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from that of the class having only their labour to rely upon. It might answer the purpose of the manufacturer, the merchant, and the shopkeeper; it might in some measure satisfy those who were look ing exclusively to their own interests ; but it would do so at the sacrifice of the interests and the rights of the great majotity of the toiling multitudes, whose question this was, and with reference to whom it had always been agitated, and not one item of whose claim to food should ever be compro mised by any friend of free trade, or that just and broad principle which that phrase denoted. In looking at the public indicatives of the state of their cause, one could not but be struck at once with the fact of the unabated interest that had been mani fested in those meetings ; and this was the more re markable at the present time than it was last year or on any former occasion, and for this reason :—The pre sent period was not one of very much excitement on this question. It was not one in which there were such stimulating and cheering electoral victories as had occurred a few months ago. It was not one of those numerous public meetings in different parts of the kingdom, which some while since occupied public attention, and formed a continual occasion for regarding the progress of their cause. It had not been a period, except within the last few days, of Parliamentary discussions, that were exciting any very extended degree of notice or great influence ; yet they had come to this place, from week to week, seeing the old familiar faces, and hearing the old familiar voices ; they came under no temporary ex citement, under no extraordinary stimulus from with out ; they came because there was an increasing stimulus in their own bosoms; they came because this was a matter of principle, and not of mere passing excitement; they came because their determination was fixed and rooted in their own souls to protest against the atrocious impost on food till it should be utterly abolished—and to reiterate that de termination, calling Heaven to witness, that come storm, come sunshine, come calm, come struggle, they were resolved to make their protest, till at length the voice of truth and justice prevailed over all class interests, and that the Legislature itself should yield to the power of public opinion. —:(Cheers.) In this quiet determination they needed no contrivance, no recourse to varied means for keeping up their attendance. He saw in them that calm and growing strength which worked like the mighty elements of nature itself ; it was the power which had within itself the means of perma nence and the means of permanence in moral power implied the means of increase also. It showed a strength that went on from day to day silently and irresistibly swelling like the snow on the mountain top, till it formed into an extent compact as the glacier, ready at a word, if they bided their time— ready when that time came to rush down, bearing all before it, overwhelming any hostile power with the will, the resistless will of a mighty nation.—(Loud cheers.) Miscalculating the quietness with which true power held its own, they found some journalists still determined to treat the League as absolutely or permanently defunct ; indeed, only a few days ago it was stated by one of these papers that the League had been driven from Covent-garden Theatre by the London Conservative Association, a most marvellous rout that would have been ; but the generosity that had allowed them the use of the theatre, had been by no means displaced. Their meeting ought to have been held this day instead of last Wednesday, then, when they toasted the glorious majority of ninety, they might have asked where it was last Monday and on Friday.—(Loud cheers.) They might have been called on to explain whether they were cele brating the triumph of the Tories over Peel, or of Peel over the Tories.—(Cheers and laughter.) . And that question might have especially been asked of Sir _Howard Douglas, who voted on the first occasion with Mr. Miles, and on the second occasion with Sir R. Peel, and who prefaced his second vote with de claring that his opinions had undergone no change.— (Oreat laughter.) That was the gentleman who took on him, or had put upon him, the task of being the responsor when the health of the Duke of Wel lington was given. Had the Conservative festival waited till to-day, they might have made a pithy allusion to the uncovered statue of the Duke, which he was told, for he had not seen it, stood with its face to the Post-office and the Horse-Guards, and its back towards the Royal Exchange.—(Laughter.) At that festival they said repeatedly, and they said very truly, that they were not an association to up hold " any particular Ministry." The Ministry such an association upheld must be a Ministry that were not very particular—(Loud cheers)—and he won dered much, considering the number of mercantile people there, and the large correspondence they must keep up, he wondered they did not introduce at least some such toast as this, Success to those who hold the seals of office, and who break the seals of letters." —(Loud cheers, several times renewed.) To re turn to the indications of the progress of their cause, he for one reckoned it a very gra tifying indication, and a good of immense moment effected by the League, that the condition of , the, agricultural labourer was now forced upon public attention, with a power that insured that something must be done towards their amelioration. It was the League that brought that condition first under notice, in the face of the boldest contradiction ; for every rural district was described as a perfect arcadia, all innocence, and comfort, and enjoyment. The veil was now torn aside, one which no patching could ever hold together again, and the horrid and disgust ing reality was exposed, a reality which, however tampered :with, he believed could never be entirely altered in its character, and never thoroughly _ reformed, but by the accomplishment of that , repeal of the taxes on food which it was the object of the League to accomplish. How much had been done by the League in the cause of free trade ? Would that great power, the Times, have taken up their cause had it not been for previous preparation ? The Times sent out its royal com mission to the disturbed districts ; he said royal com , mission, for there were other powers of Government besides those that met in West Minster. The Times might be said, to a certain agent, to rule England as Daniel O'Connell rules Ireland. Printing-house . square, and the Penitentiary at the Circular-road, were seats of Government, where there were influences which made themselves felt to the remotest bounda ries of either island. A series of papers had appeared . in the Times regarding the agricultural districts, whence you might trace, as on a map, a broad, black , line—low wages and incendiary fires.—(Hear, hear.) These papers, by the impression they would produce, , would shame down the calumnies so often repeated against the League, that they had, or could have had, anything to do with these disturbances. Those sophisms had fallen in the way of so many others — they would go down the road to oblivion, and nothing would be left but the plain, daring assertion—that to tax food is good for our pockets, and that tax we will keep up as long as you leave us the power.—(Hear, hear.) It was pleasing to see that the condition of these poor creatures was becoming so much better Understood, and that the need of some alleviation to the miseries of the inhabitants of the agricultural counties of Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk was univer sally admitted. This, and much more, was owing to the exertions pf the League.—(Hear, hear.) The poor creature born to filth and hunger, brought up in a dilapidated cottage destined to de .molition under the common-clearing system—sent out in his early years to break stones on the road that leads to some ducal mansion, kept up in splen dour by the assistance of a bread-tax—made to work for all ; he mist feed, and house, and lie as he can— his chureh was the beer-shop, his only refuge—his only chance of tasting anything but dry bread, poaching on the preserves of some squiresteering between the Scylla and Charybdis of the workhouse and the gaol, the view of the gallows being made visi ble in the distance by the fires of the blazing barns. To reach such as this the 'star of hope had risen, and it would held on in its course until it obtained - the meridian of truth and justice. There were indi cations of advance in their cause in the present con dition of the hostile powers. Where was the great Compact phalanx which had been bound against them two years ago ? Where was the power which was exercised in - the election of 1841, when it carried everything before them ? Where was that compact now ? Quarrelling about almost everything that could be started. They were quarrelling about a Welsh bishopric, Dissenters' Chapels Bills, and were a bout to quarrel about th e New Poor-l aw, having quarrelled about the Ten Hsu& Bill, and were now involved in a deadly quarrel about the sugar duties. There were high Church and moderate Church—an . dent Tories and m odern Conserv atives- -young Eng land and old Engl and (Lau g hter ) —. and the r e was was the Prime Ministe r himself stirring up the hete rogeneous material, and well might he exc laim--" Double double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. —(Laughter.) Thus was Sir Robert Peel at the head of that great Conservative party, which he had been ten years amalgamating. These things read a very impressive moral lesson, which was to avoid in future any endea vour to form a party without principle—or what was 'Worse, a party with five or six antagonistic principles. In opposition, Sir Robert Peel had avoided showing himself with wonderful dexterity. The amalgama tion of the 'Tory arty succeeded in displacing the Whigs ; but Sir Robert Peel was now exhibited in the- most pitiable light in which a Prime Minister has been placed—endured for his dexterity—tolerated for nothing else. There he was---toiling at their work — endured by all, scorned by all, ti warted by all—re- Prosebed by all—not adhered to for any steadiness of printiple, for he turned his back upon all those doc trines which he formerly maintained, but supported because be propped up that wretched system of expe -‘it6We which nirmil was fast tottering to destruction. b : e r gu er t3i t to sustain himself in office he had obtained for hinisee mos t palpable treachery. He had trickster, and if they e well-earned reputation of a ey searched the calendar they Li would all agree in giving him Judas as a patron saint. —(Laughter.) Among the recent inventions and discoveries, not the least remarkable was that one which Sir R. Peel had lately ascertained to be the principle of administration, and which was founded upon) justice and sound policy— he meant the relaxation of the commercial prohibitions and restrictions, and the introduction of articles produced in other countries to compete with those produced in our own. He did not make the discovery before he came into office. There was no announcement of it in the Tamworth manifesto. It never was proclaimed on the hustings in the election of 1841, but it came out now in the difficulties and entanglements of his position. It recommended him to some of his followers, but it made him odious to others. It certainly gained him no confidence from any ; and if, as was anticipated, the Whigs were too pragmatical to advocate a repeal of the corn-laws, and that Sir R. Peel proposed it, the League would certainly receive such a proposition from his hands, but not as from a champion who hid been its consistent advocate, but from one in whom they had no confidence, and from whom the mighty power of public opinion had wrung a measure which should never have been refused.—(Hear.) He had often in that place advanced earnest recommendations to those assembled there to exert themselves in every way that their circumstances allowed to promote the Liberal registration, and that whoever had it in his poWer to obtain this great political right should at once put himself in possession of it. He had recom mended them that they should, by conversation, and by the distribution of tracts, spread abroad the know ledge of their principles and their conviction of the truth ; and he trusted that he might be indulged in taking on himself to offer a few suggestions to those who might be regarded as the advocates of their cause in the House of Commons. For him self, he owned that it would gratify his feelings much more if he saw those members of the League who were M.P.'s acting more in concert than they ap peared to l eave done on a recent occasion.—(Hear, hear.) If there were but few, they had the more need for steady and efficient co-operation. If the question did not involve principles, then there was no thing to sacrifice ; and if it were a question of principle, then he bad no doubt but little consultation would bring them all to the one conviction as to any great application of the principles of free trade. At a time when the Go vernment was endangered—at a time when, in fact, the Government was preserved by only a majority of twenty—it was time for the tens and dozens to look about them, and consider where their weight could be best thrown—how they could best unite for the common good, and how they could best advance the great cause which they advocated. He did not say but those Members acted from the most honourable and honest motives, but he did not wish to see those twelve gentlemen who had filled that chair, and spoken from that platform, di vided as to the course they pursued ; but they were, in fact, divided into three or four different parties.— (Hear, hear.) He did not wish to see those men up holding Peel in office. He did not wish to see them a party to any decision which tended to prolong for a week, or a single day, a Government in office which ruled over Ireland with so much oppession, and which made the Post-office of England a great spy shop— (Loud cheers, and cries of " Hear, hear.")—which advocated a mock Liberalism, and supported monopoly when it could—a Government of subterfuge and false pretences—a Government which waged war against the constitutional, open, fair, and liberal meetings of the people of Ireland, and which would wage warfare against meetings here if it dare—a Government, in fine, which had opposed, and would oppose as long as it could, the first right of an Englishman —an open market for the produce of his labour and cheap food.—(Hear, hear, and prolonged cheering.) He was glad to find that the feelings of the meeting were his, if he rightly un derstood them.—(Renewed cheering, and cries of " Hear, hear.") The veterans who had assembled at -the Waterloo banquet should recollect what it was that first led to the downfal of the despot who was finally overthrown at that stupendous conflict. It was the Berlin decree which imposed, or at least attempted to impose, fetters upon commerce—that was the first and most effectual blow that Napoleon, in his ambitious career, ever received. Buonaparte threatened, and, in fact, declared, that all the ports of Britain were in a state of blockade—that was, in fact, what the Protec titionists now, in substance, declared—they an nounced to every foreign ship that commerce was restricted, and that, however much the people of this island stood in need of food, monopoly reigned there triumphant, and would exclude it as a far worse and more dangerous, because more in sidious, enemy than Napoleon.—(Hear, hear.) 'War might devastate countries, and overthrow empires, and annihilate cities; but monopoly, though not so rapid or perceptible in its progress, was quite as effec tual in its operations. Under its baneful influence, gradual, sure, and silent decay went forward ; the waving corn-field was converted into the barren pas ture—the wealthy merchant was impoverished—the manufactory rendered inoperative, and the national resources reduced to helpless weakness.—(Hear, hear.) Such was monopoly which, whilst it kept the people at home needy and hungry, permitted the harvests in foreign countries to rot from want of a sufficient number of mouths to consume them.—(Hear, hear.) If war killed, if it stained the field and the stream with human blood, monopoly destroyed human life also, its hundreds and thousands from year to year, and by a lingering agency, worse to endure than the short stroke of the sword or the cannon-ball ; and if war demoralised a people, so did monopoly, calling into life, as it did, theft, incendiarism, and all other evils which could befal society. He relied on one overruling process for the destruction of both war and monopoly—for the same moral law which they were there to advocate condeinned both, and would ulti mately doom both to annihilation.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then informed the meeting, that in consequence of the motion of Mr. Villiers being to be brought before the House of Commons next week, it was not the intention of the League to hold their usual meeting in that place, but on that day fort night he hoped to see them all again. The meeting then adjourned. The King of Saxony, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, visited the British Institution on Tuesday, the 18th inst., and was pleased to express his approbation of the splendid collection of pictures. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the same on Wednesday, the 19th inst.,attended by Major Henry S. Stevens, and was pleased to express himself highly gratifisd with the present exhibition. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, and several Members of the Town Council, have arrived in town, for the purpose of presenting an address to her Majesty, upon. the subject of Mr. O'Connell's trial and imprisonment. An entirely new race of horses has been introduced into France, called nedjdi, the pure blood of which will be preserved by means of stallions and mares presented to the ' King in 1842 by the Viceroy of Egypt. Crosses between the stallions, and the finest French, German, and English mares, promise a great improvement of the breed of horses in France. The nedjdi are kept at the Arab stud-house founded by the King in the park of St. Cloud.—Paris Print. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—In the month of June 1837, the schooner Ebenezer, a regular trader for coals to this port, J. Little, commander and part owner, sailed from Ply mouth for Shields, for a cargo of coals, having a regular crew, ' and a passenger named Edward Jeffery, son of the late Mr. Thomas Jeffery, who died about three years since, and was for many years a faithful servant of J. and W. Collier, Esqrs., timber merchants, of this town. It appears the Ebenezer arrived safely at Shields, took in a cargo of coals, and sailed again for this port, having still on board the Young man Edward Jeffrey, whose design had been to take a summer's excursion to Shields and return again. Coming down the North Channel when off Yarmouth, the schooner experienced a severe gale, which lasted a day and a night, when, by the violence of the storm, she was shattered, and went down ; and it was believed at the time, for no one heard anything about her for two months after, that every soul on board had perished; however, the desk of Captain Little, with some papers inclosed, was washed into Yarmouth, at the latter end of July, when no doubt existed in the minds of the friends of those on board, but that every soul ' had perished—and the captain's widow, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery and family, went all into deep mourning. But the sequel of the story is, that Jeffery and another, after having clung to the wreck for several hours, were picked up by a foreign vessel bound to India, which touched at the Cape. There Jeffery and his companion were put on shore, but being destitute of money and clothing, to return to his friends, he entered on board the Arrow, which was then lying there, bound on a surveying expedition to the Falkland Islands._ there it appears she has been for the last six years, and after returning and cruising on the coast of Africa for some time, has taken two very large slavers—and on Saturday, she ar rived in Portsmouth Harbour, where Jeffery sent a commu nication to his friends, announcing his arrival.—Devonpore Independent. HERRING FISHERY.—We are glad to say that there is a great appearance of herrings on the coast, and that al ready has the take been so good as to permit the fish to be disposed of at from 3d. to 4d. per dozen. As yet the nets have not been put into operation, the mode of capture being by hook rigged upon what are called " dandy handlines," the abundant produce from which holds out every hope of a successful fishing when the ordinary means are brought into play. Aberdeen Journal. CRUSADE AGAINST REPEAL I3urroNs.—On Friday morning, notice having been forwarded to the Corporation House, in William-street, that the main pipe for supplying water to the Royal Barracks was out o f order,.eo a e b 'l ntegh cotflsieetnhteibnaelrr: en employed in the pipe-water de partment y wore at once dispatched to rectify it ; but on , fte u k ti:l g e finless e they he p ‘ u v e l Te e d r o e k u s t h e i r a r dn e Pe i a t - 1 t a a P i P iC d buttons. The men declined to do so, and the sentinel refus ing to admit them, although they explained the object of m their visit, they returned t o the p• - ewater-office, and the Royal Barracks remained Without the means of obtaining a supply of water.—Lublin E mii i, P ost. A RETORT. —" A re you prepared to pay me that bill?" said the landlord of an American hotel to a guest of his, who seemed to evinc , a ,, de , cided and practical preference for the "credit system. Certainly • , will pay it," was o n as I get a remittance f rom the reply, "as SO the north. BO why so uneasy? Inot t • Am putting up with you?" " you seem glad enough to I , yes," 84;4 ;.he landlord, put up with me, by you`4 4d shan't put up with you if you don't pay me.'' Thursday morning, a A sturgeon was taken on ween Errol and Sea short distance below the marsh wall, bet ti e 7 feet i men side, of the following dimensions :-leng I• b d • weight t girth, 2 feet 11 inches ; and its ll ilbs. a the e9l e lave to be one of the largest ever taken in this part Ultry —Perthshire Constitutional. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE SO, 1844. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROX THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—When death has closed the career of an individual, his real character, and the estimation in which he was held by his contemporaries, become known. Even an unfounded rumour of the event, if strengthened by circumstances which seem to justify its claims to credibility, produces a similar result on public opinion. The individual whose demise has been prematurely an nounced, becomes'acquainted with the place he occupies in public estmation. He has the privilege of reading his own epitaph ; and may indulge in those reflec tions, pleasinfc or painful, which the sentiments it re cords respecting him are calculated to impart. Lord Brougham, a few years since, was furnished with this posthumous privilege. The hoax that was practised on the public in the form of an apparently circumstantial and well-attested account of his death—by whom soever planned—whether with, or without, the eccentric Lord's aid or privity—called forth in the daily journals comments on his Lordship's public character and course. The latter were appealed to as reflect ing light on the former; and both were chronicled under a conviction that the man and his deeds had become matters of history. It is with Governments as with individuals. Events occasionally occur in their existence which give rise to rumours of their dissolution. In proportion as they are popular or unpopular, the re ports of their disruption will be received with reluct ance, or be grasped at with avidity. If there has been an universal expectation and hope of the termination of their career, the report that the end has come will be re ceived with avidity and be celebrated with delight. Even though the event do not justify the conclusion—though the fate of the Government be postponed, instead of realised, the testimony borne to its character is not im pugned, nor are the feelings called forth by its sup posed dissolution the less genuine, because premature. The subjects of public praise or censure, of the general regrets or exultations, are instructed as to the terms in which they would have been spoken of had they really become defunct. The office of the " great teacher, death," has been anticipated in the case of the indivi dual ; and a government, before it actually gives place to its successors, may witness the satisfaction, or regret, with which its loss of power has inspired the community. The present Administration has this unenviable pri vilege. The rumours of its resignation had, it seems, been communicated in a letter from the London corre spondent of the Dublin Evening Mail, dated Satur day evening, in terms which implied that the event was certain. In the positive arrangement of respect and confidence that pervades the Conservative party in Dublin, so far as Sir Robert Peel and the policy of his Government are concerned, and which has gradually grown into an earnest desire for its disruption, the organ of the Dublin Tories gloried over the supposed fall of the Administration in terms of triumph which would be sufficiently strong if found in a Repeal journal ; but expressed by a Conservative organ, may be safely taken as evidence that if the Administration be endured with impatience by Repealers, it scarcely is less cordially de spised by those who actually placed it in power by their votes and influence. That we have not stated the import of the announcement alluded to in terms too strong, will be seen by a perusal of the article : "RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. " SATURDAY EVENING.—The Cabinet Council has just broken up, and it is said the decision of resigning was come to unanimously. " Sir Robert Peel forthwith proceeded to the palace, and had an audience of her Majesty. The official announce ment of the fact will, of course, be made to both Houses of Parliament on Monday. The cheers with which the announcement of the defeat of Ministers was hailed, last night, from the Conservative benches, left no doubt on the minds of Ministers as to the feeling of the party towards them. Thus, in two and a half years,having falsified every pledge they gave whilst out of office, the Ministry that boasted of a majority of One Hundred in a House caged by their antagonist; now retire without sympathy or honour." The Mail goes on to enumerate the delinquencies of Sir Robert Peel, as head of the Government, which produced the event on which it congratulates the Con servative party and the country in the strongest terms. The Sugar Duties—on which the adverse vote was given against the Government on Friday night, and was the proximate cause of the supposed resignation of the Ministry —is treated as a mere accident of which the Conservatives availed themselves to convince the Go vernment of the fi xed determination of the party which raised it to office, to enforce a policy more in confor mity with the principles and pledges of Sir Robert Peel, when leader of the Opposition in the last Par liament, and on the faith of which he was entrusted with power. A more unequivocal party proclamation of entire renunciation and repudiation of a Ministry, has seldom been embodied and issued than the article in Monday's Dublin Mail, to which we have alluded. That Sir Robert Peel did not resign, as the organ of the Irish Conservatives supposed he had—because, in its view, he was shut up to that only course con sistent with his position—will be a source of disap pointment ; but will not mitigate the hostility with which his course is viewed by the party, nor in duce its organ to qualify the condemnation of its po licy, which it pronounced over its imaginary grave. We may remark, that yesterday, in the hurry conse quent upon analysing the division of the preceding night, we stated the number of ultra free traders who voted with the Government as eleven. That number, on a division, reckons as twenty-two—the exact majority by which the vote of Friday night was reversed, and the Government saved from inevitable disruption. The actual number was, however, thirteen. Thus, but for the Anti-Protectionists--who in this case voted for the Government scale of Protection, as likely to advance the abolition of all protection—the Government would actually have been placed in a minority of four; and would at this moment have been out of office ! On the principle which was constantly put forth by the Tory Journals while the Whigs were in office, that they were kept in by the Irish Liberals, and not by a majority of the entire House of Commons, Sir Robert Peel is the minister of, the Anti-Corn-law League ; the leaders of which preserve him in office by their votes ' • and to whom, we trust, he will evince his gratitude by adopting the free-trade policy they advocate. STANDARD.—The alliance of West Indians, Whig- Radical aspirants to office, and disappointed Conserva tive self-seekers have discharged their bolt, and we ima gine that they are little gratified by the result. The first have obtained the satisfaction of knowing that they have definitively placed their interests in opposition to the discontinuance of the property-tax. The Whigs have put another bar on the door that excludes them from office, and the Conservative self-seekers have learned how very inconsiderable a fraction of the Conser vative party they constitute. The wretched mismanage ment of West Indian affairs from the day in which the short-sightedness and jobbing of the managers drove the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in disgust from among them, this wretched mismanagement has led to a course of blunders and calamities quite beyond belief until the subject is inquired into ; but it must be always so when great and varied interests are confided to the care of mere traders. Such men care for nobody but themselves, and they deride all provision for the future. The interests of the British empire could hardly be in worse hands, if confided to the care of " the League," than the hands in which the West Indian interest have been so many years. Like the Leaguers, each of the West Indian managers thinks only of the present time and of his own private interest. " How shall I improve my returns for the year? How shall I make my West Indian estate bring a better price in the market ?" These are the questions he asks himself ; but of anything for the common good, or for the future prosperity of the colonies, he never dreams. It is very well known that many of the West Indian managers have invested large sums in the pur chase and cultivation of estates in Cuba—all cultivated by slave labour. And at this very moment some of the most distinguished West Indians, as they are called, are negotiating fora loan of half a million to in troduce disguised slaves—for they will be no more— into Trinidad and Demerara, so as to prevent, by the advantage of the start, and of a fresher and a bet ter soil, the possible recovery of Jamaica and the other old colonies, under any circumstances, how. ever favourable. These mismanagers are, in truth, the very worst enemies of the great body of planters, and whatever tends to destroy their influence, is a benefit to the great body of West Indians. The disease under which the West Indies suffer, and have been suffering for nearly forty years, is a steady and by no means slow decline in the supply of labour. This decline has not been caused, and can not be checked, by any financial arrangement. It has been in progress while the West Indies had a perfect monopoly, even to the exclusion of the other British colonies ; it has been in progress while sugar was protected by a differential duty of three guineas the hundred weight ; and if it is now proceeding at a more rapid rate, the acceleration is the effect of a natural cause, the necessary operation of which every one must see. As the negroes become fewer they get higher wages, and with higher wages they become rich, and the land becomes of less value. As they become rich, however, they purchase small scraps of cheap land, and cease to be labourers. Thus the labourers are still more reduced in number, wages necessarily rise still higher, and the same process is repeated again and again and again, and must continue to be repeated until there shall scarcely be a labourer in the colonies to be had for hire. The advantage derived in this re spect to the great body of planters, is the exposure of the truth, which the faithless managers would keep out of sight. The British tropical colonies are of immense importance to the British empire, pecuniary considerations altogether apart, and they are of not less importance to the liberty of mankind. We must, therefore be careful not to lose them, or let them sink into that state of ruin to which they are rapidly descending, and to which projects like that of Mr. Miles would only hurry them more rapidly. A permanent supply of bona fide free labour must be found for them. Until the colonial population shall be doubled, the colonies will not be in a secure state. Now this supply of labour may be had promptly, and with little difficulty, by the estab lishment of settlements on the African coast, to serve as entrepots, and thus will the accursed slave-trade be effec tually destroyed. It is not at present a contest be tween free labour and slave labour that is carried on between our colonies on one side, and Cuba and the Brazils on the other, it is a contest of insufficient and overpaid labour against abundant and unpaid labour, and the result is inevitable. But who will pretend that if the negroes in our colonies were in sufficient numbers to compel them to work at the wages, and at the rate at which Englishmen work, any slaves could compete with them? To obtain for the West Indies this abundant supply of labourers is the object to which Parliament must direct its attention. TlMES.—Nothing could be more misplaced than the Pre mier's tragic remonstrances on Monday night at the conduct of his uncertain and desultory supporters. To read his ex postulations, one might imagine he was addressing rebellious children, or an ungrateful dependent, or faithless spouse. All the favoar, all the confidence, is on his side. " Have I not made you wh a t y ou are ," h e seems to say, " a prosperous an d united family I+ Have I not taught you, and trained you; and admitted you to all the secrets of my . heart? Do you not participate in a mighty design, conceived for your sole benefit? Why suddenly turn upon your only friend and leader—why band yourselves together ,against your lawful head—why dally with the treacherous toe?" We do not exaggerate a bit. Such was Sir Robert's teem. " Sir (says he, addressing the Speaker), if it be a matter of tuumportance, we cannot consent to accede to the proposition." The Right Hon. Baronet, we are told, pronounced this with more than usual emphasis, and proceeded, after a pause, in a tone forcibly expressive of wounded feeling—" It was carried by a combi nation of those who are our general supporters with our political opponents. If the measure, I repeat, be an unimportant one, in proportion to its unimportance it is significant of a want of confidence in our Administration." * * * " I may be wrong, but my impression is, that it was a precon certed arrangement between some of those who usually op pose and some of those who usually support us." In fact, everything—everything, that is to say, in the speech itself — was tending to a scene. It is impossible to say what we might not have had; Sir Robert on his knees, perhaps, un baring his bosom to the shafts of calumny, ingratitude, treachery, and all the rest of them, protesting his integrity to the skies, and flooding the house with his tears. But some very unkind interruptions spoilt the affair. " Ironical cheers and laughter" came in very awkwardly at the end of the sen tence, and broke the beautifully gradual descent of the pathos. So the worthy Baronet, unmanned for a moment, remembered his magnanimity and his figures. From affec tions unrequited, and confidence withdrawn, he returned with double energy to sugars, foreign and colonial, slave and free, clayed and refined. Indeed, in the very depth of the pa roxysm it must have occurred sometimes with rather a ludi crous force that a question whether a certain duty should be 20s. or 245., or whether a certain reduction should date from to-morrow or the 10th of November, or should be levied equally on all kinds, was hardly theme enough for so moving a declamation. If Sir Robert Peel's measures were the best ever conceived by the most consummate wisdom, inspired by the highest virtue, he would have no claim to the absolute confidence, the utter prostration of judgment, which he de mands ; for this plain reason—that his supporters are the very last persons in whom he reposes confidence. No confi dence can last which is not reciprocal. Sir Robert does not communicate with his supporters—does not prepare them— does not identify himself with them-does not stand by them—does not protect them—does not give them the small est credit, or the smallest share in his successes, such as they are. On the contrary, every step in his course is their hu miliation and confusion. He deals with them as with his most open enemies. He takes them by surprise at every turn. All his measures are coups d'etat. He brings them into a defile, with the enemy in their front, and some dread ful extremity in the rear, so as to cut off all retreat, and then says, " I don't trust you ; but you must fight or be destroyed to a man." Sir Robert acts like a Premier, and affects to talk like a friend. Will he just attempt to think and feel as a friend for one moment, while we beg to suggest the following topics of meditation ? He talks in heartrending terms of a measure "carried by a combination of those who are our general supporters with our political opponents." Does he not regularly lay himself out for the support of " political opponents ? " Does he ever fail to overawe his "general supporters," whenever need be, with some Whig contingent, which he is always able and ready to purchase at the expense of those " gene ral supporters ? " Every Conservative knows that the moment he ventures to think for himself, he may expect to find the Whigs on his flank. Nay, more. As soon as Sir Robert finds a supporter troublesome, he does not scruple to deliver him,. bound hand and foot, to any particular " politi cal opponent "he may find ready for the work. With a glance at the other side of the House, he strikes a compact that has all the force of " preconcerted arrangement," and forthwith his too conscientious supporter finds himself in the hands of his bitterest enemies, without either rescue or com miseration. A man must have a wonderful power of sponging conscience and memory who can act as Sir Robert has never failed to do when convenient, and yet can talk as he did on Monday evening. POSE—In the performance of pantomimes and ballets, when it is found convenient to convey to the audience some piece of informati on b e y on d w h a t th e powers of gesticulation can impart, it is usual to resort to the expedient of a printed placard. Thus the rule against plain-speaking is not in fringed, nor is the auditory left in the perplexity of ignorance. We respectfully recommend a similar device to her Majesty's Prime Minister in the House of Commons. After what has happened, he need not be very delicate, and his chief aim ought to be the saving of time and trouble. Whenever a doubtful question Comes before House, therefore, let him have a large placard erected behind his seat, stating that he does, or does not, intend to ca rr y the question as he has proposed it to the House. Honourable Members (very Honourable in deed !) will thus be saved the trouble of coming down on a subsequent evening to rescind the vote to which, in the sim plicity of ignorance or misapprehension the House has pre viously come. It is clear that, with regard to the sugar duties question, a good , Ininy Members shared in the opinion avowed with so truth naivete by that independent weekly journal the John :Milk that Ministers would be very well content to be, Itato. 7 . They had great confidence in the duplicity and „iplikepri t ty of their friends on the Treasury bench, and felf well assured that their friends, when pro posing theie,xote, of Friday night, wished for nothing, more than to make .an appearance of an inteution, while in reality their views accorded with the views of Mr. Miles. This turned out to -"be a mistake but it was a mistake at which - we are not at all surprised. Some men are slow 'to shake off impressions and to acquire new ones. Gentlemen who had listened to the Pre mier in 1841, who had heard the contempt expressed by him for the cant of "cheap sugar ;" who had listened to the great concern he expressed for the West Indies ; who had witnessed his extreme anxiety about the moral and social condition of those colonies ; who had been elevated into an enthusiasm of indignation against the Whigs by Sir Robert's denunciation of the policy which might render it impossible ever to raise sugar at a profit by free labour in those colonies —gentlemen, we say, whose memories were full of these statements, and who are not quick to catch up new views of things, might naturally suppose that Sir Robert Peel could not be quite in ear nest at the present time. No doubt they said to themselves that though the Premier might have reasons of expediency for appearing to have lost all concern for the in terests of the West India colonies, yet his views of 1841— those views upon which, and by the declaration of which he obtained office,must be what he really wished still to promote ; but they were in error. Upon this occasion they finessed too much, and have been obliged to contradict themselves. Upon such a class of men, however, Sir Robert Peel ought to have mercy. Let him remember that they have been very busy ever since 1841 learning the lesson he then taught them, and trying to "soak into their brains," as Lord Palmerston would say, the wisdom which he then imparted, touching the cant of cheap sugar, and the necessity of taking care of West Indian interests. All that he has to complain of is that they cannot unlearn what he has taught, quite so fast as he can ; but this may be because they received his opinions with more respect and more earnest belief than he received them himself. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—It is expected that in a few days a deputa tion will wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject of the Savings-bank Bill. This deputation will consist of Sir 'Henry Willoughby (Chairman), Mr. F. Shaw, M.P., Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Brother gtoenn,tl M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., and t savings -banks,—viz , Mr. Has. fr D o l m r. V di e ffe ie r y e , n tam (Dublin), Mr. Besnard (Cork), Mr. Boodle (St. Martin's-place), Mr. Marsden and Mr. Neild (Manches ter), Mr. Robinson (Hull), Mr. Davies (Lambeth), Mr. A em l.P en " Maitland (Edinburgh), Mr. Lee (Devon and Exeter), Mr. Dawe (Devonport), and Mr. Mason (St. Clement Danes). The whole will represent the deputations from thirty-five savings-banks, comprising 219,280 depositors, and 5,514,889/. amount of deposits. The deputation will urge the injustice of so small a rate of interest as 2/. 15s. being allowed to depositors, and will contend for 3/. Os. 10d. (2d per cent. per diem) as the maximum to the depositor, and 31. Ss. 50. (21-11. per cent. per diem) to to trustees of savings -banks. At the same time they intend to show, that if the funds had been duly admi nistered, they would have yielded an interest of 3/. 12s. 2d., or at any rate, according to general admission, 31. 7 s . Bd., and that such interest, which is more than they claim, might have been produced by the savings bank fund, supporting itself. They will also suggest that no alteration be made in the existing law as to the liability of trustees, except by declaring how a manager or trustee may discharge himself of all future liability, if so disposed ; and will attempt to obtain from the Chancellor of the Exchequer some assurance that he will not connect savings -banks and loan societies. This latter course is very much to the credit of the parties, inasmuch as great efforts are made by persons, evidently proceeding upon interested motives, to graft the loan system upon that of the savings-banks, and intimations have even gone abroad that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was dis posed to make this a part of his general plan. There could be, however, as, we have before shown when treating of this subject, no effectual control over such operations, and hence the greatest danger of having the funds wasted or misapplied, which ought to be, above all others, the most sacred from any jobbing or speculation. The members of the deputation act wisely in putting forward prominently that point of the mal administration, of the funds of the savings -banks, though they seem inclined to treat the affair with a good deal of deli cacy, lib if fearful of offending the Treasury. Upon this, we think, they and their advocates are bound to speak out boldly; but it is satisfactory, on the whole, to observe, that the interests of the savings-banks are sure to be so well looked after as now appears to be the'case. The premium on gold at Paris is 121 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. loid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 46 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 50, it follows that gold is 0.14 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4351 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10itl. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 Bi, it follows that gold is 0.75 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 109 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng. land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.58 per cent. against England . But the quoted exchange at New . York g beim for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. Mr. Thomas Hudson, well known for his comic song. s, died yesterday at his residence in Museum - street. IiESERAL POST-OFFICE ORDER.—On Tuesday, the following notice was issued by command of the Earl of Lonsdale, the Postmaster-General :—" Notice to the public, and instructions to all postmasters, sub-postmasters, and letter receivers. On and after the Ist of July next, the British rate of postage of 6d. the half ounce, on letters ad dressed to or posted in the city of Bremen, conveyed by the Hamburgh packets, will be combined with the Bremen rate of 2d. the half ounce, and such combined rate of Bd. the halt ounce, &c. &c., may either be paid in advance, or left un paid, at the option of the sender; but the payment of the British rate only, according to the existing practice , will not be permitted. Ais regulation applies only to letters trans mitted between the United Kingdom and the city of Bremen by the Hamburgh packet. Those conveyed by private ship, or by way of France, Holland, or Belgium, will be chargeable with the same rates of postage to which they have hitherto been subject. FLOWE R SHOW AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR dens.—The South London Floricultural Society held their first exhibition of flowers and fruits for the season on Tuesday at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The weather was re markably fine, the flowers were exceedingly beautiful, and the gardens were crowded by persons who seemed to enjoy the delightful exhibition. In the evening there was a grand fete in the gardens, which continned to be crowded up to the conclusion of the fete. The conflagration of 31d London, which took place at dusk, was very grand, and the general conduct of the entertainments of the evening reflected the highest credit on Mr. Tyler, who has, by his management hitherto, shown hirashlf a most judicious caterer for the public. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, ,Tune 19. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex Common Jury.) M'CARTMY V. VARTY. _ _ _ This was an action to recover damages for an alleged false imprisonment. The plaintiff had been employed by Mr. Dun can to cut some trees on Buckingham-terrace, in front of his residence. The defendant, one of the trustees of the terrace, claimed to have a right in that capacity to prevent any person meddling with the trees, and he gave the defendant into custody, who was taken to Bow-street, and subsequently discharged. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 51. Mr. Platt conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Knowles appeared for the defendant. THE QUEEN v. ANN HAMMOND. This was an indictment for perjury. The case, however, went off, in consequence of a technical error in the indict ment, and the defendant was acquitted, without going into the merits of the case. Mr. Platt was for the prosecution, and Mr. Whately and Mr. Huggins for the defence. SECONDARIES' COURT, June 10. CRIM. CON.—BARBER V. GRIMWADE. This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in an action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The defendant allowed judgment to go by default. The damages were laid at 1,0001. The following are the facts of the case :—The plaintiff is an omnibus proprietor living at Clapham, and the defendant resided within a few doors of the plaintiff, and being an old friend who had seen better days, was employed by him as a driver. Amelia Barber, the plaintiff's wife, was a lady of very prepossessing appearance, about twenty-four years of age. The intimacy commenced in June, 1843, and con tinued until the commencement of the action, a few months since. An immense number of letters were dis covered, many of them being of a very artful nature, and the fact of the defendant being a married man, with a young family, threw the plaintiff in some measure off his guard. The criminal conversation was always carried on in the house of the plaintiff. Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the plaintiff, said the jury would be spared the necessity of hearing details of a most painful nature, as the plaintiff had agreed to take a verdict by consent for 501.—The damages were then assessed at 50/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MARYLEBONE. Ishmael Quintin, landlord of the Jolly Farmers' public- house, Munster-street, Regent's-park, was brought before Mr. Rawlinson by virtue of a summons issued at the instance of the Commissioners of Police, for allow ing gaming in his house, contrary to the terms of his spirit license and the Act of the 9th Geo. IV. Jacob Farey said that he left Bath on Tuesday week last, and arrived in town on Wednesday morning. He stoped on that day in Mr. Quintin's house, and observed, in an up-stairs room, a policeman in his official dress and the landlord's potman playing at bagatelle. They played some games with varied success, and the cash lost was spent in drink. The potman left off play, and the policeman then said to witness, " Perhaps you will have no objection to play." Witness then played with the constable, and lost a shilling; he also lost one, and they then played for threepence, which witness won; then for another threepence, which he won also, and the police man then said he would put sixpence down to witness's sixpence, and they would play for the shilling. Witness put down his sixpence, which the policeman covered " with another, and they played for it, and witness won. On going, however, to take his money he found that it had disappeared, and on his taxing the policeman with the robbery, he called him a d-- thief, and a b-- rogue. There was another person in the room, a man who had been discharged from the police force on the day before. He (witness) was so frightened at the lan guage used to him that he went down stairs and told the landlord that he should not stop an hour longer in the house, and he forwarded on the succeeding day a com plaint to the Commissioners of Police, who suspended the constable and ordered a summons to be issued against the landlord. The landlord had entered the room while the policeman and himself were playing, and asked how they were getting on. W. Wells, 339 S, the constable, was put in the box. He admitted the playing at bagatelle, but denied the making use of bad language, or stealing the shilling. He was off duty at the time, and did not think he was com mitting any offence. Mr. RAWLINSON said his conduct was most disgrace ful ; but the case before him then only applied to the landlord. He had no excuse for permitting a policeman to play in his house, and he would, therefore, fine him forty shillings. The policeman will probably be examined before the Magistrate for his part in the transaction. William Hotham, alias Sir William Hotham, a fashion ably dressed young man, and one of the supporters of the " turf," was finally examined on a charge of stealing a mare from the stables of Mr. John Dart, of Crawford street. The prisoner had hired the animal on the sth inst., but had forgotten to return it. It was attempted to be proved by Mr. Horry, who was retained for the defence, that the mare had been purchased. The evi dence, however, did not bear out his argument, and Mr. Rawlinson committed the prisoner for trial. He was, however, admitted to bail. CLERKENWELL. Mr. George Saville, a cheesemonger, residing in Soho, was charged with an assault of a very unprovoked chit racter on the person of Mary Anne Coleman, the wife of a labourer living in Bloomsbury. The complainant, a decent-looking, poor woman, had a severe contusion under her left eye. The complainant deposed that she was returning to her home on that morning, between one and two o'clock, when the prisoner came up to her as she was crossing Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-square, and asked her if she would fight him. She told him not to interrupt her, upon which he struck her a violent blow on the eye with his clenched first, producing the contusion, which was visible. The prisoner had just come out of Mr. Young's public-house, at the corner of Vernon-place. She had given him no provocation whatever. In answer to a question from the Magistrate, witness accounted for being out so late by having been in at tendance on her sister in Bishopsgate-street, who had been recently confined. She was going home as quickly as she could. Police-constable, 164 E, said the prosecutrix and pri soner were perfectly sober. The prisoner, who assumed an air of great importance, stated that the complainant had solicited him as a woman of the town, and . grasped him round the breast. He acknowledged having pushed here away ; there were four or five other women of bad character with her. The complainant declared, in the most solemn manner, that she never touched him ; that she was in company with no person, and that she had not spoken a word. Mr. Hopkins, residing in 56, Wigmore-street, Caven. dish-square, was called for the defence. He deposed that he believed a young woman solicited his friend and afterwards caught hold of him ; she spoke to him, but he could not tell what she said. Jane Hardinge, an unfortunate girl living in Easton street, deposed that she was standing at the corner of Vernon-place, when she saw the complainant crossing the street—had never seen her before. She was alone and muoffending when the prisoner struck her a blow on the yye—she had never .addressed him. _ MI:. GREENWOOD said it was evident the complainant was a married woman, and that she had given no provo cation whatever. He would fine the prisoner 11., or a week's imprisonment. The fine was paid at once, and the offender set at liberty. John Stewart and Sarah Pattison, alias Stewart, alias Browne, alias Thompson, with whom were four children, two of them infants, were brought up by Horsford, the Men dicity officer, charged with obtaining money on false pre tences from Mr. James Beale, No. 1, Tavistock-place, Russell-square ; also on several other charges of a similar uature—the victims being Members of Parliamemt and several of the most distinguished of the nobility. The prisoners were attired plainly, but with scrupulous cleanliness. The woman had a babe in each arm, and wore a mournful and dejected look. The male prisoner, who is her husband, affected an air of the greatest sim plicity. Both are among the most artful, successful, and incorrigible of their class. They refused to give any address. It appeared from the statement of Horsforkl that on that morning he saw them visiting several houses in Tavistock-square ; they then went to the house of Arch deacon Potts, 20, Woburn-place, and were about pre senting their forged letters when he arrested them. Witness having received numerous complaints from per sons of high and humble station who had been defrauded by them, at once took them into custody. He produced a bundle of letters, all written in the same handwriting, and certifying to the excellent character and reduced circumstances of one or both of the prisoners. In one instance the female represented herself as a widow whose husband had lately died, leaving herself and children des titute ; in another she was the wife of a decayed ma riner, who had been bedridden for two years. There was a little red book found on the female prisoner, which, when apprehended, she attempted to destroy, and which, on examination, was found to contain the names of Viscountess Palmerston, Sir George Cayley, Lieut.- Colonel M'Donald, Mr. Ley, clerk to the House of Com mons; Mr. Hoare, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Tristram, of the Yorkshire Society ; the Earl of Enniskillen, and those of other distinguished individuals, with sums of money affixed to each. They have been practising their artful mendicancy for the last ten years, but not with impunity, as will appear by the following return : February, 1836, before Mr. Chambers, the male prisoner one month ; ditto, 25th November, same year, before Sir F. Roe, one month ; ditto, June, 1837, Mr. Dyer, one month ; ditto, 7th September, 1837, Mr. Hoskins, three months ; ditto, May, 1838. Mr. Broughton, three months ; ditto, at the Middlesex Sessions, nine months ; ditto, 13th May, 1840, Mr. Hardwicke, six weeks; ditto 14th July, 1841, Mr. Hall, one month ; ditto, 14th April, 1843, Guildhall, one month. The female priso ner had been committed still more frequently. On the 17th of April, 1843, she was brought before Mr. Bond, charged with endeavouring to obtain money on false pre tences from Mr. Gladstone, M.P., brother to the Vice- President of the Board of Trade. On that occasion she gave her name as Pattison, and Mr. Gladstone produced the letter she gave him, purporting to be from Mr. T. G. Fuller, of 28, St. J a mes's-street. She said she was a native of Fettercairn, in Scotland. _ _ Mr. Beale deposed that he gave the female prisoner 55., on her producing a letter of high recommendation, pur porting to be written by Mr. Keale, a gentleman residinc, in Garlick-hill, Croydon. Witness was deceived by the handwriting, which was like Mr. Keale's. She also pro duced a letter, purporting to be from Mr. Tristram, of the Yorkshire Society, and speaking in the same high terms of her character, and forcibly depicting her for lorn and destitute condition. Mr. Keale's clerk said the letter was not in his em ployer's handwriting. The prisoners were remanded, Horsford stating that Mr. Denison, M.P., the Earl of Enniskillen, and other noblemen and gentlemen, would prefer charges against them. A ruffian, named Kent, was :charged with assaulting Mr. Francis. It appeared from the evidence, that on the previous night the prosecutor went into a house of ill fame in Church-street, St. Giles, to pay the rent (as he stated) for a young female who had once prevented him from being robbed. He was standing in the parlour when the prisoner came in, who im mediately recognised him (prosecutor) as having given evi dence against one of his associates some years ago. The prisoner ran out, and seizing a shovel, came running•into the room with it, brandishing it in his hand. He aimed a des perate blow at the prosecutor, who, however, succeeded in warding it off. The prisoner then struck him on the thee and cut his mouth, from which he bled profusely. Police constable Allen fortunately came In, and prevented further violence. The prisoner applied the vilest language to the prosecutor. He was fined 21. or a commensurate term of imprisonmen MARLBORO() GH-S TREE T. A person of very gentlemanly appearance, whose name was entered on the police charge-sheet as Williqrrt 'YU/not, of No. 17, Southampton-row, Russell-scinare, sur , veyor, and a good-looking, showily-dressed female, who gave her name, Eliza Elliott, living at No. 16, Warren -street, Tottenham-court-road, were placed at the bar on the follow ing charge Police-constable 161 C, stated that about two o'clock this morning, as he was proceeding on duty along Argyle-street, Oxford-street, he found the defendants standing together under the portico of the house No. 9. He desired them to go away, which they did, but in about ten minutes after wards he discovered them in the court-yard of the Earl of Aberdeen's mansion, under such circumstances as induced him to take them to the station-house. Mr MALTBY asked the male defendant what he had to say in answer to the charge P—He replied that he:had been taking too much wine, and had not the slightest recollection of what had passed. He was extremely sorry for what had taken place. Inspector Frowd of the C division said he certainly was in•. toxicated when brought to the station-house. Mr. ➢IALTBY said he was liable to be indicted. The female pleaded having been persuaded to drink more than she was accustomed to. The Inspector said she certainly was not in liquor. Mr. MALTBY said he should fine the defendant, Wilmot, 405., or one month's imprisonment to hard labour. Elliott he should commit for seven days to Westminster Bridewell, without imposing any fine. The female, in a paroxysm of grief, begged that she might not be sent to prison. She was, however, consigned to the lock. up cells ; and the defendant, Wilmot, not having the required sum about him, was obliged to submit to farther incarceration until he could procure it. Mr. MALTBY afterwards imposel a fine of 20s. on the female. QUEEN-SQUARE. - Samuel &faiths, a painter, and Mary Watson, a young woman fashionably attired, were placed before the Magistrate on the following charge : Policeman 153 B said, that shortly after 12 o'clock last night, he heard a noise which proceeded from Rochester-row. He hastened to the spot, and found his sergeant ordering the defendants, who were disorderly, to go away, and, as they would not comply with his request, he (the sergeant) told him to take them to the Station-house, which he did. The female defendant was drunk, and the male defendant, who was sober, appeared to be endeavouring to get the young woman home. Mr. BOND inquired if the sergeant was in attendance? Inspector Pearce said he was at the Home-office. The policeman, in answer to questions from the Magis trate, said he should have taken the women into custody without the intervention of any other person, had he himself found her in the condition she was in when taken into cus tody. The female defendant told the sergeant that she had as much right in Rochester-row as he or any one else. Mr. BOND—And so she might, for anything I know to the contrary. He should discharge the defendants, but had any additional evidence been offered in support of the charge, he should have felt it his duty to detain them. The defendants then left the Court without having been called upon to answer the charge, and after having been in carcerated for eleven hours for an offence which the principal witness was not in attendance to prove. Mr. BOND appeared indignant at the conduct of the police, which, to say the least of it, appeared unjustifiable. UNION-HALL. George Mugglestone, a man of respectable appearance, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with committing the follow ing fraud. Mr. Folkard, the pawnbroker of the London-road, stated that the defendant came to his shop on the preceding after noon, and producing what he termed a gold guard chain, said that it was fine gold and asked the loan of 50s. on it. His shopman, examined the article and discovered, by the usual test, that it was of a very inferior description ; and as the prisoner had succeeded in pledging one of a similar descrip tion previously, and which was since ascertained to be what is called jeweller's gold, he was given into custody. The defendant, in reply to Mr. COTTINGHAM, said that he was a chemist and druggist out of business, and that he pur chased the chains, and thought they were worth the money he asked upon them. Mr. CoriINGHAN said that it was a fraud, for which the prisoner rendered himself liable to transportation on convic tion ; and as some inquiry would be made into his character, he should, therefore, adjudge him to enter into his recogni zance of 1001. to appear on Wednesday next. Ann Musgrave was charged with stealing a valuable gold ring, the property of Mr. Bradberry, pawnbroker and sil versmith, of the London-road. It appeared that the prisoner went into the complainant's shop the preceding afternoon to pledge a shawl, and while there she contrived to steal a gold ring, by reaching over and taking it out of the window. When charged with the offence, she denied it, and dropped the ring on the floor at her feet. The prisoner persisted in her innocence, before the Magis trate, and in reply to his questions, said that her husband was late quarter-master sergeant in the 54th regiment, at Gibraltar, from which garrison they had only recently re turned home, and that he had no pension, as he retired from the service before the expiration of his time; that they had five children, all dependent on them, and that two out of the number were afflicted with illness. The MAGISTRATE remanded the prisoner. THE METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—During the last few days much progress has been made on the various lines of streets connected with the improvements of the metropolis. In Whitechapel, for the formation of the new street to lead from Shoreditch Church to the Loudon Docks, on Friday last twenty-nine houses were sold to the south of and adjoining Spitalfields Church, and which are now in course of demolition. When these are removed, there will be a direct communication with Whitechapel. In Red Lion street, passing to the docks, on the east side, above half the houses are being cleared away. In Upper St. Martin's-lane, being the continuation of the new street from Leicester square to Plumptre-street, the width of the road is marked out, and which is also done in this latter street, in each of which thoroughfares the carriage way is above thirty feet wide. In Plumptre-street the arches for the new houses are turned, and are ready for the buildings, there being a space left for a French Protestant chapel, at a short distance from Bedford chapel, the foundation stone of which will be shortly laid. On the new line of street in this neighbourhood, from Oxford-street to Holborn, there is now a direct opening made, though there are several houses to be removed to form the entire width of the street. When the houses are cleared away, which is being rapidly done by the workmen, a new sewer will have to be formed in what was once called the Rookery, and, when that is completed, the carriage and foot way. will be made, the whole of which is expected to be carried into effect about Michaelmas next. The authorities of Eton College have received an intimation from Prince Albert, through the medium of Mr. G. E. Anson, that his Royal Highness is desirous of attending divine service in the College Chapel, previously to his laying the foundation stone of the new buildings to-morrow. The Provost, in order to meet the views of the Prince, has appointed the service to take place on the morning of that day, at half-past twelve o'clock. Tuesday being the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the household troops, cavalry and infantry, mounted guard, wearing laurel in their caps, and having their colours also decorated with evergreens. The Chelsea pen sioners were also decorated in a similar manner, and num bers of private individuals who are out-pensioners, and who served on that memorable day, wore the Waterloo medal on their left breast, and laurel leaves in their hats. CONINGSBT.—The demand for this work increases we understand, every day. The Court Journal ob serves :—" In whatever point of view we examine this work, it commands unmixed admiration. It is admir able as a novel of real life—as a picture of English so ciety —as an exposition of political parties and prin ciples—as a gallery of living portaits. In each of these aspects it exhibits great talent ; but it is in its rare com bination of them ull that it deserves the highest praise. Many of the characters are portraits, which no person ac quainted with the circles in whi c h the originals move can fail to detect. Lord Monmouth and his creature Mr. Rigby, who writes slashing' articles in the Review —Milbank, the Cotton Lord—Sidonia ' the great Jew capitalist, who holds all the C our t s o f Europe in his cheque-book--Henry Sidney, Buckhurst, Vere, the com panions of Coningsby at Eton—Lucian Gay, the mimic and table wit—none of them can be mistaken. There are also passages of high poetical beauty in this novel. The love of Coningsby for Edith is full of pathos and fresh-heartedness. The recommendation of such a no vel to our readers would be a work of supererogation. Everybody will read it." 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To prevent mistakes, be cau tious, and Ob ser v e ,—Only to b e h a d at 39, Albemarle -outwit, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDEI‘ Iva ,„ - 00. Many illustrations of t hi s p h rase w ill d ou btl e ss be ~ to our readers, but we believe it was scarcely ever so P" - fully realised as at the Mansion-house yesterday. f it) The King of Saxony had honoured the Lord Mayor his presence at a collation, at which a very sol° ll P a ltist private friends we re i nv i ted to meet his Majesty. ~..,,,, bor must have been the surprise of his Majesty aed of bts i , i jig f pitable host, wh en , i n t h e midst of the repast , the uncy doors were throw n o p en, an d without any further On o ' re went than the ex c l ama ti on o f an usher, " A deputations te i Lord," Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Masterman P,r een so o themselves to the as t on i s h e d company. Th e Lora. e is in evident amaz emen t, b egged to know to what aocTissor was indebted for the unexpected intrusion, and Dlr• 7 0 0 man explained th a t th e o b ject was to request the I! tbe oaf the King of Saxony at the ceremonial of 0 11: 1 . ° 04 statue of the Duke of W e lli ngton to t h e pu bli c . I ' l ' o o Mayor suggested that no preparations had beep f' Uhl never mind," quoth Sir Peter, " I know the is a very active man, f or I saw that when he n detp. went over Bedlam with me ." Wi t h s i ng ular Plc ol oat , Sir Peter has a goad deal to d o w ith that establis toes Again the Lord Mayor urged that his Majesty was e tirs " by surprise, and reque s t e d " th e d eputat i on "to the. another room, when an answer should be sent t° 0 0 But Sir Peter showed no inclination to " leave th. e ed 10 1 precincts of the cheerf u l" di n i ng - room , an d rePee`otht "the King was an acti v e man ," a ddi ng, th a t therein no delay, as "all the peopl e were wa i t i ng. " It was o dd. of no use to resist further, though the Lord Mayor b!! 00 , 0 0 necessity of ordering the carr i ages . N o carr iages, „%0 64 would be permitted by the b us tli ng Sir Peter. Se that the King r ous t wa lk, an d he would be respoosl.oo his Majesty's safety ! Acco r di ng ly, i n s pite of the e s : di bil of the Chief Magistrate to put an end to this univerirs fe 4 intrusion on his Royal guest, and on the privaolt to tie personal friends, the illustrio us v i s it or was draggeu, A , OP. site of the statue, amidst the p ressure o f a crowd Wor de o l City Police either could nut, or would not, keep a t 0 40, distance—through a throng of journeymen raas°' ls ' r ie'sir heaps of rubbish,. to the spot w h ere Si r Peter Ds, ~pt effigy of the Duke W 417 erected, There the Sing ' 34 :„obi was forced to stand through th e d e li ver y of an ore; bris Mr. Lambert Janes, with whi c h hi s M a j es ty m ust 11 °` ... ,„ht10 extremely edified ' • and at the conclu s ion of this P,F7)O4* Royal victim had again to wend his war back to %el sion-house, from which h e h a d b een so - ru thlessly, op a . st: and was at length left at liberty to conclude b 4 What an exalted notion his Majesty will carry h 70.. him of the gravity and decorum of a London 1 edeln": 41 ,1,00 The patience exhibited by the King, under this 1 .„ 1 ".4 was only surpassed by the co n d escens i on and a ffabiff which he accepted the elegant hospitality of tZCO Mayor, and exhibited generally d ur i ng his visit to —Post. MARKET NEWS.—(YESTEs-- Although we had only a moderate su pply o f E juh the demand for that article was heavy, at barely quotations. So little was doing in Foreign wheat 1 : - rates were almost nominal. B ar l e y an d ma lt vr e ; firmly, at very full prices. Oats, bean s , an d peas 1 "'" ' as dear. 1 Wheat. English..." ..... 2,120 qrs. Irish.. ..... ...." Foreign. ..... ." 9,02/ ARRIVALS. fid :O . ..i Low Barley. Oats. 670 qrs. 4,650 4 11 . .0" 100 9,150 I 5,810 1,920 Malt. 3,470 qrs. ..4. WHITECHAPEL. Our market was, on th e w h o l e , b u t mo derately with with Meat, yet the dem an d was i n a very alugg is „ A .14, barely stationary p r ice s : —B ee f, f rom 2 s 2d t o 3s :11,107 2s 4d to 3s 10d; Lamb, 4 s 4d t o 5 s 4d ; Veal, '' s and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s per 81bs. HOP INTELLIGENCE,. . 4 100 4 MAYFIELD.—We have more fly, b u t the plan t l ing well. ro @P i(' AYLESFORD.—The bine has greatly hnP- 4 . last week. . CRANBROOK.—The bines look well ; there ever, a good deal of fly. h EGERTON.—The bine g row i ng , an d n ot Inne, -- n r HEADCORN.—Bine gro w i ng , b ut a go od deai e ll t HOLLINGBOURN.—The plant here is lookingj o HORSMONDEN.—Not much fly, a n d the 'Ol ing well. • tiel, MARDEN.—Very littl e fly, b u t th e drought /s go d some little harm here. STAPLEHURST.—The quantity of fly Yar ies • s iII deal here in different gar d ens; on t h e who le it condition. TENTERDEN.—The bine continues to Pr 35 .0 there is no fly. 6 0 TROSLEY.—The bine grows, and there is 11 °, 4 of fly, except in places wh ere th ey are sheltere u 'd PEMBURY.—The bine i s l oo ki ng h ea lthier a n ing fast, has few lice, and the fly has left as , i n aa 0 GOUDHURST.—The plants in this district are bitted ceedingly doubtful state ; on the one hand the 0 ,1 ,4 growing well, but, on the other, there i a g e° l. l d fly and lice. If anythin g , it h as rat h er deore'„.k, 001 an average of the grounds d ur i ng th e past wee ail 1; MAIDSTONE, JUNE 17.—The hops in thiiion have been doing well up t o near the end of 1 1 ,;j 0 , 0 9 r ; now many gardens begin t o s h ow th e want , of tv of 44 it was generally thought th ere wou ld be T O %O 'no this year, but if there is n o t ra i n ver y aeon,r°-ortirtol will be very short of bine, the young. hops , C fv,ol! The same remark applies t o th e Weald of f 0 ? there they seem to suffer m ore f rom the wan ° 0 0(1. 6 0 BRENCHLEY, JUNE 17.—Some of our hop e s ea' tolerably clear, while others are very full of 11 . 7 ,00.,4 The bine is certainly in a fl uc t ua ting state at P7 e EAST FARLEIGH, JUNE 17.—The Goldingsle OIL/ slack of bine for this time of y e ar, but the wes' o dr: last fortnight has been very favourable for them i d have not suffered at all from vermin. c leoe f ALLINGTON, JUNE 17.—The bine is very generally 10,4 cs well. ~.0 0 1 1# 1 IcuTHAN, JUNE 16.—The hop bine has s — itt rap dly within the last week. We are noW 4 from vermin, and look for a good crop. .d° MORTALITY in the METRO? OI.4 otw The following are the results of "A Table of t io of in the Metropolis, showing the Number of2 tst d s. 114 all Causes registered in the Week ending ''' do 15th of June, 1844." The Table is issued from Te l of the Registrar-General:— "so CAUSES OF DEATH. TotAl• 004 11 . ',? Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 1 9 ! 11 1 1 5 Diseases of variable or uncertain 5eat......... 53 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 136 0 6 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 91 Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 27 6 g Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 65 ‘ Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 6 Childbirth, Diseases of the Ut erus , & c i Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles g /1 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 20 9 6$ By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified... 80 Deaths from all Causes ...... 1,0 r" DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES •••••- v A' ..„ ‘ A THE ABOVE READS. "oda% A - Total. of 11 41 Consumption 136 $ 4 Scarlatina 62 7 9 Pneumonia .......... Dropsy ..... .. .. ........... Hooping Cough .. ......... .. _..1. • • Typhus Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles 9 Apoplexy 1 2 Diseases of the Brain. ..... Diarrhoea.. .. 9 Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS. ~., 0, 131 TO 168 It , l5O 9 0 , 174 9 0 232 00", 94°A West..... North.. Central. East ... . South... Total ... ........ ...... ..... $55 of , BIRTHS. 03°° 1 : T On the 6th inst., at Oporto, Mrs. daughter. of J 04 On the 13th inst., in W e lb ec k- s t ree t, the 1 110 ed Birch, Esq., of a son. of 0 1 . On the 13th inst., at Edinburgh, the lady Al, Ffrench, of the 26th Regiment, of a son. o f IV' A O On the 15th i us t., a t G ower - s t ree t, the la d y Greene, Esq., of a son Mrs . sut liel tber o ji il On the 15th inst., A. B. Nryse, of Sutherland-square, Walworth, of a son. v e nt, On the 15th inst., at Beckenham Lodge, 0- of. Hulbert Wathen, Esq., of a daughter. 1 (15 On the 16th inst., at Stamford-hill, the .5 0+ Frederick Weber, Esq., o f a d aug ht er . 10 11 J On the 17th inst., in Guildford-street, the Wharton, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. P v On the 10th ult., at the residence of the — rl ,„ght - ° Naples, Joseph Delafield, Esq., to Eloise+ 94,^ Cavaliere Revere, of Naples. On the 11th inst., at R e p p l es t one , Joan - lot 9 44 Ferrachie and Grandhorne, Lieutenant of ett , to Eliza Deborah, yo unges t d aug h ter o f T. vocate, Aberdeen. l am On On the llth inst., at Gronville,JerFev, J oh! ! St. - to Anna, daught er o f th e R ev. J . B e ittp 0 00 Jersey. I° ' l o l soo 9ll On the 15th inst., at St. Peter's Churc Charles Frederick, third son of R. B. pollard, 7-, f r. . 40 House, Brompton, to Jane, youngest daugh te (T o o' Esq., Theresa-terrace, Hammersmith. Al ir r " . s 0 P° On the 13th inst., at St. Pancras Chur cht Marriott, Esq., of Worcester, to Pet4tia C l°l 1, , 011 daughter of Richard Cuttill, Esq. r, P"'"atir - f On the 13th inst , the Rev. William Olive b pd bent of Hadnal, Salop, to Frances Harriet, se`;' ( OP' daughter of the late T. H. Taunton, E s q . ' House, near Oxford. ---------- 1/10,001r DIED. ~,,..i . i• eldP' On the 12th inst., at Leeds, Frederic ra - i ',ol 0 , the late W. Robertson, Esq., ssistant-Co to the Forces. b, e lu- 0 11 tj d On the 13th inst., aged 11, Basil John L ei fder ,„ 17 1, of t also, on the 16th inst., aged 8, George AlFltN al , - he above, and second and only son of Bas il : o.. 44,0, 99' Ordnance-office, Tower. On the 14th inst., at Brussels, Mr. E. G., ."W l .S' f " On the 14th inst., Anna Matilda, relict o i F. Oug hes' / On the 15th inst., Emily, the wife of F. .l l A N Fitzroy-square. - f the ...4' On the 16th inst., Elizabeth, daughter 0 V Charringt on, Esq. „„ Dalo ° _, 9 ' of On the 17th inst., at Euston-square, Jca7,„d 6 2 ' 914 late Alderman of the Ward of Bread-street.,,sbiorri°, 41, On the 13th inst., Alaria, the wife of J. I". tv lisi° Old Palace-yard. elsP if On the 13th inst., at New Dorset -place, ._ ..8 1, d- Richard Hunt, Esq. On the 13th inst., at Adam's-court, Obi ..0.- til' yr, W. Luddington, aged 64. e rstOi Alf L On the 13th inst.. ^tliowick Lodge, Hanita 1 50 47 Beet ; ;;;;; r, q.. age d 43. the On the 16th inst., at Blanchester-suare, IL Cole, late M.P. for Ennis killen, aged 64. °V 4 i4.4 1 1; %/40„ 9 London: Printed and Published by lkiooic0'„0,01 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sig*. L b. Strand, in the Precinct of ,he S'avoY, ~O , L, ) J' Middlesex, Thursday, June 20, 184f1,,;,1, ~~ ~' sin. at k, eri, 1 -L- For c TAE z~ ,tttr (vac PtE4,OB.TtA ,T, rt, Sattr, " if RI Ltitteti