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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The exclusion of Mr. T. Duncombe from
the House of Commons Post-office Committee was not
Imerely ungracious to the individual ; it was also injuri-
ous to the public interests. We scarcely remember a
previous instance of a Member of Parliament who moved
for the appointment of a Committee, which he obtained,
• being excluded from the constitution of the Committee.
The information which Mr. Thomas Duncombe had
collected, and the witnesses on Whose evidence the
- , charges he brought against Sir James Graham, with
I reference to his warrants for the detention and
• opening of letters passing throught the Post-office,
- I were to be sustained, rendered his services as a mem•
ber of the Committee most important, if not essen-
tial to the ostensible object for which the inquiry was
directed to be made. Supposing the object of the
Government, in assenting to the inquiry, to be honest,
the exclusion of Mr. Duncombe from the Committee was
most unfortunate. But if the design of his exclusion
I was to shut out information, by preventing the indivi-
dual best acquainted with the case from taking part in
the investigation, then the purpose has been accomplished.
The proceedings of the House of Commons last even-
ing go to illustrate the injury which the public
interests, involved as they are in the efficiency of the
inquiry, have already sustained through being de-
prived of the services of the Hon. Member for Fins-
( bury, as a member of that Committee. Mr. Duncomhe
I made a statement to the House as to the course adopted
iby the Committee toward himself. The Honourable
Member was summoned by it, and appeared before it.
He was asked whether he had any statement to make,
or any informiltion which he wished to lay be-
fore the Committee ? He replied, that he had
charges which he is in a situation to sub-
stantiate by evidence, relative to the detention and
opening of letters at the Post-office. The Committee,
upon this, asked for his list of witnesses. "We will
send for the parties, and ascertain, by an examination
conducted by ourselves, the evidence they can supply.
in support of the charges you allege. You, Mr. Dun-
combe, may withdraw. Leave the whole affair to our
management. We will not trouble you further." The
Committee, according to Mr. Duncombe's statement,
was very courteous, and even " coaxing," in its de-
meanour ; but declined his offer, which he pressed upon
them, to allow him to examine his own witnesses.
The Committee even refused to allow him to be pre -
sent while the examination of these witnesses was con-
ducted by the members of the Committee. The latter
refusal was grounded on lack of power in the Com-
mittee to grant that permission. But on a formal ap-
plication being made by Mr. Duncombe to the Com-
mittee, that a formal application be made by it to the
House to allow of his being present, he was requested
to withdraw ; and on being again admitted, he was
informed that the Committee declined to make such
an application to the House. The correctness of
Mr. Duncombe's statement was admitted by Lord
Sandon, the chairman, and other members of
the Committee, who were present in the House.
Sandon, indeed, was willing to concede the
presence of Mr. Duncombe during the examin-t-
-tion of his witnesses by the Committee, if the House
would consent,. But Sir R. Peel would not hear of sue

ig an invasion of the " rules of the House" and the "gene-
-1%
ral kractice with regard to all Committees of the sort."
%, To "Ike the examination of the witnesses out of the hands
1g of the Committee would imply a want of confidence by
s the souse in the Committee of its selection ; while to.
perniit a Member of the House, who was not a Member
of the Committee, to be present during the inquiry,
would be to destroy the secresy imposed on the Cum-
-1% mittee in the investigation with which it was intrusted:
‘, He (Sir R. Peel) should therefore advise the Hou,e
;% to adhere in this case to the general practice with re-
spect to all Committees of this sort. It was now a
14 question of confidence in the Committee." The
presence of Mr. Duncombe—whether as a member
of the Committee, or as an examiner of the witnesses
he has collected, and as manager of the case in which
the public is so deeply interested, and which he de-
clares he is in a position to establish—is refused.
The complexion which the proceeding now wears is
anything but healthy. We were disposed to hope that
the Government, driven by very shame to concede in-
viry, would have kept up appearances with the public,
and afforded every facility for rendering the result satis-
factory—at least, that no impediment would have been
interposed to thwart investigation, and to prevent a toll
discovery of facts. The fair examination of all the wit-
nesses brought forward by Mr. Duncombe, was essential
to produce this desirable effect.
STANDARD.—Mr. Thomas Duncombe last night
made a bold effort to be admitted to the sittings of the
Secret Committee upon the Post-office, and in doing so,
gave ample proof of the prudence of his original exclu-
sion from that body. For what does Mr. Duncombe want
to be admitted to the sittings of the Secret Committee ?
If it is not to prevent its proceedings being secret, we are
at a loss to conjecture &motive. The Member for Fins-

b try is not afflicted with any excess of modesty,
but surely even he will not pretend that the gentlemen
composing the Committee are not qualified by experience,
intelligence, and integrity to conduct the delictite inquiry
confided to them, without his help ? He says, indeed,
that he has witnesses to produce, whom it is necessary for
himself to examine in person but witnesses who
can give testimony only to their own selected
examiner are witnesses who may as well be dispensed
The duties assigned to the secret Committee are

in all rtspeets analogous to the duties of a grand jury,
but what would he tho►ight of a prosecutor insisting
upon admission to a grand jury-room; (41 the plea that
he must examine his witnesses in person We, how•
ever, perfectly understand Mr, T. Duncombe—he knows

that-liicease -has broken down, and he is now dernan,

ing what it is impossible to concede ; laying the founds,
Lion of a grievance, which may serve him as a door of
escape from his groundless and most trutiipery charges.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(THIS DAY.;
Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Gibraltar - —
Ditto, at sight l2 3 Leghorn 3O 45
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5i Genoa 25 85
Antwerp 25 90 Milan —
aamburgh M.B. 1312 Venice 47
Altona l3 13 Naples 39i
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 54
Marseilles 25 90 Oporto 54
Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Maine.. 1211 Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 N.elcyl:olk,2ldys sight

Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 953 Philadelphia
T rieste, ditto
Madrid.. 37 Foreign Gold, bars. .f. 3 17 9

Cadiz

Bilbao 36

Barcelona 36
Sevilla

Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5

New Doubloons 0 0 0

New Dollars 0 4 101
Silver in Dam 0 4 111

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Quarterly Average of the 'Weekly Liabilities and Assets 01
the Bank of England, from the 20th day of April, 1844,
to the 13th day of July, 1844, both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98.

LIABILITIES. AELSETS.
Circulation £21,246,000 Securities ..X22,471,000
Deposits 13,977,000 Bullion

£35,223,000 I
I. Downing-street, July 19, 1844.

E 38,238,00(

THE LONDON UAZETIT
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, JULY 17, 1144.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Alexander
Silver to the church and parish of Dunnottar, in the presby-
teiy of Fordoun and county of Kincardine, vacant by the
transportaton of the Rev. Alexander Irvine, late Minister
thereof, to the church and parish of Peterhead. "
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 19.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Birmingham—Richard Spooner, Esq., in the
room of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., deceased.
, ADMIRALTY JULY 12.

Corps of Royal Marines—First lieutenaat P. T. M. Payne
to be Captain, vice Brevet Major H. B. Mends, deceased ;
Second 'Lieutenant O. Drury to be First Lieutenant, vice
Payne, Promoted.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Liecestershire Regiment of Militia—Captain and Adjutant
H. F. Hawker, from the Queen's Own Tower Hamlets Regi.
ment of Militia, to be Adjutant, vice Deakin, deceased,
March 22.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding o,

Yorkshire.

First West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—G.
Sitwell, Esq., to be Captain, vice Lord Howard, resigned ;
Cornet D. Niabett to be Lieutenant, vice Swium, resigned ;
W. Fowler, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Nisbett, promoted,
July 13, 1844.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayrshire.
Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Regimental Ser-
jrant-Major A. B. Calvert, from the 2d bragoon Guards, to
be Adjutant; Adjutant A. B. Calvert to be Cornet; Rev. J.
C. Jamieson to be Chaplain, vice the Rev. J. M'Leod, D.D.,
deceased, July 10.
WHITEHALL, JULY 10.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed R. Fulford, of Exeter,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court o
Chancery.

WHITEHALL, JULY 6.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knt.,-Lord
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has
appointed John Lyon Foster, of Hertford, in the county of
Hertford, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for
taking the acknowlPdgments of deeds to be executed by married
women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re.
coveries, and for the substitution of more simple suedes of assur-
ance, in and for the county of Hertford.
•
BANKRUPTS.

THOMAS HARVEY, innkeeper, Wandsworth, to sur-
render July 29, at two, and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane. Lom-
bard-street ; Bird, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
WILLI A M TRUTCH, china clay merchant, Bermondsey,
July 25, at two, and Aug. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Cooke, Half-
Dloon-street.
JAMES SMITH and HENRY TITFORD, engravers,
Snow-hill, City, July 25, afeleven, and August 31, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-
court. Basinghall-street; Jenkinson, Cannon-street, City.
CHARLES COPE, wine-merchant, Edgbaston, Warwick-
shire, Aug, 3 and Sept. 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece,
Birmingham.
BENJANIIN HARRISON HUNTER, merchant, Liver-
pool, Aug. 2, and 28, at half-past eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Turner, dficial assignee, Liverpool Gregory
anti Co. Bedford.row, London ; Littledale and i3ardswell,
Liverpool.
_—_______

JOHN CARRUTHERS, linendraper, Blackburn, Lanca-
Aire Aug. 2 and 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.de* anu Morris, T•e rAgway, official assignee, Manchester; Milne, Parry,
M'mnle, London; Wilding and Fisher,
n
Blackburn.

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY,
E. Morton, Winchester-row, Paddington.
S. Leila, isil.maker, Liverpool.