The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-04 00:00:00

_ I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, . • Your obedient humble servant, JOHN HUMPHERY, • Committee-room, Hall of Commerce, Sept. 4, 1844. B ROWN FOR CHAMBERLAIN, LIVERYMEN OF LONDON. GENTLENIEN, While I gratefully acknowledge the kindness of the Livery, in the numerous promises of support which I have received, I beg to im press upon you, that the question, whether my sanguine expectations are to be realised, depends upon the electors individually. The importance of an early vote must be manifest to every one conversant with elections ; and I therefore entreat your vote on Thursday ;—should you ttad it impra ble to attend on that day, you will do me the grektest kin ss by Vtting before twelve o'clock on Friday. The attempts to nrAtke this a political question are most manifest ; but I rejoice to assure you, that I number amongst my supporters Liverymen of every shade of political opinion, who feel, and I can not but think most justly, that the question of comparative fitness for the office now vacant is wholly foreign from politics. With great respect, I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your much obliged and faithffil servant, ANTHONY BROWN. Central Committee-rooms, Guildhall Hotel, September 4th, 1844. TO TEE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF THE CITY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEM, RETURN you my most grateful thanks for the numerous promises of support I have received in my canvass for the office of Chamberlain, placed at your disposal by the decease of Sir William Ileygate. The generous feeling manifested on my behalf has proved that my past services for the public cause have not been forgotten ; but as I end that the claims of Mr. Alderman Brown, as Senior Alderman, have been recognised by so many °fray personal friends, who would otherwise have given me their support, I feel that upon the present occasion my prospects of success are not sufficiently strong to war rant nay giving you the trouble, and exposing my friendly opponents to the expense of continuing a protracted struggle. I therefore re spectfully withdraw my pretensions to the distinguished office to which I have aspired. During the two years in which, by your suffrages, I filled the high and distinguished position of Lord Mayor, I did not expect that an honourable office in your gift would have been to me an object of desire ; but as I have retired from commercial life, and have now my own time at my own disposal, I shall place myself again before my fellow-citizens whenever an occgsion may arise to appeal to their suffrages : . . . I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most faithful and obedient servant, JOHN' KEY. Committee-room, King's Head, Poultry, Sept. 3, 1844.: Now resAly, at all the Libraries, in 3 Vols., post Bvo., PARSONS and • WIDOWS. BY _ THE AUTHOR of "PETER PRIGGINS," &c. " Those who have read the former publications of the author of ' Parsons and Widows,' will be prepared for the rich treat which is supplied by his present work. The delineations of character with which it abounds, and the incidents, evidently derived from facts — action could not speak to the heart as these do—render the narratives of the several clergymen who are supposed to give the strange and eventful histories of their progress through life, replete with varied interest. Certain downy doctors and rubicund rectors also come In for a fair share of ridicule and reproof. The widows are hit off to perfection, and are sure to please every one."—Globe. • Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA_ HOUSE. Under the Management of Mts. KEELEY. Another great Achievement Successfully Triumphant !!! To attempt to eulogise the gorgeous splendour of the New Extrava ganza of " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, or New Lamps for Old Ones," would be a work of supererogation ; the Manage ment, therefore, contents itself by simply st a ting that it wilt be repeated every Evening THIS EVENING, SEPT. 4. Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN cHuzzLE. WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, F. Vining, Emery, F. qathews, A. Wigan Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Stanton, J. W. Collier, Yarnold, Sanders, and Keeley; Miss For_ fescue, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra .vaganza, founded on the celebrated Eastern tale, in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha *actors by Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan, J. W. collier, and Keeley; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Woolli I ge, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mi s James, Miss Carson, Miss Hunt, Miss Reede, &c., &c. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes. 41. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.*; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 28. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d.; I'it. Is. Private Boxes on the Itnic•my Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the becond "ller (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Pier (holding six persons), One Guinea. The Box...ktice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the di rec lion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ' ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager,' Mr. BATTY. Nightly overflows, and Last Week of the wonders of Mr. Carter, the American Lion King. THIS EVENVG, SEPT. 4, Will be repeated the Eastern spectacle of MUNGO PARK; or, The Lion Tamer of the N'.ger. Karla, the Arab, Mr. Carter, wh rein he wilt introduce tis beautiful performance with his trained animals, lions, tigers, &e., in the cage, and on the open stage drive a lion In harness. Combats with the monarch of the forest, and other new extraordinary feats. Entire Change of the Scenes In the Circle. To conclude w i t h an entire new Eluestrian, Military and Naval Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE WAR; or. The Conquests of Amoy by British Arms. New Scenery, Messes, Appointments, &c., to realise therecent triumphs of England's Army and Navy. Feast of 250 Lanterns. Acting and stage.m inager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by bis. it. Smith, DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. LEFFLER. Last Nights of the Opera Company. THIS EVENING, SEPI'. 4, Will be performed LOVE IN A VIM, %GE, supported by Messrs. King, Leffler, Neville, Vale, Johnson, Miss Romer, Miss Betts, Mrs. W. Daly, &c. To conclude with MACBETH. Supported by Messrs. H. Hughes, E. F. Saville, N. T. Hicks, Leffler, and• Mrs. H. Vining. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from. Eleven to Four. STRAND THEATRF. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 4, Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZLE WI P. Young Martin Chunlewd., Mr. Rance; Old Martm Chuzzlewit, Mr. Ayliffe; Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr Attwood; Montague 'figg, Mr. Roberts; Town Pinch, Ms. Riddles; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Garnp, Mr. H. Hall; Mary Graham, Mrs. Coleman Pope. _ To which will ba added AN PONY AND CLEOPATRA. After which, a New and Original Burlesque, entitled YIiEWON DERFUL LAMP, in a New Light, beinl an Illustrated Version of Aladdin. Abanagar, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Aladdin, Mr. Wright ; Princess Badroulbadour, Mist E. Stanley. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 4, Will be performed A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Giles Overreach, Mr. J. Hudson Kirby; Lady Allworth, Mrs. W. West. After which, JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK; or, The Lad that knew how many Beans made Five. Jollibuffk,. Mr John Herbert ; Jack, Miss Vincent. - .To conclude with ROB ROY ; or, Aul I Lang Syne. Rob Roy, lir. Osbaldiston • Francis, nir. Binge; Diana Vernon, M iss L ou i 3 i Lyons; Helen M acgregor , Mrs. W. West. Private Family Boxes, LI Is. Cid. and £l lie. 64. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL 0 ARDENB, EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL ArrttAcTioNs. This Week, being the Anniversary of the Grep.t Fire of L on d on, tenfl, Mr. Southby has arranged to give extraor.dina.7.y effects to this display of the admi re d matchless representation, and introduce a water, jets de feux, with other devices { to form a GRAND PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY. On MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDN2st:QA% and THURSDAY, wilt, open with t h e f ollowing S the Season, the Gardens Attractive Novelties THE PICTURESQUE GR O7DS--FEEDING OF TH E ANIMALS—UNRIV LLED MENAGERIE. MODELS of VENICE and. I.ONDON in the OLDEN TIME, Painted * ay Danson and Telbin. The sensation caused 'By this unrivalled production is beyond all tbrmer precedent; .ne artist, the amateur, the casual observ e r are all struck wi . ... a its extraordinay beauty and fidelity of delinea tion, and arc 'ananlnaous in pronouncing it the most wonderful ex hibition ever witnessed. To view it only as a vehicle for the terrific isplay at Dusk is unjust; it should be seen in the calm stillness of %he quiet Evening, with its Towers and Steeples reflected in the spa cious Lake, to be Hilly appreciated. Beethoven's celebrated Battle Sinfonia, de , criptive of an En easement between the Fren c h and Englitri ' Armies. The Evening PROMENADE CONCERTS on Mondays, Tues. days, Wednesdas mo re than conuucted uy M r . Godf re y, are upon a scale ofmore than usual excellence; "alt words fail in doing justice to the awful representation of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Its'fbartle iiharacteristics are truthfully nourtrayed, but at the same time se beautifully blended with the Won :ters of the Pyrotechnic Art, mat delight is predominant over trror; and the Thousands who nightly crowd the Gardens hail it r - th acclamations, and admit that 2 outlihy,*.he Unrivalled Py riumph. rote I( l ist has achieved a matchless The tfardens and Zoologic",' Collection are in the most perfect etate,oid combi n i ng so r , ,any and interesting features, are by far the most attraotive leur . „, Doors open at Nin , tv in or near the tretro,tolic Contort at Half -r" 4.-- . eeding of the Animals at 11 . alf-past Four— One shin ing. atit Five.—Conflagration at Dusk Admittance, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. UNA „.. IMPORTANT NOTICE. • Alittrist, th , "."- ,11 14 Admission to TIIE NAPOLEON MU rical Citriositiraes°at magnificent and extensive Collacron of illsto ay 0 ,, p ....,,... tnd Works of Art ever known to have been formed o l km, at 60WL.a_a_r1118 Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a ob ructive ....,, ~..illease s, sa n d to cOrnplet( ly illustrate, In the most in teh 1 a t 7" , "Zr .. 44 g manner, the most important part of Euro pailrlS XI V.. to the deatbsLES I', OLIVER CROM WELL, and This of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, In 1821. during the last and present Yulliq4l:-ItubseleEtilnoyahlasFambeeinly,vtlhsletedmikoftee onf, Wellington, the Foreign prin ce ,. i n , Waco, many thousands 01 thu Nobillt b sudars, an.l their Ladies, y and Public • and the Pro pietor has recently been able to increby ' es, &c.. his previous almost incredible bee,nn several very fine fr., Works of Art, and a multitude rd'italuatle Rell ber and variety of curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundred, cr. and other aught to be, a National 3laseinn. Vary thousand have have i, said it and THIRTY ,PRLNCIPAL EDITORS ••,1 the puct. / 7 3 ° Ve„1 it, have stated that it orighl to be seen:by every one. The pr i ce of ..r , S! lion Is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egypti an liall." Piccadilly, daily ft em Ten till Dusk. lOWAY INDIAN'S.—THE LAST WEEK.—EGYPTIA L. .... Each Day of this week, at Half-past Two to Four, and each Evening from Half-past Eight to Ten, giving their WAR-DANCE, SCALP DANCE, EGLI)" DANCE, SONGS, GAMES, &c., under Om explanations of Mr. Catlin.—Doors open half an hour preyienie. Admittance, lg. SclioNg Half-price. - - ATTEUPTED SUlClDE.—resterday morning, about half-past nine, a decently attired female, about 30, deli berately jumped from the third recess on the City side of Black friars-bridge. The Minerva, Richmond steamer, was passing beneath the arch at the time, and the woman in falling grazed slightly against the side of the steamer; she then fell into the water, but the brisk wind which pievailed inflating her garments, prevented her from sinking, and she continued to float till a boat put off from the stairs, when she was picked up and conveyed to the station, Black Horse -court, when she was found to have received no other injury than a slight bruise, occasioned by he r ' trikiaz lima the Minerva. TO THE INDEPENDZNT LIYERY OF TILE CITY OF LONDON GENTLEMBN, MY absence in Ireland, on the business of the Corporation ottho Irish Society, has prevented my address ing you as a candidate for the office of Chamberlain until now. Having this morning returned to London, from Dublin, I find that the nomination, haying been originally fixed for Monday last, has been postponed until TO-MORROW, which gives me the opportunity of declaring myself a CANDIDATE, and of soliciting your suffrages ; and I regret that the haste with which the election has been hurried on during my absence prevents the possibility of my making a per sonal canvass, or using those means which have been so abundantly put in practice by another candidate ; but I trust that the Livery of London, who love to see fair play, will , not allow their free choice to be controlled by such hasty proceedings. My claims to the office whioh I now solicit should be shortly and plainly stated : They consist of nine years' service as an Alderman of London, having also filled the office of Sheriff, in 1832, and that of the Chief Magistracy of the City during the last year. The unanimous votes of thanks which I received from the Livery and the Court of Aldermen and Common Council, together with others from numerous bodies of citizens, g have been led to believe were but a correct expression of the general opinion of the manner in which I performed the arduous duties of the Mayoralty, as well as those of a Magistrate of your City. As a Member of the House of Commons, elected by the free choice of 5,000 of your independant neighbours of Southwark, and returned in six successive Parliaments, my conduct has been uniformly con sistent in supporting the corporate rights and privileges of the City of London, and in promoting every sound and liberal measure in the Commons' House of Parliament. The numerous unsolicited offers of support which I have received, And the voluntary formation of a Committee during my absence to promote my election, gives me the fullest assurance of success ; and relying on your attendance at the nomination to-morrow, confidently depending upon your cordial and generous support by polling early. The shortness. of the period between the decease of the late Sir William Heygate, and the day 11xed for the election of his successor, together with the extent of the constituency, and the multifarious ar rangements of a contested election, will prevent me from paying my personal respects to every Liveryman ; and you will, therefore, I Least, make allowance for my apparent neglect in this respect. I beg leave respectfully to announce, that the Common Hall will be held To-aionitow, the sth instant, and that the Lord Mayor will go upon the hustings precisely at One o'Clock, and earnestly request the favour of your early attendance for the purpose of supporting my nomination on the show of hands ; and that you will be good enough to remain and record your vote in my favour upon the poll, should It become necessary to do so. THE- SUN, LoNDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1844. the exigencies of the present crisis. Ships of the line (not hulks, as the National supposes, but the best built and found in the world) we have in abundance ; but of such ships in commission, of the higher classes we have but six or seven in all the waters of Europe including the Formidable, 80, (Mediterranean), and Albion, 90 (Coast of Morocco). When the Whigs quitted office, and Tangiers was not even threatened, nor Mogadore touched, we had in the Mediteranean alone 17 sail of the line. How can Sir R. PEEL justify to the country such a diminished scale of force at such a moment as this ? Sir GEORGE . COCKBURN and Mr. S. HERBERT are, no doubt, ac cording to custom, prepared to prose about the first rate stores, the unrivalled materiel we possess, and the stock of which is always accumulating. To what purpose, if they are not appropriated to the equipment of an ample navy ? Why, to be sold periodically,. at a ruinous loss to the country, as old stores—perhaps for re-sale, by private buyers, to • agents of the French Government. But what has this stock of stores and material to do with the ques tion of manning the navy ? We have, as we have said, ships enough ; but the seamen, wherewith to man them, our puerile policy and Admiralty mismanagement have paid off and scattered over every quarter of the globe, or have not retained, in sufficient numbers out of each paid-oft ship's company, to form a nucleus of able seamen for the due preparation and forming of the new hands and landsmen, supposing we could secure these, without resort to impressment, in sufficient numbers, in any resonable period. But the truth is, for the considera tions we have urged in two or three former articles on this all-important subject, we must, without a day's unnecessary delay, increase our inducements to new as well as to old hands to enter the service, in ,proportion to the exigencies of that service. Will any one deny the serious character of these exigencies ? Are we to commit ourselves to an im plicit reliance upon the declarations by France of her intentions, " not to occupy" in this :war against Morocco ? If you set no value on the paramount influence you have possessed in the Mediterranean during the last century—if it be no longer an object to secure fresh supplies for your fortress at Gibraltar from the nearest ports of Africa—if you would not wish to let France establish a line of military pos session from Oran to the furthest point to which she can advance her posts within the Mediterranean, so as to bring her a little nearer to Malta :—continue to slumber over the peril in which the inertness and old womanish do-nothing fussiness of the present Go vernment has involved you, by permitting this rapid decline in our naval strength. If, on the other hand, we are still alive to the indispensable duty of maintaining, in all its force, respectability, and power of instant exte sion, that establishment, by which alone we have been raised to the supreme rank we occupy among the nations—let us hope that her MAJESTY'S forth coming Speech may contain some indications of a better state of things at hand. If the Government will not so act from a sense of duty, or a just under standing of its responsibilities, let public attention compel it to abandon the vain and expensive folly of maintaining an army of more than 100,000 men, which we ought never to regard as a force, but in the light of a subsidiary and auxiliary to our navy, and appropriate to the expansion, improvement, and efficiency of this latter, some of the millions now an nually lavished on maintaining at a war standard, that which (with all respect for its achievements) we shall still regard as chiefly kept up to be a nursery and school for aristocratic patronage, and the support of iti scions. We should have thought that at this time of day no man, or set of men, could be found to uphold the jus tice, expediency, or morality of the punishment of debt by imprisonment. We advert, of course, to the general and abstract question. For ourselves, we are as far from contending that in cases where debts have been contracted with a dishonest purpose—where an unprincipled design has obviously been formed by col lusion with other parties, or by a course of individual deception and contrivance to cheat and rob the cre ditor, the debtor should not incur the same penalty that the law attaches to conspiracy with intent to de fraud, for example, as we are far from arguing that the law should not carefully discriminate between impru dence or improvidence, and such deliberate practices an other people's property. But to desire to uphold a law which visits upon the crime of a designed and intentional cheating of others, and upon an inability to pay others their just claims, which results either from uncontrollable misfortune, or sheer indiscretion, or even a vicious but thoughtless habit of extravagant living, does seem like a proposition for returning to those days of a barbarous jurisprudence, in which pecuniary amercement was the one principle of punishment adhered to by our Saxon ancestors. But iwe wrong those ancestors by this comparison. For 1 at least their tariff of legal fines and compensa -1 dons was determined by a scale, whereas the amount of the amercement accurately increased with the enormity of the crime for which it was exacted. The iniquity of our law of imprisonment for debt is the very wantonness of its inconsistency. It is administered on a scale which is accurately disproportionate ;—which carefully inverts the scheme of a compensating retribution —which reduces the penalty exactly as the character of the iffence is aggravated in its intensity. Imprisonment - or debt is the terrible vengeance of property against poverty; but it is the stronghold from which insolent :rand defies the penal visitation of law. A wretched, broken down, deserted, ruined man—an obscure gentle .nan,or a petty tradesman, or a small iarmer--a generous friend whose confidence has been abused by the party for whom he has rashly become the responsible se- Jurity ; a man of letters excluded by circumstances which he has failed in the struggle to overcome, from .he favoured circles of booksellers and editors who ,bsorb the public patronage into their own peculiar cliques; a professor of sciences or arts upon which the fashion or the folly of the day has turned an unfavouring eye ;—these, and such as these, form the great staple of that population which crowds our debtors' prisons. Because they have not the money wherewith to meet the debts they have contracted, we carefully segregate them from the world, on daily and hourly commerce with which their livelihood has always depended, in order (at first sight, it might be thought) that they may have no chance of satisfying the creditors at whose suits they are incarcerated. In proportion to their honesty of purpose is their irksomeness of posi tion ; and to this irksomeness of position, the moral and physical prostration which we invoke to the -peediest destruction of all their energies of mind and body, in the wasting, dreary, monotonous torpor of a prison. Now, the bold debauchee who, having made up his mind to undergo a certain term of confinement rather than discharge his just engagements, finds, ;n the habitual indolence and licentious conversation, ample amends for the loss of that freedom of action which he never valued ; the fraudulent bankrupt, who has still the command of secreted moneys or pro perty which he has abstracted from the assets that should be in the hands of his creditors ; the gambling attorney, who, having neglected the interests of one class of clients, and plundered the property of others, i 8 but undergoing the restraint upon which he has coolly calculated as the price to be paid for his mal versations and delinquencies; the former denizen of the turf, or patron of the ring, or betting man, who, baying secured the stakes he stood to win at the last 1 races, or fights, or steeple-chases, has well deliberated wer the greater advantage to be derived from a few weeks or months' incarceration, than from -- : losses he has incurred to other. -' .• raying the prisoned 0.6 whose suit he is im- CI r debt tiTtaherseefZ ' t . he class to whom imprisonment not a terror—a benefit, not E t punishme n t— a natural incident, not a More, cala mity. Until within - the last month or so, when a n ut o -e st b w as ise se a t n f d iee he t tav i o n l dv en i t id interpositionconfined ofthseLs notegis ;. • e x l c a e ti ed ve i n ci g u 2 a o h l t . y , y a o n u d 1 n e ig h h a r t a c a tl e m r o s o t f have debtorsin fe f r r r o e m d t t b l i e e Tileamount sm a 1 0 l e f r t h deb s u e msw t s for o uld be whichfo found d t h t e o y b w e e r o e wi n detained. g, as a general principle, by the purely unfortunate ; the larger, for the most part, by the dishonest and the de signing speculator on " credit." Considering, as we do, that the undoubted service rendered to humanity in an immediate form, and to the cause of all social happiness and order in its ulti mate operation by Lord BROUGHABI'S Bill, will ?reatly outweigh some few isolated instances in which the guilty misconduct of the debtor may be found to have-been rewarded by the emancipation of • his person, and the equitable claims of the creditor to have been virtually annihilated through this grace to the debtor; we have perused with pain and disap pointment the reported proceedings at a meeting held on Monday, at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house. This meeting consisted of solicitors summoned "for the purpose of considering the mode best adapted to pro tect the profession from the aggressions and inter ference of unqualified persons, likely to ensue under the new Insolvent Debtors' Act, " publicly recom mended by Lord BROUGHAM." The solicitors of London, as a body, are no doubt a highly respectable and eminently useful, and an honourable branch of the profession of the law in England. But it is a marvel to us how they should so long have patiently slumbered over the notorious malpractices—the grind ing, oppressive, technical, pettifogging chicanery and combinations of that legion-like community among them, who, almost every week, by the exposure of their nefarious practices as " discounting attorneys," as go-betweens for titled spendthrifts, or swindling, speculative traders, and unsuspected professional firms of usurers and extortioners ; as human vultures who scent from afar the spoils and the feast which modern profligacy is so constantly preparing for their talons in the excesses of youthful extravagance, or titled dissipation, or infatuated credulity—who, almost every week, we say, are thus challenging the scorn and arousing the indignation of the public. It is a marvel to us that the solicitors of London only turn out against these mysterious "aggressions," and these dreadful "unqualified" persons, whoever they may be, when Lord BROUGHAM'S Act threatens to withdraw hundreds, aye thousands of wretched debtors, from the comprehensive fangs of those bills of costs, and detainers, and the rest of all those legalised methods of tormenting the tormented which the good old practice of the dear departed old law so much delighted to supply ! We should be glad to find ourselves mistaken, but we must suppose that this was the "motive" of these gentlemen's opening over ture at Gray's Inn Coffee-house. The worthy Chairman commenced his address by a rather angry fling at the "incorporated Association called the Law Society," for no more valid reason, as it seems to us, than that thai.Society has not turned out against Lord I3ROUGHAM'S Bill of relief for debtors of 201. and under. It was described as consisting of the " more aristocratic members of the profession." (Aristocratic attorneys ! GOD help us, what can they be like ?) Well, no doubt this is a fault in the con stitution of the Law Society. But here be others "It did not adequately represent the bulk of the profession ;" and again—here's the rub—" It made little effort to oppose the measures calculated to de grade and injure the general body." What can these be? Why, Lord BROUGHAM'S Bill, and all others that reduce fees and simplify proceedings—of course. " The present meeting had met to form a protection iociety." For whom ? For victimised clients ? Alas, no ! For the coming dragon's teeth—the fatal em bryo solicitors—the infant aristocracy of the thriving houses of Doe and Roe—the long, long line of Latitat ! " There were few professions," he said, "of which the privileges ought to be more respected.' (A petitio principii, this, with a vengeance!) " The duty of the new society would be to protect the pro fession"— (little ducks and lambs—they need protec tion)—" from the innovation of self•styled legal re- I formers." There, Lord BROUGHAM ; keep down at Brougham Castle. Your Lordship can never survive that vapulation. Your " occupation's gone." At the same time, we are curious to learn whom this Chairman and his supporters would be content to dub a "legal reformer." Some high mechanical genius, possibly, who shall some day discover the art of drawing out pleas and bills of costs from the most in significant elements to the interminable length into which a wire-drawer now coaxes a single penny weight of gold. But the Chairman having thus ex perimented on the feelings of his hearers, seems to have thought it time to practise a little on their credulity. "The Association would endeavour to procure every really useful and practical reform in the law which would enable a poor man to get, and render the rich man more amenable to, justice I" " The Sacristan, he says no word to i n di ca t e a d ou b t, But puts his thumb up to his nose and—spreads his fingers out." He then approached the "immedicabde vulnus'' inflicted on the profession by that clause of Lord BROUGHAM'S Bill, which, according to the construction of some authorities, would absolutely authorise the unhallowed, unfeed hands, of an unprofessional friend to draw up a starving debtor's petition. The Society is "to prosecute all persons not duly qualified to practise as attorneys who shall infringe the provisions of the Act of Parliament relating to that body." The Chairman's speech terminated with some pop-gunning at poor Lord BitouGuAst for his "clap-trap phi lanthrophy," and some impertinent reflections, in very bad taste, on that noble person for cutting down attorneys' fees and costs; in other words, " for beginning, after being elevated to a high position by the profession" (so that "aristocratic attorneys"—not Kings, nor yet Lord Chancellors, confer high judicial rank), "to attempt to abuse and revile the source of his greatness and his riches." Our readers hare possibly by this time had enough of this exhibition of vulgarity and spleen. Yet we cannot forbear from inviting their sympathy in the horror with which we have read a 111 r. GODDARD'S statement that "England and Wales alone contain 11,000 attorneys !" Well may the bulk of our population be litigious, poor, and unhappy. Shade of FREDERICK the GREAT ! will not this appalling fact revivify the mouldering hand which was once pledged to so terrible a " short way" with lawyers ! " They contribute to the revenue as their clerkship fees 1,200,000/., on admission to prac tice 250,0001., and from certificates, 100,0001. an nually." Can Sir ROBERT PEEL gravely reckon on keeping up the public income at a prosperous scale when it is supplemented so largely from such sources ? And if such a body want " protection," forsooth, what must be the desolate and d esperate cond i t i on o f t h e men, women, and children, th e w id ows an d orp h ans , out of whose wants or misfortunes—from whose do mestic misery and privation, so large a portion of this large sum for the mere professional license to practise—is annually drawn ? We suspect the " aristocratic portion" of the profession will think that Mr. WIRE has been very unnecessarily eloquent in calling for a society of "protection." We have accounts from Madrid to the 27th of August. NARVAEZ was concentrating large bodies of troops around the capital, as if some great com motion was about to break forth, but solely, we be lieve, to overawe the friends of liberty. Many arrests had taken place within a few days. According to some of the journals, the Moors, on learning that the French had occupied the island of Mogadore, had set fire to the town. The following letter from Cadiz, of the 22d August, appears in the Ticmpo "It is said that the Moors have set fire to Mogadore, which place has been nearly destroyed. There is nothing astonishing in this, seeing that the island which touches Mogadore has been occupied. A French steamer, which came in to-day, has brought two hundred Moorish pri soners. The authorities are consulting on the point whether they are to be shut up in one of the forts of this s place French until n steameril t h ey left ear. b t h e i conveyed port, qtuoaciwirno. towing five merchantmen, laden with p rov i s i ons for the MARTINEZ DE LA RosA had complied with the request of Queen CHRISTINA, and was expected to leave Paris in a few days. The elections were going on in favour of the Government, The Three per Cents, were done at 27 4-16 at-!!!:`,,.7 days ; the Five per Centis, at o. fi lor cash, and 20 at fifty day. We find no thi ng new in the Paris journals , but abundan c e of articles on tie gtate of affairs in Morocco ? an d the probable intentions of F rance with respect t 5 4 settleinebt o! dA r ences with that coun try. Warlike season. The squa d ron un d e r the Prince DE ;Tom operations are suspe nded for the vu LE has been ordered back to Cadiz, and Marshal BUGEAUD will retire with his forces to Oran. " The scarcity of water," says a Toulon journal, "and great heat, do not permit of operations being continued ; the troops of the Oran division will alone remain on the frontier of Morocco ; those come from the other provinces will return to their respective divisions. This brillian t affair has completely demoralised the enemy. At the moment lam writing, the Moorish army has di: isolved ; the Marshal has, therefore, attained his ob ject, for it must not be imagined that he, for a sing le moment, thought of marching to Fez with his El k le or ten thousand men. The Govern ment orders Re. Vb. 9, besides, formal in that respect." The Journal ap e% Debats is apparently pacific ; but, somehow or other there are occasional threats that N. ' 4,4 France will pursue the course which she has adopted in Africa notwithstanding every opposition. Nothing is sail in that Paper respecting the conditions to be offered by the Duke DE GLUCKSBURGH to the Eat.. PEROR, but the Presse asserts that, among others, France will demand an indemnity for the war, and pledges to assure its payment after peace. It may occur," says that Court paper, for we believe it has pretensions to information from a high source, " it may occur that either in the course of the war with Morocco, if prolonged, or after peace, and to assure the indemnity, France may find herself obliged to oc cupy temporarily some point of the empire. The law of nations authorises her doing so ; but this even tuality much disquiets the English press. It must, however, resolve to resign itself to such a step. France finds herself engaged in a most legitimate war with an independent power ; she enjoys all the privileges of the law of nations ; she cannot be called on to deprive herself of the means of action which the laws of war justify, and the use of which circum stances may render necessary, to please the suscepti bilities, and still less to obey the orders of England. When justice shall have been rendered her, she will evacuate Morocco, as she has engaged to do, and as her interest will counsel her ; but until then she will use the plenitude of her rights ; she will occupy the enemy's towns, if that should appear to her necessary; she will prevent, if requisite, the English from carry. ing on a smuggling trade in warlike stores whilst the war lasts ; and, finally, she will demand an indem nity, and pledges to assure its payment, after the peace. In acting so, France will not injure the just rights of any one, and will remain faithful to all her engagements. No one will, therefore, have a right to find her conduct improper." If such are the conditions to be demanded of Mo rocco, a long period may elapse, and many towns be occupied, before peace is established. We are inclined, however, to take a different view of LOUIS PHILIPPE'S policy. He has in a great measure obtained his objects—the chastisement of the Moors and glory for his son ; and he will, therefore, be anxious to bring affairs to an amicable conclusion with the least pos sible delay. The Journal des Dabats thus adverts to the intentions of the Government : " France, we maintain, is making only a defensive war in Africa--a war which she not only did not seek, but which she endeavoured to avoid, and is desirous of putting an end to as soon as it can be done with honour. It this war has not spread beyond its natural limits—if the echoes of the cannon of Mogadore have not disturbed the general peace, it is because Europe—because England knows, that the policy of France is not guided by hot headed bunglers. 'We know well that certain statesmen consider it to be a claim to glory to send defiance to a foreign power, and this is suited to a Government which wishes to act the savage among civilised nations ; but France has no ambition for such a character. Four years ago a gun could not have been fired in the Mediter ranean without risking a European war, but France now victoriously marches with her banners displayed along the coast of Africa, and by her own strength enforces respect to her insulted dignity and her outraged ho nour, and, at the same time, preserves the peace of the world and the confidence of her allies. The French Government participates in the pride which has been excited in the whole nation by the glory our arms have won in Africa, but it knows not how to convert its legitimate triumphs into insults towards a country which is an ally of France. It is against the Emperor of Mo rocco, and not against England, that we make war. We carry it on to maintain our national honour, to insure the integrity of our possessions, and not to gratify a passion for conquest, and realise projects of aggrandise ment which all France repudiates. These are our sen timents ; we declare the intentions and resolutions of France to be the same as those avowed by the Govern ment in the two Chambers, and which were received with unanimous approbation ; and this it is that excites the spleen of the Opposition journals. Where then is the evil ? Where is the humiliation ? Is it the truth, or is it not ? Is it a great State secret that we reveal ? Are the sittings of the Chambers held with closed doors ? Let the organs of the partisans of war, in England as si France, des take the advantage national jealousies—it to is theirirri ttra well ated trade ;i s ibbnuo we, e who sincerely desire the maintenance of peace, and between particularly France a a continuance n of the friendly re lationspersevere, however much we may scandalise the great statesmen of the Opposition, in using all our efforts to calm down the alarms which the late occurrences on the coast of Africa must naturally create in the public mind in England ; and we shall do this the more freely, as the Government of France is not the less determined to persevere to the utmost in justly exerci s in g it s r i g ht s ." The National, the organ of the war party, looks upon the state of affairs in another light, and has little hopes that the late successes R ill bring the Moors to reason. " Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh." Peace with Morocco would be a heavy blow to the readers of the National, because it would for a while prevent France from humbling, and pro bably subduing England. One half of our ships are rotten hulks, we have no sailors to man them, and only a little energy on the part of Louis PHILIPPE is necessary to strike a fatal blow against the islanders. Our readers will be amused, not frightened we trust, by the insane boasting of this mischievous journal : " There is reason to conclude that if the English Government does not wish to have war, it wishes at least that it should be known that it is resolved and ready. However, to look at matters in their just point of view, we must not take literally this formidable enu meration of ships of the line and of cannons, which the English journals each day publish for the greater glory of Old England, and for the terror of Young France. Under these formidable names of Trafalgar, Waterloo, Vengeance, Foudroyant, &c., are found old hulks but little formidable. The English Admiralty knows it well ; but like that audacious and clever robber, who having takenit into his head to stop a diligence by him self, placed along the road a dozen of stuffed figures armed with guns, it reckons up all the old ruins that former wars have left behind. We must not mistake the matter. Undoubtedly England is strong at sea , nay very strong ; a naval w ar b etween her and us would be for us a difficult and dangerous undertaking ; but her material superiority is not so considerable that she has not to foresee danger herself. Independently of the possibility of a landing on her coasts, she is right in being uneasy about the present state of our navy. If, in a numerical point of view, it leaves much to be desired, it must be borne in mind that England is obliged to keep . up stations in all quarters of the world. For the reason that her line of occupation is immense, her defence is immense also, and it thence follows that we can select for our attack the point where she is most vulnerable, and direct all our forces there. During the first Italian campaign Bonaparte, with 25,000 or 30,000 men, was able by the rapidity of his movements to be everywhere stronger than the enemy. But nothing prevents our applying to naval war this system of con centrated attacks, which Bonaparte so gloriously inau gurated on land. He pointed out the plan, we have only to follow it, remembering that it is precisely 'from having scattered his naval forces that the conqueror of Arcole lost his navy. But, in order to be able to sustain this struggle, there is one condition most essential—it is, not to allow the difference of forces which separates us from England to become greater, and even to diminish it as rapidly as possible ; for if during the interval when England is augmenting her forces we do not augment ours all would be lost, and England would only have to choose the moment when it would suit her to push us down to the modest position to which the hopes of her jealousy assign us." We find the following just remarks on the want of honesty in French journals in Galignanes...Wessenger:— " We have looked carefully over the Opposition jour nals to see what remarks they would make on the letter communicated to the Constitutionnel by M. Blanqui, and in which justice is done to Mr. Hay, the British Consul- General in Morocco, and to his Government. We do not, however, find one word in the way of comment; and, what is more, only one of the Opposition journals has published the lett e r f rom the Constitutionnel. The con fession of wilful or wanton misrepresentation is an effort of magnanimity but rarely witnessed in party journals, but we did not suppose that the spirit of party was so strong as to exclude from the columns of so large a por tion of the press a piece of news which from its import ance is entitled to a place, although it does give the lie to the charges of deception and intrigue which have been lavished on the British Consul." The subjoined are miscellaneous extracts from the papers ;-- The Siecle, alluding to a report that the KING has abandoned slag intyntion of going to England this year, says : " We know that on Saturday a house in Paris, that furnishes certain articles necessary for the King's equip ages, was desired to expedite as much as possible some orders that have been given to it. His Majesty's journey depends upon the issue of the negotiations now in pro gress on the Otaheite affair. If the propositions of M. Guizot are accepted, the King will return the gracious visit made to him last year by Queen Victoria, but should they be refused, the journey will be postponed. Such is the opinion of persons generally well informed, and it appears to us to be too plausible not to be accepted as official." The Constilutionnel says : "It appears that the Cabinet cannot agree on the re compense to be conferred on Marshal Bugeaud for the battle of Isly. Meanwhile it is announced that the King has dispatched to Africa M. de Chelfontaines, one of his orderly officers, with an autograph letter to the Marshal." A letter from an officer on board the French squadron off Magodare, dated the 17th ult., says : " We are to keep for a time possession of the island, the garrison of which is already formed, and the troops have begun to raise fortifications. We shall leave here the brigs of war Argus and Cassard, and a steam sloop. The other ships of the squadron aro about to sail for Cadiz, to repair their damages; we hope afterwards to return to France. Our squadron, during the conflict, threw 16,000 projectiles into Mogadore. The eTemappcs had her sides struck by more than thirty;balls, and her rigging was much cut np. A ball passed through the flag at the topmast bead of the Triton." A correspondent at Tunis writes, on the 18th ult., to the Semaphore of Mar-eilles " We have now in the GoJetta Admiral Parseval Deschene's division, consisting of the Ocean, Inflexible, Neptune, Mlrengo, and Alger, of the line. This fore:: has been sent to meet the possibility of the Turkish squadron, which has left the Dardanelles, coming to Tunis, and putting into execution the designs against this Regency, which the Di‘an has not yet abandoned. But we doubt whether it will this year, any more than it did the last, mAke the attempt, and the French Government will be let off with keeping its ships some two or three months in this roadstead, until, in fact, it hears that the Turkish fleet has returned into the Dardanelles." THE BOURSE-MONDAY. SEPT. 2 First Highest Lowest Last . Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perCznts l2O 55 .. 120 70 .. 120 55 .. 120 65 Three per Cents.— .• 80 75 .. 80 90 .. 80 75 .. 80 85 Bank of France • • 3050 ..3055 .. 3050 .. 3055 L -Witte Bank, I,ooof. ShareslCBo .•1080 • • 1089 —lOBO Belgian Fives, 1831. 1840 •• •• 1041 104} .. 1041 .. 1041 1842 .... .• 1064 . • 1064 .. 1064 .. 1061 Spanish Active •• ••••• • • • • • 30 .. 30 .. 30 .. 30 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 441 • . 441 .. 441 .. 441 Neapolitan.. • ...... •• • • •• 97 90 .. 98 • • 97 90 .. 98 Roman .. 1044 .. 1044 .. 1041 .. 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. _ Versailles, 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50 L. 8....... 242 50 .. 245 .. 242 50 .. 213 Rouen •• • ...... ..• • • • • •• •• 966 25 .. 966 25 .. 966 25 .. 966 25 Rouen to Havre.... 732 50 .. 735 .. 732 50 .. 733 75 Orleans ....... 962 50 .. 962 50 .. 960 .. 961 25 Strasburg to 8a1e.... Avignon to Marseilles.— 75C .. 750 • 750 750 RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, 3o OF SEPTEMBER. Versailles, L. 8....... •••• •. 243 75 .. 245 .. 243 7.5 .. 243 Rouen ..........•••• .• Rouen to Havre. • • •• • • 733 75 735 .. 733 75 .. 732 50 Orleans . ..... •••••• •• •• 957 50 .. 963 75 .. 957 50 .. 963 75 Strasburg to 8a1e... ...... . 238 75 .. 233 75 . 237 50 .. 238 75 Avignon to Marseilles• • • • • . 750 .. 750 .. 750 .. 750 RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBER 30. Versailles, L. 8.....•••• •• •• 243 75 .. 243 75 .. 243 75 243 75 Rouen ...• •• •• •• •• •• 970 .. 970 .. 967 50 . 968 75 Rouen to Havre.. 735 .. 736 25 .. 735 .. 736 25 Orleans . Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 240 .. 240 .. 240 .. 240 Avignon to Marseilles...—. 751 25 .. 751 25 .. 751 25 .. 751 25 We can state, upon an authority in which we have implicit confidence, that the Ist battalion of her Ma jesty's 60th Regiment, and her Majesty's 61st Regi ment of Foot, which were at Cork, under orders for immediate embarkation for India, are not to proceed thither. The ships which were to have conveyed them, sail immediately for their original destination with the baggage of these troops (about 2,000 strong). The regiments in India which they were intended to relieve, it is now pretty certain are not, at present, to return to this country. We leave our readers to draw their own inferences from these facts; but it would be idle to deny ;that they afford no prima facie :en couragement to those mere pacific speculations in which one of our Contemporaries, yesterday, so emphatically indulged. THIS DAY S NEWS. MONEY AND CoICIMERCI Al. NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was very dull and heavy. Prices were fully i t d. per lb. lower than the highest point of last week, and the sales did not ex ceeds 2,000 bales. There was a good demand for Rail ways, and prices generally still had an upward tendency:— Birmingham and Gloucester, 544 ; Chester and Holy head, 61 ; Dublin and Belfast, 31 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Grunton, 174 ; Grand Junction, 217} ; Ditto, New, Quarters, 39i ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 364 ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares, 374- ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 109 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 85k ; South• Eastern, 384; York and Salby, 36 premium ; Ditto, 25/. Shares, 18 premium ; Paris and Orleans, 37} ; Paris and Rouen, 371. This is a very dull day as respects the receipt of infor mation from the British settlements. • The City is in an excited state, owing to the exertions of the friends of the candidates to obtain the victory in the election of Chamberlain. Alderman Humphrey's Committee is sanguine as to the result. The prices of Consols have fluctuated from 98 to 99k. The Commissioners did not purchase to-day. A sale of some amount depressed the prices, but now for Money Consols are worth 981 and for Account 98i. The Reduced Three per Cents. have been done at 991 for Money, and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101. There was a shade of improvement in the pre mium upon Exchequer bills. Bank Stock is now short. An advance has taken place in Chilian Bonds to-day to 1021 r, and in Colombian ex Venezuelan to 131. Spanish Five per Cents, were quoted only at 221, and the Three per Cents. at 33g. The Dutch Two-and a- Half are heavy. The Five per Cents. are quoted at 104 In general the Railway Share market bas been flat this morning, ss the list of quotations will show. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock ••••••• 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities •••••• ..... 91% 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities -99 98 % : 14 per Cent. Reduced Annuities T0214 New 3 per Cent. ....... 10 %% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.........«. 12 7-16 Ditto 30 Year:, Expire sth Jan. 1860. l2 3-16 India Stock India Bonds.l,ooo, .................... Ditto under 1,000. ...... • ................ ••••••••••••••• Consols for Account • ...... ••••••••••••. ..... ••••••• 99% 93% India Stock for Account 2Bl Etchequer Bills, INd. ly6d 1,0001. 73 75 Plll. 5004 .... ..• ••••• ..... •••••••••••• 73 75 pm. Ditto ....... •• •••••••••••• /5 73 pm. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Chilian Bonds,6 per Cent 1024 Columbian Bonds. 13 %% Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 2. Ditto for the Account ...........«....».» 22% Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account 33% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4l Ditto Deferred ll4 Dutch 24 per Cents. 61%% Dutch 5 per Cents. ........»....»....«.»....»....« lOO% .PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ..... .... 110 to 111% Bristcil and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O .... ........ 5.5%... to 56% Dublin and Cashel. Eastern Counties ..... ................ ..., 13%%,.... to Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3B. 4c1.... Di ttr Ditto (No. 2) Ditto . . Eastern Union Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 66 .. to Great Western Ditto 34 Shares ............. ....... 50 .... ..... 85. Ditto k'ifths l2 ..... .... 25% lAA_ to London and Birmingham. lOO ... . ...221 % London and Blackwall... ........ ... 16% London and Brighton 5O 48% IA % to London and Greenwich London and South Western ...... 41% Ditto Eighths London and Croydon Lynn and Ely. Manchester and Leeds 7O . ...... to Ditto % Shares - - --...—. - - - ... Midlandeounties Birmingham and Derby North British 2% ...... 3% t 4 ... to Northern and Eastern 45 — to Ditto U Shares Norwich and Brandon South Devon South Eastern and Dover T2% 38%% ... to York and North Midland ..... .... 50 108% Ditto % Shares 25 Ditto Selby Scrip Paris ..nd Orleans 2O 3730i, ... to, MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 3.—We have had more business doing to-day, and prices are well maintained.—Barnsley Junction, 34 ; Blackburn Burnley, and Accrington, 21; Caledonia, 4 3-16 ; Churnett Valley, 21; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 161 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 50-4- ex. div. ; Man chester and Buxton, 2i ; North Union, 125. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 843 fl. . THE WEATHER—SIIN OFFICE, SEPT. 4. TdEB.MOMETER, Lowest, 59 ; Highest, 68; Noon, 67. BenonnrrEn, 30 I.—Wnin, E.S.E. Nom—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 0 minutes after 6 I Evening ... 19 minutes after , . 41 V...1t .. • • , .1 , ;,. k , 1 .-- ,::- • , - -, , 44 . . 2 . 4 .10*- - li q el:lkit?' ,:. ( 4%. •' , 1 ' .' - 4101P6. ' '..i l 4 (16* ..... ' .. ' ."-EILIk , •'• 47 • d t 0S• - . ~,,Alliv `'''' ..\ ' • ; 1% I Pre . ' SECOND EDITION.. rn LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1844 The questions referred tothe House of Lords on the Irish State Trials may now be regarded as settled. The Judges have given their opinions ; they are unani mous, with the exception of two; but we fear their decisions will have little influence with the House of Peers. Baron PARKE is an excellent Judge, though it.is singular that, in two important questions, he has chosen to differ from his colleagues—men of the first eminence in the law, and the majority of them never suspected either of partiality or defect of legal know ledge. It is, however, a good set-off. The Tories are trying to make themselves popular in Ireland, and these Judges may possibly imagine that this opposition to the verdict of their colleagues may have a good effect. They are miserably mistaken. Two out of nine or ten are nothing. They know well that the House of Lords will pay every attention to their opinion, but at the same time say, " We must be guided by the general decision, and the Writ of Error must be nega tived." It has altogether been a most bungling busi ness. The Judges, according to the Writ of Error, had no means of judging the most important points. They had only some extraneous matters of law to de cide, and with the usual technicality of the profession they confined themselves to mere dry details, without entering upon the question of justice or injustice. Mr. O'CONNELL'S fate, however, is now sealed. The House of Lords, which meets this day, will discuss the subject. We shall hear speeches from Lord BROUGHAM, Lord DENMAN, Lord LYNDHURST, and Lord CAMPBELL; possibly some of them of great and unnecessary length ; but, whatever they say, the result will be this—the Writ of Error is negatived, so that after a great display of justice, and an appeal against a sen tence in full operation, Mr. O'CONNELL and his friends will find themselves in the position in which they were left by the fighting Irish Attorney- General and the bigoted Irish Bench. What Sir ROBERT PEEL may do is a question of futurity, and of little importance. He may advise her MAJESTY to remit the remainder of the sentences, to which her MAJESTY was from the beginning opposed ; but will that conciliate the Irish, or compensate for any one of the grievances of which they justly complain ? Mr. O'CoNNALL will issue from his prison only to be more worshipped. On a dispassionate review of all the circumstances connected with the so-called adjustment of the mis understanding between France and England on the Otaheite question, we are compelled to admit that we are by no means satisfied with the nature or the amount of the concessions by the French Govern ment, to the demand we have made of satisfaction for " a gross outrage," committed by its servants, on the personal rights, and the public authority of a British Consul. There is nothing in all the special pleading of the French journals—nothing in the laboured explanations contributed by some of our own daily Contemporaries—that has yet explained away either the brutality and insolence of the French officers, or vindicated, from the impudent slight which they have put upon it, the honour of our flag, and the dignity of our SOVEREIGN, disparaged in the imprisonment of her Consular Representative. With all our ardent love of peace, we consider that its blessings may be purchased on too exorbitant terms ; and the worthlessness of the cause of quar rel—the remoteness of the scene of action —the semi -barbarism of the party whom we had inter fered to rescue from an * unmanly and disgraceful aggression —these are elements that do not at all ne cessarily extend into the consideration of a subsequent affront to our national honour. The Morning Herald finds no more striking anology to illustrate its notion of the absurdity of England and France being betrayed into a rupture about so worthless a matter, than "two Patagonians, fighting for a sea-calf. claiming each of them the belligerent support of either power." Whether, in this lively figure, Queen POMARE or Mr. Consul PRITCHARD is to be taken for the type of a sea-calf, as many a profound writer i s every day for that of a land-calf, we do not under stand ; but it is a figure quite inapplicable, unless it could be shown that the misunderstanding between England and France are about the property or possess sion of Otaheite itself. Diplomatic functions and relations might have been equally violated on the high seas—in the Consular -office —at a public festival— even in a public theatre. Is the Herald prepared tc say there has been no violation of them in Mr PRITCHARD'S case ? Sir ROBERT PEEL has:declare( the conduct of the French authorities to have amounted to a " gross outrage." Is the simple cen sure or suspension of D'AUBIGNT or BRUAT to br taken as an acquittance in full for, first, the irArprisou. meat, and secondly, the expulsion of Mr. 11ITCHARD? This facility on our part will vasf2ty enhance the im portance and influence of our consular agents in times to come ! But, perhaps - P rance is disposed to make us amends by signalizl„g her forbearance and respect in other quartP:rs. We have old-standing relations of amity and good-will with the Emperor of MOROCCO. ShE invades his territories from her Algerine frontier. under the pretext of their having afforded an asylun. to a very gallant native chieftain, who had long suc cessfully resisted her occupation of Algeria, and se verely chastised the French forces which had pushed far and wide their campaign of wanton desolation and extirpation, by fire and sword, over an independent country of Africa. That country France had so lemnly pledged herself, in the face of all Europe, not to occupy. That pledge she subsequently falsified, with a degree of political effrontery almost un matched in the history of her monarchy. Was th. Emperor of MOROCCO—still an independent SOVE REIGN—tO refuse the asylum of his dominions to the valiant ABD-EL-KADER ? The French insist or satisfaction for his harbouring that chieftain, com plain that he is in communication with him, and de mand his expulsion from the empire. In the course of the events which rapidly ensue on the occupation of Ouchda, they bombard Tangiers, and inflict the same - punishment on Mogadore. With both Tangiers and Mogadore we had commercial relations ; exten sive ones with the latter. The bombardment is inflicted in the presence of a fractional representatior. of the British navy, with circumstances of very sig. nificant application ; and our fractional force, acting under orders, looks idly on at these vain but destruc tive demonstrations of European artillery, on the towns and fortresses of our African ally. Instantly the press ofFrance—Monarchical, Republican, Move ment party, one and all—teems with insulting sarcasms at our patient passiveness ; with fierce gasconader about the coming hour of French naval su pre'naacy, and undi sgu i se d c l amours f or e war with England, on the avowed grouL d o f our weakness and deficiency in that naval arm w hi c h was once the terror of the world. :be National, it its overboiling zeal, commits, ' co b e sure, the ludi• crous error of treating f .. - °;r . - of our n ewes t and mast formidable line-of-b::, fle ships, whigh have no t yet been out of b ready foK s ea) ;4rbour,i but ttlt " advance s hip s an d in ts i `old hulks,' fo rm id a bl e ofil3 the, names of Trafalgar, Waterloo, Le Foudroy azi4w V engeance." But th e an i mus of all this is plain 1 enough. Our neighbours draw their own moral from I Mediterranean unity Let U 3 n o t imitate them by seeking consolati in vain words. Ridi culous as their vaunting may on be. there is too much of truth in their depreciating esti mate of our naval force. Not the Mediterranean or Levant squadron alone, whether cruising in that sea, or running down the western or Atlantic coast of Africa, but the whole of our efficient force of ships of the line, in commission, are scandalously, dangerously, inexcusably reduced, and utterly disproportionate to MARKET NE WS.-( THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. Notwithstanding the arrivals of English Wheat have been very limited since our :last report, the demand for that article was in a very sluggish state ; aid when sales were pressed, lower prices were accepted for,the middling and inferior qualities. So little was doing in Foreign Wheat, both for and in bond, that the rates were almost nominal. Barley and Malt met a very strong inquiry, and prices were barely supported. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour, was quite as dear. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour English 2,040 qrs. -qrs. 650 qrs. 2,lsosaeks. Irish - 2,030 - --- 2,280 310 -- Malt. 1,650 qrs. WEITECH.B.PEL. For the time of year we had lalei a large supply of Meat, while the trade was in a very sluggish state, at barely stationary prices :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 2s 6d to'3s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. 4.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze, and fine. DEAL, SEPT. 3.—Wind E. to E N.E., a strong breeze. —Sid. Morayshire, Sydney; Sharp, Ceylon; Shepherd, Ichaboe ; Jane, Cape Coast Castle. OFF BEACHY HEAD, Auc. 31. Aberdina, Baltimore, for Bremen. WIIITSTBLE, SEPT. 3.—The Friends of Liberty, for Rye, and Margaret (schooner), from London to Wales, got on the Middle Sand this morning, and the Alpha, of Preston, for Bristol, on the Spaniard Sand, but they all came off without assistance. LLA.NMADOCK, AuG. 31.—The schooner Margaret, of Bristol, was raised to-day, and carried near the shore and placed on harder sand—cargo discharging. SHEERNESS, SEPT. 3.—The Achilles, from London to Portsmouth, struck on the Cant this morning, but has got off, and has come into this harbour leaky. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3.—Wind S.S.E., light.—Arrd. Victoria, White, Barbadoes ; Independence, New York. The Letherland, at Dublin, from China, was attacked in a calm, off the Anambus, China Seas, by a piratical proa, which sheered off, after being fired at two or three times, and leisurely surveyed the ship out of gun-shot ; a breeze springing up, enabled the former to proceed. The South-Western Railway Directors/have an nounced their intention to apply forthwith to Parliament for leave to make a direct line from Salisbury to Exeter; and Mr. Locke, the e minent engineer, is at present sur veying the country. Tie saving of distance is about 30 miles, and the route will include the populous towns of Yeovil. Sherborne, &c.— Western Times. THE HERRING FISHING.—We regret that the her ring fishing has utterly failed this year in the Moray Firth, and even at Wick the take has been deficient. To day about sixty persons arrived at Dingwall on their re turn from Burghead and other places, to the West Coast, and they are sadly disappointed at the result.—Ross shire Advertiser. THE STATE TRIALS, WRIT OF ERROR. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIS DA I JUDGMENT IN TIIE CASE OF O'CONNO AND OTHER 3. .4 0 1 The approaches to the Hou s e o f Peers v 4 . - .„ crowded this morni n g a s th e y were on .Mondayl; within five minutes after th e d oors wer e opened galleries and the space below the bar were filt, every part. The counsel o c cupi e d the same P that they did on Monday. The att en dance of ico was large. Among those present we observed the Marquis of Winchester, the Earl of Verulamw Earl of Stradbroke, the Earl of Shafte s bury, the th , of Hardwicke, Viscount Strangf or d, L o rd Itede s ; Lord Beaumont, Lord Brou g h am , Lord Den y Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. , 4 1 The Bishop of LICHFIELD and Covzicrla prayers. The LOAD CHANCELLOR laid on the table th e , plementary report of the Commis s i on ers of B:Ye 4 His Lordship then took his seat upon the Wools' a quarter after ten. GRAY e. THE QUEEN (IN Erato .) This case was the first called on for judgmen t ' The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that in this es se d could not find anything to add to the argutne fl el ia the majority of the judges, that he was satisfied 11bt the conclusion to which they had come, 13 ,, d 0 S therefore moved that the judgment of the court " - t o should be reversed, and that a venire de novo s hod if necessary, be granted. Lord BROUGHAM agreed entirely in the solu e f° nion, and in fact never entertained a doubt 1 1 1 )°n subject. dr Lord CAMPBELL was also of opinion that the i t ment ought to be reversed, and with all resPeca 01 the opinion of the majority of the Irish judges the Learned Barons who agreed with theiru'os thought they were confounding the reason anu te d rule. The reason for granting the pereolP challenge might be in favorem vitro , but the ruk, e a, to grant the peremptory challenge in all cases of il' o rs and so the rule must remain until the Legi° should think proper to alter it. The motion for reversing the sentence 111 15 ( 10 agreed to, and it was ordered that the court below,,, issue a venire de novo. O'CONNELL AND OTHERS v. THE q-, (IN ERROR)—JUDGMENT. e itS The Lonn CHANCELLOR moved that in this judgment of the court below be affirmed. W he p li fsil case and the record of the proceedings in it wer e presented at their Lordships' bar, it had cu e 01 to him, as he believed it had occurred to e tb oi other Noble Lord who had attended to 1,01 1 proceedings, that it would be proper!, 4 01 with reference to the questions to be r 01r and to the nature and character of the ote_:i es to cumstances connected with the case, and insr avoid all possible suspicion of political- t n ,„ o , ' the part of their Lordships' House, ° w ill the assistance of the judges. That O w ls had been requested, and those learned person s (' 0' assembled in their Lordships' House, and ha l e tended with their accustomed patience to th e e be d 'rate arguments which with great legal ability been urged at their Lordships bar. As soon—a pet' consistent with their other duties, those learn` tb s sons had assembled together, had :consulted ° o l o' subject, and after giving it most mature and }std' tive consideration, had attended before their Its $ ships' and hid communicated to them the resu m iste their consideration. With respect to all the r i - n oos except one question, their judgment was Oen f With respect to that other question, seven -roar; learned judges, with the Chief Justice of the vi e es ti of Common Pleas at their head, had expressed ~1 10 0 0 distinct, and decided opinion against the 051 . e t wel' which had been urged. Two others of the .I t , P ro' 3 for whom he had the greatest possible .resPeF; flounced an adverse opinion ; but in his °Pit O f t he might be permitted to say, that he was sn' s li 4 ' ; Lordships' concurred with him, at least 5 it)! them as were present on the occasion, t see opinion was accompanied with much doubt en o je . o tation. He thought, under these circumstanc e '' , a stf their Lordships were thoroughly and entireli 411 fled, that the opinion of the great Pl e b!: of the judges was founded on a 1- 7, 0 0 error, that they would feel themselve s . 0 4", by their decision to adhere to and support ther4 o o ment, and to act in conformity with it. Beaneill shortly state the nature of the question; s n os e! the full discussion it had already undergone, be, t ow only briefly suggest such arguments as occurreo,oetl. mind in support of the opinion which he enter b ",,sto The indictment in this case consisted of several e e pt —they were elm en in number. A general jtiabee/ had been pronounced by the court. Some-Of obe counts were stated, by the unanimous opinion °ne judges, to be defective in point of law—to ch sr : - th l indictable offence. Others of those counts , ,, s l er re' opinion of the judges, were defective in ao°4'ooootois spect—not that there was any defect in the • themselves, but in the findings, and the enterin!jer the findings of the jury on those counts. T h e ;de tion was, under such circumstances, whether 0,10,e1l fective count in an indictment, and other coo: en ter were defective in respect to the findings 5u ar ings of the findings upon them, a gene lli er al i merit could be sustained ? Their ilbei would observe that this was a mere ret , question a question, he admitted, t, s o r e e i importance, which was never presented to r itr oio below, not arising from their judgment, bil b er o de out of the manner in which the Judgment P, up by those who were to discharge that clu e lf oi so t ; could only' repeat such of the arguments 511 ' 10 0 4 t dressed to their Lordships, but he must be a' ais sec ' say that he always considered it as a clea r ' o ilati and undoubted principle of the criminal lavi_ ea se t land, that a general verdict was sufficient iv 0 0 0 this nature. Lord Mansfield laid it down in b e tiv ee s , distinct and full terms; he drew a distinct ion he civil and criminal cases. In civil cases e s s teoF e r where there was a general verdict and gen era sistin g . _ et given by the jury upon a declaration c°u (ie feeti v ;a several counts, and one of those counts we' s s ets.`s the judgment might be arrested, or, if it o'l l ' bu s c l e f up, it might be set aside on a writ of error ; effe ct or regard to the same point—namely, as to th e re ,' Pi se one defective count where there was a gene s, ment, he said that was good in crimina l erTst ` stated it was good in criminal cases, 50701. 1 1 ° same time, he regretted that the It i be ever been differently laid down in civil 01 5 °,101 1 4 said there was an exception to this rule, to tit ia would presently allude. Lord Mansfield,.' ses ive9p the rule in terms, broad, general, comprel!` sts sas bf t without any exception whatever. But that A s t bi the opinion of that Learned Judge aleoes sep sh bb ' s time he was supported and assisted on the Z ree il some of the most able judges that ever ea; o f ied tribunals of the country, and that opini° and Mansfield was expressed in their presebe% n ot 0 , course had their concurrence. That it 11 , 1 4 s irr u o e opinion hastily formed was obvious from his the stance, that on a subsequent occasion, in nn u do nel reported in " Cooper's Reports," he 151"esnie clif f. same doctrine in the same terms, in the nue prehensive manner, without any exceptionZtit el; cation whatever. He took it, therefore, I n u, sbat he the general rule, and from the first momeenty tha ever entered the profession down to the 1; 110 ,m_ r he ' l e d heard it agitated at their Lordships ' u heard it called in question. It was unu ffe s e upon without doubt and hesitation•o,oolrsheld it in all the treatises and , tee x he, dist the subject. For the first TL.lll tba ens' it stated at their. Lordships' o f jd°6 l ,„a rule only applied to motions in arrest i nn befor e ' it/ He had never heard of such a do u '', r s ancti °ll to tefl he was quite sure there was no case L°.., so be 5 40 no decision to warrant it—no authority n ( pa B a se _ . in support of it. T:he Learned s a id no g er i who was in a minority OL , this occasio (the Prite, surprised to find it called in question.. 11 that sill on Chancellor) confessed that .he shared 1 41 0 and he was quite satisfied, after all be , n - do ub o n, the subject, that there -was no groun . d w 2i xi sistel s r, ground for the exception which bad be e 1 o t the„ia Observe what was the constant pract i ce ‘ .,_ st on for because from that practice they would co pse ee s find what the law was. In civil cases the c°l lis f' 4 the plaintiff deliberately examined the eyed or;0; on what count the verdict was to be en. enter t' the purpose of avertisig the consequences " °e in it upon a bad count. Thal never took Pit o less ii ; ) , minal case; and this could not arise be L c:n os e & t i l e tention was given to criminal cases, or beta as sel were less astute. Now what was I f Could b ee ground for exception ? It was , said, h°,„"sci no t I _:,es know that a part of the punishment . 3 awarded on a defective count ?J fi ggr e eof damages were awarded by the jurjr in t u a n t rtie n ti nt• sum, and the court could not tell. sc , l defecti ve c° breg ; them were awarded in respect of the the & i nt en t They had no means of apportioning' the judg,i be and therefore it was necessary that it shoullosl should be arrested, or if entered up, that, el l : 00 1d reversed. But no such rule prevailVinen rn t cases—it wes not necessary that pun' s % sa ck c s ao be awarded on any particular count. 1,4 mild ° ere ct tion could be sustained. No person . e " 0 re re , was not in the confidence of the jue_' sle s b 9 e of what judgment had been awarded,wars a s ec_' - ve a ference to the record itself. If there sP . the le s ar eo, l count, did it by any means follow that roPr illteie tb ° judge in awarding punishment had . 0 1 131 3 ...espec s part or assigned any part of it. APP= u the two so count? There was no similarity sssra si ne They could not from reason argue no and has took rnen fore, 'nen take inen th en !n ee take, its if re m tn en parti Nis( Cord been °the Su r ref, the