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SIR C. NAPIER, AND THE INDIAN ARMY. Head-quarters, §imla, May 9, 1850. No. 25.—At a General Court-martial, re-assem bled at Umballah, on Tuesday, the 26th day of March, 1850, Private Thomas Banks, No, 2,820, of her Ma jesty's 75th Regiment of Foot, was arraigned on the following charge : " For having, at Umballah, on the 31st of January, 1850, killed and murdered Sookah Ram, Sepoy, 15th Regiment of Native Infantry, by discharging at him a musket loaded with gunpowder and ball, and thereby inflicting a mortal wound on the left side of the abdomen of the said Sookah Ram, whereof he died on the same day." PINDING. The Court, from the evidence before them, are of opinion that the prisoner, Private Thomas Banks, No. 2,820, of her Majesty's 75th Regiment of Foot, is Guilty of the charge preferred against him, with the exception of the words " and murdered," of which they acquit him. The Court having found the prisoner guilty to the extent above recorded, abstain from awarding any sentence, under section 58 of 9 George IV., c. 74. Head-quarters, Camp, April 7, 1850. Revised.—l cannot understand how a man can be acquitted of murder who quits his barracks at night without leave, and, against all orders, takes with him his musket loaded and his bayonet fixed, and, while thus breaking through all discipline, shoots a sentry dead who was on his post and doing his duty. I must hope that the Court will consider the necessity of protecting sentries from being murdered on their posts • if the Court adheres to its finding, I really much fear it will have the natural effect of making sepoy sentries very summary in the proceed ings if an armed European soldier approached their posts at night ! 2d—But whether the Court may deem it proper to alter its finding or confirm it, I must insist upon its pronouncing a sentence, whatever that sentence may be, and not excuse itself from doing its duty by quoting ancient Acts of ancient kings with which neither the Court nor the Commander-in-Chief have any concern whatever. The president and members are to act under their oath. They swear to do jus tice according to the Rules and Articles for the Go vernment of her Majesty's Forces, and if any doubt shall arise which is not explained by the said Act and Articles of War, then according to their consciences, the best of their understanding, and the custom of war in like cases. There is nothing in this oath which re fers the members to be guided by law-books or laws enacted by former Sovereigns, but the reverse. The Court has the Mutiny Act and Articles of War given to it by her Majesty, and I call upon the president and members to pass a sentence upon the prisoner ac cording to their oath and the Articles of War, or refuse to do so at their peril. The Court has nothing to do with any other Act of Parliament. C. J. NAPIER, General, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. REVISED FINDING. The Court, having carefully read and taking into consideration the remarks of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, are of opinion that the pri soner, Private Thomas Banks, No. 2,820, of her Majesty's 7th Regiment, did kill Sookah Ram, Se poy, at the time and place stated in the charge, but that he did not murder him, and they acquit the prisoner accordingly ; and that, as the prisoner is not charged with having feloniously " killed Sookah Ram, Sepoy, the Court consider themselves precluded from awarding any punishment, for the following reasons : The Court respectfully submit for the consideration of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, that under the 31st article of war no doubt exists in their minds as to their powers—for by that article of war they are bound to proceed in conformity with the common and statute law of England in all trials for non-military offences; that the statute 9 George IV., c. 74, is the law applicable to the case of Private Banks ; that the Adjutant-General's circular, dated the 15th of June, 1829, expressly called the attention of the army to that statute ; and that copies of it,. having been su ppli e d by th e Supreme Government of India fur use at general courts-martial, have so been in use for twenty years. The Court further respectfully submit that in no part of the Mutiny Act for her Majesty's forces is the crime of homicide provided fur, and that the 31st article of war, in authorising general courts-martial to take cognizance of the crime, restricts their powers to the criminal law of England. Disapproved. C. J. NAPIER, General Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. Head- quarters, April 25, 18.50. REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER- IN -CHIEF. The Court has acquitted the prisoner. The presi dent and members have, I must suppo , le, decided " according to their consciences and the best of their understanding." The prisoner quitted his barrack at an unlawful hour, in a dark night, taking with him his arms and ammunition ; he wounded one native sentry, and he killed another. This was "an offence which, if committed in Eng land, would be felony," and it comes under the cog inizance of the 31st article of war The precise terms in which the charge should be couched are nowhere dictated, either in the Mutiny .a.et or in the Articles of War, or in any regulation - whatever. It is therefore sufficient far a court martial that the accusation or charge he made clear and distinct to the Court, and that the crime be one which " in England would be felony"—that is to say, malicious, wicked, malign ; but it is not even neces sary, according to the 31st article of war, that the crime should be felony. Now, the understanding of the Court must be exceedingly limited if it required an attorney to explain to it that the killing of one sentry and stab• bing of another sentry by a soldier who issues from his ba.rrack in a dark night contrary to orders, and fully armed, " would be felony in England." If the president and members of the Court consci entiously believed the prisoner to be innocent (which belief would be incredible if they had not themselves recorded the extraordinary fact), they were right to • cquit the prisoner. But unless they were so con vinced they have deliberately erred, and have broken the 31st article of war, in not convicting the prisoner of murder, for that article does not say that the pri soner is to be charged with having " feloniously" committed a crime, but who shall be accused of any offence "which, if committed in England, would be felony," and it goes on to say, "or of having coin mated any offence against the person or property of any of our subjects," &c. This (whether felonious or not felonious) does away with the necessity for using the word felonious, or other legal technicalities, in form ing a military charge against a soldier brought before a military court. I will here quote the words of a high legal func- Conary at Calcutta, expressed on this very case : " Charges affecting the life of another cannot be framed with too much particularity, but it does not follow, neither is it desirable, thatthey should be framed with the precise technicality of an indictment. All that is essential in a charge is, that the prisoner and the Court should be distinctly informed of the nature of the offence for which the prisoner is to be fAied. In the present case (of Private Banks), as the 'altered charge contains the word murder, I am of opinion that the accused can be convicted and sen tenced for murder under such altered charge." To be sure he could, and the court has been misled by qui'ablee, instead of being guided by the Articles of War and plain sense. I am quite at a loss to discover why the court refers to the Adjutant-General's circular, dated 15th of June, 1829. That circular was issued by order of the Commander-in• Chief to warn the European pri vate soldiers that A change had been made in the law of the land, and that a man who wounded another could, by that change, now be hanged, whether the wounded man lived or died. What, then, has this circular to do with the present case, where a sentry was shot dead ? 'What had the court to do with this circular? Nothing whatever; and a reference to it by the court was calculated to pervert the course of justice, by making a delusive use of that circular. I therefore publicly express my disapprobation of this improper introduction of irrelevant matter. It was the special duty of Lieut.-Colonel Horeford, as pre.ident of the court, to have prevented the insertion of t) is absurd reference in the proceedings, which he ex officio conducted. These quibbles appear to me to be unworthy of 'officers forming a court of honour and of equity, and sworn to judge according to their consciences and the custom of war; they are calculated to injure the dis cipline of the army. They afford protection to crime! Toe result of the Court's finding and sentence is, th,.t the prisoner, who quitted his quarters at an il legal hour, in a dark night, taking with him his arms, loaded and prepared for mischief, who wounded one sentry and slew another, is to return to the ranks an absolved man, because the unnecessary word " felo nious" was not inserted in the charge on which he Was ti ed. Thus the inteArity of discipline remains unvir dicated. C. J. NAPIER, General, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. 33y order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, AILMINE S. H. MOUNTAIN, Colonel A. G. H. M. Forces in India. METROPOLITAN SEWBRA. — YeStOrday a Parlia mentary paper of 22 folio pages was printed, showing the re ceipts and expenditure of the Genend Commis,ions of Sewers in force from tb e Ist January, 1845„ to the 31st December, 184 9. The t0t,„,1 receipts for the live years (1845 to 1849) including the general cash balance in hand on the Ist of jan ua!Y, 1 8 , 115, was 470,778/. 9s. 10d.; whilst the expendi tun, In the, period was 461,543 1 . 15s. 11d., leaving the general ew e balance in hand on the 31 st December last 9,2341.13 x.1 ,ld The receipts from the B th October to the 31 st Decenit , et 22,1971, 9 5 . a little more than two months, were Id., and the expenditure 19,9741. Os, 7d. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, July 4. :Sittings at Nisi Pries, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Special jury.) CUFFLEY V. BONE. This ease, which occupied the Court a part of Tues day. was resumed this morning. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, who sued in forma pauperis for damages sustained by the seduction of his daughter, by the defendant, Mr. Bone, a bookbinder, of Fleet street. _ . Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Browne appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Maynard for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant SHEE opened the case fer the plaintiff, reciting the evidence which he was about to offer. The first witness called was the young woman herself, Ann Cuffley, whose evidence was to the following effect :—She had been a bookfolder in the establishment of Messrs. Bone, employed in folding sheets for the binders. She hal alio been - often employed in doing little matters in the counting house 'of Mr.. Bone, jun., such as lighting his fire and sweeping his room. He had always treated her with more attention and favour than the other girls, often giving her fruit. He had also taken her to Greenwich,and once to Sadler's Wells Theatre. On the 16th of October, 1848, the defendant met her on the stairs in the warehouse, and desired her to go up stairs and light a fire in his counting-house, which was on the second floor; he followed her up stairs, and fetched her the coals and firewood for her to light the fire. After that he brought up some walnuts, and gave her something out of a bottle which he said was wine, and which made her stupid and sleepy; she also drank some thing out of another bottle. which he said was gin. He then threw her down on the floor, and began to take impro per liberties with her, and of erwerda effected her ruin, she resisting cad crying out at the time. He would not allow her to leave the room, but kept her locked in for three hours, until five o'clock, when the porter brought up Mr. Bone's tea to the counting-house. She then went into a cupboard while Mr. Bone went to the dour, unlocked it, and took the tea from the porter. She had some tea with him, and afterwards went down stairs, creeping under the counter to escape the notice of her fellow workwomen, and got out of the warehouse without being seen. She was questioned on the following morning by the foreman as to the reason of her absence, and said that she had been locked out and could not get in in time. About a month after she told the defendant that she was with child, he told her it was only a cold; hut, at any rate, he would give her something to take. On the 14th of July, 1849, her child was born; and she afterwards went to the defendant with her mother and brother, to try to prevail on him to allow something for the child's support. Her cross-examination, by Mr. M. CHAMBERS, elicited that she had been in the habit of often going to public houses with young men and drinking spirits with them, also of going to theatres and concert-rooms unknown to her mother. She bad also made assignations, and had made an appointment with a gentleman to take a ride with him in his gig to Kew; but she did not do so be cause it rained on the day appointed. William Cuffley, the brother of Ann Cuffiey, was the next witness, and he deposed that having learned that his sister was in the family way, he went with ber and his mother to the defendant to prevail on him to make some provision for the child. The defendant, however, refused to do anything in the matter, denying that he had ever had any connexion with witness's sister. At a subsequent interview he still persisted in his denial. Harriet Pounceby and Maria:Peacock were called and deposed to the attention which the defendant had paid to Ann Cuffley. The former witness had been in her com pany on one occasion when the defendant had taken them to a public-house called the Blue Hart, and treated them to some refreshment. The second witness de• posed to the defendant's having given the girt fruit on various occasions which she brought down into the warehouse, and shared with her follow-workwomen. Also to the fact of Ann Cuffley having been discharged from the service of Messrs. Bone some time after by the fore ' man fir some alleged misconduct. Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS defended in a speech of considerable length. The tale of Ann Cuffley was, he contended, a palpable falsehood, and after commenting at some length upon its probabilities, he left it to the jury to say whether they would by their verdict destroy the character and position of the defendant on such evidence as had been adluced in the present case. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 4. (B4ore Mr. Commi,sioner GoULBURN.) IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE GENERAL SHIP LOAN AND INSURANCE COMPANY. This was a meeting for the choice of assignees in this matter. The business ..f the company was carried on at 71, Cornhill. The petition of bankruptcy bears date the 6th of June, 1850, and was issued by Messrs. Plimmer and Co., of Newcastle, shipowners. The company origina:ed with two persons, named Augustus Collingridge, who was connected with the Sea Fire and Life Office, a company which is insolvent; and John Newman Barnard, of 2, Royal Exchange-build ings, who was managing director. They commenced business in the early part of 1847. It was alleged that parties were induced to sign the deed of contract for halt a-crown piece. The amount of liabilities is about 10,0001., the assets about 8001. The claims of course mainly arose out of policies ef fected upon ships. A claim was tendered by Mr. Keane. a solicitor, based upon what was termed " credit notes" given by the company. The claim was objected to by the solicitor to the petitioning creditor, on the ground that those credit notes were not b ised upon realised funds, and that they ought not to be retarded in the same light as a bill of exchange, as they were not nego tiable. It was urged that the claim ought to be ma le upon the policy to secure against the lossls upon which the notes were given. Mr. KEAZTE contended that the words " credit or order," in the body of the note, constituted it a nego tiable instrument. Mr. PEARSE, for the petitioning cre litor, argued that notes which were made payable only in the expectation of assets, could not be negotiable, uor could the holder recover on them. The Commissiorma, after referring to the treatises of " Bayley and Chitty on Bills," held that these credit notes could not be regarded in the same light as bills of exchange or promissory notes; they were not, according t.) mercantile law;negotiable instruments. He felt bound to reject the proof in its present shape. Mr. KEENE said. it certainly was very hard upon his client.' The Tart..s had been given to Mr. Fitzgerald, who was the party who had effected the insurance. The question involved in the decision of the Court was one of so much importance to the mercantile community that,with the leave of the Commissioner, he would ap peal to the Vice-Chancellor. The COMMISSIONER at once acceded. Mr. GREENE, a solicitor, tendered a claim for 400/. on behalf of Mr. •Farlane, a Scotch merchant, founded upon a policy of insurance effected upon a vessel named the Caledonia. The loss had been adjusted, and was secured by credit notes. The proof was, however, upon the policy. Mr. PEARSS objected to the reception of the claim, on the ground that the affidavits in support of it merely stated the facts of the policy having been made and the loss adjusted, without any averment or allegation as to the loss of the ship. Mr. GREENE held that that was unnecessary. The COMMISSIONER, however, thought otherwise. It was, in the opinion of the Court, necessary to set forth, if not the fact of the actual loss of the vessel positively, at all events that the deponent believed the vessel to have been lost. Debts to the amount of 5001. were proved. Messrs. R. Plimmer,cof Newcastle, and William Fauntleroy Street, described as of Lloyd's Coffee-house, insurance-broker, were chosen assignees. THE SUN, IRELAND. THE DEATH Or SIZ ROBERT PEEL.--The disas trous intelligence of the death of Sir Robert Peel reached Kingstown at ten o'clock on Wednesday night. Every evening since the accident that has had so lamentable a termination crowds of citizens have assembled at the harbour, waiting the accounts by the Chester and Holyhead steamer. Last night, when the fatal news was announced, grief was depicted on every countenance. Half an hour after the intelli gence was known in Dublin, and, even at that late hour, many of the citizens were to be seen deploring the death of a great statesman, whose policy had been characterised by single-hearted devotion to Ireland during the time of her sorest calamity. Never has there been witnessed anything like the unanimity of all parties in the sorrow sincerely expressed for the death of a public man. It is the involuntary tribute of a people to the virtues, services, and incomparable talents of an illustrious B r iti s h statesman, who had sacrificed political ties, per sona l attac h ments, an d am bition, to the stern conviction of duty to his country and devotion to her welfare. A large tenant-right meeting was held on Satur day at Broadford, in the county of Limerick. John Westropp, Esq., of Fort Anne, presided, and several energetic speeches were delivered. Five convicts made their escape from Cashel Bride well on Sunday night. Three of the fellows were under sentence of transportation for ten years, and none of them have since been discovered by the police. A boy was accidentally shot by a soldier of the 9th regiment of infantry while out on ball practice near the Pigeon-house on Tuesday. N o blame is attached to the ar r a n g ements of the military on the occasion. ----- HOP INTELLIGENCE. AIAIDSTONE.—Our reports from all quarters uni formly speak of the clean state of the plantations and the growth of the bine. Tn.- hail storm on Frlimits iday, indeed, did so me dama g e in its course, but its were very narrow. OVIAM.—The hops in this piirish continue pro gressing, looking healthy, and at present no flykness , but there will not be a large crop owing to the slac of bine in m my of the gardens. lioasmoNDEN.—Our hops are still quite free of vermin, and are beginning to show a profusion of lateral branches ; altogether they are presenting a very luxuriant appearance. CANTERBURY.—We have little to say in respect of the hop, except that they progress most favourably, and are tolerably free from vermin. General ac counts speak of the bine being vigorous. TICEHULST.—The hop bines in this parish have made great progress. They are quite clean, and in many gardens have attained the height of the poles. There is at present every appearance of a good crop. —Maidstone Journal. TUNBRIDGE.—The hops in this distriet are getting on remarkably well. They are perfectly free from fly, though, perhaps, not quite so forward as at some seasons. I have been through the principal grounds round Hadlow, Gold Hill-green, and Peck ham, and find them all equally good. A gentleman connected with the trade was commissioned by a fac tor to send him all the fly he could get. I think he said he found half-a•dozm after looking through as many acres, but did not suppose he could find another for a sovereign. TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—The accounts are still highly favourable in this locality as to the progress of the plant, and we have no vermin. Sussex.—The accounts generally state the hop grounds to be in a very flourishing condition. EDENBRIDGE.—The bine continues in a very healthy state, growing very fast, and free from vermin. NEW WORKS AT KEYHAM. For some time past a very interesting and satisfactory series of experiments has been conducted at this yard, to test the strength and other capabilities of the large wrought-iron caisson which has just been completed by Messrs. William Fairbairn and Suns, of Manchester, for the south entrance to the new basins. As considerable novelty and great ingenuity have been evidenced in the design of this caisson, it may interest the scientific public to have a short account of the principle of action, and of the nature of the tests to which it has been subjected. It is only right, too, now that the success of the scheme is placed beyond doubt, that due merit should be awarded to its originator, Mr. William Scamp, Assistant of Vorka to the Admiralty, who has realised tz very important im provement upon the ordinary form of vessel used for the purpose of closing the entrances to docks and basins. The leading dimensions of the " monster" caisson have already been given in this journal. It is, in fact, a huge hollow iron box of the form of the entrance to the lock, perfectly flat at the sides, 82 feet 6 inches long at the top, only 13 feat 6 inches wide, and of the enormous depth or height of 42 feet. The lower part of this box is farmed into an air-chamber, or what may be termed the lungs of the caisson, by a strong iron deck which is carried from side to side at a height of about 12 teat from the bottom, and made per fectly air-tight. The capacity of this air chamber is so adjusted that when the caisson is immersed iu water. the confined air exerts a buoyancy a little in excess of the total weight of the ciasson ; and, as by means of sluice valves the water is allowed to enter the in side of the caisson and fill it from the top deck of the air chamber upwards to tho level of the water outside, whatever that may be, it follows that at any point of the tide, and with any depth of water greater than that which would float it, the caisson would swim a few inches clear of the masonry. The total depth of the caisson is about five feet greater than the depth of the water at the entrance to the lock at high spring tide, and this space is made available for the means employed for sinking and moving the caisson. A watertight tank is formed in this part of the cais son capable of holding sixty to seventy tons of water supplied to it from the water-main of the dockyard; and it depends upon the presence or absence of this quantity of water in the upper tank whether the caisson remains firmly resting on the masonry and closing completely the entrance to the lock, or fl oats a few inches clear cf the floor ready to be hauled by capstans into the recess in the earthwork which has been prepared. The ingenious manner in which Mr. Scamp has availed himself of this buoyant principle constitutes the most meritorious feature of his scheme, for the emission of the small quantity of water confined in the top tank (which, by means of an ordinary valve placed in its bottom. is accomplished in about two mi nutes) has enabled him to dispense with the laborious anti expensive process of pumping, which has to be resorted to in the case of the ordinary caisson every time a vessel passes to or from the lock. It may be stated that had the ordinary caisson been adopted at Keyhano, the pumping would have required at each removal a force cf from thirty to forty men for a space of two hours. In the proportioning of the parts of the caisson the Admiralty availed themselves of the experience of Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester, and the result has proved that the caisson embodies within itself an amount of strength adecoate to resist without injury the most severe strains. In the course of the experiments the caisson has twice resisted, in the presence of the Captain- Superintendent, L rd John Hay, and all the Government officers and contractors, the pressure on one side of a depth of water of not less than 36ft. 6in. This brought upon the caisson the enormous strain of not less than 1,400 tons; and yet the deflection taken at the middle and at a point where there were 76 feet clear between the bearing surfaces was nearly -aths of an inch. The ultimate resistance of which the caisson is capable, according to Mr. Fairbairn's calculations, is fully 7,000 tons. It has been generally admitted that Mr. Scamp's ar rangement of caisson is a very marked improvement, and one which, from its simplicity of action, and the quickness with which it can be worked, is likely to be very extensively adopted. SUNDAY CLOSING. 10 THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. Gentlemen,—lt may appear very right and natu ral in my old friend, the postmaster of Barnsley, and the clerks in the Leeds post-office, to rejoice in the apparent closing of post-offices on Sundays ; but in common honesty they should have told the whole truth; they should have let the public know that although there is no sorting of letters on that day, yet the bags are received, opened, and dis patched as usual, whether empty or not, while hun dreds, aud in some offices thousands-of letters remain in the receiving box from Saturday night until Monday morning. Thus a mass of incalculable riches remains in every post-office untouched for two nights and a day, at the very time a clerk or clerks are necessarily engaged in their secret duty of di patching or receiving bags on the Sabbath-day ! As for postmasters, their responsibilities and anxieties are necessarily increased by having so long under their care loads of communications so important to society ; for it ought not to be forgotten that post offi,:es are not free from casualties. Individually, no one would rejoice more sincerely than myself in lessening labour on the Sabbath day ; but as we all know, or ought to know, there are works of n.cessiry, and as intercourse with the human family is an obvious every day duty, I look upon the system which has exposed the nation to the ridicule of the rest of the world as positively presumptuous, insulting, and sinful, and will be productive of more immorality by its hollow • ness and hypocrisy than any measure that ever was precipitated by well-meant ignorant zeal. My old friend, and your other admirers, evidently have not taken a very enlarged view of this vital ques tion, but are actuated by mere personal feelings. And even in this respect I fear they are short-sighted, and will only have their eyes opened when an intimation is given (which is pretty certain) that their salaries will be reduced one-seventh part ! Then the folly, the hypocrisy, and absurdity will flare upon them. Then will they be glad to return to the Post master-General's judicious arrangements, which, while they kept alive the social and commercial ele ments, were not a whit more unscriptural than the mischievous new system, which, if continued, will in - flict many great social evils,* disarrange the commer cial intercourse, neutralise our boasted celerity of transit, and ultimately cause the nation to retrogade a whole century I I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully, War. MOOSE. Post-office, Huddersfield, Sunday evening, June 30th. * Most remarkable—while conversing this evoning on this subject with Mr. Micklethwaite, tht• Huddersfield Chronicle, a milkman, with his ass and cans, passes by, and several carriages from church; a rap is heard at the door; the railway porter with a parcel; my friend opens the parcel and exclaims, " Good Godl my mother is dead!" RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was inanimate to-day, but prices remain without any material deviation from last quotations. LIVERPOOL, JULY 4. STOCK EXCHAYGE.—There was rather more business doing to-day, and prices were higher. The transactions were as follow : —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9% dis. —Lancaster and Preston, 4 1 5 p.—Ditto, Quarters, 13% — London and North-Western, New Quarters, p.— Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters (No. 1), 7% per cent. till 1853, 8 3 / 4 —Midland, 34—Ditto, Halves, 24% dis.—Ditto, Consol. (13. and D.), 15% --North Union (A), 165%. MANCHESTER, JULY 4. STOCIE EXCHANG E. —The was a fair amount of business done to-day, and prices were firm. The transactions wereday, as follow:—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9 die.— Ditto, 321. (late Extension), 10 1 4 dis. —Ditto ( West Riding Union), 8% dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 13-16 p.—Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C ),% P.—North Staffordshire, 11 V; dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Stock (No. 4), 4 15-16 Arnbergate, Notting ham,vatt, t v a s v h . The and Boston (East Junction), 7 1 A dis. Shares, BIRMINGHAM, JULY 4 . STom Exosergatc.—Business in this shar e market was 25 dions.ly_strhraneswascbtinornys and dpoßrtiremd Birmingham (B. (B.), 7 dis. YORK, JULY 3. STOCK EXCHAACK—The transactions to-day were as follow : —Midland, 34—York Newcastle, and Berwick (New castle Extension), 9iA—York and North Midland, 13. GLASGOW, JULY 3. S COCK E XCHANCII. —The transactions to-day were as fol low :—Clydesdale Junction, 40 —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 3 , 4 l —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 40—Ditto, Halves (No. 2), 51;2, CALlFORNlA.CL ra v c o e s p T a o rlingelearea out : - esen F t ß w O e M ek TLi th i G — F -During ng s T the VESS EL present from Glasgow , and has sailed for California , being the s hip direct from this port for that distant region. She first is a fi n e barque, carrying more than 303 tons, and belongs to Dr. T. H. Donelly, of Greenock, who accompanies the shi as owner and supercarg o. She has a full g e n era l ca r go ', consisting of wine, ale, brandy, battle-, ship stores, Ar broath stones, coalq, two strong iron houses, igcc. It may seem strange to send a cargo of more than 100 tons of coal such a vast distance, at a freight of three guineas per ton, but when it is considered that by the last advices coals were selling in California at the rate of eight guineas per ton, the speculation is likely to be neither unreasonable nor unprofi table. The Grace Darling. is provisioned for fifteen months. We wish all success t the first opening of commercial rela tions between the Clyde and the golden regions of the far wag,...-North British Mail. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1850, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 4. The 11,,use resumed et Half-Past Fi,ur some time before which there was an unusually large Wtend mice of Members fir that early hour, who were doubt less attracted by the intimation that fell from Sir G. Grey at the morning sitting that the First Lord of the Trea sury wc,uld this evening make a statement with reference to the great b3reavernent the nation has suffered in the lamentable demise of Sir Robert Peel. By half-past four the body of the House was nearly filled with ?clambers, as were also the side galleries. _ _ _ The strangers' gallery was likewise crowded to ex cess. The benches below the bar assigned for the re ception of Wmbers of the House of Lords and distin guished visitors were occupied; whilst the Speaker's gallery was more than ordinarily filled. The first quatt , r of an hour or twenty minutes was taken up with the preliminary business of presenting pAitilns, and giving notices of motion. PETITIONS. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the corpora .on of liirmiughim, against the recent alterations in the Post-office. Mr. SIIAFTO ADAIR presented a petition to the same effect. A c ,nsiderable number of petitions were presented eg .inst t' e .dmiss , ion of Jews into Parliament. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition horn Dublin against the Mercantile Marine Bill; also several peti tions against the excise regulations with respect to Irish spirits. Mr. 11. BERKELEY presented a petition from the Odd Fellows, praying for a' alteration of the Friendly Societe-,s Act. _ _ _ Mr. ELLICE presented a petition from CovoitTy, -numerously signed, against the recent Post-office Tcgll !at:ons. ..... A considerable number of petitions to the tame effect were presented by several ottu-r don. Members. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Glasgow against any further legislative restrictions on the sale of beer. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from Marylebone in favour of Hyde-park being selected Ls the site f,r the Exhibition of 1851. Lord NAAS presented a petition from Lisburn against the excise regulations respecting Irish spirits. Mr. SCULLY presented two petitions from Thur:es ..)nd Nenagh, to the same effect. Mr. LABOUC HERE presented two petitions from Brompton and Chelsea, in favour of Hyde--, ark as the site for the Exhibition of 1851. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. Lord J. RUSSELL rose at five minutes before five o'clock, and, after bringing up the report of the Com missioners respecting the Exhibition of 1851, said—Sir, in moviug that these papers be laid on the table, I will ask the House to allow me to take this oppor tunity of mingling my voce of sorrow with that of the House in general at the great loss which this House has sustained. Sir, at the first contemplation of this misfortune it is impossible not to be overcome by feelings of awe that one who so late as Friday night last informed the House by his judgment on one of the most important discussions of the year, should have already passed away from us, and that not by disease overcoming nature, but by one of those com mon amide! is to which we are all liable. Sir, in speaking of that great man it is impossible not to lament that hereafter this House will be no longer guided by that long - and large experience of public affairs, by that profound knowledge, by those rhetorical powers, by that copious yet exact memory, with which this House was wont to be en lightened, instructed, and guided.—(Cheers.) It is not for me or for this House, to speak of the career of Sir Robert Peel. It never happened to me to be in political connexion with him, but so late as that last de bate to which I have referred, I took occasion to thank him for that fair and frank support which he had given to the present Government.—(Hear.) Sir Robert Peel, Sir, in that speech which preceded the one which I addressed to the House, and in which he opposed the policy of the Government, spoke with such temper and such forbearance towards all those who might hold an opposite opinion to his, that it must be a satisfaction to those remaining that his last act should have been one of such candour and kindness towards all those around him.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, there can, I thick, be no doubt that, however history may deal with the wisdom of the course he pursued, that it will be ad mitted that on two greet occasions when he held power, undisturbed and apparently with every sign of security, and when he proposed measures to this House which shook and after a time subverted his party, he did so from those motives of deep love for his country which ever distinguished him.—(Cheers.) Sir, of these occasions I shall not speak, but there is one part of his career to which I perhaps may be allowed to refer, because I feA it due to him to pay that tribute which has not hitherto been rendered to his deserts. I allude to the period which elapsed from 1832 to 1841. After the contests which took place on the corn-laws, it was to be dreaded that those who had opposed that Bill, expecting results from it calamitous to the country, might have retired in disgust from public office, and thereby leave a war of classes to be carried on which might have tinted permanent injury on the country.—(Hear, hear.) I consider Sir Robert Peel to have been the man who pee r, nted any such occurrence happening. Although he had opposed the Reform Bill, yet ho addressed himself manfully, in the situation in which he was placed—he addressed himself to the country on behalf of a prin ciple of which he was the most eloquent defender, and brought back again the various powers of the state into harmony, and he showed himself not afraid of abiding by the verdict of the people on those measures and principles of which he was the advocate.—(Hear, hear.) Bur, without wishing to enter into the inerits of that gifted and accomplished man, having all the means for taking a part in the political struggles of this House, and having likewise a love of literature and a taste for art, which might well have occupied his time and made his life happy apart from political contests, I may be allowed to say that I consider the example of such a man in devoting himself to his country ought not to be silently passed by.—(Hear, hear.) I have from time to time, in common with many other Members of this House, differed from many of his poliical views, but although it would be out of place to discuss the grounds of that difference , this I will say, that I shall al mays be ready to b !ar my testimony to the utility of many of his public acts, indeed during a recent time of peril and cantentien in every part of Europe the safety of this country was mainly attributable to the previous fore sight of Sir Robert Peel, and the course of policy which he had pursued. With these feelings, Sir, I wish to say that if it should appear to the f Amity and friends of the late Sir R Peel to be desirable to take such a course, though I shall nor. now proceed to make any motion on th e su bj ec t, I will give my willing support to a proposal for conferring the same honours on his remains that were awarded to Mr. Grattan and Mr. Pitt. — (Loud cheers.) I may, perhaps, be permitted to add ' that I thought it right to obtain the sanct i on o f t h e Crown before I made this proposal, a n d I f ee l assure d his ser name, ?lajesty. would be unhesitatingly —(Cheers.) Sir, I wish, ac quiesced that anything which could do honour to the memory of Sir Robert Peel, or which could add any further tribute of respect to b by therefore, in concluding these few words, to say that e c i t n in disposing of this proposal I place myself entirely in the hands of the friends of the late Sir Robert Peel.— (Hoar, hear.) Having had no political connexion with him this proposal comes from me without the tinge of partiality; and I may say in conclusion, without any fear of a charge of insincerity, that I do feel that this country, as well as posterity hereafter, in re cogn i s i ng the claims of individuals deceased to the title of eminent statesmen who have adorned the annals of this country or contributed to its lustre, those of the late Sir Robert Peel w ill h e amongst the foremost.—(Cheers.) Mr. GOULBURN was awe the House would not con sider it unnatural, after what bad fallen from the Noble L ard, if he, who had had the inestimable advantage of having been connected with the late Sir Robert P ee l i n intimate bonds of friendship, and who had been selected by him to carry into effect his last wishes, and as he had been authorised by his family to speak their feelings on this subject, it at that moment he addressed a few ob servati ,ns to them. He did not rise to add anything to the testimony of respect which the Noble Lord had so gracefully bestowed on his lamented friend, but he rose simply to express to the Noble Lord and the House the feelings of his Ho l ds and his family with respect to the proposition which the Noble Lord had made.—( Hear, hear.) He accepted it on their behalf with the deepest gratitude as a proof of the gracious disposition of the Sovereign to acknowledge the merits of a great public servant.—(Hear, hear.) He . accepted it too as the highest tribu t e of res p ect which the House of Commons could pay to the memory of his deceased friend. He spoke now not only in his own name, but in the name of his family, and again he must be alloyed to repeat that he felt deeply the honour of having such a proposal as that which he had just heard suggested by the Crown and so affectingly responded to by the House.—(Hear, hear.) He might, perhaps, be permitted to add this,—that those who were unacquainted with the late Sir Robert Peel could have but little idea of the simplic it y of his charac ter. If ever there was a man who was peculiarly dis tinguished by a desire to avoid ostentation, that indi vidual was Sir Robert Peel.—(Cheers.). Pomp and ostentation he particularly reprobated in the ca.e of public men—(Hear, hear) —and from the earliest. period of his connexion with him his wishes and bays had beets of the purest and simplest character; but per haps the House generally would be more satisfied of this if he read to teem a declaraeion which his late lamented friend signed on the Bth of May, 1844, when he was in the full possession of all his mighty faculties, and when he was in the full possession of power, and at the head of a large political party in that House.—(Cheers.) That paraersph was as ;0110 —" I &sire that I may be interred in the vault in the parish ofDraron-llessett, in which my father and moth er were interred, and that my funeral may bs without oetentatioe or parade of any kind."—(Murmurs of applause.) Nor did this sentiment undergo any alteration, for not later than six weeks since, when alterations were male in t hat p articular church to which that memorandum referred, Sir R. Peel pointed in out to Lady Peel the very spot in the vault which he wished and trusted his body tnieht be laid , without any of that parade or °sten . at;on which he so strongly deprecated, and the :absence of which gave him such gre a t sat isfaction in the case of the funeral of the late Queen Dowager. Meter these circumstances, therefore, he was sure that he (Ir. Goulburn) had but one duty to perform, and the family of the late Sir Robert Peel bet one wish, and that was the thankfulness with which he (Mr. Goulburn) on their part had to acknowledge the intentions both of her Majesty and her Parliament in wishing to confer on his late lamented friend that, the greatest honour that could be paid to a subject, a proposition which they were compelled respect fully but thankfully to decline. Ho (Hr. Gculburn) etly entreated the House to add to that mark of respect which they had paid to the ability and public services of his lamented friend the further mark of respect to his simplicity of character, and give effect to his de sire as to the way in which he wished his funeral obsequies to be conducted. The entry of the adjournment of the Houle immediately after its meeting yesterday, out of respect to the memory of the de2eased statesman, was an hononr which would live for ever in the journals of that House, and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.—(Hear.) Mr. HERMES said through all the various suc cessions of political change from the year when he had first a seat in that House to the year 1841, when it was his fortune to go abroad, it was one of the proudest circumstances in his life that he had lived on terms of amity with the late lamented Sir Robert Peel. After a separation of some time, occasioaed by his (Mr. Herries') absence, he returned unf.irtunat•tly in decided opposition t' measures of the greatest magnitude and the deepest importance on which that great statesman had embarked his political reputation, but that opposition he (Mr. Herries) was or mid to say did not cause the slightest disturbance in t . r.e personal friendship which had long subsisted between them. It would be vain, inched, if he were to at empt on this occasion to speak in the languageof panegyric; he rose only to add his testimony to that universal expression of admiration and regret which had arisen in all hearts on this occasion, and to express what he believed, and in deed, what he might confidently say, he knew to be the feeling of those around him (the Op position)—(Cheers)—that no reminiscence of diversity in political feeling would for one moment mingle with the sentiment of profound - regret and sorrow at the melancholy accident which had deprived this country f its most eminent statesman, and that House of its most distinguished ornament.—(Hear, hear.) BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. On the motion for reading the orders of the day, Lori JOHN RUSSELL rose and said that he wou'd now state what were the intentions of the Government with respect to the Bills which were now standing over undisposed of. As he had already stated that the late debate had disarranged the course of public business to the extent of ten days, he thought it a reasonable pro psition that those Bills which had not been long before the public should not be sent up to the other House at so late a period, when there could be hardly time to go through with them. That was not, however, applicable to measures of reienue. The Chancellor of tie Exche quer would, therefore, proceed with the Stamp Bal. The next Bill which he would mention wa3 one of great importance, upon which the House had already decided in - favour of it; principle, and that was the abolition of the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland. As it was however, probable that there would be a great deal of discussion as to the mode of exercising the authority of the Crown in that country which had been hitherto exercised by the Lord-Lieutenant, and as the Bill would not reach the /other House before the beginning of August, that would be too late to propose so very large a charge in the mode of governing Ireland.—(Cheers.) Another Bill with regard to Ireland, with respect to which there had been also much discussion, the Security for Advances (Ireland) Bill would be proceeded with, and he proposed that the House sit on Monday, at twelve, for the purpose of proceeding with the Bal. The Merchant Seamen's Bill would not be proote - led with. The Woods and Forests Bill, for the re-arrange ment of that department, required a great deal of alters don, and would not be proceeded with. To-morrow night, Monday, and the Friday following, he proposed to devote to Supply, as there were se veral important votes yet to be taken. He thought there was very great inconvenience in protracting the session of Parliament by frequent debates into a time when Hon. Members found it necessary to leave this country for the benefit of their health. There was one other Bill which he would mention, which he did not intend to go on with, and that was the Railway Audit Bill. The Parliamentary Oaths Bill would be proceeded with on that day fortnight. He did not think it necessary to state the intentions of Government with respect to every Bill on the order nook, but he might state that it was proposed to proceed with the Charitable Trusts Bill. In answer to a question from Mr. DISR &ELI, The CHANCELOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Sivings Bank Bill would certainly be gone on with; but as it could not come into operation until the sth of Oc tober, and not on the sth of July, as originally intended, there was no immediate hurry. Mr. HENRY HERBERT wished to know the inten- don of Government respecting the Landlord and Te nant Bill, about which Viere had been much agitation in Ireland. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he had frequently ttated in that House that the Government did not in- tend to go beyond the second reading of this Bill. It was merely meant to lsy a foundation for some future measure. Lord J. MANNERS complained that the President of the. Board of Trade had not fulfilled his promise in laying upon the table of the House a Bill fur the conso lidation of the mercantile code. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Noble Lord had made some mistake. What he had said was, that after the Mercantile Marine Bill had received the sanction of the House, he wuuld lay such a Bill upon the table of the House. Mr. ROCHE had not distinctly heard whether the Noble Lard intended to read the Landlord and Tenant Bill a second time. Mr. S. CRAWFORD said he could not positively sAy what course he should aiopt with respect to his Bill, until he knew what course the Government would take with reipeA to their measure. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it would be better to read the Government Bill a second time, and then they might consider when the Hon. Member for Rochdale should procted with his. In ans leer to a question from an HoN. MEMBER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he could not name any particular day on which the Friendly Societies Bill could be proceeded with. In answer to a question from Lord DUNCAN, Mr. C. PEARSON stated that if the state of public business permitted it he should proceed with the Sunday- Trading Bill this session, although he felt that the period of the year was not very auspicious to the measure. THE COURT OF CHANCERY. In answer to a question from Mr. NV ALYOLE, Lord J.,RUSSELL said he would st•ite on Monday next whether it was the intention of the Government to in troduce any measure with reference to the better regula• ;ion of the Court of Chancery during the present session. RAILWAY AUDIT BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to a question from Mr. Locke, said that he must object to the further pro ceedings on the Railway Audit Bill, unless it was t) contain the provision proposed by the Government. POST-OFFICE. The following petitions were present'd, and ordered to lie on the table, for rescinding the late order pro hibiting the delivery of letters on the Lord's D Ly, from Durham, Bungay, Bedhampton, Birmingham, Richmond (York). and Coventry. Mr. CARDWELL said it was his intention, in the course of to-morrow, to communicate with the Noble Lord on the subject of the Mercantile Marine Bill, in respect to which he believed there would be a perfect agreement between the Noble Lord and himself. In re ference to the subject alluded to by the Hon. Member for Honiton (Mr. Locke), he (Mr. Cardwell) had been r. quested to take an interest in the Railway Audit Bill. He merely asked the Right Hon. Gentleman not to postpone this Bill to such a distant time as to render it impossible that the subject could be again brought for w .rd this session. (Here an Hon. Member reminded the Speaker that the Bill was withdrawn.) He (Mr. Card well) was fdlly aware that it was abandoned by the Go vernment, and that was the reason which induced him to make this suggestion to the Right Hon. Gentleman, because it might be the interest of the railway proprie tors to take tin the question independently, and tl press forward the Bill as it was framed by Lord S anley, the provisions of which were incorporated with the present measure. He, there'ore, hoped that the Right lion. Gentleman would consent not to postpone it beyond Monday next. Mr. LABOU(.3IIERE, as we understood, acquiesced. THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851. Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Sir B. Hall, said that he had no objection that the discussion on his motion with respect to the exhibition of 1851 taking place in Hyde-park should take prece dence f the order of the day. Sir DE LACY EVANS having presented a petition against the proposed exhibition taking place in Hyde park, Colonel SIBTHORP rose to move that 'the report respecting the proposed ex hibi t i on i n H y d e Park in 1851 be submitted to a Select Committee of this House, for the purpose of examination and duo consideration of the same; and that the report of the said Select Committee be laid upon the table of the House, and that the sanction by this House be given to such report before any further proceedings on the part of the Commissioners, with re gard to the said exhibition, shall be proceeded with or adopted by them. He said a more unsatisfactory and delusive report had never been laid before any delibera tive assembly. lie had put a question to the Attorney- General as to the legality of cutting down certain trees in Hyde-park, and the opinion given by the first law officer of the Crown was altogether different to the opi nions since expressed by two of the most learned law L e.ds in the other House of Parliament. He did not think that the opinion of the Attorney-General upon this question of constitutional law was very satisfactory. Though these parks were said to be the property of the Crown, yet it should be recollected that there were votes annually taken in that House for their care and in iintenancA. The Commissioners of Woods and Fore , ts were the trustees for the protection or the property there, but instead of protecting it, they had been destroying it lately by cutting down trees in Hyd.-park. Out of the ten trees marked for &Ante tioa I:Lie of them had been cut down, when it would ap pe tr that they had repented for their misdeeds on ac count of what had be-n said in Parliament, and left this old tree standing. This propo led exhibition of 1851, he believed, would prove most preju licial to the interests of this country. It was as gross a fraud and imposition as was ever practised upon an indtpitrious and unoffending people. The live as well as the dead stock of the fo relent r woul I be introduced into this country—all kinds o f foreign tinsel and rubbish—(Laughter)—che a p an I nasty trash and trumpery.—(Continuel laughter.) ILI believed that socially, religiously, tn , rally, and puliti catty, this exhibition would prove the greatest curse this country ever saw. Exertions were made to extract from the unsuspecting tradesman's pocket a little of his hard earnings for the purpose of supporting that which would ultimately ruin him. The report stated that the site chosen for this exhibition was the most natural and proper. He believed that it was the most unnatural and improper that could be selected. Neither was the most central that could be chosen. There was no rail way nor canal near it. He further believed that there would be no end t accidents, for pedestrians, eques trians, and carriages would be mingled together in most wonderful confusion. When there were so many fo reigners brought to the place the neighbours would have to tike care of their silver spoons and forks, as well as their servant maids.—(Laughter.) Who would thoy disappoint if they put off this exhibition? Not the English people—no one but , the foreigners. There ought to have been in the first instance a Select Com mittee to determine whether there ought to be such an ex hibition or not; next, if there should be,what was Ultimo:at proper site for it. He was it , form( d, upon good autho rity, that instead of 100,0001. for. the erection of the building, it would cost 240,0001. Where the money was to come from he knew not, unless the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to supply it. A more wild goose chase, a more delusive undertaking, never was projected by man. Who was to give the prizes? John Bull. Who was to get the prizes? Those who came to look for t hem —thome who competed v ith the industrious English artisans.—(Cries of " Divide.") He supposed that those who were crying " Divide" were some of the Commissioners, or some of those who had given their shillings. Feeling that the proposed exhibition would be deeply injurious to the country, he should submit his moion to the House. lonel Sibthorp.) But his Hon. Friend had not put the question before the House in a lair shape. The question was, whether Hyde-park was the best place for the ex hibition?—(licar, hear.) If any doubt existed on that point. he attributed it to tha conduct of the Commission. It was all very well to road a long list of names, and say they were all practical men, but the Commission, in their report published only the other day, in the first instance only took into consideration three sites — the north-eastern portion of Hyde-park, the Regent's park, and the present site; Battersea-fields and Isling, ton were never thought of.--(Hear, hear.) He main• tained the best situation to be the Regent's-park. What was the objection to that site? Certain covenants, which precluded the erection of any buildings there. He be lieved it l e no such thing. He had made inquiries, and he believed the question was settled in the cases of the Zoollgical Gardens and the Botanical Gardens, in which it was foand that temporary buildings could be erected. He fully believed that a better site could not be selected than the Regent's-park, taking into consi deration the proximity of the canal and the London and North-Western Railway. He could not but imagine that the arguments used by the Hen. Baronet the \lember fur Marylebone, as to the distaste of the inha bitants, would have but little weight with the House, which was disposed to pay so little attention to the ob 'actions urged on the part of Belgravia. The Hon. Mr. ALCOCK, in seconding the motion, said he had aleanber for Whitby said the locality of Battersea was not the slightest hostility to the proposition itself, which neither salubrious nor eligible for building. What, did honour to the illustrious Prince from whom it ema- then, was the meaning of the report in 1846 upon irate I. He thought the Battersea-field: would be a better which the Government were empowered to putchase place for the exhibition than Hyde-park. land there for the purpose of forming a park, in which Sir B. HALL understood the Noble Lord to request it was stated that the site was not only salubrious but of the House not to come to a conclusion until they had most eligible for building ?—(Hear, hear.) He had seen the report of the Commissioners. lie said thrt he made inquiries of the surveyor-general, M. Adamson, had no objection to the exhibition, but he had to the who had informed him that the foundations there were site. The moment the public saw the depredations that most excellent, being on a gravel soil. But he had no were being committed, they objected to them. He was perticul-r fancy for Battersea, but he preferred afraid to say a word against H) de-park in the first in- the Regent's-park. The Right Hon. Gentleman had tance, lest the Commissioners should have transferred spoken of the boon offered to the inhabitants of the dis the exhibition to Regent's-park. He found that trict by the opening of Prince's Gate; but he might also clauses in the leases prevented the exhibition in Regent's- have told the House that they had to pay 4,0001. for the park. The excuse of the Commissioners for cutting down boon, and were obliged to subscribe a certain sum of one clump was that another clump would be planted. money to maintain a gatekeeper there. Oa the faith That which took 50 years to grow was destroyed, and that no building would be erected there very large ape another clump would be planted which would be full culation3 had been entered into to the amount of grown 50 years hence, when they were all dead and 150,0001, and what would be the consequence to these gone.—(Laughter.) Ile found that Lord Granville and parties? It was said that the building was not to be per- Mr. Labouchere waited on Lord Carlisle on the 21st, manent, but who would take any of these houses for the and then they determined on the site in Hyde-park. next two years? He understood that a Learned Judge of On that day they had the authority of her Majesty, high reputation had pronounced a very decided opinion sanctioning this site. Some time since that they heard on the subject. that a Mr. Munday was to have the contract, and to do Mr. HU ME—He has bought a house there. the whole at his expense. Was the park then to be Mr. OSBORNE—The Hon. Member said he bad given up to a private individual? But then it was said, bought a house there, but he should be sorry to think it the Commissioners had not the site the exhibition that the judges cf the land were to be influenced by such must be given up.—(" Hear, hear," from Lord John considerations. That Learned Judge, be believed, re- Russell.) Why, this was acting like a spoiled child, who, garded the proceeding as totally illegal, and as requira - because he was not indulged in one point refused to do ing an Act of Parliament te legalise it.—(Hear, hear.) that which he had wished for.—(Bear.) Now before he If it should be the pleasure of the House to put this sat down he would move an address to her Majesty, building into Hyde-park, he advised his Hon. Friend the praying that she would not sanction the erection of any Member for Marylebone not to go to a division. buildings in Hyde Park. He suggested Kensington- Mr. GLADSTONE would deeply regret if the im park. Another place suited for it was near Kicg's-cross, pression should get abroad that the Commission were dis at the back of Maiden-lane, and near the Great North- posed to adopt a sic volo sic jubeo tone. Speaking for ern, and Landon and North-Western Railways. By himself individually, and he believed he might say on adhering to the site of Hyde-park, there would be de- behalf of his fellow-Commissioners, he was ready un stroyed some of those fine trees which tended equivocally to admit that that House was the natural to render the park itself one of the finest in Europe. and constitutional guardian, not only of the rights and They could not have main walls and other buildings liberties, but also of the enjoyments of the people. But erected on and in the midst of those trees-280 trees— this was a matter in which the House could not lightly without destroying them. They could not live after interfere, for if they listened to the recommendations this. It was proposed by the plan before them, that the which had been given them they must be prepared to park should be occupied for two years. In what state take the responsibility of destroying the scheme. The and condition would the park be left in after all this— Hon. Gentleman had said that the Commissioners had neg with the digging of trenches and cross-trenches, and the lected their duty. He respectfully begged to demur to end constant passage of the people? Why, it would be dispute that assertion. He said the Commissioners only scarified—the whole would be nothing more than a referred to three sites. Why? Because it was assumed ploughed field, and never could be like what it was by the Commissioners as entirely beyond dispute that at present, with a sward that was formed by a this exhibition, in accordance with the announcement century. He did not desire to put an end to the made, was to be held in London, and not six miles off. exhibition, but he desired that nothing should be The distance might probably not be of so much import done calculated to bring unpopularity upon it. He ante if this were an exhibition to which a single visit should, therefore, move an humble address to her Ma- would suffice; but to one of this nature embracing se jesty praying that she would be graciously pleased to vast a variety of objtcte, two, three, four, or fire visits direct that no building be erected in Hyde-park for the would be necessary. With reference to the difficulties purposes of the exhibition of 1851.—(Rear, hear.) in the way of making the Regent's-park the site of the Mr. RICE said that the Hon. Baronet (Sir B. Hell) pr o p ose d ex hibiti on , h e must be permitted to entertain had, in his extracts from the Commissioners' letter, more confidence in the legal opinions taken by the Go omitted to notice the following passage:—" They (the vernment, than the authorities ;upon which the Hon. Commissioners) cannot, however, but express their de- Member for Middlesex relied. Then it must be temente tided opinion that the renouncement of the selection of bered that the proposition had been before the world for the most beautiftil park in London for the scene of the seven months. The conduct of the Commission in re exhibition * * * * would materially detract from sisting the appeal made to them had been compared to that appearance of hospitality on the part of England that of a spoiled child, but he assured the House that which has been one great cause for the very favourable no efforts had been made to overcome the difficulties reception which this proposal has everywhere secured." which were to be encountered; and if the arrangements That was a sentiment in which he (Mr. Rice) cor- made by them were to be undone, the same length of dially concurred. As to the main objection of the time must be again consumed in making arrangements Honourable Baronet, that of the carting of materials, for the new site. They were told that the honour and it was an open question, and he saw no reason why, credit of England were involved ; but of this he was instead of bricks and mortar, corrugated iron or zinc sure, that if they changed their site England would, for might not be used for the erection, at two-thirds the the first time, acquire a character for light-mindedness expense, while all the materials could be most and instability of purpose. Thousands of labourers in readily disposed of subsequently. The objectors to the this and other countries were at work preparing goods proposed scheme had been silent until a few weeks pest, which they confidently expected to exhibit on the day and it was now too late to listen to their objections.— now appointed. Were they prepared to frustrate all (No, no.) The Commissioners were warranted in say- these plans and expectations which they had allowed to into that a change of site would be tantamount to the be formed in this country and in the world? lie would abandonment of the exhibition, for which the honour of oppose the withdrawal of any portion of the park from the country was pledged to Europe and the world. t h e enjoyment of the public; but he denied that such Mr. R. STEPHENSON felt desirous to correct some would be the effect of holding the exhibition there. It erroneous impressions which existed inalon.Gentlemen's would be only the substitution of one kind of enjoyment minds with respect to his opinion on the subject. It was for another,—a substitution of an enjoyment on a eery true when Battersea-fields were first suggested for the small scale for an enjoyment on a very large scale; for site he acquiesced in it, as possessing some advantage on every trial, woman, and child, whonow used this particular account of its contiguity to the river. However, on ex- spot of ground for recreation—and it was a very smell amining that site, he found the advantages of it counter- number—at least a hundred, nay, a thousand, would re ' balanced by the ditativantagee of its being situated be- sort thithor to this great exhibition fe- the purpose low high-water mark, being badly drained, and beirg at both of recreation and instruction.—(Hear, hear.) times fi toiled; while the more remote perti ,n of the Sir DE LACY EVANS thought himself entitled to seine tract which had been suggested by the Hon. the indulgence of the House for a short time, both as * Member for Surrey would be half a mile from the metropolitan Member, and as having presented a petit' river, and would be completely insulated by tion signed by seventy householders, praying that the ptivata property, all approach through which to the site a the exhibition might be changed. No one would site of' the txhibitien would be a matter of sufferance, regret more than himself to interpose obstacles in the and they knew how private individuals acted in such way of the exhibition, of which he approved, and which cases. With respect to the destruction of the public reflected the greatest credit on the illustrious person way which it was alleged would be cause 1, let them look who had originated it; but he could not believe that at the traffic over Hungerford-market Suspension-bridge such would be the result of a mere change of site. where 15,000 persons daily passed through a narrow Mr. STANFORD thought the whole error had 06' turn-stile, and 25,000 persons to awl from the river nated in having entrusted the management of a great nag steamers in summer, each (Lay, in all, 40,000 persons, tional undertaking to a body of private ger,tlemen, It without the least inconvenience or obstruction of the was said filet the expense would be defrayed by pri" public thoroughfare. Again, as to the alleged inconvc- vate subscription, but he thought that exti emely doubt .- niences resulting from conveying 40,000 tons of mate. tel. The responsibility would at last naturally devolve rids, let them see if there was ground for any appre- upon the Legislature. They were about to expend, la hensions on the subject. At the Camden-town station the lowest calculation, 100,0001. on a temporary build the goods traffic amounted to 8,003 tons a week, exclu- ing, and he could see no reason why it should not be 0 sive of the conveyance of coals and coke, and yet no in triennial or quinquennial exhibition, as, among foreign convenience was experienced by the inhabitants of the nations. neighbourhood. As to the number of the trees that Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to correct a mistake would be cut down, it would not amount to one-tenth whi:h had been made with reference to a statement the number that the Hon. Baronet supposed. He could made by him on a former occasion. The corporation 0 ' only say, that if from any delay thrown in the way Wisbe'ich telt chagrined because he was supposed t° the exhibition was prevented taking place at intended, it have stated that they had only voted five guineas to would be a disgrace to the nation. wards the exhibition. What he had stated their cootri - Mr. A. B. HOPE said it wis too bad—(Hear, hear) butioa to be was twenty-five and not five guineas, and —when the inhabitants of Belgrave,quare and Grosve- the fault was not his but that of the newspapers. With nor-place complained of the inconvenience to which they reference to the question before them, his vote would be would be subjected, they should be told that the neigh- in favour of having the exhibition in Hyde-peek. ge bourhood of their places of residence would not be more had read with great pleasure and satisfaction the reasons inconvenienced than that of Huugerford-bridge and the given for that course by the Commission, and be tfootigh 6 Camden-town station of the North-Western Railway. them conclusive. In his opinion Hyde-park wi is not lie suggested that there were two other sites which only a good site, but the best site. That it shouad be were particularly eligible —one at the north of the any infringement on the enjoyment of the you r Was Regent's canal, and the other beside the Islington cattle totally impossible. That might have been a good argir market. ment if Victoria park or Primrose-hill had be ?,n sal Mr. HUME was -surprised to find such narrow and lected. Neither would it interfere with Rotten-y:OW, selfish views advanced in opposition to this great and the Hon. Baronet the Member for Maryleboue , who national undertaking, to whi c h th e w h o l e o f t h e nat i ons was accustomed to disport himself there—(A lay g'11)--" of Europe had responded so zealously. would find that only a very small portion of the grass Mr. L taBOUCHER.E said the reasons given by the would be taken away, and he would be almost a ble to Commissioners for the selection of the site in Hyde- view - the exhibition from the back of his horse. park were so conclusive that he would be content to Lord D. STUART hoped that there would tet no di' give a silent vote. He concurred in the opinion that vision. One thing was clear, that with the sol nary ex' they ought not to abandon so great a p ro j ec t on account ception of the H. on;and Gallant ' Member leer Lincolei of the clamour of a feveindividuals. To sho w h ow com - all were in favt. ur ofthe exhibition . of 'lBs.l.—(He . pletely the public of thit and fo re i gn countr i es must hear.) lie cou l d not help thinking that as the ittnaistb have been from the beginning aware that Hyde-perk ants in the vicinity of Hyde-park were ve r y 'flitch or would be the locality chosen for th e ex hibi t i on , h e posed to having the exhibition near them, - an . , the i o * would read an extract from the Times of Oct. 18, 1849. habitants of other parts of the metropolis were a quell); In that paper it was said "There seems, thee, l , anxious to h ave it in t i h n e t i e r ud ne ed igh s b i o te urh n oo d d, it wot couldw no reason to doubt that in 1851 Hyd e -p ar k w ill w i tness better to charge h an assemblage more numerous, more brilli an t, more b e - not be called central—it was in one corner o e f -p t a h r e k eace neficial, and more intimately associated with the fortunes pelis—Hyde,.park corner.—(Laughter.) loss of this empire, than the aristocratic array in which some or Copenhagen-fields would be a better and more eery observers are wont to read the rise and fall of our na- tral position, to which all classes would have r e tional prosperity." The inhabitants had at all events a,e ce . s , been a long time in finding out the grievanc e . He held Mr. STUART was not prepared to concur in ol 3,er; in his hand a requisition, signed by the in h a bi tan t s o f th i ng which would imperil the exhibition of 1851; u ° Chelsea, to the rector of St. Luke's, expressing their he was perfectly prepared, if driven to it, to support ; 4 " opinion that the object in view was worthy of all encou- motion of tie Hon. Baronet the Member for Mar P le ,; ragement, and that it would be highly a d van t ageous t o b one. It was not the province of that House t o i n ash the inhabitants of the metropoli s , partic u l ar ly t h e wes t- fere in legal matters, but still he thought they cou ld . la s ern portion, and requ e sti ng hi m t o p res id e at a pu bli c omit fromtheir co ns id erat i on the circumstance tl hisd meeting for the purpose of promoting it. It was signed property to the am ount o f 150,0001 might be risked by many dittinguished names, b u t h e woul d ment i on adherin to the original plan. The Hon. and Learr,et but one—that of the Hon. W. F. Campbell.—(dear, Attor p g hear.) It was a consolation to find that the alarms ex- General had stattd that the site was Irigia unless public interfered .—( Hear, hear.) Now this pressed as to its being a permanent building were now was rather a startling proposition coming- from suet • being quieted. No one could be more opposed than himself to such a project. The House had been vet source. The Hon. and Learned Gentlemen represey ,fed the public interest, and it was his duty, if tray of tbe naturally misled by the apparent durability if the matey- constituents of the Hon. Member for Westminster, or o f vials to be used. Nothing had yet been decided as to the materials, but there was reason for believing that these the Hon. Member for Middlesex, as relators, oar .ed 01 ! materials which had the appearance of durability would him to do so, ex debito justitice, to appear tom row, °" be in reality the most economical and the most easibly any other day, before the Lord Chancellor, anti as k the transportable. A curious instance Wwa.scguibvietnt.ofuthis y interference of his court to stop the acts tithe. Commis sioners on the ground of their illegality. .! if. the leg 0 a very competent authority, Mr. e said question was raised, therefore, it would be rt• ailed by tb e the other day that he had erected somewhere near Lon- Attorney-General. The radical Commiss Loners wet' don a temporary church, which was to last for three to over-ride the interest of property ; an d the H °ll. years, and that he found the cheapest, most economical, Member for Finsbury said it would be sanctie Ine,d by bite' and most transportable material for the purpose would because it was not over-riding the property 'of the pa ll. be bricks.—(Hear, hear.) The apprehension menhes ofa me rle (Mr. r. Stuart),. however, held the law to I se t h e saes_ . _ appeared still to haunt some Hon. , but with- for . all parties, and that it did not alter ale case in the out venturing to pledge the Commission he had a very slightest degree that the Chief Justice of E case had is strong impression that the phantom would . vanish into local interest in the decision of the oteest;ee a He dear e the empty air. —(Hear, hest,) a e,meluiton he could cited a division on the subject only say he believed that the fieunciofthe al success un- division was forced on the Houoe, feht ?me should hi ve dertaking d , pended on the acee lite of the site, and to support the resolution. IT' est . that.r cage; but if if they woul permitthe -" •proceed • h Commwston to with debate should be adjourner) Gentleman R GROSVENr: therefore me rood that the their design he had a confident hope that it, would never d e d w i i s t p h o - sede . rat o , be obliged to ask the House - for ono farthing, but that the design would be carried out by the unaided contri- ft:tt:l=Zll denied that the At said if the non. and Itemise:it) tutions of the people. It the House, tin the contrary, no ) % , .ore right in his fat v than in V e over-ride the insisted on the exhibition being held at a distance of five g ra . c3l ; e g a l l 't C b o e m s m af i e s l s y io P ra z: L e s ee w d e e t or six miles fr o m the metropolis, they would deprive the b oa for Fir rights of property, or that tie a lion. M e humbler classes of an opportunity of seeing and exanin- tb , is'7ury 4.1 agreed to ever-ride all rights T o ing this na ot interesting speet tele, and t ,k e a c ,urse vd, ee of the poor, If the exhibition vas placed vet s . ta .; te b u r s i ett e s s which would by no means redound ei her to the credit l et e- park, it would be perfectly accessible ; but if () or the honour of the c ountry.—(Hear, hear.) required foe ' , m it ad e e ou v lt . l. be 01 her wise. Wiih r. L u L t ',. Mr. OSBORNE complained that his Hon. Friend the h gerdiog the grant pent ray of loam, Member for Montrose should asserne the sic vote° e building, the arguments ..of an ? li d tern who Hari preceded him in debate ful:r y ststl' et ea jubeo tone, and denounce eve rybliy who prestunr4 to I would ' (Jitter from hire. In the first place, he must steee that t ern on that head. Fie had not heard a ~,aisle tt he agreed with his Hen.titi as to the object being ! ounde objection to Hyde-park as a site. .NI) di be highly desirable, and that he differed from the Hon, and oe a stattifirre ; but it wet a sacrifice tater% e u , s e a' Gallant Member for Lincoln, who wished to get rid of j e("23ll '' vai s it i: e „r u e it w woulai e'er on this couetry.--( bear ' the exhibition altogether.—(" Hear, hear f EOM CO. I I as steel ter by the honour, c.e glory. and th e Het ; - . ILLULTI ,C111,13Y said the Roperty of P 4