The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 10. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'Clock. _ . _ Several petitions relating to private Bills were pre.. rented. Lord CLIVE presented a petition from Shrews bury against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. _ . - - - _ - - Capt. PECHELL inquired of the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman opposite if he had learned anything re specting an outrage whip had been committed at Brighton on the 31st of January last, by some soldiers, whereby considerable property was destroyed, which the town had to make good ;and if so, whether any steps would be taken to prevent the recurrence of such disorders. Sir H. HARDINGE said he had received no ac count of the matter, but that he would make it a point to institute inquiries respecting it. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that on Friday next, upon going into supply, he would move an amendment, that the consideration of the esti mates be postponed. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he would move, on Monday next, that the evidence obtained last ses sion respecting the customs frauds should be laid before the House. The Hon. Gentleman also gave notice of a motion, to the effect that the surplus revenue be applied to the reduction of the taxation which presses most upon the working classes. COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS. Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE inquired of the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Wallace), whether he pur posed persevering with his motion with respect to the not placing upon the Committee directors of railways and leading shareholders. Mr. WALLACE said the course he intended to pursue was, to move an instruction to the Committee, which instruction he should put on the paper for to night, declaring the principle which, in his judgment, ought to govern the House in this matter. Mr. GLADSTONE said, under these circum stances he should move the appointment of the Com mittee. The SPEAKER having read the names of the gentlemen to serve on the Committee, Captain PECHELL said, that he had received in structions from his constituents, to oppose the ap pointment of directors on railways to serve on the Committee. After a short discussion the motion was put, and the Committee was appointed. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. The Metropolitan Improvements Bill went through Committee. TRADE WITH CHINA. Sir G. STAUNTON said he had intended to put his question relating to their commercial relations with China on Monday, but understanding that it would be equally convenient to the Noble Lord the Secre tary for the Colonies to answer it immediately, he would put it now. He begged to inquire whether British subjects, acting in contravention of the spirit, if not the letter, of our recent commercial treaties with China, by endeavours to introduce into that country the prohibited article of opium, are to be considered to forfeit, by such acts, the aid and protection of the British Crown ' • and if so, whether, in addition to such forfeiture of British aid and pro tection, they will be liable to specific pains and penal ties under British laws, or to any direct interference and obstruction on the part of the British authorities in China :—also, whether the article of opium will be allowed to be landed and warehoused at Hong- Kong for the purpose of re-exportation into China. He had been induced to put this question by the request of several merchants in the City connected with the China trade. Much difficulty and misunderstand ing would be prevented if it was in the power of her Majesty's Government to state in answer what was the course intended to be pursued with respect to the opiu m trade with China, and also the nature of their commercial regulations generally. Lord STANLEY said the question put by the Hon. Gentleman was one of great importance, and he should have no hesitation in giving him, if not the details, at least the principle by which her Majesty's Government intended to be guided. The Honourable Gentleman would agree with him that the suppression of the opium trade by forcible measures, considering the determination on the part of the people of China to consume that drug, and on the part of the principal officers of the Chinese Government to connive at its introduction, was hopeless, and he thought the Hon. Gentleman would agree with him also, that it was an object of considerable importance to induce the Chinese Government, if possible, to consent to its introduction, and to legalise the trade, by imposing such an amount of duty on it. That was the object Sir Henry Pottinger attempted to bring about, with what degree of success he had not been able to ascertain. If it was impossible to prevent the introduction of opium into China, it would also be impossible to prevent its introduction into the island of Hong-Kong; but ,it was important to secure a legal trade in that island ; and as they were determined to act with good faith towards the Chinese Government in all the regula tions, the most stringent instructions had been given that nu encouragement whatever, and such discour agement as they possibly could, should be given to any smuggling trade between the island of Jiong-Kong and the coast of China. Of course they could not interfere with the Chinese police, but the merchants had been warned that if they chose to violate the laws of China, either by the introduction , of prohibited goods into a legalised port, or the intro duction of any goods whatever into ports not legalised, they were not to expect the protection of the British Government, but must be exposed to the penalties inflicted by the laws of China. with regard to the introduction of opium into Hong- Kong, the Government had given discretionary powers both to Sir H. Pottinger, the late Governor, and Mr. Davis, who was appointed to succeed him, and than whom the Government could hardly have se- leoted a gentleman more competent for the situation, both by his intimate knowledge of the subject and his acquaintance with the pecu liarities of the Chinese character. The instructions sent out to the Governor of Hong-Kong were in substance these :—lt was their desire that the island of Hong-Kong should not be made a great nest of smugglers, for the purpose of carrying on an illicit traffic with the coast of China. It was their object that it should become the great mart for the commerce of all nations, and for • the ex tension of a legal commerce with China ; they did not intend to prohibit the introduction of opium into Hong-Kong for the purpose of consump tion. They were of opinion that the imposition of a , moderate duty on importation without a drawback on exportation, -would have the effect of preventing its being imported for the purpose of being exported again. He understood that there was a difference of opinion , amongst the Chinese authorities on this subject, as they thought that the imposition of a duty was giving a kind of sanction to the trade. The Governor had power to act ac cording to his discretion on this point, and might take such means, both for preventing smuggling and promoting the legalised trade, as would satisfy the Chinese Government that this was their only object. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON begged to thank the Noble Lord for the information he had afforded, and to express his gratification at the purport of it. But he was still not without apprehension that the opium trade would be likely to disturb their relations—their amicable relations with China. He should therefore reserve himself for a future consideration of the subject. He thought the appointment of Mr. Davis was one that did honour to her Majesty's Government. THE FISHERIES. CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. Captain PECHELL wished to know from the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade what was the state of our negotiations with France relative to the Fisheries Convention. Mr. GLADSTONE said he had had no communi cation whatever on subject, and no intimation had been made to him of any steps being taken in the matter by the French Government since the last ses sion of Parliament. Captain PECHELL wished to know whether any bye-laws or - regulations had been issued in coxform ity with the Act passed last session. Mr. GLADSTONE said, that certain directions had been issued to the Commissioners of Customs, with the view of carrying out the Convention, but it was not yet found necessary to issue any bye-laws. POOR-LAWS. Sir JAMES GRAHAM slid if the House were disposed, he wou ld no w briefly state the alterations he intende d to Aspropose in the present noor-law --(Hear, hear. i •it seemed, then, to be the disposition of the House t hat i he should proceed, and ref he saw that the and the Honourable°nourabanled for - Finsbury, Member Gallant Members for Brighton were both in the • he would first allude to certain provisions ir p laces, wlicl were in the Bill he intended to introduce the ses sion before last, and which were not to be found in the present Bill. The House would recollect that morethat the two gentlemen to whom he referred, ob j ected particularly to the abolition of the Gilbert unions. He .entertained a strong opinion that they ougnliltonts::. be abolished, but as there was a difference of opinion with regard to the propriety of abolishing them, and the nature of their operations, he was not disposed ~to refuse inquiry on the subject—(Hear, hear)—and h . a did 'not propose to abolish those u nions.—(Hear, heal '6-) But he should be prepared on the part of the G ovei. liment to move, on another occasion, for a Se lect c on , , mittee to inquire into their operation. Having stated tha.: point, he would now proceed to state the materiili alterations in the present Bill as contiadistinguished frorn the former Bill to which he referred. In the first place, he would refer to that portion of the l existing law which had long been a • gy.• • • _•••••• THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBAUARY 12, 1844. mittee. He was sorry the Honourable Member for Finsbury had so misunderstood him as to imagine that a violation of the law and a breach of the peace had been necessary to daraw his attention to this subject. The attention of the Government had not been directed to the subject until after themajesty of justice had been fully vindicated in South Wales. What he had stated was, that he was aware that not only in South Wales and the north of Eng• land, but throughout the country generally, public opinion was very strong on the subject of the bastardy clauses, and that in deference to that opi nion, he had thought it his duty to re-consider the subject. He had not proposed to revert to the ancient law, but to separate the subject of bastardy alto gether from the subject of the poor law—an altera tion in which In thought the House would acquiesce. He had two questions to answer, one from the Hon, Gentleman opposite (Mr. Berkeley), and the other from his Hon. Friend behind him. The former question was, whether parish officers would be justi fied in refusing relief on the ground that no order had been applied for ? Mr. BERKELEY—No. It was, would they re quire women who had bastard children to affiliate those children ? _ _ _ Sir J. GRAHAM said the claims for relief in such case would be decided in exactly the same manner as the claims of widows with children born in wedlock. He thought the answer would be sufficient for his Hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (as we un derstood), namely, whether in the case of illegitimate children a different provision would be made to those children born in wedlock. In answer to his Hon. Friend the Member for the West Riding of York shire, he had to state that the schools would extend over a district of fifteen miles to each school. The Hon. Member for Rochdale had inquired whether, in the present Bill, there would be any alteration in the law of settlement, and he (Sir James Graham) had to state that, since the recent decisions in the Court of Queen's Bench, it had been determined to re-model the law of settlement, and to introduce a separate and distinct measure on the subject. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY begged to express his gra tification at the nature of the measure introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet, which would be a consider able relaxation in the present law—without believing that would entirely satisfy the Hon. Member for Knaresborough (Mr. Ferrand), and others who were strongly opposed to the present law. He thought it would be hailed with great satisfaction, and he hoped a, still further relaxation would be in troduced of that severe provision of the acts which en forced the separation of aged men from their wives. The question was then put from the Chair, and the Bill was introduced and read a first time. _ By yesterday the Times seems to have got aware that it had grasped at a subject too big and hot to handle, at least in the above summary style. Accord ingly it " aggravates its voice, and roars you like any nightingale :"—" As for Lord Clanricarde's pro found surmise, that if not an inquiry into the ' land lord and tenant' question, it ought to be termed one into fixity of tenure,' we acquit Lord Devon of being such a mountebank as to undertake a grave examination into the merit of a thing which, like ' fixity of tenure,' if it have any significa tion at all, must mean unblushing confiscation of every landlord's property, and nothing else in the world. Fixity of tenure must be perpetuity of tenure —that is to say, if a tenant have his occupancy at will, or for a short lease, this new talisman called ' fixity,' is to transform a short term into a long one, and the tenant into the owner of his farm." The Times has evidently become wary of pursuing its slashing style of Tuesday, about " the right to live, original and inalienable, against the right to possess, the creation of conventional society." Every relation between men, excepting cutting each others' throats, is the creation of society. What does the original and inaliernible right to live amount to in the case, for instance, of the savage, who has laid in no store of provisions for the winter ? We remember a description, in one of the recent voyages of Polar discovery, of groups of starving beings gathering round the travellers, who had made a cache of provisions for their winter use. These savages tacitly recognised "the right to possess, the creation," as the civili , ed Times calls it of conventional society,"—even when it was exercised, as in this case, with inevitable inat tention to " the right to live, original and inalien able," in their own persons. Their supplications were mute ; they flitted famishing, but not raging,_ round the food which they might not taste. In a sound system, there is ne opposition between the right to possess, and the right to live. Indeed the former arises from the latter. There would be no living if there was no possession. Life would be reduced to its most precarious and lowest terms. Society has, doubtless, an indefinite right to modify the tenure of possession ; but, in doing so, it must have constant reference to the stability essential to undisturbed pro duction, and to that unbroken confidence in law under which only the means of production will freely distribute themselves. We see what results even from the partial impairing of that confidence in Ireland. We see that the most attractive natural powers of manufacturing production, and great cheapness and command of labour—fail, however, to attract manufac tures to her shores. This is not now the fault of England. All our home and colonial markets —all such channels of commerce as Belgium lost, when she separated from Holland, lie open to the sister country, through the whole extent of the British empire and dependencies. What prevents her profit ing by them ? What prevents her profiting by out lets enviable to half Europe ? What prevents her obtaining capital lavished (lately): on Illinois, or Louisiana, or Mississippi ? Nothing but her state of internal restlessness restlessness, a misfortune, it may be, rather than a crime —but restlessness which, whatever may be the misfortune of its origin, has produced habits which, most assuredly, the true friend of Ireland, while he would remedy all evils which law can remedy, would denounce fearlessly—not less fear lessly than Dr. Doyle denounced them—than Mr. O'Connell has denounced them in former times. Re peal of the union, if attained, or attainable, could remedy the effect of these habits, which, of course, is felt most strongly in Ireland, but has tinctured our operative masses in England too (we refer, amongst others, to the habit of violence in Trades Unions, which actually drives old manufactures out; and, unless curbed, must necessarily discourage the rise of new ones, and which Mr. O'Connell himself has repeatedly stigmatised with the strongest emphasis)—repeal of the union, we say, could remedy the effect of law less habits in no other way than by bringing them (the restraints of English power removed) fairly to a head—curing agrarian and operative disaffec tion to law by letting loose its last extremes— exhibiting, in short, in Ireland, one more popular purgation of blood and 'fire—one more utter demo cratic revolution—to be followed—by the sort of regimen that does follow, when those volcanoes burn out. It is certainly not beyond possibility, that, some time or other, English power may be unable to prevent this Irish internal combustion. And Providence may doubtless, in the end, educe good out of evil. But a wise and far-sighted Government would seek strenu ously to obviate these extremities—not by one inquiry or one measure—but by every measure within its power. We shall revert to some of the suggestions concerning the material condition of Ireland put forth by the Edinburgh Review—by Mr. Wiggins, the land-agent, in a volume just published, and by the author of a pamphlet, entitled " Remarks by a Junior to his Senior." STANDARD.—From the commencement of the state trials in Ireland, it has been our most anxious wish to avoid allusion to them ; but this wish we have not been permitted to indulge. Scarcely a day of the last two months has passed in which we have not been compelled to protect the interests of truth and justice by exposing some direct falsehood or correct ing some miszepresentatioriput forward by those who embrace the party of the traversers. It is a signi ficant circumstance, but dne which ought not to 4, reflect injuriously upon the case of the gentlemen upon their trial—that throughout their professed friends have been the aggressors in this matter. From the party opposed to them in politics, no uncandid censures of their line of defence has been offered ; no captious objections to their evi dence or arguments have pioceeded, though, if we had been disposed to take that course, we surely could not want occasion. The ut most length to which the Conservative press has gone has been to answer falsehood and the perver sion of indifferent facts ; and even to this length we have proceeded with reluctance and pain. Had our adversaries permitted, the process would have gone on in the decent silence out of Court due to the ad:ninistration of justice. We do not pretend that vi e have not formed an opinion upon the case. No man, who has paid the least at tention to what has been passing in Ireland for the that he has not formed an journals themselves, by o las pi t n dear, r, can The honestly Oppositionsay the magnified the importance of t he nrepea l nern w hicha g i tati o n, they ebyy their incessant taunts to manner the Government for so long permitting its continuance, without some attempt to suppress or appease it, have forbidden that any one should be without a formed opinion upon the subject. They were suffi cient prompters of the prosecution if other prompters had been wanting; and it is disgusting to see them now crossing every step of the proceeding which, four months ago, they urged, whether directly or in directly, with such factious violence. Let them say what they may, they are as much responsible for the prosecution as the Ministers by whom it was instituted in their official capacity. The Oppo sition journals, it is true, may have urged the prose cutions in the hope that they might be defeated by dis honest means, and their c on d uc t f o r the last two months has been perfectly consistent with that design ; but they will scarcely avow a scheme so treacherous and disgraceful, and so repugnant to the best interests of the country. The Morning Chronicle of this day has another long article upon the subject of the ten Roman Catholics set aside upon the formation of the jury. It will be remarked that the number of these Roman Catholic gentlemen is now reduced from eleven, the number originally stated, to ten—a circumstance not un worthy of consideration in a question where the perfect knowledge of the religious profession and political opinions of every person upon the panel, assumed to be possessed by the Crown solicitor, is the gravamen of the accusation. Hitherto, it has been alleged that eleven Roman Catholics were set aside, the number is now reduced to ten. There has, therefore, been evidently a mistake as to the religious prOfession of one gentleman, on the part of those who have had their attention earnestly directed to the sub ject for weeks; but the subject of complaint is now reduced to the mistake of the Crown solicitor as to the political connections of two gentlemen, upon 24 hours of inquiry, with little motive to inquire with extraordinary diligence.; , but it will, we sup pose, be admitted, that a gentleman's temporary poli-I tical connexion is a matter less easy to be ascertained than the faith which lig-has professed through life. After many weeks of dose investigation, the com-, plainants have mistaken one Protestant Repealer for a Roman Catholic, doubtless because he is a Repealer. The Crown Solicitor, having twenty-four hours to study the list, mistook two Roman Catholics, who are not Repealers, for members of the Association. Here is the whole of the case. On the whole there is more business doing than for some years past at the same period of the year, and prices, particularly in low goods, are looking up. The ship ping houses still continue busy, and there has been many buyers for the home market in the town during the week ; in consequence a fair amount of goods have been sold in the warehouses. BRADFORD MARKET, FEB. B.—There is nothing new in the piece market since our last. A consider able business is doing, and on all hands higher prices are sought. Yarns continue to meet ready sale, and the spinners are unwilling to take further orders. There is no falling off in the demand for wool, and as the consumption is now considerable, it is not pro bable that any reduction can take place for a long time to come, as the large accumulation in the growers' hands has been brought to the market, and the holders here evince a disposition to seek still higher rates than last week's quotations. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We are all out of joint here, arising out of the advance in cotton in Liverpool ; the prices asking are so various that it would be absurd, or rather impossible, to quote the selling price of any kind of cloth except printing cloths, which are in very great demand, and at prices quite satisfactory to the manufacturers, notwithstand , ing the advance in the staple. The usually large buyers are literally doing little or nothing, and as stocks are now increasing, it will soon be seen whe ther the spinners and manufacturers, or the buyers, will first give way.—Leeds Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE. BAIL COURT, Feb. 10. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Common Jury.) WESTERMAN V. MADDOX. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who had been en. gaged as a flute-player in the Princess's Theatre, against the lessee, for an assault, alleged to have been committed on the 9th of No vember last Mr. Erle, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Pearson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Platt, Queen's Counsel, for the defendant. J. Loder, examined by Mr. Pearson, stated the circumstances of the case. He said in substance that he was the manager of the orchestral department of the theatre. The plaintiff having been dismissed he came to the defendant on the 9th of November to claim money which he said was due to him for a broken flute and extra services!; Mr. Maddox, in the presence of the witness, refused to pay the amount ; words ensued, Mr. Maddox took a stick from the defendant, and on his refusing to leave the room proceeded to turn him out. Cross.examined by Mr. PLATT—The defendant had been guilty of impertinence during his engagement. During the defendant's absence at Paris, an order was obtained by the plaintiff from the Court of Requests, which was reversed on Mr. Maddox's return. Mr. Maddox only used that degree of violence which was neces sary to put the plaintiff out of the room. After the plaintiff was ordered to leave the room, he kept on talking. Charles Henry Fountain examined by Mr. PEARSON—Was under.treasurer of the Princess's Theatre. Was present at the interview between the plaintiff and the defendant on the 9th of November, in Mr. Maddox's private room. His attention was first called to what was passing by observing the defendant take a stick from the plaintiff. The defendant afterwards took hold of him by the collar to turn him out of the room, having previously ordered him to leave it; which the plaintiff refused to do. Mr. Maddox did not shake the plaintiff. Did not hear Mr. Loder remonstrate with Mr. Maddox on his conduct. The latter put the plaintiff's stick in the fire, and part of it was burnt. Cross-examined by Mr. PLATT—When Mr. Maddox rose to take the stick the plaintiff had raised it on the other side of the table, and was near enough to strike him. The plaintiff, on being re. peatedly ordered to leave the room, said he would have his stick. Mr. Maddox had first placed it in a corner of the room. Mr. PLATT addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, con tending that the action had been brought merely for the purpose of getting damages, and that one farthing was what the plaintiff was entitled to receive under the circumstances of the case. He re. marked especially upon the circumstance that the stick had been valued by the plaintiff at 21., as showing the object of the action. In the whole matter, the defendant had shown no desire whatever to commit an assault. The Learned JUDGE, in summing up said, the plaintiff was un doubtedly entitled to the verdict, as the laying on of hands consti tuted an assault. The simple question was what should be the amount, and that must of course be lett to the jury. The Learned Counsel, in opening the case, had mentioned amongst other things, that blows were given, but there was no proof of violence of any kind. Ifa person came to the private room of another, and was impertinent,or remained there longer than was desired, and after being requested to leave would not do so, the party so requesting him might use that degree of violence which was necessary to put him out. Although it did not cover the roasting of the tail end of his stick, it was a justifica tion for turning him out of the room ; and if therefore the jury thought the plaintiff was impertinent, or intruded himself upon the defendant in his private room, after being desired to leave it, that should be taken into account in considering the amount of damages. The jury retired to deliberate, and after being shut up several hours they were discharged by the Judge, there not being the least prospect of coming to an agreement. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-1100SE. Wm. Henry Albert, a German merchant of same re spectability in the City, who resided at No. 40, Wat ling-street, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor, charged with having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 160/., well knowing it to be so, and obtaining a large amount of property under fraudulent pretences. Mr. Wilkinson, solicitor, of Cheapside, conducted the prosecution. Mr. John M'Crae, Manchester warehouseman, of Ave•- Maria-lane, stated that on the 22d of last October, he sold upwards of 601 worth of goods to the prisoner, and in payment was tendered a bill for 160/., which the pri soner said was a genuine German one, and was made payable at one of the first houses in Paris, viz., Bolte and Co., and that it could be easily cashed at any Ger man house in London.. Witness accepted it as payment, and gave him a cheque on Messrs. Grote and Prescott for the balance due to him, after deducting certain in terest. The bill was drawn for three months, and was endorsed by the signature of Messrs. Bolte and Co., Paris, as also the prisoner's. It has been since ascer tained that the former signature is a forgery, as no such house is situated in Paris. Mr. Julius Galghani, German merchant, of City Chambers, deposed that he discounted the above bill, and sent it to Hamburgh, from which place he had re ceived information that it was a forgery, as the name of such a firm as Bolte and Co. is not known in Paris, but at Bremen. He also stated that a short time ago a number of acceptances, -endorsed by that house, were sent to England, and by, some means or other, the whole were lost. Several of them had since been forged and put into circulation, and the one in question was one of them. Mr. Wilkinson was next examined, and said that, when he called upon the prisoner at his office respecting the bill, he remarked that he knew nothing about it, and referred him to his solicitor, Mr. Johnson, in Cecil street, Strand. The prisoner, who,spoke English very imperfectly, observed that he had received the bill, with several others, from a person named Frederick, who stated himself to be a clerk in the house of Bolte and Co., for the purpose of getting them discounted. The LORD MAYOR replied, that it was a very serious case of fraud, and was of much importance to the mer cantile world at large, and for that reason he should re mand him till next Wednesday, so that the proper evi dence might be brought against him.—The prisoner was then removed in custody. Warrants having been placed in the hands of Forres ter, the officer, by the Lord Mayor, for the apprehension of other parties connected with the late forgeries of wills for the transfer of Bank stock, in the course of the week, large placards were extensively circulated throughout the metropolis, offering a reward of 2001. for the apprehension of William Sanders, of Broad street, Bristol, fishmonger, and Lydia Sanders, his wife (otherwise Emma Slack). The bill, after stating that they stand charged with felony, and that war rants have been granted by the Lord Mayor for their apprehension, offers a reward of 200/. for the apprehension of both, or 100 L for either. The following is a description of the parties : William Sanders is a person from 40 to 50 years of age, five feet ten inches in height, rather fresh coloured and large boned. Lydia Sanders, about 40, dark hair and ey es, but has been known to wear light ringlets, fresh com plexion (believed to be from rouge), and subject to gout in the feet and hands. The information forwarded to the police states that the male person formerly resided in Poland-street, and afterwards in Berwick-street, Oxford-street, attending Billingsgate-market, as a fish salesman, in the year 1834, and subsequently. He also ocupied a stall at the Pantheon, in Oxford-street, selling articles of fancy glass and wax figures, at which Lydia Sanders attended. The same stall was subsequently occupied by Georgiana Richards (Mrs. Dorey). The last time both persons were seen was on the 29th of December last, up to which time he carried on the busi ness of a fishmonger, in Broad street, Bristol. From the indefatigable exertions of the officers conducting this case, it is expected that both parties will be in custody at the next examination of the parties already detained On the charge of forgery. GUILDHALL. Mr. Swithin, the Secretary of the United Friends' Benefit Society, held at the Blue Posts, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, was summoned to this court, at the instiga tion of James Rouse, to show cause why he refused him a certain weekly amount out of its funds. Mr. Hunt, the solicitor, attended on the part of the society. The defendant stated that, in the month of November, 1839, he entered the above society, and, after being in it about three years, he became very ill, and was seized with a paralytic stroke, and then was allowed 12s. a week. After the lapse of several weeks; he was visited by a medical man of the society, who certified that he was in a fit state to resume his work, which he did ac cordingly, and also paid up his subscriptions. About a month ago he was again afflicted, and on applying for the usual sum allowed to sick members, he was refused it. Mr. Hunt here inquired of the complainant his age, who replied, fifty-two. He then observed that he ap prehended the case must fall to the ground, as the com plainant had deceived the society to a very great extent as to his real age. One of its rules clearly provides that no person shat ;become a member if his age exceed forty two; now the complainant had imposed upon the society by representing himself to be under that period of life, whereas he was actually forty-seven. Under such cir cumstances he had forfeited all claim on the society. Alderman CHALLIS, after consulting with the clerk, was of the same opinion as Mr. Hunt, and was therefore bound to dismiss the summons. It was a very hard case indeed; still the rule must be enforced, and he trusted that thepresent proceedings would act as acaution to the public CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—THE BARNES SCHOLAR snip.—The new scholarship, instituted by J. Barnes, Esq., of the Middle Temple, in memory of his late brother, Thomas Barnes, M.A., late of Pembroke College, and late editor of the Times, is now before the University for acceptance. The sum invested is 2,0001. in the Three per Cents., which is con vertible to the purposes of the scholarship on the decease of Miss Ann Barnes, his sister, who enjoys the p rocee d s o f th e interest during her life-time. The scholarship is to be tena ble four years : the candidates are to be from Christ's Hos pital, St—Paul'sSchool, and Merchant T a il ors : th e e l ectors will be the Vice-Chancellor and two Professors of the University. ESCAPE OF CONVICTS FROM THE PENITENTIARY. On Saturday morning, between one and two o'clock, seven convicts made their escape, in a skilful manner, from the Penitentiary, Millbank, viz., Peter Shields, a native of Scotland, 18 years of age ; Edward Carden, a Scotchman, 18 years of age ; George M`Niel, Scotch man, of the same age ; Patrick Little, a native of Ire land, 18 years of age ; John Sullivan, also an Irishman, of the same age ; Roger Peers, a native of Liverpool, 17 years of age ; and William Edwards, an Englishman, 18 years of age. The escape is stated to have been ef fected by the convicts gaining the roof of the Pentagon, or corner tower, in which they were confined. and by means of the clothes of their beds knotted together, letting themselves down into the moat which sur rounds the Penitentiary, unseen and unheard by any of the officers. The first intimation they received of the escape was conveyed to them by a policeman of the B division, who was on duty close to the spot, and seeing several men crawling out of the moat, hastened to the entrance of the Penitentiary to give an alarm. Prompt measures were immediately adopted by the go vernor to ascertain which of the prisoners were missing, and on their identity being made certain, a description of their names and persons was forwarded to the police stations, and from thence distributed throughout each division, while several of the wardens were instantly dis patched in pursuit of the runaway convicts. About three o'clock four of the wardens ascertained, through the police, that four men of suspicious appearance had been seen proceeding across the fields between Fulham and Hammersmith, in direction of the Great Western road. The wardens, having a fly with them, in stantly hastened in that direction, and on arriving near the 4r milestone on that road, seeing police-con stable Jones 31 T on duty, they inquired of him if he had seen any persons passing, answering the description of the convicts, when he immediately told them he had only a few minutes before seen four persons, whom he took to be sweeps, go along the road, to whom he wished " Good morning," and was answered by one of them. •The wardens, feeling confident that these were some of the runaway convicts, with the assistance of Jones and another policeman, continued the pursuit, and came up with them at a lane leading into the village of Chiswick, where, surrounding them, they succeeded in re capturing Little, Sullivan, Peers, and Edwards. The convicts were immediately handcuffed and chained together, placed in the fly, and re-conveyed back to their old quarters. Every endeavour was made during the day to trace the other three, and experienced officers were sent to all the Scotch wharfs to search the different vessels, but up to Saturday evening we were unable to learn if they had been recaptured. Shields is described as being about five feet four inches high, and of dark complexion ; M`Neil five feet five inches high, fair and fresh-coloured ; and Carden five feet four inches high, dark hair and sallow complexion. All the convicts were dressed in grey cloth jackets and trowsers, marked in red with the letters " M. P." and wore blue striped shirts, blue stockings, with blue woollen caps. On their clothes were pewter buttons, with a stamped crown, and the words " Millbank Prison." ILLNESS of the KING of SWEDEN. The following are the latest particulars relative to the health of his Majesty, received from Stockholm and Copenhagen. The intelligence is up to the 30th lilt: : STOCKHOLM, JAN. 27.—This day prayers were put 4p in the Palace chapel for his Majesty's recovery. All the Royal Family, the Court, the superior military and civil authorities, and as many of the inhabitants as could find room were present. On the following days there were prayers in the Royal Chapel, and in all the churches of the city, both morning and evening. The following bulletins show that the state of his Majesty's health is more satisfactory : JAN - . 28. it o'cLocK, P.M.—Since the last bulletin his Majesty has slumbered several hours, and, when awake, ap peared more sensible than during the night. The fever con tinues. 7A P.M.—Since one o'clock, his Majesty has had uninter rupted repose and less fever, and been more sensible than in the preceding part of the twenty-four hours. 29th, 7 A.M.—His Majesty's more composed state continued till past 10 o'clock yesterday evening, when increased fever with delirium ensued, and continued with more or less vio lence till 5 o'clock this morning, when his Majesty fell into a quiet slumber, which still continues. 2 o'cLocw, P.M.—His Majesty has had some good sleep since the morning's bulletin, and the fever has abated. 5 O'CLOCK, PAL—His Majesty is now quite sensible, less faint, and almost free from fever. JAN. 30, 7 o'cLocx, A.M.—Yesterday, towards evening his Majesty had more fever, with delirium, but both in a less degree than in the two preceding nights. After midnight he had, with some interruption, refreshing sleep, which still con tinues. 5 O'CLOCK, P.M.—His Majesty awaking at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, was free from fever, and took, with good appe tite, some spoonfuls of broth, but complains this afternoon of being faint, and of severe pains in the right foot. The Queen is said to have nearly fainted several times from grief, on the 28th. The Aftenblad publishes, at a late hour -every evening since the King's illness, a supplement of which thousands are disposed of, and which causes such a crowd in the street, that part of the palace guard is obliged to be called out to pre serve order. On Saturday reports were spread here of the death of the Emperor of Russia, with circumstances which alone are suf ficient to show that they are unworthy of credit. It is reported that an ordnance will be published this even ing relative to the administration of the government during the King's illness. (From the Berlin Gazette.) COPENTIAGEN.—A private letter from Stockholm, of the 30th of January, at three o'clock, P.m., which may be de pended upon, says—" So satisfactory a change in the state of the King's health has taken place since yesterday, that no body has the least doubt that he is now quite out of danger. Though the fever has not quite left him, his Majesty's head is entirely freed, and he has no particular pain. The King himself is to-day fully convinced of his recovery, of which he had so little hope that he took leave of his family." RUSSIAN FRONTIER, JAN. 16.—Letters from Moscow say that a report is spread in that city that Russia intends again to allow the transit of German manufactures, with cer tain restrictions. However improbable this news may be we thought it our duty to mention it, as :one of the letters adds, that the Russian merchants have several times peti tioned the Government to adopt such a measure, because they imagine that it will be the means of animating the trade of Russia with China. DUTCH FUN W.—AMSTERDAM, Fes. 8. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 55 14 Jitto, ditto 5 per cent A inert Syndic,4% per cent 95 95 !Ditto, ditto, ayi per Cent s••••••••••.... Mk • 80% Commercial Company, 4% per cent . ..... 140 142 N Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ...... ..... 99 y i Exchange on London, 0nem0nth......... 12 19 Two months 12 09 Hamburgh, One month 371 143 Two month 37 18% Dutch Papers, Feb. 9. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bitusszte, FEE. 8. Actual Debt, 9% per Cent., 5O Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.... ........ Loan of Thirty Mllions, Four per Cent.... ....... " 99% , _ Three per Cent - ----Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ---- (1840) lO7 Loan of City, 1832, Four per:Cent 102% 1843 10:3% Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 67% I sue of 1841 lO6 National Society — Exchange on London (short) ....... .......". - -Brussels Papers, Feb. 9 AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—Vimisa, FEE. 1. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. lOO% Three per Cents .. 77% Bank Shares _ _ Allgetneine Zeitung, Feb. 5. - -- - PRUSSIAN:FUNDS.--Bentits, Fen. 6. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. ..... ....... 102 101 Prussian English Bonds, 1830, 4 per cent 10171 101 Exchange on London 8 24 Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 5. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Fee. 8. Pills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1065 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO5 Inscription, Ist series lO5 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 99% Ditto in Certificates ...0• New 4 per Cent. (1840) 915 9134 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds —. _ New Tickets — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. B4 R 4 Spanish, New 5 per Cents. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Helena, Lovett, from Singapoie, in the DoWns, sailed Aug. 24, Cape Nov. 30 ; Ganges, Gibson, from Mau ritius, at Gravesend, sailed 14th ; Cingaluse, Hutchinson, from Singapore, sailed Sept. 30, Cape Dec. 17. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Tenplek." Brown, Dec. 10. from Calcutta to London; Favourite, Scid! , den, Dec. 13, from Newcastle. Departures from Table Bay—Lady Flora, Howe, Dec. 8, to Madras ; Cassibelea, Hodson, to Mauritius ; Adelaide, Connell, to Launceston ; Phcenix, 9th, to Algoa Bay ; Comet, 10th, to St. Helena and Rio Timandra, 12th to London ; Gauges, Walker, to Swan River ; Louisa, M'Donald, Rose bud, Munson,and Margaret Drake, all to Natal ; Maid of Athens, to Angra Pequena. Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Rosebud, Dec. 6, from St. Helena - ; Trekboer, 7th, from Table Bay. Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales—Sarah Scott, Black, from Manilla, and was loading for London ; Constant, He mery, from Hobart Town, and was loading for London ; British Sovereign, from the South Seas; Frances, from Port Philip. Wilson, Sept. 24, from Greenock; Ocean Queen, Freeman, from Hobart Town ; Premier, Brownrigg, 22d, from Singapore, and Adelaide Elizabeth, Jones, 28th, from the Island of Were ; Gilmore, Maw, 29th, from Hobart Town New York Packet, Gregory, from South America and Tahiti ; Cressy, Molleson, 30th, from Hobart Town, and sailed, October 1, to Ceylon. Departures from Sydney—Artemis, Sept. 29, to Valpariso ; Alexander, Johnstone, 30th, to Valparaiso ; Water Lilly, Hayle, to Hobart Town._ Ships Loading at Sydney for London—Australasian Packet, Exporter, Fanny, Reflector, Salus, Montezuma, Standerings, Ann Persian, Tyrian. :For Port Philip and London, Jean. For Hong-Kong, Euphrates. Arrival at Swan River—Shepherd,; Oct. 26, from London: Armala, from London, her Majesty's ships fly and Bramble. CHARD.—TIGHT LACING.----011 Saturday se'nnight, a fine blooming girl, aged fourteen, daughter of Mr. Palmer, of the Crown Inn, after running a short distance, complained of a pain in her side, fell down, and died shortly afterwards. A post mortem examination was made by N. W. Spicer, Esq., and it was found that death was caused immediately by the rupture of a blood vessel on the lungs, induced by the exer tion of running, and the pressure of tightly-laced stays.— Somerset County Gazette. CHATSWORTH.—It is a singular fact, that in this era of "fashionable" novels and romances, advantage has never yet been taken of the interest and curiosity that must attach to laying the scene of a work of this description at one or other of the actual localities where " Fashion" chiefly holds her Court ; for instance, Chatsworth—the very Parthenon among the temples of modern Fashion. That the first novel claiming this happy distinction, under the attractive title of " Chatsworth ; or, the Romance of a Week," should be ushered into the world under the auspices of so pop a ul o a r name as that of Mr. Plumer Ward, the accomplished s o u f Tr att e e m n a ti i o n n e ,' ' e to the pretensions of x"cpuseiVveeroef,"t&hec.,gumuarsatncotememtanhadtmforr. Ward's social social and literary . position affords, a distinguished name. any work bearing the sanction of his THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND LORD W. PAGET. (From the Observer.) The following correspondence, relative to the recent action brought by Lord William Paget against the Earl of Cardigan, and the two actions now pending between the Noble Lords, ha s been sent to us for publication:— (No. I.) " 238, Oxford-st., 29th Jan. ' 11844. " My Lonn Duc e, —l address myself to your Grace as Commander-in-Chief and head of the British army, o d d throw myself upon your Grace's well-known love of justice se manly conduct to protect me, by interposing your high mar); rity in the matter between the Ea r l of C ar digan and myseh , by causing a military inquiry' into the truth of the charges which I have brought against his Lordship, and which have led to the following correspondence, and which I have the honour to inclose for your Grace's perusal. My Lord Duke, all I seek is a full, complete, and searching inquiry int° th o e f whole matter- between us : and this, the wealth and power , the Earl of Cardigan enables him to evade by civil proce'ss' My Lord, I have made the same appeal to the Earl of Had ' dington, as ' First Lord of the Admi r alty,' an d have forwar d e d to his Lordship a copy of my letter to your Grace.—l have the honour to remain, my Lord Duke, with the most profound respect, your Grace's most faithful and obedient servant. " WILLIAM PAGET. " P. S.-1 have the honour to transmit your Grace a cog of the letter I have addressed to the Earl of Haddington. " His Grace the Duke of Wellingt o n, K.G., See- A (No. 2.) " L on d on , J anu ary 30, 1 4 " " Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his a% pliments to Captain Lord William Paget. He received 1 . night his Lordship's letter of the 29th inst., and several 10' closures marked No. 1,2, 3,4, 5, relating to, or giving cause for questions between Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Cardigan and Lordship. The copy of the letter to the Earl of Haddingt ° ; referred to by his Lordship, was not sent. • The colestf b l e are all of a social (character, and are properly cogadD ooe by a court of common law ; a n d it a ppears that A r in which the Earl of Cardi gan w as d e f en d an t was al e discussion before a compete n t common -l aw tribunal, but re. record was withdrawn by his L or d s hip' s d e sire. In o e spect to the other of more recent date, in which the E ar __A Cardigan is plaintiff, it appe a r s th a t th e Earl has commer,:i proceedings before the co m p e t en t common -l aw court, st u ' o T t s proceedings must take their cour s e. E ven if Colonel L ef Cardigan, as plaintiff, was to apply for the interference military tribunal in these proceedings, such application co i n not be complied with, as his Lordship, Lord William Paif the defendant in these questions, is not li a ble to them e l t tion. Under these circumstances, Field Marshal the na'',„ of Wellington begs leave to decline interfering in any mans in these questions. " Captain Lord William Paget, R.N., 238, Oxford-street, London." (No. 3.) " 238, Oxford-street, 31st Jams Ig 4 the "My LOAD Duxx ,— I have the honour to acknowledg e osr receipt of your Grace's letter, and will not again trouble Y Grace upon the subject; b u t w hil s t I see in every line ,1 0 , 0 justness of the opinions your G race h as con d esce nded to 5 1 known to me, your Grace will perhap s p erm it me to rerna r t, , that in the case in which the Earl of Cardigan was defends, the record was not withdrawn by my consent (or even "' s , my knowledge), but that in the absence of a material witl, o it became the duty and business of my counsel to withdraw oar to (pro forma), but that his doing so had only referel ar to the impossibility of the cause being tried on that partt eu s e day. I beg your Grace's p a rd on f or thi s f ur th er intrusion , f ' d have the honour to remain, with the most profound respect an gratitude, your Grace's most faithful and obedient servant , r . " WILLIAM POD' " His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., (No. 4.) " 238, Oxford-street, 28th January, 1 40 "MY LORD,--I address myself to your Lordship, a 5,,,„, to Lord of the Admiralty' and 'the ' head of the profeesr,, j o et which I have the honour to belong, and doubt net that " J o ur Lordship has the power to do so, you will afford 1 10 0. powerful protection by ordering an inquiry into all the cl'W stances which have led to a correspondence between the r to of Cardigan and myself, a copy of which I have the b°l o rs inclose you. My Lord, whilst I cannot believe that two ° n ye holding her Majesty's commissions can ever be permitted to !„,e into a correspondence conveying such grave charges as w(ss ' which characterise the letters in question with impuni t ,Yi t is regards the professions to which they respectively belongP A in ' equally clear to me that the wealth, and power, and no,r•i hs t fiuence of the Earl of Cardigan are su ffi cient (or, at lest., to ' it has been so "up to the present moment), to enable rili; 4 „ evade by' civil process' the consequence of his misc o tter My Lord, I have the honour to enclose you the copy !IL!' ; t ore I have this day addressed to his Grace the Duke of We'"?,,„ t he upon the same subject, and I entreat your Lordship tolls_, a ,r matter to which I have called your attention your most r i ", -- the consideration.—l have the honour to he, my Lord, 1 1'1 g od ' most profound respect, your Lordship's very_ faith, n ft lre. ' obedient servant. " WILLIAM P. l "'" " To the Earl of Haddinglon, &re, &c., &c. 18 44 (No. 5.) Admiralty, 7th Feb. „inn " M r Loan,--I have turned my attention to your Lord s -- ' ,d letter, and to the copies enclosed therein, of the corr eg re - hiP ence relative to the questions pending between your I ' o the and the Earl of Cardigan , and of your letter to his G r 7 o ear Commander. in- Chief. The whole have been read by th e cu r ' hers of this Board, and, after mature deliberation, we CO it is thinking that, as an action is in dependence in tfiis ca'' If see one in which it would not become us to interfere• i , s o thought otherwise, the circumstance that Lord Card,ig au s ible, officer in the army would render our interposition oc d P ers omo without the concurrence of the Horse Guards. I °n ne e that the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief is in a o- bar , of with that I have just stated as the opinion of the tne i the Board of Admiralty.—l have the honour to be, MY - your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, ...of. " HA DDING s "Captain the Lord William Paget, R.N." R. 9 i 844 (No. 6.) " 238, Oxfo r d- s treet, Jan. -- l o ttsc "Mv LORD,—On the 22d December last I addressed s OO ot ! to your Lordship, and which (writhing under a succ e l mo do injuries which I felt I h a d rece i ve d at your Lordship I had determined t o g i ve every pu bli c i ty t o ; but th e c u c...,:ng stance of your Lordship m aki ng k nown . through the colo f oo the high authority of the Times newspaper,' that so f t„,ised having been privy to the absconding of Winter, you r o - s gbt the most searching inquiry into the whole charge I had ureuoat ' against you, and was prepared to show it was altogether In re . foundation, and that it was your intention to take 1 4 41 ceedings against me on account of the letter in question, ' to t that it would be most improper to carry my intentions 01 ,4,1 respect any further, and I instantly supp re ssed every m --1 7,sr had adopted for the circulation of it, in the. full belief that r o t Lordship really intended to take such legal proceedings sg si t se me as could not fail to lead to a searching inquiry in how , whole of the charge I bad brought against you. I tied , ' vet t ever, that an attempt is being made by your Lordship t?, :s t st the possibility (30 far as you can) of the truth being eli d c' ine ore all, by your taking steps, which (however offensive , veuient they may be to me) cannot fail to leave the rea tion at issue between us a matter of doubt and uneerrsi.."li's;t and this you have done by bringing an action a des me in the Court of Exchequer for pecuniary criieel, (laying them at five thousand pounds) for an a llege i a eao to instead of applying to the Court of Queen's Bench fer., 0 0 ° , file a criminal information against me. In the ell" ic e) , which you have instituted against me, your Lordshiee;ried; aware that neither your Lordship nor myself can be ° br ough t) and the simple question (in the shae the action 's resolves itself into libel or no libel. ' Why, MY L°r es schoolboy would in all probability sa y, w ith ou t a morne.' l e i • ; but tation, that the letter to you r L or d s hi p i s , per se, a l ob e on' had your Lordship t a k en th e et h er cours e has' oath tioned, your Lordship must have deposed °n o guilt! (' not upon your h onour ') w h e th er you had bee o r of the crimes imput e d t o y our Lordship or is th; r - E the same rule, and of course with the same view, me P r i to ' ceedings your Lordship has adopted, you are de " 55h0 ! the opportunity and advantage of stating the fec- c 'houenge'e. am ready to make oath. My Lord, I invite, I re dare you, to subject yourself to this ordeal. If you ll a otg oe c e e s : cent, why shrink from it, when, under such eirc uilt y, 01 , every conscientious man would believe you ?—if g a nd 3 ' al e my Lord, can you reconcile to yourself, as a eaan„d, / b ir d dice, to have treated me as you have done? My L' e ' cen teo e ' vre always known and felt the fearful odds h ay n e d with in encountering the wealth and rank Y - 00 of your Lordship, and of the host of furious partn let and Ladies,' by whom you are supported ; bu es lOV' tide tell your Lordship, that in the matter between s gsee" - ...- past for any such interests to avail with you Or a ll th is ri There is a power and an influence greater the ° { s e co o t , eratio _ public opinion ;' and that I have the commis orso ade° i „,.. honest man and every virtuous woman I sun fully P ivero ug , s and that too amongst a class of life much more n ° b a t is p ° a pti finitely more moral and intelligent, though somew th vou so rank' below the order' to which, my Lerd, 40ite tea I belong, and where such matters are not viewcei, the lightly as in the fashionable world.' My L°r I :ehif' of the world are upon you, and upon me i „ r Lor so d the attention of the British army, in which Y°'' s you , re .. holds so distinguished a rank, is especially fixed , ° „,P ° , ow° t r ,ica I flatter myself, that not a few of the officers °' pd fession are equally alive to the unprecedented emutrasna tows assa two o ffi cers, holding her Majesty's commission,e o ot rj , each other, in the persons of your Lordship •L a " our which may not long remain so. My Lord, efi"!: cot omi - tick ship or myself, are unworthy to hold her Majesty mo re o f ja w Your Lordship (and you alone) has the power, t° l and ' in ter of us is guilty, and 'which is not, in this laluTi o enc ° ,l a ef you to do so. , Audl declare that you are afrai d ou t oo., 0 3 the -examination y ou would have to undergoto suc h (nurse by whikh you would subject yourse lf 1%)1$ appeal to, and test of; your Lordship's veracityl r oe •„ r the My Lord; I repeat, you have put dishonour on to he* late e• • have made it impossible for my children ever aF i a ss e of se name of their unfortunate mother without aL: s of hu mid (re nor the.:....... natrie of Cardigan without feeling s to p tiriand lorrow. 'And lam prepared to sh°l' yof dliote rs - Lordillip will ' give me the opportuL neo of, , that!he charge I have made as regards the an - sta tee,bies and the‘ - Cause of it it not, as your Lordship av ow . Lem' ett ef gether without foundation ;' and yet neith A eq e, 0 0 10 s nor Messrs. Powell, Broderip, and w° paid s oft have seen Winter or spoken to him , ° te d the tr - t __„ her/ farthing. In doing all this , you have consnlit ger to su' ou th B social and moral offence which one man can °, do Y f rom and in the vain hope in the first instance (for s es tate ~0 0 -justice to believe so) of saving the unfortunatellod her, l o p the degradation and ) ruin in which you have /°_ vu the r e c r i o• have persisted, and still persist, in refusing er'''„, j es sty , per' which is always accorded between man and nr t ' erni itie ; ho tel Be assured, my Lord, it is in vain that you sist in this course. Of your guilt I cannot of doubt ; and justice you must and shall ou A ci ET: ' later. P;' - " WILLIAM _ The Earl of Cardigan. lob u e a r . ; er in t sef,b,',, o r a ( BIRTHS. --- o f • , o t f t o b r e On the 7th of December, 1843, at .Agra , s floe th Thornton, Esq., Secretary to Governmen t provinces of Bengal, of a son. T,,,eabe ' the co West, e— ee' On the Bth inst., at Walcet-p a of M. French Wagstaffe, Esq., of a ir On the Bth inst., at the Rectory esone a th e Essex, the lady of Henry Wood, Esq., 'dauge"htLe riegelloewbsy i ri Engineers, of a daughter. gem' ° II ' 0, d, inst., st O ua n d t , h o e f 9 a th son C el° . at Chester-sq u are, the Kiw ' s -roe , )00 , 11-acl it3re ' M O rs n . Edward the j i e n nk st. yn , ;t , o P f a ar d k a - u co g t h t t a e g r e . , On the 9th inst., in Bedford-place, r"" 'fe of 0. the su eas e Marcus Martin, of a son. p_ace, „ _ h oe o t Ed wor d FutVoYee , 001 T.Oinhothmet6ontl:Einsscit.„, ofatmUarspfieeridlypolbacuerniilogan ,J,0101.4 B e O df n or tl d- e r 6 t h ow , o i f n a s t daught er. 3fbins. MARRIED. St. P eter :uh ter On the 20th of December, 1843, at lab i4 8 1 0 tp lo t m ain bo B , C c r . a s b . b , e o , f E n sq ac ., k t n o ey E , l L le o n n , d e o l n d . cst DIED. d of C ° at s the w l s i l : sta _A 29 0: On the 10th of December, 1843, Bo o m n ba th y e , 11 6 I t r h . iLnsetw.:.satActrilddreßwrCornollpettollt, f 7 sf e ril d .. ag vlv. u eugitgd a te, On the 6th inst., Charles Mitchell, ,_n;sh.sci On the 7th inst.. in Chandos-street , - ; , E r Dampier, relict of Thomas, late Lord B c t e ano,l,',; ise cote r pla On the Bth inst., at Rodney-terra A t s ' wane° yois Stephens, accountant to the Guardian , ea „ Tom ah, On the 9th inst., at Walworth, Low le Sher , o daughter of Deputy Commissary - Genera l DO YO ill th London : Printed and Published by NM° 112, St ran d ' No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, - • ,9_ County of Middlesex, Monday, Februarf subject of much controversy, and which had excited warm feelings throughout England and Wales. He alluded to the bastardy law.—(Hear, hear.) Great dissatisfaction had been experienced with the operation of that part of the law as it stood at present in Wales and in the North of England. In the Bill of 1834, as it passed that House, the power of making an or der for relief in cases of bastardy, was absolutely put an end to. It was supposed that such a principle would operate as a restraint upon the female, and be conducive to chastity, and greatly diminish the number of illegitimate children. Much discus sion took place in the other House of Parliament on the effect of this principle, and a power was given to the magistrates in petty sessions to make an order upon the oath of the female. But then a necessity was imposed for testimony corroborative of the oath of the mother herself. So the law stood till the year 1839, when it was thought unfair that' the whole burden of proof should be thrown upon the female, and the public feeling entirely coincided with that provision introduced in the Act of 1839. He proposed essentially to modify the provisions of 1834, and of restoring to magistrates assembled in special sessions the power of making an order. He would now allow to magistrates assembled in petty session and in quarter session the power of making orders in cases of bastardy, where corroborative evidence could be given; this was a very great change. It was introduced in analogy to the law of Scotland, and he was sure it would relieve the law from a great deal of odium which now attached to it. This was one of the most important alterations in the law, for there was a very urgent cry for the necessity of some change in this respect. From information which he had received, he knew that the pressure of the law as it stood at present was severely , felt in South Wales. He pro posed to place the mother of a bastard in the position of a destitute female. He proposed that, as be tween the mother and the putative father there should be a short summary process before two magistrates, by which upon application made within a certain time after the birth of the child, they could make an order for some maintlnance as against the father. He proposed that application should he made within forty days of the birth, and he pro posed that thirteen should be the age up to which they should be supported, as that was the line drawn in the Factory Bill between children and young persons, and he proposed that the order against the father of the bastard child should be not only against the goods of the father, but against his person —(Hear, hear).—as was the case before the Act of 1834. Mr. HAWES asked how was the bastardy to be proved ? Sir J. GRAHAM said by the oath of the mother, corroborative evidence being given. This, as he said be fore, was the most important provision of the Bill, and he hoped it would be satisfactory to the public feeling He now came to another important part of the sub ject. He was sorry to say that in large towns a great hardship was experienced in consequence of there being no place of refuge for destitute per sons. They were at present obliged to shelter themselves under walls and porticos, where they were exposed to the extremes ©f want and hard ship, which was hardly consistent with the safety of their lives.—(Hear, hear.) It would be necessary, therefore, to introduce some provision to remedy this.—(Hear, hear.) The House would remember that, on a former occasion, he had proposed that children brought up in workhouses should have a distinct school in the metropolitan dis tricts, and in large towns. In the present Bill he proposed that there should be distinct asylums, which should be open one night in every week for the reception of destitute persons. These asylums were to be maintained at the common cost of the districts. The destitute per sons were to receive food night and morning, th only condition being that they should work fo four hours. He was sorry that he had no momoraiida about him, or he would have en tered more fully into the provisions of the Bill. This, however, was a brief outline of the mea sure, which would be discussed out of doors, which would enable the House, at a future period of the session, to mature the measure. At present he con fined himself to moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Poor-law. Captain PECHELL said that in common with the Right Hon. Baronet he was deprived of the use of any documents on the subject in consequence of the unexpected proceeding with the question this even ing. The Right Hon. Baronet's notice of not inter fering with the incorporations under Gilbert's Act, drew from him the expression of thanks to the Right Hon. Baronet. The Right. Hon. Gentleman did not mean, he supposed, to abolish the Gilbert unions, if the Select Committee should not make any suggestion to that effect. He only regretted that the Right Hon. Gentleman had not, two sessions back, agreed to the appointment of such a Com mittee. With respect to the clause in the former Bill, relative to plurality of voting, he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would abolish that system altogether. He hoped they had now turned over a new leaf, and as the Right Honourable Baronet had announced many concessions, he trusted when the time had arrived for showing how relief had been admi nistered under the Gilbert's Unions Act, he would find the guardians had done their duty, notwith standing the great prejudices and difficulties they had had to encounter. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that, having twice moved the House to inquire into the operation of the Gilbert Unions Act previous to any amendments being made in the Poor-law Act, it was with great satisfaction he heard the Right Hon. Baronet say it was his intention to propose the appointment of such a Committee as he (Mr. T. Duncombe) had moved for two or three years ago ; all they asked was to be allowed to prove that their system was more satisfactory to the rate-payers, and mote humane to the poor than the system pursued under the new poor-law. If upon such an inquiry they could be satisfied that the new poor-law system was superior to theirs, they were ready, as they had for merly stated, to abandon their own system and adopt the other ; but if, on the other hand, they should prove thitt their system was more satisfactory to the ratepayers, and more humane to the poor, he hoped they would not then, for an instant, think of interfering with their present state, or with the present law. He was quite certain that nothing would render the part of the country governed under Gilberes Act satisfied with the new poor-law, so much as the sort of relaxation proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet. Ile thought the alteration in the bastardy clauses were very valuable. But he was sorry to hear the Right Hon. Baronet say that insurrection had been necessary to draw the attention of the Government to this subject.—(Signs of dissent from Sir J. Graham.) He had understood the Right Hon. Baronet to say, that the recent occurrences in 'Wales had induced him to reconsider the subject.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the alterations proposed with regard to the relief of the destitute poor would be of great advantage, and would be well received.—(Cheers.) lie hoped, however, that the four hours' labour would not be rigidly exacted from those destitute persons, as many of them were aged, infirm, decrepid, and sick. He would not, however, now discuss the question. The modifications, as far as they had been stated, would prove acceptable to the public ; but he wished to see an end put to the system of plurality of votes, and to that of voting by proxy.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. EVELYN DENISON thanked the Right Hon. Gentlemen for the alterations he proposed to introduce into the present system, which he thought would meet the approval of his constituents, and make the law work much better. He wished to be informed more particularly as to the provisions of the clause providing for the education of the children in union workhouses. Sir WALTER JAMES thanked the Right Hon; Gentleman for the alteration he had made. He (Sir W. James) objected, however, to the principle of the poor-law, as tending to undermine the foundation of human society, by depriving the poor man of his home. He wished to know if it was intended to inter fere with the local acts. Mr. FERRAND regretted that he was absent from the House during the time the Right Hon. Baronet was making his statement. He was glad to hear his Hon. Friend say that the people of the West Riding would be satisfied with the alteration pro posed; but he feared that they would not go far enough. He would postpone putting the question to the Right Hon. Baronet, of which he had given notice, until Monday. Mr. S. DAVIS said a few words, which were in audible in the gallery. Mr. C. BERKELEY wished to know, with re spect to the bastardy clause, whether, if a mother re fused to affiliate a bastard child, the parish had any authority to compel her to do so ? Mr. S. CRAWFORD hoped that some alteration would be proposed with regard to settlements in Irish unions. Oases had occurred in which persons had been removed to Ireland from parts of the country in which they had resided for many years. This was very.oppressive. Sir JAMES GRAHAM would answer the !Ines tions which had been put to him as succinctly as he could. With regard to local acts, he was sorry to say that he did not in tend to propose any alteration in the existing law—(Rear, hear)—inasmuch as the present law had been confirmed by the decision of competent judicial tribunals. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman seemed to imagine that when the Report of the Committee should be made, the Government would be precluded from opposing, the adoption of any of its recommenda tions. He wished that the Committee should befairly formed, and that the inquiry should be fully entered into. He felt a confident anticipation as to what would be the recommendations of the Committee ; but he would not pledge the Government to adopt, on its own responsibility, any recommendation of the Com- OFrENCES ON THE HIGH SEAS. • Sir J. GRAHAM said, as the House had been kind enough to allow him to introduce the Bill, he would still further trespass on their kindness, by asking them for leave to introduce another, which stood. next on the paper. It was a Bill for securing the more speedy trial of criminals charged with of fences on the high: seas. All these offences were now tried at the Central Criminal Court ; the consequence of this was, that on the arrival of vessels at the out-ports, . the depositions were taken there and then • sent up to London ; witnesses were also obliged to be brought up to the Central Criminal Court at a great expense and inconvenience. By this Bill he proposed, in the commissions of oyer and ter. miner, to give to her Majesty's Judges of assize the power of trying these offences. Captain PECHELL thought the only objection to the Bill was likely to be made by the country gentle men on the ground of expense. Sir J. GRAHAM said he intended that the pro secutions should be conducted as heretofore, at the public expense. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. PRISON DISCIPLINE. Mr.T. DUNCOMBE asked the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department, whether he intended to bring in any Bill this session for the better regulation of the discipline of prisons? Sir J. GRAHAM said that he could not give a positive answer to the Hon. Gentleman; at the same time he should be sorry to say that no measure on that subject would be introduced during the pre sent session. POOR-LAWS. Sir J. GRAHAM thenbrought in the Bill for the amendment of the Poor-law Act, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight. The RIGHT HON. BARONET also brought in the Offences at Sea Trial Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Mon day next. TITHES. _ Captain PECHELL asked if any Bill would be brought in this session for preventing suits for tithes being carried into the Ecclesiastical Courts ? Sir J. GRAHAM had to state, in answer to the question, that the Lord Chancellor on Monday , would introduce a Bill on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Courts in the other House. STATE OF IRELAND. _ _ Mr. ESCOTT begged to ask the Noble Lord, the Member for London, whether he intended to bring on, on Tuesday, the motion of which he had given notice, relating to Ireland P—the trials not hay : ill yet concluded, or at least no intelligence of their being concluded having yet been received. Lord J. RUSSELL, quite concurring in the pro priety of not having any debates in that House which might influence the verdict of the jury, still did not think it necessary that they should know the result of the trials before they discussed the affairs of Ireland. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it was very important that the Attorney-General of Ireland should be present during the debate, and it was impossible that the Hon. and Learned Gentle man could be in his place on Tuesday. He did not wish this to influence what the Noble Lord might think his public duty, but he trusted he would not think it unreasaonble if he asked the Noble Lord to state what would be the pre cise terms and words of his motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should certainly lament the absence of the At torney-General, but he did not think that cir cumstance ought to induce him to defer for forty: eight hours the motion for which he now had pre cedence. With regard to the actual form of the motion, it would contain nothing more than what he had already stated, that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House on the affairs of Ireland. If the Government thought proper to agree to this motion—(A laugh) —or, if it should be agreed to by the House, he should move a series of resolutions, some of' which would strongly inculpate the conduct of the present Government. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said if the House should determine to go into a Committee of the whole House, it would certainly not be his duty, as a Mi nister of the Crown—(A laugh)—to oppose the reso lutions of the Noble Lord. The House then Adjourned. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—We know not whether Lord Devon's imperturbable negative on _all. remarks hazarded in the Lords on the Irish Land Inquiry is to be taken as equally pregnant with wise meaning as Lord Burleigh's shake of the head; but that the Noble and Learned Lord is wise in saying nothing of his Usk at present is evident enough. For our own part, though the language of doubt is injurious to the prestige of newspaper infallibility, we had rather say frankly that we do not quite know yet what to think •about this Commission, than come out so strong as our formidable Contemporary the Times did the other day—only to draw our horns in again. The first and second articles of the . Times have been in curious and amusing contrast. The following was the " thunder" of the Times in the first of these articles :—" Here is the case Lord Devon has to deal with :—The peasant population of Ireland are in pressing want of land to raise food for their families. The immediate possession of every given five acres out of lease is essential to, perhaps, each one of some twenty individuals, having wives and children. They bid against each other, without exactly calculating the produce of the land; they have a right to do so— a legal right. The landlord accepts the highest offer, which also, without professedly calculating the acreable value he has an undoubted right to do. We . say nothing of the moral right of either party—of the tenant to offer more than the land will pay, or of the landlord to accept it. But: if we must give an opinion on the subject, beyond all question it is as dishonest in the tenant to offer, as it is in the landlord to let the farm for, a higher rent than can be fairly made of it. But the differ ence is this :—The tenant is compelled by the iron hand of, htmger—tin excuse assuredly for deeper crimes than an untenable promise under pinching want ; whereas the landlord is not forced by famine, and is not to be excused by purblind cupidity, for demanding a rent which the most indus trious occupier could not pay—for which no solvent tenant, and none but a perishing despe rado, would have the face to pledge himself. What then happens ? The rents are not paid—eject ments are executed—the defaulting tenants are ousted, the incomers murdered in their beds. Is not this a true picture? Is anything exaggerated ? And must the reality last for ever ? . This is what Lord Devon has to deal with. Property is already out- raged ; living men are sacrificed to the name of pro perty ; yet there comes in a vociferating lawyer— 'Oh ! take care you don't touch the right of pro perty;' hold sacred every blood-stained clod; let peasants by hundreds gasp in their own gore; let them, Lord Devon, manure the wasted soil with their bodies, but, above all things, protect the full purse —prey upon the empty stomach." STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 9.—There has been a considerable amount of business done in foreign wools this week, and prices generally may be quoted a shade higher. This may perhaps be attri buted in part to the advance realised at the London wool sales just terminated. ENGLISU WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 9.—The sales of combing wools have continued brisk this week ; and prices continue to have an upward ten dency. Clothing wools sell more freely than of late, at a further advance on last week's prices ; but neither of them are equal to the quotations asked by the growers in the country. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FED. 9.—Although this week's transactions in combing wools have scarcely been so extensive as the last—yet they have exceeded the arrivals, and prices may be quoted a shade higher. Low clothing wools are in brisk demand at advanced rates. _ _ LEEDS.—The princip a l articles in demand at our cloth halls still continue to be for tweeds and cloths of low qualities, which have been bought pretty freely this week, and in middle qualities there has also been a little more done than for some time past. •-: -%--.b .- I i Lill i n Nqly , s NI, t 0 1/IAI qat dur k fition tOUntie; I t n?, a, nt , e at has 134 .1 ly th