW wished for ev e ni ng s i tt i ngs on an ein ic F e gency. He thought nine i n th e morn i ng t h e m ost act period-of the day. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE though the offices should '''P en le t at nine o'clock. If eight h ours a d ay was too much s he them close at four instead of fi ve . I n a ll th o se case' t ry convenience of the Magistrat e s was cons id e red as e ve "' thing, and the public as nothing. Mr. F. MAULE said the Magistrates could sit a t nine on an emergency, but he objected to a permanent sit tin g ° eight hours. Sir M. WOOD could speak from personal experi en ce , ce as to the impossibility of p rocur i ng th e a ttendance ei tn ,, • of prissiness or witnesses at so early an hour as nine Mr. LAW thought the ni g ht c h arges m i g ht be disposFu_ of at that hour, as th e a tt en d ance o f t h e p o lice could he compelled. Sir M. WOOD—..I n almost all such cases the polic e have the power to bail the parties.—( Hear, bear.) c a Sir CHARLES GREY th oug ht that the Lea rn Recorder had not given sufficient weight to the staternol of the Hon. Alderman. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Con,' mittee divided, when there appeared__ For Mr. Law's amendment Against it Majority The clause was then agreed to. On clause 14 being put, which gave power to one MP_ gistrate to decide in certain cases of felony, where tyro were required under the existing law, Mr. LAW moved the postponement of the clause. Mr. F. MAULE defended the clause, on the gro up that it had been introduced at the. recommendation of the Select Committee that had sat upon this subject. Mr. LA W thought it would be needlessly occupying, the time of the House to divide upon the p os tp oneme nt 0' the clause, knowing the numbers then upon the other side of the House ; but he could not help protesting agsiest taking away such a privilege from the subject as the trial by jury. The clause was then agreed to, and as amended, 01 - 5 ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 16 was struck out on the motion of Mr. n MA ULE. Clause 17 was agreed to, a proviso having been added that the rules and regulations to be proposed by the SC° cretary of State for the management of the Police Co urt ! should Ixs laid on the table of the House six weeks before coming into operation. Clause 16 was also agreed to. ; On clause 19 being proposed, which gives the power rt constables to arrest criminals without having the warrs i indorsed, when the offonco should have been committe d another district, h L ic Mr. LAW said th a t h e cons id ere d t h e j ur i s di c tion too large to give Ma g i s t ra t es , to say nothing of constables„ It would give the Metropolitan Magistrates jurisdiction 3" over England. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, this provision only gave the power to the constable in whose hand t he Magistrate should place the warrant. Mr. LAW moved that the warrants be issued only to cases of persons charged with any offence, excluding w it ' nesses. Mr. F. MAULE said the power of enforcing the a t ° i tendance of wit nesses was as important as t h e power arresting a criminal. Ultimately Mr. Law's sugestion was assented to. On the next provision, fore xecuting search-warrant, t:P other parts o f th e country , t h an the Metropolitan distric of Mr. LAW objected to giving such a serious pow ers art searching the house of any man , i n h owev er distant 1 1 , P t of the country, either by night or by d a y. He move d oli omission of the words, " or executed out of the metrq tan police district." The Committee divided, and the numbers were-- For the words Against them Majority.. The clause was then agreed to. On Clause 20 being proposed, Mr. LAW objected to the County Magistrates not beg permitted to exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the lice Magistrates. Mr. HAWES thought it much better these cases sh o u l d be confided to the decision of professional men, who we sit in public judicature hturto eu ugit the County Aa pon i theminopen Court. ba d the same jurisdiction WOOD thought und er th e S ummary J u l r i g sd il i te c tr t a ion g . l-liil a' —(No, no.) He obje c t e d to oust i ng them, and gro unds his objection on constitutional principles. Mr. LAW said th a t th e City of London was not iri't eluded in this Bill, a n d th ere f ore there would be a district in the centre of th e metropolitan district , there i n which t would be no trib una l to adjudicate on these offences, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that whatever they would retain aft er it s hould have become law. power Magistr a t es p ossesse d b e fore the passing of t his Act The clause as amended was then agreed to. Clause 22 was agreed to with a few verbal Clause 21 was also agreed without any ba amen Clause On Clause 23 being put, Mr. LAW moved that it should be omitted. The Committee then divided. TO BE CONTINUED IN A SECOND EDITION' -.7-7-=-- - - A 'mi,t I NCEN DIARISM IN SPITALFIELDS.—rI.-- half-past seven o'clock on Sunday evening an attempt wa s made by some persons, at present unknown, to set tire t° the premises No. 24, Phoenix-street, Spitalfields, the pr o * perry of the Eastern Counties Railway Compaiiy• 1. ,, u , e , m be e i the n in g premises, which are shortly to be pulled down to m a k e way for the railway, adjoins numerous dwellings of P e°. e bt n vu t ir i ns o dt n o e : d . s . an Sheth e raised stairs inhabitant a u t ni t: c i asel weavers. arry alarm, d, samn dokoen Aboutissuing ho fromeor doors lower portion of the interior of the p laceen found t" p were , flames. Engines from • all parts of London soon arriveuf and the firemen subsequently, police with the aid of the and inhabitants, subdued the c fl ration , fortu nately be fore it had become of any on ag_in Inc to great magnitude, and " discover that it was ox en work of an incendiary. On mining the premises it ha d be appeared that the fire reward kindled under the ' stairs leading to the kitchen. A has been offered for the discovery of the incendiary. , i,, A West ern Editor, says the Editor of a M icl) l gan paper, wants to k now whether the laws recenttJ ,7 enacted against the carrying of deadly weapons, aPP I , O 4, ° doctors w h o carry " p ill s " i n t h e i r p oc k e t s .---./Vezu -: Paper. Me d ROBBERY AT A LATE FIRE.—A man , n 3 Goad, who bears but an indifferent character, was on To"fa day ex am i ne d at Worship-street, and remanded, , ..': lk charge of being implicated in an extensive robbery ut ,; 81 „ which took place during the late calamitous fire in 'Toe fields. The property had been cut from the looms I °,_„, burnirg buildings by persons duly authorized. and had u`,d thrown f rom the windows, at which time it is suPP° b, p r isoner and his associates had contriv to 8 c r y has s treet a large quantity of it. Some of the prop been traced and identified. , ToCS DEATHS IN THE CITY PRISONs.--kin tit day afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Pa)„,nica'ke, t h e Giltspur-street Compter, on the body of John vidict, who died on Monday evening last in that prison. Ve r , in .. Natural death."----The same Coroner held a secon d ~ quest, on the body of John Furness, who died at half-ya:c four o'clock on Monday, in the Fleet Prison, o f µ hieri c ' o. was an inmate, of a third attack of apoplexy'. Th e t i n r oner, by the wish of the Jury, recommended tha the future the bodies should be kept N a reasonable time in ural infirmary before they were removed. Verdict, " .- at death." ---,go EVENING E Tt(;~~~'_~~ i