The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-06 00:00:00

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Me Bones (whi c h are no Lottery T i c k ets) can b e cas h e d a t every Banker's connected with Germany in every mercantile place in the world. ROYAL URREY TEATRE. Continu a l overflows. Im S mense success Haine's Spectacle, "Jane l of the H a t c h et. " The grand Ta bl eaux d' act i on , and b P °si ng military e vo l u ti ons o f 100 F ema l e W arr io r s, have een Witnessed by upwards of 35,000 persons with astonish adrneet,ientt. and deli g ht. Th e awfu l su bli m i ty o f t h e last scene, mg the Si ege o f B eauvo i s, excee d s every thing hitherto attempted. THIS EVENING, AUG. 6. Will be acted a Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled splen dour, entitled JANE OF THE HATCHET. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, and One Hundred Female Warriors. After isLich, a Drama of peculiar interest, called FIFTEEN YEARS OF A DRUNKARD'S LIFE. DON To conclud e a C om i c Pi ece , ca ll e d PEDRO THE CRUEL AND MANUEL THE MAULE took a part, the deb.ife, ro- t h e Mr. HUME, was adjourned till nib.), to all,w rr gular business before the House to proceed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then moved the Order of the Day for the further consideration of the Report on the Chancery Bill, and expressed his regret that the Hon. Member for Ripon should threaten to take advan tage of the forms of the House to defeat it. Mr. PEra- BERTON drew a frightful but true picture of the unfortunate situation of poor suitors in the Court of Chancery, whom he maintained had not even the re motest chance of ever obtaining justice. Out of 1,700 causes filed in one year, not more than 300 deci sions could be obtained, and claimants for less than 1,0001. had no chance of ever been heard at all. He thought the LORD CHANCELLOR deserved great praise for his Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL eulogised the speech of Mr. PEMBERTON—declared himself opposed to having a po litical Judge at the head of the Court of Chancery— and promised to re-introduce the Bin early in the next Session should it fail in this. Mr. HUME and Mr. LYNCH expressed themselves well satisfied with the speeeli of the Noble Lord ; the House went into Committee on the Bill, when all the clauses were adopted. and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time this day. After the ether Orders of the Day were disposed of the House rose at a Quarter•past Eleven o'Clock. The Standard of Tuesday made a formal apo logy to its readers for publishing so characteristic a document as the Protest of the Right Rev. Father in God HENRY Lord Bishop of EXETER against the passing of the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill without the respectful accompaniment of an editorial comment. The readers of The Sun are not less entitled to our respectful consideration. We too have been so wanting in deferential regard to the dignity of the Mitre as to allow the Lordly Prelate to appear as a Parliamentary 4 ‘ dissentient," with out going before him in the character of trumpeter of Mother Church. We confess our error ; and, after the example of our Apostolical Contemporary, propose, as an act of heartfelt contrition, to re-in troduce the Episcopal Protest to the notice of the public. And to prevent, as far as we can, the sin of hastily glancing over it on the part of the pro fane, who allow themselves no time to dwell upon, and to extract the rich marrow of ecclesiastical wis dom out of the Bishop's charges and Parliamentary Protests, we, moreover, propose to introduce each of the Right Rev. Prelate's reasons separately, accompanying each with such reflections as it may suggest to us. We begin with the first : I. Because no sufficient proofs of delinquency or rols conduct were adduced against the municipal corporations of Ireland, to justify so sweeping a measure of destruction, in contempt of the sacredness of ancient charters, and in defiance of those principles which, till within the last few years, were wont to distinguish the legislation of the British Parliament, and especially of this House. Here the question suggests itself, What proof of delinquency would a Tory Prelate deem sufficient to justify the destruction of an Irish Orange Cor poration ? Treason is out of the question, for there are few Irish corporations which have not been implicated in the Orange plot of the King of HANOVER, made familiar to the country by the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons, of which the Hon. Member for Kilkenny was Chairman ; and yet we have never heard that any member of the Right Reverend Bench denounced them as the worse Protestants or corporators for the share they had in that infamous combination against the laws, the Constitution, and the reigning Sovereign of these realms. The misappropriation of the corporate revenues is likewise out of the question, for the Irish corporations are notorious for the scandalous infamy of their jobs. The per secution of Catholics, and their exclusion from the rights of citizenship, cannot be pleaded as delin quencies, for Bishop PHIL POTTS classes these acts among the corporate virtues. If, then, the being nests of traitors, peculators, and civil and religious persecutors be not criminal, and call not for the in terference of such a venerator of hoary mischief as the House of Lords, in the name of the Lord Bishop of EXETER . S pastoral crozier, what is it that episcopally constitutes a corporate delinquency in Ireland ? But we must proceed : 11. Because, in the admitted absence of such proofs of delinquency, the plea on which the. measure was mainly rested, the exclusive character of the existing corporations, did in effect establish the fidelity of those bodies to the one great end for which they were all alike created, the maintenance of the British in terest in Ireland ; the more ancient corporations having been founded as fortresses and fastnesses to protect that interest against the rebellious attempts of the na tive Irish, and of the descendants of the earliest English settlers ; the more modern combining with this great com mon object, the still greater and more sacred purpose of maintaining the cause of true religion against the unceas ing efforts of the Papists to re-establish the domination of their own priesthood in its grossest and most revolting form. COI3LER ~...1 0 YAL SURREY ZO O L OGICAL GAR DENS . ot_.IXENTH WEEK, and CONTINUED BRILLIANT SUCCESS of BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA, With its novel and eff e cti ve I n t ro d uc ti ons ! ! GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. Progravie of the Concert for August 3d, 4th, and 6th. FIRST PART. „ Overt ures —E gmont (fi rst t i me ) , an d t h e D ragon Fi g h t . Petersburgh (first time.) Fantasia from Obe- I.". Waltz—Die Berggeister (first public performance), Me lege Des Dances, Pas des Nations (from Le Corsair) intro. lacing the T yro li enne , Bolero Quadrille, and Tarantella. Pas R edouble (MS.) , SECOND PART. GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, Peethoven, with new effects and an augmented Rand. Cavatina e Coro, Casta Diva, from Norma (first time this sea -3")• Musard's New Quadrille—La Chasse (first time in Eng land)., Overture—Guillauma Tell. Gallop — Benyowsky. p n • e vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Breaking up of the Ice.-=Melting of the Snows— Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday next. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. _Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock. Concert commences at Six. . . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 50 minutes after 8. 1 Evening 24 minutes after P. 'ihe Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN com- menced at 10 minutes after Three. "srer. ,•• - ' • Zfn .111.1. Corporations, then, are badges of Ireland's slavery—the fetters by which the limbs of a con quered people were retained in bondage ! Every corporation was a fortress erected in a hostile country to overawe, coerce, insult, and enslave the ___......____ 1 unhappy natives . I c ‘ o .V i., i l t ii h E lv L hat ai a id tra th n e spo c rt at o h f o d li e e l s t. o ; ane Commerce Navigation Bill, the Roscommon I will DANIEL_ . Townßill Lands Bill, and the Marriage Act Amendment Ireland s.eizel upo H n o t w his th fi e r l e i b e r a a r n t d of de l fi ib n e i r t a io l, n p o a f tr l i r o i t s i h e "vvere read a third time last night by the Lords, and corporations laas se d„ ~., L__n Societiestne Canada Clergy Reserves Bill, and the oa Bill • f the old crew of corporators, as it dwells Ireland, will dilate with indignant scorn—with de rev a. were reported, and ordered to be testation o third time this day. v: i ey,e,al Bills, including the New South Wales and upon this paragragh of the episcopal protest I Many and grievous were the previous complaints against gill, .-u,liellien's Land Bill, the Slave Trade Treaties Irish corporations, but it was reserved for the Lord Companies Bill of Ireland Bill, the Joint Stock Banking „,. , of r., e i b: ,P les Bill, and several others, for the titles of thsnop r,RETER—the DI HALE of the Anglican an(je we l: , :e refer to our report, went through Committee, Church—to describe them as the bulwark o i ose of re ordered to be reported this day. At the bondage, and the corner-stone of an alien_ creed im dis,,o_ a Session their Lordships are as expeditious in posed by tyranny upon conscience. Proceed we a,J!_mg of Bills in arrear as old Lord ELDON was in to the next article : i n ag Partridges at 80. They enumerate their even- 111. Because, if it be true that the continuance of bo score, 10 hours of Bills dispatched by the dozen or the dies in •exclusively Protestant be no longer practice f peculiar fa. con sistent with the policy which seeks to deal with all distinc pell:erdd MORPETH, on the part of the Commons, ap- tions of religious faith as equally unworthy of peculiar onlend at the Bar, and requested a conference on the your in the political institutions of the empire, common o n tl , i nents of the Commons upon those of the Lords sense and ccmmon justice alike point out tbe c o o n se y proper des a ,„__"? Irish Corporation Bill. The conference was course to be pursued—the simple abolition of h taken gree d, to, the amendments ordered to be printed, and m into consideration this day. when the cause for which they were created is supposed to have ceased. - , ar. BER N tile H o AL, accompanied by other Members of So, then, the first reason happens to be Gilles Bill, of Commons, brought up the Highway for here the candid Bishop discovers that t a he fic l ti r o is n h; i the Birmingham Administration of Justice Corporation Bill is not a " sweeping measure o 'Court s ill Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, the Admiralty destruction," and affects surprise that it is the Stock in Trade Rating Bill, and the not one. But in appealing to the dictates of B ill. with amendments, to which their Lordships 413 g e reed , on common sense and common justice, the Reverend theLojed. the motion of the E l of S _ar. -HAFTESBURY. MELBOURNE then brought up the Report of Prelate unfortunately overlooks both. Common ° iect. Committee on the Ecclesiastical Duties and sense does not dictate that the . power abused by a Revenuesen taken Bill, which was ordered to be printed and handful of bigoted sectaries, should not be en -1347,nn into consideration this day. Their Lordships trusted to the whole community without religious ven ",' t!tnothing more to do, and the House being incon- distinction, but the very reverse. The power which i tg i ly hot for an assembly which represents only ", and can, therefore, afford to " bide its time," ad- the few abuse for their own profit, or to gratify :I " i r u ne . d . at Seven o'clock till this day. their bad passions, common sense ought to tell Pour o'Cllloockit.pETH the Commons, the SPEAKER took the Chair at Bishop, would be judiciously, impartially, even ald beneficiallyexercised by the many. A nation n_ Lord . is not to be deprived of its liberties, because it is brought up the Report of the Select rirnunttee on the Lords' amendments to the Irish found requisite to dismantle what the Bishop had °0 poration Bill, and it was ordered that his Lordship himself as described the " fortresses of foreign ß do . - I : _old desire a conference with the Lords. The result minion and religious intolerance. \'‘ hen the Bri gs above. fish Legislature disfranchised Old Sarutn, no Bishop eq _ . ..._ ve. 1 e ,,i. 0 r . WAKLEY presented several petitions, for the cb " t which we refer to our repent had the hardihood to appeal to common sense against extending the elective franchise to Man waCla : p th o e . motion of Lord Jonie . RUSSELL a Committee inted to examine the Lords' Journals and re sPo,_rte,4 at their Lordships had done with respect to the c:n . cster and the Metropolitan boroughs. Again— IV. Because the adoption of a measure, which is ad- Lo_k-in-Trade Bill itted by all to insure the establishment of bodies of Ro- Kir. T. DUNCOMBE, among other petitions, presented man Catholics equally exclusive as those which they are one for the made to supersede, is not only contrary to common sense rate release of Jour; THOROGOOD, th e Church- and common justice, but also to the spirit of most so rate martyr ,the There was no Sir H. Nous present to lemn promises and engagements repeatedly made by those re- Church, , prayer of the petition for the sake of Mother who advised, and ultimately carried, the Act ler Jibe re -4,,,ury,,h0 who is in this instance a loser by persecution, lief of her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in . 1829. ~I " _' 1 1_ ought to anathematise the booby Churchwar- The leaders in that great and perilous experiment 'cl,i ii lt of Chelmsford. pledged themselves to propose to Parliament the re painted PARKE R ;PARKER, as Reporter of the Committee aP-cnt of the statutes which were then repealed, or examine the Lord,' Journals about the the er.aetm adoption of still more stringent restraints, if the par 4--u,slieign..of Stock-in -Trade Bill, appeared at the Bar ties: a were freed from the restrictions before imposed, should prove (as they notoriously have proved) them re7d t informed the House that the Bill bad been selves unworthy of the confidence then reposed in them, re a d It WI F! by their Lo r d s hips, and ordered to be :1 , 1 01 should renew their attempts against the Protestant Of the Ititurd time in six months. When the merriment Church in IrelAnd. If any unhappy concurrence of eir posednt ,n,reat,ei perfidious g teatio ouse, on receiving this important piece of info:- cumstances has prevented the literal redemption of that subsided, Lord J. RUSSELL stated that he pro- pledge, yet the least and lowest obligation , which h it can to bring in another Bill to the same effect, which just 1 y be understoodirn resistance to new a s; propositiont e d utyo f f o a r ho pedl: v. would pass this session. After a few words in resolutesn and e r power . of so bitter, so unrelenting, and so ler t ; vioasf given n m t e o a b su ri r n e g from in t h t e h B e ill.. ATTORNEY-GENERAL -rOX MAULE stated an em .my. country will hardly believe, even on the . r., In answer to question from Mr. AGLIONBY, Mr. o f the the G Committee on the hand-loom w avers, overntnent would dee:de ono no cni before rs :ed that worthyCatholtes of Ireland have shown themselves un of the liberties conceded to them by the seeing it. On Lord J. RussELL moving the third rea ling of the afforded Emancipation Bill. On the contrary, they have a tailsce o o f n w t..li i : Ecclesiastical' the nation an example of loyalty, of peace an animated debate took able, and of orderly conduct, under the most trying oiceaswelerortsfefJßo'ni's; THCROGoOD ; for the de- • tances) 13-- JOHN Ryes r s E t il ouri‘i r. opt. err.p a N , : r . O l . v e si\pierakei,rs those Were Lord conscientious grounds advocated their .10',It.'s'NeEcyll.GBEE,NENRIr;LEASTii0Pe, Dr. Nie . t ' ioe - e, the.,A,T.- c:rcums , and Lerd G. SomeeseT. .I. he right to a full share in all the civil . privileges of British subjects. As to the , promises made by some Joul was finally passed. After some other Bills were disposed of . , who on co b .. ' i Parliementary leaders in 1829, they are to be classed taoteeY b ~_,:, es contained in the petition of Mr. F l\ e ir e . e i o ‘ t, G :s ' allegatio nought forward his motion to inquire into the kiss the P • Rev. Prelate when ready to remier s feet with the stole episcopart pronounced by the Right "‘-; NNOR, and also what had been the . r e as insincere as the Bishop Prisoners in the treat inint of „,h, made them we who recommended him the vacant mitre. Those goals of York, Wakefield, Northaller- • _ onourable Gentleman supported his mo -11,1 nil Beverley confined for pOliti ea l 0 ff,,,,, e5. lin affecting unwillingness to grasp the pastoral lion %,,YiliM_,_, DuNcomee. After an interesting debate, in . b _ .. r b . y _an able speech, and it was seconded sensible that such prom', i crozier; but, whether or.sneos,ctohueldßilalloitopnoiswpebrefeefutliv. It is new impossible to ,„_ : ', ll _ besides the Hon. Mover and Seconder or t , firellie!lbtyheanlyF.mtc'eipriamitiOnt.Act ; and it . behoves . the " iv uon, Lord J. PosiELL, Mr. WAKLEY, and Mr. Fox Bi l - h )p of EXETER, and those who with him think LONDON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1840. ILat Pi%),, aar..tsw tc.7.nr - 1 , 01-md without State bolstering, to rt,flect vil - ether an ,, tbing is to be gained by foul-mouthed abuse of the religion of nine-tenths of the people of Ireland. We now pro ceed to the next reason : _ . V. Because, although it was declared by high authority, on the second reading of the Bill, that it would be unworthy of finally passing into a law unless such amendments were introduced as should give security against the establishment of other bodies equally exclusive with those which arc abo lished, yet the amendments actually made not only give no such security, but do not even attempt nor profess to give it, their only object being to mitigate the ackr.ow ledged mischiefs of the measure, and in same trifling de gree to limit the power with which it arms the Popish de mocracy of the cities and towns in Ireland to tyrannise over the Protestant and more opulent classes of inhabi tants, and to extort from them funds for the more speedy and effectual execution of their own unhallowed designs. The Right Rev. Prelate had expected, it ap pears, that the Legislature would have neutralized its own work, and humbugged the people of Ireland, by substituting one class of cor ruptionists for another. He is therefore angry at finding that the good has not been counter balanced by some fresh evil. The Jesuits were never cleverer at a political juggle than the Protes tant Lord Bishop of EXETER. " Did you not promise to humbug the Papists," indignantly asks the Right Rev. Prelate, " by the organization of an anti-Papist fraternity quite as exclusive as the old corporations ? And are you not ashamed not to have fulfilled such a promise ?" Bravo, HENRY EXETER by the grace of GOD ! You, at least, are a true son of old Mother Church I Well, now for another reason : VI. Because there is strong reason to believe that the final passing of the measure was the result rather of con siderations of party convenience, than of any large and liberal views of national policy— none of those who had it in their power to decide on the ultimate fate of the Bill venturing to pronounce it a mea sure either just or safe in itself, or worthy of favour on any other account than that it put an end to a question which could no longer remain unsettled, with out dividing public men, who, from the purest motives, wish to continue to act together. Thus were the grayest interests of the country forgotten in personal considera tions—the end was sacrificed to the means; and the only plea which can justify the combination of statesmen, the more effectual assertion and maintenance of a great com mon principle, was here openly abandoned. So the only pretence made for passing the Bill by the Government was the impossibility of leaving the question unsettled, consistently with a due re gard to the peace of the country ? Well, we must confess that we require no stronger reason ; and that we think any Government daring to oppose a measure so recommended, deserving of quarters in Bedlam. It was enough that Ireland unanimously demanded the Bill, to justify any Government in passinu it. Would the Bishop of EXETER , a pr iest and a c 'Christian, prefer spilling the blood of the Irish people, to the permitting them to exercise a particular form of corporate government, similar to that established for centuries in Great Britain ? And if he would not, what more commendable than the conduct of the Ministry ? But let us hear the Bishop : VII. Because the House of Lords having, since the passing of the Act for the Reform of the Commons House of Parliament, been practically deprived of what was wont to iv deemed its constitutional share of control over the exectt• tive power of the Crown, was yet enabled, till the present disastrous Session, to retain, and to assert, its legislative in dependence ; and, by the wise and efficient exercise of its just privilege, or rather of its highest duty, in the correction or rejection of bad Bills, had continued to earn and to enjoy the grateful veneration of the English people. That lofty position it has, in this instance, voluntarily surren dered; and has thus, by its own act, gone far towards realising the prophetic declaration of Sir William Black stone, that the Constitution of England would be destroyed, and could only be destroyed, by one of the three branches of the Legislature losing its constitutional weight, and sub mitting to the domination of the other two. So, then, the poor Irish were to be left with out a Corporation Bill, to maintain the dignity of the House of Peers I Verily the Bishop beats the quondam Premier in regard for the privileges of his " order." But we would not deprive the Peers of any solace they may derive from this specimen of ecclesiastical flummery. We have now arrived at the last reason : VIII. Lastly, and above all, because by this wilful 4nd deliberate abandonment of the cause of true religion, and of the security of the Church in Ireland, to which the fun damental laws of the Constitution, the act of Union, the oath of our Sovereign, and all the most sacred duties of subjects to their ruler, and of men to their Maker, alike bind us, we have provoked the justice of Almighty God, and have given too much reason to apprehend the visitation of Divine vengeance for thin presumptuous act of national disobedience. Our rulers are in a pretty pickle. Here we have the QUEEN, the Government, Parliament, and we know not who all besides, plunged head over ears in the guilt of perjury ; and all just objects of the Divine vengeance 1 This is truly lamentable ; and we expect to hear that the Bishop of EXETER has put on sackcloth and ashes, has sold his carriage, has got rid of his palace and all his worldly posses sions, to expiate in his own person the sins of a blind and stiff-necked generation. What a miserable figure Dr. LusHINGToN has made in the matter of the Ecclesiastical Courts 13111 I This Learned Civilian pretends to say that he had no other course to pursue than to issue a writ for the imprisonment of JOHN THOROGOOD, because he neglected to appear in his Court when cited ; and that, having thus immured him in a gaol, he had no power to set him at liberty until he had purged his " contumacy," by the payment of Church-rate and costs, and by taking an oath that he would in future give canonical obedience to his Right Reverend Diocesan. According to this doctrine it is the duty of an Ecclesiastical Judge to incarcerate fur life every conscientious Dissenter who may happen to be declared contumacious by ecclesiastical authority ; for what Dissenter could take such an oath as that above-mentioned ? The Learned Gentleman next pretends that a Bill to enable him to set TEIOROGOOD at liberty is abso lutely indispensable, if he does not fulfil the above conditions, and accordingly he earwigs Lord JOHN RUSSELL to introduce such a Bill. This is all a piece of shallow trickery. The Learned Doctor wants a loop-hole to creep through. Were he to release poorTir OROGOOD now, he is well aware that he could offer no excuse to the public for not having done so sooner. It must, to save his fame, be made to appear that he could not have acted otherwise than he did, and that an alte ration must be made in the law, for which he does not forget to take credit, before the liberation of THOROGOOD can take place without a plenary submission on his part, and a complete prostration of all his principles before the Dagon of Episcopacy. Now, if this be so, how happens it that, first in the case of Mr. Cimps, of Bungay,,and, again, in that of Mr. BAINES, of Leicester, no such course as this, which is represented by Dr. Lusll- INGTON as imperative on him, was deemednecessary? Mr. CIIILDS was cited in the Ecclesiastical Court for refusing to pay a Church-rate of 17s. 6d., did not appear, and was committed for contempt to a felon's gaol. Did he purge his contumacy ? No, some persons, without his knowledge, paid the money, and he was liberated instanter. There was not a whisper uttered about his swearing canonical obedience to the Bishop of NORWICH. So, also, in the case. of Mr. BAINES. He also refused to ap pear a rrH toanceelesoiaßsotiGeaolocii) persecution, tation;but,in he steadof un dergoing was not imprisoned at all. Proceedings were taken against his property, but his person has not been touched up to the present moment. Are there, then, two systems of ecclesiastical procedure, either of which the Judges may adopt at pleasure ? It would ap pear there are ; and that the Learned Member for the Tower Hamlets prefers that which most strik ingly displays the inclination and the power of the Church to trample Dissenters under its hoofs. The great absurdity which the people of Great Britain are called upon to swallow in this case, is this, that a Court may commit for con t empt for tc i t o i s t T : 1 , o re lease obedience , mark, it is declared that it is not for th e non - pa y: me t rate te t ho l n i oc e nueot tGto a ohe paying oora Bishop. i gimprisoned--but of is priolcosts,im:lolibinsce,udtya7b f s o a r ni‘ u(iti thethe A ca u sweat enirtti that has shown, is gross nonsense, or rather sheer humbug. Every Court has the discretiona r y power of releasing those whom it has the power of im prisoning for contempt, when it thinks that suffi cient punishtnent has been suffered. And surely the man, or the Judge, must have a heart of steel, as well as a forehead of brass, who ca n say t h at twenty months' imprisonment, in a damp an d un wholesome dungeon, is not sufficient atonement for not appearing to a citation for a Church-rat e of ss, 6d. The Learned Gentleman does not think it right that Judges should have the power o f re l easing contumacious persons, unless on the payment of costs. Such a power woulg be too great to be en trusted to a frail mortal, when it might have the ef fect of restoring a poor assenier to liberty and to his family; but nevertheless, the Judge of the Con- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1840. siitory Cowl does not think he assumes too much discretionary power when, in all cases that come to a decision before him, he gives or withholds costs just as he pleases. Wonderful self-distrust ! What an admirable harmony there appears to exist between this Learned p erson an d the persecu tors of JOHN THOROG OOD at Ch e l ms f or d I The m oment these worthi es , w i t h t h e R ev . R ec t or MILDMAY at their head, heard that there was a chance of their victim escaping from their fangs, what do they do but ca ll a meet i ng, at w hi c h th e y pass a resolution eulogising themselves for the part they have acted towards THOROGOOD, and de claring their determination not to be parties to his liberation until he shall have paid the rate and costs to the uttermost farthing, be cause by this course they will best consult the interest of the Church established by law Mr. DUNCOMBE, to whom the Dissenters owe a deep debt of gratitude, seeing the drift of this pro ceedingommediately gives notice of an amend ment to be introduced into the Bill before the House, to the effect that the consent of the prose cuting party should not b e held necessary to t h e liberation of the imp r i sone d , w h en up starts t h e Learned Civilian with his proviso that, in Church rate cases, rate and costs must be paid into Court before liberation takes place. Dr. LUSHING TON has feathered his nest, and can have in future no fear of a humbugged constituency before his eyes. The Chelmsford Resolutionists are, we think, hardly entitled to conclude, as they so complacently do, that their continued persecution of JOHN THOROGOOD will promote the good of the Church. There is something for their consideration in the fact that, when these atrocious proceedings were commenced, there were in the Hundred of Chelms ford twenty-nine Dissenting places of worship, and that now there are forty-one I If this fact does not open the eyes of Churchmen to the effects of per secution, they must be blind indeed. Since the above was mitten, matters have taken a turn likely to defeat the kind intentions of Dr. lA/sin/4uTux and his Chelmsford friends towards THOROGOOD. A proviso, it will be seen by our Parliamentary Report, was last night introduced into the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, on the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to. the effect than when a Church-rate recusant shall have suffered twelve months' imprisonment for non-payment of a rate under five pounds, the Judge shall have the power of discharging him without the consent of the pro secuting party. There was a strong display of sympathy with the Chelmsford persecutors, on the part of some of the Tory Members, but they did not venture to oppose Lord JOHN RUS SELL'S amendment. We give them no credit for their forbearance. They dare not bite though they cannot help showing their teeth. The Chelmsford poll on the question whether THOROGOOD is to be released or imprisoned for life has been carried in favour of perpetual imprisonment by a majority of thirty-eight T. Happily the matter will not now be at ,their merciful disposal. The Madrid Papers received are of the 28th ult. Some excitement prevailed in that capital, owing to the apparent indecision of the new C a bi net , w hi c h seemed not to know in what directioh to move. This revived the hopes of the Camarilla, the mem bers of which were circulating all kinds of libels against ESPARTERO, in the hope of rendering him less popular with the people, and so effecting the downfall of the Liberal party. On Tuesday his Majesty the King of HOL LAND opened in person the Extraordinary Session of the States General. His Majesty was accom panied by his Royal Highness the Prince of ORANGE and the great officers of State. The following is a copy of the Royal Speech : Igerteoatoppelenatshuirse inseei ng NOBLE y 0 N aroundn M t o ni n e T , v an L d on i n n s. b — ein l g f eaeb l ex traordinary session in person. The fundamental law of the Kingdom has judiciously ordered that no modifications nor additions shall be made to it till Efter they have been declared by a law to be ne cessary, and clearly stated and expressed ; they shall then be examined and confirmed by the Legislature, the Second Chamber of the States-General being convoked for that purpose, with double the usual number of members. The laws of the 13th and 21st of June last contains such a decla ration, and you are now met to take them into consideration. In conformity with the fundamental law the proposed changes and additions are inserted, word for word, in so many projects of law, which I have caused to be drawn up, and will shortly communicate to you. Being summoned then to judge whether that which in the first instance has been thought, after mature delibera- tion to be necessary and useful, 'is really calculated to prc mote the welfare of the Kingdom, I beg Almighty God to give his blessing on your labours. His Majesty and the Prince then retired and the Assem bly broke up. The moderation with which the English Jour nals have generally discussed the Oriental question begins to produce a good effect in Paris. Our French Contemporaries of Tuesday have the good grace to seem ashamed of the violent language in which they previously indulged towards the Go vernment and people of thi s country. The Minis nowhonour- terial Papers d o i l r a e t ct t e h d ey pe n r e s ‘ o ,e n r a Ipretendagainst i, Lord r h d a that all Al, m their Eß s ire To N wLs ing the political jugglery moment thought of uprightconfound harmony aiid between douahh this explanation to be captious we could fora ly ti o et f t ihvlea h i etitws:vhsoLeoioNr countries,tdoi sibeh Noble e p ß i,i w ot wi i rs t di h hl 1 the people.thhimo though were wae V rcee e pw h te a v t e li explanation as satisfactory ; the torestore tell our French Contemporaries that they are en tirely Noble Foreign Secretary w i t with i the vi emistakenviews in of supposingthe our object is to calm the irritation generalabroad, the y not in perfect accordance people of this country. But sooner to effect this we apology which the are willing to accept any f b o a r s h a a s y s i u n m g ed so he fo r olishl the public mind is in nc i Journalists may offe r French Journalists of repose, - and reason lost their temper. When s hall o h le ave ot n h o er di s ff i irlty in satisfying our neighbours empire, w e on i i the Channel that nothing is farther from the inten tioneof of England than to abandon the French alli ance—an alliance essential to the progress of civili zation throughout - the world. On a little reflection France will herself see, if she be sincere in de siting to maintain such alliance , that the con vention agreed to b• % the Four Powers for the pacification of the East, in no respect militates against the existence of the most cordial friendship between the two countries. It give s ,, nothing to the Porte which F rance did not ' agree to give by her note of the 15th of July ; and it pro poses no measure against MEHEMET A LI incon sistent with the consideration due even to the legi timate ally of a friendly power. No threat is held out of depriving MEIIEMT E ALI under an cir cumstances of the Pachalr . e of Egypt ; and we ap peal to the Journal d whether it es Debuts be not we well known in France, and in fact the e • onviction of every statesman in that country, that who pos sesses the Sovereignty of Syria is virtually ever master of the Ottoman Emp ire, of whi ch France is pled g ed to maintain the integ rit y . In accepting the Convention, as we before stated, England had only to choose betwe en being* a party to the pacification of the East or leavin g the whole question to the adj ustment of Russi a. We might have declined to i nterfere in the dispute,' as France sought to do, but we could not prevent Russia from sending an army to protect Constantinople, and from garrisoning the frontier tow ns of Turkey, under the pretext of assisting her ally, the S ULTAN, against the PAC HA. Russia would have told us that she had baled herself by treaties to maintain the independence and the integrity of the Ottoman t nothing would empire, and that prevent her from fulfilling so solemn an engag ement. To prevent her we must have gone to war, l • eavine the S ULTAN to be sacrificed ; and t, a thus we should embroil all Europe in a quarrel e h'l ffeetually avoid e d by w h w a s only to li e e such a convention as that Weed to by the Four Powers. Now Russia can take no step without the concur rence of the other Powers, who equ a ll y f the her the protecto rate o Porte, and thus render designs upon abortive all her Constantinople. We really feel half inclined to adopt the opinion expressed by the Moniteur Belge u pon this question. We should not be surprised to learn ti F 'ranee has offered hers elf as mediator between 'a tl t le Four Great Powers and the Viceroy, and that her me diation has bean accepted. Such a posi • tion would gratify the self-love of the French nation, and .. afford M. T lIIERS a ready j u stificationof the mea sures which he has ado p ted for increasing the army and navy. A s to the rumours about France seeking u ltimately to secure for , nerself the possession of Egypt, they are unworthy of the slightest notice. France has alread y more Afri • can business on her hands than she can well manage. Her Aleeri will suffice e. ne conquests for the employ- , ur p: 0 •; Nood and treasure at her dis- posal. M. TRIERS and M. GUIZOT are to hold a conference with the KING at the Chateau of Eu, in Normandy, where the Royal Family propose to spend some weeks. Of general news we find very little in the Paris journals of Tuesday. A letter from Marseilles, of the 31st ult., states that a panic took possession of the merchants of that town, when it was ru • mowed that a war was probable between France and England. Their horror of a British blockade appeared greater than that of the plague itself. The King leaves Paris to-morrow for the Chateau of Eu. The President of the Council will leave Paris on Thursday. He is to stay only three days at Eu, be cause the serious state of affairs does not allow him to be longer absent from Paris. The President of the Council is to return to Eu before the King leaves that place. The Madrid Journals of the 28th, %bleb we have just received, inform us, that on the 29th, in the evening, seve ral numbers of the Correo Nacional were burned - at the Puerto del Sol, which in giving an account of the events at Barcelona, had said that Espartero had struck one of the Alcades with his cane. _ . His Grace the Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Paris. —Le Constitutionnel. It is said that the Minister of Marine has just issued orders to the maritime Prefect at Brest, to reinforce the French station on the coast and the bank of Newfound land with a frigate and two large corvettes. It is said that these ships are, in case of need, to make our fishing vessels leave those seas, and direct their return to France. A letter from Berlin, of the 26th, says—" A French courier has brought positive information that the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, on their tour in Germany, will pay a visit to our Court." The harvest is over in the south of France. We are informed that the wheat will be abundant. The accounts from the other parts of France are, on the whole, very fa vourable.—Le Commerce. 130 URSE......PARIS, TUESDAY, AUG., 4. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll3 20 ... 113 70 ... 113 '2.0 ... 113 60 4 per Cents lO4 75 ... 414 75 PM 75 104 75 3 per Cents Bl 22 _. 81 60 ... 61 20 ... 81 50 :lank or trance 3275 ...3275 ...2250 ...3275 Laffitte Bank 5,0001. Sh 5200 ...5200 .4 195 :. 5115 teigian Bank 5 per Cents 31 er Cents ;panish Active 2514 ... 25% ... 2-1 N ... 25 Passive 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... 6 Portuguese 3 per Cents 2l ... 21 ... 21 ... 21 Nea; toll tan 99 80 . 100 10 ... 9t 80 ... WO 10 Roman lOl% ... 102 ... 111% ... 192 RAILWAY SHARES. it. Germain 625 ... 630 ... 625 ... 6'o Versailles, It. B 475 ... 490 ... 475 ... 49) L.B. Orleans . 490 ... 490 ... 490 ... 490 Strasburg to Bale 260 ... 365 ...:480 ... 365 From the German Papers just received we quote he following late and interesting intelligence : _ CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 15.—News has been received from the Black Sea, that the mountaineers of the Cauca sus had cut off the retreat of a Russian corps of several thousand men which was advancing alone through a nar row valley, and destroyed it. Whether this news, which at all events is exaggerated, will be confirmed, remains to be seen. NAPLES, JULY 26.—The news of the abolition of the Sulphur Monopoly has been received with great joy in Sicily. BERLIN, JULY 27.—The appointment of Councillor Eichhorn to the post of Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, which was received with great joy by the public, is by no means so certain as some Foreign Journals have stated. Still less can the great change in the Ministry, announced by the same Journals, in which the names of Prince Witt genstein, M. Von Rochon, and Count Stollberg, be con sidered as official. On the contrary, well-informed per sons do not believe any immediate change in the Ministry of the Interior. BELGIAN 1. UNDS—ISRussELs, A uo. 4. Actual Deist, per Ccnt. llothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ." .... 100 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 72 ...... Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Society of Commerce, 4N, per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. 9;% National Society. Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Aug. 4. AUSTRIAN F . UNDS.....VIENNA, JULY :7 Five per Cants. Mctalliques - For per Cents. Ol% Three par Cents. Bank Shares IMO ...Allgenteine Zeitung, Aug. I. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, AUG.BiII, ls. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares lBlO 18:0 Anylo-Russian Loan IC9IA ton Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se . ies lO4 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9B Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5l 50% Ditto - Polish Bondi New ticket Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% 75',4 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Coat.... lO2 1014 Spanish, New 3 per Cents. — EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. " A perfect panic svas occasioned in Paris on Wednesday by a report, that the ratification of the treaty of alliance by Prussia had been received. Numerous failures had occurred on the Bourse."— Times. THE CUSTOM HOUSE.—We have had occasion so often to blame the authorities who preside over this establishment for the slovenly and dilatory manner in which business has been conducted in some of the departments, that we feel great pleasure in stating that a new system in one r es p ec t h as b een a d opted. Formerly passengers arriving from Holland, Belgium, or France, were obliged to wait for hours to get some trifling article of luggage passed through the Custom house, and, after the most vexatious delay, were in ad dition called upon to pay a fee, for which the officers neither would nor could show any authority. This un-English way of doing business is properly abolished. Passengers now arriving by any steam-boats from foreign ports, have all their small luggage examined at once. Yesterday the Emerald steam-ship from Boulogne, arrived at the Custom-house at half past three, and in little more than half-an-hour the ves sel was cleared. A. year ago this would not have been done in three hours, and it is therefore gratifying to find that the Custom-house Commissioners have been aroused by the noise of paddle-wheels and steam-car riages to attend to their duty, and keep pace with public activity. The revenue does not suffer in the slightest degree. On the contrary, it must benefit by a change which is in unison with the spirit of the age, and which encourages that system of commercial enterprise and in dustry for which the English above all nations in the world are pre-eminent. SPlRlTS.—According to a return laid before the House of Commons, the entire quantity of home-made spirits in stock, on the 16th day of May, 1840, charge able with the additional duty of 4d. per gallon, was 6,362,912 gallons. The following are the proportions for the respective countries :—England, 55,432 ; Scot land, 783,483 ; and Ireland, 5,523,997 gallons. The addition thus made to the revenue will be about 106,0481. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was much heaviness in the market, and prices of many articles were inclined to give way. British Plantation Sugar very slow sale, and prices were in some cases a shade lower. Refined Sugar in fair demand for home consumption, andlprices were unaltered. Lumps passing the standard 108 a 109 per cwt. The Coffee market was very flat with drooping prices. Little inquiry for Pepper, but prices were much as before quoted. Casia Lignea withheld from the market for advanced prices. In Cocok'searcely any business done, and the quotations little better than nominal, though some parties are inclined to sell upon somewhat easier terms. TEA MARKET. There was very little demand for Tea, and prices generally were depressed. Company's Congou 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. per lb. cash, and for Free Trade Congou to 2s. 2d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The price of this article was quite nominal, at 525. on the spot, and 525. to 525. per cwt. to arrive. The sales were con fined to very small lots. DYE MARKET. There was little business done in East India Indigo, prices much the same as at the close of the recent publie sales. Cochinal in good demand, and prices firm, with large deliveries for home consumption. Lac Dyes very dull of sale, but not lower. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. A good supply, and a fair demand ; prices firm. Old Clover, 41. to 51. 155.; New ditto, 41. to 5/. ; Old Meadow, 3/. 10s. to 41. 10s. ; New ditto, 31. ss. to 4/. ; Straw, 325. to 365. per load. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty will complete her 46th year on the 13th inst. Her Majesty is in ex cellent health, and intends passing the winter in this country, having given up, we understand, her contemplated visit to Germany or Malta for this season. DALKEITH PALACE.—The statement that the Queen Dowager will visit the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch in September or October, at this splendid seat, is without foun dation. THE LATE EARL OF DURHAM.—His Lord ship's remains were e:cpected to have reached Sunderland on Tuesday, when the body would be landed from the Albatross yacht, ander the directions of the Hon. Captain Grey, the Countess of Durham's brother. The Countess of Durham and the Ladies Mary and Emily Lambton left town yesterelay for Lambton Castle, accompanied by Earl and Countess Grey. The Earl of Durham does oot take his departure until Satur day, when he goes to Howick Hall, Earl Grey's, where the Countess of Durham and Ladies Lambton will juin the circle from Lambton. The deceased Earl's remains will lie in state at the Castle the day previous to the interment. Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Suss d ex, Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Sophia Matilda, an a long list of the leading nobility of all shades of politics, have daily made inquiries after her Ladyship's health. Her Lady i ship continues in the strictest seclusion, and h a s not seen any one but the immediate connections of th e family. THE LATE SIR CIIARLES BLUNT, M.P.— The mortal remains of the above h i g hly.respectcd Baronet were removed from Croydon church la st week for interment in a new vault in lleathfield churchyard. Sussex. Mr. Fox Maule has written to the Clerks of Presbyteries to make a return of the settlements under the Veto-law since 1835, w ithin their respective Presbyteries, with the number of rejections, and the reasons of the same. CROCKFORD'S CLUB.--Crockford has given notice to the member that he shall keep the house o p en to the Ist of January next, s and no longer. Fi CAS AT D!ZURY-LANE THEAT , :E. An extraordinary scene of riot occurred last night at this house, during the performance of the Concert d'Ete, which brought the entertainment to an abrupt and most disagreeable conclusion. At the commencement of the second part of the concert, en individual dressed in an or dinary blouse, and quite tipsy, took his place in the dress circle, and soon attracted attention by pouring forth the foxhunter's cry of " Yolks, Tal , y-lao I" The police at tempted to take him out of the box ; he and his friends re sisted, and in the struggle he was tumbled, head over heels, into the pit, and then again seized. A violent core motion now ensued. The police and their captive were tussled about from one side of the pit to the other. A reinforcement of some three or four men came from Bow street, and the belligerent force of the audience was also aug mented. To those in the boxes a most animated engage ment was now displayed, in which occasional most formida ble whirling of the police staves was perilously conspicuous. It took at the least ten minutes before the capture could be effected and the prisoner borne away. Here the matter might have ended, and should have ended, but the police, with gross indiscretion, returned to the theatre, entered the pit, and drove through the excited assembly in order to seize those by whom they considered that they had been assailed in their former proceeding. The consequence was a renewal of battle with aggravated animosity on both sides, and this, to all appearance, ended by the police force being ejected in a very precipitate manner down the wide central stairs of the pit. We understand, however, that some three or four supposed assailants of the force were by them taken and consigned to the Bow-street cells. The affair did not end here. The pittites, when thus seem ingly victorious, turned their attention to Mr. Eliason, as he tried to lead Haydn's " Surprise" (!) and assailed him with violent animadversions, to which he tried in vain to gave a satisfactory reply. He, ho Never, offered to go to the police-office and bail out, if possible, the original cause of all the uproar. He went, and was obliged to re turn with the information that the hero in question was so overcome with tipsiness, and probably his late exertions, as to be quite unfit for a state of freedom. This left the malcantents in statu quo—the concert could not go on— " God save the Queen " was played, but, in vain, to re store calm ; and at length the musicians retired from the scene where they could produce no efficient harmony. BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Row AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—ShortIy after Mr. TWYFORD entered the Coutt at eleven o'clock, Francis Bouchier, 16, Cloak-lane, was placed at the bar, charged with being drunk, causing a disturbance in the theatre, and assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. Henry Lockver, A division, stated that during the con certs his attention was directed to the dress circle, where the defendant was violently beating time to the music. After much remonstrance he attempted to remove him, but be clung to the post, and after a great struggle he was drawn into the promenade by persons who were attracted by the noise and confusion. He was then taken into custody, and committed assaults upon witness and other constables with a staff which he had wrested: from them, and after be was in custody he made his escape, but was recaptured with the assistance of the audience. In the commencement of the disturbance Mr. Eliason endea voured to pacify and remove the desendant from the theatre, and when the defendant was taken to the station-house he followed, and wished that he should be liberated. Another constable of the same division corroborated the statement of the last witneis. Alan Phillips, constable of the F division, who had been called in by some gentleman who bad left the theatre for that purpose, received several blows from the defend ant in assisting the other constables to take him into custody. The defendant said that the disturbance had been caused by the violent manner in which the police had used their truncheons in endeavouring to take persons in the promenade to the station-house. Mr. Herrot, a surgeon-dentist, who had been sitting near the defendant, was obliged to call upon the police to remove him, in consequence of the offensive manner in which he conducted himself, and they no sooner endea voured, after remonstrating with him, to remove him, than he clung to a pillar, and ultimately threw himself into the promenade. The confusion became so general that Mr. Eliason came forward to address the audience, in apology for the interruption, but his voice was drowned by the uproarious manner in which the defendant conducted himself. Mr. Corbally, M. P., was also in the box, and his attention was called by the defendant being dressed in a blouse jacket. In a few minutes he commenced hollowing, which continued for some time, at the top of his voice. Some persons said he should leave the theatre, and on the police coming in they requested he would desist, or go away, but he refused, and one of the police laid his hand on his collar. Some persons in the pit came to the place, and drew the defendant down, the policeman still holding him. From what be subsequently observed, the police re ceived very rough usage in the pit, and exhibited the greatest forbearance in their preventing the mob to rescue the defendant from them. Scrjeant Jackson, A, who had been in the promenade, detailed the manner in which the defendant committed the assault upon the constables who had him in custody. Mr. M'Naughton, of Albemarle-street, spoke to the extreme forbearance of the police, but he could attribute the resistance made less to the prisoner than to the mob, who tried by every possible violence to rescue him. Several other gentlemen gave evidence to the same effect. John Eliason proved that he was the manager of the Theatre, and at the commencement of the second act he heard a " tally-ho" from the boxes, when he discovered the defendant occupying two chairs with his legs stretched out. He instantly went to him with the police, ho requested that he would desist, or leave the theatre. The ladies and gentlemen became very much alarmed, but the defendant obstinately refused to give way, and on his laying hold of a pillar the row became general, which caused the theatre to be clo-ed. After he was removed to the station be called to see who the de fendant was, but he never said that if he was liberated the concert would be allowed to proceed. The defendant, who was attired in a dirty Mackintosh, said ha might have been drunk when he entered the theatre at half past eight o'clock, and on his crying out " Tally-ho" the police came and acted with great violence. Mr. TWIFORD inquired in what circle of society he moved, in order to apportion the amount of fine. The defendant said that he was an officer in the East India Company, and called a witness, who said that the defendant would not have interrupted the audience bad there not been such an interval between the first and second act. The audience, on his being taken into custody, cried out " Shame," in consequence of the gross manner the police had used their staves to drag him out of the theatre. Defendant—l was drunk. Witness—Why, I should say you were something the worse for wine, although you were not in a worse state 1 than many others in the theatre.—(Laughter.) Mr. TWYFORD said that sufficient evidence had been brought forward to prove the case, and he considered that by inflicting a fine of .51., or one month's imprisonment, could not be considered very severe. Peter Brochard, Hamilton-place, St. John'3 Wood road, Thomas O'Rourke, East-road, City, Charles Ma riot, 89, Fleet-street, and Henry Toplis 16, Westbourne street, Pimlico, were then placed at the bar, charged with disorderly conduct in the theatre, and being con cerned in obstructing the officers in the execution of their duty, by attempting to rescue the defendant, Bourchier, when in custody. The defendant, Brochard exhibited his right arm, which was dreadfully bruised, and which he said was inflicted by constable Jackson with his staff. He also received a se vere blow upon the nose from another constable in the street. Sergeant Jackson said that the defendant fell several times at the hatchway in the theatre, which caused the wounds ; but no assault was committed in the streets, al. though there was much struggling on the part of the de fendants. The defendant Mariot said that he was merely endea vouring to extricate himself from the crowd, when he was seized by a policeman, without any cause, and taken to the station-house, to which he made no resistance. The defendant O'Rourke also denied in the most posi tive manner that he attempted to obstruct the police in the execution of their duty, nor did he knock a police man's hat off, as had been stated in evidence. Mr. TWI(FORD was satisfied that Brochard and Mariot had improperly interfered with the police ' • but as to O'Rourke, it had been satisfactorily proved he bad knocked off the policeman's hat, and he was inclined to consider them in a worse manner if possible than the person with whom the row commenced ; they should, therefore, pay a fine of 51. each, or go to prison for a month. The defendant Toplis, as he committed no assault, was ordered to be discharged. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, AUG. 5. —Wind E. N. E., fresh breeze.—Arrived from the river and sailed the Falloden, Mould, from Que bec; Governor Reid, Tynes, Bermuda; Ceylon, Peacock, Cape of Good Hope ; Peru, Bayley, Cuba; and Joseph Storey, Spencer, Malta. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. s.—Wind E.—Arrived the Jane and Jessie, Campbell, from Riga; and Svcndine Mathilde, Anderson, Foher. Sailed the Maidstone, Wimble, for Calcutta. PIA MOUTII, Aura. s.—Wind E.— Sailed the Cast or, Gallands, for B atavia. FALMOUTH, A UG. 4.—Wind v . ariable.—Arrived the Ai_ bert, Harry, fr om Smyrna ; City of Limerick, Moppett, London, and proceeded for Dublin. Sailed her M a j esty ' s steamer Meteor, for Scilly. —Arrived off port the Brothers, Re id. SHEERNESS, AUG. s.—Arrived the Cefyro, Hetand from Antwerp, after being on the Vaze Land, but withouai Tiger,Parkin, from apparent damage, bound to Havannah. 5 8 . Brunswick. Sailed the AUGUST:%,ANLTeGw. 4.—Arrived the Jane, Dodd, for St. 13 D jil o ol vc rn i t o, Quebec; Oalos, Baines, Richmond, u . Louise,nel, Fuel 1, S . GLOUC _ ESTER, AUGUST 5 A • from W) h , rg. Sailed the Curlew, G aunt l et, f or Mira michi ; Speculator, Po p e, Quebec. KINGSTON, AUGUST 4.—Arrived th e A nna, Travers, from London ; Eg3pti in, Skelt on, D ept f or d , N ew S out h 1 Wales. SHIELDS, AUGUST 3 —Arrived the William Maitland, Kavie, from Dantzic ; Atalanta, Kapake, ditto ; Hebble, Goodall, Havre 7 • Martin, Hunt, Rouen; Richard, Cham bers, Memel ; Carl Frederick, Sodiman, Cascko. SUNDERLAND, AUG, 3,—Arrived the Naird, Watson, from Bathurst; Rainbow, Miramichi; Robert Raikes, Job, Memel ; Celine, Cornel, Caen, STOCKTON, JULY 29.—Arrived the Wave, Bagnall, from Dunkirk ; Barlow Van, Jenkins, Quilleboeuf ; Kelmamock, Champosin, Boulogne ; Twee Vrinder, Pott, Rotterdam ; Allen, Miramichi; Neptune, Atkinson, Quebec. WAINFLEET, AUG s.—The Heron, Middleton, from St. Petersburg to Boston, is lying on the Knock Saul, off Skegness, but expected to be got off after disch ar g in g p ar t of the cargo. EVENING EDITION. SECOND ATTEMPTED INSURRECTIO:%Th\ FRANCE. • - • (From a Third Edition of the Morning Post.) We have just received by special Courier the following important intelligence of an event -which appeals to have taken place late last night in France : BOULOGNE, Thursday Morning, Au g . 6, Seven o'Clock. Last night a steamer arrived off Boulogne, and landed within three miles of here about 100 men, Generals and Colonels, dressed in uniform*. Some of them went to the barracks, and cried " Vive Louis Napoleon," and distributed money amongst the mob. This morning one of the Generals and a Colonel, dressed in grand uniform, were arrested. On board the steamer there are some horses. It is reported that Louis Napoleon also landed. All is quiet at present ; all the military under arms. The drums are beaten to cail out the National Guards. No more of the insurgents have been arrested. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock . 173 lndia Stock .. . 252 i 3 per Cent. Red 9O/ Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 90 Ditto Old Annuitise ... 3Q per Cent Red........ 991 Ditto New Annuities — New 31 per Cent New• 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 22 pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 l3l India Stock for Acct... Jan. 1860 l3i Consols for Acct 9O ffc FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 31i Belgian, 5 per cent lOl4 Ditto, New Ditto 314 Brazilian 80n , !5... .. .. 784 Prussian, 5 per cent.... RuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 23 Spanish, 5 per cent 241 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred 124 Danish, 3 per cent.... French, 5 per cent...ll2f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange .. Mexi.ian, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —C. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. 294 Dutch, 24 per cent 514 Peruvian, 182.5, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 1014 SHARES Great We,tern Railway London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway Lore.on and South Western Railway ... South Eastern v-‘1 Per?r 7/ THE COURT OF CHANCERY. We beg to call the particular attention of the public to the discussion which took place last night on the sub ject of the Court of Chancery. In the admirable speech of Mr. Pemberton, the monstrous abuses in the Six Clerks'-office and Masters'-offices, which we have taken occasion for the last two years so often to denounce, are exposed with all the ability of that distinguished ad vocate. To Mr. Aglionby, indeed, the credit is due of having by his persevering exertions exposed to view the extent to which the suitors have long been plundered in the Six Clerks'-office. Mr. Pemberton in a most masterly manner made use of the materials Mr. Aglionby had furnished. The Bill giving the power to the Lord Chancellor and the Equity Judges to remodel the whole proceed ings and practices of the Court of Chancery, which was sent from the Lords to the Commons, went through a Committee, the report was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-night. As this Bill came from the House of Lords it was a Bill of much promise ; but we had our misgivings as to whether any substantial good could be effected under it, as it gave no power to award compensation to those officers whose fees might have been affected by any substantial altera tion in the pleadings and practices of the Court ; nor was this defect remol though some important im provements tvere introduced on the formal commit ment of the Bill on the second reading, the night before last. Mr. Aglionby and Mr. James Stewart, whom we were glad to observe at their posts, by the amendments they introduced have supplied this and other deficiences, and, unless the Bill should be mutilated in the House of Lords, which we sincerely trust it may not, the Lord Chancellor and the Equity Judges will have the power of removing every abuse which now exists in the Court of Chancery, and of so far diminishing": the expenses of Chancery suits, so that that Court may be open to the bulk of the community, and that all may there seek and obtain justice. Armed with the power of awarding, or, at least, recommending fair and rea sonable compensations, subject to the approval of both Houses, the Judges may reduce every ustless and ex travagant fee. Perhaps a more important measure than that which was the subject of discussion last night as regards the administration of justice, has not at any time passed the House of Commons. Henceforth the responsibility as to any existing abuses in the proceed ings and practices of the Court. will remain with the Judges. The high characters which the present Judges sustain lead us to hope and believe that we shall have no ground for complaining of any neglect on their parts in performing the duties assigned to them. The debate was also most important, in having secured the passing, at an early period of the next Ses sion, whoever may the Ministers of the day, of a Bill for increasing the number of Judges to such an extent as the exigencies of the suitors may require ; and also for having drawn from Lord John Russell a declaration of his opinion as to the unsatisfactory state of the ap pellate tribunals of the country ; and above all, of what amounts almost to an expression of opinion, that the political and judicial functions of the Lord Chancellor ought not to be centred in one person. To these sub- jects we shall point the attention of the public in the next Session of Parliament, if the Government should not initiate some legislative measure for remodelling our present highly defective and objectionable Courts of Appeal. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The de mend for Cotton to-day has been to a fair extent. The sales 6,000 bags, at full prices. Speculators have taken 1,500 bags. LivEripoot, SHARE LIST, AUG. s.—Eastern Counties 14i 5 6ths ; Great Western half shares 58-1- ; London and Birmingham 181 ; South Western 58; M anchester and Birmingham half shares 40i ; Midland Counties 84 ; Liverpool Banking 8i ; Paris and 11Juen 8 9 prem. The continued fine weather has given increased buoyancy to our Market, and prices steadily advance. The following are extracts from the Ea3t hulls Papers (From the Bombay Price Current, June lb.) Cousrny PRODUCE.—Cotton—There has been on the whole but little business done during toe week, it having been occupied chiefly in warehousing the Cottar. EUROPEAN GOODS.—Beer Allsopps—A sale has taken place at 40 rs. per hhd. Piece Goods—A good deal jaa been done in white long cloths and also in white jacte. Exchange—We have no alteration to notice, no trans actions having been reported during the week. }lurkaru Office, Calcutta, June 6. Since our last we can report no active improvement in the state of our Money Market. The languid dullness which it began to assume on the departure of the Mail of the Bth of May continues, and, in our opinion, has been further depressed from the discouraging intelligence of the affairs at home received by the April Mail. The large remittance of 30 lac of rupees, added to already abundant floating and unemployed capital, will heighten the difficulty of good investment, and lower the already low rate of in. tercet. Exchange rates did not remain long at the quotations of our last, they fell about a week or twelve days previous to the arrival of the Mail a farthing, and on its arrival an other farthing. Treasury Bills are quoted at Is. 10d. to Is. 101 d.; Bank Bills Is. 101 d. to Is. 100. ; Private Bills ten months' date, 2s. 00. , Bank Shares—Bank of Bengal Shares have been ad vancing in value since the publication of the Bank's opera tions for the past four months, which showed an improve ment. State of the Markets—lndigo —During the past Reek advices from the districts of Lower Bengal have been re. ceive d, complaining of an excess of rain and consequent loss o f plant; as th e weat h er now appears to h ave set i n fa i r it is to be hoped that the damage done is not very great. Saltpetre has been in fair demand throughout the week. Sugar—l3enares Sugar is now arriving daily, and sales have been e ffected at a higher figure, Rs. 11 4 per maund. Opium —A few lots have exchanged hands during the week. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of the sth inst. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, AUG. 3.—Things have re mained stationary this day, and the business done was of little importance. The Oidonnances had no impression on the Market. It is still the opinion that everything will be settled by diplomacy. Ardoin's Spanish was animated. TILE FUNDS. In general it was expected by many well informed per. sons that the British Funds were on the improvement, but panic which prevaile d • to the great surprise of the public this morning► a kind of l epanic took place in the Consol rt . farket soon after the o n ., d he also an effect on the • in ing. The first price was 90a i,.soon after fall to 89 .at present, 90 to i ; Exchequer Bills, 22 24 prem. ; in k Stock 173 174 ; India Bonds, 4 to 1 discount. t ri h t e ish Fo m rc a ig rk n et Ma h r a k s et ha t foreign funds. Spanish Active, which Left off 25i i the ln ß 242- 25 ; Portuguese, 31i 32 ; Three. , was done at 22 ; Spanish Deferred, 12/ ; Passive per 6 Cents., 21i 25i 26; Mexican, 29} ; Brazilian 7g i ; Colombian, and-a. Half per Cents, 511 52i :F. 79 ; Dutch Two. 102. we per Ceuta, 101 HALF-PAST ONE. Consols, 27th inst., 9on- 901 90 ; Morey 1)0k; Exchequer Bilts, 24 22 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 dis.l Bank Stock, 173 ; Spanish Active, 24i 25; Portuguese 32 ; Fire per Cents. 22 ; Colombian, 25f i_ Mexican 295; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52 ; Five per Cents. 101.