The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-07 00:00:00

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RAILWAY COALMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
LORD SHAFTESBURY'S COMMITTEE.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
(Sheffield Canal Purchase).—Preamble proved, and
clauses agreed to.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
(Ashton Canal Purchase).—Preamble proved, and
clauses agreed to.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN, AND SOUTHAMPTON
AND DORCHESTER AMALGAMATION.—PreambIe proved,
and clauses agreed to.
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND (Devia-
tion in the line from Mu'linger to Athlone).—Preamble
proved, and clauses agreed to.
GROUP No. 3.—SALISBURT AND YEOVIL.—The
opposition of the landowners having closed, Mr. Austin
was heard at great length in reply.
At the close of the Learned Gentleman's speech the
room was cleared, and the Committee after a short
consultation decided that the preamble to both Bills had
been proved.
EXETER, YEOVIL AND DORCHESTER, WITH BRANCHES.
—Mr. Austin was also heard for the opposition put for-
ward in .this case.
GROUP No. 4.—MANCIII74TER, SHEFFIELD, AND
LINCOLNSHIRE (Humber Ferries Improvement at Hull
and New Holland).—Case for the promoters and opposi-
tion of the Hull Corporation further considered.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
• (THIS DAY.)
DUBLIN.
The Committee resumed its labours again this morn-
ing at the usual hour, and the scrutiny iutoMr. Rey-
nold:e inajoritfias proceeded witb. In the curse of
the dzty the petitioners succeeded in striking off two
additional Totes,.

THE CHARTIST TRIALS '
•
CRIMINAL
OLD CO R
CO-URT.T(THIS DAY.)
U.
THE TRIAL OF SHARPE.
(Mr. James White's examination continued from our
Afternoon Edition.)
After the business was resumed witness took a 'rec.
batim note of what. took place at the , second meeting.
Two peribns4spoke at that meeting the defendant and
Ernest Jpnes. 'The defendant spoke first. The witness
was about; to read' his notes of the defendant's speech,

when
Mr. Sergeant WILK-ma objected to this course, inas-
much as what occurred at the second meeting was not
included in the indictment.
The Lord Chief Justice. WILDE intimated that
the evidence might be received, for the purpose
of showing the animus with which the first meeting was
called, but not as evidence of anything that took place
at the second meeting.
'rue witness then gave evidence of what took place
at the second ineeting, which corroborated the testimony
of the last witness.
Inipector Waller, of th© K division, stated that he
bvlieved there was five or six thousand persons present
at the second meeting. He saw stones thrown at
the church, and the mob, as soon as they
saw cried out, " There's the --- inspector, give,
it hiin.." He• callediupon the mob to disperse, when
a volley, of stones was thrown at the police, by which a
sergeant and seven men were very much hurt. Consi-
derable resistance was made to the police, but the
mounted police coming up; the mob was ultimately dis-

permed._
Croz,s-examined by Mr. Sergeant MuirNs—The ser-
vice was over when the throwing of stones began at the.

church.--
The Re+. Mr. Horton, the. clergyman of St. James's
Chuicli, Bethnal green, corroborated the evidence of the
last witness with•respect to the attack on the church, the
breaking of the windows, and throwing stones at the
police. .
Horace Hardy, a policeman, proved that a meeting
took place on Clerkenwell green on the 29th of May,
and the proceession that took place afterwards.
The committal of Mitchel was then put in and proved,
and the- grounds of that committal.
This -closed the case for the prosecution, and the jury
retired to take refreshments.
On Van return of the jury, Mr. Sergeant WILKINS
addressed them on behalf of the prisoner, and atter
making some preliminary observations as to their ex-
pelling all 'prejudice from their minds, said the com-
plaints of the poorer classes were not altogether ground-
less, and that they found in our laws, which:were held up
to them as perfect, measures most ruinous to themselves
and most salutary to others who were in a higher station
of life. They, therefore, were under the impression
that there was one law for the rich and another for the
poor. The Learned Counsel then quoted extracts from
speeches delivered by Messrs. Cobden Bright. Wilson
and others connected with the Corn-law League
for the purpose of showing that language equally
ai violent had been uttered by them; and asked if a
poor mun, seeing that those speekers occupied
places of distinction, had not a right to infer that there
was rotlsing illegal in following, the example of men
who had been honoured and rewarded, and for doing
eabich he was now seught to he punished and degraded?
:Now; he spprehended that any poor man who felt that
the ',laws were partial reel qua] in their effect, had
rtoc to assemble te state his grievances, and Mr. Ho-
milly:the present Solicitor-General, had no later than
last April, to the House of Commons, expressed his deli-
berate opinion that Englishmen had a perfect right to
meet for such
.a purpose, and that it in the heat of
el..quence a man was ti say that he would force the
'House to do anything-an o jury would convict him of
seditious speaking. sit unreasonable to expect that
the poor man. should be di•contented and careless what
he did as long as he obtained not a voice in the legislature,
when he knew that thousands of his fellow creatures
were unable to obtain subsistence by the sweat of
their brow, and were lacking a crust of bread for their
wives andlamilies? Perhaps he might see a paragraph
in the newspaper, stating that some poor creature hag
died in the street for absolute want—in another column
a powerful article of the editor's, in behalf of the poor—
and in another that some dowager duchess had given a
dejeuner to a numerous branch of the aristocracy, and
spent more in feasting these whose appetites were
palled, than would satisfy ten families for twelve
months, and keep them in comfort and happiness.
Was it matter of surprise, therefore, that the poor,
whose sufferings were so great, should, under
suchcircnrestances, be dissatisfied with our rulers, and
abuse theta in unmeasured terms ? The Learned
Coun-el theri addressed himself at considerable length
to ;be ess:oes elevets of the indictment, and contended
that ti cwt by the prisoner could not amount
to s, that the meeting at which he uttered
them was to an unlawful assembly. He concluded by
an exhortation that, whether Chartist or no Chartist the
jury vvoulti eau their duty fairly and impartially, and
went a view to protect the liberties of the subject.
The ATToRNEY-GENERAL then addressed the jury
for the prosecution.
The Learned JUDGE summed up.
she jary had not returned their verdict when our
report left.

N W COURT.
MURDER.—Gecige John Henson, aged 45, and de
Berthed as a working jeweller, was placed in the dock
indicted, with the wilful murder of Williirn Henry
Woodhouse, one of thourileys in Ca:Elba:h. fields prison.
Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, and the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Clarkson.
The prisoner p!eaded Not Guilty:
Mr. BODKIN, in stating the case for the prose-
cUtion to the jury, Said, the prisoner had been
• coefieed in Clerkenwell prison, and while there had some
alterentien or difference with another prisoner, and it
was the duty of the deceased to report the fact to the
_governor. The prisoner, it appeared, asked the de-
ceased if he mealit -to make that report, and be replied
that be certainly did. Shortly afterwards the
• prisoner, in the hearing of some other inmates
of the prison, said that it would be the worse
for him if he did so. , It was then supposed that the
prisoner had, while indhe oakum room; taken the oppor-
tuoity of secreting a knife, which was used in picking
the Oakum, about his person, and when he was removed
to a solitary cell where it became the duty of the de-
ceased to attend him, it appeared that the deceased went
to the cell with a tin panniken; and when there the pri-
soner took the opportunity of stabbing him to the heart.
• That was the simple outline of the case, and it would be
for the jury to decide upon the evidence which would be
brought before them.
The following witnesses were then called,
. Mr. George. Chesterton said he was the governor of
the 'louse of Correction at Coldbath-fields, in which
the prisoner had been an inmate. He knew the de-
ceased, and recollected on Saturday, the 10th of June,
his making a report to him with respect to the prisoner.
The report was made in the bearing of the prisoner. A
complaint had been made by the prisoner that
another prisoner had stated that he had intercourse
with his daughter. The deceased said ho did
DOG believe the truth of the prisoner's statement,
and he (witness) said he did not believe it either, and be
further told the prisoner that he would remove him into
a cell by himself, as he was not a man that ought to be
allowed to associate with others. The prisoner was
then removed to cell No. 5, in No. 5 yard, and
witness afterwards saw the deceased Woodhouse
carried out wounded from the same yard. Witness
then went to the prisoner's cell, and said to him,
" You have done a fatal deed at last— the poor Roan is
dead, you have killed him." The prisoner only replied,
" It has served the b--y villian right, I wish Latham
(another warder) had been in the way, and I would
have served him in the.same way."
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—He inquired into
the truth of the reports• both before and after the fatal
occurrence, and he thought the prisoner a worthless fel-
low, and punished him accordingly.
•" ' Re-examined by Mr. CeEnx—Witness bad unhappily
~Nl4*t,:.teard so, many instances of the prisoner's desire to pub.
-g-Ag".• % ' 0-Itab h" shame that he thought him quite unfitted for the
Kr.. • ~.--,
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---.. 15pce yof other prisoners.
(.<7. e.--.:_-_.-:,,,-,!_..- >ap. ry Young said, on the 10th of Juno last, ,he
..../.
~ ~,' was( a prisoner in the Culdbath-elds prison.
4:C:7'.:71*‘,V....;':rr":„-(s6'.va s in No. 5 yard. About six o'clock. in the
1 '4C;.%-..:1,!,;„ 4-'"l':•lxitirtilig of that day he heard the prisoner call
e'',-,-.,` _.,,,...-,'!.-..7iraFffillionse. The prisoner was then. in the cell, and
r sc.,•--_,_-7-:. %,_ •--noeirlhouse went into the cell. He did not hear what
....:,
.. , at. t'prisoner said, but whcu the deceased came out of the
N. - cell he heard the prisoner say, "Do you intend to make
a report of it?" The deceased replied, "Of course I
shall." Woodhouse then spoke to another officer near
the cell. The prisoner said, "If you do it will be the
worse for you.'

Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Was employed
as an assistant to Woodhouse. Never heard any one of
the inmates of the prison jeer the prisoner about the
crime he had been charged with committing, and for
which he had been imprisoned. Did not know what he
was confined in the prison for.. When he heard the con-
Nersation between the deceased and the prisoner he was

in a passage.
William Cooper, a warden, said, about; six o'clock'
on the morning in question he was in yard No. 5, and
heard the prisoner ask: Woodhouse if he intended to
report the matter to the governor, and he said, " Yes,
certainly, I do." Did not hear the prisoner make any
reply. About half-past eight heard a noise in
the yard some one calling out for Wood-
house. The noise came from No. 5 cell in No.
5 yard, where the prisoner was confined.
Ile then saw the deceased go up to the cell and ask what
was the matter. The prisoner said, " I hope you will
not forget me when the extra bread is given out." His
attention was drawn to the same yard about half an
hour afterwards. Ile then saw the deceased in
the yard about six yards from the cell No.
5. The deceased made a kind of screeching noise,
and staggered, as if he were going to fall backwards.
(Witness produced a knife which had been fowl(' in the
prisoner's cell by another warden.) That knife was given
to witness by the governor for the purpose of producing

it in the court.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The deceased
Woodhouse searched the prisoner before he was brought
before the governor and confined in a separate cell.
By the Jonas—When he saw the deceased staggering
it was about half an hour after he had heard the prisoner
call out tor Woodhouse. The prisoner's cell-door was
partly open when he saw the deceased staggering back-

.
wards.
Alfred Waddilow, a prisoner in Cold-bath-fields, was
next examined—He was in yard No. son the morning
of the fatal occurrence. He saw Woodhouse go to No.
5 cell about nine in the morning and open the door. About
two or three seconds afterwards prisoner came out of the
cell with a pannikin in his left hand, and appeared to have
something in his right hand. The deceased was stand-
ing on the steps, and the prisoner gave hien a blow
with his right hand. The deceased cried out, "Oh my
God, you have stabbed me to the heart." The prisoner
then threw something into the cell and ran out.
Mr. Henry Wakefield, surgeon of the prison, said
on Saturday, the 10th of June, he was called to attend
Woodhouse. He found him quite dead. On making a
post mortem examination he found a wound through the
;ribs into the heart. It might have been done with the
knife produced.
George Owen, a warden of the prison, said, after the
death of Woodhouse ho had the prisoner under his
charge, and stopped in the same cell with him. On the
Saturday evening, and on Sunday morning, the prisoner
made a confession which witness took down in writing.
The paper produced is ,the confession which he wrote.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Had received
orders from the deputy-coroner to take down in writing
anything the prisoner might say. He asked the prisoner
no questions, but answered the questions put to him by
the prisoner.'Theprisener. first began the conversation, and
he took out his pen, ink, and paper, and put down what
he said. Witness began to write down as soon as the
prisoner said anything, he thought desirable to put in
writing, He did not write everything he said. The first
thing he asked was whether any one was coming to
read to him, or to console him, about the deed he had
committed. He knew what he was imprisoned for, and
believed it was well known in the prison. Witness then
read the confession which was to the following effect:—
That he did not intend to murder Woodhouse, but on
account of Woodhouse telling him that ias; he, was get-
ting troublesome, the Governor would probably put
him in irons,: he resolved that he should be the
victim. Latham was the one he first intended to murder,
but an opportunity did not show itself. On Wednesday he
got a knife, which he secreted in his stocking on Thurs •
' day and Friday. When Woodhouse came to his cell on
Saturday morning he took advantage of the opportunity,
and struck a blow at him with his right hand, in which
he had the knife.
Mrs. Ferris stated that the deceased was her brother,
and was a warden in the prison.
This being the case for the prosecution,
Mr. CLARKSON made a powerful appeal on behalf of
the prisoner.
The jury, after deliberating a few minutes, found a
verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Baron PARKE having put on the black cap, ad-
dressed the prisoner in a most impressive manner upon
the enormity of the crime he had committed, and then
proceeded to pass the awful sentence of death in the
usual form.
The prisoner appeared much affected during the trial.
Before he was taken from the dock, he handed a paper
to the Judge, which was understood to be a further con-
fession, and his Lordship promised to place it in the
hands of the Sheriffs.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE and the Reconinte.)
STEALING TWO 1,000/. NOTES.—Mr. Abraham Sim-
monds, the publican, who was charged with having two
1,0001. notes in his possession, which had been stolen,
was brought up for trial.
The particulars of the case have already been fully
placed before the public.
The case for the prosecution had only proceeded a
stage when the Court interposed, and stated that there
(lid not appear to be any good grounds for a charge of
felony, and that the prisoner ought, therefore, to be
acquitted.
The prisoner was accordingly ordered to be discharged
im custody.

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47

To be Majors—John Davies, Esq.; Charles Penrose
Bellamy, Esq.; George Vinter, Esq.; William M'Pher-
son Rice. Esq.
To be Captains—John Pixley Wallis, Esq.; William
Crane, Esq.; James Bennett, &q.; Henry Wood, Esq.;
Robert Allen, Esq.; John Williams, Esq.; William
Fanfold, Esq.; Henry Cradock, Esq.; Andrew Gruzi-
her, Esq.; John Philcox Russell, Esq.; Richard Webb,
Esq.; John Whettem, Esq.; George Ash, Esq.; John
Brown, Esq.; William Henry Brain, Esq.; James
Luke, Esq.; Richard Harvey, Esq.; John Parsons,
Esq.; Alexander Poulden, Esq.
'robe Lieutenants—William Cary, Gent. (Adjutant) ;
Charles William Eustice Pineo, Gent. ; James Helby,
Gent.; Thomas Flexham, Gent.; James Horsey, Gent.;
Daniel Harding, Gent.; Robert Archibald M'Dougall,
Gent.; Isaac Watson, Gent.; Robert Allen, jun.; Gent.;
Thomas Russell, Gent.; Robert Webb, Gent.;
John Russell, Gent. ; George Edward Gittens,
Gent. ; James Anthony Oakshott, Gent.; John
Breedon Wilkins, Gent. ; Charles Vine, Gent. ;
Alfred Harwood Hale Jewell, Gent. ; Joseph Hutson,
Gent. ; George Rogers, Gent. ; James Slater, Gent. ;
David Lowry, Gent. ; Joseph Collom, Gent. ; Henry
Newell Harrison. Gent. ; William Westrope, Gent. ;
William Fabian, Gent.; Edward Allen, Gent.; Michael
Vickery, Gent.; Peter Strickland, Gent.; George Aylen,
Gent. ; Edward Pearce, Gent. ; William Thomas Price,
Gent. ; William Snook, Gent. ; John Murray, Gent. ;
William Andrews, Gent. ; Francis Martin, Gent. ; John
Brown, Gent.
To be Surgeon—John Cushen Sabben, Esq.
Devonport Brigade—To be Colonel Commandant—Sir
John Louis, Bart. -
To be Lieutenant Colonels—James Henderson, Esq.;
William Edye, Esq.
To be Majors—John Erasmus Mills, Esq.; William
Stigant, Esq.; Frederick Valentine Gottlieb, Esq.; Wil-
liam Spinet-, Esq.
To be Captains—Thomas William Miller, Esq.; Wil-
liam Aylward, Esq ; William Thompson, Esq.; John
Llewellyn, Esq.; Robert Laws, Esq.; John Cole Burl
wood, Esq. ; John Inman Finchman, Esq.; Buliey,
Esq.; Thomas Goss, Esq.; Archimedes Couch, Rich-
ard Scott, Esq. ; James Creed, Esq. ; William
Esq.; George Dann Banes, Esq.; John Waymouth,
Esq.; James Gormally, Esq.; John Besley, Esq.
To be Lieutenants—Thomas Potts, Gent. (Adjutant) ;
William Cable, Gent. ; Francis Frederick Jemmett,
Gent.; Richard Guard, Gent ; Joseph Brown, Gent.;
Daniel Christopher, Gent; H. Browning Triscott, Gent.;
Ambros Tuscott, Gent. ; William Mason. Carrington,
Gent. ; William Darling, Gent. ; Benjamin Stokes,
Gent. ; William Rundell, Gent ; Henry Neal Pilford
Walker, Gent. ; Thomas Edwards, Gent. ; John Hol-
man Morris, Gent.,; George Newton, Gent. ; Henry
Gamble Keys, Gent. ; Ebenezer Wood, Gent. ; Philip
Peck, Gent. ; William Morrison Richards, Gent. ;
Thomas Doidge, Gent. ; Graham Wolridge, Gent. ; Sa-
muel Angear," Gent. ; Thomas Bond, Gent. ; Thomas
Glanville, Gent.; Richard Way, Gent. ; Francis Lam-
pen, Gent.; John Orem, Gent.
To be Surgeon—John Reid, Esq.
Breakwater Battalion—To be Lieutenant-Colonel—
William Walker, Esq.
Sheerness Brigade—To be Colonel Commandant—
David Price, Esq.
To be Lieutenant Colonels—Richmond Easto, Esq.;
Samuel Read, Esq.
To be Majors—James Underwood, Esq. ; William
Corbet Edwards, Esq.; William Lockyer Freeman, Esq.
To be Captains—Henry Bois, Esq. ; John Parminter,
Esq. ; William Robert Lang, Esq.; James Ward, Esq.;
Thomas Stocker, Esq. ; Henry Loyalty Peake, Esq.
George Skinner, Esq. ; John Basset Luson, Esq. ;
George Netherwood, Esq.
To be Lieutenants—Herbert Lewis Orme, Gent. (Ad-
jutant); Alexander Moor, Gent.; Josiah Flynn, Gent.;
John Creasey, Gent.; John Yenning, Gent.; John Sedg•
wick Harper, Gent.; John Knight, Gent.; James Ebe-
nezer Stevens, Gent.; John Couchman, Gent.; George
Pounder, -Gent.- Richard William Carter, Gent.;
George Murton, 'Gent.; William Betts, Gent.; Stephen
Charles Dibdin, Gent.; William Usher, Gent.; Samuel
Lath, Gent.

CHATHAM BRIGADE.
To be Colonel•Commandant--Sir Thomas. Bourchier,
K.C. B.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Alexander Kerley, Esq.;

Francis James Laire, Esq.
To be Majors—John Miller, Esq.; Thomas Baldock

Esq.
To bo Captains—John Moore, E.g.; Oliver William
Lang. Esq,; Thomas Sutton Vinall, Esq.; John Shef-
field, Esq.; Clarence Rhind, Esq.•, Edward Cheeseman,
Esq.; John Parks, Esq.; William Blessley, Esq.;
Henry Vinall, Esq.; James Wyatt, Esq.; Robert
Driver, Esq.; James Burton, Esq.; George Cotsell, Esq.
To be Lieutenants—George Downer, Gent. (Adju-
tant); Stephen Hart, Gent.; John Barnaby, Gent.;
Henry Collingwood Alms, Gent.;. George Mart, Gent.;
Sampson Seaton, Gent.; Joseph Chase, Gent.; John
Whitthora, Gent.; William Hutchens, Gent.; Thomas
Burnell Ward, Gent,; William Stigant, Gent.; George
Tucker Skinner, Gent._ ; William Harding, Gent.; Da-
vid Morgan, Gent. ; Daniel Harding, Gent. • William
Richard Fyninore, Gent. ; Richard Dunn, Gent.; Ed-
ward Stigant, Gent.; Henry Broomfield, Gent.; John
Rich, Gent.;. William Braham Robinson, Gent. ; Jona-
than Stratton, Gent. ; William Guard, Gent. ; John

Thomas Taylor, Gent. .
To be Surgeon—Henry Peacock, Esq., M.D.
Woolwich Brigade—To be Colonel Commandan,
Sir James John Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. •
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—Thomas Elson, Esq.
Oliver Lang, Esq.
To be Majors—William Jenkins, Esq.; Francis Lewis
Mouchet, E:q.
To be Captains—Henry Chatfield, Esq. ; James
Parlby Peake, Esq. ; Joseph Pinhorn, Esq. ; Smar
Fullager, Esq. ; Peter Morgan, Esq. ; Joseph Large,
Esq. ; Edward Thomas Burr, Esq. ; Joseph Monday,
Esq. ; William Woods, Esq.
To be Lieutenants—John Christie, Gent. (Adjutant);
Edward John Bennett Graves, Gent ; John Trickett,
Gent.; James M`Callum, Gent.; William Trafalgar
Evans Miller, Gent.; David Roy, Gent.; James Man-
ning, Gent.; Henry George Bahnerino Johnson, Gent.;
Walter Scott,' Gent. ; Charles John Pringle, Gent.;
Benjamin Wilson Pidcock, Gent. ; Charles Orlando
Dutton, Gent.; William Andrews Hatton, Gent.; Frede-
rick Dutton, Gent.; Edwin Arthur Bernays, Gent.;
William Rigby, Gent.; Henry John Allan, Gent.; Robert
Beetnan, Gent.; Thomas Henry Crouch, Gent.
To be Surgeon—Peter Suther, Esq.. M.D.
Deptford Brigade—To be Colonel Commandant—Sir
John lull!.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels—George Farquhar Morice,
Esq.; Charles Willcox, Esq.
To he Majors—John Irvng, Esq. ; John Elliot, Esq.
To be Captains—Win. Pembroke, Esq.; Edward Ede,
Esq; Thomas &Oswald, Esq; ;Robert George Smith
Bowring, Esq; Nicholas Phillips Bromell, Esq.; Wm.
Rodweil Willcocks, Esq; Win. Buck, Esq; Henry
Daniel James, Esq; Benjamin Williams, Esq.
"""To be Lieutenants—Richard Samson, Gent. (Adju-
tant); William Bowley, Gent.; John Robinson, Gent.;
John Piddell, Gent.; Archibald Cockbnrn Gloag, Gent.;
Edward Wilkinson, Gent.; James Tudhope, Gent.;
William Balfour Stevenson,Gent.; Andrew Hall, Gent.;
Joseph Simon Pole, Gent.; William Benjamin Pem-
brooke, Gent.; Edward Weeks Spencer Basden, Gent.
James Henry Edward Bennett, Gent.; James Morrison'
Gent.;mon(ln Montmorency,
IGleeynnt.o;ldisienGreyntt.; William Reymond de
mer
Morley,
r G , Gent.•l William
Ful e
eGnea.; Henry Vaughan, Gent.; John Walli;
To be Surgeon—John Brown, Esq.
Pembroke Brigade—To be Colonel• Commandan—
t Thomas Falcon, Esq.
To be Lieutenant-Colonel—Richard Abethell, Esq.
To be Majors George Chiles, Esq. ; Richard.
Weatberley, Esq.
To be Captains—Thomas Pretious, Esq ; John Da-
vidson, Esq.; William Moody, Esq., Joseph Burdwood,,
Esq.; James Edwards, Esq.; Richard Kneebone, Esq.;
Richard Bonniwell, Esq.; Etecumbe Chevallier, Esq.
To be Lieutenants—Walter Gillies, Gent. (Ad-
jutant)•' James Christie, Gen!.; Anthony Blan-
chard Pike, Gent.; John Vennin!, Gent.; Ebenezer
Clatworthy, Gent.; Abraham Brurnage, Gent.; Robert
Harwood, Gent; Wm. Canham, Gent; Wm. Campbell,
Gent; James Potter, (Gent.; Alester Andrew M`Alpin,
Gent.; Henry Tremain,';ifent.; Charles Lewis, Gent.;
Jonathan Ground, Gent.;_ Frederick Turner Gent.;
Robert Prout Saunders Gent..; W illiamm Edward Sec-
combo, Gent.
Royal Clarence Battalion.—To be Colonel Command-
ant—Sir William Edward Parry.
'To be Major—Thomas Fasselt Grant,, Esq.
To be Captains—John Churcher, Esq.; Charles
Foster, Esq.
To be Lieutenants—Henry Pearson, Gent.; Joseph
Goddard Churcher, Gent.; Richard Lance, Gent.
Royal William Battalion —To be Colonel-Com-
mandant—John Toup Nicolas, Esq., C.B.
To be Mejors—James W. Armstrong, Esq.; Anthony
Pike, Esq.
To be Captains— William Walker, Esq.; Thomas
Jamieson, Esq- •
To be Lieutenants—Robert Watson, Gent.; Charles
Scott, Gent.; William Fergus M'Kain, Gent.
The commissions of the above-named officers to bear
date Ist June, 1848.
Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wor-
cestershire.
The Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Cornet Robert Clive to be Captain,
vice Hemming, resigned; Cornet Robert Berkeley to be
Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Smith, retained upon the
Establishment of the Regiment, without pay ; William
Taylor, Gent,' to be Lieutenant, eice Woodroffe, de-
ceased ; Robert Mynors, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Clive,
promoted ; Robert Peel, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Robert Berkeley. promoted, July 1.
ADMIRALTY, Jures 29.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet Enbull
Daysh Thelwall to be Second Lieutenant ; Gentleman
Cadet William John Spencer Richards to be Second
Lieutenant ' • Gentleman Cadet John Vaughan Carden
Reed to be Second Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet
Richard Pentland Henry to be Second Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Charles Louis Atterbury Farmer to
be Second Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet William Kelly
to be Second Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet Charles
Joliffe to be Second Lieutenant ; Gentleman Cadet
Henry Lindsay Searle to be Second Lieutenan; Gentle-
man Cadet Harry Lewis Evans to be Second Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet Henry Nicholson Tinklar to be Second
Lieutenant.

aticnal Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be I
applied by them on account of the Sinking Fund, under
the provisions of the said Act, between the 7th day of
July, 1848, and the 10th day of October, 1848.
S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General.
National Debt-office, July 5, 1848.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John Beynon, ironmonger, Swansea, Glamorganshire.
BANKRUPTS.
Joseph Spurrier Pearce, saddler, Southampton, July
14 and Aug. 18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Sowton,
Great James-street, Bedford-row.
Thomas Kemp, builder, Birmingham.
Peter Fisher, ironmonger, Bristol.
Isaac Rowe Becktord, retailer of beer, Plymouth.
James Coop, timber merchant, Radcliffe, Lancashire.
George Perigal and Charles Brady, wine merchants,
Cletnent's•lane, Lomberd-street, City.
William Chambers, earpenter, Blackman-street, New-
ington, Surrey.
Robert Johnston, merchant, Savage. gardens, City.
James Swinburn, builder, Ledbury-terrace, West-
bourne-grove, Notting-bill. Middlesex.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price or Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending July 4,
1848. is '24s. 104 d. per cwt.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of July 7.)
Sucan.—To-day there was no improvement in the
home or export demand for raw Sugar, and as holders were
desirous to sell, we have to announce a further fall in the
value. West India Muscovado was dealt in with
caution for both the scale and pan, although the rates
taken are rather under those of yesterday. The private
sales did not exceed 240 hhds and trcs. At public sale
104 hhds of Barbadoes went off flatly, and a small part
only sold at 6d decline. For all sorts of Sugar the market
closed with an unfavourable aspect.
REFINED.—To-day the markettandd um
a rha aqups could n
quiet appear-
ance
not
generally t
gainoned
dos:still s
under 55s 6d. Prices are evidently
Bonded Crushed Sugar export
ollthfoe r r
deebficenl
ieondbe
t.
For
ortieirs are on the increase, and prices are firmer, 25s 6d
.to 275 is the value of first and second sorts.
MAURITIIII.—This afternoon the quantity of Mauri-
tius submitted to public sale was large, and amounted to
8,112 bags, 121 tres, and 30 casks. The biddings were
languid, still the chief part sold, grocery sorts at 6d per
cwt ,deeline.
EAST INDIA.—This, afternoon at public sale 1,000
bags Bengal sugar were' sold at firm rates, and went at
43s for good white Beneres, and 41s Gd to 42s 6d for
damp and washed.
FORElGN.—Although holders of Foregn Sugar have
been deriving a benefit of is 6d per cwt by a reduction
in the duty since Wednesday, under the Bill of 1846,
still on their part a desire is manifested to realize, as the
circumstances we have alluded to will be only of short
duration.
Cocoa..—There are again heavy arrivals of West
India, and sellers are disposed to make a further conces-
sion in the value ; buyers on the other hand make sales
with caution. lied Trinidad can be obtained at 38s to
425, and grey 35s to 38s. None at present has been of-
fered at public sale. For Foreign there are few buyers,
and holders are sellers at 32s to 345 per cwt.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Plantation Ceylon met with
greater attention, and 14 casks, 350 bags at auction were
sold at firmer rates. Of Jamaica 7 casks, and 45 bags
went at steady rates.
TEA.—There is no further advance to record in the
value of Congou, still holders are firm, and moderately
supplied tho market. A good business has been con-
cluded, and upon full terms; the sorts above is 3d per lb
selling the moat readily. The value of ordinary and
good ordinary sound is 7id to 9d, but middling
and middling 9d to lid, blackish leaf 1 lid to is 3d
fine and Pekoe flavour is 4d to Is 101, and choice 2s to
2s 2d. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in
Pcuchong at from 5d to Bd. Souchong is held with
firmness, and a. fair amount 'of business has been con-
cluded. Green has not improved in value.
For scented Teas there is a more active demand, prices
cannot be quoted higher this week. At auction 7,212
pkgs have been offered, of which 2,500 were sold.
Rwe..--At public sale 1,500 pockets Bengal were all
withdrawn. Rico' is expected to be kept at low rates
by the prospect of large grain and potato crops.
Cleaned is not much wanted. The importation of all
sorts of Rice is expected to continue to fall off on ac-
count of the low prices current here.
SPlRlTS.—Although there are sellers of Jamaica Rum
at a reduction on former rates of 2d to 3d per gallon,
still home buyers have made purchases with caution,
and few export orders were completed. The
sales for the week are only 100 puns. East
India is little wanted, and is 4d to Is 6d is the
value of proof. For Leeward Island the demand con-
tinues very limited at is lid to Is 8d proof. Havannah
is dull of sale at is 5d proof. Ot East India a fair quan-
tity has come to hand, whilst of West India arrivals are
extensive. The deliveries for all purposes continue to
fall off. There has been little desire evinced to operate
in Brandy, whilst holders are willing to sell. For
Geneva the demand is brisker.
OlLS.—This afternoon Southern Oil met with atten-
tion. At auction 100 tuns were sold at 221 to 241 lbs for
low to fine, which are full rates. Sperm is not much
wants d, and 20 tuns went at 751 to 791 15s for good and
fine, which are lower prices. Of Palm 196 casks were
only in part sold.
TaeLow.--This afternoon prices underwent little
variation for Tallow at the public sales. Of New South
Walt s 173 estiks were sold at 40s 6d to 43i 6d, and in-
ferior 39s to 40s ; 166 casks South American 40s to
43s ; 51 casks Bermuda 36s 3d to 40s per cwt.
rt

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT (IRELAND) BILL,
On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
this Bill was read a third time and passed.
PETITIONS.

Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions from
various lodges of Odd Fellows, in favour of the Bill for
the legalisatioa of their societies.
The Duke of BUCCLEUGII presented several peti-
tions against the Scotch Marriages and Births Registra-
tion Bills.
SALE OF BEER BILL.

The sale of— Beer Regulation Bill passed through
Committee.
BANKRUPTCY LAWS CONSOLIDATION BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of this
Bill. There was no less than forty•two laws at
present in existence on the subject of bankruptcy;
the consequence was that the obscurity . of
the law was such that traders were univer-
sally complaining of its obscurity. This Bill was
intended to remedy the evil complained of—to embody
in one Act the various improvements which had been
introduced into those laws. The Noble and Learned
Lord then proceeded to describe the various
improvements which had been introduced into the
Bankruptcy Laws of late years, and concluded by moving
that the Bill be read a second time.
After a few words from the LORD CHANCELLOR,
the Bill was read a second time.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.
On the order of the day for the House going into
Committee on the Health of Towns Bill being read,
The Earl of FITZHARDINGE presented a petition
for certain property of water-works praying to be heard
by Counsel against the Bill.
Lord STANLEY presented several petitions from va-
rious waterworks companies with a similar prayer, and
suggested the propriety of referring the Bill to a Select
Committee up stairs.
Lord BROUGHAM rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'Clock.
Mr. FAGAN presented a petition from a place in
Ireland, complaining of the imperfect state of the har-
bours of that country.
Sir CHARLES I3URRELL presented petitions from
Sussex in favour of reformatory asylums.
Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Kingston,
Jamaica, praying for protection. The Hon. Member
could not aeree with the prayer of the petition.
Mr. HOPE presented a petition from Gloucester
against the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill.
Mr. OSBORNE presented several petitions in favour
of the ballot. Also petitions from Worcester in favour of
the abolition of church rates.
Mr. LOCKHART preented a petition from the
West India Association of the city of Glasgow in favour
of protection.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented petitions
from Rochdale praying for the abolition of the Central
Poor-Law Board. Also a petition from the same
place praying for the adoption of a system of education
in Lancaster supported by public rates. The Hon.
Member also presented a petition from a parish in the
Tower Hamlets in favour of the Charter.
Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a petition from War-
wick against the Highways Bill.
Mr. G. BERKELEY presented a petition from Glou-
cester praying for the abolition of the Central Poor-law
Board.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
In reply to a question from Mr. OSBORNE,
Mr. GREENE stated that it was intended, perhaps
next year, but certainly not this, to pull down the tem-
porary committee-rooms of the Ilouse, to facilitate the
progress of the new buildings. It was also intended to
improve the vaults and eight committee-rooms in the
cloisters, but these proceedings would involve no change
in Mr. Barry's original plans.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
Sir B. HALL, pursuant to notice, asked the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, to state the rea-
sons why the Bill for limiting the amount to be
raised out of th© rates for support of the
metropolitan police W 23 withdrawn; and whether it is
intended to act up to the understanding conveyed by
' Mr. Phillips, sad by the Police Commissioners, in letters
dated December and January last, that the ratepayers
shall not be called upon topay more than they have
hitherto done for the support of the police.
Sir R. H. INGLIS was also anxious to ask the Right
Hon. Baronet a question in reference to this subject,
though it was in no way connected with the fiscal part
of it. He wished to bear his testimony—
The SPEAKER called the Hon. Member to order.
Sir R. H. INGLIS apprehended that if he moved the
adjournment of the House it would put him in a position
to make his statement, but it would save time if the
House would allow him to proceed without making that
motion.
Mr. E. DENISON rose to order. The Hon. BarOnet
had no right to make a statement which at present was

irregular, because he could make such statement by
moving the adjournment of the House. The Hon. Baronet
ought to be restrained from making his statement until
he had moved the adjournment of the House.
The SPEAKER intimated that the Hon. Gentleman
would not be in order unless he intended to conclude

with a motion.
Sir R. 11. INGLIS did not intend to conclude with a
motion. Seeing that the public of this county had ob-
tained so much advantage from the police force, he
merely wished to take advantage of a precedent and—
Mr. HUME rose to order.--(Laughter.) Unless the
Hon. Baronet intended to conclude with a motion, he
would not be in order ; he could, he submitted, bring
forward his observations when the adjournment of the
House until Monday was moved.
Sir GEORGE GREY replied to the questions.
The 10th George IV., c. 44, sec. 23, empowered
the levying of a rate upon the rate payers of
the metropolis, for the purpose of maintaining the
police did not exceed Bd. in the pound. 10,0001. for-
merly applied to the Bow-street patrol out of the public
funds was devoted towards paying the cost of the po-
lice. By a subsequent Act the rate was reduced to
6d. in the pound, and the Government were commissioned
to devote 60,000!. of the public money to the same pur-
pose. At present 219,0001. was levied on the metropo-
litan parishes, and 98,8691. (as we understood) pea.' out
of the public funds. In consequence of representations, the
Government introduced a Bill to empower the Commis-
sioners of Police to levy a less rate than 6d. in the pound.
The Bill had been withdrawn, but circumstances had
recently occurred which rendered an increase of the force
necessary, and the whole question at issue was,
who was to pay the additional cost. He should be
happy at all times to meet deputations on the subject,
but the recent report which had appeared in the news-
papers with regard to a deputation that had waited upon
him was altogether incorrect. He did not think there
was much reason to complain, seeing the reduction
that bad taken place in the rate. He hoped to see the
equalization of the rates which had taken place in Mid-
dlesex would extend to neighbouring countries.
Mr. HUME hoped the subject would bo referred to a
Committee.
Sir G. GREY had no abjection to lay upon the table
of the House a statement showing the increased duty of
the police.—(Hear, hear.) Since the police had been
established, no less than 200 miles length of streets had
been added to the metropolis.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir R. INGLIS wished to know whether or not an
unprecedented resignation had taken place of the per-
sons in the police force between the 10th of April and
the 6th of May last: He was also desirous of knowing
to what extent the Government intended to increase the
police, and whether they had entered into any arrange-
ment with tho Electric Telegraph Company to furnish
information to the Government.
Sir G. GREY said that the increase intended to be
made by the Government in the police would be 500;
that the resignations in the police force between the 10th
of April and the 6th of June was not more than usual;
and that the offer of the Electric Telegraph Company
to give information to the Government was under con-
sideration.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
BOOSE CF LORDS. July 6.
LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW-
CASTLE-ON .TI NE RAILWAY BILL.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved that the
time for presenting petitions against the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle-on-Tyne Railway Bill be
extended to the 11th inst
Atter a few words from Lord BEAUMONT,
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY resumed, and said
he thought their Lordships would find it their duty to
investigate the subject. The Noble and Gallant Mar-
quis then presented several petitions in relation to the
Liverpool, Manchester, aed Newcastle-on-Tyne Rail-
way Company (Abandonment of the Railway and Disso-
lution of the Company)Bill, and gave notice that they be
referred to the Seleci Committee sitting on the Bill.
COPYHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL.
The order of the day for going into Committee on the
Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill having been moved by
the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Lord WiIARNCLIFFE suggested the postponement
of the Committee, on the ground that another measure
was under consideration, which would meet the case in a
still more satisfactory manner than the Bill introduced
by the Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack.
Some discussion ensued, iu which several Noble Lords
took part, and
The LORD CHANCELLOR, under the circum-
stances, said he would not then persevere with his Bill.
The consideration of the Bill in Committee was con-
sequently postponed.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 6.
NATIONAL REPRESENTATION-ADJOURNED • DE.

BATE.
On the motion for reading the order of the day for resum.
ing the adjourned debate on Mr. Hume's motion,
Mr. HUME presented twenty petitions from various loca.
lities in favour of his motion.

The order of the day was then read.
Mr. HUME wished to be allowed to make one remark
It was to express a hope that the House would come to a
division on the motion that night, and that Hon. Gentlemen
would regulate tke length of, their speeches with a view to
that result.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Divide.")
Mr. OSBORNE said that the Hon. Member for North-
amptonshire had concluded the motion which he had intro-
duced to their notice by a series of grammatic readings, with
the remark that perseverance was a great quality in a Mem-
ber of that House; but there was another quality still more
necessary, and that was patience, and that, he hoped the
House would extend to him for a very brief period. When
he bad moved the adjournment of this debate on a former
evening, he suspected that the cause of the debate being put
off for so long a period was not because the sugar duties had
expired, and the result proved that he was right. He be-
lieved that his Right Honourable Friend had yielded to
nothing but the necessity of the occasion. The House could
not forget the three very remarkable speeches by which the
motion of his Honourable Friend had been met when it was
first brought forward. They would recollect the assertion
which had been put forward with so much confidence that
this movement was not founded or based on any particular
support. The Hon. Member who had stated so, had said
that it was based on an erroneous, and not on a popular sup-
port. He (11r. Osborne) could not, in his own person, pre-
sume to say how far he expressed the feelings ot the consti-
tuency that he so inadequately represented, but this he
would say, that if not founded on popular support, it was in
his opinion founded at all events on justice and expediency,
and he for one would therefore give his vote in its favour.—
(Hear, hear.) Though there might be some difference in the
wording ot the petitions that had been presented on this
subject, it could not be denied but that they all united in one
prayer and one opinion, and that was that the present repre-
sentation of this country was inadequate—(Hear, hear)—
and it was remarkable that throughout the three
speeches made against the motion, though all had ridi-
culed the detaile, nut one word bad been said against
the principle.—(Hear, hear.) One of these lion. Members
had told them that he hated the word " Reform
and yet that Hon. Gentleman had himself written pam-
phlets in favour of it in 1829, and had given notice of two
motions in the present session that seemed to have a ten-
dency in.that direction. He next came to the speech of
his Hon. Friend the Member for Buckinghamshire, whose
speeches—as long as they were not directed against himself
—he always heard with great admiration and delight. That
Hon. Gentleman, by his untiring energy and great abilities,
had done one thing which no other man could have douc—
he had almost communicated a condition of galvanic life to
the defunct principles of Toryism.—(Hear, hear, and
laughter.) He had told them that he was for none
of their vulgar Refiarmers—that he would have none of their
Wilsons or their Thompsons, but that he was ready to rally
round any great measures of reform that might emanate
from No. 17, Old Bond-street.—(Laughter.) Every one,
it appeared, was now for progress; and the only question
was, what was to be the base of the new vehicles,
and who were to be the drivers ? He feared, however,
that the country was not likely to benefit much by
the extent of unanimity among Hon. Members on the sub-
ject. They were all familiar with the fable of the man with
two wives—the younger of whom pulled all the grey hairs
out of his head, while the elder one pulled out the black
hairs, until he was in a short time left without any hair at
all. So it was in that House. One did not like electoral
divisions, another objected to the ballot, and another to
household suffrage, until, between all, the reform for which
they professed themselves anxious dwindled down to nothing ;
and next session he had no doubt but that his Hon. Friend
would find himself shorn of all his fair proportions.—
(Laughter.) The Noble Lord at the head of the Govern-
ment had taken another objection—one that seemed to be
the stereotyped objection on such occasions. He had told
them that none of them objected to reform, but that this
was not the proper time.—(Hear, hear.) That objec-
tion seemed to. be at all times a sort of stage pro-
perty in Downing-street. In 1783, when Pitt brought
forward his measure of reform,' Lord North met it by say-
ing that that Was not the proper time. In 1790, Mr. Pitt,
who had succeeded to office iu the interim, gave the very
same answer to Mr. Flood ; and he found that the Noble
Lord, when be brought forward his motions for reform in
1822, 1828, and 1831, was met by the same exclamation.
The objection of the Ministers of the day always ran in the
same cuckoo note,—" This is not the proper time."— (Hear,
hear.) He was of o, inion that no time could be more fitting
than the present.—( Hear, hear.) He thought that when
they had certain indications of a coming storm in the hori-
zon it was the time for putting their houses in order. He
thought that when the Goverment had found it necessary to
introduce a measure for the better protection of life and pro-.
perty, that they ought to be at least ready to tell the people
that other measures to meet tha public wishes would also
be brought forward, and that the Noble Lord should con-
sent to lay on the table a Bill in favour of the ameliora-
tion of the national representation. A change in the
constitution of that House was the more necessary in the
present state of the finances of the country. The great
complaint made by the present and the late Ministers of the
Crown was, that they were far from wishing to increase
the public burdens, but that additional expenses were con-
stantly pressed upon them by Parliament--principally, no
doubt, by the Hon. Members who sat on the benches be-
hind them—(Laughter)—and who were anxious to effect
objects beneficial to their constituents. When they recol-
lected the enormous burden of taxation that was pressing
upon the country, and when they saw that all their re-
sources were failing, he thought that the absolute necessity
for retrenchment was a strong argument why they ought
to reform the constitution of that House.—.(Hear, hear.)
The Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire seemed to argue
that so far from taxation having increased, it had actually
remained stationary since 1827. His Hon. Friend had given
them a statement showing that the ordinary revenue for
the financial year ending the . sth of January, 1818,
was forty-five-and a halt millions, but he did not know on
what ground his Hon. Friend had fixed on that sum, as
the revenue for that year was no less than 54,850,0001.
Neither could he understand why the Hon. Member should
keep the income-tax entirely out of view in his calculation.
But instead of taking 1827, the Hon. Member ought to have
taken 1835 and i 836, years after the passing of the Reform
Bill, and when a system of retrenchment had been entered
upon. Let the House look to the comparative view which
those years supplied. The army, navy, ordnance, and mis:
cellaneous estimates for 1835 only amounted to 14,123,000/.,
whereas these estimates for 1848 were no less than
23,315,000/., or an increase amounting, in fact, to upwards
of nine millions.--(Hear, hear.) In the face of all this, how,
he would ask, could his Honourable Friend assert that the
country could not complain of taxation? On comparing
the proportion of taxation paid in different countries he
found that the amount of taxes per bead was, in the United
States 9s. 7d., in Russia 9s. 9d., in Austria Ils. 6d., in
Prussia Ils. 4d., in France U. 45., and in Great Britain
2/. 12s. 6d.—(Hear, hear)—and that did not include church -
rates, borough-rates, and, other local burdens. When the
Hon. Gentleman told them that the working classes had no
reason to complain of taxation, he would ask, had the poor
man no right to complain, that out of every 20s. which he
expended in the purchase of tea, 10s. went in duty; while
out of every 20s, expended in tobacco, 16s. went in duty ;
and in the articles of sugar and coffee he was also taxed
to a nearly similar amount? Would the working classes
believe thar under such circumstances there had been no
increase in the expenditure since 1827 ? And here he would
beg to remark, that he could never forget the debt of
gratitude which he felt was due to the Right Hon. Baronet
the Member for Tamworth for his effort in favour of the
reduction of taxes which pressed upon the poorer portion
of the community.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman
had dwelt on the efforts which had been made to get up
an agitation on this question, but the Hon. Gentleman
ought to recollect that agitators and professional lec-
turers were not the cause but the effect of public
discontent.—(Hear, hear.) He had himself met many
paid agitators at different times travelling through
the country, who exhibited letters of license dated
from No. 17, Old Bond-street.—(Laugher.) Ile would
not enter into the question of abstract right of voting.
That was all very well for bookworms and persons of that
description ; but he would confine himself to the practical
view of the matter. There were in that House many advo-
cates for universal suffrage. He confessed that he was not
one of them. He believed that where interests had grown
up under a limited suffrage, they could not go at once to
universal suffrage with safety to the general representation
of the country. Lie was ready to abide by a residential test,
and he would the more readily adopt such a system because
it would let in that class, the educated mechanics—who he
thought had not been done justice to by the Hon. Member
for West Surrey (Mr. H. Drummond), when he said that
they did not trouble their heads with the subject. The
Noble Lord had stated in 1822 that he based his demand
for reform on the progress of education and intelligence;
and he compared the state of the country in 1770,
when there had been but four circulating libraries
in London, with that time, when there were 100
circulating libraries in London, and 500 in the
country. But what would the Noble Lord think ought
to be the basis of the frachise now when he recol-
lected the spread of mechanics' institutes throughout the
country since the period when he had put forward that
statement ? (Hear, hear.) In the report of Sergeant Gre-
ville's Committee it was stated, even at that remote time,
that all householders were entitled to vote as well as free..
men.—(Hear, hear) Coming down to more modern times,
he found that the present Duke of Marlborough brought in
a Bill in 1830, not merely for reform, but for the payment of
Members of Parliament, for the admission of clergymen into.
that House, for the establishment of electoral districts, and
for household suffrage. Many of the Noble Lord's present
colleagues voted in favour of that Bill, and he found that one
of them—a Cabinet Minister of the present day, Sir John
Cam Hobhouse—proposed in 1830 the adoption of a series of
resolutions, declaring that no House of Commons would de-
serve the confidence of the people until the right of suf-
frage was extended ; that each Member ought to be elected
by a proportionate body of electors; that the duration of
Parliament ought to be materially shortened ; and that
each elector should, without exposure to loss or gain,
be protected in his, vote by the ballot.—(Hear, hear.)
He hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet and those of his col •
leagues by whom he was supported on that occasion would

now vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend.—(Hear, hear.'
But even in the present session the Noble Lord had intro- •
,duced a Bill which was to be applied to Ireland, giving the
right to vote to every tenant-at-will rated at 41., and he did
not see what particular virtue there was in a 10!. qualifica-
tion is England, if there was to be an 8/. qualification ex-
tended to tenants-at-will in Ireland. His Hon. Friend the
Member for Buekinglianishire bad gone very fully into this
question of the franchise, and had told them that he looked -•
on tl.e suffrage not as a trust, or a right, but as a privilege.
He (Mr. Osborne) begged to differ from his Hon. Friend in
that view, and to tell him that the voters themselves, in half
the small boroughs, looked upon the suffrage not as a trust,
or as a right, or as a privilege, but as a perquisite. He believed
that the horror of bribery which was professed in that House
was not sincere, as he did not think there were twenty Mem-
bers in the House who did not pay pretty smartly, and did
not draw considerable bills on their bankers on account of
their seats—(Hear, hear)—and if the Noble Lord and his
party were sincere in their horror of bribery, he wished that
they would strike at the fountain head.—(Hear, hear.) In
a book written by a certain distinguished Whig Lord, this
custom was spoken of as " a countervailing expediency to
the landed interest."—(Laughter.) The first case of bribery
brought before the house was in 1571; and he was sorry
that he did not see the Hen. Member for Westbury in his
place, as he could tell him that toat borough had the dis-
tinction of being the locality complained against on that
occasion.—(Laughter.) From that period to the present
bribery at elections had been constantly before the public,
until people believed in the truth of what a British satirist
had written sixty years ago—
" Those who would seek to gain the votes of British tribes,
Must add to force of merit force of bribes."
—( Laughter.) Then with respect to the electoral districts,
Hun. Gentlemen were really not aware of the monstrous
inequality of the present system. Ile would take the dis-
tricts of Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Fulham, and
Chiswick, occupying fourteen square miles, having a rate-
able value of 484,000!., and a population of 110,000 persons,
and with 18,445 registered voters, and yet that district was
without a representative, while such places as Caine, Mid-
hurst, Harwich, and other small boroughs, were allowed to
send Members to that House, for there were lion. Gentlemen
to be found who were not too respectable to sit even for such
a borough as Harwich.—(Laughter.) His Hon. Friend had
favoured them with a great number of statistics on this part
of the subject. He had shown that Glasgow was entitled to
seven representatives—God defend them trom seven Macgre-
gers in Parliament !—(Loud laughter, and cries of " Order.)
Well, from seven Members from Glasgow.— (Laughter.)
Having mentioned that Hon. Gentleman's name, he begged
to say that he sincerely believed him to be among the most
distinguished Members of that House.—(Hear, hear.) Ott
the same principle that his Hon. Friend the Member for
Bucks (Mr. Disraeli) had defended the present system of
representation, the system of Gatton and old Sarum must be
defended. He had the honour of sitting in the last Parliaa
ment for a place in the county of Bucks, and he knew as well
as could be that all the boroughs in that county were its.
financed more or less by local proprietors. But was the
division of the representation anything like equal? Bucks,
for instance, was rated at 674,0001., and it sent eleven Mem-
bers; Middlesex was rated.at 7,223,4001., and it sent fourteen
Members According to this division, property was not re-
presented in that House.—(Hear, hear.) The next point he
arrived at was the protection of the ballot, and he must say
that all the arguments urged against it appeared to him to
be more founded upon sentiment than reason. What were
the words of ,the Noble Lord? " Look," he said, "at
America; there every man's vote is known, though they
have the ballot." Well, what did that prove but that
there was no intimidation and no bribery—that, in fact,
the voter was careless whether his vote was known or
not.—(Hear, hear.) Then the Noble Lord tried to frighten
them, and he said, " Look at France; there they had a
Chamber elected by the ballot, and they had a revolution!"
The Noble Lord must have been aware that that Chamber
was elected by a constituency of under 200,000 in a popu- •
lation of 34,000,000, and that it was owing to the ballot
alone that any independent Member found his way into the
Chamber.—(Bear, hear.) To the ballot, and to the ballot
alone, it was owing that Conservatives were returned to the
present representative body.—(Hear. hear.) But the usual
sentimental reason for refusing the ballot was that it was
" un-English." This was supposed to be unanswerable.
He doubted, however, whether it was not far more un-
English to train,: in votes and to bribe a man with money
to make him vote vg-c.inst his conscience.—( Hear.) Many
Members were perf.aps aware that the celebrated Committee
of four, which sat the Reform Bill, was composed of
Sir James Graham, Lord John Russell, Lord Duncannon,
and the Earl of Durham; and he would ask the House to
remember what they recommended.—(Hear, hear.) Why
they recommended the introduction of the ballot and the
shortening of the duration of Parliaments.—(Hear, hear.)
And what said Lord Althorp upon the same occasion?
Why," said he, " by your introduction of the Chandos
clause into the Reform Bill you have made it one great ar- •
gUment for the ballot."—( Hear, hear.) Earl Grey used the
same argument in the House of Lords. After this he would
ask those twenty Honourable Gentlemen who voted for the
ballot in 1842, some of whom then used hard language to
the Noble Lord, whether they would be swayed by the Noble
Lord's argument in 1848? Twenty gentlemen belonging to
the Government—two of them Cabinet Ministers—voted for
the ballot in 1832! Would they support it now?—(Hear
hear.) The next question to be noticed was that relat-
ing to the qualification of Members. The Noble Lord had
said very little on this subject in his speech the other
night. He would tell the House, however, that the
qualification was of recent introduction.—(Hear, hear.)
In the year 1703, the then Parliament composed prin-
cipally of landed proprietors, was very jealous of the
commercial classes, and as they wished to confine the
legislative power to the gentry, they passed an Act declaring
that no man who had not an estate of 3001. a year in land
was eligible to a seat in that House. The clause as to land
bad been altered by Mr. Warburton's Bill, but the amount
remained. Now, what said a Cabinet Minister, Mr. Ma-
caulay. on this subject? tie did not know, however, whether
Mr. Macaulay was now in the Cabinet or not—nobody knew
that.—(A laugh.) But what said Mr. Macaulay? "It is
no part of the constitution of the kingdom," he said, " that -
the qualification should be exacted ; nor a consequence of the
Revolution. It was introduced by a bad Parliament, now
held in no great esteem, for the purpose of defeating Use Re-
volution and excluding the Protestant succession from the
Crown."—( Hear.) What did the Hon. Gentleman the
Member for North Warwickshire (Mr. Newdegate) think of
that?—(A laugh.) Another question upon which the Com-
mittee of four reported in 1831 was the duration of
Parliaments. —(Hear, hear.) Now he declared that
if ever there had been a serious infraction of the Constitu-
-lion, it was the passing of the Septennial Act. It was
-passed through one of the Whig horrors of the day. In
.1715 the great Whig houses wanted to make the people
'afraid of the Pretender, and therefore they passed this Bill,
which was not brought first into the House of Commons,
but into the House of Lords by the Duke of Devonshire,
enacting that Parliaments should last for seven 3-ears. It
was opposed by the Tory party in the House of Commons,
not certainly for very elevated reasons, for that assigned by
• Sir John Barnard was, that "county gentlemen should
always be returned to that House, and nobody else."—(Hear,
hear.) The Noble Lord would find that the average duration
of Parliaments since the reign of George 11. was 5i years.
The Septennial Act, therefore, he maintained had not, as
was said, practically worked as the old constitution; and be
further maintained that if the House stare antiquas vial,
wished to tread in the steps of the olden time, they must
repeal this law.—(Hear, hear.) Ile (Mr. Osborne) should
have been content to leave the question at this point, had it
not been that in the course of the discussion the other
night, the Noble Lord had said the Government of this coun-
try was not carried on for the benefit of the aristocracy. The
Noble Lord on that eoccasion quoted Tacitus. The Hon.
Member for West Surrey (Mr. H. Drummond), on the other
hand, quoted Dodd. He (Mr. Osborne) had also consulted
Dodd, and he found, according to Dodd, there were forty-two
boroughs 'still subject to local influence. • Of these. thirty-
three were under the direct influence of Peers, Eighteen
Members represented eleven Whig Peers, and twenty four
represented twenty-two Tory Peers. The Noble Lord knew'
the constitution of this country : he (Mr. Osborne) would de-
scribe it according to Dodd.— (A laugh.) The present House
contained six marquises, eight earls, twenty-one viscounts,
thirty-six lords, sixty-one baronets, and about a dozen
honourable misters, making about 274 Members connected
with the aristocracy in that House. Besides, there were
forty-four Members connected with the army, eight with the
navy, and eight holding official appointments. So that in the
whole there were no fewer than 334 individuals in that House
under the direct influence of the aristocracy. He did not
attack individuals, he only attacked the system; but be
must say, that things had arrived at such a pass in this
country, that it muse be declared the power of the aristocracy
had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminishel
—(Hear, hear.) Th hd all heard of family petitionta
and his Hon. Friend (Mrs flume) had been taunted widi,
the numbers, he presented. But what was the fact with
regard to the Government itself ? Was it not founded upee-
family arrangements? Look at the construction of the
present Cabinet. He would mention no names, but it ivec,,
notorious-that, with one exception, all the members of it
were connected together by the ties of blood or marriage'
They were a snug family party.—(A laugh.) They so far
differed from another exhibition, which was called the
Happy Family—(A. laugh)—that whereas that exhibition
was composed of distinct breeds, here they were all one, or
nearly so; and granting that the individual members of the
Cabinet were men of great knowledge and talent, he could
only account for the ricketty offspring they had brought
forward, in the shape. of legislative measures, by the feet
that the parents were all related.—(Hear, hear.) Then loci"
at their subordinates. They were all scions of the aristo-
cracy. And when the Noble Lord wished he might never,
see the day when the Howards and the Stanleys would
be in office-
Lord J. RUSSELL—I said nothing of the kind.
Mr. OSBORNE begged the Noble Lord's pardon. 1.116
Noble Lord' might wish to see the Howards and tile
Stanleys in office, for there were few of them in the public
service, and the country would riot object ; but the country
did object to see the Honourable Tom Noddint obtaining
some office for which he was totally unfit, while other IDIA°
of greater ability, but not of such high birth, were pasel,:,
over. There was an example in point. The son of ter
Honourable Friend (Mr. Hume) obtained an office e._
which he was, admirably fitted by capacity and educatiel
and immediately there was a hullabaloo in that House st!
the whole constitution were tumbling to pieces ; but 04
gentleman of the name of Russell obtained an appointnse"o,
nothing was said about it. The fact was that our Gov is
ment was the Government of a great family ; and he vie
just ask whether it had been very remarkable for its suce yo
in any one branch ? Was the Colonial Administration
ro
very prosperous ? Was the condition of our finances ITIA
promising ? Had the promises made to Ireland when uo
of office been kept whilst in office ? No.—(Hear, es
They were however kept in because none of tire greatafaniil„4
were prepared to take the Government. What was 07)
desired was a Government of practical men.—(Hear, Pelops
He had been much grieved at the closing remarks 104. e,
speech of his Hon. Friend the Member for Buckinghwnso.4
His Hon. Friend objected to this movement because he 70.
it was a middle-class movement, and that the best Goveo
ment was one of traditionary influences and great proll'eli'a
round which men might rally. When his Hon. kcelp
talked so sneeringly of the middle classes, he could not adoy
thinking he had strangely forgotten the very receetw of
when the-middle classes rallied round the small propertl.o..
the country, and' stood between the Government and to
lution.—(Cheers.) He wished his Honourable Erna offs
recollect that if this country was distinguished Of
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thing more than another, it was for the intelligene%;als
wealth of its middle classes; that they were the class ,disg
united the ornamental and polished parts of the be"tbeir
to the more solid but rude foundation ; that in fec!,,s
formed the cement which really preserved the institutwfora
the country. He (Mr. Osborne) should like to kneW2ces to
his Hon. Friend, what were the traditionary inflee",, De
which he referred? The only traditionary infleen;for
could find on reading the history was, that a Membe4ooo,
county was once superseded in his election to that _--""ost
because Clarencieux, king-at -arms, could not find his eitt.e
arms at the Herald's College. If there was another, it
that the Speaker was at one time obliged to sit in his shit
in a cocked hat. For the traditionary influences v.,7,70010
House, how far back would his Hon. Friend go? '.ocer,
he go to the reign of Edward 111. when onlYeell_.%le
Lancaster, sent a Member to that 'House in thjtjl
that county? Would In go back to the time of 1-160.7