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began td tale their own arrangements. In Ultra-liberal Press complain of the inveterate 1828 treaties were concluded between Prussia loyalty of the people. Some curious specimens of and Hesse, between Wurternberg and .Ba= this arc to be found in an article of the Foreign - • varig, -and other smaller_sta.tes. This treaty Quarterly Review, just published :—" An ox between Prussia and Hess', stipulated for the is a brute (says l e loerne, a writer reviewed in the suppression of the line' of custom-houses on article), but he has a will of his own, and he has their respective frontiers„ . and the establishment horns. We are sheep—shorn, miserable sheep. of a new tariff' coqforrnalVe to the Prussian No wonder that the Germans draw the carriages tariff In 1829 a corrirni rcicl treaty of a mere of their Princes and their opera-singers ; are important character was concluded at Berlin, they a whit better than horses ? * t * * between Prussia and the Grand Duke of Hesse Whence comes this servile character of the Ger on one side, and Bavaria and Wurtemberia on mans I know not, but they have always been the other, which sealed the doom of the trade so. I believe they must have had their origin in of the smaller states. Wl ten we find room, we Asia; they must have been a sort of Paris - caste, shall insert that documen t entire, in order to who, not being able to subsist there, emigrated." a show the spirit in which the arrangement was —But in Ireland, a t a signal, an hundred thou made. It is sufficient. at present to state, that sand men can be- assembled at a tithe auction, a the Bavarians, Wurtembergers, and Hessians, meeting for the repeal of the Union, or to dis who entered into this unequal treaty, adopted courage the use of Irish manufactures. The the prohibitory syiitem of Prussia, and deprived violence of writers and speakers is not thrown themselves of the advantages of the markets of away on the people of Ireland. The hotter, the France, England, and America, without any welcomer. As a s p ec i men o f w h at i s now h a il e d equivalent. The subjects of these states are with welcome in Ireland, we take the following compelled, by this treaty, to use the dearer and extract from a Paper lately the subject of prose less perfect manufactures of Prussia, to the ex- cation, which has attained considerable popula elusion of England and France, that they may -rity. Speaking of the manner in which the De gratify their Powrilful confederate by concurring putation at Cork was received by Lord Angle in a policy irkirious even to herself, hut ten sea, the writer exclaims : times more injurious to them. But as we have " And how were they received? Why, with supercili not space to nuances and petul a nce ! Wh a t w as th e answ e r th e y re conclude our observations to - day, ceived? Insolen ce , s t u pidi t y, i gnorance , an d f o ll y , i n a - we must postpone the remainder of them till heap of trashy speechification ! This was the answer of the .another e pportunity.—Times. person who is called Lord Anglesea, to the citizens of Were no other benefit to have resulted from C a e nd rlt e ! ,... Th t e o y h d i did not passion for themselves lth by parasitically p the Rafe rm Bill than its emancipation of Scot- with cold indifference, rence, as he r m a e la r p it a e u d a —th ' e y eshowed received that land, th at aloaie would stamp it as a boon of in- were men who knew and valued freedom, and abhorred despotism svere,gn i o n , everyfias flashy—th clime a i a r n . b d r a n nn t e i op L h o e r t d he despot a estimal ale value. Admiral Fleming , at the Re form - Jubilee at Stirling, on Friday week, gave no ' grand entrance),", at the reading the accou e n y t gave of whic m li the 1; )Ilowing instructive account of what Scot- the world should stare—they debarred the servile scribes land was till lately. in the Castle pay and livery from puffing up their pay " If," said the Gallant Admiral, " a man has done master against the rights and interests of the country ever y thing in his power to prevent the Bill passing, and and, like all shallow, conceited coxcombs, he flew into a n' , tt ' tells you that he will endeavour to make it work ) . lirenzy, and forgot the demeanour of a gentleman and the wet I because it is the law of the land, don't believe him— dignity of the station which he occupies. A more ill if it be now law, no thanks to him ; and as for his obe- mannered fellow never mimicked Royalty in a booth. At 'Pei 'tee to the law, why, be must obey it. There will every separation of his jaws, out flew an insolent threat— nn whe no scarcity of such crane-necked Reformers, and at every sentence his ha n d was on hi s swor d. Fi rst h e s you are so silly as to support them, and to vote for men sari 'be would tak e u p th e cu d ge l s f or t h e m ili tary an d 0 , ho have been till now avowed Anti-Reformers, you will Magistrates;' then lie denied the truth of the allegation , bat supreme audacity ! I s th ere i n th e country an ho three Scottish Opposition Members in the House—Lord cry probably find yourselves situated with such weather- that the meeting was con vene d f or th e avowe d purpo , e. I e cocks as I was in ISO 4. •At that - time there were only N nest man who would hesitat e t o accr e dit th e wor d o f D r . Baldwin before the ass e v e r a ti o n o f G enera l Willi am H enry Archibald Hamilton, Mr. Manic, of Panmure, and myself. Puget? Dr. B a ldwi n i s no t a conv i c t e d s i nner aga i nst t h e But wh e n the Whig Ministry came in shortly afterward-, truth•—lie is not notorious for saying one thing and doin g no less than forty-two Scotch Members came over to our *side of the House.—(Applause.) We were astonished at mother ;he prefers his honour to a place, his count r y to - a pension, and liberty to power." ' the change, and very much incommoded by this accession e- of Scottish Minieterialiam ; then came the Whig retreat After all, we fear the apathy of the Germans - feem office, and off went the fortyowo Scottish Members must be taken as a proof, that if they are abso . stain in a Lody, and left Lord Archibald Hamilton, Mr. lutely governed, they are upon the whole Ito ,. Menle, and myself the elbow-room we had before." nestly governed. There is more liberty in Ire- We believe that the whole number of Repre- i and ; but it is the liberty of a man in agony to a t ntatives of suspicious honesty who will find vary his posture. The whole frame of socety th eir way into the Reformed Parliament will not is diseased. The Prussian peasant is a P r i nce farthest exceed ten. Five Reformers to one atin comparison of the wretched creatures who, 'f e ry is somewhat different from three Reformers f under the tender mercies of an aristocracy an d to i 'arty-two Tories—Tories, did we say . d The forte i - two men de sc r ibed b y the Gallant A turai an aristocratic church, are struggling f or exist ence in Ireland. The present G o v e rnment anything. Like the Priests in Milton, were. ~ means well towards Ireland ; but the present „Ti ,eir gospel was their man ! To draw the Government has not the power to do good to Scott h Members from the body who support all that country ; and, indeed, we are almost afraid a to the honest side, is of immense conse abuse; to say what we anticipate with regard to it. quenct •. It is only in importance exceeded by However, when language like the following goes sehedu ' , 'es A and B. The Admiral, we observe Reformed, down with the people, it is time to be on the on two points which, in the toriche3 alert. We still quote from the same paper:— nt, cannot fail to be keenly agitated— Parfianrat " We think the union of States serviceable to our in the t', ran, iy of imposing on the Irish people a terests , an d we t h ere f ore are f r i en d s of the connexion. ) which they do not belong ; and the But the ' Legislative Union' we know to b e pe r ni c i ous , an d Church tt if purifting Parliament from the pre- for this reason we seek its rep ea l. Th e di sso l ut i on o f t h e necessity t h orr ibl e act o f t h e su i c id es an d tra i tors of 1600, we aim • Bishops, whom he describes as the sence of tilt at, for the very reasons that this wretched Lord urges f everything base and dishonest. aapporters o. against it—we want to keep our beef, our pork, and our 't another topic I have left untouched—the mutton at home for the use of the population, instead of " There is ati. id I ask, can there possibly be a greater , steaming' them over to England for the use of John Bull, Irish Church ;in ce the people of Ireland to pay for and and the benefit of absentees and rapacious Churchmen. crime than to foe a which four fifths of them do net be- There are the Lords Anglesea, Conynghem, Cliflen, eapp,,rt a Church i ,e to you, Scotsmen, members of a Palmerston, Buckingham, Devonshire, Courtenay, Lon- Lesre? I put the ca went, how would you like to be donderry, Caledon, Al)ercorn, Limerick, Lansdowne, Fer- Presbyterian est:11)11:st , pe of Rome, besides paying to s!ip- -erg, Wicklow, Belmore e lnd a host of others—Peers and ca!ted on to pay the Pk The thing is monstrous. lam Commonere, whom it would be tedious to name, having port your nwn clergy ? BiOmps should be turned out of large estates in this country, and annually abstracting also of opi n i on that t h e f what use have they ever been shout four millions of pounds sterling out of the land, ' a', House of :Lords. C profligate measure for the pro- without leaving a shilli ng behind to support even a Men t),,rj, but for upport ever y :tc money? Were they ever dicity or a House of Refuge for the Destitute. This lusf. "1 3 ° 1 °' awe of the pA ibe voted? Ni,. Or did they frightful system we want to check effectually, and we have ..." ff;t• w /. e n a pension sva ti ? N o . L oo k to th e i r con - already demonstrated that the only feasible mode of effect. e, w i n , of one a Bill. They oppose,) it so to et '',„ ol , o :e t.•e . .... , _ ing this purpose, is to restore her Legislature—the filched ' f'eenu to time lieton Id then, when they saw react , . in r e ejewel above all price—to Ireland. Then, as to Sir Pulteney h n ossibly could ea. , cress, they slunk out of II- lcolm (who the devil is he ?)—and his dung boats— in't 's they r ,e • was iv% ,lineal to fight it out to s ' ve a Iling — ba ' cle the dirty contemptible threat with the t a, a t f . , ether 0 11 )( '',"T i , 4 ~ , h„.a , rl Grey . had the power but their scorn it merits. Let Lord Anglesea remember, that a f! l e -.vs-. They had TX. that, a B: . ens; , by con- greater man than he ever was or ever will be, sneered at the en d ; for they knew them by a creation- 61 r'l e , nselves.—(Long and America once ;if he laughed afterwards, it was With ' the t o swamp -cta2k care to sevaeoV t> wrong side of his mouth.' The force of Janissaries seldom eltict they a of the Scotch ;load cheers.) I rent prevails against a brave, numerous, and united people support stre- shielded in rectitude, and their country's freedom and We shouk:d suppose taiat . ' .. 11, •il like the Admi , a - Irish from prosperity their object. Poor Sir Pulteney would soon - 2 ,l oll :_eere wei e be made a mess for the sharke, even were the General to z? . . ta: a f" .c ,‘" l ' 0, • h measure for freeing' tut "•tirch of succour the four gun-brigs with his pleasure yacht. As nuously every theit- dearad.atical- -- • f . sciblY Dr. Baldwin very truly remarked, ' Ireland can always that badge of i i rely upon . her own resources.' With a fertile soil, a sa rs—zen institution wh I , " , , their concluero lubrious clime, a hardy and industrious peasantry, copious :minas t.'e m i that they are still slaves. 1. s t -earns, fine harbours and fisheries, Ireland is placed be -1 ca- • ;I_ , m must make the cast i their , the . , be ., o n co .\ \ , , ,e Presbyte''- -1 yono the control of external enemies. The farmers in to agitate the question O. , -were in no 6 - 3 -s te a ~ s 1 Roecoromon, Tipperary, Meath, and Limerick, may live ty aware that the first canva. Ballot, being fully of both electors and candi- la u,c4l: manufacturermore o u n p o b n roa,l their cloth, fa t c ti a , t e t 1e :Manchestertb on i: e would open the e) - a the same fanguage is heard. Lee • upon calicoes and cotton, or the Birmingham ham dates. Everywhe,. , land - have hitherto been i n twister -e l eerought brim and iron. It is not for our The elections in En‘ th the victims of bribery Qmaekressr th u a p t . ae. tee t f.e . cow, sheep, or pig is bo ug ht i n E no _ the hands of jo bbers ant. constituency cannot l an d . John Buil and corruption. The new tr e e.? good food, and i n no country in '‘ teei ood ,V or so cheap m e at as s sold be easily bribed , but the y are• peculiarly open to Europe can he procu. t, Vniiish markets. If the two t their danger will by the Irish grazier in t. e ei...t ... e ,. , ae i mutton, pigs, and intimidation ; and the sense C countries were separated, e. „, 011 candidates. bt 4.ir by our well-fed to press the Ballotpoultry would be anxiously soup , ad icee'ly statesman, compel them . neighbours. No, thou exquisite .. . we ca . " threatened Admiral Fleming says : being an un- this trash will not go down. But then as I was opposed to the ballot,•rse ' ve.. ..; • .- " Formerlya t ae influence with an • absence of English capital if we p„ , :P . !gi s lei ter- wriseng mode of voting; but from the Lus a ass, I see ration ! This comes well from the famous 1 m anly • nv. uuluck:lY, that which I have seen exercised in my presenc subject m ‘ n Y ho ; agitator of 1828 ! It happens, however, . , . n. that what is termed manly voting would . dl d and neither repose nor agitation ever yet bad the effect of i vindictive lash of their lan or s, ~ , . h . . t. l• to speculate in thia country. nest men to the °I dusting E 1 _ng_ts capt.a lets I shall vote I opinion, ani ; the English eapi aherefore I have changed my Quiet or troubled, it was all the same the ballot.—(Cheers)." olist would rather negotiate loane for Don Pedro, or eie.l - countr • are The tenants and tradesmen of . .a I - • I 11-in a South Sea bubble, than lay out his money in this vindictive brs The . I -* England is jealous of h fools as to submit to tud. reason is enemas. not stac lash, becatise it haspleased some Noble Lords .. I , rel " n ational beauties and boundless resources of Ire toe vas ' t tto spout . ~ to encourage a country bordering so and Worthy Commoners in Parliamen a few common-}:.laces on the manliness of open voting. The Ballot is indispensable. —Morning Chronicle. Excitement seems at its Leight at present in Ireland. It must be confessed that a whole na tion in what may he called a state .6C pauperism, furnishes abundant materials for agitation, The Germans are accused of a passiveness which nothing_ can conquer. In that r es p ect the y form a singular contrast to our brethren of the r;ister island. When the German is enthusiastic, he always takes the signal from his Government. When the conduct of his Government appears to him impolitic or unwise, he always discoFers some private virtues in the King or Queen, or some other high personage, which form an in• ducement with him to wink at the evils. Thus, for instance, the Germans were weeping for the Poles and their sufferings, and some of them had penetration enough to see that the interest of Germany could not be promoted by the exten sion of the Russian frontier to Silesia; but then the King of Prussia is so good a man, and la is so fond of his daughter, the Empress of Russia, that no goo d Prussian can think of op posing the partiali t y of the Monarch for the Russians. Some may infer that this disposition cf the Germans to be pleased with their Go vernments is an evidence of the good faith of the Governments. However, if the disposition to be pleased with Governments is to be the test ()fits goodness, the state of Ireland will hardly afford the Government of this country the con solation of standing such a test. The German laud, anu 4 " 1 fears _'age closely upon .lter fr ;wn coast, which in a time would prove a dangeroti.,,riv4,",—.2lforning Chronicle. The state of Ireland zffords a melancholy illustration of the short•sighte,d, vacillating, and equivocal policy of the o.97lAllgilPt of that country. At one time yielding orer.y thing t.,0 popular clarnotir; again attempting to rest= the efficacy of the law by encroachments on the .Constkution ;—now craven is its concessions— now magnificent in its boasts—weLsl.c without grace, austere without dignity, the Irish Cio.72.rn. merit proceeds in its Ouctuating course, while the distractions and difficulties of thc unhappy countrr increase with the exhibition a every new o'.,tasp of that veering policy which seems rather to be blindly impelled by expediency than guided by principe, It i; long since we exp ressed . our opinion of the incompaeney of the Nlarquis of Anglesea to the adequate gisciwg p,t !he flinctions of Chief Governor of a country cii'- cumstanced like Ireland. In his proper station the Marquis of Ang,lese4 has our respect. The Britio cavalry has not had Taver officer; but, even the army, he was more to tee trusted to execute an or,cieF than to originate it. His courage was never in fait t his judgment always infirm. Xn `4 civil capacity we are not aware that he ever dispiaye4 4ny talents whatever.— One of the few judicious 4.ct.s of the Duke of Wellington's Administration was the re call of the Marquis from a Viceroyalty : r s? which he had shown himself, not from bad intention, but from want Of civil talent and sound sense, quite inadequate. One of the-foolish things committed by the Whig Ministry was the thrusting the perilous ho nours of the Irish Government upon the shoulders of one whose incapacity had already been proved—as if Ireland wanted a bold dra goon at the helm, and not a Statesman—and as if the courage to lead a charge of cavalry was worth all the civil wisdom in the empire. If the Whigs meant to give a judicious proof of their rrgard for Lord Anglesea, they would have contented themselves with making him " Gold or Silver Stick" at Court, where his love for personal display and procession would have been amply gratified ; but it was a sad mis take to attempt to carve a Statesman out of the soldierlike materials which God and nature de signed for no such purpose. If any unpreju• diced person doubted before whether the gallant Marquis had the requisite abilities for civil Go vernment, all doubt on that head must vanish upon rea di ng t h e extraor di nary co ll oquy be his Excellency and the Deputation from Cork, relative t o th e di spers i on o f t h e meeting at Blarney. If Dean Swift had lived at the pre sent day, and had drawn, in the spirit of humor ous malice, a burlesque description of " a dis course on Government" in Ireland, his satire could not have surpassed the sad reality of the " sublimely ridiculous" which the report of that interview presents. Yet the principal personage i who figu res i n th e i ncompara bl e po l y l ogue she who can at hi s di scret i on , as we h ave beenin formed by high authority, stop the wheels of all constitutional government in Ireland, and put the liberty of all the subjects of that part of the United Kingdom in jeo pardy, by suspending the Habeas Corpus Act—the second Magna Ghana of British freedom. We have already expressed an opinion about the prosecutions of the Press in Ireland for political opinions. This sort of proceeding will not do the Irish Government any good, any more than the prosecutions of the Press in this country by the Duke of Wellington did any service to his Administration. We would rather see the Marquis of Anglesea busily en gaged in extracting two pair of gloves from a gilded walnut-shell, or in forwarding a miniature flag, with the arms of Cork and the Irish harp " beautifully emblazoned" on it, to his friend Sir James Graham, than equipping himself for such a crusade as that which has commenced against the Irish Press—even although he is cheered on to it by some of the sycophants of the Ministerial Press in this country. For the Governor of a country whose political peace seems to rest on a volcano to be " pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw," may he ridiculous, but this is better than to be engaged in measures which can produce nothing but mischief.— Morning Herald. Not many days have elapsed since we gave the Government credit for having ordered the removal of the body of Cook, the murderer, from the gibbet, at Leicester. There may be —indeed we know there are—some legislators who consider every demonstration of disgust at the display of gibbets and executions as the re sult of a morbid sensibility, or, what is still worse, of an affected and spurious humanity. By such legislators it will be considered a great loss, in the way of example, that the flesh of Cook has not been permitted to rot, and his bones to whiten in the sun, for the benefit of the present and of future generations. With such reasoners, the shock is every thing in mo rats ; it is that which braces the nerve and invi gorates the health of the body politic ; so never mind how the feelings of society may be out raged ; provided you can only outrage and shock them enough all is right in the way of criminal legislation. The Ministers, however, did not adopt this principle in the disposal of Cook's remains, and, as we have already observed, not many dat s have elapsed since we gave them credit for their decision against the enforcement of the existing law in this instance. It was, therefore, with some surprise, that we read the following paragaph in the Sunderland Herald, which refers to another case of gibbeting : " The body of the unfortunate Jailing hangs in a very conspicuous plac, in Jarrow Slake. Great crowds conti. nue to visit the spot; and at high water several bo.tts daily approach the post on which the body is suspended. The sight from the road is most appallin7. A collection is rruking at the tuinpike.glto for the widow and chil. dren of the unfortunate man ; but it is much to be desired that the contributions for this objet were placed in the hardy of some respectable person, who would see to its being properly applied." Surely, if it be only for the sake of their own consistency, Ministers will not hesitate to re move this nuisance also. That which would have been wrong and barbarous in Leicester cannot be right and civilized in Northumber land, or at Jarrow Slake. But observe the effect—the moral effect, of this specta cle. We are told in the paragraph, what we can w e ll b e li eve , th a t t h a sight is most appalling. "So much the better," cry the advocates for horrific examples; " that is just what we want." But then look a little further, and see how the example works on the commu nity. It is sufficiently attractive, we allow, for the paragraph tells us it is daily visited by crowds. But still we say look to its effect. The same paragraph tells us that a subscriptioß is making for the wife and children of the un fortunate man. Do we disapprove of this ma nifestation of pity for the survivors ? No ; Heaven forbid ! but we allude to it to show how differently such spectacles operate on the minds and hearts of the people from the mode in ‘Nhich the Legislature expects them to act. Here is commiseration instead of the unmixed horror from which the supporters of such laws promise themselves such a harvest of virtue. hoping to find that the continuance of the exhibition to which we have been alluding is accidental, and will be removed when the attention of Govern wit has been called to it, we shall say no more on till.' subject at present. Should it still conti nue to hold forth its barbarous attraction, we shall feel it our duty to return to the subject again.--Morning ft is exceedingly kind of the Lord Chancellor to suggest t!;c propriety of raising the salary of the Master of the 'toil; to at least a level with . . that pf the Chief Justice of the Cnr4rnon Pleas, and that, 4,11 - Apng other reasons, on the ground that the former ha-7 , OFen ni) his official residence cs.rvrileetaLet:d:):::, , f to the public. Sir John Leach, we suspect, must have laughed in his sleeve at this gratuitous boaqt of his self-denial ; for Sir John, we will trenturp to predipt ; would almost sooner give up hi s of se than have Leer; con Welled to reside in the house, however excellent; vhi t ch is a';:j;rned to it. Sir John Leach, too, we also suspect, less of seeing his labours compared had never once dreamed of seeing his salary in sseiOlf the Chief Justice of the Common the Master of the Rolls may' be whose work, taking, iY l '-- , e Mr through out,cOnsidered mere play. Besides, if there be any ground for increasing the allowance to the Lord Chancellor on the sco re of th e loss of patronage, how does the s ame reasoning apply t o th e cave of the Master of the Rolls, who has the best patronage of any law officer in the king dom, and who has, as yet, been stripped of none of it ? In short, there is a proverb which speaks of " letting well alone," which, as far as the Master of the Rolls is concerned, he pro bably would have been as well satisfied had his noble chief adhered to it in his case. At the same time, as far as the public are concerned, there is another way of looking at the matter; and if there is really any injustice or inequality in the relative emoluments of the two great law functionaries in question, might not the one be lowered with quite as much propriety as the other be raised ?—Morning Herald. As the alterations in the bankrupt law seem to have so well answered the ends and expecta tions of the Lord Chancellor, and as the six Commissioners in the city have been found quite sufficient to perform all the practical part of the bankruptcy business of the metropolis, we take the liberty of suggesting to his Lordship the expediency of pausing before he completes his appointments of Commissioners of Bankruptcy in the country to act in fiats under the late Act of Parliament. The Judges who go the several circuits were by that Act empowered to send to the Lord Chancellor a list of Barristers, Solici tors, and Attorneys practising in the different districts, to whom, in rotation, the fiats were to be directed. Now, as it is his Lordship's intention to do something with the Court of Review, we cannot see what he can do better with it than to employ three of its Judges to act always as Commissioners in the city, and to send three of the present Commissioners, toge ther with nine additional, to the various other parts of England and Wales, dividing the coun try into twelve districts, and giving each Com missioner sole authority under every fiat in his own division. Thus, every Commissioner being one of the Court of Bankruptcy, every fiat worked in the country, as well as town, would be a proceeding in that Court, which is not now the case ; and many anomalies that at pre sent exist would be obviated. Competent and fit persons to be the Commissioners would very readily be found, and we are sure that the change would, in practice, he found most beneficial. One Judge in the Court of Appeal is all that is required (if, indeed, the Court of Review be necessary at all) and, by thus employing the supernu merary Judges of that Court as Com missioners, they would have sufficient work to do, and might be said to fairly earn the salaries they will receive. Bad as were the practical results of the old system of the London lists, it was always admitted that that system was one of absolute perfection when compared to the abuses which existed under country commissions. Those abuses exist now, for the system is the same now, and, so long as prac tising attorneys and barristers are appointed to act as Commissioners of Bankrupts, so long will those abuses continue. Now, as in London the alteration has proved so beneficial, might not the same benefit be expected from a like adaptation of practice in the country? We beg the Lord Chancellor to consider this, more especially as be talks of uniting the juris diction of the Insolvent Debtors' Court with that of the Court of Review. We think that such an amalgamation would be the ruin of the Court. The respectability of its Bar would cease, and the number of Judges, eight, would be by far too great. By leaving the Insolvent Court as it is, and by otherwise giving employ ment to three of the Judges of the Court of Re view, more public benefit will be done ; and this is all that the Lord Chancellor requires. Do ver, Winchester, Exeter, Bristol, Derby, Leeds, Liverpool, Carlisle, Newcastle, York, Lincoln, and Bury, or places in the neighbour hood of such cities or towns, might be chosen as the residences and for the Courts of the Com missioners, and in such Courts all fiats in the district should be worked. Such a plan, be sides the advantage of making every proceeding under it a p rocee di ng i n t h e C ourt o f 'Bank ruptcy, will be a great deal cheaper than the present one, even if the Commissioners have 1,5001. a year each, and the good effects of it will, we think, be soon manilest.—MorningPost. It had been our intention not to have further discussed the Bank question until all the docu ments produced before the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the subject were before the public. We find ourselves, however, forced to depart from this resolution by the course taken by some of our Contemporaries; for the protection of property must ever be a paramount object, whether our efforts are directed to check the violence of a mob or the malevolence of a party in their work of destruction. Two of our Morning Contem poraries have thought it expedient to sport with fifteen millions of property distributed among individuals, many of whom, if they were de prived of the possession of their share of it, would not only lose their caste in society,but be deprived of the common comforts of life ; and this is done in a spirit of hostility towards the Bank of England, because the maintenance of that great establishment is not in accordance with the re volutionary spirit of the party to which these Journals belong, and of which they are the organs. On this account it is they are as reckless of consequences in denouncing destruc tion to Bank Stock as the poor deluded wretches who, acting under the influence of irritation caused by the efforts of revolutionary scribes and demagogues, fired barns, rick-yards, and farm-houses, promiscuously as they came in their way. But what, we would ask, has been pro duced in the shape of documents that ought to give rise to the slightest anxiety as to the affairs of the Bank ? It has been stated by the Go vernor that the dividends are paid out of the profits or earnings of the establishment over which r -- - he presides, and, if this be correct, the income must be 1,200,0001. The capital is 14,500,0001., pa yi n g a dividend of eight per cent., which amounts to 1,160,0001. And, if this be true, we should wish to know by what legerdemain the state of the case has been altered since Thursday.. We believe the securities held by the Bank amount to 24,000,0001. The evidence su pposed to be given before the Committee of the House of Commons was that the principle of management has been to have two•thirds in securities and one-third in bullion, when the exc b au gep were at par, leaving the action of an unfavourable exchange to be exhibited in the reduction of the circulation and deposits of the Bank to the extent of the bullion exported, the secqr4is.s remaining statio nar y. This we believ e t o have been the action from August, 1830, t o March, 1 8 4 ( 1 4r Pg period of n unfavour able exchange; and this being the e a s e , w h ere i s the chance of a reduction of ttA dividends? The time will shortly arrive when this mint be known' and in the interim we broadly asse r t that there is no p ro b ab i lit y of such an event. W e would desire those who are now croaking about the affairs of the Bank to Compare its present state with what it was in 1819, the com mencement of the period when the Directors really became responsible for management ; for from 1797 to 1819 the direction was virtually in the Government. A great deal has been said by the opponents of the Bank about the example of America as regards the public in stitutions of a similar nature in the United States. We quote upon this subject the Charleston Courier of 16th July :- 6 , THE UNITED STATES BANK.—The following para graph from the veto Message of the President is deserving of especial notice A general discussion will now take place, eliciting new light and settling important prin ciples, and a new Congress e'ected in the midst of such discussions, and furnishing an equal representation of the people, according to the last census, will bear to the Ca pital the verdict of public opinion, and I doubt not bring this important question to a satisfactory result.' " The Journal in question, after observing that it considers the Speech of the President a pledge that if re-elected he will be governed by public opinion, proceeds to remark :—" Let us not then despair of the recharter of this great and valuable institution. Its importance to the proper management of our fiscal concerns, to the collection and disbursement of the public revenue, and to the preservation of a sound na tional currency, together with its intimate con nection with the commercial interests and pros perity of the nation, will, when properly ex plained, vindicate its value and necessity in the eyes of the people, and induce them to render that verdict in its favour which we hold the pre sent Chief Magistrate, if then in office, bound beforehand to sanction and record." So much for the example of America as regards her Na tional Bank.—Morning Post. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LANCASTER, Aua. 16, PASSENGERS' ACT. BECICETT AND OTHERS V. LENS. This was an action to recover damages for a breach of contract. Mr. C. CROMPTON opened the pleadings, and Mr. POLLOCK stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiffs were Messrs. Beckett and Co., brokers,_ in Liverpool, and the defendant was the owner of a vessel, called the Sir George Murray, sailing from that port. In the month of February last, the plaintiffs employed Messrs. Robinson, who were also brokers in Liverpool, to hire the vessel of the defendant to go to America, and an agreement was entered into and signed by the parties, accord ing to the terms of which the plaintiffs were to pay the sum of 1001. for the between decks of the Sir George Murray, for passengers, the plaintiffs fitting up at their own expense the deck and berths, and providing water, water-casks, fuel, and cooking ap paratus; half of the 1001. to be paid on the M inday following, and the remainder before sailing; arid the vessel was to sail on the 25th of March, taking with her on behalf of the plaintiffs as many passengers as she was entitled to carry from her registered tonnage, according to the Act of Parliament.-- By the 9th of Geo. IV. c. 21, it was enacted, " That no vessel sailing from Great Britain with passeners to his Majesty's possessions in North America should carry more than in the propoz tion of three persons to every four tons, the master and crew being included in and form ing part of the prescribed number; that two children under fourteen years of age should be reckoned as one adult, three under seven years old, and that an infant under twelve months should be reckoned with the mother as only one." According to this Act, therefore, the Sir George Murray registering 327 tons was entitled to carry 245 persons, and the plaintiffs having hired the vessel to take as many passengers as the law allowed, and having gone to the expense of fitting her up for that purpose, had a right to expect that they might put on board at least 224 persons, which they had done on the 25th of March, by which time, according to the terms of the agreement the vessel was to sail. They fulfilled their part of the contract, and were in no respect answerable for the delay which tcok place. Some time in the month of April, the d(- fendant said that his vessel should not stir on her voyage until the plaintiffs took out of her 100 pas sengers, assigning no other reason than that it was his pleasure not to sail with so many as the plain tiffs had sent aboard. After some delay, part of the passengers were ac cordingly taken out; the vessel proceeded on her voyage with the remainder, and the plaintiffs were obliged to pay back the passage money to those who were left behind, besides the expense to which they had been put in providing accommodations for the number of passengers allowed by the law, and which they were entitled to send according to the agree ment between the parties. He did not know what the line of defence would be, but it was most ridi culous to say i►► a commercial country, that the de fendant having, by contract, let his vessel for the purpose of carrying the number of passengers al lowed by law, was not bound to provide the neces sary accommodation for their luggage and provisions. He contended, therefore, that as thero had been a positive contract between the parties, and the de fendant had, by breaking that contract, occasioned considerable loss to the plaintiffs, they were undoubt edly entitled to recover compensation at his hands. Admissions were then put in, that the agreement had been signed on the part of the defendant; that the defendant was owner of the Sir George Murray, Captain Beverley, master; and that the vessel re gistered 327 tons. Different witnesses proved the rest of the plaintiff's case, and that they had paid to the passengers taken out of the vessel for their passsage money, lodgings, and expenses, the sum of 1661. 2s. Mr. WILLIAMS for the defendant contended, that on every principle of law and justice his client was entitled to a verdict, as he had fully and legally abided by the letter and spirit of his contract. Even according to the statement given by the wit nesses for the plaintiff, and the terms of the agree ment itself, it was quite clear that the plaintiffs did not contract for the whole vessel, but only for that distinct portion of it called the between decks, being the space between the lower hold and the main deck. If the plaintiffs, having taken only the between decks, had not room for the luggage of the passengers taken by them, that was their own look out; they could not claim any other part of the vessel than that which they had hired, and the rest remained free for the owners to make what they could of it, in the way of freight or otherwise. He should prove, from the testimony of the surveyors to Lloyd's, at Liverpool, who had examined the vessel, that the people were crowded pestilentially together, and that it was in consequence of their advice that the captain refused to take more than 130, which was the utmost limit he could take, consistent with their own health and safety, and that of the crew. According to the lowest calcula tion, these gentlemen had received 2701. for the 130 passengers taken out, and if they had thought tit to take a greater number of passengers, and to go to more trouble and expense than they needed to have done, that was theii own affair, the defendant ought not to be a loser by it, and was therefore en titled to a verdict. Witnesses were called for the defence, who proved that the luggage and provisions being stowed between decks, there was not room with safety for more than 120 or 130 passengers. Mr. Baron BOLLAND, in summing up the evi dence, remarked, that his attention had now been called for the first time to this Act of Parliament, and as a man of humanity lie could not help re gretting that such a law had ever passed the legisla tuye. So long, however, as it remained on the statute-hook, they were bound by it. It appeared to him, that according to the terms of this agree ment, the defendant engaged to take as many pas sengers as the law allowed, and the allegation that the only part of the vessel for the stowage of provi sions and luggage was the space betwe en d ec k s , was met by the 2d Antl34 clauses of the Act, the first of which specified the quantity of provisions an( water for each passenger; and the other declares that in no vessel, having her full complement of pat sengers, should any part of the cargo, provisions, stores be stowed between decks—the space allottet to the passengers, but that for every passenger shor of the full number stores might be stowed then in the proportion of three cubic feet of space fo every person so wanting of the full number. Ii this case it appeared to him that the defendan was bound to find room in some other part of the vessel for stowing the principal part of the luggagi and stores, and that in refusing to take the number offered, which was below the number allowed bl the law, he bad broken the contract, and the plaintiff were therefore in point of law entitled to a verdict the question as to the amount of damages being fol the decision of the Jury. The Jury, after consulting together in Court foi some time, retired at seven o'clock to consider of their verdict. They returned in about 20 minute:. with a verdict for the plaintiffs.—Damages, 40s. COOK THE MURDERER. (From the Leicester Chronicle.) We have heard several reasons given for the in terment of Cook's body, but, as the Secretary of State's letter has not been published, we can give no positive information on the subject. One cause which we have heard assigned is, that should murders be as frequent during the next twelve years as they have been during the same time gone by, the country would be frightfully studded with such exhibitions; and that there being now little waste land, except by the side of roads, they must necessarily prove a great annoyance to the inhabitants residing in the villages. However, be the caute what it may, we are glad that the disgusting sight has been removed, considering it, as we do, the revival of a barbarous custom which a more humanized age has long ex ploded from the statute-book. That the-application should have been made in the case of one of the most brutal murders ever committed is singular, but it will have one important effect—Jas. Cook will be the last murderer that will be sentenced to be hung in chains, since no Judge can hereafter think of awarding the punishment to ordinary murderers, while the most atrocious delinquent of that descrip tion has beer ungibbeled by an order bearing the King's sign man ua l. The night before the murderer was taken from his " bad eminence," this town and the surrounding neighbourhood were visited with a sublime though awfully terrific thunder storm. Peal succeeded peal, in " all the dread magnificence of heaven ;" I flashes of lightning preceded each crash with sulphurous brilliancy, and the rain fell in torrents. Never do we recollect such a night. One volley, indeed, was so unusually loud, that several persons quitted their houses, imagining that the walls were falling. A large tree, standing in a field near Nether Brough ton, was struck by lightning, riven asunder, and scattered around in fragments, to the distance of 60 or 70 yards. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. fot the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from !id. to I%cl. Wow that price. E OF SEEDS er . ew English Red PRIC Clover Seed (p Cwt. Aug. ) —s. 20. Old Ditto Ditto _ . —s. — 523. fine —s. s. fine —s. —B2s. 8. New Foreign Ditto s2s. 68s fine —s. 925. Old Ditto 525. 82s. fine —s. 925. —s. —s. fine —6. —s. —s. 12s. fine 50s. 525. —s. —s. fine —s —e. —s. 375. fine —s. 425. —s. —s. 60s. fine 645. New White Old Ditto Diti STew Trefoil lid Ditto Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto Soria - —s. —s. —s. fine —a. _________ St. Foin —s. —s. fine —s. '72s. Rye Crass Pacey Ditto 4os. 565. new —a. —s. Linseed, for feeding —s. 40s. fine —s. 445. Ditto, for crushing . 365. 40s. —s. fine 90s. Canary Seed, New--- —a. —s. 85s fine 925. :'ate Old —s. --s. —s. tine —s. White Mustard Seed—.....(per —s. Ss. 10s. fine —a. Brown Ditto —s. 18s. 21s. fine Inds — s. —s. Bs. fine 12s. Crider Turnip Seeds, Rom Green and Red Dil littoNew Tares, —s. —s. Ss. tine 12s. —s. 55. 6d. tine 6s. Teseed, English, fine (per Last) 231. 261.7t... 7 10 fireignen Kent Pi PRICES OF HOPS.7Aug.2Ii - 4 i 15s. V si. ss. to 51. 12s. 41 10s. 51. Os. to 5/. ss. Fesex Ditto 4/. 12s. 5!. ss. to 5/. Bs. Faintilain Ditto, 71. Os. 91. Os. to 01. Os. Seconds 0/. Os. 5/. Os. to 71. Os. . 41. 4s. 41. lOs to 51. Os. 4/. Os. 41. Bs. to 41. 12s. 0/. Os. 01. Os. to 0/. Os, Old Duty laid at 150,000/. Kent Bags*, Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Linseed Oil 11 0 5 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY AUK ET.—Aug. 18 Hay 455. Od. to 90s. Od. I 70s 01. to 1103. Oct. :343, (kl. to 42, Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 20. 2/. 10s. to St. ss. per ton. VIM:ES 01. Per lb. d. to d. (Rats, 15 21 Ditto, Forcign.------ 14 181 Dressing Hides 12 14 llitto 16 IS I)itto, light Crop Hides, light 12 131 Ditto--....-40 to 451 b. 131 14i Ditto.— l4l 16 LEA THER. Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.. 12 14 Spanish Ditto ---. 14 16 Per dozen. Calf Skins.. 36 to 40tb. 15 20 Ditto 50 to 701 b, 19 23 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 17 19 Small Seals, Greenland 171 I£l L:.rge 12 13 RA W HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. Ld, t o s. d . lest Heifers& StQers2. 4 2 8 I Ordinary 0 0 I 8 Market Calf 6 U each. .1 10 2 0 SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool .......... Os. Od. to Os. Od. I Lambs Is. Gd. to 2s. Cd. Shearlings--.ls. Od. to ls. Sd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters),—....—Qs. 6d, PRICE OF TALLOV Town Tallow 455. Od. Yellow Russia .425. Od. White 425. Od. Soap Ditto 40s. 6d. Melted Stuff' 34s. Od. Ditto Rough ..225. Od. ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 625, Od. Mottled 7os. Od. White •745. Od• Graves 29.3. ed. Good Graves 12s. Od. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles. in the retail shops, is as follows :—• Candles. per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per dozen 9,. 14d. ---------- Per Ton. s. d. Adair's 18 6 Blagdon 17 0 East Percy— lB 0 Garesfield l7 0 Hebburn Main 19 6 flolywell - 19 0 Kenton West 19 3 Ord's Redhugh 17 3 Pitt's South M00n,,,... 17 6 St. Lawrence Main 19 0 (uwuley 17 6, KET.—Aug. 20. Per Ton. s. d. Walls End Hilda 19 6 Walls End Newmarch—_ 19 6 Walls End ltiddell's 21 0 Walls End Hetton 21 6 Walls End Lambton 21 3 Walls End Stewart'd—..... 21 6 Walls End Adelaide ..-- 20 3 Walls End Butter Knowl 19 9 W. E. Musgrove„.. --- 17 6 W. E. South Durham— 19 6 Walls End Tees ....---.. ( C 4 7( a )wie wt ) oi l 1-1 - 711=—...7 1 1 9 7 62 Walls End Bell ft: Brown 19 6 Ditto Bewicke and C 0... 20 6 Wall; End Callerton 18 0 Walls End Heat0n.,......«.- 20 3 Walls End 19 0 Ditto Killingworth 19 9 Ships arrived since Hartley st 0 Llangennech Pemberton 20 0 Silkstone Field and C 0.... 19 0 W. E. Barnsley 17 6 last market -day, 64. DEMOLITION OF CIIAFELS.—Our readers are probably aware that an order was sent out to J ama i ca to prosecute all who were engaged in the demolition of the Missionary Chapels. This order was turned into ridicule Bills a were accordingly,I gn ored pref erre d aga i n st a by many of the colonists; and the Courant and ot h er pa pers spoke of Lord GODERICIi, and hi s or d er, in no very measured e learn n several persons ; but, from the TVutchman, of Ju ne 16th, w all the bills which ca r that terms.tle Gland wer e thus sent to them. " Thi s ," says the Editor, "i s the last, the finishing touch to thp p i cture of colonial or d Jury i p re ,sion and injustice !"--.. Christian Advocate. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst. at thechateau of Rheinwieler, Grand DuchY of o n a den nd heir. the lady of G eorge Drummond (Melrord,) Esq., of 3 so Ba CoAmtßan°u'is°gSnerev si son. On the 19th inst. thear, d the g lady of Major Osborn, East India . On the 18th inst. the lady of Matthew Clement Walker, Esq.; of Skinner street Snow -hill, of a son, being her eighth child._ MARIED. On the 14th i nst. at Islewo rt h, G. J. S. Camden, Esq., sur geon, to Sarah, only daughter of Mrs. Hesketh, Grove House, Hounslow. On the 15th inst. at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, "I'homaa Harvey Boteler, Esq., to Helen Agnes, fifth daughter ot the late James West Esq., of Bryanston-square. DIED. On the 12th inst. at Cassilis House, in the county of Ayr, Achibald Earl of Cassitlis, eldest son of the Marquis of Ailsa. On the 24th June, at Lucca, in th.e.3sth year of his age, Robert, eldest son of the late Robert Gilpin, Esq., of Cascade, Hanover, Jamaica. On the 30th ult. at Seville, the infant son of Richard Ford; Esq. • On the I9th inst. in Devonshire-place, the Rev. Dr. Stephe►►s, of Southfield, Tonbridge, Kent, in the 79 year of his age. On the 17th inst. in Portland-place, in the 70th year of his ages after a long protracted illness, Samuel Peach, Esq., of Idlecote, Warwickshire. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU IMO YOUNG, AT THE SUN OFFICE. 112, STRAND, LONDON.