The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

The following notice has been posted in the Ex-
change news-room at Liverpool :
"It is respectfully suggested that some manifesta-
tion of general regret for the decease of Sir Robert
Peel be immediately adopted. Perhaps an address of
condolence to Lady Peel and family would be most
appropriate, or a piece of crape worn on the arm or
ha`"

BIRMINGHAM.
The melancholy death of Sir Robert Peel has
created a feeling of universal gloom among the inha-
bitants of this town. It is the all-engrossing topic of
conversation, publicly and privately ; parties of every
shade of politics expressing the deepest regret for an
event which is looked upon as a great national cala-
mity. So profound a demonstration of sorrow has
not been evinced in Birmingham since the lamented
death of Mr. Canning.
TAMWORTH, WEDNESDAY.
It is impossible to convey the effect produced
throughout the town when the melancholy news of
the death of its principal inhabitant became generally
known this morning. The feeling is as if each family
had been deprived of one of its members, who, whilst
their glory in his public capacity, was deeply beloved
for a thousand acts of private kindness and sympathy.
The general sorrow has been evinced with one consent
by the almost total suspension of business, the partial
closing of the shops, and other external demonstra-
tions of mourning and respect. Yesterday was the
usual rent-day for the Drayton tenantry; but the fatal
accident happened so close on the time, that it was
found impossible to postpone the business to a later
day. As may be supposed, however, there was no
dinner on the occasion ; and the gloom that pervaded
the assemblage, as the dangerous condition of their
friend and landlord spread amongst them, would have
rendered the usually attendant festivities entirely out
of place.

SEARCH for SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
A copy of the following letter was forwarded to
Lloyd's yesterday, from the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty :
"Aer Majesty's ship Enterprise Fortescue Bay,
Straits of Magellan, April 18, 1850.
" Sir,—l had the honour to report to you by the
Nancy Dawson, that her Majesty's ships under my
command reached Possession Bay, in the Straits of Ma-
gellan, on the 10th April, where I found the Gorgon.
The Investigator not having arrived, I deemed it advis-
able to push on by myself, leaving orders with Captain
Paynter to join me in the Straits on the 17th, should the
Investigator not appear.
"We reached this place. bring favoured with fine
weather; and having stayed a day at Sandy Point,
for tt,e purpose of procuring fresh beef, on the morn-
ing of the 16th I had the happiness of being joined
by the Gorgon, and the Investigator yesterday
afternoon; so that we are now in a condition to
face the most difficult portion of the navigation, with
ten days' fuel, independent of what can be spared from
the discovery ships in case of need, which I have little
doubt, by choosing our time, will be suffi,ient to take us
fairly into the Pacific. Yet as the period of our arrival
in Bhering's Straits is drawing on so fast, I feel myself
under the necessity of proceeding from here straight to
the Sandwich Islands at the time, lest by calling at Val-
paraiso would lessen the probability of my reaching the
ice by the Ist of August. Und,r this conviction our
provisions
havebeencompleted from the Gorgon, and with
the ten days' fresh beef we have obtained here, together
with the stores their Lordships have provided for the
health of the crews, I have little doubt but that the ob-
ject they had in view by ordering me to repair to that
port will be obtained, and that the health of the ships'
companies will not be impaired by foregoing a relaxation
while the main object of their Lordships' instructions
would be lost.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) "RICHARD COLLINSON, Captain.
" To the Secretary of the Admiralty."

BRITISH BENEFICENT INSTI-

TUTION.
The foundation festival of this charity was held at the
Freemasons' Tavern, yesterday evening, the Earl of
Cardigan presiding. The institution is projected for the
purpose of affording permanent incomes, without dis-
tinction of religion or country, to the widows and un.
married daughters of military and naval officers, clergy-
men, members of the learned professions, professors of
the fine arts, gentlemen engaged in mercantile pursuits,
and others who have moved in a superior station of
society, resident in Great Britain and Ireland, who, by
reverses of fortune, may be exposed to want, and also
for the erection of alms-houses, to which the recipients
of the society's bounties will have the privilege of
becoming candidates as vacancies occur. From a
variety of causes, but principally, perhaps, from the
lamented death of Sir R. Peel, there was rather a
limited attendance of guests on the occasion.
The principal noblemen and gentlemen present,
besides the chairman, were Lord Macdonald
Lord Hubert, Lord Erskine, Colonel Verner, Mr. George
Hudson, M.P., Mr. Felix Agar, Sir R. P. Jodrell, Sir
C. Ibbotson, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Hubert de
Burgh, Mr. Blakemore, M.P., and Mr. Raphael, M.P.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts haviug been given
and responded to. the Noble Chairman, in proposing
Prosperity to the Institution," briefly pointed out the
peculiar claims which reduced gentlewomen had upon
that public in whose society they had moved in better
days, but from whose sphere they had been driven by
misfortune. This sentiment was echoed and enforced by
Mr. Sergeant Murphy, and the ether speakers who fol•
lowed. In the course of the evening, a list of subscrip-
tions amounting to nearly 1,0001. was announced by the
secretary, Mr. Richardson, who also stated that there
was already a large number of applicants for the benefits
which this institution has been set on foot to provide and
diffuse. The distinguishing character of the institution
it, that the candidates are to be chosen not by the votes
of the subscribers in the usual fashion, but by the presi-
dents, vice-presidents, and council of the charity, and it re-
mains to be seen whether, worked on such a principle,it will
be successful. It appears in the meantime to have made
a fair beginning, and the speeches at last night's fes-
tival would seem to indicate that a charity of the kind
is required, there being, as was stated, among all the
numerous metropolitan charities, none which had exclu-
sively in view the relief of decayed gentlewomen. The
arrangements connected with the dinner were perfectly
unexceptionable, and Mr. Ransford and Miss Ransford,
assisted by Miss Bassano, Mr. Holmes, and Mr. W. E.
Ransford, favoured the company with a choice selection
of Songs- Mr. Toole ably officiated as toast-master.

PURI:WIT OF ART TINDER SINGULAR DIFFICULTIES.
Vigseesihr-ataug_ht artist named Carter has recently died at
He was Eex, where he had for many years resided.
power of ever originally
a farm labourer, and by accident lost the
the force of y part of his body but the head and neck. By
acquired the perseverance and an active mind, however, he
power of drawing and painting, holding the
pencil between his i•
kind offices of an Affectionate and teeth, when placed bythere by' the
ctiate sister. In this manner he has
not only whiled awayysicalel the greater part of fourteen years of
almost utter ph
with high
has actually produced
works which have metP commendation. his
groups and compositions arefina
iasii(ll (ti),, have been " most deli-
cately worked and highly
contemplated the preparation of ; grand work for the
The poor fellow had
International Exhibition, but the 17tratleephysical liic re-
new accident.
maining in him was lately extinguished ofl
The best of his art-productions would suTiaelt_yepbee worth a
place in the Industri!d Exhibition even
anything like art-ment.—Builder. a ndently of
The hay-harvest in this neighbourhood is pro-
ceeding most satisfactorily---a large breadth of land w
cleared and the crop secured in capital condition before tlr
heavy rain which fell on Wednesday last and the following
a
day retarded the operations of the husbandtuen. No damage,
however, to the hay already cut has resulted from the rain:
whilst the standing crops have derived great benefit from the
refreshing showers. In the course of the next week or ten
days, should the weather continue favourable, the hay..
harvest will be concluded, and we hear that the crop gene-
rally is considered an average one. The wheat is looking
very hea'tby, and there is every promise of an abundant
crop. Vegetables are unusually abundant. Potatoes are
Pleutifute and we hear nothing of the
"blight."..Bath
Gazette.

NON-DELIVERY of NEWSPAPERS,

&e.., OAT SUND
A donut-it:on of London newspaper proprietors sca;tei
upon the Marquis of Clanricerde, Postreaeter-Geact a',
yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at his residence, in Carl-
ton-terrace, to urge upon his Lordship the necessity
which exists f,r the abrogation of the recent enactment
suspending the delivery of letters and newspapers on
Sunday. The following gentlemen etteaded:—Mr. In-
gram, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Dr. Mackay, Mr. Murdo
Young, Mr. Serle, Mr. Wood, Mr. J. K. Chapmen,
Mr. Lamb, Mr. Stiff, Mr. Ledger, Mr. J. I. Scott. Col.
Thompson, M.P., had also an interview with the Noble
Marquis.
Mr. SERLE explained the object of the deputation.
He said that a body of persons who were known as Seb-
batarians were endeavouring, by every means in their
power, to put down all kinds of Sunday trading, and
with this view they had introduced a Bill into Parlia-
ment which virtually placed newspapers in the same
category with fish and vegetables, so that in fast, if this
Bill, or indeed the recent Post-office regulations were
persisted in, news being as perishable as the commodities
he had named, they would become stale and valueless.
The Marq its of CLANRIC.kRDE remarked that a Com-
mittee of the House of Lords had been appointed to
consider the provisions of this Bil'.
Mr. SERLE said be need hardly impress upon his
Lordship, who must be perfectly conversant with the
facts, that the recent order, instead of lessening Sunday
labour, would. on the contrary, materially increase it.
L'erhaes, the Post-office might not feel it; but newspaper
proprietors would he compelled to employ on Sundays,
tea times the amount of labour which the Post-office
would, under the old system, find it necessary to use on
Sundays, but with this difference, that the newspaper
proprietors could only accomplish that laboriously, ex-
pensively, and indifferently, which the Post-office could
do cheaply and effectively. With respect to the non-
delivery of letters on Sunday, he might cite the case of a
coroner, who, in consequence of the closing of the
Post-olliee, might bo unable to hold an inquest.
Vessels might be kept in the Channel waiting
for pilots, and thus not only danger to pro-
perty, but to life, might result. Mr. Thomas, of
Finch-lane, news-agent, bad informed him that since the
new regulation his sale on newspapers on Saturdays
had fallen off 25 per cent., those newspapers which he
had been in the habit of dispatching on Saturday after-
noon having been discontinued, because they could not
reach their destination until Monday, and all the news-
papers had received no end of letters complaining of the
non•receipt of papers, and in many cases discontinuing
them altogether.
The Marquis of CLANRiCARDE said, no doubt news-
paper proprietors had a peculiar claim upon the atten-
tion of the Government in this matter, on account of the
stamp duty, which was always considered to include
postage. Indeed, it had been calculated by Mr. Row-
land Hill, and it had often been remarked, that the
Post-office had a right to claim a portion of the re-
venue thereby derived by the Government. There
were matters of detail, the circumstances of which
varied in different localities. His own opinion was—
and be believed the same opinion was entertained by
all the members of the Government—that this
arrangement, which the House of Commons had
decided should be carried into effect, would be
of such extreme inconvenience to the country,
as it would prevent the transmission of news as
well as letters to individuals. As he had said, newspapers
had a strong claim to attention in all matters having re-
lation to speedy conveyance by post on account of the
stamp duty, but at the same time the alteration of the
order must depend upon the public; the public were re-
presented in Parliament; the Government were merely
the executive, and although there were doubtless occa-
sions when it was well for a Minister of the Crown
to interfere, yet it must be obvious that there were
serious objections to the Executive Government being
put forward as opposing the wishes of the people, as ex-
pressed in the late address, and on a matter upon which
strong religious feelings existed. It might be said that
those actuated by their strong religious feelings did, not
represent tho feelings of the country. That might or might
not be the case. Very considerable agitation had taken
place. The motion was not hastily brought on. It was
announced early in the session, and was put off from
time to time, due notice having been given of the .day
upon which it was actually brought on. Upon all these
occasions, neither the people nor their representatives
came forward to oppose this motion, nor the wishes
of those parties whom Mr. Serle had termed (it
was not for him to say how correctly) Sectarians. He
believed, however, a motion now stood for an early day,
and of course if the House of Commons reversed, upon
consideration, its judgment, he should be of opinion,
and he might say all her Majesty's Ministers would be
of opinion, though he was not in a position to pledge
his colleagues in any way, that the original rule should
be reverted to. His own opinion upon the matter was
perfectly clear, because when he came into office he was
anxious to provide for the wants that then existed,
namely, the transmission through London of the mails
that came up from the provinces on Sunday. He, how-
ever, found much difficulty in doing so; the matter was
much misrepresented, but it would unquestionably be
a great convenience to the country. In conclusion, the
Noble Lord said, the Government would abide by the
decision of the House of Commons, when the matter
came to be reconsidered next week, and would take the
result as the decision of the people as to whether the
Post-office should be closed on Sundays or not.
Some discussion then ensued, in the course of which
the Noble Lord remarked, that he had been informed
that on the night the late address was moved, 100 Mem-
bers were in the vicinity of the House of Commons, but
did not think well to vote.

THE POST-OFFICE SUNDAY
REGULATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
SIR,-1 have felt some little surprise at the apparent
indiff,renue exhibited by the numerous class to which 1
belong (viz., commercial travellers) on, and in reference
to, the recent alterations in the Post-office department;
the trite saying, I suppose, " Wbat is everybody's! busi-
ness is nobody's," influences them, or perhaps they think
as a body, as I have individually thought, the absurdity
of the alteration will bring about its own cure. Notwith-
standing this almost natural conclusion, I do think we—
(oh, that we !)—as a body, ought to petition the Legis-
lature to rescind with all possible dispatch this well-
intentioned, doubtless, but I cannot help adding, most
foolish regulation. Ido not know another class of her
Majesty's faithful, and I may well add loyal subjects (for
never a day and dinner passes but her health and blessed
babies are the first toasts, cloth removed, of course)—l
say I do not know another class whom this regulation so
materially and banefully affects.
Lord John Russell, in his remarks, quotes St. Mark,
chap. 2, v. 27, " The Sabbath was made for man, not
man for the Sabbath." I think had he gone turther into
that Gospel, and taken part of the 4th verse, 3d chap., " Is
it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days or to do evil?
to save life or to kill?" an answer might have been more
easily found; for who in this whole world has the teme-
rity to say that the timely arrival of the long sought
and earnestly prayed for intelligence, has not been the
means of saving life—ah, life itself, to say nothing of
the thousand gratifying intelligences which make that
life endurable and sweet? Besides' if it is right to free
from their lsbour the employes of Government in the
Post-office, why not in all other Government offices, po-
lice especially included? "The Sabbath shines no, day of
rest for them," poor fellows. I could say much more,
but your space is too valuable to encroach much, upon;
and thanking you, Sir, most sincerely for all your
courtesy towards me, and the noble spirit you :always
evince in forwarding the cause of the people, and more
particularly our body,
I am yours, most respectfally,
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
Norwich, July 3, 1850.

ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE OF TWO
CONVICTS.
Yesterday morning, about a quarter before eight
o'clock, a party of convict., with the man in charge of
them, took shelter from a sudden squall of rain Under a
building at the Charlton-pier end of the Royal Dock-
yard, Woolwich, when, by evident concert, two of the
gg
oa
nggn cof , named Griffithse
andliindmarfoshr 7
, theyfebarrms,ersuntiddtenre-
latter under sentence of 15 years' transportation, escaped
nte
in the most barefaced and daring manner, in sight of
many parties, by using a five or six, bar ladder, and
jumping over the low wall at Charlton. A sick work-
man, who saw them start off when outside the boundaries
of the establishment, reported the circumstance on his
arrival at the yard; and the active police force being
speedily put on their trail, the officers were so successful
in tracing the convicts that Griffiths was retaken in a
few hours, and the last intelligence of tlindmarsh was
!o the effect that there was little doubt of his re•capture,
for he had been driven into a copse at Eyling, which
was surrounded by about 40 policemen. Au investiga-
tion into the circumstances of their escape resulted in
the confinement of the two sentries who were posted
near the wall over which the convicts had climbed, and
also of the man who had charge of the gang.
It is reported of one sentry that ho admitted having
seen a convict in the act of getting over the wall; and of
the other sentry it is stated that he was induced to allow
his musket to be examined by a convict, who declared he
had never a gun in his hand before; and whilst the sol-
dier was interested in conversation with the keeper, the
ball and cartridge were taken out of his musket, and the
cap off the nipple, and his pouch also emptied of its
contents, so that when the other prisoner bolted the
soldier could not make use of his firearm. The convict-
keeper's explanation is to the effect that he was afraid of
following the convict, whose escape he witnessed, be-
cause of his desperate character, the prisoner being a
very powerful and determined man, whose crime had
been that of manslaughter.
In the course of the convicts' rambles they arrived at
a hay-field, and were about to appropriate the clothes
and victuals of the workpeople to their own use, but the
owners disputing this unceremonious disposal of their
property, a fight ensued, when by the unsparing use of
stones in pccket handkerchiefs, the convicts severely in-
jured some of the countrymen.

We are authorised to state that the horse from
which Sir Robert Peel received his fall on Saturday last was
bought at Tattersalls' on the 22d of April last, by Mr.
Beckett Denison. and intended to be offered to Sir R ,bert
Peel. Mr. Denison rode him daily for a week. Ile met the
troops with their bands playing, as well as omnibuses and
carriages in Piccadilly—all which the horse passed without
showing the smallest disposition to shy. Mr. amison in-
sisted upon Sir Robert riding him for a week before he de-
cided on keeping him. He did so, and then requested he
might have him. The horse had been r galarly hunted, was
eight years old, and had been ridden by Lord Villiers, who
thought he would suit his father• in-law exceedingly well.
For the last two months Sir Robert has ridden this horse re-
gularly.—?'fixes.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE
A ‘A END NIENT OF THE LAW.
Yesterday afternoon Lord Brougham, at the request
of the council of this society, delivered a public lecture
on the importance of the possession of legal knowledge
by all classes of the community and the means of dlf-
fusing it.
The rooms of the society were crowded with a
highly respectable auditory, among whom were seve-
ral eminent members of the legal profession.,
His LoaDsnip, in commencing his observations,
stated, that nothing but the earnest request of the
council would have induced him to undertake his
present task. He feared that the dulness of the sub-
ject would cause them to spend a tedious hour, al-
though it might not be altogether a useless one. It
was greatly to be regretted that the limited knowledge
of the law possessed by the public in general fre-
quently proved a matter of serious detriment to those
who had property and rights to guard, as nearly the
everyday duties of a man required him in some shape
or another to have a knowledge of the laws of
his country. A inati's social position, whatever
it might be, required him to he able to dis-
tingei.h between legal and illegal acts ; but
how could that be the case where the laws which
regulated these acts were not generally known ?
Many of the wrong acts which the laws were framed
to guard against were known by the instructions of
teachers, both by and clerical, if not impressed upon
them by a natural consciousness, and yet even in
matters of this nature persons unacquainted with the
law might find themselves incumbered with several
difficulties. How necessary was it for a man to know
the rights of self-defence, to be aware of the violence
which may be used in repelling an assault or an in-
novation upon property. What difficulties might
exist in respect to the laws of conspiracy, of com-
pounding felony, in discerning trespass from misde-
meanour—laws which in society ought to be generally
known. A man should know the limits between
trespass and misdemeanour, between misdemeanour
and felony—matters on which his moral sense would
give him no guidance whatever. Equally grievous
might prove an ignorance of the course of judicial
procedure in criminal matters, the laws of evidence,
and those rules which guided courts in the reception
of evidence—matters upon which persons were very
often and grievously deceived. It was often found that
persons committed themselves in writing to the injury
of their own rights, from a want of knowledge of the
simple fact that a part of a document could not be
received without the whole. The protection of one's
own character and the avoidance of injury to that of
others comprised a knowledge of the laws of scandal
and libel, and a knowledge of the law of parole
evidence in matters of contract was not unnecessary
even to those who had frequent dealings with trades-
men. A knowledge of the laws of usury might often
be of essential benefit to many classes of the com-
munity, and the law relating to wills ought to be
kuown to all who had property to bequeath. (His
Lordship here entered into a detailed account of the
various modes of entailing property or leaving it in
trust, explaining how frequently testators left the
law to decide doubtful points for them, or, from want
of knowledge, reversed in effect their real intentions.)
How many various branches of legal knowledge
were required even by the cultivators of the soil—
men of simple and plain habits, but who were often
led into difficulty from want of some proper know-
ledge to guide them. The laws relating to shipping,
conveyance of land, and, in fact, most of the principal
statutes, might in turn affect the interests of all
classes of individuals. How necessary, then, for in-
terest and defence of right was some general know-
lege of legal matters. Passing from the possessors of
property to the possessors of offices, in what various
ways might a man be called on to perform functions
under the law, clerical and parochial offices of various
kinds, and many others requiring a much more ex-
tended acquaintance with the law of the land tban was
generally believed. With reference to the offices of
juries—happily for our judicial system and the cha-
racter of the people, all questions of fact are, by the
course of common law, referred to juries of twelve
men, taken from all classes without distinction. The
Crown had no power to abolish this ancient system,
and even Parliament, with its omnipotent sway, had
not ventured to erect a tribunal for criminal judicature
without juries, although it had constituted other tribu-
nals where decision was given by the judge only. At
least this was the case except in very trivial offences,
which required rather a police intervention than the
consideration of a judicial tribunal. In France a feeling
prevailed that mere citizens were of no importance
unless they were in some direct conjunction with
the public service. Their cry of equality and fra-
ternity was of no value, the word fraternity being
one to which no conceivable meaning could be at-
tached in reference to them. As to equality, every
man there was in favour of it, fancying that the only
exception to the rule ought to be in his own case.
They would have no superiors when they were un-
employed. But arm them with a little brief autho-
rity, connect them in any way with the governmental
functions, and those so elevated no longer cried out
for equality, but protested each that he was not in his
right position.—(Laughter.) From all this pro-
ceeded corruption to public and private morals; the
anxiety fur influence was the bane of all. He (Lord
Brougham) bad known a Royalist Prefet become a
stanch Republican functionary on the information of
the telegraph, without even waiting an hour for con-
firmation of the news—(Laughter)—so many of the
nation passed their lives either as sycophants or agi-
tators. In England the equality of right only was
acknowledged, and distinction was open to all by
honest and unfettered rivalry. This bound all classes
together, made as it were the iron chain which secured
the vast pillar of society—
"On the huge anvil forged the massive chain,
Compact, unbroken, clamped—the building to sustain."
An ignorant jury might be in the hands of the judge,
and might sometimes be called on to decide matters
of law, as in the case of malicious prosecution or
unfairly issuing a fiat of bankruptcy. A jury might
not be able clearly .to separate their oWn functions
from that of the Judge, but a general acquaintance
with the principles of caw might avoid the troubles
arising from these facts. Jurors should weigh in
cases of guilt whether the animus furandi existed,
which was not always done ; in cases of great offences
juries ever conceived a revenge if it might be so
called against the offenders, and recommendations to
mercy were frequently tendered on absurd grounds,
both here and in France, where also the juries had
their circonstances attenuantes. An unpopular law
also might be evaded by a jury notwithstanding
their oaths,ed
and
to
miney. Again, approaching
with in theseap ways
might roachainygg
b
with a reverential feeling but a bold respect
to the Houses of Legislature, it would there be
found that from the want of
,legal knowledge possessed
by many of the popular representatives much in-
jury was done to the common weal. The Lower
House had virtually hardly any lawyers, and even
those who were lawyers worshipped rather idolus
pecus instead of idolus foci. They adhered to their
own fixed notions rather than any thing else. Par-
liament had been said to be not
m agnas inter opes mops. The objections against the
law
Bills were, that the public mistrusted these dilet-
tanti lawmakers, and these objections might be re-
moved by a more universally diffused legal
knowledge.
The Lords were the hereditary judges of this country,
and had always been so, and their education was
superior ,to that of the representative; of the people;
hut even in their body the judicial capacity was al-
most always referred to the professional peers, the
general body never Interfering, as it was clearly in-
tended at first that they should. There again would be
the benefit of legal knowledge. Of what service might
legal knowledge be to tli't3 younger members of the
higher orders, whose wealth caused so manylpitfalls to
be laid for their inexperience; and how much embar-
rassment and injury might be prevented by it. The
mode of spreading this knowledge would be by the
establishment of lectures open to all classes, and while
the present system of pupilage was by no means
checked, yet the public would have better and more
extended opportunities under the new system to be
proposed. Three gentlemen of high legal attainments
had offered to undertake such a task, when the public
should be ready to appreciate their exertions. These
classes would be ancillary only to the present mode
of instruction, and no doubt that they would be
adopted in the larger towns of this great kingdom.
His Lordship, after expressing his thanks for the pa-
tient attention shown to him, then sat down ; but
almost immediately rose again and said—" Many
friends of the Society for Extending the Knowledge
of the Law are at work in America—that is, to ex-
tend the knowledge of the English law. It is my
intention, not at present or during the recess—being
otherwise engaged—but, perhaps, in the month of
January next, to visit the United States, to witness
the efforts that are being made for this laudable
object."
On the motion of Lord BE.undowr, the thanks of
the assemblage were warmly expressed to his Lord-
ship, who briefly expressed his acknowledgment and
retired.

ESCAPE OF ONE OF TUE LIVERPOOL BURGLARS.
—The three men and women apprehended under suspicion of
being concerned in the recent burglaries in the neighbour-
hood of Liverpool, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on
Saturday, and were recommitted. Half an hour afterwards
the greatest consternation was occasioned by the discovery
that the prisoner Mutch had escaped out of Bridewell. It is
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.N-.'..VAL INTELLIGENCE.
JULY 3.--The Howe, 120, Captain
Sir 'TAT E'S Stirling, sailed last night for Sheerness to
be Quid off.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir Henry Black-
wood, hauled alongside the dockyard jetty yesterday
morning to return superfluous stores prior to re-
fitting. kShe has' been already recommissioned by
Sir tie! fry Blackwood.
The .I'dedea steam-sloop, Commander N. Lcckyer,
will be paid off on Friday. We are requested by
Commander Lockyer to state we were in error with
regard to the threat of firing upon his ship at the
Mauritius.
Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8.,
struck his flag last evening at sunset and went to
London to attend her Majesty's levee this day.

Wind strong gales.
PLYM.VtITU, JULY 2.—Her Majesty's frigate
Thetis, 40; Captain H. J. Codrington, was yesterday
v:Aterl by Port-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, ie
the Sound, when the ship was thoroulthly inspected
and the in,,n mustered and exercised with small
arms. Tlie Thetis has her bolts stowed in a peculiar
manner, the thwarts of the launch and pin-
nace are made to shift, and being fitted one in the
other, and the barge inside the pinnace, they
occupy very little space on the booms amid-
ships. When the Admiral inspected the ship the
nest of boats was covered over and firmly secured to
the deck for sea service. Within fourteen minutes
after the order was given the boats were cleared,
hoisted one out of the other, thwarts fixed, guns,
provisions, and water placed in them, and the men
fully armed and equipped were on board and alongside
the frigate ready for any service in any direction.
This smart evolution had never been performed be-
fore in less than sixteen minutes. The Confiance last
evening towed the Thetis up Hamoaze, where she is
to be paid off all standing, the unserviceable stores
only to be sent ashore.
When the Thetis was attached to Admiral Parker's
fleet in the Mediterranean, and had her regular sea
stock of water and provisions on board, she took 1,000
bags of bread and 150 tons of other provisions from
Malta to the Dardanelles. Notwithstanding this
great addition to her ordinary equipment, every gun
was ready for action, the capstan clear for working,
and a fair way left to the ship's store-room and
powder magazine. Admiral Parker inspected her in
this condition, and expressed his admiration of the ar-
rangement effected by Captain Codrington, which was
cleverly done by stowing the goods in the 'tween decks,
and berthing the men on the main deck during the
passage.
The merchant ship Eliza, Captain Thomas Pain,
which left Sydney on the 11th of March, and
dropped her mail at Falmouth on the Ist instant, was
off here yesterday and landed Mr. Manning and
Mrs. Wheeler, passengers from China. Trade was
brisk at Sydney, where 14 ships were berthed fur
London, and eight or nine for California. At Ho-
bart Town 19 vessels, measuring in all 3,200 toss,
were laid on for the gold region. The Eliza has pas-
sengers, Captain Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Stranger,
Miss Sands, Mr. F. Smith, Mr. Crighton, and Mr.
Sharpin ; her cargo consisted of 250 tons of copper
ore from Adelaide, and 3,200 bales of wool, besides
oil, tallow, and whalebone from Sydney. She got to
the tropics in 48 days, without going below 57 or
57i deg. June 1, lat. 22 deg. 38 min. N., long. 38
deg. 10 min. W., spoke the Ellen from Glasgow for
Honduras; on the 3d, lat. 26 deg. 49 min. N., long.
39 deg. 54 min. W., the Medusa, from Ceylon to
London ; on the 4th, lat. 39 deg.: 37 min. N., long.
41 deg. 19 min. W., the Vrow Johanna, from Bata-
via for Rotterdam, out 96 days; and on the 19th, lat.
43 deg. 16 min. N., long. 29 deg. 10 min. wr., the
Caroline, from Barbadoes for Dublin, out 27 days.
Wind S.W., smart breeze.
WOOLWICH, JULY 3.—The following promotions
were made yesterday at the Admiralty, they are all
dated July 1 :
Mate John K. Simone (1848), recently serving in
the Alarm, 26, on the North America and West Indies
station, to be Lieutenant.
Mate John Trevenan (1848), serving in the Ocean,
80, flag-ship at Sheerness, to be Lieutenant.
Mate Thomas B. Legh (1848), serving in the Fire-
brand steam-frigate, on the Mediterranean station, to
be Lieutenant.

Mate Geowe Grey (1848), serving in the Bonetta,
3, brigantine, on the coast of Africa, to be Lieu-
tenant.

Mate John Hutchinson (1848), serving as acting-
mate
in the Herald, 22, surveying•vessel, in the Pa- ,
cific, to be Lieutenant.
Mate Arthur R. Fox (1848), serving in the Helena,
16, sloop, on the North America and West Indies sta-
tion, to be Lieutenant.
Commanders W. F. Burnett (1846), John Ormsby
Johnson (1849), and T. A. B Spratt (1849), com-
menced a course of study of steam at the fac•ory at
Woolwich on the 26th of March last, and having
completed the requisite period of study, . were ex-
amined by Mc. Trickett, assistant to the Chief Engi-
neer, and have this day obtained certificates of their
proficiency.
Lieutenant Meynell H. M. Mundy (1846) is ap-
pointed to study steam at the factory at IVoolwich
Dockyard.
Sir Francis T. Baring held a levee yesterday at
Whitehall, which was attended by the following
officers :-
Vice-Admiral Thomas Brown.
Rear-Adinirali-John Bret Purvis, Fairfax Moresby,
C. 8., and the Hon. George Poulett.
Captains-Donal Henchy O'Brien (1821), George
R. Lambert (1825), and William J. C. Clifford (1847).
Commanders-John Tudor (1811), Thomas Baring
Bond (1825), James A. Stevens (1842), James B. Wil-
loughby (1846), George Harper (1847), William
Critchell (1848), Gerard John Napier (1849), Richard
Purvis (1849), and Arthur Mellersh (1849).
Lieutenants-William Richard Smith (1841), Gran-
sine R. Moyle (1842), and Francis A. Close (1850).
Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., First Naval Lord,
held a levee yesterday, and it was attended by the
following officers :-
Rear-Admirals-Fairfax, Moresby.
Captains-Donat Henchy O'Brien (1821), William
Ramsay (1838), and Arthur Farquhar (1849).
Commanders-Thomas Baring Bond (1825), James
Agnew Stevens (1842), Charles Starmer (1842), George
Harper (1847), John Ormsby Johnston (1849), Edward
W. Vansittart (1849), and J. F. Arnold (1850).
Lieutenants-Thomas S. Striven (1822), Edward
Martin Hogge (1841), William Richard Smith (1841),
Granville Richard Moyle (1842), Arthur Robert Henry
(1842), Charles M. Aynsley (1845), Douglas Herbert
(1846), Lemley Woodyear Peyton (1846), John J. S.
Josliog (1847), Thomas Ssumarez (1848), John Bythsea
(1849), and Gdbart Elliot (1850).
Masters-W. H. Thompson (1829), J. B. Tucker
(1830), and John C. Hutchings (1838).
Paymasters and Pursers-J. Mason (1808), Joseph
Martin (1843). and Samuel Winter (1846).
Clerks-E. J. Bennett (1843), and Aug. Ovey (1848).
The Polyphemus steam-•sloop is ordered round from
Portsmouth to Woolwich to be made ready for sea at
this port. She is to take round the furniture of Mr.
Macdonald, appointed master-attendant at this yard,
and will leave Portsmouth on the 11th inst. The
riggers employed to bring her round are to return in
the Retribution steam-frigate, and will assist in navi-
gating that vessel, under the charge of Lieutenant
Robertson, to Portsmouth.