The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY
_EVENING, JULY 22, 1847.

The old electioneering war-whoop of " Protection"
is forgotten because a the derision cast upon the
misnomer. "No Dopery "is chosen instead. So be
it. That " pueiding-headed " cry, as Mr. CARLYLE
would call it, that cry so typical of everything that
is obsolete rand thoroughly used up, is the symbol of
the wreteaeid faction opposed to us. Onward, then,
courageoruily and confidently, and we must inevitably
be victor i';,us.

Acti•rity is already visible in a large number of
our c 7 ties, boroughs, and shires. The electors, with
a w' nolesome providence of time, are bestirring
then aselves for the struggle which is approaching-
-wb ich may, in fact, be said to have already arrived.
mong these judicir
Jus constituencies we are rejoiced
perceive that of the second most populous city in
the British empire—Glasgow. Better candidates—
ca ndidates trAore felicitously chosen to contest the re-
presentation of that great manufacturing city—could
not by possibility have appeared than the LORD
P 1 LOVOF,T of Glasgow himself, and the eminent, and
indee renowned, political economist Mr. MACGREG on.
Bot) i of them are men distinguished by their
put )lic services and their singularly practical
; both of them are men of unimpeach-
eble s integrity, and of assured principles. Mr.
MA CGREGOR is in a peculiar manner entitled to the
con sideration of a vast mercantile community like
tha t of Glasgow. His assiduous and enlightened
lab ours as one of the joint secretaries of the Board of
Tr ade—labours extending over a period of fifteen
ye ars—labours which have associated him succes-
sb vely with the Governments of Lord MELBOURNE,
of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and of Lord JOHN RUSSELL--
p rove him to be a man skilled in the philosophy
c,f commerce. This fact, moreover, has been
\r ,lazoned conspicuously in the writings by
which he has shown himself to be a worthy
disciple of the first Apostle of Free Trade—
., t.DAM SMITH. Mr. MacGREGoR has earned for him-
.,l£ th. ffraires of the Liberal elec-
watch over their interests, and over the commercial
interest of the whole empire. By sending the LORD
PROVOST and Mr. MACGREGOR to Westminster
Glasgow will nobly aid in the advancement of the
)ational cause, and guarantee at least two distin-
guished Members in the Popular Parliament.

We have to call attention to the copy of a petition,
in another column, from the unfortunate claimants,
for losses by the Danes, which was presented to the
House of Commons, a short time ago, by Mr. WAT-
SON. It seems the height of. cruelty to deny redress
to these parties, after the repeated decisions in their
favour. They did not, however, bring their case
more prominently forward this session, on account of
the great exertions required to be made to relieve the
distress which existed in Ireland and Scotland ; but
they intend to submit their long sufferings to the
new Parliament, which they trust will do them
justice.

The session could not be permitted to come to a
termination, the Legislature could not close its an-
nual labours without the modern QUIXOTE once more
setting his lance in rest, and running another tilt on
behalf of the goddess of his idolatry, his adored Pro-
tection. The chivalrous La Manchan was not more
deeply impressed with the glories of knight-errantry,
or imbued with greater hostility to the more sober
rules of modern justice, which had usurped its place,
than is the Noble Representative for Lynn enamoured
with the perfections of monopoly, and opposed to the
free-trade heresy that has sprung up to its exclusion!
No facts are sufficiently strong to repress his ardour.
He regards everything through a distorted medium,
and colours it according to his own peculiar views.
No wonder that he reposes implicit confidence in his
own powers, and that he questions clear and
(to other minds) convincing deductions with
as little doubt or hesitation as that with which
the Knight of the Rueful Countenance assailed
the innocent windmills. The statement contained in
the recent address of Sir R. PEEL to his constituents
respecting the financial and commercial policy of the
late Government was the giant which the modern
mirror of knight-errantry desired to overwhelm in the
present instance. Had he suffered it to go forth,
without contradiction to the public, that an increase
of the Customs' duties, by a certain per centage, was
not productive of a corresponding increase to the re-
venue, while a great and general reduction of these
duties, by which no less than 7,625,000/. sterling was
remitted to the people, was attended, in the year
1846, by a diminution of revenue to the extent of
11847, as that policy became more fully (.7
developed,
and its results came into full operation, that defi-
ciency had wholly disappeared; and, notwithstanding
these enormous boons conferred upon the people,
there had actually been an increase in the ordinary
revenues of the country derivable from the same
sources—it would have a most injurious effect on his
doctrines. What arguments could mystify or de-
ceive a people who had received such tangible be-
nefits, and how could he hope that such a majority
of his party would be returned at the forthcoming
elections as would enable him to seize on the reins
of Government, and restore the golden era of mo-
nopoly in:the teeth of such decisive facts ? Some-
thing must be done, and that speedily, to counteract
the effects of that plain and simple statement on the
public mind, to restore confidence to his depressed
associates, who were unable to sustain their positions
in the face of such truths. The Noble Lord accordingly
took advantage of a motion for certain documents, to
which no opposition was intended, to enlighten the
House and the public by showing, or rather striving to
show, that no dependence should be placed on these
extraordinary results, and that they were not in any
degree owing to the more liberal commercial policy
that had been introduced.

The reasons by which the Noble Lord attempted to
Establish his proposition were certainly of no ordinary
character. He could not controvert or deny the
great fact that the ordinary income of the country
was now larger in amount than that which was
realized in 1841, before any of these reductions had-
taken place:; but he says—" It is not wholly owing
to the reductions, because in the articles with which
the tariff of Sir R. PEEL did not interfere there was
an increase of revenue within that period of
4,150,0001., for which he can take no credit. The
whole of the reductions should be made up by the
increased consumption of the articles on which they
had taken place, in order to justify the policy, or to
show that the improvement in the revenue had been
occasioned thereby."

Now there never was a more fallacious argument
than this, or one more easily overturned. It could
not be supposed that the loss of revenue occasioned
by the total abolition of any duty (and our readers
will hardly require to be reminded of how many ar-
ticles have been admitted free within the last six years
that were previously subjected to heavy import
duties) could be replaced by an increased consump.
tion thereof, however great it might be ; but the
relief thereby afforded to the people, the increased
prosperity that followed, enabled them to partake
more freely of other comforts or luxuries, and thus
to increase the consumption of those things on
which perhaps no reduction had been made.
The principal items on which this increase has taken
place will be found to be those chiefly indicative of
a more prosperous condition of the working classes.
The great improvement has been on tea, tobacco, and
snuff, British and Colonial spirits, bricks, paper, soap,
and
thhops. Now these are amongst the chief comforts
of
less wealthy portion of the people, and the
increase therein i 3 asily accounted fur. The re-
mission of duties to the extent of 7 500 000/. sterling
saved a much larger r: m to the public, 'amounting to
nearly 11,000,000 L t ;
occasion). This enorm.. saving,s
stir
ug (as we proved on a former
a more occasioned a much greater
ap-
plicable to other purposes, thus made
eral
aensndipltohyemseenwteroef
activity in trade and
r sums to spare
the people, who had thus general
for the purchase of other articles
turn led
naturally applied to those things
their comforts chiefly depended, and themyoi:nit which
to others ; thus tea was at once the
article to be thus increased, and we find the revenueus
thereon improved fully 9.5 per cent., or nearl
1,‘)00,000/. This again would lead to a correspond-
ing' increase in the sugar duties, for which Sir
ROBERT PEEL IVLIS entitled to more credit than (in
his anxiety to remove any topic of controversy) he
had claimed. The other points are susceptible of a
similar explanation, and we do not think the Noble
Lord will succeed in shaking the faith of the country

in the free-trade policy. It is now too firmly estab-
lished, and has borne too well the several tests to
which it has been subjected, to be in any degree
injured by such puny attacks or flimsy arguments as
those with which it has been assailed by the Protec-
tionist leader.

A supplement of the Quotidiano of Rome, of the
10th, confirms the statement of the resignation of
Cardinal Giza, and of Cardinal FERRETTI, Legate of
Pesaro and Urbino, being appointed his successor.
The Holy Father had announced to him his no-
mination in an autograph letter, which contained
these words:—" Let your Eminence come then
to take this new charge. GOD is with us." Cardinal
FERRETTI, who belongs to a noble family of Ancona,
is fifty-two years of age. He was very intimate with
the POPE before his election to the Pontifical chair,
and has made himself remarked both by his firmness
and piety in the legation which he governed. He is
the brother of the Major FERRETTI who, in the time
of NAPOLEON, was considered one of the bravest
officers of the Italian army, and who lately refused
the Grand Mastership of the Order of Malta.
The POPE convoked on the Bth a congregation of
Cardinals, to take into consideration the municipal
law, and other urgent measures.

Madrid papers of the 15th have arrived.
The Faro, the organ of the Afrancesadoes, waxes
virtuously indignant at the speech of Lord PAL-
MERSTON on the non-payment of her debts by Spain,
and, after the manner of all dishonest and shame-
lessly fraudulent debtors when threatened, with
" ulterior proceedings," bullies and swaggers :
" Spain (says the Faro) will pay England what she
owes her, not from any fear of her fanfuronnades, but
because she is anxious to fulfil obligations she has not
contracted in vain. We shall add that the British Go-
vernment, notwithstanding its power, is not at liberty
to take possession of Cuba and Porto Rico whenever it
suits its purpose, and we do not anticipate that it will
be able in future to strike the bold blows which Lord
Palmerston so emphatically announced at the close of
confe,ses that, if it interfered in the affairs of Portugal,
it wrs because it feared that Spain would interfere
alone."

It is all very well for these Afrancesado gentlemen
to say " Spain will pay England what she owes her,"
but it would be better if they would tell us in what
year of our LORD all this is to happen.
The Curreo, the organ of SALAMANCA, is dull and
pompous, as becomes a Ministerial organ, but not one
whit more honest than the Faro. " Base is the slave
that pays," should be the motto of the Ministers of
Spain, as it was of ancient PISTOL, but the day will
come when, like PISTOL, these gentlemen will, not-
withstanding all their swagger, quietly eat their leek,
and it is by no means improbable that Lord PALMERS-
TON may be their FLUELLEN.
The QUEEN, who will remain at La Granj a
until the end of August, pardoned two Carlist pri-
soners of the band of the Estudiente. The pardon
however, came too late, the poor fellows having been
shot at Burgos before its arrival.
The Correo states that a new protocol has been
signed at Lisbon, in accordance with the provisions
of which the English Marines have given up the
Castle of Foz, at Oporto, to the Spanish.
The Duke of SOTOMAYOR has published a letter
denying the accusations made against his Ministry,
of having fomented the differences between the KING
and QUEEN.

MADRID BOMA, JULY 14.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 27 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 174;
the Debt without interest, at 54; and the Coupons at 15,

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The National says—

"A rumour, which was generally credited, was circu-
lated at the Chamber yesterday, namely, that Marshal
Soult, having again sent in his resignation, the Council
of Ministers deliberated on it, and the offer was accepted.
A letter, it was rumoured, was immediately written to
Marshal Bugeaud, to offer him the portfolio of War,
and it was almost settled that M. Guizot should assume
the place of President of the Council. It appears certain
that M. Cunin Gridaine has expressed, in formal terms,
his intention to withdraw, and that he is to be replaced
after the session, by M. Muret de Bort."
It is said that the resignation of M. CUNIN GRI.
DAINE is owing to the discovery made by the Presse
that Messrs. CuNiN GRIDAINE and Son,of Sedan, had
been dabbling in Northern Railroad shares. The
appointment of Marshal BUGEMJD is significant. It
is a prelude not only to the break up of the Ministry,
but to a coup cr eta One of the first acts of Marshal
BUQEAUD will be to arm the detached forts, and then,
if it be possibible to excite the opposition to a display
of physical force, the drama which the Marshal has
rehearsed in Algeria may perchance betperformed in
I SIIJ.
The trial of M. PELLAPRA, who has sitrrendered, is
to commence on Friday 23d.
The Ministry, in consequence of the discovery of
the corruption of M. TESTE, coming as that discovery
did in corroboration of the charges of corruption
against other members of the Ministry, has been com-
pletely deprived of all moral power, as the following
scene which-occurred during the debate in the Cham-
ber of Deputies on the Lyons and Paris Railway Bill
will show.

L'HER➢ETTE, in denouncing the gambling prac-
tises on the Stock Exchange, said—
" Patriotism now- a-days means risking your money,
and whether on the Bourse or in the Chamber it was the
same thing.—(Exclamations from the Centre.)
" The President—l cannot allow the Chamber to be
compared to the Stock Exchange.—(Great agitation.)
" M. L'Herbette admitted there was some difference.
—(Loud cries of Orden')
" M. Garnier Pages—Go on, M. L'llerbette.
" M. L'Herbette—You admit that Deputies may hold
shares, and vote in favour of the railway Bill in which
they are interested, Why do you shrink from the con-
sequences of your own principle?
" M. Blanqui—lt is indecent.—(Uproar.)
"M. Gartner Pages—lt is the truth.
" M. L'Herbette—l am exercising my right.—(Loud
cries of Order.')
" M. Plougolm—Never has the Chamber been com-
pared to the Bourse. It is scandalous.—(Cries of
Assent' from all parts and Order.')
" The President, amidst the uproar, decided that the
comparison was disorderly.
" M. Lanyer called on the speaker to retract.
"M. Gamier Pages called upon him to do no such
thing.
" The Centre bellowed for retractation. The Left
counter INAlowed.

" M. L'Herbette appealed sarcastically to the virtuous
indignation of M. Lanyer.
" M. Murat de Bort—We are all indignant.
" The Centre in a chorus—Yes, all indignant.
" The Left—No, not all.

" M. L'llerbette—Then, if you will, I appeal to all,
and demand if your virtuous indignation (explosion of
dissatisfaction from the Centre)—
" Several Voices—lt is an insult—Order, order —and
what the reporter of the Ikbats calls interpellations
diverses.

" The President—l cannot allow the Chamber to be
insulted. M. L'Herbette, I call on you to explain.
" The Centre—Order, order.
`• The President—l have already called him to order,
and now he is going to make an explanation.
" M. de Lavalette—Such expressions cannot be per-
mitted.—(Prolonged agitation.)
" M. Gamier Pages—The country should know—
" The President—You cannot be allowed to speak ;
you are out of order.

" M. Blanqui—The scandal is in the language of the
speaker (M. Llierbette).
" M. de Lasteyrie called on tho Speaker to call all the
interryptors to order.

" M..L'llerbette said he had a right to explain.
" M. de Lavalette—You commenced your explanation
with a fresh injury.
" M. de Puzy--Let the orator explain, unless you
have something else to propose.—(Agitation.)
" M. L'Herbette—Do not vex yourselves.—(Laughter.)
And he went on to say that his allusions had been to a
former Parliament, when the Cours (le la Bourse used to
be posted in that Chamber.
" The President—l never heard of such a fact.
"M. Luneau—lt is the fact.
" M. Dejean—lt is an invention.
"M. L'l-lerbette—The abuse subsisted for a long
time. It had been cited against him the exactitude
observed by Government towards the builders of the
fortifications. A Government sure of a people's love did
not want fortifications. To be sure it kept them when
the people were good enough to bestow them, but for all
that did not care about them.—(Laughter and murmurs,
and so forth and so forth.)"

In the discussion on this Bill on Tuesday an
amendment was proposed by M. FOULD, to this
effect :—" Two years after the completion of the line,
and its being brought into work, the company should
have the power of declaring whether it intended to

keep the concession, or preferred to give it up; if in
the latter case, the State should reimburse the com-
pany the amount of their useful expenses in Rentes
at par in Four per Cents," which was, after some
discussion, rejected. Art. I of the Government Bill
was then adoptei, and the discussion opened on Art.
2, which was continuing at post hour.
The Union illonarchiQue says—" The alarming
health rumours
of
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His
health is compromised to such an extent that his

family begins to fzel serious fears. M. TESTE is at-
tended by Dr. CRUVEILHER and M. ROUGET, physi-
cian of Luxembourg prison."
A demand in separation de biens has just been
formed by Mme. MARIE CATHERINE TESTE, the wife
of M. TESTE.

The French squadron, consisting of four vessels
of the line and four frigates, under the command
of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, arrived at Palermo on
the 4th.

" The decline in the price of grain, which mani-
fested itself last week," says the Echo Agricole, "has
been followed by another fall in all the markets.
Everywhere the harvest presents a splendid appear-
ance, which has been changed into a reality with
respect to all descriptions of grain in the southern
provinces, and for rye in the rest of France. In the
first days of August the reaping of wheat will be
general, and everything announces results superior to
those anticipated."
The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 75c.; the Five per
Cents. at 118 f. 70c. ; the Orleans Railroad Share', 1,277 f.
53c. ; Rouen,972f. 50c. ; llavre, 6421. 50c. ; Great Northern,
576 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 636 f. 25c. •, Vierzon, 5861. 25c. ; Bor-
deaux, 487 f. 50c. ; Basle, 1821. 50c. • Paris and Strasburg,
422 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 400 f. ; 'Paris and Lyons, 433 f.
75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 437 f. 50e.; Bordeaux and
Cette, 458 f. 75c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 3214 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 21.
Lyons and Avignon (Constituted), 214—Namur and Liege,
6—Orleans and Bordeaux, 534—Paris and Lyons, s—West
Flanders, 41/8.

DEATH OF THE O'CONOR DON.
With profound regret we have to announce the de-
cease of the Right Honourable Dennis O'Conor, com-
monly called The O'Conor Don, one of her Ma-
jesty's Lords of the Treasury. His- death occurred
this morning at seven o'clock, at his residence, 51, Pen-
man West, where the Right Hon., the deceased gentle-
man, was attended by two members of the Roman
Catholic priesthood, Monsigniore the Rev. Dr. Magee,
of Wesrainster, and the Rev. Lee, of Warwick-
street. The O'Conor Don was a man eminently re-
spected in his public character, and more than esteemed
described to have been serene, and consolatory to those
who witnessed it. The deceased was born in 1794, so
that he was in his fifty-third year. In 1824 he was
married to Mary Ann, daughter of Major Blake,
since deceased. He has occupied his seat in the House of
Commons, as representative of the county of Roscom-
mon, since 1831, so that he has been sixteen years a
Member of the British Parliament. As a politician the
O'Conor Don was an ardent and consistent Liberal; the
moral and social advancement of Ireland was among
his most fervent and perpetual aspirations ; as a
Roman Catholic, he was an advocate for a
more generalized system of Church endowment;
as a philanthropist, he was solicitous for the
removal of the more rigorous enactments from our
criminal jurisprudence ; as an Irishman, he was a Re-
pealer. The O'Conor Don was regarded as the chief
of the ancient family of the O'Conors, as his title
indicated.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuRCHELL.)
M‘DOWALL V. PALMER.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of
11/. 16s. on a bill of exchange.
The defendant pleaded that he did not accept the bill.
The plaintiffs are warehousemen in the City, and de-
fendant a farmer at Lakenbeath, Norfolk. To prove
the plaintiff's case Mr. Fisher, a wine and spirit mer-
chant at Lynn, was called, and proved that he drew the
bill on the defendant. and the latter had, both before
and after the action was brought, admitted that he had
accepted the bill, but said that he had put in a plea
by the advice of his attorney to get time, and the only
reason he had not paid was, that he had been very un•
fortunate with his crops for two or three }-errs.
Mr. J. Jackson, of Lynn, also deposed, that to the best
of his belief the signature was that of the defendant.
Mr. PRENTIS said he could not make any defence
against such evidence as this, and he had been misled by
his brief, by which he was led to suppose that the bill
was accepted John Palmer, and defendant's name was
John William Palmer, but that being an error, he must
let the case go to the jury.
The jury fuund for the amount claimed.
MABSON V. DODSON.

The plaintiff in this action is the landlord of the Fea-
thers public-house in Great Wild-street ; the defendant
is a bookseller in Fleet-street. The claim was for 51.
10$., for money lent.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.
The plaintiff's attorney stated the case. In February
and March last year the defendant frequented the plain-
tiff's house ; and being a sporting character, was known
by the fancy name of " Walker.' He would be able to
prove the loans of 11. 10s. and 24 ; with respect to the
other sum there might be some difficulty, as although
witnesses could prove that other money was lent, they
could not speak to the precise amount.
Two witnesses named Ryan and Burke were called,
and proved the loan of 2/, and 1L 10s., and that defend-
ant said Chaffey (a fighting man) was to have anything
he w nted, as there was no difference between them, and
he illsl re ay Plaintiff.
14
' e %-,ADEn-ShiEnike What is a II It I g tng man ?
ThaOis no profession, unless he is a soldier—that is the
only4fighting man the l.fe recognizes. The witness—
He is a pugilist, a friend of defendant. 11. was sent
after a concert.

By Mr. THOMAS—Some people called it a cock-and-
hen club. It was frequented by sporting men and all
sorts.

On the part of the defendant Cbaffey was called, and
swore that the money was lent to him, and that plaintiff
asked him for it, and witness said he would pay as soon
as he could. _ _ _

Cross-examined—Sometimek wore defendant's livery
for a spree, and sometimes defendant wore his, but they
were never both in livery at the same time.—(Laughter.)
The UNDER-SHERIFF said that although the money
was given into the hands of Chaffey, if it was on defend-
ant's request he was liable, as for money lent to him, but
if the money was lent to Chaffey, and defendant after-
wards guaranteed to pay it, there must be a contract
proved.
The jury immediately found for the full amount.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
EXTRAORDINAItY CHARGE OF BILL STEALING.—
laannee,atiwn.egr-ehoeuhsaerkgeeedpehry,
rGesetodrgteegßi'uttmaNno,
.an,(ll,Tsh,ito.nimasar7tidint,ys,
John William Sawyer, clerk to Messrs. Green and Co ,
notaries, Change-alley, Cornbill, with stealing a bill of
exchange for 221.
The prosecutor. stated that on the previous afternoon,
about ten minutes to five o'clock, he went to No. 91,
St. Martii.i's -lane, to present a bill for payment of 921:
who went away with it,
He drew it from his case with a notice attached, and
prisoner Ritman, who
sn
possession,t ed himself, a
nadn d
if
shkee d
would witnessl
allow
andpresented
presently th
returnedlat.er to awfrh female, who
looked at the bill in his bands. Shortly afterwards the
ly preill sented
him (Tully) to look at it, which he did, and the prisoner
took it in his hands, and after looking at it for a few
prisoner rei shoande rt
hTeuhl
minutes threw it on the table, and said the writing was
not his, and it was a forgery. Witness then took hold of
the bill, and was in the act of raising it from the table,
when the prisoner Ritman snatched it from him, and
squeesed it up, and passed it to a female whom 'fully
said was his wife, whe tore it,and subsequently gave the
fragments to Tully. Witness told them that they had
acted very wrong In tearing the bill. The prisoners
laughed at him, and said it was a swindling affair, and
told him to be off about his business, lie then went for a
constable and gave the prisoners into custody.
In cross-examination the prosecutor stated that he did
not know whether it was the practice of bankers to pre-
sent bills before they were sent to a notary.
Mr. Green was employed by Mr. Whitfield, the owner
of the bill. Could not tell
.how many indorsements there
were on the back of the bill, but believed there might
be two.
The solicitor for the prisoner said, he had no further
questions to ask. Ile would merely state to the magis-
trate the brief facts of the case. Mr. Tully was keeping
an eating house in St. Martin's lane. Some few weeks ago
three well dressed men went to his house, and ordered a
dinner to be ready for them by four o'clock. They
afterwards left the house, and after being absent for a
couple of hours returned, and said that now they would
enjoy themselves, as they had sent the governor off to
a pigeon match at Chalk Farm. After partaking of
their dinner they proposed that Mr. Tully should join
them in a game of cards. He unfortunately consented,
and lost Si. and several bottles of wine. lie drank a
portion of the wine, and speedily became in such a state
that he was easily induced to give a bill for the
amount he had lost at cards. lie had never seen the
men since, nor did he know that the bill of exchange
was out till it was presented by the complainant. It
was in a moment of excitement that Mr. Tully had acted
as he had done, as he knew that the bill had been ob-
tained from him in a fraudulent manner. lle had no
further remarks to offer, but would leave the case in
the Magistrate's hands.
Mr. BINGHAM said, whether the bill was a swindle or
a forgery, was not a question for him to decide. lie
would propose that the prisoners, or some one on their
part, should replace the bill and give it to the com-
plainant, and that they should also reimburse Messrs.
Green for the trouble they had been at in presenting it.
If that was done he should discharge them.
The bill was subsequently pasted together and brought
into Court, and the expenses having been paid, the pri-
soners were discharged.

ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the
Royal Princes and Princesses, attended by a numerous
suite, arrived by a special train at the Nine Elms
terminus of the South-Western Railway, this after-
noon, at five minutes past one o'clock. The royal
party immediately proceeded in five carriages, each
drawn by four horses, to Buckingham Palace, where
her Majesty arrived at twenty minutes after one
o'clock. The royal escort consisted of a detachment
of the 12th Light Dragoons (Lancers).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships sat to-day at Half-past Two o'cicck.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the
following public and private Bills :—Militia Ballot Sus-
pension—House of Commons Costs Taxation—Juvenile
Offenders—Railways (Ireland), No. 2—Fishery Piers
and Harbours (Ireland)—Canada Consolidated Revenue
Fund—Print Works—Shannon Navigation (Ireland)—
Punishment of Vagrants (Ireland)—Naturalisation of
Aliens—Holyhead Harbour—Compensation for Damages
(Ireland)Drainage of Lands (Ireland)—Stock in Trade
Exemption—Joint-stock Companies Bill—Post-office
Bill—Navigation (No. 2) Bill—Recovery of Public Mo
net's (Ireland)—Trustees Relief—Masters in Chancery
Affidavit-office— Canal Companies—Destitute Persons
(Ireland)—Highway Rates—Militia Pay—Copyright
(Colonies)—Public Works and Drainage (Ireland)—
Constabulary Force (Ireland)—Muscle Fisheries (Scot -
land)—Copyhold Commission—Poor Relief Suspension
(Ireland)—Herring Fishery (Scotland)—Passengers
Act Amendment—Police Clauses Bill—Polling at
Elections Bill—Tithes Commutation Bill—Turn-
pike Acts Continuance Bill—Ecclesiastical Juris-
diction Amendment—Bankruptcy and Insolvency—
Midland Railway (Extension of the Nottingham and
Lincoln Branch at Lincoln)—Midland Railway (Syston
to Peterborough Railway)—York and North Midland
Railway (Harrogate Branch, Boroughbridge, and
Knaresborough Extension)—Edinburgh and Northern
Railway (Branch from Burntisland to Dunfermline
Branch, &c.—No. 2)—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway, and Chester and Birken-
head Railway Purchase or Amalgamation Bill—Co-
ventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
Bill—East of Fife Railway (Markinch Deviation Bill)—
Great Western Railway Amendment and Extension
Bill—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Junction Railway Bill—London and North-Western
Railway (Lime-street Liverpool Station Extension, &c.)
Bill—Paisley and Rsnfrew Railway (Sale and Improve-
ment) Bill—South-Eastern Railway (Widening of the
Greenwich Railway, and Arrangement and Enlargement
of the London-bridge Station) Bill—Waterford and
Limerick Railway Bill—East Lancashire (Deviation and
Rawtenstail Coal Branch) Bill—St. Helen's Canal and
Railway (Warrington Branch) Bill—Great Northern
Railway (Branch to King's Lynn) Bill—Manchester and
Southport Railay and Branches—Eastern Union
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i.ch,)
and Grantham)—York and North Midland Railway
(East Riding Canals purchase)—London and North-
Western Railway (Ormskirk Branch)—Taw Vale Rail-
way and Dock (Deviations and Bideford and South
Molten Branches)—Manchester and Birmingham and
North Staffordshire Junction Railway—Glasgow, Pais-
ley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Ayrshire and
Bridge of Weir Railway (No. 3)—Eastern Counties
Railway (Wisbeach to Spalding)—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction Railway (Deviation of Main
Line, &c.)—Buckingham and Brackley Junction Rail-
way, Sec.—Caledonian Railway (Edinburgh Station and
Branches to Granton and to the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway)— Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at
Holyhead)—Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Im-
provement of the Ferry between Ferry Port-on-Craig,
&c.)—Edinburgh and Northern, and Edinburgh, Leith,
and Granton Railways (Amalgamation)—Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail-
way (Alteration of Main Line)—Northern Counties
Union Railway (Deviation)—Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Railway—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole Railway—Wear Valley Railway—York and
North Midland Railway (Hull 'Station and Branches)—
Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chi-
chester, and London, Brighton, and South Coast,
and London and South-Western Railway—Duffry n,
Llynvi, and Port Cawl and Llynvi Valley Railway
Amalgamation—East Lancashire Railway (Southport
Branch) Exeter and Exmouth Railway—London-
bridge Railway Termini General Enlargement—South
Devon Railway (Extension and Amendment)—Lynn
and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn Railway Amal-
gamation—Edinburgh and Northern Railway, St. An-
drew's and Newburgh Harbour Branches and Road
Crossing (Newport Railway Ex tension)—Glasgow, Air-
drie, and Monkland Junction Railway (Cowlairs
Branch) London and North-Western Railway
(Branches from Kenilworth to Bcrkswell)—Edinburgh
and Bathgate Railway (Deviation and Amendments)—
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction
Railway—Royston and Hitchin Railway (Sale or Lease)
Oldham Alliance Railway London and South-
Western Railway—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire Railway (Supply of Surplus Water to Man-
' chaster, Salford, and Stockport)—Lytham Improve-
' ment—Tunstall Improvement and Market—Liver-
pool Fire and Life Insurance Company—National
Mercantile Life Assurance Society Blackburn
Improvement, Market, &c.—Bathwick Church—Belfast
Improvement Act Amendment—Colchester Navigation
and Improvement—Newbury Cemetery Bill—Wexford
Free Bridge Bili—Huggen's College Incorporation—
Payne's Patent Assignment;--Rathmines Improvement
—Stockport Manorial Tolls and Bridges—Tyne Docks
—Kingston-upon-Hull Dock Company—Swansea Har-
bour—Leominster Canal Navigation Sale Bill—London
(City) Improvements—Bingley Improvement—Liverpool
'Corporation W aterworks—Portsmouth Paving, Light-
ng, and Improvement—St. Ives (Huntingdon) Improve-
ment—Turnpike Roads (South Wales)—Tunstall
Market Company—Crowland and Cowbit Washes and
Drainage—Surrey and Kent Commissioners of Sewers
Acts Amendments—Leeds Waterworks (No. 2)—Lei-
cester -Waterworks—Wolverhampton General Ce-
,metery—Birkenhead (Commissioners) Dock Acts
Amend rneu i
(construction of New Docks and Alteration
to. %tuvert —Birkenhead (Commissioners) Docks Act
Amendment (Construction of Sea Wall along Wallasey
Pool)—Goddard's Estate—Bowes Estate—Dollar:lnstitu-
tion (Mylne's or M'Nabb's Estate)—Newbart (or Grave-
nor's) Estate—Paterson's Estate—Pickernell's Estate—
Duke of Richmond's Estate—Hylton's Estate—Heron's
(Penson's) Estate—Mansell's Estate—Earl of Devon's
Estate—Dundas's Estate—Gillespie's (or Moncrieff's)
Estate—Oldmixon's (or Lyon's) Estate—Lord Ward's
Estate—Northam Bridge Company's Estate—St.Aubyn's
Estate—Sir H. W. Rooke's Estate—Hook's (Leed's
Free Grammar School) Estate—Dean and Chapter of
Westminster Estate—Macdonald and Bosville Estate—
Brooke's Divorce Bill.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Minto, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

A Message from the Commons requested a copy of
the minutes taken before their Lordships' Committee on
Colonisation.—Agreed to.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House met at One o'clock.

Lord G. BENTINCK moved that the petition from
the Island of Jamaica (presented 21st of July) be
printed with the Votes. The Noble Lord said it was his
intention to follow up his motion by the appointment of
a Select Committee on the subject.
The SPEAKER, however, said the Hon. Gentleman
cuuld not, in moving the printing of the petition, enter
into a statement of his reasons for doing so. He might
give notice of his intention to do so to-morrow.
BREAD.

Mr. BANKES moved that the petition of the Rev.
H. F. Yeatman, relative to the sale of bread (printed
June 16) be printed with the Votes, which was agreed
to. He said he should call the attention of the House
to the subject to-morrow.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL.

Mr. BAICTKES inquired if the House of Lords in-
tended to insist on the amendments which they had
inserted in this Bill, and when they might expect to
receive the Bill itself from the other House.

Sir GEORGE GREY replied that the House of Lords
did not intend to insist upon their amendments, and that
the Bill would receive the royal assent to-day.
MILBANK PENITENTIARY.—WOOLWICH