The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-03 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGUNCE.
GOODWOOD RACES.—TiwasDAY (CONCLUDED).
The Sussex Stakes of 25 sovs. each; for 2 yrs old colts,
Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (10 Subs.)
Duke of Richmond's Laird-o'-Cockpen (31b3) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Pun (allowed 3lbs)
Sir J. B. Mills's br f by Leviathan, out of Virgiana

Mr. DOWLEY—There was only one question that re-
quired answering, and he really could not give any ex-
planation about it. Mr. Donall being engaged in the
accounts, probably could give a better explanation than
he could.
Mr. Dotram, had heard the charge which had been
made of fraud and manoeuvre, and he wanted expres-
sions to convey the astonishment he felt at the extent fo
the charge. For himself, he spurned all idea of being
connected with fraud i❑ any shape. But he regretted
that his memory would not serve to give satisfaction to
all parties. Had time been given, he might have been
more enabled to have furnished all the information re-
quired by the Honourable Commissioner. The
last contract had been entered into in 1841, a period
of three years ago, and to that period he was called to
speak from recollection. The preceding contract was in
1836, and of that one he himself knew nothing. The
items adduced by Mr. Leslie were but a small propor-
tion indeed of the amount of labour that would be re-
quired in furnishing a complete and satisfactory return of
the whole question. He believed the numbers in the form
had been copied from those in the previous contracts,
and he was the more confirmed in this opinion by the
exact similitude of the figures. He would at once ac-
knowledge that there seemed a mistake in the number
of the bricks required—(" Oh, oh," from some Hon.
Commissioner)—but as to fraud there could be enter-
tained for one moment not the least idea of it. The same
forms were sent to all the competitors, and no communi-
cation whatever had passed between the officers of the
Court and the contractors. He would be happy to answer
any question put by the Court, or to give any other in-
formation which might be required of him.
After several questions of lesser importance had been
asked by various Commissioners,
Mr. LESLIE said that having waited till all the Hon.
Members had done, he would, in turn, ask a few questions
of Mr. Douall ; and first he would ask if the contract had
not been given to the competitor who was supposed to
furnish the lowest tender?—Yes.
Mr. LESLIE—Then as to the quantity of bricks. How
many were inserted in the form, and how many fur-
nished in the three years by the contractor ?-350,000
were inserted, but I cannot say how many furnished.
Mr. LESLIE-11e says it for you-73,000. Now, as to
York paving 21- inch thick, how was that tendered for?
Mr. Bennett's was 7d., Mr. Bird's 644. Which got it ?

COURT OF SEWERS.
A Court of Sewers, for the city and liberty of West-
miester, and part of Middlesex, was held in the Sewers'-
office, Greek-street, Soho-square, yesterday, at twelve
o'clock, Captain Bague, R.N., in the chair.
The collector's and clerks' reports having been re-
ceived,
The CHAIRMAN then said that the next business be-
fore the Court was to consider various payments, the
largest amount being a sum of 1,000/., due to Messrs.
J. and W. Bennett, the contractors, on account of
bills to Midsummer, 1844. The remaining payments
amounted to 301/. Bs. 4d.
Mr. LESLIE cautioned Hon. Members against signing
the Messrs. Bennett's cheque, without some previous in-
quiry into the mode by which they had got their
contract.
Mr. ILARRYAT thought that the lion. Commissioner
ought to give the Court some reason for his caution.
Mr. LESLIE said he had discovered that a gross
fraud had been committed upon the public, by means of
which the Bennetts held a contract they had no right to
do. He (Mr. Leslie) was in a position to prove all ho
alleged, and he would not hesitate to do so.
After some desultory discussion, it was decided that
the cheque be cancelled.
Mr. Bennett having been called in Court,
The CHAIRMAN said he was directed by the Court to
withhold the cheque fur 1,0001., as a Commissioner had
made a charge against Mr. Bennett.
Mr. LESLIE did not charge Mr. Bennett with fraud.
He said a fraud upon the public had been committed by
some one.
Mr. MARRYAT said that the impression on his mind
was, that the Hon. Commissioner's remarks had been
levelled at Mr. Bennett.
The CHAIRMAN—At all events the cheque was with-
held in consequence of those remarks. It had been
stated that a gross fraud had been committed.
After a few remarks from Mr. ALLASON,
Mr. LESLIE said that the short of the matter was that
Mr. Bennett had attained a contract which he was not
entitled to. He did not say that Mr. Bennett was in
fault, but he did say that a gross fraud had been com-
mitted on the public, and when he had discovered that,
he questioned the propriety of their again signing
cheques for one, three, or four thousand pounds, until they
had further inquired about it. He did not say
that Mr. Bennett then present, or that his late father
did wrong. The charge he made against somebody was,
that the public had been injured to an enormous amount
—how much he could not say, and was afraid to hazard
—by a gross fraud perpetrated somewhere, by which
Bennett's tender had been made to appear smallest,
when it was unquestionably not so.
The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Bennett would probably
wish;t• address the Court upon the subject.
Mr. BENNETT would wish to ask the protection of the
Court, because an imputation had been cast upon him by
an Hon. Commissioner, inasmuch as it was said that ho
was connected with a fraud.
Mr. LESLIE did not say so. He said a gross fraud
had been committed somewhere.
Mr. ALLASON thought that if the question of the
subject under discussion were put in the usual way, it
would greatly expedite matters. He thought that Mr.
Leslie's statement ought to be substantiated.
The question was then put by the Chairman, and it
was unanimously agreed that the subject should be
brought before the Court.
Mr. LESLIE said that the three persons whom he
would refer to in the remarks he should make, were
Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Dowley, and Mr. Doull. He re-
gretted that the first was not in Court, but he would be
corrected by the surveyors if he stated what was incor-
rect in reference to this transaction. Before they entered
upon the last contract, a form of tender was sent out to
all the competitors, and it was arranged out of Court
that certain quantities of bricks, and other materials
should be stated on these forms. Mr. Bennett, who sup-
plied this Court with bricks at that time at the rate of
425. the thousand, inserted in his tender at 305., being a
reduction of Its. upon the thousand, and why ? There
were 350,000 bricks inserted upon the form, which the
other competing parties put, at 385., 395., and 40s.
a thousand. But were these 350,000 bricks
supplied ? No. The amount of bricks for the last
three years, both for the eastern and western division
amounted only to 73,000. He (Mr. Leslie) had always
been convinced there was something wrong in the man-
ner of getting up these contracts, but when he had
brought evidence before that Court, it had not been al-
lowed to be put upon the minutes. He was now going
to adopt a different course. From past experience he
did not like this tribunal, and he meant to tender his evi-
dence to the Commission on the Health of Towns, then
sitting at Whitehall, of which the Duke of Buccleuch
was chairman. But if they wanted him to go into the
case now, be would not shrink from doing so.
Mr. ALLASON thought it would be, perhaps, advis-
able to suspend altogether the inquiry, until the other
parties were present.
Mr. LESLIE said it was Mr. Allason who, in the first
instance, wanted him to go on.
Mr. ALLasos—Because the Hon. Commissioner
ought to be prepared with his charge, or at once give
it up.
Mr. LESLIE did not shrink from the charge ; so far
from it, he should go to another tribunal where it would
be gone into. Ho had to complain of observations made
by Hon. Members round the table. One Commissioner
had affirmed—it was perhaps in undue time—that no
charge ho (Mr. Leslie) had ever made in that Court
had been substantiated. He denied that assertion in tote.
Mr. BAYLIS would ask Mr. Bennett if any complaint
had been made at any time by a Commissioner with re-
gard to his contract ?
Mr. BENNETT—There night have been a few bad
bricks delivered upon the ground, and removed in con-
sequence—but beyond that nothing.
Mr. LESLIE resumed. He would call on Mr.
Hertslett to produce the minutes of July, 1844. (The
clerk read the minutes of the Court, determining upon
advertising for contractors ; with the advertisement in-
serted in the newspapers in 'consequence.) The first
point of proof was, that the contract was given to the
alleged lowest competitor, and on that ground only was
he accepted. They would observe that Mr. Bennett's
tender was 1,6641. I Is. 11d., while that of Mr. Bird's
was 1,7321. 1 Is. 9id.; but let them examine closely the
items forming that tender. Let them look at the
digging. The tesider of Mr. Bennett's was 25., Mr.
Bird's was Is. 9d.; and so on with the other items of the
contract. But he would ask Mr. Doull a question.
Were not the figures, for instance the 350,000 bricks
supposed to be required were not these figures
arranged between Mr. Dowley, the chairman, and him-
self, at a conference out of Court? He waited an answer.
Mr. DouLL—They were done by the officers of the
Court certainly.
Mr. LESLIE—WeII, an indirect answer was better
than no answer. Let him direct their attention to the
eastern district, where the amount of stock-bricks was
put down at 150,000. Bennett's tender was at 30s. per
1,000 ; he was supplying them at the same time at 425.
—(Hear, hear.) Bird's was 395., and, therefore, his
amount for them was 2921. 10s., while his competitor's
was only 2251. For the western division there were
200,000 bricks put down, and here again the difference
between 30s. and 395. told well in Bennett's favour. But
let them not forget the simple fact that the contractor was
not called on to supply those bricks. On that item alone
Bennett obtained the advantage, although on almost allele
other items Bird's tender was the lowest. He would tell
them that the whole account of bricks supplied byßennett
since the Ist of October, 1841, did not amount to 73,000.
But let him reflect himself a little, and take the items se-
' parately. For digging in the eastern division Bennett con-
tracted for 950 yards at 2s. —951. Bird's was only 831., yet he
lost the contract. In the western division there were
6,500 cubic yards of digging, which, at Bennett's rate,
would be 6501. ; but at Bird's, 5681. 15s. ; yet Bird lost
the contract. Now the result of all this was, that an
enormous loss had been sustained by the public, and was
he not justified then in characterising the thing as a gross
fraud, and exposing it as he tried to do? Why the tender
born a suspicious look on the face of it—to contract for
bricks at 30s. when supplying them at the same time
for 42s_,_• but that gave him his contract.
Mr. MARRTAT—Don't be so sensitive.
Mr. LESLIE—I think that every man who has taken
his oath as a Commissioner in this Court, ought to feel
sensitively, when public property is voted away so care-
lessly, so negligently, as it has been done in this case.
The other items showed that Bennett received more than
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he had set out by saying that a gross fraud had been com-
mitted on the public. He did not say by whom ; but it
evidently appeared from the figures he had presented to
the Court that the tender of Mr. Bennett had been, by
the instrumentality of the fraud, made to appear
the lowest, when it was not really so. He had
obtained his contract principally on the two items
of bricks, and he had already shown what
proportion they bore to the rest of the material and
work in the contract. He had shown to demonstration,
throughout the whole of those items, the enormous
wrong that had been committed on the public, and he
asked the Court if he did more than his duty as a sworn
Commissioner, in telling them not to sign the cheque
that day ? He had been often taken to task in that Court '
for doing what he conceived tc be his duty. He did not
mean to confine himself to that Court. He would
go before the Commisson at Gwydyr House,
and ask them to make a searching inquiry
into this matter. He wished a former Court to let the
contracts go out for the works in Wellington-street, to
allow the excavations and the constructions to be sepa-
rately tendered for, and they had refused to do so; but he
hoped they might, in time, get into a proper mode of
saving the public fund as much as possible. That was
his case.
The CHAIRMAN thought they should hear the Sur-
veyors of the Court in explanation, because, perhaps,
the facts so strongly advanced by Mr. Leslie could be
very easily explained by them. He thought they should,
therefore, call on Mr. Dowley to do so.
Mr. HAWKES thought that the officers should have
time given them to prepare an answer. In fact, he
thought the present business quite out of order. He
would therefore move that the matter be adjourned till
Tuesday next.
Mr. KENDALL seconded the motion.
Mr. LZSLIE was opposed to the adjournment. They
had both their officers there. His statement was a mat-
ter of figures, given from the books of the Court in a
plain and straightforward manner ; and he did not see
why they should not reply at once in the same spirit.
He had given notice—in fact, he had written to the
clerk requesting these extracts, and he would read
the correspondence. (The Hon. Gentleman did so.) He
thought that granting this adjournment would be the
most effectual means of throwing the inquiry overboard.
Mr. HAWKES—Oh no
The CHAIRMAN put the motion for adjournment, when
10 supported it, and 11 were for continuing the inquiry.
Mr. Dowley was then requested to explain what he
knew of the mode of supplying the numbers in the form
of tender.

(allowed 3lbs)
The following also started :—Lord G. Bentinck's Puke
(31bs), Lord Albermarle's Asterle, Duke of Richmond's
c by Mus, out of 13,1,.-idere (31bs), Duke of Bedford's
Prologue (31bs), Sir W. W. Wynn's b f by Maley Moloch,
out of Dryad,
5 to 1 agst Laird-o'-Cockpen, 2 to 1 agst Leviathan
filly, 3 te, 1 agst Prologue, 4 to 1 agst Puke, 4 to 1 agst
Dryvd filly, and sto 1 agst Astarte. Won by a length.
The Anglesey Stakes of 15 sovs. each. New mile.
(12 Subs.)
Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged, lOst 91b
Mr. Payne's Queen Mab, 5 yrs, list
Lord G. Bentinck's Coal Black Rose, 3 yrs, 9st 21b 3
Duke of Richmond's The Currier, aged, lOst 91b 4
Lord Maidstone's Mechanic, 4 yrs, lOst 5
2to 1 each agst Naworth and Queen Mab. Won by
a length.
ST. LEGER BETTING.-4 to 1 agst The Cure (taken),
4 to 1 agst Ithuriel, 7 to 1 agst Bay Momus (taken),
10 to 1 agst Red Deer, 12 to 1 agst Ugly Buck, 14 to 1
agst Foig-a-ballagh.
GOODWOOD RACES.—YESTERDAY.
Five races for the gentlemen, and four for the profes-
sional jockeys, made up an ample bill of fare for the
fourth and last day of a meeting, that to the fullest ex-
tent has realised all that we had expected from it in the
way of sport, it attracted a better company than usual at
the fag end of the week, and the weather being favour-
able, went off with uncommon eclat. Owing to the de-
lays of the gentleman riders, the first race, which was
fixed for half-past twelve, was not run until nearly one.
It came off as follows :
The Bathyany Stakes of 5 sovs. each ; three pm, st
121 b ; four yrs, list 71b ; five yrs, 12st 21b ; 6 yrs
and aged, 12st 51b. Maidstone course.
Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged (Ld. Maidstone) 0 I
Lord Maidstone's Mechanic, 4 r.'s
Duke of Richmond's Elysian, 4 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed:—
Lord G. Bentinek's Black Gentleman, 4 yrs—Lord G.
Bentinck's Vol pa Vent, 3 yrs—Mr. H. Johnstone's Daft
Watty, 4 yrs—Mr. H. Johnstone's Easingwold, aged.
5 to 2 agst Naworth, 3 to 1 agst Daft Watty, and
4 to 1 'ach agst Elysium and Mechanic.
Y.echanic made nearly all the running, Naworth foi-
l:Owing three or four lengths behind him, until they got
into straight running, when ho drew upon him, reached
him at the distance, ran with him head and head to the
Chair, and enabled the Judge to pronounce it a dead
heat. Elysium was a bad third.
Deciding heat.—Even betting. Naworth won by a
length.
The Nassau Stakes of 50 sovs. each; for three yrs old
fillips, Bst 71b each; the second to receive 100 sovs. out
of the stakes. New mile. (26 Subs.)
Lord G. Bentinck's All-round-my-Hat (Rogers) 1
Colonel Anson's The Princess (91b extra)
Colonel Peel's Zenobia 3
Lord Exeter's Pergularia 4
Mr. Gregory's Barricade 5
Even on Princess, 2 to 1 agst Zenobia. 5 to 1 agst
Barricade, and 6 to 1 agst All-round-rny-Hat.
The running was made by Pergularia for three-quar-
ters of a mile, followed by Zenobia and All-round-my-
Hat ; Zenobia then went in front, and, with All-round•
my-Hat and The Princess laid up, carried the running
on to the distance, where All-round-my-Hat headed her,
and The Princess taking the second place, a fine race
between the three from the weighing stand in terminated
in favour of All-round-my-Hat by half a length, Zenobia
a capital third.
Match, 50, Bst 71b each. T.Y.C.
Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere (Rogers) I
Lord G. Bentinck's Olive Oil
2 to 1 on Rose of Cashmere.

—The 7d.
Mr. LESLIE—Oh ! the highest got it. Now, as to the
three-inch, what were the tenders there ?—Bennett 10d.,
Bird Bd.
Mr. LESLIE—Who got it ? Bennett.—(Laughter.)
Mr. LESLIE—The tenpenny man got it then. Then
as to the 4-inch landing, how do we find ourselves there?
—Bennett 18d., Bird Is.
Mr. LESLIE—Who got that ? Bennett.—(Laughter.)
Mr. LESLIE—Now go to 5-inch landing. What of
that 7—Bennett, Is. 9d., Bird, Is. Id.
Mr. LESLIE—Who had that 7—Mr. Bennett.—(Con-
tinned laughter.)
Mr. LESLIE—What ! the highest man still ! And
now to another item. Bedding, landing, and oak plank-
ing, per foot ; how were the tenders for those 7—Ben-
nett, Id., Bird, d.
Mr. LESLIE—And who got it 7—Bennett.
Mr. LESLIE—NaiIs and other items showed a similar
result. The really lowest competitor lost, and Bennett
was the chosen contractor. And his bill under the
contract so obtained amounted since Michaelmas
1841, to 41,6491. 17s. Nothing could be more unfair,
and he thought he might end as he had begun,
by stating that a fraud had been committed, and that he
had proved it.
After a very long and desultory conversation, in
which Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Hawkes, and others took
part,
A resolution was moved by Mr. It. C. SALE, and se-
conded by Mr. ALLASON, that " it appearing that, after
a full examination of the surveyor that the charge of
fraud brought by Mr. Leslie respecting Mr. Bennett's
contract has not been proved, the sum of 1,0001. be paid
forthwith to Messrs. I. and W. Bennett, contractors, on
account of bills up to Midsummer, 1844."
The remaining business was remitted till next meeting
day, and the Court then adjourned.

Won by ten lengths. The Olive Oil was lent by Lord
G. Bentinck to Lord Glasgow to make this match, which
arose out of a difference of opinion as to the relative
merits of the two horses.
The Chesterfield Cup, by subscriptions of 15 sovs. each.
Craven. Course. (42 Subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's Knight-of-the-Whistle, 6 yrs,
9st (Nat) 1
Lord Esliriton's Pompey, 4 yrs, Bst 21b 2
The following started bnt were not placed :—Garry
Ow'dn, aged, Bst 81b—The Altered One, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—
Iftoison, 4 yrs, 7st 131b—Our Nell, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Nat,
4 yrs, 7st 101b—Khorassan, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—What, 4
yrs, 7st 61b—Zeila, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Pride of Kildare, 3
yrs, Est 41b—Croton Oil, 3 yrs, 6st—Example, 3 yrs,
sst 71b, and Moustache, 3 yrs, sst.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Our Nell, 6to 1 agst Garry
Owen, 6to 1 agst Pompey, 10 to 1 agst Croton Oil,
Example, and Moustache, 12 to 1 agst Knight- of-the-
Whistle.
Croton Oil made play at a good pace, attended by
Khorassan and Poison, to the turn, where the Knight-of-
the-Whistle lost the second place, which he held to the
distance ; here, on Croton Oil's retirement, he took up
the running, Pompey, who had hitherto laid off, follow-
ing him. At the stand the two singled themselves out,
and ran a splendid race home, the Knight winning only
by a head; Poison third, and the Pride of Kildare fourth.
The Maidstone Stakes of 15 sovs. each, with 50 added;
3 yrs olds, 9st 91b ; 4 yrs, list 41b ; 5 yrs, list 131 b ;
6 yrs and aged, 12st 41b; the winner to be sold for
500 sovs. The Maidstone Course. Gentlemen riders,
members of the Goodwood Club.
Lord Eglinton's Aristides, 4 yrs (Capt. Pettat) 1
Lora Chesterfield's Parthian, 4 yrs

THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.
The following are the general instructions for the
guidance of her Majesty's naval officers employed in the
suppression of the slave trade, presented to the House
of Lords by the Earl of Aberdeen on Thursday last :-
I.—The slave trade has boen denounced by all the
civilised world as repugnant to every principle of justice
and humanity. You are, however, to bear in mind, that
Great Britain claims no right whatever with respect to
foreign ships engaged in that traffic, excepting such as
the law of nations warrants, or as she possesses by
virtue of special treaties and conventions with particular
States.
2. In proceeding to deal with a vessel suspected of
being engaged in the slave trade, you aro in the first
instance to refer to that part- of the instructions which
applies to the particular circumstances of the case. But
those instructions in no degree diminish the necessity
of a careful study of the treaty, convention, or law, upon
which they are founded. You are, therefore, to make
yourself thoroughly conversant with the treaties, con-
ventions, and laws, as well as with all the instructions
given to you relative to the slave trade ; and you aro to
enjoin the officers under your command to make them-
selves acquainted with the parts that refer to the duties
which those officers may have to perform, taking care to
afford every facility for this purpose.
3. The powers with which you are invested on this
service, are intrusted to you for the sole purpose of sup-
pressing the slave trade, and are never to be exercised
without reasonable grounds of suspicion that the case is
one of a vessel liable, on account of being engaged in the
slave trade, to be brought to justice by her Majesty's ship
under your command.
4. You are not to visit a vessel under a foreign flag on
the high seas on suspicion of slave trade, except in virtue
of special authority under treaty, or in case you have
reason to believe that the vessel has no right or title to
claim the protection of the flag she bears.
5. You are not, on any account, to search any vessel,
whether British or foreign, lying within the recognised
jurisdiction of a foreign civilised State, without the
formal permission of the local authorities.
6. Towards every-functionary, British or foreign, with
whom you may come in contact, you will invariably main-
tain a respectful and courteous demeanour.
7. Towards the masters and crews of vessels whose
cases it will be your duty to investigate in the service of
suppressing the slave trade, you will not only use mode-
ration and discretion, combined with firmness in the exe-
cution of the duty entrusted to you, but will take every
opportunity of affording them Yassistance in distress,
giving them medical advice when required, and furnish-
ing supplies when they are urgently needed and can
properly be spared by her Majesty's ships.
8. You will take special care to insure propriety of
language and demeanour on the part of officers, seamen,
and
into contact in the service of suppressing the slave
d e marines,
; and to all persons with whom they may come
they must be reminded that any breach of
discipline, or any exhibition of intemperance, will be
visited with severe punishment ; and in all cases her
Majesty's officers are to recollect that they will be held
answerable, not only for their own conduct, but for that
of their men.
t trade
9. You are not, without necessity, to resort to co-
ercive measures for bringing vessels to ; and you are to
be cautious not to occasion further deviation from the
course such vessels are steering than a due regard to
the service on which you are employed may require ;
and you will bear in mind that, in every case, and in all
stages of the proceedings, it is highly
.important to
cause to the vessel visited as little delay or inconvenience
as possible, consistent with the effectual discharge of the
duty to be executed.
10. You are not entitled to insist that a boat shall be
sent to you from a vessel which has been brought-to for
the purpose of being visited, or that any person shall
come, or that any papers shall be brought on board of
her Majesty's ships, upon such occasions.
11. On all occasions of visiting suspected vessels, the
officer sent on board is to be in proper uniform, and of
the rank required by the treaty or instructions under
which the visit is made, and the boat in which he goes is
always to carry a British flag and pendant ; and he is to
be provided with the documents conferring authority to
visit and search, and the instructions applicable to the
occasion.
12. Before an officer proceeds to search a vessel, the
minutest inspection is to be made of her papers, and
every information elicited which can be obtained by in-
quiries courteously made ; as by this means the necessity
of a search may be avoided.
13. The crew of a boat sent to visit a suspected vessel
is never to be suffered to quit the boat, unless specially
ordered to do so. The officer is not to order them to
quit the boat, unless it may be necessary to search the!
vessel, or unless circumstances of the moment impera-
tively require it. If further assistance is obtained from
the cruiser, for the purpose of making a minute search,
the additional men must be accompanied by a sufficient
number of officers to prevent damage to the cargo, or
any irrregularity or excess.
14. Neither the master, nor any of the persons on
board the vessel, are to be removed during the search,
without their consent.
15. When, after the examination, there appears to be
no sufficient ground for seizure, everything that has
been removed is to be replaced as quickly as possible,
and carefully restored to its original state and condition;
and the vessel is to be permitted to pursue her course
without delay.
mentioned in
16. In the case the preceding article,
before the officer quits the vessel, he is to ask the master
whether he has any complaint to make of the manner in
which the search has been panconducted or on any other
ground ;if the master should have y complaint to
make, the officer is to request him to specify the parti-
l..rs in writing, for our information, and you are to
cam.__ the same most carefully, and to lose no time
investigate remedy as circumstances admit and the
in applying suc
case may require. .n
If you make the sea. 1 person, you will yourself
this •
follow the directions Lc)ntairA in article.
17. In all cases where vessels are visited or searched
on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade, the
visiting officer, before quitting the vessel, is to offer to
enter on her log a statement of proceedings on board ;
and, in case the offer is accepted, he is to be careful to
note down the exact time that elapsed from the time
the vessel was boarded to the time she was liberated
or seized.
18. When the visiting, o. officer has verbally sortedreehis
proceedings to not to
is, in all cases, wheth es-
sel be seized or not, to commit the same to writiag im-
,*th all the particulars, while the facts are
mediately, ; and this
fresh in his memory written statement is
to specify whether any complaint was made by the
master or any other person on board the vessel. This
statement is to be inserted in the log, with the officer's
signature attached, and you will forward a copy of it,
with your own remarks, to the senior officer of the
station, and a duplicate thereof to the Admiralty by the
first opportunity.

Mr. NV. Sadler's Idleness, 3 yrs 3
Lord Exeter's fby Gladiator, out of Elegance, 4 yrs 4
Mr. Hook's Una, 6 yrs
Mr. Bowes ns T'Auld Squire, 3 yrs
Mr. Scott's Mosque, 6 yrs
Lord G. Bentinck's Croton,Oil, 3 yrs
Betting-2 to 1 agst Parthian, 3to 1 agst Aristides,
7 to 1 agst Idleness, 8 to 1 agst Mosque (t), 8 to 1 agst
Una, and Bto 1 agst T'Auld Squire. Aristides took the
lead at starting, and made running at a great pace to the
turn at the end of the straight course, where it was
taken up by T'Auld Squire and Idleness, Aristides,
waiting on them. At the top of the hill, however, he
resumed his lead, carried the running to the end, and
won in a canter by three lengths, Parthian, who was in
the rear until near the straight run in, second, and Idle-
ness a bad third.
The March Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft (handicap), for
all horses. Gentlemen riders. Last three quarters of
a mile of the D.R.S.C. (8 Subs. in each class, and 40
pay 5 sovs. each to the winner of the challenger.)
(First Class.)
_

Ld Eglinton's Quebec, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 61b (Captain Pettat) 1
Ld Bentinck's Vol au Vent, 3 yrs, 9st
The following also started, but were not placed :
Mr. Dawson's Our Nell, 5 yrs, 12st 41b—Duke of Rich-
mond's Cornopean, 4 yrs, list 71b—Lord G. Ben-
tinck's Coal Black Rose, 3 yrs, 9st 81b—and Lord G.
Bentinck's Black Gentleman, 4 yrs, lOst 211).
BErrING-6 to 4 agst Cornopean, 5 to 2 agst Quebec,
and 4 to 1 agst Coal Black Rose.—Won easy by two
lengths, Cornopean a bad third, Black Gentleman fourth

(Second Class of the March Stakes.)
Capt. Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus, 4 yrs, list Sib (Mr.
11. Johnstone)
Duke of Richmond's, the Currier, aged, 10st 121 b
Mr. Reeves's Tarquin, 4 yrs, lOst 61b
Lord G. Bentinck's Best Bower, 3 yrs, 9st 121 b
Lord G. Bentinck's the Great Mogul, 3 yrs, 9st 41b 0
Lord G. Bentinck's Alva, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b 0
6 to 4 agst Sir Abstrupus, 5 to 2 agst Tarquin, 7 to 2
agst Alva, and 4 to 1 agst Best Bower.—Won by a
length, Tarquin a pod third,
Challenge for the March Stakes.
Lord Eglinton's Quebec, 4y rs, 11 st 1 21b (Capt. Pe ttat) 1
Captain Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus, 12st
Duke of Richmond's Cornopean, list 71b
Lord G. Bentinek's Vol au Vent, 9st 0
Lord G. Bentinck's The Great Mogul, 9st 41b 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Sir Abstrupus, 2to 1 agst Cor-
nopean, 3 to 1 agst Vol au Vent, 5 to 1 agst Quebec.
Won by a length.
Match.

Mr. Payne's Walpole (Nat) I
Lord Rosslyn's Elemi
6 to 4 on Walpole, who made all the running and won
by a length.
Some complaints were conveyed to us on the course,
and alluded to in our report of Wednesday's pro-
ceedings, of the delay which had taken place, in
conveying the passengers by the South:Western
Railway via Farnham to the course. But, on inquiry,
we find, that the Railway Company were not to
blame, having invariably performed their distance within
the time stipulated, namely, three hours. It was
in the journey from Farnham to Goodwood time
was lost. The distt-,ice is four and twenty miles, the
latter part of the journey through the park, being up
a long and precipitous hill ; and this, with stoppages,
even with the b'jst teams, could scarcely be performed
in much less than three hours—a period which, from
the early }Lour at which the races commenced, half-past
twelve. necessarily led to one or two races being dis-
pose,r,i of before the travellers could by any possibility
ar.rive. In future years it may be desirable to start a
special train at six instead of seven o'clock.
LEOMINSTER RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Herefordshire Stakes (Handicap) of 15 goys. each,
10 ft, and five only if declared, with 30 added. Two
miles.
Mr. Davies' Princess of Wales, 5 yrs, Bst Sib... walked over
The Ladies Plate of 50/. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Hobson's Charity, 4 yrs...(Dorling, jun.) 0 1 1
Mr. Halford's Pickwick, aged, Bst 91b
Mr. Frost's Uttica, 4 yrs, Bst llb
Mr. Saunders' Caitiff, 5 yrs, Bst I Ilb 0 0 2
Mr. Hall's Breawood, G yrs, Bst 91b
Mr. Marshall's Gipsey Queen, 4 yrs, Bst lib— 3 2 dr
The Scurry Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 10 added, mile
and a-quarter, were won in two heats by Mr. Bradley's
Sweetheart, 6 yrs, lOst 101 b, beating Dusty, The Nun,
and Editha.
The Hurdle Race was won in two beats by Mr. Brad-
ford's The Sadler, 5 yrs, beating Snowdrop, and two
others (dis.)
OUNDLE RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Lilliputian Stakes of 2 soya. each, were won by
Mr. Burt's Miss Tickle.
The Town Cup of 201., once round and a dis., was
won, in two heats, by Mr. Bletsoe's The Duchess, aged,
beating Juniper, Dislike, Lapwing, and three others.
The Railway Plate, for hacks, was won by lir. Wood-
ward's Butcher Boy.
The Tradesmen's Cup of 151., Mid a Sweepstakes of
2 sovs. each added, twice round and a dis., were won, ii
two heats, by Mr. Vincent's The Pedlar, beating The
Gipsey, Lapwing, and two others.
The Handicap Hurdle 'lace was won by The Pedlar,
beating Juniper and Marston.
The Innkeepers' Purse, for ponies, was won, in two
heats, by Mr. Matsey's Here-I-go-with-my-eye-out.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added, (four
Subs.), was won by Mr. Manning's Fair-play, 4 yrs,
beating The Pedlar, 6 yrs,

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1844.

19. When you have determined to detain a vessel, you
will immediately notify your intention to her master ;
you will cause a careful search to be made for all papers
and documents on board ; and will take possession of the
same, causing them to be numbered and described in a
list which you will sign. In this list the papers volun-
tarily delivered up must be distinguished from any that
may have been concealed. If any should have been de-
stroyed or thrown overboard, the nature of the papers, so
far as it may be known, with the circumstances under
which they were made away with, must be carefully
stated at the bottom of the list ; and some person cog-
nizant of the facts must be sent with the vessel to make

affidavit thereof to the court of adjudication.
20. On the detention of a vessel you will have a note
made of the quantity of money or other valuables on
board, and sign the same, and have that note duly wit -
nessed, to be produced upon the trial of the case ; and
you will take especial care that the articles are deposited
in safe custody.
21. Whatever arrangement may be made for the dis-
posal of the crew of a captured vessel, the master and
two persons at least of her crew must be sent, together
with the vessel, to be produced before the court, as ne-
cessary witnesses in every case. And one of those per-
sons should be the chief mate, supercargo, or boatswain.
22. If you do not yourself accompany the detained ves-
sel for trial, you will give the officer in charge directions
in writing for his conduct during the voyage.
23. You will place under the command of the officer
sent in charge a crew sufficient for the vessel's safe con-
duct, with provisions for the voyage; and you will give
the officer strict orders for the preservation of the ship,
her cargo, and everything on board, and for the preven-
tion of embezzlement, excess, or irregularity of any sort.
24. You will deliver to the officer sent in charge all the
papers found on board, together with the other necessary
documents, and the officer must be careful to keep them
in safe custody during the voyage. You will also in-
struct him to endeavour to obtain, by every proper means,
additional information as to the case ; and if he succeeds
in finding any additional papers or documents, he is to
preserve them carefully to be produced at the trial.
25. The officer in charge, as soon as possible after he
has gone on board the vessel, is to draw up, with the
assistance of the master, an inventory of the stores, fur-
niture, and also of the cargo of the vessel, so far as it can
be ascertained without disturbing the stowage ; and,
should it be practicable, the cargo is to be secured by
sealing down the hatches. The inventory is to be made
out in duplicate, and signed both by the officer in charge
and the master of the vessel ; and one of these docu-
ments is to be retained by the officer, and the other by
the master.

26. If slaves should be on board, every effort is to be
made to alleviate their sufferings and improve their con-
dition, by a careful attention to cleanliness and ♦entila-
tion, by separating the sickly from those who are in
good health, by encouraging the slaves to feel confidence
in her Majesty's officers and men, and promoting amongst
thorn cheerfulness and exercise.

27. The officer in charge of a captured slave-ship will
be warranted in landing the slaves, or transferring them
to other vessels, whenever such measures are absolutely
necessary, but not otherwise ; and in such cases a cer-
tificate of all the circumstances must be drawn out, and
be taken with the vessel to the place of adjudication.
In most cases of seizure under treaty, this contingency
is provided for: under some of the treaties, the slaves
must be carried eventually to the port of adjudication.
Reference on this, as on other points, must be had to the
treaty or convention applicable to the case, and to the
instructions thereon. _ _

28. All British subjects found employed on board a
detained British or foreign slave vessel are to be sent
with two witnesses to a British port for trial as soon as
possible.
Foreigners on board a British slave vessel, or in a
foreign slave vessel seized in British waters, are to be
dealt with in the same manner as British subjects.
Foreigners forming the crew of foreign vessels cap-
tured under treaty are to be dealt with according to the
stipulations thereof.
29. The master and crew, or such part of them as may
be left on board a detained slave-vessel, are to be well
treated, and not to be subjected to further restraint than
may be requisite for insuring the due execution of the
service intrusted to the officer in charge ; but it will be
necessary to guard against all attempts at recapture,
whether by open force or any other means.
30. The officer in charge is to keep a log of his pro-
ceedings from the time he goes on board until he is re-
lieved from his charge ; he is to note in his log any per-
ceptible changes in the state, quantity, or position of the
cargo, and all accidents to the vessel or her rigging, and
their results.
31. In all cases of capture, a full and accurate account
of everything captured or destroyed, and of the disposal
of the same, is to be sent in, together with<a report of
the case, by the officer in charge to the senior officer on
the station, and a duplicate thereof to the Secretary to
the Admiralty, by the earliest opportunity.
32. If a vessel at the time of seizure, should be run on
shore and wrecked, or afterwards lost or abandoned,
the slaves, the stores, cargo, &c., that can be saved and
transported, are to be taken to the port of adjudica-
tion, together with the necessary witnesses. All papers
which may be found are to be carefully preserved,
and an affidavit of the facts must be made, as the
foundation of the proceedings before the court for trial
of the case. When there are no slaves on board, the
equipments. or such parts thereof as are saved, should
be carried to the port of adjudication, for the purpose of
supplying evidence of the slave trading.
33. On arriving at the port of adjudication, the officer
in charge is to make himself acquainted with the course
of proceeding in the court before which the vessel is
to be tried. In all cases it will be necessary for him
to make an affidavit, verifying the papers brought into
court, and to annex the papers thereto. If any should
have been destroyed or concealed, the particulars are to
be stated in that affidavit. In cases of captures under
treaty, the instructions thereon must be referred
to for the forms of documents and course of proceedings
at the port of adjudication. In other cases, the affidavit
as to ships' papers should be drawn up in the form stand-
ing as an appendix to this section, unless there should
be a different form prescribed by the court before which
the vessel is adjudicated.
34. If, upon any occasion of capture, there are not
any papers found on board, an affidavit to that effect will
be the ground of the proceedings.
35. On delivering over the vessel to the person au-
thorised by the Court to receive her, the officer in charge
is to produce the inventory drawn up by himself and the
master ; and he is to request that a receipt may be
given for all the articles contained in the inventory, ex-
cepting of course where any deficiencies may appear ;
and where this is the case, he will report the cause
thereof to the court, and to his commander, on his re-
turn to the ship.
36. The officer sent in charge will give his best as-
sistance in every way, where called upon, to the Court,
for the due adjudication of the case of he vessel and
her cargo, if any ; and, upon judgment being given, will
immediately report in writing to the officer under whom
he is serving his proceedings and the judgment of the
court, and mill send a duplicate of that report to the
Admiralty by the first opportunity.
Given under our hands, this 12th day of June, 1844.
G. COCKBURN.
W. IL GAGE.

By command of their Lordships.
SIDNEY HERBERT.

LITERAT URE.

THE VOYAGE OF LIFE, 3 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1844.
Those of our readers who care only for the excite-
ment of fiction, and are not very particular as to pro-
bability or sustained continuousness of incident, will
derive much amusement from the perusal of this story,
which abounds in the romantic and the adventurous,
in the New World as well as in the Old, and is re-
commended by the graces of an easy, fluent, style.
Many of the most graphic scenes in the story are laid
in Canada ; and one of the most extraordinary inci-
dents, which takes place close beside the I ails of
Niagara, is—so the authoress, Miss Muro, assures us
I •
in her preface—a literal fact, thereby affording an-
other illustration of Lord Byron's hacknied remark
that " truth ,is stranger than fiction." The descrip-
tions in the second volume of the terrible fire in New
York is a powerful piece of painting ; but the account
of the rescue of Colonel Vernon and Edith Courtenav,
by the hero and his brother, draws much too largely
on the reader's credulity. Improbability of incident,
indeed, is throughout the great defect of the narrative,
and deprives it of much of the interest that would
otherwise belong to it.

THE JILT. 3 Vol. Bentley, London.
This is truly a story of the present day. Some of
the most characteristic scenes are laid at the 'West-
end of the metropolis, and have reference to the
fashionable academy of Mrs. de Belton, where young
ladies are so highly and diligently polished, pre-
vious to their entrance into the enchanted world of
the ball-room, that not a particle of rude, healthy,
natural feeling is left adhering to them. The cha-
racter of Mrs. de Belton is drawn with great tact,
yet without exaggeration ; and the advice which she
gives to her pupils--especially as regards their matri-
monial views—is full of quiet sarcasm. The Jilt,
Melicent Luttrell, who gives the title to the tale, is
also a well-sustained portrait, though difficulties and
trials are at times heaped upon her in a lavish profu-
sion, savouring not a little of the improbable.

greater energy than they had yet shown to maintain the
empire in its integrity.—(Hear.) The only measure
which had been introduced for Ireland, was the Charita-
ble Bequests Bill ; and that was really no new law—
scarcely an amendment of the law, for it did no mare
than to allow the Catholics to avail themselves of a -fs
board already in existence.—(Hear.) The Registration 1 d
Act was not an indication of a conciliatory spirit to Ire-
land. It diminished the existing constituency, which in
common sense and justice ought to be extended. It
deprived the people of the rights they had possessed,
instead of extending to them the rights possessed by
the English people.—(Hear, hear.) There were now
two vacancies in the representation, and he thought
they ought to be given to the county of Cork, which
was the most inadequately represented portion of the
United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) lie would next advert
to the legal appointments of the present Government.
They had selected for the bench, a gentleman who had
distinguished himself up to an advanced period of his
life for the constancy and energy with which
he had supported anti-popular opinions.—(Hear, hear.)
It was unfortunate that the Government should have so
acted in respect to the magistracy as to shake the confi-
dence of the people in the administration of the laws.
Mr. O'Brien was dismissed from the magistracy because
he presided at a meeting for expressing sympathy to
O'Connell, although Mr. O'Brien declared at that meet-
ing that he was not a repealer. At the very same time
Mr. O'Driscoll, who had been twice dismissed from the
magistracy for gross misconduct, was re-instated.—
(Hear, hear.) With respect to the Commission of In-
quiry into the relation of landlord and tenant, he would
only say that he expected no good result from it, for
nothing could benefit the country which would serve
only for a new distribution of its produce without any
new development of its resources. In point of fact,
they were in the same position as to Ireland that they
were in three years ago. Her Majesty's Government
took credit to themselves for having governed Ireland
without having recourse to any extra-constitutional or
coercive law. He would not say that he should, under
all circumstances, oppose a suspension of the Constitu-
tion; but he would say, that nothing had occurred in
Ireland in those three years to offer a pretext to the
Government for suspending the Constitution.—(Hear,
hear.) He would conclude by imploring the Govern-
ment to act towards Ireland with that justice and im-
partiality which might convince the people of that part
of the empire that the union was an advantage to them.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE defended the conduct of the
present Government. Their constant object had been
to render the administration of justice in England and
Ireland as pure as possible.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble
Marquis said that the Government had done nothing far
Ireland. Now he (Lord Wharncliffe) had been the
person to answer the speech of a Noble Lord opposite
in the beginning of the session on the subject of Ireland.
He stated at that time that agitation and sedition were
approaching to the verge of treason—that the Govern-
ment would enforce the law—and that they would also
administer the law in a just and conciliatory spirit.—
(Hear, hear.) He trusted that they had fulfilled those
promises.—(Hear, hear.) The conciliatory measures of
the Government in respect to education had deprived
them of the support of those Members of
the other House of Parliament upon whom they
would otherwise have most depended.—(Hear, hear.)
It was very different in such matters—for instance, in
the case of Maynooth—to conciliate one party without
offending the other.—(Hear, hear.) The next subject
was the social improvement of the people. He would
put it to the Noble Marquis, and to the House, whether
it was possible to take measures for improving the social
condition of the people, without ascertaining the real
state of the relations between landlord and tenant, to
which much of the evils in the social state of Ireland was
attributed. The inquiry was proceeding, and he hoped
that a measure, founded on it, would be laid before Par-
liament next year.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis
had not done justice to the Government when be said
that the object of the Registration Act was to limit the
constituency. They would have been perfectly willing
to adopt such modifications as would enlarge, instead of
restricting the constituency.—(Hear.) With respect
to the dismissal of magistrates for being repealers, he
would only say that, in the state in which Ireland was
in 1843, it would not be safe to retain those gentlemen
in office.—(Hear, hear.) He felt it his duty to defend
the Government to which he belonged, and of which it
was the earnest desire to govern those two countries Oil
equal footing as much as possible—to preserve the peace
—and to repress that agitation which kept the people of
Ireland in a degraded state, and thwarted every effort to
elevate and improve them. It was the wish of her Ma-
jesty's present Ministers to govern Ireland upon prin-
ciples of equity and justice, and not by means of a party.
Lord MONTEAGLE had heard with great satisfac-
tion the speech of the Noble Lord, and nothing should
fall from him that could tend to impair the
effect of so satisfactory an avowal of the inten-
tions of the Government towards Ireland. He re-
gretted, however, that the Government continued
to tolerate the spy system, and to give encouragement
to wicked persons to seduce the ignorant and unsuspect-
ing into the commission of crime.—(Hear, hear.) He
had seen many instances in his own country of the
hatred of the people to those spy witnesses, whereas the
jurors were treated with the utmost respect. Recently
it had occurred that parties had formed a conspiracy to
swear informations against innocent persons, and had
set fire to the premises of Lord Dunsany, in order to ac-
cuse innocent parties of the crime which they themselves
had committed. Those persons had since been convicted
on the evidence of the innocent parties, the Government
themselves having ordered the prosecution. The first
question that would be put to those who supported the
Union, on their return to Ireland, would be, What has
the Legislature done during this session fur Ireland ?
The best answer that could be furnished to those
who supported the union would be to enable them to
refer to the statute-book, and to say such and such
measures have been passed for the benefit of Ireland.—
(Hear, hear.) His Noble Friend had referred to the
arguments which he had used in the House of Commons
against the repeal of the union. He gave the Govern-
ment credit for what they said, but let them be enabled
to appeal not only to the words spoken, but to the deeds
performed.—(Hear, hear.) During the whole of this
session they had had a great judicial question pending,
which had rendered it impossible for them to discuss
Irish questions, but they would not have remained so
inactive as regards those questions had it not been that
they could not discuss them without prejudicing that
great case. Their object in the present discussion was
not to strengthen their own party—not to add fuel to
the flame of party—but to lay before the Government
and the country subjects of consideration which might
be brought to maturity during the next year ; and to
state openly the points to which they thought the atten-
tion of the Government ought to be directed. In some
points the Government had redeemed their pledges, and
he would not for one instant attempt to undervalue the
importance of their measures. The Bill with respect
to Catholic Charities was one of the most important
measures which had passed since the union. It was a
recognition of the Catholic priesthood, and expressed a
desire to conciliate them rather than to regard them with
hostility. It promoted, not only the well-being, but the
independence of the Catholic clergy; and the amend-
ments which had been in it, had been made in a spirit
and with an intention on the part of the Government to
render the Bill more acceptable. The courage, the
honesty, and the good sense of recognising on the face of
the Bill, the existence of the Catholic archbishops and
bishops was most praiseworthy. It removed a stigma
under which the Roman Catholic hierarchy felt they
were labouring. The democratic character which had
been infused into the Catholic Church contrary to th©
spirit of its hierarchy, and of its constitution, would re-
ceive a check from this recognition.—(Hear, hear.) To
make the education system work in Ireland, they
must get Catholics and Protestants to co-ope-
rate. He could have wished the Government
had spoken out more boldly upon this subject,
but he approved of the increase in the grant.
He thought much might be done to improve the physical
condition of the people by the establishment of agricul-
tural schools. With regard to the franchise, he would
warn them against committing any false step. The re-
presentations made to the people that the Bill of last
session was intended to limit their franchises had made
repealers by wholesale. He believed the measure
proposed this session was intended to increase the fran-
chise, but so long as they made the franchise dependent
on the lease, they gave the landlord the power of de-
stroying the franchise. They must have an occupation
franchise.—(Hear.) The clause giving the new lot.
franchise without occupation contained in the Bill was
one which it behoved every Irishman to oppose. It
would revive the worst features of the faggot system.
He intreated the Government seriously to consider this
question.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord REDESDALE—R is the law in England.
Lord MONTEAGLE—It might be the law in Eng.
land, but would they give Ireland the whole of the Eng.
lish franchise—that was what Mr. O'Connell asked ?
Lord REDESDALE—The whole of the county Iran.

chise.
Lord MONTEAGLE was obliged for the interrup-
tion, but they must give Ireland the town franchise also.
Lord REDESDALE—We are only talking of the
county franchise.
Lord MONTEAGLE considered the Noble Lord an
excellent specimen of those who, on the other side,
talked of equality with England.—(Hear' hear.) They
would give Ireland equality with England when it
suited their purposes, but the instant a real equality
was proposed—the instant such an equality was proposed
as would be beneficial to Ireland, they stopped short
and refused it.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the
grant to Maynooth, he approved of the intention
expressed by the Government to increase that grant.
He trusted that the Government would look to the subject
in every light, for if they did not intend to do all that was
wanted they had better do nothing. As to the Landlord*
•ond Tenants Bill it was said information was wanted—the?
wanted no such thing, as every information had been
long since obtained upon that subject. The Noble Lord
concluded by apologising to the House for the length of
time he had occupied them, but he trusted he had not
said anything that was calculated to produce any 13
feeling in any one.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of WICKLOW did not look upon the
Repeal Association with that seriousness his Noble
Friend had done. Because he believed that the
Repeal question would not gain much ground
in Ireland. He trusted to the good sense and feeling
of the middle classes in Ireland, to soon put an end to
the repeal agitation in Ireland. He believed that, con..
stituted as the repeal association at present Est,
then..
was no measure that could be brought into Parliament
that would meet their views or give them satisfaction.
He believed that the prejudices against the Protestants,
were fast diminishing. He could not join in censures
of his Noble Friend on the Government as to, the man.,
ner in which they proposed to elect the persons whcy
were to educate the people of Ireland. He agreed wit*
his Noble Friend that animosities and clamour
had been raised in Ireland, in consequence of
the system of registration that had bets
adopted in that country under a Bill that wag