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N ew J. A. SMITH suggested Monday for the motion on ew Zealand. Sir R. PEEL said he was willing to set aside Monday for the discussion in question; as for the other six Gentlemen, he would leave them to settle the order of their motions among themselves. The orders of the day were then gone into. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. The further consideration of the Smoke Prohibition Bill was postponed till to-morrow. DEATH BY ACCIDENT COMPENSATION BILL. This Bill was read a second time. CORONER'S (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY hoped this Bill would not be pressed on, as he believed there would be a great deal of opposi tion to it. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it would not come on until after the other orders of the day. After a few words, it was agreed upon to postpone the Bill till Friday. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. J. ABEL SMITH wished to give notice for the Honourable Member for Liskeard that he would, on Monday, move the following resolution :—" That this House deplores the prospect of affairs in New Zealand, and that that pros pect is much aggravated by the want of any evidence of change in that policy which brought about the disastrous re sults that occurred there. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Sir R. PEEL said he had been requested to present a peti tion in favour of a Bill, the second reading of which he was about to move. The petition was signed by Sir Moses Montefiore, by two of the Messrs. Rothschilds, Mr. D. Salo mons, and others • they did not address the House in their in dividual capacity;but as members of a committee from a depu tation of the British Jews on behalf of selves and convo cation. • They stated that they were gratified to find that a Bill had been sent down from the House of Lords, admitting the Jews to municipal offices, and praying that that Bill might be passed into a law.—( Hear, hear.) The petition was ordered to lie on the table. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. AGLIONBY— Sir, I wish to put a question to the Hon. the Under Secretary for the Colonies, a plain, distinct, question, which requires a plain answer. With reference to the painful disasters that have recently occurred in New Zealand, I want to ask the Hon. Gentleman whether that disaster did not occur in the northern part of the island, 400 miles distant from the settlement of the New Zealand Com pany, and whether that portion of the island is not under the su pervision of the Church Company? Mr. HOPE said, that with respect to the supervision of the Church Missionary Society, the Bay of Islands was that on which they had been originally settled, but it became the resort of whalers and runaway convicts, and thus the Bay became the worst portion of the whole island. Mr. AGLIONBY said that the Hon. Gentleman had for gotten to answer one part of his question, that which asked him if he was aware that the New Zealand Company had no settlement in the Bay of Islands. But he cared not whether the Hon. the Under Secretary answered the question or not, for the fact was so. THE JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Mr. BARING presented a petition from Portsmouth in fa vour of the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Sir R. PEEL said that he was about to call the attention of the House to a Bill which had been sent to that House from the other branch of the Legislature, and which had for its object the removal of all the obstacles to the admission of Jews to municipal corporations. The Bill had received the almost unanimous support of their Lordships' House, and he trusted that he would be enabled so to state the objects of the measure to the House as to induce Honourable Members to give it in an equal degree their support and concurrence. The object of the Bill, as he had already stated, was to remove all impediments of all kinds to the admission of Jews to offices of trust or emolument connected with municipal corporations. And first he would state to the House what the impediments to the admission of Jews were. Those impediments existed in consequence of the enactment passed in the year 1820, for the purpose of repealing the former Acts, and substituting in their room a declaration, to be made in lieu of the sacramental test. With regard, then, to the qualification necessary to give appointment to municipal offices, they were, as the law at present stood, called on to make this declaration. With regard to the declaration which had been substituted for the sacramental tests, serious doubts were entertained as to the construction which should be put upon it, and he believed that it was held by the Court of Queen's Bench that it did not make it compulsory on Jews to take the oaths of office. But on an a pplication to the judges of the Exchequer Chamber that dec i • , son was reversed, and the declaration must be made previous or subsequent to their admission to office. It rested therefore with the coporate bodies whether this is made before or after the election. He thought that in several places—in Ports mouth fur instance, there was a Jew who filled one of the prin cipal corporate offices without making the declaration. This, however, was covered by the Annual Indemnity Bil. In Southampton there was, he believed, a B eale of a similar kind. The object of the present Bill was to introduce an uniform regulation with respect to the admission of Jews to corporate and other offices. In re spect to the office of county magistrate, and deputy-lieutenant, there was no practical difficulty in the case of a Jew filling either of those offices. During the last three or four years several individuals of that persuasion—Mr. Rossiter, Sir Moses Mentefiore—had filled those situati )11.3. He had also known, in the cave of the magistracy, that in the county of Devon there were several persons of that religion filling the office of magistrate, and the law saw no practical difficulty in the way of appointment. In the case of the office of high sheriff, also, a Jew was eligible by law. Nay, further, the Jew was com pelled to serve the office of sheriff.—( Hear.) The Jew was unable to shield himself from performing the onerous and frequently expensive office of sheriff. The Privy Council cer tified the return to the Queen, and her Majesty g enerally ra tified the appointment of the gentleman who stood first on the list to the office of sheriff. Her Majesty's prerogative had been exercised in favour of the Jew to the office of sheriff of a county, and his attempt to excuse himself from the office had been overruled. There existed no doubt that the Jew was eligible to fulfil the office of sheriff for a county or a city Mr. Salomons had been elected to perform the office of sheriff for Middlesex. The doubt arose, whether or not the declara tion must not be taken either previously to or upon the accept ance of office. In the year 1335, Parliament altered the law in that respect, and expressly exempted the office of sheriff from the provisions of the Act of 1828, and permitted him to exercise the office of sheriff without requiring him to make the declaration previously to taking office. Mr. Salo roun's did perform the office of sheriff of Middlsex, and in so creditable a manner, that he had earned the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He was subsequently elected to the office of alderman, at the choice of the citizens of London. Then this impediment of taking the declaration out of the statute took effect, and refusing to take the declaration, Mr. Salomons coald not act in the office of alderman. That fact, alone, was almost sufficient to justify the Bill before the House. He would refer to the history of that declaration. In the year 1828, the Noble Lord brought in a Bill for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act. He had failed in carrying that measure, and he (Sir Robert Peel) lent his co operation towards carrying the Bill. He suggested that the form of declaration should be altered. The form introduced by the Noble Lord was different from the one he had proposed, and required that every person elected to any office in a municipal corporation was required to make the declaration within a calendar month next before his admission to the office. The form was as follows :—" I, A B, do solemnly declare I will never exercise any power which I may have by virtue of the office I hold, to alter or weaken the Protestant Catholic religion within this realm, or to endanger it in any way." The Noble Lord saw no difficulty whatever in the way of religious grounds, and consented to the introduction of this declaration. That declaration contained nothing which could throw the slightest difficulty in the way of the Jew filling a corporate office. but the House of Lords inserted words into the declaration, which constituted an impediment. In lieu of the simple declaration, the House of Lords altered it to the fol lowing words:—" I, A B, do solemnly, sincerely, in the pre sence of God, protest, testify and declare, upon the true faith of a Christian," &c., and it was these words which constituted the impediment to the Jew accepting a corporate office. But the House of Lords, by the present Bill, had voluntarily removed that impediment, and he therefore thought, under the circumstances, that House could not well refuse to pass the measure. The Moravians, Separatists, and Quakers had declined to take offices of honour and emolument from conscientious objections to take the prescribed oaths. He proposed to give to the Jews the same immunities, and to admit them to the benefits of the Municipal Bill. He hoped he had said enough to convince the House of the justice and expediency of the Bill.--(Hear, hear.) The Court of Queen's Bench had decided that it was not necessary to take the declaration first, and in Birmingham, Stockport, and Ports mouth that decision was acted upon, and Jews were admitted to municipal offices.---(Hear, hear.) They were at present entitled to act as county magistrates, and as sheriffs of counties and cities, and he believed that if a Jew were to refuse to act as sheriff he would be subject to a heavy penalty.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the House would not object to rant this privilege to so great and respectable a body of their fellow subjects.—( Hear, hear.) —He would refer to the names of Gotdsmid , galomons, and Montefiore.—(Hear, hear.) He had been assured by the most eminent gentlemen in the body, that they were satisfied with the Bill, although they did not think it debarred them from prosecuting their claims to other privileges. The Right Hon. Baronet ,concluded by urging the House to pass the Bill. Sir R. H. INGLIS said the speech which the Right Hon. Baronet had delivered was not more inconclusive than the gene rality of the speeches delivered by him. He was anxious to pay a just tribute of respect to the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London, and his Right Hon. Friend the Member for the city of Edinburgh (Mr. Macaulay) for the part they had taken on the subject. They worthily ranked with him (Sir R. Peel) in any competition of talent in that House. The measure was first introduced by his late lamented friend, Sir Robert Grant—(Hear, hear)—but was subsequently taken in hand by the Government. The Right Hon. Baronet had made a great historical and legal error with re spect to the disabilities under which he said the Jews laboured. An Act for their • relief was passed in 1828. Until that Act was passed, no one professing the Jewish religion was admitted to any municipal office whatever, in any city or borough of England, because no one of that faith could be admitted to any public office, unless he took the oath, which was only administered in extreme cases, but which obliged him to recognise some Christian symbol. He, there fore, held that the disabilities under which it was said they laboured were not created by that Act. The law with respect to Jews was not in an uncertain state, as the Right Hon. Ba ronet had said, as it had been clearly decided by the Court of Queen's Bench, which must be received as the law, until the judgment was reversed by the House of Lords. He called upon the Attorney-Generalto explain to the House in what way the law was uncertain. Sir R. Grant's Bill was for the purpose of relieving British-born subjects professing the Jewish religion, whilst the Bill before the House was not limited to Sir Moses Montefiore or Mr. Salomons, but to every one of that faith. The Bill, as it now stood, was for the naturalisation of a whole nation, for it contained nothing which would prevent a German Jew from entering the city of London, and holding any muni cipal office which he might be appointed to. Believing, then, as he did, that, by the common law, to say nothing of the statute law, no J w could take a municipal Office in th i s city, because he could not subscribe the oaths req uired of him, and believing that the declaratisn of the House of Lords, to which he had already referred, was wise and requisite. he did net pee anything in the present condition of the Jews which re quired this special exception in their favour. The Jews did not describe themselves as a sect or a creed, but as a nation ; and as a nation they were to be selected for these exempti o ns, ctt. which were denied to every other nation. The w hich had been presented in favour of the Bill were , rne l ri mn by s e few, and the House must remember that in the ea r l y part of the session petitions were signed by a much larger number, distinctly stati n g that the Jews would not.be satified with th e presr.nt measure. A question of " right," however, whether .rued by many or few lie would not resist. It was beaus" this was a measure of " favour" and not of right that he op pm.(el it. A celebr ated writer, Dr. Arnold, had stated that the Jesse were voluntary strangers in this country, and had no more right to interfere in the management of, or to seek citie eenship in it, than a lodger had to interfere in the management of his landlord's house. This was a C hristianthisfor o handful ' of men, that he should adm it that Christianity d id t form an esaenttakenOotegral part of the adm inistration and government AMA Malt-I,i It was no reason that some of them had hitherto to violate the law with impunity, that they larlitilfras(-Aercer exempted from it. In Fr ance, Jews were 1 ad:n*l4'v i `never admitted —though a Jew might be a ogle j ril* ,' r a judge, there was no instant:o of one ever ) r. _ ai.... j discussion had proceeded. He hoped that the inhabitants of the ' three kingdoms would be treated on a perfect equality. The clause, as amended, was then agreed to. Clause 74 was then proposed. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD objected to the clause altogether. They bad no such power in Ireland as that which was empowered by this clause. And he did not see why it should be given in Scotland and England, when it was with held in Ireland. As the feeling of the House, however, appeared to be against him he would not press it to a division. The remaining clauses of the Bill were then agreed to. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the following ad ditional clauses were inserted in the Bill—" That in estimating the annual value of lands and heritages, the same shall be taken to be the rent at which, one year with another, such lands and heritages might, in their actual state, be reasonably expected to let, from year to year, under deduction of the probable annual average cost of the repair, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain such heritages in their actual state, and all rates, taxes, and public charges payable in respect of the same. Provided that no mine or quarry shall be assessed unless it has been worked during some part of the year preceding tha day on which the assessment may be ordered to be levied. That no person shall be liable to be assessed in any parish or combination, on his means and substance, unless the estimated annual value thereof in whole shall exceed 301. That clergy men shall be liable to be assessed for the poor in respect of their stipends. That in all eases in which, by the provisions of this Act, notice or intimation is required to be given with out prescribing the particular form of the notice, or the manner in which the same is to be given, it shall be lawful for the Board of Supervision, from time to time, to fix the form of such notice or intimation, and the manner in which the same is to be given." Mr. SNIOLLETT moved the insertion of the following clause after clause 36—" That where the one-half of any assessment is imposed on the owners, and the other half en the tenants or occupants of lands and heritages, it shall be lawful f6r the Parochial Board, with the concurrence of the Board of Supervision, to determine and direct that the lands and heritages may be distinguished into two or more separate classes, according to the purposes for which such lands are used and occupied, and to fix such rate of assessment upon the tenants or occupants of each class respectively, as to such boards may seem just and equitable. The clause went through the different stages, and was agreed to without opposition. Lord DUNCAN proposed that the board of supervision should have power to unite two parishes, whenever such parishes should think it expedient to be combined for the mere effectual management of the poor. holding one of those offices. Bat the precedents or practices of other countries ought not to be precedents for the guidance of this : for, though in the offices to be held, cases might be analogous, yet they were not analogous in this, for the Govern ments to which he referred, were either despotic, or had exhibited symptoms of conduct which, he trusted, would not be adopted in England. If this Bill was passed, what security had they that the Jews would not object to our laws iwith regard to the keeping of the Sabbath. At present, they could not complain, but if they permitted them to hold high municipal offices, was it not likely that they would refuse to enforce our laws upon that subject. For all these reasons, he should move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. 'PLUMPTRE said that a respectable individual who had been named more than once was at that moment high sheriff of the county which he had the honour to represent. He had nothing to say against that individual. But in this country we either were Christians or not, and if we were Christians we were about to admit to office those who derided the name of that Being in whom, as Christians, we trust, and in whom we glory. He desired to exalt the name of that Being, and he thought they were about to invite a desecration of that Holy name. He was quite sure with the Honourable Member for the University of Oxford that this measure would prove any thing but satisfactory to the country. He was convinced that this was not a measure of opinion, or to be classed with the measures which had been lately passed. It was one that was disreputable to the House and the Government. He felt assured that every man who felt any real respect for the Great. Head of the Church he belonged to could vote for it, for it was one which desecrated the honour of that great and glorious Being on whose merits he depended for eternal happiness. If this Bill were passed, there would be great reason to fear that that great and glorious Being would cast this nation out of his fa vour. Without the favour of Almighty God he would ask where was the security for the prosperity of this great nation? God forbid that this Bill should pass, but, if it did pass, they would neglect the obligations which laid upon them as reason able men, and still more as Christian men. He was aware that theological questions could not be entertained in that House, on any other than political grounds, but he could not help think ing that as Christian men, the Members of that House could not discuss the question without a reference to the opinions of the great body of the Christian inhabitants in this country. He feared that his remarks would receive but little consideration, yet, in his view, the matter was of such importance that he could not refrain from seconding the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the Honourable Gentle man who had just sat down put the question on grounds which it was difficult to notice, but impossible to avoid. The Hon. Gentleman had stated that if this Bill were passed there was a danger of a loss of the favour of the Most High. In the course of his observations he had allowed that the remarks of the Honourable Member for Oxford had shown that the office of magistrates was filled by Jews. He had himself stated, that in his own county the office of high sheriff was held by a Jew. These offices were of the utmost importance, and if the Hon - Gentleman did hold those opinion., he ought to have brought in a Bill to prevent Jews from holding any offices whatever. But if such a Bill had been passed, he would have asserted that offices were only to be held by members of the Church of England. That was going on the narrowest grounds of in tolerance ; grouuds, to which, as a Member of that House, he could never consent.—( Hear, hear.) The House of Lords, by the decision of 1828, bad declared that Jews might be safely admitted to the offices to which this Bill gave them a right. By the solemn decision in 1845 of the same House that declaration had been confirmed. And so far from losing the blessing of the Most High, by admitting the Jews to these offices, they were doing away with religious rancour and dif ference, and if this were promoting the cause of charity, it was the most essential means of securing the blessing of God. So long as Jews fulfilled every duty of British subjects, they were entitled to the same honours and advantages as other subjects. The Hon. Member for Oxford had stated that the Jews felt that they were a nation ; but it should be recollected, that so long as those Jews were contributors to the revenue, they were members of the community of this country. The Right Hon. Gentleman reminded him of a remark of one whom he would not say was the fairest evidence, Dugald Stewart. Dugald Stewart had compared the University of Oxford to a ship moored in a running stream, and by which the rapidity of the stream was to be measured. The Hon. Gentleman was meored in the stream, and so he was letting opportunities pass by. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Newark, whose assistance was not rendered in this debate, had declared, in one of those speeches in fivour of posi firms tshich he was so well able to maintain, that no line of demarcation could be drawn between the admission of Jews to seats in Parliament and the highest offices • and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his speech in reply to his Hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh (Mr. Macaulay), had asserted that Jews could not be excluded from seats in Parliament, any more than any other sect.—( Cheers. ) He was not one of those who were so credulous as to suppose that the Jews will not aim at higher privileges than were be stowed by this Bill. He presented a petition some time ago from a Jewish community, in which it was stated that they would be glad to have this measure, but that they would not give up onelot of their claims to higher privileges. He (Lord John Russell) agreed with them and with the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Newark, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the only principle upon which they agreed to this Bill was, that it would lead to the admission of Jews to higher privileges. He believed that the religious belief of a Jew would not interfere with the discharge of his duty. His Hon. Friend opposite brought forward rather a singular autho rity—not for him ( Lord J. Russell) or any Hon. Gentleman on his side if the House to quote—but a singular authority for him ( Sir R. Inglis), Dr. Arnold. Everybidy knew that Dr. Arnold had an opinion which he thought a benevolent, pro visionary, theory, that they could unite in one religious and political community, that they could have a State with a large comprehension of religious differences, which would be animated by one generous religious belief ; but for that purpose he pro posed that all Christians, Roman Catholics, and Dissenters of every kind, should be admitted into his nation of equality, which he proposed should supersede their present imperfect in stitutions. Did his Hen. Friend imagine that there could be no kind of sympathy created between Jews and Christians ? Why did he take the benefit of Dr. Arnold's opinion with regard to the Jews only? Let him go the whole way, or let him not quote Dr. Arnold. He would not have it quoted solely for the Jews. For these reasons he (Lord John Russell) would give his hearty assent to the present Bill, though at the same time he found fault with it because it was not comprehensive eremeh. He held it as a step to further measures that would tend to extend the charitable feelings by which the members of this community ought to be united, and he would heartily give his vote, not only to this measure, but to any other measure which the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced, by which the Jews would be admitted to all civil offices.—( Cheers. ) Mr. TREL AWN EY made a few observations in favour of the Bill, which were scarcely audible in the gallery. Mr. M. MILNES condemned the continuation of the preju dice that at present existed against the Jews. He knew the t fleet which it had in Prussia, where the animosity existing towards them was only to be equalled by the animosity existing between the blacks and whites in the United States. He thought that they ought to extend the privileges and the rights of the Jewish creed as far as possible, without injury to the State, and he would, accordingly, vote for the meature. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it . Majority in favour of the motion —Bo The Bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL. Upon the motion that the House do go into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment (Scotland) Bill, Mr. LOCKHART said he hoped this Bill would not be pro ceeded with. He was very anxious that it should be postponed for a few days, say a fortnight, as the people of Scotland were under the impression that the Bill would not be at all suited to the country. He could assure the House that in many parts of Scotland there were a great number of Irish and English located, who had found their way into those places, and had obtained a location that they were not entitled to, and therefore it would not be fair that the parishes in which those people resided should be taxed for their support. Altogether the Bill, in its present state, differed so.much from its original form that time ought to be given to consider it. After a few further observations, which were totally inaudible in the gallery, the Hon. Member concluded by saying that though he had at first intended to move the postponement of the House going into Committee on this Bill for a fortnight, yet, upon a more mature consideration of the question, he would withdraw the motion. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD defended the Irish la bourers resident in England, and contended that they would never have come to that country but they were wanted as artisans and labourers. Sir J. GRAHAM said he would reserve any observations he had to make upon this discussion until the House went into Committee on the Bill. After a few words from Mr. P. M. STEWART, the House went into Committee on the Bill. Sir J. GRAHAM said he was a party to recommending the introduction of the clause in this Bill in reference to the settle ment question. In respect to vagrants he begged to say that no alteration whatever had been made in the existing law in regard to them, and therefore his lion. Friend near him had been mistaken in saying that the Bill would have an injurious effect in reference to vagrants. And then, as to the period of settlement, that had been extended from three to five years. Mr. P. M. STEWART said he objected to the adoption of such a principle, as he considered that any Member had an in disputable right to speak to the question, and oppose it if he chose, prior to the Speaker leaving the chair. The House having gone into Committee, Sir J. GRA HAM, on the 73rd clause being put by the Chair man, said that as he had been a party to the recommendation of that clause in the Bill which referred to the right of settle ment, he should support it in its present stage, as well as on a former occasion he did its introduction. With respect to va grants, he begged to say that no alteration whatever had been made since the measure was first presented to the House, and therefore the complaint made by his Hon. Friend the Member for Lanarkshire (Mr. Lockhart) was unfounded and uncalled for. His Hon. Friend was also mistaken in his statements re specting the hardship, implied by the change which the pro posed law of settlement effected over the former, the fact being, that the present provision would extend the claim to settlement from three to five years. Mr. P. M. STEWART said he could not help thinking that the Scotch Members had been treated very uncourteously. Almost every one of them had urged the postponement of the measure, at least until another session. All their requests h wre a ho d, toi( ao was a e s v p e r r, been e,io previously suddenly siy broughttreated with with dis forward e g h a y r a d n , till uon a l . t A e i n e g m t a h h e r, supported the Bill, to retard it for a fitirstni motion,gt. If the , lion.thheueldhave e Memberppesed it, a Lanarkshire pressed u h i a m d na n un important provision, nor for such an insignificant dolay that a stand should have been made by those who failed to oppose the obnoxious principles of the Bill. Mr. HENLEY wished try oak his Learned Friend the Ad • vocate-General a question respecting the provision of the 73d clause—viz., What was the meaning of the medical certificate there mentioned, and whether the Sessions Court of 'Scotlandte was the soul and conscience of the Scotch doctors? The ADVOCATE-GENERAL replied that the provision had reference to the issue of the medican certificate alone, and was not to be found in any other part of the Bill, or applicable to any other subiect. Sir E. COLBROOKE thought that either the law of set tlement in Eriglaed, or that now proposed for Scotland. must be erroneous, as the Government measure was totally d•fferent from the existing las in this country. The Scotch, as native occupiers, but above all as rate-payers, and the Irish and English settlers, had equally a right to complain of the in justice comprehended and threatened in the measure, and for his part he regarded all its provisions unfavourabl y . Sir GEORGE CLERK controverted the statement that the people of Scotland were opproed to this measure. On the e,ntrary, it was his firm belief, that they were universally in favour of it. and regerded it as it really was, a Bill calculated to hi of great benefit to every cla•s of the community. Mr. DUNCAN woull have supported the Member for Lanark, had he pressed his motion to a divisien, in order to give the people of Scotland an opportunity of forming and expressing are.lc a rhb n yh c: np;igo,anrrt,oei regarded the measure, but as his Hon. Friend h e ad , declined to take that course, he had only to support a opposed a a n s d useful si r.andp. i'l. Stewart beneficial. ST i e r r w vil . le o ‘i Lord Advocate, he wouleUEnetsapi press s t s h t a h t, at af p te a r rt fellw oc ha h t is a amendment from d Sir the \ Ir. which related to the province in which the party was b orn, but he would move the remainin ,, so removed, if by sea, save, in'aPvearsse'l ‘ t ; 1 t a affording no sufficient person e b r e . D was very glad to see th e way i n which , the ri p u ro N te c et A ion' N .' g Lord and pede it as virulently as he could, under the pretence of bene fitting the sailor, he (Sir G. Cockburn) was almost tempted to threw it up altogether. Sir C. NAPIER threatened to count the House if the Bill were persevered in, when On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER, the third reading of the Bill was adjourned till to-morrow (this day). The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter-past One o'clock. --- PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. THURSDAY, JULY 17. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were agreed to : Lynn and Dereham Railway. Middlesbro' and Redcar Railway. Newry and Enniskillen Railway. Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway. Waterford and Limerick Railway. Dublin and Drogheda Railway. The Gravesend and Rochester Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. Railways (Selling and Leasing),—Bill to restrict the powers of selling or leasing Railways contained in certain Acts of Parliament relating to such Railways, ordered to be brought in by Sir George Clerk and Lord Granville Somerset, mid read a first time. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 17. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, and a Common Jury.) EWER V. CARTER. The clause was agreed to. Lord DUNCAN inquired whether the revenues arising from harbours were to be assessed to the poor-rates? The LORD-ADVOCATE said he had not yet perused the Harbour Act, and was not prepared to give an answer. Clause 16 was then agreed to with amendments. The further conside r iation of the Bill was postponed till twelve to-day, the Chairman was ordered to report progress. and the House resumed. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. In the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir J. GRAHAM moved the third reading of the Bills of Ex change Bill. Mr. MILNER GIBSON said that in 1839 an alteration of the usury laws took place, which exempted all bills of exchange not having twelve months to run, and all sums of money not exceeding 101. from the effect of the usury laws. His object was to repeal the restriction which was contained in the Act of 1839. It was necessary for the public advantage that no restriction should be placed on the power of borrowing money on landed property. The opinion of Sir Samuel Romilly was, that laws against usury were very injurious to the landed interest, because it compelled land owners to borrow money from illegal sources. Sir Edward Sugden said he considered those laws had been decidedly inimical to the public interest. He was quite sure that the continuance of the Bill any longer, instead of being a pro tection, would operate most injuriously to the landed interest. In times when money was scarce many valuable and important improvements in land would be lost to these proprietors if this restriction on the interest of money was preserved. He thought money should be free, and that no restriction should be imposed on the rate of interest that should be charged. He moved that the clause be added to the Bill. Mr. WILLIAMS objected to the clause. He thought a re striction on usurers was a necessary and salutary arrangement. Were they not restricted by law, in many instances poor tradesmen and small shopkeepers would he victimised by vn principled money-lenders, leading to bankruptcy and ruin. Usurhus interest had been the curse of all the nations of the world. It was denounced in Scripture.—(lronical cries of ‘' Hear, hear.") Perhaps that wasnoauthority with Hon. Gentlemen, but it was with him. He kne,v of instances in which needy tradesmen had been mulcted by money-lenders of 60 per cent. for the use of money. He objected to the Bill being extended to five years, and hoped that the Right lion. Gentleman would limit the Bill to one year. If he did not, he (Mr. Williams) should certa !Ay move that it do not pass. The CHANCELLOR cf the EXCHEQUER differed with both Gentlemen who had spoken, and adhered to tl.e Bill as it was before the House. With out expressirg any opinion as to the advantages or dis advantages of abolishing altogether a fixed rate of legal inte rest ; for the reasons which I have stated to this House I hope the House will agree with me in thinking it wise to agree to provisions of the Bill for the limited period I have mentioned. The period was long enough to prevent any doubt as to the continuance of the Act. He would not enter into the ques tion whether or not landed proprietors should not borrow mo ney on the same terms as on other property which was not real. He would not discuss the question as to the propriety or impropriety of continuing the usury laws. He thought that question was settled. He did not believe that the argu ment of the Hon. Member for Coventry had any weight, nor that the House attached any importance to it ; at all events, it had no bearing on this case. A high rate of interest had been deprecated, but the annals of this county would furnish numerous instances where men had been saved from rain by having the opportunity of obtaining money even at a high rate of interest, and being thus enabled to keep up their credit. Mr. F. BARING had ne wish to endanger the Bill, but he thought that the suggestion of his Hon. Friend deserved at tention. He thought there ougt,t to be a revision of the Bill in a future session, and that a Committee should be appointed to inquire into the effect of the usury laws on the landed inte rest, and he hoped that, if that assurance were given, his Hon. Friend would withdraw his motion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not seem to know what the state of the law was. If this Bill did not pass, the Usury Act would apply to all bills of more than three or six months date, so that, al though the Bank Charter Act was only a temporary one in its general provisions, it was in effect a per manent one in respect to this particular.—( ) The Honourable Gentleman quoted from the evidence given before several Committees to show that the repeal of the usury laws had had a most beneficial effect. He did not understand, therefore, why the Chancellor of the Exchequer hesitated to make this a permanent measure. They had had the best evi dence that it worked well for eleven years. He could not wader stand why men should be prevented from dealing with their money as with any other property. He regretted tint the Chancellor of the Exchequer thought it necessary to render the Act merely one of continuation. If his Honourable Friend would not consent to withdraw his motion upon the expectation of a Committee next year, he would vote with him. Sir R. PEEL would have no objection to the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the operation of the law as regarded the land. He did not know but it might appear that the land itself would be benefited by being placed in the same condition as other property. In the meantime, he thought that there could be no ebjections to the continuance of this Bill for five years. Mr. WARBURTON said that his Hon. Friend had re ason to be satisfied with the result of his motion, as it elicited from all sides such satisfactory testimony. There could be no doubt of the good working of the Act. Mr. V. SMITH said, as the Right Hon. Baronet inter ided to appoint a Committee on the subject during the next se: ssion of Parliament, he should only hope that it might meet the general wish. He hoped the Hon. Member for Coventry ( Mr. Williams) would be upon it. Mr. HUI'T was satisfied with the explanation which the Government had given to the House, and congratulated the Hon Member for Manchester on the success of his motion. Mr. MUNTZ hoped to see the usury laws abolished. Mr. GIBSON then withdrew his motion. After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, the Bill was read a third time and passed. THE JURORS' BOOKS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a second time. NAVAL MEDICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND SOCIETY BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bi 11, Mr. WARBURTON complained of the manner in 'a bleb the funds had been managed, and suggested that the Bill should be referred to a Committee up stairs for inquiry, with a view to a redress of this grievance. If this were accede dto he should not oppose the second reading. After a few words from Mr. CORRY, who acceded tt 3 the suggestions of the Hon. Member for Kendal, the Bill w - a s or dered to be read a second time. The Physic and Surgery Bill, and the College of Phv si cians and Surgeons Bill were by Sir JAMES GRAHAM avicrred till to-morrow. The second reading of the Stock in Trade Bill was postp tined till Thursday. THE GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS (DUBL IN) BILL. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAI EVENING, JULY 18, 1845. This was an action brought by the plaintiff torecover damages from the defendant for the seduction of his daughter. Mr. Chambers, with Mr. Edwin James, conducted the case on behalf of the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Wordsworth were for the defendant. Mr. JAMES (in the absence of his leader) addressed the jury, and said that this was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation for what was termed by a fiction of law the loss of his daughter's services, but in substance it was to obtain damages for an injury committed by the defendant in the seduction of his daughter. The Learned Counsel then pro ceeded to state that the plaintiff in this action had formerly been an extensive farmer at Beleharn, in this county, but he had retired from business, and at the time of this transaction was living, with his daughter Emma, the subject-of the pre sent inquiry, and other members of his family, at a village called Fox Earth. The defendant was the son of a wealthy farmer in the same village, and he believed he was about 22 years of age. An intimacy had sprung up between the young people, and the defendant was looked upon as her acknowledged suitor, and no doubt was entertained of his intentions being ho nourable. It would appear, however, that he had deliberately planned the seduction and ruin of the plaintiff's daughter,and in March, 1843, he succeeded in obtaining possession of her per son, upon (as he was instructed) a solemn promise to make her his wife. Their intimacy continued until the latter end of 1814, when the young woman gave birth to a child, and the defendant then not only refused to perform his promise to marry her, but had the cruelty to make a paltry offer of ss. a week for the support of the child. The Learned Counsel, after detailing some other circumstances, which will be found in the evidence, concluded a very able and forcible address by saying that the case was entitled to the most serious consideration of the jury. A young girl, who, up to the time the defendant crossed her father's threshold, was virtuous and happy, and performed all her filial duties, had been disgraced and ruined. The defendant found his victim virtuous and unprotected; he ruined and deserted her— " Plucked the fair flower and rifled all its sweetness, Then cast her, like a loathsome weed, away." At the early age of 18, in the very dawn of life, before she had felt and known that, " man to his fellows oftentimes unjust, was ever so to woman," he had betrayed her, and left her a prey to misery and temptation. Emma Ewer, the daughter of the plaintiff, a very pretty young woman, was then examined. She deposed that the plaintiff. her father, was formerly a farmer, occupying a con siderable quantity of land at Belcham, in this county, but he had latterly retired, and gone to reside with his family at the village of Fox Earth. Her father had been twice married, and upon his second wife going to reside away from him, she (witness) used to keep his house for him. There were two other sis'ers and a brother, but they were at school. The father of the defendant lived in the same parish, and witness became acquaints ei with the defendant, and they were upon intimate and affectionate terms in 1843. He addressed her as an hornaurable suitor, and visited her at her father's house in that capacity, and she also went to see him at his father's and was received on the same footing. Before the month of March, 1613, he had promised to marry her, and told her that if he did not do so he wished he might never prosper. In the course of-that month she had been out on her pony for a ride, and when she returned she was g oing to turn it nut, as usual, into the m eadow, when the defendant came upon her unawares, and tee Jk her by force into a shed that was close by, and there, in spite of her resistance, accomplished his purpose. Their intimacy continued after this until the month of September, 1844, when 'she gave birth to a child. She had repeatedly asked the defendant whether he intended to marry her, and he always told her that he did, and repeated the ob servation that he belled he might never prosper if he did not. After the child was born the defendant offered to allow her ss. a week for its support. In cross-examination,. the witness said that her own mo- ther died in 1832, and her father married again in 1840, and she was questioned at considerable length with regard to the conduct of her fat'aer, and she admitted that a woman named Sharpe was supposed to have had an illegitimate child by him, and that her mother-in-law complained very much of his conduct in this respect, and had reproached him with al lowing his illegitimate children to be brought to the house where his wife and grown-up daughters resided, and that she eventually left his roof in consequence of his proceedings with regard not only to this woman, but to two others named Plum and Mouse. The witness was then questioned with regard to her own conduct, and she denied positively having had any intimacy with other young men. She admitted that she had occasionally ridden en her pony over to the house of the defendant's father, unaccompanied by any person, and without a groom. Mr. JaarEs remarked, that it was not very likely that a farmer's daughter would have a groom to attend upon her. The cross-examination was then continued at considerable length, but nothing material was elicited tending to shake the testimony given by the witness. Re-examined—Witness denied positively having been to meet any young men at the village of Clare, or that she had ever been in Whitehouse-wood with the defendant. Her father and her stepmother lived unhappily, and the defendant was aware of the fact. Mr. P. Viall deposed that he knew the defendant, and saw him at Sudbury, when he told him that he had settled the business between Miss Ewer and himself. He afterwards told him that he had promised her marriage, and that he would serve her sister Helen or any other young lady in the same way, unless he intended to makeher his wife. He said that he had promised to marry her, but that she could not do anything in it because she had not got any "black and white" to show for it. Cross-examined—A good many people were present when the defendant said this, and they cried " Shame!" Mr. John Barley deposed that he was acquainted with the plaintiff and his family. He was a retired farmer, and his daughter kept his house for him. He never saw anything improper in the conduct of his daughter, and she always ap peared to be a virtuous, well-conducted girl. After she had been delivered of the child the defendant called upon him and said that he wanted to make some settlement about the " Fox Earth affair." Witness told him he should be very glad to communicate any proposition he might make to Mr. Ewer, and the defendant then said that he would settle the interest of 2004 upon the child, and that 1001. of the principal should he ap plied to educate it, and the remainder to put it apprentice; but he added " he would not give a farthing to the girl." Cross-examined—Witness was not aware that the defendant had not got a shilling of his own, or that the offer was made on behalf of his father. The defendant, he believed, was not more than 21 or 22 years old. Before witness left him he said that he would rot in gaol if his offer was not accepted; and he likewise said that his father would settle his property in such a way as that no one should touch it. Re-examined—The defendant is the eldest son, and his father is consiOered a man of good property. George Kidd, a tradesman, residing in the village of Fox Earth, deposed that after the action had been brought, the defendant called upon him, and said he wanted him to give him some information, and when he asked him on what subject, he said " About Miss Ewer." Witness told him that he knew nothing disrespectful of her, upon which the defendant asked him " Whether he had not seen a man in her bedroom," and said that if he would give him information about her, he would lose nothing by it. Witness told him he had never seen any improver conduct on her part, to which he replied, " You are a-- liar." He then said that he would give anything in reason if he could obtain any information ; and witness told him that rather than forswear himself he would cut his throat from ear to ear. Mr. Bates, the surgeon who attended the plaintiff's daughter in her accouchement, proved that fact, and also said that he had never heard anything against the character of the young lady. Mr. CuAturEas said this was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant SHEE then addressed the jury for the defen dant, and commenced by saying that he admitted there were very few cases which involved more important questions as re garded morality than those of this description ; but at the same time they varied most materially in their circumstances. Irf the case where the father was the husband of a virtuous woman, where he had trained up his family virtuously and religiously, and where a daughter who had just arrived at the period of virtuous womanhood fell a victim in an unkuarded moment to the arts of a seducer, he would admit did it was impossible to feel too much sympathy in such a casO, or that any amount of damages given by a jury could be tooreat for one party to pay or the other to receive. He should, however, put it to the jury whether this was a case of that description, and whether it was one in which the plaintiff ought to receive any serious amount of damages. He would admit that legally the plaintiff had made out his right to a verdict, and the question for the jury was to say, taking into consideration his own con duct in the transaction, what amount of damages he wasentitled to. He begged the jury to remember that this action was brought by the plaintiff, and that his daughter had no interest in, and would not receive the least benefit from, any amount of damages they might think proper to award him. And he would now ask them what appeared to have been the conduct of the father in this case? Instead of bringing up his daughter, a young woman of considereble personal attrac tions, and therefore necessarily exposed to great danger and temptation, in a course of virtue and religion, he appeared never to have taken the least care of her, and instead of warding off from her that worst of all possible evils, a bad example, his own conduct appeared to have been the worst that could be possibly imagined. He appeared to have carried on an intercourse with women, one or two of whom appeared to have had illegiti mate children ; that he introduced these women and children ' under his own roof, to his own children, and that his own wife was at length compelled to leave him in consequence. Tide was the conduct of the ma's who now came forward to seek ' foe damages for that of which, he contended, he was himself the sole cause, and who, instead of endeavouring to protect the virtue and innocence of his child, had really been the occasion of h. r destruction by his baneful example. After some further observations up ei the conduct of the plaintiff the Learned Counsel called upon the jury to dismiss such a case with the ignominy it deserve t, and he concluded by expressing an opinion, that if the jury were to give heavy damages under such circumstances, it would not only tend not to advance morality, but that it would hold out a positive prize to un principled persons to neglect the education of their children and to make a market of them. Mr. Juitiee CoLERIDGE having summed up, The jury, after deliberating about ten minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 510/. lIIIDIJLESBX SESSIONS. (YESTERDAY.) (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judg e, and a Bench of Magistrates.) Janet Smith was indicted for having fraudulently obtained the sum of 10?.. 6d., the moneys of Geo. Storehouse Griffiths. 111 r. Wilde conducted the case for the prosecution, which was at the instance of the Mendicity Society. It appeared from the testimony of Mrs. Griffiths, who stated her place of residence to be No. 4, Burton-crescent, that on the 23d ult. the defendant had come to her house about eleven o'clock in the morning, when she told her that her father had called on Mr. Griffiths, at his office, on the preceding Satur day, and that he was known to that gentleman, whilst she her self had been known to Mrs. Griffiths at the time she was in the service of Sir Charles Forbes in Fitzroy-square. At that period Mrs. Griffiths also lived in that square. The de fendant then proceeded to say that her father was in ex pectation of receiving pecuniary assistance from Mr. Grif fiths, and that he was at that moment ill in bed, and, of course, was unable to call upon him ; that he was in arrear at his club, of which he had been a member and subscriber for several years ; and that if those arrears were not paid by a given time, he would be a loser of any benefit from that society. Having concluded this story, she then requested the loan of 10s. 6d. to enable her father to pay up these arrears. Mrs. Griffiths thereupon inquired how it was that she had not made an application to Sir Charles Forbes, when the girl re plied that her late master was from home, and was at Kensing ton, on a visit to his son, and that if Mrs. Grif fi ths would have the kindness to make the advance, the sum should be repaid out of some money she had to receive shortly from the club, after the payment of the arrears, on her father's account. This promise, however, was not performed, but the defendant came again and applied for another loan. Mrs. Griffiths upon this gave a sovereign to her servant, desiring that she should accom pany the girl to the club, and then, if upon inquiry she found her tale to be true, to give her the money. The inquiry, how wcer, led to the discovery that the whole of the statement was fabricated, and therefore the sovereign was handed back to Mrs. Griffiths. The officer of the Mendicity Society said that he had known the defendant for some time as a begging impostor, and further more that he had had her in custody on a previous occasion. The jury found the defendant Guilty. The Learned JUDGE then sentenced the defendant to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. The other cases which were disposed of were destitute of any feature of public interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. FRAUD ON A GAS Comvatev•--Mrs. Mann, landlady of a public-house in Dean-street, Soho, and William Newman, a gas fitter, were summoned, the latter for laying a pipe into the house and premises of the former defendant, which com municated with the pipe belonging to the Equitable Gas Com pany, without their knowledge or consent, and which continued so to remain for forty-one days, which subjected them, unt:er the sth Vic., sess. 2, chap. 36 (local), sec. 162, to 40s. for each day. Mr. Humphries appeared on behalf of the complainants, and Mr. Child for the female defendant. Mr. Humphries said that in the month of February last the female defendant contracted with the company, after which a meter was placed upon her premises, with a quantity of burners, according to the plan produced, from which it ap peared that the gas was supplied from the main pipe in the street, communicating with the meter in the house, through other pipes. There was another pipe marked 'red in the place, running from the legitimate pipe, which was surreptitious, and which formed the subject of complaint. On the 3d of May, something occurred in the house adjoining the defendant's house, which caused a man to be sent by the Company to take an account from the index, and having shut up the pipe, he found that the gas still passed to the meter, which he communicated to the Company, in consequence of which the house was watched, and it was then discovered that from the day in question, till the lfth of June, lights were in full play to the number of eighteen. The female defendant being apprised of the circumstance, she immediately went to the other defendant, who applied to another company, who ordered persons to attend on her for the purpose of taking her orders ; but, being put in possession of the fact, they declined to take any such order. It was manifest that the surreptitious pipes had existed about forty-one days, the penalty for which would amount to SM., although the object of the Com pany was not severity, but that the public should knew that the parties committing such acts rendered themselves liable to severe punishment. Mr. Child said he was instructed to plead guilty on the part of his client, and he hosed the Court would be lenient, as the male defendant had acted without her knowledge, and, although the burners were increased, there was no increase of gas consumed. The defendant was then ordered to pay a mitigated penalty of 201., with costs. The defendant Newman was then charged with the offence above-mentioned, to which he pleaded not guilty. The several officers connected with the company having proved the case, the defendant was also convicted in a penalty of 20/., with costs. The defendant said . he had not sufficient goods to distrain upon ; and after being detained in custody for some time, he was ordered to attend on a future day to have the distress war rant made out against him, unless he was prepared to pay the amount in the mean time. SOUTHWARK. DESPERATE ATTEMPTS AT SUlClDE.—Yesterday, Mrs. Eliza Roberts, the wife of Mr. Henry Boyden Roberts, atsoo licitor, was charged before Mr. Cottingham w ith making w very determined attempts upon her life by poison and strangula tion on the preceding day. Mr. Sidney Price, of 37, Union-street, Friar-street, Black friars-road, stated that the defendant, Mrs. Roberts, had been lodging in his house for the last three months, and with her child occupied one room on the second floor. For some days past he and his wife observed that the defendant exhibited con siderable depression of spirits, and on the preceding day she spoke of her husband, from whom she was separated, and said that he had degraded her by givingher into custody and sending her to the station-house, and aided that being tired of her ex istence she had resolved to terminate her earthly career, but did not express by what means. The witness perceiving that she looked ill, and suspecting that she had taken something of a de leterious nature, examined her room and found an empty phial with the word " poison" written on a label. He questioned her on the subject, but as she manifested no disposition to give any information, he immediately sent for a medical man, and an emetic and other means having been resorted to she reco vered after a short time ; but being in a very weakly condition she was ordered to lie down and be kept quiet. The defendant was then placed in bed, and in a few hours afterwards when witness's wife went up to her room `to take her some gruel she found the door locked. She knocked repeatedly, but without effect ; when witness, being apprised of the circumstance, went up himself and broke open the door. On entering the room he found Mrs. Roberts lying apparently lifeless on the bed with a silk scarf twisted tightly round her neck, her face distorted, and all the indications of strangulation perceptible. The liga ture having been removed, and restoratives having been admi nistered, she recovered, and as she subsequently expressed a determination to destroy herself, the witness and his wife had her brought up to this Court that steps might be adopted to prevent a recurrence of the attempt upon her life. Mr. COTTINGHAM inquired the cause of the defendant hav ing made this rash attempt to destroy herself, and whether her husband was apprised of the circumstances of her narrow escape from death ? The witness, in reply, said that the defendant's husband was a solicitor, residing in Church-street, Trinity-square—that a separation had taken place between them about four years ago, owing to her having an illicit intercourse with a Life Guards man—that Mr. Roberts subsequently brought an action for crim. con. against the soldier, the issue was tried before the Sheriff, when the defendant allowed judgment to go by default, and the damages were assessed at 5001. Since that occurrence Mr. Roberts and his wife had been living apart, and as he sub scribed nothing to her support, she was reduced from a state of comparative affluence to great indigence, and it was the pressure of want, he ( witness) had every reason to believe, was the cause of her having made the attempts upon her exist ence. He added that he had forgotten to mention in the early part of his statement that Mrs. Roberts, on finding she was foiled in her attempts to destroy herself, had refused all sus tenance, declaring that she would starve herself to death, so bent was she on self-destruction, and that she should lie down and die at her husband's door. Mr. COTTINGHAM inquired whether she had any relatives, and how she had been supporting herself since their separation? The witness said that her parents lived at Spalding, Lincoln shire—that they allowed their daughter a small pittance, merely sufficient to pay her lodgings, and that she contrived to eke out a miserable subsistence for herself and child by shirtmakive, for which she was paid at the rate of fourpence a piece. Mrs. Roberts, who appears to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, looked very ill, and wept during the investigation, said, in a tone scarcely audible, that being in great distress, together with her child, she went a few days ago to her husband's house, to solicit some pecuniary assistance; that he peremptorily refused to give her a farthing, and threatened to give her into custody if she came after him. illnding that he was resolute in his determination, and that everything conspired to make her miserable, she admitted that she left his house with the fixed purpose of destroying herself. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that it was a most deplorable affair altogether; that evidence having been given before him that he defendant had made two attempts upon her life, and also had expressed her determination to starve herself to death ; he was, therefore, called upon to place under restraint. This he would do by calling upon her to find bail, and in the interval he should communicate with her friends, and try if some ar rangement could not be made so as to relieve her and her child from the pressure of want. The worthy Magistrate then gave directions that the unfortunate woman should be taken to the county gaol, and that in her present lamentable condition attention might be paid to her consistently with the regula tions of the gaol. TIIA ME S POLICE. SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT STILL.—CONVICTION OF THE PRISONERS. —Yesterday Edward Dicken, John Jones, John Watson, and Thomas Welsh, were charged before Mr, Bal lantine with being in an unentered place, where a private still was at work, for the manufacture of spirits. An account of the seizure of the still and apparatus, and the capture of the prisoners, was inserted in The Sun of yesterday. The evidence of the revenue officers confirmed in every respect the particulars already published. The prisoners were called upon for their defence. They muttered a few words of no import, except Jones, who has not given his real name, and who added aloud, " I have nothing particular to say." Mr. BALLANTINE fined them 301. each, and, in default of payment, sentenced them to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. WANDS WORTH. CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A POLlCEMAN._Yesterday John Cox, police-constable 257 V division, was charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of Samuel Palmer, police sergeant 6 V division. Sarah Anne Palmer was the first witness. She said—l am the wife of Samuel Palmer, a police -sergeant, and live in the section-house at Priest-bridge, in the parish of Putney. The prisoner is a single man lodger in the same house. On Wed nesday evening police-constable Morgan M‘Mabon, 40 V, brought me a sovereign and 2s. 6d., my husband's money, and laid it on the mantel shelf of the back room on the first floor. .sifter he had left the room I went down stairs to see to the children, and saw the prisoner standing at the gate, who shortly afterwards went into the house, and up the stairs, as if he was going to Isis bedroom ; to do so he would have to pass the door of my room, which I had left open, therefore he could see the money as he passed. He was gone about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, and when he came hack he said to MP, " How much do I owe you ?" and I answered 2s. Bd. He then gave me 35., and 1 went upstairs to get change. When I missed the sovereign I suspected the prisoner had taken it, because no other person had been upstairs, and on my return I said to him " You have been playing- the a lark ; you have got my sovereign ; I don't like larks with money, and I won't have it." He said he knew nothing about it; I might search his box, and he also exclaimed, " So help me God, I've not got it." I afterwards inf orme d my h us b an d of what had taken place. Mr. PAYNTER asked the prisoner if he wished to put any questions to the witness ? The prisoner said he came home at half-past six, that he paid 11rs. Palmer what he owe.l, and was afterwards standing waiting for his change, when she accused him of taking sovereign, which he d en i e d h av i ng done a• having even been in the room. Police-constable Morgan M‘Mahon stated that about a quarter after ten o'clock on Wednesday night he was on duty on Putney-heath, when he met the prisoner, who asked him if he had got any beer. Witness said he had not ;he then said, About that sovereign, it's a strange thing where it is g ;ne," and witness said it was, and very unpleasant for all the men who lived in the house, and he asked the prisoner if he knew anything about it. The prisoner replied, "If you'll keep the secret, I'll tell you where it is, and give you half." Witness said he would, and the prisoner then told him that it was hid under some bricks near the privy. iVitness then lett the prisoner, and shortly afterwards meeting with his father, who is acting-sergeant, told him what the prisoner had said to him. The House then went into Committee on the above Bill. The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and the II ouse having resumed, the Chairman reported accordingly. The report was ordered to be received to-morrow. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. ROThWELL PRISON BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up, and ordered to be engrossed. BONDED CORN BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. On the first clause being put, Mr. M: GIBSON remarked that the object of the Bill. was to continue an Act which enabled the owners of foreign v, st ;sels to victual their ships out of bond, or free of duty, and as tho ex tension of railways was likely to diminish the coasting tr ade very seriously, he trusted Government would take into tl ieir consideration the propriety of extending the same privile i l e to coasting traders. The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and the Hl'ouse having resumed, the report was ordered to be brough -1 up t o-morrow. THE EXCISE DUTIES BILL (CHANNEL ISLAM' C , S.) The House then went into Committee upon this Bill. The clauses were gone through. The House resumed. and the report was ordered Ito be brought up to-morrow (this dap). The Unclaimed "tock and Dividends Bill was then r. sad a third time and passed. The Criminal Jurisdiction of Assistant Barristers Bill (Ire• land) was read a third time and passed. The Bail in Error Bill was then read a third time. On the order of the day for the third reading of the Lc matic Asylum Bill, Sir R. FERGUSON objected to the mode of inspection , and suggeered that some improvement ought to be made in this particular. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. The report on the Drainage ( Ireland) Bill was brought up and received. TAXING MASTER COURT OF CHANCERY (IR E LAND) BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this B Sir R. FERGUSON suggested that the Bill should be • de ferred to give time for inquiry into its merits. Mr. T, B. C. SMITH slid that he had been requested. by the ft-la:tees in Ireland to introduce the Bill, for such wa s the accumulation of business it, the Court of Chancery there, that this I<ill was absolutely necessary to enable them to get throt igh it. He could not, therefore, think of deferring it until an other session. The Bill was then read a second time. The Masters and Workmen's Bill went through Committee- On the motion that the Merchant Seamen's Bill be re ad a third time, Sir C. NAPIF.R objected to the Bill, because he did not consider that it contained one single provison against the per nicious end nefarious practice of the crimps. The Ga llant Officer concluded by urging on the Gcvernment the prop. rsety of postponing the measure, Sir G. COCKBURN denied that the Bill was i neff i c i ent to prevent the iniquities of the crimps. It had be en i ntrod aced after mature deliberation, with the express purpose of re, goy ing them, but as the gallant officer appeared disposed to snl Acting-sergeant lU'Mahon stated that on the very spot mentioned by the prisoner he found the sovereign put under some bricks. Witness then went back for the prisoner, and told him, in the presence of the other constables, what he had said about the sovereign, and that it was found. He then plumply denied having said a word, but when he got to the station-house at Wandsworth he stated he took it out of a lark. In answer to a question from the Bench, Mrs. Palmer said that, in the first instance, she thought the prisoner to , * the sovereign out of a lark, but that by denying it he had after wards made up his mind to keep it. Mr. PAYNTER said the case must go for trial. A jury must decide whether the sovereign was taken in a lark or not. SHIPWRECK OF A DUTCH INDIA MAN. NINETEEN OF THE CREW STARVED TO DEATH, AND FOUR DROWNED. One of the most heartrending shipwrecks that has happened for some time was yesterday made known at Lloyd's, by the arrival of the ship Chance, Captain Roxby, from Sydney, in the London Docks, having on board a portion of the crew of a Dutch Indiaman, named the John Hendrick, H. W. Edkelen bury, master, which was totally lost on the rocks forming St. Paul's Island, on the morning of the 29th of May, while on her voyage from Amsterdam to Batavia. The manner in which the deplorable occurrence was discovered is remarkable. It appears that on the night of the 2d of Jana, the crew of the Chance were anxious to ascertain whether such rocks as were laid down in the chart forming St. Paul's Island, 45 miles north of the equator, and 29 degrees west, were really to be seen, as many doubts prevailed as to their existence. Captain Roxby informed them that if the same course they were then going was kept until the following morning, they would come in sight of the rocks. Accordingly at eight o'clock they descried them, and at half-past nine the Captain was much surprised by observing, through a glass, Dutch ensign flying from a spar on the island. It being sur mised that a vessel had been wrecked near the spot no time was lost in bearing up to the rocks, and on nearing them, several persons were noticed on them, evidently in an ex hausted state. The captain ordered the pinnace to proceed to their assistance. About twenty poor creatures were found lying about exhausted and apparently in a dying condition. The boat not being able to take them all off, the captain, the chief officer, steward, carpenter, two seamen, and three ap prentice boys, were first rescued, the remainder being assured by the boat's party that they would return and preserve them also. The ship was speedily gained, and on the cap tain learning that eleven persons were still on the island, he promptly ordered the long boat to be lowered, and with the pinnace started for the rocks. Only twelve minutes elapsed ere they had set out a second time for the island, but in the meanwhile a sharp breeze had sprung up, a tremendous sea ran, and a trong current set in to the westward. Both boats kept beating about for five hours, and it appearing evident that if they kept out much later they would be swept away, they returned to the ship, having been unable to rended the promised assistance. It being probable that the gale might in some measure abate, Captain Roxby kept his ship beating about the island, as it was impossible to anchor, there being no soundings, for ten entire days ; and having seen nothing of the poor creatures, whe by that time must have perished from the intense heat, and the want of water and food, he sailed for England, his own provisions by this time becoming very short. On ques tioning tho-e whom he had saved, he learned that they belonged to the Indiaman in question : that on the morning of the 29th of May she was running under a press of sail, when at three o'clock the watch on deck discovered the rocks ahead so close as made it impossible to clear them. The helm was instantly brought to, but also at the same moment she strul, and the succeeding wave pitched her on her beam ends. Every endea vour was instantly made to get her off; her rigging and masts were cut away in order to lighten her, but as the sea kept dash ing her against the rocks with terrific force, she soon broke up. The captain succeeded in reaching the rocks with a line, and se cured it round one of the loftiest cliffs, in effecting which he was no less than seven times swept down the rock, frightfully lacerat ing his body. The line beine also made fast to the wreck, most part of the crew contrived to ° haul themselves on to the island by it. Four brave fellows attempted to land in a boat with the ship's papers and some provisions, but on nearing the breakers, a heavy sea capsized her, and they all perished. A poor boy, who has been saved, had his arm broken by being dashed against the rocks. On assembling on the frightful spot which they had been cast upon, which presented not the remotest chance of escape, starvation stared them in the face. Of wearing apparel they h d saved none, save the few drenched rags that coveted them ; and of food, the only thing they could rescue from the wreck were a cask of butter, a cask of flour, a small biscuit, and a small keg of gin. Immediately under the line, a burning sun pouring upon them, and not having a drop of water to quench their thirst, the heat was intense, and which they could only allay by wading into the sea up to the chin, and thus remain the whole day. At night time the spirit was dis tributed amongst them. The single biscuit was broken up and diviled equally, and then they commenced scouring the rocks in the hope of finding further food. They succeeded in get ting a few wild fowls and eggs; they were almost driven to madness. At dusk a few drops of rain were felt de scending; they instantly laid out a kind of sail to catch it, and held their heads up to the heavens with their mouths open. 't soon, however, passed over. On the third day, to their grew joy, a vessel bearing American colours hove in sight in the offing. They hoisted the signal on the spar, and in order to make doubly sure, the mate, seven seamen, and a pa.senger put off in the only boat they had been enabled to save, with a small piece of wood to dabble slong, the oars being lost, to the ap proaching ship, but she passed onwards and was not seen arter wards. The poor creatures in the boat then strove to regain the island ; the current was too strong for them, and they were speedily lost sight of. That they have perished there can be no doubt. They had not the slightest provision with them—no compass, and no oars, the nearest place being Cape Roque, more than 600 miles distant. The sufferings of those left oti the rocks, on perceiving the fate of those in the beat, were ten fold; and on the fourth day they gave themselves up to death. They were rapidly sinking from the effects of the heat, the skin on their face, hands, &c., actually peeling off. On the morning of the fifth day the Chance hove in sight, and as before noticed, saved seven. Eleven, amongst whom was the doctor, were left on the island. On the arrival of the poor fellows yesterday, they waited upon the Netherlands Consul, who, having relieved their destitute condition, housed them at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern, Lower Thames-street, and they will proceed to their native country to-morrow morn ing by the Rotterdam mail steamer. The ill-fated Indiaman belonged to Rotterdam, was 800 tons burden, and had only been built about two months previous to her loss. To Captain Roxby the highest commendation is due for the humane and prompt steps he adopted to rescue the unfortunate persons on the island. Those who are indebted to him for the preserva tion of their lives, declare that nothing could exceed his en deavours to re-make the island. Night and clay he was on deck attempting it. Of the fate of the 11 poor creatures left on the rocks, it is the opinion of Captain . Roxby, as also the Dutch captain, that they must have perished in a day or two after wards; for had they been rescued by any other vessel, she must have heen fallen in with by the Chance. The rocks being situated some hundreds of miles out of the track of vessels trading to the Cape, perhaps scarcely two out of 1,000 ever meet with them. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Tudor, Say, from Bengal, off Portsmouth, sailed March 14, Cape, May 20 ; Jessie Miller, Crowder, from Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed Feb. 12, St. Helena, May 14. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Christian the Eighth, May 7, from China and Batavia, and sailed 9th to Hamburgh ; Catherine, Brown, from Pernambuco ; Admiral Moorsom, M'Knight, May 8, from Singapore, and sailed 13th to London ; Anna Robertson, Munro, from London, and sailed 18th to Madras; Elvira, Green, 9th, from Boston; William and James, Brown, 10th. from Liverpool ; Active, Bruce, Ilth, from Lambert's Bay, and sailed 14th to Saldanba Bay ; Pomona, Tomkins, 12th, from Ichaboe ' • Margaret, Wishart, 12th, from Elephant's Bay, and to sail 20th for Lambert's Bay; Bland, Miller, 14th, from Ichaboe ; Courier, Whitley, from London ; Isaac, 15th, from -zaldanha Bay ; Alarm, from Cork, and sailed 18th to Saldanha Bay; Highlander, 16th, from Ichaboe ; John Bartlett, previous to Bth, from Mauritius, and to sail 20th for London; Gouville, 18th, from Bahia ; Alice Brown, Palmer, put back ; Supply, 19th. from Aberdeen ; Richard, from Liverpool. Departures from Table Bay—Columbine, Agenoria, Narova, Blair, Eliza Hall. May 10 ; Merchant, 11th ; La Belle Bar baree, 13th ; Margaret, 15th ; Curlew, 16th ; all to Saldanha Bay. Ward, Chipman, 10th, to Tulse Bay; Olivia, llth, to London ; British Settler, to Algoa Bay; Montgomery, 13th, to Zanzibar; Alice Brown, 14th, to London ; Sarah Char lotte, to Simon's Bay; Gaspard Monges, 4th, to Nantes ; John Grey, sth, to Saldanha Bay ; Barrys, to Port Beaufort ; Luna, 7th, to Cork. Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Her Majesty's steamer Thunder bolt, May 6, from Simon's Bay, and sailed, 7th, to Mauritius ; Peruvian, 7th, Camden, Bth, from Table Bay. Arrival in Simon's Bay—Her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, May 11, from the Mozambique Channel. Departure from Simon's Bay—Samuel Boddington, May I4th, to London. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. At a Court of Common Council held yesterday it was deter mined that the silver cup voted to Sir R. Sale should be sent to India to that Gallant Officer, and that the silver cup voted to Sir W. Nott should be presented to his widow. Sir HENRY POTTINGER was then introduced to the Court, and was presented with the freedom of the City in a gold box. The Gallant Officer having acknowledged the compliment in appropriate terms, withdrew amidst loud cheering. The sum of 500/. was then voted to the sufferers by the re cent conflagration at Quebec, after which the Court brake up. WILD NUTMEGS.—An importation has recently taken place of wild nutmegs, divested of the shell, in an Ame. rican vessel from New York. The tariff contains two distinct rates of duty for the article, viz., " Nutmegs from foreign conn. tries and British possessions respectively, 3s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per 1b.," and " wild nutmegs in the shell," 3d. per lb. ; and as these were, although wild, and evidently inferior to those usually im. ported, not, according to the Act of Parliament, actually in the shell, they were detained for the higher rate of duty. Application was subsequently made to the Customs Board for their delivery at the lower rate, and permission has been given for the nutmegs in question, being of a very inferior description, although not actually in the shell, as required by law, to be admitted as " wild nutmegs" at the duty of 3d. per lb. Since the above privilege was allowed, another party has made a similar application with respect to a parcel of the same sort of article in bond, which being precisely similar to those previously admitted at thelow duty, has also been granted on the same conditions. This is of considerable im portance, as there is a marked difference in the rates of duty on the article. B ku, IN Ertl:Oß.—A Bill has been brought from the House of Lords intituled " An Act to Stay Execution of Judgment for Misdemeanours upon Elvin?, Bail in Error." It con tains but seven clauses. The first enacts that in every case of judgment given after the passing of the Act for a misdemeanor, where the defendant or defendants shall have obtained a writ of error to reverse such judgment, execution thereupon shall be stayed until such writ of error shall be finally determined, and in case the defendants shall be imprisoned under such execution, or any flee shall have been levied, either wholly or partly, in pursu ance of such judgment, the said defendants shall be entitled to be discharged from durance, and to receive back any money levied on account of such fine from the person in whose possession it shall be, until such final determination ; provided always, that no execution upon any such judgment shall he stayed, unless, and until the defendants shall become bound by recognizance, to be acknowledged before one of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, with two sufficient sureties to he approved of by such judge, in such sum as such judge shall direct to prosecute the writ of error with effect; and in case the judgment shall be affirmed, forthwith to render the said defendants to prison, according to the said judgment, where imprisonment shall have been adjudged. The time of imprison ment is to be reckoned to begin from the day when the defendants shall be in actual custody under such judgment ; and if the defend ants shall have been discharged from imprisonment, such de fendants shall be liable to be imprisoned for such further period as, with the time during which they may already have been im prisoned under such execution, shall be equal to the period from which such defendants were so adjudged to be imprisoned. The writ of error may be quashed in.the case of delay or neglect to prosecute it. The Act is not to extend to Scotland. LABouß.—Not less ' han 150 nhle b 'de-Amen have gone from the neighbourhood of St. Helen's, in this county, to work on the French Railways, and from the scarcity of hands in the farming districts of Lancashire, wages are rising. From 13s. to 14s. a week, with additional pay in hay and corn harvest, is now generally given to farm labmers in this county.—Liverpool Paper. HAMBURGI4 and FLANDERS MAIL' Pousn FaorcriEns, JUNE 22.—1 t is certain that an satire °lle spondence has lately taken place between Berlin and St. Peterso; burgh, in which language is said to have been use d on the part Aft e et Prussia which was hardly expected at St Petersburgb various replies expressed in the same spirit, the Emp eror has ind ordered an investigation into several causes of c om p laint, but the alienation between the two Courts remains. This will account for the two Sovereigns not having a personal interview during th e la .. te . visit of the Emperor to Warsaw, contrary to their custom on fortaw• occasions. HANOVER, JULY 9.—The wool fair held here at the beginnia of this week was not of much importance, especial l y in coral:aril with the Lite fair at Heldesheim. There was not so much a ant of buyers as of wool. What there was for sal e sold speed!:) and at good prices. The demand for wool is so great that the t landowners have ample opportunity to sell their stock direc fr ° their estates, so that little remains for the market. Last Week a° English house of Belfast purchased at ilelzenhen flax t° . amount of 80,000 rix dollars for ready money, which has caused rise in the price of flax. We find fro an ocial statent just üblish, t h a t the Va lue . of Hanoverian l m en ins e ffi em xported in 1845 wa p s 1,247,ed284 rix deal, HANOVER, JULY 12.—The King is gone this mo rning to denburg. COPENHAGEN, JULY 11.—The Berlin Gazette announced Yescteera; " day that the King had taken cold, and could not lea vo the Paht.,,ii v Amalienburg, but to day it states that his Majesty had had a good night, and i much better. d BERLIN, JULY s 13.—His Majesty has been graciously please __ grant to Count Van Arnim, Minister of the Interior, the which he has solicited from his office but he remains member °l.t ,.e d en — Council of State in consequence of his Majesty's especial con oils in him. The functions of Minister of the Interior will be elrer c. ad interim b , y the Cabinet Minister, V. Bodelschwingh . • HAIII3 ORM!, JULY 14.—Accounts that may be depended on t r e no means confirm the statement published by the Waer 005e b t o that Baron Von Bulow had asked and obtained leave to resig n b i o high office. He is gone for a time to a watering-place, and during . 0, absence General V. Canitz acts in the department of Foreign Alf° —Hamburgh papers, July 15. th e BRUSSELS, JULY 15,—The Moniteur ige publishes a law ° 9th of July, by which there is to be al ine of steamers betive%. Belgium and England, for the conveyance of passengers and 0 : 8 , 1 0 , dischaire For this purpose a credit of a million of fracns was given to " by vernment for the purchase of three steamers, to be provided for an issue of Treasury bonds. ° MISERIES OF A REPORTER.—On Wednesday Plobero noon, a portrait painter, answering to the name o f p r od. Green Day, was brought up at the Court-house o f „or , ford, charged with committing an assault on Mr. '"esred sett, the reporter for the Bradford Observer. It a P P 4 06 that Day had figured in a case of some suspicion a: v d, from the death of a young female with whom he was acqu' in u ot, and Mr. Somersett had reported the proceedi l m ngs at the iog,,y, for which he had been subjected to perpetual annoyan ce b ate , who had already been bound to keep the peace. Th e inagistrooll on the assault being proved, fined Day in the la r g est atn allowed by law, viz., 51.—Ha1Vat Guardian. . r , ui a [ADvERTISEMENT.]—The Atrapilatory, or .1.41'.1 Hair Dye, the only dye that really answers for all col°oll It and does not require redoing, but as the hair growl' tint never fades or acquires that unnatural red or purl:" the vit as in' to all other dyes. Boss and Sons can , 4reatest confidence, recommend the above dy e or fallible, if &me at their establishment ; and ladie s l o Ci gentlemen requiring it, are requested to bring $ Nlll or servant with them to see how it is used; which eo f enable them to do it afterwards without the cha vc , Failure. Several private apartments devoted entirel9 to „ . 0 the above purpose, end some of their establislon'es, having used it, the effect produced can be at once s.ectif They think it necessary to add, that byattending Strior to the instructions given with each bottle of dye, a u id roux persons have succeeded equally well w ithout c 013 3 0. to them. Address Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bisbn:rs, gate-street, the celebrated Perruquiers, ren ur l,lo l Hair-cutters, and Hair-dyers. N.B. Parties at tevue their own residences, whatever the distance. CAtrrroN.—Royal patronage and g eneral °Pivot has well rewarded the efforts made to introduce Llarna „ o va into this country, the sole manufacturing of the same, as 9 ' in the Registered Paletot, being restricted to the exclusife of Messrs. Nicoll, who are protected under the new Ac t. , I ,, t9 ,ree i mirable qualities are enhanced by its being welladapte d :,,,e . the sudden changes of the climate of this country as tha t ":00, iial article of dress, a coat—light in weight, dark in c0 1 ° 9 '491 1 yet equally applicable over another in bai weather, as d i thi in the fair or sunny days. The great success attending s to sale of the Registered Paletot, has induced many Pe r ,r„%til attempt to foist upon the public a bad imitation, which, 11 time corrected, would injure the Llama Wool as an a rt ,T A commerce, its reputation now being steadily establisheu,g's of caution to the public is perhaps unnecessary that only O r : o ts , the first respectability have been appointed country ag e'pt! But unprincipled persons unlawfully attempting to jag° o els hereby warned that they are subject to a heavy penalty n n . 111 6 offence, which, after this date, will be enforced according it J. provisions of 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65.—Signed July 1 0, and D. ADVERT Nicoll, 116, Regent-street, London. ISEMENT.—CURE OF A CASE OF ---- 0 : TION, WITH CONSTIPATED BOWELS, BY VOLyOW OreE PlLLs.—Extract of a letter from G. Baxter, Esq., 9.l.lth plecc' " The Book of the Bastiles," &c., dated " The Bryn°' 1151' town, Montgomeryshire, March 13, 1845. To Professor fei lo way. 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A i , of On the 24th ult., at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the le-d Woodgate, Esq., of a son. the i$ On the 12th inst., at Pavement, Finsbury-squar e, 0, of Thomas Pryer, Esq., of a daughter. i td-r 3 f l 0 1 On the 14th inst., at Oliver's-terrace West, Mrs. J. Green, of twins, which survived their birth hours only. f set On the 15th inst., Mrs. Burton Ravenscroft , ,r street, Lincoln's Inn, of a son. fig 1# On the 15th inst., at Beomond, Chertsey, tha Wir e `; el man Uniacke, jun., Esq., of Mount Uniacke, Cor r daughter. „ n , of ° On the 15th inst., the lady of Captain J. G. W' s "„ ford-terrace, late of the 6th Royal Regiment, of • .MA the I ft` 0 5 On the 11th at Fr:a/oft-on-the-Maine, at t W. W. Bolton, Chaplain to her Majesty's Legati°, ll out place, James Ward Hoby, Esq., to Louisa Sarah, orltY Mile-en ter of the Rev. Joshua Ru sell, of Blackheath. hill. , ons tal On the 20th ult., at Celle, in Germany, HenrY vet & t ag Esq., merchant, Glasgow, to Wilhelmina Ida, Lieutenant-Colonel Meyer. the On the 11th inst., at St. Saviour's Church, JerseY' t clk,t l Samuel Hope Unwin, M.A., to Sarah Jane, youll, l , Rs ter of the late Charles Bean, Esq., of Bingham-v1"-' ( s j or mond, Surrey.On the 15th inst., at Wraxall, the Rev. J. D. ife le diori c , 471 bent of St. John's Church, Richmond, Sur] ey, to J1,3 4.' Ann, second daughter of the late Thomas Kingtoo , li Charlton Mouse, Somerset. the On the 15th inst., at St. Peter's, Hammersmith, lo th J. Clement Saunders, minister of Christ Church,loll hithe, and lecturer of St. John's, Southwark, to J'Norfer.), daughter of the late James Pisan, Esq., of Thetfo ro, ,;„ of On the 15th inst.., at Bath, Philip, th e younges t 5 ,‘iii2 ,11) ,Y . ) ' good Hanbury, Esq., Holtield-grange, Essex, t° • Christina, the eldest daughter of the late 1 30°- 1 41 d'Escury, of Cape-town, Cape of Good r ") On the 15th hist., William Sikes, the only c hild Q' Gl' Churchill, jun., Esq., of Devonshire-road, Balliani r ;, rre ,f ) On the 12th of March, Henry Mark MastermanllloC ° 1 4 t' s ' On the 11th inst., Margaret, daughter 0f.A.. 11 • p t , ;; of Ilighgate. ht On the 12th inst., at Swaffham, Norfolk, ne, dl i g a nly the late Rev. A. Edwards, Rector of Great Creoig pf that county. f Gr os Ve° On the 14th inst., at Brighton, Miss Miller, 0 . - of 1 street West, Eaton-square. On the 14th inst., at Downshire.hill, ss4'' Ann Becitingham, the wife of Richard Hodgson, Upper Norton street, Portland-place. , /: 115 !yv MURDO - "10.- 7 s ta g 0111,0,c00.10 • --- e . C °l Straro - , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tii Middlesex, Friday, July 18, 1845. uart A the ITh ta x; 4 tiar shi ee cream cret a after roan . that I te. to Ge (14 n e (tty , ',; trtt 1 4 7, to F,„T