The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1850.

maintain high prices for sugar, and compel the over-
toiled artiza❑ and miserable sempstress to devote a
portion of their hard earnings for the exclusive benefit
of a privileged body. The case is precisely similar
to that of the corn-laws, the only distinction being
that the parties for whose advantage the bread-tax
was imposed were the proprietors of land in the
United Kingdom, while those interested in high
sugar duties are the proprietors of land in the West
Indian Islands. The principle is exactly the same in
both instances, and we confess that we cannot Bee
how the boon now demanded could be consistently
granted by a Parliament which had, after mature de-
liberation, decided that henceforward duties should be
sanctioned for fiscal purposes only, and not for the
sake of protection.
The Monopolists and Protectionists are therefore
alike driven out of court. It is almost a work of
supererogation to adduce a single argument in answer
to the absurd demands of the former. The good old
times of monopoly have happily departed. It has
gone to " that bourne whence no traveller returns,"
and there are but few disinterested mourners over its
unhallowed remains. Jobbing in all its varied as-
pects has been ably denounced, and will no longer be
tolerated, more especially in its most flagrant and
abominable guise. The British nation has done all
that could possibly be expected at its hands to ex-
tinguish slavery throughout the civilized world.
It has not merely prohibited the abomination through-
out its own colonies and dependencies, but it has added
20,000,0001. sterling to its public debt in a single
session, as compensation for those who had em-
barked their capital in the speculation in consequence
of the supposed encouragement afforded by legisla-
tive enactments. It also brought all its influence to
bear upon the councils of neighbouring nations in
order to obtain their cordial co-operation in the un-
dertaking, and has even submitted to a heavy
annual drain, not only in money but in the
lives of our gallant seamen, to promote the
same philanthropical object. Bat all this is not
sufficient to gratify the Quixotic zeal of certain indi-
viduals. They would involve us in general hostility,
in order to carry on a mad crusade against all who
still connive at the " accursed thing." Common
sense was not, however, altogether banished from
England, and it was proved that there were certain
lengths to which even the most zealous " abolitionists"
would not go. The total exclusion of slave. grown sugar
would involve the country in a series of commercial
difficulties, from which it could scarcely extricate
itself without a rupture of friendly relations with
almost every nation. There would be but little con-
sistency in excluding slave-grown sugar while every
other description of slave-grown produce was ad-
mitted, or in banishing, as unholy, the muscovados of
Cuba, while we freely accepted the tobaccos and
cottons of America.

Another step having been taken last evening, in the
House of Lords, in the late advance movement of the
Sabbatarians, we are compelled to revert once more to
a subject which has become not one jot more obnox-
ious to the public at large, than it has to ourselves.
Those who imagine that we derive any satisfaction
whatever from reiterating our opposition to the ad-
vocates of Sunday stagnation, are marvellously mif-
taken. It is not only with a feeling of reluctance,
but with a feeling of absolute repugnance, that we
renew our antagonism to a body of men who
are, doubtless, many of them highly conscientious,
but who are at the same time so egregiously self-
opinionated that they are preparing the way by their
fanaticism for a general reaction of indifference. So
inevitable are the evil consequences of their recent
proceedings in Parliament, supposing those proceed-
ings to be effectually carried to the length of actual
development, so certain, to our thinking, is that re-
action of indifference, if not of positive irreligion,
that we shall not cease to protest against the whole
agitation as one of the grossest impiety and hypo-
crisy, no matter what the misconstruction of our in-
tentions or misapprehension of our sentiments.
In the admirable and argumentative speech de-
livered last night in the Upper House of Parliament
by Lord BROUGHAM, immediately upon that House
forming itself into a Committee upon the Sunday
Trading Bill, the Noble and Learned Lord warned
the advocates of the measure from the danger incurred
by their proposal, and one that would neces-
sarily defeat their own purpose, the 'danger
of rendering the religious observance of the Sunday
unpopular. There is wisdom in this argument;
there is common sense in it—it appeals irresistibly to
the understanding, and shows at once in most con-
spicuous colours the absurdity of the whole move-
ment. Render the Sunday unpopular with the
masses—as you must inevitably do by the enforce-
ment of such irksome and arbitrary regulations—and
its desecration will follow as a natural consequence.
Go a step beyond the limits of endurance in your do-
mineering bigotry, and the day which you would see
reverenced by the multitude will become an object of
general detestation. Let us glance at the nature of
some of the proposed ordinances of the Legislature
in this matter—and see how far the Sunday Trading
Bill is calculated to raise the popular idea as to the
dignity of religion. By this enactment it is to be
resolved that milk may be sold on Sundays, and that
cream may be sold on Sundays, but that no tea, or
coffee, or bread, or sugar, or butter can be bartered
between Saturday night and Monday morning. Call
you this religion ? What has butter got to
do with Christianity ? What has sugar got to do
with the adoration of the Divinity ? Are morals
affected prejudicially by tea ? Or is an orthodox be-
lief incompatible with coffee ? Surely there is some-
thing very disheartening and (we must say it) dis-
gusting in this miserable fribbling over the laws of
revelation—this wretched system of measuring out
the chances of salvation, as it were, by avoirdupois
weight 1 Surely there is something, moreover, as
ludicrous in the horror entertained in regard to the
sale of groceries on Sunday, as in that expressed
in regard to " chops and tomatta sauce" in the great
case of BARDELL versus Picx.wicx. But this is not
all. It is to be seriously decided by Parliament that
shaving and hairdressing are lawful operations before
ten o'clock, and unlawful operations after ten o'clock
henceforth upon all Sundays ! And are these deplo-
rable little absurdities viewed by any persons with sane
intellects as calculated to affect prejudicially or other-
wise the moral condition of humanity ? We must ac-
knowledge that we are depressed by proceedings tend-
ing so manifestly to bring reasonable sobriety into
disrepute, and to cover with contempt and derision the
divine and majestic lineaments of Christianity.

In illustration of the frivolity of the whole scheme
of the proposed enactment, Lord BROUGHAM re-
marked very emphatically upon the circumstance
that people will be permitted to purchase newspapers
on Sundays without any limitation whatever,
but that it will not be allowable on any
account to buy on those days either Prayer-
books or Bibles. So that, continued the
Noble and Learned Lord, a sporting journal might be
bought and people might read to their great edification
the betting on the Derby, and the course of Voltigeur
at Tottenham Corner : people might buy or read all
that and welcome—" but if they were to buy a Bible
or a Prayer-hook to go to church with they were pro-
hibited." So much for the very decent consistency of
the projected measure. No wonder Lord BROUGHAM
dreaded the possibility of seeing the Sunday Trading
Bill followed up speedily enough by a measure in
accordance with the spirit of that address, which on
Thursday evening had been voted in the Commons
House of Parliament, an address which he denounced
as at once " montrous and outrageous." No wonder,
when he was informed last evening by one of
the Members of the Upper House that the stop-
page of the Sunday trains and of Sunday labours
in the Post-office department formed no part of the
Bill then under consideration in Committee,
the Noble and Learned Lord exclaimed with
character istic indignation, " Does the Noble Lord
suppose ILm such an idiot as not to know that ? I
wonder what may be the measure which the Noble
Lord takes of my understanding when he supposes I
do not know that ! I know that such is not in this
Bill : but my fear is that a Bill to that effect will
follow the Bill now before Parliament." Thoroughly
and heartily do we enter into these indignant anti-
cipations, and thoroughly and heartily are we rejoiced
to find in the Upper House such a man as Lord
BROUGHAM the strenuous antagonist of the Sab-
batarians.

As to protection, we are convinced that it has been
as injurious to the West Indian planters as it has been!
to the inhabitants of this country. We believe that it'
occasioned a degree of carelessness and negligence,
that more than counterbalanced the increase of
prices. The same answer should be returned to those:
now seeking for it that has been given to the com-'
plaining farmer—" You are yourselves in fault—
adopt a better and more economical system of culti-
vation, and you will find that you can encounter any'
degree of competition to which you can possibly be,
exposed."

There is, however, every reason that the
absurd restrictions that have been adopted
with respect to black labour, in deference to the un-
reasonable demands of the " friends of the blacks,"
should be promptly removed. If wise and politic
regulations were adopted for the obtaining of free
labour, we have no doubt that it would be found to
be at least as cheap, if not actually more economical,'
than slave•labour. Let the friends of the West India
colonies, then, restrict themselves to this point. Let
them put forward no unreasonable pretensions, and
they will be supported by the great body of the
people, and their demands, being founded on truth
and justice, must ultimately prevail.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assembly on Thursday discussed the Bth
article of the electoral law, which settles the diffe-
rent categories of exclusion. One of the clauses of
this article deprives of the franchise writers who
have ever been condemned for their publications, and
all mendicants. M. VICTOR HENNEQUIN, the son of
the celtbrated Legitimatist advocate, combated this
clause, and reminded the Assembly that under its
operation BERANGER himself, the honour and glory
of France, would be deprived of the suffrage. Taut
mieux, was the exclamation of the brutally ignorant
Strelitz of the parti-pretre, who sat on the
right. It would also deprive of the suffrage
M. MICHEL CuEveraxit, one of the principal
writers in the Journal des Debats, Professor of Po-
litical Economy in the University of France, and the
author of several "honest and moderate" pamphlets
which had been published by the committee of the
Rue de Poictiers, but it would appear that even the
Journal des Debats is too democratic for these apostles
of ignorance, for the disfranchisement of M. MICHEL
CHEVALIER was hailed with shouts, and the article
was agreed to. We hope that this division will act
as a warning to M. Mrcum. CHEVALIER." and to all
men of his class not to prostitute their talents by
serving the parti-pretre, who never forgive their supe-
riority, and hate while they use them.
The National Assembly yesterday passed the Electoral
Bill. The following was the result of the ballot:—
Number of voters ... 674
Absolute majority 33g
For the Bill ... ... ... 433
Against it ••• ... 241

Majority in favour „. 192
The Patric announces the arrest of 50 Socialists,
who, when apprehended, were in the act of making
cartridges. The greater number of them had been
members of M. Louis BLANC'S commission at the
Luxembourg.
M. Micun, (de Bourges) has been commissioned*
by the committee of the Mountain to draw up a pro-,
test against the electoral law.
The Patric alludes to the subject of the Greek;
affair in the following terms :—" Lord NORMANDY
has not yet left Paris, as has been reported. The pro-
lono.bation of the stay of his Excellency is a proof that
the English Government intends to fulfil the satis-'
faction which it has promised to give to France."
It is said that the French Government has pro- tl
posed to leave it to the King of GREECE to determine,
whether he will accept the convention of Mr. Wygg:
or the treaty of London, and that Lord PALMERSTON:
has acceded to that proposition. Russia, it is said,l
has demanded explanations respecting the convention;
of Mr. Wysx, which it is contended is in contraven-'
tion of the treaty of the 18th of April, to which
Russia was a party.
Senor ISTURITZ has arrived in Paris en route for
London.

After a prolonged and interesting discussion, during
which the views of the different parties with respect
to the West India question were fully and com-
pletely developed, it was last night decided by the
House of Commons that free-trade principles should
not be abandoned—that monopoly should not be
sanctioned in the " corn of the tropics" any more
than in our home-grown produce. It was vainly
attempted to disguise the real question, to persuade
the representatives of the people that the point
at issue was not one of protection merely, but that
the only object to be attained was to inflict a " heavy
blow and great discouragement" upon the odious in-
stitution of slavery, which had been long discouraged
and eventually suppressed throughout the British
empire and its numerous colonies. The argument
was plausible, and some enthusiastic Free-traders
were seduced by the fallacies so freely put forward to
hvoowteeivnerf,aystoutierkofif
rtmhelyretosotlheiviro resolution.
lA. sufficient number,
an and the
there motion
was ultimately negatived by a otirmajoritys of f 41,
being 234 in its favour and 275 against it.
The question was debated and the resolution
supported on perfectly distinct and separate groundess
prices,
Uac class would give a perfect monopoly to
moderate,the
colo-
nies, and enable them to insist upon any
however exorbitant, by excluding all slave-grown
sugar from our markets. Others, more
`would be contented with the imposition of a dif-
ferential duty sufficient to ensure remunerative
prices to the West Indian producer, although he
should still persist in the careless and slovenly
system of cultivation for which he is, un-
fortunately, but too notorious ; while a third
party, infinitely more rational than their co-
adjutors, would content themselves with removing
the restrictions and disabilities by which the colonial
producers are encumbered, and wbicb, to a certain
extent, at lease, prevent them from fairly competing
with their most formidable adversaries the slave-
holding states. The two former classes Would

M. GUIZOT has left Paris.
The following are the principal items of the weekly
bank account

Ditto in the departn7ents ::: 3 Francs.
128,718 203
42,226,243
Bills in portfolio
Bills in branches ...
...
42,970,777
Bill 4 lying unpaid ,::: -• 66,285,527
of
. specie. ..
of
11b803u 96,129,6900t438
million.
There m
••• 885,285
Ditto in branches ... 1,363,325
Bank notes in'oirculation
Ditto in branches . 408,894,800
on
73,022,700
Credit to Treasury ... -• 40,282,683
Private credits ... ***
o.
The portfolio !shows an increase of discounted bills f
D is Ditto
oainn bibranches.. ... ~
about 3i millions for Paris, and upwards of -
three-
quarters of a million for the departments. The issue
of notes is greater for Paris by 21 millions, and .
The credit
quarter of a million for the departments. a
to the Treasury has increased a million. Private
credits are i million more for Paris, and as much for
the provinces, so that altogether there is under every
bead a marked improvement over the account of the
preceding week.
PARIS BOURSE, MAY 31.—Closing prices—Rentes,
Five per Cents., 92f. SOc. ; ditto, Three per Cents., 1
57f. 35c.; Blink of France, 2,190.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. MAY 31. _

Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Dutch Rhenish, 2)i,—Namur
and Liege, 6%—Northern of France, 13A; - Paris and Stras-
bourg, 6 t —Rouen and Havre, 814— Sambre and Meuse, 2
—Tours and Nantes, 2.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 26'h ult. have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
The Bolsa was closed.

GERMANY.
Accounts from Berlin of the 30th ult. state that
the KING'S health is improving, and that the fever has
abated. His spirits have never flagged. There is
no doubt entertained as to the insanity of the assassin.
The Berlin Constitutionnel has the following
Denmark has up to this moment not assented to the
last propositions of peace made by Prussia. It is con-
ievently asserted that the Prussian Governmeut will,

in case these propositions should not be promptly ac-
cepted, withdraw completely from the work (f pence."
On the 251 h, PriLICeSCHWARTZENBURGLI left Vienna
to join the Emperor of RUSSIA at Warsaw. The
Russian Ministers at Berlin ar.d at Vienna are also
gone to Warsaw.
Prince MicuArre RADzim died at Vienna on the
25th.

Prince .WIIcDISCIIGRATZ intends to retire to his es-
tates. It is said that he has declined the pecuniary
remuneration offered him for his services.

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, MAY 29.—The bulletin of this
morning respecting Prince AleurucE is very unsatis-
factory. The Prince had a very restless night ; the
fever ran high and the nervous symptoms increased.
Towards morning he became worse. _His case ex-
cites great appr'hension.
The Second Chamber, in its sitting this day, rassed
unanimously and without discussion the law relative
to the temporary maintenance of the divers laws and
9rdinances of the province of Liwburgh.—Journal du
Commerce d' Anvers.

BELFAST, MAY 30.—Wind S.—Arrd. Rolla, Macin-
tyre, Birbadoes. Sld. Argyle, New York.
PILL, MAY 31.—Wind E.—Sld. Hugh Bal:me;1, New
York.

NEWPORT, MAY 31.—Wind N.F.—Sld. W■sp, Wil-
mington, N. C.; Rover, Richmond, United States; Thor-
waldsen, Quebec.

CARDIFF, MAY 31.—Wind E.—Sld. Symmetry, ACM-
pulco.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm
at full prices. Sales about 10,000 bales, of which 4,000
were taken on speculation and export.—Railway Shares
were in brisk demand at higher quotations.
The accumulation of assets at the Bank of England
progresses with the quarter, and thole is no greattr
opening for the employment of them. The public eln-
posits are larger, and the private balances are likewise
twat:tented. The bullion is fast verging again towards
seventeen millions, an enormous amount to be CODCCD-
trawl even in a national establishment, though the Bank
of France appears to be almost equally well situated in
this respect. Tne re'ult tf a comparison with the pre-
vious week's return is as follows:
Notes is,ut d
Decrease
Rest

... 29,927,240
••• 35.765
... 3,067,271
42,541
7,287,063
522,648
... 9,08 436
25,437
... 1,156,875
••• 34,016
... 14,316,185
24,015
9,697,076
49 316
Notes ... 10,884 67.5
Increase ... ... 390,195
Bullion ... 16,701,949
Increase 70,869
Active Circulation ... 19,042,565
Decrease 425,960
There WRB a slight advance yesterday in the rates
at which Bills cf Exchange were negotiated on the
principal continental cities. Ninety days' Duper was
taken at 25 721 to 771 on Antwerp, at 25 72} to 75 on
Paris, 1214 to I on Frankfort, and 12 26 to 28 on
Trieste.
The exports of the precious metals from London
during the week to Thursday last were 39,000 ounces
of silver, and 3,039 ounces of gold, the greater part of
the latter being to the Mauritius.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts are
encouraging, and there is a be,ter feeling.
The Amsterdam Stock Market was very buoyant
again on Thursday.
The Funds are still rising, and there is a very Bullish
disposition among the speculators. The French news
gives satisfaction. Consols have been 964 4, New
Three.and-a-Quarter per Cents, 97i 4, and the Re-
duced Three per Cents. 951 Bank Stock is at 2074.
Exchequer-bills have been 68s. to 715., and India
Bonds 86s. premium. East India Stock is quoted 2671
to 2694.
In the Foreign Market there is not much doing.
Spanish Three per Cents. are firm, at 38 ; Portuguese
Four per Cents. have been 331 ; Mexican, 304 to 311,
and Brazilian 88.
Shares are improving.

Decrease ... ... ...
Public Deposits ... ~, .„

li.crease
Other Deposits ~.
Increase • . •••
Seven Day and other Bills

Decrease ...
Government securities

Increase ... ... ...
Other Securities ... ... ..
Decrease ... ... ...
__

Consols ... ... ..
Ditto, Account, June 12 ...

QUARTER TO THREE.
... 961
... 96i I
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
danti `tuck
3 or Cent. Reduced Arns ..... 93 I,( 951,..2
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96%3/4 96%
Sew 314 per Cent. Anns... ..... 971g/8% 97%
Lone: Anna. to expire J an. 1860
_ .

Ditto 30 year:, Jan. 5, 1860. B% 8 7-16 8 7-16
India Stock
!Ituipt Bonds, 1,000/. B6 p 86 p
Ditto under 1,000~..
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ...... .
Coubuls for Account 965431h34% 96%
E ,chequer 13il1s. 11%d. es 2d
1,000!. June 6B p 68 p
500!. June . .. ..... .... 71 p 71 p
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
B rt. ziiian tionus
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Scrip
Mexican, :> per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan., Coupons .... .....
Ditto, Account 3ll 30% 30%
Peruvian Bonds, Oh per Cent— —
Ditto, Account
Ditto Deferred: 3314 331/4
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.

Ditto, Account . 33
Russian Bonds ... ---

33
106%

Ditto, 414 per Cent
Ditto Scrip' 3 31,E p 31/s P
Spanish 5 per Cont. 184 U
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account ........ .... — 33

Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 211 per Cent.. 12 Guild. .. ......
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates... 85
Plt ICES OF
PAID. BU 6IN ESS DONE' CLOr• IN G
RAI f..WAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE .
, berdeen
Bristol and Exeter 100 ... ..
Ditto, Thirds .... ..... 33i
' uckingharoshire
Caledonian
110. New 10/. Pref
Cheiter and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Prefrrmce
'ast Anglian, 25/., L. Sr
E. and L. and D...... 25
Ea.atern Couptios... ..... 20 , ...... 7%1/2 111 7%
Eastern Onion Class A
(lateE:e. Shares) 25

Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... ... .. 16 L,i,
F,dinbargh and Glasgow 50 ...... 27 27%
Great Northern.
Do., % A Deferred ... 12%
Do., % B 6 per Cent... 11% 734.... 75,4
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12% lO3
rvat North of England.loo ......
Ditto. Nevi, 30/ 3O - • ••• •• 66%
Great WeStern 100
Ditto, New 171... ..... 15 ... .. 8 x.n. 7% x.n
Lancaster and Carlisle—. 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100
Do. Quarters ......... 23% 834 B%
Do. Fifths....
Do. Thirds ....... ........ 18
Lo. (W. Hiding Union) 11 % 3% 3'4
Leeds and Bradford
London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... 4%.... ....... ... 4%
"L )ndon, 'Brighton, and
South Coast... .....'IOO
London and N Western 100...107 lOS 106% 107% 107%
Ditto,'New Quarters 12 ...... 12% 11% 12 l2
Ditto, Fift?-)..
Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. I ...,.. i %...........
London 5. S.W. zt*rn ..100
...... ...
uo., New Preference. 6
&I anchetter, Shoth(ld,
end Lincolnshite ..100
Ditto, New IC/. Pref... 10
Midland ....... ..... ......100 . 37 38 ...... ..
Do., 50/. Sb.ares ..... 30 ..... 4% 4 4%
Doßirm..:and Derby 1(0
' Do. Consolid. Bristol &
Birruing., 6 per ct.... 100 ..... 119% 119'4.
North British ...........25 ...... 7% 8 7Ta 7sa'
i
Ditto Preference
North Staffordshire ... 17% 28% • 1:1%
Oxf4Td, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate ' 15 ' 15%
' Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Nina... 1314 ' 83/4 di5....... .. 8% die
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
South Kast.,.,
Do., Registered No. 4 10
Wear. Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... ... ..... 60
Do. do. do. ... 25 ......25 ... ........... ... 2554
Wilts,Somerset,& Wey-
mouth ... ..... — 5 O 4O ... ...• 40
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... --....... 25
Do. Newcastle Exten. 20
Dc. G.N.E.Preforence 8 ... —1% 3/4% ll4
York arid North Midland 50
Ditt4, Preference ...... 10
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)... 20 ...... 13% I
Namur and Liege ....... 20 ... ... 7LA .. ...
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Strasbourg ... 13
Rouen and Havre ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. -

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of London .... .10 ...... 12%
MINES.
Brazilian Imperial
Do. St. John Del Rey 15

PEMBROKE, MAT 28..—The Triumph, 77, long
used as a lazaretto at this port, was docked: to-day for the
purpose of being taken to pieces. The Board of Admiralty
have ordered the work to be done by their own men belong-
ing to the dockyard, instead of hiring extra persona, as here-
tofore. The Fame, another 74, long used here as a tempo-
rary marine barracks, is also to be broken up, a precautionary
measure of the utmost importance, as she is, from repeated
" pitchings and tarrings," Become such a mass of combustible
matter, that the slightest spark would throw her in a blaze,
and with her, possibly, the whole of this important dock-
yard. She is now only used for a temporary hospital. A
proper infirmary is forthwith to be built for the troops of the
garrison,

GRAND REVIEW OF THE ENROLLED PENSIONERS
BY THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, LORD GOUGE, &C.— In
consequence of an order issued from the Adjutant-General's-
office, appointing this day (Saturday) for the grand review
of the enrolled Chelsea Pensioners of the metropolitan dis-
tricts, that event took place this morning, in Hyde Park.
The number of pensioners amounted to 7,800 rank and file.
Precisely at half. past ten o'cleck the line was formed, and
soon atter the Duke of Wellington, Prince Leiningen, Lord
Gough, Lord Fitzroy Somerset (Military Secretary), and
several General and Staff officers arrived, and here received
with the customary military honours, the bands playing the
National Anthem. As soon as Lord Gough was recognized
a simultaneous cli?er arose from the assembled veterans. The
line having been inspected, several evolutions were then per-
formed with very great precision, subsequent to which firing
took place. The line was again formed, when another
general salute was given, and the men were marched to their
respective quarters.

. -
POOR-LAW RELlRF.—According to a Parliamen-
tary paper, yesterday printed, there were on, the 28th of
February as many as 384,848 persons in -Ireland receiving
poor•law relief—comprising 239,682 in workhouses and
145,160 out of workhouaes.

SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE l, 1850.

ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.)
The M aster of the Rolls heard petitions and consent (wee
to-day, b.it nothing of the slightest interest except to the
parties concerned came before his Lordship during the
morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
ROBSON V. LORD BROUGHAM.
The further arguments in this part-heard case were re-
sumed to-day, and occupied the Court the whole morning.
The case came before his Honour upon exceptions to Lord
tlrougham's answer on the ground of impertinence. The
plaintiffs are the firm of Robson and Company, of South-street,
Grosvenor-square, coach -makers, who filed their Lill against
the Noble Defendant and Mr. Ellice as executors of the late
Lord Melbourne, for the specific performance of a contract
entered into between Lord Melbourne and the plaintiffs for
the hire of three carriages for seven years from 1848.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE. )
His Honour heard cause petitions to-day, but no case
callinir for a special report came before the Court during the
morning.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court sat in Banco and took the Crown paper. The
whole morning was occupied in hearing the case of the
Queen v. the Tithe Commissioners of England and Wales,
which involved a question of tithes, but presented no feature
of interest to justify a detailed report.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Justices MAuLE, CnEsswELL, and
TALFOURD; and at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice WIL-
LIAMS and a Common Jury.)
The cases which were brought before both the Courts this
morning were entirely uninteresting.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
( Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
THE QUEEN V. POUND AND ANOTHER.
Mr. BALLANTINE applied to the Court for a rule to show
cause why a writ of procedendo should not issue to restore
an indictment, which had been removed from the Old Bailey
into this Court, to its original position. The indictment had
been removed by certiorari, which was granted on an affi-
davit made by the accused parties, stating that the case in-
volved intricate points of law, and they were, therefore,
anxious to have the matter tried in the Queen's Bencb,
where they could obtain the assistance of gentlemen emi-
nent at the bar. The affidavit represented that they had
been committed for trial by Mr. Arnold, the police magi-
strate, on a charge of obtaining money under false pre-
tences from a person named Newman; but so far from the
pretence being a false one, the fact was that the one defend-
ant had represented what was really the case, that when the
other defendant attained his majority he would be entitled
to considerable property. Now, so far from this being a
correct version of the false pretence, the truth was that
Pound had obtained between 7004 and 80i /. from Mr. New-
man, by representing himself to be an attorney-at-law, act.
ing for and on behalf of Jenkins, the other defend-
ant, and by, producing a spurious document pur-
porting to be the will of Jenkins's father, whereby Jen-
kins would become entitled to 20,0001. on his reaching the
age of 21. It was, however, ascertained that although Jen-
kins's father died leaving a will, it contained no mention
whatever of any such sum as 20,000/., while Pound was
not a solicitor, nor had he any connexion with the legal
profession. The indictment in the case contained two
counts, one of them charging the defendants with obtaining
the money under false pretences, and the other charging
them with a conspiracy, and it was that portion of the in-
dictment relating to the latter charge which had been re-
moved into this court. The other charge could not be
removed, and it would, therefore, have to be tried at the Old
Bailey, thereby putting the prosecutor to so much trouble
and expense that ultimately the ends of justice might alto-
gether be defeated.

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN asked why the indictment con.
tained the two counts?

Mr. BALL&NTINE replied that one of the prisoners was
not present when the false pretence was resorted to, and
the count for conspiracy had been inserted in the indictment,
to prevent his escape on that technical point.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN put it then to the Learned Coun-
sel whether he had not better delay the Old Bailey trial till
the indictment for conspiracy had been disposed of.
Mr. BALLANTINE said, really and truly the defendants bad
been committed for the higher offence of obtaining money
under false pretences, and as the case would be tried before
two judges, who had the power of reserving any point of law
that might arise for the consideration of the Criminal Court
of Appeal, he did not think it was fair to make the prosecution
liable for the expenses of two trials. The defendants had been
admitted to bail in sureties of 1,0001. each, and themselves in
2,0001. each, and they would have ample opportunities of
getting up their defence at the Old Bailey.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said he would take time to con-
sider the application.

CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEAL.
( MIS DAY.)
(Before the Lord Chief Justice WILDE, Mr. Baron ALDER-
SON, ➢ir. Justice PATTESON, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, and
Mr. Baron PLATT.)
QUEEN V. THE REV. MOORTIOUSE JAMES.
The defendant in this case was a clergyman of the Church
of England, and was found guilty of misdemeanour at the
last Liverpool Assizes for refusing to marry Henry Fisher
and Ann Hardman, on the ground that they bad not been
confirmed, though they had complied with all the regulations
which the law prescribes as necessary previous to the so-
lemnisation of marriage. At the trial several legal objections
were taken to the indictment and to the nature of the pro-
secution, and on each of those objections an appeal was
allowed to this court by Mr. Baron Alderson, before whom
the case was tried.

Mr. Buss, with whom was Mr. Baddoley, was now
heard in support of the appeal, and contended, on
various grounds, that the conviction ought to be quashed.
The main points upon which he founded his arguments were,
first, that if there was a refusal to marry without sufficient
reason it was not an indictable offence, but an offence against
the ecclesiastical law ; and, secondly, that the refusal on the
ground that the parties had not been confirmed, was a re-
fusal which a clergyman of the Church of England was justi-
fied in making. The defendant also availed himself( f several
minor reasons in support of his refusal, among which were
that the parties had not made a sufficient demand to be mar-
ried, that they were under age, and had not obtained the
consent of their parents, and that ;here was no proof of the
church in which the defendant officiated having been regu-
larly appointed for the celebration of marriages. Mr. Bliss, in
the course of his arguments, contended that the fact of a Kr-
son not having been confirmed was a lawful and sufficient
impediment to the celebration of a marriage by a clergyman
of the Established Church, and with the view of proving this
alluded in detail to the formula of the Church, to the Liturgy,
Rubrick, and Canons, as well as to the opinions of eminent
divines on the subject. From the very nature of things
there was an inherent and necessary power in the officiating
minister in all religious rites, not to administer those rites
unless there was a proper degree of fitness in the persons
who were to receive them, and this was peculiarly so in the
marriage ceremony. There should be grace in the parties who
were to be joined together in holy matrimony, and though
marriage could no longer be considered as a sacrament, it

was a religious act, or 1' an excellent mystery" as it was
termed, in which no person ought to have the right of parti-
cipating, unless they brought to it a certain degree of fitness
with regard to faith and Christian instruction. The Learned
Counsel observed, that if the Court did not sanction the view
which he took of the authorities he had quoted, the Church
would be placed in a very singular and unfortunate predica,,
ment.

Mr. enclurrox having been heard in support of the con
viction,

The COURT intimated that it was of opinion that the tech-
nical objections of the defendant, viz., that there was not
proof of a sufficient tender or demand to be married, and that
the indictment did not aver that the parties were legally en.
titled to be married, had been sustained, and accordingly
directed that the conviction should be quashed.
The ATTOILNEY.GENERAL, who also appeared on the part
of the Crown, applied to the Court to express an opinion
upon the general question, whether a clergyman was com-
pelled to marry parties who had not been confirmed.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said the Court did not think it neces-
hry to do so.
Conviction quashed accordingly.