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London, England, 1841-03-27 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Imrattam attraction. Mr. T. P. Cooke and Mr. Collins the
same Evening. the last week of their appearance. " Poor
Jack " and another nautical drama, to conjunction with
" Paul Cliford."

THIS EVENING, MARCH 37.
Will be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, nailed
POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR.
In which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the
Company, will perform.
After which,
BLACK EYED SUSAN.
William by Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with
PAUL CLIFFORD.

Paul Clifford. with cheiong of " Hurrah for the Road," Mr.
Collins.

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 11341.

Amongst the petitions presented to the Lords
last night was one praying for protection to the
Christians in Syria, an object Which Lord INIEL-
BounNi said had not escaped the attention of the
Government.

The Duke of ARGYLL gave notice of his inten-
tion to bring in a Bill to settle the disputes in the
Scotch Church.

In reply to Viscount STRANOFORD, Lord
MELBOURNE said the negotiations for a com-
mercial treaty with France, would be renewed,
and he expressed his satisfaction that all parties
in this country were desirous of maintaining
friendly relations with France.
The East India Rum Bill went through a
Committee.

Their Lordships subsequently prosecuted the
inquiry into the proceedings of the administration
of the Poor-laws, Ireland, till seven o'clock, and
then adjourned.

In the Commons, Mr. LABOUCHEPaiI stated, in
reply to Mr. MACKINNON, whQ asked whether
the holders of wine, in case of a treaty with
France to reduce the duties on wine, would be
allowed a drawback—that, as a general principle,
such drawbacks were always allowed.
The House was occupied the whole evening
with conversations about the Poor-law, or with
that Bill in Committee.
r lELDEN wished
to get rid of the whole Bill by a side-wind, and
though he was pertinacious in pressing his amend-
=tent, the CHAIRMAN and Lord J. RUSSELL
were as resolute in maintaining that the Hon.
Member was entirely out of order, and he at
length withdrew his amendineat.

'The second clause was carried. The third,
which is ambiguous as to the power it gives the
Commissioners over parishes governed by local
Acts, was postponed, s in consequence of the op_
F
position of Mr. WAKLEY, Sir - F.
POLLOCK, Sir
li•
PEEL, and Mr. ELLICE.
On clause 4, Mr. H. HINDE moved an
amendment to limit the power of the Commis-
sioners in making rules and regulations. In the
discussion which ensued some severe censures
were passed on their harsh and arrogant conduct.
The amendment
was a was, however, lost by 225 to 75.
The 4th clause greed to.
The Rouse, at the suggestion of Mr, FIELDEN,

then resumed, and Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice
that he would on Ttiesd.ay move That the consi-
deration of the Poor-law Bill should take prece-
dence of notices of motion.

Mr. Fox MAULE brought in a Bill to enable
the census to be taken three weeks earlier than
is ordered by the present law ; and also a Bill to
regulate the employment of children in factories.
Both were read a first time.

The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve, till
Monday.

There is another passage in General HA RRI.•
SON'S Inaugural Address deserving of attention.
It is as follows, though it is much curtailed
have spoken of the necessity of keeping the respective de-
partments of the Government, as viell as all the other autho-
rities of our country, within their appropriate orbits. This is
a matter of difficulty in some cases, as the powers which they
respectively claim are often not defined by very distinct lines.
Mischievous, however, in their tendencies, as collisions of this
kind may be, those which arise between the respective comnau-
nitie?, which for certain purposes compose one nation, are
much more so ; for no such nation can long exist without the
careful culture of those feelings of confidence and affection
which are the effective bonds of union between free and con-
federated States.
By a process, attended with no difficulty, no delay, no ex-
perm but that of removal, the citizen of one might become the
citizen of any other, and successively of the whole. The lines,
too, separating powers to be exercised by the citizens of one
from those of another, seem to be so distinctly drawn as to
leave no room for misunderstanding. The citizens of each
State unite in their persons a'l the privileges which that cha-
racter confers, and all that they may claim as citizens of the
United States ; but in no case can the same person, at the
same time,' act as the citizen of two separate States, and he
is, therefore, positively precluded from any interference with
the reserved powers of any State but that of which he is, for
the time being, a citizen. He may, indeed, offer to the citi-
zens of other States his advice as to their management, and the
form in which it is tend, red is left to his own discretion and
sense of propriety.
It may be observed, however, that organised associations of
citizens, requiring compliance with their wishes, too much re-
semble the recommendation of Athens to her allies, supported
by an armed and powerful fleet.

Our confederaCy, fellow-citizens, can only be preserved by
forbearance. Our citizens must be content with the exercise
of the powers with which the Constitution clothes them. The
attemptof those of one State to control the domestic institu-
tions of another, can only result in feelings of distrust and
jealousy, the certain harbingers of disunion, violence, and civil
war, and the ultimate destruction of our free institutions. Our
confederacy is perfectly illestrated by the terms and principles
governing a common copartnership. There a fund of power is
to be exercised under the direction of the joint councils of the
allied members, but that which has been reserved by the indi-
vidual members is intangible by the common government or
the individual members composing it. To attempt it finds no
support in the principles of our Constitution.

The General alludes distinctly and unequivo-
cally to the attempts making in some of the
States to abolish slavery in others ; and he de-
clares distinctly that the Constitution lends no
countenance to such attempts, and he censures
very severely those citizens of one State who in-
terfere with another. In this passage, as in
other parts of his address, the General, though
at the close he professes a profound reve-
rence for the Christian religion, obviously
looks, as most statesmen do, only to
principles of worldly policy, and the laws
he is called on to administer. When he declares
that the citizen of one State is positively pre-
cluded from any interference with the reserved
powers of any State but that of which he is a
member, he casts to the winds those doctrines of
Christianity on which some of the inhabitants of
the North-eastern States and of our own country
deem it to be their duty to assert the dignity of
man wherever he is in a state of bondage. He
places the laws of each State, and the laws of the
United States, above Christianity, supposing
them to be in conflict as the laws of the Sou-
thern States undoubtedly are, and plainly tells
the people that they must, above all other duties,
respect the reserved rights of each State.
So far as that concerns philanthropy and the
great progress of humanity, it is an important
doctrine, but it becomes intensely interesting
when we are aware that the same principles will
be acted on by the General Government as ad-
ministered by the new President in its relation to
the different States. He is a strong advocate for the
independence of each State, and for respecting
the rights which have been reserved to it by the
Constitution. He contends for abasing the power
of the President, and also for limiting the
power of the Federal Government. We are
afraid, therefore, that he will be slow to interfere
with the State of New York, in its assumed
jurisdiction over Mr. M'LEOD. But as that is a
very peculiar case, it is impossible to conjec-
ture how the General will apply his principles to
it. We only at present observe that the demo-
cratic views of the General extend to the power
of the Federal Government, as well as to the
power of the President. At the period of his
election, many expectations were held out that
he would effect a great alteration in the Govern-
ment; but we see none of importance promised
in his Address, beyond an extension of the paper
currency, and the separation of the Treasury
from the Executive.

The motion of Mr. GROTE, the evening before
last, and the recent demand made on the public
to provide for the expenses of South Australia,
are calculated to show that our people do not
enjoy the honour of possessing a large colonial
empire without paying something for it. The
object of Mr. GROTE'S motion was to obtain
more for New South Wales than it now gets.
The result of the late investigations into the
affairs of South Australia has been to take
155,0001. out of our pockets to pay its expenses.
We shall have to pay more yet. These two,
however, are amongst the most flourishing of our
Colonies, and the rest require similar nutriment
from our resources.

With such results the system must be erro-
neous. The penal colony of New South Wales
was enriched by the convict labour which Eng-
land paid, and the inhabitants, now that they are
to be deprived of the continual influx of con-
victs, demand that we should pay them for
taking away that advantage. South Australia
has been brought into debt by its Government.
Amongst the expenses incurred are great sums
for surveying the End and for police; but in the
American system, from which ours is said to be
borrowed, except that the price of land is fixed
much higher, all the. expense of the survey is
paid by those who benefit by it, and the whole
expense of the Government of every new dis-
trict is paid from the time of establishing it by
its inhabitants, who also contribute their quota
to the taxes of the State they belong to, and to
the expenses of the Federal Government. Our
colonies, however, do not pay the expense of
their own Government, much less contribute any
thing to the expenses of the Government at
home. From these different results there is
abundant reason to infer that our system is not
so good as that of the United States, though by
some persons it is described to be the same.

One essential difference, the clue we think—
the whole, is that colonization in the United
States is begun and carried on by, and for the ad-
vantage of; the colonizers. They do not pm
chase ground in order that the Government may
import labourers with the money to till it for
them ; they purchase it for the purpose of tilling
it themselves and by their own means. They do
not spread themselves into new districts to pro-
vide places for a multitude of dependents on the
Government and on the aristocracy, but to carve
out their own welfare. They never appoint a
single officer of any description, civil or militar-
.
whose services they do not regard
as uo-
and
essential.
,neir condition, and
with t''icm
while, as they sPrr_dcl over the continent, they in_
Theycarry
r rtyo no institu-
tions not
crease the power and dominion of the United
Stati:.6, they add to the public revenue.
Our system of colonization is neither begun
nor continued by and for the advantage of the
colonizers. It is in general something exotic,
planned by the Government, or some speculative
individuals, and carried into effect by sending
away from the country persons to labour in the
colony for the advantage of others. The system
of.a labour fund to promote emigration, accord-
ing to which purchasers of land at the antipodes,
'vli) remain in England, send thither parties to
cultivate it and improve it for them, is not the
same, but the very reverse of the system pursued
in the United States.

The colony of New South Wales, originally
established as a penal settlement, as well as that
at Van Diemen's Land, with the new colony of
South Australia, and those which have of late
been begun in New Zealand, intended to pro-
vide a home for emigrants who are to be carried
thither as labourers, are examples of colonies
established rather for the advantage of others
than the actual colonizers, Some: persons go
thither to improve their capital, to carry on

large sheep farms, or to make their fortunes.
At the same time it is a matter of notoriety that
many of the purchasers and owners of land in all
our colonies, even those most recently esta-
blished, live at home, and emigrant labourers
are sent thither to work for their advantage.
Such a system carries with it most of the defects
of the old society, and entails its expenses, while
the colony is also liable to expenses peculiar to
itself.

If it be true, as some Economists assert, that
it is much more the artificial restrictions of an
old society, than any want of room, which im-
pedes the prosperity of its people, it must be
true that men emigrate from an old country to a
new one rather to throw off these restrictions
than merely to have more room. Mr. WAKE-
FIELD'S system is, in fact, founded on the princi-
ple of not allowing the colonists to wander
abroad and plant themselves where they like ;
he proposes, on the contrary, to achieve all the
advantages of an old society by concentrating
the emigrants on one spot. It is not, according
to this system, therefore, the want of space, but
improper social regulations, which impede pros-
perity, and which emigration is really intended
to avoid.

Our system of colonization compels the emi-
grants to carry with them the rules and the prac-
tices of the old country. They must have in the
bush and the barren plains the fopperies of a mo-
narchy. They could not expect to thrive if they
were so to act of their own accord, but when
these fopperies are often forced on them by the
Colonial-office, or by the authorities at home,
they become doubly mischievous. Mr. W AKE-.
FIELD'S scheme of selling the land and transport-
ing labourers to cultivate it, appears to us to
be as faulty in this respect as that of the Colo-
nial-office. It requires all the devices which are
in use here, to preserve order and obedience.
Hence police, gaols, jobbers, and extravagant Go-
vernors, are coeval with the first breaking up of
the virgin soil.
We look on the circumstances we have
pointed out—namely, that the spreading of
people over the continent of America, is the
dictate of their own unbiassed minds, which en-
ables them completely to adapt all their institu-
tions to their condition ; and that the spreading
of our people over the islands of the southern
hemisphere, is not the dictate of their own un-
biassed minds, and not being such a dictate, they
are compelled to take along with them a large
off-set of the power which bias and controls
them—as affording an explanation of the com-
plete success of the Americans, and the partial
failure of our people. We at least have no recol-
lection of any off-set of the Americans calling on
the American Government to supply them with
150,0001. ; nor, as far as we know, have the
squatters in New Zealand ever made any such
demand on the British Government. The free
and unbiassed system, we conclude, is therefore
the most advantageous.

The rage for Church Extension, with which Sir
ROBERT INGLIS, Dr. CHALMERS, the Bishop of
LONDON, and some other interested parties, have
been afflicted for some years, appears to be on
the decline. In Scotland the great complaint is
that the churches cannot be filled. In Edin-
burgh some of the churches are half empty, not-
withstanding all the outcry about Non-intrusion,
and the sacred duty of patrons in selecting
preachers who can edify their flocks, and the ap-
pointment of numerous pastors selected by the
people themselves. According to the Edinburgh
papers, one church, which has been vacant for
six months, has not contained for the last few
years a sufficient number of hearers to pay the
salary of the precentor and it is a well known
fact that in many of the chapels where the
preacher is appointed by the popular voice, either
he, or a great proportion of his hearers, soon
change quarters; the former sometimes for a
better and sometimes a worse living, and the
latter for some novelty sprung up in the neigh-
bourhood. In Glasgow, where the Non-intru-
sion system has for many years been more prac-
tised than in any town in Scotland, the condition
of the churches is still worse. Too many churches
have been built—we-will not say for the extent of
the population, but, at all events, for the religi-
ous feelings of those connected with the Esta-
blishment—and the consequence is that the
patrons have been compelled to lower the price
of the sittings in the vain hope of increasing the
revenue. The following extract from a Glasgow
paper shows that neither Church Extension nor
Non-intrusion, nor any of the nostrums of Dr.
CHALMERS, can crush the Dissenters or prop up
the Establishment :

" The Town Council resolved, at their last meeting, to make
a considerable reduction in the prices of the sittings in the Es-
tablished churches, the only effect of which will be to reduce
still further the amount of the revenue drawn from the ecclesi-
astical property belonging to the Corporation. The falling off
for some years has been at the rate of about 2501. per annum,
and we may therefore expect, instead of that deficiency, to
find it reach to nearly 5001. in the ensuing twelve months. The
cause of the defalcation is obvious, and cannot be arrested by any
reduction in the prices of the sittings. A large number of new
churches, greatly beyond the demand on the part of the church-
going population belonging to the Establishment, have
of late years been erected ; and many of these being
placed in more convenient localities than the former
fabrics, have drained off the sitters from the City churches.
For a time sittings were retained in both the old and new
churches; but gradually, as people became accustomed to the
latter, they abandoned altogether their former places of wor-
ship. No complaints were made that the sittings were too
high; it was convenience alone that led to the change; and
hence it is vain to expect, by any reduction, to bring back
those who find themselves comfortably provided for elsewhere.
The church-building mania, intended as a means for crush-
ing the Dissenters, is now producing only the fruits that
were all along expected from it, and will ultimately, with-
out adding to the adherents of the Establishment, prove
destructive to the ecclesiastical property of the Corpora-
tion. To institute a compai ison between the charge for
seat-rents in the Dissenting and Established churches, is
most-unfair. The latter have been erected at the public ex-
pense, and are endowed from the public funds, while the Dis-
senters not only build their own churches, and pay their own
clergymen, but have many calls upon their liberality to which
the members of the Establishment are not of necessity exposed.
The indispensable ecclesiastical expenditure of the adherents of
the Establishment is confined to the single item of seat rents ;
but it is very different with those who maintain their own
churches and ministers without dipping into the public purse,
and do so in many instances in a manner infinitely superior to
what we find in the much-boasted-of Establishment. The
" disease," which the Lord Provost acknowledges to exist within
the established pale, will be found somewhat difficult of cure,
and its progress is not likely to be arrested by the palliative
about to be tried."

The following extract from a letter from Bris-
tol, was this day posted at the North and South
American Coffee-house. It has created rather
a stir in the city, as implying a doubt of the
probability of our maintaining friendly relations
with the United States :

" The intended departure of the Great Western is deferred
from the 3d to Thursday, Bth of April, when she proceeds to
New York, calling at Halifax for inteldgence as to ear politi-
cal relations with the United States, as also to take in coals to
ensure her return to Halifax, in the event of Captain Hoskins
obtaining any information, when off Sandy Hook, which may
cause him to consider it dangerous to enter the harbour of
New York."

The Madrid Papers ieceived, are of the 18th
inst. They contain no news of any interest to
an English reader. The Journals are much di-
vided about the Regency question, Some
for one Regent, others for three. 'I"- • **''
Cents. were 271 for cash, a”-' Five per
at 27i at 60 days.
The Paris T
reach"'

"In 1829, M. S., a Frenchman, arrived in London from
Paraguay, where he had passed 15 years in the service of the
arbitrary and eccentric Dr. Francia: Soon atter his arrival
M. S. formed a close intimacy with a fellow-countryman
who lived in the same hotel, to whom he related his whole
history, informing him that he was about to proceed to Paris
to see his enly relation, an uncle, who was an honorary
canon of the Chapter of St Denis, with a fortune amounting
to 15,0001. a year, to which be, M. S., was the only legi-
timate heir, and that he had with him in his trunk all the
necessary documents for proving his identity, as he doubted
whether his uncle, who was 8p years of age, would recollect
him. It was agreed between the two friends that they should
set off together for France, but in the evening before the day
fixed for their departure M. S. was arrested and taken to
Worship-street, on a charge of having forged some Bank of
England notes. His pocket-book, which he had about him,
was examined, arid in it were ten notes, four of which were
ascertained to be forged, M. S. was committed. On reach-
ing the prison he sent for his friend, M. 8., and received
for answer that he was gone, with all M. S.'s baggage and
his own, on board a steam-packet, having first paid their
joint bills. It was in vain that poor S. stated and proved
these circumstances, and pretested that the forged notes
were received by him of B. He was brought to trial, con-
victed, sentenced to be transported for ten years, and sent to
Botany Bay. In the meantime B. came to Paris, presented
himself to the old Canon as his nephew, assuming his name,
and, by means of the documents in his possession, so com-
pletely imposed himself upon the aged ecclesiastic as his
nephew, that when he died, two years afterwards, he made
the pretender sole inheritor by wi:l of all his property.
After a lapse of 11 years, M. S. was at last carried back from
Botany Bay to London, and thence made his way to Paris.
After two months search M. S. has discovered the retreat of
8., and claimed the fortune and name of which he had been
robbed by him. 8., of course, rraintains himself to be the
true nephew, and proclaims the claimant to be the impostor.
A suit is about to be commenced which cannot fail of being
long and intricate ; for not only will it he difficult for S. to
maintain his case by proofs, on account of his many years ab-
sence from France, but it is a question whether he is not pre-
cluded by the law of prescription. The interest of this case is
greatly heightened by the circumstance that B. has for the last
six years been living in one of the northern towns of France,
making a most honourable use of his wealth, was two years ago
married to the daughter of one of the greatest landowners of
the department, and had, it is said, in contemplation to offer
himself as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies at the next
election. Galignani.
THE BORDEAUX BEAUTIES.—Nowhere can wittier, more
elegant, and handsomer women be found than at Bordeaux.
Bordeaux is really the hothouse of France; women bloom here
in all seasons ; they have the gracefulness of French, the flexi-
bility, vivacity, and velvet looks of Spanish, and the fine,
transparent complexions of English women. Last year a book,
entitled " Les Belles Femmes de Paris," was published.
Pooh ! the beautiful women of Paris ! It is to Bordeaux you
must come to see beautiful women. If, in the late Carnival,
you had seen our delicate beauties at work—if you had been
able to measure with your eye all the slices of pie, all the sand-
wiches, cups of chocolate, soups, sorbets, orgeat, punch, and
cakes f all sorts which they swallowed up,
.you would have
been as astonished as myself at the size of their charming sto-
machs.— Bordeaux Print.

FRANKFORT, MARCH 20.—The. drill of the German press
is so complete, and the Prussian State Gazette is so chary of
communications respecting the proceedings of the Diets in the
Prussian provinces, that you will be glad to hear something of
their doings from private sources. The Estates of the pro-
vinces of Prussia still take the lead. On the Bth instant the
resolutions recommended by the committee appointed to con-
sider the Royal propositions were submitted to the Diet
assembled in full, and were adopted by a large ma-
jority. The first declaration, that " the committees,
whose appointment is recommended by the King, are
viewed as forming the transition to a development of
the representative institutions," was adopted against a
minority of ten votes, the total number of voters being 98
The amendment further proposed that the permanent com-
mittee to be chwen should only be empowered to act in con-
junction with the committers of all the other Diets, or at least
with several of them : passed against a minority of only five
voices. The proposal that the standing committee should not
be_ chosen by Estates, but by the full Diet, met with more op-
position than the preceding resolutions, but passed at length
with a large majority.
The telegraphic despatch respecting the disturbances at
Marseilles has occasioned some surprise. Some fifteen persons,
provided with muskets and cartridges, have been arrested;
there must have been a pretty considerable assemblage that had
risen in opposition to the authorities. The laconic despatch
leaves u 3 in ignorance whether it was a sedition or a conspiracy
that caused the conflict at Marseilles, as well as in other places,
and in the state in which things now are we may expect to see
symptoms of the disquietude which generally prevails manifest
themselves every where.—La Gazette de France.
The accounts from Holland speak of a great fermentation,
which, as they state, manifests itself amongst the Protestant
population of all classes, in consequence of the resolution an-
nounced by the K ing to carry into effect the concordat concluded in
1828 with the Court of Rome. If we may give credit to a letter
froze. the Hague, the King, notwithstanding hii desire to repair
some of the wrongs of his father towards his Roman Catholic
subjects will be forced to give up the execution of this con-
cordat, on the ground that the concordat having been con-
cluded during the union with Belgium, when the majority of
the nation was Catholic, cannot be suitable now that the ma-
jority is Protestant.
A Toulon journal (the Sentinelle de la Marine) of the 21st,
says that a telegraphic despatch had just been received, order-
ing the Cornaline corvette, Captain Desfosscs, to be in readi-
ness to proceed to the Levant with despatches and with spare
stores for the light vessels stationed in these seas. —Le
Commerce.

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cer. For a long while no one would venture to acqualnat .m
with the real state of the case, but at last his physicianghl -
being urged by him to tell the truth, explained the dangerous
nature nature of the disease. He received the information with us
ap-
parent firmness, but as soon as he was left alone in his chari
her, he tock oue of his pistols, which always hung by his bett4.
side, and shot himself. The Austrian army has thus lost One
of its most able commanders."
hi The Droit furnishes us with the following singular story t....

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDA Y, MARCH 27, 1811

TEA MARKET.

WALSALL ELECTION COMMIT

TEE-(THIS DAY).

The Committee met at the usual hour. Lcrd Eliot in the
chair.

William Winter Lates, whose examination was going forward
when the Committee adjourned )esterday, was called in and
examined by Mr..Cocxnunx—Witness had no other account-
book as an innkeeper than that produced yesterday. Patch
was callei Davis by several persons. The notes addressed to
him that were EMI by witness were directed to Mr. Davis.
'Witness in keeping his accounts don't proceed from page to
page, but makes the entry wherever he happened to open the
book. Gave a treat on the 13th of January to Mr. Gladstone's
voters. Intends to apply for payment to Mr. Thurston, as it
was he that directed the treat to be given. The bill amounted
to 131. Both Mr. Brookes and Mr. Thurston ordered the
treat. Thurston was to pay 31. of the cost, and Brookes the
remainder.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGUAM—Mr. Davis
was not alone when at witness's house ; his lady was with him.
It was for her the second breakfast and dinner were entered.
Breakfast, dinner, ale, brandy, wine, lea, and bed formed part
of the items of the lady's account. She was not ill, at least
(lid riot appear to be so. She could partake of those articles
just as well as witness. There was also an item fur a box of
pills.
Mr. Comiurtx—That was for the invalid.

hlr. Si rgeant WRANGHA3I—But here's an item of 10s. for
wine ; that a,•counts for the pills.—( Laughter.) Davis had
not any money, and could not pay for what he got. Mr.
Thurston ordered witness to go to the extent of 31., but as the
sum appeared too small, and Mr. Brookes ordered 101. worth
more to be given, it was a treat to witiess's customers. 31. would
not have given them half a pint each. Those people were
for the most part workmen in the factories. They were not
voters.

Re .examined by Mr. Cocxuurar—Was not accustomed to
entertain a rabble. Would not swear that the gentlemen told
him to open his house to Mr. Gladstone's friends.
By Mr. HATTER—The account in the book was not Davis's
original account.
By Lord Emor —lt was copied from another account. It
was accurately copied. Severl leaves were lost.
By Mr. HATTER—Copied Davis's account into the book be-
cause it was the only one required. 'I he leaves might be at home,
or they might be burnt fur all he knew. Did not know what
became of them. They were at home when he left. Thought
it better to bring the copy than the original. There was
nothing written on the loose leaves relative to the entertainment
given at his house. They were connected solely with the
commercial room.

Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER directed the attention of the
Committee to the terms of the Speaker's warrant, which re-
quired the witness to produce all books, accounts, and memo-
randums relating to the supply of liquor.
In reply to Mr. HATTER, witness said that he only looked at
the top of the warrant.
Examination resumed—Patch or Davies brought a friend to
witness's house, who had some wine with him. His name was
Fisher. He was a neighbour of witness's. He was a voter,
and voted, he believe ►, for Mr. Gladstone.
By Lord ELlOT—Patch produced a note from Mr. Barnett,
,vhich he did not consider sufficient security for the bill, and he
iestroyed it. Destroyed it before he got the warrant.
By Mr. HATTER— Finding the note not directed to him, Ad
not consider it security for the bill, as Mr. Kilner passed his
word to witness.

By Sir W. RAE—Patch tore off a small piece of the note.
The fragment that remained with witness contained directions
to Patch to send his account to the inn, and the writer, Mr.
Barnet, would see it paid.
James Kilner examined by Mr. AUSTIN—Is the landlord of
the new inn at Walsall—was so at the last election. The no-
mination day was Monday, the Ist of February last, and the
polling day Tuesday, the 2nd of that month. Has two large
rooms in his house, both up stairs, for his customers. There
are two entrances to those rooms. . Two hundred persons
might be accommodated in the long room, and about thirty-
five in the other, called the Commercial-room. The electors
who had eaten and drunk in his house paid some for what thhy
had, and others did not pay. The eating and drinking began
on the Monday at about eight o'clock in the morning, as the
house is a commercial house and there were commercial travellers
in the house who had breakfast. Won't swear that he did not go
into the long room immediately on getting up. Thought he
lid not go into it till about one o'clock in the day. 'When he
first went into the room there were several persons in it.
Would not swear that there were not 200 of the electors whom
he saw regaling themselves in the long room. During. these
two days there were four or five commercial travellers in the
aouse, but their account was not mixed up with the account
witness was about to produce.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM here submitted that the Learned
Counsel on the other side was not entitled to go on showing
what was done at Kilner's, without proving its connection with
.11r. Barnett. He apprehended that the decision come to by the
Committee on Thursday warranted him in holding that opinion.
The Noble CHAIRMAN said that the Committee had de-
cided that it was expedient to prove the connection of the pro-
ceedings referred to by the Learned Sergeant with 111 r.
Barnett. However, they did not wish to prescribe to Counsel
the description of evidence they ought to adduce.
Sir. Sergeant WRANCHAM apprehended that the decision
came to on that occasion applied in the present instance, and
that Counsel on the other side ought terrefrain from the course
they were pursuing.
Lord ELIOT—The Committee would not prescribe a course
.sf procedure to Counsel ; they, however, thought it as well to
connect the Foceedings of the inn with the agency.
Examination resumed—Charged the refreshments given to
himself under the title of opening day. Mrs. Kilner made
an entry of refreshments as stated, but charged it to no one's
account. His account amounted to about 1501. Would willingly
Tend that sum in the cause. Never applied for that
sum to any one, and never intended to apply for it ;
would willingly take the amount if he was offered it by any per-
son. Considered that, on the score of payment, Patch de-
ceived him. He applied to witness for the accommodation of
voters lest they would be run away with by the opposite party.
Witness in corssequence went to Mr. Barnett, and Mr. James
said to Mr. Barnett there was much treating going on at the
New Inn, and Mrs. Kilner wished to know was it authorized by
aim. Did not recollect what was the nature of Mr. Barnett's
reply. There was a •greater amount incurred after seeing
11r. Barnett than before. Had no intention, after seeing Mr.
Barnett, of applying for payment for the refreshments. Con-
sidered himself as having no claim on Mr. Gladstone's Com-
mittee, but there were many friends of witness who he knew
would not see him at any loss ; those friends were not in any
way connected with Mr. Gladstone.
Mr. AUSTIN pressed the witness very much to state distinctly
whether, when supplying the refreshments, he intended to give
them away—to give them for nothing, and without expectation
of payment ?

'the witness was directed to withdraw till the Committee
would decide as to Counsel putting the question again. After some
discussion between Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and Mr. Austin
as to whether the witness had given a distinct answer to the
question, the Committee decided that the question should be
dut again. The witness was then called in and the examina-
ion resumed. Did not mean to give the refreshments away.
Knew that there were many of his friends who would not see
him at a loss, but wou'd sooner lose the sum t!san apply to the
Committee for it. Expected to be paid for it, but did not
care much about the debt. The examination of the witness
was proceeding when we went to press.

THE -MAREETS.-(THIS DAY.)

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

There was a very good supply, and trade fair for the best
kinds of Beef, but prices were lower. Small Pork sold read'ly
at previous rates. In Veal no alteration. Beef, 3s 4d to
is 6d ; Muttbn, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 6d ; Pork,
35 8d to 5s per stone of Blbs. Game and Poultry were in good
supply, the demand active, and prices same as last quoted.
Eggs dull of sale at 4s 6d to 6s per 120.
WHITECHAPEL MARKET.

There was a brisk demand, and former rates were fully sup•
ported; the supply was small, and the market was cleared a
an early hour. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4d, ; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. Bd.
Veal, 3s. to ss. 4tl. ; Pork, 3s. 8(1. to ss. ; Lamb, ss. Bd. tt

7s. 4d. Clover Hay, 41. 15s. to 61. ; Meadow, 31.125. to 51
Straw, 2/. 2s. to 2/. 4s.

The transactions in Free Trade Tea were limited, and
primes had a downward tendency. There were sellers of Com-
pany's Congou at ls. 7d. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.

The demand for Russian Tallow was limited both on the
spot and for delivery. Holders 'ere desirous to realise, and
I•rices fell to 455. 3d to 455. 6d. en the spot,

LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.

DEAL, MARCH 26.—Wind N. W.—Arrfved the Penelope,
from Teneriffe ; John and Mary, Mediterranean. Arrived
from the River and sailed, the Mary Ann, for Calcutta;
Comet, New Brunswick ' Centurion, Quebec. Sailed all the
outward bound, except the Niou, Tyrian, and Mercy.
LONDON, MARCH 27.—Wind this day at aoon—Light
westerly breeze, with heavy passing clouds at times.
FALatouTH, MARCH 25.—Wind S., moderate breezes.—
Sailed, the Royal George, De Gruchy, for Gibraltar ; Falcon,
Thorns, Gloucester.

PLYMOUTH, lUaRcH 26.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the

Princess Charlotte, from St. Michael's ; Lavinia, Rotterdam.
Sailed the Amelia, Thompson, for New Zealand ; George Fife,
Pike; Sydney; Feliz, Lembranica, Lisbon.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Sailed the Tecumsetz, for
Florida; Perthshire, Harlingen; Waterlilly, Glass, Figueras.
PORTSMOUTH, Ithaca 25.—Wind S. to S. W., squally.
—Arrived the Sabbin, from Marsala ; Emily, Welsh,
Youghal. Sailed the Medistoe, for New York ; Ocean Queen,
Willi4ms, Corfu.

Alutroan, MARCH 25.—The Towan, Small, from Newport
to Cork, has put in here ; very leaky, and must discharge. The
Royal Saxon, from London to Cork to Port Phillip, is re-
ported to have run down a schooner; particulars not known.
The Louisa and Elizabeth, from Liverpool to Rotterdam (not
Rochester as stated on the 23d) put in from contrary wind, and
not from being leaky.
Wonxitic.row, MARCH 25.—Sailed, the Constitution, Wil-
son, for Belta,t and Quebec.

SHIELDS, MARCH 25.---Arrived the Fortune, Gravelines ;
George, Haukinson, Domerseil. Sailed, the Enigo, for Malta ;
Cumberland, Quebec.
BERWICK, MARCH 23.—The Dunchatton, from Glasgow
to London, struck on Geswick Sand, but was assisted off with-
out damage, and proceeded. 'I he Beehive, of Newcastle,
which was on shore on Immanuel Head, has been got off, with
considerable damage. The Osnaburgh, of London, stranded
' some time since, has been broken up.
STROMNESS, MARCH 22.—The Janet, from Newcastle to
New York, put in here yesterday, after being as far as St.
Ki'dasteas, very leaky, and will be laid on the beach.
HULL, MARCH 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Vrow Cla-
jina' from Gronigen. Sated the Brothers, Skimmells, for
St. John's; Fig, Scott, Malaga.
COWES, MARCH 26.—Sailed the Emelee, Beekman, for
Stettin ; Cleveland, Hughes, Liverpool.
POOLE, MARCH 26.—Sailed the George, Kan, for New-
foundland ;:Finden, Seamin, Quebec ; Reaher, Badcock, Que-
bec ; Flora, Shaddoek, New York.
TORBAY, MARCH 25.—Sailed the Zwaan, for Surinam ;
Venture, Patrick, Calcutta ; Nassau, Havannah ; 'Ulysses,
Lakeman, Gibraltar.
WHITSTABLE, MARCH 26.—The Amelia, Swan, fiom I..rn-
don to Liverpool, which was on shore on the Wool ask, has
been got off, and is in tow of six smacks for this Bay.
BRISTOL, MARCH 2g.—Sailed Blandford, Field, for
Newfoundland.
GLOUCESTER, MARCH 26.—Sailed Eldon, Moon, Quebec.
PENARTH ROADS, 111Axcit 24.—Arrived the Cora, Barris,
from Gibraltar for llamburgh.
BLYTII. MARCH 25.—Sailed the John and Mary, Steven-
son, for Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 26.—Wind, S.S.W. to N.W.—Ar-
rived the President, from Calcutta; Eliza Johnstone, Petrie,
Pernambu2o ; Lady Flora Hastings, Brown, Savanilla, sailed
the 1 lth ; Alexander, Nichols, Smyrna. Sailed the Belgrave,
Nlitchell, for Antigua; Shannon, Pike, Mobile; Amisted,
Ferrandey, Havannah; George Washington, Burrows, New
York. The Elizabeth, King, from Honduras to Kingstown,
put into Lon. Island Chanrell the 20th, with loss of rudder,
boats, bulwarks, spars, sails, &c. The President, arrived at
this port from Calcutta, exper:enced very bad weather on the
7th and 13th, and, lost boats, bulwarks, &c., and had the cabin
half full of water.

MONEY. and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON, MARKET, MARCH 26. The trans-
actions in our Cotton Market this week are moderate, but with-
out any change in prices, which remain the same as at the
close of last week. Speculators have taken 3,380 bales of
American, exporters 180 bales. The sales to-day are about
2,500 to 3,000 bales, with rather firm prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 26.—The following
comprise the transactions as reported at the elose of the Stock
Exchange :—Edinbtirgh and Glasgow, 331 ; Grand Junction,
203 ; Glasgow and Ayrshire, 38*; Lancaster and Preston
New Shares, 233%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 26.—Manches-
ter and Leeds, 66i to 67; Ditto Halves, 28i to 281; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 24* to 241; London and Birming-
ham, 170 to 171 ; London and South Western, 54i to 55 ;
Midland Counties, 79 to 80.4

Accounts from Odessa of the 15th of February state that the
port being closed by the ice the most part of January had
stopped the activity of the exterior commerce. The exporta-
tion amounted to 202,445 rubles in money, and the importa-
tions to 169,475 rubles 50 cop. ; there were sent into the inte-
rior to the amount of 166 360 cop.; during the year 1840 there
arrived in the Port of Kherson 694 ships, and left 680.

A notice was posted yesterday at Lloyd's, respecting a shipof
1,100 tons, which sailed from London to Sydney and Port
Phillip in October last, to give immediate information to the
Secretary relative to shipments, owing to some reports concern-
ing the above vessel.

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