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was no case for a prosecution. He put it to
Honourable Members whether they would consider
it just that their characters should be injured
by a formal order for a prosecution of this na-
ture, when there was no precedent for the proceeding,
and the present House of Commons had so nearly ter-
minated its existence ? He thought the prosecution,
under such circumstances, would be most unjust, and he
trusted that the House would not consent to the motion.
Sir R INGLIS explained. It was not the Committee,
but that House, which he had compared to a Grand
Jury. He had adopted a comparison used by those who
had preceded him.
Mr. PRINGLE said a great deal had beenbrought out
in the Committee which was entitled to the notice of the
House. As one of the Committee, he thought there was
good ground for the present motion. The Committee had
made no special report, because they did not think they
would be justified m doing so ' • and they considered also
that it would be much better for the House to take no-
tice of it in a formal way, than that the Committee
should have done so. He trusted that the vote the House
would come to that night would vindicate its own pro-
ceedings, and punish the guilty parties. Such being his
views and wishes, he would support the motion of his
Right Hon. Friend.
Mr. HUTT had been also a member of the Commit-
tee, and, as such, he thought that the House, if it
adopted the course it was proposed to pursue, would
stultify itself and its proceedings. He felt convinced
that the present question had been brought forward, not
so much for the purpose of putting an end to bribery, as
from a hostile feeling on the part of Hon. Members on
the other side of the House.
Mr. BRAMSTON had also been a member of the
Committee, and, as such, he felt convinced that
it had acted as it had done from the best of motives.—
(Cries of "Hear, hear.") He looked at the present case
as if it was one that had been brought before him as a
Magistrate. He looked to see whether there was enough
evidence to commit the man; and it was his firm belief
that there was. Such being his views, he should vote in
favour of the motion of his Hon. Friend.
Sir T. COCHRANE supported the motion, and said,
he would vote not only for a Bill to put an end to bri-
bery, but one calling upon a Member to account for every
shilling of his expenditure at his election.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL trusted the House
would not expect him to take any part in that debate If
the evidence to be brought forward would support a
charge of bribery, he would prosecute upon fair and ho-
nourable principles ; but, of course, upon such a case the
House would not expect him to give a vote.
Mr. WYNN replied. He knew nothing of the case
except from the Report of the Committee, and he thought
there was evidence enough given before them to warrant
the prosecution of Dr. Webster for gross bribery.
Mr. WARD gave notice, that, ,on Friday next, he
should call the attention of the House to the Special
Report of the Committee on the Cambridge and Ludlow
Election petitions.—(Cheers.)
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division
took place, the motion being agreed to without a division.
NEW PENAL SETTLEMENT.
Sir C. GREY then rose to bring forward the mo-
tion of which he had given notice for the appointment
of a Select Committee to inquire into the fitness of her
Majesty's territory of Labrador for a penal settlement.
The first point which he would rely upon was its proxi-
mity to that country, it being only about ten days' sail,
while at present they were compelled to incur an enor-
mous expense in transmitting their convicts 16,000 miles
to the very antipodes. There was nothing in the climate
prejudicial to health, and there was abundant employ-
ment for any number of convicts that might be sent
there. He believed it would materially increase their
trade with that country, which at present amounted
to upwards of half a million. He was glad
he had taken that opportunity of bringing the
subject before the House. He would not, however,
think of pressing his motion to a division ; but he trusted
that next Session some Member of influence would take
up the subject.
Mr. FOX MAULE could not allow the matter to
pass without observing that in the present advanced stage
of the Session, the appointment of a Select Committee to
inquire into a subject was completely out of the question.
He also differed from the Hon. Gentleman in his views
with reference to the distance at which such an establish-
ment ought to be founded.
Lord MAHON concurred in the inutility of appoint-
ing a Committee to inquire into the subject at the pre-
sent period of the session and the prospects of the House.
He would take that opportunity of calling attention to
the state of the convicts at Woolwich. The number of
those unfortunate persons at present confined there was
4,000, which was 400 more than the number there last
year. That continuous increase was, he had no doubt,
one of the causes which produced diseases among the

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convicts.
Mr. F. MAULE said that both among the troops and
convicts at Woolwich an epidemic prevailed, which ac-
counted for the ill-health that was said to exist there.

Sir T. COCHRANE would defy any one to keep con-
victs at 'Labrador, unless they kept them within four
walls. The coast of Labrador during the whole of the
summer afforded the utmost facilities for escape, and
during the winter it would be impossible to employ them.
Sir C. GREY explained.
Sir R. PEEL wished to ask the Hon. Gentleman
whether he understood him rightly that the question of
establishing a new penal colony had engaged the atten-
tion of the Goi-ernment.
Mr. FOX MAULE said the Right Hon. Gentleman
must have misunderstood him if he understood him to
say that the Government contemplated any new penal
settlement All he meant to state was this, that as the
Noble Lord had brought the question before the public
he was not sorry the Right Hon. Gentleman had sug-
gested some particular spot, in order that the public
might see the difficulty there was in fixing on any place
for the object. The Government was satisfied with the
present penal settlements and with the hulks, and until
the experimental prison should ho completed it would be
impossible to adopt any other system.
Sir R. PEEL asked what were the number of convicts
sent out annually under the present system? He knew
they had been greatly diminished, but he wished to
know the exact number.
Mr. FOX MAI:LE mould have been prepared to
answer the question had lie had notice of it. Convicts
sentenced to transportation for seven years were de-
tained either in the hulks at home or sent to the hulks at
Gibraltar.

Lord MAHON could answer that question.—(A laugh.)
In 1839 the number convicts in the hulks amounted
to 1,300 ; they had 7 since increased to 3,650, and
in the estimates for the present year, which
if they had been brought forward in the regu-
lar way he should certainly have opposed, it was
proposed to raise them to 4,000. The number sent
abroad ranged from 1,800 to 2,000 annually. He would
now ask the Hon. Gentleman when it was probable that
the returns for which he had moved in last March, of the
evidence taken before the Coroners' Inquests on convicts
who had died at Woolwich, would be laid before the
House.

Mr. FOX MAIJLE said the Coroner's notes of evi-
dence belonged exclusively to themselves, the same way
as Judges' notes, and if they refused to produce them,
there was no means of compelling them to do so, and in
this case, also in the case of similar returns,
moved for by the Right Hon. and Gallant Member for
Lincoln relative to certain inquests in Poor-law Unions,
he had requested the Coroners to furnish the notes of
evidence, and that was all he could do.

Sir. C. GREY would certainly bring the subject for-
ward again next session if he had a seat in the new Par-
liament.—The motion was then withdrawn.
Mr. J. STEWART withdrew his motion of which he
had given notice, to bring in a Bill to lessen the ex-
penses attending small properties.
RAILROADS IN IRELAND.
Sir R. FERGUSON presented a petition from Lon-
donderry in favour of the plan for establishing railroads
in Ireland.

interest of 4 per cent. the holders of the debentures
would be entitled to one-half the surplus profits. The
Commissioners named in the Bill were to have the
sole direction of the works. The lands neces-
sary were to be taken in the manner to be pro-
vided by the Act. The Bill contained further
powers enabling the directors to extend the line to Cork,
and also to enable other parties to make lines in other
parts of Ireland at the same time. A deposit of 10 per
cent. on the capital to be paid up before the Act should
come into operation. Such were the main fJatures of the
proposal which these gentlemen had made to the Go
vernment ; and as at present it was not his intention to
elicit the opinion of the House as to its merits, but
merely to lay the Bill before the House, in order that
it might be considered fully both by the House and by
the people of Ireland, he should not enter into any dis-
cussion as to the merits of the scheme. In bringing for-
ward the measure at the present time, his only object was
to give facilities to the present Government, or if it
should be displaced, to any other that might succeed it,
far bringing forward a measure calculated to benefit the
population of Ireland.

- Mr. SHAW, in seconding the motion, was glad to
bear testimony to the great attention which the Noble
Lord had paid to the subject.

In answer to a question from Lord STANLEY,
Lord MORPETH said the same plan would be
adopted in taking land as that in the Shannon Naviga-
tion Bill ; and in answer to Mr. Sergeant Jackson, he
would state that the counties would be assessed in pro-
portion to the benefits they derived from the railway.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN approved of the measure.
He thought there could be no objection to the principle
of rendering the counties liable to a four per tentage on
the expense of the undertaking. He was sure that even
a larger per tentage would be realised by the profits
from the lines. He therefore approved of the measure,
although he reserved to himself the right to object to
any of its details hereafter, as he might think fit.
Mr. F. FRENCH regretted that his Noble Friend
had not followed the recommendations of the Railway
Commissioners ; but he would willingly support the mea-
sure before the House as the next best plan.
Mr. LUCAS approved of the measure of the Noble
Lord, and he thought the thanks of the House were due
to him for the pains he had taken upon the subject.
Mr. LITTON gladly hailed any measure which, by
giving railways to Ireland, would increase commerce and
intercourse in that country.

Leave was then given to; bring in the Bill.
On the motion of Mr. MARK PHILIPS it was or-
dered that the Clerk who attended the Committee on the
Copyright of Designs in the last Session of Parliiament,
had leave to attend at the next Summer Assizes at Liver-
pool, and give evidence in a certain action now pending
between William Ross, plaintiff, and Edward Wortling-
ton, defendant, and to take with him and to produce to
the Court and the Jury the Minutes of Evidence, and all
other proceedings whatsoever had and taken under and
appertaining to the said Committee.
Sir J. Y. BULLER moved that the Committee on
West India Mails be instructed to send for and exa-
mine the Committee appointed to inquire respecting the
port to be selected for the arrival and departure of steam
vessels conveying mails to the West Indies.
_ _

After a few —words from Mr. Freshfield, Captain
Pechell, Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer,
Sir J. Y. BULLER said he should not press the mo-
tion against what appeared to be the sense of the House.
The motion was then withdrawn.

Mr. WYSE brought up the Report of the Committee
of Supply, and the several resolutions were agreed to.
The New South Wales Bill and the Western Australia
Bill severally went through a Committee. The reports
were ordered to be received on Wednesday (this day).
The Houses of Industry (Ireland) Bill went through a
Committee.

The Report on the Insolvent Debtors (Ireland) Bill
was further considered.

The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock.

NEWSPAPER. STAMPS.

Return ordered, "of the number of Newspaper Stamps
issued, from the sth of January to the 31st day of March 1841
(in continuation of previous Returns)."—(Mr. Hume. )
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

That they have agreed to, Burwell Fen Drainage and Navi-
gation Bill—Elsing Inclosure (No. 2) Bill—Olveston Inclo-
%ure 13i11—Sedgley Road Bill—South Western Railway (No.
2) Bill—Birmingham and Hagley Road Bill—King's Lynn
Port Bill—Deanhead Reservoir Bill—Brimington Inclosure
Bill—Dewsbury and Leeds Road Bill—Birkenhead Church
Bill—Wells (Somerset) Market Bill—Belfast Harbour Bill—
Barnstaple and Braunton Roads Bill—Exmouth Market Bill,
without amendment—Bristol and Exeter Railway Bill—and,
Monkland Canal Bill, with amendments.

That they have pasred a Bill, intituled, " An Act for carry-
ing into effect a contract between Edward Gresley Stole and
John Attwood, Esquires, for the sale of the Coptfold Hall
estate, in the county of Essex, to the said John Attwood, and
for investing the purchase money in other estates to be settled
to the same uses ; and also, for authorising the exchange of
certain lands and hereditaments in the counties of Worcester
and Gloucester, devised by the will of John Stone, Esq., de-
ceased."

Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act t 2 remove doubts as to the
division tithe parish of WinterbournT, in the coanty of Glou-
°ester, into two pari,hes."
Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act for naturalizing Philipp
Jacob Passavant and Philipp Johann Passavant, Theodor Pas-
savant, Mary Magdalen Johanna Passavant, Jacob Rudolph
Passavant, and Henrietta Maryane Laura Louisa Augusta
Passavant, his children."

Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act to enable the Trustees of
the Hospital a Saint John the Baptist, in the city of Win-
chester, to effect an exchange with Sir Edmund Antrobus,
Baronet, under the authority of the Court of Chancery."
BILLS DROPPED.

The following Bills were put off for three months :
County Coroners Bill,—order fur Committee (9th June)
read, and discharged.
Factories Bill,—Committee.
Silk Factories Bill,—Committee.
County Courts Bill,—Further Consideration of Report.
Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Lunacy Bill,—Committee.
Registration of Voters (Scotland) Bill,—Committee.
Boroughs Improvement Bill,—Further Consideration of
Report.
Buildings Regulation Bill,—Further Consideration of Report.
Royal Burghs ( Scotland) Bill,—Committee.
Parliamentary Burghs (Scotland) Bill,—Committee.
Drainage of Towns (No. 2.) Bill,—Second Reading.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
MR. HANDLEY AND LORD STANLEY.
COPY.-NO. I. MR. HANDLEY TO LORD STANLEY.
" 30, Pall-mall, June 6, 1841.
" My Lord,—Your Lordship will recollect that, in the re-
marks you addressed to me in your speech on Friday night,
you observed that when Sir Robert Peel came into office I
consulted you as to my vote on the Speakership, and the course
1 ought to pursue, not liking to give an absolute refusal to
import the Right Honourable Gentleman.'
" I at the time contented myself With an expression of dis-
sent, thinking it of little moment to the House or to the ques-
tion what was my course on that. occasion. Finding, how-
ever, that the circumstance has been commented on out of
doors, I take the liberty of addressing your Lordship on the
subject.
" Your Lordship's charge against me, of having been an
uncompromising and devoted adherent of Lord Liverpool's
Government,' will be contradicted on a reference to Hansard
by those whe may take the trouble to ascertain the votf•ts which
I recorded in opposition to that Government ; but the state-
ment, as to my having sought your Lordship's advice, having
been made on your own authority, I must beg to local to your
Lordship's recollection the following facts.
" I had no communication whatever with your Lordship
previous to my vote for Mr. Manners Sutton ; but on the
following morning I received a note from Lord George
Bentinck, purporting to be written by your desire, and
stating that, judging from any vote on the Speakerahip,
I was not prepared to go ail lengths with the Opposi-
tion, your Lordship had requested him, as a mutual friend,
to invite me to meet a few members at your Lordship's houze,
to consult on the course to be adopted as to the Address. My
reply was, that having made up my mind to vote far any
amendment to the Address that implied a want of confidence
in Sir Robert Peel, I could not, in fairness, join in the consul-
tation. A subsequent communication, however, was made by
Lord George Bentinck, urging my attendance, which, he said,
would be in no way binding upon me, with which I complied,
and after remaining some ten minutes, during which you did
not address a syllable to me individually, I found that your
Lordship's views and mine were totally different, and I at once
quitted the only conference, if such it can be called, ever held
between us, and which your Lordship will now perceive was
not of my seeking, but your's.
" I leave it to your Lordship's sense of justice to give suchs
explanation as you may think fit, either in the House or by
letter, reserving to myself the right of giving publicity to thi
correspondence.—l have the honour to be,
" Your Lordship's obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " HENRY HANDLEY.
" The Lord Stanley," &c.
COPY.-NO. 11. LORD STANLEY TO MR. HANDLEY.
" St. James's-square, June 7, 1841.
" Sir,—On my return to town this morning, I have had the
honour of receiving your letter of yesterday. It would be a
matter of sincere regret to me to find that in the observations
which I made in the House of Commons on Friday night,
1 had misrepresented any part of your political con-
duct: My own strong impression was, that I had seen you at
my house in 1835, together with other gentlemen who were
not prepared to place implicit confidence in Si, Robert
Peel's Government, but who, at the same time, declined to
commit themselves to active opposition against him. My
impression was confirmed by the recollection of others ; and
it appears from your letter that on one occasion you
were so present. Your memory is much more likely to be
accurate than mine, as to whether that occasion was pre.
vious, or subsequent to, the vote which you gave in favour
of Mr. Manners Sutton against Mr. Abercromby ; and if
I mistake not, I distinctly admitted on Friday, that your
attendance at my house was not long continued. The po-
sition which I occupied at that time was not one of my own
seeking, but was pressed upon me by several gentlemen, some
of whom, I believe, previously attended a meeting in Palace-
yard, of which number I understood that you were one : and I
am not aware of having invited the attendance of any one at
my house. I can, of course, have no objection to your making
use of this correspondence in any way you may think proper.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " STANLEY.
" To H. Handley, Esq."

Lord MORPETH, in rising for leave to bring in a
Bill for the purpose of establishing railroads in Ireland,
said that in the present state of the session he should not
move for leave to introduce a Bill of any importance,
with any other design than that of having it printed, so
as to give information to the public generally on the
subject, more especially to that portion of it
more immediately concerned. He would merely then
refer to a statement which had been made on the occa-
sion of his bringing forward this motion. The Right
Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamwortb, towards the
conclusion of his speech last week, had made a slight and
passing allusion to this motion, as if it had been brought
forward with a view of propping up the Government on
the eve of a general election. The fact was, that certain
private individuals had come forward and made a pro-
position on the subject to the Government. He would
merely state what that proposition was, and nut
enter at an, length into any of the circumstances
connected with it,---He was still of opinion that the pro-
position which he had first brought forward on the sub-
ject of the Government undertaking various railways in
Ireland, was the most expedient plan. But as when he
had brought it forward he had reason to believe
that it would not meet with the assent of the Legisla-
ture, he had withdrawn it, and had not attempted
again to introduce it, although he believed that persons
of all parties had since expressed themselves in its favour.
A proposition on that subject had been submitted to the
Government on the part of certain individuals
,of great character, -station, and financial ability, and
although in making ;station,
proposition they had doubtless
imagined that they were not entering upon. a hazard-
ous speculation, yet he honestly believed that they had
been principally induced to take up the project, because
they believed that it would be of advantage to Ireland.
—(Cheers.) Those gentlemen had adopted, as the basis
of their calculations, the Report of the Railway Com-
missioners, for which the country was so much indebted
to the assiduity and energy of his late excellent and la-
mented friend, Mr. Drummond.—(Loud cheers.) They
had proposed to the Government to raise a capital of
1,300,000/., to be applied in the first instance to
the completion of the southern line of rail-
way, that from Dublin to Limerick, which would
' I go quite across the island, and would unite the two seas;
the works to be carried on under the exclusive superin-
tendence of Commissioners to be appointed by the Go-
vernment, and in order to obviate any jealousy as to the
the selection of these Commissioners by the Govern-
ment, it was proposed to nominate them in the Bill, anal
they would consist of Sir John Burgoyne, Mr. Ren-
nie, and Mr. Jones, who had been the Secretaries to the
Irish Railway Commission. The sum was proposed to AMERICAN
be raised by means of debentures, and the expenditure FIGURE OF SPEECH.—The verb
to fix" is universal, It means to do anything. " Shall I fix
to be under the management of a Board of Con- your coat or your breakfast fiest ?" That is Shall I hrtkh
trol consisting
of seven members, and the Go- your coat, or get ready your breakfast first ?" " Right away,"
vernment had reason to hope that gentlemen of orinsmediately, or at once, is very general. " Shall I fix it
all parties would be found wiling to give their right away ?"—i. e.
services as members of such Board gratuitously. West, when you stop at an inn, they say—,, What will you
The debentures,when signed by two
"Sindl I do it immediately ?" In the
by two Members of the Board of Conti-el, to bear chicken fixings." That is-_" Will you have park and brown
interest of 4 per cent., and in case that should not be broad, or white bread as fried chicken ?" Also—" Will you
made gcod by the profits of the railway it was guaran- have a feed or a check ?".a dinner or a luncheon ? "In full
teed to be paid by the counties which would benefit by blast"—something in extreme. " When she came to the meet-
the railway passing through them. In addition to the ing, with he r yellow hat and feathers, wasn't she in full blast ?'

No. 111.
"30, Pall-mall, Monday evening, June 7, 1841.
"My Lord,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
Lordship's note, and shall avail myself of your permission to
make it public.
" I will only add, that I was not at the meeting in Palace-
yard, and most certainly should nut have intruded myself at
your Lordship's house, but . for the communication to which I
have already alluded.
" I have the honour to be, your Lordship's obedienO,' humble
servant, " HENRY HANDLEY.
" Right Hon. Lord Stanley."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CIJRONICLE.—Sir Robert Peel expresses no opinion on
the approaching dissolution ; he leaves Ministers to their re-
sponsibility, and himself to the freedom of praising or im-
peaching it hereafter, as party convenience may dictate.
Very clever, no doubt ; but is it statesmanlike? /5 it patri-
otic? Is it honest? If the dissolution be rig,ht and good,
why not have the manliness to recognise it as such, and do
justice to his opponents, credit to himself, and serve his coun-
try by such sanction on his part ? And if it be the contrary,
why not expose the evil tendency? Why not defend the na-
tion from the infliction of wrong? The abstinence from com-
mitting himself is as cowardly as it is tricky. But there is
a subordinate point, to which the pitiful expediency of this
evasion does not extend. We mean the time of
re-assembling Parliament. On that inferior topic, Sir Ro-
bert gives vent to a strong opinion—he sloes not leave
Ministers to their responsibility there ; he threatens eves to
enforce his opinion by the extreme measure of interfering with
the supplies necessary for the interval. The responsibility of
Ministers, delicacy towards the prerogative, and, in short,
every conceivable ground for the pi evious reserve, is cut away
by this subsequent decisiveness on the minor point. All is
shown to be sheer affectation. The great question is kept
open, and the little question imperatively concluded, just to
secure a trumpery party convenience. 0 this thing of
shreds and patches !" Is this a being for the people of Eng-
land to force upon their generous and high-minded Sovereign ;
and to entrust with their own vital interests, the rights which
he will undermine, the commerce with which he will tamper,
and the bread which he will not untax? They must bestir
themselves to answer that question at the poll about to be
taken between monopoly and anti-monopoly.
TIMES.—That the Whigs, after having been virtually ex-
pelled from power by a solemn vote of Parliament, should still
attempt to conduct the business of legislation, even on a small
scale, involves a new political anomaly which ought to be re-
sisted to the teeth. It is to no purpose that the measures so
proposed are unexceptionable in themselves; the precedent, as
sanctioning an unconstitutional procedure on the part of a Go-
vernment not possessing the confidence of the House of Com-
mons, is clearly a pernicious one, which may afterwards be
pleaded in favour of more extensive innovations. If Lord
.1. Russell, after having declared that the unequivocal sen-
tence recently pronounced upon the Ministry would deter
him from proceeding with any other business than merely
voting the necessary supplies, shall nevertheless be permit-
ted to prosecute such an important measure as " the Bribery
at• Elections Bill," we see no reason why his Lordship
might not be allowed, with equal propriety, to insist en
a still further extension of forbearance to enable him to
carry forward his vaiieus registration Bills and other similar
projects. It is true that the prevention of bribery at elections
is a highly desirable thing ; and we are quite aware that Sir
Robert Peel gave a cordial promise to facilitate that object to
the utmost of his power. But the primary question,_ and a
most important one it is—the right of a condemned Govern-
ment to continue to lead the Legislative business of Parlia-
ment—is not affected by either of those considerations. The
House of Commons has emphatically declared that the
disreputable Ministry who now continue in office only by their
own base perversion of Royal prerogative, are unworthy of
their confidence. Moreover, Lord John Russell pledged his
noble honour that if the House would only deign to trust the
dissolving Cabinet with such supplies as might enable them to
prolong their incumbency for another quarter, all general bu-
siness would immediately be postponed, and the Session brought
to a close. Yet, in vita of these circumstances, his Lordship
cunningly assuming that Sir R. Peel's avowed anxiety to
extirpate bribery might furnish a plausible plea for
temporarily deferring the dreaded dissolution, proposes to pro-
ceed with a Bill upon that subject, just as if the Ministry were
still the leaders of Parliament. This, we say, ought not to be
endured. Undoubtedly the necessity of getting rid of bribery
is quite as urgent as the necessity of purifying the registration
rolls, or of providing for the deficiencies of the revenue. But
there is nothing—no, not even in the prospect of a general
election—to justify a disgraced Government being entrusted
with the former of these objects, that might not equally entitle
them to superintend the consummation of the latter.
POST.—Even among those who highly disapprove of the po-
litics of Lord John Russell a considerable number may be found
who are not unwilling to award him the praise of what they call
determination and perseverance. They find something to ad-
mire in his " desperate fidelity" to his place and his party.
Who but he, say they, would have borne with such
disappointments, such annoyances, such disgraces, and jet still
have held on—still have-kept for his party the advantages of
place and patronage ? Look at him even now, they continue—
look at him under the direct censure of the House of Com-
mons, and, well knowing that the position of the Government
is no better in the House of Lords, how he still keeps up the
game, and braves a dissolution of Parliament, in the hope that
soinethin; may turn up to enable his party still to hold office.
Any other man but himself would have given way, but it
seems as if nothing would shake hire from his grasp of Down-
ing-street. It is a curious exemplification of the English
character that people should be found bestowing a sort of re-
luctant admiration upon this particular kind of perseverance.
So deeply is the love of steadfastness and determination infixed
in the English character that, even when the object adhered
to is mean and unworthy, the mere fact of determined
adherence to it under circumstances of difficulty and
discouragement is looked upon with favour, and men-
tioned with applause. We must say, however, that we thirds
it is rather an abuse of the term to call Lord John Russell's
adhesion to office perseverance." We think that justice and
a fair discrimination of language would rather distinguish it b 1
the name of pertinacity. The noble quality of perseverance
ought not to be degraded by association with an obstinate and
shameless tenacity of office, whether for self-advantage, or the
advantage of party. The determined pursuit of high national
objects in spite of formidable obstructions, and of difficulties
which would overwhelm ordinary men, is indeed a noble and
elevating spectacle of human exertion, and happily our country
has afforded bright examples of such struggles. But surely we
are not similarly to regard, or with anything like the same
fed ngs, a tenacity like that of the leech to the creature from
which it seeks its sustenance, or even that of the fierce dimnu-
tire bull-dog to his hold upon the throat of kis more powerful
antagonist ?
HERALD.—Many persons are utterly at a loss to account
for-the alteration oteervable in Lord John Russell's tone re-
specting the Corn-law agitation on Monday night. It would
seem as if the sudden change of the weather, atter the close of
the debate on Saturday morning, had produced a congenial
effect on his Lordship's temperament. Previous to Saturday
morning he had been factious up to blood heat ; ere Monday
evening he sank into something like the propriety of con-
stitutional conduct. However, we need not look to atmo-
spheric influences for the cause of this remarkable change.
There is a thermometer, more delicate than Fahrenheit's or
Ileaumur's, by which Lord John is wont to rep elate his tone
—and that is expediency. Yes ; the expediency of the
ceurse which he had threatened to pursue had become
doubtful; for circumstances had transpired to cool his ardour
for agitation in exact proportion as they lessened the chances of
its success ! "It was not until after the determination of the
House on Saturday morning, that he again stated the ques-
tion to the Cabinet, and he found that his colleagues concurred
in his opinion, and thought that he should not bring the mo-
tion respecting the Corn-laws before the House." His Lord-
ship gave as a reason for this opinion, that his bringing the
motion forward for discussion " would not be respectful to the
House !" What unbounded respect the Ilinistry are disposed
to show the House, when their places are at stake,
is pretty plain from their persisting to retain them
after the House had pronounced that it would be " at variance
with the spirit of the Constitution " for them to do so. But
however small the respect they might have for the House, they
could not but have seine consideration for those Members who
had already forfeited the favour of their constituents to a ha-
zardous degree for the sake of kseping ti,em in office ; an I it
is no secret—for people never keep a secret when they have
got themselves into trouble; it is sure to "ooze out "—that pres-
sing remonstrances were made that many Corn-law Whigs, who
had proved their devotedness to the Ministry by stilt tifj ing them-
selves and abandoning their principles, would lose their seats
as well as their characters if the Ministry compromised
them still more by carrying their Anti-Corn-law agita-
tion any further. Something was due to these Garai
of the camp, to prevent the gull into which they plunged to
save the Ministry from closing over them for ever. Besides,
their loss would, in the ensuing Parliament, be a positive loss
to the Ministry itself; and where could it lock for the coun-
tervailing gain? The agitation had nowhere made any very
promising progress. No, no, Lord John ; the discussion of
the question in Parliament, as an incentive to its agitation in
the country, was riot abandoned out of any " respect to the
House "—tor you well knew that a vast majority of the House
was adverse to your scheme—it was merely abandoned as
what Joseph Hume would call, " a bad spec.," by which much
must be risked, and from which little could be hoped for !

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PATERS OF THIS PAY.
TIDIES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. -per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 40, and the ex-
' change at Paris on London at short being 25. 371, it follows
that gold is 0.10 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4291 per
. mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10%d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 7i, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. Pi, it
follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
, The course of exchange at New York on London is 1071
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 1.83 per cent. against England. But the quoted
exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the above difference.
Business in general was laneuid at the Stock-Exchange
to-day, and the announced dissolution did not effect any de-
scription of security. This is accounted for by those who
ely watched the course of such matters, as arising from the
extreme caution displayed by the speculators, who have of late
appeared anxious carefully to avoid any business that might,
from one cause or other, operate to their disadvantage. 'this
particular class of dealers have looked with extreme doubt
upon our foreign policy, and, since events in connection with
it might produce an action contrary to that resulting from
proceedings at home, they have thought it prudent to abstain
from entering into the business usually transacted upon such
occasions. If speculative business has been done upon the
prospect of a dissolution it was done some time since, and the
principal of it cleared on the last settlement. Money to-day
was full 5 per oent. for short periods, but there was no great
demand for it.
Private letters from Rio Janeiro of the 28th of March have
arrived, and it is understood that there are also dates to the
17th of April, both of which agree as to the change of Minis-
try having taken place on the 22d of March. The new
Cabinet gave general satisfaction, and consisted of Senor
Oliveira Coutinho, as Minister of Foreign Relations; Senor
Miguel du Pin Almeida, as Minister of Finance ; Senor Cle-
mente Pereira, as Minister of War ; Senor Bernardo de Souza
Soares, as Minister of Justice; Marquez of Paruagua, as Min-
ister of Marine ; and Senor Candido Jose de Araujo Viana, as
Minister for Home Affairs. The exchange on England was
firmer at 30%d., and the stock 74%. The exchange we
quoted yesterday from the papers of the 19th of March as
3 lid. to 1/2d., but letters of that date which we have seen to-
day quote it as 3014 d. to id.
No time seems to be lost in carrying out the suggestions of
the Committee on banks of issue contained in their report,
which was noticed yesterday, and which recommended the
passing of a Bill "without delay." By the 8111 brought in by
Mr. Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir
R. Peel, it is provided that after the Ist of July all corporations
and copartnerships carrying on banking business under the
provisions of the Act passed in the 7th of George IV.' and all
other persons carrying on banking business in England
and Wales, and issuing notes payable on demand, and
all corporations and persons carrying on such business
and issuing such notes in Scotland and Ireland, be-
sides the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, shall
keep accounts of the amount of notes in circulation at the close
of business in each week, and at the end of every month make
up an average of the monthly circulation from such weekly
account, and within seven days after the Ist of every month
return the monthly account verified on oath or affirmation, to
the Stamp-office, under a penalty in case of default of 501.
From the accounts thus rendered, and the accounts rendered
by the Bank of England, an account is to be made up every
month, and published in the London Gazette, of the r.pre-
g,lte anroullt of promissory notes payable on del:and
guishcd into classes.
From the notice published by Messrs. Laffitte and Co. in the
Gazette de France, it appears that great caution is exercised in
advancing tiwnioney inquired by the Texan Government. An

article is substituted for the 9th article which formerly stood
in the contract, and is to the effect, that from the produce of the
loan only 50 per cent,. shall be paid to Texas, and that a de.
duction of 6 per cent. for the first year's interest shall he made.
The remaining 25 per cart. will be held by Messrs. Latlitte at
4 per cent. as a security, not to be paid to the Texan Go-
vernment until a quarter of the loan, together with interest,
shall have been redeemed. The subscriptions are not to be
considered complete until a quarter of the loan is made up, till
when Messrs. Laffitte are to hold them at an interest of no
more than 4 per cent.
With respect to the difficulties put in the way of the foreign
creditors of Hammersley's. bank by the Court of Chancery, it
appears by a letter from a correspondent that the rumours on
this subject were but too true, and that for every new dividend
a new power of attorney will be required. If this is really the
case, which now there seems no reason to doubt, there is
every probability that a large sum of money will be unclaimed
altogether, for the dividends that follow the one of 16s. will
be small in amount, and from the nature of Hammersley's
business the foreign creditors will be a considerable body. And
it must be remembered that the costs of a power are not the
only expense, but are preceded by costs of proof which every
other creditor, whether he appears person illy or not, has to
pay ; for he is required to attend with a solicitor, and
a Chancery proof is not made free of expense, like those
against a bankrupt's estate. Our correspondent's letter en-
closes a solicitor's 'Bill, which by no means represent;
the extreme case, as the power, in the instance to which it
refers, was executed in this country. The costs of the power
are set down at 41. Is. 10d., and those of the proof at 21. 13s.
4d., the latter being necessarily incurred before the creditor
knew whether a single shilling would be paid by the estate,
and the debt which is proved is no more than 301., so that the
present dividend, amounting to 151., will be reduced nearly to
half. Had the power been executed abroad the expense
would have been far greater, and when it was returned, a
proof of a Consul's handwriting would have been required. In
all probability such a debt as 30/. is by no means among the
smallest, on account of the great quantity of continental hills
given out by Messrs. Hammersley merely to cover the ex-
peuses of short expeditions. Under such circumstances the
proportion of the great expense to the small debts will most
likely be very formidable.
CHRONICLE.—In terms of the report from the Select
Committee on Banks of Issue, a Bill has been brought
into the House of Commons and printed, for making further
provisions relative to the returns to be made by banks of the
amount of their notes in circulation. This Bill provides, that
from and after the first day of July, 1841, all corporations and
copartnerships carrying on banking banking business under
the provisions of an Act passed in the seventh year of the
reign of King George the Fourth, and all other persons
carrying on banking business in England and Wales, and
making and issuing promissory notes payable to bearer on de-
mand, and all corporations, copartnerships, and persons carrying
on such business, and making and issuing such promissory
notes as aforesaid in Scotland, and also the Governor and
Company of the Bank of Ireland; and all corporations, copart-
nerships, and persons carrying on such business, and
making and issuing such promissory notes as aforesaid in Ire-
land, shall severally keep just and true accounts of the amount
of notes in circulation at the close of the business in each week,
and shall at the end of every month, make up from such weekly
account a just and true account of the average amount of such
notes in circulation during such month, the same to be handed
to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, at the head office
in Westminster, within seven days after the first day of every
month, under a penalty of fifty pounds for each neglect er
omission, every such return being verified by the affidavit of
the secretary, or other chief clerk, or officer of each bank, which
may be made before any Justice of the Peace or a Master Ex-
traordinary in Chancery, the affidavit to be free of stamp
duty. The last clause of the Bill provides that from
the accounts rendered by the Governor and Company
of the 'Bank of England, in pursuance of the Act in that
behalf, and also from the accounts to be rendered in pursuance
of the Bill, there shall be made up every month an account of
the average aggregate amount of promissory notes, payable to
bearer on demand, which have been in circulation in the
United Kingdom during the preceding month, distinguishing
those circulated by the Bank of England, by private Banks,
and by joint-stock Banks in England and Wales; by the
Banks in Scotland, by the Bank in Ireland, and by all other
Banks in Ireland, and of the average amount of the bullion in
the Bank of England during the preceding month : such ac-
count to be published in the London Gazette every month as
soon as the same can be conveniently prepared. The Bill is
prepared and brought in by Mr. Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and Sir R. Peel.
_ _

. -
POST.—The transactions at the Stock Exchange have ex-
hibited no new feature since yesterday. The dealings were to-
day altogether limited, and there was apparently nothing pass-
ing out of the ordinary course of business, except in the con-
tinuance of special money sales in stocks that have closed for
the dividends, which are proceeding.
A meeting of the " United Shareholders" in that unfortu-
nate concern, the British Iron Company, was held in the course
of the day at the London Tavern. Majcr Richardson, who
presided, addressed the meeting at some length, principally upon
the question of the valuations that have been put upon the
property. He and several other gentlemen in attendance, who
professed to have carefully examined the report and accounts
recently issued to the proprietors by the Directors,
and to have taken no ordinary pains to come at the truth, have
evidently less faith in the accuracy of those documents than it
is desirable they should have. They consider the valuations
alluded to more favourable than the circumstances of the Com-
pany will warrant, and that they have been unduly exagge•
rated as a means of securing the confidence of Shareholders in
the future management. This we cannot at all believe when
we come to look at the names of the Directors, as there are, at
all events, parties among them who are perfectly incapable of
sanctioning, and much less of practising, any deception of the
sort. The result of the proceedings was, that the approval and
adoption of the report and accounts should be suspended by
the Shareholders until a searching inquiry into the actual po-
sition of the Company shall have been made by an impartial
and competent Committee.
HERALD.—The first and only Rsport of the Bank Con -
mittee is but a meagre resulr, from labours which had excited
so much interest, and from which such mighty doings were
anticipated. It savours strongly of the mountain and the
mouse. It wculd, however, have been extremely inconvenient
no doubt to have presented a formal and detailed lieport, em-
bodying the proposition perhaps of important changes in the
circulation of the country, at the end of a Session, and in the
face of a new Parliament to be assembled. The proposal far
the publication of more frequent returns of the average bank
note circulation, not only of England and Wales, but, for the
first time, that of Scotland and Ireland also, with the bullion
averages of the bank of England, is, however, a satisfactory
and wholesome provision, and may serve materially to throw
light upon the banking question in the course of the further in-
quiry to be resumed hereafter. The Committee would have

done well also to have devised the means for procuring
more exact information than is now possessed respecting the
amount of bills of exchange, distinguishing and classifying the
dates, which may be or have been in circulation from year to
sear, or, which would be better still, during the successive
quarters of each year. The Stamp-office returns of stamps
issued afford no sufficient index of the varying quantities of the
monetary movement of the country under the head of bills of
exchange, and it may be doubted whether the results arrived
at by the calculations of Mr. Leatham, the Wakefield banker,
can be relied upon as a fair approximation to the fact.
The returns of all the bills of exchange passed through,
.or drawn by, the various banks throughout the empire,
with similar returns of the metropolitan banks, distil -
guishing the provincial bills made payable, or receivable
for presentation, at each, from those town drawn, would
greatly contribute to a correct appreciation of the bill
cirt:uLtion, although after all it could not present. a
complete view of it. For large amounts of hills and promis-
sory notes never pass through the hands of bankers at all, such
as were accepted or drawn payable at the counting-houses or
private dwel ings of the parties themselves. Of these no means
exist for verifying the amounts, but such as may be arrived at
from collating the Stamp-office returns of bill stamps sold with
those returned as having been drawn, made payable at, or
passed through the banks. The dkeess of the Stamp-
office returns over those of the banks would be the mea-
sure, or a close approximation to it, of that, bill circula-
tion coming within the category referred to, as nut
pissing through the banks. A difficulty or confusion
might, arise with the banks and the Bank of England,
and the discount houses (far the latter also should be in-
cluded) in the case of bills re-discounted, once or oftener,
hut, although it might cause some additional trouble, it is
pre.umed that by a proper classification of the bills under dis-
tinct heads, the difficulty might he obviated without ma-
terial inconvenience. It will scarcely be possible to come to
satisfactory conclusions on the monetary system and circulation
of the country without taking into account these important
elements of it. It would be desirable also that amounts and
particulars of foreign bills of exchange, both those made pay-
able here, and those drawn against foreign countries, should
be included in the returns or separately ascertained. These
suggestions may not be unseasonably considered against the
time when a bank committee shall be re-appointed.
SUN.—There was but a dull market to-day for the Public
Securities, and the quotations were heavy as regarded money
trantfers, on account of the scarcity of money still experienced
in some quarters, and the absence of the more influential job-
bers, who would have been able to take off any loose stock.
Consols elosed at 893 4. for Money, and 883 to 89 for Ac-
count; Exchequer Bills were 9s. to 7s. prem. ; Bank Stock,
170; and the Reduced Three-and-a- Half per Cents., 974 to
4. The Portuguese Bonds were very heavy on account of the
unfavourable news from Lisbon. The Five per Cents. were at
33i to 33 ; Spanish Active Bonds realised 13 to ; Colom-
bian, 20i ; Mexican, 27n ; Brazilian, 68A to 67i ; Austrian,
lo9i ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54.
Railway Shares were sold to rather a greater extent, and at
prices a shade lower.

The Foreign Exchanges were negotiated most currently
thus : —Paris, 25f. 60c. to 621 c. ; Amsterdam, 12 131 tol ;: Ham-
burgh, 13 9 to 10; and Trieste, 959 to 10.
The following are the Official Returns of the Exports of
Bullion from the Port of London for the week ending Thurs-
day last;—Geld Coin to Ceylon, 250 oz. ; Silver Coin to
Rotterdam, 19,000 oz. ; Silver Coin to Mauritius, 16,146 oz.

READFUL SUICIDE—in the early part of
Monday afternoon a respectably-dressed man applied to Mr.
Simmons, of Bury-street, one of the Churchwardens of the
parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, for permission to ascend the
tower of the new church, stating that his motive in asking the
favour was to enable him to take a sketch of Westminster
Abbey. Permission was, without hesitation, granted to
him, and he went up the steeple to the summit, with the
man who usually tolls the bell for the funerals ; who having
conducted the stranger to the top, returned below to the
ringing chamber, and commenced tolling the bell. About a
quarter before four o'clock a policeman on duty outside the
churchyard rails observed a person on the top of the tower
apparently preparing to precipitate himself to the ground, and
a second afterwards he threw himself off, and came down with
terrifia velocity on the west side of the tower. Several persons
were immediately on the spot, and lifted the unfortunate man
up, but life was found to be quite extinct. The stones all
round were covered with blood. The height of the tower of
Chelsea New Church is nearly 200 feet. A shell was pro.
cured, into which the body of the deceased was placed, and
conveyed to the workhouse adjacent, where a medical gentle-
man examined it, and found the skull fractured, shoulders dislo-
cated, and the legs broken ; in short, the body was literally
smashed. The deceased wasattired in a suit of black, nearly new,
and, upon examining his pockets, eight sovereigns and two
shillings were found, also two letters, addressed to "Mr. Lloyd,
Leamington, Warwickshire." From this it is judged that the
deceased's name is Lloyd; his linen being marked with the
initials "J. L." strengthens this supposition. The deceased
appears to be about fifty years of age, fair complexion, rather
stoutly built, and is about five feet eight inches in height.
When he applied to the churchwarden in the first instance,
nothing in the slightest degree remarkable was observed in his
manner ' and when ascending the steeple with the man who
tolls the bell, he seemed cheerful and collected. An old lady,
who chanced to see the deceased as he was falling, went into
violent hysterics, and was conveyed to her residence in a state
of insensibility. No time has yet been appointed for the in-
quest to take place.
SPAIN.—Our Madrid correspondence, dated the
30th ult., states that important intelligence had been received
at Cadiz from the Ilavannah in 23 days. Serious disturbances
had broken out in the interior, and the Captain-General had
been obliged to apply for reinforcements of seen and ships. It
'a a. 1 ot aecura4-ely 3.11a,..!c;i1 whether or Pot this idtl-
- was official, as no details wire given. 'l he .Eco del
Commercio of the 30th ult. states that a want of hands was
experienced to work the mines in the provinces of Almeriaand
Murcia, and that in consequence the wages of the operatives
had risen to an excessive price.

EVENING Ei!DITION.

FREE TRADE.
[The following lines were recited. by Mr. BrtzkinghAF:
It, the e'o e of one of his zvleresses in favour of free tra"
dtucthede alllleursyiep-holaylel r
oSlalttanc-trlonyv,.dl aesd, t,atalnd
clioupere.ei
If God's free bounty bids this Globs protittee
More than enough for aII his creature,," rule,
Shall Man monopolise the free supply ?
See brutes full fed, while fellow mortals ?
Forbid it Heaven ! Let Earth's prolific fi,llll
For Man and Beast alike abundance yield.
Free as the winds, and !!bainless as the sea,
Should intercourse betwoort all nations be—
Wherever land is found, (-/;• oceans roll,
Or man exists, from Indus! to the Pole.
Then would unfettered industry be paid
In the rich wealth its own l'ree hands had made ;
Then would mankind fulfil :leaven's first decree,
And Earth with " fruitfulness" replenished be;
Then would War's blood-red 1 tanner soon be furled,
And Peace" triumphant reign• throughout the world;
While freighted fleets would tra Terse every sea.
And Commerce wing her way u Icheeked and free-"
Island be linked to Island—Main.. to Main, . ••
Binding all Nature fast in Love's Uarmonious chain.

COURT OF A Lll "EMMEN.
•
Yesterday a Court was held, for the p vrpose of swearngt
Mr. Thomas Farncombe, as Alderman of the Ward of ee-
shaw, in. the room of Mr. White, who resl. fined. father,
Mr. WADn, the surgeon, of Basinghal',„ street, whose
3S years ago, introduced S.ir Claudius St ‘plien Hunter, to
present father of the Court, to the Court ,of Aldermen, The
rented Alderman Farncombe on the preset it occasion.
Alderman was accompanied by a number off the
axle and influential men in the Ward. eating
Mr. WAnD said that he felt high gratific st.'on in pres
to the Court a gentleman of high character and attaittra!Tts;
and of considerable property, as the rep. rasentatire of the
Ward of Bassishaw. In proceeding to elect, according t° the
terms of the precept, a fit and proper person t° ort
station of Alderman, the constituency had elected the
_other
fit and proper person they could find, an i although °wt.,
very respectable men were named as can iidates the he
mate formed by the great majority of the Ward fhb.
merits of Mr. Farncombe was such that all i des of oo
tion was speedily dropped, and the result was the °eat --wso
most reaper.-
choice of that excellent individual--( Hear, bear.)
most creditable to Mr. Farncombe that he volwetarill
himself, upon being elected, to bestow his patrc nags uP°llcir.
Ward ; and the constituency felt convinced, .•,,hat any or,
cumstances arose which would be likely to call for geet,„tar
tions on the part of the Mistracy, as was the I .are In i—with
times, when Alderman Cembe and Sir James Si 'avr bsto ,
stitch energy and resolution, the new Alden uan of Bassin
would not be backward in distinguishing himself. —(lier'
Alderman Farncombe then took the oaths and his slaieri
The Court, after some preliminary business., Prpc" • aei
the consideration of an application relative to the
&Renato)
the office of one of the attorneys of the Mayor's I Court.
No business of public importance was transact ed.

POLICE INTELLIGEN CE•

111ANSIOZT"-HOUSE.
A cabman named John Lambert was ferouglt for oso
examination on the charge of having stolen the sem of 38/. tot
the property of Mrs. Yates, which was left in his cab by
lady.
Mrs. Yates, the wife of the owner of the Crown and al fa
public-house in Page's-walk, Bermondse v,
Saturday the 22d of May she went to the klellk of Eng d $
and received there three 10/. notes, eight sovereigns an_./
half in gold, and four shillings ; that she pl'ac'ed the nw.;;ie..
with several private papers, two silk handkerel fs, and a I;er .
of gloves, in her reticule ; called a cab, of wh'ic(i the r."O
was driver, at the City side of Londen-hridg and dice: bs
him to drive her to Bermondsey Old Church rgate ;iStmod
drove her accordingly, and that very soon aft .•.'r she "er-
•ed
she missed her reticule; that she returned, ac er
friend, to the cab stand, where she was inform ed the prifostla
a ated that
Saturday
was not come back, but that after a long a tech ohs whet
him at half-past three in the afternoon ef the s.; u-ne day' hit
he declared that he knew nothing cf the proper but tdoo,
had taken up a gentleman immediately after he aet her to the
Ths witness also stated that she gave the prise ncr to
custody of a policeman, and ascertained the nuns hers ° gast;
bank notes from her stockbroker, and put a stop on the
the Bank. 4 that al.
Henry Jackson (City policeman No. 615) states dress
prisoner upon being taken into custody gave as his: 8"
l'wrsh
place which he had left two months. Subsequentie,
soner said that he would show witness where the pronOrhthe
tlnut ito
but soon after declared that he knew nothing at all la."'
and that they could but transport him for it. Gear
Jane Mary Pilgrim, who was taken into custody by for
Dewar, a Metropolitan policeman, said that she had b at
the last four months living with the prisoner as his s'.1:::04
No. 21, Three Ton-court, Redcross-street. About one °in
in the afternoon of the 22d of May she met the prison or
so,
Aldersgate-street, in his cab, in company with another. 3,1%0
and was told by him that he had got some money, and t"11 -'lei
must return home. She did so, and he gave her ala OA
and told her to go and change it. She went soon afteriv
to a straw bonnet-shop in Aldersgate-street, where she b,";ts„
two straw bonnets at 255.. each, for which she offered thelol. '
in payment, and received the difference. When she real
he was out, and she did not see him again until he was in A icss
tody. She then walked with him to the Compter, and LA
told by him that they were on the mantel-p;ece behind a, 4.„.1
where she fund the other notes and the She cha
one of the notes at a public-house, and threw the other ..0;b,
Blackfriars-bridge by the persuasion of some persons, an spot
expended arid lost the remainder. The prisoner, when be
_.,A
returned home on the Saturday, burned a black reticule: !,7,
some papers which were in it, and, after he was in cusd,,lo
witness wrapped up two silk and one lawn handkerchlts' •
paper, and threw them into the street.
The Loan Mayon asked her whether the people wro
changed the notes for her put any questions to her as to Sr "
she got the notes? haat
The witness rlilied that nobody asked her one word -
the matter.
Sir. Hobler said several tradespeople m: de it a rule Ver.
to ask any question. All they were desirous of knowing' and
whether the bank-notes presented to them were genuineto
they wished to be known as tradespeople who gave char rit
customers without exercising any curiosity. '1 here erer
td iS
was to be regretted, tradesman of highs character who act,
the manner described.
see'
The Loan MAYOR said that the practice was most ding fr tho
ful, and he hoped it. would fall under the condemnation 0 •
Judge. ta tee'
Sir. John Bullock, stockbroker, of No. 39, Lothbur!,' e,,
that on the 22d May he paid Sirs. Yates three 10/. 8r„.11744
England notes, eight sovereigns and a half, ansi. four shit
and that the 10/. note produced was one ef them.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

On Mondlv an inquest was held bebre lth;;.
Carter, Coroner for Surrey, at Camberwell, on viovl sr
body of John Turner, a fine youth, aged nine years- tb?'
pearcd from the evidence that shortly after six o'clock O¢ for
evening of Thursday last, the poor little fellow wa3 'LA
eels, and, in stooping to pull up his line, he fell, head fc
nto the water. Verdict—Accidental death.
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lection a very large STOCK of Highly-finished LotwOrtuider
WATCHES, the whole of which being znanufactulva, „pa
their own inspection, on their own premises, they cart axt 0. •
sell at least 251. per cent. below this usual trade price for aluotis
title of the same quality. A prarted wareanty Is gives
each Watch.

PRICES MOUNTED IN SILVER CASEI•
Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double- 4 0
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four holes, maintaining power, hard enamelled dial,
with seconds hands, and double-backed engine- 6 6 0-
turned cases, warranted... '— %Os'
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A !arge variety of second-band Si'ver Watches, whic ob'
been carefully examined,lancl can be war.:anted at £'L •"5.'
GOLD CASES, SIZE FOIL LADIES. •
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gold cases, and gold dials, warranted ...
0 Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with dot b.le-backed
engine-turned gold eases and gold dials, warranted 13
Patent. detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four
holes with double-backed gold cases and golf; dials* 14 0
warranted
Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four
holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, via-. 15 o
rantedl3
Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled its
six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and ,7 ii
enamel dials, warranted
Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in
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21 o
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Either of the Gentlemen's Watches may be had in go
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N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchavir',/
SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE KP' or
;
with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen Dessert Knives, )00!
Carvers, si. 6d. per pair ; Table Knives, with rirkilt6-50',°:.,'
handles, Bs. Bd. per dozen , Dessert, 6s. Bd. ; Car,"sh,
0,
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ftt •
395. ; Papier Macho Tea-trays, gothic shape, 60s; t" '
Loy
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••
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Established 14320.
lIIRTHS. - dllO
On the 6th inst., the lady of George Rawbone, ti o*.
King's-road, Chelsea, of a son, who survived but a'Silci, J30:111:9 •
On the 6th inst., at Clifton, the lady of Clarks t,
Hare, Esq., of a son. r test'
On the 6th inst., Mrs. Christopher Robinson, °
Trinity-lane, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at York-place, Portman-square, til 14
e
of B. Hebeler, Esq., of a son.
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On the 7th inst., at Nelson-terrace, Stoke New.
Ringer, of twin sons.

1114RRIIV.D. got
On the 3d inst., at Stoke Gayland, Dorset, Theridnsteo'
liet, Esq , second son of J. L. MoiWet, Esq., 0f '3O
Hall, Stafford, to Louisa Wolcott, second daughter of th
H. F. Yeatman, LL. 8., of Stock House, Dorset. 6(l''
On the sth inst., at St. Pancras Church, James
(/'
1-111%;railerg
of Liverpool, to Maria Fisher ,
, of Camden-street,
town, youngest daughter of the late William Fisher,
Somerset House, and Sluswell-hill, Hornsey. r, 6011.
On the sth inst., at the British Embassy,
Grace de daughter of Monsieur Martin de
Charles William Graham, Esq., of Chester-square, PION
10.113.,
On the 7th inst., at St. Pancras, J. G. King. Esq.'ilter
of Magdalen College, Oxford, to Elizabeth, eldest 'l,,,auvg•stociv
Edward Levirn, Esq., of Upper Woburn-place, 1
square.

On the 4th inst., the Rtvl3.NV.lll. Blencowe, of
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,ssaeglle,dse2c6.o.nd son of DI ro;
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On the sth init., Henry Samuel, the infant son
H. Hitchins, Madras Army. bad be°
On the elth inst., at Bcddington, of which he ed 8.3.
Rector 59 years, the Rev. John Bromfield Fevers, ex
On the 6th inst., at Bridgevrater, Mr. Bowen, age. 11.,, daugh
On the 7th inst.,:at Dulwich-common, Emily, third
ef
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ter of John Smith, Esq., aged 17. '
On the 4th inst., at Blakeney, Norfolk, Elinbeth,
t 71:: tat, ag-cd 70

London: Printed and Publisked by itltritDO
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the cuurtiv of Middlesex.—Wednesday, Jung 9, 1831.