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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1844.

deed with Levason and Baker, in which he had cove- he had a family/rising up, whose very existence
-panted to pay this money, so that he was liable with- depended on the character of their father.—(Continued
.out signing these notes, and had actually been sued laughter.) In his intercourse through life, he had
for the money, so that there was no breach of faith endeavoured to do his duty, not only as man of business,
with any persons.—(Hear, hear.) If pe that he wished to treat Mr. Salomons with allrsons would but as a parent. He could assure them
read this statement of facts without a jaundiced eye, the chivalric spirit, so necessary in contests of
and with a desire to understand the truth as it really that nature. If the election fell upon his opponent no
was, he thought every honest man must come to the man would shake him by the hand with more good
conclusion that Mr. Wood was an ill-used man, and spirit, with more good feeling than he would himself—
fairly entitled to be placed in that situation in which (Cheers)—and if on the other hand, he were the success-
the Livery were anxious to place him.—(Cheers.) ful candidate he felt sure that that gentleman would
The resolution was then put and carried unani- greet him in private society as he had hitherto done.—
=musky. (Continued cheering.) He had made up his mind not to
Mr. CURTIS proposed the next resolution. enlarge, but to bring the little he had to say to a conclu-
Mr. MOWBRAY rose with great pleasure to second sion. He would simply say to those who had supported
this resolution. There ought to be some principle by him that he
gentlemen . who had remained neutral—who were begged to tender his best thanks to those
which these elections should be guided, and he con- waiting to see who would present themselves; he would
aidered that the principle of seniority had hitherto say that he hoped they would be attached to the side
carried the day, and he thought that it should be some- he was now advocating.—(Cheers, and cries of " Oh,
thing very extraordinary that should prevent that oh.") To those who were opposed to him he said, "If
principle being carried out upon the present occasion. you have promised Mr. Salomons your vote, vote for him;
He had gone carefully through all the papers relating if for Mr. Scales, vote for him."—(Cries of " Oh, oh,"
to this unfortunate transaction, and he felt that the and "You've bought him.") One gentleman says—
friends of the Alderman had easily disproved them, " You've bought Mr. Scale's over." He simply denied
and were ready to meet the calumnies. Every man it. 'He thought that sufficient. He denied it.—(Cries
f "So you would an 'thing. ") If he should have the
felt himself pledged to prove their falsehood.— °
(Cheers.) He begged them not to rest satisfied with honour of being returned by them, he would endeavour
placing the,Alderman in the chair, but let them dis-
to do his duty. He would endeavour, by every means,
to uphold the privileges which every Alderman
prove all the calumnies and slanders which had been ought to uphold—(Loud and continued laughter)—and
issued against him.—(Cheers.) to support the interests with which they were immedi-
The resolution was put and carried unanimously. ately associated. He did not come into that ward to ob-
Mr. SMITH then proposed the next reEolution, which tain pecuniary advantages. He had qualified himself to
was seconded by Mr. JOYCE, and carried unani- obtain the honour which he now solicited at their hands.
piously. All the advantages, and there were many, attached to
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was then pro- the office, with one single exception—that of making his
posed, and carried with acclamation. own son a Governor of Chrlst's Hospital—all other ad-
vantages he would give to his constitueuts.—(Mr. Sheriff
Moon resumed his seat amidst mingled cheers and
hisses.)

WARD OF PORTSOKEN.
ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN.
The nomination being fixed for yesterday, the ward
presented scenes of bustle and excitement similar to that
of a country borough on a contested election. There
was a great display of banners, placards, and two or three
bands of music, in the service of the several Committees,
paraded the streets. Since the resignation of Mr. Scales
was made public, the canvass has been carried on with
increased activity, indeed with as much earnestness as in
a Parliamentary contest. The nomination took place in
• the yard of the old workhouse in Houndsditch.
The Lord Mayor arrived at twelve o'clock precisely.
He was preceded by the candidates, Mr. Sheriff Moon
and Mr. David Salomons, who were warmly cheered by
their respective supporters.
The usual preliminary forms having been gore
through in the board-room, the wardmote adjourned to
the yard. In answer to rather stormy cries for Mr.
Salomons, that gentleman said that, although Mr. Sheriff
Moon courteously offered to give way to him, he consi-
dered his opponent, as Sheriff of London, was entitled
to precedence.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WooD, in proposing Mr. Sheriff Moon, observed
that the courtesy just shown by Mr. Salomons was a
guarantee that the contest would be carried on with good
feeling on both sides.—(Cheers.) He would not occupy
the time of the wardmote unnecessarily long, but he
must remind them that Mr. Moon had resided in the
City of London for thirty years, during a great
part of which he had represented the Ward of Bread-
street in the Common Council. Mr. Wood was proceeding to
enlarge upon the Sheriff's fitness to fill the office of a ma-
gistrate of the City of London, when he was interrupted
by repeated cries of " Cut it short." He would cut it as
short as they would let him, but he had got his speech
off, and he must go through it.—(Great laughter.)
There were many gentlemen present who had not pro-
mised their votes, and to them he would say that Mr.
Moon would be in effect a resident of the ward,
as he lived close to it, and was of such active
business habits that his personal attention to the interests
of the ward would be constant and effective.—(Cheers
and great interruption.) As to Mr. Salomons—(Cheers)
—there was not a gentleman of higher respectability in
the City. But he had been elected Alderman of a neigh-
bouring ward, and could not fill the office, because from a
conscientious feeling he could not sign the declaration re-
quired by law.—(Cheers, groans and great interruption,
to a hich Mr. Salomons caused a temporary cessation
by appealing to the good sense and courtesy of his
friends.) Mr. Wood insisted at much length, but amidst
great confusion, that in the present state of the law Mr.
Salomons could not be admitted to the Court of Alder-
men. A barrister of high standing (Mr. M. D. Hill)
was on the platform, and he appealed to that gentleman
to say, had the law been altered since Mr. Salomons
was rejected?---(Great hissing, hooting, cheers, &c.)
He had a right to ask Mr. Salomons now, would he take
the declaration of a Christian?—(lndescribable uproar.)
The LORD ITAYOR said that, unless the per,ons in the
interest of his esteemed friend Mr. Salomans, yielded to
the request of that gentleman, and allowed his opponents
to have a fair hearing, they could scarcely expect that he
(the Lord Mayor) would be able to secure a hearing for
Mr. Salomons, when that gentleman would have to say
something more agreeable to them than the speech of
Mr. Wood.—(Cheers and laughter.) It was impossible
that the proposer of a candidate could adequately inform
the wardmote of the grounds upon which he recom-
mended Mr. Sheriff Moon to their suffrages, unless every
word he had to say were heard.—(Hear.) His (the
Lord Mayor's) time belonged to the public, and he would
sit "there until Mr. Wood should be heard out to the
fullest extent.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WOOD (who did not obtain a very quiet audience)
was understood to say that he held in his hand a paper,
in which it was asserted on the part of Mr. Salomons,
that any subject of her Majesty, whether he was Turk,
Hindoo, or Jew, was qualified to administer the laws of
the Christian Sabbath.—(Confusion.) Now it had been
already decided in the case of Mr. Salomons that this was
not the case.—(Hisses and cheers.) He would again
caution the inhabitants of the ward not to give their
votes in a way that would be sure to involve them in a
protracted and expensive litigation. They all knew the
resources of the gentlemen on the other side, and what
influence they could command.—(Renewed uproar.)
They had heard much of the glorious uncertainty of the
law, but it was only very recently they had learned what
that uncertainty really was, and it was such as they had
never dreamed of before.—(Cheers and laughter.) The
question now was, whom should they have for their
Alderman ?—(Cheers, and cries of " That's just it,"
" Salomons," " Moon," &c.) The precept directed them
to elect a fit and proper person. Now, who was
the fit and proper person ?—(Renewed interrup-
tion.) Mr. Salomons had already had an opportunity
of becoming an Alderman, and had not chosen to become
one.--(" More to his honour.") He (Mr. W.) acknow-
ledged with pleasure that Mr. Salomons very properly
refused to violate his conscience—(Hear, hear)—but
the question for them to consider was this, could a gen-
tleman of the Jewish persuasion administer the law cf
this Christian country ?—(Hisses.) That was a ques-
tion which could not be settled in that court, but it must
be settled on the floor of the Legislature.—(Hisses.)
He did not speak as a lawyer, but he put it to the good
sense of plain men like himself, to consider whether
Mr. Salomons could act as Alderman if the statute had
not been repealed since he was elected for another ward?
It was not fair 'to bring on that hustings an eminent
lawyer, to put himself against mere men of business.—
(Laughter.) He concluded by calling on them to elect
Thomas G. Moon, Esq., whom they would find an effi-
cient magistrate and an estimable neighbour.
Mr. Bum.: said that it) would be superfluous for him to
add anything to the excellent observations of Mr. Wood,
and he would only second the motion.—(A laugh.)
Mr. S. S. Ham., who was received with mingled cheers
and hootings, came forward to propose David Salomons,
Esq. He would not follow Mr. Wood in all the topics
he had introduced, but confine himself to the matter on
which they were assembled, that is, to elect an Alder-
man in the room of Mr. Johnson, who had resigned.
If he had come forward to introduce a stranger, his task
would be difficult. But it was not so. The gentleman
be had to propose was one of the best known, most re-
spectable, and most highly esteemed men in the City of
London.—(Great cheering.) He was no stranger in the
ward, for he was born within a stone's-throw of that
Court, as were bis ancestors before him.—(Cheers.)
He had served the office of Sheriff of London
and Middlesex. He had been appointed by the
highest authority in the land' to the office of Sheriff of
the county of Kent—and he was now a magistrate of
two counties.—(Cheere.) That was the gentleman
whom Mr. Wood described as disqualified from adminis-
tering the laws of this country.—(Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. H. concluded by proposing Mr. Salomons, amidst
repeated cheering.
Mr. W. SCALES briefly seconded the nomination.
Mr. Sheriff MOON had never asked one of the Jewish
persuasion to vote for him.—(Loud cries of "You have,"
and much uproar.) His friends had heard the opposing
candidate's friends, and he trusted that the same courtesy
would be extended to himself now. Again he repeated
that be had felt that no gentleman of that persuasion
ought to vote for him, and he had therefore not asked
them to do so. It might be thought dishonour-
able if he had.—(Tremendous confusion.) Let them
recollect that Mr. Scales had already gone out of the
field.—(Cries of " You've bought him.") But so anxious
was he (Sheriff Moon) to prevent confusion in the ward
that he assured one and all of them that he went to every
person over whom he had any influence, and begged of
them to come forward on this occasion. This showed at
least that he was not desirous of coming among them
unless cordially accepted by them; and further, he could
assure them, and he believed that his friend Mr. Salo-
mons would give him credit for it, that be was as
desirous of meeting with him in the most friendly spirit
in the course of that contest as he had been before. He
had met that gentleman in the streets, and he had said to
him, " Sir, if you will qualify yourself by signing the
declaration, I will at once resign my pretensions.—
(Great uproar.) He repeated it that it might not be
misunderstood.—(Confusion, and cries of " Off, off.")
He begged of Mr. Salomons to state whether he would
qualify and take the declaration, when of course he
would go out of the field instantly.—(Cries of " You have
no right to put such a question.") He called upon Mr.
Salomons to say whether he had not done so? Let him
answer that question.—(Cries of " No, no," " Off, off.")
He would now address them about himself and his own
qualification. He came forward as a man of equally in-
dependent principles as Mr. Salomons. Some said " You
will get a Tory." But he came forward without any
political feeling, because that was not a political office.
His principles were to preserve everything good and re-
form everything bad.—(" Oh, oh.") He had the honour of
having been many years a tradesman, and they all knew
the necessity of character to a tradesman in that commer-
cial city. He had for many years represented the a and in
which he yet resided, and :the best way to ascertain the
character of any man was to do so in his own imme-
diate neighbourhood; but he hoped that the character he
had sustained was not merely confined to that locality.
When put up on a pineacle in the Common-hall, no
one dared to throw a stone at him.—(Cheers, and roars
of laughter.) Why had he come forward then, because

Mr. D. SAnomoNs said he was perhaps over sanguine,
but it appeared to him that in the addresses of the
mover and seconder, and of the worthy candidate him-
self, there had been a sad lack of confidence of suc-
cess. He did not like Mr. Sheriff Moon to speak of the
forbearance of the electors. He had stated, and he
would state again, that in any question with which he
might be concerned, he would not suffer religious preju-
dices to interfere, nor would he make any question which
interested the country at large a religious question ; and
he spoke it with all courtesy, that he hardly thought
Mr. Sheriff Moon, in canvassing the electors of that
ward had not appealed to the Jewish persuasion. If he
had not done so—(Cries of "He did ; he called upon
me")—certainly his friends had been less scrupulous.
Then something had been said respecting chivalry, but
he thought it right and just when men aspired to a
public office that their conduct should be rigidly scanned,
in order to see if the past would give any warranty for
their future actions. One other word about the chivalry
alluded to. They might .see by the remnants of pas-
quinades, placards, lampoons, and other election
witticisms that were there exhibited, that how-
ever much of warm feeling might have been
shown during the contest, it would require some
stretch of the imagination to designate it as in any way
chivalrous.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He did not
mean to charge r. Sheriff Moon personally with that,
but he merely wished to show the chivalrous courtesy
with which he had been greeted during the progress of
that election.—(Cheers.) But let them now go forward.
—(Hear, hear.) On this occasion it was proper,
although it looked rather like personal vanity, that he
Ehould speak a little of himself, and of the personal quali-
fications that prompted him to offer himself as a candi-
date for their suffrages ; and he did expect that more
would have been said by Mr. Sheriff Moon, and by his
friends, of his personal qualifications, and of their supe-
riority to his own. He did not say that they had dune
so. He said only that they ought, because that after all was
the only question for the consideration of the ward;
one candidate had withdrawn, two were yet left, and
they were that day met for the purpose of discussing
their individual merits, in order to choose the most fit
for the office of Alderman of that ward. He was
most astonished to hear one gentleman allude to his
(Mr. Salomons') commercial connections in that City.—
(Hear, hear.) Something was said of the screw being
applied—it was an insult alike to himself and to the
voters. He had heard of such a term at elections,
where if a tradesman did not vote as required, the
great man's custom was withdrawn, but that could not
apply to him. His boast was, that his parents—his an-
cestors had, for upwards of a century, lived not a
stone's throw from that place. Through three genera-
tions they were Englishmen and tradesmen, and not a
word could be brought against any of them, reflecting the
slightest stain upon his honour or honesty, so as to render
him (Mr. Salomons) their descendant, unfit to represent
that ward, or the City of London—(Cheers)—in any
capacity.—(Continued cheers.) Some observations had
been made with regard to his having stood and been re-
turned for the Ward of Aldgate, some nine years back.
He had been, however, and they there all knew it, re-
jected by the Court of Aldermen on a technical ground.
It was quite true that Mr. Sheriff Moon, on the day of
the issuing of the precept, met him in the street as de-
scribed, and said that if he did as had been stated he
should withdraw his own pretensions. He (Mr. Salo-
mons) thought the thing too ludicrous to be serious, and
answered accordingly. He believed that his reply was,
that it was not usual for one candidate to
ask another a question. Having thus no-
ticed Mr. Moon's question, he should proceed.
The speaker then referred to his being elected Sheriff of
the City of London, and the pride he felt at having me-
rited the thanks of the Livery in that capacity. The
Court of Aldermen, they were aware, did not sanction
innovation. Many there might remember what impedi-
ments were placed in the way of those of the Jewish
persuasion when they wished to obtain the liberty of the
City, but those times existed no longer. He had occasion
to be a day or two ago at Maidstone on a very interest-
ing occasion, and he was gratified by a remark of Mr.
Alderman Lucas, who officiated for the Lord Mayor,
that they must yield to the pressure of the times and to
circumstances.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The speaker
then detailed in happy and forcible language the
various offices he had been called to by the
past and present Governments—to the fact that
he was then High Sheriff of Kent and a magistrate in
Sussex. He also referred to the present Premier's hav-
ing conferred the commission of :the peace upon seve-
ral gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion, and to the fact
that an illustrious (he might call him) individual then
present, Sir Moses Montefiore, had been made by the
Duke of Wellington a magistrate of the Cinque Ports.—
(Immense cheering.) He came before them as a per-
fectly fit and proper candidate. He brought in his hand
the recommendations necessary to prove his qualifica-
tions; and not for himself only did he thus then contend.
It was a question of principle. Let them have confidence
in him, and they would break the last link in the chain
of bigotry.—(Loud and continued cheering.) The Hon.
Gentleman concluded an elcquent address amid much
acclamation.
After a few words from Sir MOSES MONTEFIORE, the
Lord Mayor took the show of hands, and decided that
the majority was in favour of D. Salomons, Esq.
A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Sheriff Moon,
and the polling was ordered for ten o'clock to-morrow.
Thanks having been voted to the Lord Mayor, the
meeting dispersed.

AGAIN SIR ANDREW AGNEW.
(From the Examiner.)
Sir Andrew Agnew has had the impertinence to
admonish the Queen as to the observance of the Sab-
bath. The lecture is conveyed in a letter to Lord
Aberdeen, which we must suppose his Lordship must
have seen the propriety of returning to the writer.
The foolish knight declares that Scotland is " a
strict Sabbath-observing country, in the true scrip-
tural sense of the word"—the whole question between
it and England being, which is the true scriptural
sense of the word, and some of the highest authori-
ties regarding the Mosaic observance of the Sabbath
as contrary to the precepts of the New Testament.
The Pharisee's letter letter deals in that free and
familiar use of holy names and references which is
highly profane, and in one place he presumes to pray
that "the Sabbath may be a sign between God and
her Majesty, whereby her Majesty may know that
He is the Lord her God." As the Sabbath here
meant is the strict Scotch Sabbath, the direct impli-
cation is, that when her Majesty does not observe that
Sabbath, she betrays that she does not know her God.
The insolence, the spiritual conceit, the puritanical
cant, the presumption, the profaneness of all this are
on a par.
There is one characteristic trait of wordliness in
the epistle. After having assigned all godliness to
Scotland, the Pharisee intimates plainly enough that
the example of the Court may one way or the other
influence the habits of the people, thereby implying
that the holding of the asserted scriptural rule is so
slight on the minds of the people, or the influence of
a Court so much stronger than the scriptural autho-
rity, that the custom of ages might be shaken by the
passing spectacle of a deviation from it in great per-
sonages. He writes, indeed, of " the overwhelm-
ing moral influence of the example of the Court."
And is the moral influence so " overwhelming" in
" a Sabbath-observing country in the true scriptural
sense Of the word ?" He thus does the people of Scot-
land the injustice of supposing that there is not
amongst them a moral and a religious authority
superior to any example of a court. But this incon-
sistency is the consequence of the sycophancy which
is as natural to this sort of character, as its insolence
and presumption, and the Pharisee, however auda-
ciously he may aspire to heaven, is never long without
creeping on his belly to some earthly idol.
SIR ANDREW AGNEW AND THE QUEEN.—This
pharasaical coxcomb has had the impertinence to for-
ward an address to Lord Aberdeen at Blair Athol,
containing a lecture to the Queen upon the mode in
which she should spend the Sabbath day in Scotland !
e shall next have the Total Abstinence Society, we
presume, forwarding an address to her Majesty incul-
cating habits of temperance ! The one, we are sure,
would be as appropriate as the other. Is there no end
!—Scotsman.to this man's folly

A HIGHLAND Ihnx.---A labourer on the Lancas-
ter and Carlisle Railway, while digging, a few days ago,
near the old road on Shap Fell, discovered the remains
of a Highland dirk. The steel work, though very much
rusted and corroded, retains its original dimensions,
and around the defence work for the hand there still re-
mains the coil of silver wire %;ith which the handle
seems to have been mounted. It is most likely the
relic of some Highland chieftain of 1745.--Carlisle
Journal.

ZPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL

FROM TELE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
NEW ZEALAND.

Report from the Select Committee on New Zealand,
with the Minutes of Proceedings. (Ordered by the
House of Commons, to be printed 29th July, 1844.
No. 556. Amended copy of Parliamentary Paper,
No. 556, delivered on 10th August.)
We have very recently printed in The Sun the
nineteen important resolutions agreed to, after many
divisions, by this Committee, on the important matters
submitted to their consideration. The case being one
of entire novelty, as to what may be termed the es-
sential characteristics of colonial relations necessary to
establish a claim of military protection by the mother
country to the settlers or colonists, or those who are
assumed to be such, we reprint the entire report.
" The Select Committee appointed to inquire into
the state of the colony of New Zealand ; and into the
proceedings of the New Zealand Company,' and to
report the Minutes of Evidence, and their opinion
thereon to the House, and to whom two petitions were
referred; have considered the matters to them re-
ferred, and agreed to the following report :
" The duty assigned to your Committee of in-
quiring ' into the state of the colony of New Zealand,
and into the proceedings of the IN ew Zealand Com-
pany, and of reporting their opinion thereupon to the
House,' they have found to be one of no ordinary
difficulty and delicacy. An attempt at colonisation
upon a very great scale, and of the success of which
high expectations had been formed, has hitherto
failed to realise the sanguine hopes of its projectors ;
ir.stead of obtaining those advantages on which they
hal confidently reckoned as a reward for their enter-
prise and the privations to which they have submitted,
a large body of British settlers are at this moment in
a situation giving ground for very serious anxiety,
while the lives of several of their number, have been
unfortunately sacrificed; these unhappy results have
moreover been connected with differences which have
arisen not only between the settlers and the colonial
authorities, but also between the New Zealand Com-
pany (which reckons among its members many gen-
tlemen of high station and respectability) and the
Executive Government at home. Under such cir-
cumstances, it will be obvious that a very heavy and
very unusual responsibility is thrown upon your Com-
mittee when they are called upon to express an
opinion as to the causes of a state of things so greatly
to be lamented ; and though we have endeavoured to
execute this task to the best of our judgment, we
submit the result of our deliberations with much
diffidence to the House, and the more so because the
evidence before us, oral and documentary, is so ex-
ceedingly voluminous, that we feel it would have re-
quired much more time than was at our disposal to
have digested it as thoroughly as we could have
wished.
" It appears to your Committee that the difficulties
now experienced in New Zealand are mainly to be
attributed to the fact, that in the measures which
have been taken for establishing a British colony in
these islands, those rules as to the mode in which
colonization ought to be conducted, which have been
drawn from reason and from experience, have not
been sufficiently attended to. When it was first pro-
posed to establish New Zealand as a British colony
dependent upon New South Wales, Sir George
Gipps, the governor of the latter, in a very able
address, laid down the following principles as those
on which he had framed the Bill, which it was his
duty to submit to his legislative council for the regu-
lation of the infant colony of New Zealand The
Bill is founded,' he said, upon two or three general
principles, which, until I heard them here contro-
verted, I thought were fully admitted, and indeed
received as political axioms. The first is, that the
uncivilised inhabitants of any country have but a
qualified dominion over it, or a right of occupancy
only ; and that, until they establish amongst them-
selves a settled form of government, and subjugate
the ground to their own uses, by the cultivation
of it, they cannot grant to individuals not of
their own tribe any portion of it, for the
simple reason that they have not themselves
any individual property in it. Secondly, that if a
settlement be made in any such country by a civilised
power, the right of pre-emption of the soil, or in other
words, the right of extinguishing the native title, is
exclusively in the government of that power, and
cannot be enjoyed by individuals without the consent
of their Government. The third principle is, that
neither individuals, nor bodies of men belonging to
any nation, can form colonies, except with the con-
sent, and under the direction and control of their own
Government; and that from any settlement which
they may form without the consent of their Govern-
ment, they may be ousted. This is simply to say, as
far as Englishmen are concerned, that colonies cannot
be formed without the consent of the Crown.'
" Referring to the speech of Sir George Gipps for
the argument in support of these rules, it may be
observed, that, with reference to New Zealand, they
were, to a certain extent, infringed by the irregular
settlement of British subjects on the shores of these
islands, which began many years ago • but they seem
to have been first openly and delibrately departed
from, when an attempt was made by the New Zealand
Company to establish a colony, not only without the
sanction, hut in direct defiance of the authority of the
Crown. This attempt led at once to a violation of
the law by the first settlers entering into a voluntary
agreement for the establishment of an authority by
which they hoped, in the absence of any legitimate
power, to maintain order amongst themselves. The
illegality of this arrangement was pointed out to the
Company by the then Secretary of State; but the expe-
dition sent out to found, what was to be, in fact though
unauthorised, a British colony, had already sailed.
It is to be regretted that more decisive measures were
not adopted for preventing the sailing of the expedi-
tion under these circumstances, since it appears im-
minbedri
portant, with reference to the future, to observe, that
such unauthorised attempts at colonisation cannot be
permitted without leading to the most serious incon-
hveanveienesctea.hli sstoafnt regions, British subjects
inha-
bited only by barbarous tribes, it is impossible
for her Majesty's Government to leave them exposed
without protection to the dangers which their own
When
denthleamrgseelvneus
rashness may draw down upon them, or to allow them
to exercise, without control, and perhaps to abuse the
power which their superior civilisation gives them
over the rude natives of the soil. Hence every new
establishment of this kind involves a new demand
upon the military and naval resources of the empire;
but the undue multiplication of such demands must
occasion a very heavy burden on the nation, and it
therefore follows that enterprises of colonisation
should only be entered upon with the sanction and
under the authority of the Government. In this in-
stance the irregular and precipitate mode of sending
out the settlers had the unfortunate effect of placing
these settlers, and the agents of the New Zealand
Company, from the very outset, on unfriendly terms
with the officer whom her Majesty's Government
found it necessary immediately to dispatch from Eng-
land for the purpose of establishing the authority of
the Crown in the islands of New Zealand; and there
can be no doubt that this want of a good understand-
ing between those whose cordial co-operation with
each other was so essential to the welfare of the
newly-established colony, has been one of the main
causes of the difficulties with which it has had to con-
tend. In order to avert these difficulties which were
soon seen to be likely to arise, a Charter of Incorpo-
ration was afterwards granted to the New Zealand
Company, with the hope of placing that body in
friendly relations with her Majesty's Government;
but this attempt was defeated, partly by the jealousies
created between the respective servants of the Crown
and of the Company, by the error originally com-
mitted by the latter; partly by other causes of diffi-
culty which afterwards arose. These are chiefly to
be traced to the means which were adopted for esta-
blishing the authority of the Crown in New Zealand.
"The sovereignty over these islands had, at an earlier
period, been formally disclaimed, and their indepen-
dence had been distinctly recognised, both by the
Crown and by Parliament. This course had been
pursued because it was considered (and by no means
upon light grounds) that it was not advisable to ex-
tend British dominion in these distant regions; but in
adopting this policy it was overlooked, both by the
advisers of the Crown and by Parliament, that it was
impossible to check the tide of emigration which set
so strongly towards the shores of New Zealand, and
that the regular establishment of British power was
the only practicable mode of guarding against the
evils which could not fail to follow from permitting a
large number of Europeans to settle among its un-
civilised inhabitants, without being subject to any le-
gitimate authority or control. Looking back at what
was then done, with the light to be drawn from sub-
sequent experience, there is no room to doubt that it
would have been far better if British dominion over
these islands had been asserted as early as 1832, or
even 1825 ; but a different policy having been at that
time pursued, it was considered, in the year 1839,
when Captain Hobson was sent out, that the diffi-
culties which had thus been created could only be got
rid of by obtaining from the natives their assent to
the extension of the authority of the British Crown
over New Zealand. Acting under the instructions he
had received, Captain Hobson, therefore, immediately
on his arrival in New Zealand, at the beginning of
the year 1840, concluded, with a large number of the
chiefs of the Northern Island, a treaty known by the
name of the treaty of Waitangi, by which, in return
for their acknowledgment of British sovereignty, they
were promised protection and guaranteed in the pos-
session of all lands held by them individually or col-
lectively. The evidence laid before your Committee
has led them to the conclusion that the step thus
taken, though a natural consequence of previous
errors of policy, was a wrong one. It would have
been much better if no formal treaty whatever had
been made, since it is clear that the natives were in-
capable
of comprehending the real force and inean;no•
of such a transaction ; and it therefore amounted toe
little more than a legal fiction, though it has already
in practice proved to be a very inconvenient one, and

GLOBE.—The project of still further facilitating
the intercourse between Europe and India, by means
of a railway across the Isthmus of Suez, is resumed ;
and hopes are still entertained of its being put into a
train for an early accomplishment of the important
design. The late Mr. Galloway—whose influence with
the Pacha of Egypt was employed for the purposes
of advancing practical science in that country, and
for improving the knowledge and civilisation of
its inhabitants—had obtained the consent and direc-
tion of that potentate to commence the work. That
gentleman made a visit to this country to contract
for and procure the necessary materials for the pur-
pose. Thirty miles of rails were transmitted to the
neighbourhood of the spot on which the plan was
to be executed, when Mr. Galloway's premature and
lamented death put a stop to the design. The greater
portion of the rails are still on the spot—the
line is one entire level—and not a foot of
land would require to be purchased. The Pacha is
known to he favourable to the project. The intuitive
perception of what is calculated to advance the in-
terests and promote the greatness of his country, for
which the Pacha of Egypt is justly celebrated, na-
turally inclines him to regard with favour a project
which would render one of the most barren spots in
his Pachalic a source of increased wealth to his trea-
sury, and of rising greatness to his administration of its
affairs. The number of passengers who during the last
year passed to and from India by the Overland route,
Avas 3,000 ; the number in the coming year is esti-
mated at nearly 4,000. This number does not, how-
ever, include the hosts of pilgrims who, at stated
periods, travel to and from Mecca, nor the mer-
chants of the Levant, who join their caravans for
trade and safety. The time saved by the pro-
jected line of rail across the Isthmus of Suez
would be twenty-four hours. From the commence-
ment of the new year a mail will be dispatched
from and to India every fortnight, instead of, as at

present, every month ; therefore the time actually
saved—to say nothing of the diminished inconveni-
eace and anxiety to each passenger, and to those wait-
ing for communications by each mail—would be
forty-eight days in the year, or nearly one-seventh
of the time consumed in the passages by the Over-
land route, to and from India, in each year. The
political and commercial advantages which this
country would derive from the increased facilities of
communication with India, with a railway across
the Isthmus of Suez would ensure, are too obvious
to require notice. The principal question which sug-
gests itself is, what prevents the work from being im.
mediately undertaken ? If the Pacha be favourable
to the scheme—the materials on the spot—the pro-
posed line a dead level, therefore requiring but a
trifling outlay of capital in wages to lay down the
rails—and the land itself a desert, having no proprie-
tor to exact an exorbitant price for the purchase—
what impediment exists ? The answer is one that
illustrates the mischievous influence which the French
Ministers possess over the imbecile mind of our
Foreign Secretary. France—whose jealousies are
ever active where English interests can be foiled, and
whose vigilance strongly contrasts with the inertness
ar.d proneness to concession by which the foreign
policy of England has been characterised under
the administration of Lord Aberdeen—has, it seems,
expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed plan, as
likely to give to England a preponderating influence
in Egypt and Turkey ; and a pretext fir maintain-
ing an establishment which, though professedly com-
mercial, may be converted into a military occupa-
tion. This objection—though destitute of even the
force which a barely possible contingency might im-
part, and utterly unworthy, as it is, of being enter-
tained for a moment in a serious correspondence—is re-
garded with gravity by our Foreign Minister ! The
convenience of our commerce, and the other public
and private interests which are involved in effecting
a secure and expeditious intercourse with India and
the East, are therefore made to bend before the
genius of France; which has acquired an unprece-
dented ascendency in the councils of England.
STANDARD.—We have carefully avoided any
interference with the dispute which has been so long
pending between Mr. Alderman Gibbs:and his fellow-
parishioners, because, has Southey has it—

" Men soon live down,
Evil or good report, if undeserved."
We shall, therefore, content ourselves with a brief
reference to the article which appears in another
column on the subject. Various charges have, in
the course of the last year, been brought against
Mr. Gibbs, some of them with a virulence which
could only have had its origin in personal malice.
With one exception, the whole of these imputa-
tions have been satisfactorily disposed of; and it is,
therefore, but fair to infer that there may have
been as much misrepresentation at work on that
as on the rest. The only remaining question is
now under investigation before a competent tri-
bunal ; and if the result should prove, as we antici-
pate, favourable to the Alderman, he will, indeed,
have good reason to pronounce himself an ill-used
man. We are, however, constrained to add,
notwithstanding the explanations of our corres-
pondent, that in any event he will stand in-
debted for a great part of the annoyance he
has experienced to his obstinacy in refusing
to recognise the right of his fellow-parishioners
to examine his accounts. Every parishioner has
a moral, if not a legal, right to know what
becomes of the funds he has helped to supply,
and considering that the Alderman's accounts appear
to have been kept with the greatest regularity, it is
the more difficult to understand the motive of his
refusal; unless it may have arisen from the irritation
which a man of notoriously upright character feels
when he becomes the object of an unfounded
imputation. For ourselves, had our accounts
been demanded, however, impertinently, we
would rather have hung them on the parish
pump for the inspection of every passer by,
than have contested the right to inspect them, because
of any technical informality in the application.
This, however, is a mere matter of taste—we might,
perhaps, say of temper—with which we have nothing
to do. Unless we are to presume that the select
vestry is composed of gentlemen capable of acting
sorruptly, auditing accounts for which the proper
vouchers have not been supplied, we are unable
to understand the principle on which the outcry
against Mr. Alderman Gibbs is still continued ; but
looking at the several attempts to injure him by
the publication of forged reports of the pre-
tended decision of the Court of Chancery, and forged
apologies from himself, we become inclined to doubt
if he is not the victim of a "persecution dictated by
the most sinister and unmanly motives, and
destined to deprive him of the honours, to which by
long, no less than by arduous service, he appears to
be entitled.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 9i per milk,
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
39 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 47k, it follows that gold is 0.33 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.

By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4341
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101(1-
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9f ;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 10k, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.

STATE OF TRADE.—The market continues in the
same state as last week ; the demand both for goods and
yarn being moderate, but prices, with some trifling ex-
ceptions, tolerably steady.—Manchester Guardian.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEFT. 23.
—There has been but a dull market to-day. Flannels
of good quality have been very little inquired for •, the
demand having been for those of a coarser kind. There
has also been very little activity in the wool market.
and there is much diversity of opinion amongst the
manufacturers, whether the next move in the price of
this article will be up or down.—Manchester Guardian.
FATAL FIGHT.—MR. WAKLEY AND THE POLICE
MAGISTRATES.—On Tuesday Mr. Wakley, M.P., com-
menced an inquiry at the Warwick Arms, Warwick-
road, Kensington, touching the death of George Benson,
killed on Sunday morning last, in a pugilistic encounter
near the Kensington canal basin ; fourteen jurymen
having been sworn, the coroner asked whether there
were any persons in custody in this case. Inspector
Morgan replied that there were five persons in the New
Prison, Clerkenwell, remanded by Mr. Paynter, of Ham-
mersmith Police-court, until Thursday, when one of
them, named Jones, would be committed for murder as a
principal, and the others as accessories. The coroner—
I requested that the men should be brought before me,
if there was any charge against them. The inspector—
I mentioned the matter to Mr. Paynter, and he desired
me to present his compliments to you, and to say that he
had no power in the case. The coroner—What are your
directions from the Commissioners of Police and the ma-
gistrates, with respect to coroner's courts, and the pro-
duction in them of remanded prisoners ? The inspector
—None with respect to the production of prisoners ; but
we are directed by the Commissioners, in cases of this
sort, and in cases of accident, to give every information
and assistance in our power. The coroner then said he
would not enter into the inquiry in the absence of per-
sons charged with deceased's death. He did not know
what the feelings of the jury were, but his were most
repugnant to going into an inquiry of that kind when
the parties accused were not present to hear the evidence
against them, and could not suggest a single question
or observation in their defence. He would call a witness
to prove simply the death of deceased ; and he would
hear some of the medical evidence, and then adjourn
the inquiry. Samuel Robshaw proved the death of de-
ceased, and identified the body. Mr. Waller, a surgeon,
who had opened the body, said deceased probably died
from external violence—apparently a blow. A boy,
named Browning, who saw the whole of the fight, said
he did not know the parties engaged in it, but should
recognise them it' he saw them again. The inquiry was
then adjourned to Tuesday next, the coroner saying
he should in the interim communicate with Sir James
Graham.

is likely to be still more so hereafter. The sove-
reignty over the Northern Island might have been at
once assumed, without this mere nominal treaty, on
the ground of prior discovery, and on that of the
absolute necessity of establishing the authority of the
British Crown for the protection of the natives them-
selves, when so large a number of British subjects
had irregularly settled themselves in these islands, as
to make it indispensable to provide some means of
maintaining good order amongst them. This was the
course actually pursued with respect to the Middle
and Southern Islands, to which the treaty of Wai-
tangi does not even nominally extend ; and there is
every reason to presume that, owing to the strong de-
sire the natives are admitted to have entertained for
the security to be derived from the protection of the
British Government, and for the advantages of a safe
and well-regulated intercourse with a civilised people,
there would have been no great difficulty in obtain-
ing their acquiescence in the assumption of sove-
reignty than in gaining their consent to the conclusion
of the treaty ; while the treaty has been attended with
the double disadvantage, first, that its terms are am-
biguous, and, in the sense in which they have been
understood, highly inconvenient; and next, that it
has created a doubt which could not otherwise have
existed, and which, though not, in the opinion of your
Committee, well-founded, has been felt and has prac-
tically been attended with very injurious results,
whether those tribes which were not parties to it are
even now subject to the authority of the Crown.
" Your Committee have observed that the terms of
the treaty are ambiguous, and in the sense in which
they have been understood, have been highly incon-
venient, in this we refer principally to the stipulations
it contains with respect to the right of property in
land. The information which has been laid before us,
shows that these stipulations, and the subsequent pro-
ceedings of the Governor founded upon them, have
firmly established in the minds of the natives notions,
which they had then but very recently been taught to
entertain, of their having a proprietory title of great
value to land not actually occupied ; and there is
every reason to believe that, if a decided course had at
that time been adopted, it would not have been diffi-
cult to have made the natives understand that, while
they were to be secured in the undisturbed enjoy-
ment of the land they actually occupied, and of what-
ever further quantity they might really want for their
own use, all the unoccupied territory of the islands
was to vest in the Crown by virtue of the sovereignty
that had been assumed.
" Your Committee have already mentioned, that it
is one of the fundamental principles of colonial law
and policy, which they believe to have been correctly
laid down by Sir G. Gipps, that the uncivilised in-
habitants of any country have but a qualified do-
minion over it or a right of occupancy only; and that
until they establish amongst themselves a settled form
of government, and subjugate the ground to their own
uses by the cultivation of it, they cannot grant to in-
dividuals not of their own tribe any portion of it, for
the simple reason, that they have not themselves any
individual property in it.' Unfortunately the original
instructions given to Captain Hobson, when he was
sent out for the purpose of establishing British do-
minion in New Zealand, were not sufficiently precise
upon this most important point; they contained di-
rections as to the manner in which he was to proceed
in purchasing land from the natives, and they did not
(as your Committee think that they ought to have
done) clearly -lay down the rule that sovereignty,
being established, all unoccupied lands would forth-
with vest in the Crown, and that, except in virtue of
grants from the Crown, no valid title to land could
be established by Europeans. This mode of framing
the instructions seems to have led the first Governor
into the error of acting throughout upon the assump-
tion that no part of the extensive and unoccupied ter-
ritory of New Zealand was to be considered as belong-
ing to the Crown, or available under its authority for
the purposes of settlement, until first regularly sold by
the natives : this is not indeed distinctly stated in the
treaty of Waitangi; had it been so, this treaty would
probably have been attended with less injurious con-
sequences than it actually has been, since in that
case there can be little doubt that it would have been
at once disallowed by her Majesty's Government; at
least it is clear that the treaty could not have been
understood either by the Governor of New South
Wales or by the Secretary of State, in the sense put
upon it by Captain Hobson, since both expressed
their approbation of it, though the former had pre-
viously laid down the very different principle upon
this subject already quoted ; and the then Secretary
of State, Lord John Russell, after he had received
and approved of the treaty, adopted in the most
formal and authentic manner the views of Sir George
Gipps. By the advice of Lord John Russell, in the
month of December, 1840, a charter passed the great
seal, by which New Zealand was erected into a sepa-
rate and independent colony ; and this charter was
transmitted, together with instructions under the
Royal Sign Manual, to the Governor, Captain Hob.
son. In this charter and instructions, actual occu-
pation and enjoyment' are clearly pointed out as
alone establishing a right of property in land in the
natives ; and the rule is laid down that all other lands
must be considered as vested in the Crown, in virtue
of the sovereignty that had been assumed, and that
they must be dealt with accordingly. The treaty of
Waitangi (which had previously reached England
and been approved), it may therefore fairly be as-
sumed, must, when this charter and the instructions
which accompanied it were forwarded to the colony,
have been understood as bearing a meaning not incon-
sistent with the terms in which they are couched.
The lands held collectively,' of which the possession
was guaranteed to the aboriginal inhabitants of New
Zealand, must, therefore, have been regarded as the
lands actually occupied by them, and cultivated in
common by a tribe, in the manner frequently prac-
tised, and the forests as those actually used for cutting
timber.

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE RE-

GISTRATION.
(Before C. D. MOYLAN, Esq.)
John Edward Chapman, of 47, Foley-street, applied to
have his name reinstated in the list of voters for the
All-Souls district. It appeared that his name had been
objected to 'by, the Conservatives, on the ground that he
was not the occupier, but the landlord of the house. He
did not attend to oppose the objection, as he did not
know until Tuesday that the list of voters for the
borough was undergoing revision. He said he was the
landlord of the house in question, and that it was let out
to lodgers. He retained a back parlour in which there
was a bed and other furniture, and in that room he slept
occasionally. He had paid all the taxes, and appre-
hended that his name ought to be retained on the list.
The REVISINGBARRISTER reinstated Mr. Chapman's
name.

Thomas Smith was objected to by Mr. Greenwood.
Smith said he occupied a second floor at No. 6, Great
Carlisle-street. The landlord did not , reside in the
house, which was let cut in separate tenements. He paid
ss. 6d. per week. The person who occupied the ground-
floor paid the taxes.
Smith said he served a claim at the house of Mr. Mick,
one of the overseers, on the 25th of June. This vote
was objected to on the ground that the poor-rates were not
paid at the time of his making his claim.
The REVISING BARRISTER said he would take time to
consider the question.

LA W INTELLIGENCE
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 24.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)

IN RE ADOLPH DE WERENSKY, COMMONLY CALLED
COUNT ADOLPH DE WERENSKY.
The insolvent came up to-day to apply for his in-
terim order, he having-, previously to the filing his
petition, been in custody at the Queen's Bench prison
for contempt, in not answering a bill filed against
him in the Court of Chancery, at the suit of a Miss
Atterly.

" This is the interpretation which, consistently
with the ancient and acknowledged principles of
colonial law as laid down by Sir George Gipps, and
consistently also with the terms of the charter of the
colony and of the royal instructions to the Governor,
ought to have been put upon the treaty ; had it been
so, the most serious of the evils which have since
arisen would have been avoided. If native rights to
the ownership of land had only been admitted when
arising from occupation, there would have been no
difficulty in giving at once to the settlers secure and
quiet possession of the land they required, and they
would thus have been able to begin without delay and
in earnest the work of reclaiming and cultivating the
unoccupied soil. The proceedings of the Commis-
sioners appointed to inquire into the claims to land
would also then have been short and simple ; they
would have to inquire merely whether lands actually
occupied by natives had been fairly sold to settlers
by the occupants, and with respect to wild lands,
whether Europeans claiming to have purchased them
had done so at such a price, or had incurred such en
expense in respect of them, as to give to the supposed
purchasers not a right to the lands (for they could
not derive a title from parties who did not them-
selves possess one), but a claim on the consideration
of the Crown to have granted to them as an indul-
gence more or less, according to circumstances, of the
lands they had nominally purchased. With respect
to the New Zealand Company, as the extent of land
to which they were entitled had been already settled
by a special agreement with the Government and the
award of Mr. Pennington, they would at once have
been put in possession of all that very large portion
of the land on which they proposed establishing set-
tlements which was previously wild and unoccupied;
and the question to be determined by the Commis-
sioners would have reduced itself to that of whether
those inconsiderable portions of land actually occu-
pied and enjoyed' by natives had been fairly sold by
the occupants—a question the decision of which, one
way or the other, would have been comparatively
unimportant."

He was opposed by Mr. Cooke, and in the course
of a lengthened examination, the insolvent made the
following 'statement :—I have a right to the title of
count, having inherited it from my father, who resided
in that part of Austrian Poland called Gallicia. I have
been a lieutenant in the Austrian Polish service, which
I left in 1824, and have no half-pay. Since that time
I have occupied myself in literary and scientific avo-
cations. My friends in Poland have sent me money
from time to time.

Mr. Cooke—Did you ever at any time receive as
much as 2,0001. a year ? Insolvent—Yes, I did,
between the years 1832 and 1834 ; it was sent me
from Poland by my relations. It was personally
handed over to me in sovereigns, and never came
through any bankers.
Let us know the names of any of those persons who
sent you the money ?—I must not, for political rea-
sons, disclose their names, as they then resided in
Russia.

Mr. Cooke—But the disclosure cannot affect you, as
you were in Austrian Poland.
The insolveut—Possibly, but then I have written a
great deal against the Emperor of Russia.
Do you then consider the Emperor of Russia to be
your personal enemy ?—Yes, I do consider him to be
my personal enemy, and hence I refuse to answer
your question as to the persons from whom I received
the money.
Mr. Commissioner EVANs-If the question were
pressed, I think you would be bound to answer it. '
Mr. Cooke—Did you ever represent to any person*,
in 1842, that you had then 4001. a year ?—Never.
When I was living at Brighton, I must have received
money from my friends, but I must not disclose their
names.

When was the last sum of money received by you
from your friends ?—The last time was in the summer
of 1843, and the amount was about 3,0001. It was
not placed in any bank, but we have plenty of sove-
reigns in Russia.

Then, may I ask what did you do with them ?
Oh, I soon found a place for them,but 4,1 did not tell
any person that I received them.
Was your receipt of that sum from your friends, or
from property of your own ?—From friends, for I
never had any property of my own. My father,
though a count, left me nothing.
Can you tell the Court what became of the money ?
—The greater part of it was lent.
To whom was it lent, for there is no entry of it at
all in your schedule ?—I lent to Miss Atterly 2,0001.
How is that, when you now come up in custody, in
which position you were placed for the recovery of a
document which that young lady had been indiscreet
enough to sign ? And 1. will ask you how you be-
came acquainted with her ?—She was residing with
her mother and sister at a boarding-house at Brigh.-
ton, where I was staying for some time.
What could she want with so much money ?
believe she gave the money to her brother.
Mr. Commissioner EVANS—Had you any acknow-
ledgement for so large a sum of money ? The in,-
solvent—Yes, sir, I had, but it was torn up ; how-
ever, the document which was the subject of the
Chancery suit proved the debt. I did not give in an
answer Ito the bill in Chancery because I had no
money.
Mr. Cooke—Why did you not apply to the Court'
in former pauperis t Insolvent—l did, and I filed
two petitions and affidavits, which were unattended to
by the Court, and at last I would rather live in
poverty than go on thus " battering" with the
lawyers. _
_

Sin:Commissioner Evaxs—l perceive that you
mention nothing whatsoever of this 20001. in your
schedule. This sum must be inserted.
Insolvent—l thought, sir, it was inserted.
By Mr. Cooke—What was the largest sum you
ever lent this young lady at any one time ? The In-
solvent-8001, which I lent her when I was living at
Blandford-place.
All in gold ?—Yes, all in gold; in sovereigns,
which were in two bags, and which she took away
with her in a cab, for she always went away in a
carriage. _

Did she not tell you what she wanted all that money
for ?—She said her brother had But I will not go
into that. You want, I see, to draw me into un
pleasant matters, and I shall give you no further an-
swer, for you know all about it.
Mr. Cooke disclaimed all knowledge of the matters
referred to by the insolvent, who stated nothing of
this 2,0001. either in his schedule or in his special ba-
lance-sheet.

Mr. Commissioner EVANS-It is impossible for me
to receive this schedule ; and as to •the insolvent's
story I cannot believe one word of it.
The insolvent—Then, sir, am I to be imprisoned
for life ?

Mr. Commissioner EVANS—The petition is dis
missed.

The insolvent (a very military looking man) was
then remitted to his former custody in the Queen's
Bench.

The Court then adjourned at four o'clock.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Deputy-Judge ADAMS and Et—Bench of
Magistrates.)
Yesterday, at the sitting of the Court. Mr. Payne
presented articles of the peaee on beealf of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Wall, landlady of the Britannia Tavern, Back-
road-street, St. George's-in-the East, against John Fea-
therstone, a seafaring man, of very superior address, and
having highly respectable connexions in Birmingham.
Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prisoner.
After a brief dinu.sion between Mr. Payne and Mr.
Prendergast, the Court ordered the prisoner to find bail,
himself in 80L, and two sureties of 401. each.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BOW- STREE T.
An elderly man named Lewis Creasy, was brought
before Mr. Jardine, charged with being drunk and
dancing in Bow-street. The officer proved the case.
Prisoner—Dear me, Sir, dancing is so very incon-
sistent with my general character that I can hardly be-
THE ROYAL MINT.—The workmen of this import-
lieve that I could be guilty of such folly.—(Laughter.)
ant establishment are busily at work in striking off a Mr. JARDINE—WeII, but what do you say to being
drunk ? Prisoner—Why, Sir, the fact, is I met an
considerable quantity of new sovereigns and half-sove- Italian yesterday, who said he knew me about thirty
reigns on account of the Bank of England preparatory to years ago, in Milan. How true that is I don't know ;
the payment of the October dividends, which will be in and he gave me some drink, more, in fact, than nature
course of settlement in the Rotunda on the 14th of next
month, The amount of bullion at present in the Bank is required.
15,197,000 L sterling. A large quantity of geld coinage Mr. JARDINE—W hat are you ? Prisoner—l am by
has also been struck for Government during the last profession a teacher of languages, but, owing to my ap-
pearance, which partly arises from necessity and partly
fortnight for the payment of the Army and Navy, the
half-pay and pensions from my own neglect, lam not patronised as I used to be.
. and pay of the officials of the
Treasury, Foreign. Colonial, and Home-offices, Mr. JARDINE—WeII, I hope this will be a lesson to
Stamps, you. You have been locked up all night, and, therefore,
Customs, Excise, &c., which are now in course of pay-
ment. An immense number of the new half-farthing you may be discharged now.
Prisoner—l sincerely thank your worship.
coinage, which for the last ten days have been selling in lie then left the Court, bowing all the way.
the different thoroughfares of the metropolis at four and
six a penny by the itinerant street venders, have been MA T? YLE B ONE.
struck at the Mint for the last month, and will be issued On Tuesday, Mr. John Alto, surgeon, of 54, Craw-
as legal tenders of our copper circulation in currency on ford-street, Bryanstone square, and Mr. Joseph
Tuesday next, the Ist of October, according to the Royal Hooper, medical student, 32, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea,
proclamation announcing their issue a year and a half appeared before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Rawlin-
ago, but which had been delayed in the United King- son, to answer the charge of having been found in the
dom, although in our colonies they have been for some area of Major-General Farrer, No. 5, Upper Glou-
time current. The various shopkeepers, grocers, and tester-street, Dorset-square.
tea-dealers, in the Borough and different parts of the Alajor-General Farrer stated that all he knew of
metropolis, have large bowls full of this new but useful
the matter was that the prisoners were brought to him
coinage to the working or poorer classes in their win- by
two policemen,
dows, as " half-farthings saved are penneys gained."who said that they had been found
We understand that a Chapter of the Noble and on his premises.
Illustrious Order of the Garter will be held at Windsor Milton, 165 D, deposed that on the previous night,
Castle, on Friday, the 11th of October, for the election ' at a quarter past eleven, he saw the prisoner Hooper
of two knights. The summonses from the office of the jump over the area railing of the General's house,
King-at-Arms, for the knights to attend in their robes and run along the street toward the Allsop Arms ; he
on the above day, were delivered at their town resi- (witness) then went to the area gate, inside of which
dences yesterday. The King of the French, it is ex- he saw Mr. Atto; the kitchen window was at that
petted, will, as a European Sovereign, be elected an
honorary knight of the order during his sojourn in this time open; he asked him (Mr. Atto) what business
he had there, to which he replied that his visit was of
country.
It is understood that the Custom-house authorities I a private nature, as one of the "girls,, had miscarried,
have it in contemplation to place officers on board the and he had been sent for by his friend Mr. Hooper
steamers from the Continent, as soon as the vessels ar- to attend her. Witness asked him where his friend
rive off Gravesend, so that the inspection of luggage, , was, and he stated that he was gone to the public-
&e., may be ccmpleted during the passage up the river. house close
by
tim; Witness went with Mr. Atto to the
The object of this experiment is to prevent the dctentien Al,sop _
of passengers after their arrival, and if it is found to give : prisoners were
there met with Mr. Hooper. The
‘ then_ taken back to the residence of
adequate protection to the revenue, it doubtless will be i I General Farrer, and afterwards to the station.
continued, and be a most important imprereinent. Mr. BAWLINIOX (to General Farrez)---Do you

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

know if there can be any truth in the statement as to
any one in your house requiring assistance under the
circumstances which you have heard related ?
General Farrer—l don't know that it is true.
_ _

Mr. RAWLINSON (to Mr. Atto)—What is your
answer to this. sir. Mr. Atto—l was called to the
house by Mr. llo.per to see one of the females.
Mr. PLAwLINsoN—Then why not, as a professional
man, come out at the front door? Mr. Atto—W,e,
are often, sir, obliged to do; things "under the rose;
the General knows all about my having been called to
his house once before ; but I'd rather not say more
upon that matter as I should be sorry now to rake
up anything which might be calculated to scanda-
lise individuals.

Mr. RAWLINSON (to Mr. Hooper)—What have you
-to say? Mr. Hooper—l accompanied my friend.
Atto to the house, and I assure you I was not there
more than two minutes.

Mr. RAWLINSON—What right had you in the anit
at all ? Mr. flooper—l merely went into the area,~
sir, and said I'd have a kiss before I left.
Nothing more transpired, either with regard to the-
name or occupation of the fair one upon whose lips
the kiss was or was intended to have been imprinted.
Mr. RAWLINSON (to General Farrer)—Do you
wish to press this charge, General? General Farrer
—No, I do not.

The "profes‘ional gentlemen " were, without ani
further explanation of their very extraordinary corn•
duct being called for, set at liberty.

111ARLBOI?OUGH-STREET.
Adele Dupierre was placed at the bar for the purpose
of having the usual formalities completed previously
to being sent for trial to the Central Criminal Court%
on a charge of having robbed her master, Mr. Van
Bever, of a large quantity of property.
The pawnbrokers produced the stolen property 11
court. Mr. Young, of Princes-street, and Mr.Woc4,l
"r
of High. street, were the holders of about 130 piirs '°'
boots and shoes, all of which large quantity 106
pledged with them by the prisoner in somewheSe
about one month. The pawnbrokers had lent but
about eighteenpence per pair on the shoes, which
were declared to be worth, on the average, about fife
shillings per pair.
As soon as the witnesses were bound over, the soli'
citor for the prosecution said he now proposed to
charge the prisoner with having sat fire to the pre-
mises in the Burlington-arcade on Monday week, or
at least with having wilfully destroyed property, as it
might appear from the evidence.

Mr. MALTBY said the prisoner had already been
twice placed at the bar without any charge of the
nature having been preferred.
The solicitor said the reason was that he had P.
wish to intricate the case by mixing one charge With
another. He was now prepared with evidence, and if
the Court permitted, he would go at once into the
charge.
Mr. MALTBY was of opinion that the charge ought
to be deferred for the present. If the prisoner rst
acquitted of the felony on which she had been All
committed, Mr. Van Bever could then proceed Ict
the other charge, or he might prefer a bill for
offence at the same time when he preferred the bill
for the present case.
The prisoner was then fully committed.

MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDAY.)
CORN-EXCHANGE. et
We had a fair average supply of English WheA Y,„
the demand for it was fair steady, at full Monds9v,
quotations. Of Foreign Wheat (free of duty) the 61,")al
was good, yet a tolerahle business was doing in' 1u
article at late rates. The trade with Barley and Wd.
wsS extremely heavy, and prices were barely suppDril
In Oats, Beans, and Peas, we can notice no alteration-

ARRIVALS. view
Wheat. Earley. I Oats. I
E l,lBO qrs. 1,490 qrs. 1.170 qrs. 2.10
Irish..
Foreign 5,580

8,290 I 1990, I
Mait. 1,770 qrs.
WHITECII.A.PEZ. • •
There was a fair amount of business doing in Prim
meat at full prices, otherwise the demand ruled heal:
Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 308
Lamb, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d
Pork, 2s 8d to 4s per 81bs by the carcase.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
~fal iti
The following are the results of " A Table of 310—frora
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths a"
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturdan,r,
21th of September,;lB44." The Tablelis issued from the (./15`
of the Registrar-General :
klf
Wee of
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Aver...-rs•
fuel v"
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 250 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOB a,l,
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l3l 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration 192 2,,S
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 23 _ '42'
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
69
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8
10
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. lO 6
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 5
1
Diseases of the Skin, &c
Old Age, or Natural Decay 45 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified
Deaths from all Causes ...... . 857 946
DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED LINO;