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IMPEKiAL PARLIAMENT. iriOUSE OF LORDS, July 5. Their Lordships rc•assernbled for Parliamentary business at Five o'clock, when the LORD CITA NCELLOR took his seat en the Woolsack. MOROCCO, The Earl of MINT() said he rose for the purpose of putting the question, of which he had given notice, respecting the naval force to the coast of Morocco. Ile understood the mediation of this country between France and Morocco had been rejected, and, though he deeply regretted it, he was not surprised that ;uuh should be the case, because he did not think they had placed themselves in such a position as to afford:to any weak State that assurance of their support which symptoms of preparation on their part would afford. The independence of Morocco could not be an object of indif krence to that House, for there were positions on the coast of that empire which would be most injurious and dangerous to the itlerests of this country if they fell into the hands of any other State and a place of importance in the nei g hbourhood of that coast, the island of Minorca would be placed in jeopardy. He would have felt less anxiety on this subject if he could find anywhere in this country the means of making a display of strength on that coast.. Hut the naval force of the country was so reduced, that he did not know where his Noble Friend opposite could look for the means of producing an nhpression there. Negotiations were good, but it was necessary they should be backed by some force— ( Hear, hear)—and he had the highest authority in that House, that of the Noble Duke opposite, for such an opinOn. Ina debate on the 14th of August, 1838, on the state of their commercial relations, the Noble Duke said he considered the state of those relations was owing, in a great de g ree , to the ex• tensive weakness and tottering condition of their naval este ' lithment ; and, further on, he said he considered the naval fo.ce of the country to be in too feeble and tattering a condition to answer the purpose intended, of giving protection to their commercial interests in all parts of the globe. Such was the language of the Noble Duka in the year lii3B, at a time when they had eighteen sail of the line in commission in every part of the world, besides a reserve at horn.) of four or five ships of the line ; but rt was far different now, though it was quite obvious there were questions pending, not only with regard to Morocco, but with regard to the Oregon and Texas. The present Government had succeeded to a fleet of twenty ships of the line. They were ju=tified in making some reduc tion in that number, because there had not b •en of late the same necessity for keeping up a great naval force as had pre viously existed. But they had made reductions to a degree which before had never been known or dreamt of. At the pre sent moment there was not in commission a single ship of the fine, except those employed as flag-ships for admirals. There were nine ships of the line only in commission at the present moment. Of these, two were in the East Indies, one in the West Indies; and there were three guard-ships. In the filediter renews fleet there was only one ship of the line, and that was the flag ship; and there was the Albion, which had recently been employed as the flag ship at Cork. The navy of England consisted of only nine ships of the line, and that at a time when the state ofaffairs abroad was such as necessarily to create the greatest anxiety. He did not say there was any danger of war but the manner in which the solution of the questions at present pending would be brought about, would depend greatly upon the respect in which we were held, and that respect would be increased ky our keeping up a respectable naval force. He hoped his Noble Friend would tell them that he had re sources to appeal to. Considering the present state of the French fleet, we ought to have have an increased fleet in the Mediterranean. We ought not to abdi sate the cornmeal of the Mediterranean entirely to Prance, but still to maintain our power in that sea. Not only had his Noble Friend reduced the number of the ships of toe line, but he had also reduced the number of smaller VCeiii,..-•-( Hear, hear.) He besoeght their Lordships to recollect all that had been said on tomer occasions as to tne necessity of keeping a reserve at home for the protection of our own shore*. He had not any apprehension of any attack on our own shores, but he regretted the reductions which had taken place in the naval force in the Mediteranean. He could not see without uneasiness the command of the naval foreedestined by France to act against Morocco confided to the Prince de Jo.nville. He would re frain from saying anything reflecting on the character or con duct of his Royal Highness, but their Lordships could not but recollect what had passed on a former occasion, and knowing the sentiments which bad recently been expressed by.his Royal Highness, he saw his appointment with regret. The Noble Earl concluded by putting the question of which he had given notice,_ namely, If it was the intestine of her Majesty's Government to adopt any, end what, measures to send to the coast of Morocco or else tshete such naval force as may suffice for the protection of British interests ? The Earl of HADDINGTON was prepared to answer the question of which the Noble Earl had given notice as, to the tending a British force to Morocco. The Earl of MINTO had yesterday given notice of his ques tion in the exact terms in which he had put it, and it was so inserted in the votes. He had understood that the Secretary of State would communicate his motion to his Noble Friend. Lord II RO UG AM—Read, read. The Eirl of MINTO then read the notice from the votes in the orec-iso words in which he had put the question. Tee Earl of H ADDINGTON . had nut read the votes. lint he wool I take the • Noble Earl's question in the terms given---Iforoeco or elsewhere. They had heard the speech of the Nolile Earl with which he thought proper to introduce th, queation. The practice of making long speeches in putting gat-sr tors was a most inconvenient one, and one to which the Noble Earl was very partial. He was about to reply t. the Noble Earl's question, not to his stireeh. Had he had any idea that the Noble Earl was about to pat a question respecting the distribution of the whole force of the British navy, he should have thought it necessary to rrrresh._ his memory as to details before he came do - .en to answer that statement. lie never was more taken by surprise in his life than by the lotig speech, the omnibus rebus, connected with the British nave, that had been made by the Noble Earl. He thought the N.M. Earl ought to hays waited for :he presence of his Noble Friend vele Secretary for Foreign iTsirs. as his speech involved so much of stmlninaey. The Nt:ble Ea-I come'ained of the Go vernment leaving only one ship of the line in the Mediterra• nein. at the tines that S',l aPs is rn there was not. the die t,est chance of the cecurrene:ss taking place which list been lately threatened. It was not supposed by the liti.ish Government, that heeause the French chose to 'rave a salting squadran in the Med.terraitean, that thereto e this coithnty was to f diem their evimple. The Noble Earl should receliect, too, the , the Aledirerranean was not is distant sea. In answer to the cpiesi ion of the Noble Earl, he begged to state that he i r Majesty I Gov(rninent had sent to Morocco such forces as Atep thought the circumstances required, and if it vas necessary, it was in their power 0, a.dil to that force. With re. :Teel, .0 elsewbeie, he begged to state that the Govern rneet had. -:inch fo.cts to every w , atitiii as they had thouAtit right for the prrserv.stion of British interests. They had gre...tly increas,i their fort e on the Coast i Afitiva. Slips 1, i.t sent tu , and tellers hail be .n or dered there, and nothing would have prevented them fi oat sending them out tk;fole but the necessity of hiving a force in Ireland. lie thought that he had proved that the statement of the Noble Earl thsst Ministers had neglected British interests, in all rarts of the world, was tetally without found i t too. As ho had stated before, the Government had sent such forces to Moreno as they thought the circumstances re ;pored, and that they would add to there forces if necessary. lie trusted, however, that the anticipated events in Morocco world not take place. IMES GE FEIGN! THE COMMONS. A. Moesage. from the Commons, enntisting of Sir George Clerk, and oiher ;Members, broug'it up the Balk Charter (sill, the Prisons' ( Seit s iand) Bill), the Linen Alanufae tares 1 keland) Bill, the Education of the Poor Bill, the Ei.nburgh, Leith, and Granton Bill, and 9ercral other Bills. The Marcuis of Limitondetry, the Earl of Rosebery, and Lord Cautplwll, rose sismultaneou ay to with-es, the House. ind Niartiois of LON i)ON DEB RY appealed to the Lord Chancellor .whether he had not a right to address their Lordships on the subject lahich had just been under dis- mission. TIT,: LORD CHANCELLOR sail that, as the irregularity liaJ begun, he slid not know wbarc it was to terminate. The Earl of HADDINGTON hoped that this would be borne :n mind in future. They often had Noble Lords rising to speak flee or six times when there wa' no question before !411, Hee-e, and sometimes when there was a question. 'I he Marquis.of LON D. ;NDERRY said he begged to move that the Noble Earl's returns be printed.— (Laughter. ) Ile was surprised to see the ex:reme sensitiveness of the Noble Earl with regard to the force in the Mediterranean. After the clear statement which they bad heard froin the Noble Lord the Secretary of State, for Foreign Affairs on a previous oce ision—after the exple - nations which hail been made, he thought it was highly indis creet to re-open the subject. The Noble Earl (Aberdeen) had conducted j üblic affairs, not only with credit to himself, but with advantage to the country. He thought that it was but justice to the Noble Earl to make the 4, remarks.—(" Move.") The Earl of MINTO said the Noble Marquis had made his sp ech npon an intimation that he was shout to move. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he would with draw his notior.—(Laughter.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the motion had been mate, and it ei uld not now be withdrawn. The LORD CHANCELLOR said no motion had been mane, and he could not put a nonentity.—(Laughter, and cties of " Q-iestion, qwes'ion.") Lord 6AMPBELL rose to move the ord , r of the day for going into Committee •n the Liw of Libel Act Amendment Bill, when tine Earl of ROSEBERY said, before the order of the day was read, he wished to state that, in consequence of leaping town, he would not be able to act as a Member of the Secret Committee on the Post-otliee. The Duke of WELLINGTON then proposed that the Noble Earl's name should be withdrawn, and that that of the Earl of Auckland should be substituted. Lord BROUGHAM said his Noble Kinsman would, no doubt, be an excellent member of the Committee ; but his appointment would be a deviation from the principle laidslown, inasmuch as he was formerly a Cabinet Minister. Lord CAMPBELL raid that objection would equally apply to his Noble and Learned Friend.—( Great laughter.) - The name of Lord Auckland was then added to the Com mittee. BANK CHARTER BILL On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Bank Charter Bill was read a first time and ordered to be printed, the Noblo Duke stating that he would take the second reading on Tuesday next. PUBLIC HEALTH. The Marquis of NORNIANBY gave notice that, on this clay week, he should move a humble a•ldress to her Majesty on tile sanatory condition of the people. LAW OF LIBEL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the order of the day , for the third reading (title Law of Libel Act Amendment Bill. lie said the time 11IF at last arrived when their Lordships had to take iNto oensideration this important Bill. He had hoped that their Lordships would have agreed to it, as being founded on the sane principles as the Azt of last session, hot he had the mortifiestion of understanding that it was to be opposed in tofu:tees entitled to the highest respect. In the Bill of last iesseos their Lordships desk with the subject of private de .innotton, and passed a Bill w i t h t h e d ou bl e object of protect ing private eharacter and punishing slanderers. He had the sat4ctien of stating that th a t Bill wor k e d we ll . I n conse quence of more stringent enactments, more than one slanderous weekly paper had been dropped, and frivolous prosecutions against other journals had been checked. The great principle of that Bill was that it admitted the plea of the truth of a fact as a justifieation on a charge of libel. This plea had been here tokris exolnded, both before the jury and after the verdict, as a plea for She mitigation of punishment. Nay, it was eon tislered an aggravation of the offence, for the maxim arose, the gmater the truth the greater the libel. Their Lordships were shocked at such a doctrine, and enacted, that if a .defendant proved a thing.,to be true, and that he published it ilk the Politic good, he should be entitled to an acquittal. But this applied only to private cases and actions between individuals. With regard to Government prosecu tions , , the old system still prevailed. His Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brongiiaus), in the letter which he had addressed to Sir Jtmes Graham, complained of this defect in the law. He (Lord qsnapbell) aeknowledged it to be a very great one, but he tiruflit it mere expedient to apply the principle first to private prosecutions, knowing that it must inevitably afterwards be ap pliecUp public ones. In eases of seditious libel, it did not, and asjhunt, to apply. But where a defendant stated certain specific biethought it a monstrous principle that the truth or falsehood of these facts should be considered immaterial. Sup pose 0 a nue, iu which a mata asserted that troops were being THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1844. sent abroad in transport ships that were not seaworthy, het Lord DENMAN thought that so important a change in the might state that without any seditious motive, or from any law ought not to have been proposed without much more con wish to stir up disaffection among the soldiers. Ile might be ac- sideration. The Bill of last year was referred to a Committee, tuated by a patriotic wish to promote the welfare of their defenders and repeatedly discussed by persons of the greatest expe in arms. Or, suppose it had been stated that the army of the rience in such matters. The present Bill was brought Noble Duke in Spain was not properly supplied with provi- forward as a corollary to it, but it had not received the same sions, in consequence of some fault of the Commis riat, would consideration. There was a specific offence ; the offence of they not allow the defendant to s how that whath stated was sedition. His Noble and Learned Friends appeared to have perfectly true, as in doing so he must be assisting the leaders confined their attention to one single branch of sedition, and of the army in this country ? Or, suppose th . charge was that one of the least public importance. Forty or fifty years made ageinst the Queen's Ministers of receiving bribes from ago every public newspaper, remarking on the conduct of the foreign Powers, he ought to be allowed to prove the truth of Government, was at the mercy of the Government for the that statement, since the attempt to do so would only cover time being; but that danger was now passed, and no Attorney him with confusion. He would suppose another case—that of General would be stupid enough to institute a prosecution, a person of whom it was published that he opened letters in merely because the Government would be inconvenienced by the Post-office ; would it not be monstrous that the defendant newspaper remarks, and if he did the juts would give should not be allowed to prove the truth ? The present prac- heir verdict for the defendant. In the year 1609 tice was most injurious to the individual, if acted upon ; and the Morning Chronicle was prosecuted for reflecting en their Lordships must consider it as if it were acted upon, be- King George the Third, with reference to the Government of cause it possibly might be at the pleasure of the Attorney- Ireland ; Mr. Perry defended himself on the ground of the General. It was injurious to the individual, because an inner- right to discus the measures of the Government, and the cent, praiseworthy person might be convicted of a crime, jury acquitted the defendant. Now was not the crime of whereas he ought to be rewarded ; and it was also most inju. sedition a crime in itself? Had they not seen people rising rious to the public, because people would be apprehensive of up in arms and rushing to the destruction of their neighbours' stating facts which might be necessary. Where the lives and property ?—(Hear, hear.) He put that case because truth could not be proved at the trial, or after it arose out of recent proceedings.—(Hear, hear.) The at conviction, it operated in favour of the defendant ; tacking of a man's character tended to a breach of the peace, where the libel was false, as had been shown by Mr. Starkie, by leading him, as Dr. Franklin expressed it, to resort to the one of the law Commissioners, they could not believe the liberty of the cudgel.—(Laughter.) He admitted that some things was false where evidence of the falsity was not ad- advantage had arisen from the Bill of last year, by improving mitted, and punishment must be awarded as if the facts were the respectability of the press ; but he did not think a sufficient true. It might be said, that though the facts were true, the time had elapsed to enable them to say that it conferred very publication was wrong, and That the press ought not to meddle great benefit. What he chiefly complained of was that this with such subjects. They might say, as a Learned Chief change was proposed without sufficient consideration and de- Justice in the sister island said, that the Houses of Parliament liberation. were the places where these mat'ers were to be canvassed: Lord CAMPBELL replied. Ho said it seemed they Even if that were so, the law of England was defective in were now called on to reverse the unanimous decision of last this respect—that they would provide no remedy for wilful ea. year; every argument used against the present Bill would apply lumny. They placed in the same situation the person wit exactly as mach to the Act of last year. His Noble and stated what Ras true from laudable motives, and the person Learned Friend acknowledged that this Act, as far as it had who stated what was false with the worst intentions. Then been tested, had been found to work well. He concluded that they departed from all analogy with regard to the law o f libel, nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the ascertaining, by for in other cases they allowed the cireumstances t o b e g i ven affidavit, the truth or falsehood of statements in a in evidence, but not with regard to libel. For instance, in a criminal information. The Noble and Learned Lord case of assault, all that led to the assault might be given in had alluded to the case of the Duke of Brunswick. evidence. The defendant might even give in evidence that he Would not the convictions in that case have been much more was libelled by the prosecutor, and that being so provoked, he satisfactory , if there had been an opportunity of showing4heir laid a horsewhip on his back. After the Bill of last year, how utter falseh ood? When the King of Hanover wy assailed by incongruous was the law if they rejected this Bill ? Under charges of a similar character, he boldly appeared in the wit the law of last year, in a prosecution for private defamation, ness-box and denied the truth of those statements. Under the truth might be given in evidence, but if the Attorney- the circumstances, and after the declaration of his Noble Friend General filed an ex officio information, and called the private on the Woolsack, supported as he had been by the Chief defamation a seditious libel, the truth could not Justice, he much apprehended the fate of this Bill. They be given in evidence.—(Cries of " Hear, hear). It might overwhelm by a great majority the decision of last ses seemed to him that, in this way, they brought great scandal sion—they had the opportunity of doing so; bat it on the administration of justice. He believed there was one must not be supposed that all those who were absent authority against him, for whom he had the sincerest respect. —(There were not more than two or three Peers on the He was afraid the Bill was not approved of by the Lord Chief Opposition benches)—were indifferent to this Justice of the Queen's Bench, one of the most zealous, steady, (Laughter.) His Noble Friend (Lord Cottenham) was ab and enlightened friends of liberty that ever blessed this coon- sent in consequence of believing that the Bill was perfectly try.—(Hear, hear.) But he must remind his Noble and secure.—( Laughter.) He could not believe that the Noble Learned Friend, that he stood alone in thinking the truth Lord on the Woolsack could be so grossly inconsistent as to should be excluded. All those who were examined before the oppose the Bill. There was his Noble Friend (Lord Ccanmittee on this subject, with the exception of his Noble and Brougham), who had spoken so strongly in favour of the Bill Learned Friend were of opinion that the truth should be ad- —he could not be supposed to be indifferent to the Bill. witted as an ingredient. His Noble and Learned Friend be- The LORD CHANCELLOR—He prefers something else hind him, and the late Chief Baron of the Exchequer, whose to the Bill.—(Laughter.) memory he should always regard with respect and affection, Lord CAMPBELL said he did not think his Noble and were of opinion that the truth should be admitted. He was Learned Friend was one of those " whose god is their belly"— afraid that his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack was (Laughter)—for on any public question, he knew he was ready opposed to the Bill ; and he admitted that the majority of the to sacrifice every sensual gratification. But even now he would puisne judges were against it. He entertained the very divide the House, though he should stand alone, in order to highest respect for the opinions of those venerable magistrates, see how many would remain consistent. but he must confess, that he would much rather ask them how Their Lordships then divided ; the numbers were— the law is, than how it ought to be.—( Hear, hear.) The con- For the third reading stant practice of any system blinded the most Against it acute to its defects; and there was a difficulty in throwing Majority against the Bill aside an old system, with which persons had became thoroughly SEES OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. acquainted and adopting a new one. It was but right to The Earl of HADDINTON reported to the House the deci say that those same Judges had, with one exception, given it sion of the Committee a pp oi n ted t o in q uire into p recedents as as their opinion that the Bill for allowing counsel to pri- to the doubt raised upon this Bill, whether it did not require goners was unjust and unnecessary ; although now, he believed, the consent of her Majesty in order to be brought in and dis they all admitted that it was a splendid improvement of the cussed in Parliament. .The Committee stated, as the result of law. His Noble and Learned Friend would also recollect that the in q uiries, that the Bill was one that does so require the con the Judges almost unanimously opposed the mitigation of the sent of the Crown. penal code. When the Bill was brought in making forgery no The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the House longer a capital crime, the majority of the Judges foretold that adjourned. it would be followed by a vast increase in the crime of forgery, and by the destruction of commercial credit. They had been equally hostile, equally unanimous, and equally zealous against the Bill ot last year, which had been adopted unanimously by their Lordships, and all but unanimously by the other House of Parliament. Now, with regard to the exclusion of the truth in cases of libel, it should be remembered that it was only judge-made laws. There was no Act of Parliament, there was no imme morial usage to be pleaded in support of the practice. All the decisions on the subject were fluctuating and contradictory. It was only in 1792, that it had been declared to be law. In the reign of Charles 11., Judge Pemberton bad allowed the truth to be given in evidence in a case of libel, cn a charge that Sir Edmnndbury Godfrey had killed himself. In 1702, in the case of the King v. Fuller, which was a prose cution for a seditious libel, Lord Holt had urged the defendant to give evidence of the truth of the libels. "If your state ments are true," said Lord Ilolt, addressing the defendant, "bring forward your witnesses, and I will hear them." The first case in which evidence of the truth was excluded,was the case of the King v. Franklin, tried before Chief Justice Wrenne in 17.31. In 1777, on the trial of Horne Tookt, before Lord 31ansfield, the defendant was permitted to give evidence of the truth of his statements. His case broke down, and so the pro secutors had reason to rejo . ce that the evidence had been ad mitted. It was not until Mr. Fox's L bed Bill was passing through that House, that the judges gave it as their opinion that the truth could not be admitted. Yet, en that very occa sion, they declared one thing to be law, which the Parliament, in that very Bill, declared to be not law. He trusted, there fore, their Lordships would not hesitate to adopt this improve ment and complete the law of last year. There was one ex - eeptem made by the Bill, and only one ; and that was in con feraii y with the maxim of the law, which declared that the Seeereign could ein no erong. Ile therefore excluded from the operation of the 811 all personal attacks on the Sove relen. With regard to the procedure to be adopted, he pi opened that as it was in siany cases of public libel impossible to separate matters of fact from matters of com ment, so as to enable a jus ification to be pleaded, as in cares of prira:e libel; that, in these cases of public libel, the defendant sheeld give notice to the prosecutor of his intention to prove the truth of his assertions, and that the facts should go to the jury, Rho, if they should be of opinion that the facts were un true, or that the defenclent had been influenced by had motives, wool t tind him guilty. The judges, although they disapproved of the principle, admitted that this was the best method of carry in; it out. The law hail been almost. fo gotten, in conreqtience of the mildness of the executive administration, but the law still remained, and might be resived at any time. He trusted their Lordships would pass this measure, for he considered that Englishmen ought to hold their rights by law, and not by the forbearance ot the public prosecutor. The LORD CHANCELLOtt opposed the measure as one calculated to do great evil. It was sufficient to refer to the opinion of the judges to know that the law of England excluded evidence of the truth in these cases, and he imagined that those learned persona had declared what the law always had been, and not merely what it was at the time they had declared it. In an action for damages, the defendant might plead the truth as justification, and the judge state to the jury the nature of the libel, the nature of the justification, and told them if they were of opinion the justification had been made out, they must acquit the defendant. If the prose cution was by indictment, by the late measure justification could also be pleaded. In these cases the functions of the judge and of the jury were clearly defined. The object of wine 1ib..13 was to incite to a breach of the public peace, or to bring the Government into contempt. It was no defence of such conduct that the libels were true—that would possibly only increase their evil effects. Now if the course proposed by this Bill were to be adopted, if only one fact alleged could be proved true, it would be competent to the jury to find the defendant not guilty, at their caprice and discretion. Their imaginations might be influenced by an artful address, awl if only tone part were proved it would he competent to them to return a verdict of acquittal. It was putting in the hands of juries an uncontrolled power, which might lead to great abuses in the administration of justice. Notice would be given in every case in order to secure the opportunity of making an in flammatory address to the jury. Parties prosecuted for these seditious libels generally w ere persons who fancied themselves orators, and defsnded themselves, and how did they defend themselves ? Why generally by a repetition of the calumnies. Now the judge could interrupt him, and prevent his going on, but would that be the case if this Bill were to become law ? Why, a party might come into a court of justice and repeat the charge, and the judges could not interfere in any way. fhe parry said he should offer evidence of the truth of the charge, and the judge was bound to sit silently and hear it. Well,. then he offers in evidence some vague rumours; he is told the court cannot receive it, and the jury find a verdict of ac quittal. Such would be the effect of his Noble Friend's Bill. When a man was vilified, was he not to appear in a court of justice, was not that the height of injustice, and what was the answer to this ? Why, that the Attorney-General will con duct his defence. This was one of the principles of his Noble Friend's Bill. He was sure, if their Lordships considered the subject, notwithstanding all the praises of his Noble Friend of his own Bill, they would feel assured that it was impossible to pass the Bill consistently e ith a due regard to justice. Under the provisions of the Bill the whole of the Roe al Family might be libelled with impunity, and under it the character and conduct of a foreign sovereign might be put in issue in the courts of this country. such were the consequences of his Noble Friend's Bill, that he felt called upon to propose that the Bill should be read a third time that day three months. Lord BROUGHAM supported the third reading of the Bill. Ile must confess that he was not a little alarmed when his Noble Friend rose from the Woolsack to address the House immediately after his Noble Friend who had moved the third reading of the Bill. But his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack had relieved him of much of his anxiety by the ar guments he had used, for they rather made for his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Campbell) than against him.—( Hear, hear.) The appeal to the law by his Noble Friend might have done a few years ago, but it would be of no avail now. As the law now stood, his Noble Friend behind him ( Lord Camp bell, and his Noble Friend at the table (Lord Monteagle), might join together to libel him (Lord Brougham)—they might give as much evidence against him as they pleased, he being out of Court. Such was the law as it now stood, but by the law as it was now proposed, no such thing could happen, because the Attorney-General would prosecute the patties, and would rebut the libel by preying its falsehood. The Noble and Learned Lord having most humorously described the manner in which a defence was got up to a charge of libel,- observed that it was always assumed that the truth could be proved, while under the present law it was impossible to do it.' He had known juries, over and ever again, prevailed upon to give verdicts against the truth of the case. The law, as it at present existed, exposed juries to the arts and stratagems and declamations of counsel. The Government,. as the law now stood, always went into Court with a stain upon it. Let their Lordships look to the case of Sir Arthur Piggot. He charged the Lords of the Admiralty with sending over troops in unsea worthy ships, and if that prosecution had been proceeded with, if it had gone to trial, it would have been iinpossible, as the law now stood, for them to have defeated the slanderer, and have proved the truth of the libel, as the evidence that would have been offered for that purpese would have been re jected. Ile was some time ago counsel in a case against the clergy of Durham, he did all he could to procure a verdict. He got the jury to take three or four hours to consider their ver dict ; they at last found a special verdict, rather for than against him, and the detendant was never brought up for judg ment. If the law had been in the state in which it was now proposed to place it, the case need not have occupied ten minutes. If there was any one principle in English law which was clear and understandable, it was that whatever tended to keep the public opinion with the law, awl against the criminal, was wholesome, and that whatever tended to set it against the prosecutor, and against the law, was to be deplored. Never had he seen any man brought up for judgment in such a case without ptiblie sympathy . being in his favour. The object of this Bill was not to make public libel defensilde, but only to provide that the case should be left with the jury, His Noble and Lear_ ed Friend said there ought to be an ex ception in the Bill with respect to foreign Princes. With re spect to the Sovereign of this country, the reason for the excep tion was obvious. As, according to the laws of this country, the Sovereign was unimpeachable, it would be perfectly incon sistent to allow evidence to be adduced. There was not one of the objections of his Noble and Learned Friend to the present Bill, which would not have equally applied to the Bill of last year. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 5. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. 11r. FERRAND presented a petition from an individual in Lancashire, against the New Poor-law Bill. The petitioner attributed to this law the existence of Chartism, Rebeccaism, and the Anti-Corn-lavr League. Mr. EWA RT presented a petition from the wood sawyers of Paisley, praying for protection against the use of machinery in their trade. Lord ASHLEY presented kpctition (we did not hear from what plane), signed by 2,40 0 pefrons, against the Truck System. After an interval of a quarter of an hour, during which no business was done, Lord SANDON moved that the Secret Committee of Post office Inquiry might have leave to sit, notwithstanding the ad journment of the House.—Ordered. ACCIDENT AT BOLTON. Mr. FERR AND, seeing the Right Hon. Baronet, the Se cretary of State for the Home Department in his place, begged leave to draw his attention to a dreadful accident that took place in the town of Bolton, on Monday last ; by the bursting of a steam boiler in a factory one man was killed, and three or four seriously injured. We understood the Hon. Member to say, that some mismanagement of the machinery was the cause of the accident, and that the man who had lost his life had only that morning come into the employment, with the nature of which he was unacquainted. As there were in spectors of railways, he wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet whether the Government had no power to prevent such fearful accidents in factories ? Sir J. GRAHAM said that the Government had no control over factories such as that which was exercised over railways through the inepectors. MEDICAL REFORM. 31r. D. BARCLAY begged to ask the Right Hon. Bari). net whether he hail abandoned his intentions respecting medical reform, or intended to carry through his Bill this session ? Sir J. G RAH Alll said he would lay the Bill on the table in the course of this session. _ _ In answer to a question from Mr. BELLEW, Sir J. GRAHAM ssid that it was his intention, during the present session, to lay on the table of the House a Bill to amend the law of settlement in Scotland and Ireland. He should not, however, proceed with it this session. Captain PECHELL gave notice that, on Tuesday week, he should call tke attention of the House to the claims of the luna , ic officers in Haslar Hospital. The Committee on the Joint-stock Companies Bill was postponed till twelve o'clock on Wednesday next. The Committee on the Canal Companies Bill was postponed till Monday. NEW WRIT. Government the propriety of extending the period to twelve calendar months. Sir J. GRAHAM said he thought the Hon. Member for Finsbury was right in his view of the case, and he should there fore agree to his proposition, and move that the word " six" be omitted, and the word " twelve" inserted. Mr. S. CRAWFORD begged sincerely to thank the Right Hon. Baronet for this concession, which was a most humane and just one, and would be sure to command the approval of the people. Mr. STUART WORTLEY moved the following amend ments : in lino 18, to substitute " one year" for " six months ;" also, after the word " child" to add these words, " or at any time thereafter, upon satisfactory proof that the man alleged to be the father of such child has admitted the truth of such allegation." The clause as it stood would induce many men to give an allowance to the woman for six or twelve months, in order to prevent her making any application against him, until it would be too late ; and at the expiration of the six or twelve months discontinue the allowance, while the clause as it now stood would exclude her from every remedy. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was still opinion that there should be some limitation of the time for the protection of the accused man. Mr. T. EGERTON said that the argument of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Stuart Wortley) had not been met by the Right Hon. Baronet. The argument of his Hon. Friend completely removed the objection, that an extension of the time would be unjust to the man. Could not the Right Hon. Gentleman introduce words at the end of the clause, that the woman should not be excluded from proceeding against the man after the expiration of twelve months on producing proof of the pay ment of money during that time ? Mr. ESCOTT was strongly opposed to the amendment of his Hon. Friend (Mr. S. Wortley), as it would bring back many of the evils of the old law. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was sorry that his Hon. Friend had thought it his duty to charge him with having introA i nced an illusory measure. That charge coming from a quar! , r so respectable, rendered it the more painful ; and he must, there fore, give it his firm denial. The clauses to which the Hon. Gentleman had referred had been framed with an honest spirit, and he would always be ready to enter into a discussion as to their merits. With respect to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Yorkshire, he must say that he could not give it his support, in consequence of the ambiguity of its terms. Be fore he sat down, he would express a hope that his Hon. Friend the Member for Oxfordshire, would not adhere to the opinion which he had expressed. Mr. HENLEY said, he had spoken of the Bill, and not of the conduct of the Government with respect to it. After a few words from Captain Rous, Mr. Morris, Sir Walter James, and Mr. Borthwiek, Sir J. GRAHAM repeated that he had conceded the ex tension of the time to twelve months, and he would now so far accede to the proposition of his Hon. Friend as to agree to the addition of these words to the clause—" that the putative father shall be liable, after the twelve months, upon proof of the payment of money within twelve months after the birth of the child."—( Hear, hear.) Mr. S. WORTLEY expressed himself satisfied—( Hear, hear)—and withdrew his amendment. The clause, as amended, was then agreed to. On the motion of Mr.IIIORNELY a new writ was ord,red for the borough of Birmingham, in the room of Joshua Sehole• field, E,q., deceased. POOR-LAW.—COMNIITTEE. Sir J. GRA HAM moved the order of the day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of the whole House upon the Poor-law Amendment Bill. The order having been read by the Clerk, Mr. HAWES claimed to take advantage of that opportunity to present a petition from the rated irdiabitants of St. Mary's, Lambeth, agreed at a meeting in vestry assembled, praying that the Poor-law Amendment Bill may not pass into a law, and that all plurality of voting may be abolished. Mr. JOHN FIELDEN said he would also take advantage of the opportunity to present a petition for the repeal of the poor-law from the Board of Guardians of the Todmorden union—the union in which he himself resided. They stated that the poor-law was brought first into operation in that dis trict at the point of the bayonet—that it could not be intro duced even until the presence of the soldiery had been obtained.—( Hear, hear.) It had been said, most wickedly and most untruly, that he (Mr. Fielden) had been instrumental in stiring up dissatisfaction against the Bill, and encouraging riots to oppose it; but every one who knew him, knew that he had never taken part in or approved of any illegal conduct in his life—( Hear, hear)—and that he had no more to do with those riots than any other Hon. Gentleman in that House. It was right the House should know that some of the guardians who signed this petition had originally been in favour of this new poor-law, and were anxious to have it intro dueed into the district ; but since they had had practical expe rience of its operation, they had become thoroughly disgusted with it, and now petitioned most earnestly for its repeal. On the motion of the Hon. Member the petition was then read at length by the Clerk at the table. Sir JOHN WALSH presented a petition from the inhabi tants of St. Pancras against the 58th clause of the Bill, re latiag to parishes now managed under Hobhouse'e Act. On the reading of the order of the day for the Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Act, Mr. BORTHWICK jumped up suddenly, and said " Mr. Speaker," and then as suddenly sat down amidst shouts of laughter, which were continued during a discussion carried on between the lion. Member and Col. t.ibthorp. In the meantime the Speaker left the chair, and the House went into Committee, Mr. GREENE in the Chair, On the question that clause 1 stand part of the Colonel SIBTHORP rose to move his amendment to the effect that the office and powers of the Poor-law Commissioners be abolibhed. On clause 3 being read, Mr. )3. DENISON thought that the power of appeal, which this clause conferred upon the putative father was un wise and improper, and entailed great hardship on the poor woman who sought to establish her claim against the father of her child. He therefore proposed that in bastardy cases three magistrates instead of two should be present when the female came forward in the first instance, and that their adjudi cation should be final. The power of appeal, as granted by the clause, would render, in most instances, the whole intentions of tke Legislature nugatory. Mr. BUCK seconded the amendment. After a few words from some Hon. Members, pro and con., Mr. DENISON intimated that :he had withdrawn the amendment, but Colonel WOOD, in the most earnest manner,intreated that be would not do so. He considered the power of appeal as entailing the greatest hardship on the unfortunate female. Sir J. GRAHAM said he thought two justices would be sufficient ; and it might be inconvenient, and in some instances, almost impossible, to procure the attendance of more. The power of appeal could be discussed at a future time. Mr. DENISON withdrew his amendment. Mr. BORTHWICK suggested that the allowance made by the father to the mother of the child should not be paid by him ro her, as the contact might be dangerous.—(Laughter ) The sum allocated by the magistrate should be paid to some third person for her—an overseer or other parochial official. Mr. ESCOTT said all the compassion seemed to be for the woman, but his experience in these matters—( Great laughter) —led him to think that the putative father was frequently as deserving of compassion. He did not approve of the principle of sending the putative father of the child to the House of Cor rection, if he were not able to pay the sum prescribed by the magistrates. Sir J. GRAHAM said the provision, however hard it might seem to some Hon. Members, was found to be absolutely ne cessary. In fact, without the terror of imprisonment which this clause held out, one of the main principles of the measure cou'd not be carried out. The clause as amended was then agreed to. Clause 4 was then proposed. Mr. B. DENISON proposed to omit the words from the clause which gave the power of appeal from the decision of the magistrates in cases of bastardy. Alr. BORT II WICK supported the amendment. He trusted her Majesty's Government would take the sub . ;vct into their consideration. . . . . Mr. T. EGERTON believed that if the provision giving the power of appeal were allowed to remain in the Bill that it would be nugatory and ineffective. Mr. HAWES thought the power of appeal ought not to be taken away. Sir J. GRAHAM said this was a very important clause, and he would recommend the Committee to be cautious in coming to a decision upon it. He thought the power of appeal ought to be retained, as it would act as a preventive to injustice. Mr. WAKLEY could not see why the appeal should only be on one side. _ . . _ After a few words from Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr. B. ESCOTT said the reason the appeal was only one sided was, that the penalties were all on one side. Mr. WAKLEY said the penalties were not on one side, as the woman had to bear the burden of the maintenance of the child. He thought the appeal ought to be made In favour of the woman as well as of the mar:. Mr. STUART WO R FLEY was of a different opinion. To give the appeal to the woman would lead to much injustice and hardship. Mr. CHIN'S thought that if they were to give the female the power of appeal the provision would be inoperative, inas much as in all such cases as these the fem ale was in humble circumstances, and had not the means of carrying on an appeal. Mr. S. CR A WFORD lupported the amendment of the Hon. Member for Yorkshire. Mr. L DDE LL thought it would be impolitic to extend cases of appeals to Quarter Sessions. Sir J. G RA II AM said that after the fullest consideration of the subject he was of opinion that the clause, as it stood, ought to be retained. Sir J. GRAHAM said that after the fullest consideration, he was strongly disposed to let this clause stand over. Mr. WAKLEY strongly urged the propriety of giving the right of appeal to the woman, who was the victim of injustice, as well as to the man, who was the most powerful person and the oppressor.—( Hear, hear.) Io his own experience as a Coroner, he knew that one effect of this law was child murder, now in creasing to a horrible extent.—( Hear.) He had seen many ' cases in which such cases were clearly proved, to the horror and disgust of the jury. These murders were effected generally, in a way to render discovery impossible. The effect of this Bill would be as bad in this respect as the one it proposed to amend. Why should the House not take away from women the temptation to commit so horrible a crime ?—( Hear.) lie trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet, who had treated this subject with great. ability and fairness, would place the woman on an equal footing with the man. Mr. B. DENISON, after hearing the statement of the Co roner for Middlesex, said that the remedy which that Hon. Gen tleman suggested was very inadequate. Indeed, he would ask, how could the woman, coming out of the workhouse, poor and penniless, avail herself of such a remedy ? Mr. WARBURTON thought that the clause was framed in an oversight of what was the nature of a court of appeal. He thought that the decision in the first instance should be final. Mr. WAKLEY said that he had not advocated the appeal clause. He only said that the woman should be placed on an equal footing with the man. He knew that the appeal would be from Noodle to Noodle.—( A laugh.) Bnt Noodle might act with more caution in the presence of lawyers, and he might gather up a little sense from their arguments, if he had none in himself.—( hear and a laugh.) He knew that magistrates were not appointed for their fitness, but through the influence of their friends, who being enable to do any good with them at home, found employment for them in dealing with the poor. Sir J. GRAHAM considered the clause sufficiently difficult in itself, without being embarrassed with extraneous conside rations. From the returns which he had received from all parts of the c-.untry, he did not think that the bastardy clauses had increased infanticide, or that the crime had increased. The feeling of shame and the desire of concealment were mostly the motives that occasioned it. 1 . ( Hear, hear.) He would throw out for the consideration of the Committee, that at the end of the clause there was a proviso, which seemed to press with some hardship upon the woman; and he would pet it to the Committee whether the omission of that proviso, thereby leav ing to the wcrman the right of appeal, would not be such a com promise as might meet the views of those who wished for a more express amendment. Mr. STUART WORTLE Y thought the question was too difficult to be discussed in an assembly like this. What he wished was, to prevent vexation* appeals, and he would sug gest that his Right Hon. Friendshould consider this point. Mr. WAKLEY was satisfied with the concession made by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham). But he cau tioned him net to be misled by the returns of the coroners, for in most of the cases there was no possibility of returning a di rect verdict of wilful murder. Mr. B. DENISON said that he had no objection to the omission of the proviso. Bttt what he complained of was, that where the man appealed against the decision made in favour of the woman, she had no means to avail( herself of the judg ment, 83 she could not go to the expense of resisting the ap peal. It would be a different thing if the parish were bound to support the judgment in her favour. Mr. CRIPPS said that he and his brother magistrates had made every possible inquiry into the subject of infanticide, and they came to the conclusion that the crime had not increased under the new poor-law, but that, on the contrary, the morals of the people had improved, and the crime had decreased in their district. He only spoke of his own district, and, of course, did not deny that what the Hen. Member for Finsbury had stated was the fact in his district. After a few words from Mr. ESCOTT, Sir J. GRAHAM hoped that the Committee would pro ceed to divide, but with this understanding, that if the appeal were struck out, he would retain the proviso. Mr. BORTHWICK (who spoke a midst loud cries of "Di vide, divide,") recommended the Government to withdraw the clause and reconsider it.—[The interruption continuing, with laughter, and cries of Oh, oh "—.He would move that the Chairman report progress. —( Oh, oh . ) The CHAIRMAN asked who seconded the motion, to which no answer was given, and Mr. BORTHWICK proceeded to address the House, but at last gave way to the repeated cries of " Divide, divide." Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ................ Against it ........................ ...... Majority . ................................ Mr. BORTHWICK said he was anxious to prevent the money payable by the putative father being handed over to her directly from the person who had already been too successful against her virtue. The clause did not provide for this, and in his opinion:it ought to do so. He trusted the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir James Graham) would take this matter into his serious consideration, with a view of engrafting on some future clause of the Bill a provision to the effect he had stated. Sir J. GRAHAM said a few words, which, from the low tone in which he spoke, we could not very clear l y hear, but we understood their intent to be that the suggesti on should have his consideration. In answer to a question from Sir 11. DOUGL AS, ' Sir J. GRAHAM said he agreed with him in opinion that the father should not be allowed to go scot free when the woman became chargeable to the parish, or liable to punish ment for crime. He would have words introduced into the clause which should authorise a proper hold upon the man. The matter would require to be well considered, and whatever was inserted must be most cautiously worded. In a future After a discussion, much interrupted by bursts of laughter, the Gallant Colonel was informed by the Chairman, that he could not bring his motion on on the present question. Mr. BORTHIVICK, who rose amidst renewed laughter, said he supposed at least that he was entitled, upon this ques tion, to show why clause 1 should not stand part of the Bal.— ( Hear, hear.) He expressed a hope that his Hon. and Gallant Friend would persevere in his motion, as he would never have a better opportunity of doing so. The real mean ing of the proposal which had been made by the Right Hon. Gentleman to his (Mr. Borthwick's) Hon. and Gallant Friend, to postpone this motion, was that it should be abandoned. There hart been too much postponement with regard to that question already. Mr. TATTON EGERTON said in his opinion the Hon. and Gallant Member for Lincoln (Colonel Sibthorp) was too late to bring forward the amendment of which he had given notice. He should have moved his resolution on the order of the day being read for going into Committee. Ile (Mr. Eger ton) was as great an opponent as any in that House of many of the provisions of the Poor-law, but after the division of last night he thought the best thing they could now do was, to exert their best efforts to modify the various harsh clauses of the Bill in Committee. Colonel SIBTHORP said he was in the hands of the Chair man-, and whatever that worthy and excellent gentleman told Itlin to do, he should do.—(Laughter.) The Chairman of the Committee said the only thing now competent to the Hon. and Gallant Officer to do was, to ne gative the clause. Clause 1 was then agreed to amidst great laughter. On clause 2 being proposed, Mr. FERRAND said he felt bound to express his opinion that his lion, and Gallant Friend (Colonel Sibthorp) had not been fairly used, either by the House or the Government. He (Mr. Ferrand) had distinctly put the question to the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir James Graham) last night, whether his Hon. and Gallant Friend could put his amendment that night, and the answer made by the Right Hon. Baronet was, that he could do so. It appeared to him (Mr. Ferrand) that his Hon. and Gallant Friend had been regularly done.—( Great laugh ter.) He was satisfied that throughout the whole House there an intention not to give a fair hearing to the opponents of the Bill, and he should, therefore, advise his Hon. and Gal lant Friend riot to waste his time in bringing forward a mo tion which would not be listened to, but leave it to the coun try to decide upon the conduct both of that House and of the Government. Sir J. GRAHAM said he would assure his Hon. and Gal lant Friend (Colonel Sibthorp) he had no intention or desire whatever tb hinder him bringing forward his motion ; and whenever the opportunity presented 'itself for him to do so, every attention should be given by him to his Hon. Friend's arguments and opinions. Col. SIBTHORP said the Right Hon. Gentleman had not treated him with common candour—he had almost said with common decency.—(Laughter.) The Gallant Colonel then, raising his voice to its highest pitch, and stretching forth his arm, said " I have often before declared I had confidence in this Government; but I now declare I can never have con fidence more."—(Shouts of laughter.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE suggested that the time allowed to unhappy females to name the father of the child—namely, six mouths—.yfu hardly long enough, lie strongly urged on the . 40 stage he would be prepared with an instruction, in order to Lord ELIOT said if the Hon. Member would produce any effect the amendment desired, and the necessity of which he instance of improper appointment, or any proof of miecon clearly saw.--(Hear, hear.) duct on the part of those appointed, he would not object to the After a long and desultory conversation upon verbal amend- return. But this not having been done, and knowing that it ments, the clause was agreed to. could not be clone, he felt it his duty to resist the motion. On clause 6 being propo'ed, Mr. BUTLER persisting in his motion, the gallery was Mr. HENLEY suggested that some modification should be cleared for a division, but no division took place, and the motion made in it by the Government, as it was of a most stringent was negatived. character. Sir JAMES GRAHAM agreed to omit certain words (inaudible in the gallery), the effect of which would be greatly to ameliorate the clause.—( Loud cries of" Hear, hear.") The clause was then agreed to, as were clauses 7,8, 9, and 10, without discussion. On clause 11 being proposed, Mr. WYNN ELLIS objected to the power given to the Corn. missioners, of apprenticing illegitimate children, which could be much more properly exercised by the poor-law guardians in their several districts. . _ _ Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS said he had received from his constituents instructions to object to this clause, on the same grounds as those stated by the last speaker—namely, that the guardians upon the spot were the best judges of what ought to be done for these unhappy children. Sir C. NAPIER, on behalf of the parish of Marylebene, also objected to this power being vested in the Central Com missioners. __ _ Two other Hon. 'Members, wh3se names we could net learn, also strongly opposed the clause. Sir J. GRAHAM said he might be wrong in having pro posed the clause, but no one, he was happy to find, impugned his motive in doing so. He was afraid that in those local boards of guardians, local interests would be consulted at the expense of the persons about to be bound out. Under the Miners and Colleries Act, certain restrictions were imposed against binding young children to miners and colliers, and he thought that, in the present Bill, the same restrictive power should be exercised. It could not be denied that in local boards of guardians there might be a natural though selfish desire to economise, even at the expese of the poor little helpless children whom they might be willing to bind into a distant, and, perhaps, incommodious situation, in order to rid themselves, and their district of the probable expense of providing for them in future. What he wished to impose was not any unnecessary or unfair restriction on the board of guardians, but only to give to the Poor-law Commissioners a power over the appointments: of the board, which would tend towards the benefit of the poor apprentices. He had been accused of endeavouring to increase the powers of the Poor-law Commissioners, and giving them an arbitrary control over the poor. He did not think he lay open to this charge, as he had been always most anxious to give the Commissioners only such power as would counteract the, perhaps, too par simonious tendency or neglect of the boards of guardians. Mr. CHRISTOPHER hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would not withdraw the clause, which he considered one of the most useful in the whole Bill. He believed that one of the greatest evils of the present measure was its neglect of proper provisions for parochial apprentices. He thought that a power vested in the Poor-law Commissioners was absolutely neces sary in order to protect poor apprentices, and have them pro perly bound and properly treated. Colonel WOOD would not wish to restrict the powers of the Poor-law Commissioners ; but he thought the imposition of this duty upon them was unnecessary. For there was no provision in the clause to prevent what the Right Hon. Gentle man considered so great an evil—viz. the binding out of ap prentices in distant parishes. Sir JAMES GRAHAM rose and said, he attached consi derable importance to the penalty which would be enacted in this clause, and which he trusted would prevent the abuses re garding apprentices which existed in the present measure. Mr. DUNCOMBE objected to the large powers conferred on the Poor-law Commissioners by the provisions of this , clause. They were useless besides, for how could the Com missioners at Somerset House be supposed to know what would be most beneficial to a child in a remote part of the kingdom ? Surely those who lived in the spot, and who were fathers of families themselves, ought to be the best judges. Sir J. GRAHAM said that in order to meet the objections of the Hon. Gentleman, and of other Hon. Members who might be disposed to agree with him, he would amend the clause, so that it would give the Commissioners power only to prescribe the terms and conditions of the binding. KNACKERS' YARDS. Mr. COWPER obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act 26 Geo. 111., for the regulation of yards kept for slaughtering horses._ CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS. Lord G. SOMERSET asked leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the trial of controverted elections of Members of Parliament. Lord MAIION suggested that at this late period of the ses sion, the precedent of the last and the previous year had better be followed by the House agreeing to a temporary Bill. Next session they might advantageously discuss a permanent mea sure, and whenever they did so, ho (Lord Mahon) should urge upon the House to part with its jurisdiction ; and, failing in his endeavours to accomplish that, he should propose a dimi nution to three of the number of Members sitting on a Con troverted Election Committee. Sir R. PEEL said he thought the time was come when the House would decide whether it would retain in its own hands the jurisdiction regarding controverted elections. He thought there was a just jealousy on the part of the majority of lion. Members against any invasion of their privileges. He con- sidered there was a tendency on the part of the courts of law to treat them lightly; and for his part he wished this House to retain all the privileges and powers it at present possessed. He was in favour of the proposition of the Noble Lord for making the Bill permanent. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill, which was read a fist time. The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. Mr. DUNCOMBE was opposed to all increase of power to the Commissioners, and thought in whatever shape it was con ferred upon them, it must be looked upon with alarm. Colonel SIBTHORP expressed himself to a similar effect. He looked upon the power the Poor-law Commissioners at present possessed with feelings of jealousy and alarm. Mr. WAKLEY hoped the clause would not be altered or amended. Nothing was more desirable than that there should be some officers, who would be responsible for the proper treatment of those helpless creatures—parochial apprentices. Their condition at present was one of absolute slavery. For this reason alone he would give the clause his most unqualified and ar dent support. The present law did not provide a sufficient protec tion for the ill treatment and neglect of these poor creatures. The masters at present, in most instances, sought them only for the purpose of making money by them, and, provided they could effect this object, they cared little about the means Parish apprentices were, in many instances, employed from fire in the morning until nine at night, and, in addition to this, they were frequently badly fed, badly el ►thed, and badly lodged. And what redress had these children ? It might be said they could go before a magistrate. Why, he (Mr. Wakley) hail on more than one occasion, attempted to interfere with police magistrates on be half of these poor creatures, but his applications had not only been treated with neglect but with contempt. To be sure the overseer went to the house of tt.e master, and when he did, he was ushered into the best parlour, and the boy was brought in in his holiday suit, and before his master and mistress, and with the fear of the birch rod before his eyes, answered those queries which the overseer put to him. —( Hear hear.) " Have you any complaint to make, my dear? Don't be afraid to speak." Of course the poor child said " No, Sir," and thus terminated this little farce. 'The overseer went away, and the boy re turned to his drudgery.—(Hear, hear.) Under these circum stances, he thought it absolutely necessary that there should be some restrictive and unprejudiced influence exercised in the binding of these poor children. The House was bound to look to them ; they were the orphans of the State; and he felt grateful to the Goyernment for introducing the present clause. FRIDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 26, 1844. MEMORANDUM.--Iler Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the under-mentioned regiments to bear, in addition to any other badges or devices heretofore granted, the follow ing distinctions, in commemoration of their services during the second campaign in Affghanistan, in the year 1642, namely, 3d Light Dragoons, 9th Foot, 13th Foot, 31st Foot, " Cabool, 1842 ; ' 41st Foot, Ghuznee and Cabool, 1842." Her Majesty has likewise been graciously pleased to permit the 16th Lancers, the 39th and 40th Regiments, to hear the word " Moharajpore," and the 9th Lancers, the 3d and 50th Regi ments, the word " Punniar," in commemoration of the dis tinguished gallantry displayed by those corps in the actions fought at the abovenamed places, respectively, on the 29th of December, 1813. WAR-OFFICE, JULY 5. 3d Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant I. R. Warner to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Nugent, who retires ' • Cornet C. P. Coote to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warner ; F. A. Oakes, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase. vice Coote, July 5. 17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant H. R. Bcucherett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Broadley, who retires ; Cornet S. Le Hunt Hobson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bouche rett, July 5 ; Cornet N. 111. Innes to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Taylor, who retires, July 6. 12th Regiment of Foot—Ensign G. H. M. Johnston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Butcher, who retires; C. Mait land, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Johnston, July 5. 23d Foot—Sergeant-Major C. Grant, Grenadier Guards, to be Quartermaster, vice G. Moore, who retires upon half-pay, July 5. 43d Foot—Captain R. N. Phillips, from 53d Foot, to be Captain, vice Havelock, who exchanges, July 5. 46th Foot—Captain G. P. Mansel, from the 53d Foot, to be Captain, vice Clarke. who exchanges, July 5. 48th Foot—Lieutenant G. S. Tidy to be Captain, without purchase, vice Hall, deceased ; Ensign W. F. Wyndowe to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tidy ; Sergeant-Major J. Mancor to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Wyndowe, July 5. 53d Foot--Capt. C. F. Havelock, from 43d Foot, to be Captain, vice Phillips, who exchanges ; Capt. W. H. H. F. Clarke, from the 46th Foot, to be Captain, vice Mansel, who exchanges, July 5. 60th Foot—G. Warburton, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Roche, who retires ; Lieut. J. F. Jones to be Adjutant, vice Mitchell, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, July 5. 88th Foot—Ensign S. Dunning to be Adjutant, vice Max well, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, July 1. Rifle Brigade—Second Lieut. A. Lautour to be First Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Dawson, who retires ; J. C. Nichol!, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lautour, July 5. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Ensign J. N. Holmes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mortimer, who retires ; S. Peel, Gent., to be En s i gn , b y purc h ase, v i ce Holmes, July 5. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant G. Man, from the 54th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, July 5. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 3. Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant P. R. Cocks to be Second Captain, vice Caddy, retired on half-pay ; Second Lieutenant W. F. Lock to be First Lieutenant, vice Cocks, June 9. Mestoaatenuat.—The dates of prcmotion of the under mentioned officers have been altered as follow, viz.—Second Captain G. D. Warburton, May 28 ; First Lieutenant the Hon. W. Kennedy, May 28; Quartermaster-Sergeant Alex ander Steele to be Quartermaster, vice Fortune, retired on full-pay, July 1. ADMIRALTY, JULY 3. Corps of Royal Marines.—Gentleman Cadet F. C. Knight to be Second Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, JULY 4. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Shand, of Edin burgh, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery, in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. SIMEON HARTLEY SPENCE, maltster, Leeds. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS HENRY SKELTON, stationer, Southampton, to surrender July 13, at one, and Aug. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall street, London ' • Cox, Pinners'-hall, Old Broad-street. FRANCIS STOKES, importer, London-wall, July 16, at two, and August 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Lawrence and Plena, Bucklershury. PETER TANSLEY, straw-plait dealer, St. John-street, July 16, at half-past one, and August 16, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Ba singhs.ll-street ; Hurst, Milk-street, Chespside. MICHAEL CASANAS, wine merchant, Fenchurch street, July 19, at half-past one, and August 16, at twelve at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street ; Sole, Aldernsanbury. JOHN RAMSAY, cheesemonger, Chapel-street, Somers'- town, July 13, at half-past one, and August 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chamber; ; Dods and Linklaters, Leadenhall-street. THOMAS JAMES SWAINE, innholder, Newland-street, Eaton-square, Pimlico, July 12, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Wade and Pen nington, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Wade, Baldock, Herts. THOMAS lIINDMARSII, grocer, Hartlepool, Durham, July 11, at eleven, and Aug. 26, at two, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle upon- Tyne ; Wilson and Turnbull, Hartlepool. FREDERICK PLANK, perfumer, Plymouth, July 24 and Aug. 15, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hertzel, official assignee ; Lockyer and Bulteel, Plymouth; Surr, Lombard-street, London; Moore, Exeter. JOHN VERNON, licensed victualler, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, July 17 and Aug. 14, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee ; Froggatt, Clif ford's Inn, London; Latham, Sandbach. RICHARD LODGE, innkeeper, Thornhill, Yorkshire, July 19, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee ; Wigglesworth, Ridsdale, and Crad dock, Gray's Inn-square ; Cronhelm, Leeds. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. J. Jenner, shoemaker, Brixton, Surrey. 11. W. Thomas, innkeeper, Andover. S. W. Morris, law-writer Carey-street, Chancery-lane. G. Watson, undertaker, Weston-street, Somers'-town. J. R. Chapman, schoolmaster, Ferry-hill, Durham. J. Whillier, baker, Hereford-street, Landport, Portsea. T. C. Fletcher, schoolmaster, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. S. Jefferys, =Rater, Arnold, Nottinghamshire. J. Bennett, licensed victualler, Nottingham. S. Wheatley, farmer, Unstone, Derbyshire. R. Hollier, stonemason, Birmingham. J.'Downing, butcher, Thorne, Yorkshire. J.C. Adams, fish-curer, Great Yarmouth. J. Falshaw, farmer, Bradford, Yorkshire. E. Stevens, builder, Stanbridge, Bedfordshire. A. Jacobs, dealer in jewellery, Princess-st., Ratcliffe-highway. J. Howgate, tanner, Pudsey, Yorkshire. G. Livesey, dealer in ale, Chorley, Lancashire. H. Cornish, butcher, Woolwich. C. Clifford, plumber, Norman-street, St. Luke's. G. Haigh, beer retailer, Broad Ing Bottom, Yorkshire. W. Claringbold, barman, Lower Edmonton. J. Anbury, shoemaker, Clay-lane, Berkshire. T. Raymond, builder, Bishop's-road, Paddington. • T. Hamp, farmer, Wood Ham, Buckinghamshire. M. Nicholson, linen-draper, Bedlington, Durham. H. R. Wood, philosophical instrument-maker, Islington. J. D. Magee, cabinet-maker, Ely, Cambridgeshire. • A. Longland, butcher, Northampton. L. J. Randall, broker Cambridge-road, Bethnal-green. W. Smith, auctioneer, Wilmington-street, Clerkenwell. R. Nash, Great Yarmouth. A. G. Hamilton, agent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. C. Harding, schoolmaster, Wakefield-street, Gray's Inn-lane. G. Robinson, boot maker, Althorpe, Lincolnshire. R. M'Gregor, coach-wheel maker, Manchester. S. B. Parsons, York-road, Lambeth. T. S. Dear, baker, Bow-street, Covent-garden. J. Mash, coal dealer, Heaton Old Town. J. Williams, silk dealer, Sclater-street, Bethnal-green. G. Brown, blacksmith, Malden, Essex. J. Drake, boot maker, Halifax, Yorkshire. J. Cottee, cabinet maker, Malden, Essex. J. Brown, hackney driver, Liverpool. M. May, silk velvet manufacturer, Fuller-street, Bethnal-green. H. Cosies, furniture broker, Water-st., Arundel-st., Strand. F. Newenharn, artist, Soho-square. T. Rogers, tailor, New North-street, Red Lion-square. J. Rason, blacksmith, Liverpool. G. Bristow, sen., carpenter, Little George-street, Bermondsey. J. Oakes, traveller, Liverpool. J. Drinkhall, porter, Manchester. J. R. Miller, estate agent, Liverpool. W. Roffey, dancing master, Elm-lane, Bayswater. R. Allrock, Harrison. street, Gray's Inn-road. J. F. Redshaw, upholsterer, Great Portland-street. C. Pashley, plumber, Rayleigh, Essex. J. Faithfull, gardener, Grove-end-road, St. John's -wood. W. and G. S. Scoble, bakers, Topsham Devonshire. R. Wellicombe, butcher, ' Church-street, Camberwell. S. Gale, Boston-street, Dorset-square. G. Heffill, tailor, Chenies-street, Bedford-square. W. Childs, grocer, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. T. C. Blick, surgeon, Islip, Oxfordshire. J. Ellard, furrier, Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road. J. B. Harwood, master mariner, Bistern-place, Poplar. G. Brodie, otherwise G. Wild, comedian, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane. E. P. Owen, Llan Aber, Merionethshire. A. Macpherson, accountant, Albany-road, Camberwell. SECOND NOTICES. F. Wymer, steward of a steam ship, Southampton, July 11, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. M. Garnham, butcher, London-road, July 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. W. Young, cowkeeper, Monyers-street, lloxton, July 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. E M. Danols, schoolmistress, Albion-terrace, Wandsworth road, July 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. T. Mathew, labourer, Coychurch, Glamorganshire, July 9, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee. R. Cripple shoe maker, Miserden, Gloucestershire, July 10, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acramans official assignee. H. B. Glover, clerk, Great Bland-street, Dover-street, July 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. J. Hennessey, Upper Weedon, Northamptonshire, July 12, I at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official aapignee. Lord J. MANNERS said that he had heard enough to con vince him that the Poor-law Commissioners had exercised the power for the benefit, and not for the oppression, of these who were not able to defend themselves. He should give his cordial support to the clause. Mr. COLQUHOUN wished to know whether the Com missioners would be empowered to limit the hours of labour for children. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said there was no dif ficulty at all about this, as the Commissioners could insert causes in the indentures of apprenticeship, limiting the hours of labour for the children. Mr. HAMILTON supported the clause. Sir. ESCOTT said, that if they• gave the Commissioners the power of limiting the hours of labour for children to a cer tain time, they would be adopting a principle which the House had already relived to sanction in the Factory Bill. Mr. S. CRAWFORD opposed the clause. After a few words from Sir. P. BORTHWICK, the Com mittee divided— For the clause ... l5l Against it Majority .••--- 128 Clause 12 was then proposed, and after a short discussion, agreed to. On clause 13 being proposed, which regulates the number of votes each rate-payer shall possess, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved an amendment, the effect of which was to abolish the system of plurality voting, and to place the owner of property and the rate-payer, and all rate payers, on the same looting ; namely, to give each party one vote. Sir J. GRAHAM defended the present system, and said that he was fortified in his opinion by a recent decision to which the Legislature had come en this very subject. This kind of voting had been sanctioned by the Legislature in the last session: of Parliament in the Irish Poor-law*Bill. He did not think it would be consistent with justice that the occupier of property rated at 1001. a year should be placed en the tame footing, with respect to voting, as the occupier of property rated at 5001. The Committee then divided. The numbers were For the amendment ........ Against it . 142 Majority for the clause The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. On the reading of clause 14, Mr. HAWES said that the rate-payers ought to have the power of impeaching proxies in the election of guardians, and he suggested to the Hight Hon. Gentleman ( Sir J. Graham) to introduce a proviso to that effect. He was himself prepared with such a proviso. Sir JA DIES GRAHAM recommended the Hon. Gentleman to bring forward his proviso, as a distinct clause, at a future stage, or to be added at the end of the Bill. Mr. HAWES would act upon the suggestion of the Hon. Baronet, and gave notice that he would propose the clause on bringing up the report. Mr. HINDLEY admitted that the clause, as introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet was a great improvement in the Bill. Captain PECHELL would admit that this was a very use ful modification of the Bill. But neither this clause, nor the one proposed by the Hon. Member for Finsbury would meet his views, and he would move that the clause should be omitted altogether. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE admitted that the clause was a great improvement; but le was opposed to the system of proxies altogether, except it were in the case of female rate-payers.— ( A laugh.) He had received communications from Gravesend, showing the abuses to which the system was liable. The owners of property were very few ; but the collector of the rents held the whole of the proxies, and thus had the nomi nation of the guardians for the two great parishes of which that union consisted. He would not object to the clause if the latter part of it, which gave such a power to the collectors of rents, were omitted. Mr. HINDLEY suggested that the proxies should he re newed every six months. Mr. HAWES thought that the time allowed for notices should be extended to more than fourteen days. Sir J. GRAHAM thought that it would lead to much incon venience to give a greater time than was necessary for due in quiry and the detection of fraud. Sir. WAWN moved an amendment for the omission of the words in brackets, which gave power to stewards and land-agents to hold proxies. On this amendment the Committee divided, For the amendment ... 157 Against it l5 Majority ... The clause was then agreed to. On the reading of the fifteenth clause relative to the annual election of guardians, Mr. STUART WORTLEY said that he had received a letter from a gentleman, a member of one of the largest boards of guardians in the kingdom, suggesting several alterations in the mode of electing guardians. He did not mean to propose any amendment, but pressed upon his Right Hon. Friend to consider the recommendations of his correspondent. On the 16th clause being proposed, Mr. S. CRAWFORD proposed that it be omitted. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the omission of the clause 45 Against its omission Majority The clause was then agreed to. Clauses 17, 18, and 19 were agreed to, after which Sir J. GRAHAM moved that the Chairman should report progress, and ask leave to sit again on Thursday at half-past four o'clock. The Militia Ballot Suspension Bill went through Com mittee. The Vagrants Removal Bill went through Committee. The Stock in Trade Bill went through Committee. The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill went through Com mittee. The Customs Duties (Isle of Man) Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Assessed Compositions Bill was read a secsnd time, and was ordered to be committed on Monday next. REGISTRY OF SEAMEN. Mr. S. HERBERT obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend and consolidate the laws relating to merchant-seamen, and for keeping a register of seamen. The Bill was brought in and read a first time. THE IRISH CHURCH. Mr. P. BUTLER moved for a return of vacancies which had recently arisen in the Established Church of Ireland, and of the names of the parties appointed to fill them. R. Davies, Customs' landing waiter, Liverpol, July 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. J. Huntington, licensed victualler, Liverpool, July 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. E. Maitland, licensed victualler, Liverpool, July 11, at one, at the Liverpool Di s t r i c t C ourt . Morgan, official assignee. J. Enoch, jun, upholsterer, Leamington Priors, Warwick shire, July 12, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. T. Dale, provision dealer, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, July 11, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee. J. Marchant, jun., schoolmaster, Hollingbourne, Kent, July 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. M. Edmonds, plumber, Meadow-place, South Lambeth, July 9, at one, at the Cocrt of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. T. Knight, blacksmith, Wivelsfield, Sussex, July 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. J. Samway, brewer, Yalding, Kent, July 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. J. Doughty, stage coachman, Cambridge, July 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. W. Mace, victualler, Worcester, July 11 , at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee. B. B. Wilson, surgeon, Kendal, Westmoreland, July 9, at eleven, at the Newcastle- upon •Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. 11. Champion, furrier, Friday-street, City, July 26, at two— E. Whitmore, J. Wells, J. W 4.115, jun., and F. Whitmore, bankers, Lombard -street, City, July 26, at half-past twelve-- H. W. Brand, cook, Little Stanhope-street, Mayfair, July 26, at eleven—H. Goertz, upholsterer, New Windsor, Berkshire, July 26, at two. _ _ In the Country. W. Smithson, linen-draper, Thirsk, Yorkshire, July 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Dixon, linen-draper, Sheffield, July 31, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Broadhead, woollen-cloth manufacturer, Almondbury, York shire, July 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—P. T. B. Hembrough, worsted manufacturer, Wakefield, Yorkshire, July 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Johnson, miller, Anston, Yorkshire, July 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—E. Britten, victualler, Bath, July 26, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—H. Lonsdale, grocer. Sheffield, July 31, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.— G. Harker, farmer, Sunderlandwick, Yorkshire, July 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—W. Dawson, money scrivener, Wakefield, Yorkshire, July 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. G. F. Squires, plumber, Poplar, July 26—P. Cattaneo and J. Cattaneo, watch-makers, Reigate, Surrey, July 29—M. Agston, watch-maker, Berkeley-square, July 29-11. Thorpe, linen-draper, Kensington, July 26—J. Foakes, market-gar dener, Mitcham, Surrey, July 26—J. Montefiore and J. Bar row, merchants, George-street, Mansion-house, City, July . Brs,wn, auctioneer, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, July 26—W. Lynn, hotel-keeper, Liverpool, July 26—R. Ri chardson, gambroon manufacturer, Manchester, July 26--L Leicester, printer, Manchester, J u ly 26—C. ohnson, lime dealer, Rochdale, Lancashire, July 26—S. Jones, jeweller, Cheapside, July 26—C. Parslow, tailor, Blackman-street , Southwark, July 26—R. Turner, fancy eloth-manufacturcrf Almondbury, Huddersfield, Yorks hire, July 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Mercer, jun., and J. B. Edwards, attorneys, Ramsgate- - J. Swift and T. Swift, cloth merchants, Huddersfield, York shire—B. Rosselloty and C. W. de Bernardy, accountants, Warwick-street, Charing-cross—W. N. Heald and F. Parsons, druggists, Maldon, Essex—S. Wells and R. Wells, grocers , Kenninghall, Norfolk—J. Clark and T. Clark, clothiers, Trowbridge, Wiltshire—H. Cunliffe, H. Ratcliffe, W. Dixon, and J. Briggs, engravers to calico-printers, Accrington, Lan cashire, as far as regards W. Dixon—C. Mason and G. Adams, curriers, Cross -street, Bermondsey New-town—J. B. Gardi ner and S. Matthews, butchers, Munster-street, Regent's park—J. S. Welch and F. G. Gwynne, print-sellers, St. James's-street, Piccadilly—T. M. Lee and J. J. Lee, attor neys, Leeds—E. Whitling and E. Cleasby, wine-merchants , Edgeware-road—G. R. Tempany and W. Waggett, tailors, Holles-street, Cavendish-square—G. Chambers, sen., W. G. Chambers, and G. Chambers, jun., grocers, Portsea, as far as regards G. Chambers, sea.—B. D. Gall and W. Allen, chy. mists and druggists, Woodbridge, Suffolk—G. W. Moore and A. Williams, Customhouse agents, Lower Thames-street-- - T. Berry and J. Berry, nankeen-manufacturers, Manchester"J. Ewart, C. Lamport, and T. 11. M‘Connel, commission merchants, Manchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. JOHN DUNLOP, farmer, Tarbolton, Ayrshire, July 9 and 30, at twelve, at the Black Bull Inn, Mauchline. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending July 2, 1844, is 345. I*d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the to portation thereof into Great Britain. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) • CLERKEN WELL. Thomas North, a fashionably-dressed young man, clerk to Mr. Bragg, a stockbroker in Tlirogmorton- street, Bank, wag charged with threatening to. murder his father, Mr. Joi' North, residing at 13, Judd-street, Islington. Mr. Combe appeared as solicitor for the defendant. Mr. GREENWOOD, at the instance of the father, suggeste d the son the propriety of expressing his regret for his 'lns' conduct, with a view of preventing exposure of 1111 . 0 matters. The son (contemptuously)—l will listen to no such o r rangement. Mr. GREF,NWOOD—Then let the case be proceeded with' The son (to his father)—Go on ; why don't you go on? The father deposed that, on Saturday last, a dispute ? c ; curred between the defendant and his mother; after usi l3 ,7 the most violent language, the defendant pulled out - a pock e r knife, opened it, and swore he would stab her. The re e „t retreated in alarm, but the prisoner fl u ng the o p e n 'alit. her, fortunately, however, she escaped without inj ness ran up stairs, and not wishing to call in the pui , —; begged of his son to beg his mother's pardon, but he answered , " see you d—d first." Witness said he would feel it duty to acquaint Mr. Bragg, his employer, of his conduct, upon which the defendant with an oath exclaimed, " If .Y° ll do, I'll murder you." He had, on a previous occasion, threat ened to run a sword-cane through witness's body. Witness feared he would carry his threat into execution. Mr. GREENwoop—What have you to say to this? The son (with the greatest composure of manncr)—l would 1 1 °`: wish to take away the man's life. Why, let him continue 10 live ; I have no objection to it, but he must let- me a lone ,j I have been living with him fur eighteen months, and pa l " him for my maintenance. I owe him nothing. The father—Yes, he owes me rent. The son—l want my boxes. I will have .n o thing more et do with you. The father—You can have the boxes by paying the reik Mr. GuEnxwoop put an end to this disgraceAd scene uY ordering the defendant to find t wo sure ti es i n 50 1 . to k ee p the peace, which not being forthcoming, he was locked up. A DYERTISENIENT.—A (lAN'S HAND SMASHED ifr MACHINERY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT A ND PlLLS.—James Watkin, an engineer, residing in Ctotl e :. street, Borough, had his hand and wrist broken by steam-engine, was eight months at the hospital, wher°, they proposed t o amputate i t, wh i ch the patient wo ol(' not submit to. Several pieces of bone came away. b e.. sides the f orma ti on of t h ree a b scesses on the b ack o f the hand. The wrist was perfectly useless, as likewise th e elbow joint, which had become quite contracted. I n this deplorable state he commenced the use of these e% traordinary medicines, which effected a perfect cure 111 about nine weeks. Sold at Professor Holloway's Esta; blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be br gratis), and by almost all ven d ors o f me di c i ne throng"- out the civilised world. rd NEWLY IN VENTED S PECTACLES Deafness Rel:uel . - Telescopes, Opera Glasses, &c., 39, Albemarle-street,rie cadilly. Deafness Acoustic Instruments—lnvisible Voi ee t Conductors when fixed in the cavity of the ears are n° perceptible, they enable individuals at an advanced Of.: and of forty and fifty years' st an di ng , o f ex t reme deaf •' instantly to join in g enera l conversat i on , a nd ',, " catch the sound of a distant l ow s p ea k er a t c hurch' theatre, &e.—lt pours the conversation into the ears t°, such an extent that in mo s t severe cases d ea f ness c anno t be observed. Also ori g i na l E ar C ornets , T r ench German, and Spanish Artificial Ears and Improved her e in g Trumpets of e v e r y d escr i pt i on . Immediately t he Newly Invented Sp ectac l es are p l ace d b e f ore imperfeee vision that mist and dullness which appear before 0. , eyes is removed, ever y o bj ect b ecomes c l ear an d di s tin so that the most a g ed d e f ec ti ve s i g ht b ecomes b r i g ht an. brilliant, and i s b roug ht t o it s yout hf u l , natura l , an d nr i c i Oinal state. Also Achromati c W a i s t coa t T e l esc opes Li ll e pera Glasses. Every ki n d o f T e l esco p es o f l arg er sl i d with increasing powers, for Shooting, Sea purposes, ae upon stand for astronomical o b serva ti ons , w i t h th e eel e: brated Lenses. of the most clear, transparent brilliancij the powers are so great and the Lenses so bright al l a brilliant, that minute obje c t s at an ex t raor di nar y distare: are brought completely under the eyes.—Sportsmen, rists, and sea-side visitors will indeed have a great tre a d Caution.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians aef Aurists, are not in any way connected with a person ; c the same name in their immediat e ne i g hb our h oo d ; s be in any part of the country. T o p reven t m i s t a kes , e , cautious, and observe,—Only to b e had at 39, Albenou r ' street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. BIRTHS On the 2dinst., at Linton-place, Countess Cornwallis, of daughter. (11 Or the 27th of J H the wit' , - A' Dr. Duke .., , n the 27th of (une, at _astings, the wife o. )r. ..- a son. lOle' f° On the 28th ult., at Fitzroy-square, Mrs. Henry S a (laughter. 14 On the Ist inst., at Wennington Hall, Lancashire, th e of W. A. F. Saundrrs, Esq., of a daughter. laal of On the 2d inst., at Langley Lodge, Lewisham, the the Rev. S. E. Forster, if a son. f On the 4th inst., at Carlton-villas, Maids-vale, the ladf ° I. M. de Leon, Esq., of a son. of On the 3d inst., in Friday-street, Mrs. Frederick SI„Iv, a daughter. ,5. On the 2d inst., at Grove-place, North Brixton, M il ' James Fletcher of a son. gobe r On the 4th inst., at Norwood-hill, Surrey, Mrs. Wrench, of a son. __.-----" MARRIED. On the 18th ult., at St. Pancras Church, John N„°..`vet eldest son of John Willing Warren, Esq., of the ,u' n - r ge Kentish-town, to %ilia Rosalia, youngest daughter of ye" Houghton, Esq., of Kntish-town. Jay ° On the 2d inst., at Christ Church, Marylebon e, Radford, Esq., to Chary tte Ella, youugest daughter o' late R. Richards, Esq. DI Early this morning, at his resi ED. dence, Blackheath Cartbin Henry Sturrock, aged 71. • 1c oe' On the sth ult , at Cobourg, Upper Canada, Fred eric cond son of J. Hodgson, of Kennington. ;flog On the 24th ult., at Marseilles, John, the eldest eu r " son of John Montgomery, Esq., Benvarden,, I r eland. j oad On the 29th ult., at the ottage, Croydon, Dfr* Wright, surveyor, aged 85 Pj c ir London: Printed and Published by MURDO - /- 0 f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , ,, u nt/ strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the vs' Bilddleux, Saturday, July 6, 1844. 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