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greet conduct pursued by Mr. Sergeant 90i- Cable
occasions; he stated this as the opinion of the Privy
oil, and not,from any„ wish to reflect open, or to detract
front the rePutation which that Learned Gentleman bad
the good fortune to aeqUire. (Hear, hear.) As the
House would see, that the object of the petitioner was to
obtain some Judicial appointment front the Pecretary
of State, he (Mr. Wilmot Horton) could not feihear
Mentioning that Lord Bathurst had in fact offered
to sirgeant Rongli the appointment of Chief Justice of
Dominica, and that s§ergeant RoUgh deelined the appoint-
ment on the ground of his family's ill health: The Right
Hon. Gent. had said that Seijt R. was induced tf./. appeal
to the Privy Council, in consequence of advice to that ef-
fect having been given by him (Mr. W. H.). He begged
to state that he had never given such advice. What he
told Sergeant itOugh was; that he could not proceed by
action against the Governor; and also apt)* to the Privy
Council ; and that he must therefore make his Election
between the two modes of proceeding. The Learned
Gentleman did elect to appeal to the Privy Council, and
every assistance was afforded him by the Colonial Depart-
ment to bring.his use before the Privy Council. The
Right Hon. Gentleman had made a Jouciliatory and tem-
perate appeal to the House ; and although this was a case
in which, as it appeared to him (Mr. W. H.), that House
could not interfere, he had no doubt that the appeal would
not be made in vain to the Executive Government.

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Mr. S'YKES having borne testimony to the petitioner's
high honour, integrity, learning, and delicacy of feeling,
observed, that the decision of the Privy Council appeared
to him to establish that the suspension was illegal. In ad-
dition to the other sufferings produced by this suspension,
the death of the petitioner's wife, produced by anxiety of
mind, must not be omitted.
After a few observations by Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW and
Lord F. GOWER, the petition was ordered to be printed.
Mr. PAULETT THOMPSON presented a petition
from 100 of the most opulent of the Merchants, Bankers,
and Traders of Loudon, praying fur a repeal of the Usury
Laws.

Mr. DAVENPORT and Mr. CALCRAFT opposed, and Mr.
HOME and Mr. MABERLEy supported the prayer of the
petition.
Mr. Secretary- PEEL said, that he could not conciliate
the support of thu Hon. Member for Wareham (Mr.
Calcratt) to the first reading of the Bill, by holding out
any expectation to the Honourable Member that Govern-
ment would take the measure into their own bands.
There were at present so many subjects of the most press-
ing description under the consideration of Government,
that it was impossible for them to give proper attention
to many others, which were, perhaps, abstractedly
right. (Hear, hear.) He suggested that the Honourable
Member for Dover should postpone the discussion, in order
that sufficient notice might be given to such Members as
were anxious to oppose the till. For his own part he was
not yrepared to assent, undar existing circumstances, to
any Bill for the repeal of the Usury Laws.
Sir GEORGE PHILIPS was glad that this question
was taken up by his Hon. Friend, and recommended to
such Hon. Members as had not made up their minds upon
the subject to read the admirable treatise of Mr. Benthainc
Mr. Secretary PEEL understood that the Hon. Mem-
' ber for Dover intended to oppose the total repeal of the
Usury Laws, but if the measure merely contemplated the
modification of those laws, he (Mr. Secretary Peel)
would not at present pledge himself as to what course he
should pursue, until made fully aware of the precise nature
of those modifications.
Mr. BRIGHT was decidedly opposed to the repeal of the
lirAitations of interest on the loan of money. He would,
however, have no objection that the Honourable Mem-
ber should repeal sonic of the penalties, provided he did
not touch the rates of interest.
Sir J. WROTTESLEY saw nothing iu the present
stite of the money market to make a reduction in the rate
of interest necessary. _

(Left Sitting.)

TATTERSALbs Tills DAY

As the Derby will be so shortly decided, the betting be-
gins to assume an important aspect, and the betting men
to assemble numereusly. To-day, however, wasnearly spent
in listening and sounding ; the Colonel and Cadland still
keep their places, and 11 to 10 is offered between them.
Giraffo and Swiss are both gone.
A notice was posted in the room that by order of the
Jockey Club, the settling day for the Derby was fixed for
the following Tuesday, (instead of Monday,) and that no
persons but subscribers would be admitted into either the
room or yard. , The prices closed as follows :—..:

DERBY.
3 to 1 agst 111 r. Petre's Colonel
4 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Cadlana (offered)
.74- to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Zinganee
10 to 1 agst Mr. liouldswortles Latubtonian
10 to 1 agst Mr. Champion's Rough Rubin
LI to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant
15 to .1 agst Lord Jersey's Lancastrian
18 to 1 agst Mr. Payne-s Johanna Southeote colt
20 to 1 agst Mr. 1. Sadler's Challenger
30 to 1 agst Sir C. Coote's Opp idan
2000 to 1 8 agst Mr. Nowell's Uiraffi
11 to 10 between first and second choice.

OAKS.
to I agst Lord G. IL Cavendish's Ridicule filly
'IA- to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Zoe
20 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Ruby
40 'to 1 agst Mr. Peirse's Sarah, Sister to Svrit,i
1000 to 35 agst Duke of Grafton's Turquoise •

SPA.KRING, THIS pAy.

ROYAL TENNIS COURT.

Tem G..L) our took his benefit to-day, but we fear that it
turned out a queer use. The attendance was very thin.
Oliver first set-to with Beu Burn ; Murphy followed with
Purgau ; and all the Fancy looked with considerable
anxiety for the promised turn between Young Dutch Sam
and Brown, the Northampton baker. They at length took
the mufflers, and were loudly applauded. Every thing
being prepared, they went io work, after a little mammy-
ring ; the countryman, who stood with his right leg first,
made some taps, and got Sam to the rail ; both then cut
away, and the quickness of Sam gave him a little the best
of the hitting, and he left off with a smile. The next
round the Baker . went in, and certainly used his left
hand to some purpose; it was hardly ever out of Sam's
and the countryman
face, who did all he could to keep him out by jobbing hint,
but he certainly had the worst of this bout. He was
loudly applauded_ They came again,
in beginning was jobbed once, he then went in, and seemed
to have got fresh vigour since the last round. Both
fought till they got to the rails. Sam then rallied and
tried :to turn the scale, but he was too Farb gone ; the
other would not be turned, and after som ustling, in
which neither had the beet, Satn took off the gloves, and
after a shoiver of silver and lots of applause had been
awarded to Brown, he took himself off. With regard to
sftaglcu hasesd bayeelanstgr‘e were greatly improved.-present,a and
having the best of the set-to, we certainly think that
neither . had it, but Brown appeared to get stronger and
Sam weaker at the close.
Alex Reid and JewStockman—Crayford and Bolton—
Sweeney and Savage—Mimed,
and Jew Burn and Robin-
ishment they received. A.
Reid challenged Bishop Sarp for 501. or 1001. but nothing
B:onotllv'tivetd veryolutendup little combatants
of o
The
the
pun
definite was done. Tom Gaynor eloquently returned
thanks, and the Fancy departed.

Mr. RICE, M.P., has intimated by letter to
his constituents in Limerick, that he has abandoned his in-
tention of going to India.—Limerick Chronicle.

The small-pox is more prevalent at Axbridge
than it has been many years; upwards of se-
venty persons
few days been inoculated with
hav known fur fo
a r
dreadful disorder—not all of them by the faculty, but by a
female, who has thought proper to lend her aid gratis to
more than fifty children of the poor.—. Exeter Alfred.
Last week, a herring of an enormous size was
caught in the stake-nets at the mouth of the Esk, at Miss-
selburgh, which measured no less than one foot ten inches
in length, thirteen inches in girth round the thickest' part,
and weighed 41b: 4 oz.—Edinburgh Evening
There is now, in the parishCourant.
of North-hill, a
cat who has two kittens about a month old, and with which
two young rabbits of nearly the same age have been put.
The cat suckles all four, and chews an equal degree of
fondness for the fosterers PS for her own offsprings.
Exeter Alfred.
The report which %VC mentioned a shoe time
ago as having been circulated at llamburgh, of proposals
being made to Denmark by the English ez
-...overn;nent for
the purchase of the island of Bornholm, has In: ,0 again
alluded to in a letter received from that city In the last
conveyance. But it seems to have been revive i on no
1 other foundation than the circumstance of the p ssage of
„couriers between London and Copenhagen hay' ',o lately
become very frequent.— Times,