The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.)

HUNGERFORD MAR:CET.
Fish to_day in fair supply and reasonable. Tu:bot, 3s. to 155. ; Lob-
sters, Is. 6d. to 3s. 6d. each ; Mackarel,'4d. to 6d. ets..th ; Salmon, 18.2 d.
to Is. Sd. per lb. for good. Meat—Supply proportionk'd to the demand;
prices much as before. Beef, 6;11 to Sd. ; Mutton, 7.1. to Sd. ; Veal,
lid. to 9d. ; Pork, 7p. to Sd. per lb. Vegetables impioving in both
quantity and quality—prices easier. Hay and Clover Bust in price and
tolerable brisk in demand.
BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
The supply to.day was good, and so was trade. Prices rather lower.
Turbot, 5s to 155.; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters; J. to as. 6d.
each; Mackarel, 3d. to (id. each; Salmon, Is. to is 6d. per lb, folv itod
Whiting, 2d. to sd. each ; Haddock, 4d. to Pd. each.
BOROUGH POTATOE MARKET.
The prices of Potatoes are as follow :—York Reds, SO?. to 905.; Cho,:
shire 'Whites; 60s ; Devonshire, 705. to 75e.; Scotch Reds, COs. "to-
-705.; Jersey Blues, 455. to 50s.
HAY MARKET.

Supplies to.day were not extensive, the demand was proportionate, and
prices of some kinds higher. Meadow hay, 1605..t0 Ms.; Clover Hay,
I Ids. to 126,x. ; Straw, 3is. to 441.
SPIRIT MARKET.

The demand that was so brisk last week bas partially subsided, and
the market generally is quiet, prices without rariatiou home those Of
last week.

OIL MARKET.
Fish and Seed Oils of all descriptions are firm, but very quiet.

TALLOW MARKET.

P.Y.C. to-day 47b 31 to 47s 6d on the spot, end for delivery 461,

COLONIAL MARKETS.

The sales to.-day are not heavy, but comprise most of the
primary articles. Of Ceff,e we had 147 barrels and 442. bags
Brazil, 220 bags Ceylon, which (ached about previous' rates.
but did not sell with animation. Rice, 1,200 bags, continue&
lively and sells well. Two small parcels of Ginger and Pepper
went much as before. Owing to a proposed alteration in the drawback
on Refined Sugar, and the tune when it is to come into operation
to be made known to-night, there is nothing whatever doing in
British Plantation Raw Sugar. Of Lima Sugar we had public sale&
of 2,020 bags; of Manilla, 1,705 bags; anti of Bengal, 300 bags.
These parcels sold much at previous ra*, but went without animation ;
where prices of either Sugar or Cale are altered, they are easier.
Cocoa, 2,700 bags Guayaquil were advertised, all did not sell, and that
which sold realised former prices. The imports today are not heavy
For to-morrow we have pubic sales of Coffee, 142 tierces Jamaica, 360.
bags Ceylon, and 120 bales Mocha ; Sugar, 64(i hags Siam, 150
new Barbadoes, anti 3,500 bags Mauritius; with sOille few spices, and
100 scrolls Spanish Indigo. -

PRICE OF BREAD..
fhe highest price of nread is the Metropolis is SM. for the 41b Loar,
iood Bread may be had at (0,4 d,
TRICE OF

EEDS.—June 19.
I'cr Quarter
St. Foin 42s 49s 540
Rye Gnus 4C4.1,
t4cey Grass --5 425. 48,r
Linseed, for feeding ...4t13 506.
Ditto, for sewing --a, 50...6.
Ditto, for crushing —8 Ss,. 45e.
New Trefoil I t:. Hs. 21s. IC:ln:try —s 400. sfie • •

Fer Cwt.
New English nest CloverAi. ios. F -
011 Ditto Ditto -s. —s
New Foreign Ditto
Old Ditto Ditto —x.'4o3. tills.
New IVhite Clover 'OS. 511 i. tiSs.
014 Ditto Ditto _g. —s. —5.

OH Ditto l.2s. Ifiq
rtefolitim IJa 1`26 14s

111 mi —s
Per Bushel

9es. 464

engli.h Carraway ...... ...—s. 40s. 44s %VII ite Mustard 7s: Pi. 9; Od.
Foreign Ditto... —s. 403.455. Brown Ditto
Coriander --s 114. l2s 'Fares
Itapessicd, Esqp..:-. sine :per Las t)-2131. 32/.. Foreign 26/. 211/.:
PRICES OF BOPS.—June IS.
Farnham Pockcis (p :r cwt.
East K.' Pockets. •
Ditto Bags Ol. 0.. 4/ Ps to 0/. 4 .
Mid Kent Pockets
Ditto Bags
Sussex
Yearlow • 4/. Os. 21. His. to 31. 10
Old Olds'
PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS
York Reds ',from vessel) 4/. 10s. to 51 Os. par ton
Scotch Reds ditto l/. Iss. to 41. Os ditto .
Kidneys... 3l. l• s. to 41. Os. ditto ..
Jerseys 'IL ts. to Ll. 10s. ditto
NIKES OF LEATHER
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l' Otsorpi,.lobnlbiro
(Id )
.01142. to d.
Per Th d. to d 1
Crfli Miles, 30 to 401 b each 11 13 i horse hides, German...... It) 21
-------40 50 I—
so 17 Calf Skins, 30
so oo
dull Hides
Butts, Vitriol - 50 60 •IA 1.21
Englisli - 7O 100 •14 eli
foreign
Foretn H 1 dz, --- SlTlali, 2O 1-2
O. c:sing I iides
Shaved .... 12 15 Basils % 7 19
Ge-t Saddlers 111 lies
t.
Horse Hides, Etigli..ll
• 1: rounded 2(1.10 4cl per lb more.
PRICE OF OH.
:I..pe Oil, 40nvn, per ton, 27/. Os —Refined, 381'. Os -Linseed Oil. W. ns.
Linseed toil Cake at toe Mill, (1000', 101. 103 —rape Cake, per ton, 5 I is.
PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, ..sic per 1121 H.
fawn Tallow .50; 0.1 Yellow Song
Yellow Huss;. 50s. ('id. IMottled -a. of
White • —s. Od. Curd
Soap Ditto —s Oil. Cii:sves I tis al.
Melting Stuff
Ditto Rough CO; M.
PRICE OF 11 Asti FAT, per store of 81b.
Price of Tallow (at steed '...), the Tallow Melters) • 2 83..
PRICE OF CANDI.E
The price or good Star,' Candles it the Retail Si:ops is as follsms :
CamPcs. per dozen, 7s. 04 ; inferior, Gs. t3:.--Moulds, Vs. Od.
Six; once per dozen discount for cash.

CIAL MARKET.—Jano lg.
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Coriginal WnWsor Pontop ... 12. 9 Walls End Rassers'lleann 23. 0
7,nrop ‘Viiiiisor IS 9 \Valls End Brewart's
Russell's Mg:, Main
South 'Canfield -; 6 Walls End Dvancry
ran 7e1,1 Moor .2 0 Wads End (Jordon 2O ri
Townley :8 Walls End Scvmaur Tees f.... 2), a
wo t tiArticy. -I ti Walls End South Durham ... I 0 9
Vs illtngton 2l 0 Blythe III 6
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Wills End Bell and Brown ... 21 3 Ncrill's I.lanelly l's 6
W..11s End bewicks. mid C 0... 21 ti Stucky Mans ...
Slops arrived Milt:: last market-do, 92.

Pet Ton.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAS; STRE•

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is not our practice to notice affairs of the nature of that
between M. de Melcy and Lord Castlereagh, whatever we
May think of the circumstances in which they origin:go; nor
should we have been tempted to deviate from the practice on
this occasion, but for the following most discreditable para-
graph in the Standard of last evening
`• A morning paper gives, in an article of prcpOsterous length and
emphasis, an account of a duel between Lord Castlereagh and a • fo-
reigner named Melcy, at Wormwood Scrubs, on Saturday mornim in
which duel Lord Castlereagh was shot through the arm. Tiltre is, it
seems, a singing woman, named Grisi, a foreigner, at Kern'' of the theatres ;
with this person Lord Castlereagh thought proper to become enamoured,
and either not knowing, or knowing. her to be married, addresPed to
her a love-letter. The epistle was intercepted by Melcy, who is said to
be Mrs. Grisi's husband, and he sent Lord Castlereagh a challenge.
This is the whole story, and it is had enough ; Lord Castlereagh ought
e be otherwise occupied : and if his proposition to Mrs. Grisi was less
than honourable, as it must have been if he had known her to be
married, he is wholly without excuse. In any case the duct is In.
excusable.

" When will our nobility and gentry learn that borer-racing and the
singing taste are the cancer of their order ? Why not let Mrs. Grisi
stay at home, and her amiable consort with her; and leave Mr. Gully to
bla pot-house in Carey street ?"

The object of this!, paragraph is not so much to reprobate
the attempt upon a married woman, as to insult Madame Grisi
because she sings at some of the theatres. Can it be neces-
sary in the nineteenth century to defend the singing taste ?
There are no doubt individuals, without any ear for music,
to whom the braying of an ass would afford as much gratifica-
tion as the notes of a thrush, just as there are persons who
cannot see, or whose vision is so imperfect that they can-
not distinguish colours. All nations, in all states of civiliza-
tion, delight in singing; and, as they advance in civiliza-
tion, genius and talent arc more and more devoted to
the cultivation of what, from the very constitution of our
nature, affords the greatest pleasure. They who have
no relish for singing are to be pitied, except when the
art of writing enables them to become ridiculous, as
in the case before us. If the delight men take in music be
rational, those who have attained excellency, either as com-
posers or singers, are not proper objects of contempt. If
there be individuals who entertain the opinion that singing,
acting, or the exercise of any talent as a profession, by which
refined pleasure is communicated to the public, reflects dis-
grace on those who follow such profession, that opinion is
irrational and discreditable. It is as irrational as it would he
to say that the Editor of the Standard, because he writes for
a livelihood, thereby disgraces himself. Madame Grisi is a
singing woman, and we have always understood that she is
an ornament to her profession, while there arc writing men
who reflect no great honour on their profession. To say that
she is a sinning 'woman is either bad English or blackguar-
dism. We have no wish to say any thing harsh of Lord Castle-
reagh; the Press is never worse occupied than when it pre-
sumes to act in judgment on private conduct. But it is ad-
mitted by Lord Castlereagh himself that in this case he is
culpable, and we are jet to learn with what justice, be-
cause a young Nobleman has misconducted himself, a
foreign lady of high talents and irreproachable life,
and her husband, are to be insulted. If the Nobility
deirote more of their time to music and horse-racing than they
ought, this, like every other excess, is culpable ; but Madame
Grisi is not to b 3 blamed for this any more than the brewer or
the distiller is to blame for the immoderate use by some
people of beer or gin. The aim of the writer of the para-
graph, however, is not to reform the aristocracy, but, as we
have said, to insult a respectable profession. There might
have been a time when such an appeal to vulgar prejudices
against the stage would have been successful ; but in the pre-
ssent day it will only recoil on the writer. Low as the Ame-
rican press is said to be by the Standard, we have seen no-
thing in it so low as this mean attempt to make the ,
misconduct .of a young Nobleman a pretext for in-
sulting
a lady, merely because she is a foreigner, and
lives by the exercise of her rare talents. We blush for the
disgrace such an article stamps on'the press of the country.
Even Cobbett, who could not always forget his old associa-
tions, would have disdained to have written anything con-
ceived in so vulgar a spirit. Ho might have been tempted by
the insolence of an actor or a singer to have had recourse to
the language of a certain Act of Parliament ; but he would
not have had the meanness to choose the moment when mo-
dest merit was insulted to endeavour to wound the feelings of
the sufferer. We ar© sure that Lord Castlereagh must him-
self despise the ungenerous attempt to diminish the culpabi-
lity of his conduct by seeking to lower the respectability of
Madame Grisi. Low indeed she must be if she should ever
sink below the writer of the paragraph in the Standard._
Morning Chronicle.

An Evening Journalist, whose absurd spleen against this
Paper scents to amount almost to insanity, gives himself strange
airs about the article in our Journal of yesterday relative to
the rencontre between Lord Castlereagh and M. Gerard de
Melcy. We should be sorry to say anything unnecessarily
harsh, but we really do think that the cumbrous affectation
and pedantic swagger of this canting pretender to censorship
are at once nauseous and ridiculous. " It seems," he says,
" there is a singing woman named Grisi, a foreigner, at some
of the theatres." How extremely absurd is this ! Just as if he
did not copy into Otis paper every other day from this Journal
or from some other an account of Madame Grisi's performance at
the Italian Opera. He goes on to say that " to this person (Ma-
dame Grisi) Lord Castlereagh addressed a love-letter. The
epistle was intercepted by Melcy, who is said to be Mrs. Grisi's
husband, and he sent Lord Castlereagh a challenge. This is the
whole story.". Now, this is not the whole story, for it went
considerably further than the sending of the challenge; but
it is a tissue of very offensive and totally unprovoked imperti-
nence. The ostentatious moralist might surely have either
kept silence, or found something better to say about a hus-
band's resentment, arising from a belief that the honour of
his wife had been seriously assailed. He may accuce us of
" preposterous length and emphasis" on this subject, but it is
his fault, and not ours, that we are driven to return to it, for
the purpose of answering preposterous pretension, and impu-
dent allusion to ourselves.—Morning Post.
Mr. Wyse, M.P., has given the following notice of mo-
tion for Tuesday next :—" Select Committee to inquire into
the best means of extending a knowledge of the arts and the
principles of design among the people (especially the manu-
facturing population) of the country ; also to inquire into the
constitution, management, and effects of institutions connected
with the arts." One of the best means is to open the public
monuments gratuitously to the people. The amount of new
privilege recently gained by the public, as regards them, is
but limited. The public are now admitted at particular
hours gratis to St. Paul's ; the admission to the Tower is
lowered ; but Westminster Abbey, with all its information,
its monuments and associations of past history and past
glory, is still to remain as a " sealed book" to the. British
nation. The exclusion from Westminster Abbey was per-
haps to be expected from the clerical functionaries of
that public building ; but the grounds alleged in justifica.-
tion of it arc equally absurd and deplorable. On the Con-
tinent the churches arc open at all times to penitence and
prayer. Why should the ecclesiastics of Westminster Ab-
bey unnecessarily give their opponents a handle for accusing
them of a disbelief in the value of those religious duties ?
They, forsooth, are private bodies, and Westminster Abbey
must consequently be considered a private dwelling. But is
the fame of Newton, or of Nelson, or of Shakspearc—is that
of all the great luminaries of legislation and religion private
property ? Is there anything private in their memorials ?
No, they belong to the nation ; and the monastic exclusives
convict themselves of an equal want of patriotism and religion,
whilst extracting the paltry lucre of their stipulated three-
pences from the emulative veneration which British visitors
naturally entertain for the memorials of departed greatness.
Our readers are aware of the importance which we have at-
tached to the encouragement of art, as involving one of those
means of educating the people which are absolutely neces-
sary for the proper enjoyment and appreciatioe of a large
condition of liberty. The education of the public eye is
one of the departments of education, in that enlarged
sense of the word, for which we have so often con-
tended. The principal object of the diffusion of educational
refinement by a familiarity with the great works of art is, that
it wins the people from debasing pleasures to intellectual pur-
suits ; it renders the gift of universal liberty, which by right
belongs to them, a safe and profitable bone, instead of being
a mischievous gift, as it would be to them in an uninstructed
state. A familiarity with the best models of art and science
purifies and elevates a people. It refines manners, heightens
enjoyments, and nerves the manly spirit of freedom. When
was human liberty in the highest state of exaltation ? When
the highest degree of educational refinement was diffused in Re-
publican Athens and free Greece, and when those unrivalled mo-
numents of taste were eroduced, from the sight of which the free
English people arc slavishly and absurdly debarred. It has been
alleged against the English people, that they are incapable
of appreciating the monuments of taste which are open to
them. It is a gross calumny. That charge, which might
have been made formerly, cannot be made now. It is rather
Nainst the upper classes than the lower classes that it can be
justly made. The plundered or dilapidated monuments of
Greece, Italy, and Egypt, bear witness to the charge against
the former. In France, in Italy, and in Germany, the acces-
sible character of the galleries, museums, and monuments to
the whole of the public, is productive of the best effects on the
morals, manners, and conduct of the people. It raises them
in the political as well as in the social scale ; for the apprecia-
tion of truth in taste is intimately associated with just estimate
,of truth in politics. Daily facts demonstrate the necessity of
rendering the g;ratuitous accessibility of the public to all the
great monuments of art subordinate of the purposes of general
education, and auxiliary to the paramount object of " educat-
in
eng trn ereialhe public tre," ashich is of equal consequence to the
c' refosperi:y of the natien as it is to the habits and
morals of se;cicty.
•
" Ingenuat de.licisee artes
ErnolLt trim es nee sir,it es,rs faros."
There is one point of the subjcet n
"-which we wish to make
a concluding obseivation. We do not thik it woeld be be-
- nefieial for Government to exereis,: too stringent and entire a
controul over such schools, art-unions, or societies fir the im-
provement of design, which may he contemplated by Sir.
Wyse's Bill ; although i!-.; encouraging assistance, to a certain
extent, and especially in the first instance, is both desirable and
neeesteey. Too intimate a connection will Government has
rearrest the Royal Academy, These societies are intellaol fvr
a popular r,bject ; .their interior self controul should be
popular also. Talent, like the finest specimens of the vc,go-
table kingdom may be injured by too much hothouse cultiva
tints. It is enfeebled by a surplus of artificial encoutTgement.
Germinating equally in the shade and in the sunshine—in
humble and in elevated life—real genius in art or science, in
order to be fully successful, must rely upon itself. It must be
independent of the go-cart of artificial aid ; and must be
prompted by the manly impulses of popular competition to the
schievenwnt of excellenee, and the acquisition of reputation.
—Morning Advert isrr.
To judge by tEe language of those who profess to speak for

them, the Queen's Minister's have taken up sonic not Very
creditable resolution with regard to what ar' called the thrse
Irish measures. Towards the eltSst of the discussions on the
committal of the Corperittlon Bill in the house of Commons)
Lord John Restell 'Seemed willing to do justice to the eon-
sistenhy as Well as sincerity of Sir Robert Peel, and to re-
buke the coarse and uncandid artianbny of Mr. O'Connell and
Mr. Shell, when thee. Charged the Right Hon. Baronet ss ith
" insulting feelend,"" holding out false hopes of conciliation,"
&e. W had persuaded ourselves, from that and other circum-
stances, that Lord John Russell was disposed to consider
frankly and favourably the (declared wishes of Sir Robert Pcel
for a aettlement of these much vexed and most vexatious
questions) and that he would even himself of whatever chance
the forms and facilities of Parliament ia either House
might afford him to effect an accommodation of the points
unadjusted between the Whigs and the Conservatives.
In so far as can be collected from recent appear-
ances, the hopes we thus cherished had no very solid founda-
tion. The Ministerial press for some days past has outdone
itself in wild and wicked misrepresentation of the feelings,
views, and statements of the Conservatives touching the affairs
of Ireland, whether in speech or writing. There is no for-
gotten topic of virulence or malice, laid aside for years as use-
less rubbish, which is not now raked up from the lumber-room
of cast-off defamation, and made to serve the factious purpose
of the hour. Take a Treasury print of yesterday morning
for a specimen. It begins with a solemn assumption, that the
Tories " have frankly avowed the object of their enormous
franchise in the Irish Municipal Bill to be the continued ex-
clusion of the Catholics, that being essential to the security of
the Established Church." First—For the " enormous"
franchise of Sir Robert Peel, how is this a " late" or " new'
enormity, when the Right Honourable Baronet insisted from
the beginning that a 10/. franchise, being the same as that
already existing throughout Great Britain, was that ahich
he never would dispense with ? How is this a new
enormity, when, in reply to Sir Robert Peel on Monday the
Iltk inst., Lord John Russell began by "very much regretting
that the Right Hon. Gentleman was determined to persevere
in the plan which he had formerly proposed !" viz., the demand
of a 101. franchise ? Is not this a sufficient answer ? But the
fact is notorious that Sir Robert Peel never swerved one iota
from the views which lie origirrally propounded, when in the
former Session he oppescd a Corporation Bill of any sort until
he should ascertain what securities were to be laid for the
Church by the other Bills—namely, the Poor-law and the
Tithe Bill—that is to say, in one of them by a rating clause,
and in the other by an abandonment of the appropriation prin-
ciple while in the present Session, seeing that the appropria-
tion villany was abandoned, and that it was agreed to regulate
the municipal qualification by a poor-rate, the Right Hon.
Baronet said at once—" I am now satisfied that the Tithe Bill
cannot destroy the Church, and I require of you such an
amount of qualification, to be tested by a poor-rate, as shall
not undermine or impair our institutions—viz., a 10/. oc-
cupancy." But it seems the object of Sir Robert Peel
is " the continued exclusion of the Roman Catholics."
Ay, out of what description of Roman Catholics? Of the
respectable, intelligent, and independent Roman Catholics ?
No; it is a sheer falsehood to make any such assertion. All
Roman Catholics, high and low, arc practically now excluded;
whereas Sir Robert Peel proposes to abolish the exclusion in
favour of all such Roman Catholics as have decent education
and tolerable independence of position and character—in fa-
vour, we say, of all such Roman Catholics—as arc not by
gross ignorance, inveterate superstition, and abject poverty,
incapable of thinking for themselves, and precluded from
acting for themselves, by their utter vassalage to the priest-
hood. If it be the purpose of Sir Robert Peel to re-
inforce the Protestant corporators of Ireland by Roman
Catholics equally, or almost equally, qualified to exercise
constitutional rights, with a clear knowledge of and zeal for
the common good—if, further, he be anxious to exclude
Roman Catholics who see only through the eyelids of a grasp-
ing and tyrannical priesthood, and who would obey a signal of
open rebellion with the same implicit and prostrate servility as
they do a mandate whether of public or private penance, we
affirm that Sir Robert Peel, both in the class of Papists
whom he admits and in that which he rejects has displayed the
wisdom and integrity of a Statesman, and if he regards a 101.
bona fide franchise as the best discriminating criterion between
those classes, he acts honestly in proposing that sum as his
qualification, and the return, on oath, of a public officer as the
proper test of value. Upon the rabid nonsense dealt in so
largely by this calumniator, about the Protestant Church
being a " monstrous burden upon the pockets" of a people who
would not gain a single farthing by its annihilation to-morrow,
whatever their landlords might—about it being " a standing
argument against the liberties" of those who are not suf-
fered by their priests to have a will of their own at any one
hour of their existence—about the Protestant Church being
at once " an extortioner and a tyrant," with reference
to those who are protected against both its demands and its
authority by a law which it dares not, and never has been
known to, violate, but whom no human law can protect against
the inordinate oppressions of their own spiritual despots—
finally, upon the audacious impudence of that sycophant, who
bellows against the Protestant Church I for preventing edu-
cation and hindering civilization, and this in the teeth of
M'Hale's circular manifestoes, which denounce every teacher
not selected by him, and every printed book not licensed by his
gracious authority—upon all such depraved and scandalous
mockeries we may with a safe conscience leave the English
public to form its own opinion ; as for the Irish, in so far as
it is the O'Connell public, we give up to others the irksome
and hopeless task of disabusing it. Let the precious priests
themselves take heed to the ",education and civilization" of a
community to which they aro so happily suited.—Tinies.
The report on the third readiniT of the Irish Municipal Cor-
porations Bill was brought up last night; but, after the dis-
cussion of certain amendments proposed by Mr. O'Connell,
the Bill was re-committed, and ordered to be read a third time
on Monday next. Mr. O'Connell moved as an amendment,
the substitution of the Scottish municipal franchise, for the
franchise proposed in the Bill. The latter franchise is 51.,
tested by rating under the Poor-law for Ireland. The Scottish
Municipal franchise is 10/., without rating. Mr. O'Connell's
amendment stood, be it observed, amongst the regular no-
tices :—yet, although full intimation was thus given to the
Conservative Party of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's
intention, it is a very remarkable fact that not one of the
leaders of the Conservatives was present during the long &se'
cussion on the subject which took place. The Globe, as
our readers are aware, has, in a strain of taunting exultation
prophesied that Sir Robert Peel will abandon his " unalter-
able resolution" on the subject of the 101., municipal fran-
chise, and the proposed test of rating under the Poor-law !
We trust that Sir Robert's absence, last night, is not to be
regarded as, in part, a verification of our contemporary's pre-
diction ! The absence of the Conservative leader, last night, is
worthy of note, not only in consequence of Mr. O'Connell's
intended amendments having been intimated in the usual way,
but, because Sir Robert Peel had pledged himself, on the first
discussion of this question, again to take the sense of the
House on the subject of his proposition, " when the report
should be brought up." Not only was Sir Robert Peel absent
from his post last night, but by a remarkable and unlucky co-
incidence, all the other- distinguished gentlemen who occupy
the highest places in the ranks of opposition were, in like man-
ner, invisible. Sir William Follett, Sir Edward Sugden, and
Mr. Gladstone did not appear. Lord Stanley and Sir James
Graham left the House, when the discussion commenced,
without having taken any part in it. But if the non-attend-
ance of all the leaders of the Conservative party was matter
of regret, that -regret, undoubtedly, will not be lessened,
throughout the country, by the tone adopted in debate by !
several gentlemen, whom Conservatives throughout the
country, regard with respect. Mr. Lascellcs, Mr. Miles,
Mr. Pusey; and Lord Eliot—all of them, the representa-
tives of Conservative constituencies—professed themselves,
vsith slight shades of difference, converts, more or less,
to Mr. O'Connell's views as to the hardship on Ireland of a
10/. municipal franchise, tested by rating under the poor lair.
The sentiments expressed by these honourable Conservatives
won for them the warm plaudits of Mr. O'Connell and his
ministerial friends. Mr. Lucas, Mr. Litton, Mr. Sergeant
Jackson, and Sir George Clerk protested against the assump-
tion that Sir Robert Peel designed to raise the proposed mu-
nicipal franchise above 10/ Sir G. Clerk declared that a bona
.fide 10/. franchise was all that was required by the Conserva-
tive party; and that Sir Robert Peel would not, he was sure,
refuse to agree to the introduction into the Irish Poor-law, of
words to the effect, that the rating should be regulated by the
rent actually -pr id by the occupants of 10/. houses. At present,
the rated rental is alleged to be below the actual rental ! Mr.
Litton made a bold stand in support of the test proposed by
Sir R. Peel; whilst Mr. Darby declared that should that
test be abandoned by the right Honourable Baronet, he
should consider that all the Conservatives who voted
for the Right Hon. Baronet's proposition, had been betrayed !
It is difficult, we admit, to read aright, at the first view,
these very curious features in last night's debate :—at the
same time, there can be little harm, we imagine, in recom-
mending all the friends to the Established Church in Ireland
to prepare for the worst. The facts which we have recorded
smack strongly of " compromise" between the leaders of the
Conservatives, and the deadly enemies of all Conservative in-
terests. When we find Mr. Lascelles declaring that the
question of municipal corporations for Ireland—or rather the
question, whether municipal corporations in that country shall
be so framed as to secure equal justice to Protestanism, on
the one hand, or to destroy Protestantism, on the other—" is
not a party question," we are tempted to inquire whether Mr.
Lascelles represents truly the sentiments of the great "party"
which returned him to the House of Commons, and when, in like
manner, we find Lord Eliot declaring, that after the Roman
Catholics have been admitted to political equality with Pro-
testants, it is unjust to resist the wishes of the people rf Ire-
land in the matter of Municipal Ccrporations, we are in-
clined to wonder at the peculiar logical process, by which
,rd Eliot must arrive at his conclusions ! His Lordship's
proposition, when embodied in simple terms, amounts to this,
that ly.!c•iu.e an act of favour or of jusfce (for either alterna-
tive may, for the moment, be aszunird), was performed towards
the Roman Catholics of Ireland in 1029, therefore, them Ro-
man Catholics have, in IS3B, a right to dictate to the Impe-
rial Legislature, terms, which may enable them utterly to sub-
vert Protestlt inten-sts in all the Corporate towns of Ire-
land ! A few days will unfold the sentiments-of Sir Robert
Peel, on this memento= subject. Ile has, already, it Is true,
stated his f` unalterable resolution" in the matter ; but, in
these time, " unalterable revolutions" are apt, in particular
circumstances, to exhia,it strange susceptibilities of alteration.
Whatever be the nature of tie declaration, which the Parlia-
mentary Leader of the Conservatives may make, the Conser-
vatives throughout England and Ireland had better loot- to
themselves.—Morning Herald.

Fridty morning, for the first time, some of the
Bath, Bristol, and Reading stage.coaches prceeeded !rein Limdon by the
Great Western Railroad to Maidenhead, whence they will premed, on
their destinaticn. The time sawed to Maidenhead is upwards of two
houre,

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Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clcck, the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY occupying the Woolsack, in the abi“'nce of the
Lord Chancellor.

POOR-LAW.
Earl STANIIOPE prcscnted a petition against the New
Poor-law.

POSTAGE.
The NOBLE EARL also presented a petition from a place in
Suffolk for the reduction of the rates of postage.
OATHS VALIDITY BILL.
On the motion of Lord DENMAN this Bill was read
.a third time and passed.
NEW POOR LAWS.
Earl STRADBROKE presented a petition from the
Guardians of a Union in Suffolk in favour of the New Poor-
law Amendment Bill. The Noble Earl remarked that a peti.
tion which had been presented on a former occasion against the
Bill, from some place in the samo county, by Earl Stanhope,
was professedly signed by persons designated, " Esquires," who
were merely millers' servants—(Laughter)—and some names
of persons who were dead.—( Hear.)
Earl STANHOPE observed that the name " 'Squire" was
used in SutfJlk as a baptismal name—( A laugh)—but
he denied that any of the honest citizens who had
signed the petition in question had assumed a designation
not properly belonging to them.
Earl ST R A DB RO K E reiterated his assertion.
About a quarter past five, the LORD CHANCELLOR took his
seat on the woolsack.
INDIAN IDOLATRY.
The Bishop of LONDON in presenting two petitions, the
one from Bath and the other from Waterford, praying for a dis•
continuance of the countenance given by the British Government
in India to Ilindoo idolatries, said, if the measures of that
Government on this subject (some of which he did not hesi-
tate to characterise as unchristian) were not retracted, great
indignation would justly be excited in the mind of the
Christian public in this country. He begged to ask if the
Gcvernment bad taken any steps on this subject.
Viscount MELBOURNE said he believed that when the
conduct of the Government of India came to be better known,
it would not be found to deserve the very bitter condemnation
of the Right Rev. Prelate.—( Hear.) It was the intention of
the Government to take every possible measure for bringing
this question to a satisfactory conelusion.
The Bishop of LONDON expressed his gratification at
this assurance, at the same time lie repeated his former state-
ment, as to the conduct of the Indian Government on this
subject.
HAYTI.

Lord BROUGHAM asked what measures had been taken
by the Government with respect to the Republic of Hayti,
and the commercial intercourse of that island with Jamaica
and this country?
Lord GLEN ELG said the subject had been long under
the consideration of the Government, and his Noble
Friend at the head of the Foreign Office (Lord Palmerston)
was now in communication with France, with regard to it.

Lord BROUGHAM denied that this was the proper way
of proceeding. The Govermr.ent of France had no more
right to interfere with Hayti than Hayti had to in-
terfere with France. France bad long, as he under-
stood, acknowledged the independence of Hay ti. He
now moved for a return of the exports of Great Britain to
Hayti within the last ten years, and the imports from Hayti to
Great Britain, and the exports from Great Britain to Jamaica,
and the re-export of goods thus exported to Jamaica, from
thence to the Spanish Main, or elsewhere, during the same
period.
Lord MELBOURNE hoped the Noble and Learned Lord
would give notice of this motion, believing that the Noble
and Learned Lord was misinformed on this subject.

Lord BROUGHAM had no objection to give the notice,
but he believed his information to be correct.
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