The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-29 00:00:00

ebta Ellition THE FUNDS -(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock . ......„ ....... .... 119 Indian Stock 281% 3 per Cent. Red ...... ........ 99% Ditto Bonds ..... ----- 95 pm. 314A.er Cent. Cons . per Cent. Red lO l% (Ditto New Annuities ... ew Sji per Cent. lOl Lx. Bills, 1,000/. 134(1... 74 pm. New S per Cent — Ditto 5001. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 77 pm. Jan. 'lB6O l2 7.16 Bank Stock fbr Acct.... 199 Oct. 1859 Consols for " Act.... ... 98% Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Ac ct..., —, , • FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... ... iPortugueSe, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent........... 10214 'Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds — Pruss i an , ' 5 per Cent ... ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — 'Russian, 5 per Cent.. ... ...... Milian, 6 per Cent ••........• 'Ditto, Metallic ...........».».. Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824.....„. - Ditto, 3 per Cent 33% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto , Deferred — Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent.... —t. —c. Greek, 18 - ..5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ..... ........ .... —f. —C. Mexican, 5 per Cent .... Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — ,Dutch, 23(, per Cent.... 61 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100% SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Bl Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Eastern Counties (23 paid) Great North of England, 100 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwall (16/, 13s. 4d.) 7 Lonion and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (Va. 15s. 4d. paid) B% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid . Midland Counties (100 paid) lO4 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... York and Scarborough Branch (‘4 2 paid) Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—We resume our notice of Lord Lynd hurst's Act for simplifying the transfer of property. We have already expressed our opinion of its gene ral merits, but it has incidental excellences which demand special acknowledgment. Besides the drastic purgative which will doubtless work so wholesome an effect upon indentures generally, Lord Lyndhurst, with that elephantine dexterity which loves to disport itself even with the picking up of a stray needle, has bent himself to the " more private an I particu lar" requirements which occasionally befal us. For instance, it would sometimes happen that a score brothers and sisters might suddenly find themselves in common possession of a single patrimonial acre. As the undivided twentieth part or share of the aforesaid one acre would not furnish the most perfectly exclusive and unmolested title or enjoyment, it was not unusual for some mutual understanding to be, come to upon the subject, without troubling the already over-worked profession of the law. But Lord Lyndhurst, well know ing that so long as Lord Brougham lives, it is every man's own fault if he is too much overburthened with engagements, has provided that for the future, no partition, exchange, or assignment shall be valid at law unless by deed. This law has one very great advantage, which does not always belong to Acts of Parliament. It is certain to be obeyed. As no con veyancer for the last twenty years has effected these arrangements by any other means, there is no doubt they will readily obey Lord Lyndhurst's com mands that it shall always be so done for the future. To be sure there would occasionally occur cases—at least we used to be told so—in which the best drawn deed could not be fully relied on ; and the old hands liked to have the further powers of the common law to fall back upon. But this was very unsatisfactory, as we can easily show by a precisely parallel case. A friend of ours wee observed to us the facility with which the human body could balance itself under al most any contingency. He threw himselfinto a variety of attitudes in proof of his position. We showed him at once that all this ingenuity was very unnecessary, by laying him flat on the floor. And Lord Lyn& burst, having, we have no doubt, male up his own mind that the old common law principles and appli ances will never be wanted, has provided not only that they shall not be used, but that they shall cease to exist. There is a decisivenese, a final settlement, about this kind of legislation, which we relish ex ceedingly ; and of which we have seen very little of late years. We did cur best, as every one knows, to defend the Whigs ; but we must confess that their Real Property Acts were very different things from Lord Lyndhurst's. It took them a long Act of some ninety odd sections to substitute other modes of assurance for the old system of fines and recoveries. To say, as Lord Lyndhurst does, that you shall not transfer at all, is a far "sim pler" way of doing the thing. And they were wedded to system. They neverlwent out of their way to leave the thing they were doing. If you took up an Act, you knew at once what was its object, and never expected to find stuffed into some odd corner a section about any other matter. To he sure, they reaped the field of real property legislation pretty clean—we are glad to be able to say that ; but Lord Lyndhurst takes whatever he can come at, and gleans up even the wild wheat, and a good deal of it too. .there always used to be a great deal of mys tery about contingent interests and reversions, and all that sort of thing. No one knew what could be done with them, or who could do it. Nay, some of our legal Gamaliels say even now, that they cannot make head or tail of Lord Lyndhurst's measure. But with submission, this is carrying conveyance croclieti ness a little too far. It must be obvious that "any person" is now competent to convey anything, the only pre-re quisite being, that it shall not be quite certain that he has anything to convey. The disabilities of infancy and coverture are, of course intentionally, abolished at a sweep—as to uncertain interests. There seems, in fact, hut one point on which to hang a doubt. The interpretation clause informs us that the word ' per son' shall extend to a corporation as well as to an individual." Now, which of these is a cor poration sole ? Will his Lordship be so good as to tell the public. Is the Bishop of London an individual ? Johnson, we know, says that an indi vidual is a fellow. This creates the only difficulty we feel. For the rest, we are clear, that how ever remote the contingency, General Tom Thumb may, under the Act, convey whatever expectant in terest he has in being shown some fine day for a hip popotamus. The operation of the Act is to com mence under the auspices :of the new year. But there is one boon for which, as it is no doubt of great advantage, our hopes must be de ferred somewhat longer. We refer to the re conveyance of mortgaged estates by the mortgagees executors. This it seems is not to be allowed " until no action or suit shall be depending." This really is an euphuism of which we did not suspect Lord Lyndhurst could be guilty. Why not Latter Lam mas at once ? And besides, even suppose we could venture so far into the wilderness of con jecture as to hint that the " suit" ought to have something to do with the subject matter (which, as the Act does not say, no judge could listen to for a moment), there is still a sad want of precision. It is not for us to say whether or not a suit is to be considered as " depending" during the half-dozen days' interval between his Lordship's pro nduncing a decree and the appeal to the House of Lords. We are sorry for these blemishes. We are sure the public would have forgiven Lord Lyndhurst, if the five lines which he has rendered unnecessary in all future conveyances had been lumped once for all in the Act itself. STANDARD.—The person who calls himself Captain Warner, has, after some weeks' deliberation published a most impertinent attack on Sir Howard Douglas, in reference to the remarks he made in the House of Commons, on the opinions falsely ascribed to him, in reference to Mr. Warner's invention; in which he insinuates that Sir Howard endeavoured to' get possession of his secret, for the purpose of obtaining for himself the premium to. which it might be considered entitled ! Had not Mr. Warner already put himself out of court by boasting of feats during the last war, of which there not only exists no record, but which every man of science proclaims to have been physically impos sible, we should hardly have insulted Sir H. Douglas so -far as to have weighed his assertions against the grave statement of a gentleman of such uimpeachable veracity and worth as that officer. Mr. Warner's con duct has, however, rendered such course unnecessary; seieral of his statements in support of his inven tion having been shown to be unfounded. We all of US remember the boast of the leafier of Rhodes, and French but place Mr. Warner's destruction of the two French privateers and the performances of his " long range" durin g the last " war," of which there are no rec ords,oraler writte n , i n th e sam e ca t eg ory of achieve ments. Mr. Warner has destroyed his own credit with the'Government by attempting to prove too much, and he has therefore only h h imsel e fto h b b lme for the want ' of confidence which the proof he has yet given O r his . ted. The only f acquaintance with the " long range" is to be found in his grandiloquent accounts of the feats he professes to have performed. But for his cupidity in re qu i r i ng a larger sum for making the proposed experiment than it could or ought to have cost, the Government would, it is clear, have afforded him an opportunity of making good his boast ; but it the destruction, on his principle, of an empty vessel of two or three hun dred tons, can only be effected at the cost at which he has estimated it, his shell will clearly prove too expensive an operation for general use. We need say nothing of the absurdity of supposing, that as it is indispensable that:a certain number of persons in every fleet should be made the depositories of his secret, it could long remain unknown. Nay, it is all but certain that the very fragments of the missiles themselves would carry with them evidence sufficient of the nature of the agent employed. Mr. Warner is angry with the Standard for not placing faith in the rhodomontade in which he has indulged on the miraculous nature of his inventions, but still more for its announcement afevi days ago, that the Government had declined his pro/xi - Sal to destroy a ship off the Goodwin Sands (which he does not deny), and which he affirms they may hereafter regret. We may add, in conclusion, that the iiu lent tone adopted by Mr. Warner to- ;~-~ c ~. wards all those gtntlemen who have expressed an un favourable opinion of his pretensions (some of them officers, like- Sir Howard Douglas, possessing most complete knowledge of the science of their profession), is little calculated to remove the impression to which his absurd vaunts, unsupported by a tittle of evidence, have given rise, - • DEATH OF THE CHAMBERLAIN 01' THE CITY OF LONDON.—We regret to have to announce that Sir William Heygate, Bart., Chamberlain of the City of London, died yesterday, at Roecliffe, Leicestershire, in the 63d year of his age. The deceased Baronet was only elected to the Chamberlainship about fifteen months since. Mr. Alderman Brown has offered himself a can didate for the vacant office. SCOTCH POLITICALREFORMERS. We feel highly gratified in announcing that the foundation stone for a monument to Muir, Palmer, Skirving, and Gerald, the political martyrs of 1793, was laid at Edinburgh on Wednesday, Joseph Hume, Esq.. M.P., officiating as master of the ceremony, and deposited the various documents that had been pre pared in the foundation-stone. If ever the country produced patriots who deserved a monument to their memory, it was these martyrs to liberty who suffered in Scotland at the period referred to. The expression of popular opinion, either through the medium of public meetings or the press, had not obtained any staple footing in Scotland at that period. Indeed, so far as newspapers were concerned, it was nearly twenty years afterwards before Scotland con tained any influential journal that would support the claim for that fair and just possession of the suffrage contended for by the Reformers of 1793. The question of popular representation and of popular rights had not been broached in this division of the kingdom, from the time it was urged in the Scottish Parliament, by Fletcher, of Saltoun, till it was taken up by Thomas Muir and his associates. It was most unfortunate for the cause, that the excesses and bloodshed which occurred about the same time in Paris afforded an excellent pretext for those whose interest or whose prejudices led them to oppose reform; for, besides thus exciting alarm at the new doctrines, the novelty of the proposal had at the same time the mass of the people, particularly of the business and wealthy classes, to win over to it. It was amidst these disad vantages that the Convention commenced its sittings in Edinburgh ; and therefore it is impossible for pos terity to pay too high a compliment to the bravery of those who threw themselves into the breach, Buh -1 mitting, rather than betray their principles, to be arraigned before the arbitrary, uncontrolled judges of the day, who unhesitatingly declared the British con stitution to be perfect ; that it required no reform, and that it was grossly criminal to propose amending it. After having seen so much of the success of the principles urged by the early reformers—after having seen the Legislature and the Crown fully acknow ledge the truths they contended for—one would na turally suppose that with every class of Liberals, it would now be a subject of congratulation that so de. serving a tribute was to be paid to the memory of the first patriots. In the countenance given by one Member of the Legislature, and the Lord Provost of the metropolitan city of Scotland, to the proceedings of Wednesday, we have certainly proof so far of the changes in opinion which have occurred, and of the advantages that have been obtained by the partial re form that has been effected;. still it cannot but be a subject of regret, and it proves how far practice stands aloof from profession, when out of the majo rity of representatives from Scotland, now returned to Parliament in the Liberal interest, only one came forward to identify himself with the first deeds of the champions of the cause on this occasion. It is also a subject which we think deservedly calls forth both surprise and sorrow, that while a majority of the municipal authorities of Edinburgh are decidedly Liberal—while their Chief Magistrate fully acknow ledged the merits of the martyrs of ninety-three, and the soundness of their principles, the same municipal authorities who have so much in their power, declined to grant a suitable site for their monument. It is certainly somewhat unaccountable, that while the streets and public places of Edinburgh have been freely given up for monuments to the memory of Lord Melville, of George IV., and of Sir Walter Scott, no proper public site could be obtained for a monu ment to these memorable sufferers for freedom, and the erection has accordingly to take place in such an obscure quarter as the Calton burying-ground— a place incapable of accommodating even one half the people who accompanied the procession on this oc casion. We cannot conclude our notice of this interesting occurrence without expressing our gratification at ob serving the name of Mr. Moffat, the venerable soli citor, recorded as having taken part in the proceed ings. Mr. Moffat gave his services gratis to Mr. Muir at the time of his trial, and he has zealously adhered to the defence of his memory and the cause for which he suffered from that period to the present. Wednesday must, therefore, have been a memorable day to one who has rendered so much good service to the cause. Mr. Moffat has been a principal means of obtaining the just national compliment to the me mory of the early reformers which is now paid them, and in his declining years it must be no small subject of gratification to see the principles he espoused in his youth so far triumphant, and the fame of the friend he loved and defended so far venerated and done justice to as it has been.—Glasgow Saturday Post. .~5; IRELAND. CITY OP DUBLIN REGISTRY—THE TORIES. The state of the Parliamentary registration for this city affords a practical evidence of the rapid decay of that Orange fervour which preceded the last general election. Day by day the Liberals obtain a majority, and the Tories now can scarcely muster a claimant. On Saturday the Liberals registered seventeen electors, whilst the Orange party did not bring up a single man ! An effort was made by Mr. Cary, who acted as counsel for the Tories, to induce the registering barrister to close the session, but he peremptorily refused. The registry . is again in progress this day, and the Liberals are still increasing their majority. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY—PRINCE ALBERT. DUBLIN, AUGUST 27.—At the last weekly meeting of the Council of the Royal Irish Agricultural Society, the following letter from General Wemyss, Equerry to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, was read : " Windsor Castle, Aug. 12, 1844. " Sir,—ln compliance with the request communicated by you from the Council of the Royal Agricultural Im provement Society of Ireland, I am commanded by his Royal Highness Prince Albert to acquaint you that it will afford his Royal Highness much pleasure in being nominated a member of the society, and you will be so good as to communicate to the Council his Royal High ness's cheerful acquiescence in their wishes. " Your obedient servant, " To the Secretary, &c. Scc." " W. WEMYSS. Ordered,—That the above letter should be acknow ledged, and that Mr. Purcell be directed to take the ne cessary steps for announcing to his Royal Highness that he had been admitted a member of the society, and for presenting to him the society's medal, which bad been gained by him for the best fat animal in the yard at the late cattle show. IRISH CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT. In reference to Mr. O'Connell's opinion on the Charitable Bequests Act, the Evening Post contains the following :—" Since the Act received the royal assent, we have apprised the public of the settled and irrevoca ble opposition of the Irish Catholic prelates and clergy to its principle. I will be seen, by the elaborate opinion of Mr. O'Connell—who, on this occasion, writes as a lawyer, and we need not say there is no higher authority on legal questions—that in principle and in detail the measure is so obnoxious that the Catholic prelacy and priesthood cannot possibly afford their co-operation to the working of the measure, and there is now no remedy save its repeal or extensive modification. We have learned, too, that the supreme authority in the Catholic Church, the Pope, has expressed his decided condemna tion of the provisions of the measure. The only course left for Ministers is to stop all proceedings under the Act, until the next session affords them, or theit succes sors, the opportunity of introducing a Bill froe from the obnoxious clauses in the present Act." MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 24th of August, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of Five years. Epidemic, Endemic, an& Contagious Diseases 268 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lO3 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l4l 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion B5 69 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 9 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c .... 1 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay 63 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified Deaths from all Causes ... 936 946 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER THE ABOVE HEADS. Weekly Average Total. of Five Years, Consumption 34 Scarlatina 93 Pneumonia . Dropsy .. ... .. .. ............ Hooping Cough 9 33 Typhus . Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles 23 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain l4 9 Diarrhoea., Sudden Death; ... 12 15 DISTRICT& ___ West .....•......•...•.152 138 North ........ 180 171 Central East.. 194 207 South 231 242 Total MO ..... $ MIMI:00U 936 946 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1844. HAYTI. ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY TO THE PEOPLE OF HAYTI. HArttAlts,-.-The great body of philanthropists in Great Britain and Ireland, especially those who have been actively engaged in securing the abolition of slavery in the British colonies and possessions abroad, have long taken a deep interest in your welfare, and have watched with no common pleasure every indi cation of the rising greatness and prosperity of your country. Your enemies have pronounced you unworthy of the liberty you enjoy, and have invented a thousand calumnies to injure you in the eyes of the civilized world. But your friends have been prompt to repel those calumnies by an impartial appeal to the history of your great struggles for freedom, and to demand for you that consideration and justice which they feel to be your due. The object of your enemies has been not merely to destroy your character, by exciting the horror and disgust of the ignorant, the unreflecting, and the pre judiced against you, but by that means also to im pede the great work of African regeneration, and the extinction of slavery and the slave-trade throughout the world. In Great Britain this was the case previ ously to the abolition of slavery in its West India co lonies. In France it is the case, now that the friends of human liberty there are exerting themselves to achieve the same noble object for its colonial pos sessions. Such being the fact, judge, then, of the pain with which the sincere friends of Hayti have heard of the unhappy divisions and disorders whit have drawn upon you the eyes of Europe and America, and have filled your enemies with exultation and delight. In the continuance of those divisions and disorders they see the germs of a civil conflict which will exhaust your strength and resources, and make you the prey of a powerful European State which once controlled your destinies, and is still anxious to possess so splendid an appendage to its territories as " the Queen of the Antilles." As the great organ of the abolitionists of this coun try, the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society, in addressing you their sincere counsel and advice, presume not to give an opinion on the cause which has led to the late disastrous events in your island. They deplore its existence, whatever it might have been. They deplore them for your sakes. They deplore them for the sake of Africa. They deplore them for the sake of the millions of your race now held in bondage. They deplore them for the sake of mankind at large, ft,r so long as the en slavement of any portion of the human spec:es shall be continued, so long► will the final triumphs of justice, civilization, and religion be arrested in its course. But the Committee sincerely trust that the events they deplore may be finally terminated; that Hayti may be preserved free and independent ; that stability may succeed to disorganization ; and that the whole body of the Haytian people may feel that whatever cause of dissatisfaction they may have had with the past state of affairs, that now they have the strongest reason to combine loyally and firmly with each other, to promote the welfare of their common country, to develop its vast resources, and to cause it to be re spected lsy the nations of the earth. To the accomplishment of this great end the Com mittee would earnestly exhort you to lay aside all sectional jealousies. Let the parties in the east, the west, the north, and the south feel that there is a nobler object to be gained than mere political pre dominance, namely, the welfare of their common country. Let there be mutual forbearance ; let diffe rences of opinion be healed by wise counsels and ge nerous concessions ; and let it ever be remembered that there is no wisdom in the sword, which is the mere symbol of physical force, not of enlightened reason ; of brutal passion, not of calm deliberation ; of proud ambition, not of self-sacrifice and love of country. Let not the pride of caste and the prejudice of colour dissever you. Strange that the children of a common Parent, endowed with similar mental and moral attributes, influenced by similar affections and passions, should allow the tincture of the skin to form an impassable barrier to fraternal union and generous co-operation. On this point the Committee appeal to you as brethren ; for however much they differ from you in complexion, they reel unied to you by a common origin, and would enforce and practise the common obligations arising out of those natural re lations which were intended by the great Creator to bind man to man in a holy and inseparable brother hood. Let not differences of religious conviction, opinion, and practice, separate you. The rights of con science are of paramount importance. Where they are not respected, no other rights are or can be secure. On this point the Committee appeal to you as Christians, and, with the history of Europe open before their eyes, where they behold the ascendancy of Catholicism on the one hand, and Protestantism on the other, and the bitter fruits which have resulted from it, they would earnestly exhort you to avoid the perils of religious con ' filet. Intolerance of the opinions of others in mat ters of ;religion is the offspring of bigotry ; and bigotry, if it be not controlled by public opinion, leads to proscription and persecution. "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind," is the lan guage of the great apostle of the Gentiles. Let, there fore, those who suppose themselves in possession of the truth use none other weapons in its propagation and defence than those furnished by enlightened reason and the sacred canon of the Scriptures ; and instead of the bitterness of strife, let there he a holy emula tion to follow the divine example of the great Re deemer of mankind, who, whilst oa earth, " went about doing good," and who came into this world, ' " not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." Feeling the deep importance of the subject on which they have addressed you, the Committee have foreborne to appeal to you on the lower ground of self-interest; yet they would venture to remind you that never was there so favourable an opportunity enjoyed by Hayti as the present m•mment offers, for the development of her internal resources and the in crease of her foreign trade. Not only has Great Britain repealed a detestable law, which forbade Haytian vessels and Haytians from entering the ports of her colonies, but her Legislature, during the last session of Parliament, has enacted a law which allows sugar, the produce of free labour, to enter her markets on favourable terms, whilst it excludes that raised by the oppression of the slaves in Brazil and the Spanish colonies. Haytians, you have now an opportunity presented to you of benefiting your country, by the establish ment of peace among yourselves; by calling into ac tivity the energies of your cultivators; by the enact ment of just laws, and their impartial administration ; and by promoting the intellectual, moral, and reli gious improvement of your rising youth. We earnestly beseech you thus to act, and thereby falsify the sinister predictions of your enemies, and realise the sanguine expectations of your friends. By adopting this line of conduct, you will greatly assist the friends of human liberty in every part of the world in their exertions to promote the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade, and will assuredly hasten the coming of that day when the fetters by which millions of human beings are tortured in body, and degraded in mind, shall be universally broken. On behalf of the Committee, (Signed) THOMAS CLARKSON. 27, New Broad-street, London. Aug. 16. THE OLD HOUSE OF COMMONS. Who that has sat in the gallery of the old House of Commons—that venerable building which the calami tous fire of October 16th, 1834, reduced to ashes—can fail to recollect his first feelings of disappointment as he gazed with a sense of wounded pride around the dark and narrow room, and looked in astonishment at Honourable Members grouped in various attitudes of carelessness and indifference ! The aspect of the Chapel, plain almost to rudeness, appears to have struck an intelligent French stranger with a feeling akin to pity, or contempt. "La salle," he writes, " est petite et sans decoration—point de marbre—point d'or— point de peintures."* Its paltry dimensions, confined space, and want of accommodation, could only be adequately described in the vernacular of Cobbett, who possessed the peculiar faculty of disenchanting his readers from all charms of poetry, of vulgarising the noble, and debasing the sublime. " Why," he asks, with the natural indignation of a new Member, " are six hundred and fifty-eight of us crammed into a space that allows to ns no more than half a foot square ? There we are, crammed into this little hole, squeezing one another, treading upon each others' toes, running about to get a seat, going to the hole at seven o'clock in the morning, as I do, to stick a bit of paper with my name on it on a bench, to indicate that I mean to sit there for that day ; then routed out of those places again after a divi sion has taken place, and running and scrambling for a seat in just the same manner as people do when they are let into a dinner-room at a public dinner at the Crown and Anchor or elsewhere." Yet such as it was, " cabin'd and confined," undeco rated for a century, decked only with a new coat of painting and whitewash, destitute of all architectural pomp, unadorned by a single monument of sculpture or art—into that building what intelligent stranger was ever ushered for the first time without a throb bing heart and heightened pulse I Who but has lowered his voice on first entering that room as he felt the genius of the place compelling awe, the deep inspiration of the past ! Mighty memories, sub lime associations, breathe their subduing spells around the stranger. Within those walls the battles of hu manity have been fought, the privileges of freedom vindicated, and the liberties of England won. For not less than ten generations, ever since the gentle * " The hall is small, and with)ut ornament—wanting marble, gilding, and paintings," Edward VI. allotted that consecrated chamber to the • great council of Parliament, the genius and virtue, the dignity and rank, the wisdom and eloquence, of the nation have been there represented. Treasures of statesmanship have been lavishly poured forth in that hall, which there was no prudent hand to gather. There blushed the chivalry of Raleigh, there wept the servile patriotism of Coke, there recorded its protest the faithful loyalty of Hyde. Its floor was once profaned by the hasty step of the unhappy Charles, who left his guards at the door as he faltered into the Speaker's chair—once far more basely desecrated by the stamp of Cromwell, as be crowded the benches of a truck ling assembly with the myrmidons of an usurper. But fearfully was the insult avenged ; nobly have those assaults of despotism been requited by the Acts of freedom—the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights, and the Act of Settlement—those death war rants of tyranny which have since been read there as law. There with an eye glowing fire eloquent as his voice, Chatham spoke for immortality, and triumph ing over physical weakness and bodily decay, made his very crutch an instrument of oratory—there the great Commoner crushed the House of Bourbon, and smote her power with that electrical shock which re verberated in another hemisphere. On that floor the mighty Burke—great even in his failures — threw down the dagger, as a specimen of the pre sents which French fraternity was preparing for his countrymen. There Castlereagh walked proudly up the House amid loud huzzas, with the Treaty of Peace, signed at Paris, in his hand. There Canning called the new world into existence, that he might redress the balance of the old. By the table in that Chapel, afterwards stained with Percival's blood, the brow of the boldest warrior has grown pale, as he stood up to receive the thanks of the House, and with trembling voice stammered forth his gratitude. Blake, and Albemarle, and Schomberg, Marl borough, and a greater even than that proud captain, the hero of a hundred fights, the Duke of Welling ton, have drunk in there the pealing applause which heralded Westminster Abbey. At that bar the proudest of England's peers have bent the head to deprecate the Commons' vengeance ; the governor of millions—the Ministers of State—have there bowed the knee, and in their impeachment confessed the grandeur of ,the great national inquest. There the noblest sons of genius —Bacon, and Newton, and Wren, Addison, Gibbon, Mitford, have sat mute but not inglorious.' There Oglethorpe taught the lesson of humanity to inspect our prisons, and Meredith and Romilly pleaded, against capital punishments, that criminals still were men. These walls have rung with shouts of triumph as the slave-trade went down in its ini• quity. Peals of laughter have awakened the echoes of that chamber to generations of wits—Martin and Coventry, Charles Townshend, and Sheridan, and Canning. The hollow murmurs of sympathy have there rung back the funeral tribute to the elder awl younger Pitt. to Grenville, and Horner, to that eloquent orator, conspicuous among his countrymen, Grattan, who in his dying hour there poured forth his soul. What exhilarating cheers, the only re wards to St. John, for those lost orations which have perished for ever, have there rewarded the ef forts of Pitt and Fox, as they sunk back exhausted ! The forgotten oratory of that chamber would more than balance all that is recorded! Magnificent as the new building may be, adorned with paintings and embellished with trophies of our progress in the arts, far more convenient than the old chamber, in splendour not to be compared, the palace Of senators, and not the mere hall—it can never rival, in the mind's eye, that humbler room empannelled with living memories, blazoned with illustrations of the past. The cloud of light, which filled the old temple with the glory of the Presence, far more than transcended the vivid splendours of the new. Though the rising structure cannot be for centures what St. Stephen's Chapel has been, it will stand, we may rest assured, as the former House, the classical sanctuary of Britain's intellectual greatness, the chosen palladium of her proudest attri butes—freedom, and eloquence, and power.—Towns end's Memoirs of the House of Commons. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 27. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) WOOD V. MONK. The trial of this case was resumed this morning, and several witnesses were examined on behalf of the de fendant, from whose evidence it appeared, that what ever might have been the conduct of the defendant, that of the plaintiff was by no means without blame. It was sworn that he was in the habit of beating and otherwise grossly ill-treating his wife ; that he had been in the habit of consorting with other women to the neglect of his own wife, and had behaved altogether in such a man ner as to leave little or no hope, of obtaining more than nominal damages, if that, at the hands of th jury. The Learned Counsel on both sides seemed to think that it was high time the disgusting detail was put an end to, and the controversy was at length closed by both parties consenting to withdraw a juror. A juror was accord ingly withdrawn, and no verdict given for either, each party being left to pay his own costs. Laidler—Why did Burnley dare to reduce our al lowance of bread and meat ? It was better to be here in the worst prison, than to be there working under an African sun under a short allowance. There was no end to the buckets of beef and bread he sent ashore, while we were left in a shocking state. It's false to say we mutinied. The LORD MAYOR—Why, you admit that you were guilty of mutiny by stating that you disobeyed Captain Burnley when you were bound to obey. It is quite plain to me that you were one of the principal leaders in the mutiny, and take care that you are not called upon to answer to the charge of the person whom you have come here to calumniate. After all the captains of the English vessels in the river had in vain tried to bring you to a proper sense of your duty, the man who ought to have authority over you was obliged, as a last resource, to apply to the King. 1 He had no alternative. Laidler—l have not stated a word that's false. I say, that after being slaughtered and wounded, we were dragged out of the ship and confined in - huts, and two of the crew were killed with poisoned water. The LORD MAYOR—You were not fired upon until you fired and killed two of King Eyamba's men, and I judge from the depositions that you were treated with forbearance to which you had no claim. There is no doubt at all that you all acted in the most des perate manner, and the probability is that Mr. Sharp will look after you and make you responsible. Laidler—l shall take care to look after him and make him responsible. Depend upon it I shall not be quiet till I have justice done to me. I say we were all treated in the most savage manner. My chest was broken open. The LoRD MAYOR —ln the chest of most of the crew were found property belonging to others. You have assailed the characters of others, and depend upon it you will be made to feel that there has not been the least excuse for the course you have been pursuing. Laidler then left the justice-room, declaring that he would try elsewhere for satisfaction. The manner of the seaman was brutal and menacing in the extreme, presenting an extraordinary contrast to the gentle and pathetic description of his suffer ings and feelings on the occasion of his first appli...a tion to Sir John Pirie. Sir JOHN PIRIE most unequivocally expressed his opinion as to the mutinous conduct of the crew, and hoped the statements which had gone abroad had done no injury to the character of Mr. Burnley. WILLOCE U. GREEN THE YOUNGER. This was an - action to recover damages for an assault and battery committed by the defendant upon the plaintiff. Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Cardell appeared for the plain tiff, and Mr. Martin for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was a servant in the em ploy of a Mr. Slingsby, and acted as a cattle-driver to that gentleman, who, it seems, is an extensive agricul turist in Yorkshire. The defendant is the son of a cattle dealer, who, on the day of the assault, had, toge ther with his father and the plaintiff, been at a cattle show at Fishpool to exhibit their stock. It happened that the defendant's father succeeded in obtaining a prize, to the disappointment of the plaintiff. There did not, however, appear to have been any between them; but having afterwards adjourned to an inn, as tkey were standing in the yard the plaintiff drew his whip across the legs of the defendant's father, saying at the same time, " Yeo up, old boy." The defendant's father said, " Don't do that again, my legs are sore." On which the plaintiff said, " I beg pardon, I won't." " Then don't," said the other. Plaintiff replied, " I don't mean to hurt you," and they shook hands, and went into the inn and sat down at the table. Some time after the landlord went out, and meeting the defendant said, " Here's old Willock been whipping your father." On which the defendant ran into the house and was about to beat the plaintiff. One of the company said, " No, no, you must not do that," and prevented him. On which the defendant took up one of two heavy metal candle sticks which stood on the table, and hurled it at the plaintiff as if he tad thrown it at a bullock. The candle stick struck the plaintiff in the face, cut his cheek and mouth, and knocked out two of his teeth, which dropped into his hand. His mouth bled for two or three hours, and the next morning was so swollen that he was unable to eat. Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendant, and contended that the whole of them were a rough set of people, who could not be expected to deal as gently with each other as men in a better state of society ; and he believed that the plaintiff would never have stirred in the matter if it had ►►ot been for Slingsby, who probably was chagrined more by his cattle being beaten by the defendant than he was by the plaintiff's teeth being knocked out, and he hoped tile jury would think very small damages sufficient in the case. The Learned JUDGE summed up the case, and in re• ference to what had fallen from the Learned Counsel re specting the gentleness of the parties, observed that perhaps the jury would think that— " Who drives tame oxen should himself be tame," and ought not to conduct himself as if he were driving wild bulls. The jury consulted for a minute, and returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages, 10/. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) Timothy O'Brien was indicted for cutting and wound ing William Jones. Mr. Cardwell was for the prosecution ; Mr. Wilkins for the defence. The prosecutor was, it appeared, in the month of June last, an assistant to the officer of the Borough Court of Liverpool, and on the 11th of that month he went with Mr. Shanahan, his superior, and some others, to execute a writ of possession pursuant to a judgment in eject ment obtained against the prisoner in the Borough Court of Liverpool. The prisoner kept a provision shop in Charter-street, in this town. On Shanahan going into the shop, before he could produce his warrant, he was attacked by the assistant with an iron bar, such as that with which they fasten shutters, and the other offi cers coming to his assistance, vi ere assailed by the de fendant with a large knife, and driven from the shop. It was found that several of them were wounded. The pro secutor had the thumb of his left hand cut clean away. He had a frightful gash quite across the palm of his right hand, a stab in the neck, and other injuries, He was for some time seriously ill. Guilty of wounding, with intent to maim and do grievous bodily harm.—Sentence was deferred. August 28. The Lord Chief Baron finished the Crown business of these assizes yesterday afternoon, and leaves for London this morning. The civil business will not be completed for several days, as, at the rising of the Court last evening, there remained for disposal no less than 24 common and 12 special jury cases. Mr. Justice Cresswell has now been sitting nearly a fortnight. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. William Laidler, the seaman who appeared before Sir John Pirie, on Saturday, to complain against the supercargo of the ship John Campbell, for bloody and desperate proceedings on the coast of Africa, appeared before the Lord Mayor, according to his Lordship's appointment. Sir John Pirie sat with the Lord Mayor on this occasion. . _ _ The LORD MAYOR stated that the owner of the John Campbell, which had not yet arrived, had re mitted to town an account of the depositions of Mr. Burnley relative to the extraordinary transactions on board that vessel, received in this country six weeks ago. From that account, it appeared that a mutiny had taken place; that several of the crew, of whom Laidler was one, objected to Mr. Burnley as captain, although the appointment was made by the owner, upon the death of Captain Robert Nelson ; and that, so menacing and insubordinate was the conduct of the mutineers, that he was obliged to apply to King Eyamba for assistance, to protect his own life and the property of his employers. From the details of the statement, which showed that Mr. Burnley had acted with becoming zeal, s pi r it, an d di scre ti on , ✓ it appeared that several of the crew had evinced the bloodthirsti ness which had been ascribed, with so much emphasis, to that individual, and had manifested a determination to destroy him. Laidler—All that appeared in my statement was true. We were in a dreadful condition. Wm. Burn ley cut short our allowance, and reduced us to great misery, and he came down with the natives in three canoes upon us, and committed dreadful slaughter and bloodshed. The LORD MAYOR—You knew he was your cap tain, by the appointment o f th e owner, upon t h e d eat h of dapt. Nelson. What right had you to dispute his authority ? Laidler—Mr. Bell was the first mate, and by right he ought to have been captain; but Mr. Burnley thought to carry favour with the owner by diminishing our allowance ; and it was quite impos sible that we could work without being half fed. At the very time that we were kept in that condition he was sending off buckets of beef and quantities of bread ashore to King Eyamba. The attack upon us was dreadful. I was covered with blood. The LORD MAYOR—Why, it appears from the depositions that you poured hot water and fired upon those who went to you on Mr. Burnley's account, to induce you to act subordinately, and that you had written outside the bulwarks, " Blood for blood !" And after all you said the only objection you had for not returning to your duty was, that you would not obey Mr. Burnley as master, but would have Mr. Bell. You persevered in this desp?rate course, not withstanding the advice of the captains of the several vessels on the station. Laidler admitted that the crew knew of the ap pointment of Mr. Burnley to the command of the vessel, but said they would not have him, as he had cruelly shortened their allowance. He said the de positions were false in stating that any hustle measures were taken by the crew until they were fired upon and attacked in the most murderous way by the na tives in their canoes. He denied that the crew had mutinied—they had only defended. The LORD Myron—lt is quite evident that there was a most dangerous mutiny on board. Here is the representation upon which King Eyamba acted in granting assistance to Wm. Burnley :-- " Sire,—ln consequence of the mutinous state of the crew of the ship John Campbell, J. Henry Burnley, master of the said ship John Campbell, peti tion your protection and assistance by going on board for the purpose of quelling that mutiny. Should you fail by fair means in your attempt, I request you to adopt any measures you most approve of to secure the mutineers, for the safety of the ship and cargo. lam under the necessity of resorting to these measures in consequence of the repeated threats to me, and I know ing them to be well armed. "H. BURNLEY. " To King Eyamba." The following representation, it appears, accom panied that : " Sire,—We the undersigned, serving on board the said ship John Campbell, and finding her in a highly mutinous state, quite concur in the necessity of the above request of Captain Burnley to you, as being the only means of protecting the ship and property, and beg you will immediately resort to any measure in your power to quiet the disturbance, as we have used our endeavours, and find them utterly useless. Signed by the English captains in the river. " To King Eyamba." What have you to say to these statements ? Laidler repeated that all the crew had done was in defence; that they had a right to object to any man being captain but the first mate, and that the suffer ings they underwent were most unmerited in every respect. Sir J. Puttn—Do you deny that Mr. Sharp, the owner, authorised Mr. Burnley to take the command of the vessel nher the captain's death ? Laidler— No ; that's quite correct. Sir JOHN PI ME—Then why did you dare say that you would have another person to take the command? UNION-HALL. Yesterday John Leigh, an engineer, was brought up for re-examination, charged with absconding with the wife of John Townsend, a linendraper, and steal ing various articles, his property. The complainant stated, that the prisoner was a lodger in his house, and that for some time past he had grounds for supposing that his wife and the pri soner were on very intimate terms, as he (complainant) was compelled to be absent from home on business very frequently. His fears with regard to their int.rnacy were verified, for on returning lionie on Monday week he found that his wife had gone off with the prisoner, taking with them a quantity of property, principally consisting of clothes. He lost no time in making inquiries, and at length discovered that the guilty pair had taken lodgings in Charles street, Blackfriars-road, where they passed as man and wife, and occupied the same bed-room. As com plainant found several boxes at the lodging with his property in them, he gave the prisoner into custody. Evidence was then adduced to show, that at the time the complainant's wife absconded from home the prisoner assisted in the removal of the goods; and also to show that he and she were living together as man and wife in the lodging they occupied, after their flight from complainant's house. The complainant was cross-examined by the pri soner's solicitor with a view to show that the wife left home with his consent, and that he had desired her to quit his house and to take her things with her on the morning she left home. The complainant, however, denied that such was the fact and declared that he was amazed and shocked on finding she had gone off with the prisoner. The complainant's wife was in attendance and ab solved the prisoner from all blame in the transaction. She was prepared to take all the responsibility of the act upon herself, so as the prisoner was acquitted of the charge. The prisoner, through his solicitor, declared that he was led to believe that the complainant and his wife had agreed to a separation, and that he was not even aware of the description of property removed by the wife. The MAGISTRATE said that an opportunity should be afforded the complainant of prosecuting the prisoner if he thought a jury would convict, and for that purpose he should make the defendant enter into his own re.- cognizance in 1001., and find sureties of 501., to appear at that Court the day preceding the next Central Criminal Court sessions. HOP INTELLIGENCE MAIDSTONE.-The fine dry weather of the last week has had a very favourable effect upon our plan tations, bringing out the hops from the very poles, as the saying is, in some instances, and in others, stop ping the progress of any incipient disease The " College Ground," to which it is so much the fashion to refer, is going on extremely well, and some expe rienced planters, who went over it yesterday, esti mated the probable growth at not less than six bags per acre—others are less sanguine, and set it at five. Other grounds are not so fortunate, but, on the whole, this parish will have no reason to complain. OTHAM, BEARSTED, AND HOLLINGBOURNE.—The hops in these parishes have singularly improved during the past week, and with some few indications of disease, which are quite unimportant, promise well. LOOSE.—The plantations were seldom looking better—the produce will be abundant. WATERINGBURT.—The hop grounds here are most flourishing, and will produce a fair average crop. THE FARLEIGHS.—The hops hero are going on as the planters could desire—plentiful and healthy. BOXLEY, ALLINGTON, AYLESFORD, BURHAM.—The hops in these parishes have very much improved dur ing the past week, and eight or ten days' confirm. ante of fine weather )N ill bring quite an average crop. MEREWORTH.—The fine weather of last week has greatly improved the hops. They are looking beauti ful. In some grounds there will be a ton per acre. There are a few pieces of slight bine in the parish, but not many, and there is no mould to speak of. The picking will commence in about a fortnight or three weeks. THE PECKHAMS.—The above report applies equally to these parishes and the neighbourhood, where the plantations were probably never more luxuriant. WROTHAM AND IGHTUAM.—Very good. Bine plentiful, hops come out well, and perfectly clean. Hopping will commence next week. SEVENOAKS (WEALD PART).—There has been a slight improvement in the hops "below the hill" this week. The young bine is looking a little lively; but it is the opinion of an experienced planter that they are too far gone to be able to rally ; still, a little favourable weather might do something for them, but in the parishes immediately below us, viz., Hever, Edenbridge, Chiddingstone, parts of Ashurst, Leigh, Penshurst, &c., they are past recovery. SEVENOAKS (TOWN PART OF ILPLAND).—The hops on the Stone Shatter are come out beautifully ; the bine strong and healthy. Accounts from all quarters agree that on the Sandstone Ridge, from Reigate on the west to the county town, there is scarcely a bad piece. The mould has made a slight appearance at places.—Maidstone Journal. BATTLE.—The fine weather has considerably im proved those plantations which had not been altoge ther ruined by the blight; but the latter remains altogether unchanged, or is getting worse. CANTERBURY.—The late cold nights have not much favoured the hops, though an improvement is still visible. In many grounds the burr still hangs back, but it is hoped a few warm days will remedy this. The average per acre is said to be about 4 cwt. for this place and neighbourhood. CRANBROOK.—We shall not have a bin put into many grounds here, as there is not a hop to be found in them, but what little there is has been doing very well with the late fine weather. FARNIIAM.-Our hops are very much improved within this last week. Picking will be general about next Monday. They are generally fine and good. MAYFIELD.—The hops have certainly improved within these last few days, except where the vermin had weakened the bine to such an extent as to render it, in appearance, almost dying.—Sussex Advertiser. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) Business remains in the same state as last week ; the yarn market being steady with firm prices ; the goods market very quiet, with a slight tendency to decline. Stocks of every kind are still very low. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, AUG. 26.—The market today has been but dull, and the business transacted very limited. The wool market has also been very quiet, with no change in prices. Another failure of a small manufacturer is announced, and the chief creditors are, as usual, the wool dealers. THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH DAY OF THE REV. ROWLAND BlLL.—This event was celebrated yesterday by the members of the Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars- road, giving a dinner on a most exten sive scale to the children of the Surrey Sunday Schools. Upwards of 3,000 children, male and female, bearing flags, and attended by their respective teachers, were present, and the Rye presented a most animated appearance. Tents were erected on different parts of it, where tables were laid loaded with good, substantial fare, of which, it is needless to say, the youngsters made ex cellent use. Tea and other refreshments were provided for the youthful guests in the afterno.n ; and they turned home late m the evening, evidently delighted with the day's entertainment, and, no doubt, approving highly of the way in which the centenary anniversary of the birth-4y of the founder of tneir OM was celebrated. CROMWELL AND THE NAVY. During the disturbances in the reign of Charles the First the managing officers of the navy were directed by the King to refuse obedience to the orders of Parliament, and a number of ships having been carried away by Prince Rupert, the naval force of the country was reduced to so low a state, that at the beginning of Cromwell's government he had only 14 ships of war of two decks, carrying 40 guns ; but under the careful management of very able men in different commissions which he appointed, such vigo rous measures were pursued, that within a short time, though engaged in war with the greatest naval power in Europe, the fleet was increased to 150 sail, of which more than one-third were two-deckers. The navy was by Cromwell raised to a height which it had never before reached. During the Dutch war Cromwell's cruisers took no less than 1,700 prizes, valued at two millions sterling, from the enemy. England was victorious in five general engagements by sea, in the course of which the ablest commanders that had ever been in the service of the States of Holland—such as De Ruyter, De Witte, and Van Tromp—were vanquished. Never was greater at tention paid to the navy. Old vessels were not only carefully repaired, but new ones of a larger size built. It was discovered that Raleigh, notwithstanding his great talents, had committed an error when he main tained that a ship of war ought never to exceed the size of 600 tons. Sealed orders seem to have been first resorted to in the Protectorate, which forms a memorable epoch in the naval history of England Blake, the glory of his age, taught us that wooden walls are superior to stone walls, and that a castle could not resist ships well stationed and bravely fought. Blake performed an action in the Mediter ranean infinitely more daring than the recent attack made by the French on Tangiers. Having presented himself before Tunis, the Dey, by way of reply to a message demanding the release of some Englishmen, who were in captivity, desired him to look at the castles at Porto Ferino and Guletta, then do his ut most. Blake, roused by this bravado, immediately stood into the bay, and having carried his ships close up to the fortresses, he commenced such a severe cannonade, within musket shot, that they were soon destroyed. He then manned all his boats and burnt every ship in the road, including several corsairs, which had long infested the trade of the Mediter ranean. This gallant action spread the terror of the English name along the coast of Africa, and not only the Tunisians, but the pirates of Tripoli and Algiers were glad to agree to an accommodation. HERRING FISHING IN LOCIIFINE.—We are de lighted to learn the most favourable accounts of the her ring fishing in Lochfine. From the commencement of the season, the labours of the boatmen had bees rather unsuccessful ; but on the evening of Friday week the herrings appeared in immense numbers, and the fishing of that night and Saturday morning was one of the most abundant which has been known in the loch for thirty years. The greater part of the fish on this occasion were taken in the loch a mile or so above Inverary. On fishingade from two to three miles was equally abundant, the Monday heaviest hauls night the being m be low the town. The abundance of the shoal may be learned from the fact, that some of the boats had taken upwards of 50 maize at one hauL From Saturday till Tuesday, the price for curing was 3s. the long hundred; but should the fishing continue good, it will of course soon be less. The quality of the fish is excellent. We are happy to observe that the accounts from the other fishing stations, viz., Dunbar, Berwick, Aberdeen, Wick, &c., were, at the close of last week, much more agree able than they had previously been.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette. ---____ CLERICAL INTOLERANCE.—On Sunday last a scene occurred in the cemetery of Christ Church which has been the subject of much remark in the town during the week. Michael Roche, a young man, who had been a member of the Rational Sick and Burial Society, and who, in his last moments, had intimated a desire to be d oc e c a a r s b io r n o , th o e n r,, c , omine• buried in the above cemetery, was brought thither for interment by his mourning relatives. The Rev. O'Neil of the c" Pratt, minister of Christ Church, who officiated on the begins, " Forasmuc b h as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our to that portion of the service which the friends d m ec a e d as e eadriuns nagundagbeewgahnichtowaadsdrceasls culated deeply to wound their feelings, and which was uttered in a passionate and scolding tone, very ill adapted to the solemn occasion. He told them they ought to have been ashamed to bring the deceased there for inter ment, because he had lived and died an infidel and an unbeliever in the doctrine of the resurrection. The by standers implored the reverend gentleman to consider the feelings of the relatives, but he was deaf to their en treaties. He proceeded to make some remarks on the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the body, putting questions to the friends of the deceased, to which he pointedly desired an answer, as if he wished to pro voke discussion, and yet when they attem pted to speak, he threatened th em with punishment if they v entured to interrupt hi m . Th e p or ti on of the burial service above re ferred to was not read. A large crowd was collected on the occasion, and on all hands the violent excitement and un seemly irritation of Mr. Pratt are severely condemned, as unworthy the clerical character, and very unbecoming , the occasion. W e un d ers t an d that two siste rs of the de ceased who are Roman Catholics, were present at the funeral. A complaint, in regard to Mr. Pratt's conduct, has been forwarded to the Bishop by the aggrieved rela tives, but, we believe, no reply to it has yet been received. —Macclesfield Chronicle. [ADVERTISEMENT].—A STARTLING CURE BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A gentleman named Knightly, late of the West Indies, but now residing in Vauxhall road, Liverpool, had suffered for many years with a de ceased stomach, with flutterings and a sinking at the pit of the stomach, and palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, with a continual craving after substantial food, together with a depression of spirits bordering on me lancholy. He paid hundreds for advice without obtain ing the least benefit, but, however extraordinary it may appear, he was radically cured in about six weeks of all his ailments by these wonderful pills. Sold (also Pro fessor Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Rollo vay's Es tablishment, 224, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medi cine throughout the civilised world. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN W MEN. It is a strange thing, that, all over the world, in America, and in Europe, there should exist such very unfavourable opinion of English labourers, and that their undeniable skill and industry in their par ticular vocations should be unable to remove the uni▪ - versal impression of their immorality, lawlessness , ignorance, and brutality. Even where it is found necessary to employ them this is always done reluct antly and fearfully. I was in Austria shortly after the English labourers had been dismissed from the railroads making there, because their turbulence, brutality, and drunkenness, occasioned all kinds of riots and accidents. I went to Saxony, and found that there, too, all the English labour'e;'s had been turned away, because their conduct was found quite insufferable. I went to Frankfort, and met a papi▪ er mache manufacturer, who told me, with ruefu l shakings of the head, that he was indeed compelle d to employ English labourers in some parts of his business, because they understood their business so well, and were so remarkably skilful in it, but that he longed to get rid of them because they were the most troublesome, ignorant, and unmanageable of his workpeople. I went to Belgium, and read an inte resting report of an English Poor-law Commission, in which the evidence of a great manufacturer, of I Philadelphia, concerning English labourers, was given at full length. This gentleman testified that or j fifth of the workpeople in the American factories ere foreigners, most of them Englishmen, who'll however, the manufacturers employed very unwil lingly, on account of their being so " dissipated and discontented." They were, besides, universally dis liked, because they were so gives: to drunkennes s. The American_ labourers are always found better educated, more intelligent, and less givezi to sensual indulgencies. No strikes or combinations of work men are ever known among the American labour.°o as among the English, who are always combining t° force higher wages from their masters. The soPe; riority of the American labourers is chiefly attributeo to their superiority of education. The America masters are always very particular in having tho children of their labourers sent regularly to school.--- Kohl's England and Wales. IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER.—The MetropeP' litan Improvement Commissioners having decided on, opening a direct communication from the new Houses of Parliament to the north-west district of London, various plans and estimates were sent in, the majority of which were rejected, in consideration of the large amount or compensation which would be demanded by the owner* of household property in the respective localities. Tha line has, at length, been definitively marked out, and is contract concluded for two-thirds of the work. Th e f new street will commence at the western extrensity i : the Houses of Parliament, running in an oblique ) ;l e from Abingdon-street to Eaton-square, from whie' point there is already a corresponding continuation tc r the Great Western road. By the formation of this street, two very desirable objects will be attained- It will afford a nearer and more convenient approal to the Houses of Parliament, the Law Courts, 00 the Government offices ; whilst the removal of the merous obscure streets, courts, and alleys, in that Pat of - Westminster, will serve to abate a nuisance which has become so intolerable as to call for legislative repro' hension. A great number of these dilapidated ters e ' ments have for some years been inhabited by persons ° the very worst class ; the property belongs chiefly to _ k i ll. Dean and Chapter, who are naturally anxious to brew" up this " den of thieves," and as the existing leases t' nearly run out, the compensation demanded cannot 1 /‘' considerable ; it is assumed, at least, that it will be no impediment to the prosecution of a scheme which r r , mises an ample return for the capital invested, and wilw' d is still further commended by utility, convenience, 1111 decency. The new street is to be of the same width 56 Regent-street, and will be of nearly equal length. Grea t part of the line, which passes through Pimlico, fronting Buckingham Palace stables, has been cleared already' In those streets which intersect the line through 1119 other parts of Westminster, the workmen's operation! are delayed only until the present occupants are expelle°' Mr. Rigby Wason, late Member for Ipswich, il sji ,„ contracted for two-thirds of the line, at a O P " much below the Government surveyor's estimate. C e , le netted with the above improvement another project In"' been revived with some prospect of ultimate adoption' namely, the erection of a bridge across the Thanes' from the Horseferry-road to Lambeth-stairs, at the n'''" of Church-street, close to the Archiepiscopal Pall e ; This scheme was mooted nearly twenty years back ;,-; prospectus was at that time issued, and a Bill broug u . into Parliament with a view to the issue of shares 1.0:1 building a bridge by a joint-stock company. It ° L e with so little support that the Bill was rejected, and Im o project was consequently abandoned. However, it eel, that it is now regarded with more favour ; the Ar e ,. bishop of Canterbury and the Marquis of Westrctins; having withdrawn their opposition, it is not improba bi i that the sanction of Parliament would now be obtai na _": should the application be renewed ; more especially a bridge at the point indicated would form an aPP II:, priate continuation of the new street, and facilitate con; munication between the northern and southern distri e of the metropolis. WANTED A COACHMAN.—Yesterday, the ef te s noon down-train had duly deposited the passenger s - a the Southend coach on the platform at Brentwood, and they were busily scrambling for trunk, band-box, an d brown paper parcel, or occupying inside, roof, and dickey' when it was suddenly discovered that the box was vacan t ' Quick came the inquiries— " Lost, strayed, or stolen, Or fall'n through a hole in The carriage-floor is the coachman gone?"-- - but no traces of him could be found, till some one re', lected they had seen him trotting along the platform a • Shoreditch, and crying " Wo, wo" in his most perstussi e style to the starting engine. But steam-engines und er ; stand not the cries of stage-co ac h men —they have o °, been broken in to them ; so g i v i ng ano th e r triumOb an . i , snort it only scudded along the faster, leaving big° l f London, to add railway trains to the old proverb !, " time and tide," &c., and the p assengers a t Bretitt ° T,, bridling up and disputing amongst themselves wnw b should enact the part of a sick m e mber of a benefit cl e ' and go on the bor.—Essex Herald. THE NEW FACTORY ACT.—This Act will shor tl y b , come into operation, and by one of it s pro v isions an ii street of the law is to be hung up o n a mov eable h° rci in every factory. The four Inspectors of Factories joint report made to the Home Secretary express tig t ,, opinion on the importance of having an abstract from re d source the weight of whose authority w ould be defer Iv o to in questions arising on the interpretation of the be statutes; their own words show the necessity of t b P i guidance they seek:—" The enforcement of the Ine i , c . prosecutions is committed to us a n d t o th e sub-insr o . tors who act under our directions ; it is therefore veil"' desirable that the abstract should s how distinetlY, til", or extent to which the Factory Act has been repeale a a altered by the amending Act, for the information " 0.4 guidance of ourselves and the sub-inspectors as we l f ol the mill-occupiers and their workpeople. Upon a re ,. and anxious reconsideration of this subject at our P re , sent meeting, we have come to the resolution of d i, questing respectfully that you will be pleased to giv e .1 rections that such abstract be prepared by your 1%, advisers with as little delay as possible, being of opi n e it should be prepared and emanate from a 3.°11 the weight of whose authority would be deferred tots, questions arising on the interpretation of the two s u o tutes. Thus, when prosecutions take place we 511° 1r be able to refer to the abstract as containing not oOr terpretation of the law, but that which proceeds r ° oo ,, competent legal authority, whereby much so isconstL.i, tion will be avoided, and greater uniformity in the ev" sions of magistrates secured." to THE lIARVEST IN KENT.—We are delighte d , 1 state that the wheat harvest is going on most favourfludi; and will be completed throughout mid Kent during, re , present week. In our next we shall give a genera l view of the crop.—Maidstone Journal of yesterday- WHOLESALE ARREST OF THIEVES.—The police, to clear Vienna of the crowd of vagabonds ", thieves which infested it, has just arrested 400 of theor, together, and has had them taken off at once to the g leys at Venice and Trieste. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at St. John's Church, Margate, ",. I •2late Scott Holmes, to Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Christopher Atkins, E.sq., of Blackwell. On the 27th inst., at Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, la:gr. sonby Arthur, eldest son of the Rev. Henry Moore, of y hale, Kilkenny, to Augusta Sephia, oungest claug,7, - do• Major-General the Hon. William Henry . r , ry (Urdu °"-- gan-place. 01 10 On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras Church, s' ll „",,ao Frederick Hamilton, Esq., of Kentish-town, to Marv , ”ace, daughter of the late G. Richards, Esq., of Beafor a.r- Ham Onstead -road. the 27th inst., at St. George's, Hanover.square ,t Rev. Edward Baines, Rector of Bluntisham, Hants , t° %htb: ,44 rine Eularia, youngest daughter of the late J. Baines' o f Shooters-hill, Kent. f '0 1 " On the 27th inst., at Twickenham, Mr. G. RO ll 9 , 1% cot-place, Lambeth, to Elizabeth, eldest daugh ter oi Bowyer, of Twickenham. D On the 21st inst., at Margate, Henry, third son (4'oo 11Ite lED. Samuel On rooke B, Esq. , 34. the 22d inst , at aged Chiswick, Middlesex, Denali . Ri ce, _ _ E O sq., late of the c st.ity of Dublin. On the 22d in, in Fenchurch-street, S. Tornpsett, Egijoir On the 22d inst., at Gosport, Elizabeth Margaret, of the late John Lowes, Esq. gif irs On the 25th inst., at the house of Captain Thorson I_,srd near Shrewsbury, Edward William, thir d son of 'Cu' Mane, Esq. •no ug e6t On the 26th inst., at Clapham, Thomas Linton, son of the 11ev. Charles Bradley. f 0 I London: Printed and Published by MIJRD 11 ; No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 0face , ,:,..41 01 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the , d""'" Middlesex, Thursday, August 29, 1844. BIRTHS. 1 1 On the 22d inst., at Aire, near Geneva, the lady of Sir 0 - /3 . Charles Thorold, Bart., of Syston-park, Lincolnshire, of sr°tb, On the 24th inst., at St. George's-terrace, Hyde-1) 1114 c ll° Mrs. Price, of a son. gbte r " On the 25th inst. , at Dover, Mrs. R. Bennett, of a cia.,.°-„/ T. On the 26th inst., at Park-hill, Clapham, the wile " Dunnage, Esq., of a son. Oil ° On the 27th inst., at Lower Tulse-hill, Surrey, the of Mr. T. Thompson, of a son. A tbs On the 27th inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Camden - ro a- ' wife of Mr. Edward Doyle i of a daughter. fi r, On the 26th inst., at Hghfield, Exmouth, the lady ° C. Cole, Esq., of a daughter. WO' On the 26th inst., the wife of Alexander Allan, a. wick-terrace, Hackney-road, of a daughter. i Or' . ri- On the 27th inst., in Upper Harley-street, the . 0- n. Petre, of a daughter. ___.----- C on . ably to , Cep Con • 4 a: • be Say At ** la 6 • - 4 61 • a