The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-16 00:00:00

EVEN IN 0- EDITION • as a whole was not suited to the present state of the 1 law in Scotland ; he, therefore, hoped the Lea rned Lord would defer the third reading. Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR concurred in the opi nions of his Hon. Friend, and would move, as an amend ment, that the Bill be read a third time on the 7th of May. After a few words from Mr. Fox Maule, the Judge- Advocate, and Sir George Sinclair, the amendment was negatived, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. PRISONS' BILL. Theßeport of thePrisons' Bill having been brought up, Mr. G RE E N E took the opportunity of impressing on the House the necessity of sonic general rule re garded the imprisonment of debtors. Mr. II AWES expressed a hope that the time would come when imprisonment for debt would be entirely abolished. He threw out the suggestion, in the hope the Government would take up the subject, and he trusted the time was not far distant when they would not have any parties in prison for debt except in cases of fraud. Mr. F. MALT LE said the question was one which required to be treated with great delicacy. The object of the present Bill was merely to relieve debtors from the stringency of certain rules at present in force in prisons. Lord G. SOMERSET said there was another point to which the attention of the Government ought to be directed—he meant the exceedingly anomalous position in which the gaolers of county prisons were placed. They were the servants of the High Sheriff, whereas the rules and regulations for the ma nagement of the gaols were made by the County Magistrates. The inconvenience of such an arrange ment ongl,t to be done away with. Mr. W AKLEY hoped the Government would be disposed to go a step further, and take the regulations of gaols altogether out of the hands of the Justices of the Peace. His opinion was that they of all others were the most incompetent for the conduct of such business. The Government should appoint some responsible persons who would be paid for the discharge of their duty, and nt.t act in the factious spirit in which the Magistrates too frequently acted with regard to certain prisoners. Until those re gulations were taken out of tho hands of the Magistrates, the country would never be satisfied. He wished to know whether the Noble Lord had made any regulations with respect to prisoners committed un der the Coroner's warrant, because a short time since he had occasion to have a female prisoner from Clerk enwell to give evidence before him, and upon that pri soner being sent back, the officer refused to receive her, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that some time since an Order in Council had been issued, by which Newgate was the prison to which the Coroner was authorized to send persons committed by him. That Order in Council, however, did not ex tend to any other prison. The Report was then received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on the 29th of April. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from John Joseph Stockdaie, praying that if the mistaken dis pleasure of the House (as the petitioner and himself, Mr. Duncombe said, termed it) was to be continued,the whole weight of it might fall on him, and Mr. Howard might be discharged. Sir R. H. INGLIS then said be had intended to move that all the parties in custody be discharged, but thought it would be more convenient for the House that he shoaid move the discharge of each separately. He begged to move that the order for the attendance of Mr. Sheriff Evans be discharged. Lord J. RUSSELL seconded the motion, which was agreed to. Sir 8.. INGLIS then moved the discharge of Mr. Howard, jun., he having acted in the action under the direction of his father. Lord J. RUSSELL seconded the motion. He thought it was very proper now that he should be dis charged. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the reasoned words used in the resolution ; they were wholly unnecessary, and were liable to misconstruction ; they had better be omitted. Sir R. INGLIS had no objection, and the motion WAS put that Thomas Howard the younger be forth with discharged. —Agreed to. Tho HON. BARONET then moved that J. G. J. Pearce be forthwith discharged, without payment of fees. Mr. WARBURTON Lad no great objection to the motion, but ho did not see how the privileges of the House had been vindicated if those persons were to be dismissed without even petitioning, merely because an Act of Parliament had been passed to prevent a re petltion of the offence in future. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it appeared to him that the House might now consider that those persons had been sufficiently punished. Lord JOHN RUSSELL agreed to the motion. Mr. Howard, junior, and Mr. Pearce were inferior in struments, and the imprisonment which they had suf fered was sufficient. But he did not adn4 that they were to be discharged on account of the passing of the Act of Parliament. The motion was agreed to. Sir R. H. INGLIS had another resolution to move, which, only from what had just fallen from the Noble Lord, ho had hoped would pass wituout opposition. The resolution was that Thomas Burton Howard be discharged. The Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) said that the son and clerk of that gentleman were die. charged because they were inferior instruments. Now that would have been a very good reason for not having committed them. Mr. Howard had committed no offence. The House, in agreeing to the Act of Parlia ment to give a summary protection, in the Courts of Law, to persons who might be proceeded against for publications authorised by Parliament, admitted that Mr. Howard had a right to go to the Court of Law before the Act, and the House declared that his doing so was not inconsistent with the privileges of Parliament. The Bill had passed. It said such application was not a breach of privilege, for the last line said no change was made with respect to the privilege of Parliament ; therefore, if it was not to be a breach of privilege to ap peal to a Court of Law hereafter, it could not have been so heretofore. If the Noble Lord would agree to the motion he would, as in the former cases, omit the recital. There were two circumstances he would men tion to induce the Noble Lord to do so ; the first was a fact not generally known, that Mr. Howard distinctly refused by letter t o b e engage d i n this action, and it was I not until Mr. Stockdale appealed to him on professional l grounds, and stated that he would not be doing his duty by his client if ho did not, that he engaged in these pro ceedinga. His other reason was one which appealed to a different class of feelings ; it was, that if they wished ( 1 to make Mr. Howard a rich, a powerful, and a trium -1 phaut man, they would not refuse this motion ; for did they believe, if they refused this motion (not having pre vented the continuance of the action, for that clause had been struck out of the Bill), an English Jury would not give such damages as would make Mr. Howara a rich man for the remainder of his life. The Hon. Gen -1 tleman concluded by moving that Thomas Burton Hov,ard be forthwith discharged. - - Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he confessed ho was not disposed, when he came down to the Huusc, to agree to "the motion the Hon. Bi.ronet had just made, and certainly it ho was indisposed to agree to it before, he was now still more strengthened in his opinion, that the House ought not to agree to the motion. Before he spoke he was afraid it tright be implied, if he consented to the motion, that they considered they bad not the privilege of committing Stockdale and Howard on account of this action, but the Hon. Baronet had rested his motion on the ground, that they had re nounced their privilege by the Act now become the statute law of the realm. Ho totally denied that state ment. He took the very clause the Hon. Baronet read, which said their privileges were not affected by the Act. That clause proved they had a privilege, and preserved that privilege. So convinced was he of this, that he iglu:raid act upon it if the question should be brought before the House on any future occasio- With regard to any power given b that all ". stf...ied expressly in the preamble, y that '' 1 ' a was more speedy protection to person:n(l-v f . , was to give üblish'ing proceed ings by order of that Hoe, , n consequence of that more speedy prot . -,,, t i on - if an action s h ou ld be brought in the course ' of the recess, instead of proceeding e s t h e l ate ono had, it would at once bQ determined, but it did not, therefore, follow that the person bringing such action, and his attorney were not guilty of a breach of privi loge ; and in ease such a thing should occur, he should at once '"tore that they may be committed, and think hims'i'd quite as justified in doing so after the Act as kefore.—(Cheers.) The House had no more sur rendered any right of that kind, than, if the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Warwick were to suc ceed in his measure for summary conviction for larceny, it would follow that all persons had thereby surrendered their right o f sen di ng persons gu il ty o f l arcen y before a Jury. The o ne was th e more s p ee dy mode of the two, but it left the other mode untouched. These per sons bad been the most forward, either for gain or vexation, to bring these actions. They had no visible grievence for which they sought a remedy, and lie con sidered that the best mode of preventing such proceed ings for the future would be, to show that the House would not pass lightly over these offences. Moreover, it should be recollected that Mr. lloward, in his own person --not called on by Mr. Stockdale—not obliged by professional considerations had brought action against the officers of that House, for an a acted in the execution of their duty, for he did not hatinglaelie n ve e that they bad been been guilty at all of any unnecessary to violence. The action had been broughmtp to make a profit of the ill-directed ay Hun. Baronet and other NI s. atilif,, l , ex our ....erm.ers of that house (Cheers)—ana not on account of any real injuries whieh he had sustained by the execution of the orders of the House.—(Cheers.) Mr. FRESHFIELD thought it desirable that Howard should be discharged. He was willing t o maintain the privileges of the House, and if au action were to be brought, after the Act which had b een passed, he should feel great hesitation in not voting for the committal of the person bringing such action, be.. cause it must be a mere net of wantonness. He thought Howard had suffered sufficient putlishericht, but if the Noble Lord wished to make a distinction between his case and the others, he (Mr. Freshficld) would be sa tisfied if he were discharged immediately after the recess. Mr. WAKLEY was at a loss to understand hew the Noble Lord could oppose the motion. The feeling in the public mind would be that he was kept confined, not for justice, but, from vindictiveness. No one had been more opposed to the Queen's Bench than he (Mr. W.) bad been, but by the Bill they had passed they had acknowledged that they had not the power of maintaining their privi leges. The had acknowledged that Howard was right. —(Cries of " No, no.") The Act was a confession that they could not maintain their privileges, and the only course to pursue after that was to liberate the whole of the parties from confinement. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL said that if Mr. Howard had sent in his submission, and expressed his regret, he would have seconded the motion, but he was most contumacious. The House should recollect who Mr. Howard was. It was he who had expressed great regret for bringing the fourth action, and on the ex pression of the regret, instead of being committed was reprimanded by the Speaker, and told he had been guilty of a breach of privilege. Was not that an implied un dertaking on his part that he would not repeat such conduct? yet, within four and twenty hours, he brought another action. Howard's case was a most gross one ; lie had wantonly and wilfully violated the privileges of the House. The Hon. Baronet, the Member for Ox ford, had said that Howard had refused to bring the actifia in the first instance until urged by Stockdale, who showed him:it was his duty, as a professional man to, do so. He supposed that showing his duty consisted in giving him to understand that damages might be ob tained and costs received—in short, that he might make a good job of it.—(Cheers.) He denied that it was Howard's duty to bring such an action. The duty of every attorney was to ascertain in the first instance if there was good cause for action, and if there was not his oath required that he should abstain from bringing it. It alarmed him that the Act of Parliament should be the ground for bringing forward this motion, and if on that ground the House were to come to a resolu tion discharging Howard, it would at once renounce the vindication of all its privileges ; for if an action were brought to test any, their most undoubted, privilege— such, for instance, as the right of the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove a person from the House, or from the lobby —they ought, according to that doctrine, not to com mit the party but to plead to the action. He must protest against any such doctrine, in the strongest pos sible manner, and he hoped that the House would not consent to this motion. Mr. WARD, although he had all along voted with the Noble Lord in upholding the privileges of the House, should nevertheless now vote against him, be cause he thought the punishment of Howard had been sufficiently severe, and that after the Act which they had just obtained, the past ought to be buried in oblivion. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided— For the Motion O2 Against it Majority against the motion —2O Sir R. INGLIS then moved that John Joseph Stock dale be discharged forthwith, but after the expression of opinion which the House had just given, he should not press his motion to a division. The motion was then put and negatived without a [livision. MANCHESTER, BIRMINGHAM, AND BOL- TON POLICE. Mr. FOX MAULE brought in a Bill for the more equal Assessment of Police Rates in Manchester, Bir mingham, and Bolton ; and to make better provision for the Police in Birmingham, which was read a first time. The House then adjourned at Seven &Clock. CHURCH-RATES. SINGULAR DEFEAT OF THE BURSLEM CHURCHWARDENS. On Tuesday, the Police Court, held in the Town Hall, was crowded with respectable persons, in consequence of the Churchwardens, Messrs. Thomas Brindley, Thomas Whittingham, Joseph Alcock, and John Haywood, having obtained summonses, for the non-payment of Church -rates, against Messrs. Edward Withinshaw, George Wigley, Joseph Hall, W. S. Kennedy, and Charles Hutton, and which were returnable this day, before Thomas Bailey Rose (the Stipendiary Magistrate) and John Harvey, Esqrs. The ease of Mr. Wigley was called, and the amount was eleven shillings and sixpence. The pre liminary proceedings showed that, at a vestry meeting, June 27, a resolution was passed that the churchwardens should lay a rate of fourpence halfpenny in the pound on all rateable property. When the defendant was called on, he objected to the legality of the rate. Mr. Mousley, solicitor, in defence, stated that he objected to the authority to lay the rate. A rate could only be legally laid by a vestry meeting, and ho argued that " a resolution to lay a rate" was not " the laying of a rate." He founded his objection on the authority of her Majesty's Attorney-General, given March 30, on a case submitted to kim by the objectors to the rate. Mr. Rose carefully examined the opinion, and during the interval Mr. J. P. Harding objected to the admission of this as " evidence"—which was not intended. His Worship stated (on handing over to Mr. Harding the opinion), " It is against the validity of the rate from beginning to end." Mr. H. submitted that there was an inaccuracy in the case, as it called the New (St. Paul's) Church a " Chapel of Ease ;" overlooking the fact that parish and district Churches only are exempt from the latter designation. He also stated that it was incompatible with the matter for a rate to be prepared for the decision of a vestry meeting, as that might decide on one of less amount than what had been assumed by the churchwardens—twopence, for in stance, instead of fourpence halfpenny in the pound. Mr. Mousley was proceeding to answer Mr. Harding, and was about to quote, for his authorities, Degge, pp. 202, 203, Prideaux, pp. 67-69, when Mr. Rose suggested that the preferable way was for Mr. Nlousley to confine himself to the single point—" the legality of the rate ;" as, if that were proved invalid, all further argument would be en tirely unnecessary. Mr. Mousley then referred to Degge and Prideaux, and Mr. Rose quoted Burn, vol. i., and stated that his ()An humble opinion was that the rata was not valid ; and placed as he was as a Government officer, he was bound to give the most respectful attention to the opinion of her Majesty's Attorney-General, which was de cidedly against the rate ; and that he was so far gratilled to find his own opinion in accordance with such high au thority, for that would not have b b i, e m o .r n hoen a nc lt u e trh r r e ee d i: de even eeisainod h n a ,x d t.ha i 2s t been given c , on m t r .- a . r yi Harvey v s e u y ch e a x u p t r h e o s r s i e t t y l . audience manifested their approval in a proper, but not up_ roarious manner. POLYTE,i;HNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. Some remarkable experiments founded upon the lec tures of Mr. Brande and Mr. Farraday, at the Royal In stitution, have lately been undertaken at the Polytechnic Institution, for the purpose of demonstrating the possibility of producing fac &miles of engraved copper-plates by means of voltaic electricity. These experiments were completely successful, and have established the utility as well as the practicability of the chemical means employed: The process may be thus described. The original plate from which a duplicate is to be taken is placed at the bottom of a properly prepared vessel, and then covered with a solution of sulphate of copper, through which a current of voltaic electricity (galvanism) is subsequently transmitted, By this chemical action the constituents of the salt are removed from each other, in other words de composed, the metallic copper being deposited in thin latninal upon tha surface of the original plate over which it forms a second plate. Upon removal it will be found to bear every line and mark previously traced by the graver or etching tool upon the other, with this difference, that what is bas-relief in one will be alto-relief in the other, and the sunk lines of the original will be raised lines in the dupli cate. The plate thus produced becomes a mould or normal plate, from which an unlimited number of other plates may be taken by a similar process, the whole of which will be identically the same as the original plate, and equally perfect with it in every respect. Printed impressions from the original and duplicates will also be found to be exactly alike ; there is no discovering any difference. The ap proving testimony of several of our first-rate engravers has been given in favour of this important discovery, the prac tical application of which wiil supersede the necessity and consequent expense of steel-plate engravings, and afford the means of economically multiplying, engraved works of our artists. od e futph li f ap u t l e The same process is also ad infinitum, the one of Doloymteeenhine applicable ba to coins, dies, and medals, of which several s p p l e a c te im o e f ns an ar e dispersed p throughout the galleries attractive expensive original Polytechnic Institution, where also may be seen a engeaving from w p h i t e e t h ur w e os novelties, the are la in rg a e c st ti y ve ct p r p e r p o a d r u a c t e i o d n . Some very for Easter week, of • count beforehand. may probably give an ac- SIR W. BRABA -- ( COLONE L BUTLER— COLONEL FITZGERALD. ZAOiNr published his second letter t", O'Connell, as he promised, has calling their attention to theoalt;hse men of Mayo and Kilken is representatives. Limerick too incidentallyis'eicerom Parliament of their Ac cording to his letter Colonel Butler alluded to. Ac try, because they have refused to give indisposed to the Minis - his friends. Sir William BrabLu?sointments to some of known, that the Tories will not give him unsteadiness is so well a " It is impassible for any man to have a less n ex substantial pair. than Sir William Brab azon. He has an am le l lse e f for absence has no family. All I req uire of yo u is , to insilltha7 rtune—he :Nhilst he represents you he sha ll be at his p ost to do his dutyt. ' As to the Member for the count y of Limerick, ~h e has been s been alto gether absent durinti the present Session--absent w ith out ex cuse or pretext, that I , at least, have ever heard of ! Why this should be so, I cannot even form a conjecture that could palliate the enormity of his dereliction of duty. I hope there may be s'inie valid excuse for him— I know of none ! li e h as Leen hitherto amongst the fiends of his country. I ask— w h y has he ablndoned her in her present need? lint, for the pre sent, I shall pursue th.li subject no further than to invite any frie n d o f hi s to come f or w a rd to defend, if poss i b le, h is conduct." EXECUTION AT YORK.-011 Monday last, at noon, James Bardsley, a young man about five-and-twenty years o „ a r , no was convicted at the Yorkshire Assizes, on his Q u hr le " io n , of the murder of his father at the Village of sent i n the West Riding of Yorkshire, suffered the extreme sentence of the law • Since the trial in front of York gaol. convict had • manifested signs o f",, t , riti the greatest indifference, expressing no Tilt: SUN., LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1840. • had no fight whatever to interfere with the parties who I, chose to expatriate themselves and settle in that nnun try, They all knew how the other colonies had been treated by Great Britain, and by the present benign Government too.—(Cries of " Question.") That was flit! qUe6titi: What bud the “overrurent done in Ca nada ?—(lnterruption.) The British Governthent now wanted to lay hands upon New Zealand, in order to establish an aristocracy there.—(lnterruption. A gentleman on the platfortn begged the meeting would allow the speaker to proceed, and he should bo . pre:: pared to answer him.) He feared that it would not be acceptable to ears polite to hear passages from the Divine writings quoted. No man had a right to the soil individually, and what no man could claim indivi dually could not be claimed collectively by a nation or community. What was the consequence of the British Government taking possession of Canada ? Their money had been taken from them, and their churches burned, and their persons imprisoned. The working classes were more interested in this ques tion than any other class of persons, but although they were not directly, they were indirectly precluded from being present at the meeting.—(Cries of " No, no.") They were, because of the time at which the meeting was held. Let them look at New South Wales. What had been done there? Had any one of those toiling men, the pride and boast of their country—those who manned our navy and filled the ranks of the army—ever been sent out to that colony ?—(Cries of " Yes, yes ; thousands.") He believed not. That was not the way in which matters were managed ; on the contrary, how many square miles had Mr. Peel, a relation of Sir R. Peel's ? _ . Capt. ACKERLEY—Twenty millions of acres. Mr. SPUR had not time to make himself acquainted with such statistical details, but he was informed that Sir R. Peel held 20 millions of acres.—(Loud laughter.) Was it the intention of the Society to send out the working men ?—( Yes, yes.) He underst oo d Si r W in . Moleswerth, the Member for Leeds, had something to do with the Society ; if so, he could assure him that in his own county of Cornwall, as well as in London, there were thousands of persons willing to 0 because they wore half starving, but they would never consent to be governed by the benign Government of this country.— (Loud cries of " Off, off.") The LORD MAYOR said the speaker had had every indulgence, and it became his duty now to ask whether it was his intention to move any resolution, and if so, of what nature ?—(Cheers.) Mr. Scott said it was the first time lie had ever seen a speaker put down at a great public meeting—it was the very extreme of tyranny. His amendment. was— " That it is the opinion of this meeting that the British Crown has no right to interfere with the subjects or inhabitants of New Zealand ; but that they and the par ties settled there have a right and the power to make laws to govern themselves." C7,ptain ACKERLEY seconded the amendment amidst much laughter. He deprecated the interference of any Society with the inhabitants of New Zealand—all our colonization was a species of fraud, and he was credi bly informed that Lord Durham had already posses sion of 50,000 acres in that country, which he had obtained by the distribution of gin, rum, and other things.—(Great laughter.) He would not detain the meeting longer than five minutes, and that for the pur pose of merely saying, that two gentlemen who had ad dressed them that day had stated that they looked with suspicion on the merchants. Now, for his own part, he thought that the merchants ought to keep an even hand, and not do that for the rich which they would not do for the poor. He did not come forward to oppose anything to the interest of commerce, but when he saw that a motive was kept out of sight lie trusted that the Lord Mayor would do everything in his power to put the subject in its true light. When he saw bankers supporting a Company he always felt that they had got their eye to the windward.— (Laughter.) If a Government was to be established in New Zealand let it be done by the Government, not by a Company.—(Hear.) He cordially seconded the amendment. The Prebendary of EXETER wished to state, in answer to the question put by the worthy operative who had addressed the meeting, whether a single operative had been sent out to New Zealand, that there had. A shoemaker at Exeter, who had done some benefit to Lord J. Russell, at his election, has been sent out there under the appointment of a Magistrate.—(Hear.) The LORD MAYOR then put the amendment and the original resolution, and declared the latter to be carried unanimously, and the former to bo lost. Mr. HAWES, M.P. for Lambeth, then rose to move the next resolution. If he thought the object of this Society was in any way hostile or injurious to the work ing classes, he would be the last man to stand forward as its advocate. Having no pecuniary interest in con nection with the Society, but having simply joined in the outset to promote its establishment, he could not refrain from coming there that day to support it. The resolution he had to move had the advantage that what ever opinions were entertained of the Society, he be lieved that all present would be anxious to concur in supporting the resolution. Mr. YOUNG begged to inform the Hon Member that the meeting of that day was not connected with any Society, but was for the purposes of taking the opinion of the public upon a most important question.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. HAWES said that he had certainly connected the proceedings of the meeting with the New Zealand As sociation, but he now stood corrected, and would as sume that the object was to petition the House of Commons to protect the rights of the Crown in New Zealand, and to establish a sound system of government and colonization there.--(Cheers). He could not conceive any object of more importance than that which had in view the protection of a colony from being made a penal settlement, which he understood it would be made, unless some interference took place. The ques tion they had now to discuss was, whether a settle ment having been formed in that part of the hemisphere, a government should be established to guide the energies of the people there, and spread the name of this coun try through that part of the world.—(Hear, hear.) He did not know whether those he addressed were aware of the evils inflicted on New South Wales by the system of transportation that was carried on ; if they were, he was sure they would do all in their power to prevent its being carried on in New Zealand.(Hear, hear, hear.) For that reason it was that he raised his humble voice against its being made a penal settlement. He was not, however, with out hope that the resolution which he had to propose, condemning its being made a penal settlement, if it re ceived the approbation of the meeting, would have its weight, not only with the Government of this country, but the other Governments of the globe. The settlers in New Zealand ware composed of some of the most respectable families in this country, and he trusted therefore, that all would raise their voice to prevent the evil of this country being made a penal settlement. So that, at all events, men of honesty, sobriety, and virtue, who bad the courage to visit those distant regions, might not be subject to the evils of contamination and vice, the inherent consequence of that atrocious system. —(Hear, hear.) In that opinion he was strongly forti fied by a letter he held in his hand, which had been addressed to the Secretary, by one of the most 'dis tinguished Prelates of Ireland, the Archbishop of Dub lin. The letter was dated the 13th of April, in which his Grace stated that he should have left town previous to the meeting at the Mansion-house, which he should otherwise have been most happy to attend, for the pur pose of protesting against the system of penal colonies, which By stem only tended to keep up and diffuse a moral pestilence.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Hawes) hoped the working classes would join him in this resolu tion. If they advocated colonization on wise and sound principles, then they would agree with him that infusing vice and immorality by law into the midst of a colony, was a most infamous and iniquitous opposition to the real interests of such a colony—(Hear , hear)—and if a working man ought to be protected from anything, be ought to be protected from that example of vice which would certainly be set him by making the colony a penal settlement.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Memb?r concluded by moving the second resolution— , . Teat d 'eply impressed with the pernicious results of convict colonization, this meeting earnestly deprecates the esta blishment of a peaal settlement, whether British or foreign, in any part of New Zealand:'—(Hear, hear.) The LORD MAYOR wished to observe that if the in dividual who had proposed the amendment to the first resolution had looked at the requisition, he would have seen there was not the least necessity for that amend ment. He would have been ashamed of himself, as their Chief Magistrate, to have endeavoured to have forwarded the interests or views of any Society, under the mask of calling a public meeting of the citizens of London.—(Cheers.) Mr. MARTIN SMITH seconded the resolution. Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG said that nothing had been further from his intention than to have addressed that assembly, but he had been induced to do so at the earnest solicitatiori of friends who took a deep interest in the question. He would offer a few observations, in order to correct some misapprehensions that appeared to prevail, both with respeq to . the ob jects of the meeting, and the precise potionin stood.h h the question submitted to their ;consideration. his lot to have with a variety of individuals on the subject of New Zealand, he had found but one In the various communications which it had fallen to uni versal interest prevail respecting the colonization of that magnificent island, but he had also found a lamentable ignorance as to the fasts of the case, and the position of the country.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The tale of New Zealand's wrongs and Britain's injustice, might be shortly and simply told. Ile did not mean to bring charges against any partica lar Government, or any particular Adminiaration, b u t this lie would say, that the course pursued by the Go verment of this country with regard to New Zealand had been fraught with injustice, and that colony was at this moment attended with perils that not a man pre sent at that meeting would not do his utmost to avert,— ( Ilear, hear.) The island was first discovered by Tas man, in the seventeenth century; and Captain Cook, in 1769, planted.on the island the standard of Britain In ;the course of a feW,yekrs Governor Phillip being ap pointed Governer of the North American Colonies and their dependencies, Stew ryealand carne under his care and, up to 1814, he was not aware that a sfiicion bad been breathed against the right of Great Britain to the sovereignty of the islands of New Zealand, subject, as the first tasolution had stated, to the inalienable rights of the riatiVe inhabitants, Matters went on ; numbers of individuals, British subjects, continued to locate them selves there; and a number of persons associated them gives tdgether, not for the purposes that had been ca lumniously imputed to thedi in quarters in which the information actually possessed ought td have led to more generous treatment. That Association was formed not for the purpose of selfish gain or unworthy lucre, but for the purpose of leading in a right direction the spirit of emigration that had become prevalent, and of colo nizing New Zealand upon just and right principles. Communications had taken place between the Govern ment and those who had assumed the serious, the aw ful responsibility of as&stiug in the location of hun dreds, almost thousands, on these shores. He (Mr. Young) had been present when a number of highly re spectable gentlemen had waited upon the head of the Colonial-office ; and Lord Durham, who, whatever might be thought of his political opinions, was as noble and high-spirited a man as ever wore a coronet.— (Cheers.) Lord Durham was asked by Lord Nor manby, " What is it the New Zealand Company re quires ?"—and the patriotic, the disinterested reply of Lord Durham was, " My Lord, the Company desire nothing for themselves—(Cheers) —they ask no mono poly—(Cheers) ; they ask no exclusive privileges— (Cheers) ; all that they request may be comprised in two French words, "Laissez faire,"—to be let alone. —(Cheers.) But now that hundreds and thousands were going to those shores, we ask you, the paternal Government—you who will not allow them to shake off their allegiance—that you shall extend to them the benefits of peace, law, and order.—(Cheers,) How, had that pathetic appeal been responded to ? On the honour of a gentleman (said Mr. Young, emphati cally) I declare that to my mind, and, I believe, to all who were present, the reply of Lord Normanby was such as to justify us in thinking that Government would do all they could to effect these praiseworthy objects.— (Hear, hear.) Otherwise, I solemnly assert I would never have lent myself to the encouragement of the re moval of so many of my countrymen to New Zealand. —(Cheers.) It was nothing, however, but the strong pressure of public opinion which induced the govern ment to take effectual measures for the attainment of these objects, which humanity, justice, and policy alike recommended.—(Cheers.) For what had the Govern ment hitherto done ? What, alas ! was too often the case—nothing.—( Hear, hear.) Absolutely, positively nothing. They issued a " Treasury Minute," for sooth, determining to send out a Consul, and actually with a declaration calculated to prejudice, if not to injure, the rights of this country to the possession of New Zealand — (Hear, hear, hear)—and this, too, at the very time when foreign nations were eagerly waiting for such a justification to attempt a settlement on the island.— (Hear, hear.) And what had been the result ? Why, that the French Government had given aid in men and money to a Company for taking those very steps in New Zealand which it was so desired and so desirable to pre vent in our own case, namely, for the establishment of a penal settlement.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Now, how bene ficial would be the consequences of holding out en couragement to the well-conducted of the labouring classes to settle in this fine island ?—( Hear, hear.) For he could assure the working classes that it was mainly with a view to their interests that the Company had been formed—(Hear, .hear)—and notwithstanding all the disgraceful attempts which had been made to excite public prejudice, he would defy any man, looking at the list of names connected with this Company, to lay his hand upon his heart and declare that he believed they were actuated by sordid motives of pecuniary gain. —(Hear, hear.) The rights of the native population ought to be respected ; but, in fact, society in the island was now becoming polluted at the very source, and the result must ultimately be, if things went on as at present, the entire extinction of the natives.—(Hear, hear.) Would it be credited that a British Captain had been found capable of conveying some hundreds of desperate and ignorant savages from one part of the island to another, and allowing a bloody contest to ensue, in which above fifty were cruelly murdered ? (Hear, hear, hear.) And one of the chief's wives was actually seen wearing the entrails of one of the mur dered chiefs as a necklace. That unfortunately was but too true, and was but a small sample of what was going on. Who were the settlers there now ? The runaway convicts of New South Wales, and runaway sailors from our ships—the very worst of characters of all sorts. The mover of the amendment had said it was their right to make laws to govern themselves. Allow those runaways to make laws who were taking, • not only the property, but the lives of the inhabitants, and pursuing a course of the utmost demoralization ! (Cheers.) One burst of indignation must come from every honest man who heard the proposi. tion. In anticipation of that meeting, a paper had been laid on the table of the House, and bad been put into the hands of Members only that day, which repeated all the calumnies of the newspapers of the last day or two. He would not waste their time by descanting on the unfair and ungenerous mode in which such attacks were made upon parties who could not possibly defend them selves ; but could any one imagine that any statesman did his duty by putting forth such a paper at a time when the sovereignty of his country over a land was disputed by a foreign nation ? What would be said to such conduct in America—(Cheers)—that land of free dom and liberty ? They would at once go to war with any nation putting forward such a claim as was now advanced by France. He begged again to say that there was a great difference in the question of the sovereignty of the aborigines and of a claim made by a foreign country. Such foul calumny could proceed only from one source, and it was that which had hung like an incubus upon all the proceedings of the Foreign-office for years past.— (Cries of " Name.") He had no hesitation in saying that he alluded to Mr. Stephens, who for many years had paralyzed every effort at liberality on the part of the Foreign-office ; it was his conviction that no other man could have placed in the hands of Members of the Legislature such a tissue of nonsense as the Blue Book he held in his hand contained. In the name of the com mon cause of humanity—for the interests, not only of the aborigines of New Zealand, but of the people of this country—he called upon them to support the cause the Society had so much at Heart. Mr. SPUR again appeared, but was met with loud cries of " Spoke, spoke," and " Off, off." He said he only wanted to put a question to Mr. Young. That gen tleman had argued that taking possession gave the right of sovereignty. Now he wished to ask, supposing that he (Mr. S.) were to take possession of Mr. Young's watch, would that give him a right to it ?—(Laughter.) Mr. YouNG—lf the gentleman tries that experiment, he would probably go to the southern hemisphere sooner than he expected.—(Laughter.) Mr. H. G. WARD, M.P., came forward to move the next resolution. After the very powerful speech which they had just heard from his lion. Friend Mr. Young, he would not trespass at any length upon their time. He should first read the resolution which had been con fided to him. (I\lr. Ward here read the resolution.) In the sentiments it contained he fully concurred, and he must say that he had come there not with the inten tion of taking any part in the proceedings, but for the purpose of hearing the sentiments of some of the leading members of what might justly be termed the first com mercial community in the world.---( Hear, hear.) The question was one in which he had taken a very deep in terest, and it was one in which the prosperity of the country, and the internal peace of Europe were deeply involved. With respect to the observations made by one Gentleman who had moved an amendment, and who had spoken of the position of the working classes, he must say that he fully agreed with him that the ques tion was one in which they were much interested. In fact those lands to which the resolution referred, were the patrimony of the working classes of England. He was delighted to see in the present meeting the proof that a feeling was now prevalent that the Government, in the manner in which it had disposed of its waste lands in its Colonies, had betrayed its trust—( Hear, hear) — that hitherto they had been made the source of petty jobbing in the Colonial-office, and had been distributed in favour of the aristocracy, for lie saw no use in mincing the word.—(Hear.) Those who had influence at head-quarters, obtained grants of these lands, in former times, to the exclusion of all others ; but lie regarded the present meeting as a proof that that system was broken up; that all emigrants and specula tors, under the protection of Government, should have fair play, and that those mysteries of Downing-street, which had marred the greatest blessings that any coun try ever had placed within its reach, were for ever at an end.—(Cheers.) The Gentleman who moved an amendment, said that the British Government had no right to impose laws upon thoie who emigrated to New Zealand. That was a very wide question. He did not think that either in New Zealand, or Australia, they should have an Established Church, or a House of Com mons, but the great principles of English law would be transported with the language and customs of the people, and social order must be established by the Go vernment, in the first instance.—(Hear, hear.) The settlers would naturally take with them the habits and feelings of the English people. But it was as a commercial question that it was most fitly agitated in the cit) of London. Their trade was not in the thriv ing state in which it formerly was.—(Hear, hear ) They had not the same success which they formerly had, owing to the competition which now , existed on the Continent. Look, on the other hand, at the progresi their trade hail made in various remote corners of the world, where, fifty years ago, no Englishman had set his foot.—( Hear, hear, hear.) There were from sixty to eighty vessels trading annually to Sydney, all of them of large tonnage. The trade to South Australia gave occupation to twenty-six or twenty_ seven vessels annually. Van Diemen's Land occupied forty-seven vessels every year, and even to New Zea land, a settlement labouring under the most adverse NEVI ZEALAND. A public meeting was summoned by the Lord Mayor yesterday, i n con f orm i ty w i t h a requ i s i t i on, to a d op t petitions on the subject of New Zealand. The meet ing was first to have been held et the,.Maroien Homo, but subsequently *as removed to the Guildhall. there *ere present A. Chapman, M.P. ; B. Hawes, M.P. ; Geo. Palmer, M.P. ; Hutt, M.P. ; Aglionby, H. G. Ward, ALP. ; Hon. F. Baring, ALP: ; Hon. F. Tollemache, ; Robinson, Bsq, of Lloyd' s ; C ount A rr i va b ane, C omm i ss i oner f or t h e Belgian Government ;‘,Rev. Mr. Dennis, Prebendary of Exeter ; Joseph Somes, Charles Enderby, G. F. Young, M. Smith, J. W. Buckle, Capt. Drew, Capt. Nelson, Lord Petre, Hon. Howard, Sir William Aloleswortli, &c., &c. The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, said, the requisition which had been presented to him to call this meeting was one of the proudest ever signed—it was the requisition of 120 of the first merchants in the first city of the world, and he should not be deserving of the confidence which his fellow-citizens had reposed in him bad he declined to afford the use of the Hall for this meeting.—(Hear, hear.) In the first place, then, he would call on the Secretary to read the requi sition. The requisition was then read as follows TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. London, 25th March, 1840. We, the undersigned 'Merchants, Bankers, Shipowners, and Inhabitants of the City of London, do hereby respectfully re quest that your Lordship will be pleased to CONVENE a PUBLIC MEETING, for the purpose of humbly petitioning her Majesty and both Houses of Parliament to adopt prompt and efficient measures for preserving from invasion or abandonment the long-established Sovereignty of the British Crown in the Islands of NEW ZEALAND, at present en dangered by foreign pretensions and by acts of the Executive Government ; also for stopping the course of lawless emigra tion and settlement, which has not only proved deeply injurious to the native people of the country. but threatens their speedy extermination ; and lastly, for establishing the most beneficial system of colonization, and the protection and restraints of British law, under a distinct colonial government, in place of the state of anarchy which now prevails among both races, and all classes of her Majesty's subjects, and others inhabiting or resorting to New Zealand, as a distant dependency of the terri tory of New South Wales. C. H. and G. Enderby Ellice, Kinnear, and Co. Haviside and Co. Lyall Brothers and Co. John Locke and Co. Cruikshank, Melville, and Co. John Boulcott and Co. Cattley and Stephenson Benjamin Woolmer Richard and Robert Oliverson Rawson, Norton, and Co. Melhuish, Gray, and Co. George Hathorn and Co. Churchill and Sim Edward H. Chapman Francis Whiting Forster and Smith Gould, Dowie, and Co. Henry and Calvert Toulmin William P. Lett and Bushby George Nicholas T. Daplyn Ross and Ash John Loche and Co. J. V. and G. Thomson N. Griffith M. Wilkin George Armstrong James Cook A. Grant Hankey and Co. Barnett, Hoares, and Co. Jones, Loyd, and Co. Willis, Percival, and Co. Ladhroke and Co. Smith, Payne, and Smiths Williams, Deacon, and Co. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. \Vhitmore,Wells,and Whitmor John Masterman Price, Marryatt, and Co. Matthew Wood, Alderman John Lainson, ditto John Johnson, ditto James Harmer, ditto William Evans, Sheriff Thomas Wood, Alderman William Venables, ditto Thomas Kelly, ditto John Key, ditto John Cowan, ditto Matthew Prime Lucas, ditto John Humphery, ditto J. White, ditto A. Brown, ditto Thomas Johnson, ditto William Magnay, ditto Magniac, Smith, and Co. Baring, Brothers, and Co. Thompson and Forman Reid, Irving, and Co. Green, Wigrams, and Greens fluddart and Co. Garry and Curtis Hibbert and Co. Davidson, Barkly, and Co. Gledstanes, Kerr, and Co. Joseph Somes George Lyall Buckles,Bagster, and Buckle Frederick Iluth and Co. William Burnie and Co. Pelly, Simpson, and Co. Walkers, Parker, and Co. Craw shay and Co. Durant and Co. Samuel Dobree and Sons Curling, Young, and Co. Young, Bovc son, and Co.' Biggs, Thurburn, Acraman, and Co. John Pirie and Co. Robertßenjaminßrown and Co. Robert BrODks John Gore and Co. Donaldson, Lambert, and Co. Arthur Willis, Sons, and Co. Robinson, Brooking,andGarland Gregson and Co.; Cockerell and Co. Evans, Foster, and Langton John Chapman and Co. - Rickards, Little, and Co. Alannindand Anderdon H. D. and James Blyth G. F. Dickson and Co. worth, Powell, and Pryor Joseph R. Templeman Powles Brothers and Co. Newman, Hunt, and Co. Brandram, Brothers and Co. Venables,Wilsen, and Tyler Wm. and George Borrodaile Al' Gregor - Laiid R. and R. Thornton and West Bowles and Gardiner Phillips and Tiplady Gardener, Urquhart;and Co. D. B. Chapman Duncan, Dunbar, and Sons M'Ghie, Page, and Smith William Holloway The LORD MAYOR then stated that he had received several letters from distinguished persons regretting that they had been prevented from attending. He had now only to call upon the meeting to hear with patience and impartiality whatever was said on the subject. Mr. G. PALMER, M.P., then came forward to move the first resolution. In the first place, however, he said he must declare, in reference to a letter which bad appeared that morning in the Times, that he was not — neither did he think it creditable that any person should be—actuated by any underhand motive in adopting this proceeding. The object of the meeting was to call upon the Government to extend that protection to every individual in New Zealand, which was most happily enjoyed in this country.— (Cheers.) The resolution he had: to propose was,— " That it is of high national importance to maintain in violate the rights of the British Crown in New Zea land."—(Cheers.) It was the duty of the Government to provide regulations for the conduct of settlers—and also protection for the natives.—(Hear, hear.) In whatever point of view the island was regarded, its importance must be evident—whether as regarded its vast vegetable and mineral resources—or its great com mercial capacities—or the good qualities of its natives— who, from natural energies, had been described as des tined, to become the Britons of the other hemisphere— ( Hear, hear)—and were far superior to all the natives of the neighbouring islands of the surrounding ocean.— ( Hear.) They would be exceedingly grateful for such protection, as it was in the power of the Government to afford them ; and he had once fallen in with a chief of the island who had evinced great intelligence, and ex pressed a desire that " King George " would establish his sovereignty over the country, and why should not Queen Victoria do so ?—(Cheers.) Such a measure could not but be productive of the greatest benefits, RS it would tend fully to draw out the immense re sources of an island 400 or 459 miles in length. The Hon. F. BARING seconded the resolution. A person in the body of the Hall here begged per mission to address a few observations on the resolution. The Lord Mayor having given him permission he as cended the platform and gave his name, RICHARD Spun. He said he should not have ven tured to occupy their attention if he did not feel that the present question deeply affected the interests of the working classes of the country—that great body to which he belonged.—(Hear, hear.) He was asto nished to find that a meeting which so deeply affected the interests of that body should have been called at mid-day, when none of the working classes could attend for the purpose of expressing their sentiments upon it. The requisition was signed by capitalists, traders, bankers, merchants, and others, and his Lordship had brie perfectly right in calling a meeting under such cir cumstances ; but if the requisition had been signed by an equal number of the working classes he doubted very much whether the Lord Mayor would have paid any attention to it.—(Cries of " Question.") The Hon. Mover of the resolution had called the present Government " benign," and recommended that they should take possession of New Zealand. He begged to deny most emphatically that they were " benign." He had felt in his own person, as a working man, the iron hand of their tyranny.--(Cries of " Question," " Off," and much uproar.) The Loan MAvoit rose to order. If a person who obtruded himself upon the meeting deviated from the. subject matter before thorn, he must interrupt him Mr. SPUR resumed. He should bow to the deci sion of the Chair, at the same time ho did not think he had deviated one iota from the question. The ques tion was whether a Government, which the Honourable Mover had termed " benign," should take possession of these islands.—(Cries of " No, no," and " Off.") He repeated that was the question, and he would not be driven from his position by taunts, cheers, or hisses. The question was one of deep interest to the working classes of the country, and the parties most deeply in terested were not present to plead their own cause or express their opinions. He had ;cad through the whole of the book called the Bible, and because he believed in that book he was opposed to the resolution. That book told him that the Almighty had given the earth to the whole family of man in common, and he denied that any man had a right to go into a foreign country and plant the standard of his count r y there, and claim it as his own.—( Hear, and cries o " Question.") If the population of a country was too great and that men chose to expatriatethemselves to other lands they had a right to make laws to govern themselves. Why had soman t y be go G n o e ve o r u n t at t e o nt N a e t w Zealandhome e ti.as la a tel b y ? Not eaign be cause one— not because they had prosperity, felicity, and domestic comfort, and all those things which he was destined to enjoy by the Supreme Dis poser of events. No, but because they were in want and misery, and degradation ; because poverty stared them in the face on one side, and the Union bastiles— those unconstitutional prisons—on the other.—(Cries of" Order, question, chair," and great confusion.) The LORD M Avon again called the speaker to order. Mr. Sena thought it unfair that:he should not be allowed to argue the question. He was about to argue that those who had escaped the fangs of the Go vernment at home, where they were not represented, had a right to make laws for themselves ehowhere. It was argued that the Government had a right to follow them out there, and inflict their class legislation on them once more. —(Uproar, and cries of " Off off.") The i m p or tance idnse dw inviolatethhaat that I t ,t h eh e ire._ ri B g ( h ri t iit s ei sa o hr f ,C t a h rno e dw ß eni r l iehteiasr(lsit, no rC o followedr w ig n h , tbbut by resolution sa id i t was of high rational to maintain taan he h e o s ra e a i i s n l cries of " Question.) lie contended that no man nor no nation had a right to take that which did not be long to him.—(Cries of - 4. Brava.")- - The Government circumstances in which a great enterprise was ever placed by the misconduct and lathes of a Government, they had seven vessels employed before the Colony cos ld be said to 1)0 established.—( Hear and cheers.) The question was one of still greeter importance when it was recollected that wherever they grounded a colony—wherever there was nn og-shoot from the parent stock, and that English enterptise and industry had fair play, an immediate demand was created for every article which British skill and industry could supply.—(Cheers.) The commerce of that country with South Australia and New Zealand already ex ceeded the English trade with Chili and Peru, which were at one time supposed by Spain to be an immense mine of wealth. Their woollen trade with the South Australian colonies was a Potosi, and would if it re ceived due encouragement, become a richer mine than ever the Spaniards discovered.—(Cheers.) It had been well observed by Mr. Canning that a new world had been called late existence to redress the balance of the old.. They were now doing that—they were opening new markets in lieu of Germany, Russia, and Prussia, which were gradually closing upon them, and all these new settlements, would shortly become new marts for British enterprise and commerce.—(Cheers.) In this country they had a fluctuation of wages and of employment such as the world never saw ; in this country men only asked for leave to exercise their honest industry, who, from the want of a proper field of employment, were reduced in the course of twenty-four hours from comparative af fluence to absolute starvation.—( Hear, hear.) They had the remedy in their own hands, and it was their duty to urge the Government to open those fields of employ ment and those resources which no people on the face of the earth knew better or more energetically how to turn to account. All that was necessary was a wise, well regulated system of colonization, and he would ask any one who heard the speech of his Hon. Friend Mr. Young vvhether it could be said that we had such a system at present? He believed great impression had been made upon the Government within the last five years, but the whole of their conduct towards New Zealand had been most unjust. The papers which bad been lately issued from the Colonial-office were the most discreditable batch that had ever been issued in any period, and showed less knowledge of the wants of the country and contained less statesmanlike views of the subject than he thought could have been possible. In the first interview which the promoters of the plan had with the Government, it was believed that her Majesty's Ministers were impressed with the neces sity of exercising sovereignty in the islands, and throw ing the shield of protection over the settlers. A charter was first proposed ; a Bill was subsequently prepared, and corrected by a Member of the Government, and yet that very Member, Lord Howick, moved its rejection in the House of Commons.—(Cries of " Shame.") Their whole conduct, from first to last, had been a most discreditable system of vacillation. He believed there was embarked in the present plan for colonizing New Zealand a greater amount of capital, talent, energy, and high birth, than had been embarked in any similar enterprise, since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth. In all their other colonies the same principle was at work, and the same want of anything like system was observable. After the time that had al ready been occupied, he would not trespass further on the meeting, but would conclude by expressing a hope that the time was not far distant when a Government, acting upon liberal prineiples, would carry out the great sys tem of colonization which was now going on. Tha Hon. Member concluded by pressing L L :e resolution. Mr. A. CHAPMAN seconded the resolution, under the firm belief that in doing so he was benetiling not only this country but New Zealand itself. Capt. ACHERLY wished to know whether the Com pany, who spoke so loudly, were prepared to pay the expenses of the Government they proposed to adopt out of the proceeds of their own lands ? Mr. G. F. YOUNG observed, in reply to the question that had just been put, that he believed that every man who was conversant with the principles of colonization upon which the Society proceeded, was perfectly aware that it was based upon the principle that future colo nization should be conducted without any expense to the mother-country.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then put the resolution to the meeting, which he declared to be carried unanimously. GEORGE ROBINSON, Esq., the Chairinan of Lloyd's, then rose to propose the next resolution. The:subject for which the present meeting had been convened had been already so completely exhausted, and the patience of those present so much tried, that it was only neces sary for him to occupy a small portion of their time. The resolution that had been put into his hand required no recommondation from him, for it was simply after the three preceding resolutions had been carried, to state the opinion of the meeting to be, that petitions should be sent to the Queen, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, with a view to carry out the object for which they were framed. He could assure the meeting generally, and the operatives who had addressed them, and stated that that meeting had for its object the promotion of a particular Company, and the views of a few individuals, he would assert that such was not the case, and he be lieved that the labouring classes themselves were more interested in the object of the meeting than ;any other class of society. If he thought the object of the meet ing was to injure the labouring classes, he would be the last man to have stood forward to take any part in the proceedings of that day. He would not now go into the arguments upon the point touched upon by Mr. Young with respect to the right of sovereignty of this country over New Zealand over that of other nations ; that was a matter to be settled by negotiation, and if that failed, by other means.—(Hear, hear.) He be lieved that much would depend elsewhere, and in New Zealand itself, upon the unanimity that prevailed in their proceedings that day ; and as to the supposition that that meeting had been got up by interested indivi duals, he thought the public mind should be disabused in that respect. He held in his hand the copy of the petition it was intended to present. He would not read the whole of it to the meeting, but only that part which was at all interesting to them. The petition stated : " That even if France really possessed any right of colonization, your petitioners would deprecate in the strongest terms her proposed establishment of a penal colony, it being evidently impossible that convict dis cipline can be maintained in the immediate vicinity of native tribes and British settlements ; and the escape of the convicts must therefore be anticipated, who, as sociated with British runaway convicts from Australia, would gradually demoralize the whole country, pre clude the possibility of its becoming the resort of re spectable British emigrants, and exterminate the native inhabitants, by taking part in their wars and teaching them only the vices of civilization." It then stated-s-- " That unless immediate steps be taken to establish the complete administration of British law in New Zealand, it is greatly to be feared, that the large and respectable body of her Majesty's subjects who have recently proceeded thither will be placed in a state of anarchy, and subjected to great evils accordingly." " That the state of anarchy in New Zealand, against which no sufficient provision has been made by her Majesty's Government, cannot but be deeply injurious to the helpless natives, when placed in contact with settlers from Europe, unrestrained by any law or any other authority than that which they may establish for their own defence. " That unless an immediate stop be put to the ac quisition of land from the barbarous natives of Ness Zealand by private persons, the most serious injury will ensue as well to the natives as to settlers from this country ; and that it is indispensible to the well-being of all classes of her Majesty's subjects there, and to the future prosperity of the country, that decisive steps should be promply taken, to remedy the evils that have already arisen from the said private acquisitions of land.' The petition concluded thus— " Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your Houourable House will be pleased to take the premises into your consideration, and by such measures as your wisdom may deem expedient, to preserve these valuable Islands to her Majesty's dominions, and establish throughout the same the regular authority of British law, and a lawful system of colonization, under a dis tinct and sufficient Colonial Government." The Honourable Gentleman concluded by moving that the Earl of Devon be requested to lay the cad dress before her Majesty, Lord Ashburton to present the petition to the House of Lords, and Lord Eliot to the House of Commons. Mr. STEWART DONALDSON seconded the motion. Captain ACHERLY then moved an amendment, which was seconded by Spun, but the original reso lution was carried almost unanimously. The Rev. Mr. DENNIS thou moved a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, for his able and impartial con duct in the chair. The motion having been seconded by Mr. ROBIN SON, was carried by acclamation, and The LORD Mnion returned thanks, on which the meeting separated. TILE ISLINGTON MURDER.—The jury before whom Richard Gould was tried and acquitted of having perpe trated this murder, evinced - Alio reluctance which, we trust, will ever influence a British jury in deciding against a prisoner where the evidence is, as in this case, purely circumstantial, and where the circumstances will admit of an interpretation other than that which has brought the prisoner before them. The trial being now over, we are at liberty to state, what we know to be the fact, that while Gould has invariably asserted his in nocence, he has admitted his knowledge of the parties who per petrated the deed—an admission which is hardly consistent with his assertion. A careful examination cif the evidence leads to the conclusion that more than one was engaged in perpetrating the murder ; and we hope that the police, aware of the admis sion of Gould, will yet pursue their inquiries, in the hope of yet bringing to light this mysterious and appalling crime.— Globe. ANOTIIEFt ROBBERY 'OE PLATE, J EWEI, LERY, &c.—Monday information was given to the police, that on Saturday morning, between one and six o'clo ck, the resi dence of Kerr, Esq., North Bank, St. John's-road, was plundered of valuable property. The articles in question were abstracted from various parts of the house, into .which the thieves effected an entrance by breaking a pane of glass in the pantry, and unbolting the - door : Lord Castlemain continues in a hopeless state. His demise is momentarily expected. EVENING EDITION% DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS• THE HAGUE, APRIL 10.—According to the last census, the population of the kingdom of the Nether lands, on the Ist of January, 1840, including the gar risons, was— Males 1,399,680 Females Total THE HAGUE, APRIL I:2.—The latest Java Journals• contain the following article : " Batavia, 4th December. " According to accounts from Pontianak, a sharp action had taken place between the D3jah pirates and a. native chief, in which the latter, having volunteered to. engage the pirates without aid from the Dutch authori ties, had been defeated—he lost 37 men, and the pi— rates 80. Afterwards, when a respectable naval force appeared, the pirates could no where be found." FRANKFORT, APRIL 10.—His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander has just arrived here. The Prince will stop till the thy after tomorrow to re ceive the Worshipful, Members of the German Diet, and the Burgomaster of our city, &c. His Highness came in a coach and six, and appears to be in g ood health.—Dutch Paper, April 14, GALATZ, MARCH 23,—We learn from Theodoria that the Russian General Rajewsky had suddenly ell" barked on hoard a Russian steam-boat for the Circas sian coast. Repeated notice has been given of the renewal of hostilities by the Ciczssians against the Russians, and of considerable losses which the latter are said to have sustained during the sumwr last year; the Russians had erected a fort at the mouth of the little river Tuabs, and successfully fortified it, The tribes of Albych and Shapsugcs, who thought themse lves threatened by this fort, made an attack at this poi: at atthe end of February or the beginning of March, and succe,e.ded is surprising the garrison. With great boldneis they scaled the walls by the aid of ladders, and made tbi. m f selves masters of the fort. The garrison, consisting several hundred men, were put to the sword ; all die works were destroyed, on which the Circassians retired to the mountains. A pretty considerable quantity of ammunition, 13 pieces of cannon, and all the arms of the Russian soldiers, were the trophies with whi&' they returned to their villages. An attack made at the same time at Tuabs, another Russian fort on the river, totally failed ; and, after two attacks, the Circassians were obliged to retreat with loss. Most of the rivers on the north coast of the Black Sea arc quite free from ice ; only the entrance to the harbour of Bertsch is still blocked up. VIENNA, APRIL s.—The Hungarian Diet has et length consented to the levy of 38,000 recruits, which will immediately be carried Into effect, as the disband ing of the Landwehr, which is now being effected in the whole empire, renders an increase of the troops of the line a desirable object. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg will start for Brussels to-morrow.—Allgenteine Zeitung, April 10. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended April 10, 1840, made up from: the Returns ~ the Inspectors in the diffeient Cities and fawns in England raid Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 395. 11d. I Rye ... ..... 2 3 5 7 5 ; 68s. Ild I Oats Barley IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE F,IX WEE KS i' li d d .. 1 8reemane5..»..............4414.. 41,1. PRECEDING. Wheat ...... Barley I 5.4a: - . DUTIIS + ON FOREIGN CORN. Od. Wheat Ms. 8d Oats Barley 3s 4d. Rye THE MARKETS. COAL d, :ARKET. 5. 22 a Walls End Belmot2 Walls Endßraddylt.'t sHetton f.FS „ Walls End Hetl.rn"... ****q3 0 Walls End Lambton. ****** 3 22 9 Walls End Russell Walls End Hartlepool ..... ' 6 WalislEnd Kelloe ......... 422 6 W..ll4End Adelaide:— ..... 6 Walls End Coundon .......... 6 Wally End Evenwood ....... \Nalla'End Seymour T ees... 21 E Walls nd South Durham ... 21 19 " Cowpen . .... . ... ••• ..... •"' 2 6 Llangennech.. ...... . .... ID „„ 6 i Stavely Main ........ ........... ast market-day. P. Carr's Hartley 2O 0 - Holywell Main 2O 0 Leazes Main l5 6 Original Windsor's Pontop 19 0 Smith's Pontop l7 0 Tantieid Moor Tanfied Moor Butes lB f Townley l7 6 Wylam , l9 3 Walls End Gosforth 2l 6 Walls /end Heaton 2O P Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Medomsley l7 0 Walis End Nowmarch l9 3, Walls End Walker 2O 9 , Ships arrived since l; COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, Wheat. jßarley. { Oats. Beans. Pe as ?' .. --, i to k i • Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. -.. Is . to s. a. to B. 43 Beaton 36 Braintree 66 76 34 44 26 32 34 42 40 B. ighton 6B 76 44 47 26 •29 44 46 ••••"' 3 6 Cambridge — 69 35 25 —.— 3 8 ,-; 42 Chichester 65 72 38 44 28 29 43 44 n 0 Dunmow 72 78 33 45 20 32 34 5 8 ''' --- Grantham '''" -". ... • GrimsbY 5B 70 35 39 22 26 42 4 4 41! Hailaliam CO 72 26 32 22 29 46 -"' ..... Hitchin 64 70 34 46 24 32 25 30 --' 42 Ipswich 62 70 36 32 24 28 38 40 38 Lewes 6B 74 43 22 29 34 40 --• ......42 Lynn 67 71 32 34 24 28 40 44 40 Maidstone l9 76 36 39 26 32 40 50 Norwich I'etworth Rom ford 64 76 32 44 21 32 34 44 C 6 " 4 " Sandwich 56 77 34 43 27 34 33 45 38 40 Thetford 67 70 39 42 24 30 40 42 38 40 Wisbech - ..... Witham 66 78 32 43 28 33 36 40 38 41 Yarmouth 62 70 33 35 28 32 38 40 40 '- A LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—ApriI 14. .4. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. -- Red 9 9 10 g --.. Scotch, Welch, and Manx 4 ---- Irish, White 6 -- Red 5 3 6 3 8 a 11 s 0 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b. 3 5 4 3 1 0 Irish 34 44 :33 45 40 42 44 45 36 40 38 40 9 (1194: 1 to 1 ° 1 s. 9( l * •••• 8 9 t ( 7 4 3 5 3 8 a it 5 ••••• 5 4 0 3 9 3 0 1 g o•••• 0 , 36 0 4 ' 9 4 4 4 3 0 4 0 Z i ; 0 46 0 41 0 4 .1 7 ) 43 0 4 ' 0 " 44 0 48 42 0 44 54 5 42 0 582 ( g •••• "S:2 0 . 0 44 g 35 g 7.: 56 C - Foreij OATS, English Irish - Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter - Scotch and Irish, pet (301bs. - Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter - Irish, - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter Foreign FLouit, English, per 28011 s. ----- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs INDIAN CORN, per 4801 b. Itie, per Imperial quarter HALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET Wheat, White (per Quarter) 66s. itli. 74 4 - Red sos. 6Cs. ( i B ' Foreign s4s. 60s. 68s• Barley, Malting 32s 345. 35& Grinding ' 2Bs. 30s. 3 1 s- Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans 4os 445. 565. Pease, Grey 34s. 365. 3 7 g• Blue and White —s. —s. ---5. Linseed . . . ... 19s. 40 s 435. Flour (per sack)... c 5 0, 545, Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) 221. 241. 25/. CHELTENHAM MARKETS. d. t° a. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. 7 Wheat Barley 4 9 5 7 Mutton Oats 4 6 5 6 Veal Beans .. 5 0 6 6 Pork Pease 6 0 Hay 3l. 10s. to 51. Os. Od. per ton. CAN'rEBBURI MARKET. Wheat, white-- 619. to 7Gs. —s. to red 565. to ()Os. Old 6 s s. to s Barley, Malting 355. to 455. Grinding.. —s• t° Oats 255. to 30s. Old t° P B e e a a s n e s 3 4 8 2 , 5 . t t o o - 44 5 5 . . to 4.s CHELISFORI) MARKET. Wheat, White 75 to 81 Oats Red Barley Cheralicr Grinding 2 0 to a 0 57 43 41 , 43 pi 34 LADY'S GOLD NECK CHAI N may be selected from of several patterns, price, we ight of fsl, r , sovereigns, Five Guineas ; weight o f five sovereigns , 1 1 10 Guineas : weight of six sovereigns, Seven Guineas. % weight is given by comparison with the weight of sov erei g , n_ being more easily referred to than if stated in ounces and dvr,7a The quality of the Gold is warranted equal to any that is w ork into articles of this description. T. COX SAVORY, hill Goldsmith, Silversmith, Watchmaker, &0., 47, Corn (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), London. Drawings of the newest patterns will be sent post fro, if a r plication be made post paid SILVER. PLATE of LONDON MANUFA C TORE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Working T a id d : smiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of Eng, ch u o The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS , , I. ` r Pattern, 7s. 2d. per ounce; the King's Pattern, 7g. 4._"t th e - ounce. The following are the weights recommended , '''' , artcles may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per oun g oz. 8. i 2... 115 o 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 30 at 7 2... . 1 7 3 0 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2 " . in 15 4 12 ditto 'fable Forks 341 7 !••• A i 3 8 2 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 2... 11 8 2 ditto Gravy Sp oons lO 7 2" 3 ' 311 8 1 ditto Soup Ladle 10 7 2... „-- 1 6 0 4 ditto Sauce ditto lO 7 8 "' 8 4 ditto Salt Spoons (gilt strong) ............••..• y•_ 1 , 0 1 ditto Fish Slice ••• • .................. ... ..... ; 16 12 ditto Tea Spoons lO 7 8 "' •15 8 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs (strong) ............... .. .., .5 12 King's Patter i Silver Table Spoons... 4O at • 7 . 4... 2! 1 , , 8 12 ditto De,scrt ditto °6 7 4... ?i, 13 4 12 ditto Tab'e Forks 40 7 I*** i ij 10 8 12 ditto Dessert ditto__ . t i ki i 4 .. 4 • 0 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 1 ditto Soup Ladle 12 7 4.•• 414 0 ti 4 ditto Sa..e ditto. l2 7 10... 2 2 0 4 ditto Salt Spoons (strong gilt) ................ 3 5 1 ditto Fish Slice ........................... - ...... 5 9 8 12 ditto Tea Spoons l4 7 DI" 1 5 ° 1 pair ditto Sugar Tongs .................................. _ n tsin- NAL A Price Current, Stamp as a Newspaper, : a _ of ing drawings, and every informatAz relative to th e p uorr will be silver or Sheffield plate, may be had on applicatio n, d - l e tter. sent into the country, postage free, in answer to a ,____,,,....._ BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., in Piccadilly, the Duchess of St. Albans of a son. Glocest cr- On the 9th inst., at the Vicarage, Sandhu rst, shire, the lady of the Rev. Nicolas Tindal of a daughter. Britain On the 10th inst., at Dunesk, near Lasswade, North the lady of J. M. Alacnabb, Esq., of a, daughter_____::______------ 211.4R.R/ED. On the 15th inst., at th e church of the Hol y Trinity, Wing, " ton, Mr. Richard Grace, of Old-street, to Amelia, young, daughter of the late MrWalter DIED. LadY On the 15th lust. , in Ha r ley - street , Ann, Dowager Rodney, widow of the late, and m othe r of the present, Lord Rodney. She was daughter and heiress of the late Right He?: Thomas flarley, son of Edward third Earl of Oxford, aged 81 On the 13th imt., at St. Peter's Vicarage, Colchester, Samuel, only son Of the Rev. Samuel Carr, aged 4. On the 14th inst., at Hackney, Mrs. Frances Davies, wi l 27 of the late James Davies, Esq., of Gracechureh-street, age" rey, On the 14th inst., at Huntington Lodge, Peckham , George, the sixth son of Mr. Lund, of Cornbill. of On the 14th inst., Elizabeth Charlotte, youngest da u g hter Dr. C. Rogers, Dorset-square, Regent's-park, aget,____ Sur London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , °f No. 112, Strand, at The S'un Office, No. 112, Strand in tki , county of Middlesex.—Thursday, April 16, 1840. I I I