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PHUT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. /ROE THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—lnstinctively shrinking from the discussion of Mr. Ross's motion on Mr. O'Driscoll's re-appoint ment to the Irish magistracy, the favourable moment for shirking the question was seized while Mr. Hume was speaking. A number of the Opposition Members had left the House. The well-known signal was given. The well-trained hacks of Government, who walk in and walk out of the House as they receive the cue from their trainers, bolted out. The Speaker's attention was directed to the fact that there were not forty Members present. The mace was taken from the table ; the Speaker left the chair ; and the House adjourned at a quarter before eight. The ruse will not, however, effect its object. The sub ject of Mr. O'Driscoll's restoration to the commission of the peace in Ireland involves considerations too important, in the present excited state of public feeling in that country, to be allowed to pass away without a searching inquiry into the facts of the case. It must be seen whether even the disposition which the House of Commons has shown to treat with indifference the high-handed policy of Ministers, in everything which pertains to Ireland, will induce it to sustain them in the monstrous perversion of the prerogative in favour of a political partisan. The cir cumstance of a single re-appointment to the magistracy, in the person of Mr. O'Driscoll, whose delinquencies had induced the Lord Chancellor to remove him from the commission, may net be, in itself, a matter of mo ment ; but it becomes of importance when regarded as an indication of the spirit in which the Government deals with the magistracy ; the character of which, in the sister country, requires to e raised, and not lowered, to render it respectable and efficient. The improved social state of Ireland under the Whigs was, in a great degree, at tributable to the care with which the executive in that country preserved the commission from the introduction of unworthy individuals. The present Ministers seem dis posed to undo all that their predecessors did to conciliate the people, and preserve the peace in that country. If they be not stopped in their career, the results may in duce unavailing regrets that they were allowed to pro voke a nation whom sound policy would have taught them to propitiate. The first supply night will give Mr. Ross an opportunity of compelling the attention of Ministers and the House to his motion for the corre spondence in this shameful case, of which we trust he will avail himself. STANDARD.—The claim of Sir Augustus D'Este to the dukedom of Sussex has been rejected by the House of Leith. This result was, we believe, very generally anticlrßted from the first. The only question that could be raised in the case was this, has the Legislature the power of imposing a personal disqualification upon any of the subjects of the State ? The analogy of all laws of all countries determines this question in the affirmative. No subject can, by change of place, divest himself of his title to the protection of the Government of his native country ; or, on the other hand, relieve himself from his corresponding obligation to submit himself to the authority of its laws—laws are therefore of personal as well as of local obligation ; and his only by overlooking this truth, that any doubt could have been admitted as to the invalidity of the marriage of the late Duke of Sussex with Lady Augusta Murray. A momentary error upon the point was not, how ever, unnatural, for the general marriage law of this country having but a local sphere, it might be easily at first inferred that every marriage law must be merely local. The policy of such a law as the Royal Marriage Act, is a different question from the power of the Legis lature to enact it, and it is a question upon which, we freely confess it, our opinions are much less decided than they once were. The example of the numerous family of George the Third—some of them most unhappily married, some never married, and the whole thirteen re presented at this day by four of their children—this example was calculated to create a very strong impres sion against the law which imposed such heavy restraints upon the marriages of the Royal Family. It was impossible not to reflect how different would have been the position of George the Third. in his late years, if his numerous and flourishing offspring had been free to form unions with the nobility of England ; and we still think that the interests of the Monarchy are not consulted by the barrier raised between the Royal Family and an aristocracy, in antiquity of descent and lustre of birth certainly not inferior to the proudest among the sovereign houses of Europe. On the other hand, perhaps, the country gains something by the re moval of a temptation of no small amount of cabal, which would be offered by the possibility of a royal alliance, while it is certain that an influence which might make the monarch occasionally even too powerful, is obviated by the isolation of the Royal Family. Let us take for example the case of George the Third. Had his numerous family intermarried with the most powerful families of the aristocracy, as doubtless it would have done but for the law of which we are speak ing, would he have been compelled, as often as he was compelled, to accept Ministers whom he disliked, and in whom he had not confidence ? We see the evil here, _however, because George the Third was a good and a wise man ; but he might have been the reverse of both —he might have bean such a man as his son and immediate successor, who was neither good nor wise ; and we can hardly regret a deficiency of power in George the Third, which also operated as a restraint upon George the Fourth. There is another considera tion, of less weight, indeed, but still deserving of attention. The family that has so happily filled the throne of this empire for 130 years—never more happily than in its present beloved representative — this family must bc, expected naturally to cherish a pre ferwiee for sovereign alliances. The prjudice, if it must he so called, of the reigning monarch, would always in cline to unite the members of the Royal Family with equals in rank rather than with subjects ; but the indul gence of this prejudice would sometimes be encountered by the private inclinations of the prince .or princess chiefly concerned, and thus would arise differences -which must extend to jealousy between the monarch and the people, always ready to favour an honourable passion, certainly not less inclined to favour such a ey nrosion when a native of our own country is preferred u , it to a stranger. This would bring the monarch into at ,situde towards the people from. which certainly good .could fact arise. On the whole, then, it must be plain that if the Marriage Act is an evil it is not an unmixed evil. At present we surely have no reason to complain of it; for, under no concurrence of circumstances could England have hoped fur the blessing of a better Sove reign, or a Consort more worthy of that Sovereign. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE ALEXANDER DE GONZAGA. (BY AN OLD DIPLOMATIST.) After the fall of Napoleon, the allied powers, delivered from an adversary whose name alone made them tremble, assembled at Vienna to regulate the future position of .orations, or rather to appropriate to themselves the the immense territories that the chances of war had thrown into their hands, and to sweep away, as far as nossible, the very vestiges of the vast empire that had lust fallen. Hero began a series of injustices which it would take too much space to enumerate, but which may ly be described as a wholesale sacrifice of the feeble to the strong, a breaking down of the affections land sympathies of the people of different nations — hatred to France being the sole principle of action. Among the innumerable victims of this iniquitous as -I.ociation, which assumed to itself the bouncing appella tion of the Holy Alliance, was the Prince Alexander de sloiszaga l Prince of the Roman Empire and of Castiglione 4deilos Stiviere), &c. &e. &c. The family to which he be longs is of Italian origin. Its first chief was Hugo, son of Lothario, king of Lombardy, and great-grandson of zhe emperor Lothario, who was himself the grandson of Charlemagne. Prince Hugo married a Princess of Lora ,tirdy, named Gonz.ingina or Gonzaghi, from whence atomes the name of Gonzaga adopted by the descendants Hugo. Gerhard, one of the sons of Hugo, was the first ip assume the title of Lord of Gonzaga, and he obtained ayestiture as vassal direct of the empire. His son . Louis, • N died in .1046, was one of the most remarkable men avh ` 't time. Another Louis, eighth in descent from of one of the greatest lords of all Italy. Se New), w the indomitable bravery of his son, he se conded by descendants all the lordship of Mantua cured to his A the Benacorsi, his deadly enemies. In .conquered onquered fro . 4325 he was recc Onised sovereign of this territory by the Emperor Charles 1 17 who at the same time nominated :-, him Viceroy of thea.'omans. His government is repre tsented to have been m;rciful and able. Louis H., his grandson, distinguished itimself greatly in the wars of he Holy Land, and was fortunate enough to secure 11: e friendship of the Emperor Venceslas. Francis H., ss z l,ebrated for his . military and diplomatic talents, use elevated to high honours by the Pope Jean :xxLL, and entrusted with the command of his r oops,. The son and successor of this distinguished sme, Louis 111., commanded the armies of Florence, "trenioe and Milan. He was a celebrated general, re tuarka,,)le for the execution he committed on the Turks. li e , b a d the honour to receive in his dorninions the Em ,rarer F r Oderie 111., and the King of Denmark, and the Yops chose' Mantua, for a Congress convoked in 1459, to it moult on t. t ke best means of uniting the Catholic Princes , ma k e war 0 .1,. the followers of Mohamed. Frederic IL, c ne of his des(vudants, rendered great services to the 3 ope Leo X. (il Grandi) and to the Emperor Charles; his .1 :srraviate was in consequence erected into a Sovereign a id iteriditary duchy. Preference was also given to him i the' possessions of Montferrat, in opposition to the laike of Pavia and the Marquis of Palermo. Ho had, wever, the strongest claims to this honour, frem his rwrriage with the Princess , Margaret Paleologus, direct iteseendant of the Emperors of Constantinople. The * .cond snecessor of Frederic; William de Gonzag.a, was c ilifirmed in an his privilegeS by the Emperor Maximi ) i in, and received at the same time permission for lino & if and his cleauendants to bear the title of " Serene ighuess," that of "Excellency" having been previously a i plied to to the chiefs of the house of Gonzaga. At a sa osequent period, the Emperor Ferdinand I. granted to tit e , Pr i nce t h e land of his daughter Eleanor, thus ele gem ing• his family even to a higher distinction than it t previously enjoyed. This Prince William is repre 84.nr, ted to have been a good man, an excellent soldier, st y,d• an able statesman. He died very rich, 1,200,000 4as b e i ng f o und in his coffers—au enormous sum for Vs at ePoch- Af. er ,tracing the descent of the claimant from this p r i i a,:. to the present time, the writer adds, the Prince Vs:) 1) A , de Gonzaga was born at Dresden on the 12th -11. oetu k . r 1 - 99 ' his parents being Joseph Lo uis and the • 4C - 1 Trinv . ess terhazy. He is the so le direct heir to the sseasto t -of his family, and successor of Joseph 111 lige zaga (who died in 1746, without children), • D ilor o -calla, de la Sabionetta and de Bozzolo. He - was scarcely 13 years of age when he manifested a deter te.3.o**ktstehi tent to a military life, and lie entered into ° ---- Ik,t,sersite of Trance, desiring to be employed under the e' of i ill us t .. laus monarch and general, Napoleon. in 1814, at the " ,battle of Beni, or Bar, near Crawl, he Led the extreme 4 .good fortune and distinction to at- React the. , attentic n ~of the Emperor himself ; he made Captive a general o ffi c „?r of the enemy's, when Napoleon idtminded what rc he wished for—the errs QT promotion ? He replied, that he would prefer the cross, when Napoleon, charmed with such elevation of senti ment, decorated him himself, exclaiming, "I will never forget you, young soldier I" Subsequently (in 1816) the Prince Alexander entered the military service of Russia, and in the war against Turkey, in 1828, greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Braila. He received in consequence, from the Emperor, the decoration of St. Anne. Up to that time, he doubted not that the rights of his birth would be conferred on him, and after the death of his brother, in 1828, he took measures to establish them. But Austria opposed him. The revolution of July, the troubled state of Poland, and other circumstances, pre vented him from continuing with regularity the necessary measures. In 1831, however, he desired to obtain an authorisation to visit his family in Italy • but all his ef forts to obtain this object were inutiles, the Austrian Go vernment being determined to throw everything in his way to prevent the discovery of the circumstances which had led to the investiture of his dominions in the hands of the Empress Maria Theresa. After visiting Egypt, Greece, and several other countries, he proceeded to Spoletto in Italy, where he wrote to the Prince Metternich, protesting against the vexation of which he was the object, and, not receiving any response, he parted for Paris, where hsspitality was readily afforded him. There he con sulted the most eminent statesmen and lawyers, and, from their representations came to the conclusion, even more confidently than he had held it before, that no act of decheance was of value as against him. In 1841, at London, he espoused Maria Elise, daugh ter of the celebrated Colonel Coke, of the family of the Earls of Leicester, and allied to the Dukes of Athol. After this event, he sent a protestation to the Prince Metternich relative to the principality of Castiglione, &c., making reserves with respect to the Duchy of Guas talla, incorporated in that of Parma, erected into an apanage for Maria Louisa, widow of the Emperor Napoleon. In 1843 the Vicomte de Verney declared, in a publica tion, that the pretensions of the Prince were founded in law and reason. In the same year, the Prince addressed a vigorous protestation to all the kings, princes, and potentates of Europe. In this important document he protested so lemnly against the injustice done him by the ministers of Austria. His attempts to obtain justice, however, have hitherto been unsuccesful, but his courage increases as trials augment. He opposes the calm of his conscience, and his duty to the storms of political life, which he has not created, but which he accepts with a determination worthy of his noble race. He may succumb, perhaps ; but he will succumb with the conviction that he has not degraded his august home, nor failed in his holy mission of re-establishing the rights of his fathers. AN ENTHUSIASTIC NATURALIST. One of my first movements in Nashville was a walk to the college to see Professor Troot, who is a great enthusiast in geology. It is to be mentioned to the honour of the state of Tennessee, that it has been one of the first American States to patronise science, by al lowing him five hundred dollars a year as geologist to the State, in addition to his appointment at the college as Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, to which a salary of one thousand dollars a year is at tached ; so that the worthy professor is thus enabled to enjoy all the comforts of life and to make himself perfectly happy as the distributor of these sums ; for, like all philosophic enthusiasts, he places no value on money, and willingly gives any of the country people twenty dollars to bring him a live rattlesnake, or anything new or curious in natural history. Every thing of the serpent kind he has a particular fancy for, and has always a number of them—that he has tamed—in his pockets or under his waist coat. To 101 l back in his rocking-chair, to talk about geology, and pat the head of a large snake, when twining itself about his neck, is to him, supreme felicity. Every year in the vacation he makes an excursion to the hills ; and I was told that, upon one of these occasions, being taken up by the stage-coach, which had several Members of Congress in it going to Washington, the learned doctor took his seat on the top with a large basket, the lid of which was not over and above well secured. Near to this basket sat a baptist preacher on his way to a great public immersion. His reverence, awakening from a reverie he had fallen into, beheld, to his unutterable horror, two rattle snakes raise their fearful heads, and immediately precipitated himself upon the driver, who, almost knocked off his seat, no sooner became apprised of the character of his ophidian outside passengers than he jumped upon the ground with the reins in his hands, and was followed instanter by the preacher. The insides, as soon as they learned what was going on, immediately became outsides, and no nobody was left but the doctor and his rattlesnakes on the top. But the doctor, not entering into the general alarm, quietly placed his great coat over the basket, and tied it down with his handkerchief, which, when he had done, he said, " Gentlemen, only don't let dese poor dings pite you, and dey won't ho'rt you."—Featherstonhaugh's Excursions through the Slave States. CROCKFORD'S CLUB. For several years deep play went on at all these clubs —fluctuating both as to locality and amount—till by de grees it began to flag. It was at a low ebb when Mr. Crockford came to London, and laid the foundation of the most colossal fortune that was ever made by play. He began by taking Watier's old club-house, iu part. nership with a man named Taylor. They set up a hazard-bank, and won a great deal of money, but quar relled and separated at the end of the first year. Taylor continued where he was, had a bad year, and broke.. Crockford removed to St. James's-street, had a good year, and immediately set about building the magnificent club-house which bears his name. It rose like a crea tion of Aladdin's lamp ; and the genii themselves could hardly have surpassed the beauty of the internal decora tions, or furnished a more - accomplished maitre d'hote than Ude. To make the company as select as possible, the establishment was regularly organised as a club, and the election of members vested in a committee. " Crockford's " became the rage, and the votaries of fa shion, whether they liked play or not, hastened to enrol themselves. The Duke of Wellington was an original member, though (unlike Blucher, who repeatedly lost everything he had at play) the Great Captain was never. known to play deep at any game but war or politics Card-tables were regularly placed, and whist was played occasionally - but the aim, end, and final cause of the whole was the hazard-bank, at which the proprietor took his nightly stand, prepared for all comers. There was a recognised limit, at which (after losing a-certain sum) he might declare the bank broke for the night ; but he knew his business too well to stop. The speculation, it is hardly necessary to add, was eminently successful. During several years, every thing that anybody had to lose and cared to risk was swallowed up. Le Wellington des Joueurs lost 23,000/. at a sitting, beginning at twelve at night, and ending at seven the following evening. He and three other noble men could not have lost less, sooner or later, than a hundred thousand pounds a piece. Others lost in pro portion (or out of proportion) to their means ; but we leave it to less occupied moralists, and better calculators, to say how many ruined families went to make Mr. Crockford a mlllionare—for a millionaire he was and is, in the English sense , of the term, after making the largest possible allowance for bad debts. A vast sum, perhaps half a million, is due to him ; but as he won all his I r debtors were able to raise, and easy credit was the most fatal of his lures, we cannot make up our minds to con dole with him on that amount, frightful though it be. He retired, three or four years ago, much as an Indian chief retires from a.hunting-country when there is not game enough left for his tribe, and the club is said to be now tottering to its fall.—Edinburgh Review. STATE OF SYDNEY, A gentleman in Brighton has lately received a letter from the above town, giving a melancholy description of the state of the colony. The following extracts will be read with interest : " Sydney, January 15,1844. "If you were to witness the alteration that has taken place in the circumstances of the inhabitants of this colony since the short time back of my arrival, you would be thankful that you were yet in Old England ; many, almost starving now, were then in affluence, and would be glad to get home again, but hare not the means of paying their passage, for they cannot get any em ployment here, as, in most of the warehouses and offices still in existence, clerks, &c., are being reduced to the lowest number, and the masters, instead of lolling in their carriages and giving grand entertainments, are at their own desks, and trotting upon a horse's back, or on their own feet to their homes, divested of the supernumerary domestics, who once behaved as if they honoured their employers by condescending to eat, drink, and waste what the house afforded. In consequence of the number of insolvent estates, the tradespeople are afraid to give credit ; they are all advertising goods at ruinously low prices, but for cash, no more credit. I have bought sundry articles lately, which I am certain I could not have obtained in England for two or three times the price. A large ironmonger's stock has been advertised at one quarter of the cost price. I bought a handsome penknife •with pearl and silver handle, fur one shilling ; scissors I bought at the same reduction. A young gen tleman I know is going to work his passage as a com mon sailor, not being able to procure his living in any way ; he is steady, a good penman, a clever architect and surveyor, yet can get no employment ; his master having become insolvent, he has lost both his home and the salary due to him. Mr. All, receives numbers of letters, requesting his recommendation to offices with the smallest salary, sonic of the applicants having taken degrees at the universities, but he has not, and not even the judges, the power to help them. The income you mention as still your own is perfect affluence, com pared with that of many who were born to large expectations. Ido not pity some of our gentry, who came hither to make much more ;' they should have remained at home satisfied, and left the•ground open to those who, with all their talent and perseverance, could not provide for those dependent on their exertions. The mischief has been that, when a member of any profession has met with success here, their friends at home have so published and exaggerated their success, that numbers, expecting equal good' for tune, have inundated the colony, to their own disappoint ment and the injury of those already established. Doc tors, lawyers, and tutors surround you wherever you go; many, I believe, wish they had been bred carpenters, shoemakers, or some other trade that people cannot dis pense with. A gentleman told me he had received more than fifty answers to an advertisement for a tutor at a small salary, some of them from M.A.'s, and one from an 31.1), for 0," —Brighton Herald. ~. _,' THE SUN, LONDON, 'THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1144. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 9. Dividend per Annum. 14 per cent. 41. Names of Com.. pantos. Canals. Ashtoe and Dldhan... Ashby-de-la-Zouch av Basingstoke Breckneck & Abergalr. Birmingham,l.l6th sh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry ••••••••••••••••••• Cromforcl ..... Dudley •••••••••••••••••••••• Derby • • .—. Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Fzewash .•". •••••••••••• Forth and Grand Junct10n........" 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Hercules Insurance.... North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scott. Edinburgh Life lnsur. Scottish Union 'mum.. Standard Life Insur.... Dalkeith Railway Eden. and Glas. Railwy , Glasg. and Green. Rail. irtlJurideeand Arbr PANIE 844. , 5 0 0 23 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 I 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 142% 51 1 13 i 190 15% V -I • ig4 1514 4os. 225. 41fi 178 205 44' 9 2 ( 25 26N 1.1( 117% 24 39 39% 20 265 3 4 255 i 104 90 95 IN 6 9 % 434 118 1 30 pm 2t- lh 17 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 l• 2 0 10 0 0 1 o 0 2 10 0. ,so -0 0 50 - 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 ss 105 4 CES. spa 1011 _ii% INCENDIARISM NEAR Tium..—We have just learnt, on going to press, that two corn stacks, the pro perty of Mr. Fussey (we believe) of Sproatley, were burnt on Wednesday night, and that a'second fire broke out in the same village last night. Two men, we are in 'formed, are in custody, charged with setting fire to the stacks.—Hull Advertiser. .449:1 .; is Amount of Paid. Price. Share. 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HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 10. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATICN AND REGULATION BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) It being now three o'clock, Sir W. CLAY suggested that the Chairman should report progress, in order that the Bill might be re printed. It would be impossible to proceed with the clauses of the Bill in its present state. The Committee then went through the remaining clauses pro forma, and the Bill was ordered to be re committed on Friday next. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REMEDIES AT LAW AND IN EQUITY BILL. The House then resolved itself into Committee on this Bill. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in reply to a ques tion from Mr. Hawes, said that the object of this Bill was to apply the law of bankruptcy to Joint-Stock Companies. Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to. On clause 3 being read, Mr. GILL moved the insertion of the words " excep railway and canal companies." Mr. GLADSTONE could not see on what ground the Hon. Member selected two particular classes for exemp tion from the operation of the Bill, and must decidedly oppose the amendment. The amendment was withdrawn, and the clause was agreed to. The other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Thursday week, wheit it is understood that several modifications promised by the Government are to be introduced. On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART the Monkland Railway Bill was re-committed. Mr. HAYTER presented a petition from an individual in Dublin against a clause in the Dublin and Cashel Railway Bill. The petitioner was entitled to 6d. in the pound on all money paid into the Court of Chancery in Ireland, and this clause deprived him of that sum. Mr. SHEIL—He was made usher of the court when he was six months old.—(Great laughter.)—The petition was then brought up. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the nailmakers of Dudley and the neighbourhood, against the truck sytem. The petitioners stated that they got five shillings a week wages, and this sum they were com pelled to lay out with their masters. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from Clitheroe against the Mortmain Acts. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. HUME—I beg leave to give notice, Sir, in con sequence of that ungentlemanly act last night—(Great laughter)—of counting out the House— The SPEAKER—The Hon. Gentleman will please to withdraw that expression. Mr. HUME—WeII, Sir, unhandsome act then. — (Laughter.) So long as we were talking about dogs the House was not counted, but when I came to talk about men it was counted directly. I shall bring forward my motion on going into Committee of Supply. Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice that to-morrow he should put a question to the Secretary of State for the Home Department relative to incendiary fires in Norfolk. STATE OF THE NAVY. Sir C. NAPIER rose to put a question to the Gallant Officer opposite (Sir G. Cockburn), and he was extremely sorry that the First Lord of the Treasury was not in his place while he did so. During the tenure of office by the late Government, the ships of the navy were inefficiently manned, and they were frequently complained of by the present Government as well as by himself and brother officers. The present Board of Admi ralty, however,' on coming into office, very pro perly improved the state of the navy with respect to the manning of the ships, excepting with re spect to the guard ships which at present had only third rate crews. The question he had to ask was, whether it was true that the Albion had sailed with a reduced crew, and that the Caledonia and St. Vincent had em barked 150 supernumerary marines instead of the same number of seamen. The Albion was an 84-gun ship, and he understood that she had sailed with 750 men, the full complement being 850 men. Sir G. COCKBURN, who spoke in so law a tone of voice as to be scarcely audible, was understood to say that the Albion had sailed with her full complement of men, which was 750. Three-decked vessels of the second class had 850 men, but the third class only carried 750 men, and that was: the full complement for the Albion. With regard to the other question, the Hon. and Gallant Officer was right. The complement for the guard-ships was 620 men each, but an occasion had arisen in which it was desirable that one of these ships should go out as quickly as possible, and it was arranged that she should take 750 seamen, and also 120 marines. The vessel alluded to was quite suited for the great ob ject for which she was sent out. She was quite equal to take her own part either with friend or foe. He was delighted to be able to state to the House and the country, that his orders for this vessel to sail arrived at Plymouth between one and two o'clock in the day, and the ship was on her course at an early hour the next morning.—(Cheers.) Sir C. NAPIER—Then, am I to understand that, in future, our ships are not to be manned by seamen, but by marines ? Sir G. COCKBURN—Certainly not ; but, in a case of emergency like this, where the supposition might arise in some people's minds that the lives of British subjects in Morocco might be in danger, he (Sir G. Cockburn) was glad to be able to do that in a moment which, if done otherwise, might have caused great delay in the sailing of the ship.---,(Hear, hear.) THE STATE TRIALS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he had a question to put in reference to the proceedings which had recently taken place in the House of Lords. The arguments upon the writ of error having closed, it was said that the Judges had left, or were about immediately to leave town. The question he had to put was, whether the Government had made any arrangement, in order that judgment might be given in this case during the present session ? The SOLICITOR - GENERAL said he really could not see what Government had to do at all with making any arrangement upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) There had been an argument of six days addressed to the House of Lords on the writs of error; and on which argument, by the way, the counsel f or th e pl a i n tiff s in error occupied no less than five days, and counsel for the Crown only one.—(Hear.) As to the impression made upon the minds of' the judges who were to decide upon the case, he (the Solicitor-General) could of course say nothing •, and he knew just about as much as to the time when the final decision of that high tribunal would be delivered. IRISH LAND COMMISSION. Mr. S. CRAWFORD wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet at - the head •:?f her Majesty's Government if there was any expectation of a report from the Irish Land Commission during the present session, and if so whether the House T ight look f or any l eg i s l a tive mea sure founded upon it in the course of the next session of Parliament. Sir R. PEEL said he believed the Commissioners had determined not to make any partial report. Whenever they did report he (Sir R. Peel) should be prepared, without loss of time, to make t heir statements ancippinions the- foundation for such legislative measures as might suggest themselves. - Mr. PETER BORTHWICK complained of the prac tice of counting out the House when measures of im portance were to be brought forward.—(A laugh.) He himself had had measures of great importance—(A laug9—and when he was about to bring them forward the House was counted out. Mr. CRIPPS said that the Hon. Member for Mont rose (Mr. Hume) was counted out last night at the wish of the Hon. Meinber for Evesham himself. Mr. BORTHWICK emphatically denied that he had ever been a party to "counting out." Mr. Sergeant MURPHY wished to ask whether the Bill ought to be read before counting out ? The Speaker's answer was not heard in the laughter which the question occasioned. Mr. HUME said that he did not complain of the conduct of the other side of the House; for he thought that he was deserted by his own side—(Cheers and laughter)—when a Bill to repress the stealing of dogs was before the House there was no danger of a count out, but when a question of importance to the public was to come on the strongest party could count out. After some further conversation, the House proceeded to the other orders of the day. FIELD GARDENS BILL. Mr. COWPER moved the second reading of this Bill. This Bill would confer great benefit on the poor man, and he therefore confidently recommended it to the House. He proposed that in all future Inclosure Acts a portion of the land should be reserved for the purposes of this Act. The land, however, was not to be given to the cultivators absolutely, but only the occupation of it, and that upon lease. He trusted that the Right Hon. Gor tlernan at the head of the Home Department (Sir James Graham), would not feel it his duty to op pose himself to the Bill, for, if it was not permitted to proceed, there could be no legislation upon the /subject during the present session. The Right Hon. Gentleman had sufficient to do in his own department, or he might invite him to take charge of the present Bill. But it was the last " straw " that broke the camel's back, and that Right Bon. Gentleman's avo cations were already sufficiently onerous; and indeed he doubted if it would be in his power to carry through Parliament the many Bills already under his care. He ( Mr. Cowper) should therefore strongly urge this Bill upon the consideration of the House, more especially as it was one .so much calculated to benefit the moral (1 77 —:—. and physical eon ition of the people. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD seconded the motion and gave his most hearty approval to the Bill. Wher ever the allotment system had been tried, the production of the land had been increased and the condition of the labourers had been improved. It was quite plain to any one who looked at the state of England that it was not half cultivated, and if spade husbandry were introduced it would afford increased employment, and give increased produce. None of the common lands of England should be inclosed except such as were indispensably necessary. He conceived that it was not desirable to give less to the working man than an acre, but yet would accept of less, so that it might support him when he had not a sufficiency of em ployment ; but %%hen he had not, he did not think less than an acre would be enough to keep him in compara tive comfort. Mr. FEItRANI) expressed his sincere gratitude to the Hon. Member for bringing forward this Bill, and hoped the Government would allow it to become the law of the land. Thu allotment system answered remarkably well in his (Mr. Ferrand's) district. The Right Hon. Baronet, the First Lord of the Treasury, hitherto recommended the allotment system in the agricultural districts, and there was no rezion to think it would not answer equally well in the manufacturing districts. Mr. ESCOTT supported the motion. The allotment system, which worked such benefits, was purely volun luntary, and he did not approve of the principle ex pressed by the Hon. Gentleman, of fixing the rent for land. He would wish to see whether a great deal of benefit might not be done without any legislative inter ference between landlord and tenant. Mr. HUME said he thought the allotment system, though established by law, could he only carried out by the zeal of the local proprietors. He doubted the propriety of the Bill. The situation of the humbler classes in this country was distressing in the extreme, and worse than that of any of the kingdoms on the Continent ; but he thought some more searching aad efficient remedy absolutely necessary. Sir JAMES GRAHAM would not oppose the second reading of the Bill. He thought the allotment system generally good, but believed its success entirely de pended on the zeal of local proprietors. He felt sur prised that the Hon. Member for Rochdale recommended in very strong terms spade husbandry and small farms, but he (Sir James Graham) thought they were, in many cases, the causes of distress. The real benefit of the allotment system was to give the poor labourer enough to engage that time which would be otherwise unemployed. He was afraid that the machi nery of the Bill would require great alteration in many of its most essential details, but would not, however, at present, enter into any very critical examination. He thought it one of the first duties of proprietors of land to let small quantities of land to the industrious and well-disposed among the labouring classes. Mr. CHILDERS, as a member of the Committee, would express his concurrence in the provisions of the Bill. Lord WORSLEY advocated the system of allotments, inasmuch as it would afford assistance, though not the entire means of livelihood to the poor man. It was advan tageous to the poor man to be able to grow his own vegetables, but he would not at all recommend the system of apportioning waste lands out to the poor as gardens, for they would not be to them worth the ex pense of cultivation. He would give the poor man a garden besides his cottage—not a larger piece of land at a distance from it. Having expressed this opinion he would support the second reading. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday next. COURT OF ARCHES BILL The second reading of the Court of Arches Bill was moved. Mr. H. ELPHINSTONE opposed it as a very bad thing—worse than any Bill he had ever known introduced. Mr. R. YORKE protested against the framing of the Bill, and if it were persevered in, it wonld be his duty to oppose it. The ecclesiastical law could be reformed only by abolishini , it.—(A laugh.) After a few words from Mr. ESCOTT and Mr. HumE, Sir J. GRAHAM said, that as this was an adjourned debate, and he had already spoken upon it, he would not now occupy the House by replying to the arguments on the other side.—(Cheers and laughter.) The House then divided, when the numbers were-- For the motion Against it Majority — 13 GAMBLING ON RACE-COURSES. Mr. CHRISTIE moved that Charles Henry Russell should be heard at the bar by counsel against the Ac tions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked whether the petitioner Russell was or was not a party to the actions now pending? Mr. CHRISTIE said that he believed the petitioner was a party to the actions. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the motion, on the ground that the Hon. Gentleman who proposed it was able to state whether the petitioner WEL3 or was not interested in the result. Mr. CHRISTIE said that the petitioner was interested. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE supported the motion. Lord PALMERSTON said that, in the case of Wright, there could be no doubt about the land; it was quite different in the present case. The plaintiff in this case was only put forward as the screen of other persons. Mr. M. GIBSON moved that the solicitor for the pe titioner, who was in attendance, should be called in and examined at the bar as to the intent of Mr. Russell in the action. The SPEAKER said that the motion could not be put. After a short discussion the House divided. The numbers were-- Ayes l4 Noes 3O Majority against Mr. Christie's motion 16 Mr. CHRISTIE then moved that the House should resolve itself into a Committe upon the Bill that day three months. He would offer every opposition to the Bill in his power. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that the course which he had taken was unfair. He thought that the Hon. Member ought to have satisfied himself that the allegations of the petition were true before he presented them to the House. Lord PALMERSTON thought that there was no occasion for warmth of temper upon either side in this case. As for himself, he had not pledged himself to vote for the Bill or against it. He certainly thought that it would be a bad precedent to call the petitioner to the bar. Mr. M. GIBSON thought that the Government had taken a timid and hesitating part in respect to this Bill. They had supported the Bill indirectly, but had waited to see how the wind would blow. He should be glad to see all penalties for betting or private gambling done away with, but he wished the whole general subject to be brought before the House and discussed, and not one portion of that which chiefly affected the Parliamentary friends of the Government in that House. Lord STANLEY utterly denied that the Government had anything to do with this measure, or took any in terest in it whatever. What their individual opinions might be he knew not, but as a Government they had nothing whatever to do with the matter either one way or the other. The plaintiff then before the House was only the nominal plaintiff; put forward to screen the real one, who was a man of straw. The Hon. Member for Weymouth ought to have satisfied himself he knew all the facts and merits of the case before he had come be fore the House to advocate such a cause. Admitting, however, that the man Russell was the real plaintiff, the precedents for hearing him by counsel having been looked into that day, they were found to be against him, and on that ground alone did he (Lord S.), not as a Member of the Government, but as a private individual, oppose the application now made. Mr. VERNON SMITH said it appeared to him that the Government had taken a most indecisive part on this question, and such conduct he could not approve. The question was whether qui tam actions were useful or not whether the law should remain as it is, or be altered — and therefore it was not very creditable in the Govern ment to declare, through the Noble Lord (Stanley), that they cared nothing about the matter. However, he quite agreed with the Hon. Member for Manchester, that if these actions had been brought against poor instead of against rich parties, the House would never have been troubled upon the subject. Still he was willing to allow the second reading of the Bill, in the hope that next session the Government would shake off their indecision, and bring the whole subject before the House, with a view to an amendment of the law, and an adaptation of it to the present wants and usages of the country. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had been applied to by the Noble Lord, the Chairman of the Gaming Committee, to know what the Government intended to do in reference to the subject on which that Committee had just published its report. He had an swered that the report was of a most able and useful character, but at that late period of the ses sion it was impossible for the Government to apply its attention to the subject. It would, however, he added, be its duty to give its best attention hereafter to the re port and the evidence of the Committee, with a view to legislate upon the subject during the next session of Parliament. On that the Noble Lord asked him to _ _ bring in a Bill to extend TheActlatelypassed until the next session ; but he (Sir J. Graham) suggested that, as Chairman of the Committee, he (Lord Palmerston) was the most proper person to introduce it. lie had intro duced it ; and he (Sir J. Graham) in his private capa city, and not as a member of the Government, felt it his duty to support the Noble Lord. And in the coming session he had no hesitation in saying it would be the duty of the Government to consider the whole subject, with a view to the Parliament legislating upon it. Captain BERKELEY said he would rather a son of his went to the common hazard table than take up the art of book-making, and all thef—he had almost said dirty—practices connected with it. For his part, he would never give a vote in that House to screen a gam bler, just because he happened - to be a rich man, or to move in what was called the higher circles of society. Sir GEORGE CLERK said the hearing of counsel was opposed on the ground that the petitioner was not the real plaintiff in the case, and had therefore no claim on the sympathy of the House, as he could not prove that any injury was likely to accrue to him from any legislation that was about to take place. Colonel PEEL said, in reference to what had fallen from a Learned Judge on a late occasion, as to gentlemen associating with a certain class of persons, he would take that opportunity of stating that he had never asso ciated with those parties. Till the day of that trial, when he met the plaintiff and others in court, be had never set eyes upon them to know them by name. And as to their horses, he could no more hinder a person running his horse at a race, than he could hinder the Learned Judge from walking over the course.—(Hear, hear.) But the fact was, the vexation.of these people so alluded to (with his Noble Friend beneath him espe cially) was, that they would not associate with them all. — (Cheers.) That was the real sore, and it was right it should be known.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. M. GIBSON said it had been charged upon him that as a member of the Gaming Committee he had put questions to the witnesses with a view of exposing parties to the penalties of the law. This he strongly de nied. He had put questions solely with a view of getting at the truth, and to do this, he would at any time give every hour and every moment of his time.—(Oh, oh.) Yes, he would, though, to do his duty as a Member of that House.—(Hear, hear.) He denied that he had been guilty of any unfairness whatever, and he thought Hon. Gentlemen who were members of that Committee, would bear him out in stating that he had not in any way exceeded his duty.—(Hear.) Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said he did not con • sider the conduct of the lion. Member for Manchester, on the Committee, to have been altogether dictated by a spirit of fairness but, before alluding further to thi s ; topic now, he must allude to another subject, about which there seemed to be some doubt. A person had been sued for 12,0001. for bets which he had made, amounting to 23,0001., on a horse named Gaper, his (Lord George I3entinek's) property, and it was, therefore, suppoaed that he (Lord George Bentinck) had some :interest in the result of that action, whereas, in truth, he was in no wise interested.—(Hear.) He mast now say that he did think the questions put by the Hon. Member for Man chester on the Committee, had a tendency to support the claim of the individual who pressed this most iniquitous qui tam action—the Hon. Member asked one witness distinctly if be did not know something tibout 3,000/. lost on a bet in the late Derby race.—(Hear, hear.) He would further say that, had not the reverse been so positively stated by an Hon. Member in that House, he (Lord George Bentinck) would have firmly believed that the object of these queries was to direct the prosecution. However, the public would judge whether the inquiries of the Hon. Gentleman were not intended to prejudice the defendants. He would not notice the observations of the Hon. Member for Weymouth with respect to what passed in the Court of Exchequer, but he would say that he was willing that his conduct should stand the test of a public scrutiny, which he knew he would come out of blameless. It had been urged that this was a piece of class legislation. In answer to that, he begged leave to state, that if these qui tam actions did not affect persons of high rank and station, there never would have been a single objection to the present pro ceedings.—(Hear, hear.) If they looked back but for a comparatively short period to the history of Parlia mentary proceedings, they would find there were no less than twenty-three precedents, all relating to persons of humble condition, in which these qui tam actions had been suspended or discontinued by legis lative interference. He had assisted himself on behalf of the printers and publishers of newspapers, stage players, and coal-whippers. Hon. Members opposite did not object to the suspension or discontinuance of these actions, although they now raised their voices so high in the present instance, when actions had been brought by persons of the very worst description.— (Hear.) He charged the Hon. Member for Manchester with associating with a person who had robbed his own uncle's " hell"—(Laughter)---which he thought suf ficiently discreditable. Mr. M. GIBSON—I deny it. Lord G. BENTINCK—Yes, you deny it; but evidence will be shortly taken, which will show that this person constantly frequented the house of the 'lon. Member, in Wilton-crescent. Mr. M. GIBSON—It is not the case. Lord G. BENTINCK—WeII, we shall see. The Noble Lord, in a warm manner, and in severe language, descanted upon the characters of persons not Members of the House, and concluded by saying that an attempt had been made to induce him to come to a compromise, which he had indignantly rejected. Mr. HUME denied in the strongest manner that his Hon. Friend (Mr. M. Gibson) had done anything that was not warranted by the strictest propriety. He did not think the attack of the Noble Lord on his Hon. Friend was just or becoming ; and with respect to the informer, about whom so much had been said, he (Mr. Hume) would have no hesitation in declaring that, for anything he knew to the contrary, he would as soon believe him as the Noble Lord.—(Laughter.) Before the Noble Lord made such charges on his Hon. Friend he should have looked nearer home. His Hon Friend had stated his opinions temperately and firmly, and just as he (Mr. Hume) would have done had he been placed in the same position ; and it was rather too bad that for so doing he should be so foully attacked. The Hon. Member had done his best to elicit the truth—no easy matter—and it did appear to him incomprehensible how Hon. Members could cheer the Noble Lord in his attack upon the Hon. Member for Manchester, who had only done his duty.-- (Cries of " Hear.") He understood the meaning of that cry and of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's cheer, who understood nothing whatever about the subject.— (Laughter.) He must say that he had never heard so much disclosed in that House about what passed in a Committee up stairs, nor did he think it proper or de corous for Hon. Members to accuse one another of their conduct in a Committee up stairs.—(hear, hear.) The scene which had just taken place, as well as some others of a similar character that occurred not long since, were not calculated to elevate the character of that House in the opinion of the people—(Hear, hear)—and ought to be avoided as much as possible. He believed the pre sent Bill entirely resulted from class legislation, and should therefore oppose it to the utmost of his ability. Mr. ESCOT T defended the conduct of the Hon. Member for Manchester (Mr. M. Gibson), which he thought had been marked by extreme fairness on that Committee of which he (Mr. Escott) was a Member. — (Hear, hear.) The Hon Member was fair and impartial throughout the whole inquiry, and his queries very much assisted the Committee in arriving at the truth, and coming to just conclusions.—(Hear.) Mr. HAYTER, as a member of the Committee, like wise defended the conduct of the Hon. Member for Manchester. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said it was perfect nonsense to say the Bill was not the result of class legislation. He thought the individual who felt himself aggrieved ought to be heard by [counsel at the bar of the House, as he believed that injury had been unjustly inflicted on him. He would, however, as they had gone so far, vote for going into Committee on the Bill. Sir D. J. NORREYS rose, apparently labouring under considerable excitement, and said that some very strong and unwarrantable expressions had been cast upon him by the Noble Lord.—(Cries of " Order," " Chair.") The SPEAKER said the Noble Lord had retracted the offensive expressions. Sir. D. J. NORREYS—Sir, I consider I have been most unjustfiably assailed.—(Order.) However, if— The SPEAKER—I understood the Noble Lord to have retracted those offensive words.----(Hear, hear.) After the Noble Lord made that complete retractation the House will consider the words not to have been spoken. Sir DENHAM NORREYS—Then, Sir, I shall not advert further to the expressions of the Noble Lord than to say—(Order.) The SPEAKER again interposed, upon which Sir D. NORREYS, after in some measure expressing his satisfaction at the retractation, said, if the Noble Lord promised not to take advantage of the provisions of the Bill he would not further oppose it. Captain PECHELL deprecated the language which had been used by the Noble Lord. He would oppose the Bill. The House then divided, when there appeared— For going into Committee 45 Against it . Majority On entering the gallery we found Mr. CHRISTIE expressing his regret for having ex pressed himself in so hasty a manner. He was in nowise inclined to be factious, and would not persist in his in tention to obstruct the progress of the Bill. He believed that the penalties were extremely high, and he would support a Bill for the suppression of those actions upon thepayment of costs ? If the costs were given to the in former he would withdraw his opposition to the Bill. Mr. M. GIBSON said that there had been an indirect attack made upon him by a Noble Lord which was per fectly unjustifiable. Mr. HUME wished to have words inserted in the first clause, by which costs should be given to the in former. Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to the Bill being made a discontinuing Bill instead of a suspending one. Captain PECHELL also thought that it would be better to make the Bill one of discontinuance. The amendment was withdrawn, and the clause agreed to. The other clauses were also agreed to. The House re sumed, and the report was ordered to be received to morrow. -36 BOROUGH OF SUDBURY. Upon the motion that the House go into Committee on the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, Mr. BLACKSTONE said that much as he depre cated the sytem of bribery which had been followed at Sudbury, he did not think a case was made for the dis franchisement of the borough. He concluded by moving, " That it be an instruction to the Committee to extend the right of voting for the future election of Members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Sudbury, to all persons residing within the hundred of Baberg, within the county of Suffolk, and the hamlet of Ballingdon cum Brundon, in the county of Essex, having the qualification required as electors for cities and boroughs, under the Act of 2 Will. IV., c. 45 ; and that the following persons, viz. Peter Alston, James Berry, Thomas Brown, William Barnard, William Cross, Joseph Cook, George Dawson, Thomas Erith, James Johnson, Charles King, Thomas Making, George Parsonson, William Rolfe, Richard Steed, William Tolliday, and Joseph Wheeler, being guilty of receiving bribes at the last election ; and Joseph Barker, Samuel Berry, Wil liam Cook, Thomas Ginn, Thomas Goody, Golding Herbert, Samuel Hale, James Herbert, John Jones, and William Warner, being concerned in the distribution of money among the voters before or during the election, be hereafter disqualified from voting at any election for Members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Sudbury." Captain BERESFORD seconded the motion, and denied that the majority of the constituents of Harwich were corrupt. Mr. B. COCHRANE denied that cases of bribery were brought against Sudbury sufficient to justify the disfranchisement of the whole constituency. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL supported the Bill, and contended that there was an ample body of evidence to justify the disfranchisement of the borough. The majority of the constituency were tainted with cor ruption. The House then divided, when there appeared— For going into Committee 37 For Mr. Blackstone's amendment I Majority . . The Bill then went through Committee, and was or dered to be reported to-morrow. The LORD ADVOCATE was about to ask leave to bring in a Bill to diminish the expense of completing feudal investitures in Scotland, when, Mr. HUME moved that the House be counted, and there being only twonty-one Members present, the House adjourned. MISS STRICKLAND'S " LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND,VoLVII."—The last four chapters of the Life of Elizabeth, and the whole of the interesting Life of Anne of Denmark, occupy this volume. The Life of Elizabeth is written with great care and impartiality. It is the most difficult, as it is the most conspicuous, bio graphy of the whole, and certainly the most successful. Our author is not satisfied with even an elaborate detail of the incidents of the reign and the personal his tory of the Sovereign ; she supplies a complete review of the social and political characteristics of the period. England, as it was in that reign, is brought distinctly before us—the manners and customs of the people—the men of mark and eminence—the costume and literature, and so to speak, gossip of the day. The art of royal biography has never been more felicitously exemplified than in this instance. Anne of Denmark, inferior to Elizabeth in intellectual capacity, held a position which surrounds her with great historical interest. Miss Strickland makes the most of it. Of the two, this bio graphy is likely to fascinate the greater number of readers ;it is more stirring and dramatic. But they are both excellent.— Court Journal. WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL.—The half yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Worcester and Bir mingham Canal Company was held at_Worcester on Tues day. -The report gave 4.eaeral Afit4fttctiO, aua dividend Of Al. 10a. 6d. was cleclancl. t • . er cent,. 4/. 401. e 1.154. 71. 11.55. 31 12..!d. -56. 1.104. 341. 101. 17/. 301. 3 171. 101. 6 percent 28 151. 201. 11. 123. 151. 321:104. 101. Si. 10s. 41. 11. 4s. 3 per cent. 34 per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 1.34 per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. IN per cent. I/. Os. 9d. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 71. 3t. 10s. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13‘. 6d. pr sh 51.55. I per cent. Ts. per share 5 percent. 8/. 68. 5 per cent./ tC 30s. bds..) Sp per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 8 per cent. 5 per cent. 21: - 6d. per cent. 'Os. 161;:i bds. 14 58. los. 'los. per cent. per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 4*. 5 per cent. 6N, per cent. 11. 4s. 5 per cent. 10% per cent 51. S per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 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All pail 6000 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 s 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 '5 0 0 21• 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 d 2 10 0 10 C 5 2 0 0 d 10 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 d 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 1S 0 I S 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 • 40 0 • 40 0 0 50 0 0 900 0 • 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 • 10 0 • 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 • 17 10 • 35 0 30 0 0 15 26 0 0 II 0 16 0 0 1$ • 0 19 • 0 50 0 0 2• 0 0 100 0 • 75 • 0 31 S 0 28 • 0 50 • 0 50 • • 20 0 0 30 00. 98 • 0 80 0 0 25 0 0, 48 • 0 10 • 0 Y 5 0 0 50 0 • 5 0 0 100 0 0 100 a 0 50 • 0 50 10 0 0 100 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 • 40 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 100 0' 0 50 0 18 0 0 50 • 0 25 0 0 31 • 1310 0 100 0 U 25 0 f 150 0 • 21 0 2500 15 • 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 9 0 0 59 0 • 7 0 AO 150 0 50 0 0 I 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 - 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 14 0 0 1 10 0 ,5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 • 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 S' PRI, POLICE INTELLIGENCE (YESTERDAY) __ MANSION-HO USE. A solicitor made ati application to Alderman TWOS Wood upon the part of certain creditors, who had be most extensively plundered by a fraudulent debtor , r e be enabled to carry into effect the Acts made i n k t , Convention between this country and France, by ww c a persons in either country may be apprehended 011,5 brought to justice in the country in which the f rau have been committed. The case was one in which a sum between 14,000/ a nd 15,000/. was stated to have been pocketed by the debt °4 and Alderman THOMAS WOOD, upon hearing the pa•-rti c b l e lars, decided upon granting the authentication o f t e City seal, which, although it might not be within th e requisites of the statute, still might afford facilities in be proceedings in a foreign court for the recovery d i t t y money. He stated that he eonsidered it to be the n i V e of the magistrate to do everything in his power to g i o efficacy to the excellent object of the new law, which /1 calculated to interfere most vigorously with the Pr s4 " tices of fraudulent debtors. The City seal was accordingly affixed. A young man named Charles Holloway was. chargeb, by Joseph Hodges (policeman No. 31), with having ° strutted him in the execution of his duty. , t d Policeman No. 651 stated that on Tuesday mg - ii c , Spaniard, who happened to be a most dangerous lues was given into his custody, for having cut open the e l ic of a person in Billingsgate. The unfortunate was handcuffed upon manifesting a disposition to u cb o more mischief, but he dashed the handcuffs Wi th i s t ti ll violence against a post as to render them corciP` e : eo useless, and it was with extreme difficulty six or ri s f o ilg t; • men so far overcame his strength as to su cceed i ing him in the station-house, where he continnecio, rave all night. Policeman No. 31 assisted in the O bo t ing in bringing the madman to the Mansion Hous e ' d a crowd of idle fellows began to cry out " the mob took up the word, greatly to the impedinien'ori. annoyance of the constables. Amongst the most spicuous was the defendant. t he The defendant said he did not think it could police any harm to cry out " shame," but he,„ ti ld learned since that he had done wrong, and he take care not to interfere in such a manner again. wig Alderman T. WOOD—We punish the police r iy, great severity when we find that they act irnfu l l e and we are bound to protect them w h e n they s . „ -, h eit sailed or abused, or interrupted in the e xe cution 0 ' "0 3 $ very disagreeable duties. It was your duty, in sti od case as this, to have assisted the policeman, bolo have endeavoured to excite the mob against him. . 1 ' you forty shillings for this very serious offence. to Defendant—l can't pay the money. All I did W s " cryshame." Alderman T. WOOD—I know how ready peuP le e ttio you are to interfere in that way. You must P a y money, or go to prison for one month. The defendant was then committed for a month. WORSHIP-STREET. ifes o Thomas Barnes, a carman in the service of 11 0 . Sutton and Co., carriers, in Whitecross-street , d charged before Mr. Combe, the sitting magistrates- 0 0J having driven over and caused the death of a child 0 Mary Ann Vigors, three years of age. Thomas Miller stated that between five and six ,e . . 44 on the preceding evening he saw the defendant nlof a horse and cart, which was proceeding a t a -val or pace along Ironmonger-row, St. Luke's. A bit* ing a loud scream immediately after it pass e " a der he turned round and observed a female child lyiagj - s the horse's feet, and, hefore he had time to ra ise alarm, the wheel of the cart passed over its bee' tte killed it on the spot. He felt satisfied that n e : so ill slightest blame attached to the defendant. who ins, fits stopped the horse, and rendered every assistance in his power to afford. Sergeant Brannan said, that from inquiries zbe tor made on the spot, there could be no doubt that t!l t the fortunate occurrence was purely accidental, and defendant had used his best efforts to arrest the n s ' o o, The defendant's master also spoke in high terms P his general conduct as a steady and cautious driv er ' having offered himself as bail for th e defendant s pearance at the termination of the inquest, tha The Magistrate acceded to the application, an defendant was discharged out of custody. MORTALITY in the METROPOO v The following are the results itfori of "A Table of froe ; in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths ybe all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturcleibe 6th of July, 1844." The Table is issued from th e of the Registrar-General:— Weel4lol CAUSES OF DEATH. lied Total. _ er 157 Epidemic,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 191 Diseases Of variable or uncertain seat 9B Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 2 38 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 27 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 2 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. 7 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 3 Diseases of the Skin, &e 2 . - Old Age, or Natural Decay 46 2 6 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified B7O Deaths from all Causes DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED I ' THE ABOVE HEADS. A 0 0 ivee r icl e7 l oc 00e 34 Total. Consumption 137 Scarlatina ' 5B Pneumonia . Dropsy .. .. .. ... 29 Hooping Cough ... ........ .. 17 Typhus 24 Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles .. Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea.. .. ..... 12 Sudden Deaths ..... 1p DISTRICTS. _. 13 6 West North Central 207 East 166 240 South 224 .--- 94 6 Total ... ....... ......, B7l st , C s $ 1 SWIMMING MATCH.—A grand swimming fl ute' for the champion gold medal, was appointed to tak e ,f e rall, the National Baths, High Holborn, on Tuesday- S ,r,, e l's perb heats did, in fact, take place, and more beauto.•,,sellm ming, and a more animated scene than the baths P t ;; L ot), u n for throughout, it would be difficult to conceive. in the course of the grand and decisive heat, there e ' r ' s, IFP: e on the part of one of the most expert of the swirnn i _ e .detl°, l o `o was considered by many to be " fouling," and a ji nion amongst the spectators, as to which of the co""Zit• ought to be proclaimed the real victor, was the F e ", 0 0 ;0 was finally decided that the proceedings of the evenntbotoo tf be considered as void, and that the race should be r eo e sarto a future and an early period. It is, th ere f ore , unn ee •oto,'Ai give any particulars, or to say more tha n that great dtv seemed to be excited, that the baths were crowded, an the greatest order and regularity prevailed. 11 .1 n t ESCAPE OF A LUNATlC.—Yesterday was conveyed to the metropolitan police of the es ea P :ef. , 0 ~ lunatic patient from the Asylum of High Beach,. whom some curious particulars are given. 1-119 ;ci Francis John Smith, twenty-eight years of age, very respectably connected. He is about five feet e ioir, in height, of a slender form, stoops a little, dark tr im eyes, and of a pale and sallow complexion. He een," - iii4e elude the vigilance of his keeper on Saturday ni ell it old which time he was attired in a dress black coat, C i e o it. Y ie same colour, and brown or grey trousers, and blue 0- % hat was an old one, brown and broken. The ltinatt.s bouring under a poetical delusion. He fancies Wins ° pe t y poet, and up to the time he left Dr. Allen's asyluniA 0 1,4 engaged in the composition of a monody o n the de a " - 401 1 ' poet Campbell. He also talks of being destined t° 1 j 3/ the Polish nation from " Russian tyran n y . " 14 11 THE LONDON AND B IRMINGHAM RAIL w 7I. 0 .4H ) an arrangement with the Post-office, the down da l,- train between London and Birmingham will ace: o r •/„. journey in four hours, and the up in four and a SIX POUNDS of TEA, and upwards, sent, carriage -; ngic:aiencrSA 144. part of the Kingdom, at the Wholesale Price, on receipt ° tance, or Post-office order. A d 4 SO , Black, 2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d., 3s. Bd., 45., 4s. 4d., 49 * Green, 3s. 4d., 3s. Bd., 45., 4s. 4d. 55., ss. 4d. 69., z; 1 0 e . c.' Coffee, 9d„ is. Is. 2d., Is. 45. 15., , Gd., Is. Bd. 15. LE G R . s T I3 . II IA y, N e S H EL E L Ap a s n i d DE CO . „ A Wi gen i c o i l e e s sa w le ifi Te b a e parties p - PO BIRTHS. ~d 13144 On the 16th tilt., at sea, on board the 'ship 1 1 , 1 ",,,it1b P" . her passage from I n di a , th e l a dy o f Ed war d 1 0' Madras Meical Service, of a son. ,14 4 On the 7 d th inst., at Gloucester-gate, Regent's - P t er. , William Dodsworth, of a son. r datil e i b o On the 7th inst., the lady of S. B ren t, Esq., 0 ' -r. On the Bth inst., at Piccadilly, M rs . Gilbert _ d o of a son. .1. Sils' On the 9th inst., at Chislehurst, K en t, Afro:______ . „/ Cuthbert, of a son. IV' MARRIED. t be llebl On the 9th inst., at St. James's, W es tminster , e co o Edward Hartopp Grove, Vic e -P r i nc i pa l o f Brasen, °s l,lo to tha Hon. Harriet Lister, one of her Majesty ° .04 Honour. E 0(1., s 1 On the 4th inst., at Wisb eac h, Ch ar l es B ou cher,, 4 ' to Elizabeth Russell, on ly c hild o f Th omas Steal', P s _top' On the Bth inst., at th e C a th o li c Ch ape l, Solu er to etr , et• Corvan, Esq., of Ehrenburgh-terrace,Camden-0 ior.slo0 eg widow of the late Lawr ence R oac h, E sq., o f Oxforu ri 0 i iio On the 9th inst., at St. Peter's, Brackley, l i r C 1944 Lacon, Esq., Commander of the Royal liavf,,,, T A rtOf Louisa Bartlett, second daughter of the late J.:2 °______ _,/ of Buckingham. or I DIED. b ° ' On the 4th inst., Cl are Jeffery, Esq., of Swa g • lrillifyo folk, tee 41. o fi On h 4th inst., at Sli go , A nnemar i e, the wl . f ., ate t. o te 6, James Yonge, Esq., Li eu t enant of the 46t h Regl the ' On the sth inst., Emma, second daughter of iv LT r t s. ii 74, Knott, Esq., of Bohun Lodge, East Barnet. ..--Le• Arne V. , c t On the 6th inst., at Bishopsteignton, De v° ,-.%tei' l ro i youngest daughter o f th e l ate W. White, Esq., Alice' On the 6th inst., i n Mi lton-next . G raves end, g rf , of the late it. A. Cares, of Newcastle-upon-TYn e i ' c kshir e ' Warw On the 6th inst., a t C ur d worth L odge, , ; mol l Noble, aged 64. s I* . o f On the 7th inst., a t M o t t i ng h am, K en t, James pip Esq., formerly orClapham-common, Surrey. a ttOrt jr: f 4, of On the 7th inst., M ary , t h e w if e o f E.l s . Great Ormond-street, Queen-square. Dye if i f On the Bth inst., Li eu t enan t Octavious Hphcebe art A .,. On the 9th inst., i n Wilt on - s t ree t, Sarzh — .'f Christie Fal co ' o ner, Esq. . - ..11,1'41 London : Printed a n d P u bli s h e d by MIL.- TIDO face, 10, 1 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 0 „.• ccoi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill W pliddl n" , ThllridaYo July 11, 1864. G 411 Y was 'it seven, nth: Fare — Fore ca st ir , r - vo a tzic e°llrm z thq sh ItyeFi , reSO I Su Maui out alpthe t prc e yet be to the or to ` 4 ' 3 1st of Share, th I ) , YOrk, N . 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