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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1839

ing, that every thing depended upon the circumstances
under which a publicatian was made, or e speech deliverad,
he would call their Lordships' attention to the speech of
the Noble Lord, and then he would ask them whether
that speech was not calculated to encourage and to
incite the people to inflammatory proceedings !
He held in his hand an extract from a speech of the Noble
Lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department at a
public meeting in Liverpool, at a time when there were
Chartist meetings holding daily around him :—" He could
not in such a party wander into the field of politics but
there was one topic connected with his own department"—
Mark that—his department ; the duty of which was to
preside over and preserve the domestic peace of the coun-
try—" on which he might be allowed to dwell a few mi-
not-s. He alluded to the public meetings which were now
in the course of being held in every part of the country."
He alluded, therefore, directly and distinctly to them.
" There were some who might think they ought to be put
down, but such was not his opinion nor that of the Go-
vernment with which he acted." "He thought that the
people had a right to free discussion." Of whom was he
speaking ? Of the men who advocated physical force, and
who used language the most inflammatory. Was
that the idea of free discussion entertained by the
Minister of the Crown ?—( Hear, hear, hear.) "It was
free discussion that elicited truth."—( Dear, hear.)
" He thought they had a right to meet, and if they had
grievances they had a right to declare them, that they
might be known and redressed." He asked whether a
Minister of the Crown at a public meeting was justified in
making these statements with regard to persons who, be it
remembered, were in the habit of even meeting at night,
and whether they were not calculated to produce the most
disastrous results ? The Noble Viscount deplored the evil,
and said he foresaw the result, and so far he (Lord Lynd-
hurst) coincided with the Noble Viscount, and he agreed
with him also in being surprised that these results had not
occurred sooner. It was said that in the then state of the
law and of public feeling it would not be judicious to put
down these meetings by force. He admitted that; but
should not the Government have abstained from giving
them any direct encouragement? Instead of that, they
had selected for office persons who were deeply impli-
cated in these transactions.—( Hoar, hear.) Among
them was a person of considerable talents, a member
of the Political Union, of the Chartists' body, and who had
been sent to the meeting of the Delegates in the Con.
vention at London, one of the co-trustees for the manage.
ment of the funds of that Convention, and a Delegate to
Scotland, and who had stated, according to one of his own
colleagues, " that as for moral force, it was all a farce ;
they must come prepared, and he would advise the people
to be provided with rifles."—( Hear, hear.) Such was the
man selected for the high office of Magistrate, and when
the Government had selected him, it must be supposed
that they were pleased with the kind of agitation that was
going on. Their Lordships could not forget the procla-
mation made in 1831 or 1832, by the present Government,
in which it was declared that these unions were illegal and
unconstitutional, and the King's subjects were cautioned
to refrain from joining them. Now it would appear, that
the advocates of these violent measures, were to be en-
couraged and rewarded, and their Lordships had seen the
necessary results.—( Hear, hear.) He would say little of
the transactions of the last few days. No doubt there was
a sufficient military and police force assembled. Ample
notice had been given, and it could not be supposed that
her Majesty's Government would be so supine and inactive
as not to have collected a sufficient force. Without enter-
ing into details, it was quite certain that there was a
sufficient force to preserve the peace of the town, and repel
any outrage. But it would appear that the people began
to assemble at seven o'clock, and it was not till a quarter
before ten that any force was collected to repel them. It
was clear then, that the persons whose duty it was to attend
to the peace of the town, had been guilty of a gross dere-
liction of duty--and that there was neglect and supine-
ness on the pert of the governing authority. Such had
been the result of giving encouragement to persons whom
it was the duty of the Government to repress and to

restrain.
The Marquis of L A NSDOWNE complained of a dis-
cussion having been got up upon a matter which was about
to be the subject of investigation in another form. The
Noble and Learned Lord had himself admitted the impro-
priety of discussing the subject. He complained of the
unfair deductions that had been made front the speech of
the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Home
Department. Ceetain extracts only had been read, and
then an attempt was made to affix to them a meaning they
did not bear, and which he would take upon himself to
aver was not their real meaning. It would appear from
the Noble and Learned Lord's statement that free discus-
sion was not to be encouraged or sanctioned by that
House.—( Hear, hear.) lie hoped however it would be
always the maxim and the prevailing custom in that coun-
try that there should be free, fair, and public discussion,
and no man did his duty or was fit to hold office who did
not recognise the fitness, the propriety, the justice, and the
constitutionality of free discussion. The t Noble • and
Learned Lord had appeared to insinuate that the speech of
his Noble Friend was calculated to bring about these un-
happy results,'but that speech had been explained again
and again, and it was shown that it bad not the slightest
connection with these disturbances or meetings, although
the Noble and Learned Lord, with his usual astuteness
and ingenuity had endeavoured to connect them. He
found the following explanation of the Noble Lord's ob-
servations, which he would take the liberty of reading to
their Lordships:—" My opinion is, that whatever be the
number of persons assembled together—however large the
meeting—yet if they really met for nothing more than
discussion"—Was that the case of the Chartists in Bir-
mingham?—( Hea , hear.) Did that recognise or let in
the principle of brute violence which had been unhappily
avowed by these men?--" no attempt should be made to
check the expression of public opinion." He then went
on to say that that was more particularly the case with re-
gard to the Poor-laws, with reference to which many of
these meetings had been held. Did the Noble and Learned
Lord object to that?—( Hear, hear.) And yet the No-
ble and Learned Lord, without the slightest allusion to
the explanation, had attempted to use these extracts at a
moment of excitement. Ilia Noble Friend bad added that
he thought it was not too much to ask that those who took
advantage of the liberty (namely the liberty of freedom of
discussion, which had so long existed in that country,
should not abuse it by exciting others to a violation of the
law, and the :injury of those employed in their execution.
Was it meant to be said that that gave a countenance to
Chartist agitation and brute force?—( Hear)—and yet such
was its meaning, according to the gloss which the Noble
and Learned Lord meant to put upon it. With regard to
the exact point at which it might be proper for her Majesty's
Government to interfere, short of actual outrage (with re-
spect to which there could be no doubt) it must be left to
the sound discretion of the Government and the Parlia-
ment.—( Hear, hear.) The result of the late meeting of
the delegates of that body in London was a satisfactory
proof that the Government had acted with a proper discre-
tion; and they had been unable, with all their arts. to af-
fect the sound. feelings and poison the minds of the people
of the metropolis—who bad repudiated their offers, and
had preferred the tranquillity and good order upon which
their comforts and happiness so much depended. If the No
ble and Learned Lord had seen any statement or report of his
Noble Friend, the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, giving encouragement to resistance to the laws
of the land, it was his duty to have made a direct and sub-
stantive charge against his Noble Friend at the very first
meeting of Parliament—( Hear, hear)--and if he did not
bring it forward himself, it had been made the subject of
decision in another place, and his Noble Friend's explana-
tion had been deemed perfectly satisfactory.—( Hear,
hear.) With respect to the conferring of a charter upon
the town of Birmingham, it had been done after a very de-
tailed inquiry, instituted by order of the Committee of
the Privy Council, and after it had been ascertained that the
great majority of the inhabitants were in favour of it.
The Noble Duke stated that the Act of Parliament had
been violated by his Noble Friend the Secretary of State,
who appointed the Magistrates upon the recommendation
of the Town- Council ; and that his Noble Ft iend had
always acted upon such recommendations. It was no such
thing. His Noble Friend did not always act upon such
recommendations. The Noble Lord was not bound to
consult the Lord Lieutenant of the county, though no
doubt his opinion, if offered, would have been treated with
great attention. But his Noble Friend did as he ought to
do—called for the opinions of persons of authority in the
neighbourhood respecting the characters and qualifications
of the persons whom they required to be appointed Magis-
trates.—( Hear.) So far, however, from taking the opi-
nions of Town Councils, he knew a case in which his
Noble Friend had rejected the opinions of a Town
Council, and had appointed Magistrates on his own
personal responsibility.—( Hear.) There was another
point which he wished to advert to. The Noble Lord the
Lord Lieutenant for Warwickshire had expressed a doubt
that the Magistrates of the county were excluded from
acting in the district of Birmingham, by the charter of the
town. He (Lord L ) thought the county Magistrates were
not excluded except in rate•paying cases, but their juriss
diction still existed in criminal cases, and a connection still
existed between the municipal Magistrates and the Lord
Lieutenant of the county. For example, when the local
Magistrates had occasion to call upon persons to act as
special constables, they were obliged to communicate with
the Lord Lieutenant of the county.—( Hear, hear.) He
(the Noble Marquis) had received several communications
within the last few weeks, on the occasion of Magistrates
of towns appointing constables, in the apprehension of a
disturbance. The recommendation of persons to be Mae
gistrates did not now pass through the Lord Lieutenant
alone, it passed through other persons, and then the Secre-
tary of State appointed them on his own responsibility.
The Duke of WELLINGTON referred to the debate
which took place on the proposition of the Birmingham
charter. There Lord John Russell was to be found
stating he had no hesitation in saying as long
es lee and
his colleagues should have the honour of acting under the
Crown, they should consider it the best mode of selecting
Magistrates to request the Town Council to send the Go-
vernment a list of those in whom they thought confidence
ought to be placed.—( Hear, hear.) The Lord Lieutenant
of the county of Warwick, had not been called on this oc-
casion. Her Majesty's Ministers alone were responsible
for the Birmingham Magistrates.—( Hear, hear.)
Lord MELBOURNE said he thought the Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county should not, necessarily, have been
communicated with in this instance—when he heard of a
disturbance in his county, lie should have gone there..—
( Hear, hear.)
The Earl of RIPON contended that the Lord Lieute-
nant of the county should have been informed by the Ma-
gistrates of Birmingham of what took place in that town.
If they did not inform him of the apprehensions and dan-
gers of the town, they, not he, were responsible.—( Hear.)
Respecting the charter of Birmingham, he would re-
mind their Lordships that the discussion which took place
in that House upon it, originated with him. Those who
opposed the granting of the charter, stated that they who
called for it were but a small number of the rate-payers,
and paid but a trifle in the aggregate, and yet if the charter
were granted the new Corporation might nit them all.
They presented a petition through him to that effect,
which also stated, that on grounds Connected with the
administration of justice and the public peace, the Privy
Council should refuse the charter. The applicants for
the charter meanwhile urged their claims. He (the
Noble Earl) then succeeded in prevailing upon his Noble

Friend the President of the Council to promise that the
Charter should not br granted until the opponents to it
were:hcard Noble Friend then sent a person
down to Birmingham to inquire into facts, and he then
thought that he (the Noble Earl) should interfere no
further with the exercise of the prerogative of the Crown.
But having seen a portion of the result of the inquiry, he
was astonished beyond measure to hear his Noble Friend
say that there was so clear a preponderance in favuly of
the Charter, that her Majesty's Government felt bound to
grant it.--( Hear, hear.) In the first place, they were not
bound to grant it. But the decision was a most unfortu-
nate one, and he feared it would very much interfere with
the tranquillity and welfare of the town.—( Hear, hear.)
The Duke of WE LLINGTO Nthought the Noble Vis-
count opposite should not have thrown out the insinuation
against his Noble Friend the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwick-
shire, thathe should have gone down to his county whetherhis
services were required by the Government or not. Now
he hoped that what he had to say would not again ex-
cite the Viscount into a towering passion.—(Loud laugh-
ter.) His Noble Friend was ready to do his duty in
Birmingham or in any other part of the county of
Warwick where his services were required. But consi-
dering the state of the Magistracy he thought he was
right in keeping at a distance until he was called on to act.
—( Hear, hear. )
The LORD CHANCE LLOR remembered distinctly
when the petition was prevented against granting the
charter to Birmingham. A gentleman was sent down to
examine the comparative numbers of thi parties and other
circumstances. He found that a large number of those
signatures which had been attached to the petition against
the charter were fictitious, and no such persons were to
be found. The gentleman was sent down again to examine
more accurately. He first inquired into the names and
circumstances of those who had applied for the char-
ter, and he found them to be as they had re-
presented. On inquiring for those who had signed
the petition against the charter, he found whole
streets of fictitious signatures, and when he called upon
the principal petitioners for a minute explanation, they de-
clined it.—( Hear, hear.) Thus the Government had no
other conclusion to come to than that there was a clear
preponderance in favour of the charter, and it was there-
fore granted.

The Earl of RIPON was quite sure a Peer of the realm
would not have been so imposed upon by those with whom
he had had the honour of communicating as to be made the
medium of presenting a petition signed to a great extent
by fictitious petitioners.
Lord DENMAN respectfully suggested to their Lord-
ships that it was dangerous, as well as useless and prema-
ture, to enter on a discussion upon a subject which was
immediately to come before a judicial tribunal. It could
have no other effect than to send men with preconceived
opinions to an investigation to which they ought to come
wholly unbiased. H now begged leave to correct
an erroneous opinion which had been expressed re-
specting the obligations of the county Magistrates, and
whether they had not a concurrent jurisdiction with the
town Magistrates. He thought that when the Crown
appointed a municipal bench of Magistrates under a char-
ter, the jurisdiction of the county magistrates was at an
end._( Hear, hear.) If they bad a concurrent jurisdic-
tion they might be placed under a serious responsibility
for acting without being called upon, or for refusing to act
when called upon. The county Magistrates were in no
way answerable to the Crown on this occasion. The entire
responsibility rested upon those Magistrates who took upon
themselves to keep the peace of the tovvv, and to answer for
it whenever their conduct should be called in question.
It was deplorable that these doubts and hesitations should
have taken place at a time of imminent danger, and it was
most assuredly the duty of the Magistrates and all her Ma-
jesty's subjects, to act on emergencies of this kind.
The LORD CHANCELLOR explained that the ap-
plications for the charter sit Birmingham and Manchester
were made at the same time, and he might have con-
founded one with the other.

Lord BR.OUG AMI-ep- lied. The parties in this case
had proceeded on a supposition as erroneous in point of
law as any man could imagine. They seemed to think
that, without the presence of a Magistrate a policeman
could not act, and also that one Justice of the Peace could
not act without the Mayor, and therefore they waited until
he was sent for. Ile ;greed in the remarks which had
been made on the improper appointment of one of the Ma-
gistrates. If he had the habits and associations which
had been mentioned, and had held the language attributed
to him at Perth respecting physical force, he should
no more have thought the peace of the town safe than if
it had been in the charge of a lunatic.--( Hear, hear.)
It was probable that the individual might do his duty, but
tke effect of such an appointment on the people ought to
be considered,—( Hear. )
The Earl of WARWICK then moved for a return of the
Magistrates appointed for the county of Warwick. He
complained of not having been informed of what was going
on, and said that if he had had an intimation of it he would
have gone down.
Lord MELBOURNE said, when the Secretary of
State received information that the peace of a county was
disturbed, it was not unusual for him to inform the Lord
Lieutenant. But there had been disturbances in Birming-
ham for sixteen days, and the Noble Earl could not say
that the peace of Birmingham had nothing to do with the
peace of the county. _

BEER BILL.
Lord BROUGHANI, on the suggestion of Lord
Clarendon, postponed his Beer Bill until Monday next.

ELECTORS REMOVAL BILL.

Lord CLARENDON moved the second reading to
the Electors Removal Bill. He hoped this would net be
viewed as a parts question, because it affected all voters
alike, and as it was the second time the Bill had been
sent from the House of Commons, he trusted their
Lordships would give it a second reading.
Lord REDESDA LE said he felt perfectly disposed
to view this Bill, as regarded politics, in the man-
ner in which the Noble Lord had done, but he must
say that a more wretched piece of legislation he
bad never seen. He had three objections to the Bill.
The first was, that it enacted that which was contrary to
the principles of the Reform Bill, which was now the
basis of the representation of the country in the House
of Commons. Secondly, it clearly enacted that which
was contrary to all ancient law, both theoretical and
practical, with regard to the right of franchiLso from the
earliest period of time; and thirdly, it was i mpossible so
to amend the Bill in Committee as to be able to remove
the two former objections to it. He certainly thought
that legislation was very much required on tbe subject of
the registration, and therefore he trusted the atten-
tion of her Majesty's Government would be so direc-
ted to it, as that, by an early pc tiod of next
Session, they would be prepared to introduce a
measure to remedy its existing defects. He. would say as
an additional reason for his opposing the siccc,nd reading
of this Bill, he thought if such a Bill as this were to be
passed, it would throw an impediment is the way of any
sound remedy for the existing abuses in the p resent state
of the franchise. Unless the Noble Lord.. therefore,
would consent to withdraw the Bill, he worad. t Peg to move
as an amendment, that it be read a second tie le this day
three months.

The Earl of WICKLOW considered t73i s a bad Bill,
and the fact of its having been twice sent up from the
House of Commons, presented no inducement to him what..
aver to give his vote for a second reading o fit. If such
a Bill as this were to be introduced in reference to Ireland,
the injury it would work would be intolerable.
Lord COLBORNE had always regretted that a mea-
sure of this kind had not been the law of th e land, and
therefore it should have his cordial support.
The Duke of RICHMOND thought if th ere was to be
any measure altering the law of registration, it ought to be
a general measure. He could not see any reaso n for the
passing of such a Bill as. this. It was a petty mode of
legislation. There ought to be no legislation fot the bo-
roughs without at the same time legislating for the ei minties.
If a division should be pressed, he should feel himself
bound to vote for the amendment.
Earl FIT Z WILLIANI agreed that thy, whole state
of the registration required revision. But as to the objec-
tions which he had heard, he considered them all to be
objections which would be more applicabl eto be nade in
Committee than to the second reading o' F the Bil 1. He
himself could not think but that there we re great objec-
tions to the Bill ; yet still, as the House .of Comm, ms had
sent it up twice, it would be better to give it a second
reading, than by rejecting it now to show :an unailli ngness
to enter upon a full consideration of wins it the He .use of
Commons had twice submitted to them.

.......,
Earl of DE VON opposed the second reading;..and
said he should vote for the amendment.

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Lord REDESDALE said it appeared to him. th at
the person who had framed the Bill had taken a very ittal •-•
row view of the subject of registration, and 'nad only looke d
to the interests of the class with which h.e was connect d.
Earl of CLARENDON—Do you raux t consider tl,a..t
personal ?
Lord REDESDALE:--No.

Lord HOLLAND—The remark of my Nob le Friend
is however very pertinent, that this
,o.pposition would not
have been given to the Bill six mont as ago._..( Hear.)
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw
, and their
Lordships divided, when the numbers were
For the second reading .....•
Against it O - • • . 80
Majority
The Bill is consequently lost.
PRISONS' BILL.
The House then went into Committee sin the Prisons'
Bill.

Clauses 1,2, and 3, were agreed to, aft Ar a few verbal
amendments.

On clause 4 being read,
The Bishop of LONDON moved the introduction of
an amendment to the effect that the b 104 '(s for the in-
struction of the prisoners should be select ed by the Chap-

lain.
The Duke of RICHMOND objected to the amend-
ment.
The Earl of CHICHESTER !ty
ggegti d that the
Chaplain should have a concurrent ,p.trisdict ion with the
visiting-justices.
The Bishop of LONDON had no tbjeC .ion to shape
his amendment in that way.
The Earl of WlCKLOWsaidthetewer era any Protest-
ant Chaplains in Ireland who would feel it in consistent to
allow a Roman Catholic book to
_enter r g •.a.ol even for
Roman Catholics. Ile believed the sarr a fctling pre-
vailed considerably here. He should ye to aga inst the
amendment.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH knew a f :ight n 0,.. 'rend
Prelate in Ireland who acted differently, I hinking tha '' as
the Catholics would have books, they had ' setter ;lave t, 'le
best books of the kind than bad ones. He eheref,,,e 1001"
care they should have the best.
The Bishop of I, OND ON said if a clerg ri, a) I in his dio-
cese had refused to admit the Catholic b . ot.
--, he should
take him to task.—( Hear, hear.) Still ?w ?
,ought the
Protestant chaplain should supervise
t.l' .e books generally.
There were some books, such as
Soul," which ought not to be admit.: into an me " Gat
ed prkson.
The Marquis of WESTNIEA-11/y
.den of the
though: t his Noble
Friend (the E.,rl of Wicklow) Wag rilis t.- ,tali en, as every
gaol in Ireland had a Catholic. Chaplain, . ,o(1 therefore the
Protestantshad nothintc to ''..,0 with them.
The Bishop of EXE,TIZR oppose' I the amendment.

There ought to be some legitimate mode of enabling per-
sons not belonging to the Church to have those books of
their respective persuasions which they required.
After some further discussion,
The Bishop of LONDON withdrew his amendment for
the present, and clause 4 was agreed to.
On clause 5 being proposed,
The Marquis of SALISBURY moved the omission of
the clause.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the object of the
clause was to classi'y the prisoners, distinguishing debtors,
prisoners committed for trial, and those convicted. If the
clause should be 'ejected, there would be no classification
at all.

The Duke of RICHMOND said that prisoners con-
victed ought not to be allowed to mix with the others. He
did not think the clause ought to be struck out.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said the former system of
classification had put counties to enormous expense, with-
out any benefit whatever. Prisoners before trial ought
not to be put in the same class as those who had been con-
victed.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but the clause
was agreed to without a division.
On clause 6 being proposed,
The Duke of RICHMOND proposed that the word
" Governor" should be inserted, which was agreed to.
Clauses 7, 8 and 9 were also agreed to.
Clause 10 was agreed to.
Ciause 11 was agreed to, with a verbal amendment pro.
posed by the LORD CHANCELLOR.
Clauses 12 and 13 were agreed to.
Clause 14 was agreed to, after a short conversrtion upon
a proposition made by the Marquis of SALISBURY,
that the number of prisoners mentioned at 100, should be
altered to 50, but which was not pressed to a division.
The Duke of RICHMOND proposed that the 15th
clause should be omitted altogether, on the ground that
no age was stated, at which superannuated allowances to
officers of prisons was mentioned.
After a few words from Lord WROTTESL EY
against the amendment it was withdrawn, and the clause
agreed to.

—On clause 16 being read,
The Marquis of SALISBURY said he objected to
the appointment of Roman Catholic Chaplains to the pri-
sons, and moved that the clause be omitted.
The Bishop of LINCOLN also objected to the
clause.

The Duke of RICHMOND thought the matter should
be left to the discretion of the Visiting Justices who
might appoint a Roman Catholic Chaplain if they thought
proper.

The Earl of FING A L regretted to hear that the Noble
Duke, who had paid so much attention to the subject of
prison discipline, should object to the present clause. It
was admitted that much advantage was derived from the
system of separate confinement, and the instruction of the
Chaplain could in such cases be very much enhanced. II
the subject had been taken up on religious grounds, he
(the Earl of Fingal) would not stand up in support of the
clause, because he was certain he should be in a fearful
minority. Neither could it be taken up on party or politi-
cal grounds, because it had been supported by all parties
in the other Ilouse. It had been supported by Lord Stan-
lev and all the most strenuous friends of the establishment.
There were, he believed, few gaols in England in which
the number of Catholics would amount to 50, the number
fixed by the clause. Indeed, in Liverpool the number was
very large, there being 216 Protestants and 174 Catholics.
He hoped the clause would be retained.

The Earl of WICKLOW said the principle of having
a Roman Catholic Chaplain appointed to the gaol was re-
cognized in Ireland, and therefore it could not be considered
a new one. Although there were very great dissensions
between the clergymen of both persuasions in Ireland, he
must say that he had never seen anything of the kind in
their attendance upon the gaols, and they had performed
their duties respectively without animosity or ill will. The
right of a clergyman of the Roman Catholic persuasion to
enter a gaol was recognised by law, and it was much better
when such a right existed to place the chaplains under the
control of the Visiting Justices.
After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND in
explanation,

The Bishop of LONDON said whatever the opi-
nion of the Noble Earl might be the principle was a
new one, and he hoped their Lordships would not sanction
it. Looking at the controversy that existed between the
two churches he was satisfied that if the present privi-
lege was granted it would be made the means of proselyt-
ism in prisons. If there were 49 Roman Catholics in prison,
it would be the interest, or the duty, of the clergyman to
have a 50th added. But after having once appointed the
chaplain, if the number fell to 45 or 40, you could not get
rid of the clergyman then—he would remain attached to
the prison. The only difference between the proposed
and the present system was, that whereas formerly the
prisoners received spiritual instruction whenever they re•
quired it gratu,tously, now it would be paid for. He felt
that the clergymen of the Roman Catholic, as well as other
sects, would deem it their duty to attend to the wants of
their flocks just as well without being paid for their services.
He hoped, therefore, the clause would be excluded from
the Bill.

The Lord CHANCELLOR supported the clause.
Let their Lordships consider what they would be doing
by rejecting this clause. The object of improved prison
discipline would be to give these individuals religious, in-
struc: ion, and in every other way to improve them. But
if they rejected the clause, they would deny Roman Ca-
tholics spiritual instruction altogether, for it could not he
supposed they would receive instruction from the Chap-
lains of the Church of England. Their Lordship's had
come to the conclusion that L..)0 prisoners were enough
fur one Chaplain to attend to, but that 170 might be at..
tended by the Roman Catholic Chaplains, without any in-
struction whatever. Independent of religion the question
was, whether the public generally were not benefited by
this instruction being afforded.
The Bishop of EXETER said as soon as this clause
should be adopted, there would start up a population of
Roman Catholics in all our gaols.—( A laugh.) The Noble
and Learned Lord had said that the prisoners could not
receive instruction from chaplains of the Church of Eng-
land ; but he was not borne out by experience, for he vsas
assured by the chaplain at the prison at Clerkenwell, that
out of 130,000 prisoners in various gaols, he had not found
any objection to listen to religious instruction. Persons
who were inmates of gaols were not of ♦ery scru-
pulous tenets. With them there was a want of
religion altogether, and they were likely to derive important
benefit from the instruction of the clergymen of the Church
of England. The Liturgy was such that the Roman Ca-
tholics of all ranks for many years after the Reformation
attended divine service in the Church. In this case there
was no proposition about general religion. There was
a great principle involved in this case, and there were
many peculiar considerations which made it undesirable
that they should sacrifice it. If there was one s3stem
more than another dangerous, it was the Roman Catholic
religion, on account of the doctrine of absolution ; and in
proof of this he need only refer to what was stated in 1 525
by the Rev. J. Burnett, who said, from his experience, he
was satified that no Roman Catholic had any dread of ge-
neral perdition.
Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared—
Contents
Non-contents
Majority against the clause —42
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the House
resumed.
The Metropolis Police Bill was read a first time, and
ordered to be printed.
CUSTODY OF INFANTS BILL.

Lord L YN DH UR S T in moving the second reading of
this Bill, said he did so at this late hour (12 o'clock) be-
cause his Noble and Learned Friend, the Chief Justice of
the Queen's Bench, would be prevented from attending on
a future occasion, in consequence of his duties on Circuit,
and be was certain their Lordships would be anxious
to hear his Lordship's od inion. In the late Ses-
sion e Bill similar in principle, but differing in some of its
details came up from the other House, where it had passed
by a large majority, but it was lost in this House by a
majority of two, there being nine for the second reading,
and eleven against it. The Bill had again come up,
having been passed by a larger majority than before, and
that coupled kith the circumstance that their Lord-
ships had scarcely pronounc ed any opinion on the
subject, would insure their anxious consideration of it.
Under the present law a husband might, from the mcst
corrupt motives, to justify vengeance, or from profligate
intentions in another quarter, take away from his wife
their common children, and refuse her all access, and yet
the law would be powerless in her behalf—she could ob-
tain no redress. Was not this a cruel and unjust law ?--
( Hear, hear.) Who that knew a mother's love and solici-
tude for her offspring, and how much her happiness de-
pended on being always in their presence, could
say that this was not a cruel, harsh, and unjust law
—a law which violated nature as well as justice ? Before 1
he called upon their Lordships to apply a remedy, he
would cite three cases to show that it was as he described
it. But the law was harsh only to the virtuous-minded
moldier. She was deprived of all control over her chil-
dren, or even of access to them ; while the mother of an
illegitimate child, a profligate woman, perhaps might have
uncontrolled dominion over her child. The first case was
one which came before Lord Ellenborough in 1804. It
was that of a French emigrant who had married"
a wife possesssed of 7001. or 8001. a year. She set-
tled 2,0001, upon him, if he should survive her.
They had one infant. The husband, disliking the
settlement, wanted her to make a will in his favour, which
she refused. The man threatened to take the child from
her, if she would not yield. She applied to the Court of
King's Bench for protection, but Lord Ellenborough said
that as the law stood he was powerless—be could afford
no relief. Thus this man was protected by the law, while
he was gratifying the basest of all purposes—to extort
pecuniary sacrifices from the terrors of an affectionate
mother. The next case was that of a man named
Skinner, who treated his wife with extreme bru-
tality. He then left her, and lived in adultery with
a woman named Donovan. The conduct of the
mother was irreproachable, but the father took
their daughter from her, and placed her in the hands
of Donovan. Mrs. Skinner applied to the Court of Com-
mon Pleas for a Habeas Corpus to bring up her daughter,
and deliver the child to her ; but his Noble Friend near
him ( Lord Wynford) said he could riot interfere, and the
case was dismissed. The next case was that of Mr. and
Mrs. Ball, who were separated on account of the adultery
of the husband. Their child was taken from her, and
placed in the care of a woman of all work. Mrs. gall
applied to the Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Leach for
redress, but he told her there was no relief. The
next ease was that of Mrs. Taylor, who left her hus-
band on account of his gross adultery. Yet the husband
„,.ou,-1 have taken their children from her, if she had not
evaded the law by escaping with them to the Continent.
Mr. Justi.ee Patteson Nal° then heard her application in
the Court of King's Bench, said that there was no re-
dress for her. Now he (Lord L.) trusted he had proved
his proposition, that this was a tyrannical, unjust, and un-
natural law 2—( Hear, hear.) This Bill proposed the
remedy. All it proposed was, that the mother,
on application to one of the Judges of the Court
of Equity, should be allowed access to her chil-
dren under certain restrictions. They might consider

the details in Committee. All he now requested of their
Lordships was, to agree to the second reading of the Bill.
He knew there were several objections to this measure.

One was that a wife's property became that of her hus-
band; but this hardship might be mitigated in the Court
of Equity, if due care were observed in framing the mar-
riage contract. It would be said that he could refer to any
three or four cases of a wife applying to a court of jus-
tice; but it should be remembered that a wife would
endure a great deal, before she would apply for
redress to a Court; and she was the less inclined
to do so now, because she generally was told that the law
would not relieve her. It was also objected that those
cases would take up much of the time of the Courts, but
was that an argument where the most important rights of
humanity and justice were involved. It was well known
that a wife would endure much misery and wrong sooner
than leave her children or lose her position in society, but
they ought not to legalize brutality, injustice, and cruelty on
this account. He trusted their Lordships would assent to
the second reading.
Lord W YNFORD concurred with his Noble and
Learned Friend as to the hardship and injustice of the law
but he thought the proposed remedy would be most mischie-
vous. Ile thought a very judicious Bill might be introduced
on the subject, but the present was not one of that descrip-
tion. It bad been most properly said that the care of the
children belonged to the husband, and that that right can-
not be interfered with ; but where both the parties had
misconducted themselves, let their children be taken from
the custody of both their unworthy parents. It would be
impossible otherwise to have them properly brought up.
He never entertained any desire to oppress women in
such a situation, nor would it be supposed that he
was influenced by any such desire. He contended that
where the custody of the children was in one of the pa-
rents it was most improper to give access to the other.
There were many cases in which it would be most injudi-
cious to allow the guilty party to see the children. He
should be glad if his Noble and Learned Friend, instead of
bringing in a Bill like the present, had introduced one to
diminish the expenses of proceedings of that description,
and to give further powers for the safeguard and protection
of the children to the Court of Chancery. On these
grounds he should feel it his duty to move that the Bill be
read a second time that day six months.
Lord D ENM A N thought, after the statement by his
Noble and Learned Friend ( Lyndhurst) of the present
state of the law, it must be obvious to their Lordships that
it was imperatively necessary that some alteration should
be made to prevent the frightful and revolting instances
of cruelty and oppression that were so frequently taking
place. The Noble and Learned Lord than referred to
Skinner's case, and also that of Greenwell v. Green-
well, which came before himself and the rest of the
Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, in which a young
and blameless wife was deprived of all intercourse with
her children, through no fault of her own, while the
husband was leading a most immoral life.
He could assure their Lordships that there were
not ono of the Judges of the Queen's Bench who did
not, when obliged to refuse assistance in that case,
feel ashamed of the state of the law they were compelled
to administer. There could be no doubt as to the facts of
the case upon which relief was to be afforded, because
it might be provided that a third party should be present.
It was said this was likely to produce separation, and pro-
long it. He (Lord D.) thought quite the contrary.
The present law was cruel to the wife, debasing to the
character of the husband, and dangerous and ruinous to
the health and morals of the children. The third clause
provided, that where the child was in the custody of the
father, the mother might have the opportunity of going
before one of the Judges in Equitt, to see whether
she ought to have access to the child. This
Bill provided a complete remedy for all the cases which
could arise between husband and wife, and he did not
think their Lordships would take on themselves the res-
ponsibility of throwing it out without a second reading.
[Messengers from the House of Commons brought in
the Canada Government Bill, and the Register of Births,
&c.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought there was a
jurisdiction attempted to be given by the present Bill for
the permanent care and management of the children,
which must be inadequate to form a judgment on the sub-
ject. He did not see why the powers now proposed should
not be given to the jurisdiction which at present exercised
power over inf ants, but it ought to be used with extreme
caution.

The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Monday.

On the motion of the Marquis of NORMANBY the
Canada Government Bill was read a first time.

Their Lordships adjourned at Twenty Minutes put One
o'Ciock.

BIRMINGHAM.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY NIGHT.

Last night and this morning the weather proved
exceedingly unfavourable to the movement party, and so
cleared the streets that it was not deemed necessary by
the authorities that the streets should be patrolled by the
military squadrons, and special constables alone !paraded
such places as the rioters were likely to assemble in.
During the whole night a few persons, chiefly lads, were
arrested, and were this morning discharged on giving bail.
The Warwickshire Yeomanry are quartered in the town,
and the specials are obliged to attend the roll call, under
a penalty of 51. A strong force hangs on the out-
skirts, but in the town the following may be relied on as
being pretty near the force that occupies it : —5OO military,
60 metropolitan police, 21 municipal police, and about 400
special constables ; a force by no means adequate to meet
the contingencies of the crisis.

EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THE

RIOTERS.

Thomas Leyland and Frederick Bird were placed at
the bar charged with having in their possession a pike.
After a lengthened examination, Bird was ordered to
find bail to keep the peace —three sureties of 50/. each,
and himself in 100/. ; and, in default of such bail, to be
committed to prison fur six months. Ley land was dis-
charged.
John Jones, aged 21, Frederick, 2G, and Jeremiah
Howel, aged 34, were charged with riot, on Monday the
15th. The last-mentioned prisoner has only one leg, the
other having been amputated from the knee.

Constable Hall sworn--On Monday, 15th of July, he
was standing near the gates of the Public office, Moore-
street, between eight and nine o'clock at night. He saw
a crowd of persons armed with sticks and bludgeons, com-
ing up. Those persons threatened him, called him
b—g_r. Said, " Throw into him." " Pitch into him."
" Remember the election." " Remember Livery-street."
" Damn him, give it him." He was afraid, and took re-
fuge in a house. The Public-office was then safe. He
re!urned in half an hour, when all the windows of the
Public-office were broken. He saw a crowd in tha Bull-
ring, and in it Roberts. The mob retired as soon as the
soldiers came in. He was then afraid to arrest Roberts,
but did so on the following morning, when he found him
reconnoitring about Messrs. Bourne's premises. The
prisoner, Roberts, was a ring-leader amongst the Chartists,
and has impeded him and Spittle in the execution of their
duty.
Thomas Rose deposed that on the 15th he was standing
at his door in High-street, about eight o'clock in the even-
ing. lie sax a mob coming down Moore-street, and
breaking the windows of the Public-office. They als3
broke the windows of Messrs. Bourne's parlour, after
which they forced his shop, flinging his goods into the
Bull-ring. A fire was kindled in the centre of the Ring ;
a portion of that fire was then conveyed to Mr. Bourne's
house. He saw the prisoner Jones with a handkerchief on
the end of a pole, in front of the people. He was waving
the handkerchief, and said something which witness could
not hear.

Two witnesses, R. Harley and Charles Whitton, identi-
fied Howell as leading on the mob from Digbeth. He
carried a bludgeon on his shoulder. Several thousands
(according to liarley) were present.
Sergeant James Howell, 4th Royal Irish Dragoons,
sworn.—On Tuesday, the 16th July, he was going down
Steel House-lane, when he saw Howell flourishing a large
blade knife sword, which on seeing him the prisoner flueg
down. Witness dismounted, took up the knife, and ar-
rested the prisoner.
The weapon, which was of a most deadly description,
appeared to have been formed out of an old sword, and was
mounted on a stick about three feet in length.
Mr. Jeremiah Hughes was standing near the Black Boy
and Woolpack on Monday, about eight o'clock. He saw
a great crowd of men bearing with them 60 or so yards
of bed ticker or calico, which they spread across Spiceall-
street to Edgebaston-street. Howell was in the crowd,
and had in his hand a deal scantling. The mub broke the
vi-iiidows of Mr. Scudamore's house.

The depositions were then read over, and the prisoners
called on for their defence. They all declared their inno-
cence. The witnesses then signed the depositions, and
were bound over to appear at the next assizes, to which the
prisoners were committed for trial.

A letter has been received from Lord John Russell in
reply to the requisition forwarded to his Lordship, and
which demanded an immediate inquiry into the conduct of
the Magistrates, who arc charged by the requisitionists
wiJi a dereliction of duty, in having left on the 15th their
properties and lives exposed and unprotected to the fury
of the mob. His Lordship demands that the evidence of
such statements shall ba immediately forwarded to the
Home Office. William Be!soy, the Chartist leader, has
just been committed for seditious language. Two wit-
besses proved that on Sunday last, at Holloway Head,
he advised the people to blow up the rail-road, " and
barricade the streets." This man had been previously
bound to keep the peace, and twice convicted in penal-
ties of 403. and 51., for addressing the mob in the Bull
Ring. Al agree that the present state of this borough
is awfully critical and posil-us.

VIOLENT GALE—ELGIN.—On Wednesday
afternoon we were visited by a most violent and destruc-
tive gale of wind from the south-east. About two o'clock
P. M. the wind, which had been pretty high throughout the
forenoon, began to blow with great fury; and in a short
time the whole country was enveloped in clouds of drifting
sand and earth, carried from the roads and fields. Leaves
and branches were torn from the fruit and forest trees ;
and we much fear the wasteful fury of the gale will be se.
verely felt. We have heard that some extemsive fields of
turnips have been almost wholly destroyed, the soil and
plants having been torn up ai.d drifted away. The wheat
stalks, tender and luxuriant, with heavy heads, are twisted
and broken. Early barley, potatoer, and indeed everything
exposed to the violence of the wind, have sufFored more or
less damage. When the gale subsided, about seven
o'clock P. DI. the fields had a dingy and wasted appear-
tince, and the woods were as thickly strwn with fallen
leaves aq we have seen them after a gale in autumn.—
Elgin Lou, ant.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY U
NKNOWN.—
Yesterday morning, a few minutes
respectably attired before ten o'clock as a
middle-aged lady (at present unknown)
was walking along high.street, Marylebone, she suddenly
fell and expired. The body was removed to Marylebone
Infirmary to be owned and await an inquest.

EVENING EDITION.

SURREY THEATRE.

A new play was brought out last night, written by N.
P. Willis, Esq., author of " Pencillings by the Way." It
was entitled Tortesa, The Usurer. The scene is Flo-
rence, and the story is founded on a tale of which many
among our readers doubtless have heard, of a lady who,
having been married against her will, was prematurely
buried, while only in a temporary trance, or under sus-
pended animation, escaped the horrors of an untimely
tomb, through the coffin being opened by a sexton, covetous
of her jewels, when thus restored to life,' and applying at
her husband's door for admission, was repulsed as an appa-
rition, and therefore claimed by a lover who possessed her
heart. This, at least, has evidently supplied the author
with the idea, which certainly is romantic and interesting
enough for a drama, and is in this play employed with con-
siderable effect and still greater success. Isabella, the
high born daughter of the noble race of Falcone, is be-
trothed by a needy father to the wealthy and ambitious
usurer for certain lands and monies, which are to repair his
ruined fortune. Angelo, a young painter, with a soul of
fire and enthusiasm unbounded for his art, struck with
admiration by Isabella's matchless beauty, strives to
mirror on his canvass those unrivalled charms,
which fix his rapt affection—while the fair original
catches the inspiration of his spirit, and proud of
the genius which idolizes her, ardently returns his love.
On the day when she is to be wedded to her hated suitor
she is found to all appearance dead, and with a celerity
rather marvellous is forthwith hurried to the tomb.
At midnight, waking from a sleep produced by artful
means, she takes refuge in her lover's house, having been
refused admittance to her father's, as seeming not of earth.
While in the painter's studio, the usurer, with
a guard,
comes to search for the imagined corpse, which it is sup-
posed that Angelo had stolen. The p tintingis concealed,
and within the vacant frame Isabella takes her station—
when the curtain hiding her is removed by her betrothed,
he starts in breathless wonderment at what he deems the
marvellous pourtrayal. The effect was startlingly dramatic
and drew down thunders of applause. The bridal veil,
however, is found, and throws upon the painter suspicion of
the crime, which Florence dooms to death. At the trial
he is about to be condemned, when rushes in, to the speech-
less bewilderment of all save himself, the imagined dead.
She is claimed by the father for her betrothed husband,
who, seized with a touch of generous emotion, relinquishes
his title, and gives her hand to Angelo.
The language of the play is often beautiful, and some-
times strikingly, because truthfully, forcible. The acting
of Wallack, as the Usurer, was throughout warmly ap-
plauded—and, indeed, exceedingly effective. At the
close the cheering was unbounded, and he was compelled
to come forward and receive the gratulations of the audi-
ence. Miss Grant, Mrs. H. Vining, and Mr. Saville were
also much applauded. The piece was announced for repe-
tition to - morro w.

THE AYRSHIRE M.C. AND HIS
CONSTITUENTS.

A numerous meeting of County Delegates was held
yesterday (Thursday) in Mr. Paylcr's Hall Mr,
M'Ewan, of Mauchline, in the chair. Mr. Craig ex-
plained the reasons why he had left the Convention—the
principal one being that they had adopted ulterior measures
before the country was at all ready for them, and before
the House of Commons had decided on the petition. A
warm discussion ensued. The Delegates from Kilwinning,
Stcwarton, Tarbolton, Saltcoats, Prestwick and Ayr,
Irvine, Fenwick, Kilmarnock, and Kilbirnie, stated that
their places were entirely unprepared for any such thing
as ulterior measures. A motion was made and seconded,
that Mr. Craig, having received no instruction from his
constituents on the subject of ulterior measures, and the
country not being prepared for such, this meeting think
him justified in leaving the Convention, and they receive
his retirement. An amendment having been made, the
vote was taker,, when six Delegates voted for the motion,
and nine against it—six declining to vote at all. After
communicating with Alr. Craig, he stated that he would
resign his office of Delegate. The meeting then made
arrangements for having a county meeting, to choose
another Delegate.—Ayrshire Examiner.
The statement is followed up by the following announce-
ment in the advertising columns of the same journal :
" TO THE PEOPLE OF AYRSHIRE.

" The Convention, of which I was a member, having, in
my opinion, committed Political Suicide—and a majority
of this County's Delegates, met yesterday, having ap-
proved of the same, I can no longer act in the honourable
capacity of Delegate for Ayrshire ; and, therefore, beg
leave to announce my intention of being at my commercial
post every hour of every lawful day.

" Kilmarnock, 12th July, 1839."

" HUGH CRAIG.

CHARTIST MEETING.-_TOn Friday evening last, a public
meeting of the Chartists in Irvine, was held in the Com-
mercial Academy, situated on M'Farlane's Hill, when, after
a long and animated debate on the propriety of sending
another Member to the Convention, in place of Mr. Hugh
Craig, Kilmarnock, the meeting at length fixed on Mr,
M'Crae, teacher in Kilmarnock.—Ayrshire Observer.

OPENING OF A CATHOLIC CHURCH AT

EVERINGHAM —Last %leek, we noticed to our readers that
this building, which the munificence and religious zeal of
Wm. C. Maxwell, Esq., has reared for the worship of
God, would be consecrated and opened by a very large
attendance of the Bishops and Clergy of the Catholic
Church, and several of the Nobility and Gentry of the
County. On Tuesday and Wednesday last, these rites
took place, attended by circumstances of splendour which
have not been surpassed, if ever equalled, since the time of
the Reformation. The Church is situated immediately
contiguous to the mansion of Mr. Maxwell, in his spacious
Park, and has been erected principally for the accommoda-
tion of his neighbours and tenantry who bold the Catholic
faith. The model from a hich the architecture of it is taken
is the ,
liaison Dieu, at Nismes, in the south of France.

The general plan is after the most ancient of the cruciform
churches, being an oblong of about 70 feet by 30 feet, with
an addition of an ante-chapel at one end, over which ex-
tends the tribune or gallery, and a semicircular sanctuary
at the other end, in which is placed the altar, forming- alto-
gether a length of one hundred and twenty feet. The
altar is of the richest Italian marbles and workmanship ;
and the whole sanctuary will, when completed with the
statues and pictures in preparation for it, present a mass
of architectural and artistical decJration probably not
to be equalled in this country. The whole of the light to
the chapel is admitted from the ceiling. The exterior is
plainer and more chaste in its character, and the architec-
tural affect is evidently confined to the entrance front.
The work is executed in the most beautiful and substantial
manner. The following is a list of the Bishops and Clergy
who formed the various processions, and engaged in the
ceremonies :---Right Rev. Drs. Briggs, V.A., Carruthers,
V. A, Murdoch, V. A., V. A. ; Rev. Messrs. Bar-

row, Connell, Weston, Johnston, Clark, M'Kay, M‘Pher-
son, Dowding, Marsh, Walmsley, C. Newaham, G. Gil-
low, Fisher, Abbot, Morris, Best, Connatty, Trappes,
Etheridge, Burniss, Pratt, H. Newsham, Heptonstall,
Kellet, Middlehurst, 12,gby, Platt, Pratt, Smith, Cock.
shoot, V. Eyre, sen., Rigby, Hampson, Roby, Gibson,
Eyre, jun., -Ball, Crane, Johnson, Bell, J. Jones, Lon.
don, Peter Kay, James Neweham, Robert Hogarth, Thos.
Bil!ington, John Walker, George Kcasley, Robert Tate,
Turner, James Runder, Morriss, Daniels, Bird, Reed,
Keenan, George Gibson, J. Jones, Hasson, John Glover,
Hearne, Matthew Newsham, Jos. Curr, Reonalls, Robert
Gillow, Charles Eyre. Amongst the company present we
noticed the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, Miss Tempest, of
Broughton ; the lion. Philip Stourton, Sir Edw. Vavasour,
Miss Vavasour, the lion. C. Stourton, Middleton, Esq.,
of Middleton Hall ; Peter Middleton, Esq., of Stockfield
Park ; Mrs. Maxwell, of Thorp-Arch; H. Maxwell,
Esq., and Jos. Maxwell, Esq., of Thorpe-Arch ; M. Max-
well, Esq., Terrigles, Scotland ; P. Maxwell, Esq., Aid.
Agar, R. H Anderson, Esq., William Anderson, Esq.,
&c., &c., &c.—York Courant. [A long account is after-
wards given of the ceremony.)
SINGULAR CASE OF LIFE PROLONGED WITH-
OUT FOOD. —Agnes Docherty, wife of Farrah Gallagher,
weaver in Prestwick, aged 65, died on Sunday morning
last, the 7th instant, of a closing up of the gullet just
about where it enters into the stomach. For a long time
past she had experienced a difficulty in swallowing any
solid food ; and for fifteen weeks previous to the closing
up of the passage, she was supported on milk and water
alone, with occasionally a little whisky made into toddy.
The passage closed completely up on the 14th or 15th
of June last, and since then no sustenance of any de-
scription passed into the stomach, and every attempt to
administer nourishment in any other way entirely failed.
The sensation of hunger, which was very strong, entirely
ceased on the closing up of the passage, and for twenty-three
or twenty-four days she continued in that state, free, rot only
from pain, but from any other bodily ailment whatever.
The vitality of the body being sustained for that length of
time solely by its own internal resources, and that too,
%%hen there resources had been greatly attenuated and ex-
hausted by the comparative starvation of the five or six
months preceding. The only uneasiness felt was a sensa-
tion of heat in the throat, which was from time to time
allayed by swallowing a mouthful of cold water, vlieb,
however, she could never retain beyond a few seconds,
when it was thrown up again. This, together t; ith lat-
terly an occasional moistening of the palms of the hands
nourishment for the last
yi absorption merely,
s
with water when she felt inclined to faint, was the only
external
receive dthantoub
three weeks of her life. She all i.l.)ng was is a •ery
i%a s possible sourceible fromse could which,
ec and
happy frame of placid and Christian resignation, and it :s
in compliance with her own humble request that this
account is made public.—Ayr Observer.

---DEAFNESS.—At length this dreadful malady is
completely obviated, without torture and serious risk by
medical treatment. The Messrs. S. and B.
the size of a seven-shillingyhavecopnisetcreu,cteaea
Voice Conductor,
which,
39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
when fixed into the eavit% of the ear, is soft, easy, and not
more uncomfortable ncr perceptible than havinging
wool in its place ; t'al:epieucabli of
and that which is deserving
attention and approbation ir, that an individual in company
e
may place it in the ear and remove it unobserved. It pours
into the ear the general conversation to such an extent that,
in the most severe case, sufferers are enabled to hear the
slightest whisper at a public assembly. Their newly-
invented Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed
before imperfect vision, bring it at once back to its original
and natural state, and the most minute particle is seen,
either by day or candle light, li ith exact distinctness.
Those valuable improvements in the materials are secret to
themselves, and are solely confined to their establishment,
39, Albemarle-street. No agents nor travellers are cm-
-1 ployed.
THE ASSAULT ON THE QUEEN.—The in-
dividual who was on Wednesday guilty of insulting and
absurd conduct towards her Mijesty, while taking an airing
in Hyde Park, was yesterday taken to the Home-office,
wie. wit
privatereahe the examination
l‘iate of Queen-square, and seal
gistr3 into the case took
several
before
Air.
of the Under Secretaries of State. One of the inspec t,ra
1 of the Queen-square district of police was sent down to
I Bow-street, to request the attendance of Sir Frederick
1 Roe, but the worthy Baronet is at present out of town,
and the examination accordingly proceeded without him,
After a long examination the prisoner was remanded.