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Now ready, in 1 vol., 10s. CO. bound, THE WANDERER. IN ITALY, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE; AND SPAIN. By ADOLPIIUS T. TROLLOPE, Esq. Author of " A Summer iu Brittany," &c. Prinapl Contents :—Venice—Rome Florence—Zurich—Lucerne 'Perne—lpterlaken—Certaldo—Arles—Beziers Toulouse —Pati—Or- Viez.—St'Seba.stian—AzPerlia—Saragossa— Jaca—Pantuose—Bay sane, &c, Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 'vols., poet Rye., I. A NOVEL. 0 0 " The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we coald hardly sea displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his hero4s and heroines. He is a writer of genius, inspired by a high standard of morality and religion, and by a laudable love of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the subjects; just mentioned. There are several chapters, in which links of thestory are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that are the prima mobilla of the actions which cha racterise nature's,nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marke4 per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Man nerses, and Smytheis."—Observer. ." Silwood' is no,ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter of Amelia Rose we have already spoken, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuons parts In the tale are Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post. Richard Bentley, NOW Burlington-street: H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. 71 LA TEMPESTA. It Is - napectftilly announced, that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT Will take pLsce On THURSDAY EVENING, August 1, When will lie presented the highly successful new grand Opera, by Haltvy, thet Poem by Scribe, founded on The Tempest of Shakspere, and compoaecloxpressly for her Majesty's Theatre, LA TEMPESTA. In conseqUeike of the approaching termination of Madlle. Carlotta Grist's engagement, this is the last time bat one that La Tempests can possibly bq given. The Incidental Dances by M. Paul Taglioni. The Scenery by Mr Charles Marshall. AMMO, •Sig. :Lorenzo ; Prospero, Sig. Colletti ; Antonio, Sig. F. Lablache ; Ferdinand. Sig. Baucarde ; Trinculo, Sig. Ferrari; Ste phano, ltadlle. Parodi ; Sycorax. Madlle. Ida Bertrand ; Spirit of Air, Madiime Giuliani ; Ariel, Madlle. Carlotta Grist ; Caliban, Lablachei Miranda, Madame Sontag. With other Entertainments in which Madame Frezzolini, Signori Canton!, Mid Calaolari will appear. With vaclous Entertainments in the Ballet Department, combin ing the tqients of Madlle. Carlotta Grial, Madlle. Amalie Ferraris, Madlies. 'fallen, Rosa, Lamoreux, Aussandon ; MM. Charles; Vena- Ira, Di Math s, Gouriet, &c. To conclude with the revived admired Ballet Divertissement Epi sodique, by. ; ll. P. Taglioni, the Music by Signor Pugni, entitled PRIMA BALLERINA; ou, L'Embuscade. Applicdtlens for boxes, stalls, and pit tickets to be made at the Box Officetbf Ow 'Theatre.. • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVE...NI.NO Will be performed Mozart's Opera of • DON GIOVANNI. Din Otkivanni, Signor Coletti ; Don Octavio, Signor Calzolari ; Mazetto, inor F. Lablache ; Leporello, Signer Lablache ; Donna Anna, MaA e. Parodl ; Donna Elvira, Madame Giuliana ; Zerlina, Madame SiOntag. To conelude with the Ballet, by M. P. Taglioni, LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVER. - . In wwhichMdlle. - Carlotta Grisi (her last appearance but four), A.:Xerraris, and M. Charies will appear. pirector of the Music and Conductor, Mr. Balla. Applicatrotis for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office of tate Theatre. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EV/..14 Will be performed ••••• L Composer, Directoi - of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Scenery ty Messrs. Grieve and Telbin : the Dresses by Mrs. Bailey and Mme. Marzio ; the Appointments by Mr. Bla mire ; the Mac, dnery by Mr. Allen; the Dances arranged by M. Alexandrk and the Spectacle under the direction of Mr. A. Harris. 149 Performances will commence at Right o'clock. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. stessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. MAS. FANNY KEMBLE. READINGS IV SIIAKSPEARE. Mr. MITCIrELL respec . lully announces that Mrs. FANNY KEM ELE Is eitaged for SIX READINGS of SHAKSPEARE. TO-MORROW EVENING The See9nd Reading will comprise Shakspcare's Play of "3lldsum mer Night's Dream.," Tire Third Reading on Friday, August 2, " The Merry Wives of Windsor." . _ Tp-commasee at half-past Eight 'clock prCcisely. fitalls, 7a. ; L'o*es, ss. ; Pit, 35.; v Amphitheatre, 2s. Private Bores One Guinea, One Guinea and a-half, alid two Guineas. sox.. acid stalk may be sectirert at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, 014 Bond -street ; Mr. Sams' Royal Library, St. James's-street ; Messrs. Ebera', Androms', Hookhant', Alicrofrai, Leader and Cock's, Chappell'ellammond'a, and 011ivier's Libraries, Bond-street ; Cra mer's, and ihe Carlton Library, Regent-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which s open daily from Eleven tat Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be produced a new Domestic Drama, entitled THE EMI GRE'S DAL'GHT. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, Cutlenford, ; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitz- William. After which a new Terpsicorian Burlesque Entitled ESMERALDA. Characters by Messars. 0. Smith, Wright, P. Bedford ; Madame Celeste. Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. iitzwilliam. To conclude with a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Tongue, tobe ca►led JACK IN THE GREEN ; or, Hints on Etiquette. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The best ventilated Theatre in London. Crowded HouScs to witness the attractive and magnifieent Spectacle of Mazeppa,"which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the Arena, form the most varied and attractive Entertainments in the Metropolis. MIA EVENING, Will be produced Lord Byrou's gorgeous Spectacle of 3LiZEPPA and the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks. To be succeeded by an inimittole Display of Batty's reedit of Zquitation in the Cirque Olympique. To conclude with a Comic Ballet. Box-office open From Eleven till Four Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Roya Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOO LOGICAL GARDENS. OPE.N every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY. Re-Engagement of M. JULLIEN. Another splendid Elephant. Promenade Concert, conducted by M. Jullien and Mr. Godfrey—Se lect Programme of Ancient and Modern Music—Jullien's Nepaul- ese Quadrille, Vhe new Irish Quadrille, the " Hibernian," composed by M. Jullien. " The Derby-Day Galop," composed expressly for these Gardens, Is one of the most successful of Monsieur Jullien's compositions, and in consequence of the nightly encore, will be repeated till Anther notice. The Grand Otiorka March, performed for the first time before the Nepaulese Ambassador. Prodigious Success of the entirely new-modelled Dioramic Pic ture representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his Army!! the - largest Picture in the World with innumerable moving Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr. Denson and Son, assisted.by Messrs. Adams , W ilson, &c. !Lc. The Picture has occupied the Messrs, lilanson for many months, and it is eoufidently istitimitted to Use Public as a chef-d'osuvre of art, and not inferior to atockproduction'of the day. The SpIeidist . MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several valuable Pyeserilt from the Queen. The MusicSlDepartment wail be conducted by Moos. Jullien and Mr. Godfrey. It will be the' airs of the Establishment to offer for the gratilkistlon of the Subscribers and the Public, the most Splendid Military Band in the Kingdom ! ! Selected from the BandS 6f ; lier Majesty's Horse and Foot Guards, and the most eminent Artistes in the profession. The( following list of engagements will, it Is hoped, convince the rublic, that the long-acknowledged excellence of the Band or this Establishment will be fully maintained 1 The Repertoire of Music will be most exteniive and varied, arranged from the most Popular Operas in this awl other countries. Solo-Players—Messrs. Koenig, Lazarus, Prosperre, Colinet, Pratten, Jarrett, Sonnenberg, Sommers, and Wlnterbotham. During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic, and Pyrotechnic Tableau Illustrating the celel.rated Picture by David, of •Buonaparte Crossing the Alps I Showing a general view of the Region of the Alps, stretching from the small mountain lake in the foreground to the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned by the stupendous Mount St; Bernard and its far-famed Monastery. A portion of the French Armyis first seen " en bivouac," preSently the drums beat to arms, and amid the clash of Military Bands and Martial Music, the Troops commence the A.seent. The Soldiers are seen dragging the Artillery in Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Perpendicular Heights, and traversing the most Terrific Ravines, but all difficulties are overcome, and the Gallant Anny is seen pursuing its course to the Fertile plains of Italy. The whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of Firework's, by Messrs. Southby, introducing, amongst various novelties, the most admired fens d'arthace of former seasons, jets d'esu, water rockets, revolving pieces, a ma.paificeut Transparency fifty feet in height, painted by Messrs. Damson, representing iltionaparte on Horseback cheering on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insignia of honour, flags, trophies, ikc., amidst a cerruscation of various coloured nue. rha complicated and difficult machinery, and the erection of the picture under the directiOn of Mr. Thos Lowe. The extensive gas fittings by 31easra. Botc%erby and Dixon, 23, King-street, Covent garden. Admission. Is 111(111 vv..l PER AT LONDON 131tIDOE. TEtt3 DAT Morning 28 min. after 5 ! Evening 47 min. aster 5 To-MOUOVT— Morning 6 min. atter. .9 I Evening 26 min. after 5 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 30. THERMOMETER, IN THE SIIADE. 69—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest thiimorning and during the night. 65—this day, at noon. BAROML Ilia, 30.26. WiND N.E.— dull weather, with occasional sunshine. 1 ,.....0. Itck ,-.\4'.,,-• i s. . ',. ..;,.- r a •,.... -\ - • 14, , E, , , ,— / . :' . L '• 5. ~ „.? 1..,,1,F., ( '-.....:\ ,i, , , *, ib - ' - 0 .7%. , ~.. 7,_ ' ....4 4 tE 11 ° 'Fc., ' , :04 a" • "..' * '' Rini.' T y b . lerffirtstx km-2:11[11'. (* , r LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1850. The House of Commons has pronounced its deci sion on the first of the preliminary points that have been raised with respect to the claim of Baron ROTLIETHILD to take his pat in the Commons House of 'Parliament, as one of the chosen representatives of the city of London, the metropolis of the British domi nano. The judicious and. reasonable amendment of the veteran Member for Montrose has been affirmed by a majority of 54, and it i 3 thereby deter- Mined that in Parliament, as well as be fore every tribunal in the country, every British citizen shall be entitled to take the oaths that may be prescribed in the form which be may declare to be most binding on his conscience, and that whether the oaths be of ajuridical or of a promis sory character. This decision is so clearly in accordance with the law of the land and the constitution, that we can only express our astonishment that any Honourable Gen tleman at all acquainted with the course of legal proceedings, and the ordinary rules fur the interpre tation of the written and unwritten law, should have hazarded an opposite view, and contended that, because no person professing the Jewish re ligion had previously put forward his claim to be sworn on the Old Testament, that it should be assumed that all such persons were now disqualified, and that a penal and disabling law should be passed without sny distinct, or express words. The Right THE SUN, LONDON, Honourable Gentleman the Member fur Abingdon argued, that because it was the practice that the oaths should be taken on the New Testament, that " the onus should be thrown upon those Rho desired to de part from the practice to show that it could be lawfully done." Now, with all respect for the acknowledged learning of Sir RIEDERICE MENGES, we must express our unqualified dissent to this proposition. Baron ROTHSCHILD was asserting not only his own rights as a natural-born subject of Great Britain, but the rights and privi leges of the numerous and influential constituency by which he was elected as a representative. It was not on his side that the onus lay of showing why he should not be deemed disqualified on account of the religious principles which he conscientiously entertained, or why the city of London should not be partially disfranchised, but for his opponents, who en deavoured to resist the just demand and to exclude the Honourable Gentleman from the Legislative Councils of the nation of which he was a free citizen. They should have shown that there was some express enactment on the subject, or at least some previous decision of the House itself on the point that would constitute a precedent sufficient to warrant a decision contrary to the judgment of every judicial tribunal of the country for the last century and a half, since the leading case of Ommicuire V. BARKER was determined by the Lord Chancellor (Lord HinnwicxE) and the three Chiefs of the Common Law Court?, Chief Justice WILLIS, Chief Justice LEE, and Chief Baron PARKER. In that important case, the princi ple of which has never since been impeached or con troverted, Lord HARDWICKE declared that "all that is necessary to an oath is an appeal to the SUPREME BEING, as thinking him the rewarder of truth and avenger of. falsehood." The Noble and Learned Lord added—" This is not contradicted by any writer that likknow of but Lord Coss, who has taken upon himself to insert the word Christian, and is the only writer that has grafted this word into the oath." • WILLIS, C.J., assented to this reasoning, and used these remarkable words—" The nature of an oath is not at all altered by Christianity, but only made more solemn from the sanction of rewards and punishments being more openly declared. The form of the oath varies in countries according to different laws and constitutions, but the substance is the same in all.'' These opinions would appear to be conclusive on the question, although no enactment had subsequently passed the Legislature. If the substance of the adju ration was complied with, the form signified little, providing it were really looked upon as binding on the conscience as an appeal to a SUPBEMS BEING, "the rewarder of truth and avenger of falsehood," to witness the ceremony. The religious principles acknowledged by every creed and sect would con sider such an appeal of the most formidable character, if made falsely. But the Ist and ?.1 Vic., c. 105, added temporal to the eternal punishments that might be inflicted for its violation. It was thereby enacted, that in all cases in which an oath " shall have been administered in due fJrm, and with such ceremonies as such person may declare to be binding, every such person, in case of wilful false swearing, may be convicted of the crime of perjury in the same manner as if the oath had been administered in the form and with the ceremonies most commonly adopted." There is thus every sanction, spi ritual or temporal, that could possibly be desired to give full validity to the oath or oaths that may be taken by Baron RoTriscrunD on the Old Testament, and it would indeed have been strange if any body of educated gentlemen had come to a different decision in the present day. Having thus determined that it was the substance, and not the form, of the oath that was essential, the second point arises, which is under discussion even while we are writing. Are the concluding words of the oath of abjuration, "on the true faith of a Chris tian," matters of substance or of form ? Do they constitute any portion of what is to he faithfully observed by the person taking the oath, or are they merely parts of the religious ceremony, which are mere matter of form, and which may dispensed with when repugnant to the feeling and not binding on the conscience of the juror ? On this point we entertain as little doubt as on the other. And had it nut been for the strange, ill-timed, and unfortunate declaration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that "it was not in the power of the House to dispense with these words," and that he should feel himself compelled to vote against their omission from the oath, wa should have considered that the second point was necessarily governed by the decision in the first. It is unneces sary to enter into the consideration of the reasons by which the Legislature was actuated in framing that oath, and requiring all Members to take it before entering upon their Parliamentary duties. It is well known that there was at that time a claimant to the crown of Great Britain, who asserted himself to be the King de jure, and against whose pretensions it was desired to pledge every person of weight and in fluence in the country. It was not the object to ex clude Jews, or the members of any other religious persuasion, and the words " on the true faith of a Christian" were added merely for the purpose of giving additional solemnity, and were as clearly a portion of the "form as the swearing on the New Testament, and could therefore be dispensed with in like manner ;" and this we trust will be the decision of the British House of Commons, although the head of a quasi-Liberal Ministry has adopted a course and made a declaration so deeply to be deplored by every true friend of civil and religious liberty. It is true that Baron ROTHSCHILD might, if so disposed, take the form of oath framed for Roman Catholics, in which the words " on the true faith of a Christian" are not contained ; and that he might get into the House by an evasion of the true intent of the Roman Catholic Relief Act, in the very same manner that it is attempted to exclude him by an undue ex tension of the Act which provided for the taking of the oath of abjuration. Bat such a course would be unworthy of the sacred cause of which Baron RoTrti- CHILD is the champion. He, at least, will not shrink from a fair decision on the merits, or shirk the true question at issue—a question which we fully concur with the Hon. and Gal!ant G;nt!e man the Member for Middlesex in considering "the greatest party question of the age, the question of prejudice against progress, of intolerance and bigotry against the principles of civil and religious liberty." Although we have argued it merely as a judicial question in the preceding part of this article, we are fully alive to its deep and vital importance, and we only desire that the feelings of the citizens of London should be taken thereon by Lora JOHN RUSSELL'S again coming forward to solicit their franchises. We have frequently, during the present session of Parlianient, called the attention of the Legislature to the present unsettled and anomalous condition cf the landlords and tenants of Ireland. We look upon the Land Question as one of the paramount evils of that country, and would deem its settlement almost a pana ceafor its social and political disorders. We enter tained hopes that this urgent and important question would have received the due attention of Parliaments and would have been legislated upon in a manner satisfactory to owner and occupier ; but, alas ! in this as in many other matters of deep importance to the peace and well-being of the common weal, we have been sadly disappointed, fir it would seem the session of eighteen hundred and fifty will close its labours— as the Ministerial phrase is—and leave Ireland, and its land-question grievance, as they found it in eighteen hundred and forty-nine. Ireland is indeed an unfortunate country I Hard and awful are the proofs she must place before the British Parliament, ere she can claim the attention of the Alin:ster of the day, and now the cumulative evidence of another winter of crime and blood will, perchance, be added to the dark catalogue of agrarian crime which has so long and so fearfully proclaimed the necessity of the adjustment of the relations be tween the occupiers and owners of land in that unfor tunate portion of the empire. Though we cannot hope that any legislation can take place on this subject during the pre sent sittings, yet we cannot allow the session to close without calling attention to the sub ject, in the hope that the Government will be pre pared at the next meeting of Parliament to introduce a measure based upon principles calculated to give satisfaction to all parties concerned. The Bill of Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, though, we believe, well in tended, was not based upon sound principles. The only true grounds upon which this subject can be legislated upon are the conditions of the " Plantation of Ulster." By these conditions the settlers on the confiscated lands, that is the tenant+ or occupiers of the greater portion of the north of Ireland, were en titled to a large share of the privileges of their land lords, these landlords themselves holding their estates not for their own individual profit or advantage alone, but also in trust for the discharge of certain public duties imposed by the Crown for state purposes. It was the intention of the English Monarch to colonize the confiscated lands in the north of Ireland with Protestant settlers. The strongest inducements were held out to English and Scotch Protestants to settle in Ireland. The Crown only granted lands on the conditions that such settlers as should be found bold enough to risk their lives, by settling in a country where every native would look upon them as intruders and enemies, should form an independent yeomanry, holding their land by secure tenures and at moderate rents. This is the foundation of the Ulster tenant right—a right as strong and indefeasible as any right of landlordism in that portion of Ireland included in the " Ulster Plantation." The terms of inducement held out to tempt Pro testants to emigrate to Ireland, and locate themselves on the lands of Ulster, are plainly set forth in several charters and orders in Council during the reign of JAMES I. This Monarch was looked upon rather favourably by many of the Celtic chiefs, in consequence of his relationship to the blood-royal of Ireland—a circumstance of which, it is said, JAMES himself frequently bossted. And, taking advantage of this predisposition in his favour, he determined to adopt, on a larger and more secure basis than his pre decessors had attempted, the policy of colonising the confiscated lands of Ulster with British Protestant settlers, and for the purpose of carrying this plan into full effect, we find that in the year 1608 a State paper was printed . and issued under the authority of his MAJESTY and the Lords of the Privy Council, entitled, " A collection of such orders and conditions as are to be observed by the undertakers upon the distribution and planta tion of the escheated lands of Ulster." This official document, which forms the basis of the ultimate titles of the greater portion of the Ulster proprietors, goes on to set forth the terms upon which these lands were to be distributed among such of hi s suljects of merit and ability as would undertake to carry into effect the terms imposed by his MAJESTY, —first, these lands were granted, not for his MAJEsTr's own private profit, nor for the private and absolute profit of any individual or company alone, " but to do service to the Crown and the Com monwealth." In the charter granted in 1613 to the Irish Society, when the London companies became the proprietors •of the whole county of Derry, his MAJESTr more fully and explicitly declares the public objects of the " plantation," viz., " To establish the true religion and to recal that wretched province from superstition,, rebellion, calamity, and poverty, to religion, obe dience, strength, and prosperity." In pursuance of this project the forfeited lands were parcelled out to undertakers, the present landed proprietors of Ulster, in graduated proportions of two thousand, one thou sand five hundred, and one thousand acres—bog, mood, mountains, and unreclaimed land forming no part of these allotments. Several stringent conditions were imposed by the Crown upon these undertakers or head-landlords, but no condition was more stringent or imperative than that they should make fixed estates to their tenantry, which, if they failed to do, they rendered their own estates liable to for feiture at the discretion of the Crown. It is manifest, then, that the undertakers or landlords of Ulster have no absolute right of ownership, but are the mere trustees of the Crown to carry into effect the several conditions to which we have referred, and that the Ulster "tenant-right" is as much a grant from the British Crown, and should be held as sacred as any other proprietary right whatsoever. In the portion of Ulster where this custom is strictly ob served the most beneficial effects have been expe rienced, and we confidently believe that its extension to the whole of Ireland would be etninently calcu lated to secure the peace and prosperity of that country. We cannot devote more space to this sub ject to-day, but we will repeat what we have before frequently urged, that the Ulster " tenant-right" should be defined and legalised, and extended to every tenant in Ireland. During the course of the last week large public meetings have been held in various towns in this realm of England, for the purpose of devising some method of expressing the national respect for the memory 'cf Sir Robert Peel, and similar meetings have bean held in the metropolis for the purpose of raising subscriptions to erect a national testimonial of respect to the memory of the Duke cf Cambridge; but, whilst it -is graceful and decorous for a nation thus to give expression to its feelings of respect and gratitude for the memory of its dead benefactors, it would be most indecorous, not to say indecent, were that same nation to treat with neglect the claims of its living benefactors. We are sorry to be compelled to admit that to this reproach England is but too open, as the melancholy fate of poor Weghorn bears witness. Let us not put it in the power cf other nations to reproach us with neglecting the claims of one who hate although in a different manner, been as great a benefactor to the nation as even Lieute nant Waghorn himself, we mean Mr. George Alfred Walker, the great Apostle of Sanitary Reform, the man to whose (for a long time unaided) exertions we owe it that the atmosphere of our large towns is no longer to be poisoned by the putrid exhalations of the grave yards, and whose claims have been ignored and himself treated with neglect by a Government which has unscrupulously stolen his ideas, . and, gipsy-like, spoiled them by perverting that which was intended for the benefit of all mankind into a gigantic job, for the exclusive pecuniary proat of the richest clerical body in the world, which unblushingly lays claim to a vested interest in the propagation of pestilence, for the giving up of which it demands and obtains an enormous com pensation. That, however, which the Government has neglec:ed to do the people, we are happy to learn, are doing. This evening there is to be held, at the Old Cheshire Cheese Tavern, near Drury-lane Theatre, a meeting fur the purpose of forming a local committee to collect subscriptions for a Walker Testimonial ; and we trust that similar meetings will be held in every pa rish of the metropolis. TIRE I TUB STRAicD.—About half-pat two o'clock this nu?rning, great alarm and excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Off-alley, Strand. It appears that the son and daughter of Mr. Mansfield, a hair-dresser, occu pied the lower rooms on the ground floor, and while asleep in bed were aroused by the clothes burning around them. An alarm, of course, spread in every direction, and instant intelligence was forwarded to the Chandos-street fire-brigade station, and in a few seconds the firemen and engines were iz attendance from that place. Meznwbile considerable damage had been done, but the firemen soon extinguishei the dames. lhe two individuals above named were dread fully, burned in endeavouring to stay the progress of the fire. which was caused by placing a lighted candle ou a chair too near the bedstead. l's/o p . rtion of the property is insured. On Saturday, IL E. the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, honoured Mr. P. Phillips's Diorama of her Majesty's visit to that country with his presence, and expressed to Mr. Phillips his delight at the accuracy of his painting, and'complimented him,on the selection of the vari ows views. Ma. GEORGE STErnErgs.—We regret to learn that this gentleman, who has been for many years devoted to literature, and amongst whose works.. may be named the dramatic poem entitled " The Hungarian. Daughter," "The Voice of the Pulpit," " The Manuscripts of Erdely," " Pere la Chaise." and the tragedies of Ile Vampire, Ger trude and Beatrice, end Nero, lkc.—is reduced to a condition of extreme pecuniary' dif ficulty' and distress. Of late years Mr. Stephens has been compelled to depend altogether upon his literary industry for the Support of his family. A protracted and painful disorder has rendered it impossible for him to leave the house fur months.• From this cause he has been disabled both from seeking literary employment and, from tilling the duties of any occupation which necessitates absence from home. Under these cir cumstancest it Is proposed, by a benefit appointed to take pl ace on W ednesday (to-morrow), at the Soeho purpose The a trerpo,,e o (late Mias fg min Kelly's), his an- s t e r m e e e t r , g S e n o c h y o as t well as by p r i va t e subscriptions, to raise a 'fund for h d 7 i 3 ;tr D es : The a speres play pieces selected fo r th e occasion are Sh k 6 o f _Henry /Y., Pcu t the First ; the last act of Mr. Stephens's tra!redv of Murtinuzzi• and the petite • .4/i. he committee: among w h om comedy of Time Tries Douglas Jerrold, M r , tharlesare ,numbered Mr. Knight, Mr. \\ es:land Mars ton, Mr. George Lovell, &c., earnestly invite t he sympathy and co-operation of all who may be willing to recognise the double claim of genius and suffering. T of EXTENSIVE FORGERFES 1.11.0; R 33AMC OF Aus- TRIA • —BIA3iINGIIA3I, man li ex terior, named James Hill, was to-day,age er nt e lc o ms . n i ly te trouble, apprehended by Mr. Stephens, the active chief so. perintendent of the borough police, charged with forgeries upon the Austrian Bank, at Vienna, to the extent of 15,000/. The prisoner was taken at one of the principal hotels in the town, and had in his possession at the time of his apprehen sion forged notes of la each,,printcd in Birmingham, to the amount stated. He will be brought up for examination be fore the magistrates at the public-office, on Wednesday next. The quiet and dexterous manner in which he was captured by Mr. Stephens is highly commended. We are happy to state, upon good atehority, that the Duke of Hamilton is progressing towards recovery as rapidly as the nature of his late severe accident will admit. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 3O, 1850. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CDT, TWO O'CLOCK. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed firmly, with American per lb. higher, Surat nearly and all other descripiions Lt full price.. The sales were estimated at 12,000 hakr, of which 2,000 American Were taken for export, and 3,000 American and 1,000 Surat on sremlation. The sales comprised 9,500 Ame rican; SOO remain and Maranham, at 711 to Sid.; 500 Egyptian, at 8-Id. to 91; and 1,200 Surat, at kd. to od. per lb.—The Snare Market was steady, at fully fermor ratcs. At a meeting of parties interested in the Indigo trade, held yesterday, no decision was come to respecting the re-tare of the article, and the question steads over. In the Amsterdam Stock Market on the 28th instant, Mexican Bonds were in re (peat at 29 15-16. There was an animated inquiry alio for Mete Dies. At Franlef.wt on the 27th instant Austrian Bonds were quoted 83a .4., and Spanish Three per Cents. 32 15-16 to 33 3-16. The Australian Mining Company makes a very fair report, and it is obvious that our southern colonies will contrioute largely to the supply of the useful metals, and the development of its resources is probably in its infancy. -The Brighton report has upon the whole, and con sidering the adverse times fur railway property, afforded satisfaction, but there are points brought under conside ration in aa. analysis by Mr. J. S. T r ipp, that show what improvements could be effected. The mortgage debt bears an average rate cf interest of rather over 4/, 10s. 100. per cent. per annum. Now, if this could be reduced to 41. per cent., the annual saving on 1,486,338/. would' be 8,094/. Now it is to the cheapening of money geLerally that we look for one source of improvement in the value afford it, will undoubtedly suffer property, and while the capitalist, wfho railway can best a little, the sha - eholder who finds his income so misera blyo curtailed will be a gainer. The whole amount, fur instance, required to pay the dividend of 1/. 109. per cent. for the half.year, on the Brighton shares, is but 69,3481., and 8,1001. added to this is more than one eighth. The party just nsmed who writes upon the position of this line, contends that the sum estimated by the directors t'er nisintenance of way is inadequate, and remarks e that any ore looking at the accounts simply as rendered, and, not being conversant with the prior statements of _ o the company, would be led to suppose therff remained 301,3621. mortgage powers nut exercised; whereas the real truth is that the loan. power is already exceeded by 19,8031., and any further: capital, it is contended, must be raised by preference thnrep. The (?irectors state, referring to the estimate of 7,200,0001. fur the final capital, that " they see no reason to apprehend any excess in that estimate, unless a further considerable development of traffic should take place." Upon this Mr. Tripp ob serves:—"lt a further developement of traffic does not take place we should like to know from what source the additional income is to be derived to meet the additional charges on revenue on the completion of the company's undertakings: There must either be an increase of traf fic or a decrease of dividends; and if an increase of tragic, then, according to the directors' statement, the much vaunted estimate of 7,200,0001., and the final closing of the capital account is to be moonshine." The Stock Market continues firm, but the transactions are as limited as for some time past. The decisive battle in Denmark inspires a hope, whatever may be the opinion as to the right on either side, that further bloodshed will be avoided. Consols have been 96i to 97; the New Three-and-a-Quarterer Cents. have been 99i I; and the Three per Cents. 97 ito Bank Stock has been at 211 to 212; and India Stock 270. Exche quer-bills have been marked 675. to 70s. premiere. Foreign Securities have been rather more in request, and at faller prices. Portuguese Four per Cents. hare been 34 to 34i. and Spanish Three per Cents. 37i1. Brazilian Bonds have been marked 92 to 921. Chillers Stock has been at 103, and Peruvian Four-and-a-Bali per Cents. have risen to 822 and 83. French Three per Cent e • have been 57 73, well the exchange at 25 45. Dutch Two-and-flail per Cents. have realised 57 1 1 ,- to . 1. Railway Shares are tending upwards again, and the account seems Ecurisi. Great Northern, North Stier foal, Brighton, Great Weetern, Midland, North-Western and Caledonian are all decidedly higher. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols ... • .. 96i 97 Ditto Account ... 96 i 97 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF DRITIS[I /'UND4 O'CLOCK. PRICES. nen& Stuck ...... 211 212 212 3 per Cent. Rath:lei:A A::218 3 per Cent. Consois Annuities... 967.97 9 4 7 New 34 per Cent. Anne 99 14 vs S 9 LA Long Anne. to expire Jan.1860 India Stw.k 270 270 ' n die !tends, 1,000/ Ditto under 1,0001........ South Sea Stock — Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account 97 96% 963 8 Exchequer 1:111s. 14 , 1. Zs 2d 1,000/. June 67 70 p 70 p 5001. June . ... .... 67 70 p 70 p Smr.ll. June . 67 70 p 70 p • ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bond. ,... .... Ditto, Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6- per Cent — 55 I A Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ...... Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. Ditto 5 Der ()wit. Equador Bonds Grenada Bomb, 1 1 /2 per Cent Ditto Deferred 4 1 4 tilexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons , 23% 29 Ditto, Account — 29 'A' 4 Peruvian Bonds, 413 per Cent 82% 83 83 Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds .--- ............ Ditto, 4'4 par Cent Spitniaii 5 per Cent. 1840 1 7 14 Ditto, 3 par Cent Dividends on the above payable in London __ French v 3 per Cent • s7f. 75c. 57f. 75c. Exchange Dutch 24, per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto. 4 Dar Cent. Certificates £'9l <2 891/2 11:ICES OF PAID. RITSINESS DONE CLOSIN,, RAIf.WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Do. Preference Bl ... .. dis. lldie. Caledonian Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 Kajtara C0mitie5 ........ ........20 ...;.. 6 %43e4 6'4 Do., New Prff.rence, fi per Cent.. .. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Great Northern Do., I * A Deferred '.realWestern loo .. 58 1 / 2 59 1 4 59 59 1 ,41 591 k Laocashire& Yorkshire 100 .. . ... 36% ...... . ..,... 3 04 Do. Fifths. .» .. II t, Do. (W. Riling Union) 11 1 27i % 2% London S 6 l3lackwall...lll. tia. 3d... 4i A 4% L indon, Brighton, and South C0n2.t... .....100 Londmi and N. Welaern 100 110:,. /1 ll l l /2 Ditto. New Quarters 17 ...... 173 k . .... .. Midland .... ........ ......100 ...... 345' L„.,:%,.. .., (h., 501. Sham Do. Consolid. Bristol & Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 ...... I ' 2ol /i 1 4•••••• ••••• 12014 s.)rth British ... .... ... 23 ...... _ 51.4 2 North Sts.trordshire ... 17 l it ...... 6% lA 6% Eleoding. Guildford, and Reigate lB ....„ 1714........ S lrewsbary and lii nn... 131%...... di5.......„, _ dis Ditto, New Guaranteed ti ..... ._... iouth tArrn 13 1 4) ...... 14 1 ,i 14 Do., No. 3 ....... .... 30 ...... _ Do., Registered No. 410 ...,,, 4:! 4 ........ •....., 4% York. N awzas;l6, and Berwick. .... ........... 25 ...... 14 1 ,i %. l 4 - Ki D 3. .Newesstle Exten. '2O ...... , Ai ...... ..... Do. G.N.E. P retnr , nctli 9 ... 4 . ........ ..,,, 4 Yoe. aad :North hi illaad 50 ...... 1 5/2 y 8 15% FOREIGN RAILwA y : ,, donlogne and Amiens... '4O ... 7%34_ 7 3 /4 Central of Frat e (Or -- leans and Vierzon)... 20 EAst Indian Orleans aucl Bordeaux.. 7 3 ... • .......... 3 Paris and Rouen 2 ........ 24% MINES. Australian 4 ......... 3% JOINT STOCK HANKS London Joint Stock...-. 10 ..... 17% x.d London & Westrninst.r. 20 The parishioners of St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Wednesday last presented the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford with a handsome richly chased salver, on his relinquishing that curacy. DISPATCH SHIPBUILDING AT BIRKENHEAD.— A remarkable achievement in shipbuilding has been com pleted at Birkenhead during the past week. On Tuesday, the 9th instant, the keel of the Fidget, an iron yacht of about fifteen tons measurement, was laid at Mr. Laird's building yare, and on Saturday last the launch took place. To morrow the yacht w1:1 be masted and sparred, and entirely completed for sea ; just three weeks from the day on which the keel was laid. --Liverpool A BRIDE'S DEATH.--On Sunday afternoon the residents at Thames Bank, V a uxhall -bridge-road, were alarmed by loud shrieks. and cries for help issuing from the River; several boats put off; and five persons who had be come immersed were rescued. On the party recovering from their fright, it was found that a Miss Ashton, who had been married that morning to Mr. Harper, of 19, Little Dean-street, Southwark-road, and whose wedding excursion it was, bad been drowned. and though search was made for the body, it was not recovered. The accident arose from the unskilfulness of the parties in the management, of the boat. Woo',mut, JULY 29.L-Capt£llll the Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice's engine was taken to pieces to - day to be in spected, after the trials that have ta ken p lace in com parison with Messrs. Seward's engines. Everything was found in perfect working order, and the Lords of the Admi ralty have in consequence purchased the engine from Captain Fitzmaurice. The engine. measuring internally only 21 inches by 10 inches, is stated in the official report to be of 15-horse power, and the difference in size, weight, and cost as compared with. the engines with wh ich it has been put in competiti on i s hi g hly in its favour. It is to be sent to Devonport, wher e it will be tried under the immediate di rection of Lord John Hay, C. 8., superinte ndent a t that dockyard, and w ill b e pi ac d in a superior description of boat to that i n w hi c h i t h as b e en working here , as the boat was in no w ay ca l cu l ated to s h ow its advantages. There will shortly be a trial on a railway with one o f these en g ines . which is l oo k e d forward to with muc h interest by some of thy; leading engineers. The E mper or of Russia, with that liberality which distinguishes his patronag e of science, has, through th e mountedn Committee on a b y g heavydirecting ordnance, rd offers to Captain Fitzmaurice,'° fi respecting his en • both fi t r a in c g bi o n and gun carriage for ,heavy ordnance. The experiments ferYthekrßussian C u ul-General, made most liberal with the latter were concluded at Woolwich before the Select a fi rr r i i a n o g n.c e a ig r l r i i t ag r o ou w nd it s h troth taruncBk-ai,ncalni and the on which it Ives placed were not in the least affected by the n a t n li c e e, gun which,and the lvi t h s u . p o p o e r g t i a n r g ris c o a n r - ri c a ar g . e liege, was pearly four tons_weight,. _ HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. THE BE,ACK MALIBRAN'S CONCEICr. Donna Muria Loretta Martinez, the Black Mali bran, gave a concert here last evening, as , isted by Don J. and Don It. de Ciebra, the celebrated guitar ists, and achieved an immense success. She seemed more at home in the concert•room than on the stage; she was not labouring under the excessive nervous ness from which she suffered when she appeared at her Majesty's Theatre, and was therefore enabled to do full justice to her powers. The size of the room, moreover, is much better adapted for the singing of a melody with simply a guitar accompaniment than can possibly be the vast area of a theatre, in which the more delicate notes of that most delicate of all instruments, the guitar, are in a great measure lost in space, and it is on those very notes, and on their harmonizing with and supporting the voice, that the expres;don and feeling and spirit of almost all Spanish melodies depends. The selection, too, was not confined to Cuban melodies, the Donna Martinez gave us three Spanish songs, the composi tion of Sanz, and executed them with such taste, such power, and such expression as to secure in each in stance a rapturous and an unanimous encore. She then sung one of her Cuban songs, and infused into it such a fund of humour that her merriment be came infectious, and the audience was convulsed with laughter, although the great majority of those present did not understand the language in which she was singing. At the conclusion she sang the celebrated Jota Aragonesa, accompanied on the guitars by the Ciebras and herself ; this song is one of the spirit stirring national melodies of Old Spain, and to the en thusiasm excited by this Jota may be attributed in a great measure the successful defence of Saragossa. The Maid of Saragossa and her companions were in the constant habit of singing this Jota, and thus ex citing their countrymen to the highest pitch of enthu siasm. It was rendered by Donna Martinez with great spirit and expression, and was enthusiastically ap. plauded. Whether we consider her as a guitarist or a singer of national melodies, the Black Malibran is a very accomplished artiste, and her performances are most original and most interesting. During the course of the evening the Ciebras performed several fantasias and duets on the guitar, which in their hands is really an instrument of music rivalling the harp in power, and superior to it in expression and flexibility. The concert was very well attended. 4 -,-. . erS I 4, (n_ .j g .: ' / 2, 73. rd la;V2 _a 4 Z 0 Colchester ,_ 83 28 485 —I 45 340 Harwich Leigh .. 432 71 901 Mahlon 9461 8)1 25 670 FHELMSFORD, JULY 26.—Prices to -day were as follow: CHELMSFORD, JULY 26.—Prices to-day were as follow: — Wheat, white, old 458 to 495; new 46s to 50s; red, old 37s to 435; new, 38s to 44a; barley,' 23s to 25s ; chevalier 24s to 26s ; grinding . 2 is to 239; oats 15s to 203; malt 539 to 555; chevalier 54s to 563; peas, partridge, new 27s to 23s ; old, —s to —s ;_.white, new, 2.1 s to 26s ; old, —s to —9; dun, new, 269 to 289 ; beans!, tick, new 23s to 26s ; old, 24s to 275; harrow ticks, new 2ls to 278; old 25,s to 28s; ma zagan, new 22s to 24s ; old 23s to 25s per qr. COLCHESTER, JULY 27.—Wheat, white 463 to 50s ; red 42s to 463; barley 22s to 249; beans, mazagan 24s to 255; middle and mall 263 to 235; peas 24 to 283 per qr. KIREALDY, JULY 27.—The following are the quotations up to this date : Wheat. I Barley. First 429 Od 223 6d Second 403 Od 20a 6d Oats. 21s 61 20s 6d Od imperial, ie followin Beans. —s Od Third 3ss Od 1183 Od Oatmeal, per hag of 2801bs HADDINGTON, JULY 26.—Tli grain at our market to-day : Wheat. Barley. Oats. Mead.. First 44s Od 243 Od 223 91, 33s Oil Second ... ... 413 41 233 21 21s 7,1 303 3d Third ... .. 353 01 20s al 193 03' 283 Od Peas , . —s Od Od —s 01 27i Od to ig are the -3 0(1 I —s Od O 01. prices of . . Total quantity of Wheat in market 383 qrs., 376 sold Do. Barley do. 80 qrs., 79 sold Do. Oats do. 219 ors. 107 sold Beans 24 qrs., 20 sold GLASGOW, JULY 24.—Provisions—Cheese, 40s to 47s Od per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 2)sOdto Os per cwt. Country fresh butter, 9d to Od per lb. Jrish pow dered, in lumps, ;id to 8d; country powdered, wholesale, 8d to Od. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s 4d per 120, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s 6d per pair ; Ducks, 2s 6d. -- - PERTH, JULY 21—Wheat, Od to 4430 d; barley, 193 Od to 21s Od ; oats, 18s to 21s ; peas and beans, 233 Od to 26s per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 22s to 245. KELSO, JULY 26. Wheat, old, Os to Os ; ditto, new, 29s Od to 34s Od ; barley, new, 15s Od to 17s Od ; ditto old, Os to Os ; potato oats, 00s to Ms ; ditto new, 14s Od to 16s Od ; common oats OCs to Uos Od ; ditto new, 143 to 15s Ud ; peas, Os Od to Os Od; beans, Os to Os per boll of six imperial bushels. STIRLING, JULY 26.—Wheat, foreign. 20s to 2.35; ditto home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, IN Od to 21s Od; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 16, Ud to 19s Od. Oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 14s Od to 17, Od; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt, distillers, 32s Od to 349 ; nitto brewers, 34s Od to 35s ; beans per boll, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 12s Od to 15s Od ; pease 13s Od to Os Od; flour, new per sack, 31s Od to 33s Od; ditto common ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new 27s Od to 28s 6d ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 8d to 9d ; fresh butter per lb, 7d to 9d; eggs per dozen, 7d to 9d; hay per ton, Os Od to Os ; ditto new, 60s. FALKIRK, JULY 25. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 153 bolls; wheat at 18s Cd to 21s d per b. 41. ; barley, OOs Od to Os Od ; oats, 15s 3d to Os Od; beans, 14s 6d to Os Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. BERWICK, JULY 25.—Wheat, 39s sd; barley, Os Od; oats, 00s Od ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 21s 4d ; peas, OOs Od average per imperial quarter. HAWICK, JULY 25.—Wheat, new, 22s to 33s Od; barley, new, 15s to Oils Od ; ditt o o ld, 15s to 17s 6d ; potato oats. 14s Od to 16s Od ; common oats, 13s to 15s Od ; peas , 18s Od to 223 Od ; beans, 18s Od to 22s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. COAL 11EIARKET.—YESTERDAY. Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s 3d Haswell . 163 3d Begbies llartley Chester Main l3s Od iUm bton Davison'sWestHartley 14s 3d ,Lumley Ilasting's Hartley l4s 3d;Richmund. .. ...... ... 14s 9d Holvwell Ord's Main ...... Ravensworth'sW.Hart 13s 00tewart's 'Canfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes... 12s Odlearadoc ..........» 143 9(1 West Hartley Wylam Wall's End, &c. IHartlepool 163 Od Acorn Close Bewicke and Co. Bensham ...... Elm Park Flarton ' 143 Odj Whitworth 133 3d Hedlcy Hilda 13s Cd i Maclean's Ten 133 6d Morrison l4s Od,Seymour Tees ........ 14s Od Northumberland Original Gibson Riddell , _ _ _,_ - ......... .. 13s Od Walker ... 13s £dbe rwentwaterHartley 14 3 Od Eden Main Lambton Primrose ... 13, 9d Bell lis 3d Belmont 143 91 Liangcnnech 2os Od Braddyll Hetton S IR ROBERT PEEL, BART.--We understand that Sir It Peel has relinquished his diplomatic post of charg6 d'Affaires at Bema—Advertiser. CHARGE AGAINST A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIES E. A most serious charge was ere•erred against the Rev. A!r. Parsons, the leteliog Runtish priest in Shef field, on Monday last, at the Wakstield Court }ionic., when a girl, who had lived with him RS a domestic servant. accused him of being the father of an Illegitimate child, to which she had recently given birth. Mr. Girdlestone, of Pontefract, appeared for the girl, and Hardy, a barrister, who had been specially brought from York assizes for the purpose, defended Mr. Parsons. The evidence in support of the charge was, that the girl had on one occasion been called into Mr. Parsons's bed-room, and there he effected her ruin. A continual system of improper intimacy afterwards took plece between them. The reverend delinquent quieted the girl's scruples, as she swore, by receiving her at confessional, and granting absolution. At length the consequences of guilt made themselves apparent in the person of the girl, who finding her self enceinte, prepared to leave the service of Mr. Parsons, under a promise from him, as she told her fellow-servant, " that he would never see her want." She was removed to Wakefield, where she was con fined at a house in New-street, but her father had in the meantime called her seducer to account, and Mr. Par sons had paid him 301. as a quietus. From the inter ference of the parish authorities, or from some other reason not explained, the girl applied for an order of affiliation, and her evidence, that of her father, and others having been given, to substantially the above effect, Mr. Hardy, for the defence, endeavoured to explain away the payment of the 301, by stating that differences had existed amongst the Roman Catholics in Sheffield, who were ready to believe any evil of one another, and that the girl's father having threatened to expose him, Mr. Parsons had, in a moment of weakness, yielded to extortion, and paid for silencing that which he knew to be a false accu sation. Mr. Hardy stated that an examination into the charge had been made by Mr. Parsons's bishop . and the vicar-general of his district, ,who had entirely exculpated Mr. Parsons from the accusation of criminality, and had continued him in his office of priest. The learned gentleman wound np his address by taunting the prosecution with not having dared to put the fellow-servant of the girl into the witness-box, although she was in court on their subpoena ; but he, declaring that he had nothing to conceal, proceeded to call her to refute the evidence of the prosecutrix. In this Mr. Hardy appeared to have committed an error, for the girl rather corroborated the other witnesses than otherwise, and, in reply to a question from Mr. [hardy, said she had never known her master take any liberties but once, when he " examined her." On this answer being explained, it appeared that somebody had told her master that she (Ann Briscomb) was enciente; that be had called her up into his room one evening, and required her to submit to an examination of her person by himself, which he had done in a manner which she described to the Bench, but which is not fit for publication. It may, however, be explained as such an examination as a matron only would have made under very strong suspicions of crimi nality. This evidence virtually ended the case, and although other witnesses were examined who spoke of another man being on terms of improper intimacy with the girl who had borne the child, yet immedi ately on the evidence being closed, and Mr. Girdle stone having made a short address in reply, the magistrates withdrew, and on returning into court in the course of a few minutes, Mr. Holdsworth said " the magistrates are unanimous ia making an order of 2s. per week."—Leeds Mercury. The new Sunday p stal regulations have inge niously multiplied human labour on the Sabbath-day. All the common carriers sending their goods by railway were in the habit of having duplicates of their bills cf parcels by post, and it often happened that half a dozen of these duplicates were delivered, in various towns in the kingdom, by a single postman. It is necessary that these bills of parcels should be delivered on Sunday, iu order that carriers may com mence work at five or six o'clock on Monday morning. Since the late postal regulations the carriers have had these duplicates sent by rail, and every Sunday all the carriers are obliged to send each a man to fetch them, so that it often happens that where one postman was formerly employed on Sundays, six carriers servants are now employed instead. OLYMPIC THEATRE. The opening of this house, after it had remained closed for several months, created last night sonrs sen sat on in Wych•street. Tho present season, which is to last for six nights only, is under the auspices of Mr. George Bolton, who seems to entertain a great notion of John Marston's Malcontent—an old play, well known to every reader of Dodsley's collection. Now, this is just oao of the many old plsys which furnish some piquant extracts, as, for instance, the caustic sayings uttered by the Malcontent himself, but which are totally with out the interest or closeness of construction requisite to make a piece popular in the present day. The house was crowded last night, and it is possible that, as a dramatic curiosity, thf Malcontent may draw for the remainder of the six nights, but as for its becoming a piece of the repertoire, it is out of the question. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD RACES. CHICIIESTER, MONDAY EVENING.G---The undermen tioned horses have arrived since our first list was pub lished :—Strongbow, Cuekermoutb, Lismahagow, a two years old filly by Envoy out of Lady Riddlesworth. The Ban, 'Feddington, Venus fitly, Merry Peal. Hazy, Marl brook, Vatican, Slang,, Bacchanalian, Hippia, Cran berry, Heroine, Beebee Bunnoo, Fugitive, Indiana, Hibernia, Joc-o'-Sot, c by John o'Gaunt, 11 by the Saddler. a two years old - by Pantaloon out of Cauli flower, Sc. ft g 46. ft , • tkeihV t t 0 it GOODAVOOD RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Craven Stakes. Maid of Team Valley . Cariboo ••• • • Sweepstakes of 300 sous. Beehunter Nutabell The Innkeepers' Plate. Meridian Vigilant ••• • ••• •.• The Gratwicke Stakes. Musician Harding() Mickleton Lavant Stakes. Turtle Venus filly Buckhound Julia ... I .. 2 ... 1 ... 2 ... 2 ... 1 ... 3 ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantities of corn, &c., received in the port of London from the ports in Essex, from the 22d July, 1850, to the 27th July, 1850, both inclusive : IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 29. LEASEHOLD TENURE OF LAND (IRELAND) _ _ BILL. The order of the day for the resumption of the ad journed debate on the amendment moved on the third reading of this Bill was read, and the debate resumed. The LORD CHANCELLOR having proposed a series of amendments which were agreed to, The Bill as amended was read a third time and passed. The Borough Court of Records (Ireland) Bill went through Committee. Their Lordships then adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 29. BARON. ROTHSCHILD—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. C. ANSTEY then rose to resume the adjourned debate, and commenced by compl a i n i ng o f th e con d uc t which Government had pursued in reference to this ques tion. It was hopeless, after what had fallen from the Premier, to think of asking the House to deal with the third oath by way of resolution. The Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon said that Quakers, notwithstanding the Act which relieved their consciences at the - time of the revolution, were not ad mitted to give evidence in criminal cases until 1828. Was the Hon. and Learned Member aware that Quakers had been admitted to make an affirmation in criminal courts of justice from 1828 down to the present time, and did be forget that Quakers were allowed to take their seats in that House in the person of Mr. Pease without any oath at all? What the House of Commons was asked to do to• day, on behalf of Baron Rothschild, was exactly what was done in the case of Mr. Pease. Though the forms of oaths of abjuration were very various, yet he would venture to say there was not one of them which a Jew or even a Heathen might not take. The nearest form to the present Christian oath was one concluding " So help me God and his Holy Gospels." It was well known that the courts of law had always considered the Pentateuch to be the Gospel of the Jews. He believed no one would deny that a common-law oath was of as much authority as one prescribed by statute. It was quite trao that many of the oaths to which he re ferred were of a juridical character; but he could not understand the distinction between juridical and pro missory oaths. But allowing there was the distinction contended for, still so early as the reign of Richard I. Jews had bean admitted to the office of judge. There was also a distinct recognition that the oath of f. aity might•be taken by Jews in those days. There was no specific precedent of such an oath to be taker by Mem bers of Parliament, but there was an oath of office to be found in the Statutes at - Large which persons had to take in the time of Edward I. on being admitted to th e King's Council. OF that counc il th Howe of Com mons might be considered a part, and he had no doubt that that oath was taken by barons, knights, and burgesses on admission to the King's Council. The terms of that oath were to counsel the King— to respect the privilege of debate to maintain the rights of the Crown— and it concluded with the words "So help me God." New that was an oath which any Jew might take. At the first establishment of Parliaments Jews were admitted, but shortly after wards by ordinance—legally or illegally—they were ex pelled the realm. In the time of Henry 111. a general assembly was called for the purpose of granting supplies, and writs were directed to the Sheriffs of the different towns in which the Jews resided, commanding them to send to Westminster two or more Jews, according to their number in the population. Either the Jews were admitted to that assembly without au oath, or they took the same oath as the other Members. Soon afterwards the Jews were expelled the realm. At the Restcration there were only 12 Jews in the kingdom. Their number increased in the reign of Charles IL, and still more so in the time of William 111., when lark exemptions were granted them. In that reign the question of the alien age of the Jews was brought before Parliament by peti tion, but the House refused to receive it as it related to a Bill not before them. In 1689, 100,000?. was levied on the Jews, being a taxation of 10/. for each Jew. The re sult was, that in the first land tax Act the Jews were treated not as aliens, but as natural subjects, and aliens w ere taxed as before. With these Acts before them it was impossible to agree with the views laid down by the Hon and Learned Member for Abingdon. The Natu ralisation Act of George 11. related to fordo Jews re sident in the kingdom. Their object on the present oc casion was not to admit Mr. Rothschild as an alien, but as an English Jew. The Noble Lord at the head cf the Government said that this was not a question of civil and religious liberty, but a judicial question. Why the Noble Lord considered it a judicial question he did not know, but this he knew, that the Noble Lord had pro posed the consideration of this judicial question by pre judging it, and without having heard a syllable which bore on the third oath, an oath which he should en deavour to show was illegal, whether administered to Christian or to Jew. The truth was that the question was a question of civil and religious liberty. It was also a judicial question, and if it was also a party question the Noble Lord bad himself to blame for making it so. He should certainly vote as he had spoken, in favour of the amendment of his Hon. Fiiend.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. P. WOOD cold not allow the question to go to a division without making some observations. He re gretted that the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern meet sliord have thought it necessary to pronounce any opinion at all on what some had called the second ques tion. At present the first question, and that only was under their consideration. With respect to the amend ment of the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford, he thought it ought to ha negatived. It was impos sible for any one to maintain what was asserted in t . at amendment, and it was contrary to every day's experience to say that no person took an oath without dedariee he was a Christian. It was well known to many that Moravians and Friends took an oath without any such declaration.—(Hear, hear.) When he formerly addressed the House he venturer to assert that no lawyer would be found who would hesitate to say that by common law every individual had a right to be sworn in the manner which he declared to he the most binding on his conscience. It had been said, however, that such a proposition should not be too widely laid down, and that exceptions must be made, first us re garded oaths of office and secondly as regarded some pe culiar limitations relating to the oaths of Members of Parliament. He had not, however, heard a eta& au r th to prove that the juridical rah was not Bro ority ----------------- ... cebie to the (Lett of office. lie was coufilent n° sl, r,, . authority could he feure% He apprehend; (I e ll 10 2 0 could say vie h refere, ce to oats' wes teia that at 1, time, in 'his country, th, re was a general areuroP,'lr`at i .at every pereen was Christian , and ence h tee rennet , mode of adwinisterieg an oath ca me to he ofl ' be ; al r. ( - 1 . 0 5p , • 1 , as the form tnost binding on the conet tb e ,r, tint the moment any question arobe SS to Wh ' be o with respect to some individuals. that wa s the evse N ora s 0, mode of binding the co nscience, steped and said . real point fur inquiry S o d whet p her in a religious that sanctitheon h a d been oetatn d , oe a who th e r th e p ar ty had been bound in the presence ,. T God wh om h e believed to be the avenster of falsehooof doctrine would be found laid down in tbe efo r e the that 0 0 In m a m o i l c a h w i n v. Barker." It was the d actrine e e l e ea acted upon by the Emperors, who ( 3 _1 0 , 0 et everybody should be sworn according to his st, superstition. The Church had not been lea; libetel..h ot Augustine, in his 134th book, stated that if the ° t o ts an idolator was not admitted, there would be no ad ec l„ieg means of forming a covenant with him, or e t. ° L; by him to keep his word; and that it was net forbi e t a; any law of God to employ the oath of a men wh° 36 b , go it was to swear by false gods, if he kept faith w r ot e doing... Such a principle was acted on in Spain? , Jo the oath was administered to Moors and J . ef I ' o t 1755,a case came before the Parliament of Farisworsit whether Jews should be allowed to swear in 0 1 1 ; ,, b 00 mode from that prescribed by the French law, !PT i , bis simply je le jure. A Jew came to be sworn sitt.'n bet own fashion; ho kept on his bat—held a nih n l e ac l iasot left hand, touching it with his right, and the rry'e a utt decided that he d been properly sworn. Th e , 1 0 to of Cessation had decidel that a Jew had a 4 1 4 0 be sworn in his own manner. With reference 0 .1 . er to had been done in this country, be mustThiner:l,lo3or the case of " Ommichin a. Barker," '',"" w eer General of that day supported the new mode o' s A g eo, ing, h and argued, though such a case had not before 7 0 0 t at. the common law worked itself pure by rulercoel from the fountain of justice, which was in t ilc se p, il l superior to Acts of Parliament. The Chief PeruserPa'' giving judgment, said that reason, and not st l Y . 1 lar case, ought to govern them in interpreting nirei more jard especially when the law was doubtfol', to be wicke ordered the words complained ('' 0 bol struck out of the oath, and since that time POO _... bee h cd e d n T ir s idicted for perjury who had sworn felseltroper Testament only. Th e H on an d Learned Al to • for Abingdon had contended that . that did ° all/l tte r / oaths Ac of office, It wasquite true that a deala i t et r t• Act could not alter the law q ; but the ferred to declared what had been the law lit - WY . e ither a ra s s o ' n , to and referred to a person taking an oath" decleratorluPtweel elan, a witness, a deponent, or on any aPriellogitted' tshecreefoorree,mswpleopytmawenaty."—(Hear.) The law (34 5 dr, troyed three-fourths otPethdeisatriueutmlntalotfcltehtheerile Gene.osdri: Learned Gentleman. If the Hon. and Leeraetle o e, O s man referred to the remaining fourth, a nd reli eu o p th e , hite tb i e . Act of Supremacy, ho would join issue withii lu r es d tion whether the words in the sth ..••• ° ,, be ly -e u ie it impossible for a Jew to take the oef.• i d tope words e were that a Member of Parliament e licit ' ol ° the oath on " The Holy,, .it Was 0 0 6 tbe of Charles 11. that tbat G o o a s t p b el rested ß T ,li i n d e in i:ra n d i°ll o: l4 to be made at the table mode of taking it was ' four o'clock, hlpeoolfntethdeoffute.ese b e etweeu 0, 101 it a bout bee and nothing was said in . marl e_.A Holy Gospels." The Ist of William 00a rrecl uP . abrogated the statute of James. Thus the ow:. i pre toscribed be taken before the High Steward was t s ': 0 - 79 0 ' let b l ed by the Act of Elizabeth. Now that fi ,0 1 y gone by the statute of William, and, i f flitt eel i l j had e gone, be would a.,lc how it could he of seees That . brought him to the consideration oi : 1-. 4 a ny 6 1 1, coed in the case. Now ho protested 8; 441- ss e et 4 " The question being assumed to be in teat.; tine ,f °a and Learned Member for Bute ma s ee t 1 1 . 1; expression or two which be could not answered or unnoticed. The Boa• gele ber fyolt of su gar te l f sd s et at they who were acting in that House is a i l l , the claim made by Baron Rothschild were settriglides6 [ visedly, and taking an unfaa. alvantage of th e gill The Hon. and Learned afenaber had also seid s',' 6 . 3 i) KO , about pecial pleading. Now this was the I'forifice , question, whether the party concerned was .t:)etter the citizens n c importirt trust confided to him? end , ‘ " , ,* / i e eei o , - ,s his services of London wore to be deprived of Ir e fa - state_.orvfdry, technical e thsc h, ie e s la o w n a mere • g eialee• .1,1 `be e things, they who advised Baron don I s b e f recommended him toe take him e fe v i e . re t - b r e s : i t b s i h n h i sha le°l o o% which O. •ectli see hts position. And he begged it might be dis t :beat r e , derstood, and that there might be no niista l° •f Palle -1(1 subject, the Hon. Member for London wallodtbscbtp termined to act upon that advice. Ba r f a li deter --°3 h i f 0 was advised that the first question to r ht to, ; $ .O O t w h a e s, whether or not he had the slg - ", eshic' re erl• oaths administered to him in the Inslir m ight ; to r f te lt most binding on his conscience? theta 133.",,,.)) refT ; He the question of a distribution of i"-„reesset;',ost was sorry the Noble Lord should have es:‘, po t s j r gi strong an opinion upon that question. Itc,%-mitr,,sat to the ri A tio t t t e o any opinion expressed before the L' °- i aad ‘ t to done by Attorney-General, because nothing fan o er e WI - g ' Committee. conversatio th n a a t l b . y. unprejudicedcf o o r e m m t h i e t t anything. The present question, he thoeb nn er, 10- , to house in quite an independent m::", on s° . be any yey h;a;d been r t Its bptreeipcpeeedd l i t; go:ewe/100 esagli Committee. 11 e thoughtopn opinion n o o d n e s ci a d c e il d a n o P leDi 11 b 9 _..e ot° 0 9 vis be cl ; pronounced or formed on any case unt il the .' 61115° ' b w a n d ieh be h en heard and understood. Ther e w resd i 1,14 he was m e o h s a t d an h x e i tt e r e d s t h e adbeencircul i a t te h ld n a e u e r , e v o to b i ll Pl a a s b k au f t or th t a h t e Ronsan Catholic contradict. e la 9 e we' t it had crossed Baron Entl isc.. .. l tird i- .41 0 '. at the table. oath on Pr e 8 ..7 - ttif °ll . c l ; li 1 . Never was there a 111° ' SA; to' and false misrepresentation . Baron iii ',LI was a man of too high a character and too en9 p e esse °l 0 1 nour to allow such a notion for a momen t t A,ltioli s h e o s tt' mind. He could not ask for the Roman `" CA t "- , ti ' without at the same time professing tb° " hieb' ll tr r ill faith. He did not believe there u m ate . 0 e , honourable man in the House than a th in e ofire; ; M bd eStrgil-11.1:19 the city of Londe and there need not be f ro be of apprehension of his taking any such course. ... o b tb?., e il fully . determined to take every advantage viP b l e b eli t e i 01 permitted to secure the position to wh ich .. bit egel:ol. h w i e m il se a lf entitled, legal advantages he But he would not Oran o fte o f the scatter. (M ` spoke of Jews vantages without giving the House 41 A bi % , (Mr. Wood) could ascertain, of s i nl o otie e t , Hon.and Learned i_ee 0 133 ettit g The any don British-born Jew as w aliensas eobnasitdietrWed"a9 a :ill 14. .Astel 1 rfriteai ; in the time of George 11. called u on theta to Og l e 0 0 t""/ could not possess any. The Jue-w- Bill wh ich - d since passed had reference to foreign Jews. t he !he fo r./ men . that . it O w altsTeLeEe necessary s s a e:: h th e a d t i d je not s r e s te: , u e , r ra : I s t It e h ' es i , oathst doon the Holy Evangelists. He dour; the i lr e o o c . oounta:hod was to look to the practical part °I- /W I be d from all the information which they e to 0, theirjournals the three oaths to be taken fier t tle combined. They were not entitled te s i r g 6 r.) se t ee n y) [St e f t OS . and to put one oath and not another.--( 11 " ra e ° lie clear when the Hon. Member refuse] to be svie. 10 n' Gospel that he was not a Christian.--(llgbe ell;ehe thought qmueerssthioetri i ta t on a dp b rw i e u is r is d hth o tha n te t m h ti e ma tpteaerrot,f rotohfretithuelvoatilie_ct.:_r_id..ticsioviiogoi.-,o7l;:b.:Prealelf: Suppose ho had taken the two first oaths al ley j ecieiore would he not refuse the third, and then t (L i e err obliged to shut their doors against hiio.--s and h cries of " Divide, divide,") O T a th il e ou re se -a we t ' M s ' t d th m e i a sst iv n id o e f d. strangers it - " II : 5 .5 11411i° that Sir R Inglie's motion had been Beget"- a division;a jr nd m th r. s.t ll t e h rs e numbers e,saalendaice re t -- ... v g v e D in p s A t l i s t ierity ...... ....1 "'debate ----- 59 1)0 r were` 03 ' 5 4 re sum , M rh e r d e . N: e.GATE asked, would the .40 , ?SPEAKER was understood to sny the °PP. the day should then be proceeded with' how be er p rl oie t io l:: : s l . The impression in the gallery wa s ' the debate was to be resumed on sorne nth uo for twelve o'clock this day. However. we bear . announ T ee_m_ent of the fact in the 1101180. „ t ale ,Os Bil T l h w e as or t t l d h 6 e e a r A m oifE ov tilh e C d e up and added to the Bill; moved, Several MARINE .vij o g 0 0 1 0 00 l i o various tetleewt biases re vereneatne,,i chviredrbal,9.roiti_einr 0 :t o were also made, after which it was read a tP / f fSs' passed. av he QUEEN'S MESSA 11( 111 '- 1.- GE.—MARLBORO oicler The H ouse went into Committee to, c a ° /.t e Queen's Mess Mr. BERNAL in the cue .- r epli d e The Gni age. IRMAN proceeded to read th e itir ° ' of the House effect that it was exdient to settle iVrt!tt Vei l g the Prince of Vales during th e , 5° ,,1 e 0 sta bil° her on should Majestybe and the Prince; and that mo ts et mr. T provided for the same establishmentia oe t g o t RELAWNY complained that be bell 00080 satisfactory. afterthei ot t ; . the duck information with respect uchy of Cornwall, which was a to 0 .spe t to consider in entertaining the present clees a , tit ?,d; reSrao Lord J. RUSSELL said certain retarnsi,"co- pt tv a ill to that duchy were obliged by Act of r i o' l/ T a e tie t ,, P ; lo made to that House, and they were alsva ) : r ri l l i sd a'o' given. But a motion which the Hon. Me t r e ; tir e s e l l e ; in the beginning of the session to throw w e i l ii s ella - e a h g a e d m h e e n e t n of those revenues into the hands e' negatived by a huge majoriVerrea tie After a few words from ELA" e ' le y °I e Air. H , Mr. TR . UME said he thought Trin e • e °f ties "fl ec the e, to h at present too young, only nine years of eg reed tie such an establishment settled b• Ile eg pees 0 on ins. da l t A lpe they ought to have mere information tafo r , g o, heed lativo to the revenues of the duchy of CO Ol- " ban " g oe the also u late Queen had been voted that House, i t „,.der. - m ei the ee rranged that they were to keep it "" 1040,000L0 01," nquence had been that no less than 15r50 v beenfor repairs. He thought they e o ug r ii t o/ 11 0 . 0i pone paid tat matter until the next session ef 1 s' he atuwaea LordRUSSELL said he had ne` e , r e n. ,; the objection J. before made to the present propos,r,7,,,winp.o4 her Majesty had intimated her - intention CI tl ' - 11)0 0 1( public to see the 17 a l Gallery .11 31°r 8b f melon a a__ery 1 o( lsas e 0 House, t'thought fit t ° poi ti ° , tae Government had Majesty to make a settlement of it on the re . ' Wales. P ici ' ll of' Mr. lIUME objected to the „i of the asile Ir e which should have been left rinealt°he IC;%!i°l::olvAbtia6o9, which had cost the nation so much. lie, thou; give -tea part occupied by the Royal Acad.--nay shoot,' atteloPpe to the public.. George the Third had r ale ° loveijah to settle anyof his sons or make an ea' vcar°' them at such an early age as that of nin° eboo' After a few words from Mr. SPOONER, • ~ tore er tioe doe Lord SEY" eiOUR entered into an extols" eati e as that stables had not been added CO Marlborout, d to 0 in O e , A Cff beca use Carlton-terrace was originallY :- le btry -/ I carried farther up. To betwhaever purpose' OS 6 ' d was devoted. stables would necessary• 00 0 h f eop Mr. HUME objected to their haviog se nt' t here " palaces with their concomitant expell'e'