The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court yeiterday afternoon at Buck.
ingham Palace, for the reception of the Address from the

House of Lordß.

The Queen's Guard, with their Band, was on duty on
the Palace Lawn. The Yeomen of the Guard, corn-
manded by Mr. Seymour Sadler, the Exon in Waiting,
lined the Marble Hall.

The Deputation of Peers arrived at the Palsce at two
o'clock, from the House of Lords, and assembled in the
Green Drawing Room, All the Peers present were in
Court dress.

Their Lordships were soon afterwards ushered by Mr.
Martins, Mr. Blackwood, and Mr. Randall, the Gentle-
men Ushers in Waiting, to the presence of the Queen in
the Throne Room.

Her Majesty received the Address on th© Throne. liar
Majesty was attended by the Ducliess of Sutherland, Mis-
tress of the Robes, moat of the Cabinet Ministers, the
Great Officers of State, and the ()Tilers of the House-
The Deputation advanced to the foot of the Throne,
when the Lord Chancellor read the Address from ti e
House of Lords. Her Majesty returned a most graciots
answer, and the Deputation retired.
The following were the Peers present :
The Loan CHANCELLOR.
ARCHBISHOPS—Canterbury, Armagh, &c.
BISTIOPS—London, Exeter, Rochester, Dromore, Glou-
cester, Carlisle, and Lincoln.

DUKES—Buckingham, Newcastle, Bcaufort, \Veiling.
ton, and Montrose.

MA RQUISES— Camden, Thomond, Abercorn, Salisbury,
Ailesbury, Huntley, Ely, Lothian, Londonderry, Chol.
mondeley, and Westminster.

EA RI.; LBandon, Brecknock, Wilton, Dunmore, Roden,
Ripon, Eldon, Glcugall, Harewood, Lonsdale, Rosslyn,
Charleville, Cadogan, Mansfield, Delawarr, Warwick,
Dartmouth, Selkirk, Shaftesbury, Devon, Sandwich, Eg-
lintoun, Moray, Falmouth, and Aylcsford.
VISCOUNTS —Cannin!., Canterbury, Comberincro, S:rang-
ford, Sydney, St. Vincent, and Hawarden.
Lo RDS —Feversham, Cowley, Stuart de Rothsay,
Heytesbury, Lyndhurst, Bexley, Forrester, Elleoborough,
Redesdale, Dunsany, Rolle, Kenyon, Montagu, Sondes,
Prudhoe, Fitzgerald, Rayleigh, Colchester, Farnham;
Calthorp, and Colville.
Mr. J. W. Birch, Clerk Assistant of Parliament, and
Mr. Putman, Yeoman Usher of the Back Rod, accompa-
nied the Deputation. The Lord Chancellor came in
State, attended by his Purse Bearer, Secretary, and Mace
Bearer.

Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Grntlernen-at- Arms,
comma:AA by their S'%andard Bearer, Sir Thomas Reeves,
lined the Throne Room.
Her Majesty afterwards held a Privy Council. It was
attended by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the
Load Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Se-
cretaries of State far the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Departments, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the President of the India Board, the President of the
Board of Trade, the Secretary at War, the Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, and the Lord Cliam-
b.:rlain.

At the Council her Majesty having been pleased to ap-
point the Ea:l of Scarb.Jrougli to be Lord Lieutenant of
the county of Nottiright.•rn, his Lordship took the oaths ap-
pointed to be taken thereupon.
An Order in Council was passed appointing certain in-
divr_duals to be her Majesty's printers in Scotland, the pre-
sent patent beinir about to expire.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Her M4jesty gave audier,ce3 to Lord John Russell, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, and Viscount Melbourne.

The Court was attended by the Countess of Burlington,
Lady in Waiting ; the Captain of the Honourable Corps
of Gentlemen-at-ArrnA; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Wait-
ing; Captain of the Yeomen Guard ; the Vice Chamber-
lain ; Lord Gardner, Lord in Waiting ; the Treasurer of
the Household ; the Hon. Col Cavendish (Clerk Mar-
shal), Equerry in Waiting ; Sir Frederick Stavin, Groom
in Waiting ; Mr. J. (3, Curling, Clerk of the Cheque to
the fl,n. Corpa of Gentlemen-at-Arms, Sir Benjamin
Smith ; Master Wemyss and Master Chichester, Pages of
Honour in Nlriting,
The Royal dinner party last evening, at the Palace, in-
cluded the Earl of Burlington, the Earl of Fingal', Vis-
count Melbourne, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, and
the Right Hon. G. S Byng.
The Prince of Leiningen visite-I her Majesty the Queen-
Dowazer yesterday at Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam-
bridge visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Buck.
Ingham Palace.
The Princess of Hohenlohe visited the Princess of Lei-
fingers ycs` erday.
Mr. Small had an interview with the Mzrquis of Nor-
th, nbi at the Colonial Office yesterday.
The half yearly inspection of her Majesty's Honourable
Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms took place on Wednesday in
St. James's Palace.

Mr. Backhouse, Under Seret-iry of State, embarked,
with Mrs. Backhouse and family, on beard the steam-
vessel for Antwerp, yesterday morning, on his way to the
mineral baths of Germany.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday,
for Tonbridge Wells.

THE EGLINTOUN TOURNAMENT.

wish to call the attention of Lord Eglintoun
and the Noblemen and Gentlemen who have engagsd with
him to hold a tournament at Eglintoun Castle, next Au-
gust, to the following opinion of Mr. Justice Blackstone,
Commentaries, bock iv., c. 14.
" A tilt or tournament, the martial diversion of our an-
cestors, was, however, an unlawful act. And so are boxing
and sword playing, the succeeding amusement of their pos-
terity ; and, therefore, if a knight in the former case, or a
gladiator in the latter, be killed, such killing is felony of
manslaughter. But if the King command or permit such
a diversion, it is said to be only misadventure."
Blackstone seems to have taken this dictum from Hale's
Pleas of the Crown, where the same opinion is given nearly
in the same words :

"If two play at barriers or run a tilt without
the King's commandment, and one kills the other,
it is manslaughter ; but if it be by the King's corn-
maid, it is not felony, or at most infortunium," to which
that eminent lawyer, Serjeant Wilson, has appended
this note :—" Brooke, after having taken notice
of this as Fineaux's opinion, says, that other Justices in
the time of Henry VIII. denied this, and held it felony to
kill a man in justing, or sporting after that manner, not-
withstanding the King's command, for such command is
against law."'

—Now, I beg leave to remind the Noble Lords and Gen-
tlemen who seek to (revive this antiquated and barbarous
wage, that supposing death to ensue from their sport, and
that they should be convicted of manslaughter, " they
would be liable to be transported for life, or for not less
than seven years, or to be imprisoned with or without hard
labour in the gaol or house of correction, not exceeding
four years, or to be fined," by stet. 9 Geo. IV., c. 31, 89.
lam not enough of a Scotch lawyer to know whether
the law of Scotland is the same as the law of England on
this point, but I am inclined to believe that it is ; and as
some of these noble tilters are celebrated as hard hitters, it
may be as well to forewarn them of the responsibility
they may incur. They mean nothing but sport, but
---- sad Chatillon on her bridal morn
" Weeping her bleeding love--"
is a. well-known instance that sport of this kind often ter-
minated in death. Tradition says that her husband, Au-
demar de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, was slain at a tour-
nament on the day of his nuptial.
" Has nugm seria ducunt
" In mala derisum semel exceptumque sinistre."
I am strongly inclined to think, that it is clear law that
" the Queen of Beauty," and all the noble dames and de-
moiselles, who, as spectators, may be aiding and abetting
at this illegal " passage of arms," will be guilty of a mis-
demeanour, and liable, in consequence, to the punishment
of fine or imprisonment, one or bo;h.
I remain, Sir, your's obediently,
NO TILTER.

FETE AND CONCERT AT THE
BEULAH SPA.

On Wednesday a fete and concert, the first of this season,
was held at the Beulah Spa, in aid of that excellent insti-
tution the Royal Freemasons' School fur Girls. The gar-
dens presented a most animated appearance towards three
o'clock, when there could not have been less than 5,000
visitors in attendance.
At three o'clock the Duke of Sussex entered the grounds,
accompanied by Lady Underwood. They were received
by the stewards, and conducted to a tent prepared for
their reception, his Royal Highness being much cheered
as soon as recognised. Sabsequently scats were placed
for the Royal party in front of the orchestra, where they
remained until the close of the first part of the concert.
On returning to the tent the Royal party partook of a cold
collation, after which they quitted the grounds, shortly
before six o'clock.
'The concert appeared to give the liveliest satisfaction.
The vocalists were Grisi, Monani, Miss Poole, Tambu-
rini, Rubini, Giubilei, &c. There were also some pleas
ing mountain melodies sung by the Alpine minstrels.
When the concert was over, parties indulged in quadrille
and other dancing until the evening.
A good deal of amusement was ,created by an exhibition
of the mode in which the South Americans throw the lasso.
Several persons, incredulous as to the precision with which
it could be thrown, volunteered to run past the thrower,
who, however, scarcely ever missed catching his prey, fre-
quently bringing them. too
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to their speed, when fh lit
the leg. On these occasions,s thoughappe the fall was not y
al-
ways a laughing matter to the unhappy Wight who caught
a heavy one, yet, it was invariably the cause of roars of
laughter from the surrounding spectators.
Strauss' band and the Coldstream full baud were in at_
tendanco -during the day.

STORM.—The storm with which we were
visited iazi Sunday night, appears by the accounts con-
tained in the country papers to have been general. The
hail as well as the lightning has, we see, done much
mischief.
•

WIL LI A M TELL—GiIa/le/7710 Tell was
.re-
hearsed yesterday morning at the Opera. The production
of such an opera in the style in which Laporte has got it
up, is an event which ought to produce a sensation and will.

LONDON :
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1839.

The first business transacted by the Lords yesterday
was to carry their address up to the Throne, and blank
enough their Lordships looked, when her MAJESTY,
severe in youthful beauty," read her dignified answer,
and gave them such a chastisement as never greybeards
received at the hands of a young and charming
woman. The Lords want to arrest education, or
place it under the control of the Priesthood. After
her MAJESTY'S answer what can we say, but that " we
wish they may get it."
Lord AsHaunTos moved for some financial returns,
and gave notice, we believe, of some motion on the sub-
ject, but his Lordship was not distinctly heard.
We have elsewhere briefly adverted to a little jar in
their Lordships' usual harmony, which arose on a pe-
tition being presented, complaining of oppression under
:he New Poor-law,

The Church Discipline Bill went through a Com-
mittee. The Bishop of EXETER said it would take a
week to discuss it properly.
The LORD CHANCELLOR explained the object and
enactments of the Prisons Bill, which after a short de-
bate was read a second time.

The Carlow Committee reported to the House of
Commons that Mr. GISBORNE was duly elected for Car-
low, a decision which gave a stout heart and an ener-
getic and clear voice to the Liberal cause.
It was arranged that Mr. ATTWOOD is to have
precedence to-morrow in bringing under the notice of the
House the National Petition. Never, in our opinion,
looking at the present disposition of the working-
classes, and the present circumstances of society, was a
more important subject discussed in Parliament, and
we hope that it will be treated with that delicacy and
caution which it deserves.

The Ecclesiastical Preferments Bill was read a second
time.

On the motion for the House to go into a
Committee on the Canada Bill, Sir WILLIAM MOLES-
WORTH moved a resolution that Parliament should im-
mediately legislate for the permanent Government of
Canada. A debate ensued, which ended by the
amendment being rejected by a majority of 195, 28
voting for it and 223 against it. The House then
went into Committee and again divided on the first
clause. Other divisions ensued, but finally the Bill
went through the Committee with amendments. This
business occupied the House the whole evening. The
House sat till Half-past one o'Clock.

The people are stirrinr, at Manchester and Edin-
burgh, as well as London, for a penny postage.
The Town Council of the first, the Chamber
of Commerce of the second, and the Common
Council of the last, have adopted resolutions favour-
able to this object. The Chamber of Commerce of
Edinburgh on Monday adopted unanimously a
petition in its favour, regarding it as ‘, in jeopardy,
and being impressed with the necessity of giving
the plan a most decided and immediate sup-
port.' We are sure that all the other towns of
the empire will follow these useful examples,
and convince all the doubters that the petitions
on this subject are spontaneous, and that
the people will take no denial. They cannot,
however, be too earnest and too zealous in this
cause. Mr. GOULBURN has already taken up his
ground of opposition. The Lords, it is declared,
are to throw it out, even if it pass the Commons.
There are many persons who do not like to give up
the distinguished privilege of franking ; it is an
honour to escape a tax to which all the vulgar must
submit ; and every pretext which sinister interests
can suggest will be laid hold of, therefore, to defeat
the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER'S plan.
Mr. Go u L BURN refers to thelateness of the Session
as his grand plea for opposition ; but if the Habeas
Corpus Act were to be suspended, an Insurrection
Act passed, or any other devilish law for abridging
our liberty, or starving the people, the Tories would
suspend the Standing Orders, and hurry it through
both .Houses in two days. The uniform penny
postage is a measure which would benefit the whole
community, it would promote social improvement,
it would place the people, in one respect, on a level
with Tory Peers and Tory Members of Parliament,
and the Tories will oppose it with all their power.
We have not space to quote any passages of the
bold and excellent speeches delivered in the Com-
mon Council and at Manchester ; and must content
ourselves with referring to our reports of the meet-
ings. Enough has transpired at those meetings,
and in the provincial journals, to prove that a
general feeling of indignation will be the conse-
quence of rejecting the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER'S resolution. The scorn of the people
will be overwhelming, should they have the least
reason to believe that, on this important subject,
they have been betrayed.

Her MAJESTY'S answer to the Address of the
Bishops and the Tory Peers, which %vas published
exclusively in the first edition of The Sun yester-
dayevening, is a proper and dignified' rebuke to
faction. If it err at all it is on the side of courtesy,
as dictated by custom and etiquette. " I cannot
help," says her MAJESTY, speaking to the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY and his co-mates in
making hypocritical addresses, " expressing my
regret that you should have thought it
neces-
sary to take such a step on the present occa-
sion." Her MAJESTY, adhering unflinchingly to
what she has done, declared " that it wag with a
deep sense of duty she had thought it right to ap-
point a Committee of Privy Council to superintend
the distribution of the grants voted by the House
of Commons for Public Education." Her MA-
JESTY, therefore, supported by the Commons,
nobly and boldly informs the Lords that they are
not to dictate to the QUEEN and the people. By
her answer her MAJESTY has again merited the
warm-hearted approbation of all her faithful
i sub-
jects. May she long live the happiest lady n her
dominions, the Sovereign of a free, contented, and
prosperous people.

The usual equanimity of their Lordships' pro-
ceedings was disturbed last night by a little es-
capade of the Earl of STANHOPE. Whenever
the New Poor-law and the " three Dictators of
Somerset House" are adverted to, the poor gentle-
man gets beside himself. He has, we presume,
some touch of Nobility left in him, and therefore
does not like to be degraded to the level o! an
Overseer. Some of the Lords seem to glory in
the office, and cordially recommend Earl STAN-
HOPE to become Chairman of a Workhouse Union,

and then he would be qualified to speak on the
subject. Nettled, probably, to see the Peers so
willingly lending themselves to what he eOnsidets
their own degradation, by enforcing what he calls
an execrable law) he last night accused the Duke
of Rum-imam) of " pettifogging and quibbling."
Nobody deserves such an accusation less, and no
doubt the unjust accusation sprang from a feeling
of indignation at finding so many Peers glorying
in being guardians of the poor, and defending the
new law. Be the cause what it might, the ebulli-
tion of feeling on the part of the Noble Lord, and
his subsequent retractation of his accusation, en-
livened the usual dull indifference which pervades
their Lordships' proceedings.
Such a circumstance, and a little reflection,
suggests to us that the indifference which is in general
characteristic of the upper classes, including the Peers,
is the offspring of fear. They have a proper respect
for their own persons, and never indulge in emo-
tions amongst their equals, lest it should give offence
and provoke quarrels. They are no more indifferent
than other men when they can indulge their pas-
sions with impunity. Only let a poacher be caught
in one of their preserves with a hen pheasant in a
snare, or walking off with a hare, and the placidity
of the great, whether Peers or Squires, instantly
disappears. Listen to the asperity with which they
debate the Corn-laws, the contempt and anger
with which they speak of mill-owners and factory-
masters, when these choice spirits can do it with
impunity, and you are instantly convinced that
indifference is no part of their nature. In
society the case is different—though they some-
times forget themselves there,. and get a pommelling,
for their momentary obliviousness, as Lord WIN-
CHILSEA lately did at Exeter Hall--in society
they know that Insolence would provoke anger, and
lead to quarrels and chastisement ; and in society
the respect they have for their own persons makes
them eschew the indulgence of all emotions. Their
indifference, we repeat, is the offspring of fear, and
is as hostile to the courtesy, which grows from en-
larged civilization and generosity of nature, as mean-
ness is from nobleness of soul.

Let us further remark, that it is a great mis-
take to suppose that the example of this class of
men tends to promote civilization. They hold
themselves up, indeed, as examples, and legislate
apparently, particularly in all that concerns Church-
going, formal and external order, police regula-
tions, &c., in order to make other men like them-
selves. Suppose they could succeed, what greater
calamity could befal mankind, than for them to
be all like the Peers ? What a race of indifferent,
idle, ill-tempered, do-nothings would mankind
become I We have frequently thought that a
similar argument might be applied to the teaching
of the priesthood. Suppose all men brought to
the level of the priesthood, all, in short, to be priests,
all men exactly like them, what would become
of society ? There would be one eternal brawl.
The real source of civilization is difficult to be as-
certained, but it is clear that it is not the example
of the Peers or the teaching of priests, which,
were they followed, would make all men like them,
idle, contentious wranglers. At the same time,
while we are not disposed to believe that the
example and teaching of Peers and Prelates
promotes civilization, we are duly sensible of the
useful part they have played, unwittingly, in pro-
moting it. Their existence in opulence and idle-
ness, and ease and enjoyment, has taught mankind
what is within their reach on earth, what can
be obtained of animal enjoyment by man, and so
far their condition has become, in some sort, a
standard of what each individual of the race may
possibly attain.

When the Whigs were in opposition and had
with them Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH and Lord
BROUGHAM, the country heard a great deal about
the' philosophy of legislation, according to which
nothing was so contemptible as petty, peddling, le-
gislation.
All that is now wholly forgotten, except as
the lessons of these teachers are treasured up, now to
be brought against their own friends. Surely of
all the petty and absurd law-making that ever called
forth the eloquence of MACKINTOSH or the sar-
casms of BROUGHAM, the Police Bill which
was under discussion the night before last is the
most contemptible and absurd. An evening
spent in discussing important clauses about
chuck-farthing and pitch-and-toss, about little
boys getting up behind carriages, and publicans
who must serve no youth with a glass of gin, un-
less he have his register of birth in his pocket, in
the present state of the country is like fatuity. We
wondered, as we read the skeleton of a debate, that
the House of Commons did not separate from
shame at being engaged in such unworthy legisla-
tion. The Ministers complain of being un-
able to pass measures, and the country com-
plain of measures not being passed ; and here
was an evening wasted in sheer puerilities.
We object on principle to all such inter-
meddling. Where will it stop, and who
is to carry it into execution ? If boys
must have laws made against running after car-
riages, why not make laws against playing cricket
or shinty, or fighting at school, by which boys are
sometimes killed ? Such superfluous legislative
care, while it would give an immense quantity of
employment to male nurses, would only destroy,
could it be efficacious, all spirit of independence
and all boldness. To have bold men, youth must
encounter danger. The boldest riders, it is said,
in the empire, are to be found about London,
whose education has been, not in the riding-school,
but in the street. The most unskilful boatmen on
the banks of a river to be found in Europe are the
Parisians, and at Paris the police do for the people,
as to the river, what our police is now to do
for little boys getting behind carriages—take care
of them. Such legislation is as injurious as
it is contemptible, and we can only account for the
zeal with which Mr. Fox MAULE and Lord JohN
RUSSELL drive it forward, by supposing that they
are unconsciously the instruments of some retired
police magistrate or petty-minded magistrates' clerk.
If not too late, we would supplicate them to forbear,
and not make themselves and all legislation ridicu-
lous, by encumbering the already crowded statute-
book with such childish law-making.

The following are the resolutions Mr. GouL-
BURN is to move on bringing up the Report from
the Committee of the whole House on the Post-
office Acts this evening :
That it appears from the Finance Accounts of the
United Kingdom laid upon the Table of this House, that
the excess of Expenditure over Income for the year 1837
was 655,7601., and for the year li3B, 345,2271.
That from a statement submitted to this House by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the excess of expendi-
ture over income, for the year ending the sth of April,
1840, is estimated at not less than 860,0001., making a
total excess of expenditure over income in the three years
ending the sth day of April, 1840, of not less than
1,860,987/. _

That the Select Committee appointed, " to inquire into
the present rates and mode of charging postage, with a
view to such a reduction thereof as may be made without
injury to the revenue," reported to this House on the 13th
day of August, 1838, as follows :
" That your Committee are of opinion that, so soon as the
state of the public revenue will admit of the risking a
larger temporary reduction, it will be expedient to subject
all inland letters to an uniform rate of one penny per ball
ounce, increasing at the rate of one penny for each addi-
tional half ounce."

That the net revenue of the Post-office, for the year
ending the sth day of January, 1839, amounted to
1,656,9931. 15s. 3d.
That it is the opinion of this House, that with a defi-
ciency of revenue during the three years ending on the
sth day of April, 1840, of not less than 1,860,9871. it is
not expedient to adopt any measure for reducing the rates
of postage on inland letters to an uniform rate of one
penny (thereLy incurring the risk of great present loss to
the revenue), at a period of the Session so advanced, that
it is scarcely possible to give to the details of such a mea-
sure, and to the important financial considerations connec-
ted with it, that deliberate attention which they ought to
receive from Parliament.

`We direct the serious attention of the reflecting
part of the community to the important communica-
tion, which we copy from the Times of this morn-
ing ; and which reiterates its charge as to the real
cause of the continued malignant vituperation of
her MAJESTY and her Court which daily dis-
graces the columns of the Morning Post :
( From the Times.)
LADY FLORA HASTINGS.
We copy the following paragraph from the Morning
Post of yesterday, to which we shall have occasion to
attach a remark or two
Some of our readers may expect us to reply to the
scurrilous attacks by which we are daily assailed on
account of the part we have conscientiously taken in
relation to the late melancholy transaction at Court.
The leader of these attacks is a Journal which, are
all times notoriously venal, has within the last year
or two, finding Conservative principles in the ascent-
dant, assumed them as a matter of course, upon its
established and profitable principle of swimming with the
stream. The Whig and Radical journals very naturally
join with the professed Conservative in assailing us and our
motives. We disdain to reply to the scurrilities upon this i

THE StN, LONON, FRIDAY, JULY 12,1_836; ID

subject which either the, venal. or niiiis'ceriai journals
vomit forth. Let theta pursue their severalcareers of venality
et Itadleiism. We shall continue to speak upon the sub-
ject to which we now refer, as we have spoken for nr.lb
scores of years upon every_ ether the language of truth,
morality, loyalty, and patriotism.. We have reason to
believe that half the contents Rf the Tteasury might
be ours if we Would bt tractable, as others seem willing
enough to be, upon this matter. But the Morning Post
is really a Conservative Journal, and inseparably attached
to the true and permanent interests of the Monarch and
the monarchy."
Respecting this paragraph, the public will observe that
our Contemporary is, to use a familiar expressicn, " pulling
in his horns," and that instead of abusing the Court Ladies
apparently, and the Queen in reality, be is content to abuse
us. We have no great objection to that course : be has
motives enough of an interested character for adopting it.
We shall pursue our usual habit of seeking truth, and
truth only, which has hitherto been so successful,
and court popularity by no other means. We would,
however, ask our Contemporary this question—Why,
while we insert all his articles against the Queen and
her attendants, and demolish them in succession, he studi-
ously keeps all our. remarks from the eyes of his readers ?
We have said before, and we repeat the assertion, which we
should not have done but for another furious letter from
the " Barrister," in the Post of yesterday, that the loss of
Lady Flora Hastings is not the deprivation which is most
deeply felt in that section of the Palace where it has oc-
curred ; and that, had other matters been suffered to go
on in their usual train, in spite of two Sovereigns of the
country, we should have heard nothing of the death of La iy
Flora Has:ings except as an ordinary painful occurrence in
the course of nature.

We copy from the Times a brief notice on the
subject of the Penny Postage, which is a proof of
either stupidity, or a mischievous devotion to fac-
tion. Several months ago, Mr. M'CuLLocH
stated as an objection to the plan of paying postage
in advance, that at present it was the necessity of
the postmen accounting for the sums charged on
the letters which ensured their punctual deli-
very, and that when the necessity was removed by
the postage having been paid in advance, no security
whatever would exist for the postmen delivering
their letters. That objectio❑ was amply refuted, in
advance, by Mr. HILL, in the third edition of his
pamphlet ; and that refutation was published in the
papers about the 23d, in The Sun of the 25th of
April. We think it appeared in the Times, and with
commendation. At any rate the objection has been
amply refuted by Mr. Hui, and that refuta-
tion widely published. To-day the Times itself,
or a correspondent for it, again brings forward
Mr. M'CULLOCH'S objection, without acknow-
ledging its source; and pretends to -regard it as a
serious obstacle to Mr. HILL'S plan. The fact,
we presume, is that our Contemporary, erewhile
a most, able advocate for Mr. DILL'S plan, now
sees it through Sir ROBERT PEEL'S spectacles, and
wants to make out a case to support his factious
views.

If there be any foundation for the objection, it
would be removed by paying the postmen properly,
in proportion to the responsibility they are under.

The Tories are obliged to have recourse to all
kinds of tricks to make themselves appear popular
and powerful. Last night they endeavoured in the
House of Commons to snatch a victory by surprise,
and divided on the second clause of the Canada
Bill, without having given their opponents the least
hint that they meant to take a division. With all
the advantages of the trick in their favour
they were defeated by a majority of 18, and will
go forth to the country, on one of the last party divi-
sions of the Session, as weaker by 10 or 12 than
before. A similar fate awaits them, we are sure,
on the Penny Postage question, on which they mean
to take a division this evening, and their defeat will
be still more conspicuous.
Another of their tricks was yesterday exhibited
in the St. James's Park. BONHAM'S well known
mob, who have before been hired to cheer PEEL,
were very active. They did not want encourage.
ment. Spectators well worthy of credit have as-
sured us that Sir CHARLES KNIGFITLEY, Sir
GEORGE CLERK, Mr. BONHAM, Mr. HOLMES,
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and others, were very
conspicuous, in directing their hired partizans
whom they should cheer, and whom they
should hiss. The Honourable Gentlemen, in
fact cheered for themselves. It was not brother
HILEY and brother BRA GGE who were the chief
performers, but brother Hor.mEs and brother
BARING. The poor Tories are sunk below con-
tempt, when to get up a show of popularity they
mustered a mob to cheer the Bishops and hiss
Lord MELBOURNE.

The German Papers received this morning announce
that the King of PRUSSIA has refused to confirm the
election by the ecclesiastical chapter of Priest ARNOLDI
to the Bishopric of Treves, and ordered the Canons to
proceed to a new election. This they refused, and the
KING is once more compelled to appeal to the Holy Sec.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 3d instant.
General O'DONNELL, thanks to the influence of Es-
PARTERO, is appointed Commander in Chief of the
Army of the Centre.

Several of the most influential Members of the French
Chamber of Deputies are humanely engaged in enforc-
ing upon the Government the justice and sound policy
of abolishing the punishment of death for political
offences. M. LAFITTE, wbo, when a Member of the
Government, had the moral courage to refuse to an
infuriated populace the heads of the Ministers of
CHARLES X.—the responsible advisers of the famous
ordinances which cost France the blood of 2,000 brave
citizens, has boldly stepped forth to rescue from the san-
guinary fury of a corrupt and unpopular Executive the
less criminal authors of the enteute of the 12th and
13th of May last. On Wednesday, when it was known
that the Court of Peers had pronounced M. BARBES
guilty of treason and murder, and sentenced him to die
the death of a parricide, M. LAFITTE rose in the
Chamber of Deputies, and laid the following proposition
in writing on the President's desk ;
" I propose to the Chamber now to do what it did in
1830. There was a question of the abolition of the punish
ment of death.
" Sire, said the Chamber, by a majority of 225 voices
against 21, the Chamber calls, in this case of salutary
reform, for the initiative of your Majesty. Too much glory
is attached to it, tqp many advantages must be derived from
it, for the nation to be willing to owe it to any other than
its King.'
‘• The- Chamber will not misunderstand my intentions •
my idea and my object are the same now as in 1830."
The proposition is supported by M. DE TRACEY, who
was the first to make it in 183.0 ; by M. DELAMAR-
TINE, who, notwithstanding Ins inveterate Toryism,
has always opposed capital punishments in every in-
stance ; by M. ARAGO, of Europeanv fame as a philoso-
pher ; by M. DUPONT (de lEure) ; by M
vrEORGES
LAFAYETTE ; by M. CORCELLES ; by M. CHAPUY-
MONTAVILLE ; by M. CARNOT ; and in the words of a
French journal, " by all who have always and on all
occasions protested against the necessity of legal mur-
der, committed in cold blood in the name of Society."
We have pleasure in adding that these benevolent and
just views upon the subject of capital punishments arc
strongly advocated in all the Paris journals ; and we
trust they will not be confined to the meridian of the
French metropolis. Bloodshed has never yet prevented
crime, and never will. One of the obvious conse-
quences of capital punishments is the encouragement of
the crimes they are meant to repress ; for, once admit
that society can in any case innocently deprive a fellow
creature of life, and there will not be wanting reasons
as plausible to sanction bloodshed at the will of an indi-
vidual. If one man cannot lawfully take away the life
of another, neither can a thousand. Liberty is a social
gift, and in the case of criminals, may be perpetually,
abridged ; and this is the only just and effective punish-
ment in all cases whatsoever.

In the official evening Journal of Tuesday, 'we find
the following telegraphic communication :
" The news of the law regulating the duties on sugar
being adjourned, has produced the greatest agitation at
Bordeaux. A great number of merchants went to the pre-
fecture to make their complaints. The sugar-refiners have
dismissed all their workmen."
The ,Vloniteur of Wednesday adds :
" Another telegraphic dispatch of the 9th, at half-past
four in the evening, announces that the public tranquillity
was not disturbed, and that the agitation was somewhat
allayed."

The Court of Peers were sitting on Wednesday, but
had only announced the condemnation of BARBES when
the mails departed for London.
The Courrier des Bordeaux publishes the following
letter addressed by Marshal SOULT to the Municipality
of Bilbao, in answer to the address of that city to the
King of the FRENCH on the Spanish policy of the
Government :

" Gentlemen—l have hastened to lay before the King
the letter addressed by you to his Majesty, thanking him
for the instructions he had sent to the commander of the
French naval forces cruising off the coast of Spain. The
King has directed me to say that he is sensible of the ex-
pression of your sentiments. He finds with satisfaction
that the measures he has taken to enable the French navy
to render fresh services to the cause of Isebella 11. are
daily appreciated that is to say, as pledges of the
constant interest he has promised to take in this
noble cause. The speedy pacification of Spain, the
firm establishment of her constitutional institutions,
and that prosperity which a return to tranquillity will
bring on, are, gentlemen, the great objects his Ma-
jesty has always had in view in his relations with the
Peninsula, and it is from a sincere desire of obtain-
ing them, rather than in the limited sense of fulfilling
engagements prescribed by treaties, that he has derived
these inspirations. I add that Biscay, being more exposed
than any other province to the calamities of civil war, would
have on this ground alone peculiar claims to the interest of
the King and of France, even had not the town of Bilbao,

by the heroic firmness with which it has several times, and
at the greatest sacrifices, defeated the efforts of the Pre-
tender, long. ago excited the synmethicg which combine
with the tdmitatiiiti ais itfell merited by so much devoted-
ties'S and courage: I esgotly take advantage of this oppor-
timi4,y of e4reslii'g'•to y6u cisnranCee of the high consi-
deration with which I have the horKur to be, &c.
(Signed) " Marechal WIC DE DALMATIA."
M. DE iiDMiGNY replaces the Duke a FEZEMAC
as Ambassador at the Court of Spain. The AiarqUilk
bE DALMATIE, son of Marshal Sot .T, is appointed to
fill the diplomatic post vacated by M. DE RuMIGNY at
the Court of Sardinia.

The Commerce gives the following from St. Peters-
burg, 25th ult.:--" A report from Lieutenant- General
Golovine, states that Major- General Kachoutine, at the
head of a brigade of infantry, two regiments of Cossacks,
and six pieces of cannon, had, after a sanguinary battle,
taken possession of the Circassian village of Scouba-
Tchale, distant two wersts from the Black Sea. This
little success cost the Russians 800 men in killed and
wounded. The Circassians, who were commanded by
English and Polish officers, gave proof of tact and discipline
hitherto unknown amongst them. All the other attacks upon
the Circassians made by Generals Rqj ewski and Grabbe have
been fruitless. Mr. Bell has succeeded in rousing almost all
the Circassian tribes who are under the yoke of Russia to
revolt. General Golovine has divided his army into small
corps, but a general revolt is expected, and he has applied
for reinforcements. The Emperor consequently ordered
the Minister of War to reinforce the army of the Cauca-
sus with 30,000 men." A letter from Odessa of the 20th,
states that the Emperor had sent Field- Marshal Witgen-
stein into the southern provinces of the empire to reanimate
the courage of the troops. On the 19th he had harangued
the 15,000 troops recently arrived at Odessa, and produced
so electrical an effect that the troops arc said to have been
all alacrity for their march, which was to take place in
three days. Part of the Russian fleet was still cruizing be-
fore Sinope and Wijukdere, the remainder was at anchor in
the roadsteads at idessa and Sebastopol.
The Eco del (arnmercio of the 33, says that General
Aynar, who gained a victory on the 25th of June in the
environs of Lucena, was suddenly attacked on the following
day by Cabrera, who pursued him as far as Castellon, in
which the Christino General was obliged to shut him-
self up.
The Gazette de Tribuneaux announces that on the day
before )csterday, there was seized at No. 25, in the Rue
du Faubourg du Temple, a clandestine printing press,
where the publication of a new number of the Mondeur
Republic-win was preparing. Several persons have been
arrested in consequence of the discovery and seizure of
this press.—Le Commerce.
The Constitvtionnel of Wednesday has the following
article :

" Nullity of the Marriage of the (Hereditary) Prince
of Orange.

" The marriage of the Hereditary Prince of Orange
to theyrincess Sophia, of Wurternburg, is null, according
to the laws of the country. The new Dutch code, contain-
ing, on this head, the same enactments as the French civil
code, requires that the marriage to be legal must be pre-
ceded by two notices at the respective places of abode of
the two parties. The learned negotiator at the Hague
of the preliminaries of the marriage was so absorbed by
the difficulties of his task, or perhaps by the politi.
cal state of the country, that he did not think of this
indispensable formality. The notices were not published
at the Hague, and yet the marriage has been celebrated
and solemnized at Stuttgard as we know. It follows that
if the Prince should die to. day, leaving his consort enciente,
the child could never become King of the Netherlands.
The King is said to be enraged at this unpardonable blunder,
of which there is perhaps no other instance. It is true it
is to be remedied by the publication of the notices required
by the law, but the affair has made a great noise in the
country, and even Dutch gravit3 has relaxed into a smile.
BO URS E. —Pa xis, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10.
fIALF- PAST THREE.--The market has not been brisk in
French Stocks. For the Account the Three per Cents.
opened at 791. 65c., declined to 791. 50c., and closed
at 791. 55c., a fall of 15 cents. The Five per Cents.
opened at 111 f. 90c., and closed at 1111. 75c., being 20c.
lower than yesterday. For Money the Three per Cents.
are also 150. lower, but the Five per Cents. unaltered.
The Bank of France Shares are 21. 50c. better. The
Belgian Five per Cents. and Three per Cents., have not
been quoted for money, and only the latter for the Ac-
count, at 72f. 15c. The Bank Shares unvaried. The
Spanish Active is / per cent, better, having gradu-
ally risen from 19 to 19 /. The Portuguese Three per
Cents. for the Account, 201. There has been a good deal
of business in the Versailles Left Bank Railway Shares,
which have further advanced 12f. 50c. The Versailles,
Right Bank have declined 2f. 50e.__
_ .

_
/irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents
414 per Cents lO6 ... 105 ... 106 ... 105
4 per Cents lO2 ... 02 ... 102 ... 102
3 per Cents 79 55 ... 79 63 ... 79 40 .. 79 45
Laffitte Bank 1.1:00f. Si' lO5O ...1050 ...11.,51 .... 1050
5,00. X. bh 5220 ...5220 —.5220 ...5220
Belgian Bank 773 ... 770 ... 770 ... 770
Spanish Ae ive
Fassive 44 ... 414 ... 44 ... 414
New Lk ferre.l
Yea; olitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHAREa.
St. Germain
Versailles, ft. B 132 59 ... 64) ... 635 ... 637 50
L.B. 525 ... 323 ... 310 ... 310
Havre
Orleans ..
Strasburg to Bale . 295 ... 300 ... 295 ... 300
llulhausen to '1 hann ... .... 355 ... 360 ... 355 ... 360
Bordeaux to La Seale 4lO ... 420 ... 410 ... 420

RESIOVAL OF HER MAJESTY'S

PACKET STATION.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

I have authority that may be relied upon, for stating that
there is now little room to doubt that Southampton will be
selected as the future station for the mail packets. The
contract is almost definitively agreed upon, but cannot be
completed until a charter be granted ; and that is in such
a state of fordwardness, as to justify the expectation that
it will be ready in about ten days at farthest.

It is true that the General Steam Packet Company,
with whom no arrangement for the conveyance of mails,
despatches, &c., has been entered into by the Government,
will be likely to have the power of choosing their own
port ; but they are so far moderate in exercising that
power, as to consult the Government, and to conform them-
selves as much to its wishes (which decidedly point at
Southampton) as circumstances will reasonably per-
mit. Nor are the Company less favourably in-
pressed with the great advantages presented by Southamp-
ton, provided that the charges bear a fair proportion to
those of other places, which question will no doubt be
speedily and satisfactorily adjusted as far as the Dock
Company are concerned. A large dry dock, for the re-
ception of first-class steamers, will be forthwith required ;
but that, fortunately, is included in the plan already
adopted. The only consideration, it appears, that
ever operated against Southampton, as opposed to
Falmouth and Plymouth, was that which had reference
to the additional navigation, whereby a greater expense in
coals will be incurred; but it has been contended, by those
who are well acquainted with the subject, that such disad-
vantage will be tar more than counterbalanced by the su-
perior facilities afforded by this port to passengers, &c., not
only in consequence of its shorter distance from the metro-
polis, but also from the great convenience which the rapi-
dity of direct railroad communication involves.

Several gentlemen, merchants cf the great city, have
vis.ted us this week, for the purpose of examining the
situation of the Railway terminus and the Docks, with a
view to the erection of receptacles for future argosies and
places for the transaction of business; and in connection
with such views, and the completion of the port as a
packet station, the contemplated Royal Exchange will be
surmounted by a lofty tower, calculated to communicate by
telegraph with the Needles, and enable those concerned
to convey intelligence to London much more speedily than
it can now be forwarded from Portsmouth.
A number of shares in the Docks have this week been
taken up ; one gentlemen, to my knowledge, took thirty.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JULY 11.--Wind g75.W..--Arrived the Enter-
prise, Cumming, from St. Domingo. Sailed the Gladiator,
Britton, for New York ; British Queen (steamer) Ro-
harts, Ditto ; Emerald, Fligg, Quebec ; Zealous, Cham
pion, Newfotdland ; Hannah, Clayton, Santa Martha;
Madagascar, Walker, Calcutta ; Wild Irish Girl, Cuard,
Bordeaux ; and Wm. Metcalfe, Phillipson, Port Phillip,
New South Wales.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY IL—Wind S.W. to S. E.—Sailed
the London, Shuttleworth, for Calcutta; Magnasher, Case,
Tobago; and Gen. Evans, Dare, Vera Cruz.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind S. W.—Arrived tho Ed-
ward, Mackenzie, from Quebec; Nestor, Smith, Mira-
michi ; and Charles, Faro.
FALMOUTH, JULY 10. —Wind S. S. W. to S.W. strong
breeze.—Arrived the Falcon, Small, from Port-au-Prince;
Racer, Charles, Alexandretta; and Treasurer, Lowrie,
Trieste. Off Port—Galls, Wright, Memel.
LIVERPOOL,JULY 1 1. —Wind S.—Arrived the Gratitude,
White, from Trinidad ; William Salthot,o, Stanton, Do. ;
Wave, Broadfoot, New Orleans ; Rochester, Awens, Do. ;
Martha, Washington, Charleston ; Medora, Pike, Do. ;
Marian, St. John's, New Brunswick; Donna Maria,
Steele, Oporto; Argo, Stettin. Sailed the Atterspool,
Scales, Calcutta; Michigan, Sturges, Havannah ; Alfred,
Cheever, New York ; Nicholas Biddle, Hiern, Do. ;
Fairfield, Barton, St. John's, New Brunswick; Robert
Johnson, Quebec; Sophia, Langlois, Malaga.
DOVER, JULY 11.—Off port, Bordeaux, Stephenson,
from Matanzas.

HASTINGS, JULY 11.—Off port, the Hope, Coombes,
from Sydney, New South Wales.
BRIDGE NATER, JULY l l.—Arrived, the British Lady,
Yeopel, from Prince Edward's Island.
BRISTOL, JULY I.—Arrived, the Curlew, Fitzgerald,
from Newfoundland; Hero, Cumming, Miramichi; Sup.
ply, Alward, Oporto.
CORK, JULY 2.--Of port, the George Bentinck, Rigby,
from Monte Video.

LONDONDERRY, JULY B.—Arrived, the Condor, Flint,
from Antigua.
SHIELDS, JULY 9.—Arrived, the Clyde (steamer), from
Hamburg.
HULL, JULY 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Houghton,
Hunter, from Riga; George Smith, Smith, ditto; Mo-
narch (steamer), Wood, Hamburg; Henry, Pelham,
Wy burg h. . _

tOC,;s, JULY 11.—Arrived, the Osprey, Bartlett, from
Matanzas ; Ariosto, Sathorpe, ditto.

STOCK HOLM, JULY 2.—Our venerable Arch-
bishop, Dr. Wullen, died at Upsal on the 30th June. He
was our most celebrated preacher, and his death is a severe
loss to the Swedish Church.

Yesterday forenoon an inquest was held at the
Elephant and Castle, King's road, St. Pancras, before
Mr. Wakley, M. P., on view of the body of John Gale,
aged 37, a livery stable-keeper, who committed suicide
by throwing himself into the Regent's Canal. Several
witnesses said that they were sure the mind cf the deceased
was deeply affected by the drunken habits and shamefu.
conduct of his wife. Verdict—Temporary derangemeutl