The Sun.
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THE SUN,' LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1841.

gave notice, that on Thursday he would move a resolu-
tion that Ministers do not possess the confidence of the
House, and that to hold office under such circumstances
is at variance with the spirit of the Constitution.
On Thursday, then, will come the tug of war, and
Sir ROBERT'S notice was received with long and loud
cheers. The country will be delighted to see the
question brought to an issue, but it will not de-
bate it, neither will the House of Commons, on the nar-
row grounds of the Tories. Such a resolution admits
of the widest discussion, and the Tories, who pro-
voke a war of principles, may prepare themselves
for a complete and most dismal defeat. In re-
ply to Lord SANDON, Lord PALMERSTON stated that
the Government of Monte Video had applied to the
British Government to bring about a reconciliation be-
tween it and the Government of Buenos Ayres,
and instructions had been sent to our Minister at
Buenos Ayres to offer her Majesty's good offices in bring-
ing about an accommodation. He hoped the mediation
would be accepted.
In reply to Mr. MACLEAN, Lord PAL3IERSTON stated
that the British mission to Persia was still at Erzeroum,
and that England was not yet satisfied with the conduct
of Persia.

In reply to Mr. POLHILL, Lord J. RUSSELL announced
that he should not proceed with the Poor-law Amend-
ment Bill this Session.

The House went into a Committee of Ways and
Means without opposition. In the Committee the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved a resolution that the
Sugar Duties be granted to her MAJESTY.
Sir R. PEEL seconded the motion, expressing a deter-
mination not to throw any obstacle in the way of carry-
ing on the Government, or engaging in any conduct
which he knew would be called factious.

Mr. HUME expressed his astonishment at the conduct
of Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tories, and hoped it would
go forth to the people of England that the Tories de-
nied them all relief. On every hustings, he said, they
should be met with a demand to know why they would
not lower the price of sugar, when they could with ad-
vantage to the revenue, 3d. per lb.

Sir R. PEEL said he should be ready to defend his
coulluct at the hustings, by quoting a speech of the
Hon. Member for Kilkenny. The Hon. Baronet, with a
a similar degree of good fortune as attended him
on the debate of the sugar duties, in reference to the
Manchester pamphlet, and, we believe, with a similar
lack of sincerity and uprightness, quoted a speech of Mr.
HUME'S, in which he had pointed out that slave-labour
sugar was being brought into the country, and that he
preferred free .labour sugar.
Mr. HUME, by referring to the circumstance on which
he had made the observations, showed that Sir ROBERT
had perverted them from their just bearing.
After a little sparring between Lord STANLEY and
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with that raciness which dis-
tinguishes the quarrels of friends, and a sensible speech
from Mr. WARLEY, to make amends for the attack
he made on Ministers when they brought forward
the Budget, and after a few observations from Mr.
SLANEY and Sir C. GREY, the resolutions were agreed
to. So we presume ends the apprehended stoppage of
the supplies. The Tories have not yet made up their
minds, greedy as they are of office, to attempt to seize it
by so bold a measure.
The Report of the Administration of Justice Bill was
postponed, after some conversation, on account of Sir
E. SUGDEN'S proposition to limit the salary of the Ac-
countant-General to the sum of 4,0001. a year.
The Victoria Park Bill was reported. The Drainage
of Towns Bill was thrown out, because it gave the Com-
missioners of Sewers a power of levying taxes, and it
ought, therefore, to have originated in the House of
Commons.

The Copyhold Bill was reported. Several measures
of little importance were forwarded, and the House ad-
journed at Half-past Ten o'Clock.

The discussions now continually provoked on
the Corn-laws are throwing floods of light on
that important
_question. For example, the
sublime inventor of the Kentish fire, who, a few
nights ago, vehemently denounced the Bs. duty
as a tax on the poor man's bread, last night pro-
nounced a spirited eulogy on the present system
which at this moment levies a tax of 235. on the
poor man's bread. What the Earl of WINCIIIL-•
SEA objected to, then, was the smallness of the
tax ; and, while Bs. would be unjust to the
poor, 235. is only a fair protection to the agricul-
turist. Such is the consistency of one advocate
of Corn-laws.
The Earl of RADNOR, one of the most spirited_
of their opponents, made a bold speech, which
deserves to be cherished in the innermost heart
of every man in the empire. He told the Peers—
That the whole object of the Corn-laws was to uphold.
rent. It was said that the object was to employ labour
in the cultivation of the land. Now, if that were the-
case, why was the produce of grass land protected ?--
(Hear, hear.) There was a tax upon the importation of
horses, also upon the importation of asses.—(Laughter.).'
Horned cattle were prohibited, so were sheep and swine.
—(Hear, hear.) Turkeys, fowls, cheese, milk, and eggs-
were taxed.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) There was not.
an article of food of any description which was not
taxed. What could be the object of that but to put,
money into the pockets of the landlords ?—(Hear, hear.)
Not only the produce of the land, but that of the seas
was taxed.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Now, this was said

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to be done for the sake of protecting the fishe-
ries, and of encouraging a race of fishermen..
How was the fact ? What fish was the most highly
taxed ? Why, salmon the fisheries of which had
nothing to do with educating seamen. Several Noble,
Lords, by means of this tax, derived as much as 4,0001.
and 5,0001. a year from their salmon fisheries. But
what fish did their Lordships think wes exempt from
taxation ? They would suppose it was some ignoble fish;
but it was no such thing. It was a fish that never was
seen on the table of a poor man. It was turbot.—(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) Yes, there was another fish not
taxed. Was that a poor man's fish ? No, indeed ; it
was lobster, that their Lordships might have sauce for
their turbot.—(Laughter.) This was not a subject for
their Lordships to laugh at. Hundreds of thousands of
their countrymen were starving around them ; whilst
every animal upon the earth, every fish in the sea, and
every bird of the air was taxed to prevent its coming
to those famished people.—(Hear, hear.)

The Noble Lord emphatically added and re-
peated, " That is discreditable to your Lord-
ships." And the Noble Earl's words will be
echoed by every man with a human heart in
the kingdom. It is discreditable to their
Lordships to allow turbot and lobsters to be im-
ported duty free for their own tables, and to keep
out cattle and fish and flour, which might keep
the people from starving. With such charges
clearly brought home to the Peers, they can no
more be respected and honoured by the nation
than the Principle of Evil.

We must add another illustration of what the
Noble Earl put so well, relative to taxing the
produce of grass land, encouraging at one and
the same time the cultivation of arable land, and
the laying them down in grass requiring little la-
bour. At the Lincoln meeting, held on Friday,
Sir M. CHOLMELEY said—

He had that morning, on his way to the meeting, rode
over Lincoln Heath, which within his recollection has
consisted of nothing but rabbit gates, and which was
now covered with copious and abundant crops. The
former condition of the land was similar to that which a
lady had given as a description of Norfolk, who, when
asked what she had seen in that county, said the only
object she observed was two rabbits fighting for a tuft of
shear grass.—(Laughter.) Now, he thought it was not
the true object of a supporter of liberal measures to do
anything which would bring back Lincoln Heath, and
many other districts, to a similar state.
The people, then, have been tared to the ex-
tent of fifty or sixty millions a year to bring
Lincoln Heath into cultivation. Now, if it were
really the object to promote the cultivation of
poor soils, and so extend the cultivation of the
country—which is the pretext of the landlords—.
why should they not give the cultivators of the
poor soils exclusively a bounty proportionate to
the difficulties they have to overcome ? By the
protecting plan they raise the price of all the pro-
duce of the soil, and give an equal bounty on cul-
tivating the wheat and beans land of the Isle of
Thanet, the fat Vale of Evesham, and the heaths
of Lincolnshire. A more absurd, as well as un-
just and cruel plan of promoting the cultivation
of poor lands never was imagined.
We hear a great deal, too, about the tithes and
heavy taxes in relation to the light taxes and fer-
tile land of the Continent, as an excuse for taxing
the whole of the people's food. That argument
should make the Legislature confine the bounty on
cultivation to land subject to tithes, which all
land is not, and to land of which the produce
would not enable the cultivators to pay the
taxes. With a want of discrimination that
is only admirable for the level manner in.
which it plunders all the consumers, the Peers ;
make them pay an equal bounty on the cultivew-
tion of tithe-free land, and the poorest and th.e
fattest land of the empire.
We see, too, by Sir M. CHOLMELEY'S stat e-
ment, why the Lincolnshire gentlemen are so
deeply attached to the Corn-laws. They get
a large share of the fifty or sixty millio ps

we pay for the cultivation of such land
as Lincoln Heath. But are we to pay
that sum for ever ? It would be better to buy up
the interest of these gentlemen, as we bought
up the interest of the slave-owners. Untaxed
bread would be better worth 20,000,0001. than
the freedom of thenegroes.

It is quite plain, from these facts, that keep-
ing land in cultivation is a miserable pretext
to conceal the plunder of which the landlords
are ashamed. There is no proof whatever that
an acre of land would go out of cultivation were
the Corn-laws abolished, for the decreased ex-
pense of cultivation would more than counter-
balance the fall in price,—more than counter-
balance the present bo.mty, and, stimulating the
population and increasing the demand for food,
would rather increase than decrease cultivation.
The whole of the arguments of the landlords are
fudge, pretexts, and humbug, the coinage of
their own brains, to gloze over their own wrong-
doing.
In his speech Lord ASIIBURTON dilated last
night at considerable length on the superior
food of the English, and quoted Mr. JACOB to
show that no white bread was met with in Ger-
many to the east of the Rhine. Our own expe-
rience is different from that of Mr. JACOB. We
traversed a great part of Germany before Mr.
JACOB, and found white wheaten bread, in some
shape or other, in all the towns to the east of the
Rhine, and in most of the respectable inns. But
it is not the common food of the people. The
bread which they in general consume is made of
rye flour with only the bran taken out. The cele-
brated Pompernickel is, we believe, made
of rye flour, containing the whole of the
grain ; both kinds are dark coloured. At
the same time, the English like dark-co-
loured mutton, why not dark-coloured bread ?
Rye bread is much liked by the Germans ; and
they assert that it contains more nourishment
than wheaten bread. We know, from personal
experience, that it is wholesome, and many of
the Germans prefer it to any other bread.

Lord ASHBURTON forgot Ireland, however,
where the bulk of the people have no bread at
all. They have not got so far as to manufacture
and use bread. They live on boiled potatoes.
Many of them, too, live on the worst kind of
potatoes, which the Germans appropriately call
Vieh cartele (cattle or pig potatoes), and
which they would disdain to eat. Lord Asti-
BURTON forgot Scotland, too, where many of the
people live on unleavened oat-cakes, and are
unacquainted with the use of bread. Perhaps,
too, if he had asked the Duke of RUTLAND,
his Grace would have told him that the labourers
throughout the union of which his Grace is
a guardian, and we believe throughout a
considerable portion of the counties of Leicester,
Derby, Nottingham, Yorkshire, and the mid-
dle and north of England, live on barley-
bread, and, therefore, his Grace humanely pro-
posed that barley-bread or cakes should be the
food of the paupers. At least, barley cakes,
not bread, for barley will not make bread, was
the common food in those counties twenty-
five years ago. When Lord ASHBURTON re-
ferred to white bread as the food of
the people of this country, he meant, and
could only mean, the inhabitants of our
towns, the seats of our commercial and manufac-
turing wealth; and if it ever were the food of the
peasantry—as we believe it was of the yeomanry
and little farmers of the south of England—it
has in most cases now been superseded by pota-
toes, and of them the people cannot get
enough. The labouring classes in England,
poor shivering, unclad, unhoused, unfed,
and still more the peasantry of agricul-
tural Ireland, would esteem themselves happy
were they as well fed, as well clothed, and as
well housed as the black-bread eaters of West-
phalia, and all the north and east of Germany.
Lord ASHBURTON only proved hinnoelf extremely
ingenious in finding reasons, wholly false though
they were, why the people of England should
submit to poverty and starvation. They will not,
however, consent to be starved, to enrich Lord
ASHBURTON, because the Germans eat black
bread, and the French do not consume on an
average more sugar than the Irish.

The most wonderful part of Lord ASHBURTON'S
oratory was, that this great stickler for class-
legislation, which breaks up society into repelling
classes, reproached the Ministers with causing
dissensions, as if the Anti-Corn-law League were
never heard of before the Budget was brought
forward, and as if the landowners had not
been stigmatised as plunderers from one
end of the land to the other, before
the Ministers proposed a fixed duty on Corn.
No, Lord ASHBURTON, the horrid dissensions
which certainly exist in society are the result of
your class legislation; and Ministers, instead of
extending and fanning those dissensions, have
taken the first step towards extinguishing them
for ever, by extinguishing the scandalous injus-
tice that causes them.

The Corn-law men have at length roused a
spirit in the land which will never be laid till the
Corn-laws are wholly swept away. The willing-
ness to accept the fixed duty offered, which has
been shown at several places, but only as an in-
stalment, is an evidence of the prudence with
which the Anti-Corn-law men are work-
img out their cause. London, already mov-
i.n g in its wards, is about to respond by its
ammon Hall to Manchester and Liver-
pool. Aberdeen echoes Southampton. Not a
sip igle town in the empire, except it be a cathe-.
dr al town, or some corn market, will fail to de-
nounce the Corn-laws. Even at Lincoln, where
thc Corn-law men seemed very successful, a
strcng spirit of opposition was evinced ; and
vr.nen the enthusiasm shall enable the enthralled
people to break the landlords' chains, the latter
wi 11 find more enemies, even on their own estates,
du In they dream of.

:Poetry and prayer, with all their fervour and
all their sincerity, are engaged on our side.
Ite;ligion is for us, though the established priest-
h 00A I be against us. Statistics and political
saer, ce furnish powerful arguments at every
im?eti ng, while a sense of injury gives'
th?./n poignancy and force. Justice is with
us, an'd our opponents have only wealth,
the fruit of extortion, corruption, hypocrisy,
and deceit. We have no fear for the result.
To doubt On which side victory will ultimately
be, would be to doubt the wisdom and goodness
of the ALMIGH',"Y.

The friends of the Liberal party will be glad
to learn that a Committee of Reformers has
b,?.era constituted to attend to the coming elec-
tion_ The Committee will sit daily at the Re-
form Club, Pall-mall, where all communications
may be addressed to the Secretary

The whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday
have reached us. In the debate in the Chamber
of Deputies, on the commercial treaty `pith Hol-
land, several Members who spoke in favour of
the treaty took occasion to express a hop e that
no similar measure would be adopted betown
Fraace and Great Britan. " Fortunately," ob-
servod M. FOULD, " every Adnlinistration has
recoil ed from the universal maledictions to which
a com mercial treaty with
England would give
birth. In treating with Holland we treat with a I
t
nation of consumers ; in treating with England
we trea with
a manufacturing nation not
having Inarkets enough for its produce." Propo-
sitions so general as those laid down by M.
FOULD admit of long lists of exceptions. We
presume that even the lion. Deputy would admit,
if hard pressed, that in the course of his political
studies he had read or heard that the vineyards
of England do not supply a stock of wine ade-
quate to the consumption of the
population, while
in France the reverse of this is pretty generally
admitted ; more especially
in the southern de-
partments of that kingdom. Coals are not over-
abundant in France, and yet in England we could
spare a few at even a cheaper rate than they can

be raised in Belgium. We are a nation of pro-
ducers no doubt, but if M. FOULD were a little
better acquainted with commercial statistics,
he would not require to be told that we are also
more extensive consumers of foreign and colo-
nial produce than any other nation in the world,
Holland not excepted. Not that we disapprove
of the commercial treaty with Holland. On the
contrary, we are always glad to witness an exten-
sion of the principle of free trade, no matter who
may profit most by it. What we seek to establish
is the fact that however beneficial to France is a
commercial treaty with Holland, one with Eng-
land would not be without great and manifest
advantages.

M. GUIZOT supported the Treaty with Holland
chiefly on political grounds. The following ex-
tract from his speech is worthy of attention :

Government is convinced that France should be on good
terms ssith Holland, and that there is a great political interest
in such being the case. This interest alone legitimates the
treaty. In time of peace, as in time of war, we require the
good feeling, nay, the amity of Holland. It has always been
the policy of France to keep up this feeling. I need not tell
you, gentlemen, that France has constantly sought the alliance
of the small States around her. Need I speak of her intimate
relations with the electoral circles? I have no hesitation in
declaring that this is a first-rate interest.—(Agitation.) You
have been told that Holland is above all others a consuming na-
tion. Her 3,000,000 inhabitants consume as much as 7,000,000
Germans. The treaty, moreover, opens to you the rich islands
that Holland possesses in the seas of Asia. England has
not understood the importance of these islands. She has
overlooked the resources presented by this group of islands,
the Indian Archipelago, Java, &c. . She has confined herself
to the Continent—she has signed the treaty of 1824, and re-
grets it deeply. Let us show more foresight than England has
done. The Sovereign, who has abdicated the throne of his
noble free will was the first who resisted the coalition against
France. The good will of Holland gave to France, on the
15th of July, 11,000 horses. Commercially speaking, the treaty
has less importance than some persons pretend to say ; but,
politically speaking, it is of great importance. To prove this
ha, been the purport of my speaking. It is in the name of the
political interests of the country that I declare myself hostile to
all amendments on the subject.

We have pleasure in stating that the health
of the young Duke de CHARTRES, second son of
the Duke of ORLEANS, is so far recovered that
he is considered out of danger. So amiable in
private life are all the members of the Royal
family of France, that the chance of any calamity
befalling them excites the sympathies of every
class in this country. The Duke and Duchess
of ORLEANS removed with their household on
Friday to the Chateau of Villiers. Their Royal
Highnesses were accompanied by their children.

TEXAN LOAN.—" The issuing of the Texan loan had been
received with such general disapprobation and distrust that
the firm. of J. Laffitte, which had undertaken to bring it out,
and had inundated the country with its prospectuses, was
obliged to abandon it." " The golden times of the Cortes
loan are over," says La Presse, " not, however, without
having left sad recollections and bitter regrets in the minds of
those of whom it absorbed their painfully earned savings, and
deceived the credulity of the Liberals."
MARRIAGE OF A RUSSIAN PRINCESS.—The Leipsic
Gazette of the 19th inst. states, that the Princess Olga daugh-
ter of the Emperor of Russia, was about to be married to a son
of the Archduke Charles, and that Field-Marshal Prince Witt-
genstein had passed lately through Vienna for the purpose of
arranging the treaty of marriage.
THE Louis PHILIPPE CORRESPONDENCE.—The Journal
des Debats, after alluding to the petition to the Chamber of
Deputies, signed by 5,000 citizens of Paris, demanding an in-
quiry into the Louis Philippe letters, and after referring to the
acquittal of the Haro of Caen, for an article on these same
letters, states that the question of the authenticity of the cor-
respondenee ought not to be left to the discussion of political
parties. The Crown cannot condescend to prosecute the COll,
temporaine in London, and place itself at the mercy of some fo-
reignjudges. The Debats winds up by stating that the only course
to be pursued by the Government is to declare in the Cham..
ber of Deputies thejforgery of the letters, since Juries had given
verdicts which factions were making the most of. " These
verdicts," concludes the Debats, " must be broken by a Court
of Appeal, and that appeal is the Chamber. Let the Deputies
then enter upon the question which has so grievously irritated
and tormented public opinion for the last three months. Its
sovereign impartiality must decide the discussion of a question
that originated in forgery, and was transferred to the Court of
Assizes. An answer must be given to the five thousand sig-
natures of the National's petition, and to the cries of joy
uttered by unpunished libellers. It is for the Ministry to pro-
voke this reply, and for the Chamber to make it."

RAILWAYS.—A letter from Geneva of the 18th instant,
states that the Sardinian Government having proposed to
the Directory of that Canton to join it in constructing a rail-
way between Seyssel (Savoy) and Geneva, which would run
along the left bank of the Rhone, the offer had been readily ac-
ceded to, and the plan was about to be carried in execution.
DESERTION OF ARABS.—The Toulonnais of the 19th inst.
publishes a letter from Oran of the 14th instant, which stated
the rather improbable fact, that 700 Arabs, belonging to one of
Abd-el-Kader's regular battalions, had presented themselves
to the French advanced posts, and surrendered their aims into
their hands.

The Commerce is mistaken in saying that the Duchess
Orleans had been sponsor to a son of the Count a. IlautpOO) s
the christening tools Place at the Tuileries, but the godmother
of the child was the Princess Wagram, who is a Princess of
Bavaria.— Gazette de France.

We have received the following letter from Berlin dated the
16th of May :
" The King, yielding to the remonstrances which are made
in all parts of the States belonging to the German Customs
Union, against the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation. con-
cluded on the 2nd March last, between Prussia and Great Bri-
tain, in the name of the other States belonging to the
Customs Union, has just ordered that before it is rati-
fied this Treaty shall be submitted to the examination
of the; new Reformed Representative Committee, being re-
solved not to decide on the propriety of ratifying the
Treaty till the Committee has given its opinion, but
public opinion having already expressed itself very decidedly
against the Treaty, it is not at all probable that it will be rati-
fied, and the less so as, according to one of the clauses, the
exchange of the ratification ought to have taken place within
two months after the conclusion of the Treat; at London, that
is to say, on the 2d of the present month of May.
A letter from Toulon, of the 19th of May, says, " A Rear-
Admiral, Baron de Lassusse, is expected every moment from
Paris, and the division, the command of which has been given
him, is ready to sail for the Levant."
The squadron which is cruizing off the Hyeres Islands, under
the command of Admiral Casy, for the instruction of the Cap-
tains, the officers and crews, consists of the following ships of
the line :—Souverain, the Marengo, the Scipion, Jupiter,
Alger, Ville de Marseilles, Trident, Genereux, and the', enus
igate.— Le Commerce.

The Madrid Papers of the 16th speak doubt-
fully of the formation of the new Cabinet. An
impression prevailed that most of the difficulties
which the REGENT at first experienced were over-
come, and that a list of the new Cabinet would
appear in the Gazette of the 17th inst.
ESPARTERO has commenced the great work of
reform by reducing the army. This is an excel-
lent measure and will be popular with the indus-
trious classes. The following is a translation of
the Decree to this effect :

Peace and tranquillity being re-established in all the pro-
vinces throughout the kingdom, the period is arrived to com-
mence an organization of the army suited to the state of affairs,
and better adapted to the military territorial division of the
realm, at the same time introducing in the public expenses an
economy which the condition of our finances so imperiously ne-
cessitates. Actuated by these principles, I as Regent of the
kingdom during the minority of Queen Donna Isabella the Se-
cond, have considered it incumbent upon me to decree as follows :
Art. 1. The rank of General-in-Chief of the united armies
is abolished.

Art. 2. As a consequence of the preceding Article are also
aboli,hed the rank of Chief of the Staff, of General Com-
mandant of Artillery and of the Engineers,of Military Intendant
of the said armies, with their respective dependencies, the au-
ditory and the service of the military hospitals.
Art. 3. The divisions and the brigades composing the five
corps of the army in the districts of Catalonia, Valentia, Aragon,
the Northern Provinces, and the Two Castiles, will retain their
actual organization, under their respective chiefs.
Art. 4. The troops, for the time being in each military dis-
tract, will be placed under the superior command of the Captain
General of the same district.

This decree, as having heard it, you will enforce the ful-
filment of.

Given at the Palace, May 14, 1841.
The Duke de la VITTORIA.
To Don Pedro Chacon, Minister of War.

EPSOM RACES.

BY EXPRESS: THIS DAY.

TUESDAY.
Mr. Dixon's Saracen filly, 36 yrs (Bell) 1
Lord Lichfield's Corsair, 5 yrs
Mr. Westbrook's Mobarek, 3 yrs
Mr. Mostyn's Birthday, 3 yrs 4
Colonel Wyndham's Father Mathew, 3 yrs 5
Even on 11obarek, and 9to 4 agst Corsair. Won by
a length.
The Shirley Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for 3 yrs old.
Lord Albemarle's Minaret (Cotton) 1
Duke of Grafton's Mosque 9
Captain Ridge's Monody colt 3
Won cleverly.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 25.—Wind this day at noon, fresh from
the north, with passing clouds.
DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived from the River
and sailed, the Aurega and Enmore, for Port Phillip; John,
Sydney ' • Manila, Calcutta ; Levant Packet, Mauritius ; Crest,
Cape of Good Hope; Margaret, Rio Janeiro; Tobago, An-
tigua; Lady Katherine Barham, Jamaica; Elizabeth, River
Gambia ; Henry, Alexander, Naples:; Washington, Barcelona ;
Rambler, Cadiz ; Teaser, Lisbon ; Anna, Rio Plata.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 24. —Wind S. S. E. to N. N. W.—Arrived
the Maria Cleaves, Thompson, from New Orleans ; Caroline,
Cimpbell, Mobile; Nile, Baltimore; Lady Milton, St. John's,
Nov Brunswick. Sailed the Heart of Oak, for Calcutta ;
Blau-Eyed Susan, Alexandrietta ; Champlain, Philadelphia;
Atlantic, New York; William Tuscan, Genoa; Aureo, Trieste.
The Mary, hence to Malta, got on shore inside Dulas Island,
'22d, but came off yesterday, with two feet water in her hold,
and will put back here.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind E. S.E.,—Sailed the Em-
blem, Hill, for Miramichi.
COWES, MAY 24.—Arrived the Bellona, Lesberel, from
Pernambuco.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 24.—Wind N.—Arrived the Brothers,
and David Clark, from London for New South Wales. Sailed
the Forth, Sydney, for New South Wales. Arrived off, the
True Briton, from Madras.
FALMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrived the Bra-
ganza, for Vigo. Arrived off, the Ceylon, Hart, from Hon-
duras, sailed about 7th ult. Sailed, her Majesty's ship Avon,
on a cruise, with supplies for the homeward bound.

, Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince
and Princess Leiningen, are expected to leave Claremont Park
in the course of this afternoon, on their return to town.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat this morning to hear Scotch appeals. The
Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Scar-
borough, and the Earl of Beauchamp.

HILL V. THE EARL OF HADDINGTON.
This case came before the Court upon appeal from the de-
cision of the Lord Ordinary. The only question in the case
was, whether under a post-nuptial contract, a sum of 3,0001.,
vested absolutely in a lady of the name of Houston, and by such
vesting passed to her representatives. The Lord Ordinary de-
cided that it did, and from that decision the present appeal
was brought. . _

•Mr. B. Andrews and Mr. Anderson appeared as counsel for
the appellant; and the Lord-Advocate and Sir William Follett
were counsel for the respondents.
The arguments had not concluded when our reporter left.

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day at
the Council Chamber, Whitehall, for the purpose of hearing
the remainder of the arguments in the important case of Sir
M. Wood and others v. Goodlake and others.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL proceeded to reply on behalf of
the parties who claimed under the codicil, and had not con-
cluded ,N hen we went to press. The speech of the Learned
Gentleman will conclude therarguments in the case, which have
already occupied ten or twelve days.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

CROTTY V. PRICE AND ANOTHER.

Mr. PLATT moved in this case, which was tried before Mr.
Justice Whiteman at the last Guildhall sittings, and in which
a verdict was had for the plaintiff for 7201., for a rule to show
cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial
had, on the ground of misdirection, and that certain facts had
come to the defendant's knowledge at a time when he could
not adduce evidence to support them. It was an action of
assumpsit upon three bills of exchange, dated December, 1839,
and January, 1840, drawn by one Atkinson, an attorney, upon
Price and Telfer, the two defendants, and accepted by them.
The defendant Price suffered judgment to go by default, and
the defendant Telfer pleaded first that he had never accepted
the bills, and then he pleaded that he and Price were partners
for executing certain works for the Birmingham, Bristol, and
Thames Junction Railway Company, on which contract only
they were partners. That after the execution of the works
the partnership terminated, and that the bills in question were
accepted by Price without the knowledge, privity, or authority
of Telfer, and for the private purposes of Price alone. On the
trial the deed of partnership was put in, and it contained a dis-
tinct clause that no bills were to be accepted by either of the
partners on account of both, without the consent of the other
in writing, and no such consent was proved. For the plaintiff
a witness wag called, who proved that he had received a bill
from Price for 67/. 145., accepted in the same manner as the
bills in question, and which Telfer paid, and it was alleged that
from that circumstance the plaintiff, Crotty, might have pre-
sumed that Price had authority to accept bills on account of
the partnership. Now he (Mr. Platt) submitted that there
was no evidence of authority whatever—
Lord DENMAN—But is not the payment of one bill evi-
dence, prima facie, of authority ?
Mr. PLATT said, if there had been a general partnership
that might be sufficient, but in the present case the only
evidence of partnership was the deed, which of itself contained
a clause negativing the presumption of authority. But he did
not rely upon that alone—he had affidavits to show that a gross
fraud had been practised upon the defendant Telfer, who, in
his affidavit, deposed that on the day of the trial Price, who
was then a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, sent for him, and
told him that he had been advised to accept those bills, and
although they bore date in December, 1839, and January, 1840,
they were not drawn, nor had they any existence, before June,
1840, long after the partnership had been dissolved. The
Learned Counsel was proceeding to state some further facts,
when

Lord DENMAN said he thought a sufficient case of fraud had
been stated to entitle him to the rule.

THE QUEEN V. THE BRISTOL DOCK COMPANY.

The Court gave judgment in this case which was an applica-
tion for a mandamus against the defendants. The writ recited
that the Company was created by a local Act, the 43d George
111., chap. 140, for improving the port and harbour of Bristol
by the performance of certain works, and for making and main-
taining a new cut or channel from the river Avon at Redriff,
and keeping it at a certain width and depth, and the sides of a
certain inclination, as near as circumstances would admit of.
The 30th section of the Act required the Company to make
and maintain these works, and the writ, after reciting the en-
actment, alleged that certain parts of the south bank and the
sides thereof had become broken down and out of repair—that
the inclination of the sides and the depth of the channel had been
altered to the injury of the navigation. It then enjoined the de-
fendants to repair and maintain the said sides of the south bank.
The return of the Company was that they were riot bound to
maintain the said sides of the south bank, and that as iiear as cir-
cumstances admitted thereof they had maintained the channel
of the full depth and breadth required by the Act. It was
urged in the course of the argument that the writ could not issue
to the Company because it only enjoined them to do that for
the omission of which they would be liable to be indicted, but
that objection was not entitled to any weight because those who
obtained an Act of Parliament for executing great public
works were bound to fulfil all the duties entailed upon them,
and although the omission might occasion a nuisance, it did
not dispense with the interference of that Court. It appeared
to them that the return was insufficient because the defendants
merely denied their liability, although the south bank appeared
to be a part of the channel which they were bound to repair.
The Court, therefore, was of opinion that the peremptory
mandamus must go.