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d: 4. 4: ti g SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch NUCES OF SHARES IN t 'ANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANC AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 19. Dividend . per Amount Annum. Names of Coin . pantos. Paid. IPrii Share. of per cent. 41. A a. d. 73 71 5 I 173 • 100 0 0 12 I - ir 965 960 so 41 13 4 31, 14f5 100 0 0 , los - 162% I 25 100 1 o Canals. Ashton and Oldham A s h by -de- la-Zouch-av Basingstoke Br ecknock & Abergay. Birmingham,l-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. Julie Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby Danube and Mayo,— Ellesmere and Che- ter Erewash Forth and Clyde Grand Junction Grand Union ...... Grand Surrey ...... Grand Western.......— Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield ........,.av Rennet :aid Avon ...av Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool Leicester •........••••••••• Leicester k Northamp. Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire -. Montgomeryshire...- Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield ............... Neath •••••••••••••••••«••••• Oxford Peak Forest Regent's (or Landon).. Shropshire ......... Somerset C0aL............ Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester 5hrew5bury,............, 5t0urbridge.............. Stratford-on-Avon—av Severn & Wye & hail. Trent & Mersey, sb. Thames & Medway av Warwick and Binning. Warwick and Napton... Worcester & Birming. Wilts and Berks ay Wisbeach Wey and Arun.... Docks. Commercial East and West India London Ditto Bonds . ..... 8ri5t01......—...........av Do.Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine...„....... „ Ditto Ditto Binds ...... ... Southampton ...... Bridges Hammersmith ... Southwark, new Subs: Ditto New of 7% pr c. Water 100............. ..... Ditto Old Ann. 0181 Ditto New ditto at 7 k Ditto Bonds...—. Vauxhall. .av Assurances. Albion Alfred Life ......„ . „ 25 0 0 Alliance Brit. and 100 0 0 Ditto Marine ....... Atlas 5O 0 0 Birmingham Fire 250 0 0 British Fire 250 0 0 British Commercial 5O 0 0 Cler. Med. & Gen. Life 100 0 0 County Eagle ........ Economic Life ..... EAU'rpean Life 2O 0 0 I)itte New 2O 0 u Freemasons, ......... Globe ..... ...... ....... Guardian Hope Life 25 0 0 Ditte Fire.— .... 25 0 0 Imperial Fi e Di , to Life., ........ 100 0 0 Indemnity Marine.... 100 0 0 Law Life . • ...... ~...,_... 001_ 0 0 1 -- Legal and General Life 5 0 0 0 ;Os. Lon.sion Fire 25 0 0 10; Ditto i>p •••••• ..... 25 0 0 per ceot- National 1 4 04 n Fun ', 29 0 per cent. Palladium Lii".7,...... 50 0 is 5 per cent. Protector Life... .... :- zu 0 0 .• ion I p 11. a . 5 Provident Lite.... ..... pe: 4;. Buck Life " cent. 11'561 rxehan g e.... 5 5 . 0. - .2 . k 6% per s cent. Sun lure . ..... ~„„, 1/. 4t, Ditto Life, ~ ...,...«... 5 pe - cent. University Life.. ...... 19% per cent i o . niversi Life. .... 51. j u n i,;:i Fire arid Lite Joint SZIL flanks ... tr 4 per cent. Australasi ~.........!» i 40 0 H Ditto New ... ........ 6 per c- ent. Brit. North American P. 6 per cent. Commercial of London Hp, -; 0 6ner cent. Colonial too* cent. i London & Westminstr .I.oo_ 0 : Ditto New B. AI per cent. Landon Joint Stock 0 0 Metropolitan. ......... percent. Provincial of Ireland lOO 0 0 0 per cent. Ditto New . ... .. .. 10 0 0 N -6 per cent. .ItO nal of Ireland . .... I .0050 0 00 21s per share Nat, pcovincial Engird 6s. per share 1 Ditto 1...fw . ! ...... ....... ? . .0 0 0 0 0 Gloucestershire ~.. 640 10 per cent. Union of Australia— 25 0 0 per cent. . Union of Londo.: •,.... 50 0 0 1 O 0 2 8 O 0 O 0 3 4 per cent. IL G. W. /Bs. Id. per cent. 7s. g 10s. ' 4 per cent. 6 per cent. (per cent. tkl. pr sh 5/. ss. 4 per cent. 7s. per share der cent. 5 per cent. 2 k 30s. UN.) 5% per cent. SS, per cent. 5 per cent. ti per cent. ;,,; , er Cent. per cent. 19s. ob. & bds. 1455. 70 10 3 Gaslight & Colo, 16s. i Bath ....... .................• g 0 0 0 I/. Ls. British 11.73. Ditto Provincial 2O 0 N. and bB. Birmingham 77 10 0 444/. and bs. Bi ming. & StaHord4h 5“ 0 0 per cent. Bristol .......„ 3cent. i Brighton 2O 0 0 —. Ditto General 2O 0 0 1 - /. City of London .... 100 0 0 104 Ditto New.... .... 100 0 0 viper sh Continenta: Consolid... 75 0 0 15s pRr sh Ditto New 5O 0 0 21. Equitable i 50 0 0 6 per cent. Lz!peri •1 ....... 5 per cent. i Isle of 'fbanet ...... f.i per cent. Independent ........ Plicents. 5O 0 0 5 psx cent Ratclift: ..... .......... 6 per r..nt. South Metropolitan 5O 0 0 al4 per cent. United General ..... 31. Westmins. Chartered • 50 0 0 12s. , J Ditto New 1 50 0 0 1 Water Works. As, I t I;: . rrniag ham .. 25 0 , 81. . Ease. London . 100 0 ?J. ' Grand J.tnction .av 41 13 21. 10s. i Kent ... .. . ... . ~...... 100 0 2'. ;As. rNw Riv Lon, ...... An. :d. 10s. I Manchester andSalfOrd 30 0 S per cent. i Vauxhall, late S. .Lond. I _o o . 0 , 14 16s. j West Middlesex av "t d 14 144 , 1%1 14uldgCo.Les.Plop 100 0 Iron Itailways. - , r , los. per s h it;2rmingham & Derby 1 00 v 11. 4s. j Bin :dog. & Gloucester i 100 0 per cent. Bristo! and Exeter lOO 0 Calt. , dotioll . -_—_ 50 0 5 .... Chester am. , Holgicad --s — 5 ?Is. per sh. Eastern Counties.., 25 0 0 23 21. ss. per sh Edinburgh at Glasgow 50 0 0 50 1.1 per cent Grand Junctio , lOO 0 0 1 0 0 d!4 per cent. Great North or Engind 109 0 0 100 31.55. per sh Great Western ..,. 2561. per sh. Ditto Half Shares..... so 0 i s 0 lis. per sh. Ditto Fifths.-- ...... . 20 0 0 ; 4 Harwich (Braithwaite) I 2;) 0 0 I 2 4 per cent. Hull and Selby ...... ..... 50 0 0 50 Lancaster and Carlisle 50 0 0 5 , Leech and 5e1bv.......... 100 0 0 100 10 per cent. Liverpool & Manchestr 100 0 0 100 JO per cent. Ditto HalLShares 5O 0 0 50 1341. I,er sh London and Brighton 5O 0 0 50 Ditto Loan Notes i !O 0 0 110 o 1100 o 100 Ai 70 0 London and B 1 ckwall ' London and Gree,wich lOW. per sb. London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares IL 14s. Ditto .. Thirds. St. per share London and S. iVest ern 34 4d per sh C London and Croydon " 51.175. pr st Manchest ,-r and Leeds 113 r per st f Ditto New Shares 14 Manchstr and Binning ...- Mid ',and Coo - t ies Si. North Midland..„..„ 31. 101. Do. %..Sh., iss. 10 dm If, 5. Northern and Eastern 15s. Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dia Paris and Orleans IL Its. 10d. P.tr. anti Rouen Rouen and Havre .. A 5 per cent Stockton iir Darlington per cent. South Esst. and Dover i Yarmouth and Norwich In per cent. lurk and N. Midland, 10 per cent. . Ditto New Shares....., 16 19 12 15 100 0 A lble n Copper Alten . , ...... Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos ..... Ditt Scrip Brazil Imp. iss.s/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron ..„.......„ Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, las. 54 p.m General Mining ... • Hibernian I Imperial Slate Compy Mexican .......... per cent, i Mining Co. of Ireland iw. per sh. ! Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes...« Rhymney Iron.. ...... Santiago de Cuba United Mex., iss.2/. pin Mao Scrip Ditto New IL It. 31. lc ad. r. Literary. Londn,with Sin:fleket London University Russell 00000 ••••••••••••••••• 35 0 25 0 20 0 100 0 20 0 !CI 0 55 0 20 0 50 0 10 0 60 0 250 75 0 0 - 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 \lOO 25 0 0 20 50 0 0 50 20 0 0 20 41 - - 1 4 0 100 0 9 0 1 32 — 0 a a 22 g 1 6 10 rl3 15 9 1 100 01 'lO 0 0 50 0 0 1 30 0 6 70 9 0 40 0 0 1.0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 ;100 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 u 45 0 0 50 0 r 15 0 0 20 0 0 61 0 0 20 0 0 20 9 9 1 20 0 10 0 0 1 1000 0 0100001 50 0 0 50 0 11 20 0 t , 18 U 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 , 38N 35% 194 i 20.5% r,o* 28k, 104 51% 50 0 3l 0 n 15 0 0 13 10 0 2 100 0 0 100 0 1 , 2 - 25 0 f , 150 0 0150 0 0 I 7 0.21 0 0I 10 O 25 0 9 5 O 15 0 0 I 12,4 O 75 0 0 O 710 0 7 10 0 I 20 40 0 0 j 26 O 13 0 0 1 3 ,4 O 55 0 0 6 O 90 0 0 9 O 10 10 0 A 01 3 0 0 0 59 0 0 2 0 1 7 0 0 !4% - 150 0 0 118 50 00 1 50 00 25 0 0j 10 0 0 i 2,14 40 0 0 1 40 0 0 3% 3% - 210 0 4% 100 0 0 i 15 0110 o GI 13% ; 30 0 0 o 35 10 o 11 0 32 10 0I 43 lO4 15 0 0 1 14 0 0 V 3 5901 1 10030spm 500 i 5 0 0 1 10 0 0 3 0 0 4% 10 0 0 7 0 0 4% 75 0 0 17 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 o 6 as vs% o 0 104 O 0 O 0 mi O e 4 cent. , to, 401. 1.15+. IL ss. 31 :2s. Bcl. 1. 10s. 34/. 101. All pail 171. 301. 3}6 17.. 6,1. 10/. 6 percent. 28 151. 20/. 11. 10s. 154 3'2!. 10s. 104 Si. 103. 11. 4 S per cent. 5, per cent. 4i per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. I% per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 I Stack I 59 A 0 II( iir sh. Miscellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint. Australian Agricultur. Brit. American Land,.. per ce nt, j Canada per cent. Upper Canada Bonds... a, (Bs. and/ Gen. Steam Navigation ,F.Gd. bs. Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., isa. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick Land New Zealand .... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc. South Australian Thames Tunnel... Van Diemen's Land ... 11. O. IL 15s. ;per cent; ...per cent. 6 1 4 per cent t , per Cent 10 0 100 0 50 0 100 0 41 7 12% t;2l 101 1 L IST op SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. JULY 10, 1844. Bank of :f o4l an d ••-••• Royal Bank British Linen Con:: -0 Y . I Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Banks ..... Central Pk. of Scotland Caledoninu Insu ranee . Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. et Scotl. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scoit.sh Lnion Standard Life Insur I)alkeith Railway Ellin. and Glas. Railw Glasg. and Green. HMI. , TiDuudeeond Arlo Mail. 6 per cent per colt per cent. per ce ,, t 7 per cord. 6 NI cent 3pur cent. -6 per cent. ?per cent. Q per cent. ever cent. ,crier went. \per cent. 5 ver cent. sier cent. 2 per cent . II per cen t I- 10 0 hi 0 0 174% ifsq 166 ik :.444, Ff . ) 6' o 1 10 0 9 12 10 9I 1 0 0 2 10 01 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 23 0 0 17% 20s. 50 LC2ji 40 iim SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The exclusion of Mr. T. Duncombe from the House of Commons Post-office Committee was not Imerely ungracious to the individual ; it was also injuri ous to the public interests. We scarcely remember a previous instance of a Member of Parliament who moved for the appointment of a Committee, which he obtained, • being excluded from the constitution of the Committee. The information which Mr. Thomas Duncombe had collected, and the witnesses on Whose evidence the - , charges he brought against Sir James Graham, with I reference to his warrants for the d e t en ti on an d • opening of letters passing throught the Post-office, - I were to be sustained, rendered his services as a mem• ber of the Committee most important, if not essen tial to the ostensible object for which the inquiry was directed to be made. Supposing the object of the Government, in assenting to the inquiry, to be honest, the exclusion of Mr. Duncombe from the Committee was most unfortunate. But if the design of his exclusion I was to shut out information, by preventing the indivi dual best acquainted with the case from taking part in the investigation, then the purpose has been accomplished. The proceedings of the House of Commons last even ing go to illustrate the injury which the public interests, involved as they are in the efficiency of the inquiry, have already sustained through being de prived of the services of the Hon. Member for Fins ( bury, as a member of that Committee. Mr. Duncomhe I made a statement to the House as to the course adopted iby the Committee toward himself. The Honourable Member was summoned by it, and appeared before it. He was asked whether he had any statement to make, or any informiltion which he wished to lay be fore the Committee ? He replied, that he had charges which he is in a situation to sub stantiate by evidence, relative to the detention and opening of letters at the Post-office. The Committee, upon this, asked for his list of wit nesses . "W e w ill send for the parties, and ascertain, by an examination conducted by ourselves, the evidence they can supply. in support of the charges you allege. You, Mr. Dun combe, may withdraw. Leave the whole affair to our management. We will not trouble you further." The Committee, according to Mr. Duncombe's statement, was very courteous, and even " coaxing," in its de meanour ; but declined his offer, which he pressed upon them, to allow him to examine his own witnesses. The Committee even refused to allow him to be pre - sent while the examination of these witnesses was con ducted by the members of the Committee. The latter refusal was grounded on lack of power in the Com mittee to grant that permission. But on a formal ap plication being made by Mr. Duncombe to the Com mittee, that a formal application be made by it to the House to allow of his being present, he was requested to withdraw ; and on being again admitted, he was informed that the Committee declined to make such an application to the House. The correctness of Mr. Duncombe's statement was admitted by Lord Sandon, the chairman, and other members of the Committee, who were present in the House. Sandon, indeed, was willing to con ce d e th e presence of Mr. Duncombe during the examin-t -tion of his witnesses by the Committee, if the House would consent,. But Sir R. Peel would not hear of sue ig an invasion of the " rules of the House" and the "gene -1% ral kractice with regard to all Committ ees o f th e sor t." %, To "Ike the examination of the wit nesses ou t o f th e h an d s 1g of the Committee would imply a want of confidence by s the souse in the Committee of its se l ec ti on ; while to. perniit a Member of the House, who was not a Member of the Committee, to be present during the inquiry, would be to destroy the secresy imposed on the Cum -1% mittee in the investigation with which it was intrusted: ‘, He (Sir R. Peel) should therefore advise the Hou,e ;% to adhere in this case to the general practice with re spect to all Committees of this sort. It was now a 14 question of confidence in the Committee." The presence of Mr. Duncombe—whether as a member of the Committee, or as an examiner of the witnesses he has collected, and as manager of the case in which the public is so deeply interested, and which he de clares he is in a position to establish—is refused. The complexion which the proceeding now wears is anything but healthy. We were disposed to hope that the Government, driven by very shame to concede in viry, would have kept up appearances with the public, and afforded every facility for rendering the result satis factory—at least, that no impediment would have been interposed to thwart investigation, and to prevent a toll discovery of facts. The fair examination of all the wit nesses brought forward by Mr. Duncombe, was essential to produce this desirable effect. STANDARD.—Mr. Thomas Duncombe last night made a bold effort to be admitted to the sittings of the Secret Committee upon the Post-office, and in doing so, gave ample proof of the prudence of his original exclu sion from that body. For what does Mr. Duncombe want to be admitted to the sittings of the Secret Committee ? If it is not to prevent its proceedings being secret, we are at a loss to conjecture &motive. The Member for Fins- b try is not afflicted with any excess of modesty, but surely even he will not pretend that the gentlemen composing the Committee are not qualified by experience, intelligence, and integrity to conduct the delictite inquiry confided to them, without his help ? He says, indeed, that he has witnesses to produce, whom it is necessary for himself to examine in person but witnesses who can give testimony only to their own selected examiner are witnesses who may as well be dispensed The duties assigned to the secret Committee are in all rtspeets analogous to the duties of a grand jury, but what would he tho►ight of a prosecutor insisting upon admission to a grand jury -room; (41 the plea that he must examine his witnesses in person We, how• ever, perfectly understand Mr, T. Duncombe—he knows that - liicease - has broken down, and he is now dernan, ing what it is impossible to concede ; laying the founds, Lion of a grievance, which may serve him as a door of escape from his groundless and most trutiipery charges. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(THIS DAY.; Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Gibraltar - — Ditto, at sight l2 3 Leghorn 3O 45 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5i Genoa 25 85 Antwerp 25 90 Milan — aamburgh M.B. 13 12 Venice 47 Altona l3 13 Naples 39i Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 54 Marseilles 25 90 Oporto 54 Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 1211 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 N . elcyl:olk,2ldys sight Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 953 Philadelphia T rieste, ditto Madrid.. 37 Foreign Gold, bars. .f. 3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Sevilla Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 1 Silver in Dam 0 4 111 BANK OF ENGLAND. Quarterly Average of the 'Weekly Liabilities and Assets 01 the Bank of England, from the 20th day of April, 1844, to the 13th day of July, 1844, both inclusive, published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES. AELSETS. Circulation £21,246,000 Securities ..X22,471,000 Deposits 13,977,000 Bullion £35,223,000 I I. Downing-street, July 19, 1844. E 38,238,00( THE LONDON UAZETIT (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, JULY 17, 1144. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Alexander Silver to the church and parish of Dunnottar, in the presby teiy of Fordoun and county of Kincardine, vacant by the transportaton of the Rev. Alexander Irvine, late Minister thereof, to the church and parish of Peterhead. " CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 19. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Birmingham—Richard Spooner, Esq., in the room of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., deceased. , ADMIRALTY JULY 12. Corps of Royal Marines—First lieutenaat P. T. M. Payne to be Captain, vice Brevet Major H. B. Mends, deceased ; Second 'Lieutenant O. Drury to be First Lieutenant, vice Payne, Promoted. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire. Liecestershire Regiment of Militia—Captain and Adjutant H. F. Hawker, from the Queen's Own Tower Hamlets Regi. ment of Militia, to be Adjutant, vice Deakin, deceased, March 22. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding o, Yorkshire. First West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—G. Sitwell, Esq., to be Captain, vice Lord Howard, resigned ; Cornet D. Niabett to be Lieutenant, vice Swium, resigned ; W. Fowler, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Nisbett, promoted, July 13, 1844. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayrshire. Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Regimental Ser jrant-Major A. B. Calvert, from the 2d bragoon Guards, to be Adjutant; Adjutant A. B. Calvert to be Cornet; Rev. J. C. Jamieson to be Chaplain, vice the Rev. J. M'Leod, D.D., deceased, July 10. WHITEHALL, JULY 10. The Lord Chancellor has appointed R. Fulford, of Exeter , Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court o Chancery. WHITEHALL, JULY 6. The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knt.,-Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed John Lyon Foster, of Hertford, in the county of Hertford, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowlPdgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re. coveries, and for the substitution of more simple suedes of assur ance, in and for the county of Hertford. • BANKRUPTS. THOMAS HARVEY, innkeeper, Wandsworth, to sur render July 29, at two, and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane. Lom bard-street ; Bird, Lincoln's Inn-fields. WILLI A M TRUTCH, china clay merchant, Bermondsey, July 25, at two, and Aug. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Cooke, Half- Dloon-street. JAMES SMITH and HENRY TITFORD, engravers, Snow-hill, City, July 25, afeleven, and August 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook court. Basinghall-street; Jenkinson, Cannon-street, City. CHARLES COPE, wine-merchant, Edgbaston, Warwick shire, Aug, 3 and Sept. 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece, Birmingham. BENJANIIN HARRISON HUNTER, merchant, Liver pool, Aug. 2, and 28, at half-past eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, dficial assignee, Liverpool Gregory anti Co. Bedford.row, L on d on ; Littledale and i3ardswell, Liverpool. _—_______ JOHN CARRUTHERS, linendraper, Blackburn, Lanca- Aire Aug. 2 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.de* anu Morris, T•e r Agway, o ffi cial assignee, Man c h es t er ; Mil ne , P arr y, M 'mnle, London; Wildi ng an d Fi s h er , n Blackburn. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY, E. Morton, Winchester-row, Paddington. S. Leila, isil.maker, Liverpool. h r 60 0 01 i 40 0 01 21 •50 0 0 72' 5 0 0 1 0 0 is. 5 0 0 _6. 5 • 0 16. 55 0 0 50 0 0 3$ 5 0 0 e. 41• C 6. `lO 00 50 0 5 !250 0 0 400 All paid 2 b 3 u 0. 35 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 • 5 13 0 10 0 0 0 0 12.10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 01 10 0 01 10 0 01 T 51:10 6 5 0 10 0 0, 40 0 0 43 40 0 0 42 5 , 1 0 0 4' 200 0 0 2ro 2.5 0 I 13% 90 0 0 264 20 0 0 10 0 0 14 7 10 0 2i 0 0 I 43% lt) 0 1 17 17 W 0 144 35 0 0 1 4114 10 0 0 104 10 P 6 i 25 25 0 0 0 6% 10 11 10 0 0 2? IS I 0 20 10 0 A , - 50 0 • ::4) - 3(5 49% 119) 15% 27 43 16 16 I 2% 4es. 170 12% 95 0 0 - 217 —111 s - 36 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIWI, JULY 19, 1544 - - J. Firth, clothier, Leeds. G. Leach, green-grocer, Bingley, Yorkshire. J. Groom, cabinet-maker, St. Clement, Oxfordshire. Rev. J. Williams, clerk, Grove-road, Mile-end-road. T.:Greenwood, dealer in woollen-flocks, Halifax, Yorkshire. R. Rushbroak, veterinary-surgeon, Rayleigh, Essex. C. Bampton, collar-maker, Woolwich. E. Brown, governess, Brighton. J. Breden, shoemaker, Liverpool. J. Cosyn.-barnesti-maker, Redburn, Hertfordahlre, W. E. Thomii; hair-dresser, Bristol. J. Cherry, joined, Stockport, Cheshire. J. Robson, buteber„Manehester. A. Morris, pork.butcher, Manchester. W. Wagstaff, cabinet-maker, LiverpooL H. Glazebrook, coach-maker, Long-lane Bermondsey. Carter - street , Sherwood, s t a ti oner , Cartestreet, Wkworth. W. C. Fuller, green-grocer, George-street, Oxford-street. G. Rownsley, Waterman, Snaith, Yorkshire. B. Roffe, baker, Millbrook, Bedfordshire. C. Sewell, shoemaker, Gestingthorpe, Essex. C. Bevil', attorney, Cambridge. J. Lamb, deputy coal-weigher, Globe-terrace, Commercial-rd. G. Newman, usher, Ealing, Middlesex. J. Massey, tailor, Kidderminster, Worcestershire. T. Fancy, been-ed victualler, Bear-yard, Lincoln's Inn-fields. T. Friend, cabinet-maker, Canterbury. R. Knights, butcher, John-street, Edgeware-road. J. M. P. Fellingham, clerk, King Ethvard-st., Blackfriars. W. Chubb, accountant, Bristol. R. Shaw, shipwright, Gatcombe, Gloucestershire. R. Smith, shopman, Bowling-green -buildings, New-road. J. Burgess, jun., shoemaker, Southwold, Suffolk. T. Sansom, baker, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. J. Cherriman, dentist, Wells-street, Alaryiebone. A. Woodroffe, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, T. Lee, inn-keeper, Halifax, Yorkshire. F. Twysden, Bearsted.green, Maidstone. W. Bainbridge, boot-maker, Fenchurch-street, City. J. Mercer, carpenter, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark. M. Burgess, Acle, Norfolk. any one independent - of your client ? Mr. Russell—l knew it from my client first; but I knew_ it from other sources.—(A laugh.) To the LORD CHANCELLOR—Never had any communication with the person who paid this money, except in the presence of his brother, and thought that he was justified in refusing to give the name of that person. Lord BROUGHAM told the witness that he was not privileged as to the unknown person, and must con sider the consesaences..-(klear, hear.) The Committee had no power to eomtnit him, but the House had. The Duke of RICHMOND asked had he not advised his brother not to bring the action in his own name, be cause his character was so tainted? Answer—l think I did.—(Laughter.) Lord BROUGHAM submitted to their Lordships that as the person at the bar admitted that the person whose name he withheld was not his client, he could not refuse to give the name. After some consultation with the Noble and Learned Lord, the Counsel, Mr. James, and the witness, were ordered to withdraw from the bar ; and the witness was peremptorily ordered not to leave the House. A conversation ensued of some length, in which several ' Noble Lords took part, respecting the course to be pur sued ; when it was resolved that the witness Russell be ordered to attend at the bar, and that in the meantime his evidence before the Select Committee anti the House be printed. The witness was accordingly called in, and ordered to attend. He said—" I will obey your Lordships. --(Oa, of course you will.) THE IRISH STATE TRIALS APPEAL. The LORD CHANCELLOR wished to call the at tention of the House to a matter which affected himself personally, and which was, however, of some importance to their Lordships and to public justice. His attention WAS drawn, through the medium of one of thelrish papers, to a statement in the Morning Chronicle, that whilst Mr. Hill was arguing upon the challenge of the array, "the Lord Chancellor said that there could be no doubt that the array was fraudulent." The Morn ing Chronicle went en to ask, could it be doubted that a verdict obtained under fraud so admitted by the Lord Chancellor of England would be viewed with exe cration by the people of England; or could any Ministry have the audacity to carry the sentence into effect, after such a condemnation ? These remarks were printed in large letters in all the Irish papers. He did not blame the writer in the Morning , Chronicle, who was misled,. from not understanding what he (the Lord Chancellor) had said. Nothing could be further fromthe meaning of his oh - servations, which went no farther than that if the array were made in the way which Mr. Hill Stated it would be fraudulent ; but that he could not judge of that, as he knew nothing of the facts, which should h ave b een d e• tided by the Court of (tetteen's Bench. ' Lord BROUGHAM concurred in the observations of his Noble and Learned- Friend on the Woolsack, and said that nothing could justify the use which the Irish papers had made of the misrepresentation. Lord CAMPBELL said that his Noble and Learned Friend on the WcOlsack was perfectly riglit in making to the House the explanation which he hai made. But he (Lord Campbell) must say, that when this subject came before the House he would differ from the opinion of his Noble and Learned Friend, and that he thought the Attorney-General was not justified in going to trial as he did, nor until the whole book of the jury-list had been gone through, and the defendants had a full chance of a fair trial. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending July 16, 1844, is 325. lid. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im• portation thereof into Great Britain. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of July 19.) SUGAR.-The market has still an improving appearance for all descriptions of Raw Sugar admissible for home consump tion. To-day there was less activity in the West India Sugar market, still merchants displayed firmness, and a fair busi ness was transacted at fully former rates. The market closed with a firm appearance, especially for all bright grocery and strong refining sorts. REFirrED.--An extensive demand has prevailed for the home trade this week, and an advance on former rates of Is to is 6d per cwt has been paid. To-day Refined Goods were much wanted by the home trade, and stiffer rates paid ; th e market has become ba re o f goods; brown lumps are fetching 75s to 7DS 6d, and standard 76s to 77s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar finds ready purchasers at full former rates. The market is firm for Loaves, and a good deal is doing. Itatrumus.-A good business has been transacted by pri vate treaty, and all the parcels on offer have been disposed of rather above former rates. This afternoon the trade pur chased freely ; at public sale 11,326 bags of various sorts were offered, and the whole disposed of at an advance on the rates of the last auctions of 6d per cwt ; prices ruled as follows :-fine yellow at 61s to 625, good 59s to 60s 6d, mid 56s 6d to 58s 6d, low 54s 6d to 565, good to fine brown 52s to 545, mid 47s 6d to 495, low 45s 6d to 475, ord to mid grey 54s to 575, good to fine 58s to 60s 6d per cwt. For public sale on Tuesday 1,600 bags are declared. EAST INDIA.--Bengal Sugar has met with ready purchasers at an advance on former rates of 6d to is per cwt. This afternoon Bengal Sugar was wanted, bat rather higher rates being asked checked business, and 1848 bags at auc=tion_ were only partly sold-mid soft date yellow at 56s to 58s 6d, washed 51s to 57s 6d, very fine sound white 70s, fine 655, good 635, low 59s 6d to 61s, washed 60s to 67s ; 64 bags, iu bond, went at 25s to 27s for low damp yellow; 1 ; 215 bags Madras, in bond, sold at lower rates, viz.:-fine damp bright brown at 27s to 295, good 25s to 26s 6d, and low dark 19s to 22s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.-Brown Brazil Sugar has been in increased de mand privately this week, and a good business has been transacted at rather higher rates. Yellow Havaanah is much wanted, and in some cases the rates paid are rather above those previously quoted. White Havannah is firm in price and in fair denrand: fine yellow Havannah at 22s to 22s 6d, good 20s 6d to 21s, washed 19s, good sound white 28s to 28s 6d, and slightly damaged 25s per cwt. MOLASSLS.-IV est India cannot generally be purchased upon lower terms; but few purchases have been made pri vately ; 26s accepted for good Antigua. For parcels offered at auction, Antigua 24 5 , Barbadoes 265, St. Kitt's 245, and Montserrat 23s per cwt. Tamarinds are cheaper; 17i barrels West India at auction were sold at 50s . per cwt. For Honey prices have made a stand; 5 jugs Jamaica at auction went at 50s, to 58s per cwt. Faun-Importers of Currants are not inclined to further give way in prices, but buyers still operate with reluctance. COFFEE.-Thera has been less demand for West India Coffee this week, but holders remain firm, and will not sell, excepting at former rates. This afternoon, the public sales of Ceylon Coffee were large, at an advance on former rates of 6d to Is per cwt; good ordinary fetched 50s to 525, very good ordinary 52s- 6d to 545, good ordinary brown 53s to 545, fine ordinary .58s, fine fine ordinary colory 68s to 70s, low middling colory 78s to 79s Pea berry 81s to 87s, triage 16s to 17 s , an d sea damaged 14s to 16s. Jamaica middling fetched 86s 6d to 88s, low middling 79s to 80s, fine fine ordivary 72s 6d to 755, fine ordinary 56s to 62a, triage 36s 6d to 525; 179 bags Java, sound, taken in at 35s 6d to 37s for fine ordinary yellow Sincapore, a few lots in single casks 41 to 495; 78 barrels of Rio were bought in at 56s for middling . coloury. -- TEA.To-day the market presented a fiat appearance for nearly every description of Tea. Con gou b u t mi d ra str and fresh sold at I s lid to Is 2d, but mid is 2d, super strong 2s 2d to 2s 2id ; Twankay but mid Is sd, and Hyson flavour 2s lid to 2s lid; Gunpowder 38 6d to 4s sd, and Imperial 2s 10id per lb, Sricisa.-There have been no public sales of black Pepper, and although prices rule low still buyers have purchased very sparingly by private contract. This afternoon 87 bags White Pepper at auction sold at full rates, and fetched 5d t o 5Ad per-lb kr mid quality. 75 bags ourbon Cloves went at easier rates, good rather bright at 9d to 9d per lb. 41 bar rels Jamaica Ginger were sold at 41 15s to 6119 s for ordinary to good mid. 150 bags bold wormy Bengal were taken iu at 225, buyers at 188 per cwt. eocoA.-Insporters of %Vest India submitting to a reduc tion on previous rates of Is to 2s per cwt, has occasioned the demand to be good. This afternoon Foreign met with little attention, and 200 bags Para at auction were all withdrawn. ME-The market has presented a firm aspect for all de scriptions of East India Rice this week, notwithstanding the favourable appearance for the grain crops, and the dull state of the Wheat trade. This afternoon Bengal Rice was in excellent request, and 2,364 bags 400 pockets at public sale were readily disposed of at rather higher prices -good raid white fetched lls 6d to 12s, mid Ils 6d, and mid white broken lls to lls 6d per cwt. 'SAGO -Holders show firmness, and supply the market sparingly. This afternoon at auction, 106 boxes Sago went Is to 2s cheaper-fine small white Pearl selling at 19s; 54 brls Tapioca sold at 2id to aid, and 560 tins Jamaica Arrowroot partly sold at 6d to 84:1 per lb. EU3I, _BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-For the finest descrip tions of Jamaica Ruin prices are supported, but for all other sorts they are going down, and rule Id to 2d per gallon under those of this day week. For Leewards prices keep firm, and a good business has been transacted; the purchases amount to 150 puns at 2s 21jd to 2s 3d per gallon proof. The market is in a dull state tor Demerara, and easier rates taken -2s lld to 3s 2d is the value of strong qualities, but Calcutta hits been in lively demand, and very full prices paid; 400 casks sold privately at Is ltd to is Hid per gallon, proof; with certificate ; at public sale 174 puns 2 hhds Calcutta were taken in at 2s 4d to 2s Sid for 24 to 22 per cent. over, but since sold at a fraction above Is ltd per gallon, proof strength. For Brandy, lower rates have again been accepted. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of Is3B hhds 5s 341, puns 5s id; ditto 1839 hhds 5s la, puns 4s 1141; ditto 1840 hhds 58, puns 4s lOd ; ditto 1841 hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d; ditto 1842 hhds 4s 8d„ - puns 4s 6d, mid and good mid sorts 3s to 4s 6d, and low 2s 8d to 2s 10d per gallon. The stock of Brandy is a large one. Geneva at is lOd to Is 11d, for fine for home consumption 2s $d to 3s 6d per gallon paid for small parcels. English Corn Spirits at lOs 4d per gallon, cash, and there has been a good business transacted. - Lord COTTENHAM said that the statement in the Morning:Vhronicle wis incorrect, as had been properly shown by hiss Noble and Learned Friend ; .but the mis apprehension of the writer was very excusable, when the difficulty of a law argument, even to a lawyer, was con sidered. = The conversation then dropped. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mr. GREENE and others from the Commons brought up the Unlawful Oaths Bill (Ireland), the Soap Duties Bill, the Party Processions Bill (Ireland), the Farm.- building Buntings Bill, and numerous other Bills, which were severally read a first time. THE POST-OFFICE INQUIRY. A further message from the Commons communicated the permission of the Commons to Lord J. Russell to attend before their Lordships' Committee. The Earl cf RADNOR had seen it stated in some of the newspapers that he had consented to have his name omitted from that Committee. .He thought it right to say that he felt he ought to have been on the Committee. The Duke of WELLING ON had supposed that the list which he had proposed for the Committee was uni versally approved of. CORN-LAWS. The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from agriculturists of Wiltshire, complaining of distress, and praying for the repeal of the corn-laws, and all laws against the importation of provisions. Their Lordships had repeatedly denied that there was distress iind a Noble Lord near him said there was none in Wiltshire, but the petitioners a ho resided there were likely to know better than the Noble Lord (Methuen), wi 0 seldom visited the count>•.—(He ar , and a laugh.) Lord METHUEN said he was well acquainted with the county, but he might not know as much of some par ticular persons as the Noble Earl, who went about in every corner searching for statements of distress.— (Hear, and a laugh.) The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions in fa vour of protection, and said that he would send down a pamphlet to show the true state of the questions to the persons who signed the Noble Earl's (Radnor's) petition , from Wiltshire. [LEFT sirTnia.l HOUSE OF COMMONS. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATION AND REGULATION BILL. (Continued from 'our Afternoon Edition.) On clause 25 being proposed, Mr. STUAR'r WORTLEY 'said - this was the regis tration clau,e, and -important as being the first one re lating to existing companies. He wished to ask whether the measure would affect joint-stock mills. Those joint stock mills were %ery common in the manufacturing dis tricts, and it was by no means uncommon for the smaller sharehol&rs to run up accounts, and leave their partners to pay fir them. If this Bill provided a remedy for that evil, it would be conferring a great boon upon the manu facturing districts. Mr. GLADSTONE regretted that, in consequence 'of the difficulty of the subject, he had been obliged to post pone the Consideration of the relative rights of share holders among themselves until next session. In certain respects the Bill would improve the relations between companies and their shareholders, but it would not remedy the evil of which the lion. Gentleman com plained. There- would be facilities of obtaining judg ments against Companies, and thi s h e thoughth ouid prove very beneficial. Mr. S. WORTLEY had thought it his duty to call the Right Hon. Gentleman's 'a - tention to this subject, and he trusted that some steps would be taken with respect to it next year. The clause was then agreed to, as were clauses 26 to 57. The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and summoned the House to the bar of the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to seve ral Bills (for which see Lords' report). The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members, then proceeded to the . House of Lords. On their return, the House went into Committee, when the remaining clauses were agreed to, and the Bill, with amendments, was ordered to be reported on Tues day next at twelve o'clock. . The House resumed. 'CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the Liverpool Peace Society, praying for the aboition of the punish ment of death in ail cases. INDlGo.—Since last Friday the market has presented a firm aspect fur all descrirtions of East India Indigo. To-day 'during the progress of the sale 125 chests were withdrawn and 823 have passed. , Ons.—Southern Oil, prices have declined lOs per tun ; Seal 36/ paid for pale, at which hoiders are firm. Cod 33/ 15s to 34/ per tnn, and the stock is a small one. Sperm is much wanted, fine I.ritish fetching 84/ to 851 and American 81/ to 83 per tun. Rape at 37s 6d to 38s and brown 36s 6d to 37s per cwt : the supply is getting large. Linseed Oil at 25s 9d to 26s per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil at 27s to 304 per cwt. Palm at 28s to 29s per cwt for the lowest. Olive Oil at lower rates; Gallipoli at 45/ to 46/, Spanish 43/ to 44/, and Barbary 41/ to 42/ per tun. Ame rican Lard Oil is wanted. This afternoon of 130 tuns Ele phant Oil which were offered at public sale, a small part only sold, at 291 10s to 32/ lOs per tun. TALLOW.—Holders of Russian Tallow are not inclined to take lower rates this week, but the dulness in the market has increased. This afternoon at public sale 291 bags New South \Vales Tallow were sold at 37s 3d to 41s 6d, and 383 pipes 16 hhds South American at 37s to 40s per cwt. COURTS OF COM: ON LAW. On the motion of Mr. CRIPPS, the Courts of Coin. mon Law Process Bill, and the Courts of Comnion Law (Ireland) Bill, went through Committee. The Parish Constable Bill was read a third time. CRIMINAL JUSTICE (IRELAND). Mr. BRIGHT, seeing the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ireland in his place, wished to direct his attention to a csse which had occurred at the recent assizes in Ire land. Two women had been lately found guilty of mur der in the county of Roscommon, and were How left for execution on the 31st of this month. The crime was committed in the month of June, 1843, when on the Co roner's inquest on • the body, a verdict of suicide was returned. Since that time, ,a woman who slept or said she slept in the same' room where the murder had been committed, had given evidence which proved that the min was murdered and then carried out of the room, when his throat was cut., with the intention of wakin g it appear that he had committed suicide. On the •trial the jury deliberated twenty-two hours, and' then found the two women guilt); of wilful murder; one of them being the wile of the murdered man, and the other her sister. - The jury recommended them to mereyt but he was informed that the Judge refused to transmit that recommendation to Dub lin. There was reason to believe that the chief witness in the case, was a woman of extremely bad character, and that her evidence was doubtful. Altogether it ap peared that the whole party were of a very low state of civilization, for when the occurrence took place the murdered man and his wife slept in one bed, and the woman who gave the evidence was :leeping,with her own father in another bed. The third woman who was a servant sleeping in • an adjoining room to which there was no d oor. I t a pp e ared that a ll of them were o f a c l ass t h at rendered i t necessary to receive their evidence with great caution. Under all circumstances it seemed one of those cases worthy the attention of Government. If the man, was murdered an inquiry ought . to be made into the conduct of the coroner, as it was stated that he examined but one wit ness, and called no surgeon, the inquest being thus of a most unsatisfactory character. Lord ELIOT thought the object of the Hon. Gentle man would have been equally well attained, had he merely called his attention to the matter. He could not help thinking he had rather exceeded the limits allowed in asking questions. He must else observe that the coroner was not accountable to the Government ; at the same time, he could assure the lion. Gentleman that the circumstances of the trial should have his best attention. PRIVY COUNCIL BILL. Lord HOWICK ‘id, he observed that the Privy Council Bill was one of the orders of the day for the third reading on that evening. He understood that this Bill almost re-modelled the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and provided a considerable salary for a Chief Judge. He wished to ask whether the second reading would be moved to night, and whether the Bill was supported by her Majesty's Government. , COPENHAGEN, JULY 11.—Yesterday morning the Sir J. GRAHAM said he had read the Bill, which h e Russian frigate Aurora, of 44 guns, arrived in the Chan did not think the Noble Lord could have done, and he nel(dießgennk of fresh bound e) . fro mC N ro e r w is s ta i d s tmt,omeEtnog-dlaan3d, from salary. could state that th ere was no clause in i t fi x i ng suc h a took in a stock salary. Nor should he (Sir J. Graham) be prepared t o Dragoe, that a Russian fleet, coming from the south, was support a Bill that would do so. The other arrange- .in sight at eight o'clock this morning; three ships a ere t th o e t a h t s e s of ththeeGßoivllernwemreenetntwiraes prlyo epa fa r t e ec d tehnical nature, and two miles south of Dragoe.—Jiandburgle Bourse:a/idle, give its assent. July 13. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. ROYAL ASSENT. At Four o'clock: there was a Commission to give the Royal Asseflt to certain Bills. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharnclifte, and Earl Dalhousie. The following are the Bills which received the Royal Assent—the Bank Charter Bill ; the Property -Tax Exemption Bill ; the Dissenters' Chapel Bill ; the Cus toms Duties (Isle of Man) Bill ; the County . Rates Bill ; the:Militia Ballot Suspension Bill ; the Stock in Trade Asses§ment Bill ; the Paupers Removal Bill (Scotland) Bill ; the Parishes (Scotland) Bill ; the Prisons (Scot land) Bill ; Loan Societies (Ireland) Bill ; Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Staleybridge Railway Bill ; Cokin ster - and Ipswich Railway Bill ; the South-Western Railway Amendment Bill ; the Liverpool 'Nicks Bill ; the Berkenhead Docks Bill; the Southampton Improvement Bill ; the-Coventry Im provement Bill ; the York Gas Light Companys' Bill ; andrseverul Road and Estate Bills. 'Their Lordships adjourned for a short time, and as sembled again, NN hen— Mr. E. Jc.mes was called to the Bar, and addressed their Lordships a;,ainA the Gaming Bill. ' When the Learned Gent.ernan concluded. Mr. Russell . was called and examined by Lord BROUGHAM—I am the attorney in the qui tam ac tions ; I was instructed by my clerk ; he is my brother; he has a salary of SOL a year; I brought about 34 actions; be did not instruct me till I first suggested to him to do so; I expect he will pay me; I do riot expect he will pay the entire. The expense of one of those actions, if lost, might be about 1;000/. A gentleman paid 9002 towards the expenses. I do not know him ; he did not instruct me, I decline to tell who he is, because that was conA munieated to 11161 as an attorney. He is not my client. I know his name, but I decline togite it. Lord BROUGHAM—No privilege will protect a man who is not your c,iient. Come-, give the name: The LORD cnANcETLoR —lf you do not answer that question you will reflect on the consequences, Witness—l d 4 cline to answer, because it was a privi. leged communication. Lord BROUGHAM—Did you know the name from THE STATE TRIALS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that es the opinion of the Judges had not yet been delivered respecting the trial of Mr. O'Connell, and then he would postpone until another supply day the question for an address to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to release the prisoners. [LEFT KITING.] arip............ ~.--,......................... '..' .. .He was therefore disposed to move the third reading ; BANItRUPTCY EXTRAORDINARY ( important town in the United Kingdom;. and he hoP_°ot but if the Noble Lord objected to it he should no t move Before SIR C. F. WILLIAMS. it at any hour at which the Noble Lord might be unable • i their Lordships w ou ld now a ll ow th e secon d l eading, a f At the sitting of the Court, a figure entered, looki ng I binding them or an y N o bl e L or d to t h e precise term s 0 any part of the measure. to attend. .. as pale as death, and begged to be allowed to surrender I Lord HOWICK was aware that the clauses fixing the himself as a bankrupt. • . 1 The Bill was then read a second time. salary were not printed in this Bill, but they were The figure represented himself as the statue of Nelson, I SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT. printed in the Bill as it stood in another place. now and for some time past of Trafalgar-square. He I The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that, an Sir J. GRAHAM said it. was not intended to move stared that a few friends had been desirous of setting him Monday next, he would move the second reading of In any clause in that House that was nut in the Bill. up in the neighbourhood of Charing -cross, where he had ; Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill. He would also I? n_ v . e . Lord HOWICK said it was ektremely objectionable, di D. , '"' hoped to have cut a good figure, but want of money had I that counsel be heard against the Bill, as they h hoped .- that at so late a period of the session, when all the prin- for a long time kept him down, and he had been coin. . heard in the other House. ciple getletrien. of the House connected withohe legal pletely laid upon his back for avery Considerable period. es •- - INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILLS. profession were necessarily absent on circuit , that such a Sir C. Wiauems—What do you want here ? I sit The LORD CHANCELLOR brought up the report Bill as this should be moved and carried ; they had be- here to do juStice, and if justice is not most thoroughly of the Select Committee on these Bills. fore had experience of the great impropriety of legal bills done in every sense of the word, it is no fault of mine. been hrought in and carried through at this late period . Lord BROUGHAM sugge4ed that their Lordships The figure observed that he came to surrender, and to should at once refer the report of the Select Conimite of the session. . ask for protection against the numerous jokes that were to a Committee of the whole House, as it was desirable e . Sir J. GRAHAM understood that the Bill had been being made at his (the statue's) expense, and which lo lose no time in passing so important a measure I proposed with the unanimous consent of the Judges of were really enough to break a heart of stone. this period of the session. the Privy Council ; and under these circumstances, he . Sir C. s'. WiLeseets—l can give you no protection Lord CAMPBELL thought that, in the absence. o f . hoped it would not be opposed. , against jokes. I can't protect myself. I have been nearly Lord Cottenham, who had had 'no notice of the No°.; MEDICAL PROFESSION. joked off this chair on several occasions. What is the and Learned Lord's proposition, the Bill ought not 1 Mr. PHILIP HOWARD asked the Right Hon. extent of your liabilities ? proc eedßill another stag e . Gentleman, the Secretary of St a t e , if h e intended to The figure said he really cou ld not te ll . A man After a very desultory conversation (aMidst much ill' fession. pro- and a boy had been em pl oye d, w h o h a d left no stone terruption), in which Lord Brougham, Lord CantPbeil ii , unturned, but he (the fi gure ) was aware whether an d L or d M ountcashel took part, Sir J. GRAHAM said he s till i n t en d e d to introduce they had been paid for their labour. Lord BROUGHAM moved that the report he ri, ° . :" a Bill on this subject, b u t b e wou ld not press i t this Sir C. F. WILLIAMS asked if there was any truth in referred to a Committee of the whole House. His Non, session. the report that the st a t ue con t emp l ate d t h row i ng h i mself and Learned Friend who was absent would have araPhie, Sir R. PEEL moved that the House at its rising do off the pedestal, in consequence of his awkward position ? opportunity of expressing his views of the report at adjourn to Monday.—Agreed to. The figure, with large drops of stucco standing in his future stage. - SINKING FUND. sicced' eyes, observed that he had never tbought of throwing Lord CAMPBELL continued to oppose this pr _ f On the motion of Mr. WODEHOUS.E, certain returns himself on the public by jumping down; but he admitted ing, on the ground of its irregularity and the absence U relating to the sinking fund were ordered to be made. that, if he had had sufficient rope, he might as well have notice. BRASSINGTON INCORPORATION. hanged himself. After some further conversation, Mr. COLVILLE gave notice that he should, on Mon- Sir C. F. Wiamems—How much rope have •you, then? Lord BROUGHAM postponed his motion until to', . day next move that it be an instruction to the Cominittee The figure said he had got a coil of about a yard, till morrow, with the hope and distinct understanding, that on the Gilbert Unions that they should examine wit- some of it was cut away, for what reason he did not no person would take advantage of the late period of t" nesses from the Brassington Incorporations.. EDUCATION. know—for he was ju s t its much tied by th e l eg BOW as sess i on to i nduce persons elsewhere to defeat the Bill he had been always. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. On the motion that the order of the day be read for Sir C. F. Wm.'s= asked if the statue had nofriends The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL, in bringing forward the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, who would set him up respectably ? the motion of which he had given notice, said that be. Mr. EWART rose for the purpose of calling the at. The figure replied that his best friends were for had to accuse the Commissioners of Education in he . ; tention of the House to the expediency of a statement withdrawing • him altogether from public observation. land of having unlawfully applied the school funds, and being made by the Government, respecting the disposal Ile would sooner pave the public street than be knocked usurped the school land, and of other violations of th e . and the results of the outlay of public money voted about and taken to pieces as he had been lately. a ss, trusts, and excess of their lawful powers. In one c , for the purposes of education ; and also to the wipes Sir C. F. Wilemeets---4 sit here as a Commissioner, i n which h e was a trustee with another Peer, with diency of promoting the formation of public and I really ea r n do nothing. libraries in the metropolis and provincial towns. Miss Stannix, he was refused by the Commissioners all The figure said he had heard so before ; and having information as to what had* been done with the propertf. He was anxious to offer a few observations to the House thanked the Commissioner, he was carri e d out by the He communicated with the lady, and she informed bits on this subject. In mooting the army estimates, the man and the boy who were appointed assignees under that she was induced to make over the property to Ik e . navy estimates, and the Ordinance estimates, it was the bankruptcy.—Punch. Minister without consulting him as a trustee, through ~ always customary for those who brought forward those - the influence of her solicitor. The Noble Lord was in' several to makes statement as to the condition of their several departments. He thought that was a precedent SO tJTH AMERICAN DEBTS. terrupted whilst reading the lady's letter by the an• • which ought to be f o ll owe d i n b r i ng i ng forward the esti- A correspondent at Cleveland, in Yorkshire, begs nouncement ofA message from the Commens; The messenge,r o mates on the subject of education. He thought they the insertion of his letter; which we readily accord, brought to the bar several Bills which they had passe°. ought not only to have a statement as to the general • merely premising that as yet nothing satisfactory has The Earl of 111OUNCASHEL said it was now stir application of the funds, but a statement of the , prospects of ea c h particular department. They transpired in connection w ith th e M ex i can or Co- gested to him, that he o ug ht t o ta k e t h e case i nto Char lunibian debts, but that we trust the spirit of inquiry eery ; but that would be useless, as the Lord Che w should have before them a statement of what had and indignation • d b been done in each particular department of education., evinced by numerous umero_us other parties cellor of Ireland was one of the ommissioners. They hid estimates proposed for various establishments; ' besides our correspondent will not be without . a sa- The LORD CHANCELLOR—You could take it into they had estimates for the Schools of Design, ler the 1 lutary effect. We shall revert to this subject again, the Rolls Court. Universities, for th e N at i ona l G allery, and cor otln r in- and in the meantime subjoin the communication : The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL sa id t h e M aste r °f --- stitutions of a simil a r nature. T hat was an additional " 1 have been an old subscriber to your very ta- the Rolls was also a C omm i ss i oner. — ( L aughter.) reason why they sho u ld h ave a statement on the subject lented and influential journal. I will thank you to The LORD CHANCELLOR—Oh , pray, d on ' t bra on the part of the C rown. E ducation had, of late years, inform me and others, through the medium of your it before me. The Earl of MOIN'FCASHEL was proceeding with been extended into the factory system, to the system of widely-extended circulation, if there be any appear• the statement of his case against the Commissionw prison discipline, and it had formed portions, more or less, ance of the Mexican agents paying the half-years' ofßills for the amendment of the poor-law. Now, the Go- when he was again interrupted by dividend, due the Ist of April last, as I saw in your vernment ought to give them an insight into the alterations Lord WHARNCLIFFE, who said that the House which had taken pl ace i n t h e educational establishments J ournal ten days or a fortnight ag o that a b ove could do nothing Noble in the matter, which was one fora during the past y ear; an d i nto the prospect of probable 160,000 dollars had arrived for that purpose, and with court o f l aw only to determine, a n d h e as k e d t h e the till' e improvement. Among the sites for education there was the previous arrivals in hand, it was judged sufficient Lord whether it was worth his while to occupy one for the School of Design, an institution of the greatest Idividend. And l'lt • to pay the Apri , i ewise, can 3 - eu of.the House when his speech could lead to no result r . importance t o the arts and manufact ures o f t hi s enlighten me and n um b er l ess o th ers o f t h e un f ortu- The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL sa i d, i f their Lords hips country. ' He rejoiced t o o b serve t h at t h ese S chools of nate C o l um bi an b ondholders when the New Grenada would hear him,. h e wou ld s h ow that the House be", Design w ere s p rea di ng t h rough the manufacturing dis- Government intend to commence the payment of the power to interfere. He then p rocee d e d to argue that the Commissioners had made.inaccurate reports to the triets, and he hoped the time was not far distant when interest on their portion of the Columbian debt, which House as to the instalments which they had receive" the school in London would be a focus from which the was agreed upon to be 50 per cent.; the only payment out of this property. That was a matter into which lbe, other schools might radiate so as to spread information that has hitherto been paid by that Government was House ought to inquire. They (the Commissioners/ threugh the country. The School of Design in London was the paltry sum of ss. 6d. per 1001.. bond. Sometime . had 1,2001. to account for, and to the schoolmaster of 111 gradually assuming a more central and normal character, and he trust e d th at a ll t h e sc h ools in the manefactur last year, l am t o ld, an d I b e li eve i t is correct, that school in Clonmel, to which the p ro p er t y belongt°' M. Maquirre e , th e Mi n i ster f or Ne w G ranada, in this they had only paid 100 L. He concl u d e d b y mov ing f° l. ing dist r i c t s wou ld b ecome su b ordinate to the School of Design i n L on d on . Th ese schools acre of the country h as f un d s i n hi s h ands to the amount of a Select Committee to inquire into the charges which utmost importance not only to the arts but to 60,0001. or 70, . 000/ , and hitherto he cann o t b e p re - he had mad e . . , , ecommended his Noble the commerce and manu f actures o f t h e country. There veiled upon to, pay this money to the legitim a t e Lord WHARNCLIFFE il Friend to lay a statement of his case before the .Lor was also the general vote for education. It was an op- owners of it, viz., the unfortunate . bondholders. It is Lieutenant, and, no doubt, he would receive some kin d probrium to the country in general that a vote of really " too bad" that this individual should hold this of answer. The Commissioners were gentleman of th e, 30,000/. only had been devoted to that purpese, money in his hands so long—he cannot look very highest responsibility, and, no doubt, they would e xplai o and he understood that this year there wculd be a comfortable at the levee ,days,..ttnioatget the Apr . _atiep- that . e an th iata . reduction on preceding years. Now, it was impor ant , lopatistsJ ShOuld'suppose. neage givy insertion to The Duke of RICHMOND thought that the House that they should have an explanation from the, Goveree 'this letter with your energetic coMments upon it, 'ought not to expresss an opinion on a case which ought ment as to how that sum had bee.n dividcd—whethcr it and main the conduct of these non-paying States, to go before the Court of Chancery. He was surprise d had been equally divided among ell religious dem-nein:a- and is • , lions, or had been confined to the British and Foreigntend . .., .nay to elicit information from other to hear that the trustees would not bring their cas e " and National School Societies. Before they bed lef correspondents.—l remain, Sir, your very obedient before his distinguished friend the I ord Chaecellor or. office they had determined to give portions of the gran t servant, Ireland, becaus that Noble and Learned j Lord was on e to certain schools, without reference to those to ce," "AN UNFORTUNATE HOLDER OF of the Commissioners of Education. societies. They. ought to have some explanation on MEXICAN AND COLOMBIAN BONDS After a few words from Lord GLENGALL, and front this subject from Some mem b er o f t h e G overninee t. Lord WHARNCLIFFE in ex pl anat i on, The Duke of WELLINGTON sa i d that the ca se There was another m o st i m p ortan t su bj ect on which -brought forward was su bj ect f or i nqu i ry in the Court o' , . they ought to have som e explanation. Th ere b ad b een Chancery. , He had ne t b een a bl e to understand w ho vast sums left by the pi ous b eques t s o f our ancestors, the case of the N o bl e Lord was'.—(A laugh,) Ther e which had been at fir s t app ro p r i ate d an d a f terward; : misappropriated, in th e grammar sc h oo l s o f t h e country, was a Board of Ed uca ti on , an d t h ere were Commissione r of Education, and i t was i mposs ibl e to guess aga i n st That was a eventu ally whom the accu sa ti on was ma d e. —(Hear. hear.) There . question which must , come under the con s id era ti on o f t h e Govermennt. They ought t o s t a t e annua ll y what steps been l was an Executiv e G overnment an d a Court of Chance , : taken to place tho se sc h oo l s on a proper foundation. who would do a n y aggrieved persons justi ce . He knew not why e d uca ti on , t h e most important of all HORSE RA CLNG BILL. things, the preventitive of crime, that which ought o be On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, counsel for the petitioners against this Bill will be heard to' to all other improvements, should not receive the first consideration of any Government in th , s count, y, read * mo l t: h ro e w c ( u t s t t li o s in d s a3g l a ti t e f s ot ( tr ls t l , e 'clo o ci . k 3 . lan) Bill was yet that had hitherto been the last. They had hail no third . time, and passed. statement made by a Minister of the Crown on the sub- The House then adieurned at Half -past Seven o'clock. ject of education ; yet, .in despotic Governments, an an nual report was always laid before the Minister of the Crown he serves. He maintained that it would be better for the public and more conetitutioral, if her .Majeste 's Government adopted the plain English mode of giving full explanation on the subject. Ile was aware that this was a subject to be approached with delicacy in a fr, - e country like England. He believed it would be strictly impossible to. make education in this country a strictly Govermental measure, but though they could not con- . trol the educati o n o f t h e p eo pl e o f t hi s country they migh t do much to assist it. Ile was always of opinion that though the people of this country in education would not submit to control, yet that much might be done to forward it. He thought it a disgraceful thing that there was no public library in this country ; there was no other nation in which such institutions did net exist. In this country, with the exceptiou of the British Museum 'there was no library that could be called a national library. In Paris there were no less than five public libraries which were open to every class of society from the highest to the lowest and to the subject of every country. There were four other libraries that were admissible to the public among which were the magazine library and. the library of the arsenal, In Russia there were also libraries, all of which were opened to the public. .In ' *Saxony there were also public libraries, several Of . which were in Dresden : and even in Turkey itself, showing that that country was before England in that respect.—(Hear, hear.) Even the British Museubn was Hot open to the poor man and the citizen, as were the libraries of Paris, for it was necessary to procure au introduction, in order to be admitted into it. He thought that the two propositions which he made were reasonable, and he believed they Would be - finally assented to. Ile firmly believed that, if her Majesty's Government took the matter into their serious consideration, they would not only do a great deal of good, but would obtain a great deal of public panegyrie.—(Hear, hear.) Lord HOWICK said he concurred. in much of what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman. He believed that much remained to be done, in the way of provid ing the means of education for the people ot this country. because as their population increased in density the facilities of misleading them also increased. It seemed to him to be a source of considerable danger, that great masses of the population Were growing up without any due means ot instruction or information.—(lleer, hear.) He agreed with the Hon. Gentleman, that it was not desirable that education should be made a Go vernment measure. There was not in this country suf ficient of mutual toleration among the religious bodies. into which the population was divided to rea der it possible that any thing like a aystem of education being formed with advantage, and in this he thought the Dissenters were as much to blame as the Church, and the Church as much as the Dissenters. He thought her Majesty - judged wisely, after the failure of last year, in not renewing a similar experiment again. But he thought they had experience• enough to prove that the Government could do a great deal to stimulate education wi;hout even a legislative enactment. What they should aim at.was to create a desire fur education amongst the people, and to enable parents to distinguish good schools from bad schools. What be should suggest was, that there should be a partial examination of the children of different schools by examiners, to be appointed by the G-overnmen, who would give certificates to theeg who answered best. Though there might be sore difficulty at first in getting . the children to attend, he thought that a great change would very soon take place in that respect, when they perceived what great advantage was derived from the possession of certificates. They all knew how earnestly the inferior situations of the lower departments of the public service were covsted by Persons in the lower ranks of life ; and if a small number of situations, such as those of tide-waiter.: or excisemen, were made the prizes for proficiency at the public examination, it would be very b ene fi c i a l . This, he was convinced , would make these examinations very successful. By a small sacrifice of patronage on the part of the GoVernment an immense advantage might be obtained. •He could not but think that a small portion of the Government grant for education would be well applied in giving rewards to those schoolmasters who proved themselves worthy of them. He believed that a comparatively small sum thus applied, would go further than anything - else to raise the general standard of the qualification of public schoolmasters. He believed this to be a most important subject, and one well worthy the attention of the Government. A short pause here ensued, and no one rising to ad dress the House, The SPEAKER proceeded to the next Order on the paper, which related to . ALFRED LIFE ASSURANCE—, On Wadnr*y; -- the General M ee ti ng AILS .held at their offices No. 7, Lothbury. The chair was taken by Sir David Scott, Bart. From the report it ap peared that the Company had been established five years, and over and above the paid-up capital, had accumulated the sum of 48,537/.. 14s. Id. Since the formation of the Association, 513 policies had been issued, assuring the sum of 442,4281. The number of claims from death had been six, upon which 3,7501. had been paid. The profit realised from lapsed poli cies amounted to 3,595/. 18s. 10d., consequently the difference between,these two salmi, 1.541 Is. 2 - d4' was the . only charge upon the assurance fund for de cease of lives assured. Such a result was very re markable, as upon the most moderate calculation, six teen or eighteen should have occurred, upon which from 14,000/. to 16,000/. should have been paid. TA appeared that the annuity branch of the Company's busine:s had been equally satisfactory ; 31,8271.55. 4d. having been sunk with them for the purchase of annuities. Of the annuitants five had died, relieving the office of annuities - amounting to 544/. 6s. 3d. The report was considered highly'satisfactory, and unanimously adopted,;' and thanks having been voted to: the Chairman and Directors, the meeting separated HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 18. PROCEEDINGS ON THE POST-OFFICE COMMITTEE. Sir R. PEEL said he was unwilling to throw °P r ecbnical difficulty i n th e way o f t h e mot i on wh i c h the Hon. Gentleman had made, although he thought be wa s justified, according to the rules of the House, in object ing sei i to a M e mb er o f th at H ouse stat i ng anything t`' respect to the proceedings of a Secret - Committee• but he was unwilling to debar the Hon. Gentleman the opportunity of making his statement. No notice of motion had b, en g i ven , an d h e (S i r R. Peel) was ' at '` loss to understand the grounds upon which the nee' Gentleman had made the present motion. Th e r IMPERIAL PARLIA:3IIENT. House would recollect the circumstances under HOUSE which this Committee had been appointed. Wh e- HOUSE OF LORDS, July 18. the proposal was first made almost unqualified satisfac- AGRICULTURE. don was expressed with respect to the formation of that The Duke of RICHMOND presented 120 petitions in Committee. —(Cries of " No, no.") • Ile did not m ean t°_, favour of agricultural protection, some of which included say that it was universal, but the Committee was allowed a prayer against the Anti-Corn-law League. to be appointed without notice being given. Th a l' THE ALIENS BILL. e, - a - Committee was composed of men well kno' Lord BROUGHAM - begged to draWahe attentions of for their impartiality . and . intelligence. I n that their Lordships to the subject of a Rill which had Committee the majerity of - the members were come up from the other Rollie, and which opposed to her Majesty's Government. Four member s , stood for the second reading. As the law n ow stood, were in the habit of voting with her Majesty 4 aliens were subject to great disadvantages in this Gorernment, and five With the Opposition, and th e country. They could not hold office, nor inherit frees whole of those five members voted for the motion of the hold property, nor possess leasehold property ; neither Hon. Gentleman for a Select Committee. Th a t Coats could they own a share in any ship. The kW would opt- mittee had sat for several das, and left it to everi, rate with g reat sever i ty in cases of persons born of Member to judge whether her Majestyhe's Government hau marriages in which one or other was a foreigner. withheld a single fact from the knowledge of the Coal' lie knew a most eminent lady who held an mittee bearing on the inquiry, and whether they English and . Scotch . pserage in her own right ; had thr o w n th e s li g h test o b stacle in the w3Y, but she h a d marr i e d a Fresch nobleman -;and it she ' o f th e -- inquiry, or imposed th e slightest had a s o n b orn i n F rance, that son could not inherit her impediment in the any of the examination of any person titles or her estates in the kingdom. The law of Eng- whatever, either under the control of her Majesty's land was the most illiber a l of any nation in the world. Government or not. Her Majesty's Government had n° In France the nation of any country was allowed to personal interest in the question which the Hon. Gen buy or inherit land or any kind of property, tleman had submitted to the House. He certainly and to hold office, just as if he were a native of France. should feel it his duty to advise the House to adhere t° In respect to Ireland, however, the legislation of that that course which had always been adhered to with re - country had been as liberal to foreigners as that of spect to Committees of that HOuse. The question at?, France, f or a li ens could ,purchase prope r ty, h o ld whether the House now repented the confidence which P .. office, or even sit i n P ar li ament, as freely had placed in the Committee. It was f rom no f ee li n g of as a native, mail the 36th of George the Third. disrespect that the Hon. Gentleman had not been placed The object of introducing into the Act of settlement the ou the Committee. He conceived that permission being disqualification of foreigners from holding office, was to given to the Honourable Member to attend that prev e nt the foreign favourites of the King from .heing Committee, h e no t b e i ng a member of the Coln" preferred to Englishmen.—(H ear , an d a laugh.) . But mittee, and not subject to the responsibility the Spitalfields weavers—or such as were foreigners— which was imposed open members of Secret Commit teet4 were disqualified even from holding the office of, parish would, he thought, be casting a reflection on the House ; constables in their own parish. Now the cost of an Act it would imply on the part of the House a distrust both of naturalisation could not be less than 100/. But were in the stability of the Committee, and their desire for a there not many foreign, artisans whose skill wou ld searching and perfectly fair inquiry into the whoabe of great value to this country, if they were not dis- transaction —secret-office and all. At the same time he qualified in such a way, and could not get over the assured the House, and the report which the'Cominittee disqualification, except at such an enormous, ,and, would make would bear testimony to the fact, that her to them, insuperable expense ? The report of the Majesty's Government were interested in no way what; Committee of the Hous e o f C o M mons was a most ever in the d ec i s i on w hi c h t h e H ouse might come to; and just one, but in some respects he did not altogether con- he felt it his duty to call on the House to adhere to its cur in its recommendation. In the Bill which he was forms, and regardless of any personal imputation til' now about to call their Lordships' attention to more par- might be thrown upon hint, as the representative of the titularly—the Bill t o whi c h h e a ll u d e d i n setting out— Government, that he had some object in excluding the he proposed to add a clause, that the wi v e s o f B rit i s h Hon. Gentleman, he felt it his duty to resist the pre subjects should be natur a li s ed by the fact of their marri- posal of the Hon. Member ; non could he support th e age; and that in all Acts of naturalisiation the clause proposal which had been made for the lion. Gentlema n prohibiting a naturalised person to sit in P ar li ament, or to appear before that Committee, in order t o b e ,resen t hold office under the Crown, should b e om i t t e d. I t was at the examination of the witnesses. If the accusers a strange anomaly that the naturalised foreigner could were to be present, in order that the evidence might h e not hold the humblest office under the Crown for fear given in support of the accusation, why should not theme the should betray the country . to foreigners, w h ereas i f b e present also who were accused' es e ?he were chosen as the husband of the Sovereign, the Mr. DUNCOMBE—I have no objection to that. , Act of Settlement would be so far suspended, and he Sir R. PEEL —The lion. Gentletnan felt the justir, would be endowed with all British privile ges . of that, and expressed his readine ss to acquiesce in e ,'" • Lord MONTEAGLE preented a petiti on f rom t h e but he (Sir R. Peel) claimed no such privilsge. He Chamber of Commerce, Dublin, in favour of the Dublin thought the House ought to adhere to their establishe" ' and Cashel Railway. rules. The Government were indifferent as to the , de - The Marquis of WINCHESTER pre sen t e d numerous cision to which the House might come, because helve° petitions in favour of agricultural protection, venture to say that the I louse would be satisfied that h . !: ART-UNIONS. Majesty's Government had concealed nothing from t" Lord MONTEAGLE moved the second reading of the Committee. They hid no wish to conceal an ything; Arts-Unions Legalisation Bill. R e stated that the ob- but he felt that he had a duty to perform in the posi,ti: ject of the Bill was to exempt th e members of those in- in which he stood, regardless of any imputation wi'l'b stitutions from the penaltie s t o w hi ch they were sup- might be cast upon him. posed to be liable under the Lotteries Suppression Act. Mr. ORI) was understood to oppose the motion. These institutions were founded upon the report of a Mr. LABOUCIIERE , said it would be well for the be Coinniittee of artists and friends of art, and were in finite- House to recollect the principle they had adopted in i. t er lion of the one established in Prussia, under this auspices appointment of this Comtnittce.—(ilear, hear.) Ti'ai e of the King tend the direction of Baron von Humboldt. had departed from the usual precedents in for Since the artsunion of London was established, it had ing Committees ; for they had determined th a t distributed * more money for the encouragement of art they would have no lawyers on the c o be than the liberality of Government had cont r ib ute d i n t h e mittee that the aecte•er himself sh ou ld not all same time. present—and also th a t th ey would exclude fromoe. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE -10,0001 more.—(Hear.) those who did hold or had held high offiee in her . 0e Lord MONTEAGLE--Members of both H ouses o f jesty's Council.—(Hear.) Ha confe sse d t h at a t the ti , s-ace Parliament, and of the present as well as of the former he thought this was a fair principle, but circuresta h i s Government, and those distinguished persons, with took place a short time afterward s which excited j u dos 13,612 other subscribers, were liable to penalti es , as en- mind, and in the minds of many other Memb:near, gaged . in illegal lotteries. Their Lordships had lat e ly greatest possible surprise.—(Loud cries of ~10 , i hear.") He found from the usual organs of ints biece sanctioned the principle of a Bill to give to the persons non that a committee on - the same s e l-1 4e, who incurred penalties in gaming on horse-racing the 1 had been appointed by the House of -I '‘ difs same protection which he asked them to give to those most laudable institutions. The enactments of his Bill i,ter which Committee was formed on a totally e were two—first, an indetenity for all the proceedings ferent principle than that suggested by the Al.in,. eo f that had taken place; and secondly, that any art-union ! for the House of Commons. For, on the Committee which should in future obtain a royal charter oti the ap- the Lords were three ex-Ministers, two of them t'-: . ‘ 0 ,7 proyal of its rules and regulations by the Board of ex-Chancellors, Men, of course, accustomed te, ihe '" p, Trade, should be a legal body, aed be empowered to dis_ ! skilful mode of examination eit'eer f l ' r GO' he tribute works acsording to the provisions of such charter pressing or for eliciting infesanation. If t he of the Crown, or permission by the Board of Trade. 1 vernment meant to feet upon a totally differ, ibis The petitions in favour of the Bill had come from every I principle elsewhera, ihey ought not to have puru U , 10 9 eciur itoti that bleu