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. • THE SUN, LONDON , THE LONDON GAZETTE, July 22. bags Trinidad were sold, mid grey at 38a to 395, and red , MRS. SINCLAIR'S MATINEE MUSICALE, at 433 to 44s per cwt. The value of Grenada is from NEW BEETHOVEN ROOMS. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JULY 17, 1851. 33s to 40s per cwt. Foreign continues to meet with It must hare been exceedingly gratifying to the above • The Queen was this day pleased to confer the little be ttleattention moderate, as prices rule; Bahia and Para mentioned lady to have witnessed the troops of friends who h o nour of knighthood upon Robert Walter Carden, can obtained at 26s to 27s and Guayaquil at 29s to on Monday rallied round her on the occasion of her concert. Esq., Sheriff of the city of London and county of Mid -305 per cwt. Her well-known talents as a delightful exponent of Scottish dlesex. COFFEE. —This afternoons The Queen was this day pl e ased to confer the honour for Plantation good demand prevailed song, and Miss Sinclair's great reputation as a fi n i s h e d Ceylon Coffee, but shippers were again pianist, would of themselves have been quite sufficient to of knighthood upon George Edmund Hodgkinson, Esq., the chief operators ; at public sale 356 casks and 150 attract a numerous audience, but with the names of Misses Sheriff of the city of London and county of Middlesex . 3sano and Ransford, Messrs . M Kenzie, Hausmann, and FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 21. , bags were sold at full rates; sorts under the denomina- , tion of low mid, however, went rather cheaper, good to Jules Stockhausen in the programme, no one could anticipate The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George fine sold at 555 to 665, mid and good 51s to 545, low mid other than a musical treat of the highest order. And such Wortmann as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the The tasteful manner in which Mrs. Sinclair warbled 48s to 50s, other sorts 42s to 475, and low 40s to 41e. In the melodies of Scotland cannot be too highly praised ; Bing of Bavaria. DOWNING-STRE ET, JULY 22. Native Ceylon there is still little doing, yet good ord is and the same remark may apply to her daughter's brilliant not offered under 37s 6d. Mocha continues to be wanted. execution of a fantas i a on the piano. Songs by Misses Bassano Q for the appointment of Major-General George Bowles, TEA,—The demand has diminished for ordinary and and Ransford, and solos on the violin and violincello by Messrs. M , Kenzie and Hausmann, tended to pass a few - good common Congou for all purposes, and supply being late Master of her Maj est y 's Househould, and now Lieu tenant of her Majesty's Tower of London, to be an Or- more plentiful prices declined id to id per lb; sales hours awar l most a f greeably. The . laft-mentioned gentleman havin been made at 9 2 d to 10 diary Member of the Military Division of the Second g a id. In other is an exce ent performer on the violincello, and it would be • doing him an injustice were it not observed that he exerted Class or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable kinds operations have also been upon a limited himself to the utmost — straining every nerve in ' scale, and holders are disposed to sell medium Order of the Bath. ful efforts to please the most formidable phalanx of the WHITEHALL, JULY 19. to rather strong blackish leaf at lid to Is, good to fine fairest portion of creation it has ever been our good fortune e The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. is Old to is 7d. Oolong has been dealt in with caution to see collected under one roof. It has been rather unal- John Gibson to the church and parish of Kirkhope, in at is to is 7d, and there is a fair supply. For Green the lantly remarked, that ladies are hard to please, and if such g m arket has been in a dull state; large parcels hav e is reall y the case th e approving smiles which ever and anon t h e presbytery of Selkirk. been brought forward, and rather lower rates are g reeted the efforts of all the artists engaged must be con- Th e Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Adden taken for good and fine, but n o g eneral reduc- fidered . as a fair criterion of their abilities, and will no brooke, of Stourbridge, in the county of Worcester, tion is apparent for inferior. Scented and Pekoe doubt imbue them (at least the gentlemen) with feelings of Gant., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court the greatest self-satisfaction. of Chancery. sorts can be obtained upon rather lower terms, yet few buyers are to be met with. At pu blic sale --- CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 22. MOO° packages were offered, of which 4,400 Congou, ___ . ._ SEABORNE MAILS. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT 600 Souchong, 500 Oolong, 1,100 Scented Orange nig ht s byirheatgni that the mails are sent from the General PoSt-06104 PARLIAMENT. and M by the morning —dispatch.) Pekoe, 900 Scented Caper, 550 Hyson, 1,550 Young Borough of Scarborough—George Frederick Young, Hyson, 166 Imperial, and 1,330 Gunpowder; of the total [ When made up in From what ~., of Walthamstow, in the county of Essex, and Lime- PLACES. General Port-office port dis- ""v" house, in the coun t o f Middlesex , merchantandship - quantity 5,000 sold at and after the sales. y RICE.—To-day the private operations are trifling in owner, in the room of the Earl of Mulgrave, who has____--- East India Rice, and there are sellers at rather lower I accepted the office of Comptroller of her ' Majesty's rates. None was offered at auction. Of Sago Flour 250 er" (by Brit. pkt.)N July 25 .. .. Liverpeel .. July 27 Household. Am erica (by U.S. pkt.) It Aug. 5 .. .. Liverpool .. July 30 bgs went at 14s 6d to 15s per cwt. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 21. America (by U.S. pkt.) If July 30 .. .. Southampt. July 24 g ss —To-day at auction a sale of 8 brls and 166 Africa (west coast ).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Aug.; Corps of Royal E n gineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Thos. "' Pic • Ginger sold at 25s 6d bgs African_ to 265, and damaged Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. July 21 Blanchard to be Colonel, vice Thomson, deceased; Brevet 17s 6d to 21s 6d; these are lower rates. Of Nutmegs 4 Belgium N Dant' • • • . .. Dover .. Daily Major Henry Powell Wulff to be Lieutenant-Colonel Dutch Brasil .. . • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12 ' casks low lim ed were taken in at is 4d. [ vice Blanshard; Second Captain William George Ham- SPlRlTS.—Demerara Rum of all hinds is Buenos Ayres ••.. M 9th of the month Sonthampt. Ana. 19 offered itlif a e o o rr f lia(viaC i l l s o ag , r , es)ll -2' &I th 7 of month Southampt. Aug. 5 ley to be First Lieutenant, vice Wulff; First Lieutenant rather under previous rates , stil l li ,, l i s ti , i th i g h in a. ; t r of mo Plxuth.. Jul . Charles Sim to be Second Captain, vice Hamloy ; Second limited; 170 of operations have been c a F ia t an ti nop i e e . p ... puns goodquality sold D r .. July 30,1 I at 25 Id to 2s Central America .. M2d to 17th of Lieutenant Arthur a'Court Fisher to be First Lieutenant, 2d for 33 to 38 over, and mon. Southampt. Ang. 5 er, and small parcels of other sorts at Channel Isles .. .. X Mon., Wed & -., Fri. Sontkampt. Tu. Tk.B a vice Sim, July 14. is 9d to 2s for 30 to 32 Chill .. .. .. . M 17th of the month Southampt. Ang.s over proof. Although East WHITEHALL, JUNE 30. India can be o • btamed at is 3d to is 3ial proof, yet Gr France .. .. 31 &N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedafr , The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis, R u t., Lord operations have been * • °me* •• .. •• II 7thl7th27thefmo Dover .. July 30 4 trifling and supply larger. Hameareh • .. .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, Leeward Island has been operated in with caution Holland .. • • .. M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Meu.TkEr at Westminster, has appointed Richard Totter, of Lei- Honduras .. .. . N 17th of the raeath Southampt. Aug. 5 at Is 4COIs 5d and fi b t 1 sid t 1 6d A ne rown a s . o s . Ireland .. .. hi to N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead.. TvricAdally caster, in the county of Leicester, Gentleman, to be one of good demand ' still exists for fine Jamaica, for all par- India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month,Soutearapt. Aug. 23 the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgs g manta of deeds to be executed by married women, under pos 3 e B s, and the rates paid are from 3a 3d to 48 6d for 35 Mediterraneanllt(viamsrsetiles) N 7thic 24th efmonthiDover •• Ant 1 the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, toHft' per d cent over proof. In other sorts there is still seathamete ) (Ti . a . 3120th of the month Southampt. Aug. 23 and for the substitution of 1:1301"9 simple nodes of WU'. e°lag, and a desire is evinced to sell low to Mediterranean (via aim, in and for the county of Leicester. midd ling at 25 3d to 28 7d for 30 to 33 over proof, Marseilles) .. .. N 7th&24thofmonth Dover .. Aug. 1 WHITEUALL, JULY 16. good mid to good 2s ld to 35 2d for 34 over proof. Mexico .. .. .. M2d of the month.. Sonthampt. Aug. 5 The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Benson, of There are sellers of Cognac best brands of the vintage of Madeira • • .. .. II . 9 i t t tc=o a nt i h th Southampt. Aug. 12 co unty of Warwick, Gent., to be a 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 Malta ` .. lc f & 30th of month 2 Dover July 28 Birmingham, in the Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. ditto 48 lid to 5s Id, older 5s 4d to 5s 7d, low to mid Naples* .. •• .. N sth 15th25thofmo Dover .. July 22 BANKRUPTS. 3s 6d to 3a 6d, and Bordeaux at 2s 2d to 2s 3d per Papal States* .. •• li sth 15th25th efisto Dover .. July 22 .. .. .. M 7th 17th 27thof mo Southampt. Jul 2ff Sampson Cla•Y Beastall and William Mather, linen- gallon. For British made Spirit the market was inac- Peru .. .. .. .. II 17th of the month Southam p t . An Y. 5 Migh-street, Kensington, to surrender July 28 tire, still rates remain at 9s 5d to 9s 6d, and for Gin 2s Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th '4sth ofmo Dover .. Jul g y . 22 drapers, and Aug..2B, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit- 6d for shipping. Geneva at Is 7d to Is 9d. and fine la West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month Sonthanipt. Aug. 20 West Indies (except ffieiel assignee, Basinghall-street; Hardwick. 9d to 2s per gallon. - . ' ' _ _ THE LONDON GAZETTE, July 22. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JULY 17, 1851. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Robert Walter Carden, Esq., Sheriff of the city of London and county of Mid dlesex. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of kuighthood upon George Edmund Hodgkinson, Esq., Sheriff of the city of London and county of Middlesex. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 21. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Wortmann as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the Ring of Bavaria. DOWNING-STREET, JULY 22. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Major-General George Bowles, late Master of her Majesty's Househould, and now Lieu tenant of her Majesty's Tower of London, to be an Or diary Member of the Military Division of the Second Class or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. WHITEHALL, Jumr 19. The Queen has been pleased to present the 141% John Gibson to the church and parish of Kirkhope, in the presbytery of Selkirk. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Adden brooke, of Stourbridge, in the county of Worcester, Gant., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 22. SIEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Scarborough—George Frederick Young, of Walthamstow, in the county of Essex, and Lime house, in the county of Middlesex, merchant and ship owner, in the room of the Earl of Mulgrave, who has accepted the office of Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 21. Corps of Royal E n gineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Thos. Blanshard to be Colonel, vice Thomson, deceased; Brevet Major Henry Powell Wulff to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Blanshard; Second Captain William George Ham ley to be First Lieutenant, vice Wulff; First Lieutenant Charles Sim to be Second Captain, vice Hensley; Second Lieutenant Arthur a'Court Fisher to be First Lieutenant, vice Sim, July 14. WHITEHALL, JUNE 30. The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis, Rut., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, has appointed Richard Toiler, of Lei cester, in the county of Leicester, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledg ments of deeds to be executed by m arried women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of !Dore simple modes of assur ance, in and for the county of Leicester. WHITEHALL, JULY 16. The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Benson, of Birmingham, in the c ounty of Warwick, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Sampson Clay Beastall and William Mather, linen drapers,zigh-street, Kensington, to surrender July 28 an d Aug„- 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, offi c ial assignee, Basinghall-street; Hardwick, Davidson,andßradbury,Weaver's Hall,Basinghall-street. Samuel Dixon, draper, Leeds, Aug. 1, at half-past one, and. Sept. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basingball-street; Sole and Turner, Aldermanbury; Blackburn, Leeds. Adolf Heilbronn and John Harrison, drysalters, Great St. Helen's, City, Aug. 1 and 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street; Linklater, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house; Cox, Pinners' Hall, Old Broad-street. Joseph Royce, currier, Nottingham, Aug. 1, and Aug. 29, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Bewley, Not tingham; Hodgson, Birmingham. Joseph Mitchell, carpenter, Camden-street, Camden town, Aug 1, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchiu-lane, Cornhill; Turner, Charles-street, City road. Zachariah Warren, Ardleigh, Essex, miller, July 30, at twelve, and Sept. 3, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Wire and Childes Swithin's-lane; Barnes, Colchester. George Edwin Deeley, ironfounder, Brunswick-ter race, Trinity-street, Dover-road, July 30, and Sept. 3, at one, at the C sort of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Long, Gray's Inn-place. George Kempson, pork butcher, Clifton, Bedfordshire, Jed) , 30, at two, and Sept. 3, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Trin der and Eyre, John-strifief, - Bedffrd-row; Austin, Shef ford, Bedfordshire. Thomas Painter, builder, Okehampton, Devonshire, Abg. 6 and 26, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. 'Bezel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Fryer, St. Thomas's, near Exeter. Sydenham Vincent Burge, saddler, Taunton, Somer setshire, Aug. 6 and 26, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Woodland, jun., Taunton; Stogdon, Exeter. William Pashley and Francis Pashley, table knife manufacturers, Sheffield, Aug. 9 and 30, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Fernell, Sheffield. Wilfred Mooney and Thomas Wilson, corn merchants, Liverpool, July 31 and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Liver pool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Daly, Liverpool. Gordon John James Grant, tobacco broker, Liverpool, July 31 and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Wadeson and Co., London; Lace, Rigge, and Roscoe, Liverpool. Thomas Brown, ship owner, Sunderland, Durham, July 31, at one, and Aug. 26, at eleven, at the New castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official as signee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Moore, Sunderland; Crosby and Compton, Old Jewry. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Ed ward Scriven, coach lining scourer, Winchester-street, Camden-town. Robert Yorston, accountant, Clifford's Inn. John Tinker Tidd, secretary to the Islington Cattle Market Company, Market-terrace, Kingsland. Thomas Hughes, Bishopsgate-street Without. Henry L. Patterson, tailor, Ludgate-street, City. Henry Woolcott, fringe tassell manufacturer, New Oxford-street. Frederick Braithwaite, civil engineer, Gower-street. F. Teesdale, cattle dealer, Jockeys-fields, Middlesex. W. Russ, milkman, North -street, Manchester-square. Joseph Stammers, comedian, Church-street, Paddington. W. Jones, stationer, Harrison-street, Gray's Inn-road. George Brumby, assistant to a car proprietor, Liverpool. Thomas Barrett, ship smith, Bootle, near Liverpool. Arthur Belcher, cattle salesman, Liverpool. John Daggers, dealer in millinery, Preston, Lancashire. Charles Edwards, farmer, Tor, Devonshire. Joshua Harris, builder, Salford, Lancashire. James Nuttall, beerseller, Bury, Lancashire. James Poole, farmer, Tiverton, Devonshire. Horace Syder, builder, Liverpool. Jesse Torrey, tinman, Rowell, Northamptonshire. Thomas Wright, joiner, Salford, Lancashire. Matthew Wilkinson, shawl manufacturer, Laneshaw bridge, Lancashire. J. Spenceley, licensed victualler, Kingston-upon-Hull. W. H. Wild, grocer, Higher Ardwick, Manchester. Thomas Windlow, cabinet maker, South Shields. D. W Collyns, attorney-at-law, Swindon, Wiltshire. Joseph Atkinson, grocer, Rockcliffe, Cumberland. John Ratcliff, plumber, Stanstead, Essex. Bartrup Crump, omnibus driver, Dover. James Summerfield, farmer, Ardswood, Cheshire. John Cheptaan, cloth manufacturer, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire. M. A. Clarke, out of business, Slough, Buckinghamshire. John Harding, appraiser, Deptford. Alexander Macdonell, grocer, Oldham, Samuel Clarke, grocer, Manchester. James Isted, beerseller, Northfieet. E. Parsons Lillicrap, East Stonohouse, Devonshire. W. Francis Maemiun, provision merchant, Lllanwchllyn, Merionethshire. Joseph Robinson, journeyman hairdresser, Manchester. Thomas Smith, carpenter, Woolwich. John Blaekbrough, coal owner, Northowram, Yorkshire. David Bylord, b an d master, Chatham. bags Trinidad were sold, mid grey at 38s to 395, and red at 43s to 44s per cwt. The value of Grenada is from 33s to 408 per cwt. Foreign continues to meet with little attention moderate, as prices rule; Bahia and Para can be obtained at 26s to 27s and Guayaquil at 29s to 305 per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon a good demand prevailed for Plantation Ceylon Coffee, bat shippers were again the chief operators ; at public sale 356 casks and 150 bags were sold at full rat es; s orts under the denomina- I tion of low mid, however, went rather cheaper, good to fine sold at 55s to 665, mid and good 513 to 545, low mid 48s to 50s, other sorts 42s to 475, and low 408 to 41e. In Native Ceylon there is still little doing, yet good ord is not offered under 37s 6d. Mocha continues to be wanted. TEA.—The demand has diminished for ordinary and good common Congou for all purposes, and supply being more plentiful prices declined id to id per lb; sales having been made at 9id to lOid. In other kinds operations have also been upon a limited scale, and holders are disposed to sell medium to rather strong blackish leaf at lid to Is, good to fine Is Oid to is 7d. Oolong has been dealt in with caution at is to is 7d, and there is a fair supply. For Green the market has been in a dull state; large parcels have been brought forward, and rather lower rates are taken for good and fine, but no general reduc tion is apparent for inferior. Scented and Pekoe sorts can be obtained upon rather lower terms, yet few buyers are to be met with. At public sale 11,000 packages were offered, of which 4,400 Congou, 600 Souchong, 500 Oolong, 1,100 Scented Orange Pekoe, 900 Scented Caper, 550 Hyson, 1,550 Young Hyson, 166 Imperial, and 1,330 Gunpowder; of the total quantity 5,000 sold at and after the sales. RICE.—To-day the private operations are trifling in East India Rice, and there are sellers at rather lower rates. None was offered at auction. Of Sago Flour 250 bgs went at 14s 6d to 15s per cwt. at auction a sale of 8 brls and 166 bg —TodayGinger sold at 25s 6d to 265, and d amage d 17 3 6d S s P A ICA S c .;-; to 21s 6d; these are lower rates. Of Nutmegs 4 casks low Dutch limed were taken in at is 4d. S P lAlTS.—Dern!rara Rum of all kinds is offered rather under previous rates, still operations have been limited; 170 puns of good quality sold at 28 Id to 2s 2d for 33 to 38 over, and small parcels of other sorts at Is 9d to 2s for 30 to 32 over p roo f. Alth oug h E as t India can be obtained at i s 3d t o i s aid p roo f, y e t operations have been trifling and supply larger. Leeward Island has been operated in with caution at Is 4id to Is sd, and fine brown at is sid to is 6d. A good demand still exists for fine Jamaica, for all pur , poses, and the rates paid are from 3s 3d to 4s 6d for 35 to 38 per cent over proof. In other sorts there is still . doing, and a desire is evinced to sell low to middling at 2s 3d to 2s 7d for 30 to 33 over proof, good mid to good 2s ld to 3s 2d for 34 over proof. There are sellers of Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 ditto 48 lld to 5s Id, older 5s 4d to 55 7d, low to mid 2s 6d to 38 6d, and Bordeaux at 2s 2d to 2s 3d per gallon. For British made Spirit the market was inac tive, still rates remain at 9s 5d to 9s 6d, and for Gin 2s 6d for shipping. Geneva at Is 7d to is 9d. and fine is 9/1 to 28 per gallon. INDloo.—Since the termination of the quarterly sales of East India exporters and home dealers have been pur chasers to a fair extent, and the parcels disposed of were at full rates; on the part of holders there is also firm ness. In Spanish there is rather more business doing at the previous value, and supply is not so plentiful. The rates paid for Sobres are 3* 6d to 4s 9d, and Cortes is to 4s. Stock is now 2,312 serons, and last season 510. COCHINEAL.—There has been a better demand; supply is less plentitul, and prices have advanced Id per lb. At auction 130 bags were sold; Honduras silvers, low to mid at 3s to 3s 4d, ord black 3s 2d to 38 sd. The rates privately for Mexican silvers have been 2s lld to 3a 2d, black 3s id to 3s 4d ; Teneriffe from 3s 2d to 3s 9d ; Honduras silvers 3s to 3s led, and black 4s 3d to 4s 8d per lb. SALTPETRE.—The dulness in the market has in creased, and there being a plentiful supply prices have declined 6d to 9d per cwt, and few transactions are re ported privately for any purpose. At auction 1,780 bgs Calcutta were partly sold; good 31 to 5i refraction at 27s 6d, good mid 8i to 11i per cent 25s 6d per cwt. TAeLow.—There has beea rather more demand for Russian on the spot, and stiffer rates are paid ; fine yellow Candle selling at 37 8 9d t o 38 s p er cw t. For delivery a good business has been transacted, and the prices paid are 39s to 39s 3d for last three months of the year. Home melted sells more freely at 35s to 36s net cash, and melters are less disposed to realize. In other sorts of Tallow opera tions are upon a more extended scale at stiffer rates. At auction 211 casks Australian were sold—Beef at 34s 6d to 36a 9d; Sheep, 35s 6d to 37s 6d; 100 casks South American, fine 37s 6d per cwt. For public sale 900 casks &c. are declared. I Southampt. ling. 5 red (*) &re conveyed by * The mails to those c ountries thus marl French packet via Marseilles. CALIFOZNII.—MaiIs to and from Califorid via the United States in packet. re now despatched •nd due by every Arno IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS. July 22. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) CASE OF ERNEST JONES. On the motion for receiving the report of the Com mittee of Ways and Means, Lord DUDLEY STUART called the attention of the House to the case of Ernest Charles Jones, as stated in his petition, presented to this House on 26th May last, and to move for copies of all rules and regulations which at any time, from the (year 1840 to the present, have been in force within the several prisons in England and Wales, so far as they may affect prisoners convicted of political offences. Ho owed no apology to the House for bringing this subject forward, for it was the duty of every Member to bring a case of injustice before the House whenever it came officially under his notice. He had been more than two months attempting to get this motion on, but hitherto he had been unable to obtain an open day, and he had, there fore, no alternative but to introduce it as an amendment to a Government motion. Ernest Charles Jones was a barrister-at-law, the son of a major in the army, and a gentleman of some literary fame. In 1848, he was com mitted to the Tothill-fields prison for a political offence, and what Mr. Jones complained of in his peti tion to the House was, the treatment he re ceived while undergoing his imprisonment. Most of the allegations in his petition were admitted by the au thorities of the gaol, and therefore no dispute could arise on that part of the question. Now these allega tions were familiar to the House, and he need not re mind Hon. Members that the treatment Mr. Joins had received was quite contrary to law. More than once he was kept in solitary confinement on bread and water, because he refused to pick oakum; and he contended that the order of the visiting justices sanc tioning that proceeding was totally at variance with the Act of Parliament. Once he was con fined in that way for no less than four days, while the Act of Parliament provided that a prisoner should be kept in solitude on bread and water only. L Two other miserable prisoners, whose names were fami liar to the House, were put into solitary confinement on ' the same occasion, and for the same cause, and the result which followed that proceeding was a stain upon the criminal annals of the country. They died of the cholera. Ernest Jones escaped that horrible fate, but the treatment so inspired his health that it was ex ceedingly doubtful whether he would ever thoroughly recover his lost strength. It was useless for the medical officers of the prison to say that their prisoners did not suffer from ill health, because in tb"ir replies to the allegs:lens of Mr. Jones they admitted that he suffered from chrouiu intlsinmation of the eyelids ; and on one occasion when he was placed in the refractory wsrd he lost upwards of a stone in his weight. The report of the governor charged the petitioner with having used violent language in the letter which he was allowed to write from the prison, and that was the reason why his permission to write was witheld. Now he (Lord Dudley Stuart) had looked through all the thirteen let ters which Mr. Jones wrote while in prison, and he had no hesitation in declaring that the report of the governor was utterly unfounded in truth. He denied that this treatment of Mr. Jones was at all warranted by law; he was treated not as a political but as an ordinary of fender, and that was contrary to all law and usage. Cobbett, Ramsbottom, and Lovell, when they were committed for sedition, were treated in a very different manner. They were allowed full permission to see their friends, and one of them not only wrote a history of America while he was in gaol, but was permitted to be married in prison. Hunt, the House would remember, was ill-treated while he was imprisened, but he afterwards recovered compensation from the governor of the gaol, while the Government took upon themselves the responsibility of discharging him for his misconduct. Feargus O'Connor, Cooper, and O'Connell, when they wore imprisoned, met with treatment which presented a very strong contrast to that which had fallen to the lot of Mr. Ernest Jones, but then they were imprisoned under a Conservative and liberal Government, while Mr. Jones was imprisoned by a Whig and illiberal Administration. It was the basest and most stupid sot for a Government to confound political offenders with ordinary criminals. That was the opinion of many eminent statesmen and judges on the judicial bench, who thought that the pri soners had rignts to enjoy and maintain as well as the Government who imprisoned them. Henry Vincent's treatment, in being removed from a provincial gaol and placed in the Penitentiary, where he was compelled to wear the common dress of the prison, and forbidden to communicate with his friends, called forth the condem nation of Mr. Justice Talfourd and the House ; but what would the Learned Judge have said had the pri soner, in addition to that treatment, been compelled to pick oakum, or pass his time in solitary confinement, living upon bread and water? Mr. E. Jones was not allowed the use of a knife and fork at his meals, but was compelled to devour his food with his hands, like a beast. What would the Learned Judge or the Marquis of Nermanby, who laid down rules for the treatment of Mr. O'Connor when he was imprisoned, have said of that? Some time ago, the House had an assurance from the Government that they would introduce a Bill for regulating the treatment of offenders, but up to this very day that pledge remained unfulfilled. Subse quently the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home-office promised to give directions that political offenders should be separated from ordinary cri minals; but he had yet to learn that the promise had been kept. Certainly it had not in the case of Mr. Ernest Jones, and therefore he could not help thinking that it was time the House insisted upon legislating upon this important subject. How could they hope to change the views and opinions of a political offender by treating him with so much 'cruelty as was complained of in this case? He trusted, then, that the next session would not be allowed to pass without an effort being made to alter the system. In one instance which had come to his knowledge, a prisoner had been refused the right of petitioning the House, which he apprehended was a breach of the pri vileges of the House, for by the Bill of Rights Blackstone and all the legal writers which the country had pro duced held it to be the inherent, inalienable right of every Englishman, no matter in what situation he might find himself, to lay his grievances before the House of Com mons. Now the same right had been denied to Mr. E. Jones by the visiting magistrates, and he could not help feeling that the refusal involved a point of deep and serious importance to the House. lie had, therefore, brought the case forward. Had it been earlier in the session he should have moved for a Committee of Inquiry, but it was too late to do that now, and he should con tent himself by giving notice that at the very earliest period next session he should move the appointment of such a Committee. Ernest Jones was the only political offender of the year 1848 who received no remission of his sentence whatever, but the Government made him endure his term of imprison ment up to the very last day. He had brought forward the case because he thought it one of gross injustice, and not because he agreed with the political views and and opinions of the petitioner. Having said so much, and apologizing to the House for having detained the House so long, he begged to sit down moving the mo tion of which ho had given notice. Mr. W. WILLIAMS rose to second the motion. He considered it a disgrace to the country to imprison a man and treat him as a common felon merely fer words spoken, and he fully sinspathised with the sentiments expressed by the Noble Lord who had introduced this subject. Tho treatment of Mr. Ernest Jones was most oppressive and most un just, but it was not to be attributed to the visiting ma gistrates, beeeNie the form of treatment was pre- Ou.s.—For pale Seal Oil there has been an increased demand, and an advance has taken place; several par eels have been disposed of at 311 lOs to 321 per ton. Other sorts are operated in with more freedom at 291 10s to 311, and supply remains limited. There are several buyers of parcels afloat rather under present rates. In Cod operations are upon a more extended scale of 361 10a to 37/, and holders have confidence. Southern is in improved request, and au advance has taken place for all sorts. At auction 60 tuna were sold. fine at 311 15s to 321 ss; low to mid 301 to 311 10s. Privately several parcels have been dis ' posed of at similar rates. With Sperm the market has been more freely supplied; and buyers not being much disposed to operate, rates are on the decline. At auction 47 tuna went at 811 to 831 15s for Colonial; and low American 72/. For small parcels of Ileadmatter the rates paid are 901 to 93/. Cocoa Nut continues in brisk request, and rates continuo to advance; Cochin selling at 311 to 334 Ceylon 301 to 324 and other sorts 291 to 30/ per cwt; there is also a further decrease of supply. Linseed Oil has met with little attention from exporters; there is, however, a fair home trade demand. SCARBOROUGH.—The election for this borough, which took place on Saturday last, will not pass without being called into question. The Protectionist triumph is likely to be short. A petition is in preparation ; and the in vestigation will show how the MOMS of Mr. G. F. Young was accomplished. The intimidation and other corrupt practices which prevailed at the election exceed all prece dent, and will be clearly exposed. - - REUNION DES Airrs.--On Monday evening the 12th and last soli& of the summer season was given by this ex cellent society at 27, Queen Anne-street. The very elegant and select company was so numerous that every part of the spacious apartments was occupied. The choice of the musical selection was most judicious, for the performance of which by its own members this society is so celebrated. Amongst the numerous attendance of our own as well as foreign artists, we noticed, Miss Day, Miss Mary Rose, Madame Le maire, Miss Magner, Miss Lairnia, Mrs. Wallack, Madame Verdavainne, Madame and M. Tourneur, Messrs. Gollmick, Day, Schmidt, the two brothers Liitgen, Frederick Chatter tan, Wiisterman, Mr. Herbert, J. Thomas, Herr Gregory, Mr. Case, Herr C. Haag, Kempf, and M. De la Rancheraye, &c., who severally contributed their best to the entertain ment, and who deservedly received the deafening applause of the elegant company. Lachner's quartet was most exqui sitely performed by Herr Gollmick, Day, and the two bro thers Lutgen. Herr H. Lutgen's solo on the violoncello was most enthusiastically encored, as well as M. Rancheraye on the violin. Amongst the distieguished visitors we noticed the veteran General Dembinski, attended by some of his companions in arms. Between the first and second parts the Hon. Secretary to the Society (Mr. Detkens) addressed the company, mentioning that it is to the indefatigable exertions of Messrs. Goffrie and Gollmick that the society is chiefly in debted for its foundation, and alluded to the merits and uti lity of it, as tending to the co-operation and joint combina tion of some of our best vocal and instrumental artistes. It would be superfluous to add that the evening passed off with éclat, and with every gratification to the committee and the members. Let us hope that such an excellent so ciety will nut want staunch supporters amongst the English aristocracy. UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA.—The annual meeting of the proprietors of this bank was held on Monday at the offices, 38, Old Broad-street, City, R. Brooks, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that the business of the bank had increased at all its branches during the past year, and its present satisfactory condition reflected much credit upon the zeal and ability of the officers generally. The commerce of the Australian colonies had been well supported, and the trade had every indication of being healthy and prosperous. The result of the accounts enabled the directors to declare a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 6 per cent. per an num on the entire paid-up capital of the bank, together with a bonus of 10s. per share on the 32,000 paid-up shares of the third series. It appeared from the accounts that there was a balance at the present date of undivided profits amounting to 70,1791., and the reserve fund amounted to 81,8641.—Mr. J. Robinson, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietors on the prosperity of the bank, and upon the excellent arrangements which had led to such satisfactory results.—This was seconded by Mr. Maclntyre, upon which the chairman observed that the business of the past year had been fully equal to that of the preceding year, and the bad debts of the past year had been very trifling. In answer to questions it was stated that the amount of Government stock they held was the same as at that time twelve months. They had in all 590,000/. on loan in this country. The report was adopted, the retiring di rectors re-elected, the dividend and bonus declared, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, the meeting separated. BRUTAL MURDER AT MANCHESTER.OR Mon day morning, about five o'clock, the attention of a police officer on duty in Back Irwell-street, Dole-field, Manchester, was attracted to sounds of distress which appeared to proceed front a cellar. He instantly burst open the door, and entering the place, found a man, named James Wick, a farm servant from a Burton- upon- I rwe ll , b e l a b our i ng a woman, w h o was ld on the floor, in a most brutal manner, her face being covered with blood and her habiliments saturated through out. Upon a b e d i n the place lay what appeared to be the corpse of another weman, terribly disfigured about the head, an d covered with blood. The officer instantly seized Wick, w w o m hackan, b t u e t hie. was o cc u u n p a a b t l i e o n t , o a nl nd ain w t as ain o ho ld nly and fgotthhei m fe 1 0 l offwthaeehis secured on the arrival of another police-officer. It was found that the woman on the bed still breathed, and she was re moved to the Royal Infirmary, but died before she got there ; the other woman was removed to the same place, where her wounds were attended to, and hopes are entertained that she will recover, though her injuries are great. The man was brought up at the Borough Court the same morning, and re manded until Wednesday. There is at present no certain in formation as to the cause of the ruffian's conduct, but as the position in life of the women is degraded, there is reason to believe that it arose out of circumstances of a corresponding character. SALE or BEER.—The Bill prepared and brought into the House of Commons to amend the laws relating to houses licensed for the sale of beer, by Sir J. Pakington, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Headlam, and Mr. Brotherton, has been printed. The principal objects proposed by the Bill are— to require proper certificates of the character of persons ap plying for licences—to restrict licences to sell beer to be drunk on the premises to real residents or occupiers, and to houses rated at not less than 201. p er annum i n c iti es , t o wns, &c., containi ng • 7 andOo inhabitants, 151. in places exceeding 2,500 inh a bi tants 101. a year el sew h ere . P er sons licensed before th e Passing of the t A he ct sa m m a e y h s o h u a se v , e al l t i b ce o n o c g e h s granted to them whilst they it be below the qualification. No debt for beer, kc drunk 011 the Preillidel will be movenbic, at l aw . .7 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, July 22.) SIIGAR.—To•day importers of West India Sugar were again desirous:to realize, and accepted rates 6d per cwt under those of Friday; The purchasesand ocers and refiners ope rated with caution. are 675 hhds, 84e., including at auct ion 170 hhds 40 t barrels Barbado es, which went off flatly, and 63 only sold 6d below the terms of Friday and a part yellow went at 3 43 6 d t o 365, middling 35s 6d last; low 6d to 36a 6d, good 37s to 38s, fine 383 6d, one let superior 41s 6d, low to fine brown 313 6d to 343 sd, middling grainy yellow 37s 6d to 39s ; 97 hh ds Demerara, and good nary and middling greyish 33s 6d to 34 a cd, an(;)r(14- fair brown 321 6d per cwt. There is still a plentiful supply at market, more especially of ordinary and mid kinds, Refined S u g ar was operated . in With caution for home trade purpose s, b ut the sum; 46:1g small, brown lumps were not to be obtained und er p! cwt. For Crushed Sugar the export demand i s li mited l.,l,u with free sellers at former rates. operated afternoon Mauritius Sugar w as were ill with much caution, and at auction 793 bags only in Part soldrather ' at lower rates, good yellow went at 36 i e g i fine brow n auto 37s 6d, low to middling 349 to 365, and privately in 4° 8 33 s 6d per cwt. There was little done EAST INDIA. 'A t j; a dull demand, and theafternoon Madras Sugar met with those existing previous rates taken were rather under small part only sold, mil of 6,468 bags at auction a to 369, inferior 293 6d to 3°l fine soft yellow went at 32s 27s to 295. Bengal Was I : e V , and low to fine brown with little attention ; at auctiond for full rates, but met only in part sold, fine white 1,279 bags were low to good 383 to 40s 6d, good to at 41s to 41s 6d, 443 to 475, and fair soft yellow 3 0 4 ,, fi , n , e grainy white 1,089 bags sold at easier rates, ord Of Penang white went at 37s to 383 6d, low to and mid greyish Msuritius 33 , 1 6d to 36s 6d per cwt. good yellow lik e FOREIWI.—To-day Foreign Su, ar was offered rather under the rates of Frida y , still the b usiness c concluded was of little m oment. Privately operations areacluded of yellow Havannah at 2 1 s 3 d for number 11, and one cargo of brown Pernambuco in ba g s at 173 sd per cwt. At public sale to-day only 10 hhds St. Croix were offered, and sold at 42s to 42s 6d for fine bright yellow. MOLASSES.—Operations are upon a more extended scale in consequence of rather lower rates having been taken. Of Porto Rico 250 casks old have been sold at 13s 6d, 200 puns West India Antigua 15s 6d, other sorts 13s to 14s 6d, Bengal and Mauritius in small parcels at li d 6d to 12s. At auction however 200 casks Porto Rico red = were taken in at 15s 6d for new. Honey is not much Wanted,cc and _there aro sellers upon rather lower terms. 1 va O A--Sbverat t s meols have been disposed of pri -1.9.Yt wad net, • uin scanty supply. At atiOti94 404 LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1851 scribed by law, and they had no alternative but to see that the regulations providing for such harsh treatment were put in force. He was one of the visiting magistrates daring a portion of the period when Mr. E. Jones was in prison, and he was happy to say that while he attended the prison not a single request which Mr. E. Jones made was refused. The visiting justices were placed in a position of great difficulty. They were often supposed to be acting very tyranically, when, in point of fact, they were only conscientiously carrying out the duties im posed upon them by law. One of the prison regula tions provided that if a prisoner in Mr. E. Jones's si tuation could pay ss. a week, he was exempt from the degrading occupation of picking oakum, and while he was a visiting justice Mr. Jones's friends regularly paid the weekly sum. Uufortunately, however, the two other prisoners, Sharp and Williams, were unable to do so, and they were therefore sent amongst thieves, and felons, and pickpockets to pick oakum, but they re fused to perform the degrading labour, and the result was they were put into solitary confinement, where they died of cholera. He did not, however, blame the visiting justices in this, ho blamed the law which imposed ouch an unpleasant duty upon them, which he thought was alike a disgrace to the Legislature and the ago in which they lived. He expressed his regret that the Noble Lord had brought forward the question at so late a period of the session. He was most anxious for inquiry, and if the inquiry were ultimately had he believed the visiting justices would be entirely acquitted of any inten tional harshness or injustice towards Mr. Ernest Jones. Mr. W. J. FOX said the Hon. Member for Lambeth had made an excuse for himself and his brother magis trates at the expense of the rules and regulations established by law. If that were so, the case of the Noble Lord was strengthened and the necessity for legislation became the more important. But three or four of the most important points con tained in Mr. E. Jones's petitions were points upon which the magistrates had an option ; but the Hon. Member for Lambeth had made no reference to them. He had said nothing about the de nial of permission to send a petition to the House. Now nothing could be more important to the subjects of these realms than the right of petition. It was one of the safeguards of their liberties, and no power whatever ought to be enforced to prevent or interfere with it. These visiting magistrates had no right to pu nish the intellect of a prisoner, as they had attempted to do in the case of Mr. Ernest Jones lay refusing him the use of writing materials. Such an exercise of au thority was opposed to the corrective system of the country, and he hoped something would be done to prevent such an abuse of powers in future. Leigh Hunt, Montgomery, Daniel Whittle Harvey, and other eminent journalists, were once imprisoned for po litical offences, but they were not treated like Ernest Jones. They were allowed to supply their respective papers with leading articles, and ultimately they be came as they were now, ornaments to society. But that was under a Tory Government, who treated their political culprits with more humanity than the Whigs. Tine governor of the gaol refused to allow Mr. E. Jones the use of a list of books which he had before him, and which included Shakspere, the works of Sir Walter Scott, and the novels of Mr. Disraeli. Now, nothing could be more absurd than such a refusal as that, and he hoped, when next this question came before the House, measures would be taken to prevent a recurrence o f the evils they had heard so much of to-day. Colonel THOMPSON said he was glad in having an opportunity of stating that, in his view, the persons al luded to were responsible for having by the ir own mis conduct lost or seriously damaged a great cause.— (Hear.) He, however, thought the Government had sated with extreme impolicy in making martyrs of men of whose political principles they did not approve. He knew well to what extent the effect produced by such prosecutions was felt in that House. The tendency of the course pursued by the Government would be to bring these men into the House of Commons ; they had already seen one of them, and would yet see more returned as Me m bers of Parliament. He was ready 0 enter into a policy of assurance that Henry Vincent. one of the body, would be elected for the next Parliament, so certain was he of his being re turned.—(Laughter.) He hoped he would take his seat in the House, if it were only for the remarkable fact that he could pour out by the hoar eloquence as correct as if taken from Blter's lectures.—(Laughter.) How he got so wonderful a Faculty was best known to him who gave it, but this, at any rate, was certain, that he was origi nally a journeyman printer, and first made his appear ance in public it an election at Hull.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think it was policy to institute such prosecutions, and though not disposed to blame the Government, be hoped they world, in answer to the present appeal, give an assurance that the proceedings would, for the future, be conducted with more prudence and moderation. Mr. BOUVFRIE rose for the purpose of bringing back the discussion to the real point before the House. That was the rs cent treatment of Mr. Jones, and not the broad question of prison discipline. Now with regard to the formal motion, he had to state that there wire no rules or regulations that re lated to political prisoners. The law recognised no distinction of that sort. The law made rules and regu lations for the treatment of person s convicted of misde meanour. The Act of Parliament imposed the duty of preparing those rules and regulations upon the visit , mg magistrates, and afterwards they were op proved of i'y the Secretary of State for the t Home Department. Now the rules which rep lated Mr. E. Janes 'a treatment were framed and esta blished in that WAY, and the visiting magistrates had no alternative but to see that they were fully and pro perly enforced. There was no legal distinction between political and ordinary offences of felony, and, of course, there was no difference in their treatment, ea - '3ept the judge made an order that the prisoner s hould be treated as if he had been guilty of misdemeanour of the first class. The Judge who tried Mr. E. Jones made no such order, and therefore when he reached the prison he was dealt with in the same manner as other offenders. It would seem, from what had fallen from soots Hon.Geatlemen, that they thought a poli tiCal prisoner as entitled to all the indulgences and com forts that they enjoyed before going to prison. Well, but if that ought to be so, of what use was it to send our of fenders to prison at all? Why did they send them there but to punish them, and if they were to treat them just as though they kW merely changed the place of their resi dence, where would be the punishment of the incarce ration? Mr. GEOIiGE THOMPSON contended that none of the main alle;ations brought forward by Lord Dudley Stuart had been answered by the Hon. Member for lid marnoch, e shose reply was wholly unsatisfactory. Ernest Jones was simply a victim of the excitement which prevailed at the period when he was consigned to prison ; sod he hoped that if the present discussion had no good effect, in regard to the complaints of that gentleman, it would draw the attention of Members to the necessity of drawing some distinction between the punishment a warded for political offences and offences of a different character. Sir H. WII,LOUGHBY considered that Ernest Jones bad been treated harshly end oppressively, and he was astonished that the visiting justices should have allowed an educated pan to undergo such severe punishment and submit to such degrading labour, when he was not sentenced to bard labour. Sir DE LA OY EVANS hoped the Government would consent to prcduce the papers to which the motion of the Noble Lord referred. Mr. HENLEY thought the papers before the H o u se showed that brnest Jones had been hardly treated, and had not had tie benefit of those indulgences which a person in his position might have received. He was disposed to th nk that the complaints of this gentlemen required some further inquiry. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob served that is was impossible to carry the motion into effect, as no Sseh returns existed, there being no distinc tion made by the law between political and other per sons found guiltY of misdemeanour. After somefurther observations from Mr. Christopher, Mr. Bright. gr. W. Williams, and other Hon. Members, Lord DUDLEY STUART withdrew his motion on the understanding that a return should be presented with regard to a certain number of prisoners whom he should hereafter select. The report on Ways and Means was then brought up and agreed to. The House then adjourned until Six o'clock. The House resumed et Six o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. M. ELLICE presented a petition from Leicester in favour of the retention of the Crystal Palace. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON presented a petition signed by 1,600 clergymen of the Irish branch of the United Church of England and Ireland, in support of the Church Educational Society of Ireland. Mr. IL HERBERT presented a petition from cer tain flour millers in Ireland, complaining of the fres im portation of flour. THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION. Mr. ANSTEY said he wished to put a question to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with regard to the annexation of the two Germanic States to the German Con federation, which would be a violation of the Treaty of Vienna. Re had understood that the Noble Lord had trans mitted a protest to the Courts of Berlin and Vienna on this subject. He wished to know whether that was correct, and whether as answer had been received from those Courts ups the subject? Lord PALMERSTON said no formal answer had been re ceived. When the Diet was constituted, her Majesty's Minis ter, in c.osjunction with France, delivered a protest against any such annexation without the consent of the other powers. He had not received any answer to that, but he had re ceived iriermation from the British Minister at Frankfort, stating tiat a communication had been made on the 17th of the present month, the particulars of which he would learn in a few days. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Mr. ADDERLEY then rose to ask the Noble Lord, the First Lord of the Treasury, " Whether the draft constitu tion now about to be sent out to the Cape is to be sent out complete in all details, and according to any scheme laid before the House in papers already presented to it ; if not, whether he will lay it before the House before this session closes ; whether it contains anything relating to a change of the seat of government at the Cape, or a separation of the eastern and western provinces of South Africa ; .whether it will have to pass through the usual several stages in legislation in the CRuncil, or merely be submitted to their acceptance or rejection by one vote; whether it may be discussed and altered in the Legislative Council ; whether it must be referred home for final sanction; whe ther it is to be postponed till after the conclusion of the Kafir war." Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the draft of the constitut:on referred to had been sent out to the Cape complete as to the details. It was not according to a particular scheme, but founded on various suggestions from different sources. He did not think it would be laid before the House in the present session. With regard to the separation of the east ern and western provinces, and the change of the seat of government, that would depend upon the exercise of the Royal prerogative, upon which the Governor would receive indatttious fonz tinao to time The diet would we to be discussed in the Legislative Council, but he did not an ticipate that any material alteration would be made in it; and, finally, he had to answer, that it would be sent to this country for final sanction. With regard to the termination of the Kafir war he could at present say nothing. REGISTRY OF ASSURANCES BILL. Sir J. PAKINGTON wished to know whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord to press the Registry of Assur ance Bill, which contained not less than 100 clauses, through the House during the present session? Lord J. RUSSELL said he would to-morrow state the course the Government intended to pursue with regard to the Bill ; but he should be greatly disappointed if it did not pass this session. JEWISH DISABILITIES.-CASE OF MR. ALDERMAN SALOMONS. Mr. ANSTEY wished to put,a question to the Speaker, to inquire whether the letter written by the Hon. Member for Greenwich, with regard fo the omission of the words in the oath of abjuration, under the Ist and 2d of Victoria, was sufficient to distinguish his case from that of the Member for the city of London, who stated as his reason for refusing to use these words was, that they were not binding on his con science; and if not, whether it was competent for him to move that the Hon. Member for Greenwich should come to the table and state that such was his reasons for omitting them? The SPEAKER said there could be no better expression of the Hon. Member's opinion than what was contained in the letter referred to, which appeared in the votes of the House. Mr. DISRAELI said this was a question of privilege, and took precedence of other motions, but as he considered that the question was now decided by a vote of the House he saw no reason why the Hon. Member for the University of Dublin should be precluded from bringing forward his motion with•regard to the system of national education in Ireland. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was a question of pri vilege, and he had no other course than to bring it forward, but he had no intention to prevent the Hon. Member from bringing forward his motion. Mr. DIISRAELI—There is no dispute as to its being a question of privilege, but he considered that it was now de cided. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that was not the view he had taken of it. The question was whether Mr. Salomons was entitled to vote. It appeared to him that the statutes quoted in the report of the committee, 10th Geo. 1., c. 4, and 13th Geo. 11., c. 27, made a provision for Jews taking oaths, and that it was necessary that the oath of abjuration should be taken upon the faith of a Christian. It appeared to him that the form could not be altered except by an Act of Parliament. There was a groat distinction between the case of Baron Rothschild and that of Mr. Pease. In Mr. Pease's case there was a power to take an oath by a Quaker by affirmation, but there was no such power with regard to a Jew. He concluded by moving;—" That David Salo mons. Esq., is not entitled to vote in this House, or sit in this House during any debate, until he shall take the oath of abjuration in the form appointed by law." Mr. ANSTEY then rose, and said the Act under which the oath was supposed to be administered was relaxed in the case of Mr. Pease. He then asked how the resolution by which that gentleman took his seat could be necessary if the Act was sufficient, and why he had not been sworn in the form prescribed by that Act. In fact there was no such Act. Mr. Pease took his seat under the sanction of a resolution of the House, which had the power to prescribe the solemnity with which the oath should be administered. In lieu of the old formula of the oath of abjuration, there was substituted that the individual taking the oath was to swear that he took the oath with neither equivocation nor mental reservation, and willingly. The words of " on the true faith of a Christian" were not then put to the person swearing, but he was obliged to use the solemnity of "So help me God." This formed the alteration in the abjuration oath taken by the Quaker. Now he would ask, should not some alteration be made in the ceremony of the oath taken by a Jew, as the Quaker was indulged in the alteration to which he just alluded? Mr. Salomons bas required to submit his case to the authority of a court of justice, which he considered the proper authority, as he weuld not be heard in his place in the House. He now wished to dispose of an argument used by the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell), and there was only one to which he thought it worth while to refer. When the Noble Lord stated that the common law was superseded by a decision of the House of Commons, ho thought that there was some error in the Noble Lord's assertion, for the common law and the statute law always go side by side, unless there were words in the Act of Parliament that abolished the common law. He next argued that the Hon. Member for Greenwich had as good a right to a seat in that House as Mr. Pease, who took his seat and voted without having taken any oath whatever; and he, therefore, contended that there was no specific law against the admission of a Jew to his seat in that House. He ad mitted that the present was not an edifying decision to the majority of the House; he felt it his duty to point out the errors into which the Noble Lord had fallen ; and when he confessed that he held him in the highest respect as a states • man, he should at the same time acknowledge that he - held him in no respect whatever as a lawyer.—( Hear, hear. ) And he was happy to say that he was sustained in that opinion by the able and irrefutable arguments of the Hon. and Learned Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Bethell). Now all he required was, that as the case was decided against him by a great majority of the House, it should be tried by a competent court of jurisdiction fairly, dispassionately, and competently; because he thought that passion and prejudice prevailed against his Hon. Friend in that House yesterday. Whatever difference of opinion existed between him and his friends, there was no difference whatever respecting the Noble Lord's lino of conduct, and for that reason the Hon. Gentle man ( Mr. Salomons) was anxious that the Government, or some other Member, would, if they considered that his con duct was improper in having taken his seat and voted, in stantly institute proceedings against him. No more was re quired, and he (Mr. Anstey) felt assured that the decision of the Court would be decidedly in opposition to the decision of the House. It would not at all do to decide that ques tion by such levity of remark, as he may " prosecute him self, it he pleases." He said that the people of this country, through the wings of the press, would be roused to indig nation, through the ignominy offered to their fellow-coun tryman—to the representative (Mr. Salomons) and his constituents—for they ever recognised such independence as he evinced yesterday. He felt fully assured that the Honourable and Learned Member for Abingdom (Sir Frederick Thesiger) would not, as he said, move for a new writ; but the object was to put the matter off till next session. He then alluded to the 13th of William the Third, which states, that if any Member takes his seat and votes, without the oaths, he is subject to be debarred from holding o ffi ce, whether military or civil, subject to a forfeit of 5001., ice. &c. Now, as the House had decided that the Honourable and Learned Member for Greenwich had taken his seat and voted three times with out having taken the oaths, he considered that it was the idn a thenuty courtmo f o G ve o do v f e t rnh justice following l n lo t worinogf againstth ehHi amendmentm u s end on under o e institute Ltho ardt John sot ha p ntruo Russell'stcedinh as resolution in lithe case of the,Member for Greenwich " That David Salomons, Esquire, Member of Parliament for the borough of Greenwich, having sat an d voted in this House without having taken the abjuration oath in, the words contained and set forth in the form tendered unto him at the table, the Attorney-General of England be ordered to institute proceedings against him at law for such default, pursuant to the Act 6 Geo. 3, c 53." Sir B. HALL hoped that, in consequence of the Noble Lord's answer, the Hon. Member for Youghal (Mr. Anstey) would withdraw his amendment. Mr. ANSTEY would press his amendment, if no other motion to that effect were moved. Sir B. HALL pressed his suggestion, which was acceded to, and the amendment was withdrawn. Mr. BETHELL contended that Baron Rothschild and Mr. Salomons had taken the oaths required by that House for a Member, and were, therefore, entitled to their seats. He should add that he considered that the question of law was not yet fully discussed. He did not, in making that asser tion, mean to revive the opinions he delivered yesterday, but he should say the answers given by Honourable and Learned Members opposed to him were not by any means satisfac tory; and he therefore hoped that some better solution would be given by those Hon. Gentlemen to the construction he put on the Acts of Parliament to which he then alluded. Were the House to examine the statute of George 111. they would find that the oath of abjuration was thrown on all sub jects, the Jews included. He considered from the several statutes that he had already quoted, besides those adverted to by several Hon. and Learned Gentlemen on his side of the House, that Baron Rothschild and Mr. Salomons were fully entitled to take their seats and vote. When the Noble Lord asserted that it was necessary to have the sanction of uie, or an Act of Parliament, to abrogate the present oath of abjura tion, he should say that the Noble Lord borrowed that phrase from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Sir F. The siger). Did not the 10th George I. point out a peremptory declaration with respect to the Jew, that the same oath of abjuration that was taken by him in courts of justice should be also adopted in other places?—(Hear.) By the Ist of George I. an obligation was laid on parties to take the oath of abjuration, but that obligation was not universal until the Act of 9 George I. was passed, and, at the same time, these Acts allowed Jews in courts of law to take the oath which they considered binding on their conscience, irrespective of the oath of abjuration, which was observed in a political sense. If, again, Honourable Members had looked at the other Acts, they would have found that the same principle prevailed. The 6th of George 111. was the last Parliamentary declaration as to taking the oath of abjuration, and, from the tenor of it, it was plain that the Jews were excluded from the strict forms of the oath. In the case of Mr. Pease, the House had taken upon itself to model the oath 80 as to suit the circum stances of the case, but there was no other Parliamentary authority to do that than what was drawn from the statute, and the obligation to administer the oath in the manner which was binding on the consciences of those who took it, And if that was done then, why could it not be done now ? They were, no doubt, bound to administer the oath, and the Jew was bound to take it, but not in the strict form in which it was to be found in the atatato-book. If, therefore, the House considered the matter, they wo uld see that they ha d brought themselves into a position which gave them a right to administer an oath, but which did not give them the power to do so in a manner to mee t the cue- He therefore submitted that a great deal more was necessary to be done on this subject; and, if th ey wer e not prepared to'ollo w him to the extent he w i s h e d, he hoped they would. con sider in the Committee to see what alterations couldtobe m Parliament. It' oath, so as to render the Jews admissibleth all in question to the sider whether it might not be proper again to appoint a they did that, they might bring back he had read to the dealt with, with, and he House.—(Hear, hear.) w po o l o n i t d w t h he e r r e e fo i t ro m a ig u Lt b it e t a n d e v a s oi nt e le m ous en l y t s . aid, in dealing wit this The ATTORNEY far as theycould, the con- They were bound to ascertain, so called upon to act, and to app the din jm"ey. The simple question was, did the Legislature , when it enacted question, they had simGpElyNaEßstALrict judicial duty he perform abjuration, of meanP a r I that n i tt should und e r b w e h i takench t heyby the strict sense in which it was worded? The way to as certain that was not to look at the Act only, but also to the circumstances under which the Act was passed. The Act was passed soon after the discovery of the gunpowder plot, and its great object was to guard against an oath being e th trtl e C O t a i t: of of th e Acts taken which any party taking it might evade by any mental reservation. The oath was for the protection of the King and the Government, and the words, "on the true faith of a Christian" were introduced into it in order that it might be considered more binding on the parties who took it. The statutes which followed that Act were passed for the purpose of keeping the Roman Catholics out of power, and the model taken for the framing of them was the statute of James 1., in which these words were inserted. That, therefore, showed that these words were part and substance of the oath, and that they could not mould and form it so as to suit the views of particular parties and particular sects. The Honourable and Learned Member for Aylesbury had re ferred to the Acts of George I. and George not stated the circu ms t ances u nder which they were passed. The object of them was to defeat attempts made on the part of Roman Catholics to disturb the King's Govern ment, but if the common law run with statute, what use and was there for passing those statutes? The Honourable but he had f,o George I. was carried out in the Learned Gentleman said that the pr inci p le of the Act of Act George Ill.row, the object of that Act was to further colonization. The oath inserted in it was to be taken by parties forming settle ments in the colonies, and in respect of the Jews it omitted the words "on the true faith of a Christian," in order that he might take the oath of allegiance in the same manner as he did an oath in a court of justice. That statute did not relate to England at all; it related to the colonies, but it showed that the oath, in the form they now insisted it should be taken, was obligatory and binding, else what would have been the use of passing that statute? In regard to the Act of the first and second Victoria, that was merely an Act to regulate the taking of oaths in courts of justice, but it did not release them from seeing that the sta tute which in this case affected their proceedings should be strictly observed. The ease of Mr. Pease had been often al luded to, but the declaration which had been framed to be taken by Quakers was an act of the Legislature, and a mere substitution of that declaration for the oath of abjuration. Here, however, was a different case, for they had in this in stance a distinct oath, containing words which formed an es sential portion of it, and which the Jews could not take, and that being the case, they could not do otherwise than in sist that the parties refusing to take that oath in the form it appeared upon the statut!.-books should not be admitted to a seat in that House. He thought it would be well to adopt the proposition of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, for he believed that the adoption of the sug gestion of the Hon. and Learned Member for Aylesbury would lead them into additional difficulties. Mr. JOHN EVANS considered the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General most unsatisfactory. It was plain, from his interpretation, that the oath was never intended to apply to Jews, but to professing Christians. All the substance of the oath was gone through before the words "OR the true faith of a Christian" were come to. It had been long since settled by high judicial tribunals that oaths should be administered in the form most binding on the consciences of the party who took them. And in this manner the Hon. Member for Greenwich had taken the oath of abjuration. Out of the inconsistency in which the House was placed as regards the Jews they should get in some manner or other, and for that escape he saw no more fitting opportunity than the present. Mr. NAPIER concurred in the view taken by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, and so unanswerably supported by the Hon. and Learned Attorney-General. The argument of the Noble Lord was plain and right, and bot tomed on a sound basis. The words, "on the true faith of a Chrietain," were, by the'statement of the Legislature itself, part of the juramenta, and ceald not be omitted from th e oath of abjuration until the entire form of oath underwent a change. The question before the House was not one of policy, hut of construction; and if they admitted any inter ference with the form now arranged, where was the line of demarcation to be drawn ? Mr. AGLIONBY, although a lawyer, would not advance any legal arguments on the subject, but he wished to state that he considered the Hon. Member for Greenwich had taken the oaths according to law, and that he was fully en titled to take his seat in the House. As for the arguments of the Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon, he did not think they were worth a rush, while he regarded the statement of the Hon. and Learned Member for Aylesbury quite unanswerable. He quite concurred with the Noble Lord, that no gentleman was entitled to sit in that House until he took the oaths prescribed by law. He went that length with the Noble Lord; but considering that the Hon. Member for Greenwich had taken the oaths in the manner pointed out by the law, he claimed for that Hon. Member the right to act as a Member of the Legislature. He went so far as to hold that the House had a right to put a con struction upon the Act. The words were matter of form and not of substance. He did not want them to make a new law, but not to put their privileges in the power of another place. If the Noble Lord carried his motion he would carry into effect his resolution of last session, that the House would take into consideration the mode of giving relief to the Jews. Did they think another Parliament would give up their privileges to judge of matters which re lated to their own rights, unless a court of law decided against the point that the Hon. Member for Greenwich had taken the oath according to law? Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND said they had heard a great deal upon this subject from lawyers . ; but he could not be lieve it to be law when they were told that it rested with every person who took a statutary oath to omit as many of the words of the oath as he pleased.—(Hear.) They had all heard of the old saying— " As, by the rule that makes the horse tail bare, You pluck it year by year, and hair by hair." ' —(Laughter.) But nobody ever dreamed that that was a receipt for preserving the horse's tail, though it might bid fair for making it a ragged one.—(A laugh.) Now, what sort of an oath would they have on their statute-book at the end of ten years if everybody in every court of justice might omit from it as many words as he pleased?—(Hear, and a laugh.) He had endeavoured to take the question out of the legal phraseology, in order to make it intelligible to the House, and he hoped he had succeeded.—(A. laugh.) What ever difference might exist among them as to the principle of this question, or as to the proper mode of acting, he thought there was one result upon which they must all be unanimolis, and that was that it was impossible to leave it as it was.—(Hear.) He had ever objected to the Jews sitting in that House. He had objected upon principle, and he continued to do so still ; but he would not take advan tage of a state of the law which never was intended to affect them to carry into effect a principle which he could not do fairly otherwise.—(Hear.) He should like to have this question fairly brought to issue; but it could not be. He very much doubted the force of the argument which said they could not interfere in this matter themselves. If there was any force in that argument, it could only increase their embarrassment, and would not at all help them; for how came it that they had suffered that oath to be taken on the Old Testament ?—(Hear, hear.) Whether they liked it or disliked it—whether they did it unintentionally or from malice aforethought, he did not know, but they had sold the pass.— (Hear, hear.) When a Christian came up to this table and swore on the Bible at large, he acted on the well known principle— " Novo testamento veterum patet ; " Veteri testamento novum latet." (Hear, hear.) But when a Jew asked for the Bible it was in order to reject the New Testament.—(Hear, hear.) And that rejection this House had allowed.—(Hear.) Now, how they were to get out of this difficulty he did not know. He did not understand how they could now contend that that House could not alter the essential part of the oath.—(Heat, hear.) It was admitted on all hands that the words of this oath were never intended to apply to the Jews. It was cons tained in a series of acts against the Jacobites; and it was no fault of the Jews that James 11. turned Papist. As things had turned out, however, the Jews had to pay the piper. (A laugh.) Nobody suffered but them; and if he believed that those doctrines to which the Attorney-General had alluded were less rife at this moment than they were at the time of the State trial to which he had referred—if he did not know that they were ten times more prevalent now than they were then, he would repeal this oath altogether.— (Hear, hear.) But, since they could not do this, he wished some one would fairly propose a motion to exclude Jews from Parliament. For that he would vote; but he did not like to be compelled to be firing in ambush against the Jews from behind a tlYke, that was intended to exclude a Sardinian Prince.—( ):hear, hear.) Mr. ANSTEY referred to several Acts to show that Quakers could give evidence on affirmation. The 6th of Anne, cap 23, referred to the Abjuration Act, and enabled electors to vote for the election of Peers for Scotland. That was an Act for the relief of Quakers; and a subsequent Act, which was declaratory of the Act of Anne, provided that the words " on the faith of a Christian" should be omitted,which showed this form was a mare solemnity. This was a Parlia mentary distinction between the form and the substance. The case of the Jew is in some particulars as strong as that of the Quaker. If Parliament were to interfere at all, it ought to act in the same manner as it did with Quakers, for Parliament can dispense with a portion of that solemnity which the oath of abjuration as offered to the Jew implies. Was it not as just to remove what was obnoxious in that oath with respect to the religious feelings of the Jew as it was to adopt an affirmation instead of an oath for the Quaker! He then argued that the common law s was recognised in most cases, by the first legal authorities, as far superior to any Act of Parliament. He should say to the Attorney- General that he considered that that learned functionary had not read the 2d Victoria with more attention than he had the 9th George 111., with respect to those oaths, for the Act is not an enacting Aet, it is a declaratory Act, and he was prepared to prove from that Act that the oath was to be administered, not only to a juror or a witness, but to any person anywhere. H e argued that the 2d and 3d Victoria settled the question, and on this Act the Honourable Mem ber, for G reenw i c h so l e ly d e p en d e d, and he therefore hope d that the House would not rush precipitately to a decision t): a resolution which, though similar to the one of last r yea r against Baron Rothschild, was based on a far di ffe rent ground. Sir R. H. INGLIS was astonished that the give th e Honourable Member for Youghal (Mr. Anstey)s h ould legal opinion that that House could altearctuhegit as his enmight oath. be, How ever great and discriminating his legal acumen he should undertake to differ from him, because he believed that the Upper House and the Sovereign should also agree to a resolution of this House before any alteration in the oath could be effected, and he hoped that no branch of the Legis lature would sanction such an alteration. He believed that the Hon. Member for Greenwich has, by his recent conduct, involved himself in difficulties that would for ever preclude him, in the event of any alteration, from taking his seat in that House. He hoped that the opinion of the House would be taken at some future day, to decide whether he did not for ever forfeit his seat in that House. The House then divided, when there appeared.... For Mr. Bethell's amendment 71 Against it 118 - Majority against the amendment On our return to the gallery we found —4l Mr. BRIGHT stating, that although the amendment was Honourable lost, they had not as yet heard that the Mem ber for Greenwich would be heard by counsel at the bar of that House. The amendment had been lost by not a very large majority, and they had no w to decide upon the m om tion of the Noble Lord at the h ea d of the Government; but although he had no authority to make the request, he had to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Government not to come to a deci s i on on that motion at presen t, but to allow the Honourable Member for Greenwich to take the course he considered best in that respect. There could be no question, from the opinions they had heard expressed by eminent lawyers in that House, that much doubt prevailed on the case, and that being 80 , ho thought that the suggestion of the Honourable and Learned Mem ber for Aylesbury th a t another Com mittee sho uld be appointed on the subject, might with propriety be adopted. By adopting that course they could not be in a worse position than they were in at present. If the Com mittee should report that the H on. Member for Greenwich ought to be admitted, as in the case of Mr. Pease then no wrong would be done to e ither party. The Noble , Lord had placed himself in great difficulty on this subject, by allow ing both the lion. Member. o for a Greenwich and the lion. Member for London to take theoaths on the Old Testament, and at the same tim e refusing to allow them to omit the words "on the true faith of a Christian." He believed the lion. Hember for Abingdon was right when he said, that if th ese words were persisted in, the parties so desired to take them s hould have been sworn on the New Testament, and consider i n g all the circumstances of the case, and in oroleto give time for consideration, he should move that the debate be now adjourned. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the Hon. Member had put to him two questions. The first was, whether he would allow the Hon. Member who had been returned for Greenwich, to be heard by counsel at the bar of the House? and the second was, whether another Committee should not be ap pointed? In answer to the first, he had stated last evening that he had no objection to his pursuing the same course as was done by Mr. O'Connell, while he thought that the better plan would have been for the Hon. Member to have stated his case at the bar of the House himself. But as the motion which he had that evening submitted to the House had been given notice of last night, and as the Hon. Member for Greenwich had given no intimation that he wished to be heard at the bar of the House, either by himself or by coun sel, he did not see why the debate should be adjourned in that respect. They were not without preparation, and he thought it evident from the fact, that the Learned Gentle men who had taken part in the debate, more especially the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Aylesbury, did not adduce any precedents or facts which were not previ ously known to those who paid attention to the Bullied. On the 12th of last March, on the motion of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Solicitor-General, a Committee was appointed to consider and bring under the notice of the House the precedents and Acts which bore on the matter. Than that Committee none could be appointed more com petent to the task assigned. It was true that the Com mittee was not empowered to report any opinion on the sub ject.—(Hear, bear.) But their attention was directed to various Acts of Parliament. A draft report was drawn UP by the Honourable and Learned Solicitor-General, and con sidered, and though the subject was most intricate, that report, with as few errors as possible, broug ht before the House the general body of Acts and pre - cedents on this subject. The general opinion o f the Mem bers constituting that Committee was , that Baron Roths child was not entitled to take his seat. — (Hear , hear.) But the present Master of the Rolls framed a resolution which he submitted to the House. He (Lord John Russell) bad not relied on his own notion of the law; but after t consultation with the law officers of the Crown, and others compete to form a correct opinion on the ques tion, he had adopted that resolution. He saw no advantage that could possibly and from further postponement or inquiry. His belief war and that belief had been considerably confirmed by he had heard delivered in the course of the debate, that sufficient preparation had already been made, and that every Member had made up his mind on the question. 14 he w " ever, it was the generel wish of the House, h s hould not 0. the spbe pose the appointment of the Committee- hear)-71t the majority of the House thought such a course desirable, he would not offer an objectionas matters at present stood, he confessed he did not see the necess ity for eithe r Committee or postponement. Sir B. HALL said he should confine his observations to, the two points spoken to by his Noble Friend at the head of the Government. If the Hon. Member for Greenwich bed adopted the course of claiming to be heard at the bar of tb e e . House, it was quite evident that he must have taken a _ trograde course.—(Hear, hear.) They could not forget.il.7 position in which the Hon. Gentleman had placed himilejl troo (Hear, hear.) Within the last twent y -f ou r hours the Member for Greenwich had voted no less than three tiuieer and addressed the House as a Member of the Legislature! and therefore if the Hon. Member were to desire to ad dr,e,!: the House at the bar, he would be lowering and injuring tit: position he now occupied.—(liter , hear.) But there other parties who might wish to b e heard at the bar. e _ (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Greenwich h d in important and influential constituency —one of the largest the kingdom— and if the constituency choose to petition re. be heard at the bar of the House in supp ort of them an ti_cf; they had sent to represent their inter ests in the Duper"' Parliament, he thought they should be heard, and tb e eo.Pi portunity afforded them before the resolution propos o the Noble Lord at the head of the Government was adolittteh; As regarded the appointment of a Committee, he thoug suggestion of the Henourable and for Aylesbury a very wise one, loekin• culties and legal doubts which surrounded .the questioner. True, as his Noble Friend at the head of the Governmeret. had stated, a Committee was appointed to look out fo.1) cedents. That Committee consisted of men of great ability,... gLeaatrnaend alitee and eminently calculated to discharge the duty they u r n a u !..... took, but had not circumstances of an important character arisen since that Committee made their report.-(0,:',0, Was it ever contemplated, for instance, by that Conlitoxl' that theiliouse of Commons would put itself in the e , an d ordinary position of desiring a man to come forwar:t admitting him as a Jew, and then telling him that he, r aY ar. ) take the oaths on the true faith of a Christian? - ( 11 !„ en t Had not fects been brought out in the coarse of the Pr7 s i r , discussion, that rendered it nothing less than an act of "„„„ ness and justice that another Committee should De ,P4 i ' t pointed? The Noble Lord at the head of the Goreern,rid stated that if it were the general wish of the House h he not oppose the appointment of the Committee. 21be,"and, (Sir Benjamin Hall) thought it was the general wiL em en• moreover, he thought that the Hon. and Learned Hou se for Aylesbury had acted most prerl in asking th no t to appoint such a Committee. They Noble Lord he".. B of taken the same course as he adopted last year in the case Baron Rothschild, although he said he would do sO. Le e r 4 t as the Noble Lord pledged himself, before he asked theid4'oo to adopt the resolution he submitted, that he lee°,',„ far. steps immediately after the meeting of the ene° l° Utied liament, to do away with the disabilities which bu t he Baron Rothschild from sitting in that House; "L a rd had given no such pledge now. The N o ble_ the had not pledged himself to act next session l u a . t he case of the Honourable Member for Greenwich is the the had done at the close of the session of 183 0 li ed the case of Baron Rothschild.—( Hear, hear.) As re f elicitor' legal bearing of the question, the Attorney and 'lt o one General interpreted the law differently; for while food was found voting in the old lobby, the other was to b e d the voting in the new. If they went to one law offi cer : oi 3 e Crown for an interpretation of the law he would giv vo uld answer, and if they sent to a second his interpretation cd a t be directly the reverse. The resolution of the Noble t hat b l e the head of the Government was the most objectioable, Lard could be proposed to the House. If th e N° a nd -i P ai intended to take an intelligible, bold, mania', oaete gorous course, he should move a new writ for Greenat He did not take that course, because he knew th a the would have the vote of the House in his favour, ilsgsia result would be that the electors of Greenwich errn il if the assemble, and re-elect Mr. Alderman Salon: ooe ' „Rd.' Noble Lord proposed such a resolution, it would be ce' b ; r for it it were proposed by the Hon. and Learned De Abingdon, it would be defeated. The electors of tir t . r Hon ° would say that they did not care for the writs of tee it. „Jet of Commons. Let the Noble Lord move his new W , he sein e him give the electors an opportunity of re-electill th a t tbe Member, and if they told him (Sir Benjamin Ilan ) leoh people were indifferent about the question, let them t t hose the division but of last night, and they would find the „( the who recorded their votes in favour of the admission °woe Hon. Member for Greenwich to a seat in the Leg i ti e t were the representatives of one-third of the constituen' the United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON expressed .fi c atioa kis at being the representative of a majority o the his gr a° breW betc rs community in the United Kingdom. The quesionof race the House was not a question of law but a quee ti : °l3 , o lere °c. gious liberty on the one hand, and of religious i - are on the other.—(Hear, hear.) He had listened to th e t, t hose merits on both sides of the question, and he tho,ag:a which proceeded from his side of the House rein e swered. A gross insult had been offered to rit.°' t e 00'. ersuasion. The Noble Lord was languid where iLedreatell have been prompt. He had not made this the on' question of the day, or a question which affected th for t he once of the Government itself. The time had COn3,tnchise" Liberal Members in that House to justice.e earlooer There more meat of the Jews as a simple act of j was a question on which public opinion had IV ell ijour e ' unequivocally expressed, and by majorities of the t o b e than the present question. It was not a quests) eta trifled with, even by the Govrnment itself. lie r° e B to state his opinion on the question. Gr° le m o n posite made it a political question. The Jew W„,.il e - 1 0ers, e , in a theological and evangelical view, to many ol e .,s o r; that House. The Jew did not believe in the Sari4cietir did; but the difference was between the belief of (4 1 i, et' that was to come and a Saviour that had come. batioo.) sertion was received with repeated shouts of disanPr°,oo Ye' Well, what was the state of the law? Thug pinion a w ith riot's. He should vote against the main q ston , 413 still greater pleasure for the adjournment. Mr. ANSTEY said he wished to know w hether t b „ e o r Pr iro' fession of the Christian religion was a necessarr„'", o r 14 teristic of a Member of Parliament at common !I"roagirt decisions of courts of justice. The grounds of inqu'ili ce e to be more enlarged upon this question than were ,„ . :40 10 the Committee which had been referred to by t", o lou' Lord, and which made a report upon it in a loaner!: none He thought there ought to be an adjournment to giTtpager to the Noble Lord to consider this point. He shot"' , an tire as an addition to the original motion, or as a sub s :.; t ali' amendment, " That this House, having regard to ttbeali gious scruples of the Hon. Member for Greenwich , Q o tioe exercise its undoubted privilege, and make such alt e r osy in the form and mode of a dministerig the oath, es ijsc ritte enable the Hon. Memb er for Greenwich to take 5 0 0 such oath." The House then divided, when there appeared .-- 9 For the adjourn ment ... 6 Against it ••• 190 , Majority g Mr. G. THOMPSON moved a similar additi °- Anstey to the original motion. l a t Or e m ° Mr. J. ABEL hoped that the Noble Lord we lt- 11° ,,01d his motion until after Thursday, wh en peatition that V I % t bey r mi e g s h e presented tbeedhbeya heard at tte electorsbar ofo whOle, t° l Greenwich, pr Y' Mr. REYNOLDS said he objected to the of their representative. r ee seat in this House. s t ? i l e ution d proposed by Lord Jahn Russell, and 'Arti e as is'e that w u o n r l es" "abjuration" contained in it, because it e ls tie a Mr. Salomons perjured himself he c ot " then pro' f theH House, and suPpe -let cupv a ceeded to urge a variet of oections to the oath 00 tion itself, which he described as a living libel tlpe r w ea 1 7, man Catholic faith, and said that there were Ine°;„,. ya k that House who, when he remonstrated with them t thee , it, told him that they were compelled 'to take it, butte it, did not believe it. He (Mr. Reynolds) revered the c c °ll . fr erlc h i of the Jew, who, even to attain the highest pitch 0 : b e lie 7 declined to swear to that which he did n°" e tarn • Pour years had now elapsed since the Noble Lord We e r f o r re as the colleague of Baron Rothschild as Mernbe_d tithe city of London, and since that time the Baron he 0 the hat el the elected again by a very large majority. And w- „,4 0 st t Noble Lord now ;doing? Why, declaring war eb"d, 0° electors of the city of London, againn constituents; -are'. satisfied with that, war also t the electors of . .4 the wick.—(Hear.) The best course would be to Han;ta°i'lete: course proposed by the Hon. Member for the Tower „a c Mr. C. ANSTEY rose amidst cries of " Oh, oh,voice. much uproar, which drowned the lion. Gentleman'lero he The Hon. .tenibl)::ttftbesb.jrule- In the fragments of sentences which reached the groio; flog a to be complaining of the sullen silence pc Noble Lord at the head of the Government observed', ogr e L 3 stating whether he would consent to a Committee, ca r e ' to the amendment, or propose a resolution caculated lAA'were t the objects of the amendment. lie moved the e". l ment of the debate. tO rte Mr. BRIGHT also urged the Noble Lord t° °n a g. li d ° mation of what he eventually proposed de_lo-6potre,, thought that the decision of the question should be I', it Ar n until the electors had presented the petition vrh, ie h ',, har t announced they intended, praying to be heard at L" sea t favour of the admission of their representative to that House. the e irsa' Lord J. RUSSELL said that in the early part Of Olt ing the question which the House had to conaider27ratigito deliberately and very learnedly discussed. He eta of forward a resolution which implied, though it did rot was ri e direct terms, that the Hon. Member for Greenwich.% fail entitled to sit without taking the oath of abjuration ember r different from that which the Honourable gehraprieo_ctitenala himself proposed, and in the form in which Meraw - d House had hitherto taken it. The Hon. and Learn e B ola' ber for Aylesbury (Mr. Bethell) proposed a Con g o m e re re ter t e for tion to meet that—namely, that the ilon. ri le- lery e London and Greenwich having complied with all the wet quired, so far as the oath of abjuration was conce rt: l,o P, r e °- 0 entitled to sit and vote in that House. There wer e in , or positions, the one contrary to the other. The 1 31 ° t „ - rtek","r Hon. and Learned Member for Aylesbury was suP2-00ot"t", him in a very able speech, which was answered delghe very able speech from the Attorney-General , an d t ion' lope was conducted in a manner worthy of such an OCCBS themes'' Members learned in the law who spoke confined ttleoivieirn to the immediate question. The House came t ° S e a; and decided that the resolution of the lion. and Lea aeci eti ber should not be put. It remained for the Hous e roe whether the resolution which he (Lord John) hadg ,te l; should be affirmed. It would be fair, had the fievegt; hot tinned to a late hour, to have moved its adjourninlig, whi og instead of continuing the discussion upon the had o oth i t 0 after all was their business—(Hear, hear) --they L'itgainsea, but denunciations against that House for go in g t pr e ° of liberal body of constituents- denunciations for not o de a. ing at once to affix a sense to the oa th and fl; wou ld e A f taking it according to what Hon. Ge ntlemen Sept t here h ie mit to a seat an Hon. Member who h ad been se 3 upon leg islat ing numerous body of constituents—denu nciations (Lord John's) conduct for maintaining that : 1 17hoirr i o against the Jews which he had been for soine Y et _ Lr , tg aios t to repeal. Then they had long denunciation_er_nieta (. eonduct by the Hon. - Member for the Tower 1 ° 13 :70 George Thompson), who, when he (Lord Jam)