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age.

but tax and oppress it, what claim can it possibl3
have on the obedience of the labourers
If, in addition to refusing to do anything fbi
them in their present condition, it refuses to in.

quire into the causes of their distress—if the ma•

jority of the House of Commons shall decide

that it cares nothing whatever about them, bu

a great deal about placing the Tories in office,
how can the House of Commons dream of

securing the affection and obedience of the
labouring classes, of which it will be

so totally undeserving? It is not in human
nature, we believe, for the Legislature to com-
mand obedience, if it do not take instant means
to ascertain the causes of the present distress of

the working classes, resolved to remedy it. If
that be postponed to the petty paltry intrigues

of either Whigs or Tories, the power of Parlia-
ment will speedily come to an end, and all

rights, which depend merely on the law of the
land, will expire with it.

Now that the Conference at Manchester is
over, we can venture to estimate its influence and
its utility. We rate them both very high. It
was composed exclusively of ministers of religion,
collected from almost every part of the empire.
Its debates were conducted with great order, but
they were distinguished by fervour and enthu-
siasm. The ministers came forward voluntarily ;
their's was a labour of love; they put themselves
to trouble and expense ; they can get no pecu-
niary remuneration for theie exertions; and their
whole conduct is impressed with the characteris-
tic of the most devoted sincerity. That circum-
stance will make their opinions be respected
throughout the community.
But these ministers are, in all cases, the repre-
sentatives of their congregations. They spoke
not only their own sentiments, but the sentiments
tirrtvgitfEe-rtirsTelitinrtuTy, Hauled by such a
mass of physical force, is sufficient to produce a
moral revolution in the empire.
The Conference has already dissipated many
errors and established some truths. By merely
meeting, it put down at once the assertion that
the only persons who sought the abolition of the
Corn-laws were greedy manufacturers, who were
Intent to beat down the wages of labour, regard-
less of the poor. The assembled ministers have
brought proof from all quarters of the empire
that the labourers now are in a most destitute
condition, and they expressly advocate the aboli-
tion of the Corn-laws because that will benefit
the poor. In their admirable address to the
people of the United Kingdom they say :
Our attention has, in the first place, been directed to
the principle upon which the Corn and Provision-laws
of this country are based. The immediate effect of these
laws is to make the food of the people dear. It is de-
monstrable that this can be done only by rendering food
scarce. From the artificial scarcity so created the dif-
ferent classes of consumers escape, in proportion to their
wealth—the evil pressing with accumulating severity
upon the humbler classes, exactly in the degree of their
inability to sustain the burden. These laws operate with
continually aggravating force, in consequence of the
natural and inevitable increase in the numbers of the
people.

However, the Peers contrived to open Parlia-
ment without the Bishops; and as the attendance
of the Prelates is not at all indispensable to the
business of legislation, the Church would be a
gainer by their being entirely relieved of their
legislative functions. In their path to paradise
they have too many grave obstacles to contend
with, independently of those which beset the foot-
steps of law-makers. CHRIST deemed a second
coat an incumbrance to salvation, and money in
the purse a weight sufficient to prevent the soar-
ing heavenward of an apostolic spirit. The
Bishops are bolder men than the Apostles. In
the manifestation of their power over the Prince
of Darkness, they are indifferent with how much
or the world's wealth and superfluities they load
triemselves. CHRIST shunned honours; the
Bishops seek them. When the Jews. would
have made CHRIST a king he fled into
the wilderness; the Minister who would escape
the daily solicitation of the Prelates for the
highest dignities and preferments in the Church
would require to fly the country. Such is their
confidence in their ability to save souls, that
they fearlessly undertake for the salvation of
thousands whom they never intend to edify by
their example, or to comfort by their ministra-
tion. CHRIST constantly lashed the vices of
the rich and powerful, without regard to their
opinions. The Bishops, on the contrary, are
never weary of tolerating vice, never tired of
traducing, and, as far as they can, of perse-
cuting opinions. CHRIST judged of opinions by
general conduct; the Bishops take opinions as
their standard of conduct. CHRIST lauded
virtue; the Bishops declare all praiseworthi-
ness to consist in orthodoxy. CHRIST and his
Apostles constantly preached against faults in
morals ; the Bishops, when they do preach,
inveigh with the greatest bitterness against
errors in doctrine. They trouble themselves not
about what men do, but about what they be-
lieve. The most flagrant sinners trouble them
a thousand times less than schismatics, heretics,
and infidels—viz., persons who think GOD may
be worshipped in spirit and in truth without
the intervention of Prelacy.
Seeing, then, that the religion of CHRIST and
the religion of the Bishops are altogether dis-
tinct, there was surely nothing to shock the
moral sense of our Correspondent in the ab-
sence of the Bishops at prayer-time, on Thurs-
day last—save in so far as regards their pro-
fessing to walk in the footsteps of the SA VIOUR
—and consequently nothing to evoke the ex-
pression of an indignant feeling on the part of
the Liberal Press. Our Correspondent may
rely upon it, that the first levee held by Sir
ROBERT PEEL will not want the presence of a
Bishop to shed upon it the lustre of an
Episcopal approval, however indifferent the
Right Reverend Bench were to the character
of Thursday's proceedings in the Rouse of
Lords. The knees, stiff iu the service of GOD,
will he pliant enough at the :Mammon-worship of
the Tory Premier.

The most painful evidence of the truth of this principle
has been laid before us from all parts of the kingdom,
proving the poverty and privations of the working classes,
whose generalfortitude under their augmenting wretchedness
has awakened our sympathy, and called for our present
interference in their behalf'. In addition to the existence
of domestic suffering, often in the most distressing forms
of misery and disease, proof of an increased mortality has
been forced upon us, and we have had the appalling fact
disclosed that famine is already doing its deadly work
among the most destitute portions of the community.
Such language at once relieves the manufac-
turers, and especially it relieves the Anti-Corn-
law League, from the imputationsof selfishly seek-
ing their own profit, and of wishing to beat down
the wages of their workmen, which have been so
calumniously heaped on them by the Tories.
The Conference has fully and unanswerably
established, through the statements of pastors
engaged in agricultural as well as manufacturing
district::;, that the wages of labourers are at pre-
sent miserably inadequate. It has, therefore,
exonerated the manufacturers, and it has demon-
strated the necessity of doing something to save
the people from perishing.
These, however, are but the smallest part of the
great services it has rendered to the public. It
has pointed out the demoralizing effect of the
Corn-laws, and shown that they are contrary to
the principles of Christianity. The address
above quoted has also this passage :
The moral effects of the Corn and Provision-laws have
occupied our serious consideration.
It has been proved to us that the physical deteriora-
tion of multitudes of our countrymen has
produced an
alarming amount of demoralization. Under this aspect
these laws have appeared to us to require the most
anxious attention of all who are concerned for the ad-
vancement of the spiritual and eternal interests of their
fellow-creatures. As Christian ministers, prizing above
all other considerations the interests of morality and re-
ligion, we have been unable to anticipate, without appre-
hension and dread, the growth and development of those
passions which are stimulated and called into action by
hunger and destitution.
The petition to the House of COIIIIIIOIiS says-.
actinognoiunrtalblele housespiritof
heir
b aotffiycoeurwhpeenti petitioners
remindrs are only
your Honourable
.hat laws of human legislatures should be framed in
strict accordance with the declared will of God and the

beneficent designs of- his providence ; and that all laws
which contradict his will, and counteract his bounty, must
of necessity be wrong in principle, and injurious in their
tendency ; and that it is the deliberate and solemn non-
Viction of this assembly that this is the unrighteous cha-
racter of the operation of the provision-laws of this
kinfnloM under whose baneful influence our belovcd

The conduct of the Metropolitan police veri-
fies more and more the character which, some
twelve months ago, we ascribed to them, and
which was repeated at the time amidst loud
cheers by Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE in the House
ofCommons. We described them as the greatest
curse of a free country. We have seen no
reason since to alter our opinion. The case of
Mr. WILLIAMS, a Common Councilman of the
City of London, is fresh in the recollection of our
readers. Two of the policemen on that occasion
made statements on oath which were incontro-
vtrtibly refuted, and chiefly from. their own •

country is severed from profitable intercourse with other
countries which are ready to exchange their products
for our manufactures—the skill and labour of the indus-
trious classes of our countrymen are rendered of less and
lass avail to their own subsistence, whilst immense num-
bers of theni from day to day are thrown out of em-
ployment, and reduced to a state of utter destitution ; or
cast upon the rapidly decreasing resources of the humane
and charitable, who, in their tarn, are sinking down into
the abject condition of paupers ; and famine, disease,
and death are spreading with fearful desolation through•

in-,.happy' land.
snake the debate a persona! dispute. With the out the length and breadth of this once prosperous and
House of Commons for judges, and a suit I Your petitioners, therefore, convinced of the sinful-
stituted between them and the Whigs, they i ness of these laws. which violate the paramount law of
will get a . verdict in their favour: But it ‘vill God and restrict the bounty of his providence ; of their
not serve the dignity of the House of Com- injurious operation on the domestic comforts, and the
mons, nor the interest of the people, to en-
social, moral, , and religious condition of the people of
gage that assembly in such personal squab-
these realms.
bles. The bulk of the people are now too observing A great body, then, of Christian ministers have
and have too much knowledge of what the
branded the Corn-laws as contrary to Christi-
Parliament ought to do, and if they see the in-
anity, which will burn deep into the minds of the
terests of the country continually sacrificed
people. All the wit of all the Tory scribblers
to party objects by the Legislature, they will will not harden their consciences against this as-
come first to despise that body, and next they sertion. Their railing will not rail that seal off
will refuse to obey it. Sir ROBERT PEEL is, we the law. Branding the law as unchristian,
believe, ambitious of exercising power quietly these Christian ministers brand all its supporters
through the means of the House of Commons, with the same characteristic; and something
and he is woefully mistaken if he thinks he can must be done by the clergy of the Established
afford to destroy its character by engaging it in Church and by the landowners, to demonstrate
party disputes, and neglecting the interests of that the law is consistent with Christianity, and
the people. that they behave like Christians in supporting it,
What is now their state? It is estallisbed, by or the people will treat them as heathens and
concurrent testimony from many quarters, that atheists. To have that law stigmatised, and its
they are in great distress, and great suffering. supporters, too, by one of the most numerous
While their ingenuity and industry are unparal- congregations of Christian ministers which have
leled—while the ALMIGHTY gives a favourable for a long period been assembled, must put an
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answer to their striving by overflowing the land end to all compromise, and ensures us at no
with wealth, the average wages of labour is distant day complete success.
barely sufficient to keep a family in existence, The Conference will have a still more import-
and in many instances does not suffice for that ant effect. In taking up the question on the
purpose. Thousands of the people are a prey to principles of religion and morality, and in showing-,,
famine. The Corn-laws may not be, as the as it has done, that the law which the Conference
Tories say, the cause of this deep distress ; but, denounces as unchristian is impolitic, it has done
whatever be the cause, the Legislature is bound much towards placing legislation altogether on
to ascertain it, and remedy the distress. a new basis. Expediency is very well when ef-
The Parliament passes laws to give a remune-
fects can be correctly calculated, but modern ex-
ratiye price to farmers, and it must therefore be
bound to ensure remuneratingwages for labour. It perience has demonstrated that statesmen are
is careful not to allow the income of the clergy much oftener erroneous than correct in estimating
to be lessened ; it endeavours to keep up and in-
future consequences. It is properly, therefore,
crease the income of the landlords ;and it must concluded, that no legislative measures can be
also in consistency keep up the wages of labour. expedient which are immoral or dishonest. The
If it say that it cannot—that wages are regulated Conference have enforced that principle in the
strongest manner, and the abolition of the Corn-
by the demands of the market, the question will,
be, why then does it interfere at all with the dis-
law can only be the commencement of a reform,
tribution of property, and above all, why does it on principles of morality, of our whole system of
direct all its attention to securing an increase of legislation. We are not deceived, therefore, in
our expectations, and the Conference has turned
wealth to the opulent farmers and landowners ?
out, as we foretol, one of the ost imprtant
Such an answer might be accepted if the Legis-
and influential Cond ferences that were ever held
'attire did not interfere at all, but, interfering to
in this or any other country, in this or any other
keep up the rent of land and the remuneration
of the farmer, it is also bound by all the princi-
ples of consistency to interfere with and keep
up the wages of labour. If it do not, if it
avow that it can and will do nothing for labour

The above remarks, written for our morning
edition, would have been spared, had we seen,
before publishing them, the eloquent valedictory
address of Mr. G. THOMPSON. He treats the
subject so fully, that our observations derive
their chief importance from being in conformity
with his views.

A Correspondent expresses surprise that so
ittle notice has been taken by the Liberal Press
of the absence of the Bishops at the opening of
Parliament on Thursday last. For our own part,
we have but to observe, that there was nothing
in the circumstance of our Venerable Prelacy
keeping out of the way on such an occasion, in-
consistent with our ideas of episcopal piety.
Had Parliament assembled to discuss a Church
Extension Bill, or to grant money for increasing
the enormous incomes of the clergy, the Episco-
pal Bench would have presented a goodly show
of most meek and attentive lawn-bedecked oc-
cupants; but as there was only a prayer to say—
a heavenly blessing for the SOVEREIGN, the Par-
liament, and the Church, to be asked, the
Bishops, of course, never troubled their heads
about it. And what is there in this to surprise
any person conversant with the general conduct
of the dignitaries of the Established Church ?
Where are they to be found engaged in the
simple worship of GOD when such worship is at-
tended with no worldly profit ? And where does
Mammon erect an altar before which they are
not to be found prostrate ? Is there one so
simple to suppose, that if, instead of saying a
prayer, any of the assembled Peers had expected
the Bishops to dine with him, that so much as
one of the Most. Reverend and Right Reverend
Fathers in GOD would have been too late for the
first course ? Had the Bishops been expected
to do the honours of the table instead of the
honours of religion, there would have arisen no
difficulty from their absence. Not a chime of
the dinner-bell would have escaped their eaaer
Ivnat &e-
-late ever kept a Peer waiting, whose influence
was sufficient to obtain a translation to a richer
see ? What Chancellor was ever kept waiting
who had a living at his disposal, which he was
willing to bestow upon the pluralist nephew o
son-in-law of a Lord Spiritual?

I evidence. A policeman of the name of RUSSELL,
.who had been in the habit of making false
charges against females, had been repeatedly
reprimanded by one of the Magistrates of Bow-
street Police-office, and, according to an account
in the The Sun of. this day, has, after some un-
accountable delay on the part of the Commis-
sioners, been at last allowed to 2-esign. We
could adduce many other instances of insuffer-
able conduct but the most atrocious case
yet occurred on Friday night, when a gen-
tleman, long regarded as one of the first
merchants in the City, both for his integrity and
his knowledge of commercial affairs, who repre-
sented in Parliament the Tory constituency of the
metropolis for four years, and who bears the
highest character for domestic virtues, was
dragged to a station-house on a false charge
made by a policeman. He was obliged to march
like a felon through the streets, compelled to
find bail, summon medical men to attest to the
state of his bodily infirmities, and undergo all the
degradation which these imperious guardians of
morality and honour and religion choose to in-
flict. We regret this outrage for the sake of
Mr. WARD, but in other respects we rejoice.
It will call the attention of the Legislature to
a grievance which has long pressed heavily on
the lower and middle classes. When they find
it touches themselves they will interfere. No
man is safe under the present system. Charac-
ter, honour, and station in society may be blasted
by the oath of policemen like those who swear
falsely against unfortunate females, and who take
the most atrocious means of affixing a stigma on
the most honourable of men for an imaginary
insult.

In another part of our Paper we have pub-
lished a document of great interest and import-
ance. It is the new rate of Sound Dues, which,
according to a Treaty signed iu London, on the
4th of June, 1841, the King of DENMARK is to
levy on British commerce and navigation on
passing Elsinore. Objecting, as we do, to the
exercise. of any such rights on the part of Den-
mark, and denouncing, as we ever shall, the
conduct of the Tory Government, which, in
1815, sanctioned the pretensions of the King of
DENMARK to this barbarous and scandalous ex-
action, we must still admit that the new tariff is
a prodigious improvement over that accepted by
Lord CASTLEREAGH, and that Lord NIEL-
BOURNE'S Government deserves great credit for
having so far corrected the mischief of its reck-
less predecessor.

The great merit of the improvement, how-
ever, belongs to Mr. HUTT, formerly Member
for Hull, and now for Gateshead. The dili-
gence and perseverance with which that gentle-
man collected the facts of the case of Great Bri-
tain against the Danish Government, and the
able and spirited manner in which he developed
it in the House of Commons, we have before
noticed with approbation. What were the mer-
chants of Hull about when they allowed Mr.
HUTT to look elsewhere for a seat in Parliament?

hands, and-then their rulers will be glad to make, as
they have often clone before, a bungling compromise,
from which neither party derive a due share of advrn-,
tage, and both remain liable to an accession of difficulty
and danger."

"Parliament has assembled,"says the Edinburgh Chro-
nicle," the most extraordinary Parliament which, perhaps,
was ever elected. Its character and objects are well un-
derstood to be the very opposites of the character and
objects of the people it pretends to reprexent. The Royal
Speech will be delivered early naxt week, and if it turn
out what it is expected to be, the novelty will be presented
of the Sovereign speaking the sense of the public against
the mind, and in spite of the bitter opposition of the
people's representatives. Should the newly-hatched Par-
liament, on chipping the egg, prove itself such a cocka-
trice as appearances seem to indicate it will, we may
safely predict that its existence will be short.

11G3ZICULT1TR.&Z.
The fine harvest weather during the week, occurring
at so critical a period of the harvest, has had a most be-
neficial effect on the crops at Dublin, and the accounts
from the country are of a very improved character.

NAVAL AND /VIZLZTATILT.
More timber, and a fifth gun has been got up from the
wreck of the Royal George. On Wednesday nest, the
25th, a charge of Gsolbs. will be fired at three o'clock.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Liverpool Assizes on Friday, a man of respect-
able appearance, named Davis, was convicted of stealing
a money-letter, containing a 101. note and a bill of ex-
change for 371. 10s., the property of Messrs. Waller, of
•Manchester, in whose employment he had formerly been,
On Saturday, at the same Assizes, not fewer than ,
three different parties were tried for the very common
offence now of stabbing with a knife. One of them was
sentenced to be transported for twelve years.
At the Thames Police-office on Saturday, a man of
the name of Langley was placed at the bar, charged with
being accessory to the murder of James Dixon, an Eng-
lish sailor, on board a foreign vessel bound from Monte
Video to Havre. The deceased had been run through
the body by the Captain, a Frenchman. The prisoner
was brought from liavre in the custody of two of the
superior officers of the French police, and was remanded.

FRANCE.

TMM.A.TZXC-S.L.
During the opera season of 1841,
.which closed 01
Saturday, twenty-four operas were perfgoecl, in whic]
list, the two novelties were Roberto Devereux, and Fausta

SPORTn7G.
The breed of game in the preserves at Claremont have
been well preserved, and the supplies this year abundant.
Prince Albert leaves Windsor about the Ist of September
to enjoy a week's shooting there.

ELECTIONIZZIZING.
The Lord Lieutenant has dismissed Mr. Nixon from
the office of High Sheriff of the county of Fermanagh.
The cause of dismissal was the partisan manner in which
Mr. Nixon acted, by forwarding, as was stated in -The
Sun some weeks since, the official return of the elected
Members to the Hanaper-office, decorated with Oranie
ribbons, and a disgraceful seal. Mr. Johnson, whose
name appeared second on the Judge's list, is noyi-,High
Sheriff in his stead.

COURT—PASITION.III3I.E.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert came to town this
morning to attend a meeting of the School of Design in
Somerset House. His Royal Highness arrived at the
Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway, in a
special train, from Slough, in 33 minutes. Half-past
twelve o'clock was the hour appointed for the meeting,
but five minutes before that time the Prince arrived,
and was loudly cheered by a large body of spectators as-
sembled at the entrance. Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., and
Colonel Fox were among the Gentlemen present at the
meeting. The Prince will return to Windsor Castle this
afternoon, by a special train from Paddington.
Viscount Melbourne gives a grand dress entertain-
ment in South-street this evening, when the mover and
seconder of the Address in the House of Lords, the
Marquis of Clanricarde and Earl Spencer, with a large
party of Peers, dine with the Noble Premier.
Lord John Russell entertains a numerous party at
Downing-street this evening, when the Royal Address
will be read by his Lordship.

GREECE.
According to letters from Athens, of the 10th, the
tr.w Ministry was already in a state of dissolution.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK•

The Guiana Times, of the 9th, states that the discredit
thrown on the transaction of the Troughtons, by the
own statement, is only agravated by what took place !t
the meeting of yesterday. The attempts of Ilitess'':
Ferguson and Rose to whitewash their friends do 0.19"
restore him his purity in the eyes of a discerning Plibhe'

ME FUNDS.
A n
Consols opened at 89 il- for Money, and 891 i v,,, fo d
the October Account ; Exchequer Bills, 12 14, 17..
India Bonds, 3 6 prem. ; Portuguese Five per C4llll
994 3(14 ; Ditto Threes 174 181 ; Spanish Active stoc
191, 20.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT 014:E"
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per .Share`
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
..... to • b!..
London and Brighton
Midland Counties . . 100
North Midland -
......
Ditto Thirds -
York and North Midland... 5O -
.. •
Ditto New Shares
HALF-PAST OA .I',.
The business doing in both the English and F( ,reign
Securities continues to be very limited. Consuls ar e novr
89i1 for Money, and 89i for the present Ac.,ount ;
Exchequer Bills, 14 ; India Bonds, 3 6 prem.; Colom-
bian Bonds, 204- ; Spanish, 19-4 ; Dutch TA (3• and-a
dDc i totuno, Faiefst,s 7, 98 ;
Half per Cents., 51:7 ; Ditto. Fives, 1014.. Very little business doing in Shares. Great
receded'Westerntroi.g7.hBtQ;nl ).irt teo4,
4Nter;v ,Msisdfan ;
ihfne
dona.d B
York and North 'Midland, New Shares, .l,}.
The liamburgh mail has just arrived, with the letters
and papers of Friday. No alteration had taken place in
the rate of exchange ; gold had further advanced to 430.
P

IVZISCELLATZEOUS.
An order from the Home office for the immediate re-
lease of Mr. F. O'Connor arrived at York Castle on Sun-
day morning.
A murder committed eleven years ago, near Hutton
Rudby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, has just been
liscovered. Two men have been committed to York
Castle charged with the crime, one of whom, of the
name of Grundy, committed suicide in his cell last week.
The upper part of the Green Park, at the entrance
near Hyde Park-corner, which was marshy, and incon-
venient to pass in winter and rainy weather, from the
trampling of the cows, has been just repaired, and the
long complained of inconvenience removed. Seats are
now erected in the Green Park, the nlanfotinno
oy good and the new gravel walks
are most agreeable promenades.
The colossal lion and other monuments on the field of
Waterloo, are now uudergoing repair by order of the
Belgic Goverment.
The members of the " Manchester Young Men's Anti-
Monopoly Association," which has been established for
litte more than a month, and already numbers fifteen
hundred subscribers, gave a tea-party, in the Corn Ex-
change, Manchester, on Thursday evening, in honour of
the Ministerial Conference on the Corn-laws. More
than 800 persons were present.
A meeting was held on Saturday in the County of
Clare, convened by requisition to the High Sheriff, for
the purpose of addressing the Queen, and imploring her
parental protection against the threatened Orange domi-
nation. An address was read, and unanimously re-
solved to be presented.
A handsome chain pier is about to be erected on the
Middlesex side of Vauxhall-bridge by Mr. Cubitt. The
line of road from Belgrave-square to the foot of this
bridge is completed.
Lord Campbell left Dublin on Thursday evening, and
the Great Seal is committed to the Chief Baron, Judge
Perrin, and Baron Richards.
On Thursday last a meeting was held at Limerick, for
the purpose of adopting an address, to Lord Morpeth,
in acknowledgment of his official services, and also to
invite his Lordship to a public entertainment in that city.
The resolutions were seconded and passed unanimously.
Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley died on Friday
last, at Hooton•hall, Cheshire. He is succeeded in the
family honours by his eldest son, Mr. William Massey
Stanley, the late M.P. for Pontefract.
Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8., expired
at Leamington, on the 13th instant.
The Duke of Wellington gives a grand banquet this
evening, at Apsley House, to about 60 of his Grace's
political supporters.
The Hon. Major ICeppell, while bathing in the river,
near Romney Weir, on Wednesday week, with Lord Al-
fred Paget,-was almost drowned by the water being drawn
from the weir creating a violent current. A waterman,
named Joseph Cannon, however, seeing his danger,
rowed towards him, and grasped him as he rose for the
third time.
The public meeting for the Wilkie Memorial is to be
held on Saturday next, at the Thatched House Tavern,
Sir Robert Peel, as Chairman, will, it is said, be sup-
ported by Lord John Russell and Lord Francis Egerton,
with the Dukes of Wellington,Buccleuch, and Sutherland.
An event; has transpired in the Southern States of
America which has caused a great sensation in that
country. The negro slaves on the estates extending
along the Mississippi from Bayou Sara to Natchez, had
lately formed a plot to murder their masters. The plot
was discovered ;"the ringleaders were instantly tried ;
and the most conspicuous of them, it is said, were.
executed.

'rivate advices received from Montreal to the sth in-
stant, state that money, during the last fortnight, has
been unusually scarce, and hardly obtainable on th.e best
town paper.
Exchange on London—Bank, 10 per cent. ; private 9.
QUARTER TO THR4?.g.
The appearance of agricultural matters beii kg so
much more favourable, the Corn Markets, both In
this country and in the northern ports, as wi, learn
by the accounts just come to hand, via Han burg h•
are becoming flatter. In very extensive dis'xicts •°I
North Germany, and also in parts of Denmark, the rye,
rapeseed, and other minor crops have beau bet ter
than was expected, but the wheat cannot yet be co! ifl-
dently spoken of. Here the decline in English wheat to-
day is about Is. per quarter on Friday's rates, and is 4s.
lower than on this day week. The arrivals of f00.ig,1,1
wheat and flour are still liberal. In France prices: still
keep up, and the prospects of the yield do not seem. Duet'
satisfactory. Belgium already admits wheat duty I ree•
Consols, Money and Account, 891 ; October, 89r
90 ; Exchequer Bills, 14s. to 16s.
Colombian, 20 ; Mexican, 26,+ ; Spanish,. 201

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DA 3(-)
The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this woor'l-
ing before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, A.l,3er Pelf
Recorder, Sheriffs, and other civil authorities.
It was ten o'clock before the Recorder entered the
Court, but more than an hour elapsed before the I 'hole.
of the Grand Jury were sworn. The names of the (;Trend
Jury having been called over,
The RECORDER delivered his charge to the foil, Air:ng
effect :—The interval that had occurred between tt .e .last
and the present session had caused the calendar to be , in
point of number, unusually large ; but the cases. in ge-
neral were of an ordinary description. There w ere,
however, some exceptions. There was a charge of : :ape
under peculiar circumstances, a charge of the set inns
crime of murder, and a charge of unnattrral offi nee.
There were also cases in the calendar of %tabbing and
cutting, in two of which hi thoue.t the :tarts
would be satisfactorily proved. Tl'.ere was also
a charge not of frequent occurrence, vir •,.
that of child-stealing., and he would call their attention
to the statute and its provisions re;arding these ( tases.
If it was proved that the object Was to withdraw • the
child permanently from its parents, that is sufficie: it to
charge came under, and under which they must pro. E_
constitute a larceny. The Act which the pr, sent
cwoarsd
et the e
then9th George
read hla Vt
.s, ece.ti3onl, os.f 3the Act, which Iw.heaiernhesd:
.es 1 it
eocci
ten years, with intent to deprive the parenthorp. or
that if any person should detain a child under the
par,
a ...i.
or any other person having the care of suc child,
sacia a
with intent to steal any article from such child,
be
se,
j.
years, or to
of seven
ject to be transported for the term
exceeding two Yeas .s.
party should be deemed guilty of a felony, and
be imprisoned fbr any term. no
because the evidence, in
tion to the form of the statute,
withdrew the el to Id
this case proved that tfhe party
(the Recorder) hae I al-
the apparel, as a
He (the Recorder) thought
iiist right
par parents,
to sd, r al wv
i-
th their
a a:
.wa-
from the protection 0
to stealinc, a
to be missing v rhea
the child was found.
f rape, and the most impoi ta t
al-
luded to the charge
.t,
portion of" it
was a case in which it r n
this
description , , was
case of was portion
child under the ag,e of ten years had been
al!eged that a
In the course of the last year the : iftten. •
carnally known..
1. titre had been drawn - .
vn too ffenc es a
tion of the g
Le- is aand it had been
found
He
e e f
. don, deemed expedie ni; tA
this descrip ...
ns with respect
other provisions to the punishnteat fol.'
make
sort.
The alter.] tion
cs ofthis , made in the pur.iv hip ent
offene
that the Legislature conceived the ' - r
was not
puni4hment o• A
.!ath exceeded the offence, but it had been consider ed
.
that a punishment short of death might probably lead to
punishment being applied in proper cases, and there' '
).,%.
further the purposes of justice as regarded co.nvictic. u.
Therefore, to obtain the object, it was deemed advisab la
to withdraw the capital punishment. The Learned R,
1 cjrder then read the Act as amended by the 4th and 51 ti of Victoria
• Regarding the punishment of *kat' 1,
it was also enacted that this Act ~hould commerce
and tike effect on the Ist of October,
it 1841, the re'
-, on
was nut at present in operation. At the same tim
~ he'
had noticed, that in the Circuits where cases of th'..l (ll-
scription had occurred, this Act had been taken ',4-.'aT.F.
tap Of as regarded the sentence of death. He 4,lrmg it
it right to explain to them that, although this A A 1,04
not in operation at present, yet it seemed tha'., it Irad
been acted upon by the constituted authorities. He had
alluded to the cases of manslaughter, and to ca:Fers of en tting
and stabbing. In many of the cases of manslaughter death
had been caused by a single blow, and it was to be
I hoped a chance blow. In two instances there was some
previous provocation. With respect to the charge of
cutting and stabbing, it appeared that the parties had
been engaged in a squabble, and one of theta having
possessed himself of a knife, attacked a person who had
taken no part in the transaction, and wounded hiin with
the knife. The other was a case of an unfortunate fe.•
male—unfortunate in this case—who had been incited to
this act by.jealousy. The circumstance might naturally
-lead them to suppose that the, act was cORI-

EXPRESS FROM PARTS.

The Temps of yesterday announces that the Cabinet
had ordered the census to be suspended throughout
France. The Moniteur and the" other Ministerial Jour-
nals make no allusion to this resolution of the Cabinet,
nor is there any truth in the statement of the Temps
respecting the census, which the government is deter-
mined to carry into effect by every means in its power.
The opposition to the measure was however becoming
more and more general. At Lisle the people continued
to resist its execution, and on the 20th assailed with
stones the troops who escorted the revenue officers, and
wounded the Central Commissary of Police.
The King and Queen of the Belgians were expected-
at the Chateau d'Eu, where Louis Philippe intends -to
prolong his stay until the latter end of the month.
The price of wheat again decreased in Paris on Sa-
turday. The intelligence from the departments wits
most cheering. The weather had set in favourable, and
the apprehensions relative to the surety of the crops was
beginning to subside. Extensive purchases for England
had been made at Havre, Caen, Nantes, and Bordeaux.
General Bugeaud returned to Algiers on the 14th inst.,
accompanied by the brother of the Sheik of a powerful
tribe of the province of Oran, who had submitted to the
French.

The Semaphore announces, under Toulon, the
17th, that a telegraphic despatch from Paris had en-
joined the sixteen ships anchored in the roads to hold
themselves in readiness to put to sea. A letter from
Toulon of the 18th, quoted by the Commerce, states that
they were to proceed to the Dardanelles, and there ba
joined by an English fleet. The Courrier Francais be--
liefes that this naval force was intended for the coast of
Spain.'

Several steamers had lately sailed from Toulon to
bring back to France the sick and wounded still remain-
ing in the hospital on the Island dcl Rey.
No business doing at the Cafe de Paris on Sandal'
Last prices of Saturday evening, 77f. 50c.

SPAIN.
Accounts from Madrid of the 15th mention that I°
Government wcs I.kely to obtain an advance of 60,000060
of realF.

GERMAN Y.
The Austrian Obsertvr of the 14th inst. announces
that the insurrectionary movement at 13raila had been
suppressed by the Wallachian troops.

The Stutgardt Gazette states, under date "Vienna' the
14th, that the finances of Austria were in :011°st e -
barrassed situation, and that all commercial eaterprize
was completely paralysed.
:
The B
rn
"Breslau Gazette of the 10th inst.- eniions that
the King of Prussia had accepted the invitation of the
Municipal Council of that city.

LIVERPOOL COTTON. MARKET, AUG. 21.—We have'
had rather an indifferent business in the Cotton marls"
to-day, the sales not amounting to more than 3,000"
bales, all to the trade. In export or speculation nothing
has been done ; prices remain steady.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 21.—A rash(.'
limited business has been transacted at the Stock E
change this day, but the rates have undergone no altera-
tion, Eastern Counties, ; ditto Debentures, 8 3-'.6 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 42; Liverpool and Manche iter,
Quarter Shares, 46:1.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.—There
is rather an improved prospect for business, and_
.prices
are steady, particularly for the finished lines which, in
some cases, are improved. London and Birmirghanil
160 ; Ditto, Old, 321., 53f ; Manchester, Boltcn, “11""
Bury, 55i ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 23 ; Lon-
don and South Western, Tenths, 11. 7s. 6d, ; Bank of
Stockport, 3.