The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-31 00:00:00

TIM WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAY 30. THERMO3IETER., Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 55. BAROMETVE 30 05 —WIND N E NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the f-eeding point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. Novi ready at all the Libraries, in 3 cols, SECOND EDITION of "C 0 NIN GSBY; OR, THE NEW GENERATION." By B. D'ISRAFALI, Esq., M.P. Henri Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbol ongh-str3et. Pnblistied this day; JAP.TAIN PIDDING'S CHINESE OLIO and TEA TALK", price 2d. (to be continual in Weekly Nrm hers and Monthly Parts), No. V. Contents :—Life'of Candipa a Christial Chinese Lady of rank (continued)—Poetry of Natcre, according to the Chinese—Chinese Bacchanalian Song—lAfe of TeirF• che-ho-ang-jo, Emperor of China, Builder of the Great Wall, and In cendiary of the Books of the Chinese Empire (continued)—Anecdotes of Chinese History, Tao and Chum —Curious Chinese Receipts and Remedies—The Prisous of Canton—Amoy—Steam Communication with China by Panama—Rnssfa and China—Tea Talk, latest arrivals from China—State of Markets there—Weekly View of the English Tea Market, &o. &c. rublished for the Proprietor by George Berger, 19, 11 0 1 .rwe] siaTet, Strand; sad sold by all B)kEellers and Newsvenders. HER:MAJESTY'S THEATRE. . TO-MORROW EVENING, JUNE ), Will be performed Roisini's Opera of IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, by Madame Grist, Signor Mario, Signor Lab!ache, S.gnor F. Lablathe, and Signor Fornssari. • - •.• After-which will -be presented, a New Divertissement, composed by Mdlle. 'Cerito, eddied LA VI V ANDIERE, iutrochicin3 La Redowa Polka, by Mdlle. Cerito and M St. Leen. To conclude With ine Gran! IPillet entitled ALMA (omitting the First Tabteaul-, in which Wiles. Cerito and Erassi, and Mons. M. St. Leon and Perrot will appear. . Applications (or ~axes, Stalls, and Tickets to be mace at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. Tt e Opera will commence at HalCpasf Seven.' HER• MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Wuryaerii>e;a to the Opera, and the Public,.are re spectfully informed that there will be an extra Night (not included in the Subscription) • ON THU RSDAY NEXT, JUNE 6, When will 13eimilcirn;.71fforthe last time } Belli . ni's Opera of I IJRITANI. . _ Elvira, Madarpe Grisi; Giorg_io, Signor Lahlache; Arturo, Signor Mario; and Riccardo, Signor Fornasari with 'other Entertainments; in which Ma - fame Persiani will appear. After which, • will - be presented a New Divertissement, entitled LA VIV-ANDIERE, nitroducing the Redowa Polka; the Original piney of Bohemia, by,Mdlle,Cer:to and M. St. Leon. To conclude with a Selection from the Grand Ballet, ONDINE. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box *Mee, Opera.colonnade. • • • THEATRE RUYA L. DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADEMOISELLE LUCILE &RAHN, Extraordinary Attraction for the Last Night of the Season. - - TII3S EVENING. MAY :31, Will be performed A GRAND CONCERT. After which, thy revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, AL • Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr.• W. H. Payne, Zulma, Rldlle. Lucile Grahn; Zelika, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem, To be followed by BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Gnathrain, Mr. Meadows; Blue Peter, Mr. Barker; Black- Eyed Susan, Mrs. Stirling. In the course of the Evening Mr. BUNN wilt ADDRESS THE AUDIENCE on the CLOSE of the SEASON. To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT, i i which Mdlle. Lucile Grahn will introduce her celebrated Pas de Venus. THEATRE_ ROYAL, HAYMARKET. .MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE THIS EVENING, MAY SI, Will be perfornied the Coinedy of A CURE FOR THE HE ART ACHE.• Old Itaisid, Mr. W. Farren; Young Rapid. Mr. Charles Mathews; Vortex, -Mr. Strickland; Frank Oatland, Mr. Webster ; Filen Vortex, Mrs Edwin Yarnold; Miss Vortex, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia 13,11:.ett. To which will be added a New Original Domestic Drama, entitled I . IIE SEMPSTRESS. Goldring, Mr. Strickland; Bob Debit, Mr. H. Hon ; Plainword, Mr. Stuart; Mercy Goliring, Miss P. Horton; Lley Sparkle Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed by the extraordinary Performances of Professor RISLEY and his TWO INFANT SONS. To coneude with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. ' PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MAY 31, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don Hen riquez do Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La Ctterina, Madame Anna Thillon; Diana, Miss Grant. After whirl), BOMB ASTES FURIOSO. To conclude with THE SOMNAMBULIST; or, The Village Phantom; Elvino, Mr. Hilbert; ,mina, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROY AL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA- HOUSE. . • , Unde.r the llanagement of Mrs. KEELEY. Open sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audiences THIS EVENING, MAY.3I. Will be repeated a New and Comic Drama, cal ed TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, and Emery, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. To which will be added a New Comedietta, entitled THE WHITE FEATHER. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Collier, Craven, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Fairbrother To be followed by Apropos Bagatelle. called POLK AMANIA Characters by Mc F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, M. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mts. Keeley. To conclude with a 1+ an 1 Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or. a Night with the Forty Thieves. Hassarac, Mr. Keeley; Morgiana, Mrs. Keeley. ASTLEY'S ROY AI. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. " Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Splendid Whitsun Holiday Fetes. • • 11-US EVENING. MAY 31, Will be repeated as entire new Military and Naval Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE CHINESE 'VAR; or, The Conquests of AmOy by 137itish Arms. Noce Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, ke., to realise the recent triumphs of England's Army -nd Navy. Entire Change in the Scenes of the Circle. Brilliant Cavalcade—Feats of Horsemanship—The celebrated Polka Dance by Mille. Cushnie and Signor Milano. Toc ticlude with a Laughable Farce. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE Extraordinary Novelty—Engagement of Mr. G. Wieland, and Three Entirely New Pieces. THIS EVENING, MAY 31, Will be reneated a New Drama in Three Acts, entitled THE INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE. in which Nirssig. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, Honnor, Vale, Lewis, and Johnson; Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Hicka, will perform. After which a New Burlesque entitled GEORGEY BARNWELL. Supported by Messrs. Vale, Neville, Heslop, Mrs. Da'y, and Miss Terre): To conclude with a Grand Fatty Spectacle c illed THE SPRITE OF THE SNOW DRIFT. Zimmeir. the Sprite, by Mr. G. Wieland. Superb Scenery and Dresses. Extraordinary effects, and Wonderful Bats. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. OPEN EVERY EVENING. FIRST WEEK OP BIADEMOISELLE ROSSINI, IN ADDI. TION TO THE WIZARD'S NEW WONDERS. The Great WIZ ARD OF 'I OE NORTH is proud to announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that he has, at an enormous expense, succeeded in engaging, for Twelve Nights only, Madelle. ROSSINI, The Great Lady Violinist. She will hare the honour of giving her Fifth Grand Vocal and Instrumental CONCE&tT, THIS EVENING, the 3:st Inst., and every evening during the Week, assisted by M. ADOLPHUS COLLINI, EMMA COLLINI, VICTORIA COLLINI, and JOSEPH COLLINI. The stage will have a most brilliant sppearance ! To give effect to the most novel Concert ever given in England, a GRAND SCENE has been painted exp-essly for this occasion, by Mr. William Beverley, AN ALLEGORY IN HONOUR OF HAN. DEL, representing THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC ! The Great WIZARD OF THE NORTH is quite aware that the Pubic expects something now at this season; he is happy to say he will not deviate from "a good old rule;" for he is con.. vinced he has prepared the most splendid Banquet that can be offered to the Public ; in short, his present arrangements will totally eclipse all his former etlbrt4. He will, in addition to his already unparalleled performances introJuce NEW WONDERS, among which will be an origin ii Experiment, Magic Filtering, the Enchsnted Silver Fish, and the Golden Circlet, with other asto nishing New Mirse es, which will decide a question at issue. This Entertainment will be divided into Four Parts : Part I. The WI Z ARD lvr!11;a - n - ITotTrinhi; Mystic Circle. Part 11. The ARAB BROTHERS' Classical Groupirms. Part 111. Maddlle. ROSSINI'S GRAND CONCERT, in the Temple of Music. Part IV. a.al Conclusion, The WIZARD'S second mystic hour. Doors open at Half-past Six, to commence at Seven, ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, LONDON in the OLDEN TIME—GREAT FIRE of LONDON— PBO3IENADE CONCERTS-SUPERB MENAGERIE. The Proprietor has the utmost pride in contemplating the results of the First Pour Nights of the Season. The thousands who, in de fiance of the weather, havecrowded the Gardens each Evening, have pronounced the Geiieral Arrangements to surpass all former efforts, and decides him to continue the Exhibition Four Nights each Week —viz., Monday, Tues lay, Wednesday, and Thursday. The Day- Light View of the Matchless Picture is attractive beyond all former precedent—it is a perfect Gem. Open it Nine—Feeding of the Carnivora at Five—Concert at Six— Confiagra' ion at Dusk. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and }Yorks of Art ever known to have been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro- Peak history, vlz.--CIIIRLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS NIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke o. Wellington. the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies. also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost Incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, In this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to he, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it; and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS Lave stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admix. ion is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSE fi'3l is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Piccadilly, daily from Ton till Dusk. lUGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIES DAY. Morning ... 37 minutes after 0 I Evening ... 5 minuted after 1. 4,llfirttin flTh LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1844. Bab Houses met last night for ' the first time after the rece.ss. In the House of Lords the Marquis of CLANRICARD E moved for a Select Committee to con sider the Bill for the construction of a railway from Chester to Holyhead, and after some remarks from the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord KENYON, and Lord MoNTEAGLE, the motion was postponed till Tuesday. Lord CAMPBELL postponed his Bill on the law of libel till Friday. The Lord Chancellor said he would, on . that day, present a modified Bill on the subject. After some other business of little importance the House adjourned. In the House of Commons Lord ARTHUR LENNOX took his seat for Chichester, and Sir THOMAS FRE MANTLE for Buckingham. After a great number of petitions had been pre sented, Mr. JERVIS moved that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the claims of Mr. Cut- CHESTER, as sole executor of ROBERT WILLIAM POWELL, an uncompensated American Loyalist. Sir GEORGE CLERK opposed the motion, which was ne gatived without a division. Mr. KELLY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to provide for appeal in criminal cases. He made an able speech'on this important question, and showed effeCtually the absurd principle that, while appeals were allowed in civil cases, no appeals in the present state of the law were allow(' in cases where thi s arqbf StiattiihFlilng was at stake. Sir JAMES G' '''-1.*. • • \ sip the motion, though he could -I.t: .t - ' 1 " - 'ettti**ltri tto support it. Cciktb i o nth ibii : \/. ,/, e / i ..,477 ._..2414y . i, House going into a Com .si , :•-::1 -- : - ::.'./.1:1',1 ~..____. —.....,..._:,:..-4,_.....-, 1 4, 4,e • ,„, ui • .. , 4 , ?, 42 ? ' f.. , • a. . - ... • • +:"' ‘ ' . Vii ..ii w, :e , ~. ' 7. -'i""' iiir-,' ~ ~ P AV , - mittee of Supply, Mr. ROEBUCK brought the state of Canada under the consideration of the House, but made no nugion. Lord STAiLEY replied at great length, and de fended the conduct of Sir C. METCALFE. After speeches from Mr. HUME, Mr. C. BULLER, Lord J. RUSSELL, and Sir R. PEEL, the subject dropped. The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to, the other busine is was disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'Clock. So, Sir JAMES GRAHAM is going to make another inroad upon thelibertY of the English people. The gambling-booths at Epsom and Ascot, as they have been called, are abolished. There is to be no more roulette, no more pitch and toss, no more stick throwing, no more thimble-rigging. The Derby Dilly is about to establish a new era, introduce a great moral reform among the middle and lower classes, and make this country a model for virtue, honesty, and sobriety. For several years, in almost every . public-house throughout the empire, small sums have been subscribed, solely, with perhaps a few excep tions, for amusement, and rational amusement too, in order to raise a fund, which may be spent on the con clusion of the principal races, possibly not more than four during the season. Nothing like gain, or unfair play, or robbery was attempted. These little " re-unions," to use a French phrase, were attended by the most respectable tradesmen of the neighbourhood, they were con ducted on fair and honourable principles, they were looked forward to with as much interest as the Derby or the St. Leger by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, or any other Lord, and we believe not one in ten thousand ever suffered by them. It appears, however, that these pastimes are too aristocratical; they follow closely in the rear of CROCKFORD'S, and WHITE'S, and fifty other clubs, frequented by the virtuous upper classes ; and the Derby Dilly, a section of the new moral government, have resolved to put them down. A feeler to this effect has been sent forth, we believe at the instigation of the Home Secretary, in these words :—" It is the intention of Government to adopt measures for the immediate suppression of racing speculations. Arrangements are about being made with the magistracy to carry this intention of the Government into effect ; for which purpose the police authorities will receive instructions to give notice to publicans that if they, for the future, permit lotteries' or sweepstakes' to be held, they will not only subject themselves to heavy penalties, but, by permitting them to take place on their premises, such an illegal proceeding will en danger the licenses of their respective houses." The already oppressed publicans are thus to be made the first victims. The new police is to be let loose upon thousands of the most respectable class of the community who frequent their houses; they are to be, prohibited from taking any interest in the national sports of the country, purely for the sake of preserving their morality ;an despotic law is to be carried into effect by men who vote black white, who change their political principles, and break the most solemn pledges, to suit their own selfish interests. If the people of England submit to this tyrannical inter ference, they deserve to be slaves. Is not the law strong enough ? If any hotel keeper forms a scheme for robbing his customers, cannot he be reached by the ordinary course of legal procedure ? Why should all the innocent, as well as the guilty, be subjected to the same punishment? This is the law of the Emperor Nfcnolas and MEHEMET Au, and if Englishmen ret?tain, passive under this new moral system, they will soon become as thorough slaves as the serfs of Russia anithe fellahs of Egypt. But the despotism or tha scheme is only equalled by its inefficiency. Can 'Ms ordonnance of the Home Secretary put down these sweepstakes ? The thousands that take an interest in them will assemble in some other manner, and they will take vengeance on this meddling, hypocritical, and do-nothing Government, by an increased interest in these harmless amuse ments. The Whigs, by their foolish Police Act, alienated many of their best supporters, and paved the way for their downfal. The moral Government is imitating their example, and will meet with the same fate. The men who have adopted and rejected almost every political principle ; who have winked at the Exchequer robberies; who have screened all the great delinquents in the Custom-house thefts, because they belong to their own class ; the men who make the most solemn pledges on the hustings, and as solemnly break them in Parliament, are, forsooth, to be the censors of the most honourable men of the community—the middle classes. Their time, how ever, will come, and, if the system is continued, they will find it at the next election. This cruel inter ference with every actiditi of common life is exciting dire hostility against the upper classes. They imagine they are creating, like Mr. OWEN, a New Harmony, while they are creating elements for their own de struction. At the weekly meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League which took place on Wednesday night in Covent-garden theatre, after Earl DUCIE, who was in the chair, had addressed the audience in a speech replete with useful statistical facts all tending to show the ruinous im policy of the bread-tax, Mr. HOLLAND, a gentleman from Worcestershire, bore personal testimony to the rapid progress that the principles of free trade were making in that county; and added—in reference to the recent establishment of monopoly institutions— that " through the means of these institutions the farmers had been taught to think, and not only had they learned to think, but also to act for themselves. Living among farmers as he did, he really believed that since the existence of Protection societies, and through their becoming so rife, the free-traders had gaine3 con verts among the agriculturists of Worcestershire." These remarks fully bear out what we predicted in The Sun, when we first heard of the establishment of monopoly institutions. We then stated that these institutions would serve no other purpose than to increase the spread of free-trade principles, if only from the detec tive reasoning of their chief pamphleteers and speakers, and their shallow and obviously selfish appeals to the passions and prejudices of the agriculturists. Far better that the Protectionists had kept a still tongue in their heads, and contented themselves with the exertions of their Conservative majority in Parlia ment; the rottenness of their favourite system of mo nopoly would not then have been made so obvious to the generality of reflective people, as it now is , but they could not deny themselves the pleasure of entering the arena of controversy, and getting up an agitation on their own account, by way of coun teracting the efforts of the League ; and now, as might have been foreseen, their superficial argu ments, false statistics, fabricated facts, and angry appeals to the prejudices of the agriculturists, have recoiled on their own heads. The farmers—vast num bers of whom are no longer the obtuse dolts that they were twenty yeara ago—have seen through their motives and fathomed their profoundest rea sonings ; and the consequence is, that the engi neer is literally " hoist with his own petard." When a party has notoriously little or nothing to say for itself worth attending to, and can put forth no other plea in its favour than present power, the wisest thing it can de, is to preserve a sort of dignified reserve and taciturnity ; to avoid everything that may pro voke a close discussion ; and to trust for the main tenance of its system to the power that it may possess in Parliament and elsewhere. The Protectionists seem, at length, to be awakened to a conviction of this truth, for we no longer find them attempting to rouse the country in their behalf by dint of sophis tical speeches, and still more sophistical pamphlets : but they are wise too late ; the mischief is already done; they have shown hundreds of agriculturists, what they did not know before, the utter rot tenness of the foundation on which the mono poly system is based; and it is of little use to shut the stable-door when the steed is already stolen. Mr. COBDEN, who took just the right view of the South Lancashire elec tion, and whose observations made a deep im pression on his audience, told an emi nently characteristic anecdote of the high-minded independence-of a certain body of electors. "In the contest of 1837," said the Hon. Member for Stock port, " he had been at an inn where there were sitting a number of persons decorated with ribbons of the 1 . colour of the Whig party—blue, that of STANLEY and TOWNELEY. A shrewd countryman, who was in the same room, 'observed that at a future election they would wear other colours. Since that time the proprietor of the land upon which those independent electors were tenants-at-will, had changed politics, and he (Mr. COBDEN) had seen the same men at a subsequent election with the favours of the opposite party on their coats. But again the property was sold, and at the last election the same tenants-at-will were again to be.seen in their blue favours." Oh virtuous times—oh immaculate -.purity of election ! Who, after an anecdote like this could :dare to advocate the ballot? But after all: these weather-cock electors were by no means so criminal as might be supposed, for they were merely imitating, in their own limited sphere of action, our own .discreet Premier, and putting into practice . his favourite doctrine of expediency. It was expedient for their interests that they should vote at one time for a Whig, and:at another for a Tory, and accordingly they did so; and, apparently, with as much free and easy indifference as Sir ROBERT PEEL evinces, when impelled by circumstances, he throws out a word of encouragement, now to the free-traders, and now to the monopolists. Doubtless, it was by the votes of expediency-courting electors, like those so honour• ably distinguished by Mr. COBDEN, that the South Lancashire election was lost. Had each man been left free to act according to the dictates of his own conscience, there is little or no doubt that the free-trade candidate would have been placed at the head of the poll by an overwhelming majority. Even as it is, there is much more cause fur rejoicing, than fur desponding over the result of the contest, for it is now placed on record that the supporters of the good cause—notwithstanding all the Conservative artifices resorted to against them—have polled upwards of four hundred more than they polled in the year 1837! The administration of justice in this country, the forms by which it is clogged, and in many instances prevented, afford ample opportunities for reform. But in every stage of that process, the obstacles which present themselves are great beyond all conception. An unpaid magistracy, the great mejority of whom have gained the magisterial authority, solely as one step in the ladder of aristocratical distinction, and who have become justices of the peace, merely to ex cite awe and raise veneration in the breasts of the neighbouring clodpoles, oppose all attempts to estab lish responsible, efficient, and competent stipendiary tribunals. The same body, proud of the still further distinction, which the grand jury-box confers, and of the importance which the grand jury-room brings with it, uphold the necessity of that second investi gation, before a body of themselves, of cases which have been previously inquired into by the separate wisdom of portions of their number. And although, in these days no one would think of establishing a court for the ascertainment of probable guilt, by a repe tition of only a portion of the evidence which seemed to warrant a primary committal, still the grand jury is generally supported as an ancient institution of the country, by men who, having thought but little on the subject, connect the name with the boasted pri vilege of Englishmen—trial by jury. We have long thought the grand jury system a nuisance, and we are delighted to see that we are at length supported in our views by men who, from actual experience, are the best qualified to judge. The following protest is worthy of every attention, and we call the public mind to weigh and consider it. It was delivered this week to the Chairman of the Surrey Sessiolis : • " We, whose names are here subscribed, being the grand jury of the county of Surrey, in sessions assembled, do pre sent—That it is the opinion of the grand jury, in the present improved mode of administering the public justice of the country, that the institution of grand juries, though at the time they were established they were of great value, is now not only unnecessary, but actually injurious to the public in terests : First, because the careful investigation of the cases by the committing magistrates, aided by professional men, who appear for the prosecution, and in the defence of the accused, have fully sifted the case in its preliminary stages. By this the institution of grand juries is rendered unneces sary. Secondly, the opportunity for tampering with wit nesses, in order that the evidencegiven before the grand jury mayindnce them to ignore the bill, although the evidence given before the magistrates fully justified the committal of the prisoner. Thirdly; that the province of the grand jury is often abused by having bills preferred which relate to accu sations that have never been previously investigated by ma gistrates, and Which are often the result of a desire to extort money from the parties accused, or for the purpose of revenge. For these reasons the grand jury consider their functions are no longer beneficial, that they are often injurious, and might be well dispensed with." The presentment was signed by the foreman and the whole of the grand jury. The Chairman remarked that the presentment was a very important public document, and he understood that a similar one had been made in another place. It was not, however, in the province of the magistrates to offer any opinion on the subject, but he trusted it would receive that proper attention which its importance demanded by the official authorities, to whom it would be forwarded. No man has done more for the simplifying and amending the law than Sir ROBERT PEEL—few men, with all his faults, have laboured more to curb the insolence of magistrates. than Sir JAMES GRAHAM ; let them look well to the subject ; and if in the aboli tion of grand juries, they shall deem it necessary to abolish an unpaid and irresponsible magistracy, and I to replace it by legal stipendiary investigators of charges, they will earn the thanks and approval of the great majority of the country. We call the attention of our readers to a state ment made by the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench this day, in the case of the QUEEN U. BLAKE AND OTHERS. The other Judges concurred in the reasons assigned for granting a new trial, and it will be seen that it applies to the Irish State trials, and is at utter variance with the directions of the Irish Chief Justice and two other Judges in their address to the jury. The intelligence from Madrid, which is to the 22d inst., is entirely destitute of interest. Preparations were still going on at Barcelona for the reception of the "idolised QUEEN" and her "immortal mother," epithets applied to them by a Barcelona journal. The Three per Cents. closed at 29 for cash, and 29 9-16 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 201. In the French Chamber of Deputies; on Monday, the President having taken the chair, read to the Chamber a letter from the Prince DE LA MosKowA, announcing the death of his father-in-law, M. JACQUES LAFFITTE. The President next drew the names of the members of the grand deputation who were to attend his funeral, and when he had con cluded, voices from different parts of the hall ex claimed that the assembly would assist in a body at the ceremony. A discussion then commenced on the state of foreign affairs, but chiefly on the old and worn-out subject—the recal of M. DUPETIT THOUARS, when M. GuizoT moved a vote of 600,000 f. for ex traordinary missions. M. BERItTER commenced the debate in a speech which made no impression on the Chamber, and had not concluded at the adjournment. He therefore resumed it on Tuesday, and made an attack on M. GUIZOT, for succumbing to the English in the affair of Otaheite, and also in allowing them to occupy the whole of New Zealand. We find nothing in the speech, however, that can interest the English reader, if we except. the following attempt to rouse his sleepy hearers:—" What," said he, "is not only Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS to be disavowed, but must his disgrace be communicated through a British medium ? Is it an Englishman who is to put under the nose of our Admiral the Monitour, containing this insolent decision ? Is it an Englishman who is charged to say to a French Admiral, 'Begone,' and to Captain BRUAT, Je volts chasse " This pro duced what the French reporters called a " movement." M. GUIZOT in his reply said, " That he conceived the violence of the attacks directed against the acts of the Administration was the right of the Opposition, and the principle of the Constitutional Government; but he could not conceive that it should stoop to the perversion of facts in order to substantiate its charges. In reference to the occupation of New Zealand, he said, that island had been repeatedly visited, from 1790 to 1814, by British navigators, who had taken possession of it in the name of Great Britain. The Government, however, did not sanction that occupa tion, and it was only from 1815 to 1838 that com panies had endeavoured to prevail upon England to act upon that occupation. It was not true, as M. BEERYER had asserted, that Captain llonsoN had re ceived no instructions from his Government. Those instructions were of July, 1839, and enjoined him to negotiate a treaty with the chiefs for the cession of the northern islands, and in February, 1840, a treaty to that effect was signed by 512 chiefs of that island. In April following, a similar treaty was concluded with the chiefs of the southern island. Their regular occupation by England was an accomplished fact." After repeating his former arguments in reference to the recal of Admiral DUPETIT TIIOUARS, he con cluded by declaring, that if the present Cabinet carefully avoided all that might tend to weaken the good intelligence existing between two great nations, in no instance had it been guilty of an act of com plaisance derogatory to the dignity and interests of the country. M. TIIIERS, M. BARROT, and several other Members were expected to speak. On Tuesday the Monthly Committees were re newed, when the Government had a greaernajority in seven out of the nine. M. 'Limns was elected by a majority of only one. The Funds have again advanced. On Tuesday the Three per Cents, had risen to 84f. 75c., at which price they closed. TTTI BOURSE—Timm/a, MAY 28. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents 121 80 .. 122 .. 121 80 122 Four per cents....•• 107 75 •." 107 75 .. 107 75 .. 107 75 Three per,Cents... •• 84 60 .• 84 65 .. 84 GO 84 60 Bank of France 3065 ..3070 . 3065 ..3070 La:"Atte Bank, 1,001. Shareslloo • .1120 • • 1100 -1115 5,000 f. SharessoB9 ..5100 ..5080 —5105 Belgian Bank 660 .• 660 .. 660 .. 660 Belgian Fives, 1831. 1840•...••.• lO5 .. 106 .. 106 106 1842 ........199 .. 109 .. 109 •• 109 Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 35:1 - •• 35.1 .. 3.51 .. 851 Active •• • • •••• • • 3 2 1 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321 Passive • .. 51 •.. 51 Portuguese Five per Conts•• 461 8/ .. 461 .. 461 .. 461 Neapolitan . ........ .. 102 50 .. 102 55 .. 102 50 .. 102 50 Roman, ex div.... ..... 101 .. 1041 .. 104 .. 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •• •• • • 877 50 .. 890 .. 877 80 • • BRB 75 Versailles, L. 8............. 251 25 .. 251 25 .. 251 25 .. 251 25 Rouen ....... ........ ..... 990 .. 990 .. 990 .. 990 Rouen to Havre•• •• •• •• 77 5 •• 775 • 772 50 .. 772 50 Orleans Strasburg to Bale. Ayignon to Marseilles.. itAILIVA.Y SHARES, FOR THJ•; ACCOUNT. St. Germain . ..... Versailles, R. 71... .. 360 • • 380 • • 380 • • 380 L.B 251 25 .. 255 .. 251 25 .. 255 Rouen 987 50 .. 995 . 967 50 .. 995 Rouen to Havre— •••••••.-• 773 75 .. 775 773 75 773 75 Orleans lOO7 50 —lOO/3 75 ..1007 80 ..1008 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 261 25 .. 261 25 • • 258.75 • • 260 Artgnon to Marseilles...... 782 50 792 50 • • 781 25 .. 790 Montpellier to C0tta........ 480 .. 450 .. 480 .. 480 SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL. NEWTON, 10 O'CLOCK, P.IL, MAY 28. By Entwisles Corn- By Brown's Com mittee. mittee. Entwisle. Brown. Entwisle. Brown. Newton.... 913 504 906 - 507 Ashton Bolton Bury Manchester Oldham 256 362 256 362 Rochdale Liverpool 1,259 1,444 1,254 1,447 Ormskirk Wigan - ----.- - Total . 7,524 6,934 7,547 6,974 Majority by Mr. Entwisle's Committee ........ 594 Majority by Mr. Brown's Committee... . 573 The polls were not made - up until a Very late hour this evening. KILMARNOCK ELECTION. KILMARNOCK, TUESDAY EVENING. Vincent, Bouverie, Princep, Chartist. Whig-Rad. Cons. 88 ... 163 .. 189 4 ... 87 ... 41 4 ... 27 ... 38 81 ... 43 31 ... 68 Kilmarnock.— Rutberglen Renfrew Dumbarton__ Port Glasgow Total ... 98 389 Majority for Bouverie, 10. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The value of Consols rather improved this afternoon the advance being 991 f for Money, and 998 2 for Ac count. The , heavy investments were also better, the New Three. and a-Half per Cents. being 1028 to 8; the Reduced 1013 i ; and Old Three • and- a-Half per Cents. 1018 to k; Exchequer Bills (1,0001.), were at 725. prem. Spanish did not attain the highest quotations of the morning, the Five per Cents. being 23?-, 1; and the Three per Cents. 34, to 35 ; Portuguese Converted for Ac count receded to 46 and 451 ; Mexican Deferred were 151 to I. The additional transactions in Railway shares have been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 151 ; Great North of England, 1 ; Great Western, 441 ; Birming ham, Thirds, 34k; South-Western, Eighths, 31; Manches ter and Leeds, 32 to 33; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 21-i ; Northern and Eastern, 111 to . 2 • South-Eastern, 1i to 28 ; Ditto, New, 7 to 62; Trent Valley, 6 ; Yarmouth and Nor wich, 34 to i; Paris and Orleans, 194; Paris and Rouen, 182; and Rouen and Havre, 10i- to 108 premium; Cale donian have been lit; Eastern, Ili 1; and Thames and Medway, 98 -discount. Australian Bank Shares were 3 ; and London and Westminster, 68 premium. (From The S u n of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool was dull yesterday, but without any alteration in prices. Sales 3,000 bales, including 400 American on speculation, and 400 for export, and also 400 Pernambuco for export. There was no alteration for the better in the Railway Shares, which were dull. Still we have to notice the absence of late arrivals; and it is very justly made a matter of complaint that Government should have sent out a ten-gun brig into the Channel, in stead of a steamer, to assist the wind-bound vessels. Parties interested in railways, and especially the advocates bf the atmospheric principle, are looking with interest to the report of three Commissioners appointed by the German Confederation to'examine into the merits of Philip Wagner's electro-magnetic invention. The investigation is stated to have already coMmenced. The Belgians continue to creep on slowly but surely with the extension of their foreign markets. They have now es tablished sailing packets from Antwerp to Bahia, - • Accounts have been received from Wellington, New Zea land, to the 14th DeceMber. The natives were still rather threatening; and owing to the apprehension of Awaho for the , crime of murder, they had dispatched messengers to summon ruined parties from various neighbour ing parts. The settlers, however,_ do not appear to be under se r io u s app re hensio ns . The colony was de pressed in its agricultural resources, owing to the non-settle ment of the land claims, but its trade is progressing as regards flax, oil, and wood. Imports were tolerably abundant, and very low in value comparatively to the supply. The Stock Market is firmer, but not actually buoyant. Consols are 991 to 99Efor Money, and 991 to 99 1 1 for Account. They have, therefore, not yet regained what they lost on the Account day. Exchequer Bills have been lower, 725. to 70s. premium, and India Bonds have been quiet at 945. prem. Bank Stock has further advanced, being 199 to 200. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1021 to a ; the Re duced, 1011 to 4 ; and the Three per Cent s ., 98} to 984. . an Bonds og bd openedown againhigher,to their but have had a ten dency range. dei S ic p ys i i i i h r i ce to The Five per Cents. have been 23i to 4, and the Three per Cents. 35h to 4, being at . present 34i to 35. Mexican have ruled steady at 35j to A ; Portuguese Converted have been heavy at 46 ; Russian Bonds have been firm at 1184 ; and Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. at 614 to 4. Some of the Railway Shares continue to droop. Birming ham and South-Eastern are lower ag a i n ; Great Western have improved a little; and Brighton are firmer. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 98% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. .....•••• 99% Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Re I l O l% Ditto N ew A nnu i t i es... New 3)4 per Cent lO2 X EX. Bills, 1,0001. 150... 72 pm. New 5 per Cent.....„. — • Ditto 500/ Long Annuities to'expire Ditto Small '72 pm. Jan. 1860 — Bank Stock for Acct.... 199% Oct. 1859 Consols for Ac c t. 99% Jan. 1860.... ...... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ !Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent — !Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds — 'Prussian, 5 p er C ent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent. llB% Chllian, 6 per Cent — , Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... -- Spanish, 5 per Cent 23 )2 Ditto, 1824 ... ............... ..... Ditto, 3 pe r Cent 35 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — ;Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent ........... • Trench, 5 rer Cent —/. —c. Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — 'Exchange Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 .-- ;Dutch, 23, per Cent 6114 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 'Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO% SHARES. Bristol and Gloucester (30 pale) 45% Caleionian, 5 paid Great North of England, 100 paid • ICO Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) „,.... ........... m 2 0 Ditto. New Thirds, 2 paid Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) . 25 . London and South Western (11/. 6s. 10d. paid) 673s Ditto Eighths (153. paid). 3% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Manchester and Birmingham 56 Newcastle and Darlington Junction. 13 paid 39% - Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 6% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares ( 4 pa i d) Trent Valley, 2 paid 8 Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen, 20 paid Rouen and Havre, 8 paid lB% LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAY 30.—Moderate northerly breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, MAY 29.—Wind E.N.E. to N.E., fresh breezes.— Sld. Duke of Cornwall, Madras; Gibraltar, Dominica. DOVER, MAY 29.—The Archibald, from London to Memel, has been towed in here dismasted, with loss of sails, rigging, spars, &c., having driven in a squall last night into two brigs, who are said to have slipped and gone to leeward. The Archibald had one man killed and another severely wounded. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29.—Wind N,N.E.—Arrd. Eliza Bell, Bell, Bahia. SorritAmrroN, MAY 29. —Arrd. Liverpool, steamer, Gibraltar and Cape, left 19th inst. PLvatotan :MAY 29.—Wind Easterly.—Arrd. Prince Wilhein Frederick, llany, Surinam, for Helvoet ; Bayr Greene, St. Kitt's, master dead. Sld. St. George, Quebec. Off, Bangalore, Batavia, for Rotterdam. FALMOUTH, MAY 29.—Wind Easterly, fresh.—Arrd. Premier, Allen, Jamaica; Florence, Davis, Madeira, 27th ult. Ofi - ; Alexander, New York, for Havre. OFF SCILLY, MAY 23.—Cicely, Cox, Paraiba, for Liverpool. WHITSTABLE, MAY 29.—The Diamond, for Bombay, was ashore on the Woolpack Sand yesterday, beat over, and went on the Last, but came off, with rudder broken and leaky, without assistance, and about 8 p.m. again went ashore on the lied Sand, when assistance was taken, the troops taken out, and she got off at midnight, and proceeded this morning in tow of a steamer for the River. TAnatouTn, ISLE OF WIGHT, MAY 29.—The William, Venton, from Youghal to Portsmouth, which was ashore on the Hampstead Ledge, has got off, and proceeded yesterday, apparently without damage. • JERSEY, MAY 27.—The Mayflower, bound to London, has put back, apparently much damaged, her channels having given way, and having been on 'her beam ends, and must discharge. LIYERFOOL, MAY 29.—Wind E., light.—Arrd. Rimac, Calcutta Sproule, (2 ; a L I l o a r o d L saileda b t Jan.on , Ellen German, Cunt 1 2 1 a B r ; a nSI Sir Robert Peel, Edwards min, La Guayra ; Chusan, Blayne, New Orleans; Acadia, Savannah ' • Garrow, Charleston ; M ono ngahela, Philadelphia; Brunswick and Stephen Sunnan, Brixton, New York. Sid. Storm King, China; Bank, Africa; William Sorlie, Monte Video; President, Hayti; Shakspeare and Royal Adelaide, Boston; Lesmahagour and Harmony, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Salem, Montreal ; Euna, Fay-al. Off, Kate, —. DUBLIN, MAY 27.—Arrd. Scotsman, Evans, Trinidad. SittEr,ns, MAY 28.—Ski. Thomas urie, Ichiboe ; Xeno• plion, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, MAY 28.--Sld. Ann, Ichiboe ; Swan, Quebec. YARMOUTH, MAY 29.—The Aurora Fortuna, from Chris tiana to London, got on the Cockle Sand this incoming, but came off, with mast cut away, &c., has been beached, and it im feared will become a wreck, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND ViOitt eptitton. " Wlto runs may read." FOREIGIAT. Tl:o King and Queen of the French, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Joinviile, paid another visit, on Monday, to the Exhibition of National Indn§try. Their Majesties, on this occasion, examined the musical in struments and the different articles of furniture, and put several questions to the exhibitors. They also inspected a great variety of other articles, and expressed their high ap probation of the skill displayed by the makers. The. Royal party remained at _the exhibition from half-past one till a quarter past five, and then left for Neuilly, amid the accla mations of the crowd, who had assembled ou the outside of the building. The funeral of M. Laffitte was fixed for Thursday, not Wednesday, as stated in some of the papers, and would pro bably be attended by nearly all the Members of ths Chamber of Deputies. He is said to have died very rich, notwith standing the great losses he sustained in 1831. He has also, it is said, left political memoirs, with correspondence, and secret memoirs extending from 1828 to 1832. M. Charles Laffitte has been returned for the fourth time to the Chamber of Deputies, by the electors of Louviers. The Itioniteur publishes a report to the King from the Minister of Justice and Public Worship on the necessity of regulating the mode of establishing Jewish consiStories in France, the election of their rabbis, &c. It is followed by a royal ordonnance of great length, fixing the various points connected with this subject. By this ordonnance a consis tory is to be established in each department where the Jewish population amounts to 2,000, and where this is not the case the number is to be made up from the adjoining de partment or departments. The central consistory is to be in Paris. The Staoueli, Captain Dubois, arrived at Havre on Monday morning, from the Havannali whence she departed on the 14th ult. Captain Duboi s confirms the news brought by the English papers of, the discovery of a conspiracy among the blacks. A great number of arrests continued to be made at the Havannah, and several British agents, says the Journal de Harre, suspected of having encouraged the conspiracy by their imprudent discourses, if not of having taken an active part, were involved. We read in the Journal de Toulouse :—" We learn from an undoubted source that Father Lopez passed through Bordeaux, on Monday last, on his way to Madrid, making known to several personages of consideration at Bordeaux belonging to 'the Carlist party, that he was com- Missioned by Don Carlos to declare his readiness to abdicate his sovereign rights in favour of his eldest son. This fact foretels a happy conclusion to the project of marriage between Queen Isabella and the Prince of the Asturias." "The King of Saxony," says the France,"has just given orders to the authorities of his kingdom not to give the title of Highness to the Dukes of Saxe Coburg Gotha and An halt. Similar directions have been given by the King of Prussia to the authorities of his kingdom, who might have any intercourse with the principalities in question." On the occasion of the opening of the railway between Hanover and Brunswick, about a fortnight since, the King of Hanover gave a grand dinner at his Palace, to which no fewer than 700 guests were invited. LAW AND POLICE. On - Wednesday a special sessions for the Edgware division of the county of Middlesex took placa at the Chandos Arms Inn, Edgware, before Major Abbs, Chairman, and Messrs. Phillimore, B. Rotch, Burchell, R. Shuter, Hooper, and Carter, Magistrates, acting in and for that division of the county, for the purpose of hearing and determining two in formations laid at the instance of Mr. William Foster Smith, a resident of Hendon, and a freeholder of the county, against the Rev: Theodore 'Williams, Vicar of Hendon, and a county magistrate, under the Police Act (2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 47, sec. 54). The informations were read by Mr. Tootell, the clerk, which 'ent to show that the rev. defendant had on certain occasions used threatening, abusive, and insulting words to the complainant on the Queen's highway, with in tent to provoke a breach of the peace._ After evidence had been heard Major Abbs addressed the rev. defendant, and said, "the majority of the Magistrates being satisfied that the case is proved against you, they fine you in the penalty of 435., with costs." At the Thames police-court, Richd. Bragger, John Horsted, Alexander Nicholson, Mary Ann Ash, Rosetta Bragger, and George Bragger, were again brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with the wilful murder of Luke Williams, late pro prietor of the Chequers public-house, in Wapping-wall, and robbing him of 301., in the dwelling-house of the prisoner Nicholson, and after an investigation of four hours, were re manded till Wednegday. At Marlborough-street Mr. William Guillian Slack, a so licitor, was charged on the police sheet with having at tempted to suffocate three respectable ladies, named Hughes. It appeared that the ladies were lodgers in the house of a Miss Dummer, in South Audiey-street, and had received notice to quit, but having failed to do so the defendant went to the house and insisted upon their immediate removal. Not suc ceeding he went down stairs, and began a great disturbance in the house. She heard him call for a pair of clogs i►i order that he might make more clatter in running up and down stairs. The defendant caused a stove tobe procured, in which a fire was kindled, and a quantity of sulphur and similar suf. fiicatingingrelients were placed in a tin pot and put on the fire on the stove. The stove was then placed at the foot of the stairs leading to Miss Hughes's apartments, and the re sult was, that the house soon became filled with a dense smoke, and Miss Hughes and her two sisters were nearly choked by the fumes, which forced their way into the apartment. Mr. Hardwick ordered the defendant to find good bail to answer the charge at the sessions, and in addi tion to enter into his own recognizanc,es for double the amount of bail. COURlL l —r.aszuoNazzr. Prince Albert , has become Vice-Patron of the Royal Geo graphical Society, vacant by the death of the Duke a Sus sex. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. Murchison, the President, with a visit on Wednesday in Bel,grave-square, to in spect the vase and plateau presented to him by the Emperor of Russia. The Duke of Wellington returned to Apsley House on Wednesday, from Stratifieldsaye. The Marquis and Mar chioness of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Hon. and Rey. Dr. Wellesley, Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, and the other visitors who have been staying with the Duke during the holidays, also returned to town in the course of the afternoon. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from their seat in Ireland. The Countess of Cawdor and Lady Mary CaMpbell are ex pected in South Andley-street in a few days, from Desart. Castle, where they have been on a . visit to the Earl and Countess of Desart. The Earl and Countess of Leicester are passing the season at Holkam Hall, and are not expected to return to town until next year. IifIrSCEZZATTEOI7S3. A woman named Charlotte Hall, the wife of a plasterer, was found dead in bed in her house, in Church-street, Wim bledon, on Wednesday, and from the appearances pre sented by the body there is reason to fear that she had been strangled. The husband could not be found, and the follow ing notice, in consequence, has been issued by the Commis sioners of Police :—" Absconded, at half-past five o'clock this morning, from Church-street, Wimbledon, leaving his wife in bed dead, from strangulation, a plasterer, between five feet ten inches and six feet in height, fair complexion, brown hair, no whiskers, a down look with forbidding aspect, and his mouth awry. He carries his head on one side. He is 40 years of age, and was dressed in a coarse blue pilot coat, with pockets in front, a_fustian pipe- cloyed round jacket underneath, slate coloured trousers, and Blucher boots. He is remarkable for always carrying his pocket-handkerchief in the left breast of his coat or jacket." Some of the neighbours heard her scream " Murder" about 11 o'clock the previous night. A numerous meeting of members of the Established Church, Presbyterians, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists, and other orthodox Dissenters, took place in Exeter-hall, for the purpose of adopting such measures as might be consi dered- necessary to prevent the enactment of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill recently introduced into Parliament by the Lord Chancellor, and now awaiting its second reading in the House of Commons. Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were unanimously adopted. It is a curious fact that Lord Lyndhurst has passed a Bill through the House of Lords which pleases nobody. The eighth concert of Ancient Music took place on Wed nesday, under the direction of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, for the Earl of 'Westmoreland. The performances re quire no specification. - The boat• race on Monday, from Ostend to Bruges, between Robert Newell, of Battle-bridge-stairs, and four Flemish watermen, with a coxswain, terminated,. contrary to general expectation, in favour of the latter. He lost only, however, by two minutes. It is but justice to the Flemish men to state, that they behaved with great kindness to the two. Londoners, and made them a present on their departure. ALTERATION in the DEPARTURE of the MAILS. Very great inconvenience having been sustained, not only by the commercial interests, but by the public generally, in consequence of the mails for India, &c.,' being dispatched fron this country previous to the arrival of the Overland Mail, by reason of which those persons who bad correspon dents in India could not reply to their advices for at least a month—to remedy this evil the following arrangement has been made by command of the Postmaster-General, notice of which was put up on Wednesday morning at the General Post-office and the several branch offices : " General Post-office, May, 1844. " The next mails for Malta, Egypt, and the East Indies, vici Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of the 3d of June instead .of the morning of the Ist, as heretofore, and those via Marseilles will be dispatched on the evening of the 7th instead of the 4th. "The same arrangements will be adapted with these mails for the future, the mails rid Southampton being dispatched on the morning of the 3d, - and the mails vid Marseilles on the evening of the 7th. " When the 3d of the month falls on a Sunday, the mai tip Southampton will be closed and dispatched on the pre• vious evening." " The Great Liverpool, for India, &c.—Mails of the morn. ing of the 3d of June. V‘ The Trent, for the West Indies.—Mails of the morning of the 3d of June. "The Acadia, for America. —Mails of the 3d of June. " The Garland Grove, for New South `Vales.--Mails of the 31st inst." SOCIETY OF DANCEEM—We understand that Mr. Bunn has given his permission for a performance to take place at 'Drury-lane Theatre on Monday night, when there will be a benefit night, the proceeds arising from which are to be contributed towards the funds of the Society of Dancers, for the relief of aged and decayed members of that profession. - APPREHENSION OF A BURGLAR.—Ever since the discovery of the fire and robbery at Mr. Driver's, the sur veyor to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 8, Par liament-street, for which the butler and a young woman had been apprehended at Pennenden-heath, near Maidstone, and remanded at Bow-street, the police of the A division have been in constant search of a third man, who had been stated by the male pri soner t o b e a t large, and upon whose appre hension ho had made his confession contingent. It appears that when the butler was left in charge of the house on the ' Sunday of the fire and robbery, he was seen in company with a man taller than himself, habited in a light greatcoat, and thin in the face; that this man had been into the house on the night of the occurrence, and further, that he had been seen in company with the two prisoners on the day after wards, proceeding in the direction of Maidstone. Inspector Pearce and Sergeant Thornton of the A division have been engaged most earnestly in searching for the third party, and have at last succeeded in capturing him, at an hotel at Guild ford, where he was secreting himself. Amongst the property which was taken from Mr. Driver's, were .nine golden guineas, and some of these were found on the person of the third prisoner, who could give no account of them. hi s name is Thomas Chandler, and he will be brought up before the magistrate when the other prisoners are brought up on their remaaci. Evidence will be produced to show that he admitted having received the guineas from the male prisoner, and, that he was in his company on th e d ay previous to the robbery and arson. The butler's pantry at the house in Par liament-street, which was completely gutted, has been re built, and is very nearly completed in its repairs, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morn ing in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed daily airings yesterday, in the royal gardens. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday forenoon, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Sir Wm. C. Rose, R.A., is in daily attendance at Buckingham Palace, engaged on the miniatures of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, which be is painting by command of her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge honoured Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence with her company yesterday at the public breakfast given at their residence Ealing Park. Her Royal Highness was attended by Baroness •Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at- tended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck honoured Lord and Lady Brougham with her company on Wednesday night at their residence. in Grafton-street. The Bistv.:p of Sodor and Man had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone arrived in Own yesterday morning from Brighton. Mr. John Wool, Chairman of the Excise, had inter views yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street, and with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the office of the Board of Trade. • - Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, and M. Mur phy, the Mexican Minister, transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, and Mr. Highatn, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the. Commis sioners for the Reduction of the National -Debt, had in terviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Sir Robert reel arrived at his residence in Whitehall , gardens, yesterday evening', -from his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir Robert Houston had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Gibraltar. . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.. The afternoon was almost exclusively taken up in discussing, not ,in settling, a subject upon which so much has been said, and so little to its advancement, that we need make no excuse for leaving it to those most interested in it ; in paying and receiving the pro gress made was very small indeed. The only bets that came within our knowledge were 550 to 500 on Run ning Rein against Orlando, and several even hundreds the same way ; 7 to 4 agst Alice Hawthorn for the Ascot Cup, and 4 to 1 ngst her winning it and the Vase. 100 even on Running Rein for the "deciding heat " of the Derby, agst Scott's lot for the St. Leger, and 10,000 to 300 agst Mr. Waller's John Davis for the Derby, 1845. We are happy to state, upon what we believe to be good authority, that hgr Majesty will attend the races on Tuesday and Thursday. The late Mr. Crockford's racing stud will be sold by Messrs. Tattersall on Thursday the 20th of June, with out reserve. Mr. Thornhill, we regret to say, died on Wednesday night. MANCHESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Free Handicap of 10 sot's. each, with 30 added, for four-year olds. Mile and a quarter. (7 Subs.) Sir C. Cockerell's Aurungzebe (Maiden) 1 Mr. Hall's The Viscount 2 Mr. Worthington's Gipsey Queen 3 Miss Mic-,gs, Broadbohn, and Coheiress also ran. A Cup of 100 sovs. given by the owners of the race cou r se, added to a Handicap of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. (21 Subs., 12 of whom declared). One mile and a quarter. Mr. Williamson's Dr. Husband, 3 yrs (Langstaff) 1 Mr. Dawson's The Biddy, 5 yrs 2 Mr. G. Buckley's David, 5 yrs 3 Four others were not placed. Won by half a length Plate of 501., for three yrs old, Est 101 b, and four yrs, Bst 21b ; and geldings allowed 31bs; winners once 31bs extra; twice, slbs; and thrice, 7lbs. Heats, mile and a quarter. Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun, 3 yrs (Lye) 1 1 Mr. Jones's British Tar, 3 yrs Mr. Wildman's Coheiress, 4 yrs INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. GOODWOOD, • 1844. ' FIRST DAY. Match, 100, h. ft. One mile.—Mr. King's fby Jack in-the-Green, out of Eliza, 3 yrs, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Greig's f by Aimed:, dam by Sampson, 3 yrs, Bst 71b. SECOND DAY. The Goodwood Stakes closed with an entry of 118, only two subscribers having omitted to name. THIRD DAY. Nominations for the Goodwood Cup. Bishop of Romford's Cob, 4 yrs—Attila, yrs—Vibra tion, 5 yrs—Lotharie, 4 yrs—Cotherstone, 4 yrs—Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs—Brunel, S yrs—Semiseria, 4 yrs— Parthian, 4 yrs—Whistle Binkie, 5 yrsz—Aristides, 4 yrs —The Era, 4 yrs—Daddy Longlegs, sTrl—Phlegon, 4 yrs—The Ash teed Pet, 3 yrs—Pompey, 4 yrs—Sb tmacher, 3 yrs—The Ugly Buck, 3 yrs—Sirikol, 4 yrs—Khonclooz. 4 yrs—British Yeoman, 4 yrs—Arundo, 4 yrs—Rowena. 3 ...yrs—William le Gres, 5 yrs—Prizefighter, 4 yrs— Scalteen, 5 yrs —Milton, 3 yrs—Una, 6 yrs—Discount, 6 yrs—b g by Hindoo, out of sister to bolus, 5 yrs-- lonian, 3 yrs—The Princess, 3 yrs—Giges, aged—The Squire, 6 yrs—Red Deer, 3 yrs—Lightning, 3. yrs—The Altered One, 5 yrs—Robert do Gorham, 5 yes-13ram ble, 4 yrs—Wiseacre, 5 yrs—SomerSet, 4 yrs—Came- Icon, aged—Messalina, 4 yrs—Orion, 4 yrs—Antler, 3 yrs—Aristotle, .5 yrs—Belcccur, 5 yrs—Little Vivian, aged—The Broken Down, aged—Revel, 6 yrs. LAT DAY. The Maidstone Stakes. of 15 sous. each. Three miler. Arundo, 4 yrs, Jamie Forest, agsd—Croton Oil, 3 yrs—Thirsk, 6 yrs —Bramble, 4 yrs—T'Auld Squire, 3 yrs—Ajax, 6 yrs—Humility, 6 yrs—Parthian, 4 yrs --Cattonite, 5 yrs—Ben-y-Ghlo, 4 yrs—Aristides, 4 yrs—Elegance 611 y, 4 yrs—Una, 6 yrs—Merry Andrew, 4 yrs—Vitelthis ' 4 yrs-Orion, 4 yrs—Lo thario, 4 yrs—William le Gros, 5 yes —Robinson, aged —Tamburini, aged—Arcanus, 5 yrs—Gaper, 4 yrs— Subduer ' 4 yrs—Delightful colt, 3 yrs-Canton, 4 yrs— Pastoral, 3 yrs—ldleness, 4 yrs—The Squire, 6 yrs Priscilla Tomboy, 5 yrs—Daft Watty, 4 yrs—Ameer, 4 yrs—Mosque, 6 yrs—Niobe, 4 yrs—Retriever, aged. GOODWOOD RACES.—IMPORTANT NOTICE. The following notice has been given by the Stewards of Goodwood Races:— Notice is hereby given, that no horse whose professed ago is suspected will be alloWed to start, Without a pre vious examination of his mouth by competent persons appointed by the Stewards; and if not objected to until after the race, a similar examination will be insisted upon, 1 and, in case of resistance to such examination by the owner, trainer, or other person having charge of such horse, the stakes will be awarded, and the race given to the second horse ; and the parties implicated in such fraud will be for ever excluded from running horses at or attending Goodwood Races. Objections must be made in writing to one of the Stewards, or to Mr. Weatherby.—N.l3. Parties who were warned off from the race-course in 1843 are reminded that if they attend this year they will be prosecuted, unless the notice has been regularly withdrawn by the. person who signed it." DONCASTER RACES. A similar notice to the above has been published by the Stewards of these races, with the exception of the paragraph alluding to parties wa rne d off in 1843. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1845. THURSDAY. NeminatiOns for the Claret Stakes.—Merope, The Cure, Antler, Welbeck. FRIDAY. • The Port Stakes.—Plush, Economy, Panther, Ugly Buck, Cockamaroo, Qui Tam, Reed Deer. NEWTON, 1844. Acceptance for the. Borough (Handicap) Cup.—Philip, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Trueboy, 4 yrs, Bst—Freedom, 4 yrs, ist 121b—General P o ll oc k. 4 y rs , 7 s t 121b—Cable, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Foxberry, 5 yrs, 7st, 91b—Pheyne, 4 yrs, 7st, Sib—Broken Down, aged, 7st—Quebec, 4 yrs, 7st— Yardley, 4 yrs, 7st —Ermengardis, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b Hudibras, 6 yrs, Est 121b—Sir Abstrupus, 4 yrs, Est I lib —Martyr, 5 yrs, Est 101b—Miss Miggs, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b —Erebus, 3 yrs, sst 61b. BIBURY CLUB, 1844. Acceptances for the Bibury Stalos. Bramble, 4 yrs, list 121b—Cattonite, 5 yrs, llst 81b— Belissima, aged, I let 81b e -Palladium, s . yrs, 11 s t—Tam burini, aged, lOst 121b—Aj ax , 6 yrs, lOst Mb—Sub duer, 4 yrs, lOst 21b—Odessa colt, 3 yrs, lOst. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVER AGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended May 23, 1841, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the ditlerent Cities and Towns in Englato: and Wales, per imperial Quarter. Wheat........, sis lCd. i Oats Barley :30;. 7d. I Rye AVERAGES OF THE LAST SSE WEEKS. Weeks ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. EYE. I BEANS. ?EASE 20 1. 01 2 1 31. 4 20 1' SO 11 31 9 t.O 5 :41 4 32 5 21 0 31 2 33 3 21 2 131 7 33 11 April 20 27 55 6 May 4 55 8 11 55 1 18 25 55. 10 32 7 31 8 31 5 31 1 30 7 30 8 31 1 32 3. 31 8 31 7 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE FIR WEEKS Wheat 553 6d. 1. Oats - "39 4d ade! 31s. Si . I Rye ..... 31,1. Pca5e.........315. Si. DITTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat .........17s. Od. Oats Barlcv ..... . is. Od. I !lye 10g., 6d. Pease ..... lO Ed SHERIFFS' COURT, RED LION -SQUARE.—Yester day, at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, it b?ing the adjourned County Court day, Hemp, the Sheriffs' officer, made proo:amations of outlawry against the fol lowing persons, at the suit of the several creditors : William R. A. Tilney Long Pole Wellesley, J. Davis, William Wood, J. R. Elmsley, Charles Francis Adey, Montague George Smith, Walter Wright, Thomas Reed Kemp, Sarah Gregson (at three several suits), Edivard Tuke, Augustus Villiers, George Hawkins, Matthew Ruesdael, Hugh Mills Btinbury, Francis Whitworth Sykes, Francis Burrel Phipson, Harriet Massey, Sir iThomas Howland Robarts, Bart., W. Leigh Hay (at two several suits), W. Hilton, George Jackson, W. Barnes, Charles James Viner, Francis James Nugce, James Whitworth Arundell, Francis Bert.re Ambrosee, John Salmon, W. D. Ryder, Gilbert Bolton, W. Pyne, W. Walter, J. A. Stackpole, and John Davis. ARCADIAN TRAFFIC—BURLINW CON AND•LOWTHER. —Last week there passed through B urlington ,Arcade 580 gentlemen, 432 ladies, and 92 - children.; whilst 360 gentle men, 880 ladies, and 1,184 children pa .Ssred through Lowther Arcade : ti's giving the latter, not•. ivithstanding a slight falling off in gentlemen, a clear majo: sty of 453 ladies and. 1 ,092-children. This return satisfactorily settles the long -pending disputes of the rival Arcades of Burlington and Lowther. The toy commerce of the' la tter has, 'since the Whitsun holidays, wonderfully increased.— —ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE ARCADE.—This Arcade is sufl Bring, sadly from the want of rain. The traffic, in consi equence, has been limited, for the last three months, to the • daily visits of the lamp!ighter. It *is proposed. however, iii order to facilitate the navigation of this dangerous passage, to have beacon lights burning all the day, and to lay on policeman, by way of a Preventive Servioc. This is expocto d to double at least the present trafile.—PrOich. • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ITO US.E OF LORDS, May 30. ftet Their Lordships re-assembled for the tirsk the - Whitsuntide holidayi. Messengers from the Co m m ons b r o u ght pp- se veal Bills. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petitinn fr ° l Inverness, praying that the operation of the SPA Banks Bill might not extend to Scotland. , :j ea The Marquis of NORMANBY presented a /30 4 q 1 0 1 from certain farmers in Norfolk. The . p e tition stl t that.as the law at present stood with respect to Coursi, a person being present at any coursing meeting, Pr, vided the proprietor of the dogs was not actually presom was - subject to a penalty. The petitioners, therefore, prayed for. an alteration in the law. The Duke of RICHMOND said, the hardship only existed with respect to coursing, but also with °I n re. spect to hare-hunting. The petition was then laid on the table. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY' The Marquia a `halal CLANRICARDE moved . Select CoMmittee be appointed to co ns ider the Bill c, was at present before Parliainent for the Construceen of a railway from Chester to Holyh e ad.. The ! rea so o d why he wished this Com m i t t ee t o b e apPon, o was, that he understood • that it was the inter lu p t of the Goierntnent to advaece a large slid Of Moil " 0 improving the harbour of Holyhead. They ha d i fs, guarantee that the bridge over the Menai Straits 1 11 ° ever be erected, and in case it should n o t be erected' o h e course a great portion of the money expended by I' d Government in improving the harbour of lialyb! a d , would be thrown away. He understood that it proposed to lay out 600,0001. upon these irnprovenli e and he thought that was a Sufficient ground fer apppointment of a Committee. Lcird KENYON thought that to delay ought to eb b ' allowed to take place in the passing of this Bill, inasni u as he believed that the Chester and Holyhead Raili va i would be of great public advantage. of Lord MONTEAGLE objected to the a ppointmen t the Committee. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he had not ne ti cipated this discussion, and, therefore, h e had not h eed ab!e to inform himself fully of the subject, and hea d ) gested to his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Clanriea e the propriety of postponing the consideration of qUestion for a few days. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE then gave nobs that he should on Tuesday next move the suspension o ° J the Standing Orders, with a view to the appointmen t a Select Committee on this Bill. After a few words from the Earl of DALHOU the subject dropped. the Lord CAMPBELL postponed the Committee 0 0 _ A) , Law of Libel Bill till Friday week (as we underste7;,, The Noble Lord presented several petitions, Prall: that Presbyterian Marriages in Ireland m i g ht b e legali se , The LORD CHANCELLOR said he should be rill pared on Tuesday to lay on the table a modified fi upon this subject. to The Duke of WELLINGTON be g ged to as- t s Nebe Lord opposite (Lord Monteagl e ), if he, wo uld 1 15 1i f t any objection to postpone a motion w hi c h he had on , t , O paper for Monday, as it would be T r i n ity Monday, many Noble Lprds would be absent? to Lord MONTEAGLE expressed his willingness accede to the request of the Noble Duke. Several other notices were also postponed. DIVISION OF THE CIRCUITS. Lord BROUGHAM moved for a return of the 0 0 ber of causes and prisoners tried on th e var ious eirc ti : li foreertain years. The unequal division of the cireu2iL was i tme cf the great grievances of Westminster 0; 1 1 The northern circuit had nearly as much business s s the others put together. t he The LORD CHANCELLOR had no objection t o ,„ r e motion, which might be made the found a ti o n of fol e inquiry. It would, however, be q u it e i m p oss ible tol l3 s any L alteration until the next spring circuit. tbat ord BROUGHAM said it had been suggested i s part of the northern might be advantageously ^ic e %e r the midland circuit, but he appr e h en d e d t h at the b e nt l course would be to divide the n or th ern c i rcu it to gi o two judges into each division. The subject ought, t° considered and settled before the next spring circalt• i n . The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that gro t i ; e y convenience had been felt during the last spring " r e. He had, however, communicated with the Home See r tary upon the subject, and found that there would he treme difficulty in making any change at present. a nf The Duke of RICHMOND hoped that in case of ;of winter circuit being ordered, espe c i a lly i n the coun t / 0 , Sussex, due notice of such an intenti o n wou ld be gL ce ,K, Lord BROUGHAM adverted to the grea t ann e 'fis which he hoped to see speedily corr ec t e d, that 1 " e " within the district of the Central Criminal Collo prisoner could not be imprisoned more th an a fe' 9 , 1 )( 1 before his trial, in some counties th ere m ight b e „' n tIO frequently was, an interval of from s i x t o nine, l° ,so s between a prisoner's committal and hi s t r i a l. ti` a nd averse to increasing the the number of thejudge s ' o r he trusted that this great evil could b e o th er wise r e n a l 4 died. He also stated his strong obj ec ti on to a Pt: re gaol delivery, according to which some counties wer" ;0 1 Hewed of their prisoners, while oth ers were not by the judges, and he read a list of counties in wbtbe no causes nor prisoners had been tried, owing t ° want time. tbst Lord CAMPBELL would respectfully sue' ge St much good might be done by dividing the ciircuio !u' e a equally in the year; by rendering the interval bet" po t the assizes in one case longer, and in the other cas e pr So long. In Scotland the summer circuit began in is gust and September, and althowgh such a e banc, o f England might interfere with the shooting seasn e ' o r with trips to France and Italy, be believed that th e in general would be willing to make the sacrifice. . 0 1 Lord BROUG HAM recommended that i n criu ll t ," r i• casts the venue should be made transit or y, so that a soners could be tried elsewhere than in the place ' 64 the offence was committed. 9 The LORD CHANCELLOR feared that 6 . 1 1 C re' change would entail expenses upon prisoners in t he A /naval of - witnesses, which they could ill sustain . 1 ,/ better division of the year seemed most practicab l A making the summer circuit begin at a different p.a . ' , f e , Lord BROUG HAM apprehended that no in n° t he nience had been experienced in Scotland by Lvak i lf A d' venue transitory. It was accomplished by a set a vance of money. fl ttf The LORI) CHANCELLOR th, lit that the env de nle —oft thought tha. gentlemen would object to any such charge being upon the county rates. The Duke of RICHMOND remarked that if tm a ; o ptli sizes were t o commence i n A ugus t, t h at wa s the 05111 in which in his part of the country the harvest began. T ihe return was then ordered. . , ;15, t e On the motion of the EarI BILL of DALITOL e t o ' Customs Bill was read a second time.—Cougnitt4 morrow. - ENDOWED SCHCOLS. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the second re be per' of the School Endowment Bill, explaining that t he i pose of it was to give greater facility t o the PrivY, e igl'' cil in the endowment of small schools in poor oo ar bourhds. lire Ld COTTENITAM said the object of this 14 b o b i h ie'' might be attained without giving the large poo l ' s were contained in the Bill. a cos ° Lord BROUGHAM said there were very Mal e We re in existence in which the funds of public sch° ° misappropriated. ;s The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was tion to introduce a Bill in the course of the press 0 sion upon the subject. After a few words froth Earl Fitzwilliam, Lor d eca cliffe, and Lord Cottenham, the Bill was read a t time. b e The Marquis of NORMANBY gave no tice t iv l / 1 7,0 l f should call the attention of the House to-tsorr°ol contradiction of certain facts, stated in a letter frst Cir Hamilton, the Crown Solicitor for the North - ; /410 1 1, 1° cuit in Ireland, in matter mentioned 11 Friend the other night, for as the allegations in t be PP, ter seriously affected the character of individuals, it right to give the same publicity to the coutsw which had been given to the charge. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 3 °;,. 4 The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four oCle b ig sc' Lord ARTHUR LENNOX took the oaths and oe s on his re-election for Chichester. nd Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE took the oaths - a on his re-election for Buckingham. . 01v) The Salisbury Branch Railway Bill wa s read time and passed . . 1 DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILD• frc ° Mr. RASHLEIGH presented several petitions Cornwall against the Dissenters' Chapels Bin. 4 0.4._, Col. GORE LANGTON presented similar Pe j;g4 - 6 00a1 6 Mr. BO YD presented five petitions from u : - /lor congregations in Ireland, against the Dissenters, - Bill. 0 Mr. SCEOLEFIELD presented a petition fr° • t g lsll/ congregation of Wesleyan Methodists, ass e _f ib env -1111 00 f Cherry-street Chapel, Birmingham, to the sawetik, fro C m ol N on o e t l tin lr ham LL s E hir ST e O a N nd E Lpericeessetnetresdhiren,inteo ,_ e .tie siir effect. NT ive B P Mr. BARCLAY presented a petition from e' r upon-Tyne; to the same effect. :t;00 o ff 'l Mr. THORNELY presented thr ee Pelo e a ° 6 ( from Liverpool, ene from Stafford, an d one_ fr° 5 00 6 gregation of Baptists, assembling in tha 1 1 ,.• of 01 Dudley, in the county of Worcester, in fal°,ll" . rees , Dissenters' Chapels Bill. the ;401 , Mr. E. TENNENT presented petitions from 0n b e t leyan Methodists of the counties of Cork an l yfein ,f against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Sou. of& also presented a Petition from the metropolis, 4' $ al. of art-unions Sir JOHN . HANMER presented a petition agiits et'ons Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Mr. MASTERMAN presented several pO.l-1 to .the Tower Hamlets, to the same effect. - Petition' Sir WALTER JAMES presented ttv9 . the same effect. 43 1 ‘ 1415w Mr. COLLETT presented a petition from - of , of chapels, to the same effipt. • s ft oo An 110 x. MEMBER presented four petitiont, county of Londonderry, to the same effect- A ° jp Mr. BAILEY presented a petition to the , a w e „ fr. G. , Mr. FERRAND presented a petition fro4o.iiiOt: Ryder, the Chairman of the Chelsea Board oft , s t 11 1 % • Aug. , e lse , complaining of the removal of a pauper in be C h ~,g from the Kensington Union Workhouse to t. A C I P 0 Workhouse, during the time that he Ar 3s 4 / 11 e veti j ., , i. state. On the motion of the Hon. BelieMember,i.t Cee was ordered to - be referred to the Medical , . • notogrijie' mittee Sir W. CLAY presented a petition froo l . the tion of .WesleyanMethOdists in Poplar, ago,4 senters' Chapels Bill. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL p nel resented a Pe!it i° bo r4 l .6i ll g;v4. by 60,000 inhabitants of Dublin and the O' ~--~~w I h kr . 84d ~ , t 7 tll t‘.n. ll ,( 61 1 '• I 4k 11 41qt MORNING-, MAY 31, 1844. th li t hat (if )4 t r 41s• I (4 , Leve