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IMPERI i _ ______ 6 „,.....___ HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 20. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Fo k. ur 41Sislo READING.D Rwsy 4 i:--I 'ICU t laueTaNrne ill was read a third ,''' ••:..' • ppaid. ( ,A•./\-- ''''''' . • :,,v , o l ti:tvs , • '''P'- 41 „. ~:...~ Lord LYNDHURST acceded to the courses proposed, Lord CAMPBELL had received ibnyetitamhred introductionatitoon sscothtlaatnicti would be desirable to extend the Bills to Ir e l an d and With done regard portions of them to Scotlaneer d ti he thought that would be better of a separate Bill, which Bill he would introduce, The Bills as amended passed through Committee. PETITIONS, The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented several eti tions against Papal aggr ess i on. p The Earl of HARR° WBY presented several petitions to the same effect. THE KAFIR COMMISSION. Lord WHARNCLIFFE asked if the Noble Secretary for the Colonies could explain the reasons which had induced the Government to appoint a Commission to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope to inquire into the cause otion of the K a fi r war, after they had opposed a m for the app o i ntment of such a Commission in th e House of Commons Earl GREY said that it was perfectly true that the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry to proceed to the Cape had been objected to by the Government on the ground that it would interfere with the functions of the colony, but as a grant of money would be applied for to conduct the Kafir war, a Committee of Inquiry was proposed in the House of Commons in order to show the necessity for such expenditure. Him self and his colleagues who had opposed the Commis sion of Inquiry yet thought that some further assist ance ought to be rendered to Sir Harry Smith. When Sir H. Pottinger was appointed governor of that colony, he was also appointed her Majesty's Commissioner to the affairs of the border tribes, Sir Harry Smith received the same appointment, and what was now intended was to appoint two Assistant-Commissioners to Sir Harry Smith. It was not strictly a Commission of inquiry; he thought that the policy had been so well considered, that no inquiry would lead to any change in it; but although the general principles of the policy were almost universally concerned, yet the practical applica tion of that policy gave rise to difficulties which could only be got rid of through the intervention of the authorities toe the spot, and these Commissioners were to decide at once upon the conflicting rights of con tending parties on matters of which Sir H. Smith, whose whole time was taken up in his attention to the Govern ment and to his military duties, could not possibly take cognizance without the assistance of other Commis sioners. The Assistant-Commissioner s were gentlemen who were well acquainted with the country. One of them, Major Hogg, had taken an active part in the late Kafir war, and tb,e other, Mr. Owen, had resided in the colony a considerable time, and was acquainted with the Kafir language. Lord WHARNCLIFFE asked if there would be any objection to produce the commission ? Earl GREY would rather that his Noble Friend should not move for a copy of the Commission, but he would produce it with the papers relating thereto at as early a period as possible. The E of ELLENBOROUGH thought that the Noble Earl would render Sir Harry Smith more assist ance by sending him 2,000 more soldiers then by send ing two Commissioners. Sir Harry Smith was in a position of great military danger, and all civil considera tions should be thrown evereoara. Earl GREY said reinforcement s had been sent and other reinforcements were preparing, and al though he was perfectly aware of the ne cessity of military strength, he thought that it was also advisable to provide for entering into relations with the Kafir tribes, so as to preserve those tribes in their allegiance who were faithful to us. The Earl of ELLENBOttOUGH knew something of the doings of what were called politicals, and they often interfered with great danger to the military. Napoleon had said that one indifferent general was better than three good ones if they differed. The Noble Earl had one good general, and he sent out two inefficient assistants to thwart him. Earl GREY said they wore sent out as assistants, to act under Sir Harry Smith. He had yet to learn that even the Emperor Napoleon undervalued the aid of able assistants. The subject then dropped. REGISTRATION OF DEEDS BILL. Lord CAMPBELL, in reporting to the House the re snit of the amendments made by the Committee on the Zegistration of Assurances Bill, begged briefly to state tlee course adopted by them, particularly as a rumour had been industriously propagated by the enemies of the measure, that the C omm i ttee had quarrelled amongst themselves. The ve r y reverse of this was the fact. Thy first took into consideration the petitions against the Bill. One was from the attorneys and solicitors of Lon don, who chiefly dwelt on the circumstance that, within their experience, very few cases had occurred in which purchasers of estates had lost the p roperty which they h bought through bad titles. But th a t was not th. foundation of this measure; the foundation of this mea sure was the enormous expense incurred in taking the necessary precautions. Then came v ar i ous petitions from the country n!torneys cubing for distinct registries, and he believed they would fain have as many registries as there were attorneys in England, and could not help Sus pecting that the hope of being appointed registrar or de puty registrar had something to do with this movement. It was his conviction that they must either have a metro politan registry for England and Wales, or abandon the measure altogether. All England and Wales might now be regarded as one great city, and the metropolis, in Point of fact, was far more accessible to those living in the remote parts of a country than the county towns. For these reasons the members of the Committee were unani mous l y o f opinion that the registration 11°Moe ought to be in the metropolis. The next great 11.stestion they h a d to consider was one on which the very able Commissioners from whom this measure emanated were divided in opinion —namely, whether maps should be used, and a resolution was Passed unanimously by the that at prose r that maps would be highly desirable, but measure, and had not sufficient maps to start the to poetthey were to wait for these it would be necessairyhe coma t l l.9n e the measure for an indefinite pe eiod. 3, ancittr that ordered the Bill to be drawn of without map presenting it to their ait. shape he had then the honour neat measure He trusted the time had come when that appromeasure would be passed into law with the general Houses of Parliament. Tivieeuernoltalof Members of both a. e and Learned Lord then presente the report of the Bill, and moved that it be printed forage purpose of being considered on Friday next. After a few words from the Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH, Lord COLCHESTER, and Lord BEAIMIONT , expressive of a petition f their approval of the Bill, The motion was agreed to. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented n fro Leeds against Papal aggression. • THE PROPERTY-TAX BILL. The order of the day for the House resolving i tself into a Committe on this Bill having been read, The'Earl of ELLENBORGIUGH said he w i shed to receive some explanation on the subject of the n ew mode of assessin g t enant -f armers t o the tax. It appeared that that class might henceforward mako their payments on the amount of profits they should have realised; but he manat a loss to conceive how these profits could in nuulY o ases be ascertained. A tenant-farmer might have laid out a large land, from which he 'mmediate return, capital in the improvement of his or he might have he could receive no a large quantity of unsold, from which ho would derive 110 immediate returnthough valuabl e, corn or of stock one year eat r again, h© might . have exhausted a end by that gportion of the value of nis - teal's have left it come ratively unprofit able in future Years h wished to know by whew rej (tie Earl .a of Ellenborougie) Commissioners could estimate the profits of a fae me e r t i he The Marquis of LANSDOsviuNE ch cases as those? ties to which the Noble Lord had ref acid that the difficul referred might occur in the case of a tradesman as well as i iiionr:alt,,aorif a farmer. her He apprehended that the Com a e rule to follow on such occasions than to str:ke wnhoatotth Wight consider on the whole the fairest possible bale:- of losses and of gains. The tax might undoubtsdl Pen a doo Y r operate unfairly in some cases, and might 0 for fraud, but those were evils which it would, he be lieved, be impossible to remove. The Bill then passed through Committee, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 20. Their Lordships met at Half-past Four. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal Assent was given this afternoon, by Com mission, to the following Bills: — Exchequer-bills (17,756,6001.) Indemnity. Apprentices and Servants. Ouseburn Bridge and Approaches in Newcastle•upon Tyne. Leicester Sewerage. Dewsbury Gas. Py ec ombe and Hicksted Turnpike Road. Laird's Patent. Newington St. Mary Parish. Durham Markets. Reading Cemetery Company. Downham Market, &c., Drainage. Cheltenham and Painswick Road. Cheltenham and Gloucester District Turnpike Road. Manchester Parish Highways. Scarborough Gas. Millthrop and Levens Turnpike Road. Hartlepool Freemen's Lands and Harbour Dues. Tenterden and Woodchurch Roads. Appleby, Kendal, Kirkby Stephen, and Market Brough Turnpike Road. Mildenhall, Burnt Fen Road, and Lakenheath and Sock wold Roads. Bangor and Caernarvon Railway. Wiveliseombe Turnpike Roads. Angerstein's Branch Railway. Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley , and Middles brough and Redcar Railway Companies. Bristol and Exeter Railway. Heathoote's Divorce. The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Carlisle, and Earl Minto. Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships resumed at Five o'clock. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lord CAMPBELL said that his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Lyndhurst) and himself had gone through the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill and the Preven tion of Offences Bill, and having received some valuable information from Lord Denman on the subject, had agreed to certain amendments, and ho would propose that the Bills should be committed and the alterations introdnced, and that the Bill should be reprinted with the amend ments. HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1851. CONSIDERATION OF BILLS. The following Bills were considered and agreed to: Birmingham Improvement. Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway, iManchester and Salford Extension Railway. Malmesbury Turnpike Roads. Thames Haven Dock and Railway. Waveney Valley Railway. Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway. PETITIONS. Mr. J. O'BRIEN presented a petition against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. MASTERMAN presented a petition from the inhabitants of Dalston against the removal of Smith field-market, and praying to be heard by counsel against the Government Bill. ROYAL COMMISSION. Mr. Palman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the table and summoned the House to attend at the bar of the Lords to hear the Royal assent given by Commission to several public and private Bills (for which see Lords' report). The SPEAKER, on his return, announced the names of the Bills to which the Royal assent had been given. PETITIONS. Alderman COPELAND presented a petition from the merchants of Van Diemen's Land, praying for the dis• continuance of transportation to that colony. Mr. MURPHY presented a petition from Cork against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. M'CULLAGH presented several petitions from Ireland to the same effect. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose, com plaining of the duty on spirits imported from Scotland. Captain DUNDAS presented a petition from Scotland praying for the equalisation of the duty on homemade spirits._ _ Mr. M. GIBSON presented petitions from Manchester and London against the stamp duty on newspapers. NEW WRIT. ordered for th e On the motion of Mr. HAYTE R, a new writ was Priers borough of H arw i c h , i n the room of Mr. p, whose election bad been declared void. P OOR LAW (IREL AND). Mr. REYNOLDS gave n o ti ce t h at on the sth of June he would move an add ress to her Majesty for the ap pointment of a Com m i ss i on to inquire into the adminis tration of the law for the relief of the destitute in the provinces of Ulster and Connaught. THE " DERBY" DAY. Major BERESFORD moved that the House at its rising should adjourn until Thursday. For the last few years the House bad always had a holiday on the Derby day, and he saw no reason why they should not adopt the same rule.--(Laughter.) There was no bu siness whatsoever on the paper, and ho trusted the House would agree to his motion, not so much for the convenience of Members as for the officers, who must re main in attendance during the whole day if the House sat.—(Hear, and laughter.) He saw more reason for the House agreeing to the adjournment over to-morrow, as they would be deprived of one holiday this year in con sequence of the Queen's birthday falling on a Saturday. Mr. HUME rose, amidst cries of " Oh and laughter," and said he could not congratulate himself on the success which had attended his opposition, for the last few years, to the motion of adjournment. His object in wishing the House to sit to-morrow was to enable him to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Woods and Forests who had induced him to allow a "ride" to be made in Kensington -gardens, which had always been preserved for pedestrians and plebeians. He had no ob jection to horses going to the "Derby ;" but he was strongly opposed to their entering these gardens— (Laughter) —but he would not put the House to the in convenience of dividing on the present occasion. Sir J. PAKINGTON thanked the Noble Lord for his kindness in affording convenience to the public to take equestrian exercise in Kensington -gardens. He offered his thanks to the Government for the ac commodation of allowing him to ride in Kensington gardens. Mr. W. PATTEN also presented his acknowledgments to the Government for the same boon. Lord SEYMOUR contended that the interest of the public was best consulted by the arrangement that had been made, for there could be no doubt that when the charge of admission to the Exhibition was reduced the crowd would be so great that many of the horsemen would be driven from the park. Sir E. BUXTON, as one of those who both walked and rode in the park, was rejoiced that the change had been made, for it had proved a great convenience to the public, without injuring anybody but those who wished to make the gardens a private lounge of their own. The motion for the adjournment of the House was then agreed to. ENNIS WORKHOUSE. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland a question respecting the general manage ment of the Ennis Union Workhouse, county of Clare, and whether he was aware that the number of inmates in that workhouse during the week ending the 3d day of May instant was 915, and the deaths during that week amounted to 63, and that the workhouse was so over crowded, that several applicants were refused admission ? Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the number of the deaths the Hon. Member had mentioned was perfectly correct, but he greatly understated the number of inmates, for, on the 3d of May, instead of there being 915 there were no less than 4,782 inmates in the workhouse. Mr. REYNOLDS asked whether the numbers the Hon. Baronet had named were not taken from the Clare Journal, the proprietor of which was one of tho guar dians? Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE knew nothing of the Clare .Journal. Ile took his figures from the returns which he then held in hi 4 hand. DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND. In reply to Mr. COWAN, Sir GEORGE GREY stated that a Commissioner who had been down to inquire into the cause and extent of the distress prevailing in the western islands of Scot land was now preparing a report of the result of his enquiries. The name of the commissioner was Sir John SPIN-refl. PORT ln reply t o Lord MAHON, EDEN. Mr. WILSON stated that information had been re ceived from Port Eden of the murder of a British officer by an Arab, but there was nothing connected with the attack which could give it a political tinge. TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Sir W. MOLES WORTH then rose, pursuant to notice, to move an humble address to the Throne, pray ing for the discontinuance of transportation to Van Dii.- men's Land. He said—Sir, I have lately presented to the House two important petitions for the abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land. They were unani mously agreed to at numerously attended public meet ings, which were held last year in the northern, southern, and central districts of that island. Similar petitions have been presented to the other House of Parliament, and similar ones have been addressed to her Majesty the Queen. The statements contained in these petitions were of so grave and serious a description, and rested upon such high and trustworthy authority, that I felt it my duty to move that these petitions, and all similar ones which have been presented since the year 1838, should be printed, in order that I might bring their con tents under the consideration of the House. I find that these petitions have been most numerously and respect ably signed—for instance, by the Bishop of Tasmania, by the Archdeacons of Leurceston and Hobart Town, by the majority of the clergy of the Church of Eng land, of the ministers of the Wesleyan, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Independent denominations, the magis tracy, th e gentry, the merchants, tradesmen, me chanics, fathers and mothers of families, and, in short, by almost every one of note and respectability among the free colonists of Van Diemen's Land. All these petitioners allege " that accumulated and appalling evils, moral, political, and social, have resulted from transportation to Van Diemen's Land"—(Rear)—that the existence of such evils has been admitted to the fullest extent by her Majesty's Ministers —and that the free colonists of Van Diemen's Land have repeatedly petitioned the Queen and Parliament that transportation to their colony should be discontinued for ever. Every one of these petitioners asserts that on the 20th of July, 1847, their Governor, Sir William Denison, did an nounce, in the name of her Majesty's Government, to the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land, that the wishes of the colonists were to be complied with, and transportation was to be abolished. They also state that, notwithstanding this announcement, transportation has been continued up to the present moment; and the bishop, the clergy, and all the free colonists of Tasma nia declare that "the non-fulfilment of this promise is a breach of faith derogatory to the honour of the British nation, and calculated to weaken, if not to de stroy, the feeling of confidence and attachment which Van Diemen's Land has hitherto entertained towards the Imperial Government." They solemnly protest against this breach of faith. They indignantly con tradict a statement said to have been made last year by a Noble Earl in another place, to the effect that they had become less averse to transportation than they were in 1846. They assure the House that they are still utterly hostile to the reception of convicts under any system. They, therefore, claim the fulfilment of the imperial promise, and pray the House to enforce the performance of that promise as speedily as possible. They have also addressed her Majesty for the abolition of transportation to Van Di emen ' s Land. The free la- D e ° arera and mechanics complain that the labour market .as been thereof . overstocked with conv i cts; that in consequence polled totheolisands of free labourers have been com rerneenderw:yate; that if tra ns p ortat i on continue, the d foll ow , till the island become one huge yeelll:3llje7uael: and felons.—(Hem.,) I find that in the sisted of up 25,200 were free, three-fifths, and of tr e the same year a Co to inquire into the effie:e nishment, and its effect penal colonies. Th a the Prime Minister, the population of Van Diemen's Land con- State for the Colonies, th e Right r f ia - e t 2 e ,o s o ir o l p lt e hc_) rsons, of whom about 17,600) were bond. Of the free me4s of o t b : Leoerld House was appointed nd eight-ninths, were men. In u3:3()onf transportation as a pue moral state of the the Noble Lord e.nt,s, the the Baronet Secretary of Secretary of State fur the Home Departm Members of that Committee. They reported at cth were large number of convicts in New South of the session of 1838. They agreed that the aseseenna- Van Diemen's Land, and then New betweenlv a a g l e e s t andt h a e sexes in those colonies, had produced, and were certain to produce (to use the words of the Bi shop and clergy of Tasmania) complicated appalli ng evil : ad : moral and social, which outweighedbeyondl calculation the lucr a ti ve a dvantages from convict labour t o the penal colonies. They therefore recommended that transportation to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land should be discontinued *as soon as possible. On the sth of May, 1840, I took the lib erty as Chairman of that Comm i ttee, to bring griPS rec ommendation under the consideration of the i o e t ! se, and on th e 22d o f t h e same mon th an or d er Council was issued, revoking the order in Council by , . . . ; ' 6 ‘" 4 " kt , i4 u L41.4.1J which New South Wales had been appointed a penal colony. For this great and inestimable boon New South Wales was indebted to the Noble Lord the Prime Mi nister, who was succeeded by Lord Stanley, in 1841, who disregarded every one of the recommendations of the Transportion Committee with regard to Van Diemen's Land. To that colony, previously over crowded with convicts, the Noble Lord transported an nually twice as many convicts as had been transported to it in any previous year; and he subjected more con victs to a system of punishment—namely, the gang system—which the Transportation Committee had espe i cially condemned as the worst form of transportation. It is calcuketed that on account of this influx of convicts, and the consequent overstocking of the labour market, 12,000 free persons were driven out of the colony in the interval between 1841 and 1848. I find on comparing the census of the 31st December, 1842, with that of 1847, that in that interval the criminal population, in cluding the convicts who had become free, had increased more rapidly than the non -convict population had in creased by births and immigration ; that in 1847, of the whole population of the colony above the age of 14, more than two-thirds had been transported ; that of the non convicted portion of the population one-half were under the age of 14; and that of the criminal population only one-sixth were women. The consequence of this congregation of convicts and disproportion of sexes were even worse than the Transportation Committee had an• ticipated. In December, 1845, Lord Stanley left office. His successor, the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford, did not place the same ex plicit faith in the statements of the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. A❑ inquiry was instituted into the state of that colony. The most appalling discoveries were made. It was found that the chain gangs and pro bation parties were, to use the words of Sir James Ste phen, " nothing else than schools of advanced depravity, 1 by which every remaining trace of virtuous habit or sentiment was completely effaced from the mind of the convict." Sir, before a full account of the state of Van Diemen's Land reached this country the Right llon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford had very properly recalled the then Governor of Van Die men's Land, and determined that transportation to that colony should be suspended for two years. In July, 1846, the Right Hon. Gentleman left office, and was suc ceeded by Lord Grey. On the 30th of September of that year the Noble Lord transmitted to Sir William Denison his appointment, with a letter of instructions. In that letter the Noble Lord said he would confine his instructions to the course to be pursued with regard to the convicts in the colony —that on another oc casion, which he trusted would not be remote, "he would be able to explain the views of her Majesty's Government as to the whole system of transpor tation;" but, wrote the Noble Lord, " the resumption of the plan of pouring into Van Diemen's Land such an annual flood of transported convicts as has recently been sent to that island I regard as altogether impossible. Whether any more male convicts will ever be transported to Van Diemen's Land, or to any other place, is a ques tion on which, for the present, I will reserve my opi nion." Sir William Denison left this country, therefore, with the distinct instruction that there were two ques tions with regard to transportation which were un settled; first, whether any more convicts were ever to be transported to any place; secondly, supposing trans portation to be continued, whether any more convicts were ever to be transported to Van Diemen's Land? Sir William Denison arrived in' Van Diemen's Land about the beginning of the year 1847. Soon afterwards, in the month of March, he took steps to ascertain the feeling of the inhabitants of Van Diemen's Lind. He issued a circular to 161 magistrates of the colony, asking for an answer to this question—" Do you consider it desirable that the transportation of convicts to this country should cease altogether?" As soon as this circular was issued, the colony rose to answer it in the affirmative. Sir W. Denison, in an address to the Legislative Council, also pledged himself that the transportation system should not be resumed. Great was the joy of the inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land on receiving this announcement. In reference also to portions of dispatches sent home by Sir William Denison (from which the Honourable Baronet quoted), it is certain that Sir W. Denison did consider that he had pledged, and that he was entitled to pledge, the Imperial faith to the abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land. Now I have heard rumours of insinuations to the effect that Sir W. Denison was not authorised to give that pledge; and it is reported that the Noble Lord the Se cretary of State for the Colonies has, in another place, laid the grounds for such insinuations, by quoting an isolated extract from a letter, written by the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Depart meat. Ido not know whether such quibbles will be re peated to-night; if they are, I shall have an opportunity to answer them in my reply. For the present, I chal lenge the Hon. Gentleman the Under -Secretary of State for the Colonies to assert and prove that Sir William Denison exceeded his authority in declaring that trans portation to Van Diemen's Land should not be resumed. If in so doing Sir William Denison had exceeded his au thority, it was the duty of the Colonial-office, as soon as it was informed of Sir W. Denison's proceedings, to ha►e publicly disavowed him, and to have reprimanded, or even re-called him, for having pledged the Imperial faith to a promise which was not to be performed. The Co lonial -office did nothing of the kind, they merely ac knowledged the valuable information contained is, Sir William Denison's dispatch. I beg the House to ob serve that, on the same occasion, Lord Grey announced that he intended to resume transportation to Van Diemen's Land, and thus do the very thing that his governor had promised that the Noble Lord should RA do. Therefore, on making this announcement, the time, if ever, was come when Lord Grey should, if he could, have disavowed the proceedings of his governor. The condition of a transported convict in a penal colony depends mainly upon rules laid dow❑ by Secretaries of State for the Colonies. Those rules have constituted three distinct classes of convicts. The assigned convicts were those who were given to private individuals as ser vants, arid were compelled to work for their masters without receiving wages. The gang convicts were those who were employed iu parties o❑ the roads and other public works, under the superintendence of officers of the Government ; and the ticket-of -leave convicts are those who are permitted to work on their own account within certain districts specified by the local govern ment. Of these three forms of transportation I think the least objectionable was the assignment system, where the assigned convicts were scattered over the interior of Australia, and not congregated iu the lown. By fir the worst form of transportation was the gang system, which, in the interval between 1841 and 1846, pro duced so horrible a state of things in Van Diemen's Land. Between these two forms of transportation stands the ticket-of-leave system. Because a form of transportation is more or less objectionable in propor tion as it more or less congregates convicts together. Now the ticket-of-leave system does not necessarily herd convicts together as the gang system did, nor does it isolate the convict, as was the case under the best form of the assignment system, but it leaves the convict to a considerable extent at liberty to associate with those persons whom he likes or who will associate with him. Unfortunately, however, in Van Diemen's Land the persons with whom the ticket-of leave convict can associate are chiefly ticket-of-leave men, or persons who have been convicts. First, because the felonry, as they are called, constitute the majority of the population; secondly, because the free settler will not associate with the felonry, whom they despise as a Pariah caste, with feelings similar to, but more intense than, those of the Americans towards the negro. Now, the invariable consequence of the association of convicts is to harden the corrupt in corruption, and to induce back to crime those who have been partially reformed; therefore, if convicts be sent in crowds to a penal colony it matters little to the colony, as far as morality is con cerned, what form of transportation be adopted, provided it be not the worst form of the gang system. This was the opinion of the Transportation Committee. It was also the opinion of Sir William Denison. A similar opinion was expressed by the Right lion. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in a letter to Lord Grey, dated 20th January, 1847. On the sth February, 1847, Lord Grey expressed his entire concurrence with i the views of the Right Hon. Baronet; and on the same day Lord Grey wrote to inform Sir William Denison that it was not the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment that transportation to Van Diemen's Land should be resumed. Some time afterwards Lord Grey changed his mind, and, disregarding the promise which he knew had been made by Sir William Denison, the Noble Lord, on the 27th April, 1848, wrote, as I have already said, a dispatch announcing that exiles, and ticket-of-leave convicts, after their punishment in Pentonville, Gibral tar, and elsewhere, were to be transported collectively to Van Diemen's Land. This dispatch was laid on the table of the Legislative Council of the colony on the 12th of September, 1848. From that period up to the present moment there had been a continual series of public meetings, addresses to her Majesty, petitions to both Houses of Parliament, memorials to the Colonial office, memorials to the Colonial Governor, and protests against transportation, showing a unanimous, energe tic, and dogged determination to compel the Colonial office to keep faith by discontinuing transportation. (Hear, hear.) The year 1850 commenced with a public meeting at Hobart Town, on 30th January. From that meeting I presented last year a petition to this House, signed by 1,424 persons. The petitioners, in addition to their usual complaints, referred to a statement which was made by tho Noble Lord, in the dispatch in which he announced the renewal of transportation to Van Die men's Land. That statement was, " That her Majesty's Government considered it absolutely necessary that the addition to be made to the population of Van Die men's Land from the mother country should not consist entirely, or oven principally, of those who have been tainted with crime, but that arrangements should be made for sending free emigrants in sufficient numbers to neutralise the evil effects of a continual accession of per sons who have incurred by their offences the sentence of transportation." In April, 1850, an event occurred which doubled the excitement in Van Diemen's Land against trunsportation.lt was the arrival at Hobart Town of the ship Neptune, with its cargo of convicts, which the colony of the Cape had rejected. This event pro duced the deepest indignation amongst the colonists of Van Diemen's Land. They looked upon it as an insult as well as an injury. Sir, as I have already said, the bishop, the clergy, and the free colonists of Tasmania have declared, in contradiction of the statement of Lord Grey, that they are utterly hostile to receiving convicts under any system; and with the view of proving Lord Greve'ossnavtosis:ethsretioorgnuttehoenb.e erroneous, in each of the three tu d h is ee t s r se ict s of the colony large public meetings were held last. autumn. From these meetings there emanated Land is e petitions to the other House of Parliament, and ad e collect ive transportation of tralian quivalenteto transportation to all the Aus- Br T it h ish empire to t Van Diemen's colionnietsiesfor there are two causes in operation tient of Australia; ho ee becomes attracting the convict, when . Tehth c , Te r s epel f i r i e n e g , th t e o ex t p h i e ree c f o r n o t m i - Van Diemen's Land. The first cause is the boundless extent of unoccupied land in Australia, of the best qua. lily, containing millions of fertile acres, naturally cleared, waiting only for hands to cultivate them. The demand for these hands attracts labourers from every quarter, and especially from the nearest point, namely, Van Diemen's Land, where a large portion of the li mited extent of the best land is already occupied.— (Hear, hear.) The second cause which repels the free labourer from Van Diemen's Land is the perpetual influx of convict labour which has already overstocked the labour market of Van Diemen's Land. Therefore, every fresh convict who arrives in that colony still further de presses the labour market, and tends to drive out a free settler or an expires; and this process has been so long carried on that three -fourths of the adult male popula tion of Van Diemen's Land are, or have been convicts. In consequence of this preponderance in numbers, the felonry, as they are termed, of Van Diemen's Land have become rampant and insolent. Relying on the authority of Lord Grey, they claim that colony as the patrimony and freehold of the convicted felons of England and the paradise of thieves. Through their organs in the colo nial press, I see th e y t h reaten " to kick out of the co lony the free settlers," whom they denounce as" intru ders" and " Puritan moralists." In opposition to the Anti-Transportation League,and in support of Lord Grey, the felonry have formed a Criminal Aid Society, or Tas manian League. They have rallied round the Govern ment, and, in fact, the only devoted friend and stanch allies upon whom the Colonial-office, can count through out Tasmania, or even Australia, are the felonry of Van Diemen's Laud, under the leadership of the insane rebels from Ireland. I beg the House to observe that the ques tion upon which I te.k for a decision to-night is, not whether there shall or shall not be such a punishment as transportation —upon that question I have repeatedly ex pressed opinions, which are unchanged —the question for the House is, not whether any more convicts shall be transported to any colony, but whether any more con victs shall be transported to Van Diemen's Land with out the consent of its inhabitants? You have laid down the rule with regard to your southern colonies that no convicts shall be sent to any one of them without its con sent. Yon say that Van Diemen's Land shall be the one exception to that rule ; that you created a colony for convicts; that it has been, is, and shall be, a penal colony. Then, I say, you have committed an act of in sanity in giving them free institutions, and arming them with the best weapons to resist your will. I therefore call upon you to keep faith with them, and to extend to them the rule that no convicts shall be transported to them without their consent. I have proved that all classes of free settlers in Van Diemen's Land, that bishop and clergy, magistracy and gentry, tradesmen and labourers, fathers and mothers, are utterly hostile to the receiving of convicts under any system. I have shown that accumulated and appalling evils, moral, political, and social, have resulted, from transportation to Van Diemen's Land. That in consequence of the existence of those evils, which you have repeatedly acknowledged to exist, the Colonial-office did promise—first, in 1846, to suspend transportation to Van Diemen's Land for two years; secondly, in 1847, to discontinue transportation altogether to that island; thirdly, in 1848, that the ad. ditions to be made from this country to the population of that colony should not consist principally of convicts. I have proved from your own dispatches that every one of these promises has been distinctly made, and not one of them has been kept—(Hear, hear)—that in 1846 you did not suspend transportation to Van Diemen's Land; that in 1847 you did not discontinue transportation to that colony; that since 1818 you have poured into Van Diemen's Land four times as many convicts as free emi grents.—(Heas.) I have shown from resolutions agreed to at numerously attended public meetings, and by peti tions signed by every one of note and respectability in Van Diemen's Land, that your faithless and vacillating conduct has produced throughout the whole of Tasmania and Aus tralia the deepest indignation and discontent; that it is destroying the attachment of Van Diemen's Land to this country, and is producing an Australasian league against transportation.—([lear, hear.) I believe such a league amongst colonies with free institutions, situated at the antipodes, cannot be resisted. It appears to me, there fore, that it would be not only just, but wise and prudent, to take steps t) bring about as speedily as possible the discontinuance of transportation to Van Diemen's Land. I exhort and warn the House to suffer no delay in this matter if you hold dear our Australasian dependencies. For many years I have taken the deepest interest in the affairs of those colonies. lam convinced that they are amongst the most valuable . of our colonial possessions, the priceless jewels in the diadem of our colonial empire. I believe they can easily be retained with a little common sense and judgment on our part—that well governed, they would cost little or nothing, but offer us daily im proving markets for our industry, fields for the employ ment of our labour and capital, and happy homes for our surplus p o pulation,--(Cheers.) That Australian empire is in peril from the continuance of transportation to Van Diemen's Land; and it is, therefore, that I now move " That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she may be graciously pleased to discontinue transportation to Van Diemen's Land."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. HUME seconded the motion. Sir the commencement of his speech and at its conclusion, reminded the House that his motion did not affect the continuance or discontinuance of the system of trans portation generally. He stated, and it was true, that his motion related simply to transportation to Van Diemen's Land, and that if the House should agree to it, it would not afract the question whether transporta tion as a system should be continued or not. But he (Sir G. Grey) must remind the House, before he came to deal with the specific grounds upon which the Hon. Gentleman rested his motion, that the greater part of his arguments against the continuance of transporta tion to Van Diemen's Land applied as strongly to trans portation to any other British colony; and that if the House was prepared to agree to his motion on those general grounds, upon which, apart from the specific grounds, be had based the motion, they must be pre pared to encounter the wider and more important ques tion of what they were to do with their criminals, and what sccondary punishments they should substitute for the abolition of transportation. But he would not en large upon that part of the subject then, because the Hon. Gentleman had not asked the House for its opi nion upon it. He presumed, however, that the Hon. Gentleman was not prepared,to advocate the entire abo lition of the system of transportation ; and he must re mind the House, before it decided upon the question be fore it, of the opinions repeatedly expressed by this House on the continuance of transportation, and the opi nion expressed by the Committee of 1837, in which the Hon. Baronet took so able and so active a part, and which consisted of Hon. Members who had paid very great attention to the subject, but who, in their report, expressed their opinion that it was essential that there should be, as part of a system of punishment, the ulti mate removal of convicted criminals from this country to some portion of our colonial possessions. The report of that Committee stated that it was necessary to continue the system of transportati on under a modified form, on account of the great advantage it afforded of enabling convicts, under certain conditions, to commence a new career in another land, and to obtain a livelihood which the state of the labour market in this country prevented their doing. Subsequently to that period the question had been frequently before the House, and an opinion had been i formly express e d b y the House un y , aps not b actual votes, b u t i n t h e frequent discussions which had taken place on the question, that transportation as a punishment should be continued—not as it was con ducted prior to 1846, but as it had been since carried on, under a modified system, after the convicts had un dergone a system of reformation in this country, so as to remove the evils which arose from the accumulation of a large number of unreformed criminals. In 1847 and 1848 a Committee of the House of Lords also recorded their deliberate opinion that transportation ought not to be abandoned. He recalled those reports to the recol lection of the House in order that, in dealing with the question, they might not so treat it as to prevent the Government carrying into effect the views both of Go vernment and Parliament with regard to transportation. Bat with regard to the narrower question as to the con tinuance of transportation to Van Diemen's Land, he would not contend against the evidence the Honourable Gentleman had adduced to the House, but would admit there was a general desire amongst the inhabitants of that colony for the abolition of transportation under any circumstances. The Honourable Gentle man had alluded to the petitions to that House, and the addresses to the Queen, from inhabitants of great respectability in the colony, praying that no convicts, under any circumstances might be sent out there. But he thought those statements were greatly exaggerated, and that justice would not be done to the colony if they were to take them as containing an acourate description of its condition. The Hon. Gentleman relies, as the chief support of his motion, on the alleged promises of the Government on the subject —on what he called the pledged faith of the Government that transportation to Van Diemen's Land should ultimately tease. If the Hon. Gentleman could prove that the faith of the Go vernment was pledged, it would certainly be a strong ground for his motion. But the Hon. Gentleman over stated the case when he said the faith of the Govern ment was pledged. The extracts which he had read only showed that transportation as carried on before 1846 was not to be resumed—that the social evils re sulting from that exploded system were frightful, owing to the vast accumulation of convicts in the colony. Th e Government a the late Sir R. Peel, prior to leaving office in 1846, had resolved to suspend transportation to Van Diemen's Land for two years, on account of those evils, and when the present Government suc ceeded them in office, they on becoming acquainted with the decision of their predecessors, and of the great social evils arising from transportation as then praotised, as well as the over -stocked state of their labour market in the colony, adopted that decision, and announced that transportation to Van Diemen's Land would be sus pended for two years. The Hon. Gentleman then charged them with a broach of faith, because in 1846 and 1847 a largo number of convicts had arrived in Van Diemen's Land, but that arose from their having left this country in the beginning of 1846, prior to that de cision having been announced by the Government; but in 1847, as far as his information went, not a single con vict arrived in the colony; at all events, if any did, it must have been a portion of those who left England prior to the suspension of transportation in August 1846. The Hon. Gentleman had referred to the views and intentions of the Government on the subject of transportation, as set forth in a dispatch of Lord Grey's to Sir W. Denison. But he (Sir G. Grey) admitted that those views and intentions were modified by the practical difficulty which they had found in the way of carrying th em i nto effect. He regretted they should I RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN. have experien ce d suc h di ff i culties, and that those 'views Geescow and opinion s w hi c h , i n the abstract, he believed to be to, e Week e AND SOU TH -W ESTERN R AlL w A Y.—Traffic fo r ending May o), Goods, 17,&c., 1851 :-- Passengers (22,91- I right, could n o t b e carried into full operation on account I of those practical difficulties. What Lo r d G rey po i nted and Horses and Ca rr iag es ....C3,725 3 9 to in the dispatch quoted by the Hon. Gentleman was Corresponding week in last year the ultimate removal from this country of convict, in an gfoorDumfs, and Glasgow r a i n e d Ayr and state o f pro b ation to the Australian colonies R ow, .323 9 9 generally, and ho i n di cate d the particular advantages Glasgow, May 1 .. - .e. 9, 1851. ,< i `. possessed by the Australian colonies for effecting the dispersion of convicts in that stage of their probation in which they would arrive there. The dispatch clearly pointed, not to the abolition of transportation, but of the severer portion of the punishment, as practised under the old system, and referred to the forced removal of exiles after their term of probation in Pentonville had expired. Lord Grey contemplated that the exile system should be extended to the great mass of convicts, and that when they arrived in the colony they might be free to obtain their own living, :übject to the restrictions enforced under Lord Stanley's regulations, which were merely that they should not return to this country during the existence of their conditional pardon. In addition to that dispatch there was published a correspondence which took place in this country, in which it was distinctly stated that those were the views entertained by the Government. Sir W. Denison had put a larger construction upon those documents than they were meant to bear. He did not blame him for that, because the language used in them was the language of hope, and was of a more sanguine character than perhaps he (Sir G. Grey) would now use. Ultimately, however, the system of exile was abandoned, and substituted by one in which the convicts were sent out with tickets of leave. The exile system, though good in many respects, did not apply advantageouly to a large number of convicts, for the freedom from all control which it afforded to con victs was attended with evils of which the colonists had a right to complain. The tickets of leave, on the other hand, subjected them to a system of discipline to which they could not have been subjected when holding a con ditional pardon. In the dispatch in which Sir W. De nison had spoken of his general expectation that trans portation would be abandoned, he qualified his approval of the decision by stating thut they should " make every possible arrangement, financial as well as administrative, by which the colony would be enabled to provide for the various difficulties arising from a change of system." Sir W. Denison pointed then to the dangerous conse quences likely to arise from the sadden abolition of trans portation, as there would be a great demand for labour, which could not be supplied. However, since that, statements had been made from time to time by Sir W. Denison on the subject of the suspending of transporta - tion, by which it appeared there was a rising demand for labour. On the 20th February, 1849, be wrote that an annual supply of about 700 or 800 men per annum would satisfy the demand for labour; the next year that demand had so increased that he considered an annual importation of 1,500 men would not do more than ade quately supply the labour market. He (Sir G. Grey) mentioned these things to show that one of the evils of which the colonists complained—viz., the accumulation of convicts, had been removed by the suspension of transportation. With regard to what had been since done the Hon. Gentleman had been misinformed as to the number of convicts sent out. In a document on the subject which appeared in the morning papers of that day, it was stated that 30,000 convicts had been sent to Van Diemen's Land since 1840. The Hon. Gentleman had also stated that a large number had been sent out of late years. The Hon. Gentleman's estimate, how ever, considerably exceeded the actual state of things. According to the records of the Home and Colonial offices there had been 'sent to Van Diemen's Land since 1840, inclusive of that year, 22,506 male convicts; of which number there were sent out during the first six years of the period, not including 1846, 17,675; and since 1846, including that year, 4,831. The year before last only 300 convicts had arrived in the colony; but he admitted that last year the number had been considerable. In July, 1846, the number of convicts in the colony was 30,507, male and female; in July, 1810, it was reduced to 21,405, being a decrease of 9,000, or one-third of the whole number. That showed the effect of tho suspension of transportation for two years, and also how diminished were the num bers sent out since transportation had been resumed. He admitted, however, that Van Diemen's Land had reason to complain, and that it was the duty of the Go vernment to attend to those complaints, and to endeavour to relieve the colony from the aggravated pressure of convicts. But he thought before proceeding further, that it was justice to the colony to show that its condition was not so bad as had been represented. A dispatch of Sir W. Denison, dated November 15th, 1848, and another dispatch, dated January 15th, 1851, showed the prosperous state of the colony, and its improved condi tion in a moral and social point of view, in consequence of the better and more reformed class of convicts replac ing those sent out before 1846. The Hon. Gentleman said the moral taint was the same in whatever stage the convicts arrived in the colony. But all the evidence on the subject was opposed to that opinion.—(Hear.) For instance, the report of the Pentonville commis sion, which had been signed by the Hon. Gentleman himself', declared that the greater number of the Penton villa exiles became good and useful servants; and the report of Mr. Boyd, the superintendent of convicts, spoke of the Parkhurst convicts as having turned out industrious in their habits and moral in their conduct; while those from Portland were described as decidedly superior to the hulk-men. Transportation might not be considered to be now what it once was under the old system, when the convicts taken, without previous care, were crowded together in gangs, without any proper or moral superintendence. Transportation, conducted as at present, under a modified system, must not be as sumed to produce the same evil effects. The opinion of Sir W. Denison was very explicit on the subject, as might be seen in his dispatch of Nov. 27, 1850, which had been lately laid on the table of the House. In that dispatch Sir W. Denison stated that the state of Van Diemen's Land, in all its social and moral relations, would not suffer by comparison with the state of any one of the colonies on the main land of Australia. In another dispatch, in which he had transmitted an Address to the Crown from the bishop and clergy of Van Diemen's Land, Sir W. Denison stated that he did not concur in the general statements of that Ad dress; that he still retained the opinion already ad dressed to the home Government, in which he took a different view of the moral condition of the colony from that of the clergy. The evils at present existing in Van Diemen's Land did not arise from sending out there a small number of improved convicts under the present system, but were the results of the too long continu ance of the old system. Though the views of the Go vernment as to the dispersion of convicts as widely as possible have been thwarted by the unwillingness of the colonists to receive convicts in any stage of their sen tence, with a view to that dispersion, the Government were not without a means of meeting the difficulty. Had the system been carried out as it was originally proposed the solution of the difficulty would have been more easy. In the present state of circumstances it was difficult and dangerous to speak more openly on the matter, for the expression of their views might create an opposition to their being carried into effect. However, he thought there were some means in view by which they might dispose of their convicts its a way to meet the wishes of the colonies. Western Australia had petitioned to have convicts sent oat there, and ho thought the number that might be sent out there at present was about 500. In page 42 of the papers before the House would be found an account of a meeting of the inhabitants held on the 10th of July, 1850, in which they resolved to request from the Government the importation of convicts, which was ac ceded to on their undertaking the charges consequent on that step. The works, however, on which the convicts were employed would remunerate the colony, while the advantages of the prosperity which would bo created by the development of the resources of the colony would be reflected back on this country; and although we might incur some considerable charges in the first instance, he believed it would be all ultimately repaid by the bene ficial results that would flow from the measure. There was another district, also, which asked for convicts to be supplied to it—not to be worked under the old system of gangs, but under the modified system adopted since 1846; that was Moreton Bay, the inhabitants of which had made an application to the Government on the sub ject, which would be found in the papers that bad been presented to the House on the 6th of the present month. They had still more recent information on the subject in the newspapers of the colony which arrived within the last day or two, and which were dated so late as January in the present year. Two papers which took a very opposite set of views —viz., the Moreton Bay Free Press and the Moreton Bay Courier, contained an ac count of a meeting at which resolutions were adopted, expressing in the strongest manner the sense of the in habitants as to the absolute necessity of supplying the district with convict labour under the new system to which he had referred. Among those by whom peti tions had been presented were many men who, up to that time, had entertained opposite opinions on the subject, but who manfully came forward to bear the testimony of their own experience to the beneficial nature of the acts of the Government. They now stated they could take 2,000 convicts annually. 'ln stating these facts he (Sir G. Grey) only meant to say that the Government hoped to avail itself of other outlets for convicts, and so to re lieve Van Di emen ' s L and of the pressure of transporta tion to that ext en t. H e was quite willing to admit the disadvantages and the evils of the present system; and he sympathised with those who complained of the social and moral injury it inflicted on a colony ; and it was, as he had stated, the desire and wish of the Go vernment, without giving any pledge on the subject in consistent with their dnty, to pay all due attention to the representations of the colonists on that point, and find other outlets, if poisible, for convicts. He al luded t o th e l etter of a retired Indian officer to Sir W. Denison, to be fou n d i n the papers laid on the table of o the n ll disappointmento se, for the purpose a t the sta o t f e and do alsocam efertothtehopceorploensye ofb iiasodseodoinbgoraeo testimonyex a s o h f o m w o i n r g a s that in t h a e c w o i l t o n n e y " , mination to in h t ie o l the facts that emigrants might not be deterred from going thither. With regard to the motion before the House, he hoped th e House would not by its hasty adoptionimpose on the Government greater difficulty and embarrassment than they had already to encounter in carrying out the sentence of transportation, or at tempt, by removing one evil, to create another. He hoped they would be satisfied with the desire of the Government to act justly and impartially towards the colony, and he, therefore, trusted they would reject tho motion. Mr. ANSTEY was surprised at the authorities quoted by the Right Hon. Gentleman, inasmuch as Moreton Bay was the squatting district of New South Wales. 'The whole of the respectable inhabitants of the colony bad uniformly protested against the system of convict transportation. An HoN. MEstaEa here moved the House be counted. There were only 31 Members present; and the House stood adj ourne d accordingly at Half-past Seven o'clock, LICE INTELLIGENCE. MARY LEBONE. FRAUDULENT ACT OF A PAW NBR OKER. tol.—Yesterd a y M r. Charles Walters, a pawnbr oker,court, carrying on bu s i ness i n Hi gh-street, FIN E 01r ar attended befor e M r . B roughton, pursuantntte this , the informer, to a summons obtained again s t hi m b y Ch arles Wyatt, charging him with demanding and receiving more in terest than by law allowed. Mr. Humph re y s , solicitor, appear ed for the de. fondant. n andded Moses Thomas deposed that on wthaetch26fothr 2u1.1t1.0/:., 0 pledged at th e d e f en d an t's shop a gold . and redeemed it on the same day; u . the interest demanded i ema t was 10d., which was an unjust claim, the p a , brought the watch away. By Mr. Humphreys —I have since been to the sh D and pawned a watch and chain. I have not at awnyyaliticise called upon Mr. Walters and told him that gpbro"duced relating price would be 5/. to , put matters w to er r e i A ticket ands duplicate thereof - • to the watch. Alfred Hodson, assistant to Mr. Walters, examined the tickets brought forward, and said he had written them dee by meddirection of the forem an a f ter the things had been re . A great deal of evidence Was gone into in addition to that prcriously given, end The MAGISTRATE ultimately came to the conclusion that defendant had rendered himself amenable to a penalty in the full amount awarded by Act of Parlia ment. The tickets produced were sworn to as not being those which were issued at the time of the pledging, and he (the magistrate), looking at the trickery which had been practised, felt himself bound to fine defendant 10Z and costs. Wyatt had another case against defendant, but he Withdrew it upon payment of his costs for summons. Edward Rog CLERKENIVELL. ers, alias Clement Perry, a young man. was placed at the bar before Mr. Combo, charged by Mrs. Ann Golding, an elderly lady residing at No. 35, Upper North-place, Gray's lon-road, with stealing a will, in which she had an interest of 1,0001. Mr. Humphrey attended for the prosecution. the evidence of &he proem r t i _ I It oppeored fnin z th I CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY.) William Day surrendered to take his trial for misde meanour, upon an indictment preferred against him under the statute known as the Bishop of Oxford's Act, for con spiring to procure the defilement of Harriet Newman, she being under 21 years of age. Mr. Horry prosecuted, and Mr. Payne defended. The Learned Counsel having stated the case, called The prosecutrix, who is rather a good-looking and quiet-mannered girl, who stated that she was just turned nineteen years of age, and lived with ber father and mother in Manning-street, Newman's-fields, Limehouse, having received a letter, purporting to come from a young man named Richard Roberts, with whom she had for some time kept company, she went, in accordance with an appointment made in the letter, at about five o'clock in the evening of the 31st of March, to the Ben Jonson, at Stepney, whore she saw the prisoner, whom she had not before known. He came up and asked her if her name was Harriet Newman. She said it was. lie said, "Are you not waiting to see Richard It )berts?" She said she was. He then said he had come and would take her to him. She asked him why he had not come him self, and prisoner said, "He was ashamed to come," and witness added, " And well he might." She then followed him a short way down by the Ben Jonson, where he beckoned a cab, and taking her by the arm said she must go with him. She resisted, but he told the cab man she was his wife, and with the cabman forced her into the cab, and jumping in himself the man drove on. Prisoner then put a handkerchief over her mouth, and she became insensible, and when she recovered found herself on a sofa in a large house, she did not know where, or hod ever been able to find out. A young wo man sat opposite to her and asked her if she was better. Witness said she did not know she was ill. The woman asked her if she knew where she was; she said she did not. The woman told her that if she was a respectable girl she had better leave the house as soon as she could, and gave her a knife to defend herself with. An elderly woman then came into the room and said she must stop all night, and should be made a lady of. She pressed some drink on her, which she said would make her better, the effects of which drink witness immediately felt, and made an attempt to get away, but the old wo man stopped her and made a noise, which brought three gentlemen down stairs and one put his watch and chain round her neck, made improper overtures to her, and forced her back upon the sofa. She took the watch off, and threw it on the floor, and with the knife cut the woman in the arm; she also threw the tumblers and glasses at them, and cut one of the gentlemen in the hand; and, finally, she dropped the knife, and they then tried to force her upstairs, but, finding that she still resisted, one of them called Day, and told him to get a cab and take her away; and he said if she would go quietly he would take her home to her father. She felt much stupified and got into the cab with Day, and they drove off until they came to a dark street, when ho got her out and said they would walk the rest; they got a short way down the street; she felt that the use of her limbs was going, and prisoner left her on the step of a door with a direction in her hand, and she then became insensible, and the next day found herself in the hospital. She was very ill, but recovered; and on the Saturday after she went with a constable to a beer shop in Holywell-street, and there saw the prisoner, who was differently dressed. The prosecutrix underwent a searching cross-exami nation by Mr. PAYNE, who failed to shake her testimony lI or elicit anythin g t o h er discredit. She positively de niedd that she had got Mr. Woodfield to write the notes for the address found in her hand. She had never beg ged of Mrs. 'Woodfield " not to split, or she would be ruined." She first knew her from coming to their house to tell fortunes. Mrs. Woodfield came to them and of fered her assistance, saying that she would give a lift that would transport him (prisoner). Francis Hillyer, 47 0, said that he found the prose cutrix early on the morning of the Ist of April on a step in Sutton -street, Clerkenwell. She was quite insensible, and was obliged to be taken on the stretcher to the hospital. Mrs. Eliza Randall, nurse at the Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-lane, said that prosecutrix was brought in at about two o'clock in the morning. She was in a state of stu por, and did not recover until ten o'clock the next day. Her dress was torn, and her hands were bleeding, but she had no marks of violence on her person. As soon as she was conscious she told her the same story as she had all along. Mr. Tindal Robertson, house surgeon at the hos pital, deposed to attending the prosecutrix, who was in there for five days. He had examined her, and found her body quite free from any violence, nor had any liberties been taken with her, and bho was a virtu ous girl. From the rest of the evidence it appeared that al though the prosecutrix did not know Day, he was known to Roberts, her sweetheart, but he had not in formed him of their acquaintance or courtship. When she first made the statement to the police, Roberts was taken, but at once discharged; and after then he saw the prisoner at the Standard Theatre, and told him what he had been charged with, and the prisoner, in the presence of two or three companions, said that he had had a fine lark with a girl in a cab, and had been driving her about all night. Roberts asked him where he had left her, and ho said near Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. Roberts made some remark upon that, and the prisoner got away from their company. When prosecutrix went with the policeman eke at once pointed the prisoner out, and when he was taken and saw her he said, " Oh! that's you." Ou the police constable searching his lodgings some clothes answering the description given by the pro secutrix of those she wore on the night in question were found. After the first examination Roberts went to see the prisoner at the House of Detention. Prisoner said it was a bad job, and Roberts was the only one who could save him, if ho c ould see the girl and "get her to try to make a flaw in the indictment." It was also proved that the prisoner had made statements to others about the lark he had had with the girl in the cab, and that he had been absent from his home all that night. Mr. PAYNE, for the defence, contended at some length upon the glaring improbability of the story told by the girl, and said that, not only should he prove an alibi, but that the whole affair was a trumped up fabrication for the purposes of extortion. The LEARNED COUNSEL then called a host of wit nesses to prove were the prisoner was at the hour the girl said sho first met him; but they all disagreed about the time, and not one could account for where he was all the night. Mr. PAYNE then called Mrs. Woodfield, the alleged fortune teller, a dirty gipsy-looking old woman, and the instant she got into the witness-box she, without being asked, said that she had known the girl Newman from 4 child, and that she was 23 years of age. That she had written the letter, supposed to come from Roberts, at the direction of the girl herself, and also the address found in her hand. Newman said they were going to have a lark. When she spoke to Newman of the serious nature of the charge she begged that witness would not split, as it would ruin her. She denied that she lived by telling fortunes. She lived by writing letters and needle work. In cross-examination it appeared that she had acted as an attorney in getting up the defence. She had been in the House of Correction for an assault. A woman spit at her and she cut her head open with a quart pot. Wit ness got fourteen days in the prison and the woman a i l month in the hospital. Mr. Hoene , having replied, Mr. GURNEY summed up, and in doing so said, the zeal shown by the woman Woodfield was evidenced by the remark she had made about the girl's age, which, if proved, would have defeated the principal counts in the indictment—a thing she seemed to be aware of. The jury having retired for a quarter of an hour, re turned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. GURNEY, in passing sentence, said the prisoner's offence was a very bad one, and had been aggravated by the defence set up. There could be no doubt but that girl had been drugged and taken to that house for the purpose of defilement, and he had now, by the defence, sought to blast her character by attributing to her perjury. He was then sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The parties had scarcely left the court when the woman Woodfield was brought back by one of the officers, charged with threatening the girl Newman at the door of the court, Mr. GIIINEY having heard her explanation, cautioned her as to her future conduct, and she left the court taking oaths as to the prisoner's innocence, and anathe matising the parties concerned in his conviction. The Common Sergeant sat in the New Court, and disposed of several cases unfit for publication; and the above case, which lasted from the sitting of the court until late in the evening, ended the session. The next sittings are on Monday, Juno. 16. i LI PO- Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week :.•-• Wheat, 21. Barley, 18. Oats, 483. Pigs, —. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURRENCY. 82; First quality ... ......... 66 .. 73 : First quality Second quality .......... Third quality ... 63s Third qua l ity..., ms 47; Fourth quality Fifth quality 278 Sixth quality ...... ...... ••• •••... ..... 36s Sixth quality Return of Cattle sold for the week ending May 10: — Pigs, 326. Sheep, 365. Cows, 89. CORE. —Flo ur —Fi rst 11s 6d to 12 5 Od; extra 12; 6d ; seconds, 10s 6d to Ils Od; households 9s to 101 Od; thirds, is to 8t per cwt. O a t mea l 1 0; to 10s 6d; Indian meal 78 6d to 8s 3d ; wheat meal, 98 6d to lOsper cwt. Indian corn 71 15s Od to 81550 d per ton. Bran 80s Od to 855 per ton. Hay—Farmers 23s to 50s; average 348; dealers 008 to 00s Od; average 00s per ton. Straw—Farmers 25; Od to 28, Od ; average 00s ; dealers 00s Od to 00s 0 1 ; average 00s Od per ton. Bread —Wheaten loaf 50 to 6d; household loaf 4d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d W 12d per lb. Eggs -3s 4d to 38 Gd per hundred. Coals—• &wood 14s Od; Lydney 158; Landore 148 ; Neath Wats 13s 6d per ton. Tallow 38; Od to 405 per owt. Whisky, 25 o. p., bs 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 40 to 60 ; mutton 5d to 7d ; veal 4d to 5d ; pork 4d to Od; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausag es 5d per lb. Hops 6/ 108 to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates3/ f 15 2 1 to 6 0/; Fre nch s 6d to 315 per ton. Bark —Barbary 710 s to 8/ Os; Valo la s to 4 158 per stone. 6/ Os Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece Woo l herrings 19s to 008; red Hemp 32/ to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotc h dland, 10/ Os to 11/ per ditto, 268 to 00s per barrel ; per lSTe t o n ; pine, 31 10s ; yellow ton. Timber—Memel, d 8 29; 2 1,: t0 t0 15s per 100. Hides—. ditto, 2/ 15s per ton ; 34s per owt ; calf skins Market 24s to 345; salted Potatoes,s white 9d to 10d ; Minions, 30 to 30 per lb. 12d to 14d. Guano—Peruvian. 11/ 10s ; I c h a b oe, 8/ to 910 s per ton. T ar —Arc hang el , 1 9 a , el, per Darrel. ( ADVERTISEM ENT.) Holloway' s Oi ntment and of a youth, th e C s a o n n ce o r f ou il s ir. W j o am un e d s s, A a v n or d y, o o ld t 'and during that period many remedies were tried, Psoilrless.fo_r -Asa Curee ryy Ramsey, was severeiy . allicted with scrofulous wounds for three or four years, 8 benefit teAir . Joseph whatever being s ergdeearni Sergeant, d e fromhemi chemist, m a . In Ramse s , recommended him to use Holloway's Ointment and illsa - rd these invaluable medicines have been the means of but with e P ffect ' ually curing the boy of his shocking complaint in a very oduetpohrea least l e brief space of time, They are an efficacious remed le',, old sores, gout, and r h eumatism. —Sold by all y for Drug bad gist and at Professor H o ll oway ' s Establishment, 244, Strand London. GLASGOW, MAT 17.--This has been a very fever ish week in the cotton market from the continued news of increased supplies at the American ports. Under the in fluence of the panic prices fell in the early part of the week from id. toe Aid. per lb.; but yesterday and to-day a better feeling prevailed, transactions were effected to a consider.. able extent, and the loss in the early part of the week has been nearly made U. Goods and yarns have been also very dull, a n d so f cannot ew transacti ons i n power-loom goods that prices well be quoted. Production, however, is now much lessoned, and it is hoped ere long the market will right itself. Pig Iron —Our mark e t h as b een very quiet during the week, and a slight decline in price has taken place, but dawithout any increase in the amount of business doing. To y the quotations are, No. 1 or 3,40 s. sellers; buyers at 6d., either for warrants or against bill of lading; No. I G artsherrie, 41s. cash. .....1.1.11,0...--- HULL, MAY 20. —With tbe Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—W• - d exception of some ;heavy showers on Sunday and Yestecalli we have had fine weather since this day se'nnight. Arri... i , have been moderate during the week, but no extent of bu tt i er ness has been transacted. At to.day's market we had a b e ip t show of wheat, and best samples were free sale at fully 3-a s week's rates, and in some instances more money was paid ; ` .. ' - a , to 403 is the value of good t 3lb red ; anything inferierbro, neglected. More inquiry for foreign at late prices. 'ln Kati in we note no alteration—the demand is only moderate. —in brisk demand, and each arrival goes off readily as it Comee to hand. B eans and peas are without change. The Lino° d market is quiet ; cakes may be readily bought at our tinnt,t; • tions. R a p esee d and cakes remain as before. Bones are good demand at our quotations. The following are ,1 the present prices of grain:— e s. s. Wheat, Engli s h, re d 38 to 41 1 Peas, white and yd. 26 --• '''' Do. white 42 46 Do. grey Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 4B —po ,4 nigsberg 4O 45 Do. Petersburgh ... 42 ---- I `,', Pomeranian and Hamburgh Danish, Holstein, & Par toll KonigsbergA rc h n . g .. 1 : g z . 4,; Friesland ......... 35 37 Lins. c,Hull 61 175 6d to 0/ Oa Russian and Odessa 32 38 Do. fine foreign Oats, English .... 20 —22 Do. inf. foreign... 0/ to 51 155 Do. Danish-- ....... 18 20 Rapeseed ....... ... 25/ to 001 Do. Friesla n d ......... 20 --22;Rape eakes...Bos Od to 00 s Oct Do. Russ. & Od essa 00 o,)lTares, English Barley, m a l t i ng...... 25 —2 8 j foreign ............ 23s 308 Do. grinding........ 21 22IGuano .............. 6/ to 101 100 Beans ............... .. 28 30 • Bones, do 100 s Od to 00d Do., foreign 26 29, Rye Meal 6l 01 CORK, MAY 19. Barrels. 0 White wh ea t ...0 0s Od to 00s Od 00s Od-2 . 0 Currency stono 0 Red wheat ...... 00s Od to 00 s Od 00s Od-20 0 Barley ......... 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od-16 do 0 Bere 0 Pigs .......... 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:— 0 barrels white wheat ; 0 red ; 0 barley ; 0 bens; 29 NM; 0 pigs. BIRTH& OF A SOW. On the 16th inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of G. Suther land, Esq., of Fores, Caithness, N. 8., of an heir. On the 16th inst., in Queen Ann•street, the wife of John Wickens, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 17th inst., in Manchester-square, the Wife of Henry W. Fuller, M.D. On the 16th inst., at Elizabeth-street, Eaton-square, the wife of Edward L. Webb, Esq. AttIRRIED. On the 15th in3t ,at Llancarren Church, Her efordshire, e Rev. W. M. S c h n ibb en , curate o f W igton, Cumberland, ttho Charlotte; and at the same time and place, Thornton G. Frsactoof , Esq., of Upper mas Tuls Pear e. hill, Brixton, to Harriett, daugh- Herefordshire, te the late 'Thoce , Esq., of Ll angarren Court, On the 17th inst., at St. Katherine Coleman, Fencburch fstreet, Edward F of ord, atlin Esq , of King•dow n , B ristol, to Ellen, fourth J. Cg, Esq., of Eist Barnet, Herts. ____ On the 14th inst., at St. DIED Cuthbert's, Bedf or d , aged 59, George Dance, Esq., formerly of the War-oflic On the 16th inst., at York-terrace. R egent ' s- e. park, Charles Shillito, M.D., late of Putney, aged 69. On the 1 5th moat , at Cheltenham, Harriet, relict of the late Colonel Andrew Glasse, of the Bengal Artillery, aged 77. On the 15th inst., in Saville-row, Alajor-General Sir William Morison, K.C.8., for Clackmannan and Kinross. ondons Printed No. 112 and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of Strand, Printer, at Th e S un Office, No' 112, , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the eeriZ 3 q 91 Atlddleie Wedilifgkr e Ala 21 1 Mt AMENT. the prisoner, who was an advertising agent reeidirti l Lewisham, was her nephew, end she reposed great cc fidence in him. A gent l eman named Green died, ,12e bequeath e d to h er 1,000/, leaving th e will to that er, in her po ssess i on. In 1848 she deputed the prisoner,' take the will to Basingstoke in order to make some! quiries respecting it, and he subsequently returned i‘: her, when she deposited it in a drawer, and the prig)! knew that she kept it there. He had no interest in will. On Thursday last she missed the will fto o the drawer in her bedroom. She suspected 0 prisoner, and requested Mr. Cheltnam, 8 r ie o 'ation of hers, to have an interview with the prig?; il and to question him upon the subject, when he 22 , 1u tt , might be among some of his family papers at Lewil it and afterwards that it was in the possession otdbi Hookhain, of Bream's -buildings, Chancery-lane, and would bare to pay 2/. for its restoration. She consu i with the police and gave the prisoner into custodb 11 1 l he was brought to this court. Mr. Robert Charles Cheltnam gave confirmatel evidence. Mr. COM BE caut i oned the prisoner that be w" ael bound to say a nyt hi ng to the charge. If he chose t, do so, what ho said would be taken down in writing as might he used against him at his trial. ill The prison er pers i sted in making a long state ment, which he was stopped by at Mr. COMBE, who r eman d e d hi m f or t h e a ttendance other necessary witnesses. TAMES. STRAY BANK-NOTES.— H Daniel Horn, 35, tirop,-- of 2, Sun Tavern-fields, Ratcliffe, and Caroline, r wife, a ge d 37, were brought up by Potter, 212 S i ' unau the following circumstances:— It appe are d that between three and four o'cloel%l Thursday last, Mr. Thomas Biddulph, whilst Pe7 o / through R opernakers'-fields, droppcd four 51. B ank linglaed notes from his pocket, and about the so „ if a woman named Stevenson, residing near the P lace ' s a person very like the female prisoner, and dresse d a. the same manner, pick up a small arcel, which s h° ,: i t folded, and which appeared to witness to be banknotes. After looking at them very attentively the woman ran away. Information was given to Potter who subsea discovered that the male prisoner had Offered four 51 '„ 13 : 0 of to a fellow ropemaker named Friercks, for the g 15/., accounting for his possession of them 1 1 6 , 4 ;; s lD ed that his wife had picked them up. Friercks s''," A k e him to wait till a reward was offered, or „ lo t h - re them to the station-house; but the prisoner 01 , 1 1, i " c e hs was no harm in disposing of them. l et hal kept them a day to see if there was a reward, s e r i da/ returned them to the prisoner. Potter went Ye l- w 'fs morning to the prisoner's house, and asked his I whether she had not found four 5/. notes, telling begrbe reward of 51. was offered for their restoration, p denied all k now l e d ge of the matter. He then 01 11 / - . 0 and saw he r h us b and, who also denied knowing the thing of the notes, on which be took them both „d to station-house. After lodging them there he retur n ' t he search their reaidence, and found 6/. concealed flP fs - c i chimney, on which he went back and mentioned t he n ii - se to the male prisoner, who said, " Well, there is n " .a f orgl in denying it. I sold the notes to a man named m" for 11/, of which he gave me the six." hist• John Brown said he met the prisoner on FridaY s - t he at the Duke of Rent. Horn mentioned the fact I,', etl notes to him, offering to sell them, and witness pur c "„l them next day for 121. He had since passed then i. °- ed Potter —Be told me,: your Worship, that he Chang them at several shops in the City. 'The case w as remanded to afford the constah,e as opportunity of trying to trace the notes. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICH, MA T 20. dir• The market was very scantily supplied with wheat t v e to demand were made at same prices as last week, and rather ti ' d t o demand was exhibited. The market was entirely confine d wheat. .TES . PER QUARTER. PER OA' 001 . t ° n os Wheat, red ...... 3Bt to co o Ditto, white......, 00s to Of Barley, malting ... 24s to 28s Rye Ditto, grinding ... 00s to 00, Malt ....... Beans ........ ..... 2 , 3 s to 28s Flour, per sack AVERAGES FOR THE WEER ENDING MAY 17, 1 0 - 1 “ Wheat .............. 868 quarters, at 39s 3 d Barley ............. .. 153 „ 26s lid Oats ........ —. ... • 20 „ 20s Od Beans .................. 32 „ 28. bd 00s 0, Peas ___ ° -~~ lag Tie Sal, tlaj ! tre, tics dine ope]