The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

QUARTER TO THREE.

Consols ••• •• •••
Ditto Account ••• •••

... 96i 7 ex.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
;lank :Mock ...
3 e- Cent. Reduced Anna
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities- -... 963/474 x d 96% x d
New 34 per Cent. Ann 5....... -...... 9g 99 98% 99
uong Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o ...... 8 5-16 8 5-16
non, Bonds, 1,0004
Ditto under 1,000: ..... .
Consols for Account 96%8 %
..2.: a c h e q u e r Bills. NO. et 2d
1,0001. June 67 70 p
Small. June
5001. June ........... 67 70 p

90 p

70 p
70 p
70 p
CLOSING
PRICES.

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 Der Cent.
Grenada Bonds, 11/2 per Cent 18743 % 18%
Liexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...
Ditto. Account
Peruvian Bonds, Ph per Cent
Ditto. Account
Ditto, Deferred .. 3614 36 36
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 —
Dividends on the above payable in London
_ _ _

30
301 A

34
173/4

French Rentes, 5 per Cent 95f. 1214 c 95f. 1214 c
Exchange

Liu= 21Aper Cent., 12 Guild. 57% 5636 57% 57% x d
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certifieates... 88%% 881/2

x'RICES OF PAID. BUSINESS NONE CLOt•IN-.
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen ... 50
Do. Preference Bi
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly .

paid, or with a guaran. 20
3 ticking hamshire ...... 17%
Caledonian
Cheater and liolyhead... 50 ...... 9 ,-,4 U ....
0 iarE nee
Jublin and Belfast Junc. 42 %,......
astern Counties...
Ditto ditto, No. 2-61. 13s. 4d... %1x p...• % p
East Lincolnshire, guar.

_
6 per Cent.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 24
;reat Northern
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref 12% lo)i%
reat South. and West.
(Ireland) ... 5O .• •••
Ditto, Eighths ll4l l%
reat Western 100
Ditto, New 1'71........ 15 ... _. 7%
Hall and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... .
Laucashirett Yorkshire 11,0.

i 9%
24%
10
10%

1%
t 914
96;4
,

Do. Fifths... ....... ... 11
Leeds and Bradford OU
Loniion, Brighton, and
South Coast... --lOU ...... 831% E3 k/8
i ,io.Guarani. 6 per ct.. 9 ...... 11%
Do. Prefer. 5 per sent. 50
...... 59
Ditto ditto.-- 1852 50 •• ••• 59% • 59%
Lou,iori and N. Nv eitern 100 109% % ............ 109%
Ditto, New Quarters 12 12% %. •• ........ 12%
Ditto, 1! ittna
London -,- z..l.V,stern ICO ..... 58 56% 57...,. 57
Do., New Preference
Ancliu, ioi,Bux.tori,and
-)atit;ck...
Midland .
:.)„. 601. Bhar•ki, --
Do. Consolid. Bristol &

Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 ....,.123 ~... 123
north British .. .. .25 ...... 6
......... ••• 6
iteading, Guildford,.. and
. Reigate
',cystou and Hitchin ... 41,x.. ... 5X3
Sitiewsbury & Chester
(Nur. W. Ain. ).. 20
•••
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. to
~t.tv,i, East*r
Do., No. 3 ..... . ~.... 30 ...... ..... "*"
Do.. Rf•gistered No. 4 10 ...- —***
So Ath tr ales
Wear Valley 6 per Cent
Guaranteed ...
Do. do. do. ... 25
L Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ...--- 25 — .... ....•
ors and North Midland st)
0.1 Newcastle Exton. 20
195 k %IA
...... ..............
il' °REIGN RAIL w...k, !
20
Boßoulogne
ao
and
anddv Francei ii e n ar z ioet
.u0)3.. r ..
....
20
.
East Indian ......
8
L isembourg
Ditto. ..
10 ...... 254.. . . . ...... .. .
... ...
North ,rn of France
Orleans and ”ordeaux.. 7
Paris and Strasbourg ... 13
Rouen and Havre
Tours and Nantes ).,1 •••.., 2%7,i ..
....,

1514
51/2

12%
14%
14%
22%

26

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS
I ONDON, JULY B.—Wind S.W., fresh breezy an
°
Clotufy.
DUBLIN, JULY 6.—A box about two feet square;
marked M. W., containing cotton handkerchiefs, via'
picked up 19th April off Courseille.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY s.—Some pieces of wreck Oa
large quantity of plank, apparently the whole cargo
a s esst I, were passed 24th March off Staten Island.
FALMOUTH, JULY 7.—Arrd. Crane packet, 111'611'-
Off port, Hercules.
MUMBLES ROADS.—Arrd. Ann Smith, Hogg, I°l°,
laide, huuth Australia; Gratitude, Smith, ditto.
ABERYSTWITH, JULY 6.—Wind S.W.--Arrd.
Elz
beth, Clayton, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 7.—Arrd. Canada steamer, Bos"i
left 26th, and Halifax, 27th June.
CLYDE, JULY 6.—Wind W.—Arrd. Eleanor, Grovel::
Mauritius; Perthshire, Kid, St. John's, New Brunsvitc„
John Ker, Morrison, ditto; Anna and Isabella, A113',1
Birbadoes; Southampton, Flint, St. John's, New Brun;;;
wick. Sld. Alexander, Boston, United States; Arine,',.;
Hill, Montreal; Fingaton, Quebec; Rearewshire, dit'
Sir Charles Napier, ditto.
DUBLIN, JULY 6.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Caroline,
Chyno, Barbaioes. rd.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 6.—Wind S.W., strong.----A r
0;
Monarch, Stephens, Callao; Freedom, Knox, Bur fir
Albion, Dale, St. John's, New Brunswick, and sailed
Dublin; Amherst, Miller, Rio Grande; Ida,
Callao, for Liverpool; Rolla, Rattray, St. John's, Sell"
toundland. 116
OFF SClLLY.—Laurent, Havannah; 28th, Wet„o,
R. Jones, New York, for Elsinore; 29th, Cour"-
Bbhia, for Gotfrenburg. bed
KILRUSH, JULY 6.—Wind W.—Arrd. Jessie, Que"
Eden Fowstal, St. John's, New Brunswick. tigt
BELFAST, JULY 6.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Corio,s,o
Quebec. aE
STROMNESS, JULY 3.—Wind Frio°
mi,too

.)

•-•
Wales, Herd, Hudson's Bay.
dlf'
DUNDEE, JULY s.—Wind variable.—Arr •
Miramichi.
Bum., JULY 6.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd Worcester, ---"rd:
DEAL, JULY 6.—Wind N. W. to S.S.W. and S.---11`r •
11) d, rabad, Castles, Singapore; Rosa, Bienvenue, Sv6otirt
ri'ius. Arrd. from the Rivar British Tar,
Natal.' Arrd. from the River and sailed Gocle'r
Adelaide, S. A. &c. Sailed, the whole of the °OW°
bound except the Marion for Maulmein. -t46
ad
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 6.-1\ ind -
Dawson, H.ll, Behring's Straits. ft
COWES, JULY 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. CD`e-511'
Edward, Canon. Sailed, Evan Dumas, Illarobur*
Jaburg, Buenos Ayres.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA

CORN EXCHANGE.—(MONDAY'Irr
The country markets, held on Saturday, were;:b
iv
moderately supplied with English Wheat, in "$0
strady business was transacted, at, in some instancemog
advance in the quotations of Is. per quarter. In 81%0
Corn comparatively little was doing, but fine for.e.bi a.
Wheat, as well as Flour, were quite as dear, lII'
good consumptive inquiry. t 018
Letters from New York to the 27th ult. state til-diaa
inquiry for Flour was inactive; but Wheat and -113iery
Corn moved off freely. In the continental ports, "Too
newt ransactions worthy of notice have taken planeltrae
our market, last week, the receipts of all articles of ","01
produce were small. From abroad, the arrivals alnenuilep
to 12,625 quarters of Wheat, 3,383 ditto of n
of
8,778 ditto of Oats, 3,980 ditto of Beans, 854 oit ;osfl
Peas, 560 ditto of Peas, 1,255 ditto of Linseeed m 984
ditto of Rapeseed, 110 ditto of sundry Seeds, 1,
sacks, and 1,903 barrels of Flour. tbil
The quantity of Wheat received fresh up .- wag
morning's market, from Essex and Kent, coastvilt% rota
unusually steal', but of full average quality. that
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, &c., the arrivals c_,-nief
grain, coastwise, as well as by land carriage and se°'.,red
were limited in the extreme. The stands being ',pa
scantily supplied, the attendance of both Londello.,-0
country buyers on the increase, and the late heavy gibe
having laid extensive breadths of wheat in tionrild,
whole of our large districts, the demands for all 1013, is
English Wheat was decidedly brisk, at an advnef;en
the quotations of Monday last, of fully 2s per
and at which a clearance was speedily effected. ship
few offers came to hand from the East coast to
Wheat, except at is to 2s per quarter more money' atili,
With really fine foreign Wheat we were see7,o4
supplied. The leading millers purchased largelYvybe
the quotations improved 2a per quarter. 1110
middling and inferior kinds, an increased basin"s
transacted at is per quarter more money.
Scarcely a sample of English Barley was br°"011
forward, and the supply of foreign was comparWo
small. All kinds were a steady sale, and the 10f
favour of the sellers.
We had a limited quantity of Malt on 5h0w...„411
inquiry ruled firm, and late rates were well oliPrA
in every instance. The supply by railway has fill'e"n-se'
A very limited quantity of Oats on the marke'd Pet
lected and dry qualities improved in value quite 6 091
quarter. All other qualities was quite as dear ne
week. er,
The sale of Beans was far from active; 11-110
theless, the quotations ruled steady. Peas, the sUPP,;IeI
which was moderate, moved off slowly at last °—
currency.

Inclia-n Corn was held with more firmness. . 14'
The Flour trade was firm, and foreign qualitleg
'limed is per sack.
CURRENCY PER RAL A. °
0 t° 6 4
Whist—Essex & Kent IMPEM I MESURE
, . alt—Chevalier.. ••• • 50
lied, New.... 38s to 43s Oats—Yorkshire and lit
Ditto, White, New 429 50s Lincolnsh., Fesd •IN 01
ts 4
Norfolk and Lin- Potato ...... •• • • '
coin, Red..... 375 423 164
Youghal and Cork, to ,
Ditto, White .•• • 398 44s Black .••• • • • ;40 la
Irish, Red ——• • • . 39s 43s Cork, White .•• • • 170- ,,'",",
Ditto,White •.• • • . 42s 45s Scotch, Feed. •••• ,4 gl
.tya—old ............ -- s —a Beans—Tick ........•
2.9: Poi
New. •••••• • • • • • • 20s 22s Pigeons .••.••• • •^ 04 06,
.tarley—Grinding . .... 19s 21s Peas—Grey .. ••• • • • •",245 '
Malting . ........ 23s 25s Maple. ••••• • • • " "30 V
. 2 4
Boilers White. . ..
: : : : : ••
•• .2543
Chevalier •• . • •.• 25s 26s
Malt—Suffolk and Nor-
folk .. .. .. .. .. .. 43s 48s Flours—uffToolkwn.:m..a.d. 0.::: 9:7.48 ito
Brown .—••• . • • • • 405 42s
Kingston and Ware 46s 505 Stockta & Norfolk -

SEEDS. Bell
For the time of year, our market to-clay has been iS
supplied with Seeds, in which only a limited busli!""gto
doing at barely stationary.prices. Cakes are offerl"
som,-what lower terms.
gs
Turnip,White, per bush. lOs to lls Carraway • • ...• • •• • 068 9* 1
1
Red Brownn.... 10s 12s Coriander .... • ... •• • • ,24
bjl
Mustard.... ••
8s lls flempseed, per quarter -45 4j,
White .......... Os 8s Linseed, Eng. lowing"' !OS 10
fares, Spring ........3s 6d 4s 6d Crushing .. ••• • •
Baltic ••• Al 4
Canary, per quarter • • 74s 82s Odessa • • ...... • • ,04
Rye grass.. ... ••• • • 20s 21s Linseed Cake, pr. 1,000- 0, 0
Clover, RegEni,. (cwt.) 35s 50s English .••• • 81 0„.5., 7/ ,04
White 34s 48s Foreign, per ton 51 41,0
Foreign Red.... • • 33s 50s Rape Cakes, pr ton 4151, 361
White.... 32s 50s Rapeseed, New, pr Ist 321 v 5
Trefoil :.............. its
101 SMITECIIIELD-

The importations of foreign stock into London The
week was very moderate and of inferior qualitPu. cot'
total supply did not exceed 2,747 head. During tif,
responding period in 1849 we received 3,974, and 'o"eipli
same week in 1848 3,233 head. In 1847, the re'
amounted to 3,382 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST Witsir, rig!'
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves• 14
Harlingen 103 ... 479 .. 100 ••• 12
Dordt.. l9 33 •••
Hamburgh 89 ... 300 ."
Amsterdam •••
Hjerting
Rotterdam
Antwerp 16 •••

Nieu Diep ... 36 ... 133 ... •••
bi

Total 498 ... 1,622 ... 198 ... 380 *•
Corresponding
weekinlB49 556 ... 2,825 ... 81 ... 487 ."
Same week in • /
1848 .....
About 800 head have been landed at the outports a 6v
Holland and France. From Ireland 51 Oxen Pr itO#
Sheep have arrived for this market by sea. 1/11,000:
portation of preserved meat, consisting of 33,033 "TIPI
ters and 720 boxes, has taken place from Galati'
show of foreign stock here to-day was not largel"
the arrivals of Beasts from our own grazing di,led
00
were on the increase, compared with those repor'4o IVA
Monday last. Their general quality, however,
no means first-rate. The attendance of both toflo4
country buyers being good, the Beef trade ruled ot;ioe,
and, in some instances, the primest Scotr, &c., Pro.
rather more money, the highest figure for Beef 13/0g
0;
10d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and en"
bridgeshire, we received 1,600 Scots, HomehreuP
Short horns; from Lincolnshire and Leicestershire'rioo
Short horns; from other parts:of England, 400 of vliscoll
breeds; and from Scotland, 120 horned and polled to 01
There was a considerable increase in the nunibactl°
Sheep, owing
to which, the Mutton trade was leas
than of late, and the quotations were with di!000
supported. The extreme value of the best old
was 4s per 81bs. We had a moderate inquiry for l'-ott's
in the prices of which wo have no change to reir
Prime small Calves moved off steadily at full quots 00
Otherwise the Veal trade ruled heavy. In Pegs'
supply of which was good, very little was doing.
b. P I
Per albs. to sink the offal.
N. d• r' s
a. d. to s. d,
Inferior Beasts... 2 6 2 8 Inferior Slump •• •2 10 3
Second quality •••• 2 10 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 f,
Prime large Oxen •• 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 4
Prime Scots •••• • • 3 8 310 Southdown blether 31. 0
i.arge coarse Calves 2 6 210 Ditto out of the wool 0
Prime small ditto • • 3 0 3 6 Large Hogs •••• • • 3 2 4
suckling Calves •• 18 0 22 0 Small Porkers •• -• 3 t! 40
Lambs •• •• •••• • • 4 0 5 0 Quartar old Pigs ..16

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I
Sheep. I Calves. I 2y5
3,324 32,590 345
FOREIGN SUPPLY. rig°.
Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I
129 560 I 205

NEV7GATE AND ZZIADENNAZZie V,
Scarcely any supplies of coufitry-kilted meat Iso"
been received up to these markets since blonds,' 0 ill,
but those offering slaughtered in the metropolis Wig 00
creased to some extent. Prime Beef, Muttoettber,
Lamb, command a steady sale at very full prices; °it
wit() the demand is in a sluggish state. The oh°
torelgti meat is small. 0,
At per stone by the Carcase. d. to °;l4
a. d. to s. d. I a.
tieef,lnferlor •. 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior •• 9 Si, 510
middling •• •• 2 6 2. 8 I middling•• 3 3
primelarge .• 210 3 0! prime •• •• 3 6 0 0
prime small .. 3 2 3 4 I Pork, large— •• •• •• 9 140 4
Veal•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 2 8 3 41— small •••• •• 3 -
Lamb, 34 10d to 4s 10d.
~pt
BOROUGH AND SPITA.LSIEIMO:AO
The arrivals of foreign Potatoes at the water-61—
week were 2,021 baskets from Rotterdam, 36 ditt° Apr
Boulogne, 1,300 ditto from Havre, 150 ditto floor 00;
werp, 200 ditto from Dordt, and 1.000 ditto froTboath
kirk, form a total quantity of about 400 tons. Alt retrii;
the supplies of English are considerable on the in° reel'
the demand is active at from 41. to 141. per cwt. Senior.,
any Old Potatoes are offering. The last io3por_ntso,
abroad sold at from 201. to 251. per ton. Our nu':

respecting the general appearance of the crop, both here
And on the continent, are very !.r.vouratle.

nivii.ouctrait la_ct..P.MET.
The plantation accounts being very 14vourible, the
the supply duty has alvanced to 180,000/. I,Jotwithstanding
..ue --
of Hops on offer is very moderate, the general
demand is heavy, and prices are not supportel Mid
end Illst Kent pockets, 81 to 101; of Kent ditto,
6l
t° 71 7s; Sussex ditto, 51 5s to 61 6s ; Yearlings,
1115 s to 41; Old Hops, 1/ to 3/. per cwt.

'OOL.
The imports of WoolW iuto London, last week, were
very extensive, viz., 2,000 bales from llobart Town;
323 ditto from Port Beaufort; 15 from Constantinople;
128 from rlamburgh; 6.500 from Sydney, 765 from Ade-
;tide; 143 from the Cape; , 124 from Alexandria; 169
ireal Mondore; 14 from Odessa; and 233 bags from
rehnd• 'The public sales will not be brought to a close
!ill the end of the present week. Those held since our
1”t report have been well attended by buyers, and nearly
the whole of the Wool off:red has changed hands, at
about opsning prices. British Wool is in fair request
itl t
the private contract market; but all other kinds are
Zeglected.

TALLOW.
Advices from St. Petersburgh, dated the 29th ult.,
bandshat about 8,000 casks of Tallow had changed
8t at 109 to 110 roubles, with a steady market.
thee our last report the demand has ruled heavy, and
Prices have given way quite 3d per cwt. To- day P.Y.C.
ea thethe spot is selling at 36s 93, and for delivery during
t three months, 37s 61 per cwt. Town Tallow,
351 as
tO 35s 6d per cwt net cash; Rough fat 2s per 81h,%

1846. 1847. I 1848. 1849. 1840.
Stock thlß
day ...... 9,87 i 7,833 7,649 23,626 25,084
?do 3d to 363 8d
ei
T.
c. t to Os
08°0dd t0"459506d1 t044451,63dd
383
s6d to Os Od
Deliver last week .. 609 669 1,154 768 824
A...°1!01:11 June 1.... 2,918 4,336 7,581 3,169
Eilaals last week . 146 5,110.
80 227 1,'177 1,937
~..., froal June 1 ... 1,899 4,010 6,543 3,622 4,570
ft"te Of Town •..... 43* Od 515 Od 468 6d 39s 6d 383 Od
QUEEN'S TIENCII.—(THIS DAY.)

EEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord
CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.)
HARRIS V. HEWITT.
n This was a running-down case. The plaintiff was the
:ner a fishing-smack called the Providence, and
e defendant owns another fishing smack called the
Spitfire, between which the collision which, was the sub-
Jett of the action took place.
imulir• Sergeant Shee was counsel for the plaintiff,
d f VII% Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Brown represented the
e endant.
The action was brought to obtain compensation in
damages 4„,,, for the loss of the Providence, valued at about
414-, which foundered in consequence, as was alleged, of
',eollision with the Spitfire, and of the negligence of
the servants of the defendant. On the 4th Novenber of
lotilteyre:r the two ships in vestion, with a number of
Sh„ u.shing-smacks, were in the sicinity of Winterton
"1, in the North Sea, about fifty miles from the
Norfolk coast, and the Spitfire was returning from deli-
,eLtretiriag her cargo on board a carrier cutter called the
, and the Providence was about to deliver her cargo
an board the latter vessel, when the Spitfire and Provi-
enee came into collision, and the result was that the
'providence, with a cargo of fish, was sunk and en-
tirely lost.
both sides
amount of conflicting evidence was given on
ea,. bides as to which of the vessels was in fault, and
~-"sed the accident, each party imputing the blame to
Me other.
Tie ease was proceeding when our report left.

-XCREQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco after Term, before the LORD CHIEF
knosi and Barons ALDERSON, ROLFE, and PLATT.)
THE GORHAM CASE.
DECISION.
Ole LORD CHIEF BARON delivered the judgment of
eCourt in this case. After stating the facts involved
unlit, and reviewing the various proceedings which had
,n place in the Court of Arches, the Judicial Com-
mittee of privy Council, the Courts of Queen's itt Bench
•na Common Pleas, he proceeded to say, that the ques-
inn which they had to decide was whether the rule nisi
Cod
vor should not be made absolute, and that question
eel
two points—first, whether the case before the
Urt was a case which touched the Crown, and if it
'pasW then why, and in that event there was
r, uotiot that an appeal to the Queen in
sitinil ells" was good; and, secondly, whether in all
tin appeal from the Court of the Archbishop
ttsas not to the Queen. Upon the first point the Court en-
t rtained considerable doubt, whether the matter in con-
rorersy touched the Crown or not; but it was not ne-
seeh"arY for the Court to decide that point, for they were
;" of opinion that by the 25th of Henry VIII. the
ireal in all cases from the Archbishop's Court was to
e Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. That also
"PPeared to be the result of the most eminent authorities
'alaieg T.
hewed had been cited at the bar. His Lordship then
s"ewed those authorities, and said they all agreed that
-PPeals from the decisions of the Archbishop was
to for-
merly J the King in Chancery, and now to the Judicial
h°locnittee of the Privy Council. In the present case,
tZeT, that was rather a matter of curious speculation
f
ths— aoY practical importance, for in either view o
w" ease the proceedings before the Judicial Committee
forth er yell founde,l, and in either view there could be no
iss,esr appeal. Probably, if they were compelled to de-
• "0 question, they would come to the same conclu-
sion
at the other Courts of Westminster, that there was
tloesti
PPeat to the Upper House of Convocation. The
sam,however, before them was, not whether there
efter the passing of the 28th of Henry VIII. c. 19,
tou
,!ppeal to the Convocation in some stages of cases
, the
Queen, but whether in all manner of eccle-
rtical cases there was an appeal to the Archbishop and
sottilCing in chancery. The Court thought there was,
kinthat there was now an appeal to the Judicial Corn-
heiseu• Their judgment was founded on what they
tken to be the true construction of the statutes, and on
2 eminent authorities which it had been incorrectly
;Med led t) a contrary conclusion. On the whole, there-
doeroeileOntinued his Lordship) entertaining, as we d -,, no
a on the question before us, and concurring as we
m() w•
110 wlththe other courts of Westminster-hall, and as far
hot thin ow with every judge of all the courts, we do
ex
e, we should be justified in creating delay and
ouatePwilt'n oY sanctioning further proceedings with the
r of taking the opinion of the House of Lords, and
ul-„silcignient is that the rule be discharged with costs.
ule, accordingly, discharged.
ela•Ln. announcement was received with cheers and
It.PPlne of hands, which aroused the indignation of Mr.
.rou Aiss
hissio "rants, who observed that either applauding or
os• g wai equally offensive and disgraceful in courts
_)tistice, and that he should give directions to the officers
of tsbao r forget
to take into custody any person who should
himself as to be aainguilty of such ab-
ort( conduct. g g
Gibe
court was crowded in every part, and among
Gib present wo noticed Mr. Gorham, the Bishop of
„ ,altar' tied several other clergymen connected with
tee Established Church.
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)
The OLD COURT.
0 sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
Roc this morning before the Lord Mayor, the
brothert cr, the Common Sergeant, and Aldermen Fare-
rs_, Marshall, Hunter, and Duke. Mr. Sheriff Law-
,
"7vueoe and Mr. Sheriff Nichol, attended by their respec-
deputies' were also in attendance.
The
first edition of the calendar contains the names
f~l3O prisoners, distributed thus-24 from London, 88
's ,raurrey Middlesex, 2 from Essex, 5 from Kent, and 11 from
The Grand Jury having been sworn and empannelled,
bwlhe Learned RECORDER charged them to the fol-
et ing
effect :—The short interval which had elapsed
wten the late and the present sessions, would account
for the number of crimes being less than on ordinary
oce
of as'ens• The calendar, in fact, contains the names
Offence;,
130 prisoners ; they were charged with several
the great majority of them having reference
k!0 the felonious acquisition of property. At the same
nits there were 28 cases more immediately relating to
of violence, such as cutting and wounding, 6 charges
Of manslaughter, and 12 cases of misdemeanour, most
!of them attended with acme degree of violence. There
es one case of rape, and seven cases of robbery from
the Person, accompanied by violence. The most inter-
esting case of assault, and the one calling forth the
stoat indignation, was that of a
person charged with
striking her Majesty, which he
should have to advert
to hereafter, when he should call the attention to the
terms of
the more i themmedi at most wholesome statute recently passed for
e protection of the person of her
Majesty from violence and insult. With regard to the
cases of cutting and wounding, they were not all of the
like complexion, some of them being of a more aegra-
'rated character than others. Ile lamented to observe
that the frequent use of the knife was becoming a
serious subject for consideration in this country. For-
Utterly the reprehensible, but still more manly mode f
resenting an insult was by having resource to the fists,
but unhappily in the present day, upon the slightest
Provocation parties were base enough to resort to the knife
and inflict dangerous wounds upon those who had given
them offence. These general observations brought him
to
the case to which he bad already slightly alluded,
and Which he could not refer to without feeling pain
and indignation, more especially as the charge was made
against a person in a better condition of life thanthat
Which ordinarily led to the commission of such an
r!ence. The charge against the party was that of
hving met the carriage of the Queen, he extended
t4llll into the carriage, and with a ridingk-
ek or cane which he held in his hand struc
ortforehead of her Majesty, as well as disarranged part
141 r dress, namely, the bonnet which her Majesty wore
Wasne. time. It appears that no personal harm or injury
the
leeise
Roe intended, but still the indignation which the insult
to was not the less painful, nor was the offence
and es complete ; and if the facts were established,
ie had not the slightest doubt that they would, it
the'ci not be the duty of the grand jury to investigate
,w,__,qettpstion as to whether so strange and perversely
act resulted from any want of sanity, but to
• the
e▪ h
sanity
case for further enquiry elsewhere. The question
they or insanity of the accused ;was one which
were not called upon to try ; they had only to deal
with the
simple facts attending the committal of the
offence
tinet and
s sbecause the Legislature had provided a dis-
!ere natu
repanayraiteedmtnode for deciding this matter. They
defect assume that there must be some
Party who,
ni the understanding or the state of mind of a
outragin_
athout any provocation, could be guilty of
the sovlig_t.a feeling of attachmert and loyalty towards
and particular! Which in this country knew no limits,
Only agaiwitlYe When such an insult was directed not
oTovereign, but against an amiably lady
in the presence
their attention t her children. He would now call
'Pedal nano the terms of the statute by which a
Unhappily • •*7 wee a •
metal:lce applied to cases of this nature.
P 9111148, 14915411114 Occurred where parties who,
T", raMent responsible for 0294

acts, had, from a love of notoriety, or some other
cause, yeeturid to discharge loaded fire-arms at her
Majesty, greatly to her alarm, and causing
leech anxiety in the mind of the public, frotn
ignorance of the precise intention of such
pirt,es; and, therefore, a new remedy was
sought for to meet such abominable cases. It was
thought that as the offence was infamous, the punish-
ment for such outrages ought to be the same; and, ac-
cordingly, by the sth and 6th Vic, chapi 51, sec. 2, it
was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act,
ell parties who should be convicted of having fired or
presented arms at her Majesty, or of having struck or
struck at her Majesty with any weapon or stick, not
with the intention of doing personal injury, but only to
alarm her Majesty, and outrage public feeling, should be
liable to be transported beyond the seas fir seven years,
or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any
period not exceeding three years, and during such pe-
riod to be publicly or privately whipped as often, and in
such manner and form, as the Court should order, but
not exceeding twice. This Act, however, did not
abrogate or interfere with the law of high trea-
son, and any [arty who should be guilty of
such an offence, with intent to destroy the
life of her Majesty, would be still liable to be arraigned
as of old. He had read the whole of the modern Act,
because too much pub!istity could not be given to its
wholesome provisions fur pretecting her Majesty, not
only from violence, but from that alarm to which no
one of manly mind could wish or desire her Majesty to
be exposed. He had already told them that they had
nothing whatever to du with the sanity or insanity
of the accused—that was a separate question, which the
law provided should he tried by a special jury, to be ern-
pannelled for the purpose, who would have the power
of convicting the prisoner, or of acquitting him on the
ground of insanity, or of his having been irresponsible
fur the act at the time he committed it ; and then he
would be liable to be detained in custody during the
pleasure of the Crown. He had entered into
these details, because it would naturally strike a person
that a party who not only moved in, comparatively
speaking, an elevated sphere of life, but had actually
hold a commission in her Majesty's service, would
hardly be guilty of such an abominable, so dastardly an
offence, while in his right senses; and his excuse for
occupying their time a few minutes longer than he
otherwise should have done, was his anxiety to point
out to them that they had nothing whatever to do with
that part of the question. Having made these few gene-
ral remarks upon the state of the calendar, and called
their especial attention to this particular case, it now
only remained fir him to dismiss them to their duties,
which he was glad to tell them were not likely to be very
heavy.
The grand jury then retired, and having shortly after-
wards returned true hills in some minor cases, petty
juries were called, and the trials proceeded with.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The adj urnfd .leisions fur the county of Surrey
commenced this morning, at the Court-house, Newing-
ton-causeway, before Thoorts Puckle, Esq., and a full
bench of magistrates. The Calender contained the names
of only 30 ortconers.
Henry Thom, 24, and John Field, 19, two labourers,
were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of
Richard Colebrook, at Cheasey, and stealing there-
from twenty-nine sovereigns and other money, his pro-
emyp.
Field pleaded guilty, and without the least hesitation
the jury found his companion guilty.
The Court sentenced them to ten years' transpor-
tation.
As soon as sentence was passed, Thom turned round
upon his companion in a furious manner, and would
have killed him had not an officer been behind him. He
was forced away and taken to the cells with great
difficulty.
The prosecutor here interceded for Field, who he
knew to be the dupe of the other, when the Court called
him back and reduced his sentence to twelve months, at
Guildford.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day shortly after

Twelve o'clock.
The Lords' amendments to the following private
Bills were considered and agreed to :
The Great Northern Railway (Deviations, Amendment of
Acts, Alteration of Tolls, and of East Lincolnshire
Railway Tolls).
The Waterford and Kilkenny Railway.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—
The Birkenhead Dock Trustees Bill.
The River Dee Conservancy and Improvement Bill.
The Westminster Improvement Bill.
Sir Pater Hesketh Fleetwood's Estate Bill, as
amended, was agreed to.
PETITIONS.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from places
in Devonshire for and against the recent alterations in
the Post-office; also petitions against the Jews Bill.
Several petitions against the Jews Bill were pre-
sented from various parts of the country.
Mr. FULLER present!d a petition from a place in
Essex in favour of the recent postal arrangements.
Mr. FORSTER, presented petitions from places in
Essex against the recent alterations in the Post-office.
The Hon. Member also gave no ice of his intention, to•
morrow, to present a petition from Lloyd's against the
Mercantile Marine Bill
Mr. CLAY presented a petition from the Chamber of
Commerce of Hull against the Mercantile Marine Bill.
Lord MELGUND presented a petition from Greenock
in favour of the Mercantile Marine Bill.
Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from the Cham-
ber of Commerce of Dublin in favour of the Home
made Spirits in Bond Bill.
MERC ANTILE MARINE BILL.
On the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair for
the purpose of the House going into Committee on the
Mercantile Marine Bill,
Mr. MOFFA TT, puritunt to notice, moved as an
amendment, th ,t the House should resolve itself into
Committ-e on the Bill that day six months. As a
mercantile man, he was bound to say that the measure
was viewed with greet suspicion out of doors, and it was
thought by mercantile teen that they had been unfairly
dealt with by her Majesty's Government. For his
own part he thought the Bill unfair and prejudicial
to the shipping interest. lie thought that that interest
was entitled to expect. after the passing of the Naviga-
tion-laws Ropeal Bill, that some relief would be given to
them with respect to the restrictions relative to pilotage,
and that they had also reason to complain of the regula-
tions with respect to manning the navy, which restricted
them in the mode of manning their ships, and placed
them in a most disadvantagous position as regarded
competition with foreigners.—(Hear, hear.) If this
Bill should become law it would, instead of ac-

complishirg the objects proposed, give rise to greater
annoyances and vexations than existed under the present
system. The whole machinery by which it was to be
carried into effect was very defective, and he believed
hsd been proposed by the Government on the faith of
one-sided information. He doubted very much the pro-
priety of throwing so much responsibility on the Board
of Trade as at present constituted. He did not dis-
cover throughout the whole Bill a clause which was
more calculated to diminish the evils of the crimping
system than the existing law. He characterised the Bill
as amounting, in feet, to an indictment against the
shipowners of the kingdom, for it seemed to be taken
for granted throughout every clause that they were
guilty of fraud in not pa)iog the wages of their seamen.
No mention had yet been made of the expense which the
measure would entail on the shipping interest. Local
boards of examinatior, and shipmasters with a number
of clerks, would have to be appointed at different ports,
and all the expense of maintaining such a staff of offi-
cials would have to be borne by the shipowners. A new
system of taxation was to be introduced by the Bill, and
this without the consent of the shipowners, who were to
be mulcted of a large sum of money for the
purpose of carrying it out. They said, if Par-
liament wished to pass the Bill, that the expense of it
ought to be borne by the Consolidated Fund. The
port of London was partially opposed to the Bill, but it
was wholly and entirely opposed by the ports of Hull,
Bristol, Dublin, Dundee, Plymouth, Scarborough, North
Shields, Carnarvon, Plymouth, and other ports.
The shipping interest protested loudly against the
Bill, which they said had been passed without
a full and fair inquiry into the merits of the case, and
without their sanction and concurrence, which they be-
lieved was directly opposed to their best interests.
Sir W. CLAY said it was not his intention to trespass
at any length on the attention of the House, but as he
had the honour to represent a borough which consti-
tuted one of the largest ports in the kingdom, it
might naturally be expected that he ought not
to give a silent vote on an important measure of this
nature. He did not agree with the Hon. Gentleman
that
the Bill was very unpopular among the shipping
interest.o Though he could not deny that a large por-
tion of the shipowners in Hull were adverse to
the Bill, but their objections were not so strong
or -
untversal as stated by the Hon. Gentleman.
The laisjorityofthe inhabitants of that borough was
largely, interestedinterest, and if h in the prosperity of the mercantile
to that interest e thought the present Bill was hostile
him to give it nohiss private consideration would induce
woouliphort ; but, on the contrary, he be-
lieved that it be absolutely impossible to bring
forward any measure
oars Leh would have a more bene-
ficial effect than the before
question for the House(' touonudweonsider twas,he whetherliuse
Thethe
character of the captains
as
toothier officers of the British
mercantile navy was such
in
teheevate the character of
the first commercial country
w"11 whether they
were fit men to be entrusted—
with millions of
property and hundreds of thousands °
to lives? Now
it was quite notorious that officersthese were
not men in whom such confidence oughtbe reposed.
He contended that the consular returns showed that
the professional character of the masters and captains of
our mercantile marine was by no means of that effi-
cient order which was absolutely necessary, considering
the great amount of property and the number of lives
entrusted to their care. That was owing,
first, to the great extent of our colonial system,
which was carried en under such peculiar circumstances
as to preclude a high order or merit among commanders
of our mercantile marine; secondly, to the enormous
extent during the war of what was called the transtw t
service, which engaged many hundreds of tons of sh
p.
ping; and, thirdly, to the circumstance that most of that
service was carried on by convoys, the speed of which
was regulated, not by the best sailing ship and the
best informed master, but by the worst sailing
ship, commanded by the best informed master.
He supported the Bill because he sawin it
k the sow of Wain the charseter 0 the cias
_

cers in our mercantile marine. He thought also that the
provisions of the Bill were well adapted to protect the
Britimh : fair, for there could not be a more helpless or
friendless creature than a sailor arriving at a strange
port. The Bill also came recommewltd to his
mind because it provided a tribunal of law for settling
disputes between masters and sailors. For those reasons,
and because he believed that the measure was essentially
necessary, not only for the country at large, but especi-
ally for the shipping interest itself, he would give the
Bill his most cordial support.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. CL .Y thought the House was legislating on a
great subject in a very small way. The Bill as it
now stood was greatly altered and improved since
it first came under the consideratiun of the
House ; but although many of thos,s alterations
had had the effect of conciliating much of the opposition
with which the Bill was at first assailed, yet it was not
wholly unobjectionable to him. He was at a loss to
know why the coasting trade was to be left out of the
Bill altogether. He cordially agre !d in that provision
of the Bill which provided for sn examination of masters
and mates; but there was a second principle in the Bill,
namely, that which proposed an interference between
shipowners and their ssilors, v.ith a view to the protec-
tion of the latter, in which be could not concur, because
it was always in the highest degree dangerous and in-
convenient to intervene between a master and his servant.