The Sun.
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SUN, LONDON, Tli URSDAY EVV•ZING, JULY 27, 1840.

the Government, he was unable to say whether that
Bill would receive their sanction or not.
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

The adjourned debate on the London and South-
Western Railway Company's Acts Amendment (Exten-
sion, Deviation, and New Works) Bill, after a short dis-
cussion, was adjourned again until Monday.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. DRUMMOND thought that the Bill was an in-
different amendment of a bad measure. The great fault
of the Somerset House Commissioners was that they
treated paupers like abstractions, and carrying out the
poor-law in that way they had destroyed all sources of
private charity. He thought it would be a great mercy
and charity if landowners and farmers were to meet
together every autumn, and devise some kind of em-
ployment for the poor, which, though it might be
unprofitable in some cases, would be far preferable to
sending the people into the workhouse. The poor-law
had tended to abolish that direct interest which was
taken in the poor by landowners and others, and as it
was now carried out there was nothing but a vile system
of money. saving on the one hand and of cheating on the
other.

Mr. VERNON SMITH considered it would be ad-
visable, after the important statements and observations
which had been elicited from lion. Members, who were
well acquainted with the working of the Act in rural
districts, that that the Hon. Member (Mr. Charles
Buller) should not take up more of the time of
the House, but should at once withdraw the Bill.
this session. The House had for five years been at-
tempting to deal with this question of the law of settle-
ment, but instead of grappling with its great principle
they had, session after session, been dealing with it by
peicemeal. The present measure was not one of a com-
prehensive nature, and he did not consider that it would
lead to a final settlement of the question. Ever since the
days of Adam Smith it had been clearly proved that the
law of settlement was one of the greatest curses to the
poor of this country. He trusted that the Hon. Member
would adopt the suggestion to postpone the Bill until
next session, by which time his additional experience,
and the suggestions which had been made by Hon. Mem-
bers, would enable him to bring in a more comprehen-
sive measure.

Mr. BANKES said it was apparent to him that this
Bill would not pass into a law this session. He consi-
dered that the measure would be discussed more fairly,
and that the Hon. Member who had introduced it would
be better enabled to develop his plans, if it were post-
poned until next year.
On the motion of Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, the de-
bate was adjourned until to-morrow evening.
ECCLESIASTICAL UNIONS AND DIVISIONS
OF PARISHES (IRELAND).

This Bill was read a third time.
The House then adjourned until Five o'clock.

The SPEAKER resumed the Chair at Five o'clock, when
there was an unusually full attendance of Members.
FALSE RUMOURS.—STATE OF
IRELAND.

Mr. MONSELL shortly after one or two unimportant
petitions had been presented, rose amidst almost breath-
less silence, and said—Sir, seeing the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment in his place, I wish to put a question to him with
reference to tho rumours that have reached this city to-
day with regard to the state of Ireland.—(Sensation.)
I am happy to know that a great many of these rumours
are entirely false.—(Cheers.) And I am sure I only
express the feeling of the House when I say that a
more heartless or disgraceful rumour was never
perpetrated than that which has been cir-
culated to-day.—(Loud cheers.) I do not know
whether there is any means that the Right Hon.
Baronet could make use of to prevent the electric tele-
graph from being used for such disgraceful purposes,
but I am sure if the Right Honourable Baronet has
the power to do so, he will take care to prevent
a reurrence of these disgraceful practices.—(Cheers.)
The: question I wish to ask him first is, what accounts
ho has received from Ireland; and, secondly, do these
accounts confirm the statement that the whole of the
south of Ireland is in open insurrection?
Sir GEORGE GREY—I have great satisfaction in
stating that I have every reason to believe that the
alarming accounts which have appeared in the later
editions of the morning papers, and which were trans-
mitted this morning from Liverpool by the electric
telegraph, to the effect that an open insurrection had
actually broken out in the south of Ireland, are totally
destitute of truth.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, on re-
ceiving the first copy of the paper transmitted
to me containing the intelligence, said to have
been sent from Liverpool this morning, I dispatched
a letter to the Honourable Member for Stoke-upon-
Trent, to induce him to forward a communication by the
electric telegraph to the Mayor of Liverpool, requesting
to know from him what information had been received
in Liverpool from Ireland, and I received a dispatch
from that functionary by the electric ;telegraph, stating
that the information published this morning was accom-
panied from Ireland by a letter, of which the following
is a copy. The letter was dated Dublin, Wednesday
evening, and represented that Mr. Conway, of the Dublin
Evening Pa4t, had received from the Castle a
most dreadful rumour, which he was about to
published in a second edition of that paper. The writer
then went on to say that he took advantage of our
Queen's messenger going off at the moment for London
to forward the intelligence in a parcel to Messrs. Will-
mer and Smith of Liverpool, who no doubt would transmit
it to London by the electric telegraph. The Mayor of Li-
verpool about an hour after this further communicated to
me that he is perfectly satisfied that the Irish intelli-
gence, contained in the paragraph published in the
morning papers, is utterlyi untrue, unless Govern-
ment have received a dispatch from Lord Clarendon,
confirming it. He also states that a Queen's Mes-
senger certainly had arrived from Dublin by a
steamer this morning, and he left Liverpool by the
half-past six express train. Now, it is perfectly true
that a Queen's messenger was dispatched from Dublin
last night. I had sent him over with a dispatch, stating
that the Bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act had
received the Royal Assent, and be left Dublin with a
dispatch from the Lord-Lieutenant yesterday evening,
and arrived in London by the express train this morning
at half-pastone o'clock. This dispatch certainly describes
the state of the country in the neighbourhood of Clonmel,
Carrick, and Thurles to be dreadful, but in relation to
any actual outbreak it is perfectly silent, and makes no
mention whatever.—(Hear, hear.) I have seen the
messenger, and he states that he left Dublin at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, but he assures me that he
brought no parcel or letter for any party whatever.
The messenger is stated to have come over by a
special steamer from Kingston yesterday ; that he
started at three o'clock by the steamer which was
reported to have had the Queen's messenger on
board. Now, no Queen's messenger came over in
that steamer; but I have received letters from the Lord
Lieutenant, written after the departure of the Queen's
messenger yesterday afternoon, which contain no allu-
sion to those frightful accounts. lam also assured by
an Hon. Member that the Hon. Gentleman the Member
forTotnes left Dublin yesterday by the steamer which
leaves at seven o'clock, and that everything was tran-
quil when he left—that no rumour of the kind had
reached his ears when the steamer left the port. I
will only add that I certainly shall endeavour
to trace the wilful originator of the report.—(Loud
cheers.) I have now given all the information in my
power; and it enables me to concur with the Honour.
able Gentleman that these reports were fabricated fur
a wicked and malicious purpose. With respect to
the state of Ireland, I may only add, that by the
letters which I have receive from the Lord-Lieutenant,
it appears that Sir Charles Napier had arrived at the
port with his squadron—(Hear, hear)—with an able and
ample body of troops, who, I am sure, are always
ready to discharge their duty with unflinching bravery,
and who are, therefore, entirely free from the imputa-
tions which the reports circulated this day have most
unfoundedly cast upon them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HAMILTON considered that the Hon. Baronet
had sufficiently answered the question which had been
put to him. In the event of any partial outbreak great
:excitement would be the natural result ; and therefore
he thought it would, in such a case, be the duty of every
loyal Irish subject in this country to put himself at the
disposal of her Majesty's Government either for the
purpose of suppressing insurrection or tranquillising the
excited minds of that people.—(Hear, hear.) He there-
fore begged to ask whether it was the wish of the Go-
vernment that Irish Members now in London should at
lonce leave this country and immediately proceed to
their estates and the particular localities with which
they were connected, for the purpose of performing the
duty he had stated—(Hear, hear)—and if so, what
course the Government intended to pursue with r, espect
to Irish busineas

Sir G. GREY—Several gentlemen connected with
Ireland have called upon me in the course of the day,
and expressed their readiness to proceed at once to those
parts of Ireland where they considered their services
would be available in tranquilising the minds of the
people.—(hear, hear.) Although, as I have stated,
from the infornertion I have received from Liver-
pool, that I believe the rumour totally destitute
of information, yet in the excited state of the country,
where the insurrection is stated to have broken out,
I think Irish gentlemen of property, of character, and
of influence, cannot do better than proceed at ouce to
itheir country, and exert themselves to maintain the peace
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instructed
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inh e hear.)
My
nt Nobleof
f Irish Friend has
Mem-
bers leaving town, that he will not proceed with the
Landlord and Tenant Bill.
Sir ARTIIIIR BURKE considered that Irish Mem-
bers would do well by adopting the advice thrown
out. In the Ltorth of Ireland there were many well-

affected men, but if tit was necessary that they should
come forward in the defence of the country, he hoped
the Government would take the precaution to provide
them with arms and ammunition. He thought it
necessary to make this observation, since an impression
had gone abroad that they were well provided with
arms. Now they were totaay destitute of arms; they
were, in fact, without any means of defence what-
ever, except some old yeomanry muskets which were
altogether useless. Ho hoped the Government would
give them the means of defending themselves and their
country.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY here arose again, with a paper in his
hand, and said, I have since received a further communi•
cation from the same quarter on this subject. It states
that Messrs. Wilmer and Smith are the agents for the
London morning newspapers at Liverpool ; that a cab-
man, at seven o'clock this morning, drove
up to their office, and delivered to them a
parcel, which contained the news that had been
transmitted to the London papers, and which I have
read to the Housa, stating that it was to be sent by the
seven o'clock special, and that it was by special favour
pf the Queen's Messenger. He stated that he had rt.-
ceived it from a Queen's messenger.
Mr. HERBERT inquired when the Noble Lord in-
tended to proceed with the Landlord and Tenant Bill ?
Lord J. RUSSELL—I mean to postpone that Bill for
a fertnight; and in case Irish Members aro not in town
I certainly shall not proceed with it.—(llear).
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL considered that the Noble
Lord might ai well postpone it for six months, for
whether Irish Members were obliged to go to Ireland or
not, it could not be proceeded with this session.
SUGAR DUTIES.

The CHANCELLOR ortheEX CHEQUER, in
answer to a question from Lord George Bentinck, stated
that he proposed to go into Committee on the Sugar
Duties Bill on Monday next, and he would then state
the course he intended to pursue.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

A message from the Lord; informed the House that
their Lordships had, agreed to the following Bills:
Amendments to Ecclesiastical Districts Assignment—
Edinburghviation, without amendment—London and North-
viresternß aailnwdayß
(313thrgantstee Railway (Extension and De-
viation,
and Extensions from Lea-
mington, &c.)—Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway
(Amendment of Acts)—Dundee and Arbroath Railway
(Dundee Junction), With an amendment—Stirling and
Dunfermline Railway (Amendment and Deviations),
with Amendments.

LANDLORDS AND TENANTS (IRELAND) BILL.
In answer to a buestion from an Hon. Member,
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was not his intention to
proceed with this Bill-in the present session.
Several Members called upon the Noble Lord not to
postpone the measure to another Session.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not, consistent with his
duty, recommend the further proceeding with the Bill in
the absence of the Irish Members, who had been advised
to go immediately to Ireland to do all in their power to
put down the disaffection that prevailed in that country.
Mr. SCULLY wished to know whether the Govern-
ment, supposing Hon. Members went to Ireland, were
prepared to give to the people of that country that
benefit and protection which they had hitherto contu-
maciouslyrefused.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the first duty of
the Government was to put down insurrection in Ireland,
the Government were determined to do so, and that was
the only answer he could give to the Hon. Member.

CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL.
On the motion that the House should resolve itself
into Committee on this Bill,
Colonel SIBTHORP stated his determination to
oppose the further proceeding of the Bill, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.
(From the Dublin Pilot of Monday.)
Unfavourable reports continue to reach us front some
quarters of Ireland; but there are districts in which a
single symptom of the disease has not yet manifested
itself. The Tuam Heidi states that it has not been
found, on the minutest inquiry, that there is the least
ground for the apprehensions which had become so pre-
valent in the past week. There is an encouraging para-
graph in the Tipperary Free Press, and also in the Cork
Reporter, on this important matter. The country mar-
kets appear to be abundantly supplied with potatoes of
the very finest quality. In Tuam they are sold at 4d.
to sd. a stone, andin Cork from 6d. to Bd. a weight of 21
pounds.
We are happy to find these views corroborated by the
following extract from the letter of a highly respectable
Catholic clergyman:—
" SATURDAY, JULY 22.—Thinking that you would be
anxious to know the condition of the potato crop in this
part of the country, I have to say that, with a very few
exceptions, it promises well. Certain interested indivi-
duals are looking out for an excuse to circulate an wife-,
vourable report."
(From the Leinster Express.)
In our last we alluded to rumours which had been
circulated of the re-appearance of the potato disease of
1845-6, in various parts of Ireland. We have the utmost
satisfaction in recording our conviction that there is not
the slightest ground for apprehension. Against the few
isolated reports of partially discoloured leaves and tainted
tubers, we have to place the cheering and encouraging
accounts received from a vast number of localitie,, in
which no trace of the blight has manifested itself. All
the discouraging symptoms said to have been observed
are, we firmly believe, traceable to the effects of the
weather, or of diseased seed, or of improper cultivation.
The conductors of the Farmer's Gazette have, in the last
number of their valuable journal, published in a tabular
form the result of their inquiries relative to the whole of
the crops, issued by circular to a great number of locali-
ties throughout the country, and this result is in the
highest degree satisfactory. We compile from this table
the report from such of the districts iu our own vicinity
as are embraced in the return as follows:
BALLYCASTLE.—NO appearance of disease in potatoes.
The crop has a most healthy and luxuriant appearance.
About four times the breadth planted this year compared
with the last. The appearance of the wheat crop is a
little complained of. For the last seventy years the oat
crop never looked better.
BALLYNAIIiNCEI.--DISO se has appeared partially in
the potato crop even-in the fields. There are, however,
no grounds for alarm yet. Four to ono of an increase
planted. Wheat, oats, and barley look well.
BusnmthLs.—Not in any instance has disease appeared
in potatoes. Five times the amount planted over last
year. Wheat and oats an average crop.
COLERAINE.—The potato disease has not yet appeared.
A few tainted ones have been met with. The quantity
planted is four to one compared with last year. Wheat
and oats very good, but very long straw.
DONAGHMORE, COUNTY DOWN.—No appearance of
disease in the potato crop, which never looked healthier,
Or more luxuriant. About six times the extent planted
this year, as compstred with the former. Wheat looks
well. Oats from all appearance will be short in the straw.

DUNGANNON.—No appearance of potato disease. The
crops never looked better this time of the year. Fully
tentold more planted than last year. Wheat and ',oats
an excellent crop.
' DUNDIURRY.—In some districts a. trifling appearance
of disease in potatoes, but the crop generally appears
safe, and promises well. Quantity planted treble that of
last year. Wheat not as weighty as last year, but the
oats seem a fair average.

KILLINCILY.—In potatoes no appearance of disease.
The crop never looked more healthy. Fully five times
as many planted as last year. Wheat light compared
with former yearE. Oats a fair crop.
LARNE.—Tbe potato crop in general never presented
a more beautiful or promising appearance than it does
this season. Quantity planted equal to that of years
before the disease. Wheat and oats look extremely well.
Beans which are extensively cultivated, most promising.
LoUoHGALL.—No appearance of clisea.se in potato crop.
Four times as many planted as last year. Wheat and
oats first rate, with the exception of some wheat sown on
ground not fit to grow it.
Persons connected with this journal have had, during
the past week, opportunities of inquiring and examining
into the state .of the..crops. in the Queen's County, the
,county. of Kildare, and King's County. Asiregards the
potato, the accounts are varied; traces of disease are re-
ported in many districts, while in some the crop is
stated to present A most healthy appearance, and though
suffering from, high winds and other ordinary causes,
there is not the slightest symptom of taint. The other
crops are described as most luxuriant.
Sinee writing the foregoing, we have been shown' by
Mr. Turpin, Maryborough, a sample of the askleaved
kidney potato—a variety that has hitherto been but
little affected by diseaSe—in which the taint was plainly
developed Other fields in the neighbourhood of Mary-
borough, Stradbally, Mountmellick, and Mountrath, are
said tolbe extensively affected with disease similar to that
of the past year.

A COUNTERFEIT PRINCE.
Mention was made some time ago of an impudent
scamp
having swindled an old soldier by passing him-
self off as Prince Louis Napoleon. The fellow has since
contrived to keep out of the reach of the police; but
a middle-aged man, named Mialhe, a bookkeeper by
occupation, who introduced the swindler to the dupe,
was arrested, and was yesterday brought to trial be-
fore the Tribunal of Correctional Police. The dupe,
whose name is Chausse, and is now a weaver, related
that he fell in with Mittlhe at a club of old soldiers, meet-
ing in the Rued° Lancry, and that he there toldhim that
he was in communication with Prince Louis Napoleon. at
the same time showing him a manuscript address to the
electors, which he said was signed by the Prince. Some
time after he was drinking in a wine shop with Mialhe,
when the latter bolted out, and returned in some minutes,
accompanied by an individual who he made complainant
understand by signs was no other than Prince Louis
Napoleon. On this Chausse invited the Prince and
Mialhe to breakfast, and on the former graciously
condescending to accept it, the complainant made it,
as he expressed it, worthy to be ofered to the
nephew of the Emperor. In the course of the
breakfast the Prince asked him if ho had known the
Little Corporal, and the complainant answered with
great emotion, that he had that " immortal honour."
" Well !" said the Prince, " having known him,
you must recognise these," and lee showed him a
cross of the Legion of Honour, and another of the
Iron Crown, which, be said, had been worn by the
Emperor. On this the complainant, to use his own
words, " cried like a calf," and reverentially kissed the
Cross of Honour. After breakfast, the Prince accom-
panied him to his own house, and there dispatched
Mialhe to seek for some papers, giving him a warrant
under his hand and seal so to do. His Highness next
expressed a wish to partake of some Lyons sausages,
and the complainant procured him half a pound,
Princewhich thenh he dispatcheddtscovered withthat,
in
infinite
coming rferloismh. The
Auteuil
that morning on horseback (he had, he said, a

residence at Auteuil), he had torn his trousers, and the
complainant offered him a pair which he deigned to
accept, and the,Prince also condescended to receive a
waistcoat, a shirt, and two pocket handkerchiefs.
The trouble of dressing made the Prince thirsty, he
intimated that a bottle of wine would be acceptable,
and the complainant supplied them with one of the
best that could be found in the neighbourhood.
The Prince then showed an empty purse, and
graciously borrowed 31 francs from the complainant to
put it. Hearing that complainant's sister and some
friends had gone out fishing, the proposed to go and eat
the fish they had caught, as he said he adored fish. In
returning, he tried to borrow 300 francs from the com-
plainant, but, as the latter had not so much, ho
consented to accept 150 f. These were to be given
to him next day, but fortunately the complainant
was. warned by the prisoner himself not to ad-
vance the money, and he took the counsel. Shortly
after, the pretended prince, who had been seen reeling
about very drunk, disappeared. The prisoner contended
that he had not assisted in duping the complainant, and
that he himself had been deceived into believing that the
swindler was really what he pretended; and as his
warning to the complainant to keep his money seemed
to bear out this story, the tribunal acquitted him.—
Galignani's Messenger.

EXPENSES OF THE FRENCH GOYERNMENT.—The
following is the expose des motifs of the proposed decree,
presented by the Minister of Finance, for paying the ex-
penses of the Chief of the Executive Government, President
of the Council of Ministers :—" The National Assembly, by
decree adopted in the sitting of July 4, fixed the salary of
the President of the Council of Ministers at 10,000 f. a
month during the existence of the powers conferred on
him by the decree of Juno 24 preceding. But, inde-
pendently of this personal allowance, the expenses of
administration arising from the Secretary's depart-
ment, and the private bureau of the Chief of the
Executive Government, to which must be added the
expenses of printing publications and subsciptiona,
have to be provided for. These expenses, which are in-
herent to the exercise of the extraordinary powers con-
fided in General Cavaignac, and which could not pre-
viously have been provided for in the budget, now
demand a special vote of the Chamber. They are esti-
mated, as appears from the subjoined return of the per-
sonnel and materiel, at 15,0001'. a month. I come, citizen
representatives, by orders of the Chief of the Executive
Government, to submit these expense to you, and to de-
mand the necessary authorisasion to pay the first month,
about to become due. Such is the object of the decree
which I have the honour to propose to you to adopt."
The return referred to is as follows :—" Personnel.—
Cabinet of the Secretary-General and redaction
—An employe, 300 f. ; five employes, at 250 f.
Publicity.—Chef de Service, 500 f. ; tour translators,
at 250 f.; two copying clerks, at 250 f. and 200 f. Buis-
alas and garcons de bureau. —One huissier, at 1801', four
at 100 E—three garcons de bureau, at 83f. 83c. Total,
4,258 f. 32c. Materiel—Subscriptions to French and
foreign newspapers, 200 E; publications, impressions,
Moniteur, placards, 10,000 E; carriage expenses of the
employes of the secretaryship, 300 E; different expenses,
214 f. 68c. Total, 10,7141'. 68c., and general total,
15,0001."
DISCIPLINE IN THE FRENCH ARMY.--Four fusi-
liers of the 69th Regiment of the line were tried and.
convicted by court-martial in Paris, on Monday last, of
disobedience to their superior officers, and sentenced to
from one to two years' imprisonment. The offence was
committed on the Bth of March last, at Guise, where a
detachment of the 69th had been dispatched to arrest
some dangerous highwaymen. The expedition having
terminated successfully, the Mayor of the commune in-
vited the non-commissioned officers to take coffee, and
supplied the privates with cider. The privates were
displeased at the distinction made between them and the
officers, and saying that, under a Republic, all men were
equal, they declared that they would not march until
coffee had been served for them. A sergeant having
remonstrated with the men, they returned to their,duty,
with the exception of tho four fusiliers, who were im-
priioned; and, on the arrival of the regiment in Paris,
they were handed over to the military authorities.
PUN UPON Pox.—" Why is an honest man like a
carpenter?" said one gentleman to another. " I can't
tell," was the answer. " Why, because he is a plain
dealer." " Ah! I see it now, you have made it a deal
plainer," was the reply. .

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A GOLD LADY.— A fine gold lady's breast-pin'
is advertised as lost in an American paper. A bachelor
makes the inquiry if she is a single gold lady," and is
willing to be changed?
VANITY.—A drunken north countryman, returning
from a fair, fell asleep by the roadside, where a pig found
him, and began to lick his mouth. Sawney roared out,
" Who's kissin' me noo? Ye see what it is to be weel
liket amang the lassea."
PLEASURES OF MATRIMONY.—In one place Richter
says:—" No man can either live piously, or die righteous,
without a wife." A very wicked old bachelor of our
acquaintance says to this:—" 0 yes! suffering and severe
trials purify and chasten the heart."
At the time the Vatican was built, niches were
left for statues of the Popes. All these have been filled
except one, and some persons argue, from the signs of
the times, that the one niche will be all that will be
required.
ADVICE Fon MOTHERS.—The Spaniards have a
saying, " At eighteen marry your daughter to her supe-
rior; at twenty to her equal; at thirty to anybody that
will have her."

AN INTELLSGENT NEGRO —A negro, while under-
going an examination at Northampton, Massachussetts,
on being asked if his enast,r was a Christian, replied,
":No, Sir, he's a member of Congress."—American Paper.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-H 0 USE.

The justice•room was yesterday crowded with corn.
mercial gentlemen, in consequence of the appointed
examination of Messrs. Edward and Henry Hagan,
charged with having conspired to defraud Messrs.
Young, Dowson, and Young, by false pretence, of copper
to the amount of nearly 500/. Mr. Parry appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine for the defendants,
and Mr. Mellor attended to watch the case on the part
of Mr. De Sussex, whose name was mixed up with the
transaction.

Mr. Parry, in stating the case nearly according to the
subsequent evidence, said it was one of a very serious
nature, considered both as to the character of the trans•
action and the amount of the property, and he ex-
pressed his regret that he was obliged to bring such
an accusation against gentlemen who had hitherto con-
ducted their business with the highest honour and
respectability. It would appear from the evidence, that
the goods of which the prosecutors had been defrauded,
were got from them at a time when the defendants
were well known to be insolvent, and disposed of
in the London market, although obtained ostensibly
for the purpose of being shipped for Australia, and
the transaction was conducted in such a manner in all
its details, as to leave no doubt of the fraudulent inten-
tion of the accused.

Mr. Mellor begged at the outset to state, that Mr.
De Sussex, the gentleman for whom be attended to
watch the case, was most desirous to throw all the light
he could on the matter, and to show to all parties that
his conduct had been fair and open in the transaction,
and that in no instance had he committed or imagined
the slightest injustice or irregularity.
Mr. PARRY—.I shall certainly not call Mr. De Sussex
as a witness.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to examine evi-
dence.
Mr. Joseph Dowson, partner in the house of Young,
Dowson, and Young, copper merchants at Limehouse,
said—l had never seen Mr. Edward Hagan until the
time of his calling at our counting-hous:. in George-
yard, Lombard-street, a few days before the 15th
of April, to inquire the price of " co er. I
quoted the price of the day, and askedi him whether
it was for a shop or for shipment. e I replied that
iv it'as for shipment. He then asked the terms na
to credit or discount. I quoted the terms, and he said
he would take the credit, for ho was in the habit of ship-
ping these things to his brother in Australia. He gave
the order. I think I have seen this letter (signed E.
and H. Hagan, and inquiring the terms) in my count-
ing-house after I had the interview with him, but I do
not know whose writi tng think I saw him once
again, but nothing particular occurred then, but that the
order was confirmed. I never saw him since.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantine.—We had busi-
ness, I believe, with him two or three years ago. No
firm stood higher in the city of London. It was a firm
of very high standing and reputation. I have been in-
formed they have gone into the Gazette. I have not
ascertained that we aro scheduled. [Here a letter of
the witness's firm was produced, upon looking at which
ho said the former transaction to which he had alluded
was with the defendants, and not with their father, who
died on the 12th of April, 1843.1
Mr. E. Coleman, clerk to the prosecutors, said—l
called at Mill•street, Bermondsey, on the 15th of April,
to inquire where the defendants were to be found. I did
not see them there.
Mr. Frederick Young said—ln reference to this trans-
action, I have to state that I saw Mr. Edward Hagan at
the Australian Mining Company's offices, No. 1, Ade-
laide-place, London-bridge, in consequence of a letter
dated 14th of April. The letter was merely to ascer-
tain whether we or they should lighter the sheathing,
and I called to answer that question, and promised to let
him have the duplicate warrants. He said that they
perhaps had better send their own craft to Garford's
wharfs. I said, " Very well, the copper shall be ready
on the Wednesday next." On the 7th of June I again
saw the defendant, Edward Hagan. I was at my count-
ing-house, and he called about threein the afternoon,
and stated that he wished to speak to me. The first re-
mark he made was, " I suppose you have heard what
has happened to us?" I said, " No, I have not; but
I do not think it is necessary for you to say. I sup-
pose you have stopped payment." He said, "Yes, we
have been compelled to suspend payment, as we
have been very unfortunate. Within the last two or
three years we have lost 30,0001." Ho then said he
thought our ease a very hard one, and that if we would
accept the composition they were prepared to offer, he
would feel bound in honour to pay our debt in full. I
believe I replied that if he should be in such a position,
we would be much obliged to him for doing as he men-
tioned, but I could only deal with it as a composition,
and should ascertain more particulars at the meeting of
the creditors.
Mr. Parry—Did you know at the time what had be-
come of the copper with which you had supplied the
firm? Witness—l was in perfect ignorance as to what
had been done with it. The amount was 4801. 1 believe
the letters of the 11th and the 14th of April are in the
same handwriting, and written by Mr. Edward Hagan's
authority.
Mr. Ballantine—l do not hesitate to admit that they
have been written by Mr. Edward Hagan's authority,
and I take this opportunity to declare most positively,
that whatever culpability may attach to the transaction,
Mr, Henry Hagan knew nothing on earth about it until

the whole was concluded, and that he is perfectly inno-
cent, morally and legally.
Robert Jacks, of Princes-road, Rotherhithe, Waterman,
said—ln April last I was in the employment of Mr. John-
son, lighterman. I received instructions from him to go
to Gas ford's wharf to receive packages of copper, and I
received fourteen cases and five casks there. I took the
copper to St. Katharine's Docks, and left it there in the
barge, the men not being able to take it out upon my ar-
rival there.

Mr. Robert M‘Gregor, clerk in the St. Katharine's
Docks, produced the receiving note of the copper, and
the order for the warrants. It was, he said, now in the
docks.

Mr. William Askell, of Church-row, Homerton' said,
I know the defendants. I was clerk to Mr. De Sussex,
and in April I was on the point of leaving him. Mr.
Edward Hagan was frequently at Mr. De Sussex's offices,
and Mr. Henry Hagan was occasionally there.
Here Mr. Mellor objected to a course of examination
evidently intended to reflect upon Mr. De Sussex, who
was ready to state all he had had to do with the transac-
tion, but whom the counsel for the prosecution wa. afraid
to call.

The LORD MAYOR at once overruled the objection.
Witness—From the Ist to the 20th of April I had
seen Mr. Edward Hagan at Mr. Dc Sussex's► offices. I
have no recollection of having seen Mr. Henry Hagan in
the course of that time. About tho 19th or 20th of
April Mr. Edward Hagan applied to me about this cop •
per. He informed me he was going to send some goods
into the St. Katharine Docks, and would take it as a fa-
vour if I would allow it to be landed in my name, and
their warrants made out for them, which I then under-
stood to he copper. I immediately consented, and said
if my principal, Mr. De Sussex, had no objection, I
should be most happy to accede to his request. I con-
sulted Mr. De Sussex on the subject, and the copper was
landed in my name, and an order given for the warrants.
I believe this (the delivery order for five casks) to be Mr.
Edward Hagan's handwriting.
Mr. Parry said—That is the case, as I am able to pre-
sent it at present. There is no imputation at all in this
transaction against Mr. Henry Hagan, but I submit that
a prima facie case of conspiracy and false pretences has
been made out against the other defendant.
Mr. Ballantine vaid he had no reason at all to com-
plain of the manner in which the case had been brought
forward. His client, Mr. Henry Hagan, stood exone-
rated, whatever irregularities his brother might be
charged with. No doubt he was as much surprised at
hearing of the transaction as the public were, who knew
the respectable station of the firm. Of Mr. Edward
Hagan be was perfectly justified in saying, that however
improperly he had acted on the occasion, there was no
criminality in the course he had pursued.
Mr. Young was again called, and questioned as to
whether his firm would have given the copper if they
believed it was intended for use in the English market?
He replied that they would in such a case have ascer-
tained the name of the vessel to be sheathed, and their
suspicions being likely to be excited upon the inquiry,
they would not have given the credit. He at the same
time admitted that the credit was given upon the high
character of the house.

Mr. Ballantine—Would you have hesitated to trust
them with 5001. worth of property, any more than you
would have hesitated to trust the Lord Mayor? Wit-
ness—No,

Mr. Parry then applied to the Lord Mayor to remand
Mr. Edward Hagan.
Mr. Ballantine submitted that there was no evidence
to justify a remand, He very ably commented upon
the statements made by the principal witnesses, and he
described the conduct of Mr. Edward Hagan as the
struggle of a person who was, about two or three years
ago, in possession of 30,000/., to keep up the character
of the respectable firm to which he was attached. be-
lieving, that by active exertions, ho would be enabled
to overcome all the difficulties by which he was sur-
rounded, and to which he bad at last fallen a victim.

The LORD MAYOR discharged Mr. Henry Hagan, and
bound over, Mr. Edward Hagan in his own recog-
nizances in 50L, to appear on the 16th of August at
the Mansion House, to answer the charge of Messrs.
Young and Co., and other charges of a similar kind,
involving property of a very considerable amount.
Mr. Ballantine said that Mr. Henry Hagan would also
attend on the 16th of August, and
Mr. Mellor intimated that Mr. De Sussex, who was
anxious for inquiry into all the, particulars, would be
likewise in attendance.
SOUTHWARK.

Rebecca Gardner was brought before Mr. Seeker, on
a charge of intermarrying with William Lawson, a de-
signer, her former husband being still alive.
The complainant, Lawson, stated that he became ac-
quainted with the prisoner, who is a Scotch woman, and
after a short courtship they were married at St. George's,
Southwark, on the 13th September, 1848. (Certificate
produced.) That some time afterwards he was visited
by.some of his relatives from Glasgow, who on being in-
troduced to his wife recognised her at once as a woman
named Gardner, who had a husband living in that city. She
denied the fact, but upon further inquiry being instituted
his suspicions were confirmed, and he gave the prisoner
into custody. About three weeks ago she was brought
up to this court, and the evidence of the Scotch marriage
not being sufficiently strong the case was postponed, and
the prisoner adjudged to enter into recognisances.
Donald Murray, summoning officer of this court,
stated that he proceeded to Edinburgh, and procured the
copy of the certificate of the marriage of the prisoner
to Daniel,Gardner, now produced.
Robert Matthie stated, that about six years ago he
was called upon by Gardner to accompany him as wit-
ness to a marriage between him and the prisoner. That
he proceeded with the parties to the residence of a jus-
tice of the peace in Glat,gow, where the nuptuals took
place. While they were in the house the bride's mother
rushed in, and by force dragged her daughter away.
The witness added that he was under the influence of
liquor at the time, and that his recollection of that
passed was rather indistinct. He, however, remembered
signing a book. In the witness's cross-examination he
said that he remembered the justice saying something
about sending out for whisky on the day of the marriage
ceremony. _ .

Mrs. Elizabeth Inglis said that in 1842 her daughter
(the prisoner) was then fourteen years of age, and that
having received information that she had left home in
order to be married clandestinely to a man named Gard-
ner, she (the mother) hastened to the house of the jus-
tice, at Glasgow, to stop it. She (the mother) arrived
there at nine o'clock at night, and found all the parties
had just got in before her, She seizt d her daughter
and brought her away, and at the same time remon-
strated with the parties for acting in such a manner ;
that her daughter assured her that no marriage had taken
place, and went back to live with her. The witness added,
that even if the marriage had taken place, it was never
consummated, for her daughter remained under the same
roof with her until she came up to London some years
afterwards.
George Ross stated he was a native of Glasgow, and
that on the night of the 2d July, 1842, ho accom-
panied Daniel Gardner and Rebecca Inglis to get mar-
ried. That when they entered the house where the
ceremony was to be performed, the justice desired
Gardner to send out for a pint of whisky, saying at the
same time that if ho did so they would have a drop to-
gether, and that be would "splice' him and Miss Inglis
together the next morning. Gardner assented, the
whisky was sent for, the justice was giving them
"John Anderson my jo," when in rushed Mrs. Inglis,
who upset everything, and without waiting to inquire
what had taken place, dragged her daughter away from
the house. The witness added that the intended mar-
riage did not take place; that Mat thie (the first witness)
was drunk all the time, and could not be supposed to
remember what really did take place.
In reply to a question, the witness said the justice
(Mr. Hamilton) was since dead.
Mr. SECKEA said that the evidence produced in sup-
port of the charge was of such a doubtful nature that
he should not be justified in sending the case before a
jury.
The accused was then discharged.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
On Tuesday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.

TEE POOR-LAW.

Upon the motion for considering the report delivered
on the 2d of May, on the communications respecting the
West Loudon Union, and the report of the Commissioner
of Police thereon, ,
Alderman COPELAND rose to represent the necessity
which in his opinion existed for conferring with Mr.
Buller, the Poor-law Commissioner, upon the subject
of the condition of the city of London, with regard
to the influx of the poor. He did not see how it
was possible for the magistracy of London to endure
the conduct of the officers who were appointed to
officiate at the unions. Ho disapproved altogether
of the course adopted by the city of London
Union, in sending poor creatures, exhausted by fatigue
and hunger, to Peckham, upon their application for aid.
He was aware that deception was constantly practised
by those who applied, but the order for Peckham ap,
peered to be the remedy in every instance for every
complaint, and the subordinates uniformly de-
clared that they were prohibited by those who
controlled them from contributing in any other way
to the relief of these necessitous claimants. As the
poor-law was about to undergo alteration, he thought it
would be advisable to seek a conference with Mr. Buller
upon the question of the embarrassments which the
magistrates of London had to encounter, before further
proceedings were taken.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir PETER LAURIE suggested the propriety of refer-
ring the subject to the Gaol Committee, with the view of
obtaining a conference with Mr. Buller.
Alderman SAD:OWNS thought that some statistics
should be got ready. He believed that the metropolis
required a system of regulations for the poor different
from that which it might be wise to adopt for a rural
population, and he considered that the course generally
adopted by magistrates in the treatment of the poor was
more conventional than legal, owing to the anomalies of
the existing law.—(flear, hear.)
Alderman CHALLIS had good reasons for supposing
that ➢ir. Buller would be glad to receive information
from the magistrates of London on the subject of the
operation of the existing law. He could not describe
the West London Union house as other than a pest
house, in which the poor were crowded together in the
most inhuman manner. For that there must be soave
remedy.
The further consideration of the report was adjourned,
and a direction was sent to the Committee to seek a con-
ference with Mr. Buller on the subject of the projected
alterations.
DISPOSAL OF THE CITY CASH EY THE COURT 011
ALDERMEN.
The following report upon the subject of limiting the
power of the Court of Aldermen to draw money from the
Chamberlain, was then read.—
" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your
Committee of Privileges, do certify that this Court having,
on the 4th of December last, agreed with our report,

after conferring with the Coal,'Corn, and Finance Com-
mittee, in respect of a proposed Bill to be introduced
into the Court of Common Council, limiting the power
of this Court to draw Upon the Chamberlain, which
report recommended this COurt' to pass stringent
standing orders, as binding upon them as those which,
had been agreed to for the regulat:on of the Court
of Common Council, and referred it to us to
prepare such standing orders as we should think
expedient, we have proceeded in the. consideration of
such standing orders as appeared to us desirable, and
after referring to the existing orders of this Court upon
the subject, and all the standing orders of the Court of
Common Council, connected with the expenditure of the
City's cash, we have framed certain standing orders for
the regulation and government of the Court in that re-
spect, which we have annexed to this report, and recom.
mend for adoption. •
" At the same time we feel it our duty to advert to the
27th standing order of the Court of Common Council,
directing the Chamberlain not to pay any money for
any charges or expenses for any visitation or
journey by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, or any
other branch of the Corporation, either tor
the purpose of conservancy or otherwise, when
such visit or journey shall- be beyond the boundary of
the jurisdiction of the City, without the previous
authority of the Common Council, upon motion for that
purpose, and to draw the attention of this Court to the
same as interfering with their undoubted and long
exercised right of drawing upon the Chamber according
to their discretion.

" SAMUEL WILSON.
THOMAS CHALLIS.
JOHN JOHNSON.
THOMAS SIDNEY."
STANDING ORDERS OF THE COURT IF ALDERMEN IN A-
SPECT OF THE CITY'S CASH.

"As often as there shall be occasion for any Com-
mittee of this Court to disburse any sum of money ex-
ceeding 100/. out of the Chamber, this Court shall be
first consulted, and its assent had thereto.

" No bill exceeding 1001. shall be paid without the
special direction of the Court, unless the business charged
in such bill shall have been previously consented to by
the Court.

" No extraordinary work shall be undertaken which
may incur expense, whereby the funds of the. Corporation
may be in any manner charged or affected, unless the
matter shall have been first submitted to a Committee of
this Court for them to consider and report.
No Committee appointed by this Court shall enter-
tain any petition which may affect the cash or estates of
this city unless referred to them by this Court, nor alter
the terms, nor suspend the duo and faithful performance
of any contract or agreement entered into) by any person
or persons within the city ; but shall first report the cir-
cumstances and their opinion to this Court, and obtain
its sanction for the same.

" Every question proposed, which in its consequences
may affect the estates or funds of this city, whether upon
a report from any of the Committees appointed by this
Court, or amendment thereon, or otherwise, if not first
inserted on the summons for the Court (stating the
amount, in case of a grant of money) shall be ad-
journed to the next Court, and then (after having
been so inserted in the summons) be taken into con-
sideration.

" That no gratuity exceeding 25/. be granted unless
notice of the proposal be first given on the printed
summons.

That no amount be ordered for payment until ex-
amined in Committee, and certified by the chairman to
the Court of Aldermen as correct.

" That no report from a Committee which advises the
addition of any sum or sums of money to the salary of any
officer connected with this Conrt, the various prisons, or
any other place in the care of this Court,- be received,
unless previous notice be given on the summons for the
Court, stating the addition proposed to be made to the
salary, as the case may be.
" That for the future the bills ordered for payment at
each Court of Aldermen shall be signed by two Alder-
men (instead of one); also, before they sign the genie,
are requested to satisfy themselves .as to the authority
by which the work has been done, whether the contract,
it any. has been complied with, and strictly to eitatnit;to
the bills presented to them ; and where there is no con-
tract, to be satisfied the prices charged are fit and
proper."

The report was unanimously agreed to, and the regu-
lations were adopted without comment.
The following motions were also agreed to without
discushion:—

" That the Lord Mayor be requested tollay before the
City Common Council copies of the reports of the
Grand Juries as entered in the book of the Governor of
Newgate. _

"'That it be referred to the Privileges Committee to
consider the question with reference to the opening the
Mayor's Court, with power to confer with the Common
Council Committee on the same.

"That the claims for the expenses incurred on the 10th
of April, and sent into the Town Clerk, for the purpose
of keeping the peace, be paid."
The Court then adjourned.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULT 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was very little business done
to-day, the market being stationary; prices were however
maintained.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 26.
STOCK EXCHANGIL—The :market is again a shade lower,
and but little business doing. The sales are—Lancaster and
Carlisle, Thirds, 1j p.— Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
11,4 dis.— London and North-Western, New Quarters, 114 p.
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference,
10—Midland Stock, 101j4—Ditto, New llalves, 614 dis.—
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 3 dis.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 p.
MANCHESTER, JULY 26.
Smolt Excaswaft.—The sales are—Birkenhead. Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7>4
Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire. Pre-
feren t la's (B), 1 dis. —Caledon ian, Preference, %
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 32/. Shares (late Extension), 7 c.
dis.—Ditto, 10!. Preference, 6 per cent., % c. p.—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, le/. Preference, 10%
Ditto (Grimsby), 20/. Shares, 8% dis.—Ditto, ditto, 12!. 10s.
Shares, SIA —.North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South„Enters
and Dover, No. 4,23 p dis.
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 26.

STOCK Excite:ill/C.—The sales are—Midland, 1034—..
Birmingham Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 31/2 dis.---
North btatloLshires, 58s. 9d.—North British, Thirds, 365. 3d.
HULL, JULY 26.

STOCK EXCHANGE —`The sales are—North British, Quar-
ters, s—Ditto, Thirds, 525. 3d.
GLASGOW, JULY 25.

STOCK EXCHA NOK.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefe-
rence, 593.—Edinburgh and Perth, 16s. 9d.--Glasgow, Kil-
marnock, and Ayr, Halves, No 1, 71/2—Ditto, No. 2, 71. 93.
—Great Northern, 6/. 4s.—North British, Thirds, 533.91
Scottish Grand Junction, 7s.—Slamannan, 181/2.

[ADvEansEmENT.3 Extraordinary Efficacy of
Holloway's Pills in the Cure of a fearful case of Dropsy.
—The wife of Mr. W. Gardner, of Hanging Houghton,
had been most dreadfully afflicted with dropsy—so bad
that she was confined to her bed, and tapped three timeo
in the course of a few months: she had then recourse to
Holloway's Fills, and by steady perpeveracce, and
strict adherence to the system laid down in the printed
instructions, the disease was conquered, and for eigh-
teen months past there has been no accumulation 01
water. She can walk about with the greatest ease and
comfort, and is daily gaining flesh and strength. Sold
by all Druggists, and at Protessor Holloway's Establish-
ment, 244, Strand, London.
TILE PORT or BRISTOL.—The Bill rendering
Bristol a free port has become the law of the land. The
several classes of shipping denominated "foreign," which
DOW pay respectively 3s. and 25., are only to be liable to
pay ls., and that class which now pays Is. only 6d. The
charges on Irish and those coasting vessels subject to
tonnage rates, such rates now being, on Irish vessels Bd.
and upon coasters 6d., to be lowered to 4d. per ton. All
dock dues on goods imported from Ireland are also
abolished by the uew Act, placing the Irish on a level
with the coasting trade.
MAURlTlUS.—Yesterday, on the application of
Mr. Ilume, some accounts relative to the amount of re-
venue and expenditure of the island of Mauritius. were
printed in a parliamentary document. From the Ist De-
cember, 1811, to 1831, the total paid by her Majesty'.
Government, until the island defrayed its own civil e'
periditure, was 688,6781. 7s. 10J., in addition to which,.
in the same period, the East India Company paid507,456/. The local Government, in 1846, collected an
received as
d athse samereven yearue26 .rare 22
5,6411.169:
12 2d.,.91. 5
lanscl. 9d.the
For disburse'
iin
urse:
meats
migration purposes in 1846, 62,3981. 9s. 2id was receiredi
and the sum expended was 41,5171. 16s. 6d.
The Duke of Leeds and the Hon. Stafford Jerning'
ham have returned to London from attending the Molt'
ing parties at Loo, Holland.