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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY

The Lords did not sit yesterday.
The Commons met at Twelve o'clock.
Mr. SrOONER took his seat for Birmingham, and
was much cheered by the Tories as he approached the
*a hie to take the oaths.

The House, without delay, went into Committee
on the Poor-law Amendment Bill, and went through
the clauses from 37 to 55, when the House resumed.
This day the Railways Bill will be proceeded with
from twelve to one o'clock, when the House will
agitin go into Committee on the Poor-law Bill.
Mr. O'DRISCOLL'S affair, it appears, is also to be
gliseussed in the Commons, as Mr. SHEIL gave notice
that unless Mr. Ross gave a distinct notice of motion
on the subject, he would do so.
The douse went into Committee on the Metropoli,
tan Buildings 13111, and all the principal clauses, after
lengthened conversations, were adopted, and the re-
port was ordered to be received on Friday at twelve
eVork. The House adjourned at Half-past Ten.

his Excellency Earl DE GREY took his final de-
Torture from the shores of Ireland on Tuesday last.
As he passed on his way to the place of embarka-
tion, he was received by the crowds who are always
in attendance on such occasion;, with the most
frigid indifference; here and there an attempt was
made to gat up a cheer, which, however, had no
other effect than to draw forth loud groans and yells
of reprobation from the populace; seeing which his
Lordship's well-wishers gave up all further attempt
at applause, and the Ex-Viceroy was allowed to pro-
we 1 on his course in the midst of a comparative
silence, which was more sisnificant than the noisiest

demonstrations. So ends the pttblic career, as least
as far as Ireland is concerned, of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
Lord Leiutenant, whom he selected as the fittest man
he knew of to carry out his faeotirite
system of policy, and who, he no doubt-,
thought, would have effectually eueteeded in
tranquillising the sieterscountey, But cruelly has
the Premier been disappointed in his expectations, for
never was there a more inglorious Government thati
that of Earl DE GREY. From first to testy tor is
riod of upwards of three years, it has !real ere! en-
tinued succession of humiliatieg failures. While it
has alienated the Catholics, it has not conciliated the
Orangemen, and from time to time each party he.
vied with the other in expressing their unratified ton-
tempt for it. Weak—rash—vacillating—inconsistent
—energetic precisely at the wrong moment, and tiethl
and indolent when it was most necessery to show de-
cision and vigour—we eitnnot point to one redeem-
ing feature in the Ex-Viceroy's Irish Government,
When his Excellency, who is the here of a hundred
defeats, first took possession of his high office, he
found Ireland, if not absolutely tranquil, at Iciest willing
to hope that she might derive some little benefit from
his Administration. The repeal question, though
still agitated, was by no means fsremost in men's
minds, and Mr. O'Coeseee more than once lamented
the supineness of his countrymen on the subject. By
an enlightened and conciliatory course of policy, such
as he induced Ireland to believe he would adopt, Earl
DE GREY might have given a complete quietus to
the demand for the Repeal of the Union. Never had
a man a better opportunity of doing so. All that
was required of him was, that he should exhibit firm-
ness and impartiality, and not allow himself to be led
astray by party predilections. But to maintain a
rigid system of impartiality seems never once to have
entered into his calculations; he might indeed profess
it, but he could not act upon it, for the PEEL
policy hung like a millstone about his Lock,
paralysing whatever disposition he may have felt to
do justice to an enlarged and unbiassed spirit. The
consequence was just what might have been antici-
pated. The clamour for a repeal of the Union
gathered daily fresh strength ; what was at first the
mere cry of the few soon became the demand of the
many ; monster-meetings were held in all quarters ;
subscriptions to a vast amount were continually pour-
ing into the repeal exchequer; and, ere the year 1842
had passed away, the country was in a state of
combustion from one end to the other. Then
came the headlong rush into Ireland of horse,
foot, and artillery; the repairing and garrisoning
of forts; the marchings and counter-marchings
of troops ; the mustering of war steam-boats ;
and, finally, the prohibition, at the eleventh hour, and
under circumstances of imminent danger, of the Clore-
tarf meeting, followed in due course by the trial and
imprisonment of O'CONNELL for conspiracy, the sole
effect of which has been to increase tenfold the exas-
peration of his countrymen, and impress them with
the conviction that his trial has been anything but
a fair one. Such are the results of three
years of the trimming PEEL policy carried
out through the agency of Earl DE GREY !
Its influence upon Ireland has been most
disastrous. It has neutralised all the good effects
produced by the conciliatory system of government
adopted by Lords NORMANDY and FORTESCUE, arid
engendered a state of things which it will require all
the known tact and experience of Lord HEYTESBURY
to ameliorate. We trust we are not unduly sanguine,
if we express our belief that the new Viceroy, warned
by the ignominious failures of his predecessor, will
deem it his duty to legislate on a totally different
principle, and substitute the substance of impartiality
for the shadow—the thing for the word.

,Under the new "complement" Act assuredly this
will not be the case. That is a capital Act for en-
hancing the value of bullion on money to those who
have already got it, by whatever means. It is a vir-
tual and probably an intentional disqualifibation of
those who have it not from ever acquiring it, through
whatever merits they may deserve them. There is
just a possibility that the Gold Currency Act of 1819
vvas favourable to the enlargementof Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
private fortune. There is every human probability
that, tinder his Bill of 1844, no man, now without a
fortune, will ever be able, by honest industry, to
&lull.° so large a one as that bequeathed to Sir
ROBERT PEEL by his late father. What is said on
the subject of foreign trade, in the same illustration
of the operation of the paper pound system, is con-
clir3ivc as to its advantages to our own commerce.

The illustration of diagram No. IL, we should only
weaken by attempting to add anything to the clever
expositi►►n of the evils of the gold standard. But it
concludes with two assertions, to which we are
apt to think the public will attach much more
value than to the improved platitudes of Sir
ROTIERT PEEL'S didactic essays on the famous
question, " what is a pound ?" And these are, 1. That
on,Prrfs pound the National Debt was chiefly con-
tracted, and might have been paid off within the last
twenty-five years. 2. That on PEEL'S pound the Na-
tional Debt has been virtually doubled in amount; but
we are reluctant to believe—and cannot allow—that it

" never can be paid," except, indeed, in the disas-
trous contingency of Sir ROBERT'S retaining the
Premiership for five years longer I

Madrid jourhals of the 10th inst. have been re-
ceived. The Gazette publishes a return of the
national property sold in the month of June, which
realised 9,041,996 reals (90,0001.) The entire pro-
perty sold had realised more than two millions ster-
ling. The ensuing election begins to excite some
little interest. The lists are to be closed on the 3d of
August, and publicly posted up on the 19th during
fifteen days. The elections will commence throughout
the provinces on the 3d of September, and the general
scrutiny take place on the 14th.

The Funds are rather more firm. The Three per
Cents. reached 261 for cash, 27 at 60 days; and the
Fives 201 cash.

The French Chamber of Deputies have rejected,
as was anticipated, the amendment of M. CREMIEUX,
which would have excluded from all participation
in railroad companies the Members of both Chambers,
The majority Was very large, the motion for the
amendment being only 105, while the Bill as amended
by' the Peers was adopted by 195 ; majority 90. In the
Chamber of Peers a brief discussion took place relative
to the late arrests. The Viscount DUBOUCHAGE com-
plained that M. CIIABBOYMER DE LA GUESNERIE, whc
had been brought from a distance of sixty leagues, and,
though 60 years of age and afflicted with acute rheu-
matism, was kept for ninety-six hours in a humid cell.
It was now near three weeks since those arrests had
beet made, and yet, though two of the persons taken
up;bad offered to give heavy bail for their appearance,
they could not obtain their liberty. Undoubtedly
the. Government ought to be authorised to take all
proper precautions, but not in the vexatious manner
practised in this instance. The Minister of Public
Instruction said the Noble Peer was greatly mis-
taken insupposing that these arrests were preventive--
they were executed in virtue of judicial warrants,
and after law proceedings regularly instituted. But
the Noble Peer was also in error in supposing that any
inhumanity %vas practised. The persons arrested ac-
knowledged themselves that they had been perfectly well
treated ; which fact it was easy to ascertain, as access
to them was not interdicted. The Marquis DE BOTSSY
said the domicilliary visit to the Prince do ROSBECQ
had been made in an offensive manner. This was
lenied on the part of the Government. The Prince
had been arrested in consequence of a regular war-
rant from a judge, and two of the most moderate
and gentlemanly commissaries of police in the admi-
nistration had been selected for the duty. Two re-
latives of the Prince de ROSBECQ had declared that
nothing could exceed the perfect politeness and pro-
priety of their proceedings.
A telegraphic dispatch had announced the acquittal
of Madame LACOSTE, charged with the murder of
her husband, as well as the man who had been in-
dicted as an accomplice.
The folios ing are additional extracts from the
papers :
The Atimilcur publishes a table of receipts of indirect taxes
for the first half-year of 1844, as compared with the corre-
sponding period of the two preceding years. It shows an
increase of 7,752,000 f. over 1843, and of 14,077,000 f. over 1842.
Malta letters of the sth inst., received by the Levant
mail, give some details of the landing of the Italian refugees
in Calabria. , Some of them appear from these to have joined
the. Calabrian bands, and at Malta hopes were entertained
that among them were all the leaders of the enterprise, with
the exception of Moro, who was known to be mortally
wounded.
We read in A letter from Venice of the 7th inst.:—" The
Neapolitan Government has made a communication to that
of Vienna relative to the Austrian subjects made prisoners in
Calabria. It is believed that the Austrian Government will
not demand their extradition, in order to be spared a process
for desertion and treason against the sons'of a distinguished
and meritorious officer."
Letters from Athens of the 30th ult, inform us that tran-
quillity had been re-established. A warrant had been issued
for the arrest of Germano Mavromichali, accused of being the
exciter of the disturbances on the 23d, which cost the lives of
several persons. General Tzavellas—since exiled to Syra—
has tendered tie resignation of his appointment as Aide- de-
Camp to the King, in dissatisfaction at the breach of faith
which the Ministry wished to commit towards General Grivas,
but which M. l'iscatory prevented by taking him under the
protection of the French flag. The President of the Council
persisting in not recognising the compromise between Ge-
nerals Tzavellas and Grivas, announced that he should pro.
ceed to obtain judgment by default against Grivas, who
thereupon retired to Stnyrna.
The King of Naples arrived at Messina on the 29th ult.,
and soon afterwards left for Catania, on his way to
Girgenti, Trapani, and Palermo.
Prince Metternich left Vienna on the Bth, for the Baths of
Ischia.

No public question, within our experience or re-
collection, has developed more varied ability and
talent, out of doors, than that of the " Currency,"
since the first announcement of Sir Ronan' PEEL'S
Bank Charter Bill. No public question, of so mo-
mentous or extensive a character, has ever been
treated with such unpardonable apathy or misconcep-
tion by the great majority of the representatives of
the people in the House of Commons, as the pre-
sent state of our monetary system, and its future
relations under the same Bill. If, out of
the 658 trustees of the interests `of the people at large,
who are returned to Parliament by the electoral con-
stituency of the United Kingdom (a body consisting
of some hundreds of thousands of persons), only some
forty or thirty are "still few and faithful found" in
the conflict between the advocates of the unfettered
action of property and labour against the monopolizing
and absorbing influence of realised capital represented
in gold, or convertible into gold at a fixed standard
Mint price, it is so much the more important that
there should be zealous, active, and able champions
in the general field to vindicate the salutary rights
of the former upon the destructive and exclusive pre-
tensions of the latter. Among the many clever attempts
at concentrating close reasoning and sound argument
on the somewhat ungrateful but all-importaut
subject of the Currency, to which the pending
discussions have given rise on Sir ROBERT'S
last device for injuring industrial labour,
in this country, facilitating the usurious employment
of capital, and paralysing all the energies of com-
merce, we may commend to our readers, as well
worthy of their perusal, a short paper called "1 he
PITT Pound versus the PEEL Pound." In another
part of our paper we have reprinted this "Appeal to
Common Sense." If we did not find our owe
repeatedly-recorded convictions on the matter con-
firmed by this and other remarkable coincidences of
opinion, we might desist from our humble efforts
.to press upon the public the adoption of the views we
hold upon it, in common with all who concur in de
flouncing both the original mischief of 1819, and it:.
so-called " complement" of 1844. But the whole
question is one of so vital, so immediate, so irresist•
ible a character, that, like AARON'S rod-serpent, it
swallows up all the rest that interest, at present, the
public curiosity. Its vast and pervading importance
is felt even now, but it will be hereafter
tangibly present in every concern and relation
of commercial engagement, State business, or do-
mestic and social life, that are mixed up with the
representation, the interchange, transfer, purchase,
sale, settlement, bequest, or devise of property—
with every dealing, in short, the value or extent of
which is to be measured or expressed in money.
The " Peri. Pound versus the PEEL Pound"
proceeds on the implied concession of this simple and
undeniable postulate--" That taxes laid on commo-
dities do not add to their intrinsic value." Wheat
being the selected commodity for the exponent of the
two conclusions finally established (which are "that
PITT'S pound will save the country; that PEEL'S
pound will ruin the country ") it is further assumed
"that 50 per cent. has been required to be added to
the price in order to remunerate the producer
for the burden imposed on him by indi-
rect taxation." Of course the argument through.
out supposes, with a view to the more per-
spicuous statement of the propositions by which it is
i!lustrated, that the gold sovereign and the paper one
pound are co-existing. These propositions are pre-
ceded by two diagrams, each of which is divided into
two parts. No. 1., " PITT'S pound," exhibits outlines
of two gold sovereigns, "as money," each containing
5 dwts. 3 grains of standard gold, equated to " forty
shillings or two pounds." Beneath these similar outlines

of two sovereigns—" gold, as a commodity," each of
similar weight with the preceding ones; and equal to
the value of " one quarter of wheat." Then, the
second part of the diagram sets out " one quarter of
wheat," equal to three several sums of 13s. 4d. each,
or three several " PITT'S pound note of 205." each,

equal to " forty shilling; or two pounds." In stating
a comparative estimate of this kin'), the 10 dwts. and

c learn from Dresden, July 9, that although apparent
ranquillity has been restored at Prague, there is great agi-
ation still among the labouring classes in other parts of Bo-
At Riuschenberg the weavers have destroyed all
,c machinery and several factories.
THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, JULY 16.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five rerCmits.. •••• 122 15 122 15 122 10 .. 122 10
Three per Cents••• • • 81 90 .. 81 90 .. 81 85 .. 81 85
Hank of France...... • • ...• .3012 50 .•3042 50 ••3042 50 • • 3042 50
~afilite Rank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o —ll2O ..1120 ..1120
5,000 f. Sliaresso67 50 .. 5067 50 ..5060 —5060
•.•....• 675 .. 675 .. 675 .. 675

icn►ia.

G grains of gold in two sovereigns, and the quarter (.f
wheat, are taken as " natural equivalents;"—that is
their value in relation, each to the other, is estimated

by the labour necessary to bring them into market.
It being thus shown that the pressure of indirect
taxation has forced up wheat from 2/. to 31. per

quarter—it being thus established that the 11. loses its

value and power to purchase in the proportion in
which indirect taxation has added to the price
of wheat—that is to say, that it goes no
further than 13s. 4d. would have done prior
to the imposition of this taxation—it results that

this permissive capacity in the paper pound to depre-
ciate with respect to the gold pound, the intrinsic
value of wheat—in gold—is preserve,i, the quarter of
wheat being still equal (by reference to the diagram)
to 10 dwts. 6 grains of gold. " Besides this system,
ta-cation may be added to the price of commodities

o any extent without altering • their natural

TMI SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1641.

value in gold ; a property of the highest
consequence with respect both to the home end
foye;gn market t" I'm by increased prices do the
formet, the producer is entitled to feeffet frUm
iot that takationon Customs And
r acise which he has originally advanced to the State.
The labourer charges that portion of taxation which
he,haspaid on articles consumed by halt bn the pro,
dna oi'gootts itar his employer; the
tnitt!iv!;ti' C master charges this, in his turn,
to ' the consumer, who finally pays it, as the
Legislature meant that he should de. In
this way the wealthy anti unproduetire do bear their
&Are of the taxation of the countryby the en-
hafted price they pity for ev=ery product of industry.
The produters contribute to revenue by the atnount
of their consumption of Excisable and other commo-
dities. Nor is this all; the wants and tastes of the people
expand with the growing power of production ; so that
the greater the production and the denser the population,
the burden of taxation is more widely spread over all,
and less severely felt. The national wealth is readily
and proportionably diffused through numberless
channels bythe distributive power such a currency
gives; and no excessive toll being demanded from
the fl 1(1 or the factory labourer, he has the opportu-
nity left him to raise himself in the social scale.

several of the most eminent foreign singers. From
all accounts, it will be one of the most attractive con-
e@rts of the BeAscitt, and afford seasonable relief to the
of the dedaseds
AlortrAmtr ix tut MEtROPOLTS.—The return
for the_ week, ending Slily 13, shows a further de-
create in the tiumber of deaths—the total amount
kribit all etiiises Uing dpi ; previous Weel, M7l ; aVer-
age 000. The deaths from small-pox are still nume-
rous, being 43; average, 11. Scarlatina, 69; aver-
age, 39. In most other cases there is a decrease. Of
the 43 persons who died of small-pox, 35 had not
been vaccinated. The following is an analysis of the
list of violent deaths;—Fracture or contusion, five
eases] of which one Was by a fall of timber 1 three by
horses and carriages; and one by means not stated&
Wound, one case (suicide). Scald, one case. Drown-
ing, three cases ; and suffocation, one case (not known
whether from accident or otherwise). Total, eight
males and three females. The thermometer was
highest on Thursday, 72, and lowest on Wednesday,
62.6 degrees. Rain, in inches, fur the week, 011.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool had a very fiat tone
again yesterday, the supply being abundant and prices
drooped ; sales about 4,000 bags, including 500 for exports-
tion.—Shares were on the whole firm, with a fair inquiry.
Birmingham and Derby, 70; Ditto and Gloucester, 994
Eastern Counties, 124; Ditto New, 144; Grand Junction,
Eighths, 124; Great Western, 128; Ditto, Half, 80; Hull
and Selby, 114 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 231; Ditto, Half,
115 ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 374 ; Ditto, Quar-
rter Shares, 264 ; Midland Counties, 1004 ; Ditto, Quarter,
243; North Midland, 100}; Ditto, Half, 494; Sheffield and
Manchester, 76 ; South-Eastern, 37 ; Ditto, New, 104 ; Or-
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1/. 19s.
From almost all parts of the country where recently wool
fairs have been held, the results have been most satisfactory.
In some instances the improvement is asserted to have been
from 74 to 10, and in a few instances 15 per cent. The sales
of colonial wools that are at present in progress at the Hall
of Commerce, have not commenced so satisfactory as was
anticipated by many; but the fact is, that the quanti-
ties announced for sale are so large, that purchases are
made with much caution. Still the requirements of the manu-
facturers are said to be heavy and urgent, as the demand for
woollen manufactures is on the increase. As to the cotton
trade, it is not surprising that for the raw interest the mar-
ket should be heavy, the stocks on hand at Liverpool being
unprecedently large; and it ought not to be forgotten that
the supplies from 'the East Indies and Egypt are expected
to be very large indeed. The indigo trade is not so
brisk as was anticipated it would be, hence the slow progress
made at the public sales now in course of progress. An ad-
vertisement appeared in this day's Sun, announcing a further
public sale of West India Pine Apples brought over in high
perfection. This is a branch of trade that appears likely to
be cultivated to an immense extent. Fine pines that would
fetch, if hot-house grown here, from 20s. to 255. each, have
realised at the late sale from 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d. each. A point
yet to be obtained is the arrival of pines from the West In-
dies with thelfoilage in a higher state of greenness than is
the case at present.
There are accounts from Van Diemen's Land this morning
to the 14th March. It is stated that information had reached
there of great injury having been done to the crops in Port
Phillip. The account-sales of a load of wheat ship-
ped from Launceston to England, had been made public
through the medium of the papers, and it seems
that upon an average Bs. per bushel was remitted back,
partly in bills and partly in goods. The result had much
pleased the shippers and the agriculturists of the colony.
Further consignments are now in progress to the mother
country. There is not any political news from Tasmania by
the present arrivals.
The Government brokers took 20,0001. Consols at
994, being an improvement of i 4 per cent. upon
the lowest values of yesterday. Consols for the Account
have not been quoted quite so high, 994 having been
the point gained this morning. The amount of business that
has been entered into is considerable. The Unfunded Debt is
about the same as yesterday. The Reduced Three per Cents.
are per cent. above par; the Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced at 1014 to 102 ; Bank Stock at 200 ; and India Bonds
at 965. premium.
In the Foreign Funds the fluctuations have been slight
this morning. The French Rentes have been sold at 122 ;
Spanish Consols at 23 ; the Three per Cents. at 334 4 ;
Russian at 119 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1014;
and Columbian ex Venezuelan at 131 and I.
The prices of Railway Shares have not varied much. Bit,
mingham and Gloucester have at last reached par, having
just been transferred at 100. Brighton are better also, viz.,
at 2 discount. There are no fresh quotations for Banking
Shares.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock ..... .................—•••••-•••••••••••••••••••• 129% 200
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO%
1 3 r Cent. Consols. Annuities— ...... ......«. 99% 43i%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1018 lO2%3 per Cent.' Reduced Annuities ..., ..... „„
ew 3% per Cent. Annuities. .... « 1021017
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2l 9-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1359
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. « .......
India 80nd5,1,000....
Ditto under 1,000..
Consols for Open ng
Exchequer Bills,
1,0004

96
99%%

Ifid. 154 -
••-• ..«.«.»..77 79 pus.

Ditto 77 7tl pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. ........».».«.«.».«....«....».. 13%%
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent..................... 1123(
Spanish, Bonds, Five per Cent 1810...........—..
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Three per Cent.

French Rentea, s:per Cent 12
. —c.
Exchange 2sf. 50c.
Dutch 2% per•Cent5................. .......... .....
Dutch 5 per Cent. -- 10i44%
New Los.,, 4 per Cents. (1844)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
afaLways. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Derby IOO
Birmingham and Gloucester.... 100 ..»..... 99%
Bristol and G10uce5ter............. 30
Eastern Counties ........ .»..,.».. 23 ..... ...• 12%% to
Ditto New Registered. Bl. 69. 8d....... 144% to
Great Western ..................... 75
Ditto % Shares ......... ........... 50 ....... 813% •...•• to
Ditto Fifths ........... ........... 12 ..... .... 23%
London and Brighton . ...„....„„ so , ... „.. 47%
London and Greenwich. ........ .... 12....... 7%
London and Croydon ............... 13% ...... 18
Manchester and Leeds ............... 70 .... ..... 45 to
Midland Counties ..... . .............. 100
-
Northern and Eastern ..„, .......... 4 584. to
Norwich and Brandon „„ ........ 4
11
South Eastern and Dover ft% 36
too :
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaui 1
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY- 17.—Our market
is steady, with more disposition to do business. The quota-
tions are :—Eastern Counties, 129-16 ; Do. New Registered, 141
.55i cum quarters ; Do. Quarters,
3 Manchester
prpreen.;
~. saonudt
1) Birmingham,E
tern,3 6i ;
Manchester, Bury, and Ros-
sendale, 3 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Canal and Rail-
way, 16s. 3d. premium.

SUICIDE OF LORD NORTHLAND'S

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships sat to-day in a Committee for privileges.
The Peers present were, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Lord
Chartedllor, Lord Kenyon, Lord Sondes, the Earl of Redes-
dale, the Earl of Eldon, the Bithop of Lichfield, and Lord
Bexley.
TIM FITZWALTER BARONY.
Mf. t,. WffinAm summed up the evidence on behalf of the
elainiarit to this barony, Sir Brooke William Bridges.
The ScitAcrrofi•GENitiLit, shortly feplied on behalf of the
Crown; and
Their LouDsurrs declared that the claimant had made out
his claim.—Claim allowed.
ADAM v. FARQUHAR.
The arguments were then resumed in this part-heard
Scotch case, and occupied their Lordships the remainder of
the morning.

VALET.

On Mr. Hardwick, the Magistrate, taking his seat on the
Bench this morning, Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief-clerk, handed
to him the following letter :

" Westminster Bridewell, Tothill•fields, July 18, 1844.
" Sir,—l have to acquaint you that John Riley, a prisoner
remanded to this prison on the 12th inst., to appear before
you this day, on a charge of robbing his master, Lord North-
land, of a.bank-note, committed suicide during the night, by
suspending himself by the neck, by means of a handkerchief,
to the fastenings of the cell window.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"AUG.I FRED. TRACEY, Governor.
" To John Hardwick, Esq."
The bearers of the communication stated that the wretched
man had effected his purpose in a most determined manner;
the handkerchief by which he had suspended himself he
had tied in many knots round his neck, and another thick
handkerchief he had tightly tied in close folds over his
mouth. He was discovered quite dead on one of the gaolers
entering his cell in the morning, and had apparently been so
for many hours.
Mr. John Wolff, from the office of Mr. Thomas Flower, of
No. 96, Hatton-garden, solicitor, who was in attendance on
the part of the deceased, stated that be saw him last even-
ing m the goal, and received instruction from him as to his
defence. He then seemed to be in full health and spirits, and
expressed his confidence of an acquittal, as he was innocent
of the charge against him.
The prisoner had been two years in his Lordship's service.
The stolen note, which was for ten pounds, was proved to have
been passed by him.
The prisoner's defence was, that he did not deny passing
the note, but alleged that it had been given to him by his
master to get change. This, however, was positively denied
by Lord IN orthland.

The mother of the deceased was in one of the waiting
rooms of the Court, and on being informed of her bereave-
ment, fell into violent hysterics.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Richard Huston, an apprentice, was charged with assault-
ing Thomas Wiggington, his master, a chain-maker and
jeweller, residing in Corporation-row, Clerkenwell.
The complainant deposed that since Monday last, on which
day he refused the defendant a holiday, he had been annoyed
by the defendant's dogged determination not to execute his
work properly. On the previous day he gave him a job of
work to do, which the boy not executing, witness remon-
strated with him. The defendant became exceedingly inso-
lent, whereupon he seized a leathern strap, and struck the
defendant on the shoulders with it. The latter immediately
seized a pair of iron pincers, and struck him on the forehead
with them. Ile gave him into custody.
The prisoner could make no other defence than that the
master had struck him first ; whereupon •
The MacitsTRATE observed that a master had a right to
give his apprentice reasonable correction, and fined the boy
103., or a commensurate term of imprisonment.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( T HIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 18.—Wind this day at noon, westerly, light
breezes, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, JULY 17.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W. and N.—Arrd.
Johann, Havannah, for Stettin ; Falmouth, Davis, Mantan-
zas, for Hamburgh ; Elizabeth, Quebec. Sld. Chieftain,
South Seas ; Jane, Hobart Town ; Margaretha, Batavia ;
Cambyses, Bombay ; Young England and autilus, Ichaboe ;
Philomela, Buenos Ayres; Charles Brooke, St. Vincent's;
Mauritius, Antigua; Jane, Newfoundland; with the rest of
outward bound, except the Grenfells, for Cuba, the crew being
still refractory.
Portrsmount, JULY 17.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Owen Glen-
dower, Bengal.
FALMOUTH, JULY 17.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
off, Walchen, Quebec.
BRISTOL, JULY 17.—The Five Sisters, for Quebec, has not
arrived, as reported.
KINOROAD, JULY 17.—Arrd. Collins, Quebec.
OFF PENZANCE.—Brankenmoor, Smith, Launceston.
OFF ST. ANN'S HEAD, JULY 17.—Peel's One, New Orleans,
for Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 17.--Wind variable and light—Arrd.
Watson, Stoup, Trinidad; Cambridge, Brown, Charleston ;
Mayflower, Weeks, Baltimore. Sld. Eliza Keith, Bombay ;
Abbotsford and Ireland, Ichaboe ; Union, Rio Grande ;
Charles Carter, Bahia; Britannia, Africa; Islam, Barbadoes ;
Clipper, Hayti ; Princess Royal, Jamaica ; Glengariff, Vera
Cruz; Bangor and France, Baltimore; Alabama, Cambridge.
Powhattan, Republic, and Superior, New York; Manco, Bath,
United States ; Rupell, Glover, Boston ; John and Penmore,
Quebec ; Argentina, Montreal ; Erma and M. Harrison,
Newfoundland.
FLEETWOOD, JULY 17.—Arrd. Astra, Quebec.
CLYDE, JULY 14.—Arrd. British Princess, Quebec. Ski.
Brothers, Demarara ; Tay, Quebec.
DUBLIN, JULY 15.—Arrd. Nelson, Tate, St. John's, New
Brunswick; Transit, Quebec.
WATERFORD, JULY 15.—Arrd. Lady Bagot and Thistle,
Quebec. Sld. Rose, Merecoom, Miramichi.
CORK, JULY 15.—Remain, Jepanine and J. P. Dobie, from
St. Domingo ; Prince Regent, Cuba.
LONDONDERRY, JULY 12.—Arrd. Creole, Clarke, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
OFF DONAGTIADEE, JULY 16.—Fortune, Watson, S. John's,
New Brunswick.
BALLYDONAGAN BAY, JULY 13.—Arrd. Idea, Quebec.
STOCKTON, JULY 15.—Arrd. Normanton, Miramichi.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

NAY M*ZXETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ ; nse
fal ditto, 41 4s to 418 s; fine Upland ditto, 41 103 to 4/ 16s
Clover Hay, 5/ to 61 6s ; Oat Straw, I/ 12s to 1/ 14s ,
Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply but mode-
rate, and trade rather dull.
CUMBERLA2M.—Coarse Meadow Hay 31 15s to 4! 4s; use-
ful ditto, 4! 6s to 4/ 145; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 15s to 61 ;
Clover Hay, 4/15s to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s; Wheat
Straw, 1! 16s to 111$s per load. A limited supply, and a
steady demand, at full prices.
WmirEcuArar..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 41; use-
ful ditto, 4/ 4s-to 4/ 80 ; fine Upland ditto, 41 105 to 41 15s;
Clover Hay, 5! to 6/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 10 ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/16s per load. Both hay and straw
moved off slowly at the above quotations. New Meadow
Hay sold at from 3/ 5s to 4/, and new Clover, 4/ to 5/ per
load.

MEAT MARKETS•
SOUTHALL, JULY 17.—Although we had a full average
_me-of-year supply of each kind of fat stock here to-day, the
general demand was tolerably steady, and last week's quota-
tions were mostly supported. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ;
Mutton, 2s 6d to 4s ; Lamb, 4s to 4s 10d ; Veal, 3s to 4s;
and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 8d per 81b5. Supply—Beasts, 41;
Sheep and Lambs, 3,010 ;,Calyes, 60; Pigs, 50.
ROMFORD, JULY 17.—Prime stock was in demand, at
full prices, but otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 2s
4d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s ; Lamb, 4s to 5s ; Veal, 3s
4d to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s Gd per 81bs. Suckling Calves,
18s to 32s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s ; and Milch
Cows, with their small calf, 16/ to 191 lOs each.
LEVER, JULY 16.—We had only a moderate business
doing here on the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s ;
Mutton, 3s to 4s ; Lamb, 4s to 48 10d ; and Veal, 38 4d to
3s 10d per Blbs.