The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-04 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of this evening, adverting to Lord Brougham's opinion that the Judges of the Admiralty ought not to be allowed to sit in the Commons, says, " Upon the truth that Judges should not mix thernselvf a in party politics has been founded the fallacy that they ought not to sit in Legislation—that is to say, they are d.ingeroua if elected by the people, harmless if selected by the Crown ! Now, it appears to as, that if the House of Commons (Ices really represent the nation, the whole doctrine of exclusion should be abolished, even as to the Puisnc Judges of the Superior Courts, and a fortiori as to all others, who do not exercise functions likely to involve them in party questions. That Judges might be tempted to seek popularity will be the obvious objc c tion—to us it seems less dangerous that they should conciliate the people than that they should truckle to the Throne. We would rather that they glanced at the hustings than at the Peerage." In another leading article, the Courier quotes a letter from a Hanoverian Correspondent, the object of which is to show that the King of Hanover's quarrels with his subjects, is every day assuming a more serious character. The Globe, in a leading article suggested by the re ma; ks in the Times of this morning upon Irish rail re3ds, observes, " For our own part, when we aro told of the successful results of unaided enterprise, and of th , e problematical results of Government interference in these works, we know not how to reply, except by r::- questing those Paganini- performers, who entertain us so constantly on this one string, to pay some little atten tion to the facts already known on the subject. Are the results of unaided enterprise so completely successful ? Are the results of Government interference so entirely speculative ? We really think that any person who ex amines impartially the comparative statistics of English, American, and Belgian railways, will not hesitate for a moment to award the palm of superiority—in every country not actually overflowing with capital—to the system of state proprietorship and superintendence of these undertakings." The Standard contains an angry article on the subject of Lord Ebrington's appointment, in the course of which he observes " his Lordship was a Member of Mr. O'Connell's rebel association—of that association de nounced and prosecuted by the Reform Ministers of Wiiiiam the Fourth. His apology for his connection the rebel body was that it preserved the peace of I, lane—and a very excellent apology too. THE MANCHESTER ANTI-CORN LAW DELEGATES AND THE CHARTISTS. Manchester, Saturday. Very erroneous and exaggerated accounts have been pub!ished of the riotous proceedings at the meeting of the Delegates here, on Thursday last. As the terms of the advertisements, calling the meeting, merely in vited the members of the Association, and the trades who had signed the petition to be present, no idea vas entertained of any body attending for the purpose of getting up a row. About 150 or 200 of ens of the population were, however, got together by a lase ruffian (supposed to be in the - pay of the Tories), and they took possession of the front of the room, nearest to the platform, in a compact body, before any other persons assembled. From this gang of desperadoes, all the disturbance originated. They had evidently been drilled to act in concert, for at a signal from their leader, who was himself inflamed , with liquo r , th e y jumped upon the seats, and th rew u p !I both hands, waving their hats at the same time, to give themselves the appearance of a greater force, by hiding the view of those beyond them. The body of the company remained passive, waiting the adoption of some vigorous course by the Chairman. But after consultinc , with those around him, on the platform, he thought it better to put up with the annoyance, than to resort to the unpopular course of calling in the police. The result of this was to give confidence to the ruffians, who were now joined by the stragglers of their party that forced their say to them from different parts of the room, and tit com menced an attack upon the gentlemen of the p' .tform, several of whom being members of the Soe . .:ty of Friends, and other religious bodies, they at once fetired into a back room, for fear of a most serious hr.' ich of the peace. The intruders having thus gained possession of the platform, now commenced their mummery. 'I le au dience had by this time undergone some chat e, the respectable portion having left, and the room bee: reple nished from the street. Still the Chartists were co . sily re ceived. Indeed their speeches were unusually d and the matter so threadbare, that- at last the company got into groups, and took no notice of the orator , . At the close of the proceedings, when the besotted fellow in the chair proposed a vote of thanks to the " Con vention," very few hands were held up, and a cry was raised for him to put the contrary, which he refused to do. After the meeting broke up the working-men got together in groups in the streets, and loudly condemned the disgraceful proceeding. " Here's an argument for Universal Suffrage!" exclaimed a man in a fustian coat ; whose companion, apparently a shoe-maker, replied " It's all in favour of a Rural Police." " This will be meat and drink for the Tories," cried a third. Since the meeting the Anti-Corn-law Association , have received communications from many of the trades, as well as from some of the Chartists, disavowing iind condemning the conduct of the wretches who assaulted peaceable citizens in the exercise of their right to dis cuss their grievances ; and many of the working men will be present at the adjourned meeting, which is called for Thursday ; and it is thought by most persons that the interrupting: party is almost annihilated by the in sane exhibition lately made. NATIONAL CONVENTION. WorTri,g in the Chait After reading and confirrnii day's proceedings, the Secret rent, as follows: Log the proceedings of the lasi Mary announced the receipt; 01 Ketteritig £s 0 0 2,Janfichl n iury Dundee - Drybrook, &c. Haritnal Lrieestor Mr-sthyr Tydvil l5 0 0 Mr. Washington DELAY OF THE CONSIDERATION 0 ULTERIOR MEASURES. Nottingham . 7 G 0 New Radford ...... I 0 0 Arnold New and Old Berk- ford 5 0 0 Totness (Yorkshire Rsdical Hilsley. resolution of the London democratus passed at a public meeting on Thursday last, which went to censure the Con vention for the great delay that was occurring in their going to propose ulterior measures, was handed in and read, upon which Mr. RICHARDSON rose to propose that it be not reeeivA. Tie deprecated the interference of any persons in their de hb:rations, when it was perfectly understood by the country at urge that a former resolution of their body went co postpone the consideration of what measures should be at.lt:pteci by the Convention, in case their petition sliould be rejected. Were not they the collective wisdom of tne nation ? Is it not, therefore, betted. the consideration of ulterior measures should be under their consideration. Ttiere arc avternblies which had not the s,une cppoetun;ty of judging of their pradcnce—( Hear, hear)—as they had. If t . tey looked at their book, it will be there seen that ul teror measures had not bet - n omitted in their deliberations, there it will be found, that in case their petition should rejected, they would communioate with their constitu -33 to wbat they i.hould do. He was surprised to EA ' , rise of the extreme right were now becoming rno e zhan were those of the extreme left.--( Hear.) He is as convinced that a junta had been formed in that Association for purpose which was pre judicial to the interests - )f That this junta was formed without unworthy rte admitted; but he, at the same time, should say, if these motives were ever so pure, still, from the ine „rucknt tendency of their effects, they should not be adopted by the Convention. v - a), G r; people, Tho CHAIRMAN here said, that as it was a question re gardiD4 the Convention, he hoped Mr. Richardson would not enter into anything personal. Dr. TAYLOR seconded Mr. Richardson's motion, that ate resolution should not be entered on the minutes of the prc- ceedings. In answer to the observation of a member Mr. Richard. son said be was prepared to show there was a junta of some three or four members. He had notice of that bejore he left Manchester—( Hear, hear)—and only that he wished to preserve that unanimity with which they had hitherto acted he would have brought this subject before this time under their consideration.—( Hear, hear.) He IVU3 sure that this junta had ulterior measures in con templation, and from his experience be must say, that the time was not arrived when those measures should be adopted.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. MARSDEN defended the conduct of himself and those gentlemen who were present at the meeting of the working daises called by the Democratic Association, in proposing and seconding the resolutions complained of. Dr. WADK said he regretted that any attempt should now be made to disturb the unanimity which had hitherto prevailed among them. He was not a physical force man, because he was perfectly convinced that in moral force there were ingredients enough to procure them the remedy of the evils complained of.--( Hear, hear.) It was to moral force that Liberty was indebted for her best defence against her enemies. Dr. FLETCHER said that he did not intend to enter into any discussion with the Rev. Doctor on the question of moral or physical force ; but he must say that it was ne cessary that the Government should be apprised that the country was in that state of distress and suffering that the consideration of ulterior measures was now a subject of deep thought among the people.—(Hear.) Mr. FROST recommended the utmost consideration on a question which involved the personal conduct of four of their members.—( Hear. ) Mr. MILLS—In contradiction to the assertion of those members who said, " That the Northern Unions were clnite impotent." He knew these people well, and be said, from that knowledge, they bad the most implicit confiderce tin their measures.—( Hear, hear.) He was i not ~ surprised at these resolutions having been passed LI the members sfmna of the Democratic Association, when be o h f ea! T d e , quarter that con uot be doubted, that one wouldsoon e o members told him that un►es 44: Convention kl on come out, he himself had resolved to lee, the peopl e on. —( Hear, hear.) He said the new-born zeal i of these Londoners was really ridiculous. The old Radicals of the North, knowingall that was to be contended against had resolved to wait the result of the petition. while the persons in this City who have only just raised their heads, must have their objects attained in the period of a month , forsooth —( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. Hetherington and Mr. Cleave supported the withdrawal of the resolutions. _ _ Mr. NEESOM, as one of the Delegates who attended that meeting, would stand by any of the resolutions as embodying his sentiments.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He of his own knowledge knew when Mr. Hetherington was recommending with all the talert of which he was in possession to recommend opposition to the law.-- ( Hear. )--he was only surprised that those Gentlemen who did this day opp s‘ those resolutions for being of too violen a nature, although living in glass-houses should be the first to throw stones, because ail their lives they had been in the habit of inviting the people to do their utmost in opposing tyranny by every means.--( Hear.) Mr. RICHARDSON repl ed. Mr. HARVEY pressed the reception of the resolutions. The resolution recommending that they should not be inserted on the minutes, was carried by a majority of sixteen. ADDRESS TO TUE PEOPLE. Dr. TAYLOR brought up the address, which was read by the Secretary. (This document was presented to the readers of The Sun some time since.) A long debate took place on an amendment put by Dr. Wade, that the words "peacefully if you may, forcibly if you must," be omitted. The Rev. Doctor's amendment was lost, and the address carried. It was also ordered t 3 be printed. LAMER lAL PAR.LIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'Clock. Returns were presented from the Ecclesiastical Com. missioners. PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY BILL. On the motion of Mr. HESKETH FLEET WOOD the Preston and Wyre Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. UNSTONE (DERBY) I NCLOSURE BILL. On the motion of Mr. CAVENDISH, the Unstone (Derby) Inclosure Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. S. LEFEVRE brought up the Report of the Comittee on the Manchester and Liverpool Railway Bill, stating that the standing orders had been complied with.—Leave was given to bring in the Bill. The Committee also reported that the Standing Orders had been complied with on the Bradford Im provement Bill, and on the Manchester and Birmin , ham Railway Bill, and leave was given to bring in the Bills. The Report on the North of England Railway Bill stated that the Standing Orders had not been complied with. Several other Exports were brought up, the names of which we could not ascertain. Mr. SANFORD brought in the Great Western Railway Improvement Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. CORN-LAWS. Mr. MONTAGUE PARKER presented petitions from two places in Devonshire against any alteration in the existing system of Corn-laws. Mr. HENRY M ARSL AND presented a petition, signed by several thousand inhabitants of Stockport, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir G. STRICKLAND brought in the North Midland Railway Bill, which was read a first time. The Hon. Member then presented petitions from two places in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. .Mr. BANNERMAN presented three petitionsfrom Aberdeenshire to the same effect. Mr. ROUND presented 17 petitions from Essox in favour of the present system of Corn-laws. Lord ELIOT presented petitions — from two pa rishes in Cornwall to the same effect. ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES. Sir EDMUND FILMER presented a petition from the archdiocese of Canterbury against the Ecclesiastical Revenues and Duties Bill. Colonel GRANT presented a petition from New Spinie praying for Church extension in Scotland. CORN-LAWS. Mr. HURT presented three petitions from places in the county of Derby, praying the House not to agree to any alteration in the present system of the Corn-laws. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented ten petitions from places in Devonshire, with the same prayer. Mr. LISTER presented a petition from Bradford, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws. Mr. F. MAULE presented a petition from Kintore to the same effect. Mr. MORRIS presented a petition from Monmouth, praying the House to adopt Mr. Hill's plan of postage. Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from Mr. Bennett, an attorney at Brighton, which set forth that he had occasion to sue three persons for 201. that he had sued out execution, and that the Sheriff's officer charged 131. Bs. for the caption, which was contrary to law, but the officer said he was justified by some recent rules of the Judges. Captain PECHELL supported the prayer of the petition. The case he thought one of hardship. Mr. BAINES presented two petitions from parishes in Yorkshire, against any alteration of the Corn-laws. Sir JAMES GRAHAM presented a petition from St. Andrew's, Fife, against any alteration in the Corn laws. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from the Clergy of Windsor, complaining of the recommendations contained in the 4th Report of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners. CORN-LAWS. Mr. E. ELLICE, Jun., presented petitions from St. Andrews, signed by 1,000 farmers, agricul tural labourers, &c., and several other places in the County of Fife, for the total repeal of tho Corn-laws. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition against any system of national education not in connection with the Established Church. Mr. CHARLES LUSHINGTON presented a pe tition from William Boyd, stating that the petitioner's father had served the Crown for forty years—that he had lost his situation, in consequence of the duties of it hay ing been transferred from the Customs to the Excise ; that there was a provision made for the continuance of his salary, which nevertheless had not been continued to him ; that he had never received an appointment under the Government, which had been promised, and pray ing inquiry into the case.—Ordered to lie on the table. RAILWAY BYE-LAWS. Sir F. POLLOCK moved for a return of the Bye laws made under the authority of any Act of Parlia ment relating to rAilroads, imposing penalties on any persons other than those in the Company's service. IMPORTATION OF LINEN AND LINEN YARN. A return was ordered of the quantity of linen and linen yarn exported in 1835. Mr. BROTHERTON brought in Bill for the re covery of Small Debts in the 'town of Rochdale, which was read a first time. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had two petitions of importance to present to the House, and wished that his Bight Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade had been in his place. One was from the Sugar Refiners of the City of Edinburgh and Port of Leith. They stated that from the increased demand and diminished price, which was not half what it formerly was, the manufac turer did not flourish as formerly. They prayed the importation of foreign sugar upon the payment of a moderate duty might be permitted, and to prevent too large a supply, they suggested that sugar, only the produce of free labour should be so admitted. The other petition was from the coffee-dealers of Edin burgh, complaining of the adulteration and corruption of that article, and praying that the importation of it might be allowed at a moderate duty from all parts cf the world where free labour is employed in its production. CORN-LAWS. Mr. DENISTQUN presented a petition from the agricultural district of Cumberland for the repeal of the Corn-laws ; and several other petitions of the same de scriplion from various parts of Scotland. The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the Order of the Day for the House going into Committee on the Registration of Voters Bill, for the purpose of post poning it. The Navy Estimates were very pressing, and he was reluctantly compelled to postpone the Com mittee on the Bill to that day week. Sir H. FLEETWOOD gave notice that on the 14th he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for as similating the franchise relating to Coroners, to that for the election of Members for counties ; and on the same day he would move to extend the qualification in coun .. ties to all such persons as occupy houses of a clear yearly value of 101. the same as in boroughs. Mr. HARVEY gave notice that to-morrow he would move for a return of all orders made by the Judges in the Courts at Westminster-hall, relating to the fees taken by Sheriffs Officers and others. Sir H. HARDINGE gave notice that to-morrow he would move for returns relating to the Chelsea pen, sioners at present in North America. SIBTHORPE postponed his notice of motion which stood for to-morrow for a return of the fire in- suranee duty until the 14th inst. Sir GEORGE CLERK gave notice that on the motion that the House go into Committee on the Pri sons' (Scotland) Bill, he would move that it be an in struction to the Committee to divide the Bill into two. OUTRAGE ON THE BRITISH FLAG. Lord INGESTRIE said the interest was increasing daily out of doors regarding the resent transactions in Mexico. it would be very satisfactory that the House should know whether any other communication had yet been received from Commodore Douglas. Mr. C C. WOOD said the Admiralty had received no further information from Commodore Douglaz, since the Noble Lord had last asked the question. He had stated it had been determined to make this a subject of representation to tne French Governnient, but before that ,could be effected, Commodore Douglas' letter arrived stating that an eF.planation h a d b een ma d e and her Majesty's Government then thought it would THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY,'MARCH 4, 1839 be better to wait until they had a full knowledge of what had taken place before they took any further steps. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN wished to ask whether any measure had been adopted by the Government for the purpose of procuring any indemnity for the Mexican pilot. If such a measure had not been adopted he would take occasion to call the attention of the House to the subject, and he hoped the House would then ex press its feeling with regard to the outrage that had been committed against the national flag. The SPEAKER begged to remind the Hon. Mem ber, that he was accompanying his question with an argument. Lord INGESTRIE inquired whether there wns any objection to lay the letter of Lieutenant Croke before tha House ? Mr. C. 'WOOD did object to laying any paper on the table of the House, until the transaction was in a more forward state. than at present, and he thouit the mode in which Hon. Gent!amen had proceeded with regard to this subject was not one becoming the dignity of the House.—(lronical cheers from the Opposition Benches.) Mr. GOULBURN rose to order. The Speaker had been just kind enough to say questions were nat to be put argumentatively, and he thought answers ought to come within the same rule—(Hear, hear) — otherwise an undue advantage was given to one side of the House over the other. Captain PEC HELL wished to put a question to the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Home Department, which he hoped would not be considered beneath the dignity of the House.—(Hear.) This subject had created great excitement—he did not wish to mix it up wi , ll the question between our Government and France. but he wanted to know whether the Noble Lord in tended, as soon as he obtained the information which he said he was not in possession of, to lay all the papers before the House ; and whether he could produce the log-book or journal of the Express packet for the tine she lay at Vera Cruz.—(Hear, hear.) He had endea voured to put the question in as distinct a manner as possible, and he believed there was no differance of opinion among naval officers on this subject.—(Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said that would be a question for consideration when the intelligence arrived.—(Hear, hear.) It was impossible that the Government could pledge itself before hand to produce any particular papers, and, of course, on that particular question they would take the opinion of the Board of Admiralty.— (Hear.) FACTORIES. Mr. MARK PHILLIPS asked whether the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Home Department, would consent to postpone the Factory Bill for a week? Mr. F. MAULE said he would postpone the Bill till Monday. FACTORIES.—BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. On Lord JOHN RUSSELL moving the order of the day for a Committee of Supply, Lord ASHLEY said he would avail himself of that opportunity to call the attention of the House to a subject affecting the privileges of the House, and the character of some of its Members. He had no authority lo speak in the name of any other person—he spoke only with reference to himself.— (Hear.) His name had been so frequently introduced into the Factories Commissioners' Report, that it would be impossible to allow it to pass unnoticed. he was placed in a very painful position. It was I:11- possible to avoid noticing this document, yet he had no other way of doing so than by stepping between the House and the important business of the evening. He felt this very seriously, and was sorry that the neces sity of observing of such imputation compelled him to trespass upon the Houso to a matter so personal. The House would recollect that last Session a Committee had been appointed to inquire into the operation and management of factories in England, Scotland, and Ire land. That Committee reported their evidence to the House, and since that time the inspectors of fac tories had made a report to the Home Department. The report made by Mr. Stewart contained charges affecting Membees of Parlisment in their con duct in committees, and likewise as Members of that House, by commenting upon their speeches, and im puting to them veey grave offences. Now had these allegations been made at any public meeting— by any newspaper—or in any correspondence, he (Lord A.) might have treated them with the utmost possible contempt.—(Hear.) But when he found that a Government officer made a report, in the discharge of his duty under Act of Parliament, to the Home Secretary, containing serious charges and imputations upon Members of that House, and comment ing upon proceedings of that House, and bringing in a vast deal of extraneous matter; and that this report was adopted by the Home Secretary, and laid upon the table of that House under his authority and sanction, and that it was printed and circulated at the expense of the country. He (Lord A.) thought the matter had assumed such a serious aspect, that he was justified in calling upon the Secretary for the Home Department to maintain those charges or to withdraw them.--(Hear.) That was an act purely voluntary on the part of the Home Secretary. By the Act of Parliament the in. spector was to make a report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department ; but the Act of Parliamete said nothing about the Noble Lord laying that report on the table of the House. It also bound the inspec tor, and laid down the precise terms and character of the report. For it said that he should . report the ' state and working of the factories and mills, and the children employed therein, and whether such factories or mills were or were not conducted according to the directions of that House and the laws of the realm. No further was he to go. When, therefore, the Noble Lord received a Report full of extraneous matter, having nothing to do with the subject in hand, and containing personal charges against Members, who, for their conduct in the Committee and in that House, he thought the Noble Lord might have said to the Inspector that, not being a report within the terms of the Act and beyond his jurisdiction, that he migith withdraw it, and present one more suited to the occasion. The Noble Lord, how ever, took no such course.—(Hear, hear.) He adopted the report and the allegations it contained, and laid every thing on the table of the House. giving the sanction of his high special authority to it, and causing it to be printed and circulated at the ex pense of the country. Now the portion to which he wished to call the attention of the House was that con tained at page 53, and the report there stated that the only legitimate object for which the Committee was ap pointed was to inquire into the proceedings of any combinations of workmen or the employers of workmen. An object altogether foreign to the inquiry which had been instituted by the Com mittee. There, in the outset, the Committee was charged with having violated the order of refereece for purposes exclusively their own. In the came page he found it stated that the intention of tne Committee to institute such an investigation was in no way made known to the factory owners—(Hear,)—that it was incumbent on the Secretary of State to prove that the Committee had no such intention. The Report e.1.,0 complained that no intimation had been male to him as Inspector of Factories in the district, and it added that the course followed by the Committee in concealieg their intention to include in their inquiry infringemeets on the Factory Act was the more liable to animadversion because one of the Members, previously to the exami nation of three cotton spinners, had a private meeting, and questioned them respecting the violation of the Act in their factories. There the Committee was charged with having designedly and sedulously con cealed their real objects, and in that proceeding that they were liable to severe animadversions. That might be a fair charge for the Noble Lord to make in his place, but he asked whether it was within the jurisdiction of an inspector of factories to comment upon the we ceedings of the Coriamittee in a public (Lenin/ e t, notwithstanding the - privileges of th e H ouse , and to circulate that at the public expense. Now, involved in that sentence, there was also a personal charge, " It is more liable to animadversion, beca use one of the Members of the Committee had previously a meeting with the cotton spinners?' Would the Noble Lord say who that was ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I don't know, Lord ASHLEY—There was the difficulty. Th e Noble Lord threw on the table a charge against som e one ne did not know.—(Tory cheers.) There was a personal charge against some one Member, which the Neble Lord sanctioned by his authority, an d yet he now said, that he had no notion of the person against whom the charge was made. Mr. O'CONNELL—It means me.—(Loud laughter and cries of " Order.") Lord ASHLEY—No doubt he Hon, and Learned Member for Dublin was perfectly capable of defending himself against any charge. There was another charg e against the Hon, and Learned Member for Dublin, i n which he (Lord Ashley) believed the Hon. Member wishedwould referc qui e w s c a e s . n T !t h e e E I s e p hpass agepage. t T o h s i v s hi:veahs an n answer which affected himself personally, not so much for his conduct in the House as in .he Committee. It stated that Messrs. Holden, Todd, and M`Nayat, three master cotton-spinners, were selected by the m as t er spinners of Glasgow as the fittest persons to attend before the Committee, yet there was not a single question respecting the operation of the Factory Act was put to Mr. Holden, or Mr. M'Naught, and that when Mr. Todd, in answer to Lord Ashley's second question, stated that he took no children under thirteen years of age, his Lordship did not put another question. Now just let him shew what was the state of the matter. In the 552 d question, Lord Granville Somerset asks, "How soon do you take children in to work ?" The answer is," We do not take in any below the aye allowed by the Act, thirteenyears old:' He (Lord A.) then threw in the . question, "Do you take none under thirteen ?" The answer was " none," and there it ended. Now , upon that w as b rou ght a charge of some unfair dealing, the whole scope of which he could not quite gather. He perfectly f•ecoileet6d, when - the wifmass said be took 'rig children under the age of thirteen, that he (Lord Ashley) merely wished to ascertain this point. He had=; learnt that in many of the mills throughout England and Scotland, the masters, being anxious to be quit of all the burdens of the provisions of the law, had determined to employ no children - un the age restricted to eight hours a day. He, therefae, wished to know whether this was one of the mills. He put the question, and having received the answer he was satisfied. Flow was it possible, with a charge so indefinite, he could give a more definite answer.—(A laugh.) The Noble Lord might smile, but he (Lord Za.) would say, on his word of honour as a gentleman, that he had no other motive.—(Cheers.) He had no inten tion of going into the Factory Act, and he had no view distinct, or indistinct towards an exhibition of the in operative parts of the Factory Act. He merely wished to ascertain that simple fact, and having ascerta!,,ed it, there he left it; and yet on this, then, was halt such an ric,:arsation. That, if he was to ju :go from what appeared in the Morning Papers, a pe;',:on more never figured in this House. Now in u question, i n page 54, i n the exa mination mia unquestionable, combined cotton spinners and M r . A :di son, t oti of e tt s ii t ee i oen next oaribl son, it was said that it was conducted in such a way as that it could not fail to inform the witness of the an swer that would be most agreeable to the inter rogation. He was extremely sorry to delay the House, but he thought it was necessary that he should do ao considering how he had been attacked. (LEFT SPEAKING ) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Weol sack at Five o'Clock. Lord EBRINGTON took the oaths and his seas. as Baron Forteseue. The Noble Lord was introduced by the Duke of A 7 gyle and the Mei quis of Conyngham. Earl SHAFT ESBURY presented a petition from the Magistrates of Brentford, in Quarter Sessions as sen bled, praying for an alteration in the beer laws. CANADA The Marquis of NORMANBY laid on the t :ble the conclusion of the papers respecting his Noble Friend's mission to North America. The Noble Mar quis stated that he had now laid on the table all the papers at present in England. He understood there were some more in North America, and a search lad been ordered to be made for them. Lord ABERDEEN said the Noble Marquis had talked on a former occasion of completing the Nele Lords case, and he wanted to understand whether till present were ail the papers that were intended to he produced. The Marquis of NORMANBY saib these were the remaining papers. Lord ABERDEEN wished to know if it was the in tention of the Noble Marquis to produce any further papers previous to tho House legislating on the sulej et. The Marquis of NORMANBY said, Certainly eot. The Bishop of St. ASA PH presented petitions f. om Llangollen and various other places respecting The state of the Church in North America. Lord KENYON presented a petition from Den bigh and from another place in Wales, compleinie of the wants of the Clergy in that part of the country. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition against any alteration in the Correlaws. A NOBLE LORD presented petitions from Stamr'erd and other places against any alteration in the Corn laws. Lord HARDWICKE presented a petition from the Magistrates of tl o county c f Nor:elk, in Quarter Ses sions assembled, praying their Lordsl fps to adopt some measure to prevent th e co n sumpti on of beer on premises on Sunday. The Noble Lord also presented 57 Teti tlons from places in the county of Gloucester against any alteration in the Corn laws. Lord DUNCANNON laid upon the Table certain returns from Ireland. Lord GLENELG presented a petition from a ' , Lice in the connty of Inverness, praying for church ee ten sion ; also a petition from Inverness praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. The Duke of ARGYLE presented a petition pray ing for the alteration of the Corn. laws. THE NAVY. Lord MI NTO presented alpetition, as we understood, from Chelmsford, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. The N o bl e L or d sa id h e s h ou ld take this opportunity of troubling their Lordships with a word or two on a subject of considerable importance, both in refereime to himself an d ot h ers. Their Lordships might re member that on a late occasion considerable doubt was expressed by a Noble Earl, not now in his place as to the accuracy of certain returns which he (Lord Minto) had occasion to submit to the House, in reply to the same observations of that noble Feel's. Their lordships would not be surprised to be informed that some of the officers, and some officers high in had.felt exceedingly hurt by the statements that pro ceeded from the noble Earl ; and be (Lord Minto) was authorized by them, and particularly by Admiral Sir Philip Durham entirely to confirm the ac curacy which be bad made and which lie received of them. There were two pints chiefly upon which that Noble Earl seemed to suggest that there might be some error. The first was as to the fitness of some of the ships for a state of operation, and which he (Lord M.) had represented as favourable. The Noble Earl mentioned the Revenge in particular, and stated that the masts of that ship were not in a state of preparation. He (Lord Minto) had requested the Admiral Superintendent to inform him in what state the masts of that ship were when that Noble Lord visited her. The reply was that there were five first rate masts ready. Three were unappropriated, and there e. ere other masts fit to be put into her. Another statement was, that there was no sufficient provision of sails foe the ships of the line at Plymouth. He (Lord M.) had also desired an application to be made to the Admiral Su perintent at Plymouth, and the reply to that applica tion showed that that Noble Earl must have been greatly deceived in the application he reoeived. The re ply stated that so far from there being no topalls for the ships of the line, there were seven complete suits of sails for each ship besides a great number of imperfect suits, amounting to no less than sixty six topsails for ships of the line. He did not doubt but that the Noble Lord believed this in formation which he had received to have been accu rate. But that Noble Lord did not visit all the sail. rooms, and he had to trust to others for his inforam tion.—(Hear, hear.) He (Earl Minto) thow d Lt it wan due to the officers concerned, to state v.hat he had stated. He was perfectly satisfied with the accuracy of their reports, and be thought it was of im portance that no unnecessary discredit should be shown upon the returns of public officers. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from some place in Scotland, pray ing, that no alteration might be made in the existing system of Corn-laws. SCOTQA APPEALS. The Earl of ABERDEEN asked the Lord Ch:in. cellor whether judgment would be given in cel:ain Lental appeal cas':::; before Easter? It was desir:tble that the questions connected with them should be se at rest before the meeting of the General — Assembly. Lord BROUGHAM said it was important ,jl,lg rnent should be given before E:ster, on account of the meeting of the General A.sernbly in May. The LORD CHANCELLOR said judgment wwild be goven at th e ear li est opportunity consistent with t!:cir Lordships' convenience. POOII4,AWS. The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from Guardians of th e U n i on of St. Thomas, Plymoutl., ing that the Po or -l aw wou ld b e rendered more effe: e ive by some alteration in the law of settlement, and pi ey ing that such alteration might be made. LORD FORTESCUE'S EXPLANATION. Lord FORTESCUE—IIIy Lords, I know not w::e tiler, as there is no question at present before your Lordships, I am quite in order in addressing 30 ee Lordships ; but whether I cm stt ictly in ortlei not, I feel I shall not appeal in vain to your Lf,l'• 1- ships' sense of .- justice. If I ask you to peneit me to offer to yoer Lordships a few obste a tiOns with regard to what passed in this on Thursday last in matters of the greatest consequeeee regarding not myself only as an individual, but these great and important interests in the administratio n of which I have been called upon to take a share. I sedc not to deprecate the political hostility of the Noble Lord who thought fit to originate this discussion ; I complain not of the Noble Lord having brought forward this discussion ; but I do complain of the Noble arid Learned Lord founded his attack, without givir g me any notice, on unconnected, and I must Say an incorrect report of words which were spoken in the other House of Parliament at a time I had not en opportenity of being heard in my defence, or if the zeal of the Noble and Learned Lord for the Protestant Church in Ireland wes such as could not wait until I should be press ;t It would have been more candid on the part of th :t Noble and Learned Lord to have informed me of Lis intentions, and to have given me an opportunity of stating to some f r i en d t h e express i ons really u se d by me hire nthteo offeroccasio s n ooh andrefeerxrpeldantaot,ionas I might in my necee. , thereby have endied debate, hs sary abse nce h ave w i s h e d to h ave b een given. I shall offer those e x pl anat i ons to your l ordsh i p ' s presently, but b e f ore I offer to yo ur l or d s hip s t h e cerrect explan a ti eni of th e speech referred to but b e f ore I d o this I would wish to a s k th a t noble and le arne d lord, w h et h er not w i thstanding hi s iog his well g rourk l cd great tale nts varied t and ilst a nhdis well-known t act i n confidence in his varied powers—it has never happened to him in the heat of debate to let fall expressions which have been construed in a sense very different from that which in his cooler ma mews he would wish to have attributed to them, and does the Noble and Learned Lord con sider that the use of those expressions amounted to disqualification from holding a ny oMoe Conncutc,l witil that country to which those expressions related. My Lords, I asked the Noble and Learned Lord, as a la wye, whether he thinks it fair, without proof of ao offence —for the Noble and Learned Lord did not pro fess himself to have heard the words refeere4 t o __ whethe r he thihki it fair' td asitiale an offence, and then to pass judgerMnt and call for execution without giving tile individual charged the opportunity of ' sreaking in his own defence.—(Hear, hear.) My Lords, " I came to administer the laws, not to alter them"—were the words of a distinguished statesman, a near relative to the Illustrious Duke I am happy to see in his place opposite (Wellington), because I know that from that Noble Duke, at least, I shall receive justice.—(Hear, hear.) " I come to ad minister the laws, and not to alter them," were the words used by Lord Wellesley, in answer to an address pre sented to him on his arrival to take the govern ment in Ireland, when reference was made to opinions he had expressed upon Catholic Emancipation —f: our which it was assumed that his corning to take the Go vernment was in indication of an intended concession upon that question. " I come to administer the laws and not to alter them," will be my answer to any addresses—should I be honoured with any—re ferring to opinions of mine upon any legislative mea sures in this, or in the other House of Parliament,— ( Hear, hear.) My Lords, allow me to say that I have not taken up this view merely at the exigency of the present moment, or the spur of the present occasion—l have been all my life a strenuous advocate for reform—l have during my political life advocated considerable changes in many of the laws in this country and in Ireland, and I am happy to say that many of those measures for which in my early days I wished to have liveet to see brought to a consummation, but I defy any man to prove that on any occasion I have advised disobedience to existing laws, however repug nant they might be to my own feelings and opinions ; and I am sure that with respect to Ireland, 1 can confirm this statement, for with the opinions I enter tained as to the Church of Ireland—belie fng hat it ought to be reduced within limits mere commensurat! with the demands of the Protestant population—with these opinions, which I never shall shrink from declaring —here or elsewhere—l beg leave to say that there is no one of your Lordships—that there is no man in this country who has exerted himself more strenu ously to procure for the ministers of that church the payment of their past dues.—(Hear, hear.) My Lords, I was in Ireland in the autumn of the year which immediately preceded the passing of the Coercion Bill—when all persons paying tithes were publicly denounced as enemies to their country. At that period I gave directions that the whole of the tithes on the property with which I am connected should be paid to the minister to whom they were due, and I took care to make it known that I had done so ; and the result of that was, that my life and pro perty were threatened by a placard stuck up upon the chapel—and such was the intimidation o' that time that no individual could be found to remove that paper till Itoe i: down with my own hands.—( Hear, hear.) My Lord, it is irksome always to speak of one's self; and I owe an apology to your Lordships for men tioning this matter. I can assure you that I have done so only for the purpose of showing that however dis p sed . I may be in my place in Parliament to alvocate certain changes in the law, there is no man more strenuously determined to maintain existing laws. Now, my Lord, with respect to the speech which forms the subject of conversation on the present occasion. On referring to the reports o f th a t speech, I must say both of them are rather meagre, and are rather general outlines than anything like correct or accurate reports of the words spoken by me on that occasion ; and I can further state that the words quoted by the Noble and Learned Lord were those by far the most incorrectly reported, and were the most unlike what I did say in that • debate. My Lords, I will not trouble your Lordships with any part of the speech, except one particular passage ; and the words which, to the best of my recollection, I used,: were these : " But if the struggle against the present tithe system were still going on, and notwithstanding the passing of this Bill, the burdeli of that struggle will be trans ferred from the shoulders of the poor and ignorant peasant, to those of the rich and powerful landlord, whose shoulders would be much better able to bear it, and who, I hope, will carry on the war." I regret I used that word, because I am quite sensible that it was liable to be interpreted in a very different sense from that in which I uttered it. My Lords, it may be supposed that this is an ex post facto explanation —that I attach a different sense to them now from what I did at the time I used those words in consequence of the notice that has been taken of them. My Lords, I trust it will be believed by those who know me that I am incapable of such shuffling.— (Hear, hear, from both sides of the House.) What I intended to convey by the expressions I used was that I hoped measures for the reduc tion of the Church Establishment in Ireland would be pressed, in the shape of petitions and re. monstrances, addressed by the landlords through their proper constitutional channels, upon this and the other House of Parliament—that that mode of warfare would be substitued that that this legitimate and constitutional warfare would be substituted for -the resistance of physical force, which had produced miseries and horrors in Ire land ; and that coming, as it would do, through those channels, it would receive due attention from the Legislature of this country._(Hear, hear.) My Lords, that was the sense in which I used that expressed. lam aware that in the course of the debate a different construction was put upon it, and it had been my intention to have got up at the time to explain it. My Lords. I spoke at the time to my Noble Friend, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and I asked in what sense he had understood me. He said, though others had put a different construction on the words, he had understood them in the way I have just stated ; and he added, " I will, if you please, make that explanation on your behalf." My Lords, I acquiesced in that, feeling as I always do, and as I am afraid you will have plainly perceived this evening—(Hear)—feeling, as I always do, my own incompetency to make an address and I felt particularly reluctant after having once spoken to press any further observations on the House.— (Hear. hear.) My Lords, I feel that I am about to undertake a situation encumbered with great diffi culties—difficulties, allow me to say, which have not been diminished by the course taken in this House of Parliament, by the description which some or your Lordships were in my absence pleased to give of my political opinions, and by the anti cipations you were pleased to form of the clay ratter of my Administration.—(Cheers.) Aly Lords, I have, however, the satisfaction to know that I have before my eyes the example of the predecessor. My Lords, I shall endeavour to carry into the administration of the laws of that country that strict impartial justice which procured fur my Noble Friend (the Marquis of Normanby) from one your Lordships, a pretty strong opponent of his Government, the important admission that at no period had the law been more rigorously exerted fer the prevention and punishment of crime, then it had been under the AdtniniStration of my Noble Friend.—(Cheers.) My _Lords, I shall carry with me into the Government of that country the same sympathy which has been shown by my Noble Friend for the wants of the people of England —the same affection for their open-hearted and manly character tiro setne anxious desire to ,extend their comforte aud I (LEFT SFEAKING.) TATTERSALL'S-_- , (THLS EVENING TUE DETLBY. 6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot—takan 7 tp 2 agst John Day's I',lt 8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—t!kon 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flamboam—taken 20 to I agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh—,taken 18 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Day of Algiers—taken 20 to 1 agst Duke of Iliehmona's Meunier —taken 22 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin —taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Albeniarle's Tros--taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayor —taken 40 to 1 ag:t Mr. Bowes's Accelerator—taken W to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti —taken • as to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's/Ether—tak en 10 to 5 asst Mr. Mostyn's Hugh Lupus—off, red 50 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—take n 80 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo —taken 45 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Valainet—taken 0000 to 15 agst Duke of Grafton's Montreal—taken 1000 to 10 agst Captain Williamson's Melbourne --taken 1000 to 7 agst Dart—taken Mr. Ewart, in obedience to the most numerously signed requisition which has yet issued from Wigan, has become a candidate for the vacant seat. We regret to hear that Mr. Potter's life is despaired of.—.Lancester Guardian. Tuesday morning, as the Erin steamer, from Ireland. was coming up our river she ran foul of the bows of the Palmerston, which was on her passage to Swansea; by the collision, the latter vessel was stranded, and so much injured that she could not be got off until the next tide. We understand she must go into dock and undergo some repairs, when she will again resume her station. March is a memorable month for astronomical phenomena. The late Sir William Herschell discovered the Georgium Sidus on the 13th, 1781. On the afternoon of Friday the 15th, there will be an eclipse of the sun, commencing at twenty.three minutes past three, and end ing at four minutes past four. On the 19th, 2,559 years will have elapsed since the first recorded eclipse of the moon. On the 28th of this month, 1802, Dr. Albers discovered the planet Pallas ; and on the 29th, 1807, the same astronomer discovered Vesta..—Aldine Magazine. MUSIC AND DANClNG.—Accomplishments, such as music and dancing, considered to be peculiar to women in. England, are as generally cultivated by males as by females, in France. This habit, I think, though I h um many will disagree with me, is injurious in its effects ; be cause it assimilates the two sops, which ought ever to retain their peculiur and distinct attributes. The more masculine a man's pursuits and amusements are, the more highly will he be disposed to estimate feminine accomplish ments, in which he can have no rivalry; and which, by their novelty, may tend to form a delightful recreatie,n fel: his leisure hours. The manly occupation„s, which call him from home, r en d er hi m more Poc4Otthle of the charm of female 49,ciety wheiChe returns to it; hence I would encourage a system that tended to make women as feminine, without being effeminate, as possible, and men -- as masculine, without being coarse.l-dier is 'I rd 7 ; Lady Blessington. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Thursday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, for the despatch of business. The LORD MAYOR took the Chair at Twelve o'Ciock. METROPOLITAN POLICE. Sir MATTHEW WOOD said, that the second reading of the Metropolitan Police Bill had been fixed for the Bth of March, but he had prevailed upon Mr. Fox Maule to post pone the second reading of it until the 26th of March. Mr. AldermanNeuesees said, the Police Committee would hold a Special Meeting on Monday, when they would take the Bill into their consideration. The Corporation of the City had admitted the principle that all the Police of the Metropolis should act together, still he did not see the necessity for taking from the Corporation a power it had so long enjoyed, of controlling its own police. The subject was referred to the Police Committee. TIIE LORD MAYOR AND THE COAL TRADE. The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received a letter from a Member of that Court, which being addressed to him in his official capacity, he felt it his duty to take the earliest opportunity of laying before the Court. They were, perhaps, aware that during the period he had been in office he had invited to the dinners at the Mansion-house gentlemen of the Corporation of evety variety of political opinions, without distinction. A few days since he sent a letter, inviting a Membe r o f th a t Court to dine with him at the Mansion house, and in answer to his invitation he received a letter, returning his card which was torn into three pieces, and couched in such abusive language as he was sure there was not a gentleman present who who attempt to justify. The letter was from a coal factor, but that did not justify the insulting language made use of by the writer. Whenever a proper opportunity was afforded him, he (the Lord Mayor) would be prepared to justify every part of his conduct with reference to the coal trade.—( Hear, hear.) The letter of which he had to complain had been shown by the writer of it, before he sent it to several persons it, the coal trade, who expressed their disapprobation of the language in which it was couched, and some members of that Court to whom the writer showed a copy of the letter, after he had sent it, had expressed their regret that such a letter should have been sent to the Chief Magistrate of the City, by one of their body. He the (Lord Mayor) would admit that in the coal trade there were persons of the greatest respectability, and he never had vilified them as a body. Some of his friends had seen the leiter he had alluded to, and they had advised biro to give it into the hands of the legal officers of the Corpora tion, with instructions to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a criminal information against the writer; but, as he entertained no vindictive feeling towards that individual, he had resolved not to have re course to a proceeding which would put him to very considerable trouble and expense ; he had (!eter mined to lay the letter before the Court, and if, after bearing it read, the Court were of opinion it was a matter with which it had nothing to do, he would not give himself any further trouble about it. The Lord Mayor then handed the letter to the officer of the Court by whom it was read. It ran as follows: " 46, Berner's-stieet. " MY Lora) MAYOR,—I meant to have treated with silent contempt yeur invitation, but as your Lordship has again sent to request an answer, I throw back with the utmost scorn your impertinent card. " Your Lordship, in the opinion of all men of character, has utterly disgraced the high office you hold, by pan dering to a base and low p o p u l ar ity, t o d o w hi c h you found it necessary to atrociously vilify and basely calum niate a body of men, the coal factors, (of which I am but an humble individual) every one of whom is at least as re spectable as the poor creature, who fancying himself in his trappings of office,;clothed in the lion's hide, most woefuly betrays the animal beneath by his braying. " Your Lordship has taken up a subject of which you know absolutely nothing ; and like all men of your Lordship's calibre, pursue it with an avidity proportionate to their extreme ignorance of the sub ject, and in a way to disgust all right thinking people. At this pass your sapient Lordship has arrived, and now I will tell you that all your grandiloquent threats against the coal trade will end in nothing. I for one laugh them to scorn, and inform you that you will, even in your few short months of dearly loved office, live to see them of no avail. I'll tell you more—the result of your Lordship's excellent efforts will end in the public being well crammed with the inferior coals purchased at 225. ! ! 1 under your Lordship's characteristic auspices. " From the mouth of a fool who can expect wisdom," but yet the number of those who follow in the wake of official folly is so great that some time must elapse before the blunder is discovered and counteracted. Already best coals are de pressed, and inferior sorts of the lowest description are rising in price and demand in our market: " You have boasted that you know coals would have been 6s. or 7s. per ton dearer but for your efforts. Your Lord ship has here taken credit for the natural result of the un usually mild weather, and consequent reduced demand. " But truth and facts are not your Lordship's object ! I therefore bid you adieu, and am, " With the most thorough contempt, " Your Lordship's despiser, " W. P. POTTER." The reading of the above letter was frequently inter rupted by loud cries of " Shame, shame I" from different members of the Court. A Member inquired whether there was any proof that the letter was in the hand-writing of Mr. Potter. The LORD MAYOR said there could be no doubt of it, because it enclosed the card of invitation to dinner (torn to pieces) which he had sent to that person. Another Member inquired whether Mr. Potter was in , Court. The LORD MAYOR said he had given him notice of his intention to bring his letter under the notice of the Court, but he lead gone out of town since. Mr. ANDRRTON, after commenting upon the gross im propriety of which the writer of the letter had been guilty, moved that it be referred to a Committee, who should have power to- call Mr. Potter before them and report thereon to the next Court. Mr. GALLOWAY seconded the motion. Mr. WIRE trusted the Court would pause before it agreed to such a motion. It. had no power to punish the writer of such a letter. All it could do would be to censure his con duct, and that would be no punishment. Ho would treat the censure of that Court with contempt—if in his consck ence he believed that he had acted rightly.—(" Oh, oh.") The coal trade as a body had great reason to complain of the line of conduct which the Lord Mayor had lately pur sued with reference to them.—(" Oh.") He would pre sently show that—(Cries of " Qu..sstion, question")--du ring which— The LORD MAYOR rose, and said that if the Honourable Member would give notice of a motion for an inqury into his conduct with regard to the coal trade, he would be glad to meet such inquiry, and would afford ever) facility to its being instituted. Mr. D. WIRE said he always bowed to the decision of the chair, except when a sense of duty impelled him to do otherwise ; but Lord Mayors had sometimes insulted the members of that Court, and he for one would never submit to authority which was improperly exercised. He would show that in the present instance the Lord Mayor had acted on wrong information, and had proceeded roost improperly. ("Question.") While the Court exhibited such symptoms of impatience, it was impossible for it to come to a just conclusion. The coal factors were a numerous and re spectable body, and he would prove that they had not been guilty of the conduct which had been imputed to them, and for that purpose he would take the earliest op portunity of bringing the whole subject before the Court. After a long discussion the motion was put and carried, and a Committee appointed. Some other business of no public importance disposed of, after which the Court adjourned. At the rising of the Insol!_etit_pAtor's Court on Friday, a case of en extraorffinedy character was presented. An applieetien was ma'; on the part of a firm (timber_ merchants) at 4 .. anngham, for the assigneeship. The prisone : a the case had been clerk to-ene parties applt ins ; suddenly left Birmingham, - and it was then ascertained that he had incurred a few debts. Search was made after him without success. An order was made by Mr. Baron Gurney to hold him to bail, on the ground that he was about to leave the country. Various writs were issued, and at length he was arrested at the Thames Police-office, where he had been before the Magistrates, on a charge of felony, which was not supported. The arrest occurred on Saturday, and on the following day he was to sail for South Aultralia--he had taken his passage, and his luggage was, in the London-dock warehouse, where it now remained. The present application was as assignee to seize the pro perty. The party had petitioned the Court, and had been anxious to obtain possession of some trunks at the Lon don-docks. It was suspected that there was at least 2007. in them. Mr. Commissioner Law, after some inquiry into the circumstances, made the appointment. Mr. Wood roffe said the assignees could pay their debts out of the property. FALSE IMPRISONMEST.—III the Sheriff's Court on Friday an action for false imprisonment was tried, in which a shoemaker, earned Dickenson, living in Bald win's-gardens, Gray's-inn-lane, was plaintiff; and a Mr. Stacy defendant. It appeared that some time since the plaintiff was employed by the defendant to mend a pair of boots, and after the former had kept them some time, the defendant called and demanded them back, when the plaintiff said he had either mislaid or lost them, and the defendant then gave him in charge. He was taken to the police station, and afterwards before Mr. Benett at Hatton Garden Police Office, but the charge was discontinued on the understanding that the plaintiff should make the de fendant a new pair of boots in lieu of the old pair. The jury retured a verdict for the plaintiff (the defendant hav ing confessed judgment), damages, one farthing. BILL DISCOINTING.—O n Friday a ler.N . h eme d examination took place at Union. hall Offin-, relative to a charge of forgery, alleged to have, been committed by Captain Charles Munro; lat'l of the army, who was ac cused of having forge", the name of Colonel Boyce, to a bill of exchange for 100/. The case excited considerable interest, and the office was crowded during the investiga tion, in the course of which some extraordinary disclosures were made, with respect to the scandalous impositions practised by bill discounters. The prisoner, it is necessary to state, came up voluntarily to meet the charge. A Jew named Jacob Ansell,,and a set of fellows calling themselves bill-brokers, figured in the proceedings. Mr. Traill said that he should discharge the accused, who, for his own sake, to exonerate himself from such a charge as that which was alleged against him, ought to proceed against the parties for a conspiracy. Mr. Chambers, who appeared for the prisoner, at the conclusion of the proceedings said that Captain Munro had fallen into difficulties son e time ago, in carrying on some law proceedings for the recovery of some property in Scotland. On that occasion he had unfortunately fallen into the bands of a set of bill swindlers, who, there was no doubt, had conspired toge. the; in the attempt to ruin him. by a body of MODESTY.—The three following r e _ L v jons are said to have been unanimously clor r e . , kt Puritans in MassaelimettA, as, a ji.lstification for depriving an Indian tribe OS its, huating-ground -4tesolved, that we are the the earth le the Lord's, and the fulness thereof D 't --- L ee _ lyed that the Lord has giv , earth unto the Saints. Saints." e__________ London: - Printed and Published by MURDO Youlsi i o 'iu No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112 , Stre, ~ the , lounty of Middlesex.—Monday, March 4, 109. ll ' -, or------------- EVENING EDITION. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Whe: - ,t Barley. Oats, Beans. Pere. S. S. ---.— Per Quarter, Is. to s. 1 s. to s. s. to 3. I a. 10 S. nwstOrl t SJ 84 i 35 3.3 ,27 31 140 42 Caitishoriingli d t-11. I -- 37 i:3 i 44 Grantham '7o 81 • . -l8 33 23 28 i3B 43 Grimsby !B2 81 134 40 22 4 ,1) &? 48 Horncastle i6o EV) I ::2 37 20 24 '36 42 Lincoln ...... ,I 70 77 133 42 20 29 48 50 -- '— Spa;ding ! 80 I 35 24 , 49 Stamford ; 71 , S, 128 33 ,21 25 136 44 York ;7O 80 i 26 34 124 26 132 44 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET--March 1. ~.., Waeat, ded, Narmlk and Sufiblk —r. 68s. to 71, fine .-: Lin. and Cam. ---- Yorkshi re —s. 6 45. to 68 3 . fine 7 ' IN bite Foreign, hixi —s. —s. to 70t. fine 72 , White —s. —s. to —s. nne 71 , Earley, Norfolk and Suill,lk ---- Linoollisli ire 183. to 403 tine 4 .1 Yorkshire \V id ---- Foreign Beans, Small - - -'rick Oats, PotAto . . _3 . . 8 . . s s . . . t t i .40: o , 344- 4 06 0 08 i finfifine fine un,.fined i e:41 : : i --- Poland —s. to 30s. line .4s. vrierland an,: Sriiiir -s. ......s. to As. line •, t' '' ~ - ii., -, aling 'iliolling Malt —a. 41s tine 493. per 1 C ,I • _-,. I I I :1 i ! t t o o 3 l B 4 , 3v' o ci i. per 5 1. 1 . ° 0 :,.. , 1 1apesee.i ~, .. —i. 0 , 3 231. Os. 11'0/. Os• per l'''.. -:,• 36 NEWCASTLE CORN EXCLIAGE —March 2. 01 d. New. Wheat, Nerthorel•orland sfls. 754 7.2, 76 .1 -- Norfolk and Suffolk &is 745....... 72 , 79 '• 1 Berwick and Scotch h6s. 735....... —s - ''' -- Forcign Rye, Nerf•dl , ,nd Soflolk _..., ...-s Tr'oreign .. ,6 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and SutTolk... 45a 48s -- - - - Grinding and F'eel'ing Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk til s Os —s. —G ! '' Beans, Small , - Tick - Pease, White -L-- Gray Oats, North y timberland, Fotatoe ..... 27s. 283. 294. 313.1 koreign Flour (per sack) DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Feb. 28 ' 1 Per Per s. si. First Wheat.. x . ...... : a 'S o d. to 40 0 Barley Quarter. 3,3 oto 4 ' .3 Second `)S 0 37 6 Oat s 2O 0 -41 .5 Third 30 0 32 0 Beans (per sack)... 17 0 5, , :425 Sacks of Wheat sold] 35 1 1 Flour (per bag) 56 0 at the average of Bread (per ga11.)... l 8 -- Wheat. PTCH Barley. ARKETS, Oatv. Beans. 75 to SC 3' to 35 22 to 27 —to - -10 57 26 30 19 21 26 30 52 55 24 16 17 18 27 28 43 65 26 31 18 22 22 '26 6 t 70 3 t 38 '26 32 41) 42 OS 7:) 16 38 23 30 65 CS 35 :3S, 27 2M 32 33 46 5-1 '2 • 27 16 23 32 34 64 77 23 31 20 23 45 18 60 ^6 23 26 20 22 32 25 4z, of the measuro varies throughout the c 3DINGrON CORN 51ARKET.—March Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 80s 0,1 50s Od 406 04 51s Od c9i Od 40a Od 338 Od 453 Od 663 Od 36a 0.1 286 0,1 —s Overage 41. KEITH CORN MARKET.—Feb. 28, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease, First 776 Od 44s Od 33s 4d 46s 041 • Second CB6 0.1 40s Od 28s 48 44s did Third . 43s 08 30: 01 16s 08 3*. 0,1 EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Feb. 27. We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to.day s and weal were rather dull. 46 tO 43 A 1: c rd een Berwick Caistrearn Cupar Fife) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso {irs.xt 1y Pe th Tho 11A Firit Second Third [drat !',Qcond ird 4 40 - - 45 1 : •^" ,un try • Wheat. Barley, Cats. Pease. 803. Od. 44s ed. 41s. Rd. 483. Od . 70 0 33 0 30 0 44 0 GO 0 :,4 6 21 0 40 0 'erage price of Wheat 31;7Q id. Bo w 49 30 44 t• 4IS v" 46 0 44' 39. 0 48i ' "44 40 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, C. 1 9 Beer, per lb. Os. N. to Os. 7d. Freshßutter, 1b.71.10.1. to Mutton 0 6 0 7 Salt Ditt o OlO - Veal 0 9 1 0 Ditto, per cwt..... 14 0 " • 0 5 0 6 Eggs, per dot. «. 0 0 t Lamb, per. qr. 015 0 1020Straw(ki.:.),,. 6 1o) Fallow, cwt. ......ail 44 0 I Wheat Ditto 8 0 10 - Juartern Leaf 010 0 10i ;Barley Ditto 7 0 Potatoes, 140 a. 0 g 0 0 Hay, per 1 0 1. EDIN?'• URGH MEAL MARKET.—Feb. 26. There was a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's malice . ' lb sales were rather heavy. l'er Sack of 280Ib. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 IS 0 Peas Kemal ... 1 14 0 eot Barley—NO. I, pet cwt. I Pcoi GLASGOW CORN A moderate business doinj Wheat, er s. d. s. d. British, old 37 0 to 42 0 -- new 3OO 410 Canada, free 36 0 38 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 h Eaglish 33'Q 32 0 Scottish 3O 0 33 0 Irish Per Stone of 141 b. 111)P. . ' 'First Oatmeal X 0 • t Second ditto 0 e Barleyameal Peasemeal • 12 5.-2d,145.—.3d,16 —4th,121/. I, 20s. MA RK Feb, 27. gin Grain ; prices steady. Oats, per 264:tb s• d ' Irish 2O 0 l a . British , 220 • Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish 23224 °„( u °) Oatmeal, per 141i4b „, 20 Flour, per 28111 h 52 CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 9.4 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barle: _ 014 c s. d. to t. d . I s. d. to s. 0 25 0 0 12 Fielstone St. Austell ... 0 25 6 0 9 Bodmin 0 .24 6 0 g Linkeard 0 22 0 0 ri Launceston Cautelford 2l 0 24 0 0 10 Penzance 124 0 26 0 II • d. s. e 4. n 0 I 0 2 0 s 0 s 6 _. 0 7 6 0 0 O 0 s O 7 0 0 O INTF,LLIGENCE. 21 Quantity of Copper Or so ld 14 Quantity of tine Copp er 126 Average Produce EXTENSIVE FORGERIES• There has appeared a notice of an inquest held al ' i r t t: ' body of M r . J o h n B outall, veterinary surgeon, of I'lo }, row, Grosven or - square, who was found lying dead I° bed. The evidence then adduced went to show tha t ir ceased had di e d o f a b roken heart, occasioned by the Wl'. t'tude of pretended friends, and a verdict of " N afur Death" w as returned. In consequence, however, of c°r 1 ; munications m a d e to M r. Gel!, the Coroner, that gget,n t , man, after consu l t i ng w i th Lord Denman, gave direc y t h, that a second inquest should be held, and accordingly took place yesterday. , A post mortem examination of the body had in the rf ",, i 7i time be en made, and two medical gentlemen now r, sl ; - , as thei r op i n i on that deceased had died from the eriec f prussi c ac id . A glass had also been found in'the' t° ' containing some prussic acid, and in an adje;tning r °° f, i c phial which had held the same deadly poi , ,oe, This for some reason or other, had been kept, b a ck at th e inquest. Mr. Alexander. Bartley, of 251, Oxford-street, A uegos' that be h a d known the deceased for the last 26 Y` , I ' s who was very much altered in his temper within °l i e year. O n S atur d ay week last Mr. Shackei, the so stable-keeper, of Oxf or d, street, told him that dece had f orge d a bi l l of acceptance on him. Upon t ea t H telligen ce h e ( w i tness ) went to deceased's house, 136„ie was told by hi s son- i n-law that he had gone away, ga' r. Good by, I s h a ll see you no more. " Witness then, s,; iee i to Mr. G ou ld (d eceased ' s clerk), and from him he / that deceased was at the George and Blue Boar, 3 ' 44l f ew witness went, and f oun d d eceased in a room up stalls , a jd ing over a table, and weeping bitterly. Witness 'pers. ° him to sit d own , an d encouraged him by tell' ng 121 ,11 t would get over it, and that money would be r A ot to bit Shackel. D ecease d then confessed to } aim tha t _ A ";se forged bills to the amount of 2,0001. upor. Mr. Richat.-10 Mr. Martin, of Oxford -street, on his envn son-in-law' s' on Mr. James Clarke, and, lastly ,on himself (er,it, a ,„. e l He said that Mr. Wecdon, a h'eise dealer, of I ' l i I street, Blackfriars, had broke,n his heart, and till& bad paid him ( Weedon) in one year, the sum of 'o c le intereat, or rather disco ant on bills: Deceased t, I i have heard that Weed on i s wort h 20 ,00 b 0 1 : 1 he s, 15,000/., of it belong s , if every man iwaitte own, to John B outa ll . " Deceased also cotoPiroe that much o f hi s em b arassment arose out lA, t , actions with a pe rson named Jackson, a mo-ney-1"00,. residing at Pimlico. On the morning of the, fatal iff)e action an execution was, put into deceaseo:e )sou/.e• j lr ceased had mitten a letter to him, in w,hie:e he sta t e de' could never h o ld hi ; head up again, with these words_" I pray you 1 , „,0k after rof family „h en I am gone. Oh, God, tun mad, mad , /I' d 11 , The Jury, a f ter a moment ' s ean'sultation, retu roe,bos. followin ;h g verdict— 1 " at. ceeee.sed took paison prod labouri ng un d er temporary m'tntal aberration, Pr° by pecuoi ar y difficulties."a". which oon cle oe: The inquiry lasted four hours. _ ECREASE OF W ILD DUCKS.---It 115 3:if fey'' ral complaint along the whole Lincolnshire coast that v ' o - s s wild ducks have visited it this winter, scarcely a bird being nn; cernible on spots that were last year coverer with whole their feathered fraternity. 11' FORGED " INDULGENCES" IN PAW S be o : individual in the ecclesiastical costume was arrested the (13 / vs o yesterday, on the comp l a i nt of several of the Clergy of 1`143",.ee5, for obtaining publi c charity by means of forged indulgenc es, even a forged brief from the Pope.—Galignani of Saturtq*, e stlY In additi on to t h ose landowners who havesa" reduced the burden of the tithe rent charge upon the ottrAlP le ci r :ii ul have the gratification of mentioning the name of the i gsr t .tal° l Lansdowne, who has made a reduction of twenty.five per, C , e f the entire of his property hi the Queen's County.—.7),"°4 so I ing Post. T. COX SAVORY Goldsmith, Sci 2., 47, 9 ° , 0 1. London (S even D oors from Gracechurch-s Public, that he has a considerable variety of, SECOP' IGP ( 1 GOLD WATCHES, any of which he offers at . GUINEAS each. They have all been c'erefully exanun are warranted. Watches purchased in, exchange, B Lodi On the Ist inst., at the Rectory ' m Chesha Bois, th v: Catherine Barrington, of a d aughter. Oa . On the Ist inst., at Kidbrooke, Blackheath, Mrs. -` 1 land, of a daughter.' - ' On the 2d inst., 'Mrs. Thomas Parker, South-fltg , heath, of a daughter. • On the 3d inst., at Alexander-square , BrompPon, A -0 r 5. A Daniels, of a daughter. MA R R ZED. Richmond Surrt- On the 26th ult., Frederic Julius, to Ellen, only daughter of the late V. Smith, EK" • , . • 14°Ca tingham. 3fr. k ter On the 2d inst., at St. Gars's-in-the. Fields, , dog Roche, of Guildford street , solir:itor, to Elizabeth, only of James Barclay, E sq., of Kenton-street. ____.---- Es% of flO 1 1-, on the 22 Captain Re7,wick, On ite 23d ult. MadamedDLa R.N. nit., At Honito u E re D AD . mehelima,e , rs ' ip“ p i jo sfn the 28th tilt a . Martha ,at Nottin • g-hill-square, widow, aged 74. * of On the 28th ult., Jane,wife Richard De Lannai, Esq'' . Wandstead, aged 81. ua rc , On the 2d inst. fourth daughter °f ,at the residence of Mrs. Marx, Eaton-sq, or Robert 1-I Vory Stanhope, Commander, R.N., and sv.h-in:, 1 0 1 . 0 c o rl . of ::eratabulary in Ireland, only surviving son of the late ` - " 0 , 2 , ol t the Hon. Henry Eitzroy Stanhope, who was 40 years f i r i u sr. ' the bedchamber to their late Majesties George 111. a n Thor os r i On the 2d inst., at his house, Hendon, Middlesex, Ryder, Esq., aged 99. Thor° 3s On the Ist inst. George, second son, of the Ray; ~ I. i Ward Franklyn, olCalcot-lodge, Reading, Berks, aget.:.„,