The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-15 00:00:00

No r 5,242

LONDON, THURSDAY, J LTLy 15, 1841.

TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER.
GENTLEMEN,—
HAVE been engaged in five, contests for the
representation of your City. The principles and measures
suggested to me on each of these occasions, as-tho2e to which
you attached most importance, I have been invariably'faithful
to, and have invariably supported. Neither have 1 failed to
attend with zeal and diligence to your local affairs.
You have now, however, chosen a candidate from the party
opposed to all that you required me to support, determined
to resist all relaxation of monopoly, or increase civil and tell-
gious liberty.
In my inquiries into the cause of this unexpected result, I
have 'been informed it is mainlyatfributableto an imagined se-
curity from Tory domination, felt by the whole of the Liberal
electors, and in which I acknowledge to have participated.
Thus it was that the public-spirited friends of the popular csuce
neglected all canvass and organization in their respective neigh-
bourhoods. To the effect of this remissness must be added
that. of most open and glaring intimidation, never before re-
sorted to in Westminster
The employment of this sordid weapon can be stayed by the
Ballot alone.
I now persuade myself that the members of the present Go-
vernment mist see, whether in or cut of office, that they have
too long withheld from the people the ballot, extension of the
suffrage, and effectual revision of the complex process of regis-
tration, now more indispensible than at any previous period, to
check the augmenting pressure of physical distress, corruption,
and moral degradation..
Paramountly important., however, as these organic re-
, forms may be, I cannot but deeply lament the feeble sup-
port giyen by the town constituencies of England to
the propositions for the abatement and eventual aboli-
tion of monopolies affecting commerce, industry, and
the first necessaries of life—reflecting, as they do, lasting ho-
nour on the Sovereign and the Government, and' calculated, as
they evidently are, to afford an unparalleled degree of practical
relief f:om public burdens, and a new impulse to national pros-
perity. The combination of foul and venal influences has for
the present succeeded ; but let us hope that justice is not sub-
dued, that ill-gotten victory of her enemies will not endure,
and that this, groat r.afct), wiaclilZliitA,ilN,Yet,,nibhed at M-
imi-it epochs for liberty, is not now at length doomed to retro-
grade, through such base agencies in the career of civilization.
Gentlemen, I am informed, from various quarters, that a
large majority of your body were desirous and fully capable
(with due arrangement) of re-electing me as one of your
Members. am also assured that the line of conduct 1 have
pursued, and the principles I advocate, are considered as form.-
ing a link of connexion between the two great sections of Re-
formers in Westminster, and that my presence, therefore, at a
future time, would be desirable, at once to assist in repelling
further Tory aggressions and to unite Reformers, so as to se-
cure the recovery of the ground which has been lost ; if such
should be the case, it certainly will be my wish and duty to re-
spond, as far as in my power, to that opinion.
And now only begging to add, that you will still always find
me, whether in a private or public capacity, ready to co-operate
with you for those objects we have so long contended for toge-
ther, and ever preserving a warm and grateful recollection of
the support you have so often generously honoured me with, as
well as of the personal kindness and esteem of which so many
amongst you hare considered me worthy,
Bslieve me to remain,
Your friend and faithful servant,
DE LACY EVANS.
Bryanston-square, July 14, 1841.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

tered, that franchise in thespontaneous, unimpeded use of whicl
election, ex vi termini, really consists. So much for the honest,
and consi,teney of Whig-Radical,Liberalsm!--and yet., re have
not done with it. . On .Monday last, at Alnwick, Lord Howick
supplied a striking commentary on its principles and its opera-
tion. The waspish Viscount would have done well to have en-
denboured to catch a little of tne kindlier and, more masculine
?phi/ of Lord Morpeth's " Adieu to the Riding." That Nolel,
Lord par:ed from his former constituents, it must b? alloweo
with a degree of good feeling, abounding candour, and unaf.
fected friendliness even for his opponents, which did him the
highest honour, and could leave no associations behind him bill
such as would ensure their respect for his personal character.
Lord Howick began bY expressing his " mortification" at his
defeat, and far from telling the electors of Northumberland. a,
Lord Morpeth told the men of Yorkshire, that. though the)
had thought proper to reject him it was only after a spiritee
and Well-sustained conflict-.,in the exercise of their undoubte.
right ;--the heir of the name And house of Grey vented hi,
anger and his "mortification" on his noble competitor, Lore
Ossulston. That noble person's success was an offence, in
Lord Howick's eyes, which the disaster of his own defeat coule
not teach him the wisdom of treating with moderation. The
whole tenor of his speech clearly indicated that he had antici
paled that North Northumberland was to be a pocket borough
to one who bore his. title, and that it was bound to act ns such.
These is 'something ludicrous in this champion, arid son of a
much more eminent champion, of the imprescriptible right of
Eriglishmen to elect freely those,who are to represent them in Par-
liament—thus fulminating his denuneiationsagainst a rival who
had been guilty not merely of the lese-majeste of opposing him,
'but of " suddenly opposing" him !

FROM THE MORNING. CATERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—" Coming events cast their shadows be-
fore." Indications of the approach of Tory misrule are be-
ginning to show thensselves. The daring interferences with
freedom of election which have taken p'ace both in Ireland
and in Scotland—we especially nfer yo the conduct of the
assessor at Dublin, and the introduction of the military by the
Marquis of Lothian at Hawiek—are first fruits of the antici.
pated restoration, stimulated to their premature display by the
hopo of impunity. A more quietly concocted, and much more
important movement, is however, it seems,
in preparation. All
that is sordid and grasping in the Church begins to count upon
its harvest time. As soon as the aspect and chances of she
present political crisis wore evident, a meeting of prelates was,
according to the Times, held at Lambeth ; the Tuesday in
Whitsun week be ing chosen for this very apostolic
purpose "at which it was resolved to proceed im-
mediately to the erection of bishoprics in New
Zealand, the British possessions in the Mediter-
ranean, 'New Brunswick, the Cape of Good Hope, Van
Diemen's Land, and Ceylon; and after these sees shall
have been provided for, to carry out the same goo 4 work in
Sierra Leone, British Guiana,' South Australia, Pert Philip,
Western Australia, and Northern and Southern India." The
Times proffers its own assurance to the country that this mag-
nificent plan of Church Extension shall not. be proceeded with
until her Majesty's,present Ministers he formally dispossessed
of office, and their successors installed. Now, if this were
simply and honestly a project for extending the doctrines and
worship of the Church of England, by means of resources de,
rived from the zeal of its prelates and professors, why need.
it wait for the erection of a 'Tory Government? That -any
difficulty or obstruction would be interposed, or any fair faci-
lity withheld, by the existing authorities, is too childish a
thought for any Tory mind to entertain, though it may
not be too base a falsehood for any 'Tory journal
to circulate. That souls should perish because Whigs
are in place, can scarcely be the maxim of any pious and prose-
lyting bishop. The arisiaosmaribaitors towards the scheme
were rokhly Tory sasoisire. ,asktoaingfertoirided ; lb the %fin
Which it now assume's, their purposes are polluted, in order to
manufacture the spiritual movement into a co-operation with
the political change. The notion of endowing all these bishop-
rics out of funds contributed by private beneficence is perfectly
absurd. Subscriptions for the permanent dignity and emolu-
ment of thirteen bishoprics ! Not three of the thirteen will
he permanently provided for, before a call is made upon the
public. For every subscription bishop, the people may rely
upon not being saddled with fewer than four tax-paid bishops.
The Times says it has " purposely waited" till the elections
were chiefly over before publishing this plan ; and for once we
believe the Times. The scheme was by no means of a cha-
racter to hi sosoii on the eve, or during the progress of a general
election. But it does come with most admirable propriety to-
wards the :dose of a struggle in which the constituencies have als
lowed the return of a Tory majority. We give the manu-
facturing population of Yorkshire, and the farmers throughout
the country, joy of the privilege they kave earned, of future
levies upon themselves and their posterity for, the support of
thirteen new Bishoprics. The scheme is, moreover, quite in-
dependent of the not very cheap project of Church extension
at home, which Sir Robert Inglis is waiting to bring forward
under " happier auspices." Nor is this all. The hitherto un-
disputed prerogative of the Crown in the appointment of Ri:.
shops does not quite please those who are conspiring to degrade
the Church into the strong-hold of a faction. Tho scheme
extends, as expounded by the Times, to " a greater indepen-
dence of action, and a more direct influence in the nomina-
tion of the new Bishops." The head of the Church must, it
seems, be shorn of some of the authority of her predecessors,
and put under a sort of Tory clerical regency. Her Majesty,
is not to be trusted with the nomination of func-
tionaries, whose proper selection may prove quite as im-
portant to the peace of our colonial dependencies as
that of their governors. This is What some of the hired
allies (for election pun) oses) of the Tories would tall
" coming it strong." But there is no mistake. The
extension of religious liberty to Dissenters and Catholics is as-
sumed by the Times to "have, so far, tended to disqualify the
Ministers d State for the offices of ecclesiastical advisers of the
Crown." No less bold a change is contemplated than the
withdrawment of this extensive ecclesiastical patronage from
the constituted and responsible authorities to whom its exer-
cise belongs; and with whom its exercise must continue, if
any security whatever is to be retained for the religious and
civil liberties of the nation. We are much mistaken in the
character of her Majesty if the Tories will find it an easy mat-
ter to coerce her into this alienation of her legitimate power.
The Church receives the price of its connection with the state ;
a very handsome price it is altogether, in the amount of its
temporal emoluments, dignities, and privileges ; and the
Church ought to stand to its bargain. To deprive the. Sove-
reign, acting through the agency of constitutional advisers, re-
cognised and responsible, of the right of episcopal appointments,
would render any monarch the helpless tool of a factious hier-
archy. It would be the hardest blow that has been struck at
the Throne since the days of the Long Parliament.
TIMES.—In endeavouring to exaggerate the imaginary
embarrasments which are alleged to be inseparable from a
Conservative Government, the Whig. newspapers have often
twitted us with that very unaccredited and apocryphal acknow-
ledgment ascribed to Sir Robert Peel--" My chief difficulty
was Ireland." Now, even if that declaration were ever ut-
tered in the sense contended for by the Right Hon. Baronet's
detractors (of which we have strong doubts), we shall esteem
it a signal favour if they will have the goodness to inform us what
party-purpose they can plausibly twist it to, at the present criti-
cal moment.? A proper estimate of possible obstacles, and a mo-
derate portion of self-distrust in the endeayour to cope with them,
sto.eoile-y--tieopevreFoossilteiotititeetos-110Vlodilisi*-brwisiO-
ilerate Minister never finds a difficulty at ell—because,
with a paltry modicum of political genius, his imperturbable
self-complacency in dealing with the commonest questions in-
spires him with a confidence that the same power which can
flourish a dandy's switch will qualify him to brandish a Her-
cules's club. Admit, then, that Sir Robert Peel, when inci-
dentally mentioning his inability to disarm an Irish cabal in the
House of Commons against his former Government, did say
that his chief difficulty was Ireland—pray what is the response
which Ireland herself now snakes to those oft•perverted words
of that accomplished statesman? Here we have the city of
Dublin, the populous metropolis of the Emerald Isle, distinctly
telling Sir Robert Peel, that far from offering him any
unusual difficulties, she hails his advent to power with,
a shout of exultant enthusiasm. Here we have Bel-
fast—one of the great arteries of Protestant life
in that country—transmitting its full tide of constitutional vi-
tality to sustain his Ministerial functions. Here we have Wa-
terford=anether large community in Ireland—giving the
Right Hon. Baronet a similar tribute of support. The tact is,
the only difficulty lay with Mr. O'Connell, and his political
influence is now fortunately at an end. To our certain know-
ledge it was with the utmost difficulty (difficulties will occa-
sionally change hands), that he could obtain candidates to.
contest the Irish seats. In Queen's County, not a decentgen-
tlemen could be found who would consent to fight for him.
Lord Kildare spurned his alliance in Dublin as the foul plague.
The small breed of Reddingtono, Murphys, and Callaghans,
whose purses can sustain a seat in Parliament no longer, were
persuaded once more to face the hustings, only on condition
that the earliest possible opportunity should be afforded them
of vacating their seats in favour of such defeated
outcasts •as Leeds, or North Cheshire, or the West
Riding might force into the Irish market. O'Connell's power,
we repeat, and Sir Robert Peel's difficulties, are alike at an
end. " *range alternation !" (may the learned fugitive now
say) ; " the Orange Premier's anticipated perplexities are sum-
marily handed over to myself. The chief difficulty with Ire-
land is no longer his, but 'nine. My strongholds are crumb-
ling beneath me on every side. A reformed registration,
which will give Peel the suffrages of all Ireland, is now in-
evitable. A plausible Conservative policy will at once con-
ciliate the prejudices and raise the condition of my frieze-
coated deserters in the same proportion as it embitters my own.
Miserable old man that I am—my chief difficulty is Ireland !"
Few things can be more gratifying to the friends of Constitu-
tional Government than to see, from the Dublin returns, the
general soundness of the Irish metropolitan population, its re-
gard to Protestant principles and British connexion. Popery
and Repeal are clearly in the minority.
ADVERTISER.—The Whigs, we repeat, owe their did-
comfiture mainly to their own misconduct. If—warned by
the example of the Duke of Wellington, who, if he had in 1820. i
bestowed the suffrage on Birmingham, Leeds, and a few
of the larger towns, and gradually extended it to others as
urgency required, might have remained in office till this day
—they had pronuced their recent measures at at an earlier
period, when their offers would have had the graceful ap-
pearance of concession instead of the ungainly aspect of
extortion, they would at this moment have been secure in
their places, with the certainty of retaining the lasting con-
trol of the country. But though men, it is said, are some-
times taught by experience, parties, it should seem, never
are. It is vain to attribute their defeat to the supineness
of the people alone. The people, inconstant as they
are said to he, never forsake a popular government until it first
forgets its principles and forsakes itself. A few interested
fanatics and disappointed enthusiasts turn round upon every
administration the moment it is installed in place ; but the
great majority of mankind are true to their tenets, and cannot ,
be expected to renounce them when there seems no difference
between Tories in office and Whigs in place. Some may be
disposed to consider as suicidal the late conduct of the people
in returning a majority of representatives avowedly opposed
to their dearest interests, and may feel inclined to say, "if
the people will be starved, let them be starved," as the
Rev. Rowland Hill, when a few fanatics in his . flock
protested against his doctrine that Heaven was mer-
ciful and Hell not eternal, replied,
"If my hearers
weiltl
\lee e
tad—ked
atoviaidllerard
eternity,imre charitable
to all eternity be d—d ;"aritable view. Three-fourths
b
may
of the inhabitants of these realms had no voice in the recent
elections, and three-fourths of those possessing votes were de•
prived of freedom conscientiously to employ them. The
former are involuntarily doomed to submit to all the horrors
of famine, because, though subjected to all the burdens of the
State, they have no influence its the Legislature ; and the
latter are rendered instrumental in perpetuating the starvation
either because they are forbidden, by Si system of coercion, to
stave it off, or because the same end is attained by corruption,
and those temptations, so alluring to the unreflecting, who
are so disposed to forget the past and forego the future, for
the enjoyment of the present hour. An extension of the suf-
frage is the only means that will eradicate these calamities,
and the introduction of the ballet seems the sole mode by which
they can be alleviated. If Ministers are sincere in their re-
cent propositions—if their measures are designed really to
ameliorate the condition of the country, and net merely to
sustain themselves in place—let them introduce the one at no
distant period, and the other without an instant's delay ; other-
wise, they will only delude the nation with hopes that can
never be realised, and accelerate, instead of averting, the ap-
proach of that ruin which threatens to engulph in its vortex
both themselves and their country.
HERALD.—O'Connell appears never to be able to main-
tain anything like self-possession when he cannot persuade the
gold fish to come bodily into his net, that he may scale them
at pleasure while entangled in its meshes, as he did with poor
Mr.' Raphael in the troubled waters of Carlow ! If we contrast
the past obsequiousness of O'Connell,—his fawning, flattering,
solicitations of all classes of the Irish people, whilst he was yet
far indeed from the state and dignity of one of the "high con-
tracting parties" to the Lichfield House compact—we shall
suc(eetnieenly the
agita-
teo believeal thbearirdiesntetriteyfolfstphoe
ttr deify
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same law of progression, and nothing more; has advanced the
tone and pretensions, and changed the deportment of the man
which impels the course of every organiser and leader of a
faction. The " bated breath and whispering humbleness"
with which O'Connell formerly wooed the masses whom he
new wields, t.-en place to an assumption -of insolent
authority and dietatornii impatience. The brawling declaimer
whose theme of earlier years was ever " the rights of the
people" in their utmost extent, now makes 1:
no afro,:sation of
. .
at their presumption who shall dare to judo for themselves on
the relative merits of iuly two candidates, or to exercise, unfet-

• •
MONEY MARKET and erfY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The state of the Share Market is still
very heavy, and some of the quotations are lower than yester-
day. Since the last Account day there has been a difference
of full 51. per share between the extreme prices of the
Brighton," Shares ; iw Great Western Shara there' hey zt;e:-.
holed a difference of nearly double that amount ; and in the
Blackwall and one or two other railways, considerable changes
have taken place.
The settlement of the Account in Foreign Stocks, which
takes place to-morrow, is likely to turn out a heavier one
than has occurred for some time past, not so much from the
amount of business transacted since the last Account day, as
from the great depressiorrthat most of these securities particu-
larly the Spanish, Portuguese, and the South American, have
sustained ; in all of these the differences which the holders
for time will have to pay will be very large.
TlMES.—Since the report of the " Union Bank" has ap-
peared in print, may of the shareholders do not appear to be
as much satisfied with it as they were when it was read at the
meeting, and when they had less opportunity to consider the
particulars. An item of 16,5001., set down for " preliminary
expenses" has caused much surmise as to what those expenses
can have been. The bank premises being already charged for,
there is a difficulty in understanding what " preliminary ex-
pense " can have beer incurred beyond the costs of a deed of
settlement, which, of course, could form no material por-
tion of a sum like this. Besides, if the word " assets "
means property convertible into money, this item would
seem to be most improperly placed under that head, as,
from the report, it is utterly impossible to conjecture in
.what tangible form the 16,5004 is at present represented,
or how it could be realised. As far as can be judged
from the information conveyed, the only proper place
for the sum would be under the " liabilities," as an
annuity of 5001. per annum for sthirty-three years, as
indet d the 5001. for the
,present year does appear in the
statement of the appropriation of the surplus. Some are,
moreover of opinion that it would be expedient in an under-
taking of magnitude to reduce this sum by a speedier process
than by the creation of this incensiderable annuity. It is also
observed that the paid-up capital of the bank is (in round
numbers) 423,0001., and the surplus profit about 25,0001.,
which is about 6 per cent. • so that as the same idle employment
of capital will produce at feast 4 per cent, no more than 2 per
cent. can be fairly set down as the profits of the banking busi-
ness. With respect to the item of 15,000/. fir premises, it is
remaaked, that although in a young undertaking, it is fair to
class the estimated value of buildings arnong.tho assets, still
that should' be done with a view to ultimate redemption, and
that a provision should be made for that end, so that in the
course of a short time none but legitimate banking assets
should be classed under that head, and all such items, as " pre-
mises," and the like, should be removed. It is quite possible
that there may be nothing in all this to operate as a serious
discouragement to the shareholders ; but it seems too early, at
all events, to make a decided boast of being in a very flourish-
ing condition.
POST.—It was account day in shares, and from the great
fluctuations which have taken place of late in such property, it
was also a day of the severest trial to many of the time specula-
tors. Continuation upon continuation, and that at an extrava-
gant rate, has for weeks past been given by the Bulls, until
at length in the impoverished condition of the fraternity, they
could pay no longer, and two or three of the number have been
" declared ;" nor cau there be a doubt that it is to the inability
of such parties to hold on any longer the decline in the money
quotations is to be attributed. It is a fact which bona fide
dealers cannot bear tuo much in mind, that a fictitious value is
given to all Stock Exchauge investments by the transactions
reported as " for the account."
II ER A ID.— The Railway speculations have principally
borne upon Great Western and Brighton, and especially the
latter, which has been one of the " fancy" articles of the
stock-house, as the favourite season quarters of the members
of which Brighton has been renowned for many years past. It
I dpi*:vse tett4s7sltigiffii that hits" `shares of the two railways
cited shoultl begin to decline in price almost the moment after
the official announcement of the entire opening to traffic of one
line, the Great Western, and the completion of the other to
within nine miles of Brighton, its termination. It is not diffi-
cult, however, to account for the cause by the ordinary rules of
speculation, and Stock Exchange dealing. For in proportion
1 as the lines approached their conclusion, those connected
with them as shareholders, and parties otherwise with facilities
and on the aalert for information, aware of the fact, and as-
sured that shares in the usual course must improve in
price as the railways neared the time for being finally
opened for traffic and a chance of profitable returns, began
to purchase largely at the high rates of discount to e inch
they had fallen, or the low premiums at which they ttcod.
Thus it was seen that for come time previous to the complete
or partial opening of the two railways the shares continued to
advance and speculators to push their operations. Great Wes-
terns reached 25 premium, and Brightons from 8 sir 9 rose to
about 3 discount. The whole effect contemplated for the open-
ing was therefore anticipated when the day arrived, coupled
with which it may be noted that the public evinced little of the
disposition calculated upon to rush into the market with divi-
dends just received from the Bank in hand, and relieve the
overloaded jobbers from their shares at any higher quotations
that might be asked, or even at the rates then ruling. This
being the case, as pay, that is settling, day was approachincr,
and could not be staved off, such of the speculators as found
themselves with more shares, or liable to take more shares, on
that day, than cash to pay with, found themselves under the
necessity of bringing a portion to, or even of throwing the
whole upon an inaction. Prices of course began to decline
more rapidly than they had before risen, and so have continued
to this the reckoning day, when the "black board" has come
into requisition as before observed.

On the Ist of this month a wholesome law, passed during
the late Session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, comes into
operation. Fir ancially it may not be of much promise, but.
morally it will operate as a salutary check upon that illegiti-
mate species of speculation known as " time bargains,'! which
here have gained to an extent so rrejudieial. By this law
every person Or co-partnership desirous of exercising the
business of a broker, is subjected to the payment of an annual
tax of 100 dollars, for which a commission or certificate is
issue yearly. Brokerage business is classified under three
heads, namely, stock brokers, exchange brokers, and bill
brokers, for each of which a separate certificate is nectssarv,
with a payment on each of 100 dollars, and any person or firm
desirous of engaging in all the three must pay the same tax of
100 dollars on each. The penalty for doing business without a
certificate is to be 500 dollars. And time sales of any securi-
ties for a larger term than five days are prohibited under a
penalty of not less than 100, or more than 1,000 dollars.
SUN.—The feature in the Stock Market to-day was the failure
of two parties, whose liabilities, however, are not supposed to be
considerable. Their embarrassment was occasioned by the

preparations for the settlements in the Foreign and share
Markets.

The quotation of Consols was much the same all day, viz.,
89i to ft for immediate transfer, and the same for Friday. Ex-
chequer Bills were 16s. to 14s. prem., and India Bonds, bs. to
7s. prem. Money was easy. Bank Stock realised 170 to 4;
and India Stock, 248. The Reduced Three and-a-Half per
Cents. were 99h to 99;1.
_ _

Peninsular I.3Onds were lower. Spanish Actives at 203 to
20; Portuguese, New, at 291 to ; Mexican, at 25 to ;
and Colombian at 19i ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents.
Were 50k to S.
The Railway Shares declined upon the settlement, but got
up a little subsequently. There, however, was no variation
worth notice.

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BENGAL —AMERICAN COTTON PLANTERS.
—We regret to learn, though it is no more .than we ex-
pected and foretold, " that the superintendent of the
American cotton planters has represented to the Board
of Revenue the impracticability of carrying out the views
of Government" " in respect to the 1,200 acres already
planted with cotton, which they have ordered should be
given over in charge to the American planters ;" and
wherefore ? will no doubt be the inquiry. The non-ex-
istence of " gin-houses for the machinery, of dwelling-
houses for.the planters, and of godowns for the preserva-
tion of implements of industry," and, it may be added, of
suitable working implements, are assigned as the cause.
"It is lamentable to think how greatly the whole business
has been- mismanaged, and the heavy expenditure that
has been incurred without, as yet, the attainment of any
one object for Which the Americans were sent to this
country." Much that is required might and should hare
been done before they arrived ; this discovery
.is now
made ; but can the authorities plead in excuse ignorance
or want of information ? NO ! and that the services of
these men were not available immediately on their Arrival,
and that it is only now found they will not be in all
probability for some time to come, is chargeable entirely
to some of the officials at the Revenue Board.—East
India Telegraph.
The New Orleans Papers relate the ollowing
almost incredible occurrence :—On the 14th instant, at
night, they say, a white woman gave birth to an infitnt
in a car, on the Pontchartrain Railroad. She threw the
child out, as the cars were going down to the lake, op-
posite to an hospital kept by a Dr. Lutzenburg ; and be-;
lieving, as she says, that it was dead, continued on • her
journey. The child was found alive and well ! at five
o'clock on the following Tuesday morning and taken into
the hospital, where a slave of the doctor's performed the
duties of a mother towards it. On the same day (Tuesday)'
at half-past 11 o'clock A.m., the mother was arrested
by the Third Municipality police of New Orleans, and:
at one o'clock she was sent to the hospital to give that'
nourishment and succour to her infant whiCh nature
should prompt her to have done, but whom she so un-
naturally deserted. The " young 'un," it is added, is a
fine healthy boy, and yesterday they were both doinc,
well. The mother received no assistance during her
travail ; and the child withstood the assaults of the rum:-
quitoes, the effects of.the night air, and the other con-
tingent inconvzniences of a night in the Woods, in a man—
ner ttrat would have (lone credit to *a 3(111:11t,kr il,:;;. d
to hardships. Even the fall from the carriage did him
no other injury than to leave a small blue mark on his
forehead.—New York Courier.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FoNBLANQUE.)
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 14.
MESSRS. WHITMORE, WELLS, AND 'WHITMORE'S (BANKERS)

BANHUPTCr.
This was the day named to take the choice of Assignees
against the estate of these bankrupts, who carried on business
is banker, in tombarci-street, and whose stopme was made
public come few days since.
The number of creditors in attendance was very numerous,
but notwithstanding the extreme pressure, ample az:sommoda-
tion •rat afforded for the press.
A great number of proofs were admitted to-clay without pre—
judice and without reference to questions that may arise re-
specting overdue checks.

•
The debts an:l liabilities of the bankrupts were estimated at
120,0001., but no idea of the assets can yet be given.
There was no opposition to the choice of assignees, which
vas made as follows : —Henry Lee, of No. 32, Finsbury-squire,
in the county of Middlesex, builder; William Dimsdale Child,
No. 8, Finsbury-plate, South, in the same county, mer-
-hant ; and James Alexander Simpson, of No. 11, Austin-
frins, in the city of London, solicitor to the estate and effects
if Edward Whitmore, John Wells, John Wells the younger.
and Frederick Whitmore.

Among the proofs filed during the sitting _were the follow-
ing : -Mr. Dodgin, 871. 12s. 10d. ; Mr. Du Bouisson, 5631155.;
Mrs. Eleanor Simpson, 5001.; Mr. R. Bousfiehl, 916/. 165.-I la. ;
Mr. 2,508/. 6s. 10d. Mr. T.Bulkeley, 6051. 16a.;
Mr. C. D. Kerr, 459/.'lss. ; Mr. J. Hopkins, 1,838/. 15s. 3d..
Mr. J. J. Tulkeley, 1,110/. ss. 2d. ; Mr. G. B. Hart,
1,847/.lls. 2d. ; Mr. J. Biehop, 1,482/. 10s. 6(1. ; Mr. Georg e
Whitmore, 540/.'2s. Id. ; Mr. Edward Divett, M. P., 894/.1
Mr. G. sands, 4021. 13s. sd. ; • .Mr. J. Turner, 6011. 3s. 9d. ;
Sir John W. Lubbock, 509/. 10s. 6d.; kir. T. Key, 8471.25. 6d.;
Rev. John Noble Colman, 541. 6s. 7d. ; Mr. Charles Pulling,
1941. 9s. 9d. ; Captain Francis Briggs, 1731.75. 2d..; Mr. W.
Dimsdale, £O6/. Os. 9d. ; Mr. John Barnard, 4,421/. 13s. Id, ;
AfT„George Goedwin, .1,1221. 9s,- 4(1,-; Mr. .7. G. Garland,
"VV. 4s. 7d. ; Mr. Edward A. Hordham, 600/. ; Mr. J. II Gar-
land, 674/. 3s. 2d.; Mr. J. Smart. 413/. 4s. 5d.; Messrs. Kendle
and Elliott, 3,572/. 16s. 6d- ; Mr. R. Whitmore and Sir An-
drew Barnard as executors of the late Lady Williams,
1,386/. 4s. 9d. ; Miss Elizabeth Hunt, 4441. as. 3d. ; Mr. W.
Folgare, 601/. Ws. 6d. ; Mr. G. Davidge, 332/. 14s. 3d. ;
Mr. S. Purkiss, 524/. 12s. ; Mr. J. Forrest, 3011. I7s. Bd. ;
Mr. R. Whitmore, the Rev. John William Mackie, as trustees
of Thomas Williams, 1,7951. 12s. Bd. ; Mr. R. Shuter,
593/. 17, 3d. ; Mr. J. H. Davidge, 235/. 13s. Id. ; Mr. T. '
Edwards, 1,2-16/. 14s. 7d. ; Mr. J. E. Fillon, 264/. 12s. ; Mr.
R. Whitmore, as executor of Francis Oliveira, 54/. 195..; Mr.
R. Harris, 3351. ss. 10d. ; Mr. E. Howard, 536/. 14s. 4d. ;
Mr. J. Wilson. 1,207/. 12s. 9d. ; Mr. R. Carpenter, .242/. f
II s. 6d. ; Mr. W. Muslin, 987/. 4s. 11 d. ; Mr. J. A. Simps on,
1,194/. 12s. 2d. ; Mr. G. D. Naylor, 1,112/. 19s. Id. • Mr. .1..
Nesbitt. 1,944/. 17s. 4d. ; Mr. Alphonso Doxat, 8,997/. 4s. Id. ;
Mr. J. W. Child, 4,5291. ; Mr. J. Boyd, 4,4541. 16s. 3d. ; Mr.
Francis Chambers, 828/. 6s. ' • Mr. J. Felton, 290/. 17s. Bd. ;
Mr. J. Furze, 976/. 4s. 6d. ; Mr. F. J. Vanzaller, 25/. Is. 4d.;
Mr. J., Walker, 2,1285/. i6s. 7d. ; Mr. 0. Nutter, 2181. 4s. sd. ;
Mr. J. Parry, 669/. 13s. ; Mr. H. Lee, 2,570/. 19s. Id. ; Sir.
F. Friend, 9551. ss. sd. ; Mr. G. Burnand, 1,768/. Is. 7d. ;
Mr. S. Pegg, 6511. 11s. sd. ; Mr. E. Jones, 223/. 12s. 6d. ;
Mr. H. G. Franklyn, 2741. ss. ; Mr. Francis Hobler,
7971. 14s. 2d. ; Captain Henry Connor, 6831. 17s. 9d. • Mr.
J. Casley, 1,3411. 19s. I Od. ; Mr. C. Milligan, 7961. 3s. 6i., &c.
The total amount of the proofs admitted could not be steer-
tained at the rising of the Court.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Hertford, July 14.
The Commission of Assize for the county of Herts
was opened this day. There are very few prisoners for
trial, and some of the cases are of a serious character.
On the Civil side eleven causes are entered, only two of
which are Special Juries.

After the Commission had been read by Mr. Straight,
the Cleric of Arraigns for the Home Circuit, the Court
adjourned until this morning, when both Courts will pro-
ceed to business.

TV:ie STERCNROt;,vIIIsr?Cgt-lIT---.Winchester.

(Before Mr. Baron Boum)
Thomas Yarlett, aged 2.8, was convicted of having felo-
niously cut and wounded Jesse Goedyer, with intent to do him
some grievous badity harm. The case, as it appeared upon the
evidence, exhibited a sample of great brutality. The prisoner
and the prosecutor, who were not acquainted with each other,
being both in the tap-room of a public-house, the prisoner,
without any previous provocation, threw his hat into the
prosecutor's face, and thereby knocked him eff the chair upon
which he was sitting. The consequence of this and of some
dditiotial provocation was, that the parties had some three or
four rounds at boxing in the room. Upon their quitting the
house afterwards, the prosecutor said to the prisoner, " Good
night, my friend, I hope there's no malice, and that all's
right." To which the prisoner answered, " No, it's not all
right, and soon show you it's not ;" upon which he rushed
upon the prosecutor and knocked him down, after which be
stabbed him five times with a knife.
Mr. Baron ROLFE sentenced the prisoner to 18 months' im-
prisonment and hard labour, desiring it to be publicly com-
municated, that wherever a knife should be used in a (pure],
the punishment inflicted by the Court would always be lir e
severe upon that account.

Nisi PAWS COURT.-(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.)
TR}' QUEEN V. PUCE.

This wa% an indictment fora libel. At the sitting of the
Court this morning the defendant applied to Mr. Justice Manic
to have the trial rut off, upon the ground that some business
in which he had been lately occupied at the Sessions, pre-
vented him from making sufficient preparation for the defence
of the ease.

Mr. Justice MA ttr.r. suggested that, instead of putting off
the trial, Ow defendant should apologise to the prosecutor, to
which suggestion, after a great deal of conversation, the defen-
dant submitted, and apologised accordingly. Nothing trans.
pired about the particulars of the libel itself.
EADES V. PRATT.
This action had been brought to recover compensation in
damages, &c., for a breach of promise of marriage. Upon the
case being called on,
Mr. EKLE, who with Mr. Saunders appeared for the plain- g
tiff, stated that the action had not been brought with any pur-
pose
of deriving any pecuniary advantage from the verdict, but 1
in order, to remove any impression which may anywhere exist,
that the defendant, in refusing to perform his promise, had
been influenced by any feeling of diminished respect for the
character of the plaintiff. ,

Mr. CHOWDER, upon the part of the defendant, gave the
fullest satisfaction upon this point ; and it was agreed that a
verdict should, by consent, be taken for the plaintiff.
Damages, Md.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—York, July 13.
CROWN SIDE.—( Before Mr. Justice WIGUTMAN.)
Joseph Turner and William Horseley were indicted for a
burglary and robbery in the house of Sir. W. Dyson, at Ec-
e?es6eld, in the West Riding, on the 27th of May last.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor, who is
near 90 years of age, and his wife 85, lived. in a small house,
. near Feclesfleld. They slept on the ground floor, and a
lodger, named Abbott, up stairs. Between two and three
o'clock in the morning the wife awoke and saw a man with a
candle in the room, and called out. He came to the bedside
with a hedgestake, and demavded money. She said they had
only a few shillings in the cupboard which he made her get up
and show him. 'She then saw therffl were two men. The old
man tried to get up, when one of the thieves pushed him baeg
with a stick, usirg violent threats. The old woman then got up
stairs and alarmed Abbott, but the two thieves quickly fol-
lowed, and threatened to kill him if he stirred. They then
went away, and-Abbott was about to get out of the chamber
window to give an alarm, when he saw a third man, also
armed with a hedgestake, outside. After they were
gone away, Abbott attempted to go out, when he found
the door fastened outside, and was obliged to get out of the
window. He then went to the house of the prosecutor's son,
who lived near, whose door was also fastened outside, as if
with the intention of preventing him getting out, if alarmed.
The old people were too much alarmed to identify the prison-
ers, but from the description given of them by Abbott they
were taken up, and he now positively swore to their identity. •
The Learned Counsel addressed the Jury for their respec-
tive clents, and the Jury, after considerable deliberation, re-
turned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners.
Sentence deferred.

indicted for a burglary in the Brighouse , the night
named George
t e
Joseph Pilling, Samuel Laycock, and DtzbidarLoa
nycock, were
of the 3d of April last.
ut
lipa, t tlieAb four o'clock in h
earner, seventy-five years .
It appeared that the tollboafreigsek.ept 133 n,
uatmanram
per-
ceived by the light of the fires.
morning he was awakened by' afrnomoiseth,
eansthl,eegf..ewttoinrkgs
prisoner Piling was endeavouring to effect an entrance. He
ten ran and fastened a back-door which led to a milkhouse,
and returned to the front door and window. Tho three
per-
sons then assailed the house with a storm of stones, with which
the window was sxashed. Carner twice fired a pistol, but
without effect, and then betook himself to a large fork, with
which he prodded the assailants when they attempted to
enter. Two of them went to the milkhouse, and getting on
the roof, took off the slates and entered, but found the door
leading from it to the dwelling fast. They repeatedly de-
manded a sovereign ; Carner said he had only 9d., the toll
collector haring been the day before. At length the 9d. was
thrown through the window, and they went away. There
was al
so
s some corroborative evidence against Pilling, his hav-
pro
ing ben
secutor. seen near the spot, as well as identification by the
Mr. Newton. addressed the Jury for the Laycocks, and
The Jury found Pilling Guilty, but acquitted the ether two.
Sentence deferred. ,

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Northampton, July 13.
The Learned Judges, the Right Hon. Baron Parke, and Mr.
Baron Gurney, arrived here last evening, and opened the
commission. Havi,pg attended divine service at ten this morn-
ing, they took their seats in the County Hall at twelve o'clock,
Mr. Baron Parke presiding in the Crown Court, and 11r.
Baron Gurney on the Civil Side.
There were but seven causes entered for trial, two being for
seduction, one of which is a special jury case.
In the county calendar, with the exception of 24 persoPs
committed to take their trial for a riot at a place called Stoke
Plain, in this county, and which is stated to have arisen out of
Opposition to the erecting of some fences under an enclosure
act, there appear the names of ten persons only.
CIVIL SIDE.

(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
WILLIAM RODDIS V. JOHN Fiktiecz.o.rx.
This was an action on the case for the seduction by the de-
fendant of the plaintiff's daughter.
Mr. Humfrey, Mr. Waddington, and Mr. Miller, conducted
the plaintiff's case. Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel, and Mr.
White appeared for the defendant.
Mr. HUIIFREY opened the case to the Jury in an eloquent
and very impassioned address, commenting with stern severity
upon what he termed the horrid, atrocious, and disgusting con-
duct of thf. defendant towards the unfortunate subject of this
inquiry. The plaintiff is a butcher in a respectable and exten-
sive business in this toe n, having a family of eight sons and
three daughters, of eh= the eldest bad been the sufferer in
this ea.e from the wicked conduct of the defendant. Mr. Fair-
cloth is a surgeon in this town, moving in good society, and
enjoying a lucrative practice. The defendant had not only in-
jured the plaintiff by robbing his-.daughter of that virtue and
innocence which was pure, spotless, and unimpugned until the'
time of the injury complained of, but had circulated amongst
his relatives, friends, and neighbours, anonymous libels of a
most odious and filthy nature, reflecting upon the character and,
conduct of that daughter, The Learned Counsel then pro:
Hail to the July the kadit.g features in UK, case,
winch he was instructed that in his duty he should have to lay
before them, and concluded by observing, that the ill-earned
gains of the defendant enabled him to pay to the plaintiff such