The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-20 00:00:00

bitb Mbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LATEST BULLETIN. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY MORNING. July 20th, 9 o'clock. The Queen has an attack of measles. The erup tion appeared slightly yesterday afternoon, and is now well out. Her Majesty had much cough during the night, but is relieved this morning. (Signed) JAMES CLARK, M.D. STAMFORD RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ASSEMBLY-ROOM STAKES. Harmony filly Dove Two ran. 15 SOVS. SWEEPSTAKES. Weathercock . Margaretta Two ran. GOLD CUP. Nutpecker . Three ran. STEWARDS' PLATE. Rackapelt . Weatliergage Poodle Won by half a length. A head between second and third. Harmony Filly.. Cock Pheasant .. Three ran. HANDICAP. Four ran. GOODWOOD STAKES. 4to 1 agst Hobby Horse (taken). 2 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The • Lords' amendments to the Ayrshire and Gallo way (Smithstown and Dalmellington) Railway ; Cale donian Railway (Connecting Branch with Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) ; and Furness Railway Bills were considered and agreed to, The Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Bill was read a third time and passed. The •Pauncefort Duncombe's Estate Bill was read a second time. A number of petitions were, presented by various hon. members in favour of the Recovery of Personal Liberty (Inspection of Nunneries) Bill. VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL. Sir J. PAKTNGTON moved the second reading of this bill, which had come down from the House of Lords, and the object of which he explained to he to protect the public against the ravages of the small-pox. The voluntary system had been found insufficient, and it had been found necessary to introduce a measure for compulsory vaccination. England and France were the only two countries in Europe where vaccination was not compulsory. CLITHEROE ELECTION.- COMMITTAL OF A WITNILISS. . . At this point, Mr. G. HAMILTON appeared at the bar, and re ported that as Chairman of the Clitheroe Committee, he had committed a witness named Robert Fowler to the custody of the Sergeant -at- Arms, for prevarication in giving his evidence before th,s committee. The debate was then resuraed by Lord PALMERSTON, w,ho said the house was greatly indebted to the right hon. gentleman for introducing this subject to the house. He thvought the details and ma chinery of the bill might be improved in committee ; but on the understanding that the right hon. gentleman would give his attention to the subject, he should cor dially support the second reading of the bill. Mr. BRADY objected to the bill, as being impracti cable and inadequate to the purpose for which it was intended. He believed the voluntary system would not have failed had it not been fo r the introduction of the contract system which had ast the medical professors against it. Sir G. STRICKLAND okiected to the principle of the bill. He objected to the 'compulsory clause, and he thought the house went too fa r in passing measures of a compulsory nature. He thought the voluntaryprinciple in all things would, in the loin run, always succeed best in this country. Mr. FREWEN also objected to the bill. The bill was then read a second time. ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY (No. 2.) BILL. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the second reading of the bill. He had postponed the second reading from time to time, and had he be pressed to bring it on at an earlier period he shoule probably have declined to do so ; but as the financial scheme of the Chancellor of tbe Exchequer had safely passed through the ordeal to which iit had been very properly subjected, a n d a s the returns o f th e quarter's revenue, lately published, showed a considerable surplus, he thought he was not taking an - unjustifiable course in now pressing for the entire reduction of the tax. The pro position of the right hon. gentleman with regard to the tax had not been at all approved of by the attorneys and solicitors. He understood that the Government had been beating up for recruits in all directions, and it was said that they had succeeded in obtaining the support of the right hon. gentleman the member for Manchester and his friends, ou the understanding that th e Govern ment would tak e the newspaper taxes into their favour able consideration. If the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would give an assurance that he would take the tax into his consideration next session, he should not press the bill to a second reading. Mr. MURROUGH denounced the bill as a political sham, He never had seen such a ridiculous manner of advocating the cause of a class as the course adopted by the noble lord, and he thought that if the noble lord had taken as straightforward and sincere a course as the right hon. gentleman the member for Manchester, the attorneys would now be in as good a position as the newspaper proprietors were. Mr. HUME had always been opposed to the abolition of the tax, but he did not think the hon. gentleman was advancing the interests of the attorneys by imputing partial motives to any member of that house. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought that no imputation could be made on the course which had been taken by the noble lord the member for Mid dlesex. (Hear, hear.) He could not conscientiously give any assurance that the Government would pledge itself to any particular year to propose the reduc tion of the tax, because, forming the most sanguine esti mate-of the resources of the country, and the probable state'of the r evenue, he still thought here were subjects beneficial to the solicitors and attorneys as part of the • community, the c l a i ms of which were far more (Hear, hear.) important than these. in the distance a long arrear He could see coming far higher than these. of financial claims With regard to the financial part of the question, though hthe re a pp eared to be a surplus of 495,000/., but since e la h c a e d w r c d h e co h n is . financial statement, changes had taken ifsethpey were to take siderably reduced that surplus,adavnedrti ent e duty, they off this tax, as well as the would be left in an absolute deficirnt the rrepeal of one or other of these deurtainly, if forced upon the Government, it certainltyieswowu not be the repeal of the Attorneys' Certific ate lf Dut al y ds which they would propose to the house. they acceded to both these requests they would mence the next year with a deficit i ns t ea d of a au/TT:: but he was in the hands of the house up on this subject, and he hoped they would finally settle the matter. (Hear, hear.) He moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months. After a few words from Colonel SIBTHORP, Mr. EWART had repeatedly moved in former years the repeal of the advertisement duty, and had as repeat. edly supported the motion of the noble lord the member for Middlesex, but he could not for a moment hesitate now in giving his support for the repeal of the advertise ment duty in preference to the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr. 3fAGUIRE urged the claim of the attorneys to the consideration of the house. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading lO2 Against it Majority _B4 The bill was consequently thrown out. RECOVERY OF PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL. On the motion for resuming the adjourned debate on the second reading of this bill, Mr. BOWYEIF rose to order. He understood that the second reading was negatived by the division which took place on the 23d of June, and he wanted to know how they c ou ld resume the ' debate on that question now? the The SPEAKER the d e they were st r i c tly i n or d er . At former occasion now read a seco n d t th imeq iol°wlli •nchvas "Th at this bill be in amendme n t was moved to leave out a ll the word safter the word moved " that," in order to invert the w or d s by the hon. nd learned member for B a th, and the question which SP X house had now to decide was whethe r th ese wor d s - 4 .., i . --.. be added. iuchnnheaedess, „......---: 0 / :'," J. BALL was glad that the question had been ~....i, ~• _ --= , nr ... g twoe answerd , because the it fi i m s flimsy rendered argumieta quitearguments h ,-- ;:iVe‘—..• , .. i . be e n -'7 i: :10r favour of the lid. As for the amendment of _- - ' .!:,;.?!..,,3 : .and learned gentleman the member for Bath, ~------ "1 -- le In sted that it was wholly uncalled for. , The wh o l e ';, ~, moment was an unjust attack upon a number of most il. vatilable institutions, which ministered to the wants of NI- the sick, provided education for the poor, and pro- .~ "~. ~ ~~ moted the religious welfare of the Roman Catholics. Those who opposed, or wished to pry into them, did not do so for the sake of securing the interest of so ciety generally, but with the view of spreading religious discord and exciting unholy animosities amongst the people. That was the great object of the Protestant Association, the Evangelical Alliance, and similar socie ties, and they sought to accomplish it by resorting to scandalous libels, which they published, upon the Roman Catholic Church. Now, he wanted to know if the house was ready to assist such a movement by passing a mo tion like this ? He hoped not ; and therefore he called upon them to reject the motion. Mr. E. BALL believed that the essence of religion was charity, and, although a Dissenter, he was yet in favour of maintaining the Established Church. (Hear, hear.) Through life he had been the advocate of religious liberty, and often had he been persecuted for the views which he entertained. He was consequently not disposed to join in the persecution of others, and as he had not yet heard anything in support of this motion he should resist it. He might be looked upon as the very antipodes of a Roman Catholic, but he never hoped to convert others to his views by persecution. No ; it must be done rather by charitable and Christian persua sion, and not by a recourse to violence. He strongly deprecated these efforts to increase religious animosities, they produced no good ; but above all he deprecated the vile and unchristian manner in which the institutions of the Roman Catholic Church had been assailed. He had visited some of them, and he found instead of a pri son, a charitable asylum where children were educated, who would otherwise have been left to the lanes and streets—where poor women were employed or re claimed from an ill course of life. He had visited the convent in Blandford-square, the asylum of the Holy Shepherd at Hammersmith, as well as the nunnery at Roehampton ; and instead of finding dungeons in them, he discovered places where charity, good will, and religion prevailed. While, therefore, he had the strongest faith in his own Protestant principles, which could thrive without the assistance of legislative enactments, he had no fear of their being undermined b y institutions like these ; and his course was clearly to vote a g ainst the motion. Mr. WHITESIDE treated this as a legal ques tion, and contended that the house had no alter native but to appoint a committee of inquiry with a view to the amendment of the law relat ing to the inmates of conventual establishments. He wished to have no disagreeable or painful inspection of conventual establishments, but he desired to protect their inmates from having their property taken away from them against their will. He was surprised to find great unanimity among Roman Catholics in favour of throwing some protection around ladies in convents in regard to the execution of deeds and wills. He could not see any reason why the Roman Catholic members of the house should object to inquiry if they were so satis fied it would redound to their honour, or that the cases of oppression which had been cited were without foun dation. He denied the assertion of the hon. member for Carlow that the object of this measure was to assail the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and to deprive them of their rights of property. There could be no doubt that the opposition for inquiry came from the ultramontane party of the Romish Church. In making that assertion, he did not stand alone. M r . Berwick, the principal of the college at Galway, had said it was impossible for that institution to withstand the machinations of this priestly party. Mr. DRUMMOND said the real question was the secular power assumed, without ever being abandoned, mitigated, or modified, by Rome and all its clergy ; and he should never, whether in or out of Parliament, cease to expose the means by which they had boldly avowed their intention to carry out the system into effect. He considered that the motion was a very injudicious one, because it would not secure the object intended. Hon. members had alluded to the abuses connected with these establishments in England, but nothing was done here equal to what took place on the continent. The state of Europe justified all that had been asserted of them in the course of the debate. Wherever - in France did they hear of the beloved priests or hierarchy ? Where, but for the standing army in Rome, would the priests be? (Hear, hear.) He would recommend no one to withdraw those troops if they had any mercy for the Pope. He had no hesitation in saying that convents were abodes of cruelty, and he did not think the bill would hit at the real evil. A writer on Portugal, Gen. Dumorier, stated that 400,000 out of the 2,000,000 of the population in that country were confined in conventual establishments ; one of them was the seraglio of the king, and he described the whole of them as of the most infamous character. The conduct of priests was subversive of morals, because it was impossible for them to be loyal in a Protestant country. He be lieved with the late Duke of Wellington, that it would be seen that it was impossible for slaves to the priesthood to he sharers with Protestant freemen in the conducting the affairs of this country. (Hear.) Mr. P. O'BRIEN opposed the motion on the ground that it was an unjust interference with the liberties of the Roman Catholics. .Mr..E. B. ROCHE contended that it was the essential principle of the religion of the Roman Catholics to be loyal to this Protestant state. In discussing the ques tion, they would, without coining to any satisfactory conclusion, steep themselves to their necks in theology, exasperate the Catholics, and confute the Protestant people of the country. Nothing could be more un statesmanlike than bringing forward a measure of this kind without any good grounds, when it was shown that in every case of hardship which had been referred to the law bad been vindicated. It was like stepping in where angels feared to tread. Sir J. T YRREL attributed the opinions of the hon. member for Cambridgeshire to his innocence in regard to the system adopted in convents. He protested against Wednesday afternoons being fritted away by gentlemen who seemed speaking against time, and he expressed his astonishment that no member of the Government had risen to interfere. Mr. FITZGERALD contended that the arm of the law was strong enough to protect the inmates of con vents both in regard to their own personal liberty and to the disposal of their property. Wherever moral coercion had been proved, deeds making away property to the Church had been set aside. But where there was one case of coercion in these convents there were fifty in private life by the parent over the child. In Ireland convents had existed openly and notoriously for centuries, and was it not extraordinary, if such abuses had existed in them, that there should be only four cases in the books in which assignments of the property had been obtained by undue means, in all of which the law had set them aside. He protested against inquiry as unnecessary, and also because it would raise sectarian animosity, and be most mischievous in its effects. Lord PALMERSTON suggested that the debate should be adjourned, in order that some reports might be received. The noble lord concluded by moving the adjournment. After a few words from Mr. C. BERKELEY and Mr. NEWDEGATE, the motion for adjournment was put, and agreed to. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved that the debate be re sumed this day fortnight. The motion was agreed to and the debate was ad. journed accordingly. After the reception of some reports the house rose al a few minutes to 6 o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, July 19.—There is nothing in the Ame rican advices respecting cotton to stimulate prices on this side ; neither is there anything to diminish the pre sent tendency to look for a continued firmness of value. The tone of confidence, however, in which Lord Claren don last night expressed his belief that the Russo-Turk ish question would be settled without a resort to war, has exercised a slightly favourable influence upon both the Liverpool and Manchester markets. We have had a more cheerful day than for some time back, with an increase of inquiry, and, to some extent, of business also. The Germans have ventured to do rather more in yarns ; but the home buyers continue to be the prin cipal operators. The general tendency in prices is there fore still to harden ; and some kinds are quoted rather higher than they were last week. As regards goods, we may state that there has been a more general inquiry than we have had for the last three or four weeks. For some foreign markets there is a steady demand, and a large businessis doing in the home trade. Prices are well sup ported. The departments that must be excepted from this favourable statement are those of yarns and goods particularly adapted for India and China. These articles are certainly not improved by the accounts which have come to hand this week ; but no offers are made which can test prices, and the quotations, therefore, are the same as those of last week. ROCHDALE, July 18.—To-day has been the quietest market we have had this year. Very few pieces have been sold, but prices have undergone little or no change. In wool there has been very little doing ; the manufac turers appear unwilling to purchase except for immediate use. ece hall, .- - , July 16.—The trade in our • well as in the , is still exceedingly pi ITALIE' ve warehouses as i n limited, , consequence of the relations, the re is any engagements, scarcely any disposition to enter into Binunioniut , July for wools, yarns, or pieces. ton, declared Eby lB.—The reduction of 20s. per trade, has by n the last resolution of the iron cheap Customers. 033urnrrns satisfied the cravings of concluded the same feeli ng of dissatisfaction has still clamouring forfurtherconcessld iog of orders— -the same of purchases to the supply of. urgenta the same restriction facturers have, however, at length necessities. Manu series of continued reductions, white learnt that a t-i obtain any advantage in the cost they are unable or increase of demand, is rather a O . St d °I production to carry too far ; and as the larg e marginanr°u game declared prices and undersellers' quotation. s h a s Ireduced to such an extent as to be more than ScB been by the difference in quality, a stand has been c overed and further giving way refused. On Wednesday, at Wol verhampton, there was a numerous attendance, and the settlement of accounts appeared very satisfactory_ little beyond was attempted. On Thursday the un usual inclemency of the day kept away many from our Town Hall, but the assemblage included manu facturers and merchants from all the districts in the kingdom. Towards the close of the day the determination to adhere firmly to present prices became better understood, and at once produced a favourable effect. Afterwards considerably more business was done, and on Friday and Saturday a still better feeling was evidenced. In the pig trade a very wide difference of price exists, but not more than the equivalent in quality. st Staffordshire and Shropshire pigs bring . are ng 51. per ton, • • while the inferior sorts are to be had at all Prices as low as 3/ It is greatly to be regretted that such large quanties of : cinder and rubbishy ore from other dis- TILE STIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1853, tricts'are now being introduced [into the composition of some of the Staffordshire makes. The high character for merly enjoyed by our iron is justly losing ground, and its trustworthiness is rapidly declining, so that unless our first-rate houses will more decidedly discountenance such qualities of pigs, the advantage which has been hitherto enjoyed in the market will soon be lost. In ironstone, limestone, and coals no corresponding reduction of price has taken place, and the demand for each continues so far beyond the supply, especially for the latter, that when the winter country trade again sets in, which it usually does about Michaelmas, there appears every rea son to anticipate an advance rather than a reduction in that article. _ _ _ something which he had not said upon the subject of Miss Hore. Mrs. Florence said—l am the wife of the last witness. I have been intimately acquainted with the plaintiff for the last four years, and I remember the defendant com ing with her to our house at the close of last year. Miss Here introduced him as her intended husband, and the defendant afterwards said that the father of Miss Hore objected at that time to their being married. I remem ber a young lady named Wright coming on a visit to the plaintiff, and while they were both up stairs the de fendant said there had been a long courtship, and he wished to get married soon, and he would be married in the month of March, and wished my husband to give Miss Hore away. I was one of the party who went to see the defendant's house. Cross -examined —It was very easy to tell when two young people were engaged, by their blushing. (Laugh ter.) Mr. Duke had got beyond that. (Laughter.) I heard of Miss Hore's father giving his consent in the month of January. Mr. John Wright said—l am a solicitor, and reside in Bedford-row. I have been the plaintiff's solicitor since 1849. In January last the defendant and his brother came to my office, and they said they were referred to me to obtain information relating to Miss Hore's pro perty, and I told them she derived it from the will of her mother, and that it consisted of a moiety between 9,0001. and 10,0001. in the Consols, and a moiety of her freehold houses in Bognor, and a moiety o f a f arm i n Sussex, but I co uld no t tell them the value of it. The defendant said he knew the farm. I told them I had not got the will, but I offered to lend them the draft of it. They both appeared to be very disappointed. Mr. Bramwell—When asked what they offered, what did they say ? Witness—They said the property was not half what it had been represented to them. I showed them the draft of the will, and Mr. W. Duke said he found that Miss Hore could not make a settlement of her property, and the defendant said that Mr. Hore had pressed him for a settlement, but that Miss Fiore herself did not re quire it. I was aware Miss Hore could not make a settlement because she only took an interest contingent upon her surviving her mother for twenty-one years, and if she did not,,do so it would go to her brother or her issue. By Mr. Bramwell —Miss Hore had an equal chance of her mother's property that he would of hers. I I have had a correspondence by writing with Mr. W. Duke on the subject of this action. I know that an action has been brought by the father of the plaintiff against the brother of the defendant for libel. The settlement upon the plaintiff was to have been made by a bond. The bond made by the defendant was put in. It re ferred to the plaintiff as his intended wife. Mr. Wright re-called—l told Mr. Hore I did not think the settlement was of any value, as it was not made a charge upon any property. Mr. George Peskett said—l am a surgeon at Bognor. I have known Mr. Hore a great many years, and his family also, and I was on very intimate terms with them. I knew that the plaintiff and the defedant were engaged to be married. On the 20th May, I went to the defendant's house and he was asked by Mr. Hore, who accompanied me, whether he was prepared to carry out the engagement he had made with his daughter. The defendant replied, "Certainly not." The question was put a second time, and then the defendant said " Decidedly not." He was asked the reason, and the defendant said to Mr. Hore, "If you had acted dif ferently in the matter I should have been placed in a different situation. Cross-examined—l did not hear the defendant say that Mr. Hore had been circulating reports about his family. I don't believe anythin g of the ki n d was sa id. There are at least 10 or 12 o f the Duke family, brothers and sisters. Mr. Hore is a man of property. One of my nephews was the occasion of a difference arising between me and the plaintiff's father. It was supposed that he and Miss Hore were engaged to be married. Mr. Hore did not consent to the match, and it was broken off, but I don't know upon what grounds— whether it was with the consent of the young lady, or through the objection to the marriage entertained by the father. Re-examined—The offence with which my nephew was convicted occurred in 1845, and since 1849 I have been on the same terms with the family of Mr. Hore as before. Mr. W. Duick, a surveyor, at Chesterton, deposed that in the beginning of the present year the defendant's brother William called upon him and made some in quiry. Mr. Florence re-called—l saw the defendant on the 14th January, and he shook hands with me, and said he wanted to speak to me, and he took me into the church yard. Said he had something very particular to say to me. He then said I have heard say that Miss Hore drinks. I replied that she had been to my house fre quently, and I never saw a symptom of it. He then said, "Well, I am very glad to hear you say so, it will do me as much good as if you gave me a thousand pounds," and he said he was very much obliged to me, and we parted. Cross -examined--The plaintiffand defendant appeared on good terms for several weeks after this. Mr. W. Thompson, a medical gentleman living at Bognor, proved that he had attended Miss Hore and her family for four years. He was then asked whether the defendant's brother William had not called upon him about six weeks ago and made some inquiry of him. Mr. Bramwell objected to anything that was said by the brother of the defendant being received as evidence, and the question was not pressed. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Bramwell then addressed the jury for the defend ant. He said he could assure them that he had never risen to address any jury under feelings of greater pain and difficulty than he did on the present occasion, and he believed that the defendant himself shared in those feelings. His learned friend had made some strong observations with regard to the pleas of the defendant, but he felt called upon to declare, and he (lid so with the entire concurrence of the defendant, that there never was any intention to cast the slightest imputation upon the character or conduct of the young lady, and if such an impression prevailed upon the mind of any person, he entirely and most emphatically denied that there was any foundation for it. He admitted that he had no an swer whatever to the action ; and the only thing the jury would be called upon to decide would be what amount of damages the defendant ought to pay for breaking his promise of marriage ; and upon this subject alone he should make a few observations. He asked them first to look at the circumstances of the case. Here was a man pretty well advanced in life, a widower, with three children, who had been twice married, and who, although undoubtedly filling a respectable position in society, was still clearly not in so good a position as the plain tiff; and the question for the jury was what was the in jury she had sustained, and what was the amount of the loss she had incurred by the defendant failing to fulfil his promise to marry her. They had it in evidence that the plaintiff was a young woman of considerable personal attractions, possessed of a fortune ; and, looking at these facts, they would consider what damage she had suffered by not being married to a man much older than herself, who had three children. Everything was in favour of the lady and against the gentleman, and it really ap peared to him that she would have actually thrown her self away by marrying such a man. He would not attempt to justify the conduct of the defendent, but although this was one of those cases in which the law, very properly as it appeared to him, did not allow a man to be called as a witness, and to give an explanation of his conduct, he was sure the jury would feel that some reasonable explanation might be given totally apart from any consideration relating to the character of the young lady, which would have been a justification for the de fendant, upon mature consideration, feeling it prudent to decline to fulfil his promise. Upon this subject they were now totally in the dark, and he could not help observing that it appeared to him to be rather an injus tice towards the defendant that the father of the young lady had not been called as a witness. Representations had been made with regard to his refusing in the first instance to give his consent to the marriage and other matters, and he thought that in fairness he ought to have been called, and he had no doubt that if he had been he should have elicited from him in cross-examina tion some facts, not in any way, he admitted, tending to the disparagement of the young lady, but which would have had the effect of satisfying the jury that the defen dant really had some grounds for the course he pursued, and that he had not acted in the heartless way that had been suggested by the counsel for the plaintiff. The learned counsel, in conclusion, admitted that the verdict must pass against his client, but he called upon the jury not to, punish the defendant by giving vindictive damages, when it was clear that all the facts connected with the case were not before them. Mr. Justice Cresswell, in summing up the case to the jury, said it was no part of their duty to punish a de fendant. All they had to do was to compensate the plaintiff for the injury she had sustained ; and if in doing so they punished the defendant, that they had nothing to do with. The action was for a breach of promise of marriage, and there was clearly no answer to it. Two of the pleas of the defendant were most absurd, and for the third there did not appear to be any pretence what ever ; and the jury would say what damages the plain tiff was entitled to for the annoyance and the injury to her feelings that she had sustained. It might (appear absurd to compensate a hurt to the feelings by a money recompense ; but it was acknowledged by the law ; and the amount of compensation was the only question the jury had to decide. It had been said in the present case the plaintiff had sustained no real injury; but re woman ; and un doubtedly a proceeding of thi s d e scription could not b u t causethe g great factsof he pain andr being emortificationing young w and to any e youngwealthy thy cal culated rather to increase those feelings when she con sidered that having such advantages, and having conde scended to agree to accept of a man much older than herself, who had three children, as a husband, he should refuse to have her. The jury would, however, take all the circumstances into their consideration, and award such fair and reasonable damages to the plaintiff as they considered her entitled to. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdie for the plaintiff—damages 4001. a person named Delves, at Brighton, t o w h om s h e pa i d 2s. eu. per w ee k for taking care of it. A day or two be fore the 6th of March the prisoner called upon Mrs. Delves, and stated that she should want the child got ready on that day, as she was going to take it to Shore ham, and Mrs. Delves accordingly dressed the child early in the day, in order that it might ready to go out. The prisoner did not come for the child until the evening, and as it was very wet and foggy, Mrs. Delves observed that it was not a proper night to have the child out ; but the prisoner persisted in doing so, and said that if she left the child at Shoreham, as she expected, she should not call upon her when she came back, and in that case she directed her to give a bedstead, which she had provided for the use of the child, to her bro ther, who she said would call for it. Mrs. Delves then gave the child some bull's eyes and some nuts, and the prisoner went away with it, and they were both seen shortly afterwards going in the direction of Hove. About eight o'clock the same night the prisoner arrived at her master's, and at this time nothing was seen of her child, but on the following day the dead body was found at a place called Hove Drove, between the railway terminus and the sea. A portion of its clothes had been removed, and, upon an examination of the body, it became mani fest that death was the result of suffocation, occasioned by a ligature which was found tied tightly round the throat. It appeared that the child was very speedily recognised as that of the prisoner, and the officers of Brighton at once proceeded to the house of her master, and took her into custody ; and upon her being told that she was charged with the murder of her child she became dreadfully agitated, and ex claimed, "Oh, what shall I do ? Oh, dear, hew could Idoit ? Do tell me what to do Oh, save me Let me go !" Her boxes were then searched, when the child's frock, very wet and muddy, and in the pocket of which were the bull's eyes and nuts given to her by Mrs. Delves, was found, and upon further examination the boots of the prisoner, and also some of her own clothes, all of which were very wet and muddy, were discovered. Mr. Creasy, on behalf of the prisoner, made a forcible appeal to the feelings of the jury on account of her youth and her unfortunate position, and he urged them to re turn a verdict that would have the effect of saving the life of his wretched client. The Lord Chief Baron having summed up, the jury, after being a short time in deliberation, returned a ver dict of guilty. The unhappy woman was immediately called up for judgment, and the Lord Chief Baron, in a most impres sive manner, passed upon her the awful sentence of death. When the learned judge concluded his address, the prisoner fainted, and was carried from the dock in a state of insensibility. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. DIVIDEND. In the Country. E. Smith, South Shields, linen and woollen draper, August 10, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. S. M. Latham, Dover, banker, 61d., any Wednesday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, or the New Sessions House, Dover. W. Royston, Manchester, builder, 9s. 6d., on Tuesday, July 26, and every follo w i ng Tuesday, btween ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester. • J. Law and Eli Hudson, Ramsden Wood, Lancashire, cotton-spinners, first dividend of 12s. 11d. between ten and one, on T ues d a y, J u l y 26 , an d every following Tues day, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester. R. H. Bell and E. Bell, South Shields, paper manufac tures, 2 2-7 d., between ten and three, on Saturday, July 23, and every following Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. W. King, Liverpool, chemist and druggist, 35., on Thursday, July 13, or any following Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street C. Clark, Cambridge, gun-tuaker, August 9, at one. In the Country. W. Nicholson, Shotley-bridge, Durham, timber mer• chant, August 10, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon• Tyne. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. T. M. Bowden, Old Brentford, basket-maker, certificate of the first class.—W. Martin, Hertford-bridge, Hamp shire, smith and ironmonger, certificate of the first class. W. Reading, Charles-street West, Paddington, builder, certificate of the second class.--R. Willmott, Peterborough, tailor, certificate of the second class.—C. Larkin, Green wich, coffee-house-keeper, certificate of the second class— W. S. Oake, Poole, painter, plumber, and glazier, certifi cate of the second class--A. B. Fraser, Lime-street, City, merchant, certificate of the second class twelve months from July B—E. J. Burford, Bermondsey-square, salt merchant and drysalter, certificate of the second class —F. Rolfe, Great Marlborough-street, tailor, certificate of the third class —B. Bunting, senior, B. Bunting, junior, and R. Durrant, Norwich, tallow chandlers and soap manufacturers, certificates of the third class—R. Milner, Darlington, timber merchant, cer tificate of the third class—J. J. Smith, Stockton-upon- Tees, shipowner, certificate of the third class—H. Carring ton, Stockport, nurseryman and seedsman, certificate of the second class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Whewell and E. Bickerstaff, Freston, brickmakers— J. Moorhouse, W. Price, and J. Price, Stockport, Che shire, cotton thread doublers—H. Montgomery and J. Montgomery, Beverley, Yorkshire, joiners —J. Wil liams and W. Williams, Cardiff, ens neers—J. Harvey, B. Sherwood, N. Sh erwoo d , and T.'Rolinson, Dolgally, Vigra and Clogan Copper Mining Company—T. Janes and J. Elvey, Strood, Kent, coal merchants—H. J. Stewart and J. Slocombe, Ramsgate—S. Allen an d W. C ox, Leices ter, coal merchants—MaryHutchinson and A. Hutchinson, Horsforth, Yorkshire, farmers—Maria Sparkes, P r i sc ill a Sparkes, and Eliza Rebecca Pumphrey, Houndsditch, silk mercers—H. Ashton and R. Ashton, at Bryn, Cheshire, brick makers—J. Forrester and J. Wallace, Liverpool, ship bread bakers—M. W. Y a t es, W . Taylor, and W. H. Night ingale, Gutter-lane, City, and Mitcham Surrey, manufac turers of table cove rs , so f ar as regards W. Taylor—G. Rust, D. Veasy, C. Veasey, and A. D, Veasey, Huntingdon, St. Ives, St. Neot's, and Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, bankers, so far as regards J. Rust—J. Winkfield and A. Bell, East Green wich, Kent, cement manufacturers—W. Penkeyman and R. Parry, Liverpool, coal merchants—W. Barnley and C. T. Faulkner, Kingston-upon-Hull, Sheffield, Manch es t er , Liverpool, &c., general carriers—W. Roberts and E. D. Wilmot, Birmingham, jewellers—Anne Trotter and Esther Jones, Manchester ' milliners—W. J. Seagro ve , E. A. Sea grove, aftd W. A. Seagrove, Portsea, naval and military tailors—W. Davis and G. Haynes, Worcester, drapers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Daniel Rodway, Cheltenham, shoemaker. James Lane, Cheltenham, general dealer. William Savage, Iggulden, Marden, Kent, butcher. William Parker, Bletchington, Oxfordshire. John Parsons, Melcombe Regis, D orse t s hi re, slater. William Horsfield, Bishop Burton, Yorkshire, tailor. John Patrick Ferguson, Gravesend, waterman. John Chapman, Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire, builder. Thomas Istance, Tangiers, Pembrokeshire, clogmaker. Henry Abbott, Wisbech St. Mary, Cambridgeshire, farmer. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE HUDDERSFIELD, JULY 19.—The state of our market is much the same as last week's; we have no important change to notice. Seasonable goods are inquired for ; also the thicker makes of woollen goods, chiefly in blacks and browns. We have had some few buyers in town, who have bought for home consumption, but not to any large amount. Shippers at present are quiet. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the com mittal of this bill explained that its object was to assi milate as much as possible the bankruptcy law of Scot land with that of England, and to make better provision for the prevention of fraudulent bankrupts in Scotland. Lord BROUGHAM did not think that the bill went to the root of the evil which existed in the Scotch bankruptcy law. It only applied little provisions to the great defects in the law, and he was afraid it could not prevent the practice which now prevailed amongst Scotch traders, of giving one creditor an unjust prefer ence over others. He admitted, however, that the bill was, on the whole, a step in the right direction, and he was prepared to give it such attention and support as the importance of the subject demanded. Then there was omitted altogether the public examination of the bankrupt, and he thought also that it was most desirable that that the question of certificate should be left to the decision of the court, and not to the creditors. Whilst a commission was sitting and inquiring into the ex pediency of an assimilation of the bankruptcy law of England and Scotland, he did not think that was the proper time for carrying through a change in the law which was not more urgent now than it was six or seven years ago. He did not think that a delay of six or seven months could make much difference to the people of Scotland. This bill was not going in the right direction in some respects. Petitions had been presented by the mercantile community, in favour of his larger and more comprehensive measure, and as that had been referred to the commission, he did not see why this bill should not also be referred to it. (Hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said that if he for a moment supposed that the pushing on of this measure could in the slightest degree interfere with or damage the larger measure of his noble and learned friend for improving the bankruptcy law of Scotland, or in any manner interfere with:the inquiry before the commission, he would yield to the suggestion of his noble and learned friend for postponement. But he would appeal to his noble and learned friend himself if he could say that this bill interfered in the slightest degree with his bill. The object of the present bill was to make better the provi efhia n ebe but l provi sions of the ;existing bankrup r tc g this would not prevent the la and learned friend from being considered at a future y e r measureaw of Scotland, time. (Hear.) Thu bill then passed through committee. BATTERSEA PARK BILL. This bill passed through committee. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE BILL. The bill passed through committee. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 3) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, The Marquis of SALISBURY objected to some of the provisions of the bill, and hoped that the Govern ment would give a pledge to alter it in committee. The Duke of ARGYLL said that it would be impos sible fur him to give such a pledge at the present time in the absence of the noble lord who had charge of the bill. The Marquis of SALISBURY repeated his objections at great length. The Duke of ARGYLL replied; and the bill was then read a second time. LAND REVENUES BILL. This bill passed through committee. COINAGE OFFENCES (COLONIES) BILL. Lord STANLEY (of Alderley) moved the second reading of this bill. After a few remarks from Lord MONTEAGLE, the bill was read a second time. TRANSPORTATION BILL. The amendments in this bill were reported and agreed 4-^ PUBLIC•HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL. The amendments in this bill were reported and agreed to. COLONIAL CHURCH REGULATION BILL. The Bishop of OXFORD moved that this bill should te committed pro forma, with a view to its being recom mitted on Thursday, and some amendments introduced, when the discussion might be taken. Lord REDESDALE took objection to some of the provisions of the bill. The Bishop of OXFORD gave a brief explanation ; and the bill was then committed pro fo•-'ina. METROPOLITAN BUILDING ACT FURTHER AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT IN IRE __ HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, JULY 19. (CIVIL SlDE.—Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.) MORE V. DUKE.—BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. This cause was set down to be tried by a special jury, but only two special jurymen answered to their names, and the learned judge fined the whole of the rest of the panel, for whose non attendance no valid reason was as signed, 101., and he intimated his intention of doing the same in every case in which they were summoned and did not attend. A tales having been prayed the trial proceeded. The action was brought to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The defendant pleaded that he had never made the promise, that a reasonable time had not been allowed him to perform it, and also that the plaintiff had exone rated him from it. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Bovill, and Mr. Ray mond were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., and Mr. Lush were for the defendant. Mr. Chambers, in opening the case, said that the plaintiff, Miss Hannah Hore, had brou g ht thi s ac ti on against the defendant; Mr. George Duke, for a very serious and he feared almost irreparable injury which she had received at his hands. The nature of the action was to recover damages for a breach of a promise of marriage, and when the jury had heard the circumstances he should lay before them he believed they would agree with him, that the case was one of a singular and extra ordinary nature. The plaintiff was the daughter of a gentleman of some fortune, who resided at Drayton, near Bognor—he had only one daughter and a son, and the plaintiff would be entitled, under the will of her mother, to the sum of 9 ,0001., and he believed the jury would be of opinion when they heard the facts that this circumstance had something to do with inducing the defendant to pay his addresses to the plaintiff. The defendant was a gentleman farmer living in the same neighbourhood as the plaintiff's family, he was 45 years of age, and he was rep or t e d to be a man of considerable wealth. He had several brothers, all of whom were in a respectable position and well off, and among them was one named William, who was an attorney at Chichester, and whose name would be mentioned in connection with these proceedings. The defendant had been twice mar- ried, and was a widower at the time he was paying his addresses to the plaintiff, and he was sure they would feel that a man arrived at his time of life, and who had been twice married, was t h e l ast person who' could have any excuse for playing with the feelings of an unmarried woman. Miss Hore, the plaintiff; was 28 years old, and he was instructed that so long back as 9 years ago, and before the defendant married his second wife, he had paid her some attention ; but the intimacy at that time was broken off, and the defendant married a second wife, and in the beginning of the year 1852 she died, leaving him a widower with three children. At the lat ter end of that year the defendant again renewed his intercourse with Miss Hore, and made prop osa l s o f mar riage to he r an d to her father. Mr. Hare, her father, was averse to the match, partly on account of the age of the defendant, and partly on account of his having three young children, and he gave his decided opposition to it. The defendant, however, still continued his atten tions ; he met the plaintiff frequently at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Florence, two old friends of the family. He urged his suit very warmly to her, and told her that, as she was of age, she need not have the consent of her father to the union ; that she was quite competent to judge for herself on such a matter ; and he pressed her to marry him without the consent of her father. (The learned counsel then read two letters written by the de fendant, one of which was dated in November, and the other in December, 1852, in both of which the defendant pressed the plaintiff to marry him, and stated that he was aware that the chief objection of her father to the match was his "three little dears ;" but he said th a t a ll he should expect f rom h er was to be kind to them, and he urged her to consent to their being united without the consent of her father.) The plaintiff would not agree to this proposal, but it appeared that in the course of the following month of Jan., through the solicitation of the plaintiff herself, and the intervention of some friends of the family, the father of Miss Hore very reluctantly gave his consent to the marriage, and from that time the defendant was received as the acknowledged suitor of the young lady, and he took her and some of her friends over his house to look at it, and he made several suggestions of alterations that were to be made after the marriage took place, and he also agreed to settle a sum of two thousand pounds upon the young lady. The affair having proceeded to this stage it appeared that the defendant and his brother, Mr. William Duke, the at torney, went up to London, to the office of Mr. Wright, the family solicitor of Mr. Hore, for the purpose of seeing the mother's will, and upon it being shown to them it turned out that although by one of the clauses contained in it the plaintiff would be entitled to a sum of 9,0001. Consols, yet that it was rather qualified, and was to some extent contingent upon her surviving her mother for a period of 21 years, and under certain cir cumstances her brother would be entitled to the money. Whether or not this had any effect upon the subsequent conduct of the defendant, the jury would have to con sider, but he should show them that both of the brothers appeared very much surprised at the terms upon which the money was left, and on the following day the de fendant went to the office alone a second time, and asked to see the will again ; and read it mo s t carefully, and then went away without offering any remark. Whatever might have been the effect of this upon the mind of the defendant, however, it appeared that for some time afterwards he still continued paying his at tentions as a lover to the plaintiff, and no difference was observed to his conduct, and the plaintiff went to London upon a visit, and while she was there she pur chased a rocking-horse for one of the defendant's chil dren, which she sent down into the country. Every thing went on as usual until the death of the defendant's father, in March last, and although the defendant at that time did not visit the plaintiff as often as usual, he made an excuse that it was owing to the bereavement he had sustained, and no particular notice was taken of the circumstance. Towards the latter end of the month, he did call at the house of the plaintiff's father, and upon that occasion the plaintiff was desirous to pre sent him with her miniature which she had had painted for the purpose. He, however, left without receiving it, and upon a servant being sent after him with the miniature he received it with coolness, and from that day to the present time he bad ceased all communication with the plaintiff and her family. He thought it right to inform the jury that some letters had subsequently been written by the defendant's brother, who was an attorney in the action, but as he believed the only object was that they should be read in open court, he should do what certainly had not been done by the defendant himself—spare the feelings of others, and not put - them in as evidence. In consequence of the match being broken off in this manner by the conduct of the de fendant, in the month of April an old friend of Mr. Hores' family called upon him, and distinctly asked him whether he intended to keep his engagement, and the defendant upon that occasion, in the most cool and deli berate manner, replied " decidedly not." It was for the defendant now to tell the jury why. He (the learned counsel) was quite ignorant of any ground for such a course of conduct ; and, if it was intended to cast any imputation upon the character of the young lady, the defendant ought to have had the manliness and the bold ness to put a plea to that effect upon the record, and give her an opportunity of answering it, and not endea vour to whisper and slander away the character of the plaintiff. He was not able to guess what the defence was to be, but he felt it his duty to tell the jury that there was reason to believe that the defendant and some persons connected with him had been going about the country making inquiries whether Miss Hore " did not drink." He was not aware whether anything of this sort was to be relied upon as a defence ; but he must say that it was most cruel to take such a proceeding and en deavour to substantiate such an accusation, without placing it upon the record, and stating boldly that the reason why the defendant would not perform his promise of marriage was, that he had discovered after it was made that the plaintiff was a person addicted to drink. If he had done so they would have known what course to take, and he should have been in a position to clear the character of the plaintiff from such an imputation by the most positive testimony. The defendant or his ad visers, however, had not adopted that course, and the jury would have to say, under all the circumstances, what damages the plaintiff was entitled to receive for the injury she had sustained. The following evidence was then adduced : Mr. J. D. Florence said—l live at Portfield, near Chichester, and I have known the plaintiff and her family for many years. I also know the defendant very well. He is an extensive farmer, and keeps a carriage and several servants, and lives in a large house. He has always lived in that style. I remember Mr. Duke's father dying in March 1853. Miss Hare has been in the habit of visiting our family for many years, and the defendant has frequently been there with her, and I was aware that they desired to be married, and I was asked to act as father and give her away. The reason I was asked to do this was because her own father objected to the marriage. The defendant told me that he intended to to b se e tt m le arie 2 r ,00 d 0/ i . o m ont a h r e oh. Some plaintiff,he af t s e a r i said he h thise wished lh oa rd that Miss H ore ' s f a th er h a d consented to the match, an d I went with Mi ss H ore to the defendant's house to look time and over it, and I remarked that it was a very nice house, and fit for a duke and duchess. (A laugh.) My wife and some other ladies accompanied us to see the house, and some alterations were suggested. I saw them from time to time frequently after this, and they conducted themselves as persons about to be married. Cross -examined—The defendant's carriage was such as is usually employed by persons to go to market with. I never heard what were to be the terms of the settle ment, but merely that 2,0001. was to be settled in some way or other. Miss Hore is 28 years old. The defendant is about 45. He is a widower with three "'little dears." (Laughter.) Miss Hore's father had a great objection to the match in the first instance, and I believe did not give his consent until January. I never heard that Mr. Hore objected to his daughter being married at all. I knew that he objected to two young gentlemen who paid their addresses to her. I never heard that she was en gaged to a gentleman named Oyler. Miss Hore is a young lady of considerable personal attractions. I have never said that her father had set about reports to pre vent her from getting married. Some one has said that I have said so, but I never did. I do not know a beer house near the pound at Bognor. I know the pound, and I remember meeting the defendant by there three or four months ago. I swear I did not tell him that if there were any reports that Miss Hare was addicted to drink- • her father had set them about to prevent her from getting married. Miss Hore and her father lived in the the defendant. town of Bognor, four or five mile from the residence of Re-examined—lt was Mr. William Duke, the brother of the defendant, and who was now acting as his attor ney, who endeavoured to persuade him he had said aka..-~ ~. (CROWN COURT.— (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) Caroline Sherwood, 23, a good l oo ki ng young woman, was charged with the wilful murder of her child, Caro line Sherwood the younger. Mr. Johnson conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Creasy. This case stood over from the spring assizes. A good many witnesses were examined on behalf of the prose cution, but the evidence in support of the charge lay in a very small compass, and conclusively established the dreadful crime of which the unhappy prisoner was ac cused. It appeared that she was cook in the service of Mr. Turner, the judge of the county court at Brighton, and that the child in question, which was an illegitimate one, and between five and six years of age, had been placed by the crisoner in the charge of SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUE, 19. ENTERED INWARDS.—Cer S es, from JULY Torrevega ; Acis, Cephalonia; Sultan, Islay ; Gambia, West Coast o f Africa ; B eau f or t , M usquito Shore ; Wilhelm, Ismael ; San Giovanni, Ibrail ; Jane, Palermo ; Wm. Pitt, Man,- zanilla ; Teviot, Cadiz ; Glen Huntley, St. John's, N.B. ; Orphan, Quebec ; Durango, do. ; Marcia C. Day, St. John's, N.B. ; Eliza, Trinidad ; Courant, Miramichi ; Riga, Palermo. LIVERPOOL, JULY The Mary Ward, for Liverpool, was spoken June 14, off Tortingers. The Chameleon, Liverpool to Bucksport, was spoken July 1, lat. 43 N., long. 21 W. The Vigilant, St. John's to London, was spoken July 3, lat. 43 N., long. 48 W. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Marlborough, Calcutta to Port Philip, March 26, lat. 4 S., long. 91 E. The Witch, Shanghai to New York, May 13, lat. 26 S., long. 7 E. The Queen Victoria, Ceylon to London, May 30, lat. 4 S., long. 17 W. The - Ann, St. Helena to Falmouth, June 13, lat. 6 N., tong. 22 W. Ile Henry IV., Voisin, of Nantes, bound to Reunion, June 9, lat. 8 N., long. 25 W. The Audacia (Swedish ship), Odessa to Falmouth, June 28, off Lisbon. The Albion, of Liverpool, bound west, July 14, lat. 50 N., long. 11 W. The Catherine, from Bahia, May 30, lat. 11 N., long. 35 W. The Asiatic, Madras to London, April 23, lat. 31 S., long. 37 E. The Louisa, Swansea to Ascension, June 4, lat. 5 S., long. 12 W. The West, London to Batavia, June 12, lat. 7 N., long. 24 W. The Cocyte, Monte Video to Falmouth, June 25, lat. 30 N., long. 42 W. The Diligent, Akyab to Falmouth, 12th June, lat. 8 N., long. 22 W. The Ann Dashwood, of Liverpool, Antwerp to Mel bourne, 2d July, lat. 36 N., long. 12 W. The Pakenham (barque), outward bound, 11th July, lat. 41 N., long. 13 W. The Oceana (ship), outward bound, 3d July, lat. 39 N., long. 16 W. AUS TRALIAN SHIPPING. The I Vooloomool oo, Stuart, from New South Wales has ar r i ve d i n the Downs ; sailed from Sydney April 22. SYDNEY. -Arrived-The Eclipse, April 2, from San Francis co ; Giraffe, 4th, from Launceston ; Corsair, from San Fran c i sco ; Hopewell, sth, from Melbourne • John Patchett, from Greenock ; Elizabeth, 6th, from 'Bristol and Melbourne ; Gratitude, from Launceston ; Culloden, 7th, fro m Melbourne ; H.M.S. Torch, from Albany; Bor neo, Bth, from London ; Dolphin, 9th, from Liverpool; Emma, from San Francisco ; Proteus, from Newcastle ; Australian from Whaling ; Nehalennia, 10th, from Liver pool ; Long Island, from Sau Francisco ; Acacia, 12th, from Moreton Bay; Arrogant, 14th, from Port Philip; Washington Irving, from Moreton Bay, for London ; Al verton, 15th, from Newcastle; Tigris, 16th, from Lon don; Su rge , 18th, from Whampoa. Sailed-The William Prowse, April 2, for Newcastle and Port Cooper; British Isles, do. ; Vixen, 4th, for Guam ; Mannora, 4th, for Auckland ; Hopewell, 6th, for Newcastle ; Helene, for Singapore ; Envelope, for San Francisco • Catherine Jamieson and Mary Bannatyne, Bth, for London ; Velox, 10th, for Nelson ; Achilles, for London ; Royal Saxon, 11th, for Singapore; Banshee, 9th, for Guam ; Thomas shooiOrnenn,:tahhhgeeeeidll3462:thohh.iininnsitti in. Woburn- . square, Catherine Emma, Chadwick, 18 th , do. ; Culloden, for Madras ; Teak, f or only daughter of John Cutler, Esq., of Sidmouth, Devon Calcutta. MELBOURNE.-Arrived-The Reliance, April 7, from s., in pper George-street, Bryanston - Mauritius ; Albus and Medora, 10th, from New, York ; ~scluare, Mary Anne, second. daughter of the late Richard Wee Tottie, from the Cape ; Brilliant, 11th, from Nova Dxiaavnibeis7E,sEcire.,omium.her 19th year'. Scotia ; Montoagle, 12th, from London ; Ocean Bride and Kate, from Liverpool ; Tantivy, 14th, from Liverpool. a i n n d C er am ß b .N rid . ge-street, Pimlico, Arthur Sailed-The Nels , ,m, April 13, for London. GEELONG.-Arrived-The Castro, April 4, from Oporto ; - s of tr N an o c . L l i l n 2, th S e trand ...--._ .... --. Confidence, 13th, from Liverpool. LONDON : Printed and Published by muRDo YOUNG, HOBART TOWN.-Arrived-The Florentia April 4, from ) PrecinctPrin o t f or t , h a e t s 2 a 7ze vo S y un i n o Office , , co N u o n . ty ll o 2 f , London, for Moreton Bay. Middlesex, Wednesday, July 20, 1853. OF A SON. On tho 19th inst., at 20, Regent's-villas, A Regent's-p ar k, th e w i fe of Marcus Beresford, Es venue-roa d, q. OP A DAUGHTER. On the 17th inst., Mrs. Richard Phillips, of Winchester place, Claremont-square. MARRIED. On the 19th inst., at the church of St. Alpbege, parish of Greenwich, by the Rev. Chas. P. Incledon, Hugh Demp dster, Esq., of Greenock, North Britain, to Margar e t, e ld e st aughter of Willi am B owler, Esq., of Thornt on -h ea th, ur. ~~, 4th , A,4A;441.11ft,, LAND. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE laid on the table a bill on this subject, and briefly stated its provisions. He said the subject had excited much interest in Ireland. The draft of the bill he now submitted was prepared by Sir W. Somerville, assisted by other gentlemen, in the winter of 1351 ; but circumstances had prevented its being laid before Parliament. It was based on the soundest princi ples; it violated no rights, and introduced some important amendments into the law. It was meant to deal with the whole subject. There were already four or five bills before that and the other house on the same subject ; and it was most important that the question should be dealt with generally. His bill contained fewer clauses than were contained in the Leasing Powers Bill, now on their lordships' table. It was a merit of his bill that it con tained no novel or original principle. The great princi ple embodied in it was, that the rights of both parties should rest on contract, that those rights should be in violable, and that easy remedies should be provided. The details. were divided into five heads—relating to leasing powers, rights of tenants, rights of landlords, compensation for improvements, and the procedure by which these rights a,nd compacts were to be enforced. All questions would be referred to the decision of a single tribunal, the assistant-barrister, with power of appeal. He hoped their lordships would compare this with the other bills before them. The subject was so important that a single false step would be fatal to the rights of property in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) In the two bills on their lordships' table, there were enactments which they would be astonished to find there. One was a provision making landlords liable for improvements made by tenants without their con currence. In the Leasing Powers Bill there was a pro vision by which a tenant for life might wholly defeat all the provisions of the settlement. This showed the ne cessity of closely looking into the details of these mea sures. He made no complaint about the lateness of the session—he was ready to sit on till winter if necessary ; but it was important that they should not pass bills on this subject without examining them most minutely. They must show the people of Ireland that they were under the same law as the people of England. (Hear.) The Earl of DON OUGHMORE hoped that the Go vernment would allow all the bills to go before a select committee, so that a properly considered and carefully weighed measure might be produced. The bill was then read a first time. SUCCESSION DUTY BILL. The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the first reading o this bill, which had been brought up from the Commons, Agreed to. The noble earl fixed the second reading of the bill for Friday next. The house adjourned at a few minutes after 7 o'clock. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Considerable improvement has been exhibited in the share market to-day, and quotations re mained firm to the close, and the closing prices have been reported as follows :—Aberdeen, 133 ; Chester and Birken head, 20ic. ; Caledonian, 34$ ; Lancashire and York shire, 77i ; London and North-Western (i shares), 3 p. ; Midland, 718 ; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1 d. ; South- Eastern and Dover, 24, ; York and North Midland, 29. MANCHESTER, JULY 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was not much business, but prices were rather higher. Dovers, 21k; Midlands, 714 ; Leeds Stock, 774; London New Eighths, 4 p.; Manchester and Birmingham C Qrs., 14 p. ; Caledonians, 344 ; York and North Midland, 29i ; East Lancashire Preference, Qrs., 9i. LADVERTISEMENT.I—THE CAMP AT CHOBH A M.--. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.—Observe, opposite the York Hotel. The Royal Exhibition. A valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ; ships are clearly seen opera-houses country scenery, and h t . d at 12 to 14 Miles. They are invaluable for s oe eer they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the' stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 3i inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful power; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 to 16 miles ''natant. Messr s . S. an d B. Solomons, opticians, have in vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenses. Immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, every object appears clear and distinct; the most aged, d e f ec ti ve s i g ht becomes b r i g h t and blilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Deafness—New Discovery— The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful and to surpas s anything of the kind that has newly - invented in s t rument, for Deafness, entirely different from all othe rs , been, or probably ever can be, produced. f Being of the same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desired. —S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Al bemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe, opposite the York Hotel. COUNTRY MARKET,% LIVERPOOL—JuIy 19. Wheat and flour to-day met a moderate consumptive demand at an advance upon the prices of this day se'nnight of 2d per 701 b., and 6d per sack and barrel. Cargoes of wheat afloat saleable at extreme rates. Oats of fine qua lity, being scarce, brought fully per 451 b. advance. Oatmeal rather more saleable at former prices. Barley and peas without change, but Egyptian beans obtainable at a decline of is per 4801 b. White Indian corn in request, and rather dearer. Yellow, however, .was neglected, and without change in value. IPSWICH —JULY 19. The continued very rainy season, coupled with the ad vance in Mark-lane yesterday, caused our market to be * very animated one for wheat, and the advance partook of an extravagant character as regarded some samples, 3s to 5s per qr. being realised over last week's prices. It is feared injury is already sustained by the growing crop, and apprehensions felt for the potatoes. PER QUARTER. PER (mum:R. Wheat, red (old) s2s to 54s Barley, grinding ... 00s to 005 Ditto (new) 38s to 600 Ditto, white (new) 56 s t o 63s Peas -- 34 s to 360 Ditto (old) 00s to 005 Barley, malting ... 30 s to 32s Flour, per sack AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 16,1853. Wheat Ba tl ey Y 1 338 Od Oa „ 00s Od Beans Peas HULL —JULY 19. We had to-day a good II of farmers. There was a fair show of wheat. b The market settled down at from 588 to 60s per qr. for best runs of red, which of themselves are weighing 631 b. per bushel ; thus making the advance 2s upon last week's prices. A small show of foreign wheat, at is to 2s per qr. higher, but stale or chambered wheats are not saleable. Grinding barley as dear as last week. Oats 6d dearer. Beans meet a firm market, and are well cleared off. Of peas a small stock. Indian corn is dearer. Deli, for feeding, is selling at 295. per 4201 b. machined. A parcel of fine Ohio barrel flour is selling at 28s per 1961 b. The linseed market firm, and cakes dearer. Nothing doing in rapeseed, and rape cakes scam. A fine cargo of bones offering at 955. s s Wheat, English, red 58 to 61 Ditto white 6O to 63 Dantzic and Konigs berg Pomeranian and Ham burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 5O to 52 Russian and Odessa 44 to 48 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian 2l to 23 Barley, malting Di" - :o grinding 2B to 30 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 4O Li) 42 s S. Peas, gray and black 36 to 38 Linseed, Black Sea 48 to 50 Ditto Petersburgh . 42 to 47 Ditto Riga and Arch angel .... ....... —to Ditto Konigsberg a n d Memel 4O to 44 Per Tou. Lins. c., Hull 8/17s 6d to 9/ Os Ditto fine for. 81 5s Od 01 Os Ditto inf. for 7los Od to 0/ Os Rapeseed 271 Os to 001 Os Rape cakes 102 s 6d to 00s Tares, English 32s to 36s Ditto foreign Guano 4/ 9/ to 10108 Bones 955 Od to 005 Od Rye Meal DUBLIN —Jour 19. White wheat, 26s to 31s Od.; red ditto, 25s Od to 29s 6d ; barley, 138 Od to 16s 6d ; oats, 10s Od to 13s Od ; rapeseed, OOs Od to OOs per brl ; oatmeal, lls Od to 13s Od ; baked flour, 14s Od to 20s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 28s 6d to 32s 6a per 480 lbs. CORK-JuLT 19. White whe a t 00 s Od Currency. to OOs Od Os 11 nedwh ea t 23s Od to 24s 0.1 Od--20 stone. Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od 003 Od-20 do. -- Ditt o OO s Od to OOs Od Barley OOs 9d to OOs Od Ditto OGs Od to OOs Od OOs Od-16 do. Ditto ..,...00s 00s Od to 00 s O d Ben) oos Od to OOs Od OA Od Oats ........... 00 s Od to OOs Oct -- Ditto oos Od to OOs Oct 00s Oct do. -- Ditt o. oos Oct to OOs Oct) Pigs ........... oos Od to Oos Od Oos Od per cwt. Quantity sold at the highest prices 00 barrels white wheat ; 6 red ; 00 barley; 00 bare; 6 oats ; 0 pigs. CORR.—Flour—First, 15s Od to 16s Od; extra, 17s Od; seconds, 13s 6d to 14, Od; households, 10s to lls 6d ; thirds, 7s to 9s Od per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, Os Od to Os Od ; oatmeal, lls 6d to 12s ; wheatmeal, 9s 6cl to 12s Od per cwt. Indian corn, 6/ 15s Od to 71 5 s Od per ton. Bran, 41 15s Od to 510 s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers, 27s Od to 30s Od; average, 00s; dealers, 50s Od to 00s Od ; average, Os per ton. Straw--- Farmers, 25s Od to 26s Od; average, 005 • dealers, 32s Od to 00s Od ; average, Os. per ton. Br ead—Wheaten loaf, Oid to Od ; household ditto, 54d to Od per 41b. eaten butter, Od to lid per lb. Eggs, 3s 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Meat —beef, 44d to 8d ; mutton, 6d to 63,d ; veal, 5d to 8d ; pork, 5d to 6d ; bacon, 7d to 8d ; sansages, 6d per lb.—Fish, Newfound land, 001. Os to 001 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings 00s to 00s; Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 15d to ' l6d ; 18d to 20d.— Coals, Newport, 19s; Lydney, 19s; Cahn, 154 Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s 10d per imperial gallon.-- Hides, market, 30s t o 365; Salted, 308 to 38s per cwt. Calf skins, 3Ad per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31. per ton. Fleece wool, 18s to 20s per stone.—Hemp, 351. to 401. per ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 15s ; red pine, 31. 15s ; yellow do., 31. ss. per ton ; deals, 191. to 20/. per hundred.--Bark, red, 81. to 10/.los. per ton.—Tallow, 53s to 53s 6d per cwt._H op s, 7/, lOs to 01. per cwt.-. Tar, Archangel, 19s. per brl.— Guano, Peruvian, 121. Os to 001. per ton. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails art sent from the General Post-eff ce by the night—and If by the morning —dispatch.] , COUNTRIES, I tY oe vrla n e e n ral rost ? From what When due in ) Office, London.* Dispatched. England. ________—____. America(byllrit.pack)N Every • America (by . United Sts. Friday .... Liv erpool ... l Each Mon. packet) ..........N July 26 ....... iver . L July 20 America (by U. States p o ol ... I 27 packet) .... • .....N July 20.. • • .... • • SOuthampton July Australia (via South ampton) .......... MlSept. 4 .......... SouthamptonlAug. 4 Ditto (via Marseilles) NlSept. 8 Ditto (via Cape of G oo d July 31 I Hope) ...... •• • • ..N August 4 ........ London ..... 'Uncertain. Africa (West Coast)..N 23rd of the month. Plymou Alexandria.— • • • ..N 8,9, 24, & 30 of m. Dover ......July 29 Alexandria .....• • • ..M 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton 'July 21 BBahamas ... • • • . —3l 2nd of the month Southampton Aug. 1 elgium ...... • • ....N Daily.. . Brazil ...... .. 11 9th of the month.. Southampton 'Aug. 16 Buenos Ayres .... ....M 9th of the month.. SouthatriptonlAug. 18 Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plymouth .. 'July 26 Cape of Good Hope ..N Plymouth .. I July 26 Cape de Verde ......N 14th of th e month. Plymouth Ceylon (see India) .. Ceylon.-- .• ......N 14th of the month Plymouth .. July 26 Channel Isles ........N Mon ~IVed.,&Frid. Southampton , Tu.m. Sat Chill. ... • • ......M 2d & 17th of month Seuthamptortr.A. China (see India) ug. 1 IConstantinople ......N 7,8,17,24,&270fm, Dover .... .. July 2 Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th o f mon. South ampton , July 21 Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily ...... Dover ...... 'Twicedally Egypt (see India) France ........ 51 & N Twice daily.— Dover ...... TwicedatlY Gibraltar ———....31 4,7, 17, 20, 27 o f m. Southampton July 26 Greece (see India) Greytown ...... ....M 2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton !Aug. 1 Hamburgh ...... ....N Tuesday & Friday London .....'Toes, Sat. Havannah ...... AI 2nd of the month Southampton Aug. 1 Holland .... .. ...... AI Wednesday & Sat. London ... • . Mon Thor Honduras .. ..... . M 17th of the month. Southampton Aug. 16 India (viaSout . hampt . .)M 4th & 20th of mon. SouthamptonVnly 21 India (via Marseilles)M Bth&24th of month Dover ...... i lonian Isles (see India) P 1 7 12 64117 Ireland ...... —3l & H N 7 Tw , 6 1 , c 1 e 7 d , a 8, 11y 28 .. 0f . ..... South Madeira T Lisbon .............. Madeira ............24 9th of the m on th SouthamptonlAug. 16 Madeira ............N 23rd o f th e month Plymouth .. July 28 Malta (see India) Malta ..............N 7,17,19,28, 30 of m. Dover ...... uly 18 Mauritius (see India) Mauritius .... • • ....N 14th of theeth month Plymouth .. July 26 M ex i co .• •• ••.• .. „iv 2nd of m. SouthamptontAug. 1 Naples..... .• •• • • ..N sthlstll2sthormon. Dover ..... July 22 New Granada. ......M 2d & 17th of month Southampton Aug. 1 . ................ t By private ship .. Various ports Uncertain Perri 751111175tthh2285ththooftoonn: s D o o u v t e h r am . pton . juitilyy 26 NewP papale nl il sZ Statesa Zealand...... a . 1 d . .. . ... VP:nap:el:n.lll.. (I .:: Venezue1tt.............." ....MN 7d & 27th of mon. Southampton Aug. 1 14th of the month Plymouth .. July 26 Sicil y •••••• • • • • • • ..N sthl s th2sthofmon, Dover ...... July 22 Tuscany 256th8,151t7ht2h5thofomfmonothn. 6 D o o u v t e h r am . pt . o . n . J A n ug ly 22 1 Australia) . .... West Indies .....: ..:ii 2d& 17th of month 5t00th5,,,„4—,..._ I2d & 17th of month !Southampton!. ........______ lAug. 1 dispat hen on When any of these dates fall on a Sund ay, the mails will be South the following day, with the exc ept i on of the India (via aniPtoll), and the Malta, both of which will be dispatched the day preceding. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's 'Ointment and Pills are superior remedies for the cure of erysipelas.--Mr. William Pill, n ear B r i stol, was for upwards of S oti George's ,yearstwo with erysip e l as i n h i s legs, so b a d at t i mes as t o l a y him up for a month toge tenda - ther ; nce the at t med he Bristol Infirmary ical aid he received, b es id es a weekly at , h ad no whatever in the disease, consequently he de good effect determined on giving Holloway's Ointment and P ills a trial, and they have vebeen the means of effecting a radical cure of his legs in an almost unprecedented short time.---Sold by 244 all dru Straggists, and d at Professor ilollow ay ' s esta b lishment, nd,don. A ROYAL DOD GE.—The Literary Gazette says that the from musical Czar per are aformers who t ece i ve brooches and rings them into mone the able who witho u t i mpropriety, to turn household an oy, his Majesty h aving instituted in his back at the full cer whose s p ec i a l duty it is to buy , price, all the presents he offers. Thus "in Russia there are certain rings, brooches, braceletas and snuff-boxes, which have been given away times without number." BIRTIIS. Brls. NI Close , Adn 'orze Eyd 18th, P end I 2 terest frog Post ft . MI agaued undo &dinb Oxforc ,LiW( wave field )4 auel laver/ Th e Cork, trivet, 'rho to i l i a rate s Gleng, telfu to Gal Eye Illu ! Tour s , The aloe r the r, Con e t 6,a eb al , , bet MS A, pc ', , Om . li eiat nr• r L r• 5 D om ' . 40 by. 4 , 1. 4 1, C tl v o i on , (14 1 0 1 p,t ,