The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. Jury presentments, these districts should be annexed to the adjoining counties, but, in the present Bill, this was reversed, and those districts annexed to the towns, which was a greet grievance and injustice. In making .this alteration, the House of Commons had acted in direot contradiction to the recommendation of their own Boandary Commissioners, and upon this Report the clause was drawn last year. To remedy this incoure nience, the House of Commons had adopted the singu lar proceeding of sending up a Bill to reverse this very clause which their Lordships could not adopt, because the House of Commons had attached to it money clauses. Why hadnot some other Bill been brought up Ho could not move any amendments to the clause,becau se b e wou ld not knowingly infringe on the privileges of the House of Commoas, but ho would leave the clause as it stood in order to see if her Majesty's Ministers would introduce a Bill to remedy the grievance, and if they did not then it would be for Eheir Lordships to say whether they would consent to the adoption o f a Bill inflicting such gross injustice. Now, with regard to the qualification, their Lordships had always insisted upon a 10/. qua lification, and he presumed they would still abide by it. The Commons had adopted his Lordship's qualification in all the boroughs, or schedule A, and so far there was no"objection, but in schedule B they had adopted an St. qualification. He should insist upon a 10/. quali fication. But they had further said, that at the end of three years this qualification as to value was to cease. He should say that when three years had elapsed it would be quite time enough to alter the qualification if it should be necessary. What he proposed, there fore, was, that the qualification should on all occasions be a 10/. one. The next material point to which he should call their Lordships' attention was the appointment of Sheriffs, In 1836 the appointment was proposed to be vested in the Town Council, but as these were officers connected with the adatinistration of justice, it was deemed improper to give their nomination to the Town Council, and it was vested in the Lord Lieetenaint, and that alteration had been moved in the House of Commons before sending up the Bill. But now the Council were to appoint three persons, from whom the Lord Lieutenant was to choose one, and if he rejected the whole, then three others were to he chosen by the Council, and if the Lord Lieutenant rejected them, then, and then only, the appointmant vested in the Lord Lieutenant. Now he proposed, to recommend that the appointment of sheriffs of towns should vest in the Lord Lieutenant, in the same manner as in counties. The Noble Viscount himself, had, on a former occasion, consented to such an arrangement. Those corporations were to deal with large sums of money, it was therefore necessary that an effective audit of their accounts should take place, to prevent fraud. The Noble Duke had proposed an amendment to this effect, which had been assented to by the House of Commons, and now those clauses were unaccountably omitted. He should propose to re-insert them in the present Bill. A Noble Friendof his had last Session presented a petition from theinhabitants of Galway, praying that that town might be taken from schedule A and placed in schedule B. The ground was, that all that could be obtained from a corporation was already enjoyed by the inhabitants of Galway. He succeeded in introducing a clause to place the town of Galway in schedule B , which clause was now omit ted. lie should propose its reinsertion in the present Bill. These were the principal amendments he in tended to propose ; the others were mere matters of in troduced, he, ; and unless these amendments were he, for one, would never consent that the Bill should pass into a law. The LORD CHANCELLOR should have thought it more convenient to discuss the amendments in the Committee. But as the Noble Lord had abandoned one of his amendments, and he (the Lord Chancellor) believed he could, without much taking up their Lord ships' time, reply to the arguments by which the amend ments were supported, he would endeavour to show that the doctrine and principle& of his Noble Friend were such as their Lordships should not adopt. The object of one of the amendments was to alter the Parliamentary franchise in Ireland, and to give persons a right to rote who did not now possess it. The Reform Act took away from numerous freemen the right to vote, but they retained the franchise ei those who possessed the freedom by right. The present Bill gave the munici pal franchise to all those who now possessed, by the Parliamentary franchise ; but the amendment of his Noble Friend would give the franchise to persons who had no legal title to it. This would he the case in the corporation of the city of Dublin, amongst others. The amendment would give the right of freedom in the Corporation at large, to persons who were only free of the guilds ; whereas the Courts of Law, had repeat edly decided that the freemen of the guilds had no right to the freedom of the city. The Marquis of WESTMEATH asked for the date of some of these cases. The LORD CHANCELLOR referred to the margin of the Report, and assured the Noble Marquis toilet the law was as he had stated. Indeed, if it were not so, his Noble and Learned Friend would not have thought it necessary to bring in his amendment. The abject of that amendment was to enable all the freemen of the guilds to vote for the representation of the city of Dublin, which they could now do. It was to let in all those persons into the constituency of Dublin, upon the specious ground of preserving the p irliamen tary franchise. He suggested the omission of such words as included those persons, and were not neces sary to preserve the existing franchise ; Let he said he did not suppose his Hon. and Learned Friend would eoneent to the omission, as the object of the cleeie was really to let is all those persons into the constituency.— (Hear and a laugh.) His Noble and Learned Friend .expressed surprise at the introduction of the clause which related to the counties of towns. But in feet this Bill was, in that respect, the MI which their Lard ships had agreed to in 1838 The Bill contained the amendment, which their Lordships introduced in that year, and to which the House of Commons agreed ; and he thought that when there was a difference of opinion b:tweien the two Houses of Parliament respecting any measure, it was desir a bl e t o reta i n i n i t, upon its rc•- introduction, such parts as both Houses hail concurred in. The counties of towns were to all intents and pur poses on the same footing as counties, having their grend pries, high sheriffs, presentments, &c. In the Bill which was sent up from the House of Commons in 1839, the county districts were separated from the towns for municipal purposes, and the towns were ex empted from the grand jury cess. But their Lordships rejected the l a tt e r p rov i s i on , an d l e f t the towns still liable to the county cuss. Now, taking the amend• heents of 1838 and of 1839, agreed to by bath Houses, in respect to these subjects, the Bill was, so far, the same as their Lordships had already passed. He would not occupy their time longer, but would express a hope that they would not, in 1840, repudi he their own act of 1838 which, for the sake of concili ition, the other House had aereed to. Lord LYNDHURST said that there might be some obscurity in the wording of the clause, but if his Noble and Learned Friend would read it carefully , he would see that it was f rame d f or the purpose of effect ing that which was intended by the amendments of 1838—that was, to annex the rural districts to the counties, not only for civil and criminal jurisdiction, but also for presentments. The clause was introduced for the express purpose o f exempt i ng t h e rural districts from being burdened with the expenses of the towns. His Noble and Learned Friend said, because their Lordships would not assent to that part of the Bill by which the grand jury presentments were taken away from grand juries and transterred to the councils, therefore, be would not relieve the rural dis tricts from the taxation to which they were exposed for the necessities of towns in which they had no interest. Practi ca lly th e i r L or d s hi ps were, b y this Bill, affecting the rights of freemen to an extent much beyond what any of their Lordships supposed. With respect to the rest of what lie had stated his Noble and Learned Friend had left it entirely without answer. Lord BROUGHAM said that not having been in the House when this Bill was read a second time he now only rose to assure th e i r L or d s hi ps that he, ad hered to his former sepport of the Bill, and Ms unquali fied opposition to all the amendments of his Noble and Learned Friend. H o f eare d from what bad fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend that whether their Lordships agreed to the amendments or not the Bill would be lost: He hal no fear that the Bill would be . host by their Lordships re' g*h amendments. But his Noble and Lear nedFrie j n e d c' h in d'a e l so said that he would oppose this Bill at a future (in lieu unle f ss a measure . for regulating the comity seas their Lordships bad rejected at hilsea(Lootrd,theL_yonn,dehuwrttish) lambaste) were brought in Is —Y her If he had misunderstood hi. NojebsleY Majesty's Government. Friend in. that re!pect, he trusted he would comfort ear Ain by setting him right.—(A. laugh.) The Noble 'Viscount (Melbourne) had intimated that he he (Lord not d e theresfooriemportantorto bring in any such Bill, and Brougham) feared that this measure, the peace of Ireland, would not now pass both Houses of Parliament, but would be rejected for the fifth time. He would not occupy the House at that time by touch ing upon the details of the Bill. But with respect to the qualification, he must say, that he thought it ought not to be different feorn that which was established in &gland, where the Municipal franchise was based upon the household qualification. He could see no reason why a different principle should be applied to Ireland. Trust men, and they would prove themselves trust worthy : show them that you distrust them, and they wield uniformly earn the title to your distrust. The Earl of WICKLOW said that the two Noble and Learned Lords (the Lord . Chancellor . and Lord Lyndhurst) seemed ' to differ in opinion as to the boundary question, and he thought it desirable that they . should come to an understandin g t ng on that question, before they went into the Corn u m n it ' He thought that after the separation of the rura e l e. d . districts from the the grand juries ought not to I towns, power to tax the towns.—cilear, hear.) He thought it right to call their Lordships' attention to the uncertainty e of the because ho thought that . u l p d on i it the d boundary question,. fate of the Bill and the peace of Ireland Lord LYNDHURST said that the Noble Learned Lord opposite had misunderstood him. W t hat he had said was that he would not amend the Bill with I respect to the taxation clauses, until he saw what would I be done in the other House. He would not with his eyes open, encroach upon the privileges of that House —(Hear, hear)—until he saw what course the Go vernment would take. But at the same time he reserved for hi mse lf t o d e t erm i ne w h a t co urse he should take. ILord BROUGHAM expressed himself much re lieved by the•explanation just given by his Noble and Learned Friend.—(Hear. and a laugh.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE protested against I the injustice of the amendment, which would subject the towns to a double taxation,—first for their own pur poses, through the town councils; and secondly for county purposes, through the grand jury. There would however be no objection to bring in a Bill to give the power of taxation to the municipalities, surrounded by as many guards as the Noble and Learned Lord might deem necessary, provided only that they did not amount to a double taxation. At a time when the Government were endeavouring to esta blish corporations responsible for the administration of their funds, the Noble and Learned Lord attempted to create a body corporate in this Blue-coat School re sponsible to no man—a body electing each other, and carefully excluding the public from any protection against the rest of that body.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped their Lordships would hesitate before they sent down to the other House of Parliament a clause creating a body perfectly irresponsible to any human creature, in a Bill, the object of which was that all ad ministration should be responsible.—(Hear, hear.) To that clause, therefore, as it stood, he should give his most unqualified; opposition.—(Hear, hear.) He now begged to call their Lordships' attention to some amendments which the Noble and Learned Lord had studiously avoided bringing under their notice. The Noble and Learned Lord had introduced a provision that ten months should elapse after the people had been assessed before they could enter upon the enjoyment of their right.—(Cheers.) There was also a clause, which the House of Commons would never consent to, giving the Lord Lieutenant the power to tax the muni cipalities at hi s pl easure .—(H ear .) S o th a t w hil e the mostjealous distrust of these new bodies was professed power was given to one man, because he was Lord Lieutenant, to tax every one of these municipalities without limit. Such a power was never heard of. (Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord could not expect that the House of Commons would consent to one man having the power to tax the people, and when they came to that amendment he should divide and take the sense of the House upon it.—(Cheers.) After a few words from Lord IV YNFORD, that were inaudible in the gallery, Lord LYNDHURST said the Noble Marquis was under a mistake in supposing that he (Lord Lyndhurst) intended to create any irresponsible body. Those parties would be responsible to the Court of Chancery for the discharge cf their duty. There was an express proviso to that effect. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied the pro viso was that in any case where a poor child was re fused admission to a school, the parent of that poor child might appeal to the Court of Chancery. Lord REDESDALE observed that the same pro vision had been inserted iu the English Municipal Bill, with regard to the Louth Charity. Lord LYNDHURST, from his acquaintance with that part of the country, could state that the business of the Louth School had been conducted admirably since the period that clause was introduced. heir Lordships then resolved themselves into CLm mittee. Clauses 1,2, 3,4, and . 5 were agreed to, with ver bal amendments. On clause 6 being proposed, The Marquis of CLANRICARDE objected to the amendment which had been introduced, giving to the members of union guilds the right to the Parliamentary franchise. He considered the amendment had bean introduced for no other reason than to confer upon cer tain persons the Par.iamentary franchise, merely be cause they were of a particular religion, or entertained particular opinions. The object of the Bill was to de stroy the exclusive diameter of corporations ; and if their Lordships agreed to this amendment, they might as well throw the Bill out altagother. The Earl of V ICKLO\V wished to retain the ex isting rights of Parliamentary voters entirely, untouched by the present Bill ; hut he had been so perplexed by the opinions given by the two Noble and Learned Lords upon this subject, that if an amendment were pressed to a division, he should abstain from voting upon it.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) The LORD CHANCELLOR contended that the amendment interfered with the principle of the Re form Bill. Lord LYNDHURST submitted that if this amend ment were not agreed to a large class of persons would be most unjustly- deprived of their rights. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE observed that the way to obviate that injustice would be to extend the franchise in cities and towns, and instead of raising it to 10/, to lower it to 3/. He opposed the amendment because it would confer an exclusive right upon exclu sive persons. The Marquis of NORMANBY said that the ad missions to guilds were always of an exclusive cha racter. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided when there appeared, N.)r-Contents Contents Attj iri'y far the Amendaier t —44 The clause as amended was then ordered to stand part Di the Bill. On clause 8 being read, which authorised the Town Clerk to make out a freeman's roll, Lord LYNDHURST said that as the clause at present stood, it would effect an alteration in the Par liamentary franchise, which was never contemplated. He moved that the clause be amended by inserting the word " servitude." The LORD CHANCELLOR contended that the clause merely corrected an error in the Irish Reform Act, hut it did not take away any right which previously existed. The Eirl of WICKLOW deprecated any discus sion upon the errors in the Irish Reform Act. If any mistakes lead been com-nitted in that Act, let them bring in a all to amend it, as they had done with re gard to many other measures. The amendment was then agreed to, and the clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill. On clause 9 being rend, Lord LYNDHURST moved an amendment, the object of which was to give the freeman a right of appeal to the Judge of Assize. 'The LORD CHANCELLOR could not agree to that proposition. Lord DENMA N thought the amendment very ob jectionable, and suggested that there should be a sum mary appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench. Lord BROUGHAM concurred in the observation of his Noble and Learned Friend the Chief Justice. Lord LYNDHURST would have no objection to postpone the clause for the present. The clause, as also clause 10, was then postponed. Clause 11 was agreed to without observation. On clause 12 being read, which refers to the schedules, Lord LYNDHURST moved an amendment for the purpose of including Galway in schedule B. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE supported the amendment. The Earl of WICKLOW congratulated her Ma jesty's Government on the support of the Neble Mar quis, who professed himself a strenuous advocate of the Bill, and yet would exclude the town with which he was more immediately connected, from the good govern ment which was provided for them under the Bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said the Noble Lord had, he was sure, unintentionally misrepresented him. He objected to Galway being included in sche dule A, merely because it was at present under the pro►isions of a Local Act. The clause as amended was then agreed to. On clause 14 being read, which empowered a ma jority of the inhabitants of any town to apply for a charter of incorporation, Lord LYNDHURST moved an amendment to the effect, that the application be made from a majority of the inhabitants " rated to the relief of the poor." The Marquis of NORMANBY objected to the amendment, inasmuch as it would give a small minority of the inhabitants a power of taxing the large majority. The Earl of WICKLOW could assure their Lord ships that the rating to the relief of the poor in Ireland was a mere nothing. He knew many vilages which contained 3,000 inhabitants, the number required by the clause, and the great majority of these were paapers. Now, when the agitators . came among the in habitants of such a town or village they would be easily induced to make application for a charter against the consent of the wealthy portion of the inhabitants who would have to pay the taxes. Lord BROUGHAM said all the applicants could obtain was a charter, which would enable the wealthy portion of the inhabitants, who were alone eligible to be burgesses, to impose taxes upon them. The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that several of the houses had been raised, in order to qualify the holders. The Earl of WICKLOW thought it would be better to reject the clause altogether ; and be should therefore more its rejection. Lord ABINGER thought the amendment of his Noble and Learned Friend would bring it to precisely what the Noble Marquis (Normanby) desired. The Earl of WIC KLOW would p ostpone hi s mo tion for the rejection of the clause, and give notice that he should move its rejection on the bringing up the Report. The amendment was then agreed to, and the clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 19, 20, 21, 22, were agreed to. Clauses 23, 24, and 25, were omitted. Clause 26 was postponed. On clause :44 (the qualification clause) being p roposed, Lord LYNDHURST said that he pr o p ose d to , Imend this clause by ma ki ng the qualification ze,:eral in all towns as a 101. qualification. Lord STUART DE DECIES said that the oppo. sition to this clause afforded a very melancholy proof THE SUN, LONDON , TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1840 r. not only of the want of confidence reposed in the people ' of Ireland by Noble Lords opposite, but of their inten tion of keeping up invidious distinctions in that country. If they were to be deprived of the benefits of the Eng lish municipal franchise, had they not a right to inquire wherein lay their disqualification ? In towns, nut only the numbers, but the property was in favour of the Ca tholics, and therefore they were entitled to the prepon derance. To the unhappy system of ecclesiastical as cendancy in civil affairs might be attributed the greater part of the evils under which Ireland was suffering. To what was to be attributed the organization of all those bodies, which of late years had measured their strength with Parliament ?, They were all madelled on the plan of the Catholic Association, and Ireland would continue her system of national agitation against any party which should attempt to keep the Irish Catholic from perfect equality with the English Protestant. Those who opposed the Catholic Relief Bill might with perfect consistency oppose this clause, but those who supported the Bill of 1829, were in consistency bound to record their votes in favour of this clause, whether they voted for that Bill from the principle of justice, or from the principle of expediency. If they amended this clause they would open a new Catholic question, with its in evitable, concomitant, perpetual agitation. The Earl of WICKLOW had never heard a speech further from the subject than the one of the Noble Lord.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He denied that Noble Lords on his side the House were actuated by any anti-Irish feeling.—(Cheers.) He believed that however they might differ as to the means, Noble Lords on both sides the House were sincerely desirous of doing justice to the Irish people. He should support the amendment. Lord STUART DE DECIES would be glad to know in what his speech was inapplicable. The fran chise had passed for England, and it could only be re fused to Ireland from a jealousy of the Irish Catholics. The Earl of DEVON said that from what he had learned from the Noble Baron, it appeared that there was a great deal of wealth in the towns, and that the Catholics would by their property obtain the franchise, which he would be the last to wish to deprive them of enjoying. The Earl of WICKLOW said this had nothing to do with Catholics or Protestants ; it was merely a ques tion of property. The Marquis of CI, ANR,IC ARDE must differ fr . = the Noble Earl, as he had frequently heard it asserted, that it was necessary to make the qualification higher in Ireland than in England, to prevent its getting into the hands of the Catholics, who would be the tools of agi tators.—( Cheers.) The Marquis of WESTMEATH said the 101. qualification had been originally proposed by a Noble Lord who led the other House, and that he had subse quently been beaten out of it. The gallery was then cleared for a division, but none took place. On our re-admission we found that Lord LYND HURST at the suggestion of the Earl of WicKLow, had consented to divide his amendment into two parts. The question was then put upon the amendment that the qualification should be a general one of 10/. Strangers3were then ordered to withdraw, and their Lordships divided, when there appeared Non-Contents Contents Majority in favour of the amend ment of Lord Lyndhurst ,.. 42 On our re-admission we found Lord LYIstDHURST asking wh) a different rule should be applied to Ireland to what was applied to England ? Lord BROUGHAM asked why a different rule should be applied to England, or why a different quali fication should be proposed for Scotland ? He thought it would be much better to give household qualification as in England. The Earl of WICKLOW was in favour of the Parliamentary qualification. Lord LYNDEILTRST said that the clause as it now stood had been agreed to by a large majority of their Lordships last year. An amendment proposing the substitution of the word " twelve," instead of six months, as the time of residence previous to qualification, was agreed to with out a division. Clause 32 was agreed to. Clause 33 was omitted. Clauses 33 and 36 were agreed to. Clauses 37 and 39 were agreed to with verbal amend ments. Cl Alse 40 hav:ng been passed over, clauses 41 and 42 wero agreed to. Upon clause 43, a short discussion arose which ter minated in their Lordships agreeing to Lord Lynd hurst's subsitution of the word " Churchwarden," for " Town Clerk." The clauses to 53 inclusive, were agreed to without amendment. In clause 34, a verbal amendment of Lord Lynd hurst's was agreed to. Clauses 34, up to 97, were gone through without discussion. On the reading of clause 97, Lord LYNDHURST said.that one of the amend ments which appeared in the printed notice he had given, appeared there through accident. It had been soot to him in writing, and by mistake he gave it in. But he never intended to move it. The clauses up to iO3 were then gone through. Upon the reading of clause 104, Lord LYNDHURST proposed an amendment, re lating to the power of the Town Council to grant . pensions, which was, after a short discussion, postponed. The clauses up to 114 were agreed to. Upon the reading of clause 115, Lord LYNDHURST said that the effect of the clause, as it now stood, would be to give to Catholics the management of the corporation school, called the Blue Coat Hospital (in Dublin), which was from its tlrst institut:on esse:,tially Protestant He had no ob jection to agree to the postponement of the clause, in order that sufficient guards should he provided, to se cure the original objects of the foundation. The Marglis of L ANSDOWNE had no objection to the postponement of the clause, for the purpose de sired by the Noble and Learned Lord. But he denied that the institution was, in its original foundation, ex clusively Protestant. The clause was then postponed. Clauses to 121 inclusive were agreed to. Clause 122 :vas omitted, and clause 133 was post poned, the intermediate clauses having been agreed to. The clauses up to 130 were agreed to. On the reading the 151st clause, The Bishop of EXETER give notice that he iiroutl, at a future stage of the Bill, move en amendment to the effect that the produce of the sale of advowsons should go in aid of the Established Church. The clause, as we understood, was postponed. Clause 15 was agreed to. On the reading of clause 153, Lord LYNDHURST moved an amendment, to the effect that the appointment of Sheriffs in counties of towns, and counties of cities, should he placed in tha same hands as the appointment of Sheriffs of the counties at large. The clause, with that amendment, was agreed to. On the reading of clause 154, The Earl of WICKLOW moved an amendment, to the effect that m , yors elect, at the time of the passing of this Bill, should go through the full term of their office, notwithstanding the other provisions of the Bill to the contrary. The clause was postponed. Clauses up to 166, inclusive, were agreed to. To clause 167, Lord LYNDHURST proposed an amendment, ex empting the Recorder of Dublin from the operation of the clause, but which, after a short conversation, was withdrawn. Clauses up to 207, inclusive, were agreed to. Clause 208 was postponed. The remaining clauses were then agreed to. Lord LYNDHURST moved additional clauses, pro viding for the auditing of accounts, which were adopted The Earl of HADDINGTON moved the intro duction of a clause exempting the property of Guilds, not being grants from the Crown, from the provisions of the Bill, which was agreed to. The schedules were postponed. Their Lordships resumed, and the Chairman re ported progress. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mr. Fox MAULE, and others, from the Commons, brought up the Sugar Duties Bill and the Chimney Sweepers' Bill, which were real a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow (this day). Adjourned at a Q uarter past Twelve o'Clock. MISS CHANIBERS.—This lady (the daughter of the banker who has been lingering in prison for so many_ years) announces her annual benefit for to-morrow, at the Concert room of her Majesty's Theatre. We are delighted to find that a woman who has been subjected to so many severe trials for no fault of her's is so generously supported. The Concert will be given under the patronage of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. M. Laporte gives the use of the Concert room, and all the first rate singers of the Italian Opera will be present ; Grisi, Per siani, Tosi, Rubini, Tamburmi, and Lablache, with others, will sing some favourite airs. It would not at present be possible to assemble in aly part cf the world such a host of musical talent of the first description; and we therefore confidently hope that the public will take advantage of the opportunity, and, at the same time, confer a benefit on a lady whose fattier was at one time principal proprietor of the Theatre, and who,but for some strange mismanagement, might have been moving in the first circles. BANK NOTES.—The subject is really extremely simple, and requires not the illustration of laborious evidence. If it is considered that a bank-note is merely a promise to pay on demand a certain quantity of gold, and that when this pro mise is punctually fulfilled, it cannot vary from its standard, and must therefore fulfil entirely the purpose for which it is intended, namely, to be a substitute for gold, it will be at once seen that it is perfect, that it admits of no farther improvement, and that by meddling farther with it we only mar its usefulness as an in strument of exchange. And no less admirably are the dealers of it controlled by the force of circumstances. They have an inducement to increase their issues, as their profit depends on the quantity they have in circulation; hitt the moment they issue in excess, the surplus returns on them in exchange for specie ; so that while the self-interest of the bankers ensures to the community an adequate supply of currency, the return of what is not needed in exchange for specie, is a sure guarantee against excess. A more admirably coot ived s If-acting ma chine can scarcely be conceived, which legislation may mar, but 'Which it cannot mend.—Edinburgh Courant. LIVERPOOL, HALIFAX, AND BOS TON ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS. _ The Britannia, the first in order of the line of steamers appointed by the Admiralty, to ply between this port and Halifax, proceedin g on to Boston, arrived here on Friday last, after a fine passage of seventeen hours from Glasgow, and is now lying in the Coburg Dock. She is preparing for sea with all dispatch, as she is to take her departure on Saturday next. She is a fine, compact, roomy, and beautifully-modelled ves sel, and gives every indication that she will prove one of the best ocean-going steamers afloat. Her interior accommodations for passengers are arranged on a new plan, whereby the sleeping apartments and the saloon, or drawing-room, are kept entirely separate ; the former being disposed so as to ensure snugness and comfort, and the latter abundant light and ven tilation. The saloon is built on the after-part of the main deck, to which it opens through a wide passage which communicates with the steward's bar. Thus the deck, on each side, forms a spacious and airy promenade, from which the passengers can, in a mo ment, retreat to an elegantly furnished apartment. The saloon is fitted in the gothic taste, the panels and ceil ing being elaborately carved and painted to represent oak. The door of the steward's bar is immediately op posite the door of the saloon, so that every refreshment and luxury that may be required will be at hand, and can be supplied in a minute. The wine-cellar and spirit-room are directly below the bar, and their stores arc so arranged as to occupy the sm a ll es t p oss ibl e s p ace , while they are in s tantly obtainable by those above. The spirits, in fact, are pumped up by an engine, while the bottles are packed in compartments, where they are secured without the aid of straw so that a ll r i s k o f fi re i s avoided. Alt oge ther, this bar is one of the most con venient places we have ever inspected. Everything that can be wanted is at hand, while nothing is crowded, all is order, neatness, and elegance. Proper receptacles and compartments are provided for the silver plate, knives, forks, spoons, glasses, dishes, and all essentials required for a banquet. Be neath the main deck is anothe r handsome room, which leads abaft to two suites of excellent sleeping apart ments, the berths in which are roomy and convenient. The mode of lighting the passages and sleeping rooms is unique. At the junction of each pair of chambers is fixed a triangular lamp, which throws light from each of its three faces into the rooms on the right and left and into the passage. As a security against the in cautious use of fire, no person can open these lamps but the individual who has charge of them. The sleeping rooms which we have described are appropriated to tho gentlemen. Opposite to those, towards the middle of the vessel, is the exclusive apartment of the ladies. From this the berths of the latter open, so that they have the advantage of a general room to themselves, communicating with their bed-chambers. Beneath these are the wine -cellars, the spirit-room, the luggage-room, and the room set apart for the recep tion of the mail-bags, which will be under the charge of an officer specially appointed, who will have all the despatches committed to his entire custody. Thirt) - two roomy and convenient berths are fitted up in the fore-part of the vessel, making, with the chief cabin berths, accommodation for one hundred and thirty-two persons. Still further forward are the officers' mess room and the servants' sleeping-room ; and, in front oc these again are the accommodations for the seamen, &c. The available space has been every where illy , niously economized, while the nicety of every arri ment keeps aloof that sense of closeness and res, frequently experienced in passenger vessels. E apartment and avenue is lofty, airy, and agreeable ; fittings, without being gaudy, arc neat and elegant, great study having been to secure as much as puss of that great essential comfort.—Liverpool Albion. GREAT REFORM MOVEMENT IN ULSTER. Lord Stanley has, after all, proved a most efficient, although an involuntary, supporter of the cause of form in Ireland. His detestable Disfranchisement Bill has completely aroused the Irish Liberals from their apathy. The following is an account of the prelimi nary meeting held at the residence of Lord Charlc moot : A meeting of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been active promoters of the late Ulster meeting in Belfast, to oppose Lord Stanley's Registration Bill, was held on Tuesday, at the residence of the Earl of Charlemont, in Grosvenor street, London ; the Earl of Charlemont in the chair. The following (among other) resolutions were adopted . Proposed by the Earl of Gosford ; seconded by Vis count Cremorne " That the number and respectability of the names attached to the requisition for the Ulster meeting indi. cate that there exists ia Ulster a most influential body of the friends of constitutional liberty, much greater and more influential than was previously supposed, but whose power has been lost by the absence of any principle of united action." Moved by the Hon. Henry Westenra ; seconded by Viscount Clements : " That, in our opinion, it is expedient for the concen tration and useful application of this power that a society be formed, under the name of the Ulster Constitutional Association, with a view to the following objects : " Ist. To combine, on a principle of united action, and for purposes of public utility, all persons connected by residence or property with the Province of Ulster, who are friends and supporters of constitutional free dom, and who accordingly recognise the just and rea sonable claims of all their fellow -countrymen, without distinction of religious profession, to equal rights, to equal laws, and the blessings of impartial government. " 2d. To obtain for Ireland an equalization of all rights, franchises, and benefits with Britain ; and the closest possible assimilation of the laws and institutions of both countries ; to the end, thst by complete incor poration the system of imperial legislation may be ren dered permanently beneficial to the interests of the United Kingdom, and thus strenghten and perpetuate a connexion advantageous, if maintained on such prin ciples, to the people of both countries, and essential to the preservation of this great empire, in its commanding position among the nations of the earth. "311 y. To consolidate and render efficient the moral power of the friends of constitutional liberty in both islands, by supporting their endeavours to bring the principle of the Reform Acts into full operation, and forwarding- all measures which may be- deemed condu cive to the interests of the United Kingdom. " 4thly. To obtain such an alteration in the priF ciple of registration as will confer a more extensive franchise, wit h a greater facility of establishing it ; and also such improvements in the elective laws as will give protection to the voter in the free and uncontrolled ex- I ereise of that franchise. " sthly. To adopt such measures as may be deemed advisable for securing the co-operation of Irishm.:n of every sect and party in promoting the practical im provement of their country—the employment of her people, and the development of her resources, by pro curing statisticel information, by instructing the people in the nature of their social and political relations, and by such other means as enlarged experience may suggest." It would be impossible to over -estimate the import ance of this movement, or the benefits which it is cal culated to confer upon Ireland. —Dublin Eve;tiny Post I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • TATTE RSALL'S—YEszEttnaY. The betting on the July stakes was too slight and indefinite io admit of a quotation. 3to I was offered on the field, but which was first favorite at the close we were unable to discover. The Goodwood Cup had Lanercost for first favourite instead of Harkaway, the odds having be& taken about the one, and offered currently against the other. Charles the Twelfth closed at 8 to I, after having been for a moment 10 'to 1 (taken). The odds quoted against Bloomsbury, Hetman, Platoff, and Romulus, were highest offered. We did not hear a bet outright about either. For the St. Leger, Crucifix headed the north country van, and was backed two or three times at 5 to 2; a point more wa.s laid against the horse to three or four hundred pounds. The Shah and Galen were in favour, and a few small sums were laid out on the outsiders ; the betting, however, on this, as well as on the other events, was flat and uninteresting, and it closed as follows : ENGLISH 0 PERA HOUSE. A new mclodranre in two acts, entitled the Dermon Gift, was produced las' ; night at this theatre. As may he surmised from its title, the piece abounds in dia'olerie, and as many startling • .surprises as Der Freischutz. The plot—which by the b rye is; a strange jumble—is some thing to the following ''effect :—An old alchemist (Fitz james) wishing to reti'e•w his youth and relish of life, is enabled to do so, thr Igh the agency of our old Ger man friend Mephistol taleles (S. Smith), and immediately after his transformati 0 a, falls in love with the Countess Ida (Miss Cooper), whose lover he procures to be assassinated while stn ; nding at the altar with his young bride. For this mutt lerous act, which is traced to him, he is taken into cm itody, but escapes by the aid of Mephistopheles, who leads him (carrying the Lady Ida in his arms) to the edge of a mountain torrent, which he tells him to cro as. ; but while he is in the act of attempting a passagy, across it, the treacherous fiend gives him the slip, a ad summons one of his subterranean acquaintances, wh , instantly makes his appearance, with a huge pair Sri black guaze w in gs s ti c ki ng out o f the nape of his n ei:lc, and several squibs and crackers frizzing away at :his tail. This amiable creature, in conjunctior. with leis infernal com-rogue Mephistopheles, at once kills the unhappy murderer, who by some strange means or other, contrives in the next scene to resume his original form ; upon which the curtain falls. There is a sort of underplot, consisting of the misfor tunes of one Hams, who has undergone a somewhat similar metamorph psis, and is in consequence subjected to the daily tyl-a - Inny of a termagant wife. Finally, however, all ends- happily ; and Hans wakes up at the close of the pie(te, as if from a dream. To criticize seriously a prod Iction like this would be an act of folly I suffice to say, tl3at it is very showy, very bustling, very nonsensical,—biat, luckily, very short. 3 to 1 on the field GOODWOOD CUP. 5 to 1 agst Lanercost—taken 5 to 1 agst Harkaway 8 to 1 agst Bloomsbury 8 to I agst Charles the Twelfth 10 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff 12 to 1 agst Romulus 20 to 1 agst Pocahontas 4 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth and Deception—taken 5 to 4 agst Harkaway, Charles the Twelfth, and Laner• cost—taken GOODWOOD STAKES. 18 to 1 agst Forlorn Hope—taken 10 to 1 agst the Ant and Forlorn Hope—taken ST. I.EGER. 5 to 2 agst Crucifix—taken, and afterwards off 7 to 2 agst Launcelot—taken 12 to 1 agst the Shah 25 to 1 agst Galen—taken 35 to 1 agst Viceroy 40 to 1 agst Tuly—taken 6 to 1 agst Galen, Amurath, Drayton, and Viceroy— taken 600 to 40 agst Drayton and Amurath—taken THE DERBY, 1841. 40 to 1 agst Yorkshire Lass—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Nomination 28 to 1 was laid agst Lord George Bentinck's The Coro net, and 1,000 to 30 afterwards offered. The Haymarket will soon lose Mr.Buckstone. He takes his farewell benefit as Touchstone in As Yore Like it, as Mr. Selim Pettibone in A Kiss in the Dark, and as Mr. Henry Dove, in Married Life. Buckstone has made highly advantageous engagements in the United States; and with his double and most thoroughly deserved reputation, both as our most talented comic author, and not less able comic actor, he is quite certain of success. At the close of his Haymarket en • gagement, on the 2d of July, he is to play five nights among his friends at Birmingham. On the 25th of July he embarks in the Great Western with Mr. Placide, the American come dian, and opens at the Park Theatre, New York, in two of his own piecer, on the 1707 A il , p -I.t of AuguA be is appeiie .it j Lik ' ! • " I cow+, be wanted in all the great towns and cities of the Union. -- j ST. LEGER. THE WEATHER—CROPS, &c. During the. greater part of the present week the weather has been as stormy as if' it were but the month of March ; notwithstanding this, however, the crops generally are in e very forward state. We have thi week had a fe w fine heads of wheat sent us, reared by Mr. Glen, of Hawkhead mills, and we understand that in various other fields in the neighbourhood similar ears are to be found. The hay crops are promising to be abundant, and both oats and barley are considered in very favourable condition. Thera are some cases of failure in potatoes, but we are happy to say that such cases are not numerous, nor of great extent. Agricul tural prospects are, on the whole, highly cheering.— Paisley Adzertiser. There is a great failure in the potato crop this season in the vicinity of Coldstream, owing to a distemper called " the rot" having seized the seed after being de posited in the ground. A number of the inhabitants of Coldstream have been in the habit of planting uncuf small potatoes for these many years past, and all of them have ever had by this method an excellent and abundant crop. The hay harvest has been generally commenced in cur neighbourhood, end we are happy to learn that the products in quantity and quality exceed the expectations of the farmers in many instances. The clover crop will be a failure.—lVelshinan. There has been-much more rain in and near this city than in the lower part of Somerset; Devonshire, and The conse! coca is that beef is full 2d. per larnstar . '_ and South Molton than here. aung potatoes sold last week at 4s. per z, quantity is to be bought here for Is. (Try. -rass in this neighbourhood are more eeu known for many years, owing to .:Ica - has prevailed for so many months, .:laving fallen since the beginning of Fe , ; an ' • a great deal of the young clover having been kil!od ~ be inclement weather in the beginning 'of the Spring. We hear also great complaints from the farmers aL let the bze.rlcy, the late sown being almost parching. Of apples, too, there will be a great defi ciency, the trees, even in the most sheltered situations, being much blighted. RISE IN THE PRICE OF HAY.—As proof of the rise that has taken place in the price of hay, a farmer in this neighbourhood last week sold a rick of hay for 15/. more than he asked for it in the month of March last, and 20/. more than he was thou offered for it.— Western Times. In no year, within the memory of man, have the crops, of all kinds, presented so promising an appear ance as at the present. On almost all soils, and in almost all situations, there is the prospect of abundance. The wheats are strong and luxuriant, and rapidly pro gressing to maturity, and oats and barley are equally for.vard. Potatoes lock generally well, but in some situations the secd has perished, and no more than an average crop may be expected. The hay-grass is re markably heavy, especially in Derbyshire, about Bake well, Matlock, &c., and in the lower part of Cheshire. Tha gardens and orchards are teeming with produce. Apples, pears, plums, cherries, gooseberries, currants, &e., are equally abundaat, and in a more than usually thriving state. Tha harvest, therefore, is likely to be propitious ; and Providence is giving to man and to beast what our Legislature is selfishly denying to the the constant enjoyment of.—Manchester Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII, JUNE 29. (Before Mr. Justice CoutainGE and a Special Jury.) WELLER V. LEWIS. In this case, which was slot concluded when our Paper went to Press yesterday, Mr. KELLY addressed the Jury far the defence, and called several witnesses. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (who was with Mr. Evans and Mr. Gurney)replied. The JUDGE summed up, and tht Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 2501. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterdxy, the Grand Jury having been sworn, the Chairman briefly addressed them on the nature of their duties, after which they retired. MISS A. G. BURDETT COUTTS V. DUNN. Mr. Bodkin said that as he had a matter of an ex tremely distressing description before the Court, he hoped it would be taken early. The CHAIRMAN was willing to take it imme diately. Richard Dunn was called by Mr. Edmunds, the Clerk of the Peace, but no answer was returned Mr. Bodkin then said that he appeared there on be half of Miss Burdett Coutts, to exhibit articles of the peace against Richard Dunn. The CHAIRMAN—Let them be read. Miss Coutts was then brought into Court. She was accompar.ied by Lady Burdett, with several of her fa mily, and accommodated with a seat on the Bench, beside her father, Sir Francis Burdett. Miss Coutts was sworn by the officer of the Court, after which the Clerk of the Peace read the articles exhibiting charges against the defendant for the annoy ances to which she had been subjected. The substance of them has already appeared in the public journals. William Ballard, late of Bow-street, deposed in substance, that he went to Harrowgate, in September 1838, to apprehend Richard Dunn, and that he fell in with him on the Stray at Harrowgate. Upon making known his business, Dann said lie was not going near Miss Coutts. Deponent asked him how he could say so, when he had written to her to say he was coming. He then admitted that it was so, and said if she had done this she was worse than the commonest whore that ever walked the streets, and he repeated that lan guage two or three times. Subsequently, speaking of another transaction, he said, if Miss Coutts had done so she deserved to be tarred, feathered, and burnt. When Dunn came to London, on being released from York Castle in October, 1838, he (Ballard) bad been almost constantly, day and night, resident in Miss Coutts' house in Stratton-street, and when, in conse quence of further annoyance, he again apprehended Dunn, the latter made use of gross and offensive lan guage in reference to Miss Coutts, and when at Bow street he destroyed and burnt the depositions and took up the poker to strike him (Ballard). The latter had also for a considerable time past re sided in Stratton -street, by order of the Magistrates, to protect Miss Coutts from further anticipated violence, William Weedon, footman to Miss Coutts, also de. posed to Dunn walking up and down before her house and following her carriage, and to the subsequent oc• currences related in her affidavit. The CHAIRMAN inquired what was the amount at present of Dunn's personal recognizances ? Mr. Bod kin replied 2001. The CHAIRMAN—What situation of life is he in ? Mr. Bodkin—He is, 1 understand, a Barrister. He apprehended the articles required no comment. It must be evident that under such circumstances life was intolerable. Miss Coutts could not possibly leave her house with safety. The CHAIRMAN said there was quite enough to make any lady feel apprehensive of personal violence, but 500/., which appeared to be the amount of his recogni zances at Harrowgate, appeared to be a large sum for one Mr. Bodkin said that Dunn frequented the Hari, and rode about on a fine horse, and appeared to have abundant means at his command. The CHAIRMAN wished he was in Court, that he might explain to h:m the consequences of WC-present conduct. Mr. Bodkin replied that that had been clone re peatedly, but what could be expected of a man who in the presence of the Magistrate could seize the deposi tions and throw them into the fire ? The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that it was one of those cases in which the strong arm of the law ought to be biought into operation for the protection of those by whom it . was claimed. The sentence of the Court was that he do enter into his recognizances to keep the peace towards all her Majesty's subjects, especially Miss Coutts, and be of goo d b e h av i our f or t wo years, hi mself in 5001., and two sureties in 250/. each. air Francis . Burdett and his family then left tilt' 'The cases tried dutiag the day were of no iutercst. - 3; I. s EXPORTATION OF STEAM-EN- GINES AND MACHINERY. A return has been made to the House of Commons, pursuant to a motion of Mr. Emerson Tennent, of the value of steam-engines, machinery, and mill-geering, ex ported during the ten years beginning with 1831 and ending with 1840, which suggests some very important considerations to the minds of parties engaged or inte rested in the prosperity of English manufactures. What may have been the object of Mr. Tennent in calling for this return, we are unable to say ; but the conclusions to be drawn from an attentive consideration of it, and of well-known facts connected with the establishment and rapid extension of machine-making establishments on the Continent, point irresistibly at the propriety of removing the existing restrictions upon the export of machinery. As may be supposed, the exports fluctuate consider ably from year to year ; but on a comparison of the two periods of five years comprehended in the return, the increase in the latter is very striking. The return is given under the five following heads, to each of which we append the amount in the first and second quinquennial periods :- 1. Steam-engines and parts of steam-engines.-Ist five years, 265,9471. 2d five years, 773,512/. 2. Mill-work of all sorts allowed by law to be ex ported.-Ist five years, 106,054/. 2a five years, 157,626/. 3. Machinery of all other kinds allowed by law to be exported.-Ist five years, 321,7901. 2d five years, 1,307,624/. 4. Machinery exported under license from the Trea sury or Privy Council.—lst five years, 34,877/. 2d. five years, 175,4641. 5. Machinery and mill-work of all sorts (being the aggregate of the foregoing heads).—.lst five years, 746,019/. 2d five years, 2,414,226/. The preceding amounts are all interesting as matters of information connected with a branch of traffic which is evidently becoming very important to the country ; but we are desirous of directing the attention of our readers, at the present time more particularly, to the rapid increase in, and the great amount of, the exports under the third head in the return, namely machinery ' (other than steam engines and mill work) allowed by law to be exported, and which has increased from 321,790/. to 1,307,624/. or more than four-fold. It is perhaps not generally known, but we believe it is a fact, that the great bulk of the exports under this head con 03ists of lathes, planing machines, drilling machines, cutting engines, and other tools used in the making of machinery, which is now rapidly growing up into a most important branch of busin es s i n man y par t s o f t h e Continent, simply because the export of machinery from this country is prohibited by law. The very large amount of the exports under this head (amounting to nearly 400,000/. in the last year) would be sufficient, even if there were no other evidence, to show that the machine-making establishments of the Continent are extending with great rapidity ; but we know from other sources that such is the fact. In the works of Cockerell and Co., at Seraing, near Liege, there are about 1,800 men employed, out of whom, we be lieve, there are only two Englishmen. A Joint- Stock Company, the Societe du Phcenix, at Ghent, employs about 750 men, of whom there are sixty English, chiefly in the construction of cotton and flax machinery ; and an establishment newly formed at Hamburgh, that of Messrs. Gluis man and Busse, will, when fully at work, employ a large number of hands, having expended about 30,000/. last year in the erection of buildings and the purchase of English tools: All these parties are provided with patterns of the most approved English machinery, and are ready, not only to supply the de mands of their own immediate neighbourhoods, but to execute large orders for foreign countries. The com• pany at Ghent have already, we believe, exported ma chinery to a considerable extent to different parts of the worn ; and the following paragraph,which we copy from a London paper of Saturday last, appears to have refe rence to their operations :- " A large ship, freighted with machinery, recently sailed from Ghent for Vera Cruz, on account of a Mexi can merchant. This is said to be the second similar cargo sent to the same party within the last three months. The whole of the machinery was manufactured in Belgium." In this way unless something should be done by the English Legislature, a most extensive and lucrative branch of trade will be monopolised by foreigners, to the exclusion of the machine-makers of this country. From the skill of its workmen, the abundance of coal and iron, and the many other faci lities which England possesses, it would have been easy to keep; for many years to come, a monopoly of the trade in the hands of our machine-makers ; and if the existing prohibition of the export of machinery were even now removed, the further increase of the continental establishments would be at once checked, even if those at present in existence could keep their ground, which we very greatly doubt. But it may be said, " Would you give foreign cot ton and linen and woollen manufacturer's an opportunity of procuring machines on equal terms with English ma nufacturers ?" We answer, that ere long they will have them on equal terms, if the Belgian machine makers are permitted to go on in their present course. Everybody knows that machine-makers, who carry on a large business, and make a great number of machines of one kind, possess great ficilities, both as to the quality and cheapness of their work, over par ties, whose business is more limited ; and if we allow the Belgians to become machine-makers, not merely for themselves, but for the rest of the world, we may shortly find them not merely equal but superior to the machine-makers of England. So long as the trade is retained in this country, our own manufacturers will be the first to obtain and to profit by improvements ; but if it should be carried on to a greater extent else where, the English manufacturers, instead of being the first, may be the last, in the race of improvement ; and their business must suffer accordingly. On this account, and for the interest of the manufac turers themselves, as well as for the purpose of securing a trade which is yearly becoming more important, and must eventually be of very great extent, we wish to sec a repeal of the prohibition on the export of machinery, and shall be glad if the returns obtained by Mr. Emer son 'Ferment should have the eff,!et of drawing public attention to the subject.—Manchc-ster Guardian. Hop INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JUNE 26.—The greater part of our plantation continues loaded with filth and vermin, which has had the effect to stop the growth of the plant, and its leaves are cupi ing up and dropping off, being quite exhausted by the ravager of the blight. In same of the earliest blighted grounds, we have observed this week a slight freshness on the plant, and those less diseased ; the b'ne keeps growing, but the weather continues too wet and cold to be favourable, hot sun being now wanted to bring the Midsum mer shoots out and destroy the filth, without which the crop must be short. We leave little business doing in the market, the planters being unwilling to sell, and the trade yet to buy, at the advanced prices.-- Worcester Herald. ATTEMPT AT SELF-CRUCIFIXION IN CORK. —Friday the medical officers at the Dispensary in Hanover street were presented with one of the most extraordinary cases that had ever come before them. Upon a car, brought to the door of the institution, was laid a stout hale man about 30 years of age ; he was tied down, and it was with difficulty the persons its charge could restrain him. Upon being brought into the consulting-room it was found that his feet and hands had been perforated, apparently with large nails. It appeared from the statement of those by whom he was brought to the dispensary that his name is Bartholomew Donovan ; that he is a labour ing man, has t esided several years at Carrignavar, had frequently betrayed symptoms of insanity, and was yesterday morning found in an outhouse contiguous to his own dwelling bleeding profusely at the feet and hands, having in each a large nail, with a view, he stated, of " crucifying" himself ! He was taken home, and this day, his wounds being first dressed, the unhappy creature was sent to the Lunatic Asylum. ACCIDENT TO LORD ALFRED HERVEY.— We regret to state that the above nobleman, son of the Mar quis of Bristol, met with an alarming accident on Saturday even ing, near Apsley House, by being thrown from his horse. His Lordship on being taken up was quite insensible, and it was greatly feared his Lordship was killed. He was immediately conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where it was discovered that his Lordship had not broken any bones, but had received severe injuries on his head. His Lordship was conveyed from the hospital on a stretcher to the family mansion. He is suffering from a severe concussion of the brain. SLANDERS ON THE QUEEN.—Some passages from a late number of the Liverpool Mail have just begun to excite a general and indignant notice. There is a great deal of affected mystery about them; and more, perhaps, of that disgusting disposition to insinuate what they dare net openly assert, which is peculiarly characteristic of mean and malignant natures. At the same time, the writer makes his object plain enough to warrant us in speaking of his slanders with the deep est detestation. The chastity of the highest lady in the land, he thinks, may be broadly questioned, and " her life's life lied away," when the worthy object is to vilify Lord Melbourne. No matter what the infamy would be of making such an attack on an individual in private life ; no matter that the laws, to say nothing of the ordinary feelings of decent loyalty, have invested the reputation as well as the person of the QUEEN with peculiar safeguards ; all these consi deratioas are utterly insignificant, in the writer's estima tion, compared with the one great purpose of throwing dirt upon a minister who has the unpardonable guilt of being a Whig ! How thoroughly depraved must be the mind that could conceive such slander ! how depraved the readers that can pa tronize the journalist who originates it? As public attention Is just now somewhat directed towards that individual, we may mention that the reputed editor of the Liverpool Mail is the same person who was editor of the notorious (London) Morn ing Journal of 1829 ; that his paper was set on foot a few years ago, it is understood, by the pecuniary aid of a knot of Liver pool Tories, but that the speculation has been an unsuccessful one, the concern having just now been brought to the issue of bankruptcy —Manchester Guardian. COACH ACCIDENT.—An accident, which might have been attended with very serious consequences, oc curred to the Shrewsbury and Aberystwyth Mail, last week; passing over the bridge at Llanfair, owing to the restiveness of the horses or carelessness of the driver, the coach came in con tact with a large stone on the Welshpool end of the bridgt, and was instantly upset. Two of the passengers were consideilbly injured, but, we believe, not dangerously. The person anst hurt was Mr. Marshall, of the Belle Vue, Aberystwyth, who with difficulty managed to proceed to Llanfair. It should not be omitted to observe that the coach was not on this occasion driven by the person who usually drives this Mail, who is noto rious as well as for his gentlemanly behaviour as his skill and attention as a shiver. A small hen of the bantam breed, belonging to Mr. Whittington, of Tonna, r:Par Nowt;:. 'thick had been for C. (tar ;. .'.:r • ;I‘. a 4:144 uk to.o she appeared with twenty.five very fine chickens. EVENING EDITION,_. CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SCHOOLMASTERS. We trust we have done some service by calling the attention of the public to the attempt now being made by the Church Papists ruin the whole race of school masters, excepting only those who belong to the aristo cracy : they are spared of course. •If the conspiracy succeed, the schoolmasters of the middle classes must starve ; they must soon see their families driven from their homes, and feel in all its hor rors the bitter pangs of destitution. A schoolmaster cannot readily turn his hand to other employs. There are too many clerks already, so that refuge of educated distress will be closed upon them. The Union workhouse only will be open to them, un less Parliament will interfere, and erect in every diocese an asylum for ruined schoolmasters—ruined by a con spiracy of Oxford Papists in the Church, and ultra Tories out of it. Some correspondents, amazed at the audacity of the scheme, and almost doubting whether such cruelty could be contemplated by any party in the year of Grace 1840, have inquir e d w h a t can b e th e o bj ect o f the cle rical and lay conspi ra t ors i n th us see ki ng to ann ihilate the present race of s c ho o l mas t ers , an d se t up sc hools of their own ? We answer ti,em in few words. Let them read with attention the description of the lapsing of the larger section of the Church into Popery, which we have but begun to sketch in the preceding article, and last week, and this mystery will be at once explained. The con spirators are of two classes—the advocates of spiritual despotism and the advocates of political despotism ; 018 former are the Oxford Papists, whose doctrines 'co are in course of laying at large before our readars ; the lat ter are the Tories. These have formed an union to help each other to their several objects, which aro in truth perfectly congenial, if not identical. The Tories are to help the Ox'ord Papists to the entire possession of the Church, and they arc to help the Tories to power and to keep them in it, by prostrating beneath the feet of priestcraft and superstition the minds of the people. The most sure way to accomplish this is obviousl,c to exterminate their present enlightened teachers, and to place the rising generation under the guardianship of those who will teach only their own debasing dogmas , and shut out all other light: It is trua that the Tory conspirators offer to perm it some of the existing schoolmasters to live, provided they will submit to tLe d 'gradation of subjecting them selves in all thiags to the Diocesan Board, and teach ing as the Oxfo, d hgofs hall direct ; but w hat school master, worthy cf e office, would so debase himself as to put on the fett. rs of a self-constituted despotism And if any be found dk spicable enough to do so, we do not believe that any pa re nt s w ill b e f oun d silly enough to intrust the edu ca ti on o f th e i r c hild ren t o so grovelling a ere; Lure. A m a n w h o h as no m i n d o f hi s own is un fit to form the m i n d s o f others. He who will sacrifice his own independ e n ce t o b ecome th e s l av e of one tyrant or many is not the man to w h om s h o uld be con fided the sacred duty o f t ra i n i ng th e sc i ons o f a race of free men. But it is not the concern of the schoolmaster alone. Every parent in the land, that is, every Pro testant parent, is interested in saying the schoolmaste rs from the threatened rain. A blow levelled at th e teacher reaches the pupil. If the union of Oxford Papistry and Toryism should be but partially successful,_ and grasp any cons id era bl e por ti on o f t h e education of the young, the consequences must be awful. Protes tantism will h ave t o strugg l e f or i ts ex i stence ; religious liberty will be lost, and civil liberty, which is °n i l secure when based upon religion, will perish with it, or by a terrible convuls'on shake off the incubus tha t stifles her.—Somersetshire Gazette. ON THE EXTERNAL USE OF LIVING A -2 ,1 (FORMICA ILUIA), BY DR. SCIIREIBER.)—The summer vision of the author's hospital lies in a wood, where there ate S ° many ant-hilb., that the thought struck him of drawing soma advantage from them for his patients. As ant-baths and titlF tore of ants were of no great use, he tried the living inse(ts lt l paralysis, hemiplegi a , paresis, and inveterate arthritis- Il l ! ants are to be taken directly from their hill, and put in a bagl and this bag is to be tied over the limb in such a manner the the ants cannot escape (but obtain access to the skin.) Some time after their application to the paralyzed limb, the patient begins to feel the running and biting of the ants, by which they; gradually excit e a ki n d of electrical twitches, and a feeli n g " warmth, which gradually extends over the whole body..Moreo rer . r by their ethereal principle, they cause as violent a perspiration over the whole body, as if the patient were in a vapour bath. Thera' ralyzed part must be kept in the bag with the ants for two . or three days. The patient is then to rest for a day-, after wilIT the ants are to be applied again ; and this is to be repeated till the object is attained. In 1535, Dr. Schreiber obtained a fa vourable result in seven cases of a paralysis ; in 1836, in fo u l e ; and in 1837, in three; by whi c h h e was enco uraged to use t " same remedy in chronic rheumatism and gout. It is unnece s '.' sary to remark t hat this remedy alone cannot be of much set" v:ce, if the case is complicated with syphilis, scurvy, or scro: fula ; but the military ho s pit a l s h ave pl en ty of uncomplica te .‘ cases, and in three years forty-six patieres under this head were cured. Dr. Schreiber now began to use the remedy in dropsy proceed* from inactivity el the skin. In anasarca it was found sufficient to tie up the lower extremities in bags with living ants, an 1 thus obtain profuse sweatiar, and a cure. This method of treatment, Or ported by gentle purgatives and sudorilics, 'succeeded in twentl one cases. ( The German translator here remarks that ho can not call ten grains of jalap with the same qualstiv of calomel, a " gentle purgative.") In a case resembling elephantias is where the leg was cold, hard, and swollen, and a variety of, treatment had been employed in v a in, th e di sease w as entirely removed within twenty days, under the nee of living ants, and the patient was dismissed cured.l IThe author mentions inci dentally, that, in Little Russia, they employ a home-made spirit of ants, called inuraschluna wIl a, to prepare a punch le h is used in many varieties of colds, with very great advantage.-- Medical Ga zette. COAL 11 Shi,,s arrived s nce _ s. d • Adair's Chester Carr's Hartley N 0 Derwent Main lB 6 Smith's Pontop , lB 0 Tantield Moor 21 6 Wylala l9 3 Walls E d rewie.e and C '4o O Walls End Killingworth Walls End Percy Benshara 18 6 Walls End Belmont W. E. 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