The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-09 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION• ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 'no daring feats of the celebrated Van Amburgh in the New Historical Drama of " Mungo Parke." with his incomparable Collection of Lions, Leopards, and Tigers, has already created •he utmost astonishment—thousands have witnessed the won derful effects, and he will appear every evening till further notice. THIS EVENING, JULY 9. Will hearted a New Draw atic Spectacle, entitled NIUNCO PARKE ; OR, THR ARAB OF THE NIGER. Kaila, the Arab, by Van Amburgh, in which character he will be attacked by a leopard and a tger, and finally encounter th,: whole herd in their dens. To which will be added, THE WET NURSE. Tn eonclude with the New Village Tragedy, entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. Realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress." ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THIRD WEEK, and INCREASING ATTRACTION Of BEETHOVEN'S EXTRAORDINARY BATTLE SINFONIA ! GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES , By Godfrey's unrivalled Band. 11,e vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows— Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship. Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light. Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Programe of the Concert for July 6th, 7th, and 9th. Overtures—Semiramide, Zampa Waltzes—Dle Kosenden, rower of Len'lon (composed expressly). Quadrilles—Krako viak, Falstaff. Aria--" Vivi tu," with Cornet obligato. Quartetto—" Aht a ;C erl.". Pas des Amazonea. The much admirr>d popular Airs from " Robert le Diable," Grand March—Die Templar and die Juden. And THE GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA, The chef d'oeuvre of Beethoven, Revived with more than its original effect and grandeur. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. Concert commences at Six. i-FIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nfornir, 31 minutes after 10. i Evening 3 minutes after 11. even will make them better acquainted, and more 1 desirous to secure them. The privileges of the Highland chieftains were decaying before the rebel lion destroyed them. The rights which the Standard would suppress are growing every day in strength. Close to the Canadians there is a people possessing similar rights, anxious to impart them, and desirous of having the Canadians in union with them. England at a distance of thirty days' sail, and could only carry out the policy of the Standard, if at all, at an immense and continual expense. It could not ultimately be successful. The time must come when the cotony will claim an independent national existence ; and the Tory policy would, therefore, make the union as irksome and ruinous as possible while it lasted, and make it end in strife and hatred. Coercion is the principle of the Standard—social misery, both to the colony and the mother country, would be the result. . The Publication of the Evening Editien of THE SUE com menced at 31 minutes after Three. .. c .- 4 :Littl' _..,..,- - , ~i-_47,14- , ) . ,-:;_ ~.._-_- : , -,\,1_,R,4 , .. ~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~~0 LONDON: THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1840. The Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons did not do much, but they promised a good deal. Mr. KELLY, for example, gave notice of a Bill to enable freemen of boroughs to vote for elections of Town Councillors. Mr. GROTE gave notice of his intention to call the attention of the House to a peti tion respecting New South Wales. Mr. T. DUN COMBE gave notice of an aidress to release THORO i,OOD. And Mr. HUTT gave notice of a motion reia tve to the Sound dues. All these are promises of work hereafter. Some, however, were suppressed, ;ter. Sergeant TALFOURD withdrew the Copyright Bill till next SesFion, and put an end to that. The petitions were numerous. In reply to Lord SANDON, Mr. HOGG stated that measures had not been taken to separate the East India Company from the growth of opium in India, though the question had occupied much of the attention of fie Directors. The Bill for authorising the Cornmere'al Treaty Riffs AnstriA was read a first time. Oa the fertlier consideration of the Report of the Sale of Beer Bill being moved, Lord SANDON pro posel a clause to prevent beer being drunk on the tirerniies. After a short debate, the clause was re jected by 91 to 47. The Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time. The House was for some tune occupied with the Dr:linage of Lands Bill in Comndttcc, and three divi nions took piece on different clauses. The Bill was, 'however, carried through, and ordered to be reported to-morrow, The Marriages Act Amendment Bill also went through a Committee. Mr. F. KELLY'S Bill to abolish Capital Puoisbments was read a second time without opposition. The Hon. Member explained that he had prepared Bills to cx tend the same law to Scotland and Ireland. Mr. Fox MALLS informed the Hon. Member that he should propose some amendments in Committee. The Standard is sensible that its remarks are I blasphemy against the prevailing, theory of Govern- I ment. Its principles, when men must not he hanged for great crimes, are those of the iron hand. It would carry back society, so far as Go vernment is concerned—for we have never heard i that any Tory ever wished to get rid of rail- roads, steam-boats, gas-lights, &c. —to the \ fourteenth century, or even to the time of So- LOMON. There is to be progress in all the arts, in all the sciences, and in knowledge, but go vernment is to retrograde and be in a perpetual con flict with advancing society. The practices of ' statesmen have been too often in conformity with the coercive maxims of the Standard; in general they have acted on the principle that their duty was to oppose and coerce the multitude—to oppose and coerce society, and the result has been an immea surable quantity of misery inflicted by Government on its subjects. The Standard and the Tories would continue that system, and would inflict even more misery in future than has been inflicted in past times. The principles applied to Canada are equally' applicable to Ireland. Ireland has resisted. Ire land is now waging a " pettifogging Parliamentary rebellion" against the Tories; and if the " prudent and vigorous statesmen" of the Standard were in power, England would at one and the same time re duce by force Canada and Ireland into submission to Tory despotism. A hopeful prospect for the nation the return of the Standard's friends to office holds out to it. We showed, in a late article, how grossly incon sistent and insincere the advocates of the Nun In tausion humbug had proved themselves in limiting their principle, as they call it, to the keeping out unaccep•able ministers, in,tcad of extending it to the pulling out of settled ministers coming within that definition. But this contraction of their very accommodating " principle," is- only one of many evidences, all tending towards the same point—the proof of their hypocrisy. " The people !" " the people I" is their constant cry. '' The rights of the people must be maintained at all hazards r This has a sound of liberty with it which deceives, and is intended to deceive. When, however, we come to inquire. who " the people" are, we get a practical illustration of the well-known story of the three tailors of Toolev-street, who called themselves the people of England. Dr. CHALMERS, in his Veto Act, limits " the people" of a parish to a class so conveniently small, and so peculiarly qua• lified, that, whenever it is expedient to black-ball a presentee, they will never prove refractory in the hands of the godly ministers who happen to reign, for the time being, in the neighbouring parishes. To say that the parishioners are to be decimated in order to create the Reverend Doctor's " people," would be very far within the mark. For, in the first place, all are excluded from " the people" who are not communicants. Secondly, from the com municants are excluded all the weaker vessels. Thirdly, from the male residue, thus purged—ch, shame l—of the fair portion of the congregation, are to be weeded out all those who have not attained The Parochial Assessment Bill went through a Com mittee, and vas ordered to be re-committed. The House sat till a Quarter past Eleven o'Clock. the age of twenty-one years. Fourthly, this last When no Statesman of any party has ventured remnant is to be still further winnowed of those d to go further than express a strong hope that the isreputable persons who are not fortunate enough Canada Government Bill will be found, from ex-I to hold the rank and station of heads of families. perience, favourable to the prosperity of that It thus appears that a very disgraceful contrivance has been resorted to, by the Nen-Intrusion Clergy, Colony, and not hasten the dissolution of the poll to narrow the objecting constituency,—the snore fleal connection with England, which in the nature disgraceful, when it is considered that the ministers of things must take place, we may be excused for not taking any warm interest in a measure of have the privilege of conferring or withholding; the qualification at their pleasure, as they exer ruch doubtful and distant utility. In modern times the opinion of reflecting men' has been generally i cise the irresponsible office of admitting to hostile 'to those paper constitutions by which igno- 1 the communion table or debarring from it— rant, hut ardent politicians have pretended to confer a power liable greatly abused. How the plan works in practice may be understood from the fact, that into great abuse, and very freedom and happiness on mankind ; and we see often no particular reason for exempting the new con- , stitution for Canada from the general rule. Th e the populous parish of Daviot, containing nearly hundred persons, the number of qualified essence of prosperity theme is an increase of people ;twelve, e oo'ctors to the settlement of a late presentee was spreading themselves over the yet untitled soil. I i t , i tea, three of whom were for, and seven acrainst Such a social condition requires less a complicated 1 J u . s , ~, this . , him : ret is the system which Dr. CH AL - system of law and an operose machinery for making - 1a , ,55 like the old country, than a tolerable means of I MERS and his clique would fa ten upon Scotland a protecting life and property, and liberty to expand. under the shameless pretence of extendin g the Growth, rapid growth being its vital principl e , a rights of the people I The late conduct of this consistent champion of cumbrous system of laws which will not expand 1 i Non-Intrusion exhibits him and his followers in a with it, and a law-making machinery perpe. , view. We have seen how the truly picturesque . tually shaping 'new restraints and restrictions, diminished b the number of qualified persons is y seem to us hoStile to its welfare. We cannot, the Veto Act, how the "people " are provisions of . therefore, share the enthusiasm of some of our Con reduced to dimensions so manageable that the Veto temporaries about the Canada Bill, and looking at i . . reality,though indirectly, placed in the hands 1 is in the condition of England, we should have much of the Clergy, while these holy men profess to preferred remedying grievances at home, to making give it to their flocks. In the excess of their disin new constitutions for a distant colony. terestedness, the Non-Intrusion Clergy have even The case of Canada, however, was one on which made it a part of the Veto Act, that Presbyteries the philosophy of Viscount AIELBOURNE, who so shall have no cl • • iscretionary power, but shall be lately explained his dread of the principle of com- ho d to un reject the mi nister whom a majority of ' pulsion to do something, must have been put , the ccpeople," without reason assigned, have re to a rude trial. The rebellion there, the suspen- jetted. This is a cunningly simulated moderation, sion of the constitution, and the supposed im- with disgusting which they try, with disausting cowardice, to possibility to govern the colony as at present, corn- by . . . ' evade all responsibility for these acts which they com pelled the Government to do something ; and how themselves have done through the instrumentality ever much what they propose may be carped at, i of . . tow subservient creatures, the well-sifted majo their opponents in both Houses, admitting the ne- ray of the communicants. cessity of doing something, have confessed that they have nothing better to propose, and therefore Let us now see how conscientiously these mono have they given an almost unanimous consent to Polisers of conscience have acted with regard to 'the Ministers' Bill. Lord ABERDEEN'S Bill. The publication of It may be recommended still further to the the correspondence which passed be!ween his public, perhaps, by noticing that the principal objet- Lordship and Dr. CHALMERS on the subject, lions to it completely answer one another. One while the Noble Lord was concocting his Bill, person says it is intended to annihilate the rode- throws a flood of light upon the character and ma pendence of the Lower Canadians ; another, that tives of the Non-Intrusionist leader. There we see tis giving all the power into their hands, and re- the cloven-foot p • eeping out, under the Geneva warding them for their rebellion. Neither of these gown. There the religious mountebank appears in is its principle, nor will either be its effect. I t i s his true character, playing off his antics at the to intended, undoubtedly, to assimilate the two colo- tal sacrifice of everything like principle or con nies by the application to both of one English sistency. First he tries to coax Lord ABERDEEN standard, but, it will only annihilate the French into his views of Kirk Supremacy, by appealing to Canadians by amalgamating them with a more his Lordship's political partialities, althogh he pre powerful race, and it will only reward them by re- tends to be horrified at the introduction of politics ducing their former power. Without being enthusi- into the question at the Perthshire election. " I astic in favour of this measure of remote g „d f or a grieve to think," says this pious shuffier, " I grieve distant colony, we are satisfied that such a free to think that the Committee, while it consented to Government can inflict no great harm on either the a very tame disclaimer of all participation in Mr. Lower or Upper Canadians. DUNLOP'S movement, should not have acqui Of all the politicians who have discussed the esced in my indignant disavowal of our having subject, the Standard seems to us the wildest. any political views." Indignant disavowal I So Ultra in all things it seems desirable that the ub- this Reverend Gentleman's hi g h reli g io us preten lie should be made aware of the consequences of its sions allow him to stoop to the convenient morality doctrines. They will then know what to exp ect o f Of " indignantly disavowing" the truth. Whether its friends when they are in power. Injustice and Dr. CHALMERS had any political views or not rigour are the main pillars of the despotism it let his own words determine. On the 28th of Fe would erect : bruary he thus writes to his Noble Correspondent : 44 Here," it said last night, "as in all general measures e c confess to your Lordship the chief anxiety of policy we must,' to do a great right do a little wrong e which I I : et ea feelon the subject. It is, lest in Parlia and in the case of the French Canadians the wrong of an meatle I now Government do the same ' thing which the friends of .., absolute disqualification of their race, for one generation, they miniature at the election would be a little wrong indeed. If all did not take the' of fn see h m to be now doing m on _ . d their opponents in the field in the flagrant rebellion, all were implicated in the popularity of thattheir is, measure,gob beyond with no other view than pettifogging parliamentary rebellion that preceded the to make ihe e ' harvest of the consequent division__ open war, and to that war all were assenting parties. The thus sacrificing ownthe .. object of a settlement to the patriotic .. . 0 .. . . question of justice is therefore plain. If we lived in the party object of . their own politics. In thes.., critical cir age of prudent and vigorous statesmen, we know how the cumstances it is 0 , -v •ous ly of first-rate importance that the French Canadians would be treated—as the Sc o tti s h Conservatives should far they might be aware how go Highlanders were treated after the rebelli on of 1746_ with wisdom and safety. I feel persuaded that, as a body, protected in Ile and property , but governed by force, they will make no compromise ofprinciple, and it is stripped by force of their local and generic distinctions, therefore all the more desirable that this principle should sod by force nationalised. Let the same course be pursued I be in ready coalescence with the full extent to which the in Lo wer Canada, and we have the authority of the pre- t element of the popular will might be carried in the election cedent f o r expecting that in twenty years t h e F renc h C a- o f m i n i sters , In a word, I should like, if they could con nadians will b e a loyal people, qualified to co-operate cor- sistently with their own v i ews of right and duty, not only Whigs, dully w i t h t h e i r countr y m en of British descent, in what- be upside with the W , gs but if they could s% far out e..er m a y b e con d uc i ve t o the common good. Let any run them as to maxe the meanire their owe. Yeur other course be taken, and we may prepare for the return Lordship already knows that, supposing the first, which is of Messre. Papineau and Mackenzie." really the greatest interest connected' withthis' question Let question Let us see what would probably be the result secured—l mean the spiritual indepen fence of the Church of this policy. The Highlanders had no aid or 1 o m n ea t s h u e re C of iv l i v l on C7 n r t t r l— sio Y n o i u g a z i h i e . a n dy kno w h ow sma ll t h e resources, but what they could derive from , 1 us; b ut th i s d oes not supersede thew° q u il l e d . s t 1 oa" s nloyr ma ny m k' of France ; and a peopl e twenty t i mes as numerous as ' useless, how large the measure of Non-Intrusion might themselves, and far better organised, were at hand , be, that would not prove hurtful to the Church as a pure and efficient in l stitute for the Christian «decation of the to overawe them. The rebellion was less for pri- i yileges and rights than for dynasties ; and though Peonle elast j t V 'c7 ofscentsLttoona t v h e i r s y , g ie r s e t a i t lat , ftude and my the clans marched at the command of their leaders,' , great , ,/ day this q ~ i.. On Cite next day in di gnant disavower of poli it concerned no popular rights, and commanded no ' . • vital vied s intht.:-.•: the ro]luoiing. precious dear- extensive popular sympathies. The rebellion in ; ' ' ration : Canada is of the people, and for popular ' ht rig s, "1 ain quite aware of the worthless policy of the Whigs, with which every dispute, every contest, every day hi ii vY...C- is to outdo in popularity the measure of the Con, ! THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 9, servatives, whatever that may be. How t should re joke if the Conservatives, on the other hand. would, in their turn, contrive and so wrest the mcaeure from their grasp, thereby gaining for their cause, in all time e ,, ming, the affections of the Church and people of Scotland l" Had not some parts of this interesting corre , spondence been suppressed—to Avoid, it is said, too great an exposure and embroilment —we should, no doubt, have found more violent evidence, stronger v:e do not want, of the Rev. Doctor's freedom from " political views," and further proofs of the " elasticity" of his sentiments on the question of Non-Intrusion. Lord ABERDEEN, however, was too old a stager to he taken in by the Doctor. He would not be cajoled by his flattery, nor bribed by the hope of a perpetual fraternity between Toryism and the Kirk, into an acknowledgment of the great doctrine of ecclesiastical independence. He stuck to his prin ciples, unreduced by the example of elasticity set him by a Presbyterian divine, and laid his Bill upon the table of the House of Lords. The As sembly met, and the fury of the Non-Inn usionists knew no bounds. Dr. CHALMERS denounced the Bill in his usual extravagant language, and com pared its author to IiEHoBoAm, the son of NEBAT, who made Israel to sin. The 13111, we thought at the time, and, we think so still, was quite unnecessary, but at all events it served the purpose of testing the sincerity of Dr. CHALmEtts and his party. Had they been honest in their professions they would have accepted it with thankfulness, for it carries out their ostensible principle. What does Lord ABERDEEN, in effect, say ? This :—" I am as adverse as you, Dr. CHALMERS, can he to Intrusion, properly so called, but I think there should be some check upon the undue exercise of your Non-intrusion principle. You have so con trived it that the greatest injustice may be commit ted without the least respons:bility being incurred. You give the right cf rejecting a presentee to a very small portion of the congregation at their ab solute will and pleasure, and you give the Presby tery no alternative but to give effect to their veto. Thus neither Presbytery nor people are responsible for their acts. Now, what I propose is this will accompany your principle of Non-Intrusion with the principle of responsibility. You say the majo rity of the male communicants of a certain age, who are heads of families, shall have the right of objecting. I will extend the right. Not only shall the majority, but any number, or any individual, of the congregation be entitled to object—and on any ground moral, doctrinal, or personal. The ob jection or objections shall be laid before the Pres bytery, and the Presbytery shall have power, takA g into consideration the qualifications and the fitness of the presentee for the office of the ministry in the particular parish, circumstanced as it may happen to be, to ordain or not ordain him, as may seem to them proper. But, in case of their refusing to ordain, they must record in their minutes the rea sons which induced them to take that course." " Reasons !" exclaims Dr.CHA LMERS ; "don't talk to us of teasons ; what, the Presbytery give reasons ! who ever imagined that a Presbytery of the Caurch of Scotland would he called upon to give reasons for its decision The Moderates chastised us with whips, but you, cruel Lord ABERDEEN, would chastise us with scorpions. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, we would not give you a reason on compulsion, that we would not." Thus did Lord ABERDEEN put these would-be friends of popular rights, but real advocates of clerical domination, completely in the wrong, and expose to the world their low cunning, and disgusting hypocrisy. Even the few honest and simple-minded persons who were imposed upon at first by their clamour about the rights of the people, are now heartily sick of their conduct, and are not slow to express their dissatisfaction. In a letter which Dr. CHALMERS has lately published, he has the imprudence to say, " I felt little or no dis appointment at the relinquishment either of the Veto or of the Call, compared with the disappoint ment I felt at the limitation set by Lord ABER DEEN'S Bill, on the competency of the Presbytery to judge, from all the circumstances of the case, on what she deemed best for the edification of the people !" The limitation here complained of, he it remembered, is neither more nor less than that the Presbytery shall give reasons for their acts. On this disclosure of the real views of the Doctor and his coadjutors, the Banner, a Non-Intrusion journal, published at Aberdeen, makes the follow ing just remarks : We cannot think that the members of the Church have been struggling to accomplish this germ of a mathematical point in the right course. Nun-Intrusion, as understood by the peas , nt and the mechanic, by the farmer and the tradesman—Non-Intrusion, m advocated at all those meet ings, so esteemed and warmly defended by the Reverend Doctor— Non- Intrusion, as laid down in the very wor ds of the petitions —was not that Ministers should not be 2:4. truded against the will of the Presbytery, but the will of the people." This is the truth. The unfettered, irresponsible will of the Presbytery was the grand object aimed at—the will of the people was the delusion, the stalking-horse, under cover of which the object was to be attained. The people have found this out at last, and we shall hear little more of Non- Intrusion. Brussels Papers to the 7,11 inst. inclusive have just bun received. The ,11,mitcur of the sth is filled with a report made to the KING by LEBEAU, relative to tree convention conelud•A at Rome in the month of March last for regulating the intercourse botween the kingdom of Ba'gium and the Holy See. It is framed exactly after the model of the treaty between Belgium and Sardinia, so far as regards ternporals. M, LEBE A u's report is folk.wed by one made to the POPE by Its Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State, informing hs Holiness that he had signed the Convention vita Belgium in the form presented by the Government of that kingdom. The diffetences between the Courts of Madrid and Lisbon, and the Holy See, are likewise al most entirely removed. The baptism of the young Princess was performed on Sunday, at the Palace of Lacken, by the Cardinal Arch bishop MALINES. The sponsors were the King and Queen of PORTUGA L represented by the Duke D'AU. MALE and the Princess CLEMENTINE, whom their MA JESTIES had appointed their proxies. A letter from Honville, near Bastogne, of the 2d July, sa y s ...." The Belgian and Dutch officers for tracing the frontier line passed last week along the limit of separation in Luxemburg, from the French frontier to within half a league of Martelange; thence they went to the frontier of Prussia to continue their operations from that point to wards Msrtelange." A letter from Franefort of Ist July to the Gazette of Mayenee, says it is believed that Mr. Nothombe is in structed to propose to the German Commercial League the conclusion of a treaty of commerce with Bzlgium. E !Ai lAN t'UNDS—BRi ENELM, Jutv 7. Actual Dailt,s!., per Cant. Rothschild'' , Loan, S per Cnt 10311 of thirty Winans, 4 per Cent tfS 3 per Cent.7t3 —Thirty-seven— . 7'; Loan()a Cav, 4 per Cent 9 4'4 Society of Commerce, 4 1 ... per Cent llO flank of Belgium, 5 per ....... 1.0 National Society . Exchange on Londow (short) —Brussels Papers, July 7. Madrid Papers, of the 30th ult., have enmo to hand. The capital was tranquil. The pro,zpect of peace caused an improvement in the Funds. Tne Five per Cents. were at 26 for cash. PRINCE ALBERT.—ThE POLISH FETE.—Ii a let bAlbert, in th e ki n d est terms , be k nown as a patron of the Y Lord D. C. Swart, hi s tecxr pr ßoyales receiveds dHighness i,isy wish p t s e hr r i d nt a co y e Fete to be held to-morrow at Beulah Spa. The letter (which we have seen) leads us to suppose that the illustrious and most worthy Prince will honour the Pete by his presence. But the fact that he patronises this attempt to alleviate the sufferings of those whites, who have gained nothing but freedom by touching E n , c oi,h ground, cannot fail to increase the popularity which the illustrious philanthropist has earned by his presiding over a demonstration of British feeling in favour of en slaved blacks. A Correspondent calls our attention to the ex ertions made by the West India proprietors to carry labourers to their possessions, and suggests a correc tion to our views. He seems not to have fully comprehended them. What we condemned, and what we still condemn in the West Indians, is, for not having introduced as speedily as possible the principle of freedom into the islands after they had ascertained that they could not preserve slavery. We do not blame them for not attempting to get free labourers, but for not making society there fit fox free labourers to live in. Badly off as are the lumper-fed Irish and the pompernickel-eatin g Wesrphalians, they are nit so badly off as would be free labourers in the slave societies of our colonies. Our Correspondent's own letter supplies illustration. " The colonies," he says, " are jealous of losing their labourers, and pass all kinds of laws throwing obstacles in the way of emigration. The planters, as law-makers, in fact try to keep up that system of slavery which the public here have paid a large sum to put down. Instead of blaming the Go vernment and blaming the abolitionists, the West India proprietors should blame themselves for not introducing a free system into the colonies, without which they cannot have free labourers. The Government would not hive prevented them, but they have endeavotued to prevent the Government from establishing such a system. Even in the Crown colonies, governed by Orders in Coun cil, if the planters had been anxious to procure real freedom and independence for their former slaves, the Government would not have thwarted them. The great obstacle to having free-labourers in the colonies is neither their climate nor their peculiar species of cultivation, but the system of slavery which has long prevailed, and which the planters have certainly done all in their power to perpetuate. Let them reform themselves--let theta honestly extinguish all that re.nains of their slave codes, and they will not long want plenty of free labourers. Till they do that, all their efforts to import Irish or Germans will be abortive. We regret that so just a case as that brought forward by Mr. CRESSWELL on Tuesday evening, on behalf of the Shipping class of claimants, for losses in Denmark, should have been upset for the time by a pitiful advantage taken by the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER of a point of form in Mr. CRESSWELL'S motion. We trust, howe ver, that this circumstance will only give fresh life and vigour to the claimants, and to their friends in the House, to renew the motion immediately in a proper shape, notwithstanding the disadvantages of the lateness of the Session. There are some observations in the short state ment made by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER on the occasion to which we mean to refer when the question is again brought forward, in order to show the unfairness and incorrectness of the points - otk which he rested his unjust oppo• The telegraphic despatch announcing the arrival o c ABRERA in France was not received by the French Gosernmeat till Tuesday evening, and as the Paris morning papers of that date have only reached us, we know no more of the details than we were enabled to publish yesterday from the reports circulated on the Bourse. Tire Moniteztr of Tuesday publishes the fol loc-iing despatch from the Sp finish frontier : THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 21ST MILITARY DM- SION T(' Trm MINLS fLk GF W. R. " PERPIGNAN, JULY 6. " FORT J.Eg BAINS, JULY a. " Thirty-nine Carliwt officer', members of the Junta, and priests, have taken refuge at Ossega. Berga is sur- I freqn.in. He was unanimously elected. Mr. H eppell rounded and wants provisions. Cabrera is not there." 1 appeared on the part of Mr. Galloway, and entered tt The next telegraphic dispatch will probably announce l protest against all the proceedings of the day, as he the surrender of Berge, wh . th cannot ho l d out against was determined to sec k, in the Court of Queen's R the immense force at the disposal of ESPARTEO, the Bench, that office to which he had been duly elected on close of whose warlike career in Spain is as brilliant Es Midsummer day last. its commencement was inauspicious. i COPYRIGHT 124 DESIGNS —A Bill was introduced by Mr; E. 'Ferment very early in the present Session, to 'there is very little news of any m omen t I n th e Paris Journals of Tuesday. The following extracts from them I ex tend the term of Copyright in Designs for Printed includes all in the shape of novelty likely to interest an Calicoes from three months to twelve. The measure English reader. I has met with the determined opposition of a large tna- Chief-Baron WOULFE died at BAderi-Baden on the jority of the trade in Manchester and the neighbour -21 instant. hood, and the importance of their opposition) may be Their Majesties will go to Saint Cloud towards the end estimated by this fact, that their production in prints of this week, where they will pass the greater part of the during the last year, exceeded six millions of pieces ; season. The King and Queen of the Belgians will soon considerably more than one-half of the entire produe join them there. General Bathois and his Aid-de-camp, Captain Cartr, fon in prints of the United Kingdom. We understand that Mr. Tennent has found it necessary to abandon of the engineers, will sit out t.-morrow ler Algiers. • , , measure to: tiei present Session, and that ire has They arc sent to study on th's spot the three plans which the - have been proposed fur the defence of the Aliiiiija. intimated to his opponents that such is his intention. We find the following paraereph in the Bayonne jour nal :—" Letters from Pampe:tna inform us that Cabrera, with the intention of joining Balmaeila, whom ho ex pected to find in the northern erovineea, bad a dvanced through Aragon toward• N ivarre, at this head of 12.000 infantry and a numerous body of cavalry. On the 29:h of June he had passed the Cinca, but we are assured that he has been beaten near the river Segra by Zurbano and Aleober. On the 30rh this Viceroy of Navarro set out for San guesa with the intention of opposing the march of C-brcr.r. On the Ist of July the divisions of 'libel., and Concha were in motion to concentrate about Sanguesa. General O'Donnell, with the army of the centre, was at Molina d' Aragon. Oa the 2nd, whether Cabrera hnd been informed of the ruin of Balmaseda, or whether he feared to en g a g e the constitutional army, he began to mat eeavre is Upper Aragon, making a show of intending to take refuge in France, and the Viceroy returned to Pampeluila. The fate of Cabrera will be known to us in a very fee. days. We think that he will reireat into France b. thee same way as Balmaseda, and th,,t he will arrive at, Bayonne.—Le Constitutiound. 'l'he Prince of Canino ( Lucien Bonaparte) died at Viterbe, on the 29: h ult ,at the age of 66. He was the I second brother of Napoleon, and born in 1775. Exited from Corsica in 1793, he took part in the several phases of the French revolution, till he was created Minister of the Interior under the Consulate ; he was subsequently Am bassador in Spain, and employed in various coutidential missions, till, quarrelling with Napoleon about tiffs second rtetrriage, he separated himself from politics. Ha was taken prisoner ny the Engtian off the coast of Malta, and fixed his residence at Ludlow where he was incea re spected. At the peace of 1814 he went to flume, but re turned to Paris on Nopnleon's escape from Elba. Atter the final over thro.v o! his brother he retired to arty, wh, he passed the remainder of hi, days, devoted to literature and the fine arts, and was ranch ni spected in private life. BOURSE.PAkIS, TUESDAY, JULY 7. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price French 5 per Cents ll9 10 119 10 119 ... 19 90 4 per Cent, lUii .5 ~. 16 75 ... tuts 75 10 75 3 per cents B6 2U . 86 211 8.; 3,11 c or Cranes 3770 ...3 7 70 ...:3765 LiAtitte Bank I,oouL ss llO5 ...110J ...1105 —llO5 5,000 f. Sh 5242 50 ...5215 —.5212 50 —5245 13clgian Bank 51.er Cent, 3,er Cents ......... 17 25 ... 77 ,5 17 ... 77 Spanish AC,ive ... 24428 1 4 Passi,e 5 %... ... ti•ly .. 7 Portitgoese 3 per Cents a3t4 ti,attnitaii " 1 6 ... 11.5 S 0 ... 1 , 5 50 'lonian 9 ,5 it 5 Ins 1 , 5 RAILWA'r SHARI:h. St. tierrnato ............. Vcrsaalles, R. B `3; NTO 1130 5 0 L. 13. Orleans 4uthausen to 'Mann ... 4SO ... 480 477 110 ... 477 50 S'..ra,oarg to Bale 423 711 ... 423 75 ... 420 THE MAR,KETS-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKETS, Prices were firm to-day for all the leading articles, hut, the, e was not much business dune. There were not many arriv - ls at the Custom House, and tho Public Sales were unimportant. TEA MARKET. The rrvirket was dull to-day, but prices were good. TALLOW MARKET. Prices not lower, but the demand wAs very limited. PROVISION MARKET. Butter steady at late rates. Bacon in fair request. Lard dull, but not cheaper. HAY MARKETS. A fair demand existed, and forme- rates fully maintained. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON.—Wind tars, (.I,y at noon W. N.W., light breeze , , Mid heavy pulsing clouds, with rain. DEAL, JUL* B. Wind W. S. W., fresh breezm—Ar rivc4, Ow L idy M‘N,,ghton. Erom, from Sydney, New South :Walk.s; Haidte, Tilly, Africa; Lord Goderich, Quebec. LIVERrooL, JULY L—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Mr. Ack:l - s, Nichol, from Porto Cabc!lo, sailed June '2 ; Aurora. Mendicolandi. Havannah ; Paragon, Apalachicola; Asia, Cham . arrs, Newfoundland, sailed on the 26'.h ult. Sailed the Superior, Johnstone, for Bombay. FALMOUTH, JULY 7. —Wind W. to W. S. W.— Arrived the Enterprise, Brandford, from Odessa. POOLE, JULY 7.—Arrived the N,lF.on packet, Nowor thy. from Newfoundland. BRISTOL, JULY 8 —Arrived the Neptune, from New. fo - unri,and ; 12,keby, Quebec ; Victoria, Gallipoli. GLOUCESTER. JULY b.—Arrived the Mazeppa, Meddle ' stone. fr,fn Aliramiehi. ' KINnsr,,wN,JuLT 7 —Arrived the fliehibuctoo,Grandon, from Qfrbec; Medora, Browning ) , Demerara. CORK., JULY fi. --Arrived the Shannon, Graham, from i Pietou ; E upliemia, BUtt, Ness foundland ; Dirk Hat te raick, M‘Kinnon, Fayal. DEAL, JULY B.—The Telemachus, Suwashley, from Genoa to Brazil, was burned at sea the let. ult., in let. SN. long. 27. Crew saved, after being Eve days in the 1 boats, by the Orient, arrived in the Downs. :MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAT.—ThetTallS actions in our cotton ma,ket to-day are to the extent of 14,000 baits, of which 1,000 have been taken on specula tion, and 200 for export; prices steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE 1,1,T. —Chester and Birkenhead, Now Shares, 141; Edinburgh and Glasgow sellers at discount ; Great Western Half Shares, 474-; S,uth Wes tern SSI ; North Midland, 92k 92 ; Bank of Liverpool, 21k; North and South Wales, 64- per Share. Market dull, but no great aaniunt of stock offering. North Mid land heavy sellers at the above quotations. We have received the Antwerp paper of yesterday's date. HAGUE, JULY B.—The day before yesterday was received the first 28 barrels of herrings from our fishery, which sold at 700 florins the barrel. A present of them was sent with great ceremony to his Majesty, and to the other members of the Royal family. koussE OF AMSTERDAM, JULY 6.—The favourable ten dency which is manifest on every Bourse, and above all that of Paris, has had an effect on ours. The national funds were in demand to-day with improved prices. Ar doin's Spanish also experienced a firmness, and maintained the prices of- yesterday. Amsterdam prices—Two-and-a-balf higher, 55 ; Five per Cents. l01i; Ardoin's 241. THE FUNDS. Consols. which left off yesterday at 92k i for the Ac count, opened at the same price this mori.ing for Money, 92k, with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bil s 30 32 prem. ; India Bonds 1 5 prem ; Batik Stock 1731 1. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which closed at 26k 7k, has rather improved, and may be quoted 27 i t Deterred 124 1 ; Passive 6 i ; Portuguese 34 35k; Three per Cents. 2:31- i ; Brazilian 781 91 ; Colom bnm 271 ; Mexican 311 9, ; Dutch Two-arid.a. Half per Cents. 53i i ; Five per Cents. 10241. In shares tittle doing as 3 - et—Great Western Railway 38 39 prarnium ; London and Brighton 7ir k discount; BtAckwAll If -;} premium ; . Birmingh , im 97 99 pre mium ; &Jur hanipton 58k 9f par share ; Croydon 1111 per share. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 92h4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cents. Con. 33 per Cent. Ditto Red ... ......... New 34 per Cent.loo 99L 100 3 per Cent. Ann. 1731 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 500/. 32 30 pm. Jan. 5, 1860... 13h 13-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859. ... .. Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1660. ... .. Ditto Advertised ... ym. Jan. 5, 1880. April 5, 1880. Jan. 5, 1870. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds 7O Brazilian Bonds .... ..... , Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent ... Ditto Account • Ditto Account — Chilian Bonds .. Prussian Bonds ..... ... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds ~.., — Ditto Account , Ditto Account. Columbian Bonds, 1824 Spanish Bonds ..... Ditto Account 27h Ditto Account 274h 4h Danish BondS .. .. Pas s ive Ditto Account — Deferred l 2 4i Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account ...... ... Dutch, 2i per cent ... 5341 Ditto,6 per Cent.-- Ditto Account Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent 1 0. , -7 i' Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Blackwall North Midland .. Ditto New - JOINT STOOK BANKS. British North American • MINES. United Mexican (issued:at 2/. pm) 40 PRICES OF IRlstLsTocKs, DUBLIN, JULY 7. GUIDE CARDS TO THE ANTIQUITIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.-Mr. C. Knight has just published a collection of prints engraved on cards, and enclosed in a commodious case, representing the various antiqui ties, Grecian, Egyptian, &c., to be seen in tha British Museum. 'r os y are skilf u ll y execute d , and will b e found very useful to the visitors of that noble national Institution. TtfE CANADAS.-From the Army and Navy Sup plementary Estimates for the year ending March 31, 1841, just laid before the House of Commons, it ap pears that the sum of 354,746/. will probably be required in addition to that already granted, for defraying the expences of the service in the Canadas consequent upon the late insurrection in the Canadas. The sum voted to make good the excess of expenditure consequent upon the insurrection for the year ended March 31, 1839, was 1,061,3851.. and for the year endineslarch, 31, 1840, was 553,000/., making, with the vote for 1840.41, altogether 1.969,13 1 /. TRAFALGAR SQUARE. -The estimate of the amount required to be voted in the year 1840, to complete the laying out the area of Trafalgar-square, and just laid before Parliament, is 5,0001. Parliamentary Electors in Cities and Boroughs, enti tled under the Reform Act, will lose their vo'es for this next year, unless they pay on or before the 20th day of July all the poor's rates (and window tax, it any) pay able from them in respect of their premises previously to the 6th day of April. Country voters must send in their claims on or before the 20th day of July. INDIAN MAILS.--The following is the explana tory statement (published with the Supplementary Navy Estimates) respecting the accelerated conveyance of the Indian mail s t o and from England and Alexandria-.- By the contract about to be entered into (for the per formance of which, for seven months, from Ist Septem ber to 31st March next, the sum of 21 6001. is inserted in the present estimate the packets arc to leave Fal mouth on the I st of every month, and to remain at Malta 26 hours to receive the letter -bag through Mar seilles, which leaves London on the 4th of every month. The outward passage from Falmouth to Alexandria is, in ordinary cases, to be performed in 364 hours, or 15 days and 4 hours ; and the homeward passage from Alexandr:a to Falmouth is to be performed in 391 hours, or 16 days and 7 hours, including all stoppages. NAVAL AND MILITARY COMMISSION.-Explan atory Statement, showing i n detail the additional expense of th e i ncrease o f pa y to Naval Officers, THE STAGE, BOTH BEFORE AND BEHIND rroposed by t h e Naval an d Military Commissio n, THE CURTAIN, BY A LFRED BUNN.-This i s a wor k w hi c h founded up on t h e number o f s hips in commission on tne will unquestionably have an immense circulation, as it presents let January, 1840 for nine mo nths, to the 31st March, t o th e pu bli c a s i ngu l ar expos e o f t h e S tage, with all things , 1841 :- literary, fashionable, and of a business character connected with it. This b b o u o t k is not be be p t ut b down by clamours, which we 85 Lieutenants rib it, of seven years' standing in that rank, and being First Lieutenants of sea-going Bung's anti cipa t e, work contains -st at e amusement, ment s M ships, or in command of her Ill,jesty's ships other than raat a e n i re nfinite y var e i e et u y nt o e f r and is . the mirror of the English Stage of the present day : it will dis those in the packet or surveying establishments, to have sipate many public prejudices and errors with respect to the 1 Is. instead of Bs. 2d. a day. Theatre. We regret that we cannot quote for our readers 416 other Lieutenants to have 10s. instead of 6s. 6d. many passages of an interesting character on account of their a day. personalities. We must quit this work for the present, but we shall take an early opportunity of reverting to it. In the 156 Masters' pay increased, viz.:-Those in first, mean time, we must acknowledge that it exhibits talent, and a second, and third rates, per d ly, from Bs. 3 , 1., Bs. 9d., vast fund of entertaining information on the subjects to which and Bs. 21 ., to lls. Bd. ; fourth, fifth, and sixth rates, I it relates, and those subjects are always highly attractive to the from 7s. 8.1., 6 3 , 6,1 . E and 65., to 10s. ; sloo ps , &c. , p ublic.- Weekl y Dispatch . I from 54. 54. t o 8 8.4-1 SALISBURY, JULY 7.-(Fronn a Correspond -469 Mates' pay increased from 2s. 6(1. to 3 , . 7d. a day. ent.-ttoberts, the Chartist, who was sentenced to two years' from 399/. 19s. 7d. imprisonm en t, was liberated this morning, after h a vi n g b een 9 Se c retaries ' Pay inereas. d, three to 400/. ; and s i x f rom 300 : . O s . 9.1. to 400/. imprisoned f ur a b ou t f our months. He took his seat in the mail immediat e ly, an d se t o ff in the aft ernoon , i n hi g h s pi r it s , Amount for n i ne mont h s 33,258/. for Bath. Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals-2 at 6s. a day I CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT COVENT additional. Surgeons -37 at 4s. a day additional ;31 • GARDEN THEATRE.-Yeiterday the festival of the City of at 3s. ;6 at 2 s . ; an d 11 at I s . Assistant-Surgeons-I Lond on C onservat i ve A ssoc i a ti on was held at this Theatre. 9at 2s. 6d. a day additional ; 14 at 2s. ; 76 at Is, ; Sir. H. Kemble was in the Chair, supported by the Marquis and 93 at 6'l -mount 6 435/ for nine months. Total of Lond on d erry an d L or d s Eld on an d Teignrnouth. Many . of the whole 39,693/. t: : .. . 1 indiffere nt s p eec h es were ma d e , an d th ere was a pre tt y f a i r . - - ' ' lin of " L-4 - At a Common Hall held this day, Mr. Farneomb ; ' P T' g ' ' --u " ' received in town yesterday ; In telligence was recel. was again put in nomination for the office of Sheriff • morning of the death of the BiAon of St, David's. The de baying, Prelate baying, in the meanti me , b een q ualified by b ecom i ng a lce ' die d on Tusiday. ' - --- • 91 A i 8ank5t0ck........ ......... 175 i 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 99 Grand Canal Stock .. 19i Ditto Reduced ...... .:. 99i Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1830 ...... 100 Ditto 4 per cent ... 3i per Cent. Debs. DUI:CU FUNDS.—ANI3TERDAM, JULY G. Mom., Kill.. Actual Dabt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A , llolt SVildiC, 44 per cent ( c' Cs 93 Ditto, ditto, 3Y4 per cent 774 1734 Commercial Company, 4 , 2 per cent ISO p. Ditt3 (1F•3.5 and 1637) 5 per cen• lol}4 1024 Loan 1537, 5 r‘er cant-- .......... .. ..... Exchange on London, One month l2 02},i Two months —Dutch Papers, July 7. ' PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, JULY 3. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4' per cent, lO4 1 0 3% Prussian English Coan, 1830, 4 per cent 10:3N 103.6 b:xuti :mg° on London, three months 6 19x —Prussian State Gazelle, July 4.1 Id A LF-PAST ONE. The British Market has continued firm during the morning, and several small purchases of Consols have been made, which has caused a good money market. In the Forei , ?n market a Bale took place of 45,003 Spanish, which at first rather damped the price, since which a re action took place, and Spanish Active has again improved. Consols may be quoted at present 92k 4 for the opening, nmey, 92+ ; Exchequer Bills lower. 32 30 prem. ; In dia Bonds 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock 173 f ; India Stock 252. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active improved to 27 3 ; Passive, 6i ; Portuguese 35k; Three per Cents. 23i ; Columbian 27i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent. 534 ; Five per Cents 1021. In the Share Market little doing. The Batavier steamer has just arrived. HIGH TREASON CRIMINAL co - Z., T !IT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Befcre Lord DENMAN, Mr. Justice PATTESON, Mr. Baron ALDERSON, nod the RECORDER.) TRIAL OF OXFORD FOR SHOOTING AT HER Al 3 0ESTY. This morning being appointed for the trial of Edward Oxford, for High Treason, the Court was crowded at egr:y hour. No confusion, however, resulted from the anxiety of persons to obtain admission, as the same judicious arrangements were adopted which had been found so efficacious in preventing inconvenience at the trial of Courvoisier. Mr. Fox Malik arrived shortly before nine o'clock, and took his seat upon the Bench, which was soon after crowded by noblemen and gentle men. Several ladies were also present, but they were not so numerous as at Courvoisier's trial, nor was the Court altogether nearly so crammed as on that occasion. The gallery was nearly unoccupied. At a quarter to ten o'clock the Solicitor-General and Mr. Wightman entered the Court, and took their seats, at the counsels' table ; they were immediately followed by the Attorney-General. Shortly afterwards Mr. Sergeant Arabin, Sir' George Carroll, Mr. Aldermen Gibbs, Mr. Alderman T. Wood, and Mr. Alderman Thomson, took their seats on the Bench, and the pri soner, Edward Oxford, was placed at the bar. He looked in excellent health, and cast a careless look round the Court. He was respectably dressed, and his appearance was that of a lad in a superior situation of life. He attempted to assume an air of indifference, and occasionally put on a forced smile ; but it was evi dent to those who watched him that he was suffering con siderably from agitation which he in vain attempted to suppress. At ten o'clock Lord Denman and Mr. Baron Al derson, and Mr. Justice Matteson, entered the Court, aid took their seats upon the Bench ; they were fo I- lowed by the Recorder. The Lord Mayor and Sir M. Wood also took their scats upon the bench before the proceedings commenced. The Clerk of the Arraigns then read the indict ment, a copy of which has already been laid before our readers. The prisoner, who looked down during the time the indictment was read, pleaded not guilty in a firm tone. The following gentlemen were then sworn as the Jury : Job Palmer, Char!es Armsted, Daniel Pritty, James Moore, Richard H. May, Joseph Patrick, John Moxtead, Joseph Miller, Williem Potter, George W. Martin, Samuel Mitchell, i Thomas John Peat. No challenges were made either by the Counsel for the Crown or by the prisoner. The Attorney and Solicitor-General and Mr. Wight man appeared as counsel for the Crown, and Mr, Bad kin and Mr. Sidney Taylor for the prisoner. The Clerk having again read the indictment to the Jury, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose, and said they were now called upon to discharge a most important duty. They were about to enter upon a most solemn investi gation ; that they would discharge their duties there could be no doubt, for so perfect was the confidence felt in this that no challenges had been made. The prisoner stood charged with high treason, the highest crime known to the law, and that in a manner the most aggra vated. By the Act of Edward 111-, it was enacted that if any one should imagine the death of the Sove reign, and should commit any overt act to put his wicked imaginings into effect, he was guilty of treason. That had been the foundation of the lew of treason ever since. In the 45 George 111. it was enacted, that in cases of high treason when the life of the Sovereign was At tempted, the proceedings should be the same as in cases of murder. This was merely to place the Sovereign's life under the same protection as a subject's. In cases of political treason the usual safeguards were necessary, but where the life of the Sovereign had been attempted the proceedings were to be the same as in murder. He would have every opportunity of defending himself Upon the prisoner's request the trial had been post poned, and Mr. S. Taylor would have an opportunity of urging everything that could he urged ib the prisoner's de'enee. There would be two questions for then; to con sider, first, whether, if the prisoner were accountable. ftriy his actions, he was guilty of the charge ? and second, whether at the time of committing the offence he was accountable for his actions. The burden of proof on the first question would rest on the prosecution ; and he had no doubt but that he should prove the prisoner had been guilty of the act laid to his charge. The prisoner was about 18 years of age, he w as a native of Birmingham, had been at school at Lambeth, and had subsequently lived in different situations as a barman—not a potboy—first with his aunt at Houns- I low, and subsequently at a publican's in Oxford street, where he remained until April last, when he removed to lodgings, in \Vest-square, Lambeth, where ha remained until he made the attempt on the life of his Sovereign. On the 4th of May he bought a a pair of pistols for 2/., and a powder-flask of a man named Hays, in Bleckfriars-read. He afterwards prac' tised at a shooting gallery in the Strand, and at another at the west-end of the town. On the Monday before the attempt he went to a person named Grays, and pur chased some copper caps, ani asked where he could purchase some bullets. On the Tuesday be was seen with a loaded pistol, and refused to say what he was .1 going to do with it, but said he had been firing at a , target. On Wednesday 10th June the prisoner went into the park, and saw Prince Albert returning from Woolwich. Tne prisoner went to Constitution-hill, and about six o'clock saw her Majesty and Prince Albert leave the Palace in a low open carriage and four, without attendants except outriders ; her Majesty being seated on the left hand. The prisoner was walking about near the iron rails on Constitution hill. He .turned round nodding, and as the car riage drew near he drew a pistol from his breast, and discharged it at her Majesty. The providence of . God averted the blow--the ball whizzed by without doing injury. Her Majesty was then, in all probability, ignorant that any attempt had been made on her life Tae prisoner then looked round to see if he was watched' ' and he drew another pistol and aimed ; her Majesty saw him, and stooped down. He discharged the pistol without effect, and her Majesty drove on to relieve the anxiety of her august mother. A parson named Lowe rushed across, seized Oxford, and took the pistols fiom him. Another person seizsd Lowe, thinking it was he who had made the attempt, aad said, " You confounded rascal how dare you attempt to shoot the Queen!" Oxford said, "It was I." He was taken into custody, and asked if the Queen was hurt ; and when told she was not, he admitted that the ;pistols were loaded with ball. On searching his lodgings his box was found, and in it were a sword and scabbard, two pistol_ bags, a bullet-mould, a black crape, a razor, a fl containing three ounces of powder, five leaden bullets, and fourteen percus-ion caps marked 11, which he hod brought from Gray s'. There was lieewise found a pocket-book containing papers. The prisoner admitted that the box and its contents belonged to him, and that he had intended to destroy the papers before he went out. The first paper was headed " Rules and Regu lations of the Young England.' " (Thu Attorney- General then read the rule:, from which it appeared that the members were to be all armed, and swear allegiance to the Society, and to wear a black crape mask—that al: intelligence was to be instantly for warded to the Secretary—that when any member was ordered abroad he was to take various disguises with him—and the rules altogether were twelve in number.) There was also a list of Members. President Gowrie, Council Justinian, Hannibal, and various other fictitious names, generals, captains, among which was the name Oxonian; then came the marks of distinction—general, three red bows, captain, two red bows, &c. ; this was signed Smith, secretary. There were also three letters addressed by Smith the secre tary to Oxford ; the first was dated May, 1839, and told him he would be wanted to attend on 21st, and in a P.S. added that he was not to ask any questions of the boy ; the next was dated Nov. 14, and ad dressed to the prisoner at the Bat and Feathers, Gos well-street ; it stated that the society had been alarmed by a knocking at the door, and had put on the masks, drawn the swords, and prepared to burn the papers ; the next was dated April 3, 1840, and recrested his attendance on account of some important information which had been received from Hanover. Now, if the prisoner were accountable for his actions, could there be any doubt of his guilt. The balls had not been found, but he thought no one could entertain any doubt that they were loaded with ball. There were marks on the wall, but he imagined that the balls went over the wall, and did not make the marks. Oxford was not a skilful shot, and he had no doubt that the balls went over the wall. But Oxford had bullets and bullet-moulds at his lodg ings ; he had been practising at a shooting gallery, and, when asked at the time, he said they were loaded with ball. He now came to the second question—and he would at once admit that if it could be shown that the prisoner was at the moment labouring under any de lusion, he was not accountable for his actions. Accord ing to the old law, a man guilty of an attempt upon the life of his Sovereign could not set up the plea of in• sanity. But that law was now happily altered. But to give a prisoner the advantage of such a plea, it must be shown that at the time of committing the offence he was incapable of distinguish ing right from wrong. It was not sufficient to show former eccentricities, for if at the time of committing- a crime a persom was cognizant of what he was about to do, he was guilty. In order to exonerate a person from a criminal charge, it was necessary to prove a greater degree of insanity than in civil proceedings. In criminal cases it was necessary to show that the person was in sane at the time of committing the crime, and that his insanity had relation to his crime. The Learned Gen tleman then quoted Lord Celte.,, Lord Hale, and variou, , odic:- authorities, in support o f hi s op i n i on he also quoted the case of Arnold, who had been tried re: shooting at Lord Onslow, in which the Judge had laid it down that it was Pot sufficient for a man to be subject EV ENING ED TION._ to occasional aberration of mind to exonerate him from a criminal charge gawier, who was tried before Mr. ; the well-known case of Lord Fersees and the ease of a Justice Le Nine for :.'iali" .1011 s 1 '" shooting, in both of which the same doctrine Lad been held. He would', only allude to one other case, !ie which no doub t his, Learned Friend Mr. S. Taylor world refer the case of Hatfield. He would not refer to th e case of Belling-. ham, as some doubts had been entertains'd as to the man ner in which the trial had been conduc , ea': In the case of Hatfield the plea of insanity was set ivy, and ~ it prevailed most properly ; but i t was p rove, '1 that theprisonor had been woun d e d in the head in, to tle, and free" that time became in sane. He called bite salt King George. It was proved that he had lost et portion of brine, and that a person t hue affected miebet at one moment b,. perfectly ratiored, and at enother be subject to a paroxys m of insatiity. 110ti , 1.1 had bet n discharged from the army on „teem, tut insanity, and had been confined as a lunatic. Just L'''t°re the' act was committed, Hatfield had had a pareet s . 'm of insanity ,and he was prayed to be insane down to .:he time of the commission of the act. The Attorney- General of that day at once acquiesced, as he hoped every Attornev-General would do where such evidence was produced, in consentin2 to an acquittal on the ground of insanity. On that occasion Lod Et skine who was at that time at the bar, and deiended the pri soner, admitted that iii criminal cases it was necessary to require much stronger evidence as to lunacy than in civil causes : and that it was necessary to show that the criminal act was the immediate and unqualified offspring of the disease under which the prisoner was at the moment labouring. Having thus stated his tiew of the law, he would leave it ,for the Jury to determine whether Edward Oxford was insone at the time he committed the crime. He himself, a,"d he believed time whole country, would be rejoiced if tittle" could bring themselves to think so. Here was a young a eld gentle woman, by the side of her consort, trusting herse.'f in the hands of her subjects, and at that moment the ossassin's hand was d rected against her life, and it would be for the credit of our common nature if the assassin could be shown to be non compos mcntis* ; but, in the discharge of his duty, he wr,s compelled to say that he did not believe Edward Oxford was non compos mc.ntis at the time he committed the act. His father ha..ing been insane was no reason why the prisoner shout -I not bo held accountable for his actions ; he had neve,- been placed in confinement, and had been trusted in eonl:'den tial situations, in which he had performed his duty. It must be proved that he was insane at the moment of firing the pistols, but he did not believe there could be shown such insanity as would be sufficient in e civil case. If he had entered into a civil contract of made a will on the morning of the 10th June, would those documents have been invalid—would he have been in capacitated from the exercise of the elective franchise, or of any office, on that day ? Suppose he had been sent to a lunatic asylum on that morning, and had brought an action for false imprisonment, what defence could have been made to such action ? and if he could n e e have been lawfully confined, how could it be con tended that he was accountable for his actions ? Sup pose before a c ommission of lunacy he had conducted himself as he had deoe before the Privy Council, he had no hesitation in saying that such a commission could not be supported. After having heard the evidence against him at the Privy Council, and cross-examined the witnesses, he said, " A great many witnesses against me. Some say I fired with the right hand, and others with the left ; they vary as to distance. Prince Albert got up 83 if he would jump out of the carriage, and then sat down again as if he thought better of it —(Here the prisoner smiled)—and then I fired the se con I pistol.' When asked to sign this, he did so, and that document was of importance, not only as showing his stag of mind but because that would have been the time for him to have stated that the pistols were dot loaded with bullets. He felt satisfied the Jury would do their duty, and that the country would be satisfied with the verdict. Samuel Pecks—l was standing on the afternoon of Jun: 10 by the column under the portico at Bucking' ham Palace, and shortly before six I saw her Majesty come out of the Palace. She was accompanied by Prince Albert. They were in is low open carriage, drawn by four horses. They turned up Constitution hill. I was on the left-hand side of the carriage- There were four outriders, two in advance and two behind. There were no other attendants, J. saw the prisoner on the opposite side of the road ; ‘ - 'be was on the right side of the carriage, on the foot' path, near the iron railings. 1 was on the opposite side of the road. He was walking along slowly, with his arms folded over his breast. He was in advance of the carriage. The carriage moved on. The prisoner gave a nod with his head in the direction of the carriage. He was then about ten or twelve yards from the ferriage' which was moving towards him. The moment the car' siege passed, the prisoner drew a pistol from hts left breast, presented it at her Majesty, and fired. 1 We* just behind the carriage, within a foot of it. Oxford was about five or six yards on the right of the carriage when he discharged the pistol. I heard the report of the pistol, and a distinct whizzing or buzzing betvreed nay face and the carriage. The moment the pri' Boner had fired the first pistol, he turned himself round, as to see if any one were behind hinl' he drew the second pistol with his left hand from hie right breast, andepresented it across the one he held in his right hand, and fired, both times taking deliberate aims. The carriage was advanced three or four yard s from the spot where he fired the first, and when he fired the second pistol he held the second pistol is hi: left hind. The two witnesses, named Lowe, ran all seized hold of the prisoner. The Lowes were behind me ; Albert Lowe was seized by mistake by Claytoe' Joshua Lowe seized Oxford, and Albert Lowe wrenche d the pistols from him. Clayton came behind Albert Lowe, and said, " You confounded scoundrel !" and wrenched one of the pistols from him ; upon which the prisoner said, "It was me ; I did it." The carriage proceeded. Wa took the prisoner along the road, and delivered him into the hands of two policemen. bay' , self', the two Lowes, and Clayton took him. We foun d a policeman at alsout thirty yards. Cross-Examined.—The footpath was on a level wit h the centre of the road. It may be a few inches highe r than the side ; there is a gutter by the side. By the COURT.—Her Majesty Was sitting above the line of the carriage ; the back of' the carriage came to about the centre of her Majesty's back, so that the top s of my head w ou ld b e a b ou t upon a l eve l pi t h the toe e` the back of the carriage as I was standing by ie.. Joshua Lowe—Examined by Sir F. Poet.ocgoei heel in Copthall Court, and am a spectacle-maker. was in the Park on the evening of 10th June last, an' saw her Majesty and Prince Albert in her carriage' Her Majesty was sitting on the left side ; as I was running on the left side of the carriage I heard the report of fire-arms ; I was three yards from the COr' rirge at the time ; I saw the smoke ascend ; . t he carriage passed a short distance, and I saw the prisoner with a pistol in his right hand ; b e looked round and pointed a second pistol across hie right hand. He fired it towards the carriage. 11 , e held it shrift an inst a nt in that direction before he fires' . My nephew was with me. I immediately ran across and seized the piisousa, And my nephew seized the pist&s• Some one came up en,4 took a pistol out of his hand, the pistol." I had go t h o ld e t . and collared him, an d pr i so ,:er said, "It i s me —l fired the prisoner when he said this. Going along the road I said to my nel'h evc ' " Look out, Albert, I dare say he i.,is some friends:: Ptisoner turned round and said, " You are right, I have." I kept hold of hint until he was: taken to the station-house. I never let go of him. Cross-examined by Mr. Bodkin—The carriage lu' d got about 150 yards up Constitution Hill a hen an: o e ' turned. It was going slew. I had seen her Majea when the carriage had left the Palace, and followed it for the purpose of seeing her again. There was 3 general rush. I was on the left-hand side. The g arden wall of the Palace is on that sill,;. Ido not know th e exact height of the wall. There is a footpaths on th e carriage u7 o i u x t other side of the road. Th e p r i sone r was st an ding ° ll it. It is about about inches above o etfhethreoardo.a road helQ,l3eueepnri. t s w , sener was about th ree yar d s f rom t h e carr i age w h e n saw the smok e . Th e carr i age was qu i te open , and from going slow. Th e di stance might b e shortened thre,e; qluualrrtt muzzle e e of the pistol quarters o ' f a ya rd tlle carriage. b y stretching wo u H ld be e about o w u a t s h a i sbt about urotm yards a s r o , ad r t s dh andafe from l ' a ; the railings of th e G reen P ar k . The nearest c nearest gate by which any entry could be m tele into the Green Par k was 150 yards from the spot in question. The railing is open, so as to have afforded an opportunity for any person to hav e fi re d f rom t h e par k s i de of the ra ils if they had chosen. I did not see the last witness until after the occurrence. I was running slowly when I heard the first report. I had hold of the prisoner whe n my neph, w was seized. Prisoner seemed anxious it s hould be knoen that he it was who had done it. I never saw any persons in the prisoner's company during this time- By the COURT—At the time of the last firing the car' A riAge was about e i g ht y ar d s in advance of him, and be fire' up the road carriage at. the time. Albert Lowe cross-examined by Mr. Anoerires--I IT nephew of the last witness, and was with him on CO"st'l tution.hill on the 10th June last. (This witness then corrolo-ated the evidence of his uncle). When I took the pistols from the prisoner a man canto up and said— '• You confouttcled rascal, it was you," and took (no of th e pistols f.om me ; the prisoner said It was me that did it. I delivered one of the pistols to the police. When pri soner fired the last pistol he was about five yards from the carriage. Elizabeth Stokely examined by Mr. Werniesreet-1 an' the housekeeper to Lord Bexley. I was on Constitution hill on the 10th of June, going from the Palace en the side next the wall. I saw the Queen's carriarre, and t urned round and saw the prisoner walking about en the opposite side of the road, with i his arms folded. I saw him draw hisband front his breast, pre,ent a pistol, and fire. I saw tat chan;:c his hands, and immediately present a second pistol, and fire. H e p resente d t h e p i sto l i mme diately opposite where the Quern was Sitiing. Tt.e Queen r..tl.er erou4lteti, imd ',..._e flair .`t the pistol e. , tL:o aii:uost i.ernediaa o. (ea.,' the Queen'shead. I think the Queen rose, and Prince Albert pressed her down not to rise, and the second flash came over her head, close past me as I stood, and something whizzed past my ear. I was close Ir ba to Ix( in; hi, Ti 134 ‘ll 110 Tor bal 11)1 ye ha 'l3 lut the bez th t tpv CUs to(