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atter, and habitually complained that his success in that quarter had gained him no favour in the other. lie complained for years that he was only a loser by his disinterested affection to the public, and the Minister gave him a low and unpopular situation of SOOL a year, to get rid of his services and his importunities together. If he had been of b.se to the Government and to the people both had a right to complain of him, as much as his other two clients at Colchester, whom he had served in the same way and closed his accounts with—by a strange coincidence—for the same sum, 8001. The Whigs were again in office. Mr. Harvey's unrivalled eloquence and undoubted popularity might again be useful to them ; and if the Radicals of Marvlebone assisted him he might then, in the course of a few months, retire from public life, in the enjoyment of that reward to which his desires ever pointed, and his p4st votes deserved—a high paid office where he would be able to be attended by servants in livery, without degrading his honest spirit to the base expe client of violating the law which gave him office, and employing policemen to wait at his table. The yells and cries which assailed him (the speaker) would not prevent him from saying that it was disgraceful for professing Chartists to send a place-hunter to Parlia ment. Before he gave way to the clamour he would beg to inform the meeting of something which appeared to be unknown to them. Some one had said that Lord D. Stuart, in supporting Poland, supported only the aristocracy. That was a deplorable error, which it was the policy of Nicholas and Bentinck, Disraeli and Peter Borthwick, and the un-English "friends of . the people" • who now disturbed that meeting, to propagate, in' favour of that tyranny which they loved in common, for the tyranny of despot and mob were, if not identical, at least kindred and sympa thetic. The cause of Poland was more the cause of England than was generally understood in England. The rest of the civilized world knew it well, and at that moment Lord D. Stuart was looked upon by all the freemen of Continental Europe, as the represea tative of European civilization against Russian bar b • ar is/n• In Fiance and Germany he was regarded as the individual who in the name of freemen was the chosen and the beloved champion of the Poles against b t itle infamou s autocrat. The rejection of Lord D.St uar t bMaryleb one would be taken by the despo n di ng liberals of F rance, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Russia, as a proof that Englishmen are indifferent to athei principles of hi g h liberalism, and the election of thminded patriots of Eastern Europe in the opinion, a the English are so mercantile in their nature, that they prefer the man who makes merchandise even of their votes. The confusion which was all the evening indiscriba . ble, was so great towards the end, that it was diffi cult to say in what way the votes were taken, but it aPeare c t to be admitted.' at last that the amendment in favour of Lord D. C. Stuart was carried. THE TREATY WITH THE The f o ll owin ZOLLVE REIN. portionsg are extracts of the more interesting r of the papers relative to the netice given by oasis, on her own behalf and on behalf of the othi r states of the Zoilverein, of the termination of the treaty gust wi t h G reat B r i ta i n on the 2d of March, 1841 eus.t presented to beth Houses of P ar li ament b y her ' Ma j e sty's ciimmand):- 11IE C HEVALIER BUNSEN TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. (Translation.) The Prus • Prussian L egat i on. \Tay 10, 1847. the Warne sian Govern ment , i n i ts own name, ant in rein _!r;te or itscont e d erates, the members of the Zeller. the give notice of its intention to cause the provisions of with G e e a ,, a t Y t ,2 1. 1. Commerce end Nevierition, concluded in such mannesereein on the 2,1 of Msreh, 1841, to cease. treaty shalt no hales, from the Ist of January, 1848 that as binding . The rerieon thi up on s t n h g:r be considered as in existence, or two high contracting rarties. an the conviction that dete rmination is to be found solely to th e e et the treaty in question, according ` lP '" ler 'ee of th its conclusion, has n commercial relatio e years which have elapsed since relations produced that development in the tain which had bee ns of the Zollverein with Great Bri tithe is n look( d for. The concession made LiPbsetowfethee Zollverein in the first article, by which t :e ports n the Meuse and the Elbe are to be considered es ports of the Union, has hardly been found of any cereal utility. But what appears to the rthrtle seltillne_oorernment to militate principally against cipr neity 4c iinh f the treaty of 1841 is the want oc re whch rule thaPPUY existing with respect to the laws whil e the e navigation of the two countries. For of libert Prussian legislation, founded on the principle i nt° tir Y of navigation, allows British ships to import th e h . ll ssien ports the produce of all parts of . the world,. ports I P_S s of the Zollverein can only import into British Ithilnsae_regards the enumerated articles, including 'ow e coon ' 'ery article of importance) the produce of their fir, i r i2 . _47. These enumerated articles were, more. pe ceit ‘ifeeltsed in 1827, subsequent to the treaty of reci r,s__ ,Y Ot 1 824, by 13 articles, among which are to be ' 44t i e xceptee nee aod other objects of primary neces%ity. of measure could not - but augment - the want re e l - • '4 o l l3 P ,tt : it tl t roerty to the prejudice of the Prussian flag. agg e i e Yof 1841 does not allow Prussia. as the Which • IM i e rests and publi c op i n i on in Cermany, to,eistriPtelltlrfully support 'hose i nterests, would require, tisieseiturf analogous manner the admission of Bri to Grea t t 'r the second article of this treaty accords with r oe B ritain the right of the most favoured nation T h tto the importation of sugar and r . ce. e expirar will rest iee Year of the treaty at the end of the present zent, and a :bre that liberty to the Prussian Govern eo th e enh•e ange in the laws affecting navigation has Th tom J et of serious consideration. ex areine ation of aPa liamentary Committee to during thetne English navigation• laws, and to report revert le present session of Parliament thereupon, has 11 °Pe thee ss held out to the Prussian Government a mesas t Great Britain will at no remote period, by . stei ctia ° f general legislative measure, cause the re- Gertz lions to disappear which at present weigh upon vi ous ,,_ 4 l navigation and commerce, and which so noto ef rapede the development and commercial relations the wo countries. B,,,,lizated by the desire to see these relations con- Q 7c l y extend, and to avoid everything which could Zj__yen, f ora brief space of time retard a development so 4,7e1.1 to be wished for for both countries, the Govern ,eot" his Prussian Majesty joins to the preceding fi'_"o,..relative to the cessation of the Treaty of 1841. -eelvflowing proposition. e nallTreaty of 1824, as general treaty of reciprocity, remain the recognised basis of the relations of eren e erce and of navi gat i on b etween the two countries. d shall co • continue to remain in force as heretofore, as 13 g as notice shall not have b een g i ven o f i ts cessation. T he, existing status quo shall, moreover, by means of diplomatic declaration be de facto maintained, and de. Pertmental orders shall be issued for that p ur p ose to the 4 respecti ve au th or i t i es i n or d er to a ff ord to the high con st a rting parties the o pp ortun ity o f com i ng to an under anding with re s p ect to an app li cat i on o f t h e pr i nc i p l e of reciprocity as perfect and extended as possible. Notwith standing the expiration of the treaty, a modus 1 , vivendi would thus be established, which need not termi nate till three or six months after one of the high con tracting parties shall have made a declaration to that effect. In order to render this status quo endurable to Prussian co mmerce, and, i n as f ar as practicable, conformable with the principle of reprocity, the Prussian Government ex- Pacts with confidence that the British Government, from fe elings of eq u i ty, and out of regard to the intimate r elations whi c h un i te the two Governments, will accord to the vessels of the Zollverein the same concession which has in latesears been made by Great Britain in favour of other Powers, relative to the ports of the Baltic, a conces sion which at present greatly injures the interests of Prus 4 4. It will no doubt be considered but fair by the British Government that the vessels of the union shall hence forth be permitted to import freely the produce of all the noie Prussian ports of the Baltic, as if those vessels Caine from Prussian ports, in the same manner as Rus sian and Hanoverian *vessels arriving from Prussian ports of the Baltic are received with their cargoes in the ports of England, as though they had arrived from na tional ports. The undersigned, Sec. (Signed) BUNSEN. 'V ISCOUNT PALNEN,IONToT HE CHEVALIER BUNSEN. Foreign-office, June 14, 1847. The undersigned, &c., has the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 13th ultimo of the note addressed to him on the 10th by the Chevalier Bunsen, &c., givin g notice on the part of Prussia and of the other States of t he Zollverein of the termination, on the Ist of January Il e elE t• of the treaty concluded with Great Britain on the el s e ' of March, 1841 ; b u t a t the same time suggesting t hat the. provisions of that i treaty should, after its expire belle, be allowed to remain n force provisionally, until t e l i:"'gh contra c ti ng p art i es s h a ll h a v e seen w h e th er they tit ab - y,,not be abl e t o come t o a more sa ti s f actor y under ll'ing; provided, however, that the privileges granted Great Britain to the shipping of certain other States 8 211 be i n the meantime extended to the shipping of the " i t n e 2 Of the Zollverein. r eply, the undersigned begs to say that her Me 's Government has already communicated to the at :_aia.rt Government, through her Majesty's Minister Illt7r l ln, their view of what was understood to he the tr ees etion of the States of the Zollverein as regards the d e of 1841. In the communication so made, the un- Q.4goed had the honour to explain to the Prussian rn tnent, that if t h e engagements of the treaty of 1 at have ha, e been unp ro d uct i ve o f a d vantage to the States Zollverein, they have proved equally so to Great ow,'" 1 and th a t h er M ajesty ' s Government would he; re gret the termination of that treaty, because it Nee:i ll end to relations which were conceived in a te,„ Y spirit, and from which there seemed at one time e et e7 e ll d to ,hope that mutual advantage to all parties con- T he kight ari se . noti ce re ason assigned by the Chevalier Bunsen for the i _olle er t a h : llB given by Prussia and the other States of the 4 sers ` °,l 3 the want of reciprocity in the navigation Feat the respective contracting parties. But that no Oreet "tl efit has resulted to Great Britain from that . trade with Prussian p irts, which the state of Nre nt :s.l law enables the Prussian Government ; I ts kire__l,B sufficiently manifest from the fact which the yea been stated to the Prussian Government,. i l act y e4r th e Earl of Westmoreland—namely, that in Chester, ef B l6 only four Pritish vessels, of the aggregate on resolves tons, found it their interest to avail , I , l e of t ,_ of the privilege whi -h, under article the prZ treaty, Brit sh yes enjoy, 01 k, lio n enders; ma n ports frein third countries; and s, 'sneer in fi n ed cannot, there ere, but believe th, t, "1, ni lire derived by gh g i fica.n t the corresponding advantages may 1 Prussia from the provisions Uf NING, JULY THE SUN, _,. LONDON, MONDAY MOR 19, 1847. mw.MiN/a...••••=4■•■•••......mr that same article, the concession made by Great Bri tain ley this article may at least be regarded as a full equivalent for that which is made by Prussia. The undersigned would also beg to observe, that if the prin ciple of strict reciprocity is to be assumed as the indis pensable basis of the commercial relations between Great Britain and the Zollverein, there does not seem to be any good reason why that principle should be con fined iu its application to the navigation laws nor why it should not also be applied to the tariffs of the re spective parties. As, however, it appears, from the Chevalier Bunsen's note, to be equally the desire of the Prussian Govern ment, a's it assuredly is of the Government of her Ma jesty, to endeavour by negotiation to come to an under standing more conducive to the interests of both parties, the undersigned will refrain from further examining this portion of the question at present, and will at once state how far it will be in the power of her Majesty's Government to accede to the wishes of the Prussian Go vernment as stated in tke Chevalier Brunsen's note. Her Majesty's Government are ready to consent, that the provisions of the treaty of 1841 shall provisionally remain the acknowledged basis of the trade aid navi gation between the two countries, but the undersigned would at the same time suggest that the term of notice to be given of the cessation of such provisional arrange. ment should be six months rather than three, as the latter term might not afford sufficient time for making the arrangements which would be necessary previously to a change of the commercial relations between the two countries. With respect to the additional concessions which the Prussian Gsvernment requires in order to render this provisional arrangement, as the Chevalier Bunsen states, endurable to Prussia, the undersigned has to express his regret that the advantages accorded by Great Britain to certain other States as regards ports of the Baltic, should be considered to have been injurious to Prussian com merce. That they should be so was assuredly not the intention of the British Government, which, in grant ing those advantages, was solely guided by principles of equity. The privileges accorded to such of the above-mentioned states as are Germen States, but not members of the Zollverein, are only such as, in consequence of their geographical position, those States would have acquired under the treaty of 1841, if they had become members of that union ! and surely the Government of Prussia could not expect that Great Britain should withhold from States which have always treated British commerce in the most liberal manner advantages which those States might have acquired by associating themselves with a system of commercial policy less favourable to British interests. Her Majesty's Government have, on the other hand, no desire to withhold from Prussia such of the advantages in question which Prussian vessels do not already enjoy ; and the undersigned has accordingly to say that the British Government is willing, during the existence of the proposed provisional arrangement, to consent that P. usrian vessels, together with their cargoes, when coming from any port between the Meuse and the Elbe, and beta , en the Trave and the Russian frontier, shall be admitted into the ports of the United Kingdom and of the British pesses.ions abroad, in as full and ample a manner as if the ports from which such vessels may have came were all within the dominions of Prussia. This would add the ports of Mecklenburg and the port of Lubec t i those with respect to which Prussian vessels have alre..dy enjoyed the above concession. As regards the privileges which have been granted to Russian vessels arriving in Great Britain trim Prussian ports, th undersigned has to observe that those pri vileges epely only to vessels arriving from two or three Prussian ports at the mouths 01 rivers which have their sources in, and which flaw thrimeh a great portion of the Russian empire. The conce:.sion made to Russia is therefore precisely similar in principle to that made to Prussia as reeariis the ports between :he meuths of the Elbe and of the M• u-e. The British Government was able to make both of these concessions under the exist ing provisions of the British law; but the concession now sought for by the Chevalier 1 3unsen, as regards the ports of Riga and other Russian ports riot situated at the mouths of Prusei rivers, could not be granted by the British Government wi hoot the sanction of a fresh Act of Parliament; a• d although her Majesty's Government would have ne bjection to introduce a Bili into Parlia ment for granting the privilege in question, and would' hope to be able to obtain the essent of Parliament thereto if such a measure would be likely to promote a perma nent commercial arrangement with the Prussian Govern ment, yet her ,Majesty's Government would not like to undertake to propose to the Legislature a law of this kind for a merely temporary purpose. (Signed) PALAIERSTON. The Undersigned, &c. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 17. Their Lordships were announced to assemble to da.y at one o'clock, for the purpose of advancing several Bills a stage, but no business was proceeded with till past three o'clock, owing to the absence of a Bishop, for their Lor:7,hips could not proceed to business without prayers being read by one Right Rev. Prelate. During the interim Noble Lords hurried about in all directions in the vain hope of finding the missing Fre- I:Ye, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the youngest Bishop, whilst messengers were dispatched for the Right Rev. Prelates nho reside but a short distance from the Houses of Parliament—the Bishop of Worcester, in the Cloisters, and the Bishop of London, but with no better result. A heavy debate raged within the walls of the House, in which Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Redesdale, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Shaftesbury took part, as to what should be done. It appeared that the House of Commons was waiting, as they had completed their business, for the purpose of receiving the Poor-law Amendment and other Bills, and that the Commons had instructed Members to bring up a number of Bills; in fact, the business of both branches of the Legislature was at a standstill—the One for two hours and the other for more than half an hour. At length the Bishop of Bath and Wells was found, and the Right Rev. Prelate having read prayers, the galleries were thrown open, and business commenced at nearly a quarter after three; the Earl of SHAFTESBURY acting both as Chancellor and as Chairman of Com mittees. LEITH HARBOUR. Lord REDESDALE moved for copies of the correspon dence which had taken place between the Commissioners of this harbour and the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, in order that their Lordships might know what sums of money had been advanced for this public work. Lord CAMPBELL did not object to the return. Lord REDESDALE said the Commissioners sought enormous rowers by the Bill. The cost of the work was stated to be 35,0001., but they sought power to borrow 200,0001. As the Bill had been passed almost without discussion in the other House, it was necessary that their Lordships and the public should have the fullest information on the subject. The return was then agreed to. COMMITTEE. The following Bills were passed through Committee: Canal Companies Bill. Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill, No. 3. Highway Rates Bill. Militia Bill. Copyright (Colonies) Bill. Public Works and Drainage (Ireland) Bill. London-bridge Approaches Fund Bill. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and ProeeeTings of the Ilause of Commons.) I FRIDAY, JULY. 16. BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTRR, &c., BILL. Order read,for resuming adjourned debate upon Question (15111 July),'. That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:" —Question again proposed :—Debate resumed :—Question put. The House divided. MAJORITY—AYES, 63. Acland, T. D. Frewen, C. H. Parker, John Antrobus, Edmund Gask ell, J. M. Plumptre, J. P. Bannerman, A. Gonlburn Bean , Plumridge, Captain Baring, W. P. Graham, Sir James Polhill, F. Bentinck, Lord G. Greene Thomas Repton, G. W. J. Borthwick, P. Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry Bowles. Admiral Hamilton, G. A. Richards, Richard Brown, W. ' Hatton, Captain Russell, Lord J. Buller, Charles Hawes, licitj. Ryder, Granville D. Cholmondeley, 11. Hobhouse, Sir John Saudon, Lord Christie, W. D. Hope, G. W.: Somerville, Sir W. Clive, Viscount Herlihy, John Stuart, J. Colebrooke, Sir T. Jervis, Sir John Thesiger, Sir F. Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Denison, J. ,E. Law, lion. E. C. Turnell, H. Dickinson, F.H. Legh, G. C. Turner, Edmund Disraeli, B. Macaulay, T. Tollemache, John Vivian, J. E. Duckworth, Sir J. Rlaule, Fox Wortley, J. S. Dundas, Admiral Mundy, E.,M. Wynn, C. W. Dundas,iSir David Newdegate, C. N. TELLERS. Entwisle, William Nicholl, John Hill, Lord Marcus Ferguson, Sir R. O'Brien, A. Stafford Ebrington. Viscount MINORITY—NOES, 18. Aglionby, H. A. Eseott, Bickham Thornely, T. Aldam, William Hastie, A. Trelawny, J. S. Brotherton, J. Horsman, Edward Wakley, Thomas Clements, Viscount M`Taggart, Sir J. Williams. W. Collett, John Molesworth, Sir W. TELLERS. Currie, R. Roebuck. J. A. Duke, Sir J. Osborne, Captain Hume, Joseph Preamble, p. 1, line 21 ; Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " that a measure should be submitted to Par liament for continuing the Bishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor as separate bishoprics :"—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Preamble." The Committee divided :—. CHARGE OF MUTINY. Nine seamen, named Aneas Dunkin. Anthony Thomp son, John Bull, William Cornish, Hugh Mulholland, Samuel Armstrong, J.tnes Shields, James Linard, and John Weakling, were brought before Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames Police-office, charged under the 6th section of the Merchant Seamen's Act, K i:lt refusing to pro ceed to sea in the ship Katherine, on her intended voyage to the East Indies, after signing the articles of agreement. _ _ _ — The seamen came up from Gravesend voluntarily, with Mr. Barnard Robert Matthews, the Master of the Katherine, for the purpose of obtaining the magistrate•', opinion on their alleged grievances, but he refused to go into the case, unless it was regularly put before him. The men were then given into t ,, e custody of Inspector Horn of the K division, and their names entered on the police charge sheet. Cat•tain Matthews then stated that all the prisoners had signed the ship's articles and received an advance note - tor two months.' wages, which each man got cashed. On Thursday afternoon the ship was below Gravesend, off Leigh, in Essex, and he gave orders for all hands to heave the anchor and get the vessel ready for sea. To his great surprise the prisoners refused to do any duty, and said they would not sail in the vessel. He was therefore compelled to bring the seamen to London and detain the ship. Theseamen, in reply to the charge, objected to proceed to sea on three grounds:—The first was, that the ship was a leaky one and not seaworthy; secondly, that the provisions were bad, and the bread !Me bricks anti mortar baked together; and, lastly, that the full corn plernent of hands had not been shipped. The Magistrate inquired the torina:e of the ship, and the seamen declared she was 900 tons burden, and that fact was marked on the combings of the hatchway. Captain Matthews, however, declared she was only 753 tons by the new measurement, The seamen said the crew, including the captain, only consisted of twenty-eight hands, and she ought to have at least thirty Captain Matthews, in reply, said the ship was per fectly sea-worthy, and had recently come out of Fletcher's dock, where she had been copper bottomed and repaired. The provisions were good, and he had brought some as a specimen. He contended that the ship was not short• handed. Mr. Ballantine thought she was, and that the mater ought, for a vessel of the Katherine's tonnace, according to the Act 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 54, at least t carry thirty men. The men insisted the ship was leaky, and that they had had a good many spells at the pumps alreridy. Captain Matthews said the ship did not leak much, and that, frian her construction, all the water ran into the well, where there might be a few; inches of water, while the rest of the hold was dry. He wished the magistrate to examine the prev;.sions. Mr. Ballantine declined clping so, and asked the cap. tain if he was disposed to take the men back, and ship two additional hands. Captain Matthews said there were two men whose conduct had been so very bad that he could net avail himself of their services. If he did they would foment disturbances. He afterwards said he would rather not go to sea with any of the prisoners. Mr. Ballantine—What, after advancing them two months' wages? Captain Matthews—Yes, Sir. The advanced notes for which the men have obtained cash will not be paid. Mr. Ballantine said the master could request him, instead of committing the seamen, to cause them to be conveyed to the ship again ; but as he would not do so, he did not think it necessary in this case to send them to gaol, becaus,- it did appear the vessel was short handed. He would discharge the seamen, and the master could discharge them too, and take care to forward their re gister tickets to the proper officer of Customs. He also recommended the captain to make up the number of his crew to thirty at least, and thou'ht he was bound to do so. Captain Matthews said he would act on the magis trate's . uggestion. The seamen asked the naP gistrate to ord er th e restora tion of th e i r c l othes, chest, 'and hammocks, now on board the shi mr, shall make no order about that. EATH OF IR WALTER BLUNT, BART.—This youthful baronet exr,ired unexpectedly on T ues d ay last, at his seat, Heathfi e ld, Sussex, aged seed s o f severe com plaint b u t 2 1. It appears i that about twelve m on th s s i nce plaint manifested them se l ves , but no wa s apprehended. O n M on d ay last, zilmeeddiiate danger park, one of the horses plunged, an d the shock,r ving i n hi s which under ordinary circumstances migh t h ave been Compara tively harmless, had a fatal effect. He was immediately conveyed to the mansion, where death ensued next morning. A premium of.' 1,0001. has been offered by the Royal College of Chemistry, for the discovery of a method of rendee,ng iron, when applied to ordinary pur poses, as little liable to rust as copper. ST. JAMES'S L'HEATE E.—Mr. Mitchell, the lessee of this theatre, tales his benefit at the St. James's Theatre, on Wednesday night next ; and if integrity and ability —those rare quail, ties in a theatrical manager—he prized by the public, 1 its benefit will be a benefit indeed. Apart, however, from those considerations, the per formances will pr esent the singular feature of the tragic muse—Rachel —.d onning the buskin " for the nonce," and assuming th a sock ; in other words, in a comic part—that of Co limene, in Moliere's famous comedy, "Le Misanthrope ." She will also appear as Virginie, in the celebrated play of that name. The entertain ments on this no casino will, the retore, be unique—nu such event havin; ?; ever passed before in public ; end, consequently, the ,se who go there will have a treat of an extraordinary n a ture. In every respect. for the high character he be ars, ate well for the general excellence of the performance 'a he produces at this theatre, Mr. Mit chell is entitled 0.0 the patronage of the public. Nothing is s t ttled respecting the person to be selected for then esv see of Manchester. Tt.e rumours in the public paper b are, therefore, premature, and only calculated r o excite n npleasant feelings in some quarters. No appoin rnent can be con,i-ered until the Bill for the creation of the Bichn i Tic of Manchester shall be passed. Her Serene Higila nesa the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the sister of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, 19 expecte.l shortly tae arrive in this c..k.ntry from the cOatlacat, OB a visit 14 the queen Dowager. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Post-office Bill. Navigation (No. 2) Bill. R, covery of Public Monies (Ireland) Bill. Muscle Fisheries Bill. COMMONS' AMENDMENTS. The Commons' Amendments to the following Bills were agreed to:— Saint Aubyn's Estate Bill. Tunstall Market Company Bill. Sir Henry Willoughby Rouke's Estate Bill. A considerable number of Bills were brought up from the Home of Commons by list, and not singly and with grave and formal ceremony, as heretofore. Their Lordships then adjourned at Half past Three. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 17. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bilis were considered and agreed to : Bingley Improvement. DirCiet - London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chiches ter, London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London and South-Western Railways. Duffryn, Llynvi, arid Porth Cawl, and Lynvi Valley Railways Amalgamation. East Lancashire Railway (Southport Branch and Preston Extension). Exeta-r and Exmouth Railway. Liv,!rpool Corporation Waterworks. London Bridge Railway Termini General Enlargement. Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and 1/Tc:ham Railways Amalgamation Portsmouth Paving, Lighting, and Improvement. St. Ives (Huntingdon) Improvement. South Devon Railway (Extension and Amendment). On the motion of Mr. GREENE, the following Bills were read a third time and passeds-- New hart (or Gravenors) Estate Bill; Paterson's Estate Bill; Pickeriiell's Estate Bill; Duke of Richmond's Estate Bill; Hylton's Estate Bill; Penson's Estate Bill; Mann svll's Estate Bill; EArl of Devon's Estate Bill; Dun das's Estate Bill ; Gillespie's Ettate Bill; Oldmixon's Esiate Bill ; N. irtham• bridge Company's Estate Bill ; and Lord Ward's Estate Bill. On the motion of Mr. GREENE, the Strathburgh Railway Bill, and the Caledonian Railway (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw and Coltness Railway) Bill were with• drawn. Mr. HUM presented a petition from Finsbury with respect to the case of the Raja of Satfara. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed, after a short discussion. ASSISTANT SURGEONS IN THE NAVY. Mr. VV AKLEY gave notice of his intention on Mon day nex to ask the Secretary of the Admiralty whether in the next session it was his intention to introduce a Bill to imprmve the condition of the Assistant Surgeons in he Naval Service. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION AMEND- MEN T BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. The clauses were read over and agreed to, and the re port was ordered to be brought up on Monday next. The House then resumed. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES (No. 2) BILL. The Committee on this Bill was deferred till Monday, BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL. O❑ the motion that this Bill be read a third time, Lord G. BENTINCK moved that it be postponed till Honourable and Learned Members who were not, present should be in the House to take part in the dis cussion. _ _ Sir G. GREY acceded to the suggestion or the Noble Lord, and postponed the Bill till Monday. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A message from the Lords brought up several Bills. The House, at a Quarter past Three o'clock, adjourned till Monday at Three o'clock. ALLEGED DEATH from VIOLENCE• a Un mni k: , r t i e cl e a o y a v n i e s i x t o t r r a s r n od thef ar 3 specia lSurre y meeting County of " Lunatic un T a t he i n Asylum was held in the board room of the asylum. to inquire into the cause of the death of James Burden, a lunatic, whose decease was alleged to have been caused by violence received whilst an inmate of that institution. The chairman, Mr. Kemble, M.P., stated that no one was charged with any specific offence. Mr. Bridgeland, the steward, said that on Monday. June the 14th, Mr. Holland, the medical officer, reported to him that the deceased had had a pain in his side for five days past. He visited the patient, who said that he was very unwell during the night, and about ten or eleven o'clock he knocked hard at his door to be let out, and on the door being opened he received a severe blow in his side from some man with a long pole. The force of the blow drove him back against the wall with great violence Since that time, which was three days before, he had suffered much pain + and had great difficulty in breathing. During this interview deceased appeared quite rational. Mr. Joseph Holland, resident surgeon of the institu tion, stated that on Sunday, the 10th, he found deceased suffering from diarrhea, and in a state of great exhaus tion. Ile treated him accordingly, but at eight o'clock in the evening he found him breathing with great diffi culty; his pulse was quick, and skin hot. Witness was about to ask the deceased some questions, when the attendant, John Steel, remarked that he had made a strange complaint to Sir Alexander Morrison, to the effect that he had been ill-used by him, Steel. H e examined the deceased, and discovered that he had a broken rib on the right side; there were two contusions on the right side of the body. Deceased gradually sank, and died ou the 23d ult. The post mortem examination showed that the leghth rib was fractured, and that that injury was the cause of death. Ile found deceased, on one occasion, locked up in his room till between ten and eleven o'clock, and he was then in a most filthy state. John Logan Steel said deceased had complained of a pain in his side from the time he was admitted. De ceased had told him that he had quarrelled with Robarts, another patient, who .had kicked him in the side. He told Sir Alexander Morrison that he was kicked. He had also told witness he had been violently assaulted in Brixton gao l. s i his that his had be en knocked oitduowet:daohl: htliitsheemndot fatherhtk srJooarc t hr own ribs. hades ds. against a B gL u n r lei d dnc e se him,, n tat , hsete t h h d sho e c s o w n o f e f a t n h d e cease mother, t t e e h t i eyeshh bedstead,eer hadh blackened, ehwabidieiecbnhe ehhnai violentlydss head trhuu enk with a piece of the beds - ead. The keeper Steel appeared to be attentive to deceased. Steel turned the conversa tion on two or three occasions when deceased was about to speak. The committee consulted for a few minutes, and ex pressed their opinion on the case in a resolution that " the committee are not enabled to decide whether the injury from which the deceased died was occasioned by a blow received on or about the Ist of June, in a scuffle which took place between him and a lunatic of the name of Roberts; whether it was from the injury received to a fall which he got in attempting to get through the ventilator over the door of his ward; or trom the blow stated by hlin to have been inflicted by some of the at tendants. They regret the unsatisfactory manner of this conclusion, but they feel that it would be unjust to the attendants to throw upon them, or any one of them, a stigma which is net borne out by the evidence." Rear-Admiral Prescott is to be the ne w L or d of the iiduit, city, and will take his place as the junior Lord. Admiral Dean. Dundas, now a member of the board, will take the place of Sir Charles Adams as the senior naval Lord, the lion. Capnun Berkeley coming next in rotation—the other members being Lord John Hay and the Hon. William Cowper.— Observer. MAJORITY-AYES, 131 lcland, Sir T. Entwisle, W. Miles, Philip W. S. Antrobus, Edmund Ferguson, Si r R. Morpeth, Viscount Archdall, Captain Forester, G. C.I Morris, David Baring, Henry Frewen, C. H. Muady, E. M. Baring, Thomas Fuller, A. E. Neville, Ralph Barrington, Viscount Gardner, J. D. Xe wdegate, N. Beckett, William Gaskell, J. M. .Nicholl, J. Bennet, P. Gore, Montague Norreys, Lord Bcntlnck, Lord G. Gore, Robert Norreys, Sir D. Blackburne, J. I. Goring, Charles O'Brien, A. S. 3odkin, William H. Goulburn, Henry Packe, C. W. Boldero, H. G. Graham, Sir James Palmerston, Viscount Borthwick, Peter Grey, Sir George Parker, John Bowles, Admiral Grosvenor, Lord R. Patten, J. W. Broadley, H. Hallyburton, Lord Pennant, Colonel Buller, Charles Halsey, T. P. Philipps, Sir R. Buller, Edward Hamilton, G. A. Plumridge, Captain Buller, Sir Y. Hatton, Captain Price, Sir R. Byng, G. S. Hawes, B. Reid. Colonel Carew, W. H. Pole Henley, J. W. Repton, G. W. J. Cavendish, C. C. Herbert, Sidney Rich, Henry Cholmondeley, H. Ilildyard, T. B. T. Richards, Richard Christopher, R. Hobhouse, Sir John Russell, Lord J. Clayton, R. R. Hope, A. Russell, J. D. Clive, Visc.l Hornby, John Rutherford, A. Collett, W. R. Hotham, Lord Seymer, Henry Ker Corry, Henry Ingestre, Viscount Seymour, Sir H. B. Courtenay, Lord Inglis, Sir It. Shell, R. L. Cowper, W. F. Jervis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W. Cfaig, W. G. Jocelyn, Viscount Stuart, J. Denison, J. E. Jones, Captain Thesiger, Sir F. Denison, W. J. Kirk, Peter T ollemache, J. Disraeli,Dickins 8,4 Langston, J. H. V esey, Hon. T. F. H. Labouchere, Hen ry Turner, E. Dodd, G. Lascelles, W. S. Vivian, J. E. Douglas, J. S. Law, C. E. Vyse, R. H. R. H. Duckworth, Sir J. Lefroy, A. Ward, H. G. buncombe, 0. Legh, G. C. Wellesley, Lord C. Dundas, Admiral Lemon, Sir C. Williams, W. Dundas, Sir D. Lindsay, Colonel Wilshere, T. W. East, Sir J. Lowther, Hon. Col. Wood, Sir Charles Easthope,:Sir J. Macaulay, T. B. Wortley, J. S. Ebringtou, Lord Manners, Lord C. TELLERS. Egerton, W. T. Mettle, Fox Tufnell, H. Egerton, Sir P. Meynell, Captain Hill, Lard Marcus MINORITY-NOES, 33. Aglionby, H. Duncan, George Philips, Mark Aldam, W. Duncombe, Thomas Pinney, William Berkeley, Craven Ellis, Wynn Roebuck, J. A. Bouverie, E. P. Escott, Bickham Seymour, Lord Brotherton, J. Evans, Sir De Lacy Smith, R. V. Brown, W. Forster, M. Thornely, Thomas Clay, Sir W. Hail, Sir Benjamin Wakley, Thomas Clements, Viscount Hindley , C. Walker, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. Horsman, E. , Wall, C. B. Currie, Raikes M`Taggart, Sir ~ . TELLERS. D'Eyncourt, T. M o lesworth, Sir W. Hume, Joseph Duke, Sir James O s b o rne, Ralph C o ll ett, John Page 2, line 1; Amendment proposed, to leave out * the words " and for establishing forthwith a Bi s h o p r i c o f Man chester:"—Whereupon liloticn made, and Question pro posed," That the Chairman do now report pr ogress , an d ask leave to sit again." The Committee divided:— MINORITY—AYES, 18. Aglionby,.H. A. Escott, Blekham Philips, Mark Thornely, T. C 'Lindley, Charles Wakl e y, T . Brotherton, rrie, ita ik Joseph es Hall, D'Eyncourt, C. T. ITorsman, Edward Williams, W. Duke, Sir James Hume , Josep h TELLERS. Duncan, George Molesworth, Sir W. R oe b uck J. A. buncombe, T.Sir B. Osborne, Ralph Collett, John MAJORITY-NOES, 129. Acland, Sir T. Blirrington, Viscount Masterman, John Acland, T. D. Egerton, W. T. Mau'e, Fox Antroeus, E. Egerton, Sir F. Meyncll, Captain Archdall, Captain Entwisle, W. Miles, P. W. S. Austen, Colonel Ferguson, Sir R. Milnes, R. M. Bannerman, A. Forester, G. C. Morpeth, Viscount Baring, H. B. Frewen, C. H. Morris, David Baring, Thomas Fuller, A. E. Mundy, E. Miller Baring, W. B. Gardner, J. D. .Neville, Ralph Beckett, W. Gaskell, J. M. Newdegatc, C. N. Bennet, Philip Gore, Montague Nichcll, John Bentinck, Lord G. Gore, Robert Norreys, Sir D. Berkeley, Craven Goring, Charles O'Brien, A. S. Blackburne, J. I. Goalburn, Henry Packe, C. W. Bodkin, W. H. Grey, Sir G. Palmerston, Vis. Boldero, Henry Grosvenor, Lord R. Parker, John Borthwick, Peter Hallybarton, Lord Patten, J. W. Bowles, Admiral Halsey, T. P. Pennant, Colonel Broadley, H. Hamilton, G. A. Philipps, Sir R. Brown, W. Hatton, Captain Finney, W. Buller, Charles Hawes, Benjamin Price, Sir Robert Buller, Edward Henley, J. W. Reid. Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. Herbert, Sydney Repton, G. W. Byng, G. S. Hildyard, T. B. Rich, Her ".Y Carew, W. P. Hobhouse, Sir J. Richards. Richard Cavendish, C. C. Hodgson, F. Russell, Lord John Cholmondeley, H. Hope, Alexander Russell, J. D. Christopher, R. A. Hornby John Rutherford, A. Clayton, R. R. Hotham, Lord Seymer, H. K. Clive, Viscount Ingestre, Visct. Shell, R. L. Collett, W. R. Inglis, Sir R. H. Somerville. Sir W. Corry, H. Jervis, Sir John Stuart, John Courtenay, Lord Jones, Captain Thesiger, Sir F. Cowper, W F. Labouchere, Henry Tollern a che, John Craig, W. G. Lan gs t on, J. H Vesey, T. Dickinson, F. F. Lascelles, W. S. Vyse, IL Dodd, George Law, c, E, Walker, Richard Douglas, .1. D. S. Lefroy, Anthony Ward, H. G. Duckworth, Sir J. Legh, G. C. Wilshere, W. Duncombe, 0. Lemon, Sir Charles Wood, Sir C harles Dundas, Admiral Lindsay, Colonel Wortley, J. S. Dundas, Sir David Lowthee Colonel TELLERS. East, Sir J. B. Macaulay, T. B. Tufhell, Henry Easthope, Sir John Manners, Lord C. Hill, Lord M. RAILWAIH BRISTOL JULY 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The ' sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 3/. 1 Is. 3d.—North Staffordshire, New, 1 % .p.—Caledonian, 29V —Great Western, Quarters, 5% p.—Ditto, New, 33 / p.....danchester and Leeds, Thirds, ARE MARKETS. Reg., 1 4 p.—Midland, New, 4% p.— Newcastle and Berwick, 3 p.—South Devon, on ( 6 per cent.), 1 4 dis.—Y or k and Nort h Midland, Extension, 18 p.—York and Newcastle Preference, 4% p. LIVERPOOL JULY 16. 1A STOCK EXCH AN .3 E. The sales ar Ambergate, Notting ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction 11/4 di s .—Chester and Birkenhead, 201. Shares, 2 1 4 dis.—Great Western, 17/. Shares, 17% p.—Ditto, New :.-;% p.—London and North-Western, 1791/2 —Ditto, Quar ters,Leeds, Halves, 81 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 4 . % P--Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 6s. 3d —Manchester a.ndSoth ampton, 21s. 3d. dis.—Midland . 401. Shares, 48%—Ditto, New, 4 1 4 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3% p._ his (C and Wrre, 37 14 — Shrewsbury, Oawestry, and . Cheshi . re Quarters, 11 p.—Manchester .and ( Chester IS -r ew Shares), 38. 9d. p.—Shropshire Union Rail way and Canal, 1% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,. 37% W 'York and Newcastle, Pref erence (guar. 6 per cent. HEW), 4 5 / 8 p, ex int. f?rd Junction, IVA p.—Blackburn Clitheroe, MANCHESTER, JULY 16. Ox- STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales a ' re —Birmingham and t ials, 3 1 A c. p.—Eastern Counties ' York Extension, 5-16 dis. ---East Lancashire. New Scrip, 1 7 c. p.—Fleetwood, Preston, claester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), told West Riding, 1 1 4 dis.—Huddersfield and Blanchester Ratt y, ay and Canal, 1 % c.—London and North-Western ( Alan &C., Preferen- Quarters (C), 6 1 % U. p.—Manchester and Leeds, 32/. Shares, gate Extension), v t p.—Ditto, Fifths (late Vest Riding Union), 5-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 6% p.--Ditto, ( Sheffield and Lincolnshire) ' 3 3-16 dis.'—Newcastle and 11 "wick, New, 3 3 ,4 p.—No ' rth Staffordshire, 3 p.—Old- Lam Alliance, V s p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 14 dais. LEEDS, JULY 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting. kem, and Boston, 265. n. dis.—East Lancashire, New, ss. n... dis.—Ditto, New, 3s. s. p.—East and West Yorkshire, 245. c. dis.—Great N or th ern, 1% c , dis.—Hudd ersfield and Man. chester, 21 ,4 p.—Leeds and Dews bury, 41p.—Ditto, Halves 2 1 4 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 6 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 12s. ed. dis.—Malto n an d Driffield J un ction, 15s. dis.—:Manchester and Leeds (N es t Ridi n g Union)' 6 s . 6d. p .—Newcastle and I Lerwick, N ew , 3', 7 p.—North B ritish, Extension. 4s. p ,— North Staff or d s hi r e, 2% n . p....-19 orth-Western, 28s. di s .— York and North Midland, Preference ,W P. SHEFFIELD, JULY le. eld, a nSdTioicnxcoEinxschgiraex(GsEh.e—friTelhde saanledsLarine—caltl)76clhses. t d er is ,.....Sh N effi orth. \ Western, 28s. dis.—York and Newcastle (6 per cent.), 41/E p , ex i n t.—T or k an d North Mid land, Preference, 10 % ex int. — South Yorkshire, Doncas ter, and Goole, la. dis. GLASGO'V' JULY 15. STOCK EXCIIANGIL—The sales are—A yr and Galloway, 4 Bs.—Direct Bombay and nlndian, a dras, 2s. 3d.—East 4s. 9.d.—Edinburgh and Perth , Halves, 58.9d. -- Glasgow, Dum. tries, and Carlisle, Si. Bs. Glasgo w, Kilma rnock, and Ar d t ossan, 76s.—Manchester and Southampton, New, 235. 3d.— Alidland, Halves, 9% —York and Newcastle, Preference, 12%, r BnomPTo PROPOSED .../111URCH AT N, KENT. —Dirt —Din S. W. Daukes, of Cheltenham, i s the successful corn pvtitor for the proposed new cdhurch at Brompton, Chatham, Kent. vv e understan there were sixteen competitors.—The Builder. _ _ A correspondent of the Morn:ng Chronicle gives at some length a statement of the alleged intention of a slight the King of the Belgians to abdicate . his throne—a statement which we have reason to believe is entirely destitute of foundation. . The state . of his Majesty's health is given as the motive for this strange proceeding. bilious the tim a e tl ee l :, The illness of King Leopold was greatly exaggerated at then stated,. and his Majesty's presence in London soon after . satisfied his friend s that with the never a wasainounted to more than he wa s then in sound health, with no . other evil effects from the attack than a trifling reduction of the system. It is specially mentioned that he has consulted the Go vernments of England and of France on the. propriety of his intended abdication. His Majesty's visit to London was for a very different purpose ; indeed it was no more than his usual lriendly re-union with his august rela tions. Kin of the Fi ench respecting a step which is neither medi g - We believe that the consultation . tilted nor necessary. i s equally erroneous.—Observer. It is calculated that the Liberal. party will obtain an accession of no less than 80 s cuts in the coming elec tions ; an increase that will give to th e G ov. rnment of Lord J o h n R u - s ell a good working majority in the new Parliament —Observer. The Commissioners of t he Merch an t S eamen ' s Fund had a meeting on Saturday At the Board of Tiede, Lord Eileuboreugh in the chair. EXCISE RESTRICTIONS UPON DISTILLERS, We have lately amused ourselves by making a few extracts from the laws regulating the distillery trade. Our extracts have been made chiefly from the 4th of Geo. IV. cap. 94, which refers more particularly to the Scottish distilleries, and we have not meddled with the 6th Geo. IV. cap. 80, which „pgulates the English distilleries, except as regards those clauses affecting the Scotch trade, and we have then expressly named the statute. We by no means intend the fol lowing to be understood as the whole of the Excise ) regulations regarding distillers ; on the contrary, it is only a selection of a few which we beg to present to our readers as a specimen of the system. The public will, no doubt, think the following a most wearisome article to wade through, and few, if any, will read it to the end, however much astonished they may be at the facts contained in it; but, if we presented them with extracts from the Acts of Par liament themselves, expressed in all the language used in such documents, they would be even still more astounded. In fact, to understand and pick out the meaning from their confused mass of unintelligible jargon is a work of the most onerous description. We hope a glance at the following will convince the public that the work we have set ourselves to accomplish is one which is mush needed, and we hope the legal information here conveyed, in a tabular and condensed form, will be of use to our contemporaries, in enabling them to expose the dis graceful nature of the Excise system. The 4th Geo. IV., cap. 94, an Act now twenty-four years old, is the latest enactment regarding the Scotch distillery trade; and although it contains no less than 137 sections, it yet does not contain the whole of the dis tillery law, for by it many former laws were only partially repealed, so that the unrepealed portions are still the law of the land. The preamble of this Bill, too, is singularly complicated and confused, and to extract the meaning out of it is a task that few but a very clear-headed lawyer is fitted to undertake ; for ourselves, we do not profess to be perfect in our un derstanding of it. Before he dare presume to work, a distiller is obliged, by 4th Geo. IV., cap 94, lst. To obtain a licence, and have it renewed an nually. (See 3 and 8.) 2d. To erect certain vessels prescribed by law. (Sec. 18.) 3d. To provide, at his own expense, certain cocks, pumps, locks, and fastenings, prescribed by law ; the keys of all the locks to be kept by the Excise officer. (Sec. 28.) 4th. To paint on each vessel or utensil, and the outside doors of every store or apartment in his distil. lery, its name and number. (Sec. 33.) . . _. ... _ sth. To paint every pipe in his distille - ry a specified colour, according to the purpose for which it is in tended to be used, viz., every pipe for the conveyance of wort or wash must be painted red; of low wines or feints, blue; of spirits, black; and of water, white. (Sec. 36 ) 6th. To make entry of all his premises, vessels, and utensils, and to deliver a drawing of every fixed pipe in his distillery. (S ec . 34 t o 36.) 7th. To give six days' notice before commencing to brew.—(Sec. 42.) Bth. To give six days' notice of the gravity of worts intended to be made.—(Sec. 44.) 9th. To give six hours' notice of each brewing of wort.—(Sec. 43.) The distiller having duly performed all the fore going may now commence working his distillery, and is obliged then 10th. To give six hours' notice to make a bub.— (Sec. 50.) 11th. To give a declaration in writing of the quan tity and gravity of the wort collected in each fer menting hick.—(Sec. 48.) 12th. To declare, twelve hours before commencing ) distil, that all the wort and wash is collected into the fermenting backs.—(Sec. 51.) 13th. To give eight hours' notice before removing wash from each fermenting back to the wash charger. —(Sec. 52.) 14th. To give four hours' notice before removing any low wines, feints, or spirits from their respective receivers to the low wines or feints chargers, or to the spirit store respectively. (Sec. 54.) 15th. To give two days' notice before bonding spirits. (Sec. 57.) 16th. To give a request in writing for a permit to remove spirits which are required for home conqump tion, stating the number of the casks and their con tents in gallons. After a permit is granted, one hour only is allowed to remove the spirits. (Sec. 72.) 17th. To give one day's notice before removing spirits for exportation to Ireland, or any foreign port. (Sec. 73 and 89.) And to give bond for d aible the value of the spirits, and the duty thereon. (Sec. 74.) 18th. To give one day's notice before removing spirits in England, and bmcl for double the value of the spirits and duty thereon. (6th Geo. IV., cap. 80, sec 92.) The foregoing, along with eertain other clauses (noted below), impose certain hardships, restrictions, and prohibitions, which are of a most annoying, vex atious, and oppressive character. At the offset, the distiller meets with a strange anomaly in a country calling itself free, and, above all, boasting of free trade. He finds that, in the process of distillation he is compelled to choose one of two evils—he must either use a still of rude construction, and not adaptedi to the manufacture of a marketable spirit, or work with an apparatus not formally recognised by the Excise law, and on that account he will incur the risk of being stopped at any moment, and deprived of his licence to use this improved apparatus, without any reason being assigned. All who are acquainted with the arbitrary nature of the Excise-laws, are aware that the negli gence, ignorance, or unfaithfulness of a servant may, at any time, be the means of accumulating on the distiller penalties to a ruinous extent ; but in addition to this, should he have embarked his capital in the erection ( a )f improved machinery, the Excise have the power to prevent him from using such improvement, although other distillers are allowed to work an apparatus precisely similar. This is no imaginary case of oppression and one-sided dealing; it is the ordinary operation of the present law, and we could point to more than one instance where this arbitrary power has been exercised. Ist Clause.—No person can be licensed to keep a still of less content than 40 gallons (Sec. 9), and no licence will be granted for any still of less content than 500 gallons without a certificate, signed by three Justices of the Peace, of the fitness of the person to be licensed (Sec. 10). The Commissioners of Ex cise may refuse to licence stills of any content what ever, in situations near rectifying distilleries or brew eries, and vice versa (Sec. 13.) When a distillery is more than one mile from a market town, the distiller is obliged, on pain of a re vocal of his licence, to provide suitable iodgings for the residence of the officers, and that at a cost not ex• ceeding 101. a year, and those lodgings may net he a portion of his own dwelling. house, or of the distillery. (Sec. 14.) Distillers are prohibited from manufacturing spirits from any material except grain (Sec. 18) ; however, by special favour they are permitted the use of potatoes and manglewurzel, and by an Act passed in the present session of Parliament, they are allowed to d'stil from sugar, whilst the cheaper mate rial, molasses, is still prohibited. But they must use each of these articles separately, and make special entry of their premises for whatever articles they intend to distil from. 2d Clause—The vessels required by the Excise to be erected are solely calculated to suit their own convenience, without regard to the distil ler's interest at all. Some of them he could do without altogether, whilst in the case V of others, where he is limited to only one, several would be more convenient. As an instance of the first, take the wash charger; the distiller has to pump his wash from the fermenting back to the wash charger, then to pump it a second time from the wash charger to theill, whilst, were it not for the interference of the Excise, he might pump it straight from the ferment ing back to the still, thereby saving the expense of a second pumping, and the original cost of the wash charger. As an instance of the second, take the spirit receiver—the distiller is limited to only one, into which he is, of course, obliged to run all his spirits, whereas, had he several, he might run the different qualities of spirits in each charge into separate vessels, whereby he could have some of his spirits much finer than the average. These are only examples, of which there exist a multitude of cases. 3d Clause. The hardship of a man being obliged to provide locks and fastenings for the p'irpose of lock ing himself up against his will, is self evident, and requires no comment. The penalty for a man damaging his own locks or fastenings is 2001. 4th Clause. Painting the name and number on every vessel and utensil, and the outside door of every store or apartment is expensive. sth Clause. Painting every fixed pipe in a distillery is extremely expensive. 6th Clause. The entry of a distiller's premises, vessels, and utensils, is lengthy and troublesome to draw u.), and has to be renewed after any alteration on the I remi , es. To draw a plan showing every fixed pipe in a large distillery is a thing which is almost imrracticable. The remaining clauses, from the 7th to the 18th inclusive, entail a vast amount: of vexatious delay ; and should any unforeseen accident prevent a dis tiller from commencing any process exactly at the time specified in the notic?, he is obliged to give in a fresh notice, and keep his disiPery and men standing idle until the Ex,iry of the term that the notice has to run. A distiller mey not alter the size, nay even the position, of any vessel, utensil. or pipe, without giving previous notice to the Excise.---(Sec. 39 A distiller .may not brew and di st il at the same time, which renders his distillery capable of doing only one-half of the work which it could do, were it not for this restriction. A distiller may not send spirits out of his dio'illery to be warehousA, or to be shipped for exportation, before nine o'clock, A.M., nor after two, P.M., thus being allowed only five hours out of the four and ' twenty for the conducting of this very important branch of his business. (Sec. 67 and 75.) A distiller is obliged to pay duty on all deficiencies which may occur vibilst his spirits are in warehouse, from evaporation, leakage, or any other unav( ;dable cause--a charge from which foreign or colonial spirits are wholly free. This obligation is extremely burdensome, as it wholly prevents a distiller from keeping his spirits in bond, to improve by age; he is thus obliged to hurry his manufacture upon the market in an unripe state, to the injury of himself and the consumer, who is thus forced, by the arbitrary regulations of the Excise, to be satisfied with an unwholesome article, instead of one mellowed by age. (Sec. 81.) A distiller or proprietor of any spirits bonded in a Government warehouse (for which warehousing he is charged rent at a most exorbitant rate), is prohibited from claiming, or demantling, or maintaining any action for any compensation or damages should his spirits be destroyed by fire, or by the falling in of the warehouse, instances of which have frequently hap pened from the gross carelessness and reckless neglect of the servants of the Crown themselves. (Sec. 82.) If a distiller does not immediately admit any Excise officer on demand into his distillery, either by night or by day, the officer may break open and enter the distillery by force; it is not even necessary that he should have a constable or any other officer of the peace present. (Sec. 104 and 107.) A distiller is obliged to furnish any Excise officer with ladders and lights whenever he may demand them. (Sec. 105.) A distiller may sell his spirits only at three strengths, viz., 25 and 11 per cent. over, and 10 per cent. under proof, while he is prohibited warehousing them at any strength except 25 and 11 o.p. (Sec. 66 and 120.) A distiller is prohibited being a retailer of spirits. A distiller is prohibited being a dealer in spirits. A distiller is prohibited being a rectifier. A distiller must assist any Excise officer in distil ling the contents of any wash-back in his distillery. (Sec. 123.) Minors, being distillers, are liable to all duties of Excise, and to all penalties and forfeitures, as fully to all intents and purposes as if they were adult and of full age. (Sec. 127.)—Edinburgh News. THE GAELIC LANGUAGE. The following are passages from a petition recently presented to the House of Commons on the Gaelic Lan guage, (respecting the Appointment of Professors,) &c. It states " That the Gaelic language is the vernacular tongue of the Scottish Highlanders, who amount to 400,000, a great proportion of whom understand no other. " That a proper knowledge of Gaelic is indispensable for the efficiency of those who officiate as clergymen, and the persons to whom is committed the instruction of Highland youth. That there is not in any university or national semi nary a teacher of Gaelic, nor any acknowledged means for imparting a grammatical knowledge of the lan guage, &c. "That your humble petitioner, baying written seve ral works illustrative of the history and present state of the Highlanders, found exceeding inconvenience in there being no profess,r from whom instruction in their ver nacular language could be obtained, without a know ledge of which the historic d and antiquarian literature of Britain must remain defectir . " Your petitioner, impressed with the importance of a proper knowledge of Gaelic, particularly by those to whom is consigned the temporal anti spiritual instruction of so many, he mo=t humbly prays that your honourable House may see it right that the instruction of students destined to labour in the Highland districts in the lan guage of the people shall be part of their qualification, and that a Professor of Gaelic be estalilished in one of the northern colleges, or elsewhere, and in such way as in your wisdom may appear right. (Signed) " JAME'i LOGAN." THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ELY AND PETERBOROU3H RAILWAY. ELY, FRIDAY EVENING.—TRis morning the inquiry respecting the death of Thomas Staples, tte driver of the engine of the express train which recently ran off the Ely and Peterborough Railway, was resumed at the Lamb Inn in this city, before Mr. Marshall and the jury previously empannelled. Captain Simmons, one of the Gov , rnment inspectors of railways, was present, as also Mr. Samuels, Mr. Richardson, and. Mr. Scott, of the Eastern Counties Company, who work the railway. The CORONER adverted to what had been done at the previous meeting of the jury. He bad had that part of the line where the accident happened surveyed by a competent disinterested engineer, who had prepared a plan of the spot for the information of the jury. Mr. Pratt Collier, the ungineer alluded to, produced the plan. The decline front the Hundred Foot-bridge to to the place of accident was 1 in 173, the distance was three chains and five . lengths. There was a difference of seven inches in the levels of the up and down rails, the up rails being the lowest. The accident happened on the up rail. The gradient on the down rail was lin 264 feet. John Mayo, a fireman in the service of the company, said ht, was stokPr to the engine attached to the train, and the deceased was the driver. The train consisted of the engine and tender, a break van, and two passenger carriages. Con Comm —Did you feel any difforence of motion at or near the place where the accident occurrrd ? Wit ness—No, I did not. We were going of a steady rate. CORONER—Were you going faster than usual? Wit ness—We were not. We never go fast down an incline. My mate was a careful steady roan. I was with him five weeks, and I never saw him drink anything. We were going at about 25 to 36 miles an hour. CORONER—Have you experienced any peculiar jerk in passing over the fen country? Witness—Not at this place, but I have at Downham at a crossing. CORONER—Have you noticed any jerk or difference of motion in passing off a viaduct on to an embankment? Witness—l have not. I did not feel any giving way of the tender just before the accident. John Gardiner, who acted as guard of the train, said the engine left the rails about 50 or GO feet beyond a wooden viaduct over an occupation road, and felt no mo tion until the train reached that place. Observt d tto jerking on crossing that viaduct. The engine gave no warning of running of the rails. COIWNER— Have you any idea as to the rate of the train at the time of the accident? Witness—Between thirty and forty miles an hour. After the accident I wait back, and saw a left hand rail on the up line torn out of its place; this is where I suppose the engine first left the line. The ballast was cut up and the sleepers cut through. William Stanfeild, a plate layer, employed on the line, said he examined the line where the engine left the metal. There were seven rails broken and dis turbed. There was one broken and three bent on the left side and three bent on the other side. Ev E t. r it— yo nesCs"o Niw other day. iitten T is h i s th p e a r l t i 1 :) e f I n tl: p r e = Les " ; not much settle. There were eighteen al . ep •rs cut through. Ido not know how many chains. There has been a difference in the levels of both rails ever since I have been on it. The rails were not lifted up to the level, but merely where depression existed. Jacob Dyke, another plate-layer, said, I assisted i n re . pairing the road. I have observed that the road was not in so perfect repair as I could wish. I don't recollect ever saying that I thought an accident woule: take plac e , I have remarked that the settlement on that part of the road near the Hundred Foot-bridge was so great as to require more then to be employed on it. I spoke to Mr. Jackson, the firetnan of Mr. P,-to, the contractor, to allow more men to attend to the settlement. and in a day or two extra hands were put on. There had been a set tlement of six inches since the last time the gauge was taken. I should certainly have lifted the rai!s more often if more hands had been on. There was a greater sinking where the accident took pl•lce than in any other part of the line. When I saw the engine coming alotz she seemed to be travelling at about forty miles an hour. The engine " wriggl d" about a good deal. I have seen many trains pass that part of the lit e, but none of them went so fast as that which met with th. -, accident. _ Mr. John Hunter, locomotive - superintendent and ofnt the the company, deposed—l h a v e seen th e broken rail being of axletree of the t en der, and considerthe broken by a m a good metal. The axletree might have been repaired.violent I . t has T h e engineinside f t u re c ently r e? forty-horse been tiys .ytxs power,steady ~ . engine, of Braithwaite's manufac t ure, and capable of travelling with hour. l f ` e h r er t e he v‘ a ' account caused by a a one of the f tures of the rail was aeseidneonttinglnininher machinX•thmatilecsoualdn ya l ciP t t e rian ra ii: l n :d not a down e b e a d d of b t e h e e n t r e a x i n a h m a i v n i e n d g , ward pressure. Simmons re-inspected the line, been maAn yf e: e x n i speakingella ee,sseveral accident 3 ° or r s ei t eh t: t i j' pr re f: 7 I n Pt s i e tot t a d n a I t e t nhaes from e d se h s h p u he hundred found ,d, Hundred u the nd r e sleepersd Foot bridge," where w i t h in ninety or re feet on the Ely to be more or less damaged. He could not give an sid - e '• to n as to the precise cause of the accident. The line opi s m i o n good order. was one sve ceclofienkdthtehajturTyhororetTs taredtlhees, thefoll dowienegeayseedr: came by his death by being crushed between the tie rod of the axle guard of the break van, which was attached to the train on the Ely and Peterborough Railway; and we further find that the accident which led to his death was occasioned by some part of the train running off the line by reason of its being propelled at too high a speetl, the embankment at the place of the accident being out of order, a settlement of the permanent road having been allowed to take place, and the rails below their proper gauge; and we cannot separate without expressing our decided opinion that whenevur an accident occurs i would be much b etter f or pu b lic satisfact i on that rail way companies s!.o u ld leave the line undisturbed until inspect e d b y t h e G overnment author i t i es, i n orde . rth ar a , - a more co nc l us i ve an d d ec i s i ve op i n i o n might be 1 rived at." luti . SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY•—The conc. bug performance of the season will take place at Ex,•ter Hall on Friday the 23d inst., at which Spolir will conduct, for the first time in ',Aldo'', his " Last Judgment." " The Christian's Prayer?' and a new Psalm. Mr. T. Lennon Hunt has been appointed Vice- Consul of England at Monte Video, in she place of Mr. Hood, recently appointed Consul at Buenos Ayres.— Observer, B OF Gentlemen,—There appears e Puljr. t il h s u . t dissolution of Parliament w:i l i o i v a l i a iri=c ti t i e t l u y „ key ' ce. is If it be your will that It you, I place my services at your command. I have received the offers of support from more than one place of the first importance in respect to ci mereial enterprise and wealth, and to the number of the constituent body ; but having represented )ou for many years, and having received from you, under trying cir cumstances in publis affairs, signal proofs Of your esteem and confidence, I as rine filling, by any act of mine, to interrupt the connexion which has long subsisted be. tween us. But I cannot seek your support on any other than public grounds, and as the position in which I stand is in some respects a peculiar one, I feel it necessary to transgress the limits of an ordinary address, in soliciting your attention to the course whicn I have pursued in the present Parliament, and in , xplaining, so far as is con • eistent with that freedom of discretion which is essential to the proper discharge of Parliamentary duties, the general principles to which, if re-elected, I intend to conform, When you last returned me to Parliament I held the chief office in the Government of this great empire. I am now addressing you in a private capacity, rejoicing in the recovery of leisure and independence, without the intention o o r r o w u i g s h h t t t o o resume b elo e i t t o h e t the e that s a e u s t s h i o o u r i t o y f 7 1 1 i e c e h , or that i n fl uence which insg, p c u on rr f;r a re sp d ir b iu y g t t h o e po lE w n e d n and guidance of a great politicl But I am n o t, on that acacou the motives the less anx i ous to vin dicate, to your s at i s f action, otivesby l which h I have been influenced, the measures to which party, and the general c ourse of policy of the v A e dtu been t. lits. a . trati.in with which I was connected. The chief acts of that Administration, and the circum stances which led to its dissolution, must be familiar to your recollection. You have now ample means for judging whether the conduct of the Government, in respect to the external relations of this country, was calculated to promote the public welfare. You can contrast the position of affairs in 1841 and 1846, and can determine whether the sta bility of our Indian empire has been impaired, or whe ther a succession of glorious achievements in the field, and the vigour and firmness, and, above all, the justice and moderation of those who have directed the public councils in India, have not increased throughout the East respect for tho British name, and promoted willing obedience to British authority. There is, I fear, some justice in the reproach, that the people and the Parliament of this country are com paratively indifferent, excepting under circumstances of sudden excitement, to the administration of foreign affairs. But it would be a grievous neglect of duty on the party of those whose choice ,:f representatives will determine the general character of the future Parlia ment, to exclude from their serious consideration this great department of the publie business. SIR ROB!:.RT P. TO THE ELECTOR, TAMWORTIL When the late Government was formed, the charge of that department was committed by the Queen to a Minister of whom I may say with truth, that he suc ceeded in acquiring the esteem and confidence of every honest man engaged in the diplomatic service of other states, and he made that esteem and confidence conducive to the great object of his political life—the maintenance, of honourable peace. It is for you to judge whether Lord Aberdeen acted wisely in disregarding those appeals to national pride and national sensibilities which, if not provocations to war, were great impediments to the maintenance of peace, rine in resolving to adjust, if possible, by means of amicable arrangement end mutual concession, the petty differences which constantly occur between powerful nations, and wnich, if treated in eny other spirit, are easily inflamed into national quarrels. It is for you to judge, in reviewing our discussions with the United States, whether it would have been wise to have insisted on extreme rights of territory on the north eastern frontier of the province of Maine, and on the banks of the Columbia river, and thus (even if war could be averted), to have ensured for another half century a controversy toll of buterness and irritation; or whether it was not the better policy to propose, in the spirit of peace, conditions pet fectly compatible with the honour of each country, and n,t, requiring from either any sacrifice, territorial or commercial, which would not be (earty purehawd oy the cost of a single week's hostilities. But, Gentlemen, how , ver important are the considera tions to which I have been advrrting, there are others, in respect to whi,h, from their relation to our social conditien and domestic pacy, you will p. obably feel a more immediate concern. The most prominent at the prt sent time are tho', connected with questions of reli lion, and with the recent changes in our financial and commercial legislation. On these ponds I desire to enter into unreserved ex planation with you. I write with , ut concert or com munication with any other person what,ver, and the views and opinion:, the: , fore, which I may express are expressed on my ilwn behalf exclusively. I feel, GentL men, the deepest interest in all that con cerns the welfare of the Established Church. I feel that intere,4, from conviction of the truth of its doc trines, and from the firm belief that the Es:ablished Church is capable of being mad,, and through the tem poral zeal, anti active exertions of the highest spiritual authorities, is in the progress of being made, the most powerful instrument that exists for administering the consolations of religion, for spreading the knowledge of divine truth, and for supplying the imperfections of human laws, by the oblir,ations and restraints of religious duty. . _ f have resistei, and shall continue to resist, every proposal for appropriating any portion of the revenues of the Church, in any part of the United Kingdom, to other than ecclesiastical purposes in direct connexion with the Church. I have felt it, however, to be quite consistent with a warm attachment to the interests of the Church to take a leading part in those measures which had for their ob ject the abolition of ecclesiastical sinecures, the curtail ment of excessive emoluments, and the application of such a portion of the revenues of cathedral and col legiate churches as was not 11- quirrd for the purposes of those institutions, to the partial remrdy of great evils in the social and spiritual condition of this country. A very few years since it was publicly declared on the highest authority, that " a vast proportion of the people of this country were left destitute of the ozy por tunities of public worship and Christian instruction." Of this fact, such proots us the following were adduced:— That there were in Loncion and its suburbs four parishes containing an aggregate of 166 000 persons, with church room for 8.200, being not quite (we-twentieth of the p , pulation—that there ware in the same district 34 parishes with a population of 1,137,00.1 inhabitants, and church-room for 101.632 person:— th,t in our own neighbourhood, in the diooese of Lichtidd and Coventry, there were 16 parishes. each having above 10.000 inha bitants, with an aggregate population of 235,000 persons, and church room tar about 29 000. doubt it val within the competency of Pat liament to make provision for the supl•ly of theme alarming defi ciencies in the means of religious instruction, by large grants of public money derived from general taxation; but I fel, persuaded that it %lonic' not b•• for the ativ n taou of reiteion that such a proposal sh uld be made, until after all the resources of ih , . Church, which ~. (f pro.perly bed (-lA. red stvailwb e fi ir the put- poi-. had het-t, applied to it. lii It 111 , 0 persuaded it a! th e app r ,, , ,,, la non of those res ,, urces, with skis willing consent of Church, to such objects as the augrneotan,,ll of p oor brnefices, the t - statnishn3ent of n , tr cue!, si, tricts, and the general improv-:netts to pastoral super intentience in very popuh , us pari-hes, %soulti not only increase the localncyof Estabh-hrnew, wi,uld tend to confirm its hold on the respect anti attach ment of the people It w:,s for such purposes that, with the willing ei m ," , F i r of the Church, 1 proposed, in the yt ar 1843.. which passed into law, for making the spiritual care of populous parishes in risrituted, t:ri \Yaks. and Under that la« there. rave b'en * c e ;;; distriers and agreed to be constirtved. 218 better s nd p fo a r st( a )r i a ,n l su perintendence I opirovided pose this Net to the lati,in of above 764,000 souls.to the welfare of the charge of indifference or hostility n ew priparishes; w a i n i I d • 'hua.3vl•inh'eet(erlzi Church. eases wherein '1 deered th o think it inconsistent with the true interests to protect the rights, and to consul claim a just one, . ;shins, I gave my support to gs and wishes of those who dissent f- - .orn its, d rm_ the i g L'ot'hle(ti'tiehsnio:ctlir in n as their ractical iop;iation is mea sures for quieting the titics to Dissenting placcs of wor- Qip, and for repealing many pentd satutcs in matters of dl r tes t . hese impre concerned, but at variance with the mild spirit of modern legislation, and giving gratuitous offence by implying suspicion and distrust, Y , ithout , &ring the slightest re medy against any apprehendcd d;.,n.ger. With these impressions also, while cordially approving of the proposal of her Majesty's pr, -, ssnt Government to extend the system of I Pub.ic instruction in this part of thee United Kingd.,m, I exprosied an opinion that it ought to be sufficiently comprehensive to include the children of Roman Catholic parents. During the period to which I am referring, the state of Ireland (that fruitful source of constantly recurring n fi s nd . painful discussion), was repeatedly forced upon the:dcr, 1 a dvert deration of Parliament. I shall, in this address, ffair which only to the topics in connexion with Irish :d . the eni have excited the chief interest in this I,:r d pledgee are pire, and in respect to which opinion! from those who icfo:nret,:sai foo:bnfsl now demanded by tuany constituencies f are candidates for their 1 .avour. r have to make on this I will preface the observa tions otation from the w liingsof most important subject ) b: Titerity will regard v the that eminent man r whcul Lo P rs and the most profound of most eloquent 0. the i oL n of modern times. the philosophic states s since Mr. Burke, in a letter ad- It is ni ,,,,, fifty year.. , dressed to his „ n , pa c ed ed upon record the fop ,wing opinions:— " lc" says, "no more than Being myse ,he , . a common layman commonly in - orincd in emitroversi, a, leading only a ver:t, co • inmon life, in and having only a co mm on c itiz e n's interest the Church or in the State, yet to you I will say, in justice to m y O•Vn sCiltlin.'ntS,that not one of those z slots . or a Protestant interest wishes more sincerely flan: I do, p , -rtnip, not hail so sincerely. for the support of th e Es ishiished Church in bo , th these kingd ens. It is a o,reat. link to mards holding fist the connexion of religion with tfe State, and for keeping these two islands, in their reesen. critical independence of c a .titu , ion, en a close cooncx 0 , , of cpinion and affe-tion. I wtsh it well, es the rei, l von of the greater h lemg d rn . number of th e pre .,, ary land pr , p , :,i ~" c ' t.th " i f ''' g ' ror wil l wli .m all estaniishments of Church and . State,_ k _ strong poll. led n ;,sons, might in my t. :, s p 111 1:-;: e r ,4 : 1 ; finely cot - 11 - Hewed. I A ish it well, he'''a . u-e c ! __ .. m .5, v i t h combined than any other of' tier- t...l f ur , ri e sy; l i xe „ a con . the Crown, which is the stay ( h