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EVENING EDITION. received froret the Chancellor of the Exchequer for expos ing this uraconstlnutional and tyrannical measure as he had done. If. the Tories had proposed such a Bill fifteen 1 or twenty - years ago, he was sure the Noble Lord would be one of tbes first to oppose it. The proposition was one of the t evils, of, having men in office who had the name, but n'Jt. 'the principles of Reformers. There were only two ) places in the whole country in which the proposition would be receivesi.=those two places were the two Houses of Parliament,(Laughter.) If the measure were even more tyrannical, more unconstitutional, and more central ) izing, he was sure it would be passed there ; it would however, excite but one feeling throughout the country. It would be abhorred as a measure for organising a force j of 100,000 men, perhaps, to add to the standing army as ; well as to the police force, skid that without consulting the 1 rate-payers —a force, to prevent the people, weighed down by tweation and the enormous pressure of the National De'et, from expressing their complaints. Let them redress th e grievances o f th e peop l e, an d grant their 1 legitimate rights, and they would not want such a force. True, as the Noble Lord had said, such a force was not wanted in ancient times ; but that was because the people were not oppressed in those days as they are now. 'The Noble Lord must know that he could not remain in office long.—(Laughter, and Hear, hear)—still he seemed to have no objection to transfer the great power which the Bill would give to the Secretary of State to a Tory suc cessor. But if the Nobic Lord would confide in a Tory,- Ise (Mr. W.) would not. He would not oppose the in troduction of the Bill, but he would oppose it in every future stage. Col. SIBTHORP thought the Bill unconstitutional. It was made necessary only by the misconduct of the Go vernment, and the whole responsibility of it should rest on the shoulders of the Secretary of State. He found that the 9bject of the popular indignation in the country was the .eformers. The first windows broken by th e mo b in Newcastle-upon-Tyne were those of the Editor of the Tyne Mercury—( Hear, hear, and laughter) —for he was one of those Reformers who made promises to the people and then deceived them.—(Laughter.) He heard they were also to pull down Earl Grey's statue. When the Ministers saw what their misconduct had done, they should have made way for those who could do the public business. Now they were in for a pretty cont. fortable thrashing, and he hoped they would get in-- ( Laug'ver.) 1 Mr. FOX MAULE. in reply to Capt a i n G or d on sa i d, he had no doubt his Noble Friend would extend the mea sure to Scotland, if he should find the county gentlemen there in favour of it, as those of Eagland and Wales had expressed themselves. He was glad that the Hon. Mem der for Maidstone had spoken on this question in that manner, because it was evident from the conduct of that i Hon. Gentleman that he w ou ld r a th er see t h e country i n a state of riot ant had been at Birmingham— Several Several Members here rose to order. The SPEAKER said it was decidedly out of order to )impute motives to an Hon. Member. Mr. F. MA ULE was not imputing motives, he was i only drawing a conclusion, and contended that, according I : to the rules of the House, he was strictly in order in doing so. He would sa y t h at a f ter the vote which he had seen I the Hon. Memb er g i ve i n that House, when a town was in such a state of riot that the Government had actually deemed it necessary to send down and ask for the establish ment of a police in that town—seeing the opinion expressed , by the Hon. Member, and looking at the vote he had I given,:he could not imagine anything except that the rioters had the sympathy of the Hon. Member. 1 Mr. WA K LEY rose to order. The Right lion. iGentleman had r e f erre d to a vote g i ven on a previous occasion. Ho had a l so vote d w i th the Right Hon. Member who had been attacked. He had not voted against a police I force being eatablished—he had spoken in favour of it ; he Ihad merely voted that they should not take the Order of the Day, and this the H on . G ent l eman k new well. fI Mr. FOX MA L - LE again rose, and was about to pro steed, but was met b y l ou d cr i es o f " O rder, order, Chair, chair," in the midst of which he resumed his seat. Mr. HUTT would not have taken any part in the I discussion, had it not been for the observations of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Lincoln relative to the I recent occurrences at N ewcast l e . li e would now read to I the House a letter he h a d rece i ve d , d eta i ling the occur.. rences which hod happened there.—( The Hon. Gentle man here read th e l etter .) F rom this it was evident that I the riot had no connection whatever with politics; I still less could it be referred to any acts of her Ma- Il jesty's Government.—(Hear.) He had also been pleased to attack the Mayor and Dr. Headlam ; those gentlemen, although they differed from the Hon. Member in opinion, were men of intelligence, and had executed their duty on that occasion ?ea manner which did them the highest credit, ! every one who had the pleasure of their acquaintance would agree that there did not exist in the kingdom two gentle ! men more attentive to the preservation of peace and I good order, or more zealous for the public good. With ! regard to the question before the House he had always i understocd that the present inefficient state of the rural l constabulary was so notorious as to be subject for laughter ' when it was mentioned, and ail that the Noble Lord pro posed to do was to render that police efficient, leaving it lunder the controul of the Magistrates. As to the neces sity of this he would refer the House to the state of the Icity of Durham, where the Magistrates had been obliged to apply for military assistance, which had been, refused by the commanding officer unless they provided saseh places fur the troops as would prevent their being deraoralized by being 1 quartered in a large town. This they. were unable to d o , and if tnis Bill p asse d t h ere wouiabe no necessity for their so doing. He wished soinet . .ning could be done, with a view to reforming the system tf appointing Magistrates, so as to place them under mauler controul. The measure met with his entire concurrmatae, and he should support the proposition of the Noble Lord. Colonel S I FIT HOP. c. explained. Mr. PA K INGT O,N would regret greatly if the present debate assumed an, angry or narty colour.—( Hear, hear.) He entirely c(Mzeurred with what had fallen from the Noble Lord relative to the Report, in which the Speaker had taken 'do great a share, but be could not agree with him . 1 in the ol esereations he had m a d e re l at i ve t , the b eer shops. i In the general tenor, however, of the observations of the ! Noble L or d w i th respect to the improvement of the county police, h e most cordially concurred. The parish consta. i bles 'were no longer of service under the altered state of society as it at present existed. He wished to know from 1 the Nobl e L or d w h ether the measure he had now brought 1 ) foi ward was to be a permanent one, because, it it was, he I felt bound to say the present was not the proper time to I bring it under the attention of the House.--( Hear. ) If the Noble Lord only meant it as a temporary imeasure, he for one was not inclined to give any opposition to it. As far, however, as he had heard, he was not aware i of any disposition to tumult in the rural districts,- that spirit i had hitherto been confined to the large towns. Under such circumstances, therefore, he thought it would be better for Government to have let the recess pass over in order that they might have had time to bring forward in the next ossion a well-digested measure, founded on the Report to which he had referred. Sir JAMES GRAHAM did not think it right to re main silent after hearing the opinions expressed by the I Hon. Member for Maidstone and the Hon. Member fur It Finsbury. It had been said that tnis measure was nothing imore than a declaration of war on the part of the Govern ment against the people. He could not agree to that as sertion ; so far from its being an offensive, he considered it 'to be a defensive measure, and one that was essentially necessary to put down that insurrectionary spirit which was making great inroads upon society and the security of property.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. WARD said that there existed voluntary organiza tions in different parts of the country which were calculated to supply the object of the present Bill. There was that species of organization ex:sting in Barnet, but it was not supported by any rate levied on the inhabitants. He was anxious to see some control given to the rate-payers over the funds for the payment of the police force, as that would contribute in a great measure to its efficiency. He regret ted to hear the observations of the Hon. Member for Fins bury, who, a few weeks since, when speaking of a police force for large towns, said they were most essential—in fact as essential as a coroner, or as medical assistance. Why, the , same argument applied to the rural districts.--( Mr. Wak ley—. t A good system.") He agreed that a good system was the most essential, but if they could not obtain that, they should talob the best that could be obtained. Let them redress the grievances of the people in the first in stance—let them put down spoliation and violence, and then adopt whatever improvements may be subsequently found advisable. Ho cordially supported the measure. Mr. PL UMPTRE said very hard words had been used on both sides of the House with regard to the measure. It had been called tyrannical and unconstitutional, but he did not think it merited any such terms, and it should have his support.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. WALLACE said the appointment of a police for I the county districts w-43 a question of the utmost impor tance, and the construction of such a body required great care. He did mot think the appointment of a rural , police should be left to the Justices of Peace. If that were so, it ALould not give the satisfacti which Su c h a mea - Ere was otherwise calculated to to confer,-._( Hear, hear.) It was well known that the Magistrates of counties were appointed by the Lords Lieutenant of these counties, and that the private friends and Connections of these Lords Lieutenant were generally seleeted for these situations. He was satisfied it would conduc e to the peace and good order of the country if a proper System of country. G t police was established throughout the rea apprehensions were entertained by Re formers generally respectingthe -•1' If cts of a general r °lies force. h esi .e C For his own part he felt no such fear, nor did he believe that sincere and re fl ect i ng R e f ormers eve r . shrunk fro m t h e utmost publicity of a ll th ey sa id an d did, and good order was quite as necessary for the success of reforms as for the general happiness and prosperity of the people themselves. Few person s had engaged more in public poli tical meetings than he bad d o n ' ea u d f h h e had always ob served that the success of the objects observed meetings was in proportion to the good order well recollected attending two immense u tthem. He in Glasgow, to attend which the numerousP alendmeetings police of that city were specially invited ; the objectefficient doing so being to protect tbe real Reformers from of the machinations of the spies and informers w o l l 'n e infest such as , emblages ; thus showing that the working classes, who alone compose] mie of those oelforocre. enormous meetings were n o t averse to ap l wellic ganized police force. He thought that the. for the country should be farmed from districts instead of counties; and that in this way the influence of 0e Magistrates of towns, and the great body of the people would be brought to bear upon the selection of proper parsons, so as to counteract the influence of the County Magistracy, which is so much dreaded. An Hon. Mem ber had suggested that Scotland should be included in tha measure. He believed the populous part of Scotland would be benefited by an efficient police, and was satis fied that the oreanization of such a force should be in dis tricts of counties having the large towns for their centre. Although he could not approve of all the machinery of the present measure, he was satisfied that something must he dose immediately in order to maintain good order and tranqhillity, and therefore would support the Bill of the Noble Lord. Mr. ;LANGDALE would agree to the Bill if it were to be temporary. H e knew a more efficient police wer e necessary in many districts, but he feared that the police I system might be carried to extremes. It would be apt to degerate into a spy system, in the humbler classes of the country. Sir T. FREMANTLE could have no objection to this treasure, as it was permissive as regarded the county Magistrates. Mr. FIE LDEN opposed the Bill. He apprehended the rural police would be assimilated to the borough police, which were armed and accoutred. The appointment of the force would lead to increased dissatisfaction amongst the people, who would regard them as spies. Mr. D A RBY said, on the part of the industrious classes, it was not the suffering part of those classes who had been guilty of sheep stealing, but the bad characters of the country. Mr. BROTHERTON considered there was no more important duty which a Government could discharge, than the preservation of the public peace; in the preservation of which none were more interested than the working classes. He thought it would be better that the consent of the rate-payers or guardians should be obtained,. before the magistrates should have the power of establishing a police. He supported the Bill. Mr. A. YATES thought the establishment of a police desirable, in order to do away with the necessity that existed for keeping a large military force in the manufac turing districts. He thought that none who had read the Report of the Commissioners, could object to the intro. duction of the Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL stated, in reply, that he was glad to find the subject had been discussed in a spirit very dif ferent from the one in which the debate had been opened by the lion. Member. It appeared from what had fallen from the Hon. Members for Oldham and Finsbury, that they considered the liberty of the subject to consist in the facility of stealing sheep with impunity. But it was evi dent that the poorer classes would be the greatest gainers by this meas ure , as t h ey stoo d more i n nee of protection for their cottages than the man who could employ labou-ers and servants to watch for him. lie did not intend this Bill as a temporary measure, because he thought if Magis trates knew that after a certain time the power was to cease, they would hardly take upon themselves the responsibility of organising a system of police. If they were to look to a pollee force only, perhaps the best plan would be to have one uniform system, under one head—but when a measure of police was to be combined with the institutions of a country, like this in which almost all the existing in stitutions were local, it was bet•er that the police should also be under the control of the local authorities, in order that it might harmonize with the other institutions of the country. With regard to the disposition to riot manifested in some parts of the country, he believed that, instead of being employed to put down the people, a police force would be found to be a protection to the majority of the people; because a minority by combination and arming tnemselves, had it in their power to intimidate the majority not so combined, and not so armed, and who therefore stood in need of the asssistance of some such force as this to prevent them being obliged to submit to the wishes of a minority, and for the protection of their lives and proper ties. The Hon. Member fur Finsbury was mistaken in supposing that the Hon. Member for Tamworth's Bill was argued a 3 a party question ; and he was glad to find that the present Bill would not be so argued. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill ; and upon the question that Lord J. Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer be instructed to bring in the Bill, Mr. DISRAEL I said that a ll h e had — heard had ccnfirmed him in the accuracy of the position which he had taken with respect to this Bill.—( Cries of " Hear.") Both this measure and the one introduced last night had been introduced upon misrepresentation. With respect to the observations that had b:en made as to the course he had pursued, he would leave them to be made use of by Under Secretaries of State, considering them to be gross, vulgar, and ill-bred.—(" Order.") The SPEAK ER said the Hon. Member must be aware he was out of order in applying such terms to a Member of that House.--( Hear, hear.) Mr. D'ISR AEL I would bow to the Chair, but he must repeat that he considered the Bill had been introduced upon misrepresentation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had been most liberal in his comments upon him ; how he had become Chancellor of the Exchequer, or how he and his colleagues contrived to get their seats on the Treasury Benches he did not know ; but they were like the flies in Amber, the only wonder was how the devil they got there. —( Laughter.) Unless the Noble Lord made some ex planation on the state of the country, he would take the sense of the linuse upon a further stage of the Bill. Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were then directed to bring in the Bill. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Twelve o'Clock BIRMINGHAM RIOTS• [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK, P. M. There is but little doubt that the fire at. Lancaster street on Monday was the act of an incendiary. The investigation is still occupying the attention of the authorities, who have not as yet pronounced a decided opinion on the occurrence. A ludicrous scene took place on the Wellington-road. The special constables arc divided into wards or districts, each division having its quarters in some inn. Last night two of those divisions encountered each other on the Wei lington-road, and being ignorant of the pass-word, they mutually suspected each other of being Chartists. A contest ensued ; each special beleaguered ' his brother preserver of the peace : a general row en sued ; prisoners were captured ; and as each man was determined to bring his prisoner to the same place of confinement (i. e. Moore-street), little time elapsed before they almost reached their destination, when they detected their error. The Magistrates are at this moment investigating the circumstances connected with the fire of last Monday. All at present is quiet, and promises to continue so. TURKEY. The Allgemeine Zeitung contains a letter from Constan tinople, dated the 3d of July, which contains the nomina Lions of the Turkish Cabinet with a German orthography, which varies materially from that generally adopted by the French press. The letter then proceeds as follows ; " It seems that the foreign affairs will still be directed by Nouri Effendi. It is probably not determined who will finally have the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs. It is believed that it will be given to Redschid P asha, the Ambassador in London ; but the name of Aakef Pasha is also mentioned. You see by this that Abdul Medjid honours with his favour all those who enjoyed the confi dence of his father. But the most important event is, that the Porte has to-day made a declara tion to the Representatives of the Four Powers, that the Pasha of Egy v t must evacuate Tarsus, Adanas, and Syria; must renounce the points occupied by the Egyp tians on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea, among which the Holy Cities are expressly mentioned by name, as well as the whole of Arabia, and must content himself with Egypt and its dependencies. (Another ' letter from Constantinople affirms that Mc.. hemet Ali will be recognised, not as Sovereign, but as temporary Governor of Syria.) In this case Mehemet Ali and his son may be assured of the good will and favour of the Sultan. The Sultan is not averse to agree, not to the independence of these countries, but to the hereditary possession of thew in the family of Mehemet or the manner of the hereditary Sultanates existing in Mesopotamia. " You see that the young Sultan knows how to profit by the favourable disposition of the Powers. The Ministers of the Powers received this declaration readily —even Admiral Roussin made no objection. The last instruc tions that he has received from Paris, and which must have already reached Admiral Lal ande, seem to have produced this sudden change in him. A terrible storm is therefore gathering over the head of Mehemet Ali, which he will scarcely be able to avert, except by the greatest submission and concession. If he seeks to maintain his present posi tion by arms (and nobody here has any doubt of his doing so), the existence of his scarcely-established power is at an end. Yet a short time may, perhaps, bring him more favourable chances." Extract of a letter from Constantinople :—" The new Sultan, Abdul Medjid, was brought up in the Seraglio, by which is to be understood the Palace of the Sultans, not merely the apartments of the ladies of the Harem. As soon as the Prince was of sufficient age for the commence ment of his education, the best masters of every kind were given to him. There has long been in the Palace an organised system of education for the sons of the great fa milies of the empire. A considerable number of youths, called Agas, divided into three classes, called Sefcru, Kilarli. and Kszneli, received leseons in the Turkish, Arabic, and Persia, languages, and in music, drawing, and horsemanship. They received also instruction in the throwing of the djerid (a kind of javelin), the use of the sword, bow, and musket; in poetry and history ; and went through a complete course of geography. These Agas were subsequently appointed to the command of armies, or in the civil service, and frequently reached the highest offices of the State. This Imperial School bas reckoned 4.000 pupils, several of whom much distinguished themselves after completing their studies. Amongst these were Khosrew P as h a, l ong time Vizir, and one of the most distinguished men of the Ottoman empire; Ahmet Fethi Pasha, now Ambassador at Paris ; Hussein Pasha, ex-Grand Admiral ; Said Pasha, son-in-law of Mah mond ; Noubri Pasha, ex-Governor of Adrianople ; Hafiz Paella ; Rifath Bey. Ambassador at Vienna, Abdul&c. Medjid assisted at all the public les sons, and distinguished himself by the superiority of hil; intelligence. Of late years the Sultan had given him several distinguished professors, amongst whom was one of the French language. The health of Abdul Medjid is not so delicate and feeble as to i ncapacitate him from holding the reins of State. Although his extreme youth, considering the burden which is imposed upon him, may create some uneasiness , it has been ascertained that the energy and perseverance which were so remarkable in the character of the father, are, to a certain extent, already visible in that of the son. FtRES.-Tuesday afternoon, a fire broke out at 5.5 (are empty house), Frith-street, Sobo. Last night there was a fire in St. John-street Smithfield. The in. mates had retired t rest, and were rescued from the flames with great difficulty. EFFECTS OF HEAT.-The irritation and inflam mation frequently produced upon the surface of the skin by exposure to the sun, is no less unpleasant to the feeling than generally destructive to the appearance. The only preventive and preservative of the hands, face, and neck, from this disagreeable liability, is Rowland 's Kalydor. The KAydor—a preparation fromthe most delightful ex otics, not only (by its use) insures the skin from the effect of summer's scorching heat, but it never fails of :estoring the skin to its pristine delicacy and whiteness, while ulti mately it best ows upon the countenance a soft - and delicate bloom ! The Portrait of the Queen, painted by Mr. Fow. ler, for the New Town Hall, at Ramsgate, has been sub mitted to her Majesty's inspection, and her Majesty was g%acieu,ly pleased to express her apprehati,:n of it. TIIE SUS', LONIDON, TITURSDAY, MAY 25 1 -39 PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS to enable Justices of the Peace in Petty Ses sions to make Orders fur the Support of Bastard Children. Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] Whereas it is expedient to give more speedy and effectual means for obtaining orders upon the putative fathers of bastard children, for their support and main tenance ; Be it enacted, by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Par liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That after the passing of this Act, when any child shall have been born a bastard shall, by reason of the inability of the mother of such child to provide for its maintenance, be come chargeable to any parish, the Guardians of any Union in which such parish may be situate, or if there shall be no such Guardians, then the Guardians or Overseers of such parish, may, if they think proper, after diligent inquiry as to the father of such child, apply to the Justices of the Peace holding any Special or Petty Session in and for the division or borough within which such union or parish shall be situated, after such child shall have become chargeable, for an order upon the person whom they shall charge with being the putative father of such child, to re imburse such union or parish for its maintenance and sup port ; and the Justices then and there assembled, not being less than two, shall proceed with respect to the applica tion, and shall have all the powers and duties in regard thereunto which are given to the Court of General Quarter Sessions by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales;" and all enactments in the said Act relating to the Court of General Quarter Sessions shall be taken to apply to the said Justices in Special or Petty Session, except that the notice to the person in tended to be charged with being the father of the child need not be given more than seven days instead of fonrteen days before the Session at which the application shall be heard ; and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful to make any such application to any Cuurt of Ge neral Quarter Sessions, nor shall any Court of General Quarter Sessions have any authority to make any order upon any such application. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to bc passed in this present Session of Parliament. UNLAWFUL MEETINGS. RETURN to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 19 July, 1839;—for Copy of a Letter from her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State fur the Home Department to Colonel Rolles ton, M P„ dated Whitehall, June 3, 1839, on the sub ject of Unlawful Meetings. Whitehall, July 22, 1839. " Whitehall, June 3, 1839. " Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29'h ultimo, in which you request, in consequence of communications which you have had with the Magistrates of the county of Nottingham, to receive from me information relative to my circular letter of the 7th ultimo. " With reference to the second paragraph of my letter, you wish to be informed, whether it is to be understood, supposing sonie of the persons attending a numerous meet ing are armed with offensive weapons, that this circum stance will give a character of illegality to the meeting generally. The meaning of the paragraph, I think, will fully appear on reference to the Proclamation, to which I have therein referred. The unlawful meetings described in the Proclamation, are meetings attended by large num bers of persons, which, by exciting to * breaches of the peace, and by their riotous proceedings, have caused great alarm (some of the persons attending being armed with offensive weapons). As undoubtedly meetings may be un lawful, though no persons present should be armed ; so, on the other band, the presence of some persons armed might not be of itself, and singly, enough to make the general meeting unlawful, if in other respects the meeting were lawful ; for it is possible the attendance; of such persons might be entirely unconnected with the general purposes and objects of the meeting. " Upon the next paragraph of my circular letter, in which general reference is made to the various kinds of unlawful meetings, you inform me the Magistrates are very desirous to receive from me a more explicit opinion as to the circumstances which will give to meetings the charac ter of illegality, and will therefore justify the Magistrates in acting, or rather will require them, in obedience to the law, to act for the maintenance of the public peace. Upon this subject, perhaps, I ought to refer the Magistrates ge nerally to books of authority which treat of unlawful meetings (such books as Mr. Russell on Criminal Law, Burn's Justice, &c.) On consulting these books, and the authorities therein referred to, it appears to me the result is this ; namely, that all assemblies, not held by lawful authority, attended by great numbers of people, with such circumstances of terror as are calculated to excite alarm and to endanger the public peace, are prohibited by the common law, and are unlawful, even though they proceed to no act of destruction or injury of persons or pr( perty. " This was the opinion of the Judges on the Special Commision in 18.31: it is therefore of great authority, and may safely be relied on by the Magistrates. " I have the honour, &c. &c. (Si g ned) J. RUSSELL . " " Col. Rolle s t on , M. 13.,&c." MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS TIMES. - _A very extraordinary and unusual operation on the part of the Bank of England has been reported to day ( Wednesday) in the city, and there is every reason to believe that the circumstances connected with it are, in substance at least, correct. An arrangement is said to have been entered into with the Bank of France to allow bills to be dawn upon it, not directly, for that the charter will not permit, but indirectly through certain houses in Paris, the means of payment to be provided by the French Bank. These bills have necessarily the same cifeet in this market as an exportation of gold in drawing in bank-notes, the value being paid to the Bank of England ; and also the effect of ordinary commercial bills in raising the exchanges. The other consequences of the operation, of a far more se rious nature, are that the Bank of England is placed in the situation of a borrower from the Bank of France, and, like all other borrowers from banks, must put in a security for repayment, which is understood in this case to be such a portion of the " dead weight" annuity as may be sufficient for the purpose ; altogether amounting to this—that the Bank o f E ng l an d , h old i ng a l arger amount or securities than can be with convenience managed, "re-discount" them, and become something like M. Lafitte when corn pelled lately to ask assistance from the French chartered bank, or like any of those banks at home to whom the corporation in Threadneedle-street have themselves occa sisopoppoesreadti,ohnahvaes h g e i e v n en so i occa sionally given aid. But for the draughts on Paris, to which rise, t h e e a t not, it is su pp os e d, the nego tiated yesterday. ASSIZE INTELLIGPNCE. OXFORD CdRCUIT.--STA ju Mrs. Sarah H aw ki ns, an elderly lady, RD whe was attired in mourning, surrendered to take her trial on the charge of the wilful murder of Mrs. Catherine Goodall, by poison ing her with arsenic. It appeared that the deceased, who was an old lady, had come by her death by partaking of cheesecakes which had contained the poison, the only evidence to implicate Mrs. Hawkins being that of her having made the cheesecakes ; but to countervail this it appeared that she had herself POOR-LAW COMMISSION CONTINUANCE BILL. Clause to be proposed by Lord John Russell. And be it enacted, That in the ease of any widow or able-bodied person who shall respectively have been mar ried before the fourteenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and who shall be unable by his or her industry to maintain his or her chil dren, the issue of such marriage, it shall be lawful for the guardians of the union or parish to which such widow or able-bodied person is chargcab!e, if they shall think fit, to give relief to such widow cut of the workhouse, or to give relief to such widow or able-bodied person by admitting one or more of such children into the workhouse of such union or parish, without requiring such widow or able bodied person to receive relief in such workhouse, A BILL to amend the Laws relating to the Assessment and Collection of Rates for the Relief of the Poor. Whereas it is expedient that more effectual provision should he made for the assessment, allowance, amendment, and collection of rates for the relief of the poor : Be it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as sembled, and by the authcrity of the same, That in every case in which any contribution by overseers or other officers of any parish of moneys required by guardians for the per formance of their duties shall be in arrear, it shall be lawful for the said guardians to levy the amount of eontribution so in arrear by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said overseers or officers, or any of them, by warrant of any two Justices of the Peace. And be it declared and enacted, That all orders hereto fore male and issued under the hands and seals of the Poor-law Commissioners, and not rescinds dby them, or quashed, before the 6th day of May in the present year, by which the said Commissioners may have directed the overseers or guardians of any parish or union to appoint any person to collect the rates for the relief of the poor in any parish or parishes, or shall have defined or specified or (firmed the execution of the duties of such person, or the places or limits within which the same shall be performed, or shall have directed the mode of appointment, or de termined the continuance in office or dismissal of any such person from his office, or the amount or nature of the security to be given by any such person, or shall have re gulated the amount of salary payable to any such person, or the time or mode or the proportions of payment thereof, shall be deemed and the same are hereby declared to be made in pursuance of an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor ;" and the Commissioners shall have the same powers and authorities with respect to all such orders, and to the per sons appointed in pursuance thereof, as they have with respect to orders made and issued, and the paid officers appointed under the provisions of the said Act ; and that every person appointed by guardians of the poor, under any such order of the said Commissioners, shall have the like powers, authorities, privileges, immunities, protec tions, and remedies, in and for the performance of his duty under such order, as are by law given to overseers of the poor in the performance of the like duty. And be it. enacted, That, except in as far as.,the provi sions of the said Act of the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty shall be hereby altered or amended, the said Act and this Act shall be construed as one Act. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Par. liament. A BILL SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LLOYD'S. DEAL, JULY 23.—Wind S. W. light breezes.—Arrived the Fawn, Gardiner, from the South Seas ; Eureauthe, Gil more, Sydney , Orissa, Brown, Java ; Thames, Ruther ford. Leghorn ; and Pekin, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 23. Wind W. S. W. hazy with rain.—Arrived the Bachelor, Murray, from Pug wash ; Philadelphia, Morgan, New York ; and Alert, Llo}d, Youghal. PLY MOUTH. JULY 23.—Wind S W.—Arrived the Rose, Bally, from Berbice. .., . _ ___...... • FALMOUTH, JULY 22.—Wind W. S W. to S. S. W. fresh.—Sailed the Francis, Russell, from the Cape of Good Hope. Off port—Woodbridge, Dobson, from Ma nilla ; Hymen, Grenada ; Agnes, Batavia ; Francis, Burn. Rridinconn, Mont. Video, and E.,,,.51v, TI an, Valparaiso. The Peri. Fennings, from Liverpool to Con stantinople, which put into this port yesterday, leaky, &c., must discharge to repair. LIVERPOOL, JULY 23..—Wind S. W. fresh.—Arrived the James Matthi,:on, from Calcutta; Heroine, Bouch, Lima ; Roger Sherman, Mobile ; Grafton, Smith, Charleston; Ann, Mediterranean; and Novo Anizade, Mills, St. Übes. Sailed the Sophia, Ricck, for St. John's; Dryade, Rickaby, Valparaiso; Gloria, Adams, Ceara; Alexander, Stewart, Jamaica ; Trinidad (packet), Grif fifeis, Berbice ; Cheshire Witch, D av id son, Barba.ioes ; Irlam, Braithwnite, Ditto ; Tarquin, Hunt, Boston Galen, Snow, Philadelphia ; Emma, Sack, Newfound land ; Will-o'-the- Wisp, Stevens, Ditto; Ward, Masters, St. John's, New Brunswick; Isabella, Mosas, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia ; Rochester, Woodhouse, New York ; Em pire, Baker, Ditto; Citizen, T hompson, Ditto ; Azia, Integrity, A ustin, Richebucto ; and Ridley, Gibraltar. The I nca was to sail from La wu H a nnah, ,y ra lin Qeu about : l b h e e e l9th of June for Cork ; she was the only British vessel in the place, the Tinamara having been or dered to Campeachy to pay tonnage dues, OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. --The Agnes, from Quebec; Ocean,r_Ditto ; Cyclops, Ditto; William and James, Ditto. DARTMOUTH, JULY 22.—Arrived the Prince, M'Ar thur, from Miramichi, with loss of bulwarks, &c. DOVER, JULY 23.—Off port--The Duke of Roxburgh, Thompson, from Singapore. PORTLAND ROADS, JULY 22 . --Arrived the March, Dickinson, from Riga; Fidelity, Di tto. SOUTHAMPTON, JLY 23.—Arrived the Monarch, Babot, from Jamaica. GUERNSEY, JULY 22.—Arrived the Rapid, Amy, Cette. JERSEY, JULY 22.—Sailed the Goodluck Deslands from Constantinople. , , VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.-Great Britain, 16th inst., lat. 49, lon. 15; Scotia, of Baltimore, 17th, lat. 49, lon. 11, by the Prince, M`Arthur, arrived at Dartmouth. Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Bombay, to the Clyde, which had two of her topsails burnt by the lightning about the Ist of May, by the Thomas Grenville, arrived in the Downs. Enterprise, 14th ult., off Berbice Bar ; Matilda, from Hamburg, 20th, lat. 20, by the Rose, Bailey arrived at Plymouth; Resolution, London to Montreal, lat. 44, lon, 33: Tray, Liverpool to New York, Ist inst., lat. 44, lon. 50 ; - Agnes, Cobb, Bahia to Hamburg, Bth, lat. 39, lon. 39; Magnificent, Liverpool to St. John's, New Brunswick, 26tir, - lat. • 52 ; Mischief, Jones, Liver pool to Genoa, 21st, 40 miles off Tuscar ; Calcutta, Liverpool to Quebec, 12th inst., lat. 44, lon. 32 ; Jane Prowse, Liverpool to Lima, 10th inst., lat. 9 N., lon. 23 ; Eliza, Sierra Leone to Plymouth, 10th inst., lat. 40, lon. 37, by the Orissa, arrived in the Downs ; her Majesty's Ship Fair Rosamond, Bth April, lat, 1 N., lon. 9E. Superb, Liverpool to Pernambuco 2d ult., lat. 4 N. lon. 26 ; Ganges, Liverpool to Quebec, 14th inst., lat. 45, lon 29; Zillah, of Sunderland, 20th, lat. 51, len. 10, by the Pitt, Dyer, arrived at Bristol ; Tropic, King, bound to Sydney, 20th Feb., lat. 1 S., lon. 22 W. ; Emeline, London to Quebec, 10th inst., lat. 48, lon. 20; Newton, Ferguson, Clyde to Quebec, 13th, let. 50, lon. 13, by the Scipio, Simpson, arrived in the Clyde; Bengal Merchant, Cal cutta to London, 24th ult., lat. 3 N , lon. 24, by the To bago, Weston, arrived at Cork ; Clorinda, St.: Jago de Cuba to Liverpool, 10th inst., let. 48, lon. 34, by the Marion, arrived at Cork ; Nicholas Biddle, from !jiver pool, 18th inst , lat. 12 lon. 30, by the John and Mary, arrived at Padstow ; Rt.serve, from London, 29th ult., lat. 46, lon. 53, by the Princess Victoria, arriveldaht A in y st r Palermo, Li mer i c k to Venice, 233 ult., lat. 58,10 n. 6 E , by the Robinspierre, L ea , arr i ve d i n th e Clyd e ; E urope, of Sunderland, l at. 51, lon. 10, by the Urne, arrived at Sunderland ; A ustralia, bound to Quebec, 3t lat. 45, lon. 46; Ruby, St. Kitts to London, l a t. 47, lon. 33, by t h e Philadelphia, Morgan, arr i ved at P orts . mouth; P aragon, bound to Halifax, Ist inst., let. 45 lon. 49, by t h e Ilebe, Wrin.ht, arrived in the River. , The following is posted at Lloyd's : ( Extract from the Log. book of the Alfred, J. T. E. Flint, SUNDAY, J UNE 2 from Sydney.)At 745 a. m, was much surprised at an isla n d being reported by the officer of the watch on the weather bow, bearing N. E., our chronometer giving us 50 or 60 miles to the Eastward of Aboalhas. Turned the hands up to tack ship, but the wind drawing S. S. Eastward braced sharp up, and held on to pass to windward ; found by Horsburgh's Directory we could pa ss to the Ea s t war d of the islands without any damage At 8 30 got sight, and found we had a current of 50 or 60 miles to the S. Westward. At 10 30, passing about 7 miles off the island, and just on the point of keeping away, stru c k on a coral rock, had just hove the lead (no bottom, 17 fathoms), hove again immediately after striking, and found the same. About a quarter of an hour after standing out E. to E. by N., struck on another; had six or seven hands looking Out, and steered between them ; rocks extending three or four miles to the Southward of us, and as far as we could see between the ship and the mud; fortunately through the good conduct and exertions of the crew we steered about Bor 9 miles between them, at times not more than two ships' breadth, several of them with only. 6or 7 feet water on them. Bearings when we I struck:— o a dy er o e f ditto, N. N. by W. i Western extremes, N . N. W. i W. by compass, B Est N. by W. ditto. W ditto. 30 A.m.—The la.gt rock seen about three s hi ps ' lengths bearing South . Eastern extremes of islands N. W. by N. ; Western extremes N. W. ? W. Noon.— Extremes of large island, NV. by N. ;-3 \V. to W. N. W. Extremes of all the islands W. IN,toW. N. W. Hos burgh calls the latitude of theA:o o 3ll:as 18. 1. S. lat., long. 38. 25. W., which we ce:aaidered correct Norie lat. 17. 58. S., long. 38 . 41. 44. W. ; , 1 eaten, one of the cheesecakes ; and had become very sick and iii f r o 4, it, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS directed an acquittal. Verdict—Not guilty. Mr. C. Pult.Lirs stated that Mrs. Hawkins had sent some of the cheesecakes as a present to a young lady whom she had brought up froth childhood, and that this young lady had been in great danger from partaking of them; Ames °Wen, 6t orge Th omas, an d W ill i am Ellis were charged with the wilful murder of Christina, the wife of Robert Collins, by drowning her. They were also charged with the capital offence of having feloniously assaulted her. They were tried on the latter ehargt% , .• It appeared from the e vid ence o f a number of wit nesses that the deceased, who had been a dressmaker at Liverpool, was sent for by her husband, who had sought and obtained employment in London, to join him there, and that for that purpose she had on Saturday, the 15th of June, taken her passage on board one of Mcrsrs. Pickford's fly-boats, of which the prisoner Owen was the captain, and the other two prisoners, and a lad named Musson, the crew. It appeared that the deceased ex hibited symptoms of alarm as early as the evening of Sunday, _ as she then walked on the towing path from Stone to Ash. ton lock, and there sharpened a small knife, which was afterwards found in one of her trunks, which had been un corded for its introduction, as it had been corded when she commenced her voyage. Evidence was also given of very curse expressions on the part of two of the prisoners, and a menacing one by one of them ; and it was also proved that when the boat passed Hoo Mill lock, at midnight on Sunday, the 16th, cries of distress were heard to proceed from the boat, aoil that on the arrival of the boat at Faze. I ley the deceased was missing ; and that at five o'clock on Monday morning. the 17th, t h e body 4 the deceased wa s found in a part of the canal near Brindley Bank, where the banks of the canal were sloping and the water wily 19 inches deep, the deceased thee having neither bonnet nor shoes on, her shoes and bonnet being found ill the pri soners' boat, the utter having the crown driven in. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, on these facts, was of opinion that there was no sufficient evidence to make out toe charge against the prisoners. and his Lordthip directed an a squit tal, Verdict—Not Guilty. Mr. Sergeant LtroLow applied 'o have the trial of the indictment for the murder postponed, on an affidavit of the absence of a material witness. Mr. Justice WILLIAMs directed the trial to be post poned, and ordered the prisoners to be remanded till the next Assizes. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—IIuxTINGDox, JULY 23. The Learned Judges, Vaughan and Bosanquet, open , ,d he commission here last night wi , h the usual forms. To day their Lordships, attended by the High Sheriff and a weil-arranged troop of javelin-men, in blue and orange uniform, proceeded to Church, where they heard an excellent sermon in allusion to those judicial duties, which at these Assiz-s of o)er and terminer, nisi prius, and general gaol delivery, they were not called on to perform, there not being one cause in the Civil Court, and not one prisoner in the calender. Mr. Justice Vaughan, however, took his seat in the Criminal Court at half-past twelve, and the names of the gentlemen of the grand inquest having been called over, they retired to their room. The foreman, on their return into Court, handed in a paper to the Clerk of Arraigns, stating that they had " nothing to present." Mr. Jones, the Clerk of Arraigns, having read the paper, His Loanstirp addressed the gentlemen of the Grand Jury, stating that it bad been his duty, a few minutes since, to charge them ; he had now another duty to per. form, " not to charge, but to discharge ahem; and, added his Lordship jocularly, " the country is greatly obliged to you for the manner in which you have executed your la borious services." Upon which the Grand Jury smiled, bowed, and retired ; the Clerk of Arraigns collected his papers and deposited them in a tin box ; the Learned Judge took down his three-cornered hat from its accustomed peg, and followed the example of the Grand Jury ; the barris ters, unencumbered with briefs or fees, s a dl y and slowly, in long li ne , fil e d o ff to the right and left of the table, glan c i ng mourn f u ll y, as t h e y p asse d, at t h e empty dock, th e s il ent w i tness -b ox, t h e mu t e an d melancholy "crier," and th e bl an k cause -li s t. Thus b egan and ended, in about fi ve m i nutes an d fifty-five seconds, th e ass i zes for the county of Huntingdon. Even the curious Cr that had th ronge d t h e Co urt an d galleries, went off ap parently inconsolable, lamenting a state of society too peaceful for litigation and too moral for cr i me. The only person s th at we o b serve d with cheerful countenances were the farm ers , w h o h a d b ee n summoned on t h e petty jury panel, a n d w h o d e p arte d with alacrity, resolved to act upon th e o ld a d age o f " making hay tthile th e sun shines." We are glad to say the weather is now very propitious for that work ; the crops arc excellent ; the wheat, barley, turnips, &c., are in admirable condition, arid present every appearance of an abundant harvest. THE CROPS IN THE HIGH- LANDS.—FISHERIES, &c. Over the whole of iirgyiestad flid earn &reps are excellent ; in the beginning they were backward, but derived, subsequently, so much benefit from sunshine and shower, that unusual lateness is not apprehended. Turnips eenetally hate brairded well, and the fly, thus far, has made no attacks worthy of attention, wherever the land was in proper order. The sown grasses suf fered from drought up to the time of seeding, and the rains, which did so much to nourish the oat and barley brairds, fell too late for them. But the meadows are promising, and that is almost everything with the hill farmer. The potato crops arc excellent, and we were told by various proprietors and farmers that they had neither seen nor heard of a single instance of taint. The above remark 5 apply strictly to the west of Inver ness-shire. The eastern and northern parts of Invernesso-shire, until very lately, were less fortunate ; up to the sth or 6th current, scarcely a drop of rain fell for the better part of three weeks, saving and excepting a passing shower. Ross-shire has suffered from continued drought, but while we write is recovering very rapidly. The frosts. continued into early summer, did a great deal of mis chief; but still there is hope. Sutherlandshire and Caith ness are privileged compratively. The fisheries thus for have been indifferent in the north ; the salmon fishing iu the Spey has been only tolerable ; the Lossie has done better ; and there have been good hauls around Fort William, °ban, &e. Upon the whole, however, the northern fisheries are not ex actly what they should hove been thus far, looking to former years ; but we of course indulge the hope that the " big chaps" will muster in great force to lards the end of Augu,t and beginning of September. The take of herring:, judging from appearances, will by-and-by be great. The fishing in Lochfine began five or six weAs ago ; but " the bloaters" were so few in number that the prices hovered long at 21., and still longer at 114. each. But matters may have changed greatly for the better since we passed Lochgilphead, and we were glad to learn on Saturday week, from Mrs. Carruthers, Inverness, that they have been offered at her door at 6d. per dozen on the 13th curt. But even this figure is considered high ; and the Invernessians are not quite content until " the caller" are cried at six a penny. Generally in the remotest Highland glens, the corn crops are ragging or in full ear ; and the yield will be large, should the remainder of the season prove at all dry. Enough of rain has already fallen to carry the Country over the harvest, and the chief cause of dread is excess of moisture.—Duinfries Courier. INFAMOUS CASE. At the Eton Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, Mr. Voules, solicitor, applied to the Bench for a summons against a woman, named Ba-nett, the wife of a labourer, reading at Arbour-hill, near Slough, calling upon her to show cause why she shbuld not be: bound over as " a person of ill fame," to be of good behaviour, under the 34th of Edward 111., cap. 31, which empowers the Magistrates to take of all of them that be not cf good fame, when they shill be found, sufficient surety and mainprise of their good behaviour towards the King and his people." Mr. Voules stated that he made the ap plication on . the part of one of the Board of Guardians of the Eton Union, whose only object was to protect the neighbourhood from the evil consequences likely to follow from a connection which he could prove existed between one of the most notorious female proprietors of brothels in London, known as " Mrs. Harris," and the person against whom he applied for the summons— the latter of whom had been placed by the woman .al luded to at her own expense, in the house at Arbour hill, in the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey. In support of the application, William Howard Gilman, superintendent of the new Windsor Police was called, and deposed as follows : From information I have received I believe that Sarah Harris is the keeper of a brothel i❑ London. Her sister, Mrs. Barnett, is the wife of, a labourer named Richard Barnett. I have seen the cottage at the bottom of Arbour-hill where Mrs. Barnett resides, which is furnished in a style far exceeding that which could be expected from a person in the station of a labourer. Her husband ha: recently been hay making. Mrs. Barnett wanted a young woman, who was a neighbour, to go with her to London, under the pretence of finding a situation for her with " Mrs. Harris." Mrs. Barnett is in the habit of going to Mrs. Harris's house in London, and the visit to the former is often returned by the latter. A long consultation then took place between the Magistrates, who ultimately decided upon granting a summons against Mrs. Barnett, "for being a person greatly defamed by resortiag to houses susp.'cted to maintain adultery and incontincncy," which will come on for hearing at Eton on Wednesday, the 31st ult. ESCAPE OF FOUR CONVICTS FROM READING GAOL. The escape of four convicts from Reading gaol on Friday morning has caused some sensation in that town. Their names were " Baker Bill," Burgess, Vickers, and Embling—all under sentence of transportation for life. The four prisoners slept together in the condemned cell, that being esteemed the most secure part of the gaol. They were locked up as usual on Thursday night, and the two outside bolts firmly secured. Oat side the cell is a square court-yard, walled in, roofed over with iron bars, which form squares of about six inches. Their first proceeding was to split off a wooden rail, six feet in length, from their bedstead ; one of them them then put his hand through the iron bars over the cellar door, and drew back the outside top bolt, and passing the wooden rail through, could easily, by placing it perpendicularly, force back the lower bolt which the arm could not reach from within. The lock was wrenched off from the inside by, it is supposed, a broken iron holdfast found lying near. The four pri soners were thus out of the cell, and had to make their exit from the court-yard. To do this they dragged the mattresses and piled them against the wall. One of them stood on the pile, and attempted to force out the iron bars, which, like a large net, cover the yard, His old shoe was used as a lever, but the iron was too stubborn, and the shoe was disabled. In this dilemma they resorted to the inside of the cell, over the door of which was a short beam let into the wall by some considerate carpenter, and whitewashed over. To hoist it out could not have taken long, and with its help a cross-bar of iron six inches in length was soon made to relent. Through the narrow aperture of the iron work, 111 inches by 8, did Baker Bill and his three partners squeeze their respective bodies, each attired in a shirt, and carrying with him her Majesty's blan kets cut into strips. They arrived on the walls, clam bered over sundry other roofs, and making the com plete circuit of the prison, came to the front near to the clock. On a chimney which rises there they fastened one end of the blankets, strongly tied the strips toge ther, and descending twenty-five feet by this extempore ladder, reached terra firma in the front garden. Thi s they crossed, scaled the front wall at the north-west corner, and came into the road near the Roman Catho lic chapel. It is rather curious that one of the prisoneri, who saw a convict pass on the high wall opposite his cell, was so dreadfully alarmed, thinkin g c, it a gho s t, and knowing, as h e i n f orme d us, he had been " very wicked," that, to use his own words, the perspiration " poured from him." Other prisoners heard a cry or scream, proceeding doubtless from the runaways, who might he hurt in their perilous passage. The escape was effected between one and two o'clock, the stormy night preventing their noise being heard. It is sup posed a female accomplice met them, and gave them clothing near, but no trace has yet been discovered of, their whereabouts. STATE OF CRIME IN IRELAND At length we are in a position to lay before our readers—and the country—for the publication is con fined exclusively to the columns of the Evening —the evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Lords ; and we cannot more practically evince the respect we entertain for the privileges of their Lordships, and our determination to abide by their rules, than the having so long withheld the publication of this evidence, which had been (as many of our pri vate friends are aware), transmitted to us by our Lon don Correspondent from day to day throughout the whole of the protracted investigation.—Dublin Even n a Mail. _ . i — The impartial and most modest Mail goes on com placently commenting, after a fashion peculiarly the Conservative s ' own, "on the testimony given by Colonel Shaw Kennedy, the original head of the Constabulary force," and characteristically concludes the fine spun article of sophistry in the following terms :—" We have thus established (' established !') the fact concisely —the evidence P ill do so more at large—that Lord Normanby and his Government, in the face of the de claration of the official spokesman of that Government, took the means most likely to produce distrust in the Irish Police force. We shall, in the progress of our articles show what measures they adopted for the pur : pose of breeding disloyalty among them also : and we have no doubt that, when the publication of this branch of the evidence is completed, our readers will admit, that if the Police force in this country have not been completely demoralised —turned, in fact, into a corps of Popish janissaries—it has not been for want of the ex ertions, per fas et nefas, of Lord Normanb and his Government." !! 1 y A fatal accident occurred last week on the works of the Eastern Counties Railway, at the back of the Nag's Head, at Che:msford. A young man named Dorrington was d r i v i ng one of the empty railway waggons along the line, when a lad in play struck at him in passing with his whip ; to avoid the blows Dorrington throw himself back, when he overbalanced and fell off the waggon, with his head upon the trams, and the wheel passing over his neck killed him on the spot..—Essex Herald. CHARTIST MEETINGS IN MAN- CHESTER. Yesterday evening therewas another Chartist . meeting in Hulme, held in the usual place, in a field between the end of Jackson's-lane and the New-road. At the commencement, about half-past seven o'clock, there were not more than two hundred persons present ; and of these fifty or sixty were lads, who with whistles and beating tin cans slung round their necks, formed the band. They had two small banners ; one inscribed " Feargus O'Connor for ever, and Universal Suffrage," and the ()dw a redflag, without inscription. There was also the flag of the Radical Association of Choriton Row, and Hulm. A cart served for hustings, and a mechanic named Edward Jones was called to the chair by a show of hands. A man, whose name we did not learn, first addressed the meeting in a low voice. The next speaker was a shoemaker, named George Smith, living in Providence-place, near Messrs. Birley and Co's. factory. Of the third speaker we did not learn the name. The fourth was the Irishman, Doyle : and the fifth and last was the Rev., W. V. Jackson, who announced that he might be found every Sunday, at the place where he preached—Hall-street, Oxford-road. The most. violent speches were those of Smith and Jackson. Smith pointed out a man to the inch, which, by this time, had probably increased to about 560 or 600 persons, as a man named Quin, who, be s:id, bad attempted to enrol himself as a m,'-amber of the Association, and who was there as a spy. The individull thus referred to (hat whose name we do not know), on hearing this, ran, and was pursued by up wards of a hundr e d i n dividuals across the field and acro--s the New-road ; bus; with what result we . did not ascertain. The pursuers, soon afterwards, rejoined the me•Aing in a body. Tile Chairman stated that , a meet ing would be held at the top of TrAvis - streer' road, the fAowing (this) even i ng ; t h e Fleur to be taken at seven o'clock. At the close of the Rev. Mr. Jackson's speech, a gun or pistol was discharged from the midst of the mob. About half-past nine o'clock, the meeting was adjourned to next Friday evening, at the same hour and pl a c e . I mme di ate l y on t h e con clusion of the Meeting, same one upon the hustings called out for the Oxford-road division to fall in, and go to the right about. This was done, and a consider able number of individuals -left the place, marching in procession towards Oxford-road ; the other portion of the meeting observed no such order, but dispersed in different directions. Several of the speakers denounced the police, as the " metropolitan bloodhounds," &c. Be sides the Meeting above-mentioned as announced to be held in Travis -street this evening, there is another for the same time, convened by placard, to be held " on a plot of land between Every-street (Ancoats) and the River Medlock, for the purpose of carrying into effect the ulterior measures of the Convention. The Rev. Wm. Taylor, Mr. Roberts, and other friends of the people, will address the meeting." The chair is to be taken at seven o'clock ; and at the foot of the bill are the words, " By order of the Committee, J. Lomas, Secretary."—Manchester Guardian. RIOTS IN NEWCASTLE. We have received the Tyne Mercury. Its report of the disturbances is substantially the same as that which appeared in our paper yesterday. The Mercury. however, says that although the mob might prnbably have been first collected in consequence of a fight that occurred, but'one of the principals was apprehended immediately after it com menced, and all the future proceedings show that there was but one object in view, and the party acted in perfect concert. If there was any doubt about the matter, the fat of the mob acting on the same principle as the Bir mingham rioters, destroying the gas-lamps and extinguish ing the lights, is enough to convince the most sceptical, inderndent of the property attacked being that belonging to the "shopocracy," and besides here and there a pike having been discovered. ,The same paper says that a shopkeeper, on leaving his shop at an early hour on Sunday morning, had a pistol presented at him by a ruffian in WVcstgate•street, at the door of his own house, with the exclamation—" D—n your soul, do you see that? " APPREHENSION OP MASSRS. WILLIAMS AND BINNs.— The Mercury also states that it is believed that both Wil liams and Binns, of Sunderland, who have taken a promi nent part in the Chartist movement, were apprehended on Monday. STORM on the WESTERN COAST. PLYMOUTH JULY 23. —This coast was visited the latter part of last week, by one of the severest storms ever re membered at this season of the year. The gale came on vert suddenly, and blew with great violence from E. S. E., shifting to S., and S. W., increasing, with h:•avy rain, and thick hazy weather. A brig came in from Swansea, and anchored at the mouth of Catwater, but dragged her anchors and went on the rocks, under Queen Anne's Battery —crew and passengers saved. Eight men and an infant were brought in yesterday by one of the Dublin steamers ; they were taken from a wreck near the Laud's End ; the parents of the child and two of the crew were drowned. Several vessels which ran for shelter into Mount Bay, being unable to get inside the pier, were either driven ashore, or sunk at their anchors. We fear that the loss of life hns been very great. The trowlers which left Plymouth on Wednesday morning were caught by the gales, whilst driving their nets, and many were compelled to cut them away ; one man bad his arm broken whilst at the wind la-s. A brig is ashore at L.)oe. UNPROFITABLE DELIBERATION. —One-half of human life is made up of wasted consideration. The highways of the world arc strewed with the sands of thoughts cast away. The events over which we have no control affect our destiny a thousand fold more than the few that we can govern ; and while we ponder over our decision, fate decides for us and the game is played. The Anti-Corn law Circular, one of the ablest as well as the most t i eful publications of the day, has com menced a series of pictorial illustrations of the Rent-Laws. The first number of the " illustrations" is admirably exe cuted. The sun is rising, and a Russian and a Pole ap proach the British shore, offering abundance of corn and bread to a famishing group of hand-loom weavers. They are unable to read the notice put up by order of the landlords, that "no bread is to be landed on this ground," and they hear with incredulity the expla nation and threats of the servants of the landlords. But at length the bayonet and the policeman's truncheons are levelled at the crew of free-traders, who are reminded that, unless they instantly depart, they will be imprisoned, and their cargo seized and thrown over board. Probably the policeman, who appears a hard visaged fellow, is in the act of telling the Russian that he was once employed by his masters, the landlords, to destroy more than three thousand quarters of foreign corn at one time. The horror and amazement depicted on the countenance of the Russian and Pole, contrast strikingly with the quiet and observing face of the boatman, who casts his eye upon the scene around—the dying wretches on the ground, the starving family beyond, the faeLory converted into a barracks, the gallows, and the carrion crow; all which he will very carefully describe to his countrymen when be returns home. riiE EXECUTION ORDERED AT YORK.- The Herald says, in reference to the crime for which two Young men (the principal only eighteen) have been or dered for execution at York, by Mr. Baron Maule : " From 1835 to 1838 (four years) the committals tor the offence in question was 223, and in that time there was but one execution ; while from 1831 to 1834. (the pre ceding four years) the committals were 222, and there were in that time sixteen executions. Is it not clear, then, that those seventeen lives were uselessly sacrificed? The taking of sixteen lives in the one period did not tend to repress the crime. The taking of but one life in the other period did not tend to increase the crime. As a moral example, then, the punishment is barren. But it is easy to show that, as a lesson of cruelty and demora isa. tion, it is prolific of evil." OMNIBUS SPECULATIONS.—In the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Tuesday an omnibus proprietor on the Clapham• road, named William Hilton, made his third appearance. He had also figured as a bankrupt, and to account for the several failures it was alleged that he had been ruined by keeping cmnibuses. Mr. Woodroffe, his Counsel, gave a graphic description of the connection of omnibuses with insolvency. The Government duties swallowed'up all the money, and the parties again got into prison. What was astonishing was their infatuation in pursuing the .same career, which ended with the same re sult. The insolvent was discharged. SUPPOSED MURDER.—On Saturday morning, as some labourers were employed in excavating a piece of ground by the waterside lir the purpose of forming a foundation fur a wall at the back of the London and South ampton Railway's Company's warehouses at Nine Elms, they discovered, at the depth of about six feet from the surface, the skeleton of a female with the face upwards, and from the decomposed state of a portion thereof it is judged that a great number of years must have elapsed from the period of the body having been interred. On examination' of the skull it was found to have two severe fractures, evit!ently inflicted with an axe or some other sharp instrument. The bones are in the possession of Mr. Rofe, the Superintendent of the Railway Company's poli e. The place from which the skeleton was taken was until lately extremely secluded, and the general opinion is that the deceased woman had been decoyed there and mur dered. The Animals' Friend Society last week at Bris :01 caused John Bradbear to be fined by Mr. Herapath, . - for crueltyt - Oa horse. Mr. Newman is, however, still opposed, and again dismissed a strong case against George Smith of ill treatment to a horse, by urging the pretended necessity of proving the sex of the animal, though he had been in a former case shown that the statute specifically made no distinction. It is a pity that Magistrates should thus oppose so valuable an institution. At Dursley the Messrs. Yewen (agents of the Society) have also been active in bringing offenders before the Magistrates ; a n d at Southend the two agents, T. and B. Gibbins, have been equally active in this necessary service. METROPOLITAN SCHOOLMASTERS. —Satur day masters have availed themselves o f t h e privilege of e a entering University College, on Lord Brougham's " patriot fund," was held in Newcastle-street, Strand, Mr. Higgins in the Chair. The object of the meeting was to acknow ledge in some suitable manner a sense of their obligations to Lord Brougham himself, and to the Council and Pro fessors of University College, for the advantages they had received by their admission to that institution. A series of resolutions in accordance with this object was. submitted to the meeting and unanimously adopted. The number of schoolmasters who avail themselves of this privilege was qijrl to he greatly on the increase, --~- _EVEN IN CORONER'S INQUEST. CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. Yesterday forenoon a lengthened inquiry was insti• tuted before Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a respectable Jury, at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Saint Pancras, on v i ew o f t h e b ody of Charles Waugh, aged 17, a bricklayer, who dicd in St. Pancras workhouse, under the melancholy and singular effects of hydrophobia , detailed in the evidence subjoined. Mr. Richard Duck Esteott, of Gloucester-place; Cam(len-town, parish surgeon, was first examined. 4 ". 0 stated that the deceased was b rought i nto the work house about a quarter before six o'clock on SanilaY evening, when he was sent for. He found him sitting on a bed, holding by the pole of the bedstead, in a suite of great nervous excitement, and labouring under epl 33 ,' rently severe spasmodic a ff ec ti on ; h e p i eced h i s how to his throat and complained that he could swaill nothing. On pl ac i ng water b e f ore hi m he attemp ted to drink it, and in doing so his hands and all his out ward person became dreadfully agitated, and he dash the water from him with great violence. He vomited profusely, and brought up a saliva of a frothY appearance. Conceiving it to be a case of hydrophobi a he deemed it advisable to consult with his colleagu e ' Mr. Curtis, the other parish surgeon, and sent for The mother of the deceased was present, and on askin' her ii he had been bitten by a dog, she said he Karl some months since. He (witness) then administer" thirty-the drops of tincture of opium, which were thrown up immediately ; he then gave deceased three graius of solid opium, which was rejected in like manne r ' He subsequently, finding the loaner treatment of no use, administered five drops of hydrocyanic or prussic acid. By this time Mr. Curtis arrived, and agree d that some of the s y m p toms were those•of hydrophobia' Tae deceased, after a f ew m i nu t es, t h rew up the bpi"' cyanic acid, and four and a half drops more were give"' but with no better effect. He then made a.four ounce mt . :titre, containing t went y d rops o f the same acid, five-sixths of which the deceased took, but it did not remain on his sia:s. mach. He was se i ze d w i t h ae on' l tinuance of cold chills, ,Od his pulse was very feeble and quick. He had administ,;:ed altogether to deceased about twenty-seven drops of hy, - ,irocyanic acid. Mr• Curtis and witness left him about a qu.z.rter,past seven o'clock, and retu rne d a t n i ne ; h e was then d y i ng , an d expired in about ten minutes after. The mother of the deceased stated that. he P 137; bitten by a dog, which was his own, in the thumb las t February, and the dog was killed the same morning' The deceased refused to go and have anything done to the wound. The CORONER said that having now .heard all th e evidence, lie was of opinion that this was decidedly 3 case of hydrophobia, although he never knew two c ases of this malady in whi c h t h e sympt o ms were prec isely similar ; however, taking into consideration all th e symptoms displayed by the deceased, he thought the jury could not hesitate as to the verdict. With respec t to the powerful medicines edit - roistered to decess'A, they could not have accelerated his death, as their its mediate rejection from the stomach did not give that time to affect the system. Verdict—" Died of Hydrophobia." . . . EA TH.—CORN-LAWS.—We have frequest applied the term Starvation-laws to the Bread -tax, 504 that that equally cruel, wicked and most impolitic le:" post produced a deficiency of food, to which frequently followed death in its most dreadful form. Let those ail think that we have dealt in exaggeration take the test'' mony of Dr. Howard, whose evidence is the mote val t ! a " ble from its incidental character. The Doctor in his quiry into the morbid effects of deficiency of food amour the destitu'e poor, says;—" The public generally have. a h very inadequate idea o f t h e num b er o f persona who pert annually fro.n deficiency of food ; a nd th ere are f e w would not be painfully surprised if an accurate record such cases were presented to them. It is true that in tilt country instances of death from 'total abstinence only cos ° ,l ally occur; yet, e v er y me di ca l man w h ose d ut i es h av e le him much amongst the poor—who is familiar with the ela treme destitution which often prevails amongst them, a. the diseases thereby occas i one d — i s too often a w i tne ss e „ fatal results from gradual and protracted starvation I though death directly produced by hunger may be T are, there can be no d ou bt th at a very l arge proport i on o f the mortality amongst the labouring classes is attributable t° d ficiency of food as a main cause, aided by too long-eT tinned toil and e xe r ti on , w i t h out a d equate repose, ins°' cient clothing, exposure to cold, and other privations t ° which the poor are subjected." FALLING IN OF A CLIFF.— Some few daY s back an accident of a distressing nature happened at the lime-kiln on Amwell-hill, near Ware. Two men who were, digging chalk were b ur i e d b y t h e f a lli ng o f a l arge body ° i t earth from the cliff. The alarm was speedily given, b t .' some time elapsed b e f ore t h e poor f e ll ows cou ld b e extr cated; one was quite dead, and the other very much in" jured; the body was conveyed to the Union-houst! at Ware, and an inquest held upon it the following morning Toe verdict returned was Accidental Death. CHARTISTS' PIKES.—We have a word to say upon the flourishing pike trade, which cer t a i n s ly Chartists have been carrying on in this neighbourhood (Gateshead) for the last few weeks. When we tell them, that although the value of the material of which it is composed is about one penny, and the workmanship of the rudest description possible, they will not be a little surprised by the gullibi lity of the working classes, who have allowed the •‘ lads" of Winlaton to tax them at the enormous rate of eighteen pence per pike. We have been assured, that during the last week not less than 800 of these articles of war have been manufactured and sold at Winlaton, at the above price, affording the makers of them a profit of at least one shilling more than would have satisfied any respectable Tr!' nufacturer on either side of the Tyne. We thought hardly possible, that at this time of day, any set of men:J . especially men who talk so l ou dly aga i ns t " Pee% mongers"—would have allowed themselves to have bee, imposed up on t o suc h an extent. W e h ave not bear whether mu s k ets , pi sto l s , gunpow d er, an d l ea d , h av e ris` i , " in our matk e t s i n an equa ll y remar k a bl e d egree; but rt e think, after the illustrations we now afford him, the renw - r will be at no l oss to di scover which of the parties enggehee in these tra nsac ti ons h ave b een the pikes, an d w hi c h t' gudgeons!—Gateshead Observer. THE MARKETS. 1 - CET.-July 21. s. Walls End Whltwell 2l Walls End Kelloe t' 3 6 Walls End Clarence Hetton 114 . W lls End Gordon .........••• g Walls End Tees ?4 0 Walls End Tennant ... -••• ;7, Walls End Tees Hetton •••• •„; 0 Walls End West Tees' 17 () Blythe .... ly 0 Cowpen ••• 0 0 Howard's Netherton Mails 6 Wals End'Haswell ............ Walls End Heaton ...... -• 2 ,. 0 Walls End Pon top Bowes... is st market-day, 2. COAL MA: a. d Adair's ' 1 Ord's Itedhugh Original Windsor's rontop 20 0 Tanfled Moor Butes 2l 0 Townley lB 6 Wylam. 2O :II Walls :end Hetton Walls Ent Hotspur Walls Eud Percy Bensliam 2O 0 Walls End Belmont 2l 6 Walls EndßraddylPsHetton '22 1) Walls End Lambton 22 1i Walls End Pembertim Walls End Stewart's zhips arrived since las An exhibition was held yesterday in the ground s of the Royal Society of Horticulture, at Stafrod-h" .. ' Chiswick, for the lactic& of the British Orphan As) ?1111° ' Clapham-rise. The general collections were excellent. How easy is it to call names—to throw dirt on, and traduce a man who it is well known will not coo descend to punish the offender I Therefore it is that t i c e i feculent columns of the ifail are daily filled with rab abuse of Mr. O'Connell. He is an Irish Papist, aCO temner of the truth, a foulmouthed slanderer, and be h ad dared to traduce the army and t h e re li g i on o f tbe emPire E PLATED. TABLE DISFI COVER 15 Guineas the Set.—A,B SAVORY.andSONS,IManigs,e; turing Silversmiths, N o . 14 , Cornhill, London (opposite tn Bank of England), sub m it f or choice in their plate, ooXi s ': many patterns of strongly pl a t e d TABLE DI SH CO with with Silver handles and mountings, and stout Silver shields engraving the Crest or Coat of Arms, price from 15 g uineas to 20 guineas the set of four. N.B. A Pamphlet of the Prices of Plate may be had on application. PLATE.—T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, tkc" 47, Cornhill ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), Lorid"• The best wrought Fiddle-Patt ern S poons an d Forks, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. The following are the weights rat mended, but the articles may be h a d li g ht er or heavier at h same price per ounce : oz. a. d. £ .. '''B,.l (t o 2 Fiddle-patt er n T a bl e Sp oons ,2 Ditto D esser t ditt o 2O a t 7 2 70 0 12 Ditto Tabl e F or k s 2O at 7 2 JO 15 12 Ditto D esser t ditto 2O at 7 2 7 3 * 2 Ditto G rav y Spoons ... ...... 1 Ditto Soup Ladle 4 Ditto Sauce ditto 4 Ditto Salt Spoons (gilt strong) I 0 0 a 1 Ditto Fish Slice 2 10 12 Ditto Tea Spoons l Pair Ditto Sugar Tongs (strong)... o 13 0 N.B.—A p a phlet containing a list o f P r i ces o f Pl a te s Plated Goods, for Go , o s d a s rde , d inWatches,answer to Clocks,a post-paid application. &c., may b e h a d gra tis, or BIRTHS. On the 20th inst., at Dean's-row, Walvrorth, Mrs. Jeli n Darvil, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Great Doades, near Reigate, the lady of of a Auchmuty Tucker, E sq . , o f the 9th Beng4l Light C ava lry ? son. On the 23d inst., at Tonbridge-wells, Mrs. Sthephen Beech ing, of a son. On the 24th i nst., the lady of William Fladgate, Esq., of Craven-street, of a daughter. MARRIED On the 24 t h inst., at Daresbury, . Cheshire, by the Rev. John Leigh, M. A , Rector of Egginton, Derby - shire, g eni i: eldest son of Henry . Bysom, Esq., of Liverpool,- to Helen, eldest daughter of William Stubs, Esq., of the Elms, near Warrington . On the 22d inst., at the British Embassy, Paris, Young, Esq., youngest son of Rear-Admiral Young, to Harriet Elizabeth, only child of A. S. Willington, Esq., of Charleston, South Carolina. At St. Peter's Church, St. Alban's, the Rev. William R A., Curate of Widford, near Chelmsford, Essex, to Mary Ann, second daughter of William-Cannon, Esq., of -Nag Hyde, near Hatfield, Herts. DIED. At Penzance, Cornwall, the Rev. George Clulow, of Queen's College, Oxford, youngest son of the late William Clulow, Esq" of Etchingham, Sussex. On the 15th inst., at Acomb, near York, Mrs. Tindal. f On the 18th inst. , Maria, the wife of Jacob Davis, Esq-, ° Artillery-place, Finsbury-square, aged 38. On the 19th inst., at Waithamstow, Mr. Paul Cheffins, aged 57. 2ist inst., in the Kent-road, robcrt Fullwood, ES C I" aged 83. _ London: Printed and Published b' MURDO y 0 LIN ••• • No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11‘), Strand, zn c , ,unty of lliddlesex.—Thursaay. .111 y '2.5, I 39.