The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-13 00:00:00

kinds very little was doing. Beef frQui 2s 4d to 3s Gd ; :Mutton,
to 4s ; Lamb, 4s 8(1 to 5s 8d ; Veal, is 6,1 to 4s dd ; and Pork,
3s Gd to 4s 8(.1 per 81bs, by the carcase.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVEIZAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
for the Week ended 'Aug. 8, 18-16, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in ENgland and \\"wit s
per Imperial Quarter.

WHEAT- BARLEY. OATS. RTE. BEANS. PEAS.
I'IIICE ..: 433 2,1 26s Sd 243 Od 29s 8d 39s 8,1 333 3d
DUTY... Ss Od 4s Od Is 6,1 4s Od I 4s Oct I 4s Od

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.

The following reports wore brought up and agreed to :
—Booth's Charities (or CloweE.-;') Estme Bill ; Duke of
Cleveland's (Bathwick and Wrington) Estate Bill ; Duke
of Cleveland's (Hardwick Hart, &c.) Estate Bill ; Horne's
(Ferguson's) Estate Bill ; Lord Kenyon's (Congreve's)
Estate Bill ; Scott's Estate Bill.
ALL SOULS' COLLEGE ESTATE.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
FARQUARSON'S DIVORCE.

This Bill was read a second time.
CORK AND WATERFORD RAILWAY.

Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from
Waterford against the Bill for this line, and stated that
the Member for Kerry had presented a petition from
the shareholders in favour of the Bill, which was to be
referred to the Committee which meets to-morrow. That
petition complained of the allegation that the cer-
tificate was invalid. Now he held in his hand a
scrip certificate numbered 48,600, while the whole of
the shares in the company, according to the company's
regulations, were only 41,000, so that on the very face
of it there was sufficient to justify the assertion, that the
certificate of the company was falsified. He thorefore
moved that the petition of subscribers and holders of
scrip in the Cork and Waterford Railway Company,
against the validity of the sessional meeting held on the
25th day of May, and the certificate of the chairman
grounded thereon, presented August 12, be referred to
the Committee on the Bill, together with said certificate,
with liberty for the petitioners to be heard, pursuant to
the prayer of the petition, and for the Committee to re-
port specially thereon.
CORRESPONDING SOCIETY.

Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from a per
son named Lemaitre, who had been a member of the
Corresponding Society, and complaining that he had
been the victim of conspiracy. The petition stated that
in 1794 he was, when in his eighteenth year, living with
his parents, his father being a watchmaker. That while
a member of the Corresponding Society ho had sub-
scribed to the fund for the defence of John Horne Tooke,
Thelwall, and Hardy. These funds were partly
paid into the hands of a person named Upton,
who kept a small shop in Bell-yard, whom
it was discovered had been prosecuted by the
Phcenix Assurance Office for setting fire to his
own house. On finding this out, on the motion of
Lemaitre, this man Upton was expelled from the society.
Upton declared that he would be revenged, and soon
found an opportunity for his resentment. This was in
August, 1794, and in that very month he made a com-
municatiun to the Privy Council accusing himself,
with Lemaitre and another, of a conspiracy to
shoot the King with a poisoned arrow from
a frame which ho had himself seen that morning.
On this charge he was apprehended and com-
mitted to Newgate, where he was confined for nine
months, without any connexion or communication what-
ever with his friends. At the end of this period he was
released on his own recogniaances. Upton went over to
France, from which place he returned on an exchange
of prisoners of war, and on his arrival again renewed
his charges. Upon these Mr Lemaitre surren
dered himself, and was brought to trial. On
the morning of the trial the wife of Upton
appeared in widow's weeds, and took oath that her
husband was dead. It was in vain that a testimony was
tendered that Upton had been seen alive at his own
house that morning. The trial was interrupted, and Mr.
Lemaitre was remanded to prison where be remained
for five months. He was released at the end of that
term, and abstained from any connexion with the
Corresponding Society. But then came the time of the
Irish rebellion,l797, and he was applied to to give his adhe-
sion to thatmovement through the Corresponding Society.
In an evil moment he consented to attend the meeting of the
Society, to give his advice against any such connexion.
He went there, having had nothing whatever to do with
public affairs since his last imprisonment. The Bow-
street officers rushed in, and all the party were appre-
hended. He was committed to Newgate, and, at the
end of a twelvemonth, his health failing, he was removed
to Readinggaol, where he passed two years more. He was
then released, and again after a few months apprehended
and confined in Tuthill-fields Prison. His attorney had ap-
plied for a writ of habeas corpus, but in vain, Lord
Kenyon refusing it, as he said, on his own responsibility.
1 After another twelvemonth Mr. Lemaitre was released,
. and thus had suffered, between 1818 and
1826, an imprisonment of not less than
six years without trial. He•had applied repeatedly
to the several Whig Governments for redress, but
had been constantly refused, till at last Mr. Canning
promised to do something for him, and through the in-
tercession of Lord Grey, Mr. Lemaitre was appointed a
protector of blayes in Dosnarara. He set sail in 1829,
but his usual ill-luck attended him, for, shortly after
leaving the coast, the vessel was wreaked, and all his
effects were lost. He had hardly time to recover
himself before the Government passed the Act for the
abolition of slavery, and thus his salary of SOOL a year
was entirely lost. This was a fair subject
for consideration and compensation, and with a hope
that now, as the injury had been suffered for more than
fifty years, it would be properly entertained by the
Government, he would move that the petition be printed
' with the votes.