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EVENING EDITION econd reading, but when he came down to the House 1 papers relating to the transaction received at the police found the Under-Secretary supporting the Ho , - . .lem- offices should be sent to the Secretary of State for the -• ft: Lambeth in a very excluiive manner.—( Lea a c ) Colonial Department, with a request. that he would in- - Mr. FOX :tIA UI, i', aaa iit -au h-eti hi- Inteotion to tute inquiries. Of course, he ( Lord John) could not an support the 1111, aee.:use he approved generally of the saver particular statements until that inquiry was ma e t various clauses. hut - on looking over the clauses of but this he must say, now this question had . been as ed, the Bill be found the suggestions that had been with regard to the general conduct of the Child' en's made, of giving controul to the public officer of the Home Friend Society, that he did believe that Society bad been Department, together with the Magistrates of the City of most attentive to particular cases.—( Hear, hear.) London, were altogether omitted. However, that might, MINISTERIAL MEASURES. no doubt, be rectified. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then said, that as to-morrovr Sir ROBERT PEEL said this was a matter of very was the Restoration, be should move that the House at its great importance, and he thought the public *sere under rising do adjourn till Thursday next ; and in so doing he great abligations to the Hen. Member for Lambeth for would state the course he meant to pursue with regard to the course which he had pursued with respect to the Me- some of the measures which it had been stated would be tropolitan Police Committee.—( Cheers.) It was a most introduced by her Majesty's Government. His Right laborious inquiry, and the motives of the Hon. Mt mber Hon. Friend had stated the course intended to be pursued were perfectly disinterested, and nothing could be more in regard to Jamaica. With respect to Canada, a message fair than the couria which he had pursued as Chair- had already been brought from the Crown, and it had man of the Committee. Supposing the attendance had been ordered to be taken into consideration. In answer to in rather lax, the Chairman had a right to presume a question from the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, he had that there was a general confidence in the discharge of stated it was his intention to move for leave to bring in a his duties, and concurrence in his views.—( Hear , hear.) Bill. Consid erin g the whole state of affairs with regard If they had disapproved of his views, nothing would have to Canada, and considering the importance of ascer been more easy than to have attended and overborne his taining the general opinion of the House with re views, and therefore the absence of attendance could Bard to the main principle which would be involved hardly be urged against the Chairman for making ‘ ll that Bill—the course he should pursue would be to a report in conformity with his own suggestions. propose, on Monday next, the consideration of the Message, He ( Sir Robert Peel) was not able to give with the view of laying on the table of the House a resolu a very full attendance, but he concurred in the recommen- tion or resolutions, affirming generally the principle of the dation contained in the Report. He regretted, when he Union, and the groundwork of the measure to be proposed. brought forward the Metropolitan Police, he had not the ad. He should merely lay the resolutions on the table on that vantagerecommendedby the Committee, because he thought day, and move the postponement of the consideration of it would have been a very great advantage. There was a great them for a week, with a view, on the day on which they opposition to that measure, and therefore the Government should again be brought before the House, of asking the from prudential motives consented that the City should opinion of the House upon them. Should they be affirmed be excluded. But let the question be argued abstractedly, he would then move for leave to bring in a Bill. The County without reference to the ancient privileges of the Corpora- Courts Bill stood for Friday, and he should certainly on that lion, and let it be asked could any system be perfect in day move the first reading. On Friday next also his Hon. which a small district was exempted from the general and Learned Friend the Attorney-General proposed going operation of t,he measure, in which a small portion into Committee on the Registration of Electors' Bill. It in the heart of the City, of fifty-eight thousand_ or sixty was very likely that they would shortly bring forward the thousand persons should be governed by its own police, Bill relating to the Metropolitan Police, and likewise the denying the right of the jurisdiction of the other. If he Bill respecting Factories. were asked abstractedly whether he thought that was bet- Lord SAN DON inquired on what day the Prisons' ter than one police extending over the e; utile, he should Bill would be proceeded with? say it was impossible it could be so.—( Loud cheers.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said on Friday or Monday. He felt convinced that it would be much better to have With regard to the District Prisons' Bill it appeared to him one uniforiialaace for the whole metropolis than to have it would be necessary to introduce those clauses which be two acting independent of each other.—(Cheers.) At had on a former night consented to strike out, and which the same time he thought many of the advantaAes of he then doubted were in strict accordance with the title of such an uniform' system would be lost by the plan the Bill. being forced upon the citizens against their almost Sir R. PEEL thought the Noble Lord had forgotten one unanimous wish. tie had hoped that the City would itself very important measure, which was the Elections Petitions ' have seen the great advantaees of the plan, but as they had Trial B. 11.—( Hear. hear.) He thought some experiment emit at so late a period shown so decided an oppoi- with regard to that measure ought to be made before next iion, he thought their feelings ought to be consulted— session. The Bill might go through Committee and the e honoured such feelings, though - the City bad not been o careful of the rights and privileges of other corporations. -(Cheers and lau gh ter.) With respect to the proposi ' ling the Bill to a Select Committee—he acted Having agreed to the second g of a Bill ho would not send it to a yittee nornina:ed for the purry,7,e of frustrating that Bill.—(Cheers.) Let them rolke the Bill as per ; posiihle in Committee, and th,:t Committee ought composed of rn:)re than the -Middlesex lis!.—for in a, it would be monstrous to cxcludc froth that Corn connected will the IT)rne-cffice.— :, Bill go to a and impartial Corn th:it they wore bone fide to pon oim prim Cora carry ) Let the prinizii)ic in a spirit of.fairness. desirous of enfurcing his opinions be still ret :inei them, but he must 3 that Right lion. Geatlemau to rtil Co,nrnittetr... -., FP b ested that :he Honourable Lta Ui ! try upon a new foundAtion, was willing t curifilo in him in this dined to extend his coatlenee htf uSTgbt r..—(A 1an,2 . 12.-) Sir ,: n 4l. WOOD suggested that the Seercfary.of State the i3roo-r person to select the Committee. II A i;ti E . S wmild mOve as an amendment that the Bill be rcferr b 'd to a S,ket Committee, and as neither the Noble I;)rtl nor the I - Zht Hon, Gentleman seemed inclined to rht! C.mroitt c p, he would to, morrow mention the FS of GintiTrneri ff.- , m both sit a• of the House, who I oar, z` , ti-!ct cl . ;;stittre a ft, Cioailnittee, to irhom sense of the House could be taken upon it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL agreed that that was a Bill which well deserved the attention of the House. He hoped, however, the Right Hon. Baronet would support him in a motion he intended to make, that in future Orders of the Day should take precedence of Notices of Motion, on Thursday. except on special occasions. Sir. ROBERT PEEL had so strong an idea that it was time they did something (Loud cheering and laughter)—that he confessed his first impression was in favour of the proposition of the Noble Lord..--( Hear.) BUDGET. Sir- E. KN AT C HBUL L said there was one other sub ject that used to be considered of importance, but which the Noble Lord had altogether overlooked. He should be glad to know when the Chancellor of the Exchequer would in;,ke his financial statement ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought it was probable that in the course of a fortnight, when be intended to move certai❑ resolutions on the sub ject of the portage of letters, founded on the recommen dations of the Committee of last year, he might take that opportunity of bringing forward his general financial state ment. It was only within the last ten days that the Government had been in possession of accounts show ing the expenditure in Canada during the last year, with out which accounts it would have been :impracticable on his part, and inconvenient to the House, to have made his financial statement. • POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT. Vt., I refc. , rrefi ni.2ndiri,ent va; then put and agreed to without a ,1 a .^(~ Otr - 171 EASTERN RAILWAY BILL. ODGES said that the routian for the second fill t as for yesterday, and he hoped o o!-iertion to raking it to-day. However, 7nlations were fatal to this pro m, ebjeetion to let it 'v2 r. r 3 r thc, Di y for r.! B Y (.1 d to iir:y departurc from the Mr. DARBY inquired when the Noble Lord intended to bring in a Bill to amend the Poor-law Act, and what the nature of that measure would be? Lord JOHN RUSSELL answered that his intention at this period of the Session was merely to propose a Bill, the main feature of which would be to continue the power of the Commissioners for a year beyond the time they would at present :ast. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Mr. KEMBLE wished to ask the Noble Lord whether it was his intention on Friday fortnight to propose the re solution relative to Natio:lel Edeca.ion, of which he bad already given notice, but which he had postponed to that day or whether he intended to make any alteration in the terms of that resolution ?—( [leer, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S intention was, on Friday fortnight, to propose the motion in the terms he had al ready stated; and, as some wrong impressions had gone forth, he would state the grounds on which he had post poned that motion. He certainly thought that both the intention of the. plan and the ground upon which it was pro- posed had been entirely misunderstood, and he wished therefore, to lay some papers on the table of the Housa, for the consideration of Members, before the vote was come to upon his motion, in order that that misunderstand ing might in some degree be cleared up. Mr. KEMt3LE presumed those papers would be laid on the table for , liwith Lord .1011 N RUSSELL—Yes. The motion fur adjourning over to-morrow was then agreed to. THE, PARRETT NAVIGATION PETITION. Sir C. BURRELL rose to call the attention of the House to the R- port from the Select Committee on the Perrett Navigation Petition, alleging forgery in the peti tion against the Bill. The Committee, which sat for ten eould have been over in a very short time but for the pre , tentation of that petition. The Hon. Baronet went into several details. but from the low tone of voice in which he spoke, he was nearly inaudible in the gallery. He concluded by moving that Betiimin Lovibond, having been guilty of a breach of the privileges of the House, be taken into custody by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr. FR ESIIFIEL D seconded the motion. The SPEAKER then directed the Sergeant to take Mr. Lovibond into custody, and,bring him to the bar. The Sergeant-at-Arms retired, and in a few moments returned with Mr. Lovibond, who was placed at the bar. The SPEAKER then informed him that his conduct had been under the consideration of a Select Committee, who had reported that the petition which he had presented to the House was not the petition which was actually signed, and that he was cognizant of the fraud which had been practised in the House. He wished to ask what he had to say in his defence? Mr. Lovibond read a long statement, from which it ape peered that he had been retained as solicitor to manage this Bill. That soon after his arrival in London he sent down a petition to Langport, to Mr. Morris; that a petition afterwards came up with several signatures, in which several alterations had been made; and that there not being time to communicate with the par ties, the alteration complained of had taken place, and he was advised by his Parliamentary Agents that he should be fully authorised, under the circumstances, in presenting the petition. It was true that he was cognizant of the names of some of the parties having been signed in their absence, but he considered there was no impropriety in it, as he had a retainer from them. No inconvenience had resulted to any one by reason of the alteration. If he had infringed the privileges of the House, he begged to express his deep regret, and to state that it was wholly uninten tional on his part; he submitted entirely to the House, and threw himself on its lenity. By Mr. HUME—The Parliamentary Agents were Messrs. Jones and Walmesley. They were both present. By Mr. MILES—The signatur. s were appended to one petition, and afterwards cut off and appended to another. By Mr. HUME—The real signatures of the parties were,sent up. By Mr. DARBY—The signatures were obtained in the first instance without any petition having been drawn up, but on a statement that it was an opposition to the Com pany's imposing any further tolls. By Mr. JONES—There was in the second petition an allegation not included in. the first, but I did not intend it as an allegation—only as an argument. Witness was ordered to withdraw. Sir C. BURRELL said in justice to Mr. Walmsley he must positively deny the statement which bad just been made by the witness, that Mr. Walmsley bad authorised the course be had taken. He moved that Mr. Walmsley be called in. Mr. WYNN said the House had delegated the matter to the Select Committee, and Mr. Walmsley had already denied .the statement of the witness. and it would scarcely be necessary to have the statement over again.—( Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL concurred that the evidence of Mr. Wa msley was sufficient on tnis point. Even if it were not se, however, Mr. Lovibond's own sense of propriety might have induced him to refrain from the Course he had taken. The statements of the Committee had been quite borne out by the witness himself, and he thought that the witness should be called in and reprimanded by the Speaker.—( Hear, hear.) Sir C. BURRELL considered this course would be too mild for so serious an offence, and that Mr. Lovibond should be committed to the custody of the Serjeant-at. Arm s —( Hear, hear.) Mr. PEASE thought the offence was not so heinous as might at first be imagined; a reprimand at the Bar of the House would be a severer punishment for a gentleman in Mr. Lovibond'; situation : and would fully satisfy the jus- rit ceelsl S worill'inive that th' Bill be read a se cnnd .r 2 nOD•;F, Sir'E T C A rfi. 3ULL supported the motion, which V' F)::,ptfurd Pier Junction Railway BM was read a so corA tines. • LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. f." then priTeerierho-the further consideration ~ Z Biil, and after several elawes Were' .1 der.yalitt atiiendents made, the BiR was ordered to be TA R4pThrt •.Althe . Manelie7,q , .: , r and Thrmingham RAilway r+6oni : idered, and the iliii ordiTctd to be engrossed. (.),n ,' NORTIS..EA..§TERN RAILWAY BILL, O'o.erve..a, that as the clause strz ge ,:e(1 by o,6`'C,,,nintttee bed not bcen introduced, he tbonzht it ehanid be postponed. E A STHOPI4; wished the clause to he explained. P. TidO A SON said the object of the clause was to crovide that every railroad Bill introduced should be siabject to such conditions as Parliament might hereafter it o.:ose. WARD S aid- the 13;.11 ceetainly lid met that clause ill this it %vas arced to postpone the B, ii till Thurs. On the rintion of Mr. M. PIIILLIFS the Manchester nnd LeedA Railway Bill was agreed to, including; the clause just referi ei to. - - - JOINT' .. , J.P4'l" STOCK BANKS. Mr. H.T.JME had a motion standing for Thursrizly, re specting the Bard: of England. A s h e w i s h e d b e f or e bnuging on that motion to ascertain whet mez , sure would be proposed by the- Chancellor respecting Joint Stock Bnliks, he begged to postpone his motion till the 6th of next rucritk:' ' COLONEL PRINCE. Mr. HUME then gave notice that he should an Thurs day next move for a copy of the minutes of the Gommittee o Inquiry on the conduct of Colonel Prince who had criered in December last four men to be shot without t TURNPIKE TRUSTS. Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that on Ttteaday the Ilf.th of June he should move for leave to bring in a bill to atter aiLenti the laws relating to Turnpike Trusts. JAMAICA. , yr; .LA BOUCHE RE, with reference to the question relatieg to Jamaica, would take that opportunity or stating th at it was not his intention to propose that tilt, House s'ruiuld proceed any further with the Bill which .st ood for cciramittal on Thursday next. When that Orde r of the nay iivai called, as it was his intention to move t h at it be di 3C.hargA. The terms in which he intended tz' bring forward the motion of which he had given notice w ere to ntuve for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the . enact ment of certain laws regarding Jamaica, but he s hould pc.iwpone any explanation of the nature of the meastu re to be proposed until he submitted the above motion tt • the Ho use. EBT' . Mr. WILSON SMALL PATT D S to EN wisbed BILLS inform the N'a ble Lord that in an early part of the day, and when no . Ma in . be.r of the Government was present, the House was in sot ne difficulty with regard to several Small Debts' Bill s, an d tiey were postponed until it could be ascertained wha t vverte the.intemtions of the Government with regard to a m easure which would do away with the necessity of those I arivate Bills. If the Government was prepared to go of with some measure of the kind he hoped the Noble Lord would state that thLev would proceed with it immediately? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was his intent , n to proceed with the Bill which was already before the ouse relating to the recovery of Small debts. Whenever that Bill came on again, he should move its second reading t% ith the intentima of having it afterwards referred to a Sett ct Committee, and perhaps the locarßills on the same sa l bjo ct might as well be referred to th a t Committee. * If that we.te done be should then propose a clause to be inserted iv, the general measure that those local Bills should cease to have effect. DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. Mr. BAINES wished to ask the Noble Lord if he had any objection to lay on the table the correspondence tha t had lately taken place between the Lord Chancellor and the lat , 3 Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nottingham, wi terminated in the Crown dispensing with the services of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no intention of ng that correspondence on the table of the House. At t be some time, if any person acting on behalf of the Duk of Newcastle, wished for the production of that corresi AI 1- (Lance, he would not übject to it ; but otherwise he was nc t disposed to lay iton the Tablo. WAR IN THE EAST. Mr. HUME wished to ask the Noble Lord, the Secr e - ttry of State for the Home Department, as the Nobl e Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs was not in hi:r place, whether the Government had received any infor mation of the advance of the Turkish troops; and of their crossing the Euphr=es, thus disturbing the peace guaran teed by England atid France. He also wished t , .; know whether it was true that the Russians had demanded that Mehemet Ali sbould retire from Syrl:: altogether? Lord JOHN RUSS ELL, in answer to the first question, could state that her Alrr o iesty's Government had not received • any inttl igence that the Turkish troops had crossed the Euphrates. The lat,'Qst intelligence they had re.: ceived twat from the British Consul at Damascus, wbo stated t! at the Turkish troops had advanced to the eastern tank of the river Eupltrates; but there was l' . ° axt Dint of tleir having cross' d it. At the same time ", iv, .I:wed the troops of :110-emit Ali were coo c,?tr,ing themorlvt , -' in the sirne district. He (Lord Joan) felt •t right cff.rts ~.f it great plwers of n . ould Lot Europe to preserve peace. be successful.—_( hear, hear.) With respect to th: ,_ ; o r il ti le s i s • i r lit:l . , no int, , ikcnce had hen received that; _ .n. ~ ,.0 ..,1 , ..04( 1. ,n r r i. d e . a derrigrrl of th.. kind stated by the give credit to the". Q W" l'e (Lord John Russell) inclined to fLOli.2oy , tp t suet. a dcma . - 1 hal been made Fir I ,,, N , jzi ,i 1 ; 1 ": 1 ' ,, , t FRIEND SO :IEI CV " ' 0 aqk the N ,I • Lord •11 et"b in co• s quenee of c. , rtain q raents aa , " ' '-• vi er that bad been mach reipt. ~.a , ., the Children's Friend Societ • - - ' ' , ••-•. ,oci te N .I.le Lord pre hcen made by the race over whio, ti .1 , an inquiry had - , 1 as to rh • pr , •re-dinfrg of that . m PIN RUSSELL replitd tba tY t, ? I re ,, ! ;.,, I a . ~, 1 ,,,1 b • en i,,,,up-;-..t uoder bit no t i,.. m - . -- -'".e.3 - tue I .t. with rt , ct- tr , c'rl'ileren havinE.. been FC - t to the Cepe o! Gcod it ' - . the Children's Friotid S.Jeiety, ho bad dire t.11:it,17, t!: : 'T r . n::r 11.11 E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1839. who would attend the Committee, and had done this on the ground of the respectability of the signatures; therefore he thought there had been a fraud committed ; but while they executed judgment, they ought to do it with mercy, and he would support the motion for reprimand. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL would suggest that he be ordered to attend at the Bar on a future day and be reprimanded. Mr. WYNN considered that the interests of the public required that the House should mark its sense of such conduct by a heavier punishment than a reprimand. Sir C. BURRELL agreed with his Hon. Friend, and moved that the Report of the Select Committee be agreed to. The question was put and carried without a division. Sir C. BURRELL moved that Mr. B. Lovibond be committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. The SOLICITGR-GENERAL moved as an amend ment that Mr. B. Lovibond be ordered to attend at the Bar on Thursday, to be reprimanded by the Speaker. Mr. WYNN thought that if the House decided that a reprimand was sufficient, he should be reprimanded directly. Lord STORMONT thought that some apology should be made The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that Mr. Lovi bond had confessed his offence, and thrown himself upon the mercy of the House. Mr. HUME was of opinion that he should be called to the bar, and reprimanded at once. Mr. JONES suggested that Mr. Lovibond should be committed to the care of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and dis charged forthwith, after a reprimand. The question was then put, and strangers were ordered to withdraw. It was, however, ultimately determined that Mr. Benjamin Lovibond should be called to the bar im mediately, and reprimanded by the Speaker. Mr. Lovibond was accordingly brought to the bar in custody, and received the following reprimand from The SPEAKER.—Benjamin Lovibond, the House have considered the Report of the Select Committee, to whom the investigation of your conduct has been referred, and 1 have to inform you that you have incurred the severe displeasure of this House. You have procured a petition to be 'presented to this House against a private Bill, one of the names at least attached to which, you knew to be a forgery. You have been decidedly guilty of a breach of the privileges of this House, in the conduct you have pur sued, and if such conduct were to be passe d . over without censure, the consequence would be that petitions would cease to be regarded as authorities by this House, or if they continued to be so regarded, the House would be led to do an injustice. You have expressed your sorrow for the offence, and the House, in its merciful consideration of your case, has directed that you be reprimanded, and you are reprimanded accordingly. I have also to direct that you be discharged on payment of your fees." At the conclusion of the Speaker's Address there were Irud cheers from both sides of the House, during which Mr. B. Lovibond was removed in custody. ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN. WARD OF CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN. A meeting of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cripple gate Within took place yesterday, in the Ward School room, Philip-lane, for the purpose, in the words of the requisition, which was very numerously and respectably signed, " of testifying to her Majesty their admiration of her conduct, in having so nobly withstood the despo tic attempt of the Tories to deprive her of her un doubted right of choosing her associates an d d o mestics ; and also to express their satisfaction at their escape from Tory misrule, which, as in the present instance, has been invariably characterised by unpopular and des potic tendencies." At a few minutes past one o'clock the Chair was taken by Alderman Sir MATTHEW WOOD, M.P., amidst loud cheering. The CHAIRMAN said they bad assembled on the pre sent occasion, in consequence of a requisition addressed to him to call together the inhabitants of the Ward ; and it was quite impossible, when so respectable a re quisition was placed in his hands, to refuse doing so. He was at all times most willing to comply with the wishes of the inhabitants of the Ward, as it was his duty to convene them whenever any portion of them were desirous of meeting together. He would say that on this occasion a more respectable or a larger requisition he had seldom seen.—(Hea-.) He would take no part in the proceedings himself, but he would attend to all the gentlemen who might think proper to address him ; and he hoped, whatever difference of opinion there might be in the course of the debate, that all parties would obtain a fair and a patient hearing.—(Cheers.) The requisition calling the meeting having been read, Mr. WILSON rose to move the first resolution. He regretted that some more efficient person had not been selected, but he was proud on other grounds, namely, that he fully concurred in the sentiments which it con tained.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Wilson then read the re solution, which was to the effect that an address be pre sented to her Majesty. It would be also his duty to submit to them the address which it was intended to propose, in order that any discussion which would take place (and he had no doubt there would be a good deal) might be taken upon that proposition. When last they had met in that place they had carried by an overwhelm ing majority a motion for a repeal of the existing Corn laws. The Ministers had agreed to leave that an open question, and it was in the efforts of that same Ministry to carry out to its fullest . extent the principle of the emancipation of the slaves in the West Indies that they had been compelled to resign their offices. Mr. Wilson then went into a detail of the proceedings connected with the. late resignation of Ministers, and then read the address which it was intended to submit to the meeting, and which was received with loud cheers. He would call their attention to the fact that it was very judi ciously and cautiously worded, avoiding all irritating al lusions to the conduct of other parties.—( Hear, hear.) If the principle contended for by Sir R. Peel on a late oc casion were recognised, it would render the Crown a non entity, and prevent the Sovereign acting independently or hearing what were the real sentiments of her sub- jects.--(Hear, hear.) The address referred to that most important subject—education—(Cheers)—and he would observe that without education there could be little morality or religion. Mr. W. then referred to the system of national education in Ireland, which he highly eulogized, and which he said bad been productive of the h a ppiest effects in that count-I.y, by bringing up Pro testant and Roman Catholic children together, without regard to religious distinctions.—(Cheers.) The next point alluded to in the address was the amendment of the Reform Act, and there was no person present who would assert that it did not require some alteration and amendment. Mr. W. concluded by moving the adop tion of the address. Mr. HEELES seconded the motion. Her Majesty had been happily deliveied of a faction who had attempted to make a slave of her in her own palace.—(Oh !) That faction had always laboured to obtain power for them selves in order to make slaves of the people.--(Cheers and hisses.) They had met to congratulate their amia ble Sovereign upon her wisdom, her discretion, and her good sense in rejecting the tyrannical propositions of the ories ; and be felt satisfied there would not be a dis sentient voice on such an occasion. What had been always the conduct of that hydra-headed monster, To ryism ? Had not the Tory aristocracy always opposed themselves to the repeal of the Corn-laws, which would give the people cheap bread ? Had they not on every occasion oppressed the poor, and filled the pockets of the rich.—( Hear, and cries of "Oh F') On the other hand, look at the results of the labour of the manufac turing districts of the country—that class which had been called the offscourings of society. Was it not owing to their intellect and labour that steam had been brought to such perfection, reducing the cost of labour, annihilating time and space, and bringing even the shores of the Atlantic within twelve days' journey. If the pre sent Ministers remained in office, he would venture to say that in twenty years the Tory Aristocracy at the country would be a Whig Aristocracy.—(Cries of question:7) How otherwise could they provide for their numerous families , ?—•-(Cheers and laughter.) He 'remembered an old saying •' " When the devil - was ill, the devil a saint would be, When the devil got well the devil a saint was he." . . So it was with Pic Tories, who tried to be Whigs, but if they once got into office they would prove them selves what they always had been—Tories.—(Cheers and laughter.) He cordilly seconded theaddress. Mr. MOORE said various topics had been " lugged" into the speeches of the proposers of the address— which had not been included in the requisition, but which were thought calculated to gain votes.—(Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said about " anti- , sectarian education," which meant, the undermining of all education.—Hear, hear, with loud cries of " No, no," and great uproar.) The Reform Bill had also been complained of—that Bill which had been lauded by the Whigs as " the final measure"—" the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill."—(Hear, hear.) Then there was the' arbitrary and despotic Jamaica Bill, which had been nearly kicked out of Parliament. —(Cheers.) Lord Melbourne had declared that he would stick, to office, while he possibly could, in spite of the feeling of the country—(Cries of " No, no")—for his Lordship himself had admitted that the men of wealth and education were almost entirely on the side of the Conservatives. (Laughter, and cries of No, no.") With regard to the Q ueen ' s c onduct nobody could speak of her Majesty without respect.—(Hear, hear.) But who did not remember when his late M jesty, a most well-meaning monarch, had appointed Sir R. Peel his Prime Minister, a meeting had, in this ward, protested against that appointment, even w ith ou t allow ing the new Ministry to have a fair trial?—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. Peel had, in his recent measures, done nothing which deserved the character of " dictatorial." He would have been a traitor to his Sovereign, a traitor to his country, a traitor to himself if he had not advised her Majesty upon her Household appointments.— The most accomplished statesman of the age—and the most illustrious person in the world had been discarded. For whom ? The Marchioness of Normanby.—(" Oh, oh," and cheers.) The feeling of the country was in favour of these celebrated Conservative statesmen— (Cheers) —and was her Majesty to be thanked for acting and ‘, in opp n t o the public feelin g o f th e em pire.—(Hear,N no.") Decidedly, th e majority of the Members of the House of Commons, the intelligent Gentlemen of England and Wales, were in favour of the Conservatives ; though those who were elected through the Irish Priests—(Cheers and immense uproar)—were supporters of the Administration. Why as to this Household question, Lord Grey refused to yield upon that question to George 111. ; and the Whig Ministers of the late reign bad, not satisfied with the King's Household, interfered with the Queen Consort's Household, and dismissed Lord Howe, because he re fused to support their wicked measures.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") The conduct of the Wlags had been so despicable, both as men and Ministers, that he (Mr. Moore) did not know if he would speak to them in private —(Loud cheering and roars of laughter.) They had always shirked and modified their principles, a' they wanted more Radical s upport.—(Hear, hear.) They could not be relied upon ; their conduct on the Irish Appropriation, and the English Church-rate ques tions proved this.—(Cheers.) In Ireland,—(their fa vourite topic)—the Marquis of Normanby—it was vain indeed to expect decency from him.—(Groans.) He had made a practice of encouraging resistance to the law.—(Cheers, cries of " Oh, oh," groans, and immense uproar.) And throughout the empire, the Whigs had continually endeavoured to undermine the National Church—(Cheers and " No, no") —because it was in the way of their wicked projects.—(Rene wed uproar.) Their scheme of education was an insi dious attack upon religion.—(Continued interruption.) Whereas the T or i es possessed " all the talents"— (Laughter)— an d all the confidence of the country.— (Immense cheering, a n d c ries o f ,‘ No, no.") Mr. Moore concluded by moving an amendment to the effect that the present Ministry did not possess the confidence of the country, and that the scheme of education was most pernicious, as tending to disseminate equally truth and error.—(Cheers.) Mr. SIBLEY seconded the amendment, and proceeded in a long tirade about the Irish priests, in which he was called to order by The Worthy ALDERMAN who desired him to keep:to the question.—(Great cheering.) Mr. SIBLEY proceeded, but was soon again interrupted irrelevancy, and in truth, either from for design or from necessity, went on in a rambling, discursive strain, which continually provoked animadversion. Some did not scruple to call out that he was speaking against time. He said the Whigs did not care about the education of the poor ; but desired to make this e ducation-scheme a means for obtaining party support, and weakening the Church of England. Mr. DUTHOIT supported the address. He said the Whigs bad certainly erred in not go in g forward.— (Cheers.) " Finality" would never do for the British nation while such monstrous abuses prevailed in the land.—( Cheers.) I Mr. WALTERS proposed that a resolution be passed, • desiring her Majesty to forward Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Short P a rliaments.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. FROST declared that the meeting had been called to support the Whig Ministry, whom he consi dered bad not done their duty.—( Cheers.) With re spect to education, it was disgraceful that men should confine their charity within the bounds of their own sect. (Cheers.) On'a division the numbers were— For the Address ........... 82 For the Amendment 38 Majority for the Address... The result was hailed by loud cheering. On the question that the Address be presented, Mr. MooRR made some observations, in the course of which he declared that the Ladies of the Bedchamber had been placed round the Queen for the worst of purposes by Lord Melbourne.—( Hisses and cheers.) He proposed that those who voted for the Address should put their names to it, and a counter-address would be presented from the minority ; and their names would be attached to it.—( Cheers.) The Address was finally agreed upon, and to be pre sented by Sir M. Wood, at the next Levee. Thanks having been voted to the worthy Alderman, the meeting separated. TURNPIKE ROADS: Sir C. BURRELL postponed his motion relative to Turnpike Roads. MALTA. Mr. HUME said, that circumstances had occurred, which rendered it unnecessary that he should proceed with his motion relating to the liberty of the Press in Malta. TAY FISHERIES. _ _ Lord STORMONT moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to Fisheries in Scotland, in so far as they affect the River Tay. Mr. WA RB URT ON said if he were correctly informed the object of the Noble Lord was, to exempt the River Tay from the regulations which applied to the other rivers of Scotland. He considered it improper that the provisions of Public Bills should be frittered away by Private Bills of exception, and although strictly speaking this might be called a Public Bill, yet it was a particular Bill, and he should feel it his duty to di vide the House on the question. He considered the present subject was not a proper one for a Public Bill, and he should therefore oppose leave being given to bring it in. Lord STORMONT looked upon the Bill as a public measure, as it was for the advantage of the proprietors of the fisheries on the river Tay• After a few words from Mr. Jervis, Mr. Pryme, Mr. Green, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. Hume, Lord STORMONT withdrew the Bill. The House then resolved itself into Committee on a Divorce Bill, but previous to Counsel being called in Mr. HUME felt bound to call the attention of the House to the propriety of Government adopting. some other mode of deciding Divorc:3. Bilis. It was a scandal to the Government and to the officers of the Crown thin sonic other tribunal bail not been devised for that purpose. If Bills of this sort were decided hi another place the time of the House would be greatly saved. Counsel were then called in, but were immediately afterwards, together with strangers, ordered to withdraw, on the motion of Mr, HUME, who moved that the House be count,el. There being only 30 members present, the House ad• jourued shortly after Eight o'Clock. NATIONAL EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Sett,—Amongst the various opponents to the Govern ment plan of National Education, the Wesleyan Metho dist Society appear to have taken a part-1 say, they ap pear to have taken a part. But, Sir, it should be known to the nation at large that the Wesleyan Methodist So ciety as a body are not opposed to the Government plan, but a large majority of them cordially approve of it. It may be true that to a considerable extent petitions are in c.lurse of signature at the various Chapels in the min= nexion, lint that the public should understand how 'the above-mentioned petitions were concocted, is the object of the present letter, hoping also that you will consider the matter of sufficient interest to insert it in the columns of your widely circulated paper. At a District Meeting of Wesleyan Methodist Minis • tcrs, held in London, it was resolved to petition Parlia ment against the Government plan, and that directions should be sent to all the SUperintendents of the different circuits to consult with the leading friends of the Circuit, and to prepare petitions for the following Sunday for sig nature. You may judge what kind of consultation took place, when I state the fact that in one of the Bristol Circuits only three persons were consulted, one of whom strongly ex• pressed his disapprobation of such a purely vexatious course, the other two having the assurance of the preacher that the opposition was on ptirely religious grounds, con sented to the dictated course, and this is what is called consulting tise people. However, with all the effort to keep the matter quiet until the Sunday, it became known, and, to the honour of a large portion of the Society here, I have never seen a stronger feeling. of disapprobation ma nifested than upon this attempt to interfere with our civil and religious rights. A letter which appeared in last Saturday's Mercury, from a Wesleyan Methodist, excited general attention, and in the Circuit referred to led to a requisition being adopted, and signed: by nearly the whole of the leaders and local preachers residing in town, requesting the Supeintendent to withdraw the petition ; and I am happy to say that the object was effected, so that no petition made its appearance yesterday in the Bristol South Circuit, as the Distracters would have willed it. But in the Bristol North Circuit, the petition was in all the Chapels, and the would-he-called Ministers of Christ, and his charitable, peace-making doctrines, acted fully up to their " instructions," in converting the pulpit into a rostrum of political denouncement and sectarian anathema tizing. Popery was described by these bigots as having put on its seven-leagued boots, and infidelity, linked in kindred band, was preparing for war against " our holy religion." Under these statements, and coming from such authority, some were induced tl sign it. An individual, and a member, remarked to one of the preachers, [of what 11 that the design was to embarrass the present Ministry, and if possible to induce them by that and sundry acts to abandon office. He said "He knew it, and that was the thing desired." Yesterday they even took the petitions into classes which were meeting for the renewal of their tickets, and one of the preachers called those Methodists " miscreants" who refused to sign. Surely this is not in accordance with Mr. Wesley's direc tions. who says in his advice to preachers, "your business is to save souls." If Methodist preachers are thus to become political par tizans, and make the pulpit the vehicle of political matter, calling those who are conscientiously opposed to them such unchristianlike names, they may rest assured that they will alienate the affections of the people from them, and lead to greater divisions among them than have ever taken place. A very large majority of Methodists are firm supporters of Liberal measures; and who, although they took no part in the late matter of Dr. Warren and I others, have nevertheless been sorely displeased with the Tory political bearing of the Retrospective Magazine, and the Watchman, yet hoped it was to be attributed to the influence of some few individuals at the head of affairs. But finding that an arbitrary effort is now making to attack insdiously a Liberal Government, under the cry of Popery, they well know what steps to take to maintain their rights against magazines, newspapers, and political Wesleyan Ministers' District meetings. Not wishing that it should appear that the Jvlethodists as a body are taking a part in this bigoted and irrational opposition to a measure which, if carried out, would alone immortalize any Government, I have troubled you with the above statement. 1 am, yours, &c. A WESLEYAN METHODIST. Bristol, May 27, 1839. days, BOASTED TORY RE-ACTION IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l herewith send you a copy of a placard exhibited in the window of your spirited agent, Mr. Wiley, No. 12, Haymarket, Sheffield, which I am sure will give you and your Liberal readers much satisfaction. as it has given to thousands of the inhabitants of this loyal Borough. who are neither under the domination of Lord Wherneliffe, the embryo Irish Lord Lieutenant, or Feargus O'Connor, the would.be Premier. Official return of the circulation of Sheffield newspapers Ist Quarter in 1838. Weekly Average, Mercury (Tory) Independent (Whig) Iris (Radical) Ist Quarter in 1839. Independent (Whig) Mercury (Tory) Iris (Radical) tice of the case, Mr. JONES could not agree to the lenient proceeding ecommended by the Noble Lord. Lord J. RUSSELL said—thinking that unanimity in ch a case was very desirable—he would not insist on his pr , (position, nor object to a short confinement of Mr. L o . vibond. . it C, BURRELL disclaimed any vindictive feeling. r. ERLE was of opinion that the case was not justly undte - tood by gentlemen opposite ; and that it was by no s mean means so serious as they represented it. Mr. Austi n ( the eminent' Counsr.l) who had been engaged in the case, hid said that the two petitions were substantially the same, and there bed been no intention to defraud any party. This petitio‘n had been presented,to the House with the knowledge of Mr. Benj. Lovihond, who took no measures on this ease until the BilivesAning to the House of Lerds, and the Parrett Ndvigation Company offered him 160/. 're come forward in the wiy he had done. He trusted tl e .house would see there was no inte.ntion on the part of Mr. 11. Lovibond to do any injury, and would not visit him 'seith serous put.ihne-nt. Mr. FRE SHFIRLD said that althceo,gh ail tampering with petitiouS must be condemned, wt he considered, under the circumstances, enough would bt, done by the in fliction of the least posiible punishment. Ir. HUME did not think there was at:y evidence of se , and ssould suppert the proposition of DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011Monday nfernoon the Noble Lord for a reprimand, a little girl, five years of age, residing at No. 38, Queen- Mr. MILES said the individual at th e b ar had called street, Seven Dials, fell from the first floor into the area ; on him and asked hizn to preyeet the pctitiom_ H, had re- distance of twenty-five feet, and fractured her skull in so commended hint to give it into the hands of some Wmber dreadful a manner that she lies without hopes of recovery. .... 2,033 .... 1,750 .... 923 Patriot (Whigling.) Increase in the sale of Liberal papers, weekly, 1,523. Decrease in the sale of Tory papers, weekly. 26. You will oblige a host of your readers in Sheffield by inserting the above. Yours, &e. A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER •; Turned Tory May 14 1839. BOSTON. A public meeting was held at Boston, on Monday last, the Mayor in the Chair, to address the Queen on the late outrage. The Tories had canvassed the town to obtain a majority, and defeat the object of the requi sitionists, but were completely and triumphantly de feated. The address was proposed by Mr. Alderman Wright, and seconded by Thomas Collis, Esq., a Ma• gistrate. A Chartist address proposed to the meeting by a Mr. Watson, had no seconder. The Tory address was proposed by Mr. K. W. Aling ton, and seconded by Mr. Adams, agent to Mr. Brown rigg, the Tory M.P. for Boston. On the motions being put, the Reformers' address was carried by four to one, amidst loud cheers. This was followed by thanks to the Mayor, proposed by John Rawson, Esq., and seconded by Mr. Alington, after which three cheers, and " one cheer more," were given for the Qeuen, and the meeting separated—the Reformers in high spirits, the poor defeated Tories in doleful dudgeon. The ad dress will be forwarded to Sir James Duke for presen tation. ALLEGED OUTRAGE ON THE BRITISH FLAG. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) On the 18th of April, her Majesty's steam-vessel Medea arrived at Bermuda, bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Douglas, naval Commander-in-Chief on the West Indian and North American stations, being nine days from Jamaica, and eight fr om S an ti ago d e Cuba. On the evening of the 11th of April, the Medea, then off the south coast of Cuba, fell in with a brig, which the Commodore suspecting to be a slave vessel, gave orders to follow, firing guns not shotted as signals for her to heave to. These the brig disre garded, keeping on under full sail, running with the wind on her larboard quarter, and studding-sails set. This appearing suspicious, the Medea followed at full speed, clearing away her 84-pounder on the forecastle, and her gangway 32- pounders. On getting on the brig's larboard quarter a few muskets were fired with blank cartridges, on which the beating to quarters on board the brig was heard, clearly demonstrating that she was not a slaver, but a man-of-war. The Medea being now near enough, hailed, asking, " What brig is that ? Where are you going?" To these questions, though repeated in English and French, there being no doubt she was a French man-of war, no answers were obtained. The French Com mander asked in English," Are you the packet ?" An an swer was returned, " No, the Medea man-of-war ;" after which the Medea, wishing the Frenchman " Good night," stood away to resume her course. When at a short dis tance, however, the Commodore, thinking he could com municate important news from Mexico, ordered Cap tain Nott to run down to the brig, which was accord ingly done. When the Medea, her engines working at half power, had got nearly a-beam of the brig the latter appeared to put her helm down, so as to get under the steamer's starboard bow ; upon which Captain Nott immediately ordered the helm of the Medea to be put a starboard and the wheels backed ; by which, when the vessels came in collision, the shock was very slight, nothing being carried away but one of the brig's studding sail-booms. But half-a-dozen shotted guns were si multaneouly fired into the bows of the Medea. The Commodore, of course, knowing what the ves sel was, and that she had fired from some unfor tunate mistake, did not order the fire to be returned ; and fortunate it was for the Frenchmen under the Medea's bows he did not, for the heavy gun on the forecastle would have silenced or sunk the brig in a very few minutes. The paddles were hacked, by which the vessels were parted, a boat was then lowered from the Medea, and an officer sent on board the brig to demand the cause of their having fired. The French Com mander, when informed what the Medea was and who was in her, became very bumble and penitent, said he had merely ordered one shot to be fired a-head of the steamer, but his order being misunderstood, all the guns which . could be brought to bear upon her were dis charged. He afterwards came on board the Medea. and made his apologies to the Commodore in person. It is with regret we have to add, that one of the Medea's men was so severely wounded in the thigh that immediate amputation of the limb was necessary. Three 36-pound shot struck the vessel, damaging her considerably. The name of the French brig was ascertained to be the Griffon, 20 guns, bound from France to Vera Cruz; it was understood, howeter, that the intelligence communicated by Com modore Douglas, respecting the pacification with Mexico, &c., would cause her to proceed to Havannah. It will be difficult, indeed, for the French to give a satisfactory account of this second outrage committed of late in those seas by their men-of-war. In the first place, the French Commander was woefully deficient in courtesy in declining to heave to when civilly requested ; he was the party that would have profited by the commu nication of the news ; for, being from France, he must have been ignorant of the important transactions at Vera Cruz ; and he must have been aware that any English cruiser, even the packet, could give him in formation ; and, in the second place, a suspicion of the Medea being a " Mexican corsair" is ridiculous ; for to say nothing of her size, not only were two lights hoisted at the foreyard, but the Commander-in-chiet's top and poop lights were displayed. It is strongly suspected he believed the Medea to be the English packet, and conceived he could act the bully with impunity. The following extract, received this morning from Bermuda, bearing date April 24, from the letter of an eye-witness, is supplied by the editor of the United Service Gazette. " On the 11th April, at six, p.m., we left the harbour of St. Juan de Cuba, at seven the Moro Castle bore N.E. by W. three or four miles, saw a brig running down, apparently for the harbour of St. Juan ; altered our course in chase. The evening was rather dark, but still the motions of the brig could be made out ; observed her go about and stand off shore, and set her studding sails ; this manceuvre created a suspicion of her being a slave-ship, as she was in the very track for slaves, at 7.50 fired a blank gun followed by blank musketry, of which the chase took no notice, ranged within hail and spoke her, asked what ship it was, which was repeated three times before she answered, and then she replied by asking if that was the English packet. We answered, No, that it was her Brittanic Majesty's ship Medea, bearing the broad pennant of the Com mander in Chief of the West Indian Station. She then answered that she was the French brig of war, Griffon, from France, bound to Vera Cruz, mutual leave taking then passed, and we parted. I should have before observed, that previously to approaching her we had beat to quarters, and got the guns ready for action, and now, finding her to be a friend, the guns were again secured, and the quarters dismissed. After going a short distance a-head of her, Commo dore Douglas desired the ship might be again brought into speaking distance, as he wished to inform them of the settlement of their affairs at Vera Cruz. We went about and followed her ; as we approached we ob served her closing us, or rather attemting to stand across our bows ; we immediately stopped the engines, and put the helm a starboard, but as we were going at the rate of about nine knots, and she not more than five, and the manceuvre not being at tempted till we were close to her, as a matter of course it brought us foul of her, our bows striking her quarter, and breaking her lower studding booms. Immediately the two ships touched she fired six guns into us ; one man (Matthew Starker, seaman) was severely wounded, obliged to have his leg taken off close up to the hip-joint. The shots struck us be tween the fore-riggi ng an d cutwater, pass i ng t h rough the sides in four places, the chain-cable was cut in two, a splinter from which wounded the unfortu nate seaman. We then, from our engines having been backing all the time, fell astern of her, the French brig hove too, and we sent the commodore's flag lieute nant on board to desire the French commander to wait on the British commander-in-chief, and give an explana tion of his conduct. When the lieutenant delivered his message, the French commander said he was su bewildered, and so out of his mind, that he did not know what he was about. Shortly after he waited on the Commodore. He then said, that being alarmed at our approaching him a second time, not knowing what we were, for we might have been an enemy or a pirate, be had ordered a shot to be fired a-head of us, which order being mistaken six guns had been fired—an unfortunate error, which he sincerely deplored, and for which he submitted the most ample excuses. The ship was found to be so much injured that we were obliged to bear up for Cumberland Harbour, Cuba, to repair damages. The above are the facts taken from the ship's log-book. I should also remark that the French commander spoke perfectly good English, and that the above expressions Life not translations." EARTHQUAKE AT CRIEFF.—About two o'clock on the morning of Friday last, two shocks of en earthquake were felt i❑ this quarter, which lasted about two second:, but the subterraneous noise which accompanied it continued much longer. The weather became soft the next day. —Glasgow Courier. LITER A TLTItE SHEL I, hY' S POEMS. Vol. 4. Moron, London, 1839. The present ♦olume contains one of Shelley's most effective poems, his " Lament for the Death of John Keates," which evinces more real feeling than any other he ever wrote, We find here also his admirable and well-known translation of the " Witch Scene" on the Brocken, from Goethe's Faustus ; his " Witch of Altas"—a strange sort of poetic phantasmagoria— several minor poems on a variety of subjects ; and a few explanatory and biographical notes from the pen of the editor, Mrs. Shelley. SPENCER'S TRAVELS IN CIRCASSIA -2 'From Coburn—London-1839. As we noticed these volumes at some length on their first appearance, a year or two since, we need say little more on the present occasion than that Ihe work has reached a second edition, which, in addition to several notes and minor corrections, contains an interesting ac count of the Austrian military cordon on the frontiers of Turkey and Russia, in the course of which the author—who has evidently taken great pains with this part of his subject—urges the expediency of establishing a similar boundary in Canada on the side of the United States, EARLY EFFORTS. Whittaker, London, 1839. Our attention has been called to this little volume of poems, as being the first production of two sisters, by name Moss, the eldest of whom is only eighteen, while the youngest is not more tban sixteen, years of age. We have perused their maiden efforts in verse with some attention, and with the majority of them have been gratified in no ordinary degree, for they evince much of the true poetic spirit—that is to say, they are steeped in the golden hues of a rich and fervid fancy ; are chaste and simple in expression, and full of healthy sensibility. When time and practice have matured the young writers' genius, we doubt not that they will produce some poem that shall gain them great celebrity. As a specimen of their manner, we subjoin the lines intitled the " Gamester's last Stage." The subject is a back flied one, havin,2: already been discussed, both in prose and verse, at least a hundred times ; still it will bear repetition—especially when treated as it is here by the Misses Moss : " The last stake's down, and the die is cast, ' 'Tis but one throw, and his hopes are past; I mark'd his wild and frenzied eye, As he look'd around despairingly, "[was a circlet of gold, with bright hair wove, The first fond pledge of her early love, The last last thing his folly had left, And now he had lost e'en Adela's gift. Back to his cold and cheerless home The wretched, ruin'd gamester's gone, I followed his steps as he pass'd along, Amid the thoughtless and heartless throng, To that home where bright smiles were wont to greet him, But a different welcome now must meet him; Yet no reproach from her he fears, Save downcast looks and silent tears; But she was lighthearted once, and gay, Till she saw her substance day by day, At the gamisig table wasted away, Till she knew that her husband's heart was changed, Tilt she knew his love was from her estrang'd; While she and her babe were left to die, In helpless and hopless poverty. Yet she chided him not, but strove to deck With smiles her wasted and care-worn cheek; Three days, three sleepless nights alone, She'd watch'd and pray'd for his return, And sad and lonely vigils kept, In the chamber of her dying child ; And oft and bitterly had wept, Or clasped her hands with gesture wild ; She fancied each step of the passer by, Was the one she long'd for so ardently, She fancied each voice that was borne on her ear, Was the accents of him she loved so dear, But the voice was hushed and the step passed on, And she sat in the chamber of death alone." HEMANS'S LIFE AND WORKS, VoL. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1839. We have had more than one memoir of Mrs. Hemans, already, but none so full, so accurate, so, in every way, satisfactory, as that which is now lying before us, and which is the production of her sister, who plays the part of biographer with skill and judgment. Of course, the Memoir is panegyrical throughout ; but there was " a daily beauty" in the life of the poetess that warrants her relation's warmest culogium. Though a woman of superior genius she did not neglect her household duties, but attended as rigidly to the education of her five boys, and the conduct of her establishment, as if she had been one of those ungifted, common-place mothers whom Mr. Theodore Hook, and the writers of his school, hold in such sovereign contempt, because they live in the neighbourhood of Bloomsbury-square, and are oftener to be found in their children's nursery than at Almack's or the opera. Moreover, though generally popular among the higher and middle classes, Mrs .Hemans was utterly destitute of the ambition of showing off as a lion. She shrunk from anything like display, and was never so happy as when living in strict retirement in the bosom of her own family, among the mountains of North Wales. As a poetess, though we cannot place her in the front rank, remembering who were her contemporaries, yet we may assert, with• out fear of contradiction, that she has Written several poems which the world will not " wil lingly let die." Her " Voice of Spring" is one of these, in which we are at a loss which most to admire, the rich glowing fancy, or the pure and truly feminine delicacy of the sentiment that pervades it. In general the great defect of Mrs. Humans' verse is its exceeding redundancy of epithet. She cannot be called a tawdry or inflated writer, but she heaps words on words in her more ambitious and elaborated passages, in a style vt hich, while it shows her command of language, is destructive of all energy. Her minor lyrics—such as her " Willow Song," and her " Palm Tree"—are her best, for here she writes from the heart, and with out any straining after effect. The present Memoir exhibits her as a friend and mother, and indeed in all the social relations of life, in a light which it is delightful to contemplate. A woman of more irreproachable morals, or of loftier and more generous sensibilities, never yet gladdened earth with the sunshine of her presence. In early youth she is described as havinc , been exquisitely beautiful, and of su c h pre coc ious intellect, that at six years of age she had read through the plays of Shaks peare, which " formed her choicest recreation." " The powers of her memory too, were so extraordinary," adds her biographer, " as to be sometimes made the subject of a wager by those who were sceptical as to the possibility of her achieving what she would in the most undoubt ing simplicity undertake to perform. On one of these occasions, to satisfy the incredulity of one of her brothers, she learned by heart, having never read it before, the whole of Heber's poem of Europe,' in one hour and twenty minutes, and repeated it without a single mistake, or a moment's hesitation. The length of this poem is four hundred and twenty-four lines." Mrs. Hemans died in Dublin, in the year 1835, at the age of forty-one ; worn out, as it should seem, by that commonest and most fatal of all our English maladies, consumption. THE WELLINGTON MEMORIAL By the following correspondence it will appear that his Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke Alexander of Russia has subscribed most liberally and magnificently to the memorial to the Duke of Welling ton's military achievements : " Brook-street, le 18 Mai, 1839. " MONSIEUR LE Duc—Monseigneur le Grand Duc Cesarowitch ayant en connaissance que votre Grace est a la tete de la souscription ouverte pour un monument que la nation Anglaise doit eriger en l'honneur du Due de Wellington, a desire aussi se reunir a un hommage si merite rendu aux services militaires de ce grand capitaine ; si sa gloire appartient a l'Angleterre, ses services appartiennent a l'Europe entiere. Son Altesse Imperiale me charge, Monsieur le Duc, de vous faire tenir ci-joint la somme de 300 livres sterling en vous priant de Is compter au nombre des souscripteurs. Veuillez agreer, Monsieur le Duc, l'assurance de ma haute consideration, " COMTE ORLOFF. " A Monsieur le Due de Rutland." " Bolton -street, ce 19 Mai, 1839. " MONSIEUR LE COMTA—M. de Benkhausen n'a pas manque de me remettre la lettre du 18me courant, que vows avaiz daigne m'ecrire, accompagnee de la somme de 300 livres sterling, que Monseigneur le Grand Due Cesarowitch veut bien souscrire au monument que nous allons eriger en l'honneur du Dec de Wellington. Cette souscription mag nifique, fait par un Prince dont le nom illustre et les qualites nobles qui I'ornent ont procedes son arrivee personneile en Angleterre, penetrera avec les sentimens de la plus sincere gratitude, non seulement le Comite qui a la direction de la souscription, mais tousles sou scripteurs et memo la nation Britannique, qui se glori fiera de compter Son Altesse Imperiale au nombre des souscripteurs. Veuillez agreer, Monsieur le Comte, les sentimens de la haute consideration avec lesquels j'ai l'honneur d'e t re, " Votre tres humble et tres obeissant se rviteur, " RUTLAND." We have good reason to believe that the Marquis de Dalmatic, son of Marechal Soult, is to be French Amblitsador in London, in the :place of General Comte Sebastiani. —Morning Post. THE LATE THOMAS HA.YNES BAYLY, ESQ. —lt is proposed to give, under high and distinguish e d patronage, a grand dramatic .and musical performan ce at Drury Lane Theatre, on Friday, June the 7th, fo r t h e benefit of the wido w and children of the abov e - name d poet and dramatic author, whose long illness, terminating in his lamented death, has thrown his p ec uniary affairsiaffairsinto a state of embarrassment. A hos t of prufessors have kindly volunteered to form a committee for the manage ment of the benefit. T .EVENING EVINTION. A :PF..1.1S CUTi-...D LADY. TO THE .F.DtTOR 0 1-I.E / SUN . • • SlR,—The Post of yesterday cout,his a letter headed " The Hastings Correspondence," dated from the Temple, and signed " A Barrister." The Oriental flummery of this epistle sufficiently designates its author ; but by contrasting its high-flown periods with the plain matter of fact of the Court Circular, we see how very easy it is for a Barrister to place himself in a most ludicrous position by his extravagant zeal for his client. In the letter we find such phrases as the following : " The innocent, insulted, and wronged member of the Hastings family, the Lady Flora Hastings, must now be considered under the special protection of the people of England, who, regardless of consequences, are ever ready to extend their powerful and triumphant (!) shield over the helpless, and to expose to the light of day the dark machinations of their oppressors." Again. " The Marquis of Hastings has shown himself suffi ciently well read in the Law of Evidence, to accuse and to designate, especially, the Ladies Portman and Tavistock as having been the principal actors in discussing, (wringing, denouncing, and bringing this atrocious calumny to the notice of the Queen. The Barrister himself must explain his italics as well as his English, and might perhaps take the same opportunity of showing the precise extent of " reading in the Law of Evidence" which is requisite for an accuser. How many pick-pockets would escape if the Courts could only be satisfied with the testimony of such wit nesses as are " well read in the Law of Evidence " ? Another extract and I have done :—" Well and truly has it been said that the romance of real life exceeds i n horrors and crime, the fertile inventions of the most imaginative authors ; nor can there be found, throughout the whole range of fiction, one tale that can compete i* malice and intrigue with these proceedings in the Palace of the Queen of England ; nor can a more humiliating punishment be quoted for a proved crime, than that to which this most innocent and high-born lady has been,' &c., &c. I stop partly to take breath, and partly to wonder where the victim of these horrors can be immured—in what wretched cell she hides her persecuted person — to what remote and desolate region she has flown to escape from the humiliations of her social position. Happily for my excited sympathies the very next column of the Morning Post contains an extract from the Court Circular, from which I perceive that the Queen left town for Windsor yesterday afternoon, and that she was followed by " three of the Royal carriages, containing Lady Lyttleton, Lady Flora Hastings," &c. &c. I hope this announcement will operate upon the Bar rister as powerfully as it has upon me. Let him wipe the perspiration from his brow, and the foam from his lips, and be thankful that the miseries of his hapless client are so effectually concealed from herself, and from all the world, except a miserable few who hope to turn them to account. Yours &c. TIMOTHY PLAINSPOKEN, Reform Club, May 28th, 1839. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen Dowazer, attended by the Countess Mayo, and the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, took a carriage drive to Kensington yesterday, in a barouche and four. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens , honoured Mr. Parnther with his comi ally at his Concert, on Monday evening, at his residence in Grafton-street. The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in a car riage and four. The Duchess of Cambridge came to town last evening, from Kew. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday a ft er noon, at t he Foreign Offic e . It was attended by Viscount Melbou_rotra, Marquis of Lan s d owne , Vi scoun t D unca nnon, t h e Russell, Marquis of Normanby, the Chancellor of r. Exchequer, Earl of M Hobinto, Sir John Lord _J t ? e H ord Morpet Poulett Thoms on , Vi scount H ow i c k, and L a nd bad an or The Council sat tw o h ours . interview The Governor of th e B an k o f En gl with the Chancellor o f th e E xc h eq uer yesterday, in Dovvn incr-street. ° Mr. Lynch had an inte rv i ew w ith the Marquis o f Nor manby yesterday, at the C o l on i a l Office. Viscount Melbourne left to wn a fter the Cabinet C ouncil bousc, Mb yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE• ARRIVALS. Lord Edward Russell, at the Duke of Bedford's, in Belgrave-square; the Marquis Maidillac, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from the Continent ; Lord Newry, from a continental tour; the Lord Advocate of Scotland,- at the Clarendon Hotel, from the north ; Lord and Lady Winchilsea, at ditto; Charles Lamb, Esq., at ditto; the Earl and Countess of Sheffield and family, in Portland place, from Malta ; Lord and Lady Worsley, in Bel. grave-street, from Brighton ; Lord Emlyn, from Oxford ; Lady Ni htingsle, in York-place, from Paris ; Mr. Deni son, M P., in Pall-mall, from the Denbies, near Dorking; Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, in Park. street, from Brighton; the Marquis of Westminster, at Grosvenor House, from Leatherhead, Surrey ; the Earl of Uxbridge, in Bruton street, from Windst,r Castle ; the Hon. James Bruce. from Paris; Marquis of Waterford, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, fr m his seat, Curraghinore House, Ireland ; Earl of Effingham, at ditto, from his seat the Grange. Rotherham ; R. Unlack, Esq , at ditto, from Ireland; Sir M. Chapman, M.P., at ditto, from Tunbridge Wells ; Mr. and Mrs. Sanbach, at ditto, from the continent; Cap" tain Barton, at ditto, from ditto ; Sir John and Lady Hanmer and Lady Chetwynd, at the Hanover Hotel, Han over-square, from their scat, Bedfield's Park ; the Hon• Champion and Mrs. Dymock, at ditto, from their seat, Scrivelsby Court. DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. James Waldegrave, for Brighton ; S ir James Baird, Bart., 10th Hussars, from Fenton's Hotel, for Dorchester ; the Hon. Charles John MurrnY , Bolton -street, for Lord Rosebery's seat, Wa rre , n , " y e n ; Herts ; the Earl and Countess of Tyrconneu, Thomas's Hotel, on a visit ti the Earl and Countess o Egremont, at their scat, near Taunton, Somerset ; S ir Jacob Preston, Bart., from Conduit-street, for „ r : folk ; Sir Thomas Lonard, Bart., from Bryi.to t °, - d square, for Belhus Park, Essex ; the M a rquis • Oote Marchioness of Normanby, from the Clarendon from s for their new r e sid ence i n Hill- s t reet , l ate Si r A. trgsbear- Lieut.-Col. O'Malley, 86th R eg i men t, f or Paris; t he stead , quis and Mar c hi oness o f D owns hi re , f or E ast Hemp Wrks ; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Oli ve i ra , for Sun d' Hill, near Ascot ; the M a r qu i s o f H ea df ort , f o r hallo" Mrs. and the Misses S aun d ers , f rom t h e C aven dish Hate; , for Richmond ; R. H. B. H a l e , E sq ., f rom ditto, fo r f , seat, Melksham, Wilt s ; Willi am Ad ams , Esq., ' ro.- ditto, for the Continent ; Capt a i n G. B eres f or d, from ditto; William Woolsey, Esq., from ditto, for Ireland; 11' Parker, Esq., from ditto, for the Continent ' • G. Bggli Esq., from ditto, for Liverpool ; th e R ev . Cannon a n Mrs. Puleford, from the Hanover Hotel, Hanover. Wa re .: for Wells; Mr. and Mrs. Ceng erf f rom ditto, for Ne" York. ELECTION OF THE SPEAKE PAIRED Campbell, W. F.—Argyleshire Colquhoun, Sir J.—llunbartonsh. Duncan, Viscount—Southampton Fitzsimon, Nicholas—King's Co. Maher, John—Wexford Co. Talbot, J. H.—New Ross OFF-16. , Campbell, Sir H.—Berwickshire,se• Trevor, Hon. G —Caermarth oo Douro, Marquis—Norwich O'Neill, Hon. J. B. R.—Antrin2 Granby, Marquis of—Staraford 1 Max well, Henry—Cavan rby Crewe, Sir George—South I Grant, Hon. Colonel—Elginshire Walker, C A.—Wexford Wemyss, Captain—Fifeshire ABSENT. LIBERALS. j TORIES. Ab , ?reromby, Right Hon. James Gibson, Thomas—lpswich e Edinburgh ;Aamilton, Lord C. I . ,,vrt i „,hire Bentinck, Lord W —Glasgow (ill) Heathcote, Sir W.—S. /1 31 " r Bylkin, J. J.—Galway Co. Ingham, H. -Sough Shield* Brabazon, L rd—Dublin Co. Ker, I +avid —Downpatriek Cowper, flon. W. F.—Hertford Ili errison, Sir E. Eye nl rt hu. Ewan, w.—Wi ../an lOssulston,Lord—North 0 Fazakerley, J. N.—Peterborough I berland ridden, John—Oldham i Spry, Sir S. T.—Bodmin Heathcote, Sir G. —Rutlind Howard, Sir ll.—Wicklow Lo. Rice, Rt. Hon. T. S.—Cambridge Wilkins, Walter—ltadnorshire SNOW SIX FEET DEEP,—Persons i n the sU lt , of the Queen Dowager state that when her Majesty ie't' Palermo the snow was six feet deep there, and that while at Lisbon the weather wa;piercingly cold. The Deputy, Master, and Elder Brethren of the Trinity House have munificently granted out of the private charitable fund the sum of 1001. to the Royal Naval Bene volent Society. A letter from Constantine, dated May 8, says --- 6. M. de Salles, the Aide de-Camp of the Marshal, ar rived here yesterday. Nothing has transpired as to the object of his journey, but it is generally supposed that he brought instructions to General Galbois respecting the expedition which he is about to undertake, and fo which a strong force is a bout to be despatched. Reports have prevailed for the last day or two of the discovery el a conspiracy, in which almost all the Arab authorities were compromised, and the object of which was to stir" prise and massacre all the French. It had not been ascertained whether there was any foundation for these reports." SINGULAR FACTS IN NATURAL HISTOItre' On the estate of Thomas Hartshorne Earl of Skilmo re House, near Stafford, four lambs w hich' had been bereaved c i3 h a a i r c gr e , k, that a if one of them of their dams have recently been adopted by an Alderney cow, which it was intended to let go dry ; and such is the care and affection with which she watches over her nevi greatest uneasiness untii it is found again.—Stafford shir f eggs with the Examiner. —There is now within one hundred yards of is missing she manifests the the farm- house of Mr. James Inskin, of Caldecot, ne ar partridge-nest oirnthwaihnpietholat M fow er l co d r e y P . cellar in High-street, on Wednesday last. The workrr% A singular discovery was made in digging threw up the skull of an animal belonging to a spe ri 7 supposed to be extinct. 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