The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ?ROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAT. GLOBE.—The proceedings in the case of Barber, Fletcher, and their less guilty accomplices in the Wills Forgeries being closed, and sentence passed upon the criminals, the restraint under which, peudente lite, the public journals properly regard themselves as placed by the respect which is due to the administration of justice, is removed. The case was marked with incidents so re aarkable, that public attention has been excited is aso o'tdinery 6gree by its det ec ti o n an d d eve l opment. The property obtained by the conspirators was large: the plane by which they effected their objects were at once skilfully devised and boldly executed. The annals of 06018 have furnished few instances of criminal adroit ness more extraordinary. The closing of the scene was in keeping with the superior cunning of the chief crimi nal, Barber, who must be considered the master-mind in the nefarious schemes of extensive fraud and forgery. Barber's address to the Court, yesterday, on being 'called up for judgment, was remarkable for plausibility. It was delivered with an earnestness well calculated to impress persons who were but imperfectly acquainted with the facts, as they were established upon the trial in unquestionable evidence against him. Those who had - watched and weighed that evidence will remain un changed in judgment as to the justice of the verdict which has involved bins in the consequences of the crimes to the commission of which he had been acoesaory. such persons only see in his efforts to clear himself from the imputation of guilt, a confirmation of the evidence on which he has been convicted. A man so shrewd—so capable of ad justing and ingeniously reconciling apparent contradic tions, and suggesting doubts—whose self-possession, under circumstances so calculated to unnerve and overwhelm men of ordinary minds, was almost unpre cedented—that such a men should have alloyed himself to be entrapped into such a scheme, and to become the principal agent in a series of transactions, almost every step in which, from the concoction to the completion, was pregnant with suspicion—is en assumption so rannstrous, that no men, and especially no twelve men, acquainted with the rules which direct and govern the ordinary transactions of society could bo expected to adopt it. Assume that Mr. Barber was an innocent agent in the extraordinary series of crimes, in which he was charged with having a guilty knowledge and parti cipation, then it must also be aisumed that he—an attorney, celebrated for professional tact, and possessed of intellectual discernment and vigour surpassed by few —acted throughout a protracted period, and in a con siderable number of transactions, with a blind credulity which could only be the associate of inexperience the most absolute, and of weakness the most pitiable. Nay, more: he, an innocent agent, acting (he would have it believed) as an honourable solicitor, strictly adhering to profes sional rules, and having no further interest in the trans actions than that which is derived from the ordinary management of such business—is positively found so acting, against numerous warnings, as to accumulate against himself a mass of circumstantial evidence of a character so strong, that in each individual case it amounts to grave presumption—in the case on which the verdict of guilty was pronounced, to satisfactory proof) and. taken as a whole, to absolute demonstra tion. If Mr. Barber be the innocent man he asserts himself to be, then is there no force in evidence. No jury would be henceforth safe in pronouncing a verdict of guilty. Because, as the facts on which an indictment is founded can only be known to a jury by the ordinary medium of oral testimony, on which they are called upon to decide by the application of reason, and on the solemn responsibilities of the oath under which they deliver their verdict—if sueb an accumulation of evidence as that by which Mr. Barber's guilty knowledge was established in the Slack case, be regarded as defective in bringing the case home to an accused party, under such circumstances, np indictment for conspiracy can ever be successfully prosecuted. Society would be pe tilled by the impunity which would be afforded to adroitly-executed frauds and forgeries. No case would be henceforth established, if the evidence against Barber were to be held inconclusive of a guilty participation. No convicted person, in our opinion, ever passed from the bar of justice to suffer the punishment which the law affixes to his crime, more righteously and satis factorily convicted than the criminal whose case has called forth these remarks. In this opinion, we have reason to knew there is a very general concurrence. The profession most competent to appreciate the force of evi dence, and the merits of the defence set up on behalf of Mr. Barber—that he took no share in the transactions but what was in perfect consistency with his position as a professional man, acting with integrity for the in terests of his client—repudiates the defence, and approves of the verdict. The class from which London juries are selected—so far es we have opportunity of hearing —is equally unanimous in this opinion. By affirming the verdict of the jury which convicted Mr. Barber, they declare that they also must have arrived at the same conclusion, had they been called upon, as jury men, to pronounce a verdict on the evidence. Mr. Wilkins, in his conduct of Barber's defence, displayed much more courage than discretion. The difficul ties of his position will go far to plead in extenua tion of any ebullitions of temper into which he was betrayed ; and we would be unwilling to press them to the injury of his professional reputation. But, whoever heard, or has read, the attack which, in the exercise of his forensic privilege, the Learned Gentle man made upon Mr. Freshfield, the highly respect able and justly esteemed Bank solicitor, must have regretted the facility with whi c h M r . Wilki ns can sin the gentleman in the advocate. As a matter of taste, it was villanous, and could only reflect upon the source whence the coarse and unmerited aspersions emanated. As a matter of tact, it was calculated to injure the accused, in whose cause he employed the vituperation. Instead of propitiating, it manifestly tended to prejudice the jury. What must be thought of a cause, in the defence of which the counsel deemed it r.ocessary to travel out of the facts, to attack the motives, and impugn the veracity, of one of the most honourable and high-minded men in the City of Lon don ? As Mr. Wilkins is, we presume, a lawyer, he will, perhaps, take some mode of explaining the mean ing of the following passage in his short speech of yesterday :—" In order that my Learned Friends on the other side might not be taken by surprise, I now inform them that it is our intention to avail ourselves of every constitutional means of ren dering the verdict in the last case nugatory, by appealing to the highest legal authorities of the land." The jury have decided on the facts. No attempt was made by the Learned Counsel to arrest the judgment by any objections to the framing of the indictment. If any doubt existed as to the justice of the verdict, the whole proceedings would be revised at the Home-office. But as to " the highest legal authori ties in the land" being appealed to, where no legal ob-'' lection 10 the conviction is alleged, we are disposed to regard the intimation as an outburst of Mr. Wilkins' impetuosity, rather than as an emanation of deliberate judgment. STANDARD.—Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe last night manifested a very strong disposition to take the short-time question out of the hands of Lord Ashley, ard repeated, with very little alteration, the attack made in the Times a few days ago upon the Noble Lord's proposed plan of action. Lord Ashley con tented himself with showing that his proposed line had the cordial approbation of the par ties most deeply interested and most competent to form a correct judgment. Little information, however, would be necessary to satisfy one whether a public cause, or anything e l se , wou ld b e more safe in the hands or Lord Ashley or Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe—or of the two whose name would be most satisfactory upon the back of " a bill," every one will under stand us as speaking of " bills "—in Parliament, not of those bills, the sale of uhich at a reduced price has been now and then placarded in Palace-yard . The introduction of the ten hours question led to a long and painful altereation, in which the parties were Mr. Ferranti, Sir J. Graham, and Mr. Hogg. It is but jus tice to those parties, however, to say that they very re luctantly squandered the public time upon disputes chiefly of a personal character, but they were in a mariner driven per force into a wrangle by the make-bate zeal of Messrs. Roebuck, Hume, and (appropriation) Ward, who having fairly set them by the ears, rubbed their hands, grinned, chuckled, and crooked their hams like " dog fighters ;" illustrating a remark that we have all had occasion to make at school, that quarrels and boxing matches are rarely made for themselves by boys of strength and spirit, but made for them by feeble, fearful, ill-conditioned little wretches, who like a fight, but like only to be specta tors. This painful and useless altercation is, it appears, to be revived to-night, if the make-bates can manage it ; but we trust that the gentlemen expected to act the principal parts will feel too sensibly and too justly what is due to the public, to be accessory to the wasting of the time or Parliament in unprofitable squabbles. Each, no doubt, think s hi mse lf r i ght, for all three are men of h "nour but each may be wrong, for they are fallible like th e rest of us ; but, whoever may be fall bark upht or wron , happily g on t each has a character to 00 pure and too fi rm ly es t a bli s h e d to render necessary any Vindication of it upon the present oecasion. The most serious charge-is that against Mr. Hogg, in respect to his vc.te upon the Nottingham Elec tion Committee. It seem e d to us at the time that the vote was wrong, and the more w e have considered it, the more thoroughly are we satisfied that it was a vote against law and evidence; but though, undoubtedly, such a vote is, prima Jade, a just groun d of suspicion against th e integrity of an unknown man, Mr. Hogg's uprightness and honour were too well known to ns, to allow that we could ascribe his error to anything but an ex cess of self-distrust, or to one of those crotchets which are very, populous in the heads of old lawyers. We will not, however, pursue the subject further than to say that Mr. Hogg pays the penalty which every man, just just and honourable —aid there is no :wire rs or honourable man than the Learned Member for Beverley—must pay for havi ng given a wrong vote, the pen alty of being suspected of unworthy motives by those w ho knew nothing more of him. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price current of April 23.) 817 C A n.. To-day buyers of British Plantation Sugar were flusireus to purchase; merchants manifested firmness, and a good business was transacted in all descriptions, considering the scanty show; the prices given are equal to those of Friday ; several of the brokers have nothing to offer for sale; one pareel of 160 hlads St. Kitt's sold at 61s to 63s for grey, 111 id 64s 6d for yellow. in t; Go r Ti o rp s •—To-day th ere was no var i at i on i n the pr i ce o f Re e d ; several p urc h ases were ma de _ by the home trade; th re fi ners are no t W i lling sellers. Bonded Crushed Sugar is in improved demand, and prices are firm; sales made at As 9d to '263 per cwt for first qua li ty. for loaves. The market is firm_ Af•URITIUs.—This afternoen 513 bags were submitted to public competition, and nearly all sold at steady rates: g‘nod end fineelioT at 64.1 to e:5313c1, 02s Gel to e . ,33 ed, 107 . 604 I to 61s 6d, strong grey 62s to 62s 6d, mid 60s 6d to 61s, low ' 59s 6d, and fine brown .59s to 59s 6d per cwt. Karr INDlA.—Bengal Sugar has been in excellent request, , and the prices paid are 6d to is p e r cwt above those of the last i public sale. This afternoon Bengal Sugar was in request, I and 726 bags at auction went at full rates; good white at 1 65s 6d to 665, damp 64s to 655, damp Khaur 50s to 53s per cwt. 14 casks 103 boxes of Ceylon Sugar were sold—strong mid dling yellow at 60s 6d to 61s, good greyish yellow 61s 6d, bright yellow 62s 6d, ordinary grey 89s per cwt. Foasiew.—The market has a firm appearance for all de scriptions of Foreir Sugar. This afternoon 1,840 boxes of white Havannah sugar were submitted t. public competition, sound all taken in at stiff rates, good at 28s 6d to 30s, mid 261 6d to 28s, low 23s to 24s ; the washed, amounting to 430 boxes, all sold at 23s to 25s per cwt, being the full value. A floating cargo of brown and yellow Maceio sold for Hamburgh at 17, per cwt. MoLssaxs.—Holders of West India submitting to rather lower rates has caused buyers to operate more freely. Trinidad at 225, Demerara 24s to 255, Antigua fine 27. 6d per cwt. Madras, in bond, bought in at 9s, and Bengal, duty paid, at 18s per cwt. To-day Berbice Molasses sold at 24, per cwt. Cocos.—Brazil 28s 6d to 30s per cwt, St. Domingo at 27s 6d for ordinary old grey, and sea damaged first class 21s to 243 per cwt.. .. _ _ - .. - . . TEA.—The demand is on the increase for Tea of all descrip. tions ; a good business has been transacted since last Tuesday, particularly in the lower qualities, which have brought rather higher rates; the better kinds maintain the previous currency. To-day several purchases were made in Tea, and the market closed firmly; common Congou for cash at is Oi r d to Is Jd per lb. No public sale is yet announced. SAGO.—There has been more disposition to purchase Sago, and hither rates paid for fine qualities; the lower sorts have maintained the previous currency ; Sago Flour at 20s 6d to 21s 6d per cwt. Tapioca at 5d to 544 for good. West India Arrowroot at 644 for Jamaica, 94d to Is 2d for Bermuda, 5d to 100 for St. Vincent's, and Tousles Mois 5d to 54d per lb. COFFEE.—The market has been better supplied with West India Coffee, still bu)ers have operated with reluctance, and at at auction 50 casks Jamaica of the new crop went prices 3s to 4s per cwt under those paid in the private markets. This afternoon there was only a limited demand privately for Ceylon Coffee; 881 bags at auction were, however, nearly all disposed of, but at rather lower rates ; good ordinary pale went at 59s to 59s 6d, real good ordinary rather coloury 60s, middling greyish coloury Demerara sort at 85s to 85s 6d, fine fine ordinary 793, and sea damaged 56s to 83s 6d ; bold black taken in at 17s 6d. Demerara taken in at 60s for fine ordinary unclean. The Foreign market is quiet ; Rio taken in at 45s to 48s for fine fine ordinary ; one lot sold at 50s per cwt. First class sea damaged St. Domingo (bankrupts' effects) taken in at 28s to 29s per cwt; middling coloury Rio fetched 59s per cwt. RUM, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—The good and fine qualities of Jamaica Rum sold at an advance on the prices of this day week of 2d per gallon ; inferior sorts are firm in price, 33 to 36 overproof fine quality at 4s 8d to 4s 10d, 31 to 34 over good 3s 10d to 3s 11d, 22 over very fine high flavour 4s 6d, and common and middling 30 to 34 over 3s 6d to 3s 8d per galh.n. In Leewards at 2s 1d to 2s 241 per gallon for proof ; there are large purchasers at 2s Id. Demerara at 3s 2d to 3s 4d for 32 to 36 per cent overproof, and superior at 3s 5d to 3s 6d. Calcutta Rum proof at Is 10d to is 104 d per gallon. To-day the demand for brandy was good, and prices firmer ; speculators are the chief operators. Cognac beat brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 10d, puns 5s 8d ; ditto 1939, hhds 5s Bd, puns 5s 6d ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; ditto 1841, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto 1842, hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d ; middling marks 3s 5d to 4a 6d ; and low 2s 93 to 3s 4d ; and Spaniels brandy 2s 8d to 2s 93 per gallon. In Geneva several slapping orders executed at Is &I to Is 9d, the value of fine for home consumption is 2s 2d to 3s. English corn spirits 10s 2d, and Scotch and Irish malt spirit 12s 6d to 13s per gallon. RICE.—For Bengal the tendency of prices is still downwards. Madras and Java on lower terms. Patna cleaned rice 13s to 17s, and Carolina 21s to 26s per cwt. This afternoon Bengal good white went at lls middling 10s 6d to I Is, sea damaged first class lOs to 11s, second 9a 6d to 10s. Java taken in at 8s 6d for low yellow mixed with Paddy; Carolina from Bos ton good at I6s to 16s 6d, and middling 15s per cwt. This af ternoon Tapioca sold at 5d to 64d per lb for good and fine quality. INDIOO.—The quarterly sale of East India Indigo wa brought to a conclusion this day. From the beginning of th sale the biddings were very brisk, and the demand for all the qualities fit for shipping unusually active. This afternoon Manilla Indigo went at Is 3d to 3s 2d, Madras 3s to 3s 2d, and Guatemala 2e 10d to 3s 9d per lb. Tar.Low.—There has been only a small business transacted in Russian Tallow, on the spot; and 40s to 41s per cwt is the value of P Y Candle : for delivery in the last three months of the year 42s to 42s 3d per cwt. Town Tallow nett is 40s to 40s 6d per cwt. In the value of other sorts of Tallow thire is little change ; North American fetched 38s to 40s 6d ; Odessa sheep 40s to 40s 3d; Gibraltar 43s ; and Italian 40s 9d to 41s. This afternoon P Y Candle was in request for delivery in the last three months of the year at former rates, but the demand on the spot was limited. OILS—Pale Seal is 341 to 341 lOs and Cod 3415 s to 341 10s; on Friday, Sperm, prime British at 751 to 761, and inferior at 731 to 741 per tun. Palm at 24s to 28s per cwt for common to fine. Cocoa Nut Oil less inquired for, 301 to 301 5 s for Ceylon, Olive Oil is in excellent request ; Gallipoli 521 to 531, Spanish 511, and Barbary 481 10s to 491 per tun. Rape at 39s 6d to 40s for pale, and 36s 6d to 39s for brown. Lin seed Oil at 27s 3d to 27e 6d per cwt °lithe spot. THE WELLINGTON STATUE IN THE CITT.—At the last meeting of the Royal Exchange Committee on the sub ject of placing the statue of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, by Sir Francis Chantrey, the trustees, Mr. John Masterman and Sir Peter Laurie, and the executors, Mr. Turner, R.A., and Mr. Jones, discussed, at considerable length, the question as to the most eligible position of the equestrian figure on the spot selected in the front of the Royal Exchange. Upon that occasion Sir Peter Laurie stated that Sir Francis Chantrey always expressed a wish that the statue should face the south, in order that it might have the advantage of the sun, for which purpose the eminent sculptor suggested the re moval of the ugly upper storey of the Mansion-house, which was accordingly taken down, to the manifest improvement of that edifice. Mr. Jones confirmed the statement as to the opinion and wish of Sir Francis Chantrey. The Committee, however, came to the resolution, that, as the front of the Royal Exchange faced the west, it would, notwithstanding the impression upon the mind of so high an authority, be preposterous to turn the face of the statue away from that direction, and they accordingly agreed unanimousiy that the Duke should front Cheapside. Mr. Turner, the other exe cutor, informed the Committee that the statue and pedestal had long been completed; and he trusted that by the 18th of June, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the public would have a complete opportunity of judging of the merits of the performance. The Committee seemed to entertain no doubt that on the anniversary of the memorable event the statue would be erected. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE—CHATHAM, APRIL 22. The following regiments from theprovisional battalion of this garrison have this day received orders for embarkation, to proceed to the three presidencies of India during the present season. These for Bengal are the 9th, 10th, 29th, 31st, 39th, 40th, 50th, and 62d, with the following officers of each corps, ordered by Colonel Thomas Weare, K.H., of the battalion, to hold themselves in readiness to embark for India in the ships as they are taken up for the conveyance of troops : Lieutenant • Creagh, Ensign O'Connor, Ensign Foster, Ensign Hawes, of the 9th; Captain Staunton, Captain Shandly, Ensign Angelo, of the 10th ; Enn Francis, Ensign White, Ensign Scudamore, of the 29th ; Major James Spence, Lieut. Elmslie, Ensign Paul, Ensign Hutton, 31st ; Lieut. Wolfe, Lieut. Reader, Lieut. Ensor, Lieut. Bray, Lieut. Fitzgerald, Assistant-Surgeon M'Gregor, 39th ; Captain Valiant, Captain Smith, Ensign Payne, 40th ; Captain Stapleton, Lieutenant Maloney, Actiug-Adjutant of the Provisional Battalion, Lieut. 3.lontmorencie, Ensign Venables, Ensign Vemett, Ensign Purcell, 50th ; Ensign Roberts and Ensign Cox, of the 62d Regiment. The officers for Madras are Captain Bell, Captain. Teale, Lieutenant Bolton, Lieutenant Cumming, Ensign Col ville, Ensign Ellison of the 4th ; Lieutenant Peddle, Assistant-Surgeon Webster, of the 21st Fusiliers ; Lieu tenant L. Trevors, Ensign Smith, 25th ; Lieutenant Frost, Lieutenant Ahmuty, Lieutenant Grant, 57th ' • Lieu tenant Higginbotham. Ensign M'Cauley, Ensign Le Grand, 63d ; Captain Richardson, 84th ; Captain M'Gee, 94th Regi ment. the officers for Bombay are Captain J. Carney, En sign M'Carty, and Ensign Engles, of the 2d Queen's; Cap tain Burslem and Ensign Hogg, of the 13th ; Captain 'Quin verer, Lieutenant Armstrong, Lieutenant Johnstone, and Ensign Noland, of the 17th ; Ensign Baldwin, Lieutenant Miller, 22d; Lieutenant Dane Ensign Wright, Ensign Ellis, 28th ; Captain Elvington, Lieutenant Prettyjohn, Ensign M'Lean, Assistant-Surgeon M'Kinnon, and Assistant-Sur geon Bowie, of the 78th Highlanders; Lieutenant Wood, Ensign Gerahtley, Ensign Robinson, and Ensign Stewart— 'taking a total of 73 officers. The two following detachments marched this morning from this garrison, as a convict guard, to Deptford, where they embark on board the convict ship Barrosa, to proceed with convicts for Van Diemen's Land. The guard comprised 1 sergeant, 3 corporals, and 31 rank and file of the 58th Regiment, with 15 rank and file of the 80th, to complete the guard. Lieutenant William Birch, of the 25th, formerly Adjutant of the 6th Royals, commands the guard, in lieu of Lieutenant Page, of the 58th, who enters the 7th Hussars, by purchase ; Ensign St. John, of the 80th 4 and 4 women and 1 child, belonging to the soldiers of the 58th, proceed with the detachment. DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL SIMSON, This Gallant Officer, who had held the app o i n t men t o f Town-Major of Hull, as reward for distinguished ser vices, for upwards of twenty years, died at his quarters in the citadel on Friday week, in the 61st year of his age. The deceased entered the service of his country at an early period of the present century, as an ensign in the 81st Regiment, and with which he first did duty in Sicily in 1805. Subsequently he ob— tained a lieutenancy in in the 43d Light Infantry, then form ing, with the 52d and 95th Rifles, a crack brigade, under his relative and patron, Gen. Sir John Moore, at Thorneliffe ' on the coast of Kent. In 1807 Lie u t. Si mson em b ar k e d with his regiment at Deal, in the expedition under the late Lord Cathcart, against Copenhagen, and was present at Sir Ar thur Wellesley's gallant affair in the island of Kioge. In the following year Lieutenant Simson was again afloat with a force under the orders of Sir John Moore ; but on their ar rival at Gottenbuigh, it being found their services would be unavailing, the expedition was ordered to Portugal. From this period he was identified with the fortune of Sir John Moore, in his advance on the Spanish frontier, and subsequent disastrous retreat. Capt. Simson next served through a con siderable portion of the Peninsula campaign, was present at the battle of Vittoria, and at the last ffght before Toulouse. On the preliminaries of peace being signed, the 43d, and other regiments of the light divisiop, were ordered to America, where they took part in the war of reprisal for the outrages committed in Canada. At the attack on New Orleans, Cap tain Simson, leading the storming party against the principal redoubt of the enemy's position, was thrown into the trench by a round shot, causing the severe wound which resulted in the amputation of his lett leg and thigh, and 'rendered him unfit for further active ditties. He then retired with the rank of Major, but afterwards received his staff appoint ment, and the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, with the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, as an acknowledgment of his s 7-r'•'ich 7 : The funeral of th e ga ll an t o ffi cer t oo k p l ace on Tuesday last, and there have been few occasions of this de tientehnien Hull whe re th e pu bli c f ee li ng an d sympathy de script line of so earnestly eAnllmistoeedt. everyT hou w sa in n d d e s w of in per he onsleantg procession was occupied • many persons we re congre gated o n tie roof s o f houses and nearly the whole of the shops wereH ewnhosllytaourdipgarit,iatlhlye• erninent ll G ul e i r P m a tn c t ket. singer, is ex pected to arrive in London on the 10th or 12th of May. Hi s first appearance w ill b e at the fourthconcert of the Philhar monic Society on the 13th of May. The services of Staudigl have also been already secured by the t di e rect ,arsereofd Harmonic Ancient 7ri o c f Concerts for three occasio ns ; by h Society, at Exeter Hall, to t a k e part i n the perform the oratorio, The Death of Abel, and for the Oxford, Man chester, and Liverpool Musical Festivals. great , h i i n c e h r e willse oi in CUSTOMS.—Iii consequence of the business at Folkestone, it has become necessary to augment the Customs establishment at that station ; future consist of a sub-collector, a sub-controller, on e searcher, landing and coast-waiter, and a proportionate number of tide-waiters and boatmen. Officers of experience in the service have been selected to fill the superior situations at Folkestone. It is not proposed to make Folkestone a dis tinct port,but it will still remain as a subordinate station under tho control of the Cu ms at Wvtit IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, April 23. The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'Clock. Lord ROSEBERY presented a petition from a Dissenting congregation in the neighbourhood of Man chester against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Bishop of BANGOR presented several petitions from places in Wales, against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. PRO-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. Earl RADNOR wished to ask his Noble Friend near him (the Duke of Richmond, as we understood) and the Noble Duke opposite (the Duke of Buckingham), whe ther a certain pamphlet, published under the auspices of the Pro-Corn-law League, was sanctioned by them, for, in his opinion, a more discreditable work never emanated from the press 2—(" Oh, oh 1') He re peated the assertion, because it was dishonest. The pamphlet laid doWn particular dogmas, with out at all giving' data for their conclusions. (The Noble Earl then read several votations from the pamphlet alluded to, in support of his assertion, and concluded by repeating his question.) The Duke of RICHMOND said he thought that the practice of asking questions ought not to be extended. It was all very well to put questions to the members of her Majesty's Govern ment, but certainly he thought it was not likely to increase the dignity of their Lordships' House for a member of the Anti-Corn-law League, as his Noble Friend was, to stand up in his place and put a question to him (the Duke of Richmond), who was a member of a Protection Society.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He felt that the proper course to adopt was not to answer so paltry a question, further than to say that he thought the pamphlet a most excellent one, and that if it was not a good one his Noble Friend would not find fault with it. He thought his Noble Friend was quite as much in error in the present instance as he was when he last attacked him (the Duke of Richmond). In that instance, instead of replying to him in his place, his Hon. Friend published his answer in the shape of a letter in the newspapers, with his name attached. The autnor of the pamphlet was long known, and although of similar politics to the Noble Lord, yet he did not seek to destroy the agriculture of the country. It was true the Noble Lord had taken the chair at a late meeting of the Anti- Corn-law League in Covent-garden, wh re he certainly exhibited as a great actor—(Laught,r)—and, there fore, it was natural that he should wish to impugn a do cument which so successfully exhibited the Anti-Corn law League in its true colours. For his own part, he should say, in reply to the observations of his Noble Friend, that he would never leave the Agricultural Pro tection Society until they had completely succeeded in putting down the Anti- Corn-law League, than which he believed there never existed in England a more unconstitutional body. The Protection So ciety would never have been formed if the- Anti-Corn law League had not attacked the tenant farmers of England as they had done, and accused them of apathy. He should only say further that he considered this pamphlet quite as good as his Noble Friend thought it a bad one. After a few words from Earl RADNOR, the matter dropped. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition, complaining of the late decision in the case of the Presbyterian marriage question. DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR stated to their Lord ships that, on Friday next, the day originally named, he should propose the second reading of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and go into Committee en the Bill upon the following Friday. ___ _ r THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1d44. cordwainers and tailors of l3ton against the Masters and Servants Bill. Mr. HUME presented ii%petition to the same effect from the county of Forfar ; also a petition praying fur a reduction of the tobacco duties. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition, praying for a repeal of the duty on the importation of foreign wool. Mr. ALDHANI presented three petitions against the Leeds and Bradford Railway Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION.—COMPENSATION IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY. Mr. WATSON gave notice that he would postpone his motion relative to compensation to officers of the Court of Chancery till the 7th of May. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that he would move in Committee on the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, that it be an instruction to the Committee to abilish all ecclesiastical courts, and to transfer their jurisdiction to the civil courts of the country. QUARANTINE. Dr. BOWRING gave nuticetiOn this day fortnight he would call the attention of the House to the subject of quarantine. On the motion of Mr. HUME, returns were ordered respecting the sums paid on account of the New - Houses of Parliament. TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY. _ _ Dr. BOWRING said he wished to know from the Goverment whether they had any knowledge of a treaty between the United States of America and the German Zollverein, for the mutual admission of articles at lower rates than if imported from Great - Britain or other countries. On the 23d of March this treaty was signed by the representative of the German Union and the Minister of the United States. It had been stated to him that under this treaty tobacco, the produce of Ame rica, was to be admitted iato the States of the German Union at a duty of four dollars. He was informed also that the German States' Union entered into an arrange ment that they would not raise the duty on rice, and that cottf.n wool, which was imp ated from the United States, should be imported without the payment of any duty; that in consideration of the advanta;es obtained by the Americans in Germany, Prussia, on beh.df of the Ger man Commercial Union, had agreed that tobacco should be admitted into Germany from the United States at a duty not exceeding 15 per cent. ; honey at a duty not exceeding 20 per cent., and other articles, which he would not mmtion, at a duty not exceeding 10 per cent. He b,gged, therefore, to inquire of the Right Hon. Barnnt, whether he was c , gnisant of the facts which he had stated—whether those facts were correct—and whether it was the int* ntion of the Governin,nt to make any arrangements on the subject in cons queuc;' ? Sir R. PEEL said :he state:ll,la of the !lon. Gentle man was substantially correct, and that a treaty had been signed by Prussia, on the part of the German Zoll verein, and the representative of the United States, sti pulating that certain duties should be paid on certain articles introduced from either country as the Hon. Gen tleman had stated ; but at the same time that treaty bad not yet been ratified. Mr. LABOUCHERE stated that from the treaties that existed between the United States and this country, it would be impossible for the United States to admit the productions of Germany on more favourable terms than they admitted the manufactures of this country. Of course, then, any reductiou made in favour of Prus sian manufactures by America must be equally advan tageous to the productions of this country. Sir R. PEEL said the attention of her Majesty's Go vernment had been drawn to the subject. The treaty existing between this country and the United States stipulated for the admission into America of produc tions, on the footing of the most favoured nations, on condition of conceding equivalent advantages. How ever, as the treaty to which allusion had been made by the Hon. Gentleman had not been ratified, he thought it bet ter to abstain from making any observations just now upon it. FACTORIES BILL. Lord HATHERTON presented a petition, signed by the heads of eight firms in the iron trade, in Stafford shire, in which upwards of 5,000 men were employed, praying that no limitation in the hours of labour should be enacted by their Lordships, but that the work people might be allowed to exercise their own discretion. He concurred in the prayer of the petition. Lord BROUGHAM, after a few remarks upon the truck system, again deprecated any restriction of the hours of labour ; for, he said, if legislative interference was necessary, he should rather exert it against the ca pital of the large manufacturer than against the labour of the artisan. Lord BROWNLOW thought it would be much better if they were to defer any discussion upon the subject of the Factories Bill until it came regularly before their Lordships. The Bishop of LONDON presented several petitions from Presbyterian ministers and congregations in the north of Ireland, in connection with the General As sembly, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a number of petitions from places in the county of Ross, against any alteration in the corn-laws. BHURTPORE. The Marquis of NORMANBY, after presenting a petition from a Presbyterian congregation in the north of Ireland in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, gave notice, that on Monday he should ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Board of Control if any further extracts or communications had been received from the Gover nor-General of India respecting the treaty of Bhurtpore. THE IRISH POOR-LAW. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to ask the Noble Duke opposite whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose any alteration in the Irish Poor•law Act ? The Duke of WELLINGTON, who spoke very indis tinctly, said a report had been received from the Com missioners appointed to inquire into this subject, and that, after consideration, it had been sent back to them to make certain emendations. The report would soon be laid upon the table of their Lordships' House, and until such information was before them he thought it would be better to defer framing any legislative measure. If they thought it would be better to appoint a Com mission, he, for one, had no objection to such a course. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, from what had fallen from the Noble Duke, supposed that there was no intention to make any alteration. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, what he stated was that ho thought it best to defer any measure until they should have hag time to consider the report. The Marquis of NORMANBY said he wished to call the attention of their Lordships to one point, which, in the present state of Ireland was one of vast importance. He alluded to the manner in which the juries empannelled at the last assizes of the county Monaghan had been con stituted in the Queen v. Hanlon, and others. In that part of Ireland this matter had excited the greatest dissatisfaction, because a feeling prevailed there that many of the jurors had been struck off because they were Roman Catholics, and certainly he thought that there were certain circum stances which were calculated to excite those suspicions. Many of the jurors whose names had been struck off the panel were most respectable, and not the slightest impu tation could be cast upon their character which justified their names in being removed. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said he held in his hand a letter from the Crown solicitor, in which this matter was fully explained, and which completely proved that no man was removed on account of his politics or religion, but the fact was, that all those names which had been struck off the panel were either relations, near neigh bours of the traverser., or were in some way or another unfitted for acting as jurors. The first name which had be©n set aside by the Crown solicitor was the son of a person whose father had been tried at Armagh for Ribbonisin —the very crime of which the traversers were accused ; another was a near relation of one of the prisoners, and a third was a neighbour of another. Lord CAMPBELL gave the Government credit for every good intention, but still he was not at all satisfied with the explanation rendered by the Noble Lord the President of the Council. He thought the slightest suspicion of partiality, on account of religion, should not be allowed to remain upon the public mind. After a few words from the Earl of Wicklow, Lord Wharncliffe, and the Marquis of Clanricarde, the House adjourned at Seven o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 23. Th. SPEAXER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER. Mr. T. BARING took the oaths and his seat for Huntingdon. COLCHESTER AND HARWICH RAILWAY BILL. Mr. C. ROUND moved, " That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Colchester and Harwich Rail way Bill (No. 2) and the Harwich Railway and Pier Bill, that it be at liberty to deem the line of railway from Colchester to Harwich, projected by Mr. Hosking (as mentioned in the petition of Sir Henry Webb, Bart., and William Adams Smith, Esq., presented to the House on the 19th day of this instant April), a competing line in contemplation, and to hear the said petitioners, as prayed by their petition, in support thereof." Sir A. L. HAY thought that, as the petitioners prayed to be heard in support of their petition, it would be only just to them to grant their request. After a few words from Lord G. Somerset, Mr. Beres ford, and Mr. Smith, Sir GEO. STRICKLAND thought that the Standing Orders on the subject of railways were much too stringent. Parties were now enabled to get up a railway line without any due notice, and so suddenly w e r e th ose projects brought before th e House that they had no op portunity of fairly considering the respective interests of the several parties. Thinking it to be the duty of Par liament to protect tho public against those wild schemes, he should be glad to see those rules in some degree modifiKl. Mr. JERVIS supported the motion. Sir GEORGE SMYTH said that he did not think the Committee was the proper tribunal to investigate the claims of competing lines. He would oppose the motion. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the motion Against it • 9B ➢lajority against the motion —7l Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition against the Leeds and Bradford Railway. Col. WOOD presented a petition from a parish in Cardiganshire, praying that if the County Courts Bill should pass into a law, the judges to be appointed under it should be gentlemen well versed in the Welsh lan guage.—(Laughter.) gr. BATES'ON presented a petition praying that all marriages celebrated by Presbyterian ministers in Ire land might be at once legalised. Mr. ROSS presented a petition from Belfast praying for a measure to legalise Presbyterian mixed marriages; also, a petition from the same place praying for a reduc tion of the duties on raw cotton. Mr. WYNN ELLIS presented a petition against the County Courts Bill, praying that it might not pass into a law. Captain PEOBELL prosamad s petitint from the GREECE. Sir It. PEEL, in laying on the table of the House certain papers, by command of her Majesty, said there were amongst them papers relating to the recent events in Greece, and he felt confident that the House, on pe rusing them, would view, with the greatest satisfaction, the successful results of the efforts which had been made by popular assemblies, convened under very critical circumstances, to establish the principles of free representative government and to combine with them limited monarchy.—(Cheers.) He felt the strongest confidence that when the House viewed the course which her Majesty's 'Government had taken, they would approve of the advice which they had given and the measures which they had adopted for the pur pose of bringing this great effort to a successful issue. FEES TO MAGISTRATES' CLERKS. Lord DUNCAN said, seeing the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Secretary for the Home Department in his place, he rose to put a question to him on the sub ject of fees to magistrates' clerks, of which he had given him notice. On the 13th of March, the Noble Lord the Member for Lincolnshire was induced to withdraw the motion which he had made on the subject, in con sequence of an assurance from her Majesty's Govern ment that a Bill would shortly be brought forward. On the 2d of April he had put a question on the same subject to the Right Hon. Gentleman the Under Secre tary of State for the Home Department, the answer to which was so vague as to lead him to suppose that the Bill would not be brought forward so early as had been expected. He begged now to ask at what period the Bill was likely to be introduced ? Sir J. GRAHAM said he was anxious to do all in his power to expedite public business. A Bill was under his consideration which was in a state of preparation, and it would be introduced as soon as it was complete. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Messengers from the Lords brought down certain Bills. VPSTRIES IN CHURCHES BILL. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN brought in a Bill to pro hibit the holding of vestries in Churches, which was read a first time. The 'Lin. Gentleman then moved that it be read a second time on Wednesday. Mr. HAWES hoped the Hon. Member would not fix BO early a day as Wednesday for the second reading of the Bill. It was necessary that the Bill should be freely circulated through the country, in order that the parties interested might have an opportunity of becoming ac quainted with the provisions of the Bill. .That oppor tunity would not be afforded to them if the Bill were read a second time at so early a day as Wednesday next. He therefore hoped that the Hon. Gentleman would post pone the second reading of the Bill to Wednesday three weeks. _ It was ultimately arranged that the Bill should be read a second time on Wednesday fortnight. RELIGIOUS TESTS IN SCOTCH UNIVER- Mr. FOX MAULE presented two petitions—one from the Senate of the University of Glasgow, and an other from the students of that University—against the subjecting the members of the Universities of Scot land to religious tests. He gave notice that he should, that day week, call the attention of the House to the subject matter of those petitions, and in order that they might be in the hands of Hon. Members in time to enable them to make themselves acquainted with the subject, he Begged to move that the petitions be printed and circulated with the Votes.—Agreed to. •MR. FERRAND'S ACCUSATIONS. Mr. FERRAND rose and said, Sir, I have dur ing this morning minutely examined into all the speeches which I made in the manufacturing districts during the Easter recess, and which have been published in the Times newspaper. I have, Sir, paid particular attention to the leading articles of the Times, in which are certain extracts from speeches of mine, said to bear on the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the Learned Mem ber for Beverley. Sir, it is not my intention to retract, one syllable which I used in those speeches, nor to ex tenuate or explain away a single sentence. When I made use of that language, I asserted the sacred pre rogative of a free-born Englishman, and I expressed my opinion upon the public conduct of two public officers. Sir, I defy this Home to deprive me of that privilege. The opinion which I formed of the conduct of those two public officers is supported by the public press of the country, and is backed by public opinion. But, Sir, if, in making use of those expressions, I have in any way wounded the personal honour of any Member—(Here the Hon. Member was interupted by loud ironical cheers) —Sir, the party spirit and unmanly bearing which was exhibited towards,me last night, arid persisted in this instant, should, Sir, remind those Honourable Gentle men—and I am sure, Sir, I shall be backed with the feeling of Englishmen at large—that this House is the last tribunal for them to appeal to. (Here the Hon. Gentleman paused, took up his hat, walked deliberately from his seat, and bowing to the Speaker left the House. Sir James Graham who had not observed this movement, rose to reply to the Hon. Gentleman, but as he was laying his hat on the table, a loud burst of uproarious mirth broke from all parts of the House, and un the Right lion. Baronet's tur n i ng round, and ascertaining the cause, he heartily joined in the laughter, and resumed his seat. The laughter and confusion continued for some time, and it was again and ag a in renewed, as Mr. Borthwick attempt e d to address the House. After this lion. Gentleman h a d remained upon his legs some time without being abl e t o utter a syllable), Mr. ROEBUCK rose, but was met with loud cries of Order, order," " Chair, chair," and much confusion, in the midst of which Mr. Borthwick sat down. The Hon. and Learned Member (Mr. Roebuck) said—Sir, I rose to order.—(Cheers and cries of " Chair.") I am sure the House, Sir, must have understo-Jd from what passed last night, and from the transactions of last night, that a most serious charge was made before this House against a Minister of the Crown.— (Cries of " Order.") However ludicrous may have been the upshot of the matter--(Hoar, hear, and laughter)— An Hole. MZMBER rose to order. He said the Hon. Member for Evesham was in possession of the House.-- (Hear, hear, and cries of "Go on, Roebuck.") The Hon. Member for Bath had not said one word to order. Mr. ROEBUCK—Why, Sir, I have not uttered so much as one sentence—(Cheers, and cries of " Gu on, go on," and " Chair, chair")-- Mr. SPEAKER —The Hon. Member for Evesham was certainly in possession of the Chair ; but the Hon. Member for Bath rose to order, and he has not yet ad dressed himself to any question of order. Mr. ROEBUCK—Sir, I rose merely to say that I thought it pertinent to the question of order to explain to the House now the serious circumstances which oc curred last night—(Loud cries of "Hear,"and "Order.") Sir, I think that those circumstances may be regarded as constituting a question of privilege.—(licar, hear.) Sir, I thought that a discussion of privilege was to take place this evening—(Hear, hear)—but an Hon. Mem ber rose and made a statement—whether satisfactory or not I will not say.—(Cheers and laughter.) Therefore, Sir, I rise merely to ask you, whether—after, what passed in the House last night—it is becoming and fitting to allow those proceedings to pass over ill so slight and (ae Int luderstb`cid) ooutemptuous $ manner ?—! (Cheers.) If, Sir, you do not think so, lam prepared to make a motion.—(Cheers.) Mr. SPEAKER—The Hon. Gentleman has put a question to me on a subject w hick does not form part of the Orders of the House, and on which it is not for me to decide.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Hogg then rose at the same time with Mr. Borth wick and Sir R. Inglis, amidst loud and repeated cries of "Go on, Hogg,' " Order, order," &c. At length Sir R. Inglis and Mr. Hogg sat down, and Mr. BORTHWICK said that he thought that he ought to have been heard when he was in possession of the House. He thought that if the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman opposite wished to continue the discussion of last night, he ought to give notice.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," de risive cheers, and continued calls for Mr. Hogg, to which, at length, Mr. Borthwick gave way.) Mr. HOGG •hen rose, amidst cheers, and said :—I hope to receive the indulgence of the House, and I think that I am not going too far when I say that the case is a matter of privilege. An imputation of interfering with the privileges of the House has been cast upon the Secretary for the Home Department, a Minister of the Crown.—(Hear.) But I have still more the right to claim the protection and justice of the House, as I was an officer appointed to a sworn duty.—(Hear, hear.) lam placed in some dif ficulty as to how I should proceed, in consequence of the declaration made by the Honourable Member who is now absent. I hold in my hand the speech of the Honourable Member which he made last night, and whilst I read it I wish to impress on the House that its meaning c :nnet be mis taken. I will allow him to comment on my conduct as he pleases. I will allow him to say that we were wrong in our decision, and that the law was wrong rn which we acted ; but I will not allow him to cast upon me imputations of being in fluenced by a Minister of the Crown in discharging the sacred duty to which I was sworn as a chairman of a committee. Hit be true that I had been euilty, or any other officer guilty of such conduct. it well(' he yieir duty to express yourself on the infamy of his conduct. But if the charge cannot be substantiated I leave it to you to express your opinion of the loan who has made it. I am not sufficiently versed in the forms of this House to know e hat. course with propriety to pursue ; but I claim, as I think I have a right to do, the protection of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Gyernment—(Hear, hear)---and I claim the protection of the Noble Lord, the Member f, it London, who is ever anxious that justice should be done to every man, no matter to what party he may belong.—(Loud cries le' " Hear, hear.") I claim from them to intimate some pro ceeding by Hhich the opinion of this House may be marked. Perhaps the most preper course will he, that the House shall declare by resolution that the charges brought ferward are false and libellhus.— (Cheers.) The document I hold in my hand is the re port of the speech delivered by the Hon Gentleman ( Mr. Ferrand), wherein he refers to what he terms the Right Hon. Secretary's (Sir J. Graham's) delinquencies, in the plain-spoken fishion—(Laughter)—which is hie custom, and in words which are well calculated to gain for him the sympathy of every opponent of the poor law. He says, in that speech, that " the meeting should remember that no man had resisted the poor-law more vigorously than Mr. Walter, and it therefore was felt necessary by Sir James Graham to get him unseated. Against that gentleman's (Mr. Walter's) return a peti tion had been presented, and in that petition an allega tion was made that between thirty and forty pounds had been improperly expended. His speech went on to say that the Committee to try this petition consisted of three Whigs and of three Tories, and its Chairman was Mr. Hogg, the Member for Beverley, one of the most pure boroughs in the kingdom, but whether he (Mr. Hogg) got his seat for 401. or not he (Mr. Ferrand) did not exactly know.—(Hear, hear.) This Tory Chairman, aided by Sir J. Graham, unseated Mr. Walter. Mr. Hogg tried to explain away his conduct on that occasion, and all the Government side of the House on which I sat listened with feelings of disgust while he higgled and haggled' in that expla nation.—(Hsar.) There was but one man on that side of the House who vociferously cheered, and that one man was Sir James Graham." Now, Sir (continued Mr. Hogg), is there any human being who could read that article without an impression that it distinctly charges me with having been influenced by Sir James Graham and the Government basely to forego my duty, and to give a verdict for the purpose of excluding from the House a person not acceptable to them ? In a court of justice when we seek the obvious meaning of a libel, we ask what is the ordinary acceptation of its terms. I ask you to look at this journal itself—to examine its comments on this imputation upon me—and then I ask any gentleman who has heard me read the extract, if he can have any doubt that the imputation cast on me is that of having been influenced by the basest and most dishonourable motives, and having made myself the instrument of Sir James Graham in unseating Mr. Walter from his place in this House? I ask if any gentleman could have any doubt on the subject? I do not complain of the terms in which my decision has been spoken of. My " Nigg ling andliaggling" has been dwelt upon, my determination has been dwelt upon, but of this I do not complain. The subject was properly treated by the Noble Lord tht Member for London last night, when he said. that whe ther my deductions were right or wrong—whether my law was good or bad, that was nothing to the purpose—that whether my explanation was sa tisfactory or not was nothing to the purpose. I allow every one to form his opinion on these points, and to express that opinion as they please. I confine myself to the one point of the charge that imputes to me impure and dishonourable motives.—(Hear, hear.) I confine myself to this single point ; and when this House talks of keeping its jurisdiction within itself and of not resorting to another tribanal, how can it commend the confidence of the public if it allow its sworn oFfics , rs to be thus assailed ? I hope that those who are more conversant with the forms of this House than myself will kindly suggest what the proper motion ought to be. My idea was, and I assure the House that I never cemmunicated it to a singe individual below me, but from the long standing of the Right Hon. Baronet in the House, and from his exalted position, he might be able to treat with in• difference in this House what I could not consistently with my duty pass by; and, as the sworn officer of this House, I think I have a still stronger right to request and demand of it, not protection, but justice—(Hear, hear)—than even the Right Hon. Ba ronet himself. I ask the House if these are imputations made on my honour and integrity in the discharge of my duty, and, if they are, I call on the person making them to substantiate those charges, and here I am to meet them.—(Cheers.) If I had done anything to create a doubt or suspicion of my conduct I should be satisfied to meet the consequences, but if no man can state any such grounds, or raise any such doubts in the minds of ho nourable men, then I have a right to the protection of the House, and I hope it will afford it to me.—(Hear, hear.) I, therefore, trust you will afford me that justice which you can afford to me, andsthat is to declare that I acted honourably in the discharge of the public duty imposed on me by the House, and to stigma. tise those who have cast on me this foul imputation.—(Loud cheers.) I apologise—but I feel I need not apologise to the House—(Cheers)—but the House will recollect I did not bring this forward— (Hear, hear)—l had not the slightest idea of noticing it ; but when it was noticed in this House my personal honour required that it should not be allowed to rest there.—(Hear.) I have been told it was unworthy of tny notice, and perhaps I ought to apologise to the House for calling its attention to what was stated in a public journal. But it was stated in order to poison the mind of the public against me, and it was as base an insinua tion as the other. It stated that I was looking for some office or employment from the Government. I ought to apologise to the House for noticing it ; I feel it humiliating to reply to such a charge ; but on my honour, never, either directly or indirectly, from any member of the Government, or any person connected with the Govern ment, have I obtained, or asked, or sought, or applied for, or looked for, any office, or employment, for my self, or any human being belonging to me.—(Loud cheers.) This insinuation is as base and false as the other, and with the exception of sending an application to my Hon. Friend for the situation of a guager, backed by representations from the place I represent, with that exception I never asked for place or emolument for myself from any Government past or present. I ought to apologise to the House for this; but these calumnies are sent into the world, and circulated by a journal which is extensively read, and which ought to be above making such imputations—(Hear, hear)—and I therefore think it is my duty to declare indignantly that they are false.—(The Eon. Gentleman sat down amid loud cheers.) _ Sir J. GRAHAM then rose and said, the .House will bear in mind that, at the very moment the Hon. Mt - In ber for Knaresborough resumed his seat, I rose for the purpose of addressing it; and, Sir, I must remark, after what has fall e n from th e H on . an d L earne d Member for Beverley, that in this House there is no distinction amongst us. We are all honourable men, enjoying the higest honour which in a free country can be imposed on any gentlemen, that of being chosen by be people as their rel;resentatives in this assembly. —(Hear, hear.) I conceive that when the honour of a Memher of this IHeu=e is assailed, the honour of the House itself is is jeopardy, and that it is not the duty of the individual Member to vindicate his honour so assailed ; but that it is the duty of the House to ascertain whether the stain cast on the honour of that Member was well founded, If it is the opinion of the House that the charge is well founded, it is their duty to expel the Member guilty of dishonourable con duct, in order that the honour of the House may remain unstained. The House will - recollect that last night I waived my privilege of moving that the words be taken do A n by the clerk at the table. I am now limiting my observations to the charge which the Hon. Member has preferred against myself. The accusation was this:—l had used my offici. , l power for the purpose of obtaining a false repoa. These are the identical words. Yesterday I stated that I waived my right to have those words taken down. I said it was better the lion. Member should have an oppor tunity of substantiating his charge. I referred also on this occasion to another charge, which in general terms the Hon. Member for Knaresborough directed against the Hon. Member for Beverley and myself. The Hon. Gentleman said that the charge was contained in a report of his speech which had appeared in the ?'lines newspaper, and asked him to come down with that report in order to acid the general charge against :he Honourable Member for Beverley and myself to the more specific charge against myself aloj.e. I certainly fully expected when the Honourable Member roue in his place, that he came down so prepared, and to give effect to the resolution, I understood him for mally to have announced last night. Certainly when I rose to address you, and comment on his extraordinary omission on the first and substantial- charge against myself, and also on his having for gotten what I understood . he had promised in ref/relive to tho Hon. Maker for Rovrlfy, and I found the Hon. Member for Knaresborough had I+-ft his place, I inferred he had run away from thou charge he had preferred against us. Upon his refusing to joiti issue here, in the only place where such a chage could be investigated, I for one, am most per fectly satisfied to leave this matter where it now stands. The House and the public will be able to judge of the conduct of the Hon. Member, and it will be for the House to determine what course it is for them to pursue under the circumstances. Sir R. PEEL strongly advised the House, in a case of such importance as the present, to let some interval elapse before they should determine what course to pur sue. We cannot (said the ight Honourable Gen tleman) adopt, in this arena of free discussion, where we permit the acts of public men and public au thorities to be discussed—we cannot adopt any proceed ing, either for the purpose of vindieatintr the ac cused or of censuring the accuser, without es tablishing a most important precedent.—(Hear.) I think, therefore, it is most important, before we come to ant• division : that we should look back to such recor.ls as may be within our raach for the purpose of ascertaining what course the House has taken under any eireunistaLN-s at all analogous to these. The House will bear in mind, that supposing a eharg‘ were prefixred against a public officer, implying on his part great miscon duct, dishonourable conduct, by a member of the minority, nothing would be so easy as fi the majority to support thet public officer, to brand the accuser, and to vindicate the accused.—(hear, hear.) A precedent, therefore, is very important, and. if abused, might be dangerous ; and consider ing the immense constitutional importance of perfectly free discussion in this !louse, and considering that all objectionable preeetlents ori ginate in some exceptional eases, wh, re, looking ab stractedly at the in lividual ease, indignant feelingspr, .mpt to some sudden and precipitate step ; adverting to these considerations, my advice to the House, taken as I am by surprise on the present occasion, is to adjourn the discussion, so as to allow time for thtet min ing what course should b r taken.—(llear, hear.) Sir, I must say that since the day when the conjuror under took to compress himself into a quart bottle, there never has been experienced grater disappointru-tv, than is felt )11 this oeca-ion.---(Gr, at. laughter.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he had nor objection to offer to the adjouramont of this discussion, antl he quite agreed with the Right. Hon. Gentlumen, that it was ex treaiely desirable to Like time to form a deliberate opinion on a subject of this nature. At the :tame time he had no hesitatii in to state at once what was his im ;:ression. It was to have been expecte" that the Hon Gee lemon would that }lay have either repeated his charges or tve withdrawn and naracted those changes Te had tak.-n neither course, and lie had fled from the large without abandoning it.—(Hear, hear.) The lion. Member for Beverley, very naturally, in this state of things. asked the House to interpose. lie understood him most distinctly to ask the House to interpose on this subject, after the statements which had been made. lie added, most truly, that he was not the person to bring this subject forward ; that so far as it depended upon him, it might have rested ; but that having been brought forward, he could not rest satisfied unless the House pro nounced some opinion upon it. He thought the demand a most fair one. The Hon. Gentleman stood in a posi tion of great importance. and every one who filled the situation of Chairman of an Election Committee was its volved in the question, whether the House would not think it necessary to protect Members in that situation against charges thus lightly made, and thus apparently, but not fairly and honestly, abandoned. With respect to the course (continued the Noble Lord) which we are called on to adopt with regard to the Hon. and Learned Gentle man, the Member for Beverley, I think that that course does not admit of any difficulty. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman has read from a newspaper an extract of a speech made by the Hon. Member for Knaresborough. we have heard the Hon. Member for Knaresborough state that that report is correct. I think, therefore, with all due deference to other Hon. Members, and more especially to you, Sir, that if the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman to-morrow put in that newspaper, and has the passage read, that the House of Commons then come to a resolution to the effect that an Honourable Member of this House, mentioning, of course, the name of Mr. Ferrand, had acknowledged himself to be the author of the speech produced, and that the House is of opinion that the charge contained in that speech against another Honourable Member of this House, is a false and calumnious charge.—(Cheers.) I, for one, am prepared to take that course—(Loud cheers.) If there is any one who, as the Honourable and Learned Gentleman says, imagines that, for one moment, there can be any doubt on this subject—if there is any one who thinks that the Hon. Gentleman, in the discharge of his duty, for one moment considered what course it would be desirable for him to pursue in order to please a Minister of the Crown—or that there is the slightest particle of evidence to show that, in the execution of his duties as a Chairman of a Committee, he in the slightest degree permitted himself to be controlled by the Go vernment—if any gone entertained any doubt upon the subject—it would be perfectly competent for that lion. Member to give expression to his opinions. For myself, I have not the smallest doubt on the subject. I think that after the assertion of such a charge, and after such a contradiction has been given to it, such a resolution of the House as that to which I have alluded is due to the Hon. and Learned Member against whom the charge was brought, and also due to the character of the House. —(Cheers.) The case of the Right Hon. Gentleman is so far different, that he has not asked for the opi nion of the House. Ido not understand him to say that he thinks it necessary to ctll in his case for any decision ,f the House. At the same time my opinion is, that after the manner in which this matter has been stated, some mode should be adopted by which an lion. Mem ber in his place, imputing to a Minister of the Crown that he had procured a false report to be made by an officer under his direction, for the purpose of bringing charges against a Member of that House, was an utterly groundless charge.—(Cheers.) The Right lion. Gentle.. man himself does not make any formal complaint. I think it necessary that we should see what resolution the House has come to on such subjects on former occasions, when it has been thought neces sary to come to resolutions on the subject of the con duct of Members of the House. The last case in which any resolutions of this description were come to, was in the case of Mr. O'Connell, which stated that all the Members serving on Election Committees had been guilty of bribery. That was a general charge, which I thought the House would have done well not to notice. The House, however, differed from me in op, inien and we have, therefore, a precedent on th e subject. I think that any general charge such as that against all the Members composing Election Commit tees, ought not to be noticed; but it is different in Ihe case of a particular charge —a specific accusation brought against a particular Member, whether he be holding an office under the Crown, or whether he be entrusted with the discharge of important duties. I am afraid that, on the one hand, if we invariably enter into the general subjects of all insputations that may be made upon the conduct of Members of this House, that we should be involved in endless difficulties ; but, on the other hand, if we pass over such imputations as those which have been avowed by a Member of this House we should render ourselves liable to the imputation of being indifferent to the character of this Ileu-e.— (Cheers.) I have thus stated, shortly, what my impres sions are as to the course to be pursued, and if any bet ter course can be suggested to-morrow I shall he quite ready to listen to it ; and I think it would be better now to adjourn the question till to-morrow. Lord STANLEY—I concur with the Noble Lord in the propriety of the House not taking any course now upon these extraordinary circumstances, for I believe that there is no case in Parliamentary history which can fairly be made the ground of precedent for the extraor dinary circumstance which has occurred this evening. I do not believe that, with regard to the groundlessness of the charge made either against my Right Hon. Friend Or my Hon. Friend, there is in this House the smallest difference, or shade of difference, of opinion —(Cheers.) I do not believe that a man here does not believe—that he does not feel confident not only upon the charge itself, but on the entire and absolute improbability of proving them.—(Cheers) But more than this, 1 be lieve that, at the time those charges were ma 'e, the Hon. Member who made them had not the slightest ground for believing that they were true.—(Cheers.) This beirg the case, the Member of this House rep• at ing those calumnious charges in his place hi this House, is challenged to the proof of those charges, and with an appearance of boldness, comes down to this House on the following day pledged, as far as he can be isludged, to substantiate those charges in the presence of that tribunal to which the accused had appealed, and before which he himself, in tiny bound, was compellrd to sub stantiate his imputations. On his second appearance, when the case was ready to be heard—e hen the tribunal wes ready to which an appeal had b-en made—what course was taken by the Hon. Memb r for Knares borough ? It - was this teat, at the appearance of the first outbreaking of that natural feeline excit d on Loth sides of the House, by the unjustifiable proceeding of the Hon. Gentleman, 1w detour, to the authority of this tri bunal, and eas s that thi-; as mhiy is not one to wli . ch he would appeal, or ,which he would thank qualified to judge of the propriety of nis conduct—that it was an assembly between which aed himself, h. himself bad stated, there exis!ed no sympathy of teeling---{Cheers) —and adhering to the charge ehieh he had made, not only declines to substantiate it, but with draws, without allowing the accused themselves to express their opinion and their indignation at the gross and libellous matter which had been brought forth by him. Now in this case what course is the House to pursue ? I differ from the Noble Lord in thinking that it entirely depends upon the feelings of the parties. The Noble Lord draws a distinction between the case of my Right lion. Friend and the case of my Hon. Friend the Member for Beverley. He said that the lion. Member for Beverley hid appealed to the judgms-nt and had ap pealed to the protection of this He use, and that my Right Hon. Friend did not do so. Now that is not the question which the House has to determine. It is not ; with respect to the individual character of certain Mem bers alone that we have to decide—we are not to judge by the indignation felt by one party or the contempt which is shown by another. But it is for the House to consider what course it will pursue for the mainten ance of its own character and its own honour. But I am sure the Noble Lord will see with me—(Lord John Russell made some observations across the table, which induced Lord Stanley to sit down). Lord J. RUSSELL then said—What I stated was, that it made some difference as to the form in which the House should proceed. As to the case of the Hon. Minnber for Beverley. that gentleman could put- in the newspaper and have it read by the Clerk of the House, as it was admitted - by the -Hon. Member for-iinare borough ;- but he thought e that in respect to his Right lion. Friend, who was a Minister of the Crown for the Home Department, the -form of proceeding should per- , hips be somewhat different. Lord STANLEY watt glad tint OA Koble Lird had given the explanation, and stated the distin ct to he had dra but he must say, that if they ts;e"oorLsoft( notice of the charge against one Member, alluSerstbiso the imputations which had been cast upon an — ge A would seem to g ta ke ive a sanction to the ealumni' as3llevw only to repeat, that whatever course the ice „ D O think proper to take in one case, they vv - 0 brv - t same course with regard to the Other charg ' c irc forward of by the same individual under glnuar stances. Lord JOHN RU4SELL had not proposed 0 1" )6 7 ferent course should b e f o llo we d in the two cOrtsid he had suggested the dir ec t course they migb. the case of the Hon. Member for Beverley. The SPEAKER said th e re was no question a• fo tO House ; but if the House wished W come to 8 140 determination on the subject, he would re coinol e 11 0 , the newspaper, which had been admitted hi tlecr, Member for Knaresborough, should be read hY,A",I at the table, and then the House could COns' further was to be done. Ag 00 w : Mr. BLACKBURN wished to say a few be Cbe,, r , occasion. On a former occasion, when he Ife' e ft m 11 of the Shaftesbury Committee, he had b e fore and calumniously assailed ; and be canl e ,i„teHouse to claim its support. His slan" -1. 10,11 shielded and protected by the Noble Lord th e e 1' for London, but he did receive support Lo ve Noble Lori the Member for North that would advise the House then, seeing th a L t itee'' to he given for reflection, to go back to the si.- 0 0 , case. and he tru.ted that, in the present in s , tsl :o ll ' s ; would show a little better feeling then . they "'jo l t 4 '''; Sir ROBERT PEEL trussedthe ad vice e dorlii which had been giv. n would at once be le t bfri, (Hear, hear.) The House n othig ni y but would be in a much bet w ter m p id osi l t o i s o e n than liv tide upon the course that ought to be purstleaLdtqi Sir R. INGLIS rose, but the rush of Pdacri n door prevented him from b e ing heard, a' r*v . seconds, the benches of the House were Coe empty. OY' CONVOCATION OF THE CL•p--R POT` Mr. P. BORTHWICK rose for the POT het poring the following motion for an " addres nipsol jesty. priying that Ir. r Maiesty will be greei e i % t icsi' i f to sfford to Parliament, in all matters eccles'ootollj advice and as:istance ef the clergy in ces Y be, sembled. according to the Constitution and t (4 usage of the realm." The Ron. Member el t bs i minutes unable to proceed in consequence 0 deo from Members quitting the House. Se me ' O r a , ' quiet having been restored, the lion. GentleltyPob must claim the indulgence and forbearance O' 0t",,¢01 on the present occasion. The circumstances 109 Ile addressed the House, added to the d t i ,„, s ;sts t o ,i ‘N hich surrounded the subject he had to stlntiO ja ) consideration. That subject was no less t"""riu"; cherished rights and liberties, which it was theirtvl privilege to defend at the present time, an d $ 100 01 1) impaired to posterity. Yet to the greater. s, 0 those whom he was then addres'llea 0 more than the name of tho in' tltu 1 ;9 favour of which he was speaking , ",i..,54 1 This was not a question of theology; if i t w- liril;i‘ place would have been the most proper for,,a- far ,y 1 forward. It would be well to know what 0 —.„,a,,,v of the clergy was, what was its character, o f y i d were its uses. At the original introductictiiecero tiantty- into the country, the bishops of the ho ot °ll ,l dir time to time collected the clergy to consu lt t s r it y affairs of the Church. All matters of dee tr i n edi cipline, and all matters relating to the etV e t ae V, Church were discussed in those synods. In tafololse,' of time those convocations were divided lot ( ' to V of York and Canterbury. The Crown aillft.,; r - the t o, convocations in order to obtain supplies - ea. ,4 114 service, they having the power of self-ta0.30-ovlo4' year 1664, it was agreed that the clergy sh a t tir e . their privilege of self-taxation, and since thel i 0 01' I was a singular want of care in calling that t e p its ( The convocation of the clergy at a time sv,n e ighl -s e bers shed their blood in defence of thell wej. , :' ceeded steadily in a course of action to th l w e iab tr i ll , at the present day, the salvation of the Dee w hicb tfo or tution from the tyranny and oppression, to t po li brought to bear upon it. As a Member et o f I ° ,l he was called on to legislate upon the sukiel be erir, education, and therefore he wished to beve l ," et„'b . , nity of those standing council to the res l 7 o 'lley been provided by the Constitution, and, '`',.,Or I able to inform him as to the proper mode w „ar be c op; on so important a subject. An HON. MEMBER moved that the lieutrs P o t, and, there being only twenty-seven getorTtoall the House adjourned, at Seven o'Clock, 1 0 ' forismimosaffiMalplllll.... , s il LLOYD'S SHIPPINucIostV, VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Hindoo L . ,3 11 vies if• South Wales, 7th ult., lat. 16 S., lon. 27 ' 11 • 1 „ ; 0 $, 5 , 5 / 4 '' land, of Whitehaven, 12th ult., lat. 1 5,,,,""t0 . 1 1 .10 7 1 Glenarm, New Zealand to Lonon, lat. 21 , ' 4 4 , 10 j ; Lady Peel, Falmouth to New York, 16IP I o lio ir long. 17 ; barque Pallas, standing Sa it o ete' l lile r r e N., lon. 22 W. ; Victoria, Penzance tonrfrot s , inst., lat. 47, lon. 17 ; Eliza Mary, of re at Oil, fl'i sina, 27th ult., by the Pillgwelly, arrived " i l, I" Rowlyn, from London, 13th ult., by th e . sly Speyk, arrived at Rotterdam. i lit, LOSS of the JOHN DENNISTON, of T . 9s9lllr d i FOREIGN OFFICE, ArßlL e jr A , Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Aher u h ` o irtr2 l l mit to you, for the information of the e t - ob t'loo committee at Lloyd's, the copy of a disP e ' to tel o e i Majesty's Consul at Mobile, reporting th e ,f lii_ o g ' the British' barque " John Denniston,";,alw near Cape St. Antonio. 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To all WY, —I as, "bel e n ot warmly recommended your Macassar Oil ° AO' o ill'r restorative and preservative .for the hair. ~ v oll ie ttelo objection to see my name in print; I beg this „' li;ao' publish it; but you are at liberty to shoo or til t 7 make any other use you please of it, and re o f 1 ° to me, if necessary, in proof of the WNW,' ' ib ° cassar Oil.—Your obedient servant, ' 1 , 4 , . . . and ,0' it Rowland's Macassar Oil preserves Anu • to esiievire, o ll Hair ; prevents it from falling off er, j o ari,4ll' Changes Grey Hair to its Original t& ol it" . from Scurf and Dandruff, and makes it "- , 0 and curly. Oii'• Ask for " Rowland's Macasse r k r felt s. ~f, All others are fraudulent count aooirojet ----" tbe Il e 01 fis Sr. GEORGE'S DAT.YeSterdaY W a tf ld• ~l o t ci nary of the death of the patrol Saint of E 116 ." - ,0 0 "" OW which is now called the Order of the Gar ter ' of stx, o o Edward the Sixth's time, called the Ord er ) ted 'V' I t Ate figure of S. t. 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