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not entitled to his confidence. This is a happy
symptom. A Government that obtained the praises
and support of such a bigot as Mr. C vauxouN,
would soon excite a civil war.

Mr. WALLACE applauded the Governn- ent for the
manly course they had pursued on thi important
measure, and would support them to the !rst.
Mr. C. Bumant spoke in favour of the railway
companies, and consequently opposed the motice.
A number of other speakers followed, and, on a
division, the second reading was carried by a majority
of 88. To be committed on Saturday next.
Several Bills were advanced a stage. On the order
for bringing up the report of the Gaming Disconti-
nuance Bill being read, Mr. CHRISTIE defended Mr.
RUSSELL (the solicitor in the qui lam actions) from
theattack made on him by Lord G. BENTINCIC. The
report was received.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two.

We concluded our yesterday's notice of the debate
on the " Danish claims" by quoting the doctrine laid
down by the CHANCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER, touch-
ing the distinctive character of the circumstances
under which their property ;lad been taken and confis-
cated by Denmark. This character, the Right Hon.
Gentleman contended, took this case out of that clasS
of claims for property confiscated by a foreign State,
in consequence of acts done by the British Govern-
ment, in which the law and the practice of Parliament
would grant compensation to the aggrieved owners.
It is clear, however, as Mr. CualsTos stated, that, in
consequence of our proceedings in the present case,
"Denmark made reprisals, and seized the property of
British subjects, taking our merchant-ships in the
Baltic by way of reprisal:' It is not less clear that
the distinction thus attempted to be drawn by the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, is one "without a
difference" as to any justification it supplies for the
resistance of her Maaasrr's Government to the
present motion: Mr. HAWES thus summarily dis-
posed of it :—" The Right Honourable Gentleman has
added nothing whatever to the present subject.
He looks at the case on two grounds. He says,
the capture took place in time of war; and further,
that the law officers of the Crown have given several
opinions adverse to the claims. Let the House re-
collect that with whatever force the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman's arguments a2ply to this third class of
claimants, they ap2l,- with equal force to all former
claimants." That .s, to the two other sections of
Danish claimants with whom -the Government has
already Fettled, under the especial recommendation
of the House of Commons. Now this question of
war or no war" being common to the three classes
of Danish claimants, has been disposed of by the act
of her MAJESTY'S Government in dealing with two of
them—awl cannot be revived in order to repudiate
the third. It dues not appear to us worth while to
dwell more largely on the Right Hon. Gentleman's
legal refincrne its, albeit he attempted to establish
them on some fancied analogy in the fact of the
battle ta'-. Waterloo in 1815. That was fought
ut our having made any declaration of war
against France in the period that had inter-
vened since the peace of 1814: yet who, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER triumphantly asked,
would deny that we were at war with France
when this great battle took place ? But the force of
this analogy was demolished by the Hon. Member for
Lambeth, in reply to it, referring to our late hostile
operations on the coast of China. " I will ask," said he,
" were we at war' with China? We took towns
and ships there ; yet the navy have been refused all
prize money in that instance, because there was 'no
war.'—(" Hear, hear," from Sir C. NAPIER.)
Will the Right Honourable Gentleman condescend to
meet me on this ground? It is all very convenient
to the Treasury to say that in the China. business
it was no war, but in the Danish business it was a
ivar. In both cases there are, doubtless, conflicting
declarations or opinions ; but it now suits the purpose
of Government to meet these honest claimants with
a pretence of this kind—thus inconsistent with their
own declarations." There are two additional circum-
-tances carefully to be noted, as applicable to the pre-
sent class of claims, as well as to the two others,
which are no longer in question ; the first is, that our
captures of ships and stores from Denmark realised a
fund of upwards of 1,000,0001; sterling. If British
üb:ects, damnified by this extraordinary and
almost unprecedented act of aggression by our
Government, were not to be compensated, in
the intention of the English Ministers of that day,
for the loss of their property consequent on the " re-
prisals," or " the war" (the quibble matters not),
:wade upon us by the Danes in revenge for such ano-
malous hostilities, why were those prizes and stores
,old at all? (Our captures, if we rightly remember,
eonsisted of some eighteen sail of the line, fifteen
frigates, six or seven brigs; and more than twenty gun-
boats, with an immense quantity of naval stores.) 2.
If it was not in the contemplation of our English admi-
nistration, within three years after the memorable ex-
pedition to Copenhagen, that the present, and all other
such rightful claimants should be indemnified for
such losses, shat was the meaning of Mr. PER-
cEvAis announcement, in 1810 (in giving certain
explanations in Parlianient, that had been demanded
of him, as to this affair, and the subsequent measures
that had been adopted in relation to it), " that a sum
of money hat7l, in the first instance, been set apart
for the satirsfaetion of those British merchants who
had suffered by the way in which the war had broken
out." The else put by Mr. CHRISTIE, in alluding to
thi, announrentnt, is irresistible. "If that sum was
thus set apart for such a purpose, I submit that there
is no body of claimants who come with stronger
arguments for compensation from the British Govern-
meat, than those whose goods were confiscated during
the time the war was being carried on." And, hi
truth, let us add, the :British Government have irre-
vocably affirmed the principle that the present claims
are binding upon them by what they have done, or
have been compelled to do, in reference to the other
classes of claimants.

But the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER affects
not only to have found a justification of the Govern-
ment's refu'al to pay this legacy of their Tory prede-
cessors' precipitation, but a justification (still more
difficult) of the renegade voters on these very claims
for the apostacy with which, conformably to the politi-
cal ethics of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S highly honourable
,Government, they now turn round upon the claim-
ants, and either desert, or act against them, after
having formerly supported them by their recorded
votes in the House of Commons. For this justifica-
tion he relies on the opinions of the law officers of

'ln the Howe of Lords a brief disiussion took place
rilative to the junction of the sees of St. Asaph and
Bangor. The Earl Powts intimate:l that, from a
cbnversation with the lJukke of•lVEr.r.mGros, he had
hrArned that it was not likely her MAJESTY would
give her consent to the Bill which he hal introduced,
atid he, therefore, withdrew it.
The Bishop of SAIISBIjILY trusted her MAJESTY'S
government would reconsider the question, and in.
troduce a Bill to the same effect next s'ssion.

the Crown, which are all adverse to the claim

ants.

To be sure They are.

In the little

Lord CLANRICARDE said this was t v first instance
in which the consent of the Crown • :Id been with-
held for .the purpose of preventing heir Lordships
paising a Bill.

word beyond Downing-street it is a notorious

fact that you may get any opinion you
want from any counsel•--if you have sagacity
enough to shape the case you submit to him accord-
ingly. But the Right Hon. Gentleman, with an

. Lord MONTEAGLE thought ere 4v INernment justi-
fied in the course they had pursued and the Bill was
withdrawn.
Earl FOUTESCUE postponed his intition relative to
the re-appointment of Mr. O'Drtisent.t. till Tuesday.
Lord MONTEAGLE MOre'l an addr,..s: to the Crown
praying that steps tray be talon tr) ameliorate the
oondition of pauper lunatics in lrel,and.

amusing simplicity, admits the apostacy, and actually
takes credit for it, of the parties who vote in the teeth of

their former avowals and convictions, since they hare

ceased to be in opposition, or have taken office under

the present Government; because "they have now the
benefit of information which they could not get be-

The motion was negativel,' and the House ad-
formed. •

In the Commons Mr. T. Dt;:corenz presented a
petition from Signor MAZZINI, praying that he might
be examined before the Secret Committee appointed
to ir.quire into the system of Opening letters at the
Post-office.

• On the order of tho day for 11,0 adjourned debate
en the Railways Bill being read, Lir. BRIGHT spoke
against the Bill, and contended that if the object of
Mr. GLADSTONE was obtained, the Government
throughout every district would -bta.n a Parlia-
Mentary influence dangerous to the .; ,mmunity. He
approved of some of the clauses—thu c, fur instance,
that would make provision for the cheap travelling of
the lower classes; but still, looking at the high
charges made by coach proprietors for the same clas9,
rnd the improvements which railway directors had
Made, he thought the poor were much better off' than
they were before. He would vote for the amend-
ment that the. Bill be read a second time that day six
months.

fore," and " of course" their opinions are so much the
better founded. In the little world beyond Downing-

street, Mr. Goma:wax, all your ingenuity will not
make thKtergiversation pass for anything but what it
really is--a shocking sacrifice of conscientious
opinion to hiterested considerations of place or ex-
pediency. Since all the leading members of a Ca-
binet may be supposed to take their tone from the
Premier, we suppose we shall not err in assuming

:hat Sir ROBEET PEEL must have stood sponsor for

the lofty and dignified sentiment embodied in this

admonitory exhortation from Mr. GOULBURN to

Parliament :—" If you accede to it, you open a
door, not merely to the payment of this 235,000/.
but to all cases of a similar kind in future

wars." And, if the payments be justly due,
by reason of your own misconduct, or your
own policy—no matter which—or that of your
predecessors in Government, why should they not
be made to righteous claimants ? Sir ROBERT thinks

that such questions are best disposed of by being left
to Governments, instead of Parliaments. What did

Lord SEYMOUR could not see the slightest objec-
L4Mititrititwittle of the Bill, and the oljectionable
'444441114-0105e7114ended in Committee.
Mr. Ittia.)74: a Mr. COLQUIJOUN opposed the,
Bill. The tatter 'ggintleman showed some asperity
einst Mr. GEAthif6E and the Government, which
'mild leave little doubt that he considered them men

the Government of GEORGE IV. do with the money
realised by sales of Danish captures? Will Sir

ROBERT object to ascertain how much of it, and

under what orders, was appropriated to [palace build:

ing, furnishing, and decorating? He will not tell
us ! Yet the claims of British subjects are as much

consecrated by 37 years of unsuccessful agitation, as

the menus plaisirs of a Sovereign by as many of

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TILE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 'l2, 1844.

was adopted on Tuesday, almost without discus-
sion . On Wednesday, the report of the Committee
on :the Customs Duties was presented. They recom-
men d the adoption of the tariff of 1842, and are
opp )sed to any increased duties on unmanufactured
woc'l and flax. The following are extracts from the
pap ers : •

The Constitutionnel states, on the authority of its cor-
respondence from Barcelona, that the retirement from the
Sps Inish Ministry of the Marquis di Viluma is now quite cer-
tain 1, but that General Narvaez will retain the portfolio of the
Wa r Department, and only hold that of Foreign Affairs pro-
visionally.
The Gazette of the Two Sicilies of the 25th ult. states, that
&um more of the insurgents who landed in Calabria have been
al Tested, and that all are now in custody, but the names of
only a few of them are given. A Leghorn letter states that
the sons of Admiral Bandiera are among the insurgents who
h. re e been arrested in Calabria.

A letter from Lubeck, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that
the exchange of dispatches, which hitherto took place regu-
-1 any once a fortnight between the Embassy of St. Peters-
burgh and St. James's Cabinet, is now to take place once
a week.

Several modifications of the Austrian Customs Tariff came
in:te operation on the Ist. The chief reductions are on cotton
thread and coffee ; the former is reduced from 15 florins a
quintal to 12 florins 30 kreutzers, and the latter from 21
twins to 12 florins 30 kreutzers.

THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, JULY 10.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Ftvneh Five perC3nts•• .• 122 15 .• 122 15 .. 122 .. 122
Four-and-a-Half ..•. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 55 . . 113 25
Four per Cents. lO7 75 107 75 107 75 .. 107 75
Three per Cents,. •• 81 75 81 85 .. 81,70 .. 81 75
Batik of France
Lag atte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o • • 1120 • • 1120 ..1120
5,000 f. SharessoBo ..5080 ••3075 —5075
Bil ank
glan 8,. ....... ...•• 683 75 .• 683 75 .• 682 50 .. 682 50
Heiglan Fives,lß3l.
1840 •• •• •• •• 1054 •• 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051
1842 .........1081 .. 1081 .. 108 .. 1081
Spa nish Active: •••••• • • • • • 31, • • 31 • • 31 31
1
NR:ranlitanT,
• •••••• 13 39
90
4 11
20
1 3 390
94
93 3 10
94
05 f
:•: 1930934:05

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ..... ...... ... 890 .. 890

Versailles,lC.B3Bo .. 380 38'0' 380
247 50 .. 247 50 .. 246 25 .• 246 25
Rouen. . ...... 986 25 .. 986 25 .. 982 50 .. 982 5r

Ration to Havre............ 761 25 .. 761 25 761 25 .. 761 25
Orleans ....• •• . • ...... •••• 985 .. 980 .. 980

Strasburg to Bale•••••• •• •• 241 25 .• 241 25 .. 238 75 .. 240
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15TH JULY.
St. Germain ..... .• • • 890 •• 890 .. 890 .. 890
Versailles, R. 8... .... • • • • • • 375 • • 380 .. 375 .. 380
L. 8.......•••• •• 246 25 .. 247 50 .. 246 25 .. 247 50
Rouen • . • 985 585 .. 982 50 .. 982 50
Rouen to Havre....
Orleans •.......... •• .•
Strasburg to 240 .. 240 .. 240 .. 240
Avignon to Marseilles 763 75 .. 763 75 763 75 . 763 75

THE DANISH CLAIMS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
_ _

The question of the captures of ships by the Danes
in 1807, is not one of ordinary circumstances. The
professed object of the British Government in that
year was to maintain our commercial intercourse
with the Baltic, which was threatened by the private
agreement at Tilsit between Bonaparte and Russia.
The British Government, so far from warning its
subjects not to go into the Baltic, on the contrary en-
couraged them so to do, by granting licenses, and
sending convoys with them into that sea.

The Baltic is not like the ocean, what is generally
understood by the term high sea ; it is a close inland
sea, of which Denmark commands the outlet. The
Danes had, moreover, bound themselves by treaty,
even in- case of war with Powers beyond that sea,
which might make reprisals necessary, that the Baltic
should always be exempt from such reprisals. The
British Government had, in 1806, prohibited its own
cruisers, during the war with Prussia, from molest-
ing ships within the Baltic. The Danish Consuls in
the Baltic ports declared, in 1807, that in conformity
with the convention of 1794, there would be no re-
prisals in that sea.

But what gives these claimants a pculiar right to
indemnity is, that the protection promised for the re-
turn voyage was prematurely withdrawn, and the re
maining British ships and cargoes thus sacrificed. Sir
Robert Peel was in error when he stated that the
Danes were a party to the treaty of Tilsit, or to any
secret article of it. He also quoted the Gluckstadt
ordinance incompletely. He read the preamble in-
forming the Danes that the English were about to
make war on them, and that the English war might
be considered as commenced. But he omitted to
read the main part, the enacting part, which does not
declare war by Denmark, and only directs an em-
bargo on British property.

WINE AND STMTS.—A return has been laid be-
fore the llouse of Commons, which shows that the
total quantity of wine imported into the United
Kingdom, in the year ending Jan. 5, 1844, -Was
6,807,053 gallons, and in bond 10,649,662 gallons;
of this the Spanish and Portuguese wines form
the great majority, the former amounting to
3,636,402, and the latter to 5,298,420 gallons.
The total quantity of spirits in gallons imported was
Rum, 3,729,754; Brandy, 2,408,378 ; and Geneva,
362,689 ; and the net amount of duty as follows :
Rum,. 981,9051. ; Brandy, 1,185,478/. ; Geneva,
15,8614 ; and for Spirits of the manufacture of the
United Kingdom, 4,903,2011.; making, with some
other items, a total of 7,095,2611. The rates of duty
per gallon are :—Rum, 9s. 4d.; Brandy and Geneva,
225. 101. ; Spirits manufactured in England, 7s. 10d.;
Scotland, 3s. Bd. ; Ireland, 2s. Bd.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

THIS D CHANCERY.--( AY.)
LN THE NATTER OF DYCE SOMBUE, A LUNATIC.
The rending of the further, evidence in this petition oceu.
pied the Court the whole morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY).
(Before the VICE- CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND. )
DEEKS V. STANHOPE.
His HoNotrit gave judgment to-day in this case, overruling
the demurrers to the plaintiff's bill.
The Court then proceeded to hear unopposed petitions and
short causes, which occupied the whole morning.
(Before Sir JANES WIGRAM. )
JONES V. WALKER.
In this case the bill was filed to set aside a promissory note
given to secure the payment of a sum of money the loan of
Inn and the security,
injunction to restrain
it. Application•was
the
el
therefore,icphayw es
o void.sfa thed tr:To
ohtbeee
from
ln tpenegotiating
made ex parte for an injunction, and the motion now made
by the defendant was that the plaintiff might pay into court
note, and that one of
proceeding with a
the
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Inai
ionut
rt osf
might
y rbeac erestrained
hef r m
qui tam action on the note.
Hit; HoNoun delivered judgment this morning, ordering
the judgment to be dissolved unless the money were paid
into court before the 12th of August.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Jane Poachers, a good-looking young woman, without
eno pal a ce,
bonnet or shawl, was charged with attempting to commit
suicide.
Police-constable John Jones, No. 59 of the B division,
stated that about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning, as
he was on duty at Hyde Park-corner, the housekeeper of
from n
called out to him
female was about to
throw herself into the reservoir in the Green Park, imme•
Wyndham,
of the uppero fN.
windows dGorNov v that r-
diately in the rear of the triumphal arch. The place is sur
rounded by shrubberies, and to get to it a person must climb
over three rows of iron spiked railings, five feet high.
Witness hastened to the spot as quickly as he pos-
sibly could, and saw the girl standing on the brink
of the reservoir, and from her Manner it was evident
she was about to throw herself in. He rushed forward and
caught her by the arm as she made the plunge into the water.
Being a very powerful man, he succeeded in keeping his hold
of her, notwithstanding she struggled violently to free herself,
and bit him severely in the hand, declaring repeatedly that
her intention was to drown herself, and that nothing should
prevent her. With the assistance of one of the park-keepers
he got her out, and conveyed her to Vine-street station-house.
Had she fallen into the reservoir her death would have been
inevitable, as the reservoir is 60 feet deep. It is constructed
to afford a supply to the ornamental waters in the gardens of
Buckingham Palace.
Mr. HARDWICK asked why the prisoner was not brought
up yesterday P—lnspector Baker of the C division said, that
when brought to the station-house it was supposed from her
manner that she was under the influence of liquor, but this
morning her conduct was unchanged, and be had no doubt
that her mind was affected.
The constable, who took her into custody, said he had been
informed that she was the daughter of one of the most opu-
lent traders in Yorkshire, but had been seduced from her
home at a very early age. Latterly he had known her as
living in the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge.
Mr. HARDWICK humanely ordered that for the present she
should be taken into the infirmary of St. Martin's parish, and
that the state of her mind should be examined.

CAPTAIN 'WARNER'S INVISIBLE SIIELL.—The fol-
lowing is an extract of a letter read at Lloyd's to-day ;
'‘ Sir,—l am requested by Captain Warner to acquaint you,
for the information of the subscribers in general, that an ex-
periment of his invisible shell against a ship will take place
off Brighton on Saturday next the 13th inst., between
twelve and one o'clock.—l am, &c.
(Signed)
" To W. Dobson, Esq.. Lloyd's."
EXPLOSION AT BOLTON.—After an inquiry which
lasted three days, the jury returned the following verdict :
"We are unanimously of opinion that the death of James
Swift, Bridget Hart, and J. Macdonald, was caused by an
explosion of a steam boiler at Mr. Brook's mill ;
.that the
said boiler exploded from the pressure of the steam being too
great ; and that George Branscombe has caused the explosion.
We are also of opinion that due care has not been used in the
general superintendence of the .steam .engines and boilers.:
George Branscombe was thereupon committed to take his
trial for manslaughter. A subscription was entered into by
the jury for the relief of the families of the deceased; and the
sum of 8/. 10s. was handed to the coroner, as the commence-
ment of a subscription for that purpose.
A GROGGY CUSTOMER.—A person in the habit of
using a tavern in this city (Canterbury) was surprised a few
days since, by a bill being presented him, charging him two
hundred and ninety- six pounds for grog, alleged to have been
had on credit ! We understand he intends having this me-
morial framed.—Kentish Observer.
TItIESTE, JULY i.--Not only England but Sweden
has refused to receive the notifications of the Duke of
Bordeaux respecting the death of the Duke of Angouleme.
The other Powers have merely acknowledged the receipt of
the notification without any answer to it.

~ G. L. BRITTEN.