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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1814.

No business of the slightestimportance was trans-
acted in tho House of Lords, &though there was
a great deal. of talk ab:mt Alr. o',Dascozz, some
Noble Lords describing him as .a renegade, and unfit
to be a magistrate, and others contending that the
liEW4thirgalagainst him had been trumped up for party
r.,...,.- purposes; -The motion ofEartFowrzscue for infor-
-13
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~..' oration rolati to his re-appointment was agreed to.
r , .--. . The repo4 n the Charitable Donations and Be-
'V. t .=.. , quests Bill, applicableto Ireland was receiviad, the
I,,_,,'''z: :!. measure seemed to poet svith,z6nsra4 approbation
\, 1.7 .. from the OppOsition side 4gi douse,
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I The Commons met at Twelve o'clock, when the
Earl of LINCOLN moved that the Metropolis Im-
pronment Bill be committed.
Mr. HAWES moved the previous question, and after
some discussion, the House divided, when there were

—for the motion, 39, and against it, 5.
The House went into Committee, and. 50 clauses
were adopted, w hen the House adjourned.
The House again met at half-past Five o'clock,
when the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presented
the Report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry,
which he moved to be printed. He thought, however,
that the evidence should not be printed, as it might
criminate certain individuals. It would, however, be
on the table for the use of Members. Mr. T. Dux-
COMBE objected to such a course, and moved that
the evidence be printed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in that case
withdrew his motion, and gave notice of it for this
day.
What is this revenue inquiry ? Is it the inquiry
into the enormous robberies committed at the Custom-
house under another title, and are the Government
anxious to screen the most egregious offenders ? We
trust, and indeed we have no fear, that Mr. DUN-
COMBE will do his duty. Are the frauds on the
revenue—frauds to an amount of which even Mr.
GouLnualN knows nothing—to be slurred over, be-
cause individuals may be criminated ? Let the
Liberal Members muster all their force this evening,
and teach the moral Government a lesson of morality.
The wish of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for
concealment is the best proof that the- report of the
Commissioners does not state the real and important
facts of this atrocious system of robbery.
Lord PALMERSTON moved for a return showing the
number of African negroes landed for the purposes of
slavery on the continent and islands of America from
the year 1815 to 1843, both inclusive. His Lordship
made an admirable speech on the horrible traffic car-
ried on by men calling themselves Christians.
Sir ROBERT PEEL followed in a long speech, and
said he would willingly have acceded to the motion
at once, but for the oratorical display made by the
Noble Lord, who had been comparatively idle all the
session, and now made a great speech at the close.
The Right Hon. Baronet, entered at great length
into the slave-trade, which he denounced in equal
terms with Lord PALMERSTON.
Several other Members followed, and the motion
was at length agreed to, Sir R. PEEL proposing to add
the number of slaves emancipated in Sierra Leone,
Surinam, and other places, to:the return.
Mr. HUME'S motion for inquiry relating to the
harbours of refuge; after some observation's from Sir
R. PEEL, was agreed to.
Mr. E. DErtisox then moved for an account of the
sums expended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
of England; and Mr. ELPHINSTONE, as an amend-
ment, proposed that a return of the incomes of all the
Archbishops and Bishops in England and Wales be
presented to the House. A division took place, and
the original motion was carried by a majority of 28.
Captain PECHELL'S motion relating to the Lunatic
Asylum at Hasler was withdrawn, after a short con-
versation.
The other orders or the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One
o'Clock.

The case of Mr. O'Daisconn, the Irish magis-
trate, which has lately attracted some notice in the
sister-country, was brought before the House of Lords
last night by Earl FORTRSCUE. The particulars of
this case are briefly as follows :—A man named
DENNEAN, being supposed by Mr. O'DRIscoLL to
know the persons who had rescued certain cattle
which had trespassed on his land, was called on by
him to declare on oath who had rescued them, and on
his refusal, was committed- by the magistrate to
Bridewell. On being made acquainted with
this fact, the LORD CHANCELLOR declared that
Mr. O'Darsconn ought not to have pronounced
judgment in his own case, and insisted that
he should not interfere further. Soon afterwards
that gentleman was brought up for an assault com-
mitted, without the slightest provocation, on a boy,
on which occasion, said the Noble Earl, he made use
of the most disgusting language, and totally unbe-
coming one who professed -to have the feelings of a
gentleman. For this assault his brother magistrates
fined him two pounds, allotting one to the boy as a
compensation for the blows which had been inflicted
on him. On hearing this award Mr. O'DRIscoLL de-
clared that justice had not been done him, which led
to an altercation with the Bench, who insisted
on his publicly apologising to them for his
indiscreet and intemperate behaviour. The LORD
CHANCELLOR, as in the former case, was put
into possession of these facts, when he wrote to the
effect that " Mr. O'DRIscoLL, after his conviction,
had committed one of the gravest faults which a
magistrate could commit," adding with marked em-
phasis, "all these charges taken together, satisfy my
mind that he has not at present that command over
his ,temper and- actions (even when acting in a
magisterial capacity, or when appearing as a defen-
dant before the Bench) which is so essential to the
due administration of justice." Nothing can well he
stronger or more condemnatory than this language;
it is a virtual and deliberate decision on the part of
the highest legal authority in Ireland that Mr,
O'DRIscoLL, first from, his temper, and secondly
from his conduct, is wholly disqualified for acting as
a magistrate; and he was in coasequence'superseded.
And yet, notwithstanding this formal decision, no
sooner was a memorial presented from certain influ-
ential people in the county to the Viceroy, praying
fur his reappointment, than the LORD CHANCELLOR,
without the slightest hesitation, restored him to the
commission of the peace, thereby effectually stultify-
ing his own previous decision ! Who after this—and
Mr. O'Darsconn's is no uncommon case—can wonder
that Ireland has no faith -in the mode in which
justice is administered; and that the law which
should be regarded as a guardian, is looked
on by her as an oppressor ? In England
such a case as the one before us could never
have happened, for had any magistrate so
grossly misconducted himself as Mr. O'Darsconn
appears to have' done,. public opinion would have ex-
pressed itself so earnestly and unequivocally on the
subject, that the LORD CHANCELLOR would not have
`d-ared to replace the offending individual in the com-
mission of the peace. But in Ireland, it seems, they
manage things:very differently. There, a magistrate
may be carved out of any block of wood. Er quovis
ligno fit Mercurius.. No matter how indiscreet and
intemperate he may be=no matter how grossly ig-
norant he may be of the laws which it is his duty
fully to understand and impartially to administer—he
is still wise and prudent enough fur the sister-coun-
try. Such is the deliberate opinion of the highest
legal authority in Ireland, as manifested by the reap-
pointment to the Bench of an individual whom that
same legal authority had previously stated to be
wholly disqualified fia- acting in a magisterial capa-
city!. The defence set up for Mr. O'DRIscoLL by
their Lordships was the most puerile it is possible to
conceive. Lord WHARNCLIFFE went the length
of asserting that his assault on the boy
was by no means without justification, for,
it had taken place while he was out hunting, and what
sportsman could bear to be interrupted in his amuse
ment

Irritation at such a moment Was the ruosl

natural thing possible, and he was astonished, there-
fore, to find the assault described as an " aggravated
one." As for Lord LYNDHURST, he thought the as-
sault quite " ludicrous ;" while the Earl of RIPON

observed that " there was a material distinction be.
tween what Mr. O'Diuscom. had done in his indi.

vidual and his magisterial capacity,"—that is to say,
though the man might be peccant, the magis,
trate was to be held spotless, for, it was
quite plain that when he anointed the

shoulders of the boy with: his horsewhip, he did so,
not in his official, but in his private, capacity. But
Lord MOUNTCASUEL'S defence. of Mr. O'DMSCOLL
was the most comical, and logically considered, it

entitled to the praise of consummate originality.
He was of opinion that that gentleman was en-
titled to be restored to the Bench, if only on
the. score of his, gentility, for, added this
droll Peer, "-in a part of the country where

gentlemen were scarce, it was a matter of great im-
portance that a gentleman of M, O'Ditiscom:s

character and. propertpshould be a magisttate." v IVe
infer from this that to use sc the most disgusting and
Unbeoonaing language" is no impeachment of an Irish-

man's gentility, and that to thrash•a boy without the
slightest provocation, in nowise impugns his charac-
ter, or lessens 141 efficiency ai a magistrate!

We recur to the debate thp an Qf England.
Charter Dill in the 4ousp of I.ords? last week? with

an increased conviction that it was better calculated
to apprise the public of what may be termed the phi-
losophy of the measure, than any of the discussions
which had preceded it in the House of Commons.
But we must not omit to remark, by the way, that
some of Lord RIPON'S frank admissions as to the past
history of the results of the Bill of 1819 were of an
effect not less fatal to the pretensions of this measure
for its complement, than the more guarded, though not
more convincing, pleas advancedin its favour by Lord
MONTEAGLE. Let us see what these admissions of
Lord RIPON amount to. " The pressure," said he,
" on the money market in 1825 was the most severe
pressure, he believed, which had ever existed in this
country. Indeed, he believed the effect of that pres-
sure to have been greater than that which occurred
in 1797, previous to the Bank Restriction Act." Now
there is no incident on which Sir ROBERT PEEL is so
fond of playing his battery of small common-places
of " fatal measures," " ill-advised expedients," " de-
plorable resolution," &c., as this Bank Restriction
Act. There is no topic but this upon which he permits
himself to speak with flippant disparagement of his
great master, Mr. PITT. Let any man but recur to
the Restriction Act of 1797, and Sir ROBERT is
ready with his well-digested shake of the head—his
studied ingenuousness of dissent from the "Minister
of that day," and his carefully-rehearsed expressions
of off-hand regret. Yes—
" Lightly he'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him."
For what ? A daring but indispensable act of
policy ; abrupt, but sound and far-sighted, which
saved the fortunes, developed the resources, and esta-
blished the permanent grandeur of his country.
Our business, however, is not, now, to vindicate the
Bank Restriction Act—to show the exigency of the
circumstances under which it was resorted to—or to
trace the marvellous results that followed its enact-
ment in the subsequent period of twenty years, or to
prove that those results could not have been realised
without that enactment. Lord liarox admits that
after PEEL'S Bill of 1819 had served a seven years'
apprenticeship—in 1825, when, if ever, it should
have been able to work out all the good which its
projectors had so confidently predicted of it, "there
came upon • the country the severest monetary pres-
sure which had ever been known here—worse than
that of 1797." But the Bullionists affirm that the
restrictive Act of 1797 was, in effect, a compromised
national bankruptcy. They date from that epoch the
origo of all the evils that] ensued, in the shape of
adverse exchanges, of over-speculation, of over-issues
of paper, of inconvertible paper—all the evils, in
short, which Parliament was persuaded to believe the'
Currency Bill of 1819 would infallibly cure. The
very State doctors who prescribed that empirical
remedy now admit that seven years afterwards the
patient was worse than he had ever been before,
even at that two-and-twenty years antedated
period which they had so long denounced as the most
malignant hitherto experienced by the monetary sys-
tem of our country. But what next ? Why, having
dosed us with this deleterious nostrum in 1819, and
acknowledged its total, disgraceful, and almost irre-
trievable failure in 1826, they have now the modesty
to insist on administering a larger and more nauseous
potion—the large remainder, the dregs, the " comple-
ment"—in 1844! Between 1797 and 1819 there had
elapsed fifteen years of war and four of peace ; and
there had occurred no catastrophe to mate the crisis
of 1797 itself. Between 1819 and 1825 there had
intervened seven years of profound peace, the
closing year being distinguished by a mone-
tary catastrophe far more terrible than that which
had distinguished the first of the series of fifteen
years of war ! Since 1826 we have been blessed
with a serene period, extending over eighteen other
years of profound peace.; and it is now— at the end
of this term—that the quacks, whose blundering
treatment of 1819 reduced us in seven years to a
more fearful state of exhaustion and jeopardy than we
were in, even in 1797, insist upon their greater capacity
to make, and our improved condition to submit to, a
further exhibition of their dangerous incompetency !
The Earl of RIPON sees the monstrous assurance and
inconsistency of the demand of his fellow Ministers
in this case, or the confidence and credulity of Par-
liament; for he next admits the failure of the joint-
stock banks' institution scheme to justify the expec-
tations of the then Ministers, that it would operate
as a check to any over-issue of paper. Several
monetary crises in 1832, 1836, and 1838, de-
monstrated, he says, the futility of these ex
planations. He says that the effect of enlarged
issues of paper is to produce activity in
business, but of a most fallacious kind ; and that
under these circumstances men " overlook the terrible
revulsions which must arise if their issues of paper
be not regulated by a sufficient rule." We would
respectfully challenge Lord RIPON to point out any
period in the lapse of forty-seven years, from 1797
to the present time, at which, prior to 1819, 'when
we had not yet been favoured with a Currency
Bill, at which we experienced revulsions such
as there have been in 1825, and in several more
recent years, under its operation ? But Lord RIPON
contends that there was no sufficient rule whereby to
regulate these paper issues, except the condition of
the foreign exchanges.
We have more than once endeavoured to show the
occasional utter failure to which this test would be
liable ; but Lord MONTEAGLE roundly maintains that
it is exceedingly possible the Bank might largely con-
tract its circulation, and thereby bring the exchanges
notninaily in our favour, so that gold ought to be
flowing into the country again, and yet that the
Bank might be compelled, to meet the pending drain
of bullion, before this influx had taken place, to pay
away its last golden sovereign. This case is put on
no less an authority than Mr. Husfussort's :—" He
now came to the' greatest and most important objec-
tion to the Bill—namely, that it was founded and
proceeded upon the assumption that the state of the
foreign exchanges were constantly likely to pro-
duce a drain upon the Bank, and that it was not
even contemplated there would be such an effect pro-
duced by means of an internal drain. Now this was
directly in contradiction to the opinion of Mr. Hus•
xissorv; in his pamphlet upon sudden depreciation, and
he held it even possible that in such a run on the Bank,
in consequence of the straightened circulation, the
Bank might part with its last sovereign without check-
ing the drain upon the Bank, which would have, of
course, only the effect of aggravating the evil. GOD
forbid that such a state of things should ever take
place, but a country so circumstanced as this was—
so deeply engaged in commerce and in manufactures,
with a mixed currency to so enormous an extent, as
well as with so extensive a system of credits—must
be at some time liable to such casualties."
What an exceedingly happy invention, after all,
this " final complement" and practical development of
" the great principle" of the Legislature of 1819
must be. It is to ensure the convertibility of paper
into gold—with a view to control exchanges—which
exchanges- either take a different evolution from that
you require, or turning exactly as you would have
them, may at any time leave the whole ma-
chinery for effecting . this convertibility to pe-
rish by its own activity. If the exchanges
won't be evoked, but, like a rusty weathercock, will
continue unaccountably steady at one point, the
13ank., to meet -the rise of the price of gold from
31. 17s. 100. (the Mint rate) to any higher sum per
ounce which it may be fetching in the market, must
contract its issue so violently that commerce and
trade must perish -in the collapse. If the exchanges
walk down the Premier's new sliding scale, with all
the facility and certainty to be looked for from its
previous scientific lubrication, by the anti-attrition
processes of Mr. JONES LOTD, the gold may still
choose to be coaxed out of the Bank cellars; and
then the balance or excess of securities in its deposit
branch over gold and silver bullion (Government
acknowledgments and Bills of Exchequer included)
will not prevent what we should deprecate, as the
most frightful of social evils, the bankruptcy of the
Leviathan Bank. Nay, it would not prevent that
greater evil, so feelingly denounced by Sir ROBERT
PEEL as the working of our monetary system before!
the tinkering experiment of 1819, for it would again I
"disturb. men's theories and speculations on the
currency question."

Accounts from Alexandria of the 26th of June
announce the arrival of Sir HENRY HARDINGE, on
the afternoon of the 22d, in the Geyser steamer, from
Marseilles. He landed next day, Sunday, as a pri-
vate individual, but re-embarked again for a short

time, aud.afterwards landed in state, in• the PAcira's-;
barge; when a salute of 19 guns was fired. Jio was

" A letter from Dreux thus describes the celebration of
the anniversary of the death of the Duke of Orleans :—At
half-past eleven the King, leading the Queen by the hand,
entered the body of the chapel through the crypt. His Ma-
jesty took his station in the centre of the choir, before the
altar, having the Queen on his right, and next to her the
Queen of the Belgians and the Duke de Montpensier.
On his left was the Duchess of Orleans, between her Royal
Highness Madame Adelaide and the Prince de Wurtemberg.
The clergy followed the Royal Family from the crypt. It
was impossible to see without emotion the august widow
of the Prince Royal endeavouring to suppress the convulsive
sobbings of her heart, prostrated and motionless on the earth
by the weight of her grief, while the King and Queen were
seeking resignation at the foot of the altar. One overwhelm-
ing feeling predominated in all who were present; the most
lively sympathy with the august mourners was depicted in
every countenance. After the absolution, the King and his
family returned to the Palace, passing again through the
crypt, where tha Queen and the Duchess remained a long
time kneeling before the tomb of the departed Prince.
"The money laid out, upon the chateauat Dreux amounts
to a very considerable sum. Between 1822 and 1830, the
King expended more than 100,000 f. in finishing the chapel
begun by his mother, the Duchess Dowager of Orleans. And
since 1830, the outlay has been no less than 3,500,000 f. Be-
tween this and the end of 1845 the works to be done are es-
timated at 800,000 f. His Majesty has also endowed the
Royal chapel with a revenue of 25,0001."
The Courrier Francais says :—We understand that imme-
diately on the close of the session Marshal Soult will go to
pass three months at his seat of Saint Amand ; the Minister
of Commerce will take a tour through the manufacturing dis-
tricts; the Minister of Public Works will make a general
inspection of the railroads; the Minister of the Marine will
visit, Cherbourg and Brest ; the Minister of Justice will pass
a month with his family at Douai, and the Ministers of Fi.
'lances and Public Instruction will go to take the benefit of
some of the mineral waters.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought the district boards
of guardians.
Mr. FERRAND wished to know whether ex dficio
ought to be elected annually, as well as the board of
guardians were to sit at the district board, and whether
Dissenting ;ministers were competent to do so. He
thought if they were, they would have religious dissen-
sions, and nothing but envy and hatred in every class of
society.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the board of guardians
were to choose persons Properly qualified to sit at the
district boards. He tliotieslit that the qualification
would be a rating of 401.
, The clause, as amended, was then ordered to stand part
of the Bill.
On clause 38 being proposed, which defined thepowers
and duties of the district board,
Sir J. GRAHAM proposed an amendment, to the
effect that a chaplain should be appointed to each stsylum,
such chaplain to be a clergyman of the Church of _R-i,g-
land, and to be elected by the board, the amount Of
salary to be fixed by the Poor-law Commissioners.
Mr. HAWES said the proviso did not really carry .
out the Government principle. He objected to the
words " licensed minister," the meaning of which had on
several occasions been variously construed. He con-
tended for a " lawful minister" of any Dissenting con-
gregation having access to the children of the poor at all
reasonable times, under the control of the district
I board. He proposed therefore the substitution of the
word " lawful" for the word " licensed," and the addition
of the words " at all reasonable times of the day, as the
guardians may appoint for the purposes mentioned in
this clause."
Sir J. GRAHAM said nothing could be in better
taste than the way in which the I ion. Gentleman
had represented the feelings of the Protestant Dissenters
on that occasion, in abstaining from opposing the ap-
pointment of a clergyman of the Established Church to
each workhouse--(Hear, hear)—but at the same time
standing up firmly for the great principles of toleration.
—(hear, hear.) The words " licensed minister" were
purposely copied by him (Sir James Graham) from
other Acts, which he thought gave the widest construc-
tion to the principle the Honourable Gentleman
(Mr. Hawes) wished to see enforced. He (Sir
' James Graham) would not then decide whe-
ther the word, " licensed" or the word " lawful,"
or any other word should be used ; but he would con-
sult the law officers of the Crown, and also the Hon.
Gentleman himself, between the present time and the
bringing up of the report, in order that they might
come to a mutual and proper agreement upon the sub-
ject.—(Hear, hear.) Till that time he thought it would
be better to abstain from further discussion of the ques-
tion, which he was sincerely desirous to meet and to
arrange in the same excellent spirit in which it had been
brought forward by the Hon. Member for Lambeth.
Mr. WAKLEY suggested that the interpretation of
the words read by the Right Hon. Baronet should be in-
sertsd in the clause.
Sir J. GRAHAM had no objection to their insertion,
but he thought it would be better to postpone the dis-
cussion of the point until he had had an opportunity of
consulting his Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney-
General.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. COWPER, inquired whether the Government had
any objection to insert in the clause a proviso for inspec-
tion ? Otherwise he feared the education would be of a
very inferior character. The Hon. Member proposed
that the Privy Council should have the power of in-
spection.
Sir J. GRAHAM .had no objection to insert the
proviso.—The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 39, 40, and 41, were agreed to without discus-
sion.
On clause 42 being proposed,
Mr. BERNARD complained of the injustice of the
average system of rating for the support of the district
schools. The system had been productive of great injuss
tice in the Greenwich union.
Sir J. GRAHAM had not been able very distinctly
to catch the Hon. Member's observations, but he be-
lieved that generally the system of rating by averages
had been found to operate fairly, although it might have
inflicted hardship in some localities.
Mr. BERNARD hoped that some alteration would
take place, for the system had been productive
of great injustice hi the Greenwich union.
Mr. WAKLEY thought the observations of the Hon.
Member for Greenwich were entitled to great attention.
As he understood the Hon. Gentleman, it was that the
expense of maintaining these schools should be defrayed
by the-different'perishes, 141 proportion to the number
of children belongifig to oech. parish' in the school, and
not according talhe average")'ating Of. the parish to the
union. If this Were mit ‘adQpt6a, cases might occur in
Which parishes, having hilt, o-i;e e child iii the school,
would have to pay as much siS, other parishes having
eight or ten.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that by the clause, as
it stood at present, the charge for the maintenance of
the children was a parochial charge. It was the charge
fur the establishment generally that was to be defrayed
according to the average of rating.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 43 and 44 were then agreed to, with some
verbal amendments.
On clause 45 being proposed,
Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved after the words " by virtue
of this Act." to insert these words, " Provided always,
and be it further enacted, that whenever it shall appear
to the board of any district school, that the space within
such school is more than sufficient for the accounnoth,-
tion of poor children within the district for which such
school shall have been built, it shall and may be lawful
for such board to make order for the admission of so
many other children residing in the said district as
shall seem expedient ; and the weekly provision for
the maintenance and education of such children
shall be fixed by the board at such rate as shall
in their judgment be amply sufficient to cover
every expense on account of such children." lie
thought the clause without some such addition would
be giving a premium to pauperism ; and moreover it
would tend to remove the stigma which must attack in
after life to children educated in these schools, if they
were devoted exclusively to the education of paupers. •
Mr. FEBRAND opposed the proposition, because it
had a tendency to throesthe education of the country into
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schools, and other charitable schools. He should, there •
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Mr. STUART WOR I'LEY was understood to sup-
port the clause as it stood.
Mr. 'l'. DUNCOMBE said the proposition of the Hon.
Gentleman the Member for Northamptonshire was, in
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his opinion, a good one, and he should, therefore, sup-
GRAND MATCH OF CRICKET AT LORD'S GROUND. port it.
Mwoitnndaivehh, against the Northerm Counties, with A. the
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match between the Marylebone Mr. WAKLEY said it was clear the could not get
on without the sanction of the Commissioners, and, there-
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Esq., was commenced , and as this was considered one fore, they ought to make them as useful as possible. The
of the most interesting matches of the 'season, the ground was schools proposed in this clause were intended very
crowded with spectators, and many of high rank and fashion, properly, not merely for the children of those
their
honest money _trothut, merely
upon and all appeared to take a lively interest in the E.
The who squandered
Dorrington,Kitasto,
HKielalytee,r,
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following are the fields :—Marvlebone Club—Sir E. Bathurst, for the virtuous away
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slight payments, for the children of
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those who were above the charity of the law. That
Counties—Elmhurst, Hartopp, Nethercote, Noyes, and Mynn,
the '
Esqs., with Butler, Brown, Clark, Fenner, Guy, and Tinley. ey might, therefore, have a proper and efficient con-
The Marylebone Club went in rst, and obtained 97 runs. trol, he should move that after the word " board,"
grid
white,n-d Pli 1' ae
hY 1,
°ari ;
The Northern Counties then took to their batting, and got should be added the words, " under the direction and
105 runs, heading their opponents by 8 runs. The Maryle- control of the Poor-law Commissioners."
bone Club took their second innings, and obtained 76 runs, Sir J. GRAHAM said he was exceedingly delighted
leaving 68 runs for the opposite party to get, but who got at the tone which the discussion on the educational
only 55 runs, thus leaving the Marylebone- Club the winners clauses of the Bill had taken butas the amendment
by 13 runs. The game was not concluded till last night. might .
interfere cent .
perhaps too much with the ordinary
TnE LATE .MERDER IN TILE MINT.—APFREIIEN-
. schools already established, he thought on the whole
SION OF THE Means:amt.—lt will be remembered, that in the it would be • .
wiser in the House not to sanction it.
course of last February, a woman of the name of Elizabeth
Hobbs, the wife of a stoker, occupying lodgings in the Mint, '
ss
tr. HAWES did not think any school would Le in- THE BIRMING'HALVI ELECTION.
Southwark, had a quarrel with her landlord, a man named jared by the introduction of the proviso, but he thought
James Carroll, wTO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.ho, in ejecting her from her apartment, it would be best to postpone its consideration, in order
Sin —So mu 1 has been said against Mr Wm. Scholefield's
threw her down stairs, and inflicted such other severe injuries that its full effect might be known. Ile was yes '
c that I hope you will be good enough to let
as to cause almost her immediate death. The result of the afraid that by the proviso the children of pau- , the Principles,)6urblieloiow what his political opinions really are. He is
Coroner's inquest was a verdict of wilful murder against pers would have a much better education than 'an advocatel of free-trade, including the total and immediate
James Carroll, who decamped. Nothing was heard of him those of independent labourers, which was not at all : repeal of the corn-laws; he is for the ballot, short Parlia-
till yesterday. He was apprehended in Tooley street. Last desirable. II thou ht itwould be better ' 1 andwide extension of the
• e oug
evening he underwent a brief examination at the Union- the proviso till the bringingof
up the report. point, lie is as liberal as any man in the House of Commons,
hall Police-court, before Mr. Cottenham, the magistrate,
Al STAFF() D °BRIEN would withdraw the short of Chartism. The menof Birmingham know that lie
who, hearing that a true bill had been already found by a
;Proviso, 11
that
manded not -a cold conformer to these popular principles, but
grand jury at the Central Criminal Court Ki'llitlst him, re- ~ and take another opportunity of introducing it. i i been a willing co-operator in every liberal
he has always .
manded the prisopes. Sir J. GRAHAM thought it had better be postponed,
, movement, excepting probably that for complete sufli•age, of
SAYINGS' BANas,—A Committee, upon a general as he was himself desirous of considering the clause. .•
which Mr. Sturge is the originator, and which aims at the
meeting, has been fernied for the purpose of watching the After a desultory conversation, Mr. S. O'BRIEN six ponds of the Charter under a less popular name. In jus-
t:a-ogress of the Savings' Bank Bill when it is introduced into withdrew his amendnieot, en the understanding that the tire to those who voted fbr Air. Scholutiel(l,. inid iii,order thou.
Parliament. This the public will, we are sure, feel glad to matter was to be terther considered on bringing up the i the. real character of the opposition to him may be known to
learns Protect the !tpoor inaa's bank," and' exPmage• from it ePc'rt• s . The. original clause was _agreed to ' the public, I beg the favour of your giving these facts inser-
. .. . .: _ ..
those Who had no right to make deposits in tIM9" Yill,.l.4l?liii Oa clause 47 beiede proposed, tion in Your paper. - -
1114441419 Pa,
414 11.P.Lric said this clause affected the remosal July 16. •
. .
.= .

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 2OO Indian Stock 285 i,
3 per Cent. Red lool4.Ditto Bonds . ....... ...... 98, pm.
3 per, Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Red
New 3% per Cent. .......
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 500/ ............... 77 in.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ............... 8G pm.
Jan lt.fit) lO6 Bank Stock for Acct.... 199
Oct. 1859 — Consols for Opg. ...... ... 1;94
Jan. 1860 12% India Stock for Acct.... 286
FOREIGN FUNDS.
"Austrian, 5 per Cent — ;Portuguese, 5 per Cent ......
Belgian, 5 per Cent --
,Ditto, New Ditt0....... ........
Brazilian Bonds .........
......... ,
Russian, 5 per Cent. .......... ,
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Chllian, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, Metallic ... .... *. .........
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 — ,Ditto, 3 per Cent......,,.. .... 33%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — ,Ditto, Deferred .... ............. .
Danish, 3 per Cent .......
Greek, 18_5, 5 per Cent. — ,Exchange .............. .... —f. —c,
Mexican, 5 per Cent
;Dutch, 2% per Cent 61 •
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — , Ditto, 5 per Cent ...
..... joi%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid).. .......... .
.. 99
Eastern Counties (23 paid) p...... ........ Pt
Ditto Registered (81t3s 8d paid) ............... /4
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,No. 1 1
Ditto ditto, paid, No. 2
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
12834
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto New. Quarters ( 2 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (12/. 15s. 4d. paid) 7li
London and Croydon (Trunk)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, &paid
:II %
South Eastern and Dovel• (33 2s 4d paid) ...... ... 3i%
Ditto 'Jew Shares ( 4 paid)
Thame. and Medway, .Zl9 5s 8,1 paid O6
Trent Valley, 2 paid B%
York and North Midland (50 paid) lOl
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—{THIS DA Y.)
LONDON, JULY 17.—Wind this day at noon, northerly light
breeze, and cloudy.
.DEAL, JULY 16.—WindW.N.W. to W.,- moderate.—Arrd.
Tropic, Clark, Barbadoes. Sld. •Lord Elden, Madras; Pa-
lermo, and Courier, Cape of Good Hope ; Grenfells, Cuba, but
since put back, crew refractory; Pullers, New York ' • Dun-
can, St. John's, New Brunswick; Waterlily, Quebec; Martin
Luther, Liverpool and Calcatta.
PouTsmotrit, JULY 16.—Wind W.—Sld. Maidstone; Ben-
gal ; Pagoda, Cape of Good Hope.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 16.—Wind E.—Arrd. Nestor and John.
Burnham, Barret, Quebec. Sid. Cali() and Laurel, Quebec.
OFF MARGATE, JULY 16.—Prince Albert, Freeman, and
eserve, Laurence, Jamaica ; f Carnation, Shenherd, Laguenay

SALC4:33IBE, JULY 15.—Ski. Beau Ideal, Newfoundland.
FALtiouTif, JULY 16.—Wind E., light.—Arrd. Agnes
packet, Bristol, for Ichaboe. Sid. Attack, west coast of
Africa; Elizabeth Hall, Baltimore.
SCILLY, JULY 12.—Off, Falcon, Creuty, Batavia, ,to St.
Petersburgh. Sid. Lord of the Isles, Newfoundland.
Manor.' JULY 16.—Arrd. Lucretia; Perry, Jamaica. Off,
Ireland, Quebec. _ _ _ . _ _

GLOUCESTER, JULY 16.—Arrd. Perseveranc, Restigouche.
Sid. Maryborough, Ichaboe ; Rifleman and Symmetry,
Quebec. _ _ .

BRIDGEWATER, JULY 16.—,A7d. Rhode, Shepley, Quebec.

EPIGRAM

ON READING OF THE, NEW DRAMATIC PIECE,
ENTITLED "BRING GRIST TO THE MILL."
"Bring Grist to the Mill " may be pleasing to see, •
But how much more pleasing it surely would be,
The gen'rous, thegoocl, and the rich to implore,
To send grist to the mill to give bread to the poor.
Charlton-street, Portland-place. G. F.

A RADICAL.

MONE Y AND COMMEEtUIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very
quiet, with a large supply offering, and prices had a down-
ward tendency :—sales 2,000 bales. Shares on the whole
were firm at the rates subjoined :—Bristol and Gloucester,
98i ; Dublin and Drogheda, 721;. Eastern Counties, in ;
Ditto, Registered, 14; Great Western, Half, 80; London and
Birmingham, 223 ; Ditto Quarter Shares, 261; Ditto and
Brighton, 46/ ; North Union, 1241; Sheffield and Man-
cheater, 76 ; South-Eastern, 361; Ditto Scrip, 111; Trent
Valley, ;
_Lyons and Avignon, U 19s; Paris and Lyons,
2 9-20.
In a conversation which we have just had with an officer
of her Majesty's Navy, who has recently returned, after a
long service on the coast of Africa, in ehe pursuit and capture
of slave-ships, we have been assured that the statement of
Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons, last night, of the
extent to which the slave-trade is carried on, with the at-
tendant cruelties and horrors, was not over-stated. At the
same time much satisfaction is expressed at the strong ex-
pressions of Sir Robert Peel, that the Government
will continue, most zealously, to put a termination to
this inhuman traffic. But, while the Republic of the United
States remains passive, as well as the Governments of Spain
and the Brazils, in aiding the exertions of Great Britain and
France to obtain so derirable an object, our informant is very
stongly of opinion, after many descussions among the officers
of the Queen's ships on the coast of Africa, that this
abominable trade will n9t be put an end to. To the prds-
peas of risings among' the slaves in the Brazils and the
Southern States of America, the parties just referred to, in
the naval service of this country, look almost with cer-
tainty, as the motive that will necessitate the easy and
entire abolition of slavery. It will be in fact, a question of safety
w;!.. h the countries concerned to take measures for emancipating
their hiliourers, and, as far as the Government is concerned,
Brazil is ki.%°wn to be favourable, however strongly it may
have to content: with its subjects.
The purchases ot.:_ite jobbers who were deficient of stock
for the settling-day ht:7joug been completed, prices are
retrograding, and there is an attempt making by the Bears
to make them lower for the New ~:"count. It is presumed,
however, that their success will be temporary. Con-
sols for immediate transfer have bet'' quoted 99
to 1. Exchequer hills are 78s. to 795. premium,.
being very firM. The New Three-and-a- Hai` per
Cents. obtain 1021 to 1011, the Reduced 1034 to and
the Three per Cents. 1001 to par, being all slightly lower.
Bank Stock, however, is supported at 200, and India Stock
at 2851.
The Foreign Investneuts have been dull again, but Spanish
Three per Cents. are better, being 33i to #. The Actives
have merely supported the rally of yesterday afternoon to
22# I. Mexican Bonds have been quiet at 36 to 351.
gian are steady at 1041, and Danish at. 881. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. have risen to 61A
The Railway Shares are rather firm again, though not'
brisk.

BRITISH FUNDS THIN DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank 5t0ck............................,.... 2OO '
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities . 9916%'A •
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102% .
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102% 101% % % 102'
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 9-16%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. ......
India Stock . ...... "......... ....... ........... .......
-India Bonds,l,ooo 9B
Ditto under 1,000 • 96
Bank Stock for Account .«... 199%
Consols for Open ng 19993 1414
Exchequer Bills, s I%d. 156 d
1,000/. ........ ••••••••••• ..... .. ••••••• ..... 7 8 '79 prn.
5001.:•....... »....... .. ..... - •••••••••••• 78 80 pm.
Ditto 5ma11.....„,,......,.. ......„.... 78 80 pm.
•FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOl%
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent BB%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........
Ditto for the Account 3d 35%t
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 22%
Ditto for the Account. 22%
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4l
Dutch 2% per,Cents 131%%
Ditto for the Account ' 61%
Dutch 5 per Cents ... .. 101%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE
RAILWAYS. PAID. PIER SHARE.
„ Birmingham and Gloucester lOO 98% ..... to 99% '
Ditto New 17% 24% ...... to --
Chester end H01yhead............... 5
Dublin and Cashel
•••
'Eastern Counties
4to —23 --
Ditto New Begistered...... 81. Os.. Sd. -
Great Western .. .............. ........ 75 l2B -
Ditto % Shares
Hull and Selby -
London and Birmingham. lOO 225 to
Ditto New Thirds
London and Brighton
London and South Wesuirn 41% ...... EO%
Ditto Eighths
h% 2% to --
London and Croydon -
Midland Counties ...........
Northern and Eastern
Norwich and Brandon -
.-
South Eastern and Dover 32%
Ditto New -
- . . _.

Pim and Rouen 2O 365i to
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 16.—Ratheri less
business has been done to-day, but there is not much altera-
tion in prices. Eastern Counties, 12k; Manchester! and
Leeds, half Shares, 44; Huddersfield and Manchester,
17s. 6d. to 20s. premium ; Blackburn 'and Preston, '34;
Manchester and Birmingham,. Quarters, 34 premium; Man-
chester and Buxton, 10s. premium.