The Sun. — London, England, 1836-06-08 00:00:00

KING'S BENCH-TUESDAY. MESSENGER V. EYRE. This was an action of' trespass and false imprisonment. The plaintiff was a waggoner, who had gone into Reading market, and taken his waggon to a house near the Town Hall, and there left it at the gate of the inn. He was shortly afterwards followed by a constable, who took him into custody, and carried him to prison on a charge of hav ing violated the provisions of the Readine: Street Act. The jury had given a verdict for the plaintiff, and a rule had since been obtained to set aside that verdict and enter a nonsuit. Sir W. FOLLETT showed cause against the rule. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD supported the rule. Rule discharged. BENTON V. PEPPERCORN. This was an action for a malicious prosecution. The plaintiff had asserted by force a claim to some landed pro perty near Melton, in Northamptonshire, and had taken taken possession in a forcible manner. The plaintiff had then been charged with felony. The present action h d a been brought in consequence, and the jury had given 300/. damages. A rule had since been obtained to set aside this verdict. The Attorney-General and Sir F. Pollock on behalf of their respective clients, submitted to the decision of the Court the question of the amount of damages. The COURT said that the verdict ought to stand for 250/. Judgment entered accordingly. BAIL COURT.-TUESDAY. SHAW V. KELK. Mr. PLATT showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Bayley for an attachment against the defendant, for not paying over certain sums amounting to 3391. Is., which he had been adjudged to pay in consequence of the arbitra ment of Messrs. Moses Henry Wood and James Richard son. The action was commenced so far back as 1831 ; in January, 1833, the creditors met, when it was agreed that certain sums which were due to Mesers. Lamb and Co. were to be allowed and the amount receivable. It was at that meeting agreed to be reduced to 2001. But the Learned Counsel contended that the variation from the terms of the rule avoided it, and for the reasons he had stated the present rule must be discharged. Mr. BAYLEY supported the rule for an attachment. Rule for an attachment discharged. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM COBBETT. Mr. WOODROFFE applied on the part of Mr. Cobbett, the son of the late Member for Oldham, whose case was reported in The Sun of Monday, for his discharge to issue under peculiar circumstances. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN ordered several volumes of the " Political Register" to be given up, which were cu riously mentioned in his excepted articles. The Learned Commissioner then said they could not be detained as ex cepted articles, and directed they should be given up to the proper officer, for the benefit of his creditors. It was now stated by the Learned Counsel that Mr. Cobbett was still an inmate of the Fleet Prison ; he had given up several volumes of the " Register," but one vo lume was missing, as also some quires of brown paper, and the provisional assignee had refused to grant the discharge without the sanction of the Court. Mr. Cobbett was ready to pay the value of the brown paper into Court, but he could not obtain the required volume of the " Register." Mr. Commissioner BOWEN thought the discharge might be granted without the Court placing a value on the missing articles. Mr. WOODROFFE—Perhaps as Mr. Cobbett has been in prison since Friday, when his discharge was pronounced, the court will order it to issue to-day. The Commissioners bowed in acquiescence. 2.500 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Frederick Hawkcs Nottage, the young man who on last Friday week was charged with stealing a suit of clothes from the house of Mrs. Wootton, in South ampton-street, Strand, the particulars of which we published at the time, was again brought up for re-examination, when the following Mesh charge was preferred against him : In the beginning of May the prisoner called at a board ing and lodging-house kept by a Mrs Jefferies, in Duke street, St. James's, and wished to hire a suite of apartments, which was then occupied by Sir H. Wilson, but which were likely to become vacant in three or four weeks. That gentleman being from home, the prisoner was permitted to see the rooms, which he said he liked very much, and would call again. He said he had recently come into possession of vast property, and as he was about to be elected Member of Parliament he wanted apartments near to the House of Commons. Soon after he had left the house, a private cabriolet, driven by a groom in livery, drew up to the door, and waited. Mrs. Jeferies asked him for whom he was waiting, and he said, for the young gentleman who had come to look at the apartments. She told him he was gone, and asked if he knew his name. He said he did not, but that he had heard his master, who had sent the cabriolet for him, say that he was the son of a nobleman, and was heir to vast property. On the 2:3d of May the prisoner called again, and then gave his address—" Hawkes Nottage Calvert, Fendall's Hotel, Palace-yard," and having partly bargained for the apartments, he said he had that morning met a young friend who had foolishly lost his money at a gaming -house, and had lent him .51., which was all the cash he had about him, and he asked Mrs. Jefferies if she would cash a check for him for '21., by way of a temporary supply. She said she would procure the money, and he wrote a check, of which the following is a copy : " Fendall's Hotel, Palace-yard, Westminster, London, May 23, 1836. " Please pay the bearer 21. on account of " H. CALVERT. " To Messrs. Ladbroke and Co., Bank-buildings." She sent the check to Mr. Blockey, a neighbouring wine merchant, who gave her the money, and she handed it over to the prisoner. He then said that he had purchased a watch on Ludgate-hill, and directed it to be sent to her house, and asked if she would be good enough to receive it, and pay for it with a check for 201., which he would draw and leave with her. She did not object, and he drew a check 'upon the same banking-house for 20/. and gave it to her. The watch never came, and in a few days it was dis covered that the prisoner's name was not Calvert, but Not tage ; that he was not known at Fendall's except as hay ine, letters directed there in the latter name, and that the cheques were forgeries. The prisoner, in answer to this charge, considered it a mere debt, and was advised that that transaction amounted to nothing more. Sir F. ROE remanded him until Tuesday next for the production of further evidence. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Benjamin alias Benedict Shepherd, who has been in custody for the last week, was brought before Messrs. COMBES and NORTON for further examination, on a charge of robbing Mr. Henry Hoare, one of the part ners in the banking-house of Messrs. Hoare and Co., of Fleet-street, of eight b old watches, a v a l ua bl e co ll ect i on of foreign coins, rings and trinkets of various descriptions, thirteen sovereigns and a half in gold, besides other property. The prisoner was remanded until the 4th of next month, to await the return of Mr. Henry Hoare, the owner of the stolen property. The ex-Duke Charles of Brunswick, after a brief stay in town for some days only, set off from the Brunswick Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, on Saturday, for Paris. One of the official assignees to the Bankruptcy Court has lately declared two dividends on an estate, the first being to the amount of eleven-sixteenths of a penny in the pound, and the other a farthing and a half. The Primitive Methodists opened their annual con ference on Friday the 20th, and closed the same on Wednes day the 25th instant. The greatest harmony prevailed during their sittings, and the society was found to be in a flourishing state : their numbers now stand 62,306, being an increase upon the past year of upwards of 6,000. The coachman who, at the time when the storm which carried the Reform Bill was at the highest, was asked what was his opinion of that great measure, made answer, that he supposed "it was a matter of wittles." It is the same thing now. The Irish Municipal Reform Bill is solely and wholly, altogether and entirely, " a matter of wittles," neither more nor less than this, " a matter of wittles." It is a struggle between cheap government and dear government."—Liverpool Chronicle. On Wednesday last, Miss E. Dove, at Margaret ting, on rising about her usual time, complained of giddiness. Shortly after she observed to her sister, " See how black my finger nails are—don't you think I am dying ?" and before medical assistance could be obtained she expired.—Essex Herald. --- THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—WhiIe the Libe rals cordially join in the general feeling of regret at the death of the Duke of Gordon, they hesitate not to express their satisfaction at the improved prospects which that event, in its consequences, has opened up for the cause of Liberalism in the North of Scotland. That Toryism in the North of Scot. land will suffer by the demise of the Duke of Gordon there cannot be the shadow of a doubt. The extensive estates of the Huntly family are already the property of an adherent of liberal principles, and the ancient titles of the deceased noble man must ultimately devolve on the individual who, on a re cent occasion, declared himself a thoroughgoing Reformer. A Whig Lord-Lieutenant will be immediately appointed for Aberdeenshire ; and, we trust, his Lordship will see the pro priety of superseding, at the earliest opportunity, the more violent Tory Deputies, by Liberal Gentlemen of wealth and respectability, who have long been overlooked. The natural result of these important changes will be a great alteration in the complexion of the politics of this and the adjoining coun ties.•-4berdeen Herald. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, ASSURANCE COMFA,NIES, &c.&c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 7: Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. _,700 61 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham....A.rerage 971. 18s. sh. 162 1,482 6/, Ashby.de_le.Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 51 1,005 51. Brecknocit and Abergavenny 150. sh. 90 4,00045 h, 121. 10s, Birmingham, 1.16 th share l7l. 10s. 206 4,00‘1 .... ... Ditto and Liverpool Junct....11,0/. sh. all pd 301 .. 600 . Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 54 Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 421. Coventry 1004 sh. 775 4,516 Croydon Average 31/. 2s. 10d. sh. 3 2,0601 31. 10s. Dudley lOO /. sh. 78 600 1 61. Derby 100/. sh. 120 20,0110 Danube and Mayne 414 I3s. 4d. 15/. pd 10 3,5734 ........ Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. SO 234 43 . 4 Erewash 1001. sh. 400 1,247 244 Forth and Clyde Average 400/.16. sh. 590 1,500 124 Grand Junction ......._ ~.... OH. sh. 215 2,8491 Grand Union 1001. sh. 25 1,511 Grand Surrey lOO/. sh. 10,000!. 4/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 100!. 75 3,096 Grand Western 104. sh. all pd 19 600 13/.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 135. 4d. 230 1,960 Gloucester and Berkley 749 104. Grantham 1501. sh. 202 1,138 14 10s. Huddersfield Average 57/. fis. 6d. sh. 32 100 5,228 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Bs. 10d. sh. 20 2,8974 204 Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 510 515 12/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 149 907 4/. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 83/. !Its. 78 2,409 9/. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 132 250 9/. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200 500 23/. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 580 3,000 Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 54 247 15/. Neat h 100/ sh. 325 1,786 321. Oxford 100/ sh. 5811 522 2/. Oakham 130/. sh. 38 2,400 44 Peak Forest Average about 78/. sh. 104 31,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. ;pi 5,669 5/. per cent Rochdale Average S. sh. 120 500 Si. Shropshire V 251. sh. 140 800 101, Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 160 45,0001. 61 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 111 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690 500 114 Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 245 300 8/. Stourbridge 3,647 1/. 10s. Stratford.on.Avon ...Average 791. 9s. fsd. sh. 421 533 13/. Swansea 1001. sh. 215 13,762 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway -Av 35/. sh. 171 2,6001 sn. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 1001. sh. 595 8,149 ... ...... Thames and Medway...Aver. 19!. ss. ed. sh. 2 1,0005h.2 15/ Warwick and Birmingham 100/. sh• 276 1,000011.5 9'lo 12 , . Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 216 6,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 781. Si. sh. 82 5,000 2.55. Wilts and Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Sd. sh. 181 800 61, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 126 905 1/. Wey and. Arun llOl. sh. 221 DOCKS. 2 ' 600& 130 c. Commercial ,.1001. sh. 57 1,0651 sh . • 4.98,667;1/. 4 per cent. East India Stock 106 3,233,31044 565. p.ct. London Ditto Bonds ;390,000/. 5/. per ct. West India 2,0.1 3/. Os. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. 19s. sh. 65 64,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 ;152,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 94 51141,003 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 1024 Shoreham Harbour Depttbrd Pier t'ol. sh. 3/. pd BRIDGES. ~600 14 Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 23 7,231 Southwark, Olsi Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 41 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 ... . . ... Waterloo lOO/. sh. 31 5,000 1/. .... Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/. pd IS 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 15 110,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 6,000 11. Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 22 AS , URANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3111's Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 78 50,000 5 per centi Alliance , B ri ti s h & F ore i gn 100/. sh. 10!. pd 121 / and ss. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 54 24.000 : / per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pd 141 1,200 ash. 4/. Birmingham Eire 20,000 4! per cent. British Fire .. 250/. sh. 501. pd 45 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd Cl. 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life, ICO/. sh. 12/10s pd 31 4,000 2/ 105 County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 42 10,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. 5!. pd 6 C 3 per cent. 200 t am 30/ , s 1 Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 373 2,271 51/. per cent. European Life 0 04 sh. all pd 22 50,1)00 2s. Ditto, New 0 04 sh. 2/. pd 1/.128 ,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 100 20,000 1/. Guardian 100/. sh. '2Ol. pd 374 „,„, /Fire 5 pct./ Hoe 4°, """ Life 8 p et.S 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 6 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 50/. pd 121 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,458 10s.6d.'per sh. Indemnity Marine II 0!. sh. 8!. pd 17 2,020 3! lOs Kest Fire 50/. sh, all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 79 10100 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 274 3,900 London, Fire ' , 5/ sh. Pd. 10s. pd 15 1 000 ... ..... Londe!, Ship 0 5/ sh. 121. 10s. pd 15 30,0 .0 Sl. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/. pd 217 s (id 250,001 Is. lid. Protevtor Fire 901. sh. 2/. pd )/ISs 11l 5,300 11. Provident Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 194 100,000 55. Rock Life "04 sh. 2/. pd 61 639,220, 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 202 Sun 2lO 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Australa , ia 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 111,006 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. Si. pd 18,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster-100/ sh. 151. pd 0,000 Lancaster 1004 sh. 20/. poi 25,1510 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 101. I'd "",0110 71 per cent. Manchester and Liverpoli 100/. sh. 10/ pd Discount .o',ooo 6 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 201 pd 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 1004 sh. 25/. pd 20, CO 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland 5l. sh. 114/. pd 10,000 National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 25/. pd :0,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 501. sh. 74/. pd 6,000 Hampshire 50/. sh 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 500 1/ 12s Bath • 2O/. sh. IF/. pd 5,000 61. per cent. British 4O/. sh. 16/. pd 5, ,, An c 5/.per cent./ Ditto Provincial 2O/. s h: 19 pd ''''' /and Bs. 55. 814 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 4,150 21 03 Bristol 2O . sh. .1„35,(14) ..... ....„ Brighton ...............-..--.....-.. ..... 2Ol. sh. 754) Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pc: 4,000 3/. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 514!. pd 1,000 104 City of London 4OO/. sh. all EA I,' 00 6/. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 601. pd 1,11410 4/. 10s. Equitable 4O/. pd Io,' 00 5/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 807 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 2,351) 64 per cent. I nde:)endent 304 sh. all pd 1,5 . 0 71 per cent. Leeds 0 0/ sh. 20/. pd 9,0 , 0 3!. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 391. pd 1,1100 4/. per cent. Itatcliff 100/. sh. 004 pd 4,0..0 South Metropohtan 504 sh. 131. pd 8,2(10 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 4.51. psi .2 0) W. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 8/. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 12,0 1 '0 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12 Ditto, New 5(!. sh. 10/. pd KO Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/. pd WATER WJRKS. 4,800 Birmingham 25/. sh. 25!. pd 4,133 5/. East London lOOl. sh. 4,500 2/ lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 3.88 104 Liverpool Bootle 2201, sh. 1,500 2/ lOs Now River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,196 1/. Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. tlouth London 100/. sh. 3, , 00 3/, West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9tl. sh. 1,360 I/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1004 sh. IRON RAILWAYS. Aylesbury 2O/. sh, 1/. pd. Birmingham, lLLLA;::idddlt:oot onnnn aaaainnnidada Bristol and Exeter 21 660 Felton and Leigh lOOl. sh. 10,000 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 2/. Isl. 2,000 Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/. pd ?,. 5 _9, ) , 10 s. Forest of Dean 504 pd : 30 , 11 )- 1 . , ....... (;rand Junction 1004 5h.,40/. p 1 30,00 •-) 000 _, liartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. p 4 2,100 .... ..... Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 5/, pd 2,100 Leeds and Selby lOO sh. 1,500 Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh. all pd 5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo/.sh. 1001. pet Ditto Quarter Shares ' 25 4 IA Loughborough Average 1424 17s. sh. London and Brighton Birmingham ,d d ii:iar i uta t nit t t:k o hi e(mgaGnhilpdialtmicb. (Rennie)s. ..'... . l. .. 0 . 1 . ;54 2 ° 0 ( 1 .11 1: 8 . hh: s s hh h h .. . • . 6103( 5 1 1 )1:1 1 / .... . p d 041 i) d p p l l 132 1 3 7: i Ditto 21 . Pd 14 Londo i and Dover 50/. sh. 11. pd 0; 30,000 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich . ow, s h. , 201. p d 24 25,000 20,1 , 00 London and Croydon i .... ..... ........ ....... pd -Pd) 1. 3 ,1 ••• ...... 20,000 Northern and Eastern 12,500 North Midland lOO/. th, 5/. pd 12/ 2,600 • ...... ... Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3/. pd 0 1,0110 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 1004 sh. 240, 8,000 6,000 York and North Midland 5O/. sh. 11, pd i s MINES. 2,500 7,500 70 144/. o,rloll 45,000 12,000 37 50 41 51; 14 9 Albion Copper 5/. sh. :It. pi 0' Alien 15/ sh. 101. lOs pd Sf Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 1001. sh. all psi 51 Ditto Subscription .1.51. pd 51 2,000 Bolanos • 1501. sh all pd 145 10,000 31..5. Brazilian Imp. iss. 5?. pm .35/. sh. 201. pd 29 6,0;.0 Macaubas & Comes United : X5l. sh. 22/. pd 131 Ditto St. John Del Rey 9 0/. sh. Sl/. pci 6 10,000 ... ...... Bolivar Copper Compan y 201. sh. 291. pd 11 10,000 Ditto Scrip 6/. pd 20,000 1/. 10s. British Iron .504 sh. 50/ pd 39 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 31/. pd 51 11,000 Cata Branca 61/. pd 71 Candonga 7l/. pd '7l 10,000 Copiap o 2Ol. s h 1211 pd 201 8 ,500 Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31. English 12l Rs. pd 22 20,000 General Mining Association.. 201. sh. 15/. pd 7; 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh 5l; 1. pd 21 2,000 Polberou Consols lOl. sh. 81. pd Pi 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 22 Ditto Loan Notes 1501.1x1 135 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ...AO/. sh. all pd 31 Ditto Scrip 3l Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5l Pd 4 5,C00 Union Gold, iss. 21. ss. pm.... 221/. s h. 44/. pd West Cork 50/. sh. 501. pd 351 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 201 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pd 24i 700 King' College 100/ pd 30 8,000 4,000 10,000 ..... MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 261/. pd 409 1,080 11. Auction Mart 501. sh. 19 6,00 f) British American Land Company l3l. pd 11 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company MU sh. 20/. pd 38 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 4 pm. City Bonds, 4 per cent lO3 15,000 1/. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. oh. 13/. pd 27 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 19 New Brunswick Land Company 29/ pd 259 2,754 Si. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001.1x1 132 f 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 10U/. sh. 45/. pd 77f 4,0 f in Thames Tunnel 50/. sh. all pd 8 10,000 ......... Van Diemer.'s Land 100/. sh. 171. pd 15 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MAY 20, 1836. 1,500)011. 6 BANKS. 1. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 83/. 6s. Bd. s h . all pc! 2041. 500,0001.2,0/. 51 p. et. Roy a l o f S cot l and 100/ sh. all pd 170/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. 411 pd 2407. 3,00 0 ,0001. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1831. 5,000,0001. sp. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 15e1. 2,000,0001. 4/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 65/. 4,000,000/. 4p. ct. W estern of Scotland 2OOl. sh 301. pd 37/. INS URANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. ei p. ct. Scottish Union 9 04 sh. 1/. pd 26s 7,500 sp. ct. H ercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/ 10s. 100,000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101, sh. all pd 71 Os. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2004 sh. 101. pd 151 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 5,000 6P. ct. Edinburgh life 100,000 . - - ... . 11 .F. 1 . 1 . : . ' . 8 . 11h . .. 11100401/..Pcli 1d 1 9 45 ;10 g a : MISCELLANEOUS. 4,610 Edin. and Glas. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Allocated 901. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb.:Joint Stock Water_ 25/. sh. all pd 371/. Carron Iron Co mpany ............ sh. all pd 450/. 2.0005 h. 1 5 per cent. Shotts Iron F ounaery 501. sh. 3rq. pd 301. 10,000 3 p er cen t . E dinburgh & Leith Glass - 204 sh. 16/. pd S!. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 611/. 4,450 1 Opor cent. Glasgow Gas 25/. sh. all pd CO/. 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 37/. 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkaith Railway...so/ 4 h. 60h 1 200 ipoo 51 per cent Equitable Loan Company 251. oh. 91. pd 10i. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. ROUSE OF COthiONS, JUNE 7. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Mr. W. D UNC OMBE presented a petition from some place in the county of York in favour of this Railway. On the motion of Mr. BELL, the Earl of Abergavenny'.s Estate Bill was read a second time. _ . _ COW-CANVSIiFAKIYBiidkTONBURN ROAD. On the motion of the same HON. MEMBER, this Bill was read a third time and passed. The same HON. MEMBER presented a petition against the London and Croydon Railway. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD CANAL. Mr. M. PHILLIPS brought up the Report of the Com mittee on this Bill. NEWPORT (MONMOUTH) HARBOUR. On the motion of the same HON. MEMBER this Bill was read a third time and passed. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. Mr. M. PHILLIPS also presented a petition from certain merchants, traders, and others, engaged in the coasting trade, complaining of the rate of dues levied by the Liverpool Dock Company. DUBLIN STEAM PACKET COMPANY. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from Holyhead, (as we understood) against this Bill. ABERDEEN SCHOOLS. Mr. BANNERMAN brought up the report of the Com mittee on this Bill. It was his intention to make a motion on the subject of this Bill ; but as he did not see the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir G. Clark) in his place, he would defer his motion till Monday. On the motion of Sir J. Y. BULLER, the Newton Abbott Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the same HON. MEMBER, the Bradford Estate Bill was read a first time. Mr. VIVIAN moved the third reading of the Aberavon Harbour Bill. Read a third time and passed. On the motion of Lord FRANCIS EGERTON, the Com mittee on the Liverpool Dock Bill, obtained an extension of the time to make their report. Sir J. R. REID presented a petition from Dover, com plaining of the charges on Police Insurances. IRISH MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Sir ROBERT BATE SON had a petition to present from a large portion of the respectable inhabitants of the city of Londonderry and its vicinity, praying that House to pass the Irish Municipal Bill as amended by the Lords.—( Hear.) That was not one of the hue-and-cry petitions with which the House had been inundated for some time past, in accor dance with the orders issued from the Secretary or Adjutant general at the head-quarters of agitation in Dublin. The petitioners were deeply impressed with the noble and spirited conduct of the House of Lords, and expressed their conviction that the House of Peers was the best protection against the efforts of evil and designing men, to subvert the third estate of the realm. The SPEAKER hoped the Hon. Member was not going to read all the petition. Sir R. BATE SON would merely read its prayer, which was that the House would accept the Bill as amended by the Lords, and thereby restore peace to that too much distracted country. The petition was signed by 600 of the most re spectable inhabitants. Sir ROBERT FE RGUSSON had a petition to present from the same place. It was agreed to at a public meeting, over which the Mayor presided. The petitioners complained of the manner in which the Irish Municipal Bill had been treated by the House of Lords—( Hear, hear)—and prayed that no measure of Corporate Reform would receive the sanc tion of that House which did not place the Irish people on the same footing as the other parts of the empire. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented petitions from Ballemena, in the county of Antrim ; Cookstown, in the county of Ty rone ; Seapatrick and Aghadea, in the county of Down ; and Drumcree, in the county of Armagh. These are from the most Protestant parts of Ulster, and pray for Municipal Reform on the same principles as England and Scotland, and state generally that the refusal of such Reform would be an infraction of the articles of the Union, and would prove the necessity for its repeal. Also petitions to the same effect from Raheen, in Queen's County, and Nlosstown. Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from the Town Council of Derby, stating that they could not employ terms strong enough in praying the House to reject the Irish Corporation Bill as sent down by the House of Lords; one to the same effect from 2,000 inhabitants of Derby, and one to the same effect from Loughborough. Mr. GIL LON presented a petition from a place in Lin lithgowshire, to the same effect. The LORD-ADVOCATE presented a petition from the borough of Castledouglass, in Scotland, against the Lords' amendments to the Irish Municipal Bill. The Hon. Member said the people of Ireland ought never to rest content until they were put on an equal footing with every other portion of the empire. Mr. H UME presented a petition, most numerously signed, to the same effect. Sir G. SINCLAIR wished to know the prayer of these petitions. He thought it important to ascertain whether they called upon that House to reject the Lords' amendments alto gether, or whether they prayed for the adoption of any other measure, such, for instance, as that of the Duke of Richmond, which proposed to give corporations to some of the large towns. The SPE AK ER called the Hon. Member to order. Sir G. SINCLAIR again rose to give notice, when ke was again called to order by The SPEAKER, who said it was competent for the Hon. Mcmber to move that the petitions be read; but it was irregu lar at that period to give notice of any motion. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Hull against the Lords' amendments to the Irish Municipal Bill. Mr. It. WALKER presented a petition from Bury on the same subject. CHURCH RATES. Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from the parish of St. Nlzry, in Devonshire, praying for the abolition of Church rates. Mr. H. FLEETWOOD presented a similar petition from Preston. Mr. HUTT presented a similar petition from Hull. SEE OF DURHAM. Mr. C. RIPON presented a petition from Gateshead, pray ing that the surplus revenues of the See of Durham might be applied to the purposes of general education. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from Sunderland, praying for the total repeal of the Stamp Duties upon Newspapers. SPIRIT LICENSES. Mr. GILLON presented a petition from Glasgow, praying for the repeal of the Malt Duties Act ; and for an alteration of the Spirit Licenses Act. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. .Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Hull, praying that in the revision of the Criminal Laws the punishment of death, except in cases of murder, might be abolished. IRISH CORPORATION BILL. _ Mr. E. RUTHVEN presented a - PetitiOn from Kildare, praying the House not to agree to the Lords' amendments of the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill. IRISH TITHES. Mr. H. GRATTAN presented petitions from different places in the counties of Kildare and Meath, praying for the abolition of Tithes, and that the House would not pass any Bill which did not countenance the principle that Ireland was to be governed by the same laws as England. DUTY ON ATTORNIES' CERTIFICATES. Mr. C. FERGUSON presented a petition from the At tornits and Solicitors of Gloucester, praying for a repeal of the duty on their certificates. TURNPIKE TRUSTS CONSOLIDATION BILL. Mr. WILLIAM DUNCOMBE and Mr. lIEATHCOTE presented petitions against the Turnpike Trusts Consolidation Bill. Mr. GUEST presented a petition from Merthyr Tydvil, against the Lords' Amendments to the Irish Municipal Bill. Mr. HALL presented a petition from Monmouth, against the Municipal Reform as amended by the House of Lords. ISLAND OF MALTA. Mr. E WART presented a petition from the Island of Malta, complaining of the want of proper Representatives, and praying that their representation might be based upon the principle on which the English representation was founded. He felt confident that under the present Government no officious intermeddler would intercept justice to that country. The second complaint of the petitioners was, that the Government had restricted the diffusion of education among the inhabitants of the island, by imposing a tax upon the students of the Uni versity. Such was the social and political condition of that country, but her commerce also had claims upon the attention of that House. The supply of grain to that country had low , been a source of Government monopoly, and the institution 1; which it was directed, was a most uncommercial and unsocial interference with the wants of the people. He trusted that that House would give the Maltese merchants, the British merchants, and the people of Malta, the benefit of a free trade. —_( Hear, hear, hear.) The petitioners also complained of the quarantine laws which pressed very heavily upon the mer chants frequenting th a t p or t, an d diff ered altogether in their details from the quarantine regulations of other colonial ports. He understood from his Hon. Friend below him ( Sir G. Grey), that it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to send out a Commission to enquire into the grievances complained of by the inhabitants. He could only con sent to the issuing of the Commission upon the principle of entire publicity being given to its proceedings, upon the old English principle. He hoped that nothing would be done with closed doors, otherwise no satisfaction would be given to the people of the island. He hoped the Colonial Government would not in the mean time suspend those urgent Reforms which were now pressing—he hoped the Commission would report from time to time, and that it would be laid on the table of the House. The petition was laid on the table. Mr. HOLLAND had a petition to the same effect from the merchants connected with the trade of Malta —it was hardly possible to separate the one petition from the other. The prayer of the petitioners had often been brought before the Government. A petition had been presented only a few days ago to the Noble Secretary for the Colonial Govern ment, and had been kindly received. Since he had been in the House, he had been informed that the Government had deter mined that they would no longer interfere with the Corn trade. That, then, only left the Custom Laws and the Quarantine Laws, which were complained of asgreat grievances. The Customs gave 9,8001. per annum, leaving a net revenue of 7,0411. arising from the Customs. The quarantine dues, with this sum, amounted to 11,000/. The Report of the Commissioners ap pointed in 1830 recommended a reduction to* the amount of 15,000/. in Salaries and so forth. If the present Government acted upon that suggestion, and reduced the salaries and other expenses to this amount, surely the Customs' might be dispensed with.—( Hear.) This petition referred only to the English flag. After the manner in which the sub- ject ha been taken up by the Hon. Baronet ( Sir G. Grey), he would not trouble the House further upon the subject. Lord SAND ON presented a petition on the subject of the quarantine duties from Liverpool. Mr. HUME had a similar petition to present, signed by an individual of the name of Charles Lienen, who had been several years resident in the island of Malta, complaining that by some regulation of the island he had been prevented from opening an English school, and that he had been subjected to imprisonment for opening a school without a license. As Government were about to enquire, he hoped they would enquire into this case, and all the other allegations contained in the petition. He hoped that the time would come when in the expenses of Government, both civil and military, useful alterations would take place. Sir GEORGE GREY rose to reply, but was interrupted by Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, who appeared at the Bar, and sum moned the Commons to hear the Royal Assent given to cer tain Bills, for which see Lord's report. The SPEAKER having returned— Sir GEORGE GREY said the Government had promised to send out a Commission to inquire into the matters com plained of by the petitioners, and it was their anxious wish that every matter of complaint should be fairly and properly investigated, with a view to ascertain what reductions could be made in the burdens of the people. With respect to the Custom duties, no immediate steps could be taken ; but no time should be lost to remedy the evil when his Majesty's Government was in possession of such information as would enable them to act. With respect to the constitution of the Commission, it was the determination of the Government that it should be unobjectionable in every point of view. Major BE AUCL ERK expressed his warm satisfaction at the declaration that his Majesty's Government were deter mined to remedy the grievances under which the people of the Island of Malta suffered. When he was in that island he had seen the inhabitants of the place in a state of starvation, and many of them had died of starvation in consequence of the high price of corn, occasioned by the duties imposed on it, to pay the enormous pensions of those who live upon the industry of the brave and unfortunate islanders. He (Major Beauclerk) would remind the House that it was the brave Maltese who drove the French out of their island, and he hoped they would now evince their gratitude by rendering them justice.--( Hearl) NORTH AMERICAN BANKING COMPANY. Mr. ROEBUCK wished to call the attention of the House and the Government to a Bill then before the House, called the North American Banking Company's Bill, in order to ascertain whether it was a public or private Bill. It seemed to him to affect in a very great degree the interests of our North American Colonies. It gave peculiar power to particular individuals, and ought therefore to be called a public Bill. When he (Mr. Roebuck) was about to bring forward a subject connected with the Colonies, he was request ed to postpone it, on the ground that a Royal Commission had been sent out to inquire into the subject. He wished, therefore, to ask whether or not, in the peculiar position of these persons, Government was prepared to deal equal justice to both parties, and to prevent the interference of a parcel of traders, who were seeking their own private profits, careless of the interests of the nation, as they had prevented him (Mr. Roebuck) from interfering, although he had been requested to do so by the Colonies. — Sir G. GREY said that the Colonial Department had been applied to by certain persons on the subject of such a Bill as that mentioned by the Honourable and Learned Gentle men, but they had refused to give their sanction to any such measure. Before this Bill proceeded further, it would be his duty to ascertain what its contents were, and if it were open to the same objections as the former scheme was open to, he would certainly oppose it. LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY. On the motion of Major BEAUCLERK, the Report on the London and Croydon Railway was considered, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time. TREMOUTHA HARBOUR AND RAILWAY BILL. The further consideratien of the Report on the Tremoutha Harbour and Railway Bill was postponed till Tuesday next. THE POST-OFFICE. _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Seeing the Hon. Member for Greenock about to rise for the purpose of bringing forward his motion relative to the Post-Office, said that it might be convenient for the House to know, that it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to introduce one or more Bills in the course of the present Session, founded on the recommendation of the Oommissioners of the Post-office inquiry. Those Bills would involve all the questions to which the resolutions proposed by the Hon. Member related, and he therefore put it to the House whether they would• allow the subject to be brought before them in the abstract shape of a resolution, when it would be brought before them in the specific shape of a Bill. Under these circumstances, he trusted his Hon. Friend opposite would withdraw his motion. Mr. WALL ACE felt himself placed in a most peculiar situation. When Hon. Members had devoted much time and attention to the subject, and whatever his own feelings might be upon the motion, he did not feel himself warranted in depriving those parties of the opportunity of conveying to the country the informationwhich they sought and required. It it was perfectly un derstood that when those Bills were introduced it was to be an open question, and that he (Mr. Wallace) might enter fully and completely upon all the points embraced in his resolution, then he would be willing, as he ever had been, not to em barrass the Government needlessly.—( Loud cheers.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not only come to that understanding with the Hon. Member, but he admitted that it was the only just and legitimate mode in which the question should be dealt with—it was with a per fect untterstanding that every point contained in the resolutions of his Hon. Friend might be brought before the House, and that he should have a full and perfect right to discuss their prin ciple on every stage of the measures of the Government. He assured his Hon. Friend there was not the slightest want of eotrrtesy on his part—the real object of his Hon. Friend was not discussion, but remedy. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) tendered him the remedy without the discussion, while at the same time there was not a topic raised in the resolutions which would not afford him just and legitimate ground for observation. He assured his Hon. Friend it was not his intention to leave him in the dark as to the mea sures of Government, and it was only in consequence of the circumstances to which he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had alluded, that he had not conferred with him on the subject. —( Hear, hear.) Mr. WALLACE had only one word to say. His resolu tions, which stood on the paper for that evening, were ex ceedingly broad and comprehensive, and on the understanding that all their details were open to discussion, he would now, with the leave of the House, withdraw his motion.—(Loud cheers.) THE PLAGUE. Mr. W A KLE Y had a question to put to the President of the Board of Trade, the pressing nature of which he trusted would excuse him. As he ( Mr. Wakley) was leaving the House last night, he was informed that five persons had died of the plague in Tottenham Court-road.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He ( Mr. Wakley) had made enquiry of a medical gentleman in extensive practice, whether he had met with any case of plague, or any case resembling it. That gentleman had replied in the negative, but finding the report was exceedingly prevalent, and that there was a very general degree of alarm, and feeling that the most correct official information should be given on the subject, he had felt it his duty to put the question. He understood that a depu tation had waited upon the Board of Trade on the subject, and therefore he hoped he should be excused for asking whether any official information had reached his Majesty's Govergment upon the subject, or whether the report was wholly unfounded? Mr. P. THOM SON was very glad the question had been put, because it was obvious that if reports of that nature were circulated, they could not be contradicted too soon ; and in an swer to the Hon. Member's question, he had the satisfaction of giying the most unqualified contradiction to the whole of the reports which had been spread through the town.— ( Loud cries of " Hear.") He must say that he had some right to complain of the quarter from whence these rumours had come. On Friday last he had heard that the report had ori ginated with a medical man, and it was from that quarter that the entire rumour had originated.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Enquiries were at once made, and a letter was written to a medical gentleman from whom it was supposed that the report had originated. The answer to this he had in his hand. It was as follows :—" In reply to your inquiries I have the honour to state that the report was communicated to me by a medical practitioner last Sunday, which report I men tioned to one house only on the same day, and not since. It was not that several cases of plague had occurred, but that Mr. Cook, in the house of Messrs. Shoolbred and Cook, drapers, and seven of their men, had died after opening a bale of goods, and it was supposed they had died of the plague in the course of the operation. This medical practitioner, know ing that I had paid considerable attention to the subject whilst resident at Constantinople, thought that the report would in twest me, and wished that I would take the pains to inves tigate the particulars of it. This object I was not able to accomplish, owing to other numerous engagements. — I have the honour to be, &c., &c." Upon receiving this answer, I directed Sir William Pym, the head of the Board of Health, to proceed to inquire into the circum stances. He did so, and found that Mr. Cook, the head of the firm, which he might say was a large warehouse establishment, where between 70 and 80 people were employed, had died on the Ist of May of a brain fever ; and since that time, not a single person, out of the whole eighty who were em ployed, was ill, except one young man, who was suffering from a pulmonary complaint. He must say that it was a just ground of complaint that any persons, above all medical men, should propagate rumours of this kind, with out first stating the fact to the Government. He hoped to be able thus publicly to dissipate the alarm which had been created, and at the same time to express his own feel ings, and to say that it was the duty of every medical man, when he heard a report of so alarming a character as that mentioned, to inform Government at once upon the subject, in order that the proper steps might be taken to ascertain the truth, and to quiet the public mind, or to take such precautionary steps as should be deemed neces sary. As he stated before, a deputation had waited upon him this morning from Tottenham, in considerable alarm, and he understood that in consequence of the report that had been spread abroad, the establishment of Messrs. Shoolbred had suffered considerably, and they expected to suffer more they were wise enough to offer a re.. ward of 2001. for the discovery of the person who was the original author of the ealumny. Mr. WAKLE Y was glad to hear what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman. He begged, however, to say it was the opinion of nine-tenths of the medical men in the country that the plague was not a contagious disease, and that if it were in this country it ought not to create any alarm. CRIMINAL LAWS. Mr. EWART moved for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the law which admitted the fact of a previous conviction to be given in evidence to the jury in the case before them. Mr. C. FERGUSON thought there could be no harm in allowing the Hon. Gentleman to bring in his Bill. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S CASE. Mr. TULK rose, pursuant to notice, to bring forward the claims of Mr. Buckingham upon the East India Company, which have been frequently before the House. The Hon. Member proposed two resolutions ; the first calling upon the House to concur in the resolutions of the Select Committee, which reported on this case on the 14th of August, 1834; and the second, calling upon the East India Company to pay to Mr. Buckingham a sum of 10,0001. as indemnification for his losses. Having called to the recollection of the House the former proceedings on the claims of Mr. Buckingham, the Hon. Member contended that there was nothing reprehensible in the conduct of that Gentleman ; that he was perfectly jus tified in publishing the paragraph for which he suffered so se rious a loss ; and that the claims were as good at least as those of Mr. Arnold, who received the sum of 1,6001. from the East India Company. The motion being seconded by Mr. CURTEIS, and put from the Chair, Mr. VERNON SMITH said it would be a most inconve nient course to go through the same discussion over and over again in the same session. It would be unfair to the East India Company. They had an opportunity last session of being heard by Counsel against the Bill ; but they would have no such opportunity now. The decision of that House was opposed to the recommendations of the Select Committee ; and now the Hon. Member came forward with two resolu- tions, calling upon them to confirm the recommendations of the Select Committee, and to direct the sum of 10,0001. to be paid to Mr. Buckingham. Where was the money to come from? That House would not vote it, nor would the East India Company pay it, if they called upon them to do so. They ought not to be generous with the money of other people. Mr. POULTER supported the motion. Mr. ROBINSON denied the right of the House to inter. fere in this affair. Mr. HUM E should support the resolutions, because the only question they had now to decide was, whether or not they would give their sanction to the proceedings of their own Committee? Mr. RIC H ARD S said, as a British subject Mr. Bucking ham had a clear right to the protection of that House, and as he fully agreed that Mr. Buckingham had been hardly treated, he hoped that justice would done to him. Mr. ROBINSON thought that the House ought not to adjudicate between the East India Company and an individual. Mr. HOGG contended that the conduct of the powers in In dia towards Mr. Buckingham had been fully justified. Mr. Buckingham knew the terms on which alone he could remain in that country, and, having violated the laws, he clearly had now no right whatever to complain of injustice. The Hon. Member proceeded to complain that the tendency of the ar ticles of the paper in question was, not merely to bring con tempt upon the Government, but also articles were written in the paper calculated to bring the Church into disrepute. There were also publications in that paper calculated to pro duce insubordination in the army—insomuch so that the Com mander-in-Chief felt bound to issue an order to the army in respect to publications of this description. Mr. O'CONNELL contended that the question before the House was not a question of money. The question was, whe ther they were to reject or affirm a resolution? Sir J. C. HOBHO USE was of opinion that a question already decided by the legal and proper tribunal should not be again opened by any such resolutions. The Hon. Member had made three demands ; the first was for 5,0001., this was afterwards raised to 40,0001., and now it was brought down to 10,000/. If the House, by such a process as a resolution, were to mulct any man or body of men for the benefit of an indivi dual, what security could there be for any decision of the House of Commons? Nothing could be less objectionable than the former decision of that House. The Government had not taken as a body any active part in it, one way or the other—a fair vote was come to without any Ministerial whip ping; or, if there was any whipping, it was by those who sup ported the claim.—( Hear.) It was a most unusual and inju rious course to introduce such resolutions as these after the re-.. jection of a private Bill. V The House should not stultify itse by passing resolutions which no one would, and no one ough to obey.—( Hear, hear.) If every charge that every one thought proper to bring against the East India Company were to be entertained in that House, the public business would be utterly neglected. He was not disposed to shuffle in such a trumpery case as this, and in spite of the menaces of the Hon. Gentleman, who thought proper to attend and hear the debate that night, and the letters he sent to his constituents and those of other Hon. Members, he would do his duty, and op pose the resolutions. He did not think it a proper course of proceeding to send about circulars and emissaries to get up petitions in favour of this claim. If the question were pressed to a division he would certainly appeal to the House to con firm its former vote.—( Hear.) Mr. BUCKINGHAM said, as the Right Hon. Baronet referred to his being present at the debate he would merely say that the question was brought judicially before the House, and he never understood that a plaintiff was precluded from hearing his own case argued ; and as to the charge that his claim, which was originally 5,0001., was afterwards raised to 40,0001., and was now cut down to 10,000/., he would only observe that the sum of 5,000/. was originally proposed by Sir C. Forbes at the India Board, when he said that it was not the tenth part of his losses, and the sum of 10,0001. was now fixed on as a moderate scale of compensation. He never directed menaces against the Hon. Member, or any other Hon. Member, to their constituents, by word or letter ; neither did he, as the Right Hon. Baronet intimated, write agaiust. him in the Sheffield Iris, or any other paper, anonymous letters. He never wrote anything that he did not sign with his own name, and if he did write letters to any parties, re questing their support, he learned the practice from the Go vernment, which often solicited him by letter for his vote and support.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. AG LIONB Y supported the motion. M. D. W. HARVEY would ask the Hon. Member for Northampton whether the respectable solicitor to the East India Company did not state before the Committee that 7,000/. or 8,000/. were the amount of losses that Mr. Buckingham sustained? If that were so, then so much was due to him ; and he was sure if it were so the East India Company would not refuse to repay him. Mr. V. SMITH said that Mr. Pocock stated before the Committee that Mr. Buckingham was not entitled to any compensation ; and being afterwards asked, supposing any thing was due to him, what would it be, he replied between 7,000/. and 8,000/. Mr. G. F. YOUNG thought that Mr. Buckingham had sustained losses, and would not object to grant him a mode rate sum. Major BEAUCLERK said the attack of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Hobliouse) on the Member for Sheffield was quite unjustifiable, when he said that he wrote letters against him to his constituents privately, and attacked him in the Sheffitld Iris. If he had said so to him (Major Beauclerk) he would hold him to account for it, and make him prove it. His refusal to entertain this question was a slur on Lord Gle nelg, and the other members of the Government, who admitted the justice of his claims. He himself too was a party to the measure, as he had been on the Committee.—( Hear, hear.) Sir J. HOBHOU SE said that so far from being a Member of the Committee, he was not even in Parliament at that time. —( Hear, and laughter.) Major BEAUCLERK begged pardon for having made the misstatement; he was misled by the Hon. Member for Mid dlesex, who told him what he said.—( Great laughter.) Sir J. HOB HO U SE—Then the Gallant Member had got the Hon. Gentleman into a scrape. Major BEAUCLERK begged to deny that positively. He did not mean to get his friend into any scrape.—(Laughter and hear.) Mr. HUME said it was a mistake altogether. His Gallant Friend had asked him whether the Right Hon. Baronet was a Member of the Committee, and he said he was in 1826, but not in 1831. Mr. C. PELHAM bad received three letters, which he begged to ask the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Buckingham) whe ther they were not sent by him ? These three letters were to be sent to Grimsby, Lowth, and Lincoln, and were accom panied by a letter regulating the way in which they were to be used. One of those letters had the effect of inducing the Cor poration to send up a petition in favour of Mr. Buckingham. The other letters did not induce the people to whom they were sent to entertain the question of a petition. All he could say was, that he did receive those letters inclosed in one which bore the signature J. S. Buckingham. Mr. BUCKINGHAM was desirous of explaining a sub ject which it appeared was little understood. The Hon. Ba ronet had adverted to a threatening letter, which it was alleged he (Mr. Buckingham) had sent to the Sheffield Iris, and of his having in that newspaper used menacing language to him, with respect to his opposition to his claims for compensation. He had before distinctly denied, and he did still deny, that part of the charge, he never having done anything of the kind.—(Hear, hear.) Disposing of that part of the charge, he would next allude to the letters. Ile had certainly written some fifty or sixty letters, the tenor of which he would repeat. There was in so doing no attempt at concealment, they having been dated from his own house, signed by his own name, and addressed to those Members likely to take an interest in his case. The letters contained a statement of facts, a printed Report of the Parliamentary Committee, and an expression to the effect that he should feel happy if the Hon. Member to whom it was sent would do him the honour to transmit the do cuments to his constituents, for them to deal with the subject as they might think fit.—( Hear.) As the Hon. Member had stated in his case, one corporation did and another did not, entertain the petition; but the general result was, that from 90 to 95 petitions from England, Scotland, and Ireland were sent up to Parliament, signed by 25,000 individuals. In pro curing their signatures no magic art had been exercised. He was not in a condition to spend money very liberally, as other Hon. Members might be. The moral influence of the facts themselves had been the only influence employed, and those he had left to the judgment of the public.—( Hear.) Mr. BAINES supported the motion in favour of Mr. Buckingham. Mr. TULK said that his Right Hon. Friend had ap pealed to him to withdraw his motion, a request with which he could not comply, and he could not but at the same time complain that this question, which was to have been treated as a neutral one, had been made a question of party. The House then divided, when there appeared 60 For the motion ************** 92 Against it —32 ***** nlnd Mr. V. SMITH moved for leave. t o bring in a Bill for the Majority ................... ... election al o e f s. cha T rit h a e bl H e torou.sti‘eleesmibnercosrrciratth oSe d that the elec e a - p rop counteract political influence, this Bill vi n 'ith .n a E yie g w a to tion should be conducted in the same way as the election of auditors, and not as the town councillors. Colonel SIBTHORP hoped that a mple opportunity would be given for the discussion of this measure, and that if it did not meet in that House the opposition it deserved, he trusted that it would be met with elsewhere. Bill, leave Aftereae was an observation from Mr. POTTER in su pp ort of the The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the Order of the Day for the House proceeding in Committee with the remain ing clauses of the Bill for the registrat ion of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Mr. YOUNG stated that it had been understood on the previous adj ou r nme nt of this Bill, that it would not be entered into after 10 o'clock. It was now half-past 11. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL did not press the point. The further consideration of the Bill in committee was then adjourned till Friday. On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the Bankrupts' Fund Bill was read a third time. The Cinque Ports Bill was then passed through committee, and was reported to the House. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the House ad journed at Twelve o'Clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 7. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly before Five o'Clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Conso lidated Fund Bill--West India Judicature Bill —Slavery Abo lition (Jamaica) Bill—Seamen's Fund ( Shetland) Bill—Uni versal Life Assurance Society Bill—Birmingham Coal Com pany Bill—lmperial Continental Gas Association Bill—Brand ling Railway Bill—Dukinfield Water Bill—Teignniouth Im provement and Water Bill—Carlisle Docks Bill—Dundee Harbour Bill—Grampound Road Bill—Mackenzie's Estate Bill—Gartside's Estate Bill—South Petherton (Somerset) Inclosure Bill—Claremont's Naturalization Bill. The Commissioners were the Lord CHANCELLOR, the Earl Of SHAFTESBURY, and Lord DUNCANNON. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mr. OSWALD and other Members of the Hous e of Com mons, brought up the Lanark Gas, and several other private Bills. Mr. Campbell, from the East India House, brought up return of the compensations given to the discharged officers a. ot the Company. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Ulster Canal Bill, which was laid on the table. The Marquis of D 0 WNS HIRE presented a petition from a place in the north of Ireland, approving of the firm, 10Yal' and constitutional course pursued by their Lordships with respect to the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill, and praying their Lordships to abide by the amendments made by them. The Earl of BURLINGTON presented a petition in favour of the North Midland Railway Bill. The London and Cambridge Railway Bill was read a seeolla time on the motion of Earl SHAFTESBURY. The Nene Outfall Bill was also read a second time. The other Bills on the table were advanced a stage. Petitions for the better observance of the ,Sabbath, were pre sented by Lord WHARNCLIFF. A message from the Commons asked that Earl Radnor and other Lords have leave to give evidence before the Agricultu ral Committee. Lord LYNDHURST had a petition to present from a R °. * man Catholic Clergyman named Dr. Mulholland, who for man); years held a living in the county of Louth, where he had gaine d the esteem of all parties. He had the misfortune to obtain the hate of the priest of a neighbouring parish, who we llt about scandalizing and calumniating the petitioner. ' e complained to the Titular Archbishop of the Diocese, D r' Kelly, who ordered his Vicar-General to inquire into it. He did so, and was of opinion that there was no foundation for the calumnies; and ordering the person making them to make a public apology. That was refused, and the petit ioner had no other course to take than to bring his action. 1 1 ; did so in the Common Pleas, in Ireland, and obtainea a verdict from a jury of his countrymen ; he was satisfied, an d thought the matter should end there. In a very short time, however, he was removed from his living without ell reason being assigned, by the authority of the titular Arch bishop or Primate. He would take the liberty of adverting to the evidence given by a very eminent man. Dr. WHale9 before a Committee of the Houses, wherein it was stated that it was no breach of the rules of the Church of Rome J . ° r one ecclesiastic to bring a civil action against a brother ecclesiastic ; that was stated by more than one of t he _ A dignitaries of the Catholic church. The petitioner app lied in vain to his superiors here, and eventually he appealed to the congregation for the propagation of the Faith in Rome, who, after hearing the case, ordered that he should be reinstated.—( Hear, hear, hear.) In the meantime Dr. Kelly died, and Dr. Croly was elevated to his place, wh ° on being applied to, said the petitioner should be reinstated; but a few days after he said so he had altered his mind' His love and veneration for ' Dr. Kelly w as so great, that he could not reinstate him, though he co uld no find any stain on the petitioner's character ; on the other hal,'" he knew him to be a pious, zealous, good man. He signed ast, exeat to that effect, which he ( Lord Lyndhurst) held in hi s bane- He applied again to Rome, and he was referred to Dr. Murray'the titular Archbishop of Dublin ; he asked the pe titioner to accept of a curacy for the sake of the peace of the C hurch; once he agreed to do so if Dr. Croly would give him one wbic . was promised, but again he altered his mind and r efuse ' Such was the nature of the treatment to which the petitione, had been subjected, after he had successfully appealed to Jury of his countrymen, and had obtained a verdict against 19' calumniator.—( Hear, hear.) Bch'' , stripped of his living be' cause, it was alleged, he had brought an action, and had aP - ,: = •• stothe legal tribunals _of. h,les.camtry, he now submi“el is case to their Lordships. He (Lord Lyndhurst) begged to call their Lordships' attention to a clause of the enactme nt which had passed a few years ago, because it showed how little the boon to the Roman Catholics had been regarded--( hear.) By the 24th clause of that statute, it was enacted " that no person should assume the name of Archbishop % Bishop of a province, or Dean;" so that, in point of fact, by' the law of the land, no such persons as those who had acted in the manner described by the petitioner were recognised; This was a provision'which was now in force, and which hat' been enacted at the period when the measure in favour o f the Roman Catholics passed. Now the document to which ha had referred bore the signature of Dr. Croly, as Archbi sh l of the province of Armagh. The Noble and Learned h i ps concluded with remarking that he was certain their Lordsv're-i., would feel the hardship of the situation in which the peti ti 7, was placed—( Hear, hear)—and as it was respectfully via e ,3 he had presented it. pe tition The Noble and Learned Lord then moved that the p e-1 do lie upon the table. Lord HOLLAND had never known a more extraordiesri case in his experience of that House than the one brough t : 2 ; fore it by the Noble and Learned Lord who had just -4 down. He was greatly 'astonished that that Noble arld., Learned Lord above all others should call upon their Le r e, ships to entertain a subject so entirely alien to thei r provin'bie and so completely foreign to their jurisdiction. The N and Learned Lord had told the House a longstory—be,( T° Holland) should not call it a cock and bull story. H e a l told the House a long story, but what conclusion d id it .le-of to? The petitioner experienced aggression 'on the levr pa rt d an individual originally, and he had applied to th e 4d his country for redress. The Noble and Learned Lord but informed the House that he got a verdict from a jury ; ho had not stated what the exact nature of that ver" was—however, whatever it might have been, the pelect had obtained all the redress which the laws afforded because a Church not established by the laws , not reselg nised by the State, not paid by the country, choos es to di ai of him from one of its employments, to deprive him of v o ll r e fer e its livings, he comes before the House and asks it to int for him. Did the House confer these livings on the rg oto., o an d Can it, therefore, take them from them ? The Noblealien Learned Lord had described the Catholics of Ireland ashere in feeling, in heart, and religion to that House • could it, fore, interfere in their spiritual concerns ? he w hich(Lo re land) was rightly informed, the petition was one o f those t,,t„ could not be received consistently with the usages of e ; House ; but, even if it could, the House could not vent 1)4 act upon it. After all that was said on the subject, O use itw the complaint of one man against another ; and the be G should recollect that it had no original jurisdiction, n eve e li tb tweet' Protestant and Protestant, still less between !Ales and Catholic. He (Lord Holland) always felt grieved s ; jee i any person came to Parliament to comp lain on an , e el not within the cognisance of the laws, a nd he wasl bt that reasonable case willing to afford redress. But he thong t hese before the House received such a petition as that befor e ,_,„ wis it should pause. If it entertained the question as to r'r e ; i ' t oc diction of the Church of Rome involved in it on the ' P.re tain casion it would establish a precedent, and should enter _ f others of a similar nature, so that it would let in a flood v terference, and he saw no prospect of a n end to it. -atoll, The Earl of WICKLOW said that if the N o ble . , ' e v etoe d had been surprised at the conduct of hi s Noble a nd D c klovi Friend who presented the petition he (th e Earl of ha d was not less surprised at that of the No ble Baron. „ f .ur ed, been requested to support the petition b y the individual V bee n and he did so most willingly. He fe lt the p etitioner _ ti most unjustly treated, and that he w as the victim of b o a nical power unknown to the Constitution, all becaus: Brisk exercised his right—the undoubted birth-right Of redr ess for f subject—by appealing to the laws of his country for titution injury done him. Was it in the law or the Cons, _ ced frool the British empire that an individual should be rep e law s of affluence to beggary, because be had applied to tn his country for protection? When the petitioner waite d etiti° l3 ' to tether ills° h(tehewaEsafirrlsotfaslVeidekblyowhLtowhsoylichiet hdiisdsaueptpoarptofyo.r thehopse w ho professed themselves the champions of his religion r.n another to one who was adverse to it—why he did not applY %its, frl estitnte tphlaecesamtoe theoesueetproywearafulhismpaecalkferswbaned hgelrdeatthpernactsrdei Ives _ 0 0 ? as the stay of the oppressed and the refuge of the we ll h ClergY Onter meddling with the concerns of their masters —t w as hi o e b b y t io h u ey s. wToahledseexipnodaiveidtuhaeleas akelnveewa btyo thheedaannsgwerertow f Wicklow) represent u; his hand a letter from an individual who not only e , e aen d t o t w h n em on the th re e . ir hHeead(sthteheE:rr t)reance oef thohseelawhi: bringing a thep m tter , y riesthood, but assumed to represent thewla F heave submitted t? this i l t re c l o a n n t d a , in t e o d th a e n pe in ti d t i r n e a r nt on ref t u b s e al s i t ib o j e i e n t te o r f f ei: stating also that the petitioner should rather . hould thinic his superiors s any ecclesiastical censure which r rather to trust. his it unnatural, therefore, for the petitione le than to the feeling! case to the honour of the British peel) be was oppressed ;115 of justice which actuated those by born wted? The House, es the proper to inflict on him than make the matter public. Iv. . 5 _ those by whom they were supporh that of giving the sub.) c petitioner redress, but at least it ja pe th ti e tion , ba d that the Viscount MELBOURNE said relief on the ould afford no been observed, might not havehtade power r Cler' admitted that the House c ROMAn Catholic °Nfo r : i o n rd g se 'e n -t t petition. It was an appeal fr°„ln....a( ~-~`' ti :~h THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1836.