The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

EVEN IN G EDITION . MAGA ZINES.-CON TIN UED. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The indefatigable Mrs. Trollope, having concluled her story of the " Widow Married," is now, we per ceive, going to contribute another novel to this Maga zine, the commencement of which appears in the Num ber before us. It is entitled " The Life and Adven tures of Charles Chesterfield, a Man of Genius," and sets out in a lively, agreeable manner with a dialogue be tween the father and moiler of the youthful genius, touching his and their future prospects, and so forth. The tale, we predict, Nvill not be wanting in incident and satirical humour, but we would advise the authoress to infuse—if only by way of novelty—a little good mature and kindliness of feeling into it. " Fathers and Sons," by the Editor, runs its course. It is, in truth, a very amusing novel ; . and the artful, intriguing Mrs. Smylar is drawn with all the spirit and vivacity of Mr. Hook's earlier days, when he gave us his best work of fiction, the " Sayings and Doings." The essay on the " Pleasure of Pleasing" is an illustration of the old adage that he who attempts to please every body pleases nobody. There is good sense as well as smartness in these remarks :—" You may do nine hundred and ninety-nine good turns in vain, the whole being forgotten, if not resented as injuries, by the beneficiary, when you refuse the thousandth. Please every body as much as you like, grant every man's request, make yourself agreeable on all occasions, and make any sacrifice for being so ; only take good care to be sufficiently paid for your trouble in hard cash ; and then you will find every bcdy pleased with what you have done ; and, moreover, very careful not to apply again for pleasure at your hands, without a sufficient and inevitable occa sion." " Frogs a-la-moie" expatiates with infinite ani mation, as becomes a gastronomist, on the delicate of these. nimble denizens of the marsh and the bog. The Burgundian frog is, we are assured, the daintiest eating ; and here is a recipe for cooking him : " Give your frogs a ne t little twitch at each leg, so that you sever them 'nattily' from the joint ; after which let the bodies move off where they please, though this will be dif ficult for them, seeing, they have not a leg to stand on !' No matter. With this you have no'hing t do, and are to interest yourself about the Igs alone. Instantly, then, skin them, and immerse whatever number you please or require in a pipkin, three-parts full of the be.t cham pagne vinegar, with a slight infusion of tarragon in it to which some add moutarde de mailte. After about three.- quarters of an hour's stewing :.,aer a slow bright fire, take the charming frog-trotters' nut of the said seething pot.' and transfer them into a tureen half-full of strong gravy soup, the v. ry essence (mind I) of beef-gravy, with a judi cious distribution of maccaroni floating in it. Over this, added our monitor, pour mettre le eatable' to its excel lence, pour an infusion Gf the richest new milk, boiled, thickened with flour, devilled with cayenne, acidulated (not too much) with sorrel, and spired with cinnamon and cloves. Now really, reader, remembering that you are a gastronome, if felicity is to be afforded by anything sub lunary, where is it to he found, we ask seriously, if not in the cover where steams the aroma of this flower of the cuisne?—for which Sardanapalus himself night languish ! The epicurean spirit, thirsting fur revel, way here quaff its full shower of beatitude !" We have left ourselves no space to discuss the re maining ar ti c l es ; an d most, theref o re, content ourselves With saying, that the two best are the " Shabby Gen teel Family ;" ani the " Life and Times of Peter Priggins." UNITED SERVICE J 0 URN AL. The prominent feature in this Number, as in the pre ceding, is the " Campaign of Affghanistan," by an Officer of the Queen's. We noticed last month his descrip tion of the march to Caboul, so lull of interest and so honourable to the British army, and gave copious ex tracts relative to the capture of Ghuzne2. Want of space prevents us at present from quoting at the sam e length, and we therefore must refer our readers to the Magazine for the interesting account of Cabul, the magri4ent bazaar in the suburbs, the capture of kelat, and the return of the army to the provinces. The bazaar must be an extraordinary place ; it extends Upwards of a mile in length, and the principal commo dities sold are furs, cashmere shawls, arms of every de scription, together with scond-rate hardware, and old familiar trash from London and Birmingham. But we must allow the gallant writer himself to describe the scene " Cashmere shawls arc sold in the basement, and manu lactured in the attic, after a most laborious process, the artist referring at every stitch, not to a pattern, but to a pc r of written instructions ; the shawls being not the Jess genuine Gtshmere, though worked in Cabul ; for, as you are probably aware, ft is the texture and dressing of the wool, not the fashion of the pattern, which makes them so much esteemed. Woe is me I with no pay for _ _ the last two months, I could only look and die, the prices asked bring from ten to a hundred tomauns, that is, from 201. to 2001. prime cost! But how shall I describe the countless denizens of these shades, the sea of human faces, whose features would be sufficiently striking, even though divested of th e • b ear d, w h ic h is h ere all in all, and for which they have invented a thousand dyes. There is your jet black, favoured of Shahs and their satellites, and the milk-white, either natural or assumed, of the priesthood, while the mob delicrht themselves with v a riation of sky blue, and orange tawny. Truly they are a villanous-look iag set, however regular some of their features. Here .atty be seen the pinched countenance of a banyan, or trader, every line eloquent of fraud and lies; there a band of hill robbers enveloped in sheep-skins, their basilisk eyes glaring from under a pent-house of matted locks ; any man of whom would whiz you a ball from his matchlock, or stick into your midriff the long knife he wears at his girdle, fur the value of your jacket, if he caught you a mile from the town unarmed. You have ample time to scrutinize these blackguards, being detained in a corner by a string of some fifty camels, whose loads occupy nearly the breadth of the bazaar. Hardly have you con. gratulated yourself on (sewing this nuisance, when the hid,. light vanishes, and the air resounds with cries of kubbedah (take care), pronounced in a deep guttural tone—thus, khubberda r hlthubbm dar. You arc sensible of the rapid approach of some vast living mass, and by sweeps one of tur Bengal elephants, swinging his ponderous trunk a . crass the st reet , an d jerking out his fore-leg in the moat lade- rendent manner , as who should say—come across that if )cu dare." This Number contains the conclusion of the histori cal sketch describing the disasters at New Orleans, which will be read with painful interest. THE SPORTING REVIEW. " A Chapter on Cricketting; by Lord \Villi ;m Lennox, and " The Late Sir W. W. Wynn, Baronet, as a Sportsman," are both excellent in their kind, though we think his LorOship would have displayed better taste by singing in more piano strains the praises of the iehmond family. The Derby and the Gold Cup "cyf , y, of course, a large portion of this number, in Which amp l e j ust i ce i s d one t o th e splendid scenes the most magnificent, perhaps, to be found in any coun try. There are, as usual, some well executed plates, ?mong others a likeness of Little Wonder, engraved °Y Prior after Hancock. THE CHURCHMAN. The observations on Bishop Barnett's characters of Edward VI. and of Queen Mary possess interest, aud are remarkable for a rare quality in this periodical something like impartiality, cn matters connected with the Church. The writer's object is to prove that the virtues of the Protestant and the vices of the Catholic sovereign were much exaggerated by the stroeg bias which political but still more religious f eeling gave to the judgment of annalists during that distracted rriod. The conclusion, therefore, to which he comes is, that Edward, notwitstand- Lig all the humanity attributed to him, hail " too much Tudor blood in his veins," and that the Queen, in all eases except where her bigotry was concerned, to have justice administered with clemency and equity, and in this he is borne out by some eminent Protestant writers. Oa one occasion she evinced an anxious desire for Church reform, and the Christian wel!are of her people, which we wish the Protestant Church Re formers of the present day would imitate. She wrote a letter to the Council on the subject of Church, in 'which are these sound remarks t—" Many benefices should not be in one man's hood, but every priest ought to look to his cure and r side upon it ; and she looked on the pluralities over England to be a main cause of the want of good preachers, whose sermons, if joined with a good example, would do much good. and without that she thought that their senices would profit little." The iettrr a Durham Vicar denounciog Earl Fit z- williant. is a fine srecirnrn of ChurcL-run-mad as airs Corn-law rcralets, and the article on el,cralt would have been more acceptable had it been longer. CONINIEfICIAL JOINT-STOCK BANK, MAN ( 'HEsrEa.—'l he paid. up capi'al of the Bank is 260.0001 raised in shares ot each. There ore twenty-three branches connected with the head office at Nanchestrt. This gives a very limited cipital indeed to each, say ts,ol 01. allowing only the mo , «rate sum of 70,0001. to the head office. As there are many knawn very wealthy proprietors of this Bank. not only :clatiehester, hut also in other towns, where branches are established any ultimate loss is deemed quite out o f t h e ques tion. 'I hat. there is a numerous body who Kept. their accounts at the Batik and branches, and in the habit of receiving accom modation, who will be put to a serious inconvenience, there is " 0 d , uld, neither is there any doubt but that many will in eon- Begin nce be compelled to stop altogether. ( n.e of ocr wealthiest srierolc;nts purchased on Wednesday last 400 or 500 sh•res in this Ilan l ^.. at 2/. is. 6d. per share ; and, as the ;:entleman was Prtvionsly rict only a large shareholder, but also supposed to 1 "' intimately acquainted with the affairs of the estalalishment, the eircum , tanre is looked upon as a favourable omen that all will end well. The engagements of the Bank are said to be enn,idei able, and will pr, ',ably exceed 1,000,000/. sterling This occurrence will, it is to he feared, operate most prtju nicially on the market for some time to come : indeed, it has already been felt—many spinners full manufacturers, some directly and others indirectly interested, will, it is certain, be compelled te raise the ways and the means at any sicrifice. The Bank has been brought into this dilemma by excessive advances to parties keeping their accounts with the establish ment at its various branches. A deputation of nine gentlemen has left Manchester for London, with the object of laying before the Bank of England the state of the Commercial Bank, and to solicit, of course, the necesary aid, and that it may be soon is most devoutly to be wished. A lady was asked by a gentleman, " If Queen Victoria were to die, who should we have next ?" "Oh !" said the lady, '° we should have the Devil in Ernest then." The gentleman, who was a person ,f rather a serims turn, quietly remarks (2, " There is many a truth spoken in ju st." A farmer at Hilldyke Bar, its SibAty, has at this time in his possession a s'oev, that at three litters, within two days of twelve months, produced the immense number of fifty - twu a.) the first, sixteen; sN.A.vrid,--leveatee a; and last week, ainetaen.--Desto: LIEUT.-COLONEL CAMPBELL AND THE COLONIAL OFFICE. FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE. Whitehall, July 2, 1840. Sir,—l beg to forward the enclosed correspondence between Lord John Russell and myself respecting Mr. Under-Secretary Stephen, which I shall feel obliged by your inserting in your paper. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, 11. D. CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Colonel. (Cory.)—No. 1. Downing street, June 27, 1840. SIR,—By the direction of Lord John Russell, I transmit to you the copy of a letter which was addressed to his Lordship yesterday, the 26th instant, by Mr. Stephen, inclosing copies of a correspondence which has passed between yourself and that gentleman on the sub ject of a statement attributed to you in a report in The Sun newspaper of a public meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Convention. Supposing the accuracy of the report in question, Lord J. Russell thinks it necessary to ascertain from yourself what is the ground on which you made a state ment reflecting so mucu discredit on the public offiecrs of a colony, of which you were so recently the Lieut.- . Governor, and appearing to impute to a member t this department a culpable negligence in regard to so great an abuse. Lord John Russell, therefore, directs me to request that you would inform him whether you are correctly reported to have stated that the women brought into Sierra Leone in slave-ships, were given away to any one who chose to come and take them, the officers of the Government having the first choice ; end that Mr. Stephen knew that as well as you did. If this be really an accurate quotation of your lan guage, Lord J. Russell would wish to be informed what are the grounds on which this statement rests, whether the abuse in question prevailed during your own admi nistration of the government of Sierra Leone ; whether it was ever reported by you to her Majesty's Govern ment, and at what 'hue. And whether you ever adopted any measures for the prevention of it, and what those measures may have been. I am, Sir, your obedient bumb'e servant, (Signed) R. VERNON SMITH. To Colonel H. D. Campbell. (Co .)—No. 2. Downing-street, 26th June, 1840. My LORD—On Wednesday, the 24th inst., I re ceived ( I know not from whom) a copy of ?he Sun newspaper, of Tuesday, the 23d inst. In that news paper, I found a report of a speech, attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, the late Governor of Sierra Lcene, in which that officer is made to state that I knew as well as he did, that the women brought into Sierra Leone in the slave ships were given away to any one who chose to come and take them, the officers cd the Government having the first choice. If I had really rosscs , cd this knowledge, I should have ben guilty of a very culpable failure in my duty, in not communicating it to your Lordship, or to any of your predecessors. Had Colonel Campbell's speech represented that the fact in question was known to her Mpjesty's Government, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, or to the Colonial Department, I should at once have forwarded The Sun newspaper to your Lordship, for any measure you might think proper to found upon it. But as Colonel Campbell was made to wtribuie this knowledge to myself personally and individually, I thou ht it my duty, in my own per. sonal character, to request him to state whether he had used such expressions, and if so, then on what grounds he attributed this knowledge to me. Trstrrdny, the 25th inst., 1 received a note from Co lonel Campbell, asking whether he was to consider my communication as official. I immediately answered that my letter was not official—that it was not written by your Lordship's direction, or with your knowledge, but that, when I was in possession of the Colonel's an swer, I proposed to lay the whole correspondence be fore you. . _ _ I have now received anwlier note from Colonel Campbell, in which he states that my intention of laying the correspondence before your Lord,hip seems to him to stamp it with so strong an official charac ter, that lie must decline offering that explanation he would have been most ready to afford me as a private I inclose the whole of these letters for your Lord• ship's information. As far as as the matter affects my self personally, it is necessary for me only to state that, until I read Colonel Campbell's speech in The Sun news paper, I never heard, and had not the very slightest knowledge of the facts to which he there refers. I can, of course, state this only from my recollec- tion ; but, after the most repeated consideration, I find my memory a complete blank upon the subject. And on inquiry of other members of this Office, who are most likely to rewember the arrival here of any such intelli gence, I find them, like myself, entirely uninformed respecting it.-1 have, &c. (Signed) JAS. STEPHEN. To Lord John Russell, &c. (COPY.) —No : 3. Whitehall, 30th June, 1840. MY LOAD-1. have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a letter trom Mr. Vernon Smith, of the 27th inst., addressed to me by your Lordship's order, with the enclosure of the cepy of a letter from Mr. Under- Secretary Steph e n to your Lordship. I will not cavil whether the expressions attributed to me in The Sun newspaper are, or arc not, literally correct. They sufficiently indicate the spirit of the meaning I intended to convey. Your Lordship, in referring to the newspaper, will find that the extract sent to me by Mr. Stephen, and subsequently partially submi:ted to your Lordship, was preceded by a question with these words : " But what was the practice which he found ?" To this question the extract was in answer; and I regret to repeat that this practice was in existence on my as sumption of the Government. I took, however, immediate measures for its discon tinuance, which I reported to the Colonial Secretary in my dispatch, No. 150 (sth Sept. 1836), and which despatch I have this day seen in the Colonial-office, wherein your Lordship will find the following passages : 'lle women were disposed of to any person who would take them." " I have as far as possible checked the bad effects attending the giving away the women, by sending them to the villages, and placing each with r the care of a resident married female of good character." Having thus far sati,fied your Lordship in respec to the erounds of a spec eh delivered by me at I pub uneetioe, I request your Lordshp to order that 1 may be furnished with the copy of the despatch %,shich 1 have refeired, for the purpose of publication, as 1 feel it (WC to myself, atter the manner I have been called triion her explanation, to leave no doubt upon the public mind as h the truth of my assertion , . Your Lordship will no doubt notice with surprise that the above extracts from my despatch ;are almost the very words attributed to me at the public meet ing ; but, from the tenor of your Lordship's letter, your astonislinn nt will be still grester, when you find that the reply to that despatch, No. 106 (Ist Dec. 1836). does not contain the slightest alluson to any sine of my representations in regard to the state or apprenti..eship, which I characterised as being " sla very of the worst description," nor does it contain any remark upon the treatment of the women. This reference to my despatch, and to the reply re ceived to it from the Colonial-office, must satisfy your Lordship that I did not " impute to Mr. Stephen, a member of your Lordship's department, a culpable ne gligence, in regard to so great an abuse," without abun dant justification ; and I cannot comprehend how that gentleman, with these documents existing in the Colonial office, could venture to assure your Lordship that " he had never heard, and had not the slightest knowledge of •hese facts, and that his memory was a complete blank on the subject ;" nay, further, that he should attribute a similar want a recollection and information to every other person. in the department. But this denial of Mr. Stephen's veil appear still more strange, when I state tat his name is affixed to the copy, in your Lordship's office, of the despatch sent to nie. Having answered the questions which your Lordship has put io me, I take the liberty of saying that I feel at a toss to understand upon what ground your Lord ship, as Secretary of State, has addressed me in a matter, in respect to which Mr. Stephen had, in the first instance, appealed to me zoujie.'ally, and which, the Wore, appeared to have been personal between that gentleman and myself. Far, however, horn feeling any regret at being thus called upon for explanation, I re joice in the opportunity, thus afforded me, of directing )our Lordship's attention, as well as that of the public, to a mi.tter very near and dear to my heart—the wel tare of he oppressed and deep'y injured liberated Africans. It is, perhaps. needless to inform your Lordship that I shall publish this correspondence, in connection with that which has preceded it.—l have tl.e honour to be, my Lord, your most obedient servant, 11. D. CAMPBELL, Licnt.-Col. To tits Right Hon. Lord John Russell, &c. We understand that ore of the finest frigates in the service, the inconstant. has tailed from Plymouth for Kings town, where, we have heard she will remain during the Regatta, —Dublin Evening Pest. ASSAULT ON TIIE POLICE AT BOLTON.—A brutal assault was committed on John Thomas and James Hilton, two of the police force at Bolton, on the sth of April last ; the pa ties who committed it absconded. In consequence of information received, the superintendent and Hilton went to Birkenhead, near Liverpool, on Wednesday last, and arrested two brothers, brielinvrkers, named Joseph Haslam and Robert Haslarn, and brought them back to Bolton. They were taken before the mauistrates on Saturday last, and clearly identified by the officers as the parties who threw them down and kicked them about the head. An alibi was attempted to be proved in defenc:. ; but the Magistrates conceived the evidence to be such as to warrant them in committing the defendants for trill at the next Safford s , e”ions.•r-hloxcnaw:er Guardtm. DEATH OF MAJOR AGLIONBY, M. P. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. CARLISLE, JULY I, 1840. SlR,—Having for some time witnessed your extra ordinary exertions to furnish early int'lligence, I am induced, in consequence of a very sudden death having taken place here this morning, to give you the necessary particulars. Our esteemed county Member, Major Aglionby, whilst on his way to the Court this morning, to pre side at the Quarter :.;ossions, was seized with a fit, and died almost instantly. This event has caused a gloom throughout the town, and the Magistrates in court assembled adjourned the business till to-morrow, out of respect to the deceased. Two important offices are rendered vacant by this catastrophe—that of Chair man of the Quarter Sessions, •nd Member for the Eastern Dhi:ion. The Reformers will lose no time in deciding upon a cardidate to succeed him. In haste for the post, I am, Sir, yours, A CONSTANT READER. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. F RCM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The speech of the Duke of Wellington on the second reading of the Canada Government 13111 will be read, if we mistake not, by the country at large with feelings of painful surprise. The circumstances under which this Bill was brought forward—sanctioned as it was by the almost unanimous assent of the Upper Cana dian Legislature, by the vote of the Legislative Coun cil of the Lower Province, by the high authority of the Gosernor-General, by the loudly-expressed wishes in its favour of the colonial population, sod especially of those most distinguished for their loyalty and attachment to the British connexion, and finally passed by the House of Commons with a degree of unanimity on tue part of the leading men of all parties unexampled iti the history of an important legislative measure—these circumstances, we say, had so completely satisfied the public mind of the ex pediency of tee proposed plan of uniting the two provinces, as to induce them to look upon the question as one too clear for discussion, and upon which no reason able man could entertain a doubt. This being the case, it will not be without regret and surprise that the public will learn that a man of the Duke of Wellington's de servedly high reputation has thought fit to come forward with a public d e claration of his difference of opinion, upon this important question, from Sir Robert Peel and the other influential leaders of his own party in the lower house, by whom the Government measure was supported. (From the Standard.) About twenty Roman Catholic gentlemen voted in the majority against Sir Robert Inglis's motion ; not one in the minority. It is worth while to notice this fact, be cause it shows that if the question had been decided by Protestant votes alone, Sir Robert's motion would have been carried, and, as a necessary corollary, that the Protestant Dissenters generally, as they are repre sented, and certainly represented in their full propor tion throughout the United Kingdom, are not averse to extending the means of usefulness of the Church. But though we think it right to let the public know that the majority by which the hopes of a Christian people have been defeated was a Romanist majority, we are so far from blaming men for voting according to their conscience, that we offer the conduct of the Roman Catholic members who soled on Tuesday night as an ex ample most worthy of imitation. These gentlemen have been returned to Parliament, chi, fly for the purpose of overturn ing the Established Church; their duty to t heir constituents, in this respect, corresponds wifh what must be the admo nition of private conscience; and we frankly own that they were free to follow the summons of duty and coneience, unembarrassed by the oath which, upon other occasions, they have teought it necessary to violate. Now let Pro testants imitate this example when education grants and Maynooth grants shall conic before them in Parliament. ( From the Courier.) Amongst the numerous demonstrations of loyal feeling to which the late atrocious attempt on the life of her Ma : jeaty has given rise all over the country, we may particue tally signalise a grateful evidence of an improved tone of good feeling_ in the loyal addresses poured in, and presented at Court, front those districts s• recently distracted with insurrectionary movements and a prey to Chartist delusions. In the Merthyr Guardian, as well as in the Silurian of Brecon, we have perused with infinite satisfaction the records of numerous meetings 'of the coun ties and towns of Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon, where with a generous unanimity and warmth of devoted and dutiful attachment which testifies to the inherent loy alty of all the inhabitants, without distinction of party or sect, the Throne was addressed in the most fervent lan guage of affectionate congratulation and thanksgiving fur the providential preservation of a uatrcn's hope. It may seem invidious, where all have deserved so sell, to select one spot preferentially fur distinction arid remark, but we shall stand absolved by the circumstance that Merthyr Tydvil,with its large population of 35,000 or 40,000 souls, was more eepecielly looked upon as the grand focus of revolutionary principles in those parts, as, indeed, the head-quarters of the rebellion which eventuated in the attack on Newport. The larger portion of the misguided men who on that occasion followed under the banner of Froa, sure from that great mining district, and on it that daring man relied for the further array of numbers and support by which to accomplish the full measure of his nefarious de signs, whatever hose might be. This same town, so un fortunately distinguished of late, is now, however, nobly retrieving its character. At a meeting numerously at tended, and composed to a large majority of the men be fore so lamentably known only for the most extreme prevalence of Radicalism, addresses to her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, were unanimously voted; moved and carried, moreover, L.y these whose loyalty from late antecedents was erroneously regarded by many as more than questionable. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1840. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 2. Their Lordships sat to-day to hear airals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lard Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Wynfuid, the Earl of Hardwicke, and Lord Crofton. THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL V. SIR R. CAW GLYNN. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this appeal, which was argued before their Lordships nearly three years ago. The case came before the House upon appeal cn behalf of the Queen of Portugal from the de cision of the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, overruling a demurrer put on by the Queen of Portugal to the bill tiled by the respondents. The facts of the case may be thus shortly stated In the year 1829 D.n Miguel, who was then de ji.cto at the head of the Govet ument of Portugal, negoerated a loan with two persons in France ; bonds were given to those persons fix the repa) ment of the loan, which was to be raised by bills drawn upon per sons in Engiand and France. The bilis upon this country were transmitted to England to the respondent, who accepted them. Upon Don Miguel being dethroned and declared a usurper, Donna Maria, the present Queen of Portugal repudiated the loan, and ultimately a bill of discovery ‘N 25 filed, to which the Queen of Portugal was made a party. To this bill the defendants put in a demurrer, on the grour,d that the bill instead of being one of dis covery ought to have been fur relief. Upon this demurrer coming on for argument the Lord Chief Baron ordered it to be overruled, and from t.,at decision the present appeal was brought. The Lord Chancellor on giving judgment stated that it was to be regretted that so considerable a length of time had elapsed between the argument and the judgment; it did not arise from any doubt that he enter tained upon the subject, or the judgment to be pronounced, but from a desire to look into tee cases that had been re ferred to. The principal question on the case was whether a bill of discovery could be supported against persons in terested on the subject matter at the action but not parties to the record; the Lord Chief Baron was of o t inion that it could, and upon that ground he ordered the demurrer put in to the bill to be overruled. The Lord Chancellor could not agree with that proposition, and in that opinion he was supported by the decision of Lord Eldon on the cases of Fenton v. Hughes and the Marx of London v. Levi. He was therefore clearly of opinion that the judem.•rrt of the Lord Chief Baron must be reversed. Lord LYNDHURST concurred most cordially with the opinion expressed by the Lo•d Chancellor. He considered the decision of Lord Eldon in Fenton v. Hughes directly in point. aid ttat judgment had been affirmed by Powell and Yates. Low BaouGHANt also concurred in the op:nion pressed by the Lord Chancellor. Lord WYNFORD fit great diffidence in setting un his opinion in opposition to those of his Noble Friends ; but if their judgment was adopted by the House—and lie feared it would—the Queen of Portugal would obtain a sum of money to which she had no title upon earth, aid one of the foulest frauds that he could conceive would be com mitted. If the present case was to be decided by the technical rules lard down by the Court of Chancery, as the Learned Lord on the Woolsack appeared to intimate that it was, he, fur one, would rather sco the Court of Chancery blown up, than such injustice committed upon technical grounds. His opinion clearly was that the judg ment of the Lord Chief Baron was correct. The judgment was then ordered to be reversed. LOCKHART V. MACDONALD. The further arg..mcnts on this part-heard case occupied their Lordships the remainder of the day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. JULY 2. LONG V. lIITCHCOCK.-CEIM, CON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages against the defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Mr. KELLY stated the case to the Jury. The parties resided in the neighbourhood of Harrow. Some time since the plaintiff had the misfortune to have a charge of felony brought against him, upon which charge he was committed to Newgate. While necessarily absent from home the defendant, who was a licensed victualler in the immediate neighbourhood of the plaintiff's residence, was observed to pay suspiciously -frequer.t visits to his house. He would prove that those visits were numerous—so much so that they excited suspicion in the neighbours, who watched his proceedings, and that as soon as he went in the door was locked, and such proceedings took place as could leave no doubt whatever on the minds of the Jury that the greatest injury one man could iiafiict upon another was then committed. The Learned Gentleman called witnesses, who proved the frequent visits: of the defcridant to the plaintiff's house; that upon one or two occasior.s the door was locked when I he went in, and they bad seen him take liberties with the plaintiff's wife, which did not appear to be resit*, but they failed to prove actual guilt. In the cross-examina tion of the witnesses by Mr. Phillips, it appeared that this was not the first time the plaintiff had been an inmate of Newgate, nor was it shown upon what terms he and his wife lived. Mr. C. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury for the defendant, and ci,ntended that a more trumpery case had never been brought into a Court of Justice. IES LOhDslilP shortly summed up, and the Jury imme diately found a verdict for the de'en innt. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 130 TV- S TI?EE T. John Saul, a market gardener, appeared upon a sum mons, obtained under the 57th Geo. 111., chap. 29, to answer a Complaint preferred against him by Peter Skey, the inspector of pavements for the parish of Saint Paul, Covent-garden, fur that he did on the 20th June place or cause to be placed a cart on the can riage way pavement for a longer time than was necessary for loading or unload ing the same, to which he pleaded Not guilty. Mr. TwfFORD inquired if the alleged (dance was com mitted within the precincts of the market, and by whose authority the complainant had laid the information. The complainant said that he was appointed by the Committee of management belonging to the parish under whose control the pavements are ; the cart and goods stood at the corners of Jarncs-street and Hart -street, and although he had affixed a printed notice upon them at five o'c:ock in the morning, the defendant thought proper to let them remain there until between eight and nine o'clock. The defendant said Le was at a loss to know what the proper hour was for clearing the streets of the different ve hicles that came with goods. The complainant said that nine o'clock was the hour ordered by the Committee. The cart in question took up about twenty feet of the street; and when the defendant was told of the obstruction it caused, he said that he had paid toll, and refused to stir. although the following notice was on the cart : —" Saint Paul, Covent Garden.—Unless the goods, matter, or thing to which this notice is affixed be immediately removed, I shall proceed to recover the penalty: inflicted by the Act for the better paving, im proving, and regulating the streets of the metropolis, and removing and preventing nuisances and obstructions therein." Benjamin Dickenson, a beadle of the par;sh, proved that he was present when the cart was ordered away, and it remained in the same )ilscc for a considerable time aftei-. Mr. TvvFono could not understand how it happened that the servants of the Duke of Bedford exacted toll from persons who could not, from the pressure of business at tl.is season of the year, draw their carts within the pre cincts of the market, and he supposed the defendant could explain how the difference between him and the toll-col lector originated. The defendant said that whenever he found the market blocked up, he was suffered by a publican to draw up his cart before his door, and for a considerable time past he had been persecuted because he refused to submit to an exorbitant demand that was made upon him by the toll collector, at a time when he was standing with his goods beyond the precincts of the market. Tm e h e e to co s m a y p 1 a t i h rr a a t n h s e a r i that ed was ample he a o room s rde f r o e r d t b h y e t d h e e f o dfi n n l t within the market, but he preferred stopping beyond the bounds, to avoid paying toll. The defendant denied that such was the case, and the Duke of Bedford's servants caused the parish officers to lay the complaint, because he would not allow them to impose upon him. Mr. TwtFonD said that the question was one of the greatest public importance, and he could not overlook the provisions of the Act, although the persons connected with the market were suffered to exact a toll which could not be recognized by law. The defendant said, that had he consented to the de mand which had been made, the parish authorities would never have preferred the complaint, and he would be suf fered to remain in the same place with his cart, however great the obstruction might have been. Mr. Twyrono thought, that as the subject was of such importance, a beginning should be made, with a view to sett le such disputes for the future, fur he had only to con sider if the Act under which the complaint had been made had been infringed upon before he could impose a penalty of 40s. upon the defendant; but, at the same time, he was bound to attend to the reasons given for refusing to pay an unjust demand, and he would suspend the judgment for a week, for the purpose of communicatin,g with the com mittee of management upon the matter. MIDDLESEX CO URT of REQUESTS. ROBBING - PETER TO PAY PAUL.—A miserable looking journeyman shoemaker was summoned by a tailyman for 1/. 16s. for twelve yards of green silk, which the latter h a d furnished the wife of the defendant with for a dress. The defendant strongly protested, that he had not only never seen the silk, but that he had never heard of his wife entertaining such a monstrous idea as that of wearing a green silk dress. The plain tiff admitted that be had never seen the husband upon the subject, and the Jury indulged in some very strong observations upon what they termed the enormity of a system under which the wife of such a man as the tie fendant could procure credit fir silk dresses at the rate of 11. 16s. each. The defendant assured the Jury that his wife had previously had bills at tally shops—one for a silk, shawl, which was charged 31. 12s. for ; an other for a blue silk dress, which came to 21. 4s. ; and a third for a Bros de Naples, to the amount of 1/. 18s., none of which he (the defendant) had ever seen, but for all of which he had been obliged to pay. lie was, he said, a hard-working man, and could have ten years' character from the master fur whom he was working, and he thought it a cruel thing that tradesmen should suffer a poor woman, like his wife, to incur a debt for an expensive article of dress without making any inquiry of the husband. So thought the jury, who abused every tally-shop in ex istence, and they were for fining a v er di c t f or th e defendant, when the Commissioner , w ho observed that be ti thought supplied, teisb-n said i do utght to b e seen b e f ore t h e goods would be well to ascer tain under what repre sentations the p laintiff had sup plied the ware defendant's wile with the silk. The plaintiff was questioned, and stated that the de fendant's wife represented herself to be a dressmaker, and was well recommended. " She carn't make her own dresses," said the defendant. Then we will have your wife here," said the Commis sioner. The wife was then sent for, and appeared. liogarth never sketched a better drunkard. .. " It needs no conjuror," said one of the jurors, " to tell where the green silk went to." " Not at all," observed another juror, holding up three fingers, to intimate his belief that the silk had found its way to the sale keeping of one of the Lom bardy bankers, i. e. those good Samaritans, who gene rally live at the corner of a dark alley, up which the poor may slink, without any one having cognizance of t h e i r poverty, and borrow 58. at 2.5 per cent. Mr. Commissioner Dußois (to the wife)—What became of the si,k that you bed of the plaintiff? Wite—Pawncd it. What did )ou gel upon it ?—Six•and-twenty licga. - What became of the money? The wife looked at her husband. The Husband—Tell the truth, Mary ; it's no Ude 15 ing here as you do at home. Wed," said niry, " if I must tell the truth, I wanted 10s. of the money to pay Mr!. Biles." The pu':ilican as lives at the corner of the court," said the husband, sorrowfully. Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—And the other 165., what became of that? Wife—Seven shillings of it went to Mrs. Gaynham. " As keeps the Horse and Groom," muttrrcd Alary's unfortunate mate. _ . Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—And the remaining Os? " Oh, never mind how that went," said Mary ; " that ain't nothing to nobody." And the wretched woman, who had scarcely any garments upon her, inso lently flung herself out of Court. 'The tallytnan said he regretted having supplied such a worthless creature with an expensive ar ticleof dress ; but the fact was , his collectors, how ever cautious, were sometimes deceived by the ingenuity of those who wanted to " take up" a bill. lie was sorry for the defendant, and would be satisfied with the sum that his wife had obtained at the pawn broker's for the silk. The Court gave him a verdict for that sum. Mr. Commissioner Dußois said he thought that the husband ought to be seen in all cases, if poseible. FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—An inquest was held at the 0 -- ck W: m illi s a a m tur ll d r a a y el m bu o r rning Bradbury, a lab ourer , s t a t e d, Infirmary, on Monday last, on the body of Willi am Willi ams , a railway contracto r, wh o came to his d eath under the follow last, th e d e c e ased was at Rushford , on the line of the Manche ster and Birmina itnhgat ham Railway, gi vin g directions about a train o f waggons l a d en c a i b rc o u u rn t n st i a n n e el wi th earth, which wets going to Stockport, when, on a sudden, a train, consisting of an engine, tender, and four passenger carriages, from Stockport to Manchester, came in sight. Wit ness and several other men called out to him to conic off the line ; and the engineer used the steara-whistle, and also let off the steam, in order to stop the train ; but the deceased stood as if he were stultified, and, the train coming tm, the near side of the front of the engine struck him, and threw him upon the line, and the remainder of the train went Oyer his body. The train stopped, and the deceased was taken up and conveyed to the Manchester station, and from thence to the infirmary, where he died the same day. Verdict—" Accidental death." —Manchester Guardian. TIIE COMNIERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.- According to Marchant's " List of the Country Banks of Brig and and Wales, also of the Names of all the Shareholders of Joint-stock Banks, as registered at the Stamp -office in March, 1838," we find that the " Commercial Bank of England," be sides its head office at Manchester, had at that time sixteen branches, viz. at Preston, Burnley, Birmingham, Chester, Leek, Burslem, Liverpool, Blackburn, Ashburn, Rochdale, Shrewsbury, Ellesmere,: Uttoxeter, Whitchurch, Newport, and Ludlow. The bank, we learned last evening, had not then resumed its operations. We understand that a deputation of three of the directors were in London, engaged in endeavouring to make some arrangements with Messrs. Barnett, Mares, and Co. for again accepting and paying the bills and notes of the bank. On Monday they had not succeeded in their mission, but were I not without hopes of being successful yesterday. It is now said that Messrs. Barnett, Ifoares, and Co. were first alarmed, and induced to refuse the bank's paper, by the agent of the Com mercial Bank in London having intimated to them that he had i heard that there had been a run on one of the branches of the Bank. It is added, that this rumour subsequently proved in correct, and that Me Irs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co, have ! since expressed their regret, that, acting on information Which they could have no reason to question, they should have thus 1 caused the suspension of the Bank. However this may be, it ' is certain that here every thing at the Bank remained, up to last evening, in the state in which it was on the auspension of pay. rterifS on Sattuday tucruin 11%,..../Afaxc - A4stey Guaditn, THE BATH THEATRE. (From the Bath Herald.) The theatre has closed after a season so unsuccess ful, we understand, that it has most grievously disap pointed the truly liberal lessee, and trenched very largely upon his pecuniary resources. We have even heard it hinted, though certainly not from authority, that it will be a matter of deep consideration with Mr. Davidge whether he will open it at all next season. We will suppose, for a moment, that, partly from the neglet - :t of the public, partly from the wholesale con demnation of popular amusements by the clergy, Bath should next year have no public attraction, either in balls, concerts, card-parties, or the drama, and let us see what would be the probable consequences to individua's and the city at large. Public parties and assemblies being wholly set as►de, we ask what would become of the trade of the city in every department, jewellery, milli nery, costly drapery, haberdashery, &c.? Is there any in dividual who would ever purchase or wear these articles, as got up for full-dress, if they intended to sit the whole evening by their own firesides? What desolat ing ruin would this entail upon all the expensive esta blishments in this city ? What an inundation of vice, misery, and crime would it let loose among the discard ed hands, male and female, who would be necessarily turned adrift, and driven either to beggary or to des perate courses ? Trace the consequences to a higher source, and see what thousands of manufacturers and artisans, in other districts, would be overwhelmed with starvation and beggary, the results of decayed trade and of the want of employment ! Consider again the thousands of persons, who would leave the city for some gay continental residence, where the public amusements were encouraged and patronised by those who, in the eyes of all mankind, are esteemed both as the good and the great ! What would become of the Government taxes? Who would there be left to pay the Poor':-rates and the Church-rates? It is useless to carry our inquiries further, for it is clear and inevitable that the whole city would be involved in one common ruin. Those who would put down popular recreations, which are at all events innocent, and some of which might, by proper management, be made powerful to improve public taste, refine public manners, delight the public fancy, and inspire noble sentiments, ap pear to us not to be very conversant with human nature, which, in the large majority, must have 'some safety-valve to let off the exuberant spirits, or .to cheer and elevate the depressed. The learned, the pious, and the profound Solden, was decidedly hostile to that religious austerity and gloom which wrought upon mankind by the principle of fear, instead of love, and which prevailed even tl this day. To preach," says he," long and loud damnation is the way to be cried up. We loVe the man who damns us, and we ►un after him again to save us." This holy prelate was used to delight rather in expatiating upon the celestial tenderness, and the absence of all dread under the Almighty wings, than of the terrors anti pu nishments with which HE scares and threatens the guilty and impenitent sinner. But while we thus state our real but humble opinion —that innocent and social pleasures are useful and pro fitable to society at large, in a country like ours, where industry 13 carried, and is obliged to be carried, to the uttermost possible verge, we are perfectly prepared to concede to religion its amplest claims upon the heart and feelings and duties of man. We are well aware that with the highly cultivated, serious contemp;ation and instructive reading arc often more delightful and refresh ing than even the gentle cheerfulness of recreation. We arc well aware that man has high aims and immortal destinies before him ; and that it is welt that he should sometimes ponder upon them, " commune with his own heart and be still." * All that we wish to obse7ve is that human nature is so constituted, that the bow cannot always be bent—that innocent and elegant amusements should rather be promoted and patronised, than decried and condemned, because, as some recreation must and will be had by the majority, in the absence of such amusements, they will pursue others that are vicious and degrading. MUTINY IN THE GLASGOW HOUSE OF REFUGE. (From the Glasgow Argus.) It is not without considerable pain that we have to advert to an unfortunate occurrence which took place in the House of Refuge on Tuesday evening. It ap pears, that since the estab:ishment of the House of Refuge, the inmates, at least the more impracticable among them, have always, as the period of Glasgow Fair approached, manifested a det.ree of uneasiness and dis content which was not observable at any other season, unless; perhaps, in a lesser degree, at the New Year. Their old feelings seem to have always come over them with peculiar power as the time drew near which they. were accustomed to pass at " the shows," and in the midst of revelry and excitement ; and at present this feeling has broken forth into actual insurrection. On TUesday evening a great number of the inmates of the house rushed into the lobby, with a loud yell, and exprersed their determination to .get out of the asy lum. They were joined' by others, and ultimately, it is believed about 150 were in the lobby at one time. Many of them were armed with implements used in their work, and in the course of the disturbance seve ral of, the doors were broken by their fury. It is to be remarked that no,complaint, was made by them in re fereeceto the treatment which they are accustomed to F'receive'; their sole demand was, that they should be set iat ]lastly. ' Fortuntitely, the Governor, whose suspicion 'had -) be6n - previoiisly'airrakeiled, had secretly secured the Dattenckinoe-of - akmieloFee-Otrrderi,"whia - instantl y met the insprgentivand checked , tteir , progreSsi but they were itaatantly asiailed : _with great violence, and struck se verely with weapons,-and missiles of every description that could he laid hold of. Large quoits, pieces of wood, and the dishes from which their food is taken, were hurled at the heads of the police, several of whom, received severe injuries in the scuffle. A party of the inmates, who had in vain attempted to get out of the house by a back or side door, then returned to the scene of disturbance, and were particularly fierce in the attack ; but, by making good use of their sticks, the police latterly succeeded in quelling the tumult, without a single boy having effected his escape ; and, we be lieve, about seventy of the insurgents were rut in a place of confinement, where they are all still lying. The next day all the inmates, with the above exceptions, were at their work as usual ; but, we believe, the Directors will be greatly puzzled how to act with regard to the others. The attempt to escape appears to have been coolly pre meditated—in all likelihood by some of the more ad vanced and refractory, in the first place ; and, when it is considered that many of them are almost as strong and robust as they will ever be. the wonder is that they did not effect their purpose. This unseemly occurrence will be matter of deep regret to every sincere friend of this valuable institution, as it must necessarily throw a damp over the hopes of its usefulness, which have hitherto been i entertained. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUL!' 2. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'Clock. Lord PRIJD HOE presented petitions from Cambridge, Newcastle, and Sunderland, in favour of the Chimney Sweepers' Bill. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented similar petitions from the Lord Mayor, Sheriff 4, and Common Councilmen of the City of London, and also from the City of Westminster. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented similar petitions from Manchester and Liverpool. -CANADA. The Earl of H A RD WIC K E gave notice that on Tues day next, upon the motion for going into Committee on the Canada Bill, he should move as an amendment ,hat the Bill he committed that day six months. 'lhe Earl of H ADDING TO N presented a pctitirn from the master chimney-sweepers of London and Weat minater against the Chimney Sweepers Bill, and praying to be heard by Council at the bar. The Duke of SUTHERLAND presented petitions from Greenock, Glasgow, Cot kermouth, and Shilton, in Staffordshire, in favour of the Chimney Sweepers' Bill. Similar petitions were presented by the Earl of Gosford from Hereford, by the Earl of Warwick from different parts of Warwickshire, and by the Bishop of Exeter from Exeter, Sidmouth, and Devonport. On the motion of Viscount DUNCANNON the Timber Ships Bill was read a second time and ordered to be com mitted after a few observations from Lord Colchester. The Earls of ABERDEEN and HADDINGTON presented pe titions from Scotland in favour of the Scotch Benefices Bill. The Marquis of NO RNIANB Y presented petitions in favour of the Chimney- Sweepers Bill from Worcester, Chelmsford, Broomsgrove, Keasington, Saffron Walden, Camberwell, Leamington, Manchester, Poole, Frome, Durham, and other places. The Noble Marquis said that, as he found it would he necessary, this being a Bill affactirg trade, to refer it to a Select Committee, he should now move that it be referred accordingly, and defer the second reading to a future period. Oa the motion of the Archbishop of C ANT EE BURY, the Church Discipline Bill pessed through Committee, and was ordered to be reported or: Monday. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition signed by from 16,000 to 19,000 persons, and adopted at a public meeting at Edinburgh, to which he was anxious to call their Lordships' most serious attention. The petitioners, after expressing their opinion of the baneful effects of State patronage upon the Church, added, that this truth was at this moment receiving a painful illusrration from the present situation of the Church of Scotland, which exhibited the inconsistency of a body salaried and supported by the State, in active oppos . tion to the law of the land, as promulgated by supreme authority ; and the petitioners expressed their opinion that no Church was entitled to independence so long as it depended on State suppart ; and they prayed their Lordships to refuse all a pplication for grants of public money for Church Extension purposes., and take all proper measures for the separation of Church and State. The Noble and Learned Lord said that as their Lordships were a ware he differ ed from the petitioners as to their fundamental opinion against Church Establishments; but he thought no person could toad the ttitornont of the petitioners ani be informed of the number who attended the meeting, and the great vat and unanimity of their proceedings, without being sensible that their cries against Church Establishments, and their desire for the separation of Church and State, was promoted by the late proceedings of the Ecclesias tical authorities in that part of the country.—Hear.) The Marquis of BRE ADALBANE said, with refe rence to the observations of the Noble and Learned Lord, he could not agree that this cry against Eccle siastical Establishments originated :from the late proceed ings of the clergy in Scotland. He thought that it took its rise many years ago, and was occasioned by the abuses which existed in Church Establishments. Lord BROUGHAM explained. The Earl of ABERDEEN could not but express his satisfaction at what had fallen from the Noble Marquis. Ile believed he would find his presence there very neces sary to support the case he bad taken u? " Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus." CHURCH OF SCOTLAND BILL. The NOBLE EARL then moved that the House should re solve itself into a Committee on the Church of Scotland The Marquis of BRE ADA LBA NE said be had given notice of his intention to move that Counsel should be heard at the Bar against the Bill, but in conse quence of the short time that had elapsed, it had been found impossible to instruct counsel properly. He trusted, therefore, that the Noble Earl would postpone the Committee for a few days in order that Counsel migt.t be instructed properly. The Earl of ABERDEEN could not accede to the suggestion of the Noble Marquis as to postponing the Com mittee. He had already stated that he should be most happy to hear anything that could be said against the measure, but he could not con'ent to postpone the Com mittee for that purpose. Lord ME LIfOtiRNE said that be had already stated to their Lordships why he thought that in the present state of the question it was undesirable to legislate upon it. The only effect of proceeding with the present Bill would be to ne3urage and increase the adverse feelings of the opposing parties in the Church of Scotland, and to prevent the care ful and impartial consideration of the subject at a future time. The schism which existed now was not new. It had taken place full a century ago.—( Hear, hear, hear.) The real question was this, there were two parties in the Church of Scotland—one which desired to re tain the present system of lay patronage, and another which desired to abolish it. The Noble Earl appeared to him to attempt to compose such great strifes in vain—pul reris exiquijactu.—( Hear, hear.) The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the pretensions put forward by the General Assembly were that that body could exist in defiance of the law by which it was consitu ted. There was this difference between the present schism and that which oczurred a century ago; for those who were now opposed to the ecclesiastical authorities had the law upon their side.—(Hear.) The general objection to the present Bill was based upon a very different ground from that which the Noble Marquis took for his oppositi3n to it. The Noble Marquis was the only Member of that House who supposed that the tendency of the Bill could be ro interfere with the independence of the Church of Scot land, Lord MELBOURNE bogged to be understood as having given no opinion on the subject of the Bill. He had only said that it would be impartial and inexpedient to pass the Bill at present. The DILI of HADDINGTON thought that bis Noble Friend (Earl of Aberdeen), deserved great credit for having taken up this subject, which it was the duty of the Government to have taken into their own hands. Tho Earl of ROSEBERY begged to correct his Noble Friend (the Earl of Aberdeen) who had said that the Noble Marquis near him was the only Member of that House who considered the Bill as having a tendency to encroach on the independence of the Church of Scotland, for he participated in that view. After a few words from the Earl of ABERDEEN, in explanation, the House went into Committee upon the Bill, the clauses of which were gone through without dis cussion, and the House resumed. The Marquis of BREADAL BANE then gave notice that upon the bringing up of the Report he would move that Counsel be heard at the bar against the Bill. The Earl of ABERDEEN said thete was no truth whatever in the statement that the petitions he had pre sented in favour of his Bill had been got up in an irregular manner, while he had the best authority for saying such had been the case with one presented against it by the Noble Marquis. CASE OF THE REV. P. O'REILLY. The Marquis of WESTMEATH had been about to say, when the message was brought up from the Com mons, that although he entertained the highest respect for the Presbyterians of the North of Ireland, yet be thought they would do themselves little credit by interfering in this matter. While he was on his legs (Loud laughter)— he would draw their Lordships' attention to a motion which he was about to propose, relating to the case of the Rev. Philip O'Reilly. The Marquis of NORMANBY said that perhaps the Noble Marquis would permit the Noble Etrl to answer the question which had been put to him before he pro ceeded with the case of Mr. O'Reilly. The Marquis of WESTMEATH, without paying any attention to the request of the Noble Marquis, continued. —An offence bad been imputed to the Rev. P. O'Reilly, a Roman Catholic clergynian ; he had been brought be fore a magistrate, and instead of the ease proceeding as usual, it had been stopped by order of the Governaieht. The Noble Marquis had said that cnongh had been done, hut he could not understand what had been done. All had been stopped. He could understand that it might be right in certain cases for the Government to interfere to prevent vindictive preceedings, but such was not the case here. The excitement attending such proceedings had frequently been attended with loss of life. He accused the Government of showing gross partiality to the Ro man Catholic clergy. The Government were always pro fessing that equal justice should be administered to Ro man Catholics and to Protestants, and he would say no thing could be more just than that; he highly approved of it ; but they were always showing favour to the Ro man Catholics. Had the Government not been aware of the serious nature of what they had been doing, they would have let them know the names of them who had done it. Blackstone had stated that compounding of fences in this way had a tendency to make the laws odious—and such would be the case. The people of Limerick would know no reason why this man bad not been brought to trial, except that he was a Roman Ca tholic clergyman. The Noble Marquis had first of all asked what O'Reilly it was. Now he must bave known ,hat O'Reilly was a very common name in Cavan, and ,hat nowadays nothing was more common than for persons in Ireland having these common names to put an 0' be fore them, in order to make themselves of consequence.— ( A laugh.) Then the Noble Marquis had said that this was not an offence relating to landed property, but to tolls. Were not tolls property? The Marquis of NOR MANBY—The Noble Marquis stated that it was a dispute about land. The Marquis of WESTMEATH had been mistaken in making that statement. It had been said that the collector of these tolls went to the head of the town to collect them with a prayer-book, and all that sort of thing.—( Laugh ter.) What had that to do with it ? Property was not safe. If the return had been made, it would Lave ap. peered who had received the 501. for compounding this offence, to what purpose it had been applied, and what was the sort of acquittance given for it. Whoever had given that acquittance might be indicted for obtain ing money under false pretences, and he did not' believe that any money had ever been paid at all. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving for a return of papers relating to the transactions, and of the sums paid by the Rev. Mr. O'Riley. The Marquis of NORMAN BY said the motion was substantially the same their Lordships had decided the other night, but at the same time there was a difference ; these the Noble Marquis had not mentioned, for the papers then moved for were in existence, while those now moved for were not in existence, so far as the Government was cognizant of it. i.e was sure their Lordships would not think it necessary he should noargo over the same ground. again. Ho had stated that the Noble Marquis was mistaken in supposing this was a question between Catholics and Protestants, or in favour of Catholic priests. No doubt many of these words were much more objectionable when uttered at the altar than at any other place; but at the same time that circumstance did not alter the nature of the legal offence. In consequence of them the Government ordered informations to be taken, and having taken these the bench of' Magistrates, consisting of one stipendiary Magistrate and two Magistrates of property residing in the neighbourhood, of different political opinions, decided that under all the circumstances of the case, and for the peace of the country, it would be better to make an amicable arrangement, and they therefore recommended Father O'Riley to address a memorial to the Lord Lieute cant. That memorial was so addressed, and they accom panied it with their opinion as to the expediency of ac ceding to the prayer of the memorial. Then as to the 501. the Noble Marquis was mistaken in supposing the Govern ment had any concurrence in that, it being the suggestion of the Magistrates that O'Riley should pay that sum, a course which was frequently pursued at Quarter Sessions. That was the plain state of the case. Within the last few hours he had received a letter from one of the Magistrates on this subject ; and he was sure it would be satisfactory to their Lordships to learn that the result of all this had been the re.establishment of perfect peace in that country, a n d that Father O'Riley had never repeated any of that lan guage to which objection was taken, and that, on the other band, his broker had been restored to the legal pot session of his dues. This being the case, he hoped they should hear no more of this case The Noble Marquis had talked of trifling, but really he (the Marquis of Nor. manby) thought, whenehe facts were considered, and also the extent of business then before their Lordships, this nothing less; and however amuse himself with muchmo ca se c t o h u e l d N b o e b i c e o n A s i i a d r e q r u e ids mightas n ot tions of this kind before Easter, he hoped they would not be repeated for the remainder of the Session. The Earl of HA DDIfaGTON thought his Noble Friend the Secretary for the Home Department, was not right in reading the lecture with which he had just con who naturally b e i ng k een l y a li ve to every eluded his speech to h i s Nob l e Friend (the M arqu i s o f Westmeath) thing of this kind in I. eland, came forward to move for certain papers, which having been refused by the House, by a majority of one, as his Noble Friend then& in con sequence of the writ of the Noble Marquis, he had upon further information again brought it forward. He certainly thought under the circumstances the priest should have been brought to justice. The Earl of FING AL had received a letter from one of the Magistrates engaged in this business, who stated that the eff2ct of the arrangement bad been most satisfac tory, and that he had received a letter from the Attorney- General thanking him for his conduct, and stating that Lord Ebrington was satisfied with his examination. The Marquis of CL A NRICA RDE thought the only effect of the motion would be to revive the discussion in the country, an-I disturb the tranquillity which now existed. The Eail of WICK LOW thought the question was not of sufficient importance to occupy the attention of the House, and hoped his Noble Friend would withdraw his motion. EVENING EDITION. The Marouis of NO RM ANB Y observed he never ha d any direct in - formaa9n the money had been paid. The Earl of CHARLE:ILLE did not understand on what grounds the Noble Marquis pbjected to the produc tion of these papers. Tl:e Marquis of WESTME ATH replied, and stated that he would postpone the motion, in order to give the Noble Marquis an opportunity of ascertaining whether the money had or had not been paid. The Marquis of NORMA NBY would cppose the with drawal of the motion upon any such groun d . The Marquis of CCANIZICARIiE observed that the Noble Marquis opposite ( Westmeath) moved for a certain paper, and when be was told no iuch paper existed, he said he would postpone the motion till it did exist.— ( Laughter.) Such a proceeding was merely tiifling with the House. The Earl of HADDINGTON rema.ked that the . Noble Marquis had a i erfect right to postpone the motior. if he thought proper. After a few observations from the Marquis of SALis. BURY and Lord WHARNCLIFFE, The Duke of WELLINGTON said it would be very desirable to put an end to the discussion.— Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis opposite ( Nornianhy) said there was no such paper; the Noble Marquis behind him (West meath) said there was, and that upon inquiry it would be found. Surely, under these circumstances, there could be no objection to the postponement of the motion until that inquiry was made. The Marquis of WE STNIE AT H then withdrew kis motion, and said be should, if he thought necessary, renew it on a future occasion. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage. PAYMENT OF WAGES BILL. Lord MONSON moved the third reading of this Bill. Lord PORTAI AN opposed the motion, and moved as an amendment that it be read a third time that day three months. After a few words from the Marquis of NORMANBY, Lord MONSON withdrew the Bill. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Juir 2. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. On the motion of Mr. LID DE L L the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Bill was read a third time and psimed. WEAVER CHURCHES BILL. Sir PHILIP EGERTON, having moved the third reading of the Weaver Churches Bill, Mr. THORNE I. Y presented a petition from Cheshire against the Bill. The Hon. Member then moved the amend ment of which he had giver. notice, "That a Select Committee be RR:Anted to inquire into the state of the River Weaver and Wctson Canal, and of the quantity and description of traffic thereon ; also of the amount of tonnage collected, and the application thereof, with a view to a;eertein what reduction of toll can be made for the benefit of the public, and to report thereon to the House; and that the Weaver Churches B:11 be not proceeded Kith until the -Committee has made its report." The House would readily believe him that in originally bringing forward this iubject he had no view to tbe Weaver Churches Bill; for he had called tic attention of the House to it in the two preceding Sessions. In February, 1839, be presented to the House a petition from the merchants of Liverpool trading with th e United States of America, complaining - of the dues that ti ere exzcted on that river, and of the oLjects to which they were applied.—( Hear, hear.) There was not a family in the kingdom that did not contribute to the expenses of the county of Chester, through means of the river Weaver tolls upon salt. He could not say precisely what the amount of the tax was, but he hoped the llouse would grant him the Committee for which he asked, to ascertain the amount.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. T. EGERTON opposed the amendment. He said that the taxes oa the river Weaver were less than the taxes upon any navigable river, canal, or railroad in the kingdom. Within the last two years they bad spent be tween 200,0001. and 300,000/. on the navigation of the river, and the greatest facilities were sflorded by it to com merce at the smallest possible expense. Mr. HUME thought the object his Honourable Friend, who had moved the amendment, bad in view, ought to be supported, and as the present was a national object, he believed it to be the duty of her Mjesty's nisters to interfere. _ _ . Mr. HINDLE Y said the public had a right to expect the House would make a diminution in the amount of toll, and if the Hon. Member for Wolverhan - pton failed in his amendment, it was his intentiwi to move the introduction of a clause that the toll be reduced from I2d. to 101. per ton. Mr. J. JERVIS had given notice of a clause for re modelling the constitution of the trustees, but as notice bad not been left at the Private Bill office, he understood he would not be allowed to propose the clause. He hoped therefore the Honourable Baronet opposite would con sent to the postponement of the Bill, in order that he might have an opportunity of complying with the Standing Orders, and proposing this clause regularly after due notice. He understcod from the gesture of the lion. Baronet that that course would not be consented to, and therefore he (Mr. Jersie) would move that the debate be adjourned, for he was determined to oppose its passing that evening, even if he stopped in the House till that time to-morrow. Mr. WILBRAHAM seconded the motion for adjourn ment. Sir P. EGERTON was surprised that a gentleman, a member of the legal profession, was not acquainted with the Standing Orders of the House, and thought he had adopted a most extraordinary course of proceeding. Ho should decidedly oppose the motion for adjournment. Mr. HOBHOUSE thought this one of the greatest breaches of trust ever committed. He should not have troub'ed the House but that he had served on a Committee on the Bill and examined all the evidence, and came to the conclusion that this Bill ought not to pass. When it appeared that 19-20ths of the dues of the river duty was paid by the salt proprietors, it behoved the Com mittee to give this subject the deepest attention. He did not say the trustees had totally neglected their duty; but be did say that the navigation of the river might be greatly improved by making ship-canals and otherwise, and be thought the surplus funds sheltie' be a pplied for such purposes.—( Hear, hear.) He, therefore, bad come down determined to oppose the Bill, and support the amendment of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton ; but he thought it would be far better the debate should be adjourned than brought to a precipitate conclusion.— (" Hear, hear," " Divide, divide.") Mr. T. DUNCOMBE would put it to the Hon. Ba ronet the Member for North Cheshire, whether it was worth while to enter into a contest in which those oppos ing him etuld not yield, when all that was asked was an adjournment of the debate till Monday ? Under the cira cumstances of the case ho thought the request was rea sonable. Mr. HINDLEY wished to put it to the Hon. Baronet whether it would not be better to take the division upon the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, and then adjourn the debate till Monday? Mr. T. EG E RTON agreed that the division would be better taken on the third reading, and then the question of adjournment might be considered. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. The House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment Against it M. jority against the adjournment —54 Mr. JERVIS then moved that the House do adjourn. His object in making that motion was not to offer a factious opposition to the Bill, but to have an oppor tunity of introducing the clauses of which he had given notice. Mr. TATTON EGERTON opposed the motion. There were two ways or defeating a Bill—( Hear) —'he one an open and the other an underhand one ; and he a ould leave it to the House which it was the Hon. Meraner was following on that occasion. The House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment of the H0u5e....... 74 Against it 275 Mljority against the adjournment —2ol On our re-admission to the gallery we found Sir GEORGE GREY on his legs, suggesting that the third reading of the Bill should be permitted to take place, and that on the question that the 13111 do pass, further proceedings should be postponed in order to give his Hon. Friend an opportunity of bringing up his clauses. Lord STANLEY concurred in the suggestion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He was sure his lion. Friend would be the last person in the world to throw technical difficulties in the way of the Hon. Gentleman. He un derstood that the clauses were already prepared; the chief difficulty was that duo notice had not been given for that purpose at the Privsle Dill Office, Now, if the Bill were read a third time to-night, and the Hon. Gentleman were Ibis evening to giee his notices at the Private Bill Office, he could bring up his clauses on Monday, on the motion that the Bill do pass; he should undertake to say that he should be secured against any technical difficulties; at the same time the Hen. Gentleman must be aware that at the present advanced period of the Session, it was desirable his clauses should be considered at the earliest possible period. Mr. WILBRAHAM said the elapse he held in his hand did riot interfere with the spirit of the Bill at all. After a few words from Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. J. JERVIS had not understood there was any dis position on the other side to meet hire in a fair spirit. All he wanted was to have the clasise fairly discussed. He had no desire to throw any impediment in the way of the third reading, and therefore he would withdraw his amendment, upon the understanding that the Bill would not be pasted without a discussion upon the clauses he intended to pre pose. Mr. THORNELY begged to state that be should per severe with his amendment. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, No division took place. After some time the gallery was re-opened, and we found Mr. JERVIS, in a very excited tone, complaining of a Noble Lord dealing in insinuations as to matters which be had not the courage to state openly. Mr. Flume and Lord -Castlereagh rose together amidst loud cries of " Chair, choir." The SPE AKER said the Noble Lord had not made use of the expression in the sense which the Hon. and Learned Member seemed to u nderstand it. If he had so used it it would have been his duty to have called him tc order. The Home would bear with him when he said that he was most careful to allow no personal allusions to pass unnoticed.—(Cheers.) Mr. HUM E—lt was always painful to him to differ from the Chair ' • but, as far as expressions could bear a meaning, the Noble Lord most certainly attributed motives to the Hon: end Learned Member for Chester, and charged him with having made a speech in order to gain time. By the rules of the House no Member was warranted in doing so, and it was the dots of the Speaker to prevent it. Lord CASTLER EA G H—l do not hesitate for a single moment to say that I believe, from a want of words to ex press my meaning in a proper manner, I may have used words which might he interpreted as they have been by the Hon. and Learned Member. But I will further say that even if such were the case, that was no ground of justification to him in making use of an expression whiclil caned - noticg in this House, but wili4ll any elsewhere