The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

TURKEY. We read in a letter from Constantinople of the . sth: — l ` The Sultan, on the occasion of his return from his excursion in the Turkish islands o f the Archipelago, held a grand reception on Monday last, at his Palace of Teheragan. His Highness was seated in state in the large audience chamb er, and had near him the Grand Vizir Rechid Pacha, and his two brothers-in-law, Admed Pacha, Grand Master of the Artillery!, and Mehemet Ali Pacha, Minister of War. The corps diplomatique was intro duced by the Minister of Forei g n Affairs Ali Pacha, and formed a semi-circle round the Sultan, in order of rank and seniority. Sir Stratford Can ning, the senior Ambassador, spoke in the name of his colleagues. He said that the diplomatic body, taking a lively interest in everything connected with the prosperity of the Ottoman empire and the per son of its sovereign, had appreciated the happy results which might be anticipated from a visit of his Highness to the provinces of his empire, That having united in the manifestations of the fiaelity and devotedness of the popula tion of the provipces through which the Sultan had passed, it had also shared in the joy evinced by the inhabitants of Constantinople on the occasion of his return to his capital, and that he was happy to have to express these sentiments to his Highness, in the name of his colleagues. The Sultan replied that he was happy to see the diplomatic body assembled round him, and thil he thanked them for the sentiments they had just expressed towards him ; that all his efforts were used to promote the prosperity of all his subjects, of what • ever ri•ligion they might be ; that such was the object of the retbrms introduced, and the spirit of the recom mendstions which he unceasingly gave to his Mi nisters, and that the object of his occasional visits to his provinces was to see that his recommendations had been carried out. After his reply the Sultan rose, and addressed each of the members of the corps sepa rately in the most gracious manner." CUBA. We extract the following from the New York Herald : " Our advices from Havannah by the steam-ship Georgia, which arrived at this port yesterday, are very interesting if nut important. It appears that Commodore M'Keever, of the United States frigate Congress, had an interview with the Captain-General, which was of a kind and agreeable character, and that the latter gave the firmer the assurance that the Contoy prisoners would soon be liberated. On the other hand, it is said that the Spanish Admiral in Cuba is in favour of resorting to extreme measures towards the prisoners, without caring, we suppose. whether they are guilty of taking a part in the invasion or nor, and pro bably in the hope that their executions would lead to a war, in which Den Armero flatters himself he would capture the whole American navy, and carry out on land the threats which Santa Anna uttered against us previous to the breaking out of the Mexican war. But as we are treating with the Count of Alcoy, and not with Admiral Armero, it is of little conse quences what the latter may say or do. We further learn by this arrival, that Commodore rvl'Keever sent dispatches by the Georgia to the Government at Washington, which will put an entirely distinct face on the matter, and which will prove concluaively that there is no danger of a' sanguinary war' with Spain. It appears there has been a great deal of misunderstanding connected with this matter in th© intercourse which has taken place between the Count of Alcoy and the American Consul, General Campbell, who is a commercial agent but ad drossed his letters in the tone of- a diplomatist. Tnis breach of etiquette was not overlooked by the Captain- General, who, in censequeeice, paid no attention to them. In this he was sustained by all the diplomatists in Cubs. In regard to the threats of assassinatioa which were made against Mr. Campbell, we learn that they arose in conse quence of certain h-tters which he addressed to the Govern ment at Washington, but the republication of which was prohibited by the Governor-Geceral, lest it should lead to uepleasantness between the two Governments, or be tween the Cuban people and Mr. Campbell. So well disposed is the Captain-General towards the United Stares that he statel, in the interview wirh Commodore M•lieever that he should give Mr. Campbell every security and protection, and defend his house for him, if necessary; but Mr. Campbell had not asked for, and would refuse, all assistance from the au thorities. lie had fortified his house in his own way. It therefore would appear that there is no danger of a sanguinary war' between the United States and Spain, notwithstanding Secretary Clayton's endeavours to raise a breeze with that country, for the purpose of covering up the iniquity and corruption of the Cabinet. What a pitiable spectacle that same Cabinet presents, to be sure! Sparing no means to hide its guilt, all the little artifices which it resorted to for that purpose fail one after the other, and they stand before the country condemned aad censured by the House of Representatives, as im proper adviaers of the President, and unfaithful to their offices. May such be the end of all demagogues who seek their own pecuniary and political aggrandizement at the expense of a confiding President and a deceived people!" A telegraphic dispatch from Baltimore, dated July 8, says:— " The Royal mail steam-ship Thames, which had ar rived at Mobile, from Savannah, reports, that the cho lera was increasing wonderfully in the interior of Cuba. The American Consul-General Campbell says that he is satisfied that the American prisoners will be released soon. The case of Lopez and the other Cuban invaders had been referred to the next December term of the United Ststce Circuit Court at New Orleans." CALIFORNIA. A San Francisco correspondent of the New York Courier and Inquirer writes, under date June 1 : " From the mines the news is not very favourable, the high condition of the waters in the several rivers having prevented as yet any extensive operations during the present mining season. The amount of gold taken out during the season will undoubtedly, owing to the vast increase of population, be much greater than last year, but individual success will be greatly diminished. A por tion of the population will necessarily, ere long, be com pelled to turn their .a:tention to other pursuits. The burnt district in San Francisco is again covered with buildings, and business in that section has to a considerable extent resumed its wonted alacrity. San Francisco, however, pre►ents by no means the business appearance which it did six or nine months ago, nor will property of any description command the high prices which were then obtained. Real estate can scarcely be sold at all. Goods of every description are nearly as cheap as in New York, and money readily commands from 5 to 20 per cent a month, according to the nature of the security. The heavy taxes imposed by the Legislature on property, the high salaries to city officers fixed by the present commoncouncil, and the difficulties in which the city has been involved by the previous opera tions of the Ayuotamiento and others claiming to act by authority, all are operating very unfavourably for the interests of San Francisco. But nothing can long re tard her onward progress, or deprive her of that im portance which she must ever possess from superior local position, as the great commercial city of the Pa cific—the eonnecting link between China and the rest of the world." _ _ _ ----- Prom Panama we have advices to the 29th n' The steam-ship Sarah Sands, Captain Thompson, was about ninety miles below Monterey, on her passage up, taking in coal. A number of her passengers had left her and gone to San Francisco by land ; those who remained on board of her were all in good health. The steamers New World and Isthmus sailed from Panama on the 22d of June, both full of passengers. The Oregon, on her passage down, met the Panama on the 21st of June, 150 miles below Acapulco, bound for San Francisco. The British steam-ship Avon, from Valparaiso, arrived at Panama On the 25th of June, with a large amount of specie. On the 29th the West India mail steamer Dee left Chagres for Jamaica with a large freight of specie. She had landed at Chagres four of the crew of an American vessel lost off Greytown. From Costa Rica, by the Dee, we learn that there had been an attemptP , l revolution. THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND MR. GORIIANI. The following, is the protest mentioned in our re port of the Arches' Court, which appeared in our paper of Saturday : "In the name of the Holy Trinity, Amen.—We, Henry, by Divine permission Bishop of Exeter, having been monished by this venerable Court of Arches to bring into the registry o f the aline the presenta tion made to us by her Majesty QueenVictorps as patron of the. vicarage of Ban:o6rd Speke, in our said diocese, commanding us to institute the Iptev. George Cornelius- Gorhans, clerk, bachelor of divinity, to the church of the said parish, and to the cure and government of "the souls of the parishioners of the same—which presen tation aforesaid, notwithstanding we have found it to be our duty t refuse to admit and institute the said Rev. George Cornelius Gorham to the said church and cure of souls, inasmuch as it bath manifestly appeared ta , and bath been adjudged by us, after due examination had, that the said clerk was and is not tit to be entrusted with such cure of souls, by reason of his having held and continuing to hold certain fAlse and unsound doctrines, contrary to the pure Catholic faith, and to the doctrines set forth and taught in the Tbirty-nine Articles of the Church of England and in the Book of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments, according to the use of the said Church —against which our refusal to institute him, as aforesaid, the said clerk did prosecute ,his suit called duplex querela in this venerable court, and such suit was by the %anie, after due hearing, solemnly refused and rejected, whereupon the said clerk did appeal fa the judgment of her Majesty in Council, and her Majesty in Council bath reinittA the cause to this venerable Court, declaring that we the said bishop have not shown suffi cient cause why we did not institute the said Gcorge .Cornelius Gorham to the said' vicarage of Ba..niff• Spoke, and commanding that right and justice be in this Court done in this matter, pursuant to the said dc claration,—do hereby, in üb.?dieace to the moe.ition of this Court, bring into the registry of the same the said presentation : " Under protest, that whprea, her said Majesty, he fore she remitted the said cause to this Court with the 'dfelaration aforesaid, did refer the s3me to the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's said Council to hear the same, and to make their ri-pqrt and recom mendation to her Alajevy thereupon; and the said Ju dicial Committee did accordingly hear t'ac said cause, and make their report and recommendation after hearing. the same, th at her Majesty should remit the ilud emus, with Use declaration aforesaid ; but such THE SUN, their report and recommendation was notoriously and expressly founded on a certain statement of the doc trines held by the said George Gornelins Gorham, as it appeared to them, the said Judicial Committee, which statement was in the terms following : " • That baptism is a sacrament generally necessary to salvation, but that the grace cf regeneration does not so necessarily aceompany the act of baptism that rege neration invariably takes place in baptism; that the grace may be granted before, in, or after baptism; that baptism is an effectual sign of grace, by which God works in visinly in us, but only in such as worthily receive it— in them alone it has a wholesome effect; and that with out reference to the qualification of the recipient, it is not itself an effectual sign of grace; that infants bip tized, and dying before actual sin, are certainly saved, but that in no case is regeneration in baptism niacon- ditional.' " And whereas the above-recited statement, on which the said Judicial Committee did so expressly found their said report and recommendation to her Majesty, was set forth by them as a just and true and sufficient state ment of the doctrine held by the said George Corne lius Gorham, notwithstanding he had declared (A. 15) that as infanta are by nature unworthy recipients, being born in sin, and the children of wrath, they cannot receive, any benefit from baptism, except there shall have been a prevenient act of grace to make them worthy,' and had solemnly re-affirmed the same (A. 70) when his attention was by us specially called thereto, in order that he might correct it if he thought fit; and notwithstanding that he, the said George Cornelius Gorham, had further declared (A. 19) of bapezed in fants, who, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved,' that therefore they must have been regenerated by an act of grace prevenient to their baptism, in order to make them worthy recipients of that sacrament.' Again (A. 27) the new nature must have been possessed by those who receive baptism rightly; and therefore possessed before the seal was of axed thereby before baptism was given. Again (A. 60) that filial state,' (meaning thereby adoption to be the sons of God'), 'though clearly to be ascribed to God, was given to the worthy recipient before baptism, and not in baptism,' manifestly contradicting thereby the said Articles of Religion, and the doctrine of the said Book of Common Prayer, as set forth in its offices of public-and private baptism of infants and of confirmation, and especially in the catechism, or instruction to be learned of every person, before he be brought to be con firmed by the bishop.' Notwithstanding, too, that the Lord Bishop of London, who was summont d by command of her Majesty to attend the hearing of the said..app,:.l, and who did attend the same accordingly, having been requested by the said Judicial Committee to read and consider the said report and recommendation before it was laid before her Majesty, did thereupon read and consider the same, and, after such reading and consi deration thereof, did ray and advise the said Ju dicial Committee to this effect, that he could not consent to the said report and recommendation, be cause the said George Cornelius Gorham holds that remis sion of sins, adoption into the family of God, and re generation, must all take place in the caste of infants, not in baptism, nor by means of baptism, but before baptism —an opinion which the said Lord Bishop declared to the said Judicial Committee appeared to him to be in direct opposition to the-plain teaching of the Church, and utterly to destroy the sacramental character of baptism ; inasmuch as it separates the grace of that sacrament from the sacrament itself ; which said heretical opinions so bald by the said George Cornelius Gorham, and thus by .the said Lord Bishop of L aidon expressly brought to the notice of the said Judicial Committee, and the manifest contradiction of the said opinions to the teaching of the Church plainly pointed out, were nevi rtheless wholly omitted by the said Judicial Committee in the statement of the doctrine which appeared to them to be held by the said George Cornelius Gorham, on which statement they professed to found their report and recommendation to her Majesty as aforesaid. " Now we, the said Henry, Bishop of Exeter, taking the premises into our serious and anxious consideration, and furthermore, considering that the judgment of her Most Gracious Majesty in Council un the said appeal was pronounced solely in reliance on the statement made in the report . and recommenda tion of the said Judicial Comitittee, as being a just, true, and sufficient statement, do, by virtue of the authority given to us by God, as a bishop in the church of Christ, and in the apostolic branch of it planted by God's providence within this land, and established therein by the laws and constitu tion of this realm, herd)) , solemnly repudiate the said judgment. and declare it to be null and utterly without effect in fore conscientice, and do appeal tneretrom in all that concerns the Catholic faith to the Sacred Synod of this nation when it shell be in the name of Christ assem bled as the true church of England by representation.' " And further, we do solemnly protest and declare, that whereas the said George Cornelius Gorham did manifestly and notoriously hold the aforesaid heretical doctrines, and bath not since retracted or disclaimed the same, any archbishop or bishop, or any official of any archbishop or bishop, who shall inatinve the said George Cornelius Gorham to the cure and government of the souls of the parishioners of the said parish of Bamford Speke, within our diocese aforesaid, will thereby incur the sin of sup porting and favouring the said heretical doctrines, and we do hereby renounce and repudiate all communion with any oue, be he whom he may, who shall so institute the said George Cornelius Gorham as aforesaid. " Gtien under our hand and episcopal seal this 20th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1850. " H. EXETER." EXHIBITION of INDUSTRY of 1851. The Executive Committee have replied as follows to a question submitted by the Manchester Committee on the admission of articles "not for competition for prizes":— " Palscg of Westminster, July, 1850. " Sir,—Your letter of the 2d July, in which the Man chester Committee regent to know whether • articles marked not for competition would be admitted to the exhibition,' has been laid before her Majesty's Commis sioners for the Exhibition of 1851, and we are direetad to state to you the views of the Commission on the sub;ect. " The Commissioners apprehend that the medals to be awarded by the juries appointed for this purpose would lose much of their honorary distinction if permiseloa were given by which articles of high merit would be excluded from the reward justly due to them. The exhibitors who transmitted articles not for competi tion,' may be supposed to be those who, having acquired a reputation for excellence of manufacture, did not wish to hazard that reputation by a possibly un successful competition. There would, therefore, be a contingency that in certain classes articles only of inferior manufacture might be the subjects for re ward. The Commissioners perceive that very grave evils would result from distinctions thus conferred on articles of inferior merit, by misleading the public opinion, and withdrawing their attention from works of greaser excellence. It is also probable that the possessor of such medals, necessarily con ferred on inferior works, might so use the award as to injure the manufacturers of superior merit who declined to enter into competition with him, and the Commis sioners further think that absence from the exhibition of the articles of the skilled manufacturer of reputation would act still more prejudicially on his interests than his presence in a non-competitive department. " The Commissioners apprehend that some misconcep tion has attached to the term competition.' Accord ing to their decisions, the money prizes, except in the cases of workmen, or in special instances in which it may obviously be desirable, are not to be given. It is the intention of the Commissioners to reward excellence in whatever form it is presented, and not to give inducements to the distinctions of a merely individual competition. Although the .Commissioners have determined on having three medals of dif ferent sizes and designs, they do not propose to in struct the juries to award them as first, second, and third in degree tor the same class of subjects. They do not wish to trammel the juries by.any precise limitation; but they consider that the juries will rather view the three kinds of medals as a means of appreciating and distinguishing the respective characters of the sub jects to be rewarded, and not of making distinctive marks in the same class of articles exhibited. By this arrangement individual competition would be much les sened, while a general emulation in industry would be increased and secured. " The Commission« rs wish it to be fully understood that they are desirous, as they have already expressed themselves in the 107th decision, 'to reward all articles in any department of the exhibition which may appear to competent judges to possess any decided superiority, of whatever nature that superiority be, in their own kind.' They fully recognise that excellence in production is not only to be looked for in high-priced' goods, in which much cost of la bour and skill has been employed, but they encourage the exhibition of low-priced fabrics, when com bining quality with lowness of price or with con ceiveclass medaltha juries n r t t o e s cheapest.jutieede calico novelty of production. They can readily the the Brazilian or other South Ameri can g i v i ng print, made r ho s for me r market, as they would to the finest pie* w of mousse line or mousseline de laine, if each Possessodsse me de sole its own kind. The Commissioners beinge th excellence of anxious b to reward excellence wherever it presentsitse u l s f ge neral emulation, and not by individual compet y a being at the same time desirous not to and skilled manufacturer by rewarding objects of ther ferior merit because they only happen to be in compete . lion, trust that the Manchester committee will approve of their opinion that articles should not be received into the exhibition if marked ' not for competitieu.' " The unanimous and cordial approval given by the delegates of the manufacturing towns, at the meeting of the 28th June, to the plan suggested by the Commis sioners for obtaiuing jurors well skilled in the various branches of industry comprised in the exhibition, lead the Commissioners to hope that they have succeeded in which the most ausp le securit y is devising means by given that excellence of production will always be recog nised and appreciated.—We have, &c. ' I " Thomas Worthington, Esq." ,rd CURIOUS STORY.--It is currently stated that on the death of an individual not many weeks ago in the Vale of Belvoir, and on the examination of his papers, a packet will found, with seals unbroken, purporting to be the last and testament of his moth er, who had died thirty years bet': ire. Being of miserly h abits, that is to sa y , " penny wise and pound foolish," he ha I really taken possession of the property without " proving," as it is termed, the will in ques:ion, and had actually kept it by him all these years! On opening the packet, three promissory notes were found inclosed, for two hundred pounds each. The Statute of Limi tations, therefore, will in all probability bar the recovery of the principal, whilst the interest lost will have been 30/. a year for 30 years! At compound interest the sum Would bave made nearly about 2,501)1. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. N 01?FOLIC ClRCUlT.—Cambrirlge, July 22. Clt( )WN COURT.—(B=•fore Mr. Justice PaTresoN.) 131 .17JTAL ASSAULT.—Thomas Dirkin, Michael Ginty, The? eas Dirkin, jun., end Martin Dowling (all Irish men:), were charged with having, on the 26th of May last, .t Chatteris, violently wounded Edward Jones with a ler! ;e wooden scoop, with intent to do him grievous bodik y harm. Mr •. C. Mills appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Nay '.or for the defence. Tte prosecutor is a navvy, and employed on the drainage works now in progress at Chatteris. On the 26th ot June, Jones was employed to sit up all night to watch the tools used by his fellow-workmen. About one o'clock in the morning a party of a dozen Irish men (reapers) came up to him, and one, having a large wooden scoop, struck him a violent blow on the head. He fell; and several of the party commenced kicking him till he was insensible. He was then robbed of his cap and five shillings. When he came to his senses he gave an alarm, and a party proceeded to the farm of a Mr. Jones, where, in a barn, were found eight or ten Irishmen. One had the prosecutor's cap, and another a couple of half-crowns. One ran off, and was overtaken. The prosecutor then identified the fur men who had been most prominent in the affair. To three he distinctly swore. The other, though certain about, he would not swear to. He was afterwards confined to his bed a fortnight. The extent of the injuries was proved by Mr. Dean, a surgeon, of Chatteris. There was a dangerous wound of the scalp, and for seven or eight days the prosecutor's life was in danger. The jury Acquitted Dirkin, the elder, and found the others Guilty of a common assault.—Sentence deterred. Ansox.—The jury acquitted Wing, charged with set ting tire to premises at Dry Drayton. And in the case ot John Hayward, charged w►th setting fire to out buildings at Cottenham, by which a fourth ot the village was burned down, the grand jury ignored the bill. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT.—A tailor named John II ana gan and his wife, and a young fellow named John Long, were charged with having desperately assaulted William Rawley, one of the same trade. The complainant went out at rather an unseasonable hour on Saturday night, to get some beer, and meeting with the defendants, asked John Hanagan fir the amount of a debt which ought to have been paid long ago. He received an answer from each of the three, viz„ a screech from Mrs. Ilenagan, a blow from Long, and from John Hanagan a bite which actually made a mouth ful cf his ear. The biter stated that the complainant provoked him by the most dreadful language to stand up to fight, and at the commencement of the conflict, seizsd him by the ear and endeavoured to drag it off his head, that the row became general, and every one in it got the worst of it till the whole business was finished by an interview with the inspector at the station-house. The woman said she only had done what any woman ought to do when her husband was attacked —defended him, when the complainant and two other persons at tacked him. The ear-biter was sentenced to imprisonment for one month, his wife to impikonmeat for 14 days, and Long to imprisonment fe. 14 days. WORSHIP-STREET. • THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT OF A SURGEON'S APPREN TICE To MURDER HIS MASTER.—George Frederick Masterman, as apprentice to Mr. Wiliness Finer, sur geon, in North-place, Kingsland-road, who stood charged with having a•tempted to strangle his master, surrendered in discharge of his bail for final exami nation. The facts of the case have already been fully detailed in this paper. The prisoner, who, by the advice of his solicitor, re served his defence, was fully committed ; but tne magis trate consented to his liberation upon the amount of bail he had previously put in, namely two sureties in 100/. each. for his appearance at the next sessions of the Cen tral Criminal Court. M A R YLEB ONE. CHARGES OF WILFUL DAMAGE AND ASSAULT DI AN OFFlCER.—Yesterday, Frederick Mundell, a member of the United Service Club, and who resides at Ne. 101, Milton street, Dorset-square (he refused to give his address when taken to the station-house), was charged with the f 'flowing extraordinary conduct : Mr. Johnson, proprietor of a highly-respectable boarding-house, situate ar No. 4, Cavendish-equare, deposed that on the 2d of December last, defendannwho represented himself as a lieutenant in the army, and said that he belonged to the United Service Club, made ap plication to him to be admitted as an inmate of the e.ta blishment, and after he had given in the name of a party by way of reference, complainant consented to the pro posal, tut he subsequently mentioned to two ladies who were boarding with him the agreement which he had come to, and from what he heard with regard to defend ant having been in Horsemonger-lane Gaol for an as sault upon a gentleman. he (complainant) wrote to him to the effect that he could not be admitted; he sent to know the reason why he had come to this determina tion, upon which he went to Peele's Coffee-house, and having copied from a paper the particulars of his committal to prison, forwarded it to him ; he after wards called upon complainant, telling him it was all wrong, and that if he would go to the Duke of Wellington with him everything could be explained. On the 11th of December defen dant addressed a few lines to complainant. The note was here put in and read. It set Willi that the writer considered that a great insult had been put upon him, and of which he could not help taking cognisance. Com plainant added, that since his refusal to admit 6 defendant a number of panes of glass, principally in the drawing rooms, had been broken by some unseen head, and with the view of causing, if possible, the detection of the guilty party, whom he imagined could be no other than the defendant, be gave information to the police; the ladies by whom he (complainant) was induced to come to the decision which he did had given him to understand that they should quit if he (defendant.) became an in mate; he had been persecuting one of 'he ladies (the younger) with his attentions and had called in order to see her, but he was peremptorily told that she would not grant him an interview. Mr. BRuUGHTON—Do you know where the young lady first became acquainted with him ? Complainant —I believe in Harley-street, at my house, with her mother, and, had I ,received defendant they would both have left me. It further appeared that Superintendent Hughes, of the D division, had directed police-constable Hawker, 271, to station himself in such a position in the square as would enable him to have a complete view of Mr. Johnson's dwelling; he accordingly did so, and at length saw the defendant pick up from the road some stones, which he threw towards the house; upon his going away after the last throw made by him at one o'clock yester day morning, witness followed him and took him into custody. At the station-house a large stone was found in his right-hand coat pocket. Witness went back to Mr. Johnson's residence, when he called up one of the servants, and four stones of a similar description to that produced were picked up in the area. Evidence was also given as to defendant having cn the way to the station-house violently assaulted Hawker and two other constables who came to his assistance. Inspector Jackson said that he asked the defendant his name and address when the charge was taken by nim, but ho refused to give either ; he was subse quently billed, and the required information was then obtained. The solicitor said there was no proof whatever as to his client having broken any windows. To the constable —Did you hear the smashing of glass ? Constable —I did not, but I saw stones thrown, and they rebounded from the building. Defendatit —Let me speak, Sir, if you please. I heard that policemen were been making inquiries about me is a very improper way, and in consequence of their con duct, I wrote to Sir George Grey, hoping that he would look to the matter, but I have not yet seen him. I know nothing about the breaking of any glass, neither did I fling a single stone. I was pounced upon by three men, and dragged along by then; and it I had struck either of them, I should certainly have made a mark. In try ing to free myself from them I might have kicked out, but nothing more. Mr. BROUGHTON, after carefully reviewing the whole of the evidence adduced, inflicted upon defendant a I,e -natty of 405., and two of 203. for assaulting the police, and, in addition thereto, csllJl upon him to enter into his own recognizance in 100/., with two sureties (with notice, in order that due inquiry might be instituted as to their rimless to be accepted as bail) in 501. each, for his keeping the peace towards the complainant and all in his house for the next three months. The Magistrate remarked that it had been intimated to him that he (defendant) had also used threats towards the young lady, who was not incline I to listen to or pay any regard to his attentions; that, however, would not now be en tered upon, Defendant—She had agreed to accept my hand before she went to Mr. Johnson's; had it been otherwise, I should not have been in any way troublesome to her. He was then locked up. SOUTHWARK. VIOLENT ATTACK UPON THE MAGISTRATE BY Two FEMALES.—Mary Grogan and Ann APCarthy were charged with using improper language in the public streets, and assaulting the officer in the execution of his duty. It. INGHAM, after bearing the evidence, ordered each to be imprisoned for one month. Before the sentence had been distinctly pronounced, each of them suddenly took off their heavy shoes and throw them with great violence at the magistrate's head, accompanied with dreadful oaths and imprecations. For. tunately for Mr. Ingham the missiles escaped his head, and merely grazed his right shoulder. Finding they had not succeeded in injuring the magistrate, they attempted to break down the front of the dock, but several officers being in the body of the court they were prevented, but it repaired the united strength of ten constables to drag them to the cells, and in doing so their clothes were torn from their backs. Their violence was so great when in the latter place that the magistrate ordered their instant removal to Brixton. SWORD Fisu.—Another illustration of the well known power and agility of the sword fish, the formidable enemy of the whale, was discovered by the workmen en gaged in repairing the brig Leonidas, whaler, at New Bed ford, United States, a short time since. In searching for the cause of the leak which bad occurred during her last voyage it was found that the . side of the vessel had b and t wo quite throug!i, including the copper sheathing and two thick nesses of solid oak plank, not less than five inches, by the sword of one of these fish. The sword was about twelve i nc h es i n length, and had produced a seam by splitting the s p i la e t of the vessel.— nl atitsesnseti.ramverlpot wa s l ou b d ro e k r en off smoothly at d THE TEA TRADE, JULY 22.—A fair business has been done within the last few days; last week's deliveries were about 550,00011 A LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1850. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 2:2. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Lor3 BROUGHAM po.tponed his motion on the Civil List unto Friday. THE LIVERPOOL PETITION. Tho Earl of EG LINTON moved that Byrne, M'Arthur, and Hinde be called to the bar of the Iluuse. Agreed to. The parties having been placed at the bar, The NotLE EARL then moved that the short-hand writer be called on to read his notes of the evidence taken before the Select Committee. The short-hand writer having read the evidence given by Joseph Byrne, by Duncan M'Arthur, and by Joshua Hinde, before the Select Committee, in the coarse of which they respectively confessed that they had them selves fabricated a very large number of signatures to a petition presented to that House against the Liverpool Waterworks Bill, _ The LORD CHANCELLOR having called upon Joseph Byrne for an explanation, he explained that his intention was to get none but genuine signatures, and on the first day, when he found others giving in nine or ten sheets, he thought there was nothing to be done but to place signatures on his sheet, so as to make his sheets equal to the others. Hinde and MgArthur made nearly similar explanations, M'Arthur adding that he had been induced to do so by a friend, and he believed every person engaged in procuring signatures to petitions had been guilty of the same conduct. They were then ordered t') withdraw. The LORD CHANCELLOR sad it was evident that these parties, having been employed to procure genuine signatures, had adjourned to a public-house, and had fabricated signatures, and had employed means to deceive those by whom they bad been employed. They had therefore attempted to deceive their Lordships, which was a very serious offence, as it was of extreme importance that their Lordships should be satisfied of the genuineness of petitions, and that persons attempting to deceive their Lordships should be punished. He there fore moved that Joseph Byrne bad been guilty of a great contempt of their Lordships' House. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM the mo tim was a greed to. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved that Joseph Byrne be committed to the custody of the Black Rod for the offence which he had ccitamitted.—Agreed to. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that he be com mitted to Newgate. The Earl of EGLINTON reminded the House that 45 persona were employed by the Committee, and if these three men had not come forward to give evidence this trick would not have been discovered; and be thought that fact should be taken into consideration. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought that it would be better they should be committed to Newgate, and the facts all ged by the Noble Esrl should be brought forward in a petition. Lord BROUGHAM thought it would be best to adopt the curse proposed by the Noble Marquis. Earl GREY agreed in the course proposed, but he would suggest that the employers of these men could not be altogether innocent, and he suggestei the appointment of a Committee to investigate the conduct of the employers of these men. The Earl of MIN TO believed that it appeared that some cf the employers of these men were cognizant of the practices resorted to, for it appeared that some of these persons had ordered the men to put crosses to the petition opposite names they had signed. After a tew words from the Earl of EGLINTON, Joseph Byrne was ordered to be committed to New gate. Duncan M'Arthur and Joshua Hinde were also or dered to be committed to Newgato on the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR. Byrne, M'Arthur, and Hinde were than removed in custody. Earl GREY then moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the circumstances under which the persons now committed were employed to obtain signatures to the petition.—Agreed to. MESSAGE FROM HER MAJESTY—PROVISION FOR THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. The LORD CIIANt_3ELLOR read a messa,re from her Majesty, recommending the House to make some provision lor the family of the late Duke of Cambridge. The Margais of LANSDOWNE gave notice that he should call the attention of their Lordships to this mes sage to-morrow. • MARRIAGE BILL The Bishop of SALISBURY, in presenting several petitions against this Bill, asked whether it was the in tention of those who had charge of this Bill to proceed with it during the present session ? The Earl ef ST. GERMANS proposed to move the second reading of the Bill on Thursday next, and he saw no reason why it should not be proceeded with this session, as it had been fully discussed in the other House, and so lulls, considered in the country. Lord BROUGHAM thought it would be most expe dient to dispose of the Bill this session, but he thought the notice too short. He was unfavourable to the Bill. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII was favourable V) the Bill, and therefore he regretted to hear that it was intended to bring it forward this session, because he was certain that they would not obtain a lair discussion of it at this period of the session. Lord STANLEY was opposed to the Bill, but lie was certain it would not be fairly discussed at this period of the session. The third reading had been carried in the other House by a majority of 10 only. There was no reason why a Bill of this nature should not originate in their Lordships' House at the come:lei:cement of the next session, when there would be ample time to discuss it. The Earl of ST. GERMANS would to-morrow state what were his intention , with regard to the Bill.—(Hear.) PETITIONS. The Bishop of GLOUCESTER presented several petitions against the Marriages Bill. The Earl of CARLISLE' presented a petition in favour of the emancipation of the Jews. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from cer• tain landowners praying fir protction to agriculture. MILITIA SUSPENSIONS BALLOT BILL. This Bail passed through C omm i ttee . LINEN MANUFACTURES &c. (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. COUNTY COUR I'S. BILL. _ . Lord BE AUMON 1' moved the - third reading of the County Courts Extension Bill, and moved the introduc tiongiving th e c l er ks of the county courts of aapnerammaennedmnt amendment, t nre of office. Lord BROUGHAM objected to the amendment. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the power of removal should be retained in all cases where it could be exercised consistently with justice. Lord STANLEY supported the amendment, and thought the extension of the jurisdiction should not be seized on as an opportunity for removing individuals without compensation. The House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment .., lg Against it 13 Majority for the amendment —6 Lord BROUGHAM moved the iniertion of a provi sion conferring on the superior courts a concurrent juris diction with respect to sums between 201. and '5Ol. It might be said, perhaps, that the judge had already a discretion to allow the costs of proceeding in the supe rior courts in such cases; but he was averse to leav ing the delicate question as to whether an action ought to have been brought in a superior court or not to the e()r o n e this th e point more ore at b hisou bound (Lordto urgeßr Brougham's) it gh o a nm' thes) discretion of a judge, knowing that it had not worked satisfectorily. The great traders in th e City, and of Mawchestsr and Liverpool, were n o t h ear d b e fore the Select i ns tance, because he did not wi s h to d e l ay the measure , and h Comm i ttee efel t t erf attention of their Lordships on the present occasion. It might be urged that the Select Committee were opposed to him on this question, but it was too late to urge this argument when they had ,just shown how easily they could disregard its decision. Lord BEAUMONT opposed the amendment. It was a mistake to suppose that , by refusing to agree with the jurisdiction might p of oa adoption thel oyf superior n e e n toh t u , er t t ds h i, e s yea discretion ieohrnee thought g j t u h t d h e g e e m . 3 .the amendment would create an anomaly at variance with the principle of the Bill. There could not be a better answer to the Noble Lord's amendment than the Noble Lord's own arguments in the Select Committee. Lord BROUGHAM said this was the consequence of having the candour to state, as every member of a Select Committee ought, the arguments en both sides. He certainly had not the courage of the Noble Lord, who had stood up against all - the highest legal authorities upon a question involving one of the most important changes in the jurisprudence of the country which had token place within his experince. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it would be im possible for the plaintiff to make apparent the grounds on which he preferred a superior court. He could not help thinking, .looking at the great advantages which were anticipated from the operation of the county courts, that these ought to constitute a sufficiently powerful motive to induce men to resort to them. li e did not by any means agree with those who thought that parties would be induced to select the superior courts, acting under the influt nee of attorneys who were anxious to increase the costs Such practitioners might be em ployed once, but their clients would not be apt to return, and they would be killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Influenced by the result of long experience, and by many considerations which he could not then eeter iut at length, he was undoubtedly of opinion that the proposed cle;creion should be given. Lord NV HARNCLIF.FE supported the amendment. He thought that the opiuion of the two Noble and Learned Lords who had just addressed the House ought to have great weight with their Lordships. The Earl of CARLISLE said he did not think he could, with propriety; oppose the amendment after the opinions they had heard expressed by the highest autho rities in the H o use upon such subjects, Lord BEAU moNT said that nothing he bad heard had removed his objections to the amendment; but as he found that he could not successfully resist its adoption he should not press his opposition to it to a division. The amendment was then agreed to. Lord LANGDALE proposed an amendment, giving a judge sitting in chambers the same power of issuing writs of prohibition which was at present possessed by the judges sitting in banco. The clause was agreed to. and the Bill passed. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Borough Courts of Record (Ireland) Bill and the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill were read a second time. The remaining Bins on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourced. he Clause ROUSE OF CO4II MONS, July 22. MERCANTILE MARINE (No. 2 ) BI LL . (Continued f rom our Af tern oon Edition of yesterday.) Offecces committed against the Act abroad by p ersons 72, which pruv id e s for the mode of trying discharged or entered into her Majesty's service, end for the payment of Vie fines ialicted on the offenders, was sg:e:d te, Mr. La.benehere having inserted an aniervi trent to satisfy objections formerly existing with respeci - , 0 it. O clausa 73, pr6viding f naval conrti abroad, Mr. LABOU6HERE TstatA that he had come to the determination that it would not 6o advisable to allow any court to be held abroad without the presence of a naval officer commanding one of her Majesty's ships, or of a consular officer.— (Hear, hear,) The claive was agreed to with some modification. Clause 96, providing for a report to be given by the master of a ship on discharge, on the character and con duct of each of his man, was agreed to without dis cussion. These were the whole of the reserved clauses. Mr. CARDWELL then proposed several clauses of which he had given notice, providing for the constitu tion of local boards, and the number of tons requisite for a vote on these boards, which were ail agreed to with out discussion. The House then resumed, and the Bill was ordered to ho reprinted with all the amendments. Tie House then adjourned until Five o'clock. The House resumed at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. BROTHER ON presentel a petition from Towee,tor against the increase of beer houses. Sir HENRY WILLOUGHBY presented a petition from a metropolitan savings bank against the Savings Banks 1111. . Mr. S I HART presulted a petition againd the Rail- way Abandonment Bill. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented two petitions from Van Diemen's Land, one signed by 2,000 and the other by 1,700 persons, praying for the abolition of transporta tion to that colony. The Hon. Baronet gave notice that nex: session he should bring the important question of transportation under the consideration of the House. Mr. SCOTT presented a petition from Now South Wales, complaining of the quit rent system which pre- vails in that colony. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that on and after Thurs- day, the lstAugust, orders of the day have precedence of notices of motion. Mr. O'CONNOR wished to know whether or not the motion was intended to appply to orders standing for the Ist of. August? Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to reply in the affirmative. - SEWERS IN WESTMINSTER. Mr. BANKES asked whether the General Board of Health had been made acquainted with the fact of the disturbance of graves for the formation of a sewer through the churchyard of Christchurch, Westminster, and whether they have made any inquiries upon it. Lord SEYMOUR had been informed there had been as yet no disturoance of graces in the churchyard to which the lion. Member referred. The Board of Health, how ever, had receivei a communication from a gentleman] connv.cted with property in that locality, expressing his surprise that such a disturbance was in contemplation, which letter had been by them forwarded to the Com- misAioners of Sewers. Sir DE LACY EVANS asked if any plan had been fixed upon with regard to the sewage of the metropolis; and if so, when the general outline of such plan would be made known? His reason for putting this question was the extremely alarming condition of two of the prin cipal parishes of Westminster at the present jiincture— namely, St. James's and St. John's. 14 ,- )rd EBIUNGTON—It was early announced by the Commissioners of Sewers, at one of their courts held se veral months ago, that as soon as they had sufficiently matured their plans to be enabled to present them to the public, they would take care to do so before any large works were begun for the general drainage of the metro polis, in order that the public might have the opprtu nity of knowing what the works might be. The subject of the drainage of the southern parts of the metropolis especially, on account of the ravages which cholera had committed there, had been under their consideration, and was in an advanced state, but was not sufficiently com• pleted to render it advisable in the opinion of the Com missioners to make a statement to the public with regard to the full details of the plan. THE IRISH ENCUMBERED ESTATES COM MISSION. Mr. F. FRENCH rose to ask the Secretary for Ire land (Sir W. Somerville) a question which the Right Hon. Baronet had undertaken to answer in the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He (Mr. F. French) stated the other day in the House that a sum amounting to nearly half a million of money had beets received tor sales under the Encumbered Estates Com mission, about 60,0001. of which had been paid into the bank of Ireland. It appeared that it was impossible fur the Commissioners to allocate, and some steps should be taken to get the money out of the Bank of IrelanO, where it was lying unproductive. He (Mr. F. French) had now to ask whether it was the intention of her Ma jesty's Government to appoint a Vice-Chancellor or any other officer whose particular duty it should be to alio cate that money to the different parties having claims to it ? Sir W. SOMERVILLE said there was no foundation whatever for the report that the Court of Chancery had declined to distribute the money. With reference to the distribution of the money, the Right Hon. Gentleman quoted the report of the Commissioners, who stated that they hoped to distribute 200,0004 before the vocation, and 200,000/. more before the beginning of October. Mr. J. S fIIART wished to know whether the Right Honourable Baronet had any objection to lay the report of the Commissioners on the table? Sir W. SOMERVILLE said ho would consider by to morrow whether he could do so, but he thought there would be no objection to lay the document i❑ question, or at least some extracts from it, on the table. merchants, was anxious to open the trade with Pertendic, on the coast of Africa, in confirmity with the treaty of Paris ot 1733, which ap, ciaay un cured the right of commerce there to Brdish subjects, which riwis had, notwithstanding', been monopolised by Franee. Redman accordingly in that year seat a cargo to Port,ruhe for that purpose, and the governor of the French colony of Senegal seized and detained the Btiti4l ships engaged in the enterprise ; but the outrage did not eau there. The following year the French Government, as if to close for ever the territory of Portendic against British commerce, in defiance of the faith of treaties, declared that port in a state of blockade, and again seized the British vessels that had been sent out. The consequence was, that great loss. and almost ruin fell upon the parties who had under taken to engage in the trade. For the portion of those losses which Mr. Redman sustained he had been utterly incapable to obtain any redress whatever, and it was under those circumstances that lie made an appeal to the House. He (Mr. Hutt) should further state, that pend ing the experiment of opening the trade with Portendic, Mr. Redman had, in reply to an application which ho had made on the subject to the Foreign-office, received an assurance, dated the 12th of December, 1834, that his :ejesty's Government would be prepared to extend to British subjects at Portendic every protection, and to secure to them every light guaranteed to them by treaty. Me: Redman and his friends were thus encouraged, as Lord Aberdeen expressed it, to engage in the trade hich they were entitled by treaty to enjoy; and a second time they sent out vessels to Portendic. The vessels, however, had scarcely left British waters when Mr. Redman obtained information from private sources that the French Government meant to place Portendic in a state of blockade. and he applied to the Fort ign office for protectio-. At the interview which Mr. Red man had on the occasion with the Noble Lord (Palmer ston) Lord Auckland was present, and the Noble Lord (Palmrston) assured him that he might implicitly rely upon the protection of the British Government, and that a British naval force should be sent out to enforce the right of treaty. A British naval force was accordingly sent' out to Portendic, but it arrived too late—Mr. Redman's vessels had a second time fallen into the hauds of the French authorities. Thus those British subjects who had engaged in the most lawful trade, under the special promise of protection from the British Government, beoeme thereby involved in losses of a most ruinous character. Mr. Redman then applied to his own Government for redress, and the Noble Lurd (Palmerston) immediately preferred demands for losses against the French Government. The French Government offered 10,000/. as indemnity for the losses sustained by British subjects in the affair— an effer which was rejected, and the matter was then referred for arbitration to the King cf Prussia. Up to that point Mr. Redman was supported by his Govern ment, hut here arose some little point of difference. The case laid before the King of Prussia was a very umbigu ous one. Whilst Lord Aberdeen and the British Go vernment contended that the illegality of the blockade was made the subject of reference, the Ft each Govern ment bad always maintained that no such reference had been made to the King of Prussia, and that, on the con trary, the French Government had never submitted to hav ing that subject called in question. However that might be, it was certain that Mr. Reiman was no party what ever to the reference; on the contrary, when he applied to the British Government, as to whether the grounds of reference were in every degree satisfactory on the sub ject of the losses, he was told that the question at issue was one between the French and Englisn Governments, with which he as an individual had nothing whatever to do. The King of Prussia, however, made his award, granting 1,700/. as a sufficient indemnity in a case in which the British Government had refused 10,0001. Mr. Redman having then applied to his Government to ob tain reparation for his losses, was referred to the award of the King of Prussia, and was offered some small share of the 1,700.. That was the case which he wished to submit to the House, and he should make no comment On the injustice and hardship, which were most palpably evident. The Hon. Gentleman was about to submit a motion for an address, when The SPEAKER intimated that as ono motion had been already disposed of on going into supply, it was not competent for the Honourable Member to sub mit a second. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that as by the rules of the House his Hon. Friend could not make a motion on the subject, he need only say a few words on the matter. He agreed that the case was one of those in which no doubt British subjects had sus ta'ned considerable loss; but he could not admit that there was, therefore, any claim against her Majesty's Government in the matter. They had endeavoured to get reparation as much as they possibly could for the aggrieved parties, and Mr. Redman was, practically, in the situation of a man who, having gone to law to obtain damages, and obtained them, found that the amellint he received was not sufficient to cover his losses. The amount awarded t) him by the King of Prussia had been given to Mr. Redman; and he (the (inancellor of the Ex chequer) could not see on what grounds he asked the whole case to be re-opened. Mr. AGLIONBY hoped that the Hon. Member for Gateshead would seek another opportunity for bringing on the motion. Mr. NEWDEGATE observed that the case bad never been fully or fairly stated Le-ore the proper tribunal, and had not therefore hesn justly decided. He hoped, theref ire, that the Government would allow the sub ject to be again brought forward, the more so as the principle on which the reference was made to the King of Prussia was, that the decision should not enhance she difficulties between the French and English Go vernments. After a few words from Sir C. BURRELL, which were inaudible, the subject dropped. SUPPLY. The House went into Committee of Supply, Mr. BER NAL in the chair. Oa the vote that a sum not exceeding 41,740/. be granted to her Majesty to defray charges for New Zealand, Mr. HUME objected to those items of the vote ap plying to the support of the bishop and the chaplains, and schools, and moved as an amendment that the vote be reduced by 600/. Sir R. INGLIS opposed the amendment. Mr. AGLIONBY said the present would be the last, or nearly the last . , year the vote would have to be moved, as the lion. Member for Lambeth had held out hopes of a representative government, when, of course, the co lony would pay its owe expenses. Mr. HUME did not object to the amount of the vote, bat to the principle. The colony had a revenue of 36,000/. a year, and he (Mr. name) feared that the vote would pledge the House - to a Church establishment. Therefore he should take the sense of the Committee on the subject. Lord J. RUSSELL seid if the vote was put on the ground that it was the first, it would be untenable. Since 1842 the House had agreed to an annual vote of that description. It would very much tend to the set tlement of the colonies if the Church missionaries were under a proper ruler. The cause of civilization had been much promoted by the establishment of bishops in New Zealand; and he (Lord J. Russell) would rather pay bishops than police magistrates. Mr. HUME had objected to the vote in 1848, but he was then told that they would revise it next year. Mr. HOWARD saw no reason why Dissenters should not be established in New Zealand as well as the Church of England. He supported the amendment. Mr. KERSHAW also supported the amendment, be cause the motion went to disparage the Dissenters in Favour of the Established Church. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 24 Against it Majority ••• .•• ... —66 20,0001. for Hung-Kong. Mr. SCOTT objected to the vote, on the ground that it was disproportionate to the necessities of the case. Thera was no trade whatever at Hong-Kong. All the vessels bound to China go from seventy to nine hundred miles beyond it—to Whampoa or Shanghae. The Governor, however, had a higher salary than any other colonial governor except the Governor- General of Canada. The populetion of the island was usually about 20,000; it V% a S now about 28,000; in consequence of the disturbances at Macao. The salary was therefore disproportionate to the services of the governor. There were consular agents in China; and the governor was only paid because he was a super intetident of trade—Miele trade did not exist. The consular establishment in China cost 33.0001. a year, one-third of the whole cost of the consular establish ments of Great Britain all over the world, which was 102,000/. The Governor of Hong-Kong was paid in ad ditien 6,0001 a year; vehile the Governor of Heligoland, which island stood in the same relation to Hamburgh as the Goveruwent of Hong-Kong did to Canton, was only paid 5001. a year. Tho Governor's aide-de-comp received 3001. a year, while the colonial seer= tary and establish ment received 3,700/.--io all 10,000/. a year for the cost of government in a miserable colony where only ten British merchants resided. There are 23,0001. a year revenue derived from the colony, while the cost of collecting it was 2,314L —fully 10 per cent. The Hon UN able Member went into a detail of the abuses of the government in the colony. The harbour master, for in stance, received 1,1681. a yea-, while the du t y was dis charged by a lascar for 3001. Toe law and justice de partment cost 15 318/. 6s. 81, than %hide there was no thing more monstrous in law, in justice, or in equity. The chief justice got 3,000/. a year; the attorney-general 1,500/ ; and the chief !magistrate 9001. Notheig could exceed the expenditure of the gaols and the police than their inefficiency. The roads at a certain distance from town were not safe, yet the police and peels cost 7,8421. Gs. Bd. a year. Since the last year the tra le of Hong- Kong had been reduced, a - id the feelings of the Chinese had teen much altered towards Great Britain since Mr. Jardine rave his evidence in 1839. The service that was now performed for 40,000/. or 50.000/. a year might, he conceived, be properly done for 17,0001. His amend ment was that the sum of 15,0001. be the sum voted for Hong-Kong, instead of 20,0001. Colonel SIBTHORY hoped his Hon. Friend would persevere in his amendment, for at another page in the estimates he found Hong-Kong down for another sum of public money to the extent of 4,621/., in addition to the 20,000/. for the vote under debate. There were also other sums for consul's expenses, consulate expenses, and miscellaneous expenses. The sums in addition amounted to 21,C00/. This was the way the Government mystified the subject. They put one sum in one place, another sum in another, and so on, in order to get one vote passed, awl then another vote, so as to prevent the House from seeing the enormous total which a particular esta blishment costs. Mr. HAWES said the votes in question did nut pro perly come under one head, sad that was the reason why the sums appeared in separate pieces. The Honourable Gentleman who bud moved the reduction of the vote to 15,000/. had not assigned any special reason for this reduction. lie presumed he had done so on the general principle that Government ought to re. aseeess e• trench in 'lpublic d r t wi L i i referenc e al epateleen 3. ' !id to the charge that the Hong -Borg blishment viith not: come under the notice of tho Government g ri t the view to reduction of seep:minute, he would b•e,h refer to the tact that the first vote wile 49,000/, woolo-L este had ben succes,ively re fused to 36.000 1, theta to 31 Vbis th.n to 23,000/. in 1319. and to 20,0001. in 1850. , I,v,oild prove ti,at Government had not been extrvali,nn in respect to thr . xpenses of this establi,lment. ild:te. with ( regerd to the assertion that Hong Kong 1)5 Chinese or rirated, and that no respectable person the __otherwi,e, would reside there, he begged to a sure. ~ t 1 Heine that this was not the case. The reports esn'u . had been laid before the House would show that the not spectanility or efficiency of the establishment ha d dria. been damaged. Nor had economy in the interne l ! : e of cistratton been lost sight of. Hong -Kong " 5 P—C sVere considerable importance in relation to the trade we lent carrying on with Chinese ports, ansl it was exPe e , 0t therefore to keep up its efficiency. Mto the coraPeulb, of the terms on which land war granted. ths,t author sv,eisas ject at present under consideratien of the mu"' 3 rides; aid if any hardship was found to e xtet, it err'o no doubt be taken into consideration, with the vie o w was jeer I. its remedy. If tie showed that population wa s being tea Pie!) , ing, trade increasing, and that reduction severed in as fir as was wise and expedient, he w e thought he had helpmae out a case which ought to conil_ 9 the lloti,e that t roposed reduction of the votobtfft% o eig.gin°.A not put forward on tenable grounds, and als jii- tity him in asking the House to support thwori vote. Mr. MITCHELL considered the vote was so ext relii ; gent that he hoped the Hon. Member vsoul d , t a r6vl h e titi in his amendment. The Right Hon. Genlie-11 that asked what item required reductior. His reply v'T e ' The not one item, but every item ought to be redo ife 0 Governor of Hong-Kong, whose main duty w. i tt e 1 , 1 , ) kap dinner now and then to the merchant s at Wels h % s uet had a salary of 6 0001. This was higher than t"; t his given to similar appointments. He should p rop ee sd 0 be reduced to 3,500/. Then the ch ief socretarY foe. salary of 1,8001.; 1,0001. would be amp le for that i the tionary. The chief justice had 3.000/. a r e es eoo amount might be reduced to 2,000/., and tin s P I bad would not be underpaid, The attorney 'g a year, but that sum might be reduced touleloo a year. The harbour-master bad 6001. a year . , ma tion that amount to 2001. a-year, and the total re'oed would amount to 5,0001. This SUM could be e- nut ' without • inconvenience and without injustice- w ise there was also other items which %nig ht wo uld equal propriety be reduced, and th s te e s Oa' .genere. ...hos very much sled to the sum he bau " the Government had promised last year to consider tleA subject of reduction. Government met the r ! de' or economy now with the same excuse, and 50 °-,,, be pendence was to be placed on Government pro ace. hoped the House would see the necessity for inter' e s bese But it was the system e f appointing individuals t e n d out colonial offic hat he objected to most. WhY ; hig h as governors Lards and gentlemen to whom theo Or salaries were a consideration, and indeed the t a c e ylee ducement? They had sent out a governor . s to We sal :r y e ° who was a Lord, but a bad governor. . and Government to send out working, competent men to w sre sest posts. Such a system would be preferable to the r io t a system l of sending out some Lord, who nsigh,:i the ittle fresh air, and who might find the air t o one salaryof unexampled of a colony very convenient. The vote ^ e le , l extravagance, and he should orPee.„stjfies r. DRUMMOND said the had been J'' they A before by Government on the v s n a te rno r°11"d!;1111.01si ju justified it now. The Hon. Gentleman very it l a ri ttoce, if we compared the salary of the Governor e.' t w oo b Kong to the salarica given to other govereore'se% d O r e found to be too high T sass - a cod gi --13 , considering whether it Could h n at ot - b - e - r-cd-tiochediii th e 1' e P i f e r a ' Mr. SPOONER referred to a paragrar ia l benefit bee of 1847, which stated that Hong-Kong, comnsere, that 00 e . I not yet been derived from g Kong, anu es ,, i t,t po, l° A existed it would be of much n v n al . in cam o w-. value a 0,4 in _ 4 of view. It was important to bear that 1 3 , e 1u wo uld b 74 With respect to the Governor's salary, be er tha t r • make much observation; ut there was ano. .„ tie - e , been overlooked, and which might be r edune rr u h ' e ill eb , ferred to the police and contingent charges. ' — ea r t e a g g e .e c a ha d rge for police was about 9 ,000/, while the et, - ; Pe n iecineutal police charges ;amounted to Ono oo thought the House had a right to some explaoll°- these oints. s Ill erS -Mr PHAWES could not bear in mind all the PL, tl toe' o ti f o every vote. It the Hon. Member would ine'7,,ftiertne. n on the subject he had no doubt all prop er '- Lion would then be drawn out.no sea : Mr. SCOTT said the reason why he had Pr- gat gross sum without going into particulars wae i t h ise P r°- he gone into items, the reduction he s houln --,,,, otter I°l- 11 f °t posed would have amounted to a much 1 Mr. PLOWDEN said it was all very well L ° c o a eroe lh a reduction in the salary of this person or thst ,r a i re A ' but he thought when reduction was contecePle:(o 00,1 gard ought to be had to the position of the Par:- artiest to the peculiar position of the colony. n imp al e -gise.4 known that Hong-Kong had been established; for by tart commercial and naval purposes , and he 1 C 10 ; ought to consider that we had a "o l Chilrityhe sk sustain by those appointments in that nati 'ncoalony. fteieeif penses at Hong-Kong, h e believed, we re r e4l s;t er o g o re g a h t t er to th h a e n ta in ken m i o n s t t o Mr. HUME said the tea ocothnesridecroaltoinain'e. and tILIS V O I :L 4 was altogether an experiment. It was SUPe ic rit ..h.P establishment at Pa e en tP , Hong-Kong would be the centre of commerce, be n ,,, 07, turned out quite the reverse; and the question 11 , - ,. ter whether such an expensive establishment oug" cot?' kept up as _a mere military post.—(Hear, hear) 00 fir lure all the circumstances he thought the eltP s w re ought to be reduced nearly one-half.—(FlenV Viscount PALMERS roN said that Hong .00.0 could not be regarded in precisely the same light its' or ee other colonies. It was not merely a colony inith Woo? nary sense of the term, but a port for trade W, s 01/ in general. When instructions were g c give •- p alve ss i Henry Pottinger on his departure i or vo cov conclude a treaty with that empire, he ( re W , 'of° an a Palmerston) felt it his duty to gain whateae- t i er , - As tion he could from every possible Ir ar eil ° I. ( had interviews with persons from differentl a gi- coll e L r ' ' country who possessed any knowledge of ir e t e ee i s ' e s °l and he received a great deal of valuable aSst s : - ," 0 1 P'; Sir George Staunton. There were two t ti h ill :: 0 ri-14 appeared to be of considerable importance-4"4- 11;1°01)6 to obtain access to a larger number of po r s t , s io se o - bt li s i a O lo s e e r ; stetisfied with Canton only; the othe insular For rh position for head-quarters r f lc o t t s • our et 04 personsH o n g - I i theao b n a g nelwatbsd greatest cwh i o btil s lera e c n p : ou:r f oi:n l ac t i b ee s( t s). 0 0 . i t s °, wast t he at op p i u n r io p n os o e f insular position was of many doubted whether it would not be e o `t il s Ce 00 0 admission to any other But both objects were accompliashPendrts ile Y eri e °l3s o is till not to be considered merely with referencvibers; amount of trade in the island itself, althong - , 1 i3 :4 crease cf tonnage last year over the prep as ca d was 63,000 tons; but it must be looked to as s bo p r i to where naval and military assistance w ee , I V A ell ol,'' support our merchants in the China Por t 'l rls' Our position at Canton was by no ixice rle dy f r .' e factory one, for great hostility was fretl eell seeft' e sag e fasted by the people of that city, and it was b''.o-01C1hPe-id matter of importance that our merchanto e ci .,,a, v - * assistance ready in case of an emergency.----(i',Yeli ,, o s e t Now with regard to the amount of salaries ?:,:,o.he•-010 question uite independent of the other. ' - . 11 '; - 0 w • given wagon a far more economical sc° 18 0 .: a 1):!; given by the East India Cot‘san Cri eu 'e t r ' eli v amount now proposed was only the Late for te - t e v e ll tise year, and his Hon. Friend had said that the p e t h — e eV of former years justified him in saying ill ti "li, dil l dS' tion of the colonial deartment was constantvhe 10'0 to those different heads of expenditure, with l ' e s - itbei - 01 reducing them as far as possible consistentli with ei the interests of the public service. It bad bee ll „,eps: s ir salaries were kept at a high rate for the Tglie 4 " 00 l furnishing toc appointments to the member s ° W as V id ell racy. But on the present occasion thas,tcrs-b°0;:, It had also been es e oss i , seb e ;ll o° . unjust assertion. to be chosen. D 4 w ? I .° if II of business ought the choice which his Noble Friend had made elf 0 0 1 1 ,jste d 4 did he offer it? To the high character heabomrean whoma heb member iy erotic family, but a man ofnboutsi member P eci tl o6 l e. business, judgment od iv or tiiinself to distinction by his own 4. i nd by the ability with which i b u e lamed di eeh l ier V 11 4 1311/ oves—he meant Mr. Bonham ...._(Heur hear./ soWAs' that was not a single instance Of such ;PP e es ili e aj org e lle l would just mention the appointment of Sir e v e teed derson to the Mauritius; Sir George Gri•foilinv Z. eland; Mr. Gregory to Benares;ir end Pit Australia; Mr. Hig g i nson t o A n tigua; e Colebrook to Barbaeoes.—(Hear.) , d el for., Mr. COBDEN said the Noble Lord see .ifii 9i o a 0 1 eo that the Committee was now considering th e t 'Oe )° v orates e ancd not the military expenditure forth the 0, JP 0 ht h would come before to. -ii, in another °Preeoil Kong, which a few years y s il t e - o tOr a without an inhabitant, now ag p o, possessed eid'ala civi*„Clit t o ees ment of' 44,000/. a year, 26,000 1 i of s which °ZOO," s tl" derived from the local revenue. It had bee °, *- g eP o 00 01 the same scale as the establishments of ce r ; , a tir-1 04 11 most important colonies, and for a popel st '' - „e ° fe e " tr a f persons there was a governor, auditor, tres s- ,,, e 01 o lf'', trar-general, a chi'fjustice, with a salary colon 11,4;0; of the judges in Scotland, an att ergel3,r,,,' i re al ! ir e police magistrate, &c. The whole the 5°, 1 1, - s e l) OVI of justice in the island might be conducteur,r#ol;kr; magistrate and hie clerk at salaries of I, o °'`a • f) cfn P ebaecehn.—(Hear, hear.) He though a decide-a ehe' ‘ tr Committeemade out for a diminution of 5,000/e and , would stultify itself if it did oc4 "" el, reduction.—(ii ear.) ~„t be ;,5 Viscount PALMERSTON explained tm- t ei e " ' tions of chief justice and attorney gen e t : este.; P P. 1 O a confined to at Hoi, Hong-[long, but that the COn r 'e. - enbd' - g-Kong had jurisdiction over Br it b0 0 " acli bei any part of the China seas. e be f 0 0 ,, Mr. COBDEN said it was quite true that si l t _ c o r ho quarters of our judicial establishment l it sere e , eft' o lf Kong; bat let the Committee mark th e AOP aA J J United the expense of our establishment an „s ee" r a thetrad S e ta w t t s t: consuls who ditcherwtlihi this se cgo t eu r d e n d ttr e hye w ir as , equal toiret°l6-totoe:01; The ll.ra , t e ' • ell duties c s ea t five different ports at salaries of 1,000 dollar° and After a few remarks from Mr. F. Sc°ll lb° lil t. f . PLOWDEN, hi • Mr. Alderman SIDNEY could find not - fig ons ° ;o l.° Hong• Kong charges in any of the other e ° , o l ei te :tees Western Australia there were six realdeo ;ea"( ilir with salaries of 1001. each, while the . chi ef 5 1 :15 11 1 ° , 0r it; Hung-Kong received 900/. While the ,i 1 0 il ° d' judges in other countries varied from 30 ;' 'ig Ol e he e r a that of the judise of Hung-Kung was 3, ° °°' fo r fr °iv startling to think of such a stun as 15, 0 „, °/ h . 0 131 , 1 ~o° l penses of adjudication in Hon,e-Kong. '.`" i e se e t , nies in which such large salaries were Pe l `" ( 3o, 0 " d# vernrs were the important colonies °h Ce., 11- e el' Ceylon, and the Mauritius.—(Hear. bef ir ' i 00 The Committee then divided, when doll IRISH GAOLS. Mr. HERBERT wished to know whether any furthE r steps would be taken by the Secretary for the Home DepartweLt for the purpose of relieving the county gaols in Ireland of a portion of the criminals confined in them. Sir G. GREY said, as the expense of preparing hulks for the reception of convicts was very considerable, Spike Island, in Cork Harbour, had been appropriate,l for prisoners, and already 2,000, who were under seu tenet, of transportation, had been sent there. Transpor tation bad also been resumed, and a considerable number of convicts had been sent out, and a vessel would be ready soon to convey a farther number to Van Diemen's Land. IRISH FRANCHISE BILL. In reply to Mr. STAFFORD, Lord J. RUSSELL said he proposed that the House should take the Lords' amendments to this Bill into con, siderution to-morrow se'nnight. PROGRESS OF PUBLIC BUSINESS. In answer to Mr. STAFFORD, Lord J. RUSSELL stated, that he proposed to take the Lords' amendments on the Irish Franchise Bill into consideration on Tuesday se'nnight (this day week). His Lordship proceeded,—l propose on Friday at 12 o'clock to take into consideration the Lords' amendments to the Australian Colonies all. After the report upon the Mercantile Marine Bill on Thursday, I propose to con sider the Lords' amendments upon the Metropolitan In terments Bill. I believe that they are not of very great importance, and it is desirable to complete that 13i11 as soon as possible. There is another Bill with respect to which a question was put to me on Friday last,—l mean the Oaths Abjuration Bill, which has reference to the oaths taken by Members of Parliament. I was in hopes of being able to bring on the consideration of that Bill next week; but I find that there is still a considerable quantity of business in the Committee of Supply, which will probably take four or five nights. I could not, on this account, hope successfully to carry that Bill through this House in time to secure for it that consideration in the House of Lords which it would deserve; and I therefore do not intend to proceed with it in the present session, but I shall go on with it at the earliest period next cession.—(' Hear, hear," and a sarcastic " Oh, oh!" from Colonel Sibthorp.) I may also state that to-night, after supply, I shall propose to proceed with the third reading of the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill. On the motion for going into Committee of Sapoly. MR. ROWLAND HILL AND THE POST-OFFICE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ruse, and said that he thought it right to state with reference to the aspersions thrown by the Hon. Member fur Youghal on a certain official of the Post-office, that he had received a letter from that gentleman giving a full and perfect denial to all those statements. Mr. ANSTEY said that he considered it due to him self to say, that he had stated nothing but what he had documentary evidence to prove, and if he had been allowed his Committee of Inquiry, he should have made out a worse else against Mr. Rowland Hill. BRITISH GUIANA. Mr. HUME rose to call the attention of the House to the situation of Guiana. It had been proved by the gover nor himself, that,for ten years, he had acted in antagonism to the feelings of the people. In England even it was said agitation ought to be avoided, as it was calculated to do great mischief, and if it were objectionable in a state like that , ho w muc h more o bj ec tionable must it be in a small place similar to British Guiana. The present Government of that colony was a mockery, a delusion, and a snare, and therefore the sooner it was changed for some more enlightened sys tem the better. At all events, the colonists themselves sought fur no rights that were not enjoye 1 by other colo nies of no greater importance, and he for one felt that the House could no lo n ger refuse to grant their just demands. The Hon. Member concluded by moving that the dispatches re ce i ve d from British Guiana, since May last, should be laid on the table of the House. Lord JO(-TN RUSSELL said the chief obstacle to the immediate production of the dispatches to which the firth. Member for Montrose referred was, .that the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies had not yet found time to read them. Ile (Lord John Russell) did not think that the party in Demerara. who asked the House to concede British in stitutions to them was it popular party in the colony, hut were, on the contrary, a narrow oligarchy. It was the wish of her Majesty's Government to int . .roduc”uch institutions in all the colonies, and in British Guiana among the rest, so soon as the people were in a condition for their reception. Mr. HUME said the dispatches not having been read by the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, he should withdraw his motion. The motion, however, was negatived. THE PETITION OF MR. G. C. REDMAN. Mr. MUTT rose to call the attention of the House to the petition of Mr. G. C. Redman, presented on tte 12th of April last. There a ere circumstances in the case of Mr. Redman which, in his (Mr. Hutt's) opinion took it out of the common kind. It was not the case of an i n di v id ua l ; i t was t he case of the British merchants i n genera l, an d o f a ll who involved might be in similar calamities. In the year 1833.34 Mr. Redman, in conjunction with other `... T