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I4W I{'NTl NT'r DI 11 OW. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF LORDS. MAJORITY OF THIRTY-NINE Who Voted in Favour of the Second Reading of the Slave- Trade Suppression Bill vISCOUNTS. DUTCEE. Richmond Argyll LORD!, 'Amore: Duncan non Falkland BISHOPS. Dinorben Li I ford MARQUISES. Lansdowne Normanbv Westminster EARLS Gardner Montfort Cottenharn Langdale Sudely London Peterborough LORDS. Holland Denman Brougham and Vaux Seaford Foley Minto Ilehester Leitrim Gosford Uxbridge Gallo. ay iit:cotTsTs. Melbourne Methilen Colville Cal t h orpe Bexley Sondes De Prey ne Stanley Barham Gage Rayleigh PAIRS. FOR. Heatifort Carlisle Stafford Hill A (3 A INST. ( ow ley llertford Prudhoe Strathallan HOUSE OF COMMONS. (From the Poles and Proceedings of Ilse House of Commons.) BANK OF IRELAND BILL. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Order of the Day for the Committee on the Bank of Ireland Bill be now read ;"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " Committee on the Bank of Ireland," in order to insert the words " Second Reading of the Poddle River (Dublin)," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :" The House di vided : MAJORITY—AYES, 55. Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Kemble, H.—West surrey Lincoln, Earl of—South Notts Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire Lashington, Rt. Hen. S—Tower Hamlets Mildmay, P. St. John —Winches ter Polt ill, Frederick—Bedford Price, Sir R.—Herefordshire Pryme, George—Cambridge Reid, Sir J. Rae—Dover Rice, T S. —Cambridge Rich, H. Knaresborough itolfe, sir R. M.—Penryn Shaw, Rt. Hon. F.—Dublin Univ. Somerset, Lord G.—Monmatithsh. Stanley, E. John—North Cheshire Steuart, Robert—Haddington, Stewart, Janes—Honiton Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex Thomson, Rt. Hon. C. P. —Man chester Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland Townky, R. B —Cambridgeshire Troubridge, Sir E. T.—Sandwich Vere, Sir C. I.l.—East Suffolk Wood, Charles—Halifax TELLERS. O'Ferrall, Richard M.—Kildare Parker, It. T.—Preston .'Court, Captain—Tamworth Baring, F. T. Bernal, Ralph—Rochester Boldero, Hem y G.—Chippenham Broadley, ll.—Vorkshire Broatlwood, Henry—Bridgewater livotherton, J.—Si!ford Brownrigg, J. S.—Boston Calcraft, John Hales—Wareham Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets Cochrane, Sir T. J.—lpswich Cooper, E J.- Sligo Co. Cowper, Hon. W. F.—Hertford Currie, Raikes—Northampton Darby, George—East Sussex Dick, Quintin—Maldon Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock Fremantle, Slr Thomas—Bucks Freihtield, James Wm.—Penryn Gordon, Robert—Windsor Grey, Sir George—Devonport Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle. upon-Tyne Holmes, W.—Berwick-on'Fweed Hoskins, K.—Herefdrilshire Howick,Visc.—Northumberland Irving, John—Antrim Co. "MINORITY —NOES, 17. Oswald, James— Glasgow Redington, T. N.—Dundalk Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Simerville, Sir Wm.—Drogheda Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co. Wakley, Thomas —Finsbury Yates, J. Ashton :Carlow Attwood, Thomas_ Itrawne, It. D.—Mayo Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co. Easthope, J.—Leicester Ellis, Jno.—Newry Ewart, William—Wigan Finch, Y.—Walsall Gistinme, Thomas—Carlow Hindley, Charles O'Connall, John—Athlone - TELLERS. O'Connell, Daniel- Dublin Flume, Joseph—Kilkenny COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon, :Mended by the Hon. MN. Brand, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Buckley, Lord Gardner, Sir William Lumley, and Mr. Rich. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Qucen. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening included the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Surrey, Viscountess Falkland, Lord and Lady 'Methuen, Lord Gardner, Lord Lilf: , rd, Hon. Captain Edward •Howard, Colonel Armstrong, and Mr. Rich. The Band of the First Life Guards attended at the Palace during the evening. The Duchess of Kent rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, and Colo nel. Buckley. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, paid his respects to her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Wednesday last at Bushy lark, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Lord Hill and Mr. Scholefield, M. P., had interviews vvitif Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. The Commander of the Forces had an interview with the of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despat , :hes from Colonel Reid, Governor of Bermuda, were receiv!cl yesterday at the Colonial Office. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., has arrived at Longshaw Lodge, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland for a few days, for grouse shooting. Lady Peel, with the whole of the tamily, are staying at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. HARVEST.—We learn that the wheat harvest has now become almost general throughout England, and seconding to account the crop is not bad. In Ireland they have not yet began to cut down, and we fear the wet wea ther whit t, has again visited the Sister Isle will do much s mischief. The Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday last says :—" We regret to state that a very unfavourable change has takt'a place within the last four-and-twenty hours. In the aftlsnoon of yesterday the rain commenced falling in torrents, continued without intermission the whole of the night, and' bad not ceased, except for trifling intervals, down to the hots! when we were going to press. There is every reason to be;',;eve that this rain is partial ; as we have ascertained from so.stle persons who travelled towards the metropolis last night that there was no ap pearance of rain within twenty miles Of Dublin. In fact, we have made so many apologies for the weather, that, quite run dry, we must now let it speak for itself ; and if its English bear any resemblance to its own state, it must be very broken indeed." THE POPE AND TILE TORIES.—It iS confi- L 'ently stated that some knowing ones among the Tories have found means to put a finger in the Pope's eye, and pers,lade him that he ought to join them and Dr. Al' Hale in a ,crusade against the national system of education. They have Holiness that there is a represented to his tendeucy bet thatee Church and the Church of England to coalesce, an the National Board is the only or chi e f stumbling-b : nck to their immed iate j unction. The Pusey monks and their scholastic publications are appealed to in confirmation of :his illusion, which, though mani festly preposterous to every' one in Ireland, is sufficiently plausible at a distance to bace imposed upon the Great Infallible himself. A rescript from the College of Propa t gentle may, therefore, be daily ex p ected, condemnatory of the system of instruction now sanctioned in Ireland, and giving over the rising generation to total ignorance, or to such sugar-plums as the bland doctors of Toryism love to distribute. Some very high Protestant names are asso ciated in this truly Jesuitical plot, which is the more easily practicable, seeing that the Court of Rome is left to derive all its knowledge of what passes in the Unitcd Kingdom from casual visitors and sojourners, who are, for the most part, of the Tory party. Why is there not an English Minister at Rome to defeat the machinations of such in triguers ? 'The absurdity of keeping up the old show of non-intercourse is too glaring. As the principle in sup port of which it was adopted has been long since abandoned, the practice is unjustifiable by any intelligible rules of policy, whilst, in its effects, it is most inconvenient.— Gerrespondent of the Chronicle. The Brighton Gazette affects to think that Mr, Wakley furnished " a rich specimen of nonsense," when on Friday last in the House of Commons he said the work. ing closes of the community were too dissatisfied with the injurious effects of the Corn laws, and tho bad system of legislation hitherto acted upon, to feel any desire to in dulge in epistolary correspondence. Is then, the simple statement of a plain matter of fact nothing but a rich spe cimen of nonsense ? We put it to our witty well-condi tioned Contemporasy whether, if it were his ill fortune to belong to the suffering class, and were, like many of them, wanting bread, he would have any great appetite for pens, ink, paper, and postage. We apprehend he would prefer appropriating his copper capital to the purchase of a loaf, and would no doubt at the same time see that but for the Corn-laws the loaf would not only have been larger, but that his means of buying it would also have been better. On Sunday last some excitement was occasioned in this town by an order for the marching of the Devises troop of Yeomanry Cavalry to Trowbridge, to assist the civil power in the preservation of the peace. At about five they departed under the command of their captain, and returned on the Monday afternoon. They were draun out on Trowle Common at three on Monday morning, but the Chartists did not muster ; a few boys were amusing them selves with trap-ball, and the services of the military were not required. On Sunday afternoon a lad named Carrier was brought up under the escort of four hussars, and com mitted to the New Prison, on a charge of posting an in flammatory hand-bill. On Monday last four other pri soners were brought up, charged with an attempt at rescue. —Davi:es Paper. PERVERSION AND ERROR.—HOW many ab surd systems of cosmogony have been spun out of the sublime simplicity of the Mosaic narrative of the creation ! how many harsh doctrines and wild hypotheses have been found in the story of the apple and the serpent I Even in \ writings has put fetters e o the free development of re ord to the difference misapplication h of the Hebrew th n e t e human mind, and impeded precede civilization, the intolerance of suppu-- sed to furnish a Chris tians.—Herder. Th e s plendour and tournament have attracted great numbers from all parts of Europe, ofnnoavteioitnyalosfpirit. approaching Without any times, and of the state of thent for Jewish th e conduct religion of has been Several the of from London intend journeying by land to be present occasion; the majority, however, prefer steaern commodious and pleasant mode of travelling, and the Nobility and f the fashionables on the the most taketh ylaeauftfhel ad vantage of the elegance and comforts afforded b 'menus Scotch Steam \ essels. The superiority ofe nu merous Steam Ships, and the simple and parties of contrivance of embarking passengers, horses, carriages &c., from Hose's Steam Wharf, without the risk of small boats :'licit general admiration, and the large Noblemen and Gentry who are continually going and coming with them must be highly gratifying to the res. pectable and spirited prcprieters. . An old man, a cousin of his Ma the Kin j est y g of Sweden, was taken into custojs' on the 10th ult., for cutting a little fire-wood in a forest ns'9.l' Beauvais. He was so infirm, from his advanced age, as to resider it neces sary to be conveyed to prison in a cart. 1 MANSION HOUSE.—When the Lord Mayor entered the justice room, yesterday, Mr. Nobler handed him a chock which had been transmitted by the Commis sioners of Customs, for 101. the amount of the penalty in flicted upon Elizabeth Gaston, the searcher of the City of Boulogne steam-yes sel,for having without reasonable cause searched the two young ladies who appeared to complain against her some days ago in the justice room. His Lord ship expressed his gratification at being saved the dis agreeable alternative of resorting to any apparently harsh way of ecovering the penalty. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last evening, speaking of the discus sion on Thursday in the Lords, of the Slave Trade Suppres sion Bill, says:—" The Duke of Wellington opposed the Bill on the grounds on which he resisted the former Bill— the desire of placing the whole responsibility on the Executive and not on Parliament. If the Duke's object is that the quarrel now pending between England and Portugal should end in a war his conduct is intelligible enough. The hostile attitude of the House of Lords has already weakened the British Government in its foreign rela• tions, and had the Duke of Wellington succeeded in making this Bill a fresh occasion for manifesting the want of support which the Crown now receives from the here ditary branch of the Legislature, we may rest assured that the Portuguese slave-trading interest—an interest very nearly as powerful in Portugal as the Corn-law interest is in England—would not have failed to speculate on the further endurance of Great Britain, and a war must have been the consequence. The Bill was ably supported by Lord Brougham." The Globe expresses its satisfaction at the Lords' decision on the Slave Trade Suppression Bill, in the following terms : —" We most sincerely rejoice at the decision of the House of Lords last night upon the second reading of the Portuguese Slave Trade bill, and trust that we may now congratulate the country upon the certainty that this Bill will become law. There will probably be some alterations made in the Committee, in order to ob. viate some objections which were stated in the dis cussion last night ; but as all parties appear to be equally anxious to accomplish the object in view, it is to be hoped that no alterations will be pressed which will in any degree impair the efficiency of the Bill. The debate was remarkable, and highly honourable to the House of Lords; on all sides was expressed the utmost detestation of the slave trade, and the highest indignation at the faithless and profligate conduct of the Portuguese in still following this criminal pursuit, in violation of all the engagements made by them to give it up." The Standard thus alludes to the Portuguese Slave Trade Bill :—" The Portuguese Slave Suppression Bill, authorising her Majesty to issue orders to her cruisers to capture Portuguese vessels engaged in the slave trade, was read a second time in the House of Lords last evening, notwithstanding the opposition of the Duke of Wellington, who seemed to think that Ministers had not gone the right way to accomplish the object which persons of all parties have in view. The evil as it at present exists is a crying one, and goes far to neutralise the efforts that have been made in most civilised countries to put an end to this disgusting traffic. Without some stringent measure, which will give security to commanders of her Majesty's ships to seize a slaver, carrying what flag she may, no definitive determina tion of this horrid trade can be ensured. In a late debate, one of many cases in which her Majesty's officers had been subjected to enormous loss in consequence of proceedings being taken against them by owners of slave-ships, or ships presumed to be such, was instanced." The Times of this morning, in the course of a leading article, on the trite, well-worn subject of the Lords' Irish Committee of Enquire, trumps up an old story against Mr. O'Connell, to the effect that at a public dinner given to him, as far back as the commencement of the year 1837, he recommended the people to " shed b100d.," as the only chance they had left of regaining their rights. This story, the truth of which was denied by Mr. O'Connell himself, upwards of two years ago, is revived for the purpose of showing how lenient the Irish Government was to its own partizans, while to its Orange opponents it dealt out the sternest measure of severity. This is but a clumsy mode of attacking Lord Normanby's administration, for the strong party motives that dictated the attack are so glaring that they can deceive no one. The Morning Chronicle, calculating the chances that the Tories have of regaining office, comes to this just con. elusion :—" By analyzing the state of parties in Great Britain ; by estimating the probable effects of the first overt act of Toryism in a Tory Government, and the popu lar union and excitement that would ensue; we think we could show more difficulties, in long perspective, that must be fatal to the continuance of such a Government, even though its establishment were accomplished. While her ingenuous nature continues incorrupt, darkness shall do the work of light, and a lie be the herald of truth, before Sir Robert Peel becomes the Minister of Queen Victoria." Our Contemporary adds—" It remains to be seen whether Ministers will allow the Session to close, without holding forth some definite prospect of future efforts on behalf of those political and social Reforms which the state of the country requires." The Morning Herald observes, with reference to what it calls the French aggressions on British trade :—" In regard to the flagitious conduct of the French Govern ment towards the British traders in gum on the African coast, does the Minister, who is, unfortunately, intrusted with the conduct of our foreign policy, deny or dispute the facts of that unpunished and unatoned-for aggression, as stated by Lord Strangford ? Not in the least ; he ad mits the whole of the iniquitious violence charged on the French Government. He declares that he has rernons strated with that Government, and pressed upon its atten tion the claims of the injured British traders. His re monstrances must have been made in the gentlest, sweetest tones that the juvenile god of soft desires could command." The Morning Post thus alludes to the reprieve of the Chartist rioters, who were capitally convicted at the War. wick Assizes:—" We are not advocates for sanguinary punishments in general, but we are very doubtful that the reprieve of the criminals capitally convicted at Warwick was a reasonable exercise of mercy. It is more than questionable that the cause of humanity has been pro moted by this act of Ministerial policy. The character of the inducement to this act of mercy may be judged of from the class of persons to whose solicitations the lives of the criminals were granted." The lliorning Advertiser, alluding to some of the Tory Lords' opposition to the Portuguese Slave Trade Bill, re marks as follows :—" They are panting for measures to extinguish it, and they only lament, which, however, they do most deeply, that two successive Bills, brought in to destroy this nefarious practice have been forsooth, such as they could not, in spite of their ardent zeal for the object of them, conscientiously sanction. In short, as was shrewdly observed by Lord Minto, all these noble persons are actu ated by precisely the same holy horror of the crime as the Portuguese in their public papers, and their laws, as well as their treaties; and their laudable loathing of iniquity leads to a result precisely similar. AUCHTERARDER CASE. At a meeting of the Gears' Assembly Commission, held at Edinburgh on Wednesda y , Dr. Gordon moved thC fnllowing resolution :—" The Commission arc of opinion, that no sentence of the Civil Court can justify their com pliance. The Commission, farther, considering the motion which was made by the minority of the Presbytery, to take Mr. Young on his trials, hereby prohibit the Presbytery, in any event, on taking Mr. Young on his trials, as they shall be accountable." For the motion lO4 Against it Majority .--81 Thereby setting the authority of the Court of Session, and of the House of Lords, at defiance. HAMBUJtGH MAIL. TREVES, JUI.V the declaration that the Go vernment would not sanction the election of the Rev. M. Arcoldi to the dignity of Bishop, several petitions were immediately sent to Berlin. The citizens received the following answer : " M. Saarberg, M.D., M. Leonardy, merchant, and other citizens of the city of Treves, are hereby informed by his Majesty's express command, in reply to their peti tion of the twelfth of last month, that his Majesty has not thought fit to approve of the election of the Canon Ar. noldi to the dignity of Bishop of Treves. For the rest the petitioners are to refrain from all interference in our affAirs, which does not concern their rights and duties." " The Minister Von ALLENSTEIN. " Berlin, June 6." HANOVER, Ara, I.—Addresses continue to be received from all parts of the kingdom, thanking the Magistrates of the capital, and approving the steps taken by them to main tain the Constitution. Though there is still great excitement as well in the capital as in the provinces, the most profound tranquillity prevails here. The large bodies of troops that I:!tve been collected here still remain, it is true, but it is reported that they will soon return to their garrisons. HANOVER, Aco. B.—We are more quiet than ever ; tlw police has issued its notice, by order of the Minister of the Interior, revoking the regulations published on the 30th of July; private houses are to be closed at ten o'clock at night, and taverns and public-houses by nine o'clock ; the prohibition of brawling, etc., in the street, and also the assembling and going about in large bodies, is still in force. The Friburg Gazette says, " A proposal is said to have been made by Hanover not to allow the Faculties of Jurisprudence to deliver in future legal opinions on political prosecutions. If these proposals should be agreed to, it would hinder the German Faculties of Jurisprudence from exercising a right which has hitherto been allowed them, and deprive the people of the benefits of an institution which, with all its defects, has always been of considerable use. VIENNA, JUNE 4.—A report which much needs confir mation states that the Emperor Nicholas is on the point of setting out for the south of his empire, in order to be near the theatre of war. Extraordinary movements of troops in all Russia and Poland continue to be spoken of. The same is the case with our provinces on the Danube; all the troops in them are marching to the frontiers, and are replaced in the interior . by other garrisons, which, in case of need, may furnish a reserve. ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. I.—lt is said that Moscow will be honoured by a week's visit from the members of the Imperial family on their journey to Borodina. The Grand Duchess Maria and her consort will accompany the Em peror in the journey, but it is not determined whether the Empress will remain here or take a journey abroad for the benefit of the waters. On the 26th of last month the Baltic flzet cruising off Cronstadt, which has been joined since the month of June, with the squadron stationed at Redal, was reviewed by the Emperor and his Imperial Highness the Archduke Albert of Austria. FRANKFORT, Auo. 7.—The departure of the troops of the Confederation from our city will, it is said, take place in October. Almost all the Austrian troops are quartered in the Gennea House at Sachsenhausen belonging to the Emperor of Austria. STOCKHOLM, Ace. B.—Official accounts in our journals seem not to confirm the reports that the Crown Prince will extend his voyage to St. Petersburg. His Royal :! v i e e n h in ne g ss se h t a o s u w: co it r te o ri:f r r i om Slito w e h o e n ro th i3 e o 3oth of July, that days, and then he vv ou ja The Recherche on the 12th of Jul g'n on the Ist to Wesby, and returning the sa►nte were well except M • on the 16th or August and visit Tronso tiania. —Hamburoi , gcrona, l e le turn to Stockholm. 7. 7 9 u1d stop two French corvette arrived at Hammerfort All the scientific gentlemen on board 17th to. a s rmier. The corvette was to sail pitzbergen, return at the end of e, Drontheim, Borgen, and Chris - i Papers. 53d year, when the Queen will give a enter tainmentsumptupoleutsesherntuhme77Nobiloitmy. This to da ay THE SUN, LONDON, SATTMDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939. KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. THE VIRGIN OF SPRING !—On Tuesday, after th, night charges were gone through, a female of respect able appearance and lady-like manners, about forty years of age, was ushered into the presence of Mr. BARLow, the sitting Magistrate, having informed the officers she had a most important application to make. Mr. akanow—What is your business, Madam? Applicant (in a mellifluous tone of voice) —I want seve ral of my neighbours taken into custody and punished. Mr. BARLOW—Oh what grounds, Madam ? Appli cant—You see, Sir, this black eye and this scratch over my forehead. Well, Mrs. Rodwell, one of the parties, yesterday went to the pump and threw some water over my stones and over my feet. Mr. BARLOW—There appears to me to be a mark under both your eyes ? Applicant—Oh, no, Sir ; but I have flowers in both my eyes, and also upon my fore head. Are you Sir John Lillie ? Mr. BARLOW—No, Madam, I am not. Applicant —Oh, because I went to Sir John Lillie when I had a pink incense upon me. Mr. 13AilLow—A pink incense ! Pray what is that ? Applicant—Why, you sec I sometimes smell like wall flowers and sometimes like lilies. I call it incense, be cause it has a pink light, and when I smell my clothes they have a pink smell. Mr. 13AttLow—Pray what may your name be ? Ap plicant—My name is Thatcher. I am the Virgin of Spring. I ought to have the Speaker's lady's fortune. Mr. BARLOW—Are you, then, related to the Speaker's lady ? Applicant—Oh, no ; but you see, Sir, 1 was at that time the blue and white marble lady. I was said to be symmetry, and my breath was blossoms. You see, Sir, when I was born I was all over blossoms, and the sun and moon followed me, and the fruit trees were all in blossom in the February of that year. Mr. BARLOW—WeII, of whom do you complain ? Applicant—Of a Airs. Jones, or a man like her in petti coats ; they have murdered the Holy Ghost upon me. Mr. BARLOW—Why, you tell them and talk to them about things they don't understand. Applicant—Then they are fools ; they have eyes, and see not, and ears, which hear not. Don't you see, Sir, I have peach blossoms on my cheeks ? Mr. BARLOW—Who has told you all this ? Appli cant—A loud voice, Sir, Perhaps it was thunder. Mr. BARLOW-1 would recommend you to leave Hammersmith. Applicant—That, Sir, would be very expensive. If the law is not productive of justice, there ought to be no law. lam Flora, the Queen of the Isles. I had the voice of the planet at my birth, and was the first blessing of the country. The applicant would have proceeded in the same in coherent strain much longer had not the Magistrate, to get rid of her, suddenly left the Bench ; on seeing which she stalked majestically out of the office. POLICE INTELLIGENCE BOW-STREET. A young man, named John Alfred Gabell was yesterday brought up by Robert Tyrrell, a constable in the service of the General Post-office, and placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, the sitting Magistrate, on a charge of steal ing three letters, containing various sums of money, which came intu his possession by virtue of his situation as letter carrier to the Twopenny Post-office. Mr. Peacock, Solicitor to the Post-office, who conducted the prosecution, called the following witnesses to prove each case : Mrs. Mary West, wife of Charles West, a paper-maker, residing at No. 5, Mail Coach-yard, Shoreditch, being swo:n, stated that on Tuesday last, the 13th instant, be tween nine and ten o'clock in the morning, the prisoner came to her house, saying, that in consequence of his hav ing had the misfortune to get intoxicated, he had on the Thursday previous lost a letter containing a sum of money which he had for her, upon hearing which she said it was a bad job for her, as her family wanted bread, and she should be under the necessity of writing to her husband, who was then in Haverfield, Berkshire, to ascertain what the amount of the money, which the letter contained, might be, but the prisoner offered to write himself and to pay the postage down and up ; besides, when an answer could be received he would refund the money, be the amount what it might. He then wrote for her to her husband, and gave her the letter to put into the Post-office, with 9d. to pay the postage, at the same time giving her the duplicate money-letter receipt produced, which she laid on the mantel-piece, saying lie would much rather pay Si. than have any further trouble about it, and the letter was sub sequently posted by her little boy. The prisoner came to her house again on Thursday morning last, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, inquiring if she had received any answer from her husband respecting the money, and she told him she had not ; upon which he said that the duplicate receipt he had left with her, had been inquired for at the Post-office, and she said if it was of any service to him he was welcome to it ; but on his saying that he dare not sign it as his handwriting would be known, and on her declaring that she could not write, he asked if her daughter Sarah Paget could write, and on witness answering in the affirmative, she wrote " Mrs. West" on the receipt produced. The letter pro duced, dated 4th of August, 1839, addressed to Mrs. West, Mail Coach-yard, Shoreditch Church, with the words " Money letter," and " post paid" in the corner, and signed " Chas. West," was from her husband, and in his hand writing. Witness never received it nor never saw it until Thursday in the afternoon, and the receipt produced pur. porting to be the mark of Mrs. West was not made by her. Mr. Robert Smith, Superintendent President of the Twopenny Post-office, proved that the prisoner was a letter carrier in his department for the last two or three years, and his district for delivery was in the Kingsland road, Shoreditch. The letter produced and addressed to the last witness appeared to have reached the Post-office on the evening of Monday, the sth inst., and to have been sent out for delivery on the following morning at eight o'clock. Witness had no doubt that the receipt produced was delivered to the prisoner for the purpose of procuring the signature of Mrs. West, to whom the letter had been addressed, and the prisoner ought to have delivered the letter about nine o'clock on the same morning, and he should have brought back either on the same day or on the following morning the receipt duly signed. In consequence of a communication that had been made to him, he called the prisoner before him on Thursday morning, when he told him that he had been re presented to him as having returned his money receipts in a very irregular manner, at the same time producing to him the duplicate money-letter receipt for a letter which had been given to him for delivery on the 6th inst., addressed I to Mrs. West, asking what he had done with the letter in question, and the original receipt, to which he answered that Mrs. West was out when he delivered the letter, and he gave it to her daughter. After remarking that it was a very insecure way of leaving a money-letter, without a pro per discharge, in case the party should say they had never received it, he asked why he had not called again to get the receipt signed, and the prisoner said he had done so several times, and the person to whom it was directed being a hawker of china, he could never succeed in finding her at home. Upon being questioned respecting the original re ceipt, the :prisoner said they had lost it, and he got the duplicate signed that morning. Witness having some doubts of the truth of his statement, said, " You are quite sure that you delivered the letter on the morning of the tith inst. ?" to which he replied, " I am ;" and after he had left the office, witness, upon sending to Mrs. West's house, as certained that the letter had never been delivered to her. Constable Tyrrell stated, that in consequence of instruc tions he had received, he went to Hoxton in search of the prisoner, and about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon he found him delivering letters in Great James-street. Upon telling him he should consider himself in cus tody, lie searched him, and found in his waistcoat pocket the original money receipt, bearing the Post office date-mark of the morning of the 6th instant, with the address of Mrs. West upon it. On drawing his attention to the mark at the bottom of the receipt, he asked him was it the cross of the party to whom the money belonged, and he said it was not, but he had made it him self ; and on asking him if he had delivered the money letter, he said he had lost it. Witness: then inquired if he had made such a statement at the Post-office, and he said he had not. The prisoner was then conducted to his lodgings, No. 30, Reeves-place, Hoxton Old Town, where a further search being made in his pockets in the presence of Cole, a sub-sorter, who identified the letter of Mrs. West as belonging to the receipt, and upon questioning the pri soner about it, lie said he had kept the contents to pay tip his treasury, but it was his intention to have replaced it as soon as he could. Mr. TWYFORD said the evidence was pretty strong in this case, and inquired if the other cases were as complete. Mr. Peacock said that lie should require additional evidence previous to a committal, and therefore he should apply for a remand. The next charge was for stealing a crown-piece from a letter. Mrs. Anne Rapley, wife of Edward Rapley, a sawyer, residing at Waltham Abbey, in Essex, proved that on the 13th inst., she inclosed in a letter a crown-piece, and addressed it to Mr. Thompson, 99, Old-street, Shoreditch. Mr. Alexander Thompson, a saw-maker, residing in Old-street, Shoreditch, was expecting a remittance from the last witness's husband, which lie did not receive, nor was the letter produced marked " post paid" ever pre sented to him. He knew the prisoner as a twopenny post deliverer, having seen him in the district every day, and having frequently received letters from him. The next charge was for stealing a letter containing two crown pieces. Mr. Smith, the witness in the first case, proved that on Thursday last he was in the solicitor's office in the Post office, when the prisoner was asked whether the let ter produced, directed to " Miss Tunstall, 2, King street, Bartholomew-square, Old-street-road, and which was broken open was in his delivery, and he said it was not, but that the receipt had been sorted to him, and he had signed for the latter; witness then looked at the blue paper which had been inclosed in the letter, and from the marks upon it observed, that it had contained two-half crowns, when the prisoner had it. The letter appeared from the date stamp to have reached the twopenny post office between two and three o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th instant, and would have come into the prisoner's pos session about half-past three o'clock. The letter was not in his delivery, and he should have transferred the receipt to the proper letter carrier, instead of procuring the letter from the clerk of the money book and signing for it. Ty7ll proved that, on searching the prisoner, he found in addition to the letter referred to in the first case, the letters alluded to in the e the rs ; an d o n questioning him • o, e i r contents, h e sa i d h e had d i spose d o f t h em i n a the b ° M U s t r aill . T " ( \ Tanne r YFOßD a he s k e d the had done the others. pri z:er if he had any defence to make to the charges made ag ainst him, n.. having ceived an answer in the negative, be was ordered to u. remanded for a week, MARYLEBONE. RIGHT OF FOOTWAY. ForZM ; time past various at tempts have been made at Hampstead, Kentish-town, and the vicinity, by Lord Mansfield and others, to stop up the public footpaths leading across the fields in various direc tions, which have been hi use for more than a quarter of a century. The inhabitants of the above towns having taken up the matter with great spirit, have come to the determination of asserting their rights. On Tuesday a gentleman, named Harrison, residing in Spring-place, in the former town, was attempting to cross one of the fields at Mill Farm-lane, said to belong to the Nobleman above alluded to, when he was assailed by a labourer named Powell, who menaced him with a dung fork, swearing that he should not pass, although in a foot path which had been opened upwards of 25 years. He per sisted in asserting his right to proceed, when he was assaulted by Powell, upon which he lett the field and proceeded to this office, where he obtained an assault warrant against the aggressor, in order that the question might be set at rest, and the public protected in their rights. Last Thursday the man was brought up n custody at the Marylebone Police-cffice, before Mr. HosKtris, when Mr. Harrison having repeated his statement, the prisoner was held to bail to answer the charge of assault at the sessions, and to keep the peace in the meantime. He said he was in the employ of Mr. Tubbs, of Palace row, Nevr- road, and denied the right of footway through the field in question. Lord and Lady Stanley and suite arrived yester day in this city, and started this morning for the county Tipperary.—Limerich Reporter. Monday, the 12th of August, the first of the " sacred month," passed over in Edinburgh as most other Mondays have done since the commencement of the present century. With a few shoemakers, tailors, and other trades men, it was, as usual, celebrated like " Saint Monday," but there was not, so far as we could learn, the slightest Chartist movement. Only a comparative small number of workmen in Edinburgh have imbibed extreme opinions, on whom the sentence of death recorded against the Bir mingham rioters came as a clap of thunder. A few pounds have been withdrawn from the Savings' Bank.—Edinburgh Observer. With deep regret we perceive that combination, with all its brutal and murderous concomitants, is again in active operation amongst certain trades, and that in two instances the sawyers have perpetrated acts of violence nearly resulting in death. If these infatuated men will not for their own sakes see the evil of their ways, and the ruin it must eventually bring upon their wives and families, we can tell them that the law will be found too strong for their atrocious combination, and that we have a Lord Lieu tenant now who will assert its supremacy. —Dublin Mail. AFFRAY ON THE MOORS.—The Midhope Moors, about twelve miles from Sheffield, were on Monday morning the scene of tremendous warfare, there being up wards of one hundred men from Ashton, Oldham, Dukin field, Staleybridge, &c., all armed with guns, &c., and having dogs in their possession. They severely beat one of the keepers, compelled several Magistrates, who were there for the purpose of shooting, to keep within doors, broke tha fowling pieces of the regular sportsmen, and took all the birds they could lay their hands on, either by foul or fair play. The affray commenced about half-past five in the morning; from ;the formidable appearance of the assailants, and the general rumour that the " National Holiday" was to commence that day, the country people were much alarmed, and believed it had commenced in earnest, as it was soon spread about that the intruders were Chartists from Lancashire ; indeed some of them were heard to say, in reference to the gentlemen who were on the moors, " Aye, domn thee, thou has had the day long enough, it is our turn now," About noon yesterday a spe cial messenger arrived in Sheffield, with a request from two West Riding Magistrates for immediate aid from the police, when Mr. Drake the constable was immediately sent off. It appears the poachers were provided with a light cart, with which they made off with their spoil, and were at least twenty-two miles in advance of their pur suers.—Sheflield Iris. - ROGUE MONEY BILL.—The three Scotch Members who have been most active in pushing this ob noxious measure,—namely, Sir John Campbell, the Lord Advocate, and Mr. Fox Maule, all sit in Parliament as the representatives of burgh constituencies. The conduct of Mr. fiutherfurd and Mr. Maule, who represent burghs that come under the operation of the Bill, is especially to be condemned, and we trust that their con stituents in Portobello and Musselburgh, and in Elgin , B anff, &c., will take care to let the Hon. Members know what they think of this attempt to sacrifice them to the grasping op pression of the county aristocracy. —Scottish Pilot. Dr. Morell, who wrote Oratorios for Handel, took, on one occasion, the liberty to suggest to him, in the most respectful manner, that the music he had set to some lines of his was quite opposite to the sense of the words. Instead of taking this friendly hint as he ought to have dome, from one who (although not a Pindar) was, at least, a better judge of poetry than the musician, he looked upon the advice as insulting to his talents, and cried out with all the violence of affronted pride, " Vat ! you teach me music? De music be good music. Dom your words ! Here (thrumming his harpsichord), here be my idea; go you make word do dat."--Musical World. THE YOUTH OF THE DUKE OF WELLING TO:C.—The Boyne flows lszily here (at Tyrrell's house), amidst sedge and reeds, appearing but the dark drain of an immense morass, the discharge of the waste waters of the Bog of Allen. A strong position in time of war; Lord Welling-ton knows it well ;ho has often had his soldier eye upon it, his paternal mansion, Dangan. being not far off to the right, near Tiim. Ilow different was the young fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerbill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, care worn Fabius of the Peninsular war : the trifling, provoking, capricious sprig of nobility—half dreaded, half doated on, by the women ; hated by the men—the dry joker, the practical wit, the ne'er-do-well, despaired of as good for nothing by his own family, from the redoubtable warrior of Waterloo; the great prime minister of England : like Julius Caesar, a roue converted into a hero.— Tour in Connaught. LANDLORDS AND TENANTS.--In the She riff's Court an action was brought by Mrs. Julia Howell, residing in Norfolk-street, Strand, against Sir Eaton Travers, to recover a sum of money for want of notice when Sir Eaton left her house. It appeared that Sir Eaton Travers came to reside at the house of the plaintiff, accompanied by his Lady, three children, and two servants, and remained until the following Friday, and paid 5 / . 5 3 . Evidence was given that the apartments were worth that sum weekly, but there was not the slightest evidence of any contract; and Mr. Chambers, on the part of Sir Eaton, applied for a nonsuit. The Under- Sheriff said it very often happened in this sort of lodgings, when families of distinction came to town for a short time, to make a bargain for the few days they had to remain, and so it might have been in this case. The plaintiff might as well have claimed for a quarter's as a week's notice, with out any evidence to support it. The jury agreeing in this view, the plaintiff was nonsuited. Mr. Chambers said, if there had been the slightest pretext for the claim, Sir E. Travers, who held a distinguished rank in her Majesty's navy, and possessed large property, would not have resisted the demand. AN AWKWARD AFFAIR.--A few days ago a happy couple, members of two highly respectable families in the neighbourhood, were joined in wedlock at the Old Church, Wandsworth, and the bride and bridegroom, having fixed on Southampton as the place for spending the " honeymoon," carriages were in attendanac to convey them and their friends to the nearest station on the Southamp ton railway as soon as the ceremony was concluded. On the arrival at the station the bride was placed in one of the first-rate carriages and the luggage deposited in a proper place of security, but while the bridegroom ( Mr. D.) was taking leave of a number of friends, who had accompanied him to the spot, the conductor gave the word " All right, go on," the engineer turned on the steam, and in an instant the train shot off at so rapid a rate as to be almost directly out of sight. The feeling of the bridegroom, on being deprived of the society of his lovely bride so soon and under such queer circumstances, may be more easily conceived than described, and what was to be done upon the emergency seemed naturally to perplex him much, but he at length determined on" posting " it to Southampton, and that no time might be lost, four horses were at once put to one of the carriages, and he having taken his seat in it the vehicle was driven off at a pace little short of railroad speed. NINE MEN KILLED.—Last Monday afternoon an accident occurred at Househillwood Coal-pit, on the estate of Househill, belonging to Mr. Galloway, Paisley, whereby nine persons were killed. The occurrence took place by about a foot and a half of " till" falling from the roof of one of the rooms in the pit upon the above-mentioned individuals who were all sitting near to each other, con versing, it is supposed, with two of their friends, who had come to see them there, both of whom unfortunately lost their lives. —Glasgow Chronicle. BANK OF IRELAND.—The Westmeath meet leg to petition against the renewal of the monopoly, took place last Tuesday. The county of Dublin meets for the same object to-day. HERRING FISHING. —The fishings along the coast at Aberdeen, Banff, and Port - soy, are prosecuted with spirit, particularly at Aberdeen ; the takes last week aver. aged from five to six crans a boat. At Peterhead the aver age is 251 crans. " The curers," says the Aberdeen Herald, " are sending them off to London as fast as they can get them smokecr; but, by the latest accounts, sales were not very profitable, and offered lout small prospect of the next being better." CHEAP TRAVELLIN G.— Such is the opposi• tion between the coaches running from Hereford to Bristol, that passengers are conveyed the whole distance, nearly 60 W it a i s rF i sJ miles, at 2s. 6d. each. utty.-00 Wed nesday ° m ß or s n i i brought in the Sheriff's Murray, to recover the sum of 91. Its. for a shooting jacket, a waistcoat, and a great coat, alleged to have been ' n l g N A a nT action t S i 0 I n 1 E supplied to the defendant. The defence was, that no such articles had been delivered. The Hon. Mr. Bayntun was examined, but only proved that the defendant brought away a parcel from the plaintiff's, and that the defendant said the latter was going to " build" him a coat. The Under Sheriff told the jury that in his opinion there was no evidence as to the delivery of the jacket and waistcoat. The foreman said the jury gave a verdict for the full amount. The Under-sheriff said—Ge ntleme n, I told you there was no evidence of the delivery of the shooting jacket and waist. coat. Foreman—We consider the goods were in the parcel put into the defeodant's carriage. The Under- Sheriff-- There is no evidence. The plaintiffs Counsel said it would be dangerous to take the verdict except for the coat, and a verdict was entered for 61. Gs. EFFECTS OF THE LATE STORNI.--The severe storm on Wednesday evening last has proved a godsend to the glaziers in and about the metropolis, as nothing of the kind has occurred th for som e years so destructive to window glass. In e penthouses in the Butcher-row, Aldgate, upwards of 3,000 squares of strong glass were g t - i 4sl4i! - 1; and in many of the warehouses in the City, more p ;srtieularl thow yritli extensive skylights, the destruction of the briitit'. Materi l waP Very considerable. In the ware houses of Messrs. Morrii 3ol l arl4 Co., of Fore-street, Crip plegate, upwards of 700 panes Were deraolishpo, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT 110 USE OF LORDS, AUGUST 16. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at ten minutes past Five o'Clock. ROYAL ASSENT. Considerable disappointment and curiosity were ex cited in the House this evening from the circumstance that the Royal Assent was to have been given to a great number of Bills, but when the Duke of Argyle arrived with the Commission the House of Commons had been counted out, therefore the Assent bad to be postponed. Lord FALKLAND presented a Petition from Auchterarder against the intrusion of Ministers into Parishes. JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANIES' BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Joint Stock Banking Companies' Bill was read a second time. ASSAULTS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the As saults (Ireland) Bill was read a third time, the amend ments having been agreed to, and passed, SALE OF SPIRITS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Sale of Spirits (Ireland) Bill was read a third time, and passed. MILITIA PAY BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Mili a Pay Bill passed through a Committee without amendments. ROGUE MONEY ASSESSMENT (SCOT LAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Rogue Money Assessment (Scotland) Bill passed through a Committee without amendments. STAGE CARRIAGES BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Stage Carriages Bill passed through a Committee without amendments. POOR RATES COLLECTION BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON the Poor Rates Collection Bill passed through a Committee, and was ordered to be reported without amendments. The Earl of GOSFORD presented petitions from Armagh against any alteration in the Corn-lawa ; also in favour of a penny postage. BIRMINGHAM RIOTS. The Earl of STANHOPE presented a petition to which he begged to call their Lordships' serious attention. It was from the Shoreham Working Men's Association (we understood), and the petitioners stated that they contemplated with sorrow and indignation the late attack upon an unarmed assemblage at Birmingham, by a police force, the employment of which they deemed alto gether unconstitutional. The Noble Earl proceeded to state that he had received from a most respectable person—a person of unquestionable veracity—(not a Chartist, but opposed to such sentiments)—an account of the proceedings at Birmingham, to which he would briefly advert, in confirmation of the statement of the petition. This person had been an eye-witness of the affair ; and his account was, that some 600 or 700 persons were quietly assembled reading newspapers — not at all obstructing the thoroughfares—when the police drew their staves and began beating people, knocking down and breaking heads ; that the people at first retreated, but soon rallied and returned armed with sticks, &c.— and then, and not till then, the riot commenced. There could be no doubt at all that it was the bounden duty of the Magistrates and police constables to assist in the preservation of the peace. The question was whether, on this occasion, the riot was not occa sioned by the police, in consequence of their violent and outrageous interference. He was not aware, from the inquiry he had made, that any order had been given by the Magistrates that the parties should not meet, or that when they had met they should disperse. He had thought it to be his duty to give the House this information for the s , purpose of showing the necessity for adopting the prayer of the petition, which was, that a full inquiry might be en tered into upon the subject. He submitted the petition to their Lordships in the hope that they would accede to its prayer. The Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord DUNCANNON then moved the third reading of the Aletropolis Courts' Bill. • The Duke of RICHMOND complained that one of the clauses enacted that the Magistrates to be ap pointed under the Bill should not act at other place than their offices without directions from the Secretary of State. He thought that enactment would render the Magistrates very inefficient in case of tumult. Lord LYNDHURST moved the omission of the 9th clause, giving increased salaries to Magistrates, as the clause imposing additional duties on them had been struck out of the Metropolitan Police Bill. Lord DUNCANNON objected to the clause being struck out. It was a money clause, and if struck out the Bill would be lost altogether. The Earl of W 1 CKLO W said the clause had had nothing to do with the levying of a tax, and, there fore, it could not be considered in the nature of a money clause. The clause merely gave salaries. After a few words from the LORD CHANCEL LOR, strangers were ordered to withdraw. The House divided— Contents Not-Contents Majority in favour of the clause The clause was then agreed to. Lord WHARNCLIFFE then moved some verbal amendments which were agreed te, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE presented a peti tion from Honiton in favour of a uniform system of penny postage. SLAVE TRADE SUPPRESSION BILL. On the motion of the Earl of MINTO the House resolved itself into committee on the Slave Trade Sup pression Bill. Lord LYNDHURST said he should move an amendment to the preamble of this Bill, the effect of which would be to confine the operation of the Bill to Portuguese vessels which were to be seized in conse quence of their not having fulfilled their treaties with this country, and piratical vessels, which were not en titled to the protection of any flag at all. Lord BROUGHAM was quite sure that their Lord ships all had but one object. This was not a party question, as the nature of the vote of last night clearly showed ; and the question now was how they could best accomplish a common object. Now he submitted a great difficulty might arise by the alteration of the Bill as proposed by his Noble and Learned Friend. If the seizure were to be confined to vessels hoisting the Por tuguese flag and to nondescripts, piratical vessels would immediately hoist a French, or American, or Dutch, or some other flag, and immediately set at defiance a seizure.—(Hear. hear, hear.) The pirate constantly sailed under the flag of some other country than that of the country to which she belonged. They did that until a battle with them began, then they lowered that and hoisted the black flag. The consequence of this alteration of the Bill would be, that the slave trader would do just the same thing, and therefore the object would be entirely defeated if the colour of the flag in a chase was to be attended to. Then, if it were inquired what would be done if a wrong seizure were made, the answer to that was, that there was nothing particular as applicable to maritime police that was not applicable to our domestic police. Persons were every day searched who had no right to be searched, under the supposition that they might have stolen goods ; but then that search was made at the peril of those who made it. So it would have to be with regard to those vessels, every necessary precaution would have to be taken by the captains and crew consistent with their orders and the proper discharge of their duty. Under such circumstances he hoped his Noble and Learned Friend would not persist in his amendment. Lord LYNDHURST said that the searching of vessels, as the Bill now stood, would be in contravention of treaties with other powers, and nothing could be done that was in such contravention. If it were to be asked how a Portuguese vessel was to be known so as to be seized, provided she was sailing under the flag of another country, all he could say in answer to that was, that he would leave that to the Ministers of the Crown, and to the directions they might think proper, upon their own responsibilities, to give. He wished nothing to be in this Bill but what was purely legal. It could not be legal to seize other than Portuguese or piratical vessels, and an Act of Parliament could not make that legal. There was no country moro alive to the dignity of its independence than America, and she would not permit her vessels to be seized under any mistake. Lord MINTO would be sorry to have it understood that he bad last night said the Americans were will ing to concede the right of search. He had not said so, nor intended to say so. If a shi p , for instance, had an American or a French flag hoisted, and she were suspected improperly to have that flag, it would be competent for the British cruiser to board her, and if the suspicion turned out to be well founded, it would then be proper to seize her. This was all the power the Bill proposed to give, and which power the captains of cru'sers would have from her Majesty even without the Bill. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said the Noble Earl proposed to introduce a legislative measure, indemnify ing officers, not for seizing under the Queen's orders, Portuguese vessels, but seizing the vessels of any other nation whatever. To this he decidedly objected, and he wonld cite a judgment of that most emi nent authority Sir William Scott, delivered in the celebrated case of De Louis (we understood) and in which he said, " It is stated that if this right of search is not permitted, there will be great difficulty in suppressing the traffic. So there will ; and no man can deny that the suppression, however desirable, is at tended with enormous difficulties. It must be evident, that without the general and sincere concurrence of all the maritime States in the principle, and the mode of pursuing it, comparatively little good can be effected. Endeavour, therefore, by all peaceful means—by treaty —by persuasion—by example—to induce the co-opera tion of other states in the work.—(Hear, hear.) But to pursue an eminent good by unlawful means, i s a s littlp consonant to private morality as to public, justice. —(Hear, hear.) A nation is not - justified in assum ing powers to which she has no right, because she means to apply them to a good end—( Hear hear) —nor entitled to enter on a moral crusade, to convert other nations by unlawful methods. Such proceedings will inevitably produce the most awful results, from perpe. tual irritation, and universal hostility."—(Cries of " Hear,.,hear.") The Noble Earl emphatically declared that he rested on this eminent authority ; and, inthe name of this great Judge—in the name of justice—in thename of the law of nations, he entreated their Lordships not to take now the first step in a novel course of legisla tion2—not to legalize as far as they could a universal right of search in time of peace, which was contrary to the law of nations—which no law of the British Legis- lature could justify—which would infallibly incense against this country all maritime States—which would not really put down the traffic which it was intended to annihilate, but which would ultimately involve the empire in general war.—(Hear, hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said his short an swer to the speech of the Noble Baron, and to the emi nent authority which he had quoted, would be just this —that the Bill did not touch the right of search as re ferred to by that justly celebrated Judge.—( Hear, hear.) What was the meaning of this right of search ? Why, that one nation contracted with another to do, or to ab- stain from doing anything, and that the nation claiming the benefit of the contract claimed the right to search the vessels of the other to see that the con tract was fulfilled. Now this Bill gave no new right of search. It provided that Portuguese or piratical vessels might be searched. As to the former, no question was raised that the right existed. As to the pirates—surely they would not be ... exempted.—(Lord Ellenborough:—" How are you to know that they are pirates ?") Why, how could it be known that a Portuguese vessel was so—save by search- ing ?—(Hear, hear.) If the Bill passed restricted in its provisions to Portuguese ships, the vessels must be searched to know if they were such. This was the only way in which it could be discovered that a vessel was hostile or piratical. True the risk was incurred in all cases, of the officers—if not protected—suffering the consequences of an error on their part. But if the Bill were restricted to the Portuguese ships, it would be ut terly useless, for it would merely be necessary for the slavers to take care that they bad no papers of any nation on board, and they would be protected.—(Hear.) The Earl of WICKLOW admitted that the Bill gave no right of search which did not now exist ; but it seemed to sanction an illegal practice—a practice which should be exercised under orders issued by the Govern ment on its own responsibility, without asking Parlia ment to sanction it.—(Hear.) He trusted the second amendment would not be persisted in. Lord LYNDHURST urged this second amendment because he thought that an officer seizing a vessel under the orders of the Government, should not be personally responsible• for the damage—( Hear, hear) —and that if treaties were violated the Government at whose di rections they were violated, should be the parties re sponsible.—(Hear, bear,) The Earl of DEVON objected to Parliament being called on to sanction an unlimited, undefined, and wide .. finable right to be exercised against all the world.— (Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM said be had no wish to pro long the debate, but some things had been said against which he desired to enter his solemn protest, though as briefly as possible. He must emphatically deny that this Bill would, or could render justifiable that which by treaties, by the laws of nations, was not justifiable. —(Hear, hear, hear.) With regard to that cele brated judgment of Sir William Scott, which had been referred to by his Friend the Noble Baron oppo site, in terms hardly less eloquent, he would say no thing against the authority of that distinguished Judge, for whom he had the greatest respect, but this he must say, that though this judgment was the most able perhaps of all, it had not met with the assent of the profession, nor did it appear to be supported by prece dents which should have been received. The Noble and Learned Lord then proceeded to argue against the validity of Sir W. Scott's opinion relative to the right of search in cases where vessels were engaged in the slave trade, and concluded by expressing as earnest hope that their Lordships would not take away the stringency and efficacy of the enactment, but would pass the Bill. After a few words from the Earl of. Wicklow, Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Ellenborough, Clause 1 was agreed to with a few verbal amend ments, as was also clause 2. The other clauses were then agreed to without any amendments, and the preamble as proposed to be amended, was also agreed to. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday. The Poor-law Commission Continuance Bill was read a third time, and passed. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from Lambeth (as we understood) against a clause in the Col- lection of Rates Bill. BIRMINGHAM POLICE BILL. On the motion of Viscount DUNCANNON, the House resolved itself into Committee on the Birming ham Police Bill. Clause 1 was agreed to. On clause 2 being proposed, Lord BROUGHAM said he would at once state what he intended to suggest as an amendment, and which would remove all difficulties, and meet the objec- tions of the Noble Duke. It was to vest the appoin ment jointly in the Town Council and the Secretary o State. The Town Council to have the power of ap pointing, subject to the approval of the Secretary o State and if the Town Council, after the lapse of a cer tain number of days, should refuse or neglect to appoint, then the Secretary of State to have the power of appoint ing. This would get rid of any difficulty that might arise in consequence of the charter being possibly set aside by a Court of Law in Michaelmas Term, because in that case there would be a vacancy in the office of superin tendent of police by force of law, and the Secretary of State the week after would have the power of making the appointment. This suggestion had originated with certain friends of the measure, but who were, never theless, averse to vesting in the Government the appoint ment of superintendent. This would meet all the ob jections of the Bill, and could not offend the people or the corporation of Birmingham, whilst it would entirely get rid of the objections of the Noble Duke. The salary, which was 8001. a year, had been objected to. He had inquired what were the salaries in other towns, and he found they varied from 150/. to 400/. per annum, and he could not see why the superintendent of police of Birmingham should have double the amount of salary of the superintendent of police at Liverpool, which was a larger town ; but he was afraid they could not alter that part of the measure, although this afforded additional ground of displeasure and jealousy to the people of Birmingham, but his suggestion was calculated to meet all the other objections. Lord DUNCANNON defended the increase of salary, and appointment of superintendent being vested in the Government, on the ground that as an advance of money was to be made the Government had a right to superintend the distribution of it. Lord ELLENBOROUGH objected to the princi ple of a divided responsibility. Lord BROUGHAM said his Noble Friend would surely not contend that no Town Council could be en trusted with the appointment of its own police ; and why should Birmingham should be singled out in this manner? His Noble Friend had very cautiously made use of the ambiguous word " advance,' but this advance was to be repaid in two years, and if the people of Birmingham re paid the money surely they ought to have the appoint. ment of the person spending it. Viscount DUNCANNON said the Town Counci had applied for a police. Lord BROUGHAM—But not for this police— they applied for a good measure and you give them a bad one. Lord ELLENBOROUGH did not care whether the Corporation had applied for a police or not—public necessity required it. Lord BROUGHAM said the application for money was contained in a private letter from the Mayor with out consulting the Town Council, and he was autho rized to state that neither the Mayor nor any member of the Town Council would have made any application for an advance of money even, if they had entertained any idea that that would have a pretext for saddling them with a foreign police. The further consideration of this amendment was de ferred until the third reading. A very desultory discussion ensued, in the course of which, the House of Commons having been cursorily mentioned as not having understood a certain amend ment in a previous Bill, Lord BROUGHAM said—l don't think they un derstand anytbing.—(Order, order, from Lord Lynd hurst and other Peers.) The Bill having been agreed to, with various verbs amendments impossible to collect, The House resumed ; and their Lordships adjourned shortly past Eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS, AuGusT 16. There being only 34 Members present at Four o'clock the House was adjourned till to-morrow at Twelve o'clock. Saturday next is mentioned as the probable day for the Prorogation. The new Reform Club House is about to be made which, as th e u pper part will b e let as eapartments,ntirelyfire-ipsroof, considerate pla n . a SCOTTISH CONVENTION.—In accordance with former arrangements, delegates from different parts of Scotland to the amount of about sixty, met to-day (Wed nesday) in the Universalist Chapel, Dowhi!l, for the pur. pose of taking into consideration the best means of organ izing Scotland. Mr. John Duncan, from Edinburgh was a ppointed chairman, and Mr. T. Gillespie, Sec. The meeting was constituted with prayer, and the Secretary began the business by calling upon the different delegates to give a report of the state of the districts which they severally represented. The delegates were engaged in giving in their reports as we were going to press. —Glas. sow Chronicle, EVENING EDITION. CHESTER ASSIZES. (FROM OCR OWN REPORTER. ) TRIAL OF THE REV. MR. STEPHENS. CIVIL SlDE.—Before Mr. Justice PATTESON. (Continued from The Sun ( f yesterday.) Mr. Stephens then rcse to address the Court in his de fence amidst the most breathless silence. He said—My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury, this day has not over taken me unawares, nor does it find me unprepared. I have long since foreseen its coming. I welcome it now that it has come. I have often told the poor, my Lord, in whose behalf rather than my own I am here to plead, and in whose stead I am willing to suffer, though I have done nothing worthy of bonds, that the faithful and fear less advocacy of their righteous cause would eventually lead to scenes like this before us. it could not, my Lord, be otherwise ; for that new species of tyranny, which in the name and under the forms of law has of late years endeavoured to overturn the liberties of this 111 country, could only hope for establishment and perma nency by wishing to overthrow all those, however bumble, who had the uprightness and hardihood to oppose it. This, my Lord, is of the very nature of tyranny. It be gins by first of all attacking the weaker and the more de fenceless. It draws off the eye, and lulls to sleep the sus picion o f 1 those who would oppose it the first i ns t ance; and then proceeds, by the promise of some immediate advantage, and by holding out hopes of greater security and benefit in its service. But stealthily and insidiously as it begins, it must, my Lord, as the Hon. and Learned Attorney-General says, " necessarily and inevitably" g o on, taking us one by one, until, one and all, we have be come enclosed within its net, and lie prostrate at its mercy. You, Gentlemen of the Jury, as well as myself, are an example and proof of this. You may well ask yourselves, you may well inquire of one another, how and for what purpose it is you have been placed in that 'oox. I need only remind gentlemen of your station and Intel ligence, of the origin and professed reason for the esta blishment of the Special Jury system, to convince you that your presence here is only intended, on the part of the prosecution, to fill up those abundant forms of the law, without which the hunted quarry cannot yet in England be handed over to the merciless grasp of its pursuer. Gentlemen, it is but of yesterday that Special Juries were known at all in this country ; it is not longer ago, I be lieve, than since the reign of George 11. The cause as signed for this innovation on our ancient institutions was that there must arise in the intricate and conflicting nature of commercial transactions cases which men moving in the ordinary speres of life would not be capable thoroughly to investigate and rightly to adjudicate upon. I may, perhaps, be allowed ,to say, such is my veneration for all the institutions of my native land, that it would have been much better in that case, instead of changing the old use and practice, that use and practice which for years has been the palladium of our liberttes, to have insisted that gentlemen engaged in commerce should have simplified their transactions so as to bring them within the range of the understanding of the common array of the country, rather than introduce any change in the forms of our civil and criminal proceedings. But allowing, for the sake of the argument, that this innovation, which 1 am here bold enough to call a corruption of the institutions of the coun try, was just and reasonable for the purpose professed at the time, you will at least agree with me that this is not a case which calls for such an extraordinary departure from the ordinary uses of our Courts of Law. If this were a. simple case, as the Attorney-General wishes you to be. lieve--if it were merely a case of attending a meeting, so clearly unlawful as not to require five words to be spoken on the subject, and if proof of my having attended that meeting, and using certain words there, were all that was necessary to ensure a conviction, then, Gentlemen, I ask you, and I call on you to put it to your consciences, what reason on earth was there for your presence on this occa sion ? No ; there must be something behind the scenes, something in this case which yet remains untold ; some thing which the Attorney-General has left designedly un told ; and it is my duty to withdraw the curtain that holds it from your vision. In so doinp, I trust I shall receive t''.le sanction of the Learned Judge, and of every mar, now before me (for all now before me are in part my ' J udges in this case). I hope, I say, I shall have the saesetion of the Judge and the concurrence of the Jury, in my endeavour to put you in possession of the facts conneeted with this pro s, cution. I know not in what manner a Special Jury is got together—you know not either—the Attorney--General may know. Suffice it to say that I have not objected to you. When the list of 48 was sent down to me—how struck I cannot tell—l made no objection to the list, I did not strike off a single individual, I expressed no ob jection to any gentleman now present—notwithstanding all the reports, all the rumours, and the more than credible reports which had reached my ears ; for I felt convinced that in an English Com t of Justice, presided over by en English Judge, and before an English Jury, truth, up rightness, and honesty will receive the award that it de serves. My Lord, I have been advised, urged, and most seriously importuned to apply to your Lordship for a post ponement of this trial, in consequence of the most extra. ordinary state not only of the public mind in general, but of the public mind in this very city of Chester, at the pre sent moment. It is a matter of notoriety on your walls— it is within every man's knowledge —that a letter has been written by the attorney conducting this pro secution, instructing the Mayor and authorities of this ancient, loyal, and peaceable city that a rescue is to be attempted in the present case—that mobs, mul. titudes, armed arrays of men, are on their march to the City of Chester for the purpose of rescu ing voluntary defendants, and involuntary prisoners out of the bands of justice, even in the presence of sr, I English Judge. I ask whether this is fei r ? I ask whether, in any other place, or any other presence than that of a Constitutional Judge, or before any other array than that of an honest English Jury, it woWid be possible for any one situated as I am, to have a fair and impartial trial ? When I came into this city, I came unbound, without any obligation, pains, pene!. t i es , f etters, or disa bilities against me. I have three indictments hanging over my head ; the first is the one to which lam called this day to speak. Each of these indictments, if their allegations be substantiated, hands me over to a sentence of imprisonment for life, or it may be three imprisonments, accompanied by such a fine as will render those imprisonments as long as the term of my natural life. And yet, though I have three indict ments over my bead, I have not been held to bail on any one of them. Since the month of March I have been a free man. What is the inference I draw from this—only this natural and inevitable one, that the Crown does not consider me to be that dangerous person which the Attor. ney- General represents me to be, and that I am not treat criminal person whose motives, acts, purposes, and inten tions are such as have been represented in the speech of the • Hon. and Learned Attorney-General. This is :impossible, for, otherwise, they would not have allowed me to go at large in the way I have. This, my Lord, as the Hon. and Learned Attorney-General says, is the only natural inference, necessary and inevitable from the premises, that the Government wished me quietly and peaceably to walk away and escape these indictments. But though I I have other reasons than this inference merely for belies , . yetso ing that this was the wish of the Government, confident am I of being able to convince th e Jury of my innocence, that, without bonds, without liability toappear, I have this day thrown myself, not on the mercy, but on the intelligence, and on the sense of justice that prevades this Court on the present occasion. I ask the Hon. and Learned Attorney-General how it is that I am tried here? It is tight that you should know. As to the subject mat ter of this present charge I was as ignorant of it till I heard it out of the mouths of the witnesses to-day, and out of the speech of the Attorney-General, as you gentlemen in that box. Although this meeting took place so long ago as the month of November last, nine mouths ago, yet even out of the evidence, you have heard that no alarm was entertained, no fears or apprehensions felt, even by the witnesses themselves. But even supposing those wit. nesses were alarmed—supposing all the exaggerations of the Attorney- General were dry dull matters of fact, how happens it that in the face of such alarming meetings, with banners and torches, and all the rest of it, and with such inflammatory discourses delivered as these witnesses would have you believe, that no information at all ever found its way to the Magistrates of Hyde? How was it that these individuals were not alarmed for their own property? Without stopping to inquire how it was that they had not such a patriotic regard for the property el others as would induce them to give information which might lead to the taking of stets for its pro. tection, how, I ask, was it that no information was ever given to the Magistrates of Hyde ? One of the witnesses told you that it was only two months ago that he was called on to make any statement regarding this meeting. Another said that it was only three weeks ago that he was first called on to give evidence by the At torney conducting this prosecution. It was evident, there-. fore, that no such alarm and danger as the Attorn. a y. General had represented had occurred, or rasons so strongly interested in the preservation of the peace would, at an early stage of the but.iness, have found it their duty to give information to the Ma gistrates. Besides, My Lord,'ll hold it as one of the rights of the subject, the.t property should be protected, and it is one of your most solemn duties here to-day that you should guard all property, however small, and no matter how bumble the individual to whom it belongs. , If that, my Lord, be your duty with regard to property, is it not much more the duty of the administrators of the law to guard the privileges and the rights of persons in this realm t The witnesses who have appeared to-day, had no doubt a clear right to complain of any alarm as to persons or property—they had a right to unbosom themselves to the Judge and to the jury, and to call on you to protect their persons and their property. At the same time I have a right no less clear ; it is to call on you to enforce the law which protects my liberties. Now one essential part of the liberty of the subject is, that no time should be lost in acquainting the prisoner with the charge against him, and that no time should be lost in giving him, all that that I ever asked, a clear stage and no favour, and to meet his accusers face to face. But no such meeting has taken place isi this instance. I have never been called before the Magistrates of Hyde. I have never had the opportunity of confronting those witnesses. No, the Crown knew better than that. The Attorney-Gene. ral knew that if this investigation took place at the time, on the spot, or in the neighbourhood of these transactions, that I should have had an opportunity of disproving these statements, and of dispelling this dark cloud which now hangs over me, and of once more beholding the bread and clear blue of peace and tranquillity. The Crown in this case bad thoueht it necessary to proceed by way of indict. ment, and the Crown was entitled to adopt that course. But the nature and intention of this form of proceed. ing was, that the individual charged should know fully the offence with which he was charged. Now, I air, charged for words spoken, and the indictment sets firth that divers seditious ar.d inflammatory, and I don't know what besides see t of speeches, were delivered by tee, but the indictment does not contain. one single word of all that la so contradictorily deposed to. Search the indictment through from beginning to end and you will net find the assertion of a single word that I am said to },aye used on this occasion. I will give you a reason, not a general but a particular one, why it was- requisite tbnt this rule, that \ thecharge indictment against h im, l sll o udc should lear be comp l ied with. clearly acquaint the prisoner One w ith the of I