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A: RUA - 51EN TAR Y . DIV ISION S. krroni the V otes and Proceedings alike ',basso' Cenarscaro FRIDAY, MAY 31. order or Committee read ; Motion ' made, and Question lii.° P°'ed, " That Air: Speaker do now leave the Chair .." Amtend the m ent proposed, to leave out from the word " baitTt" to °n Instruction of the Question, in order to add the words be „ nstruttio n to the Committee on the Bill, that they have rer to make provision therein for the abolition of all Becle c,:urieal Courts, and for the transfer of the jurisdiction of those That t s to Civil Tribunals," instead thereof :—Question put, cl a the words proposed to be left out stand part of the st itn:" The House divided : A A ,k i l n n ts t ii r s . rpn._n N oi l t A on i ORITY—AYES, 115. . , ' Hogg, James Weir -Beverley re a rt-Bedfordshire Hope, Charles -Linlitligowshi Baird , ‘,','? Ll mund-Surrey Hope, G. W.-Southampton • Itarri;„, .-lalkirk kc. Husset, Ambrose - Sainsbury re teregr_,M, L ord-Berkshire I ngeitie, Visconut 7 Stalfordshi litackb,r_n, a ptain-Athlone Irving, John-Antrim Co. W. S.--Wallingforcl Jervis, J.-Chester torti,,,, k H e c ti nt . LCl E . „ - es C h l a ii ra ppenham Kemble, H.-East Surreyil 131411:1t1,111:5,:-el'eriali-Ludlow Knatchbull, Sir El-East Kent Knight, H. G.-Notting,lianisi.oe t e,. Admi ral -Lou - nee ton Lascelles, Hon. W.-Wakefick; (Id .I _, 14, aist " Iltarelln n-Coleraine Borough Lemma, Sir C.-Cornwall i este 1 „' 1 W. -Essex South Lennox, Lord A.-Chichester .411,d,"•‘',4 E . - Marlborough Lincoln, Earl of-Northam; ton Ygii ! ' ..j.- 11. sh W or .- ch l am .lint shire, South ~t ,4 1411 Lopes, Sir R.-Wesibury tharter, ell Lowther, Colonel-Westmoreland ehek ea %r.- EastGloucestershire.Lyall, G.- LA - Won Cl Qlk, Zi• L° , r , cl -Rearling Cliv, Vr , " -- Stamford Lygon, Major-Gert. Hon. 11. t.- NVorcestersnire West. Cliv e ' niscr„ount_sal,p North Mackenzie, W. F.-Peeblesshire C4 t,., .132,C.„'''•„ South Sh . ropshire Mackinnon, W. A -Lynungten v , clii,„ - ," , .ir George -Ripon M.Niell, D.-Argyleshire tete ° N C. W. -East G.ouces- Manners, Lord J.-Newark c ot, Ire Masterman, J.-London C I PIP, Ii v,7•„ I-1 . LT •rone Co• Itieynell,' Captain H.-Lisburne 1, - 11 4 - cr ia ut-Cirencester • Mtldmay, St. John--Southampton u'avi- .„-,nrge-._East Sli ' 9S.X Morgan, 0.-Monmouths! , re . 1) ''i ") --. p . S- ,; - Carmart s he ' nshire Mundy, E. M.-South Derbyshir bi esi " „' - ,:".-W_se t Y 1 shi , e Neeld, Joseph-Chip;enharn 11 1 , : lt a ' e s ii, ' V . 1-. 11 .7 - Soing ..t W. Nicholl, Right Hon. Sir John Norreys, Lo - d -Oxfordshire i j o *ld, ......" ma V a i st ewsbury Northland,Vtscouut-Dungannon 3io ut:4, s ir c. i:•-....i v rrpool k b°4143) 6ir 11 " " 119 O'Brien A -N.Northamptonshire Oswald, Alex.-Ayrshire t_tott i t rd- East ..- Cor ar Tl c Pati, Robert-Berkshire . '-4teot --•W iocheste n r wa • Patten, J. Wilson-Lancashno . li trro rt, T . G. „.,,, Is Oxford Uiiiir Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir R.- tamworth I ‘, A Y ) 1-15, . 112n - r y -ves Peel,Jonathan-Hunt:l)o n 'arli;,,'„ l rJ.-Th * . i•o r d e' Pollington, Lord-Por!tefract .4 ~-S tirlin" h• G a iTan, .r . 5.... .. .gS Ire Pringle, Alexander-belkirkshire G I .tler 3 D . oridgewater , A adist o , • Reid, Sir John Rae-Dover !lepton, G. W.-St. Albau's Ili tr ent ' W. E.—Newarx-on Round, Jnhn-Maldon fi _ callit A Rushbrooke, Colonel-Su olk (1 -440 41 ° 11 ca ptain -Ipswich Russell, J.-N. Staffordshire ( ; 4 0 , ,d0ri. 11 : -- - I ldderminster ,hire ...` choleiield, J. -Birmingham ' G(Jr, 1.L.-Aberd, eenshire Shirley,-Warwickt Sibthorp, Colonel-Lincoln ti oui i ) W. 4 onst a sVe c Somerset, Lord G.-Monsaouthsh ~brkt:Ath,,, itigh - t Hon. o I o l • Cam Spry, Sir S.T.-Bodmin " trS hagi v niversity - ° Stanley, Lore-North Lancashire D ' .gt Hon. Sir J. R. G Stewart, John-Lyraington C rseril el 'ester Ct a I, r 11 7: Sutton, C. M.-Cambridge 1 1. e rn eri e , T. ;,:,- • . igtill . . Tennent, J.E.-Belfast - 1 / " ..,. i1t 0n p:-: r Lancashire Thesiger, F.-Abingdon li : .!_ l t r, j . ;? .... 01 c..- : lyse . ne ,, .w .fh o o . m . ron, Ald.-Sunderland Woad, Colonel T.-Mitl,llc . .se , c , hz.i.ateri Lord-East. uxford s? i ir Suffolk Wortley, J. A. S.- Buteshire K li'd n' n ". 8 Q ti u Wilts TELLERS. ,g 6 0n i .p ..... ... .--...01.1 I - Nsolli tt , isarnstaple 'twee' Young, John-Cavan Co. . , •Berwick-on, Baring, H. B,,_blarlborough Ilar t i a MINORITY—NOES, 70. tari Y, D.... s t '.Dr-Portsmouth underland Levcson, Lord-Lichfield ertio . D • - Portsmouth Macaulay, 'l'. B - Edinburgh elon, t''" ~,C4 . --Greenwtcrs Mangles, R. D.-Guildtbnt li';'llal, i t Z rt W.-Waterford Martin, John-Tewk . esbu y 11 0 4 „ 4 1le . 1 ,0 - Weymouth Mitchell, T. A.-Bralport 14 ,8 , J ' --• - Renfrew 1, ri b ,' ~outh Durham Paget, Frederick--BeaUmaris ;ight:lner.--Bolton Palmerston, Viscount-Tiverton p k Thert,," 4 -Durham Parker, John - Sheffield t 44, re - i l .. J.--Salford Pattison, James-London eller, ',..'''• D.- Kerr y Pechell, Captain-Brighton rtg: -.a rles--Liskeard Philip., i Psti e, T,ge- Middlesex Phiotts John Gloucester c i l. Si r N ,..‘, 111 . D.-Weymouth Plumridg e, Captain-Pe-1 ytt and Q,e, t d ,„ ' ll _,—Tower Hamlets Falmouth C - ', en D -541 la.-Hereford Ross, David Robert I Belfast :=2 1 ) "lett 'i",,,. - Stockport Rous, Captain-Westminster 4 ilti4 o - ' , n-A tlitone Russell, Lord John-London ' n ta . 44 'e I'l V 'seclu . nt an°w St anstield,Huddersfield $' , 41. 0 Bath Stewart, P. M.-Renfro msh ire_ IVhop e. i - Dundee Strut t, Edward-Derby t r gt on ', J.-Leicester Tancred,-l3anbury killep, s,,Lord-Plymouth Thornely,Thos.-Wolyerhampton P . ll l4,t'ard-.St. Andrew's Trelawny, J. S.-1 av istoti , _ 4 4 4, w• - u. _ , . H. -Lewes Tuf.iell, Henry-Devonport GiLner, q".lll—North Derby Vane, Lord H.-South Durham ." 40 li; 1 , .."- Berwiek.onTweed Villiers, C. P.-Wolverhampton ti l l, si r ' a l.-Manchester Wall, C. Baring-Guildford h sm. J. (leorge_Devonport Warbu rton, H.-Kendal hrtie, A -I:Merthyr Tydvil Ward, H. G.-Sheffield ote, t rc hibald-l'aisley Williams, William-Coventry jilt •to r FLambeth Wrightson, W. 8.-Northallerton g.glery A. !'ll• C.-Evesham Wyse, Thomas-Waterford 1 4 - 's \V' J ohn - Southwark Yorke. H. IL-York 1 4 404, 1 ; -- Gateshead TELLERS. 5.4 d, ' j * 11 .-Oxford Duncombe, T. S.--Fmsbury CaPtain.,. Carlow Hume, Joseph--Montrose, &c. the ei (IN THE COMMITTEE.) *te e i lise (Repeal of former Acts, and the jurisdiction of teth, n e 'lastical Courts, in respect of defamation, and of any A ‘'llerph ee, by words oi timersoterwe, in any building other than i i ;tile l di u °r Chapel, from to time to be abolished) fit, tile words "schism , ' heresy, blasphemy, perjury, in eh adult 01 - - of omite fornication, drunkenness, or other evil-living, 1 , ; 14 , eli o ug or laying violent hands on any other, in any t i; t °, o r r c unrehyard, and of maliciously striking any person be ant a wing any weapon, in any church or churchyard % to et o iesti oil to strike another with the same, and of brawling :' 4, rnitt Put , " That the words be there inserted :" The ee divided : ke k t °ertu n MINORITY—AYES, 40. li ar' F. •' - A- Escott, Bickham Strutt, FAlward Vard t st Evans, W. Tancred, Henry W 1 14 b .WiCi c "' ~,G . Granger , T. C. Thorne!) , . Thomas li ro ri ng ~, , eter Hastie, A. Tufoell, Henry k th yr e oi ii i r. Hawes B. 'Vivian, Captain iltiij v zie, W Joseph Hum; Marcus uon, Henry k i ,j , r. c . Joseph Watson,.n W. 11. h `rr,l,. „ Humphery, J.' Williams, W. (:tip4tle, NV Maher, N. Wrightson W. B, bai'ett, Jot •D. Phillpotts, John E. Yorke, IL H. '5 4, 1 'n , bkei Pie, e a ~.. Protheroe, E. ~iin co ibe T P,...in Richards, Richard TELLER?. ` 4 l4lj‘". D'a,•• S. Roebuck, J. A. Jervis, J. nsto 4 , 'A Russell, Lord John Grey, Sir G. . .10vrard Stanstield, W. IL Adana - - ki , and , , , MAJORITY—NOES, 62. )rd „on. T D s'ask ' Willi • Glynn e, Sir Stephen Morris, David totelville . 4 P.„ Godson, Richard Muntz, G. F. ' . ; 4 , 4 1 : !le ' rlal'i B. H. Goulburn, Henry Nichol!, J. Graham, Sir J. Palmer, R. ' h '' . el, ,j,.,Ulairal Heathcote, Sic W. Plumptre, J. P. eitk ,von 4, 4' - '• W Henley, J. W. Pollington, Viscount i ,4 tt ' II, F.d . Herbert, Hon. S. Praed, William T. -I,l yt Wotle & w ard Hinde, J. H. Price, Richard t , t ,. on , ~. ir John Hodgson, R. 7.. Pringle, Alexander tti k , rk ? Si " ,-- le It Hope, Charles Round, John (4 4 -an d ' .eorge Hope, G. .W. Rushbrooke, Colonel (; t r 7, tie ~ '. Hotham, Lord Sibthorp, Colonel h . J/ A. „nry Hussey, Thomas Smyth, Sir H. 157,.b .y, ;`",,. Kemble, Henry Somerset, Lord G. $ 1 5.n,,,,,,v0rge Knatchbull, Sir E. Sutton, Henry N. J rl ,4oy 7; P. H . Knight, Henry Gaily Thesiger, F. l' t ,w've,' . ..cri, H Liddel, H. P. Trench Sir Frederick 1.4 14 4 s A t ,',. l arnes Lopes, Sir Ralph Vivian, Ennis (3 4 t ' 4 11'tj' 'eaton Mackenzie, Wm. F. t i , ell, J . Su' T. Manners, Lerd C. TELLERS. 4 44, • M. ..e. ~,„ Masterman, John Young, John ' ". E. lines, R. M. Baring, H. B. tl l 4 tet i d w ord . Tent proposed, in line 14, after gc Chapel," to . insert Th a , and in respect of Church Rates 1" --Question yut, 4 1vid ed ` . those words be there inserted ;" The Committee ia , 'h I/ MINORITY—AYES, 66. t ar in g ' 1 ,,.99. Colonel Granger, T. C. Plumridge, Captain It & 4 ard • L --, 1 • Grey, Sir G. Protheroe, Edward 'ew, , o , G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Roebuck, J A. 4 wes :'• M. 0,,, , . Guest, J. Scott, Robert l l'i r 'tl: e ri !, , Dr. Hawes, B. Smith, Vernon 1 ,r0,,,• Lor i, j Hill, Lord M. A C. Stanstield, W R. Cll4'_ , It, D . Hobhouse, Sir J. Stuart, W. Villiers 4 4 ~ k,. Hume, Joseph Stock, Sergeant kti en d W Humphery, J. Strutt, Edward - CI, -tr . 1.,. W . Hutt, W. Talbot, C. - M. R. th 4 ,1 1 4 1, S • Labouchere, H. Tancred, li. ,W I ii ;iBti e vl f l. Langston, J. H. Th•.rnely, Thomas Col e, E 1 1 ' I ) . Layard, ;aptain Trelawny, J. S. C 'bra ' • on e ,, ok e, ~. Mangles, R. D. Vivian, J. H. Lox. ". J ' ,l ' T. Mitcalfe, Henry Walcrey, Thomas lk,,Ytr, non 4 Mitchell T. A. Warburton, Henry L t °n vi,i W• Morris, b . Ward, H. (1. kllr t4,l a• j • Morison, General Watson, W. H. ti - h)gt 4 ; G. Wi Maras, W. ke,,tlston' Vibe I% l)r u cr, ra \ 3 4 ' W. A . ' Yorke, It. H. t 4." ,: wni? l i ta kl Palmerston, Viscount • TELLERS. t i In Parker, Jhn Tuttle% H. katth —ew Phillpotts, o J. Jervis, John lig AitNl, ip MAJORITY—NOES, 107. tiro! vi„ l l%. Eliot, Lord Lyall, George t - tts 1 7r.nt Fitzro Henry Mackenzie, W. F. ,trey, J . -- •.inund Flower, Sir James Master, T. W. 1t4.i1, Willi Mastennan, John N,l` am Forbes, William Forman T. S.' - ,:;„, , i,2 Maxwell, Hon. J. P. li 4Nlii i. 4 . b . Fremantle 'Sir T. Mordaunt, Sir J. t o , Ni l , . i , iscount .I: D. Mundy, Ed. Millar t o 4 ro t. e, T. B. M GaskellJ. M. Neville Ralph 13,Lthad',..0. G. h, : ;"lts ``. Peter Gladstone, iadstonc W.E. Nicholl High Olon. t Y Q, " 4, 144 , Captain Norreys, Lord t r eßt cibtr Glynne, Sir S. R. Oswald, Alexander , ci, oil y , x , Godson, Richard Palmer,_K. " 1 1: 0 1-1 •". Gordon, Captain Palmer, George liP. ' enry Goulburn, Henry Peel, Hon. Sir R. ta p L, 4 1.'4 E. Galiam Sir James Plumptre, J. P. t'llii.anttiell..'s4l,,PVard• elreenall, reor W.Peter H. . Pollington, Viscount Pusey,. P. he ' i l L' r iil, t a t al,...ft Hanmer, y Sir John Rashleigh, Wm. 1,,, -, 4, vi,z -I S. r. Hardy, John Round, John (4 1 , 4 wori t (.'ount Heathcote, Sir W. Rushbrooke, Colonel ti a ,,, 111 011,41'. 1 r John Henley, J. Werner Shirley, E. J. l iii; ''''. IY. li. Henniker, Lord Sibthorp, Colonel t:i i ,°, V,,, R. t 'e, ii °ILIA Hinde, J. H. Somerset, Lord G. k'Z' cl k t ur 4 . I t Hodgson, Richard Stanley, Lord Hope,"Cliarles Sutton, ep t l t 'Rton , ir . az,.. Hope, - 11. W. Tennent, J. E. 4 1 "id - I' w. Ilotham Lord Thesiger, F. t ri ty, tioAlderni an Hughes: W. B. ..1 hompson, Aid. Trench, Sir F. W. kt t ' , Wfiai ltcl 9 Inglis, Sir 11. H. Jonnstone, Sir J. Vivian, John E. i l l ii t ' )3i!°,l4e • Kenable, Henry Waddington, H. S , 44 ° 1 1 I' . S T , Knatchbuil, Sir E. Wood, Colonel T. t),11,"4,tii, ' II I. Knight H. G. Wortley, J. Ilt,gias; sirendamin Law, i'harles E. 11 4 Pnotid; ‘ - ',4 Lennox,TELLERS. e i C G'''• H. Loves, Sir Ralph Young, John • Lowther, Colonel Pringle, Alexander ' - ---- Ilr ItA- e ILWAY RETURNS. • ree e i v liXtract from the Railway Magazine the sums A tile c ei r °4 t il! 2 Principal Railways of Great Britai e n d fo to r -aellve -,,v.endinPg on the day of the month prefix I ' o 4 , seo,:i:e return includes the money received for 'aa'' , Parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer- W ' B e . eel; ...-- Total. 111,, 4 a x . . s. d. Name of Railway. "Y 25 A 148 19 9i ,s*, broach d•F rfar 4 Li an • o 24 tiralingham and Derby Junction 01 ' 3 22 64 7 25 t r rlll iaghain and Gloucester -, 668 10 8 1 3 8 11 6 24 e an .ding Junction 431 9 10 , _hester and Birkenhead 1,213 18 2 ; publin and Kingstown 248 0 Oi 2'4 Dublin and Arbroath ' 208 16 4 25 •,.urham and Sunderland 26 f:dinburgh and Glasgow ' 0 1 .ast • North Eastern 4,724 25 GI ern- Counties and 1,453 19 2 `") 534 4 7 25 ci 43gaw, Kftmarnock, and Ayr 890 4 8 25 -ilasgow and Greenock 8 114 18 3 25 C 6 ra nd junction , 26 Great No r th of England 1,370 8 3 2 4 T at w estern 16,831 1 6 25 r var pool and M anc h es t er 18,193 0 11 26 L o r lden and Birmingham 995 0 4 „„ ndon and Blackwall 3,530 19 1 V radon and Brighton 603 17 6 4adon and Croydon 1,941 12 0 26 i 16°11 and Greenwich Mane adon and South Western 8,058 8 8i ester, Bolton and Bury 2, .tklanchester, Leeds, ;), ,ester and Birmingham 3,475 17 5 ~, alidland CO unties and Hull Assoc 6,151 18 0 ies 4 26 ) Xlc,elVeaStle :111111(1 Carlisle 1,562 11 8 25 -.;',eoweastle and North Shields 282 16 4 24 N orth Midland 4,521 12 9 27 p rtll trii on and Bolton and Preston 1,306 8 9 _aris and Orleans 5,710 4 2 ;°.. Earls and Rouen 5,874 0 0 . -reston and Wyre ...c.: gholieffiLtheldlid Manchester 307 0 0 577 9 7 Taff -s r Eastern 2G /li st ale 2G v- Ulster ... 533 17 4 arta() fl 930 16 2 25 •,,,• -14,1 a n d N orw i ch ..... ......... ... - - 4(4 and North Midland . . 1,664 7 6 .......'"‘'' 913 L* wlil`' cor r the r s catch lb w ife, "3,losk°" l ' 3ISODs e _ not b" game b r if. Lawil "- f v as ill . 03tarry0 .tid e u p o; i dshiP !. • us at, d.sloifie: i ts of . 1 eta they Top w ill fallen Os 'n or 61 lie i on to t ' )ur an ire, the L'u for e back r. t . ° f Cass " 1 0 ishlneUt cable niter) bro ke ' a are the n ea. yo jtude rest with b acid vivo was e' d L ses, fl u e , The m a, sOo,voer at, ° the ted f'fbecA r hac' ur itP o f see,,,rll to % j ot c e g,`,„o te Ingf co,-- reall. ° l l,Cre . bU f .g g i the ti o idi Id, itenb is„.. - - A lit fi red 011 ries Ps - 00 sand g 0 the n the of A Pe° rtiE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1844. --- THE IRISH STATE TRIALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONlCLE.—Yesterday the Lord Chancellor, after a rather prolonged consultation with Sir James Graham, com municated to the judges who had assembled, we believe, to arrange the Circuits, that it would be necessary to postpone them, as their Lordships' assistance would be required in the hearing of the writ of error, in the case of the Queen against O'Connell and others. The,argument will be heard with the least possible delay. It will be seen from our report of the proceedings in the Irish Court of Queen's Bench, that, in re fusing the application of Mr. Moore, that the sentence should not be carried into effect uutil after the writ. of error was heard, the judges intimated their regret that they had no power to comply with their application. They all expressed their sense of the very great hardship to which the traversers would be subjected, should they be found to have a good case in the writ of error, and yet have undergone a portion of the punishment. Mr. Justice Burton, in delivering his opinion, said, "He felt a considerable degree of anxiety about the case. He concurred in opinion with the Learned Chief- Justice, that the motion could not be granted ; but he thought something might be done with equal justice to all parties. It would be a source of great uneasiness to his mind if the Court sentenced parties to imprisonment—that the punishment was inflicted—and that afterwards it would be found that such sentence was illegal and improper." Although the account brought by our express stated that Mr. O'Connell was in the custody of the Sheriff, yet we can not believe that the Crown will insist upon their right to send him to gaol pending a writ of error. This would be the climax of their revengeful injustice. HERALD.—The curtain has at length dropped upon the long and tedious drama of the Irish State Trials. On Thurs day the conspirators, hunted through all their shifts and doubli ads, received the judgment of the Court : Mr. O'Connell to be imprisoned fur . twelve months, to pay a fine of 2,0001., and to give security in 10,000/. to keep the peace for seven years; the six remaining traversers to be each imprisoned for nine months, each to pay a fine of 501. and to give security in 2,0001. to keep the peace. The delivering of the judgment caused some shouting, in which a few Roman Ca tholic members of the junior bar disgracefully distinguished themselves ; but the scene has been, we are assured, prodi giously exaggerated, in order to produce an effect in this country. The majority of the reporters in Dublin are, in fact, Repealers, by whatever journals they may be em ployed; because, without a supposed bias to the party of the seditious, they could hardly have access to the Association meetings, the great scene of their labours. As part of the contrivance to cheat and alarm the Parliament with -a false notion of his power, O'Connell was penning a long pacific address to the Irish people at the very mo ment when the Romanist barristers were rehearsing the scene which the Repealer reporters were to mag nifY, in order to excite, if not the reality, the semblance at least of that disaffection from which the old in cendiary was pretending to dissuade. To pass by all these paltry frauds, however, let us congratulate our fellow-sub jects that the law has been at length honourably vindicated —that the insolent defiers of the authority of the law have been exposed in their weakness and their falsehood—and that, for the first time in her history, Ireland has seen the Royal authority asserted by the ordinary constitutional means. As to the penalties imposed upon the convicted con spirators, they are, in all the instances, light compared with the practice in similar cases, but with respect to Mr. O'Con nell ridiculously light, in respect to his crimes; nevertheless, the judgments are, in our estimate, heavy enough ; so dis proportionately heavy as to six of the parties, compared with the great offender, that one could almost wish t h o se six more lightly punished, if only to mark the difference between them and their chief. Surely, if the misled son, the enthusiast Mr. Duffy, poor Mr. Steele, or the other three, deserve each nine months of imprisonment, nine years . were too little for the veteran incendiary who deceived them, and millions beside them, with his pre tended knowledge of law, and his unceasing falsehood spoken I I and written. It is very true that many considerations justify a shorter imprisonment of Mr. O'Connell than his crimes would seem to warrant. The man is old—a year more or less, which to a young man seems little, is to an old man an important section of his life. Again, he is ruined as a public man. Could lie be let loose to-morrow without creating a suspicion that lie owed his freedom to the fears of the Go vernment, he might be let loose under proper recognisances without the least danger of mischief. In the third place, even he has reason to complain, if not of the cheat of the Whigs who petted and feted him while pursuing the course that has consigned him to a dungeon, at least of the cheats of Fortune, who has deprived him of the protection of his Whig accomplices and servants. Looking to the whole matter, we own that we should not wish a day added to his imprisonment, or a shilling to his fine—and with respect to the others, we certainly shall not grieve if the Crown find a pretext for a little relaxing their sentence. But in the hands of the Irish Attorney-General, a man as gentle in his nature as he is energetical and firm, they are perfectly safe. POST.—This sentence we believe no man, who is not pre judiced by party feelings, will consider excessive. With respect to the prisoners themselves it cannot be denied that their punishment is a fit retribution for the course they have so pertinaciously pursued. The effect of the sentence upon the public mind is, however, the most important view to be taken of it. It must convince the misguided people of Ire land that there is a power in the law stronger than that which Mr. O'Connell has arrogated to himself during a long series of years. It must show to the imitators and parasites of the agitator that the passions of the ignorant are not to be inflamed, the Constitution threatened, nor the public peace, endangered with impunity. It must give assur ance to the loyal and well-disposed that the Government of the country, though long suffering to an extent that furnished good ground for apprehension. has not forgotten that it has its duties as well as its rights. Before the Court had pronounced its sentence we abstained from saying a word that could excite . any preju dice against the prisoners. Now, however, when their fate is known, we may venture to call attention—as proof of the animus of the principal conspirator—to his conduct after the s entence was passed. This old man's reverence fur the law was exhibited in his deliberate assertion to the judges that justice had not been.done to him. Assuredly, if ever a man had all the advantages which the forms of law can give, that man is Mr. O'Connell; he was found guilty, after a trial of unusual length, by a jury remarkable for its patient attention to the evidence ; he was assisted by the highest legal talent ; every technical objection urged on his behalf was discussed without let or hindrance; and he now receives a sentence far more lenient than it was in the power of the Court to inflict. Yet he complains of injustice. If he could still mix in society here, he would find the universal opinion to be, that he has been too indulgently treated. ADVERTISER.—The drama which has been so long per forming in Dublin has at length reached its close. The end is appalling. Mr. O'Connell was sentenced on Thursday afternoon to twelve months' imprisonment, a fine of 2,0001., and to find sureties to the extent of 10,000/. to keep the peace for seven years ! The scene which took place in the Court of Queen's Bench immediately before and subsequent to the passing of the frightfully severe sentence on Mr. O'Connell has never, we believe, had its parallel in any court of law. In anticipation of the sentence which was in reserve for Mr. O'Connell, the whole of the counsel in a crowded Court rose and received him with a loud burst of applause the moment he, presented himself. So unexpected and remarkable a demonstration of the feelings of the bar, is said to have made, as it could not fail to make, a deep impression on Mr. O'Con nell. When sentence was pronounced, he leaned over the bar, and said, in a most significant and impressive tone :—" I think it right to 'remind the Court, that in consequence of some of the remarks which have been made, I and all the other traversers have made solemn affidavits, in which we deny that we entered into any vile conspiracy ; and with great deference to the Court, I am under the painful conviction that justice has not been done to us." All present seemed to respond to the truth of the observation, that justice had not been done to Mr. O'Connell. That feeling is not limited to the Courts of Dublin; it is not confined to Ireland. It pervades the entire 'country from one extremity to the other. Twelve months' imprisonment looks, we hesitate not to say, very like the result of vindictiveness somewhere. A year's incarcera tion to a man of Mr. O'Connell's full habit of body, and at his advanced age, is equal to three times the term in the case of persons of hardy constitution, who have not passed the prime of life. But apart from the personal view of the question as affecting Mr. O'Connell, the country will be astounded at the amount of sureties required for his after wards keeping the peace, and at the period for which he is to be bound over to keep the peace. lAre have no right, and certainly we have no disposition, to arraign the purity with which justice is administered in the Courts of Dublin, or anywhere else; but it were useless to disguise the fact, that the universal impression in London is—and that impres sion will be universal throughout the kingdom—that a political purpose is sought to be served by the pecuniary part of the sentence. The enormous sum of 10,0004 as a secu rity that Mr. O'Connell will keep the peace ! And for the period of seven years, too ! IVe question if any civilised country, in modern times, could furnish an instance of an equally severe sentence being passed on a political offender. People will say—whether rightly or not is not for us to de cide—that the object sought to be accomplished by exacting these heavy sureties, and binding him over to keep the peace for so protracted a period, is not only to crush the repeal agi tation, but to shut Mr. O'Connell's mouth for ever. But we are afraid to trust ourselves in the expression of all that we feel on this affair. The whole matter must be fully discussed in Parliament, where a latitude of expression is allowed which we journalists dare not employ. We shall be greatly in error if Sir R. Peel do not, ere long, discover that this ter mination of the State prosecutions is the most untoward affair that has yet happened to his Ministry. It will not surprise us much should the event prove, that in instituting these prosecutions, he constructed a wall against which to dash his Government in pieces. In the meantime, if the public peace in Ireland be preserved, when the appalling sen tence becomes generally known in that country, the Premier will have Mr. O'Connell, not himself, to thank for it. . TIMES—At last sentence is pronounced on Mr. O'Connell and his friends, and in substance it is not probably very much beside what the world expected. If there is any fault to be found with the judgment, it is with the expediency of a fine. It is a punishment, not of the arch-criminal, but of I LAW INTELLIGENCE. ARCHES' COURT, May 31. THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY TITCIIMARSII AGAINST CHAP3IAN. Sir H. JENNER Fusr gave sentence in this case, which was argued in Hilary term last. It was a proceeding under the Church Discipline Act, in which the office of the judge was promoted against the Rev. W. Herbert Chapman, rector of Basingbourn, in the county of Cambridge and diocese of Ely, for refusing to read the burial service over the corpse of the infant daughter of two parishioners, named Rundall, who were of the class of Protestant Dissenters called Independents, after due notice given to him for that purpose. The articles charging the offence had been admitted, and a defensive alle gation was offered in reply thereto, the substance of which was, that the baptism which the child had received at the hands of a minister of the Independents, being in fact here tical and schismatic, was invalid and null ; consequently, that the child was unbaptised, and as such was not entitled to interment with the services of the Church, under the rubric of the Church of England. The admission of this allegation was opposed, and the decision of the Court as to its admissi bility has stood over (owing to the indisposition of the judge) till this day. The Learned Judge observed, that the validity of lay baptism had been determined in this Court and also by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Mastin V. Escott ; but a distinction was taken between that case and the present. In the former case nothing had tuned on the question of heresy and schism, but only on the want of holy orders in the person administering the rite : whereas, in this case that question was distinctly raised, it being averred that the baptism was heretical, the person who administered the rite being an heretical person. But, although there had been no absolute decision upon the point tin v. Escott," the point not having been raised in that case, and Courts not going beyond the questions before them, yet a great part of the argument in that case turned upon the question whether heretical or schismatical baptism was valid, or not; and he had uo doubt that the same principle applied to both cases, and that whether the baptism had been per formed by an heretical person or by a layman, though irregu lar, was valid, and did not require that the rite should be re peated. Every one of the authorities stated that such bap tism was not to be repeated; it was therefore valid, and, if so, the child could not be said to be unbaptised. The only doubt he had was, whether he should not admit the allegation in order to have the question more formally argued, and that the party might carry the case by ap peal to a superior court. But there was a mode by which he could effect this object; although he should reject the allegation, he would, if required, give the party leave to appeal. The Learned Judge then went more minutely into the grounds of his decision, but (owing to his late indisposition) in so low and indistinct a tone, that it was with great difficulty we could hear many of his sentences, The main principle was, that if, as had been admitted, bap tism by a layman was valid in itself, he could not understand wherein consisted the difference as respected the validity of the rite between baptism by a layman and by a heretic or schismatic. Both were irregular. but both were valid, and, in the words of the rubric, the person was " lawfully and sufficiently baptised." It had been contended that there was a deficiency in the rite, and that deficiency might have been afterwards supplied, had the party lived and appeared before the bishop for confirmation; but the want of confirmation did not disqualify this infant, any more than one baptised by a person in holy orders, from having the burial service read over it. Some reliance had been placed upon the argument that the excommunication ipso facto worked at once, with out sentence, a disqualification ; but the Learned Judge showed, from authorities and upon principle, that such ex communication could not attach till there had been a decla ratory sentence ; and even then all civil disqualification and incapacity v hatsoever had been taken away by statute. Upon the whole, he was of opinion to reject the allegation, but he should allow the case to stand until next court-day, for the party to apply, if he thought fit, for leave to appeal. TUE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY BURDER AGAINST lIODGSON. Sir H. JENNER FUST likewise gave judgment in this case, which was a question as to the admission of the articles in a case of office promoted by the secretary of the Bishop of Salisbury against the Rev. Charles Henry Hodgson, chaplain of the county gaol of Wilts, charged with unseemly fami liarities with a convict under sentence of transportation. He held other ecclesiastical preferment, and the effect of this proceeding was his suspension and deprivation. The objec tion to the admission of the articles was, that this Court had not jurisdiction to inquire into the alleged offence, which was cognizable at common law, nor to deprive before conviction. The Learned Judge, however, held that the objection was not founded ; that this Court was entitled to entertain such a proceeding against a clerk for the purpose of suspension and deprivation, and it did not appear from the articles that the defendant was accused of any crime cognizable by the crimi nal law. The present proceeding was of a civil nature, not to punish the party (though deprivation might entail a punish. ment), but to remove a scandal, for it would be a lamentable thing if those who were under the care of this Rev. Gentle man were compelled 4o receive Ake sacrament or spiritual consolation at his hatids whilst theseleports were in circula tion. He should admit:; the articles, except one, which pleaded the inquiry xis OR by ,the justices. - • MIDDLESE GENERAL SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant and a Bench of Magistrates.) THE WEST-END COitING-lIOUSES.—On Friday John Har low appealed againsVa.4nviction of J. H. Maltby, Esq , and William Cauty and Znseph Evert, agiqnst the conviction of John Hardwick, Esq., for keeping cothmon gaming-houses in the parish of St. James, Westminster. Mr. Bodkin, with Mr. Chambers, appeared for the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Wilkins for the defendants, whose houses, it will be remembered, were entered by the police a short time since, and a number of persons fined at the Marlborough-street Police-court, in consequence of gaming implements having been found therein. Mr. BODKIN observed, upon the cases being called on, that after the decision in the Court of Queen's Bench, that this Court had no power to determine appeals except at Quarter sessions, the decision of the Bench would go for nought, for want of jurisdiction. Mr. CLARKSON intimated that he was quite prepared to proceed, and should readily meet the Crown on the merits of the cases, if his Learned Friend thought fit to let the judg ment prevail for the present session ; it was to him a matter of perfect indifference, but as the defendants, with their wit nesses, had been brought there through an oversight on the rt of the Clerk to the convicting Magistrate s, he (Mr. C pa larkson) thought the defendants ought to be paid their costs. The Learned CirAmmax made no order as to costs, and, after some discussion, the cases were ordered to stand over until the 12th of July. , his dupes. It cannot be for a moment supposed that Mr. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. O'Connell *ill pay . the 2,0001. Whether by a special I managed the affairs of the Company. - I and the Directors for the able manner in which they had subscription or by an increased " rent," it will, of course be A meeting of the Proprietors of the above Company was held . unanimously. . . Mr..EDMONDS seconded the motion, which was carried , on Thursday at the London-bridge terminus, for transacting The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and the meeting broke up. levied by the priesthood on the peasantry. Plectuntur Achivi-the repeaters will pay for it with an interest of cent- 1 the general business of the Company, and for the election of . per cent. We prefer a penalty which is " not transferrable." ' two Directors, who retired by rotation. \Vhatever is to be borne, let the person of the delinquent bear Mr. BAXENDALE was in the chair. it; and if any allege the somewhat ignoble expediency of at The advertisement by which the meeting had been con tacking the Association through its purse, we answer that vened having been read, those think more meanly than we do of the ent h u siasm Mr. E. Cardwell, M.P., and Gen. Hod g son, the two retiring of the Irish peasantry who believe that a delusion, ill- Directors, were unanimously re-elected. grounded and unchristian, but too really national, A very full statement of accounts was then laid before can be drawn out of them with their shillings and pence, or the Proprietors. It appeared from the " statement of - re- Viet they can be starved into anything but a still more un- ceipts and expenditure to the Ist of April, 1844," that mitigable animosity. So much for the sentence itself, which on the capital account the receipts to the Ist of October, is an important reality. Some of its circumstances, how- 1843, were 3,274,646/. 4s. ; and for the half-year eluting Ist ever, are rather absurd. High among these rank Mr. O'Con- April, 126,8221. Bs. 9d. ; making a total of 3,401,4681.135. 3d. nell's proclamation and Mr. Justice Burton's tears. Mr. The expenditure to the Ist of October, 1843, was O'Connell's game is clear enough, and has been so fur some 2,615,282/. 14s. 11d. ; and for the half-year ending the Ist time. Clever manoeuvre,rs are apt to be fond of the profit- of April, 354,8531. 19s. 101 ; together 2,970,136/. 14s. 9d. ; able position of mediator-they like to have it established that the funded investment to pay the Brighton Railway that none but themselves can moderate their party-to per- Company was 326,1371. 2s. 3d. ; making a total of suede the world that they alone stand between it and con- 3,296,273/ 17s. ; leaving a balance of 105,194/. 16s. 3d. fusion-that they alone are responsible for no consequences- From the "statement of revenue-account for. ;the half that through their agency all concessions must he negotiated year ending 31st March, 1844," the expenditure was shown -and that to their management (though chargeable with to be 52,745/. 15s. 7d., and the receipts 79,576/. 3s. ; giving none of the punishable excesses of their party) is to be re- a balance of 26,8301. 7s. sd. on the half-year. The " state ferred the credit of any season or symptom of forbearance. Of went of receipts and expenditure, from .lit October, 1843, this convenient position Mr. O'Connell, with an effron- to 31st March, 1844," on account of Folkestone harbour, tery only surpaesed by the prince of mediators, our old showed the receipts to be 3,622/. 3s. Bd., and the 'expendi enemy, Akbar Khan, has shown himself very ambitious, Lure 1,3811.35. Bd., giving a balance thereforeof 2,2411. 2s. Id. ever since the defiance which he hurled at the English Go- The following is the "profit and loss account for the half vernment has been met by a military occupation of his year ending 31st March, 1844 :"-Amount paid. for interest country, a suppression of his seditious meetings, and api oe on loans to sth January, 18,6361. Os. 7d. ; dues chargeable Y on tonnage of steam- vessels and passengers to and from secution of himself and his co - ringleaders. But his an xiet rather outruns his judgment. He is in too great a hurry to Boulogne, 1,7211. Os. 3d. ; balance, 19,223/. 10s., snaking a be magnified. Mr. O'Connell is but a private gentleman, total of 39,5804 11s. Bd. On the creditor side-Balance Member of a constitutional Parliament, and enjoying remark- from last half-year, 12,750/. 4s. 3d. ; ditto on traffic to 31 st able popularity with his countrymen , but not yet a Czar of M arch, 26,830/. 7s. sd. • together, 39,5801. 1 ls. Bd. By Russia ; and, under such circumstances, number one m a y be bala nc e brou g ht down, 19,223/. 10s. 10d. ;. less interest on too broadly obtruded on the world-nay, even on our own most loans due, but not paid, 18,000/., giving a remainder of deVoted adherents. Now, we are unfeignedly glad that it 1,223/. 10s. 10d. still suits Mr. O'COnnell's purpose to be pacific. We hail, The CHAIRMAN said, he felt it his duty to make a few ob as we are bound .to do, every .symptom of tranquil- servations to the Proprietors. Having obtained a Bill, in lity, however transitory. But any increased confi- which a clause had been introduced to make a more equal deuce or gratitude towards that gentleman we cannot pro- division of the year, so that they might not have one por fess; for we cannot feel it. And, therefore, when we read Lion of it with a large income and another portion with a much that "the venerable Judge (Burton) was unable to proceed smaller income, the Directors had made an alteration in their for a few. moments, evidently overcome by his emotions, accounts, closing the half-years on the 31st of January and which affected him even to tears," we must own the most the 31st of July. The present half-year, therefore, closing as absolute want of sympathy with his transport. It is wholly it did on the 31st of March, left the account in a much less out of place-totally uncalled for by the severity of punish- satisfactory state than it would have been had it taken in ment, the circumstances of the crime , o r the character of the an y portion of the travellin g season of the y ear. He begged pers on punished. There i sa mean insuch matters, Judges thoughnade o f neitherless melting Judge to say that the intention of the Directors was to call the stuff. Proprietors together again immediately after closing 'their Burton nor Chief Justice Pennefather have succeeded in hit- accounts on the 31st of July; and they might therefore cal ting it. We will frankly avow , t hat. if that mean is to be culete upon being convened together in the early part of transgressed, we prefer the h ones t i n di scre ti on o f the Chief September. The Directors considered they would be able by Justice to the perhaps not less honest timidity of his colleague. that time, whatever the prospects of the Company might ap- It is scarcely charged that either have done more or less pear to the Proprietors, to give a dividend-(Cheers) -and than substantial justice to the culpr it ; and that bein g the he could only sa y that, however unsatisfactory the accounts case, we prefer the zealous man who risks his own c haracter, might appear to the meeting, they *ere to him and his bro .- to the weak or apprehensive judge who saves it whole by t e er • Directors extremely satisfactory. The Directors' had coquetting with the criminal. come before the Proprietors, giving to them a most honest result of the whole of the Company's transactions.-(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He believed there was no one thing in any account left in arreer.-(Hear.) In other railway com panies, he believed, a large portion of interest on borrowed capital had very generally been charged on the capital ac count.-(Hear, hear.) In no one instance had the Directors of the South e Eastem Company charged any portion of in terest except to their traffic account-(Hear ' hear)-and the Shareholders would see that, to the 31 st of March last, the Directors had debited the traffic account with 18,000/., one quarter's interest due on bonds. He thought this would show them that the Directors were clearly not desirous of making the best of their accounts; but that they were anxious to give as fair a statement as possible.-(Hear, hear.) The future prospects of their concern he had always consi dered to be extremely good. He had drawn out a compare tive statement of the passenger traffic in April and May of last year; and also for those months in the present year, in order to show the Shareholders the progress they weremaking on the line. The passenger traffic was, for- THE IMPRISONMENT OF MR. • O'CONNELL. DUBLIN, THURSpAY.—Shoilly after the sentence of the Court was pronounced this evening, Mr. O'Connell. and the other traversers retired to the chamber of Judge Burton, where it was understood the formal :committals were made ea. - A delay of upwards of an hour took place, during which time the crowd outside considerably increased, but alt was perfectly peaceable, except now and again, when a faint groan was given for the Chief -Justice, for the Attorney- General, and one or two other gentlemen. A strong force of horse and foot police were in attendance to preserve free in gress and egress to and from the Courts. There were a good many women among the crowd crying bitterly ; and cer tainly the great majority of all the spectators appeared much dejected. , At five o'clock three carriage's were driven into the yard at the rear of the Courts, and. the gate's were immediately closed to preVent the crowd from following them. In about twenty minutes afterwards a body of about twenty-five horse police entered, and took their places beside these vehicles. Mr. O'Connell, attended by the Rev. Mr. Miley, of Marl borough-street chapel, stepped into the first coach, Mr. John O'Connell, and the nigh Sheriff (Mr. Ball) also occupied - it. The second coach received four of the state prisoners, Messrs. Ray, Barrett, Duffy, and Dr. Gray ; and in the third sat Mr. Steele, with his attorney (Mr. horde) and his friend Mr. Richard O'Gorman. The precession then moved off at a quick pace towards the South Circular-road Penitentiary, the prison selected by Mr. O'Connell himself some days ago. Mr. O'Connell had then secured some of the apartments of the Governor of that prison•for the period of his confinement. In a short time afterwards the quay, and the neighbour hood of the courts, presented the ordinary aspect—no crowds or excitement of any kind appearing there, or in any other part of the city. On arriving at the prison Mr. O'Connell and his friends were received by a large party, among whom were Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P., Sir Coleman O'Leglilin, Mr. Christopher Fitzsimon, and Mr. Cornelius Lyne, barrister. • The prison to which the repeal leaders have been consigned is very spacious and salubrious. There are two extensive gardens—one of which contains about three acres, well cul tivated and neatly laid out, to which they will have free ac cess from an early hour in the morning to an advanced period in the evening. • Mr. Vurdop, the governor of the prison, is said to be an ex cellent man. . 83111 C hours, as the tide had flowed over it and receded con- I J. Pagden, London-road, Southwark, June 6, at ha l f - p ast . siderably. An inquest was held on Saturday before Mr. one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. Bone, and a verdict of " Ifoupd dead," returned.— IVest of F. G ;oderham, nurseryman, Vassal-read, North Brixton,. England Cinzservutive. June 6, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, of f icial assignee. S. Baxter, fisherman, Barking, Essex, June 6, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. E. Baker, publican, Watling-street, June 6, at half-past twe,, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. T. H. Atkey, grocer, Brighton, June 6, at two, at the Court. of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. P. Unsworth, butcher, Liverpool, June 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. W. Dennis, shopkeeper, Nottingham, June 6, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, officia assignee. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 30, 1844. MEMEERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR LIAMENT. BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM.—The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, Bart. CITY OF CHESTER.—The Right Hon. Arthur Lennox, com monly called Lord Arthur Lennox. WAR-OFFICE, Mar 31. 6th Dragoon!—Lieut. H. Stone, from 37th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Fleecing, who exchanges, May 31. 9th Light Dragoons—Cornet A. Hawtrey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Colville, promoted in the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment; C. F. Clifton, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Hawtrey, May 31. 15th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. B. L. Sleigh to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Norton, who retires ; W. V. Greet ham, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sleigh, May 31. Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain and Paymaster J. Espinasse, from 29th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Sharp, deceased, May 31. 2d Foat—F. J. F. Payne, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hunter, promoted or. the Staff, May 31. 3d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon A. Smith, from the 17th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Macqueen, deceased, May 31. lith Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. S. Willes, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Smith, promoted id the 3d Foot, May 31. 27th Foot—J. R. 11. Becher, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Hamilton, who retires, May 31. 29th Foot—Lieut. J. H. Clay, from 59th Foot, to be Pay master, vice Espinasse, appointed to the Ist Foot, May 31. 37th Foot—Lieut. .1. E. Ficeming, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Stone, who exchanges, May 31. 46th Foot—Ensign J. E. Spilling to be Lieutenant, without pnrchase, vice Moffatt, deceased, April 3; Ensign H. F. Sand with to be be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Spilling, whose promotion, on 26th April, 1844, has been cancelled, April 26 ; J. 11. Chambers, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Sandwith, May 31. 47th Foot—R. C. Gordon, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Peacock, who retires, May 31. 49th Foot—Lieutenant H. S. M. D. Fulton, from 62d Foot, to ba Lieutenant, vice Bartley, who exchanges, May 31. 52d Foot—H. W. Rcade, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Robinson, aavointed to the Staff, May 31. 62d Foot—Lieutenant W. T. Bartley, from 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Fulton, who exchanges, May 31. 70th Foot—Captain J. Brown to be Major, by purchase, vice Taylor, who retires ; Lieutenant W. R. B:ereton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brown ; Ensign G. A. Schreiber to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brereton ; G. Ryan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Schreiber, illay 31. 73d Foot—Lieut. W. B. Faunce to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sandeman, who retires ; Ensign C. Hoghton to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Faunce ; W. Nash, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hoghton, May 31. Rifle Brigade—Captain R. Walpole to be Major, by pur chase, vice Saumarez, promoted; Lieutenant H. 0. Bowles to be Captain, by purchase, vice Walpole ; Second Lieutenant J. F. Beckwith to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bowles; A. Lose they, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Beckwith, May 31. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant C. J. Colville, from the Oar Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Edwards, May 31. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Colonel the Hon. C. Gore, from Major half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase. Major the Hon. J. St. Vincent Saumaurez, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase, vice General A. J. Goldie , who retires. Brevet Colonel W. amp bell, from Captain half-pay 23d Foot, to be Major, without purchase, May 31. BILEVET.—Major A. M. Tulloch, half-pay Unattached, Mi litary Superintendent of Out-Pensioners, to be Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, May 31. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant- Surgeon W. Robinson, M.D., from 52d Foot, to be Assistant -Surgeon to the Forces, vice Willis, appointed to 17th Foot, May 31. 111earoxarennal.—The Christian names of Ensign Coles, o Ist Foot, are Richard George, and not Thomas George, a previously stated. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 28. Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant C. L. Fitz gerald to be Second Captain, vice Robertson, deceased ; Second Lieutenant H. A. Vernon to be First Lieutenant, vice Fitz gerald, May 15. MEMORANDUM. —The dates of promotion of the under mentioned officers have been altered as follow :—Second Cap tain P. Maclean, April 14 ; Second Captain A. Benn, April 15 ; Second Captain R. M. Mundy, April 28 ; First Lieu tenant Honourable W. C. Yelverton, April 14; First Lieu tenant S. Robinson, April 15 ; First Lieutenant M. S. Biddulph, April 28. WHITEHALL, MAY 27. The Lord_ Chancellor has appointed William Bickley, of Sheffield, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extra ordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM KEMP, tailor, Waltham, Lincolnshire. BAN KRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOSEPH RIDGWA BAY, fringe manu TS facturer, Chester. NKRUP. BENJAMIN LAND, victualler, Hertford, to surrender June 7, at half-past eleven, and July 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Roche, Plowman, and Roche, Upper Wellington street, Covent-garden. WILLIAM DET HICK, lime merchant, Temple-street, Whitefriars, Juno 14, at one, and July 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street; Humphrey, Keightly, and Co., Chancery-lane. HENRY RICHARD HARRADEN, priutseller, Cam bridge, June 11 and July 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Tarrant, Walbrook ; Lawrence, Cambridge. QUI HOG A BOLIVAR VITTORIA JOHN AM CIHNI, merchant, St. 13enet's-place, Gracechurch-street, June 7, and July 2, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard Moor gate-street; Cloves and Wedlake, King's-bench-walk. JOHN WHITLY HARD ALL, insurance broker. New Shoreham, Sussex, June 11, and July 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street; Rolfe and Edmunds, South-square, Gray's Inn • Edmunds, Worthing, Sussex. E'MANUEL TYNDALE, wine merchant, Ross, Hereford shire, June 7, at twelve, and July 5, at eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Washbourue, Gloucester ; Hall and Minett, Ross ; Stubbs and Rollings, Birmingham. JOHN MITCHELL, coal merchant, Nottingham, June 10, and July 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cann, Nottingham ; Smith, Birmingham. THOMAS NEWTON, cattle-dealer, Holbeach, Lincoln shire, June 11, at ene, and July 5, at twelve, at the Birming ham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Staniland, Boston ; Barker and Sons, Birmingham. ROBERT BAXTER, merchant, Sheffield, June 13, and July 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds; Fiddey, Temple, London ; Wilson, Younge, and Pierson, Sheffield. FREDERICK LANE HOMER, merchant, Manchester, ;tune 14, and July 4, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Blackburne, Leeds ; Edward and Robert William Bennett, Manchester. THOMAS BEECH, grocer, Newcastle-under-Lyme, June 10, and July 11 , at eleven , at the Birm in g ham District ourt. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Stanier, Newcastle under-Lyme • Smith, Birmingham. WILLIAM LYNN, hotel keeper, Liverpool, June 12, at twelve, and July 2, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Littledale and Bardswell, Liverpool; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London. JOSEPH OWEN and SARAH OWEN merchants, Shef field, June 15, and July 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Biggs, Southampton buildings, London; Haywood and Bramley, Sheffield; Bran son, Sheffield. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. E. M. Danels, schoolmistress, Turnhara-green. C. Perkin, victualler, Bollington, Cheshire. J. E. Adams, schoolmaster, workhouse, Marylebone. G. Parker, coal dealer, Norwich. E. Phillipps, Albany-street, Regent's Park. H. Jennings, Princes-road, Lambeth. W. Jones, saddler, Litchborough, Northamptonshire. J. Reed, shoemake r, Cheam, Surrey. J. W. N e wton, farmer, Moulton, Lincolnshire. G. E. Green, Whalley, Lancashire. D. Roberts, stationer, Manchester. T. Singleton, druggist, Sheffield. J. Len bottom, woolcomber, Wainstell, Yorkshire. E. Mratianci, assistant to a publican, Liverpool. J. Johnson, bricklayer, Huddersfield. J. Mathews, tallow chandler, Hammersmith. J. Seeger, undertaker, Wood-street, Lambeth-walk. P. Beer, tobacconist, Plymouth. H. Silley, Shaftesbury-street, New North-road. 11. J. Murton, lieutenant-colonel 11. M., Brompton. 1 J. Robinson, boot maker, Charlotte-street, Portland-place, 1 C. Morgan, assistant grocer, Brompton. J. Jenkins, painter, Praed-street, Paddington. W. H. Jones, cordwainer, Kidderminster. W. B. Plummer, slopseller, St. Alban's. H. Thomas, victualler, Hertford. 'l'. Taylor, sen., brickmaker, Aston, Warwickshire. E. Maltby, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire. G. A. Penton, commission agent, Salamanca-cottages, Chelsea G. S. Mann, eating-housekeeper, Bucklersbury. H. Dale, baker, Worthing , Sus sex. 1 W. W. Bradly, clerk, St. James-cottage, Old Kent-road. E. Edwards, builder, Gravesend. J. Johnson, tobacconist, Coburg-place, Old Kent-road. J. Riches, printer, Norwich. T. H. Johnson, traveller, Shepperton-street, Islington. W. Blake, carpenter, Elizabeth-place, Upper Holloway. J. Townsend, Jun., undertaker's assistant, Charlton. A. Norfolk, porter, Red-hill, Surrey. J. Huntingdon, builder, Liverpool. J. I. Mitchell, tea dealer, Gloucester. G. Habbij am, jun., Cumberland-street East, Regent's-park. J. Price, jun., grocer, Cotton-street, Poplar. L. R. Mackintosh, Cleeve, Gloucestershire. W. S. Preston, broker, Rupert street, Westminster. W. Francis, farm steward, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. T. Carter, shopkeeper, Walcot, Somersetshire. E. Garnham, butcher, London-road. SECO ND NOTICES. - officialr oa d , .l tr a n s e . ' 6 5 i , g ß a n t e . e t P r o o n , dal workingt the Court o f B i 3 e a n i k i r . P u t ; t e c e y t '• E n d e g l e c w he ar r, e R. H. Thurston, Norwich, June 6, ateleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. A. C. Bulley, landing waster, Barnard-street, Russell square, June 6, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, o fficial assignee. T. Nixon, plumber, Kettering, Northamptonshire, June 6, at A t w . o Smith,at h e tailor,Court B o f utlg Bankruptcy. a y , Suffolk, JuneAlsager, june 66: 0 a ffi att c official eo: assignee. aatttthhe Court of Bankruptcy. Vhitmore, official assignee. T. Thompson, chemist, Haisvich,- t a . ss M ig e n o ce rg . e's-buildings e , Co N u v r, ov f in ta . n w kr a u re p h te o y u . sco :.A ie lsa , g 4 4r o ,, st offi an c t i i at .41,alfpat pe e , ;Lithe Court of Bank- Hoxton-square, June jei - rupt l c . y p . hi A ili l p s s a , ge T r e , m ot e4v ti t. % t ee .. - . , • . Temple-road, June 6, at half-past one, at the:Court ofßankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. jßony than, furniture breker, - Salisbury-street; Portman market, • , . . June 6, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 1 Alsager, official assignee. _ G. Taylor, foreman, Meredith-strettiCleakenwell, June 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, ', :Alsager, official assignee. E. Dolley, manufacturing perfumer, Meard's-court,Soho. June 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee. B. J. Deane, lucifer manufacturer, Sidney-street, Commer cial-road, June 6, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee. J. Brown, cabriolet proprietor, Duke's-mews, Lisson-grove, June 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. G. Smith, slate quarry agent, Llanbeblig, Carnarvonshire, June 5, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee. J. Furse, jun., up h o l s terer, Brighton, June 4, at two, at the Court of J3uukruptoy. Abager, official assiguee. W. Pennington, draper, Bedlington, Durham, June 7, at . twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee. J. Dyer, innkeeper, Kington St. Michael, Wiltshire, June 6, at half-past eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee. T. S. Robinson, publican, Great Neston, Cheshire, June 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. E. P. Powell, tailor, Southampton, June 21, at half-past eleven—W. Gorton, merchant, St. Peter's. chambers, Cornhill, June 21, at two—E. H. Foster, tanner, Hathern, Leicester shire, June 21, at eleven. In the Country. E. Hilton and N. Walsh, paper makers, Over Darwen, Lan cashire, June 15, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court —H. Hilton, bleacher, Over Darwen, Lancashire, June 15, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court—G. C. Cawood, to bacconist, Sunderland, June 21, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—C. Humberston and S. Frodsham, commission merchants, Liverpool, June 10, at one, at the Liverpool District Court—W. F. Geach, timber mer chant, June 24, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. J. C. Bell, surgeon, Norwich, June 21—S. Saunders, lodg ing-housekeeper, Goklen-square, St. James's, June 21—M. Lopez, wine -merchant, Crunched-friars, June 21—J. Powell, jun., scrivener, Quadrant, June 25—R. Southall, jun., mer chant, Birmingham, June 21—J. Aldred, wholesale stationer, Nottingham, June 21—T. Greening, chemist, Worcester, June 21—W. Evans, m Iler, Llangelynin, 'Merionethshire, June 21 —G. Thomson, iron -manufacturer, Stoke-upon-Trent, June 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. A. Hopeand J. P. Robinson, carriers, Canter bury—C. B. Curtis, T. Curtis, and W. G. Harvey, gunpow der manufacturers, Lombard-street (so far as regards W. G. Harvey)—J. Aspinall and W. Lane, iron founders, Smeth wick, Staffordshire—J. Bagshaw, W. C. Braddon, and T. C. Cadogan, merchants, Calcutta—J. S. Stuart and J. Pownall, feut dealers, Manchester—A. Brown and W. Tuort, straw bonnet makers, Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square—W. Winstanley and.J. Blinkhorn, painters, Kirkdale, Lancashire —W. Grinling, sen., and W. Grinling, jun., grocers, Laxfield, Suffolk—H. G. Gibson and R. Wilson, grocers, Newcastle upon-Tyne—B. Palmer, S. Bamford, sen., and B. Adams, use iron manufacturers, Birmingham—T. Morris and W. A. Bar row, solicitors, Wigan—T. Horner and J. Blakey, corn mer chants, Darlington—R. Driver, J. Metford, and R. Jennings, ironmongers, Southampton (so far as regards R. Driver) —M. Whiting, sen., J. Dixon, jun., H. Whiting, and M. Whiting, jun., hatters' furriers, Southwark-bridge-road (so far as regards M. Whiting, sen.)—A. Levy, H. Moses, L. Levy, and E. Moses, slopsellers, Aldgate (so far as regards A. Levy)—S. Hulse and G. Robinson, publicans, Hurdsfield, Cheshire—S. Collings, B. Freeland, S. Ker, and J. Lang, merchants, Rio de Janeiro (so far as regards B. Freeland)—F. Prout, T. Prout, and A. Prout, grocers, Tavistock—J. G. Udall and T. Udall, lace-dealers, Church-street, Camberwell—J. Aldam, H. Aldam, J. Aldam, and G. Aldam, butchers, Elmton, Derby shire (so far as regards Jas. Aldam)—J. Levyand T. Fletcher, jun., fruit merchants, Liverpool—R. Robinson, jun., and T. Robinson, lime burners, Sutton, Lancashire—R. Dirom, T. R. Richmond, F. M. Davidson, W. F. Hunter, and W. F. Gray, com mission agents, China—N. Johnson, H. Johnson, and H. John. son—A. Repingon and J. More, Cheapside—R. Fleming and J. T. Wilkins, drapers, Manchester—C. A. Wadams and 1). L. F. Kirby, schoolmistresses, Datchet, Berkshire—S. Hamer, R. Sutcliffe, and J. Hauler, wholesale smallware dealers, Rochdale. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending May 28, 1844, is 375. 3d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, MAY 20.—We learn that the misunderstandings that have lately taken place between Hanover and Prussia are partly cleared up, and that the King of Hanover will shortly pay a visit to our capital. STOCKHOLM, MAY 21.—The evening before yesterday the Sydenham English steamer arrived here with Mr. Gordon, who is appointed Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Sweden and Norway, during the absence of Sir T. Cartwright, who is shortly to return to England with the same steamer, which however goes first to St. Petersburgh, to fetch Lord Stuart de Rothesay. HANOVER, MAY 23.—We hear that the King intends to ray a visit to Vienna, the Crown Prince will probably go to Norderney, and the Crown Princess, it is said, to Wiesbaden. SCHWERIN, MAY 23.—1 t is reported that a: treaty of navi gation between Mecklenburg and Great Britain was con cluded at the beginning of this month, between our Ministry on the one part and Colonel Hodges, British Consul-General at Hamburgh, on the other. The substance is said to be very nearly the same as that between Great Britain and Ol denburg, so that the ports on the Elbe will probably be re cognised by Great Britain as ports of Mecklenburg. The treaty is to continue in force till the let of January, 1848, and then till the Ist of January, 1851, if neither party gives notice six months before of its intention to withdraw. The ratification is expected very shortly. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Briussus, APRIL 28. Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 101 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. 99 Three per Cent ~.„....- - ----Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto .. ........ .... 18 --- (1340) Loan of City, Four per Cent. IO 2 IA ---...-- WM, is 1( 8% 4,3 IN% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. 64 _ Issue of 1811 - ........, ........, •- -Brussels Papers, MAY 19. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, MAY 28. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. ....... • 113% r-4 Bank Shares 1675 Anglo-Russian Loan ll3l Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate — 105 Inscription, Ist series — 195 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series OM • ON. 10.11111. 99% Ditto in Certificates .......... .......... ............. N.% New 4 per Cent. (1 840 ) •«.. 9t ..-- Dutch Actual Debt, :2% per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. ...... ........ Polish Bonds — New Tickets • COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen Dowager visited the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Lady in Waiting, arrived from Marlborough House shortly before two o'clock, and was received by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Household in Waiting. The Queen Dowager partook of a dejeune with her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and afterwards returned to Marlborough House, attended by the Countess of Sheffield. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday morning, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Royal Family were taken their accustomed air ings yesterday, in the royal gardens. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yester day, at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-building the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House, at three o'clock, attended by Colenel Wylde. The Commissioners present were the Duke of Suther land, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Henry Gaily Knight, r. Henry Hallam, Mr. George Vivian, Mr. Thomas Wyse, Lord Mahon, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The meeting broke up at five o'clock when the Prince, attended by Colonel Wylde, returned to Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited. her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marl borough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. The Duke of Cambridge attended by Baron Knese beck honoured the Marchioness of Ailesbury with his company on Thursday evening at her residence in Gros venor-square. The Earl of Delawarr arrived in town yesterdar from his seat, Buckhurst Park. his Excellency M. Dedel returned to Wilton-crescent yesterday from Buckhurst Park. Sir Henry Hardinge had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing. street. A messenger arrived at the Home-office yesterday, with dispatches for Sir J. Graham from the Lord Lieu ,enant of Ireland. Alton Hall, in Suffolk, has been for nearly a cen tury in the possession of Mr. Dean's family, and it is only by his lamented death that this famed property is brought to public competition. The mansion is not one of great pre tensions; it is denominated a quiet, cozy habitation, full of 2,0001.,i not a year a e a r p y in u e z o ar z r l:e c omfort, and where any one, so inclined, may domesticate upon 1 ' disbursement;ideas from areaddinga m n d o more s e Ipe c x e a a u n t d y e o i d rf they intend to represent Harwich at the next elec tion. The situation of Alton Hall is not to be surpassed throughout the country, and the lands con nected with it, and forming a separate lot, are called "The Pet Farms" of this delightful vicinity. TIIE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT LONDON-BRIDGE. —FINDING OF THE THIRD BODY.—Thursday afternoon Mr. Baker, for the second time, resumed an inquiry at the Town of Whitby Tavern, Wapping-wall, touching the death of Robert Harrison Thurlow, aged eight years and a half, another of the unfortunate children who lost their lives by the upsetting of a boat at London-bridge, on the evening of Sunday, the 19th instant. The particulars of the occurrence appeared in our journal on the following day. The bodies of George Newton and Caroline Smith, who were also drowned at the same time, have been recovered, and inquests held be fore Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, within whose jurisdiction. they had been found. That of the deceased was picked . n p. floating off Pelican-stairs, Shadwell, on Tuesday morn t inf last. On the present occasion, George Clark deposed h t the deceased was the son of Mr. Edward Thurlow, a printer„ residing in Shaftesbury - place , Aldersgate-street. On . then evening in question he took the deceased, to London-bridge„ and entered the boat in which there were thirteen other young persons, for the purpose of being conveyed to Tower stairs, at one penny a-head. The w itness here detailed thes particulars of the occurrence, which have aady been pub.. lished. Mr. Cutler, the beadle of the Waterm lre en's Company, stated that a summons had been taken out by that Company* against Williamson, the owner of the boat, for plying for hire without being duly licensed, which was to be heard be.. fore the Lord Mayor the next day (Friday), when the jury expressed a wish that the inquest should be adjourned, to gives them an opportunity of knowing the decision of his Lordship on the case before they delivered their verdict. Th . e gation will be resumed on Monday next. DOVER, MAY 31.—Just before the train left for London with the holiday passengers, the. General Steam Na. vigation Company's favourite steam-ship Magician, Com mander Thomas king, arrived with several passengers of distinction, and six carriages, from Boutognel• The passage was performed as usual by this elegant ship in 1 . r9 hours. S :AT-le e fr t, ktt, CORONER'S INQUEST. —INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest at the Hero of Waterloo Inn, Water loo-road, on the body of Edward Norris, aged forty years. It appeared by the evidence that deceased had formerly been a publican, but for the last few weeks had occasionally lodged at a beer-shop in the Cornwall-road, during which time he had conducted himselfrather strangely. On Monday morning he returned home, and said to a person who slept with him, that he had been to see Crouch hung at Newgate, and con sidered it was such a beautiful sight that he was quite de lighted. He also said that himself and two men had drunk twenty half-pints of gin, and that he had drank six half pints as his share. Deceased remained in doors all that and the following day ; and about twelve o'clock on Tuesday night he went to bed. He was then quite sober. But at seven on the following morning he was discovered in the Skittle -ground, in the rear of the house, suspended from one of the rafters, by a rope. He was cut down, but he had been dead some hours. Some other evidence was gone into -to show the state of his mind for soma time past, when the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." THE KING OF SAXONY AND THE POLES.—NO slight consternation was experienced by those interested in the success of the Polish ball, announced for the 10th of June, on learning yesterday, that his Majesty the King of Saxony had fixed on that day to honour the Earl of Wilton and his Countess with his presence at an entertainment at their resi dence in Grosvenor-square. The Noble Earl, on being in formed that this would interfere most cruelly with the Polish ball, immediately repaired to the Palace to state the circum stance. His Lordship has since communicated the gratifying intelligence that, in order not to interfere with an undertak ing so important to the Poles, he had been authorised to put off his ball to Wednesday, the 12th inst., when he expects to have the honour of entertaining her Majesty and Prince Al bert, as well as their Royal guest. Tim PITMEN. —The pitmen have not yet returned to their work, and the colliery owners are gradually obtain ing fresh men to supply their places. We are informed that certain disclosures, implicating the conduct of the executive, are about to be made, the effect of which will probably be to break up the union, or at all events to give those a good excuse for withdrawing from its ranks, and we believe the number is not small, who are heartily sick and tired of the strike.—Newcastle Advertiser. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India }rouse, when Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardiuge, K.C.13., Governor-General of India, was unanimously appointed to succeed to the office of Com mander-in-Chief of the Company's Forces in India, in the event of the death, resignation, or coming away from India, of General Sir iiugh Gough, Bart, G.C.B. Passengers. Producing The first week in April, 1843 ••• 5,920 ... £1,724 Ditto ditto 1844 ... 12,543 ... 3,581 The second week in April,lB 43 ... 7,087 ... 2,152 Ditto ditto 1844 ... 19,210 ... 4,273 The third week in April,lB4 3 ... 8,786 ... 2,124 Ditto ditto 1844 ... 13,295 3,745 The fourth week in April,lB4 3 ... 7,219 ... 2,052 Ditto ditto 1844 ... 12,868 ... 3,587 The first week in May, 1843 7,629 ... 2,008 Ditto ditto 1844 ••• 13,109 3,691 The second week in May, 1843 ... 7,179 ... 2,021 Ditto ditto 1844 ... 13,375 ... 3,846 The third week in May, 1843 7,624 ... 2,030 Ditto ditto 1844 .•. 13,554 ... 3,931 The fourth week in May, 1843 ... 7,223 ... 2,071 Ditto • ditto 1844 ... 12,950 ... 4,070 It was here seen that the passenger traffic had nearly doubled itself in these eight weeks, and the whole of this in crease would come into the present half-year's accounts. As regarded the Maidstone branch, this branch would in a short time be opened, and would, he thought, bring in a consider able income ; its completion too would close off an expendi ture of 1,4001. a year which the Company had now charged to their account as a payment to coach proprietors for bring ing the passengers to the line. The next point he had to touch upon was the coal traffic. His feelings apon this sub ject were exceedingly strong, because he was sure it would be a source of great profit. Another material item in their traffic was the article of lime. His Opinion was that a very extensive trade in lime would be carried on upon their rail way, and to a far greater meant than any gentleman pre sent could possibly contemplate; indeed, he should be afraid of mentioning what he believed would be its-extent. It was to be recollected that the lime was made of chalk imme diately on the line of railway. It was not possible for any thing to be more convenient or less expensive than the pre paration of it in connection with their railway. Since they last met together in that room the Bricklayers' Arms station had been opened, and during the 28 days that the public had enjoyed the accommodation, the Company had taken from the London-bridge station 11,285 passengers, produc ing 5,2601., and from the Bricklayers' Arms station 19,953 passengers, producing the sum of 6,060/.-(Loud cheers.) At Reigate, the Brighton line and themselves had removed the objections that the public had made to moving from one line to another. A station had at last been built, and every Brighton as well as every Dover train stopped at it. The station still remained the property of the Dover Company. At the present moment the Directors were making arrange ments for carrying out a branch from Tunbridge to Tun bridge Wells, of 4i miles in length. The objections raised by the landowners had been entirely removed; and, looking to the short distance of the branch, it was not possible to con ceive any line to be more beneficial to a company. A PROPRIETOR-it will be a single line, I presume? The CitainarAN said it would. He had now to offer two or three words respecting the Hastings line. This subject was one that had given the Board a good deal of anxiety, and, he must confess, the decision upon it had disappointed him ex-, ceedingly.-(Hear.) What he meant by saving that.it bad di sa ppointed him was thi s : h e h a d f a ncied "that when Par liament sanctioned the line, and granted the Bill, claiming, as they did in the first instance, that a good traffic case should be shown-he said that having shown, as part of their traffic case, the whole of th e H as ti ngs t ra ffic, he did not ex pect Parliament would then say, " We must take away the traffic from you, and place it in the hands of others." Such, however, had been the decision of the Committee.-(Hear.) He could only say that nothing had shaken his faith more of l e there in railway property th an see i ng suc h d ec isions as 11'0)44- seen come to by the C omm i ttee o f th e H ouse o f Com m mons.- (Loud cries of " Hear, h ear. ") H e th oug ht they must not despair in this matte r -(H ear, b ear .) Th e Di rec tors were not remaining passive,him rested,tio n o n they food till t se a l n f, d we th u e ld v uweetreeeasdeeteprrmesisniedug thenot tqoureesz Di rectors, as well as main passive.-(Hear, h ear. ) . He was sure his brother thoseDi was no chance inwhose of Lands success, oo the o they did succeed.-(Ch eers. ) H e b e li eve d that the Hastings s matter ortill people were exceedingly dissatisfied with the decision of the Committee, and they had called a ,ineeting to take the sub ject into consideration. As far as the interest of the county of Kent was concerned, there could not be a doubt that a line of railway through the centre would be more beneficial than one running along the coast. The works at Folkestone Harbour, and the various matters connected with it, were going on in the most satisfactory manner. He thought the value of the harbour was entirely unknown, and every step taken in reference to it sa ti s fi e d hi m more fully of the wisdom and discretion they had shown in purchasing it. The Dover terminus was now open. It was very convenient and most spacious ; perhaps some might say, more spacious than neces sary. Those who thought so, should recollect that a great destruction of property had arisen from the stock and plant of railways being exposed to the weather; this had been felt particularly, he believed, by the London and Birmingham Com pany. It was satisfactory to him to know that they now had station where the stock, &c., could be properly protected, and as to the station itself, he would say there was not in Great Britain one more simple and, at the same time, more con venient. The next question he must touch on regarded the protection of the interests of the South-Eastern Company generally, but especially on the northern side of the county of Kent. If it were necessary for the public convenience that lines of railway should go on the northern side of the county of Kent, the South-Eastern Company would be the parties to endeavour to carry them out. The Directors would be very much wanting in their duty if they did not keep alive to what was passing on this point, and they therefore thought it right to tell the proprietors that Mr. R. Stephen son had been for some time engaged in looking to the whole of that district, that the Directors might see how best to protect the interests of the Shareholders. Ile had for a long time considered the greatest enemies to railway Companies were the railway Companies themselves.-(Hear, .41ear.) There had been an endeavour on all sides to get hold of property with which they had nothing whatever to do, and there had been a forgetfulness of the " live and let live" system.-(Hear, hear.) Every railway company had been , desirous of entrenching on its neighbours' property. He had expressed these opinions most plainly and openly before the President of the Board of Trade, in the presence of the Chair men of the Great Western, the London and Birmingham, and other lines, in the spring of the present Year. Then as to the question of a malgamation. The Brighton, Croydon, and Dover lines w ere workin g ver y harmoniously together, but he thought not so beneficially as they would do under one board. For his part he wa s qu it e wi lli ng , an d he had so confessed himself to the Croydon and Brighton Direc tors, to sound his retreat the moment anything of the kind could be carried out ; and he was sure there was not a single Director of the Dover board who would not willingly retire from the position he held, if, by so doing, the desired amalga mation could be forwarded.-(Cheers.) One word as to the foreign railways. It was quite as unlikely that we should be without a railway to the opposite coast, as that the Dover line would be closed. In fact, it was a question that had been again and again argued in the Chamber of Deputies. It was one in which the South-Eastern Company were most deeply interested, and about which he had been in continual commu nication with parties en the other side of the Channel. The Shareholders were not to imagine that, because the Directors had not touched upon the subject before, it had therefore escaped their c onsideration. The completion of a line to the opposite coast at some future day would place the income of the South Eastern line in such a position as the Proprietors did not at the present moment contemplate. Let them say what they would -if they could have a short passage across to the kingdom of France, and get to the Mediter ranean in the short period of time that a journey would then occupy, the value of the South-Eastern line would become great indeed. He believed that with the exception of stating that there were 400 share! , of the last issue which the Directors had still in their hands, and which they proposed to sell and apply the proceeds to the credit of the account, he had nothing further to mention to the Proprietors. It' they had any questions to put he should be very happy to answer them. Several questions were put to the Chairman by various of the Proprietors, but they were of no public interest beyond two facts elicited -that the mouth of the Folkestone har bour could be kept clear of shingle at a comparatively trifling cost, and that the Company would be able to carry on five or six times the present traffic without any addition to their staff. The Chairman's address appeared to give very general satisfaction. Mr. M‘Gitgaon moved a 'vote of thanks to the Chairman THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock . ... ............ 199% i Indian Stock 2FB p m. 3 per Cent. Red. 9S% . I Ditto Bonds . ......... 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Red lO2 ' Ditto New Annuities... New 3)4 per Cent. 10274 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 70 pm. New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small '7o pm. Jan. 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Consols for Acct. 99% Jan. 1860 12% India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austria., 5 per Cent ll3 (Portuguese, 5 per Cent ...... Belgian, 5 per Cent lO3 Ditto,. New Ditto... ......... ... Brazilian Bonds — ! Prussian, 5 per Cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per Ceat... Russian, 5 per Cent — Chiller), 6 per Cent ,Ditto, Metallic Cllombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ' Ditto, Deferred 13% Danish,3 per Cent Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent — 4 Exchange ... .......... .... —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — !Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61 % Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100% SHARES. Birmingham and Derby, £lO3 paid 60% Ditto Eighths, £1 lOspaid 4 S 4 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 0 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Registered (81688 d paid) Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (5 0 paid) London and Greenwich (I, t. 15s. 4d. paid) 714 Di ito, Preference or Privilege, .**,lB 17s 2cl paid 1914 London and South Western (111. 6s. 10d. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 19.% Ditto, Scrip, 10 paid l9 Manchester and Leeds ( 70 paid Ditto, Half Shares, t_ o paid Midland Counties (100 paid) BB Manchester and Birmingham 5514 Northern and Eastern ( 45 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Trent Valley, 2 paid sg York and Scarborough Branch (2)., paid) Paris and Orleans ( 20 paid) Paris and Rouen, 20 paid Rouen and Havre, 8 paid 18)4 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAS. FROM THE VENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Mr. O'Connell and his co-defendants have been conveyed to prison with the precautions requisite to prevent any disturbance of the public peace. The Judges expressed their regret that the law invests them with no discretion, by which they could suspend the exe cution of the sentence until after the writ of error had been argued and determined by the House of Lords. Whether the Executive will interfere, and direct the re lease of the parties thus subjected to puuishment on a con viction which may, and probably will, be reversed, remains to be seen. Judging from what has already taken place, there seems little hope that the Government will inter fere to prevent the admitted imperfection of the law from working injustice to these political opponents. Such in terference would imply the presence of a generous feel ing, of which there has been no indication in any pre vious part of the proceedings. In pronouncing the sen tence of the Court, Mr. Justice Burton admitted the inconsistency of subjecting the defendants to the pe nalty, while the legal validity of the proceedings was the subject of an appeal to the higher tribunal ; and threw out something like a hint that " something might yet be done" to prevent so monstrous an anomaly. The public will not readily forget the grounds of Lord Lyndhurst's opposition to Lord Campbell's mea sure for effecting a change in the law on this subject. It was designed to meet the exigencies of the present case. But because the proposed Bill was designed by Lord Campbell to prevent the perpetration of injustice upon O'Connell, therefore it was to be postponed to a future time ! Rather than O'Connell should not be incarce rated—even on a judgment which may be found unsustainable in law—an admitted injustice shall be continued ! We take it for granted that Lord Lynd hurst has no personal feeling in the matter. He would not so far forget what he owes to himself and to his order, as to allow any paltry animosities to rankle in his breast when discharging his duties as a legis lator. As Lord Chancellor, and a member of the Go vernment which prosecuted O'Connell, his Lordship was, of course, actuated by the feeling and guided by the judgment of his colleagues. It would be most mortifying if O'Connell, whom they had employed so much pains to fix, and sacrificed so much in reputation to convict, should, after all, escape. Better imprison him wrongfully than not at all. The amount of punishment awarded by the Court is, in our view, inordinately severe. This would be our judg ment—we believe it is the opinion of nine-tenths of the community in this country, without reference to political distinctions—had the Court which pronounced the sentence made no observations on the character and conduct of the principal defendant on its floor. But when we read in Mr. Justice Burton's address, such ad missions of the pacific disposition of Mr. O'Connell — that throughout the whole course of the proceedings of which he was the director and the leader, as head of the association for obtaining a repeal of the legislative union, there was exhibited a never-ceasing anxiety and an incessant effort to preserve the peace—an anxiety and effort which had been so eminently successful, as that no single instance of disturbance had taken place at, or had resulted from, one of the numerous monster meetings which had been held. With these distinct admissions—with these testimonials to Mr. O'Con nell's regard fur the preservation of peace wed order, from the mouth of the J udge who 'a as the medium by which the sentence fixed and determined by the Court was conveyed—we feel warranted in saying that the conclusion is not sustained by the premises. The con duct which was thus commended ought to have been cast into the balance, and weighed in favour of the indivi dual, when called up for judgment. An apology for vi siting the misdeeds of Mr. O'Connell with a moderate amount of punishment, was made out by the Judge. Why enumerate the merits—for such they were desig nated by Mr Justice Burton—of the chief defendant, at the moment when a sentence—taken, in all its parts, of unprecedented severity—for misdemeanour was about to be pronounced ? But we shall, perhaps, be told that but for the mitigating circumstances dwelt upon by the Judge, the punishment would have been much heavier. The sentence is mild and merciful. Gracious Heaven ! If this be mercy, what, then, is vengeance ? STANDARD. --We yesterday announced the con clusion of the last act of the State trials, in the passing of judgment upon the conspirators. There was a scene got up upon the occasion, by the repeal members of the bar, which the reporters did not fail to heighten in their representation of it ; but which evidently affords no fair index to the popular feeling, for no sooner were the traversers securely lodged in the hands of the high sheriff than the excited sympathy chilled down to in difference. Eight months ago, when the proceed ings now so usefully concluded were commenced, we avowed our opinion that there was nothing vindictive in the prosecution—nothing vindictive even in the favourable sense which is understood when the laws are said to be vindicated by the punishment of crimes. We have all along considered the trial as merely the trial of an issue upon a question of constitutional right, which had been made necessary by the dangerous abuse of a right assumed contrary to law. Mr. O'Connell had again and again " defied the Government to go to law with him, as he defied the Government to go to war with him ;" and it became, in consequence of this reiterated defiance, necessary to take up his challenge. The Government has taken it up, and the result proves Oat the challenge to go to law was as ab surd a piece of rhodomontade as the challenge to go to war. This view of the question, however, putting the prosecution upon a footing similar to an indictment for a nuisance, in which a civil remedy for a public injury is really the object of a formally criminal process, while it certainly renders less excusable the excessive indul gence allowed by the Court during the progress of the tedious trial, fully justifies the great lenity of the sentence. All that the Government or the country can wish, all that justly they can require, after the long license given to sedition in Ireland, is to put an end to seditious agitation ; and the lowest degree of punishment that can reasonably be expected to effect that object is the most just. Now the punishment imposed seems to be sufficient, though in the case of Mr. O'Connell no more than sufficient ; for less than a year's imprisonment for his " monster" offences, or than a month's income of his rent, would be really playing with the law, and would, by his ignorant followers, be set down to fear of his and their power. It is very true that a year's imprisonment is not a very heavy punishment. It is far less than the " savage operation" of our commercial law has hitherto inflicted upon many an innocent man, and many a helpless woman, innocent of every crime, and incarcerated without trial by the command of a greedy or a spiteful creditor. Mr. O'Connell is to suffer for destroying the peace of his country, and perilling the safety of the em pire, but one-third of what Mr. Oastler has suffered for having too faithfully served his employer's interests —too honestly declined to serve his prejudices or passions. To measure the weight of the blow in flicted upon Mr. O'Connell by the mere duration of his imprisonment, or the amount of his fine were, how ever, tol apply a fallacious test. The blow to him is fatal, as the assertion of authority of the law must always be fatal to those who construct their schemes of life upon the hypothesis that the law may be permanently violated with impunity. The keepers of gaming tables at Epsom have been ruined by a measure certainly not vindictively directed against them in dividually, but necessary for the public good ; and just in the same way Mr. O'Connell has been ruined. The destruction of his agitation trade, and his agitation rent, which after a short interval must follow the fate of his trade, is his real pe nalty (though not designed as such), and the tw elve months' imprisonment and 2,00 e/. fine are an inconsider able, though, under the circumstances, an indispensable aggraiation. How far Mr. O'Connell, or the disap pointed " thimble-riggers" at Epsom, may be entitled to public sympathy, is a question which Men.will decide ac cording to their view of the guilt or innocence of embark ing in a speculation contrary to law and injurious to their fellow-citizens. For ourselves, we have little compas sion for any one who is merely excluded from the oppor tunity of profitable crimes. If men will emba k r their interests in projects denounced by the law and hostile to the peace, happiness, and morality of the country, they must not expect compassion when they make ship wreck. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A man, 75 years of age, named John Avery, lost his life on Friday on the rocks beneath the Long-room barracks, in a very singular manner. While descending the rocks, it seems, his feet be came firmly fixed in a cavity, and losing his balance, he fell over and dashed his head against a rock with sufficient vio lence to cause death. The body, when found, was hanging by the legs as it had fallen; and life must have been extinct I