The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-23 00:00:00

3 ll l o l \T .4 -A. 4 1 VF 1 N INC E -A -A b e fore a Magistrate, as well as in that which related to g:vlig false evidence. Atter a few words from Mr. ESTCOURT and Mr. HAWES, Mr. PRYME thought it would be desirable to leave such a discretion with the Magistrates on the clawe proposed. Mr. J. HOBHOUSE moved that the word "wil ful.' would he inserted. Lord J. RUSSELL thought the introduction of the word totally unnecessary. He could not understand how any one could make so solemn a declaration as that provided by the clause without doing so wilfully. After a few words from Sir C. GREY a nd Mr. H AWES, Mr. T. HOBHOUSE withdrew his a mendment. Sir R. PEEL thought that if a party made a false declaration, under the Act, that falsehood ought to be treated as perjury. Dr. LUSHINGTON was of opinion that the clause would answer every purpose as it stood. Upon a suggestion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the clause was amended by the insertion of the words ° wilfully and falsely." The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. The remaining clauses were agreed to. Upon the schedules being put, Sir R. PEEL said he must object to the Bill, be cause it went altogether upon an erroneous principle, and if it was carried out to its full effect they must admit a man to make such a declaration in a Court of Justice as he said was in accordance with his conscien tious scruples. According to the principle of the Bill no man could have conscientious scruples unless two Magistrates certified that he was of good moral and religious character. Now, how was the man to obtain such a certificate from a Magistrate, or from two Magistrates, who entirely differed from him, either upon the point of morals or religion? The Bill might pass into a law, but a very few years would pass away before a very great amount of objection would arise against it in the country. Mr. HAW ES complained of the Right Hon. Ba ronet making his objections to the principle of the Bill upon the schedules. If he was opposed to the princi ple of the Bill he ought to have openly stated it in an earlier stage of the Bill. The Magistrate was not hound to certify that the party applying was of a good, moral, or religious character, without evidence, which any man might get from his neighbours if he deserved the character, so that praztically no difficulty would be found in coming out the principle of the Bill. The evidence of Quakers, of Moravians, and of Separatists, was now received in Courts of Justice without the s:igbtest objection or disadvantage ; why then anticipate any from the present Bill. Mr. DA RBY objected to a witness being put into the' witness-box with a certificate of good character from two magisttates in his pocket. A man ought to eater such a place without the jury knowing anything of him. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought it might be safely left to the intelligence of a British jury to decide upon the credibility of any person who came before them in the capacity of a witness. The schedule was then agreed to, so also was the pre amine, the Bill to he reported to-morrow. MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT. The Report of the Marriages Act Amendment Bil was received and some amendments added. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. On the bringing up the Report of this Bill, Mr. FOX NIAULE said he did not think that in the present state of the House he could safely take a division on the Bill, as he intended to have done. The more he rtfl9cted on it the more he was convinced of its injurious tendency. After the recent changes which had taken place in the law he should not think himself jus tified in further alterations at present. He repeated he thought the Bill was framed in a most exceptionable :manner. The course he should pursue was to allow the Hon. Gentleman to bring up the Report, assuring him, totvever, he should strenuously oppose the third reading. He thought changes like that proposed by the present Bill should originate with the Government--(Hear)— and that they should not be introduced at all without further experience than they were possessed of at present. Mr. KELLY regretted the course which the Go vernment had taken on this measure. The Bill had met with general support out of the House, and he should tllerefot e bring up the Report, and fix the third reading far this dey se'nnight, whet he should be pre pared to press the third reading. He must again defend th., manner in which the Bill had been drawn, and which appear to be objected to by the Government. for, rue contended it was perfectly capable of amendment. With respect to the modification of punishment, the ob ject proposed by the Hon. Gentlemen might be attained by t he insertion of a few lines in the main clause. It was not of ()nurse for Um to propose such a clause against the spirit of his own Bill, but he doubted not the Attorney-General could supply the Honourable Gantleman with the words necessary for that purpose. Again thanking the House for the support gis e. to the measure, he moved that the Report be reeeive , j,,—( Hear, hear.) Mr. GOU I, BURN objected to the manner in which the Bill vas framed, and intimated his intention ()- voting against the third reading. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he thought there ought to have been a special enactment for ever) crime affected by the Bill.—( Hear, hear.) lie thought it seemed monstrous that a great number of crimes of various character shouki be punished in the same man ner, and at the discretion of the Court. He agretd with the Hon. Gentleman that with respect to any par ticular crime, it might be exempted from the B:11 by the omission of till recital relating to it. He must say he thought the lion. and Learned Gentleman would sooner attain his object if he would allow more time for experience, and tor framing the measure he had so much at heart. Sir C. GREY concurred rvith the Attorney-General that. the Hon. Gentleman would best attain his object by postponing his measure far the present. He also thought the manner in which the B 11 was framed was very exceptionable, as it allowed no opportunity for in serting exceptions in extreme and aggravated cases. He thought there might be cases of attempts at mur der ; as, for instance, when the victim was left for dead, and the criminal believed him to be so, which were equally culpable, and as deserving of the pu nishment of death as murder itself.—( Hear, hear.) If the Bill had been framed according to the sugges tions of the Attorney-General, exceptions might have been introduced. Ought they to say that in no case, however atrocious, the Judge ought to have the power of inflicting the punishment of death ? He would allude only to one point more. The Hon. Member exempted piracy from the punishment of death. Now, a pirate was considered hoslis humani generis, at war with all Governments, and consequently with his own, and therefore guilty of treason, for which the punish ment of death was still retained.—(Hear, hear.) The Report was then brought up. Mr. KELLY proposed a clause for exempting from the punishment of death the offence of forgery of stamps and dyes, which had been omitted from the Bid. He was indebted to the Attorney-General for basing drawn his attention to this omission. He had (considered that the punishment of death had already been removed from these offences, but it appeared, that by certain clauses in the Stamp Act, these offences were made capital, and that these clauses had not been repealed, he believed, through inadvertence. On the ite,zgestion of the ATTORNEY-GENE RAL, who said he approved of the clause, it was agreed .•thnt the clause should be printed, and that it should be proposed , on the third reading of the Bill. Sir EA RDLEY WILMOT said that, on the third reading, be should propose a clause prohibiting the trial of petsons at Quarter Sessions charged with these offences. The Report was then received, and the BM was or .dered to be read a third time on Wednesday next. OONSTABULARY BILL. Mr. LAW HODGES moved the second reading of tho Constabulary Bill. He had explained the character of the Bill a week ago, and therefore would not trespass on the House on the present occasion. Mr. FOX MAU LE could not agree to the second r : eading s of the Bill. He had already stated his objec dons t 6 it, and those objections he considered insu rlahk, as it would entirely frustrate the objects of the act of 114 Session. _ . _ .41E. Rlct Aid that although the Ho n . M em b er had rtlat he aid pot brit; it forward in opposition to of las) Session, yet he had stated many o bj ec.- *ins to aka: Bill. It was quite a delusion to say that the restraint of a police was not as much required in as aviaultustal as in a manufacturing district. The Act , was iverlinE extremely well in the county o f Essex, into witich it had been introduced. Under the present Bill there would be as many different systems of police in a county as there were divisions in it. He behred it desirable that the police should be under the direction of a chief constable rather than of a Magis trate. He hould oppose the Bill. Mr. HODGES explained. Ho ghoul' certa;.ily divide on the subject. Mr. H o UME hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not divide, but would withdraw the Bill, and bring it for ward again next Session, as he was convinced the sub ject was not understood. Mr. LANGDAbE supported the second reading of the Bill, ase considered the present Act unfitted to thwiural districts. He denied the necessity of a rural police io the agricultural districts, and thought the pre sent constabulary force might be so improved as to make it effectual. Mr. PRlSCOE'should vote for the second reading of the 8111, not to supersede the Constabulary Bill of last Session. but to supply an omission in that Bill by affording those who did not choose to adopt that Bill a means of improving their constabulary force. Mr. HODGES rose to reply, but The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Member, on moving the second reading had not a right to reply. Mr. GRIMSDITCH objected to the extending of the principle of the Bill to rural districts. M. FOX MAULE would consent to the second rent - ling of the Bill, in order that it might be further con- ' sidered in its future stages. The Bill was accordingly read a second time. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. Mr. PRYME moved that the Report on ti.is Bill should be received. Mr. DARBY was opposed to the motion. He thought that the principles of the Bill were not gene rally understood, and it was of too important a nature to be passed without being fully discussed. The Bill, in addition, should have been introduced as a private one, for it interfered with the rights of individuals. Captain PFCHELL said that the Honourable Gentleman had himself supported a Bill which interfered more seriously with the rights of in dividuals—namely, the Farnham Rectory Bill. As to the assertion that the Bill had not been fully discussed, he thought it was wholly unfounded, as it had received the fullest consideratio 1, and had occupied an entire evening in Committee. Colonel SIBTHORP complained of the surrepti tious canner in which the Bill had been introduced. He also thought it was an arbitrary Bill, and granted the most dangerous powers. He would therefore move that the further consideration of the Report be post poned to this day three months. After a few words from Lord Worsley, Mr. Rice, Mr. Pryme, Mr. Darby, and Sir J. Graham, The House divided, when the numbers were Fur the motion 65 Against it 29 Majority The Report wasp then received. and the Bill was or dered to be read a third time on Wednesday next. SUPPLY—CASE OF THOROGOOD. On the reading of the 'Order of the Day for the House going into Committee of Supply, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, relating to Mr. John Thorogood. The Hon. Member was interrupted by cries of " Order" ; but having persisted in obtaining a heating, he said he had understood that the only time for his making his motion was upon the reading of the Order of the Day. He had understood that upon the question of going into Committee of Supply only two motions could be made, one upon the reading of the Order of the Day, and the other upon the motion that the Speaker should leave the Chair. Now, he thought that if Ministers chose to make Wed nesday an Order Day for Government purposes, they ought to allow independent Members of Parliament the same privilege which they had of bringing on motions, upon the established Order Days, Mondays and Fridays.—(Hear, hear.) The preceding day (Tuesday) was an open day for independent Mem bers, but the Government had no less than twenty three notices.—( Hear, hear.) But he knew very well that they would have no House in the evening. He insisted that as long as there was a grievance to be redressed, no qaestion of Supply ought to be gone into.—( Hear, hear.) Now, what took place yesterday morning ? There were two or three-and-twenty Govern ment notices, all of which were forwarded a stage in the morning sitting, and so confident did he feel that it was meant by that to put off the notices of motion by making no House in the evening, that he went to the Clerk at the table and told him to put his notice, which then stood on the Paper, down for that day on going into Committee of Supply.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Order.) All he was anxious to know was whether he should be allowed to proceed or not.—(Cries of " Go on, go on.") If he did go on, he trusted he should not be told, after he had made the motion, that he was out of order. Lord SANDON rose to order. He understood that, in the early part of the evening, it had been agreed that the Orders of the Day should be read, and such being the case, he believed it was not competent for any Hon. Member to make a motion upon the reading of any particular Order of the Day.—( Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER said that the House having agreed to the reading of the Orders of the Day, it was not competent to raise any question on the readinc , of any particular Order, but an amendment might be e moved on the question of his leaving the Chair. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said if there was no other course left open to him, he should move that the House should adjourn, as he was determined no money should be voted till he had brought the grievance of which he had to complain fully before the attention of the House. —(Hear, hear, and cries of " Order.") Mr. HUME, during the number of. years he had had a seat in that House, had never witnessed anything like the proceedings of yesterday. He never yet knew it to be necessary, when the House met in the mornirg, to count it over again when it re-assern.tled at five o'clock. What took place yesterday? Why at twelve o'clock the House was formed, at half-past three the Speaker left the chair; and he should like to kno7.-: whether during the last 25 years, when a meeting of the House took place at twelve o'clock, it had ever been considert.d necessary to count it again at five o'clock? He had been ialorracd that the the necessity for adopting that course was, that alien the Speaker left the chair at baif past three the mace was removed. Now, if such was the case, he thought such an attempt to prevent there being a House in the evening was unworthy of any Ministry, as it was little short of cajoling Hon. Members.—( Hear.) . _ The SPEAKER said, after what bad fallen from the Hon. Member for Kilkenny it was necessary that he should state what the rule of the House was. The rule was this, that if a morning sitting was appointed it was the duty of the Speaker to take the chair at twelve o'clock, and he apprehended he would not be at liberty to leave it unless the House was adjourned. It was true that for ori• or two Sessions the House had adopted resolutions by which the Speaker was to take the chair at twelve o'clock and leave it at three, and during one session twenty Members at twelve o'clock were .itli eient to form the House ; but since that time those orders had been rescinded, and upon that taking place tie Speaker had no power to leave the chair, but was bound to sit there till the House was adjourned. Yesterday all the Orders of the Day had been gone through, and the motion was made that the House should adjourn to 5 o'clock ; such being the case, he was bound to count it over again at that hour.—( Hear.) Mr. HUME, after the cxplanation from the Chair, felt bound to say that he was in error.—(Hear.) Mr. BROTHERTON believed it had been the invariable rule when the House met in the early part of the day, and adjourned to 5 o'clock, that it should be counted again at that hour. Mr. HtiTME apprehended that it was quite compe tent for him to move as an amendment that the Hon. Member for Finsbury should be then heard, and taking that to be so, he should make that motion.—(Hear.) The SPEAKER having put the question, Mr. GOULBURN rose to order. On the question being put, the Speaker had called upon his Noble Friend (Lord Sandon), and such being the ewe, he was in possession of the House ; it was not therefore com petent for any Hon. Member to interfere. Mr. HUME though: it would be better for his Hon. Friend not to attempt to press his motion at the pre sent time. Lord SANDON then rose to call the attention of the House to the state of the commercial relations with foreign cnuntries, but he was interrupted by Mr. DU NCO MBE rising to order. The SPEAKER said that he had certainly called on the Noble Lord because his name stood first on the paper. Mr. HUME said, that under the circumstances he should withdraw the motion that he had just made. Mr. DUNCO MBE again rose to order. The ques tion was, whether the motion should be withdrawn.-- (Cries of " Hear, hear," and " Order, order.") He objected to its being withdrawn.—(Hear, and Order.) The SPEAKER here called upon Lord Sandon. tprd SANDON said that he had no personal wish to gratify in bringing his motion before the House ; all that he was desirous of was that the Orders of the House should be attended to. Mr. DUNCOMBE again rose to order amidst much confusion and cries of " Order, order." The question was that the motion made by the Hon. Member for Kilkenny should be withdrawn. The SPEAKER—I beg to inform the Hon. Mem ber for Finsbury that the motion of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny has been withdrawn.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. DUNCOMBE—Sir, I move that this House do now adjourn—(Cries of Hear, hear, and Order,) amidst which — COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. Lord SANDON proceeded to address the House. He trusted that the Hon. Member for Finsbury would upon reflection think that his motion was not of so pressing a nature as his (Lord Saudon's), it having already been several times before the House. With respect to the motion he was about to bring be ' fore the House, he felt bound to say that the Noble Lord had been in the habit of assuring the House that no Minister of the Crown bad ever done so much f or t h e commerce o f the country as he bad Such b e i ng t h e assertion o f t h e N o ble Lord, he felt bound to call the attention of the House to some of the points which h a d i nduced h i m to b r i ng this question forward. coniree ine There w ere two po i nts o f v i e w in which the bf this country might be considered. First, as to the exports of manufactures • and sec ondly, as to its navigation. It was only a short Mexico a very hea v y duty was time ago that in was put upon goods from this country—he beli eve d s about February badBO 800 per cent. The attention of the Noble Lord e f last, bee d the an called greatest complaints laa gaga a had been made the Noble Lord the notfor his known inattention w h a t w t as o the the tone of remonstrance subject, and it w even wi n ii r h had been employed by the Noble L or d to s authori ties at Mexico. Upon his putting a question upon'he hadth h i o s subject to the Noble Lord some short tim e aga understood him to state that he had received assurances from the Mexican Goverament that the dutyshould either modified or removed. But nothing of that sort ' he believed, had been done. Now , passing from Mexico to Buenos Ayres, he wished to know how long the Noble Lord intended that the blockade of that place should be permitted to continue ? Questions he had put to the Noble Lord upon this subject in an early period of the Session, and he had stated then thaf - he :lid received assurances that it would shortly be removed. But it THE SUN, LONDON, THURSOAY, JULY 23. 1840. appeared from what had taken place that the statement was not more likely to be realised than at the first mo ment. The British property in Buenos Ayres was es timated at more than a million of money, all of which was lying dormant.—(Hear.) The articles of which that property consisted were of the most perishable na ture, and it took no less a sum than 20,0001. annually to take the necessary care of it ; added to which, there was British capital laid out to the extent of 5,000,000 dollars in local funds. A national bank has also been formed, in which 2,000,000/. of English capital had been invested, all of which was locked up and rendered unavailable in consequence of the blockade.—(Hear, hear.) He (Lord Sandon) thought, looking at all these things, they might have expected from the Noble Lord that he would not have per. mitted this blockade to continue. Independent of this, another million had been invested at Monte Video, which was placed in the greatest peril by this blockade. Passing from Buenos Ayres, he wished to call the at tention of the House to the state of the commercial interests of this country with Portugal. A duty of uywards of 50 per cent. was placed upon goods going from this country to Portugal ; the effect of which was to drive the manufactures of this country from it. In 1838 there were only two Portuguese vessels shipped cargo, value 1711., at Liverpool. The British shipping was:eighty, and the value of the cargo was 800,8201. In the next year the value of British produce shipped in British vessels had fallen to under 500,0001., while under the then laws the number of Portuguese vessels had risen from two to forty, while the amount had risen in equal proportion. The retaliation of the Noble Lord was entirely powerless, and the Noble Lord ought to have come to Parliament for fresh powers, as America had done with regard to Spain in 1834. The same sort of war had been carried on with Spain for the last twenty years. He would not press that point, but at all events so far as respected navigation the Noble Lord had powers enough to meet the growing encroachments of the Spanish Government, whose duties and exactions had grown up from 30 to 200 per cent. All that might have been met by retaliatory measures on the part o: the Noble Lord without any new powers ; and he had been assured by the President of the Board of Trade that such retaliatory orders were ready to be issued at a favourable moment ; but six years had passed and no thing had been done. The result was that the trade was flowing from the English shipowner to the Spanish, which was a gross injustice to the shipowners of Eng land. In the carrying trade to Havannah alone we had lost since 1834, in which year the value carried by the British was 382,000/., to the present time, when it was only 36,000/., and all the difference had been gained by the navigation of Spain. So, again, fresh exactions were placed upon our trade with the Basque Provinces of Spain ; it seemed as if all our exertions were only to be repaid with the utmost contempt, and that the more the Noble Lord remonstrated the worse our trade suffered. After all that England had done for the pre sent Government of Spain, he thought the trade of England ought to have received more and fuller advan tages. He thought be had shown that in the case of Buenos Ayres they had permitted a blockade to be carried on that was most detrimental to the manufacturing interest of the country ; that we had allowed Portugal to absorb all the trade with that country ; and that Spain for six long years had been allowed to im pose discriminating duties upon our trade, as to give her ships an advantage of from 30 to 200 per cent. He trusted the Noble Lord would be able to state what securities he was enabled to offer, that the commerce of this country would be placed upon a firm and fixed basis. Lord PALMERSTON said the speech of the Noble Lord had relieved him from much apprehension. At all events, it had gratified his curiosity to know what were the points upon which the Noble Lord wished to affix any blame upon the present Government, with re spect to our foreign trade. He confessed that he was at a loss to know what points the Noble Lord could find, upon which he could frame a plausible ground for censure, and he hardly expected that he would have fallen so short as he had done. Instead of taking a large view of our commercial affairs throughout the world, he had confined himself to two or three points, upon which he (Lord P.) would easily show that the Government were not at all obnoxious to blame. It was curious to see and hear the different tone and language which Hon. Gentlemen used when calling upon the Government to protect trade, and the tone and language used by them when the Government had taken measures for such a purpose:---(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, however, upon the present occasion, had even gone beyond the example of former days, for In called upon him (Lord P.) to state how long he would allow France to continue the blockade of Buenos A). res—when Portugal would afford British shipping any advantage, and when he intended to oblige Spain to conclude a commercial treaty with us. Now, it England was to be dictator of the world, such language would be all very well, and the Government might be to blame for not doing as the Noble Lord wislied ; but so long as nations were independent, language of that sort was used without any just foundation The Noble Lord had begun by observing on the inter ruption of our intercourse with Mexico, which was cer• tainly rather on unhappy topic with which to commence a speech, the object of which was to prove a studied and habitual neglect by the Government of the com mercial interests of the country ; because, at least in Mexico, the Government had, with considerable exer tion, succeeded in bringing about an amicable arrange ment between France and Mexico, by which great em barrassment to commerce had been put an end to ; and that instance he should have referred to to-night if the Noble Lord kid not, as a' proof of the successful attention of the Government to the commercial inter ests cf the country.—( Hear, hcar.) The Noble Lord also found fault with the Government for having allowed two months to intervene between the reception of a cer tain report of the premature imposition of a fresh duty on British goods, and the sending out instructions to our Minister to remonstrate against it, but he begged to assure the Noble Lord the instructions on this matter could not be sent out until it had been ascertained from their legal advisers on what grounds their remonstrance should be placed, and also what it was to which we were entitled, and he (Lord P.) therefore thought a delay of two months was perfectly compatible with strict attention to the interests of our commerce.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to Buenos Ayres, it was true that our commerce, rind the commerce of America too (for although the Noble Lord said America was not so patient as England, he begged to differ from him in that respect, for it was much complained of in the United St3tes)—that the Govern ment had shown too great patience, and though they did not relinquish their nghts, tor the less press them, yet they abstained from any reciprocation of violence.—( Hear, hear.) But it was true that America and ourselves had suffered great inconvenience from the blockade of the River Plate, but the Noble Lord was mistaken in supposing that the British Government had not taken every possible means of bringing the quarrel to an amicable adjustment. It was of course impossible for him at present to state to the Noble Lord all the various de tails of these efforts and negociatiorni. The Noble Lord said that what had been done he knew not, and because be knew not, be assumed they had done nothing ; but he could assure the Noble Lord he (Lord Sandon) was quite mis taken, and he (Lord P.) had the satisfaction of saying, that he hoped from the nature of the communications the French Government had made, or were about to make to the Government of Buenos Ayres, the two parties would shortly come to a friendly termination of their differences, and he could assure the Noble Lord that no efferts would be want on the part of ; the British Government to bring about so desirable result ; but when the Noble Lord asked how long England would permit a great country like France to pursue a quarrel with an independent country like Buenos Apes, he thought the Noble Lord was expressing him self in a way which he would not wish to be understood as his deliberate opinion of the mode in which ho would deal with matters of this kind.—( Hear, hear.) It was true that the inconvenience, as the Noble Lord stated, was peculiarly great in consequence of the perishable nature of the commochties which we received in return for our ex y c p arr ea: heel related aaet could Ae.omciumt b loe u ode r only cai hwesyAsa: assure or em e hs oh r e i tni enhpeat ofe w a s wN n a o o r b t he t h a v e An l e go s r s dp a r ffo hadteec c t t e e d d b d the Noble ot b loef conveyedijtohred that question themat America from moefr c p ao blockade,rt respectedtop o b port, two Ante. averted, A T ni h eo e .f that blockade, and had been urgent in stating the incon venience to her commercial interests in consequence of it. —( Hear, hear.) With regard to Monte Video the Noble Lord admitted he knew of no evils arising thence, and it would, therefore, be time enough to discuss them when they actually occurred. With respect to Portugal it was perfectly true that the retaliatory duty which we had laid on in consequence of the discriminating duty imposed on our vessels by the Portuguese Government, was not quite sufficient in operation to be a complete retaliation, but we had gone to the full extent the law allowed us. The House was not to suppose that the very narrow-minded and prejudiced system of commerce, which Portugal had for some four or five years past pur sued, had been beneficial to that country, while it had been injurious to others. The interests of commerce in Portugal bad suffered by the commercial system they had pursued, and he believed the Portuguese Government began to find its error, and that there was arising a dis position on their part to come to some arrangement for the mutual advantage of the commerce of both countries. It was idle to suppose that any one country could adopt a system of prohibition, and thereby derive great advantage over other countries ; for if that were so, every country would adopt it ; and thefact was, the experience of a short time would convince every country which did so, that it was as injurious to itself as to those against whom it was levied.—( Hear, hear.) It was only necessary for a coun try to taste the bitter fruits of such a system to bring it to a more enlightened view of its own com mweirtchi a r l e g interests p a a i s o hwoel did a n s ot t k h n a o t w o w f h c o t t h h o e r r t h e n a ß ti o o e n r s d . o o f f t Trade o o n had t r y i s b u o e t d h r e e t a th li o a u to g rz t o t r h d o e r s s a t o g a a t i i p o s o t t o h f e S shipping of that country, but he thought the situation of Spain forr so me years past would account for some degree of forbear satnacoedi. o T g h ; h o e c p i r r c o u p in h e s t s a i o n: e: f we th r e e n H o w o a n . ear G ly e n o t v l e e r m , a n n o , tw w i tnhe pledged all t h e i r wisdom an d ski ll political affairs oceartatihneLe ( en H 's ear ca a us n e d and the And not only so, bat Don Carlos had failed, and he trusted rin T h h a e d virtually, if s uccessutter failure Donof if not entirely, ceased. — he might now say that the ceased.—(Hear, now come when Spain would be called on to liberalize her C th a e rlos Q . a w r, a r h i e n a hear. ) Oak to ,Ipply .o.r 11 return. - on.—(licar, system of n av i ga ti on , or to expect those retaliatory mea sures we were bear.) He hoped, however, that a country which had established her liberties in the way Spain had done had imbibed enlightened principles of commerce:which would lead her to consult her own interest, more even than that of the nations who traded with her, by sweeping away all those antiquated systems of traffic so manifestly injurious, and adopting an enlightened system of com merce which would give full scope to the trade of other nations as well as her own. With regard to Bilboa dis cusisons were still going on. We had net yet persuaded the Spanish authorities to view the matter in the same light with ourselves, but at the same time, perhaps, we were not al. ways as open to conviction as we should be on points in which foreign countries differed from us, and some allowance should be made for the indisposition of the local authorities to admit the justice of our pretensions. That point he could assure the Noble Lord was not lost sight of, nor would it be neglected. The Noble Lord (Lord Sandon) had touched these few points as a proof of the neglect which had been shown towards the commerce of the country by a Government which he said had boasted that no former Government had ever shown half so much attention to it. He (Lord P.) be gge d to di sc l a i m t h e arithmetical proportion. He had never presumed to state that as the particular measure of their exertions, but he bad said, and with truth, that he believed no former Go vernment had given so much attention as the present to our commercial interests, and, he mi g h t a dd , nor h a d at tended to them with quite the same success.—( Hear. ) The Noble Lord had said that the present Gevernment might have conferred some benefits on the country as re garded its foreign relations, but that th ose b ene fi ts were un k now n beyond the precincts of Downing-street. In that, however, he (Lord Palmerston) differed from the Noble Lord. The results of the foreign policy of the Go vernment were known in the commercial affairs of the country ; and he felt that commerce had derived great benefit from the proceedings of the Government, and that it was likely in future to derive still greater benefit from t h em . But he would not take up the time of the House with cases which had been discussed before; and if the Noble Lord was fond of founding his arguments on the proofs afforded by facts, and if the r esu l t was to be the cri terion of the meritof Ministers,he would just call the attention of the Noble Lord to the different amount of our exports and imports in different years, because he thought that they might * least be entitled to say th at if, d ur i ng th e period they had been charged with the G overnment o f th e country, its exports and imports had continued steadily to increase, that would be a sufficient proof that whatever complaints might be made—and well-founded complaints might be made on special subjects from time to time— whatever complaints might be made by particular interests, it should be admitted, on the whole, that if Ministers had not paid attention to the commerce of the country, they were at least very fortunate in finding that that commerce bad gone on progressively increasing, in spite of their ne glect. He would give a statement of the exports from the United Kingdom in different years, commencing with the year 1830, as it was the year which 1111. mediately preceded that for which they were to answer. The total value of our exports in the year 1830 was 38,000,000/. ; in 1831 it was somewhat less, having been but 37,000,0001. ; in 1832 it was 38,000,000/. ; in 1833 it was 39,000,0001. ; in 1834 it was 41,000,000/. ; in 1835 it was 47,000,000/. ; in 1836 it was 55,000,000/. ; in 1837 it was 42,000,000/. ; in 1838 it was 50,000,000/. ; and in last year it was 53,000,0001. These returns showed that our exports have increased from 1830 to 1839 from the value of 38,000,0001. to the value of 53,000,0001., certainly a very large increase. But it might be said that they might augment their exports without making anything by it, because they might give away their commodities or sell them for a value which was not equal to the cost of their production. If, however, it appeared that at the same time and in the same proportion our imports had in creased, and if the value of what we had got in return for our productions kept pace with the augmentation in those productions, it appeared to him that it would be clearly esta blished thereby that the trade of the the country had pro gressively improved. In the year 1830 our imports amount ed to 46,000,000/. ; in 1831 to 49,000,0001. ; in 1832 to 44,000,000/. ; in 1833 to 45,000,000/. ; in 1834 to 49,000,0001. ; in 1835 to 48,000.0001. ; in 1836 to 57,000,000/ ; in 1837 to 54,000,0001. ; in 1838 to 61,000,000/. ; and in 1839 to 62,000,000/.—(Hear, hear.) Our imports had therefore increased since 1830 from 46,000,000/. to 62,000,000/. Those facts proved, when they took our exports and imports together, that notwith standing the local and temporary checks to which our ' commerce had been exposed, and to which the commerce of every country which, like England, has au intercourse with the entire habitable globe, must, from time to time, be exposed. Notwithstandi,,g such checks, the commerce of the country has, on the whole, gone on steadily im. proving, and duri ng the period be had men tioned, it had increased in the ratio of not much less than two to three. He maintained therefore that the Government had paid a genertl atten don to the interests of the commerce of the country, and that they had given it greater security by their treaties and arrangements with foreign countries; and he contended that the Noble Lord had not, either by facts or arguments, established against the Government a charge of anything like a neglect of our commercial affairs, and that under their mai.agement they had greatly improved. Under those circumstances, he thought he was not only justified in repelling the charges of the Noble Lord, but that he bad established a claim for some pretension at least, on the part of Ministers, to a successful attention to the commer. clef interests of ttie country.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. NIACLE AN said that the Noble Lord need not have attacked his Noble Friend in the manner he had done, for in the last sentence of his Noble Friend's speech he had expressly told the House that he should circum scribe his views to those insulated portions of foreign po licy to which he had in the commencement of his speech alluded; and he had expressly excluded from his views that most important portion of our foreign relations— those relating to the East ; but the Noble Lord had made a speech which was calculated to mislead the country as to the object of his Noble Friend's address. He had given quotations showing an increase in our commerce from 1830 to 1840, but he had forborne to point out for what portion of that increase we were indebted to our colonies, and for what the great vigilance with which our foreign relations were conducted. The Noble Lord could not surely forget how, Session after Session, his at tention had been drawn to the manner in which the most important subjects connected with our commerce were treated by the Foreign-office. Cod , ' he forget the re peated animadversions that had been, not only from that side the House, but by one who might be supposed to be in the confidence of the Government, on the course pur sued by the Government relating to that most important branch of our commerce, the gum trade, and the attacks by the French on British commerce at Portendic and Se negal. That affitir, it appeared, was still the subject of negotiation, and the British merchant, who was suffering year after year, must rest satisfied with the assurance of the Noble Lord that in time he hoped those negotiations would be brought to a satisfactory termination. The Noble Lord could not, it seemed, obtain any satisfactory commer cial treaty with Portugal or with Spain. But the Noble Lord said Spain was pacified, but that had not been in con sequence of the interference of the British Government. It had been owing at last to the energy of the French Go vernment, which, although it had bound the parties to the Quadripartite Treaty during the early part of the tvar,:ad at last thought. proper to act in a more energetic manner, and to that, and not to the policy of the Noble Lord, the issue of that contest was to be attributed. But let not the Noble Lord flatter himself that the issue of that contest had been favourable to this country. Did he not know that those to whom in a great measure the success of that issue might be attributed, were now wandering about the streets of Loadon in a state of poverty which was a disgrace not only to the Spanish Government, but to the British Govern ment also? Did not the Spanish Government also owe this country an immense debt for arms and ammunition ? and yet such was our want of influence with that country that the Noble Lord had confessed not only that he could not obtain a treaty of commerce, but that he could not ever obtain a grant of money for the liquidation of claims, the justice of which the Government itself acknowledged. He considered that this was an eternal disgrace to that country, in whose cause these brave men had shed their blood like water.—( Cheers.) With regard to the state of affairs in the East, and to our commercial relations in the Black Sea, he could assure the Noble Lord that early in the next Session the whole of that subject would be brought fully before the House. That part of our foreign policy was involved in the greatest obscurity. He bad never understood whether the assent of the Government had been given to the Treaty of Adrianople. The Noble. Lord had never given any opinion during the discussion of the affairs of the Vixen on that subject ; it was in obscuro whether Russia possessed Circassia in virtue of the 6th article of that treaty. It was doubtful to him whether Turkey had a right to cede, or Russia to take Circassia. It was a question, however, which would very likely be set at rest by the efforts of that magnificent race of men who inhabited those regions, and who bad driven their oppressors from their strongholds and laid open 200 miles of coast to British commerce. He should be glad to hear that it was the intention of the British Government to prevent any renewal of the secret article of the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, which shut up the Darda. nelles, and by preventing British ships of war from enter.. ing the Black Sea, made the freedom of British commerce in that sea a perfect farce. The period was now approach. ing for the cessation of that treaty, and be hoped the Bri tish Government would act with energy in defence of the freedom of British commerce in the Black Sea.—( Hear.) He could not but deplore the speech of the Noble Lord the other night, who, although he confessed the integrity of Cracow Was guaranteed by solemn treaty, that the English and French Governments w ere pl e d ge d to support the independence of Cracow, and h a d ma d e rem onstrances o n what was ad mitted to be a shameful violation of that:treaty, by an attack upon the ind e p en d ence o f Cracow, '.et said that Russia, Austria, and P russ i a were powerful, an d that it was ne cessary to act with p ru d ence , it would be unjusti fiable to plunge th e nat i on in a war, and that the B ritish Government m ust b e sat i s fi e d with a simple remonstrance, when a s o l emn treaty h a d been flagrantly v iolated. He was certain the N o bl e L or d did not me an to conve y such an impressi o n, b u t t h e i m pression produced abroad b y that speech wou ld b e , that when a State was weak, like N a pl es , t h e B r itish Government wou l d act with energy , and that but when it was strong, as France was, such affairs as the blockade of Buenos Ayres and Mexico would be passed over with impunity. He did not believe that the Noble Lord m ean t t h at, but such a declaration from the Foreign Minister of this country remaining unexplained, would induce a belief that in such cases as that of Russia, we might be defied with impunity, that our flag might be in sulted, and our commerce injured ; and as we we were afraid of vindicating our honour at the expense of a war, we would now submit to insults to which in former times we should not have submitted. (Cheers.) The Noble Lord said that to his policy the Queen of Portugal owed her Throne, and the Queen of Spain her's ; yet notwithstanding this great debt of gratitude, the Noble Lord's influence was so weak that be could not obtain a treaty of commerce on that occasion with either of these countries. With regard to Mexico, it was true the difference between that country and France had been settled by the intervention of England, but two years had elapsed before that settlement bad been made, and while the Noble- Lord had been iregotiating, the English toes. chants were starving. There was another question which would be a subject of discussion on a future occa sion, as very little had been said on it during the present Session—he meant the opium trade with China.—( Shouts of laughter from the Ministerial benches.) He should not go into that at present, as if he did so he feared the House would not extend that indulgence to him which they had hitherto so kindly granted him. But the Noble Lord should recollect that while he was negotiating with the Chinese, the unfortunate merchants in England, and the still more unfortunate Parsee merchants of Bombay and Calcutta, were suffering grievously from a state of things which he in his conscience believed to have been produced through the acts of the Foreign-office. All these matters would come under consideration on some future occasion during the next Session, and the Noble Lord might depend on it that he would not then have to express his regret that the subject had been only lightly touched on.—( Cheers.) Mr. HA WES had heard with astonishment the speech of the Noble Lord (Sandon), who began with Brazil and Buenos Ayres, and eonclued with Portugal.—(Hear and a laugh.) In the former, the Noble Lord wanted armed blockades, and in the latter, retaliating duties. He had hoped that the Noble Lord—the representative of a great commercial city—the City of Liverpool—( Cheers)—would have pointed out some means of opening a new prospect to the commerce of the country. The panacea for all our difficulties recommended by the Gentleman who followed was, cannon-'.alls.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") He said " Yes, yes," for wherever he heard the words " vigorous measures" from Tory lips, he interpreted them into cannon-balls. He had heard nothing from the Noble Lord, or from the Hon. Gentleman who followed him, upon the improvement of trade by taking off the fiscal re strictions upon commerce, the exchange of manufactures, or the supply of food. When the Noble Lord spoke r.t such length about his desire to extend the commerce of the country, how did it happen that he was opposed to every proposition which could be made for extending that com merce ?—( Cheers.) If the Noble Lord would come for ward with any measure havin g for its object the real ex trication of the commerce of the country from unneces sary and pernicious trammels, he (Mr. Hawes) would die happy in his support.—(Cheers and laughter.) Lord SA NDON said, that if the revenue was in a flourishing condition, he would support a proposition for the reduction of duties ; but as there was at present a positive and acknowledged deficiency, he could not be the person to propose a reduction. Mr. EMERSON TENNENT said that one of the consequences of allowing the blockade of Mexico to con tinue two years had been to compel Mexico to pay the ex orbitant demands of France, by laying on a duty of 25 per cent. upon English goods. A similar result would follow, if the blockade of Brazil were allowed to continue. He should like to know what protection had been afforded to the commerce of the country of Brazil by the policy of the Noble Lord ?—( Hear, hear%) The question of Para had been five years under the consideration of the Noble Lord, and he had made no progress in that. The subjects of this country had suffered much from the commerce with Brazil; and from his own intercourse with the merchants of Liverpool, he believed that not one of them placed any confidence in the iEterference of the Noble Lord. Mr. SHIEL thought the course pursued by the Honourable Member who had just sat down most unfair and extraordinary, because he had made complaints against the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs after he had answered the statements of the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool, and when the Hon. Mem ber for Belfast knew, by the forms of that House, the Noble Lord was prevented from speaking again. Notwithstand ing all that had been said to the contrary, he would venture to say that great good had been effected towards the com merce of the country by the policy pursued by the Noble Lord. The Right Hon. Gentleman showed from returns that since the Reform Bill passed the exports of the coun try had greatly increased ; the difference of the exports in 1837 and 1827 amounted to upwards of 16 millions, show ing that the policy of the Government had not been detri mental to the commerce of the country. Mr. MACLEAN explained. Mr. D'ISRA EL I regretted that the Noble Lord had not taken such a favourable opportunity of entering into a defence of the foreign policy of the present Government; he for one could not allow the discussion to close without saving that in his opinion the commerce of this country had been much neglected by the Noble Lord.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, through the painful circumstances in which he was placed had been obliged to sacrifice the trade of the country with the Euxine. Russia would not assist him, and then he, remembering his old principles, fell back upon Conserva tive Austria, and boasted in that House of the Austrian Treaty and the navigation of the Danube. He did not find fault with that policy of the Noble Lord, he thought it we; most excellent. His policy was the traditionary policy of the country. The question was how were we to regain the commerce which we had lost during the last nine years by the eccentric and erratic policy of the No ble Lord ? The Noble Lord had sown seeds which might mature themselves in such a manner as to shake the em pire to its centre. Mr. EWA RT said the Noble Lord who brought for ward the motion had entered extensively into our foreign relati(o,s, but he thought there were questions of much more moment to the people of this country than those then before the House. The restrictions on our commerce did not rise from the policy of Ministers, but from the state of the law, and it was in that House that that law tound its supporters. It was not by details that he wished to judge of the merit of the foreign policy of Ministers, but by its ge neral tendency ; and he should acknowledge that so judged that policy had been successful, and could not but deserve his approval. He was happy, too, to find that that policy had been a policy of peace, for it was under a system of peace done that commerce could flourish.—( Hear. ) Lord INGESTRIE said that in his opinion the foreign policy of Ministers had been characterised by succumbing to the claims of the strong and by bullying the weak. _ _ After a few words from Mr. ELLIOT the subject was dropped. The (louse went into Committee pro forma, and then resumed; the Chairman reported progress and obtained leave to sit again on Friday. LOAN SOCIETIES BILL. On the Ortier of the Day being moved for receiving the Report on the Loan Societies Bill, Mr. J. A. SMITH said that ho understood the societies would give up the power of fining which they at present posses=ed, and he would propose, in consequence, that they might rai:.e the interest from 12 to 15 per cent. He would therefore move the introduction of charges such as he had mentioned in the 9th and 26th clauses.—The' t por tion of the clause relating to fines was then ordered to be struck out, and the necessary alteration ordered to be made in the one relating to the rate of interest to raise it to i 5 per cent. Mr. HAWES suggested the propriety of enabling the Loan Societies to make a charge for making inquiries into the solvency of the sureties. This was necessary to induce capital to flow in the direction of those societies. Mr. J. SMITH fully admitted the importance of not discouraging these societies. He thought 15 per cent. sufficient to give a remunerating rate of interest to those who embarked their monies in these societies. He be lieved the system of fines to be injurious, as leading to the wr.nt of caution in making the proper preliminary inquiries as to the solvency of the borrowers. He hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not offer any opposition to the Bill in its present state. Sir DE LACY EVANS said he believed some of these societies were actually losing money. The Report was received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Friday next. The Church Buildings Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be brought up on Wednesday next. The Blenheim Palace Bill was read a second time. The Orders of the Day upon Court of Chancery ( Ire lani) and some other Bills were postponed for three months. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT.-JULY 22. DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAILWAY COMPANY V. HAWN-JUDGMENT. The MASTER of the ROLLS in the middle of the day, on seeing the learned Counsel who argued the case, in Court, stated that he had read over the papers with the best attention, and was of opinion the injunc tion issued ag inst the defendant could not be sus tained. The injunction was therefore dissolved with costs,, SHERIFFS' COURT, JULY 21. (Before J. BURCHELL, Esq.) BURGHART ANC ANOTHER V. MELTON. This was an action to recover the sum of five gui neas, the price charged for a waistcoat. The defendant, an attorney, pleaded a tender of 2/. 10s. The plaintiffs' attorney stated that his clients were fashionable tailors, residing in Piccadilly. They were in the habit of supplying noblemen and gentlemen who indulged in external expenses with the newest fashions. The waistcoat supplied to the defendant was of that character—it was D'Orsian.—(Laughter.) The UNDER-SHERIFF —It was what ? The Attorney—l believe I have coined a word. The U N DER•SHERIFF—That may account for our not u nderstanding you. The Attorney then went on to state that the de fendant called at the plaintiffs' shop, and selected a . waistcoat which had been made for a fashionable man, which he wished to have for some assembly he was going to. He was told it would be charged five gui neas, but he replied, " Oh, book it to me," and put it on and went away. Maurice Weygood, the plaintiffs' foreman, proved the defendant calling and trying on a waistcoat. The garment was here prodced. It seemed to be of black silk, with flower sprigs on it. The appearance, in connection with the price charged, evidently surprised Court, Jury, and spectators. Weygood—This is the waistcoat. I believe the go vernor charged five guineas for it. When the defendant tried on the waistcoat witness told him it was too large for him. The UNDER-SHERIFF—What was that for ? Witness—l did not know him at first, and I did not want him to take it away.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. LUCAS (defendant's Counsel)—Then you told him a lie ? Witness—He gave me his card afterwards. The UNDER-SHERIFF—Did it fit him then ? Witness—When I tied him to the size. —(Roars of laughter.) The witness further stated that the waist coat was taken away, and that in his opinion it was worth 41. 10s. Adolphus Salmon, a tailor in Piccadilly, valued it at 41. 4s. The Jury here sbolVed some impatience, and were about to give their verdict. The UNDT:R-Sflrßir? told them, if ther r:,•ere opinion the waistcoat was not worth wore than 2/. 10s., . they could now give their verdict for the defendant, as the tender was clearly proved. The Jury instantly found for the defendant without hearing the other witnesses. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A black boy, named John Smith, was brought before the LORD MAYOR by Sergeant Williams, an intelligent officer of the City Police, having applied at the station house for a refuge. The officer stated that he had made some hitherto ineffectual inquiries about the poor boy, who, if he spoke the truth, was greatly to be pitied, for deep marks of flogging covered his back, and he had about him other evidences of ill treatment. The boy, who was dressed in sailor's clothes, and ap peared to be about 14 or 1.5 years of age, said that he had had a very hard time of it for the last ten years, having been kidnapped at the Tower when he was be tween four and five years old, and sold as a slave at New Orleans. The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean that you were stolen by the Captain of a ship ? The boy replied that he meant to say that while he and four other coloured boys and a white boy were at play about ten years ago on Tower-wharf; they were all taken on board a vessel by the Captain, and conveyed to New Orleans, where he and the boys of the same colour were sold into slavery, in which they remained for a great length of time. He well remembered the circumstance of the kidnapping, but his tender years prevented him, by his account, from having any accurate recollection of previous occur rences. He know, however, that his father and mother at the time he was stolen resided somewhere about the To wer. The LORD MAYOR—Take care that you tell me no thing but the truth. If you are found out in a false hood you will be punished. The boy said that he never would have gone to the station-house to tell what had happened to him if he did not mean to tell the truth. The Captain placed them all in the bottom of the boat when he took them at Tower-stairs. The LORD MAYon.—What was his name ? The boy—l don't know. The LORD MAYOR—What was the ship's name ? The boy—l never heard the name of it. One of the officers of the police said that he believed the boy was the son of a black who had been big drum mer to the Guards, and had died some time ago. There had been, he believed, some noise made about the dis appearance of a coloured child from the neighbourhood above mentioned, but as children frequently were miss ing at the time, and, in all probability, owing to " Burke's gang,' the curiosity soon died away. Mr. Hobler (to the boy)—Are you sure that you have not ran away from your master? The boy—No, Sir, I never ran away. Mr. Hobler—How were you employed at New Or leans ? The boy—ln picking tobacco and oakum. Mr. Hobler—And you don't know the name of the Captain who stole you ? Tile boy—l do not. I never heard his name. Mr. Hobler—To whom did he sell you ? The boy —To a slave-owner of the name of Brown, and Mr. Brown sold me to a driver. Sergeant Williams said that the boy's back had marks of woful punishment upon it. The heart of any one of feeling would bleed to look upon it. Mr. Hobler observed that cruel punishment was cer tainly the lot of the slave, but he had known some English captains who anticipated the horrors of the system. He feared the poor boy was a runaway. The boy cried most bitterly, and seemed to be alarmed at the idea of the lash, which had been evi dently laid upon him by some miscreant who was fond of blood. He was an object of great compassion, whether regarded as a victim to the commander of slaves, or the commander of a ship. The LORD MAvoa directed that inquiry should be made into the statement. Inspector Williams mentioned to his Lordship that he had not had time to make the necessary investiga tion, but he should at once apply in the proper quarter for information. The boy had called voluntarily at the station-house, and stated that some of the officers of the regiment to which be believed his father belonged, had caused him to be set free. It was also said that the boy's father had been a watchman at the Tower, but had been some time dead. :The LORD Mon—Let the poor fellow be taken good care of in the Compter until inquiry can be made. I am of Mr. Hobler's opinion that he has run away from his ship. The Boy—Oh, no, Sir, I am telling truth indeed ; lam not a runaway. I have come from slavery. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, don't be alarmed, my poor boy. You have suffered a great deal evidently, whatever you may have done, and you shall be pro tected, Go with that officer and tell him the truth, if you have concealed it at all. The Boy—Oh, Sir, I have told nothing but the truth. The Lotto MAYOR—You got that lashed back at New Orleans, dal you? Tile Boy—l did, Sir ; I was lashed for anything. nothing but lashing. The !arge tears rolled down the cheeks of the poor unhappy creature as he repeated the assurances that he v,•as taken from his parents and sold into the possession of one who knew how to support the murderous charac ter of a slave-driver. COURT OF REQUESTS, TOWER HAMLETS. A TALE OF A TUB,—" Burke against Riley." shouted the crier, as soon as the Commissioners had taken their seats on the bench. " Here stonds Norah Burke, yer banner, that's me self," exclaimed a she bogtrotter, from the back of the Court ; " but as for Judy Riley, bad luck to her, it's not the likes in herself that dare show head before yer banners at all at all." " I.isv wid yer, mother Burke," said Mrs. Riley, rushing forward, "here 1 em me rale self." COMNIISSIONER—What is the matter there ? Mrs. Burke—" Me tub, yer harmers, me tub, Judy Riley bruk it intirely." By dint of inquiry the Commissioners elicited from Mrs. Burke, that she lodged in the same house with the defendant, who being about to perpetrate a " heavy wash" borrowed the plaintiff's tub, and, before return ing it, happened to burst the bottom in, in which condition she returned it, " full," as the plaintiff ex pressed it, " of apologus," which, however, turned nut to be a poor substitute for the bottom. The value of the tub was 35., to recover which proceedings were in stituted in this Court by Mrs. Burke. " Yer banners," said Mrs. Burke, " Judy kim into me room and axed for the loan ov me tub, which, being a nibor, yer banners, or koorse I couldn't refuse ; but, would ye bclave it, Judy let Tim, which same is her own husband, sit on it, and bruk in the bottom." COMMISSIONER—Was the tub worth 35.? Plaintiff—Sure it was worth a great dale more, but I let Judy off aizy, being an owld kind. COMMISSIONER—That was very considerate of you. Pray, how do you obtain a subsistence? Plaintiff-1 7 er harmer, I stond in Whitechapel wid me shallow and me bit ov fruit ; and it's a dale ov throuble I have to arn a crust. Faith, 1 wish Misther O'Connell and the Parliament jintleman ud get justice to poor owld :reland, and thin it's more thrade I'd be getting. CommissioNEa—Ab, wait till you get the repeal of the Union, and then, perhaps, you will sell more goose berries.—(Laughter.) Plaintiff—l'm thinking I would, yer harmer. COMMISSIONER—WeII, Mrs. Riley, what have you. got to say about the tub ? Defendant—Yer wurtchip, it's thrifling misfortunate I was in letting me old man sit on the tub, but thin it's short ov sates we arc. COMMISSIONER—WeII, you must pay for your mis• fortune. Defendant—\Vid yer wurtchip's lave, I'd be asking for arnonth's grace, considering Tim's out ov work. After some further discussion, the Commissioners agreed to allow the defendant the time she required to pay it in. 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Vol. 3 will be published early in August. Patronized by their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess Ester hazy, the Princesses 'Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Can terbury, and the Dukes of Devonshire and Manchester. In addition to the above distinguished patronage to the newly.. invented Spectacle Lenses and Invisible Operative Voice Con , ductor, th e M essrs. S. and B. Solomons, O pt i c i ans an d Aurists, N o . 39 Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, and No. 76, King William -street, Bank of England, feel great pleasure in stating that their valuable inventions have also gained the sanction and unqualifiecl-egrobation of above four hula dred of the principal mliktiers of the medical profession ; as also of numerous individuals of high distinction, who have been greatly benefited by their use. Immediately these im proved Spectacle Lenses are placed before extrem mperfect vision, it is at once brought back to its natural and original state, every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most mi nute particle is seen, either by day or candlelight, with ease and distinctness. Their Voice Conductor, by which thousands of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, are not the least perceptible, nor more uncomfortable, than having a piece of wool in its place, and the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with exact distinctness.--39, Allje .. rnarle4tr . ept, and .. 411!ithil-strett, bank. No ecinne(:tioif wILL I)ersont of the same name. EVENING- EiATI DN. SPA IN. --..~--- BARCELONA, JULY 14.—E3p atter° arrived here yes ter day at twelve, leaving his advaciend guards t Marton .11; the ayuntamientos went out to meet and add :ess him, the whole body of the inhabitants await,...d hi's entry by the gate St. Antonio ; several English ofh‘c". 2l " • ro , Ic with his staff. His escort consisted of a aqua in3n of ca selected from all the regiments of the utirxls ', an d o r a company of guides, The people surrouni tert he Ge treral on all sides, kissi ig his horse's legs, feet, tai] &c.„ and covering both horse and rider with branches am I crow r i ,s of laurel. Espartero, separated from his staff, a ppea;..e ito be carried by the crowd, and was escorted tot .1 hen ise • in habited by the Duchess, in the Plaza Santa A arta. AV hen he came forward on the balcony to express I as tbanki :ho was loudly cheered will shouts of " Es?artsi to for CV. r." The provincial deputation proceeded to his hotel to iha" rangue the General, who in all his specs' ies careful ly avoided making any allusion to public affair s, and spoke' warmly of his attachment to the laws of his country and to the thron.! of Isabela. At six in the evening the Duke, accomp e nied by hill lady and his aides de camp, proceeded to the Palace, and had an audience, which lasted two hours, with. the Queen. Both as he went and as he returned ile was lot Idly cheerer l i by the population, and it is said that th‘e ayulai =lento wa $ no stranger to the popular enthusiasm, as tb a general rs considered by the liberal party as hostil , 1 to the preset it Ministry, and to the bills respecting the al, atti4 tmientos ju Et voted by the Cortes. The aynntamiento intends Presenting the General this afternoon, in the name of the towniavith a .laurel erJwn, beautifully wrought in silver, and of conside table va' Aue . The middling classes, the National Guard, and t.tie pro vincial deputation approve the conduct of the and especially the law on the ayuntamientos, whi. Ili is about to be sanctioned by the Queen. Some persons have spread the report of a change being likely to take pla, - te in the Ministry : but tit is is not ge nerally credited. It is expected that the Queen will sanc tion the above-mentionol law. Serious even t.:; are at hand. Espartero is to take the nth -nmand of t. 11 the Royal Guards. Valdes is to command all the pr 3vincial mi litias. Espartero is also to prese.” e the am wand of the The two armies have received a . army he has brought with him, an, l I ,sw orb tnisation, in that it Catalonia. Tristany, w h o i s st ill at t h e h ea d ( virtue of a R o y a l d ecree . )f a f ew hundred miscreants, has left the province of ' .. l 7urrai lona, and IS approaching the French frontier. 0, 'ders have been given to pursue him vigorously ; and he will soon be brought to Barcelona, dead or alive, unle, via .he hasten 30 take refuge in France. CORN AVERAGEt4. • ttt AL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITIE 'EI CORN , For the Week ended July 0, 1840, made up from t he Returns the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in , England Ant , Wales. per Imperial Quarter. Wheat Pd. Oats Barle7 c,33. lld. I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE S 1 X. WEEES PRECEDING. Wheat Nils. Id. Oats .... OA. I Beans.. sd. B I Barley s ., 353. 3i, Rye '36'3 :ht. Pease....., ...44;. DUTIES ON FOREIGN . COIL'S. Wheat........ Pcl. I Oats Barley 9s. 4(1. Eye moms , rianrameagememeom. THE MARKE'fS. COAL II s arrived s nce lARKET. last if.arket.day, 41. s. d. Blaydon Main l7 0 Buddle's West Hartley 2ll Chester H lywell Ma n 6 Original Windsor's Pouto, 13 0 Ord's Bedhugh Pontop Windsor IS 9 Tan ti elsl , Moor 4 2l 3 Townley Wylain l9 6 Walls End Hilda 2O (1 Walls End Killingworth W. E. Braddyll's Hetton Walls End Haswell Walls End Lambton 23 W. E. North Helton Lyons 21 3 S. d, Walls Encrl'entb( , rton Walls End Stewart '5 ...... - 'S 3 Walls E,d Whit's , '!1 Walls End Hartlel), )ol 231 10 Walls End Kelloe MON End Md.:isle . Walls End Brown's) Deanery'::`.l. 3 Walls End Evenvvo, td . Walls End Maclean' a 'l'ees :. '2O Walls End Tees o. 8 Walls End West Te es l9 A 0 Walls End Devons.ai re l9 u Cowpen .... Llangeranec.'l Coal ............ 0 5 u Stavely Man,' Silkstone Clt Cs lB 6 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. j Barley. j Oats. 1 Beans. — 1 Pear:. ------- - Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. a. to S. S. to s, sto 4 . Batton Braintree B, ighton 7O 79 30 40 28 32 45 50 49 3 Cambridge — 6.3 33 61 41 ..... 4 Chichester 65 72 38 44 28 29 43 14 41 42 Dunmow 65 74 33 40 26 34 36 ,12 45 48 G ra ntham Grimsby 5B 70 35 39 22 26 142 44 1 --, --; Hailsham Hitchin C3 77 122 33 26 35 28 ao' - - 7, Ipswich 62 7 0 36 32 24 2E3 138 40 39 4 ' Lewes 7O 78 43 22 29 '34 40 Lynn 63 70 i 32 31 25 71 42 46 42 46 Maidstone B9 76 36 :39 j 26 22 1 40 50 —.---. Norwich l'ctworth Romford 64 80 34 38 26 54 38 46. 40 44 Sandwich 56 77 j 24 43 27 34 33 49 :38 4 ,,,‘ 1 Thetford 6B 76 3.6 40 23 27 140 41: 41 "' Wisbech _ 54 72 Ni 42 2"s 30 44 45 ';', Witham f,7 77 22 40 31 34 42 44 44 . '''': l'armouth 62 70 23 55 26 22 ( .3f , 40 40 4 " LiV ERPOOL CORN MARKET.—JuIy 21, %VIM/a, English, White, per 7010. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 0 9 Red -- Foreign ... . , s 4 , i 1t • OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 4510 4 0 4 1 -- Irish -- Foreign _ 0 0' 00 flSel.tlV, Eril•hsh, Malting, per Imp. quarter ...... ----- scotch and Irish, per (1011,s. , 12 4 4 4,3 28 311' 38 40 34 40 42 40 40 51 , 42 44 .18 50 3is 411. 33 45 40 4il 44 4b 42 44 I .5t4 40 „ 10 3 IS 0 7 0 6 0 ----- Forel, OATS, English Irish , -- Foreign r,ARLEV, EIOIsh, Alalcing, per J rep. quarter Scotch and Irish, pet tiolbs. Fcethng 3 6 13EANs, English, per Inver:al , mart.'. - Irish, &e. -- Foreign PEASE, Englisti, per linperial quarter 44 0 - Foreign Apure, English, per 280114. - Irish . 42 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401 b, :i4 0 INDIAN CORK, per 4801 b. Reg, per ampenal quarter 111wr, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN' MARKET, Wheat, White (per Quarter) sBs. 665. 725. :35 4 0 3 .14 '4 - 44. 0 3: 54, 0 0 40 , 7t , , . lied . ._ 463.ti0;. tl4s. Foreign sos. tiOs. 13 , . Barley, Matting '2s. 31s. 355. Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans ...... ... Pease, Grey ..... .. Blue and White Linseed Flour (per sack) 12,neseed (per 10 quarters) —l. 271. .281 GOLD WATCHES.--A variety of excellent a vd carefully finished Second-hand Gold Watches, many of them accordance with the latest taste, with Gold Dials, Jewelllth &c., are offered for selection, price Eight Guineas each, 3 printed warranty will be given. At T. CO 3AVORY'S, Watchmaker, Gold and Silversmith, 47, Ccrnhill (Sae s doors from Grap. , ,k.e.rh-street ), London. N.B. Second-hand 'fetches purchas ed in exchange. A QUANTITY OF SECOND-HAND SILVEP SPOONS and FORKS are offered for Sal, s, price from 6s. 3(1. to 6s. 9d. per ounce, At T. COX SAVORY': 3, Goldsmith, Silversmith, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors frons Gracecinirch:street), Lond( in. SILVER PLATE of LONDON MANUFAC TURE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Working Gold' smiths, 14, Cornhill, London, s;ppesite the I lank of Eisgla°l, The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, Field Pattern, is. 2d. per ounce; the King's Pat tern, is. 4d. P e ', ounce. The following are tile weights recor, -mended, but OF artcles may be hadlighter or h6av'er at the same price per oun' e a : oz. ~ d. X. ,- 0 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 311 A t 7 2... 10 15 A 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2... 7 2 7 4 , 12 ditto 'table Fares 3t) 7 2... 10 1 5 ' 2 ditto De. Bert ditto 20 4 7 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 2...2. .. 7.1, 1 6 t , : 1 ditto Soup Ladle, 10 7 2... 3 11 - 10 7 t'... 3 16 0 4 ditto Sauce d' .. 4 ditto Sal ' ons ( r•t t strong) i 0 1 ditto Fis i 'lice 2' 1 0 .. 12 ditto Tea Spouts 10 7 8... g lb 0 • I pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong)... D 0 19 King's I'atter 1 Silver Table Spoons 40 at 7 4... 14 1 3 ,, : 12 ditto Dessert ditto °6 7 4... 9 . 4 12 ditto Table Forks 4O 7 4... 14 /, 5 s 12 ditto Dessert ditto 26 7 4.. 910 k . 2 ditto Gravy Spoons - ' 1 ' ditto Soup Ladle l2 7 4... 4 a , 4 ditto Sauce ditto... l2 7 10... 41 4 s 4 ditto Salt spoons (strong gilt) I ditto Fish S'i'v 12 ditto Tea Sttoins - 1 pair ditto Sugar'" ,ngs I , 9 N.B. A Price Current, !;Lanii.,l as a Newspaper, contaiui ing drawings, and every info , natia: - . relative to the purchase ° silver or Sheffield plate, A.s., ae had on application, or will b° sent into the country, postage free, in answer to apaid letter. I THS. On the 9th inst., at Sp nn R ithorne Rectory, the lad,' of the Rev. Robert Pulleine, of a son. Pat - On the 18th inst., at Great Berkhamstead, Mrs. Henry) tisson, of a daughter, still born. On the 18th inst., at Chart Lodge, Kent, the lad y o f Wini 3Ø John Monson, Esq., of twin daughters. On the 19th inst., in Harley-street, Mrs. Thomas Nettle ship, of a son. On the 20th inst., Mrs. Hodgkinson, Upper Thames-stre et, of a son. On the 20th inst., at Tunbridge Wells, the Lady Sarah Taylor, of a son. On the 21st inst., at Little Camden House, Kensingt 4l4 Lady Willock, of a son. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at Ploy, Glocestershire, the Rev. Daniel Capper, A. 11., Rector of Huntley, Glocesterskire, to Iloratiar eldest daughter of Captain Slade, Royal Navy. On the 16th inst., at Christchurch, Lisson-geove, Mr. Usherwood to Miss Julia Wilson. On the 21st inst., at Clifton, George, youngest son of Ji Lewis, Esq., of Harley-street, to Elizabeth Man' , el des daughter of James Cunningham, Esq., of Rodney-place, Clift °- ' and of the Island of Jamaica. On the 21st inst., at St. Paul's, Southsea, Mr. Alfred Can ton, eldest son of Mr. Canton, of St. Martin's-lane, to Jae Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Dr. Anderson, of Glocester place, Southsea. On the 2lst inst., the Rev. James Stephen Hodson, I\l. A'' of .Merton College, eldest son of the Venerablo the Archdeacon of Stafford, to Elizabeth Dorrell, second daughter of the no r ' Bowater James Vernon, late Hon. East India Company's Char lain of the Island of St. Helena. DIED. On the 20th inst., at Woodley Lodge, Berks, Jamas Wh eb le ' Esq., in the 61st year of his age. On the 29th ult., at sea, on board the ship Thames , on het passage from Jamaica to London, Mrs. M'Dougall, wife of C. M'Dougall, Esq., her Majesty's Advocate .General Jamaica. On the 12th inst., at Pau, in France, Sarah, wife ander Bell, Esq., late of Bombay, and Montagu-square, Looc k f On the 13th inst., in Acre-lane, 'Brixton, Mr Joseph Shn'e late of Cannon-street, London, aged 73. On the 18th inst., at Sandgate, ThomasiPalmer Lloyd, Egg" of Old Broad -street, aged 42. On the 20th inst., at the Vicarage, Brighton, Mrs. Henry M. Wavier. On the 20th inst., at Grove House, Clapham, John Town" end, Esq., late of Nottingham, aged 69. of of Ales - On the 20th inst., at Salisbury-place, Mary Neill, *idol, the late Rev. Alexander Waugh, D.D., Minister of the Sco" Secession Church, Well-street, aged 80. '" ' 'ui ed by Ali ( 11“ ( Ili 'KA: i VOX, ill the county of Afjou le y e x. Inursuay, uiy It4o/ / ' P. H . CaPtal Charl c Joh n / SLIPER I The l 'ened 4 aY, tl Place Ng . ( 11' Capital Deniz lii ,corn, ...end II - E For gt. i\L Coffee. IbßtC , s t one, 4 ".__ I Len d tion may Ad corn', T brid g , R, Gil bally. 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