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conscientiously that any institution deserved hatred and
contempt, and to hold it up in its true light to the
people ? He would quote to their Lordships the descrip-
tion given by an eloquent and learned writer, who had ,
been a Cabinet Minister (Mr. Macaulay), of the manner
in which justice was administered in England in the time ,
of Charles the Second and James the Second ; he so.) s—
" The next great blessing which we awe to the Revolu- '
tion is the purification of the 'administration of justice in
political cases. Of the importance of this change no
person can judge who is not well acquainted with the
earlier volumes of the State trials. Those volumes are,
we do not hesitate to say, the most frightful record of
baseness and depravity that is extant in the world. Our
hatred is altogether turned away from the crime and the cri-
niinals, and directed against the law and its ministers. We
see villainies, as black as ever were imputed to any person,
at any bar, daily committed on the bench, and in the
jury box. The worst of the bad acts which brought '
discredit on the old Parliament of France—the con-
demnation of Lally, for instance, or even that of Calas,
may seem praiseworthy, when compared with the
atrocities which follow each other in endless succession as
we turn over that huge chronicle of the shame of England.
The Magistrates of Paris and Toulouse were blinded by
prejudice, passion, or bigotry. But the abandoned judges
of our own country committed murder with their eyes
open. The cause of this is plain. In France there was
no constitutional opposition. If a man held language
offensive to the Government he was at once sent to the
Bastile or to Vincennes. But in England, at least after
the days of the Long Parliament, the King could not,
by a mere act of his prerogative, rid himself of
a troublesome politician. He was forced to remove
those who thwarted him by means of perjured witnesses,
packed juries, and corrupt, hard-hearted, brow-beating
judges. The Opposition naturally retaliated, whenever
they had the upper hand. Every time that the power
passed from one party to the other, there was a pro-
scription and a massacre, thinly disguised under the
forms of judicial procedure. The tribunals ought to be the
sacred places of refuge, where, in all the vicissitudes of
public affairs, the innocent of all parties may find shelter.
They were, before the Revolution, an unclean public
shambles, to which each party in its turn dragged its
opponents, and where each found the same venal
ferocious butchers waiting for its customer. Papist or
Protestant, Tory or Whig, Priest or Alderman, all was
one to those greedy and savage natures, provided only
there was money to save and blood to shed. Of course
those worthless judges soon created around them, as was
natural, a breed of informers more wicked, if possible, than
themselves. The trial by jury afforded little or no pro-
tection to the innocent. The juries were nominated by
the sheriffs. The sheriffs were in most part of England
nominated, by the Crown. In London, the great scene
of political contention, these officers were chosen by the
people. The fiercest parliamentary election of our time
will give but a faint notice of the storm which raged in
the city on the day when two infuriated parties
each bearing its badge, met to select the men in whose
hands were to be the issues of life and death for the
coming year. On that day nobles of the highest de-
scent did not think it beneath them to canvas and marshal
the livery, to head the procession, and to watch the poll.
On that day the great chiefs of parties waited in an
agony of suspense for the messenger who was to bring
from the Guildhall the news whether their lives and es-
tates were, for the next twelve months, to be at the
mercy of a friend or foe. In 1681, Whig
sheriffs were chosen ; and Shaftesbury defied the
whole power of the Government. In 1682, the sheriffs
were Tories. Shaftesbury fled to Holland. The other
chiefs of the pasty broke up their councils, and retired
in haste to their country seats, Sydney, on the scaf-
fold, told those sheriffs that his blood was on their
heads. Neither of them could deny the charge, and
one of them wept with shame and remorse."
Such was a true description of the tribunals of the coun-
try at the time to which this eminent writer refers.
Though, thank Heaven, they lived now in different
times, and under different institutions, yet, he would
ask, if it would be criminal for any number of men
to unite to write or speak down tribunals
in which there might be many vices of practice
and administration. Was the charge of an indictment
of this kind necessarily a criminal charge—that of con-
spiring to bring the tribunals of the country into con-
tempt? If the courts did not deserve contempt, they
would not receive it ; that decency of language and
moderation should be used in the discussion, might be
necessary, but it was another and a very different ques-
tion, because parties believed that such were vices of the
system, that it deserved hatred and comtempt ; they be-
came criminal because they agreed to speak of that insti-
tution in what they believed to be just and becoming terms.
Again, this was extremely vague. He would not say
how the administration of justice had been carried on ;
he would not say anything of how the ecclesiastical
courts had been spoken of in and out of Parliament. The
attacks that had been made upon these courts was not
upon the judges, but upon the system ; look
at the criminal courts ; in these courts many men
had been tried who were not guilty, and suffered death,
in consequence, perhaps, of the badness of the system ;
and was it to be said, hat those who had been their
nearest and dearest relatives, suffer under a bad sys-
tem, that, if they decreed it, they would be guilty
of conspiracy ? It was too much to say that
parties could not attack a bad system without being
guilty of conspiracy. There were many parts of
the system that might be assailed, and with truth, and
for doing so men ought not to be considered criminal.
As to the latter part of the count, was it to be said that
it was a crime to say that the administration of jus-
tice had become hateful and contemptible, and that parties
would refer their differences to another tribunal? He
submitted that there was nothing illegal or criminal in
attempting to bring any part of the system into contempt
in order to obtain an improvement ; there was nothing
he believed that it would be illegal to bring into con-
tempt except the religion of the country, and that had
been even held not to be illegal. On these grounds the
count being bad the whole was vitiated, and the whole
indictment must be reversed.

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
not extensive, but prices were firm. Sales,3,ooo bales. Shares
were dull at the following rates :-Birmingham and Glou-
cester, 95 ; Grand Junction, 228 ; Liverpool and Manchester,
Half, 1151 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter, 26i ; Lon-
don and South Western, 831 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
54 ; North Midland, Thirds, 32i ; South Eastern, 351; Paris
and Lyons, 2i.
Tiler; are accounts from the Mauritius this morning to the
sth of April, but they are, as usual, extremely barren of
intelligence.
If the financial affairs both of Spain as well as of Portugal
are fairly represented in the accounts that have recently come
to hand, there cannot be a doubt but that the treasuries of
both kingdoms arc in a more impoverished condition than
they have before been. Still so sanguine are foreign Minis-
ters that the gullibility of John Bull is as extensive as
ever, that new propositions are made 114)r fresh advances of
capital, upon the security of thrice hypothecated revenues.
The first proposition of M. Mons is thus disposed of by a City
capitalist of long standing. Being asked what he would be
ready to take the proposed new issue of Stock at, the price
assumed for the Three per Cents. being 35 per cent., " Why,"
said he to the interrogator, " if you will strike off the 30 per
cent., then I will come to some terms with the remaining 5 per
cent." It is intended, to make the bait more sure of suc-
cess, that the dividend upon the proposed new Stock should
be made payable in Paris and Amsterdam, as well as in
London, but it is not believed that the scheme will take.
Then, as to Portugal, the Cabral Ministry is in a rapid course
of annihilation. What with internal dissensions and politi-
cal intrigues, this fine country is reduced to nearly
as low an ebb as that of Spain. Here, too, a new
attempt is about to be made to obtain fresh advances from
this side of the water. To those of our readers who hare
any spare cash at disposal, we may give this advice—select
some good,Englisli line of railway, about to be carried out-
under the provisions of an Act of Parliament, invest in that,
and let foreign loans alone.
There have been some accounts received at the Hall of
Commerce from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. Another
battle had taken place, in which the French party, who had
joined the Orientals, had been defeated. The petty squabbles
and minor military movements that so frequently take place
in that direction scarcely deserve notice. The commercial
news is deficient in interest.
'A very small amount of business has been transacted in
the English Stock Exchange to-day, notwithstanding the
banks are now -open for private transfers. The prices of
Consols have ranged frofn 981 to 99 for Money, as well as
for the Account, the_ dividend deducted. Bank Stock has
been quoted at 1981; India Stock at ,285 ; and the New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1011 A.
Mexican Bonds have varied from 36 to 36a, now being at
36*. Columbian and Venezulian have been done at 13A ;
Peruvian at 261, and the Dutch Five per Cents, at 10013
In most of the Rail Way Shares a slight improvement has
taken place this morning, as the corrected list of prices will
show.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Oficial List.)

Bank Stock..oo ;O • 000000 ••••• 0000000 •••••••••••••••••• 0000000 • IgEN

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 9ti7 99
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities...-.. . ....... .
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan.lB6o 1234 '7-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. .......
India Stock
Consols for Open ng ..... ....p.m, ..... •••••••••••
Exchequer Bills, 130. 134 d
10001. ........»....»........ .. ••••••• ..... 7 4 prn.
.. .. " 5001. 1 ... ....... .. ........ ............ 74 pm. '
Dittoinall.. ...... .. " ...... -- 74 pm.
Ditto Advertised pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX.
Columbian Bonds. 13% %
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........ "....
Ditto for the Account. 363„%
Ditto Deferred Stock 16% 16
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 2634
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840
Ditto for the Account. 23%
Ditto Three per Cent. ............... ..... . . .....
Ditto for the Account •." ....... ..•••••••„
Dutch 234 per Cents ....... ............. ....... .....
Dutch 5 per Cents ....... 100% %J 4
New Loan. 4 per Cents. (1844)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Derby
Birmingham and Gloucester
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead.. ......... .... 5
Dublin and Cashel .... 234 438% ... to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered 81. Os. M.
Edinburgh and Glasgow ...... ...... 50 .....
Great Western
Ditto % Shares
Ditto nfths l2 ..... .... 22%
Harwich (Braithwaite)
London and Birmingham. lOO 226 to
Ditto New Thirds 2 37% ...... to 38
London and Brighton 5O 46%
London and Greenwich ... ...... .. 12%
London and South Western 41% ...... 83
Midland Counties lOO 97% to
North British
North Midland ...... ..... ...... ....... 100
...

Ditto % Shares 4O 48
Ditto Thirds 21.. 130. 4d. 32 . .... .... to
South Eastern and Dover ......... 32% 35%% ... to 35
Ditto New
Trent Valley . ....... ........ ......... 2
Yarmouth and Norwich lB 25% to
Ditto % Shares 25 ......... 52
Ditto Scarboro' Branch 254 2l to
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1
Paris and Orleans ..................... 20 .... .. ... 39% to --

Paris and Rouen .......«.. 20 ..» 00000 39. to

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 6.—We have
again an improved market, and considerable business has
been done in Manchester and Birmingham, and Trent Valley.
Manchester and Birmingham, 554 544 ; Paris and Lyons,
; Trent Valley, 1041.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DA 1 .)
LONDON, JULY B.—Wind. Southerly, fresh breezes and
cloudy at times.
Dual, JULY Wind N.N.E. to N.E. E.N.E.,
moderate.—Arrd. Coaxer, Ridley, Singapore; Sterling and
Lalla Rookb, Kenney, Calcutta; Eden, Boyce, ditto; Themis
and Eliza Ann, Bell, Bahia ; Emerald, Gaynes. Antigua ;
Edwina, New York ; Pearl, Douglas, Montreal ; John 1 ors-
ter, Gambia. Sld. Catherine Elizabeth, 'St. Vincents ; Victor,
Cape of Good Hope ; Thalia, Ichaboe.
OFF Ilesyneas, JULY 7.—Argb, Canger, Valparaiso : Ska-
tan, Bahia, for Stettin.
OFF Porersmouyn,JULY 6.—Seppings,Thompsen,Calcutta,
COWES, JULY 7.—Arrd. Columbus, Sterling, Rio Janeiro;
Diantha, Storey, Matanzas ; Nestor, Moses, New Orleans.
Sorrtweryox, JULY 7.—Acrd. Ocean, Jobson. Miramichi ;
Royal Tar (steamer), Gibraltar, 29th ult. Sid. Cairo, Quebec.
OFF SALCOMBE, JULY 6.—Lord Wenlock, Hobbs, James
Angus, Camsell, and Ellen, St. John's, New Brunswick. Put
back, Patelina, for Gambia.
EXMOUTH, JULY 4.—Sld. Calea, Ichaboe.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 6.—Wind Northerly and fine.--And.
Emma, Spice, Miramichi ,• Constance, Malony, Prince Ed-
ward's Island. 7. Earl Hopetoun, Bartlett, Cape Breton.
Sld. Asia, Calcutta.
OFF ISLE OF Wlcarr, JULY s.—Finden, BuenotAyres.
FALMOUTH, JULY 6 AND 7.—Wind N.—Acrd. Mastery,
Lucy, Rio ; Rossana, Morrison, Brazil. Sld. his Neapolitan
Majesty's ship Merafrie, Batavia. Off, Reliance, Calcutta ;
Active, Hutchison, Buenos Ares ; William Rushton, Foster,
Port au Prince, and sailed for Antwerp ; Parton, Richardson,
Port au Paix, sailed for Hamburgh ; Snelhied, Kemp, Ha-
vannah for Amsterdam.
OFF EASTBOURNE.—PetroneIIa, Mauritius.
OFF NEWHAVEN.—Niagara, Champion, Mauritius.
LiivntirooL, JULY 6.--Wind N.N.W., light..—JULY 7.
—Wind N.W.,moderate.—Arrd. Glenny, Sydney, New South
Wales; Imaum of Muscat, Port Phillip ; Elora, China ;
Earl Powis, Sutton, and Pandora, Newland, Calcutta ; Ma-
labar, Barker, Bombay ; Marcella, Vallent, and Undaunted,
Callao ; Sir C. Napier, Hantriss, and Ursula, Valparaiso ;
Helen, Noel, ditto and Bahia ; Argyle, Welch, Eliza,
and Leuvick, Jones, Ichaboe; Panope, Pipon and Selina,
Bell, Buenos Ayres; Commodore, Williams, Ichaboe ;
Kate, Honey, Rio Grande; Severn, Whitler, Bahia; Brazi-
lian, Goble, Bahia ; Nightingale, Hunter, Pernambuco ;
Gloucester (late Feed), Princes Island; Esquemaux, Barba-
does ; Concord, Cuba ; Hebden, Loughbridge, Porto Cabello ;
Charles Humberston, Clinton, Coronet, Essex, Glasgow,
Hamlet, Isaac Allerton, and Thetis, New Orleans; Cornelia,
Great Britain, and Greenock, Fleek, Mobile (Globe, Apala-
chiola ; Lanarkshire, and Rosalama, Savannah; Indefatiga-
ble,. Scott, Charleston ; Hudson, Page, and Southener, Palmer,
United States; Briton, and. England, Bartlett (17th ult.),
New York ; Trinidad, M'Kenney, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Prince Charlie, Quebec ; R. J. Haynes, Trinidad ;
Frances, Corkhill, Barbadoes. Off, Speed, Mobile. 5. Sid.
Vibelia, Cape of Good Hope ; Cloughbane, Ichaboe; Jane
and Barbara, Quebec. 6. Cincinnatti, China ; Captain
Ross, Cape of Good Hope ; -Lanercost, Luna, and Robert
Isaac, New York; Emma, Montreal. 7. Ann, Africa ; Lan
cashire, and Queen of the West, New York; William God-
dard, Boston ; Evergreen, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Glenview, Helen, William Peirie, and W. G. Anderson, Quebec.
CAMPBELTUWN, JULY 4.—The Diana, of Speymoutli, from
Liverpool to St. Menans, with salt, is ashore on the island of
Sauda, and expected to become a wreck ; crew saved, cargo
lost.
POOLE, JULY 4.—Arrd. Nelsen packet, Newfoundland. 7th,
William Field, ditto.
STUDLAND BAY, JULY 6.—Arrd. Caroline, Haim, Ichaboe.
The following vessels were loading guano at Ichaboe, on
May 2 :—Zenobia, Horatio, Grindlay, George Glen, Alexan-
der, West Indian, Indus, Bombay, Tulloch Castle, Rain-
bow, Henry Wellesley, Dream, Lowther, Trinity Yacht,
William and Ann, Flora, Highlander, Rebecca, Hudson, Jo-
seph Hume, Ann Grant, Conservative, Emily, George, Amy,
Charles, Ann Laing, Robert Kerr, Matthews, Columbine,
Grace, Hanover, Cicero, Thalia, Helen, and several others,
names unknown.
At the Chincas, loading :—Sophia, Mary Russell, Thomas
Worthington, Commercial, John Souchay, all for England.

Lord CAMPBELL wished to advert to this difficulty,
You say, Mr. Kelly, that these bad counts charge n'e
offence, then we find the record saying " for the offences
aforesaid." Now, can that be supposed to include that
which you say is no offence.
Mr. KELLY submitted that that must be so, because
the word offence aforesaid must mean the offence the
jury had found. Offence could not mean offences ; it
must mean one offence well laid, and an offence ill laid.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Every time, Mr. Kelly, you
adverted to this circumstance, you used a word that is
not in the indictment—several offences—whereas, it is
offences aforesaid.
Mr. KELLY asserted that there was not a single offence
legally charged ; the offences aforesaid must mean the
offences found by the jury. Suppose, for instance, in an
action for slander he were to introduce a most absurd
and ridiculous count—suppose in the first count the slan-
der was stated to be that the man had been called a
felon, that in the second count it was stated to consist
of something equally actionable, and that is the third
count it was stated that he had called the plaintiff an
honest and an honourable man—if on those three counts
a verdict was given with general damages, the court
not being able to discriminate how much had been given
by the jury on the good counts, and how much on the
bad ones, would reverse the judgment, and send the case
back again for trial. So in this case the court did not
know how much of the punishment had been apportioned
to the good counts and how much to the bad ones, and he
apprehended they had no choice, but must reverse the
judgment altogether.
Their Lordships here retired for a short time ; on
their return,
Mr. KELLY resumed, and said that in reference to the
point he had just concluded with, the only consequence
which would arise from reversing the judgment, would
be that the same degree of precision would be observed
in criminal cases which was now observed in civil cases ;
and it would be competent for the prosecutor to enter up
judgment upon one count which the court held to be good, as
was done in civil cases. He would now proceed to the ques-
tion which rose up nn the writ of error, in fact relative
to the swearing of the witnesses before the grand jury ;
and it would
.appear, both in the plea in abatement
in the case, and on the assignment of the
writ of error, in 'fact, that the witnesses in support of
of the indictment, if sworn at all, had been sworn, not
in open court, but before the grand jury only ; and he
would submit to their Lordships that, under the statute
regulating the swearing of witnesses upon indictments
in Ireland, there was no authority in the grand jury to
swear the witnesses in this prosecution, being in the
Queen's Bench, but that they must be sworn in open
court ; and upon this, this further and more important
question arose, whether, supposing the statutes did ex-
tend to the Court of Queen's Bench, and therefore
the witnesses were properly sworn, whether they did
not authorise that the names of the witnesses
should not be indorsed on the bill, and signed by the
name of the foreman, or by his initials. He would refer
to this latter point first ; but, before doing so, he would
proceed with regard to the swearing of witnesses upon
trials on indictment in Ireland. This vas regulated by
two Acts of Parliament, the 56 Geo. 111., c. 87 and the
1 and 2 Victoria, c. 37. Before he called the atten-
tion of their Lordships to the particular language
of these statements, he would state what he
considered to be the effect of them. Before
the statute of 56th George 111. was passed, a practice
prevailed in Ireland of sending witnesses before the grand
jury without being sworn at all, and indictments were
found on the testimony of those witnesses who were not
sworn ; and to regulate this evil that statute was passed.
That statute provided expressly that in all cases where
witnesses were to give evidence before agrand jury, on any
indictments ; they were first to be sworn in open Court,
so that from the time of passing the Act to the year
1838 no Bill had been properly returned, and no person
was put upon his trial upon an indictment unless the
witnessess in support of it had been sworn in open Court.
[The Learned Gentleman was proceeding when our
report left.]

ACCIDENT TO THE HON. MISS BOYLE.—We hear
that the Hon. Miss Caroline Boyle. niece to the Earl of Cork,
and Maid of Honour to the Queen Dowager, had a miraculous
escape from drowning last week, at Allarston, the Noble
Earl's seat near Frome. It appears that Miss Boyle was on
a pleasure excursion on the lake, and when pushing off
amongst some willows she lost her footing, and fell from the
boat where the water was 16 feet deep. Miss Boyle clung to
the boughs. Miss Warburton, her companion, threw her
the end of an oar from the shore. Miss Mary Boyle, who had
been waiting the arrival of the tow- boat, at the further end
of the lake, alone munoored the boat, and assisted by Miss
Warburton, succeeded in dragging in the half lifeless lady
just as her strength was giving way and her hands were
relaxing their hold.
BRUSSELS, JULY 6.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, sister to the King of the Belgians, accom-
panied by the Prince of Leiningen, left Verviers at twenty-
five minutes past two o'clock, and arrived with her suite, by a
special train at the station near Lacken at a quarter to seven.
wo of the royal carriages were ready to convey her Royal
Highness and attendants to the palace of Lacken.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY B.—CIIMESE RANSOM.—A
farther portion of this ransom has been received at Ports-
mouth from on board her Majesty's ship Childers, from
China, by J. W. Cooper, Esq., of the Treasury, who will pro-
ceed in charge thereof to London, to deposit the treasure at
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN BEASTS..•-011 Sunday the Royal Mint. The floating-bridge :across the harbour
morning last, eleven very fine cows were landed from on from Portsmouth to Gosport has been stopped since Friday
hoard the Emerald Isle, Captain Bouch, from Rotterdam. evening, owing to the breaking of one of the chains, thus
—Hull Advertivr. preventing the sending over of any carriages or horses, and
causing thereby much inconvenience on both sides the har-
. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. " bour. Every exertion is making to repair the damage, and
have to announce that the nuptials of Lord Charles Welles- it is hoped the usual communication will be speedily restored.
ley, son of the Duke of Wellington, and Miss Pierrepont LYCEUM.—The following distinguished persons
is finally appointed to be solemnised to-morrow. The have visited this theatre during last week :—The Marquis
Duke of Wellington, as we have previously stated, gives of Worcester, Lady Stanley,
Lady Theresa Lister, Earl, and
the wedding breakfast at Apsley House, for which circulars
Countess of Jersey, Earl and Countess of Ailesford, Earl and
of invitation have been issued. i Countess of Harrington, Lady Manley, Earl of Miltown,
HUNGEREORD SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—On Friday, Lord de Lisle, Lord and Lady Duncannon, Lord Compton,
wooden cradles were placed at each of the pintos in the Lady Cator, Lord Craven, Sir Wm. and Lady Middleton and
centre of the river, for the men to work in, in fixing the family, Sir John and Lady Boileau, Sir henry and Lady
chains across the river, for the Suspension Bridge -The Willock and family, Lord Dungannon, Lord Charles Welles-
whole of the iron works are ready, and it is expected to be ley, Lord Burghley, Lord Suffield, Lord Hillsborough, Lady
completed by the Ist of August. Hall, Lady Harriet Clive, Sir R. Barton, Sir Andrew Cor-
A wag, passing through a country town, observed bett, H. Villebois, Esq., A. K. Oom, Esq., Hume, Esq.
a fellow placed in the stocks, "My friend," said he, " I ad- Lord Guernsey, Hon. Charles Hill, Mrs. Hammersley an(
family, Captain Harvey, Mr. Bagge, Goldsmid, Esq.
vise you by all means to sell out." °'l should have no ob-
jection, your honour," he replied drily, "hut at present they Lady Augusta Finch, Right Hon. H. Pierrepoint, Mrs,
seem much too low." Sneyd, &c.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1844.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORT4MOUTII, JULY 7.—The Childers, 16, Commander
Wellesley, having discharged her cargo of silver at the
Royal dockyard on Thursday, hauled off into the stream, and
was inspected by the Flag Captain of the port (R. F. Rowley)
as deputy for the Commander-in-Chief, after which ceremony
she commenced stripping, preparatory to being paid off at
this port. The Childers touched at Simon's Bay, on her way
home, on the 30th of April, at which date the Wincliester,so,
Captain C. Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Jocelyn
Percy, had recently returned from a short cruise; the Thun-
derbolt steam-sloop, Commander G. N. Broke, and Cleopatra
frigate, 44, Captain Wyvill, were also lying at the Cape at
the same date. The Childers came into port minus four of
her guns, which she had left behind at Hong-Kong, to mount
a battery with. She has been upwards of rive years in com-
mission, has had two !commanders, and is in a very dilapi-
dated state. She will be paid off, docked, thorougly over-
hauled, and refitted ferthWith.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, will be paid off on
Tuesday next, if the Camperdown is round by that time.
The Spy, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Woolridge, is ordered
home from the Islnnd of Ascension, to be paid off. She will
be-relieved by the Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch.
Byprivate letters from the Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote,
we learn that she is on her way home from the Cape Verd
Islands, to be paid off. The Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, is ordered for the
Mediterranean.
The Clio, 16, Commander J. Fitzjames, is on her way home
from Bombay, to_ be paid off, and is shortly expected.
The Cornwallis, 72, Captain P. Richards, with the flag of
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., is expected home from
Madras the 30th proximo, to be paid off.
The Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, has captured two slavers
—the Nova Christina, schooner, picked up in a sinking state
off Sierra Leone, with 70 slaves aboard, and the Mary, a
beautiful craft of near 600 tons, captured near Badagry, after
a run of 200 miles ; she mounted four guns, and had a crew
of 40 men, fitted to carry 950 slaves. We have letters from
the Star to the Ist. of May, all well, at which date the
Hyacinth, 18, Commander Scott, was cruising off the Bight
of Benin.
The Scylla, 18, Commander R. Sharpe, left St. John's, New
Brunswick, on the 15th ult., for the Bay of Fundy.
The-North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart., was at
New Zealand on the Bth of February.
The Warspite, 50, Captain Wallis, and the Vesuvius steam-
vessel were at Gibraltar on the 22d ult.
The Nimrod, 20, Captain Glasse, and the Sapphire troop
ship, Master- Commander Fittock, left Madras on the 4th of
May for Coringa.
The Java, transport, arrived at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on
the 24th of May, and sailed for Hong-Kong on the 25th.
In Harbour—The Victory, Rattlesnake, Coll ingwood, Queen
Excellent, Resistance, Childers, Fearless, and Echo.
In Dock—The Rodney, Victoria and Albert, Prince Re-
gent, Albert, Scourge, Pantaloon, Lily, Athol, Waterwitch,
Seaflower, Wanderer.

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At Spithead—The St. Vincent.
DEYONPORT, JULY s.—The Caledonia, 120, sailed this day
from the Sound, for Gibraltar. In consequence of the hosti-
lities between France and Morocco being considered by the
French Government sufficient warranty for sending out a
fleet, under the Prince de Joinville, her Majesty's Govern-
ment have wisely determined to send out a squadron for the
protection of her Majesty's interests in that vicinity. Conse-
quently the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, expects orders
hourly to follow the Caledonia, and it is probable that on the
arrival of the Camperdown, 104, Captain Martin, she will
also be dispatched to the same destination ; as also the Col-
lingwood, 80, Captaim Eden; Cornwallis, 74, shortly ex-
pected from the East Indies ; the Madagascar, 44, Captain
Foote; the Thalia, 42, Captain Hope; and we are credibly
informed the Albion, 92, Captain Lockyer, and Volage, 26,
Captain Sir William Dickson, Bart., have been ordered from
the Irish station upon the same errand.
The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., is or-
dered to sail this day from Barnpool to relieve Commodore
Chads in the Cambrian, 36, on the East India station. She
takes out two full-length portraits of her Majesty as presents
to the Emperor of China. Second Lieutenant Parke, R.M.,
will take a passage in the Fox, to join the Isis, 44, Captain
Sir John Marshall, Knt., K.O H., at the Cape ; she also takes
out the shipwrights, coopers, and smiths entered on board the
San Josef for service in China, to be borne on the books of the
Agincourt, 72, Captain. H. W. Bruce, flag-ship of Rear- Ad-
miral Sir- T. J. Cochrane, Knt., to whom Sir Henry will be
second in command, and hoist a blue pendant as Commodore
of the second class.
The Sydenham steam sloop, Commander D. R. B. Maple-
ton, arrived from Portsmouth on Wednesday, received su-
pernumeraries, and sailed in the evening for the Mediterra-
nean.
The Swift packet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander J. Douglas,
was paid advance yesterday, and will proceed to Falmouth in
a day or two to convey the next mail to the Brazils.
The Delight, 10-gun brig, has been sold out of the service
by private contract.
On Monday a number of artificers were placed upon the
Amethyst, 36, frigate, to expedite her launching, her slip
being required for the Avenger steam-frigate, of which the
following are the dimensions :

Feet. Inches.
Length
. . 210 0

Breadth 39 0
Depth...
0... 25 6
I:444rece.ntElyngivaindes,off6sohehreorwseas power.
The I
docked
on Tues-
day, to have her copper cleaned and undergo a thorough
nTdu osn,s 8
overhaul, preparatory (we are informed) to speedy re-com-
mission.
Lieutenants Nepear and Farmer, three sergeants, three
corporals, one fifer, 150 marines, and 150 sailors, draughted
from- the San Josef; embarked yesterday in the Caledonia
(as supernumeraries), and Captain Delacombe, R.N., als em-
barked to relieve Major Mitchell, who stands next for pro-
motion.

In Harbour.—The San Josef, Diligence, Swift, Confiance,
and Adventure.
In Dock.—The Grecian, Kent, Ranger, and Acteon.
In Barnpool.—The Fox.

PROMOTIONS.
Commander—Frederick Hutton (1838), of the 'Vanguard,
to the rank of Captain.
Lieutenant—George' Elrington, to be retired Commander,
by order in Council of 1830.
Mates—John: Johnston (1841), of the Inconstant; W. L.
Partridge, of the Dido ; and Charles S. Dunbar, of the Fox,
to the rank of Lieutenants.
Second Master—G. L. Hall, of the Sydenham, to the rank
of Master.