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EVENING, MAY l7, 1852

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INTELLIGENCE. .
QUEEIV'S BENCH, May 15.
Prius, before Lord CAMPBELL and
Common Juries).
WILLIAM COBBETT (PAUPER) v. HUDSON.
This was an action against the keevr of the Queen's
Prison for a false return to a writ of habeas corpus.
Tho plaintiff appeared in person, and was addressing
the jury, whon

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF
(Sittings at Nisi

MALTA., MAY 11.—The Spiteful steem-sloop left us
on Friday last with letters for the admiral and fleet,
which was, by advices received through a merchant ship,
lying at Tunis. Oa board the Spiteful hie Lordehip
the:iiishop of Gibraltar had taken passage, intending to
visit parts of his diocess, then to proceed to Gibraltar,
where he would, as is his custom, pass the heats of
summer.
A proclamation by his Excellency the Governor an-
nouncing that the Malta Militia Bill had received the
approbation of the Queen in Council, was published on
the sth inst., together with a Government notice con-
taining regulations for its organization. The training
is to be confined to exercise suited fur defence, but not
to extend to battalion movements.
The town portions will consist of six companies of
artillery; one of the Great Harbour, and ono of the
Quarantine, divided by the Strada Reale; a company of
Ifloriana, Vittotiasa, Senglea, and Cospicua. The
country portion will consist of infantry, formed into
companies according to districts or cesals, but at No•
tabile (Citta Vecchia) and Gee.), there will be a portion
of artillery.
Words of command to be in English. Books for en-
rolment aro open in the police offices of Valetta and
Cospieua, but scarcely 100 arc entered.
By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, Captain Christie, of the Royal Artillery, takes
passage. A Board of Heald' has sat on this officer, end
change of climate is strongly recommended
General Perezel, who so,nauch distinguished himself
by his military services in the late Hungarian revolu-
tion, and who, with his wife and three children, has
been resident in Malta for the last two months, also
takes passage to England by the company's steamer.
The general is the last of the refugees who was detained
in Turkey.
The French fleet has passed the island, bound, it is
said, to ports on the coast of Africa, and under orders to
reach Algiers early in June, but not before. It com-
prises, as is said, three line-of-battle-ships three deckers,
three line-of-battle-ships two-deckers, and a beautiful
screw steamship, brig rigged.
The Banshee carries oa the mails received per Ripon,
and destined to be sent through France from Marseilles.
The Scourge has left Corfu for Athens and Constan-
tinople, and expects to return early in June to Corfu.
PORTSMOUTH', MAY 16.—The Philomel, 10, Com-
mander G. T. Forbes, arrived at Spithead yesterday af-
ternoon from the West Coast of Africa station with
mails and dispatches of considerable importance. She
sailed from Sierra Leone on the Ist ult., at which date
the Penelope, 16, Captain Lyster, carrying the broad
pendant of Commodore Bruce, Commander-in-Chief ;
the Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant Commander Temple ; the
Sealark, 8, Commander E. S. Sotheby ; and the French
Commodore in a steam frigate, were there. Exchanges
at that date was par on England. The Philomel put in
at no intermediate port. Commander Forbes of the
Philomel, and Mr. Tcedie, the purser, have lately re-
turned from a mission to Abomey, endeavouring to
conclude a treaty with King Gezo for the suppression
of the slave trade. The slavo trade abolishment his
Mejesty signed, but the condition relative to missiona-
ries, residences, schools, and burial grounds he would
not sign. Treaties have also been concluded with the
chiefs of Great Popoe and Little Popoe, Aghway,
Goom-a-Loota, Segora, Affia-hoo, Adeffi, Elmina
Chita, and Blook-hoose, and the Philomel has
brought home the dispatches relative thereto. She also
brings the rather unexpected intelligence—after what
we have heard of his previous apparent goodwill—of
the celelirated King of Dahomey having ordered
the British Vice-Consul out of his dominions. When
the Philomel left the station his Dahomean Majesty's
porta were being blockaded by the British in conse-
quence. The slaver-cruisieg squadron is very healthy,
but they are somewhat dissatisfied with the dulness of
the station, owing to no prizes being made. The Phi-
lomel has been remarkably healthy, not having lost any
officer or man by fever during her service on the coast.
She has brought home Commander Marshall (late Lieu-
tenant of the Penelope), on promotion, both officers
having been engaged and wounded in the late affair at
Lagos. She has also brought home Dr. Sloss, Assistant
Surgeon of the Alecto steam-sloop, and the witnesses for
a trial to take place on Spencer, a stoker of the same
vessel, on a charge of murder of an able seaman of the
Alecto named Abel Potts.
The Sampson steam-frigate, 6, Captain L. T. Jones,
having taken on board a quantity of tables, stools, and
an extra galley for the use of troops she is to embark
for the Channel Islands and Queenstown, sailed last
evening about nine o'clock for Dover, where she will
embark the 54th Foot for Jersey.
The following acting-mates and midshipmen passed
in navigation for lieutenants at the Royal Naval College
last week :—Messrs. A. J. Chatfield, R. M. Gibson, F.
A. Maxse, J. B. Balfour, E. Squeri, W. A. Smyth, R. 0.
Leach, C. C. Robinson, C. Fitton, W. Vicary, R. R.
Hartwell, Viscount J. Gilford, and H. Huxhem.
The following second masters, R.N., also passed at the
same time for masters t—Messrs. C. M. Hughes, H.
Bond, H. B. Boxer, and 11. D. Sarratt.
The following young gentlemen also qualified for
entry into her Majesty's service as naval cadets, and
have joined the Victory until appointed to seagoing
ships:—Messrs. J. Hawkins, C. A. Watts, E. B. Pusey,
W. 8011, J. E. Erskine, L. J. Evans, and F. S. D.
Broughton.
The Basilisk steam-sloop arrived to-day from Ply-
mouth.
The Centaur steam-frigate, Captain Cannon, flag of
Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., was at St. Catherine's,
Brazil, on the Ist ult., where she had been staying a few
days on her way to Rio de Janeiro from the River Plate.
She left Monte Video on the 21saof March, and unless
unforeseen circumstances took her again to La Plata
before the usual season, it was the intention of the Ad-
miral to pass the next five or six months at or in this
neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. All were well on
board. She arrived at Rio on the 13th. ult, but finding
fever still prevalent she was to sail that day week for
Ballia, which was healthy. The Plumper, 11, Com-
mander Nolloth, is on her way home.
It is reported that Captain Blackwood, late of the
Victory, will take the command of the next expedition
to Bohring's Straits should one be sent to the relief of
that of Captain Collinson and Commander M'Clure; and
that Commander Englefield will be the second in com-
mand; also that Captain Giffard, and the officers and
crew of the Dragon steam frigate, on arrival from Lis-
bon, will be turned over to the new steam frigate Tiger
at this port.
PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, MAY 15.—Her Majesty's
steamship Highflyer, Captain Matson, left the Sound on
Thursday for Portsmouth.
The Rodney, 92, Captain C. Graham, continues ie the
Sound.
The ship Calcutta, having been unmasted, has been
warped to the jetty previously to being placed in dock.
DEVONPORT, MAY 14.—The Dauntless, steam-frigate,
Captain Halsted, sailed from Davenport, for Galway,
on Friday last, to suppress some disturbances amongst
the fishermen. The Rochester, lighter, sailed the same
day for Chathein.
Her Majesty's steam-ship Brisk put into Kingstown
Harbour on Friday, for a supply of coal. She was 24
hours making the passage from Glasgow to that port.
She is not not yet out of the hands of the riggers.
The Crown, Dawson, master, bound from Liverpool
to New York, put into Passage on Wednesday last,
with sails and spars much damaged. This vessel bore
up from the longitude of 14 west, with 501 passengers
on board; two of them are sick with the small pox, and
one child died at sea. She sailed from Liverpool on the
22d ult., and experienced very strong gales on the 9th
and 10th inst , in which she lost her sails and spars.
She is 1,300 tons register, and carries a burden of
1,800 tons.
SHEERNESS, MAY 16.—Her Majesty's screw steam-
frigate Horatio, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, ar-
rived hero yesterday morning on her return from her
trial cruise, which we hear has been satisfactory. Her
speed under canvas, with the wind on the quarter,
averaged 9f knots per hour, although her screw- pro-
peller, being a slight degree under water, doubtless im-
peded her progress. When under steam, and working
expansively, elle made eight knots an hoar nearly, her
consumption of fuel being extremely small. For the
purpose for which she was intended—that of a block-
ship—she is well calculated in every essential point of
view.

Lord CAMPBELL (interrupting him), asked whether
he intended to appear as a witness to establish the case?
If so, a serious question might arise. The law now
permitted, as he thought very properly, the parties in
the cause to be witnesses; and that being so, it was a
serious question whether they could also be counsel for
themselves. He did not know whether there was any
case on the subject.

Mr. PRENTICE mentioned the case of Miss Hoare,
where the Court of Common Pleas had refused to allow
the same person to act as counsel and witness in her own
cause.

Lord CAMPBELL—I am of that opinion, and rule that
the plaintiff here cannot address the jury as an advocate,
and then be examined as a witness. I think that fur
the sake of the pure administration of justice that rule
must be laid down. To permit a party to address the
jury, tx.,iting the feelings and passions of his hearers,
and commenting on the evidence to be given, and then
to give that evidence himself, would, in my opinion, lead
to most inconvenient const,ci tences, and would pollute
the stream of justice. There is especially no necessity
fur such a proceeding iu a case like the present. Mr.
Calm t sues in forma par peris and the gentleman who
of rtilicd to enable him to du so would, I am sure, be
ready to appear for him, and would couduct his case as
zealously as if he had the richest man in the kingdom
for a client. I therefore rule that a party cannot be
both advocate and witness in his own cause. I ask you,
Mr. Cobbett, whether you intend to offer yourself as a
witness? Mr. Cobbett—Not. after that ruling, my Lord;
but I hope that you Will receive a bill of exceptions,
that the point may be argued.
Lord CAMPBELL—I give you the choice to advocate
or witness, but I will not permit you to be both.
Mr. WATSON (who with Mr. Unthauk appeared for
the defendant) said that as Mr. Cubbett was not pro-
vided with counsel, he would consent to the postpone-
ment of the trial.

Mr. Cobbett-d-id not accept this offer, but proceeded to
address the jury. The cause of action consisted of a
variance between a statement made by the defendant in
his return to the writ of habeas corpus, and the commit-
ment on which that return was founded. The return set
forth that he (Mr. W. Cobbett) bad been brought to the
bar of the Court of Exchequer on the 11th of June,
1840, and then committed to the Queen's Prison, at the
suit of Jesse Oldfield, for contempt. Now the warrant
of commitment, which ought to set out all tho facts, did
not state that he had been so brought to the bar of the
court.

The copy of the warrant of commitment was put in;
it did not state that the present plaintiff was brought to
the bar of the court and committed.
Captain Hudson, the defendant in the action, was
called to produce these and other papers. On cross-
examination by Mr. Watson, he stated that he had had
six or eight actions brought against him by Mr. Cob.;
bett, who had also sued out from sixty to eighty writs
of habeas corpus.
Mr. WATSON, in addressing the jury, said that the pre-
sent plaintiff must have been brought to the bar of the
court in order to be committed; but the fact should be
put beyond all doubt, by a witness who was in court at
the time, and who saw him brought into court and com-
mitted, and who therefore would satisfactorily prove the
truth of the return.

Mr. Wetherall, an attorney, whose; father was con-
cerned for Mr. Oldfit.ld, said that be was present in the
Court of Exchequer on the day is question, and saw
Mr. Cobbett brought to the middle of the court, and
then ordered to be committed.

Mr. Cobbett replied.
Lord CAMPBELL summed up, and
The jury gave a verdict for the defendant, on two
counts in the declaration; there was a third count, which
had been demurred to, and on which the damages were
assessed at one farthing.
Lord CAMPBELL said that, now the case was over, ho
mutt express his feeling that this was a most melancholy
exhibition, proving how a beneficial law might be
perverted. Here was a gentleman who, notwithstanding
being defeated in six or eight actions, and issuing in
vain 60 or 80 writs of habeas corpus, still continued and
persevered in a course of useless and annoying litiga-
tion; and here was the respectable defendant, the keeper
of the Queen's Prison, the subject of these actions,
who would have been totally ruined by them if his
costs were not defrayed by the Government. There
ought to be some means adopted to prevent such an abuse
of the law.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL. COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
William Hall, 23, barman, was indicted for feloni-
ously uttering a forged 51. Bank of England note, with
intent to defraud the governor and company of that cor-
poration.
Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution; Mr. Parry
was counsel for the prisoner.
It appeared that about ten o'clock at night, en the 13th
of April, the prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Massey,
a tobacconist, and who also keeps a betting list, in Ox-
ford-street, and wished to take the odds against Nancy
for the Chester Cup to the amount of 103., and he handed
over what appeared to be a Si. note to pay the amount.
Mr. Massey had some suspicion of the genuineness of
the note, and he asked the prisoner to remain in the
shop tt hil-3 he got change, and he went out for that pur-
pose; and his suspicions being further increased by the
opinions of his neighbours to whom he showed
the note, he proceeded at once to the police-
sta'ion, %hero to obtained the assistance of an
officer, and the prisoner was taken into custody. In
answer to a question put to him by the officer, the pri-
soner said that he was a journeyman printer, and thst
it turned out that he gave a false name and address, and
uhpeownahsi6subteionf w:grskke and wai living upon his money, but
d where he had got the forged note
from, ho sail that was his business, and ho should de-
cline giving any answer. The prisoner was examined
before a msgistrate, and, in consequence of a report of
the proceedings appearing in the newspapers, Mr. Gas-
c. igne, a butcher, in the Curtain-road, Shoreditch, came
forward and identified the prisoner as a person who had
passed a forged Si. notp at his shop on the 10. h April,
in payment of a leg of lamb.
Mr. PARRY cross-examined the witnesses who were
called to prow) the uttering on the 10th of April, and
iden-
tityen-
deavoured
of the
defence,prisohnee calledr three witnesses,
to show that they were mistaken in the
and, having addressed the jury for
who swore that
on the night in question the prisoner was in company
with thi m at a public-house playing at cribbage at the
time when ho was represented to have been passing the
forged note to Mr. Gascoigne.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury,
aher a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty;
and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported for
10 years.

Her Majesty's steam tug vessel African, Second Master
Gill, left port on Friday, at 1.15 P. 3., for Greenhithe, for
the purpose of assisting in towing to Chatham her Ma-
jesty's ship Hercules.
A gale of wind from the south-west set in here on
Thursday night, and increased the following day to
such an extent as to render it necessary for the Wa-
terloo, 120, London, 90, and Monarch,B4, to strike their
topgallant masts and point their yards to the wind. Com-
munication with the ships lying here was with difficulty
accomplished during the greater part of Friday. It
moderated in the evening of that day, and on the follow-
ing morning the ships sent up their topgallant masts and
squared yards.
Her Majesty's ship Hercules, having discharged her
stores, &c., at Greenhithe, arrived hero yesterday at one
P. 31 ,in tow of the African and Monkey steamers, and
anchored off Standgato Creek, She is to undergo a
thorough refit at Chatham, where she was built, as far
back as 1815, by the then surveyors of the navy, as a
72-gun ship, and has for a long tune past been employed
as a store-ship. She was lately navigated from Malta
by a party of officers and men belonging to the Queen,
who are to be sent to Portsmouth im a steamer specially
placed at their disposal.
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, Commander-
in-Chief at the Nore, returned from town yesterday at
3 P.M. The broad pendant of the Hon. Montagu Stop.
ford was forthwith struck at the main on board the
Waterloo, 120, and the Admiral's flag (blue at the fore)
hoisted.
We bear that the Lords of the Admiralty have it in
contemplation to fit out an expedition to flehring'
Straits for the purpose of relieving the Enterprise, Cap.
talc Collinson, and Investigator, Commander 111`01nr
the command thereof to be conferred on Captain F. P'
Blackwood and Commander Engle:iedd.
Her Majesty's ship Royal George, 120, when com-
plete in her repairs, is to be plaeci hero as an advanced
ship.

Her Maje3ty's sloop Wolverine, 12, Commander M.
Falcon, was paid off on Thursday last.
Hrr Majesty's sloop .Barrscouta, ou her passage from
Chatham, steamed eight knots an hour against a
floodtide.
Second-Lieutenant John Frederick Hawkey, of the
Chatham division of Royal Marines, lately embarked on
board the London, 90, as senior subaltern, has been pro-
moted to the rank of First-Lieutenant, vice Charles
Wolrige, who resigned his commi:sion while serving in
the Calypso.
The drill of the Royal Dockyard Battalion at Chatham
is to commence tomorrow (Monday). The. embarking
and disembarking the men from boats is to be
by crossing the river and landing the
infantryractised
under.
cover of the artillery. A report of the time occupied

in forming ready for the advance is to be made to the
Admiralty.
Sbip3 Hartnur—Waterl,-,0, 120 (Port AJnairal's
II ,g-ship), Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford; Lon-
don, 90, Captain G. H. Mundy; Motlaleh, 84, Captain
C. Hope, guardship of ordinary; Horatio, 22, screw
steam-frigate, Captain the lion. S. Carnegie; Am-
phion, Cyclops, Barracouta, Lizad, Myrtle, and Wildfire
steamers.
In the Bailin—Achille, 76; Russell, 72; and Gossamer
cutter.

In Dock—Howe, 120; Ganges, 84; and Tribune screw
steam-frigate, building.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, MAY 15.—Master I2,obcrt C. Allen
(1811), to the Exwileut gunnery-ship at Portsmouth,
for service in the Edinburgh, 58, steam screw guard-
ship at Portsmouth.
Paymlster and Purser Charles Lynn (1819), to the
Buzz ird steam-sloop at I.l!vonport.
The 1-_,i;htniug testm-vessel Master Commander
Henry W. Allen, left Woolwich to-day for Chatham, as
the Hercules troop-ship is to be taken round from
Gteenhithe to that port, and the Livhtning and Adler
steam-vessels will take the officcrs and moo of the
Queen, at present serving in tho Hercules, to Ports-
mouth to join their ship.

LORD DERBY'S ADMINISTRATION.
It must be eentesst d that there is a great diffieuli in
dealing with Lord Derby's Administration. As far as
wo are concerned, it is some comfort to know, in tla
first place, that an had no hand in creating the difficulty,
and, in the second place, that it is universal. Lord John,
his auxiliaries, his supporters, and his very colleagues,
chose to quarrel among themselves, and, like a mutinous
crew, surrender the ship to a foe of inferior numbers,
metal, and weight. That was the disagreeable and un-
looked-for incident to which the present Ministry owes
its accession to power, and which is not very unlike
the circumstances of Lord John Russell's own acces-
sion to power six years since. But the minority
solemnity how
intowas
it office
to mbdeth t r
edaut
eed ?
constitutionalthe
From
first we saw ore thing which appeared to he gene-
rally ove;looked, and which diminished the diffi
culty, so far as it reduced the number of possible
alternatives. We saw that Lord Derby and his friends
were in, and could no longer be treated as out. So little
WAS this fact realised that we remember seeing in a
clever contemporary in March an application of the
well-known stanza on the comparative advantages of
shutting the door against a lion, or Jetting him in and
then turning him cut. Our contemporary recommended
without hesitation the former of these two courses,
wholly forgetting that the opportunity had passed, and
the latter alone was possible. What wo have now to
deal with is a lion in actual possession, the old British
lion. Now, naturalists tell us that it is a popular error
to suppose the lion the noblest and bravest of animals.
He has not a spark of generosity in his nature. Ho is
a ferocious, cowardly, sneaking brute, with all the vices
of the whole feline family, but as much without either
the desperate courage of the tiger or the gentleness and
docility of the smaller cat species. Such, then, being
by hypothesis the animal its possession of our house, the
question is, how are we to deal with him?
We recommended fair play, for the obvious reason
that fair play was the constitutional basis on which the
Ministry rested. Parliament, having admitted it to
power, could not with decency, or even self-respect,
stultify itself by immediately reversing its own act. It
remained, also, to be seen how the new Government
would act, and what colours it would show. Here
again, however, we were met by the cry that fair play
did not apply to the like of these seen. Fair play was
for those for whom we had sympathies, and who could
feel sympathies for us. It was insisted that we should
treat them as vermin, pirates, and other hostes humani
genenis; that we should stop their supplies, starve them,
poison them, or knock them on the head with the first
stick or stone that came in our way. Bus unless we
were to act from mere antipathy, the supposition of the
new Ministers being vermin did not materially
affect the practical difficulty. Suppose them to be
vermin. If there is no such thing as a moral
law with vermin, there is yet a law of expediency. It is
true that we so more think of the sixth commandment
when we order a battue of rats than we do of the eighth
when we rob a hive of its honey; but it may be inexpe-
dient to destroy even rats without duo consideration.
For example, it we poison then; they will die in their
holes, and leave cx ossibus alter in the shape of an in-
tolerable stench. It is a question whether rooks, spar-
rows, and other destructive birds can be wholly destroyed
without increasing some still more destructive insect
tribes. The children of Israel,having received a
general commission to extirpate all the Canaanites, were,
nevertheless, forbid to do so all at once lest the beasts of
prey should multiply upon them. This club law, then,
this argument a baculo, did not really apply, for it
might be expedient to give not only fair play,
but a considerable digree of tether, or " a length
of rope," it is sometimes called, to Lord Derby's
Administration. We believed, and we still believe, it
expedient to allow them every opportunity of clearing
and declaring themselves, end of reaffirming or repu-
diating their errors. They had been on the waver for
a long time, and latterly had been shifting" their
ground quite as fast as the intelligence or the forbear-
ance of their supporters would allow. It was no new
thing, too in the history of British politics that a part)
in power should repudiate or forget the extreme opi-
nions and the plausible intentions it had professed in
Opposition. Indeed all parties do that, and it is sup.
posed to be one of the peculiar advantages of our con-
stitutional system, that it gives our legislators the alter-
nate opportunities of learning the abstract principles of
political science on one side of the House, and their
practical application on the other.
Bat if there was no antipathy of nature, no moral
vengeance to be immediately put in force against these
men, and if expediency suggested that we should wait,
self-preservation requires that we should not allow our-
selves to fall into the power of those whom we have
merely admitted on trial. It is very true that we shell
never be really in the power either of Protectionists or
of a Protectionist policy, for unquestionably the country
at large would soon take that question out of the hands
of any Parliament; but it is not the less improper to
recommend a course so dangerous as to involve the pos-
sibility of a violent remedy. It is clear that unless we
have very good reason to trust her Majesty's present
advisers, we cannot contemplate with pleasure the
prospect of having them as our absolute masters.
If Lord Derby should find himself in a decided
majority next aession, with his supporters un-
fettered and obeda nt, and should he in the
intoxication of power attempt the grand project of
reversing our free-trade policy, that would be about as
great a national calamity and as dangerous a crisis to
cur institutions as the most disappointed Chartist could
possibly desire. But the truth must be spoken. We
cannot trust Lnrd Derby's discretion not to make this
attempt. Wo ought not to trust any man, or put our-
selves in the power of any man. England ought not to
be placed at the mercy of any dux m gontlmen what-
ever; but if any dozen gentlemen are to be trusted, it is
too clear that these dozen gentlemen are not. They are
at variance with ono another, and with themselves; they
confess wishes at variance with their intentions; they
hat e one language for the rational part of the llouse of
Commons, and another for the irrational part of the
constituency; they can hardly be made to feel that they
are in a minority. Are such mon to be trusted?' Cer-
tainly not.

The natural solution of the present difficulty, as it
appears to us, is that ev,,ry constituency in the country,
in which Free-traders are strong enough for the pur-
pose, should exact from candidates the mist explicit re-
nunciation of Protection, in any shape whatever, direct
or indirect. That is the question to be decided by the
country; that is the object of the dissolution; and that
appears to us the proper mode of answering the appeal.
Lord Derby's friends are sedulously preaching, on the
one hand, that the question for the country is, whether
it has confidence in his Government; Sir James
Graham, on the other hand, is as anxious to persuade
the country to put only this question, " Are you a sup-
porter of Lord Derby's Government?" This, how-
ever, is a question, not of men, but of measures.
This grand constitutional reference to the great
court of the people is not for the purpose of deciding
whether Lord Derby, or Lord John Russell, or Sir
James Graham, or somebody else shall be First Lord of
the Treasury for the three or four years to come, but to
decide whether the focd and industry of a whole people
are to be taxed for the special advantage of any one
class. Let pledges be framed to meet that question, and
let them be obtained from as many as possible of the 658
Members of the next Parliament. As to the particular
men, or the particular measures that will prevail next
year, no mortal can pretend to foretel them, and it is
vain to think. of fixing them now; but such a course as
we have indicated will certainly preclude the possibility
of Protection or of any Cabinet favourable to its resto-
ration.—Times,

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The business transacted in our share
market to-day was very limited, at lower prices. The trans-
actions were—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 103 g dis.— Ditto (late Chester and Birkenhead), 17 Y8—
Caledonian, 19143—Eastern Counties, 9 1-16—Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 3114—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 723/4—London
and North-Western, 12334 —Ditto, New Quarters, 5%
Midland, 695/B—Ditto, New Preference, 41/2, per cent., par—
North British, 71/2 —North Staffordshire,6 11-16 dis.—South -
Eastern and Dover, 213, Yorkand North Midland, 24%.

61A- Nal- ESTER, MAY 15.
STOCK Exclarms.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 11
dis.— Caledonian, 19 3-16—Eastern Counties, 9 n.—Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 31—Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding Junction, 1475. dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 72
—London and North-Western, New Quarters, P.-
Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, '2 1-16 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (lot. Preference),
13 5 16—North Staffordshire, 6;: dis.—Suuth-Eastern and
Dover, 21%.

BIRMINGHAM, MAY 15.
STOOK EXCHANGE. —The share market has been firm
today, but there was very little business doing. The only
sale reported was—Shrewsbury— and Birmingham (A), • 7
_—---- y 8.

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perfect;
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treme purity is rarely met with. His back, wings, and tail ' On the 10th inst., at Iron-bridge, Frances Elizabeth,
ington, Salop, aged 69.
make his beauty remarkable, he should be finely math d
must also be eqaally free from of the late T. Haslehust, Esq , of the Lodge, Willer, Salop:.,
On the 11th inst., whilst • bathiug, at llelstone, -Cornwall
on the back, and of a fine clear yellow all below the breast . e ov.Henrycu(.,
th P H S lamore Burr, of Exeter, aged 36. ,
n a hen as in -your) __.
On the 13th inst.. at Newdigate, Surrey, the Rev. Jo"'
These requirements are as. essential i .
the male bird. There are two names
one are called g LL D., for 18 years rector of that parish, ag(d 71!
given, to distirgu'ah on the 13th inst., at the Lodge, Bedford, Nicholas Fll°.
Jonque birds. The former have their the colour by. The
their breasts of a clean white or pale yellow; t
mealy;" others Patrick, M-q., 1N1.D., late of Royal Artillery.
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