The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. - HOUSE OF LORDS, July 26. ..:. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. A message from the Commons brought up the Tra falgar-square Bill, and several other Bills. CATHOLIC PENAL LAWS REPEAL. --, Lord BEAUMONT gave notice, that on Monday next, he should move that the report on the Catholic Penalties Abolition Bill bo brought up, and that the Bill be re committed. . ILLEGAL PROCESSIONS (IRELAND). Lord WHA.RNCLIFFE moved the order of the day for the Committee on this Bill. The Earl of WICKLOW feared that his Noble Friend would think him rather too pertinacious in his opposition to the Bill. He was aware that at this season it was quite vain to offer any opposition to the Bills which were daily brought up in shoals. This Bill was merely to renew a Bill already in existence, and, therefore, sub stantial amendments could not be with propriety intro. duced into it. It seemed to him to be extremely unjust that - Parliament should pass such A cts as this, directed against one class, as in this case the Protestants, or rather the Orangemen of Ireland. Why should not the law be extended to all other processions accompanied by bands of music, banners, &c.? Last year, there were monster meetings, processions, far more dangerous than the processions of the Protestants which this Bill was to repress. There were also the temperance processions, -which although harmless in themselves were turned to a mischievous purpose, as had been foreseen by that great benefactor of his country, Father Mathew, who always set his face against temperance processions with bands and banners.—(Hear, hear.) Instead of passing - this Continuance Bill, he thought the Government would better consult the wishes and welfare of the people of Ire land if they allowed the Bill in existence to expire, and to bring in next session a Bill.applying to all kinds of pro cessions, if necessary. But be denied that, if the Go . yernment of that country were carried on impartially, theta! would be any necessity for Arms Bills, Coercio n Bills, and Procession Bills. He moved that the Bill be committed that day three months. The Earl of RODEN seconded the motion, and was very happy that his Noble Friend had expressed himself so openly and so ably on this subject. The Bill was felt by the Protestants of the North of Ireland to be a gratuitous insult to them, and especially at this period when the time for their possessions had passed. What reason, he would ask, was there for introducing this insult, this affront, this degrading and offensive Bill? He thought that if the Government would take this opportunity of withdrawing the measure, they would give satisfaction to all parties ; for the Roman Catholics themselves had petitioned against the Act, which was odious to all. He agreed with his Noble Friend that, however beneficial the effects of temperance might he, a mischievous use had been made of the bands and processions, and it was notorious that these temperance • bands attended at all the monster meetings and repeal processions. It was the duty of the Government, there lore, to put down all such processions as well as those of the Irish Protestants. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the Noble lords who wished this Bill to be committed this day three months forgot their own argument. They said that the Bill was en insult and an injustice to the Protestants of Ireland, and at the same time that the other party petitioned against the law. When the Bill came first Into operation some years ago, the greatest praise was bestowed upon the conduct of the parties whose process "dons this Bill was framed to repress. The Legislature bad every reliance in the loyalty of those people. But it was thought necessary for the peace of the country to stop the processions. His Noble Friends spoke of the e o o neter processions and meetings list year with banners emu ' bands of music. But he was not aware that those eetio teuk part in those processions appeared in arms. 'rh e attention of the Government was for a long time directed to those meetings ; and those who were in etrumentai in callieg them together, and dieturb ing the pe&e of the country, were brought to tri .1. He thought the Government might claim credit to itself for these trials, and they could now see what the result lied been. The country was perfectly in De esee, and at the assiz a the courts had little to de. Ti ier‘ s was reason to believe that there would be nr , neeb issity for those extreerd n try laws, but that Irdetiel sie, old be goverrisd as England was, by the ;ion of the laws as they were. T aim le pere he law to which the Bili now before the Hons., related, was already in existence, and the Government did not think it would be expedient to allow it to expire as yet. But the Go vernment wanted no new law. Hitherto the existi-g laws had been ,euffieieitt fa- maintaining the but if the present lov peace of the country ; should prove inadequate , then .it would be the duty of the Government to extend t his lag:to other processions which might appear dangerous to the peace. At pre sent, he repeated that the Government wanted no new -.sower, although they were unwilling to part with any war such as that of the law now under conside ration, Po an d which the Legislature had so many years entrusted 1 to them'. He hoped the House would allow t he Bill to !II go into C"lmittee- The Marquis of CLANRIC ARDE said that although us ually o ipo.. -ed to the Government, he felt bound to support them o H 'I this occasion. He quite agreed with the Noble Duke opposite that the Government ought mot to give up the p eswer which the Legislature had sc. long entrusted to then/. If the Bill were allowed to ex pire, the Government c ould not but feel responsible for esay mischief that might ensue. Lord WHARNCLIFFE assured his Noble Friends (the Earls of Wicklow and Roci2n) that nothing could be further from his thoughts than to offer an insult, or to do an injury to the Protestants of the north of Ire land, whose conduct had been mos praiseworthy, and marked by loyalty and good order. t It was certain -ehet the law did not apply to the temperance and mon ster processions of last year. But they were to recollect that they had to deal with a man who boasted that he ( void drive a coach and four through an Act of Parha m Int, and who had contrived to keep those meetings wit. `tin the verge of the law. Indeed, no Act could be frame, ed effectually to extend this Bill to such meetings withoa..`• preventing the people of Ireland from holding any meet ing whatever with music or banners. Th o que .asion was then put, the amendment was nega tived, and the Bill passed through Committee without discussion, an d was reported. The Marquis a SALISBURY moved that the peti tion of Mr. Paton, sn engineer, claiming compensation for empenes incurred ( a e the petition alleged) by the order - .48, C ommittees of the House, be referred to a Select cmumittee. Atiter a few words from Lord COLBORNE and Lod WIGLANCLIFFE, the motion was negatived without a cliv!ision. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. The. Marquis of NORMANBY presented a petition from in.edical men in Shoreditch, in favour of improved sanatory regulations in the metropolis. The Noble Marquis then moved the order of the day for the consi deration of an humble address to her Majesty to the subject of the sanatoty coidition of the people. The unhealthiness of the large towns was on the increase, and called for sanatory regulations. In 1811 the mor tality in Manchester was only 1 in 78, in the last year it was 1 in 28, and fifty thousand persons perished an nually in the large towns from contagious diseases, which :sanatory regulations would have prevented. In the aneantime a great increase of the population of the large towns had been occasioned by the transfer of a large por tie= of the agricultural labourers to manufactures. In ;be year alluded to the agricultural population was double the manufacturing; but now the proportion was reversed, and the manufacturing population was as two to one to i-he agricultural. But, at the same time, the mortality lead increased ; anti in fifty towns, with an aggregate poculation of 2,051,799, upwards of 63,000 persons had dieJ in three years of contagious diseases. (The Noble Marqztia then read a number of statements from the works and reports of Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Arnott, and other gentlemen, to show tro the extent of pa . rts o the mepolis, arising in variou s from the want of ventilation and cleanliness.) He him self had accompanied some of those gentlemen into thh, w orst parts of Whitechapel, Bethnal-green, Shoreditce and Soho ; and he found all the evils pointed out by :those gentlemen existing in their most aggravated form. The slowness of the progress made by the Commission on tits subject, and the pressing character of the evil, con vinced him that be ought to bring forward this mot o n io even at this late period of the session. The Commis sioners had only sat twenty-eight days for the examina tion of witnesses, and in their report they state that they would proceed with the consideration which so im portant a subject required. But they seemed to over look that it was a &object which called for action more than consideration. They overlooked the fact that 156 persons died daily in the metropolis from that class of contagious ceases, which sanatory revlations would prevent. (The Noble Maronis then read statements from the evidence to show what was the deficiency of the supply of water in the poorer parts of the metropolis; and how easily and cheaply that evil could be remedied.) Mr, Hawksley, of the Nottingham water-works, stated that before the *establishment of those works, the people bought their water at the rate of id., id., or id. per bucket, according to the distance from which it was brought. But now he siupplied 79,000 gallons of water at a cost of It. Now, next to the supply of air, an abundant supply of pure water was most essential to the preservation of health. He wished most earnestly to press this subject on the attention of the House and the Government, for he be lieved that there was no equally industrious population in the world undergoing so much physical suffering from neglect of these m atters than- t he people of the United ;Kingdom. Of course in saying that he took into ac count the difFerence of climate which aggravated those evils in the United Kingdom. But he had visited great numbers of the huts of the negroes in the West Indies G laring the time of slavery, and he could confirm that an ,ds. -erwhelming outcry would be raised against any r d aL eter who would lodge his negroes in such wretched dWeb.:4lgB he had visited within the last few days. In " i n Shoreditch he found a woman with fi ve one COL IA children ill of fever. She paid Is. 6d. a wee; kfive for the room. S;lc we eks ago she was confined weeks ago her hit. he died of fever ; and during the illness of the p a ren to /he children had to procure water from a distance of a quarter or half a mile; for tie water company had cut off the,' supply of water from A of houses in the court two years ago (in consequence of a quarrel be - tween the two landladies who owned the cour t as to who • should pay the rate. In that whole ceurt, with so many • families, there was but one privy, and there was no sewer within a quarter of a elite distant. He would not oc my the House with the many details of this kind with . i a 'esi -.) sells h' that provided. He visited a place called /2 - -,.,-- , ,co which surpassed all that he had seen i ' _ :- --''east ' lieri. - ?' e might well say with the poet, that it : : -- , -,''.w a .a. , , s ,\E b6 3o--. ~/,.,_ ; , L ,. —WU gs the noontide air, and as we pass tc ', ~_, -,- 7 -, _ - ..-:Wes e to breathe the putrify ng mass." \ c :,- • - . wiar-e was somewhat differently situated ; there K --: s esestOsii"" rowel eil a population, and one saw gardens __, t „.. . showed-that they were eapable of enjoying ',.. amei e .e reined state of life if they were protected. But t h e sa lie deficiency and neglect produced the same evils THE SUN, LONDON, SATtUrRDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1844. here as elsewhere. There was a vast pool of stag nant water—a reservoir of contagion—in Lamb's-field, and a landowner in the neighbourhood used a stagnant ditch to keep the boys out of his fields, and save the ex pense of a fence, although he thus spread disease through the neighbourhood. These were things that ought not to be delayed. It was the opinion of Sir Robert Smirke, and others, that the Government could form a general plan which could be easily and effectually acted upon. It was said that these evils were the necessary atten dants upon poverty. But he denied that it was so, and the report of Dr. Arnott showed that the mortality in the great manufacturing towns, such as Manchester, Glasgow, &0., was nearly double in seasons of abundant work and wages, than what occurred in seasons of scarce work and scarcity of food. Here he would refer with pleasure to what occurred in Dundee, and which was highly creditable to the indus trious artisans of that place. A Mr. Simpson, a gentle man of great talents and benevolence, delivered lectures to them upon the importance of air, cleanliness, &c. to health. The consequence was, that those artisans united to establish baths for their own use. He hoped that this example would be followed elsewhere. (The Noble Marquis then read statistical calculations by Mr. M'Culloch, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Hawkesley, to show that in the fifty towns already referred to, there was a loss of 12,000,0001. per annum occasioned by sickness alone ; and -if the metropolis and other towns were added to the list, the whole loss to the labouring class from contagious disease alone, arising from this neglect, would be upwards of 30,000,0000 In Preston, out of eighty cases of fever, it appeared from the report of the medical gentlemen, that four slept in one bed, and only thirty-five had separate beds for each patient. He admitted that while the la bouring classes were obliged to lodge in this way, it would be of little use to attempt to improve their physical condition. And it appeared, from the reports, that no amelioration could take place in their condition until there was some limitation as to hours. Until that could be effected, the females of the labouring classes could not attend to domestic duties, or be fitted to pre serve their homes healthy and comfortable. In Ashton under-Lyne, Lord Stamford inserted in his leases clauses to enforce certain sanatory regulations. But, notwith standing that advantage, it appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Colecott, that the mortality of children was greater in Ashton-under-Lyne than in any of the other towns, occasioned by the unavoidable neglect of the mothers, who were at work in the factories. The remedy for this would be, obviously, that the mother should work fewer hours of the day, and sacrifice a portion of the wages, to attend to her domestic duty. Forty years ago, all those evils were shown to exist in Liverpool, by Dr. Duncan, who pointed out the natural remedies. Yet at this moment Liverpool was the unhealthiest town of all. He had endeavoured, and he hoped successfully, to prove that there ought to be no further delay. He trusted that their Lordships would show that after two years they had not repented of their good intentions. He would not interfere in their legislation upon this subject, because he was convinced that any measure must be taken up and carried out by the Executive Government in order to be effective. He therefore entreated them now, at the end of the session, before they returned to their own splendid homes, to approach the Sovereign, and assure her that " you retain your sympathy with the most patient, most industrious, most neglected,tand sufferingot her Majesty's subjects."— (Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis concluded by moving an address to the Crown, praying her Majesty to order a measure to be introduced on the subject of the sanatory condition of the people early in the next session. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH NN as conscious of the great importance of this subject. But he did not think that the Government was to blame for the delay that had taken place. The Bill brought in by the Nebh- , Marquis passed through this House, but WAS dropped in the other. After that the present Go vernment appointed a Commission of Sanatory Inquiry, and the Commissioners had discharged the duty assigned to them with great care and assiduity. He could not ad nit that the time spent in that inquiry was wasted. They had directed their attention to the laws already in existence bearing upon the sanatory condition of towns, and they had found that there could be a great deal more done under the existing laws than had been done. For instance, with respect to the sewerage. There were many parts of the metropolis in which the sewerage was excellent; in others, it was very defective. But he be lieved that the Commissioners were in doubt whether they hid the power of making new sewers, thinking that their powers were limited to the repairing of old sew..rs. The Commissioners had arrived at the conclu sion that street sewerage was of little use w ithout house drainage; whereas, in ma places, there were good sewers running down the middle-of the streets without any communication with the houses. Another subject to which they had attended was the supply of water— a subject of the greatest importance to the health of towns. They found that in so:ne parts of the metropolis the deficiency was disgricefnl. Mr. Hawkesley had shown them that the people of Nottingham were sup plied abundantly with water at the expense'of only per week for each family. The water was wanted not for domestic purposes only, but for cleansing the drains and sewers.—(l-lear, hear.) In Islington a very excel lent plan was adopted for " plushing" the sewers with water and thoroughly cleansing them. But in other places some strange regulations were in force respecting the sewers. It was positively forbidden to sweep into the sewers any portion of the filth of the street ; and it was also strictly forbidden to make any communication between the cess-pools and the sewers.—(Efear, hear.) These were matters which called for the interference of the Legislature. But there was great difficulty in dealing with these subjects. For instance, there were, some time ago, 30,000 persons living in cellars in Liverpool. Now the buildings in Liverpool and the neighbourhood in creased in fair proporion to the increase of the popula tion. Yet if these 30,000 persons were ejected from the cellars they could find no place to go to. Their present divellings were bad enough ; still it would be worse to have no roof over them at all. however, a Bill was passed for the purpose, and on the Ist of July they ought to have been all ejected ; but it could not be done, and the law was inoperative. Nor was it in those poorer neighbourhoods alone in the metropolis and the large towns that the people were packed more closely than they ought to be. It was proved More the Committee that in the immediate neighbourhood even of Grosvenor square people were crowded together in one room, and in one bed, to the great injury of morals as well as of health. He mentioned this to show the great difficulty of legislating on these subjects. Perhaps one of the greatest difficulties in all sanatory regulations was its expensiveness. It had been suggested that much might be done to get over that difficulty by a consolidation of the rates. On this subject and others, such as the supply of water and the construc tion and management of sewers, the most valuable in formation had been offered to the Commission by Dr. Arnott, Mr. Hawkesley, and the other gentlemen ex amined. Indeed, those gentlemen had received the thanks of the functionaries who were engaged in France in similar inquiries. A further cause of delay was the necessity for a complete survey, before any practical measure should be taken, and that requisite would he found in the Ordnance survey, which was now in progress. He would not trespass longer on the time of the House, although there were many points in the Noble Marquis's speech which were well worthy of their Lordships' deep consideration. lie would only observe that the mortality of children in the manufacturing towns was occasioned, not by the want of ventilation, but by the excessive administration of opiates to keep them quiet in the absence of the parents. With regard to the address proposed by the Noble Marquis, he was sorry he could not support it, for he did not see that it could effect any good, whereas it seemed to be a censure upon the Government for alleged delay.—(Hear, hear.) Ni man could be more anxious than he was to promote sanatory measures, but it was necessary to take time for the preparation of measures, so as to avoid such a failure as occurred in the case of Liverpool, when a sanatory act, obtained at great expense, had proved quite inope rative. lie believed that within a reasonable time the Commission would complete their report, so that early next session it would be in the power of the Govern ment to propose some measures, founded on the report, to either this or the other House of Parliament. He would move the previous question.. A messenger from the Commons brought up the Joint- Stock Companies Regulation Bill and several other Bills. The Marquis of NORMANBY did not think that the Noble Duke bad made out a sufficient reason for the delay of the report. However, as he had the expecta tion held out that sanatory measures founded on the re• port would be laid before Parliament next session, he would not press his motion, but would leave it in their Lordships' hands. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the Govern ment were not to blame for the delay. When the Noble Marquis brought forward his sanatory measures, being a Minister of the Crown, he (the Duke of Wellington) and those who were now in her Majesty's Government, sup ported the Noble Marquis.—(Hear, hear.) No time had since been lost ; and, under these circumstances, he thought the House might have been spared the pain of being called upon to vote an address, which could not be looked upon as any other than a censure on the Govern ment, who had applied themselves earnestly to the subject. The Marquis of NORMANDY had no intention of casting censure upon the Government. The previous question was then carried, and the ad dress was lost. The Bills on the table were advanced a stage. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 26. SAVINGS BANKS BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Colonel RUSHBROOKE thought that 3/. 6s. Bd. was little enough. Mr. B. DENISON hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would adhere to his proposition. Mr. HAWES moved that 3/. Gs. Bd. be substituted for 31. ss. Lord CLIVE supported the amendment. Mr. HUME said that if the Right Hon. Gentleman made the 'minimum interest 21. 18s. 4d., inst. , ad of the uaximuni 31., it would leave a margin of Gs. 8(1. for tile management. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER cou'd not agree to th, proposition of the Holt. Member f.r Nlontrw , e. He thought it would prevent the establish ment of new banks. Mr. B. DEN ISON did not think that a difference of Is. Bd. would prevent the establishment if new banks.—(lfear, hear.) Mr. HUME was opposed to any maximum. He cid n ot see why the banks should not -pay 31. 4s. t'lcy could afford it.—(Hear.) The Committee then divided. when there appeard-- For the amendment 2O ra Again it it Majority -31 The clause was then agreed to, and ordered to stand part of the Bill. On clause 2, which fixes the maximum rate of interest at 31., being proposed, Mr. HUME proposed, as an amendment, that there should be a minimum of 2/. 18s. 4d., instead of a maxi mum of 31: Mr. B. DENISON supported the amendment. The clause was then agreed to. Clauses 3, 4, and 5 were also put, and agreed to. Clause 6 was agreed to, after a short discussion. Clauses up to 12 were agreed to, after some verbal amendments. Clause 13 was agreed to with a few verbal amend ments, as were clauses up to 20. The remaining clauses were agreed to; the House re sumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. NEW WRIT. A new writ was ordered to issue for the borough of Cirencester, in the room of T. Master, Esq., who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. WINDOW DUTY. Captain PECHELL wished to know whether unglazed lights, for sanatory purposes, were subject to the window duty ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could give no opinon on the subject. BOOKS AND ENGRAVINGS BILL. The House then went through Committee on the Books and Engravings Bill, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from a place in Ireland against the Charitable Bequests (Ire land) Bill ; also a petition from St. Luke's, signed by 6,000 ratepayers, praying for the release of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., and his fellow•prisoners. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice, that on Monday, he should move that the salaries of the Poor-law Commis sioners be reduced to 1,0001. each ; and that the salaries of Assistant Poor-law Commissioners be reduced to 400/. a year each. Sir JAMES GRAHAM then moved the third read ing of the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Colonel SIBTHORP rose to oppose the motion. He regretted that the Right Hon. Gentleman on the Trea sury bench, to whom he was anxious to give his sup port, and of whose talents and integrity he entertained the highest opinion should have considered it his duty to force forward this Bill in such a manner. He was surprised to find that the Right Lion. Gentleman thought - it right, at the last moment, to refuse him (Colonel Sib thorp) the return for which he had moved on the sub ject of the Poor-law Commissioners. They received large sums of the public money, even the Assistant Commissioners had 7001. a-year each, which was more than the pay of officers in the army and navy. He desired to know how that money had been applied, and he would tell Hon. Gentlemen that it must come out.—(A laugh.) He hoped Hon. Gentlemen opposite would assist him in opposition to this Bill. Mr. B. COCHRANE was glad to find that there were Hon. Members found to discuss this Bill, and to propose amendments in it, notwithstanding the lateness of the period at which it had been brought forward, notwithstanding the disinclination of the Go verument to discuss the condition of the poor of this country, and in spite of the taunts and sneers thrown out by Hon. Members behind the Treasury benches against those who ventured to occupy the time of the House. This very Bill was a confession that hitherto. they had been legislating on a bad system ; and with regard to the two great points of out-door relief, and of the separation of man and wife, on which his Hon. Friend the Member for Evesham had brought for ward a motion, the Right lion. Gentleman was obliged to confess that they had departed from the principles of the Bill. The present poor-law had not checked paupe rism. It increased with our population, and every im provement in our manufactures lessened the demand for labour and increased pauperism. Ile had met with a fanciful supposition'the other day that the Pyramids had been built to find work for the poor. But now every ning was done to throw them out of work. At the great agr'cultura.l meeting the other day, the Prussian Ambassador stated that the King of Prussia had said, how happy a country England must be where old things were a; new, and where the new were identified with the old. lie should like to know how this new poor-law was identified with old things, and what hold it had on the sympathies of the people? He thought this measure ought to form the principal consideration of her Majesty's Government at an early period of the next session. He believed that the time was not far distant when they would be obliged to repeal the law altogether. It' he lived till the next session he should give any measure founded upon the principles of the present law his di tided opposition. Mr. HUME thought that it was to be regretted that Hon. Members who talked of the prejudices of the people to this measure should in that House do all they could to fan that prejudice. He believed that the great cause of complaint in the measure was that its provisions were not properly carried out. With regard to the Commissioners they had a most ardent and difficult du. y to perform, and he could only say, being one of the Committee that sat in 1838, when an inquiry was made into the conduct of the Com misione.rs, that the result of the deliberation of that Com mittee was a recommendation to continue the Commis sioners in preference to any other tribunal. Those who were anxious for the c ndition of the poor ought to ach,pt far different measures to those, which were cal culated to increase their disaffection. _ Mr. HARDY hailed the present measure with pecu liar delight, because it was calculated to take away a great number of the severities from the present measure. fie ten lered his best thanks to the Government for the manner in which they had proposed their alterations to the Bill, and he trusted that it would give satisfaction to the country. Mr. BORTHWICK said that whatever might be the ultimate effect of machinery, it could not be denied that it inflicted a great evil in transitu which fell very heavily on the poor. With regard to the present Bill, it was about to become the law of the land, and he sincerely hoped that everything that would be now said respecting it would tend to make it work well, and for the benefit of those to whom it was to be applied. He was confident that the Right Hon. Secretary of State had acted throughout from the purest motives, and they must all feel indebted to him for the ability he had displayed, and the courtesy with which he had listened to the suggestions of those who had felt it their duty to make them. He was convinced that the machinery of the Act had been worked so as to produce an effect the reverse of what the authors of the Bill intended ; and he expressed a hope that the recent declaration of Sir J. Graham would in duce gentlemen more readily to act as guardians of the poor than they had hitherto done. He believed it was a good Bill—(Laughter)--that was to say, as far as it went. —(Oh, oh.) But it was not extensive enough entirely to reform the evils of which they complained. But as far as it went it ameliorated the condition of the poor, mid admitted at least the defects of the existing law. Mr. WAKLEY said he believed the magistrates throughout the country were generally aware that they had the power of ordering relief to old per sons, provided one magistrate would certify, of his own knowledge, that they required it. But what the magis trates complained of was, that they could not order the amount of relief or its quality. It might be given either in money or in food, and might be so stinted as to force the recipients into the house to save themselves from starvation. With respect to the Bill, he did not think the Government could complain of any unjust opposition having been offered to it, considering the late period of the session to which it had been delayed. The alterations that had been made in it would work well for the poor, and he should cordially vote for the third reading. He regretted that such observations as those that had fallen from the Hon. Member for Bridport should be made in that House. It was too late in the day now to exclaim against machinery ; the supposition that it destroyed human labour was a great fallacy. On the contrary, it created it to an enormous extent. The regulation of machinery was another question, and it should only be dealt with by wise and experienced heads.—(Hear, hear.) The principle of the law of 1834, the workhouse test, was ndw gone ; for the Right Hon. Gentleman told them that seven out of eight persons received out-door relief. He believed the new poor-law had been productive of very great disadvantage in one respect. It had been asserted in that House and other places, that there ought to be no poor law at all. He was afraid that this feeling had worked its way into various classes of society. The Right Hon. Gentleman said that if the Poor-law Commissioners did their duty, they would be the protectors of the poor. It was quite clear the poor needed protection somewhere, and he hoped they would receive it from the Poor-law Commissioners. The declarations as to there being no necessity for a poor-law had had a pernicious effect on the rate-payers and the guardians. He believed the ex officio guardians were in favour of far mo re strin gent regulations than the elected guardians.—(Hear, hear.)' The attempts made to reduce the salaries of medical officers and other persons had driven the Commissioners to resort to an expedient which he could not but call most preposterous. He begged the atten tion of the House for a moment to this matter ; it was the most curious in medical history. They had all heard the expression, no doubt, " No cure, no pay." With reference to the payment of medical men, the guardians had been so stingy and so niggardly, that, in order to give medical men an emolument somewhat approaching to their circumstances, the Commissioners had hit upon the expedient of giving extra pay under peculiar circumstances. Well, now, what were those peculiar cireums'ances ? " For the amputation of a leg, 5/. ; for the amputation of an arm, 5/. ; for the ampu tation of it foot, 5/. ; for the amputation of a hand, 5L," &c. Thus, for cutting off a limb, which was one of the simplest operations in surgery, and which took only a few minutes, the operator generally not requiring to see the patient more than half a dozen times subse quently, the r emuneration was 51. Now, for a bruise requiring the utmost care and skill to preven t mortification, and surgical attendance day by clay, perhaps, for weeks and months, what was the extra remuneration ? Not one farthing.—(Hear, hear.) Was anything so preposterous . ever heard of ? remuneration to to a ..--(Hear, hear.) ll.' believed that, if the Commissioners • •No men made greater sacrifices for pis post.e ous scale. hadmcd medical the sake of . the p ,or than medical men, but, by the e t t l . le ( y )l. wouldgiving neveraleq adequate pre sent system, they were laid open to the most unjustifiable imputations. H He knew an instance in which a man who had his feet frost-bitten had been taken into a work house; the surgeon had recom mend e d amputation, and another surgeon who had been called in consultation, also recommended it; the man refused to submit, and Nature had since performed the operation , for a p art of the, feet had sloughed off. Now that surgeon had been ex p osed most unjustly to the imputation of having wished to perf .rm a needless operation. He hoped t he Commis sioners would, in every case, insist on boards of guardians properly remunerating medical men, and then there would be no necessity for the introduction of such a novel system. He hoped, if other alterations should be found necessary, the Government would introduce a Bill next session, and the sensible portion of the public would be thankful to them for their exertions. Mr. BICKHAM ESCOTT thought it would be diffi cult to say whether the general effects of the law had done harm or good. In some unions in which it had reduced the rates, it had reclaimed a vagabond population, whilst in others the rates had been increased, and both rate payers and paupers were dissatisfied. He congratulated the Right Hon. Gentleman on having introduced such a useful scheme of education into the present Bill—a scheme which contained all the good but none of the evil of the education measure of last year. With re gard to out-door relief, as the subject was important, he would again state what he had previously said on the subject. As had been remarked by the Hon. Member for Finsbury, two justices possessed the power of order ing out-of-door relief to old people out of work. But the beard of guardians also possessed the power in cases of emergency. The Commissioners had excepted from their prohibitory order all cases of sudden and urgent necessity, leaving it entirely to the boards of guardians to determine what cases were cases of sudden and urgent necessity.—(Hear, hear.) It had been said that the law had caused the recent calamitous events in Suffolk and Norfolk; that the peasantry, goaded to desperation, had, out of a spirit of revenge, destroyed the property of their superiors. He did not believe that such a state of baleful feeling existed among the peasantry of this country. They knew that everywhere labour was the lot of the multitude, and that the lot of ease was that of a few only; and they also knew that attempts of this kind would only aggravate their sufferings, and end by bringing on them the vengeance of the law, for he trusted that the law would always be found strong enough to vindicate the rights of property. He was satisfied that they never would have an economical system for the relief of the poor until they returned to parochial divisions—(Hear) —or at least until they had smaller divisions than the unions now in existence ; and he would quote the autho rity of the Duke of Wellington in support of his argu ment. The Hon. and Learned Member then quoted the opinion of the Duke of Wellington, which was to the effect that the present law was only for the purpose of bringing back the law of the 43d of Elizabeth. He begged again to express his sincere pleasure at the fe licitous termination of this Bill, and the improvements which it had undergone in Committee. Captain PECHELL asserted that the people of Brighton, however their opinions might have been mis represented, were entirely averse to the interference of the Poor-law Commissioners. Mr. BANKES said, notwithstanding the changes which had taken place in the poor-law during the pre sent session, it must not be considered that the question was finally settled. It would be open to every Hon. Member in future sessions to propose further modifica tions. Among the defects of the present measure was the immense extent of some of the unions, which was in all respects disadvantageous and inconvenient to the poor, but in none more than the difficulty of obtaining medical aid, which the extent of these unions in most cases involved. He hoped it would be found prac ticable to limit the expense of the machinery of the system. With these observations, and congratulating the House on the improvement which had been made in the law, ho would not trespass further on their attention. Mr. BARNARD regretted that the Right Hon, Baronet had not conceded the power to two magistrates, which several Hon. Friends had so strongly pressed upon the Government. Sir J. GRAHAM said the question of medical relief was under the consideration of a Committee, over which Lord Ashley prerided. He did not mean to say that the present system of medical relief was perfect, and would be happy to make such changes in the law on a future occasion as, with due consideration to economy, would afford greater accommodation to the poor, and more adequate remuneration to medical officers. He felt deeply indebted to both sides of the House for the favourable manner in which they had received the Bill, and tendered every Hon. Member his sincere acknow ledgments. With respect to the bastardy law, a very full discussion took place on the power of appeal, in Corn :nittee, and tho BLII contained the almost unanimous opinion of that Committee. He would not trespass further on the attention of the House. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the third reading of the Turnpike Trusts Bill. After a few observations from Viscount EBRINGTON and Mr. CRIPPS. the Bill was read a third time. JOINT-STOCK BANKS REGULATION BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Transfer of Licenses (Post-horses) Ireland Bill was read a third time and passed. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Consolidated Fund (6,969,8561. 10s. 3d.) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S BILL. On the motion for the order of the day being read for going into Committee on this Bill, Admiral DUNDAS said he thought this Bill ought to be postponed for a few days, as it had only been in the hands of Members twenty-four hours. Sir C. NAPIER thought this a most important Bill, and it ought, therefore, to be proceeded with at once. Lord INGESTRE thought the Bill ought to proceed. Mr. WAWN complained that the Bill was a Bill of Pains and Penalties on shipowners and seamen. After a few words from Mr. HUME, the order of the clay was read, and, on the motion that the House do re solve itself into Committee, Mr. S. HERBERT sail that, so far from this being a Bill of Pains and Penalties. it was a remission of penal ties. It was very common for British seamen in foreign ports to be very harshly dealt with, and it was to protect them against oppression and injustice that this Bill had been brought in. The Bill had been for a con siderable time before the public, and ample opportunity had been given for its considerdtion. Under these cir cumstances he hoped the House would support him in his endeavours to pass the Bill into Committee. If, however, Hon. Gentlemen should wish the Bill post poned he would consent to do so, and fix it for Monday at twelve o'clock. NlV''jCilitisEhiLreLZMafrt.eSr complimenting the Hon. S. Herbert) on his ability me C in ap b t e a r in for P in filling the office of Secretary of the Admiralty, said he would support the principle of this Bill, but with many of its details he could not agree. Sir C. NAPIER hoped the Bill would positively - be brought on on Monday. Mr. WAWN moved as an amendment that the Bill should be committed on Wednesday next. Mr. FORSTER seconded the amendment. Admiral DUNDAS said it would be impossible for him to be here on Monday. Sir CHARLES NAPIER trusted that the Secretary of the Admiralty would persevere in moving the Com mittee on Monday. Mr. HUME thought the Bill ought not to be com mitted till Wednesday, in order that they might have a proper Bill that would meet the sanction of all parties. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For Mr. Wawn's amendment Against it 36 Majority against the amendment —27 On our admission to the gallery we found Captain PECHELL on his legs, trusting that the Hon. Gentleman would postpone the Committee till Wednesday. a it n t y ed. After a few observations from Mr. FOSTER, The Bill was ordered to be committed on Monday. The Woods and Forests Accounts Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Grand Canal (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, anti or d e red to be co mm i tte d on M o nday. Bill was read a second time andT h n e rd S e o r u ed th to Se b a e C nn o ni m ni p The Spirits (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Fisheries (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Customs (New South Wales) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Clerks to Attorneys Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Piccadilly Improvement Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be referred to the following Select Committee on Monday :—The Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Young, Captain Rous, Mr. Leader, Colonel Wood, Mr. Pringle, Mr. Masterman, Mr. Gaily Knight, Colonel Fox, Sir Charles Lemon, and five to be added by the Committee of Selection. The Militia Pay Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Monday. PROTECTION TO PURCHASERS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. Clauses from I to 33 were agreed to, without discussion. , Mr. SHEIL ro s e to move the clause of which he had given notice for the purpose of providing compensation to Mr. O'D w y er , th e S e condary of the C ourt of Exche quer (Ireland), whose rights will be affected by the operation of this Act. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he proposed to add a clause to the Bill, by which pro vision would be made for the proper compensation of this officer, whose salary, under the new Act, he pro posed to fix by the average receipt of fees during the last seven years. If the new Bill brought in any surplus above this amount, it would be paid into the Treasury. Mr. Sheil did not press his clause, and the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was agreed to; and the clause having been added to the Bill, it went through Committee. The report was brought up, and ordered to be received on Monday. CRIMINAL JUSTICE ( MIDDLESEX) BILL. The House having resumed, Sir J. GRAIIA NI moved the order of the day for receiving; the report on this Bill. Mr. HUME asked the Right H on. Baronet if he would lay on the table the correspondence that had taken p lace between him and the magistrates with respect to this measure ? He also wished to know to what expense the county would be bound by the Bill. Sir J. GRAHAM was sorry the Hon. Member was not in hi s place on the previous evening when the Bill was fully discussed:and when he read to the House the only letter of any importance he had addressed to the magistrates. Mr. HUME—I have seen it to-day. Sir J. GRAHAM—If the Hon. Member had seen it, lie had seen the only document of any consequence that had passed between himself and the magistrates. He did intend to consider the past services of a gentleman who, upon the whole, had discharged his duties effi ciently, but he was not bound by pledge to that gentle man : nor did he intend this measure to lead to the general establishment of any particular system of prison discipline, although he did intend ,to. - provide for the proper preservation of order in the prisons, and the pre vention of the contamination of some description of pri soners by the others. Mr. WILLIAMS said that:the Right Hon. Gentle man seemed to have given more consideration to the correspondence that night than he had last night. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the omission of the clause which he had brought up last night respecting the sheriff, to which the Hon. Member for Finsbury took an exception, and, in his opinion, a well founded ob jection. - - The motion was agreed to, and a new clause was sub stituted in its place. The report was then received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time at ta•cl'e o'clock on Monday. SLAUGHTERING HORSES BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up and received. The Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. PRIVY COUNCIL BILL. The House resolved itself into Committee on this Bill. Clauses Ito 8 were agreed to. Mr. ELPHINSTONE moved the following clause : " And be it enacted, that in all cases of appeal to her Majesty in Council from ecclesiastical courts, and from admiralty or vice-admiralty courts, which have been, now are, or may hereafter be depending, in which any person duly monished, or cited, or requested to comply with any lawful order or decree of her Majesty in Coun cil, or of the'Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, or their surrogates, made before or after the passing of this Act, shall have neglected or refused, or shall neglect or refuse, to pay obedience to such lawful order or decree, or shall have committed or shall commit any contempt of the process under the seal of her Majesty in ecclesias tical and maritime causes, it shall be lawful for the said Judicial Committee or their surrogates to pronounce such person to be contumacious and in con tempt, and after he shall have been so pro nounced contumacious and in contempt, to cause pro cess of sequestration to issue under the said seal of her Majesty against the real and personal estate, goods, chattels, and effects, wheresoever lying, within the domi nions of her Majesty, of the person against or upon whom such order or decree shall have been made, in order to enforce obedience to the same, and payment of the ex penses attending such sequestration, and all proceedings consequent thereon, and to make such further order in respect of, or consequent on, such sequestration, and in respect to such real and personal estate, goods, chattels, and effects sequestrated thereby, as may be necessary, or for payment of money arising from the same to the per son to whom the same may be due, or into the registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals, for the benefit of those who may be ultimately entitled thereto." Sir J. GRAHAM said that lie had great doubts whe ther the Committee could pass the clause without the consent of the Crown, as it would interfere with the pre rogative of the Crown. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that he should oppose the clause. Mr. AGLIONBY supported the clause. He appre hended that the consent of the Crown was not necessary, and if it were, it might be obtained through the Govern ment. He suggested, however, that the clause should be withdrawn, and brought up again on the report. The clause was then postponed. The Chairman reported progress, the House re sumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday next. The House then adjourned at a Quarter-past Nine. SPIRIT Gf the - PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—There is no defeat of the present Government which we have witnessed with more E atisfaction than that of the " holier than thou" Mr. Gladstone, in the matter of Sunday third-class railway trains. Trains ought either to be permitted to run at all on Sundays—or they ought not. If there should be no Sunday trains, we need not an Oxford logician to tell us there should be no third-class ones. But, if first and second-class trains should run on Sundays, a fortiori should third-class trains. We shall endeavour to show this to the satisfaction of a student of Aldrich (who would do well to study Wheatly). Those who are truly at tached (among whom we beg to rank ourselves) to Lord's day observance, admit—such of them as admit the pro priety of sanctioning Sunday trains—that there are cases in which Sunday travelling may be a work of necessity it mercy. How can that plea be less applicable to third 1 to first or second-class travellers? Nay, how can it ilto be applicable more frequently to the former than the atter—first, in proportion to the larger constituency of whom hey are representatives—and secondly, in the ratio of their more frequent and urgent occasions? And why, when some errand of necessity, or mercy, occurs to the poor man, should he be supposed abler to pay a second-class fare than at other times ? Nay, how should he be sup posed otherwise than less able for extra expenditure ? It will be observed that we have taken the narrowest ground in favour of the decision of the House against Mr. Gladstone. We have adapted our argument to the scruples of the most scrupulous Sabbath observers. Perhaps a larger necessity and a larger mercy might have been pleaded for the case of pent artisans and their families in the town labyrinths of daily toil. However, we have no occasion to argue that question at present. The running of Sunday rail way trains was already a foregone conclusion. The sole point in dispute was, whether their accommodation should extend to the poorer classes. That point the House of Commons, creditably to itself, carried against the Government. We have no disposi tion to ascribe oppressive motives to Mr. Gladstone or his col leagues. We regard him as the smooth shopman, who dis plays his assortment in the church-line to the beet advan tage. Neither do we charge him with insincerity in his recom mendations of it. Recent police reports have brought to light a practice existing in the drapery line of what is called shaving the ladies, and receiving a per tentage from employers for so doing That Mr. Gladstone " shaves the ladies," and the lady-like portion of the public, from any other than the most orthodox motives, we do not for one moment believe. That wicked wit, Sydney Smith, is said to have once accused him of " rather a retail manner." But we entirely ac quit him of retail practices. We believe he repre sents with good faith official religion—or what is left of it. Believing Mr. Gladstone honest in his scruples, we believe him feeble and vacillating in his mind. What a point, to be sure, to court defeat upon, for the orthodox organ of a strong Government ! Mr. Gladstone thinks that work ing men would rather travel on Saturday than break into Sunday. We dare say they would, if they could afford to lose the time, and to lose the pence. We have already said, however, that we will not enter into the general question of Sunday travelling. We only denounce the inconsistency (of which the House showed its sense by its vote) of treating first and second-class trains as good, and denouncing on third class Anathema Maranatha. STANDARD.—The narrative of the progress made to wards the suppression of the slave-trade, last night, given by the Earl of Aberdeen with so much clearness and so little pretension, will highly gratify the people of this country and the Christian community throughout the world. The average annual importation of slaves from Africa to Cuba and the Brazils has been reduced from nearly 100,000, in the years between 1835 and 1840, to 28,000 in the last three years ; and this latter average would have been much lower, (the number imported in 1842 being, in fact, but 17,000) but for the violent changes in the Government of Spain, and the substitution in the government of Cuba, for the humane and intelligent Valdez, of a person of a different stamp, O'Donnell. It was, however, stated by Lord Aber deen. that the British Government had succeeded in wringing from the Government of Spain, though not until after a long delay and a stubborn re sistance, a law forbidding Spanish subjects to embark in the slave trade. The effect of this law must be promptly to extinguish the abominable traffic, for, as the Noble Secre tary for Foreign Affairs explains, the Governments of France and of the United States are disposed to co-operate cordially with Great Britain in her noble purpose. This need surprise no one. As far as the Government of France is concerned, we may confidently anticipate from the wise and good King of the French, and from the prudent and benevolent statesmen who happily fill his council, whatever is just, and humane, and generous, and France, as well as the American Common wealth, have even a nearer and more immediate interest than we have in the suppression of the slave-trade, for this very reason, that they have hitherto fou n d it difficult, if not im possible, to exclude slavery from the dependencies of the one, and from territory of the other. As between states cultivating the same produce in a tro p ical climate, w e have unfortunate proof that t he use of slaver y g ives some ad evlahnntaatgeess, ; thebutpractice a s we h states ve..t r a using i gives incomparably in such greater advantages. If, therefore , it is re p roached to Gr e a t Britain that, upon commercial gro unds, she wishes an end put to slavery every where (she g ave noble p roof twelve bet of the en s years ago of a higher motive)—it may be said—not in the way id reproach, but as a reason for trusting their sincerity—that all States which still use slave labour, but do not soil their hands with a slave trade, must upon commercial grounds de sire an end put to the execrable traffic in human beings, be cause the slave buyers and slave butchers can always undersell them, as the slave butchers of Cuba and the Brazils do, in fact, undersell the United States planters and the French colonists, as well as the British colonists, Thus there is a gradation of interest happily enforcing the common duty, and tending to its ultimate accomplishment. The free-labour countries are deeply interested to put an end to slavery; the intermediate countries, which admit slave labour, have a still deeper interest in extinguishing the slave trade. When we see the first commercial nation on the face of the earth at the head of the series, and the next in-order of wealth, in telligence, and commercial importance, occupying the inter mediate station, we cannot doubt of the result, even could we doubt of the benignant purposes of Providence. For our own part we have never been able to understand why Spain, Portugal, and the Brazils, have not been compelled to termi nate the slave trade—compelled not by a desultory war of cruisers, but by bold language, boldly spoken in their capitals, enforced, if necessary, by the voice of artillery in their ports. We are no friends to interference with indepen dent States; but for interference in this matter, we have the justification of successive treaties all shamefully violated, and the authority of numerous precedents—Algiers in 1816, Greece in 1828, the Netherlands in 1831, and Spain and Portugal themselves from 1830 to 1838. Ques tionless it is more satisfactory to obtain the desired end as Lord Aberdeen is likely to obtain it, by mild and peaceful negotiation ; but it may be as well if all parties arc reminded of the robust right which the humane and enlightened nations still have in reserve should negotiation fail. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of July 26.) SUGAR.—=To-day there was less inclination shoWn to pur chase West India Sugar, but holders were firm and obtained former prices ; the demand was limited for grocery and re fining purposes. Barbadoes was only partly disposed of, fine yellow at 64s Gd, good at Gls to 635 6d, mid 58s to 60s, low 57s to 57s 6d. St. Lucia went at 61s for fine yellow, 58s Gd to 59s for good, 57s 6d for mid, 55s for good brown, 52s for low, 56s to 56s 6d for mid grey; some lots were taken in. REFINED.—The demand has been good for Refined Sugar from the home trade this week, and prices have ruled firm ; for Treacle few purchasers are to be met with, and prices are goinz down ; in Loaves, prices are firm. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the market was well supplied, the quantity brought to public sale amounting to 11,994 bags 89 casks ; the demand was good, and the whole found purchasers, but at a decline on former rates of 6d per cwt— line yellow fetched from 64s to 665, good from 59s to 61s 6d, mid 56s 6d to 58s, low 55s to 565, good to fine brown 52s to 54s 6d, mid 50s to 51s, low 45s to 475, and grey 54s to 60s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Bengal Sugar has met with ready pur chasers, and the rates paid are equal to those of this day week. This afternoon there were three public sales of Ben gal Sugar, containing 4,379 bags; buyers were less inclined to purchase, and a part only was disposed of rather under former rates : tine white realised 64s to 665, good 62s Od to 635, low and middling 60s to 61s 6d, low yellow 53s to 55s 6d, and middling 57s to 58s per owt. FOREIGN.—Holders of all descriptions still manifest firm ness, and have refrained from offering any at public sale this week. For yellow Havannah very full rates have been paid. White is held at the improved rates of last week. Bahia sold on the spot at 18s 6d, MOLASSE.9.—HoIders are less inclined to realise, and rather more inclination has been shown to purchase West India. This afternoon St. Lucia was taken it at 22s per cwt. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—AII descriptions of Ja maica Rum this week have been disposed of at very full rates ; fair quality 32 to 34 per cent overproof at 3s 3d to 3s 4d, better quality 33 to 35 over 3s 5d to 3s 7d, good 35 to 36 over 3s 8d to 3s 10d, fine 4s, 4s 3d, and 4s 6d per gallon. Leewards sold at 2s 3d to 2s 4d for proof to 4 per cent over proof. Demerara at 3s 3d, for 35 to 36 per cent over proof. Calcutta Rum at is lld to is 114,d per gallon proof, with certificate, In Brandy a trifling business, and the tendency in prices is still downwards. Wu quote Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1538, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s ld; ditto 1839, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s lld ; ditto 1840, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d ; mid and good mid sorts 3s to 4s 6d, and low 2s Bcl to 2s 10d per gallon. Geneva at is 10d to is l ld. Fine for home consumption at 2s 8d to 3s 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits at 10s 4d per gallon cash. TEA.—There has not been much business transacted in the Tea market this week. This afternoon the public sales were brought to a conclusion ; there was a better demand, and a larger proportion of Tea was disposed of than on the former day; in prices there is no variation, excepting in Pouchong, which went rather cheaper: of the total quantity offered, amounting to 23,000 packages, 7,000 were sold; common Congou finished at 10id per lb. COFFEE.—lmporters of West India have manifested firm ness this week, and none has been submitted to public com petition; more desire has been manifested to purchase Jamaica by private contract, and several parcels have been sold at the previous currency ; all unclean kinds of West India are, however, difficult of sale, and may be purchased at comparatively low rates. This afternoon the public sales consisted of 100 bales Mocha, 754 bags Ceylon, and 160 bags Bahia Coffee. Mocha was all taken in at 68s for comihon green mixed and rather poddy, being above the value. Ceylon went briskly at full rates— good ord pale fetched 53s to 545, ord 52s 6d, sea damaged first class 51s 6d to 52s 6d, second ditto 495, third ditto 45s 6cl, sea damaged and repacked 41s. Bahia was partly dis posed of, at full rates. _ _ _ COCOA.—Although easier rates have been taken for West India, still buyers operate with reluctance. Foreign upon lower terms. SAGo.—Prices are going down. Sago Flour at 18s to 19s per cwt. St. Vincent Arrowroot at bid to 7Ad per lb. RICE.—The demand has increased considerably for Madras Rice, and prices have advanced 3d per cwt. This afternoon Bengal Rice was less in request, and 2,096 bags at auction went rather under former rates, but the whole sold at Ils to lls 6d for mid white ; 469 bags Siam were taken in at 9s 6d per cwt for ord white. lisorao.—The East India quarterly sale of Indigo, consist ing of 15,146 chests, finished this afternoon ; of that quantity 1,902 were withdrawn during the progress of the sale. The prices for all descriptions of Bengal ruled from par to 3d dis count, but for all the good and fine qualities the decline ranged from 3d to 4d per lb. OiLs.—There has been less activity in the market for com mon descriptions of Fish Oils this week • in prices, however, little variation has occurred ; on the whole a fair business has been transacted at 35/ lOs for Pale Seal, 331 lOs to 34/ for Cod, and 291 to 33l per tun for Southern. This afternoon at auction 279 casks East India Rapeseed Oil were taken in at 341 15s ; 58 hhds 34 butts Cocoa Nut Oil sold at 27/ 15s to 29/ 15s per tun ; :200 tuns Southern Oil partly sold at 25/ lOs to 32/ ; 50 tuns Sperm at 81/ lOs for Oil and 86/ to 871 for Headmatter. TALLOW.—The market is well supplied with all descriptions of Tallow. P. Y. Candle of first quality under 41s for large, and 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt for small parcels. For delivery little business has been transacted, and there are sellers at 42s 3d to 42s 6d per cwt for the last three months ofthe year. Ame rican Tallow is plentiful. Town Tallow 40s to 40s 6d per cwt. This afternoon at public sale 378 casks New South Wales Tallow were partly sold at 36s 6d to 41s 9d, 6 casks East India 38s, 50 casks Archangel 39s 9d, and 40 casks South American 38s 9d per cwt. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Sydenham steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander D. Mapleton, arrived at Gibraltar, from Devonport and Tangier on the 9th inst., and immediately sailed from that port tc Barcelona with dispatches for the Ambassador, and was to proceed thence to Malta, with instructions to Vice-Admiral Sir E. Owen, the Commander-in-Chief. As we anticipated a fortnight since, Sir E. Owen, in the Formidable, 84, with the Aigle, 26. Captain Lord Paget, were on their passage from Malta, and the Sydenham met the Admiral at Barce lona. By this time he will have arrived at Gibraltar, and the Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, C. 8., and the Cale donia, 120, Captain A. Milne, will not be far distant. The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, will also be there in a few days, so that we shall have three of the finest line-of battle ships, two heavy frigates, a 26-gun frigate, and a few steamers, fully manned and equipped, and able, as Sir G. Cockburn stated, to take their part, whether they meet friend or foe. The Warspite, 50, Captain Wallis, was at Gibraltar on the 14th inst., and the Jemappes, 100, Belle Poule, 60, frigate; and Pluton, GassQndi, Rubis, and another steam-frigate, be longing to the French, were also lying there, and it was the general impression that the Prince de Joinville would keep his squadron on that side of the straits. The Dutch squadron Rhin, 50, Jason, 44, and Snelheid, 14, brig, were also there, and a Sardinian, 22, corvette, named the Eagle. The Meteor steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Butler, has left Woolwich for Cork. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Pretty man, has been floated out of the basin at Woolwich. The Black Eagle steam-yacht came to Woolwich yester• day, with her Majesty the Queen Dowager, from Antwerp, and'remain3 at that port. PROMOTIONS. Commander Robert Wood, from the retired list of 1830, to the retired list of 1816. Lieutenants—Richard Elliot Twigg, William Milne (b), Alfred Dale, William Smith (c), James Wallace (b), James Fitzmaurice, of 1807, to the rank of Commander on the re tired list of 1830. Mate—Charles A. Isaakson (1836), of the Formidable, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENT. Lieutenant Robert Hopkins (1842), to the Formidable. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Walter Henry Austin, was brought before Sir John Key, in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, charged with having embezzled the difference between 851. 13s. 10d. and 71. lls. 9d., the pro perty of Mr. Robinson, merchant and Custom-house agent. Mr. Walford, the solicitor, to the Customs, attended, with Mr. Adolphus, for the Board of Customs ; and Mr. Chambers appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Chambers requested to be informed whether Mr. Robinson was the prosecutor, or whether the proceeding emanated from the Customs ? Mr. Robinson said that he attended at the request o: the solicitor to the Customs. Mr. Robinson then stated that he carried on business at No. 12, Water-lane, in partnership with his sons. In the month of July, 1842, he received a letter of advice of the shipment of certain silks by the Batavier, from Rot terdam. The prisoner was at that time clerk in the establishment, and it was his business to make an entry and clear the goods. Witness had, in the prisoner's handwriting, a copy of the entry made of the silks, by which it appeared that 851. 13s. 10d. was necessary to be paid at the:Customs for duty on a case:marked V. 13., 695. The cheque produced was in the handwriting of the prisoner, and was signed by a partner in the firm, and had been paid by the bankers. The witness, upon his cross-examination, stated that he acted in the case as a Custorn•house agent for Vanbrook and Sons, and that he was asked by the solicitor to the Customs to attend, in consequence of an examination of his books by the Custom-house authorities. Thomas Greenslade Whitmore, a clerk in the Custom house, stated that the bill of sight produced stated that certain goods were entered, of which he (the prisoner) had no invoice, and upon that bill he got sight of the goods after the usual declaration, had been administered to him. Mr. William Widimot stat<•d that in July, 1842, he was receiving the ground receipts at the Custom-house. The perfect entry paper now produced contained an entry of 71. Us. 9d. upon which the prisoner obtained the goods, and the 71. 11s. 9d. was paid to witness's account. Mr. Henry Robinson stated that he was partner with his father. He signed the cheque produced. The body of the cheque was fil ed up in the prisoner's hand writing. Witness could not s‘A ear that he delivered the cheque to the prisoner. Mr. Chambers remonstrated against the proposition to commit the prisoner, who had, he declared, as ap peared from the documents of the Custom-house, paid duties on the day specified amounting to every shilling of the sum he was charged with having embezzled. The Learned Counsel then, upon finding that the Magistrate was determined to send the case to a jury, applied to be permitted to put in bail for his client. Sir JOHN KEY stated that he did not consider himself justified in taking bail in such a case, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. CLERKENWELL. Charles Henry Thomas, a young man of genteel appearance, clerk to Messrs. Tennant and Harrison, No. 2, Gray's Inn-square, solicitors, was charged with steal ing a large quantity of silver plate, valuable books, &c., the property of Miss Elizabeth Grimes, a young lady, to whom it was stated Mr. Harrison was guardian. The,pri soner refused to mention his residence. On Friday evening last, the prisoner offered in pawn, for ten shillings, a silver toast rack, and some otherplate, at the . pawnbroking establishment of Mr. King, in Holborn. He had previously pawned a pair of silver candlesticks there. The pawnbroker, suspecting him, sent for a policeman, and Chapman, 38 E., arrived, who knowing the prisoner to be a clerk to Messrs. Tennant and Harrison, at once took him into custody. On his person were found a splendidly bound edition of the Illus trated Bible, folio, in two volumes, a pair of silver snuffers and tray, and a toast rack. On the Bible was engraved the name of " Crow," who the prisoner said was his aunt, and lived in Gray's Inn-lane, to whom all the pro perty belonged. On their way thither the prisoner, after some further misstatements, owned that all the arti cles, as well as others which he had pawned elsewhere, belonged to Miss Grimes. He was accordingly taken to the station-house. Elia% Baker, the laundress of the chambers, identified the toast rack, snuffers, and candlesticks, as Miss Grimes' property. Mrs. Crow was Miss Grimes' aunt. They had come from Bristol in a case, and were deposited in a room adjoining th© office in which the prisoner was employed. The telescope was produced by Mr. Crocket, a pawnbroker, in Dean-street, with whom the prisoner hail pawned it. Mr. GREENwoon remanded the prisoner, having ex pressed his determination to send him for trial. GREAT SEIZURE OF SMUGGLED TOBACCO AT NORTH SHIELDS.—A seizure of about four tons of unmanu— factored tobacco, the duty upon which would amount to about 1,3001, was yesterday morning made by Pet er M oore , E sq ., principal officer at North Shields, on board the Eclipse, Capt„ Clarko, from Holland. The tobacco was concealed among ; the ballast in the hold of the vessel. Three of the crew were taken into custody, and will undergo an examination before the magistrates this day. Great credit, we understand, is, due to Mr. Mo re for his exertions on this occasion, and ier• the indefatigable spirit he displays in the general discharge of . his duties.—. Newcastle Advertiser. THE FRENCH NAVY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. ON THE COAST OF AFRICA. ... . Suffren, 90 guns, 780 men—With the flag of the Prince de Joinville, quitted, on the morning of the 7th, the roads of Mers-el-Keber, near to Oran, and sailed in the direction of Gibraltar. Jemmapes, 100 guns, 890 men. Triton, 80 guns. 730 men. Belle Youle, 60 guns, 740 men. Labrador, steamer, 4 guns, 208 men, 450-hor,o power —Entered Oran on the llth, from lljeemmaa-Gliazasua t landed provisions, immediately transported to Lalla° Magrina. Asmodee, steamer, 12 guns, 230 men, 450-horse power. Orenque, steamer, 4 guns, 205 men, 450-horse power. Pluton, steamer, 7 guns, 180 men, 220-horse power Returned to Oran on the 10th, from Tangier. Gassendi, steamer, 10 guns, 180 men, 220-hors e power. Ve oce, steam , -r, G guns, 180 men, 220-h rs,.power. Cuvier, steamer, 6 guns, 205 men, 320-horse poser. Phare, steamer, 6 guns, 150 men, 160-nurse power. Castor, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse power This vessel had received orders to sail from Oran on the 6th for Toulon, but the account of the battle of the 3 d having reached that port on the sth, she was detained , and is still in the roads. Etna, steamer, 2 guns, 120 Men, 160- home power The Etna an.i the Tartare entered Oran on the 12th from Algiers, with two transports in tow, having on board 155 horses, belonging to the artillery. The Etna sailed on the evening of the 12th for Algiers. Tartare, steamer, 2 guns., I2U men, 160-horse power —See Etna. Euphrate, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse power. Chitnare steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse powe r ' This boat was in the roads of Mers-el Keber on the sth , when the news of the battle of the 3d having been . re . ceived, she was on the Bth sent to Algiers, when, having taken, on board a large quantity cf ammunition, shot, &c., she sailed on the 9th for the west. Rubis, steamer, 2 guns, 60 men, 80-horse power. Var, steamer, 2 guns, 30 men, 50 horse power. Aloiteore steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160. horse power. Coeyte, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse power. Sphinx, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse power. Aube, transport, 600 tons. Provengale, - transport, 600 tons. Perdrie, transport, 600 tons. This transport, laden with ammunition, &c., from Toulon, anchored in to e roads of Mers•el-Keber on the 12th. VESSELS IN TOULON ROADS, READY TO PUT TO SEA. Ocean, 126 guns, 860 men, with the flag of Aflinir si ' Percival I)uchesne. Inflexible, 90 guns, 800 men. Neptune, 80 guns, 780 men. _ _ Marengo, 80 guns, 780 men. 1.62, - ere, 2 guns, 80 men. Grondeur, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men. 160-horse Wie r . " Tenare, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse pow er It is thought that this steamer requires some insigulP cant repairs. Acheron, steamer, 2 guns, 120 men, 160-horse povie r l sailed from Algiers on the 15th, and anchored in Totdo' roads on the night of the 18th. Souverein, 125 guns, 300 men now on board. Hercule, 100 guns, 200 men now on board. Diademe, 87 guns, 200 men now on board. VESSELS ON THE STOCKS IN TOULON ItAnnovit. Fleurus, 100 guns, about three-quarters finished. Navarin, 100 guns, about three-quarters finished. Eylau, 100 guns, about three-quarters finished. Fontenoy, from 80 to 90 guns, about three - quar tet finished. Sceptre, from 80 to 90 guns, about half finished. Hector, from 80 to 90 guns, about half finished. ch ;r4 CastigLne, from 80 to 90 guns, about one finisht d. Zenobie, from 90 to 100 guns, nearly finished. Sibylle, from 90 to 100 guns, nearly finished. Poursuivante, from 90 to 100 guns, n e arly finished' Olivier, brig, 20 guns, three-fourths finished. Topazt., 6 guns, nearly finished. Castor, iron steam-boat, 220-horse power ) , not far vanced. MORTALITY in the METROPOL- 15. The following are the results of " A Table of Matto in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths , t all Causes registered in the Week ending SaturdaYhoof 20th of July, 1844." The Table is issued from the v of the Registrar-General:— Need lr- 11 Total. Ave ri lit Five , ' Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 251 179 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat Bl 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Sens es 154 15/ Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 2 96 Respiration 2OB 2 1 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 26 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 69 Organs of Digestion 6B 5 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c lO 1 0 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. l9 6 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 1 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay - 51 26 By Violence Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 894 Deaths from all Causes ...... . ....... 896 9 . t0 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED W CAUSES OF DEATH. W of ee E ly e s o THE ABOVE HEADS. g e vaiy ,.r Total. Consumption Scarlatina 72 34 Pneumonia . . 43 79 5 Dropsy ..... .. .. 16 Hooping Cough l3 33 Typhus 34 31 Small Pox 37 15 Disease of the Heart ...... Measles 24 23 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea., - .. 40 12 Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS. _..... West l4l 10 North 11 Central East 171 20 7 South 257 242 Total . .. 896 946 GE.—(YE STEBD A Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 2 6 Genoa Milan 4l Venice COURSE OF EXCHAi Amsterdam CF. 12 4i Ditto, at sight l2 1 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp 25 90: Hamburgh M.B. 13121 Altona l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine l2l 391 Naples l iSi Palermo, per oz ....•• Lisbon 54 Oporto Rio Janeiro ...........• 950 Bahia Buenos Ayres ......••• NewYork,2 1 dys sie t Philadelphia PRICES OF BULL.IO , 2 r 1 7 5 Foreign Gold, bars. :"', 2 11 0 Portugal Gold Coino New Doubloons....• " 4 1 1 New Dollars ........• o 4 / Silver in Bars .....• ° Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 I rieste, ditto Madrid 37 ' Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville jel etj V EXTRAORDINARY litiNT.—We lately coron too, sha,e after a roe on Loch N ess ; an d i t aga in fa lls o ll lot to record somethin g s i m il ar . S ome time ag a ti „ t pli 0 .4 red deer was ob,erved on th e sma ll i s l an d of ' 4 ,1( on which the Lisinore lighthouse is e rec t e d. v" - birrit forthwith given, and the noble animal, finding to t.,r hotly pursued, took to sea, dir ec ti ng hi s cours e ro isle of Kerrara. A boat was launched, and, a" c : or/ suit of two miles, the d eer was ca p ture d, i n sl i Tow . of exhaustion that h e h a d t o b e killed,—/nverness_,./ 10 .4 , SIX POUNDS of TEA, an d upwards, sent, carriage ftee do part of the Kingdom, at th e W holesale Price, on receip t tance, or Post-office order, " scl t . Black, 2s. Bd., 38., 3s. 4d., 3s. Bcl., 45., 4s. 4d. - ~ Green, 3s. 4d., 3s. Bd., 45., 49. 4d., 5 5 ., s s. 4d. 65104, Coffee, 9d., Is., Is. 2d., Is. 4d., I s. 6d ., Is. Bd., 0..' i: ieCtr G. T. MANSELL and CO., Wh o l esale Tea Deale'" r 0 LERSBURY CHEAPSIDB. Agencies will be given to parties. • BIRTHS. pole ( On the 25th inst., at Wilt on - crescen t, Lad,' ,° f. a son. 0 On the 20th inst., th e l a dy o f Th omas Bi r kbeo" A Stackhouse, near Settle, of a daughter. teil"l On the 23d inst., at Gl asgow, t h e lady of ../e? ro o Campbell, 87th Fusiliers, Teg e"' On the 24th inst., at Laurie-terrace St , - ,e° Southwark, the w if e o f Wi lliam Hent'sch, Jet ° of a son. On the 24th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. Get'nfr- 0 rt" of a daught er . of On the 24th inst., in Chesham-place, the Da Lucas, Esq., of a son. the 11114 On the 25th inst., at C am d en - roa d Villas, th e s r M. Wilkinson, E sq ., o f a son . Isclf On the 25th inst., at Manche s t er - s t ree t, the E34,e , r of H. Young, Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., the lady of John A. T. Wyer Hall Cottage, Tanners-end, Edmonton , c : ()n the 22d inst., at Great Bedf or d-street, Lit b 'dote, tb Captain G. St. P. Lawrence, Bengal Cavalry,.,,ei v briee On the 23d inst., at Oatl a nd s C o ttage, Iv " 0 13 lady of George Liddle, Esq., of a daughter. ?,fro• On the 23d inst., at John-street, Bedford -0 " o fP Taylor, of a son. the ffife On the 23d inst., in Tor r i ng t on - squ are, man Oliver Haynes, Esq., of a daughter. vire On the 23d inst., at Turnham green, the Leigh, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. 11 1° MARRIED. oo° Go il i o r .0° On the 24th inst., at St. Nichol as Church, -, n e , Rev. James Mackenzie, Hann a h, d au ghter °I v m 3 ; merchant, to John Eager B arn by, o f the ea h e 0 1 merchant. geori f- At St. George's, Hanover-square, John cov er* to Sarah, third daughter of the late Richard Greenwood, near Dublin. WED. On Saturday, the 27th inst. at his house in2lllll ss ' Olll, St. James's Park, Henry Bedford, On the 15th of February, 1844, at Svar le ';,' of Em ., aged of Isl o Wales, Isabella, wife of Captain Frank - 3 18° ' th' ,e On 80th Regiment. CVO ' y f On the 22d inst.. in Besurnont-street , S eor ger vice' i etic t , son of H. P. Russell, Esq , of the Bengal Civil as f gr re ela cia On the 22d inst., at Bo u logn - sur -Mer, Cl eldest son of Mr. T. Ol'.-ver,--otl Atnwell-street , 00" square, agol 20. f O P On the 22d i ; f a o Wooclger, o e , Gloucester-place, Camden- town . of Ro m? .7ast., at Hastings, Louisa, /v . ' a l , o f , On t tie 24th inst., Mathew Aldridge , Esq . ' sar sto l .ddle On the 24th inst., at Richmond, Sur rey, ) 11 1 ... ,<, - , Esq., a magistrate for the counties of Surrey a' 1.; I A im roblished by Strand. Printer, at Tite S"", t tzd trand, in the Precinct of the S4voy, ttlidtiles,:x ; 'Saturday, July 27, 18444 G' Daily At Ser► PAre-i Stikr ( -_____ arr,v„,, Manche 14 °rhet1 This ta b , Co; 111 e 3 lernoon, Proc eed encase Also, es to TEST C Co ~ hold " et n, it nfri ngin 'th rnsel and co. \ vorkn u , Parties pl nai ne of tak e a pr Nvill then tithed in The 6 rlecessar: vivax, any this into 'be had o kingdom " Plt ICI deceived " Compe keep the] tentees, tity, iarg Platte in 1 011/., 150 Parties to sale a ge , Benno' 71 ) , r t , oirinti t !111 1 rbi, N kb' ip No.. 4,10 „., r aai, ••••• Of