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GLOBE.—With the best wilt in the world, we have extreme difficulty in understanding what our friends, the nothing,hut-free traders,' an an by their distinguishing " principle." We ase.as mach enemies as they of the Peel corn-law—and, if possible, still more of the Peel sugar-law. In our opinion all just principles of na tional commerce are by both of these laws violated—aed by the latter violated by similat anti-commercial devices to the former—only with additional aggravations by the abuse of moral sentiments and criteria. The sugar sliding-scale is so far worse than the corn one, as it not only purposely obstructs commerce,• but brings in fraud, and perjury, and offence to h' therto friendly Powers. It is here thst occurs our difficulty in understanding the distinctive " principle" of our anti-corn law gentle men. They tell us (an.l we hear the announcement With perfect good humour, but profound mystification) that this same " principle," whatever it is, renders it necessary that, on the one hand, they should accept no assistance from any one who maintains any duty on corn, and on the otner hand that they should support a sugar-duty even worse, in principle, than the corn sliding scale. We du not understand so much strictness—and so much laxness. The one makes the other inconceivable. Or, rather, perhaps, when we look closer, it is the one that explains the other. There is in both the desire to dis tinguish themselves .as a separate body, nature! to new ' sects. Sydney Smith Once talked of the patent Chrisianity I of Clapham common. The re is something of a similar desire to stand forth as patentees of orthodox commer cial doctrine. But all exclusive protections are exceed ingly misleading in public conduct. In these very two last discussion=, they have given a Ministry brought in by betrayed class interests, two decisive divisions—the one essential to ies existence, the other to its perrna nem,. Sir R. Peel, on Monday last, declared the question to he a question of a vote of confidence in his Ministry. That vote was carried by cur exclusive friends of free trade—and carried by voting for a - scale of sugar duties, framed on still worse principles than the sliding-scale on corn. We should scarcely have recurred to this vote, but for the extraerdinery contrast to it presented by the rigid terms of Mr. Cobden's declaration of last evening :—" If any man tells me that he is for a free trade in tarn, and not in silk, I repudiate It's co operation ; and we put out our proclamation distinctly to say that we do not ask a shilling from anybody who is not ready to abolish all protections." This language (and much other language which has been used about the inadmissibleness of all terms of compromise) would appear to evince a determination to . obtain everything, or accept nothing. But how does it tally with the fact of stepping in to support a falling Minister—and giving him cc-operation on the plea that whit he proposed, though defying all 1 rinci ele, was some shadow of a shade better than Mr. 'Miles would thereupon propose to substitute ? How does it happen that gentlemen who refuse co-operation from all whose views come short of their own, should give it to Ministers, on the strength of some impercep tible colour for preference beta eta the tiolation of commercial • principles they proposed, and some ether violation, which, with every deference to our friends, we must say they had nothing whatever to do with. If Ministers were proposing a glaring departure from all principle, a " great moral lessen" would have been afforded by leaving them in a second minority on their sugar duties. From this the " thirteen " saved them ; and it was quite in character with that remarkable incident that the two companies should last night combine their forces, as Sir Robert Pi el said, fur " the benefit" of the League, and that the latter should take its benefit at St. Stephen's instead of Covent-garden. In sober sadness, we are convinced that what we may term the bigotry of free trade will only defer the attainment of its practical benefits, as regards the articles most important. Such is our-opi nion ; which any of our friends are entitled, ef course, to " repudiate." . Their " principle" is safe, at present, from our reprisals; for we do not at present understand it. STANDARD.—The debate upon Mr. Villiers's mo tion terminated a little before two o'clock this morning, in a division of 328 to 124, against the motion of the lion. Member for Wolverhampton, Mr. Ferrand having by consent withdrawn his amendment, We have not at hand the - sad register of the Anti corn-law defeats, but this, we believe, is the most signal discom fiture that the free traders have sustained during some years, and it caneot !be accounted for by anything but the melancholy retrogradation of their cause. The general Conservative ascendancy in the House of Commons will not supply. the solution, for the Conservative mijority is but 100, or thereabout ; but here there was a clear majority of 204 against the League—in a House of 457 Members, Spe a k er an d tellers included — a full House fie. the 26th of J u n e . N or ca n it be pretende d b y the Leaguers—that th e free trade men had not all the help which their services to the ousted Whig-Radical fiction en titled them to claim ; as, for example, Lord Howiels a protectionist, unmindful of the paternal pledge to stand by " the order" of landlords, voted with Mr. Villiers ; and Lord John Russell, another avowed pro tectionist, after making a speech, slunk away from the division, to prove, we suppose, the manly decision of character becoming one whose ambition aspires even to the station of Prime Minister. It is for the persons who have collected from among the more particularly stupid gulls of the population 100,000 L sterling, to show that this result is a sufficient equivalent fur the money paid to them, and to explain why they could not be so handsomely beaten at less cost. Defeat and disgrace must be expensive luxuries it last night's overthrow —an overthrow which it is impossible to palliate in any way—was not dear at 100,0001. This A LLEGED CHILD MURDER.—Mr. Higgs held an is, however, an affair between the League and its ' n cluest yesterday afternoon at the Savoy Palace, Savoy - st reet, subscribers. W e have nothing to do with th e Ste arn s o n the body of a newly-born nude infant, alleged to adjustment of the account between the League h ave died by the hand of its mother , a y oun g woman named and its tributaries ; for the excisemen of Water-lane Sarah Hyland, late housemaid in the service of Mr. Gibson, never had a penny from us, notwithstanding that we, landlord of the above house. The circumstances of tins like every one else, have had a plenty of their applications —models in the begging letter line—to which we would I c o a,se, as gathered from the lengthened examination of a fel , A -servant of the accused, may be briefly• narrated. Hy direct the attention of the Mencheity Society's officers. 'a had been in the service of Mr. Gibson during the last three and her latterly had given rise By the way, are not the sums extorted by the League, months, to suspicions that she was enciertte. When questioned as it now plainly le legal process ? We think °tl the subject, however, she stoutly denied the fact, and recoverable by a strap that the p will I llatters went on as usual until Monday la s t, when she corn- they are, and we hope that experiment be !stained ve ---, re much of spasms in the chest, and was unable tried. It would be, if our view be correct, an excel to perform her usual work. She retired to rest with her lent p recedent as regards the Irish reaealers. We fellow -s ervan t about, eleven o'clock, but appearing to be in have a great preference for those laws that great pain the latter got u p and went down stairs for a in some measure execute themselves, and a law nttle of warm water, which the accused placed upon her which should compel traders m sedition to re hest This her relief, and her sufferings appearing gave no profits of their execrable trade to those o increase, the witness went down to her mistress's bed- fun .1 the 1 d cheated, • would certainly sooner jr "'n, whom she informed of Hyland's illness, and inquired whom they la effectually • ',.,` she should call in assistance, or take her anything. Mrs. or l a t e r e xecute itself, and thus more extm `iihsen inq u ired if Hl a nd was in labour , a nd the witness guish the sedi tion trade than any number of state pro replied that she did not know, adding that she complained secutions or coercion acts. Let us but fancy an agita- ZPIY of acute pa i n f r om s pasms. Mrs. Gibso n then said, tor , for money, treate d one year with as many writs of if that were the case, it was no t necessary to send fo r an y - summons as he had wheedled or exto rted subscri p tions t hing, and the witness returned to her ro om, where she the year before. With such a p ros p ect before them found Hyland walking about, apparently in great agony. men would be a little sloe er than they have teen IT • ltnnately, both parties went to bed again, and Hyland t„ accept commissions • as "repeal wardens or " collec called the witness between five and six o'clock on Tueszlay u fur d tors the League." As to the Leaguers, however, if m e • ming, saving she was unable to get up to do her work, and the have conscience or honour, they are bound to refund wished that a charwoman might be sent for. A slight link in .. the money in hand sitter last night's, or rather this morn the chain of the witness's evidence was here wanting, the morn next point upon which she entered being the departure of i ng 's, solemn and final decision against their project: I T Y, l and, at nine o'clock in the morning, from the Savoy We must, how . ever, return to the debate for a few mi • Palace, in a cab. Her quarter's wages had been previously nutes. The discussion, as elways happens with the nine Paid to her by Mrs. Gibson, and after paying two or three teenth or twentieth discussion of the same subject, was, anal accounts to her fellow-servants,' she requested wit- for the most part, pretty wide of the question proposed, ;A_e,..S. B to curd up her box and send it to a certain place, 'to be being generally directed to former discussions and their allots till called for; cautioning her, at the same time, not to incidents ; somewhat according to the maxim of the ,Lteshhis mistress to look in it, as there as was some linen to moral poet, she did not wish her to see. Subsequently to Hyland's " Make each day a critique on the e departure past. one the svrae • box was • examined, On uestions like the corn laws men forget the merits, ' pod up in a petticoat, one string of which was wound q , tightly round its neck was discovered therein. The police and make were instantly informed' " Each debate a critique on the last." i n .. of the circumstance, and succeeded was insufferably dul but discovering the mother at a lodging-home, near Shoe- The first day's debate . , for the rnalter-r w itl 1r ' from Mr. Gladstone's te the °-, ----acedears, whence she had been removed 1 s li g ht interval of sunshine during • . ~ . grace t9 Strar - • • ' argument. Mr. Viloers' ofening h avird , .d Union workhouse, where she now remains It ! ful and conclusive , f _.. beets thought desirable that a post mortem examination speech of nearly four hours would " sink a navy," or, Be the body should be made before the the • closing inquiry, to speak less figurately, would swamp a session. Be proceedine • „ u Proceeding s were adjourned for that purpose. I sides leading his discourse with copious extracts c orneemalLlN AND CASHEL RAILWAY.—The House of 1 from . .Mr Villiers caked up the old ons havin- , newspapers, • th e _ ro _ t, suspended the Standing Orders in favour of i I Slalthusian scare-crow, to prove that the country ti . I' e ress of this measure, the Bill has been read a secoad ' ' . °la and will ro • ' ' - Ist 'unlit to be made to produce less feod because . it Ths :liar .6 into Oommittee s on Monday next, Jululy. , a , . d conclusion. Mammais producing more people—a net very lo b of laden) gills and Marchioness of Douglas (Princess Porten n are expected to arrive at the Duke of Hamilton's, W e are not disposed to deswith such non -1 seriously non e Arran, on Monday neat, from Brodrick Castle, Isle . sense, but we beg to ask Mr. Villiers for the proofs of a —.Aim, - [ redundant population. Are these proofs to be found in the arguments of the millowners upon the Factory Bill ? Is it a proof, that th re are too many hands, that the peo ple are (for the safety of the country; as we - are told) undo r a necessity of working a greater numter of hours than is consistent with health and moral improvement ? and that th.y must begin to work at an age, and in a con dition, when, according to the order of Providence, they ought not to be labourers ? If the excess of population is such as Mr. Villiers describes, the remedy wcuLl seem to lie in distributing lab:)ur among the many, not in aceumulating it upon the few ; the former is, at least, the way in which a ship or a gar rison, when its population is too great for its resources, ekes out its supplies, by putting all upon a short allow ance. But, overlooking this more obvious and simple remedy, Mr. Villiers says, employ more people in manufactures by repealing the corn laws. Now, we have grave doubts that a repeal of the corn laws would employ more people in manufactures. As regards the home market, we know that the measure would diminish, to an -enormous crent, the number of persons employed in manufactures, and we do not sea abroad the elasticity of wealth that would speedily supply the void. Referring again to the Factory Bill debates, wz. seem to ourselves to re member tales of people working in the United States, in France, in SwitzerlAnd, and in Germany 16 and 18 hours a day. Now, the countries in which the popu lation must work 16 or 18 hours a dly for a living are surely not in a state which promises much from their cu,tom as purchasers ; and let it be remembered that it is always to the mass of the pbrulation—to the workers for 18 hours a day—in the particular case we must look for purchasers when there was an objection before the Committee, it would he proper to briuglhe subject before. the House, which would then act in the nature of a court of appeal. After some ol:.-servations from Mr. GiUIENk:, . _ Mr. PUSEY :aid that he thought the course of the debate had justified what the Committee had dong. Mr. ESCOTT wished the House would make some positive role on the subject, as the question would cen stantly arise. _ _ The SPEAKER then put the motion, which was car ried without a division.' _ _ . Mr F. FRENC II presented a petition, but the nature of it could not be heard amid the noise which prevailed. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. COLQUHOUN gave noticp that on the third reading ef the D;ssenters Chapels Bill, he should move that the Bill be re d that day six months. Be wished to know when the Right Hon. Baronet intended to. intro duce the measure? Sir R. PEEL said, as the measure bad already been so ful'y discussed, he thought there was no need that the third reading of the 13th might be taken after the Bank Charter Bill on that evening. 1)r. BOWRING gave notice—that he should to-mor row ask the Right Hon. Gentleman, if the report was correct that the Zonvervia had. determined to merease the duty on the importation of British iron. STATE OF THE LABOURERS IN NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK.—INCENIIARIS2I. Sir WALTER. JAMES rose, awl was (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships wsernbled at Five o'clock. BROTHELS SUPPRESSION BILL. LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND —We - b?lieve that we can now positively state that Lord Heytesbury his bcen appointed to succeed Earl De Grey in the im portant office of Lord Detitenant of Ireland.—Evening Paper. • At therecii:e:t of the Duke of WELLINGTON, The Earl of GALLOWAY, vho in the absence of the Bishop of Exeter had charge of this Bill, postponed its third reading till Thursday next. The Bishop of LINCOLN presented several petitions against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented similar peti tions from Derby and other places. Earl POW L, presented petitions against the union of the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. The Bishop of LONDON presented upwards of 90 petitions from various parts of the country against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Ile took that opportunity of stating that the discussions which had taken place upon this measure had not hal the elf, ct of altering nis opinion respecting it. Although seme amendments hart been made in another place, yet he did nat think those amend ments would have the effect of doing away with the mischievous tendency of the measure. He hoped his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack would give their Lordships some time tti - r,onsider before they were called upon to pass those amendments. PRIVY COUNCIL BILL. TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK. GOODWOOD STAKES. 9 to 1 agst Red Deer 20 to 1 agst Gunter 20 to 1 agst Ara 20 to 1 agst The Pride of Kildare 20 to 1 agst The Currier 25 to 1 agst Subduer 25 to 1 agst Croton Oil 25 to 1 agst Ajax THE LATE DERBY. 5 to 2 on Orlando I MPERIA L PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. • The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. KINGSTON-UPON-HULL DOCK BILL. On the order of the day being read for the third read ing of this Rill, Mr. WAWN moved the addition of the following clauses :—" And be it enacted, that no vessel re sorting to. the Port . of Hull, and not entering the docks, or ona of them, of- the said Dock Company, shall be liable to any tonnage duty to :itch Company. And be it enacted, That vessels entering the port of Hull from any of her Majesty's North American colo nies, shall not be charged or chargeable with more than one ski ling and threepence per register ton dock dues, being the same rates as vessels ply. from Rus sian ports within the Baltic. Also the omission of the following clauses in the amended Bill:—viz., clauses 183, 190, 289, and 290." After a short conversation the clauses were referred to the Standing Orders' Committee, and the third read ing of the Bill ordered for next Tuesday. VOTING IN COMMITTEES. The adjourned debate on the right of Members to vote in Committee on questions in w hich they have a personal interest, was then resumed ; the question arises from the Committee n the Middle Level Drainage Bill. Mr. ESTCOURT city d a variety of cases from de cisions of former Speakers of the House, against the right of voting under such circumstances, and moved a resolution to the effect that no Member, either in the House or in Committee, should give a vote where he had a direct interest. _ _ _ . At the request of the LOiW CHANCELLOR, Lord BROUGHAM postponed the second reading of this Bill tit Monday. POOR-LAWS (IRELAND). The Marquis of CLANRIUARDE r se to move f::.r copies of any declarations in ejeetments or re:tices to quit that have been served upon the Poor-law Commis sioners in Ireland, or upon the guardians of any union— His object in moving for these returns was to obtain film her Majesty's Governimnt some expression of opi nion with re-peat to the present system of poor-laws in Ireland. He nished, also, to call the attention of the Government to the manner in which the work houses in Ireland were built, and as to the manner in which they were supplied with water. In many of them the drainage and sewerage u ere entirely neglected. lie was borne out in this statement by the statement of Mr. Penethorn on the subject. Ir might be thought that this was a very unimportant matter, but he could assure their Lordships, that the subject was one well worthy of thisir con sideration. The Noble Marquis then read several extracts from various reports which had been made upon this subject of workhouses in Ireland. While the poor-laws in Ireland remained in their pre sent state, they could not hope to see any remedy for tho, evils which were so widely complained of. At present it frequently cost more to collect the poor. rates in Ireland than the actual amount of rates collected. He knew that in the Ballinasloe union no less than 400 men had been employed in the collection of the rates, yet they did not succeed in' collecting above 141. (Laughter.) At the union of Tuam the guar dians were unable to get a collector, and having no rates to meet the charges of the union, an execution upon the workhouse had been put into the hands of the sheriff.—(Great laughter.) A meeting of the guardians of this union was lately held, and at that meeting a motion was made to admit the public, but the motion was rejected, on the ground that if the public were admitted to the board-room, the sheriffs' officers themselves would take ad vantage of the opportunity and rush into the House.—(Laughter.) He thought the poor-law in Ireland required the earnest attention of their Lordships, and ho thought that inquiry ought to Le instituted into the subject as early as possible. Ile blamed the Commissioners, fur he believed that they might have carried out the law f,:r the advantage of the country than they had adopted a different course to that which he had taken. He trustal, haw,ver, that the Governmrnt would take up the subject, and institute a thorough inquiry into it. [LEFT SITTING.] Mr. HAWES thought it would be impossible to carry out this resolution. In the case of Railway Bills and Bills for the improvement of towns, though Members had an interest in them, it was absolutely necessary that they should possess tie right to vote. Mr. WARBURTON thought that as long as the rules of the 'louse were in existence they ought to be oberved, and on this ground he was of opinion that the votes of the Hon. Member for Cambridgeshire and the lion. Member for Huntingdonshire ought to he objected te. Mr. MILES thought it utterly impossible to carry those general rules of the House into effect, but he thought that the constitution of the Committees of the House ought to be altered. After a few words from Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET. Mr. WAKLEY thought such motions as these most contemptible. If the vote of Mr. Yorke, the Member for Cambridge, was to be considered bad because he had some interest in the question, what, he would ask, be came of the votes of Hon. Members last night on the question of the corn-laws ?—(Hear.) lied rot two thirds of the Members who voted an interest in the ques tion ? What, also, besame of the votes of those who gave their votes on the sugar question, which was shortly to come before the House ?—(Hear.) The landlords who voted last night for a continuation of the corn laws, voted for h;gh rents, and their own individual interests. If Mr. Yorke's vote was to be questioned, he was ready to question two-thirds of the votes given last night on the corn-laws, and a great number of those given on the sugar duees. Colonel SIBTHORP would like to know how the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had voted on the Coroners' Bill ?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. WAKLEY had no hesitation in stating to the Hon. aed Gallant Mtmber the course he had pursued ; and all he could say was, that he hoped the Hon. and Gallant Member would follow his example. On every division when it was proposed to give the coroner an additional sum for mileage, he had invariably left the House, and his name was not to be found in a single division on that question. Mr. B. ESCOTT thought the Speaker should state what was the rule of Parliament as applicable to this question. Mr. R. PALMER thought it would be better to leave the question as it was. Mr. ESCOTT withdrew his amendment. Mr. Greene's amendment, nearly to the same effect, was then read. Mr. HAYTER thought it would be a cause of great inconvenience and uncertainty if, after a Committee had sat for seven weeks, the report should be rejected on Account of some objection to the vote of a particular Member who had not been before objected to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed with the Hon. Al( mber who spoke last, and thought that when a Member had once given his vote, it could not afterwards be objected to. Mr. ELIOT YORKE would have no objeefon to withdraw his Laotian. After a few words from Mr. PUSEY, the motion was withdrawn. The report was then brought up. Mr. GLADSTONE hoped there would be no objec tion on a point of form, to the proceeding which be was about to propose. It appeared to him that the debate which had just taken place on the subject had left ti e matter in a very unsatisfactory state. It appeared that the Committee had the power of deciding the question, but he thought the Committee ought to have this imforma tion communicated to them in a more formal manner. It was not sufficient that they should gather that information from what passed in the House in the course of debate. He had therefore framed a proposition affirming that the rule of the House, with respect to the vote of an in terested Member, extended likewise to Committees of the House. He did not think that a question put for direction and guidance ought to remain without a re sponse. He moved, " That the rule of this House re lating to the votes of Members having an interest in a question, does apply likewise to any vote of a Member in a Committee." Mr. WARBURTON had no doubt that the rule of the House applied also to Committees—the only point was, could the Committee determine the point for itself ? He should like to have the decision of the chair on the point. The SPEAKER said there could be no doubt what ever that the rule of the House was binding also on Committees. It had been so decide] on many previous occasions. The Honourable Member for Oxford ' had quoted a decision of Mr. Speaker Abbott in 1811, who then laid it down as a rule, which had existed for 200 years, that the vote of a Member of the House having a direct interest in a question must be disallowed. Sir ROBERT PEEL could not doubt but the autho rity of the Speaker must be decisive on this point ; but what was to be the authority to determine it--the chairman. of the Committee or a majority of it. In some cases it would disqualify Mem bers for voting on a Railroad Bill. The question was, whether in a doubtful case, the Committee could deter mine the application to the rule. Sir G. GREY said that the rule would have disquali fied some of the Members on the South Devon Railway Committee. Sir R. PEEL said the Right Hon. Baronet had not quite apprehended the nature of his objection. He quite rdmitted that the duty to be discharged was an invi dious one; but it was a constitutional question, whether any authority less than the House itself should have the power of deciding that a Member should not vote. Mr. F. SHAW thought it would be very inconvenient to lay down a general rule, with respect to a particular case. He was of opinion that if the Chairman intimated to a Member that he ought not to vote, that Member would not persist in voting. If he did, it would be open to the Committee to appeal to the House. 'Mr. WAKLEY said it might happen on the Post office question that a motion would be proposed that the Government did not pesstss the confidence of the House. In such a case would Hon. Gentlemen veto for maintaining themselves in office ?—(Hear.) e The SPEAKER said the Bill applied only to Mem bers who had a direct pecuniary interest. Lord J. RUSSELL said his own opinion was, that very often Members were more interested indirectly than directly. It happened that he himself had pro perty to the value of 80. or 901. a-year in these lends, though he did not think that that occurrence would in fluence his vote. If the House agreed that the rule ap (, p in li:d s:a to te C d, o a m n n;ittees of the House, then the Committee Laving this resolution before them, upon a question Honourable Member who felt he came within the ru:e, .eveu:d abstain from Vbting. ; if, en the other hand, he did rot come within the rule, it would be inconvenient for the Committee to de cide that particular question. He thought that NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, MUC PROMOTIONS. Mate—Charles J. Austen (1840), of the Agincourt, to the rank of Lieutenant. Assistant-Surgeon—Hugh T. S. Beveridge, M.D. (1839), of the Lightning, steam-tender, late attendant on the Em peror of Russia, to the rank of Surgeon. APPOINTMENTS. Midshipman—Patrick Johnson, to the Camperdown. Assistant-Surgeon—David Russell (1839), of the St. Vin cent, to the Fearless steam-vessel. The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., ar rived at Spithead on Tuesday from Lisbon, which place she left on the 13th inst., consequently has had a long passage of twelve days. When she left a French brig of 16 guns was the only man-of-war of any nation in the Tagus. The Queen has brought home a large quantity of the dianthus marbles, which she will land here to be forwarded to the British Mu seum. She was ordered to be ready yesterday morning for Rear-Admiral Hde Parker (in the absence of the Com mander-in-Chief) to inspect the ship's company firing at a target, &c. She will take out her lower' deck guns, and go into Portsmouth harbour probably to-morrow; and as soon as her books can be got ready, which will take about a week or ten days, she will be paid off, all standing, and be ready for re-commissioning. The Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., has sailed in his yacht, the Fanny, on a cruise in the Channel, visiting the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Scilly Islands, the extent of his command. The Fanny hoists his flag, which will be struck in the 6t. Vincent during his absence. The Bonetta, stirveying-ship, Commander Brock, sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday morning for the Mediterranean. The Wanderer, 16, Capt. Seymour, has been dismantled at Portsmouth, and will be paid off this day. LETTING GO THE SHEET ANCHOR. A trial of the relative good qualities and best adaptation for the service of two plans for the most speedy and best method of letting go the sheet anchors of her Majesty's ships took place in Portsmouth Harbour on Tuesday, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley having been ordered to report thereon. Rear- Admiral HydeParku, C. 8., Captains Eden, Rowley, Sey mour, &c., in commission, attended by a number of distin guished half-pay officers—viz., Vice-Admiral Fred. Warren, Captain Sir R. Grant, &c., embarked at the King's-stairs to witness it. One of the plans we have already noticed; it was invented by Mr. Brown, the assistant-master attendant at this dockyard, and submitted last year to the Admiralty, who approved it; and, in consequence, many ships have been fitted with it. It consists of two strong iron cranks or crutches fitted to the ship's side on swivels, one clipping the shank of the anchor near the crown, the other the shank near the stock; when the stoppers are let go, these crutchea bear the anchor out clear of the ship's side, so that the anchor can be let go at a moment's notice, even with the guns run out. The other plan was by the Surveyor of the Navy, and appears to be only an alteration from Mr. Brown's. He has only one crank or crutch, that nearest the flukes ; substituting for the other crutch the lower part of the anchor-stock, the end resting on a strong wood work secured to the ship's side. The Surveyor has placed his sheet anchor further aft, whereby he clears the fore rigging, and stows his anchor more in board. This might also be done with Mr. Brown's plan. The sheet anchors of the Britannia and the Rodney, both fitted on Mr. Brown's plan, were let go, and nothing could demonstrate the admirable Ilan more completely than the way in which they both went off from the ship's sides into the water. The Collingwood's anchor, fitted by the surveyor, was also let go and answered very well. Both plans appeared excellent, but to Mr. Brown is due the credit of the invention, and we pre fer his, as we think the anchor would be more easily get into its place and secured than by the surveyor's, as we think there would he some difficulty in getting the end of the stock in its place in the chock, if there should be much motion in the vessel when stowing the anchor. DIE WEST INDIES.—The Imaum, 72, Commander Sharpe, C. 8., was at Port Royal, on the 22d May, with the Griffin, brigantine, Lieut.-Com. Jenkin, which vessel arrived from Jamel, on the 19th ult. The Pickle, schooner, Lieut.-Com. Bainbridge, was at Aux Cayes on the 16th ult. The Spartan was at Port-au-Prince on the 9th May. At Bermuda, on the 23d ult., were the Inconstant, 36, Captain Fremantle, and the Electra, 18, Commander Arthur barley ; the latter was to sail in a day or two for Cayenne. CORONATION DAY.—On eriday next, the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation, the men of the dockyard establish ments will have a whole instead of a half-holiday, agreeably to the new dockyard instructions. Henceforth they are also to have the whole day on the anniversary of her Ma esty's birth. his garden-gate, and the witness, who stopped to speak to 11;m, heard a woman talking to Mrs. Crosby within the house. Another witness •recollected having seen a strange s'.-cman enter the deceased's cottage; and a third witness, who went to assist when the deceased was taken ill, deposed to a statement made by Mr. Crosby a short time before ho died. lie described to the witness that "a strange woman had come to the house that morning, and asked to be allowed to sit down and rest; they complied with her • request, and whilst there the stranger had assisted .Mrs. Crosby in making the tea for breakfast ; that when they Were taken ill the strange woman went out, saying she would fetch' some spirits, but had not returned." Another of thc, wi7neSses deposed that he met a woman walking hurriedly hi a direction which led from the house. The medical gel3lle -men moved, from the analysis of the contents of the tea -pot and the tea-kettle, as well as from the appearance of the bodies, that death in each case was produced by arsenic, which had ben introduced into the water of which the tea was made, and in a very considerable quantity. The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict, " That the deceased persons had come by their deaths by means of arsenic, administered by some person or persons to the jurors unknown." The local constables have scoured the country in pursuit of the woman, who is supposed to be the sole perpetrator of the. crime, but hitherto without effect; nor has any clue been oh-- tained to show the motive. Mr. Crosby had abnut4ol. and a good deal of property in ie house, but nothing whatever has been missed. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders in this Com pany Inas held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the propriety of granting power to the Di rectors to appropriate the sum of 535,0001. to the con struction of a continued line of railway from Hertford, by Kitchen and Biggleswade, to Bedford. Henry Bo sanquet, Esq., in the chair. After the report had been read, _ _ The CHAIRMA:7 explained the objects of, and benefits I that would be likely to accrue from the proposed even- I sion, and said that the profits of the trunk line would ' be considerably increased by it. The Extenson Coln mittee had caleulatel that the increase from this source would be in all about 48,8881. Mr. LEE said, upon consulting the map, he found the proposed line would run parallel with the Birmingham Railway for a considerable distance, It was proposed to extend the line beyond Cambridge, but he very It doubted the prudence of . such a measure. ,e thought by consenting to the expen&ture of so large a sum they would be doing an injustice to a great many of the old Shareholders whose means would not enable them to purchase any of the new stock thus created. There was one other point to which he wish , d to al ude, and that was the privacy which was obierved in making the contracts for work. He thought the utmost publicity should he given to this matter, and that advertisements should be inserted in Gibe public papers. The CHAIRMAN denied that any injustice would be done to the old Shareholders. With respect to the contracts the strictest economy and impartially had been observed. Mr. G mapoN hoped the Proprietors would be afforded the fullest information at the present critical moment when seine Legislative enactments were pealing with respect to railway property. If the many advantages possessed by the Company were properly tut .named the line would become the principal means of traffic with the north and east of England by connecting it with Lynn, Yarmouth, and Ipswich. In riply to a question from a Proprietor, The SECRETARY said, that at the present moment the Directors w ere not in a condition to state the exact means by which the money would be raised, but in a short time every information would be given. In ansv er to another question, The CHAIRMAN stated that the Directors had entered into such a contract as prevented them from stopping at Cambridge, and they were consequently compelled to proceed with the line beyond that town. The SECRETARY stated that, the Directors were most anxious to form a junction between a line of the Eastern Union Railway, but could not accede to the terms pro posed by that Company. After some further discussion a motion was put and carried, authorising the Directors to create additional extension stock to the amount named, and the meeting separated. THE LOSS OF THE MANCHESTER. - - - By the Vivid steamer, which arrived last evening from Hull, we ascertained that the Transit steamer made that port on Monday, from the Elbe, and the additional particu lars brought by her confirm the melancholy fact that not a life was saved. When the Transit left the Elbe on Saturday the wreck of the Blanchester could be seen to the northward of the harbour, but the crew were unable to gain any tidings of any bodies washed ashore. The following is a copy of a circular sent by Mr. Sanderson, the agent of the Company at Hull, to which the Manchester belonged, to the several parties interested in her loss : "Hull, June 24. "In reference to my advices of the 21st inst., the following is an extract of a letter received this morning from Ilam burgh, too truly confirming the melancholy anticipations. We have now no hope as to the disastrous fate of the Man chester and those on board : " Hamburgh, June 22, 1844. Our apprehensions have unfortunately been too well- rounded, and the loss of the beautiful vessel, the Manchester, is no longer to be doubted. The wreck has been seen at the north-east end of the bank of Vogel Sands, about 13 miles distant from the Danish coast, where a great number of pieces of wreck have been driven ashore. There is a report that part of the valuable cargo has been picked up, but we have no particulars about it. The clock of tle cabin has been brought to Cuxhaven, showing the time of half-past one o'clock, and also a pocket watch, showing the time of one o'clock, so that the unfortunate accident appears to have occurred about mid night, after a run of about 32 hours from HulL Her frag• ments brought here are nearly all dashed to pieces by the violence of the breakers, and all lives are undoubtedly lost.' " I may further add, besides the crew, consisting of :h per sons, the following arc ascertained to have bean on board:— Mrs. St. George Smith and her son and daughter (the two latter being about 26 and 22 years of age), from Drogheda, on their way to Graffenburgh , in Silesia, for the benefit of their health ; Mr. Rothsay, of Leeds, wool merchant ; and it is thought that there was one or two others, but nothing par-. ticular has positively been ascertained. J. SANDERSON." MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS - - - The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 22d of June, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— CAUSES OF DEATH. Weekly Total. Average of Five years. Epidemie,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 226 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B7 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5l 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 233 286 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 24 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 1 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles-- 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c .. 0 1 _ _ A 11..,......... . ,... Old Age, or Natural Decay 46 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 9lB 942 Deaths from all Causes 920 946 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER --- -- - - - TILE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly AveraLe of Five Y ears. Consumption 125 147 Scarlatina 7B 34 Pneumonia . .. ....1. 66 79 Dropsy ..... .. .. Hooping Cough 22 33 Typhus Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles ... 2l 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths l5 15 DISTRICTS. West 142 - -- 138 171 188 N C . E . ea oir tt th rL.tl 21311 4 9 4 1 207 South.. Total SCENE IN THE SHERIFF'S COURT, One of those unseemly altercations which sometimes dis turb the serenity of a court ofjustice took place here on Tues day, between Mr. Under-Sheriff Kennedy and Mr. Thomas, the barrister. In the course of a trial in which Mr. Thomas appeared for the plaintiff, the Learned Under-Sheriff appeared to suffer considerable annoyance from certain irregularities that Mr. Thomas had been guilty of in conducting his case, and it was partly in consequence of this that a quarrel soon afterwards ensued. Several cases on the list of causes hav ing been rapidly disposed of, the last (Boatman v. Burgess), in which Mr. Thomas appeared for the defendant, was sud denly called on. The plaintiff's attorney appeared to be taken by surprise, and said something about withdrawing the cause. Almost at that instant, however, he discovered that the witness to prove his case, and whom he had believed to be absent, was in Court. Mr. Under-Sheriff Kennedy—Now, Boatman against Burgess. Mr. Thomas—lt's withdrawn, Sir; I have just marked my brief to that effect. Mr. Under-Sheriff—It's not withdrawn—there's the plain tiffs attorney ready to go on with the case. Mr. Thomas—l distinctly heard the attorney say that he withdrew the cause, and I call upon him to sa:v whether that is not the fact? The attorney explained. Mr. Thomas still insisted that the cause had been with drawn. Mr. Under-Sheriff (angrily)—This is another specimen of the ungentlemanly and irregular conduct you have been guilty of all day. Such behaviour is too common here, and I now give notice that if it be persisted in I shall take effec tual means to repress it, by formally representing it to the Court. Mr. Thomas—l don't care what you represent. Mr. Under-Sheriff—Then I now tell you, Sir, I shall re present it. I consider your behaviour to be disgraceful. Mr. Thomas—l don't care what you represent., or what you think of my conduct. Mr. Under-Sheriff—Don't be impertinent, Sir; I shall not sit here to be insulted. All further dissensions were now happily interrupted by the plaintiff's attorney in the cause, "Boatman v. Burgess," sud denly commencing his addres to the jury. -ed MYSTERIOUS MURDEItS BY POISON. The little village of Long Sutton, near Wisbeach, has for several days been kept in a stzte of painful excitement, owing to the discovery of the murder of two eged and respectable inhabitants, named Crosby, who occupied a cottage contigu ous to the Rose Inn. The circumstances connected with this shocking affair have undergone the fullest and most anxious inquiry, but unfortunately without any direct clue being ob tained by which the mystery might be cleared up. It ap peals that Mr. Crosby and his wife, rather of advanced age, had for some years occupied a small but neat cottage in the above village, and were in receipt of 1001., a life annuity, which, as they were frugal .persons, and without incumbrance, was more than sufficient for their maintenance. On Monday, the 17th instant, Mr. Crosby went out into the village for a walk, and on his return home took breakfast in company with his aged partner. Both were almost instantly attacked with a scalding sensation in the throat, which was succeeded by violent retching and acute internal pains. Both were dead within two hours from the time they had swallow the poisdn. Mr. Jennings, the coroner, and the jury assembled on Wednesday; and, after hearing the evidence of the medical gentlemen as to the cause of death, the inquest was atijourned, and resumed on Monday morning, lasting till a late hour in the evening. The substance of the evidence was to this effect: —When the old gentleman went out, as already stated, .Mrs. Crosby began to prepare breakfast, when a strange .wiamni entered the cottage, Laving asked permission to sit • aoivri. 01. e of the witnesses stated that he was passing by the house of the deceased about ten o'clock on the morning of Dionday week. At that thus Mr. Crosby was standing at IL s. 6d. wholly unaccounted for.—(Tory cheers and b ut -hter.) The Hon. Member having concluded the rea d, ug of the extracts of the speeches of the members of the' League on this subject, referred to a paragraph in the QL . artcrill Review, and then said he would now ad vert to .the last section, namely, the interfercnce of the Corn-law - League in the elections of the country. The Hen. Moinher then proceeded to read extracts from speeches 'made by members of the League on the subjt et. The Leave hnd offered a reward of 1001. at several of the elections for the - detection of bribery, but had not succeed in esmblishing a single case.—(The Hon. Mem ber exhibited a plamrd offering the reward. .He then read a letter from the Bight Hon. Gentleman, the Mem ber for Edinburgh, teo Mr. Maclaurin, a member of the League, declining to attend an Anti-Corn-law meeting.) He (Mr. S. O'Brien) :had learned that, in consequence of this refusal, Mr. Maclaurin had determined to contest the representation tif Edinburgh with Mr. Macaulay ; and he (Mr. O'Brien) hoped, if he did, that he would be •well beaten. The !League had recently interfered in sev:.ral elections, b - at had been succesful in none—all the victories of the League came at first, all its reverses at last. The only borough that had returned a member of the League, was that in which the League bad not, and would not, be permitted to interfere. The League was very extravagant in its promises, but very scanty in its performances. Notwithstanding that they had vast res nieces, and considerable ability, six months ago the League was in the height of its power and influence— what were they now ? and.what bad they accomplished? .'I he had desired en organised body, possessing all the i Deans and appliances for the destruction of our insti -1 ntions, he would have selected the Anti-Corn-law League. Alley had endeavoured to sow dissension among the , kifferent classes of the comiauaity ; in fact the League possessed all the elements for sedition—they had de clared that this House did not represent the people, and Lad impudently attempted to tamper with and influence i 1,11.3 constituencies of the kingdom.—(Laughter.) If the proceedings of this body were not adverse to the law, they certainly were abhorrent to the Constitution of this country. He would vote against the motion, b:cause he did not wish to see protection to British agriculture • abolished, and because he did not consider the present a fitting or a proper time to make the motion ; and, at the seine time, he would enter his protest against the narrow, selfish, uncoustLutional policy of the Anti-Corn-law League. Captain LAYARD said another opportunity was now given to the House of taking under consideration a law which, in Ks opinion, was opposed to the best interests of the people, and in direct opposition to the principles of humranty and justice. And althonzh there was no doubt twat the Ministers would, on this occasion, com • mend an overwhelmin7, majority, and that the lion. Member for Wolverhampton's motion would be defeated, yet he felt that the opinion of the people of this country was:, that the interests of the many were sacrifices for the benefit of the few; and that the tower of strength which the agriculturists prided themselves upon, not being founded on the rock of justice, would finally be swept away by the tide of public opinion, which, for F ome time hat been setting in against it, and by which it was already undermined.—(Hear, hear.) It was not only the injustice of this law in itself, the depriving the people of cheap food, the restriction it put upon manu factures, the feeling of distrust which the people felt against those who acted upon such selfish as well as ridiculous opinions, but the other bad consequences which it entailed ; for it was for the sake of the corn-law that the House had been made to' lower itself as it had done upon the Factory Bill; and alas! which miserable example it had again followed on the sugar duties. We were apt to speak of the superiority of this country to others in.her laws and institutions; but for his (Captain Layard's) part, he thought th a t as long as this law was in operation we could not do so with justice. Some years ago, when in China, he was fortunate enough to become acquainted with one of the Hong merchants, a clever, intelligent person ; and they often used to con verse on the different customs and manners of their re spective countries. He (Captain Layard) told his Chinese friend how barbarous the practice was ac counted which they (the Chinese) followed of bandaging up the feet of their children as soon as they were born, and pressing all the small toes under the sole of the foot, and he asked his friend if many of the children did not die from such treatment, and what could sanction such a barbarous custom? The reply was, the custom is a cruel one. Hundreds die from mortification; but we have a set of old women who live by it, and is a part of their trade, and we cannot break through it. Now, if the Chinese merchant had asked him (Captain Layard) if it was true that we had a law by which the food of our people was restricted, if he had said, true, our wo men take short steps, but yours are on short commons; ours die in infancy from mortification, but yours die at all ages, from disease an:l decline, brought on by insuffi ciency of food—what could lie (Captain Layard) have answered, not at that time having heard the celebrated speech of the Paymaster-General of the Forces, that this law must be enforced for the dower of young ladies and the jointure of old ones? For his part, he thought our Legislature quite as barbarous as the Chinese. lie felt that some gratitude was due from the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government to the League ; for the very man, who some time ago he had charged with wishing to have him assassinated, had come to his assistance, and saved for a time his political existence. The Right lion. Baronet had certainly lost the great guns from his party; but as they had been pretty well used up, perhaps the Right lion. Baronet did not think it of much consequence. He alluded to the lion. Members for Knaresborough and Shrewsbury. The Hon. Member for Knaresborough was at first con sidered a great gun; inc Led, he had been fired right and left. amongst the manufacturers ; the Hon. Member for Knateshorough having, as he thought, had enough of the manufacturers, took a shoot at his own party, whin the Right Honourable Baronet the Secre tary for the Home Department, calling Mr. Mott to his assistance, rushed in to step the discharge, but it had taken place, and in his (Captain Layard's) opinion, had considerably damaged all who had anything to do with it. The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury, he thought, might very fairly be compared to a clock which went pretty well for some time, hut not having been oiled, at last began to go rather irregularly. The hands at one time were supposed—the clock hav ing gone three or four hours without stopping—upon foreign policy, to point to some diplomatic appointments abroad ; it had been hinted that the Shrewsbury clock, though it had not yet aspired publicly to being the clock at the Horse-guards, and thus to regulate all the other clocks, had certainly wished to be the clock at the Admiralty, where exact time was not of se much conse quence. The Right Hon. Baronet not thinking the Shrewsbury clock to be a chronometer, was perfectly re gardless of what way it went ; so at last it became quite irregular, attacked the Right Hon. Baronet for taking the liberty of talking about the gentleman who said he would squeeze himself into a quart :bottle, no doubt knowing it was no very pleasant operation to try to squeeze into any place, however small, and not be able to effect it.—(Loud laughter.) " A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind." But now the Right Hon. Baronet, and the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, might boldly come forward upon free trade principles, seeing how little power those gentlemen had,_ and having no reason to fear the watch-word of the Hon. Member for Reading, however powerfully exerted—" To your tents, 0 Israel !"—(Laughter.) Nothing could be more as tounding than to find the Hon. Members for Knaresbo rough and Shrewsbury against Ministers, and the Hon. Members for Stockport and Durham supporting them. But such bad been the case. The Noble Lord, the Se cretary for the Colonies, had brought forward a fixed duty for Canada ; would he do so for this country? Why he had not done so, be (Captain Layard) could not tell ; except that, following the example, instead of learning from the history of Jeptha, and having made unwise promises and rash vows at the end, it might be called the twilight, of one session of Parliament, he was determined that the House should pay the sacrifice in the next, which it accordingly did. At any rate, he thought the Noble Lord ought not to object to an in quiry into the law as it at present stood.—(Cheers.) Some short time ago he (Captain Layard), being at the Opera, had the pleasure of seeing the Right Hon. Ba net there—(Laughter)—and he certainly thought that the beautiful ballet of Ondine—(llenewed laughter)— was a fair representation of what was going on in the Right Hon. Gentleman's mind. Cerito seems a fair and lovely representation of free track, flitting and dancing before the mind of the Right Hon. Baronet, and when the Ondine comes out of the shade and is startled at her own shadow, how just a representation of what happened to the Right Hon. Baronet when he first broached free trade principles !—(Cheers.) How he started back (though the start was not quite so graceful as the one made by the fair Cerito) when he saw, not indeed his shadow, but the shade which came over the mournful countenances of the agricultural Members. But fur his (Captain Layard's) part, he trusted the Right Hon. Ba ronet would soon give up coquetry, after the manner of the fair Cerito, with the shadow, and that when lie opened his arms to embrace it, it might prove to be the reality and not the shadow of free trade. The Right Hon. Baronet had said he would not go back. " E'en not to retrograde is to advance, And men must learn to walk before they dance." For his part, he would rather have a small fixed duty, thinking it a fair source of revenue to the country, but as there seemed no hope of that, he should vote in favour of the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. Trusting that the time would come— " When free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames would flow for all mankind, While nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide." Colonel RUSHBROOKE, who spoke in so low a tone of voice as to be scarcely audible, read a statement to the House, in reply to the letters which have recently appeared in the Times, re,pecting the state of Suffolk, and the cause of incendiarism in that county. Ile regretted that such letters had sppeared in a journal so widely calculated as the Times, as he thought they would do more harm than good. The writer of those letters seemed to have a strong prejudice against the new poor-law. Now the partial and superficial inquiry which he, a stranger, must have necessarily made could only have led him to a lame and impotent conclusion. The Times reporter stated that the increase in the num ber of prisoners in Suffolk, since the passing of the new poor-law, was very great. Now, he (Colonel Rush brooke) had ascertained that, in the seven years before the passing of that Act, the number of prisoners was upwards of 5,000, while the number since was only 4,100. Notwithstanding the representations of the Times reporter, he (Colonel Rushbrooke) could say that in no part of the kingdom were the pour better taken care of than in Suffolk. Lord RENI)LESHAM believed that the tenant-far mer and the poor man were as much interested in this question as the landholder. The assertion that the te nant-farmer would be benefited by the repeal of the corn-laws, because his rent would be reduced, was un founded; it,seemed to be supposed that there was but, one party to the letting of a farm, but it should be re• membered that the landlord, like every ene else, could. • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 26. The SPEAKER to' le the Chair at the usual hour (Four oVock), at which time there were exactly for!) , Members prrsent. CORN-LAWS.—ADJOUENED -DEBATE. Mi.7 4 :613E1E51 . (in contiruation frotu .cur Third Editic , n)--llead an acoount of the expenditure o 2.4841. Bs. 6d , 14hich he :aid was the first, the last, and the only account they had ever given, although they had received 159,0001., thus. leaving a balance of 156,5151 ..~ _.. COURT CUICULAITI. an -I Prince Albert n edited, yesterday fore- V 7, th,r„yal, garl,tas of anitin , ,bam Pala,c2. • b, 4yal llfglmess the Print. , ace,nnpanied 3 .•% te ''' , l )o . ager Laly Lyttelton, was taken an airing r s l , 3 3', ati open carri:,g,_ , and roar. G : 18 itoyal Highness Prince Altvrt, attended by Mr. c',.,)rge Alward Anson, went, yesterday falorr:ng - , to the ;he. Duchy of Cornw:,ll, in Somerset House. •Irders. ) t a " llot,•al Famil •• w e t e taken airings yesterday, in roTat i ' ll- estv, attended by her Lady in Waiting, left l 'ce rc•s:enlay, for an airing, in en open csviage accoma:ded the queen, on ''''" 3 el• Ecurrii-s in Waiting. Colon( I Arbuthnot aid , • a ~,,.L " - 1/ 4 1 ur-General Sir Edward Bowater, also attended t:z•r:st back. Tlle reyal dinner plrtv at Buckingham Palace,yester dayiuclud,al the Portuguese Minist, r patd the B a"ne. , a 5 de M oncorv o, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the ALtrqnis o f I f , rne , the Marquis and Ma—,hioness of A ' r e"rit, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of izo,, berv, Lord John•Russelkand Mr. Fraser Tytler. bani of the C,:hlstream Regiment of Foot 6 u,ards a ,tin a:tendan c e at the PuTace during (loner. "er Ro-cal II;g1Ines the Duchess of Gloucester l eft ° ln on inesdf•,-, for her residence, Bagshot Perk. a nirmg 'er Royal Highness the Duch,ss of Cambridge took n yesterday, in a carjago. Interview Mt O'Reilly, Atto r nev-Gent-ral for Jamaica, had an °Mee. with Lord Stanley - yesterday, at the Colonial ,_Mr• Ashb e l Smith, CharLe d'Affaires of T exas, left eeti Klvn for Paris yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commisaioners for England had a yesterday at the office. in Whiteha l l - p lace. Thng ere were pry sent the Bb,hop of London, the Earl of L orough, P th; Eight lion. 11. Hohhouse, and the Dean o f Westminster. - : Mr. 'My:al, Chairman of the Excise, had a n interview u . tiv2 Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his :nal residence in Dawning-street. Alr. Robert Neilson had an interview yesterday with Lard Stanley at the Co'onial-office. SERVATIONS ON THE SPEECH WILLIAMS UN THE CURRENCY BILL. s 7'o THE EDITOR OF TILE N. E SUN. Mr. Williams's speech occupies by far the largest e "'• ( , f the debate on Monday evening, and as every sen- Err : -e contains error in statement, or principle, and those H o V are evidently adopted by the great majority of the ot• I intrude on your columns to point out the mis ae,._, t e . ids mistakes to which the Hon. Gentleman gave ut ,ance:__ t an o He asserts " That the excessive circulati on of the N t' of England paper had encouraged specu lation. " ort ° ‘; it is clear, that Mr. W. imagines (from the vast im j4lice he attachesl to its operation) that the Bank of Eng 'irculation constitutes a preponderating portion of our tot - T circulation. tun admits that our trading transactions are far greater ti„ ri ,hos , ,. of France, yet he does not discover that specula tf;ell Ls carried to too great an extent in that country, though th e !irrency of France amounts to one hudred millions, and s ilanl : notes have not averaged twenty -five d r ;emi/jr. Ile complains that while ran ee has one hun tb' Millions of gold and silver, we, requiring more, have only The obvious inference is, that we ought, in his ►t il(nl, to import and pay for the difference, seventy millions at ea ' - ' ! Ile then treats us with the monstrous absurdities h farad Hardcastle and Mr. Homer, and their stuff abo ut le, :recte.tion." - t l ae truth is, that our paper circulation never was, never fbe, depreciated in any degree—the idea arosQ from con t a terms. Gold was much wanted for payment of o r f and rose in price ; and our ingenious theorists, instead , r, l B aying that "gold had risen," said .6 paper bad fallen 1 ' o l' ar e Y, might as well have said that paper had fallen, because Lt or burgundy, from a short harvest, had risen in price, ( l tha t my .son Henry had fallen or shrunk in stature, because 1 1 ;yrother Leopold had grown three inches taller during the lq Year illiams refers to the panic of 1825 (like the illus tfi°4B Attila), but cannot perceive that the country was then LIN 'ed from convulsion by the enormous issues of Bank of I ,,,giand paper between the 10th and 20th of December, and ,Iclr :`es in favour of a Bill which will render any repetition of saving process impossible. well might the old writer say that " those whom Jupiter 8 determined to destroy he first deprives of reason." COMMON SENSE. t sk W" . :I 4:viz r W" . 4: A. SUN OFFICE, Seven °Windt. .49 COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Pius, at Guildhall,:before Lord Chief Justice TANDAL SARGENT V. WLEAN: Mr. Serwant '.l"alfourd was for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant, llyles for the defendant. This %vas an action brought by the plaintiff against the &An !ant to recover damages for injury &tie to water colour: painting which the deferylunt gave him to moun , . • The clef, nce was , , th;:t the defend ant followed the directiu:is of the -plainiff, and adopted a course which he would m.t otherwise have done, in consequence of those directions. The jury found a verdict for the plairtlif—Damages 101. BANKRUPTCY.—(T HIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQuE.) LORD HUNTINGTOWER. _ _ The Court was, at two o'clock this day, crowded with a curious auditory, on tiptoe to hear a continuation of the singular distelolur. s which were giv..n to the world on the previous examinations. They were d,omed, however, to disappinlment, for on the noble bnakrupt's name having been called, Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, his solicitor, said that he had had a comdumicatioa fcom his Lordship a very short time ago, a; - td, from the tenor of that communication, he might say with e:rtainty that his Lordship a ould not appear in Court that day. Mr. Lewis here wished to hand in the-note he had reerred to; but The Learned COMMISSIONER said that he could re ceive no private communication, as such, in Court. Mr. Lewis said that his object was merely to show that they were not in fault, for the non-appearance of his Lord,hip. lie might appeal fur corroboration of that to his Learned Friend James. Mr. Edwin James said that Mr. Lewis had to do with a versatile client, and he did not, from aq he could un derstand of the eircumstance , , think that Mr. Lewis could have foreieen the intention of his Lordship to set at nought the forms of the Court. Mr. Lewis prayed that the hearing of the case might be adjourne I to a future day, and that the protection of the Court might still be extended to his Lordship. The Learned COMMISSIONER said he should not ex tend the bankrupt's protection for a single hour until he should surrender himself. The protass of that Court should not be played with if he could help it - . The further hearing of the case was adjourned till the 4th of .July, to give Mr. Lewis an opportunity of com municating with his Lordship. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. OUR FATE IS SEALED. TO 2"IIE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. I.The astounding, the inconceivable ignorance of our eslature leaves us without hope for the future. Peel con colnes his currency course without opposition; he makes Ocessions of points as unimportant as whether a soldier's o ,'Kcl should have on it twelve or fourteen buttons, and no .!C . rises up to denounce and lay bare the monstrous fallacies :°(1 ruinous principles on which Procustes Peel bases his M urderous system ihe on the 26th of June, at a distance from London —it 7, T herefore possible that some Member whom Providence, 11 11 ,. a nea r ly miraculous interposition) has b lessed with com sense, may have pointed out to the house the terrific tevils With which we are threatened. 2n an enactment comprising a thousand evils, it is scarcely brill while to notice more than the most enormous of the th Will content myself, therefore, with calling attention to main features of this legislative Frankenstein. 41 e first is, the attempt to conv ert our circulation from one al most wholly of paper, to one almost wh oll y metalhc ; the ite clan d, to restrain our circ ulation to a fixed amount, though ti.. 4.8 '" extension of commercial transactions may render a cor -I',,Mding extension in our mac hiner y of transfer imperative. (asobjections to a metallic cu rrenc y are manifold. First d3ing most on the surface), is its costliness. If we add t3' millions of gold to our currency , we must give thirty hv i uons of goods for it. the second objection is, the impossibility of obtaining a k - "ocient supply of the met als. Our real main currency con -4118 of bilis of exchang e, of Which 250 millions are constantly c 'aT• These bills pass through as many hands as Bank of ,!"-,rland notes of like amoun t, and p erform exactly similar voies in our transactions. Ilia third objection is, that metal. instead, of being steady, ' 3 continually shifting its relative value; an d that if cir „:umstances cause it to flow out of the kingdom, thus making in our circulation, there are not any means of fi11 (1,3.N.) (1, 3.N . ) t hat vacuum. ir Attila Peel imagines that he p rotects commerce, by rn tS Purpose Bank notes convertible into g old. Now, independent t) j e n act that he cannot accomplish this, his effecting his would do little to benefit co w coerce ; the rende rin g holder of a note secure, would not protect the depositors v ivi loseinterests are in the ratio of four to one of that of the I. " n oteholders), nor the billholders, whose int erests are as eight ° ,:me of the noteholders. It could in no degree create additional wisdom or caution hankers in lending their own capital, or those of their de positers ; and it is obviously on this poin t that the whole question of power to meet engagements depends. Sir Bober:, admits that the Bank of England may issue ° tes to the amount of thirty millions—sixteen on bullion, nrteen on Government debts, &c. The deposits exceed t hirteen millions. I repeat a q uestion I h a ve put in a form er letter—lf a panic should arise, and the depositors w ithdraw T hirteen millions of the gold, how are the thirty millio ns of R otes to be cashed? C0MM0.:%.1. SENSE. SINGULAR CASE at the MANSION- _ HOUSE. Mr. Cornbedun, on behalf of his frie nd, a forei g ner, of the nhme of Be.rgstol, requested permissio n to call the atten t'cm of the Chief Magistrate to the outrageous co nduct of a rliceman, of the name of Hamgr, a, who had stopped the mi.- ilekY emigrant the other evening, and taken away fro m him Is pocket-book and gold watch. Lis I ,,l'he foreigner, as well as his broken English could express V sentiments, had called upon the policem an to take him . 1 rfure a magistrate, that any charge which the man " d ressed little brief authority" might, choose to make, might be e xamined into. This Mr. Hamgra declined to do, or to re .urtl the abstracted property. M. Bergstol had, therefore, lVirwed—(we were going to say the "robber," we mean) — t he officer, and luckily meeting with Mr. Cornbedun, to whom 'e Was well known, that gentleman•had insisted on the great moan's accompanying him to the Mansion - house: \Viten asked what justification he could offer for tbe out taA'e be had committed, Mr. Haingra assumed a profound and o fficial look, assured the Mayor that he had g reat deference '°r the authority of the Chief Magistrate, but must "most r espectfully, but firmly, decline to answer the question." He en uttered divers grand sentences abo ut the p ower given t u „9 the olice, and referring to the case of the Secretary of Mate fur the Home Department and Mr. Mazzini's letters, declared his conviction of the similarity of the circumstances, a nd that any inquiry into his motive for taking the property, ° „ r What he intended to do with' it, would " be fraught with the most dangerous consequences to the empire," and was Vroceeding in this strain when our reporter left. only get the mttrket value of his land. If they were re duced to continental prices, would they not be compelled to adopt the motinental system of the proprietors culti s wing their own estates sithout the intervention of the tenant farmer ? Now, as to the poor man, for whom so touch was slid in that House, and so little was done— (Hear, hear)----he believed that he was better off with high prices and high wages, than low prices and low ges. Ile believed also that the object of the League was to reduce wages to the continental level, arid quoted a pa . sage from a speech of the Hon. .Member for Wol verhampton to bear him out in the assertion.—(Mr. Vil liers denied the correctness of the report.) In that case he would retract it ; bat the Hon. Member for Birming ham had made a declaration to the same effect. Ile did not think that the corn-laws could be said to be detri mental to trade and commerce, when it was stated by the free traders themselves, that in the last forty years the manufactures of the country had realised enough to purchase the fee-simple of the whole land of the king dom. Other nations, too, had seen the advantage of the protective system,and were mare extensively adopting it. Mr. WARD said they ought to express their obliga tions to the Noble Lord for having brought back the debase to something like its proper object ; for as to spending two hours in reviewing all that had been said and done by the Anti-Corn-law League, he considered it a mere evasion of the main question, of how these laws bore upon the interest of the community. If the Hon. Member for North Lancashire had come forward a two lvemon'h ago, and charged the League with being a seditious body, it might havo been open to him to have done so ; but for him to do so now, holding the position of the President of the Publishing Council o the Agricultural Protection Societies, which had used the same .means as the League, with the ex ception of the great talent which that body brought to the question, he thought was rather out of place. Those societies were now copying, though at a very humble distance, the efforts of the League. Now, as to the question itself, if he could believe, according to- the Noble Lord, that there was a regular sliding-scale be tween the landlord and the tenant, and that the land lord always reduced his rent in proportion to the price of corn ,he would concede that to he just. But they never heard of anything but miserable abatements of five, six, or ten per cent. The tenant tool: the farm in the expectation of making a rent according to the price pro mised by the corn-laws, which those laws were not able to secure to him. The Right Hon. Baronet had not been able to secure to the farmers the minimum price of 565. promised by the sliding-scale.—(No, no.) lle contended that if he did not make an actual promise, he did a virtual oue, and that promise had not been kep'. The Noble Lord alluded to the interests of the poor man, about which so much was said in that House, and so little dene. God knew that was true enough. But where were those who called themselves the friends of the poor to-night.. They shrank from this discussion. Where were those who, when they were dealing with the interests of others, raetised a cheap humanity at other pop'e's expense.--(Hear, hear.) Where was the Noble _Led, the Member for Dorsetshire ? 'Where were all the " young England " party? They were all repre sented by the solitary gentleman (Mr. P. Borthwick) • who had the peculiar distinction of being the only man in the House who could be found to second the amend meet moved to the resolution before the House, and he must do the Hon. Member the justice to say that he never saw a man more unwillingly dragged into a dilemma. He thought too, it was to the credit of the liouse, that no allusion had been made throughout the debate, to that amendment, except by the Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade, who said that where it could be proved one man had been thrown out of work by mechinery, he would show a hundred families main tained in comfort by it. But where were all those who, when they were dealing with other people's property, used such loud language about zeal and care for the poor man ? Had they all had time to get sober like the Hon. Member for Nottinghamshire? He could conceive nothing more contemptible than the position they would henceforth occupy in public opinion. He totally denied what had been stated by the Noble Lord as to prices and wages. A position more untenable, and more unfounded than that of wages being regulated by prices, he had never heard. In many parts of the country wages were lower than they were five years ago. The farmers were not responsible fur this ; there were more persons pressing on them for employment, and consequently there was less money to be divided among them. And he would take this opportunity of alluding to a practice adopted in Suffolk, against which he, as an old supporter of the poor-law in that House, must strongly protest, that was the introduction of another test besides the workhouse test, before giving a man a right to relief. It was the intention of the law that the workhouse text should be the only one. That was generally understood in 1833, but it appeared that in the county of Suffolk a certificate was required that a man could not obtain work. The Noble Lord had said that commerce had flourished even when the corn laws were more stringent than they were at present. It was a bold assertion that the corn-laws could in any way tend to promote commerce ; but the Noble Lord was one of a clique, and bold assertions of this kind were always received with favour by gentlemen opposite. Why, it was well known that every Government found it difficult to make commercial treaties with other countries in con- sequence of those laws. The correspondence which had taken place between the Noble Lord and the Secretary for Foreign Aff►irs with the Government of Prussia proved that.—(llear, hear.) lie should like to know what advant?ge it was to the Noble Lord to pay double for his sugar. But he supported the sugar duties in order that the corn-laws might be protected ; for there was an implicit contract that one interest was to support the other. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Pre sident of the Board of Trade e as fond of abstract princi ples. lie declared that he regarded dear bread as the greatest of public calamities, while in the same breath he said that the admission of 160,000 quarters of corn, at a duty of 17s. was a proof of the admirable working of the present law. The Right Hon. Gentleman, at the head of the Government also dealt in abstract assertions, of which, if he performed but the tithe, he, and the band of free-traders by whom he was surrounded, would most gladly follow him. He would prefer him ten times to his Noble Friend the Member for London, who was the type . of the fixed duty. Should the Right Hon. Baronet have any further quarrels with his party, the free traders would most gladly accept of him for their leader.—(Laughter.) The Noble Lord upheld the principle of a fixed duty. The Right lion. Baronet ad kered to no principle at all. The Noble Lord hinted that when they came to a compromise, Hon. Gentlemen men opposite would find him a most convenient person. No doubt a fixed duty would be preferable to a sliding scale, but if the Right Hon. Baronet could get rid of the drag chains by which he was encumbered, and work out a pinion of that large theory which he put into such a comprehensive shape before the country, there was no person whom he (Mr. Ward) would like so well to follow, because the Riglit Hon. Baronet made a great deal of a bad cause, and if he only set himself seriously to carry out the principles which he knew to be right, his eloquence would carry everything before him; but when the Hon. Member for Somerset said he now depended on the Government, and when, after praising the manliness and straightforward ness of the speech of the Hon. Gentleman the President of the Bond of Trade, which he (Mr. Ward) never before heard were characteristics of that Right Hon. Gentleman's speeches—(A laugh)—he said he hoped they would engage in a new compact with the Govern ment, the Right Hon. Gentleman actually got excited on the subject, and put himself out of his ordinary calm course to cheer the appeal made to him. He had asked for a fair trial, and he believed the Right Hon. Gentle man intended to give the law a fair trial. What was a fair trial? Was it ore, two, three, five, or ten years ? He did not believe the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, would have made the speech they had heard from him last night were it not for the rain which had fallen, and which had, in some degree, removed the fears for the harvest. Was the country to undergo all the misery and suffering of two or three bad harvests before they had—he would not say convinced the Right Hon. Baronet, because he was convinced, as he (Mr. Ward) was—but before he could, with as &cent a regard for consistency as possible, re verse his mode of action? The Right Hon. Gentleman would then tell Hon. Gentlemen opposite' that the time was come when it was impossible to 'resist any longer the general demand for the repeal of the corn-laws. He knew that at present the advocates for a repeal of the corn-laws were labouring under a disadvantage, because there was no scarcity of provisions, and there was no great deficiency of work. But that was a bad state of legislation which depended on the state of the weather. —(Hear.) This was a landlord, and not a tenant question. There was never anything so bolstered up is this Pro - Corn law League. The first association was got up by a. landlord, Mr. Tower of Essex. It was the landlords who raised the fund to support it. He did not believe that in a single county the tenants had originated any movement. It would be wiser—more honourable, and more profitable, for Hon. Gentlemen opposite to look at this question fairly and openly, instead of staving off the evil hour by a large majority of votes, without convincing any being that they had a single sound argue. meat upon which to take their stand.—(Cheers.) Sir J. TROLLOPE said he did not intend to speak upon this motion, were it not that the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last asserted the Pro-Corn-law Society had c. pied the Anti-Corn-law League in everything but their talents. They did not copy it in interferir with the elections. One of the fundamental rules of the Society with which he was connected was not in. anyway to interfere with the elective franchise, there.. fore that part of the statement of the Hon. Gentleman was not founded in fact. He also denied the statement of the Hon'. Gentleman that the Pro. Corn-law Asso ciation was repudiated by the tenants of the country On the contrary, it was originated by the tenants theme. selves ; at least, that was the case in the county which he represented. The principle of the Anti-Corn-law League was an aggressive one—their's was a defensive one. They were not jealous of the Anti-Corn-las League ; they simply wished to stand on the protective system as regarded themselves.—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) One good result which followed from the Anti-Corn-law League was, that they taught the land. lords to know their own strength, and they did rot mean to lose it. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the agricultural improvements which had taken place be the county of Lincoln, and said that if the poor in the county of Suffolk were employed, and their wages raised, they would hear no more of incendiary fires.-.e. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Sussex mons.. mended capital punishments to put a stop to those in. cendiaries. He (Sir J. Trollope) hoped that such • course would never again be resorted to.—(Hear, hear.) If the corn-laws were repealed all the land must be re• stored to a state of pasture, and it would afford main• \t e nanco only to shepherds , and the labouring classes would be ruined. Mr. M. GIBSON said that in investigating the mode in which the society for maintaining the corn-laws end the society for abolishing them had originated, they had been led away from the real question, which was, what was the benefit supposed to be conferred upon the coin U f ■