The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUG P 105_180,

vines Pokien, Chekeang, Keangsoo, Shantung, Chible,
and Fungteen. and caused numerous commotions. Since
the domineering pride of those rebellious foreigners has
arrived at this pitch, it will not, be difficult to arrange
our battalia, and exterminate and drive out the whole
number. But on account of considering that the said
foreigners presented an address, in which they stated
their grievances, I could not but cause them to be inves-
tigated, in order to manifest the great principles of jus-
tice ; and I especially ordered the to heo sze (Cabinet
Minister) Keshen, to proceed with haste to Canton, to
examine into the facts, and manage the business. The
said foreigners are but - slightly endowed either, with
heavenly principles-or goodness of heart. The whole
number of them ought to have returned to Canton,
and there have awaited the settlement ; but one-
half weighed their anchors and went southwards,
and one-half still remains in Tinghae. This
is a clear proof of their crafty and cunning
schemes, which are as innumerable as hairs. I have
now heard that, for several months past, they have de-
bauched men's wives and daughters, made captives, car-
ried away property, and built forts; opened watercourses,
and set up a counterfeit public officer, who issues pro-
clamations ordering the people td pay the duties. What
crimes have the people committed, that they should suffer.
these painful distresses? Speech and thought have. come
to this, in sleeping or eating I find no quiet.
" After Keshen arrived in Canton, he well understood
to open up and induce to the paths of rectitude, but the
insatiable desires (of the English) could not be satisfied;
already are their thoughts dwelling upon extorting the
price of opium (the 20,283 chests surrendered); further,
they are again requesting that I should grant them a
landing-place (territory). I, the Emperor, early con-
sidered them to be unsettled and inconstant; certainly
it is not by good faith or justice that they are now to
be admonished.
" With a special intention last year I selected the most
skilful soldiers of the provinces of Szechuen, Hooan, and
Keangse; to proceed to Canton ; a further selection of
the most skilful soldiers from the provinces of Hoopin,
Hoonau, and Ginwuy, were ordered to proceed to Che-
keang, to be prepared for attack and extermination. Now
Keshen has reported by a post-haste despatch that the
said foreigners, on the 7th of January, having engaged
the assistance of traitorious natives on board their ships,
went direct to the Bocca Tigris and attacked the forts
with their guns, and killed my officers and soldiers, and
they also laid Takok fort in ruins, and they took forci-
ble possession of Shakok. Such is their rebellion against
Heaven and opposition to reason, they are like dogs and
sheep in their dispositions ; it is difficult for heaven and
earth longer to bear with the English, and both gods and
men are indignant (at their conduct). It is only left to
completely exterminate and wash ourselves clean of them,
cutting off and expelling them all ; and then will it be
manifest that they are killed by the decree of Heaven,
and how important are the lives of the people.
"At present, as to the troops who have been selected
from the different provinces, it is conjectured that they
have already arrived at their destination (in Chekeang),
I order Elepoo to proceed immediately with troops and
receive back the city of Tinghae, and resuscitate the
people from their lifeless state. Moreover, I order Ke-
shen to exhort and stimulate the soldiers, to advance,
with valorous daring, and be the foremost in battle, for
it is absolutely necessary that the rebellious foreigners
must give up their heads, which, and the prisoners, are
to be sent to Pekin in cages, to undergo the last penalty
of the law. For the seizure of the evil race of foreign-
ers and the rebellious native traitors, it is proper to
establish laws ; and for putting them all to death with-
out exception.
" As to the ports and offings of all the maritime pro-
vinces I have repeatedly sent down my imperial will to
keep a secret and strict guard. I order all the General
Governors, and Lieutenant-Governors, to increase their
efforts in cruising and examining. If they (the English)
come, forthwith attack them. Moreover, let perspicuous
orders be issued to the officers and people, to be mindful
of their enemies' anger and hatred, and be all equal in a
determined will. Immediately report highly meritorious
deeds, that I may confer rewards ; of this I have the
greatest hopes. Let this edict be circulated for general
information."

CURIOUS TRIAL.
(From Galignani's Messenger.),
A trial of much interest, on account of the circumstan-
tial character of the evidence, and particularly the con-
flicting opinions of the medical men who were called as
witnesses, took place, a few days ago, before the Court
of Assizes of the Loiret. It appears that more than a
year since M. Souesme, a wealthy landowner in the en-
virons of Montargis, whilst superintending two workmen
who were trimming his trees on the bank of a ditch, sud-
denly quitted the spot at which one of them, named
Corbasson, was at the moment making up the several
branches into faggots, exclaiming that this workman,
whilst M. Souesme was stooping down, had attempted to
destroy him by striking several blows with the chopper
which he had in his hand. M. Souesme had received
some severe wounds, and was bleeding profusely. Se-
veral persons came up on seeing the • condition of M.
Souesme, and hearing his exclamations, and found Cor-
basson in the ditch, with several wounds on his throat
and head, and almost dead. He was unable to speak,
and in two hours he died. The account given by M.
Souesme was corroborated by a man named Cherry, who
was acting as foreman over the wood-trimmers, and it
was inferred that Corbasson. who had surrendered a lease
of six or seven acres of land to M. Souesme on lower
terms for himself than he had been subsequently offered,
had, in a fit of disappointment and anger, attempted to
destroy the life of M. Souesme, and then committed sui-
cide. Several months had elapsed, when an individual
named Deflou, got up an accusation of murder against
M. Souesme, and excited the widow and daughter of Cor-
basson to prosecute. Three medical men, who had ex-
amined the body of Corbasson immediately after his
death, had declared that the wounds were inflicted by his
own hand ; but another medical man, named Doquin,
had declared subsequently to Deflou that they could only
have been inflicted by M. Souesme. On the trial of this
gentleman it was shown, however, that he was a man of
violent passions, and a woman named Pensuet swore that
she had witnessed the affair between Souesme and Cor-
basson, and that words having arisen, Souesme had struck
Corbasson several blows with his cane • that Corbasson
having struck M. Souesme a blow on the back with the
flat part of his chopper, the latter had drawn a dirk from
his cane and stabbed Corbasson in the throat. It was
attempted to show that M. Souesme had inflicted upon
himself the wounds in his head, in order to conceal the
real nature of the affair, and bear out his account of it ;
and that the witnesses for the defence were suborned by
him, and unworthy of belief. For the defence, however,
it was clearly demonstrated that the witness Pensuet had
deposed falsely, for the cane which 11.• Souesme carried
on the day of the event, and which she identified, was
shown to have no dirk. It was then proved that Cor--
basson was subject to insanity, and that he had on a
former occasion made an attempt upon his own life.
Previously to the trial the law-officers of the Crown had
called upon three medical men, MM. Orfila, Duvergie,
and Roger de l'Orme, to deliver their opinion as to the
origin of the wounds received by Souesme and Corbas-
son, and for this purpose the vertebrae of the deceased,
the chopping knife, and a dagger, and cane-dirk, found
at the residence of M. Souesme, were sent to them. At
the trial M. Orfila declared in his own name, and in
those of his colleagues, their opinion that Corbasson had
been murdered, and that the wounds of Souesme were
inflicted by himself. On the other hand, the medical
men who had been called in immediately after the occur-
rence of the event persisted in the opinion which they
had previously expressed, and three others, Doctors
Gartner, Lavielle, and Boyer, positively contradicted the
statement of M. Orfila, Dr. Gamier adding, that he had
attended M. Souesme for his wounds, and that they were
very severe ; one of them, he said, had been fistulous for
several months. The Jury pronounced a verdict of ac-
quittal, but the Court awarded to the family of Corbas-
son 5,000 f. damages, to be paid by M. Souesme.

On Saturday morning, about half-past six
o'clock, a waterman named Thomas Tagg, while in his
boat on the river opposite Kingston bridge, discovered
the body of a young female very handsomely dressed
floating in the water. tie immediately conveyed the
body to the Fox and Hounds public-house, where it was
examined. The deceased was dressed in black silk, with
other articles to correspond, and in her pocket were
nine shillings and fourpence in a purse, and round her
neck was a piece of ribbon to which was attached a gen-
tleman's gold guard-ring. The deceased's veil and shawl
were found at a distance of about twenty yards from the
spot where the body was found. On Saturday evening
Mr. Carter, the coroner, held an inquest upon the body,
when it appeared that the name of the deceased was
Louisa Wade, and that she was lady's-maid in the fa-
mily of a gentleman residing in Richmond Terrace. No
satisfactory evidence could be obtained as to how the
deceased came into the water. She had left her friends
about eight o'clock on the previous evening, saying that
she would shortly return, and at that time nothing par-
ticular was remarked in her appearance, and she seemed
in very good spirits. Upon an examination of the bank
of the river, near the spot where the body was found,
there were marks as though some one had been strug-
gling to get out of the water, and it is therefore conjec-
tured that the deceased had accidentally fallen into the
river. The Jury having minutely inquired, so far as
they were able, into the circumstances, returned a ver-
dict of " Found drowned," thus leaving the matter open
to further inquiry, should additional evidence be brought
forward.

THE PRESIDENT.—A correspondent of a
morning paper says .—" The idea, under any circumstances,
of the President having drifted into the lat. of 29 30, and the
long. of 40, where the steamer reported by the Portuguese
captain was seen, appears to me absurd, and I have had con-
siderable experience in nautical affairs. had she so driven,
there cannot be a doubt she would have fallen in with, and
spoken many vessels who would, long ere this, have arrived, and
have reported her situation. I doubt very much whether the
vessel seen by the Portuguese ship was a steam-boa', as all fo-
reign seamen are often very inaccurate in their modes of obser-
vation, and probably the white funnel may have been a large
wind-sail hoisted for some particular object. Had it been the
President she would most certainly have made a signal of dis-
tress, unless she had previously communicated with some
other vessel, which must have arrived before this, as the
Vernon, without using her steam power, has come from a
distance 30 degrees further southward since the date re-
ported by the Portuguese captain. It appears to me cruel
towards those so warmly interested in the fate of this vessel,
to keep alive hopes for which there can be no foundation.
Three months have now nearly elapsed since her sailing
from New York, and, had she been above water, some account
may be
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light,- having consumed all her coals. It requires very little
acquaintance with the laws of gravity to comprehend why a
vessel two hundrM and sixty feet in length, with
fgt. lileavp, colk be very secure, scudding or lying.to in 'a
heavy gale of wind. The President, in all probability, was
either pooped while scudding, or overwhelmed while lying_to,
from not haviog sufficient bearings to support her.
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of the PUBLIC SOURNALS:

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GhOBA:-L-The .TournfddisDciats;eqnitcs Sir Robert
Pc-al's vague and cheap civilities to our French allies—by
discovering that the Right Honourable Baronet should
be Minister. The arguments which the Journal des
Debuts brings to back this discovery are a mere repeti-
tion of those which the Right Hon. Baronet himself hs s
already Put, in every possible form of elaborate candour.
We attachsome importance to showing that this whole
fabric of pretension is baseless ; that the leader- of the
present OppoSition has no title whatever to vaunt it as
an Opp9siticin peculiarly free from factious proceedings,
and .entitled to govern in its own name, because it has for
a long period been governing, in reality, in the name of
the party now in rower. All this disinterestedness—all
this exemption from faction—we deny utterly. We deny
that the,Opposition has scrupled any possible means of
or that' Sir Robert Peel has shown the
slight* forbearance to Government, on any occasion on
which they could be damaged with safety and platvibility.
We grant that Sir Robert Peel has often preferred his
character to his party ; which is not surprising, as his
character only prevents them from throwing him over-
'board. Of course a Tory Opposition has not voted against
Ministers for Ballot, or Extension of Suffrage, or aboli-
tion of Church-rates, or Repeal of the New Poor-law.
The Journal des Debats makes a merit to Sir Robert Peel
of supporting this latter law, " in spite of the very violent
murmurs of his own party." Poor innocent ! The De-
bats takes Mr. Oastler and Mr. Walter for organs of the
Tory party. It is altogether ignorant that the " great
national party" has one language for Parliament, and
another for the hustings and pothouse ; and that the
" murmurs," not loud, perhaps, but deep, of Sir R. Peel's
" own party" would have reached him, if he had taken up
their out-of-dcors tone on the Poor-law. It is his cue,
as their leader, to defend that law, which the party are
resolute to maintain—it is theirs to disclaim his senti-
ments through their organs, and talk against them to the
populace. We do not mean to deny Sir R. Peel credit
for his sincerity ; but theugh, in this instance, it stands
in contrast with the duplicity of others of his party, the
Debats is mistaken in supposing that it thwarts their
feelings or interests. The Tories, as a party in the coun-
try, play a double game on the Poor-law. Sir R. Peel
defends that law, as an organ of their intentions in Par-
liament.
COURIER.—The Chronicle affects much exultation
first about some correction of a trifling inaccuracy of
Lord Stanley's in a matter of date when
_inflicting a
merited castigation on Mr. Handley, the defence of whose
consistency, by the bye, it chivalrously .undertakes..--Bat
whilst recording certain trivial votes of his., against
that administration of Lord Liverpool of which he was
generally the obsequious servitor, the journalist cau-
tiously omits explanation or illustration of Mr. Hand-
ley's more memorable ,opposition to the great mea-
sures of Catholic Emancipation and the Reform Bill ;
measures which really involved such vital principles as,
it may be taken for granted, should. be the test of
honesty and reputation for the whole life of a public
man. As the first of the press to draw attention to his
political and party delinquencies, we may more be-
comingly take this occasion to express our respect for
the private, and, with marked exceptions, the public
character also of Mr. Handley ; but we must also warn
him that, as one of the Members for Lincolnshire, he is
destined to take his leave of public life. From an intimate
personal acquaintance among several warm friends and
supporters in his part of that county—if we may be al-
lowed to speak in person in the matter—zealous Whigs,
too, like himself, we can venture to assure him that he
sits for the parts of Kesteven and Holland for the last
time, for even by his own friends he is abandoned.
STANDARD.—Some conversation on the Corn-laws
occurred in the House of Lords last night ; it presented
little novelty, but that little was characteristic of the
ignorance which prevails upon the subject, even in
quarters where one would least expect to find it. Lord
Cloncurry mentioned, in proof of the ill effect of the
Corn-laws, that high prices in Ireland were generally
accompanied by a low rate of wages. Now, Lord
Cloncurry ought to know something of Ireland, and he
must be, therefore, aware that the Corn-laws have,
and can have, none but a beneficial influence upon that
country. Ireland imports no corn, and exports little or
no manufactured goods beyond the precincts of the em-
pire : so that the pretence of reasoning which has
been set up against the Corn-laws as to their effect.
upon Great Britain cannot apply to her. The only way
in which the Corn-laws can possibly affect Ireland is
by giving a preference to Irish corn in the British
market ; we challenge Lord Cloncurry to contradict this
proposition. The phenomenon upon which the Noble
Lord relies, as far as such a phenomenon exists, may be
easily explained. In Ireland the price of corn can rise
only in consequence of a deficient harvest ; but in Ire-
land the majority of farmers are mere labourers also, and
the produce of each man's farm, in average years,
barely suffices to support his family and pay his
rent. This being nearly universally the case, it
happens of necessity, that in -unfavourable years
the Irish labourer-farmer must look to 'some ex-
traordinary resource to provide his rent and feed)
his wife and children, and his only resource is
labour ; thus the labour market is over supplied, and
wages of course fall. If Lord Cloncurry's argument
prove anything, it is that the protection of agriculture is
insufficient, not that it can be dispensed with'; for were
our ports thrown open to foreign corn, some of it
raised as near to the great markets for grain as Ireland,
the Irish farmer would have no price for his corn—all
must become mere labourers or perish, and wages would
decline to something below what we can venture to name,
and all this, ns we shall to-morrow show, to reduce the
four pound loaf by something less than one farthing in
price.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, 41111te 9,

THE CASE OF THE DEAN OP YOlik._

The arguments in the case of the Dean of York were
resumed this morning, Sir Wm. Follett appearing in
support of the rule, which had been obtained for the
prohibition. The Learned Counsel was followed by Mr.
Cresswell and Dr. Adams on the same side, and the case
had not terminated when the Court rose.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
There was a rather better demand yesterday, both for goods
and yarn, and rather more business was done, than for two or
three previous market days ; but there was not the slightest
improvement in prices. Indeed, some descriptions of goods
were sold at lower prices than were ever before known.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, JUNE 7.—There scarcely
can be said to have been a market to-day ; but few buyers
have attended, and not many pieces have been sold at any
price. The wool market has been as flat as the pieee market.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JUNE B.—There has been little
or no difference in the state of this market for several weeks
past ; nor is there any prospect of improvement now. If any
thirg, this was a duller market than any of late; but the busi-
ness done is chiefly at an unsatisfactory rate, a wearing away of
the resources and energies of the people to no advantage. Prices
are nominal. Business in the warehouses, generally, is flat.
A few American houses are tolerably busy, with a prospect of
continuing so.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
Lorinow, Juxa 10,—Wind this day at noon, light breeze
from the N. to N.E., fine clear weather.
DEAL, JUNE 9.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrived from the
River and sailed, the Alligator, for Singapore ; • Mary and
Jane, Swan River; Foam, Hong Kong; John M'Lellan,
Bombay; Horatio transport, St. Helena; Ellen Gillman,
Newfoundland; Minerva, Boston; Fame, Madeira. Remains,
the Florentia, for Sydney, in consequence of the crew refusing
to do their duty.
SHEERNESS, JUNE 9. —The George Clark, Clark, from Dant-
zic to London, got on the Maplin Sand yesterday morning, but
was got off after discharging her deck load.
FALMOUTH, JUKE B.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., fresh
breezes.—Sailed her Majesty's ship Petrel, with 'supplies for
the homeward-bound.

LivEaroot., JUNE 9.—Wind N.E. light breezes..-Ar-
rived the Forth, from Monte Video. Sailed the Sir Robert
Peel, for Ca cotta ; Ann, Maranham ; Washing ton, Vir-
ginia ; Lady Ali:ton, St. John's, New Brunswick; Broon,
Grey, Quebec. Arrivedoff, the John Scott, from Monte Video;
Britannia, Boston, 16th ult., and Halifax, 18th, put back same
day, having been aground, and sailed again on the 29th.
COWES, JUNE B.—Arrived the Innocence, Hingstram,
from Bahia.

GUERNSEY, JUNE 7.—Arrived the Alarm, Stewart, from
Buenos Ayres, rather leaky,
BRisTor, JUNE 9,—Sailed the Freedom, for Africa; Pearl,
Malaga; Marina, Constantinople.
CORK, JUNE 7.—Arrived off, the Gulielmo, Amy, from
Monte Video.

YARMOUTH.—Arrived off, the Thomas and Martha, with
loss of both anchors and chains, arrived in the Roads; Thomas
and Margaret, of Sunderland, with loss of anchor and chains.
SHIELDS, JUNE 7.—The Elizabeth (steamer), in towing a
vessel out to sea, clove on the Herd Sand, and has become a
wreck.

PENZANCE, MAY 7.—A boat nearly new, pith a black top-
streak, and marked Fanny of Greenock, C. T. Stoyle, was
picked up, the 20th ult.
HAwrtvroot, MAY 6.—The Tynemouth Castle, from
Sunderland to St. Petersburgh, has been towed in here with
loss of topmast. The Mary and Jane Kinnerly, of Wisbeach,
is being towed in dismasted.
OsTENn, MAY B.—A bark of about 300 or 400 tons aban-
doned, with Connecine von Lambert on her stern, was passed
on the sth instant, south of the Doggerbank, by the Hazard,
fishing smack, arrived here.
TREBIZOND, MAY 12.—The Austrian steamer, Stamboul,
Anthione, ran on shore on the Ist inst. near Sinope, and filled.
All her cargo is damaged, crew saved.

HUMOROUS
TRANSLATION OF A MOTTO.--
The motto of Admiral Sir George Cockburn is " Ita," which
reminds us of an anecdote suitable for the next edition of Joe
Miller. The latest scene of the gallant Admiral's exploits
was the coast of America, in 1813; and, on a naval officer,
more intimately acquainted with the services of Sir George
Cockburn than with Latin, being asked what "Ita" meant, re-
plied, " Don't you know? It means I took •America.' "
FATAL ACCIDENT WHILST BATHING IN
THE LEA.—An inquest was held yesterday morning
before Mr. Baker, at the Coventry Cross, Bromley, on the
body of Robert Bengough, aged 17, a fancy toymaker. Thomas
Bengough said that on Sunday morning last he was passing
the end of the river Lea, near that place, when he saw his son,
the deceased, about to bathe. Witness advised him not to do
so, as the weather was then rather cold and the wind high ;
but his son persisted, and went in. He had not remained on
the bank long before he heard the deceased cry out that he
was entangled in the weeds and was drowning. Witness
7.ite dead. Verdict—Ac •
could not Swim, and was therefore unable to render him
as
least assistance, but he called loudly for help. A
a few seconds and jumped into the water,
could uncor seuicn
ceed in finding him before he r
cident al death.

AGED •
• ~ND DECAYED FREEHASONS.--The
annual festival in aid of the Asylum for Aged and De-
cayed Freemasons, will take place at the Freemasons' Tavern
on Tuesday, the 15th inst. We are glad to learn that this
useful institution is well supported by the brotherhood. Last
year there was a splendid meeting on the occasion, and we
have no doubt that on Tuesday next there will be an equal, if
'not a superior, display. Some excellent singers are engaged,
and judging from the past, there will be no lack of good speeches.
BRUSSELS, JUNE. 7.--Amorg the foreigners of
disiinciion who have lately arrived at Brussels, are Prince
Galitzin from St. Petersburgh,Baron Van Zuyieu,the marquis
' de Mortemmt, and the Prince of Salm Salm.

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ROUSE 6-17T043'—iiI0.1.irS, June 9.

The SPEAkEn tooVthealair at the usual hour.

The Totness 'Small Debts Bill, the Bourne Drainage
Bill, the London. and Greenwich Railway Bill, the Dublin
Wide S.treets Jai 11, the Woodside and Hoylake Road Bill,
and the Traler Navigation and Harbour Bill, were re-
t4lay's Estate Bill and the AtherSton Small Debts Bill
were read a second time.
The Drogheda Harbour Bill and Wemyss Estate Bill
were read a third time and passed.
The' lonia. Amendments to the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Bill auU Monkland Canal Bilr-were agreed to:
Sir MATTHEW WOOD presented a petition from
the Ward oe.Farringdon Within, in favour of the proposi-
tions of her AfaLiesty's Ministers. -
Sir R. BATESON presented two petitions from
Londonderry against Church patronage in Scotland.
Mr. VIVIA.N. presented a petition from Cornwall in
favour of a modification of the Import Duties.
Mr. GREIG pkesented a petition from Perth, signed by
4,000 inhabitants,in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. VERNO.NTresented a petition in favour of the
present Corn-laws.
_ _

Colonel G. LANC.I:-' TON presented several petitions in
favour of the reduction of the duties on sugar, timber,
and corn.

Mr. GILLON presented petitions from Ayr, Lanark,
Dumbarton, Falkirk, Biggar, Hamilton, Dundee, Glas-
gow, Edinburgh, Perth, and several other places, signed
by 7,000 persons, many of them emanating from large
public meetings, and signed by the chairman on their
behalf, all praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from an indi-
vidual complaining of ill usage from the Portuguese Go-
vernment ; also a petition. from the -old Dublin police,
praying for compensation ; and a petition from the Ca-
tholics of Dundee, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws
and of the import duties on timber and sugar.
Sir E. FILMER presented a petition from Kent
against any alteration of the Corn-laws.
Colonel SALWEY presented a petition from 1,314
inhabitants of Madeley and Broseley, in Shropshire,
agreed to at a public meeting, praying fora small fixed
duty on corn in lieu of the present fluctuating scale,
and in favour of the measures now before Parlia-
ment with respect to the import duties ; also pe-
titions from 1,982 inhabitants of Coalpit Bank,
Oakengate, and Ironbridge, Salop, for the immediate
abolition of the Corn-laws ; from Bridgnorth, to the
same effect ; and a petition from 460 females of Bridg-
north, praying the House to pass into a law the proposi-
tion recently made by her Majesty's Ministers in refe-
rence to the cruel Corn-laws, and thereby humanely
suffer them not to die the inhuman death of starvation.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented several petitions from the
counties of Monmouth and Montgomery, in favour of
the Corn-laws ; also twelve petitions praying for the
repeal of the Catholic Relief Bill ,• and a petition from
Leicester, praying that railways and canals might be pro-
hibited all traffic on the Lord's Day. •
Colonel SIBTHORP presented several petitions
from places in Lincolnshire against any alteration of_ the
Corn-laws.

Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented several petitions
from places in Kent against the proposal of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers for an alteration of the Corn-laws.
Mr. PHILIP HOWARD presented a petition from
the Catholics of Carlisle in favour of the measures of her
Majesty's Ministers with respect to the import duties on
corn, sugar, and timber.
Mr. CAVENDISH presented several petitions pray-
ing for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. CRESSWELL presented a petition from the Town
Council of Liverpool praying that certain clauses in the
Metropolitan Police Act might be made applicable to
the kingdom generally ; also, from the same body, pray-
ing that Liverpool might be made the station for the
American packets ; also a petition from the West India
merchants of Liverpool to the same effect.
Mr. W. DUNCOMI3E presented a petition from the
farmers of the North Riding of Yorkshire against any
alteration of the Corn-laws.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented petitions from various
districts in London, and from Leamington Priors, in
Warwickshire, praying for the liberation of all persons
confined for political -offences ; also a petition from an
individual in Nottingham, whose name we could not
catch, denying the allegations of the petition of Edward
Pellham Cox, and stating that gross bribery had been
committed at the last Nottingham election by the agents
of the sitting Member. As the subject was to be brought
under the consideration of the House tomorrow, he
hoped there would be no objection to have the petition
printed with the votes, • • •
Mr. ESTCOUBT, under the peculiar circumstances of
the case, saw no objection to the motion of the Hon.
Member.

The petition was then ordered to be printed,
Colonel ANSON presented six petitions from places in
Staffordshire, and a petition from Wednesbury, in Shrop-
shire, signed by 2,000 persons ; and another from Dar-
lington, signed by 2,000 persons, all praying for the re-
peal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the Pro-
testant Dissenters of Mttryport, and also fifteen petitions
from different parts of the metropolis, all praying for a
repeal of the_porn:litws. _ _ _ _

Mr. SOTHERON presented two petitions from parishes
in Wiltshire, in favour of Church Extension.

Mr. VILIAERS presented petitions from Mansfield,
Basford, and Langwith, in the county of Nottingham,
Devizes, Patney, and Great Cheverell, in the county of
Wilts, Aldbury, and Great I3erkhampstead, in the
county of Hertford, and Milnathort, Barnham, and
Moffat, Scotland, all praying for a total repeal of the
Corn-laws.

Mr. CLAY presented petitions from different parts of
the county of Middlesex, praying the House to pass the
Government measure for the alteration of the Corn-laws.
Mr. HINDLEY presented petitions from the A.hori,.
gines Society, complaining of the instructions given to
Colonel Gawler, the Governor of South Australia,
to the police of that colony to retaliate summarily on the
natives for the supposed murder by them of the crew of
the ship Adelaide. He was sorry the Noble Lord the
Secretary for the Colonies was not in his place* its he
wished to draw his attention to the petition,
Mr. F. MAULEpresented petitions from Edinburgh,
Perth, and various other places in Scotland, in favour of
the Government measure for an alteration in the duties
on corn, sugar, and timber ; also petitions from various
parts of the metropolis, praying for a repeal of the
Corn-laws.

- Lord J. STEWART presented a petition from some
place, the name of which we could not catch, praying
or a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. JOHN JERVIS presented a petition from Bangor
in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws,
Mr. DENNISON presented a petition from Epsom
praying for a removal of all taxes which pressed on the
food of the people ; also a petition from Pimlico praying
for the opening of the Waterloo and Vauxhall-bridges.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE *presented a petition from a
place in Forfarshire, praying for the release of political
offenders, and the adoption the people's Charter.
Mr. Ai of
STON presented a petition from a parish in Hert-
fordshire against any alteration in the present Corn-laws.
Mr. HINDLEY gave notice, that on the Order of the
Day being read for going•into Committee of Supply on
Friday next, he should bring forward a motion calling
the attention of the House to the injustice done to the
lower and middle classes of society by the existing sys-
tem of legislation, and especially by the present Corn-
laws.

Mr. WARD said, that as the Committee of the House
had reported that the Hon. Henry Thomas Manners
Sutton had been guilty of bribery at the last elec-
tion for Cambridge, he begged to give notice,
that on Friday next he would move that the At-
torney-General be directed to prosecute Mr, Swann and
another agent whose name we could not catch, and that
he also be directed to prosecute the Hon. H. T. M.
Sutton for bribery at the said election.—(Hear, hear.)
MR, O'CONNELL.
_ _ _

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON said he had to request the
attention of the House for a few moments to a matter
which was personal to himself.—(llear.) It would
be in the recollection of the House that in the debate
last week the Hon. Member for Dublin made an attack
upon the landlords of Ireland, in which he charged them
with harshness and cruelty to their tenants. It fell to
his (Mr. Sergeant Jackson's) lot to reply to the Ho-
nourable and Learned Gentleman ; and in doing so
he stated that he.had been informed that the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman. himself was guilty of harshness in
his treatment of his tenants. He asked the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman to deny that he had in the month of
April distrained his tenants for rents due in the preceding
March. All the Hon. Member (Mr. O'Connell) said was,
that if it were so, it happened without his knowledge, and
he would make inquiries about it. He (Mr. Sergeant
Jackson) felt it his duty now to read to the House a let-
ter that he had found on his table that morning. It bore
the post mark of Castle Connell, and was dated June 6,
1841. It came from the Mr. Twiss in question, and was
to the following effect :—" Dear Sir, I have read with
great 'pleasure the statement made by you in the House
of Commons on the night of the 3d of June inst., in
which you. stated that my notorious countryman, Daniel
O'Connell, distrained his tenants in the month of
April, 1838, for rent due the month before.
This I know to be the strict truth, and I
heard it from the distrainer, and all the tenants.
I was on a visit at the time at my friend James Butler's,
who lives within four miles of Derrynanc. I deem it
right to put you in possession of these facts, and you
are at liberty to make whatever use you choose of this
communication."
Mr O'CONNELL—What name ? _ _

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON—It is signed " Robert
Twiss." He was thus enabled to gratify the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman with the particulars he was so
anxious to obtain. He should likewise state that he
had that morning found the memorandum to which he
had referred, and which, as he had promised, he had
communicated to the son of the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman. It was as follows :—" April, 1838—Distress
by D. O'C., for rent due the 25th of March preceding.
Twiss."

Mr. O'CONNELL said that if ever there was an in-
stance in which the usual rule ought to have been fol-
107:ea, of not making attacks upon individuals without
first apprising them of it, the present was that case.
The Honourable and Learned Gentleman opposite had
made an attack upon him from no better information
than from that of a Mr. Twiss, whose Christian name he
did not know, and who had only come into his study,
and stated that he (Mr. 0 Connell) had distrained upon
his tenants. Now he would put it to any lion.
Member whether that was a ground for making such
a charge.—(Cheers.) The name of Mr. James Butler
had been introduced, and it had been stated that he
(Mr.. O'Connell) had claimed relationship with that gen-
tleman ; he denied that he had ever clone so ; but, at
the same time, he confessed that he should have been
proud of such an honour.—(" Hear, hear," and
cheers:)' "He. (Mr. O'Connell) pronounced the state-
ments in _the letter of
&L Mr.. TN.viss .to be an utter
ai:sad, _WTxd AT) IYakunosables those distraiuts
r • •

I had taken place in April, that he (Mr. O'Connell) should
• not have heard of them. Now he would ask who was
this Mr. Twiss ? He (Mr. O'Connell) thought that .at
one time he was a Magistrate, but he thought that he
was not si) now. If he was rightly informed, he believed
that gentleman had had considerable misfortunes in life :
that he had taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act. Such
was the person whose authority the Learned Sergeant
opposite had quoted against him, one who was
proverbial in Kerry for the inaccuracy of his state-
ments— (Cheers)--and who had a denomination at-
tached to his name which was not very creditable to
any Party—the appellation of " Lying Bobi Twiss," an
appellation, which he (Mr. O'Connell) believed he had
enjoyed fur the last twenty-five years.--A(Laughter.). As
he had said
_before he had never stated that Mr. Butler
was a relatiori of his. He should have been most proud if
he had been. He (Mr. O'Connell) would leave it to the
House to say, whether the Honourable and Learned
Member for Bandon had brought forward any ground
for the charge he had brought against him (Mr. O'Connell)
and that too without any intimation whatever to him. He
could easily account for the conduct of the Hon. and Learned
Member ; he had his motives and objects for what he had
done, and he was very near obtaining them.
. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON denied that he had opened
an office to receive complaints, but he could not prevent
gentlemen walking into kis study.—(oh !) He could not
have given the Hon. Member-notice, because he was not
aware that it was the intention of the Hon. and Learned
Member to bring forward the subject of the harshness of
the Irish landlords.

Mr. LOCKHART begged to ask whether it was the
intention of the Government to renew a circular they had
issued to the clerks of Justices of the Peace in Scotland,
to prevent their acting as political agents.
Mr. FOX MAULE said the Government had no
power to issue such an order at all. It was known that
many Justices' Clerks acted as political agents, and his
Noble Friend the Secretary of the Colonies issued a Cir-
cular stating that such conduct did not meet the approval
of the Government. Most of them intimated their in-
tention to refrain in future, but some- refused, and the
Government, he found, had no power to compel them.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the Orders of the Day
be read.

The first Order was for the second reading of the Col-
lege of Maynooth Bill, but as no Icon. Member made any
motion on the subjeet, it was passed over. •
DOG-CARTS BILL.
On the motion for going into Committee on the Dog
Carts' Bill,

Mr. PRYME opposed the motion; on the ground that
it was an interference with a humble class of traders:
He was glad to see his Right Hon. Friend the ChanCellor
of the Exchequer in the House. If his Right Hon..
Friend would consent to allow an ass to be used--(Loud
laughter)—it might seem very ludicrous to the House
to name the animal ; it might perhaps be more agreeable
to Right Hon. Gentlemen if he (Mr. P.) called the, tanimal
by the name of donkey.—(Loud laughter, which con-
tinued for several minutes.) What he meant to say was,
that if an ass were allowed to be used with the same
license as was paid for using a dog, it would tend ma-
terially to lessen the number of dog-carts, at least by
one-tenth, throughout / the country. He would con-
clude by moving that the Bill be committed this day six
months.

Mr. WARBITRTON seconded the motion, because he
was satisfied that it was a waste of the time of the
House to legislate on such trivial matters. Last year it
had been attempted to excite a feeling on the subject by
appealing to their humanity, and stating that the
dog was not proper for a beast of draught.
Surely those who had made such a statement must
have forgotten the Kamschatka dogs. The object of the
measure was to prevent persons possessed of small means
and in humble life; who could not afford to employ other
animals, from doing their best to gain a livelihood. If
the reason for putting down these carts was, that dogs
were small animals and liable to throw down horses,
then they ought to graduate the dimensions of all ani-
mals suffered to draw in the streets, and to prohibit
Shetland ponies.—{Hear, hear.)
Sir R. INGLIS was one of those whose name was on
the back of the Bill; and he considered it an honour to
have his name there.—(Hear, hear.). The opposition
came entirely from the political economists. The
Honourable Gentleman who moved the amendment
was Professor of Political Economy in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, and his Quixotical friend,
the Member for Bridport seconded it. The true way
to get rid of this subject would be to move for leave
bring in a Bill to repeal the clause in 'the Metro;-olitan
Police Act, for he could not understand on
ciple the dogs of the town should be planed in a different
position from the dogs in the Country.—{A laugh.)
The Lapland and Kamschs.tlia doffs drew on slow, and
not on a hard pavement. He Should support the Bill.
Mr. HUME said that, lie had been a member of the
Committee before which the evidence was taken, which
led to the proposal of this Bill. Upon the evidence adduced
before that Committee he would not give it his support. If
the question were one of humanity, why should donkeys
be allowed to be ridden ?—(llear.) He believed there
were no animals who were worse used than donkeys ;
and if the questior, were put on the ground of
humanity, the UM should be applied to them.
There was no doubt but any animals might be abused,
but that was no reason why they should never be em-
ployed. He therefore submitted that the case was one
which should be left to the good sense and to the humanity
of individuals.

Mr. EAST replied. He had introduced the Bill for
the purpose of suppressing those cruelties to dogs, which
took plat:* no less in the country than in town. It shWia
always be remembered that the feet of dogs were not
protected by nature so as to enable them to bear heavy
weights. The Bill was extremely simple, following closely
the provisions of the Metropolitan Act, but extending it to
the country. He hoped therefore the House would al-
low It to be proceeded with.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House diviaed, when there appeared,
For going into Committee
Against 1$
Majority
-1 1 1
The House then went into Committee.
On the first clause being proposed,
Mr. WARBURTON said that by that clause, if a child
were riding on a Newfoundland dog in a private garden,
a constable might enter the garden, take the parties be-
fore a single Magistrate, and have them convicted in the
penalties of the Act. Nay, if a dog drew a kettle tied to
his tt;.l.--(Loud laugh,ter)the case would come under
the provisions of the Act. The Act made no distinction
between public roads and private grounds. It was ab-
surd enough to legislate on the subject at all, but he put
it to the House whether they could tolerate such a
tyrannical absurdity as this enactment.
Colonel SALWEY opposed the Bill on the ground that
it would put an end to the sport of shooting. In his
opinion it was altogether an absurd attempt at legislation.
Mr. FOX MAULE proposed to strike out the words
" or carrying any burden."
The clause as amended was then agreed to.
On clause l being put,
Mr. FOX MAULE moved that the penalty, instead of
being 40s. for the first offence and 51. for the next, should
be reduced to ss. and 31.

Mr. WARBURTON complained of the summary ju-
risdiction with which it was proposed to invest the Ma-
gistrates.

The clause was then agreed to.
On the clause authorising constables to apprehend of-
fenders Wit'uout a warrant, and take them before a Ma-
gistrP:te, being put,
kr. WARBURTON proposed that it should be
():Hatted altogether.
Mr. C. BULLER said that a policeman had no power
to take up a person guilty of an assault without a war-
rant, but in the graver offence of employing a dog
to draw a cart it, appeared that he was to have the
power.—(Hear, and a laugh.) He complained of this
great legislative enactment that it was imperfect,
inasmuch as it made no provision for the objects of its
peculiar care. When they had taken up the man, what
did they propose to do with the dog?—(A laugh.) He
was deprived of his only natural protector, and did they
intend to leavelim to the wide world, without any food
but such as he could get without attacking any unfortu-
nate passenger?—(Cheers and laughter.) A Bill had
been brought in by a worthy Alderman some years since,
for the prevention of hydrophobia, which had been
treated with great ridicule by the Right Hon. Baronet,
the Member for Tamworth. One clause of that Bill em-
powered a constable to take up any mad dog.—(Roars
of laughter.) In consequence of various imperfections,
that Bill was referred to a Select Committee, the mem-
bers of which had, he supposed, been chosen for their
names. These were Mr. Lamb, Mr. Fox, and him-
self (Mr. " Bull"er)—(Loud and continued laughter)—
who was at the time a very young Member. That
Committee,, however, had elicited some most im-
portant medical testimony, from which it appeared that
hydrophobia was one of the rarest diseases known, and
that it never originated spontaneously, but was always
the consequence of absolute contagion. The Hon. Mem-
ber for Shoreham supported the measure on the ground
of humanity to bad riders, as dog-carts made horses shy
and unhorse gentlemen who were not very firm in their
saddles ; but if they were to legislate for the safety of
gentlemen who could not ride well, they ought to go
further. Many horses shied at a wheelbarrOw—(A
laugh)—and he never knew a horse who would pass a
knife-grinder's wheel without shying.—(Loud laughter.)
Therefore, if they wished to carry out their legislative
fdresight for gentlemen who could not ride well to the
full, they ought to follow up this great measure—(Loud
laughter)--by a Bill against knife-grinders' wheels and
wheelbarrows.—(Cheers and laughter.)
The clause was then agreed to, and the House
resumed.

DANISH CLAIMS.
Mr: MSSWELL moved :that the House do resolve
itself into a Comnaittee of the whole House, to address
her Majesty on the subject of the Danish claims.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it was undoubt-
edlyr true that a. resolution had been adopted by the
House for an address to the Crown on the subject of
these claims, the amount of which was somewhere
about 270,00 W. lie was sure it would be gratifying to
the House to afford relief to any persons who had sus-
tained loss; but he did not think they ought to vote
away so large a sum of the public money without taking
into consideration the circumstances under which these
claims were made. On the present occasion he felt that
the amount was or very little importance, compared
with the principle involved in it. The House
was no doubt aware of the general nature of these
claims. On two occasions lately it had been discussed in
that House. It appeared to him that the arguments
did not embrace the entire principle. The compensation
asked for on the present occasion was compensation for
the loss of certain ships and goods, which were seized by
the Danish Government, in 1807, in consequence of the
attack that had been made on Copenhagen by this coun-
try. About 30 years afterwards was the first time an
application was made to the House of Commons on the
subjec*. The first application was made for compensa-
tiaa for the loss sustained by certain individuals in the
confiscation of debts which bad been owing by Danish

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